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Who doesn't want to wear a bold red lip or a smoldering, smoky eye from time to time? Even if your daily look is casual, it's always fun to punch it up occasionally. Ahead are tutorials for a bold lip and eye look inspired, respectively, by two of street style's most famous stars: eccentric brand consultant and entrepreneur Michelle Harper and supermodel Joan Smalls.
Makeup artist Lauren Cosenza shows us how it's done.
First up, meet Michelle Harper. Her red lip seems too perfect to duplicate, but good news: that's all an illusion.
Here's how to get her look:
1. "When wearing red (or any pop of color for that matter), the lips command full attention, so dry, flaky skin is a no-no," says Cosenza. "Exfoliate your lips using a disposable mascara wand or a dry toothbrush."
2. "After you've sloughed away any dead skin on your lips, prep them with a balm or a lip conditioner," she says. "Carly used Aquaphor and then blotted her lips with a tissue after a minute or so to lift any excess. Leaving a lot of lip balm on before you apply red lipstick tends to make it look sheer, which you don't want if you're going for an opaque effect."
3. "Apply lip liner (that's similar in color to the red lipstick you'll be using later) to the border of the lips," explains Cozenza. "This creates a boundary that will prevent the lipstick from bleeding or feathering onto your skin. Carly used MAC Lip Liner in Redd here."
4. "Then, lightly fill in your lips with the same lip liner used to outline them to give the lipstick something to adhere to," she adds. "This trick also makes a non long-wearing lipstick last for hours."
5. "Coat your lips in a red lipstick that works best for your coloring (go for orange-based shades if you have a warmer skin tone, and blue-based ones for cooler complexions)," says Cosenza. "Carly used Lancome Rouge in Love 170N, a cool red because her skin is on the fair side. One way to find out if your skin is warm or cool is to look at the veins in your wrist. If they look blue, you're cool and if they're green, you're warm-toned."
6. Powder your lips to finish the look. "To mimic Michelle's satin-y matte finish—and to make the lip color that much more long-wearing—dust your lips with a translucent powder to instantly mattify them," says Cozenza. "Carly used Make Up For Ever HD Microfinish Powder to get this effect."
7. Pucker up, because, girl, you're done!
8. Go out and show off that signature lip color on Saturday night. Just be prepared for the barage of compliments you're going to get. You're welcome.
Next up, meet Joan Smalls, model and dresser extraordinaire. Her smoky eye looks daunting, but it's completely doable.
Here's how to get Joan's sexy smoky look:
1. "Prep your eyes with a shadow primer," suggests Cozenza. "This helps the eye shadow you're about to apply stay put. Model Diandra used Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion."
2. Run a flesh-tone eyeliner along your lower waterline. "This opens the eyes a bit so the jet black liner that's about to fully rim them doesn't make them appear smaller. Diandra applied Stila Kajal eyeliner in Topaz here," explains Cosenza.
3. "Dust an eyeshadow that mimics your natural skintone from your top lash line to the brow bone," she says. "This provides a touch of added depth for the black shadow to be layered over, so it look multidimensional instead of dull. In this case, MAC Cork was used."
4. Define the eye by gliding a jet black eyeliner along your upper and lower lash line. "Then, use an eyeshadow brush with short dense bristles to smudge the black liner. You want top pull the color downward slightly from your lower lashes and upward toward the crease along your upper lash line," adds Cosenza. "The effect should be a sooty, sultry one. You're going for that imperfect on purpose look."
5. "Apply black eyeshadow starting at your upper lash line towards the brow bone, concentrating the color along the lashes and toward the outer corner," she says. "Then, blend the black shadow into the base shadow (see step 3) so it appears seamless and gradated."
6. "Layer a metallic cream product onto the center of your smoky eye to give it that on-trend sheen," suggests Cosenza. "Diandra used Victoria's Secret HyperGloss in Black—it dries down and has staying power, but still looks wet and shimmery—aka very sexy."
7. Finish with mascara and really layer it on. Diandra used Givenchy Phenomen'Eyes Mascara to get her full-looking lashes.
8. Werk this look like the confident girl you are. You can even pair it with the red lip above if you're ballsy enough to go for it. Otherwise, a nude lip is a smoky eye's best friend.
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Vegan Cooking School Options Program
So you are vegan and also have this passionate passion for food. You want to pursue this passion further, but you are unsure exactly what the vegan cooking school choices are available. Happily, there are many! You will find a number of schools that concentrate on plant-based meals, and lots of that are not solely vegan could be aimed toward you, which means you will not end up chopping chickens and preparing fish if you are not into that.
There are lots of casual plant-based cooking classes all over the world if you are searching for something for entertainment with no fancy certification. In the following paragraphs, though, I focus more about professional programs which have different levels of intensity. Some require only some time and cash if you won't want to be considered a professional chef others will give you the entire distance to running your personal kitchen.
Without further ado as well as in no particular order, here are some some popular schools all over the world, with a few details about each.
Living Light Cooking Institute
Where's it? Fort Bragg, California
Exactly what do they provide? 100% vegan and raw food instruction
When perform the programs run? Multiple occasions annually, with respect to the program
Website: http://www.canadagoose-ctb.us/
The Living Light Cooking Institute is situated in a little seaside community around the Mendocino coast. If you value the sea, temperate weather, and raw vegan cuisine, you'll love this school. Operated by Cherie Soria, the "mother of raw food", this is actually the raw foods institute. This is actually the one which draws individuals from all across the globe and produces top-of-the-line celebrity chefs of all types.
There are many kinds of courses, together with a Gourmet Chef Certification Series (6 days), Advanced Instructor Training Certification Series (4 days), Raw Food Diet Educator Series, and also the full-out Professional Chef Series, which runs almost a whole year, together with a 250-day internship in the school.
Most of the well-known raw food chefs all over the world visited Living Light for his or her training, including Chad Sarno and Jennifer Cornbleet.
Natural Gourmet Institute
Where's it? New You are able to, NY
Exactly what do they provide? Public classes and professional chef training which are plant-based and vegan-friendly
When perform the programs run? Inquire by e-mail online
Website: naturalgourmetinstitute.com
The Chef's Training course they provide is definitely an intensive, professional course which may be played-time or full-time, but runs 619 hrs. This school does educate people how you can prepare sea food, chicken and eggs, but when you are vegan you are able to opt from that. This school teaches an array of cooking styles, including how you can ferment, prepare raw foods and macrobiotic foods, as well as Traditional chinese medicine and medicinal cooking. The emphasis is on whole, plant foods.
Natural Gourmet Institute provides a fun Friday night dinner, in which the people signed up for the college make a fine-dining experience for everyone at big, communal tables (with candlelight!), therefore if you are in the region, you can swing by and find out the content.
The Matthew Kenney Academy -formerly the 105 Levels Academy
Where's it? Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Exactly what do they provide? Chef certification enter in raw foods
When perform the programs run? Monthly, or several occasions annually for that more complex classes
Website: kenneycuisine.com
Matthew Kenney offers really small and private raw food chef's training classes (typically 4-8 people). It's created for beginners and chefs alike.
There's two 4-week workout sessions – Level 1: Fundamentals of Raw Cuisine, and Level 2: Advanced Raw Cuisine. The Amount 1 courses run each month and it is Monday to Friday, 9am – 3pm. The Amount 2 course runs 4 occasions annually and is identical hrs because the Level 1 classes.
Cordon Vert School
Where's it? Altrincham, Cheshire, United kingdom
Exactly what do they provide? Vegetarian leisure classes and workshops, a qualification program for professional chefs only
When perform the programs run? Several occasions all year round programs are short
Website: cordonvert.co.united kingdom
The Cordon Vert School offers classes in their Vegetarian Society headquarters, plus they have rooms for lodging. There is a number of vegetarian courses, varying from one to two day workshops, courses of instruction for leisure, and professional classes. Their professional diploma class, per week in duration, is just open to professional chefs. However, their workshops and leisure classes are available to everyone, and occur frequently all year round.
Natural Epicurean Academy of Cooking
Where's it? Austin, Texas
Exactly what do they provide? Full professional chef program that's vegan-friendly, public classes
When perform the programs run? Begins every August and Feb
Website: naturalepicurean.com
This school focuses on vegetarian, vegan, macrobiotic, ayurvedic and raw preparing food and cuisine. They provide a complete 900-hour professional chef training course. All the training takes roughly another of the year, should you jump directly from training into internship. It is really an intensive course which will fully help you prepare to operate inside a natural kitchen.
Additionally they offer public classes, though they are sparse and rarely because of the focus on the professional chef training course.
The College of Natural Cookery
Where's it? Boulder, Colorado
Exactly what do they provide? Professional training like a foundation course, using the choice to go further
When perform the programs run? The majority are within the Fall and Spring
Website: naturalcookery.com
The building blocks course in the School of Natural Cookery is really a 16-week diploma course in which you learn fundamentals, bread making, gastronomy, diet and much more. Driving under the influence a really high mark within this course, you might have a 4-week personal chef course or teacher training program. However, to be able to pursue the teacher training program, you'll want finished their classes in addition to have 5 years knowledge about natural food.
Classes are typically offered for any spring semester along with a fall semester and run the duration of the school semester.
Vegan Culinary Academy
Where's it? Anguin, California
Exactly what do they provide? Web based classes along with a 1000 hour professional apprenticeship
When perform the programs run? Anytime
Website: veganculinaryacademy.com
There's two major popular features of this school – first, somebody that is searching for any professional apprenticeship chance will discover it here, also it can be finished in six several weeks to 2 years for the way much you're employed, and 2nd, they provide a distance education program. The internet program requires only that you've a camera along with a computer with internet, and every student will get personal attention in the instructors additionally to all the class materials and training. The apprenticeship is aimed toward individuals who're already chefs, dietitians or food service company directors.
Paradise on the planet Vegetarian Institute
Where's it? Hamilton-Stoney Creek, Ontario
Exactly what do they provide? A vegan, macrobiotic and ayurvedic 3-module program
When perform the programs run? Mid-October to mid-March for those 3 modules
Website: heavenstudio.ca
This institute provides a Holistic Health Consultant & Cooking Certification program that runs in 3 modules and goes beyond cooking. It delves into many facets of holistic health, including yoga, pranayama, lifestyle and diet changes for stopping illnesses, not to mention healthy food choices preparation. All the cooking is vegan except for one class, where fish is incorporated.
Natural Kitchen Cooking School
Where's it? Mercerfield, Nj, Haddonfield, Nj and New You are able to City
Exactly what do they provide? An all natural chef training course
When perform the programs run? October to May, one weekend every month
Website: naturalkitchenschool.com
This school has lots of locations and occurs during weekends, which makes it readily available. The category sizes are stored small (12 or fewer) so personal attention and assistance could be given.
Their list is in no way comprehensive, however it does cover the main vegan-friendly cooking schools available. Each year, increasingly more small classes appear in various metropolitan areas, therefore if you are just searching for many fundamental instruction and also have little interest in going after a job in cooking, take a look at what your city (or nearby city) provides. If you're searching to obtain serious with preparing that awesome vegan food, there's a couple of great alternatives on their list that can help you achieve your dreams.
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Rachel Ries Sifts Through Her Past In 'Time' (Video Premiere)
After releasing new music last month for the first time since 2008, singer and songwriter Rachel Ries today accompanies her new album with a video for the song "Time," which premieres on Speakeasy.
The song is a moody piano number, and the clips rotates among scenes of the South Dakotan daughter of Mennonite missionaries singing alone in a darkened room, cosseted in an easy chair and wandering through a lighted, but empty, house, as if searching for something, or someone, she can't find.
"'Time' is a song that lives in its own willful dreamworld—it's both an internal battle and palliative pep talk to myself," Ries told Speakeasy. "In making the video we wanted to keep to a bit of a fantasy world and play with elements of home, family, death and, ultimately, moving onward. It's a capture of me, sifting through my past, oblivious to the outside and whoever may be watching."
Ries' new album, "Ghost of a Gardener," is her first release since 2008's "Country EP," a split-45 with the singer Anaïs Mitchell. Since then, Ries has toured with Mitchell and on her own, worked in theater in Chicago and, for some reason, learned to repair Wurlitzer organs.
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A parasite is decimating the honeybee population of Silicon Valley in California, turning the insects into zombies, San Francisco biologists theorize, according to MercuryNews.com.
Infected bees go mad, abandoning their hive in a suicidal rush toward bright lights, according to a new study by San Francisco State researchers.
"It's the flight of the living dead," said lead investigator and biology professor John Hafernik, also president of the California Academy of Sciences.
The parasite, a tiny fly, has been found in bees from three-quarters of the 31 surveyed hives in the Bay Area.
The scientists speculate this parasitic phorid fly (Apocephalus borealis) could be one of many contributing factors of Colony Collapse Disorder, the phenomenon of failing honeybee hives around the United States, a top concern to the agriculture industry, which depends on pollination.
If zombie insects rings a bell, think back to 2009, when in Texas, researchers began fighting stinging fire ants with parasitic flies, in fact another phorid fly that is attacking the honeybees, Pseudacteon obtusus:
The tool is the tiny phorid fly, native to a region of South America where the fire ants in Texas originated. Researchers have learned that as many as 23 phorid species along with pathogens attack fire ants to keep their population and movements under control.
So far, four phorid species have been introduced in Texas, where fire ants cost the economy about $1 billion annually by damaging circuit breakers and other electrical equipment, according to a Texas A&M study. They can also threaten young calves.
The flies "divebomb" the fire ants and lay eggs, and then the maggot that hatches inside the ant eats away at the brain. Later, the ant gets up and starts wandering for about two weeks, said Rob Plowes, a research associate at the University of Texas at Austin.


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Beyond the battleships and war horses, what did Barack Obama and Mitt Romney talk about in their foreign policy debate?
A "word cloud" analysis of Monday night's debate in Boca Raton reveals that the two candidates took a very different approach to persuading voters to back them on Nov. 6.
Romney talked most about the world in general — using words such as "world." Obama specifically mentioned Israel, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Egypt and China more than the Republican candidate.
Romney also talked about the military more times than Obama, while the president spoke more about leadership.
Romney repeated more words than Obama which indicates that he had an arsenal of key phrases and soundbites prepared for debate delivery. But the variety in Obama's language indicated a greater attention to detail.
A final note: Neither candidate used the word "future" very often. This debate was much more about the present and the past — like those 1917 battleships.


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Publications: Fetherston, Catherine
Journal Article
Browne, C.A.ORCID: 0000-0003-4793-1454 and Fetherston, C.M. (2018) How do we facilitate international clinical placements for nursing students: A cross-sectional exploration of the structure, aims and objectives of placements. Nurse Education Today, 66 . pp. 1-7.
Wall, P., Fetherston, C. and Browne, C.ORCID: 0000-0003-4793-1454 (2018) Understanding the enrolled nurse to registered nurse journey through a model adapted from Schlossberg's transition theory. Nurse Education Today, 67 . pp. 6-14.
Mortimer-Jones, S. and Fetherston, C. (2018) The nursification of a bioscience unit and its impact on student satisfaction and learning in an undergraduate nursing degree. Nurse Education Today, 64 . pp. 1-4.
Hopkins, M., Fetherston, C.M. and Morrison, P.ORCID: 0000-0002-3389-8393 (2017) Aggression and violence in healthcare and its impact on nursing students: A narrative review of the literature. Nurse Education Today, 62 . pp. 158-163.
Fetherston, C.M., Browne, C.ORCID: 0000-0003-4793-1454, Andrus, P. and Batt, S. (2017) Renewal of an entry to practice baccalaureate nursing curriculum: Adapting to complexity. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 8 (2). pp. 104-115.
Batt, S., Geerlings, P. and Fetherston, C. (2016) Health characteristics and self-identified health promotion needs of army personnel in Perth Western Australia. Journal of Military and Veterans' Health, 24 (2).
Nilson, C.ORCID: 0000-0003-3975-3862, Kearing, G., Fetherston, C. and Morrison, P.ORCID: 0000-0002-3389-8393 (2015) Art from the heart: Using art narrative to describe the experiences of a health promotion program in an Australian aboriginal community. International Journal of Arts, Theory and History, 10 (3). pp. 13-32.
Browne, C.A.ORCID: 0000-0003-4793-1454, Fetherston, C.M. and Medigovich, K. (2015) International clinical placements for Australian undergraduate nursing students: A systematic thematic synthesis of the literature. Nurse Education Today, 35 (10). pp. 1028-1036.
Walker, L., Fetherston, C. and McMurray, A. (2015) Perceptions of interprofessional education in the Australian Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) course. Family Medicine, 47 (6). pp. 435-444.
Li, W., Fetherston, C. and Medigovich, K. (2015) Taoist Tai Chi for health: The characteristics and patterns of practice of Western Australian practitioners. Health Behaviour & Public Health, 5 (1). pp. 1-7.
Nilson, C.ORCID: 0000-0003-3975-3862, Kearing-Salmon, K-A, Morrison, P.ORCID: 0000-0002-3389-8393 and Fetherston, C. (2015) An ethnographic action research study to investigate the experiences of Bindjareb women participating in the cooking and nutrition component of an Aboriginal health promotion programme in regional Western Australia. Public Health Nutrition, 18 (18). pp. 3394-3405.
Hopkins, M., Fetherston, C.M. and Morrison, P.ORCID: 0000-0002-3389-8393 (2014) Prevalence and characteristics of aggression and violence experienced by Western Australian nursing students during clinical practice. Contemporary Nurse, 49 (1). pp. 113-121.
Fetherston, C. and Young, J. (2013) Concerning conclusions that may negatively impact on safe sleeping, successful breastfeeding, parent wellbeing and open communication between health professionals and parents. BMJ Open .
Nilson, C.ORCID: 0000-0003-3975-3862, Fetherston, C., McMurray, A. and Fetherston, T. (2013) Creative arts: An essential element in the teacher's toolkit when developing critical thinking in children. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 38 (7). pp. 1-17.
Walker, L.J.M., Fetherston, C.M. and McMurray, A. (2013) Perceived changes in the knowledge and confidence of doctors and midwives to manage obstetric emergencies following completion of an Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics course in Australia. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 53 (6). pp. 525-531.
Nilson, C.ORCID: 0000-0003-3975-3862, Fetherston, C. and McMurray, A. (2013) Teachers' and mothers' perceptions of using creative arts to develop children's potential for critical thinking. International Journal of Arts Education, 7 (1). pp. 1-16.
Fetherston, C. and Leach, J.S. (2012) Analysis of the ethical issues in the breastfeeding and bedsharing debate. Breastfeeding Review, 20 (3). pp. 7-17.
Fetherston, C. and Ward, S. (2011) Relationships between post operative pain management and short term functional mobility in total knee arthroplasty patients with a femoral nerve catheter: A preliminary study. Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 6 (1). Article No. 7.
Fetherston, C.M. and Wei, L. (2011) The benefits of tai chi as a self management strategy to improve health in people with chronic conditions. Journal of Nursing and Healthcare of Chronic Illness, 3 (3). pp. 155-164.
McMurray, A., Chaboyer, W., Wallis, M. and Fetherston, C. (2010) Implementing bedside handover: Strategies for change management. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 19 (17-18). pp. 2580-2589.
Fetherston, C.M., Lai, C.T. and Hartmann, P.E. (2008) Recurrent blocked duct(s) in a mother with immunoglobulin A deficiency. Breastfeeding Medicine, 3 (4). pp. 261-265.
McMurray, A., Blazey, L. and Fetherston, C. (2008) The effect of intradialytic foot pedal exercise on blood pressure, phosphate removal efficiency and health related quality of life in hemodialysis patients. Renal Society of Australasia Journal, 4 (2). pp. 6-12.
Fetherston, C.M., Tat Lai, C., Mitoulas, L.R. and Hartmann, P.E. (2006) Excretion of lactose in urine as a measure of increased permeability of the lactating breast during inflammation. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 85 (1). pp. 20-25.
Fetherston, C.M., Lai, C.T. and Hartmann, P.E. (2006) Relationships between symptoms and changes in breast physiology during lactation mastitis. Breastfeeding Medicine, 1 (3). pp. 136-145.
Fetherston, C.M., Wells, J.I. and Hartmann, P.E. (2006) Severity of mastitis symptoms as a predictor of C-reactive protein in milk and blood during lactation. Breastfeeding Medicine, 1 (3). pp. 127-135.
Fetherston, C. (2001) Mastitis in lactating women: physiology or pathology? Breastfeeding review, 9 (1-2). pp. 50-12.
Fetherston, C. (1998) Risk factors for lactation mastitis. Journal of Human Lactation, 14 (2). pp. 101-109.
Fetherston, C. (1997) Characteristics of lactation mastitis in a Western Australian cohort. Breastfeeding review, 5 (2). pp. 5-11.
Fetherston, C. (1997) Management of lactation mastitis in a Western Australian cohort. Breastfeeding review, 5 (2). pp. 13-19.
Fetherston, C. (1995) Breastfeeding twins: two onto one does go: A case study. Breastfeeding review, 3 (1). pp. 34-35.
Fetherston, C. (1995) Factors influencing breastfeeding initiation and duration in a private Western Australian maternity hospital. Breastfeeding review, 3 (1). pp. 9-14.
Non-refereed Article
Fetherston, C. (2013) Answers to questions about the risks of bed sharing. The Natural Parent (Online) .
Fetherston, C. (2013) Bedsharing: What does the community want? What do parents need to know? Nurture Parenting Magazine, Sep 29, 2013 . pp. 43-45.
Fetherston, C. (2013) Safety first: Reducing the risks of sleeping with your baby. The Conversation, 22 May .
Conference Paper
Nilson, C.ORCID: 0000-0003-3975-3862, Fetherston, C. and McMurray, A. (2014) Developing children's critical thinking through creative arts exposure: An application of Ennis's super-streamlined critical thinking framework. In: 9th International Conference on the Arts in Society, 25 - 27 June 2014, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Nilson, C.ORCID: 0000-0003-3975-3862, Morrison, P.ORCID: 0000-0002-3389-8393 and Fetherston, C. (2012) The Bindjareb yorgas health program: Improving the health health of women and their families. In: Rural Health West Aboriginal Health Conference: Sharing stories, sharing successes, 7 - 8 July 2012, Perth, Western Australia
Nilson, C.ORCID: 0000-0003-3975-3862, Morrison, P.ORCID: 0000-0002-3389-8393 and Fetherston, C. (2012) Collaboration and consultation: The key to the development to the Bindjareb Yorgas Health Program. In: 14th Annual Conference Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses (CATSIN): Gettin' There, 19 - 21 September 2012, Shangri-La Hotel, Cairns, QLD
Conference Item
Nilson, C.ORCID: 0000-0003-3975-3862, Morrison, P.ORCID: 0000-0002-3389-8393, Fetherston, C. and Kearing, G. (2014) Art from the heart: Artistic narrative of Aboriginal health promotion. In: 9th International Conference on the Arts in Society, 25 - 27 June 2014, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Nilson, C.ORCID: 0000-0003-3975-3862, Morrison, P.ORCID: 0000-0002-3389-8393 and Fetherston, C. (2012) The Bindjareb yorgas health program: Health promotion through a community based research intervention project. In: Australian College of Nursing Community and Primary Health Care Nursing Conference 2012: Shaping & Influencing Primary Health Care, 17 - 19 October 2012, Vines Resort & Country Club, Swan Valley.
Book Chapter
Nilson, C.ORCID: 0000-0003-3975-3862, Morrison, P.ORCID: 0000-0002-3389-8393 and Fetherston, C. (2015) Action research: The Bindjareb Yorgas health program. In: Hackett, P., (ed.) Qualitative Research Methods in Consumer Psychology. Routledge as part of the Taylor and Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 173-191.
Fetherston, C., Lee, C.S. and Hartmann, P.E. (2001) The role of colostrum, milk and involution secretion. In: Advances in Nutritional Research, Vol. 10. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York, pp. 167-200.
Fetherston, C.M. (2011) Masters degree an Australian first. Australian Nursing Journal, 18 (9). pp. 36-37.


text: j> NONE OF THESE hysterical predictions came true, but now I can't open a j> bulletin from the reactionary right or the anti-war left without being j> told that Iraq is already worse off without Saddam Hussein. And how can j> we tell that Iraq is worse off? Because contracts for its reconstruction j> are being awarded to American corporations. Of the three feasible j> alternatives (that the contracts go to American capitalists, or to some j> unspecified non-American capitalists, or that Iraqi oil production stays j> as it was), the supposed radicals appear to prefer the last of the j> three. The Problem with his rather vague answer of the awards going to 'American corporations' is that he doesn't bother to explain which corporations he means. This article at the end provides a little more enlightenment, albiet with some biases. But pulling out the companies involved, I find some interesting results: First, that there were only 7-21 (depending on your source) companies allowed to bid. http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=auhdukthnbLk&refer=home Second, the bids were pretty much restricted to US companies due to the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act: A 1996 U.S. law, the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act, or ILSA, threatens sanctions on foreign companies that make $40 million or more in new investments in Iran. These companies could be barred from U.S.-awarded contracts in Iraq. The law, which Bush renewed in 2001 for five years, has outraged members of the European Union. They reject it as an illegal attempt to impose U.S. foreign-policy goals on others. Major corporations that have energy projects under way in Iran include the French company TotalFinaElf, Japan's state-owned oil company and Britain's Shell group. http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/5530975.htm Third, this was done quietly: USAID quietly circulated a request for proposals to a select group of firms at the end of January, in order to quickly line up contractors without making a public announcement that would disrupt diplomatic negotiations, spokeswoman Ellen Yount said. http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/mccutcheon041803.html And two of our own congresscritters (Liberman and Waxman) are complaining that this could have been done months in advance, to allow for real competitive bidding, instead of bidding by selection. The Center for Responsive Politics has a breakdown of the finalist's donations to political campaigns. http://www.capitaleye.org/iraqchart.3.12.03.asp While not all corporations are as nefarious, the big and heavy hitters really do stand out. Halliburton, Bechel and Stevedoring Services all have some pretty deep ties with the administration. And they donate effectively. This is less a case about true 'American Corporations' winning the contracts fairly, and more about who you know, how much you paid, and what quirks control the system. 1. Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton (No-bid Contract worth 1-7 Billion) Halliburton, a Texas corporation that has been contracted to put out potential oil fires, still pays out to Mr. Cheney, their former CEO, a "deferred compensation" in upwards of $1 Million dollars. KBR has already benefited considerably from the "war on terror". It has so far been awarded contracts worth nearly $33m to build the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for al-Qaida suspects. In the five years Mr Cheney was at the helm, Halliburton nearly doubled the amount of business it did with the government to $2.3bn. The company also more than doubled its political contributions to $1.2m, overwhelmingly to Republican candidates. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,912515,00.html Between 1999 and 2002, Halliburton made $709,320 in political contributions, 95 percent of the money going to the Republican Party. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/plun-a08_prn.shtml The connections between the companies invited and the administration run deep. Ray Hunt, a director of Halliburton, is on the president's intelligence advisory board. Lawrence Eagleburger, secretary of state under the first President Bush, is also a Halliburton director. Kenneth Oscar, the vice-president of Fluor, another of the six bidders, is a former army secretary and oversaw the Pentagon's $35bn procurement budget. Its board also includes Bobby Inman, a former CIA deputy director. The labour secretary, Elaine Chao, worked on the board of another of the six, Parsons, before joining the government. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,937108,00.html 2. Creative Associates International ($2 Million Contract) Primary and Secondary Education. Creative Associates International Inc. awarded initial US$2 million April 11 of a one-year contract capped at US$62 million. Involves upgrading schools, restocking classrooms and training teachers. http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/content.asp?y=2003&dt=0419&pub=Utusan_Express&sec=World&pg=wo_10.htm (Creative and RTI were the two corps I could find the least bit of 'dirt' on. They donated entirely to democratic campaigns, and are both non-profit orgs with no direct (reported) connections to the Bush Administration). 3. Research Triangle Institute ($7.9 Million) To create and manage local governance. Seeks to maximise Iraqi participation in all phases and aspects of the reconstruction as the transition to Iraqi administration occurs. The N.C. company already has more than 90 contracts with a wide array of U.S. government agencies -- from Homeland Security and the Defense Department to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Together, those contracts accounted for 85 percent of RTI's $238 million in revenue last year. http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/5617027.htm 4. Stevedoring Services of America ($4.8 Million) Seattle Based Stevedoring Services of America, was awarded a lucrative contract to operate the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr. The right-wing firm is known for its union-busting and its ties to the Republican Party, which has been the recipient of 80 percent of SSAs campaign contributions. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/plun-a08_prn.shtml Stevedoring Services of America The Contributions: $23,825 (80 percent to Republicans) Total to President Bush: $1,000 The Contract: USAID awarded Stevedoring Services of America a $4.8 million contract on March 24 for "assessment and management" of the Umm Qasr port in southeastern Iraq. The agency says the Seattle-based company will operate the port as it receives shipments of humanitarian and reconstruction materials and will research ways to improve port productivity for the long term. The Company: Stevedoring Services of America, the largest marine terminal operator in the United States, made an estimated $1 billion in sales last year. The family-owned and -operated company is a private venture. http://www.opensecrets.org/news/rebuilding_iraq/index.asp 5. Bechtel Corp. ($680 Million) This San Fransisco Company, which counts former Reagan administration Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger among its principals. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/plun-a08_prn.shtml The construction contract is the largest component of a $1.1 billion project by the U.S. Agency for International Development to reconstruct Iraq. The first payment on Bechtel's 18-month contract will be $34.6 million, the agency said in a statement. The 105-year-old builder and its employees gave $1.3 million in political contributions from 1999 to 2002, with 59 percent going to Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign finance. Former Secretary of State George Schultz sits on its board. http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=auhdukthnbLk&refer=home Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld once lobbied for the company and Jack Sheehan, a Bechtel senior vice president, has been a member of the Defense Policy Board, which advises the Pentagon. Bechtel Chairman Riley Bechtel was appointed by Bush to the Export Council in February. http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1050647712246220.xml 6. International Resources Group The Contributions: $3,800 (82 percent to Democrats) Total to President Bush: $0 The Contract: USAID awarded International Resources Group a $7 million, 90-day contract Feb. 21 for the management of relief and rebuilding efforts in postwar Iraq. IRG will coordinate efforts across multiple sectors, including education, health, agriculture, civil society and infrastructure. The Company: International Resources Group is a Washington, D.C.-based professional services firm that manages complex environmental, energy and reconstruction situations for public and private sector clients. Founded in 1978, IRG has completed more than 600 projects, many of them for USAID. http://www.opensecrets.org/news/rebuilding_iraq/index.asp http://www.ejil.org/forum/messages/1331.html ------------------------------------------------------ War Analysis: The destruction of Iraq is good for business Posted on Tuesday, April 15 @ 13:00:25 GMT Topic: New Iraq By Kurt Nimmo It's now obvious what the Bushites have in mind for Iraq. Iraq is in the process of self-destruction, pushed over the edge by Bush and the neocons. They believe chaos is a form of freedom, a reaction to decades of Saddam's dictatorial rule. But this explanation is mostly for public consumption. Bush and his architects will endeavor to build a new Iraq -- a McDonaldized Iraq ruled by westernized overlords and serviced by US corporations. This can only happen if the methodical process of destruction is allowed to unravel centuries of Iraqi culture and decades of Saddam's iron-fisted rule. The International Committee of the Red Cross complains about the violence and unchecked looting. It cannot distribute humanitarian aid. It says US inaction to bring the chaos under control is a breach of the Geneva Convention. Naturally, the US does not care about the Geneva Convention. This should be obvious -- from the use of cluster bombs to the illegal detention of political prisoners at Gitmo Bay in Cuba -- Bush and the Pentagon are violating the Geneva Convention right and left and at every turn. It is absurd, almost comical, for the International Committee of the Red Cross to make these claims -- they should know by now that the US has no intention of respecting international law. Not only is the Red Cross irrelevant, but so is most of humanity. Iraq -- as Mesopotamia and the cradle of civilization -- is the poster child or irrelevancy. Soon it will serve as a role model for all Arabs. Another incidental international organization, the United Nations, is now carping about the engineered chaos in Iraq. "The coalition forces seem to be completely unable to restrain looters or impose any sort of control on the mobs that now govern the streets," Veronique Taveau, a UN spokesman, complained to the Guardian. Mr. Taveau, unfortunately, insists on playing by old, time-tarnished rules. He seems entirely clueless about the nature and intentions of the Bushites. It's not an inability that constrains the US forces in Iraq. No, it is something else altogether. The Bush global engineers have issued top-down orders -- allow the Iraqis to self-destruct, do not intervene. "We saw a similar mixture in Kosovo and Sierra Leone but initial disorder does give way to stability," explained a Tony Blair sidekick. Rumsfeld was a bit more succinct. "Stuff happens," he mused. "And free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things." "Freedom is a gift from the Almighty God," added Bush. Freedom to loot, murder, and rape -- that is the gift Bush's God has bestowed upon the Iraqi people. Bush's God lives by the balance sheet and the bottom line, not compassion or even the now irrelevant articles of the Geneva Convention. Bush's God resides in the Old Testament. It gathers sustenance from destruction and genocide. It eagerly fills graveyards and coffers. It dispenses multi-billion dollar reconstruction contracts. The US has awarded, without competition, a contract worth up to $7 billion to Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, a company run until three years ago by Dick Cheney. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans believes the US private sector should play a major role in rebuilding Iraq and develop its plentiful energy resources. "There will be companies that have an opportunity to bid on contracts," Evans said in an interview after a luncheon speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors. "The coalition countries certainly should have an opportunity to be involved in whatever rebuilding opportunities there are." Fluor Corp. and Parini Corp. have received contracts from the Army Corps of Engineers to provide up to $100 million worth of work to the military in the region. In other words, US and British corporations will help construct bases and military installations designed to destroy a large number of dark-skinned people and various distinct cultures in the Middle East. Meanwhile, the State Department's Agency for International Development is acting as a pimp for US corporations hungry to turn a buck on the devastation of Iraq. For instance, Stevedoring Services of America and Bechtel are in the running and stand to earn billions. Both contributed to the Republicans and Bush. Bechtel is a refuge for former Reaganites and members of the Defense Policy Board where until recently Richard Perle held sway. As for exploiting Iraq's oil -- "for the benefit of the Iraqi people" -- this would "almost invariably fall to the nation's energy capital of Houston, where President Bush has deep connections," writes Stewart Yerton of New Orleans' Times-Picayune. "Evans dismissed the idea that awarding oil contracts to Texas energy firms would create perceived conflicts of interest. 'This is an administration of total integrity,' he said. 'That's all that needs to be said.'" It also needs to be said that the closed process of selecting corporations -- mostly kept under wraps in the name of national security -- to rebuild a methodically destroyed Iraq will result in the squandering of billions of dollars. Peter Singer, a Brookings Institution scholar who has written a book on federal contracting, told the Chicago Tribune the "cost-plus" contracts being awarded by the Bushites could result in overstaffing and over billing. "A lot of money is going to be wasted, and a lot of money is going to be made," Singer said. Meanwhile, the coolies who will rebuild Iraq's roads, airports, hospitals and other infrastructure -- much of it either bombed or assiduously stripped to the bone by looters -- will come from the Philippines where annual income is around $1,000 per year and unemployment is all too common. "Imported Filipino laborers and engineers, many working for less than the US minimum wage, helped build the detention center holding al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba," reports the Taipei Times. Instead of traditional United Nations peace-keeping troops invited to restore order where Bush and Crew have deliberately sowed chaos and destruction, it now appears the Reston, Virginia, rent-a-cop outfit Dyncorp will be called to "re-establish police, justice and prison functions in post conflict Iraq," according to Insight Magazine. "We know we want something a little more corporate and more efficient with cleaner lines of authority and responsibility," a Pentagon official told the New York Times. As Pratap Chatterjee of GNN writes, "[a]rmed DynCorp employees make up the core of the police force in Bosnia. DynCorp troops protect Afghan president Hamid Karzai, while DynCorp planes and pilots fly the defoliation missions over the coca crops in Colombia." As for allegations that Dyncorp was involved in a sex-slavery scandal in Bosnia -- and accused of spraying Ecuadorian peasants with deadly herbicides -- well, that's the cost of doing business in the Third World. Stuff, after all, happens. In fact, it would seem the Bushites "want something a little more corporate and more efficient with cleaner lines of authority and responsibility" across the Middle East, beginning with Iraq and -- if threats issued by Rumsfeld last week are to be taken seriously -- moving eventually to Syria. The neocons make no bones about their pathological desire to attack and "regime change" Syria, Iran, Libya, North Korea, possibly Saudi Arabia, and even Cuba. That's a whole lot of infrastructure that will need to be rebuilt in the smoldering wake of cruise missiles, JDAMs, bunker-busters, and MOABs. But it's not simply food warehouses, electrical grids, hospitals, and hardware stores ransacked and burned to the ground. It's history itself. "They lie across the floor in tens of thousands of pieces, the priceless antiquities of Iraq's history," writes Robert Fisk. "The looters had gone from shelf to shelf, systematically pulling down the statues and pots and amphorae of the Assyrians and the Babylonians, the Sumerians, the Medes, the Persians and the Greeks and hurling them on to the concrete." Instead of history and culture, Iraq will burgeon with strip malls and sweatshops. Its oil and minerals will go to the powerful corporate interests represented by George Bush and Dick Cheney. In due time Syria and Iran will be subject to the same process and the freedom of Bush's corporate God will eventually ring out in those benighted lands as well. If not the sound of freedom, it will be the sound of a million cash registers instead. Kurt Nimmo's Another Day in the Empire


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By JOHN GORALSKI
The pitcher and the defense gave up just one earned run in 1983 to set a national record for ERA (0.04) that would stand for more than two decades. Their all-state pitcher was almost unhittable as Southington roared through the postseason. The offense was just as deadly with a .336 batting average in the regular season as they out-scored opponents, 193-4.
Still, with two outs in the ninth inning of the championship game, shortstop Paige Kopcza was the only one that could protect the pitcher's perfect game when a blistering ground ball caught the dirt and ricocheted into the air.
"It was one of those bouncers. It hit a rock and went sky high," Kopcza said, while sipping coffee at a local eatery as she remembered the play three decades later. "It was going to be a short hopper for me to get to it, but I had to charge hard to get it on a really short hop. Otherwise, it could have gone anywhere, and Julie Bolduc was throwing a perfect game."
Kopcza wasn't about to spoil her pitcher's perfect day. In one motion, she scooped the ball out of the air and fired a rocket to first base just ahead of the runner. It was just another day at the office for Southington's prized infielder.
"Defensively, she was solid as a rock," said former Lady Knight softball coach Joe Piazza. "She was probably my first shortstop that could go deep into the hole behind third base, backhand a ball, plant her back foot, and throw the ball across the diamond to first base. It's not something you see that often. You probably don't even see it a lot at the high school level now because it takes a lot of strength. Back then, it was almost unheard of."
Kopcza was always ahead of the curve when it came to female athletes, and even though Southington girls were already leading the charge for women's sports in Connecticut, but Kopcza took it to the next level in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
As the youngest of three siblings–and the only girl in her family, Kopcza honed her skills in pick-up games with the neighborhood boys. A self-confessed tomboy, she never shied from a challenge. Whether it was dirt track racing in the backyard, shooting pellet guns with her brothers, or competing in games of volleyball, kickball, or football with the neighborhood boys, Kopcza held her own.
"When they picked a team, they would sometimes pick me before half the guys," she said. "It didn't matter. I wasn't a girly-girl. That's for sure."
She first showed her competitiveness in fifth grade when her Southington Junior Pro basketball team advanced to Tennessee to play in a national tournament. She tried her hand at gymnastics and battled for goals on the soccer fields.
Then, in 1975, she raised the bar even further when she became one of two local girls to break the gender barrier in Southington's Little Leagues. She walked into tryouts at the Western Little League and quickly quieted any critics when she earned a position on the opening day roster.
"I didn't think anything about it," she said. "We didn't have a softball league in town. That didn't come for years and years later. I think I was fearless, but I'll attribute that to my brothers and my dad. It was playing against all those kids in the neighborhood. I didn't think twice about what I was doing. It was just a game. It was fun, and I was always competitive. That flame was in my stomach and I just went with it."
Then, it almost came to a crashing halt. She was taking a throw from the outfield at midseason when she dropped the ball and fell to the ground with a broken leg. For the next six months she endured casts and a slow rehabilitation, but Kopcza returned to action the following year as a 10-year-old, made the team again, and even faced future Major League Baseball pitcher Rob Dibble on the Little League mound.
Even though she returned to the field, Kopcza never fully recovered from that early injury. She suffered a knee injury during a track meet sponsored by the Falcon Club, and that kept her out of sports for her entire seventh grade. Soon, doctors discovered bone chips that were causing her knee to lock in place that sent shooting pains up her leg. If Kopcza was going to continue as an athlete, she was forced to limit her competition.
"Softball was my love. I played basketball and volleyball at the middle school level and all these other sports in town, but I was already thinking about college as a ninth grader," she said. "I knew I had to focus on one because that would give me an opportunity. If I focused on two or three, that might not happen."
It turned out to be a great choice.
Piazza admitted that it might not have been her only choice, but he was glad she chose softball.
"She was about as good of a softball player as we've ever had, and she went on to have a great career in college, too," said the coach. "I'm sure that if she played basketball in high school, she would have been a great basketball player. I'm sure if she played volleyball, she would have been great at that, too. She was just a great athlete."
She was so good, in fact, that Piazza was willing to bench a returning player from his state championship team just to make room in the lineup for Kopcza in her sophomore year.
"I knew that I had to find a place for this kid, but we had about 11 kids coming back with some sort of experience," he said. "I put her at third base a little bit. I put her at shortstop and the outfield. I put her at second. I put her at first. It took me the whole preseason and maybe a week or so into the regular season, but I finally decided that the best move for the team was to put her at short. I moved the shortstop that we had into the outfield, and the rest—I guess you would say—is history."
Kopcza never made her coach regret his decision. As a sophomore, she anchored the defense with her glove and helped pace the offense with a .357 batting average. The following year, she led the Knights with a .494 batting average and a .688 on-base percentage. Opposing coaches created special defensive shifts to account for Kopcza's knack for threading singles straight up the middle. Still, they couldn't keep Kopcza off the bases.
"I can remember playing one team that literally shifted their outfield to have a left-center fielder and a right-center fielder against me," she said. "They didn't really have a first baseman or a third baseman because they all shifted to the middle, but that's where I hit it. I had a knack of hitting it right back at the pitcher."
It wasn't until her senior season that coaches were finally able to contain her…a little. Southington had finally graduated all of the players from her sophomore season, so teams were able to pitch around the Southington star. Still, Kopcza managed to finish her senior season with a .446 average.
"I think that year was tough for her because people were finally able to pitch around her a little more," said Piazza. "In that 82 and 83 team, they had no choice. They had to pitch to her. In 84, there wasn't as much around her. People could walk her, pitch around her, or not give her anything to hit."
Still, college scouts were infatuated with the Southington star. In a sport that's dominated by pitchers, Kopcza dominated headlines and focused the strategy of opposing coaches. Adelphi College offered her a full scholarship. The University of Rhode Island offered her the same opportunity, but Kopcza chose to attend the University of Massachusetts on a partial scholarship. It gave her a chance to fill the shoes of an all-American, and UMass offered her the educational challenges that she wanted.
Over the next four seasons, she batted .310 and led the team in five different categories as a senior. She still ranks fourth all-time in sacrifice flies (9) and wasn't caught stealing a single time in her final two years.
"If my numbers are good, it's just because I loved what I was doing," she said. "I don't like to toot my own horn. I did it just because I loved the game."
The Southington Sports Hall of Fame selection committee chose Kopcza as the first non-pitcher to represent softball in the local hall of fame, but Piazza isn't surprised by the choice. "Pitchers get the majority of the ink," he said. "People recognize them more, but it's those people behind them that make the plays."
On Thursday, Nov. 14, Kopcza will be honored in an induction ceremony at the Aqua Turf in Plantsville. To reserve tickets, contact Jim Verderame at (860) 628-7335.
"It's exciting," she said. "There are tons of athletes that have gone through Southington and were tremendous in their sport, whether it was softball, basketball, football, baseball, gymnastics, or whatever. They probably deserve the award more than I do, but I'm really humbled and honored."
Paige Turner: Paige Kopcza proved that softball is more than pitching
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Research in Motion Acquires Torch Mobile
Research in Motion has acquired Torch Mobile, which will help the handset maker enhance its mobile browser, the companies announced Monday.
"Our team of developers will join RIM's global organization and will now be focused on utilizing our Webkit-based mobile browser expertise to continue to the ongoing enhancement of the BlackBerry platform," Torch Mobile said in a statement.
Torch Mobile's main product is its Iris browser, which debuted in February 2008. PCMag.com took it for a spin at that point and found it to be flaky and sluggish. Torch introduced an updated version at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Other products include its Iris-based Web widget platform, an RSS reader, and enterprise-level software products.
"Torch Mobile's team has been actively involved in open source development and includes contributors, committers, and reviewers of the Webkit project," the company said. "As part of RIM, these developers will continue to be active participants in the Webkit development community."
Earlier this year, RIM acquired Dash Navigation, providing the company with an in-house GPS mapping solution.


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Vatican infighting over NSW priest
The decision by an Australian bishop to stand aside a NSW priest because of complaints he molested children led to Vatican infighting which pitched powerful bodies against one another.
It also led to a decision that has ramifications across the globe as to how Catholic bishops can deal with priests who are suspected child sexual abusers.
The royal commission into child sexual abuse at a Sydney hearing is looking at how the Catholic Church under its own law - canon law - deals with priests or religious against whom allegations have been made.
In particular, it is looking at the case of John Gerard Nestor, who was a priest in the Wollongong diocese in NSW when he was charged with the indecent assault of a teenage altar boy in 1996. He was acquitted.
The Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson, who was the bishop of Wollongong in the late 90s, stood Nestor aside when he refused to go to a clinic for assessment as recommended by the church's internal procedure, Towards Healing.
Nestor was told: "You are to cease functioning publicly as a priest in any place until I give you permission to do so."
That led to a series of appeals and counter appeals to the Vatican.
Nestor went to the Congregation for the Clergy, (CFC) a powerful body within the Roman Curia (bureaucracy) which two years later upheld his appeal and said he should be reinstated.
He appealed over the CFC decision but was appointed to Adelaide before it was processed.
"I was bound in conscience in this case, I would take the matter all the way to the pope," he said on Wednesday.
He said he would have resigned if the pope said he had to re-instate Nestor.
He had oversight in Wollongong for a while so appealed to the supreme tribunal in the Vatican, the Apostolic Signatura, to uphold the decision not to let Nestor back.
A panel of judges from the most influential scholars and churchmen in Europe were appointed when the tribunal took on the case.
"I think when they looked at this (the appeal against the CFC decision on Nestor) and said we'll process it, the authorities then said we've got to really get an outstanding bank of judges to deal with this," Archbishop Wilson said.
The decision to uphold the appeal and to keep Nestor away from public ministry was issued on March 2006.
Archbishop Wilson said the decision was relevant across the world because it clarified, not only jurisdiction, but who was competent to make decisions.
It also supported a bishop's right to make decisions through processes like Towards Healing. But the ramifications had not been taken on board even in Australia, he said.
Francis Sullivan, chief executive of the council set up by the Australian church to respond to the royal commission, said on Wednesday the local church had never sought formal Vatican approval for Towards Healing.
"If the Vatican approves it then it becomes controlled by the Vatican curias (bureaucracies) and, at least as this case study demonstrates, that hasn't been too flash," he said.
The hearing continues on Thursday
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After the loss of 10 million American lives in the Three-Mile Island calamity in 1979, the death of 2 billion in the Chernobyl holocaust in 1986 and, now, the abandonment of all of northern Japan following the death of millions in last year's Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, it is hardly surprising that the world's biggest users of nuclear power are shutting their plants down.
Oh, wait a minute. Nobody died in the Three-Mile Island calamity, 28 plant workers were killed, and 15 other people subsequently died of thyroid cancer in the Chernobyl holocaust, and nobody died in the Fukushima catastrophe. In fact, northern Japan has not been evacuated after all. But never mind all that. Governments really are shutting down their nuclear plants.
They have already shut them down in Japan. All of the country's 50 nuclear reactors were closed for safety checks after the tsunami damaged the Fukushima plant, and only two have reopened. The government has promised to close every nuclear power plant in Japan permanently by 2040.
The new Japanese plan says that the country will replace the missing nuclear energy with an eightfold increase in renewable energy (wind, solar, etc.), and "the development of sustainable ways to use fossil fuels." But going from 4 percent to 30 percent renewables in the energy mix will take decades, and nobody has yet found an economically sustainable way to sequester the greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.
In Germany, where the Greens have been campaigning against nuclear power for decades, Chancellor Angela Merkel has done a U-turn and promised to close all the country's nuclear reactors by 2022. She also promised to replace them with renewable power sources, of course, but the reality will be that the country also burns more fossil fuels. Belgium is also shutting down its nuclear plants, and Italy has abandoned its plans to build some.
Even France, which has taken 80 percent of its power from nuclear power plants for decades without the slightest problem, is joining the panic. President Francois Hollande's new government has promised to lower the country's dependence on nuclear energy to 50 percent of the national energy mix. But you can see why he and his colleagues had to do it. After all, nuclear energy is a kind of witchcraft, and the public is frightened.
The tireless campaign against nuclear energy that the Greens have waged for decades is finally achieving its goal, at least in the developed countries. Their behavior cannot be logically reconciled with their concern for the environment, given that abandoning nuclear will lead to a big rise in fossil fuel use.
The Greens prattle about replacing nuclear power with renewables, which might happen in the distant future. But the brutal truth for now is that closing down the nuclear plants will lead to a sharp rise in greenhouse gas emissions.
Fortunately, their superstitious fears are largely absent in more sophisticated parts of the world. Only four new nuclear reactors are under construction in the European Union, and only one in the United States, but there are 61 being built elsewhere. Over two-thirds of them are being built in the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China), where economies are growing fast.
But it's not enough to outweigh the closure of so many nuclear plants in the developed world, at least in the short run. India may be aiming at getting 50 percent of its energy from nuclear power by 2050, for example, but the fact is that only 3.7 percent of its electricity is nuclear right now. So the price of nuclear fuel has collapsed in the past four years, and uranium mine openings and expansions have been cancelled.
More people die from coal pollution each day than have been killed by 50 years of nuclear power operations – and that's just from lung disease. If you include future deaths from burning fossil fuels, closing down nuclear power stations is sheer madness. Welcome to the Middle Ages.


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NEW YORK – Investors celebrated news of another jump in home sales by propelling the Dow Jones industrials to their first close above 9,000 since January.
Better-than-expected profits at some of the nation's biggest companies also lifted the market, giving the Dow a 188-point rally to finish at its highest level since November.
The Dow's gain was the latest jump — and not even the biggest — in a surge that has lifted the index 923 points, or 11 percent, in only nine days as hopes grow about an economic recovery.
The latest climb followed a report that sales of previously occupied homes rose for the third month in a row in June. Unemployment and a weak housing market have been two of investors' biggest worries so any sign of improvement is big news for the economy.
The National Association of Realtors said sales of previously occupied homes rose 3.6 percent in June. Sales came in at 4.89 million, above the 4.84 million analysts had been expecting.
Another batch of corporate profit reports also helped boost the market. Ford Motor Co. surprised investors with a profit of $2.3 billion, due mainly to a huge gain for debt reduction, while manufacturing conglomerate 3M Co. and candy maker Hershey Co. raised their profit forecasts for the year.
After a month of wayward trading, stocks began climbing again at the start of last week as companies like Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Intel Corp. posted robust earnings.
"I don't think the market is signaling that we are fully healed at all but it is telling us that there is a strong likelihood that a recovery is under way," said Ciaran O'Kelly, head of equities, Americas, at Nomura Securities Intl. Inc. in New York.
According to preliminary calculations, the Dow rose 188.03, or 2.1 percent, to 9,069.29. It was the highest finish for the blue chips since Nov. 5 and the first time the Dow has traded or closed above 9,000 since January. Even with the gains, the Dow is still far off its peak of 14,165 in October 2007.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 22.22, or 2.3 percent, to 976.29. It hasn't traded or closed above 1,000 since early November.
The Nasdaq composite index rose 47.22, or 2.5 percent, to 1,973.60, its 12th straight advance. The Nasdaq hasn't had a rally that long since a streak that ended Jan. 8, 1992.
About five stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 1.4 billion shares, compared with 1.1 billion Wednesday.
Analysts caution that volume remains relatively light, as is typical of the summer months when many traders take vacations. It's easier for the market to make big swings when there are fewer trades.
Bond prices tumbled, pushing their yields higher, as money flowed back into the stock market and out of safe-haven investments. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which is closely tied to home mortgage rates, jumped to 3.67 percent from 3.55 percent late Wednesday.
In downturns in the past 60 years, the S&P 500 index has hit bottom an average of four months before a recession ended and about nine months before unemployment reached its peak.
Dealmaking also supported stocks. Investors look to companies' willingness to make acquisitions — and part with cash or take on debt — as a sign of confidence.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. said it plans to acquire Medarex Inc. for about $2.1 billion, the latest in a string of acquisitions by the drug maker. Medarex surged $7.49, or 89 percent, to $15.89, while Bristol-Myers rose 57 cents, or 2.8 percent, to $20.86.
Amazon.com Inc. agreed to buy Zappos.com Inc., a privately held online shoe store, in a deal worth about $850 million. Amazon rose $5.08, or 5.7 percent, to $93.87.
Ford's profit was a huge improvement over the record $8.7 billion loss the company reported the same quarter a year earlier. Without one-time gains, the car maker would have lost $424 million, or 21 cents per share. That is still smaller than the loss of 50 cents per share analysts had been expecting. Ford rose 60 cents, or 9.4 percent, to $6.98.
3M, whose products include Scotch tape to Post-it Notes, rose $4.76, or 7.4 percent, to $69.43. It was the biggest gainer among the 30 stocks in the Dow industrial average. Hershey rose $2.85, or 7.3 percent, to $41.80.
Some analysts warn that stocks won't be able to hold their gains if companies can't increase earnings by boosting revenue rather than slashing costs.
"It's like going on a diet. You can only starve yourself for so long," said Lawrence Creatura, portfolio manager at Federated Investors in Rochester, N.Y. "You cannot cost cut your way to prosperity."
Creatura noted that companies are reducing costs in large part by getting rid of workers. That could wind up hurting other businesses as the ranks of unemployed people grow. Unemployment is at a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, and the Federal Reserve predicts it will top 10 percent by year-end.
"It's still too soon," said Adam Gould, senior portfolio manager at Direxion Funds in New York, referring to the market's gains. "If you rally 10 or 11 percent in a two-week period based on not-so-great earnings that beat lousy expectations I think a pullback is healthy."
The dollar mostly fell against other major currencies, while gold prices dipped.
Oil prices rose $1.76 to settle at $67.16 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies gained 17.15, or 3.2 percent, to 545.85.
The gains in U.S. stocks pushed markets overseas sharply higher. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 1.5 percent, while Germany's DAX index jumped 2.5 percent and France's CAC-40 rose 2.1 percent. In Japan, where markets closed before U.S. stocks began trading, the Nikkei stock average rose 0.7 percent.


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UPDATE (November 18, 2012, Sunday) -- Two months after Xena was nearly killed from abuse, and rescued, police continue to search for her abuser. And, as you can see in this latest video, Xena has almost fully recovered.
She was the special guest at the "Friends of DeKalb Animals" fundraiser at Savage Pizza in Avondale Estates Sunday afternoon, where she greeted friends and strangers alike cheerfully.
And within about a month, her caregivers say Xena will be ready to start the next chapter of her life -- adoption.
If you're interested in taking her home, you can fill out an application on the shelter's website.
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. (September 19, 2012, Wednesday) -- DeKalb County Police are investigating a severe case of animal abuse that has captured the attention of thousands of animal lovers, a case that is both repulsive and, now, miraculous.
It's the case of a puppy found starved nearly-to-death in DeKalb County.
The dog is now flourishing as police work around the clock trying to find the person who abused her.
"Her laying on the steel table, she clearly looks dead," is how Lynn Herron, of Friends of DeKalb Animals, described her first glimpse of the puppy.
The puppy, possibly a lab-retriever mix, is about four months old.
She was abandoned in someone's front yard this past Saturday, Sept. 15.
"She was cold to the touch," Herron said. "So she was probably 30 minutes to an hour of being dead... she was breathing... the dog couldn't walk, so it's unclear to me how the dog got there. Somebody had to have dumped the dog."
She is fighting back -- and surviving in less than a week.
That is why they've named her Xena the Warrior Puppy.
"And we're just amazed and we're just hopefully optimistic that there's not any long-term brain damage, long-term organ damage. She's such a sweet, little dog," Herron said Wednesday. "She's eating. I think she's gained two pounds. She weighed five pounds when she came in. She was about the size of a woman's size-eight shoe... It's just amazing just to see the light in her eyes, because you didn't see that in the beginning."
The DeKalb County Police Department's Animal Cruelty Unit has been working since Saturday to track down the abuser, hoping someone will give them a tip to help them.
"And I'm really hoping that they find who did this," Herron said. "I can't imagine how anybody could do that to an animal."
DeKalb Animal Control has asked Herron, and Chrissy Kaczynski, who is also with Friends of DeKalb Animals, to nurse Xena back to health.
Kaczyinski set up a Facebook page that now shows photos of Xena in the yard, playing with her toys, making her first attempts at climbing the stairs to the house. The Facebook page has become a community of thousands of people following and supporting Xena's recovery. They donated close to $10,000 as of Wednesday night. Money left-over will go toward saving other abused animals.
The reality is that there are, on average, about a dozen cases a month of animal abuse reported in DeKalb County.
And the cases can be prosecuted as felonies.
"If somebody can do that do an animal, they can do it to a human, they can do it to a child," Herron said. "I mean, it's just one step."
The county is not allowing anyone to visit Xena as she recovers.
And anyone who might know a person who recently abused a four-month-old, female, retriever-lab mix should call:
DeKalb County Police Sgt. Tim Medlin at 404-294-2645, or
DeKalb Animal Control at 404-294-2996.
"And I know times are hard," Herron said. "But if you've got a dog and you can't take care of it, it is more humane to turn it in to the shelter than it is to throw it out on the streets."
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Antony Richards, a leading authority on the "Inspector Morse" book and television series, interviews author Colin Dexter, actor Kevin Shately (Lewis), composer Barrington Pheloung and producers Ted Childs, Chris Burt and Michele Buck. Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the first of 13 seasons of the television series starring the late John Thaw, the shifting scene travels throughout the university and town where Morse lived and worked. G
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By By Ernie Stephens | February 1, 2013
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As you may have heard, we recently lost a crew of fellow police aviators. Officers Richard J. Halford and Shawn A. Smiley of the Atlanta Police Department went down in their OH-6 on Nov. 3 at approximately 2230 hours while searching for a missing nine-year-old. Wires were involved, but as of this writing it's unclear if those lines caused the accident, or if they were struck because their already-crippled aircraft came down upon them. Regardless of the cause, I'm sure you all join me in saluting their service, and wishing their survivors, fellow officers and friends comfort.
As I watched the news accounts and read some of the articles about the accident, two things struck me—one of them in a good way, and the other in a very annoying way. What struck me in a good way were the comments made by the mother of the nine-year old just a couple of hours after the crash, and shortly after her son had been located by ground units.
"This is not fair," said Amire Shakir-Fulford, who came to the crash scene. "[Those officers] were trying to help another family find their child. There's nothing I can say to these people. They probably have little children at home."
And Ms. Shakir-Fulford was correct. Halford, the 48-year old pilot, left behind a 21-year old daughter. Smiley, the 40-year old tactical flight officer, was a husband and father of children ages five, seven and nine.
"All I could do was cry because somebody lost their life," said Shakir-Fulford as she held back even more tears. "They can't go home and hug their children, their wives—nobody." It seems like the police don't hear those kinds of words enough, sometimes. And though she shouldn't feel responsible for the tragedy, I could see in her face that she had already begun to.
As for the annoying thing I saw, it was the suggestion from citizens that police aviation creates a hazard in and of itself, especially in an urban environment. And that the best way to prevent any future accidents—saving a few million dollars in the process—is to simply disband Atlanta's aviation unit. If a helicopter is needed, simply wave one in from a neighboring county.
It seems like no matter how many fleeing felons police helicopter crews find, how many lost children we locate, how many rescues are made, and how much order is restored, the knee-jerk reaction to a crash—regardless of the severity—is to call for the disbandment of the involved aviation operation.
In the fall of 2008, a Maryland State legislator jumped all over the Maryland State Police (MSP) Aviation Division after it suffered a fatal crash that killed two crew members, one of two patients, and an EMS technician. He told me that the police were obviously ill-equipped and improperly trained for medevac missions. In fact, it was his belief that a law enforcement body shouldn't be involved in medical transports in the first place. (Never mind that MSP was the first public safety agency in the country to offer medevac services!)
MSP's accident ended up drawing intense scrutiny from the FAA, the NTSB, and the department itself. The result was less of an indictment against the operation (as that politician was hoping), and more of an opportunity to find and fix several latent problems inherent in the air medical transport system nationwide.
MSP's operation weathered the storm. In fact, those hearings helped the agency receive approval for a fleet of brand new helicopters, and raised the safety bar for all medevac operators.
I'm not so naive to believe that every person who is against police aviation will come to see that the benefits far outweigh the costs and the risks. But I think we owe it to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to keep police aviation effective and safe by learning from their experiences, whether successful or fatal. We can do that by looking closely at what we're doing right and what we're doing wrong. Safety stand-downs, outside audits and internal reviews can be a big help.
And should a situation rise to the level of a full-blown NTSB investigation—as hard as it might be for us—we ought to look at the results with an open mind, and see what changes can be made to prevent future accidents and deaths.
I don't think I have ever met Officer Richard Halford or Officer Shawn Smiley in my travels. They may or may not have come to the various police aviation seminars that I've been to, or been able to attend any of the annual ALEA conferences. And I certainly don't know what brought their ship out of the Atlanta sky on the night of November 3. But I do know this: They served and died honorably. And for that, we owe it to them to keep flying.


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Why The New York Times Ignored Libya Ethnic Cleansing
While the U.S. administration and the great newspaper may not hold dear the lives of Libyans and Black people; millions of Black people all over the world do, as does The Black Star News.
[Black Star News Editorial]
Not Genocide If "Our Team" Commits the Crime
When a major newspaper supports so-called "rebels," even though the signs are abundant from the very beginning that they comprise sadistic killers, radical Islamists, and anti-Black racists, what does it do at the end of the day, when the evidence can't be hidden anymore that the so-called "liberators" are in fact genocidal killers?
There are two options. To admit a grievous error in supporting rebels that commit mass crimes: or choose to continue spinning stories and ignoring atrocities committed by the anointed false liberators.
That's the quandary that The New York Times now faces; the newspaper has chosen the latter approach as its solution.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is today in Libya, promising "support" for a government that does not yet exist; even, as The Wall Street Journal has reported that the "rebels" have begun turning their guns against each other and even as they continue to target Black Libyans. Inhumane acts posted online by the Western-backed victors include forcing captured soldiers to eat the carcass of other dismembered captives. The military commander of Tripoli today, Abdelhakim Belhadj, is an ex al-Qaeda fighter. Thanks to NATO he's the most powerful Libyan.
In an article today, The New York Times is disingenuous when it tries to blame the continuing attacks on Black Libyans and other inter-ethnic fighting, not on the NATO-backed insurgents who are actually committing the atrocities, but as some sort of residual of Muammar al-Quathafi's legacy. In a bit of a desperate stretch, The Times reports: "The question of loyalty to the old government has fueled a series of tribal, racial and ethnic disputes, pitting Arab villages against Berber hamlets, militias from the mountains against those from the coast and lighter-skinned Libyans against their black neighbors. The new authorities have presided over their own divisive policies, failing to curb harassment and violence against black people in the territory they control or to rein in their militiamen, some of whom have looted or burned loyalist homes and mimicked the techniques of the former government by detaining suspects arbitrarily and torturing prisoners."
This would make sense if the violence by the "rebels" was something new.
The New York Times should remember Gen. Colin Powell's caution to George W. Bush before the invasion of Iraq, which he had opposed: "If you break it; you own it." The New York Times heavily promoted the war of aggression on Libya; one might even argue that it pushed the Obama Administration's hands. The Times and the White House own the broken country.
The Times published numerous editorials promoting intervention and even urged the Obama Administration to ignore the War Powers Act and to engage U.S. military assets in what was an illegal war from the American position. The New York Times knew that Resolution 1973 was being abused and that the NATO planes acted as air forces for the insurgency. The Times totally ignored gross human rights abuses by the insurgents, even though the supposed mission for the intervention was to protect civilians from abuses by all combatants.
The New York Times' editorial writers displayed a diabolical level of racism, totally ignoring the massive NATO bombardments, which doubtless the editorial writers must have known was killing hundreds of Libyan civilians just based on the frequency and intensity alone. In the city of Zlitan alone, more than 85 civilians were reported to have been killed. It's inconceivable that the people in charge of writing editorials at The New York Times would have slept peacefully at night, had such a criminally negligent bombardment campaign by NATO been conducted on a non-African country in this, the 21st Century.
The Times outdid even The Wall Street Journal, the supposedly right wing newspaper, with its rabid warmongering. There must be some soul searching if the editorial writers posses an iota of human compassion.
Yet, not a single editorial was published by The New York Times calling for a pause or cessation of hostilities and the massive bombardment. In fact, a Google search will reveal numerous editorials by the Times' seemingly depraved editorial writers, urging increased bombardments, knowing full well that civilians would be killed; perhaps taking some comfort in the knowledge that the civilian victims were certainly not Europeans.
The evidence was already available on YouTube, posted by the insurgents themselves in Benghazi, of lynching and beheadings of suspected Muammar al-Quathafi supporters; and the beheadings of Black Libyans and immigrants from other African countries working in Libya. This was the time that the Times, and media organizations such as the BBC and CNN started exaggerating the role of "mercenaries" on al-Quathafi's side; when in fact, the mercenaries were from Qatar, as recent reports in The Wall Street Journal show.
The British and French, also in violation of the United Nations embargo had sent military "advisers." The French also violated Resolution 1970 by air dropping weapons on Western Libya. And the international community still expects North Korea or Iran to respect any United Nations Resolutions? Washington, London and Paris made a mockery of the U.N. and permanently damaged its credibility.
Ethnic cleansing was carried out in Libya and it continues. This is a war crime and crime against humanity. The great newspaper has not called for an investigation and prosecution since it would mean the arrest of the leaders of the "rebels" supported by The New York Times. The Libya conflict exposed The New York Times' as a partisan organization that in fact works hand-in-hand with the United States administration. At least in the case of the old Soviet PRAVDA; the whole world knew that it was created for propaganda. There was no pretence about "objectivity."
The New York Times ignored the massacre of Black Libyans in the city of Misurata by light-skinned Libyans, assisted by NATO's bombardments. This ethnic cleansing was first reported, ironically by Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, on June 21. The Journal reported at the time that a Misurata neighborhood which had originally been 4/5 Black, was completely emptied of its Black population. Ominously, The Journal also reported that there was a bounty for Black Libyans.
The ethnic cleansing was carried out by the "Brigade for Purging Slaves, black skin" leaving no doubt as to intent; this is critical when determining crimes of genocide. The Journal even quoted some commanders by name. The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo, who was quick to hold a press conference about the Viagra rapes hoax, has yet to ask for the indictment of the commanders of the "Brigade for Purging Slaves, black skin."
Had The Wall Street Journal not broken ranks with other corporate media, the world may never have known about the ethnic cleansing campaign by the NATO-and New York Times backed insurgents.
It was again The Wall Street Journal that first reported, on September 13, that the city of Tawargha, populated by 35,000 Black Libyans, had been completely depopulated by the insurgents from Misurata. The Wall Street Journal also reported that the insurgents looted the belongings of the Tawargans, set their homes on fire, and on the walls of the buildings scrawled the words "slaves" and "Negros."
The New York Times was late on the scene, only reporting on the ethnic cleansing of Tawargha on September 23. Even then, the newspaper still seemed to rationalize this war crime; alluding to collective guilt and responsibility. In other words, since Black Libyans had supported al-Quathafi, all of them, including women and children, probably deserved what they got.
The Times has yet to report on the whereabouts of the 35,000 Black Libyans from Tawargha This great newspaper has not dwelt on this crime. Guilt? Callous disregard? Complicity by silence? Only the editorial writers at the great newspaper know.
Complicity is widely shared. Not even the first African American president of the United States, Barack Obama, has condemned the targeted killings of Black Libyans. Not a word of condemnation from Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, who is in Tripoli today. Nothing from United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and the ICC's Ocampo.
The only elected official in the U.S. brave enough to denounce the ethnic cleansing, call it genocide, and demand for an investigation, was Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr.
The African Union (AU) condemned the targeted attacks on Black people. The AU's statement was treated with contempt by the U.S. and the Times; in the same way in which the AU's peace proposal, that called for a cease fire, creation of constitution, and elections monitored by the international community, was disregarded. The White House, France, and NATO had to have their way.
Yet the Libya war did teach us all one important and enduring lesson. The days when major corporate media could hide or suppress the news, including stories about ethnic cleansing, are over.
Online media outlets --and The Wall Street Journal by breaking ranks-- allowed the story of the targeted killing of Black Libyans and migrant workers from elsewhere in Africa to be exposed.
The regime in Tripoli is discredited even as Clinton embraces it with her public relations campaign visit. While the U.S. administration and the great newspaper may not hold dear the lives of Libyans and Black people; millions of Black people all over the world do, as does The Black Star News.
Editor's Note added October, 21:
Now that Muammar al-Quathafi has been deposed and killed as The New York Times
advocated for, it's time for readers to revisit the ethnic cleansing of Black Libyans
campaign carried out by the U.S.- and NATO-backed NTC insurgents. Ethnic cleansing is a war crime and crime against humanity by any
definition. PLEASE call (212) 556-1234 ( hit "0" to get operator) and
ask for Joe Kahn, The New York Times' foreign news editor and call back and then
ask for Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher. Ask them both when The New
York Times will (1) do follow up stories on the ethnic cleansing of Black Libyans and (2)
when the newspaper plans to write editorials denouncing the ethnic cleansing and calling for an investigation by the United Nations and
investigation and prosecution by the International Criminal Court.
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As dusk crept over Collington Square Park, in east Baltimore, the children's chatter of questions began.
"What time is my curfew?" "What if I'm out with my brother and he's 18?" "If I hide, can I still stay out and play?"
A 23-year-old man with thin, cascading braids who goes by the name Dreads interrupted the chorus of voices: "It's 8:05! You all have 55 minutes left!"
A new youth curfew law, among the strictest in the nation, took effect in Baltimore on Friday night. It requires unaccompanied children under the age of 14 to be indoors by 9 p.m. and for 14, 15 and 16-year-olds to be indoors by 10 p.m. on weekdays and 11 p.m. on weekends and during the summer.
Children found out on the streets can be picked up by police and escorted to one of two recreational centers set up by the city until parents or guardians pick them up.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blakes says the rules will help keep kids out of harm's way in a city that has long struggled with high crime. But civil liberties groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, say the rules are too vague and make negative interactions between police and children all but inevitable.
"I think there is a widely acknowledged lack of trust between members of the public and the police department in Baltimore. Discussion of this falls against that backdrop," said Sonia Kumar, an ACLU staff attorney.
She said she was also concerned about how police would react if they stop a child who is not carrying a photo identification, or if the child attempts to run away.
Other critics noted that the rec halls that were serving as collection centers for the kids by night were closed for activities and events during the day.
Baltimore, which served as the staging ground for the celebrated HBO police drama "The Wire," has one of the highest rates of violent crime of any U.S. city, with 218 homicides reported in 2012, according to FBI data.
But there are signs that crime in this city of some 625,000 is starting to ebb. The number of murders this year is down 14 percent compared to the same period last year.
While the curfew attracted strong opposition at a public forum last week, many parents approached on Friday night said they thought it was a good idea.
"A lot goes on at night that they don't need to be involved with," said Alyssa Jackson, 20, as she tended to her 9-month-old daughter Madison on one knee. Jackson said her mother had set a similar curfew for her as a child, and she planned to do the same for her own daughter.
Jackson's friend, Emmanuel Lawson, a fellow Baltimore native, nodded his head in agreement. "Honestly, it just eliminates the possibility of people acting a fool," he said of the curfew.
But Kim Johnson, a single mother of five boys who works a night shift doing custodial work, wasn't so sure.
"What if the baby gets sick in the middle of the night and my 16-year-old needs to go to the store to get something?" said Jackson, 34, as she pushed her child on a swing shortly before the curfew took effect.
She said she was especially worried about the city's threat of fining parents up to $500 if children are found unattended.
For hours after the curfew went into effect, the two recreation centers set up by the city were mostly quiet.
At one point, a woman arrived at the center on the city's west side saying she had come to collect her 11-year-old grandson.
"I think it's good," she said of the curfew. "The kids shouldn't be out on the streets when it gets dark."
(Writing by Edith Honan; Editing by Frances Kerry)


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