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I begin judging a city by the efficiency of its airport.
The first thing I want after exhausting hours in a cramped airplane is to get to my hotel for a shower and change of clothes.
Within an hour after my flight from Portland through Dallas landed in Guadalajara, Mexico's graceful, urbane and ever-exciting second city, I was immersed in hot water. That's how quickly I made it through baggage claim, immigration, customs and the 15-mile cab ride to a downtown hotel.
Guadalajara clearly knows how to greet visitors.
After a few minutes in my room at Hotel Frances, which is just eight years shy of its 400th birthday, I began my tour by walking a half-block to the Plaza de la Liberacion and the Guadalajara cathedral. What I found was one of the great pedestrian plazas of the New World.
For the next eight days, I kept pinching myself so that I wouldn't think I was imagining the beauty of this city, the friendliness of its people and the low cost of visiting.
Guadalajara geography -- it's as far south as Maui and a mile high like Denver -- gives it one of the world's most pleasant year-round climates. I was there for the Christmas and New Year's holidays, and every day was 75 degrees with blue sky.
Founded as a European settlement in 1542, Guadalajara (known in Mexico as the Pearl of the West) has grown into Mexico's second-biggest city, with more than 5 million residents. Despite its size, it has maintained the heart of a small village without the crushing pollution, population and traffic of Mexico City.
The city, 200 miles inland from Puerto Vallarta, doesn't teem with Americanos looking for fun in the sun, like the Mexican beach resorts. Instead, it attracts visitors interested in the nation's history and culture. I expected lots of tourists, but saw only a few obvious foreigners, in part because post-Sept. 11 holiday travel was down. Those I did encounter came during the final buildup to New Year's, a holiday celebration that Guadalajara -- one of Portland's sister cities -- stages with class.
Central Guadalajara's pedestrian plazas extend in the shape of a cross with the 16th-century cathedral at the center. Although 130 Catholic churches punctuate the city skyline, the cathedral's yellow and blue tiled towers are the city's most famous landmarks.
The Catedral de Guadalajara is surrounded by the Guadalajara fountain on the front, the rotunda and the ornate bandstand on the sides, and the Liberation square to the rear.
The base of the cross extends beyond the cathedral to Teatro Degollado, the city's monumental opera house, and a mile-long pedestrian mall lined with historic buildings, bubbling fountains and sculpture gardens. The mall ends at the Cabanas Cultural Institute, where Jose Clemente Orozco, Mexico's great painter, decorated the ceiling with murals that earned the nickname the "Sistine Chapel of the Americas."
Public squares around the cathedral bring together the Tapatios, the name for the people of Guadalajara -- be they wealthy offspring of Spanish conquistadores, young mixed-blood families of a thriving middle class, or descendants of Indians who have missed the city's prosperity.
The New Year celebration began at about 6 p.m. on Dec. 30, about 30 hours before the calendar would change. The Guadalajara symphony orchestra began the festivities with a free outdoor concert beneath the eight Corinthian columns that anchor the portico of the opera house.
When the orchestra finished its two-hour performance, music shifted to another stage at the rear of the cathedral. A dozen musicians, dressed in tuxedos, played classical Spanish guitars and other stringed instruments, while couples danced the tango on stage in front of them. Other dancers twirled bolas, slapping the balls rhythmically on stage to the beat of kettle drums. At 10 p.m. I walked a half block to my hotel and watched the show on live television until I fell asleep.
I was expecting something even more special the next night, on New Year's Eve, but Guadalajara is a city of surprises.
Classical guitarists began another free concert at 6 p.m. behind the cathedral. At the same time, a younger group of musicians, augmented by athletes doing gymnastic tricks, performed in front of the 70-foot bronze sculpture and fountain at the rear of the opera house. The symphony orchestra gave a concert inside that night, so the only free entertainment it provided was watching the city's upper-crust arrive.
The pedestrian mall hummed with humanity. It seemed everyone was buying or selling something, mostly native crafts or food cooked on the spot. Street entertainers, surrounded by small groups of watchers, passed the hat for tips. Among them were tap dancers, mimes, break dancers, martial arts experts and musicians playing handmade instruments.
Most of the people milling about appeared to be in family groups, many with three generations. This was New Year's Eve and no one appeared to be drinking. A visitor from England, in Guadalajara to teach English, commented that if this were happening back home, "everyone would be walking around half-blotto."
By 9 p.m., the music ended, and crowds drifted away. The evening ended long before midnight as families filtered home to celebrate privately.
Guadalajara's attractions are many -- its zoo, with its white tiger and entryway adorned by statues of cavorting chimpanzees; its canyon called the barranca, the 1,800-foot-deep gash at the north edge of the city; the century-old Panteon de Belen cemetery and the lush green Parque Agua Azul, both romantic favorites in a city filled with young lovers; and the day trip to Lake Chapala, the biggest in Mexico, with its lakeshore American retirement center of Ajijic.
Perhaps the most famous sights beyond the central city are the twin T's --Tlaquepaque and Tonola, both villages famous for ceramics that have become neighborhoods as Guadalajara has grown.
Tlaquepaque is a highbrow arts community, filled with beautiful artwork I couldn't afford. I spent the morning strolling through shops that line the central plaza, then boarded a taxi for the weekly Thursday market at Tonola.
As we neared the largest native market in North America, traffic on the freeway crawled to a halt. The taxi driver motioned that it would be quicker to walk, so I got out and walked up the freeway exit ramp into town.
The market stretched for blocks along the main street, spilling into side streets three and four blocks deep on either side. I never found the end of it, even though I walked for hours, looking at booths filled with native crafts and food. I didn't see anyone else who appeared to be a tourist.
Tonola's prices (and quality) are lower than in Tlaquepaque, so I checked dozens of booths looking for tableware. The best quality was inside the many stores, so as the tiring day wound to an end I spent $120 on a 27-piece dish set. The clerk spent a half-hour wrapping each piece individually for air travel home. She did a good job, because only two pieces broke, and I had bought extras to cover that eventuality.
When I returned to the Guadalajara airport five days later, luggage was being spot-checked by hand at the ticket check-in counter. Envisioning how I would have to unwrap and then rewrap 27 dishes before the bag could be checked, I was pleasantly surprised as the security agent waved me through without a search. The ticket agent noted that the suitcase exceeded the 70-pound limit, but she attached a fragile sticker and sent it down the luggage belt without charging an extra fee. I end judging a city by the efficiency of its airport.
Getting there: From Portland, best choice is the nonstop flight on Mexicana Airlines. Other options are American Airlines through Dallas, United through Los Angeles or Continental through Houston. Round-trip restricted fares begin at $626.
Getting around: Bring a comfortable pair of walking shoes. Taxis and city buses are cheap and easy to use, but walking is the best way to get around the central city. Women should not wear shorts into churches, although no one will stop them.
Lodging: When calling from the United States, dial 011 for international access, 52 for Mexico. Among the restored colonial-era hotels in the city center are San Francisco Plaza ($45) 333-613-3257, Frances ($60) 333-658-2831 and Mendoza ($85) 333-613-7310. Upgrade to a suite for $20. Each number is preceded by the 011 international dialing code and Mexico's 52 country code.
Dining: Plaza Guadalajara, in front of the cathedral, is lined with restaurants. Antigua and Sandy's have good food; the outstanding people-watching is thrown in for free. It's easy to get a quick snack from a street vendor. Steaming hot corn, cooked on the cob and then cut into a cup, is very tasty (and safe).
Nightlife: Hotel Frances has a bandstand in the lobby, plus an adjacent disco, so expect noise to be part of the otherwise graceful accommodations in the city's oldest hotel. La Maestranza, a block from Hotel Frances, is famous as an after-work cantina and late-night dance spot. Plaza de los Mariachis, a mile from city center, comes alive after midnight with the mariachi music that Guadalajara invented.
Festivals: The biggest events of the year in Guadalajara's neighborhoods include the village fiesta at Tlaquepaque the last two weeks of June and the arrival of the sculpture of the Virgin at Zapopan on Oct. 12.
More info: Getting tourist information locally can be time-consuming. Go prepared with a guidebook, such as "Guadalajara" by Ulysses Travel Guides. Or check out the Mexico Tourism Board, 800-446-3942, or www.visitmexico.com.
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WED ▪ 29 There will be a Spanish flavor when UNT Concert Orchestra gathers for its performance this evening. Clay Couturiaux will conduct Manuel de Falla's Suite No. 2 from his ballet The Three-Cornered Hat and Chabrier's...
Night of the Laughing DeadKRISTIAN LIN
Remember two weeks ago when I said Jennifer's Body was the funniest horror movie since Shaun of the Dead? I was too quick on the trigger. Zombieland bears a much stronger resemblance to Edgar Wright's 2004 gem. Then...
Running DeadAn overrated zombie flick grows staler in a sequel set 28 Weeks Later.
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I think I might have found my candidate
We need a new politics for the other 99% of America that doesn't collect a CEO's salary or write big checks for politicians. America deserves a Green New Deal that provides a secure future for we the people and the planet we depend on.
It happened while reading a very sincere act of contrition from a former B0bot
Is Obama the Trojan Horse, A Psychopath, A Bad Boyfriend or all Three?
Of course, short of repenting for depriving us of the better choice in 2008, there's this
Not to worry they're other fish in the sea. Jill Stein of the Green Party has a very sane 5-point program.
Still looking for that, but here's her on the issues


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What makes a good play great?
One definition is that it's one you can continue to explore, making new discoveries. Lines, themes and images reverberate. If the playwright, director, actors and designers have done their jobs, they will realize a good deal of the text in a single performance. A great play intrigues to the point that you want to confirm or question your initial reactions.
Christopher Shinn's "Dying City" is such a play. It was a revelation seeing it enacted on the stage of Southern Rep, even though I had read it several times, attended a rehearsal and interviewed its principals. "Dying City" still had the power to surprise and disturb as it delved with a vibrant immediacy into increasingly serious subject matter and dark humor .
"Dying City" concerns the truths and lies we tell one another to get by in life and what can happen when we acknowledge them as such.
Kelly is a young Manhattan therapist whose husband, Craig, has died mysteriously in Iraq -- mysterious because there is denial of what really happened, "Something Unspoken, " as Tennessee Williams put it.
Shinn's story is how Kelly comes to terms with two shattering nights: this one, when brother-in-law Peter turns up on her doorstep unexpectedly; and one a little more than a year ago, when Peter spent part of the night with the couple before Craig left for training.
Peter's appearance -- in every sense -- unnerves Kelly. Her husband's identical twin is the dead made manifest. The play shifts back and forth between the two nights, until past and present collide.
"Dying City" has a gimmick, in that Pete McElligott plays both Peter and Craig. There are showy quick-changes, but more impressive is the way McElligott differentiates the roles. Craig's voice has more timbre, and he's more physically grounded. Ostensibly, Craig is the responsible "good" guy.
Peter is a vain, entertaining, self-deprecating actor -- gay, promiscuous, ruled by emotion. Craig is his hero; he started acting by imitating Craig. Pretending is a subtext here. The characters refer to events in their lives as "drama." The men are playing roles, even in their attitudes toward war.
When Peter visits Kelly, it's more of an ambush. There's awkward, friendly banter that gives way to confession: Peter has walked off the stage and out of the theater in mid-performance, after his stage father in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (significantly enough) has whispered a spiteful put-down to Peter, one calculated to destroy his confidence. Peter also has left his stable lover, taken up with a dangerous previous partner and has risky sex on the side. But he's really there to read Craig's e-mails from Iraq and sound out Kelly on the idea of his turning them into a one-man show in which Peter would -- again -- play his brother.
All of this summons memories Kelly would like to forget. The Craig in flashbacks isn't heroic. He's confrontational, secretive, reacting to his wife's affection with rough, demeaning, sexual behavior. Is Craig "acting" Peter?
The brothers are more alike than one might think. Craig's gradually revealed, overt callousness toward Kelly is mirrored by Peter's more passive-aggressive approach; he begins his "performance" of the e-mails with a page that has a reference certain to devastate Kelly, as it does.
Angelena Swords makes an impressive local debut as Kelly. Swords plays her as aware (understanding human behavior is her job, after all), honest, confused, deeply hurt and holding on for dear life.
McElligott's Peter is an unsparing portrait of the actor as immature hedonist (Jeremy Piven leaving the run of "Speed-the-Plow" on Broadway comes to mind), someone who wants to be liked, yet does everything he can to make that impossible. McElligott's intense Craig is a grenade about to go off.
There are almost endless levels to "Dying City, " and under Julie Hamberg's meticulous, penetrating direction, they are deftly unearthed and laid bare.
Geoffrey Hall's smart, spare Manhattan apartment set is dominated by a monolithic white slab, evoking a whitewashed New Orleans tombstone, set against an indigo background sprinkled with pinpoints of white. In concert with Marty Sachs' lighting, the effect is very "Lost in the Stars."
In the midst of death, there is life in "Dying City" and at Southern Rep.
What more can you ask of theater?
What: Christopher Shinn's play, directed by Julie Hamberg.
With: Pete McElligott and Angelena Swords.
Where: Southern Rep, 3rd Floor Shops Level, Canal Place, 365 Canal St.
When: Performances Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. through Feb. 8. Audience talk-backs after Sunday matinees.
Tickets: $22-$27. $10 student rush tickets 15 minutes before curtain, cash only with student ID.
Call: 504.522.6545 or www.southernrep.com


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SWARTZ CREEK, Michigan — Orange barrels will be off Seymour Road about a month ahead of schedule but they'll be popping up on Elms Road June 15.
Bruce Weiss of Pyramid Paving of Bay City told residents at a March community meeting that his company would get the $760,000 road project — reconstruction from Miller to Hill roads — done before the Aug. 15 deadline.
In early May, workers removed the existing surface and added new drains, curbs, gutters and built a new section of road from Miller to Chesterfield roads.
About 70 percent of the cost for the project is coming from a Michigan Department of Transportation grant and the remainder is coming from the city.
City Manager Paul Bueche said the company is keeping its word and finishing early. The road will be complete between mid-July and the first week of August, he said.
"They're wrapping it up," Bueche said. "They put an initial asphalt course down and an aggregate base has been repaired on the first 900 feet from Miller to Chesterfield. They got it done in two-and-a-half weeks."
There have been some complaints about dust near residents' homes, but Bueche said the grievance list has been light.
The resurfacing of Elms Road from I-69 north to the city limits will cost the city about $477,000, including $75,000 for construction engineering costs. Curbs, gutters and storm drains will be installed. Michigan Department of Transportation will pay the balance of the $900,000 project.
For the amount of work that will be done, the project will cost less than estimated, Bueche said.
"It was a phenomenal price because construction workers are hurting for work," Bueche said. "We're seeing great prices on bids."
MDOT used to pick up 80 percent of road repairs but recently changed the funding plan to pay 50 percent of road construction costs.
Lou Fleury, city engineer with Rowe Professional Services of Flint, said the reconstruction area is about 90 percent complete and the asphalt repair work is being done on the southern portion of Seymour Road.
"They are moving along well and they've done a good job at maintaining local traffic during the project, which is always important," Fleury said. "They've kept disruptions to residents at a minimum."
Zettel told council members Tuesday that the way roads will be repaired in the future needs to be changed due to MDOT's lower funding levels. He said roads were always repaired on a "worst-first" basis but the city would save more money with preventative maintenance. The plan to do so — transportation asset management -- is a methodical way of maintaining, upgrading, and operating roadways and bridges in the most cost effective ways.
"This should have been in policy years ago," Zettel said.


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( Interamna ) Friar Minor and missionary, d. 1474 (or 1477). He belonged to the noble family of the Manassei and was a man of great learning, being Doctor of Medicine and well versed in letters and philosophy. Despising the honours and vanities of the world, he entered the Order of Friars Minor in the Umbria province of the order and practised, with unusual fervour, every virtue of the religious life. After devoting himself assiduously to the study of theology, Barnabas began to preach with wonderful success, but a severe illness obliged him to abandon this work. Although gifted with the grace of prayer and contemplation in an eminent degree, he was almost continually employed in different offices of importance, for which his prudence, kindness, and affability well fitted him. By word and example he proved himself a zealous promoter of that branch of the order known as the Observance. He died at the hermitage of the Carceri on Mount Subiaco at an advanced age and his remains were deposited there in the Chapel of St. Mary Magdelene. He is commemorated in the Franciscan martyrology on 17 February. To Barnabas belongs the honour of having established the first of the celebrated monti di pietà , or charitable loan-institutions, designed to protect poor people against the outrageous usury of the Jews. After consulting his fellow religious Fortunatus Coppoli, who had been an eminent jurisconsult, and with the generous co-operation of the wealthy Perugians, Barnabas established the first monte di pietà in their city in 1462. Violent opposition ensued, but Barnabas and Fortunatus prevailed over their enemies at a public disputation. Barnabas next extended his work to other cities; it was enthusiastically taken up by several great Franciscan missionaries, and in their day, the monti di pietà wonderfully improved the social conditions of Italy. (See BERNARDINE OF FELTRE.)
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Interview with , conducted by Blackside, Inc. on September 21, 1989, for . Washington University Libraries, Film and Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection. These transcripts contain material that did not appear in the final program. Only text appearing in bold italics was used in the final version of
QUESTION 1LOUIS MASSIAH: OK, we, we're going to start off with trying to, trying to frame and give some, some context to the period. Ah, I'm interested in, in your view, in 1968, Richard Nixon has, has just been elected. Can you talk a little bit about the polarization that you saw in the country at that time and talk a little bit about the radicalization of youth in that era? Just sort of set us, set us up in that time, what, what you saw happening in the country.
JERRIS LEONARD: Well, I, I think it's fair to say that in, as, as the Nixon administration came in to office, as we came in to office in 1969, there was certainly was, was, a, a, a strong perception of radicalization[1] Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads 1965 - 1985; Episode 206-03. My own views are that there was far more rhetic- rhetoric about radicalization than there really were radicals. As you review that period of time, no question about the fact that there were some serious riots, but there was never a real threat to the United States because of the radical movement. There were people who were killed, and that was most assuredly unfortunate, there was property that was damaged, but, I think the rhetoric was a lot greater than the, than the fact.
QUESTION 2LOUIS MASSIAH: OK, um, what was your mandate. You were appointed assistant attorney general for, in the Civil Rights Division, Division, what was your mandate from, from President Nixon and from Attorney General Mitchell?
JERRIS LEONARD: I had a meeting with the President and Attorney General Mitchell shortly after we were all in office, and I asked President Nixon, I said, "Exactly what is it you, what are your marching orders?" In fact, I think I used those terms. And he said, "Jerris, very simply, I want you to enforce the law, but I want you to use your head." And that's really, was the totality of the conversation as far as marching orders were concerned. I took that to mean that, ah, consistent with Attorney General Mitchell's own beliefs that we had to be vigorous in enforcing, ah, the Civil Rights Laws, but we had to try to do it without rhetoric, ah, w- and try to, try to, try to bring about solutions rather than simply saying that, "Well, we want another lawsuit." Mitchell was a great a great believer in trying to, to, to bring consensus where you, where you could get that done. Now, if not, as the record clearly indicates, in those two years that I headed the Civil Rights Division, we brought more lawsuits than either before or after.
QUESTION 3LOUIS MASSIAH: What was meant by, what, what did you understand by "civil rights"? What did that mean to you?
JERRIS LEONARD: Well, i- some people feel that that's simply the, the, the simple enforcement of the federal laws, and certainly that was the mandate--
LOUIS MASSIAH: Could you just say "civil rights" when you first answer the question?
JERRIS LEONARD: Sure, Civil rights, to some people, means simply the enforcement and the mandate, ah, enforcing the mandate of the laws. I had a strong feeling that our real purpose was to try to be a, a, tool, an effective, ah, tool to, to trying to bring Blacks more closely involved in the, in the mainstream of American life, whether that be in schools or, or housing, or public accommodations, or, or employment. Ah, in a sense, I guess, ah, I felt that there was more than simply enforcing the law, that you had to look at the broader picture: what were you accomplishing? And, the importance of that was, you had to recognize that the federal government was not going to solve the racial problems in the country, it had to be a much broader perspective, and we did involve state and local people to a far greater degree, and, and, and in a very important sense, they contributed as much as the Civil Rights Division did to trying to bring Blacks into a greater share of the mainstream of America.
QUESTION 4LOUIS MASSIAH: And, could you talk about some of the specifics? In terms of the Civil Rights Division?
JERRIS LEONARD: Sure. Pers- ah, one of the important ways in which we worked with local communities and local people was in school desegregation. We brought about a tremendous advancement in the desegregation of the schools in the eleven southern and border states in 1969 and 1971. That could not have been accomplished if we hadn't worked closely with local public officials, with local business people, labor people, community people, that's how it really got done. The numbers were really overwhelming. There were thousands and thousands of children that were, Black children, that were brought in to desegregated schools during that period of time.
QUESTION 5LOUIS MASSIAH: And what about in the North? In the northern cities, what was most of the work there?
JERRIS LEONARD: Well, I think you have to understand that in 1969, ah, we really weren't facing, at least in the sch- in the area of school desegregation, we weren't facing ah, ah, the, the problems in, in, in the schools, in the northern, northern schools were just beginning to, to foment, if you please. We weren't very reactive, proactive, rather, at that point in time. Frankly, with the resources we had, we had our hands full with the southern schools, but, understand, we were bringing employment cases, housing discrimination cases, in the, in the, in the northern areas at that period of time, we were very vigorous in the employment and housing area in northern states.
QUESTION 6LOUIS MASSIAH: OK. How did you view the Black Panther Party vis-a-vis the Civil Rights Movement and--
JERRIS LEONARD: Well, there is no doubt in my mind that, that, that by-and-large, the Black Panther Party had a lot of people, a lot of elements in it who were simply-stated law-violators. They were, they were caching weapons, they were committing other, other types and kinds of crimes. But history has got to record the fact that there was an element, either as individuals or as part of the philosophy of the Black Panthers that was dedicated to helping and assisting Blacks in, in the, in the Black ghettos, particularly in the North and the West. There isn't any question about that. They did a great job, for instance, in, in, in, in trying to help, ah, feed, feed young children. And they did other things wer- which were important. But, history is also going to record that a serious part of the Black Panther, ah, Black Panthers overall, engaged in violent and criminal activities.
QUESTION 7LOUIS MASSIAH: OK, and, and, sort of a specific sort of comparison between someone like Fred Hampton from the Black Panther Party in Chicago and someone doing service work in the Southern Civil Rights Movement, I mean, did you see any similarity in--
JERRIS LEONARD: Well, I, ah, um, you know, ah, when you ask whether or not there is a similarity between Fred Hampton and people working in the Southern Civil Rights Movement, ah, you have to be a little careful that you're not misunderstood. There's no question that Fred Hampton, that there was a part of Fred Hampton that wanted to help in a proper and non-violent way, wanted to help Blacks in his community in Chicago. To that extent, there is a parallelism to the non-violence of the Blacks in the South. But there was another side of Fred Hampton, which was very violent, and which was criminal, and, unfortunately those two melded together, and, and I think in the end, it's probably what resulted in his death.
QUESTION 8LOUIS MASSIAH: OK, there, there are FBI memos from that time that talk about a genuine fear of Black hate groups. And, ah, was that a fear that was also in the Justice Department at that time, a, a fear of, of Black organizations, what were called Black extremist groups?
JERRIS LEONARD: Ah, no, I, I have, ah, ah, as far as the leadership in the Justice Department during Attorney General Mitchell's tenure, I can assure you there wasn't any fear that the nation was going to be overrun by Black militants. On the other hand, I think it's important to recognize that the FBI has a kind of a schizophrenic character to it. One of its important obligations is to be concerned about radical, militant, violent organizations that might be controlled by outside forces. Ah, there was at least some evidence that the Black Panthers were getting assistance, financial assistance from elements outside the United States. That, melded with the violent nature of some of the Panthers themselves, I think caused the, the FBI to possibly overstate the case. Ah, I can assure you that nobody at the top of the Justice Department was concerned that the Black Panthers were going to take over the United States, however.
QUESTION 9LOUIS MASSIAH: Ah, J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI at the time, talked about the Black Panthers being the, the single threat to the internal security of the country. Ah, I'd be interested in, ah, we're going to stop for a change.
JERRIS LEONARD: One has to be very careful when you try to put the role of J. Edgar Hoover as director of the FBI in proper context during this time. First of all, it has to be said that Mr. Hoover, at least in my opinion, headed the finest investigative organization in the world. There are those people who said that, ah, Mr. Hoover wasn't, didn't look to favorably on the Civil Rights Division. I want to tell you that every single request that we made of the FBI was carried out fully, completely, and in a professional and competent manner. At the same time, Mr. Hoover had a political audience to play to. He had a huge organization. He had to continue to support that organization, unfortunately, at times he supported it with rhetoric. I think, frankly, that he overstated the, ah, the concern, the real concern that the Black Panthers were to the country. Ah, ah, I think it was legitimate for him to state that they were a violent and unlawful element, but, ah, referring to them as the most dangerous or most important, and I don't remember it exactly, the words he used, the greatest threat to, to the United States, at that time, was an over-statement[2] Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads 1965 - 1985; Episode 206-15.
QUESTION 10LOUIS MASSIAH: OK. To the Grand Jury, um, in the appointment of the Grand Jury, what, first off, what, what was your, your mandate, what you were, you were asked by at- Attorney General Mitchell to, to go to Chicago, what was your, your marching orders then?
JERRIS LEONARD: Well, I, my marching orders specifically were broader than, than just Chicago. There was a good deal of, ah, unrest and riot, riotous type situations and, and police and student and police and radical involvement at the time. General Mitchell became very concerned that there was an overreaction by law enforcement to these radical groups, whether it be campus or the Panthers, ah, the Kent State situation, the Jackson State situation, he wanted to send a message that the Justice Department was going to take a very close look at situations which resulted in any death, where there was a situation like the Panthers, or, or the student and campus situation, specifically, however, ah, I think he was very concerned, in the Black Panther case, about the fact that the raid occurred at four or five o'clock in the morning, that, ah, there, there hadn't been any, ah, precedent violence by anyone from the Black Panther apartment, ah, you know, that it was a kind of a raid in the night, Aden that there was a massive amount of shooting. I don't remember the numbers but, ah, it was something like over a hundred gunshot, ah, gunshots were fired. And as I believe the Grand Jury report shows, only one of those were fired by the Panthers, and the bal- the balance of over a hundred shots were fired by the police. I think that was really deep, of deep concern to General Mitchell because he said, "How can there be that much response to one shot from the other side?" So to speak.
QUESTION 11LOUIS MASSIAH: I'm going to ask you to summarize some of the conclusions, and we talked about them. Ah, ah, first off, was the raid necessary? And you might talk about the number of officers, the level of surveillance, and the choice of weapons.
JERRIS LEONARD: Well, the question is, is always asked whether or not the raid itself was necessary. In my humble opinion it wasn't. I, I think there were better tactics that could have been used, ah, to bring about, ah, ah, control of the people, and arrest of the people, ah, in that apartment. There is no question that the police had the, had the right, they had a search warrant, ah, there were illegal weapons in the apartment, the police had a right to arrest them. But, the question is, how do you go about doing it? There are a number of different tacsic- tactics that could and should have been used. Ah, as far as the weapons in the apartment, ah, I don't remember the number, but there were substantial numbers of, of weapons loaded, ready to fire, that were in the apartment.
QUESTION 12LOUIS MASSIAH: OK, why, why were there no indictments? From, ah, from the Grand Jury, why weren't indictments recommended?
JERRIS LEONARD: I don't think there's any question that people don't really understand that the federal government's role in this area is very limited. The statute which, under which the Justice Department has to work is very stringent, it, it's not like local, criminal law where there's a lot of different choices. The, the issue simply, ah, stated, under the federal statute is that the federal authorities, the Justice Department has to show that the police officer had control over the person that he's arresting, and after getting control over that person then executes what we call "summary punishment", either begins to beat the person or kills the person, and that's the very limited area that the federal government has to work in. And that's why there was no indictment in that case.
QUESTION 13LOUIS MASSIAH: OK, could you, could you talk a little bit about the first shot that, the first shot supposedly coming from Clark--
JERRIS LEONARD: The facts, the facts in the Chicago Black Panther killing are pretty clear. There is no question that there were weapons in the apartment. There is no question that at least to the extent of Hampton and Clark, I believe they both had previous convictions or at least had previous arrests, so there was a threat of danger. Ah, the police had a warrant. At the time that that warrant was executed, at five, or four or five in the morning, when the police went to the door and knocked on the door and announced who they were, the first shot came from inside the apartment, and it was that shot, that in my opinion, made it impossible for the Justice Department to justify bringing a criminal investiga- a criminal indictment ah, against, ah, against the police officers.
LOUIS MASSIAH: I know this is asking you to restate--
JERRIS LEONARD: Go ahead.
QUESTION 14LOUIS MASSIAH: but do you think this is sort of a very narrow interpretation of civil rights, because the first shot out of a hundred some shots was not, came, came from the Panthers, that that would, there was another civil rights violation?
JERRIS LEONARD: There's no question that that's a very narrow concept of law enforcement, but what we have to understand is that the federal gro- government's role in this area is very narrowly circumscribed by federal statute and case law. As an example, to give you an example, you will recall the Kent State killings, I refused, OK, you don't want to get into that, all right--
LOUIS MASSIAH: If you could just say in terms of the indictments from the Grand Jury. OK, do you think it's a narrow interpretation to say that because one shot came from the Panthers, therefore, the first shot came from the Panthers, therefore no civil rights violation had been taking place?
JERRIS LEONARD: I think it is very narrow. Ah, on the other hand, philosophically--
LOUIS MASSIAH: If you could restate--
JERRIS LEONARD: Yea. The question is whether or not that is a very narrow view of law enforcement. There isn't any question that it is. I personally believe its proper. The reason I believe that is that I don't think that the federal government ought to get in to any area of law enforcement that can't be addressed by state and local government. There is a, there is a myriad of statutes which could have been pro- state statutes which could have been brought against the police officers and police officials in that situation, so I think the federal governments role ought to be only to react where there is a total absence of any effort on the part of state and local government to address these kinds of situations. Let me point out something else. The report that was issued by the federal Grand Jury in the Chicago Black Panther case still impacts in the city of Chicago today. It's still used today by people who, who are seeking to bring the police department under proper control.
QUESTION 15LOUIS MASSIAH: OK, how was, we're talking about this period from '69 to '70 with, how was the American legal system, how was it being challenged by, in this period, in particularly in events surrounding the, the, Panther, Panther raid, Kent State, and Jackson State?
JERRIS LEONARD: I think it's important that when you look at the period from around '69 and '70, that you also understand that the American legal system, particularly the law enforcement community was under tremendous pressure to deal with a problem that they really had no experience with, and that was the mass radicalization of individuals who, ah, whether they be the Panthers in an enclave in an apartment in, in, in Chicago, whether they be a massive number of students at Kent State University of Jackson State University, law enforcement community simply had no background or experience in dealing with those kinds of situations. The closest they ever came to that was in, ah, in, ah, Union strikes, an entirely different set of facts that they had to deal with.
QUESTION 16LOUIS MASSIAH: OK. We talked earlier about the radicalization and particularly how it seemed to focus on the youth. Ah, in your, your position in the Justice Department, how did you, how did you measure what was going on in terms of this, this, this radicalized youth, ah, we're going to stop. That was very good.
LOUIS MASSIAH: OK, the, the question is about radical youth and your responsibilities in the Justice Department at that time.
JERRIS LEONARD: I think it's important that we all try to put in perspective in content the role that young people were playing in the '60s. I think it's fair to say, having been young once myself, that young people get very impatient. I think it's important that government not overreact to the impatience that youth has, and yet at the same time, it has a role to see to it that that impatience doesn't boil over into unlawful activity which results in the death of people or massive destruction of property. At the same time, the federal government most certainly has a role under the Constitution to see to it that those people have every right to exercise their freedom of speech and their freedom of movement. I think that was a conflict in, in, in those periods of time that which, which many people and maybe myself overreacted to. I think there was a lot, as I look back on that period of time, I think there was a lot less violence when you look at the country as a whole than what we were reacting to at the time. I think we saw a lot of hobgoblins that really weren't there to the degree we thought they were.
QUESTION 17LOUIS MASSIAH: OK, in, in, in the s- in the program that, that has been sort of called COINTELPRO, there seemed to be this sense of, of danger, ah, ah, about the Panthers. Could you talk a little bit about that perceived danger and why a program like COINTELPRO--
JERRIS LEONARD: Again, I think, as we look back at the times, ah, the, the, no question the Panthers were caching weapons around the country, they had a paramilitary organization and a camp going in California and possibly other places, but, my own perspective is that the First Marine Division would have wiped the Panthers out in 24 hours. Ah, that's, that's my view of it. Ah, that being the case, I think we overreacted at the time that the Panthers were somehow, some kind of a threat to the, to the whole United States and I think in, in retrospect that was simply not the case.
QUESTION 18LOUIS MASSIAH: Well, what about the methods of the FBI? You were talking about street agents making these decisions, I mean, with- within this program that was called COINTELPRO there were, there were memos talking about to disrupt and to neutralize and to prevent the rise of a Black messiah, could you, could you talk about--
JERRIS LEONARD: Well, the, the, I think the role of the FBI has to be put in proper the perspective and context. To a great extent the re- the B- the FBI relies on reports and information that are coming from the very lowest level of FBI street agents. In many cases, the more newer agents. A lot of what surfaces to Washington and the Bureau itself comes from informants, it comes from newspaper reports, it comes from general discussions in the community, and that all gets mixed together. And I think in that period of time, that a lot of that mix was creating a, a fear that somehow the Panthers were going to overrun the United States. But, y- you can't, you can't stop the FBI from carrying out the function of the need to know. Law enforcement, the law enforcement community has a real need to know what's happening. That's good because it also keeps law enforcement from overreacting. As I said earlier, nobody at the top of the Justice Department ever believed that this country was in any danger of collapsing from these various radical groups. That's just, that, that's nonsense for anybody to think that, that, ah, any, anybody at the top level of the Justice Department believed that.
QUESTION 19LOUIS MASSIAH: What about language like disrupt, neutralize, prevent the rise--
JERRIS LEONARD: Well, that, that's, that's rhetoric. The, the, the use of terms like disruption and, and, ah, challenging of these groups, and, ah, that, that's, by and large, and neutralizing them, I think that was one of the terms that was used, that's a lot of rhetoric, ah, ah, that's coming from people who are, ah, ah, beefing up their turf, they want to keep the pre- there are people, you know, in the city of Washington, who get up every morning and pray that the problem continues, and one of the ways that you do that is to, ah, ah, keep salting, salting it with rhetoric. You keep talking about the problem and building it, and the reason you do that is because you get more people. You go to the Congress and say, "Oh, this is a horrible problem, you better give us a thousand more agents!" And you build, you know, you have f- you have, let's face it, there are empire-builders in Washington, I, I don't think that's any, any news to anybody.
LOUIS MASSIAH: OK, ah, cut. I'm just going to go back to--
JERRIS LEONARD: You wanted to get that l--
QUESTION 20LOUIS MASSIAH: OK, we talked earlier about how, how early on you had some sense that there would be no indictments and also that at, at some point that you let it be known to the judge that you had no intention of, of handing down any indictments. Could you talk a little bit, why?
JERRIS LEONARD: Well, I, it became fairly clear to me, ah, I don't recall exactly when, but certainly midway, maybe two-thirds of the way into the Grand Jury investigation that we were going to have a very difficult time, um, ah, with the narrow federal criminal statute by way of bringing an indictment and getting a successful conviction. I let it be known at that time that I was, um, not very happy with the fact that Hanrahan's office had indicted the Panthers in the very same activity, and, I think it's fair to state that I let it be known that, that, ah, we might look favorably on something other than indictments if the, if the state indictments against the Panthers were dismissed. Ah, I, I refused to admit, and I would deny that I made a deal with them, but I certainly let that be known.
LOUIS MASSIAH: If you could just say that again and say indictments of police or law enforcement--
JERRIS LEONARD: I certainly let it be known that if the indictments against the Panthers by the state prosecutor were dismissed that we would not seek indictments against the police officers and the police, and the city officials and Hanrahan in the Grand Jury case.
QUESTION 21LOUIS MASSIAH: OK, could you talk about Nixon's mandate to you when you came into office in the Department of Justice?
JERRIS LEONARD: Well, anecdotally, ah, lots of people have seen President Nixon. I had a meeting with he and Attorney General Mitchell and I said, "Mr. President, what, ah, what are my marching orders?" And he said in his own inimitable way, "Jerris, enforce the law. And use your head."
LOUIS MASSIAH: Very good, very good.
QUESTION 22LOUIS MASSIAH: OK, y- your perception of the Chicago police coming into Chicago to the Grand Jury.
JERRIS LEONARD: My view of the Chicago Police Department in 1969 as I observed them during the course of the Grand Jury investigation was that this was a huge department which had excellent street skills. If you were ever in a street fight, you would sure want them on your side, but that they lacked, at that time, the kind of training and skills that are needed to have a certain sensitivity that, in spite of the fact in this country that we insist that the law be enforced, there is another law called the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution, and that you, that a police officer has no right to summarily punish a citizen. That's up to judges and juries and, ah, I, I think the department in Chicago at that time lacked those skills, the skills necessary to deal with the radicals, and even radicals have constitutional rights. Our Constitution gives very broad rights to people to, to, ah, ah, expound their point of view. It also says that you're not guilty 'til you're convicted by a judge or a jury, and every police officer in this country has to know that, and I think today, by and large, because of the kinds of things that happened in the Chicago grand- Chicago blan- Black Panther situation, I think police officers are much better trained, including the Chi- I know the Chicago Police Department is better trained today because one of my former assistants is the deputy chief for training there.
LOUIS MASSIAH: OK, thank you


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MOSS POINT, Mississippi - Moss Point coach Willie Brown challenged his players this past week to get back to the fundamentals of football before playing Gautier Friday at Dantzler Stadium.
It paid off as the Tigers beat the Gators 25-14 to improve to 1-1 after a 28-0 loss at Pascagoula last week.
"It feels good to see how the kids responded this week," Brown said. "This program has had some success in the past with state championships.
"We want to rebuild this program and that starts with blocking and tackling. If you block and tackle, you will win football games."
That was the case against Gautier as Brown recorded his first win at Moss Point.
The first half saw both teams take advantage of mistakes to put points on the board.
With 1:12 left in the first quarter, the Gators sent quarterback Josh Penton in the shotgun formation on first and 15 at the Gautier 35-yard line. But the snap from center sailed over Penton's head and was recovered at the 15-yard line by senior safety Clinton Parham.
Two plays later, Dominic Alexander scored on a seven-yard run to give the Tigers a 6-0 with 11:53 left in the second quarter. The touchdown was the first of the season by the Tigers offense, but the PAT failed.
On its next possession, Gautier used a four-play, 68-yard drive to take a 7-6 lead on a 13-yard run by William Beverly at the 10:15 mark of the second.
But 45 of the 68 yards were due to three unsportsmanlike like penalties against the Tigers.
Moss Point regained the lead with a mistake free nine-play, 52-yard drive that featured one pass attempt and eight rushing plays. The one pass attempt by Romello Leggins was incomplete but the drive was kept alive by a Gators roughing the passer penalty.
The drive ended with a Travis Marion 17-yard run with 6:40 left in the half. The two-point conversion failed and Moss Point led 12-7.
Gautier had five first half possessions, one ended with a fumble and two were three-and-outs.
"I thought we played very aggressive on defense and that was good to see," Brown said.
Moss Point put the game away with its opening drive of the second half that saw the Tigers cover 80-yards on 13-plays to take a 18-7 lead after the two-point conversion failed.
The drive, which took 7:14 off the clock, didn't feature a pass and only had one play that failed to result in positive yardage. That play was a quarterback sneak by Leggins at the Gators six-yard line for no yards.
Leggins, however, scored two-plays later on a sneak.
Defensively, the Tigers then forced the Gators offense to a three-and-out.
When the dust settled on the third quarter, Moss Point held the ball for all but 54 seconds and forced a turnover on special teams on a punt.
The turnover led to a one-yard touchdown run by Leggins to push the score to 25-7 late in the fourth quarter before the Gators scored late.
Moss Point finished the game with 250 rushing yards while recording four sacks on defense.


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Crystal's Profile
About Crystal
Having displayed a keen interest in sport from a young age, Crystal was inspired watching Sarah Storey compete at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games.
In 2009, Crystal applied for UK Sport's and the BPA's Talent 2012: Paralympic Potential programme and in December 2010 Crystal was announced as one of three athletes in the 'talent' section of British Cycling's GB Para-Cycling Team for 2011.
Crystal used to play football, where she competed at county level and she continued to play at an academy whilst she was studying for a BTEC in Sport Science.
In cycling, she made her international debut at the 2011 Para-Cycling Road World Championships in Roskilde, Denmark, winning bronze behind her inspiration Sarah Storey and Poland's Anna Harkowska. At the London 2012 Paralympics, Crystal placed fourth in the C5 Pursuit and finished sixth and 9th ninth the road race and time trial respectively.
In 2013 Crystal won the team sprint at the Newport International Paracycling Cup, before travelling to Mexico for the 2014 UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championships, where she finished fourth in the C5 500m time trial.
At the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championsips in 2015, Crystal won the silver medal in the 500m time trial and the bronze medal in the scratch race.
Crystal added another world championship medal to her collection in 2016, winning bronze in the 500m time trial, before finishing fourth in the scratch race.
If you have been inspired to get on a bike...
Selected Career Highlights to Date
UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, Montichiari (Italy)
Bronze, 500 metre time trial
Paralympic Games, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Silver, individual pursuit
Bronze, road race
UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, Apeldoorn (Holland)
Silver, 500-metre time trial
Bronze, scratch race
UCI World Cup, Rome (Italy)
4th, C5 road race
5th, C5 time trial
UCI Road Paracycling World Championships, Roskilde (Denmark)
Bronze, C5 road race
9th, C5 time trial


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Best and Worst of the 2014 Academy Awards
Ups and downs on the telecast, as always
Best: Kim Novak
Many might peg this as the worst, but I say thank god for Kim Novak. The "Vertigo" star may have either lost it in her later years (she's 81) or been on some sort of medication, but her bizarre presentation with Matthew McConaughey made her the Oscar's Jacqueline Bisset. You know she'll be the subject of an "SNL" skit next Saturday and if anyone is a case study for the dangers of too much plastic surgery it's Novak.
- Gregory Ellwood
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NEW DELHI - The government Thursday announced a new broadband policy and as expected has not accepted the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI's) proposal for unbundling the last mile link.
The policy allows state-run telecom companies Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) to enter into a commercial arrangement with all the service providers on mutually accepted terms and conditions.
"Recognizing that last mile copperloop is not a bottleneck facility for broadband services, access providers shall be free to enter into mutually agreed commercial arrangements for utilization of available copperloop for extension of broadband services including content," Telecom Minister Dayanadhi Maran said.
He said state-owned MTNL and BSNL, along with other owners of copperloop, are expected to provide about two million connections by the end of 2005.
Broadband has been defined as an always-on data connection supporting interactive services including Internet access within a download speed of 256 kbps per subscribers.
"By the end of year 2010, the policy aims to target 20 million broadband subscribers and 40 million Internet subscribers," Maran said.
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EDISON – About 1,200 students from around New Jersey came out to Middlesex County College on Tuesday for a statewide science and engineering competition.
"It gives them some real-world experience with science and engineering," said Jennifer Wirt, the director of the New Jersey Science Olympiad.
The first-place teams in the middle school and the high school divisions will go on to a national competition later this year. This is the 22nd annual statewide Olympiad. Science, technology, engineering and math skills are crucial in an increasingly competitive global economy, Wirt said, and events like these will help students keep up.
Students constructed Rube Goldberg devices, gliders made of balsa wood, and stock cars with wheels made of CDs. Other competitions focused on the metric system, geology, and experimental design. The top teams Tuesday were:
Middle School Division
1. Community Middle School (West Windsor-Plainsboro)
2. Montgomery Upper Middle School
3. Heritage Middle School (Livingston)
High School Division
1. West Windsor-Plainsboro South
2. West Windsor Plainsboro North
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Video:Braxton Miller completed 7 of 14 passes for 127 yards while rushing for 186 yards & three total TDs in the Buckeye's rout of the Conhuskers, 63-38. The Plain Dealer's Doug Lesmerises reports.
Key to the game
What we said before the game: Allow Nebraska to convert only about one-third of its third downs.
What happened in the game: The Cornhuskers actually weren't too bad on third down, converting five of 12 through three quarters, when the game was still somewhat in reach.
But two huge third-down turnovers gave the Buckeyes momentum they really needed. After Ohio State went three-and-out on its first two drives, Nebraska faced a third-and-9 at its 31-yard line. When quarterback Taylor Martinez tried to throw, Bradley Roby picked it off and returned it for a touchdown. The next important third down was a third-and-goal from the 4-yard line, and Ohio State forced Martinez into a wild scramble that ended with a Ryan Shazier tackle for a loss of 5. That forced Nebraska into a field goal that extended the Cornhuskers' lead to only 17-7, when it could have been worse.
The next third down for Nebraska was a third and 5, and Martinez threw again, this time hitting Roby in the chest for another interception.
So no matter what the conversion percentage was, the Buckeyes made some big third-down plays that helped turn the tide.
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On the outside edge of Glovertown, there is a concrete relic of huge proportions: a paper mill that never was. It's a massive building, stretched out in trees and shrubs that close in tight on the sides, bereft of windows but with huge concrete smokestack towers at one end.
It's a spot that gives off a combined air of failure and menace — something about the empty eye-socket windows, the many drooping rusting metal window frames, and the sign that warns you to stay back at least 25 metres to avoid the risk of being hit by falling debris.
Much of the structure is covered with graffiti — it seems to be the place to go if you're young in Glovertown and armed with a can of spray paint, especially bright spray paint.
The names are like a cross-
section of the town's youth, a rite of passage that includes taking absurd risks to put your name on the highest possible bare girder — a process that includes climbing a vertical row of rusting anchor bolts that offer only the smallest amount of purchase. It is the kind of risk/reward that only the young — convinced of their own invincibility or perhaps unaware of their mortality — would see as a worthwhile effort. Inside, the building has all of the concrete pads and bases needed to anchor the paper-making machines that didn't ever arrive, including service corridors and access points that would have been needed to keep the machines operating almost full time.
The inside of the building is also coated with paint, essentially as high as hands can reach, the ceilings black with the soot of hundreds of bonfires, the ground carpeted with a brittle reptilian scale of tiny broken glass shards, the skin of a Gila lizard made out of brown and green sparkling beads.
But hey — that's the end result for abandoned buildings everywhere, right? First a slide into petty vandalism and access by trespassers, a broken door here, a pried window there.
Except this building never actually reached that point. The idea fell apart before the project was even completed, the investors pulling the plug and cutting their losses.
It's a tough realization to make, an even tougher business decision to justify. Why? Because it means admitting that your plans were
mistaken, that things went awry, that the fundamentals may have changed in midstream in a way that you didn't expect, that you were — wait for it — wrong.
It also can mean kissing goodbye millions of dollars of investment — money that company executives were charged with protecting in the first place.
At the same time, it's a crucial business decision to be able to make, and a crucial measure of the business acumen of the people involved.
What matters in that particular business equation is the company, its investors and its customers.
What doesn't matter — or shouldn't matter — is the ego of its executives.
And perhaps that's why businesses are better at business than politicians and Crown corporations are — they have a different understanding of what an investment actually is. An investment, unlike the myriad of government news releases that tout "investments" in fire trucks and playgrounds, is something that actually garners a return. And that's a cash return, not votes in an election.
For politicians, a loss of face, regardless of the costs of stomping forward when business cases change, is somehow worse than a loss of money.
That's why the concept of
governments being more "businesslike" is something of a joke. The heads of businesses report regularly to their shareholders, and have quarterly and annual targets to meet.
They have to plan for the long-term future of their companies, not the short-term benefits of winning the next election.
Some commenters had a big problem when, a few weeks ago, I suggested that the provincial government is in too deep to walk away from Muskrat Falls.
It is, unfortunately, true. If the provincial government was a business like Fortis, for example, it would be regularly reviewing projects like Muskrat Falls to ensure that they were the best thing for the company. If it was Fortis, the equation wouldn't include whether or not the project was the best thing for the future of Fortis head Stan Marshall.
That's not the math the province is using.
In the absence of a cataclysmic collapse of financing, we're getting a dam and transmission line.
There's a haunted concrete hulk on the edge of Glovertown that repeats, year after year, that you have to know when to hold them, and know when to fold them.
It's just that the provincial government is playing a different kind of game. And, more importantly, the money they are playing with is not their own.
Russell Wangersky is The Telegram's
editorial page editor. He can be reached
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IRON MOUNTAIN - First National Bank & Trust has noticed a substantial increase in fraudulent transactions specifically targeting debit cards in the past few months.
Investigation identified this issue as a wide-spread problem affecting many of the financial institutions in the area.
The FDIC institution takes all such threats seriously.
"We want to assure all of our customers that the computer and information systems at First National Bank & Trust have not been breached," bank officials said.
While the exact source of the current compromise is not definitely known at this time, the First National Bank & Trust has taken specific steps to pro-actively help ensure customers are protected until the source of the compromise can be identified and eradicated.
"Additionally, we understand that VISA Fraud Control and Investigations is initiating a preliminary investigation into this matter to help identify the source of the problem," bank officials said.
First National Bank & Trust continues to diligently work with merchants, processors, other area financial institutions, and law enforcement to resolve this problem as quickly as possible.
"We take the trust our customers have placed in us to safeguard the integrity of their personal information very seriously and will take whatever action is necessary to preserve the trust," officials said. "We urge you to monitor your bank accounts closely and immediately notify your financial institution if you identify any activity that seems out of the ordinary."
Customers from other local banking institutions have reported the same type of fraud activity on their debit cards.


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Calvary connects with children south of the border
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Bonding with children, encouraging faith and finding a new part of themselves, a group of teens from Calvary Chapel Sequim revisited their Mexican stomping grounds for a week in March.
They braved smoldering temperatures well into triple digits and a lack of showers in Mezquital, located in central Mexico, to bring smiles and entertain children ages 4-14 with games, crafts, sports and plenty of piggyback rides. This was the third trip for some of the Sequim teens.
Andrew Thomas, church youth leader, said the ultimate goal of the trip was to give free time to Mexican mothers to attend Bible studies and install electrical components in a commons area.
The group also worked with men and teenagers.
Thomas said they are starting to see teens change and develop more because it used to be common for them only to be farm workers and married at 15 but now they are waiting until they are older to wed and find careers.
Zach Springer said every year he goes back, he notices faith strengthen. He's in his third year of Spanish at Sequim High School and used his language skills to start and follow some conversations.
"It puts me in awkward situations but definitely puts links in my armor for later on," Springer said. Chyrell Jones said people are noticing a change in her after she came back home.
"'Why are you talking to me?'" Jones said people asked her. "I'm just trying to be friendly."
Teen Shaun Carr said he's been a Christian for four months and the trip helped put things in perspective
for him.
"It really cemented who I am," Carr said.
A handful of the long-timers like Aerl Bailey and Jacob VanGesen said they knew what to expect but built on those past relationships.
Interpreting faith
Chaperone and Mexico-born citizen Sergio Arreguin attended for the second year and helped a lot with translating. "There's a dramatic difference in the way we approach people between here and there," Arreguin said. "(In Mexico), they aren't afraid of us to hold kids. (In the U.S.), there are a lot of problems with that."
Arreguin and Thomas agreed the students interacted well with the local children.
"Every one of these kids had a loving relationship with a (Mexican) kid without ever sharing words," Thomas said. "They had a great connection with the kids," Arreguin said. "Children asked if they could stay longer."
Calvary teen Allison Little Dog went for a third year and said the main reason she goes is to interact with the children.
"I've been home a week and I miss them like crazy," Little Dog said.
She liked interacting with attendees from five other U.S. churches. In total, 116 people helped with biblical programming and projects.
Broken walls
Thomas said students easily broke down perceived walls – giving up showers and other American privileges. Students gave out basic necessities like pillows, soccer balls and color crayons.
"Here, we take it for granted but there anything you give them they appreciate," Arreguin said.
He said students were taught to forget their mindsets of "being of the world" and learn to be servants for others. "It's amazing how God uses us, so long as you want to be used by him," Arreguin said.
He felt the greatest impact among the children was simply being there and showing them that God loves them.
During their fundraising for the trip, students were well aware of the Japanese tsunami tragedy and decided to donate one fundraiser to the relief effort.
Students plan to continue fundraising for future trips and projects.
Calvary Chapel Sequim, 91 S. Boyce Road, can be reached at 683-5995 and visited online at www.calvarychapelsequim.com.
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Not buying excuses about Brooklyn Bridge flag fiasco
I'd like to know: What were the police officers in the two squad cars, assigned to guard the Brooklyn Bridge, doing while someone was climbing to the top to replace the American flags ("NYPD investigating white flags flying from Brooklyn Bridge," July 22, nj.com)? Didn't they notice that the lights at the top had gone out? If they did, and didn't call in to check if there was an electrical malfunction, I wonder why not.
One wonders what these officers were doing while this massive security breach was happening. What an embarrassment to the police department and Homeland Security. It appears that unless the perpetrators of these actions call and inform the proper authorities of what and when they will be breaching our vaunted security systems, they can't be stopped.
Whoever did this should be applauded for exposing the weaknesses in our multibillion-dollar security measures. What is the taxpayer getting for his money? I'd like to hear how the New York Police Department explains why it failed to detect any problem at the bridge when there was such a massive intrusion.
-- Stan Maziarz,
Find solution that respects both sides' human rights
In the letter "Neither side blameless in Gaza conflict" (July 17), the writer tells us to avoid "children's wails of 'He hit me first!'" and, by inference, as adults, have the wisdom and patience to form fact-based judgments. I agree.
Here are some facts: The current Hamas policy denies Israel's right to exist; Hamas recently released a video for children in which an adult in a bumble-bee costume talks with children, suggesting they "Kill Jews"; in 2005, Israel withdrew from Gaza, and Hamas broke the recent cease-fire deal.
Without stating it, the writer seems to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement by criticizing some American companies for doing business with Israel and thus hurting the Palestinians. If the BDS movement succeeds, many Palestinians will lose their jobs and Israel's society might be impacted, including Tel Aviv University, where Omar Barghouti, the founder of the BDS movement, received part of his education.
As adults, we are obliged to respect history's lessons and, however difficult, reach decisions that may not serve the political interests of some, but will advance the human rights of all.
-- Beston Jack Abrams,
Garry Cobb for Congress
Sometimes, the medicine is far worse than the sickness. For example, in the late 1950s, thalidomide was used for morning sickness in pregnant women. Devastating developmental problems resulted as babies were born with severe deformities. Clearly, the medicine was far worse than the problem.
In a similar way, the War on Poverty was developed in what seemed to be a compassionate way to lift up millions of the poor. The result, in many ways, however, has not been satisfactory. The poverty rate today is higher than it was when the War on Poverty began. Perhaps even more important, the breakdown of the family unit, especially in the inner city, has been catastrophic. The resulting social problems of crime, emotional problems and poor education are hurting our nation.
The good news is that Republican Garry Cobb is now running for Congress from the 1st Congressional District (Burlington, Camden and Gloucester counties). He understands the nature of poverty, as well as the potential harm by some federal programs that were originally meant to improve the situation. He has seen firsthand how the loss of the work ethic has hurt the people intended to be helped. He understands the value of the free market and free enterprise and how government over-regulation and control can hurt businesses, especially small business. The result is fewer people being hired and families suffering from unemployment or underemployment.
He also understands that respect for America and a more peaceful world come from a strong America and one that treats its friends well and whose enemies are afraid to misbehave.
-- Arthur Horn,
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Oil-testing go-ahead puts N.J. coast at risk
The Obama administration has officially put our coast, fisheries and marine life at risk. The administration has approved allowing seismic air gun testing for oil and gas deposits in the Atlantic Ocean, from the coast of Delaware down to Florida ("Obama opens Eastern Seaboard to oil exploration," July 19).
Seismic air guns are towed behind ships. The guns emit thunderous blasts of pressurized air every 10 seconds, for days to weeks on end. The blasts are 100,000 times more intense than a jet engine and could have disastrous effects on marine wildlife and fish, while paving the way for offshore drilling in the Atlantic.
New Jersey, a state famous for its extensive coastline, brings in $38 billion annually from ocean-based tourism, recreation and the marine industry. Additionally, more than 500,000 jobs are tied to healthy oceans, all of which would be threatened by seismic air guns and offshore drilling.
The federal government could open up an area to drilling as far up as 10 miles south of Cape May, and off the coast of Virginia, where prevailing currents could send oil to our beaches, threatening our coastal communities and economy.
-- Jeff Tittel,
The writer is director of the New Jersey Sierra Club.
Wage-theft ordinance makes Princeton proud
I write to congratulate councilwoman Heather Howard, the Human Services Commission's Immigration Issues Subcommittee Chairman John Heilner, Public Works Director Bob Hough, Human Services Department Director Elisa Neira, Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund Executive Director Maria Juega, Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert, the Princeton Council and the many others who have worked so effectively to give voice and legal support to the landscape workers whose wages are being stolen in our town.
It was uplifting to listen to undocumented residents of our town who now trust our government and our police enough to come forward in support of the wage-theft ordinance approved last week. As Councilwoman Howard stated, "It will make Princeton a more humane community."
Plain dealing and fairness have long been hallmarks of the United States of America. To agree with another to hire him or her at a mutually agreed-upon price for an agreed-upon amount of hours of work and, then, after the work is done, to not pay what is owed is not just a shocking, but a morally bankrupt practice.
I am proud of our government for being the second town in New Jersey to adopt this ordinance. Decency prevails. Well done.
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When your LOs are napping, do you take a break or get things done?
I take a break.
I shower when DD is down for her nap, that way I can actually enjoy it vs hurrying to get ready to do something. Then I'll finish cleaning up some stuff and paying bills, etc.
well ian doesn't nap and hailey will only sleep on/next to me. so I'm forced to take a break. LOL
When DD was home during the day and she napped, I would get things done. If everything was done, then I took a break. I never napped though. It takes forever for me to relax enough to fall asleep and sure enough, 5 seconds later DD would be awake LOL.
*sorry, I think I added a double negative in there. I've been up since 4:30 am and can barely keep my eyes open. I know that's a big no no, and a huge pet peeve of mine. I'll fix it later.
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Research in the Division of Behavioral Medicine aims to understand the contribution of psychological, psychosocial, and behavioral factors to the onset, progression, and management of physical and mental disease, to identify the relevant pathophysiological mechanisms linking psychological states to disease, and to develop treatment interventions targeting these mechanisms. Projects range from the purely behavioral to the cellular, with new studies extending to gene expression.
Our research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, NARSAD, the March of Dimes, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Nathaniel Wharton Fund. Over many years, Division Chief Dr. Richard Sloan and Dr. Peter Shapiro from Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry have investigated the role the autonomic nervous system as a candidate mechanism linking psychological characteristics of depression and hostility to the pathophysiology of coronary artery disease.
Dr. Catherine Monk's laboratory investigates the possible effects of pregnant women's stress, anxiety, and depression on fetal and infant development, specifically with respect to the future child's biobehavioral reactivity, affect regulation, and risk for psychopathology. Work by Drs. Felice Tager and Paula McKinley examines the impact of adjuvant chemotherapy on cognitive function in women with breast cancer. Dr. Ethan Gorenstein, along with Dr. Laszlo Papp of the Division of Clinical Therapeutics, investigates the novel treatment approaches to anxiety disorders in older adults. Along with colleagues in the Herbert Irving Cancer Center, Dr. Arlene King examines ethnic disparities in cancer.
Division members Drs. Karina Davidson, Joseph Schwartz, Lynn Clemow, and Matthew Burg, who have their home appointments in the Department of Medicine, collaborate in studies of psychosocial factors in hypertension. Post-doctoral fellow Julie Spicer is concerned with assessing the association of maternal stress with pregnancy outcomes and maternal neurobehavior in the early postpartum period.
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The BEAM Community is a group of projects that run on the Erlang VM. Their goal is to host relevant projects in the Erlang community, making it easy for those projects to participate in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2013 and for interested students to pick their best choice. Check out their… Read more »
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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
It wasn't so long ago that I had the pleasure of reviewing the Xbox 360 version of Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, I enjoyed it so much I wound up giving it a big fat 90% while gushing over how fantastic it was. Now, only four months later, the PC version is upon us and Ubisoft have been nice enough to craft an almost entirely new game for me to play. One that aims to present PC gamers with an experience that's far more of a tactical simulation than all action third-person shooter. Tailoring this version towards the PC's (allegedly) more thoughtful audience is an admirable idea and certainly in theory far better than simply offering up a direct port. However, in practice, as we'll see, it's a move that ends up taking away more from the experience than it adds.
To start with though, before we get too deep into such details, let's have a brief recap for anyone late to class who missed the 360 review. Following the same storyline as the console version, the action in GRAW2 PC takes place in northern Mexico where rebels have got their hands on some stray nukes and positioned them along the American border. Your job is to command your squad of Ghosts on a series of missions to reclaim the bombs and deal your own brand of military justice to the bad guys along the way. The missions themselves are entirely unique to the PC version so although the narrative remains the same it all holds together as an entirely new experience. This is GRAW2 as directed by Terrance Malick, rather than the more Stephen Spielberg version that was released on consoles if you will.
It's an easy stereotype that dictates that all console gamers want to do is run around shooting things while PC gamers want to get all tactical and carefully plan their slaughter down to the smallest detail. But the PC version of GRAW2 takes that assumption and runs with it to provide a very different flavour of game. The main change existing GRAW2 fans will notice within moments is the much slower pace and the heavy reliance on forward planning when compared to the more run and gun, think on your feet approach of the console version. It's also damn hard at times; an unforgiving yet admittedly more realistic one hit one kill system is made even tougher by your inability to heal yourself on the battlefield during a mission. As if that wasn't hard enough GRAW2 PC's missions seem designed to make things as tough as possible, too. Multiple objectives that could have been entire missions on their own are often strung together to create one incredibly taxing single mission which can at times seem more than a mite unfair.
Your fellow Ghosts can be controlled in much the same way as the console versions, point and click on a location or target through your HUD and they do their best to follow orders, making use of cover as they go. You can even jump inside their heads (or view a video feed from their HUD if we're getting logical about things) and direct the action from there. Disappointingly there's a few path finding and AI issues that come into play here with Ghosts often seeming a little confused by obstacles or simply taking too long to get moving after you've issued an order. It's not really a show stopper of a problem though, it just means you find yourself sending your team from A to B to C to D rather than just picking D and letting them find their own way. Of course it's also possible that this lack of initiative is an intended side effect of GRAW2 PC's more ridged adherence to pre planned tactics. These are crafted via the PC versions enhanced overhead tactical map from which you can create huge chains of orders for each individual Ghost allowing you to plan pretty much every aspect of their mission in advance. From when and where they move through to what direction they fire and where they're facing, everything can be planned out allowing for some fairly sophisticated battlefield tactics if you've got the inclination to spend the time setting them up. While allowing such control over the planning of combat may be some peoples idea of heaven the preordained hands off approach does make you feel one step removed from the action at times as your own actual participation in the skirmishes becomes almost unnecessary the more work you put into the planning of your orders for the rest of your team.
One of the most enjoyable things about the 360 version was the sense of really being part of a team, the feeling that the soldiers around you and under your command were in some way alive. Not that they were ever full of real personality, but when you were fighting along side them it always felt like they had your back and could be relied upon to follow orders sensibly, like they too wanted to complete the mission safely. By including the ability to micromanage every last aspect of their orders the PC version of GRAW2 manages to strip away that sense of camaraderie instead coming across a bit stage-managed. Set up everyone's waypoints and firing parameters, press play and sit back and watch the action pan out almost like some kind of omnipresent director of war rather than a soldier on the ground. Success or failure becomes more about how well you plan your approach to each mission than it does about what you do when the bullets start flying. Of course you can ignore all that planning and play the game completely 'live' so to speak but played like that you'll soon find yourself hankering for the more frantic action of the console versions.
If you own a next gen console and a decent gaming PC then you can decide for yourself which incarnation of the game you will prefer. If the idea of having complete control of every aspect of your squad and planning the action down to the last detail floats your boat then the PC version is ideal, if you'd rather feel like you're in charge of a team of real people surviving moment to moment on your instincts alone then you'll have more fun with the console version. Those of you without a next gen console who've heard their friends exalting the wonders of those versions should realise that although very similar on the face of things under the bonnet of the PC version lurks a fundamentally different beast, one that while certainly good at what it does isn't going to be for everyone. 79%
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|Welcome to the website of the composer Bernard Hughes, whose music is widely performed in Britain and abroad. This site has information and details about Bernard Hughes's music and his writing about music, some sound clips and links to related sites.
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We are writing this from the wonderful suburb of Capitol Hill, home of tattooed, dyed hair, queer-as-fuck incredible people. We fit right in. If you don't follow us on twitter (@theJAargument) you may not know that we have been working our arses off in the incredible London Bridge Studios, tracking the drums, piano and most of the lead vocals for the album. It's been intense and amazing. We are also slaving away at trying to bring the album home for a large scale national tour. If you know people who work in venues in towns around Australia, please email us! As an independent, DIY band – any help is greatly appreciated!
Also. We've been meaning to talk. We have news. A lot of it. Rad news. Rad news worth reading:
1. The "Holes" single pre-order is LIVE! This single is the first single off the album – the lyrics for which were written by our dear friend, Mr Neil Gaiman. The artwork is being provided by the incredible graphic novel illustrator, Mark Buckingham (famed for his work on Fables and Sandman among others).
For the first time ever we are selling PHYSICAL copies over bandcamp. There are limited numbers so get in quick. If you miss out, or it's not your thing – you can also pre-order digital copies. In either event you will instantly receive "Bones" – one of the b-sides for this release.
Speaking of b-sides – Bones and Ready To Heal are also included in this release. These two live recordings came out of an incredible night with Amanda Fucking Palmer, Mick Wordley and 20-odd AFP fans at Mixmasters studio in Adelaide in 2010. They were also our first ever single – which we released before figuring out how to release a single… We literally hand stamped 50 copies, told twitter about it and sold them at a show. This is the first time either have been made available digitally.
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2. We are going on a West Coast tour with Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman!!! We will be playing San Francisco (both dates), Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. Check here at Amanda's blog for tickets… If there are still some left! The "Holes" single will be launched at the first San Francisco show and will be available for purchase at all the shows on tour. We are so humbled and excited to be working with these two beautiful people once again – and thrilled to be able to release a single that has ties to both of them, and the amazing art they create.
3. We are broke! How awesome is that! We cleverly budgeted the perfect amount in our Pozible crowd sourcing campaign to get us studio time, amazing musicians and a producer to work with, extra equipment needed for the mixing and mastering and a roof over our heads while we do it. We have also managed to use the remainder of our funds to make our first film clip (more on this next time).
However – to continue doing what we want to do – we rely on the support of YOU through coming to our shows, pre-ordering a certain single and buying our music in general. We have also just added a new "Donate" function (look to the right of this blog) where, if you feel so inclined, can pledge donations to keep us afloat. Anything from 5c to a million bucks is incredibly helpful. BUT. There is a catch. If you donate… You get access to a whole heap of extra cool shit. See number four for details.
4. Anyone else hate the changes to Facebook lately? US TOO! So it seems the perfect time to launch our own online community section for this website. We now have a home for fan art, forums, Q & A, volunteering opportunities and bonus content, audio, photos and videos from tour and the recording process. At the moment, this community is available for anyone who donates, and all who pledged on Pozible (Because a., we're still figuring this out as we go along, and b. because those people are rad. We're aiming to make this community public around the time that we release the record). However – we understand that not everyone can afford either option. If this is you, and you would love to be involved NOW, shoot us an email and we'll sort you out with login details.
5. You are awesome. We love you. Thank you for your patience in us getting all this blog and news and excitement together. As of now we have our proverbial shit sorted and will be blogging every couple of weeks AT LEAST. Also – if you're not already signed up to our mailing list – please put your details in, there will be special offers, info and discounts coming through that list to your inbox once a month.
Big love. No, HUGE love to all.
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