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One of the biggest challenges for the Jaguars as they attempt to wash the stink of a 2-14 season off will be how they rebuild an offensive line.
Protecting their quarterback was a challenge, but new offensive coordinator Jedd Fisch said he was going to install a zone blocking scheme he learned while in Denver.
While that's great in theory, going to a style that involves cut blocks at a time when the league has promised to look more closely at dangerous low blocks by offensive linemen seems a curiously timed move.
"The rules have made it harder to do it as often,'' Fisch said, via Vito Stellino of the Florida Times-Union. "They're going to call more chop blocks. They're going to call more penalties if you're not a disciplined team doing it. If you're doing it legally, then that's fine.
"And you can't practice it. That's a big issue because you never want to do it to your own players.''
How or whether the Jaguars pull this off will be interesting to watch. Line play's going to be important, and if they can improve there, it might give them a chance to give Blaine Gabbert a fair chance to succeed (while they determine if he's any good or not).

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To go with my guessing game from last Thursday, I thought I'd post on Knox and Jefferson Davis. Sarah Knox Taylor Davis was the daughter of President Zachary Taylor and the first wife of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy (who while not a US President, still has an important place in US history). Zachary Taylor opposed this marriage because he didn't want his daughter to marry into army life, but she married Jefferson Davis anyway, apparently with her father's blessing as Davis had decided to resign from the army. You can read one of their courtship letters online. Sarah died shortly after her marriage and so never lived to see the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis was the only president of the Confederacy. What happened to him after the war ended?
What, exactly, happened in the case of The United States v. Jefferson Davis? Enough intrigues, maneuvers, plot twists, and changes of the political wind exist to fill a book (and it would make a good one). It is quite a complex matter, but the bottom line is that the case never went to trial and the indictments were dismissed. The proceedings dragged on into 1869, but Davis himself was only in the courtroom on two separate days.
Davis was captured by troops and held at a military base (Fort Monroe) in a state (Virginia) under martial law. Had he been linked to the Lincoln assassination, his trial would have taken place before a military tribunal, but the fabricated case connecting him to the assassination (the primary informant was convicted of perjury) fell apart before Davis was charged. The government soon decided that any trial for treason would have to be in a civil court, and in Virginia, the base of Davis' alleged treasonable activities, directing armed rebellion against the United States. Neither John C. Underwood, circuit court judge for the District of Virginia, nor Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, who presided over the circuit including the Virginia district, felt he had any authority as long as Davis was held by the military. Chase in particular wanted to avoid such dangerous legal waters, and he continued to find excuses to avoid hearing the case. Underwood's competence was questionable, and he was known to be overly zealous (he had bragged to a congressional committee in 1866 that he could pack a jury to insure a conviction), so Chase's presence was essential for a respectable verdict.
Because of the issues of military control of Davis' imprisonment, Chase refused to issue a writ of habeas corpus in June 1866, but almost a year later, in conjuction with an order to the military authorities from the president, a writ of habeas corpus brought Davis to Richmond to be transferred to the authority of the federal courts. He appeared before Underwood on May 13, 1867, bail was set at $100,000, and the bond was immediately posted. "Deafening applause" broke out in the courtroom when Davis was freed. Horace Greeley, one of a growing number of northerners who wanted the case settled so the country could get on with the healing process, had secured backing for the bond and personally guaranteed a quarter of it. He was in the courtroom that day and met Davis after his release.
After half a year with his family in Canada, Davis returned to Richmond in November 1867 for what was supposed to be the beginning of the trial. Court convened on the 26th, but Chase was not present, and the government asked for a postponement. Davis was released on his own recognizance, and the defense asked that some sort of consideration be given him so he would not be "subjected to a renewal of the inconvenience" of making the trip to Richmond if a trial was not going to be held. As it turned out, Davis would not have to appear in court again during any of the subsequent proceedings.
As time passed, many elements changed, and so did the players. U.S. attorneys general came and went (three different men were involved in the Davis case). Andrew Johnson was impeached and nearly convicted. And the 14th Amendment was passed and ratified. Johnson began to fear that if Davis were tried and acquitted--a very real possibility with a Virginia jury--he (Johnson) would be impeached again and removed from office. For a variety of reasons, no significant action was taken until after the 1868 election.
In an unusual twist, Chase made known to Davis' attorneys, a distinguished group of northern and southern litigators, his opinion that the third section of the 14th Amendment nullified the indictment against Davis. His contention was that by stripping the right to vote from high Confederate officials, a punishment for treasonable activities had been legislated, so Davis could not be punished again for the same crime. Davis' friends reminded his lawyers that Davis (who was in Europe and out of telegraphic range) wanted a trial because he saw it as an opportunity to vindicate both himself and the actions of the Confederacy, i.e. the constitutional right to secede. Davis' lawyers, however, pointed out that Davis' life was at stake, and there was a general agreement that they could not pass up the opportunity to arrange what they believed to be an honorable settlement. One of the attorneys later wrote Davis that the defense team also felt that if they could establish a precedent based on the 14th Amendment, it would lift the threat of prosecution for other Confederate leaders as well.
On November 30, 1868, Davis' lawyers filed a motion requiring that the government attorneys show cause why the indictment (the latest of at least four indictments which had been handed down with the same charge--another long story) should not be quashed. A hearing on the motion was held before Chase and Underwood on December 3-4, and on the 5th they announced their finding. The vote was split--Chase favoring laying aside the indictment, and Underwood, who had overseen the grand juries responsible for the indictment, wanting the case to be tried. Chase's anger with Underwood was obvious, and he stated for the record why he believed the 14th Amendment exempted Davis from further prosecution.
The certificate of division between Chase and Underwood was forwarded to the Supreme Court, and the indictment technically remained pending, but there would be no more action taken. It was clear that Chase would favor overturning a guilty verdict, making the government hesitant to proceed. The Davis case remained on the circuit court docket for February 15, 1869, but the government indicated at that time that it would not prosecute (nolle prosequi). The indictment was, therefore, dismissed, as were indictments against thirty-seven other ex-Confederates, including Robert E. Lee. Davis' lawyers contacted the Justice Department to make sure that other indictments against him in Washington and Tennessee were not going to be prosecuted.
You can also read about Davis' second wife, Varina Davis.
Now I'm also going to end with a question for you all - who was the US President who served in the Confederate Congress?
Monday, September 08, 2008
The Legal Fate of Jefferson Davis
Labels: American Civil War, Zachary Taylor
3 comments:
- tommcmahon said...
John Tyler?
John Tyler was my initial answer too, although I thought that he died before he could actually serve in the house. I cannot think of any other President who fits the bill though.
- Jennie W said...
John Tyler was who I was referring to - good job! Tyler died in 1862, so the Civil War was in full swing, but he did not live to see the conclusion.
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The beleaguered San Onofre nuclear power plant north of San Diego has been idle since January 2012 after the discovery of unsafe reactor conditions. The operator is now seeking approval to restart one of the plant's two reactors at 70% power for a five-month test. The plant's license expires in less than 10 years.
Overlooked in the concerns about the short-term future of San Onofre are the 1,400 tons of spent nuclear fuel stored at the coastal site. Regardless of the immediate dilemma, San Onofre is destined to follow in the footsteps of nine former nuclear power plants (including two in California) whose reactors are long gone, but whose waste remains stranded on site. There's nowhere else to put it.
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In 2010, after almost three decades of work and more than $15 billion spent, President Obama unilaterally shut down the proposed underground repository for nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nev. That repository would have provided long-term disposal, as well as possible retrievability of the waste in the event that a safe and economical reprocessing technology became available.


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Addison, J. A. and Howison, S. D. and King, J. R. (2006) Ray methods for free boundary problems. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, 64 . pp. 41-59.
Chapman, S. J. (2006) The Kelly criterion for spread bets. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 72 (1). pp. 43-51. ISSN 1464-3634
Chapman, S. J. and Vanden-Broeck, J. (2006) Exponential asymptotics and gravity waves. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 567 . pp. 299-326. ISSN 0022-1120
Colijn, Caroline and Fowler, A. C. and Mackey, Michael C. (2006) High frequency spikes in long period blood cell oscillations. J. Math. Biol., 53 . pp. 499-519.
Cropp, Roger and Norbury, John (2006) Investigations into a plankton population model: Mortality and its importance in climate change scenarios. Ecological Modelling . (In Press)
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Drobnjak, Ivana and Fowler, A. C. and Mackey, Michael C. (2006) Oscillations in a maturation model of blood cell production. SIAM J. Appl. Math., 66 (6). pp. 2027-2048.
Evatt, G. W. and Fowler, A. C. and Clark, C. D. and Hulton, N. (2006) Subglacial floods beneath ice sheets. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc., 364 . pp. 1769-1794.
Flach, E. H. and Schnell, S. and Norbury, John (2006) Limit cycles in the presence of convection, a first order analysis. Journal of Mathematical Chemistry . (In Press)
Flach, E. H. and Schnell, S. and Norbury, John (2006) Turing pattern outside of the Turing domain. Applied Mathematics Letters . (In Press)
Hambly, B. M. and Metz, V. and Teplyaev, A. (2006) Self-similar energies on p.c.f. self-similar fractals. Journal of the London Mathematical Society, 74 . pp. 93-112.
Haworth, Helen and Reisinger, Christoph (2006) Modeling basket credit default swaps with default contagion. Journal of Credit Risk . (Submitted)
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Kozyreff, G. and Chapman, S. J. (2006) Asymptotics of large bound states of localized structures. Physical Review Letters, 97 (4). 044502. ISSN 0031-9007
Lee, M. E. M. and Kozyreff, G. and Howell, P. D. and Ockendon, H. (2006) A model for the break-up of a tuft of fibers. Physics Review E . (In Press)
Lee, M. E. M. and Ockendon, H. (2006) The transfer of fibres in the carding machine. Journal of Engineering Mathematics .
Little, Max and McSharry, Patrick E. and Moroz, Irene M. and Roberts, Stephen J. (2006) Testing the assumptions of linear prediction analysis in normal vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119 (1). pp. 549-558.
Marchant, Ben P. and Norbury, John and Byrne, H. M. (2006) Biphasic behaviour in malignant invasion. Mathematical Medicine and Biology, 23 (3). pp. 173-196.
Norbury, John and Girardet, Christophe (2006) Gradient flow reaction/diffusion models in phase transitions. In: Dissipative Phase Transitions. Series on Advances in Mathematics for Applied Sciences, 71 . World Scientific. ISBN 981-256-650-3
Novokshanov, R. and Ockendon, J. R. (2006) Elastic-Plastic Modelling of Shaped Charge Jet Penetration. Proceedings of Royal Society of London A . pp. 1-21. ISSN 2006-1751
Ockendon, J. R. and Arinaminpathy, N. and Allen, J. (2006) Modelling an isolated dust grain in a plasma using matched asymptotic expansions. Plasma Physics . pp. 1-18. (In Press)
Taylor, J. W. and de Menezes, L. M. and McSharry, P. E. (2006) A comparison of univariate methods for forecasting electricity demand up to a day ahead. International Journal of Forecasting, 22 (1). pp. 1-16.


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(CNN) -- A polygamist sect is planning an event today to mark the first anniversary of a raid in which more than 400 children were removed from its Texas ranch.
A child is placed on a bus during last year's raid at the Yearning for Zion ranch in Texas.
Nearly all the children seized April 3, 2008, from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' compound, the Yearning for Zion Ranch, were returned to their parents months later.
The Texas Supreme Court ended a legal battle by ruling the state had no right to remove the children because there was no evidence they faced imminent danger of abuse.
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or FLDS, will hold a "gathering" at Fort Concho in San Angelo, Texas, to commemorate the anniversary, according to a posting on a Web site supporting the sect.
The raid was among several events that thrust the FLDS, a secretive and isolated offshoot of the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, into the spotlight. The 10,000-member sect openly practices polygamy in the twin border towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona; on the ranch outside of Eldorado, Texas; and on compounds in Canada and Mexico.
Critics of the FLDS say underage girls are forced into "spiritual" marriages with older men and sexually assaulted. But FLDS members say that no sexual abuse takes place and that they are being persecuted for their religious beliefs.
Texas' Child Protective Services agency said the children were removed because in interviews at the ranch, it uncovered a "pervasive pattern" of sexual abuse through forced marriages between young girls and older men. Young boys at the ranch, officials said, were groomed to be perpetrators through the sect's beliefs.
However, the Texas Supreme Court let stand a lower court's ruling that the children's removal was unwarranted.
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, which oversees the Child Protective Services division, said in a December report on the case that it "is about sexual abuse of girls and children who were taught that underage marriages are a way of life. It is about parents who condoned illegal underage marriages and adults who failed to protect young girls -- it has never been about religion."
Following the raid, the authenticity of the initial calls that prompted it was questioned. Police said that a family shelter crisis line received multiple calls in the days before the raid from a caller claiming to be Sarah Jessop Barlow, age 16. The girl reported that she had an 8-month-old baby and was pregnant again, and that she was married to a Dale Barlow, who abused her physically and sexually.
At least one of the telephones used by "Sarah Barlow" to make the calls has been traced to a Colorado woman. Police have named Rozita Swinton a person of interest in connection with the reports of abuse at the ranch, but she has not been charged. However, Swinton, who court documents allege has a history of making false reports of sexual abuse to police and other agencies, is facing charges of providing a false report to authorities in an unrelated case.
The FLDS first became known to many when Warren Jeffs, its leader and "prophet," was arrested in August 2006. At the time, Jeffs was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list and was wanted in Utah and Arizona.
After a highly publicized trial in Utah, Jeffs was convicted in September on two counts of being an accomplice to rape. He was accused of using his religious influence over his followers to coerce a 14-year-old girl into marrying her 19-year-old cousin. He was sentenced to two consecutive prison terms of five years to life.
Jeffs is jailed in Arizona, awaiting trial on four charges of being an accomplice to sexual conduct with a minor. He was facing charges of sexual assault of a child in Texas when he was indicted last year on a first-degree felony count of aggravated sexual assault. Some FLDS members were also indicted on charges including conducting the unlawful marriage of a minor, bigamy and evidence tampering.
One child initially removed from the ranch, then returned, has been taken back into foster care. The child, a 14-year-old girl believed to have married Jeffs, was taken into state custody in August after child protection officials alleged her parents did not take measures to limit her contact with men involved in underage marriages. Court proceedings are scheduled for September to determine whether she will remain in state custody permanently. She is the only child from the ranch still in foster care.
The mainstream Mormon church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, renounced polygamy a century ago.
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Aired December 23, 2001 - 05:00 ET
SORIOUS SAMURA, NARRATOR (voice-over): In the year 2000 my fame (ph) cried Freetown, at last brought the war's attention to the suffering of thousands of people in a brutal civil war in my country, Sierra Leone. As a cameraman, I have witnessed a terrible war where children were both the victims and the abusers. Thousands were abducted by Foday Sankoh and his rebel army, the RUF, drugged, abused, and turned into killers.
These children became the rebel's most efficient killers. And for most of the last 10 years, bands of them have terrorized my country. The rebels even had a name for them: SBUs -- Small Boy Units.
So now I have come back to find out what really happened to these children, and to try to understand how and why so many of them were driven to kill.
After 10 years of civil war, there is now peace in Sierra Leone, supported by the United Nations. But two-thirds of the country is still controlled by the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front. As part of the peace agreement, nearly 7,000 child soldiers have been freed by the RUF and, with the help of special charities, reunited with their parents. No one knows how many remain to be released.
The charities have allowed me to return three children back to their families, but will the rebels release these kids, and are the children themselves ready to return?
Sierra Leone is a small west African state of about 4 million people. It achieved its independence from Britain in 1961. What started as a movement against injustice and corruption turned into a civil war and since 1991 that war has become has become a struggle for my country's gold and diamonds between the rebels of the RUF and the government.
This has left Sierra Leone completely divided. I'm now traveling from Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, to Makeni, the headquarters of the rebel forces.
(on camera): Down there beyond those hills is RUF country. Until recently, anyone who sets foot here does so only with the RUF permission or at their own risk. But now the U.N. are here and it's supposed to be safe.
(voice-over): Even with the peace process, people are frightened to travel these roads. Everyone is still nervous because of the RUF's occasional rapes and ambushes. Makeni was once a thriving market town, but in 1998, the RUF invaded here with the help of renegade soldiers from the Sierra Leone army. Everyone who lived here fled and now it's the RUF's headquarters in the whole of Sierra Leone.
We have been sent here by Karetas (ph), the agency responsible for getting abducted children back to their families, to meet Mukseen Cece (ph). Mukseen is going to RUF headquarters to negotiate for the release of some children. Whichever kids the RUF choose to release now will be the ones I go back with -- back to the homes and families they were taken from.
(on camera): Mukseen is now meeting with the RUF commander. He's done this before. He's a very impressive man. He's one of my heroes in Sierra Leone at the moment. He was an RUF commander, but the plight of the children got to him, so he left the RUF and he started to (UNINTELLIGIBLE) the commanders to release the children. Since then, he's been responsible for the release of over 1,000 children.
(voice-over): Mukseen has had a successful meeting. We have now been giving permission from the RUF to go to two houses in the outskirts of Makeni to pick up two of the children from one home and one child from the other.
We are now heading for the area where most of the young fighters live. They share houses here together like substitute families in place of the real ones they have left behind. Two boys live in this first house we are going to, both are now 18. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) how will we get on with these kids? Children who have been abducted, drugged, even forced to eat raw gunpowder to make them so violent they would kill. I want to be able to understand what's happened to them.
(on camera) (translated on screen): T-Boy. Who is T-Boy? Are you the T-Boy? Do you know how to play football?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (translated on screen): Yes, T-Boy. Hello. Sasko Sasko!
SMAURA: Osas.
(translated on screen): You've made me remember another Osas. How do you do?
SAMURA (voice-over): Everyone who lives in this house is under the control of one commander. The women were abducted to become his wives and mothers to the children, and the boys to be his soldiers. So there we can only take two people from this house. The rest will have to wait and pray for their commander to release them.
(on camera): I thank you very much, and we do hope we'll able to find their people and reunite them. Thank you very much. (voice-over): Whatever they have done together, for the boys this has been their close family through the years of war. They have fought together and nearly died together on more than one occasion.
Sahr Simbo was 15 when he was captured by the RUF and forced to fight in and around Makeni. There he met up with his father, a former government soldier who had also been captured and forced to fight for the RUF. But his father escaped, changed sides and ended up fighting with the Sierra Leone army against the RUF and his son.
(on camera): What would you have done if you had come against your father in a fight?
SAHR SIMBO (SASKO) (translated on screen): Well that, one doesn't think about because once your given -- once they've drugged you that's it. You don't think about anything else. You don't remember about family. You don't remember about nothing.
SAMURA (voice-over): At the age of eight, Tamba Fengai was abducted from his village in the east of Sierra Leone. That was 10 years ago. As well as taking Tamba, they took his mother and an older brother.
(on camera): Did your mother see you before she was taken away?
TAMBA FENGAI (translated on screen): Yes, we were all captured together with my mother.
SAMURA (translated on screen): They captured you and your mother?
FENGAI: Yes.
SAMURA (translated on screen): Where is your mother now?
FENGAI (translated on screen): My mother, she is dead in Guinea. At the time, they took us to their base. She kept worrying and then she died.
SAMURA (voice-over): We traveled to another part of Makeni to pick up the third child. We found her at another rebel house in the outskirts. Her name is Mariama Conteh, and she is quieter than the boys, more troubled. Mariama was 7 years old when she was captured by the RUF and forced to become a domestic slave. Although she says she wants to leave with us, she seems very confused.
(on camera) (translated on screen): Don't you want to stay with your family again?
MARIAMA CONTEH (translated on screen): I want to stay with them.
SAMURA: But you still want to go back to the rebels in Makeni? Why?
CONTEH (translated on screen): The woman in charge had given me orders that even I see my family I must not stay with them. I should go back.
SAMURA (voice-over): Now we'll try and find their families, wherever they are.
SAMURA (voice-over): We have completed the first part of our mission, to return three abducted children to their families. Next, we are taking them to a children's care center, Karetas in government- held Port Loko. This center is a halfway house. The children are counseled and told what is now expected of them back in normal society, while investigators try and find their families.
Mariama doesn't want to talk. It is now becoming clear to me that, like many children who have been abducted, the RUF has a magnetic attraction for her. The rebels have been the only family she knows; suddenly everything is unfamiliar.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (translated on screen): Please stop crying. In this place we're all the same. We know it wasn't your wish. Don't worry. Feel free. We'll take care of you.
SAMURA: The boys who come to this child protection camp all have to have their heads shaved. The care workers here see this as an initiation ceremony to mark the boy's return to normal society. For Sasko, it's not an enjoyable experience. He left the RUF as a sergeant, and is used to more respect.
Sasko did much of his fighting in the bush. And as he showed me where he fought, he told me more about those days in the RUF. All child soldiers are forced to take a special oath of secrecy and loyalty. They are led to believe that a black magic curse will injure them if they talk.
(on camera) (translated on screen): What actually happens when you go to these villages to commandeer the people and tell you to join them, if they refuse what do you do to them?
SASKO (translated on screen): Those who are lucky, we beat them and leave them. Those who are lucky sometimes they cut their hands off. Sometimes they shoot them and kill them. The rest, if we've demonstrated with three or four, the other ones would be afraid.
SAMURA (translated on screen): During these demonstrations and to believe that, though it's not your fault, you also took part in some of these demonstrations?
SASKO (translated on screen): No. I didn't take part, but if they gave me one to execute I'd do it. But to say I'll use a machete, chop hand or foot, no.
SAMURA (translated on screen): Well, at that time you were young. Growing up, you didn't know about killing. The first time when you began killing, then you started executing after that, how were you feeling? Were you enjoying it? Like a small boy, were you making fun of it?
SASKO (translated on screen): Well the first time I was given one, I was so afraid, so mad. When they gave me one at first, they then took something and they said I should tie my face, and then they gave me the barrel and cocked it. Then they put it in front of me and said I should fire. After I fired it, then they took it off my face. When I saw it, I feel so bad. Right through that night I was unable to sleep. I was confused.
SAMURA (voice-over): How on earth do you find the parents of fallen children in the mess of a war-torn country? This time we were very lucky. Sasko had told us that the last news he had heard about his father was that he was at a Sierra Leone army base in or near Port Loko, so we asked around in the Karetas camp, and someone knew him.
It's been a strange war for Sergeant Simbo, Sasko's father. He was a rebel, but now he's returned to join the new Sierra Leone Army backed by the British. It's a new, more professional army that is supposed to provide jobs for ex-RUF fighters. I hope they remain loyal.
(on camera) (translated on screen): Sahr, we are going to find your daddy, so I would like you to brace yourself to see your daddy -- hear me?
(voice-over): Sasko told me that he thought I was about to hand him over to the soldiers of the Sierra Leone army, his sworn enemies only a few short months ago.
(on camera) (translated on screen): You really want to see this now?
SASKO: Yes.
SAMURA (translated on screen): OK, let's go.
(voice-over): It's been two years since Sasko had seen his dad.
Sasko is a tough character. He's survived brutality, feared for his life many times, and had to (UNINTELLIGIBLE) by his comrades as a traitor. He's going to require even more strength to move forward to a new life outside the RUF.
With families divided by wars, it's difficult for parents. They must try and raise their children who have been so damaged by their experiences.
SASKO (translated on screen): Where is my older sister now? Have you still not heard about her?
PA SIMBO (translated on screen): I've still not heard about her, except I have asked my white officers for us to go to Koidu, to go find out about them. But it's all up to God. I'm praying to God. My mama has been killed. I have no other family. God will help us.
SAMURA (on camera) (translated on screen): The people who abducted your son, how do you feel about them?
SIMBO (translated on screen): Well, it's a war, so I won't blame anybody. If it wasn't because of the war nobody would dare take my kids. I will look after them carefully.
SAMURA (translated on screen): What do you want to happen to Sahr now?
SIMBO (translated on screen): I want to take Sahr back as my son, send him to school so he can learn an occupation because he's only my son, my only hope.
SAMURA (voice-over): And then there were two.
SAMURA: We took Tamba and Mariama to Freetown to the home of a good friend of mine, Mrs. Mani and her family. Mrs. Mani is the wife of a paramount chief of Koidu, where both children were abducted from. And as is traditional in my country, she has an obligation to all the people from her area. Her home has become a haven for people from Koidu, and she is part of the hope in my country.
MRS. MANI (translated on screen): Mariama and Tamba, I know they weren't glad to go with these people. They too belong to a family, so that's why, with all my heart, I received them.
SAMURA (on camera) (translated on screen): But how were you able to get them to relax and mix and play with all your children?
MRS. MANI (translated on screen): You know children are children. Children have no boundaries. If they were adult they would be reserved. But we all know we were in a war. And all of us who were running, trying to escape, we knew that even our own children were being forced, they were caught and forced to do things that they didn't want to do.
SAMURA (voice-over): Children like Sasko, Mariama and Tamba have played their part in the latest phase of the civil war. But children have always been involved, and I was one of them.
This is the Methodist Boy's High School in Freetown, and it's where I went to school. I learned many things here, and a lot of it wasn't on the school curriculum.
In my day, a teacher could fail you in your exams if you didn't have them form a relationship with a girl on the streets they've taken a liking to. We had our first lessons in power and how it corrupts. And for most of us who didn't have power in those days, we were all potential candidates for a revolution. When they took away free education, many of us got together to talk and demonstrate. Then other young people who had dropped out of school joined in, and very soon we were a movement.
(on camera): Then, a former corporal of the Sierra Leone Army started walking together with the youth leaders. He encouraged them to turn protests into battles, and protesters into fighters.
That was the beginning of the Revolutionary United Front.
(voice-over): When I was at school, Cleo Hanciles was one of the most influential lecturers at Frahbi (ph) College in Freetown. He had a big effect on the students there. In fact, he was one of the founders of the movement that was later to be hijacked by the RUF.
Cleo had helped lead a movement aimed at peaceful change, so he remembers only too well when all started going wrong when that former corporal in the Sierra Leone Army, Foday Sankoh, volunteered to serve as the military leader.
CLEO HANCILES: I knew that (UNINTELLIGIBLE) movement we are finished. Then (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Foday Sankoh. I mean I didn't know him. Definitely something went wrong -- seriously wrong. And I think every (UNINTELLIGIBLE) here who was involved in that -- at that time in organization, we are -- should be very, very, very ashamed that what started off as a noble -- very, very noble patriotic intention degenerated to such despicable level of (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
SAMURA: For his part in a failed coup, Corporal Sankoh spent seven years in this prison. I wonder, was it here that he devised his cruel plan to build a brutal army out of children stolen from their parents' arms?
These pictures were taken 15 years after his release in 1993. By then he had hijacked the well-intention movement I was part of at school and changed it into the Revolutionary United Front, the RUF.
Compared to our innocent ideas as children, it was a monster.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Take care of the children. Take care of them all. We'll fight to the last man.
SAMURA: The RUF tactics involved cutting off hands and indiscriminate killing. And often these crimes were done by children; children who had been abducted, drugged and trained to become the most vicious, mindless killers in Corporal Sankoh's army. Using abducted children as soldiers was something the RUF and Foday Sankoh not only admitted, but also was proud of.
FODAY SANKOH (translated on screen): You know these are small, small boys. Some I trained; some of them were like this. They said they were going to join me. I trained them because they wanted to fight. You'll see them small, small ones.
SAMURA: And as if this wasn't bad enough, the people who came to protect the innocent from Sankoh and his children's army began abusing children too.
And so there came a time when this country was one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a kid. Peacekeepers, government soldiers and civil defense forces suspected all children of being rebels. And all this in a rich country full of diamonds and gold. And yet we were poorer for it.
Now it's time to take Tamba back home.
SAMURA (voice-over): Tamba remembers he was abducted from a village in the east of Sierra Leone, so we are on a journey back into rebel country to Koidu, where the diamond mines are, and where the rebels quickly took over when the war began 10 years ago.
On the way, we pass through villages and towns that have seen massive destruction and killings. No one was there to count the casualties. Killings often done by children.
We have stopped at a village where Tamba was once stationed. His Small Boy Unit was responsible for defending the village from attack. Mostly it was quiet until one day local defense forces launched an assault on their position.
What Tamba told me about what happened in the village is the most terrible story I have ever heard from a child. This is terrorism that has not just happened and is now over; it's with Tamba and all the children who have experienced this for the rest of their lives.
How do you close the doors that should never have been opened in these children's minds?
Tamba told me how his group had found civilians who had been captured by the enemy. They forced the civilians to show them where the civil defense people were hiding.
TAMBA (translated on screen): This is the place. We killed some of them here. We burned them, we put tires on them.
SAMURA (translated on screen): So you burned the people here. Now listen Tamba, how do you feel? What were you doing? What was your role at the time?
TAMBA (translated on screen): At that time I was dancing. We were dancing and advancing.
SAMURA (translated on screen): Were you shooting? Were you killing?
TAMBA (translated on screen): Yes. We were shooting, advancing. We were shouting. We were happy and we were clapping. We were shooting and some of them were running, but we caught them.
SAMURA (translated on screen): You were not killing at first?
TAMBA (translated on screen): No.
SAMURA (translated on screen): How did you manage to get the mind to kill?
TAMBA (translated on screen): When they caught us (my family) and took us to Koidu, I saw plenty of dead bodies and I was afraid. in fact, they almost killed my mother, saying, "Why are you afraid?" Then they took me away from my mother. My mother was alone. So they took me then with my elder brother and trained us. They gave us gunpowder and we ate it. They put some other medicine in it and that gave us the mind to be able to kill.
After that they caught somebody and gave me that person to kill, and I killed them. The blood, I also took it. They said I should rub it on my eyes, and I did it. That gave me the mind to kill.
SAMURA (translated on screen): Didn't you feel bad or feel sorry for them?
TAMBA (translated on screen): No.
SAMURA (translated on screen): Why not?
TAMBA (translated on screen): Because at the time the gunpowder was working on me.
SAMURA (translated on screen): Today, you're looking around this area. You're looking here. You know you burned some bodies here and you've come back here today. Tell me, what does it look like, Tamba?
TAMBA (translated on screen): Let God forgive me.
SAMURA (translated on screen): It is not your fault, yes? God will forgive you. Me myself understand. It's not your fault.
(voice-over): Onwards to Koidu, where 10 years ago Tamba was abducted. There used to be a town here, but they have dug up the buildings to get at the diamonds underneath. At least Tamba seems happy to be back home.
We're here in the down of Koidu to find out where Tamba's village is. It's been a long time since Tamba was home, and we don't know if his father is still there.
In the end, this was what the war was all about. At first, the RUF sold diamonds they found here to fund their war, and some of those diamonds ended up in the top jewelry stores of America and Europe. Now individual commanders coerce the miners to dog for their own personal wealth. Whatever dreams of real change the RUF had, they ended here in greed in the diamond fields of Koidu.
(on camera) (translated on screen): I heard you say that this place is a promised land. For eight years, you have been digging and you have still not got this promise. When are you hoping to get this promise?
JOSEPH KOROMA, DIAMOND MINER (translated on screen): Well I almost, had it not been for the war, I should not have been like this. You do get it, but sometimes they take it from you, so you won't be able to plan.
SAMURA (translated on screen): Who takes it from you?
KOROMA (translated on screen): The time -- the time that we were fighting. You understand what I mean? During RUF and Civil Defense -- because of war.
SAMURA (translated on screen): Now that we're digging all over this place, where are we going to stay tomorrow?
KOROMA (translated on screen): Well, because we don't have any other work, that's why we're doing this.
SAMURA: This is what it's all about. It doesn't matter whether this place is all holes. I mean, it's just that there is no education. And if there is no education, what else is left for him, except to dig?
And the question is, what future have these young people digging for themselves? What future are they digging for the people of Koidu and the people of Sierra Leone?
(voice-over): But we must get back to the search for Tamba's father. In the market of Koidu, I ask around for directions to the village from where Tamba was taken. It has been a long journey. But for Tamba, he seems more excited of meeting his old friends on the roadside than finding his dad.
Tamba has now become quiet and reserved. For him, the reunification with his father and his younger brother is clearly strange and uncomfortable. I have noticed how he talks about his old friends in the RUF. I don't think his heart is here with his family.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (translated on screen): As the rebels entered, they shot down people for no good reason, so I took to the heels. Killed dozens of people here. They cut out the throat of some people. They shot some people down. So we took to our heels. They burned down houses. So, a lot of atrocities.
SAMURA (on camera) (translated on screen): How long will it take for you to settle in the family again?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (translated on screen): Long time.
TAMBA (translated on screen): That would be a long time.
SAMURA (translated on screen): A long time?
(voice-over): as I prepare to leave Tamba with his family, I'm not sure he will stay. This area is still in RUF control. And after the years he has spent fighting with the rebels, I wonder if he will be tempted to rejoin them.
SAMURA (voice-over): I have come back to Freetown. It is here that Corporal Sankoh returned in 1999 as the victor. When the man responsible for the abuse of Sasko, Tamba, Mariama and thousands of others returned, he arrived not as a rebel, but as chairman of our minerals and mines, and with the status of a vice president.
At peace talks, his military successes have been transformed into government boasts for him and for other RUF officials. His new home in Freetown was a long way from the bush, where he spent 10 long years on his campaign for power.
(on camera): When Corporal Foday Sankoh set up his office here, as the newly appointed chairman for the commission for the management of strategic resources, he must have thought that he and his movement had achieved true victory.
From this place, he controls the island's vast gold and diamonds. He had his hands on the purse strings. And all of the killings, and all of -- all the innocents that had gone before, must have seemed justified to him, because at the big peace conference in Loma (ph) which gave him this job, the big and powerful players in the outside world, like America and Britain, supported his appointment.
And the lesson -- the message of all of us in Sierra Leone learned then was to understand very well that might appears to be right, and that those prepared to be ruthless tend to get what the want.
(off-camera): But Sankoh's privileges did not last for long. In May, 2000, Sankoh's bodyguards opened fire on a demonstration and killed 15 protesters. U.N. soldiers captured some of the bodyguards, but Sankoh escaped. Two weeks later, a Sierra Leonean soldier on the streets in Freetown arrested him.
Today, Foday Sankoh is back in prison. No one apart from senior government officials, knows where he is. A fragile peace agreement has been negotiated for Sierra Leone, and the people here are trying to recover as best they can, despite the memories of death, amputations, and the abduction of their children.
Now it's time to take Mariama back home. Mariama has been staying with Mrs. Mani while we took Tamba to Koidu. She's made some friends, but she's still quiet, and I'm concerned for her.
It was a confusing time finding Mariama's mother. At first, we thought we she was in Koidu, but after three weeks of frustration, social workers found her in Freetown running a market store. Mariama seems distant at the meeting, and it leaves me wondering if it was right to take her away from the rebels.
(on camera) (translated on screen): Did you ever think that you would see her again?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This one? I not remember, not think of that. God bless you all.
SAMURA (translated on screen): Are you crying? Thank God you've seen them. I told you that we weren't bad people, yes?
MARIAMA (translated on screen): Yes.
SAMURA (translated on screen): You sure? You don't want to go again? You want to stay here with your family, your people? Will you be able to be patient with them because you have been away from them for too long. You'll be able to be patient with them? Will you also be patient with her? You know what she has been through.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (translated on screen): We understand. Blood is blood.
SAMURA (translated on screen): Blood is blood, but...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Now that we have seen her, we know how we feel.
SAMURA (translated on screen): What sort of future will this child face now that she has come back to you?
PA SORIE MAKOMBO, MARIAMA'S GRANDFATHER (translated on screen): The future she will face? Now as she is, I don't have any other future for her. As she is, if somebody wants her, OK. As she is with me, if nobody wants her I'll look after her. Whatever I feel like doing, I will do it.
SAMURA (voice-over): All three children are reunited. Now we'll leave them time to get to know their families again before we come back to see how they are all getting on.
SAMURA (voice-over): The three children we met are trying to adjust to their new lives. Two weeks after we left him, we made one last journey to the east, to find Tamba and see how he was settling back with his family. His father wants him to go back to school, but everything is destroyed, including the schools.
TAMBA (translated on screen): I want to be a big man. The kind of big man I want to be, when I talk, people listen. That's the kind of dream I was having.
SAMURA (translated on screen): How are you going to achieve that status to be the kind of big man that people will respect and listen to? How will you do that without proper education?
TAMBA (translated on screen): Well, that was spoiled by the rebels. Because if it wasn't for them I would've been a better person. With the help of God. But all the same, I want to learn again.
SAMURA (voice-over): Two weeks after we took him back to his father, Sasko is busy catching up. With the help of his father, his dream is coming true. He's now being trained as a builder. He and is father have both been involved in the war. They've shared enough experience to be able to support each other.
And then there was Mariama. As distant as ever, when we met for the last time. Mariama was clearly not happy. I wondered again if we should not have left her in Makeni, with the people she has spent most of her life with. Like so many thousands of children in my country, she's bought by this war. We can do all the obvious things to help them, but in the end they must forgive us all for allowing what happened to happen to them.
There may be a peace process in Sierra Leone, and Foday Sankoh arrested and imprisoned, but many of the same circumstances that brought about this horrible revolution are still here. Education doesn't get priority. Still, large numbers of children don't go to school and don't see any hope for the future. And now the boys on the side of the streets have new ideas -- ideas we certainly didn't have when we were growing up.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (translated on screen): Somebody like me, if you open my heart right now, it's "Britain" that's written in there. We need white people like the British, yes, because they can do better for us.
SAMURA (on camera) (translated on screen): How come we can't look after ourselves except if the white man comes and looks after us?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (translated on screen): Well, it's because we don't like each other. There's no truth, no love. How will we be able to change ourselves, when there is no truth, no love? You hate this man and he hates the other man. You don't want to see the other man prosper. If this man is earning there, you try to destroy him.
SAMURA (voice-over): I was really surprised to hear this, that we have all given up on ourselves. I just don't want to believe it. But most of the people here agreed.
(on-camera): People here have fought and died and lived and wondered, and many of them simply want to forget about this senseless war. But the question now is: How sure are we that this is not going to happen again, when we still continue to imagine the lies, neglect, and disrespect our young people, the very foundation we all rely on for a decent future?
(voice-over): And Tamba (UNINTELLIGIBLE) after only a short time with his father and brother, he has returned to Freetown. With no school and no prospects in Koidu, Tamba and his dad made a big decision. Tamba asked to come back to Mrs. Mani to go to school, and she has agreed.
MRS. MANI (translated on screen): You are family now, yes? So please make sure you do well. They are ready to help you. We're all going to help you. Yes? For you to get a decent life, so you'll be a big man in the future, yes? So we'll be proud of you, yes?
SAMURA: And will there be peace in Sierra Leone? Only if we march from the shadow of all this evil. There are so many traumatized children trying to live a normal life. Our future depends on them.
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A team of scientists has been carefully studying changes over time in one type of immune cell – known as a T helper 17 or Th17 cell. Their analysis led them to an unlikely suspect in the study of autoimmune diseases: salt.
In this video, seven team members from the Broad Institute's Klarman Cell Observatory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, MIT, and Harvard University describe how their approach led them to this unexpected result.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Jon Whitcomb: at the U.N.
"Even though Whitcomb 'knocked out' the figures in his column compared with those his story illustrations, they show the same glamour and much of the same flair. I think that he was incapable of drawing a less than beautiful girl or handsome man. Even his Arthur Godfrey looks close to handsome."
To which I must add, its the fact that the art in Whitcomb's columns are 'knocked out' that gets my juices flowing! As accomplished as Whitcomb's story illustrations are, I've always found them to be a little ... overwrought. A bit too perfect -- and subsequently, a little static.
The work Whitcomb produced for these Cosmo articles shows a keen sense of simplicity and their stripped down appearance lends them a wonderful vitality!
They contain the energy of a first stage rough - an energy many of us who work in illustration feel is lost by the time we get to the finished product.
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I agree with your assessment 100%, Leif. It may be true that Whitcomb was incapable of drawing a woman that wasn't pretty, and it may also be true that his glossy, sugar coated style was wildly popular with magazine readers, but in my view he could not hold a candle artistically to peers such as Joe de Mers, Coby Whitmore or Joe Bowler.ReplyDelete
As popular and as wealthy as Whitcomb became, I don't think his art got much respect from the acomplished illustrators of his day. Every once in a while I see a very good, serious piece of illustration from Whitcomb, so we know he was capable of it. Apparently, he got motivated in response to taunts from Robert Fawcett and others.
Although I revere Robert Fawcett's talent, I have heard he was a bit of a prickly personality. I wonder how he 'taunted' Whitcomb. I do think these sketches, while not particulaly remarkable, are fresher than a lot of Whitcomb's stuff. What a slick customer he was -- his writing has the same gloss that his illustrations do.ReplyDelete
Transferring the energy from a rough to the finished product-- yes, this can be an issue. It is something that my students often find difficult to deal with. It's sort of a balancing act, walking on the razor's edge if you will. Likely this is what art directors mean when they say that they want an illustration to be "loose but tight"!ReplyDelete


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The following crimes are from the week of Dec. 9 to Dec. 15, 2012.
Dec. 10. 8400 block St. Martin's Lane. Complainant states that between 5 p.m. on Nov. 30 and 8 a.m. on Dec. 3, someone stole an industrial welder bolted to a movable green trailer.
Dec. 13. 7700 block Crittenden Street. Complainant states that offender was observed putting the following items into pocket and then leaving store. Taken was a General Electric camera, one Vivitar camera, one Digital Tablet and an Alcatel One Touch cell phone with case.
Dec. 13. Valley Green Inn and 7 Valley Green Road. Complainant states that she locked her vehicle at 2:45 p.m. and went for a walk, returning at 3:40 p.m. During that time someone broke the passenger side window to her 2008 Honda. Taken was a small black bag containing a TruMark debit card, one TruMark credit card, one backpack, one book and sunglasses.
Dec. 13. 8600 block Germantown Ave. Complainant states she was inside coffee shop and put her pocketbook down on chair. Inside pocketbook was a leather wallet containing a driver's license, Visa debit card and money. Theft reported at 4 p.m.
Dec. 14. 8500 block Germantown Ave. Complainant states that between 10:30 p.m. on Dec. 13 and Dec. 14, someone broke the passenger side window and damaged the door. Taken was a GPS.
Dec. 15. 7800 block St. Martin's Lane. Complainant states that between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., someone damaged locks on front door to enter home. An unknown person damaged the door frame and left the side door to home open.
Dec. 15. Wolcott and 7 Valley Green Road. Someone gained entry to her 2007 red Toyota Prius and stole a tan purse, cell phone, keys, driver's license, wallet, credit cards, glasses, money and a GPS. Reported at 9 a.m.
Dec. 15. 7700 block Crittenden Street. Complainant states that a black male, heavy build, balding, wearing a gray shirt, pants and jacket, stole various groceries and fled southbound on Crittenden Street.
Summary – Eight crimes for week: one burglary, one retail theft, three thefts and three thefts from vehicles.
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Egypt from up top
First off, excuse my ignorance when I wrote before about what I think Kefaya should do. Its always easier said than done. But it doesn't mean that I'll shut up. So I finally made it to some of those activists' events. Went to Wednesday's night candle light vigil, and to yesterday's The Street is Ours event.
The reasons I started going to such events are pretty simple. One, they're finally starting to pick some convenient times (8pm for the vigil and 5-8pm for the women's political event). And I don't mind being involved in democracy when its convenient. Two, I was a little affected by what I saw and read about the May 25th public assaults on women. And three, I have nothing better to do.
The candle light vigil started out boring, but ended up interesting as more people showed up. Some formed a small street theatre singing songs, reciting poetry, playing Oud. Some can never help but shout chants as strong as they can, as if someone is listening to them, and as if the louder they shout the more they will listen (kinda reminds me of those in prayers who shout Amen so loud after every supplication as if God will hear them better that way). Some were reporters, and some were constantly giving interviews to reporters. Oh, and some were uniformed and plain-clothed state security guys.
With my limited imagination, I just keep wondering how that will eventually lead to toppling Mubarak and establishing a democratic state with less corruption and more justice. Just shows my lack of imagination, lack of history readings, and lack of political experience (what have the experienced politicains achieved though?) I guess.
The candle light idea was novel and looked nice. It is more of a Christian tradition, but a cool one, that no one minded --including those Islamists from AlWasat party. The night ends peacefully and I take the subway to Tahrir square and walk to Zamalek. Kasr ElNile bridge was packed with people (close to the number of those who were in the demonstration), people hanging out, families, and couples enjoying the not-so-fresh air and the cool breeze. It was like walking in a different world entirely. Most of them don't know there was a protest going on a few blocks away, not to mention that they probably don't care. But I don't know that. I know however, that they've had a rough day in the morning, a rough life ahead of them, and they just want to enjoy the night out without depressing themselves more by wondering how can their lives improve by participating in political activism and demonstrations.
The Street is Ours event was also interesting. Dominated by women, with quite a number of upper class women invovled. Didn't really get to hear the testimonies and the small speeches by people, but I got a chance to have a good chat with a friend, to talk to an acquaintance whom I've seen holding a video camera in the last two events, and to say hi to an old friend whose not talking to me anymore (but that's another topic). The friend I chatted with managed to take 2 pounds from me as contribution in exchange for a "Street is Ours" badge, but didn't manage to get my name on the sheet. She talked to me about how the committees in the Youth for Change movement are starting to function, and how they've been trying to interact with the public by distributing leaflets, and talking to people. How they're trying to get a permanent location for their meetings (and how some make jokes that this is so that the police can find them easier), and how they've stopped being active in the subway because its way too risky, with the police waiting for them in the next station. I suggested one of their activities be to deface the Yes To Hosni posters in the streets, and she said they're already planning on that. Then I asked her if they had preparation plans for the upcoming elections.
Another friend of mine who was enjoying two luxurious nights at the Four Seasons Nile Plaze kept calling me, threatening that he'll have dinner without me if I'm not there shortly. I had to cut my attendance of the event short, and run to my friend to catch my free dinner with him at the Nile Plaza's Spice. Now, that's a Chinese restaurant that even most Chinese would probably be impressed with. The place was almost packed with mostly Egyptian families, couples, and some foreigners. The topic comes up with my friend over dinner about Communists, and his high regard of Karl Marx's thoughts, and the rich father from the table next to us takes a peak at those two sitting on the next table (so I slightly raise my voice so he can hear what we're talking about). So ofcourse dinner was just awesome (the not paying part).
We finish the fruit platter and the fried bananas to go have the drinks up in the suite's balcony. And truly, the saying is a fact, "seeing Egypt from up above, is totally different than seeing it from down below." Sitting in that balcony, watching the beautiful Nile, the city lights and detaching from everything real in Cairo is just a breathtaking experience. Sitting in that wonderful blacony, I tell my friend that all we need now is to have this balcony closed with a glass window to isolate us completely from the noises down below. Then after a while I realize that hearing those noises adds to your sense of isolation from everything filthy down below, easily forgetting how filthy some have to be to get up here.
The night was just wonderful until that night's god of complaining arrived. Our friend arrives with his heavy relationship burdens. At first, I don't want to be involved and just want to enjoy the rest of the evening. I'm sick and tired of failed relationships and stupid couples, but I just can't help it. I always end up taking the women's side when my friends start complaining about their girlfriends or wives, and it seems that this is why they like to listen to my opinion. Well, ofcourse our other non-neutral friend has to throw in, "if you know it all, why don't you do so yourself then?" But its not about me, is it!
Dead tired at the end of the night, and falling asleep at that balcony couch, I go home thinking of how depressing it was, to be down in those street protests and political events without being able to figure out how that will improve the life of Egyptians, as well as to be up there watching Egypt from up above, getting a taste of the lavish lifestyle offered here.


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TOKYO -- Make it two for two. Japan's beleaguered auto industry is on track for another year of external shock and awe.
And it should concern both foreign and Japanese brands.
After being knocked flat by last year's earthquake-tsunami double punch (and the massive flooding in Thailand), the country's carmakers had been hoping for a quiet 2012 to rebuild.
They were only three months away from a peaceful year when disaster struck again in the form of violent anti-Japanese rage spreading across China. A top target of the rage: Japanese cars.
To be sure, this crisis is far from the broadside Mother Nature delivered last year. But there is plenty of reason to worry.
Media images of burning Hondas and trashed Toyota dealerships show the depth of Chinese outrage. Honda, Toyota, Nissan and Mazda were among those shuttering factories or offices as Japan's expatriate business community ducked for cover.
Last Tuesday, as the anti-Japan protests and marches reached a crescendo, Nissan's stock tumbled 5 percent in Tokyo trading.
Even after the unrest has settled, there is good reason to think this round of protest is more potent than previous outbursts against China's neighbor and erstwhile wartime occupier.
Photos that have gone viral on the Web show why.
They depict Japanese cars slathered with mea culpa stickers slapped on by their Chinese owners pleading some variant of "I bought this car before Japan messed things up. From now on, I'm boycotting Japanese goods." Even if Chinese customers want Japanese cars -- after all, they are still good products -- they are afraid to buy them for fear of patriotic retribution.
Japan's carmakers are rightly worried about long-term damage to their brand value in the world's largest auto market.
China is the battleground for future sales growth among international brands. And the Japanese, who enjoy a leg up against U.S. and European rivals in many markets worldwide, now risk falling behind in the most important one.
But the unrest, triggered by a territorial dispute between Beijing and Tokyo over a spray of unpopulated rocky islets in the East China Sea, also should worry all overseas makes.
The protests are an all-too-painful reminder of how the Chinese government holds business hostage to its political agenda.
Beijing infamously keeps public opinion on a short leash until the rabble-rousing suits its interests.
Japan and China have a troubled past and complex present. But is there any reason to think China wouldn't unleash a similar economic backlash when it butts heads with another nation?


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|Fresno, Calif.
|High School:
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AS A SENIOR IN 2010: 2010 NSCAA/Performance Subaru All-West Region Second Team ... a 2010 first-team All-WCC selection ... the WCC Player of the Month in October (six of seven conference games are played in the month) ... played in 20 games, starting 17, totalling 1,241 minutes played ... scored a team-leading and best in WCC nine goals and added two assists for a team-leading 20 points ... also led WCC in conference-only goals (5) and goals-per-game (0.71), conference-only points (11) and points-per-game (1.57), and was second in overall points-per-game (1.11) and goals-per-game (0.45) ... led the team in shots taken (41) ... tied for first the WCC in overall game-winning goals (5) and led in conference-only gamewinners (3) ... had her first multi-point game of the season on Aug. 22 vs. San Jose State, assisting on the first goal and scoring the second in a 2-1 win ... scored the team's first goal in 3-1 win over Ole Miss on Sept. 5 ... scored in a 1-1 tie with No. 23 Georgia on Sept. 12 ... was named the WCC Player of the Week on Oct. 11 for scoring the game-winning goal in a 1-0 win over San Diego in Santa Clara's conference opener a day earlier ... scored the game-winner in a 2-0 win over San Francisco on Oct. 17 ... scored twice and assisted on another goal in 5-0 defeat of Gonzaga on Oct. 22 ... scored the game-winner late in a 2-1 win over No. 19 BYU on Oct. 28 ... scored at Pepperdine in Santa Clara's regular-season finale on Nov. 6.
AS A JUNIOR IN 2009: All-West Coast Conference honorable mention honoree after an outstanding junior season ... ranked second on the team in goals (6) and third on the team in points (12) ... scored the game-winner in overtime in SCU's NCAA Tournament First Round match with Michigan State (Nov. 13) ... also netted the decider in a 1-0 victory over Cal State Fullerton (Sept. 25) ... totaled 31 shots, 18 on goal ... started the season-opener at San Jose State (Aug. 21) and went on to start 15 of SCU's 23 matches, including two NCAA Tournament games ... played in all 23 matches ... fired-off a season-high four shots twice, doing it in consecutive WCC home games against Loyola Marymount (Oct. 25) and Portland (Nov. 1) ... scored her first goal of the year in a 2-1 win at Georgetown (Sept. 6) ... put in a key goal to help the Broncos defeat rival St. Mary's (Oct. 18) 2-1.
AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2008: Played in all 20 games and started 13 contests ... scored first career goal in season opening win at San Jose State (Aug. 22) ... assisted on Kendra Perry's game-winning goal against then-No. 10 West Virginia (Aug. 29) ... started vs. then-No. 5 Notre Dame (Aug. 31), had one shot (Aug. 31) ... posted two shots, one on goal against UNC Greensboro (Sept. 12) ... had one shot vs. then-No. 5 North Carolina (Sept. 14) ... started vs. then-No. 6 Stanford (Oct. 3) ... started vs. Arizona (Oct. 5), had two shots, one of goal ... subbed in vs. then-No. 20 San Diego (Oct. 12), had one shot ... had five shots as a sub vs. Saint Mary's (Oct. 17) ... started vs. USF (Oct. 19), had one shot ... scored Broncos' lone goal at LMU (Oct. 24) ... had three shots started at Pepperdine (Oct. 26) ... had two shots as a sub at forward at then-No. 3 Portland (Nov. 2) ... subbed vs. Gonzaga (Nov. 8), had three shots.
AS A FRESHMAN IN 2007: Saw action in 20 of 21 contests, starting in 10 games ... took two shots against San Francisco (Nov. 4) ... had one shot against Cal Polyearned her fifth collegiate start against Arizona (Sept. 23) ... made fourth start for the Broncos against then-No. 12 Rutgers (Sept. 14) ... made her first collegiate assist on Kiki Bosio's gamewinning goal against then-No. 2 Notre Dame (Sept. 7) ... started in her first match as a Bronco in the Season Opener against San Jose State (Aug. 31).
NATIONAL TEAM EXPERIENCE: Has been a member of the player pools for the U-14, U-15, and U-16 teams ... member of the Region IV ODP team from 2003-05.
CLUB TEAM: Was MVP and team captain of the Cal North State Team from 2003-05.
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2007 graduate of San Joaquin Memorial High School in Fresno, Calif. ... played soccer and ran track ... played soccer for coaches Patrick Evans, Yvette Valdez, and Mary-Tyler Wahl ... twice named Fresno Bee Player of the Year ... named to All-Valley First Team four times ... All-Scholar Athlete and Team MVP all four years ... helped lead team to 78-17-13 record over her four years ... team won four league titles, appeared in section championship four times, and won two section titles ... four-time MVP ... was team captain in her junior and senior year ... on track, won league titles in 100- and 200-meters her freshman year ... served as President of Block M ... CSF Life Member ... was part of Student Council.
PERSONAL: Full name is Anessa Cherice Patton ... born in Tacoma, Wash. ... parents are Alain and Julie Patton ... has two sisters, Alicia and Alexa ... sister Alicia played soccer at Fresno State ... hobbies include playing sports and watching sports on TV ... future goals include playing pro soccer and becoming an orthopedic surgeon ... majoring in combined sciences.


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Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Cooking Time : 15 minutes
For the Outer Layer:
Rava / Semolina - 1/2 cup
Water- 1 cup
Turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp
Oil- 1 tsp
Salt- 1/4 tsp
For the filling: ( Mix all the filling ingredients together )
Boiled and crushed peas- 1/2 cup
Chaat masala- 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil for frying
Prepare the outer layer :
Heat the water along with the salt in a pan. When water starts boiling add the rava little by little and keep stirring continuously. Add turmeric and stir until it comes together like a dough. Take it off from heat, add about a teaspoon of oil. Cover it and leave the dough for about 5 minutes.
Divide the dough in to 8 equal rounds and divide the filling into 8 equal rounds. Apply oil to your hand and flatten the dough in the middle of your palms. Place the filling in the middle and cover it without any cracks and flatten it again slightly. Heat the oil in a pan and fry the tikki's in medium heat until they look light brown in colour. Serve it warm with tomato ketchup . To pack in a lunch box, let it cool down for a while, wrap it in aluminium foil and pack tightly in a lunch box.
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