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323 US 485 Tomkins v. State of Missouri
65 S.Ct. 370
89 L.Ed. 407
No. 64.
Argued Dec. 12, 1944.
Decided Jan. 8, 1945.
Mr. John Raeburn Green, of St. Louis, Mo., for petitioner.
Mr. Robert J. Flanagan, of St. Louis, Mo., for respondents.
Mr. Justice DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case is a companion case to Williams v. Kaiser, 323 U.S. 471, 65 S.Ct. 363. It, too, is a petition for a writ of habeas corpus here on certiorari to the Missouri Supreme Court. It is alleged in the petition that petitioner in 1934 was charged with murder in the first degree, pleaded guilty to the charge, and was convicted and sentenced to the state penitentiary for life where he is presently confined. The petition was filed in 1944. The other salient facts alleged are as follows:
'The petitioner states that in the proceedings in said Circuit Court of Pemiscot County, Missouri, he was not represented by counsel, the Court did not make an effective appointment of counsel, the petitioner did not waive his constitutional right to the aid of counsel, and he was ignorant of his right to demand counsel in his behalf, and he was incapable adequately of making his own defense.'
And he contends that he was deprived of counsel contrary to the requirements of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Here, as in the Williams case, the Supreme Court of Missouri allowed petitioner to proceed in forma pauperis but denied the petition for the reason that it 'fails to state a cause of action'. The petition for habeas corpus was denied without requiring the State to answer or without giving petitioner an opportunity to prove his allegations. And the allegations contained in the petition do not appear to be inconsistent with the recitals of the certified copy of the sentence and judgment which accompanied the petition and under which petitioner is confined. Hence, we must assume here, as in the Williams case, that the allegations of the petition are true.
Powell v. Alabama, 287 U.S. 45, 71, 53 S.Ct. 55, 65, 77 L.Ed. 158, 84 A.L.R. 527, held that at least in capital cases 'where the defendant is unable to employ counsel, and is incapable adequately of making his own defense because of ignorance, feeble-mindedness, illiteracy, or the like, it is the duty of the court, whether requested or not, to assign counsel for him as a necessary requisite of due process of law.' Under that test a request for counsel is not necessary.1 One must be assigned to the accused if he is unable to employ one and is incapable adequately of making his defense.
The petition is not drawn with the desirable precision and clarity. But we can hardly demand of a layman and pauper who draws his petition behind prison walls the skill of one trained in the law. If we were to take that course, we would compound the injury caused by the original denial of counsel. A deprivation of the constitutional right of counsel should not be readily inferred from vague allegations. But where the substance of the claim is clear, we should not insist upon more refined allegations than paupers, ignorant of their right of counsel and incapable of making their defense, could be expected to supply.
If this petition is read in that light, it satisfies the requirements of Powell v. Alabama. One who was not represented by counsel, who did not waive his right to counsel and who was ignorant of his right to demand counsel is one of the class which the rule of Powell v. Alabama was designed to protect. Certainly when we read these allegations with the further assertion in the record that petitioner was at no time prior to conviction allowed to consult with an attorney, the conclusion is irresistible that petitioner was unable to employ counsel either because he was without funds or because he was deprived of the opportunity.
The nature of the charge emphasizes the need for counsel. Under Missouri law one charged with murder in the first degree may be found guilty of that offense, of murder in the second degree, or of manslaughter. Rev.Stat.1939, §§ 4376, 4844, Mo.R.S.A. The punishments for the offenses are different. §§ 4378, 4391. The differences between them are governed by rules of construction meaningful to those trained in the law but unknown to the average layman.2 The defenses cover a wide range.3 And the ingredients of the crime of murder in the first degree as distinguished from the lesser offenses are not simple but ones over which skilled judges and practitioners have disagreements.4 The guilding hand of counsel is needed lest the unwary concede that which only bewilderment or ignorance could justify or pay a penalty which is greater than the law of the State exacts for the offense which they in fact and in law committed.
Here, as in the Williams case, the allegations of the petition may turn out to be wholly specious. But they are sufficient to establish a prima facie case of deprivation of the constitutional right. The other objections raised by Missouri have been answered in our opinion in the Williams case.
Mr. Justice ROBERTS and Mr. Justice FRANKFURTER think the writ should be dismissed for the reasons set forth in their dissent in Williams v. Kaiser, 323 U.S. 471, 65 S.Ct. 363.
As noted in the Williams case, the Missouri statute governing the appointment of counsel, Rev.Stat.1939, § 4003, Mo.R.S.A. employs the language 'arraigned upon an indictment for a felony.' The prosecution in this case was upon an information. But it seems that the Supreme Court of Missouri applies the statute in that situation as well. See State v. Terry, 201 Mo. 697, 100 S.W. 432; State v. Steelman, 318 Mo. 628, 300 S.W. 743.
In State v. Burrell, 298 Mo. 672, 680, 252 S.W. 709, 711, it was held that 'where there is willful killing with malice aforethought, that is, with malice and premeditation, but not deliberation, or in a cool state of blood, the offense is 'murder in the second degree.' Nor can any homicide be murder in the second degree unless the act causing death was committed with malice aforethought; that is, with malice and premeditation. Where there is a willful killing without deliberation and not with malice aforethought, the offense is 'manslaughter."
Self-defense and insanity are defenses. Rev.Stat.1939, § 4049, Mo.R.S.A. Justifiable or excusable homicide is a defense (id. § 4381) as those terms are defined. Id. §§ 4379, 4380.
'The law presumes the killing was murder in the second degree, in the absence of proof of attendant circumstances which tend to raise the killing to murder in the first degree or to reduce it to manslaughter.' State v. Henke, 313 Mo. 615, 638, 285 S.W. 392, 399. As to the necessity on certain evidence to give instructions on a lesser offense than murder in the first degree, see State v. Warren, 326 Mo. 843, 33 S.W.2d 125; State v. Wright, 337 Mo. 441, 85 S.W.2d 7; State v. Jackson, 344 Mo. 1055, 130 S.W.2d 595.


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Nixon in China
About this Piece
As a child growing up in New Hampshire and having for a mother an old-school liberal Democrat, an active sel ess party volunteer, I developed early on a fascination for American political life. e city of Concord, where I attended high school, was the nerve central of the presidential primary campaigns which rolled into town every four years, bringing with them the obligatory discharges of hot air, free canapés, and air-brushed, glad-handing candidates. I shook JFK's hand the night before he won the New Hampshire primary in 1960, and the first vote I ever cast was for the maverick Eugene McCarthy, whose 1968 campaign ultimately signaled the resignation of Lyndon Johnson and the slow winding down of the Vietnam War.
So it was somewhat of a natural fit when the topic of Richard Nixon, Mao Tse-Tung, capitalism, and communism should be proposed to me as the subject for an opera. e idea was that of the stage director Peter Sellars, whom I'd met – in New Hampshire, fittingly enough – in the summer of 1983. I was slow to realize the brilliance of his idea, however. By 1983 Nixon had become the stuff of bad, predictable comedy routines, and it was difficult to untangle my own personal animosity – he'd tried to send me to Vietnam – from the larger historical picture. But when the poet Alice Goodman agreed to write a verse libretto in couplets, the project suddenly took on a wonderfully complex guise, part epic, part satire, part a parody of political posturing, and part serious examination of histori- cal, philosophical, and even gender issues. All of this centered on six extraordinary personalities: the Nixons, Chairman Mao and Chiang Ch'ing (a.k.a. Madame Mao), Chou En-Lai, and Henry Kissinger. Was this not something, both in the sense of story and characterization, that only grand opera could treat?
Nixon in China took two full years to complete. Throughout the composing I felt like I was pregnant with the royal heir, so great was the attention focused on it by the media and the musical community at large. e closer I came to completing the score, the more apparent it became that there would be no sneaking this opera out discreetly in workshop. As it turned out, an unstaged sing-through with piano accompaniment done in San Francisco five months before the actual premiere attracted critics from twelve national newspapers and was even mentioned (and sardonically dismissed) by Tom Brokaw on the NBC Nightly News.
To my mind, Alice Goodman's poem is one of the great as-yet-unrecognized works of America theater. Her words are a summary, an incantation of the American experience, and her Richard Nixon is our presidential Everyman: banal, bathetic, sentimental, paranoid. Yet she does not deny him an attempt, albeit couched in homely metaphors of space travel and good business practice, to articulate a vision of American life.
Adrienne Lobel's set for the original Sellars production took its cue from Communist Chinese iconography. Reds, blues, and greens were bright and unmodulated, imparting the look and feel of old propaganda literature from the Cultural Revolution. e arrival of the Nixon delegation in Act I, a coup de theatre worthy of Aida featured an immense replica of Air Force One, the Presidential 747 from which Nixon, Pat, and Kissinger descend to be greeted by a long line of identically clad Chinese officials. The second act ballet, "The Red Detachment of Women," a study in agitprop dance, theater, and music, was based on a political ballet from the period of the Cultural Revolution that had been shaped and ideologically massaged by Madame Mao. Mark Morris' choreography featured the same absurd images of ballet dancers on point, dressed in the uniforms of the People's Revolutionary Army and brandishing rifles. In composing for this scene, I set for myself the equally absurd goal of making it sound as if it were the creation of a committee of composers, none of whom were sure of what the other was doing. is followed the line of the tradition of creating "people's" art.
Nixon's 1972 trip was in fact an epochal event, one whose magnitude is hard to imagine from our present perspective, and it was perfect for Peter Sellars' dramatic imagination. Nixon in China was for sure the first opera ever to use a staged "media event" as the basis for its dramatic structure. Even at his young age in 1987, Peter showed a deep understanding for the way people in power managed to keep themselves there. He under- stood brilliantly how dictatorships on the right and on the left throughout the century had carefully managed public opinion through a form of public theater and the cultivation of "persona" in the political arena. Both Nixon and Mao were adept manipulators of public opinion, and the second scene of Act I, the famous meeting between Mao and Nixon, brings these two complex figures together face to face in a dialogue that oscillates between philosophical sparring and political one-upmanship.
Of particular meaning to me were the roles of the two principal women, Pat and Chiang Ch'ing. Both wives of politicians, they represented the yin and the yang of the two alternatives to living with someone immersed in power and political manipulation. Pat was the ideal, the quintessence of "family values," a woman who stood by her man (preferably a foot or two in the background), embraced his causes and wore a gracious if stoic smile through a long career that could only have seen countless bouts of depression and crushing humiliation. Chang Ch'ing began her career as a movie actress and only later enlisted in the Party, accompanying Mao on the grueling Long March and ultimately became the power behind his throne, the mind and force behind that hideous experiment in social engineering, the Cultural Revolution. In the music I composed for these two women I tried to go beyond the caricature of their public personae and look at the fragility of each's relationship to her spouse. In Act II we see each in her public role: Pat is the perfect diplomatic guest, being treated to a whirlwind tour of the city and "loving every minute of it." e shrill, corrosive Chang Ch'ing interrupts the ballet to shout angry orders at the dancers and sing her credo of power and violence, "I am the Wife of Mao Tse-Tung." But in the final act, the focus of both text and music is their vulnerability, their desperate desire to roll back time to when life was simpler and feelings less compromised. Indeed, all five of the principals are virtually paralyzed by their innermost thoughts during this act. In the loneliness and solitude of his or her own bed, no one can avoid the feeling of regret, of time irretrievably lost and opportunities missed. It falls to Chou En-Lai, the only one with a modicum of self-knowledge, to ask the final question: "How much of what we did was good?"
– Excerpted from Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life by John Adams, courtesy of Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Give us grace, Almighty Father, so to pray, as to deserve to be heard, to address thee with our Hearts, as with our lips. Thou art every where present, from Thee no secret can be hid. May the knowledge of this, teach us to fix our Thoughts on Thee, with Reverence and Devotion that we pray not in vain.
Look with Mercy on the Sins we have this day committed, and in Mercy make us feel them deeply, that our Repentance may be sincere, & our resolutions stedfast of endeavouring against the commission of such in future. Teach us to understand the sinfulness of our own Hearts, and bring to our knowledge every fault of Temper and every evil Habit in which we have indulged to the discomfort of our fellow-creatures, and the danger of our own Souls. May we now, and on each return of night, consider how the past day has been spent by us, what have been our prevailing Thoughts, Words, and Actions during it, and how far we can acquit ourselves of Evil. Have we thought irreverently of Thee, have we disobeyed thy commandments, have we neglected any known duty, or willingly given pain to any human being? Incline us to ask our Hearts these questions Oh! God, and save us from deceiving ourselves by Pride or Vanity.
Give us a thankful sense of the Blessings in which we live, of the many comforts of our lot; that we may not deserve to lose them by Discontent or Indifference.
Be gracious to our Necessities, and guard us, and all we love, from Evil this night. May the sick and afflicted, be now, and ever thy care); and heartily do we pray for the safety of all that travel by Land or by Sea, for the comfort & protection of the Orphan and Widow and that thy pity may be shewn upon all Captives and Prisoners.
Above all other blessings Oh! God, for ourselves, and our fellow-creatures, we implore Thee to quicken our sense of thy Mercy in the redemption of the World, of the Value of that Holy Religion in which we have been brought up, that we may not, by our own neglect, throw away the salvation thou hast given us, nor be Christians only in name. Hear us Almighty God, for His sake who has redeemed us, and taught us thus to pray.
Our Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.


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By Ese Olumhense
Project shows promise for food production in dry areas
Using a simulator that replicates the extreme environmental conditions present on Mars, Peruvian scientists have successfully grown a small potato plant, a feat that the researchers say bodes well for both extraterrestrial agriculture and food production in dry regions of the globe.
"It's not only about bringing potatoes to Mars, but also finding a potato that can resist non-cultivable areas on Earth," astrobiologist Julio Valdivia of Peru's University of Engineering and Technology told the Associated Press (AP) on Thursday.
Valdivia is collaborating with a team at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., who helped him design the Mars environment simulator. It features below-zero temperatures, a high concentration of carbon monoxide, and the air pressure found at an altitude of nearly 20,000 feet. Work began on the potato project in 2016; both teams will continue attempting to grow potato plants in more extreme conditions to get a wider range of results.
As the AP reported on Thursday, NASA has conducted similar studies in the past. Most of this work, however, has centered on optimizing extraterrestrial environments to increase food and oxygen outputs, also known as terraforming.
Space spuds and the f-word
Here on Earth, the new research could help solve the famines that threaten an estimated 20 million people around the world, among them approximately 1.4 million children. As Valdivia said, the success of the potato experiment means that food could likely be grown in "non-cultivable areas" of Earth, including deserts and other arid regions that don't typically receive enough rainfall to sustain agriculture.
Global aid groups, including the United Nations (UN) and the World Food Program (WFP), are warning of the current risk of famine in three such areas — Somalia, Yemen, and in parts of Nigeria. In South Sudan, the world's newest country, the UN recently designated a famine in some areas, affecting more than one million.
"Famine has become a tragic reality in parts of South Sudan and our worst fears have been realized," said Serge Tissot, a U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) representative in South Sudan. "Many families have exhausted every means they have to survive."
Most of the food insecurity in these regions is the result of civil conflict — the UN has called this widespread food scarcity the most pressing humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II. A Friday WFP report said "severe" food insecurity is "worsening" globally.
Famine occurs when three conditions are met. Roughly one-third (or more) of the population in a given area is acutely malnourished; at least 20 percent of the population in the specific area has extremely limited access to food; and the death rate in this group must exceed two per 10,000 people each day. "Famine is not a word that we use lightly," Erminio Sacco, a food security expert with the FAO, told Al-Jazeera in a February interview on the crisis.
Will outer space become a haven for the wealthy?
The AP and others have pointed out the parallels between the Mars potato experiment and the 2015 movie The Martian, starring Matt Damon, who played an astronaut stranded in space. (Spoiler alert: Damon's character survives the ordeal by growing potatoes on Mars.)
Scientists in real life are closer than ever to growing food in extreme conditions, which means that humans might really be able to live in space someday. A NASA expert, speaking to the AP, mentioned "deploying" plant growth systems "before humans arrive" on other planets.
The image that statement conjures — of humans possibly moving to space — is a lot like the plot of another Matt Damon sci-fi film, Elysium. Set several decades in future, Elysium depicts a world in which the rich move to a luxurious space station, while everyone else is stranded on an environmentally-depleted Earth.
While the movie takes place in a world that's at least centuries away, private citizens are already planning their travel to space. SpaceX, the company which designs, makes, and launches spacecraft, announced this year that it would send two "very serious" passengers on a trip around the moon in late 2018. The pair has paid a "significant deposit," said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and, since he's promised the trips will be a "significant driver of revenue," one can safely assume the round trip tickets were not cheap. As The Verge points out, one berth on a Russian rocket cost NASA around $80 million.
There's no telling yet if space will indeed become a haven for the wealthy. In the meantime, though, scientists dreaming in that direction will probably improve life here on Earth.


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Associated Press: SANGEH, Indonesia — Deprived of their preferred food source — the bananas, peanuts and other goodies brought in by tourists now kept away by the coronavirus — hungry monkeys on the resort island of Bali have taken to raiding villagers' homes in their search for something tasty.
Villagers in Sangeh say the gray long-tailed macaques have been venturing out from a sanctuary about 500 meters (yards) away to hang out on their roofs and await the right time to swoop down and snatch a snack.
Worried that the sporadic sorties will escalate into an all-out monkey assault on the village, residents have been taking fruit, peanuts and other food to the Sangeh Monkey Forest to try to placate the primates.
"We are afraid that the hungry monkeys will turn wild and vicious," villager Saskara Gustu Alit said.
About 600 of the macaques live in the forest sanctuary, swinging from the tall nutmeg trees and leaping about the famous Pura Bukit Sari temple, and are considered sacred.
In normal times the protected jungle area in the southeast of the Indonesian island is popular among local residents for wedding photos, as well as among international visitors. The relatively tame monkeys can be easily coaxed to sit on a shoulder or lap for a peanut or two.
Ordinarily, tourism is the main source of income for Bali's 4 million residents, who welcomed more than 5 million foreign visitors annually before the pandemic.
The Sangeh Monkey Forest typically had about 6,000 visitors a month, but as the pandemic spread last year and international travel dropped off dramatically, that number dropped to about 500.
Since July, when Indonesia banned all foreign travelers to the island and shut the sanctuary to local residents as well, there has been nobody.
Not only has that meant nobody bringing in extra food for the monkeys, the sanctuary has also lost out on its admission fees and is running low on money to purchase food for them, said operations manager Made Mohon.
The donations from villagers have helped, but they are also feeling the economic pinch and are gradually giving less and less, he said.
"This prolonged pandemic is beyond our expectations," Made Mohon said, "Food for monkeys has become a problem."
Food costs run about 850,000 rupiah ($60) a day, Made Mohon said, for 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of cassava, the monkeys' staple food, and 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of bananas.
The macaque is an omnivore and can eat a variety of animals and plants found in the jungle, but those in the Sangeh Monkey Forest have had enough contact with humans over the years that they seem to prefer other things.
And they're not afraid to take matters into their own hands, Gustu Alit said.
Frequently, monkeys wander into the village and sit on roofs, occasionally removing tiles and dropping them to the ground. When villagers put out daily religious offerings of food on their terraces, the monkeys jump down and make off with them.
"A few days ago I attended a traditional ceremony at a temple near the Sangeh forest," Gustu Alit said. "When I parked my car and took out two plastic bags containing food and flowers as offerings, two monkeys suddenly appeared and grabbed it all and ran into the forest very fast."
Normally, the monkeys spend all day interacting with visitors — stealing sunglasses and water bottles, pulling at clothes, jumping on shoulders — and Gustu Alit theorizes that more than just being hungry, they're bored.
"That's why I have urged villagers here to come to the forest to play with the monkeys and offer them food," he said. "I think they need to interact with humans as often as possible so that they do not go wild."
Karmini reported from Jakarta. Associated Press writer David Rising in Bangkok contributed to this report.
- Top Feature Photo: Macaques eat bananas during feeding time at Sangeh Monkey Forest in Sangeh, Bali Island, Indonesia, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. Deprived of their preferred food source – the bananas, peanuts and other goodies brought in by the tourists now kept away by the coronavirus – hungry monkeys on the resort island of Bali have taken to raiding villagers' homes in the search for something tasty – AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati


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Tim Osborn - February 14, 2021
Words Fall Short: The Glory of God
From Series: "Words Fall Short"
In attempting to build categories and descriptions of God, we experience the awe, intrigue, frustration, and hope of knowing his immeasurable glory. He is both totally other than us, yet chooses to be near and make himself accessible. As we wrestle with the Glory of God, we take up the invitation to know God on his terms as we prepare to celebrate and marvel at his power and sacrifice in Jesus's death and resurrection.


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One early use of Twitter had El Fattah and a dozen or so of his collegues coordinating movements to surround a car in which their friend Malek was being held by the police, to prevent it and him from being towed away. Knowing they were being monitored, they then sent messages suggesting that many more of them were coming. The police sent reinforcements, surrounding and thus immobilizing the car themselves. This kept Malek in place until the press and the members of parliament arrived. The threat of bad publicity led to Malek's release, an outcome that would have been hard to coordinate without Twitter – Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky
James Karl Buck, a graduate journalism student from the University of California-Berkeley was in Mahalla, Egypt, covering an anti-government protest when he and his translator, Mohammed Maree, were arrested. On his way to the police station, Buck took out his cell phone and sent a single word message, "Arrested", to his friends and contacts using the micro-blogging site Twitter. This alerted them and helped secure his release(details not known)
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Mortin Pain Reliever in an effort to pitch to mom who wear their babies released a print and video ad campaign.The campaign didn't go down well with moms and they started fighting back on their blogs and Twitter. As the campaign picked momentum, the company officials realised their mistake and in order to pacify irrate customers, removed the ad from their website and apologised on their site.
– parentinghelpme.com
A few weeks back amazon users realized that many books about gays, lesbians, bisexual and transsexual issues stopped appearing in relevant searches. Enraged users and authors swung into action and started posting updates on Twitter about this with adding a hashtag #amazonfail. It wasn't long enough that Twitterverse was abuzz with #amazonfail, this led to a public communication by the company that this incident was inadvertant and soon things were fixed and back to normal.
– bbc.com
Twitter is increasingly being used for activism of sorts. Be it customers protesting against a product/company, or citizens campaigning against their government officials/policies, Twitter is the platform of choice when it comes to raising your voice against an issue or coordinating a protest(online and offline both).
Social media activism has graduated from protests in blogosphere, groups in social networking sites to #hashmobs on Twitter. The reasons for Twitter's success as a platform for activism are
1) Critical Mass: Twitter has gained enormous mass since last year and is now a force to reckon with. Millions of users from all parts of the world use it to stay connected with their friends and family. It's not just people like you and me, there are some really big brands that have presence on Twitter.
2) Dense Connectivity: Twitter is one of the most densely connected networks of all. It won't be wrong to say "On Twitter, everyone is connected to everyone", which means getting the word out is a lot easier. Chances of people noticing something and sharing it with others is quite high. The ease of sharing content(RT ) is another reason for word to be spread easily.
3) Search: Awesome search functionality, made further useful by trending topics make the discoverability of memes a lot easier. With the latest changes, everyone can see the trending topics on their Twitter page. This without any effort discoverability is really helpful in getting more eyeballs.
4) High visibility outside the platform: What makes a protest on Twitter better from say one of Facebook is that Twitter updates are more shareable(via blog widgets, feeds) than Facebook messages. Also, thanks to dozens of really popular tools, Twitter updates are just not limited to the website, you can get updates on your desktop app, mobile phone and email.
5) Hooked Traditional Media: There's enough traditional media presence on Twitter which is eager to pick the next big story. So anything of significance in Twitterverse is quite likely to be noticed by them and spread further.
It would be interesting to see how activism on Twitter evolves from this point on. I'd like to end this post by sharing a list of Twitter Activism related protests/campaigns.
1. James Karl Buck: Arrested
2. #MortinMoms
3. StopPikeHike
4. Using Twitter to coordinate war protest
5. G20 summit protestors used Twitter and Facebook
6. Protest against Section92A, New Zealand
7. Inside Maldova's Twitter revolution
8. Coordinating Malek's release
9. #AmazonFail
10. Domino's Social Media Disaster
11. Twittering Forest Fires
12. Twitter Charity(Twestival) raises more than US $250,000
Lastly here's a nicely writter guide by digiactive to get you started with Twitter Activism


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VIDEO: Remarkable footage of endangered tiger cubs born at Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Tigress Tschuna and the cubs' father Vladimir are Amur Tigers, whose numbers in their native habitat in the Russian Far East have dwindled to approximately 450 due to poaching and disappearing habitat.
The four-year-old mother was hand-reared from birth and rangers at the park were concerned that her maternal instincts might not kick in but she has proved to be a model mum so far, as amazing pictures of the birth and Tschuna greeting her new cubs have shown.
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"It was so heart-warming to see how Tschuna took to motherhood and how natural the new family is. Both the birth and her bonding to the cubs was all captured - it is truly enchanting footage and I am glad that we are able to share it with everyone "
The cubs were born on March 29 and Tschuna is still caring for and feeding her cubs inside the house in the Land of Tigers. They will not be seen by visitors at the Park for some weeks to come, but the Park will be releasing further footage as the cubs grow.
The parents and another tigress Sayan enjoy life in the 8000m² Land of the Tigers, a purpose designed two acre reserve at the award winning wildlife Park in Doncaster.
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The move was recommended by the European Stud Book Coordinator for the breeding programme for the endangered Amur Tigers. Rangers at YWP were delighted when she was successfully introduced to Vladimir in September 2013, but it was not all love at first sight.
"Vladimir was a complete wimp even though Tschuna was tiny next to him," said Animal Development Manager Simon Marsh . "She made the first move but he was horrified. It was a slow courtship but developed with time and we now have three new Amur tiger cubs. This is a major success for YWP – the most important births we have had here so far "
On the 150m walkway at Land of the Tiger, visitors feel just a heartbeat away from nature as they observe the tigers exploring the waterfalls and woodland. The Yorkshire Wildlife Park Foundation raises money at the Park to help Amur Tigers and Leopards in the wild by supporting the Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance.
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As well as the Tigers there are Amur Leopards, Giraffes, African Painted Dogs, Lions, Meerkats, Camels and many many more.
The Park will be monitoring the progress of the cubs and will release more news on the Park website and through social media.
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All of the sales brochures from all 1980-1983 aftermarket convertor
Mustang Convertibles have arrived, and I've made a study of each.
Herewith the findings:-
Each were substantially different, allthough upon a glance they all
looked very, very similiar.
Bivouac (Bivouac - P.O. Box 279 - Vandalia, Michigan 49095 (616)-476-
9794). There car was the only 2-seater of the bunch. It sported the
3-window rear top design, but the small triangular small wrap around
windows were considerably larger than what was used on the
ascMcLaren. The cars were 1981 & 1982s, from what I can tell. The
working of the roof was similiar, but different! There was a fairly
large "chest-type" of a storage container behind the front buckets
that had chrome chest-type clamp closures on top of it, near the hard
fiberglass tonneau cover, that was very, very similiar to our
ascMcLarens. The convertible top appears NOT to have the power pull-
down, but rather to snap on snaps on the tonneau cover to hold it
down. (Seems easily broken into, since thesnaps were on the
exterior)!! Overall it looks more "Back-yard made" than does the
ascMcLarens, that look more professionally designed.
automobili intermeccanica C`abrio (a.i.c.) - 18475 Bandilier Circle,
Fountain Valley, California 92708 (704)-556-1011
Factories also in: Sacramento, Calif. / Hillsdale, Michigan /
Toronto, Canada and Monterey, Mexico.
The C`abrio is easily mistaken for the Bivouac. However there are
many differences. The C`brio leaves the rear seat intact, therby
making it a 4-passenger car. The convertible roof has the large rear
center window of the Bivouac, BUT the C`abrio lacks the two corner
small triangular wrap around windows. The "C" pillar of the
convertible roof is solid vinyl, very traditional. Like the Bivouac,
the "C" pillar area features chrome snaps to snap the convertible top
down onto. This car was made between 1980 & 1982. A handfull of 1983
may have also been made. Total Production was around 1,200 units.
"The Pony Convertible" by A.H.A. (Andrew A. Hotton
AHA Manufacturing / 5309 Manigate Drive, Mississauga, Ontario L4W 1G6
Canada (416) 625-6860.
Sad to say, compared to the high quality, factory looking stretch
sedans and limousines and Continential convertibles that were tour-de
force impeccably made by AHA, this here Pony Convertible was a mess!
It sported AHA made vent windows, but they did NOT open. The "boot"
was 10 miles long in looks and bore maybe 30 snaps. The convertible
roof (when in the "UP" posistion, also snapped onto the 30 snaps!)
In an attemp to cut down on the blind spot created by a gigantic "C"
pillar area, AHA actually placed in that area a clear plastic window
in the shape of an upside-down pyramid. The rear window was large
plastic. Being kind, the total effect of the car was "unusual and not
balanced in appearance". 1980-1983. Unknown # made.
In a prior note, I mentioned the "Swift Edition by Tomaso" as well as
an "American Pullman" Edition. Since that time, I have learned
exactly what this was. Neither company had anything to do with the
making of these cars. They were mearly middle-men or thinly
disguised vendors masquerading as manufacturers. They, (probably
along with many others that I have not found) were merely fronting
for a company called "Classic Coachworks, Inc." of Orlando
Florida. "C.C." was the actual manufacturer of this product that went
by whatever name the vendor decided to call it. Tomaso of America
(11125 Arcade / {POB # 5692} of Little Rock, Ark 72216 (501) 227-0284
was one of the dealers down south. The President at the time was a
Russell E. Swift as well his brother Tom Swift. Therefore they
called theirs the "Swift~Edition". Another vendor was a limousine
convertor in New York City, named American Pullman. A.M. was known
for their Cadillac Limousines. They too were a vendor for the C.C.
product. All orders filtered thru Sun State Ford (Owner: Bill
Krebs). Sun State Ford was at 3535 West Colonial Drive, Orlando,
Fla. They were the closest Ford dealer to C.C. and Sun State charged
C.C. $65.00 over invoice for each Mustang. The ordered cars from
dealers/customers from all around the country all went thru Sun State
Ford, and were delivered there for C.C. to pick-up.
American Pullman was located at 1700 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn,
This C.C. example took a little from each of the above. The
convertible roof from the C`abrio; the rear window design from the
Bivouac and the inclusion of the rear seat, from the C.C. as well as
the C`abrio. They too were made from 1980-1982. No available #s on
total production.
Convertible tops on all of them were available in black, dark blue,
dark brown and light tan. Body paints were anything Ford offered in
any particular year. Likewise any options available were good to
go. Examples came with the 4-Cyl, the Turbo-4, the six & the V-8,
any transmissions and many different seats, from cloth to velour to
leather to Recaros. All cars began as a 2-Door Sedan. Rear
Defrosters and Vinyl Roofs and T-Top or Sun Roofs were the only items
that were taboo to order.
When Ford unveiled the 1983 "Factory made" {Yes, I know it was made
by Cars & Concepts of Brighton, Michigan) but it was touted as
Factory Made by Ford....it pretty much overshadowed all of the
herewith aforementioned products and ran them out of business,
literally overnight. No longer did a product have to take 90 days to
arrive, it could be delivered from Ford in 30 days, and be 100%
warranteed by FORD. This spelled doomsday for all of the above
companies Mustang Convertible Projects.
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save time and money
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Department of State 'Rightsizes' its Overseas Presence
As part of the President's Management Agenda initiative "A 'Right-Sized' Overseas Presence," the
Department of State
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Department of State Global Publishing Solutions
Since the end of World War II, the
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for the same amount of money.
NASA Shared Services Center
's management used a "best value trade-off competition" to determine the most effective and efficient way to eliminate redundant systems and processes and improve support services. Previously, human resources, procurement, financial management, and information technology activities were carried out at ten different centers throughout the country. Through a competitive process, NASA identified the provider that could best help NASA achieve the successful consolidation of these activities into one shared services center. NASA projects that changes resulting from the competition will improve efficiency and
reduce the cost
of internal support operations by more than $40 million over 10 years.
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Sixteen Federal Government agencies collect and access intelligence information. To better coordinate the sharing of Top Secret (TS) information, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) launched a website, Intellipedia.
All 16 agencies of the Intelligence Community can share and update data
. By January 2007, just eight months after launch, Intellipedia had grown to more than 5,000 registered users and 60,000 pages on the TS network.
Record Low Error Rates at the Food Stamp Program
USDA's Food Stamp Program is the cornerstone of our nation's effort to ensure access to nutritious food for every household in America. However, the program's history of accomplishment has often been coupled with a perception that the program wastes taxpayer dollars by giving benefits to ineligible people or providing benefits in the wrong amount. In recent years, USDA has continually worked to improve the program by (1) creating a rigorous performance measurement system that rewards states for good performance and sanctions those that exceed the national error rate two years in a row; (2) working with Congress to simplify program rules and thus make improper payments less likely, and (3) partnering with States to share best practices. As a result of USDA's effort, 2005 was the program's seventh consecutive year of improvement, representing a 45% reduction in the payment error rate. To place this improvement in a financial perspective, if the FY 1998 overpayment error rate of 7.6 percent had not decreased to 4.5 percent in FY 2005, nearly $900 million more in food stamp benefits would have been issued in error.


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JERUSALEM (JTA) — As his weight dropped and his face grew gaunt, Khader Adnan became the latest Palestinian cause celebre.
Israel arrested Adnan, a 33-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank village of Arraba, on Dec. 17 and placed him in administrative detention. The former spokesman for the terrorist group Islamic Jihad was one of thousands of Palestinians over the years who have been arrested and held by Israel for months on end without charges.
What made Adnan's case different was the hunger strike he launched after his arrest, galvanizing Palestinians and some Israeli human right activists, and catching the attention of international media.
On Tuesday, after 66 days without eating and with his condition reportedly critical, Adnan agreed to end his hunger strike after Israel said it would release him when the order for his administrative detention ends in mid-April — if no new evidence is brought against him.
The deal with Israel's state prosecutor came less than an hour before the Israeli Supreme Court was to hold a hearing on Adnan's case and as Israeli security officials warned that Adnan's death could spark a wave of violent demonstrations throughout the West Bank.
"I always dreamt of marrying someone strong, someone who struggles in defense of his country," Adnan's wife, Randa, told Al Jazeera. "When I married him I knew I should expect anything. I am proud of him, whether he is under the ground or above it."
Adnan's case ignited a debate in Israel about the issue of administrative detention. Over the past few weeks, thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have held rallies to support Adnan, and several dozen Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv last week calling for Adnan's release and an end to the practice of administrative detention.
The legal basis for Israeli administrative detention is a British mandate law from 1946, part of a Law on Authority in States of Emergency. Administrative detention orders are issued for a maximum of six months, although they can be easily renewed. A military judge must confirm the order.
Israel often uses administrative detention when the evidence against a defendant is based on information from the security services. In many cases, Israeli officials say a public trial could reveal sensitive security information, such as the identities of Palestinian informers or Israeli security agents who have infiltrated Palestinian organizations.
"It's always a dilemma," said Jonathan Livny, a lawyer and former military judge for more than 20 years. "I never felt like I had the tools to make a decision on whether to uphold an administrative detention order. Most often I upheld or shortened it, but rarely canceled it."
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Adameer, a Palestinian human rights group, says that some 20,000 Palestinians have been held under administrative detention orders since 2000.
"Administrative detention is a draconian measure," B'Tselem spokeswoman Sarit Michaeli told JTA. "You're taking away a person's liberty without due process, without a trial and without the person being able to fight against these charges."
Michaeli said that while administrative detention is not illegal, it should be used only in very limited circumstances, not for widespread detention of hundreds of Palestinians.
Some in Israel defend the use of administrative detention as an effective means of preventing terrorist attacks against Israel.
"Administrative detention is a tool used when information pertaining to a case is based on sensitive sources that cannot be released," said Israel Defense Forces spokesman Eytan Buchman. "Defendants retain the right to appeal the court order, both to the military court and to the High Court of Justice."
Administrative detention has been used occasionally against Israelis, including in the aftermath of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. But it is most often used against Palestinians.
Many Israeli politicians support administrative detention.
"We have seen periods when buses were blowing up in Jerusalem. Administrative detention helps secure the well-being of Israelis," said the Likud Party's Danny Danon, a member of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
But several Israeli human rights groups say that the practice of administrative detention contradicts international law and must be ended. Amnesty International had launched a campaign urging Israel to free Adnan and to stop the practice of administrative detention.
"Under administrative detention, detainees' right to a fair trial as guaranteed by Article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) are consistently violated," Amnesty wrote in a statement.
This isn't the first time Adnan has been in prison. Palestinian reports said Adnan had been detained eight times by Israel and once by the Palestinian Authority, in 2010. It's not clear whether his current detention is related to any direct involvement in terrorist attacks. In his village of Arraba, Adnan reportedly owns a bakery.


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Most of your dentist's patients enjoy robust health, and he or she is thankful for that. In fact, if you are faithful about your "recall" appointments (regular check-ups) he or she probably sees you more often than your physician does. That means much more to him or her than finding a small cavity, or more than a chance to catch up on your comings and goings between visits.
As your primary dental health care provider, your dentist has a singular and weighty responsibility: early detection of disease. When he or she sizes up the health of your gums, tongue, neck, jaw, the mental check-list is long, he or she looks and feels. He or she "invisibly" observes your general health, head, skin, glands, sinuses (and teeth, of course).
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The incident left 32 people dead, including two Americans. Evidence, timeline, analysis, conclusion(s), recommendations and a draft report are to be formalized over the next few months of the investigation.
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Market Divided, By Type
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Market Divided, By Sales Channel
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