§ 241(b)(3), 8 U.S.C. §

1231(b)(3), and protection under the Convention Against Torture, 8 C.F.R. §§ 1208.16(c),

1208.18, in which he claimed that he was persecuted in Mali on the basis of his political

opinion. Koita later withdrew his asylum application because it was untimely.

       During the merits hearing held on February 14, 2008, Koita testified that he was a

Secretary of the Association of Pupils and Students of Mali (“AEEM”), a student

organization at the Faculté des Sciences Juridiques et Economiques (part of the

University of Bamako), a public university. Koita attended the university for about five

months from November, 1999 to March, 2000, and he hoped to become a lawyer. As one

of five Secretaries in AEEM, Koita served as a liaison between the students and

organization leaders. Duringthe relevant time period, January, 2000, through March,

2000, AEEM complained to the government that teachers were not being paid and

students were not receiving stipends for books and supplies. The government was

unresponsive and AEEM called for a strike. Shortly after the strike began in March,

2000, Koita fled to Niger and eventually came to the United States.

       Koita testified that he learned from letters that five AEEM members were arrested

                                            2
during the strike. Since the strike, police have continued to search


for him. He has

monthly contact with his mother, who remains in Mali, and she has told him that, as

recently as 2007, the police came to her home looking for him. As a result of the

government’s continued pursuit of him for his involvement in AEEM, an organization the

government believes is trying to destroy the country, he fears that he will be put in jail

and killed if he returns to Mali. On cross-examination, Koita admitted that he was never

injured or arrested before or during the 2000 strike. He told the IJ that he did not timely

file for asylum when he first came to the United States because he hoped that conditions

in Mali would improve.

       Koita presented numerous exhibits in support of his case, including,in pertinent

part, the 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006 U.S. State Department Country Reports on Human

Rights Practices in Mali; the 1995 State Department’s Profile of Asylum Claims and

Country Conditions in Mali; an item entitled “VERBAL LAWSUIT,” which appears to

be committee minutes from a meeting of the student association from March 2, 2000,

A.R. 283-84; a letter from Modibo Kane Fofana, General Secretary of AEEM, dated

March 10, 2004, A.R. 275-76; a letter from the General Secretary of AEEM, dated

February 7, 2005 and addressed to Koita, A.R. 279-80; a certificate of Koita’s attendance

at the University, A.R. 287-88; the 2003 State Department’s Background Note on Mali,

A.R. 344-53; and a letter addressed to Koita from the Secretary General of the

Coordination Committee of AEEM, Cheick Mohamed Bady, dated July 20, 2007,


Dominique Ansel in his SoHo bakery, the original cronut (whose flavour changes monthly) is so in-demand crowds gather an hour before opening.

Further French bakery items on the menu may not have the hype of the cronut, but are just as decadent.

6. Bagels On Broadway

New Yorkers love their bagels – those boiled, chewy, poppy-seeded gems of the Jewish faith – and Absolute Bagels on Broadway is absolutely one of the best places for a nosh on the Upper West Side.

More than a dozen hot-from-the-oven varieties can be topped with cream cheese, deli meats, smoked fish or sweet lashings. There are plenty of off-Broadway bagel joints worthy of your patronage too.

Bagels are a Big Apple staple (Image: Getty)

7. Cupcakes In The West Village

The celebrity-heavy West Village has plenty to bragPost-Doc, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar, University of Michigan, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health

MCP, Regional and Economic Development, University of California, Berkeley

BA Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Biography

Malo André Hutson is an Associate Professor and the Chancellor's Professor of City and Regional Planning. He is also the Associate Director of the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning (IURD) and Chair of the Urban Studies Program at the University of California at Berkeley. His research focuses on community development and urban sustainability/equity; racial/ethnic inequalities and urban policy (metropolitan fragmentation, segregation and health); and built enviornment and health.

Professor Hutson recently published a book entitled The Urban Struggle for Economic, Environmental, and Social Justice: Deepening Their Roots, which explores how coalitions of residents, community leaders, unions, and


others are trying to resist displacement as a result of neighborhood change and gentrification to transform their communities to sustainable healthy communities (defined as economically strong, environmentally clean, and socially just communities). The book provides case studies on four major U.S. cities--Boston, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. This book is part of Routledge’s Equity, Justice, and the Sustainable City series.

In addition to his research, Professor Hutson teaches two graduate courses--City Planning 202: Planning Practice and City Planning 268: Community Development Studio. He teaches an undergraduate course City Planning 118AC — The Urban Community.

Professor Hutson has received numerous awards and grants for his research, writing, and practice. He also has over 15 years of experience working on numerous academic and community-centered projects, both nationally and internationally,in cities such as Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, New Orleans, Oakland, San Francisco, Santiago, Chile, and Toronto, Canada. Professor Hutson was also invited as a guest to The White House as an expert in the area of community development, environmental justice, and urban health to participate in the first-ever Environmental Justice Forum.

He currently is a faculty affiliate of the Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Program at the University of California, San Francisco and U.C. Berkeley. In addition Dr. Hutson is a faculty member of the Diversity and Health Disparities Cluster, part of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at Berkeley. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Ecoliteracy, which promotes ecological literacy; the Pacific Institute,


an international non-profit, which conducts research and policy analysis in the areas of environment, sustainable development, and international security; Youth UpRising, a nonprofit organization focusing on youth development and leadership in East Oakland, California; and Stiles Hall, which was founded in 1884 and is a private, non-profit agency dedicated to serving the broader community while enriching the lives of students at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been interviewed by a range of media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Business Times, The Oakland Tribune, NBC News Bay Area, and National Public Radio, to name a few.

Courses Taught

City Planning 118AC The Urban Community

City Planning 202 Methods in Planning Practice

City Planning 256 Healthy Cities

City Planning 260 History, Theory, and Practice ofof fashioned black and silver plastic, with corresponding battery pack;

Belt: leather, metal and plastic composite;

Codpiece: cardboard base covered in black leather, with velcro clasps;

Shin guards: black vacuum-formed plastic with velcro straps;

Boots: a pair of knee-high black leather gentleman's riding boots, labeled in pen to interior, "Mr. Prowes";

With two pair of black tights worn by Mr. Eller under suit, not production made.

All items housed in two original flight cases with original travel stickers to surfaces.

In 1977, Kermit Eller saw a friend with a crew t-shirt for the upcoming film Star Wars. He asked his friend to get him one, too, an extra-extra large (Kermit is 6'4"). When the friend asked if the largest size was available, the team at Lucasfilm asked, "Who wants to know?" Not only is Kermit


(who now goes by the name Bryce, because he is sick of Muppet jokes) tall, he has a deep and commanding voice, and does a great James Earl Jones impersonation. Those traits landed him a gig making personal appearances as Darth Vader for both the first and second Star Wars films. From 1977-1979, Kermit wore the screen-used Vader costume, the only one produced for the film. As Vader he appeared on the 1978 Academy Awards® telecast, as well as in printed promotional material for the film. By 1979, the suit had seen better days, so for the next film, he was provided with one of a few complete costumes produced for The Empire Strikes Back. Eller continued to make personal appearances as Vader through 1981, at which pointbid for the council, but today is eliciting shrugs and mild envy from the city's political class. Meanwhile, her opponent, Carolyn Fries, has raised $15,337, a number that looks as though it belongs to a previous era.

Some of the amped-up fundraising was to be expected. When Pinellas Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark began emphasizing mail ballots, the county's entire election timeline shifted.

Election Day has now become election month, said City Council Chairman Karl Nurse, who is running for re-election in District 6. "That's really what's driving the cost increases," he said.

Candidates feel compelled to send mailers the first week of October, when mail ballots arrive, and again in November, to remind those who still vote in person. In between, they might sprinkle the city with a few more,


was another version to the story.

"Please note that, as it should be obvious to you, there is another side to this story, namely the version of the acting national commissioner," he said. He refused to provide the Sunday Times with Mkhwanazi's version.

It's believed the incident occurred after 2005, when Mkhwanazi became head of the elite special task force.

Mkhwanazi headed the force, which he commanded for six years, before his appointment as acting national police commissioner in October last year.

Extracts from affidavits given to the public protector by DA police shadow minister Dianne Kohler Barnard confirm Mkhwanazi's admission.

One read: "Mkhwanazi then unequivocally confessed to being present when this deceased was arrested 'unarmed' and then later shot and killed in his presence, and to date has done nothing about it."

Saidanother: "He mentioned an incident where the subject was neutralised wrongfully in his presence ... he was part of that operation where a suspect was murdered in cold blood."

Each of the nine accounts contains similar allegations, and all corroborate Mkhwanazi's refusal to sign a statement after the killing.

"He stated that he will go to his grave with that incident, as he refused to make a statement," wrote another officer.

None of those who authored the affidavits have been identified for fear of reprisals, after Mkhwanazi recently vowed to fire those responsible for leaking a report to the Sunday Times that revealed more than 27000 officers were incompetent to handle firearms.

The affidavits were compiled by junior and senior cops with ranks "across the board", said Kohler Barnard. She added the


statements were signed and notarised, and the originals given to Madonsela's office.

She said: "The acting national police commissioner must be suspended with immediate effect."

This comes four months after a Sunday Times investigation exposed an alleged police hit squad operating in KwaZulu-Natal.

The shocking exposé revealed that the Organised Crime Unit at Cato Manor operated as an alleged hit squad, executing suspects and then holding booze-fuelled parties.

About 51 suspicious killings have been linked to the alleged hit squad, which has since been closed down by police top brass.

Following the meeting on March 5, Mkhwanazi led a delegation to the family of killed taxi boss Bongani Mkhize, who was allegedly gunned down by the Cato Manor unit in 2009, and promised to act against police brutality.

Two weeks ago, he released aMkhwan-azi's command and used unorthodox methods to catch criminals.

In December 2007, 11 cash-in-transit robbers were shot dead by his crack team in an incident close to the Carousel casino near Pretoria.

Former colleagues describe him as a man who hates bureaucracy and "red tape" and is suspicious of the media.

Mkhwanazi - who is trained in the use of explosives, holds bomb-disposal certification and has completed a counter-terrorism course with the FBI in the US - also said: "What I know best is fighting crime."

Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa has previously defended his appointment, hailing him a "tried-and-tested cop" who had "excellently distinguished" himself.

This followed criticism of President Jacob Zuma for installing Mkhwanazi in the hot seat after national commissioner General Bheki Cele was suspended.

"For the record, the minister at the


Bisbee Deportation

The mile-high town gears up for the anniversary of the notorious kidnapping with a host of artful and scholarly events

Sketch of the Bisbee deportees being loaded onto boxcars, by Laurie McKenna. The penny press in her installation The Undesirables will emboss this scene on real pennies.

Bisbee artist Laurie McKenna knew for a long time that she wanted to make work commemorating the Bisbee Deportation of 1917.

A conceptual artist and executive director of Bisbee's Central School Project art space, McKenna had created works about injustice before, notably her multimedia Rock Paper Fence about Border Patrol violence.

And the notorious Bisbee Deportation had happened on her own turf. On July 12, 1917, up to 1,196 striking miners and their supporters were rounded up at gunpoint in the copper-mining town by"deputies" of the sheriff, loaded onto railroad boxcars and tossed out into the New Mexico desert at the height of the summer heat.

Two years ago, she started developing ideas for her piece and working with other historically minded members of the Bisbee community to collaborate on programing. Then, last year, the presidential race erupted in all its ugly fury.

"Once it was 2016, I got even more committed," she said by phone last week from her studio. "The Trump campaign exposed a feverish, anti-immigrant sentiment. The campaign was building hyper-patriotism as a means of exclusion," which paralleled the run-up to the Bisbee Deportation.

"World War I fervor and patriotism were used to justify what happened," she says. "They just threw people away. They called them the Undesirables."

McKenna started pasting posters


on walls around town, giving people hints about the upcoming 100th anniversary. She also got busy on social media, posting about labor history on Facebook and Twitter, and she commissioned pamphlets on the kidnapping from three writers with different perspective.

On Friday night next week, she'll debut an installation and perform a piece she calls a Gallery Rally, both part of the multi-media project named, naturally, "The Undesirables". The installation features no fewer than 1,196 hand rubbings of a 1917 penny, each one appearing on a separate piece of paper and emblazoned with a striker's name. More than 300 are labeled "unknown," honoring the workers whose names are lost to history.

And she hopes to introduce her "penny press," crafted for her by Andrew Fairbank of New Hampshire, and reminiscentAuthor Jane Little Botkin talks about her new book, Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family (University of Oklahoma Press, 2017). Botkin is a great-grandniece of Little, a union organizer who was lynched and murdered in the mining town of Butte, Montana, just weeks after the Bisbee Deportation. 2 p.m., Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum, 5 Copper Queen Plaza. 520-432-7071.

Monday, July 10. Robert Houston, a retired creative writing prof at the UA and author of many novels, talks about Bisbee '17, his fictional account of the deportation (University of Arizona Press, 1999). 5:30 p.m., Copper Queen Library, 6 Main St. 520-432-4232.

Tuesday, July 11. The Mexican Revolution. Rebecca Orozco, a historian who teaches at Cochise College and the UA, discusses the Mexican conflict that


raged before, during and after the deportation. 5:30 p.m. Copper Queen Library, 6 Main St. 520-432-4232.

Wednesday, July 12. On the 100th anniversary day, the 4th Row Films documentary film crew is shooting a re-creation of the roundup of miners and their forced march. Anyone who wants to be in the movie should show up in plain clothes, either light or dark. 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Copper Plaza downtown; onlookers welcome. For info contact Katie Schnell at katieschnell5@gmail.com.

Wednesday, July 12. Deportation Remembrance. Non-denominational service takes place at 5 p.m. at St. John's Church, 19 Sowles Ave. 520-432-7006

Friday, July 14. "The Undesirables," an installation and Gallery Rally by artist Laurie McKenna begins at 7 p.m. Open for viewing on weekend days through July. Central School Project, 43 HowellAve. Call 520-432-4866 for hours.

Saturday, July 15. "100 Years of History: The Deportation Symposium," moderated by Prof. Orozco, will feature two scholarly speakers, Dr. Katherine Benton-Cohen and Dr. William Beezley, and a panel discussion with four Bisbee local history experts. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Bisbee Royale, 94 Main St. Food and drink for sale. 520-227-6547.

Dr. Benton-Cohen, Arizona native and associate professor of history at Georgetown, is the author of Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands (Harvard University Press, 2009), a book that looks at the Bisbee Deportation in the context of the complicated racial history of Cochise County—and of the U.S. as a whole.

Dr. Beezley, history prof at the UA, is the author more than a dozen books, including A


Companion to Mexican History and Culture (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). A frequent guest on the PBS show In the Americas, he recently received the Ohtli Award for his years of teaching and promoting Mexican culture.

Sunday, July 16. 4th Row Films continues its filming at Warren Ballpark, where participants will be loaded into boxcars, just as the miners were. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. For info, contact katieschnell5@gmail.com.

Sunday, July 16. The Loft Cinema will screen An Injury to One, a 2011 documentary by Travis Wilkerson about the murder of union organizer Frank Little. 7:30 p.m. at the Central School Project.

Tuesday, July 18. Bisbee's Forgotten Men, Part Two. Local historian Mike Anderson shares his research on the fates of the banished miners. 5:30 p.m., Copper Queen Library.

Bisbee Deportation: The Visual Story isNational quality of care activities in Germany.
Quality assurance activities in Germany have a long tradition of being oriented to structural quality. For many years quality assurance in hospitals was limited to pathologist's examinations and ward rounds. The separation of health care services into in-patient and out-patient sectors has made it difficult to introduce a total quality management system. After passage of a revised social security act on quality assurance, physicians' organizations started quality management projects, which for the most part are still in the pilot phase. Many institutions and commissions are trying to develop quality assurance activities focusing on formulating practice guidelines. However, in order to make quality management a truly vital part of health care in Germany, adequate computerized documentation systems will need to be introduced.


United States Soccer Federation announced today that Vancouver Whitecaps FC striker Omar Salgado has been called up to the United States U-20 squad for a domestic training camp from February 20 to March 1 in Clermont, Florida.

Salgado is one of two players on the roster from head coach Tab Ramos’ first camp in Duisberg, Germany, along with defender Sean Cunningham, and one of fourteen players returning from the most recent U-20 camp in January in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Additionally, Salgado is one of two players from Major League Soccer clubs to be selected to the 26-player squad, along with Chicago Fire midfielder Victor Pineda.

As a result of his international call-up, Salgado will miss Whitecaps FC's three matches in the Disney Pro Soccer Classic. The 'Caps face Canadian arch-rivalsand MLS expansion club Montreal Impact, followed by Eastern Conference clubs Houston Dynamo and Sporting Kansas City in Orlando, Florida.

Ramos is preparing the U-20s for the 2013 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, which will likely take place in early 2013. The tournament will determine the region’s qualifiers for the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup being held in Turkey from June 21 to July 13. Every player on the roster is age-eligible for the upcoming U-20 World Cup.

U.S. U-20 Men's National Team Roster By Position:

GOALKEEPERS (3): Tomas Gomez (Georgetown; Webster Groves, Mo.), Jesus Guzman (Santos Laguna; San Jose, Calif.), Kamil Kaminski (Legia Warszawa; Berlin, Conn.)

DEFENDERS (8): AJ Cochran (Wisconsin; St. Louis, Mo.), Sean Cunningham (Molde FK; Troy, Mich.), Christian Dean (California; East Palo Alto, Calif.), Mobi Fehr (Unattached; Tokyo, Japan), Eric


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Activism | During the summer, while many Americans are vacationing, those who are on the front lines of the culture war stay at it. From Georgia to California, meet three unnoticed trench-fighters-a pro-life activist, a self-declared bleeding-heart liberal, and a medal-bedecked Vietnam POW-who get no respect

Unsafe textbooks?

Kyleen Wright flew from Dallas to Austin and waited five hours for the chance to speak for three minutes in front of the Texas State Board of Education. Ms. Wright, president of Texans for Life Coalition, encouraged the 15-member board to approve four new high-school health textbooks that contain an abstinence-only message. But supporters of the books were in the minority at the July 14 hearing: Every person who spoke during Ms. Wright's five-hour wait criticized the books for excluding


state. He's also previously worked with the ACLU. But he spent almost $6,000 of his own money to create large Ten Commandments tablets. He then hung them from a building his wife owns-30 feet from the Pickens County Courthouse.

The Miami Beach transplant wanted to give his adopted community a gift it would appreciate and spare it a legal battle. Residents in nearby Habersham County, which lost one of those battles, are considering following Mr. Marger's example. "They're the foundation of not only religious precedent but also legal precedent. It's the beginning of natural law. I believe in the rule of law," Mr. Marger said. "They're basic principles of how to live. Most people, regardless of their religion, cannot argue with what those Ten Commandments say."

Francis Manion of theDenton, a medal-draped Vietnam war hero and former U.S. senator who spent more than seven years as a Vietnam POW, was "too controversial," Assembly Democrats said. So on the day Republicans wanted to honor the admiral, the Assembly instead honored a Los Angeles Times reporter.

But that was before the Democratic National Convention, when the Democratic presidential candidate posted himself at the podium, snapped a salute, and reported for duty as a candidate running on his own record in the Vietnam War. Are California Democrats now looking a little tone deaf?

"Absolutely not," said Nick Velasquez, spokesman for California Assembly speaker Fabian Nunez (D). "The refusal had nothing to do with Adm. Denton's service as a veteran." Mr. Velasquez said Mr. Denton is too "controversial" to be honored by the


Assembly because of his views concerning separation of church and state: He wants to restore the "One Nation under God" concept as a fundamental national principle.

Also, Mr. Velasquez said, Adm. Denton while a senator once made what Democrats considered a sexist remark to People magazine. Furthermore, the Boston Globe called Adm. Denton's private foundation "an umbrella organization for fundamentalist Christian groups." (Mr. Denton is Roman Catholic.)

Mr. Velasquez said that Republicans in June had opposed an honoree suggested by the Democrat-led Asian-American caucus. That honoree was Wen Ho Lee, the Chinese-American scientist who pleaded guilty in September 2000 to downloading the equivalent of 400,000 pages in nuclear secrets (70 percent of which are still missing), then using his computer expertise to sweep away his digital tracks. The California Assembly'sreported during the second and third waves of the cholera outbreak were mainly living in LGAs contiguous with areas that had previously reported cholera outbreaks during the first wave. An effective response to the outbreak in Borno therefore might have prevented the spread of cholera to other parts of the country. End of August 2010, during the rainy season (March to September) flooding occurred in some northern parts of Nigeria. As of October 2010 Jigawa, Katsina and Sokoto States were affected, and it was estimated that about 258,000 inhabitants were displaced due to the floods \[[@CR23], [@CR24]\]. Limited access to safe water resulting in contaminated food, insufficient sanitation and limited access to health services due to displacement might have contributed to the spread and impeded the containment of


The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is to receive a new ship, the RRS Sir David Attenborough, in 2019. In preparation for the new vessel, Natural Environment Research Council has hired Ramboll to provide technical consultancy support and options to the upgrade of BAS’s wharf and jetties facilities, as well as provide technical advice to the team shifting the Halley Research Station and a number of other matters. The deal will last seven years – financial details of the agreement have not been disclosed.

The British Antarctic Survey was formed in the 1960s. BAS, which is part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), has a number of permanent establishments in the Antarctica where it provides bases for research projects, run by more than 40 UK universities and 120 globalorganisations into a range of key issues. The organisation operates five bases across the Antarctic and local islands, two icebreaker ships and five planes. An additional ship, the RRS Sir David Attenborough, is currently under construction, and is set to be operational by 2019.

As part of the funding for the new ship, support facilities in the Antarctic at various basis are to be upgraded or replaced, including wharf and jetties at BAS Antarctic and sub-Antarctic research stations. The upgrades will allow the new ship to safely berth and deploy its cargo. BAS is also moving parts of its Halley Research Station (HRS) on the Brunt Ice Shelf.

To develop options for the upgrade and to provide technical advice to teams involved in the moving of the HRS as well


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     David A. Schulz, New York City, for respondent.

      Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, New York City (Robert Balin of
counsel), for The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
and others, amici curiae.

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      Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Muller, J.),
entered April 20, 2015 in Clinton County, which granted
defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint.

      In 2006, plaintiff was convicted of the murder of his
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plaintiff alleges that the film is a "knowing and substantially
fictionalized account" about plaintiff "and the events that led
to his incarceration," and that it appropriates his name without
his consent "for purposes of profit." In support of this claim,
plaintiff offered a letter written by a producer associated with
the film to his mother before the film's release. The producer
indicated that she was involved in the production of a
documentary intended to accompany the film that the producer
"hope[d] . . . [would] provide the platform for [the mother's]
family to state their position in a non-fictional program after
the [film] airs." Viewing the producer's correspondence in the
light most favorable to plaintiff and according plaintiff the
benefit of every favorable inference, it is reasonable to infer
that the producer indicated that the film


Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Anwar Ibrahim was in good spirits in Port Dickson on Saturday

Malaysian ex-deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has won a parliamentary seat, sealing his return to front-line politics.

The 71-year-old won a by-election in the town of Port Dickson on Saturday.

The king granted him a full pardon in May, three years after he was jailed for sodomy.

Mr Anwar's former rival and current Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad - who is 93 - has promised to hand over power to him in two years' time.

The pair shocked many by joining forces to oust the previous ruling coalition in May's general election.

According to the Election Commission, Mr Anwar received 71% of Saturday's votes from Port Dickson, where a member of the current coalition stepped down to allowfor his accession.

Greeted by supporters at a polling station in the coastal town, Mr Anwar had told an AFP reporter: "I will see you in parliament on Monday."

Political drama resolved?

Image copyright EPA Image caption Anwar Ibrahim (l) said he has "buried the hatchet" with Mahathir Mohamad (r)

Dr Mahathir's election win, at the head of the then-opposition party Pakatan Harapan, ended more than six decades of rule by the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.

Both he and Mr Anwar were formerly in power, as part of the BN, as PM and deputy respectively.

Mr Anwar was seen as Dr Mahathir's heir apparent but the relationship soured when Mr Anwar was sacked in 1998 after a leadership dispute, and then jailed on corruption and sodomy charges, widely regarded as politically motivated.

In 2004, his


sodomy conviction was overturned and he led the opposition to unprecedented gains - though remained short of victory - in the 2008 and 2013 general elections.

But that acquittal was itself overturned a year later - as he was preparing to fight a state election he seemed likely to win - and he was sent back to jail to finish his nine-year term.

Mr Anwar has since insisted he holds no malice towards his former mentor, who secured his royal pardon.(Virtuosity also came out in 1995). But it also kind of predicted the current, social media-spawned frenzy to record every detail of our lives—lurid and otherwise—to be shared with any stranger with an internet connection and an ounce of voyeuristic interest.

Tully, about to put the smack down on some memory-stealing aliens. Image : Columbia Pictures

6. The Forgotten

Julianne Moore plays Tully, a mother grieving the loss of her young son in a plane crash. Thing is, everyone around her, including her husband, her best friend, and her doctor, are like, “Uh, you never had a son in the first place!” She’s convinced that the boy was real, though, and her belief grows even stronger when she encounters a fellow parent (Dominic West) who believes his own daughter has also


Helen Thomas, the White House reporter who covered every president since JFK, died this past weekend at the age of 92. Though the end of her career was shadowed in controversy, there is no denying Thomas broke down barriers for many female journalists.

Helen Thomas knew she wanted to be a reporter since she worked on her high school’s newspaper. In 1943, after graduating from college, she got a job as a “copy girl” with what is now known as United Press International (UPI). As was happening in other industries, UPI hired a small number of women to fill the void in their staff left by men going off to fight in WWII. When the men returned home after the war was over, UPI felt they did not needwomen workers anymore, so they fired all of them – except Thomas. She was promoted to writing light pieces about women’s issues, society, and celebrities for the radio. In 1960, she got her big break when she was sent by UPI to cover President-elect John F. Kennedy who was vacationing with his family. From this time until 2010, she was part of the White House Press Corps. Early in her career, she was one of about five women who covered the White House regularly. She made a name for herself asking politicians the tough questions they did not necessarily want to answer, regardless of what party they belonged to. In 1962, she got President Kennedy to invite women to the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner and the other


accomplishments she racked up over her career read as a long list of “first”s and “only”s:

One of the first female White House reporters who covered the hard news only men were traditionally allowed to cover

She fought her way into the National Press Club, becoming one of its first female members and eventually its first female officer

First woman admitted to the Gridiron Club and its first female president

First woman to be UPI’s chief White House correspondent

First female head of UPI’s White House Bureau

First female member and president of the White House Correspondents Association

Only woman to accompany President Nixon on his historic trip to China

Only reporter with their own name, instead of their organization’s name, on their chair in the White House Briefing Room (front row center)

Thomas retired from theWhite House Press Corps in 2010 admits controversy surrounding comments she made about Israel. In the five decades she spent grilling politicians, she was known as the “Dean of the White House Press Corps.” Check out the videos below to watch some of Thomas’ best Briefing Room moments, an interview in which she discusses her experiences being one of the few women in her field, and her opinions on the post-9/11 media.

Join in on the conversation! Post comments below, on Facebook, or Tweet us @womenshistory using the hashtag #ThrowbackThursday.


employers' group Ibec, to which TII is affiliated, wrote to Minister for Communications, Richard Bruton and Minister Eoghan Murphy, who is responsible for local government, to express concern about the information vacuum around the issue.

Both Vodafone and eir have now launched mobile services in a number of cities around the country, with towns quickly following.

Also at today's lunch, Shay Walsh called for the retention of the Government’s Mobile Phone and Broadband Taskforce, as he said it had provided a forum to engage with the relevant stakeholders in Government regarding barriers to the rollout of telecoms infrastructure.

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Barriere Lake Algonquins threatened with arrest for protecting sacred sites on their traditional territory against logging

July 10, Poigan Bay, QC – Around 20-30 members of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake were read their rights by Sûreté du Québec officers late last night, warning of arrests today if people did not allow logging to proceed.

Yesterday, families from the Barriere Lake Algonquin First Nation who are impacted by the Resolute logging operation issued a letter to Quebec’s Ministry of Natural Resources voicing their opposition to the Ministry’s unilateral decision to clear-cut their territory. The impacted families also proposed to the Quebec government several resolutions to work together towards peaceful co-existence in the region.

Resolute Forest Products, formerly known as Abitibi Bowater, began cutting last Tuesday on land of the Algonquins ofalso contains some interesting facts. He points out that, although the proportion of US national output going to arms is lower than it was 30 years ago, it still has a considerable economic effect, since ‘official military expenditures for 2001-05 average 42 percent of gross non-residential private investment’.

Readers of the section on the events of 1956 in our last issue might want to read people’s memories of that year in Revolutionary History and History Workshop Journal (again, unfortunately, only readily available at certain libraries). One recollection is of the university authorities issuing an official ban on students from taking trains to London on the day of the big Suez demonstration (presumably as part of the Cold War ‘defence of democracy’). Especially fascinating are the minutes of the University


Socialist Society committee, with Peter Sedgwick (later a founding editor of International Socialism but described by Jean McCrindle in another piece as a fervent admirer of Stalinism until the spring of 1956) arranging meetings to be addressed, among others, by John Saville (who had recently left the Communist Party to found the New Reasoner) and Mike Kidron (described in the minutes as recently at Balliol and into ‘Trotskyism’). Delegated to meet speakers at the station was Irfan Habib – today one of India’s foremost Marxist historians.

The contents of the latest issue (29) of Socialist History look interesting (I have not had a chance to read it yet) with articles on trade unionism in Gibraltar, UCU union activist Steve Cushion on a miners’ strike in Nazi-occupied France, and reviewsby Ralph Darlington (challenging interpretations of the 2002-03 firefighters’ and the 1984 miners’ strikes) and Mike Haynes (on how Simon Schama treats history as a ‘commodity’).

Just arrived as we go to press is the latest issue of Film International, centred on cinema and realism. At first glance it looks like a treat. There is an excellent piece by Mike Wayne on realism, studies on realism in British cinema in the late 1940s, plus pieces on critical looks at the unification of Germany (including Goodbye Lenin), on John Sayles and on realism in South Asian cinema (by International Socialism contributor Talat Ahmed).


Recent years have witnessed a remarkable growth in an occupation, aptly called "jogging", which is best enjoyed, or suffered, solitarily, although sometimes practiced in pairs or in groups. Some social observers have ponderously qualified jogging as a way of life, a philosophy, a mystique, a fad, a cult, or simply a form of snobbism, rather than a sport or a search for physical form, fitness and well-being. Joggers of all ages, sizes, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, colors and denominations, have invaded highways, country roads, streets, avenues, parks, parking lots, airport taxiways, and cemeteries. Even the fashion industry has been influenced by jogging.
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outreach to the community, effective student and faculty support systems, and broad and enriched curriculum. Schools submit applications explaining why they believe their school should be recognized.

The project started in 2014 as a pilot program in New York and Colorado, and went national in 2015-2016, with gold and silver winners coming from states including Maryland, Georgia, California and Oregon. It is the brainchild of Kevin Welner, director of the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a professor specializing in educational policy and law; and Carol Burris, a former award-winning principal in New York who is now executive director of the nonprofit Network for Public Education.

Twenty schools were named as honorees for the 2015-16 school year — eight gold winners and 12 silver— and you can see the list here. This is the fourth in a series of posts I will publish that highlight why each of the schools was chosen to be honored. It is important to note that each school found success in ways that met the needs of their own communities.

This week’s write-up is about Schools of Opportunity winner Rochester International Academy in Rochester, N.Y.

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This post was authored by Kevin Welner and Linda Molner Kelley. Welner is the director of the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a professor specializing in educational policy and law at the university. Kelley, associate director of the Schools of Opportunity project, is the former assistant dean of teacher education and partnerships and director for outreach


and engagement at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In those and her current consulting roles, she has developed numerous K-16 and community programs designed to strengthen learning opportunities for students and teachers in diverse settings. She is also a former high school teacher and administrator in a Denver-area school district.

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Rochester International Academy (K-12) Rochester, New York

Principal: Mary Andrecolich-Montesano-Diaz

Superintendent: Barbara Deane-Williams

Enrollment: 307

Economically disadvantaged students: 100 percent

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Rochester International Academy (RIA) provides a strong transitional program for newly arrived immigrant and refugee students, working in close collaboration with families and community partners. Because Rochester is an official resettlement site for the United Nations, 98 percent of RIA’s students are refugees, many of whom have never before been in a formal school setting. In fact,many of the 16 native languages of RIA’s student fall in the uncommon, “low-incidence” category.

Serving an immigrant population that is also 100 percent economically disadvantaged, RIA has a missionto provide English language learners with a rigorous instructional program that facilitates acquisition of English, subject area knowledge, and academic skills. The school also helps students navigate challenging cultural, social and emotional transitions.

After starting as beginning English language learners, most RIA students exit the program within two years, ready to transition to comprehensive high schools throughout the district that offer full access to college and career preparation programs.

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RIA creates and maintains a healthy school culture with strong supports for students and their families. The school actively promotes tolerance and shared understanding of the 30-plus cultures represented at the school, with


students and their parents sharing their cultural expertise with the school community.

Three “Language Coaches” who speak most of the students’ home languages serve as interpreters and liaisons to the school and community agencies. The RIA Language Coaches and teachers also make home visits to assist students and families as they navigate the social services and health systems. For instance, they help families with the daily challenges that immigrants often encounter, such as evictions, green cards, job applications, and interpreting mail.

Because the student population comes with different learning needs and is highly mobile — beginning RIA at different times of the year and then moving out of the school as their academic and language skills develop — the school uses a combination of high-quality group instruction and innovative technologyOUIs in Kittery

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covering mostly music and books. focus onFrancis Bellamy May 18, 1855 - August 28, 1931 Francis Julius Bellamy, one-time Baptist minister and prominent member of the Christian Socialist movement, wrote the original USA Pledge of Allegiance, first published in the September 8, 1892, issue of The Youths Companion. Bellamy, then a committee chairman of the National Education Association, structured a public school programme around a flag raising ceremony and a flag salutehis "Pledge of Allegiance." This Pledge has since come under severalsometimes controversialrevisions. Bellamys original words were: I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Bellamy considered adding the word "equality" to stand with "liberty and justice," but feared it would be too controversial. In 1924, against Bellamys wishes, the


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Maurice Maisel built the trading post in the late-1930s after the rerouting of Route 66 through Albuquerque. Mr. Maisel selected architect John Gaw Meem, the leading proponent of the Pueblo Revival style, to design the building. Mr. Maisel advised Mr. Meem that he was “not content with the usual Indian thing.” The flat-roofed, one-story building is located in


the middle of a commercial block. The front features large display windows set on a base of carrara glass (a trade name for pigmented structural glass) topped by a continuous panel of murals of Southwestern Indians in ceremonial clothing.

Mural on Maisel's Indian Trading Postcourtesy of Beth Boland

Mr. Meem hired Olive Rush, a prominent artist of the period, to design the murals depicting various aspects of American Indian ceremonial life. The young artists, including Pablita Velarde, Ben Quintana, Harrison Begay, and Pop Chalee, later became highly regarded for their careers. The Maisel Trading Post was unique in that it was the only Pueblo Deco building in Albuquerque that employed work by Pueblo and Navajo artists.

The building’s front windows recede at the entry, forming a large protected space 20 feetdeep with additional display windows. This protected space has a glazed terra cotta floor with American Indian designs and the name "Maisel’s" inlaid in front of the double wood-framed commercial doors.

By the 1940s, the trading post had become the largest of its kind on Route 66 and at one time employed over 300 American Indian craftsmen onsite. The store closed after Mr. Maisel died in the 1960s. In the 1980s, Mr. Maisel’s grandson, Skip Maisel, reopened the shop. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

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It was Donald Trump who was supposed to play hard to get. Instead, it's Kim Jong-Un - and it's working all too well.

Three weeks ago, Donald Trump and TrumpWorld were fully immersed in erotic Nobel Peace Prize fantasies. Two weeks ago, confident that the American president was more than sufficiently hooked, North Korean communist despot Kim Jong-Un pulled away the nuclear football and effectively canceled the summit of The Donald's figuratively moist dreams. A week ago, after several days of trying to spin frantically to the contrary, Trump switched directions and attempted to make a big splash of canceling himself a summit that had already been nixed. And we pro-American foreign policy realists heaved a yuge sigh of relief, urging the POTUS to leave


- belligerent saber-rattling, playing hard to get, and offering fake concessions they have no intention of ever keeping.

North Korea has a long history of scamming American presidents. Since the North Korean nuclear age began, the country has had several rounds of peace talks – and made several deals – with several presidents. In 1994, Bill Clinton signed a deal in which the U.S. and its allies provided the North with $4 billion in energy aid, including two nuclear reactors that could not manufacture weapons-grade material. In exchange, North Korea was supposed to give up its nuclear weapons program.

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The cost of cheap drugs? Toxic Indian lake is 'superbug hotspot'

A boy prepares to jump off a rock into the waters of the Osman Sagar Lake near the southern Indian city of Hyderabad May 29, 2011.Krishnendu Halder/File Photo

HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - Centuries ago, Indian princes would bathe in the cool Kazhipally lake in Medak. Now, even the poorest villagers here in India's baking south point to the barren banks and frothy water and say they avoid going anywhere near it.

A short drive from the bustling tech hub of Hyderabad, Medak is the heart of India's antibiotics manufacturing business: a district of about 2.5 million that has become one of the world's largest suppliers of cheap drugs to most markets, including the United States.

But community activists, researchers and someControl Board (PCB) in New Delhi categorizes Medak's Patancheru area as "critically polluted", the state PCB says its own monitoring shows the situation has improved.

The rise of drug-resistant "superbugs" is a growing threat to modern medicine, with the emergence in the past year of infections resistant to even last-resort antibiotics.

In the United States alone, antibiotic-resistant bacteria cause 2 million serious infections and 23,000 deaths annually, according to health officials.

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Local activists and researchers say the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) built in Medak in the 1990s was ill-equipped to handle large volumes of pharmaceutical waste.

After protests and court cases brought by local villagers a 20-km (12-mile) pipeline was built to take effluent to another plant near Hyderabad. But activists say that merely diverted the problem - waste sent there, they say, mixes with domestic sewage before the treated effluent is discharged into the Musi river.

A study published this year by researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, found very high levels of broad-spectrum antibiotics in the Musi, a tributary of the Krishna, one of India's longest rivers.

Local government officials responsible for the plants did not respond to Reuters' requests for comment.

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The pair were wanted by the Slovakian authorities for conspiring to murder a 25-year-old woman, who was living in Austria and working in Slovakia at a company she ran with her husband.

The National Firearms Threat Centre and the AOU initiated an investigation into Mr Patman and Mr Safi in October last year after being alerted by the Slovakian authorities of the alleged murder plot.

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the pair were obtained which officers allege show the men discussing the potential murder plot including planning of events both at home and abroad.

Mr Patman and Mr Safi are being held on European Arrest Warrants and will now face extradition to Slovakia.

They have been remanded in custody until their next appearance at Westminster Magistrates Court on Thursday, September 12.

NCA senior investigating officer, Matthew Perfect, said: "Patman and Safi were sought by the Slovakian authorities for the extremely serious offence of preparing to commit first degree murder.

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A year after the New England Patriots were involved in the infamous Deflategate incident with the Indianapolis Colts in the 2015 AFC Championship Game, the team again found itself in the headlines for game ball-related issues.

According to David Wade of WBZ-TV in Boston on Wednesday, state police confirmed the officials for Saturday’s divisional-round game between the Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs left the kicking balls in a Boston hotel. Troopers had to drive the balls to Gillette Stadium so they were there for the game. Scott Zolak of 985 The Sports Hub first reported on the incident Saturday.

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Kentucky State Rep., Republican Dan Johnson addresses the public from his church on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, regarding allegations that he sexually abused a teenager after a New Year's party in 2013, in Louisville, Kentucky.

Dan Johnson, a Republican state lawmaker in Kentucky who defiantly denied allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl in the basement of his home, died in an apparent suicide Wednesday night, the county coroner said. He was 57.

Bullitt County Coroner Dave Billings said Johnson died of a single gunshot wound on Greenwell Ford Road in Mount Washington, Kentucky. Billings said Johnson stopped his car at the end of a bridge in a secluded area, then got out and walked to the front of the car. He


said an autopsy is scheduled for Thursday morning.

"I would say it is probably suicide," he said.

Johnson was elected to the state legislature in 2016, part of a wave of Republican victories that gave the GOP control of the Kentucky House of Representatives for the first time in nearly 100 years. He won his election despite Republican leaders urging him to drop out of the race after local media reported on some of his Facebook posts comparing Barack and Michelle Obama to monkeys.

The pastor of Heart of Fire church in Louisville, Johnson sponsored a number of bills having to do with religious liberty and teaching the Bible in public schools. But he was mostly out of the spotlight until Monday, when the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting published anaccount from a woman saying Johnson sexually assaulted her in the basement of his home in 2013.

At the time, the woman told police, who investigated the incident but closed the case and did not file charges.

On Tuesday, Johnson held a news conference in the pulpit of his church, which he began by leading friends and family in singing a portion of the Christmas carol "O Come All Ye Faithful." He said the allegations against him were "totally false" and said they were part of a nationwide strategy of defeating conservative Republicans. He referenced Republican Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, who faces accusations of sexual misconduct from multiple women.

Shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday, Johnson posted a message on his Facebook page that asked people to care for his


the state Capitol. Former Republican House Speaker Jeff Hoover resigned his leadership position after acknowledging he secretly settled a sexual harassment claim with a member of his staff. Three other lawmakers were involved in the settlement, and all lost their committee chairmanships.

"I am very sad over the passing of Rep. Dan Johnson. Over the past few weeks in some of the darkest days of my life, he reached out to me, encouraged me, and prayed for me," Hoover posted on his Twitter account Wednesday night.

Republican Gov. Matt Bevin posted on his Twitter account that "my heart breaks for his family tonight."

"These are heavy days in Frankfort and in America," Bevin posted. "May God indeed shed His grace on us all. ... We sure need it."

The National Suicide PreventionRaul Medina Jr. walks into a Starbucks in Hollywood's Young Circle and asks for a cup of black coffee with light hazelnut syrup and exactly two ice cubes. Better-known as DJ Raw, Medina brought hip-hop to Miami from his native South Bronx and founded Hoodstock, a free, big-name festival in Wynwood in the '90s. He's also a former cocaine kingpin who did a ten-year prison stint for trafficking. Today he's a 50-year-old vegan father of five who prefers the quiet life up in Broward to the neighborhood he helped transform into a graffiti artist's mecca.

"When I got out, people were like 'Let's go take over 40th Street again,' Medina says. "I was like, 'You can keep 40th Street; I'm going to Broward.'

Although Medina has taken to the family-friendly


aspects of suburbia, a Starbucks isn't an appropriate place to talk business. After all, Medina is the exact same kind of businessman he was before: pushing a contentious product and hoping to benefit the greater good despite the risk.

Whereas before he was slinging crack to invest money back in his neighborhood, now he's getting ahead of the speculative medical marijuana business boom in Florida because he believes in hemp's healing properties. He tells New Times about his new foray inside of a giant blacked-out van that he uses for his main entrepreneurial venture, the Best Auto Detailer.

But as of last December, he's also the founder of a product line called Your Loving Care. Instead of slinging crack, Medina has a new side gig: whipping up delicious baked goodsmade with hemp oil and hemp flour. As he puts it: "Cakes are cakes."

The business idea came from three places. First, Medina went vegan in prison and started seeing a holistic doctor in Lauderhill after his release. Second, he met his wife, a supercool Canadian Rastafarian named Najeebah, in 2008. Third, when his auto detailing business started servicing millionaires with luxury vehicles, he found a coterie of deep-pocketed potential investors.

He's hoping to lure them in at his 4/20 event, Florida Hemp Fest, in Fort Lauderdale. With his business savvy and their money, they can open an entire chain of dispensaries, he says.

But until medical marijuana becomes legal -- and many expect it will this November, when voters will decide whether to pass a constitutional amendment -- Medina just


wants to spread the word about his cakes.

He says he can count Broward millionaires as customers, as well as some people who truly benefit. He names off a 9-year-old autistic girl who is better able to socialize at school after a little nibble. After losing his mom to cancer and his sister to AIDS, he says he wishes hemp products could have eased their pain.

A New Times reporter experienced some of Medina's products and their, uh, healing properties and has nothing but chill vibes to report back. Medina looks forward to the day when his blueberry cakes can be openly enjoyed in places that are not a windowless van, maybe even in a place like Starbucks.

"Medical marijuana is going to happen, and people are going to be smokinghave the community see the police as a part of the community,” says Johnson.

The public called for more training for officers to help them use discretion and to deal with competency and mental-health issues, continued support of neighborhood watch programs, increased accountability and transparency, as well as a host of neighborhood specific issues, according to Johnson.

Using the feedback from the public as well as from its internal committee, the APD created the Neighborhood Engagement Unit. The unit, according to Assistant Chief Cox, is composed of 27 beat officers, 4 community service officers, 3 school resource officers and 3 sergeants, and is supervised by Lieutenant Michael Tremblay. The unit serves as the primary point of contact between the department and the community.

The department claims this push for community policing


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Frank Abruzzese, originally from Philadelphia, is a father, a photographer and avid cook. He obtained his Bachelors Degree in Moving Image Arts from the College of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2000, and Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004. His work has been featured in Domus magazine, was part of the 2012 Istanbul Design Biennial and resides in the permanent collection of the Office of Public Works. He received the Emerging Photographer of the Year award from San Francisco Magazine, and as a photographer exhibits internationally in galleries and universities.

His Italian heritage and love of home cooked food have developed into a passion for cooking, and his meals are as much a part of the experience at Cow House as are theMinority Voters Face Even More Hurdles on Election Day, but Not for the Reason You Think

Since 2010, the Republican-fueled wave of policies that hamper the ease with which citizens can vote — new voter ID requirements, rollbacks of early voting and restriction of convenient registration — has made it harder for minority voters, who skew Democratic, to cast their ballot.

But entirely separate from this agenda is one less-well-known factor that also discourages voting, research shows. Minority voters have to wait longer to cast their ballots, and this phenomenon diminishes turnout.

Race matters when it comes to voting: In 2012, black voters waited twice as long in line as white voters. Black people waited 23 minutes, Hispanics waited 19 minutes, and whites 12 minutes. White people who lived in areas


Basset hound seized from MSU health physicist charged with sodomy is safe, adopted

MASON - A dog seized from a Michigan State University health physicist who police believe penetrated the animal with both his hand and penis has been adopted into "a loving home," said Ingham County Animal Control Director John Dinon.

The seven-year-old male basset hound was seized from its owner, Joseph Hattey, 51, of Holt, on March 8, Dinon said, as part of an ongoing investigation by Ingham County Animal Control in conjunction with the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office.

Hattey was arrested and arraigned Monday on two counts of sodomy for committing a crime against nature (bestiality). He would face up to 15 years in prison if convicted. A preliminary hearing, which will determine if there's enough evidence forHattey to stand trial, has been set for June 21.

Dinon on Tuesday declined to comment on the criminal investigation. He said he can't discuss the specifics of the dog's condition when it was placed with Ingham County Animal Control.

The dog was given a physical and behavioral evaluation by a veterinarian, he said, and Hattey signed over ownership of the animal to the county.

Dinon said he did not know how long Hattey owned the dog.

Dinon said he didn't observe any abnormal behavior by the dog to indicate it couldn't be adopted. He said the dog was placed in a foster home before being adopted on April 12. The dog's new owner is aware of the animal's situation, he said.

"I can tell you the dog is safe now and being


kilometers), as the spacecraft speeds toward a close encounter with the Pluto system in mid-July. The April images are shown on the left, with the May images on the right. All have been rotated to align Pluto's rotational axis with the vertical direction (up-down), as depicted schematically in the center panel. Between April and May, Pluto appears to get larger as the spacecraft gets closer, with Pluto's apparent size increasing by approximately 50 percent. Pluto rotates around its axis every 6.4 Earth days, and these images show the variations in Pluto's surface features during its rotation. These images are displayed at four times the native LORRI image size, and have been processed using a method called deconvolution, which sharpens the original images to enhance features on Pluto. Deconvolutionimages New Horizons returns will dramatically improve in coming weeks as the spacecraft speeds closer to its July 14 encounter with the Pluto system, covering about 750,000 miles per day.

"By late June the image resolution will be four times better than the images made May 8-12, and by the time of closest approach, we expect to obtain images with more than 5,000 times the current resolution," said Hal Weaver, the mission's project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland.

Following a January 2006 launch, New Horizons is currently about 2.95 billion miles from home; the spacecraft is healthy and all systems are operating normally.

APL designed, built, and operates the New Horizons spacecraft, and manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. SwRI leads


Origins of XMRV deciphered, undermining claims for a role in human disease

...Delineation of the origin of the retrovirus known as XMRV from the gen...Reporting in Science Vinay Pathak Ph.D. and his research tea...This study is being reported in the same issue of Science as another s...Murine leukemia viruses are retroviruses that cause cancers and other ...

Delineation of the origin of the retrovirus known as XMRV from the genomes of laboratory mice indicates that the virus is unlikely to be responsible for either prostate cancer or chronic fatigue syndrome in humans, as has been widely published. The virus arose because of genetic recombination of two mouse viruses. Subsequent infection of lab experiments with XMRV formed the basis of the original association.

Reporting in Science, Vinay Pathak, Ph.D., and his researchJuauilla's labors, though Monte
rey wa-j still slumbering, were not un
oberved. A young man stood on the
bluff above the beach, looking down in
intenseat admiration at the barefooted
beauty bslow. He wore the loose gray
clothes of a tourist, and, from the sea
glasses that hung by his side, was evi
dently out early to observe the sunrise.
(.'lainVring down the rocks with a sure
fo;N 1 eao that indicated the exoeri-
need mountaineer, the stranger drew
near her, and watched, with an amused
expression on his handsome Saxon feat
tires, Juanilla'a contest with an envious
wavelet for th-; possession of a rare bit
of dips', " Bravo !" he cried, a?, return
ing from a successful rnshinto the spray,
sae carried off her prize.
The moss-gatherer turned quickly,
nnd blushed in the most charming man
rer imaginable as she hastily arranged
th- short petticoat which clang limp
sn


in her life for the
alphabet was to her an unexplored mys-
wno coma not, discourse of noli-
tics, the poets, or the magazines, work
ing ner way into nis indolent nature,
and quickening him to exchange t hono-ht
for thought, until he felt the poverty of
his book-cultnre as compared with an
intelligence framed and polished by
Mother Nature herself. Her mind was
a white page, free from the very shadow
oi woraiy grossness.
One eve ang. as Thorpe sat on the
porch, listening to the whaler's recitals
of his exciting lagoon adventures and
watching Juanilla's weaving fingers, a
opamara mtea tne garden-gate latch,
ana was greeted warmly by the whaler,
" We have heard 'rom Pancho," said
the new-comer. " He has done well in
the lower bays, and as soon as he can
will ship up over 500 barrels."
" Good !" said the whaler ; 500is jealousy, so sure as there is
such a passion ; and if the intense con
centration of all feeling, an absorption
of one's self into another, be love, then
I, silly fool that I am, love this panper
curse me !" For an hour he paced np
and down the cliff overlooking the
sands where he had first met his siren,
and reflected bitterly on all the folly of
his unfortunate attachment. Marry her
he could not. IN ay, even if he decided
to marry her, he did not believe she
loved him, and he knew, or thought he
knew, enough of her character to feel
assured that his wealth and position
would not influence her one dot. But
who was this Pancho? no doubt her
betrothed, yet she had never mentioned
his name. Still, her idiotic old father
spoke of a wedding-gown. Yes, Pancho
may the


devil drown him ! had gone
whaling to defray themarriage expenses.
But what did all this concern him this
episode in the life of a poor fisherman's
daughter ? He felt it concerned him too
much ; and, full of anger, love, and
perplexity, Thorpe sought his lodging.
Long before dawn next morning he
was on the sands, awaiting impatiently
the arrival of Juanilla. And when at
last she Btood on the cliff from which he
had seen her first, the quick heart-beat
and the joy that flashed him were addi
tional alarming convictions of the inten
sity of his passion. He could not, for
the life of him, mention the incident of
the previous evening until they had
walked some distance along the beach.
Jnanilla stood barefooted at the edge of
tho tide, now turning round with a
merry laugh when the incoming wave
splashed up to herknees, and again
shouting with delight when a more than
usually rare moss was thrown up.
Thorpe sat on a rock, and watched her
moodily.
"Juanilla, come her for a moment.'
" O, senor, here is a beauty, the pret
tiest bit I have ciught in a week. Bnt
why do vou look so grave this morn
ing?" and she took a seat beside him.
Thorpe took her hand in his own, and
looked down into his brown eyes. The
clasp of those tiny fingers thrilled him.
She seemed to recognize the passion in
his gaze, for she turnad to the bay where
the fisherman s skiffs were lying at an
chor.
"Juanilla, when is your wedding-
gown to be ready?
She turned to him a white, startled
face, trembled, and the great tears dim
med her eyes, but she was silent. And
then all Thorpe's self-possession forsook
him. He took


her iu bis arms and pres
sed her to his heart. He called heaven
and earth to witness, that, were she
queen, he could not be prouder of her :
they should be married at once by the
padre, and sail with her father in the
next vessel for his English home. Did
she love him ?
Jnanilla leaned her head over his hand
and kissed it. "Senor," she said, sim
ply, " I love you ; bnt we were betroth
ed from onr cradle. It was his mother's
dying wish that we should be married,
and my father swore it. An oath can
not be broken. Good-by, and the white
saints bless yon ! O, my love my love
good by !" She tore herself from his
arms, bounded up the rocks, and was
out of sight in a moment.
Thorpe walked up and downtheeands.
and ravedlike a madman. He wept and
moaned, and kissed over and over again
tho hand her Jips had caressed. And
then the storm was succeeded by an in
tense sorrow. He walked to the woods,
and laid until evening under the pines.
In a week, Pancho's ship came in.
It was JnanilK's wedding morning.
Tho poor moss-gatherer was fearfully
changed. Kind neighbors said that
anxiety for her netrsthed had stolen
the roses from her cheeks ; bnt the
stalwart young whaler was shocked at
the coldness with which his promised
bride received his caresses. The wed
ding procession moved to the church,
l'ancho gay and happy, and Jnanilla s
faco as pale as the white wedding-gown
sho wore. Tho vows were exchanged.
and the gray-headed priest blepsed tho
married pair. And then they returned
to tho whaler's cottage, the guitars were
touched, and Pancho led out his lovely
bride in a


Spanish dance. Thev had
scarcely taken a step, when a cry from
the beach brought everybody to the
porch. A boy was seen standing on the
blnff, shouting wildly :
" Down t tho boats ! the Lnglieh
man is drowning ! To the boats, or he
will be lost !"
Before the wedding throng fully com
prehended the alarm, a white figure
burst from their midst. Like the wind
she dashed down to the bluff, then over
the rocks, now lashed by the angry
waves, for the tide was high and a strong
north-wester blowing. At her feet
alive, yet not struggling at all with the
breakers lay Thorpe, his face full of
the agony of death. Juanilla sprung
from the rock with a wild shriek, and
her arras enoircled the drowning man.
And then, before even her husband
could reaoo the cliff, a mighty wave
came and drewthem both far out into
its depths. An hour afterward, the sea
gave up its dead. Tho arms of the
bride etili encircled her lover, and one
of his was elapsed in the rigidity of
death about her neck, and upon his face
was a snile as of on content. They
were buried, side by side, in the eea
waahed grave-yard, under the shadow of
oaks in whose branches the doves at
antumn-time cooed through the long
gloamings, as if in sympathy with their
old, old story. And the tides ebbed and
flowed, and the seasons changed, and
lovers laid flower offerings on the graves
of the two so lovely to each other in
life, and in death so undivided.
Don't swear. Take a flat-iron to
puhnd your stove-pipe with.
J
FIGUEES.
ENGLISH COURTSHIP.
IU Various Feature iu the Different
Rank! of Society.
In Scotland it is difficult for a man to
diaw


the line between courtship and
connubial condition. That which in the
Englishman is but a flirtation, would
become in the Scotchman rank raatri
mony. most people in Scotland are
married, but they are not aware of the
fact, as Monsieur Jordon did not know
tbat he had been talking prose all his
me ; tne distinction is drawn when
they do become aware, and then the
marriage is avowed. In Walea, court
' ship takes a material form among the
humbler classes at least and resolves
itself into what we call romping. In
England, there aro different ways of do
ing the same thing. When Lady Clara
vere de vere is a pretendu in her own
ranks of life (and she has not always
trifled with the "foolish yoeman" of
Mr. Tennysoi spoem),the arrangements
between the pair are conducted with
reference to a certain degree of eti
quette, but etiquettedoes not rule en
tirely, and the Lady Claras have the
same tendencies to make the most of the
situation as ladies and gentleman who
are not quite her equal in rank. She is
not restrained to the extent that she
would be in France ; and it is hard if,
in the course of walks, drives and
dances, croquet, cantering, exhibition
seeing, picmcmg, and ail the various
incidents of town and country life, the
pair do not manage to meet some seven
days in the week, and give the chape
rone now and then the go-by. In the
lower grades of society it may be sup
posed that courtship is equally delight
ful, but appearances are decidedly
against There is nothing approach
ing restraint in the code of etiquette
here. When Miss Jemima Higgs has
" her yonng man," and he ia on such
terms with her family


necessary part
of full dress. His talk is slang, and
not over refined. The girl goes off gay
ly with him, but one cannot help won
dering at her taste, and the question in
evil ably occurs Of what do they talk
when alone? She has read a few nov
els, and picked up a certain vocabulary
of sentiment ; but ho car net have an
idea on this head, and his range of sub
jects must be a very narrow one very
different from the world of beautiful
fancits open to Lady Clara Ver9 de
Vere and tho young " lord-lover" who
pays his horaago to her shrine. It is
not to be supposed that humble station
and want of culture prevent people
from loving as deeply as our aristocratic
friends. The late Robert Grougb, in
a poetical version of a tale from Boc
caccio, writes veryscene of my old contests
has been, as those interested iu Arctic
exploration well know, merely a ques
tion of money. That forthcoming, I
shall loso no time in once more lead
ing an expedition into Smith Sound.
Sunset in the North.
Major Batler, in his "Wild North
Land," gives the following pictnre of
sunset in the north land: "He who
rides for months through the vast sol
itudes sees during the hours of his
daily travel an unbroken panorama of
distance. The seasons come and go ;
grass grows and flowers die ; tho fire
leaps with tiger bounds along the earth;
the snow lies still and quiet over hill
and lake ; the rivers rise and fall ; but
the rigid features of the wilderness rest
unchanged. Lonely, silent and impas
sive ; heedless of man, season or time,
the might of the Infinite seems to brood
over


it, and only in the hours of day
and night a moment comes when this
impressive veil is drawn from its feat
ures, aud the eye of the wanderer catch
es a glimpse of the sunken soul of tho
wilderness it is the moment which fol
lows the sunset. Then a deep stillness
steals ever the earth ; colors of wond
rous hue riso and spread along the west
ern horizon. In a deep sea of emerald
and a range of fifty shades, mingled
and interwoven together, rose-colored
isles float, anchored to great golden
threads, while far away, seemingly
above and beyond all, ono broad flash
of crimson light, the parting sun's last
gift, reddens upwards to the zenith."
A Btory is told of a San Francisco
woman who was ia the habit of receiv
ing frequent castigations xt the hands
of her husband, and who one dayread
the bible story of Samson and Delilah.
W hen next her consort was prone in
sleep she sheared him so completely
that every spear of hair disappeared
from his face and head. Bousing from
Lis 6l umber lite a giant refreshed, h
COLUMBIA, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY,
speedily comprehended the situation
and reached for her. bach a caressing
as she then received she never dreamed
of before. She did not even have the
usual grip on him. He was fined, but
she declared her utter disbelief in those
bible yarns
A Costume to Keep Afloat.
A Paris correspondent says : " An in
genious philanthropist of this city has
just invented a new apparatus for as
sisting shipwrecked persons iu main
taining themt-elves above water. The
public trial of this apparatus took place
a few cays ago, and proved entirely suc
cessful. Two river steamboats were
provided by the smiling, enthusiastic,
white-headed philanthropist, and


con
veyed a numerous company of friends,
people connected with the press, the
clubs, the army and navy, and a sprink
ling of members of the legislative as
sembly, to the Billancourt Basin, just
beyond Asineres. The new apparatus
consists of a costume, called by its in
ventor the 'Natator ; ' it goes from the
neck to the knees, fitting close to the
body, but susceptible of being worn
over other clothing, if time be wanting
for divesting oneself of one's ordinary
apparel. From the armpits to the hips
the thing is double, forming the case of
an india-rubber tube that winds rouna
and round the body. The upper end of
this tube has a brass stopcock, through
which the wearer blows in air with his
lips, the process requiring only a few
seconds, and the volume of air thus in
troduced amply sufficing to prevent the
heaviest peoplefrom sinking. If it be
desired to dive, the wearer lets out th
air by merely opening the stopcock,
The 'Natator' will thus serve to keep the
shipwrecked from sinking, and enable
the heroic preservers of human life to
reach those who, though kept afloat by
it, are unable to swim. The wearers of
the 'Natator,' some of whom wore it
under their clothes, some over them
while others had undressed and wore
nothing else, floated about the steamers
for an hour, now seeming to stand erect
in the water, now lying upon it, some
smoking a cigar, others reading a news
paper or eating bisouits and sandwiches
from a little water-proof bag attached
to tho costume, laughing, talking, and
apparently enioying their novel position,
A shower happening to come, one of the
swimmers opened and hoisted an um
brella, under which he continued his
watery promenade, to the great


amuse
ment of the spectators."
The Great Salt Lake.
A Salt Lake City correspondent of
the Chicago Inter-Ocean says : " There
seems to be a general impression among
strangers that the city of Salt Lake is
located on the margin of the great Salt
lake, and the tourist on his arrival here
ls .Burprised and disappointed to find
that it 13 not. I he popular visiting
place on the lake is what is called Black
Rock, lying directly west twenty miles
distant from this city, on the old over
land mail road going towards California.
It is a most interesting spot to visit, and
it is very strange that out of the many
who travel across the continent, desirous
of seeing everything of interest, there
are so few who will take the time and
trouble to see this most wonderful und
beautiful sheet of water. The size of
thelake is about eighty miles from east
to west, and about one hundred miles
from north to south. It is the great
reservoir for all the waters that empty
into the surrounding valleys, without
any known outlet, except what the gen
tle rays of the summer sun draws up to
the cloudy strata of the heavens. The
water is exceedingly salty, more so than
any body of water in the world, and its
buoyancy is fully 100 per cent, more
than that of the ocean. In the crudest
manner the Mormons make a pail of salt
from three pails of water, and the buoy
ancy is very perceptible in bathing,
when the ordinary swimmer finds he
can float as easily and securely as walk
ing on tire 'sure and hrm-set earth.
Sinking is impossible. The water in
the lake is gradually rising, and some
estimates have put it


at ten inches each
year; but no means have been taken to
measure it until about two months
since, when a granite monument was
erected at Black Rock, a short distance
fro - the shore. The lake as a thing of
beauty is almost unsurpassed. The
water at times is of the deepest green ;
at others of the purest blue ; and, vary
ing from the shallow to the deep water,
from the lightest to the darkest shades,
and at4all times like the grand old
ocean. lhe seagull and the pelican
scale just overhead, riding gracefully
the waves upon its smooth or rolling
surface."
Sherman on the Army.
The Army and Navy Journal contains
an article by Gen. Sherman on " The
Military Lessons of the War." Al
though printed separately, it is really
the final chapter of a history of the war
which will be publish after theauthor's
death.
Gen. McClellan wishes to remodel our
army after that of Germany. Gen.
Sherman, on the contrary, sees some
things to shun in the German system.
Thus he dislikes their large companies
and their mounted captainB. He would
still retain the present standard of 100
men to the company, but would place
twelve companies in each infantry regi
ment, an l so mako the numerical
strength of a regiment in the infantry,
artillery, or cavelry tho same. Three
such regiments would compose a brig
ade, three brigades a division, and three
divisions a corps. The corps is tho mil
itary unit for grand campaigns nd bat
ties. An infantry corps should have
attached to it a brigade of cavalry and
six batteries of artillery. It would then
contain an effective force of thirty thou
sand men.
After laying down this simple plan of
organization by threes, Gen. Sherman
discusses the great difficulty