of imminent execution in San Quentin. He
has never received a fair hearing on his claim of innocence. In a
dissenting opinion in 2009, five federal judges of the Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals signed a 82 page dissenting opinion that begins: "The
State of California may be about to execute an innocent man." 565 F.3d
581.

There is significant evidence that exonerates Mr. Cooper and points toward other suspects:


The coroner who investigated the Ryen murders concluded that the
murders took four minutes at most and that the murder weapons were a
hatchet, a long knife, an ice pick and perhaps a second knife. How could
a single person, in four or fewer minutes, wield three or four
weapons, and inflict over 140 wounds on five people, two of whom were
adults (including a 200 pound ex-marine) who hadloaded weapons near
their bedsides?

 The sole surviving victim of the
murders, Josh Ryen, told police and hospital staff within hours of the
murders that the culprits were "three white men." Josh Ryen repeated
this statement in the days following the crimes. When he twice saw Mr.
Cooper's picture on TV as the suspected attacker, Josh Ryen said
"that's not the man who did it."

 Josh Ryen's
description of the killers was corroborated by two witnesses who were
driving near the Ryens' home the night of the murders. They reported
seeing three white men in a station wagon matching the description of
the Ryens' car speeding away from the direction of the Ryens' home.


These descriptions were corroborated by testimony of several employees
and patrons of a bar close to the Ryens' home, who saw three white men
enter the bar


around midnight the night of the murders, two of whom
were covered in blood, and one of whom was wearing coveralls.


The identity of the real killers was further corroborated by a woman
who, shortly after the murders were discovered, alerted the sheriff's
department that her boyfriend, a convicted murderer, left
blood-spattered coveralls at her home the night of the murders. She also
reported that her boyfriend had been wearing a tan t-shirt matching a
tan t-shirt with Doug Ryen's blood on it recovered near the bar. She
also reported that her boyfriend owned a hatchet matching the one
recovered near the scene of the crime, which she noted was missing in
the days following the murders; it never reappeared; further, her sister
saw that boyfriend and two other white men in a vehicle that could
have been the Ryens'car on the night of the murders.

Lacking
a motive to ascribe to Mr. Cooper for the crimes, the prosecution
claimed that Mr. Cooper, who had earlier walked away from custody at a
minimum security prison, stole the Ryens' car to escape to Mexico. But
the Ryens had left the keys in both their cars (which were parked in the
driveway), so there was no need to kill them to steal their car. The
prosecution also claimed that Mr. Cooper needed money, but money and
credit cards were found untouched and in plain sight at the murder
scene.

The jury in 1985 deliberated for seven days
before finding Mr. Cooper guilty. One juror later said that if there had
been one less piece of evidence, the jury would not have voted to
convict.

The evidence the prosecution presented at
trial tying Mr. Cooper


terms.

The
guards at Pelican bay Security Housing Units have been conducting
disruptive cell checks every 30 minutes around the clock for three
months, causing prisoners widespread sleep disruption. The process is
loud and according to prisoners, "the method and noise from the checks
is torture."

Attorneys representing Pelican Bay SHU
prisoners have just completed extensive interviews with prisoners who
demand that "the every 30-minute checks have to be stopped or people
are going to get sick or worse." In addition, they report that regular
prison programs have been negatively impacted.

"To
sleep is a fundamental human right," said Anne Weills, a member of the
prisoners' legal team and one of the attorneys who conducted the
interviews with prisoners in Pelican Bay. "To take away such a basic
human right amounts to severe torture, adding to the already torturous
conditions of being in solitary confinement."

Most
prisonersAlbert Woodfox
unconditional release. Albert's conviction had already been overturned
three times - most recently in 2013 - yet every time the state has
appealed.

Today, Albert is still behind
bars after spending four decades in cruel, unjust solitary confinement.
He believes that he and fellow prisoners, Herman Wallace and Robert
King, were first placed in solitary confinement in retaliation for their
activism. All three men were members of the Black Panther Party.
Together, they came to be known as the Angola 3.

It is
time for the State of Louisiana to stop standing in the way of justice.
Call on Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal to ensure Albert's cruel and
unjust confinement is not his legacy. Learn more

Amnesty for all those arrested demanding justice for Freddie Gray!

Amnesty for ALL those arresteddemanding justice for Freddie Gray!

Sign and distribute the petition to drop


have tried to learn more.

Today,
the only thing we have been told by Superintendent Brenda Tritt is
that this was "a routine admission" and Major is "receiving the
appropriate medical attention." Nothing more to to Major Tillery's
daughter, Kamilah Iddeen--not the hospital, the reason for rushing
Major to the hospital, no agreement for family and legal visits.
Major
Tillery has liver disease and a liver shunt, arthritis with chronic
back and hip pain, and a festering skin rash and open sores. Major
Tillery has filed grievance after grievance objecting to the lack of
medical treatment and refusal to renew needed medical devices.

Major
Tillery has been imprisoned for 30 years, 25 in the hole and in the
most severe super max prisons in the country. For prison officials his
crime is his advocacy for other prisoners and leadership capabilities,
including challenging abusive prisonconditions and inadequate medical
treatment. He has been subject to retaliation by prison authorities
since he began his successful legal effort to stop the overcrowding and
curb the inhumane conditions in SCI Pittsburgh over 25 years ago. See,
Tillery v. Owens (1990)

In early 2015, Major
complained about the spreading skin disease at SCI Mahanoy, where he
was then imprisoned. He stood up for Mumia Abu-Jamal and other
prisoners who were suffering from this. For his acts of solidarity,
Major Tillery was transferred to SCI Frackville and then put in the
hole on falsified charges. After four months with limited food rations,
deprived of commissary, contact visits and allowed less than one-hour a
day of exercise, Major was released into general population. This was
two months less than his prison sentence of six months in the hole –
the prison's response to


an international campaign for Major!

Now
Major is in the hospital. He is not being allowed contact with his
family or attorney. They are not being given any real information on
his condition.

Call prison officials and demand:
Visits
with Major Tillery by his family and lawyer. Full medical information
and treatment should be provided to his family and lawyer.
Stop
the Retaliation Against Major Tillery. He should be exonerated for the
false charges of drug possession and this misconduct removed from his
record.
Transfer Major Tillery from SCI Frackville back to SCI
Mahanoy or to another facility in eastern Pennsylvania to remain near
his family.

Last night Mumia got notice that the
final appeal of his PA Department of Corrections grievance was denied.
Listen to his reaction here.

This denial comes on top of the magistrate Judge's proposal to deny Mumia's right to treatment last week.

Remember--
onethe guards looked me up on
the internet and said, "who would believe Berrien County is this
racist."

Background to Campaign to free Rev. Pinkney

Michigan
political prisoner the Rev. Edward Pinkney is a victim of racist
injustice. He was sentenced to 30 months to 10 years for supposedly
changing the dates on 5 signatures on a petition to recall Benton Harbor
Mayor James Hightower.

No material or circumstantial
evidence was presented at the trial that would implicate Pinkney in the
purported5 felonies. Many believe that Pinkney, a Berrien County
activist and leader of the Black Autonomy Network Community Organization
(BANCO), is being punished by local authorities for opposing the
corporate plans of Whirlpool Corp, headquartered in Benton Harbor,
Michigan.

In 2012, Pinkney and BANCO led an "Occupy the
PGA [Professional Golfers' Association of America]" demonstration
against a world-renowned golf tournament held at the newly created


Jack
Nicklaus Signature Golf Course on the shoreline of Lake Michigan. The
course was carved out of Jean Klock Park, which had been donated to the
city of Benton Harbor decades ago.

Berrien County
officials were determined to defeat the recall campaign against Mayor
Hightower, who opposed a program that would have taxed local
corporations in order to create jobs and improve conditions in Benton
Harbor, a majority African-American municipality. Like other Michigan
cities, it has been devastated by widespread poverty and unemployment.

The
Benton Harbor corporate power structure has used similar fraudulent
charges to stop past efforts to recall or vote out of office the racist
white officials, from mayor, judges, prosecutors in a majority Black
city. Rev Pinkney who always quotes scripture, as many Christian
ministers do, was even convicted for quoting scripture in a newspaper
column. This outrageous conviction was overturnedto
the shooting remained under investigation.

The police chase began
shortly before noon, when two officers from the 50th Precinct in the
Bronx, on patrol in a marked car, saw a gray 2009 Nissan Z driving
erratically and began to follow it. The officers tried to pull the car
over at 242nd Street and Broadway; instead it was driven off at high
speed, officials said. The officers followed the car but lost sight of
it on the parkway, just over the border in Westchester County.

When
they spotted the Nissan again, it was coming back toward them, going
against traffic and heading southbound on the northbound side of the
roadway, the officials said. It passed them, they said, then crashed
into a median and three other vehicles a short distance away.

At
that point, the officials said, Mr. Espinal climbed out the window,
crossed


three lanes of traffic, jumped a guardrail and fled on foot into
the woods of Tibbetts Brook Park, as the officers circled back in their
car. Officials said a second man in the Nissan, whom a law enforcement
official identified as Akeem Smith, 25, was injured in the crash and
taken into custody.

Mr. Smith is on federal probation on a drug
charge, said Richard B. Lind, his lawyer in the case. “He was a mule,”
Mr. Lind said.

One driver on the roadway suffered minor injuries
in the crash, said Kieran O’Leary, a spokesman for the Westchester
County Department of Public Safety, which is leading the police
investigation.

Representatives from the New York attorney
general’s office, which now investigates all killings by the police in
the state in which a suspect may have been unarmed, and the Westchester
district attorney’s office werehad been shut down
as its officers and those from the New York Police Department searched
for a suspect who had fled into the park and “may also be armed.”

The
second official said at least one witness told the police after the
shooting that the suspect had possessed a gun, but the official
cautioned that it was not clear whether the city officers had heard
anything about a weapon when they gave chase in the woods; neither had
been interviewed as of Tuesday evening.

Mr. Espinal’s uncle,
Carlos, who lives in Florida, said that he had spoken to his sister, Mr.
Espinal’s mother, in a phone conversation on Tuesday afternoon and that
she had told him that Mr. Espinal had taken his father’s car to drive.
“She sounded fine,” he said of the conversation.

He said it had
been many years since


he had seen Mr. Espinal, who grew up in Queens and
had served two terms in New York State prison, one for robbery and a
later one for burglary. He said he was unaware of his nephew’s criminal
history.

Mr. Espinal had open warrants in Florida for assault and
burglary, according to a law enforcement official, and a listed address
in Boca Raton.

Several of Mr. Espinal’s relatives gathered at
his mother’s apartment in Jamaica, Queens, on Tuesday night, saying they
had been informed of the shooting but not told of his death. His
mother, Maria Espinal, said he did not live in New York City. “He lived
in Florida,” she said.

According to public records, a Suffolk
County man filed a federal civil rights suit in March against Officer
Francis and several other officers, claiming they had used excessive
force during anpush by investor activists, who have
called for both companies to find better ways to return shareholder
value.In May, DuPont successfully repelled Trian Fund Management’s Nelson Peltz,
although after the proxy battle, the chief executive, Ellen J. Kullman,
quickly departed. She was replaced by Mr. Breen, who was previously the
chief executive of Tyco, where he oversaw its separation into three
separate companies.

The companies have two of the best-known
names in American corporate history. Dow was founded in 1897 as a bleach
producer in Michigan. DuPont was founded in 1802 in Delaware by
Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, a French political economist who had fled to
the United States during the French Revolution.

The new company would have dual headquarters in Wilmington, Del., and Midland, Mich.

A
group of Irish women who have traveled abroad to have abortions posted
images of their faces


one of the participants, Tara Flynn, an actress and comedian, encouraged other women to take part.

Abortion
rights activists, who say that more than 170,000 Irish women have
traveled outside the country to have abortions in the past four decades,
are pressing for a referendum to repeal a constitutional amendment
passed in 1983 that blocks the legalization of abortion.

As many as 10,000 supporters of a referendum took part in a March for Choice in Dublin in September.

As The Guardian reports,
abortion could be a central issue in Ireland’s next general election,
expected early next year, because the Irish Labour Party could make a
referendum on the issue a condition of joining any new coalition
government.

Still, there is passionate opposition to any change among Irish conservatives. Senator Jim Walsh denounced what he called “the abortion holocaust” taking placethat the drugs were probably used for that
purpose.

The American Academy of Pediatrics,
the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the
American Academy of Neurology have no guidelines or position statements
regarding use of antidepressants and antipsychotics in children younger than 3.

Finding
specific examples of such children taking the drugs can be difficult,
because of family privacy concerns or because the practice remains
controversial. IMS Health records but does not release the names of
prescribing physicians.

Mrs. Rios said that after Andrew began
taking the epilepsy medication felbamate, he became strikingly erratic
and aggressive: He pushed his siblings down and destroyed toys. She said
that Andrew’s neurologist, at Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Dr.
Lily Tran, then prescribed Risperdal, medication that can temper severe mood swings in older children.

Andrew
took the medication for four months before his mother decided it


spray and a beanbag gun in an attempt to subdue
him.

The videos show an officer step in front of Mr. Woods, who
is walking away from the other officers, in an apparent attempt to stop
him. Moments later, the officer fires at Mr. Woods, followed by shots
from the other officers. Mr. Woods was pronounced dead at the scene, the
police said.

Chief Suhr drew criticism when he told a meeting of
about 100 people a few days after the shooting that the video showed
that Mr. Woods was threatening the officer.

He said that the
officer, “fearing for his safety,” had fired “in defense of himself, and
the other four officers fired in defense of that officer,” according to
The San Francisco Examiner.

At the meeting of the commission — a
citizen panel appointed by the mayor to oversee police accountabilityrights, and who channeled his message of righteous
defiance into poetry and songwriting, died on Tuesday at his home in
Santa Clara County, Calif. He was 69.The cause was cancer, said Cree
Miller, the trustee of Mr. Trudell’s estate.

Mr. Trudell, a
Santee Dakota, was national chairman of the American Indian Movement
during much of the 1970s, a turbulent stretch in the relationship
between Native American activists and the federal government.

His
tenure began after the episode at Wounded Knee, S.D., where, in
February 1973, Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge reservation, incensed
by tribal corruption, and American Indian Movement activists, protesting
the government’s treatment of their people, occupied the town in a
71-day standoff with federal marshals and F.B.I. agents.

Three
men — Bob Robideau, Darelle Butler and Leonard Peltier — were tried in
the killing of two agents during a confrontation in


Oglala, S.D., two
years later.

Mr. Trudell — “the most eloquent speaker in the
Movement,” as Peter Matthiessen wrote in “In the Spirit of Crazy Horse,”
his 1983 book about the siege — held community meetings in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, where the trial of Mr. Robideau and Mr. Butler was held,
and he testified for the defense. The two men were acquitted. Mr.
Peltier, tried later, was convicted and remains in prison.

But
well before that, Mr. Trudell had already made a name for himself as an
effective champion of his people, decrying the indignities they had
suffered for more than a century at the hands of the American
government.

In November 1972, he was among the leaders of a group
that occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, demanding the
enforcement of historical treaties that granted Native Americans
sovereignty over their land.

PerhapsManning, a cousin of Tina Manning, said in “Trudell,” an acclaimed 2005 documentary film by Heather Rae. “I just don’t want to say that. But you never know. You never know.”

The film asserted that the cause of the fire had never been established.

John
Francis Trudell was born in Omaha on Feb. 15, 1946, and grew up partly
there and partly on a reservation near the South Dakota border. His
father, Clifford Trudell, was a Santee Dakota; his mother, the former
Ricarda Almanza, was of Mexican-Indian descent. She died when John was a
boy.

Mr. Trudell dropped out of high school and served in the
Navy during the Vietnam War. Afterward, he moved to Southern California,
where he studied radio and communications at a community college before
joining the Indians of All Tribes group on Alcatraz.

Mr. Trudell
began to


distance himself from the American Indian Movement after the
fire at his house, and in the 1980s, he turned to writing. He published
several volumes of poetry, including “Stickman” and “Lines From a Mined
Mind,” often writing in protest of corporate power and government
oppression. He also recorded spoken-word albums
accompanied by traditional Native American music as well as
contemporary pop. His latest album, “Wazi’s Dream,” was released this
year.

The recordings earned him admirers in the music world, including Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne and Kris Kristofferson.

Mr.
Trudell also acted in feature films, including “Thunderheart” (1992),
with Sam Shepard and Val Kilmer, in which he played a character drawn
from a crucial figure in the events leading to Wounded Knee; and “Smoke
Signals” (1998), based on Sherman Alexie’s poignantly comic novel about
growing up on a reservation.

Mr. Trudell’s first marriage, to
Feniciaothers,
one year and three years. The State Bureau of Investigation is handling
the case.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The number of those killed in an American airstrike that destroyed the Doctors Without Borders
hospital in the northern city of Kunduz was much higher than previously
thought, the medical organization announced Saturday.The death toll
“has been confirmed to be at least 42 people,” the group, also known by
its French name, Médecins Sans Frontières, said in a news release. Previously, the United States military and the United Nations had put the death toll at 30.

In a separate statement issued on Saturday, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan announced the preliminary findings of
its own investigation into civilian casualties in Kunduz, which was
overrun by the Taliban at the end of September, and was the scene of
bitter fighting


for more than two weeks until the insurgents were forced
out, purportedly by Afghan forces but with substantial help from
American Special Operations forces and heavy American airstrikes.

According
to the figures compiled by the United Nations, 289 civilians were
killed from Sept. 28 to Oct. 13 in the Kunduz fighting, and 559 were
wounded. “The vast majority of these casualties resulted from ground
fighting that could not be attributed solely to one party,” the
statement said.

Doctors Without Borders said the revised death
toll was arrived at after an exhaustive investigation by the
organization that included combing through the rubble of the hospital to
find further human remains, interviewing family members of missing
victims and crosschecking with other hospitals. The group said it concluded that the death toll was “at least 42 people”: 14 staff members, 24 patients and fourinvestigation of the airstrikes that would be carried out under the Geneva Conventions,
asserting that the military’s own investigation would inevitably be
biased and lack credibility. But such an investigation could only take
place if both Afghanistan and the United States consented to it.

Senior
Afghan officials have continued to insist, in the absence of any
credible evidence and even in contradiction of the United States
military’s findings, that the hospital had been used by the Taliban
during the fighting. The United States has so far declined to support an
independent inquiry.

On Wednesday, Doctors Without Borders presented a petition
to the White House signed by 547,000 people calling on President Obama
to agree to the independent investigation. “Only a full accounting by an
independent, international body can restore our confidence in the
commitments of the United States to uphold the laws


of war, which
prohibit such attacks on hospitals in the strongest terms,” said Jason
Cone, the group’s executive director in the United States.

The
aerial bombardment by both American and Afghan forces killed at least
nine other civilians, in addition to those killed at the hospital,
according to the United Nations report, which did not incorporate the
latest death toll announced by Doctors Without Borders. Even with the
United Nations’ s lower figures, more than a tenth of all civilians
killed in Kunduz during that period of fighting died in the hospital
attack.

The United Nations’ report was by
comparison only mildly critical of the United States military, saying
that it had not responded to requests for information about what had
happened. Instead, it was told by the military that information would
come from various ongoing internal inquiries. The United Nations noted
that sofar, the complete reports of those investigations had not been
made public.

In a separate development, elite Afghan police units on Saturday brought to an end an overnight siege
of a residential annex to a building adjoining the Spanish Embassy in
the diplomatic quarter of Kabul, killing the last of three attackers.

Seven
people were killed, in addition to the three attackers, and at least
seven others were wounded, Afghan officials said. Four Afghan police
officers, two foreign citizens and an Afghan electrician who worked at
the guesthouse were killed, said Fraidoon Obaidy, head of criminal
investigation for the Kabul police.

The two foreigners killed were Spanish police officers, according to a statement from the Spanish Interior Ministry. It was the most deadly attack on a Western embassy here in many years.

It
took so long to subdue the Taliban attackers,


over the last few years as a kind of parable of brutality and injustice on the cellblocks. Leonard Strickland was a prisoner with schizophrenia who got into an argument with guards, and ended up dead.

In the inmates’ telling, the guards got away with murder, ganging up on Mr. Strickland and beating him so viciously that he could barely move. The guards deny this, saying they acted only in self-defense and did what was necessary to subdue an out-of-control prisoner.But what came next is indisputable. In a security video obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Strickland is seen in handcuffs, barely conscious and being dragged along the floor by officers, while a prison nurse standing close by does nothing. Even as he lies face down on the floor,scores of brutality lawsuits in recent years. The United States attorney for the Northern District of New York, which has jurisdiction over nearly half of the state’s 54 prisons, has not brought a brutality case involving a state corrections officer in at least five years, according to a spokesman.

In the Strickland case, the police and the district attorney concluded there had been no criminal wrongdoing, though two state prison watchdog agencies, the State Commission of Correction and the Commission on Quality Care and Advocacy for Persons With Disabilities, issued highly critical reports documenting numerous misleading and false statements by officers.

The dozen or so officers and medical personnel identified in the investigations either still work at Clinton or other state prisons, or were promoted or retired with full benefits.


In the years since the Strickland case, several of them have again been accused of brutality by inmates.

The Times was able to piece together the story behind Mr. Strickland’s death by reviewing internal corrections department reports, log book entries and statements by the officers involved, along with the autopsy report and records by paramedics and emergency room doctors. Separately, six inmate witnesses were tracked down and interviewed at four prisons around the state.

The Times was also able to obtain a copy of a hand-held security video recorded by an officer that documented the last 45 minutes of Mr. Strickland’s life. It was made public last month, after the newspaper petitioned the court and argued for its release in the course of a lawsuit filed by the Strickland family.end, the only person disciplined was a prison nurse, Beth Farnan, who was fined $500. She remains employed at Clinton.

Like Mr. Ceasar, Mr. Strickland was not known as a violent inmate. While many of the prisoners at Clinton are serving sentences for murder, rape and other brutal crimes, Mr. Strickland had been convicted of criminal possession of a weapon.

He had not committed a serious disciplinary infraction during his previous four and a half years in prison, according to state records. At the trial, Sgt. Betsy Whelden-Berglund said that for six months in 2009 she had overseen the cellblock where he was housed and had had no problems with him.

Mr. Strickland, however, did have a history of behaving erratically. By summer 2010, he had stopped taking medication for his


schizophrenia, according to prison records. At various times, his mother, Selena Strickland, said, he claimed that he had had a baby, that he was God, that he was a millionaire and that he was married to Beyoncé. That August, when his mother last visited him, she said, “he was talking out of his head.”

On the morning of Oct. 3, 2010, the 44-year-old Mr. Strickland was upset that a guard had confiscated a plastic hand mirror, according to several accounts. Not long after returning to the cellblock from breakfast, he got into a disagreement with an officer.

From this point on, the stories told by guards and inmate witnesses diverge widely.

In the guards’ version, described at trial, Mr. Strickland argued with an officer, Casey Strong, after being ordered to gatherhis possessions and go downstairs to be locked into a new cell.

Among inmates, Officer Strong was considered trouble. He had a history of violent confrontations. Over an eight-year period he had been injured during fights with inmates and gone on disability leave three times, he testified at the November trial. He said that he had retired last summer, at 36, and was unemployed and collecting disability insurance.

Officer Strong asserted in his trial testimony that Mr. Strickland punched him in the shoulder during the dispute. To defend himself, Officer Strong said, he punched Mr. Strickland twice in the head and once in the chest. He said he grabbed the inmate in a bear hug, and they struggled and both fell down the concrete stairs.

Officer Strong was able to stop


himself halfway down, he said, but Mr. Strickland fell to the bottom. Despite the fall, several officers said, Mr. Strickland was able to jump to his feet and start fighting with a second guard, Cory Liberty. According to the court testimony, Officer Liberty then punched Mr. Strickland several times, while Officer Strong used his baton to hit him in the back and legs repeatedly.

By then nearly two dozen officers, responding to a call for backup, had surrounded Mr. Strickland.

And still he continued to “struggle violently,” Officer Liberty contended. Only when four guards grabbed a limb each and pinned him to the ground was he finally subdued, several testified.

A prison accident report filed shortly after the episode listed only minor injuries to the officers, mostly bruises and pulled muscles.The two guards who had repeatedly punched Mr. Strickland also had swollen right hands. (Another officer later testified at trial that she had suffered broken ribs, but this was not mentioned in medical documents.)

The officers said Mr. Strickland had no visible injuries. Nor, they said, did he ever complain about being hurt.

In interviews, inmates said the guards were lying.

Three — Kevin Goode, Walter Maddox and Frank Povoski — said they witnessed Mr. Strickland being pushed, not falling, down the stairs. And three — Mr. Goode, Mr. Povoski and another inmate who asked not to be identified for fear of retribution — said they saw him lying, badly injured, at the bottom. Two said that after being beaten by several guards, he was dragged away screaming.

Accounts by prisoners are


often viewed skeptically. But the six were all interviewed separately; five were serving time in four different prisons and the sixth had been released. Their versions differed in some details. One said the events unfolded after they came back from breakfast; another said it was after recreation. One prisoner said Mr. Strickland was handcuffed before he was pushed down the stairs; another said it was after.

But the basic story the men told was the same: Mr. Strickland was pushed down a flight of stairs, and then beaten nearly to death by a large group of guards.

Mr. Maddox, whose cell was on the same tier as Mr. Strickland’s, watched events unfold from about 25 feet away, he said. He recalled Mr. Strickland’s making a sound as though he wasterrified when he was shoved down the stairs.

Mr. Goode was head porter on the cellblock, and he said he was buffing the floor at the foot of the stairway that morning. He said that before Mr. Strickland was pushed, an officer yelled a racial slur. As Mr. Strickland fell downward, Mr. Goode said, his skull hit the concrete steps several times. At the bottom he pulled himself into a tight fetal position, as about 10 officers took turns kicking him in the head and the ribs, Mr. Goode said.

They “beat this kid to zero,” he said.

Mr. Povoski, who watched from a floor above, said Mr. Strickland lay so still he assumed he was dead.‘Is He Breathing?’

After a physical encounter with guards, inmates, as a matter of standard practice,


is seen wearing white boxer shorts and a brown T-shirt, torn across his left shoulder. A large, purplish bruise is visible. He is cuffed from behind and pressed against a cinder block wall by two officers, Terry James and Kevin Trombley.

“Inmate Strickland, you’re going to comply with a strip frisk, do you understand me?” said Sgt. Steven Sweeney, who was supervising.

Mr. Strickland looks unstable on his feet. His head is down. Over the next few minutes, he appears to grow weaker, at one point slumping over and trying to hold his head up with his right arm. It seems only the guards are keeping him from falling over.

The lawyer for the Strickland family, John Seebold, contended that at this point in the video the officers were acting asif he was resisting to justify their brutal treatment of him earlier.

After five minutes, while Mr. Strickland seems barely conscious, the officers decide to take him upstairs to the mental health ward and give him an injection to calm him down.

There is a gurney a few feet away, but Officers James and Trombley grab Mr. Strickland by his arms, which are still handcuffed, and lift them until they are hyperextended behind his head. Then they drag him out of the room. (In Sergeant Sweeney’s subsequent report, he wrote, “I directed the officers to assist him to the elevator using professional techniques.”)

They drag him onto the elevator, take it to the third floor, then drag him off, dropping him face down in a hallway, still handcuffed. (“I again directed


report by the State Commission of Correction said Mr. Fitzgerald “showed complete disregard of the obvious signs of a nonresponsive inmate.”

On the video, Mr. Fitzgerald is seen standing nearby and doing nothing as Mr. Strickland collapses onto the emergency room floor, and is dragged to the elevator.

Instead of riding in the elevator along with the officers to provide care for Mr. Strickland, Mr. Fitzgerald took the stairs. Again he is seen on the video off to the side, watching for nearly three minutes while Mr. Strickland lies motionless in the hallway of the mental health clinic, near death.

When asked during a deposition why he did not intervene sooner, Mr. Fitzgerald said he had to wait for Sergeant Sweeney to determine that the inmate was no longer a safetythe inmate had instead died from a condition known as Excited Delirium Syndrome.

It is a controversial diagnosis, viewed with skepticism by many in the medical profession. The syndrome is not listed in the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, nor is it recognized by the American Medical Association or the American Psychological Association.

Dr. Doynow said studies had found that among the groups most vulnerable to Excited Delirium Syndrome were males who suffered from mental illness and stopped taking their medication. One of the most prominent symptoms, he said, is the loss of the ability to feel pain, which could explain how a prisoner might be able to repeatedly resist the physical restraints applied by corrections officers.

Dr. Doynow said the syndrome could bring about cardiac arrest.

When pressed


about the syndrome, Dr. Doynow, who has been practicing medicine since 1988, testified that he himself had never seen a case of it.Seeking Answers

At Clinton there is a committee of inmates designated to meet regularly with the prison management team as well as uniformed officers, to discuss issues of concern. Typically, the topics might include the handling of proceeds from bottle returns, or the distribution of stamps.

Not at the meeting held on Nov. 22, 2010. Mr. Strickland’s death, and brutality at the prison, were at the top of the inmates’ agenda.

Committee members complained that violence by the guards was out of hand. They asked that the administration provide them with a copy of the Strickland autopsy report and requested an investigation into the alleged beating of an inmate,mother, a former nursing home aide who is 70 years old, testified that she used to try to make the six-hour bus trip from Brooklyn to visit her son once a month, but since he died she had moved to Georgia.

She was asked how she learned of her son’s death. She said a prison chaplain had called a minister that he knew in Brooklyn, who came to her house. She said that the next day, she phoned a counselor at Clinton to ask if there was any information about how her son had died. The counselor, she said, told her “no, because it was under investigation.”

There was no funeral, Mrs. Strickland told the court. “I had lack of funds.”

According to the death certificate, her son was buried on


Oct. 15, 2010, in the Clinton Correctional Cemetery, a mile outside the prison wall.

Indianapolis police officers shot and killed a man on Saturday after he lunged at an officer with a knife following an unsuccessful effort to subdue him using nonlethal force, the department said in a statement.

The killing of the man, whose identity had not been released, was met with anger by some residents in the neighborhood, who briefly confronted police officers and smashed the windshield of a police car, The Indianapolis Star reported.

The statement from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said officers responding to a report of a suicidal person shortly before 11:30 a.m. Saturday found a knife-wielding man who ignored orders to drop his weapon.

They used a Taser but it “appeared to have no effecton him,” according to the statement. An officer then tackled the man but was unable to wrestle the knife from his hands. At that point, two officers fired at the man. Emergency medical workers pronounced him dead at the scene.

People who had gathered near where the shooting took place, which appeared in a cellphone video shot by a bystander to be a residential neighborhood, responded angrily to the shooting, cursing and screaming at police officers and smashing the windshield of a police car after a brief confrontation.

Some people in the crowd appeared to have known the man.

“He had a mental illness,” one person in the crowd shouted, according to The Star.

The police department said the officers involved in Saturday’s shooting had been placed on paid administrative leave pending


Addressing a gathering of BTC Urdu teachers here on Saturday, Khan said that instead of concentrating on leading five-time prayers at the Jama Masjid, Bukhari had targeted Yadav. Cautioning Muslims about his approach, Khan said that Bukhari had openly supported the BJP in 2004 Lok Sabha election, and the NDA government had given him two petrol pumps and two gas agencies in Delhi.

He said that Muslims should keep watch on these people who had been trying to mislead them in the State. Khan said that Yadav had protected the community in every difficult situation and Muslims could never forget his role in saving the Babri Mosque on October 30, 1990. “He is the saviour of Muslims,” Khan said and added that it was high for the Muslims timeto pay back.

The minister also condemned the drive to tarnish the image of Muslims after recent Mumbai blasts. He said that Indian Muslims were peace loving and Islam was against terrorism. “Those resorting to terrorism are worse than beast,” Khan said. Earlier, Family Welfare Minister Ahmad Hasan and Labour Minister Dr Waqar Shah also lauded the services of Yadav to Muslims.

Basic Education Minister Kiran Pal Singh, enumerating the achievements of his department during the last three years, said so far 8000 Urdu teachers had been appointed. He said that with full infrastructure facilities available in schools in the State, moves were afoot to improve the quality of the education.


Ships Named For Lincoln and Washington

George Washington

USS Washington, 1775

A U.S. brigantine similar to USS Washington, 1776

A schooner formerly known as the Endeavor was the first ship to bear the name of George Washington. Commanded and crewed largely by members of the Continental Army, the ship was re-rigged as a brigantine and conducted operations against the Royal Navy for about two months in 1775 before being captured by the HMS Fowey.

USS Washington, 1776

Model of the 1776 row galley USS Washington

In January 1776, the row galley USS Washington was launched by the Rhode Island General Assembly to protect the colony. The ship was soon sent to New York under the command of the Continental Navy and is recorded as having a brief encounter with the Royal Navy on the HudsonRiver in August. The fate of the ship is unknown but it is presumed to either have been seized or burned when the British captured Manhattan later in the year.

USS Washington, 1776

Sister ship of the 1776 frigate USS Washington, the USS Randolph 1776

USS Washington was one of thirteen frigates to be ordered by the Continental Congress in 1775. Launched in Philadelphia in 1776, the ship was still unfinished when it was scuttled in 1777 to prevent it from being captured by approaching British troops.

USS Washington, 1776

Lateen-rig galley USS Washington 1776

The service record of the lateen-rigged galley USS Washington is brief – it was active for about one week. Immediately after if was built in 1776 on Lake Champlain, it joined the fleet commanded by the Benedict Arnold on


October 6 off Valcour Island to intercept Royal Navy ships that were part of the offensive to seize the Hudson River. The American ships were battered in the ensuing battle on Oct. 11, with the severely damaged Washington being captured on Oct. 13 while trying to escape. After being converted to a brig the British, its fate is unknown.

USS George Washington, 1798

Typical Early 1800s Typical Sloop of War

USS George Washington was originally built as a merchant ship in 1793 before being bought by Congress in 1798 and converted to a sloop of war to protect U.S. shipping in the Caribbean from French privateers. George Washington later became the first U.S. warship to enter the Mediterranean when it was sent to deliver tribute to the Barbary pirates prior tothe First Barbary War. The ship made one more trip to the Mediterranean before it was sold in Philadelphia in 1802.

USS Washington, 1814

Ship of the line USS Washington in Naples, in 1815

Ship of the line USS Washington was launched in 1814 and joined the U.S. Navy’s Mediterranean squadron in 1815, serving as Commodore Isaac Chauncey’s flagship. The Washington conducted diplomatic missions and protected U.S. shipping in the region until 1818 when it sailed for New York. The ship then served in a limited capacity until in was scrapped in 1843.

USRC Washington, 1833

A Morris-Taney class Revenue Cutter, circa 1832

U.S. Revenue Cutter Washington was a versatile Morris-Taney class vessel designed to pursue pirates and smugglers while also supporting U.S. Navy operations. The Washington played a key role in transporting troops


and searching for Indian encampments during the Second Seminole War. After the ship began to deteriorate under the demands of the campaign, it was sailed to Baltimore and scrapped in 1837.

USS George Washington (ID-3018), 1917

USS George Washington in 1919

George Washington started life in 1908 as a German passenger liner. When the U.S. entered WWI in 1917, the ship was seized by the government and converted into a troop carrier. It would later be the ship that brought President Woodrow Wilson to Europe to negotiate the Treaty of Versailles. The inter-war years saw the ship return to civilian use, only to again to enter military service as USS Catlin (AP-19) in 1941. The ship again carried the name George Washington as an Army Transport from 1943 until it wasdecommissioned in 1947.

USS George Washington (SSBN-598), 1959

USS George Washington at sea

Originally designed to be an attack sub, USS George Washington become the first American nuclear ballistic submarine when it was lengthened to accommodate missiles. Six months after its launch the George Washington conducted the first successful launch of a Polaris missile from a submerged sub. The submarine was decommissioned in 1985 following a quarter century of service.

USS George Washington (CVN-73), 1992

USS George Washington (CVN-73), 1992

USS George Washington was launched in 1992 as the sixth Nimitz- class aircraft carrier. With its two Westinghouse nuclear reactors, length of 1,092 feet and 90 aircraft, it is forward stationed in Japan. The George Washington has participated in Operation Enduring Freedom and assisted in disaster relief efforts following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

Abraham


Lincoln

USS President Lincoln, 1907

USS President Lincoln shortly before being sunk, 1918

The German steamer President Lincoln was built in 1907 and commandeered by the U.S. government in New York in 1917 after the declaration of war. The ship was used as U.S. Navy troop transport and made five trips to France before it was sunk by a German U-boat in 1918.

USS Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602), 1961

USS Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602) on the surface

Commissioned in 1961, USS Abraham Lincoln was the last George Washington-class ballistic submarine. In 20 years of service, the Abraham Lincoln conducted over 50 patrols and participated in the 1962 Cuban missile blockade. The submarine’s missiles were removed in 1979 and it was decommissioned in 1981.

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), 1989

Birds-eye view of the USS Abraham Lincoln at sea

Since itscommissioning in 1989, the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has had several eventful deployments including assisting humanitarian efforts in the Philippines, Somalia and Indonesia, as well as supporting operations during Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom. In 2013, the Navy announced that it would not be able to refuel the Abraham Lincoln due to budget cuts.

In Fiction

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln from the novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

In the Jules Verne novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the Abraham Lincoln is the name to the ironclad frigate that pursues and attacks Captain Nemo’s Nautilus in the belief that it is a sea monster.Abraham Lincoln is rammed by the Nautilus and disabled.

USS Abraham Lincoln

Cigar artwork depicting Butterfly and the return of the USS Abraham Lincoln

Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly follows


the tragic tale of the young Japanese wife of a U.S. Naval officer who has not seen her husband for years. Butterfly patiently waits for the return of the battleship USS Abraham Lincoln which will bring Lt. Pinkerton back to her.

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About Sam LaGrone

Sam LaGrone is the editor of USNI News. He was formerly the U.S. Maritime Correspondent for the Washington D.C. bureau of Jane’s Defence Weekly and Jane’s Navy International. He has covered legislation, acquisition and operations for the Sea Services and spent time underway with the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and the Canadian Navy.NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: BJP’s estranged ally Shiv Sena on Friday sprung a surprise by abstaining from the vote on the no-confidence motion even as it remains a member of the NDA with representation in the central and Maharashtra governments.

Sena’s decision was perhaps the first instance of a member of a ruling alliance abstaining from proceedings during a no-trust vote and refusing to vote against an opposition motion.

Despite Sena leader Chandrakant Khaire issuing a whip, the Sena contingent was conspicuous by its absence on Friday morning. The development seemed to expose chinks in the Sena as Uddhav Thackeray sacked Khaire as whip. It was said Khaire issued the whip on Thursday without consulting Matoshree. The narrative emerging from the Sena was that Khaire had exceeded his brief, but such a


Heitkamp as moderator of the show's "Hot Box" segment, but began hosting the entire show by himself on April 1.

After years of working in sales and marketing jobs and a brief stint in politics, Berg, who turned 40 years old this year, said he feels he has found his calling in broadcast, even if his ratings don't yet reflect his passion for the job.

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And, contrary to some criticism, he disputes the notion that he's a right-wing mouthpiece regurgitating Republican talking points, noting one viewer accused him earlier this week of being an unconstitutional left-wing moderator.

"I feel like I'm striking a pretty good balance, and at the end of the day, all I'm trying to do is ask tough questions," he said.

Learning from 'Tiger'

Berg said hegrew up in a non-political home with parents he describes as "very entrepreneurial," his father working in insurance and marketing and his mother selling Mary Kay cosmetics.

"I guess I've always been a guy that believed in meritocracy, and I felt like that was more in line with conservative ideals," he said. "And I wish we had more of that in this country, where it was like, 'Hey, you know what? I work hard, I'm good at it, so reward me.'"

As starting quarterback at Fargo South High, Berg helped reward Bruins' fans with undefeated state titles in 1989 and 1990.

He landed a scholarship at Division I Stanford and spent the 1991 season redshirted under Green, who left at the end of the season to coach the Vikings. Green was


replaced by former San Francisco 49ers coach Bill Walsh, who gave Berg limited playing time.

Not content to ride out his college career on the bench, Berg transferred to the University of Northern Iowa. He split time with another quarterback in 1994 and excelled as the lone starter in 1995, leading the Panthers to a conference title and finishing fourth in the nation in passing efficiency, according to Forum archives.

After football, Berg returned to Stanford and earned a bachelor's degree in psychology in 1996. Two years later he landed a job with Robbins, the well-known business coach and self-help author. Berg worked with Robbins' advance team, speaking to companies about successful sales and marketing strategies and trying to sell tickets for Robbins' visits.

"We were kind of the front guyshelping him fill the room," Berg said.

Robbins took good care of his employees, and the experience shaped Berg's career, he said.

"You were on the road, and you only had to really focus on, 'How do I become a better communicator?'" he said, adding, "It was like Tiger Woods teaching you how to play golf."

TV to politics to TV

With skills honed during his nearly three years with Robbins, Berg took a job in June 2002 with SkyPipeline, a wireless Internet service provider, developing the company's sales system and helping to train and manage its sales staff.

Berg was also trying his hand at acting, with single-episode roles on the sitcoms "Frasier" in 2001 and "Will and Grace" in 2003.

One part of his TV past he'd rather forget was his 2003


stint on the Fox reality show "Mr. Personality." Berg became one of two finalists to propose marriage to Hayley, a 26-year-old Atlanta woman who had to choose from 20 masked suitors based on their personalities. Hayley picked the other guy.

Berg said the show is "a chapter in my life that I've completely just sort of blocked out," and declined to comment on it.

His next big role - and his longest one to date - came as vice president of business development for Student-Athlete Showcase, a company that guides high school athletes through the college recruiting process. In roughly five years with the company, Berg said he mentored more than 107 athletes and families, resulting in more than $8.6 million in athletic scholarships.

In September 2007, Berg married his wife,Ajit, then a personal shopper at Barneys New York in Beverly Hills and now a freelance fashion columnist for The Forum.

When she became pregnant with their now 3-year-old daughter, Berg, who was unhappy with the direction the country was heading, started looking for an opening to move his family from California to Fargo. He found it in the North Dakota Republican Party, which hired him in early 2010 as deputy executive director, putting him in charge of fundraising and news media in Fargo.

Berg was in the job for 10 months. A mutual Republican friend of right-wing radio host Scott Hennen tipped Berg off to an upcoming opening at AM 1100 The Flag, and he landed a gig hosting his own radio show, "We the People."

"I was horrible at


first," he said. "Three hours of radio was just like, what am I doing?"

But he said his experience working for Robbins helped him understand how to frame conversations and ask questions. He started appearing on "Point of View" in early 2012 and went full-time for the TV station in June 2012.

Station GM pleased

Jim Wareham, president and general manager of Valley News Live, said that "Point of View" has been a work in progress.

"We always wanted to have the show to have more opinion, be a little bit harder-edged and so forth, and it's difficult sometimes for news people to cross that line and to step into it," he said. "But it was relatively easy for Chris to do it because he came from a talk radio background."

As Bergand virtual excited states are shown between the excited electronic states and the excited vibrational states. As seen in FIG. 1, Rayleigh scattering typically involves absorption of a single photon of the incident radiation by the analyte, which causes the analyte to transition from the ground state to a virtual state followed by relaxation to the ground state. As the analyte relaxes to the ground state, the analyte emits a photon of scattered radiation that has energy equal to that of the photon of the incident radiation. In this manner, the photon of the incident radiation is considered to have been elastically scattered.
In addition to the Rayleigh scattering of photons, a very small fraction of the photons of the incident radiation may be inelastically scattered by the analyte.


HBO announced late Monday that CNN host Lisa Ling will produce a new streaming show for HBO Max with former CBS anchor Dan Rather.

Ling's HBO streaming travel show will be titled, "Birth, Wedding, Funeral."

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“We are living in a deeply polarized world and I am elated for the opportunity to bring us closer to one another through stories about the most defining moments in people’s lives: their Births, Weddings and Funerals,” said Ling in the announcement.

Ling, a former co-host on ABC's "The View," has hosted her CNN weekend program “This is Life with Lisa Ling" since 2014. CNN, like HBO, is owned by WarnerMedia under the former Time Warner umbrella.

Rather, 87, was an award-winning anchor of the “CBS Evening News” from 1981 to 2005 before he was fired overAccording to the US-based banking group, Iran has the strong possibility of becoming one of the world's largest economies in the 21st century, thanks to its relatively stable and steady economic rise, and a marked increase in the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which is estimated to reach about $716 billion in 2025.

"Iran is another N-11 country, which likewise has significant potential…Iran has some attributes that would allow the country to advance much more easily than others," said the report, adding that Iran will have the potential to be the world's 12th economy by 2025.

The Goldman Sachs, which is an American investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, and other financial services, introduced the N-11 grouping in late 2005 as part of comprehensive


and China -- but they could rival the G7 countries.

The World Bank on its report on global economy in 2010 predicted that Iran's economic growth will become double in 2011. Iran's economic growth will reach 3 percent in 2011, World Bank added.

On March 21, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei named new Iranian calendar year (March 2011-2012) as "The Year of Economic Jihad."

Ayatollah Khamenei also called on Iranian officials and nation to make Jihad-like efforts in order to lay the ground for a decade of economic growth.Gallery

While Republicans and Democrats were duking it out with Gordon Sondland on Capitol Hill, President Donald Trump was far from Washington, D.C. The president was in Texas touring a factory that assembles Mac Pro computers.

Apple CEO Tim Cook led Trump, his daughter and senior adviser Ivanka, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on a tour of the Austin facility.

The presidential visit follows Apple’s announcement in September that it would continue manufacturing the latest generation of the Mac Pro in Austin — a move that came once the Trump administration agreed to waive tariffs on certain computer parts made in China.

“When you build it in the United States, you don’t have to worry about tariffs,” Trump said, with Cook standing by his side.

While you might expect liberals to be upset


with the visit, the loudest protests were coming from — for some reason — Alex Jones. The far-right conspiracy theorist and InfoWars radio host was outside the Austin factory Wednesday doing his signature yelling, but this time from on top of an armored truck.

Alex Jones, riding in an armored vehicle, is protesting Apple in front of the factory here in Austin where President Trump will soon arrive. pic.twitter.com/o8ud5LoqiF — Sarah Westwood (@sarahcwestwood) November 20, 2019

As usual with Jones, it's hard to tell exactly who he's yelling at, but a video on Twitter shows him chanting, "America is back" again and again. So there's that.

There was also a group of anti-Trump protesters gathered outside the facility, though they were on foot.

ALSO: Rep. Jackie Speier's retort about Trump's 'Pinocchios' drawsbut her family refuses to believe it to this day. They fight to clear her name, and the fight continues to this day.

4. The House of Suh

The last mention on our list of morbidly fascinating true crime documentaries is the award-winning, House of Suh, which inspires a lot of compassion. A second-generation Korean-American Andrew Suh (charismatic high-school athlete) migrates to America with his family to start a better life. Her sister, a rebellious lady, is not accepted by the family but turns out to be a successful business owner.

In the end she becomes Andrew’s guardian. Their mother dies from a tragic accident (an attack on the store owned by them). Catherine, the sister, convinces Andrews that it is all a conspiracy theory and their theory leads to a


Marcelo Bielsa that caught the headlines, too. The former Lille midfielder was heavily linked with a move to Premier League side Swansea, with some outlets reporting that Payet had packed his bags and was keen on the move to Wales. The deal broke down, however, and it’s been a blessing in disguise for Marseille, becoming Bielsa’s most valuable player overnight.

The diminutive playmaker has racked up a total of eight assists thus far – double his amount from the previous campaign. Additionally, the French international has registered five goals in 17 starts, including a screamer against Lorient which proved critical in the end.

The way Bielsa has utilised Payet this season has been identical to the way he utilised Iker Muniain during his time at Athletic Bilbao. Payet is tasked                    versus

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       On March 25, 2013, the 18-year-old defendant shot and killed 15-year-old

Ralphmon Green in the 2100 block of Allen Street in New Orleans. The victim was

struck by bullets four


    Dominique and Defendant then walked away. Dominique then called
      the victim who arrived on the scene and began arguing with
      Defendant because he thought Defendant was the person who had
      argued with Dominique. The victim threatened Defendant and called
      him names. The victim then “went to reach—went to get a gun from
      Dominique.” The victim clutched the gun in the waistband of his
      pants. When the shooting started, Mr. Anderson ran inside. He
      admitted he did not witness the actual shooting. Mr. Anderson also
     conceded that his sister and Defendant were involved in a dating
      relationship.

      On cross-examination, Mr. Anderson stated that he was currently in
      jail with Defendant. Mr. Anderson said he lied when he told the
      district attorney on multiple occasions and told the detective right
      after the shooting that he did not see the victim at all on the day of the
      shooting. He also admitted he never told the detective that he saw the
      victim clutching a gun. Mr. Anderson stated that he was inside for
      some minutes


of its key facilities in India.

While its formulation manufacturing plants at Poanta Sahib (Himachal Pradesh) and Dewas (Madhya Pradesh) are under the US drug regulator’s scanner since 2006, its newly-commissioned factory in Mohali was barred from supplying to the American market in 2013.

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Image: Ranbaxy, which was acquired by Japan's Daiichi Sankyo in 2008 from Malvinder Mohan Singh and family, the promoters, is currently facing the US FDA's import alert on four of its key facilities in India.Photographs: ReutersRynie

Rynie  () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wieliczki, within Olecko County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately  north-east of Wieliczki,  east of Olecko, and  east of the regional capital Olsztyn.

Before 1945 the area was part of Germany (East Prussia).

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to or more than a sum of the thickness of the bottom plate and the thickness of the electronic card. The thickness of the conventional electrical card connector can not be further reduced because of the presence of this bottom plate.
Additionally, a conventional electrical card connector usually includes a card ejection element for ejecting the electronic card out of the card receiving space. The card ejection element comprises a sliding member and a guiding member guiding the movement of the sliding member. The guiding member is partially received in and stacked under the sliding member. The arrangement of the sliding and guiding members further increases the total thickness of the electrical card connector. Furthermore, the operation of the card ejection element is easily obstructed by the arrangement ofof whom, Tomas, goes way back with Misty. He tells her the warehouse is owned by one Gideon Shaw, who recently got picked up by ICE. She goes to talk to him, but Luke isn’t allowed since he’s still got that conviction on his record. Before they split, Misty tells Luke she believes in him and Claire, and he just needs to give her some space. But when he asks if he can crash with her for a few nights, she scoffs at him — God I love Simone Missick’s performance. Luke eventually finds a friend in the form of Tilda Dillard, who heals his wound and promises to let him know if Bushmaster ever shows up at her shop again.

Misty talks to Gideon, who has history with


Bushmaster. He tells her about their childhood, when an old storyteller named Anansi (gotta love a good mythology shout-out) told young Bushmaster a story he never forgot, about a man on top of a hill and a man at the bottom. The man at the top of the hill has everything and thinks himself invulnerable, but the man at the bottom knows he can kill his enemy at any time — he just has to wait for them to let their guard down.

Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? The point is driven home when Bushmaster visits Mariah at Paradise. He brings up their old family history (apparently his parents worked for Mariah’s ancestors to build Paradise and the Stokes fortune). Mariah once again tries to poo-poo the past, and talksCure Bowl (Orlando), and then the New Orleans Bowl, all on Dec. 15. Instead they went from the Celebration to the Camellia (Montgomery, Ala.) to the New Orleans.

Right after Christmas, the original schedule had the Cheez-It Bowl (Phoenix), then the Music City (Nashville), and finally the Alamo (San Antonio), all by Dec. 28. Instead, as of publication, they’ll go to the First Responder Bowl (Dallas) on the 26th, then to the Independence Bowl (Shreveport, La.) and Texas Bowl (Houston) on the 27th, and end up in San Antonio on the 28th. (That’s the Texas Loop.) They’ll barnstorm the Lone Star State in an RV, which Ostlund is going to get lined up as soon as he hangs up with me.

It might wind up being more than 18 games.


President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden leads Trump by 36 points nationally among Latinos: poll Trump dismisses climate change role in fires, says Newsom needs to manage forest better Jimmy Kimmel hits Trump for rallies while hosting Emmy Awards MORE continued to criticize protesting NFL players Monday, retweeting an account that called for an NFL boycott and referenced former NFL star Pat Tillman, an Army Ranger who was killed in Afghanistan in 2004.

“NFLplayer PatTillman joined U.S. Army in 2002. He was killed in action 2004. He fought 4our country/freedom. #StandForOurAnthem #BoycottNFL,” the tweet, from Twitter user “@jayMAGA45,” reads.

NFLplayer PatTillman joined U.S. Army in 2002. He was killed in action 2004. He fought 4our country/freedom. #StandForOurAnthem #BoycottNFL pic.twitter.com/k1FXHRoozY — Ⓙay (@jayMAGA45) September 24, 2017

Tillman played for the Arizona Cardinals beforeenlisting in the Army after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

He was killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire in 2004, launching an attempted military cover-up meant to obscure how Tillman had died.

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Just before the retweet, Trump wrote “#StandForOurAnthem” from his own account.

The tweets come as Trump received an onslaught of criticism for suggesting over the weekend that NFL owners fire players who kneel during the national anthem.

"Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a bitch off the field right now,' " Trump said at a Friday night rally in Alabama. “ 'He is fired.' "

Trump has since doubled down on the remarks, arguing that kneeling during the national anthem — a protest started by quarterback


Emil Ladenburg

Emil Ladenburg (22 August 1822 – 8 January 1902) was a Privy Councilor, German banker, and co-owner of the Frankfurt-based bank E. Ladenburg which was eventually purchased by Deutsche Bank in 1930.

Early life
Ladenburg was born to a wealthy Jewish family on 22 August 1822 in Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Baden. He was the son of banker Herrmann Ladenburg (1791–1862) and Sara Mayer (1793–1855).

His grandfather, Wolf Haium Ladenburg, had founded W. H. Ladenburg & Söhn in 1789.  His uncle, Leopold Ladenburg, and his wife Delphine, were close friends of Johannes Brahms.

Career
In 1838, his brother, Ludwig Ladenburg, established a branch in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1848, after the departure of his brother, Emil assumed control of the Frankfurt bank. The name of the bank was changed to E. Ladenburgafter the parent in Mannheim went public. In 1930, E. Ladenburg was purchased by Deutsche Bank.

Landenburg served as a Geheimrat (equivalent to a Privy Councilor).

Personal life

On 17 March 1852, Ladenburg married Eugénie Adèle Halphen (1829–1866), the daughter of a respected Parisian family related to the Paris Rothschilds. Together, Eugenie and Emil were the parents of four children, two sons and two daughters:

 Adolph Ladenburg (1855–1896), who co-founded the private American merchant bank Ladenburg Thalmann, with Ernst Thalmann in 1876.  He married the American Emily Louise Stevens, daughter of Alexander Henry Stevens and niece of Byam K. Stevens.
 August Ladenburg (1856–1929), who married Gertrud von Hergenhahn (Carl Friedrich August von Hergenhahn). After her death, he married Charlotte Emilie Schmidt (daughter of Gustav Adolf Schmidt).
 Marie Ladenburg (b. 1857),


Hundreds of people gathered in Morocco's capital Rabat to mark the start of the Amazigh new year with a sit-in, calling on the state to make the celebration a national holiday.

"This day is an occasion to highlight our strong attachment to the land and pay tribute to those who defended our freedom," Adil Adasko, an Amazigh community leader, said at the rally on Saturday.

The first day of the year in the Amazigh calendar, rooted in seasons and agriculture, marks the anniversary of the ascent of Libyan King Sheshong to the throne of Egypt, according to historians.

The new year, also called Yennayer, which began on Sunday, is the year 2969.

Last week, 143 of 395 members of Morocco's parliament submitted a motion to Prime Minister Saad Eddine el-Othmani, asking forthe Amazigh new year to be recognised as a national day, a step already taken by neighbouring Algeria.

Government spokesperson Mustapha el-Khalfi said Othmani was studying the issue.

Language, culture marginalised

Home to North Africa's biggest Amazigh, or Berber, population, Morocco long marginalised its language and culture in favour of Arabic and French, giving rise to an Amazigh identity movement which has steadily gained influence.

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Demands of the Amazigh movement featured prominently in 2011 protests, which led to Morocco adopting a constitution and the king to devolve some of his power to an elected government.

Morocco recognised Amazigh as an official language only with the new constitution in 2011.

Eight years on, parliament has yet to enact the legislation required to establish its use in education and public life. Activists accuse the government of


dragging its feet.

While forming substantial populations in these countries, the Tamazight languages have only recently started to gain formal recognition.

The word Tamazight refers to the spectrum of related dialects spoken by the Berber people.

In the early 2000s, the Royal Institute for Amazigh Culture was launched in Rabat, and Tamazight lessons were introduced in primary schools. An Amazigh TV channel was also launched in 2006.

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The Amazigh movement has also played a role in protests in some of Morocco's marginalised areas, including demonstrations over economic and social grievances in the Rif region in 2016 and in Souss last year.

Berbers inhabit an area spanning most of North Africa, with large populations in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and western Egypt.

Berber tribes and ethnic groups can also be found as far south astbone1 writes: "Teams from the Indy Racing League are in Indianapolis to prepare for The Indianapolis 500 on the 27th of May. There is a story in the Indianapolis Star about a local Linux programmer who is trying to get the Linux logo on a car. Usually it's the big companies who have year-long deals with the top IRL teams — Marlboro, Target, Motorola, etc — but for a small team racing at the 500 only, a small logo can be purchased for $11,000, or you can be a primary sponsor for about $350,000, and possibly get "Team Linux" in the car's name."


The Maine soldier who lost part of all four of his limbs in Afghanistan, and recently opened a veterans retreat, met with the president and vice president on Monday during a visit to Washington, D.C.

Retired Staff Sgt. Travis Mills met Vice President Mike Pence a couple months ago while he was at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and was invited for a tour of the White House, according to Brandy Cain, lead gift officer for the Travis Mills Foundation, who accompanied the veteran along with two other foundation board members.

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“And, President Donald J. Trump thank you for meeting with us impromptu as well,” Mills said.

Travis Mills Foundation opened the Maine Chance Lodge & Retreat overlooking Long Pond in Rome at the end of June to provide a place for veterans and their families to vacation for free. The foundation that bears Mills’ name also operates a camp, the National Veteran’s Recreation Center, on Salmon Lake near Belgrade.

Mills was on patrol during his third tour in Afghanistan in 2012 with the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne when he put his bag down on an IED. He typically wears prosthetics on his left arm and both legs. His story is featured in the documentary “Travis: A Soldier’s Story,” on Netflix and in a book, “Tough as They Come,” a


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For those of us who label ourselves human, the events of today (15 April 2013) have brought forth at least one of the following reactions: emotion, shock, cynicism, or fear. There were lives lost today. There were lives permanently maimed today. The outpouring of grief over this event has been intense and painful. Not long after the blow felt from the Connecticut Massacre, more agony and chaos has been laid upon our collectively overburdened shoulders. The weapon being bombs this time instead of guns has not dulled the pain, only tear the still damaged wound even deeper. After the initial shock and grief began to subside, I noticed there was a different emotion still lingering independentWelcome to WSRA

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Rebellion in Matamoros, Mexico

70,000 workers strike at US-Mexico border sweatshops

By Alex González and Eric London

15 January 2019

At least 70,000 workers from 45 factories—including tens of thousands of auto parts and assembly workers at companies that supply GM, Ford and Fiat-Chrysler—have launched a wildcat strike in the US-Mexico border town of Matamoros.

The strike is a rebellion against both the “maquiladora” manufacturing corporations and the pro-company trade unions. Over 1 million workers endure low wages and sweatshop conditions at the 3,000 “maquiladora” factories that line the Mexican side of the border and account for 65 percent of Mexican exports.

The strike is a powerful sign of the growing mood of insurgency among workers across the world. It takes place alongside a strike of 30,000 public school teachers in Los Angeles, growingto direct workers’ attention away from the real enemies: the corporations and their union collaborators.

In November, when General Motors announced it was slashing 15,000 jobs in the US and Canada, the United Auto Workers and Unifor blamed Mexican workers for “stealing jobs.”

Ford has also announced thousands of job cuts in Europe and, with more cuts forthcoming amid an international restructuring of the auto industry, the unions and companies fear that workers will unite across national boundaries in a common fight. At a recent Unifor union rally in Windsor, Ontario, a woman stood near the speakers’ platform dressed in a sombrero and poncho to insult Mexican workers. These are the racist views of the wealthy union leaders, not of US and Canadian workers who are looking for a way


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Sweetheart Song is the latest melody release from the movie, Kedarnath starring Sushant Singh Rajput & Sara Ali Khan. The song originally, has been sung by Dev Negi. Amit Trivedi, the music maestro has done the music and the lyrics are by Amitabh Bhattacharya.

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This is a cover version of Sweetheart Song with music by Sonik Culture. We have tried a different take on this song which rightly fits into the pre-wedding genre making it apt for wedding shoots. This unplugged version of Sweetheart song from Kedarnath is full of melodic elements. Shaahi joda pehen ke Aayi jo banthan ke Vahi toh meri #Sweetheart hai..ONU and JCU seem to have a challenging early schedule, facing lots of nationally and regionally ranked teams. Every year the OAC schedule gets upgraded. This year, the top teams look to have a strength of schedule that could stand up to any conference. Here's hoping they show well.

This is the most seasoned JCU team in years with lots of veteran depth. Some players are returning from injury as well. ONU also has a lot of veteran depth. Its my understanding that the Crusaders are getting back some injured stars as well.

I know its early, just thought I'd get the ball rolling.....

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The Crusaders face one of the toughest schedules in the OAC


this year. In the first ten games they face five 2012 NCAA Tournament teams: Carnegie Melln, PSU-Behrend, Thomas More, Wittenberg and Ohio Northern all on the road! They also face a tough Hanover (13-4-2) team at home.

In terms of returning players Capital will have 2011 leading scorer, Hilary Ells and starting left back / captain Michelle Geiger back from pre-season injuries that led to them miss the entire 2012 season. They will also return Striker Holly Phillips who missed the entire OAC schedule after breaking her foot at Hanover last year. In theory the return of those players combined with the maturity of all the youngesters who played a great deal last year will give the Crusaders hope.

That being said, it wouldn't surprise me if any of thetop 5 teams won the conference. As I've stated previously, the intra-conference play in the OAC is very competitive and it amazes me each year how close the games are among the top 5 squads.

My sleeper pick would be Marietta. Coach Blasius probably had the most talented team in recent years at JCU in 2011. They made it to the conference finals. Some questioned whether the coach's attention was fully on her team at that time. She returns now at Marietta, apparently ready to try and build a championship soccer program there. It wouldn't surprise me if that program rose in the next few years. They might sneak up on a few people this year.

So here is my thinking....I am grouping the top five into two categories. ONU


be a fun season...I'm looking forward to it!

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John Carroll had a rough start to their season today. They took a drubbing at the hands of a far superior Thomas More side. The first half wasn't terribly lopsided for the first half hour. Both played tentatively as temperatures on the artificial playing surface approached 100°. However, once the Saints netted their first goal it was a one sided affair. The Streaks were out hustled and their passing wasn't crisp at all. Hopefully, they get it straightened out because the schedule doesn't get easier.

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Looks like ONU, Capital andFilm critic, Michael Medved is aware that by publishing his book, "Hollywood verses America", he will not only enrage mostly everyone in the show business industry, but he will also loose some of his friends because of what he wrote. His strongly opinionated critique of popular culture examines the recent shift in the content of today's television, films, music and art. He has gathered statistics and opinions as well as shared personal experiences, all to illustrate one major point; popular cult...

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Arguably the most popular - and certainly the busiest - movie leading man in Hollywood history, John Wayne entered the film business while working as a laborer on the Fox Studios lot during summer vacations from university, which he attended on a football scholarship. He met and was befriended by John Ford, a young director who was beginning to make a name for himself in action films, comedies, and dramas. Wayne was cast in small roles in Ford's late-'20's films, occasionally under the name Duke...

The decade of the 1930's can be characterized in two parts: The Great Depression, and the restoration of the Americaneconomy. America had been completely destroyed due to the Stock Market Crash of 1929. It was up to the government and people of the 1930's to "mend" Americas wounds. One man stood up to this challenge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He promised to fix the American economy, provide jobs, and help the needy. During The Great Depression, the crime rate had risen to an all new high. J. E...

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Friday, 29 March 2013

Swans v Spurs Preview

It's only been two weeks since the Arsenal game (and five since the Capital One cup final) but both seem an age ago. With both Swansea and Spurs coming off multiple successive defeats, the international break arguably came at a good time to provide a gap between what's gone before and the final part of the season.

As mentioned in the review of the Arsenal game, there's no shame in losing to a team of that calibre but it certainly felt like a flat performance with pretty much ever player (even Leon) guilty of some poor passing.

This season has seen a progression for Swansea in pretty much every area which can be seen in the fact that there are far more options available


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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (Jan. 14, 2016) -- A Bloomington man is behind bars, accused of picking up large quantities of heroin in Indianapolis to sell back at home.

Bloomington Police arrested Charles Timothy Beason, 27, after a two-month long investigation that included undercover buys and surveillance on Beason's apartment.

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 6: RETURN OF (THE) KING. Republican New York congressman Pete King continues to get to know New Hampshire Republicans as he weighs a run for President in 2016.

The Long Island representative was in the first-in-the-nation primary state in August for a picnic at a friend's home in Wakefield.

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King said he remains concerned about the situation in Syria and "very disappointed" in President Obama.

He said many Republicans House members are opposing Obama on striking Syria "because they don't believe the President is serious enough about it."

King said he will support the Obama resolution, however, and will be on "Meet the Press" Sunday to address it.

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and is more likely to be reinforced due to the larger production base. Troyes is in the yellow from the attack that Louis XI is conducting. Louis XI declared war late last part, but is already making progress.

To the southeast, the Franks and HRE go to peace, as do de Champlain and Flanders. To celebrate, de Champlain builds Kronborg, a wonder perfectly suited to a naval-focused civ: +1 culture and great merchant point, +25% city health for coastal cities, and an additional 50% production towards naval units in the city in which its built.

To the south, Monaco and the Papal States go to peace, and I think the Papal States were actually making progress considering the damage La Condamine is at.

Unfortunately for Gallia, they suddenly find themselves atwar with the Papal States and Rome. The Gauls show that they stand firm with Gallia by calling them Comrade, and becoming communist(order). I'm a bit confused as to where Rome keeps their army, their lands are flooded with Visigothic units, but I'm sure its around somewhere.

Francois has decided to rid the world of Anne of Brittany. Probably a good thing, as there isn't much left of her. Monaco joins the fun too.

The Gauls capture Nancy from Clemenceau, and decide to burn it to the ground. The Swiss attack the Franks, somehow from three directions, as they have forces to the north and west, and are based in the south.

As we see the last of Nancy, Troyes falls to the Gauls leaving Clemenceau on 2 cities.. Regensburg takes


its first damage.

Troyes is taken to the yellow, as the HRE declares war on the Swiss. Considering how undefended Geneva and Zurich are, I'd hope to see some quick progress, but nothing will likely come of it, as usual. Clemenceau also recaptures Troyes.

This recapture of Troyes allows Louis XI to capture the city, giving them a weird arm to the north. Unfortunately for the Franks, Louis XI, de Champlain, William of Normandy, and the Visigoths declare war on him. Louis XI is the only one he has to worry about, but considering their recent expansion, I'd be very worried.

Also, Navarre declares war on Franco's Spain. We'll take a look at the region if anything interesting happens.

The Gallians have managed to capture Neapolis, however Arras is heavily damaged sosettle much and went tall. She was a regional player until everyone else had more cities and was in a disastrous war with Francois and de Champlain. After that, she was a rump state until now. Overall, a middling performance. Probably should have used JFD's Brittany as everyone said, but I suppose that'll be next time.

The Gauls have managed to capture Paris, and are now burning it. It may flip back, but I'm not convinced. Chavonne is practically undefended, Clemenceau is in a bad place currently. The Papal States join in against the Franks as well.

Flanders captures Buckingham from the Anglo-Saxons, which is pretty embarrassing for them. Clemenceau somehow makes peace with the Gauls, allowing him to live until someone puts him out of his misery.

Navarre and Rome


while as the Swiss don't have any nits to recapture the city within the next turn or two.

To the north, the Hainaut town of Binche falls to the West Germans. Thankfully, this sates the West German desire for war, with the addition of Ath in the deal. With the end of this war, the Hainaut is effectively done. Their two cities are split, so they'll be a tasty snack for any of their neighbours.

Speaking of peace, the Papal States and Gallia also make peace.

Seeing the rising power of Louis XI, the Gauls declclare war on them. This could define the power balance of the region, so we'll have to keep an eye on the region. The Gauls' army is more grouped, but the dispersion of Louis' army meansfrom the majority of Louis XI's empire, but at least de Medici and de Champlain's forces will make it difficult for the Gauls to attack. Also, another France adopts communism/order while the HRE and Swiss go to peace, allowing the HRE to keep Zurich.

At least the north is secure, troops from Gaul attack Peronne and move on Dijon, and the French army is few and far between. The West Germans build Broadway to host a musical to celebrate their victory over the Hainaut.

Return to Spain, as Franco is slowly but surely reduced to Madrid. Santander remains in the red and Asturias captures Pravia, a city they lost to Franco quite a few wars ago. This looks like Franco's final stand, as his entire southern and western approaches are


happiest civ in the hexagon (the nickname for continental France in France).

Not many unhappy civs in the game, so that means little razing of cities hopefully.

Or not. Regensburg falls to the Gauls, who raze the city. Dijon is under attack by a strong army, but there are forces ready to retake the city.

In Spain, Spain is eliminated by Asturias. If Franco hurries up and moves his forces intelligently, he could retake Madrid, but it would fall the turn after so its not really worth it.

Francisco Franco of Spain (Rank: 26/40) is a bit of weird civ to write a eulogy for. He warred early with Asturias and took a bad city on the map edge from them and then settled Barcelona within the Asturian empire, but lost itthe Rome-Papal State war didn't lead to anything, except that somehow a Roman rifleman made it to the middle of the Papal army. Weird.

Offscreen, the Visigoths go autocratic while Charles de Gaulle attacks Clemenceau.

The Hainaut, currently attacking Clemenceau, expand the war to attack the Franks. Maybe they should focus on eliminating Clemenceau first instead of attacking someone else...

Offscreen, Rome and Flanders go autocratic, while Andorra adopts communism.

The Gauls give Louis XI an ally by attacking the Papal States. Surely the enemy of my enemy is my friend, even in civ games right?

The HRE captures Aachen from the Franks, however most of the Frankish army is ready to take the city back.

A large coalition against the Papal States brews, as Monaco, Andorra, Cornwall, and Flanders declare against them. Only


Monaco matters, but Andorra may be able to serve as a distraction for a bit.

This time the war is on Navarre, as the Hainaut and Visigoths team up. The Visigoths should be able to attack the Navarre's French cities north of the Pyrenees, but Pondichery should fall to Navarre should everything go according to plan. Navarre has some of their UU, the Txapelgorri. It replaces the Rifleman, ignores rough terrain movement costs, and has a +25% Combat Bonus in Hills.

The HRE adopts communism.

Oh my, quite the interesting slide. Flanders, Cornwall, and the Anglo-Saxons declare war on the Hainaut, after the Hainaut eliminate Georges Clemenceau's France. Flemish forces are advancing on Mons, while Rouen is already in the yellow.

Georges Clemenceau of France (Rank: 25/40) warred with the Hainaut, managingby the Flemish. This capture reduces the Hainaut to 2 cities, neither of which were theirs to begin with, and limits West Germany's access to the Hainaut to continue previous wars against them. It does increase their border with Flanders though.

Francois completes the Manhattan project as well, and the Hainaut recapture Mons from the Flemish. It'd be nice is Francois took out Richelieu, who is somehow still around.

Hey, a real life conflict in a civ game, how original! The Visigoths declare war on Rome while they're distracted with Napoleon. The Visigoths should be able to make major gains, as they have a tech advantage and open roads to both Aurillac and Narbo.

The Channel will now host one of the biggest naval wars in the game, as de Champlain


declares war on the Anglo-Saxons in an effort to remove them from the continent. The New French have artillery, something which will greatly help their attacks in the future.

Flanders and the Hainaut go to peace. Shame that, as Flanders could have made more gains.

Just like that, 2 turns later the've captured Maldon. The paratrooper by Stafford and aircraft carrier by Sorel-Tracy should be indicative of things to come, as the New French move on to clear the western Channel of Anglo-Saxon naval units.

Recognising the danger posed by the Visigoths, Rome makes peace with Napoleon.This war reduced Napoleon's army, but there wasn't much of it to begin with.

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