Clinton. Both were later acquitted during their Senate trials. The only other President to have articles of impeachment brought before the full house was Richard Nixon, however he resigned before they could be voted on.

Following the impeachment of a President by the House of Representatives the Senate holds a trial in which ‘managers’ appointed by the House represent the prosecution, the President’s administration provides a defense, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presides.

At the conclusion of the trial the Senate votes on whether to deliberate publicly or privately, and following those deliberations votes on the articles of impeachment. A two-thirds majority of at least sixty-seven votes in the Senate is required to convict an impeachment and remove a President from office, a threshold that was nothospital where she lasted two years.

And on it goes. After she left Central Alabama, her old position was filled by James Talton, but he was fired in 2014 – a move that came under congressional pressure and only after Congress authorized slightly increased VA termination powers. His firing was for failing to take action when an employee of the hospital’s drug rehab program stole a patient’s money and drove him to a crack house.

Robin Jackson – a VA regional office administrator who had only days of previous experience in hospital administration – then became interim director. The regional office provides oversight of hospitals in the southeast and coordinated the director appointments.

Leslie Wiggins was appointed last month to lead that regional office. It’s her fourth location around the country


moving around the same people who oversaw them, not bringing in new leaders.

The accompanying map shows only top-level hospital administrators. Add doctors and pharmacists, who are also sometimes moved after licensing or discipline issues, and slightly lower ranking bureaucrats, and the list grows to 600 VA employees who worked in three or more areas of the country in eight years, TheDCNF’s computer analysis showed.

TheDCNF has found evidence tying nearly half of the administrators on the map to some kind of scandal or controversy.

For example, Dewayne Hamlin worked in Florida, Idaho, Kentucky and Puerto Rico over a six-year period. He was arrested in Florida for drunk driving at 2am and found with pain pills like those provided to patients in his VA hospital, but refused to say where hegot them.

After being transferred to Puerto Rico, Hamlin turned up missing from the hospital for 80 days a year. Japhet Rivera, one of Hamlin’s subordinates, turned him in for wrongfully billing personal expenses to the taxpayers.

[dcquiz] In retaliation, Hamlin had his former colleagues from the Florida-based regional office transfer Rivera to Florida against his will for a make-work job, with VA putting him up in a hotel, Rivera said. After that temporary assignment, he was stowed away to Kansas–bosses may have figured he’d quit rather than leave the tropics–then wound up running a VA hospital in Illinois when they needed someone to fill a job.

There, he was paid six figures to resign after the department confirmed that he himself retaliated against a whistleblower in that state.

Meanwhile, when a


hospital in Florida needed a new director, the regional administrative office that oversees such appointments also had no permanent director, and bosses of hospitals in the region, such as Hamlin, were tasked with selecting their new peer. (The regional office is still without a permanent director, but last month Paul Bockelman arrived as its new acting head. Bockelman has worked in five states since 2007: Iowa, South Dakota, Illinois, Michigan, and now Florida.)

They chose Joe Battle, who was fleeing a Mississippi hospital after the Office of Special Counsel concluded that Battle had forced doctors to sign papers approving patients being seen by nurses, even when doctors were necessary, and then lying about the extent of problems. The Florida hospital was Battle’s third VA hospital in recent years, and(CNN) Once again, President Donald Trump is having a tough time calling out far right-wing white nationalism.

His response to the carnage in New Zealand, where 49 people died in an attack on two mosques, is also raising fresh questions about his attitude toward Islam following a long history of anti-Muslim rhetoric -- and about the extent to which the President has a responsibility to moderate his language given the rise in white supremacy movements across the world.

On Twitter and in remarks in the Oval Office, Trump was clear in condemning the killings. But he did not deliver a message of empathy and support to American Muslims, who may feel scared as security is stepped up at US mosques.

"I spoke with Prime Minister Ardern of New Zealand to express


the sorrow of our entire nation following the monstrous terror attacks at two mosques," Trump said in the Oval Office on Friday afternoon after first condemning the attack as "a horrible massacre in the Mosques" on Twitter.

"These sacred places of worship were turned into scenes of evil killing," the President said. "We've all seen what went on. It's a horrible, horrible thing."

But asked whether he saw a worrying rise in white supremacy movements around the world, Trump said he did not, blaming a small group of people "with very, very serious problems." He also told reporters that he had not seen the manifesto linked to by a social media account that's believed to belong to one of the attackers, which mentioned Trump by name and saw him asa symbol of renewed white identity.

While the President did not reach out to Muslims around the world, his daughter offered the kind of language that might have been expected from a more conventional commander in chief.

"We join New Zealand and Muslim communities around the world in condemnation of this evil as we pray for the families of each victim and grieve together, " Ivanka Trump tweeted on Friday morning.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was asked in a news conference early Saturday what she had told Trump in their telephone call.

"He asked what offer of support the United States could provide. My message was sympathy and love for all Muslim communities," Ardern said.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders called the Christchurch killings a "vicious attack of hate," though she


National Anthem. In announcing his campaign, he said Mexico was sending "rapists" across the border into the US. On Friday, at the same event in which he bemoaned the attack in New Zealand, he warned of "invasions" of undocumented migrants coming across the southern border.

And Friday was not the first time that Trump has sought to downplay the threat of white nationalism.

Trump's moral leadership also came into question when he initially equivocated after he was endorsed by white supremacist David Duke during the 2016 campaign.

The President's comment Friday that white nationalism is not a growing problem contrasted with the vehemence with which other world leaders reacted, and their clear condemnations of white supremacist rhetoric and ideology.

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May said there was no place in society for"the vile ideology that drives and incites hatred and fear."

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison condemned a "violent, extremist, right-wing terrorist attack."

Ardern said the alleged perpetrator of the attack had "extremist views that have absolutely no place in New Zealand and in fact, have no place in the world."

In a tweet that posted before Trump's comments in the Oval Office, Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden -- a possible White House candidate in 2020 -- appeared to have Trump on his mind.

"Whether it is antisemitism in Pittsburgh, racism in Charlottesville, or the xenophobia and Islamophobia today in Christchurch, violent hate is on the march at home and abroad. We cannot stand by as mosques are turned into murder scenes," Biden tweeted.

"Silence is complicity," he added. "Our children are listening.


A local doctors association has threatened to strike if their colleagues are not released within 48 hours.

Three doctors from the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been arrested for their alleged role in the killing of a World Health Organization (WHO) doctor in April, according to military prosecutors.

Cameroonian doctor Richard Mouzoko was shot and killed during an attack on a hospital in Butembo, a city in North Kivu province and an epicentre of the Ebola response in the country. He had been sent to the eastern region as part of the WHO‘s attempt to stop the spread of the disease’s outbreak, the second deadliest on record.

A military prosecutor for Butembo, Lieutenant Colonel Jean-Baptiste Kumbu, told AFP news agency on Wednesday that the arrested doctors will be charged with“terrorism” and “criminal conspiracy”.

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The three medics are accused of holding meetings on April 14 to plot the assassination of Mouzoko, the prosecutor said. A fourth doctor suspected to be involved in the April 19 killing is still at large, he added.

Kumbu said captured members of an armed group believed to be behind the killings implicated the four doctors during interrogations.

Prosecutors did not allege a motive for the arrested health workers, but a treatise left behind at the attack site had previously lead prosecutors to believe the assailants belonged to the armed group, the Patriotic Union for the Liberation of Congo, the Reuters news agency had reported at the time.

Threat of strike

The arrests were decried by doctors in Butembo. ln a letter to the mayor of the city, the


North Kivu and Ituri in August 2018, with more than 1,800 people killed so far.

International organisations often work closely with local doctors in their attempts to contain the highly infectious disease that spreads through bodily fluids.

But the emergency health response has proven particularly difficult as several armed groups operate in the mineral-rich region, which is far removed from the central government in Kinshasa and fraught with tensions over land, ethnicity and resources.

Amid the turmoil, health workers and emergency responders have struggled to win the cooperation of affected communities, many of which are deeply distrustful of the government and a roll-out of medical strategies – supervised by security forces – that have clashed with local customs.

Ebola treatment centres and health workers have repeatedly been subjected to attacks; an unofficialCop who owned 3 Ferraris, a BMW convicted of stealing $277 in county gas

A Miami-Dade police officer may get up to five years in prison after making the county’s gas pump his personal fueling station.

Sgt. Emil Van Lugo, an aficionado of extravagant cars, owned three Ferraris and his wife had a BMW. He was convicted and could face jail time for stealing $277.25 in county gas.

Lugo was captured on video making weekly trips to a county fuel depot and filling up his patrol car and two spare gas cans. Investigators said he stole gas for 50 consecutive weekends.

“Sadly, Sgt. Van Lugo cared more about cheating the county out of a few dollars to fuel his stable of cars than he did about his oath to uphold the law,”


In scenes from Greece relayed by the world’s media in recent years, the dominant emotion has been anger. Think of the thousands who besieged parliament after it yielded to demands from the “troika” – the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank – for harsh austerity measures in return for a bailout of the country’s ailing economy. Or the volleys of tear gas fired in central Athens by riot police whose gear looked more suitable for a war zone than a European capital city. Or the notorious rallies organised by Golden Dawn, the far-right party that won 18 seats in 2012’s legislative elections.

But Love in the Time of Crisis, a new documentary that asks how the economic disaster has affected intimate relationships, suggests somethingReviews by category

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Unlike other games of this genre, Hidden Object offers little in the way of customising the game such as difficulty settings and volume levels. You can, however, play this game in different languages. This feature is achieved by selecting from flags representing the languages. Up to four game profiles can be created with each one represented by a picture of a chicken – actually the pictures


A Correctional Officer shot a man who police say tried to carjack him less than an hour after being released from a Philadelphia jail.

Jamal Bennett, 26, was discharged from the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility on the 8000 block of State Road around 10:30 p.m. Friday. About 45 minutes later, Bennett allegedly approached 66-year-old Michael Maratea, a veteran correctional officer who was just getting off duty, in the facility’s parking lot. Maratea told Bennett to stop several times but he kept approaching his car, officials said. The two men then fought, according to investigators.

During the struggle, Maratea managed to get inside his car and grab his service weapon, officials said. Bennett allegedly tried to grab Maratea’s gun. Maratea then fired the weapon and shot Bennett once in the chest, accordingto investigators. Maratea then called 911.

Bennett was taken to Aria-Torresdale Hospital where he is in critical condition. Maratea was also taken to Aria-Torresdale and treated for both head and neck pain. He was later released. Officials say Maratea offered to go back to work but doctors told him to rest at home.

Maratea has been a correctional officer for 27 years and is licensed to carry a weapon, according to officials.

Officials say Bennett had been in custody seven times since 2011. Before Friday night’s incident, Bennett had been in custody for two weeks on probation and gun violations but was released on a court order.

"It seems like he was starting his life of crime over again within minutes of being released," said Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small.

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novelist. Some examine the institution itself, finding compelling narratives in the story of how news is reported. Others reiterate why the fourth estate matters; still others provide cautionary tales for why journalistic excesses can lead to a grim place. And another group finds the power in the lives of writers: how their job affects their home lives, their perceptions of the world, and their ability to function. Here’s a look at a dozen disparate takes on the media, spanning from the 19th century on into the near future.

George Gissing, New Grub Street

At the heart of George Gissing’s sprawling 1891 novel New Grub Street are two writers: one, a high-minded author of serious fiction, struggling to find an audience for his work; and one, a far less idealistic figureAlex Gilvarry’s Eastman Was Here is an aging literary lion of the New York scene who, by the early 1970s, is still coasting on the acclaim of a book he wrote shortly after World War II. The outsized personalities of the likes of Norman Mailer—as well as their excesses and other flaws—are certainly the template here. But as Eastman heads to cover the Vietnam War and begins to question his own approach to life and craft, a host of other literary touchstones—from Graham Greene to Joan Didion—further complicate the narrative.

Renata Adler, Speedboat

Renata Adler’s literary work has explored questions of journalism and the media from both sides of the fiction/nonfiction life—including 1999’s Gone: The Last Days of The New Yorker. On the novelistic side of things, there’s her debut


novel Speedboat, first published in 1976, which filters a host of impressions of urban life in the mid–1970s through the particular lens of one journalist’s perspective. The result is a singular and unpredictable work which still feels vital 40 years later.

John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire

Journalists can help uncover moments in history that have been overlooked and help expose moments of injustice. The central character of John Edgar Wideman’s novel Philadelphia Fire is engaged in exactly that: he’s in the city mentioned in the title to research a book about the time in 1985 when the city’s police bombed a building housing the group MOVE, causing a fire that destroyed a number of homes and killed eleven people.

Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

There are numerous elements in play in AnnieProulx’s award-winning novel, from questions of family and human connection to an immersive portrayal of a small community. But here, too, journalism plays a part: the novel’s protagonist is a reporter, looking to make a fresh start by taking a job and moving his family to Newfoundland. As with everything else in the novel, Proulx offers a sharply-observed take on newsroom life.

The life of a journalist has, at times, offered perks—for a rarefied stratum, that could include global travel, access to elite spaces, and a general sense of the high life. In the first half of Geoff Dyer’s Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, a journalist makes his way around the Venice Biennale, engaging in various acts of excess—all of which makes for a bold contrast with the


of the novel, Simonini explores the boundaries between reporter and subject, probes the nature of celebrity, and holds a funhouse mirror up to the face of American celebrity culture.

Heinrich Böll, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Out of the chilling atmosphere of radical politics in 1970s Germany came Heinrich Böll’s taut, precisely-written novel The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum. It examines a case in which journalistic excesses lead to tragic ends: the title character is circumstantially connected to a crime, and is hounded by an amoral reporter, which leads to a violent and harrowing conclusion.

In D.G. Compton’s 1973 novel The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe, he provides a chilling view of a potential future of journalism—one that’s only gained in power as the years have gone by. The title character issolder-wettable bond pad that constitutes a first faying surface. Similarly, the component includes a second, solder-wettable faying surface, for example, a contact. The solder paste is conveniently applied to the bond pad, for example, by screen printing, after which the component is arranged with the second faying surface in contact with the solder paste deposit. The assembly is then heated to vaporize the vehicle and to melt and reflow the solder alloy. Upon cooling, the solder alloy resolidifies and bonds to the faying surfaces to complete the connection. The solder connection not only physically attaches the component to the board, but also electrically connects the bond pad on the board and the contact of the component for conducting electrical current to or from the component for processing.
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is required as to the loss amount and number of victims, we vacate the sentence and restitution order and remand for further proceedings.
I. Background
Hartstein worked as a travel agent. In this capacity, she solicited loans from numerous victims, promising to repay their principal within a short time periodtypically thirty daysand give them free travel benefits including cruises and first-class airline tickets. Hartstein's scheme expanded to the point where she was soliciting new loans to pay the principal on old loans in whole or in part or to purchase airline tickets to appease her prior lenders. She eventually used clients' personal information and credit card numbers to open new lines of credit or to purchase tickets. In addition, she left vendors or cooperating travel agents with unpaid bills andinitial PSR recommendation that the total offense level should be set at thirty-five. Hartstein had no criminal history points and was in criminal history category I. The PSR's resultant advisory Guidelines range was 168-210 months' imprisonment.
Hartstein objected to the PSR. In a detailed memorandum, she presented a series of arguments to establish that the amount of loss was substantially lower than the $2.8 million listed in the PSR. The $2.8 million figure was the total amount purportedly loaned by Hartstein to all alleged victims without reduction for amounts repaid and without reduction for travel benefits granted. Hartstein expressly challenged the factual basis of many of the loans and the characterization of certain individuals as victims. She also argued generally that she was entitled to credit against each individual


loan the principal sums repaid to the associated victim and the value of travel benefits provided to that victim. Her arguments can be categorized in three separate groups, as follows.
First, Hartstein challenged the government's listing of purported losses as factually inaccurate. She asserted that many of the victims were not, in fact, victims of an interrelated Ponzi scheme as alleged by the government, but were (1) friends or relatives who loaned or gave her money out of kindness, or (2) lenders who were unrelated to an alleged scheme. She also asserted that the government's listing of loss amounts for several victims was inaccurate, redundant, or not supported by the evidence. For example, Hartstein alleged that some victims were listed separately from their spouses and that the total lossesconsidered the lender not to be a victim.
The government responded to Hartstein's objections, and the probation office issued amendments and comments to the PSR, noting repeatedly that the government was prepared to offer documents and testimony at sentencing to support the asserted loss amounts. Prior to sentencing, Hartstein conducted additional investigation, and shortly before sentencing, she provided the court and the government with an amended, detailed summary of her position regarding loss amounts. In this amended summary, Hartstein listed the total loss amount as $970,000. Hartstein argued at sentencing that she should be sentenced based on this loss amount.
At sentencing, the government argued that the friends and relatives Hartstein sought to eliminate from the list of victims, and whose losses Hartstein sought to eliminate from the loss totals,


received from subsequent lenders to assuage the earlier lenders' worries or to gain their confidence so that they would increase their own lending activities or send other potential lenders to her. Based on this argument, the government asserted that, as a matter of law, all of Hartstein's repayments to purported victims were merely instruments to perpetuate her fraud, and it would be improper to decrease the total loss amount by any sums that Hartstein repaid to the alleged victims. The government also argued that it was improper to credit against losses the value of travel benefits provided to the victims because the government had not attempted to include the value of promised travel benefits in the initial loss amounts. The government also noted that Hartstein had promised travelsuggests that Hartstein identified approximately thirty purported victims on the government's list of victims that she argued were not victims or that had loaned her money in amounts less than the amount claimed by the government. For example, the government's list included a pawn shop and a ticket broker who were claiming an entitlement to money but who did not appear to be victims of the fraud as alleged by the government. Also, at least one of the purported victims signed an affidavit indicating that he was not a victim of fraud, was not seeking restitution, and had loaned money to Hartstein out of friendship. Hartstein also listed approximately sixteen purported victims that she claimed loaned her more money than stated by the government. The net result of


Police Violence, Resistance and The Crisis of Legitimacy

— Kristian Williams

ON SEPTEMBER 5, 2010, Los Angeles police shot and killed a Guatemalan day laborer named Manuel Jamines.

The next day, a crowd gathered on the corner where Jamines died. They assembled a small memorial, then piled debris and set fires in the street, and hurled rocks and bottles at the cops, reportedly injuring several.

Police responded with rubber bullets and tear gas; they arrested more than two dozen people. Rioting continued for three nights running.

Police claimed that Jamines was threatening passers-by with a knife — a story widely disbelieved in the Latino community and contradicted by eyewitness accounts. “I did not see a knife in his hands,” one witness told reporters.(1)

“He had nothing in his hands,” another confirmed; “At the momentcop, Tony Pirone, can be heard calling him a “bitch-ass nigger;”(4) another cop, Johannes Mehserle, draws his gun and shoots Grant in the back, point-blank.

Grant’s killing sparked a series of protests and small riots. Largely in response to the rebellion, the authorities arrested Mehserle and charged him with murder.(5)

More than a year later, in July 2010, Mehserle was convicted — not of murder, but of involuntary manslaughter. The response of the community, once again, was outrage expressed in marches, barricaded streets, broken windows, dumpster fires, and looting; damages were estimated at $750,000.(6) Mehserle was sentenced in November to just two years in prison, provoking further unrest.

It was barely two months after Grant’s shooting, in March 2009, that a Black ex-con named Lovelle Mixon killed two Oakland cops at


Paul Schene beat a teenaged girl in a holding cell. The following February, the deputy was charged with assault and a videotape of the incident was released. He was fired that September, and later tried — but not convicted.

In October 2009, Schene was mentioned by name in a communiqué left at the site of an arson in which several unoccupied police vehicles were firebombed. A few days later, on October 31, two cops were shot in a drive-by attack; one died.

The suspect in both cases, Christopher Monfort, was later shot by police, paralyzing him from the waist down. He is presently awaiting trial in King County Jail. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

The district attorney argues that Monfort was acting out of anger over the Schene incident. Monfortvideotaped beatings undercut the cops’ collective credibility, and renewed public anger.

The first video, from April 17, 2010, shows two Seattle cops kicking and stomping a Latino man. Gang unit Detective Shandy Cobane can be heard threatening, “I’m going to beat the fucking Mexican piss out of you, homey. You feel me?”(9) The victim was later released without charges.

The second incident came two months later. In June a white Seattle cop, Ian Walsh, was filmed hitting a Black teenaged girl.

The incident began as Walsh tried to cite another girl, Marilyn Ellen Levias, for jaywalking. Walsh grabbed Levias’ arm; her friend, Angel Rosenthal, pushed him away; and the cop punched her in the face. Levias was arrested for obstructing an officer, and Rosenthal for assault.

James Kelly, chief executive officer of


the Urban League, told reporters, “The provocation by this 17-year-old kid may have presented a confrontation situation, but the use of violence in the form of a full punch in the face was just plain wrong. . . . This is another case where we are standing here, saying, ‘shame on you’ to the Seattle police.”(10)

Then, at the very end of summer, on August 30, Seattle police shot and killed John T. Williams, a half-deaf Native American woodcarver. Police say Williams was whittling when Officer Ian Birk approached. He failed to drop the pocket knife he was working with, and Birk shot him.

On September 2, hundreds of people attended a candlelight vigil for Williams. The next day, Native leaders held a press conference in which they demanded communitythe City Council’s public safety committee expressed his worries over the effect of the controversy: “(T)he cumulation of incidents has the potential to reach a tipping point, where large segments of our community lose confidence in the police. . . .”(12)

Cops on a Killing Spree

Police violence in Washington state has not been isolated to the Seattle city limits: In the week following the death of John T. Williams, police in the greater Seattle area killed four other people, and shot one more (who survived).

The day after Williams’ death, Federal Way police shot and killed David Charles Young as he fled in a stolen truck. That same day, Pierce County Sheriffs deputies tased a man who they say was resisting arrest; after receiving a 50,000-volt shock, the man stopped


breathing, and later died.

On September 3, Tacoma cops shot and killed a man holding a knife at a bus stop. That night, Seattle police shot a reportedly suicidal man who pointed an AK-47 at them; he survived. The next morning, a deputy in the town of Gold Bar used a taser against an unarmed man yelling in the street; the 25-year-old man, Adam Colliers, died.

This cluster of fatalities was immediately followed by the death of an Iraq War vet at the hands of police in Vancouver, Washington; the cops say the victim was standing in the street with a handgun, and refused to put it down.

The week-long killing spree was, likewise, immediately preceded by an August 26 incident in which a Spokane County deputy killed a 74-year-old SouthernRyan Foote thought he “kind of looks like he could be a gangster.”(15) Police say that, when Otis was pulled over, he became belligerent and started shouting obscenities. They tased him, and he pulled a gun. Otis fired twice, hitting Officer Christopher Burley in the groin. The police returned fire, striking Otis 23 times and killing him on the spot.

The death of Aaron Campbell set off a series of protests, and anger mounted with each subsequent shooting. A coalition of Black clergy, the Albina Ministerial Alliance, took the initial lead, and the Reverend Jesse Jackson has twice traveled to Portland to urge action. The day after his first visit, a crowd of 200 marched into City Hall to confront the mayor.

By the time Jack Collins was killed, tensions


Use of Force Review Board recommended that Officer Frashour be fired. In late August, the Use of Force Review Board recommended that Officer Frashour be fired, and in November he finally was.

Political Narratives and Displays

The political uses of these stories are familiar enough.

The left mobilizes around the murders of people like Manuel Jamines, Oscar Grant, Aaron Campbell and John Williams, advancing a civil rights or police accountability agenda.

Conservatives, often led by police unions, mobilize around the deaths of cops, pushing a law-and-order agenda — budget increases, demands for more firepower, longer prison sentences, and so on. After the Lakewood shootings, for example, Washington passed laws raising the payments to the families of slain cops, increasing the penalty for aiding a fugitive, and tightening restrictions on bail.

But the particularthe months between the shooting and the trial, see: Raider Nation Collective, Raider Nation, Volume 1: From the January Rebellions to Lovelle Mixon and Beyond (Oakland, 2010).back to text

See: Ward Churchill (et al.), Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections of the Role of Armed Struggle in North America (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring, 1998); and, Peter Gelderloos, How Nonviolence Protects the State (Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press, 2007).back to text

Matthew R. Durose, et al., “Contacts Between Police and the Public, 2005” (U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report: April 2007) 1 and 8.back to text

Durose, “Contacts Between Police and the Public, 2005,” 7 and 10.back to text

My son was shot to death by Pierce County Deputies on the 7th of June 2012. They said that he was trying to


ram the police car when the Deputies opened fire at the truck coming at them. The problem with tell is my son was shot at close range in the back more than once.

Saturday night my son was at a barbecue that got out of hand. A friend of his had invited him there and he went taking his 5 year old son with him. There was drinking there and after a few hours all hell broke loose and the group started attacking my son and his friend. My son put my grandson in the car and got in himself. He called for police help as the group was trying to attack him. When the police arrived my son stepped out of the car and announced he was theone that called.

The police grabbed my son, slammed his head on their car multiple times, hit him in the head with their flashlights, threw him to the ground and tased him 4 - 5 times. One of those times was in the testicles. He passed out at one point and when he woke he found his shirt and jacket had been pulled up over his head.

He was eventually brought to the jail where he was denied medical treatment for refusing to wipe his burnt testicle with an alcohol swab in front of some old woman who he had not been told why she was even there. He said he has been in and out of consciousness these past two days with no medical help.

He was released on bond


of one of his principal defense witnesses. Subsequently, a third indictment labeled "Superseding Indictment" was returned on December 11, 1975, realleging the conspiracy involving Holm. For some reason not explained in the record, Holm was tried on the November, rather than on the December indictment. In January, 1976, he was found guilty after a jury trial.

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Holm first attacks his conviction on the ground that he could not validly be tried on the superseded November indictment. His argument, based primarily on the dictionary definition of the word "superseded," is entirely formalistic. It is undisputed that the Government may have two indictments outstanding against an accused at the same time. Thompson v. United States,202 F. 401, 404 (9th Cir. 1913). We do not accept the argument that the use ofpick him up, I understand. However, Castro’s home run misfortunate is not only his home park – he has suffered from bad luck as well. xStats believe that Castro should have 10.4 home runs on the year – a pretty substantial difference from the seven that he has. Typically, xHR is within one of the player’s actual home run total, so this is a fairly big difference. If Castro had ten home runs at the All-Star break he would likely be turning a few more heads, especially for a player with 2B eligibility who is primarily hitting in the top third of the lineup – even if it is Miami.

The discrepancy between his hard-hit rate and HR/FB rate is the most interesting part of his hitting profile, but


here are a few more tidbits on Castro for those of you who might be considering him. One, his walk rate is at a career-high 7.2%. He still only has a .337 OBP, but after two straight seasons with a sub-5% walk-rate it’s nice to see Castro’s plate discipline improving.

Secondly, Castro appears to be more aggressive on the base paths down in Florida. In two combined seasons in New York, Castro attempted six steals, and was successful on all of them. In the first half of his first season in Miami, Castro has already attempted to steal five times – with four attempts being successful.

That gives us a fuller picture of Starlin Castro this season: a few balls fall on the other side of the fence and you’reOne sunny day in October, at the Jefferson Parish correctional center just across the river from downtown New Orleans, Tiffany Burns, 34, was visiting her boyfriend.

The pair had been dating for almost two years and were still giggly in love when a late July knock on the door sent him away. Scooped up by the police after being accused of robbing a suburban bank at gunpoint, Chrishon Brown, 37, was sent to the correctional center while his case worked its way through the court.

A new, unwelcome chapter of their relationship began, with Brown using all his jail funds to call Tiffany, and Tiffany visiting as often as she could.

It was a long drive from her home in the Metairie suburb west of New Orleans, and could sometimes take


a scholar on prisons at the University of Texas, notes that across the country, some state and local governments have adopted legislation that addresses the question of the legality of video visitation in lieu of in-person visitation.

In Texas, for example, a recent state law requires that in-person visitation be maintained in jails, and California has passed similar legislation. Although the American Bar Association and the American Correctional Association have published guidelines that say video visitation should be a supplement and not a substitute for in-person visits, the supreme court has not yet weighed in on the video visitation question. Without a national legal framework, the decision belongs to local authorities, with their own rationale, be it contraband, security, or something else.

For Henderson, the former prisoner, the conversation “goesLactose intolerance is a condition in which people are unable to completely digest lactose. Lactose is the sugar that is found in milk. Being lactose intolerant causes a number of embarrassing and uncomfortable symptoms such as gas, bloating, and diarrhea after eating or drinking dairy products. Lactose intolerance may also be known as lactose malabsorption. There are no serious complications associated with the condition and the symptoms can be managed. There are millions of people in the United States who have some degree of lactose intolerance.

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Meghan McCain called Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard an "Assad apologist" during a Wednesday appearance on "The View."

Gabbard has long faced criticism over her stance toward Assad.

Gabbard said "there's no disputing the fact" that Assad is "brutal dictator" who "has used chemical weapons" against his people, but she would not call him an "enemy" of the US.

Since Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard declared she's running for president in 2020, she's been hammered in interviews over her controversial interactions with and statements on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Gabbard's Wednesday appearance on ABC's "The View" was no exception to the trend as the Hawaii Democrat got into a heated debate with host Meghan McCain.

As Gabbard discussed her foreign policy stance, McCain interrupted to address the lawmaker's stance on Assad.

"When I hear the nameTulsi Gabbard, I think of Assad apologist. I think of someone who comes back to the United States and is spouting propaganda from Syria," McCain said.

McCain went on to press Gabbard on whether she believes Assad is an "enemy" of the US. In a recent appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Gabbard refused to apply the label to Assad and was widely criticized as a result.

The Hawaii congresswoman told McCain an enemy of the US can be defined as "someone who threatens our safety and our security," and Gabbard does not feel Assad qualifies in this regard.

Rejecting some of McCain's characterizations of her stance toward Assad, the congresswoman added that "there's no disputing the fact" that Assad — an accused war criminal — is "brutal dictator" who "has used


chemical weapons" against his people.

Gabbard said she was not "disputing" or "defending" any of Assad's actions, but went on to cite concerns she has about the nature of the US military's involvement in Syria.

"This regime change war we've been waging in Syria has not helped the Syrian people, it has made their lives worse off," Gabbard said. "It has also undermined our national security."

Read more: Tulsi Gabbard's foreign policy frustrates centrist Democrats, draws cheers from anti-interventionists, and makes her political identity tough to pigeonhole

The US has been fighting ISIS in Syria since 2014 and under President Donald Trump has launched limited military strikes on Assad in response to intelligence pointing to the use of chemical weapons on civilians.

But it was not clear what Gabbard meant by contending theUS has been engaged in a "covert regime change war" in Syria. Gabbard's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for clarification from INSIDER.

Gabbard's relationship with Assad has long been scrutinized. In early 2017, she traveled to Syria to meet with Assad and was condemned by politicians on both sides of the aisle.

The late GOP Sen. John McCain — Meghan McCain's father — criticized the congresswoman's visit at the time. The elder McCain said Gabbard's visit with Assad sent the "wrong signal" and "kind of legitimizes a guy who butchered 400,000 of his own people."

Read more: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard announces she's running for president in 2020

Gabbard also drew backlash when she subsequently expressed skepticism over reports Assad had used chemical weapons on civilians. The presidential hopeful, who's


Baby Jump

"Baby Jump" is a popular song, released as a single in 1971 by Mungo Jerry.

Written by the group's lead vocalist and guitarist Ray Dorset and produced by Barry Murray, it was the band's second No. 1 single, reaching the top of the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in March 1971.  The song originally entered at No. 32 and dropped out of the chart due to lack of sales data because of a national postal strike, but re-entered two weeks later at No. 14. The song also reached No. 5 in the Irish Singles Chart.

Like the group's debut single, "In the Summertime," the British release was a maxi-single playing at 33 rpm.  The second track on the A-side was a Paul King composition, "The Manwife Anne Hoo. Margaret was born at Kilkenny Castle in Ireland, somewhere between 1454 and 1465. She was the daughter of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond, (known as “The Wool Earl”) and his first wife, Anne Hankford. Thomas Butler served on Henry VII’s privy council and was Catherine of Aragon’s first Lord Chamberlain, serving her from 1509-1512.1 Her paternal grandparents were James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond, and Joan Beauchamp. James Butler was known as “The White Earl” and was the patron of “The Book of the White Earl”, an Irish religious and literary miscellany.

This simplified family tree shows how Anne Boleyn and James Butler were related, both being descended from James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond. You can click on it to see a larger version.

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Butler family were descended from Theobald Walter, 1st Baron Butler (d. 1205), who was of Norman origin. The family surname changed from Walter to Butler during the reign of Henry II. The name came from the fact that Theobald Walter was made the first Chief Butler of Ireland in 1177. This meant that he was the ceremonial cup-bearer (or the boteillier (Norman French) or “butler”) to Prince John. He became known as Theobald Walter le Boteler ( le Botiller) or Theobald Butler, after his title and the Butler family were “born”. As Butler of Ireland, he and his successors “were to attend the kings of England at their coronation, and that day present them with the first cup of wine, for which they were to have certain piecesof the king’s plate”.2 The title of Ormond also traces back to Theobald who was granted Irish lands (including East Munster or Ormond) by Prince John.

On 3rd August 1515, Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond and maternal grandfather of Thomas Boleyn, died in his late eighties. He was one of the wealthiest noblemen in England and, according to Thomas Carte,3 he inherited more than £40,000 sterling plus plate. He also held two peerages – Earl of Ormond and Baron of Ormond, Irish and English peerages. Had no direct male heirs but he left two daughters: Anne (married to Sir James St.Leger) and Margaret (wife of Sir William Boleyn), Thomas Boleyn’s mother.

Both Thomas Butler and his brother, Sir John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond, before him, had been absent


from their Irish estates for a long period due to the Wars of the Roses. Their Ormond estates were managed by their cousin, Sir James Butler (d. 1487), a member of the Polestown branch of the Butler family, who came to regard the estates as his own. When Thomas Butler died in 1515, therefore, James’s son, Sir Piers, considered himself to be the rightful heir because Thomas Butler only had daughters. However, the Ormond title was entailed to heirs general, not just male heirs, so Thomas Butler’s daughters, Anne St. Leger and Margaret Boleyn, were the rightful heirs. Margaret’s son, Thomas Boleyn, father of Anne Boleyn, put forward his claim to the Earldom with the support of his King, Henry VIII.

Thomas had obviously been close to his grandfatherclose.6

Regardless of the fact that the Boleyns and St. Legers were the rightful heirs to the title and lands, Sir Piers Butler, who was on the ground in Ireland, seized the estates and started styling himself Earl. He had the backing of the Irish Lords and people, but Thomas Boleyn had the backing of Henry VIII. It was a problem. A solution needed to be found to keep the Boleyns and St. Legers happy but also to keep the peace in Ireland, and Piers could help the English government control the troublesome Irish factions.

On 12th December 1515 the Crown issued a directive granting Anne St. Leger and Margaret Boleyn “livery of lands as coheirs of their father.”7 The sisters divided the 72 manors equally, with Margaret taking the


counsel showed a livery, under the Great Seal of England, of all the lands, &c. belonging to the late Earl and an inspeximus under the Great Seal of Ireland, reciting the creation of the Earl, with a gift of 10l. yearly to be paid to him and his heirs by the mayor and bailiffs of Waterford, and certain tails by fines levied to the said Earl and his heirs general, of his manors, &c. in Dublin and Meath. To all the residue of the Earl’s lands the ladies asserted their title as heirs general, and Sir Piers and his counsel would show no evidence or counsel, but prayed to be remitted to the common law.”9

The ladies’ evidence was impressive.

On 12th December 1515, William Rokeby, Archbishop of Dublin andLord Chancellor of Ireland, wrote to Thomas Wolsey to inform him that he had “been much occupied with the Lord Deputy in Sir Thos. Bullene’s cause.”10 He went on to say that Piers wanted the case to be tried under common law but that this would not suit Thomas Boleyn. It was a delicate situation. Rokeby explained that “The Deputy would have ordered him to appear before the King in England on a certain day, on pain of allegiance, but was dissuaded by the Abp. and others, who urged the danger of rebellion, for he has now made peace and confederation with Desmond and the three greatest Irish Lords of his party. Moreover, as he calls himself an Earl, he would be loth to lose the name” and


marry his son to the daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn. The King will advance the matter with Sir Thomas.”11 Surrey and the Council of Ireland wrote to Wolsey on 6th October 1520, saying that they thought “it would be advantageous if a marriage were solemnised between the earl of Ormond’s son, now in England, and Sir Thomas Boleyn’s daughter.”12 The daughter in question was obviously Anne Boleyn, because Mary Boleyn was already married, and the son in question was James Butler who had been born around 1496 and so was about twenty-four at this time. He’d spent his early life on the Ormond estates (in the counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary) and had made his debut at the English court in 1513 when he joined Henry VIII’s forcesfor the invasion of France. He took part in the siege of Thérouanne in August 1513 but suffered a serious leg injury which meant that he limped for the rest of his life and became known as “Bocach” or “Bacach” (“the lame”). A marriage match between Anne and James would mean that the earldom of Ormond would pass to James and Anne on Piers’ death and therefore be in the Boleyn and Butler family. However, this would mean that Thomas Boleyn would not inherit the title, and although his feelings are unrecorded I cannot imagine him being best pleased with this compromise.

James had returned to Ireland after the siege of Thérouanne but was sent back to England when the marriage negotiations began, joining the household of Thomas Wolsey


will talk with you how to bring about the marriage between his son and Sir Thos. Boleyn’s daughter, which will be a good pretext for delaying to send his son over.”13

It must have been around this time that Anne was recalled from France and although Francis I, King of France, was worried that the recall of his wife’s lady-in-waiting, along with various English students in Paris, “seemed to indicate an English intention to make war on France”,14 Cardinal Wolsey assured the French King that Anne Boleyn was being recalled to marry. Here is a report of this from the Spanish Calendar of State Papers:

“The ambassadors complained that Boleyn’s daughter, who was in the service of the French queen, had been called home, and said this was not aanyway. We do know that James Butler was still in England in October 1522 when he was recruited into the King’s household, becoming an esquire-at-arms, and that he served the King for six years, returning to Ireland in 1528. Henry VIII obviously liked the man because he referred to him as “our faithful servant, James le Butler”17 and granted him land in Meath.

William Dean,18 in his thesis on Thomas Boleyn, ponders whether the relationship between Anne Boleyn and Henry Percy, the son and heir of the Earl of Northumberland, in around 1523 was broken off to keep up the pretext of the Boleyn/Butler marriage, thereby preventing trouble in Ireland. Percy was married off quickly to Mary Talbot, “the cause for such haste being the desire to break up


Anne and Percy before the Butlers learned that the marriage idea was just a ruse to insure their good behaviour.”19 Dean believes that Anne was used “as a decoy for the objective of keeping peace in Ireland as long as Piers believed the marriage offer to be genuine” but Piers Butler must have discovered the truth by May 1523 because the Earl of Kildare wrote to Henry VIII telling him that that Piers had “made new bonds with the Irishry, especially with O’Keroll, by whose aid he means to defend his title to the earldom of Ormond.”20

It took until 1528 for the dispute to finally be solved. A deal was brokered which involved Piers Butler receiving fourteen of the Ormond manors on a thirty year lease, and alsobeing elevated to the peerage, in return for relinquishing the earldom of Ormond to Thomas Boleyn. Here is the record of this deal from Letters and Papers:

“Indenture tripartite between Henry VIII. on the one part; dame Ann Seyntleger, widow, and dame Marg. Boleyn, widow, daughters and heirs of Sir Thos. Butler, earl of Ormond, and Thos. Viscount Rochford, son and heir apparent of dame Margaret, and Sir Geo. Seyntleger, son and heir apparent of dame Anne, on the second part; and Sir Pierce Butler, cousin and heir male of the said Earl, and Jas. Butler, his son and heir apparent, on the third part; witnessing an agreement between the parties through the mediation of Wolsey;—that the title of the earl of Ormond, with the annuity of 10l. out


of the fee farm of Waterford, shall be henceforth at the King’s disposal; that Sir Pierce shall be allowed peaceable possession of the manors of Cloncurry and Turvy in Ireland, and the said dame Ann and dame Margaret of the castles and manors of Carrykmakgryffen, Roskre, Kilkenny, and a number of others; that dame Ann and dame Margaret grant to farm, to the said Sir Pierce and James his son, the castle of Kilkenny, and other lands on the west side of the river Barowe, in the counties of Kilkenny, Tipperary, and Ormond, for the term of 30 years, at a rent of 40l.; that if Sir Pierce Butler, and James, or any of their heirs, do within that time recover possession from the wild Irish of other8th December 1529.24 Both men were finally happy.

James Butler returned to Ireland in 1528 and in 1530 he married Joan Fitzgerald, daughter and heir of James Fiztgerald, late Earl of Desmond, and then set about being a ‘warlord’. After the fall of the Boleyns in 1536, Acts of Parliament were passed to cancel the agreement made between Piers, the Boleyns and St Legers and to allow Piers to benefit from the Ormond inheritance.25 In October 1537, Piers pleaded his case for the title of Earl of Ormond, giving proof that the earldom was “tailed to heirs male”26 and following that it was recorded that “The earl of Wiltshire is content that he [Butler] should be called earl of Ormond in Ireland, like as the two lord Dacres are


called, one of the North, the other of the South”27 so Butler began styling himself Earl of Ormond again, as well as Earl of Ossory. When Piers died in August 1539 James inherited the Ormond title and held it until his death in October 1546. James died after being poisoned at a banquet at Limehouse in London and his body was buried at the Church of St Thomas d’Acres in Cheapside, London. His heart was interred at St Canice’s in Kilkenny, according to his instructions. He left his wife and seven sons. His widow, Joan, went on to marry courtier Sir Francis Bryan and then, after his death, her cousin, Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of Desmond. Joan was known as a peacemaker in Ireland and Elizabeth I reliedon her to keep the peace between the warring Butlers and Fitzgeralds. Joan died on 2nd January 1565 and with the peacemaker gone, war broke out and there was the Battle of Affane between the two families, with Joan’s son, Thomas, as the victor.

Notes and Sources

LP i. 82 The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, II Scotland and Ireland:871. Carte, Thomas (1736) The Life of James, Duke of Ormond, Introduction, lxxxiii. Dean, William H. (1987) “Sir Thomas Boleyn: The Courtier Diplomat (1477-1539),” 54. Carte, Thomas (1851) An History of the Life of James Duke of Ormonde, 1:xliii – xliv. Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, III:20–21. LP ii. 1277 Ibid., 1230, 1269 Ibid., 1230 Ibid., 1269 LP iii. 1004 Ibid., 1011 Ibid., 1762


I say about Z. Mysterious from the beginning. He pretended to be satisfied and happy where he was, with what he was doing. But it was obvious he was anything but. Mostly, he stuck around to protect the other kids in Mr. Villain's house. Z was kind of like the big brother to them all. He protected them, took the blame, recruited new kids, etc. etc. And I'm pretty sure he would've stayed in this position for quite a while because he simply didn't think he had any other options. That is until Liv walked in and swept him off his feet. He'd been waiting for his next target, hoping it would be someone who had a natural talent with coding. Someone who won't turn out like hislast two recruits. But Liv is so much more than he imagined. Because she actually warmed herself into his heart and got to know him on the deepest level. In other words, Olivia changed him from the inside out. Z wasn't the same when he was with her - he had no need to pretend to be strong. With her, he could be scared, he could be unsure, he could be broken. With her, he could be Jack.

As much as I wanted to like Sam, Z and Liv's other friend, I just couldn't find it in me. She was all pretense, all business. Olivia trusted Sam, but the only thing Sam did for Liv was get her in trouble. Which is to say, not all friends are worth


Top Gun (1986)

Tony Scott

About the Movie

A hip, heart-pounding combination of action, music and incredible aerial photography helped make Top Gun the blockbuster hit of 1986. Top Gun takes a look at the danger and excitement that awaits every pilot at the Navy's prestigious fighter weapons school. Tom Cruise is superb as Maverick Mitchell, a daring young flyer who's out to become the best. And Kelly McGillis sizzles as the civilian instructor who teaches Maverick a few things you can't learn in a classroom.

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Rotten: Once 'Top Gun... gets back to earth, the master of the skies is as clunky as a big land-bound bird. – Walter Goodman, New York Times, Jul 16, 2008

Fresh: Whether you love Top Gun or hate it -- or hateyourself for loving it -- the fact is that when it became the top-grossing film of 1986, Hollywood in its infinite wisdom took all of the worst lessons from its success and overlooked what made it so... fun. – Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, Feb 4, 2013

Rotten: Top Gun is about the training of the Navy's best fighter pilots and their blooding in cold war incidents, and the only thing Director Tony Scott has not brought up to date is the story. – TIME Magazine, Mar 8, 2011

Fresh: Set in the world of naval fighter pilots, pic has strong visuals and pretty young people in stylish clothes and a non-stop soundtrack. – Variety Staff, Variety, Mar 8, 2011


BAGHDAD — Over 200 mass graves holding as many as 12,000 bodies have been found in areas of Iraq once controlled by the Islamic State, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The findings were highlighted in a joint report released by the United Nations mission to Iraq and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which called the sites a “legacy of terror.”

Where are the graves, and what are they like?

Most are in the four provinces of northern and western Iraq where the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate acted as the government: Anbar, Kirkuk, Salahuddin and Nineveh, which includes Mosul, the largest city once controlled by the extremists. They range from small burial sites with eight bodies, to massive pits believed to hold thousands. The biggest isNGO Hopes and Homes for Children, which runs programmes in the rural north of Romania to help children left behind by their parents. "In the cities and countryside, poverty and job opportunities take these parents overseas, but the children left behind are strongly affected by their absence."

"Those who grow up without the love or security of their parents are going to be negatively affected later in life," he added. In the southern Bucharest neighbourhood of Ferentari, one of the poorest areas of the Romanian capital, around two dozen young children sit in a classroom during lunch, colouring in pictures of fruit bowls and playing while a teacher looks on.

The children vary in age from five to 10 years old, but they all have something in common: they all


have one or both parents overseas.

Cristina, one of the children, says her mother is in Spain looking for work. She has been gone a month this time already, but in the past she has been away much longer, she says. Her father is no longer in the picture. "Mum doesn't want to stay away long. She just went there to make money for me and my sister," said Cristina, a nine-year-old who lives with her grandmother when her mother is away. Many find themselves missing regular emotional or physical support as they grow.

"These children are in a very vulnerable situation, being deprived of their parents' affection, care and support," said Andreea Biji, a psychologist who works for Save the Children, which runs the classroom-based programme in Ferentari assaid, cradling her two-month-old son, who has yet to see his father.

For some children in Romania growing up without their parents in their daily lives has come to seem normal.

Fourteen-year-old Amira Dumitru's mother left Romania when she was 11 months old to find work overseas. She now lives in Jordan and returns once a year to spend time with her daughters.

"I don't find it strange to grow up without parents [Dumitru's parents divorced before she was born, and her father lives elsewhere in Bucharest] – in my class alone there are three or four others like me," said Dumitru, sitting in the apartment she shares with her grandmother in the suburbs of Bucharest.

Dumitru says she is lucky, in that her grandmother raised her and her sister well and


law schools

Some 37,924 JD students began law school in the fall of 2014. That is a 4.4 percent drop from 2013. It is also a 27.7 percent decline from the 52,488 enrollment for first-year law school students seen in 2010.Saturday, March 29, 2014

The question in this general election is whether Hindutva will triumph over caste. There are at least three factors clearly nudging politics towards Hindu consolidation

Of the numerous public appearances by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi over the last year or so, two have been strikingly inconceivable. Both happened in Kerala, often projected as a politically progressive State. In February 2014, Mr. Modi addressed a meeting of Pulayas, a Dalit community that has been for years a bedrock of support for the Communist parties. In April 2013, Mr. Modi was chief guest at the Sivagiri Mutt, founded by Kerala's legendary social reformer, Sree Narayana Guru who led the backward Ezhava community to social awakening. The Ezhavas too have been largely supporters


of the Left. At both the platforms — events separated by more than a year — Mr. Modi made a similar pitch. "Social untouchability may have ended, but political untouchability continues," he said, referring to the continuing isolation that he faces from various quarters.

"The next decade will belong to the Dalits and the backwards," he said, emphasising his own lower caste origins, at a rally in Muzaffarpur in Bihar on March 3. That event too was significant as he was sharing the stage with Lok Jansakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan, who returned to the saffron fold 12 years after he quit it over the Gujarat riots. And there is more to it. Dalit leader Udit Raj, who has been fashioning himself as the new age Ambedkar, joinedunified Hindu society with suspicion, as its insistence on traditions implied sustenance of the hierarchical social structure that disadvantaged them. One of the most pronounced examples of this was Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, who concluded that Dalit emancipation would not be possible while they remained within the Hindu social order. In turn, Baba Saheb — portrayed with considerable fulmination in Arun Shourie's book, Worshipping False Gods — has been a villain in the Sangh discourse. But in 2013, an article in the Organiser, the mouthpiece of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), portrayed the Dalit icon as someone who contributed to Hindu unity.

The Hindutva project tried a combination of aggressive integration, sometimes accommodating Sanskritising demands from below and constantly working on the fear of an "Other." But until they hit


on Muslim reservation

Hindutva politics in Gujarat rode on violent anti-reservation agitations spearheaded by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in the 1980s. Though the agitation was against the reservation for backwards, the targets were Dalits. Almost immediately after the agitation, Hinduvta politics struck roots, co-opting vast sections of the lower castes into its fold, even as a rising portrayal of Muslims as the "other" unified them. But the trajectory in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar that together elect 120 members of Parliament has been different, as strong backward politics suspected the RSS on the question of reservation and found Muslims as allies. Ironic as it is, quota politics is dividing them now. The lower castes see the demand for Muslim quotas as detrimental to their interests. The case foraffirmative action for Muslims is strong, no doubt, but the politics over it has played out much to the advantage of the Hindutva project. A social coalition that has been a bulwark against Hindutva in U.P. and Bihar for the last two decades is showing signs of unravelling.

The Dalit participation in the Muzaffarnagar riots in U.P., and the numerous Yadav versus Muslim skirmishes in Bihar over the last two years have strained the solidarity among the poor and the disadvantaged. Lower caste movements that challenged caste structures have also had a streak of Sanskritising aspirations that seek a better place within the Hindu hierarchy. When the image of the "other" is clearer, this streak becomes prominent.

Willingness to concede leadership

The lower caste sympathy towards the Hindutva project has been


matched by a willingness among the upper castes to be content under the leadership of the lower. The turning point was the 2005 Assembly election in Bihar, when the BJP-JD(U) alliance sought a mandate, with Mr. Nitish Kumar being declared as the chief ministerial candidate. Only six months prior to that, when the alliance vacillated over projecting him — because the upper caste segments were not comfortable with the idea of a backward caste CM — it could not win and there was no clear majority for any formation. In 2007, the upper castes voted for Dalit leader Ms. Mayawati in U.P. who won a clear majority, the first for any since the Ayodhya movement. In 2010, the rainbow caste coalition voted for Mr. Nitish Kumar again; in2012, another variant of the coalition voted for backward caste leader Mr. Akhilesh Yadav in U.P.

This change in the upper caste attitude can dramatically turn round the fortunes of the BJP. The BJP has been responsive to the leadership ambitions of the backwards and Dalits, but the upper caste support to leaders such as Mr. Kalyan Singh and Ms. Uma Bharti has been tentative. "We have the so-called backwards and lower castes standing up and wanting to be counted as Hindus. Sangh has empowered them. Even the communist movements could not accommodate these sections of the society in their leadership," says Mr. Ram Madhav, senior RSS leader. "In 1998, the BJP had 58 MPs who were SCs and STs, possibly the highest for any party ever as a


proportion of its strength," he says. With Mr. Modi at the helm and the change in upper caste attitudes, the Sangh's efforts have got a major fillip.

Media-propelled popularity

A third factor that has developed over the last decade is the dramatic popularity achieved by several lower caste gurus, aided by the visual media. To cite two examples, both Swami Ramdev, who was born a Yadav in Haryana and Mata Amritanandamayi, born in a fisherman's community in Kerala, have attained such a huge following that their caste origins have been eclipsed. TV evangelism, as opposed to scriptural Hinduism controlled by priests, has enrolled a large section of poorer and lower caste people into thinking as Hindus. This may be a rerun of how TV serial "Ramayan" contributed to the Ayodhyaalso equally members of this country. They may have ideology you may differ with. That kind of branding shows myopic views. If such people rule this country we are doomed. " Mahatma's great-grandson to Rahul: Stop fooling people, you're no Gandhi by FP Staff Mar 11, 2014

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's barb against the RSS for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi has yielded him a sharp response from an unlikely quarter -- the Mahatma's great grandson, Shrikrishna Kulkarni. Rahul Gandhi. PTI

Rahul Gandhi had claimed the RSS was involved in Gandhi's assassination. Kulkarni, who posted an open letter to Rahul Gandhi on his Facebook page and then on other social media sites, has said the issue of the killing of Gandhi is "squarely in the past" and that his family


has moved on.

Shrikrishna Kulkarni's mother is Mahatma Gandhi's third son Ramdas Gandhi's daughter. She married GR Kulkarni. "To keep harping that the RSS killed Gandhi is akin to saying the Tamils killed your father," he writes to Rahul. "...which would be such a petty falsehood, isn't it? A couple of guys don't make for a community..." Charging the Congress with milking the name of Gandhi for their "selfish benefits", he says the party should just accept the verdicts of various commissions.

"So please stop this charade, stop this opportunistic usage of the Gandhi name. You are not from the Gandhi family. You have fooled too many people for too long in India. Stop it now."

Somebody from the Gandhi family has to call their bluff, he ends. The post wasgreat grandson, as critics question Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's comment blaming the RSS for the Mahatma's killing and Rahul Gandhi gets an earful on misusing brand Gandhi. CNN-IBN's Deepa Balakrishnan met up with Mahatma's great grandson Shrikrishna Kulkarni, who is also an Aam Aadmi Party member, like his uncle Rajmohan Gandhi, who is the AAP candidate from East Delhi.

Shrikrishna Kulkarni's mother is Mahatma Gandhi's third son Ramdas Gandhi's daughter. She married GR Kulkarni.

"Was this comment to bring Gandhi into an election, which is critical for India's future seems a bit of travesty? Especially to bring up his assassination. It was not needed. Couple of points. Gandhi was killed in 1948. Many enquiry commissions were done. Nobody indicted any particular orgnisation. There are a couple of people involved


repertoire of Hindu mythological stories, and often narrates the most damning story - Vedic, Puranic, folk, oral, vernacular - to demean, damage and disparage Hinduism. After building a caricature, she laments that fundamentalist Hindus (how many and how powerful are they?) are destroying the pluralistic, tolerant Hindu tradition. But, why save such a vile, violent religion, as painted by the eminent professor? There is a contradiction here.

This article, however, focuses on only one aspect of Doniger's very large book: the chapters dealing with the incursion of Islam into India. As is well known, Islam entered the Malabar Coast in south India with Arab merchants and traders in the 7th century, peacefully. Later, Islam came to India as a predatory and a conquering force. Mohammad bin Qasim ravaged Sindh"megalomania" for temple building in the Middle Ages was a positive result of Muslim demolition of some Hindu temples (P 468)

-The Hindu founders of the Vijayanagar Empire double-crossed their Muslim master in Delhi who had deputed them to secure the South (P 467)

Each argument is false. First, beginning with Mahmud Ghazni in 1000 CE, the invaders looted, pillaged and destroyed several thousand Hindu and Buddhist temples, as attested by the Muslim chroniclers who accompanied these expeditions and described the destruction of many Hindu shrines. The destruction of infidel places of worship is a meritorious act under Islam (See,The Mohammedan period as described by its own historians, Sir HM Elliot, The Grolier Society, 1906).

Alberuni, who accompanied Mahmud Ghazni, describes one such event: "Mathura, the holy city of Krishna, was


the next victim. In the middle of the city there was a temple larger and finer than the rest, which can neither be described nor painted. The Sultan was of the opinion that 200 years would have been required to build it. The idols included 'five of red gold, each five yards high,' with eyes formed of priceless jewels... The Sultan gave orders that all the temples should be burnt with naphtha and fire, and leveled with the ground. Thus perished works of art which must have been among the noblest monuments of ancient India" [1]

At the destruction of another famous temple, Somnath, some 50,000 were massacred. The fabulous booty of gold was divided according to Islamic tradition – the Sultan getting the royal fifth, the cavalry manmilitary service. Jizya is a long held Muslim tradition; it was levied to begin with on the defeated Jews and Christians, the People of the Book, as a price for the cessation of Jihad. Hindus, not being People of the Book, did not deserve to live by paying the special tax. If defeated in battle, their only option was Islam or death. This was the position taken by the leading Islamic clergy. But Muslim rulers were practical men; if they killed the Hindus en masse for failing to adopt Islam, who would build their palaces, fill their harems, cut their wood and hue their water? [2]

Doniger says the Hindu 'megalomania' for temple building resulted from Muslim destruction of some Hindu temples. The truth is that in northern India


for military service for their "protection." He brought Muslim teachers and mosques into the subcontinent (paraphrased)

This makes it seem as though Qasim was a blessing. Andrew Bostom (The Legacy of Islamic Jihad in India) provides the following disquieting picture from Islamic sources [3]:

The Muslim chroniclers… include enough isolated details to establish the overall nature of the conquest of Sindh by Muhammad b. Qasim in 712 CE… Baladhuri (an Islamic writer), for example, records that following the capture of Debal, Muhammad b. Qasim earmarked a section of the city exclusively for Muslims, constructed a mosque, and established four thousand colonists there. The conquest of Debal had been a brutal affair … Despite appeals for mercy from the besieged Indians (who opened their gates after the Muslims scaled the fortwalls), Muhammad b. Qasim declared that he had no orders (i.e., from his superior al-Hajjaj, the Governor of Iraq) to spare the inhabitants, and thus for three days a ruthless and indiscriminate slaughter ensued. In the aftermath, the local temple was defiled, and "700 beautiful females who had sought for shelter there, were all captured."

Muhammad massacred 6,000 fighting men who were found in the fort, and their followers and dependents, as well as their women and children were taken prisoners. Sixty thousand slaves, including 30 young ladies of royal blood, were sent to Hajjaj, along with the head of Dahar [the Hindu ruler]. We can now well understand why the capture of a fort by the Muslim forces was followed by the terrible jauhar ceremony (in which females


of strict purdah among Muslim women, as Doniger contends, how does one explain the strict veiling of women in the Middle East, a region far removed from Hindu influence? Or, the absence of purdah in southern India, a region that escaped extended Islamic domination?

Doniger says "the Vedic reverence for violence flowered in the slaughters that followed Partition" in both India and Pakistan (p 627). One is at a loss what to understand from this weighty pronouncement from the University of Chicago's tenured professor. But if this is her understanding of historical facts for which there is no dearth of unimpeachable evidence, then her inability to fathom the profound and multi-dimensional meanings of Hindu dharma and its deities and philosophies is perhaps understandable.

Notes

1] Vincent Smith, The Oxford History ofIndia, Delhi, 1981, pp. 207-08. Smith derives his account of Mahmud's raids from the account written by Alberuni, the Islamic scholar who traveled with Sultan Mahmud to India.

2] See Ram Swarup's Hindu View of Christianity and Islam, 1992. And Andrew Bostom, The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims, 2005, at:

The author is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of West Florida, USA. Based on a chapter in "Portrayal of Hinduism in Western Indology", ed. S. Kalyanaraman and TRN Rao, 2010, published by WAVES, USA


and BUCKLEW*, District Judge.

BUCKLEW, District Judge:

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On August 20, 2002, the only two individuals listed on the ballot in the Democratic Primary election for the United States Congress in the Fourth District of Georgia, which spans Dekalb and Gwinnett Counties, were Denise Majette and incumbent Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, both of whom are African-American women. Majette defeated incumbent Congresswoman McKinney by over 15,000 votes. On November 5, 2002, Majette won the general election and a seat in the United States Congress.

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Five registered voters from the Fourth Congressional District of Georgia who voted in the Democratic Primary filed a complaint in the district court raising various challenges to Georgia's primary election system. Georgia's primary election system does not require voters to register by party affiliation. Once registered to vote, a votermay choose in which political party's primary to vote on the day of the election by requesting the appropriate ballot. In other words, a Republican voter can lawfully vote in a Democratic primary and vice versa. Furthermore, that same Republican voter could vote in the Republican Party's Primary in the next election. In this challenge to the Georgia "open primary," as this form of primary election is called, the Plaintiffs originally named as Defendants the Secretary of State of Georgia, DeKalb County Elections Supervisor, Gwinnett County Elections Supervisor, the Georgia Democratic Party, the Georgia Republican Party, the DeKalb County Republican Party, and Congresswoman Majette.

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Most of the Defendants moved to dismiss the complaint. Prior to the district court ruling on the motions to dismiss, the Plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed the


Georgia Republican Party, the DeKalb County Republican Party and Congresswoman Majette from the case and moved to amend their complaint. The Plaintiffs sought to amend the complaint to restate their claims and to add the State of Georgia, Governor of the State of Georgia, DeKalb County Board of Elections and Registration, and Gwinnett County Board of Elections and Registration as Defendants. The district court granted the Plaintiffs' motion to amend, and all Defendants except Defendants DeKalb County Supervisor of Elections and DeKalb County Board of Elections and Registration (collectively "DeKalb Defendants") then moved to dismiss the amended complaint.

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The gravamen of the Plaintiffs' amended complaint was that the Georgia and DeKalb County Republican party members conceived a plan to run a candidate (Majette) in the Democratic Primary, funded thateven implied, that individuals have no First Amendment associational rights concurrent with the political parties.

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Although the Supreme Court has not explicitly said that only the party proper, and not individual members of the party, may challenge a state's regulation of a political party's primary, the case law points toward such a result. In Democratic Party of the United States v. Wisconsin, 450 U.S. 107, 101 S.Ct. 1010, 67 L.Ed.2d 82 (1981), the Supreme Court upheld a challenge by the national Democratic Party to Wisconsin's election laws. The election laws at issue essentially forced the Democratic Party to seat at their conventions delegates chosen in state selection processes that did not conform to the party's national charter limiting participation in choosing Democratic delegates to members of the Democratic Party.


Supreme Court inJones concluded that California's adoption of a blanket primary, which permitted all voters to vote in the primary for any candidate regardless of the candidate's political affiliation, against the wishes of the state's political parties, was violative of the associational rights of the political parties. Jones, 530 U.S. at 586, 120 S.Ct. at 2414.

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 The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides:
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.
U.S. CONST. amend. XV, § 1.

being beaten and tortured to near death by this unsavory individual. His instincts and love of his father must have taken over as Norbert rose up in defiance. The Commandant went to strike his father again but this time Norbert interrupted the blow and begged the man to stop and instead take him.

What happened next was simply a miracle. The Commandant did stop and then sent Norbert’s dad and the guard out of the room. That meant Norbert was now sitting one on one with this individual whose reputation for killing caused his rise through the ranks of the SS. He asked Norbert why he was willing to sacrifice his life for his fathers? He wanted to know if he was brave, stupid or both. The answer Norbert


gave was simple, “he is my father and I love him and would do anything for him” reassuring the Commandant that in his position he would do the same as well. The Commandant replied that he had no father and began to tell Norbert his story growing up in an orphanage; how he was selected by the German army to join the SS and how that allegiance grew to become the only family he had known. As their conversation continued over a good bit of sherry he asked Norbert many questions about his life growing up. As Norbert answered and wondered when the Commandant’s charade would end and the killing would begin, something amazing happened. This Commandant who had been known as a ruthless, heartless killer of Jewsname
was listed as Hickey and in their youth, Randy and Earl where sent
to the camp. While there they were on their way to turning their lives around,
until the accident. Earl, just learning to smoke, burned down the ranch's barn
with his cigarette butt. Earl and Randy were sent home. Now, Joy's kids aren't welcome there because they
were presented as being Hickey's.

Randy is afraid of chickens so Earl has to trick Randy into
going to the ranch. Catalina decides to go too as she use to live on a farm.

Earl tells the camp director about his list and that he is here to
make up for burining down the barn.

Earl's task was to build an ostrich pen and with Catalina's help
the task went a lot quicker than planned.

Just as Earl is crossing


the ranch of the list, he realizes that
when he burned the barn it didn't just effect his future but Randy's
too. Randy could have been a better person if he hadn't got kicked out.

Earl goes to put Randy on his list, but Randy won't let him. He
says he likes his life and they fight over the pen. When Earl yanks
it from Randy, Randy accidently shoots Earl with a nail gun in the palm of the hand.

Screaming in pain and attached to the pen by a nail, Earl begs
Randy to put himself on the list. This was karma saying he should be
on it. Randy blurts out that it was him who burned down the barn,
not Earl. It was still an accident though.

With the revelation, Earl tells Randy that it wasconcert.

Earl tells Randy it is his responsibility because he
probably would have taken the boys had he not got kicked out
of bad kid camp. Randy says he'll do it, but he's not allowed
to sign the kids out camp, only Earl, Darnell, or Joy can do that.

Earl sighs and gets up to go take care of this item on the list. But
in return Randy must take care of #53 while he's gone...put used gum under almost table
he's ever sat at.

When Earl and the boys get to Mystery Fun Land, they notice that it was
gone. Earl can't cross the boys off. But Earl Junior says if he and
Dodge forgave Earl, he could cross them off the list. This makes
Earl think and realize that he should forgive Randy for getting them
kicked out


First responders

Phil Velasquez, Chicago Tribune

Bolingbrook Fire Department paramedics Timothy Berkery, left, and Michael Johnson leave the Will County Courthouse. Berkery and Johnson were first responders to the home where Kathleen Savio was found dead in her bath tub.

Bolingbrook Fire Department paramedics Timothy Berkery, left, and Michael Johnson leave the Will County Courthouse. Berkery and Johnson were first responders to the home where Kathleen Savio was found dead in her bath tub. (Phil Velasquez, Chicago Tribune)

Bolingbrook Fire Department paramedics Timothy Berkery, left, and Michael Johnson leave the Will County Courthouse. Berkery and Johnson were first responders to the home where Kathleen Savio was found dead in her bath tub.put his efforts into being a consultant behind the U-37 Schumacher Racing entry Miss Beacon Plumbing to be driven by J. Michael Kelly.

Villwock severed links with his former team, Ellstrom Racing, in May after an incredible run in the U-1 Spirit of Qatar 96 boat, announcing his retirement in the process — one that shocked many in hydroplane circles and was perhaps fueled by an incident at the world championships in Doha, Qatar, in January when Villwock intentionally mowed down a bunch of buoys.

This past weekend, Villwock, who is from Seattle, was with boat owner Billy (The Kid) Schumacher, a two-time Gold Cup champion, at the Lucas Oil Indiana Governor’s Cup unlimited hydroplane event at Madison, Ind., alongside the Ohio River. Unfortunately, rising water levels flooded the pits


p.m.  on an evening in January 1993, Millar and his father drove to Millar's laundromat in Sanger, Texas.  Upon arriving, Millar noticed Texas State Trooper Houghton engaged in a routine traffic stop close to the rear of the building.  While his father went inside, Millar watched Houghton from the rear of the building.  The traffic stop escalated into a search of the vehicle.  Millar continued to watch and called his wife on a walkie-talkie type device.

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Officer Golden arrived during Houghton's questioning of the driver, and Houghton informed him that someone was watching from behind the bushes near the building.  Alerted by the noise of the walkie-talkie, both Golden and Houghton shone their flashlights toward Millar.  As Houghton and Golden began approachingMillar, Millar began backing up and threw the case of the walkie-talkie to the ground, but he continued to hold the device in his hand.

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At this point the parties' recollections diverge.  According to Houghton, Millar refused all commands to stop, was holding the device in one hand, and had the other hand concealed in his pocket, prompting Houghton and Garrett to display their guns.  According to Millar, he did not hear any commands and never put his hands in his pockets.  Millar contends that he had both hands in the air, and that he turned to place them on the building, when the officers approached and began striking him.  According to Houghton, the officers simply wanted to frisk him for weapons, but Millar provoked


the 26th-largest academic research library in all of North America and the 16th-largest among the prestigious public institutions of the Association of American Universities. During the last decade, the ULS has hosted many digital archives and electronic publishing systems serving national and global research.

The day-to-day work of IJT is conducted by a talented group of Senior Advisors, Associate Editors and Reviewers. Special thanks to: Associate Editor Dr. Michael Pramuka for management of this issue's research articles; Mr. Joseph Ruffing for layout and graphics; Timothy S. Deliyannides, Head of the ULS Department of Information Systems who serves as publisher; David Brienza PhD and Michael McCue, PhD, co-directors of the RERC at the Telerehabilitation University of Pittsburgh; and Katherine Seelman, Associate Dean for Disability Programs, University of Pittsburgh School ofIs it too late?

Since 2050: Degrees of Change, CBC's award-winning podcast about the effects of climate change, came out in early June 2017, we've seen the catastrophic effects of climate change-induced weather close hand.

"We've seen some of these changes that experts are predicting far sooner than we expected," said CBC senior meteorologist and podcast host Johanna Wagstaffe.

This includes massive hurricanes, unprecedented flooding, and especially for B.C., record-breaking forest fires.

Verne Tom looks stops to check on a wildfire burning on a logging road approximately 20 km southwest of Fort St. James, B.C., on Aug. 15, 2018. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)

In the summer of 2017, wildfires saw 65,000 people forced from their homes, and 12,161 square kilometres of British Columbia went up in flames. It was the worst wildfire season on


those experts is Deborah Harford, executive director of the Adaptation to Climate Change Team at Simon Fraser University, who says climate change has to be the basis from which we make all decisions.

"In the 21st century, all policy, planning, and decision-making, whether political or personal, has to be made through a low-carbon resilience lens that's designed to reduce emissions and build resilience to climate change," Harford said.

Grace Nosek makes climate change-directed personal choices in her everyday life. The creator of the Climate Hub group at the University of British Columbia and PhD student in environmental law has chosen a plant-based vegan diet and cut back on air travel to reduce her carbon footprint.

Demonstrators march down Pennsylvania Avenue during a People's Climate March, to protest U.S. President Donald TrumpThe girl was raped in Rio de Janiero (Picture: Getty Images)

Police in Brazil are searching for more than 30 men who are suspected of raping a teenage girl and then posting a video of the attack to social media.

The girl reportedly went to her boyfriend’s house in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday and regained consciousness later to find herself surrounded by men.

Indian woman ‘gang raped by 18 men after being drugged’

Police have issued arrest warrants for 30 men including the boyfriend, but campaigners say the incident is another example of what they term a ‘culture of rape’ which exists in Brazil.

According to reports, the teenager made her way home after the attack, and later discovered images of her rape on Twitter.

A 40-second video was also widely shared and


The early works of Edgar Rice Burroughs are a must read. Especially the first few books in each of the Tarzan, Barsoon and Pellucidar series. His writing tends to get a bit formulaic, but his creativity overshadows that little flaw. After all, he was writing them at a fast pace.

His fellow Pulp author, Lester Dent (under house name Kenneth Robeson) used a formula of his own for his Doc Savage stories and wrote some real goodies too. The Man of Bronze is an amazing pulp novel, its the first Doc Savage story ever published.

While Burroughs and Dent were great, I have to admit I believe Paul Ernst was probably the best Pulp writer of that period. He wrote the Avenger stories under the Kenneth Robeson house name. Thestill entertaining.

I'm also a big fan of Howard and his writing style. I recently got to visit his home, and the local library there is selling photocopies of some of his original manuscripts! It's pretty amazing. I'll have to post a blog about that.

I think my favorite stuff so far has actually been ERB's Tarzan series. It's savage and brutal, even more violent than Conan. I was really surprised with how dark and epic the first book was, and by the way the second book is so closely tied to Tarzan of the Apes that it might as well be a two-part novel. And I really enjoyed the pulpy adventure in the later books like Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar. I feel like even Conan would raise


First, man discovered fire. Then a bunch of random stupid unimportant stuff happened. Then, man discovered pizza delivery. And Serious Eats takes it from there, with a fantastic rundown of the evolution of man's greatest achievement in food transportation.

Did you know, for instance, that pizzas have been carried from one point to another since as long ago as the early 1800s? The tiny copper containers of our forbearers gave way, a century later, to rudimentary paper and twine. Adorable, sure, but not practical. In fact, it was just a brief prelude to the post-WWII Pizza Boom:

The post-WWII years exposed millions of American GI's to pizza in Italy, so interest dramatically increased upon their return home. In the 1940's, lots of pizza purveyors offered take-out pies. The pizza wouldto think of Donald Trump as a new Berlusconi than a new Charlie Sheen. He was the last celebrity to jump into the standing wave of culture, and ride it for everything it’s worth. Of course, Sheen puttered out when he tried to recraft his Twitter meltdowns into a stage show, since the memes he was spreading about online self-destruction really only worked online. Remember: The virus only works in the right environment.

Trump keeps on replicating because — as I was trying to warn back in the early 90’s — this flood of memetic contagion has broken the levees of cable news and the internet to swallow the rest of our media. Reality TV broke the first dyke. While we all know now that reality TV is scripted,


me close by noting one more positive aspect of Becker and his intellect. While I disagree (as noted above) with many things he argued, I also recognize that he was consistent in his views. He was not a simple ideologue or party hack, and supported things that many who admire him did not but that were consistent with his broader philosophy. He was indeed, whatever one thinks or thought of his arguments or positions, a genuine gentleman and scholar of the Old School.Note: Citations are based on reference standards. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. The specific requirements or preferences of your reviewing publisher, classroom teacher, institution or organization should be applied.

An apprenticeship in arms : the origins of the British Army : 1585-1702

This book explores the ways in which the diverse military experiences at home and abroad of the British and Irish people during the seventeenth century introduced modern military theory and practice into the Three Kingdoms of the British Isles and shaped the embryonic British army that emerged during the reign of the soldier-king William III.Read more...

I. A MILITARY APPRENTICESHIP 1585-1640 ; 1. The Irish Wars ; 2. The Low Countries Wars ; 3. British Manpower and the States' Army


; 4. Recruiting in the British Isles for Mainland European Armies ; 5. Military and Naval Expeditions of the 1620s ; 6. The campus martius: The Domestic School of War ; II. THE EXPERIENCE OF CIVIL WAR 1640-1660 ; 7. Mercenaries and Gentlemen ; 8. Raising and Organizing Standing Armies ; 9. Atrocity, Plunder, and Discipline ; 10. The Civil Wars in Ireland and Scotland ; III. THE DECAY OF A MILITARY TRADITION 1660-1688 ; 11. Standing Armies in the Three Kingdoms ; 12. The Decay of the Militia ; 13. English, Irish, and Scots in Mainland European Armies ; IV. THE RECOVERY OF A MILITARY TRADITION 1688-1702 ; 14. The Descent on England ; 15. The Williamite Conquest of Scotland and Ireland ; 16. The Nine YearsFILE PHOTO: A Southwest Airlines plane is seen at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in the Greater Los Angeles Area, California, U.S., April 10, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Southwest Airlines Co LUV.N shares could be poised to climb sharply after a series of setbacks hit the stock harder than that of other major airlines this year, Barron's reports.

The shares began their descent in January and the decline continued after a passenger died when an engine broke apart during a flight in April.

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Rising fuel prices and planned expansion by some rivals that could mean


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There's just something about black and white photos that exude class and sophistication.

That's on full display in the featured image above. The woman would be beautiful in a color shot too, but in black and white, the lines of her body, the contrast of her pale skin against the dark background, and the soft, even lighting turn this into a show-stopping photo.

Granted, not all black and white photos are winners, and unlike some photographers think, black and white shouldn't be the go-to treatment to try and rescue images that are poorly lit, not composed well, or suffer from some other malady like blurriness.

That means that though black and white photography can be more forgiving, it shouldn't be treated like a rescue project for bad photos.

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the lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep” (Genesis 2:21)

Before Eve, Adam was not alone in the garden. He was surrounded by all the animals God had created and lived among them. Despite this, he feels lonely and incomplete. “But for Adam, no suitable helper was found.” (Genesis 2:20). Eve is made while Adam sleeps. It is the creation of his paramour that eases his restlessness. Thomas A. Anderson is a computer programmer living in New York city. He is painfully ordinary, and like most technologically-inclined people of the late nineties, a loner. He lives in The Matrix, unaware of the world outside of it. He is surrounded by people, but ultimately isolated from them. In the first act of The Matrix, several scenesshow Thomas waking from various dreams. They are intentionally shown to confuse the viewer between what is a dream and what is reality. Upon waking from one such dream-like experience, Thomas meets Trinity, who, as well as having an obviously biblical name, comes to him with the temptation of true knowledge. Much like Eve did in Genesis 3, she tells him that knowledge lies in defiance of the law. The crucial turning point for Thomas in the first act of the Matrix is his decision to trust Trinity over the authorities of the world. He knows she is a notorious, criminal computer hacker. Despite this, his thirst for knowledge pushes him to trust her at the risk of being “exiled” from society. Adam knew that the consequence of