a mile beyond the city limits and police protection; hearing that Barrett's crowd was coming to attack them Saturday night, they mustered forces, and prepared to defend themselves against the attack.

When Barrett came he led a posse of officers, twelve in number, who afterward claimed to be hunting a man for whom they had a warrant. That twelve men in citizen's clothes should think it necessary to go in the night to hunt one man who had never before been arrested, or made any record as a criminal has never been explained. When they entered the back door the young men thought the threatened attack was on, and fired into them. Three of the officers were wounded, and when the defending party found it was officers of thelaw upon whom they had fired, they ceased and got away.

Thirty-one men were arrested and thrown in jail as "conspirators," although they all declared more than once they did not know they were firing on officers. Excitement was at fever beat until the morning papers, two days after, announced that the wounded deputy sheriffs were out of danger. This hindered rather than helped the plans of the whites. There was no law on the statute books which would execute an Afro-American for wounding a white man, but the "unwritten law" did. Three of these men, the president, the manager and clerk of the grocery—"the leaders of the conspiracy"—were secretly taken from jail and lynched in a shockingly brutal manner. "The Negroes are getting too independent," they say, "we


press service printed that the Negro who was lynched at Indianola, Miss., in May, had outraged the sheriff's eight-year-old daughter. The girl was more than eighteen years old, and was found by her father in this man's room, who was a servant on the place.

Not content with misrepresenting the race, the mob-spirit was not to be satisfied until the paper which was doing all it could to counteract this impression was silenced. The colored people were resenting their bad treatment in a way to make itself felt, yet gave the mob no excuse for further murder, until the appearance of the editorial which is construed as a reflection on the "honor" of the Southern white women. It is not half so libelous as that of the Commercial whichappeared four days before, and which has been given in these pages. They would have lynched the manager of the Free Speech for exercising the right of free speech if they had found him as quickly as they would have hung a rapist, and glad of the excuse to do so. The owners were ordered not to return, the Free Speech was suspended with as little compunction as the business of the "People's Grocery" broken up and the proprietors murdered.

5 The SOUTH'S POSITION

Henry W. Grady in his well-remembered speeches in New England and New York pictured the Afro-American as incapable of self-government. Through him and other leading men the cry of the South to the country has been "Hands off! Leave us to solve our problem." To the


Afro-American the South says, "the white man must and will rule." There is little difference between the Antebellum South and the New South.

Her white citizens are wedded to any method however revolting, any measure however extreme, for the subjugation of the young manhood of the race. They have cheated him out of his ballot, deprived him of civil rights or redress therefor in the civil courts, robbed him of the fruits of his labor, and are still murdering, burning and lynching him.

The result is a growing disregard of human life. Lynch law has spread its insiduous influence till men in New York State, Pennsylvania and on the free Western plains feel they can take the law in their own hands with impunity, especially where an Afro-American is concerned.The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

Public sentiment has had a slight "reaction" though not sufficient to stop the crusade of lawlessness and lynching. The spirit of christianity of the great M.E. Church was aroused to the frequent and revolting crimes against a weak people, enough to pass strong condemnatory resolutions at its General Conference in Omaha last May. The spirit of justice of the grand old party asserted itself sufficiently to secure a denunciation of the wrongs, and a feeble declaration of the belief in human rights in the Republican platform at Minneapolis, June 7. Some of the great dailies and weeklies have swung into line declaring that lynch law


must go. The President of the United States issued a proclamation that it be not tolerated in the territories over which he has jurisdiction. Governor Northern and Chief Justice Bleckley of Georgia have proclaimed against it. The citizens of Chattanooga, Tenn., have set a worthy example in that they not only condemn lynch law, but her public men demanded a trial for Weems, the accused rapist, and guarded him while the trial was in progress. The trial only lasted ten minutes, and Weems chose to plead guilty and accept twenty-one years sentence, than invite the certain death which awaited him outside that cordon of police if he had told the truth and shown the letters he had from the white woman in the case.

Col. A.S. Colyar, of Nashville,They go into the town where everybody knows them, sometimes under the gaze of the governor, in the presence of the courts, in the presence of the sheriff and his deputies, in the presence of the entire police force, take out the prisoner, take his life, often with fiendish glee, and often with acts of cruelty and barbarism which impress the reader with a degeneracy rapidly approaching savage life. That the State is disgraced but faintly expresses the humiliation which has settled upon the once proud people of Tennessee. The State, in its majesty, through its organized life, for which the people pay liberally, makes but one record, but one note, and that a criminal falsehood, "was hung by persons to the jury unknown." The murder at Shelbyville


nor militia would be employed against them.

6 SELF-HELP

In the creation of this healthier public sentiment, the Afro-American can do for himself what no one else can do for him. The world looks on with wonder that we have conceded so much and remain law-abiding under such great outrage and provocation.

To Northern capital and Afro-American labor the South owes its rehabilitation. If labor is withdrawn capital will not remain. The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South. A thorough knowledge and judicious exercise of this power in lynching localities could many times effect a bloodless revolution. The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.

The Afro-Americans of Memphis denounced the lynching of three of their best citizens, andurged and waited for the authorities to act in the matter and bring the lynchers to justice. No attempt was made to do so, and the black men left the city by thousands, bringing about great stagnation in every branch of business. Those who remained so injured the business of the street car company by staying off the cars, that the superintendent, manager and treasurer called personally on the editor of the Free Speech, asked them to urge our people to give them their patronage again. Other business men became alarmed over the situation and the Free Speech was run away that the colored people might be more easily controlled. A meeting of white citizens in June, three months after the lynching, passed resolutions for the first time,


condemning it. But they did not punish the lynchers. Every one of them was known by name, because they had been selected to do the dirty work, by some of the very citizens who passed these resolutions. Memphis is fast losing her black population, who proclaim as they go that there is no protection for the life and property of any Afro-American citizen in Memphis who is not a slave.

The Afro-American citizens of Kentucky, whose intellectual and financial improvement has been phenomenal, have never had a separate car law until now. Delegations and petitions poured into the Legislature against it, yet the bill passed and the Jim Crow Car of Kentucky is a legalized institution. Will the great mass of Negroes continue to patronize the railroad? A specialfrom Covington, Ky., says:

Covington, June 13.—The railroads of the State are beginning to feel very markedly, the effects of the separate coach bill recently passed by the Legislature. No class of people in the State have so many and so largely attended excursions as the blacks. All these have been abandoned, and regular travel is reduced to a minimum. A competent authority says the loss to the various roads will reach $1,000,000 this year.

A call to a State Conference in Lexington, Ky., last June had delegates from every county in the State. Those delegates, the ministers, teachers, heads of secret and others orders, and the head of every family should pass the word around for every member of the race in Kentucky to stay oil railroads unless obliged


financial power.

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is to be gained by a further sacrifice of manhood and self-respect. By the right exercise of his power as the industrial factor of the South, the Afro-American can demand and secure his rights, the punishment of lynchers, and a fair trial for accused rapists.

Of the many inhuman outrages of this present year, the only case where the proposed lynching did not occur, was where the men armed themselves in Jacksonville, Fla., and Paducah, Ky, and prevented it. The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

The lesson this teachesby "parties unknown." The white man in the case still lives. He was imprisoned and promises to fight the case on trial. At the preliminary examination, it developed that he had been a suitor of the girl's. She had repulsed and refused him, yet had given him money, and he had sent threatening letters demanding more.

The day before this examination she was so wrought up, she left home and wandered miles away. When found she said she did so because she was afraid of the man's testimony. Why should she be afraid of the prisoner! Why should she yield to his demands for money if not to prevent him exposing something he knew! It seems explainable only on the hypothesis that a liaison existed between the colored boy


and the girl, and the white man knew of it. The press is singularly silent. Has it a motive? We owe it to ourselves to find out.

The story comes from Larned, Kansas, Oct. 1, that a young white lady held at bay until daylight, without alarming any one in the house, "a burly Negro" who entered her room and bed. The "burly Negro" was promptly lynched without investigation or examination of inconsistant stories.

A house was found burned down near Montgomery, Ala., in Monroe County, Oct. 13, a few weeks ago; also the burned bodies of the owners and melted piles of gold and silver.

These discoveries led to the conclusion that the awful crime was not prompted by motives of robbery. The suggestion of the whites was that "brutallust was the incentive, and as there are nearly 200 Negroes living within a radius of five miles of the place the conclusion was inevitable that some of them were the perpetrators."

Upon this "suggestion" probably made by the real criminal, the mob acted upon the "conclusion" and arrested ten Afro-Americans, four of whom, they tell the world, confessed to the deed of murdering Richard L. Johnson and outraging his daughter, Jeanette. These four men, Berrell Jones, Moses Johnson, Jim and John Packer, none of them twenty-five years of age, upon this conclusion, were taken from jail, hanged, shot, and burned while yet alive the night of Oct. 12. The same report says Mr. Johnson was on the best of terms with his Negro tenants.

The race thus outraged must


in the innocence of these murdered men, but we have no proof. No other news goes out to the world save that which stamps us as a race of cutthroats, robbers and lustful wild beasts. So great is Southern hate and prejudice, they legally(?) hung poor little thirteen-year-old Mildrey Brown at Columbia, S.C., Oct. 7, on the circumstantial evidence that she poisoned a white infant. If her guilt had been proven unmistakably, had she been white, Mildrey Brown would never have been hung.

The country would have been aroused and South Carolina disgraced forever for such a crime. The Afro-American himself did not know as he should have known as his journals should be in a position to have him know and act.

Nothing is more definitely settled than hesituation, a brief background is required to be provided. Geographically located at the junction of the fuel starved European Union and energy rich Iraq and Iran, Syria, by virtue of her location alone has the potential to play a pivotal role in conduiting gas supplies to Europe. In addition, Syria now has recently struck gas off her coast, the closest to Europe from where she could now supply gas directly. Collectively, these advantages make Syria’s role pivotal and dominant in the future. At the same time, the spectre of direct supply supplemented by the gas pipeline from Iran through Syria would trip the dream of Qatar to supply gas to Europe directly. USA, a strategic partner of Qatar and Saudi Arabia and being the largest beneficiary of their


oil revenues, seems willing to back her partners to knock out Syria and Iran from the energy equation. By doing so, she would concurrently stymie Russian and Chinese attempts to alter the status quo favouring the USA, western powers and the nations of the Sunni Muslim world as also favour herself and Turkey by ensuring alternative Qatari gas for their joint gas pipeline project.

Essentially an Arab nation with 74 percent of its population being Sunni Muslims, the territory of Syria, which included what is today’s Lebanon, was mandated to France as spoils after the First World War under the Treaty of Sevres; in turn this was the outcome of a secret agreement (Sykes-Picot) brokered between Britain and France. This not only dampened Arab democratic aspirations, despite the electionsof May 1919, this also flew in the face of the American led Crane Commission which was required to recommend the political future in accordance with the aspirations of the Arab people: both were thrown out of the window by Britain and France. Cutting the story of the Syrian struggle to the barest, France went on to occupy Syria in July 1920, though it took them another three years to establish full control over Syria. Later, Lebanon was carved out of Syria to provide a safe haven to Christians; the only state in the middle east where they are in majority over the Muslims.

As the world waits with bated breath for American Tomahawks to fly across the Syrian bows, it would be prudent to surmise that these are


not merely being fired to punish the use of chemical weapons, but more importantly to serve a warning to Assad to scuttle his ambitious plans to supply piped gas to Europe directly.

The story of independent Syria since 1946 remained turbulent as it soon entered the Arab war against the newly created state of Israel in 1948, losing a part of the strategic Golan Heights in the bargain. Internal rumblings resulted in a coup-de-tat which ushered in military rule, which was replaced by another and the third in 1951. Even a return of a national (civil) government in 1956 could not bring stability; to illustrate, till 1956, Syria already had twenty new cabinets and four separate constitutions. In order to overcome her security concerns after the Suez Canal crisisof 1967, Syria signed a pact with the Soviet Union, allowing the chill of the Cold war to permeate the region. This naturally alarmed the Turks (Turkey has the Syrian city of Iskendron under its occupation), and in turn, pushed the Syrians further in the embrace of the Soviet Union. The important point being made in this story of unstable nationhood is that ‘external’ factors have been many and they have repeatedly altered the course of Syrian history.

A brief interlude (1958-1961) of merger with Egypt followed taking the form of the short lived United Arab Republic. The experiment failed after power was retaken by the military in Damascus, this time under the cloak of the Baath Party: the party that had also taken over in neighbouring Iraq. At


that stage there were talks of a unification of Syria, Egypt and Iraq as a solitary Arab nation, which eventually floundered after the party lost control over Baghdad in 1963. Within three years there was yet another coup ushering in the Second Baath government. The 1967 Six Day War with Israel that followed resulted in weakening of the Syrian government, though this did not deter them to send in forces for a misadventure against Jordan in support of the Palestine guerrillas after the dramatic events of the Black September. After receiving another bloody nose, it was the turn of the Minister of Defence, Hafez al-Assad, the father of the current president belonging to the dominant Alawites (Alawis are a prominent religious group of Shia Muslims, forming twelve percentof the population of Syria who live in the Levant which is located at the cross roads of Western Asia, Eastern Mediterranean and North East Africa) to take over and consolidate the nation under the National Progressive Front, which undertook a ‘Correctionist Movement’ over the next thirty years. It was the lingering effect of his ‘reformist’ movement that transfer of power to the son following his death in June 2000 was smooth as the Syrian Parliament relaxed the minimum legal age from 40 to 34 to facilitate taking over by President Bashar al-Assad. The reign of Assad, an army physician by training, has been relatively less turbulent, despite the US led invasion of Iraq and the ongoing civil war. He has cultivated amicable relations with Iran and despite


on this front that USA is being forced to go in for the kill. Legitimacy for undertaking the operation is being brokered to undertake punitive action(s) under an UN mandate for purported crimes committed against humanity and the chemical attack is being played up. It would be recalled that hysteria for war on Syria had also been built up in 2012; this got scuttled due to the actions taken by Russia and China working in tandem; this also led to the resignation of the then UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan.

The Syria-Iran-Iraq Gas Pipeline, dubbed as the ‘Islamic Pipeline,’ is a $10 Billion project which was agreed upon by the three countries in July 2011. This proposes to pipe gas from the Pars field located in the Persian Gulfhighlight that in strategic terms, the Qatar-Turkey pipeline is exceedingly important for Europe and USA as Europe can be freed from the Russian gas stranglehold, a grim reality of today. On the other hand, the pipeline from Iran and Syria would remain somewhat under Russian influence as would be the supply of gas through the Nabucco line from the Central Asian Republics.

USA which is not only a strategic partner of Qatar, has compulsions since her strategically important bases of CENTCOM are located in Qatar…

Adding to the complexity are issues related to the supply of gas from Egypt and Jordan. President Assad has preferred his tie up with Iran over that with Egypt and Jordan who planned to supply gas directly to Homs in Syria for Europe and Turkey


through the Arab Gas Pipeline running directly from Aqaba via Amman in Jordan. This line already supplies gas to Lebanon and Israel through outlets in Sidon and Haifa, though the link to Homs in Syria is still to be developed. By proffering his preference over Egypt and Jordan, both Sunni Muslim states, President Assad has placed his hopes with Shia Iran and therefore this competition is projected as a Sunni-Shia Muslim internecine conflict and this is the colour of the civil war raging in Syria to displace President Assad with a candidate of choice from the Muslim Brotherhood, preferred by the Sunni world. It is pertinent to highlight that amongst others, the fight against Assad (regime change being the unstated aim) is being waged by Al Qaida jihadisfor the west and the Sunni world to nip the threat before it can develop. USA which is not only a strategic partner of Qatar, has compulsions since her strategically important bases of CENTCOM are located in Qatar; these include the Air Expeditionary Wings of the US Air Force as well that of the Royal Air Force. Naturally, she would wish that the Iran-Syria initiative is eliminated from the equation. Since the thrust of the western initiative is also directed against Iran, this also reinforces Sunni domination over the Islamic world by the House of Saud over the Shiites of Iran. While the benefits for Israel and Turkey are obvious, this also dilutes Russian influence over Syria, while it provides an alternative source of gas for the US


of origin.
The aircraft was equipped with an aileron trim tab which was a control required for that type of aircraft by its certification of airworthiness. Evidence established that this control is operated from within the control cabin by two toggle switches located on the control pedestal between the Pilot and the Copilot. On this aircraft an electrically operated trim tab is fitted to the right aileron. The tab is operated by an electric actuator controlled by a pair of switches, the switch positions being marked, "Drop Left Wing", "Off", and "Drop Right Wing", with the Left or Right designations corresponding to the right or left desired movement of the aircraft. (Console photograph not made a part of the record and Ex. D-7, Viscount Instruction Manual). The Air Carrier(Ex. P-3.)
There was a malfunction of the aileron trim tab control which had been subjected to repair prior to the flights here in question. The nature and extent of the difficulty occasioning that repair job is not before the Court. Suffice it to say that the aircraft had been placed back on the flight line as serviceable. The fact that it had undergone repair the night before, however, was known to defendant.
On the morning of July 3, 1968, defendant completed the details of his preflight routine in the Dispatch Office and both he and the Dispatcher "signed off" the aircraft. The Captain (defendant) proceeded to the aircraft on the ramp. His First Officer, Co-Pilot had been engaged in his routine preflight activities, and upon the arrival of the


Captain explained to him that the aileron trim tab switch was operating in reverse. Observation by the Captain verified that the switch, when activated to "Drop Left Wing" position, actually activated the aileron trim tab control in such a manner as would have caused the control to Drop the Right Wing, and vice-versa. The calibrated indicator needle accurately displayed the true action of the aileron trim tab but registered exactly opposite to the normal and intended function of the activating switching device. The Pilot and Co-pilot jointly determined that the aileron trim tab ran to full travel in either direction, and that the degree of trim was accurately reflected by the calibrated indicator needle. Not in dispute is the fact that the Captain and Co-pilot were in agreementthat the aileron trim tab control had been cross-wired and that the reverse operation of the switch was the result of such cross-wiring. The evidence establishes that neither the Pilot nor Co-pilot were qualified by background training or experience to make such a determination, and that in fact such diagnosis was not even technically accurate.[3]
The Captain testified that he discussed the matter with Yoshiaki Nakamura who was the lead mechanic of Aloha Airlines and line mechanic servicing the proposed flight; that they observed the working of the aileron trim tab on the ground and also within the aircraft at the switches on the control pedestal; that Nakamura agreed with the Pilot and Co-pilot that it was safe to operate the aircraft in its known condition. The Co-pilot testified


aileron trim tab actuator assembly was in an "operable condition" in spite of the fact that the control switch caused the tab to operate exactly the opposite of its intended and designated operation. He claims that he tested the operation; that the tab operated full travel in each direction; that his knowledge of the condition made it possible for him to operate the aileron trim tab in flight effectively and with no danger whatever to the lives or property of any other persons. In support of this position, the defendant, his Co-pilot on the flight, and the Senior Pilot of Aloha Airlines, who was also the representative member of the American Pilots' Association who represents the Pilots of Aloha Airlines, testified as expert witnesses. The obvious self interestof the defendant and his Co-pilot and the admissions of the Senior Pilot that as representative of the members of his Association he apparently always was expected to support the position of a member of that Association, detract substantially from the weight of their testimony, and for this and other reasons the Court is unconvinced of the soundness of their position.
Two F.A.A. Inspectors testified as expert witnesses that the equipment was not in "operable condition" as required by the Code of Federal Regulations, and both expressed the opinion that, to knowingly operate the aircraft with the aileron trim tab actuator switch functioning in reverse, was to operate the aircraft in a careless manner so as to endanger the lives and property of others. Without accepting their opinion as


these in detail, the Court has concluded that the term "operable condition" as used in Section 121.303(d) (1) of Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations means that the instruments and equipment required to comply with airworthiness requirements under which the airplane is type-certified shall be in a condition so as to operate efficiently and in the manner intended by the manufacturer. The Viscount Instruction Manual (Ex. D-7) designates the switch positions for the Aileron Trim Tab Control. In the Court's opinion the control was not in an "operable condition" when the switch positioned to "Drop Left Wing" caused the control to operate so as to "Drop Right Wing," and vice versa, and the aircraft in such condition was not in an airworthy condition.
Air Line operation generally requires theAlabama Sen. Jeff Sessions will surely sail through the final vote-tallying hurdle of his confirmation process and be the next attorney general of the United States, despite a reported history of racially insensitive comments. Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee pushed back against Sessions’ whitewashing of his questionable racial record in public life that raised significant enough concerns to disqualify him from a federal judgeship three decades ago. The pushback on Sessions seems like a legitimate debate to have in the United States Senate given the nature and seriousness of the office. But Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks sees something else secretly lurking within the debate over what constitutes an unacceptable level of racism to hold public office—racism. As in: Calling Republican racism racist is, in itself, racist.

In a


Nicholas J. Mastrocinque and Michael Mastrocinque appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (David T. Reilly, J.), dated June 25, 2018. The order denied their motion for leave to renew their prior motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and all cross claims insofar as asserted against them, which had been denied in an order of the same court (Paul J. Baisley, Jr., J.) dated January 30, 2017.
ORDERED that the order dated June 25, 2018, is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff allegedly was a passenger in a vehicle operated by her husband, nonparty Harold Moyal (hereinafter the Moyal vehicle), when the Moyal vehicle became involved a chain-reaction accident involving four other vehicles, including a vehicle operated by the defendant Michael Mastrocinque and owned by the defendantNicholas J. Mastrocinque (hereinafter the Mastrocinque vehicle). The plaintiff commenced this action against the owners/operators of the four other vehicles. After joinder of issue, and prior to the completion of discovery, Michael Mastrocinque and Nicholas J. Mastrocinque (hereinafter together the appellants) moved for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and all cross claims insofar as asserted against them. In support of their motion, the appellants submitted the affidavit of Michael Mastrocinque, in which he averred that the Mastrocinque vehicle was the first vehicle stopped at a red traffic light when it was struck in the rear by the Moyal vehicle. In opposition, the plaintiff and her husband both submitted affidavits stating, in relevant part, that the Moyal vehicle—not the Mastrocinque vehicle—was the first vehicle stopped at the traffic light.


many Alaskans, we are troubled by the arrogance, poor judgment and lack of personal integrity revealed during his trial. Since the verdict, the condemnation of his conduct has been bipartisan. Republican presidential candidate John McCain, Gov. Sarah Palin and Senate colleagues of both parties have called upon Sen. Stevens to resign his office.

Mayor Begich offers Alaskans a fresh, effective start. A pragmatic Democrat, he has demonstrated a willingness to work with politicians of all political stripes, from a Republican governor and legislative leaders to his ideological opponents on the Anchorage Assembly. If elected to the Senate, he would be a member of the majority party, unlike incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski, which would give Alaskans a voice in both the majority and minority caucuses.

...BOTTOM LINE: Sen. Stevens' conduct hasbesmirched Alaska and crippled his effectiveness. Mayor Mark Begich is the best choice to represent Alaska.

He has within him the possibility to change the direction and tone of American foreign policy, which need changing; his rise will serve as a practical rebuke to the past five years, which need rebuking; his victory would provide a fresh start in a nation in which a fresh start would come as a national relief. He climbed steep stairs, born off the continent with no father to guide, a dreamy, abandoning mother, mixed race, no connections. He rose with guts and gifts. He is steady, calm, and, in terms of the execution of his political ascent, still the primary and almost only area in which his executive abilities can be discerned, he


their minds, and when you put their thoughts together, it doesn't bode well for the quality of political discourse during the first term of the Obama administration.

"My view of Sarah Palin has changed in the two months since John McCain named her as his running mate," Gene Robinson begins, adding, "I'm guessing that McCain's view of Palin may be changing, too, and not entirely in a good way." But that's not what's on his mind.

I thought Palin was a lightweight; she's not. I thought she was an ingenue; she is, but only as long as her claws are sheathed. I thought she was bewildered and star-struck at her sudden elevation to national prominence; if she ever was, she isn't anymore. I thought she was nothing but raw political"in Sarah Palin's brain, it's a threat to the First Amendment when newspapers criticize her negative attacks on Barack Obama. This is actually so dumb that it hurts." And he quotes from a report by Steven Portnoy on ABC News's Political Radar blog:

In a conservative radio interview that aired in Washington, D.C. Friday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said she fears her First Amendment rights may be threatened by "attacks" from reporters who suggest she is engaging in a negative campaign against Barack Obama.

Palin told WMAL-AM that her criticism of Obama's associations, like those with 1960s radical Bill Ayers and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, should not be considered negative attacks. Rather, for reporters or columnists to suggest that it is going negative may constitute an


of the seat, Miss McConnell, either. We want them both to lose. But a group in Kentucky may have seen Blue America's campaign against David Dreier, which has sent mailers to the most conservative pro-Dreier parts of CA-26, mailers that explain to his constituents that the congressman they support and think they know, is someone else entirely. In fact, the gay-bashing David Dreier is himself a closeted homosexual.

And so is Mitch McConnell. It's the worst-kept secret in Washington and many people in Louisville and Lexington know how queer their senator is. But in rural counties around Paducah, Bowling Green, Covington, Pikeville, Somerset... not a clue. Well, not 'til today. As many as 150,000 of the above fliers are being placed on windshields in the most Republican precincts inis considered one of only 3 or 4 Democrats vulnerable to defeat on Tuesday. I'll have my fingers crossed.

Lampson's "party unity score" for 2008 is 56%, far worst than even the most reactionary and chickenshit nominal Democrats like Jim Marshall (83%), Jim Matheson (86%), John Barrow (83%), Chris Carney (84%), Joe Donnelly (79%), Jason Altmire (84%), and Brad Ellsworth (85%). In effect, he isn't really a functioning Democrat. To counter Olson's attacks on him as not being conservative enough, Lampson never tries defending Democratic positions. Instead he boasts about endorsements from anti-Democratic, right-wing groups like the National Rifle Association, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Texas Farm Bureau.

But Olson is pushing his conservative credentials, saying in his first TV spot that only a congressman with “conservative principles”


Congressman Allen are old friends from the days they were both Rhodes Scholars at Oxford. Tens of thousands of Mainers were surprised when they picked up their phones tonight-- praying it wouldn't be another hysterical robocall from another of the far right GOP front groups flooding the state with negativity on behalf of Collins-- to find President Clinton's comforting voice urging them to vote for Tom.

"Hello this is President Clinton and I'm calling to urge you to support Tom Allen for United States Senate. Barack Obama needs Democrats like Tom Allen in Washington in order implement his agenda of change to turn this economy around.

"Congressman Tom Allen opposes Bush's failed economy policy and is fighting for change: a new economic policy that focuses on the middle class, createsjobs in Maine, and supports small businesses. For Real Change support Tom Allen for US Senate on November 4."

Conservative Democrats who've been a thorn in the side of liberal party leaders could grow into a major obstacle to Barack Obama's agenda if he is elected president.

Majority Democrats are positioned for big gains in next week's congressional election. But many of the new faces would join a growing chorus of "Blue Dogs" who often part from the party base on big issues like taxes and increasing federal spending.

That could set up a roadblock for Obama, who has promised to broaden health insurance coverage, start a new round of public works projects and improve early childhood education, among other things-- all initiatives that would require substantial government spending at a


time of soaring deficits.

Ironically, it was Obama's radio ad for one of the worst of the Blue Dogs, John Barrow, a nominal Democrat from Georgia, that saved him from being defeated in a primary by state Senator Regina Thomas, who is an exemplary progressive. On substantive matters, Barrow has voted with the GOP 65% of the time and with the Democrats 35% of the time. And Barrow is only one of 16 nominal Democrats who have voted with the Repugs more frequently than with their own party. The others, from bad to worse, are: Zach Space (OH), Baron Hill (IN), Gene Taylor (MS), Harry Mitchell (AZ), Jim Matheson (UT), Chris Carney (PA), Heath Shuler (NC), Jason Altmire (PA), Dan Boren (OK), Brad Ellsworth (IN), Travis Childers (MS), Donfacing a challenge is Eric Massa, who is leading in a tight rematch with Bush rubber stamp Randy Kuhl.

National Republican officials have decided to withhold financial support from all but two closely contested Congressional races in New York, as the party braces for the possibility that it could lose several more House seats in the state.

The decision to abandon much of the state came after internal party polls showed Republican candidates in at least three once-promising races falling behind their Democratic opponents, a party official briefed on the internal deliberations said.

As a result, Republican leaders are diverting money to candidates in other races in which party officials believe they have a greater chance of success, the official said.

The decision by national Republicans to focus on a smaller group


of races underscores the degree to which the party is on the defensive not only in New York but also in New Jersey, Connecticut and many other states. The national party is short on cash and is being forced into the difficult position of deciding where to continue to fight-- and where to effectively surrender-- as the election enters the final days of campaigning.

“Tough decisions have to be made,” said Representative Peter T. King, a Republican from Long Island, who conceded that the party was seeking to minimize its losses. “You have to decide who comes off life support and who gets a massive infusion.”

Two of the races effectively being written off in New York are in districts currently held by Republican incumbents who are retiring at thehim a long career in Washington.

But today, the Danville Register & Bee endorses Tom Perriello for the 5th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

We haven’t left Virgil Goode. Virgil Goode has left us.

...We expect to receive great criticism for endorsing Perriello over Goode.

But our decision was born out of frustration with a career politician who has already told us he expects to be ineffective as Democrats gain more power in Congress. Just this year, Goode has voted against the tax rebate checks that people throughout the 5th District received this year and he voted against a financial rescue plan that even his own Republicans believed was necessary to stave off more serious economic problems.

If we send Goode back to Washington, how many more times will he


voting for generic "Democrats," even arch-reactionaries like Marshall and Lampson, will give Obama the ability to push through his agenda for change, an agenda that will be blocked by congressman like Marshall and Lampson who vote far more frequently with the GOP on substantive matters than with Democrats.

This morning Bob Geiger, a Senate expert who was the only person I know of who called every single Senate contest correctly in 2006, predicted that the Democrats would reach the filibuster-proof magic number. He is forecasting Democratic victories in 3 open Republican seats: Virginia, New Mexico and Colorado plus red to blue switches in Oregon, New Hampshire, Alaska, North Carolina, Minnesota, and, after a run-off, Georgia. That leaves the Democrats with 60 if you count Lieberman as a Democrat andwing of the GOP this year-- their version of gay marriage-- and then mentions that "Murphy fails to give his Republican Party affiliation in his campaign commercials and literature. It sounds to us as if he's ready to switch parties and join the emboldened Nancy Pelosi Democrat-Socialist liberal majority on Capitol Hill. There's no excuse for Tim Murphy. And the electorate should make none for him."

It's not exactly a ringing endorsement for proud progressive Steve O'Donnell but the effect is what's key and for Republican voters already disillusioned by McCain's erratic, directionless campaign, this is exactly what the doctor ordered to keep depressed Republicans away from the polls on Tuesday-- in a district where registration has swung over to Democrats by 60,000. The DCCC is busy pumping millions


a woman born in 1899 whose father was a slave. A slave! Please stop for one moment and think about that. Her father was owned like a piece of furniture or like livestock by someone else who may well have been unsympathetic to his humanity. This woman, 109 year old Amanda Jones in Cedar Creek, Texas, voted early, by absentee ballot. She's been a Democrat for 70 years but this week she had the opportunity to vote for Barack Obama. "I feel good about voting for him," she said. I hope all the Blue America candidates will live up to the dreams of people like Amanda and like the people who fought to free her father and her people-- our people-- from slavery.

California-46- Pete McCloskey retired from thewas for the primary-- was tied up early voting. "We're winning for one reason only," he told me this morning. "This year, truth wins against lies." And according to HuffPo the early voting trends are showing an even bigger landslide against McCain, Bush and the Republican philosophy of governance than anyone expected.

Florida- 25- Mario Diaz-Balart, a clownish man, has been a complete rubber stamp for the entire Bush-Cheney agenda. Three months ago a consultant told him that Bush and his agenda are unpopular down in Miami-Dade so he started trying, superficially at least, to distance himself from Bush. Now he tries claiming, he an "independent voice." His record tells another story though. His voting record on veterans, for example, is absolutely breathtaking. There isn't a worse one in


3,000 trade policy ads for the last week of the election, all over cable TV and on ABC-TV for the NASCAR races this weekend. Here's the ad:

Interestingly, yesterday's CongressDaily carried a story called Dems' Ads In Tight Races Tap Into Anti-Trade Sentiment by Peter Cohn in which he claimed that so-called "free trade" advocates could face a lonely 111th Congress "if the Democrats' campaign rhetoric is any indication. References to 'job-killing trade deals,' outsourcing and anti-China sentiment abound, with more than 100 trade-related advertisements and counting. If the party makes a clean sweep, 2008 could be similar to two years ago, when 37 House and Senate Democrats opposed to expanding trade pacts like the North American and Central America free-trade agreements won their races, observers say."

This year theOregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley, running against GOP Sen. Gordon Smith, argues Oregon has paid "a very heavy price" for free trade, "with nearly 70,000 jobs shipped overseas."

Trade has also emerged as an issue in roughly 30 House races considered "competitive" by the nonpartisan Cook Political ReportHayes of North Carolina, Tim Walberg of Michigan and Steve Chabot of Ohio on their trade records. "Michigan lost 319,000 jobs due to unfair trade alone," says the latest ad running in Walberg's district. It charges that Walberg "even voted for more unfair trade with South America," noting his vote last year in favor of the Peru Free Trade Agreement, and a vote this year to allow debate on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

And now for the kicker. The Emanuel wing, which


in the Senate. And i wouldn't urge anyone to cut off anything. On the other hand, McConnell, who is not just the single most corrupt member of the Senate, he is also spending millions of dollars of corruptly acquired corporate bribes to blanket the state with TV ads attacking Lunsford's own corruption! And just to be consistent, this morning McConnell called on the Senate's runner-up most corrupt member, Ted Stevens, to resign. Cozy, since the two of them have been blatantly money-laundering illicit campaign contributions to each other for years. Miss McConnell:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has joined the growing chorus of congressional Republicans calling for Sen. Ted Stevens to resign in the wake of his conviction earlier this week on seven corruption-related felonies.

McConnell, in Kentucky campaigning forshould not determine whether Susan Collins thinks he should remain in the Senate."

"She can't take a pass on this. As a sitting Senator and candidate for re-election to the Senate chamber, Collins doesn't get a pass on telling Maine people whether she thinks Stevens remains worthy of his Senate seat when he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of work on his house from a big oil company and was convicted on seven felony counts," Pollard said.

As odious as McConnell is, I'd rather see the end of Collins. With him you pretty much know what you're going to get. She's deceptive and sneaky and if he goes, we're stuck with Lunsford. If Collins goes, the Senate gets one of the finest members of the House, Congressman Tom


Allen, moving across Capitol Hill.

One Step Closer To The Bitter End For Holy Joe Lieberman?

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Disclaimer: I was the Executive Producer of the debut album by Ice-T led Bodycount and I resented Joe Lieberman using that album as an incendiary fundraising tool by cynically twisting it's meaning to frighten parents. I've watched this career politician and shameless hack descend into the realm of self-righteousness we normally only get from those about to be indicted. Lieberman covers his tracks better than most but at last it looks like some of his actions-- like his support for John McCain and the Iraq war-- are finally catching up with him.

If ever a member of the Senate didn't deserve to chair an important committee, it is Joe Lieberman. But Democrats, worried that hepublic television's political reporter Mary LaHammer felt it necessary to directly ask Norm.

Now it might not be the question that reporters are trying to get him to answer at this moment (about who bought his suits) but contrary to Sen. Coleman's statement that he doesn't respond to blogger accusations and rumors, he did with us. In the interview we showed an excerpt of on Almanac, Coleman responded to all the whispers and blogger claims that he cheats on his wife. Coleman said he's been true to his wife, although he conceded his marriage hasn't been perfect, he said his marriage is stronger now than it has ever been. He said the accusations come from hate over his pro-life position on abortion and his wife's career acting in Los


Angeles.

Norm felt the need to address this issue himself with his first ad (which ironically sparked accusations that Laurie was green-screened into the ad... later disproved).

When Republicans accuse a Democrat of something, they are usually much worse. The Republicans accused Norm's opponent Al Franken of writing porn a decade ago and linked him to rape jokes and accused him of having a poor attitude toward women in classic Republican smear attacks. The truth is that Norm's treatment of women is disgusting and shameless.

Numerous sources have confirmed that they knew Norm had an affair. Multiple sources have attested that Norm is often out with his friends shamelessly hitting on women. Most sources have also seen Norm with women they characterize as prostitutes.

It's not just that Norm hasn't been faithful,it's the many reports of how Norm treats women. From women who have seen Norm grope waitresses who served him at restaurants to a media personality in the Twin Cities who claims that Norm stuck his tongue in her mouth, many women have had unpleasant experiences with Minnesota's senior Senator.

Norm has always claimed that he has been faithful, but multiple sources claim that this is simply not true. Like I said, these sources want to remain anonymous because they fear reprisal from Norm and his rich, powerful benefactors. For about 5 years in the 90s, Norm had an affair with Mary Sue Perpich, the daughter of former Governor Rudy Perpich. This affair occurred while Norm was the Mayor of St. Paul, MN. Witnesses saw Norm and Ms. Perpich


at restaurants repeatedly. This appears to be the best kept secret in St. Paul that everyone knows about.

In recent years, Norm's neighbors claim to have seen a woman arriving "within hours" of Laurie leaving for California. This woman would stay the entire week, leaving before Laurie's return. Also, they have occasionally seen various women leaving Norm's house as early as 5 AM when Laurie was out of town.

His neighbors also tell the story of Laurie throwing Norm out of the house after finding out about his relationship with Ms. Perpich. He stayed with a friend who they say lived "down the street" until Laurie let him back in.

One of Norm's neighbors had an interesting run-in with one of Norm's ex-girlfriends (not Ms. Perpich). This neighbor heard crashing soundsdownstairs while he and his family were upstairs. He came downstairs and confronted the woman. She was drunk and thought she was trashing Norm's house. The police came and arrested her. According to this neighbor the police report of this incident was buried-- He had a hard time getting his insurance company to cover the damages.

Norm made a pass at a Twin Cities media personality who wishes to remain anonymous. She related that Norm kissed her on the lips and tried to stick his tongue in her mouth, but she rebuffed his advances. She didn't "make a scene" because this was in a public place.

A former employee of the Minneapolis restaurant Babalu claims to have seen Norm with women she characterized as "skanky." She believes that these women


were prostitutes. She stated that she saw Norm fondle one of these women's thighs. She also states that she saw Norm grab a server's butt and would often try and "feel up" a server's leg. She also related a story from oneparticular evening which Norm called a friend and urged him to drive over to Babalu because "there is an unbelievable amount of tail here."

A former employee at Bellanotte witnessed Norm hit on an African-American waitress. When she walked away rather than respond to his advances, he said loudly "C'mon back, baby, you're giving mejungle fever." Another person verified this incident.

Norm hit on a waitress at Morton's Steak House in Minneapolis. She said the encounter "grossed her out." Norm took her hand and wouldn't let go. "He gaveme the creeps," she said.

A former server at Rossi's, a Minneapolis restaurant which recently closed, said she worked a private room that was set aside for Norm Coleman and his buddies. They call themselves the "Millionaire Boys Club" (note: Norm is not a millionaire). They had reserved the room from noon to 6. Along with their steak dinners and cases of wine, they were smoking cigars. An obvious flaunting of the recently passed smoking ban.

The former server said that they "got good and drunk" and that the conversation in the room was "nauseating." They made sexist and racist comments all afternoon long. African Americans were referred to as "darkies." There was a long conversation in which they expounded upon the reasons poor people were poor. The conclusion was


women at Redstone, a restaurant in Minnetonka, MN (a western suburb). He describes Norm's behavior as "blatant" and said Norm's womanizing behavior and obvious come-ons became a standing joke amongst the female customers at Redstone.

An attorney claimed to have spoken with two women who were looking into pressing sexual harassment charges against Norm. These women in the end decided against moving forward with their claims.

A woman who lives in Minneapolis stated that she spoke to three female Republicans who bragged about sleeping with Norm recently. But beyond that, Young Turks host Cenk Uygur pretty much has the rest of the Norm Coleman down pat:Q:

Why is it called "Match Point"?

This movie is about a married man killing a beautiful woman, because she is pregnant with his child. Why is it called Match Point?

A:

Plot spoiler:

 The character wants to disguise his murder as a robbery. He gets rid of the loot (jewellery) by launching it in the river. However an item just touches a barrier, and it can fall on one side or the other.

This will decide the fate of the man, and it is the same situation as when a tennis ball, during match point, touches the net and pure luck will decide outcome of the game.

A:

The title of the film is simply a play on words.
The main character, Chris Wilton is a retired Tennis Professional.  The fact that


he murders his mistress and gets away with the crime is considered Match Point.
Simple Definition of match point in tennis terms defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

: a situation in tennis in which one player or team can win the match
  by winning the next point
: the final point that must be won to win a
  match in tennis

A:

I believe it is because the male protagonist was a former tennis professional, and "Match Point" is a tennis term.

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No. 18 in the UK Albums Chart. Foxx played most of the synthesisers and "rhythm machines", as they were listed on the sleeve. One of the album's songs, "Metal Beat", takes its name from a CR-78 drum machine sound used on the record. Virgin released the album under the imprint name Metal Beat Records, which was used for Foxx releases throughout his contract with them.

He then worked on dozens of tracks for two projected albums, and one of these tracks, "My Face", was released on a flexi-disc given away with Smash Hits in October 1980.

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Flat Rock Playhouse will, hopefully, always be known as the State Theatre of North Carolina. But while funding cuts and other setbacks have taken their toll on many institutions of the arts, Flat Rock Playhouse seems to take things in stride.


A seven-year-old boy rang 999 after his mum collapsed at home and told the dispatcher "my mum is lying on the floor and I don't know what's happening"

Noah Gofur, from Petts Wood in Bromley, called emergency services when his mum became unwell after picking him up from school.

As well as looking after his semi-conscious mum, Noah helped keep his 15-month-old sister entertained while they waited for the emergency services to arrive.

He provided his name and address so officers were able to arrive at the family home a short time later to find his mum Marjana semi-conscious.

Listen to Noah's tear-jerking call to 999 by clicking play in the video above.'Hot Girls Wanted' is a first-ever look at the realities of the professional "amateur" porn world. This film shows how girls are increasingly being lured into the world of amateur pornography seeking fame and fortune.

Taken from The Telegraph:Banner ads like "Latina Abuse" and "18 & Abused" pop up like on a computer screen, to a thumping soundtrack.

Perhaps the grimmest segment of the film concerns extreme videos: the most disturbing one focuses on so-called "facial abuse" – forced oral sex – which new girls find themselves drawn into doing, for the promise of extra pay.

"We couldn't watch it, so our editor watched it for us and she made the choices,"


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Stocks finished higher on Friday, recovering from the previous day's sharp losses as the Dow reclaimed its footing above the 15,000-point mark despite the Washington budget stalemate and looming deadline to raise the U.S. debt ceiling.

Still, the Dow and S&P finished in the red for the week. The Nasdaq, meanwhile, closed in positive territory for the fifth-consecutive week.

(Read more: A tweet underscores why Washington is stuck)

"Those looking for another selloff to at least test yesterday's lows were left at the altar," wrote Elliot Spar, market strategist at Stifel NIcolaus. "Bottom-line: This Washington mess will pass; yes, it will have a negative impact on the economy and data releases over the near term butthis is temporary.

"The market is able to look over the valley...No, I am not saying throw money at the market," he said. "You still have to be very selective while still using market rallies to hedge your weak technical holdings."

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 76 points higher, boosted by Disney and Boeing, after finishing below the 15,000 mark on Thursday for the first time since early September.

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The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq also finished in positive territory. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, was unchanged above 17.

All key S&P sectors finished higher, led by materials and health care.

(Watch:


Art Cashin: The REAL reason DC's still shut)

"I find it painful to say this, but the government shutdown doesn't tend to affect markets at all," said Scott Clemons, chief investment strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman Wealth Management. "The debt ceiling debate, however, is a different matter. I think people are pricing in the political brinkmanship as 'business as usual' in DC. When push comes to shove, everyone knows the US cannot default on its debt and so some compromise has to be struck…we're likely to have uncertainty until the 11th hour."

Stocks briefly pared their gains after Speaker John Boehner said the House will not vote on a "clean" spending bill without conditions to end the government shutdown, and demanded spending cuts in exchange for raising the government's borrowingAhead of an AFL-CIO event in Iowa Wednesday, Democratic presidential primary candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders announced that, if elected, he would "make it easier, not harder, for workers to join unions by implementing the Workplace Democracy Plan and establishing a national goal to double union membership during his first term."

Pointing to research from the think tank Economic Policy Institute which shows that "since the 1970s, declining unionization has fueled rising inequality and stalled economic progress for the broad American middle class," Sanders aims to reverse that national trend with a new plan that builds on legislation the Independent senator from Vermont initially introduced in 1992.

"Corporate America and the billionaire class have been waging a 40-year war against the trade union movement in America that has caused devastating harm


By CHRIS GRYGIEL, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF

Updated 2:16 pm, Thursday, August 25, 2011

Seattle must take the "high road" in its jobs and infrastructure efforts to effectively compete in the new world economy, Mayor Mike McGinn said Thursday as he gave a one-year report card on his administration's efforts to bring the city out of the Great Recession.

"A focus on the economy has to be our highest priority," McGinn said at a news conference just south of Pioneer Square. "The economic situation we face, and growing jobs locally and taking action locally is about the most important thing that city government can do."

In August of last year, McGinn announced a plan to create 10,000 jobs over several years, with $70 million in new financing for businesses and investments in the greencity.M

Moved forward with a proposal to extend drinking hours and other efforts to create a more vibrant bar and nightlife scene.

Delivered a pilot broadband project for Pioneer Square, as well as moving to allow increased density in South Downtown.

McGinn said the downturn in the economy had hit Seattle hard, with the city losing 35,000 jobs between 2007-2009. In the past year, McGinn said the city had seen a net gain of 10,000 jobs, and that 85 percent of the new apartment construction in King and Snohomish County was happening here.

"A year ago, we had no cranes. You look around now and you see hard hats and cranes," the mayor said.

McGinn emphasized it was important to take the "long view" when doing economic planning.

"There are choices. One choice is


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The risk of component breakage may be reduced by making the gear train components larger and therefore stronger. Increased size may also reduce wear by distributing the transmitted forces over correspondingly largerTodd Tate has been playing bass guitar since he was a toddler, and he hasn’t stopped. On a corner near 1698 S. Barksdale St., in the University District, music is playing everyday and night, coming out the windows of the home of a man who is passionately in love with music. “Music is all I know,” Tate said.

Picture of Tate as a toddler.

The 50-year-old man was given a guitar at the age of 2, and he has been playing ever since.

“I saw my big brothers playing, and they got a lot of girlfriends, so my mama bought me one because I wanted to be like them,” Tate said.

He mentioned how he learned to play and that was with one string on the guitar by ear.

“I got so good,


I started writing my own songs,” Tate said.

He admits to twisting songs around adding his own style to original music, but he said jealousy grew from his older brothers because he got so talented.

“I have about 6,000 original songs of mine sitting around,” Tate said.

He has traveled to places like New York, Boston, Cincinnati and Paris to play his guitar.

“Many people from all over the world know me, but I choose to stay grounded and humble to what I am gifted at doing,” Tate said.

Bountiful Blessings Church in South Memphis was where he held a position as bass guitarist for 19 years.

Tate was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2006 for his work while playing on Black Entertainment Television.

His band is called X-Soul, and it plays at casinos

THE great Calvin Coolidge reputedly said that “the business of America is business.” These days the business of America is carpet-chewing rage. American politicians are intent, not on improving their country's competitiveness, but on gouging each other's eyes out.

Businesspeople still enjoy huge advantages from being in America. Business is part of its DNA in much the same way that la dolce vita is part of Italy's. America has a disproportionate number of the world's most innovative businesses, from greybeards such as 3M to toddlers such as Salesforce.com. And Americans are to management what Brazilians are to soccer. After studying 10,000 firms in 20 countries, Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and three other academics concluded that American firms are the world's best managed, with German, Japanese and Swedish firms


a short way behind and Chinese and Indian ones trailing badly.

Yet America's politicians are intent on squandering this painfully accumulated capital. As it revoked America's triple-A credit rating on August 5th, Standard & Poor's explained that the gulf between the political parties was becoming unbridgeable, and that policymaking was becoming unpredictable. Other sober institutions concur. The World Economic Forum has downgraded America from second place in 2009 to fourth place in 2010 in its annual global competitiveness rankings. By the forum's reckoning, America comes a lowly 40th for the quality of its institutions, 54th for trust in its politicians, 68th for government waste and a dismal 87th for its macroeconomic environment. The World Bank sees a relentless decline in various indicators of American governance. Daniel Kaufmann of thedefault.

This ideological civil war has led to the marginalisation of corporate America. In the Republican Party country-club types have been elbowed aside by Rush Limbaugh listeners. In the Democratic Party the business-friendly centrists who flourished under Bill Clinton have been sidelined by Ivy League intellectuals and trade-union and minority activists. Granted, Mitt Romney, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, looks like a made-for-television business candidate: a Harvard Business School graduate and Bain consultant who helped to create successful companies such as Home Depot. But on the campaign trail he has devoted more effort to wooing Mr Limbaugh's legions than to crafting businesslike solutions for America.

The civil war is creating two obvious problems for American business: paralysis and uncertainty. The Obama administration is still pockmarked with vacancies because


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Funimation will release the first season of Shakugan no Shana with the original Geneon English dub cast next week on Blu-ray and DVD. The company will then release the second seasonNorth Korea's ability to fire a nuclear warhead at the U.S. will soon become an accepted reality, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates told CNBC on Tuesday."I think that over the coming year, you'll see North Korea become accepted as having the capability to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead on it to the United States. A lot of people already believe that they have that capability," he said.Gates' comments come amid high tensions between the U.S. and North Korea as the regime of Kim Jong Un continues missile launches and nuclear tests despite international warnings to desist. North Korea sees the weapons as a way to defend itself against attack or attempts to overthrow Kim.

There is widespread concern that North Korea is close to being


the U.S.

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On the other hand,

China wants to preserve stability in the region and has tired of its bellicose neighbor's repeated defiance of warnings to stop its missile tests

. Relations between the countries' leaders are reported to be frosty, particularly after North Korea conducted missile tests during China's hosting of high-profile events.

Gates said that while China has influence over North Korea, "it doesn't have control.""(China is) responsible for 80 percent of the gross domestic product of the North, and they have the sole source of oil and coal and fuel for the North, but the Chinese concern is first and foremost about a collapse in the North that throws the control of the nuclear programs into question. But equally important, it would perhaps send millions of North Koreanthe answer to that, and neither does anybody else," Gates added.North Korea is expected to be a topic for discussion when South Korea's President Moon Jae-in travels to Beijing for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week. The visit comes amid a row over Seoul's use of a U.S. anti-missile system that China believes uses a radar to see into its territory, Reuters reported.

Gates also said

President Donald Trump

's decision to

recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel

was "ill-advised" and has probably "significantly" set back the

Mideast peace process

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North Korea's ability to fire a nuclear warhead at the U.S. will soon become an accepted reality, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates told CNBC on Tuesday.

"I think that over the coming year, you'll see North Korea become accepted as having the


capability to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead on it to the United States. A lot of people already believe that they have that capability," he said.

Gates' comments come amid high tensions between the U.S. and North Korea as the regime of Kim Jong Un continues missile launches and nuclear tests despite international warnings to desist. North Korea sees the weapons as a way to defend itself against attack or attempts to overthrow Kim.

There is widespread concern that North Korea is close to being able to mount nuclear warheads on its missiles —

it claims it can already do so

but this has not been independently verified.

Gates, a former CIA director who was Pentagon secretary in the second Bush and Obama administrations, had no expectations that Northsystem is being replaced by a four-team playoff in 2014. How exactly that new format will look remains to be seen.

Meanwhile, Oregon checks in at No. 3 in the first rankings, slightly behind the Gators. The Ducks sit at No. 2 in both the Coaches' Poll and the Harris Poll but have a No. 6 computer rating. Coincidentally, Oregon was No. 2 in the final polls in 2001 but was weighted down by the computers and finished No. 4 in the final BCS standings. Of course, the Ducks still could rise in these standings because of games against USC and Oregon State, plus a potential rematch with USC in a Pac-12 title game. But would that be enough for the computers?

The Gators are No. 1 in the six


of teams ranked lower than you would have wanted or expected, keep in mind that LSU won the BCS title in 2003 after being No. 12 in the initial rankings. On the flip side, only four of 28 teams to reach the title game were not ranked in the Top 5 of the initial standings.

• Notre Dame is back in the national mix. The last time the Fighting Irish were this high was in 2002 when they were No. 3 for the first two weeks of the standings. That was the year they started 8-0.

• Kansas State has not been this high since finishing No. 5 in 1999.

Certainly there is a ton of football left, but it's at least fun to discuss possible national championship participants as weRALEIGH, NC - Ron Francis, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the National Hockey League's Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has recalled forwards Bryan Bickell and Andrew Poturalski from the Charlotte Checkers of the American Hockey League (AHL). Forwards Phil Di Giuseppe and Lucas Wallmark have been reassigned to Charlotte.

Bickell, 31, began the 2016-17 campaign with Carolina and notched one goal in seven games before being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in early November. He returned to game action with the Checkers in late February and scored one goal and earned three assists (4 points) in 10 games with Charlotte. The Bowmanville, Ont., native was acquired by Carolina on June 15, 2016, from Chicago, where he was a member the Blackhawks' Stanley Cup-winning teams in


2010, 2013 and 2015. Bickell (6'4", 223 lbs.) was drafted by Chicago in the second round, 41st overall, in the 2004 NHL Draft, and has scored 66 goals and earned 70 assists in 391 NHL career regular-season games with the Blackhawks and Hurricanes.

This marks the first NHL recall for the 23-year-old Poturalski, who is in his first full professional season after completing his collegiate career in 2015-16 at the University of New Hampshire. The Williamsville, NY, native leads all Checkers skaters this season with 32 assists and 48 points while playing in all 69 of the team's games. The Hurricanes signed Poturalski (5'10", 180 lbs.) to a two-year, entry-level contract on March 8, 2016, after he finished the 2015-16 collegiate season ranked second among all National Collegiate AthleticAssociation (NCAA) skaters with 52 points (22g, 30a) in 37 games with the Wildcats. He was named a first-team All-American (East) and was a finalist for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, which is given annually to the nation's top collegiate hockey player.


The genius of Louis van Gaal, the new Manchester United manager, is not easily understood.

For he is, in all likelihood, a genius. He led the biggest clubs of the Dutch, Spanish and German leagues to both championship titles, domestic cups, and international success. This in itself proves nothing, as anyone who happens to manage Bayern Munich, Barcelona, or Ajax , is bound to win trophies – even stuffed teddy bears, some suggest. The Financial Times on stuffed teddy bears and managers

But Van Gaal also managed lesser sides to unlikely success. Last month, he was on the verge of entering the World Cup final with an unfancied Dutch team, perhaps the first Dutch side since the 1980s the country didn’t expect to win the title. Managing Ajax, a sideexactly what I mean…’

He had barely set foot on the soil of a country that never loved him, but now, however briefly, did. (Recognition! Love, even! At last!) But instead of relishing the moment Van Gaal chose to settle scores.

However hilarious, interviews like this obscure the man’s brilliance. Fortunately, there are some good sources that describe his methods in detail, most of all the second part of his ghost-written autobiography Visie (‘Vision’).

Unfortunately, the book has all the charm of a Van Gaal press conference and is thus hardly an easy read. But careful study and a review of two interviews with the trade journal of Dutch soccer coaches have yielded valuable insights into the method that helped shape Holland’s unexpectedly strong performance at the World Cup and the


was very positive about a particular decision a player made that Van Gaal and his staff were actually critical of? Red players will get different video and commentary from Van Gaal than blue players.

Probably Van Gaal has developed his methods even further over the last few years. In football tactics, individual players have become more important to him. In the 1990s, Van Gaal preferred to pry open defences with a collective of well-organised teenagers hoarding the ball on the opponent’s half and patiently passing their way to decent chances.

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But as football has evolved, so has Van Gaal. By the time he took over as AZ manager in 2006, it had become apparent to him that this could no longer be done. He built his teamthem to accept less and learn less from him, which all nibbles away at his 10 percent window for improvement.

As he said after some critical media reports in the Dutch media in the first week of the World Cup: ‘We all need to be pulling on the same rope.’

4. Van Gaal cares more about the process than about the result

There is a fair chance that in the beginning of the season, Manchester United will drop points against unfavoured opposition. This usually happens after Van Gaal takes charge somewhere. After such a loss, Van Gaal will say that he thought his team played well or even brilliantly, even when he is the only person in the stadium who thinks so. Several of these post-match interviews have turned into minor


suspected during his career as a player.

When a daughter of an old friend wrote her master’s thesis at VU University about the optimum time a football team should take to prepare for the next match – three days, not four as Van Gaal used to do – Van Gaal immediately implemented her advice. (Four days was judged to be too long for players to keep their focus on a specific opponent.)

Van Gaal as Ajax manager doing a karate kick in the 1995 Champions’ League against AC Milan. Photo: Robert Jaeger/ANP

Van Gaal studies other sports. When at AZ, he exchanged knowledge with managers from Aussie rules football. He also copied methods from field hockey

And, Van Gaal studies other sports. When at AZ, he exchanged knowledge with managers from Aussierules football. He also copied methods from field hockey, which is popular in The Netherlands and whose practitioners are generally more highly educated that the ones in football. His wish to show players their actions in video led him to recruit Reckers, who had worked as an assistant coach at a top-level hockey club and was an expert at using a sophisticated video analysis tool. Their focus on detailed video analysis and the use of expensive equipment has kept evolving, as Manchester United players and staff at their Carrington training ground have already learnt. Van Gaal spent £ 500,000 on video equipment

Reckers and Van Gaal have kept improving their video systems and have made use of both Google’s Glass and the Oculus Rift gaming head set, which enables


since the stolen money came from a US Federal Reserve account in New York. The high profile incident also exposes liabilities in the global anti-money laundering efforts. This opens the can of worms highlighted in recent years by HSBC Bank scandal with ties to the City of London caught red-handed laundering dirty drug and terrorist money that governments and the terrorism network profit from worldwide drug smuggling operations that have netted billions if not trillions. Sinister military research part of black ops programs is largely financed the drug money that our Western governments criminally generate. The corrupt global financial system is notorious for laundering money through the central banking cabal and mob casinos all over the world. That fact alone has allowed the hackers in this case touse the Philippine bank as its launderer. Legalized criminal secrecy of shadow governments globally enable transactions into the billions to be routinely covered up.

The trend now in the world is having bank disclosures, not bank secrecy. This is to prevent also the funneling of money down to terroristic activities, drug cartels, etc. We should be one with the international community in preventing such activities.

Somehow I very much doubt that her current counterpart in America, the Republican frontrunner Donald Trump would agree as his casinos have been linked to organized crime although he has managed to avoid indictment thus far. In any event, the Rizai Bank accepted the stolen money deposits and then sent them to the local casinos for laundering purposes knowing that the Philippine anti-money laundering law


desire a more rugged experience.

Ellen set up the trip with Golden Triangle Bike in downtown Pittsburgh. We chose a weeklong package that would average 50 miles a day. We met cyclists doing fewer daily miles over 10 days and young bikers doing the trip in just three days.

Golden Triangle provided bike rentals for Marianne and me; Lynn brought her bike on the Amtrak from D.C.’s Union Station; and Ellen and Carla had bikes in Pittsburgh. The trip itinerary included suggestions for lunch stops and historic sites on the way, as well as ideas for dinner in our overnight towns.

Nothing to do all day long but ride a bike for a glorious warm week the end of September. And what a ride it was.

The trail started just a fewblocks from Golden Triangle, and the first part of the journey took us through Pittsburgh on a paved trail, over bridges, along railroad tracks and through industrial areas with brick factory buildings. Outside the city, the trail became crushed limestone. Other than a few paved detours, this was the surface beneath our wheels for the rest of the week.

With a canopy of trees overhead, the Youghiogheny River on one side and the friendly crunch of wheels on gravel and fallen leaves, we were on our way.

Trestle bridges with amazing views. Rock walls that hugged the side of the trail. Deer, snakes, turtles sunning themselves on mossy logs. And almost always a river: Sometimes wide and tranquil, sometimes rushing over rocks with the occasional canoeists or rafters.

This was coal


with us for the first and second days.

A morning stop for ice cream (today in Boston, Pa.,) became a daily occurrence for most days the rest of the week. We had lunch in West Newton and got into Connellsville late afternoon, just as Carla’s front tire was starting to lose air.

The bike shop was open until 6, so we waited for the repair across the street at a tavern.

Our overnight was the Connellsville B&B, a classic bed and breakfast, with the best beds of the week. The rooms were named for European countries. Lynn and I were in the German room and the B&B owner told us the lovely antique furniture had come from a buying trip to Germany. There was tea and snacks in a cozy sittingwrapped up another day.

Day 4: Cumberland to Hancock, Md., 60 miles

The GAP was behind us and we were on the C&O Canal Towpath. The trail is much rougher than the GAP, so there was less time to take in the woods and view, as roots and rocks and a rutted trail required all eyes ahead. The abandoned canal was on one side, the Potomac on the other. Locks and the houses where their caretakers lived came at regular intervals, with a deep feeling of history all around.

The famous Paw Paw Tunnel was supposed to be a highlight of the day, more than 3,000 feet long and an attraction for cyclists from around the world. But it had been closed all summer for repairs. Ellen had arranged a shuttle


built in 1756 to protect the Western frontier during the French and Indian War. It was a prison camp for captured British troops during the Revolutionary War and the site of battles during the Civil War. The interpretive sites were closed, but it was worth a stop.

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Delta to block middle seats, raise capacity to 75% starting in October Cyclists on the trail and our tour outfitter recommended a lunch stop at Desert Rose Café in Williamsport. The staff was happy to fill water bottles and scooped up a fine root beer float (daily icecream quota met). Ellen pulled a flat just outside town and her pit crew (the rest of us), jumped in to help her change it.

A wide stretch of the Potomac called the Big Slackwater had a cool raised concrete section of the trail along a rock wall. Vacation homes and boats on the docks dotted the far side like a lakeshore in northern Minnesota.

Shepherdstown, the oldest town in West Virginia, was our favorite overnight stop of the week. It’s quaint at every turn, with lots of shops and restaurants in this college town. While Ellen’s bike got a couple of new tires, we found a tavern called the Mecklenberg Inn that’s worth checking out for the back patio where frisky squirrels dropped acorn bombs on the customers. Excellent


SINGAPORE - The teenager who fell to his death from the fourth-storey linkway of Orchard Central shopping mall in February had a history of performing daring stunts, a court heard on Thursday (July 27).

An inquiry into the death of Jonathan Chow Hua Guang, 17, revealed that prior to his fatal fall, he had once jumped off the second storey of a building with his friend, known only as Ruth.

Their friends said that they had watched a video of the pair performing the stunt together.

The investigation officer (IO), Staff Sergeant Lim Wei, told State Coroner Marvin Bay that Ruth was with Jonathan when he made the fatal leap on Feb 24.

Staff Sgt Lim also said that according to Ruth, she had once jumped out of a window of herthird-storey flat onto the ground below after her father forbade her to meet her friends.

He added that the pair were close friends but there was no evidence they were in a relationship.

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The court heard there was also no evidence that Jonathan, who was about to be enlisted for national service, was into parkour - an activity in which practitioners try to get from one point to another in the fastest way by jumping, climbing and vaulting.

However, the 1.74m tall teenager, who weighed 79kg, was an ardent skateboarder and enjoyed performing stunts.

He had met Ruth via Instagram and they regularly sent text messages to each other.

Staff Sgt Lim said they were in a bus on their


way to Sentosa on Feb 24 when Jonathan wanted to use the toilet. They alighted near Orchard Central and made their way to the mall.

The IO said that according to Ruth, they were on the walkway when Jonathan suggested that they jump onto a nearby ledge. She was then supposed to record a video of the stunt with her mobile phone.

A closed-circuit television footage which was played in court showed the pair putting down their bags before he vaulted over a 1.2m high barrier.

Jonathan landed on the ledge, which was perpendicular to the walkway, but the platform he was on gave way and he plummeted 18m to the ground.

Staff Sgt Lim said the platform was made of calcium silicate board and was not meant to support any weight.

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In a few short years Adam Brand has become one of the most awarded, highest selling artists and biggest draw cards in Australian Country Music. He is country music's favourite son and 'Built For Speed' has the depth and strength to keep him on hisfull throttle, fuel injected journey to wherever he sets his sights. Both of Adam Brand’s previous albums are nearing platinum and his preceding effort "Good Friends" was voted album of the year at the 2001 CMAA Awards. In fact since the release of his self–titled debut album in July 1998, Brand has received 7 CMAA Golden Guitar Awards, 2 Mo Awards and notched up 7 #1 singles. Now, ten years, eight Golden Guitars, three platinum albums, two gold albums and two gold live DVD’s later, Brand releases what is perhaps the most defining work of his career. ‘Blame It On Eve’ was recorded between Sydney and Nashville with long time producer Graham Thompson and many of the musicians that played on his previous album ‘What A Life’. It


pieces mentally and physically," lost her voice, and was apparently a mental and physical wreck. She was excused, with direction by the referee to appear the following day to testify.
That night of the 25th, Dr. William W. Hersohn, of Atlantic City, N. J., who had been attending Mrs. Fox for over a year, examined her and wrote a certificate to be presented to the court the following day, in which he said:
"Although she is not a healthy woman, I have never seen her look like I found her this evening at six o'clock when I received an urgent call to attend her. She was seriously upset mentally, extremely nervous, and complaining of great intensity of her symptoms. I solicited the information that she practically went to pieces mentallyof questioning and that whenever possible the answers to questions be obtained from other sources."
The referee stated at the opening of court that she would not be excused from testifying, and directed counsel to have Mrs. Fox in court to testify at the adjourned hearing on Tuesday, September 1, 1936, at 10 o'clock in the morning. She was not present in court at the time suggested, and the referee directed Dr. Carrington to examine her again that day. This he did in the presence of Dr. Hersohn at 1 o'clock that afternoon. Dr. Hersohn says that Mrs. Fox at that time had not improved, and that she was unable to appear and testify in court. He said as her personal physician: "I have advised Mrs. Fox that it


would be extremely dangerous to her health to go to court and testify in her present condition." He says that Dr. Carrington then and there agreed with him. Dr. Carrington again denied this.
The following day Dr. Samuel Ritter, of New York City, who had been attending Mrs. Fox for two and a half years, examined her. He said that she was suffering from the menopause, and was bordering on a complete nervous breakdown, and that "any unusual mental or physical strain such as testifying in court, would, at this time result in very serious consequences. Menopausal insanity is not an uncommon result in situations of this kind," etc.
Dr. Carrington, as well as Dr. Hersohn, said that in the examinations Mrs. Fox had been "exceedingly cooperative." The referee certifiedMrs. Fox to the District Court for contempt because of her failure to appear as directed, and that court, on April 29th, adjudged her to be in contempt of it and of the referee in bankruptcy, and ordered her to appear before it on June 4, 1937, to receive sentence. It further ordered that if she appeared before the referee in bankruptcy before that time and produced with her certain books, papers, records, and documents, she would be considered as purging herself of contempt.
The court did not say whether it found her to be guilty of criminal contempt or of civil contempt. It probably had in mind civil contempt, for the punishment which the opinion indicated might be imposed is appropriate to a finding of civil contempt. Thereafter,


the examination he did not talk with a physician or any one else about her condition; and that he found no evidence of simulation on her part or any unwillingness to testify. A copy of his report was submitted by the court to counsel of both parties, and the dean himself was present in court and an opportunity was given to counsel on both sides to examine *686 him, but counsel for appellee declined to do so. Among other things in his report and testimony the dean said that Mrs. Fox "co-operated apparently without reserve, in the examination and in giving all information requested in so far as she seemed able to do." He further said that: "I am of the opinion that Mrs. Fox is incapable ofTag Archives: James Forman Jr.

Exactly one year ago, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi was the keynote speaker at Westport’s annual Martin Luther King Day ceremony. A full house listened raptly as the winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction described exactly what it means to be anti-racist.

It was a powerful, insightful lecture. Attendees contributed almost $3,000 toward anti-racism training in Westport.

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

In the weeks following, the MLK Planning Committee — TEAM Westport, the Westport Library, Westport Playhouse and Westport Weston Interfaith Council — worked with Dr. Kendi and his team to develop anti-racism training for senior management of key organizations in Westport. It includes town government, the police and the school system.

The year-long, successful pilot project is now in the action stage.

Dr. Kendi’s impact on


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He is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. The Brown University and Yale Law School graduate clerked for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. He then spent 6 years as a public defender.

Forman has contributed op-eds and essays to the New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Nation, and the Washington Post.to set up a menu so that one selection will give load EMM386 and a second selection will load URAM.

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The Commodore MOS 6581 Sound Interface Device, the SID, is one of the most famous synthesizer chips of all time. Its inclusion in the Commodore 64 and 128 computers helped to popularize computer music, mostly in Europe. Like virtually every other popular synthesizer chip of the time, it made its way to the PC in some form. Commodore had no problem in selling its chips to outside and technically rival companies. During its market life, the SID appeared in two different but related PC sound cards.

I. The Entertainer
In 1987, Microprose was looking for a way to enhance the sound of some of its DOS games. These