onto a wire frame, and set out to dry.

Mr Reilly's father walks past. "Is he bamboozling you with the science?" he asks cheekily.

Most of the paper Mr Reilly manufactures for his business Tenax papers is made from the more conventional material harakeke, or New Zealand flax.

He hopes the bull paper will be a hit with tourists or backpackers, who may be looking for a quirky gift. It's also proven popular with those looking for an original, handmade effect.

"I have had people who have bought it not because it's bullshit, because they think it's beautiful."

And if not, at least friends are amused with being able to legitimately call him a "bullshit artist," he said.She joined directors from Deutsche Welle, France 24, and the US Broadcasting Board of Directors which oversees the Voice of America, in condemning the flagrant violation of the clearly established international procedures on operating satellite equipment.

Liliane Landor said: “The BBC calls upon the Ethiopian authorities to end this interference. They are disrupting international news broadcasts for no apparent reason. This is a deliberate act of vandalism that tarnishes their reputation.”

During the past week, BBC television and radio broadcasts on the Arabsat satellites have been affected by intentional uplink interference. Many international television broadcasts, including those from France 24 and Deutsche Welle, have been badly affected.

The satellite operator Arabsat has reported that the interference has come from within Ethiopia. The interference is intensive and affects services on all three


The Residents of Old Wilmington present the 9th Annual Back Door Kitchen Tour this Saturday.
The event features kitchens that range from innovative renovations to picture perfect restorations.Full story...

This year's Back Door Kitchen Tour is about to get underway, and the Residents of Old Wilmington unveiled the official artwork.
Our Chief Meteorologist Scott Dean was there during the big presentation.
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The annual Back Door Kitchen Tour is this Saturday in the historic district of Wilmington.
Residents of Old Wilmington host the event that features nine kitchens decorated with exciting florals and place settings.
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- Some of the most modern kitchens in Wilmington, oddly enough, are tucked into downtown's Historic District.
Nine of these kitchens will be open to the public on Oct. 12 for the Residents of Old Wilmington's eighth annual BackNORTH ARLINGTON - One of four Belleville police officers charged with assault in connection with a bar fight was suspended from the force three years ago for sleeping in his patrol car, Police Chief Mark Minichini confirmed Tuesday.

Jesse J. McKeough, 28, was photographed in uniform sleeping between 5 and 6 a.m. on Sept. 9, 2013 while working a second job at a Stop & Shop on Franklin Street in Belleville. The photo was posted to Facebook and used in a YouTube video titled "Cop caught sleeping in his squad car!"

"I can confirm that information is correct. It's the same officer," Minichini said, declining to comment further on the incident.

Former Police Chief Joseph Rotunda told The Star-Ledger in 2013 that McKeough was suspended for falling asleep in his uniform.

McKeough,


a four-year member of the Belleville Police Department, was arrested Monday along with three other police officers and a Lyndhurst man in connection with an Oct. 21 brawl at the Pourhouse 17 pub on Ridge Road in North Arlington.

The officers are all charged with simple assault and have been suspended without pay pending criminal and administrative charges, Minichini said.

Minichini said he was unsure how long McKeough had been suspended for the Stop & Shop incident.

Former Belleville resident Anthony Telinski was riding his bike when he spotted the sleeping officer and snapped a picture. He posted the photo to Facebook groups and YouTube, where it got the attention of another police officer.

Telinksi later said he was harassed by Belleville police officers after the incident was publicized and that theyCHARLOTTESVILLE -- How's this for summer fun? Thirty hours on a bus: 15 on the drive up to Michigan and then, a week later, 15 more on the ride home.

"It's not that bad," Chantel Jones said, "because we get on the bus, watch a couple movies and then pass out. And when we wake up, we're there. It's not that great a sleep, but it's better than being awake for 15 hours on a bus."

Jones is the starting goalkeeper for the UVa women's soccer team, whose traditions include a weeklong training camp each summer at a boarding school in Glen Arbor, Mich. The Cavaliers' bus -- a sleeper -- pulls out Friday night. It's scheduled to arrive at the Leelanau School, on the shores of Lake Michigan, on


to mesh more than they would if they stayed here."

The Cavaliers are coming off a season in which they finished 15-5-2 after losing in the NCAA tournament's round of 16 for the sixth consecutive year. Jones already was planning to return for a sixth year at UVa, but the season-ending loss to Ohio State reaffirmed her decision.

"I don't want to leave this team when I have more to give, especially after last year," said Jones, who redshirted in 2006 and played for the United States at the under-20 World Cup in 2008. "And I feel good. This is the fittest I've ever felt. So I really want to get this program a national championship."

Swanson lost the two top scorers from his 2010 team -- Sinead Farrelly and MeghanLenczyk -- and they won't be easily replaced. Farrelly, a four-time member of the all-ACC first team, was a first-team All-American last year and in the spring received the IMP Award as UVa's top female athlete for 2010-11.

In Brian, though, the Cavaliers have added a phenom who's probably the most decorated recruit in program history. Brian has represented the United States at the U-14, U-15, U-17, U-18 and U-20 levels.

"Not only is she a terrific talent, but she's a very humble person, and I think she'll fit in really well with the team," Swanson said. "She's already done that. She's the kind of person who won't want anything other than to earn her respect."

Of her many accolades, Brian said, "I just like to play soccer for fun. I


don't really think about any of that other stuff. "

At the ESPY Awards last month, Brian was honored as the Gatorade National Female High School Athlete of the Year. Also in Los Angeles for the ESPYs was UVa men's lacrosse coach Dom Starsia, one of the nominees for Best Coach/Manager.

"I was kidding Dom," Swanson recalled with a smile this week. "I said, 'My girl won the ESPY. What happened to you?' "

Brian, who's from St. Simons Island, Ga., is the jewel of a heralded recruiting class.

"I loved this team in the spring," Jones said Friday, "and now we have six new awesome first-years who are coming in, so I like us even more. After two days, I can already tell they're going to make a really big impact."

Jones,who turned 23 last month, is "a key piece to this puzzle," Swanson said. "Anytime you can return somebody of Chantel's experience, especially in the position she plays, it's extremely valuable, and not just because of her talent.

"She's been there before. She's been in a lot of big games. I think she'll be able to give a calming voice and an experienced voice to some of our younger players."

Many thought Virginia was talented enough in 2010 to advance to the NCAA semifinals and, perhaps, win its first national championship in this sport. That's been the case in other seasons, too.

"Have there been disappointing and frustrating years, where we thought we've played awfully well and we've had a team that could win it?" Swanson said. "Yes, there have. But


cash in on the base-first strategy that put their candidate in the White House back in 2016. For that to work, they need to know everything about their base. And these rallies may make that possible.

The big picture: The affection between the Trump campaign team and the thousands of people who flock to his rallies is mutual — and strong. In fact, impromptu campsites also spring up around the rallies, as our film crew documented last month in freezing conditions in Manchester, New Hampshire.

And Manchester is no fluke. Trump supporters have also literally pitched their tents for overnight stays before rallies around the country:

Wildwood, New Jersey

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Phoenix, Arizona

"I did it once — it's addictive," one of the frozen MAGA campers told "Axios on HBO." "It's like, I'veItalian ship capt refused orders to return to ship

A recorded conversation between the captain of a wrecked Italian cruise liner and a port official has revealed that he left the ship before all the passengers were evacuated.

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A recorded conversation between the captain of a wrecked Italian cruise liner and a port official has revealed that he left the ship before all the passengers were evacuated.

In the phone conversation, which was recorded after the crash and released to the media, captain Francesco Schettino refused to go back to the Costa Concordia to coordinate rescue operations, as ordered by local port authority chief Gregorio De Falco, Xinhua reported.

"You have to go aboard, this is an order," De Falco repeatedly told Schettino after finding the captain


seen. He was quick to adjust to the rigors of Major League Soccer, and unlike a lot of foreign players, needed little or no time to make an impact on the field.

There is no denying that Robbie Keane has earned all of the money thrown his way as one of the three Designated Players Spots available to the LA Galaxy, and up until this year there was never a doubt as to whether LA should re-sign the Irishman.

But at 36 years old, and having played in just 17 of 32 regular season games so far this year, it’s safe to say, that age is catching up to him. If Keane’s current pace of play is expected to continue over the remaining two games, he will post slightly overHolidays Greetings from the Mezzanine!

Like most busy and productive workplaces, the NLM celebrates those times when social events intersect with everyday work. Just now, we are pausing to celebrate the Judeo-Christian holidays of Christmas and Hanukkah. Decorations are up, treats are appearing, and everyday greetings are complemented with good wishes for the holidays and the new year.

Arising from my family traditions and beliefs, I take this time to extend my greetings for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you, your friends, and your families. In our large family of 10 children, Christmas was a time of giving and excitement, with crafts-leading-to-gifts, secret presents hidden till that special morning, and participation in the church traditions of our community.

Although perhaps the most visible holidays mixing religious ideas


sound of glass *485 shattering, Ms. Lang entered the bedroom to investigate. When she saw appellant, she turned to flee, but appellant caught her. Holding her arms behind her, he forced her to the living room couch and sat down beside her. When she told him her son would be back shortly, he said "Get up and get out" several times and forced her to accompany him outside. Once outside, however, appellant tripped and fell and Ms. Lang was able to break free. She ran to a neighbor's house and banged on the door, but before the neighbor could let her in, appellant caught her and grabbed her again. The police arrived shortly thereafter, having seen the struggle between the appellant and Ms. Lang while on routine patrol.
Appellantbattle cry: Follow the sapper.

Australian forces, including sappers, on patrol in the _dasht_.

Brigadier David Wainwright handing out certificates to trade school graduates.

An Afghan student learns the basics.

A sapper supervises an Afghan contractor to ensure his building methods are up to scratch. (All photos provided by the Department of Defence except where noted)

A foot patrol leaves the Hesco-built patrol base of Camp Lyddiard.

Transports, ancient and modern—ASLAVs overlook a camel train in the _dasht_.

Sapper Brenton Keemik with explosive detection dog Aussie on the job in the Mirabad Valley region.

Warrant Officer Jeff Newman disarms and investigates an IED.

Sappers clear the way for a patrol.

A special ops team is extracted by a Russian-built DEA helicopter. (Photo from Jeff Newman)

Weapons, explosives and opium found in a village search.

A _shura_ between senior officers and


accused of claiming as much as £100,000 for a property reportedly left empty, while the Conservative Bill Wiggin claimed £11,000 in parliamentary allowances for a property he owned outright.

Police and leading prosecutors have spent several weeks going through suspicious claims from MPs and peers.

Officers have interviewed staff in the fees office as part of their inquiry to satisfy themselves that MPs were following the rules in most cases.

They are refusing to say how soon any charges if any could be brought.

Parliament today published a list of MPs who have repaid claims, suggesting that 182 from all parties had returned a total of £478,616.

Most MPs insist their behaviour was within the rules and that they paid money back to alleviate voter anger.WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, nearing a 42-year low as labor market conditions continued to tighten in a boost to the economy.

Job seekers stand in line to meet with prospective employers at a career fair in New York City, October 24, 2012. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 267,000 for the week ended Dec.19, not far from levels last seen in late 1973, the Labor Department said on Thursday.

Economists polled by Reuters had forecast claims dipping to 270,000 in the latest week. Claims have been below 300,000, a threshold associated with a buoyant labor market, for 42 consecutive weeks. That is the longest stretch since the early 1970s.

However, some


NOBODY knows why the small town of Kafr Nabl, in north-western Syria, has become a hub of cheeky banners twitting President Bashar Assad and his regime. Still outgunned but not outwitted, protesters have been using comedy sketches, songs, art and slogans to spice up their rebellion.

When the UN's observers who were supposed to be overseeing Kofi Annan's peace plan were plainly far too thin on the ground, a banner went up with the words “Special offer! Collect 12,000 martyrs, get 30 observers free!” Another showed the observers taking photographs as the army rampaged, with Mr Assad, an eye doctor by training, slicing up a body.

A year ago when Mr Assad famously declared that “germs” were causing trouble in Syria, echoing Colonel Muammar Qaddafi's description, before his fall, ofhis opponents as “rats”, Syria's protesters chanted, “Syrian germs salute Libyan rats!” In opposition-controlled areas taxi drivers and housewives sing songs telling Mr Assad to leave and mocking his brutal brother Maher as a donkey.

Mr Assad's elongated neck and lisp have been a particular target of taunts. In “Top Goon: Diaries of a Little Dictator”, a puppet show series posted on YouTube, he trips over his words as he appears on a game show called “Who wants to kill a million?” Referring to the pet name the president's wife, Asma, gives her husband, as revealed in a leaked e-mail, protesters recently used stencils to paint ducks and profiles of Mr Assad's face side by side onto roads. “Duck, stop quacking! The Free Syrian Army is going to catch


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Directed by: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Actors: Sergio Kleiner, Diana Mariscal, María Teresa Rivas

Language: Spanish (English Subtitles)

Country: Mexico

Also known as: Fando y Lis (original title), Il paese incantato

Description: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s (director of Alucarda, The Holy Mountain, and Santa Sangre) first full length movie about Fando and his paraplegic lover Lis searching for the enchanted city of Tar where spiritual ectasy supposedly resides. Based incredibly loosely on the memories Jodorowsky has of a Fernando Arrabal surrealist play. When first screened in Mexico the movie caused a riot in the theatre, causing the mob to pelt Alejandro with rocks as he tried to escape. A few subsequent showings in Mexico all produced fights and riots from the audience. This almost causedLis” in this case is most reminiscent of the Old Testament parable. Parable about the power of faith and the weakness of the spirit, of creation and destruction, of Fando and Lis.

The world survived the apocalypse. External and internal. All that remained only good about him, buried under the ruins. But somewhere far away there is a city that has suffered, in which people do not live happily, as well as desire. It was there that the young man Fando wheels a cart, which is located on his fiancee Liz, unable to feel the warmth of the earth leather heels. On the way to the Thar, they meet people generated by these apocalypses. And just where are joined together their spiritual and material components, and there are events


insensitive or inflammatory speech," said Watson."At the same it was difficult to watch someone insult our officers."

WARNING: Video contains profanity

The officers involved are Drake Goodale and Neil Hubbard, according to Lost Coast Outpost. Both are members of the department's Problem Oriented Policing (POP) unit, which proactively patrols "major hotspots of crime and disorder" in Eureka. Watson said that's what Goodale and Hubbard were doing when they spotted Yellow Bird doing mechanical work in a parking lot. That constitutes a municipal code violation.

ALSO READ: Woman confronts SF 8-year-old, and her mother's video goes viral

An internal investigation is seeking to paint a better picture of what happened before the camera started rolling. Yellow Bird told Lost Coast Outpost that he was polite to officers before Goodale allegedly told him towas able to see it. I’ll talk junk to him later about it.”

But we might be getting ahead of ourselves with the Hall of Fame questions.

First things first: on Thursday night in Cleveland, if all goes well, Lowry will find out he has been chosen by the coaches as a reserve for the Eastern Conference all-star team.

It would mark his sixth straight season qualifying for the mid-season showcase and sixth overall, a remarkable feat given he didn’t make it for the first time until he was 28 years old and in his ninth season.

Raptors head coach Nick Nurse said it would “unfathomable” for Lowry to be overlooked on the coach’s ballot, considering he’s coming off an NBA championship, is once again leading one of the NBA’s best teams


in the regular season while topping the NBA in minutes per game at age 34. Nurse also catalogued a variety of things Lowry does that help teams win that you only see if you’re paying attention.

That Lowry is the only guard in the East not starting in the All-Star Game to average at least 19 points, seven assists, four rebounds and a steal should help his cause as well.

But making the All-Star Game again would be another line on his burgeoning Hall of Fame resume.

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It was Lowry’s old playoff foe and Brampton, Ont., native Tristan Thompson ofgroup buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick MORE's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner Jared Corey KushnerAbraham Accords: New hope for peace in Middle East Tenants in Kushner building file lawsuit alleging dangerous living conditions Trump hosts Israel, UAE, Bahrain for historic signing MORE. The secretary didn't give an update on any expected date for that plan, but said the U.S. will release it "when the conditions are right."

Pompeo also said the U.S. announcement recognizes the "reality" on the ground and is specific to Israel, not applying to other territorial disputes.

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He added that the decision is based on the “unique facts, history and circumstances” of the West Bank.

Israel took over the West Bank of the Jordan Valley following the 1967 Six-Day War. There are


an estimated 700,000 Israelis living in communities on the West Bank in areas where Palestinians claim land rights and which they say are important for a future Palestinian state.

Pompeo said that Monday’s recognition was a repudiation of the Obama administration's failure to veto a December 2016 United Nations Security Council resolution affirming Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and east Jerusalem as a “flagrant violation of international law.”

The U.S. abstained from the vote.

Pompeo also said on Monday the timing of the announcement followed the completion of a legal analysis review and was not meant to interfere with the domestic politics of Israel.

Benny Gantz, leader of Israel's Democratic Union party, has until Wednesday to secure a ruling majority following recent national elections. If he can't, the country facesthe likelihood of going to an unprecedented third election.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Benjamin (Bibi) NetanyahuMORE has played up his personal relationship with President Trump to shore up support among his political base and promised to annex the West Bank and Jordan Valley if he secured the premiership again.

On Monday, Netanyahu called the the U.S. announcement “an historic day.”

“This policy reflects an historical truth — that the Jewish people are not foreign colonialists in Judea and Samaria,” Netanyahu said in a statement, referring to the West Bank by its biblical name.

The U.S. policy comes from a review of the 1978 Hansell Memorandum, which established American talking points related to Israeli civilian-settlement activity in areas occupied by Israel, which included the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Sinai in Egypt


effort to bury the two-state solution,” Daniel Shapiro, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and visiting fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, wrote in an email to The Hill.

The Trump administration has failed to endorse a two-state solution to the Israeli and Palestinian peace conflict, instead referring to its expected peace plan as a “vision.”

Critics say steps by the White House, including moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing the Golan Heights as part of Israel and defunding UNRWA, the main Palestinian aid agency for refugees, takes away leverage to bring Israel back to the negotiating table with the Palestinians.

Saeb Erakat, chief Palestinian negotiator and secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the international representative body for Palestinians, called on the international community tomovies and other cultural exports combined.

The government started studying Internet game addiction in 2011. Its latest annual study found that 2 percent of South Koreans aged 10-19, or about 125,000 people, needed treatment for excessive online gaming or were at risk of addiction.

“My parents tried to stop me but I kept playing. Even the government wouldn’t have stopped me,” said Shin Minchul, a 21-year-old college student as he recounted his heavy gaming past.

At elementary school he bonded with his friends at an Internet cafe playing StarCraft three to four hours a day after classes finished.

He dreamed of becoming one of the professionals with corporate sponsorship whose games are broadcast live on cable TV to audiences numbering in the millions. By high school, he was playing another title, “World


Tony Abbott head-butt: Attacker pleads guilty in court Published duration 18 January 2018

image copyright EPA image caption Tony Abbott was head-butted in Hobart in September

A man has pleaded guilty to head-butting former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott.

Astro Labe, 38, admitted on Thursday to a charge of causing harm to a Commonwealth public official. The incident happened in September.

At the time Mr Abbott blamed the head-butt on his opposition to same-sex marriage, a claim later denied by Labe.

The Hobart man, a self-proclaimed anarchist, said he had been motivated by "personal hatred" for Mr Abbott.

He faces a maximum penalty of two years' jail and a A$25,000 (£14,000; $19,000) fine.

'Liverpool kiss'

A court heard Labe had been drinking at a bar when he saw Mr Abbott enter a newspaper office in Hobart.

WhenMr Abbott came out, Labe followed him for 250m (800ft) before deliberately assaulting him, the Australian Broadcasting Corp reported.

Mr Abbott said he had offered a handshake to Labe before being pulled in for a "Liverpool kiss", for which he suffered a swollen lip.

On Thursday, a magistrate questioned whether Labe had acted "spontaneously", as claimed by his lawyer, because he had joked about head-butting Mr Abbott earlier in the day.

The incident took place during a two-month national vote on same-sex marriage, which was later legalised.

Labe had been wearing a "vote yes" sticker, prompting Mr Abbott to suggest the head-butt was an example of the debate turning nasty.

He will be sentenced in March.


the midst of the 1944 growing season, she sold her interest in the grove, including an unmatured crop then on the trees. The question before us is whether, for federal income tax purposes, she must treat that part of her profit from the sale which is attributable to the unmatured crop as ordinary income or as a capital gain. For the reasons hereafter stated, she must treat it as ordinary income.
In 1944, Mrs. M. Gladys Watson, one of the petitioners here, and her two brothers, each owned an undivided one-third interest in a 110-acre navel orange grove near Exeter, Tulare County, California. Its management had been supervised by her brothers since 1912 and, since 1942, she and her brothers had operated it as a partnership. It was thethe rest of the property was specified but the seller bore the expense of caring for the crop up to September 1, amounting to $16,020.54. The sale was carried through and there was no serious frost. The crop filled 74,268 boxes. The purchaser sold them for $146,000, yielding him a net return of $126,000.
Mrs. Watson filed a joint return with her husband, taking full deductions for her one-third share of all of the business expenses incurred in the cultivation of the crop, but treating her gain from the sale of the grove, including the unmatured crop, as a long-term capital gain. On that basis, her net gain from the sale of the grove was shown as $48,819.82, but, treating it as a long-term capital gain, only 50% of


property was not severable at the date of its sale, there is nothing in the Act requiring it to be severable. While, in previous years, like crops were held for a sale that occurred after maturity, in 1944 the date of that sale came September 1. There is nothing in the Act that distinguishes between the taxable character of a gain derived from a present sale discounting the hazards of the future, and one derived from a later sale when the hazards are past. After the transfer of title to the grove, the crop on the trees retained its character and continued to be held for sale to customers of the grove owner in the ordinary course of the owner's trade or business.
The Commissioner's treatment of the proceedssustenance. Actually severed from the ground before maturity, the fruit is worthless. Its life, and hence its value, lies in the soil of which it is a part.
Second. The Commissioner urges that, unlike the trees, the oranges are the ultimate product of the enterprise, and as such are not "used" in the business. We do not interpret the word "used" so narrowly. We believe that the phrase "used in the trade or business" is simply designed to differentiate business assets from the taxpayer's personal assets and his nonbusiness, income-producing property. It is not disputed that Mrs. Watson's business was raising and selling oranges nor that the land and orange trees were used in her business. At the time the orange grove was sold, the oranges were as much


the trees. She was going out of the business in which she had long been engaged. She sold everything for one lump sum, without any allocation to land, trees or green fruit. It was not an ordinary business transaction. It was an extraordinary transaction. It was not a sale in the ordinary course of business. It was a sale out of the course of business for the purpose of going out of business. It was not a sale to an ordinary customer, who bought ripe fruit in quantities less than the whole crop, as Mrs. Watson had been accustomed to sell them. It was a sale of land and green fruit to one not a customer. Mrs. Watson did not split the sale up into land, trees, andLAS VEGAS -- Federal agents seized five pounds of C-4 military explosives from the Colorado home of a man accused with a Navy SEAL and a Las Vegas associate of smuggling machine guns from Iraq into the U.S. for sale and shipment to Mexico, authorities said Thursday.

Grenades and night-vision goggles also were found in the Durango, Colo., home of 34-year-old Richard Paul, according to federal prosecutors and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents in Las Vegas and Colorado.

Paul and Andrew Kaufman, 36, of Las Vegas, were arrested Wednesday and appeared Thursday before federal magistrate judges in Durango and Las Vegas on conspiracy charges. Each was ordered held in federal custody pending an evidentiary hearing.

They are accused of conspiring with Navy SEAL Nicholas Bickle of San


This is Toronto through a basketball-glass darkly. It points toward the future of how the Raptors will project themselves onto the NBA landscape.

Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment took the first real step in its promised rebrand of the team on Wednesday with the release of a campaign entitled 'We The North.'

The first video spot has an old-school Nike-feel - plus fire, snow and wolves. It's Game of Thrones minus the nudity.

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"We took all the negatives and built them into our campaign," MLSE CEO Tim Leiweke said. "I know what people say about us. I know they look past us. Great. Do that. We'll show them."

This is a showcase for the new, Drake-abetted Raptors. The pop star had a large hand in the look and feelof the campaign, stopping in regularly for brainstorming sessions at home and on the road.

"He inspired our thinking here," Leiweke said.

Whatever you make of it, you will admit the last word it summons to mind is "corporate." This feels like work produced by an especially athletic art school. One that does a lot of daytime things in the middle of the night.

It's a message to fans, hinting at the Canadian exceptionalism that is the philosophic cornerstone to every beer ad of the last decade. More importantly, it's a come hither to would-be employees.

The old guard of the NBA – the Lakers, the Celtics, the Knicks – have fallen from their hegemonic perch. All Empires rise and fall. They fall a lot harder when James Dolan is in charge.


While the metropolises of the U.S. are still destinations of choice, they're no longer the only ones.

If there is a larger theme in today's NBA, it's the dawning age of second cities and outsiders – the Thunder, the Clippers, the Spurs.

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After the best year in franchise history, the Raptors are part of that cohort, but they aren't anywhere near the top of it.

The short-term plan for advancement is making a playoff splash, and who the hell knows how that will turn out.

Whatever happens, the Raptors will be good for a while to come; the Eastern Conference will continue to be bad. That's a first step.

The long-term position is to make this team attractive to the top-tier of free agents, most notably soon-to-be-crowned MVP Kevin Durant.Barack Obama just revealed his favourite songs and books from 2017

He may have left the White House over a year ago, but Barack Obama is still guiding the way for us all.

To mark the New Year the 56-year-old took to his public Facebook page to share his top songs and books from 2017 – Rihanna, Camila Cabello and Harry Styles made the list – just FYI.

‘During my presidency, I started a tradition of sharing my reading lists and playlists,’ he announced in a Facebook post to his 55 million followers. ‘It was a nice way to reflect on the works that resonated with me and lift up authors and artists from around the world.’

He continued: ‘With some extra time on my hands this year to catch up, I


seven years at the firm, Pao filed a lawsuit in which she claimed her then-employer had denied her promotions because of her gender, ignored her complaints of discrimination, and ultimately fired her for complaining and filing a lawsuit. After a lengthy trial in the spring of 2015, Pao lost the case on all counts, though she sparked a national conversation around diversity in Silicon Valley. Kleiner has offered to drop its request for legal fees if she agrees to not appeal the case while Pao has said she will wave her appeal in exchange for $2.7 million, according to legal filings.

At the time, Pao was the interim CEO of online news aggregator and forum Reddit, though she recently resigned for reasons unrelated to the case.four-point illumination (quadrupole illumination), wherein four apertures are formed in the aperture stop of the illumination system, is known. On the other hand, in the annular illumination, an annular aperture is provided in the aperture stop of the illumination system. The size of the aperture of the annular illumination is expressed by the outer sigma (σout), the inner sigma (σin) or others. FIG. 18 is a plan view of the conventional aperture stop of the annular illumination. In FIG. 18, the outer border indicates the border of the effective region of the aperture stop. As illustrated in FIG. 18, a ring-shaped aperture 122 is formed in the annular illumination stop. FIG. 19 is a graph of the relationship between the pitch of patterns and the depth of focus


on the resist size. In FIG. 20B, the shift of the focus in exposing the patterns is taken on the horizontal axis. On the vertical axis, the size of the patterns transferred on a resist is taken, and relative pattern sizes to the maximum size of the patterns which is set at 100 are plotted. The inclination of an upward parabola being relatively blunt means that the DOF is relatively wide, and the focus margin is relatively large. On the other hand, the inclination of an upward parabola being relatively acute means that the DOF is relatively narrow, and the focus margin is relatively small. The focus value at the summit of a parabola is called a best focus, and generally the resist size is largest at theActor and producer Timothy Busfield will help develop national productions at WKAR-TV in East Lansing, Mich., over the next year.

Busfield, best known for his roles in TV’s thirtysomething and West Wing and the movie Field of Dreams, joins Michigan State University’s colleges of Communication Arts and Sciences and Arts and Letters as an artist-in-residence June 15.

Busfield is an East Lansing native with deep family roots at his alma mater. His father taught speech and theater at MSU, and his mother and stepfather worked for several decades with the Michigan State University Press, the university’s book publisher.

As director of national content at WKAR, according to a press release, Busfield will “develop original content for major networks, cable networks, movie studios and new media.” Busfield has previously sold seven pilots


UCSB Opens 2007 Season Ranked 70th
UC Santa Barbara enters the 2007 ranked 70th in the first team poll of the season. The Gauchos, the defending Big West Conference Champion and an NCAA Tournament qualifier, finished the 2006 season ranked 72nd nationally.

Gauchos Begin At Home, Travel To Play Defending Champions
UCSB opens the 2007 season with a difficult pair of matches. The Gauchos open on Saturday, Jan. 27 at home against No. 73 BYU. Santa Barbara edged the Cougars at home in 2006, 4-3. On Sunday, Jan. 28, the Gauchos travel south to face the defending NCAA Champion, Pepperdine. UCSB and Pepperdine did not compete in 2006.

Davis Enters Eighth Season
Head coach Marty Davis is entering his eight season at UCSB. He opens the year with a lifetime record of 83-81overall, but since posting a 14-30 record in his first two seasons, the Gauchos have gone 69-51 under Davis. In 2006, Davis guided Santa Barbara to its third Big West title in the last five years and its fourth overall. He also led his team into the NCAA Tournament for the third time in the last five seasons and the sixth time overall. An accomplished tennis professional, Davis came to UCSB following a stint as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Cal. An All-American at Cal, he was inducted into the school's Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame last year.

A Rank And File Schedule
UCSB plays a difficult schedule in 2007. Including its first two opponents, No. 73 BYU and No. 10 Pepperdine, UCSB's slate includes nine matches against


ranked teams. In addition to the first two, the Gauchos will play at No. 19 Cal on Feb. 17, they will host No. 25 Boise State on Feb. 9, travel to No. 45 Fresno State on April 7, host No. 49 San Diego State on March 10, travel to No. 57 Arizona State on Feb. 2, host No. 62 Denver on April 13 and travel to No. 72 Pacific on April 6.

Hejazi, Dalskov Lead Returnees
Sophomore Bijan Hejazi and junior Anders Dalskov lead a talented group of returnees for UCSB. Hejazi, who will likely start the season at No. 1 and enters the year ranked 25th in the West Region, was chosen Big West Freshman of the Year and First Team All-Big West as a singles player in 2006.Playing primarily at No. 2, the Santa Clara, Calif., native recorded a 20-6 singles record. He was 4-6 in doubles, playing with four different partners. Dalskov was Second Team All-Big West in singles and First Team All-Big West in doubles. He was 16-8 overall in singles, including 8-6 at No. 3 and 4-1 at No. 4, and he was 13-12 in doubles, all at No. 1. In addition to Hejazi and Dalskov, the Gauchos return senior Elad Stern and sophomore Max Taylor. Stern was 9-12 in 2006, including 5-3 at No. 4 and 4-5 at No. 2. His win against Pacific at the Big West Tournament, while battling cramps and the desert heat, clinched the league crown for UCSB. Taylor was 16-18 overall and 12-14 in dual matches.


He played most of his matches at No. 6 and was the Gaucho other than Hejazi to play in every dual match.

Newcomers Make Gauchos Potent
Santa Barbara adds a quartet of newcomers to its lineup and all four could contribute. The top newcomer is junior Jack Hui (Hong Kong, China/College of the Desert), a transfer from the College of the Desert. Hui, who begins the 2007 campaign ranked 23rd in the West Region, will probably play No. 2 early on for the Gauchos. He won the California Community College singles title and placed second in doubles in 2006. Hui helped COD win the state team title and twice he earned Community College All-American status in both singles and doubles. Another newcomer of note for UCSB is freshman Philip Therp(Birkeroed, Denmark). Therp was a seven-time Danish National Championship finalist in singles and a seven-time doubles champion. He was ranked No. 32 in Europe U-16's after playing in four European Tennis Association tournaments. Therp, who also earned a No. 1 ranking in Denmark, is tentatively set to start the season at No. 3. Sophomore Nigel Barton (San Jose, Costa Rica/Tulane University) will add depth for UCSB. He played some at No. 3 singles and doubles at Tulane before transferring. Freshman Josh Finkelstein (Hong Kong, China/Hong Kong International and Nordhoff HS) redshirted the 2006 season and will battle for playing time at No. 6 and in doubles in 2007.


Smith issues apology over defence abuse

Stephen Smith is expected to announce a high-level judicial inquiry into allegations of sexual and other abuse within the Australia Defence Force this week. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

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The Defence Minister says some senior members of the service turned a blind eye to abuse.

An inquiry will look at complaints going back to the 1950s.

It will also consider whether a royal commission is needed to investigate rapes at the ADF Academy and abuse of minors at HMAS Leeuwin.

Defence Minister Stephen Smith made a historic apology to those who have suffered sexual or other abuse while serving in the Australian Defence Force or Defence Department.

He also said a judicial inquiry would investigate up to 1000 complaints of sexual and other abuse in the defence forcesdating back to the 1950s.

The inquiry will consider whether a royal commission is warranted into a series of 24 rapes of young women at the Australian Defence Force Academy in the 1990s and the abuse of minors at the former HMAS Leeuwin in Western Australia in the 1960s and 1970s.

Given a royal commission is about to begin into child sexual abuse across Australia, creating a royal commission to look at the defence forces would be a big step for the government.

Mr Smith told Parliament that colleagues and senior members of the defence forces had turned a blind eye to abuse.

“To those men and women in the Australian Defence Force or the Department of Defence who have suffered sexual or other forms of abuse, on behalf of the government


Image caption Blaze need daily medication

"Arthritis isn't something you think a two-year-old could have."

But that was the explanation Kelly O'Sullivan was eventually given for her two-year-old daughter Blaze's unusual symptoms - a rash that covered her body and swollen joints that stopped her wanting to walk.

Kelly, from Bolton, says Blaze had a normal birth and developed normally, walking when she was a year old.

But Blaze became ill in January this year when she was 18 months old.

Kelly says: "At first she got a rash all over her and a high temperature and she didn't want to walk.

"I took her to the doctor and she was given lots of different medicines, antibiotics.

"Then she started walking with a limp, and it got progressively worse and her knee swelled up tothe size of a tennis ball."

Doctors thought Blaze's symptoms were caused by a viral infection, but then she began to experience stiffness in her neck and this time was referred to her local hospital.

Kelly said: "They still thought it was a viral infection. She was in there for about four weeks, and given intravenous antibiotics. Lots of doctors from different specialties saw her."

However there was still no diagnosis - and Blaze was moved to Manchester Children's Hospital where another raft of tests, including a lymph node biopsy and a bone marrow test, were carried out.

Finally - in March - she was diagnosed with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA).

'She shouldn't miss out'

JIA refers to a group of arthritic conditions that affect children. All cause inflammation, but relatively little is


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The common discussion thread was the establishment of a local law school when Moot Court Guyana convened a stirring symposium venued in the Education Lecture Theatre of the University of Guyana (UG) on Tuesday, which saw the attendance and input of a wide cross-section of local legal minds and even a few from the Caribbean, among others.
An abundance of recommendations and opinions were forthcoming, all of which are expected to help guide the way forward as it relates to the attaining of legal education in Guyana which has recently been gaining some controversial attention.
Moreover, the notion of establishing a local law school was supported by Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, who atdoesn’t serve our best interest well then we may be forced to take insular positions, and I am hoping we don’t have to resort to those mechanisms,” said Nandlall.
The CLE was created by an Agreement signed in 1971 by Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the University of the West Indies (UWI) and UG. It was established to provide training in the Region (rather than in Britain) for lawyers wishing to practise in the Region.
The Council currently operates three law schools: the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica, the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad – both established in 1973 – and the Eugene Dupuch Law School in the Bahamas which was established in 1998.
However, regardless of the direction embraced by Guyana, Nandlall emphasised that it


programme which is recognised across the world, the Legal Education Programme which emanates from the CLE is recognised by the best universities in the world, by every bar in the United States and elsewhere. As such he stressed the need for quality control, pointing out that “education without integrity or a certificate without integrity is not worth the paper it is written on.”
According to the Attorney General, who attended the forum in the capacity of a panellist, “a legal education in my opinion is valuable as a stepping stone to so many other disciplines that one may wish to pursue.”
Review of legal education

A section of the gathering at the forum on Tuesday.

And in order to examine the future of legal education in these parts, Nandlall disclosed that abetween UG, UWI and the CLE the top 25 graduates of the local law programme are automatically granted placement at the Hugh Wooding Law School, the placements of the 2013 graduates were however under threat and therefore required intervention from Government. The matter was therefore discussed at a previously convened Caricom Heads of Government meeting after which it was taken up with the CLE. An eventual resolution was derived whereby the stipulated 25 local students of the 2013 programme were granted placements for the upcoming academic year and an additional 10 international students will also be granted placement at law schools within their respective zones.
But according to Nandlall, “I am hoping that while the review is being undertaken we will have a short term solution, I am also


and HDLS the matter as it concerns the facility law students engage for the final aspect of their legal training begs for a long-term solution. That solution, I humbly submit, has to be a local law school.

The idea of a local law school was on the table as early as 2002 and its benefits were enumerated in a concept paper of that period. That concept paper was the work a task force, I am advised, which included the then Chancellor of the Judiciary, Desiree Bernard; University of Guyana Vice-Chancellor, James Rose; Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Dr Mark Kirton; a representative of the Bar Association; a member of the AG’s chambers; and the Librarian of the University of Guyana.

Some of the considerations for the local lawto the law school, should more than cover recurrent expenses. The government grants to the LLB programme were intended to pay UWI for second marking and monitoring its examinations under the collaborative agreement with UWI and the CLE.”

It would appear that the avenue of a local law school was well thought out and perhaps the proposal could be updated and retabled.

It would be remiss of me not to recognize the efforts of the Government of Guyana as “…the Government continues in its effort to seek a resolution of the impasse affecting the University of Guyana law students from gaining access into the Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad,” according to the AG in the Chronicle article.

Suffice to say that I noted in the article there is a scheduled meeting


between the Government and Dr Ralph Gonsalves, the Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community tentatively for June 2014. I suggest with humility that, because of the nature of the meeting proposed, notwithstanding its quality, that our elected student representative of the University of Guyana Law Society (UGLS) Saeed Hamid is also included in the delegation.

…Council of Legal Education to meet with stakeholders

THE Chairperson of the Council of Legal Education, Ms. Jacqueline Samuels-Browne, QC, has pronounced on the decision not to automatically place 25 University of Guyana Bachelor of Law (LLB) students at the Hugh Wooding Law School.

And, in her response on May 2, she stated that some UG graduates can be accommodated at the Eugene Dupuch Law School in Nassau Bahamas.

She saidsaid, “The Hugh Wooding Law School has reiterated that, until we know how many graduates of the University of the West Indies will exercise their right to seek admission to that law school, it cannot be determined how many additional students can be accommodated.

“As you know, they have priority over other applicants. This is one of the matters which may have to be revisited, particularly as the quota system on which it was premised has been effectively abandoned.”

The automatic admission was an arrangement that existed under a collaborative agreement between the University of the West Indies, the Council of Legal Education, and UG. The agreement has expired, and has not been renewed for the year 2014.
The Chairperson of the Council has since requested a meeting with a delegation


from the Council and Dr. Ralph Gonsalves.

A letter from Dr. Gonsalves, the Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), had prompted the response from the Chairperson at the beginning of April.

The Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM recently concluded its 25th Inter-Sessional Meeting, held on March 10 and 11 in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, where President Donald Ramotar raised the matter.

Discussion on the issue resulted in Gonsalves sending a letter to the Chairman of the Council of Legal Education, which said: “This matter is of grave concern to Heads of Government, as it effectively results in Guyanese students having no access to the law schools, notwithstanding that they would have entered the UG Programme in the expectation that at leastConference, representing the Heads of Government of the parties to the CLE Agreement, has mandated that the Council completes a thorough review of legal education in the Community before the next academic year, to resolve the deeper issues concerning legal education, including access and the role and function of the Council of Legal Education.”

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Guyana’s Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, in a statement, indicated that President Donald Ramotar has already made contact with Gonsalves and requested an early meeting.

He said, “Arrangements are currently being made for that meeting to take place at the earliest possible day in June 2014.”

The Government of Guyana will be represented at that meeting by the AG, by an executive member of the Council of Legal Education of the West Indies,


and by personnel from the University of Guyana.

Nandlall said, “The Government remains committed to pursue most resolutely every possible avenue, and resort to every option available in order to protect the welfare of our students and the future of the law programme at the University of Guyana.
“…the Government continues in its effort to seek a resolution of the impasse affecting the University of Guyana law students from gaining access into the Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad.”

The 2014/2015 academic year will start on September 15, 2014. Prior to the start of the school year, the Admissions Board Examinations are scheduled for June, 2014, and the Admissions Board meeting is slated for August, 2014.

I REFER to an article captioned, “UG law graduates to play second fiddle to UWI’s” published inthe previous year and would have self-determined in 2014, the conduct of LEC/UWI/HWLS by the decision by the CLE to determine the automatic placements in February of 2014 was unreasonable under the pervading circumstance.

I humbly submit that after the application process to Hugh Wooding Law School was opened to all, including UG law graduates, it created legitimate expectation that the arrangement of automatic placements would subsist and those successful at the Entrance Examinations also would be allowed admittance.

Additionally, the open and close of the application process; duly responded to by UG students, as well created and cemented a legitimate expectation that those applications would be considered on the merits of Grade Point Average (GPA) and Entrance Examination grades and not on the basis of space, as is the


On August 4, 2015, US officials quietly made history by approving the first-ever patent for a plant containing significant amounts of THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, according to the patent's holders, their lawyers, and outside experts in intellectual property law.

Patent No. 9095554, issued to a group of breeders in California, "relates to specialty cannabis plants, compositions and methods for making and using said cannabis plants and compositions derived thereof," according to the 145-page document, which is filled with charts, graphs, and reams of scientific jargon describing a range of hybrid strains with distinctive ratios of cannabinoids.

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Cannabis seeds. (Photo vis Flickr)

In America, new varieties of plants, produced either through traditional breeding or as genetically modified organisms (GMO), can be considered intellectual property just like music, art, books, software, and architectural design — a fact that has allowed Monsanto


against these big brands. But they're either going to have to scale up or be satisfied being the little honey stand on the side of the road."

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"People thought we'd get busted," he said.

Today, the Emerald Cup has become so mainstream that Blake has moved the event from his own property to the sprawling Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, California. This year, he expects 25,000 visitors.

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IDA B. WELLS New York City, Oct. 26, 1892

To the Afro-American women of New York and Brooklyn, whose race love, earnest zeal and unselfish effort at Lyric Hall, in the City of New York, on the night of October 5, 1892—made possible its publication, this pamphlet is gratefully dedicated by the author.

HON. FRED. DOUGLASS'S LETTER

Dear Miss Wells:

Let me give you thanks for your faithful paper on the lynch abomination now generally practiced against colored people in the South. There has been no word equal to it in convincing power. I have spoken, but my word is feeble in comparison. You give us what you know and testify from actual knowledge. You have dealt with the facts with cool, painstaking fidelity and left those naked


Memphis was filled with excitement. Editorials in the daily papers of that date caused a meeting to be held in the Cotton Exchange Building; a committee was sent for the editors of the Free Speech an Afro-American journal published in that city, and the only reason the open threats of lynching that were made were not carried out was because they could not be found. The cause of all this commotion was the following editorial published in the Free Speech May 21, 1892, the Saturday previous.

Eight negroes lynched since last issue of the Free Speech one at Little Rock, Ark., last Saturday morning where the citizens broke(?) into the penitentiary and got their man; three near Anniston, Ala., one near New Orleans; and three at Clarksville, Ga., thelast three for killing a white man, and five on the same old racket—the new alarm about raping white women. The same programme of hanging, then shooting bullets into the lifeless bodies was carried out to the letter.

Nobody in this section of the country believes the old thread-bare lie that Negro men rape white women. If Southern white men are not careful, they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will have a reaction; a conclusion will then be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women.

The Daily Commercial of Wednesday following, May 25, contained the following leader:

Those negroes who are attempting to make the lynching of individuals of their race a means for arousing the worst passions of their kind are playing with


met in the Cotton Exchange Building the same evening, and threats of lynching were freely indulged, not by the lawless element upon which the deviltry of the South is usually saddled—but by the leading business men, in their leading business centre. Mr. Fleming, the business manager and owning a half interest the Free Speech, had to leave town to escape the mob, and was afterwards ordered not to return; letters and telegrams sent me in New York where I was spending my vacation advised me that bodily harm awaited my return. Creditors took possession of the office and sold the outfit, and the Free Speech was as if it had never been.

The editorial in question was prompted by the many inhuman and fiendish lynchings of Afro-Americans which havesame time as a defense for the Afro-Americans Sampsons who suffer themselves to be betrayed by white Delilahs.

The whites of Montgomery, Ala., knew J.C. Duke sounded the keynote of the situation—which they would gladly hide from the world, when he said in his paper, the Herald, five years ago: "Why is it that white women attract negro men now more than in former days? There was a time when such a thing was unheard of. There is a secret to this thing, and we greatly suspect it is the growing appreciation of white Juliets for colored Romeos." Mr. Duke, like the Free Speech proprietors, was forced to leave the city for reflecting on the "honah" of white women and his paper suppressed; but the truth remains that Afro-American


men do not always rape(?) white women without their consent.

Mr. Duke, before leaving Montgomery, signed a card disclaiming any intention of slandering Southern white women. The editor of the Free Speech has no disclaimer to enter, but asserts instead that there are many white women in the South who would marry colored men if such an act would not place them at once beyond the pale of society and within the clutches of the law. The miscegnation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women. White menlynch the offending Afro-American, not because he is a despoiler of virtue, but because he succumbs to the smiles of white women.

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The BLACK and WHITE of IT

The Cleveland Gazette of January 16, 1892, publishes a case in point. Mrs. J.S. Underwood, the wife of a minister of Elyria, Ohio, accused an Afro-American of rape. She told her husband that during his absence in 1888, stumping the State for the Prohibition Party, the man came to the kitchen door, forced his way in the house and insulted her. She tried to drive him out with a heavy poker, but he overpowered and chloroformed her, and when she revived her clothing was torn and she was in a horrible condition. She did not know the man but could identify him.


She pointed out William Offett, a married man, who was arrested and, being in Ohio, was granted a trial.

The prisoner vehemently denied the charge of rape, but confessed he went to Mrs. Underwood's residence at her invitation and was criminally intimate with her at her request. This availed him nothing against the sworn testimony of a ministers wife, a lady of the highest respectability. He was found guilty, and entered the penitentiary, December 14, 1888, for fifteen years. Some time afterwards the woman's remorse led her to confess to her husband that the man was innocent.

These are her words:

I met Offett at the Post Office. It was raining. He was polite to me, and as I had several bundles in my arms he offered to carry them homethe daily papers of the South.

In the winter of 1885-86 the wife of a practicing physician in Memphis, in good social standing whose name has escaped me, left home, husband and children, and ran away with her black coachman. She was with him a month before her husband found and brought her home. The coachman could not be found. The doctor moved his family away from Memphis, and is living in another city under an assumed name.

In the same city last year a white girl in the dusk of evening screamed at the approach of some parties that a Negro had assaulted her on the street. He was captured, tried by a white judge and jury, that acquitted him of the charge. It is needless to add if


there had been a scrap of evidence on which to convict him of so grave a charge he would have been convicted.

Sarah Clark of Memphis loved a black man and lived openly with him. When she was indicted last spring for miscegenation, she swore in court that she was not a white woman. This she did to escape the penitentiary and continued her illicit relation undisturbed. That she is of the lower class of whites, does not disturb the fact that she is a white woman. "The leading citizens" of Memphis are defending the "honor" of all white women, demi-monde included.

Since the manager of the Free Speech has been run away from Memphis by the guardians of the honor of Southern white women, a young girl living onPoplar St., who was discovered in intimate relations with a handsome mulatto young colored man, Will Morgan by name, stole her father's money to send the young fellow away from that father's wrath. She has since joined him in Chicago.

The Memphis Ledger for June 8 has the following:

If Lillie Bailey, a rather pretty white girl seventeen years of age, who is now at the City Hospital, would be somewhat less reserved about her disgrace there would be some very nauseating details in the story of her life. She is the mother of a little coon. The truth might reveal fearful depravity or it might reveal the evidence of a rank outrage. She will not divulge the name of the man who has left such black evidence of her


disgrace, and, in fact, says it is a matter in which there can be no interest to the outside world. She came to Memphis nearly three months ago and was taken in at the Woman's Refuge in the southern part of the city. She remained there until a few weeks ago, when the child was born. The ladies in charge of the Refuge were horified. The girl was at once sent to the City Hospital, where she has been since May 30. She is a country girl. She came to Memphis from her fathers farm, a short distance from Hernando, Miss. Just when she left there she would not say. In fact she says she came to Memphis from Arkansas, and says her home is in that State.She is rather good looking, has blue eyes, a low forehead and dark red hair. The ladies at the Woman's Refuge do not know anything about the girl further than what they learned when she was an inmate of the institution; and she would not tell much. When the child was born an attempt was made to get the girl to reveal the name of the Negro who had disgraced her, she obstinately refused and it was impossible to elicit any information from her on the subject.

Note the wording. "The truth might reveal fearful depravity or rank outrage." If it had been a white child or Lillie Bailey had told a pitiful story of Negro outrage, it would have been a case of woman's weakness or assault and


she could have remained at the Woman's Refuge. But a Negro child and to withhold its father's name and thus prevent the killing of another Negro "rapist." A case of "fearful depravity."

The very week the "leading citizens" of Memphis were making a spectacle of themselves in defense of all white women of every kind, an Afro-American, M. Stricklin, was found in a white woman's room in that city. Although she made no outcry of rape, he was jailed and would have been lynched, but the woman stated she bought curtains of him (he was a furniture dealer) and his business in her room that night was to put them up. A white woman's word was taken as absolutely in this case as when the cry of rape ismade, and he was freed.

What is true of Memphis is true of the entire South. The daily papers last year reported a farmer's wife in Alabama had given birth to a Negro child. When the Negro farm hand who was plowing in the field heard it he took the mule from the plow and fled. The dispatches also told of a woman in South Carolina who gave birth to a Negro child and charged three men with being its father, every one of whom has since disappeared. In Tuscumbia, Ala., the colored boy who was lynched there last year for assaulting a white girl told her before his accusers that he had met her there in the woods often before.

Frank Weems of Chattanooga who was not lynched in


May only because the prominent citizens became his body guard until the doors of the penitentiary closed on him, had letters in his pocket from the white woman in the case, making the appointment with him. Edward Coy who was burned alive in Texarkana, January 1, 1892, died protesting his innocence. Investigation since as given by the Bystander in the Chicago Inter Ocean, October 1, proves:

1. The woman who was paraded as a victim of violence was of bad character; her husband was a drunkard and a gambler.

2. She was publicly reported and generally known to have been criminally intimate with Coy for more than a year previous.

3. She was compelled by threats, if not by violence, to make the charge against the victim.

4. When she came toguilt, and being of the "superior" race must naturally have been more guilty.

In Natchez, Miss., Mrs. Marshall, one of the creme de la creme of the city, created a tremendous sensation several years ago. She has a black coachman who was married, and had been in her employ several years. During this time she gave birth to a child whose color was remarked, but traced to some brunette ancestor, and one of the fashionable dames of the city was its godmother. Mrs. Marshall's social position was unquestioned, and wealth showered every dainty on this child which was idolized with its brothers and sisters by its white papa. In course of time another child appeared on the scene, but it was unmistakably dark. All were alarmed, and "rush of


blood, strangulation" were the conjectures, but the doctor, when asked the cause, grimly told them it was a Negro child. There was a family conclave, the coachman heard of it and leaving his own family went West, and has never returned. As soon as Mrs. Marshall was able to travel she was sent away in deep disgrace. Her husband died within the year of a broken heart.

Ebenzer Fowler, the wealthiest colored man in Issaquena County, Miss., was shot down on the street in Mayersville, January 30, 1885, just before dark by an armed body of white men who filled his body with bullets. They charged him with writing a note to a white woman of the place, which they intercepted and which proved there was an intimacy existingbetween them.

Hundreds of such cases might be cited, but enough have been given to prove the assertion that there are white women in the South who love the Afro-American's company even as there are white men notorious for their preference for Afro-American women.

There is hardly a town in the South which has not an instance of the kind which is well known, and hence the assertion is reiterated that "nobody in the South believes the old thread bare lie that negro men rape white women." Hence there is a growing demand among Afro-Americans that the guilt or innocence of parties accused of rape be fully established. They know the men of the section of the country who refuse this are not so desirous of punishing rapists as they


pretend. The utterances of the leading white men show that with them it is not the crime but the class. Bishop Fitzgerald has become apologist for lynchers of the rapists of white women only. Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, in the month of June, standing under the tree in Barnwell, S.C., on which eight Afro-Americans were hung last year, declared that he would lead a mob to lynch a negro who raped a white woman. So say the pulpits, officials and newspapers of the South. But when the victim is a colored woman it is different.

Last winter in Baltimore, Md., three white ruffians assaulted a Miss Camphor, a young Afro-American girl, while out walking with a young man of her own race. They held her escort and outragedthe girl. It was a deed dastardly enough to arouse Southern blood, which gives its horror of rape as excuse for lawlessness, but she was an Afro-American. The case went to the courts, an Afro-American lawyer defended the men and they were acquitted.

In Nashville, Tenn., there is a white man, Pat Hanifan, who outraged a little Afro-American girl, and, from the physical injuries received, she has been ruined for life. He was jailed for six months, discharged, and is now a detective in that city. In the same city, last May, a white man outraged an Afro-American girl in a drug store. He was arrested, and released on bail at the trial. It was rumored that five hundred Afro-Americans had organized to lynch him. Two hundred and fifty


white citizens armed themselves with Winchesters and guarded him. A cannon was placed in front of his home, and the Buchanan Rifles (State Militia) ordered to the scene for his protection. The Afro-American mob did not materialize. Only two weeks before Eph. Grizzard, who had only been charged with rape upon a white woman, had been taken from the jail, with Governor Buchanan and the police and militia standing by, dragged through the streets in broad daylight, knives plunged into him at every step, and with every fiendish cruelty a frenzied mob could devise, he was at last swung out on the bridge with hands cut to pieces as he tried to climb up the stanchions. A naked, bloody example of the blood-thirstiness of the nineteenth-century civilization ofthe Athens of the South! No cannon or military was called out in his defense. He dared to visit a white woman.

At the very moment these civilized whites were announcing their determination "to protect their wives and daughters," by murdering Grizzard, a white man was in the same jail for raping eight-year-old Maggie Reese, an Afro-American girl. He was not harmed. The "honor" of grown women who were glad enough to be supported by the Grizzard boys and Ed Coy, as long as the liaison was not known, needed protection; they were white. The outrage upon helpless childhood needed no avenging in this case; she was black.

A white man in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, two months ago inflicted such injuries upon another Afro-American child that she died. He was


not punished, but an attempt was made in the same town in the month of June to lynch an Afro-American who visited a white woman.

In Memphis, Tenn., in the month of June, Ellerton L. Dorr, who is the husband of Russell Hancock's widow, was arrested for attempted rape on Mattie Cole, a neighbors cook; he was only prevented from accomplishing his purpose, by the appearance of Mattie's employer. Dorr's friends say he was drunk and not responsible for his actions. The grand jury refused to indict him and he was discharged.

3 The NEW CRY

The appeal of Southern whites to Northern sympathy and sanction, the adroit, insiduous plea made by Bishop Fitzgerald for suspension of judgment because those "who condemn lynching express no sympathy for the white woman inthe case," falls to the ground in the light of the foregoing.

From this exposition of the race issue in lynch law, the whole matter is explained by the well-known opposition growing out of slavery to the progress of the race. This is crystalized in the oft-repeated slogan: "This is a white man's country and the white man must rule." The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. The raids of the Ku-Klux and White Liners to subvert reconstruction government, the Hamburg and Ellerton, S.C., the Copiah County, Miss., and the Layfayette Parish, La., massacres were excused as the natural resentment of intelligence against government by ignorance.

Honest white men practically conceded the necessity of intelligence murdering ignorance to correct the mistake


of the general government, and the race was left to the tender mercies of the solid South. Thoughtful Afro-Americans with the strong arm of the government withdrawn and with the hope to stop such wholesale massacres urged the race to sacrifice its political rights for sake of peace. They honestly believed the race should fit itself for government, and when that should be done, the objection to race participation in politics would be removed.

But the sacrifice did not remove the trouble, nor move the South to justice. One by one the Southern States have legally(?) disfranchised the Afro-American, and since the repeal of the Civil Rights Bill nearly every Southern State has passed separate car laws with a penalty against their infringement. The race regardless of advancement ispenned into filthy, stifling partitions cut off from smoking cars. All this while, although the political cause has been removed, the butcheries of black men at Barnwell, S.C., Carrolton, Miss., Waycross, Ga., and Memphis, Tenn., have gone on; also the flaying alive of a man in Kentucky, the burning of one in Arkansas, the hanging of a fifteen-year-old girl in Louisiana, a woman in Jackson, Tenn., and one in Hollendale, Miss., until the dark and bloody record of the South shows 728 Afro-Americans lynched during the past eight years. Not fifty of these were for political causes; the rest were for all manner of accusations from that of rape of white women, to the case of the boy Will Lewis who was hanged at Tullahoma, Tenn., last year


for being drunk and "sassy" to white folks.

These statistics compiled by the Chicago Tribune were given the first of this year (1892). Since then, not less than one hundred and fifty have been known to have met violent death at the hands of cruel bloodthirsty mobs during the past nine months.

To palliate this record (which grows worse as the Afro-American becomes intelligent) and excuse some of the most heinous crimes that ever stained the history of a country, the South is shielding itself behind the plausible screen of defending the honor of its women. This, too, in the face of the fact that only one-third of the 728 victims to mobs have been charged with rape, to say nothing of those of that one-third who were innocent ofthe charge. A white correspondent of the Baltimore Sun declares that the Afro-American who was lynched in Chestertown, Md., in May for assault on a white girl was innocent; that the deed was done by a white man who had since disappeared. The girl herself maintained that her assailant was a white man. When that poor Afro-American was murdered, the whites excused their refusal of a trial on the ground that they wished to spare the white girl the mortification of having to testify in court.

This cry has had its effect. It has closed the heart, stifled the conscience, warped the judgment and hushed the voice of press and pulpit on the subject of lynch law throughout this "land of liberty." Men who stand high in the esteem


of the public for Christian character, for moral and physical courage, for devotion to the principles of equal and exact justice to all, and for great sagacity, stand as cowards who fear to open their mouths before this great outrage. They do not see that by their tacit encouragement, their silent acquiescence, the black shadow of lawlessness in the form of lynch law is spreading its wings over the whole country.

Men who, like Governor Tillman, start the ball of lynch law rolling for a certain crime, are powerless to stop it when drunken or criminal white toughs feel like hanging an Afro-American on any pretext.

Even to the better class of Afro-Americans the crime of rape is so revolting they have too often taken the white man's word andgiven lynch law neither the investigation nor condemnation it deserved.

They forget that a concession of the right to lynch a man for a certain crime, not only concedes the right to lynch any person for any crime, but (so frequently is the cry of rape now raised) it is in a fair way to stamp us a race of rapists and desperadoes. They have gone on hoping and believing that general education and financial strength would solve the difficulty, and are devoting their energies to the accumulation of both.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American. It has left the out-of-the-way places where ignorance prevails, has thrown off the mask and with this new cry stalks in broad daylight in large cities, the centers


been seeking and waiting for the opportunity. This feature of the crime not only makes it the most fiendishly brutal, but it adds to the terror of the situation in the thinly settled country communities. No man can leave his family at night without the dread that some roving Negro ruffian is watching and waiting for this opportunity. The swift punishment which invariably follows these horrible crimes doubtless acts as a deterring effect upon the Negroes in that immediate neighborhood for a short time. But the lesson is not widely learned nor long remembered. Then such crimes, equally atrocious, have happened in quick succession, one in Tennessee, one in Arkansas, and one in Alabama. The facts of the crime appear to appeal more to the Negro's lustful imaginationunprotected women.

The Negro tough, on the contrary, is given to just that kind of offending, and he almost invariably singles out white people as his victims.

On March 9, 1892, there were lynched in this same city three of the best specimens of young since-the-war Afro-American manhood. They were peaceful, law-abiding citizens and energetic business men.

They believed the problem was to be solved by eschewing politics and putting money in the purse. They owned a flourishing grocery business in a thickly populated suburb of Memphis, and a white man named Barrett had one on the opposite corner. After a personal difficulty which Barrett sought by going into the "People's Grocery" drawing a pistol and was thrashed by Calvin McDowell, he (Barrett) threatened to "clean them out." These men were