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Explainer: Can U.S. prosecute WikiLeaks?
If the United States seeks to put on trial WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, what are the implications for freedom of speech, for protection of government secrets and for news organizations on the Internet?
Msnbc.com has convened a panel of legal specialists to explore questions raised by a prosecution.
As one of the panelists put it, "The WikiLeaks events tee up the question of defining 'media' in the new, Internet era like no previous case."
The Justice Department has said it is exploring possible charges against WikiLeaks and Assange in the release of diplomatic messages. Attorney General Eric Holder said charges may be brought under a World War I-era law, the Espionage Act of 1917 (text here), or other laws.
In this written roundtable discussion, a diverse group of three panelists:
• Predict that Assange will be indicted and that the indictment will survive a legal challenge.
• Disagree on the question of whether Assange is a journalist. But they agree that even if he is deemed a journalist, that may not save him.
• Describe the prosecution's greatest weaknesses, starting with getting Assange onto U.S. soil for a trial.
• Discuss what may be an overwhelming handicap for the defense if there is a trial: Assange's personality. His statements that he intends to harm the United States won't help him with the judge. And a jury probably won't like him, the panelists predict.
Our panelists
Abbe D. Lowell (full bio), a noted defense lawyer, is a Washington partner in the firm of McDermott Will & Emery. He represented one of the defendants in the case usually cited as the closest modern-day parallel to the WikiLeaks case, in which the government dropped charges against two lobbyists for a pro-Israel lobbying group accused of violating the Espionage Act by trafficking in government secrets. In addition to representing many high-profile defendants, he has served the government as chief minority counsel to the U.S. House during impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton and was special counselor to the United Nations in prosecution of human rights violations and war crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
Paul Rosenzweig (full bio) served in the Department of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush as deputy assistant secretary for policy and as acting assistant secretary for international affairs. He's now at the Heritage Foundation as a visiting fellow at the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. He lectures at the George Washington University School of Law and is co-author of the 2005 book "Winning the Long War: Lessons from the Cold War for Defeating Terrorism and Preserving Freedom."
Stephen I. Vladeck (full bio) is a professor of law at American University Washington College of Law, where he teaches and writes on federal jurisdiction, constitutional law, national security law and international criminal law. He has been involved in several cases challenging U.S. government surveillance and detention of terrorism suspects and was part of the legal team that challenged the Bush administration's use of military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
Click through the eight questions here, and join the discussion in the comments section below.
Has Assange violated the Espionage Act?
The release of these diplomatic cables could not be more public, and about half of the 250,000 cables that WikiLeaks gave to newspapers are classified. Is there any doubt that Assange has violated the Espionage Act?
Abbe D. Lowell, defense attorney: There can be serious doubt, indeed, "reasonable doubt," that Mr. Assange has violated the act. First, there has never been a prosecution under the act for a First Amendment-protected media outlet or reporter. The AIPAC case was the closest in that it charged lobbyists. [Lowell defended one of the lobbyists; the government dropped the charges.] It is not clear that a court would rule that the act can apply constitutionally in this context.
If a charge survived such a challenge, courts have then stated the government has a much higher burden of proof if First Amendment activity is involved — that burden requires the government prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Assange did the acts involved, did them with an intent to injure the U.S., and did them in bad faith. These are high bars in criminal cases.
So while it is not hard for a prosecutor to charge a case, obtaining a conviction is not assured.
Stephen I. Vladeck, law professor, American University: There's little doubt that Assange knowingly redistributed classified information. The doubt, such as it is, is whether the Espionage Act requires more.
The act, for example, prohibits the willful communication, delivery, or transmission to "any person not entitled to receive it" of "any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, or note relating to the national defense, or information relating to the national defense which information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation." With regard to this last clause — that is, the disclosure of "information relating to the national defense" — courts have ruled that the defendant must have acted in "bad faith." But what does that mean, here?
The single biggest problem with the Espionage Act is that its limits have never truly been tested, and so it is exceedingly difficult to say with any certainty what it does and doesn't proscribe.
As the then-general counsel of the CIA summarized in 1979, "[o]n the one hand the laws stand idle and are not enforced at least in part because their meaning is so obscure, and on the other hand it is likely that the very obscurity of these laws serves to deter perfectly legitimate expression and debate by persons who must be as unsure of their liabilities as I am unsure of their obligations."
Paul Rosenzweig, Heritage Foundation, former Homeland Security official: His actions seem to pretty readily fall within the strict terms of the act, but then so do those of The New York Times and dozens of other outlets.
The more interesting question is whether a violation of the act can be proven, given how the act has been interpreted. As recent failed efforts to prosecute two alleged recipients of classified material about Israel show, those prosecutions are fraught with challenges that make it hard to prove a violation beyond a reasonable doubt. Most notably, the courts have said that the act requires proof of some form of "specific intent" or "bad faith" for a conviction.
I think Assange's assertion of a "good government/transparency" motive are patently self-serving flummery, but a jury might buy it.
I have no doubt that a colorable [seemingly valid] case can be made against Assange — but conviction is much less certain.
Does it matter that WikiLeaks didn't steal anything?
Does it matter that WikiLeaks is the recipient and distributor of stolen material, not the one who stole it?
Stephen I. Vladeck, law professor, American University: It may matter quite a bit, both politically and for First Amendment reasons that I'll get to in a second. But for starters, it's quite clear that the Espionage Act applies on its face regardless of whether the individual who is distributing classified information is the initial thief or an intermediary. Indeed, the plain text of the statute would suggest that even the 100th person to redistribute the same classified document might still be liable, so long as he had the requisite mens rea [criminal intent]. For better or worse, classified information doesn't become unclassified simply because it has been wrongly disclosed to the public.
That being said, in the 93-year history of the Espionage Act, the U.S. government has brought exactly one prosecution under the statute of anyone other than the initial thief/spy/leaker, and that case — concerning two American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobbyists accused of transmitting classified information to Israel — collapsed in 2009.
The elephant in the room here (as it was in the AIPAC case) is the First Amendment. Where information has already been leaked, there are many who believe that the First Amendment protects the right of Americans — journalists, in particular — to view and redistribute that information.
Abbe D. Lowell, defense attorney: As a technical and legal matter, each successive unauthorized disclosure of national defense (classified) information can be the basis of an Espionage Act prosecution, and so it would not prevent a charge against Mr. Assange.
But, his being a media recipient and distributor could matter in whether the Justice Department wants to bring such a theory that would be a precedent against all other media.
However, the government does not have to charge this conduct under the Espionage Act. The Attorney General has stated they are looking at other laws. Among these could be conspiracy, based on Mr. Assange being in an unlawful agreement with the person who actually stole the material, or the charge of theft of government property, which could apply to the person who stole the material and the person who "retains" it.
Paul Rosenzweig, Heritage Foundation, former Homeland Security official: Absolutely. We've successfully prosecuted many who have released classified material illegally — that's how most spies are charged.
But because of First Amendment concerns, the U.S. has a very great hesitancy in punishing those who are the recipients of classified information and then republish it or transmit it onward. The Israeli case I mentioned above is the only such prosecution that I know of, and the government lost the case.
It may be that Assange can't formally claim First Amendment protection — but it is certain that First Amendment principles and our history of protecting public discourse will cause the government to hesitate before prosecuting.
Is Assange a journalist?
Is Assange a journalist? Is WikiLeaks a news organization? If so, how does that affect a case? How is Assange any different from the newspapers that have republished the cables?
Paul Rosenzweig, Heritage Foundation, former Homeland Security official: I agree with Floyd Abrams (of Pentagon Papers fame). Like him, my opinion is that Assange is not a journalist and WikiLeaks is not a news organization.
News organizations pride themselves on adding value to news — they analyze and provide context. WikiLeaks does none of that. It's more like a telephone directory — just a compiler of information, not a discriminating purveyor — and it demeans real news organizations to make the comparison.
Of course, Assange is sure to contest that conclusion if he is ever brought to trial, and the boundaries of the definition of a "news organization" in a complex Internet/blogging world have yet to be well drawn, so it is possible that a court will rule otherwise. But if I were a betting man I'd bet against this aspect of Assange's defense.
Abbe D. Lowell, defense attorney: The issue of whether WikiLeaks is a media organization and whether Mr. Assange is a First Amendment-protected journalist are key questions when dealing with the Espionage Act, because journalists and the media get the most protection at the intersection of the First Amendment to the criminal law and because the government has the highest burden of proof in this context.
The WikiLeaks events tee up the question of defining "media" in the new, Internet era like no previous case.
The government will argue that providing a website for the dissemination of raw classified data is "not reporting" and has no editorial or traditional media activity.
However, the First Amendment is very broad and very strong, and WikiLeaks has the better of the argument that gathering information (even raw information) and reporting it (disclosing it) is the classic definition of protected freedom of the press activity.
Stephen I. Vladeck, law professor, American University: Legally, at least, I don't think it matters whether or not Assange is a journalist or WikiLeaks is a news organization.
The Supreme Court has long resisted the invitation to recognize special constitutional protections for journalists, at least largely because it is so difficult to draw the line between the "mainstream media" and those private citizens who seek to publish information through other means, including blogs, Twitter feeds, or, if they still exist, pamphlets. In that sense, Assange may not be that different from The New York Times or other media outlets that have republished the cables. (Indeed, this will surely be one of his arguments.)
And I think this point goes a long way to explaining why this case is potentially so momentous. Although the U.S. government has never prosecuted a reporter or a newspaper for publishing classified information, the text of the Espionage Act would seem to permit such a prosecution, and several of the Supreme Court justices who decided the Pentagon Papers case in 1971 specifically suggested that The Times and The Washington Post could be prosecuted after the fact for publishing the Pentagon Papers, even while ruling that they couldn't be enjoined from publication.
So the real question is whether any prosecution of Assange would set a dangerous precedent for potential future prosecutions of the press, or whether the government would rely upon a novel theory that draws a clearer distinction between what Assange did here and what any number of newspapers have done both recently and in the past.
Is he protected by First Amendment?
As a non-citizen acting outside the United States, is Assange entitled to First Amendment protections at all? Should the First Amendment ever protect the public dissemination of classified material?
Abbe D. Lowell, defense attorney: Like so many other aspects of this case, whether and to what extent the First Amendment applies to a non-citizen who might be accused of making a disclosure (in other words a form of speech) abroad (and not in the U.S.) is not entirely clear. However, if the U.S. is able to get jurisdiction over Mr. Assange by claiming his actions occurred in the U.S., then he should be able to assert that the same activity enjoys the benefit of the First Amendment, because free speech and free press protections apply to people in the country, not just citizens.
The First Amendment does not have a broad carve-out from its free speech and free press protections for classified information or "national defense information" (the proper phrase under the Espionage Act). It would be inconsistent with the whole idea of such freedoms for there to be wholesale exceptions in the First Amendment for such categories. Instead, the First Amendment will compel a court to determine other aspects of any disclosure — the intent behind the release, the purpose of the disclosure and whether the disclosure was in "bad faith." Those are where the First Amendment will or will not protect the conduct alleged here.
Stephen I. Vladeck, law professor, American University: These are two very different questions. To the first, if it came to that point, Assange would be in the United States, sitting in a U.S. courtroom. Although the case law is decidedly unclear as to which rights non-citizens outside the United States are entitled to invoke, in that situation, I think Assange would have a very strong case that the First Amendment should apply.
But I doubt it will come to that. Because it is not even clear whether the Espionage Act applies to conduct that takes place overseas, I suspect that any Espionage Act prosecution would include an argument that some of the underlying acts took place within the territorial United States, even if it was simply the storage of some of these cables on servers physically located within the country. On that theory, if the crime happened "here," I think it would be even clearer that Assange would be entitled to whatever protections the First Amendment would have to offer.
As to the second question, once we pull away all of the layers of the WikiLeaks onion, I think that this is the real issue for us to debate going forward. To be frank, I'm ambivalent about the answer. At the very least, though, it's worth considering two sets of cases: (1) where the public good resulting from the disclosure clearly outweighs any potential harm to national security; and/or (2) where the disclosed information should not have been classified in the first place. In both sets of cases, I think there are compelling arguments in favor of allowing disclosure, or, at the very least, incentivizing a government employee to report misconduct to the appropriate government official in a whistleblowing case. And if the First Amendment doesn't provide for such disclosure, perhaps a statute should. (Indeed, one of the many flaws in the Espionage Act as currently written is that it makes no exception for disclosures pursuant to federal whistleblower laws.)
Paul Rosenzweig, Heritage Foundation, former Homeland Security official: In general, no. Constitutional protections are only rarely extended to non-citizens and even more rarely applied outside of the United States, except in the context of when the U.S. government is an actor. Here it is certain that Assange will seek such protection, but doubtful whether he will get it.
It also may be irrelevant — the courts have resisted a formal distinction between the press and other publishers, so the First Amendment argument may be less than it seems.
As for the question of whether the First Amendment protects disclosure of classified information: Of course it does. It has for more than 200 years in one way or another. We still haven't worked out exactly the right balance, but that is to be expected. Sometimes the disclosure will serve a positive purpose (think Pentagon Papers); other times it won't (think Phillip Agee's disclosure of the names of some of our covert CIA station chiefs), but that's the price we pay for a robust democratic process and governmental transparency.
What hurdle does a prosecution face?
What is the greatest hurdle facing a prosecution? How might that be overcome?
Stephen I. Vladeck, law professor, American University: To my mind, the greatest hurdle is the weight of history. As I noted above, a prosecution of Assange for violating the Espionage Act would be unprecedented.
So many key questions about the scope of the Espionage Act and the government's burden of proof remain unanswered, that it would be impossible for even the most talented prosecutors to fully anticipate the legal issues that might arise.
And although the novelty of legal issues isn't an argument against bringing a case, it will make things that much harder for any prosecution, the strategy of which may depend upon the answers to these as-yet-unanswered questions.
Abbe D. Lowell, defense attorney: The greatest hurdle to a prosecution will be a court deciding that the Espionage Act cannot be constitutionally applied to a First Amendment-protected journalist or media outlet and that WikiLeaks and Assange get that protection.
A second great hurdle will be the higher burden of proof (intent to injure the U.S. and bad faith) if the case gets past a motion to dismiss.
There will be the additional obstacles of extradition of Mr. Assange to the U.S. (it is not automatic) and also whether other laws (like the theft of government property) can apply to someone who received the information.
The government can overcome these hurdles by distinguishing WikiLeaks from mainstream media, by using Mr. Assange's various press statements to show he did indeed have an intent to harm the U.S., and by using statutes other than the Espionage Act to charge him.
Paul Rosenzweig, Heritage Foundation, former Homeland Security official: It seems highly unlikely that Assange will ever face trial in this country, because no country where he is located is likely to extradite him to America.
Extradition for "political offenses" is rare, and Sweden has a long history of granting political asylum/refusing political extradition. Only extreme diplomatic pressure (of a form I cannot readily imagine being actually applied) would be likely to compel the Swedes to yield him up for trial. The British might be more willing to extradite him, and our extradition treaty with them might cover these offenses. One would hope that the administration does not delay its extradition request until after Assange moves to a less-favorable jurisdiction.
In truth, I see this as a very high hurdle and have trouble envisioning how it would be overcome.
What is the defense weakness?
What is the greatest weakness of a defense? How might that be overcome?
Paul Rosenzweig, Heritage Foundation, former Homeland Security official: From a thematic point of view Assange seems like he would be a pretty unappealing defendant. In his public appearances he comes across as self-righteous and arrogant. There is more than a little hint of anti-Americanism in his rhetoric.
And his "supporters" today in the hacktivist anarchic community are adopting a scorched earth strategy that will rub off on Assange, to his detriment.
If he ever comes to trial, the jury will not like him. The obvious way to overcome it is to make him act more likeably — I wonder if that would be possible.
Abbe D. Lowell, defense attorney: The greatest hurdle for the defense will be the facts themselves — that huge data dumps of raw classified material will not be deemed to be covered by the First Amendment.
Close behind will be that neither Assange nor the type of large disclosure he did (as well as his public statements) will inspire sympathy from a judge ruling on the case or a trial jury deciding whether they like his conduct or him. He stands a serious risk that a court or jury will want to find ways to convict him.
He might overcome these obstacles by having the mainstream media and their legal groups take up his cause that he is protected by the First Amendment, by showing that what he did is not different that what other media have been doing in publishing the same material, and by moderating some of his press comments not to play into the hands of any prosecution.
Stephen I. Vladeck, law professor, American University: Some of the biggest issues for the defense may well arise out of statements Assange has already made publicly.
If the prosecution boils down to whether Assange acted in bad faith, and whether he reasonably should have known that these disclosures would harm U.S. national security, he may have hurt his own cause by being so publicly forthright throughout this controversy, especially with regard to the effects of future leaks. If Assange's publicly stated goal is to bring down incumbent administrations, banks, and the like, it may be hard for the defense to portray him as someone who didn't appreciate the harm that might result from the disclosures.
And if that weren't enough, the U.S. government tried very hard to make sure he was on notice, with letters to Assange from both the State Department's legal adviser and the Defense Department's general counsel underlining the point prior to the latest round of disclosures.
How should the U.S. change the Espionage Act?
How should the U.S. deal with future Assanges? What should Congress do in response to this case in writing an Espionage Act of 2011?
Abbe D. Lowell, defense attorney: I was able to submit testimony in May 2010 [read the testimony here in a PDF file] on whether and how the Espionage Act should be amended. It is long overdue for changes.
No law should be changed to respond to a single person's action, and a great deal of careful thought and debate would be required before a new law is passed so that true national security is balanced with precious constitutional rights.
However, any new statute should at least:
• Carefully define espionage differently than a separate offense for the improper disclosure of national defense information (NDI) and separately from the improper handing or disclosure of classified information that may or may not be NDI.
• Make clear that the statute only applies to NDI that is shown to be "closely held." There are occasions when information is so available and pervasive that it can no longer be said to be "closely held."
• Define the criminal intent needed for a conviction of each offense in terms that are clear (i.e., with a specific intent to injure the national defense of the U.S. without regard to whether it helps a foreign country) so people can conform their conduct and judges and juries can apply the law consistently.
• Make clear how the law covers tangible (documents or data) as well as non-tangible information (oral conversations) in a manner that protects First Amendment activity and whether and how, in the context of "leak," it should ever be applied to those who are not government officials, such as the media.
Stephen I. Vladeck, law professor, American University: Long before WikiLeaks was on our radar screen, there was already a concerted effort to modernize the Espionage Act, and the WikiLeaks affair should only reinforce calls for reform.
But reform should not just be a knee-jerk reaction to Assange. Instead, Congress should consider three distinct sets of issues in "updating" the Espionage Act:
• Clarifying the circumstances in which the Espionage Act does apply to third-parties, and not just the original spy/thief/leaker, including whether the same mens rea [criminal intent] applies in those cases.
• Including specific exemptions from the Espionage Act for disclosures that are covered by federal whistleblower laws.
• Considering the addition of a defense to the Espionage Act for cases in which the relevant material was improperly classified.
This is just the tip of the iceberg — the Espionage Act regime as a whole is antiquated, outdated, and could benefit from a complete reworking. But at the very least, these steps might help clarify some of the most difficult legal issues that a prosecution of Assange might raise.
Paul Rosenzweig, Heritage Foundation, former Homeland Security official: It's tough to draw a statute that is both consistent with our tradition of transparency in government and yet punishes those, like Assange, who seem clearly to have transgressed. That's why moves for an American equivalent of an Official Secrets Act (from the UK) have been routinely rejected — including a relatively recent effort by Senator [Richard] Shelby [R-Ala.].
I think it is time for a careful reconsideration of the Espionage Act, to include some serious thinking about the following questions:
• Are Internet releases different from journalism?
• Is proof of specific intent to harm a reasonable requirement?
• Is stolen information equivalent to stolen property?
• How do we protect legitimate press activity or whistleblowers?
More broadly, the more profitable effort will be on the defensive side. It seems rather problematic that our classified systems have not been configured to detect and create alerts for prima facie [apparently illegal] policy violations automatically, as for example when files with certain attributes are transmitted outside the host organization or large volumes of material are downloaded. Nor apparently, have our systems been configured to alert on anomalies, such as the accessing of sensitive data inconsistent with normal usage patterns. One way for Congress to deal with future Assanges is for it to make the Executive Branch step up to the plate on information assurance.
Will he be indicted or convicted?
Prediction time: What is the likelihood of a U.S. indictment of Assange? What is the likelihood of an indictment surviving a motion to dismiss? What is the likelihood of a conviction if a case went to trial?
Paul Rosenzweig, Heritage Foundation, former Homeland Security official:
Indictment: 80 percent likely (it's a political necessity).
Surviving a motion to dismiss: 80 percent (if it is a carefully drawn indictment).
Assange being extradited to the U.S. for trial: 10-20 percent (precisely because it's a political necessity in the U.S.!).
Assange being convicted if he is tried: 60-70 percent (I don't think a jury will be very sympathetic).
Bonus prediction: Some of Assange's supporting hacktivists are identified, arrested, extradited, tried and ultimately convicted: 70-80 percent.
Abbe D. Lowell, defense attorney: The WikiLeaks disclosures are getting bolder and causing more controversy; the U.S. will find some way to bring charges (under the Espionage Act and/or other laws), because not doing so will be deemed bad legal precedent, bad foreign relations, and bad national politics.
A well-crafted, narrow indictment will not be dismissed because a court will probably rule that there is no absolute First Amendment bar to charging an entity like WikiLeaks for the kind of data dump it did and that the legal issues involved in the case (criminal intent, higher protection) require a trial.
A conviction will depend entirely on how jury instructions are drafted by a court (how high is the First Amendment bar) and whether a jury decides to follow those instructions (a jury in some area, perhaps Alexandria, Virginia, may decide the case differently than one in D.C.).
Stephen I. Vladeck, law professor, American University: Honestly, I have no idea.
I suspect that some of what happens here may depend upon what happens in the pending criminal case against him in Sweden. So long as the Swedish criminal process is running its course, we may well hold off on pursuing Assange (even if an indictment has already been obtained).
But if, for whatever reason, the case against Assange there doesn't produce a conviction, I think it is extremely likely that the U.S. government will pursue an indictment (or unseal an indictment it has already obtained) and seek Assange's extradition.
And I suspect that, at that point, the case would be strong enough to survive a motion to dismiss.
As for the likelihood of a conviction, that's ultimately a question for 12 unknown citizens.
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Lt. M.W. Bates served with the 21st Michigan Volunteer Infantry during the Battle of Bentonville. The 21st Michigan, one of three regiments in Col. George P. Buell's brigade of the Union's Fourteenth Army Corps, was among the first to encounter the main Confederate line during the battle. After a futile attempt to assault the Confederate line, during which the 21st Michigan suffered heavy casualties, Lieutenant Bates observed one of the first field hospitals established on the battlefield being evacuated to the rear:
Hospital quarters had been established on the bank of the small stream in our rear, the nearness to the line, and falling mini balls compelled its removal. When the ambulance came up to take in the wounded, the driver became demoralized and jumped from his seat to cut the traces and fly, Dr. Avery drew his revolver and held the driver to his work, and got off safely.
Later in the day, the Confederate army counterattacked the Union lines, and Bates's brigade was broken and routed. Bates was wounded during this attack, and eventually carried to the Fourteenth Army Corps field hospital located in and around the Harper House. The following account details Bates's experiences after his wounding. The specific nature of Bates's wound is not known, but we may assume from the comments of the surgeons that the wound was serious.
It was now about three o'clock....We could see their skirmishers thrown far out on our left in the open field, and soon the Confederates swarmed over their works.
Questions for Reading 3
1. How did the ambulance driver observed by Lt. Bates and Dr. Avery behave under fire? Were each of these men acting within the guidelines established in the Letterman Plan for the conduct of medical officers and personnel?
2. What response did Dr. Goodale give when asked about Lt. Bates's condition? Why did the surgeon make this statement? Why do you think surgeons did not attempt to operate on severely wounded patients?
3. Lt. Bates survived his wounds, even though they were thought to be fatal. To what does Bates attribute his survival? Do you think it is possible to evaluate the accuracy of his belief?
Compiled from Lt. M.W. Bates Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle: Papers Read Before the Minnesota Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 1897-1902 (St. Paul, Minnesota: Review Publishing Company, 1903), 146-151.
Compiled from Lt. M.W. Bates Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle: Papers Read Before the Minnesota Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 1897-1902 (St. Paul, Minnesota: Review Publishing Company, 1903), 146-151.


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Changes to local search results topped Google's monthly recap of search and algorithmic updates from February, but there were nearly 40 new updates revealed, including changes to link evaluation, freshness, Panda, page detection, and more.
Local Search & Location
The Venice Update is a noteworthy change to Google's local search results. Google said it is now relying more on its main search result rankings as a signal to trigger local universal results.
Google makes no secrets about increasing search personalization, and this change will deliver searchers greater personalization, based on the location they have given Google.
This is a big opportunity for local websites to appear more prominently on the first page of Google's search results. While relevance, distance, and prominence are established Google ranking factors for Places listings (also see "Understanding the 98 Google Local Ranking Factors"), now it seems traditional organic search (SE0) ranking factors will become a key factor in whether a local website appears on Page 1 of Google's organic results.
Another change related to local is that Google can now better detect when queries and documents are local to users – based on their city – thanks to a newly launched system. Google has also "refreshed" the associations for country URLs.
SEOptimise, Blogstorm, and PPC Blog have some examples of how results are already shifting. Meanwhile, Elevate Local has noted that these location changes may have already had an impact on the local UK versions of Amazon and eBay, which have seen their search visibility rise, while amazon.com and ebay.com domains have lost visibility.
Link Evaluation Method Retired
Another hot topic is that Google has killed off one of its long-time link evaluation methods. As Google explained:
"We often use characteristics of links to help us figure out the topic of a linked page. We have changed the way in which we evaluate links; in particular, we are turning off a method of link analysis that we used for several years. We often rearchitect or turn off parts of our scoring in order to keep our system maintainable, clean and understandable."
There's plenty of speculation about this topic. Bill Slawski offers a dozen possible methods that might have changed, including local interconnectivity, anchor text indexing, and cross-language information retrieval.
Meanwhile, signals such as anchor text, the title tag, surrounding text, position of a link, and HTML signals are among the possible retired evaluation methods, based on speculation at WebmasterWorld.
What other methods of link evaluation could Google have changed? Anchor text, affiliate links, and link age are among the possibilities, according to Dave Naylor.
What link analysis method do you think was turned off? Let us know what you think in the comments.
Freshness, Spiking Topics & News
After making several minor updates in January to its fresh results – searches that involve timely information, such as recent events, hot topics, recurring events, or topics where information is updated frequently – Google has further added new signals that will "surface fresh content" in search results. Google has also disabled two unspecified old classifiers related to query freshness.
In addition, Google has consolidated a "number of signals" it uses to detect when a new topic is spiking as a popular search term in real time.
On what seems like a related "freshness" update, Google has fixed a bug that should result in triggering universal news results for searches.
Panda Refresh
Like last month, Google made a small update to Panda to make it "more accurate" and "sensitive" to changes on the web. This follows last month's update that made Panda "more integrated" with Google's indexing and ranking systems.
Most are referring to the February update as Panda 3.3, for those who feel the need to keep track of these updates by number.
Official Page Detection
Google said it can now more accurately identify official pages. This fixes pages that previously were incorrectly identified as official.
Related Searches, Site Search, Spam & More
One signal Google uses to generate related searches is queries typed in succession. Google says it has refined this model and should result in more relevant related search queries. In addition, Google has added a "new data source" that will help generate the "Searches related to" section.
Some other minor search changes:
- Sitelinks: Signals have been adjusted to reduce duplicate snippets based on page content rather than the query.
- "Site:" Operator Queries: More diverse results.
- SafeSearch: Irrelevant adult content has been removed "for many queries."
- Spam: Stronger protection.
- Autocomplete: Unknown number of offensive and inappropriate terms removed.
- English Spelling Correction: More accuracy on rare queries.
And one slightly older update: for those searching for concerts, Google has added upcoming tour dates and locations for musicians beneath the artist or band's official website, but only if the concert is in your area within the next few months. Google will provide a link to websites selling tickets. This is an English-only feature.
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Google has expanded its index of images for universal search, meaning more relevant images will be shown for more queries. Meanwhile, a new signal adjustment means Google can now find and show images much more quickly.
In another tweak to image content, to be more consistent "across result types", mobile, and tablet, Google has adjusted the thumbnail sizes to rich snippet results for recipes and applications, movie posters, shopping results, book results, and news results, among others.
Detection of adult content in SafeSearch has also been improved to align with other search results.
Google's international and foreign language search updates:
- Shopping rich snippets, previously available only in the U.S., Germany, and Japan, have launched globally.
- Google Korea's search results are more organized with sections for news, blogs, and homepages. Korean spelling has also improved for queries typed in the wrong keyboard mode.
- Web History has launched for users with Google accounts in Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Morocco, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Kuwait, Iraq, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Nigeria, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Bosnia and Herzegowina, Azerbaijan, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Moldova, and Ghana.
- Portuguese, Dutch and Italian languages have been added to a classifier that detects pages containing error messages (a.k.a., soft 404s).
- More foreign language synonyms are offered based on search query terms.
- Better weather search feature triggering for Turkish users.
YouTube predictions are more locally relevant. As Google explained, "… for the query [lady gaga in ] performed on the US version of YouTube, we might predict [lady gaga in times square], but for the same search performed on the Indian version of YouTube, we might predict [lady gaga in India]."
Google also announced improved "decorated" snippets for video channels, and how these snippets are generated.
Travel Search Results
More flight-related search queries will return Google's Flight Search feature more often. On a related Flight Search note, Android and iPhone users can now find available flight information, including departure and arrival, duration, airlines, and cost on mobile searches such as [flights from dallas to new york city]. You can then further research using Google Flight Search the same as you would on a PC.
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How to improve your website ranking in 2020
A brief look at several known factors in 2020 that will improve your website ranking through content and other methods that are not always definite.
The role of SEO in online reputation management (ORM)
ORM is no longer optional. Successful online reputation management (ORM) and SEO help achieve results through coordinating content, websites, and SERPs.
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A player who carelessly, recklessly, or with excessive force (a) kicks or attempts to kick, (b) trips or attempts to trip, (c) jumps at, (d) charges, (e) strikes or attempts to strike, or (f) pushes an opponent; or who g) tackles without first touching the ball, (h) holds, or (i) spits at an opponent, or (j) handles the ball deliberately; shall be penalized by a direct free kick.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's rapidly expanding oil production is likely to complicate OPEC's efforts to influence world prices as the country re-emerges as a major player after 20 years on the sidelines due to sanctions and strife.
For now, Iraq is backing Iran's push for OPEC to set lower production limits and keep prices high, but Baghdad's own ambitious plans for expansion could cause an overall production growth that might drive down prices.
Analysts say Iraq's new clout is shifting the power balance in the 12-member Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and could force it to overhaul its intricate production quota system to accommodate Baghdad's greater output.
Iraq recently reached production of 3 million barrels per day, a level not seen since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that ousted dictator Saddam Hussein. It is on track to become OPEC's second-largest producer in the coming year, surpassing Iran and trailing only Saudi Arabia.
"Iraq, for all intents and purposes, could double its production in next five years, could go from 3 million barrels a day to 6 million barrels a day," said energy analyst Fadel Gheit, managing director of consultancy Oppenheimer & Co. in New York. "No other OPEC country has the ability and capacity to do that."
Oil prices are determined by many factors, but chief among them is supply and demand. For decades, OPEC has tried to control oil prices by limiting production. Additional production from Iraq, unless offset by reductions from other cartel members, could drive oil prices down.
But OPEC politics are not that straightforward.
At Thursday's OPEC meeting in Vienna, Iraq used its newfound influence to side with its political ally, Iran, against Saudi Arabia, which has been increasing output. Iran, hard hit by economic sanctions over its suspect nuclear program, wants members to cut back production to hike prices. OPEC compromised Thursday, deciding to keep its overall production target at the same level.
Sharply lower crude oil prices in recent months are spurring calls for production cutbacks within OPEC. The U.S. benchmark sold Friday at just below $85 a barrel, plunging from $110 in February. OPEC Secretary-General Abdullah Al-Badry said Friday that the price could go back to $110 without harming the global economy.
Iraq also emphasized its comeback within OPEC by pushing its own candidate for secretary-general. Thamer al-Ghadhban, 67, led Iraq's oil ministry during part of the U.S. occupation and is considered a well-qualified candidate, though politics are likely to tip the balance toward an Ecuadorian nominee when it decides in December.
"It reflects the fact that Iraq is saying 'Look guys, it's changed. We're not the permanent problem child of OPEC anymore,'" said Samuel Ciszuk, an analyst with KBC Energy Economics in London.
The last time Iraq had this much voice in OPEC, Saddam Hussein was still in power and the country had just fought the 1980-88 war against Iran that killed as many as a million people on both sides. Iran and Iraq were rivals in OPEC then, bickering over who should give up more in the production quotas.
Much has changed. Now, Iran's theocratic Shiite Muslim government is one of the major allies of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who leads a secular but Shiite-dominated coalition. At OPEC this week, Iraq sided with Iran. For now, higher prices are in Baghdad's best interest, since 95 percent of its government revenues come from oil.
Iraq's return to petroleum prominence was not supposed to take this long. Before the U.S.-led invasion, officials in President George W. Bush's administration said that the country's oil exports, long hampered by international sanctions, would recover quickly and possibly even pay for the war.
Like much in the Iraq war, that didn't work out as planned, and the spiraling violence that followed decimated oil production.
In the last year, a rapid expansion of oil production has been a rare positive sign in a troubled democracy still facing spasms of violence.
Iraqi oil exports have grown from an average 1.9 million barrels a day average in 2009 to about 2.5 million barrels a day in May. That is about the same level that Iran was exporting last year, but Tehran now exports less than 1.8 million barrels per day now because of American sanctions, U.S. officials estimate.
With 143.1 billion barrels of proven oil reserves — the fourth-largest in OPEC — Iraq has plenty of room to grow.
Iraq's expansion in coming years could wreak havoc with OPEC's system of production quotas, according to analyst Ciszuk. The organization wavers between individual country quotas and the current system of an overall production limit for all countries, which it decided Thursday to keep at 30 million barrels a day.
In recent decades, Iraq's oil hasn't figured in that system because its exports were underperforming. But once it surpasses Iran, OPEC members will likely demand that Iraq rejoin the quota system.
With Iraq pumping 3 or 4 million extra barrels a day, other countries would face the choice of either cutting their own quotas to accommodate Iraq or raising the overall production level.
Its ambitious expansion goals and contracts with major oil companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp., BP PLC and Royal Dutch Shell PLC depend on pumping more and more oil, so Iraq's own self-interest in coming years is likely to reverse its stance of pushing for production cuts — despite its political relationship with Iran.
"In the end, you know, it tends to be the money that decides a lot of these things," Ciszuk said.
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Andrew Dykstra experienced a number of career firsts in last Saturday's win in the nation's capital.
First big save, first win, first shutout, first assist?
The first three categories are welcome stats for a second-year keeper looking to win over fans bitter in the wake of Jon Busch's preseason dismissal.
The assist however is all gravy.
"We were trying to waste some time late against D.C.," said Dykstra. "The previous play I tried to play Brian in the corner and I mishit it. I don't know why but the next play he went up the middle and C.J. [Brown] turned to me, gave me a wink and said, 'hit it to Brian'. I did, he flicked it in and I was ecstatic after that because I knew we certainly locked the game up there."
The helper indeed put United out to pasture and at the same time, Dykstra became the first Fire goalkeeper in almost four years to record an assist. Zach Thornton, the club's longtime leader in most goalkeeping categories last tallied on June 28, 2006 in a 2-1 win over Real Salt Lake.
The stars seemed to align in what was a homecoming of sorts for the Woodbridge, VA product. About 100 friends and family bought tickets to the match and witnessed Dykstra's strongest, most confident showing of the season.
"It was nice to win after not having the greatest start. I know that a lot of people have been looking at me and Carlos especially and the decisions he's made on the field with the team. Definitely the win took a little pressure off and I was able to stay at home and soak in the whole experience a bit. It was a huge mental hurdle for me but as soon as it was over I shifted focus towards preparation for Houston."
Saturday's match against the two-time MLS Cup champions has the makings of an intriguing affair. In four previous meetings at Toyota Park, Houston has yet to fall in defeat, boasting a 3-0-1 record since 2006. With that said, this is not the Dynamo of old.
Gone to Europe are U.S. National Team midfielders Ricardo Clark and Stuart Holden. Another U.S. international, Brian Ching, suffered a hamstring injury in the club's second match of the season against Real Salt Lake. Despite the losses, the Dynamo have shown evidence of their depth, coming into the match on the seven points, tied for second in the Western Conference.
It was a preseason match against this same Houston club that Dykstra impressed enough to gain the starting role. As this game counts, Dykstra will hope to add home win to what will be a season full of firsts.
"Houston is a very direct team. Very physical, very fast and they're going to get after us. It's not like we really need to change what we do to accommodate them, we just have to be tuned in and focused on what we're doing and make sure that's right. My performance against them in March was one of my better games in a while and I think that's why I'm playing now. Houston's kind of the reason I am where I am and having them see me in preseason, I think they realize that I'm not just another rookie goalkeeper. I'm looking forward to the challenge and ready to get on with the game."


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Syracuse Chiefs hit 2 grand slams in win over Rochester Red Wings
The Syracuse Chiefs hit two grand slams to power past the Rochester Red Wings 10-5 Wednesday night. Mark Teahen's grand slam in the fifth inning tied the game for Syracuse, and Jason Michaels' eighth-inning slam put the Chiefs ahead for good in a six-run eighth inning. Syracuse won back-to-back games for the first time this year.
The night didn't start well for Syracuse (5-13) when Rochester (9-9) jumped all over Chiefs left-hander John Lannan in the first inning. Darin Mastroianni, Brian Dozier and Matt Carson stroked three straight singles to center field in the bottom of the frame to load the bases with nobody out. First baseman Aaron Bates then walked to force in the first run, and Joe Benson's double-play ground ball scored the second, putting the Red Wings on top 2-0 after one.
Rochester scored a second-inning run as well when Mastroianni singled in Matt Rizzotti, giving the Red Wings a 3-0 lead.
The Red Wings notched another tally with a fourth-inning run. Drew Butera singled with two outs, advanced to second on a passed ball, and scored on a third Mastroianni single. The Red Wings' left fielder collected three hits on the day, driving in two runs and scoring two.
After four scoreless innings with just three singles and two walks, Syracuse finally cracked Rochester right-hander Daryl Thompson in the fifth inning. Carlos Maldonado walked to lead off the inning and was erased by a Seth Bynum fielder's choice. Corey Brown then walked and Josh Johnson singled, loading the bases for right fielder Teahen. The left-handed hitter slammed a 1-0 pitch from Thompson into the Red Wings bullpen in right field, evening the score at 4. The home run was Teahen's first long ball of the season and Syracuse's first grand slam of the season.
Lannan tossed scoreless fifth and sixth innings before Mastroianni singlehandedly drummed up a seventh-inning rally. He led off the inning with a full-count walk before stealing second base. After a fly out and strikeout, Mastroianni stole third base on a 1-1 pitch to Bates. The next toss from Lannan was outside and trickled off of Maldonado's glove, and Mastroianni broke for the plate. Maldonado's throw to a covering Lannan was too high, and Mastroianni scored to put Rochester ahead 5-4.
But the Chiefs exploded in the eighth inning, detonating the Rochester bullpen for six runs. Left-hander Tyler Robertson entered from the bullpen and was greeted rudely. Teahen walked and Tyler Moore singled to put two runners aboard for Bryce Harper. The 19-year-old laid down a bunt back to Robertson, who attempted to get a force out at third base. But Michael Hollimon dropped the ball for an error, loading the bases for Michaels. The 35-year-old designated hitter worked the count to 2-1 before clobbering a pitch over the yellow line on the left-center field wall for a second grand slam of the night, putting Syracuse on top 8-5. The home run for Michaels was his first of the season.
After a Carlos Rivero single, right-hander Brendan Wise relieved Robertson. Maldonado then grounded into a double play, but the Chiefs continued to rally. Bynum's infield single, Brown's single, and Johnson's walk loaded the bases for Teahen once more. The right fielder then lined a two-run single into left field, increasing the Syracuse lead to its final tally of 10-5.
Josh Wilkie worked a scoreless eighth inning, and Ryan Perry closed the game out with a scoreless ninth for the victory. Lannan earned the win, his first of 2012, with seven innings and four earned runs allowed.
The Chiefs and Red Wings will tussle on Thursday afternoon as part of an 11:35 AM doubleheader. In the first game, Syracuse left-hander Zach Duke will square off with Rochster right-hander Cole DeVries. In the second, Chiefs right-hander Erik Arnesen and Red Wings righty Jeff Manship are each scheduled to make their first starts of the season.


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Mabel Tolkien (née Suffield, January 1870 - 14 November 1904) daughter of John Suffield.She was married to Arthur Reuel Tolkien and was the mother of J.R.R. Tolkien and Hilary Tolkien.[1]
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: II. Reader's Guide, pp. 1018-20


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Five reasons Blackhawks won the Stanley Cupby Brian Hedger
CHICAGO -- Ever since an unforgettable 24-game point streak to start the season, the Chicago Blackhawks repeatedly said that feat alone would mean nothing to them without a Stanley Cup title to go with it.
It ought to mean something now, after their come-from-behind 3-2 Cup-clinching win against the Boston Bruins in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final on Monday at TD Garden.
The late-game heroics of Bryan Bickell and Dave Bolland, who scored 17 seconds apart in the game's final 1:16, not only clinched Chicago's second title in the past four seasons but validated a memorable season.
How did the Blackhawks do it this time? Here are five reasons they were able to upend the Bruins:
1. They got offensive by getting defensive
All season long the Blackhawks gave teams fits with their transition game, which was predicated on a deep set of defensemen who could skate and move the puck up the ice in a variety of ways. That didn't change in the Stanley Cup Playoffs and the Bruins -- like the Minnesota Wild, Detroit Red Wings and Los Angeles Kings before them -- found it out the hard way.
Duncan Keith quietly had a great postseason, scoring two goals and adding 11 assists to go with a plus-10 rating, and Johnny Oduya added three goals and five assists, and finished the playoffs with a plus-12 rating.
Niklas Hjalmarsson also was plus-10, Michal Rozsival was plus-9 and Brent Seabrook, while finishing minus-1 for the playoffs, twice won games in overtime with thrilling goals.
What made Chicago's defense so good was its ability to excel in all areas of the ice, getting into shooting and passing lanes on defense, and using good passes and making enough smart decisions skating the puck up the ice to produce scoring chances.
2. The Toews/Kane Reunion
Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane barely played together during the regular season, and it worked. The Blackhawks had balanced scoring and got what they were looking for by splitting the star forwards, but the playoffs proved to be different.
Defenses get stingier in the postseason, and sometimes coaches have to put their most dangerous line combinations together to see how they do while matched against the best defenders. That's largely what happened in the Cup Final, when Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville, with his team trailing 2-1 in the series heading into Game 4, reunited Kane and Toews on a line, with power forward Bryan Bickell completing the trio.
It couldn't have worked much better. In the last three games of the series, all Chicago wins, the top line combined for six goals, seven assists and a plus-13 rating.
3. Challenging Chara
Toews, Bickell and Kane all drew criticism for "calling out" the Bruins' 6-foot-9 defenseman, Zdeno Chara, but it should be noted they only were responding to questions about the way the Blackhawks appeared to play against him in Game 4 at TD Garden.
Rather than letting Chara intimidate them with his long reach and hard hits, they decided to use speed and skill to test him that way. It worked; Chara often was left flat-footed while defending in front of Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask and the Blackhawks got a number of good scoring chances, converting some into key goals in the last three games.
Chara was on the ice for 10 of Chicago's final 12 goals, all of which were scored in the last three games.
4. Call it a draw
The one game the Bruins controlled nearly start to finish was Game 3 in Boston, the first game at TD Garden. The ice was in bad shape after a hot day, but the biggest reason the Blackhawks couldn't get going was their inability to stay competitive on faceoffs.
Boston won the overall faceoff battle by a wide margin, winning 71 percent of the draws taken, and that kept the puck away from Chicago for long stretches. Losing the faceoff battle wasn't new for the Blackhawks, but losing by such a large differential was problematic.
They were better in Game 4 and won that game 6-5 in overtime to knot the series 2-2. The Blackhawks won the faceoff battle in Game 5, in part because of a broken rib and torn rib cartilage that knocked Bruins center Patrice Bergeron out of the game early, and won the game 3-1, putting them on the verge of clinching the Cup.
In Game 6, the Bruins dominated the action in the first period to take a 1-0 lead after 20 minutes, and held another wide edge in faceoffs at that point. The Blackhawks, however, started chipping away at the overall percentages in the last two periods, with Toews leading the way with a 60-percent success rate. The game finished with Boston winning the faceoff competition at 56 percent, but Chicago's improvement from a 29-percent success rate after the first 20 minutes to 44 percent at the end of the game was enough to help them keep Boston close enough for that exciting finish.
5. Q had the right A's
Quenneville wasn't perfect behind the bench, but he was very good throughout the entire playoff run. He demanded a higher intensity -- and eventually got it -- following a five-game series win against the Wild in the Western Conference Quarterfinals.
His coaching really started making an impact against the Red Wings in the conference semifinals.
After limiting Seabrook's playing time because of his struggles in Game 4 of that series, Quenneville decided to reunite the defense pairs he started the season with, which meant Seabrook and good friend Keith were back as Chicago's top pair. The move increased Seabrook's playing time, and he responded positively.
Seabrook wound up scoring the series-clinching goal in overtime of Game 7 against the Red Wings, and later beat Rask for an overtime goal in Game 4 against the Bruins.
Quenneville also wasn't afraid of to put his top line of Bickell, Toews and Kane up against Boston's best defenders in the Cup Final, which led to some key goals -- including two by Kane in Game 5 and one each by Bickell and Toews in Game 6.


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1942 : Germans form the Smolensk Committee to enlist Soviet soldiers1942 : Germans form the Smolensk Committee to enlist Soviet soldiers
On this day, the German military begins enlisting Soviet POWs in the battle against Russia. General Andrei Vlasov, a captured Soviet war hero turned anticommunist, was made commander of the renegade Soviet troops.
Vlasov had been a military man since 1919, when, at age 19, he was drafted into the new "Red" Army to fight in the Russian Civil War. After joining the Communist Party in 1930, he became a Soviet military adviser to China's Chiang Kai-shek. Returning to Russia in 1939, Vlasov was given the 4th Armored Corps to command. He distinguished himself in the defense of Kiev and Moscow against the German invaders, even winning the Order of Lenin in 1941, and later the Order of the Red Banner as commanding general of the 20th Army.
Then came the defense of Leningrad in 1942. The Germans were overwhelming the Soviet forces at the front, and Stalin would not allow Vlasov to retreat to a more favorable position. His army was battered, and he was taken prisoner by the Germans along with many of his men. Back in Germany, Vlasov became disgusted with Stalin and communist ideology, which he had come to believe was a more sinister threat to the world than Nazism. He began broadcasting anti-Soviet propaganda and formed--with Nazi permission, of course--the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia. Its goal: to overthrow Joseph Stalin and defeat communism.
The German "Smolensk Committee" began persuading more and more captured Russians, Ukrainians, Cossacks, and other Soviet anti-Stalinists to join the German war effort. These now-pro-German Soviets were finally formed into a 50,000-man army, the Russian Liberation division, and fought toward the end of the war, with Vlasov at their command. Tens of thousands ending up turning back against the Germans, then finally surrendering to the Americans-rather than the advancing Soviets-when the German cause was lost. The Americans, under secret terms of the Yalta Agreement signed in February, repatriated all captured Soviet soldiers-even against their will. Vlasov was among those returned to Stalin. He was hanged, along with his comrades in arms.
From: www.History.com


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Cyprus Meeting Appeal for Peace
An appeal for world peace was passed from religious leaders to children to government officials in Cyprus. With the presentation of the appeal, the International Meeting of Prayer for Peace, traditionally sponsored by the Catholic lay Sant'Egidio Community, and this year cosponsored by the Orthodox Church of Cyprus, came to an end. This 22nd annual meeting was on "The Civilization of Peace: Faiths and Cultures in Dialogue."
These annual international meetings are part of the heritage of the World Day of Prayer for Peace convened in Assisi by Pope John Paul II on Oct. 27, 1986.
Religious leaders gave the appeal to children of various nationalities. The children, on behalf of all generations, gave it to ambassadors and authorities representing all the nations of the world.
The text of the appeal acknowledges that the world is "at a difficult point in history. Many certainties are shaken by the economic crisis that has seized our world. Many people are pessimistic about the future. Richer countries focus on protecting their own citizens. A very high price of the crisis will be paid for by the poorest of the world."
The religious leaders affirmed that "too many people suffer in this world of ours, from war, poverty and violence. [...] No one should close his heart to compassion."
But, they continued, this "is not the time to surrender to pessimism, it is time to heed the sorrow of people, and to work for the foundation of a new world order of peace. The quest for justice, the use of dialogue, and respect for the weak are the tools we need to build this new world order. [...] A world without a soul will soon become inhuman."
The religious leaders affirmed that their various creeds "strongly testify that a world with no spirit will never be human: They cry out that spirit and humanity should never be trampled on by war; they beg for peace. [...] Religions are aware that talking of war in God's name is meaningless and blasphemous. They are convinced a better humanity will never come from violence and terrorism."
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For a class project i must write a text based Battleship program. I am getting a NullPointerException in the following code and im not sure why exactly. I have 3
classes: Game, SingleSpace, and Grid. The Grid object is a 2D array comprised of SingleSpace objects. And the Game is where my main function is.
So heres a bit of the code. I am pretty new so it may be poorly coded.
I originally had the array of type int but my professor wants us to have space objects so i figured that meant to have the array of type space.
It worked when it was type int, but since i switched it to SingleSpace array, i am getting the error
Here is the error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at Grid.<init>(Grid.java:13)
at Game.main(Game.java:12)