indeed, have been committed in the course of the robbery, as he took her purse and wallet when he left her in the car. In fact, he had possession of those items when he put Shen in the car and he never did anything to indicate an intent to return them to her.
Even if the court did err in submitting the robbery as an aggravating circumstance, Brooks and Sherman do not help Miller, as both are distinguishable. In Brooks, the defendant was charged with a variety of offenses, including armed robbery, conspiracy to commit armed robbery, and carrying a deadly weapon with intent to injure, all arising out of the murder of one Keith Bee during an armed robbery. At the close of the State's case, the courtofficers that he engaged in oral sex with Shen. He complains, however, that there was no corroboration of those statements and that there was no evidence that the oral sex was not consensual, as he maintained. He overlooks the medical examiner's testimony regarding the various bruises and abrasions on Shen's body, from which a reasonable inference can be drawn that she did, indeed, resist and that the sexual activity was both violent and non-consensual. He also brushes aside the testimony of Bobbitt that "he tried to seduce her. She said no. Threw her on the bed. He smacked her, ripped her top off, started sexually assaulting her." Miller blithely notes that Bobbitt said nothing about oral sex. He did not need to: "sexually assaulting her" will do. The


failed to show up for work at 5:30 that evening. They knew that she was a responsible person with no history of drug or alcohol abuse and no reason to run away, and that it was most unusual for her not to keep in touch with her friends. They knew that Miller had a prior charge of false imprisonment in New York and they knew that his alibithat he had been playing golf all afternoonwas probably not true, as they had seen his golf clubs in his closet. They had observed him acting in a suspicious and surreptitious manner when, in the dark, he approached the apartment in his car without lights on and, upon seeing Officer Arrington's police car, backed away. When Lauren and Jessica positively identified3, 2000.[2] The State presented evidence to support the theory that Poehlman had been murdered while Miller was committing or attempting to commit a first degree sexual offense. Among this evidence was testimony of Detective Carroll Bollinger, who had observed the scene where Poehlman's body had been found. He testified about the condition of the body before it was released to the medical examiner. Detective Bollinger noticed a ligature mark on the neck, cuts and bruising on the knees, and that an unfastened bra, shorts, socks, and tennis shoes remained on the body.
The medical examiner testified to his observation of a ligature mark on the neck as well as bruising on the body and blunt force injuries to the victim's head. The autopsy results indicated that the cause


of death was ligature strangulation and the manner of death was homicide. Although tests of the body failed to identify the presence of semen, there was a semen stain on Poehlman's blouse that matched Miller's DNA.
*852 In addition, the State presented evidence of numerous statements made by Miller after he had been arrested and while the police processed the case. He had given a lengthy written statement that described his sexual encounter with Poehlman as consensual. According to this statement, Miller began strangling Poehlman in a panic after the sexual encounter concluded because he was afraid his girlfriend would learn of the episode with Poehlman. His plan at the time, as described in the statement, involved causing Poehlman to "pass out," so she would "see that [he was]an ass" and not "bother" with him any longer. Miller insisted in his statement that Poehlman, although unconscious, continued to breathe when he put her in the car, drove her to where she was eventually found, and left her. Miller's other statements depicted the crime similarly, and not once did he admit to choking or strangling Poehlman during the course of the sexual encounter.
To support its theory that Poehlman's homicide took place during a sexual offense, the State presented information that had been obtained from Clarence Bobbitt, a former cell mate who claimed that he had spoken to Miller while Miller was awaiting trial. To this end, the State called two officers, Detectives Hill and Fox, to testify about interviews conducted with Clarence Bobbitt and a written statement


that he had provided. Testifying first was Detective Hill, who stated that Bobbitt had written his statement willingly even though he could not read or write "very well." Detective Hill also stated that he had offered nothing to Bobbitt for his statement and did not make "any kind of a plea agreement with him regarding whatever other charges he had."
Detective Fox testified that, on February 16, 1999, he had picked up Bobbitt from the Sheriff's Department and took him to the White Marsh Precinct. While Detective Fox was interviewing Bobbitt as part of routine processing, Bobbitt told the detective that he had information about a number of crimes including the murder of Shen Poehlman. Bobbitt told Detective Fox information about the murder that "only someone [who] had detailedinformation could provide." When the detective then asked for a written statement, Bobbitt first asked what was in it for him. The detective testified that he replied, "Absolutely nothing." Instead, he told Bobbitt that he should provide the statement "because it would be the right thing to do," and it might "clear [his] conscience." The detective also testified that he did not promise anything to Bobbitt or threaten him.
Bobbitt, who was 19 years old at the time of trial and still incarcerated, testified about what he had learned from Miller while the two shared a cell. During his testimony, Bobbitt explained that he currently was awaiting sentencing for a guilty plea that he already had entered. He testified, however, that he had not made any plea agreements in


exchange for his testimony in the Miller case and had not told even his lawyer about the conversations he had had with the police about the Poehlman murder. Bobbitt then recounted the events of the murder, which, according to his testimony, he had learned from Miller:
On that night, he said he was walking aside of a school. He seen a girl. He asked her if she wanted to babysit. She said yeah. So he gave her a ... he gave her his phone number, got his phone number. And then he went home. The next night he called her. She come.... Asked her if she wanted to come over and babysit for him. He said she said yes. She come over and they ... She knocked on thedoor. He opened it. She asked him where the kids were. He said they ain't here right now. And *853 then she come 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 her money out of her pocket ... I mean took the money out of her pocket 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.
Bobbitt went on to discuss written answers that he had given to questions posed by Detective Fox when he first had discussed Miller's case with police. These written answers described further details of the crime, suggesting that Miller was engaging in a sexual act and had ejaculated while choking Poehlman.
On cross examination, one of the defense lawyers questioned Bobbitt extensively about his background, his interaction with Miller, his statement, and the police interrogation.acquittal on the charge of attempted rape. The jury convicted Miller of the other charges: premeditated murder, first degree sexual offense, robbery, and false imprisonment. At the sentencing phase of Miller's case, which took place from February 7-9, 2000, the jury found that Miller was a principal in the first degree and, as an aggravating circumstance, that Miller had committed the crime while committing or attempting to commit a first-degree sex offense. As mitigating circumstances, the jury found "family environment" and that Miller had no prior record of committing a crime of violence. Finding further that the aggravating circumstances outweighed the mitigating circumstances in the case, the jury determined Miller's sentence to be death. In accordance with the jury's determination, the trial judge signed and filed a warrant


Miller presented evidence of the criminal proceedings against Bobbitt. When Bobbitt, before his testimony in the Miller case, came before the Circuit Court for Baltimore County on September 7, 1999, to plead guilty to first degree burglary and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, the victim expressed concern that the plea agreement was too lenient. In response, the judge stated, "[H]e will go to jail for at least five years probably consecutive to what he is serving now." When Bobbitt was eventually sentenced for the crimes on April 6, 2001, after his testimony in the Miller case, the judge imposed a ten-year prison sentence, all of which was suspended.
The State presented two witnesses, Mickey J. Norman, Esq., and Stephen Bailey, Esq., both prosecutors with the Baltimore County State'sJoswick trial in February of 2002, well over a year after Miller received the death sentence on February 9, 2000. The other evidence that Miller points to, Bobbitt's suspended sentence that he received on April 6, 2001 after testifying against Miller, also occurred well over a year after Miller's sentence was imposed. Neither of these events, therefore, possibly could have been discovered earlier by Miller with any amount of diligence. There is no doubt, therefore, that the evidence on which Miller relies is, in fact, newly discovered.
The second and more complex prong of the analysis in this case involves a determination of the impact of the evidence, an inquiry which this Court has characterized as "a judgmental oneweighing the effect of the evidence." Jackson, 358 Md. at 626,


and Poehlman as entirely against the victim's will, a violent attack undertaken after Poehlman refused Miller's sexual advances. Bobbitt's version of the homicide portrayed Miller strangling the victim while, at the same time, engaging in a sexual act. Had the jury discounted Bobbitt's testimony entirely, the remaining evidence may have done little to support the State's theory and jury's finding that the murder occurred in the course of a brutal sexual attack. In his numerous admissions, Miller described the sexual encounter as consensual, and he claimed that, after the sexual episode, the victim's death occurred accidentally while he panicked and attempted to subdue her. Nevertheless, the jury, having heard Bobbitt's version of the homicide, found only a single aggravating factor, that Miller had committed the crime while committingcase would provide Miller's defense counsel with an important and powerful tool for discrediting Bobbitt's account of the murder. For instance, before the newly discovered evidence of Bobbitt's testimony, Miller possessed no concrete evidence that Bobbitt's motive for testifying was anything other than altruistic. If allowed to hear that Bobbitt had testified in an inconsistent fashion about his motives, however, a jury could determine that Bobbitt's testimony was part of a negotiated bargain and, therefore, potentially biased. A jury then is less likely to accept Bobbitt's version of the events as true. Even if Bobbitt denies that his testimony in the Miller case came at a cost to the State, Miller's counsel's use of Bobbitt's former testimony as impeachment by prior inconsistent statement provides fodder to encourage Bobbitt's


a convenience store in Maryland for about a month but had been fired and was unemployed at the time relevant here. Ms. Sherman testified, and Miller admitted, that she allowed Miller to use her car while she was at work.
[3]  As an interesting side note to Miller's credibility, or lack thereof, in contrast to his suggestions in the telephone calls that Shen may have been alive when he left her in the car, he tells us in his brief, as a judicial admission, that "[t]he disposal of her body necessarily occurred hours after the killing, because, as the Medical Examiner testified, lividity had become fixed in Shen's back at the time she was found lying face down. It is obvious, therefore, that she was left lying onCarson Briere is only 11 and it's far too early to tell if he has what it takes to follow a path to the pros in Major League Soccer.

One thing is for certain. On May 30 at B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver, he's got a standing invitation to join the Vancouver Whitecaps at field level when they prepare to square off for an MLS game against Real Salt Lake.

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Now in his third year of training the Whitecaps' way at their Northern Academy in Prince George, Briere has been selected as part of a group of 70 local players to be a part of a two-day training camp in Vancouver, May 29-30.

The kids will have three training sessions over two days with Whitecaps first team staff, they'll


get to meet some of the players, then go to the MLS game. Briere went on the trip to Vancouver last year and he knows what he's in for.

"It was fun getting to play with all the old players of the Whitecaps and the coaches," said Briere, a Grade 5 student at Heather Park elementary school. "It's cool going to the Whitecaps game."

This is his seventh season of soccer and he also plays hockey. After a winter training indoors with the Whitecaps academy at the Northern Sport Centre, he's in great shape.

"It's fun and good training and I like the games," Briere said. "Normally we train first and then have mini-games after."

He trains in a group of 16 of his age-group peers, all of whom have been selectedthe players coming through to try to put them into the top-level."

The Northern Academy also has branches in Quesnel and Williams Lake. The same drills and same methods of teaching are used in the other Whitecaps regional academies in Vancouver, Nanaimo, Vernon, Nelson and Saskatoon. The goal is to establish a clear pathway for kids to follow, from the Whitecaps' regional academies to the residency program and, ultimately, the first team.

Five former Whitecaps residency players - midfielders Marco Bustos, Ben McKendry and Russell Teibert, goalie Marco Carducci and forward Caleb Clarke - are now with the MLS team.

Holtom, who shares the Northern Academy head coaching duties with Pawar, taught the Whitecaps summer academy programs in the Okanagan while he was still working in his native England with the


Wolverhampton Wanderers academy program. He moved to Prince George last August.

In Prince George, there are 70 boys and 62 girls involved. The under-12 male and female players (pre-prospects) train in 90-minute sessions separated according to age and gender on Mondays and Wednesdays, while the 13- to 18-year-olds (prospects) are on the field Tuesdays and Thursdays. Each session begins with a warmup game, followed by training activities to work specific skills, followed by a small-a-side game.

"You'll start to see the benefits of the technical training that's going at these ages in a couple of years," said Pawar. "There are several players locally and abroad who are playing university (soccer) and are doing extremely well and that comes from having a solid technical base that we're proud enough to sayBarely two months into the new year, and already 117 farmers have committed suicide in Maharashtra's Marathwada region, though last year's monsoon was above average in Maharashtra

Barely two months into the new year, and already 117 farmers have committed suicide in Maharashtra's Marathwada region in 2017. Though last year's monsoon was above average in Maharashtra, the spate of farmers ending their lives has continued across the state, and especially in the agrarian belt of Marathwada.

A report in The Times of India said the highest number of farmer suicides was in Beed, the home town of Maharashtra rural development minister Pankaja Munde, with 23 cases, while Nanded followed shortly behind with 22. It also said financial compensation was provided to 46 cases out of 117, while 13 were denied


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Friday, 25 June 2010

Time for Stillness.. Time for Silence

Date: 21st June - 3rd July 2010

Venue: Artspace Galleries, 18 Maddox Street, London W1S 1PL

Artspace Galleries London is proud to present, Time for Stillness.. Time for Silence, an exhibition by Soon Yul Kang. The exhibition showcases a beautiful selection of hand woven tapestries inspired by the concepts of Zen - simplicity, stillness and emptiness.

Soon Yul Kang is originally from Seoul, South Korea. She studied textile arts in Korea, Japan and at West Dean College in UK. She received her MA at Goldsmiths College, University of London and has been a residentartist in Kew Studio in Richmond since 1998. She now returns to Korea each year to lecture at Ewha Womans University. Soon Yul Kang specialises in hand woven tapestries butto Bujumbura I was able to spend one day and night with other dear missionary friends who teach at a Free Methodist Bible School close to Kibuye. They were the first to welcome us to Burundi in 2012 when we came for an investigative visit. It was really wonderful to visit one of their English classes and be so warmly greeted.

Students at the Bible School singing as class starts.

In all the places I visited I observed so many good things happening–people working together helping one another, children learning and growing with so much life and curiosity in and around them, joy and love abounding even as people face the inevitable obstacles of life. I went to encourage others and found it was I who returned encouraged and energized.


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Sheldon Adelson Challenges Haim Saban to Team Up and Buy The New York Times By: Joseph Gelman| Posted: November 9, 2014 6:30 PM In a spirited public discussion between two of America’s richest men and largest political donors, at the IAC [Israeli American Council] conference in Washington DC, multi-billionaire Sheldon Adelson openly challenged his more left-leaning counterpart and friend, billionaire and media mogul Haim Saban, to jointly purchase the New York Times away from the Sulzberger family, because of the Times’ open hostility towards Israel. The subject came up in a public discussion about media bias and Israel. Saban marveled at how Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had purchased the Washington Post for a mere $250 million, which Saban called “bupkis,” and that he was sorry that he


Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The California Secretary of State office had its 2014 random alphabet drawing on who would go where on the ballot. In accordance with Elections Code section 13111, the names of candidates on the ballot are arranged based on the randomized alphabet. So by the luck of the draw, Virginia Bass has the 1st spot on the ballot. This usually gives a candidate a 5% "boost" from voters who just go line item. I know it doesn't sound fair, but that is pretty much tried and true nation wide. As far as the DA's race, there is a rotation of Supervisorial Districts so no one has this advantage County wide. Arnie Klein garnered the 1st district top spot, Firpo the 2nd, Fleming the 3rd, Dollison thelooking for.)

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you?

Maggie: She said she had 14 to 18 under her, but then back tracked
and noted she was just filling in for Wes Keat.

Elan: Started off really confused and hard to understand, but
finished with explaining she had 30 high level employees under her that oversaw
3,000 workers down chain. She had the power to hire and fire at least 50 at a
given time.

Allan: He said about the same as Maggie. He had also filled in for
Wes Keat. He had been recently promoted to head up a troop battalion of 140.

Arnie: Has led departments in Beverly Hills, West LA, Compton and
Tulare. He joked that everyone up there had at one time been head of the
Humboldt office.

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Diego Leon, Diego

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JAPAN ARC:
Diego de Leon, a fresh face in the DEFIANCE scene had earned the ire and attention of Team HOSS. Diego, with the help of Billy Pepper, Frank Holiday, and Jimmy Rix formed TexMex Holiday. A team bent on standing up to Team HOSS. At the conclusion of the Japan Arc TexMex Holiday fought with Team HOSS in a double disqualification match.

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Diego, Frank, Billy Pepper and Jimmy Rix agreed with rivals Team HOSS that things weren't settled between the two camps. In the best of series, Diego won his match against Capital Punishment but was injured. He barely came made it back to the arena in time for the Elimination style match, where he and his TexMexHoliday friends would lose.

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With Frank Holiday out due to passport issues. Diego makes his singles bid. He eventually wins a matchup with SoHER champion, Curtis Penn. After gaining a slight advantage over Curtis Penn, the match is ruled as a disqualification with interference from Jonny Booya. Diego challenges him at the next card for a match, but the match gets side stepped and Diane Parker takes on Diego. He would lose that match but go on to beating Booya at the finale of the Canadian tour.

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Diego would officially announce his partner with Billy Pepper (and Frank Holiday by proxy). He gets injured in the middle of the tour in a triple threat match up with El-Serpenti and Yoshikazu YAZ, preventing him from competing actively.

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He's a face. One of the classic baby faces (ala Ricky Steamboat). He has a cool mask, cool outfit. He doesn't break rules or cheat. He'll never hit someone with a weapon, even *IF* he's in a no disqualification match. He won't use illegal moves or holds, he'll break them before they get to the count.

He doesn't talk much. He's like Dean Malenko in that sense. He rarely speaks and could come across as reserved or shy, usually giving one word answers. He never speaks ill of whoever stands in the ring opposite of him on camera. Never curses. He'll give a fair, clean fight to every opponent in the ring. Man or woman. He won't lecture someone or point out why they're wrong.

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Honorable,Nathanael Williams

Campaign groups and MPs challenge Tories over alleged “dirty money” through banks

CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND OPPOSITION MPs have expressed outrage at the alleged connections between money raised by the HSBC banking corporation and the Conservative party’s spending in the General Elections of 2010 and 2015.

According to the group Debt Resistance UK, HSBC awarded a multi-million pound loan to a highly indebted firm IPGL Ltd which is chaired by the Tory Party treasurer and chief fundraiser Michael Spencer.

IPGL and its subsidiaries donated over £5m to the Tories, which campaigners say resulted in concessions from Tory governments on tax, money laundering and investigations into international bank fraud.

“When private companies make big donations to political parties there is usually an expectation that their influence will be extended.” Alexander Runswick

Alexander Runswick, the


IPGL Ltd to the Tory party

Documents detailing the loans from HSBC, obtained by Debt Resistance UK, show the bank lent over £214m to IPGL Ltd who in turn gave more than £5.3m to the Conservatives from 2007 to July of last year. According to the files of IPGL the UK Prime Minister Theresa May had her leadership campaign for the Tories bankrolled by the same firm to the tune of £20,000.

Roger Mullin MP, a treasury spokesperson for the SNP, said: “This is a very serious and deeply worrying case, suggesting that a major bank and a business customer have been involved in activities serious enough to warrant a criminal investigation. I shall be writing to the Electoral Commission, there must be an investigation into this and before theout of smoke-filled rooms at conventions mean candidates now must compete in every contest.

Bill Clinton William (Bill) Jefferson ClintonEpstein podcast host says he affiliated with elites from 'both sides of the aisle' Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in repose at Supreme Court Business groups start gaming out a Biden administration MORE was able to wait until October 1991, just months before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, to enter the race. But now, the demands of fundraising and building a national organization mean candidates enter much earlier.

Howard Dean, the politically unknown former governor of tiny Vermont, formed an exploratory committee well before the 2002 midterm elections and slowly built his opposition to the war in Iraq into an insurgent campaign that nearly captured the Democratic nomination.

John Kerry John


Forbes KerryThe Memo: Warning signs flash for Trump on debates Divided country, divided church TV ads favored Biden 2-1 in past month MORE announced his own exploratory committee in an appearance on "Meet The Press" in December 2002, shortly after the midterms, and still more than a year before the first caucuses were held.

Barack Obama Barack Hussein ObamaThe Memo: Trump's strengths complicate election picture Obama shares phone number to find out how Americans are planning to vote Democrats' troubling adventure in a 'Wonderland' without 'rule of law' MORE hinted he was considering a run on the same show just weeks before the 2006 midterms, then formally declared his candidacy in February 2007. Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonDemocratic groups using Bloomberg money to launch M in Spanish languageads in Florida The Hill's Campaign Report: Presidential polls tighten weeks out from Election Day More than 50 Latino faith leaders endorse Biden MORE announced her two runs in videos posted online and sent to supporters, in January 2007 and in April 2015.

Some potential contenders are already enjoying the luxury of a national spotlight.

The fight over President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE’s Supreme Court nominee will put Sens. Amy Klobuchar Amy KlobucharSocial media platforms put muscle into National Voter Registration Day Battle lines drawn on precedent in Supreme Court fight


(08/15/2013) - Aerial Ice, the six-person aerial figure skating team, got its chance to perform live Tuesday night on NBC's America's Got Talent. The audience cheered with enthusiasm and at least two of the judges were thrilled, but on the live results show Wednesday night, the group didn't collect enough votes to advance to the semifinal rounds.

The team, made up of Kim Navarro, Brent Bommentre, Tosha Handford, Chris Trefil, Angela Kim and Joel Dear, performed an artistic and powerful number to "No Light, No Light" by Florence + The Machine. Against a blue backdrop of arched windows and blowing curtains, the skaters performed adagio lifts and a double death spiral, even skating down a steep ramp, while aerialists Kim and Dear soared high above the stage on silksINVESTIGATION: Raimondo Investment Program’s Fees Exceed Gains

A program General Treasurer Gina Raimondo launched to help cities and towns better invest their money appears to be generating as much money for the company managing the fund as it is for its members, a GoLocalProv review of state records has found.

Known as the Ocean State Investment Pool, the program was launched in the spring of 2012. Two years later, just three municipalities have signed up: Bristol, Cranston, and Lincoln. The remaining six governmental members are all state entities and include the state pension fund and the Rhode Island Student Loan Authority, for which the treasurer is a board member. Money from the state general fund also accounts for more than half of the assets in the fund.

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June 2012—Fidelity Investments fetched a fee of $199,690, almost as much as the $448,680 in interest earned by the pool, according to the last annual report.

In November 2011, the Treasurer’s office announced that Fidelity Investments had been awarded the contract as the vendor for the pool. GoLocalProv has previously reported that Raimondo’s now-former chief of staff, Joseph Pratt, was a former official at Fidelity Investments. He left his position with her office in January 2014 a month after Raimondo announced her run for Governor. (Pratt’s new job is with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Newport County.)

Fidelity Investment employees also account for $4,400 in contributions to Raimondo’s campaign account, most of that coming before her current run for Governor.

No employee contributions are listed under the subsidiary name Pyramis.

Smallercities and towns. “The Ocean State Investment Pool is a fairly new program that has been successful and we expect that as market conditions and municipalities’ needs evolve over time, we will see even better program growth,” said Ashley Gingerella O’Shea.

Some finance directors know little about fund

GoLocalProv reached out to several cities and towns, asking why they had not signed up.

Answers varied. In Warwick, a city official said the investment pool does not meet all the city’s criteria for its liquid investments. William DePasquale, the acting chief of staff for Mayor Scott Avedisian, said that after the 2008 recession the city had a adopted a policy of only making liquid investments that were FDIC-backed. For that reason, he said the investment pool was not considered by the city.

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not driving the Pontiac on either occasion, although, unbeknownst to Bratrsovsky he had apparently repaired and was operating it.
On June 29, 1981, two months after purchasing the Pontiac from Bratrsovsky and while driving it westbound on the I-76 Frontage Road near Fort Morgan, Colorado, Scheibel collided head on with a vehicle containing four boys, Dan Baker, Nicholas Rohleder, Bryon Smith, and Henry Rasmussen. Scheibel, Rohleder, Smith, and Rasmussen were all killed. Plaintiffs, Baker and the fathers of the three boys who were killed, brought suit for wrongful death and personal injury damages against Scheibel's estate and Bratrsovsky.
At the close of plaintiffs' evidence, Bratrsovsky moved for and was granted a directed verdict on the sole claim which had been asserted against him, namely that of negligent entrustment. The remainingwas admitted that Bratrsovsky had no actual knowledge of Scheibel's driving record, nor did the *724 evidence indicate that, prior to the sale of the Pontiac, Scheibel had a pattern of reckless or incompetent driving. The evidence of Scheibel's alleged incompetence as a driver all arose after the sale and delivery of the Pontiac. Although Scheibel was charged with reckless driving and driving under the influence on occasions subsequent to the sale, he was not convicted thereof as he died before any dispositions occurred. Hence, Bratrsovsky had no actual knowledge of, nor any reason or duty to investigate, Scheibel's competency as a driver, especially since the automobile was inoperable at the time of sale and was sold on the basis that it be used for parts. See Hines


A rotary drive of the type concerned is known from EP 0 628 454 A1. In this rotary drive a driving gear configured as a ring gear is coupled via three planetary gears to a sun gear forming a pinion, the planetary gears engaging in the internal toothing of the ring gear and in the external toothing of the sun gear. Formed at the outer periphery of the ring gear is a rotary piston extension which forms, together with the ring gear, a single-vane rotary piston. This single-vane rotary piston moves in an annular space which surrounds the ring gear and may be acted upon with pressurized gas.
The invention, in contrast, provides a rotary drive for a belt tensioner which is distinguished by a particularly compact construction.This is the one a lot of us have been waiting ever so patiently on since it was first announced, but today – well, technically tomorrow – is GTA: San Andreas day. The game is already available to download in the New Zealand and Australia App Stores, and according to Pocketgamer will go live at midnight in the UK and the U.S, and presumably anywhere else it'll be available.

As the clock ticks over midnight around the world tomorrow morning, a gaming goliath goes on sale that has its very own companion app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. We're of course talking about Grand Theft Auto V, and the iFruit application which has become available in the App Store on the eve of the big launch. Only iFruit


British Islamic extremists have been involved in weapons training with assault rifles at a mosque in London, intelligence sources have told The Observer.

The disclosures that hardline Islamists practised with Kalashnikov AK-47s at the Finsbury Park mosque in north London underline the pivotal role that Britain has played in the recruitment of volunteers to fight alongside Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda group all over the world.

It will also intensify pressure on the Government to crack down on Islamic militants using the UK as a base.

MI5 recruited worshippers at Finsbury Park who opposed the hardline stance taken by controversial Muslim cleric Abu Hamza, who often leads prayers there, and asked them to help monitor the activities of extremists. Early last year the agents told their handlers that several groups had beentaught to strip and reassemble Kalashnikovs in the mosque's basement. It was not clear if the guns were live or deactivated weapons, which can legally be owned in the UK.

Hamza, the most influential and radical of the prayer leaders at the mosque, said yesterday that, as far as he knew, no 'harmful' activities had ever taken place there. However, he admitted that he could not monitor all areas of the mosque.

Hamza, who is wanted for alleged terrorist offences in the Yemen, told The Observer that the mosque may have been the victim of a smear campaign by foreign agents. He named Algeria and Egypt as two countries particularly keen to see the mosque shut down. 'They are sending agents to cause us trouble,' he said.

Last month The Observer


with the al-Qaeda group have already been linked to Finsbury Park mosque. Feroz Abbassi, a computer engineer from Croydon held by the US in Cuba, was 'indoctrinated' in the mosque, according to his parents. Jerome Courtailler, arrested in Holland for allegedly plotting to blow up the US embassy in Paris, prayed there as did Djamel Beghal, Zacarias Moussaoui and Richard Reid, all of whom have been linked to al-Qaeda by investigators.

Three former MI5 agents interviewed by The Observer said that the mosque's reputation drew radical Islamists from all over Europe. One recalled white Swedish converts to Islam who had sought out the mosque because they want to take part in 'the Jihad'.

'They got false papers from people they met at the mosque and were sent to Afghanistan viaGermany,' one former agent recalled.

Senior officers with two Middle Eastern intelligence agencies based in Peshawar, the Pakistani frontier city that was until recently a major base for militant volunteers fighting alongside the Taliban and their al-Qaeda allies, said that interviews with Mujahideen arrested by Pakistani authorities over the last 18 months had revealed that many had received instruction in basic battlefield first aid from a doctor who ran lessons at the mosque. They said that consignments of medical supplies, including large quantities of antibiotics, had been sent from the UK.

Hamza yesterday denied the allegations, saying that the mosque lacked funds.

The British sources said they had told MI5 that volunteers who had fought in Afghanistan for the Taliban or for Islamic militants in Chechnya and Algeria boasted at the


Agencies admit Demi Leigh errors Family relives daughter's death A 15-year-old boy has been convicted of murdering a two-year-old girl who was left in his care for 90 minutes. Demi Leigh Mahon was beaten, bitten and had her hair sheared off during the attack which left her with 68 injuries, Manchester Crown Court heard. She was left with killer Karl McCluney while her mother went to claim a child benefit cheque in July last year. McCluney took her to a park before attacking her at a house in Salford, Greater Manchester. He had admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility but the jury rejected this claim. Following McCluney's conviction the judge, Mr Justice Sweeney lifted the reporting restrictions on the defendant's identity. The attack on Demi Leighwas so ferocious, the court heard, that she was left brain-damaged after being punched repeatedly in the face. Pathologist Dr Naomi Carter said part of her scalp was also sheared off, most likely as a result of it coming into contact with a hard surface. Dr Carter told the jury it was neither "reasonable or credible" the vast majority of the injuries were sustained accidentally. When her mother, Ann Marie McDonald, returned she saw the injuries he had inflicted. She told the court during the five day trial: "I screamed 'Why haven't you rung an ambulance?'. "He said 'I never done nothing, I've not done nothing'." Karl McCluney killed Demi Leigh but tried to say it was an accident Demi Leigh was taken to hospital where her parents


were at her bedside when her life support machine was switched off two days later. At first, McCluney tried to pretend the little girl had fallen over in the park and hurt herself, but it was clear she had been beaten. Speaking before the verdict, her father, Gary Mahon, described seeing her in hospital. "I knew she was going to die," he said, "There was no way she could have lived through that, it was disgusting." Psychiatrist Dr Cesar Lengua said he had made an admission of guilt to a health worker: "I'm not proud of what I've done and everyone will think I'm a monster but nobody can ever punish me as much as I'll punish myself." Dr Lengua, who was called by the defence, said theboy suffered from an unsocialised conduct disorder and had a "below normal" IQ. He said it was clear there were "disharmonious relationships between the parental figures in this boy's life" and family dynamics were crucial to understanding the development of his conduct disorder. The jury heard the boy has never explained his attack on Demi Leigh but has alluded to the fact he was angry with her behaviour.

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Chapter 188 - Wild Ambitions

Chen Xiang arrived at the Martial Courtyard of Yun Xiaodao and others, he immediately saw that both Yun Xiaodao and Zhu Rong were busy moving their things.

"Squinted dragon?" Chen Xiang asked, he had not seen Yun Xiaodao and others for three months. To his surprise, he found the True Qi within their body was actually a lot more vigorous. He secretly thought that these guys definitely had a frutious encounter.

Upon seeing that Chen Xiang had returned, Yun Xiaodao put down the tree in his hands and ran over, shouting with a loud laugh, "Elder Brother Chen, you're truly a masterpiece! All of a sudden, you’ve crippled so many True Martial Realm martial artists!"

Yun Xiaodao had already received the news, and was extremely excited1921 Mid Armagh by-election

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and reveals that, at the start, the effort was significantly more ad hoc and less public than the post-9/11 Beverly Hilton summit. Eventually, the government realized the power of the movie biz, as shown by the attention President Roosevelt paid to wartime Oscar ceremonies. Harris’ book posits that five filmmakers who reported for duty — starting with John Ford, and including William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra and George Stevens — were responsible more than other showbizzers for shaping how those at home came to see the war.

Following is an excerpt from the book:

John Ford was the first of the five to go (off to war). By the time the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor, he was already 3,000 miles from Hollywoodroom,” she said. She showed the Fords a bullet hole in the wall left by a musket ball during the American Revolution. “I never let them plaster over that,” she told them.

Mary Ford later remembered that for “everybody at that table, their lives changed that minute.” But Ford had already changed his life, drastically and unexpectedly. By late 1941, most people in the movie industry, like most people in the country, believed that it was only a matter of time before the United States entered World War II. But what many of his colleagues viewed as a vague shadow spreading across the distant horizon, Ford accepted as a certainty that would require, and reward, advance preparation. For months before he left Hollywood for Washington, D.C., that September, he


had been spending his nights and weekends overseeing the creation of a group he called the Naval Volunteer Photographic Unit, training camera operators, sound technicians and editors to do their jobs under wartime conditions in close quarters; he even used gimbaled platforms in order to simulate attempts to develop film on ships while they pitched and listed. If war was inevitable, he believed the effort to record that war would be essential, and its planning could not be left to amateurs or to the bungling of War Dept. bureaucrats.

Still, Ford was an unlikely candidate to lead Hollywood’s march toward battle. He was old enough to be the father of a typical draftee; at 46, he was just a couple of years from welcoming his first grandchild. And althoughrequest a transfer from the Naval Reserve to active duty? Was it lingering shame at having failed the entrance exam for the Naval Academy at Annapolis as a high school student a quarter of a century earlier? Was it embarrassment about having missed America’s entry into the First World War in 1917, when he was busy trying to break into the movie business as a stuntman, actor and fledgling director? Ford’s motivation was an enigma even to those closest to him — his wife, the colleagues with whom he made movies, and the drinking buddies at his favorite haunt, the Hollywood Athletic Club. “Is the ace director … tired of the tinsel of Hollywood?” one news story queried. Ford seemed to delight in withholding any explanation at all,


in his modest room with its single window of old, runny glass, stacking a couple of books on the bureau along with his pipes and cigars and living out of an open wardrobe trunk. He had the air, wrote a reporter who visited him, “of a man who might set out to sea with an hour’s notice.” In fact, that was just what he was thinking and even hoping; as Ford awaited orders from his mentor, intelligence chief “Wild” Bill Donovan, his mind was only on what was to come. “Things are moving apace here,” he wrote to Mary, admonishing her to avoid the needless expense of late-night long-distance calls to him whenever she felt lonely or sad or angry, and telling her of the “hum of preparationNews

Brian Bradley

DOB: January 21, 1965 In: Kitchener, Ont.
First Hockey Memory: "Growing up in Kitchener and watching the Toronto Maple Leafs play on Hockey Night In Canada. That's probably my first memory."

Hockey Inspirations: "Wayne Gretzky. Growing up in the Toronto area, just to watch him play junior hockey, he was amazing. Watching Bobby Orr play with the Boston Bruins. I was always a fan of Bobby Orr."

Last Book Read: "I like John Grisham, Navy Seals Team Six right now."

Current Car: "I've had Mercedes and Lexus, now I have a new Nissan Maxima (black). So I love that car."

Greatest Sports Moment: "Probably playing in my first All-Star game in Montreal in '92."

Most Painful Moment: "I don't know...losing the Stanley Cup final in '86 with Calgary."

Favorite Uniforms: "Chicago Blackhawks."

Favorite Arena: "Chicago


Blackhawks."

Closest Hockey Friends: "Gary Roberts, Joe Nieuwendyk, Dave Lowry - I played junior with him in London for like two, three years."

Toughest Competitors Encountered: "Bob Probert, by far, no question. Bob Probert by far. Played against him in junior and pro, he was definitely one of the toughest guys."

Most Memorable Goal: "Probably my first goal in the NHL, against Wendell Young. In Calgary against Vancouver. For sure. My first goal."

Funny Hockey Memory: "Just the practical jokes Marc Bergevin used to do. He was a clown. Cutting guys' laces, just doing little things like that. It was always something different everyday. It was funny to see. He was good at that stuff. He used to do stuff that was hilarious. He was the best I ever played with."

Strangest Game:Austin left Surratt and returned to Tuboscope where, in addition to cleaning pipes, he inspected pipes for imperfections by spraying them with mineral spirits and examining them under a florescent light in an enclosed inspection booth. In 1991, Austin left the pipe inspection industry to work elsewhere.
In 1994, Austin was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). He died from the disease within four months of the diagnosis. In 1996, Austin's wife, Tara Austin, individually and as executrix of Austin's estate, and as next friend of Austin's parents and two minor children (collectively, the Austins), brought a wrongful death action against Kerr-McGee Refining Corp., Irvin Enterprises, Inc., Basis Petroleum, Inc., and Delta Distributors, Inc. (collectively, Kerr-McGee), asserting claims of negligence, gross negligence, strict liability, and breach of implied warranties.


was noted. In the first study, nine types of leukemia were observed, one of which was CML. Of the new ones, two were attributed to AML, one to CML, and two were unspecified. The deaths occurred exclusively among individuals who commenced work in 1950 or earlier, which the author suggests could indicate a response to high levels of benzene exposure that occurred during the early years of the manufacturing process prior to an improvement in industrial hygiene and a decrease in benzene levels. The author suggests this is consistent with the hypothesis that exposure in excess of fifty parts per million years is necessary for leukemogenesis. A part per million year is the number of parts per million per year multiplied by the number of years of exposure.
Theoften interfere with the base of the seat when seat is swiveled around. This interference typically damages the upholstery and thus aircraft operators are constantly required to perform maintenance on the seat base to keep the interior of the aircraft looking pristine.
The interference is typically caused by the large seat base size. In the aircraft industry, the seat base is sized to fit a particular aircraft and this dictates the required seat base size, regardless of the actual size of the seat itself. In the prior art, to avoid contact between the seat base and the leg rest, the seat occupant must actively track the seat away from the base as the swiveling motion is accomplished. Without this active participation from the seat occupant, the contact that occurs


even then, before he even seemed like he had a tiny shot at getting the presidency, there was violence from anti-Trump protesters.

The account @ProudBoysUSA is just one of several promoting the event, and they describe themselves as "Western chauvinists who refuse to apologize for creating the modern world." And I guess "Western" in this case means "not Middle Eastern" and "not Chinese"?

The Proud Boys movement, now also a popular hashtag, tattoo, and a subreddit, stems from Vice co-founder turned far-right pundit Gavin McInnes, who's now part of the internet-popular triumvirate of alt-right heroes that also includes Milo Yiannopoulos and InfoWars editor Paul Joseph Watson, all shown below in an illustration calling them the "new punk."

#miloyiannopoulos #gavinmcinnes #pauljosephwatson #punk @milo.yiannopoulos @thegavin2000 @pauljosephwatson A photo posted by Jon Selwyn (@jon_selwyn_art)on Feb 11, 2017 at 12:54am PST

While very much sounding like a White supremacist and calling himself "pro West," McInnes also says he's pro-gun, pro-gay, and pro-life, and anti-Nazi, anti-censorship, anti-Drug War, anti-political correctness, anti-Islam, and anti-feminist (although he's also called himself a feminist in the past, but he rails against the "war on masculinity" in the culture). McInnes, and his many fans, also like to say that they are "anti-antifa," which is to say they're anti-anti-fascists  but in this upside-down world of rhetoric they inhabit, this doesn't actually mean pro-fascist per se, it means they hate the "antifa," whom they define as the type of young, militant liberal protesters who showed up to protest Yiannopoulos in Berkeley and wreak havoc in the streets. McInnes has also


back to as early as the 4th century BCE.

2. THE FIRST EXPLORATION OF THE WRECK KILLED ONE DIVER AND PARALYZED TWO OTHERS.

In 1900, Greek sponge divers found the shipwreck, which was submerged nearly 150 feet, while wearing gear that was standard for the early 20th century—canvas suits and copper helmets. When the original diver surfaced with reports of artifacts, horses, and corpses, the captain assumed he had “raptures of the deep”—essentially, a drunkenness as a result of the nitrogen in the breathing mix piped into the diving helmet. Although that diver was actually fine, later exploration in the summer of 1901 caused the death of one diver and the paralysis of two more from decompression sickness or "the bends.”

3. THREE IMPORTANT ROMANS MAY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED.

An astrophysicist atarea at this time.

4. THE MECHANISM'S IMPORTANCE WASN'T RECOGNIZED FOR 75 YEARS.

A reproduction of the front of the mechanism on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Image credit: Giovanni Dall'Ortovia via Wikimedia Commons

The unique bronze-and-wood object was found with a shipload of marble, coins, glassware, and pottery in 1900. Since all the other artifacts were more apparently worthy of conservation, the mechanism was ignored until 1951. After an additional two decades of study, the first publication on the Antikythera mechanism was made in 1974 by physicist and historian Derek de Solla Price. But Price’s work was unfinished when he died in 1983, without having figured out how the device actually worked.

5. JACQUES COUSTEAU AND RICHARD FEYNMAN WERE BOTH FASCINATED BY IT.

The famous marine explorer Jacques Cousteau


a slide rule to a device that can predict the tides. The Antikythera mechanism, which was designed to calculate dates and predict astronomical phenomena, has therefore been called the earliest analog computer.

7. THE INVENTOR OF TRIGONOMETRY MAY HAVE ALSO CREATED THE MECHANISM.

Hipparchus is primarily known as an ancient astronomer; he was born in what is now Turkey around 190 BCE and worked and taught primarily on the island of Rhodes. His works survive almost entirely through later Greek and Roman authors. Hipparchus was one of the first thinkers to speculate that the Earth revolved around the Sun, but he could never prove it. Hipparchus created the first trigonometric table in his attempts to solve problems related to spheres, and is therefore known as the father of trigonometry. Becauseknow who would have used this object or to what end.

12. …BUT THEY'RE CLOSING IN ON WHERE IT WAS MADE.

The use of Koine in the numerous inscriptions places the creation of the mechanism in the Greek world, which was geographically large at the time. The festival dial mentions the Olympics in central Greece, the Naa in northwest Greece, and the Halieia on the island of Rhodes. The latest analysis of the inscriptions, reported this week by classicist Alexander Jones and colleagues, suggests the mechanism could keep track of at least 42 different calendar events. With those dates in mind, Jones and colleagues calculate that the creator of the mechanism was likely based at 35°N latitude. Coupled with Cicero’s mention of a similar device at Posidonius’s school, this means


that the island of Rhodes is again the leading contender for the origin of the mechanism.

13. THE DEVICE ALSO TOLD FORTUNES.

Jones and colleagues’ new interpretation of the mechanism is based on the extant 3400 Greek characters on the device, although thousands more characters are likely missing due to the incomplete nature of the artifact. Most notably, in their thorough linguistic analysis, these scholars discovered that the mechanism refers to eclipses’ color, size, and associated winds. The Greeks believed that characteristics of an eclipse were related to good and bad omens. Because of this belief, by building in predictive eclipse technology, the creator of the mechanism was letting the user divine the future.

14. PLANETARY MOTION IN THE MECHANISM WAS ACCURATE TO WITHIN ONE DEGREE IN 500 YEARS.

The mechanism includeshands or pointers for Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, all of which are easily visible in the sky, as well as a rotating ball that showed the phases of the Moon. The parts that work these planetary pointers are gone, but text on the front plate of the mechanism confirms, according to Jones and his team, that the planetary motion was modeled mathematically using numerous complex gears—and that it was highly accurate.

15. THERE MAY ACTUALLY BE TWO ANTIKYTHERA SHIPWRECKS.

Since Cousteau explored in the mid-1970s, little work has been done at the underwater archaeological site because of the remote location and the depth of the water. In 2012, marine archaeologists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the Hellenic Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities again dove the wreck with


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Debbie was born on August 4, 2017 and passed away on Friday, August 4, 2017.

Debbie was a resident of Bay Minette, Alabama at the time of passing.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Madison Buel and Jane Norris McHalffey; a sister, Sue Ashlock and a brother, Chris McHalffey. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, August 8, 2017 at 10:30 a.m. at the First Baptist Church with Dr. Chip Starnes officiating. Burial will follow at Bay Minette Cemetery.

Although the family will accept flowers they suggest memorial contributions be made to the First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 1628, Bay Minette, AL 36507.

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In 1990 Darlene Craviotto was a steadily employed screenwriter, who hid out in her home office, coping with agoraphobia. Then she snagged what seemed the job of a lifetime – adapting Peter Pan as a Disney musical for Steven Spielberg – and had to collaborate, in person, with the intended star: Michael Jackson, then at the apex of his fame. After many months, many pages, and a dozen story meetings with Jackson, "Project M" was abruptly cancelled. No longer severely agoraphobic, Craviotto stashed away the projecta comment here on this post by Feb. 18. (Winner must have a U.S. postal address.) Darlene will appear tonight (Feb. 2) at The Book Den in Santa Barbara. You can also follow Darlene on Twitter.

8 comments:

Lisa,As a Michael admirer, I didn't like what Darlene was insinuating about MJ in a scene near the end of her book when an adult man and a boy who was fan was present at one of her last sessions with MJ. She thought it odd that Michael had them there, when she thought it would just be her and him. However, the boy and man she is talking about have both spoken out about Michael's innocence and they would not have liked being portrayed in this fashion as they remained long


time friends of Michael's. It is Buz Kohan and Wade Robson she is talking about, although she doesn't mention their names. Michael was a mentor to this boy.

Then Darlene goes to her agent and gossips about this meeting? Who knows how far that gossip spread? Darlene was had many years to reassess this situation, but has not had the motivation to seek out the truth and facts. Her comeback to fans was that she didn't see Michael do anything wrong with this boy. BUT her book insinuates that she thought otherwise. That's what's most objectionable and offensive about her book.

I agree with Martha's comments. This is exactly what was expressed to the author by many fans that she says said "hurtful" things to her.

The scene in the book,that Martha describes, had absolutely nothing to do with writing a screenplay about "Peter Pan" with Michael Jackson, It had nothing to do with her overcoming her agoraphobia. There was absolutely no reason to include this that I can see despite her claims of wanting to be "honest". She should have given more thought to the damage her words could do vs. her need to be "honest".

She says in her book that she asked her agent if he had heard of any stories about Michael and children. He told her no- nothing. That should have been the end of it, and yet she still chose to include this salacious innuendo anyway.

She was in Michael Jackson's home, when this incident took place, and it was none of her business


who he had visiting him. If she didn't want anyone else there when they were working on the project, she should have voiced her concerns, or she should have set up some ground rules before they started working together.

Michael Jackson loved children in the purest sense and did everything he could to help them- all over the world.

We heard in that tape, during the Conrad Murray trial, that even under the effects of Propofol, Michael was still thinking of the welfare of chldren and his desire to build a children's hospital.

Darlene knew the torture he went through in the years after they collaborated and especially in 2005 when he endured the humiliation of that horrible trial where he was accused of crimes against a child. This was thetrial where he was found totally innocent of every false charge that had been lodged against him; a trial that almost destroyed him physically and emotionally.

Not only was he found innocent of the charges in 2005, but the FBI investigated him for ten years and found nothing credible. Child Protective Services in California investigated him too, and found zero evidence of wrong doing.

All of this evidence of innocence and STILL he was villified in the media for the last sixteen years of his life.

It just disgusts me that this author just couldn't help herself and had to jump on the bandwagon too- once again sullying his good name with her innuendo.

I only read the book because a friend loaned it to me. I wouldn't put one dime in


exercise focused on counter-proliferation last held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in late 2010; and Eager Resolve, an annual exercise to simulate a coordinated response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high yield explosive attack, involving the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.

However, military documents, open-source reports, and other data analyzed by TomDispatch offer a window into the training relationships that CENTCOM refused to acknowledge. While details of these missions remain sparse at best, the results are clear: during 2011, U.S. troops regularly partnered with and trained the security forces of numerous regimes that were actively beating back democratic protests and stifling dissent within their borders.

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In January, for example, the government of Saudicalled the king “effeminate.”

In March, Jordanian security forces typically failed to take action, and some even joined in, when pro-government protesters attacked peaceful activists seeking political reforms. Then came allegations that state forces had tortured Islamist activists.

Meanwhile, in March, U.S. troops joined Jordanian forces in Eager Light 2011, a training exercise in Amman, the country’s capital, that focused on counterinsurgency training. Then, from June 11th to June 30th, thousands of Jordanian security forces and U.S. troops undertook Eager Lion, focusing on special operations missions and irregular warfare as well as counterinsurgency.

In November, Human Rights Watch’s Christoph Wilcke took Jordan to task for the trial of 150 protesters arrested in the spring on terrorism charges after a public brawl with pro-regime supporters. “Only members of the opposition face prosecution.


members of the Lebanese armed forces including, according to an American in attendance, a discussion of “the use of propaganda in regards to military information support operations.” In addition, there was a biannual joint underwater demolitions exercise, Operation Eager Mace, carried out with Kuwaiti forces.

These training missions are only a fraction of the dozens carried out each year in secret, far from the prying eyes of the press or local populations. They are a key component of an outsized Pentagon support system that also shuttles aid and weaponry to a set of allied Middle Eastern kingdoms and autocracies. These joint missions ensure tight bonds between the U.S. military and the security forces of repressive governments throughout the region, offering Washington access and influence and the host nations ofthose who live in Amman, Kuwait City, Rabat, or Riyahd? And if so, why is the Pentagon strengthening the hands of repressive rulers in those capitals?

Nick TurseTwitterNick Turse is the managing editor of TomDispatch.com and a fellow at The Nation Institute. An award-winning investigative journalist, he has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Nation, and is a contributing writer for The Intercept. His latest book is Next Time They’ll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan.


and On Demand video.

Although this is the largest redesign of a White House website in our nation's history, the functionality of the site remains the same and is generally consistent with previous designs.

Michael, from Powell, Tn
writes: On average, how many questions are submitted for "Ask The White House"
sessions?

David AlmacyMichael, "Ask the White House" was created in April 2003 to provide a forum for the general public to communicate directly with public officials serving in the United States Government. Today's "Ask" is the 420th online discussion. The amount of questions that are submitted usually depends on the guest, the topic, and the news of the day. For example, I have received almost 500 questions for today's chat and will try to answer as many as I can, time permitting.

Cliff,Joshua. We have received a number of comments and the majority of them have been generally positive. It was certainly a challenge to upgrade the site while simultaneously maintaining it. There were a number of multimedia features that the White House was offering that weren't being effectively promoted. Hopefully the new layout will assist those seeking information about the President and the daily activities here at the White House.

Rob, from Northeast Ohio writes: What does the W stand for In George W. Bush?

David AlmacyThe President's full name is George Walker Bush. The President's father, the 41st President of the United States is George Herbert Walker Bush. To learn more about the President, please visit his biography page.

Alex, from Washington, DC writes: David - Love the Podcast page on


iTunes. How did you arrange that with
Apple?

David AlmacyThanks, Alex. We reached out to Apple in an effort to provide a direct link in iTunes to the mp3 audio files that the White House was producing via the website. We started Podcasting the President's Radio Address (in English and Spanish) in September 2005. After that, we began providing audio from the President's events and speeches, as well as the press briefings by Tony Snow, White House Press Secretary, and other Administration officials.

At the time, the idea of a government Podcast was fairly novel. Today, however, several agencies are Podcasting, including NASA, NOAA, USDA, Peace Corps, National Park Service, and the U.S. military, among others.

Olga, from Minnesota writes: I can't find any updated info on White House tours. I amAP and US Government Classes. Sincerely, Leona,
Indianapolis, IN

David AlmacyLeona, I am glad that you find the White House website a useful tool in your classroom. In addition to the President's daily news, one of the most visited sections of the site is the History and Tours area. Also, the President's Hall is another page that receives high traffic numbers. We are currently working on a revamp of this section as well and hope to launch it shortly. So, stay tuned!

Marilyn, from Texas writes: I enjoy it when the White House web site shows pictures of the president
while on duty. Recently I copied his picture with Prime Minister John
Howard and sent it to my email pal in Australia. She was thrilled. A
picture is worth a thousand words, especially with


the warm smile of
President George W Bush

David AlmacyOne of the advantages of technology is the ability to capture a number of images of the Presidency in action. The President's photographers and photo editors in the White House Photo Office do a tremendous job in offering a variety of pictures that better frame the President's events and activities visually whether here at the White House, across the country, or as he travels abroad. Photos truly assist in bringing perspective to the text and life to the site.

Efren, from Las Vegas
writes: I'm Doing A Report At School And I Need To Know What Is Gorge W.Bush
Plane Called?

David AlmacyThe United States Air Force maintains and operates a fleet of aircraft for Presidential travel. The plane that you are most familiar withis a Boeing 747-200B. There are actually two (tail numbers 28000 and 29000) and when the President is aboard one of them, it is referred to as Air Force One.

Joel, from Freeport, Texas writes: Hi the Question i would liked answered is how long your position has
been
around.

David AlmacyOne thing to keep in mind is that the internet as an innovation is still relatively in its infancy. The first White House website was launched in 1995 under President Bill Clinton.

I am the second internet director to serve in President Bush's Administration. Jimmy Orr served during President Bush's entire first term and implemented a number of the features that are on the site today.

David Almacy
I really appreciate everyone's terrific questions and wish I could have answered more. I'm usually on


from Nadal followed, and this time Thiem looked up toward his coach and yelled.

The conditions might have contributed to the cramping that affected Nadal about two hours into the final. His finger bent awkwardly and he pulled at it. He removed the taping from his left forearm, and maybe that let the blood flow better. After guzzling water during his visit from the doctor, Nadal was back to playing his unmistakable brand of nearly unbeatable clay-court tennis.overthrow him,” Markov said in an interview.

Trump’s pro-Russia stance has rattled European leaders, who were deeply disconcerted when he declared earlier this year, in newspaper interviews with two European outlets, that he had equal regard for Putin and for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a close American ally. That followed a string of disparaging remarks about key institutions like the NATO alliance and the European Union.

The Trump administration sought to calm those fears with European trips last month by Vice President Mike Pence and Defense Secretary James N. Mattis, but in the wake of the Flynn affair, many Europeans wondered whether Pence in particular really spoke for the president.

White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon, who has spearheaded White House skepticism about the postwar U.S.-led Western order, spoke with the


Jonas had made their relationship public earlier in the month of June, but they are yet to officially comment on it.

Meanwhile, Bollywood director Ali Abbas Zafar on Friday announced Priyanka’s exit from his film Bharat in a cryptic tweet alluding to her beau.

He said the reason for her opting out in the “Nick of time” was “very special”.

Over the last several weeks, Priyanka and 25-year-old Jonas have been spotted on several dates, including a dinner date in New York City and a Beauty and the Beast Live in Concert show in Los Angeles.

Priyanka was also seen celebrating July 4 — the American Independence Day — with Nick’s family. Nick earlier visited India with the “Quantico” actress to meet her friends and family. The couple has been sporting similarRooney's Ruffled Call to the World

Teeny-boppers made a comeback on Tuesday night at the Fox Theatre in Boulder for Rooney's 2008 tour, Calling the World. Rooney's all ages show brought in an eclectic mix of concert-goers: teenagers, college students, parents, and those oh so young pre-teens. Alabama band The Bridges, consisting of four girls and one guy, kicked off the night with a short set of folk, Dixie rock. Brooklyn boys Locksley followed up with a high energy, charismatic set. Fast paced songs with audience participation and a strong stage presence from Locksley led up to a lively, up-beat performance from California headliners', Rooney.

At the instant frontman Robert Schwartzman placed foot on stage in the presence of a majority female audience, the place turned into The Beatles concert


on the Ed Sullivan Show. Each time any musician came downstage to play nearly in the audience, shrill screams cut through the air as hands strove to make even the slightest of contact. Between outbursts of screams and the whining solos of lead guitarist Taylor Locke, Schwartzman's lyrics were a struggle to decipher. Bassist Matthew Winter, drummer Ned Brower, and keyboardist Louis Stephens were set more in the background during Rooney's set, as Schwartzman and Taylor seemed to be the biggest attractions among the female crowd.

Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the show was the virtuosic presentation by Locke. While he did not have many solos of significant length, Locke's performance resembled that of one not so often found of an alternative rock or pop band guitarist inthis day. Great speed in dexterity and strikingly high chords accented with slides, feedback, and various distortion pedals combined with tight jeans, a low-buttoned shirt, tan boots, and dark shaggy hair created in Locke a spin-off image of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page. However, though Locke's artistry proved impressive for those not drooling over Schwartzman, the sheer literal volume of his performance was excessively powerful and even a bit overwhelming. While Locke held his wide leg stance with guitar tilted up, Schwartzman was at center stage, his voice obliterated by Locke's high tension notes played towards the bridge of his guitar. As a guitarist, Schwartzman displayed a good sense of talent, but his vocals are his main appeal as frontman, and on Tuesday night that was lost as audience


members strove to read his lips in desire of singing along.

High energy stage presence and alternative rock songs with an up-beat pop sound about them drew each and every person in, making for an exciting atmosphere with strong audience involvement. What was lost through high pitched screaming and high voltage amplifiers was made up for in an overall performance that incited all members of the audience to dance and sing along. Plenty of floor space was still available by the end of the show, lending to a presumably not sold out event, attracting pre-teens and their parents as well as boyfriends dragged along by their girlfriends. Cover songs "Movin' Out" by Billy Joel and "The Weight" by The Band were interdispersed with a balance of songs off ofdotCommonweal

"Not Telling You Whom To Vote For" Watch

It was months ago when Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, IL, compared Obama to Hitler, Stalin, and Bismarck in the heat of the contraception mandate debate. The diocese was challenged by Americans United for Separation of Church and State for violating the regulations for tax-exempt institutions. (My understanding of the law is that groups can argue issues, not candidates.) Americans United director Barry Lynn said at the time "No rational person could believe the bishop was doing anything but saying vote against Obama.And now...Here's Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of Springfield IL. After detailing several "intrinsic evils" he claims to find in the Democratic platform, he says:

Now, why am I mentioning these matters in the Democratic Party Platform? There are many positive


to vote.Then there's Archbishop Myers of Newark, NJ, whose pastoral on marriage and how to vote concerning it comes also at a convenient time for those (and Myers says he's NOT one of those) who want Catholics to be one or two-issue voters. But when he gets down to brass tacks about voting, he sure sounds like he might be. He writes:

Catholic citizens must exercise their right to be heard in the public square by defending marriage. We must exercise our right to vote in defense of marriage and life. This is our duty as citizens and believers.

Otherwise:

Make no mistake about it: the freedom of the Church as an institution...and Catholic believers as individuals will be significantly curtailed by any redefinition of marriage that would abandon the understandingthe various commentators here, the Roman Catholic bishops in the United States are American citizens. As American citizens, they should be allowed to engage in free speech about American politics, as so many other Americans do.There is no good reason to expect the Catholic bishops to be non-political.As to the American Catholics who might hear or read a political statement by a Catholic bishop, I would hope that American Catholics have attained sufficient maturity to listen respectfully to a Catholic bishop and then make up their own minds.I know, I know, the IRS has certain regulations. But the merits of the IRS regulations are debatable, just as the idea of tax-exempt institutions is debatable.So I say, "Let the Catholic bishops have free speech in the United States. And


primary aim was to resolve conflicts, not meddle in countries’ internal affairs. And though Truman spoke of the need for justice for all in his address, he was also quite clear that judgments were not to be made about the relative advantages of one sort of government. "To permit the United Nations to be broken into irreconcilable parts by different political philosophies," he said, "would bring disaster."

The U.N. also welcomed decolonization in the developing world — any country that won independence from its former masters was automatically considered sovereign and invited to join. In this, it was remarkably successful. The wave of decolonization that swept through Asia and Africa in the 1950s and 1960s was the largest transfer of power in human history and a surprisingly peaceful one,to be used to determine if they would be suitable sites for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, or GNEP, a hotly debated proposal that proponents promise will change the world.

Unveiled by the Bush administration early last year, GNEP envisions a system in which developing nations would receive nuclear power plants and fuel from the West in return for agreeing not to develop their own nuclear technology. The plan hinges on the controversial element of reprocessing spent nuclear rods to produce fuel that can be burned at GNEP plants, an activity that has never been done commercially in the United States.

GNEP supporters say not only will it power up the Third World, it will boost the U.S. nuclear industry, greatly reduce nuclear waste and air pollution and avoid the


thousands of jobs to the area.”

Simonton directs the Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative, a nonprofit whose purpose is to create jobs in a region hit hard by the layoffs at the Portsmouth uranium enrichment plant in Piketon, owned by the Energy Department and operated by the United States Enrichment Corp., currently the only U.S. firm in the enrichment business.

What better way to do that, figured Simonton and his partner, Cleveland entrepreneur and former Enrichment Corp. board member Dan T. Moore II, than to find a new nuclear purpose for a 3,714-acre facility that has been processing radioactive materials for 52 years, first for weapons at the height of the Cold War and later for commercial nuclear power plants?

Politicians in other communities that received GNEP grants also expressed eagerness tois to say almost throughout the entire work. The timbre of the guitar creates new and emotional resonance and unsuspected dynamic gradations in those passages which might have been created purely for the violin; as for instance the variations in arpeggi."

The most well-known transcription for guitar is the Segovia transcription. Many guitarists today prefer to play the Chaconne directly from the violin score.

Orchestra transcriptions
There are a number of transcriptions of the Chaconne for orchestras of different sizes, including Leopold Stokowski's transcription for a full symphony orchestra.

Other transcriptions
Gustav Leonhardt arranged the Partita for harpsichord solo. Anne Dudley arranged Bach's Chaconne for piano trio, and a recording by the Eroica Trio appears on their Baroque album. The Chaconne has also been arranged for harpsichord by Pieter-Jan Belder and


Catholic party, he opposed the repeal of the penal laws against Catholics and dissenters but was not against some relaxation. As an opponent of the King's absolute rule, he was stripped of his local offices, and when these were restored in October 1688 he refused to sit next to Catholic office holders. In the Convention Parliament of 1689 he was fairly active, being appointed to 15 committees.

He did not stand in the 1690 general election, retiring from national politics. Dying in July 1702, he was buried at Kirby Cane and succeeded by his younger brother Richard Catlin V (1636 – 1711), who never married. His widow Mary married Sir Charles Turner, 1st Baronet, of Warham.

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Category:Members of Parliamenta less popular option for teams had the Packers tagged him and demanded a trade.

The price tag to sign Flynn is expected to be hefty, despite his relative lack of experience. Miami has been the team most often linked to Flynn, given the presence of Joe Philbin, his offensive coordinator in Green Bay. However, the Dolphins have been whispered in connection with Peyton Manning lately.

Cleveland is also thought to be interested in Flynn, but unwilling to spend an arm and a leg, sort of their m.o. this offseason and a good bet that they will again be looking up at every other team in the AFC North while Pat Shurmur takes his exciting style of offense to someone else in 2013.

Flynn will take one potential suitor out of


– when she first met him in the White House days after his inauguration, and he accepted.

At the time it was thought the state visit would take place in the autumn. But Trump has told May privately that he does not want to come if there will be big protests against him and no timetable has been announced for the visit.By Phil Richards

phil.richards@indystar.com

Robert Mathis is a rush linebacker, a gut-busting sack-meister, game-wrecker and the NFL's inaugural Deacon Jones Award winner. He's also the baby in a family of six and its mama's boy, and that's why the best football season of his life has not been without heartache.

Mathis' mother, Emma Lou, 69, was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus in May. She normally would have been in Indianapolis for perhaps five of the Indianapolis Colts' eight home games and most certainly their wild-card playoff game with the Kansas City Chiefs. She would have arrived the week before Christmas to begin turning out chicken gizzards and rice and Robert's other favorite dishes.

Not this year. She has stayed home in Atlanta, but Robert doesn't despair.

"Trust me, she's been at home


recovering and watching on TV and fussing at any O-lineman who knocks me to the ground," he said. "She's definitely been with me, just not physically."

Emma has undergone surgery, is in remission and doing well. She is Robert's superhero and role model. Throughout his youth she arose in the pre-dawn dark to say her prayers, then got her kids fed and off to school to spend her days cleaning the homes of Atlanta's affluent.

Robert's father drank. He was gone by the time Robert was 5 and dead by the time Robert was a sophomore at Alabama A&M. Emma qualified for welfare but never accepted it. She would arrive home nightly at 6 or 7, worn, weary but dignified.

If you want to know where Robert got it, look tothat boy," said Emma, who wasn't available for comment this week but spoke to Robert's adventures in a previous interview. "He'd be climbing trees, falling out of trees, jamming his neck. I'd be running him to the hospital: Scared me to death."

Maybe it's a proclivity of the super-gifted. Former Colts safety and 2007 NFL Defensive Player of the Year Bob Sanders, too, was a youth acrobat who leaped with neither inhibitions nor net. It wasn't enough to do somersaults and backflips. Like Mathis, Sanders did them from tree limbs, fence tops and garage roofs.

Demario Mathis, a deputy sheriff 13 months Robert's senior, was his "brother/best friend" and "partner in crime."

They were 6 and 7 when the landlord of the house they rented built a brick wall in the


yard. It was a sturdy and handsome wall but it had three issues: Robert, Demario and the pile of spare bricks left at its completion.

"The day he made it, that evening, me and my brother broke 'em up, just busted up the wall," Robert recalled. "We just grabbed a brick and broke the wall."

New England coach Bill Belichick calls Mathis "one of the most disruptive players in the league." He was disruptive early. Not a brick remained in place.

"We had no clue we were doing anything wrong," Mathis said. "We were just kids.

"Our mom, she had to pay for that and she gave us a good one. We definitely learned our lesson."

Drawing a bead

It's Mathis giving the spankings now. He has terrorized quarterbacks this season as never beforein a decorated, 11-year career.

His 19½ sacks set a franchise season record, led the NFL and earned the Deacon Jones Award. Sixteen of Mathis' sacks killed or helped kill opponents' drives. Two others forced field goals.

His eight forced fumbles led the league and he pushed his NFL record for strip/sacks to 42. Nearly 38 percent of his 111 career sacks have resulted in fumbles.

No wonder Patriots quarterback Tom Brady called him "one of the best players in the NFL" and ESPN analyst Trent Dilfer characterized him as a "game-wrecker."

"The NFL has very few game-wreckers and he's one of them," said Dilfer, who toiled 14 years as an NFL quarterback. "J.J. Watt is another one. DeMarcus Ware, when he's healthy, and (Geno) Atkins for Cincinnati before he got hurt


was one.

"There are a handful of game-wreckers where you have to take your entire game plan (and adapt it)."

Mathis has reached another level in this, his first season, at rush linebacker. He spent his first nine NFL seasons at left defensive end in a 4-3 scheme. He was a hand-in-the-dirt down lineman opposite the Colts' more celebrated right end, Dwight Freeney.

Mathis spent last season again opposite Freeney, at strong-side, or SAM, linebacker in the Colts 3-4. Mathis worked the tight end side and frequently dropped into coverage.

He has been turned loose this season with the decision to not re-sign Freeney. As rush 'backer, Mathis lines up bent over in a three-point stance or upright in a two-point stance. He sets up on the right side or the left,on the outside or the inside. Ninety-five percent of the time he is in launch mode: Get the quarterback.

Colts defensive coordinator Greg Manusky speculates that Mathis would have many more sacks than his team-record 111 had he played more rush linebacker.

Mathis shrugs. He is one to neither second guess nor harbor regrets. His mom was a choir member at Holy Temple Baptist Church. So was Robert. Like Emma, he believes things happen for a reason. He accepts them.

His size is one example. He has made it an asset. Mathis is listed at 6-2, 246 pounds, but he's unfailingly honest. He's 6-feet, even, he will tell you, and he uses it to advantage on the succession of 6-5, and 6-6, 300-plus-pound tackles he faces.

"In football, low man wins," said


Mathis, a six-time Pro Bowl player and eminent Defensive Player of the Year candidate. "If you get leverage, get in a better position than the blocker, you're going to win the majority of the time."

Mathis will be 33 next month but he's still raising his game. He is in the second season of a four-year, $36 million contract. Should he average 12 sacks over the two remaining seasons, he could threaten to join the NFL's top 10, although four active players are ahead of him: Minnesota's Jared Allen (age 30 and No. 12 with 128½ sacks), Chicago's Julius Peppers (32, 17th, 119) and Dallas' Ware (30, 18th, 117).

That's heady company for the 138th player taken in the 2003 draft. If you're looking for the best pick of formerColts president/vice chairman Bill Polian's distinguished career, you might stop here. Mathis was acquired with a fifth-round pick the Colts received for sending their 2004 fourth-round choice to the Houston Texans.

Showing the way

What Mathis has become is more than an exceptional player. Teammates such as quarterback Andrew Luck, inside linebacker Jerrell Freeman and defensive end Cory Redding stand in line to say playing with him is an honor.

"Great teammate," Luck said.

"Legend," Freeman attested.

"Better person than he is a football player," Redding avowed.

Redding is an 11-year veteran who was signed as a free agent from Baltimore in 2012 to set the edge and supply defensive leadership. He knew he wouldn't lead alone.

"We, as players, we talk," Redding said. "You text and you talk and you're on the phone. You


hear in other guys' locker rooms about other guys.

"The only thing that came out of this locker room was that Robert Mathis is a leader."

Mathis' devotion to team and teammates might best be expressed by his savage intensity. He is the quiet warrior who plays to the whistle every snap of every practice, every game.

During the third quarter of a Dec. 22 game against Houston, Mathis lined up across from the Texans' 6-4, 303-pound Duane Brown. It was Pro Bowl rusher against Pro Bowl tackle.

Brown engaged Mathis, worked his feet, rode Mathis deep into the end zone and seemingly well out of the play. Mathis just kept driving, churning. When quarterback Case Keenum held the football an instant too long, Mathis broke free, hit him, stripped him andcaused a safety.

"Bull----," spat Brown, who recovered in the end zone. Brown knew he had done everything right, and then some, but Mathis' dogged determination, a quality inherited from his mother, had won the battle within the war.

That kind of effort and those kinds of plays have characterized Mathis for 11 seasons.

That's why Colts coach Chuck Pagano gushes so.

"He's a selfless guy. He's a team guy. He's a horseshoe guy. He's a pillar guy," Pagano said. "He's going to be in that 'Ring of Honor' at some point when it's all said and done."

Given Mathis' team-first orientation, that would be a signal honor but his heart lies nearer home.

Rush linebacker, gut-buster, sack-meister and game-wrecker aren't the designations that truly define him. Husband and father are. Mathis is committed


to being the kind of husband his mother never had and the kind of father he never knew.

"My two most important titles," he said. "I definitely take it to heart and take it very seriously. My boys, they're my world."

Mathis skipped the 2012 Pro Bowl to stay home and the change diapers of his and wife Brandi's infant twin sons, who Thursday celebrated their second birthday. The boys were originally named for their father, Robert Nathan and Nathan Robert, but now go by Mason and Jason, the better to allow them seek "their own identities."

One needn't ask where Mathis' devotion originates.

"Straight from the top down," he said. "My mom, she's instilled in me and I'm going to instill it into my boys the best way I know how:Pope Francis is a different kind of pontiff, a friendly and humble Jesuit who loves to hang out on the corner with his people. But what's that bowl-pipe thing he carries around and frequently takes a hit off? It's a mate cup with a silver straw. And it's how you drink the caffeine-loaded "national infusion" of Francis' homeland, Argentina.

Here's the former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio hanging out in Buenos Aires on March 3, just 10 days before he was elected to be the new pope. Even after becoming Pope Francis, he still loves to wander the city like a regular dude in touch with the street.

Mate is made by brewing the dried leaves of yerba mate, which is a delightful South American herb. There's a silver straw/strainer, and a


traditional gourd for the cup—you may have seen annoying 1990s-style alt-hippies conspicuously slurping mate in Brooklyn or Silver Lake in recent years, but mate has been the hot drink of choice for South Americans for thousands of years. Here's the then-Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio in Buenos Aires back in 2009 with some unidentified friends.

When's a good time to enjoy a hit off your mate? Are you awake? Then now is a good time! Here's our cool new pope having his usual in October at the Vatican.

(Second photograph via Associated Press; other photographs via Getty Images.)no one left to speak with about him. As far as I know there's no one left alive who knew him, since he died well over sixty years ago. So, I'm left to wonder about his story.

My father didn't speak about his childhood much. When prompted he would share a story or two, but it never dawned on me that these stories didn't include any mention of his father. I do know he had a tough upbringing, as many did during the Depression. He did tell me that his father's second wife (he didn't call her his stepmother) was brutally abusive, causing him to run away from home as a young teenager. He was a tough man, a rugged product of hard times who didn't think in terms


save enough money to return home with a substantial nest egg that would guarantee a great future.

Everyone had heard the stories about America, and how she welcomed men from Italy with strong backs and willingness to work. Giuseppe had become something of a celebrity in Paolo's village outside of Atripalda, where Paolo would read Giuseppe's letters at family gatherings and in the shops where the men met to play cards and drink wine. Most men in the village were either too old or too young to give serious thought to traveling to America. The few men of Paolo's age were already struggling to feed their growing families, so coming up with the money for a voyage to America was out of the question.

When Paolo first mentioned his desirehard to simply collect the twenty dollars on which his commission was based. While he smiled and bowed his head subserviently when collecting his commission, he took great pleasure in knowing that he was likely earning much more money than the fools at the ship line who had hired him for this work.

One Sunday afternoon just two weeks after Paolo received Giuseppe's latest letter, a young man named Gerardo showed up at the café where Paolo was playing cards with his friends. After the shopkeeper pointed out where Paolo was sitting, Gerardo walked over. Gerardo was small and almost bird-like in appearance. His skeletal upper body was pitched forward at the waist as though he were leaning into a stiff wind. With his hands in his pockets, his


what he believed to be the total cost of the trip for two, wrapped tightly in a small leather pouch his mother had given him for his confirmation all those years ago. He felt compelled to keep one hand on the pouch at all times, and he switched it back and forth between pockets every so often, reassuring himself that the money was in fact still there.

As he approached Atripalda, the dusty, rocky terrain smoothed out and became more verdant. The rippling hillsides reminded him of the green velvet he'd seen his mother use to make a holiday cape for the statue of the village patron saint. The shallow valleys in between were thick with grape vines, with the near-black grapes shiny and plump in the early morningPietro, your departed father. My mission in life is helping people like you to better themselves. I am a fortunate man, blessed in so many ways. It is my duty to help others just as I was helped when I was young man."

Mentioning Paolo's father by name had exactly the effect Don Petrillo had expected. He knew he had won Paolo's trust, and that was always the most important first step in separating a _cafone_ like this from his money. Usually desperate and afraid, these young peasants ate up the fatherly attention. Petrillo smiled, thinking he could easily convince a simpleton like this to hand over all of his meager possessions for the trip to the "promised land", and that he was their best if not only source


purposefully. At that moment, if Paolo had been told that it would be over two years before they were reunited, he would have dropped his suitcase along with his plans for traveling to America.

Chapter 2

Newark, New Jersey

October 1910

"Your English is good and getting better every day, Paolo," Giuseppe said through a mouth stuffed with spaghetti. "And you, Giuseppe, you are a real ` _merigan',"_ chuckled Paolo, using the somewhat derogatory term that many years later might be translated as "wanna-be American." Swallowing loudly, Giuseppe said, "My name is Joe now; that's American for Giuseppe you know, you _cafone_. I've told you a hundred times, my name is Joe now! And you, your name is Paul, not Paolo. Paul and Joe Bellisano. I like the sound of that." Theyby the neatness and symmetry of the handwriting, although to his illiterate eye it might as well have been hieroglyphics. Resting a hand on Paolo's shoulder, he reached under the table, picked up and uncorked the jug. He reset the overturned glass, refilled it and said, "Drink some wine, Paul. Tell me what this thing is and how I can help you." Paolo stood abruptly, nearly upsetting his chair. He looked at Joe, shook his head, and walked out of the apartment with his head down so Joe couldn't see the tears running down his cheeks.

Paolo had been writing to Caterina at least once every week, sending her a dollar or two whenever he could work it into the stringent budget he'd worked out for himself. Caterina would


silence, she looked at Paolo and said, "but it seems like he's being paid a lot of money for such easy errands. I worry that there may be some bad connections that could put him in danger. And you two are so close, most people think you're brothers; you two even look alike! So, if he gets in trouble that could put us in danger," she said, staring into his eyes. Paolo took her hand. "Don't be so dramatic. You and the other women tell too many tales of the Camorra back on the other side. This is simply a local businessman who needs reliable help, and Joe is grateful for the chance to make the money. He'd never do anything to endanger our family, Caterina, you musthad delivered his last three children, along with dozens of others in the neighborhood over the past few years, and Paolo knew she often withstood forty-eight hour vigils without rest; so there had to be some other reason she was sending for help.

Caterina and stillborn baby Paolo both lie dead on the bed, deaf to the wails and cries of the two midwives. "The baby, he was strangled by the chord. Mamma, she have the bleeding I cannot stop. We could not save the baby or the mamma. Dio mio, dio mio," she repeated over and over. Paolo stood motionless, his first thought being that he should feel something; but he was numb. He didn't know how long he'd stood there, or who went to get Joe. He