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Some 16,000 Muslims from the United States are in Saudi Arabia this week to perform the hajj pilgrimage, one of Islam's most sacred experiences. If the hajj is performed with sincere intentions, Muslims believe it can wipe away past sins, purify the soul and alleviate worldly stresses.
This year, however, Muslims say they have never been more anxious traveling abroad than now, under the Trump administration's rules, which unleashed protests across the country and confusion at airports earlier this year.
Those performing the hajj say that while it's never been exactly stress-free to fly as a Muslim in America, the new climate under President Donald Trump has heightened anxieties about traveling to Saudi Arabia, where the hajj is performed. The hajj, which runs for five days and ends Monday, draws some 2 million people from around the world each year. All Muslims with the means to do so are required to make the pilgrimage at least once.
"We do find the anxiety level rising at this current time," said Sulaimaan Hamed, who operates Hajj Pros, an Atlanta-based company organizing hajj trips. "It is a reality with the heightened scrutiny."
Hamed, who is in his 17th year organizing the pilgrimages, has a client who opted not to take the trip this year. The West African native had renewed her green card because of a misspelling and the new document didn't arrive in time for traveling.
"She's fearing … she might not be able to get back" into the US, Hamed said. "The environment of heightened scrutiny has her nervous enough. She's waiting until next year."
Shortly after taking office, Trump ordered a temporary ban on refugees and a travel ban affecting Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Iran and Yemen, plus Iraq. His administration had also initially said citizens of those countries who hold permanent U.S. residency green cards would be barred from re-entering the country.
Trump said the controversial measures were needed to protect the US from terrorists, but opponents said it was unfairly harsh and was intended to meet his campaign promise to keep Muslims out of the United States. Two months ago the Supreme Court partially lifted lower court injunctions against Trump's executive order, which no longer includes people from Iraq.
Abdull Warsame, a Somali-American who lives in Minnesota, is leading 420 people to hajj this year from the United States. His company, Mina Hajj Travel, consulted with an immigration attorney to address concerns before the trip.
He said only about three or four people chose to cancel their pilgrimage this year because they didn't want to deal with the unknowns the travel ban might bring if they are not allowed to return to the US
Tussles in the courts over Trump's executive order, and the gradual dissipation of a ban on major electronics and laptops in cabins of flights from 10 mostly Muslim cities, including Jiddah, the main entry point for pilgrims on hajj, left many unsure about what their rights are while traveling.
"There is still a lot of confusion from travelers and we are hearing from people who are coming back from hajj and worried about what they will face at the border," said Hina Shamsi of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Shamsi, the director of the National Security Project at the ACLU, said there has been a rise in reported incidents of Muslim citizens and legal permanent residents being questioned inappropriately about their religious and political beliefs while traveling.
"This has happened under previous administrations, but we and colleague organizations have certainly seen a rise, at least in anecdotal accounts, of that kind of questioning and screening," she said.
Suehaila Amen, part of Michigan's large Arab American and Muslim community, had concerns when traveling to Lebanon earlier this year after the initial Trump order was issued.
Amen, who's on the hajj this year, says she always makes sure to fly internationally from Detroit because the Muslim community in Michigan has a good working relationship with government agencies there. It makes flying more comfortable, she said.
"I actually go out of my way to go through customs in Detroit and not anywhere else," she said.
To prepare Americans for traveling to the hajj, the Council on American-Islamic Relations conducted a webinar that discussed people's rights while traveling at customs, U.S. entry points and airport security checkpoints.
"We have tremendous rights as we travel, but these rights are only meaningful if you know them and understand them," CAIR Florida's Executive Director Hassan Shibly said during the webinar.
Some of the examples CAIR gave include the rights of female travelers to request a female TSA agent for pat downs and the right to request that the hijab, or head cover worn by Muslim women, not be removed in public.
CAIR's senior litigation attorney, Gadeir Abbas, told The Associated Press the Trump administration's conduct has heightened an already tense situation among Muslims, who have come to expect a certain level of extra scrutiny while traveling.
Abbas said the Trump administration has reintroduced the practice of placing U.S. Muslim citizens on a no-fly list while they're abroad and thus exiling them until they can successfully petition the government and courts to board a flight back home. He said the practice was first introduced under the Obama administration, but had disappeared since 2014.
After Trump took office, at least one person every month has been added to the no-fly list while abroad. Among those was a mosque leader, or imam, from Salt Lake City who was in Kenya to meet his wife and children over the summer. CAIR was able to litigate on his behalf and he was removed from the no-fly list. The imam is now leading a group of pilgrims for the hajj.
"It has never been more stressful to travel as a Muslim in America," Abbas said.
After all the preparations, Hamed the hajj tour operator said Muslims must step out in faith.
"We have to help them understand that God is greater, as is the obligation to fulfill your religious rite, than being scared of flying on an airplane or fearing what one may experience going through customs," he said.


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What happens when a young gay man falls in love with a woman? That's the central conceit behind Red Turnip Theater's second offering, COCK by Mike Bartlett. A sold-out hit when it first premiered in London in 2009 and subsequently during its off-Broadway run a year later, COCK revolves around a gay couple whose rocky relationship derails when one of them sleeps (and falls in love) with a woman. Debates over one's sexual identity explode when all three decide to sit down and "duke it out" over dinner. Hilarity ensues when another unexpected guest turns up and loyalties are put to the test. As one character puts it, "It's the ultimate bitch fight".
The New York Times calls COCK "a terrific, tense little comedy" while The Huffington Post hails it as "a terrific contemporary play that puts much of other theatre to shame". This critical darling is the perfect bookend to Red Turnip's maiden season.
Fresh off the success of their critically-acclaimed CLOSER last October at Whitespace, Red Turnip promises another unique, in your face theatrical experience with COCK. The vision of five estab-lished actors (Ana Abad Santos, Topper Fabregas, Jenny Jamora, Cris Villonco and Rem Zamora), Red Turnip aims to engage theatergoers with the sort of material that seems to be in short supply in the country—the straight play.
Rem Zamora makes his directorial debut with COCK."We're excited to be back in Whitespace. A lot of people who came to CLOSER said they enjoyed the intimacy of the experience and the space. That was in Hall B. We're going even more intimate this time in the smaller Hall A. COCK also plays in the round so it feels like you're watching a fight in an arena—no frills: just words and pure conflict in the ring, and an intense involvement in the audience."
Zamora has assembled a tight cast of theatrical heavyweights for COCK's Manila premier: Topper Fabregas (Boeing Boeing, The Producers), Niccolo Manahan (Next Fall, Doubt), Jenny Jamora (Mind's Eye, A Little Night Music), Audie Gemora (Sweeney Todd, Les Miserables) Fabregas is John, a young man caught between his gay lover and his growing attraction to an-other woman- W, played by Jamora.
Niccolo Manahan makes a theatrical comeback as M, John's lover who isn't about to let him go without a fight. "I feel 'Cock' will be a great experiment for me; an experiment in balancing my life with the things I enjoy doing, and an experiment in pushing my range. I don't know where this ex-periment will lead but its an incredible opportunity that I'm thankful for."
Rounding off this impressive cast is theatre stalwart Audie Gemora as F, M's well-meaning father whose sudden appearance at dinner throws everyone for a loop. "The birth of a theater group is always exciting and eventful with fresh artistic vision and passion. I am thrilled to be part of Red Turnips 2nd offering, 'Cock'. This is Rem Zamora's directorial debut and my first time to be acting opposite brilliant young actors Niccolo Manahan and Jenny Jamora, while Topper Fabregas takes on his most complex character yet. Together we jump into a crackling cock fight of personalities, emotions and words."
COCK is a comedy… with bite. No props, scenery or furniture. Just actors, sharp dialogue and some clever staging. All essential. Absolutely Red Turnip.
COCK is supported by FILA through the kindness of its President and owner Cris Albert. Supporting the arts has become one of her numerous advocacies, a true testament to her gener-ous spirit and her commitment to giving back to the community.
Direction by Rem Zamora, technical direction and lighting design by John Batalla, set design by Denis Lagdameo and sound design by Jethro Joaquin.
Cock will be staged at Whitespace — 2314 Chino Roces Ave. Extension (formerly Pasong Tamo Extension), Makati — on March 7, 14, 21, 28 and April 4 (Friday, 9 p.m.); March 8, 15, 29 and April 5 (Saturday, 8 p.m.); April 5, Saturday at 4 p.m.; March 9, 16, 23 and April 6 (Sunday, 4 p.m.) and special closing gala on April 6, Sunday, 8 p.m.
Tickets are available through TicketWorld (891-9999 or www.ticketworld.com.ph) Or Red Turnip Theater (firstname.lastname@example.com or https://www.facebook.com/RedTurnipTheater)
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Start Up and Shut Down with Disk Stores
This section describes what happens during startup and shutdown and provides procedures for those operations.
Start Up
When you start a member with a persistent region, the data is retrieved from disk stores to recreate the member's persistent region. If the member does not hold all of the most recent data for the region, then other members have the data, and region creation blocks, waiting for the those other members. A partitioned region with colocated entries also blocks on start up, waiting for the entries of the colocated region to be available. A persistent gateway sender is treated the same as a colocated region, so it can also block region creation.
With a log level of info or below, the system provides messaging about the wait. Here, the disk store for server2 has the most recent data for the region, and server1 is waiting for server2.
Region /people has potentially stale data.
It is waiting for another member to recover the latest data.
My persistent id:
DiskStore ID: 6893751ee74d4fbd-b4780d844e6d5ce7
Name: server1
Location: /192.0.2.0:/home/dsmith/server1/.
Members with potentially new data:
DiskStore ID: 160d415538c44ab0-9f7d97bae0a2f8de
Name: server2
Location: /192.0.2.0:/home/dsmith/server2/.
Use the "gfsh show missing-disk-stores" command to see all disk stores
that are being waited on by other members.
When the most recent data is available, the system updates the region, logs a message, and continues the startup.
[info 2010/04/09 10:52:13.010 PDT CacheRunner <main> tid=0x1]
Done waiting for the remote data to be available.
If the member's disk store has data for a region that is never created, the data remains in the disk store.
Each member's persistent regions load and go online as quickly as possible, not waiting unnecessarily for other members to complete. For performance reasons, these actions occur asynchronously:
- Once at least one copy of each and every bucket is recovered from disk, the region is available. Secondary buckets will load asynchronously.
- Entry keys are loaded from the key file in the disk store before considering entry values. Once all keys are loaded, Geode loads the entry values asynchronously. If a value is requested before it has loaded, the value will immediately be fetched from the disk store.
Start Up Procedure
To start a system with disk stores:
Start all members with persisted data first and at the same time. Exactly how you do this depends on your members. Make sure to start members that host colocated regions, as well as persistent gateway senders.
While they are initializing their regions, the members determine which have the most recent region data, and initialize their regions with the most recent data.
For replicated regions, where you define persistence only in some of the region's host members, start the persistent replicate members prior to the non-persistent replicate members to make sure the data is recovered from disk.
This is an example bash script for starting members in parallel. The script waits for the startup to finish. It exits with an error status if one of the jobs fails.
#!/bin/bash ssh servera "cd /my/directory; gfsh start server --name=servera & ssh serverb "cd /my/directory; gfsh start server --name=serverb & STATUS=0; for job in `jobs -p` do echo $job wait $job; JOB_STATUS=$?; test $STATUS -eq 0 && STATUS=$JOB_STATUS; done exit $STATUS;
Respond to blocked members. When a member blocks waiting for more recent data from another member, the member waits indefinitely rather than coming online with stale data. Check for missing disk stores with the
gfsh show missing-disk-stores
command. See Handling Missing Disk Stores.- If no disk stores are missing, the cache initialization must be slow for some other reason. Check the information on member hangs in Diagnosing System Problems.
- If disk stores are missing that you think should be there:
- Make sure you have started the member. Check the logs for any failure messages. See Logging.
- Make sure your disk store files are accessible. If you have moved your member or disk store files, you must update your disk store configuration to match.
- If disk stores are missing that you know are lost, because you have deleted them or their files are otherwise unavailable, revoke them so the startup can continue.
Example Startup to Illustrate Ordering
The following lists the two possibilities for starting up a replicated persistent region after a shutdown. Assume that Member A (MA) exits first, leaving persisted data on disk for RegionP. Member B (MB) continues to run operations on RegionP, which update its disk store and leave the disk store for MA in a stale condition. MB exits, leaving the most up-to-date data on disk for RegionP.
- Restart order 1
- MB is started first. MB identifies that it has the most recent disk data for RegionP and initializes the region from disk. MB does not block.
- MA is started, recovers its data from disk, and updates region data as needed from the data in MB.
- Restart order 2
- MA is started first. MA identifies that it does not have the most recent disk data and blocks, waiting for MB to start before recreating RegionP in MA.
- MB is started. MB identifies that it has the most recent disk data for RegionP and initializes the region from disk.
- MA recovers its RegionP data from disk and updates region data as needed from the data in MB.
If more than one member hosts a persistent region or queue, the order in which the various members shut down may be significant upon restart of the system. The last member to exit the system or shut down has the most up-to-date data on disk. Each member knows which other system members were online at the time of exit or shutdown. This permits a member to acquire the most recent data upon subsequent start up.
For a replicated region with persistence, the last member to exit has the most recent data.
For a partitioned region every member persists its own buckets. A shutdown using gfsh shutdown
will synchronize the disk stores before exiting, so all disk stores hold the most recent data. Without an orderly shutdown, some disk stores may have more recent bucket data than others.
The best way to shut down a system is to invoke the gfsh shutdown
command with all members running. All online data stores will be synchronized before shutting down, so all hold the most recent data copy. To shut down all members other than locators:
To shut down all members, including locators:
gfsh>shutdown --include-locators=true


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April 5, 2012
Political science professor to deliver next Vernon Larson International Lecture on corruption in India
Submitted by Office of International Programs
Krishna Tummala, professor of political science, will present "Corruption in India" on Tuesday, April 10, as part of the Vernon Larson International Luncheon Lecture Series. The lecture starts at 12:15 p.m. in the ballroom at the Holiday Inn at the Campus.
Tummala obtained two degrees in the United States: a master of public administration from the State University of New York at Albany and a doctorate from the University of Missouri Columbia. He joined the K-State faculty in 1988.
Tummala has published more than 45 articles and numerous books in areas of public personnel management in both India and the United States, on public budgeting and on comparative administrative systems. He was a senior research fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research and also a senior Fulbright fellow, which permitted him to do research in India for one of his books.
He has received numerous national and international awards for his work. Tummala has served the national American Society for Public Administration in several leadership positions. He served a three-year term as a member of the executive council of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. He served as president of Pi Alpha Alpha, the national honor society for public administrators, through 2007.
His current interest is in corruption in India. Although India did not invent corruption, it no doubt excels in it, more so since the new economic liberalization beginning in 1990. This brazen corruption led to the popular movement, led by Anna Hazare, which shows the importance of civil society's contributions to the Lokpal Bill.
Lunch is optional and begins at 11:45 a.m. The lunch buffet costs $15 and reservations are required. The lecture series is sponsored by the Friends of International Programs and the office of international programs.
Reservations for the luncheon can be made by email to email@example.com or by phone at 785-532-5990 and should be made by noon of the Friday before each luncheon. You may also attend the lecture portion of the event for no charge.
Vernon C. Larson, then director of the international agricultural programs, created the lecture series in 1979. The series is the longest-running at K-State. With six presentations per year, presented during the fall and spring semester, the series offers an opportunity for the K-State community to hear presentations from faculty and individuals who recently participated in an extensive overseas activity or who are involved in major international activities.
For more information visit the office of interntional programs' website.


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Across the country, leaves turn crimson, the air gets crisper and thoughts turn to the end-of-the-year holidays. It can be downright distracting which is why, perhaps, that fall is when the country experiences the largest number of pedestrian fatalities, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NTSA).
While adults older than 64 account for the largest number of pedestrian fatalities, children under the age of 16 make up the second largest group. Let's take a look at three fall events that contribute to the high number of child pedestrian fatalities.
Getting To And From School
Slower speeds in school zones and regulations about passing school busses help keep kids safe when they're near their schools. However,
One-third of child pedestrian fatalities happen after school
And, they happen between 3 and 7 p.m., according to the American Automobile Association (AAA). Kids are easily distracted, so it's up to the adult motorist to be mindful and pay attention while driving through neighborhoods, near parks and other places where children tend to congregate.
In fact, slowdown in these areas. "A pedestrian struck by a vehicle traveling at 25 mph is nearly two-thirds less likely to be killed compared to a pedestrian struck by a vehicle traveling just 10 mph faster," suggests the experts at AAA.
They also caution us to pay attention when vehicles in front of us stop – and don't shoot past them. They may be stopping to allow pedestrians to cross.
Parents of young children should remind them, consistently, of pedestrian safety rules:
- Always use a crosswalk.
- Look both ways, TWICE, before crossing the street.
- Make eye contact with a driver who stops to allow you to cross. Make sure the driver actually sees you.
- Never chase a ball, pet or anything else into the street.
- Never play in, under or around parked vehicles.
Saving Daylight
There's more to Daylight Savings than setting your clock back an hour in the fall. Carnegie Mellon University scientists claim that pedestrians are three times more likely to be killed by a vehicle when we "fall behind" in autumn (this year we'll do that before going to bed on Saturday, November 4).
"The change that's going to occur [when we set our clocks back] is going to have some pronounced effects on your risks of walking between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.," Carnegie Mellon's Dr. David Gerard said. "Basically, these are the hours when it's just getting dark. But people walking and people driving won't have adjusted. The baseline risk for getting killed is almost tripled."
He goes on to say that
pedestrians are at the highest risk on the evening after we make the switch and remains high for the following two weeks until drivers have adjusted to the reduction in daylight during their evening commute.
Halloween Nightmares
Halloween is a blast for kids but not so much for their parents. Checking the goody bag for tainted candy is just one concern, however.
"Kids have a greater chance of being fatally injured by a car on Halloween than any other day of the year, including the Fourth of July and New Year's Day," according to State Farm® Insurance and Sperling's BestPlaces.
The study reveals that most of the fatalities happened in the middle of a block and to kids age 12 to 15 and they were perpetrated by drivers between the ages of 15 and 25.
The deadliest hours on Halloween? Between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Halloween is the ideal time to remind younger children of safety rules and for cautioning young drivers to be extra alert. No cellphones, no playing with the radio and keep the passengers in their seats and quiet.
Parents can provide additional protection to their trick-or-treaters by using reflective tape on costumes, shoes and goody bags. Purchase small flashlights or glow sticks for them to carry, providing additional visibility for drivers.
Stay safe out there!
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As a reminder, in self-defense training you are taught never to shoot with intent to kill; you shoot to stop the threat of death or great bodily harm. This is not meant to say that you are to aim your firearm at the attacker's leg, foot or hand. You are in fact instructed to shoot at the largest center of exposed mass. Most often this will be the center of the attacker's chest. If the byproduct of stopping the threat is death, that is not your concern. After all, it was the attackers actions that resulted in him being shot. Once the threat of death or great bodily harm passes you must stop your use of deadly force or risk criminal charges. You need to be indifferent regarding the health of the attacker. Your only concern should be stopping his forward motion and preventing your own death.
For legal reasons, never use the phrases and or words "kill", "accident", "mistake" or "I didn't mean to" (just to name a few), when referring to or describing your own actions. You cannot claim self-defense if the shooting was an accident or a mistake. Do not let your own words send you to prison. A claim of self-defense is an affirmative defense that is reserved for intentional acts based on necessity. It is also important to mention that you do not automatically get to claim self defense at your trial, should you be arrested and charged. The defendant and the attorney will have the burden of production in order for the judge to allow the defendant to argue self defense in front of the jury. The "burden of production" may also be referred to as establishing a prima facie case for self defense. Having the burden of production reinforces the importance of self defense legal training and knowing ahead of time what self defense is and what self defense is not. If charged with murder or manslaughter and also not being allowed to argue self defense in front of the jury, this poses some serious challenges for the defense attorney.
After a self-defense shooting, remaining calm and in control will be important because it will set the tone for how others perceive you and how law enforcement officers interact with you. After all, an out of control and irrational person with a gun may make others uncomfortable and create a dangerous situation that otherwise would not be dangerous. Employ the use of safe gun handling techniques so there are no accidents. Do not sweep the barrel of your gun across innocent bystanders. Keep your finger outside the trigger guard to avoid an accidental discharge.
If you should have to fire your gun in self-defense to protect your life or the life of a family member, your first priority is ensuring your continued safety. Many times criminals will work in pairs or groups so ensure there are no additional threats in the area. Seek out some form of cover even if it is only having a wall to your back. If it is not safe to remain in the area of the shooting then leave. Go to the nearest gas station or retail establishment and call 911 immediately. Otherwise stay where you are and call 911. If someone (a bystander) tells you that they have already called the police, call yourself to ensure the accuracy of the information and to have record that you called as well.
Pertinent information for the 911 operator:
- Location and or address
- Name
- You have a permit to carry a firearm (assuming you do)
- You were attacked, someone tried to kill you and you had to fire your gun in self-defense
- Provide a description of yourself and state whether or not you are holding the criminal at gunpoint or if you have your firearm in your hand
- Request medical attention for your attacker (MN statute 609.662) and yourself if required
- Follow the instructions of the 911 operator unless you feel the instructions will jeopardize your safety
When speaking to the 911 operator, only provide information related to your safety and only provide limited information on the most obvious facts regarding the shooting. Do not provide details regarding the incident. From this point forward you are in legal jeopardy and everything that you do and everything that you say can be used against you in court (criminal and or civil).
In the state of Minnesota if you shoot someone you are legally obligated to render aid. This is as simple as asking the 911 operator for an ambulance. Criminals are dangerous and sometimes criminals will "fake" injury or death in an attempt to gain an advantage in the altercation. Do not approach the person you have just shot. This person may still be dangerous.
While waiting for the police to arrive, do not have protracted conversations with witnesses, do not threaten witnesses and be mindful of the direction your firearm is pointed. Ask those in the area to remain and wait for the police as they are witnesses. Ask witnesses to call 911 to get their account of what happened recorded. Ask witnesses if they are injured. If the criminal attempts to flee, let him. You are not legally obligated to prevent the criminals flight and you certainly cannot shoot a fleeing criminal. However, should the criminal attempt to regain control of a weapon, it would be prudent to conclude that your life was once again in jeopardy and the use of deadly force would be legal if the criminal resumes the attack.
While waiting for the police, it is imperative that the integrity of the scene be intact for the investigation that will soon follow. Always be aware of the attacker's weapon. The attacker's weapon is evidence that will help to prove your case should you end up in court. Some bystanders may want to assist the attacker and provide medical attention. You should strongly advise against this action as the attacker may still be armed or the person going to the aid of the attacker may be an accomplice and use the attacker's weapon against you. Maintain distance between bystanders and the attacker, but never threaten anyone as this is likely to be misinterpreted later.
When greeting the police, it is likely they will have their guns out and drawn on you. Remain calm and rational and follow all instructions immediately and keep your hands visible. All actions should be slow and precise. The police will want to secure the scene and bring things under control. When they arrive, all they will see is you holding a gun on the person that you have shot. Do not argue with the police or other witnesses on the scene. Witnesses may have a distorted view of what happened or may intentionally give false testimony because they are friends with the attacker.
Even if you are an attorney or were a cop in a former life, you are most likely not qualified to make statements to the police immediately following a self-defense shooting. This is because of the psychological and physiological effects a deadly encounter has on the human body (more on this later). When questioned by the police only answer questions with obvious and self-evident answers like your name, where you live, he tried to kill me, I had to defend myself, there is his weapon, those people are witnesses, yes I have a permit to carry and so on.
When the police press for details regarding the self-defense shooting, you need to respectfully respond with something similar to the following:
"Officer, I want to cooperate fully but I wish to speak with my attorney. In addition, I do not consent to a search"
Questions the police may ask you:
- How many shots did you fire
- Where were you standing
- What kind of weapon did the attacker have
- What was said by the criminal
- What did you say to the criminal
- What were you doing prior to the attack
- How much time passed
These types of details need to be discussed with your attorney and no one else. Between the complexities of the legal system, errors made by law enforcement, misspoken statements, misinterpretations and malicious prosecutions, the deck of cards is severely stacked against the private citizen.
If your spouse is with you, your spouse needs to invoke their rights as well regarding the need for an attorney and no consent to a search. If you have children with you, you need to invoke their rights on their behalf. Request that your children not be questioned unless in your presence and in the presence of your attorney.
Regarding your rights, law enforcement will do whatever they want and sometimes make the rules up as they go or even lie to get information. Let your attorney sort things out later. Never resist police action, never argue with the cops or attempt to give a legal lesson on constitutional law, doing so will only add complication to your case and invariably cost you more money. On the street, the police have the power and authority over you. Do not attempt to fight them on their own turf. Take the battle into the courtroom.
After a defensive shooting outside the home, there is a high probability you will be arrested and held until things get sorted out. If you plan to carry a firearm outside the home with a permit, have a criminal defense attorney lined-up. In the event you should need one, flipping through the Yellow Pages from Hennepin County Jail at 2AM is not the best of plans.
If you are forced to defend yourself in your home and the person you have shot is not known to you and forced entry into the home is obvious, the police will tend to give the defender the benefit of the doubt. However, all the same rules still apply and that is, you want to speak to an attorney and you do not consent to a search. This is still important even when the shooting happens in your home.
Law enforcement is responsible for collecting information and assigning blame. Only the prosecutor can decide whether or not to pursue legal action against you. The police do not make this decision even if they tell you that they do (they of course do have influence). The police have been specially trained in interrogation techniques and this often includes lying and bending the rules to extract a confession. Generally speaking, it would be fair to say that most people get themselves deeper into trouble as a result of what they say to police. When law enforcement officers are themselves involved in a shooting, the officer is specifically told not to make statements to anyone without consulting his or her attorney. What is good for the police should be good for private citizens as well.
Misperceptions, Embellishments, and Confabulation:
"Confabulation can be defined as the unintentional creation of a false or inaccurate memory to compensate for memory gaps or deficits. Although some similarities may exist, the phenomenon of confabulation is distinguishable from other issues like suggestibility, malingering, and delusions. The possibility of confabulation is particularly pernicious in criminal justice settings. Here, self-reported memories play an integral role in the confessions and testimony of suspects, defendants, victims, and eyewitnesses. To raise awareness of this possibility, and protect against its consequences, this article reviews warning signs and risk factors for confabulation, tips on how to communicate with and treat individuals who may be confabulating, and recent research in the area of confabulation. In short, this serves as an introduction to confabulation for legal professionals." Jerrod, Brown & Charette, Cody & Huntley, Deb & Wartnik, Anthony & Wiley, Cameron & Cich, Janina & Morgan, Stephen & Dodson, Kimberly. (2017). Confabulation: A Beginner's Guide for Legal Professionals. Forensic Science and Criminology. 10.15761/FSC.100119.
Were you injured during the altercation between you and your attacker? Maybe a sucker-punch to the head or a blow to the base of the skull or possibly fall and slam your head against the pavement or sidewalk? Maybe you don't know or cannot remember because the attack happened so fast. A good article worth reading: Traumatic Brain Injury and Confabulation in Criminal Justice and Legal Settings: A Brief Review for Caregivers and Professionals. The author, Jerrod Brown, Ph.D., discusses traumatic brain injury (TBI) and what legal issue can result from TBI-induced confabulation, which include:
Waiving Miranda Rights
Police Interrogations (incl. False Confessions)
Entering Pleas
False Allegations
Competency to Stand Trial
Providing Testimony (incl. Eyewitness Suggestibility)
Serving as a Witness
Court-Ordered Treatment
Victimization During Incarceration
Offender Reentry (incl. Probation and Parole)
Regardless of the situation (shooting or not), if law enforcement demands that you accompany them to the police station for questioning, then you are most likely a suspect in a crime. Ask the officer, "Am I under arrest?" If the officers answer is "no" then ask the officer, "Am I being detained against my will?" If the officer replies "no" then politely and respectfully tell the officer that your attorney will be in contact to answer any questions and that you are leaving. If you should end up at the police station after all of this, your reply to any and all questions is, "I want to speak to my attorney and I do not consent to a search".
Psychological, Physiological and Social Effects
During an attack, the body can respond in a number of ways to being threatened with bodily harm. For example, the parts of the brain that control higher thought processes begin to shut down and relinquish control to more primitive and survival-oriented brain centers.
Every life-threatening encounter is different and each person will respond to an attack in different ways. There is no way to determine ahead of time how a person will react even if this person has been in a similar situation in the past.
When confronted with an attack, you may initially delay responding because of denial – you just can not believe you are being assaulted. Also, many people have an internal resistance to inflicting deadly force in a face-to-face encounter. This inherent reluctance can be overcome through fear as well as through conditioning and visualization training.
There are five possible responses to a life-threatening encounter:
- Freeze – The victim of the attack may be so overwhelmed or surprised by being threatened, the victim may become incapable of any action
- Submit – Simply giving into the attacker
- Posture – Combat without combat. Words, sounds, gestures and body language are weapons used to dominate, intimidate and subdue another. Depending on circumstances, the attacker and the victim, one may try to out-bluster the other until one backs down or flees.
- Flight – Retreat or running away from the situation
- Fight – The use of reasonable force to prevent an attacker from harming you
No matter what your level of training or how capable you believe yourself to be in handling stressful situations, you will experience, to a greater or lesser degree, a number of involuntary physiological changes during a serious defensive situation.
General Bodily Responses to Imminent Danger
In most cases, there will be an amount of time between when a threat is perceived and when the actual assault or attack begins. This may occur when you first notice a mugger stalking you on the street. During this period you will experience a number of bodily responses to imminent danger. Your heart rate and respiration will increase (to provide more blood and oxygen to the brain), your pupils will dilate (to take in more light to see the threat better), and your muscles will be tighter in anticipation of sudden movement.
Adrenaline Rush
One of the ways your body prepares for flight or fight is through the release of a hormone called adrenaline. This powerful chemical heightens the senses and increases strength, heart rate and respiration and can also cause trembling of the muscles. Trembling of the muscles can make it more difficult to stand or sit or hold a gun steady. This trembling can sometimes be mistaken by the victim and the attacker as fear but in reality it is a physical reaction to excess adrenaline in the body. Note that while adrenaline can help you more readily perceive a threat, it can also predispose you to overreact to any sudden stimulus.
Loss of Fine Motor Skills
Stress, regardless of its source, results in the loss of fine motor skills. This is often experienced in daily life. For example, it is much harder to unlock your front door when you are rushing to get to a ringing phone. In sports, it is not uncommon for athletes to perform better in practice than under the stress of a live game. During an attack, you will most likely lose the ability to load a cartridge into the magazine or cylinder of your firearm or to open your car door with your key. This is why defensive handgun courses will utilize techniques and recommend firearms that involve gross motor skills. This is also why well-designed defensive handguns are simple to operate and feature controls that are easily and naturally actuated by large muscle movements.
Perceptual Changes During a Threatening Encounter
Survivors of violent attacks as well as those who have experienced other extremely stressful situations, commonly report that during the attack or stressful event, their perceptions of visual and auditory stimuli as well as the passage of time were altered. These alterations, tunnel vision, auditory exclusion and time dilation are involuntary and may have evolved as a survival mechanism to better focus all of ones attention on the immediate source of danger.
Tunnel Vision
Your body will become completely focused on the immediate threat. Seeing or knowing what is going on around you is not likely. It is important to avoid tunnel vision so that other threats can be recognized and dealt with appropriately. Through training, you can learn ways to break tunnel vision. Lowering your firearm slightly and forcing yourself to survey the immediate area will help.
Auditory Exclusion
Auditory exclusion is a sense of having a loss of hearing. This is a situation where hearing becomes difficult which is why police officers are trained to yell their commands. When confronting an assailant, yell your commands to break their auditory exclusion. Yelling also helps to intimidate.
Time Dilation
Time dilation refers to the perception that time has slowed down and you may possibly see your actions and those of your assailant in slow motion. This is why when a potential threat is first perceived, you should wait longer than you initially think is necessary before you relax your guard or emerge from hiding.
Temporary Loss of Memory
Highly stressful events can sometimes cause a mental overload that result in temporary loss of memory. Most often this is manifested simply in confusion over the details of an incident; occasionally however, a person may lose all remembrances of the event. The passage of time often restores the accuracy and completeness of the memory.
Because of this phenomenon, comments you make immediately after you have been involved in a life-threatening incident may not be accurate. Thus, if you are involved in a defensive shooting, you should generally tell responding law enforcement officers only that you were unlawfully attacked by a violent adversary and you had to use force to defend your life. Avoid making any other statements until you have consulted an attorney.
Aftermath of a Defensive Encounter
Prevailing after a violent encounter may make you experience many emotions. These emotions often occur in the order listed below, but are not universal; some people may not experience any of them and some may experience all of them.
- Elation – Typically an immediate feeling of having survived and prevailed in a life-threatening encounter. In today's social and political atmosphere, attack survivors may feel that they should downplay or ignore this emotion. Elation is the result of a release of endorphins and other sensory and mood enhancing chemicals into the bloodstream. There is nothing wrong with a momentary or lasting feeling of elation
- Revulsion – The victorious victim may encounter nausea, vomit or even fainting from the emotional shock of seeing the result of the confrontation. The absence of revulsion does not mean you are a bad or cold person. Your own life experiences may have contributed to a higher tolerance for the unpleasant consequences of a shooting
- Remorse – Many survivors experience remorse at the thought of having to take a human life. It is simply a feeling of sadness or sorrow
- Self-doubt – Self-doubt occurs when the victim questions the moral and legal aspects of the shooting and questions whether or not it was necessary
- Acceptance – Usually the last emotional state. The victim comes to terms with the action taken in order to protect his or her own life in an act of self-defense
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) – Symptoms include flashbacks, recurring nightmares and an inability to function normally such as maintain a job or keep a marriage together. While PTSD is possible for people who experience extreme situations, it is also very rare.
Social Aftermath
After a self-defense shooting, there is a risk that you will become a social outcast. Depending on circumstances, you may be treated differently by co-workers, your neighbors might stop talking to you, your children may be treated differently by teachers and classmates and your spouse may end up divorcing you. In some extreme cases, it is possible that you and your family will need to change jobs, schools and the city in which you reside in order to have a normal life.
After a self-defense shooting, it is sometimes necessary to seek professional help to ease the emotional strain experienced by the family and individuals directly involved.
Criminal and Civil Court
There are four hurdles that you must jump in order to be successful at self-defense. The first is that you must be able and willing to defend yourself when evil presents itself and puts you in a life-threatening situation. Second, you must actually beat your opponent to the point where the threat of death or great bodily harm has passed. Third, you must be cleared of all criminal charges and lastly you must be cleared of all civil charges.
Civil law is completely separate from criminal law but understanding the two is critical. It is possible that after being found not guilty or completely avoiding criminal prosecution altogether, that you will end up in civil court for wrongful death or injury to your attacker (assuming he survived). Should your attacker be killed, the attackers family can come after you in civil court.
In criminal court, the standards of evidence are high. It must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that you did what you are accused of doing in order to be found guilty. In civil court, the standard is only "proven by a preponderance of evidence". In other words, if the other side tells a better story than you do, you will probably lose the civil case. A perfect example of this is the OJ Simpson case where OJ was found not guilty of killing his wife in the criminal trial but was in fact found guilty in the civil case (wrongful death).
The law is structured in a way as to make it very difficult to harm another human and get away with it. When using deadly force to defend yourself, exercise great restraint and ensure your actions are justified under the law, as you will be held accountable.


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by James CimentThe first popular history of the former American slaves who founded, ruled, and lost Africa's first republic
In 1820, a group of about eighty African Americans reversed the course of history and sailed back to Africa, to a place they would name after liberty itself. They went under the banner of the American Colonization Society, a white philanthropic organization with a dual agenda: to rid America of its blacks, and to convert Africans to Christianity. The settlers staked out a beachhead; their numbers grew as more boats arrived; and after breaking free from their white overseers, they founded Liberia—Africa's first black republic—in 1847.
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Guest post by Molly Jarrell
It's 1:30 in the afternoon and I'm sitting here at my desk, at work. I've got pictures of my little girl all around me, and my Mother's Day card (with its abrasive, low-budget recording of her little laugh, which I love) all within arm's reach.
My heart aches for her.
This morning we decided to let Daddy sleep in a little longer so I took Eden into the shower with me. Pretty soon Daddy (who figured I was running late and needing to get ready for work) came in and asked Eden, "Want to come with Daddy and get dressed?" She immediately buried her head into my shoulder and her little arms grabbed me tight around my neck.
She stayed like that for the next — oh, I don't know — 20 minutes or so. Nate kept coming in to see if she had fallen asleep. I couldn't bring myself to break the spell. It was just Eden and me, together, standing under the stream of hot water, feeling each other breathe and reconnecting. She didn't even stir.
And I thought, "She misses me. It's Friday. I've already worked 5 days this week and we're going on number 6."
So I stood there with her in my arms and a towel draped around her back, wasting water and not caring a bit.
It hasn't been easy, working full time. Granted, I've got a pretty easy gig as far as working moms go. I have my own office. She spends her days with her dad, mostly, or with other family members. I have a super-flexible boss who lets me set my own schedule as long as the work gets done. And I can take my laptop home and work at night if I need to.
But it still wrenches my heart to leave her.
People often ask how it's going. How is it, being a working mom? People seem to have a lot of opinions about it. They either think I'm going to be a basket case of motherly longing, or am giddy with excitement to escape the restrictive confines of motherhood for the wonderful world of personal achievement and intellectualism.
Eden was 3 1/2 months old when I went back to work nearly a year ago. Everyone told me I needed to get her to sleep in her crib before I went back so I could get a "decent night's sleep." I think she had been sleeping in bed with us ever since we brought her home from the hospital. I never intentionally decided to co-sleep (never even really thought about it) but I don't remember ever putting her in her crib. Bringing her in to bed with us just seemed like the right thing to do.
I do remember feeling really, really conflicted about it because it seemed like everyone was telling us it was something we were supposed to "grow out of." Instead, I felt like it was something we "grew into." It just felt right. Even my husband felt the same way.
Thankfully, and for whatever reason, I just couldn't bring myself to move my daughter to her crib when I went back to work like everyone told me I should. I am, oh, so very glad I followed my heart, because if we hadn't kept up the co-sleeping I am pretty darn sure we wouldn't still be breastfeeding.
I don't think I could have gone through the transition back to work full time without breastfeeding (and stayed sane). Nursing is the single best way for me to connect with Eden when I get home after being gone such long hours. It's the single best way for Eden to feel that all is right with the world, no matter how chaotic her day has been. It's our landing place, our reset to zero, our anchor in any storm.
I can't say that breastfeeding and working full time hasn't been hard. It has. Hey, breastfeeding itself isn't always easy. But it's been my lifeline, my connection to home. It has helped me meet my baby's needs even when I wasn't there in person. And being able to co-sleep through it all has been the greatest gift of all. Many days I wake up and wish that I worked from home, or could take Eden with me to work, or that somehow life was different so that I could spend my whole days with my family. So I didn't have to leave her behind.
For now, I'll just take comfort in the fact that when I get home from work we have nursing to bring us back together again.
And I'll just tuck my worry about weaning away for another day.
Molly is a relatively new mother of one from Southern Californira who is trying to take motherhood, a full-time job, and all the rest of the whirlwind of life one day at a time. She likes wine, reading, and scrapbooking; she's also a terrible gardener and can't remember birthdays to save her life. Five days a week, she heads off to her job in corporate communications while Mr. Molly, a professional musician, stays home with The Peanut. Motherhood has been making Molly more eco-concious, more patient, more tired and more aware. You can visit Molly's neck of the woods at http://mollyjarrell.blogspot.com.
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