wondered: "Is it realistic to think that angry
white males and far-right extremists, who are now so politically active,
would ever vote for a black man for President, no matter how qualified?"

Former CBS and ABC News executive David Burke,
described by John Carmody in the April 28 Washington Post as a
"longtime Democratic adviser and confidant," has revolved back into
politics. President Clinton nominated Burke, President of CBS News from
1988 to 1990, to serve as Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of
Governors for the International Bureau of Broadcasting. According to the
Post, the board is "responsible for policy and budgetary oversight for
all non-military and international broadcasting services under the U.S.
Information Agency."

Last fall The Boston Globe learned that
Burke, Chief of Staff to Senator Ted Kennedy from 1965 to 1971, was
pitching in as an adviser to theSenator's re-election effort. In
February, Burke, who served as VP of ABC News for 11 years before
jumping to CBS, accompanied Clinton on a trip to California in order to
"provide political and communications tips," The Wall Street Journal
revealed.

Too Irrelevant to Stay?

Several Clinton officials with media ties have decided
to move on. At the State Department, Douglas Bennet Jr., Asst. Secretary
for International Organization Affairs, resigned to become President of
Wesleyan University in July. President of National Public Radio for a
decade from 1983 until Clinton tapped him, Bennet headed the Agency for
International Development in the Carter administration....

Over at the Defense Department, Vernon Guidry Jr., a
policy assistant to Deputy Secretary John Deutch, has left to form a
lobbying and PR firm. Former Defense Secretary Les Aspin brought Guidry,
a defense reporter for the Baltimore Sun from 1980


to 1987, with him to
the Pentagon from the House Armed Services Committee where he had been
Staff Director under Chairman Aspin....

Closer to the White House, Thomas Ross, Special
Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Public Affairs at the
National Security Council, is moving to the private sector in New York,
The Washington Post reported. Thomas, Senior Vice President of
NBC News from 1986-89, had been Washington Bureau Chief for the
Chicago Sun Times until President Carter named him Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs.

Switching Allegiances

Speechwriter Eliot Brenner is now pounding out the
words for his third boss since leaving United Press International. After
handling the defense beat for UPI, in late 1991 he signed on with
Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. In 1993 he moved across the Potomac to
the Treasury Department where he toiled forSecretary Lloyd Bentsen.
Clinton's second Treasury Secretary, Robert Rubin, has decided to keep
Brenner as his speechwriter.

Congressional Reshuffle

Jack Kole, Press Secretary to Democratic Congressman
David Obey since 1989, has moved to the Appropriations Committee to
serve as Press Secretary for the minority side. From 1964 to 1989 Kole
was the Washington Bureau Chief for the Milwaukee Journal....David
Beckwith, Press Secretary to Vice President Quayle and Communications
Director for Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison for the past two years, has
left the Texan to run the government affairs office in Washington for
EDS Corp. For most of the 1980s Beckwith covered politics and the White
House for Time magazine.

Even before President Clinton criticized radio talk
shows, reporters had targeted hosts for culpability in the April 19
Oklahoma bombing. Just four days later, on the April 23 Face the
Nation, Bob Schieffer asked White


House Chief of Staff Leon
Panetta: "There's been a lot of anti-government rhetoric, it comes over
talk radio, it comes from various quarters. Do you think that somehow
has led these people to commit this act? Do they feed on that kind of
rhetoric?"

When Clinton articulated his criticism the next day,
ABC's Peter Jennings surmised "he clearly had the words of many ultra-
conservative talk radio hosts in mind." Jackie Judd then showed excerpts
of "anger and fingerpointing" on shows before concluding that "President
Clinton's plea to lower the volume seemed lost today in all of the cross
talk."

On April 25, Today's Bryant Gumbel slyly
noted that "while no one's suggesting right-wing radio jocks approve of
violence, the extent to which their approach fosters violence is being
questioned by many observers, including the President."

Two papers weighed in. In a Washingtonthe most radical among them."

Time's Richard Lacayo
added in the May 8 issue: "In a nation that has entertained and appalled
itself for years with hot talk on the radio and the campaign trail, the
inflamed rhetoric of the '90s is suddenly an unindicted co-conspirator
in the blast."

ABC Uses First "For the
Record" Segment to Attack Republican "Legislating by Anecdote"

Sticking Up for
Regulatory Overkill

Beware the network "truth squad," for their monitoring
talents are designed almost solely for Republican arguments. In 1992,
ABC and the other networks decried the "lying" of Bush ads claiming
taxes would go up in a Clinton era. In 1994, anti-Clinton health plan
ads drew the ire of ABC’s Tom Foreman. For again singling out the GOP as
inaccurate, reporter Ned Potter earned the May Janet Cooke Award.

Peter Jennings began the April 3 World News Tonight
story:


Party contributor --
A. Bruce Rozet, who's been accused by HUD officials in both the Bush and
Clinton administration of abusing low-income housing programs. On
February 3, 1990, The New York Times reported "The Reverend
Jesse Jackson repeatedly sought meetings with Housing Secretary Jack F.
Kemp last year" on behalf of Rozet. The networks were silent then, and
five years later, nothing's changed. The network evening news shows
failed to run a single story on the Brown revelations.

Burying the Big Story.
Years after the Cold War ended, anti-anti- communism still rules. Last
year, CBS canonized Edward R. Murrow in a special hosted by Dan Rather
in which he labeled the 1950s as "a time of blacklists and witch-hunts
and red-baiting." CBS Sunday Morning host Charles Osgood
attacked the FBI file on conductor Leonard Bernstein: "It is a milepost,
I think, tobe reminded how irrationally suspicious and fearful we once
were."

Now the new book The Secret World of American
Communism, by Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh
Igorevich Firsov, using recently released secret documents from Soviet
archives, demonstrates the extensive financial and political links that
the Communist Party USA, Armand Hammer, and even journalists had with
the Soviet Union. The Boston Globe put the story on the front
page April 11. The Washington Post picked up on the story on
page A6 the next day with Michael Dobbs underlining that "The documents
provide corroboration from Moscow's side to back up the view that the
Soviet Union succeeded in using left-wing front organizations such as
the American Communist Party to penetrate U.S. government agencies." But
The New York Times, home for "all the news that's fit to
print," didn't note it until


Day and warn of the new
Congress: "There are some areas of the country where things aren't
getting better. They're getting progressively worse....The Everglades is
a perfect example.... environmentalists are now worried that
Republican-sponsored legislation in Congress could be the final nail in
the coffin."

Roberts quoted liberal representatives from the
Audubon Society, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and Friends of
the Everglades, as well as Al Gore. The only anti-regulation view in the
10-minute segment was two sentences from a former Republican
Congressman. Roberts painted a simplistic picture of helpful regulators
versus harmful developers, although historically, the federal government
has not been a friend of the Everglades. Jonathan Tolman of the
Competitive Enterprise Institute, told MediaWatch
"the Department of Agriculture has an incredible tariff scheme for
imported sugar. They restrict imports so that the price for domestic
sugar is twice the price ofMinutes broadcast a segment focusing on the
left-wing group Call to Action's criticism of Catholic doctrine. Mike
Wallace aired 25 soundbites from dissenters and not one soundbite
defending Church teaching. Prompted by letters of complaint about his
report, Wallace took a second look at the debate in the Catholic Church.
His new piece was not much better.

On the April 16 60 Minutes, Wallace
interviewed Catholic spokeswoman Helen Alvare and Los Angeles Cardinal
Roger Mahony. In both, Wallace promoted Call to Action's agenda items:
ordaining women, allowing contraception and abortion. Wallace peppered
the Cardinal: "Why shouldn't women be ordained?....It has nothing to do
with equality as far as you and the hierarchy are concerned. It has a
great deal to do with equality with a lot of women who give their lives
to the Church."

Wallace said of Mahony's liberal actions like


government. In the face of the
election results, only two stories focused mainly on taxpayer demands
for smaller government. ABC was the most one-sided, with 14 stories
defending spending or displaying "victims" of cuts, to one positive look
at the GOP Medicare reform plan.

A typical defense of spending came from Carl Rochelle
on the March 18 CNN World News. He examined a Great Society program
eliminated by Republicans, claiming the Job Corps "helped hundreds of
thousands of people," and aired three supporters of the program,
including Labor Secretary Reich and inner city participants, to one
critic.

CBS defended the NEA on March 31, with Connie Chung
noting some "call it a taxpayer subsidy for wacky or tacky artists who
play to a cultural elite. Is that really where the money goes?" John
Blackstone visited Louisiana and concluded: "While the budget cutters
sharpentheir ax, the folks at the Piney Woods Opry say the value of
this music can't be measures in dollars. It can only be felt."

Welfare Reform: Coverage tilted heavily to the left,
with 45 of 68 stories (66 percent) devoted to liberal arguments.
Conservative policies merited just 10 reports (15 percent), and 19
percent were neutral. Reports on school lunch "cuts" outnumbered reports
covering reforms in states like Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Michigan and
New Jersey by 18 to 5. Amazingly, in 68 stories, welfare fraud was
covered once, on a February 10 ABC report by Ron Claiborne.

The plan to fold food programs into block grants to
the states drew fire. Of 17 school lunch stories, reporters in 15
claimed Republicans would "cut" lunches. On March 21, Bob Schieffer of
CBS claimed: "Republicans want to wipe out some heretofore untouchable
federal


stories. Soundbites were skewed towards the liberal agenda,
with 30 Contract supporters (39 percent) against 46 opponents (61
percent).

Term Limits: Even though 82 percent of Republicans
voted for a term-limits constitutional amendment, versus 19 percent of
Democrats, in 12 stories reporters blamed Republicans for its loss,
Democrats were blamed six times. Just three of 17 stories (18 percent)
noted the vote was the first ever held on term limits in the House.

Newt Gingrich's book deal received 27 evening news
stories in the six weeks ending February 1, more than they devoted to
regulatory reform, legal reform, or term limits in 100 days. The
networks, which claim to favor change, defended the existing welfare
state, and attacked the document which confronted the status quo.

Tom Brokaw put the fraud in one welfare program in
perspective on the April 12 Dateline NBC:19 Nightly News, Kelly O'Donnell
reported on San Luis, Arizona where "thousands of Mexican residents rent
post office boxes here and use them as American addresses to collect
welfare checks and food stamps and to enroll their kids in U.S.
schools." She also found an EITC connection: "The IRS put a hold on
5,500 tax returns this year after detecting widespread abuse of the
Earned Income Credit."

Fractured Facts

ABC's John Stossel exposed the shoddy statistics
produced by activist groups, and the willing media that promote them, on
the March 31 20/20. Stossel talked to Wall Street Journal
reporter Cynthia Crossen, author of the book Tainted Truth, and
Christina Hoff Sommers, author of Who Stole Feminism? "[Sommers]
found some wildly inaccurate claims, like `150,000 women a year die of
anorexia.' The real number's closer to 1,000. Then there's `domestic
violence causes more birth


can't get the story right, Gumbel replied: "On people
who were convicted like you."

But Gumbel's outrage was absent on March 22, 1994,
when he interviewed Nathan McCall, a convicted armed robber turned
Washington Post reporter. He asked: "It's just too easy to put a
black face on the problems of crime, of drugs, of poverty, and just say
it's a lost cause and walk away from it?" And: "It's been written that
being black in America is like being witness at your own lynching, why,
why didn't your experiences make you more resentful than you are today?"
Near the end, Gumbel asked: "Those who say, `just lock them up, throw
away the key, incarcerate them, warehouse them, whatever,' do you think
they are even conscious of just how racist this country is?" Gumbel
could have defined his own approach:Blog Archives

Former Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie was let go by the team and became an unrestricted free agent because they did not want to pay a $5 million roster bonus due on March 13. The team tried to sign a replacement for Cromartie but missed out on players like Vontae Davis and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, leaving a [...]

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The Nation's Crucible

The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America

One of the 2005 Caroline Bancroft Western History Prize honor books sponsored by the Denver Public Library. The prize recognizes outstanding contributions to Western history.

Winner of the 2004 Williams Prize in Louisiana History

In 1803 the United States purchased Louisiana from France. This seemingly simple acquisition brought with it an enormous new territory as well as the country’s first large population of nonnaturalized Americans—Native Americans, African Americans, and Francophone residents. What would become of those people dominated national affairs in the years that followed. This book chronicles that contentious period from 1803 to 1821, years during which people proposed numerous visions of the future for Louisiana and the United States.

The Louisiana Purchase proved to be the crucible of American nationhood,Peter Kastor argues. The incorporation of Louisiana was among the most important tasks for a generation of federal policymakers. It also transformed the way people defined what it meant to be an American.

Peter J. Kastor is assistant professor of history and American culture studies and assistant director of American culture studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the editor of The Louisiana Purchase: Emergence of an American Nation. His articles on the Louisiana Purchase have appeared in The Journal of the West, The William & Mary Quarterly, and Journal of the Early Republic.


half-human/half-dwarf hybrids.

The derro are a degenerate race of dwarf-like stature, possibly a cross
  between evil humans and dwarves. They inhabit the great subterranean
  realms common to drow and their ilk (kuo-toans, mind flayers, troglodytes,
  etc.).
(...)
Derroes are very much like humans, only shorter and slightly more muscular in proportion to their height. Their features tend towards grossness. Their hair is pale tanoryellow, their skin isverywhitewith a bluish undertone, and their eyes are very large.

Back when the Curse of the Crimson Throne was originally published (2008), all references to Derros used the 3.5's Monster Manual and nothing in the book mentioned anything about their origin or what they actually are. It's safe to assume their new identity with new flavor wasn't set in stone yet.
Their newWhile legal experts scramble to decipher what might be going on in the shady minds of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi — and the even more shadowy Roger Stone, a Trump confidant — too little attention has been paid to the more basic question of what President Trump and his team have been doing as part of an increasingly obvious conspiracy to obstruct the investigation into the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential election.

It seems clear that President Trump has been dangling tantalizing hints, if not outright offers, of future pardons from federal prosecution to Manafort, Corsi, former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Manafort associate Rick Gates, and anyone else who might incriminate him. Reporting by The New York


to solicit bribes. Given these further revelations, the time is ripe to argue that Trump’s receipt of valuable criminal assistance in return for his dangling of pardons already constituted his acceptance of illegal bribes, even if he never issues the pardons he has tantalizingly kept on the table.

The indisputable fact is that, just as accepting money or other tangible benefits in exchange for a future pardon would amount to impeachable bribery on the part of the president, so too is accepting the even more valuable (if intangible) benefit of a back-channel source of manifestly sensitive and closely guarded information on an investigation into the president himself. Ever since Manafort pretended to flip in order to worm his way into the otherwise air-tight Mueller operation, from which he hasWhile "Friends" episodes tackled a variety of topics in hilarious ways, one storyline that was deemed too controversial was the wedding between Carol and Susan, aptly named "The One with the Lesbian Wedding."

Photo cred: Getty

Carol (right) was Ross's wife, until of course she came out as a lesbian and then started dating Susan (left). They of course got married and marked a pivotal moment for television in the '90s to have a lesbian couple on TV, for one, and secondly, getting married.

The show's co-creator Marta Kaufman appeared on "The Hollywood Reporter" roundtable to discuss her new Netflix show, "Grace & Frankie," where she discussed how the moment almost never came to be, because of the network's hesitation.

Needless to say, we are very thankful the network went through with


Mr. James William Hopper Jr. of Hendersonville, Tennessee passed away on May 9, 2020.

Jim was born in Providence, Rhode Island on September 23, 1947 to James William Hopper Sr. and Charlotte June Schwartz Hopper. Although he resided in Hendersonville, Jim continued to support the Providence Friars basketball team. He was an avid golfer. He enjoyed music, often going to the Grand Ole Opry and other venues with his wife. Jim was a member of Harmony Lodge #9 F.&A.M. in Cranston, Rhode Island. He was a member of Glendale Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Most importantly, he was a husband, a father, a brother, an uncle and a friend.

Jim is survived by his wife, Wanda Perry Hopper, his daughter, Christine (Jason) Larue and his stepsons, Sean (Shannon) and Jimmy(Megan) Waldron. He is survived by his grandchildren, Colin and Aiden Larue, Chloe, Joey, Brady and Dustin Waldron. He is survived by his brothers, Walter (Ruth) and Dennis (Linda) Hopper, and many nieces and nephews. He is also survived by his four-legged friend, his best buddy, Cajun. These two would visit nursing homes, spreading good cheer.

Jim is preceded in death by his parents and a grandson, Michael Thomas Waldron.

A Gathering of Family and Friends will be held on Monday, May 18, 2020 from 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M. in the Chapel of Hendersonville Funeral Home. A private Celebration of Life will be held with a private interment to follow at Hendersonville Memory Gardens. Pastor Amy Mears will be presiding. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations


Shneur Hasofer

Shneur Hasofer is a Hasidic musician known as DeScribe. Hasofer's musical style has been characterized as "Hasidic hip-hop," "Hasidic rap" and "Hasidic R&B".

Background
Hasofer was born to a Chabad Hasidic family in Melbourne, Australia. Hasofer began his music career taking the stage name "DeScribe" and has been characterized as a "Hasidic rapper."

Hasofer's music career began in New York in the late 2000s, releasing an EP called Harmony, and began collaborations with Matisyahu and Rohan Marley (son of Bob Marley). Hasofer released a duet with Matisyahu titled “Pure Soul” as part of a fundraising effort for the Friendship Circle, a non-profit Jewish organization which assists children with disabilities. Hasofer also collaborated with ex-Hasidic hip-hop artist Y-Love.

Hasofer's music also took on an activist bent in promoting racial harmony between theStory highlights More than 230 children among deaths since ceasefire's collapse, monitoring group says

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Bravo, Canada. You've managed to take a relatively mundane part of American football and kick it up a few hundred notches. Punting back a punt for a touchdown? Sheer genius.

Here's a quick primer on why this play isn't incredibly illegal for our neighbors to the north, courtesy of Prep Rally:

Unlike American football, Canadian football holds that once a punt travels more than 10 yards downfield, the kicking team can recover the free ball and regain possession. In this way, Canadian punts are essentially just like American kickoffs.

However, in a nod to rugby, Canadian football holds that on scrimmage kicks (i.e., punts and missed field goals), the returning team can respond by immediately punting the ball back to the other team, creating a free-for-all where whichever team gets tothe ball first will retain possession.

In related news, Canadian high school football is fucking awesome.

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Update: As a point of clarification, reader Eric P. sends in the following, which further explains the rules at play here:

Maybe I'm the 99,000th Canadian to email you about this so far today but here she goes. This is going to be confusing.

The kicking team cannot recover their own punt, except for the kicker and any players that were behind the kicker when he kicked. Which is usually all eleven—yes eleven—of the other players on the field. Sometimes when a team is punting into an extreme Prairie wind, they'll have an onside player behind the punter so he can run down and try recover the short punt after it hangs up in the air.

In


in Darkness, Lovecraft has the narrator read a letter which mentions various mysterious and mythological entities, including Hastur (a name that originally appeared in an Ambrose Bierce story according to the Hastur wikipedia page--Lovecraft liked to hint that his mythology was connected to that of other authors of "weird fiction" that he admired or was friends with, so he would often include names from other works). Here's the section, which I believe is the only mention of Hastur in any of Lovecraft's works:

From the pictures I turned to the bulky, closely-written letter
  itself; and for the next three hours was immersed in a gulf of
  unutterable horror. Where Akeley had given only outlines before, he
  now entered into minute details; presenting long transcripts of words
 overheard in the woods at night, long accounts of monstrous pinkish
  forms spied in thickets at twilight on the hills, and a terrible
  cosmic narrative derived from the application of profound and varied
  scholarship to the endless bygone discourses of the mad self-styled
  spy who had killed himself. I found myself faced by names and terms
  that I had heard elsewhere in the most hideous of connections -
  Yuggoth, Great Cthulhu, Tsathoggua, YogSothoth, R'lyeh, Nyarlathotep,
  Azathoth, Hastur, Yian, Leng, the Lake of Hali, Bethmoora, the Yellow
  Sign, L'mur-Kathulos, Bran, and the Magnum Innominandum - and was
  drawn back through nameless aeons and inconceivable dimensions to
  worlds of elder, outer entity at which the crazed author of the


 Necronomicon had only guessed in the vaguest way.

Then shortly after, he has the narrator listen to a recording of a ritual performed by a cult of the Mi-Go in the forest, and a cultist mentions "Him Who is not to be Named":

(A Cultivated Male Human Voice) ...is the Lord of the Wood, even to...
  and the gifts of the men of Leng... so from the wells of night to the
  gulfs of space, and from the gulfs of space to the wells of night,
  ever the praises of Great Cthulhu, of Tsathoggua, and of Him Who is
  not to be Named. Ever Their praises, and abundance to the Black Goat
  of the Woods. Ia! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat with a Thousand Young!

So there'sno suggestion of a connection between the two in Lovecraft's story. Later August Derleth would identify them in his own Cthulhu Mythos stories after Lovecraft's death, I think the first one where he did this was his 1939 story "The Return of Hastur" (which can be found in the book "The Hastur Cycle") in which a character concludes:

Coming upon this communication from the priest in Tibet in the light
  of these things, surely one fact must come clearly forth: Haddon,
  surely, beyond the shadow of a doubt, He Who is not to be Named can be
  none other than Hastur the Unspeakable!

Derleth is a bit of a controversial figure with Lovecraft fans because he often misleadingly credited his stories as "collaborations" between Lovecraft and himself,


based on the fact that he took inspiration from a one-or-two sentence idea he found jotted down in Lovecraft's notebooks. And his stories pretty strongly changed the nature of the whole Mythos, turning it into a struggle between the "good" Elder Gods and the "evil" Great Old Ones, whereas Lovecraft's stories never suggested any sort of good vs. evil struggle (or any clear Elder God/Great Old One division among the beings he wrote about), see the Cthulhu Mythos wikipedia page for some discussion.

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Hastur is a stolen entity, and was originally a fairly benign god for shepherds created by Ambrose Bierce. About the only place that Hastur gets mentioned in Lovecraft is in The Whisperer in Darkness:

There is a whole secret cult of evil men (a man of yoursend minions to kill the adventurers, and if the minions were defeated, another 25% chance Hastur himself would show up.
The Temple of Dagon - This page dedicated to HPL's works claims that this (The D&D reference) is the first time dire consequences came about from saying the name, and points out that many times in the books Hastur's name is said without consequences. This would be in the 1977-1980 time frame for the first publication of the Monster's Manual.
The first mention that I could find of the "Who must not be named" was when August Derleth (Publisher of Lovecraft) started writing in the Cthulhu Mythos, and adopted it as the actual name of the King in Yellow (First conceived by Robert Chambers) and also adopted the "Who


I recently came across a rant that lamented the advent of digital publishing, open access publishing and self-publishing in science. The rant was published in the Huffington Post as a “digital” blog post (ah, the irony), entitled “50 Shades of Grey in Scientific Publication: How Digital Publishing Is Harming Science”. It was reminiscent of the rants that might have been uttered by calligraphers who were upset about the emergence of Gutenberg’s printing press or concerns of European aristocrats in the wake of the French Revolution about whether commoners could ever govern a country. Normally I ignore rants, but this one was written by Dr. Douglas Fields, an outstanding neuroscientist and an excellent writer, who also serves as the Chief of the Nervous System Development and Plasticity Section atand rigorous peer review

The second major flaw is that Dr. Fields assumes open access publishing somehow impairs the peer review process and results in the publications of papers without scientific rigor. Much of my own experience stems from the PLOS family of open access journals, which include PLOS One, PLOS Medicine and PLOS Biology. The PLOS journals are among the most widely read open access journals in biomedical research. The last time I was a peer reviewer for a PLOS One manuscript, I used the same standards to assess the validity and scientific rigor of the manuscript that I use for pay-for-access journals. The PLOS editor used my review and that of the other anonymous peer reviewers to reach a decision about the manuscript. The editor requested that


Wrote the paper: FX. GH and AD Helped in designing the experiments: GH AD. Reviewed/edited the manuscript: LM AD RL GL.

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She and the others with her were protesting against the United States military's decision to place nuclear weapons in the area. She had a personal meeting with local base commanders, possibly including General Martin Retslaf from the Hopeville silo. Nevertheless, her skeleton can be found in the Cave of the Abaddon, next to her diary (in a suitcase) and Seymour. She is either highly gullible or foolishly optimistic, believing that Retslaf's ominously-worded promise that the military was preparing "something special" for them was going to be a full nuclear disarmament.

Sunflower is most likely based on the real-life young girl Samantha Smith, who in 1982 wrote to Yuri Andropov, who was then the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union. At this


not to fight.
Sincerely,
Samantha Smith"

Unlike with Sunflower, Samantha's letter was well-received, and she became a media darling when she was invited to visit Moscow with her family.

Smith was tragically killed in 1985, at the age of 13, when a plane Smith and her father were flying in crashed in Maine.are from minority ethnic groups, who are LGBTQI+, who suffer with long-term ill-health and/or physical disability, who are women, mothers of daughters, who are saddened, angered, and scared by what their fellow Americans have enabled.

I have a friend here in Britain, who was born here, to a British mother, who has worked and paid taxes since she was 18, whose husband has worked and paid taxes since he was 15, who has 4 children, all under the age of 10, and who had to listen to someone at the next table, while she and her husband were having breakfast out as he had a day off today, say “If Trump can get in in America, the EDL (English Defence League, a violent far-right group) can get in here


Georgia Simmerling has retired from ski cross racing, but intends to continue track cycling with an eye towards the 2020 Olympic Games. Simmerling, from West Vancouver, B.C., helped Canada's cycling team win Olympic bronze in team pursuit in 2016.

Marit Bjoergen, the most decorated Winter Olympian in history, says she is retiring from cross-country skiing. The 38-year-old Norwegian told public broadcaster NRK "I don't have the motivation needed to give 100 per cent for another season and that's why I choose to retire."

Canadian cross-country skier Brian McKeever has captured his third gold medal of the Pyeonchang Paralympics. The 38-year-old from Canmore, Alta., with guide Graham Nishikawa, won the visually impaired 10 kilometres on Saturday.

Mikaela Shiffrin won her second straight overall World Cup title on Friday, five races before theend of the season. The Olympic champion finished third in a giant slalom race won by Ragnhild Mowinckel of Norway.

Quebec freestyle skier Olivier Rochon finished in fifth place in men's aerials in Pyeongchang on Sunday, after attempting one of the most difficult jumps in the competition, but failing to nail the landing.

Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo secured a majestic victory in the men’s 4x10 km relay with a stunning late spurt as Norway won its fifth gold medal in eight cross-country skiing competitions at the Pyeongchang Games on Sunday.


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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Famous sociopaths: Gesualdo

Having studied music, I was a little familiar with the madrigals of the late renaissance composer Don Carlo Gesualdo, but somehow missed his backstory as a psychopathic murderer until I stumbled upon this New Yorker article, which unfortunately is not available in its full text. Here are selections from the abstract:

On the night of October 16, 1590, a palace apartment near Piazza San Domenico Maggiore, in Naples, was the scene of a double murder so extravagantly vicious that people are still sifting through the evidence, more than four centuries later. The most reliable account of the crime comes from a delegation of Neapolitan officials, who inspected the apartment the following day. On the floor of the bedroom, they found the body of Donthe observation that Gesualdo had left town. A prince being a prince, there matters rested. Yet Gesualdo paid a posthumous price for the killings. In the decades after his death, he became a semi-mythical, even vampiric figure, about whom ever more lurid tales were told. Gesualdo also wrote music, publishing six books of madrigals and three books of sacred pieces. He turned out to be one of the most complexly imaginative composers of the late Renaissance, indeed of all musical history. The works of his mature period—he died in 1613, at the age of forty-seven—bend the rules of harmony to a degree that remained unmatched until the advent of Wagner. There have been no fewer than eleven operatic works on the subject of Gesualdo’s life, not to mention


history had Asperger's. But, I find Gesualdo to be a particularly fun historical candidate for sociopathy not just because of how well it explains his violence and flouting moral conventions, but also how well it explains the experimental aspects of his music, which have managed to sound utterly modern and cutting age in every time period. The article continues from the above quoted selections in the abstract:

Many bloodier crimes have been forgotten; it's the nexus of high art and foul play that catches our fancy. As with Gesualdo's contemporary Caravaggio, who killed a man by stabbing him near the groin, we wonder whether the violence of the art and the violence of the man emanated from the same demoniac source.

His wife cheated on him, so he killed her.Ordination of the new Bishop of Chicoutimi

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The ordination of the Most Reverend René Guay as Bishop of the Diocese of Chicoutimi will take place on Friday, 2 February 2018, at 7:30 p.m., in Saint-François-Xavier Cathedral, Saguenay. His Eminence Gérald Cyprien Cardinal Lacroix, Archbishop of Québec and Primate of Canada, will preside as the principal ordaining Bishop, along with the Most Reverend André Rivest, Bishop Emeritus of Chicoutimi, and the Most Reverend Robert Harris, Bishop of Saint John, as co-consecrators. The Most Reverend Lionel Gendron, P.S.S., Bishop of Saint-Jean-Longueuil and President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, will be present, along with the Apostolic Nuncio, the


Re: The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows discussion thread...ENTER AT YOUR OWN RI

Re: The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows discussion thread...ENTER AT YOUR OWN RI

My gueses as to which characters die

Snape
Sirius Black
Harry Potter

Originally Posted by bmack86

And it's been long established that Chris hates fun.

Originally Posted by Hatinisbad

I took my niece this year and it was her first Coachella. It was so fun to see it through her eyes. She thought it felt like a magical scene from Shreck. The one where all the fairy tale creatures meet for the first time in Shreck's swamp.

Re: The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows discussion thread...ENTER AT YOUR OWN RI

Oh, did Sirius die? I havent seen the 5th movie yet, and I havent read the 6th book.

I still guessSnape and Harry will die.

Originally Posted by bmack86

And it's been long established that Chris hates fun.

Originally Posted by Hatinisbad

I took my niece this year and it was her first Coachella. It was so fun to see it through her eyes. She thought it felt like a magical scene from Shreck. The one where all the fairy tale creatures meet for the first time in Shreck's swamp.

Re: The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows discussion thread...ENTER AT YOUR OWN RI

er, have you read the 5th book? because he's quite dead by the end of it.

and i repeat, unless rowling changed her mind (which is i guess possible) from previous statements, neither ron, hermione, nor harry will die. snape is such a given though. 10 to 1 says he dies


to save or protect harry in some way 'cause he's just like that.

and has anyone thought about how significant kreacher is? i think he helped regulus black get the original locket horcrux because that operation clearly required two people.

Originally Posted by bmack86

Has anyone gone on a date with a sandwich recently? What base did you get to? Ham?

Re: The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows discussion thread...ENTER AT YOUR OWN RI

No, I havent read the 5th book. He dies in the 5th? Booooo. That sucks. He was badass.

Originally Posted by bmack86

And it's been long established that Chris hates fun.

Originally Posted by Hatinisbad

I took my niece this year and it was her first Coachella. It was so fun to see it through her eyes. She thought it felt like#3 was in the ring with the peverell coat of arms on it that tom riddle (the boy voldemort) took from the gaunts before killing his dad. dumbledore recovered the ring and destroyed the bit of soul that it encased, so that one is out of the way already. part #4 is in the slytherin locket that i believe is at grimmauld place, because the one they found in the cave was a fake. part #s 5-7 are guesses: his snake Nagini, helga hufflepuff's cup that he stole from hepzibah smith after murdering her, and some relict of rowena ravenclaw's or godric gryffindor's. the idea of using relicts from the hogwarts founders as horcruxes (the locket, the cup, and something of ravenclaw or gryffindor's) of course explains why


into a horcrux. he was formless until right before the fourth book, and he didn't get to Harry until the very end of the book and definitely did not horcrux it up then. nor did he do it at the Ministry of Magic, and he didn't show up at all in the sixth book. so i think it's quite unlikely.

has anyone speculated on aunt petunia's secret? she's not a squib, although rowling said "that's a very good guess".
also has anyone figured out why the "gleam of triumph" in dumbledore's eye in the 4th book is so noteworthy, or what was the very important thing we found out about lily evans in the fifth book?

Originally Posted by bmack86

Has anyone gone on a date with a sandwich recently? What baseIran’s Presidential election is set for June 12, 2009. With much domestic and international attention focused on what could be pivotal elections, the following is a primer on the Presidential election system of Iran.

By Homeyra Mokhtarzada

Iran has had an election of some type almost every year since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The administration of these elections is decentralized and a grass-roots operation.

Iran’s various elections are governed by both the constitution and specific electoral laws. According to the Presidential Election Law, Iran has two main bodies involved in the electoral process – the Guardian Council and the Ministry of Interior (MoI). The MoI is responsible for administration of elections while the Guardian Council is mandated with a broad supervisory role.

Election Administration

Approximately three months prior to the presidential election, the


MoI’s Election Centre becomes operational. Iran is made up of 669 districts forming 330 counties that make up the 30 provinces of the country. Each district is headed by a District Administrator, each county is headed by a Governor. At each level, appointees of the MoI are responsible for the grass-roots organization that implements elections. In addition, prior to the election, Election Executive Committees are formed at each level. By law, these Committees are constituted of a Governor/District Administrator (who chairs the Committee), the county/district prosecutor, the head of the civil registration office and eight members of the public.

Election Executive Committees are responsible for:

Deciding the number and location of polling stations

Informing the public about elections including the election date, voting hours, voting qualifications and voting station locations

Selecting eightpublic representatives for the Election Executive Committees

Evaluating election complaints

The full Election Executive Committee at the district level assigns poll workers for each polling station. The polling station team is composed of a chief, a deputy and 3 secretaries. In addition to this five-member team, the Governor of each county assigns a sixth person to each polling station.

Election Supervision

For each presidential election, the Guardian Council establishes a Central Supervisory Committee made up of two members of the Guardian Council and five individuals chosen by consensus by the Council.

The Central Supervisory Committee selects a supervisor for each county and together they:

Assign representatives to every polling station

Supervise the overall quality of the elections, including monitoring for fraud

Meantime, the Guardian Council reserves the right to nullify or suspend the election throughout all


guarantee the ability to run for the office.

Once candidates register with the MoI, the Ministry sends the list of names to the Guardian Council. The Guardian Council then vets the list according to the requirements laid out in the law. In this way, many people can be disqualified for lacking the requisite qualifications. While the Guardian Council is vetting the candidate list, candidates also have the opportunity to submit information or testimonials that confirm their eligibility and qualifications. Once the Guardian Council completes its vetting, a final list of candidates is sent to the MoI, which publishes the list.

Campaigning

The publication of the names of the candidates marks the start of the official campaign period. Campaigning ends 24 hours before Election Day.

To ensure all candidates benefit equally from theState’s resources, the MoI establishes an Election Campaign Monitoring Commission. The members of this commission include the Attorney General or his/her representative, the Interior Minister or his/her representative, the managing director of the state media or his/her representative and a representative of the Guardian Council. According to the law, every candidate has equal access to State media for purposes of campaigning.

Some provisions governing campaigns include:

Government employees cannot campaign for or against candidates

It is illegal to destroy the posters or ads of any candidates during the campaign period

Candidates and their supporters are prohibited from insulting or defaming other candidates

Election officials are barred from campaigning for candidates

Voting in Iran

In Iran, there is no voter registration or roll. Iranians can vote anywhere as long as they present their national identification book,


public nor outside entities are permitted to officially monitor the elections. However, candidate agents may be present at every polling station during the voting hours and during the vote count. Additionally, they may attend every Election Executive Committee meeting during the election period.

Determining the Winner

The Iranian President is determined through an absolute majority. In other words, the person with 50%+1 of the votes is the winner. However, in cases where there is no absolute majority, the law calls for a runoff election between the top two vote getters. The runoff election is mandated to take place within one week of the first round of elections.

Once a winner is determined, the Guardian Council approves the election process and the Supreme Leader signs off on the Letter of Presidency. TheThe U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is holding an outreach event tomorrow night in Shelbina, Missouri.

The Columbia, Missouri Veteran's Center will host the event for all veterans and it is designed to discuss Veteran's benefits and also to answer any questions about services available at the Veteran's Center.

The evening is also an opportunity to meet Veteran's Center staff members, learn more about the services provided and to see the 40 foot Mobile Vet Center Vehicle. The outreach event will be held Tuesday night (July 7) at the Shelby County Fairgrounds in Shelbina, Missouri from 6 to 9 p.m. and is open to all Veterans and their family members to attend at no cost.


over $278 billion worth of arms sales—more weapons than any president has let loose into the world since World War II.

Most of those weapons went to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia–mostly famous in the United States for previously not allowing women to drive and because they chop off gay people’s heads. Saudi Arabia is also distinguished as the world’s premier sponsor of radical Islamic terrorism.

Knowing all this, the Obama administration still provided Saudi Arabia with more than $115 billion worth of arms deals, according to the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency.

The Saudis are also currently waging a three-year-long war in Yemen which has resulted in unchecked violence, losses of life and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster for upwards of 21 million people.

Obama specifically signed off on the Yemeni warfor Political-Military Affairs–and posted on the State Department’s website outlines U.S. policy on arms exports. Kaidanow notes:

Pursuant to section 2 of the AECA, “under the direction of the President, the Secretary of State (taking into account other United States activities abroad, such as military assistance, economic assistance, and food for peace program) shall be responsible for the continuous supervision and general direction of sales, leases, financing, cooperative projects, and exports under this Act… The AECA also authorizes the President, in “furtherance of world peace and the security and foreign policy of the United States” to “control the import and the export of defense articles and defense services.”

This is a very clear and concise explanation of the law. Protocol is that first the president go through the secretary of


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Tuesday, 23 April 2013

The Moon Is Not For Sale by Wallace Provost

4 out of 5 stars

Land, society and how
things could be

Annabelle Taylor (Annie) and Clint Baker
are thrown together in the middle of an asteroid shower on the Moon.Lunar City, for the moment, is in chaos,
offering only very cramped, bored and squalid conditions until the next shuttle
arrives in two weeks time.Annie is only
a temporary worker on the Moon having gone there to pick up easy credits for
her law degree, but Clint is a “Luney”, that is, he was born on the moon.Clint decides it is best to take Annie with
him to his family home, Moondogy Ranch, which is a few days drive away by very
rough road.The ranch is located in a
huge cavern, whichthe “jungle drum music” (p. 153)
in Chapter 18, where patrons of the “Haven of Evil” lasciviously prepare to
watch a truly gratuitous spectacle.This
very much contrasts with the previous chapter in which Kwame Nkuomo, a Gahanna
engineer, beats his jungle drum while remorsefully contemplating the terrible
consequences of a failed project which he helped to initiate.The philosophical ethics of the first chapter
bitingly contrasts with the degradation of the next.

This book has an unusual plot
structure.The first half of the novel
follows Annie as she rises in the world and has to deal with various
complications, such as a possible romance with Clint and even a plot to kill
her.In the second half of the book the
plot diverges into various stories, many of which are centred on the
development of the moon colony.We read
of, for example, the establishment


of a number of new settlements.In this second half there is still a plot
line related to Annie, however, she does not take centre stage.One criticism of Provost’s book is that this
second half is unnecessarily repetitive.There is, for example, a second attempt to kill Annie.In the first half Black Horse Jones, Cherokee
Indian ‘big man’ and Annie’s long standing enemy, is the individual who wants
Annie dead.In the second half Injun Joe
Bristow, also a Cherokee Indian ‘big man’, is the assassination schemer.Once again in the first half we read the
story of the establishment of the city of Inyanga by dispossessed Zulus.In the second half of the book we read of the
establishment of Helium City by Indians from the slums of Mumbai, and then
again the story of the establishment of the villageinteresting.The story bounds along, full of excitement,
but also has moments that make us think deeper about the society in which we
live.Provost shows a quite balanced
approach to many of the issues he raises, such as the Marxist/Capitalist
debate, the depiction of ‘third world’ people and the portrayal of North
American Indians.Women, LGBTI and the
disabled are represented positively.The
novel is not without its shortcomings.The second half is a bit too diffuse, needing some central character or
main plot to pull it together.That part
of the book, however, is certainly not a complete failure: it is interesting
and entertaining.All in all I am happy
to give this book a four out of five star rating.

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doing. He didn't blame them. If he hadn't known for sure that he'd been buried in his sister's cunt when the fucking murder took place, he'd probably wonder if he'd done it.
This wasn't the first body they'd found, cut up in the same way. It was the fourth. In a week. He jumped off his horse and heard his brothers were following. A drunk in a stained robe kept his eyes on the riverbank as he pointed. His hand shook.
"Found her just over there. Sir. Heard you wanted to be called on if there was another one."
The man was scrawny, his cheeks drawn in in hunger, and Cassius turned to shield him from view as he pressed a few coins into the man's hand. When he started tothank him, Cassius' hand wrapped around the hilt of his sword.
"Don't say a word or I'll cut your throat. Spend it on bread, not wine, or I still might."
The man nodded and scurried away before his brothers approached. Marcus led the way, squinting into the darkness as he tried to find the body.
"Did none of you think to bring a fucking light?" He pinched the bridge of his nose.
"I have one." Gaius, the second oldest of five, stepped in front of him and they made their way down the riverbank. There she was, draped over the rocks like the corpse of a siren. Every one of the multitude of cuts in her flesh was surgical. Methodical. Just as precise as he'd have made them if this was his


work. Whoever had done this.. he was a second side to Cassius' own coin.
The first three dead prostitutes had been dark-headed. This one was not, and he felt his hands clenching into fists as Gaius stepped closer to her body with the lamp. Red hair was caked with blood and clumped around her face. It was still wet. He pressed two fingers against her wrist. She was still warm. This was a fresh kill.
"Did anyone see anything?"
Marcus shrugged, and headed off to talk to the people crowded at the top of the ravine. Atticus and Hector followed.
Gaius turned to him. "He's a fucking spirit. A Daemon. No one's seen him yet."
"Does anyone know who she is?"
He turned back toward the hill as a scream pierced the night. Awoman was fighting with Marcus, trying to push past him.
When he got close enough to see the woman, he realized she wasn't a plebeian at all. Her clothing was expensive, cut perfectly. Her red hair was piled high on top of her head. A man stood beside her, finally pulled her off Marcus. It wasn't until he moved closer to the light that Cassius realized he knew him. The first three dead girls had been prostitutes. The redhead on the rocks was not. Not if these were her parents.
"Cassius." The man, Titus Tulia, turned to face him. His mouth was set in a tight line, dark shadows were cast under his eyes. "Is it Claudia? Is that my daughter?"
He had no idea. But Marcus might.
"Marcus." He waved him


over, and pulled him aside. "Is that Titus's girl? The one about your age?"
His eyes widened. "Might be. I need another look."
"Then go take one."
It was. The girl on the rocks was not a dead whore. She was a nobleman's daughter. And Cassius rode home with a blackened eye he gained while trying to stop the man from rushing down to the side of the ravine to find his child's body in the condition that it was in. He'd promised to send the girl home to him, once she could be dressed. And cleaned.
He was in a strange mood on the way home, trying to figure out why the fuck he cared. He usually cared about no one's feelings.
Part of him already knew.
She was a pretty young girlwith red hair.
She reminded him of Callia.
Their father was waiting by the door when they arrived.
He stood silent as his brothers explained the situation. He wanted to go upstairs, to find his girl in his bed, warm, naked and sleeping. Alive.
"You know most people believe this is your work, Cass." His father's eyes narrowed as he studied him.
He clenched his jaw. "I was here. All day. And yesterday, as well."
Lykos nodded. "I know that. Your brothers know that. But-"
"Who else fucking matters?"
His father regarded him silently for a moment, and nodded. "Send your sister to me when you finish with her."
He accepted that as a dismissal. "I won't be finished with her until morning."
He found his sister curled up on his floor, shivering in her sleep. He lifted


her as if she were no more than a child and put her down on his bed. She barely stirred. He wrapped his body around hers, tucked his face against her neck and fell asleep.

*

LYKOS
He hadn't intended to turn Callia into a whore. Truly, the thought hadn't crossed his mind.
He was quite attached to her, actually, after she was born. She'd been a clever baby, like his sons. And funny. He'd actually thought of sending her to school, like the nobleman's daughter she was, and use her marriage to gain a powerful ally in Rome.
His wife, Lyssandra had intervened. She'd been right. The old bitch had a keen eye for talent.
She had hated his daughter, been cruel to her on the rare occasions they shared the same room.Callia was beautiful, like her mother, and his wife had explained her view on the issue. Men paid a high price for a beautiful girl, sure. But Callia was exceptional, eager to please, and more than that, she had good blood. One both sides. Her mother hadn't been born a slave. She'd been captured by Lykos' army, but before that she'd led a strange cult of women warriors that bastardized the Celts beliefs. They'd believed the Morrigan, a terrifying goddess of sex and war, blood and death, had called to them. Maybe she had. Callia's mother was the only one they'd been able to capture alive. The rest of the women had fought to their deaths.
And one night, Lyssandra remarked that she'd finally found a use for the


child. Callia had taken to her training like she'd been born for it. And gone were his illusions about a noble daughter.
She was just another whore after that. A whore he would sell like any other.
"How do you work out the cost?" Appius, his old friend and fellow soldier, inquired from across the room.
"My girls work from fourteen to twenty. They sell for the equivalent of their expected earnings for the remainder of their term."
"So the older the whore, the lower the price."
"Exactly." He glanced up as a soft knock sounded at the door.
Callia stood patiently on the other side when one of his guards pushed it open. She'd obviously just come from Cassius' rooms. You could always tell. She'd been scrubbed clean, washed and groomed, but hisoldest son's affections weren't stains you could easily wash away. Black and purple bruises circled her neck, her bottom lip was swollen. When she turned around, her back was inflamed with fresh bruises and welts.
Yes, selling Callia was the best option. If -no, not if- When. When Cassius killed her (and it really was only a matter of time), he would lose money. If he sold her to someone else, there was still a chance she'd be killed, but at least he would get paid. He sighed.
Try as he might to deny it, he would miss the feel of his daughter's mouth on his cock and the way her tight little cunt trembled when she came. At least it would take Appius some time to come up with


payment. His daughter was one of his top earners, and still in her first year of service. She would not go cheap.
Appius shook his hand, and stared at Callia as he left. She smiled at him, blissfully unaware that that soon she would leave her father's home and be at the mercy of a man she'd met only once. Lykos refused to feel guilty. It was for her own good. Better Appius than Cassius.
He snapped his fingers. "Come here, my child."
She took in front of him, wide eyed, a hint of a smile still on her face. Her little tits were round on her tiny frame.
"Are you hurt badly, Callia?"
She frowned, and the purple bruise on her lip stretched. She looked puzzled. "I'm not hurt at all, Father."
Hesighed as he slid his hand between her thighs and worked a finger between the soft lips of her little cunt. Her head tilted back, just slightly and her little mouth opened in a sweet little moan.
She was wet as soon as his finger hit her clit and worked its way back down to her tight little hole. She was the perfect little whore, she even got wet for her own father. He slid his finger into her cunt, slowly, and her blue-green eyes met his. Her pussy tightened around his finger, and her hips rocked to meet his quickening thrusts. She looked so much like her mother.
He stood, abruptly. Undressed.
"Your mouth, Callia. Suck daddy's cock like a good girl."
She hit her knees, eager to please and wrapped


her little fist around his cock. She stroked it, once, twice before she wrapped her little pink lips around the head and looked up in him. He liked to look in his daughter's eyes as she sucked his cock. She knew it.
He could feel her tongue, hot and wet against his shaft, working slow circles just like he'd taught her so many years ago. She knew to get him wet first so that he slid smoothly into her waiting mouth.
She kissed the tip of his cock, sucked on it. His little girl licked her father's cock like it was the greatest thing she'd ever tasted. He felt his muscles clench as he looked down at her sweet little face. When she finally sucked his thick shaft down herwet throat, he knew that he would not be satisfied with just one hole this day. He wanted to fuck all three.
He leaned back for a moment, just watching her suck him. The he took her by the hair and bent her over his desk. She moaned softly as she raised her tight little ass high in the air, offering it to him. He slapped her clit, enjoying the sounds of his daughters cries as he worked two fingers deep inside her. He positioned the swollen head of his cock at her glistening, wet hole and dug his fingers into her hips as he forced his cock in her tight little cunt.
She shoved her ass out to meet him, pushed her hips back against his, showing him that


she was ready for his cock. He stroked the broken skin of her back as he felt her young little body stretch around him. His daughter's pussy was always so wet, so fucking tight, and she gripped his cock with her little body like she couldn't get enough of it.
"Please," She whimpered. "Please, Daddy, harder."
He obliged her, of course. He gripped the sides of her narrow little hips as he pounded his cock deep inside his own daughter's soaking wet cunt. His second stroke was harder, her screams louder as he took what belonged to him. He owned her. Owned her cunt and her pretty little round ass.
"Hands on the floor."
She giggled, he loved that sound. Loved the way her little cunt shook when she laughed and hiscock was inside her. She bent over, balancing perfectly, her thighs close together. It made her wet, teenage cunt even tighter and he fucked her with rough, violent thrusts. He slapped her ass as he did, watching the skin grow red under his assault. He would see his own hand prints on her ass when he finally moved past her cunt. There was nothing he'd ever felt quite like sliding his cock inside his little girl's ass.
He pushed her off his cock, and she looked disappointed. Hurt. "Did I not please you father?"
He smiled and pulled her close to him, his fingers playing with her wet little cunt as he leaned his face against the top of her head.
"You always please me, Callia. And I want to reward


hard, he wanted to bite them between his teeth and hear her scream for him.
"Over the desk, Callia."
She obeyed. She was nothing if not perfectly obedient - but he guessed that had far more to do with a love of cock than a love of submission. Her mother had been the most strong-willed women he'd ever met, and sometimes he was disappointed not to see more of that fire in their child. He still remembered the day he filled her mother with the same cum Callia craved; remembered watching Breena's belly get round and full. With Callia. He hadn't known then that in a few short years he would be teaching that same child to beg for his cock. Best decision he'd ever made. It angered him thathe had Lyssandra to thank for that; his wife, who had taken away the only woman he ever cared for.
His balls were heavy just thinking about Breena, and when he stared at Callia's perfectly wet little slit, and her tight waiting asshole it was all he could do not to force his way in immediately. But he didn't take his pleasure in pain. He took pleasure in the willing body of a tight young girl; one who begged for it, loved cock, craved his cum.
He stepped behind her, shoving his fingers into her wet little hole and then moved them upward, stretching out her little ass. He watched his own fingers work their way expertly inside her daughter's ass, lubricated the tight, rarely used hole with the wetness


from her own cunt.
She couldn't get enough. He could hear her, begging, moaning almost unintelligibly. She loved getting her ass filled - that was why she got it so rarely. He used it as a reward.
He pushed the head of his cock slowly at the opening of her ass and loved her soft, sweet little gasp.
"Please, Daddy."
He leaned back, looked down his chest to watch the thick length of his cock disappear into his child's ass. He loved watching the first stroke, watching her ass stretch wide as she struggled to remember to relax and let it happen. It was so fucking tight, even tighter than her cunt had been the first time he fucked her, so many years ago.
"Yes, yes.." He could hear her sharp breaths, prettylittle moans. "Oh Daddy, yes."
He wrapped his hand around her body, just pressing the tip of his finger inside her cunt as he filled her ass. He could feel her squeezing her muscles tight around his cock as he finally got all the way inside. She'd been trained so well, knew what her father wanted without being told.
He liked to enjoy this moment. The way her hole felt before he'd pounded it, stretched it to take him. He watched his cock slide in and out of his daughter's ass; fucked it slowly, his nostrils flared as he felt her clenching and tightening her ass around him.
As always, the door slammed open. Sometimes he regretted giving his sons permission to use their sister's body. There always seemed to be


someone waiting for their turn.
True to form, Hector stood in the doorway, eyes narrowed. "I thought you'd be finished with her by now."
Lykos thrusted his cock deeper into his daughter's ass. "Blame Cassius. I just got her.. Though, truthfully, only one hole is currently occupied. I bet your darling little sister is more than capable of pleasing more than one cock at a time. She's quite skilled."

*

CALLIA
Callia moaned against the desk, her lips parted. Her father's cock was so deep, so fucking deep, inside her ass, but her little cunt was soaking wet. Soaking wet and practically begging to be filled.
Her eyes closed slowly and her body jerked around daddy's cock as she heard his words.
"Only one hole is currently occupied.. more than capable of pleasing more thanone cock at a time.."
Yes she was. Oh Gods, please, yes. She'd only been double penetrated once before, and it was so long ago. Part of her early training just after she'd been fucked for the first time, and she still fantasized about it. Had to fist her hands at her sides as night to keep from touching her own cunt when she remembered the way it had felt when two of her brothers had fucked her at the same time.
She dug her hands into the desk, waiting breathlessly until Hector shrugged and began to undress.
Yes.
Her father pulled his cock out of her ass, and laid on the desk. She scrambled quickly to get on top of him. She had to hurry, she had to get her ass


on his cock and get her legs spread for her brother before one of them had time change their mind. She positioned her ass hole over her father's cock as Hector watched her with an amused smile on his face.
"Looks like the little whore is eager to please two cocks, at least."
Callia nodded at him, a silent promise that she was eager as she slammed her ass down on his daddy's cock. She took it too fast, but she welcomed the pain. She leaned back against his chest, and he gripped her sides, holding her in place.
She spread her legs for Hector. "I'm ready."
He stalked over to her slowly, his eyes on her little cunt.
He trailed on finger down the length of her soaking wet slit. "Yes. Ican see that."
She trembled against his touch, the tip of his finger against her clit sending shockwaves through her body, making her clench hard around her daddy's cock.
She gasped as Hector fisted his thick cock and guided it to her cunt. She wanted this so fucking bad. She spread her legs wider, her eyes rolling back in her head as her brother worked his way into her little cunt while her father remained still, his cock buried deep in her ass.
Her moans were more like gasps, frantic cries as he fought his way in. She could feel how tight she was because her daddy's cock was already in and Hector had to finally slam himself the rest of the way in.
She screamed. She felt so fucking full, her


tiny, young body being stretched in every direction. Two large cocks both forcing their way deeper into both of her holes. She felt it when they began to move, their cocks moving inside her in a dance that seemed perfectly choreographed. One second she was all but empty, and the next she was stretched so fucking full. She knew she looked like a whore, but she was a whore, so she didn't care. She laid there against her fathers chest, her legs spread open while her brother fucked her glistening wet little pussy. This is what she lived for, all she was good for. Pleasing men, strangers, high class and low class like. She was available to anyone who had the money to pay for the pleasure andshe got off on that.. But there was nothing quite like knowing she was her father and brother's personal little fuck toy. Yes, she'd give it all up to be owned solely by her oldest brother.. But her father would never allow that, so for now she gloried in being used.
Hector's hand met her cheek hard, he slapped her, right over the bruise Cass had left on her face and she felt her little cunt tighten around him. Hurt me
He held her face in his hand, squeezing her jaw hard enough to leave fingerprints, angling her head down so that she could watch him slam his cock inside her. She liked that. Loved watching herself get fucked.
She could feel it building, feel the heat starting to snake its


way through her body, the beginning tremors. She was going to cum, and the knowledge that she would cum screaming with two cocks inside her was almost enough to push her over the edge.
She could hear them talking, but couldn't quite make out the words. She was lost in her own personal world, but she caught bits and pieces. Slut. She knew they were laughing at her, cracking jokes at her expense as they used her body, marveling at the fact that such a pretty little girl would love something this dirty. She was dirty. She was going to fucking cum with her father's cock in her ass, and her brother's deep inside her pussy.
Her back arched, and she whimpered incoherently as her little body began to shake,she could feel herself.. Her holes gripping their cocks, trembling around them as the orgasm started. Her body rocked, cumming so fucking hard around the cocks that filled her until she couldn't even think straight. She could hear their grunts, their groans as they felt her, cumming around them both.
"Little whore gets so fucking wet." Hector's eyes were half closed, and he waited for the hardest wave of her orgasm to subside before he slapped her again, and their pace quickened. Both cocks filled her faster, harder, at a furious pace that actually hurt.
They were going to cum, and she tried to form words, struggled to ask them to cum in her mouth, but before she could she felt them both slam so fucking deep. Both of their


arms pinned her still as they flooded her cunt and her ass with cum. She grinded against them, both of them, wanting them to feel her from every angle as the pumped her so fucking full. She collapsed back against her father's chest and stared up at Hector.
His eyes looked sleepy, and his forehead was covered in sweat. "What the fuck are you pouting about?"
"I- I'm not." She shook her head.
"Is she pouting?" Her fathers face nuzzled against hers. "Tell Daddy what's wrong, Callia. That's an order."
She whimpered, and hoped she wouldn't be in trouble. "I just.. I. I didn't get to taste it."
She felt both cocks jerk inside her and when they both laughed, she knew she wasn't in trouble. That had pleased them; the thought thatshe was sad because she wanted to taste their cum.
Her father gripped her hips tightly. "Be good to your baby sister, Hector. She wants to taste your cum."
She winced as he pulled his cock out of her sore, thoroughly fucked little cunt, and gasped when she felt two of his fingers slam deep inside. He pumped his fingers inside her cunt, as deep as he could. He finger fucked her lazily for a minute and when he pulled out his fingers, she realized what he was doing.
She leaned forward happily as he slammed his fingers into her mouth. She sucked greedily, her eyes closed when she got the first taste of his cum from her cunt. She trailed her tongue around his fingers, sucking off every last drop.
"I


think she needs a little more," Her father mused. "Callia. Knees on the floor."
She climbed off of him, wincing as his cock slipped out of her ass and she got to her knees on the floor. She opened her mouth wide. She knew what was coming.
Both of them gripped their wet, cum covered, semi-hard cocks and guided then to her mouth. For a moment they were close enough for her to wrap her lips around both, but then she had to clean off one at a time.
She began with her father's, sucking and cleaning his shaft, tasting every last drop of his salty cum. Then she moved to Hector's. Then her fathers. She licked lazily for a few minutes, and when she was done, she was smiling andA truly global array of participants from as far afield as Australia and North America met in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 9--11 November 2016 for one of the largest gatherings of the ECF, now in its ninth year. The meeting format combined thought-provoking presentations and panel discussions with interactive forum workshops tracked under the headings of Development, Educational Design and the CME Environment.

Day 1 began with a pre-conference session that provided a perspective on the history of CME regulation and accreditation from four of CME's "founding fathers" from Europe and USA. Drs Cees Liebbrandt and Len Harvey representing The European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) outlined the formation of UEMS and the European Accreditation Council for CME (EACCME) following the Charter on European CME in 1994 and the


subsequent negotiations with the American Medical Association (AMA) for mutual recognition of CME credits between Europe and the USA.

Dr Dennis Wentz described his role in negotiating the reciprocal agreement on behalf of the AMA and pointed out the existence of global standards for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) set out by the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) and updated in 2015 (<http://wfme.org/standards/cpd>).

Dr Wentz went on to present a paper on behalf of Lewis Miller, founder of both the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (ACEhp) and the Global Alliance for Medical Education (GAME) who was unable to attend in person due to ill-health. He traced the history of the formation of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) in 1981 to the current approach inNorth American CME where interprofessional activities focus much more on measuring outcomes in terms of changes in healthcare professionals' behaviour and patient care improvement.

The main conference was introduced by Eugene Pozniak, ECF's co-founder and Programme Director, who highlighted the milestones in European CME during the previous 12 months, including the accreditation status granted by ACCME to the first non-US organisation, namely SIYEMI Learning. This status provided the means for this year's forum to be designated for *AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™*.

During the opening session, Jonas Nordquist of the Karolinska Institutet illustrated results from research on learning at undergraduate and postgraduate level in medicine that could be translated into strategies for success in CME. He noted the importance of the design of learning spaces to bolster infrastructure for high quality


could be maintained by appropriate monitoring, governance and evaluation to eliminate bias.c.Lisa Sullivan from Australia, representing GAME, was joined by Vaibhav Srivastava from India and Dr Alvaro Margolis via Skype from Uruguay to describe the characteristics of CME activities in Asia, India and Latin America. They highlighted similarities and differences between these regions and North America and Europe. The main take-home messages related to the variations in regulatory practices, the increasing emphasis on internet-based education, particularly in Latin America, and the lack of needs-based educational activities in much of Asia. The presenters also noted the important influence of different cultures that affect the way CME activities are planned and implemented in these regions and discussed the distinct possibilities for transferability of CME activities across language and cultural barriers.

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Announced conflict

The stake of the


conflict is the admittance of multinational companies to the areas in Northern Peru, which is rich in oil, gas and minerals. For almost two months, more than 30 000 indigenous inhabitants of different provinces of the Amazon and the Highlands protested the way in which the state and companies want to invest in the exploitation of natural resources. Indigenous people and farmer communities want to take part in the decision making process about the development of the land.

During 57 days, indigenous people were on strike and blocked roads. The last two years a large number of ecological and social restrictions on extraction of resources were removed by a changing regulation, leading to a much less restrictive legislation. This eases direct foreign investments in Peru for developing mines andoil and gas exploitations and concessions.

On May 9, the Peruvian government declared the state of emergency in seven provinces of the Amazon areas, which means that "the constitutionally provisions on freedom and security of persons and the immunity of accommodation are temporarily suspended, and that there is a ban on gathering". Officially to safeguard access to roads and airports, and to prevent production losses due to the actions of the indigenous people. However, on Friday it appeared as an alibi for using violence.

Negotiations between the state and the representatives of the indigenous communities were ceased on May 15, where after the indigenous people announced that they would continue their actions. Ever since, the protest and the reactions of the government became more grim.

Convention 169 forces the consultation of


indigenous people

C169 Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, set up by the International Labour Organisation and ratified by Peru in 1994, obliges Peru to consult indigenous people in cases in which the State or a company plans to exploit the natural resources in the land that the indigenous people occupy. This however is not a common practice in the Amazon forest. The biodiversity and the lives of indigenous people are at stake. The Sate and the companies involved - including the French oil company Perenco and the Spanish company REPSOL - push for a quick exploitation. The Peruvian Amazon forest are wanted for its potential profits, in a worldwide context of a growing shortage of natural resources.

Criticizing to the actions by the indigenous people, president García referred in aANATOMY OF TORTURE — Historian Christopher Dietrich on the 100-year-long history of American torture; Jeffrey St. Clair on the implications of giving impunity to the CIA’s torturers; Chris Floyd on how the US has exported torture to its client states around the world. David Macaray on the Paradoxes of Police Unions; Louis Proyect on Slave Rebellions in the Open Seas; Paul Krassner on the Perils of Political Cartooning; Martha Rosenberg on the dangers of Livestock Shot-up with Antibiotics; and Lee Ballinger on Elvis, Race and the Poor South. Plus: Mike Whitney on Greece and the Eurozone and JoAnn Wypijewski on Media Lies that Killed.

How a Lawsuit Against the World's Largest Private Equity Firms Puts a Spotlight on the Secretive and Powerful Industry

The Rise of the Financial Barbarians

by DARWIN


perhaps due to its ability to keep secrets from the DOJ, and maybe also still coasting on laudatory press from the just-concluded boom era, private equity has escaped mostly unscathed. Unlike other major financial industry players, private equity operates in a moral and legal universe little changed from the 1990s and 2000s. Mitt Romney’s run for the presidency has directed some media attention on issues of tax avoidance, and the harmful economic impact of some PE deals on workers and local communities, but even here the focus has been on Bain Capital and Romney, and not on the industry as a whole.

Now, however, a lawsuit making its way through federal court has the potential to refocus critical attention on the entire private equity industry. A recent ruling byof robust competition. After Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc. announced that it would acquire RJR Nabisco for $75 per share, a bidding war broke out between KKR, Shearson Lehman Hutton, and Forstmann Little & Co. Ultimately, KKR acquired the company for $109 per share – a 40% increase from the initial bid.”

The RJR Nabisco deal occurred at the height of the first LBO boom, from roughly 1987 to 1989, and served as the inspiration for Byran Burrough and John Helyar’s famous book Barbarians at the Gate. The boom also inspired the film Wall Street and forever marked the corporate raiders as unscrupulously greedy and aggressive. This era of buyouts died down during the early 1990s when subsequent restrictions in liquidity and credit slowed the entire US economy. In the


groups were determined to stifle these competitive dynamics. They vowed that profits taken in the next wave of LBOs, when credit conditions were again ripe for it, would not be limited by the otherwise hyper-oppositional nature of the buyout industry. That next boom arrived in about 2002, but really exploded in 2005, as easy access to cheap capital a given, and a select few investment banks, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Barclays, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley, looked to multiply their earnings with the higher fees generated by servicing private equity firms through LBOs. Some of the biggest public pension funds played an enabling role too, seeking higher returns on their capital they committed billions to private equity funds managed by just a few dozen of thebit lines. In the standby mode of the DRAM, the two-phase pre-charge circuit is in a disablement state, thereby the short DC standby current between the complementary bit lines and word lines is erased.
The standby current erasure circuit for DRAM according to the present invention comprises a pre-charge equalization circuit and at least one control signal. One end of the pre-charge equalization circuit is connected to the source of pre-charge voltage and the other end is connected to the complementary bit line. The at least one control signal is used to generate one pulse in the beginning and end of the active mode of the DRAM for electrically connecting the source of pre-charge voltage and the complementary bit line, and the at least one control signal is disabled


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Freedom of Speech, Political CorrectnessYouTube blocked Polish anti-extremist channel run by Malgorzata Koraszewska. The channel broadcasted various films from extremist groups, mainly those found by MEMRI, with Polish subtitles added. The aim of the channel was to keep Polish society informed about the activities…

ImmigrationThe European Commission has decided to initiate infringement proceedings against the countries that do not participate in the refugee resettlement program: Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. What does the refugee relocation, however, look like in terms of facts, numbers…

Islam in PolandOn Tuesday morning a fight broke between Tatars, living in Poland since 14th century as minority, representing Muslim Religious Associations (MZR) and supporters of imam Nizar Charif, Salafists – Muslim fundamentalists and converts. Several police vehicles were directed to the mosque. The  On the evening of April 29, 2011, as Hilda Engibegian was driving
northbound on the 2 freeway in Los Angeles County with her sister, her attention
was drawn to a struggle occurring between the two occupants of a nearby
automobile, which she thought to be a black Honda or Toyota sedan. The male
driver of the automobile appeared to be engaged in a physical altercation with the
vehicle’s female passenger. Engibegian witnessed “pushing and shoving” as well
as punches being thrown. Fearing this altercation was a serious one, Engibegian
slowed down to follow the black sedan. Engibegian followed the car as it turned
onto the 210 west freeway, all the while witnessing a struggle between the
vehicle’s driver and passenger. Engibegian called 911 and, while she was
reporting the altercation, she and her sister saw the


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away. Campbell saw a body lying on the side of the road, not moving. This body
later was identified as that of Adrine Arzumanyan.
      Concerned that the occupant of the vehicle had “dumped somebody” on the
side of the road, Campbell accelerated to prevent the car from passing him. The
two vehicles were involved in a collision, and both Campbell and the driver of the
second car exited their cars. When he exited his car, Campbell was confronted by
the driver of the second vehicle, described by Campbell as a male Armenian. The
driver pointed a gun at Campbell and yelled that he was “going to kill” him.
Campbell ran around his vehicle to shield himself from the driver.The driver re-
entered his car and sped away. Campbell and his wife called 911 to report the
incident.
      Around the same time, Varooj Carybian, a police officer with the City of
Glendale, received a call involving a black sedan indicating that a female possibly
had been shot and thrown out of the vehicle. Officer Carybian responded to the
call and saw a vehicle that matched the description of the car, stopped in the
southbound emergency lane of the 2 freeway. Officer Carybian saw Sarukhanyan
inside the vehicle. After other officers arrived, Officer Carybian ordered
Sarukhanyan out of the car and saw blood on Sarukhanyan’s head. Sarukhanyan
initially told Officer Carybian that his “friend” had shot him, but subsequently told
Officer Carybian that he had shot himself. Officer Carybian searched the vehicle
and found


generally driven by an external power source, such as an electric motor, while the other is driven from the first. An inlet port and an outlet port are formed by removal of some portion of the material along the region of overlap between the cylindrical chamber bores. Net flow is transverse to the plane of the rotor shafts: the pumped material moves around the perimeter of the rotors from inlet to outlet, drawn into the blower as the interleaved lobes move from the center of the cavity toward the inlet port, opening a void; carried around the chamber in alternate “gulps” of volume between two lobes of a rotor in a cylinder, released to the outlet port by the lifting of the leading lobe of each successive gulp           These yards do not have any
docks, piers, or wharfs. At the Chef Yard, Zepeda worked predominately on
Evergreen containers. Zepeda testified that he was never informed where the
containers and chassis had been prior to having been brought to the yard for
maintenance. Zepeda was a member of the International Longshoremen’s
Association (“ILA”) throughout his employment with NOMC. He was also a
member of ILA during his time with NODSI, but switched to non-union
employment at some point while so employed.
       Kirk Williams, the owner of NODSI, testified that he started the company

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1996.   NODSI was initiated primarily to serve the container needs of
Evergreen, a company specializing in the transportation of oceangoing cargo in
a fully containerized atmosphere. NODSI serviced Evergreen exclusively until
2002, when it also contracted with Mitsui O.S.K. for similar services. Williams
testified that Evergreen did not request that NODSI be set up in a specific
location. Williams further testified that he selected the location for the Chef
Yard because of the hard land, and did not consider access to a waterway. The
Terminal Yard was acquired through a lease with the Board of Commissioners
for the Port of New Orleans. Williams testified that access to a waterway was
not a consideration in the selection of the Terminal Yard site.
      Zepeda’s son, a terminal supervisor for NODSI, testified inhis deposition
that the containers to be repaired are rarely labeled to identify which customer
owns the containers. He stated that he would not know whether the containers
came into the Port of New Orleans by ship. He also testified that Zepeda
performed most of his work in the Chef Yard, which had more than 1,000
containers going in and out of the yard each year.
      Thomas Brooks, a claims adjuster hired by Ports America, the successor
of NOMC, testified regarding the composition of the area surrounding both
yards. By his account, there are several trucking and industrial yards, a coffee
roasting plant, several marine facilities, and terminals near the Chef Yard.
Near the Terminal Yard, there are tank storage facilities and a trucking facility
with large marine containers.


GUWAHATI: With stars in their eyes hordes of students from India's northeast region head towards various parts of the country during admission season. However, previous episodes of unsavoury treatment meted out to northeastern people is what haunts most of them.

"Media is abuzz with episodes of attacks on Indians in Australia, but many of the incidents of attacks on India's northeastern people in India itself remain shrouded in oblivion. We condemn the attacks on Indians in Australia but we want an end to abuse and beating of northeastern boys and girls, mostly in India's capital city. All the cases are of racial nature," Madhu Chandra, spokesperson of North East Support Centre and Helpline, New Delhi said.

"As students from northeast India have already started coming to New Delhi, we arein touch with students' associations of all the states of the region in Delhi to help the newcomers to settle down in a new city," added Chandra.

The centre was formed on Sep 22, 2007 to address the issue of safety and security of northeastern people in Delhi, as they are often target of "racial attack", according to Chandra.

"Not only Australia, India too is racist," Gyati Talo, a 32-year-old teacher and blogger from Arunachal Pradesh, who did his graduation from a reputed college of New Delhi said.

"I was being chased and verbally abused by a bunch of youngsters in a Delhi lane. They abused me because of my short stature and mongoloid features. After the incident, I stopped coming out alone at night during my three-year stay in the


city," Talo said.

According to the figures available with the centre, around 100 cases of physical and verbal abuse, molestation, rape and beating of boys and girls of the region were reported in Delhi in 2006 and 2007.

"However in 2008, we received only three episodes of attacks on people of northeast India in Delhi. But they were of heinous nature, pertaining to sexual assaults and beating of women," rued Chandra.

This year, till May, the centre had received 12 complaints of harassment, rape, physical and verbal abuse of northeastern people in Delhi.

"It's sad that students from northeast India who go to study in various parts of India have to undergo racial prejudice. My daughter also studied in New Delhi. I was surprised when she told me over phone during herstay in the city that her fellow students in the colleges calls her a 'chinky', because of her mongoloid features and she was depressed," said noted Assamese poet and columnist Samir Tanti.

"Calling someone 'chinky' (referring to small eyes) is racial in nature. I know all the northeastern are known as chinky in Delhi and other parts of India," the poet said.

According to an estimate, every year around 80,000-100,000 students from eight states of the region (Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura) go to various places of India for higher studies.

Favourite study destinations for northeastern students are New Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, Chennai and Hyderabad.

"However, it is New Delhi from which cases of abuse and harassment are very common," said Chandra.
Mahima Gogoi, a resident of Guwahati