such an investigation, and the necessary judicial punishment of the perpetrators, would be a major miscarriage of justice, a fundamental failure of the primary duty of protection that the state owes its people, and an invitation to continued adverse international attention to Sri Lanka’s human rights record. The government and its political allies including sections of the clergy would do well to heed these considerations in their response to the Weliweriya incident.

The fullest demonstration of the government’s genuine commitment to the rule of law and law and order with regard to this incident should be seen in turn as a measure of its willingness and ability to ensure democratic governance in Sri Lanka. Its failure to do so will only further increase the burgeoning democratic deficit and retardour prospects for reconciliation, unity and prosperity.

12 August 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) and its Executive Director filed a complaint (Complaint No: HRC/3083/13) before the Human Rights Commissions of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) this afternoon against the Independent Television Network of Sri Lanka (ITN) and its Chairmen. The complaint was on the basis that a news item appearing on the 7:00pm Sinhala language news broadcast of ITN on Sunday 14th July 2013 violates several fundamental rights of both CPA and its Executive Director which are guaranteed under the Constitution to all citizens of Sri Lanka.

CPA had previously written to the Chairman of ITN on the 16th July 2013 requesting that the erroneous news report be corrected and a formal apology be tendered to both


most controversial posts. In his northern Ramallah office decorated with a collection of photos of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Jaghoub deflected criticism of the page and contended that its opponents have misinterpreted its content.

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Jaghoub, who is also the spokesman of Fatah’s Mobilization and Organization Commission (the party body that oversees local branches, activities and recruitment) and previously worked for the PA, claimed critics of the page misunderstand what he called the “symbolism” of some of its most controversial posts. He also contended it has never overtly incited violence.

Still, Jaghoub admitted that sometimes higher-ups in Fatah have requested that he take down posts they found too contentious. Meanwhile, three high-rankingA key Jewish community in eastern Jerusalem – practically right under the Temple Mount, to be precise – celebrated its third milestone in six months on Monday: The return of the old Yemenite Great Synagogue in the Shiloach village to Jewish hands after nearly 80 years.

Defying a Supreme Court ruling handed down in February of this year, the Arab squatters on the holy property refused to leave – and were therefore forcibly removed from the building in a well-protected early-morning operation.

Given the sensitive nature of the mission, and the location – a neighborhood (Silwan/Shiloach) largely populated by hostile Arabs, overlooking the City of David – and the wave of terrorism currently underway, many Border Police units, special police units and others took part.

This past May, festive Jewish prayers


were held in a small part of the long-hidden and inaccessible Hechal Shlomo synagogue of the Yemenite village - for the first time in 77 years. The synagogue is part of the “Yemenite Hekdesh Benvinisti” community buildings owned by the old Yemenite community of Jerusalem, which first struck roots there in the 1880's.

The second milestone occurred two months ago, when a group of Jewish families moved into the Beit Rachel complex of the old Yemenite village. Despite the never-forfeited Jewish ownership of the buildings, six apartments were "purchased" from the Arab families who took over the property when Jerusalem fell under Jordanian control in 1948.

And now, the icing on the cake: The entire old Yemenite synagogue in the Shiloach is finally and completely back in Jewish hands.

As mentioned,in May of this year, the Ateret Cohanim organization helped facilitate the return of less than a third of the synagogue back to the rightful Yemenite heirs – namely, the Yemenite communal property of Hekdesh Benvinisti. To regain the remaining two-thirds, however, it appeared that a court ruling of seven years ago was not enough – and the Hekdesh actually offered the illegal Arab squatters money for them to leave. Even more unbelievably, the Arabs refused the offer – and seven years of court battles ensued, until the Supreme Court ruled in February that they must leave and allow the owners to return.

Finally now, eight months later, the ruling was actualized, and the main landmark of the Jewish Yemenite community of Jerusalem is Jewish once again. The Hekdesh


and Ateret Cohanim are now embarking on a campaign to restore the entire synagogue to its previous glory.

A timeline of the Yemenite Jewish community, as provided by Ateret Cohanim:

1882 - Yemenite Jews make the dangerous trek to Jerusalem.Village established with a peak of 144 Yemenite families.

1885 - First Yemenite Synagogue was established. (The Great Synagogue - Ohel Shlomo)

1936-7 - Yemenite Jews driven out by marauding Arabs in pogroms of the 1930's.

1938 - Last remaining Yemenite Jews removed from homes by the British authorities who could not or would not protect them. The British promised, however, that the Jewish refugees would be able to return when things quieted down. This promise was not fulfilled, and the holy items were desecrated, and the neighborhood was occupied and overrun.

2004 - TheOn 12 October 2016, a YouTube clip purportedly capturing the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, screaming at his young daughter was circulated via social media in October 2016:

Breaking: Tim Kaine Yells At 11 Year Old Daughter In Leaked Voicemail! Kaine Explodes On 11 Yr Old! Leaked Voicemail Proves He is Unfit To Lead! Another Leaked Footage Proves A dark side of Tim Kaine! We must alert the public! The media is trying to hide this!

While the audio portion of this clip is real, it has nothing to do with Senator Tim Kaine. It’s actually a voicemail that actor Alec Baldwin left for his 11-year-old daughter, Ireland, in April 2007; and the publicizing of that recording was a major media story back then:

The actor has


Sports

On Sunday, November 1st, in Longueil, the Junior Girls’ rugby team from the local Chateauguay Valley Regional High School (CVR) won the first ever RSEQ Montérégie, short for Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec. CVR finished in first place after a 12-game season.The final game saw CVR take on the team from Saint-Joseph de Saint-Hyacinthe. Both teams played very well but in the end it was CVR who came out victorious with a 10-5 win. Up until this match, both teams were undefeated as their earlier meet in the season resulted in a 5-5 tie.The CVR team finished the season with 11 wins and a game that ended in a draw giving them a total of 46 points. The team from Saint-Hyacinthe came in second with nine wins,Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Mike Thomas will sit out for the first four games of the 2017 season. Photo courtesy of Los Angeles Rams/Twitter

July 14 (UPI) -- Los Angeles Rams Wide receiver Mike Thomas will start the season on the bench after being suspended for four games Friday by the NFL.

He received the ban for violating the NFL's policy on performance enhancing substances.

Thomas will be eligible to return on Monday, Oct. 2, following the Rams' Oct. 1 contest against the Dallas Cowboys. He will not be paid during the suspension.

The sixth round pick in the 2016 NFL Draft had just three catches for 37 yards in 15 games last season. He also had 180 yards on nine kick returns for the Rams.

The Carolina Panthers originally traded its


sixth round pick, which would later become Thomas, to the Chicago Bears in 2015 in exchange for Jared Allen.

The Bears traded that pick (Thomas) and a 2014 fourth round pick to the Rams in 2016 for a 2016 fourth round pick.

Missing out on time this season isn't great for Thomas' future outlook with the franchise. The Rams added Robert Woods in free agency this offseason, used a third round pick on Eastern Washington wide receiver Cooper Kupp and spent a fourth round pick on Texas A&M's Josh Reynolds. Los Angeles still has Tavon Austin leading the Rams' wide receiver corps.

Thomas can participate in preseason games and practices.

The Rams report to training camp on July 28 and begin practices on July 29.SINGAPORE - Instead of placing cremated remains in a niche or scattering ashes out at sea, people might soon be able to scatter the ashes of their loved ones in a garden here.

The National Environment Agency (NEA) said on Tuesday it plans to introduce the new ecological burial concept of inland ash scattering services at Government-run facilities as an additional option for the placement of cremated remains.

NEA operates the Choa Chu Kang Columbarium and Mandai Columbarium.

This move comes in response to interest from some members of the public and is in line with similar practices in societies such as Korea, Taiwan, China, the United States and Australia, said NEA. The agency noted that funerary service companies in Singapore are already offering some options, such as turning ashes into


My ensemble Charisma presents an intimate concert heralding the spring! Featuring music by Australian composer Katia Beaugeais – The Last Flight of Saint-Ex (based on the last flight of the french writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry shot down in the second world war in 1944), and Australian composer Robert Davidson – Squaring the Circle for clarinet trio. The Fantasy Trio based on an American Hymn Tune (Shall we gather at the river) by composer Kenneth Leighton and the beautiful late romantic trio for clarinet, cello and piano by Robert Kahn. Join the musicians at the conclusion of the concert for afternoon tea and drinks and convivial company which is all part of the ticket price. Tickets $30, $20, $10.

Venue is the beautiful historic Chapter House part of the StClub
Anglo Napulitano is a fan club based in England, dedicated to the calcio side Societą
Sportiva Calcio Napoli. Also, the website serves as a general English language database for all information on the team
that a dedicated fan will want to know, including statistics, history, legends and more.

The football club itself has a long history with connections to England. From when it was first formed
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who made it all possible.

This continued into the 1930s with William Garbutt as a manager at Napoli; it was while Garbutt was managing the club that
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and


1933-34.

Since this time links have been less common, however it was with Napoli whom Gianfranco Zola first burst into the footballing
spotlight with, winning various trophies as the understudy to the great Diego Maradona. During the 1990s and early 2000s Zola
moved to England and becoming one of the most accomplished players in the leagues history, he was later awarded an OBE (Order
of the British Empire).different conditions.
A vehicle door latch assembly moveable between an unlocked condition, a first locked condition and a second locked condition. The door latch assembly comprises a support housing. A cover is mounted to the support housing and has at least one projecting abutment. A ratchet is pivotally mounted to the support housing and moveable or pivotable between a latched position and an unlatched position. A pawl is mounted to the support housing and has first and second ends with the pawl moveable between a blocking position wherein the first end abuts the ratchet to secure the ratchet in the latched position and a release position wherein the first end disengages the ratchet to permit the ratchet to pivot toward the unlatched position. A release mechanism is mounted to


the support housing for selectively moving the pawl into the release position. A coupler is selectively coupled between the second end of the pawl and the release mechanism. The coupler moves between an engaged position aligned with the release mechanism and a disengaged position spaced from the release mechanism. A cam is rotatably mounted to the cover and includes a camming surface defining at least one stop for selective engagement with the abutment. A transfer element is mounted to the cam and engages the coupler for transferring the rotation of the cam into the movement of the coupler. A rocker is movably mounted to the cover for selectively engaging the camming surface of the cam. A first controller rotates the cam and moves the transfer element between aLarry Siedentop’s Inventing the Individual The Origins of Western Liberalism (2014) (i)

It is the thesis of Larry Siedentop that the West has a way of thinking about the individual that is different to those of other societies, and he believes he can account for this. In ancient times people thought of themselves as part of a family, and the cities that developed were confederations of the cults practised within families. Such ideas were turned upside down by the Apostle Paul, whose teaching about salvation entailed individuals possessing independent moral agency and a will that was in a sense pre-social. It took centuries for the implications of this view to be worked out, but such things as the destruction of the ancient family, the enhancement of the position of


women, and the atrophy of slavery show it in operation. In early medieval times the church focussed on souls, rather than the claims of family (the ideas of Jack Goody may be apposite here.) Crimes came to be understood in terms of intention rather than outcome, and moral intuitions increasingly came to be grafted onto legal concepts; rather than looking backward to Roman times, Carolingian rulers saw themselves as doing something new.

The church offered the example of a unified legal system founded on the equal subjection of individuals. Indeed, canon law applied general principles to individual cases, where Roman law gave birth to the idea of the modern state, canon law being the first modern legal system. But the doctrine that underlay such understandings contained the seeds ofThe words flowed effortlessly out of the brunettes mouth as if they were plainly obvious. "When she struck me all those years ago, something happened. Something inside me changed. I ran because I feared I would die, and I did not want Elsa to live with the pain of seeing her mother die by her own hand. But as the days turned to months turned to years, I realized I wasn't going anywhere, and that I could never go back."

"Wh-why not?"

"When she struck me a small piece of her power became part of me. A very important piece." The blank stare on Anna's face forced Idun to continue. "Her self control. For Elsa's entire life she has been driven by the fear of her powers instead of relishing


of it or something. You don't know!"

"Even if she does, she could easily relapse to this state again. I don't want that for her, or for you. Anna, this has to be done."

The redhead simply gaped as Idun touched her shaking hands to her daughter's shoulders. A soft blue light began to emanate from her hands as the storm around them slowly began to die down. Idun's entire body began to turn from flesh to ice as the light grew stronger. The ice creeped up her arms and encased the rest of her being and she began to scream. As soon at it all started, it ended. In the same instant that the storm raging around them ended, Idun shattered into one thousand miniscule pieces that promptly meltedupon reaching the ground.

Salty tears flowed from Anna's eyes as she witnessed the act of unconditional love that caused Elsa to finally stir from her entranced state. The blonde attempted to stand but quickly collapsed to the thawing ice beneath her.

"Elsa!" Anna ran across the sinking platform underneath her towards the blondes side. She struggled to pull her across the this barrier protecting them from the frigid water of the pond. A pair of burly hands pulled the couple from the quickly sinking surface. "Th-thanks Kristoff."

"Are you ok?! This lady just showed up and ran into the storm! I tried to follow you but got thrown back like Hans-"

"Hans?! Where is that bastard? I swear I'm-"

"Whoa calm down. He's still knocked out cold. I tied his hands up


Sue Duncan was roasting a chicken for dinner when she and her husband heard the doorbell ring. It had been a quiet night. Leo Fisher was sitting on a recliner in the living room, reading. It was 6:15 on November 9, 2014, a cool fall evening in McLean.

Sue and Leo were both 61. While they had lots of friends in the area and considered themselves social, they liked to stay in. The couple called each other by the sorts of nicknames people develop over long marriages—Muffin and Pup and Dill and Gee. He addressed her as Muffy sometimes. She called him Pie. Tonight Sue was wearing corduroys, a black tunic over a white sweater, and glasses. Leo wore a dark-brown sweater over a T-shirt he’d bought on afamily trip to Turks and Caicos.

Leo got up from his recliner, walked to the door, and opened it a crack. What happened next took mere seconds. A man in a long black jacket shoved the door all the way open and fired a Taser at Leo’s chest. Two darts stuck in his sweater. Leo fell to the floor, writhing. The man bound his hands and feet with zip ties.

“I’m with the Virginia SEC,” the man announced after Sue ran toward him and screamed. “And I’m arresting your husband.”

The man wore an Indiana Jones–style hat pulled down over his face and sported a strange pair of black sneakers, with Velcro instead of shoelaces. He flashed a badge. Sue was recently retired from a career in financial services and knew


heart. Doctors had performed quadruple-bypass surgery the year before. He still took medication. Now he seemed to be having trouble breathing and said he felt as if he were having a heart attack. Sue asked the man to call an ambulance. He said no. A doctor then? He refused. Sue remembered that the chicken was still in the oven and asked to go downstairs and turn the oven off. The man said he’d do it himself.

At one point, Sue started feeling as if she might throw up, and the man cut the zip ties on her hands so she could use the bathroom. From time to time, she would return to it and retch while Leo stayed on the bed. Once she peered around the corner of the.380, silver with a black stock, four rounds in the clip and one in the chamber. He fired.

Leo watched his wife’s hair fly out, as if blown by a gust of wind.

The bullet grazed her skull, taking a divot out of her scalp. “I felt myself getting up,” she’d say later, “and I knew I was alive.”

Sue climbed onto the bed and tried to crawl across it to the phone. Suddenly, the man was on top of her and she felt a knife plunge into her neck. He was stabbing her in her neck, on her back, on her shoulders, over and over. She collapsed. The man got off. When she went for the phone a second time, the man stabbed her some more.

Finally, Sue played dead.

The man


fell in the foyer. After lying there for a time, he thought he saw the flashing lights of a police cruiser. He opened the door, went out to the deck, and begged the police to save his wife. Within minutes, backup arrived. Blood stains were all through the house, and a puddle of congealed blood in the bedroom “looked basically like jelly,” according to one officer, also an EMT.

Two cops found Sue on the floor of the office, her back against the desk, covered in blood. On first glance, they thought she was dead, but then they saw blood oozing from a gash on her neck to the rhythm of a heartbeat. The cop with EMT training packed the wound, but it kept bleeding through the fabric bandages.To stop the flow, he had to stick his finger in the wound up to the first knuckle. Sue kept asking him to save her cats, indoor cats that wouldn’t survive if they got loose.

Out on the deck, another officer pressed a dishtowel to Leo’s neck, trying in vain to stop the bleeding. “I know who did this,” Leo said.

***

Six months before the attack, 31-year-old Andrew Schmuhl lay in bed each morning, cramps spreading across his back. The pain from his spinal injury was getting worse, despite the Fentanyl and other drugs his doctors had prescribed, so many that a friend called him “a human pincushion.”

Before the injury, Schmuhl had been an active person, a runner. He loved woodworking and had worked on houses since he was a


kid in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He and his mechanical-engineer father used to build garages together. Andrew played football and chess and had “lots of friends, close friends,” recalls his mother, Mary Schmuhl. “He went to prom. Homecoming.”

Andrew wanted to be a lawyer. After graduating from Marquette University, he enlisted in the Army and enrolled at Valparaiso Law School in Indiana. That’s where he met Alecia Pehr. She was a smart, pretty student from the Chicago suburbs who played the violin and was editor of the law school’s student newspaper. Alecia, one former classmate remembers, was “fairly normal. Liked to have fun. She would go to bars, liked to have drinks with us.” Another recalls her as “feisty.” According to the classmate, she ran an anonymous blog calledSilly Little Law Student and sometimes used it to vent about the pressures of school and social life, once posting a picture of a young woman she didn’t like and writing “The Succubus” next to her face. Andrew was more of a mystery. “People thought he was a little bit odd,” says the first classmate. “He just didn’t have the strongest social skills.” When word got out that Andrew and Alecia were dating, everyone was surprised.

During school, Andrew was briefly married to a woman from Wisconsin. After divorcing, he married Alecia, who took his name. The couple graduated in 2009 and moved to Washington. Alecia found a job as an immigration attorney with a small Fairfax firm, and Andrew became an Army lawyer, an active-duty officer with the


day. Lisinopril for high blood pressure. Cymbalta, an antidepressant. He took Sumatriptan for migraine headaches; Tizanidine, a muscle relaxer; Sucralfate, for gastrointestinal issues. He also used over-the-counter remedies: Pepto-Bismol, Ex-Lax, NyQuil, Benadryl, and medicated patches that Alecia placed directly on his back wherever it hurt.

While Andrew struggled with his meds, Alecia was falling behind at work. She’d been at Bean Kinney about a year, hired by Leo Fisher. A pillar of the firm for nearly 25 years, Leo had helped build its reputation while serving as a widely liked mentor to young attorneys. One former partner, Heidi Meinzer, remembers that shortly after she was hired, Leo confessed that during her salary negotiation, the firm had lowballed her. “He bumped my salary and made it retroactive,” Meinzer says. (Fisherunits spotted the vehicle on the Beltway, but when they tried to pull it over, the Honda sped away. One of the K-9 cops peered in and saw a woman driving and a man in the passenger’s seat frantically removing his clothes. They seemed to be having an argument.

After several miles, the car finally stopped at a strip mall off the highway. Suddenly, and without being told to, the man got out of the car—naked except for an adult diaper. It was Andrew Schmuhl.

One of the cops ordered him to the ground at gunpoint; the other deployed his dog and said that if Andrew didn’t comply, he’d be bitten. Andrew lay down and was handcuffed, and the police began asking questions. At first, he seemed lucid. A few


Fairfax Hospital in Arlington, where he was given an injection of Narcan, a drug used to reverse the effects of opioids. Within minutes, his condition improved. Hospital staff also discovered the Fentanyl patch under the diaper and removed it. Meanwhile, Inova doctors and nurses were also treating the victims, Leo Fisher and Sue Duncan, preparing them for emergency surgery to save their lives. The last thing Leo remembered before going under anesthesia was someone cutting off his pants. Someone stapled Sue’s head wound shut. Later she would remember the sound of the staples—“bam, bam, bam, bam.”

***

Andrew Schmuhl’s parents didn’t hear about the attack until November 11, two days later. They got a call that night telling them that Andrew was in jail. A grand jury would later indictcompletely different. He was authoritative, he was in control.” At times, she broke down crying.

The defense countered by trying to shift blame to Alecia—in their rendering, “an aggressive person who sought out confrontation,” a highly intelligent schemer who manipulated her ill husband to get what she wanted. Andrew’s mother, Mary Schmuhl, testified that in the past she had seen Alecia hit and kick her son: “She would haul off and just hit him in the arm as hard as she could.” (Alecia pleaded the Fifth during the trial. Her attorneys declined to comment.)

Alecia, the lawyers pointed out, was the one who bought the Taser. She was the one who knew about Bean Kinney’s computer network that Andrew tried to invade. Many of the questions he asked Leo and


the risk: The jury needed to know all the drugs he had been taking, and there were holes in his medical records. Word got around the courthouse, and spectators poured into the gallery. Andrew made his way to the witness box, wearing a navy suit and leaning on a cane. Haywood asked him to list the drugs. Then Haywood inquired about the second Fentanyl patch found on Andrew’s body that night, the one under the diaper. The defendant said he didn’t know how the patch had gotten there and that Alecia was the only one who ever put patches on his back—implying his wife had drugged him.

Haywood also asked Andrew what he remembered about November 9. Andrew said his last memory from that day was from the afternoonThe epidemiology and disease burden of rotavirus infection in the Salento peninsula, Italy.
The aim of this study was to delineate the epidemiology of rotavirus gastroenteritis in the Salento peninsula, Italy. The study lasted a year and included the gathering of data on hospitalizations for enteritis caused by rotaviruses in the pediatric wards of seven hospitals in the Province of Lecce. During 2004, 7,938 children were hospitalized; 973 of them had gastroenteric symptoms and 202 were positive for rotavirus. The percentage of admissions to hospital was high in autumn and at the beginning of spring. The highest incidence of the disease was observed in children aged between 1 and 2 years, especially males. The morbidity of diarrhea caused by rotavirus followed a seasonal pattern and a distribution in terms


Tedy Bruschi, Rex Ryan and Randy Moss debate whether Patrick Mahomes missing games could be beneficial to Kansas City. (1:36)

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who suffered a dislocated kneecap Thursday night against Denver, could return in three weeks, if not sooner, league sources told ESPN.

The Chiefs are expected to exercise extreme caution with Mahomes, and the time off will allow him to rest his knee and high ankle sprain.

But the Chiefs escaped disaster when the MRI on Mahomes' knee came back as, according to an NFL source, a "best-case scenario" on Friday.

In the interim, the Chiefs will need someone to back up new starting quarterback Matt Moore. The most likely candidate, according to sources, is Kansas City's practice-squad quarterback Kyle Shurmur, the son of New York Giantshead coach Pat Shurmur. The Chiefs also have Chad Henne on injured reserve, and he could be designated to return.

So while Mahomes is gone, the Chiefs have a couple of options to back up Moore starting with next Sunday's game against the Green Bay Packers.

Mahomes, the NFL's reigning MVP, was injured during a quarterback sneak on fourth down with just over nine minutes remaining in the first half Thursday night. As medical staff attended to him on the field, it appeared Mahomes' knee was straightened and popped back into place.


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Marisa Tava (19) of Toms River North celebrates with Maddy Bennett after scoring a goal against Brick during girls high school soccer game at Toms River North High School,Toms River,NJ.
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Paige Noonan (18) of Brick and Marisa lava of Toms River North battle for the ball during girls high schoolto the Washington Post, general manager Scot McCloughan mentioned that he has both right guard and right tackle as areas of need on the offensive side of the ball.

Looking at the roster above, Tom Compton was the biggest sieve by far at right tackle, while 2014-3rd round rookie Morgan Moses is seen as a developmental player and injuries ruined most of his chances to start in the 2015 season. At right guard, Chris Chester actually performed well last year in pass protection, but struggled in run blocking. He is also 32 years old and 2014-3rd round pick Spencer Long should be competing for his position next season anyways. An interesting adjustment to the offensive line could be made where the Redskins could start Chester at center if Callahan


two pronouncements of the Supreme *138 Court of the United States. The elimination of discrimination against minorities in the appointment to the City of Cincinnati Fire Division is at least philosophically, and perhaps legally, equivalent to the termination of discrimination in the assignment of students to public schools. Beginning with Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al., 349 U.S. 294, 75 S.Ct. 753, 99 L.Ed. 1083 (1955)1, the United States District Courts have been directed to oversee the eradication of all aspects of discriminatory treatment[1]. The time came, however, when the zeal of District Courts not just to eliminate discrimination, but to act as a super Board of Education, was discouraged. In 1976 Chief Justice Rehnquist, then an Associate Justice, so held in anare improperly administered or that the Civil Service Commission of the City of Cincinnati has been guilty of deliberate discrimination.
The problems that were originally presented to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio have been solved. Arguably, the percentage of participation by minorities can be raised each year in an effort to justify the continuing supervision by the United States District Court. That may be the subject of a new lawsuit. It should not be a device to circumvent the laws of the State of Ohio, or to create a permanent "Super Civil Service Commission" consisting solely of a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
The Court has read with great care the briefs submitted herein. After considering


the lights are on again in the hardest hit areas, officials told ABC News.

“Some of the roads are blocked out in the county,” an emergency official in Madison County in Kentucky told ABC News affiliate WKYT. “And even driving around in town is pretty dangerous. It’s a war zone.”

Charles and Barbara Caswell, ice storm victims from Louisville, moved into a local shelter for the night for heat powered by generators. They had to leave their Jack Russell terrier in their unheated home to comply with the rules.

The winter weather that lingered in Oklahoma and the Plains states earlier this week moved into the Northeast overnight, leaving countless commuters hammered by icy roads.

Cars have slid off roads. Power lines have collapsed under the weight of the ice. In somelater tonight.

The weather system responsible for the dangerous conditions had remained fairly stationary since Monday, dumping freezing rain from Oklahoma and Texas to Missouri, Arkansas and Kentucky.

In parts of Arkansas and Oklahoma, the ice was three inches thick Tuesday night. In Tulsa, Okla., a mixture of sleet and snow covered highways with a layer of solid ice.

This morning, the storm has moved out of Tulsa, leaving behind roads and trees encased in ice, as well as continued power outages and low temperatures of 12 degrees. Schools in Tulsa were closed Wednesday for yet another day.

Though this week’s storm is taking a toll, the nation has seen worse. During a winter storm in 2007, ice accumulated to 4 inches and 85 people lost their lives.


Cur Pit Bull mix. Ace is a playful, outdoor-loving dog. He loves to ride on the golf cart and he is always getting his nose into everything. Ace is about 60 lbs. He is not the most intelligent dog that ever lived, but he […]

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Yet more evidence from North Korea:

About 430 North Koreans have died of hunger in a northern region of the impoverished communist country in the past month because of chronic food shortages, a South Korean aid group said. North Korean authorities have said illnesses were to blame for the deaths, but the Seoul-based Good Friends aid agency said they were caused by long-term malnutrition. The agency did not say how it obtained the information.of this year's NBA Finals to an ugly botched fumble recovery decision that could have decided the NFC East, 2018 hasn't exactly been a banner year for officials.

Here's a look back at the year's worst officiating decisions:

10. Well-known NCAA referee removed from Final Four after his crew messes up in first-round game

It's been a brutal two years for college basketball referee John Higgins, who was pulled from this year's Final Four after he was part of a crew that mishandled a call in a first-round game between Auburn and the College of Charleston.

Higgins, who in October filed a lawsuit against a Kentucky radio station for inciting fans to harass him, has officiated seven Final Fours, including three-straight before 2018. But even he wasn't immune to accountability after bad


calls. With Auburn leading 61–58 in the final seconds, the College of Charleston committed a foul. The referees sent Jared Harper, an 82 percent free-throw shooter, to the line when, in fact, the player who had been fouled was Chuma Okeke (69 percent from the line). It was obviously a huge error that could have impacted the game.

Except here's the thing: Higgins wasn't involved in the call. In fact, he wasn't even on the floor. Too bad no one leaped to his defense.

9. Eagles screwed out of clear fumble recovery

The call came on the opening kickoff of the Eagles' key NFC East matchup with the Cowboys in Week 14, and it may have changed the course of the game.

Cowboys' returner Jourdan Lewis fielded Jake Elliott's kickoff a yarddeep in the end zone and opted to bring it out. Malcolm Jenkins stripped him at the Cowboys' 18-yard line, and Kamu Grugier-Hill of the Eagles recovered.

End of story. Except it wasn't.

Officials on the field originally ruled Lewis down by contact. The Eagles challenged the call, and after replay video was shown on the big screen at AT&T Stadium, Philadelphia's offense and the Cowboys' defense marched onto the field, believing the ruling would be overturned.

But the replay official in New York ruled there was "no clear recovery" of the fumble, even though there wasn't a Cowboy initially anywhere near the football.

Instead of the Eagles taking over inside the Dallas 20, the Cowboys maintained possession, and they eventually won 29–23 in overtime.

8. Thunder eliminated from playoffs after officials choose


not to call foul on Paul George shot

Nine out of ten times in the NBA, referees would call a foul on a play like Paul George's three-point attempt in this year's Western Conference playoffs.

But April 27 was not one of those times.

Utah defeated Oklahoma City 96–91 in Game 6 to advance to the second round, but Thunder fans had a legitimate gripe about a non-foul call on a potential game-tying three. Trailing 94–91, George pump faked at the top of the key before launching one from beyond the arc. The fake drew Rudy Gobert into the air, and the Jazz center clearly made contact with George as he rose to shoot.

Referees decided not to blow the whistle on the play. Though one missed call isn't ultimately make-or-break, thetiming of the miss magnified the gravity of the gaffe—especially because it had Oklahoma City sent home packing.

7. Carlos Ramos gives Serena Williams a game penalty in U.S. Open final

In a sport where umpires rarely get any attention, Carlos Ramos certainly got his fair share of it during the US Open final in September.

The Portuguese umpire found himself entangled in one of the year's most heated controversies after penalizing Serena Williams three times during her 6–2, 6–4 loss to Naomi Osaka, ultimately awarding the Japanese player a game after Williams called Ramos a "thief."

The chair umpire wasn't technically wrong in his officiating decisions. With Serena up 1–0, 40-30 in the second set, Williams's coach Patrick Mouratoglou gestured to Serena from the player box, a clear code violation. But


to enforce a rule that's known for being subjective and rarely enforced at such a big moment? That's just overkill.

6. Hugo Cruz misses obvious false start in Browns vs. Chargers

As if Cleveland needed any help losing a game at the start of the 2018 season, referees made it easier with one of the most blatant blown calls the NFL has seen this year.

Late in the first half of Week 6's matchup between the Browns and Chargers, NFL down judge Hugo Cruz didn't see Chargers' left tackle Russell Okung go into motion before the snap and missed an obvious false start. The Browns' defensive linemen assumed the play was going to be blown dead and stopped rushing—giving Rivers a nice clean pocket to work with. The play resulted ina touchdown for the Chargers in a 38–14 blowout win.

The Browns weren't the only ones surprised by the no-call. The false start was so obvious, the NFL fired Cruz eleven days later. It was the first time in the Super Bowl era that an NFL on-field official had been fired midseason.

It's always tough seeing someone lose their job, but if any error was going to serve as a wake-up call, this was one of them.

5. Raheem Sterling trips over grass and gets awarded a penalty

Manchester City's Raheem Sterling was absurdly awarded a penalty for tripping over himself in a Champions League 6–0 win over Shakhtar Donetsk in November.

Sterling was lining up to take a shot when his own toe got stuck in the turf. Apparently, that was enough


a Super Bowl berth. One of those plays occurred in the fourth quarter, when Jaguars linebacker Myles Jack tackled Patriots running back Dion Lewis after a 20-yard reception. Jack stripped Lewis of the ball, recovered it and was ready to take off toward the endzone.

Until, that is, a quick whistle blew the play dead.

Once a play is ruled down by contact, the subsequent return can't be reviewed. The Jaguars went three-and-out on the ensuing possession, and the Patriots scored on two of their next three possessions, erasing a 10-point deficit to win 24–20 and clinch their 10th Super Bowl appearance.

3. All those early-season NFL roughing the passer calls

For the first few weeks of the 2018 NFL season, the league's new roughing the passer rule appeared to be ablack eye that would never heal. First it was Green Bay Packers linebacker Clay Matthews in Week 2 against the Vikings. Then it was Matthews again in Week 3 against the Redskins.Dolphins defensive lineman William Hayes tore his ACL while trying to avoid landing directly on Derek Carr in Week 3, which he said was due to the new rule emphasis.

By Week 4, roughing the passer calls became so ridiculous, many left wondering how anyone in the league was supposed to play defense.

Luckily for everyone involved, the panic died down as the weeks went on. Otherwise, players like Rams defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh may have taken a new approach to sacking the quarterback.

2. Block/charge call on LeBron swings Game 1 vs. Warriors

Leave it to the NBA's referees to


spoil an epic 51-point performance from The King himself and derail what might have been a series-altering Game 1 upset by the Cavaliers in the NBA Finals.

With a lineup consisting of Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green, the Warriors shouldn't have needed extra help to put Cleveland away in the series opener. But they did. And they got it in the final minutes of a furious back-and-forth fourth quarter.

Trailing 104–102 with 36.4 seconds left, Durant sliced through the lane but was called for a charge after plowing into James, who was welloutside the restricted area. Officials stopped to review the play, and although it was determined James was outside the restricted area, they changed the original call to a block after concluding James "was notin a legal guarding position."

Durant sinked a pair of free throws to tie the game. J.R. Smith had an infamous mental lapse. The Cavaliers lost 124–114 in overtime, and the rest is history.

It's hard to pick which aspect was the most painful for Cleveland, but that non-call is certainly at the top of the list.

1. Two instances of targeting go unpunished in USC-Washington State

Unlike the NFL, this year's college football games were riddled with dangerous quarterback hits that weren't flagged when they should have been.

Two of those hits took place during USC's 39–36 win over Washington State in September. The first and largely forgotten shot occurred at the end of the third quarter when Washington State's Logan Tago rammed his head into USC quarterback JT Daniels's. Not only


was no targeting penalty called on the field, but a Yahoo Sports report revealed that an untrained Pac-12 employee played an integral part in keeping Tago in the game. That's right: An individual who was not trained to be part of the replay crew overruled trained officials in the stadium's replay booth AND in the league's command center.

And believe it or not, that hit wasn't even the game's most controversial at the time.

Late in the fourth quarter, USC linebacker Porter Gustin delivered this hit on Cougars quarterback Gardner Mindhsew.

The result? No targetting call, and another embarassment for the Pac-12.Contents

History

Thráin fled with his father and a small group of companions when the dragonSmaug in T.A.2770 descended on Lonely Mountain and sacked the Dwarven kingdom. King Thrór, Thráin, and the others eventually settled in Dunland and scratched out a meager living. Thrór was devastated by the loss of Erebor and left his people to journey north. He took a single companion, Nár, but left his son with his Ring of Power, along with the map and key to Lonely Mountain.

In T.A.2790[2] Nár returned to tell Thráin that his father had been captured and butchered by the Orc-chieftain Azog when they had journeyed to the mines of Moria. Even worse, Azog had beheaded Thrór and carved his own name on Thrór's forehead to show the Dwarves that an Orc


now ruled their ancestral home.

Thráin sat for seven days without eating or sleeping, until he stood and said "This cannot be borne!".[1]

In T.A.2799[2] Thráin and his army fought the bloody Battle of Azanulbizar. While the Orcs were vanquished and Azog slain, the Dwarves took heavy losses, including Thráin's son Frerin, his cousin Náin, and Fundin father of Dwarven hero Balin.

King Thráin II wanted to enter Moria and reclaim it, but the Dwarves not of Durin's folk refused, saying that the city was not their Fathers' House; they had honoured Thrór's memory by fighting, and this was enough. Dáin Ironfoot had peered within the East-gate and also warned Thráin that Durin's Bane still dwelt within Khazad-dûm.[1]

Wanderings and Imprisonment

After the war, Thráin and Thorin led the exiles of Lonely Mountainwest to live in the Northern Blue Mountains. Over the next forty years Thráin grew increasingly consumed with the lost riches of Lonely Mountain. This may have been partly because of the Ring of Thrór.

In T.A.2841[2] he left the Blue Mountains with a small group that included Balin and Dwalin. Travelling east, the group was constantly harassed by wolves, Orcs, and other fell creatures. In 2845,[2] while camped under the eaves of Mirkwood, Thráin disappeared and would never be seen again by his kin. The King of Durin's folk had been captured by Sauron's agents and was taken to the fortress of Dol Guldur in southern Mirkwood. There Sauron tortured Thráin, took back the last of the Seven Dwarf-rings, and left him in the dungeon to die.

In T.A.2850,[2]


while on a reconnaissance mission to Dol Guldur, Gandalf came upon Thráin, who was so diminished that he could not even remember his own name. Thráin gave Gandalf his last two possessions, the key and map to Lonely Mountain, and shortly thereafter died. Gandalf left him without knowing who he was.[1]

Legacy

Much later Gandalf met Thorin Oakenshield near Bree and realized that the Dwarf he had found in Dol Guldur was Thráin, the vanished King of Durin's folk. Gandalf and Thorin discussed reclaiming Lonely Mountain, and Gandalf gave much assistance to Thorin and Company, including the map and key to Lonely Mountain, along with a suggestion that they include a burglar in their quest.[1]

Gandalf mentioned to the Fellowship, as they were debating about going into Moria, that he hadWASHINGTON — President Obama, after a rocky year that leaves him at the lowest ebb of his presidency, is bringing into his White House circle the longtime Democratic strategist John D. Podesta, a former chief of staff for President Bill Clinton.

Mr. Podesta, who has agreed to serve as counselor for a year, led Mr. Obama’s presidential transition in 2008 and has been an outside adviser since then. He also has occasionally criticized the administration, if gently, from his perch as the founder and former president of the Center for American Progress, a center-left public policy research group that has provided personnel and policy ideas to the administration.

Word that Mr. Podesta would for the first time join Mr. Obama’s official staff, from people familiar with the discussions, comes as


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1960’s -- The Beginning:

What we know today as Wachusett Mountain had its beginnings in 1960 when Massachusetts supplied the funding and gave the go-ahead to develop a modern ski area on the Wachusett Mountain State Reservation. The state gave Worcester County authority over the ski area.

It wasn’t until December 28, 1962, however, that the first lift, a 2,000-foot T-bar, was able to whisk skiers up the mountain and Wachusett Mountain Ski Area officially opened.

At its start, Wachusett boasted four trails, ranging from 30 to 150 feet in width; parking for 400 to 500 cars; portable privies; food service but no base lodge; a ski shop operated by Strand Mikkelsen of Worcester and a ski school operated by Normand and Anneliese Letarte of Leominster. First season weekday adultnot include being in the ski business and the state agency signed a lease agreement with Wachusett Mountain Associates in 1968. Wachusett Mountain Associates was led by Polar Beverage president Ralph Crowley of Worcester and the group took over management of the ski area in late 1968.


Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Even the Strongest Snake Oil Wears Off Eventually

You don't often get good news out of Iraq, but the WaPo has some today. A big victory for reason over superstition, sincerity over hokum, and sense over snake oil. One of our Iraqi partners has finally determined that the high-tech 'bomb detector' upon which their police and military have relied for years is, in fact, a total fraud.

The Iraqi Interior Ministry inspector general recently determined that wands used by police as the frontline defense in the country's fight against bombs are worthless.

His finding was unsurprising. But in today's Iraq, it had the potential to be politically explosive. What the ministry did in response to the inspector general's conclusion speaks volumes about how the Iraqi government works these2008 asked Iraqi soldiers trained to use the ADE-651 to demonstrate whether the devices could determine which vehicle parked inside a U.S. base contained dynamite.

The operator's wand tilted toward a couple of vehicles. Neither, it turned out, contained explosives, according to a U.S. military official who participated in the exercise and spoke about it on the condition of anonymity.

"The entire time his American assistant had a stick of C4 under his uniform," the officer said. "It was like a Monty Python sketch gone horribly wrong."

-- snip --

The interior minister stood his ground, telling state-run Iraqiya television station in January that the wands had prevented more than 16,000 bombs. The Iraqi government has not disclosed who authorized the orders.

Ministry officials at the time surveyed policemen at checkpoints about whether


the devices were showing results.

"We told them they were working fine," an Iraqi police lieutenant said Wednesday, standing next to a checkpoint where his men were using the wands near the neighborhood where a Catholic church was attacked Sunday by a band of suicide bombers. "That's what they wanted to hear," he added. "They want to try to give citizens an image of security that is false."

That attitude infuriates many American officers who have fought in Iraq.
"I'm finding it harder and harder to see any humor in this," Lt. Col. Dennis Yates, who was among the device's critics when he last served in Baghdad in 2008. "This piece of junk did, in fact, significantly contribute to an unknown - and pathetically large - loss of innocent lives. Thetransporting a flood source is provided. The bag includes a front panel member and a rear panel member. The front and rear panel members are joined along base and side edges to define an interior space with an upper open end for receiving the radioactive source therein. The front and rear panel members each include an outer layer, an inner layer, and a lining formed from a radiation shielding material between the inner and outer layers. An upper panel member shaped to cover the upper open end when the flood source is positioned within the interior space. The upper panel is connected with the rear panel member. A closure member is provided for selectively fastening the upper panel to the front panel to close the opening.
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In Kaduna State, the tango between the State Governor, Nasiru El Rufai and Senator Shehu Sani played out on the national scene – with the President and the National APC issuing an automatic Senatorial ticket to the Senator – while the Governor insisted the Senator remains suspended from the APC – and thus cannot be given a chance to return to the Senate under the APC.

But El Rufai has not threatened to switch his support, he remains aggrieved. This is according to our source who


adds that El Rufai owes his politic life and emergence in politics to Atiku. Atiku brought him into politics. Atiku’s emergence will tilt his support away from Buhari to his former boss, Atiku.

Many of the APC Governors from the north western region of the country were among the first group of Governors to reach out to the PDP presidential flag bearer moments after his landslide victory in Port Harcourt over the weekend. The source failed to directly name the specific governors but assured that as the Election Day nears the Governors will gradually show themselves. The source stated that many of the same Governors have had long standing relationships with Atiku dating back to his days in PDP and Action Congress.

But the Governor of Zamfara State, Abdul-Aziz Yariplight of the leader of the Shiites movement in Nigeria. They had pushed for the candidacy of the Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal but Tambuwal’s unsuccessful outing partially resulted in the shift in support to Atiku – primarily from the Sultan of Sokoto, the Emir of Kano and Shiites leaders. Our source explains that the Islamic leaders have issues pleas to the respective State governors to shift their support.

It is understood the inability to curtail the spat of bloody violence in the northern regions along with the continued economic downturn and bad policies were principally the reasons behind the shift in support. President Buhari’s mistreatment of Dasuki and Zakzaky ranks as well.

In the north east, the Governor of Adamawa State, Mr. Bindow – who is suspected to


harbor hidden loyalty for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar by the presidency and the APC is said to have also reached out to the PDP presidential flag bearer to congratulate him and to pledge his support.

Bindow recently won a controversial APC gubernatorial primary to his reelection campaign. The victory came against the brother to the wife of President Buhari. Our source claims Bindow has unofficially pitched his tent to the PDP presidential flag bearer although he continues to deny his allegiance publicly.

The emergence of Atiku changed the political equation of the northern region against the elections of 2019. Our source notes, Atiku remains arguably the most experienced politician still active on the field play – and arguably the longest running. Over the years, he influenced and/or affected many of thethe lack of predictability and the perception of a somewhat equal risk led to McLellan not doing a heck of a lot to time his battles. As the game progressed, Kadri, who had his shifts decently scattered and spaced out at the start, began to be used more. He was, after all, the centre the Leafs wanted against McDavid, and with the Oilers down multiple goals, they had no choice but to play him as much as possible in the final minutes, regardless of who the opponent was. The opportunity to match them up late fell right into Babcock’s lap.

Another thing that went more or less as Babcock expected was how exactly McDavid would be deployed. Specifically, Babcock foresaw the Oilers using him in other positions while trying


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Learn More(San Francisco) Nine days after the start of the American president's 2003
"shock and awe" uranium bombing campaign in Baghdad, an invisible
radioactive uranium oxide gas cloud swept through Britain's towns and countryside
and throughout Europe.

Respected scientists reported on the unrevealed gas cloud after conducting
research on specialized high volume air filters in England. Dr. Chris Busby
and Saoirse Morgan stunned Europe in a Sunday Times of London article on Feb.
19, 2006. Their scientific paper, released March 1st, 2006, [1] proved the event.
With all the vigor of delusional drunkards, British nuclear and military spokesmen
predictably denied the reality of an invisible radioactive cloud.

The military claimed that a Chernobyl-like event in the area was probably responsible,
but no explosive meltdowns of operating reactor cores have been reported or
observed in 2006 anywhere in the world. Evidence of


oxide gas measured about 48,000 radioactive particles per
square meter. The average radioactive dose, according to official government
index based calculations, was about 23 million radioactive particles for the
average adult male in Britain and Europe.

Yes, people breathed this poison gas, absolutely. People throughout England
and presumably throughout Europe breathed in large quantities of this radioactive
uranium poison gas.

What are the effects of the poison gas cloud? After a steady decline for 41
years, the infant death rate has started inching up, many researchers think
because of the Central Asian nuclear wars. The infant death rate is the most
sensitive measure of the health of the human race. Like the proverbial canaries
in a coal mine, the tiniest babies die first.

George W. Bush, as the current appointed manager of the senior American political
and military establishments, oversees aadviser on radiation, as
saying: "This research shows that rather than remaining near the target,
as claimed by the military, depleted uranium weapons contaminate both locals
and whole populations hundreds to thousands of miles away." [4]

There were and are laws in England that require notification of the government
when levels of radioactivity are reached around the nuclear weapons complex
at Aldermaston. No notification was made. When the records were requested, the
clearly labeled "shock and awe" time frame data was omitted.

The Defense Procurement Agency in Bristol supplied the missing data to scientists
Busby and Morgan. The real British patriots are the ones who provided the deleted
incriminating data to Busby and Morgan.

Bush and his faithful followers, the neocon fascists, will be remembered as
securing their place in history by exposing hundreds of millions of people to
high levels


uranium bombs appears to be
the current war fighting plan of the U.S. military. Unfortunately, U.S. troops
are the first to be sacrificed on the altar of the neocon warfare plan for total
global domination.

As former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger
said, "Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign
policy." [9] American political and military leaders never asked the "pawns"
or troops if that was OK.

In the authoritative World Affairs Journal, Moret states: "The Korea Times
reported on Dec. 23, 2005, that the U.S. military has 2.7 million depleted uranium
bombs [pre-positioned] in South Korea. It is understandable why North Korea
wants nuclear weapons." [10]

North Korea is just slightly smaller than the American state of Mississippi.
Two million seven hundred uranium bombs is enough to carpet bombwith workhorse
Air Force B-52s at the rate of 10 bombs per square mile. Some researchers believe
that grid bombing with uranium bombs was used in the American war in the former
Yugoslavia. There is clear circumstantial evidence that carpet bombing with
genocidal weapons is the preferred response of the American military to local
resistance efforts.

The San Francisco-based humanitarian and war crimes lawyer Karen Parker states
unequivocally that the use of depleted uranium in American/U.K. weapons in Iraq,
Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia is a war crime. War crimes are punishable
by imprisonment or execution, typically by hanging or a firing squad.

America's war criminal class of senior politicians and military leaders has
a powerful reason to lie about using genocidal weapons for at least 15 years
in Central Asia - their very lives depend on it. In Johnny's


dead are due treatment and/or compensation,
the cleanup must be initiated and whole countries rebuilt. That is the true
legacy of the neocons, the new American Nazis.

What people can do

Every single day thousands of American military and government workers handle
thousands of "sensitive" papers that "prove" the War Crimes
of the American Government's senior political and military leaders.

These thousands of people could, if they wanted to, create havoc in the fascist
administration by providing these incriminating papers and the "smoking
guns" of innumerable crimes they hold to the public: A "paper blizzard"
to teach a whole new generation that what's right is right.

About 40 years ago, it was thousands of pages of the "Pentagon Papers"
that did the trick with the illegal Viet Nam War and President Nixon. Thousands
more pages are needed now.

The neocon or neolibpapers like the disgraced New York Times or the conservative
phantom Washington Post no longer will do the right thing. The timid NYT took
almost a year to publish the proof of illegal NSA government spying on American
citizens. Bush then bragged about the illegal spying on network prime time television.

We do not need "timid" now. Far less than that forced Nixon to leave
the president's office.

Do what you think best

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John is a former staff writer for Human Events. He is a regular guest on the Rusty Humphries radio show, and has appeared on numerous other local and national radio programs, including G. Gordon Liddy, BattleLine, and Dennis Miller.their location. Through this process the idea of transnationalism in music occurred.

Additionally, postcolonial thought remained a focus of ethnomusicological literature. One example comes from Ghanaian ethnomusicologist Kofi Agawu; in Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions, he details how the concept of “African rhythm” has been misrepresented – “African” music is not a homogenous body as it is often perceived by Western thought. Its differences from Western music are often considered deficiencies, and the emphasis on "African rhythm" prevalent throughout music scholarship prevents accurate comparison of other musical elements such as melody and harmony. Influenced by postcolonial thought theories, Agawu focuses on deconstructing the Eurocentric intellectual hegemony surrounding understanding African music and the notation of the music itself. Additionally, the new notational systems that have been developed specifically


music goes unexplored when scholars simply talk about it within these categories and move on. Agawu also calls for the direct empowerment of postcolonial African subjects within music scholarship, in response to attempts to incorporate native discourses into scholarship by Western authors that he believes have led to inaccurate representation and a distortion of native voices. Agawu worries of the possible implementation of the same Western ideals but with an "African" face, "in what we have, rather, are the views of a group of scholars operating within a field of discourse, an intellectual space defined by Euro-American traditions of ordering knowledge".

Currently, scholarship that may have historically been identified as ethnomusicology is now classified as sound studies.

2010s

Historical Approaches
The historical approach in ethnomusicology is a trend that believes infocus and question.

In addition to his critiques of the outsider and insider labels, Nettl creates a binary that roughly equates to Western and Nonwestern. He points out what he feels are flaws in Western thinking through the analyses of multiple societies, and promotes the notion of collaborating, with a greater focus on acknowledging the contribution of native experts. He writes, "The idea of joint research by an 'insider' and an 'outsider' has been mentioned as a way of bridging the chasms." In spite of his optimism, the actualization of this practice has been limited and the degree to which this can solve the insider/outsider dilemma is questionable. He believes that every concept is studied through a personal perspective, but “a comparison of viewpoints may give the broadest possible


awards can be thought of as an indicator of what sells and excels. The term “world beat” was also employed in the 90s to refer specifically to pop music, but it has fallen out of use. The issue that these terms present is that they perpetuate an “us” vs. “them” dichotomy, effectively “othering” and combining musical categories outside of the Western tradition for the sake of marketing.

Turino proposes the use of the term "cosmopolitanism" rather than "globalization" to refer to contact between world musical cultures, since this term suggests a more equitable sharing of music traditions and acknowledges that multiple cultures can productively share influence and ownership of particular musical styles. Another relevant concept is glocalization, and a typology for how this phenomenon impacts music (called “Glocal BAGespecially through control of media systems. Indeed, though music can help define a national identity, authoritarian states can control this musical identity through technology, in that they end up dictating what citizens can listen to. Governments often value music as a symbol, which can be used to promote supra-national entities. They often use this to argue the right to participate in or control a significant cultural or political event, such as Turkey's involvement in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Historically, anthropologists have believed that ethnomusicologists deal with something that by definition cannot be synonymous with the social realities of the present world. In response, ethnomusicologists sometimes present a concept of society that purely exists within an all-encompassing definition of music. Ethnomusicologist Charles Seeger agrees with this, giving an example of


how Suya society (in Brazil) can be understood in terms of its music. Seeger notes how “Suya society was an orchestra, its village was a concert hall, and its year a song.”

Music helps one understand oneself in relation to people, places, and times. It informs one’s sense of physical place—a musical event (such as a collective dance) uniquely evokes collective memories and experiences of place. Both ethnomusicologists and anthropologists believe that music provides the means by which political and moral hierarchies are developed. Music allows people to comprehend both identities and physical places, as well as the boundaries that divide them.

Gender is another area where boundaries are “performed” in music. Instruments and instrumental performance can contribute to a society’s definition of gender, in that behaviour of performers conformsevoke cognitive and emotional flexibility to understand the cultural specificity and potential efficacy of a particular set of primers. For example, when choosing music for this ritual, it might be in one’s best interest to use cultural context to match the patient with a primer that they will be particularly receptive to, through language, style, etc. Because cultural specificity is highly correlated with the potential efficacy of different healing practices, we can use cultural context to guide intervention/healing design to best promote well-being.

Rhythmic Drumming

There has been debate since the early 1950s among anthropologists and ethnomusicologists about the extent to which different psychological and socio-environmental factors play into the induction of trance states in different ritual contexts. The debate has been focused around the question: Can music (alone or in context)


was removed to Allegany County for trial. A jury in that court convicted Miller of premeditated murder, first degree sexual offense, robbery, and false imprisonment. A judgment of acquittal was entered on the charge of attempted rape.
At a separate sentencing proceeding, the jury found, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Miller was a principal in the first degree in the murder and that the State had proven, as an aggravating circumstance, that the murder was committed in the course of a first degree sexual offense. The jury found that a second alleged aggravating circumstancethat the murder was committed in the course of a robberywas not proved. Five mitigating circumstances were found by one or more of the jurors. Two such circumstances, found unanimously, were that Miller had not previouslybeen convicted of a crime of violence and that he had a poor family environment. At least one, but not all, jurors also found as mitigators that Miller had children, that he was remorseful, and that he would likely die in jail. The jury unanimously concluded, by a preponderance, that the aggravating factor outweighed the mitigators and thus sentenced Miller to death. In addition to the death sentence imposed for the murder, Miller was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the first degree sexual offense, five years consecutive for the robbery, and one year concurrent for false imprisonment.
Miller appealed, raising fifteen issues that were fully briefed by him and the State. Just prior to the date set for oral argument, however, Miller filed a motion for new


Apartments, in the Reisterstown area of Baltimore County, on July 28, 1998, with an offer of a baby-sitting job, and he no longer contests that, while she was in his apartment, he strangled her to death, using a belt. He also does not contest that he engaged in sexual activity with Ms. Poehlman. The substantive issues relevant to this appeal are (1) whether the sexual activity was consensual on Ms. Poehlman's part, as Miller maintained, or was violent and non-consensual and was of a nature to constitute a first degree sexual offense, and (2) whether the murder was committed in the course of a first degree sexual offense.

B. Ms. Poehlman's Disappearance and Events Leading to Miller's Arrest
In July, 1998, Shen Poehlman was a 17-year-old young woman who hadjust graduated high school with honors. She had a boyfriend, was working part-time during the summer, and was about to go off to college in Florida. She spent the afternoon *810 of July 27 with her best friends, Lauren and Jessica, at the Bentley Park Apartments pool, where Jessica worked as a lifeguard. Shen and Lauren were employed as part-time telemarketers and were due to work from 5:30 to 9:30 that evening. Lauren left the pool around 3:30 or 4:00, but Shen remained for a while with Jessica. The girls agreed to meet at Lauren's home after work and spend the night there. Shen left the pool at about 4:30. She later told Lauren that, as she was leaving, a man had asked her to babysit for him


the next day and that she had agreed.
After Shen left, Miller, a resident of the apartment development who had been to the pool on earlier occasions, sometimes with a woman, approached Jessica and asked whether she and Shen had boyfriends. During a conversation that lasted about 45 minutes, he told Jessica that the woman he sometimes brought to the pool was an ex-girlfriend, that he had an ex-wife and children who lived in Rochester, New York, and that he had a five-year-old nephew who was coming to stay with him. Jessica observed a distinctive tattoo on Miller's arm and said that she had previously seen him driving a Geo Tracker. She recalled that he used the name "John."
When Shen and Lauren finished work, they went to Lauren's home.Lauren left to pick up Jessica, but Shen remained because she was waiting for a call about the babysitting job. Upon their return, Shen said that she had received the call. Lauren and Jessica were concerned, and Lauren advised Shen not to take the job with someone she did not know, but Shen persisted, although she agreed to page them when she arrived at Miller's apartment, at about 10:00 a.m.[1] When no message had been received from Shen the next day, Lauren and Jessica became worried and began looking for her car or the Geo Tracker. Unable to locate either, they contacted Shen's mother. When Shen failed to report for work at 5:30, the Baltimore County police were called.
Officer Ransom met with Jessica, Lauren, and Shen's mother at


received from their sergeant, they looked only in places that would hide a person and did not open any drawers. Using flashlights, they slowly looked in the rooms, hallways, and closets, and finding no one, they left without disturbing anything. One of the officers observed a set of golf clubs in a closet.
*811 The police continued to search the general area, leaving Officer Arrington in the parking lot in front of Miller's apartment. At about 9:10 p.m., a Geo Tracker fitting the description of the car they were looking for appeared without lights, approached the police car where Arrington was sitting, but then backed away and drove off. Arrington reported what he had seen and attempted to find the car but was unable to do so. When hereturned to the parking lot, he saw the Geo parked in front of the apartment. Sergeant Price, in charge of the investigation, approached the apartment and knocked on the door. Ms. Sherman answered and, when asked if anyone else was there, she responded that John was in the bathroom and invited the officers inside. Upon Miller's exiting the bathroom, Sergeant Price informed him that he was bringing two girls to see if he was the person who was talking with Shen the previous day. Officer Ransom brought Jessica and Lauren to the apartment parking lot. When Miller, in the company of several officers, exited the apartment, the girls immediately began to cry and said "that's him, that's him." At that point, which Sergeant Price said was about 9:30


p.m., Miller was arrested, handcuffed, patted down for weapons, and taken to the police station for further investigation. The apartment was secured pending issuance of a search warrant.

C. Miller's Statements and Subsequent Events
As the search continued for Shen, Sergeant Price notified the homicide unit, and Detective Hill, a homicide detective, met with Miller at the police station. Miller was given his Miranda warnings at about 11:30 p.m. and questioned about his knowledge of Shen's disappearance and whereabouts. Miller said that, in May, he had come to Baltimore from Rochester with Ms. Sherman, that she had obtained a job in Baltimore and that he had hoped to get a job with the Orioles. In an oral statement later reduced to writing, he said that, after learning Shen's name fromthe lifeguard, he asked if she could babysit for him in about two weeks, as his children were coming from New York, that Shen asked him to call her that evening around 10:00, that he did so but she said that she was going away for a week, and he said that he would call her when she returned. He claimed that he had no further contact with Shen. The next day, he said, he took Ms. Sherman to work, then returned to his apartment, got his golf clubs, and played golf with three other men from about 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. He then went shopping for an engagement ring for Ms. Sherman and did a few other errands. When he returned to his apartment, he was


arrested.
At about 3:00 a.m., while Miller was still being questioned, Detective Walsh located Shen's car in a dead-end court of an apartment complex not too far from the Bentley Park apartments. The windows were up and the car was locked. In the back seat was Shen's body, lying face down, partially covered with a blanket. Her head and shoulder were visible. Because it was obvious to Detective Walsh (and, upon his arrival, Detective Bollinger) from signs of lividity that Shen was dead and had been dead for some time, he did not disturb the scene.
Detective Hill was informed of the discovery at about 3:15 a.m. He told Miller that Shen's body had been found and stated that he did not believe Miller's story. Miller put his hands overhis face, began shaking, and admitted that he had killed Shen. He then gave a long oral statement followed by a written one. In those statements, he admitted that he met Shen at the pool around 9:30 on the morning of the 28th and took her to his apartment. He said that he gave her some chastity belts, *812 which she put on, that she laid down on her stomach, and that he then performed oral sex on her, masturbated, and ejaculated on her back. When she promised not to tell anyone, he panicked, believing that she would, so he put a plastic clothing bag over her head, telling her that he merely wanted her to pass out. When she pretended to pass out but had bitten a


hole in the plastic, he panicked again and put a pillow over the bag and a belt around her neck. When she asked him to stop, he did. He said that, at or about this point, he called and spoke with Ms. Sherman. After finishing the call, he put Shen in her car, took her to another apartment complex, covered her with a blanket from her trunk, and left her. He said that she was still breathing, that he should have called for help, but that he left her in the locked car, with the windows up, in the 90-degree heat. He took her key, shirt, and purse, threw the key near a tree and the purse and shirt in different dumpsters.
Following the statement, Miller took the detectivesto the dumpsters, where they recovered Shen's shirt and purse, and to the tree, where they found the car key. Upon his return to the police station, Miller was left under guard in an interview room, from which he made a number of telephone calls. His part of the conversations was overheard by the attending officers, who later testified about them. In some of those calls, he admitted masturbating but denied "having sex." In a call to his father, he admitted having oral sex with Shen as well as masturbating on her. In some calls, he said that he had killed Shen; in others, he said that she was, or may have been, alive when he left her but that, by leaving her locked up in the car


in ninety degree heat, it did not matter. In most, he admitted strangling her and admitted as well that he could have saved her and knew he could have saved her, but chose not to do so. He told his mother that "one thing led to another, and he was afraid she was going to tell, and he choked her." He added that "she was alive when he left her, but the car was closed up, and it was ninety degrees out." In a call to someone named Kim, who, as it turned out, was a former girlfriend in Rochester, he said that "the girl was almost dead or dead when I left her," adding that "it probably wouldn't have mattered" as "it was so hot in thecar all closed up." He said to someone named Chris that a girl from the pool came over, that "we started messing around," but he got scared when he realized she was under age, that he put a bag over her head and tried to knock her out, and that he then "put my belt around her and choked her and put her in her car." He added that "I think I could have saved her, but I was afraid." He told Vito Calzone that "[a]fter I hurt her, I couldn't let her go. I strangled her a little bit. I left her in the car, and she ended up dying."[3]

D. Additional Trial Evidence
Miller did not testify at his trial. Much of the evidence, already described, came from


the various police officers, from Jessica and Lauren, and from photographs of Miller's apartment, of Shen's body as it was recovered, and from the scene where her car was located. It was stipulated that vaginal, rectal, and oral swabs taken from *813 Shen's body were negative for the presence of semen, but that a semen stain on Shen's blouse came from Miller.
Ms. Sherman testified that Miller had taken her to work on the 28th and then used her car. She called at the apartment between 9:00 and 9:30 a.m., but got no answer. Miller called her at work between 11:30 and noon and sounded rushed, which, to Ms. Sherman, was unusual. He came to pick Ms. Sherman up from work at about 8:30, which was an hour beforeshe was due to leave. He was sweating profusely and had vomited, claiming that something he ate for lunch had made him sick. Nonetheless, they stopped at a Taco Bell on the way home to get some carry-out food to take home. When they approached the apartment, they noticed several police cars. Miller turned off the car lights and put the car in reverse, claiming that he was looking to find a parking space. When the police went around the block, Miller pulled in front of the apartment.
Ms. Sherman said that, upon entering the apartment, she turned on the lights, but that Miller followed her and turned off the lights. He then entered the bedroom, changed clothes, went to the balcony, and attempted to climb down from the


second story apartment, saying that the police were after him. Upon questioning by Ms. Sherman, he said that he had met a girl at the pool, that she had come over to the apartment, and that "he thought that he had hurt her." As the police approached the apartment, he became frantic and added "I think I might have killed her." When the police knocked on the door, he ran into the bathroom and asked Ms. Sherman to tell the police, first, that he was not there and then that he had been playing golf all day. Ms. Sherman declined to do that. She opened the door and invited the police into her apartment.
The Medical Examiner opined that the cause of death was ligature strangulation and that theherringbone pattern that he observed on Shen's neck was consistent with having been caused by the belt that the police eventually found in Miller's apartment. The Medical Examiner also described a number of bruises and abrasions that he found on Shen's head, including the lip. He testified that the bruises were the result of blunt force injuries inflicted while Shen was still alive, with her having been struck on the head with a blunt object. He found similar bruises in the area of the right front breast and the left leg and a number of abrasions on the head and on other parts of Shen's body. The doctor attributed some of the body bruises, but not those on the head, to a "terminal fall"the last fall as Shen


was dying. In the autopsy report itself, the Medical Examiner concluded that "[t]he pattern of injuries of the head and chest are consistent with Ms. Poehlman having been struck once on the chest and a minimum of four times on the head with a blunt object."
The autopsy commenced at 11:40 a.m. on July 29. The doctor said that, because the autopsy was performed so quickly after delivery of the body, the time of death could be fixed with greater certainty. From the condition of the body, the medical examiner opined that Shen had been dead for "close to" 24 hours. He also testified, based on the lividity in the victim, that she had laid on her back for eight to twelve hours before being moved. That evidence, coupledwith Miller's statements and Ms. Sherman's testimony regarding the telephone call, not only established that Shen was in Miller's apartment when she died but that she had been kept there for a considerable period of time before being placed in her car, a fact which, as noted above, Miller now concedes. See ante, n. 3.
*814 Finally, for our present purposes, the State produced Clarence Bobbitt, then an inmate at Roxbury Correctional Institute. Bobbitt and Miller had been cellmates at the Baltimore County Detention Center while Miller was awaiting trial. Bobbitt recounted a conversation he had with Miller about the crime, in which Miller confessed that the sexual activity was not consensual, as he had maintained. Miller told Bobbitt that he had asked the girl to babysit and that


she had agreed:
"She knocked on the door. He opened it. She asked him where the kids were. He said they ain't here right now. And then she came in. And he tried to seduce her. She said no. Threw her on the bed. He smacked her, ripped her top off, started sexually assaulting her. And then he strangled her with his hand. And he put a bag over her face. And then he put a chastity belt on her face ... I mean around her neck, and stepped on one-half and pulled on the other half of it. And realized what he had done. And then he went and took her down ... wrapped in a blanket, took her downstairs, put her in the backseat of her car,drove like two blocks and parked the car, took the keys, and took the keys and her money out of her pocket... I mean took the money out of her pocketbook and put it in her back pocket, put it in his pocket. Took everything else, chastity belt, her shirt cause he had got semen on it and threw all that in a trash can."
Miller's convictions rested essentially on this evidence. Additional facts will be recounted in connection with our discussion of the various issues raised in the appeals.

II. DISCUSSION
As noted, Miller has raised fifteen issues in his direct appeal. In the appeal from the denial of his motion for new trial, he embellishes his argument that the weighing aspect of our death penalty statute is unconstitutional and


witness, claiming that the State had promised him leniency in return for his testimony and had failed to disclose that fact. The motion was denied, and Miller did not complain about that ruling in his appeal from the judgment. In his motion for new trial, however, he claimed to have discovered new evidence of such leniency, evidence of which he could not have been aware at the time of trial. As noted, the court found that Miller had failed to show that there was any substantial or significant possibility that, had the new evidence been before the jury at trial or sentencing, the verdicts or the sentence would have been any different. That ruling is before us in Miller's appeal from the denial of his motion for newyears, with all but five years suspended in favor of three years probation and a TAS[C] evaluation.[5] The prosecutor denied even knowing that Bobbitt was to be a witness in the Miller case until after the plea agreement had been made. On this evidence, the court denied the motion to exclude Bobbitt's testimony, finding that "there has been no showing that the State entered an agreement, deal, or understanding with this witness, whether formally or informally." The correctness of that ruling is not before us.
Bobbitt, 19 at the time, admitted at trial that he had previously been convicted of first degree burglary and possessing and selling handguns, that he had been using drugs since he was 14, that he had been carrying guns since he was 13, that


promises or deals for his testimony. Neither side called Bobbitt to testify.
Stephen Bailey, who prosecuted Joswick, testified regarding the colloquy upon which Judge Battaglia relies (to the exclusion of all other evidence). Bailey explained that Joswick, Bobbitt's uncle, was accused of breaking into his girlfriend's house and strangling her and that the investigation revealed that Bobbitt, who had just been released from prison, had been with Joswick the day following the murder. Bailey said that he had no knowledge of Bobbitt's involvement in the Miller case and, initially, had no intention of calling Bobbitt to testify in Joswick. He described Bobbitt as a very reluctant and emotional witnessduring cross-examination, counsel was "bringing out the full import of the fact that Bobbitt's testimony could possibly send his uncle toprison for the rest of his life" and that "there were tears running down his face, he had mucus running out of his nose, his shoulders were visibly heaving, that continued through the cross and redirect." Bailey added that, because of Bobbitt's agreement to testify, his own motherJoswick's sisterwould no longer speak to him.
Bailey said that he had talked with Bobbitt on two occasions prior to the Joswick trial and had made clear to him that there would be no deals for his testimony in that case, and that at no time during those conversations had Bobbitt ever indicated that he had made a deal in connection with his testimony in the Miller case. This became significant, because, prior to the Joswick trial, Bobbitt was arrested again and


him in the hallway. He was not then under arrest, no guns were drawn, he was not handcuffed, and no hands had been laid on him. Without first giving him the Miranda warnings, Sergeant Price asked him where he had been all day, to which he responded that he had been playing golf. Officer Kennedy, who had noticed the golf clubs in the closet during the earlier sweep, asked if he had taken his golf clubs with him, to which he responded "yes." When Kennedy informed Price of his earlier observation, Price asked Miller whether he had come home between the time he finished playing golf and went to the shopping mall, and he replied that he had not. He said again that he had taken his golfunpersuasive. The interrogation at the apartment, even if custodial in nature, was not coercive, his responses were largely exculpatory, and they had little, if any, influence on the inculpatory statements made later at the police station. He changed his story after being given his Miranda warnings, after being informed that Shen's body had been recovered, and after Detective Hill told him that he did not believe Miller's exculpatory explanation. Compare Fellers v. United States, ___ U.S.___, 124 S.Ct. 1019, 157 L.Ed.2d 1016 (2004) (finding conversation between police and defendant in absence of counsel, after defendant had been indicted to be in violation of Massiah v. United States, 377 U.S. 201, 84 S.Ct. 1199, 12 L.Ed.2d 246 (1964)).

F. State's Rebuttal Argument
During the sentencing proceeding, Miller produced a former classification


counselor at the Baltimore County Detention Center, who testified as to Miller's positive adjustment when he was an inmate at the Center awaiting trial. He also produced a social worker from South Carolina, who had done a family study and who testified about Miller's somewhat chaotic upbringing. In closing argument, defense counsel stressed that testimony in urging the jury to find various mitigating factors.
In his rebuttal closing argument, the prosecutor responded to some of that argument. He suggested that it was not surprising that Miller had behaved himself in jail, because he was not stupid, and starting problems while awaiting trial was "the last thing he needs," that he needed to control himself until the trial was over. The prosecutor pointed that out, he said, because, if Millerhistory, the social worker described in some detail Miller's violent nature and sexual irregularities. He had been violent with a former girlfriend, Kim, who had ended the relationship as a result. He had been violent with his former wife, Tina, both before and during the marriage. There was a restraining order outstanding against him when he married Tina, and the violence continued throughout the marriage. At least twice, Tina filed charges against him. In 1996, he was required to attend a six-month counseling clinic for batterers as a result of one of those charges. When he was 12 and his sister was eight, he sexually abused her on a regular basis for about a year. His father once caught him in bed with his sister attempting to have


intercourse with her. Somewhat in summary, the witness said:
"He saw women as punching bags. He saw in his own family women as punching bags, women as providers of sex on demand, women as drug partners and women as meal tickets and then women as a source of worry that they're going to leave you or abandon you and there was self fulfilling prophecy in that for John. His women did leave him because he was so abusive."
At the conclusion of his cross-examination of her, the prosecutor asked the social worker whether she would characterize Miller as a sexual predator, and she replied "no." That is the answer to which he was responding in his argument.
On this record, Miller got all to which he was entitled, and perhaps more,thereafter, as it led the police to disbelieve his story about having played golf that day. There is utterly no merit to Miller's complaint.
At the time, the police had the following information. A 17-year-old young woman, described by her mother and friends as a responsible person, with no alcohol or drug *825 problems, who had never run away before and had no reason to do so then, had accepted a babysitting job with a man named John. This man had been to the apartment pool and therefore presumably lived in the apartment complex. He had been seen driving a Geo Tracker. Shen had promised to page her friends by 10:00 that morning and had not done so. No one had heard from her, and she had not reported


for work at 5:30. She had effectively been missing for about ten hours, not three hours as Miller suggests. Her friends and her mother had said that it was very unusual for Shen to be out of touch.
The police began doing house-to-house checks and conducting interviews. A helicopter searched for both Shen's car and the Geo Tracker. One officer learned from a nearby convenience store that a man named John Miller had worked at the store, that he had been fired, and that he drove a Geo Tracker with New York tags. The store provided a telephone number, which the police traced to Apartment B3 at 415 Valley Meadow Circle, in the Bentley Park Apartment development. A records check revealed a prior false imprisonment charge against Miller. Thehad never returned from it. This was not a criminal investigation clothed as a caretaker function, but a legitimate effort to locate and assist a child who may have been in trouble. The initial objective was not to search the apartment, but to inquire of anyone present as to Shen's whereabouts. The *826 entry occurred only because no one was home. The entry and limited search were valid.

I. Instruction Regarding Victim Impact Evidence
At the sentencing proceeding, Shen's mother testified briefly about the impact of Shen's death on her and on Shen's older sister and younger brother. The testimony covers only two-and-a-half pages, but it was, as expected, poignant. A letter from Shen's father was also introduced. This kind of victim impact evidence is permitted by statute and by