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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Auto lender Ally Financial Inc ALLY_pb.N moved a step closer to paying back the U.S. government on Friday after the Federal Reserve approved the company's 2013 capital plan.
With the Fed's approval, Ally can proceed with a private share sale it had announced in August.
The lender said on Friday it was increasing the size of the sale by 50,000 shares and expected to receive approximately $1.3 billion from investors, up from 166,667 shares and $1 billion announced previously.
Proceeds from the sale will help it make a $5.9 billion payment to the government, which had extended the bank a $17.2 billion bailout during the financial crisis.
In March, the Fed turned down Ally's proposed capital plan which was part of the "stress test" regime to weigh how financial firms would weather a crisis. Regulators can prevent a bank from buying back shares or paying dividends if they think those steps would pose risks to the firm's stability or if they take issue with the bank's capital planning process.
The former General Motors (GM.N) lending arm was required to submit a new plan for Fed approval. It was the only bank that failed to meet the minimum threshold of a 5 percent capital buffer under one of the Fed's scenarios.
Ally has struggled to recover from the mortgage meltdown. Last year, it put its troubled home loan subsidiary Residential Capital LLC into bankruptcy to stanch the bleeding from bad mortgages.
Ally also in August announced an agreement with the U.S. Treasury to spend $5.9 billion to repurchase the government's outstanding preferred securities and buy special rights the Treasury held to receive extra payments should the company sells stock below a particular price.
After all those transactions close, Ally will have repaid the Treasury about $12.3 billion of the $17.2 billion it had borrowed.
Regulators had already approved a revised capital plan from BB&T Corp (BBT.N), after the Fed initially rejected that bank's plan as well.
Reporting by Emily Stephenson and Peter Rudegeair; editing by Krista Hughes, G Crosse


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The author writes, "The ACE Study — the CDC's Adverse Childhood Experiences Study — has recently been featured in the New York Times, This American Life, and Salon.com. Many people say that just as you should what your cholesterol score is, so you should know your ACE score. But what is this study? And do you know your own ACE score?"
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'Hypnosis abuse' minister jailed for abusing boys
A retired Methodist minister who tried to hypnotise boys in a "sick ploy" to sexually abuse them has been jailed.
John Price, 82, used a cloak or blanket as he attempted to put his victims in a trance, a court heard.
He had denied indecently assaulting four boys, aged between 11 and 17, during the 1970s and 80s, but was found guilty of 13 counts.
Price, of Ash Tree Close, Bedale, North Yorkshire, was jailed for eight-and-a-half years at at Teesside Crown Court.
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He had claimed he could help the boys with stress, physical or emotional pain via hypnosis.
None of the victims said they were actually hypnotised but they froze in horror at what the church leader was doing, the jury heard.
The court heard how he had fashioned ways of being alone with his victims.
In a statement read in court, one victim said the abuse had left him in "a chasm of absolute despair".
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Prosecutor Paul Newcombe read out a statement from another victim who believed Price targeted him because he thought the boy was vulnerable.
When one of the victims complained to a senior church figure, who has since died, he was told not to be "silly".
Judge Howard Crowson said as a minister Price had been expected to show compassion for the boys but instead he abused them.
Tim Carter, the Methodist Church's Safeguarding Adviser, said: "It's had a massive impact on their lives, their relationships, their employment and the way they see themselves.
"It was quite clear today how angry they are as well that he has taken advantage of the trust they put in him."
Det Con Adam Parkinson, from North Yorkshire Police, said Price used his position "to gain access to vulnerable young boys in order to sexually abuse them for his own perverse gratification."


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Michael Livingston and Kelly DeVries, eds.
The Battle of Crécy: A Casebook
(Liverpool University Press, 2015) 524 + xiv pp. £75 / $120 (hardcover), £25 / $39.95 (paperback)
Nothing quite encapsulates for us the seemingly pervasive wars of the later Middle Ages as well as large battles. Foremost among these in the English-speaking world are the great battles of the Hundred Years War: Crécy (1346), Poitiers (1356), and Agincourt (1415). The first of these, Crécy, in which Edward III, king of England, won a great victory over the French, has received considerable attention over the years, in both dedicated investigations and also as case studies for understanding the early phase of the war as a whole.[1] These investigations, however, heavily rely on Anglo-French sources, which are often conveniently edited and translated. Indeed, one would not think to look for reliable sources from elsewhere in Europe, as there seems little reason to think that they could contribute much that is trustworthy or not derived from information already found in well-known English or French sources. The Battle of Crécy: A Casebook, edited by Michael Livingston and Kelly DeVries, seeks to resolve this issue and thereby provide a better understanding of Crécy. It provides relevant extracts from eighty-one fourteenth-century written sources, in both original language and English translation, as well as several new essays on important aspects of the campaign and battle. This Casebook, the third in a series published by Liverpool University Press, succeeds admirably in its objectives and provides an excellent resource for both students and scholars alike.
The primary source collection takes up nearly the first four-fifths of this large volume. These sources are limited to those written in the fourteenth century, and then only those that contribute something new to the subject. Accordingly, sources with only short entries (e.g. those that simply give the date and results of the battle) and those from the fifteenth century and later are silently omitted. The extracts included are mostly limited to the battle, its immediate preliminaries, and its results shortly before the beginning of the siege of Calais, with the earlier and later portions left out. However, the sections that cover other aspects of the campaign, with particularly important details that help us to understand Edward III's objectives and to determine the site of the battle, are also included, such as in the so-called 'Kitchen Journal' (20–23).
Each source is presented with both its original language text, new facing-page translations, a solid introduction, and thorough notes. Whenever possible the original texts are taken from the best editions. The only exception that I observed was for the Anonymous of Canterbury's Chronicle (198–99), but the differences between Tait's 1914 edition (which is used here) and Scott-Stokes' and Given-Wilson's 2008 Oxford Medieval Texts edition are negligible for the narrative concerned.[2] In many cases the Casebook includes texts that have rarely been considered in Anglo-American or French scholarship (e.g. German and Italian sources), and many that have never before been edited, such as William Dene's important Rochester History (134–37).[3] Many will find these particularly invaluable. Translations are largely done by the volume's editors to allow for a degree of consistency. They are superb and maintain the meaning and feeling of the original language texts. Most of the Latin and Middle English sources' notes and translations are by Livingston, while most of the sources in other vernaculars are done by DeVries.[4] Other experts are used for fifteen of the other texts in the collection. For example, Godfried Croenen, co-editor of the excellent Online Froissart, provides newly edited texts of the 'Amiens', 'Abridged', and 'B/C' versions of Jean Froissart's Chroniques (252–77, 276–97, 306–37). The introductions and supplementary notes help the reader to understand this wide array of complicated texts, especially considering that earlier editions pay little attention to allusive passages that are so common but often overlooked. Overall, this makes for a vibrant and solid collection of source material that will surely be used for years to come.
A number of essays by Livingston, DeVries, and others are included at the end of the volume that analyse different aspects of Crécy. These cover such subjects as the location of the battle, Bohemian participation, the Genoese crossbowmen, tactics (including a new analytical narrative of the battle by DeVries), Froissart's 'herce', Italian perspectives, determining casualties, and a concluding essay on the battle's place in the popular imagination through to the present day. These essays are very interesting and provide new insights that are greatly aided by the additional sources included in the first section of this volume. I was particularly interested in Livingston's compelling essay that argues for re-situating the battlefield away from its traditional location to the south through an innovative approach that utilizes textual sources, local place-names, and also Edward III's rate of march (415–38). Livingston's later essay on the dead at Crécy (485–88) was very revealing, too, as one has no reason to suspect that casualty lists, ostensibly from widely circulated documents that should be accurate, could be incorrect at times (or most of the time, as Livingston points out). It would have been helpful here to present a large table of the casualties listed in all the sources, so that each of their inaccuracies could be clearly illustrated. As a whole, this collection of essays helpfully moves us forward from those presented in the collection edited by Ayton and Bart.
Only a few issues stand out in this Casebook. A few terms are sometimes inconsistently translated, even within the same source. For example, in the Chronicon Estense Livingston translates the Latin miles varyingly as 'cavalry' or 'knight' and pedes as both 'foot-soldier' and 'infantry', depending on the context (84–87). Although this translation for functional meaning helps the reader to better understand what is going on, it also adds an additional layer of detail and technicality (with considerable implications of discipline and organisation) that writers did not necessarily intend. This should not present much of a problem to those who can comfortably read the original language and will (or should!) routinely cross-check these particular words, but it might accidentally misinform some. However, there is no easy way around the vague meanings of some words in medieval texts.[5]
It is a monumental task to fully come to grips with so many sources, provide authoritative introductions, and perform nuanced analyses, especially considering most of these (sixty-six) are done by Livingston and DeVries themselves. Therein lies a major problem inherent to collections like this: how does one (or two in this case) assemble a comprehensive list of texts written before 1346–1400 that discuss the battle of Crécy? The obvious places to turn would be earlier works on the battle supplemented by the standard works on historical writing.[6] However, these do not provide a comprehensive list (or discussion) of sources to investigate, neither alone nor together. There is no authority on historical or political works in the period, especially those written in Latin, like there are for texts written in Anglo-Norman and Middle English.[7] Therefore, it should come as no surprise that a few sources with longer narratives of the battle are missing from this Casebook. From my own area of interest (the rhetoric of English historical and political writing, c. 1327–77) I noticed the following unedited sources with narratives on the battle missing from this collection: Anglo-Norman Brut continuation, 1307–77, Anglo-Norman Brut continuation, 1327–47, Northern Latin 'Brut', Brutus–1347, St Albans 'A' continuation of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon, 1343–77 (its Crécy campaign narrative is about three times as long as the standard 'A' continuation included in the Casebook), and the Long Kirkstall Abbey Chronicle, Vortigern–1360 (although, due to little work having been done on these sources, their dating is not entirely certain). It would have also been nice to have a short list of omitted sources (due to either being dated later or having derivative/brief narratives), as this would clearly show how nearly every historical narrative of the period thought the event important enough to mention. Only one of these is included: the so-called 'Brief Chronicle' (198–99), which is associated with the Eulogium Historiarum. Some connections between the texts included in the collection were not noted in their apparatuses: the Lanercost Chronicle (86–89) and the Anonimalle Chronicle (248–51) share a now lost common source for parts of their 1346 narratives with each other as well as the unedited Northern Latin 'Brut' (as mentioned above, this text is not included in the collection), and Crécy in the Middle English Prose Brut Common Version, 1333–77 (224–25) is simply a translation from the Latin narrative of John of Reading's Chronicle (212–13).[8]
While minor in light of the other great work done in the Casebook, there are some features that I would have liked to see more of. Although done on occasion in the notes, it would have been useful to include a more comprehensive investigation of how certain details or narrative tropes were copied and became more or less standard in some traditions. It is clear that Edward III wanted to promote a particular vision of his campaign and victory over Philippe VI at Crécy, and it is important to consider how this was successful (or not) in certain spheres of historical writing (e.g. contrasting northern versus southern English chroniclers might have yielded interesting results). One wonders such questions as: why did some sources include certain details in their descriptions of the battle? how can we accept some of these as more reliable than others? how and why were certain untrue details repeatedly copied? can we take reliable details from one text and disregard others that disagree with our general notion of how the battle was fought? if the German and Italian writers cared enough about the battle to compose detailed narratives, why are many of these details, many of which are accepted as reliable, not found in most English or French sources? Although these issues are sometimes implicitly considered in notes or the essays, it would have been very helpful to have a solid and comprehensive analysis to aid in unpacking the intent and meaning of these sources. This would surely also have implications for understanding what actually happened at Crécy.
However, these issues and the occasional omitted source to not detract from the arguments of Livingston and DeVries on the location, conduct, or results of this major battle. The volume is already mammoth and I imagine that many of the above-mentioned concerns were not resolved at length due to the burgeoning space issues. This Casebook will surely reinvigorate the field and encourage people to look at Crécy in a new light. Although this cannot be the final word on the subject, it equips us to get closer to understanding the conduct and, indeed, the meaning of battles and war in a period of persistent conflict.
Trevor Russell Smith
University of Leeds
[1] See for example Andrew Ayton and Philip Preston Bart, eds, The Battle of Crécy, 1346 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005), pp. 287–350; Clifford J. Rogers, War, Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327–1360 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2000), pp. 217–85.
[2] Johannis de Reading et Anonymi Cantuariensis, ed. by James Tait (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1914), pp. 191–92; Anonymous of Canterbury, Chronicle, 1346–1365, ed. and trans. by Charity Scott-Stokes and Chris Given-Wilson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2008), pp. 8–13. The use of Tait's earlier edition was due to copyright issues, not negligence.
[3] Only two major extracts from the text concerning war have been published in the past, the first on the 1340 siege of Tournai and the second on David II's 1346 invasion of England: Clifford J. Rogers, 'An Unknown News Bulletin from the Siege of Tournai in 1340', War in History, 5 (1998), 358–66; Clifford J. Rogers and Mark C. Buck, 'The Scottish Invasion of 1346', Northern History, 34 (1998), 51–82 (76–79). Mark Buck has been preparing an edition for Oxford Medieval Texts since at least 2000.
[4] The exceptions being Livingston for the Anglo-Norman Cleopatra Itenerary (22–27), Edward III's letter to Thomas Lucy (54–59), William Northburgh's letter (58–63), and Chandos Herald's La vie du Prince Noir (232–41), as well as Tilemann Elhen's Limburger Chronik in German (250–51), and DeVries for Gilles li Muisit's Major Chronicle in Latin (126–31).
[5] On this important issue, see Michael Prestwich, Armies and Warfare in the Middle Ages: The English Experience (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), pp. 12–18; John Hosler, John of Salisbury: Military Authority of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 12–22.
[6] For England and France (somewhat) these are John Taylor, English Historical Literature in the Fourteenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987); Antonia Gransden, Historical Writing in England II: c. 1307 to the Early Sixteenth Century (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982); Chronicon: Medieval Narrative Sources, ed. by János M. Bak and Ivan Jurković (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013); and the occasionally updated Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, ed. by Graeme Dunphy (Leiden: Brill, 2012–14).
[7] Ruth J. Dean and Maureen B. M. Boulton, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999); A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, ed. by Burke J. Severs, Albert E. Hartung, and Peter G. Beidler, 11 vols (New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1967–2005).
[8] On Lanercost and Anonimalle, see The Anonimalle Chronicle, 1333 to 1381: From a MS Written at St. Mary's Abbey, York, ed. by V. H. Galbraith, rev. edn (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1970), pp. xxiv–xxx; H. S. Offler, 'A Note on the Northern Franciscan Chronicle', Nottingham Medieval Studies, 28 (1984), 45–59. On John of Reading and the Brut see Reading et Cantuariensis, ed. by Tait, pp. 47–52.


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do you recognize this man?
yes? good we can move on.
if you answered no, you are either really young, super uncool, or in need of some music education. maybe even some education on recent bicycle advocacy news.
this is a photo of david byrne. bicycle advocacy's first superstar supporter posing with one of his bike rack designs.
in a very short period of time he has become bicycle advocacy's highest profile booster and the timing could not be better. cities all over the world are starting to take the first steps towards creating more safe places to cycle and he is exactly the kind of person we need to push the "bicycles for transportation" agenda forward.
here he is chatting with a journalist while riding in NY. here he is chatting with george strombo, and whats cool, is they talk about bikes before anything else. here is the youtube page with a bunch more videos of him and bikes. the point i am trying to make is that in what seems to be a very short period of time, he has placed himself squarely in the bikelane and is happy to be spreading the good word about transportation cycling and why more cycle infrastructure is good for cities.
i recently picked up a copy of his latest book and have been very slowly working my way through it. the book is not so much about bicycles, but more about exploring places by bike and how the bike can transform the way people see the world around them. he has been using bikes while touring the world for decades - here is a short passage -
"this point of view - faster than a walk, slower than a train, often slightly higher than a person - became my panoramic window on much of the world over the last thirty years - and it still is. its a big window and it looks out on a mainly urban landscape. ...through this window i catch glimpses of the mind of my fellow man, as expressed in the cities he lives in. cities, it occurred to me, are physical manifestations of our deepest beliefs and our often unconscious thoughts, not so much as individuals, but as the social animals we are."
interesting perspective and the more i think about it, the more those statements make real sense. have a look around the city you live in and think about those statements he made.
anyway, i am hopeful that transportation cycling issues can be moved forward by the superstar power a guy like david byrne generates.
keep it up david!
Oct 16, 2009
Move Over Lance - There's a New Super(Urban)Cyclist in Town!
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PHOTO: Pam Africa with French delegates inside the mayoral reception room at Philadelphia City Hall when the delegates were presented with miniature liberty bells, February 11, 2005.
Link to Bennett's new "Voice of the Voiceless" series on Abu-Jamal, published in the weeks leading up to December 9--the 25th anniversary of Abu-Jamal's arrest.
Is Honoring Mumia Abu-Jamal A Crime?
Telephone interview with Peter J. Wirs (Chairman of Philadelphia's 59th Republican Ward Executive Committee) about the new criminal charges filed against two French cities supporting journalist and death-row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
by Hans Bennett
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Because the audio is an edited version (to be listener and download friendly) of the interview, the full-length transcript is included below so readers can read more and see the overall context to the questions. In doing the audio editing, I made my best attempt to accurately portray the interview.
Is it a crime to publicly honor the controversial black death-row prisoner and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal (convicted of killing white Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in a 1982 trial that Amnesty International has declared a "violation of minimum international standards that govern fair trial procedures and the use of the death penalty")? Future Philadelphia mayoral candidate Peter J. Wirs thinks so.
Acting as the Chairman of Philadelphia's 59th Republican Ward Executive Committee, Wirs has filed criminal charges against the French cities of Paris and Saint Denis. Their crime?
In 2003 Abu-Jamal was declared an honorary citizen of Paris—the first time since Pablo Picasso was similarly honored in the 1970s. This April, the French city of St. Denis (a Paris suburb) named a major street after him. Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal leads directly to the largest sports arena in Europe: "Nelson Mandela Stadium."
Wirs and the GOP ward committee allege that these public honors "glorify" a "cop-killer" and therefore violate French Penal Code, Article 24 § 2 (L. 29 juillet 1881), prohibiting "the glorified perpetration of a crime [whose elements include] the voluntary trespass to another person's life or physical integrity ..."
The committee's press release explains the following:
"Wirs, a twice-elected state constable who specialized in civil rights investigations, said that his exhaustive examination of court records confirms what U.S. District Court Judge William Yohn also found; that Abu-Jamal received a fair trial despite his own 'obstreperous conduct' that hogtied his defense counsel's representation, and that alleged post-mortem eyewitness recantations and inadvertent forensic deficiencies cannot overcome the sheer weight of circumstantial evidence, that only a Charter Arms .38 caliber revolver killed Officer Faulkner, being one of two firearms found at the crime scene, purchased by and registered to Abu-Jamal; the other being the fallen police officer's service weapon; coupled with Abu-Jamal's knowingly self-avowed confession that 'I shot the motherfucker, and I hope the motherfucker dies' heard twice by Thomas Jefferson University Hospital security personnel where Abu-Jamal was being treated after his arrest."
"Abu-Jamal's supporters seize on the Philadelphia Police Department's admission they failed to test Abu-Jamal for gunshot powder, now a common test to verify one discharged a firearm; and because the bullet recovered from Faulkner suffered too much mutilation, it could not be conclusively matched with any specific Charter Arms revolver. Such contentions, Wirs asserts, does not mitigate the fact that the bullet specimen had eight lands and grooves with a right hand direction of twist consistent with a Charter Arms revolver; and that Abu-Jamal's Charter Arms revolver was found next to him which contained five 'Plus-P' high-velocity spent bullet shell casings."
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Calling Abu-Jamal a "punk," Chairman Wirs proclaims that "Abu-Jamal's gratuitous exploitation of genuine international opposition to the death penalty should be exposed for the 'snake-oil' scam that it is."
Wirs and the Committee's criminal charges coincide with two key events. First, Abu-Jamal's newest appeal has now gone through four rounds of reply briefs during the last year and now public oral arguments should begin before the end of the winter in early 2007.
Second, this December 9 will mark the 25th anniversary of Abu-Jamal's arrest and police officer Daniel Faulkner's death. Abu-Jamal's supporters are organizing a mass demonstration at Philadelphia's City Hall on December 9. (see announcement)
Peter Wirs has said that advocates of Abu-Jamal's conviction may also be organizing their own event that day a few blocks from City Hall at 13th and Locust: the scene of the crime that December 9, 1981 morning, but it is still undecided.
Mumia Abu-Jamal's Current Appeal
In December, 2001 Federal District Court Judge William Yohn affirmed Abu-Jamal's guilt but overturned the death sentence. Citing the 1988 Mills v. Maryland precedent, Yohn ruled that sentencing forms used by jurors and Judge Sabo's instructions to the jury were confusing. Subsequently, jurors mistakenly believed that they had to unanimously agree on any mitigating circumstances in order to be considered as weighing against a death sentence.
Mumia's case is now in the federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals. DA Lynne Abraham is appealing the death penalty ruling while Mumia is appealing the guilty verdict.
If the penalty ruling is overturned, a new execution date will be set for Mumia. If his ruling is upheld, the DA can still impanel a new jury to rehear the penalty phase, which could then sentence Mumia to death—regardless of the 3rd Circuit ruling.
Because the DA appealed Yohn's death penalty decision, Mumia has never left death row, and is still unable to have such "privileges" as full-contact visits with his family.
In December, 2005, the 3rd Circuit announced the beginning of deliberations and shocked many by agreeing to consider two claims not "certified for appeal" by Yohn in 2001.
Abu-Jamal's attorney Robert R. Bryan declared it to be "the most important decision affecting my client since his 1981 arrest, for it was the first time there was a ruling that could lead to a new trial and his freedom." The courts are now considering the following four issues:
#1. Whether the penalty phase of the 1982 trial violated the legal precedent set by the US Supreme Court's 1988 Mills v. Maryland ruling. This issue was Yohn's grounds for overturning the death sentence and is now being appealed by the DA.
#2. "Certified for appeal" by Yohn in 2001, the Batson claim, addresses the prosecution's use of peremptory challenges to exclude blacks from Abu-Jamal's jury. In 1986, the US Supreme Court ruled in Batson v. Kentucky that a defendant deserves a new trial if it can be proved that jurors were excluded on the grounds of race.
At trial, Prosecutor McGill used 11 peremptory challenges to remove black jurors that were otherwise acceptable. While Philadelphia is 44% black, Abu-Jamal's jury was composed of ten whites and only two blacks. From 1977-1986 when current Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell was Philadelphia's District Attorney, the evidence of racism is striking: from 1977-86, the Philadelphia DA struck 58% of black jurors, but only 22% of white jurors.
#3. The legality of McGill's statement to the jury minimizing the seriousness of a verdict of guilt: "if you find the Defendant guilty of course there would be appeal after appeal and perhaps there could be a reversal of the case, or whatever, so that may not be final."
In 1986 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled against McGill in another case (Commonwealth v. Baker) on the same grounds. When Abu-Jamal addressed this same issue in his 1989 appeal with the State Supreme Court, the court reversed its decision on the legality of such a statement—ruling against the claim for a mistrial.
One year later, in the very next case involving this issue (Commonwealth v. Beasley), the State Supreme Court flip-flopped and restored the precedent. However, this would not affect the ruling against Mumia, because the court ruled that this precedent would only apply in "future trials."
#4. The fairness of the 1995-97 Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA) hearings when the retired, 74-year-old Judge Sabo was called back specifically for the hearing.
During the 1995 hearings, the mainstream Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that the "behavior of the judge in the case was disturbing the first time around—and in hearings last week he did not give the impression to those in the courtroom of fair mindedness. Instead, he gave the impression, damaging in the extreme, of undue haste and hostility toward the defense's case."
Concluding the PCRA hearing, Sabo rejected all evidence and every witness presented by the defense as not being credible. Therefore, Sabo upheld all of the facts and procedures of the original 1982 trial as being correct.
Is it a Crime to Honor Mumia Abu-Jamal?
Is it a crime to honor black journalist and death-row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal? Was the 1982 trial fair enough (as Peter J. Wirs argues) that Abu-Jamal is undeserving of a new trial? I have made an attempt to fairly show both sides of the debate so that readers can make their own decision about this controversial case.
This interview transcript is meant to promote my upcoming article where I also have interviewed Philadelphia journalists Linn Washington and David Lindorff about the criminal lawsuit and the fairness of the 1982 trial. I have attempted to interview Michael Smerconish (local journalist and longtime-advocate of Abu-Jamal's execution) for this upcoming article, but he has not yet returned my telephone call.
I will be submitting the upcoming article to the 4 big local newspapers in Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News, Philadelphia Weekly, and City Paper in my effort to present an article to the public that is both fair and balanced: accurately presenting both sides of the debate so that the readers can decide for themselves what to think.
Telephone interview Sunday, November 19, 2006
Hans Bennett: What exactly is the 59th Republican Ward Executive Committee?
Peter J. Wirs: It is part of the Republican Party in Philadelphia.
Hans: Is your suit independent of the city government?
Peter: The Republican Party has nothing to do with the government
Hans: Will you be traveling with a Philadelphia delegation to France at the end of the month?
Peter: No, I've only said before that we were contemplating traveling. No firm plans have been made, and since then some addition elements have materialized that I'm not at liberty to discuss on the record at this moment.
Hans: Are you organizing an event for December 9th.
Peter: No, because of materializing developments I'm not at liberty to state on the record
Hans: I've spoken with a couple of Mumia's supporters who feel that the trial was unfair and I wanted to give you a chance to respond to what they said.
Peter: Alright
Hans: One thing they talked about was Mumia's [alleged] hospital confession. I was wondering what you what you thought about the witnesses reporting the confession two months later. Does that in any way challenge their credibility?
Peter: No
Hans: Why not?
Peter: Let me explain why I'm involved in this. I'm a former twice elected state constable out of the city of Harrisburg. My expertise, my law enforcement career is in civil rights investigation.
The US District Court of the Middle District of Pennsylvania and subsequently the Third Circuit appointed me under the Criminal Justice Act to conduct what became the largest prosecution investigation in the history of the federal courts in Pennsylvania
I am furthermore a 2 time elected board member of the south central chapter of the ACLU. I have great expertise and experience in conducting civil rights investigations--particularly in regard to prosecution and judicial misconduct. That's one of the reasons a lot of people have asked me to be involved in this.
When you look at the trial, (and i have examined the trial record extensively, and thoroughly, and comprehensively) of course there were instances where the system did not perform at an optimal level of perfection, but as was well noted by the Supreme Court, no one is entitled to a perfect trial, they're simply entitled to a fair trial. And in this instance, Judge Sabo (not withstanding whatever alleged personal bias or prejudice may be attributed to him) conducted as thorough and as fair of a trial as possible—not withstanding Mumia's own obstruction of the trial process in the proceedings.
Let's look specifically at the evidence. Those of us involved in any form of law enforcement (be it in the field or back in the court room) know that it's not so much direct testimony, or eye witness testimony that is substantive evidence of proof. Rather, it is the circumstantial evidence that we wish to rely upon.
When you look at the circumstantial evidence that Officer Faulkner was shot by a charter arms bullet (notwithstanding that the actual bullet itself was so maligned that ballistic tests couldn't identify the bullet as coming from Mumia's particular gun), coupled with the fact that the defendant was found at curbside in immediate vicinity with a charter arms revolver and five spent casings, what other inference can you draw from those 2 sets of facts, other than Mumia Abu-Jamal shot officer Faulkner?
Hans: You were talking about the "8 lands and 8 grooves" that made it consistent with the charter arms revolver?
Peter: Yes.
Hans: Well, one thing that Mumia supporters point out is that the "8 lands and 8 grooves" were only mentioned by police ballistics expert Anthony Paul at the actual 1982 trial. He didn't actually write that in his original report. He actually wrote that...
Peter: There's no trial that is perfect. We're all accustomed to the CSI and Law and Order television shows and all these nice televised scripts as to what has occurred. That's not reality. Particularly when you look at 25 years ago the opportunities and advantages for forensic evidence seen on TV today, were not available to us 25 years ago.
All else aside, there are 2 conclusive, clear, and convincing facts that Mumia supporters have not controverted:
1) Officer Faulkner was shot by a bullet from a Charter Arms revolver.
2) The defendant was found immediately nearby with a Charter Arms revolver and 5 spent casings.
On those two facts alone, the Commonwealth asked the jury to draw an inference,
which they did, and concluded that the defendant was guilty beyond reasonable doubt
Hans: Can I ask you, regarding...
Peter: Hans, I want to explain in some detail, so you have a grasp what is going on here, okay?
Peter: Now you have to understand law a little bit here and you also have to understand evidentiary law, alright? There are (as in this trial) a set of facts
and then the jury is asked to reach a conclusion. In most trials the facts are not 100% picture perfect complete. In most crimes, the police officers are in fact the eyes and ears of the jury. The prosecution packages what evidence they have in a nice coherent package to the jury.
The problem that we have here is that often the jigsaw puzzle is not complete, and you have to ask the jury to look at the jigsaw puzzle with pictures missing and still ask them to imagine what the total picture is. In law we have facts. We ask jurors to make reasonable inferences from those facts in order to arrive at a conclusion - the conclusion whether the defendant was innocent or guilty.
The bone that is in everybody's throat is that Abu-Jamal was convicted by the jury drawing an inference, and people are not totally comfortable with that. They don't like people being convicted and facing the death penalty based on inference drawn by less than 100% fact.
Here, in this instance we had only 90% facts and the jury was asked to draw an inference based from those facts. That's what people don't understand occurred, and that's what people don't understand has to occur in every trial that goes to court. As with every trial that goes to court, you don't have video cameras
from beginning to end and you don't have eye witnesses anticipating the situation to occur, so as a result the bone that is sticking in everyone's throat is that he was convicted from the inference drawn from circumstantial evidence...
Hans: Okay, can I go back to talking about how the bullet was tied to the Charter Arms...
Peter: Because #1 the bullet was so maligned that it was impossible to conduct a ballistics test on it with the technology we had 25 years ago and #2 The CSI television show is fiction. It's not real. In the real world we have to deal with evidence as we get it.
Notwithstanding that, there is no allegation by any party of interest (such as Pam Africa or any of these other people) which mitigates these two important uncontroverted facts. There is none.
Hans: Okay, let's go back to these "uncontroverted facts". Police ballistics expert Anthony Paul didn't write about the "eight lands and eight grooves" in his original report...
Peter: So what?
Hans: He actually said...
Peter: So what?
Hans: Could you hold on a second? He actually said that the "general characteristics" were "indeterminable".
Peter: So what?
Hans: Do you think that's a significant contradiction that first he said it couldn't be determined and then in court he said that it could?
Peter: It still doesn't mitigate the fact that the bullet was a Charter Arms.
No one has controverted or disputed that Faulkner was shot by a Charter Arms bullet.
Hans: That is in dispute, though, because it was the "eight lands and eight grooves" that....
Peter: No one has ever disputed that in a court of law subject to cross examination.
Hans: Actually, in the PCRA hearings in 1995 it was brought up and...
Peter: It was only brought up. It wasn't subject to valid cross examination and it dealt with a process, not with a conclusion.
Hans: Well, the prosecution did actually cross examine George Fassnaacht. He was the ballistics expert called by Mumia's defense team and he was actually cross-examined by the prosecution when he testified to this contradiction in Anthony Paul's report.
Peter: That still doesn't mitigate the fact that he was shot by a Charter Arms bullet.
Hans: But that's the evidence that ties it to a Charter Arms revolver. He didn't write that in the original report...
Peter: So what?
Hans: He actually said it was "indeterminable" and could not be tied to it...
Peter: So what?
Hans: Then he changed his mind when he was on the stand.
Peter: So what?
Hans: Okay, so you're saying that it's not a strong enough contradiction...
Peter: It doesn't mitigate the fact that was already established at the trial, which was that Officer Faulkner was shot by a charter arms bullet.
Hans: Well another thing, Amnesty International has criticized the fact that police didn't conduct the "smell" and "wipe" tests. Do you think that challenges the prosecution's theory at all?
Peter: It certainly makes them look stupid, but it still doesn't mitigate these 2 uncontroverted facts.
Hans: So you don't think the contradiction in Anthony Paul's police report challenges the official connection to the charter arms revolver?
Peter: This is why people get hung up with what people do during investigations. You saw the same thing in the OJ Simpson trial, alright, and you see it in a lot of big highlighted trials. When people get involved in it, they screw it up.
Look at the facts themselves. Forget what the people did because that's just peripheral. The basic fact is that Faulkner was shot by a Charter Arms revolver. Fact 2: the defendant was found with a Charter Arms owned by him and registered to him with 5 spent casings.
If he had just a charter arms, that wouldn't mean anything. But he had a charter arms that had had 5 spent casings. Where did those five bullets go to? The subway system? Did he leave them inside, did he discharge them inside his cab?
Hans: Well, they only recovered one bullet [besides the one in Mumia's chest officially tied to Faulkner's gun], right?
Peter: Yes, inside Officer Faulker. The fact is there were 5 spent casings out of his charter arms and no one has disputed that.
Fact #1: the defendant had a Charter Arms with 5 spent casings.
Fact #2: Officer Faulkner was shot by a Charter Arms.
Critics are trying to attack the bridge between those two facts what we legally call "inference" and people are saying you don't convict people on an inference. Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted on an inference.
The fact of the matter is in our legal system, at least 75% of people are convicted on inferences, otherwise you wouldn't be able to convict anyone.
Hans: Okay, can I ask you more about the hospital confession? Police officer Gary Wakshul originally reported on December 9, 1981 that "the negro male made no comment". When Mumia's lawyer tried to bring this into court on the last day of trial, Judge Sabo blocked it an would not give the defense time to call Wakshul as a witness. You think that was fair for Sabo to do?
Peter: One could argue whether it was fair or not, however it was not reversible error.
Hans: So you argue that the trial was not as fair as it could have been, but it was fair enough.
Peter: Yes, he got a fair trial. Judge Sabo bent over backwards. I don't think Sabo was given the credit he deserved in accommodating Jamal.
Now, if I was in charge of things, would I want Judge Sabo to preside over this trial?
They should have gotten another Judge to preside over this trial. As was established in Commonwealth v. Jamal as well as the earlier Commonwealth v. Africa, and other such trials of this nature, everybody needs to put their best foot forward and that includes the First Judicial District by appointing a judge whose standing and integrity is unassailable and unimpeachable.
Judge Sabo, with his prior association as an under-Sheriff and as a longtime member of the Fraternal Order of Police, gave ammunition, gave fodder to the opposition.
Nonetheless, Judge Sabo was pushed to the point of exasperation in trying to deal with Mumia Abu-Jamal. Keep in mind that Jamal did everything he could to sabotage his trial and in the civil end of court we call this the "doctrine of unclean hands". If you're committing something that's wrong, you're doing something that's not right you can't ask for equitable relief if you yourself have committed a wrong in that process.
It's called the doctrine of unclean hands and it's not right for you to screw up your trial (turn your political into a circus) and then turn around and say you didn't get a fair trial. Excuse me, you were the one who were supporting law and order circus antics when you should have been abiding by the system's rules and regulations set forth so the trial could be fair. He sabotaged his trial. So the law says we can't hear you now.
Hans: Mumia's supporters have argued that Mumia didn't start his combative behavior (interrupting Sabo and such) until Sabo actually denied him the right to defend himself
Peter: No, Judge Sabo granted him the right because every defendant in the US is allowed to proceed pro se. What Jamal objected to was the appointment of Anthony Jackson to be his standby counsel. The judge has every right to appoint standby council.
Hans: So the point at which Judge Sabo denied him the right to defend himself, you agree with that? Because he denied him the right [a few days into the trial].
Peter: No, he granted the right to proceed pro se.
Hans: For a couple days.
Peter: When Abu-Jamal refused to abide by the rules, by the proper procedure, and continued to flaunt and abuse the authority granted him, that's when Sabo (as permitted by law) revoked his right to proceed pro se--because he was abusing it. With every right, there is a corresponding responsibility.
If I'm the judge I'm going to give you the right to proceed pro se, but if you want to be like council and represent yourself, then you better act like council. It doesn't mean that you turn the courtroom into a sandbox.
Hans: Okay, going back to Judge Sabo, what do you think about court stenographer Terry Mauer-Carter's 2001 affidavit... [saying she overheard Judge Sabo say in regards to Mumia's trial that he was going to help the prosecution "fry the nigger."]
Peter: It doesn't surprise me. why should that surprise me?
Hans: You don't think the affidavit should be allowed into his current appeal?
Peter: First of all, it's not for me to second guess the Third Circuit Court
in regard to that one claim that judicial bias tarnished the PCRA proceedings, because under the law of Pennsylvania, there is no right to a PCRA proceeding. So having said that they would have to argue about due process and some state created right which may or may not be.
Is the PCRA (written by state representative Lois Haggerty of Montgomery County) a model of constitutional clarity and compliance?
Absolutely not.
Hans: The statement was from the original 1982 trial, not the later PCRA hearings.
Peter: Fine.
Hans: So you think Sabo probably did say it, but it doesn't affect his trial enough that...
Peter: No, it would surprise me if he didn't say it. You know, you have to understand something, okay? We call this conviction psychology. This rule that you're presumed innocent until proven guilty is a joke, it's a standing joke. We all know it because people suffer from conviction psychology.
Do you have siblings?
Hans: I was the oldest, I had a younger sister
Peter: Okay, when your younger sister complained to mom and dad that you struck her, what did your parents do? They came back and yelled at you, right?
Hans: Usually
Peter: We call that conviction psychology. Usually when people make an accusation, when people hear about an accusation, the fact that the allegation was made taints their objectivity and they give credence to the accusation whether or not it is valid. Your sister could have made up the thing that you struck her
but she nonetheless knew that if she ran in and told mom and dad that you struck her you were gonna get your ass kicked.
It's the same thing in the court of law. Every defendant who walks into the court of law has to bear the problem that people say: "well look, he wouldn't have been here unless he did something wrong". As a result, the judges and jurors and even courtroom observers think "the punk did something wrong", he's gonna get convicted.
This is a major problem that we have in our court system. Our jurors are not specifically trained to 1)identify conviction psychology, and 2)learn that they have an inherent prejudice which they have to package and leave outside that courtroom door.
Hans: So your saying "innocent until proven guilty" is not a reality?
Peter: Let me finish here. A judge, alright, he's just as human as anyone else is. He, however (being trained in the law), knows that he has personal bias and prejudice. Not only that, he knows that he has personal biases and prejudices but he knows that it is incumbent upon the judge to control them. That's why he wears the black robe: to conceal his personal persona and remind himself and anyone else that whatever personal biases he carries, he left outside the courtroom. When he stepped inside the courtroom his disciplined thinking is that he could care less which side wins. He has to make sure that it is fair, and to that extent, Judge Sabo earnestly attempted to conduct a fair trail .
Was the trial (in the view of the judge, the Commonwealth, and maybe even Anthony Jackson) a slam dunk? I'm sure they all thought it was a slam dunk.
They all thought they were going through the motions perhaps. Nonetheless they went through the motions. They heard all the evidence and Judge Sabo conducted the trial as fairly he could.
Did he conduct a perfect trial, no? But did he conduct a fair trial, yes?
Hans: Even though his comment that he was going to help "fry the nigger"...
Peter: So what?
Hans: He said he was going to help them do it and that means he's going to use his judicial power to help the prosecution, right?
Peter: I'm sure that was bravado more than anything else. Judge Sabo bent over backwards to accommodate Abu-Jamal and moreover if you look at the records, to those of us with a trained eye in looking at these things we see no indicia of prosecution misconduct. We don't see any indicia of appeal violations or what we now call today "404 ambushes". We don't see any of that.
Joseph McGill did everything he could do to walk the straight and narrow. There were times when he would bait Abu-Jamal, but it was all hard blows that were clearly above the belt
Hans: So you don't...
Peter: The United States says the prosecution can strike hard blows, but they have to be fair blows. McGill did nothing below the belt.
Hans: So you don't think that the jury should have heard about officer Gary Wakshul's "negro male made no comment" statement the day at the hospital?
Peter: For what? To impeach another witness?
Hans: Well, the confession was a big part of the conviction, and it seems that if he said the "negro male made no comment," that it does challenge the credibilty...
Peter: First of all, jurors back then (just as today) would more likely than not have discounted the testimony of the police officers as being self-serving.
The fact is that the Jefferson University Hospital security guard (who had no axe to grind, and who was not traumatized by the event) was the most levelheaded and objective of all people because she worked in the ER and was used to seeing trauma on a daily basis. Her testimony would be the most credible of any of the testimonies.
Hans: So what do you think about...
Peter: I'm sure that 25 years after the fact, Officer Wakshul is still kicking himself for not reporting the confession at the time. Nonetheless, the testimony of the security guard is all the more credible and remains so today in that regard.
But even if you took out the confession and the errors of the police officers, you still come back to these 2 simple basic facts:
fact 1) Jamal was found with a Charter Arms with 5 spent casings
fact 2) Faulker was shot by a Charter Arms
They would have easily convicted him on those 2 facts alone.
Hans: But if the confession was fabricated, do you think it challenges other evidence?
Peter: No evidence was fabricated. No one has ever alleged in a court of law that it was fabricated
Hans: Why do you think the security guard waited two months to report it also?
Peter: Only because of the mishmash of events. Again, this is not a television show we're talking about.
Hans: Okay, I have next just one more question for you. Going back to the ballistics, the prosecution scenario has Faulkner shooting Mumia at an upward trajectory while Faulkner was falling onto his back. However, the bullet that went through Mumia's chest was at a downward trajectory. What do you think about that?
Peter: I think that we weren't there, we didn't have a video camera or a cellphone camera. We go back to the two fundamental facts that I have articulated.
First, Jamal had a Charter Arms revolver with 5 spent casings and fact #2: Faulkner was shot by a charter arms bullet. Now, until you attack those 2 facts, until you attempt to mitigate those 2 facts, you don't have a leg to stand on with anything.
Hans: Regarding the Charter Arms revolver, did you want to make any more points about the contradiction in the police report. Like I've been saying, they never tied the bullet to the Charter Arms revolver until court. And it was a direct contradiction to the previous report that said those characteristics were "indeterminable".
Peter: Again, human mistakes certainly screw up things. As I explained to you before, this was not a CSI television show
Hans: Is there anything else you'd like to add?
Peter: Again, with my expertise in civil rights, I have not seen any indication of prosecution or judicial misconduct. It will be 25 years this December 9th. I think it's time justice be served and that the widow be granted closure on this issue.
Link to extensive 2005 Kiilu Nyasha interview with Robert Bryan detailing his case for a new trial.
On October 23, attorney Robert R. Bryan (attorney for death-row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal) filed the 4th Step Reply Brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia. Bryan estimates that the public hearing of arguments should begin in early 2007. After the hearing, the panel of judges will then decide whether to grant Abu-Jamal a new trial.
Link to the Oct.23 brief.
Robert Bryan and Abu-Jamal recently sent a letter to France as a response to the criminal lawsuit and the possible delegation consisting of Wirs and others to France, but the possible visit to France is not happening after all, according to Wirs in the interview above.
Link to the letters written by Bryan and Abu-Jamal.
Link to this new brief in pdf format.
Dear Friends:
Two weeks ago the District Attorney of Philadelphia filed a brief in reply to our most recent brief filed on behalf of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Even though this was to be the last of the briefs before oral argument, we felt obligated to respond due to the complexity of the issues and the government's factual misrepresentations. Attached is the Response of Appellee and Appellant, Mumia Abu-Jamal, to Sur-Reply Brief, submitted this week to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia.
This case is of enormous consequence. It concerns the political repression of an outspoken journalist known globally as the "Voice of the Voiceless," the right to a fair trial, and the struggle against the death penalty. The authorities want to kill my client in order to silence his voice and pen. We must not let that occur. Racism and politics are threads that have run through this case since his arrest on December 9, 1981, and continue today.
Each of the issues under consideration by the federal court are of great constitutional significance. They include:
* The prosecutor's exclusion of African Americans from sitting on the jury.
* The bias and racism of the trial judge, Albert F. Sabo, who stated that he was going to "help'em fry the nigger."
* The prosecutor's "appeal after appeal" argument that essentially called upon the jurors to disregard the right to the presumption of innocence and reasonable doubt, and err on the side of guilt.
* The judge's unfair and skewed jury instructions and verdict form that resulted in the death penalty, since jurors were precluded from considering any mitigating evidence unless they all agreed on the existence of a particular special circumstance.
We will be presenting oral argument before a three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals. Even though no date has been set, this will likely occur within the next few months.
My purpose remains to win this life-and-death struggle, gain a new and fair trial, and see my client walk out of jail a free person. However, as I have warned, Mr. Abu-Jamal remains in great danger.
Thank you for your concern in this campaign for justice.
With best wishes,
Robert R. Bryan
Law Offices of Robert R. Bryan
2088 Union Street, Suite 4
San Francisco, California 94123
Lead counsel for Mumia Abu-Jamal
Link to Bennett's new "Voice of the Voiceless" series on Abu-Jamal, published in the weeks leading up to December 9--the 25th anniversary of Abu-Jamal's arrest.
All work by photojournalist Hans Bennett


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was having a good day today, doing laundry, took myself out to lunch, taking it easy in town... Then, on the way to find a parking spot for the night, truck stalled... restarted it.. ran fine.. going down the road at a light.. stalled... restarted.. Stalled.. restarted... got the heck off the road! if I kept a bit of pressure on the gas pedal, it would keep running.. but of course the service engine light came back on with the stalling.. so it will be going back to the shop for the next installment of "lets see if we can break the budget!"... I hope the damage isnt going to be too bad on the wallet.. feeling somewhat disheartened at the moment, really hate dealing with the downsides of life (dont we all though?)
so wish me luck folks
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Turn any corner in Sheffield city and you cannot escape the wildly imaginative street art of British artist Phlegm. Not only available ooop North in his original homeland of Sheffield, his work can be found across the world, with everywhere from New York to Ireland and London hosting his contemporary urban art.
For many reasons Phlegm is making inroads in the world of graffiti and street art, so much so he wants us to read and see everything about his work in a portable form. The elusive artist, whose style is also akin to graphic-styled creations, is currently working on new drawings for a book that will be released soon. For examples of his work that is inspiring nations, scroll below:
Up until recently Phlegm had never expanded his artist talents to New York City. Then he went a crafted three colossal paintings in a playground in Chelsea, and added a lively figure to Know Hope's mural (below). The three pieces each stand about 9 metres tall, and feature lanky, hunched-over figures operating obscurely intriguing machinery.
Mind-blowingly abstract, yet slightly alluring, we can almost imagine this art comes to life once nighttime arrives. It's so distinctive and playful and would look ultra enchanting festooned onto one of our tees.
The surreal tendencies of Phlegm's distinctive artwork is pertinent in the image taken from Sheffield's city centre (above). His mantra perfectly blends a dreamlike world of mystery with elements of reality. You cannot help but feel a subtle connection to each creative piece due to the humanistic qualities of each character Phlegm masterfully depicts.
Check out this video of the artist painting in the Irish town of Bantry. Engage throughout the clip and presented before you will be a series of striking murals in his trademark palette of black and white.
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Daisy Days
Sunday, July 5, 2015
Before heading out for a business trip, I just had to get my challenge "fix" (I will be going through withdrawal this week!) Short and sweet as I'm running late!
Thanks so much for these challenges for the inspiration...
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From Boston Business Journal by Mary Moore
Arthur Anton Jr. is in the business of cleaning clothes with his company, Tewksbury-based Anton's Cleaners, but he has found a way to help people along the way. One charitable initiative is an annual coat drive — Coats for Kids — during which Anton's collects more than 50,000 coats between October and January. They then are distributed through various nonprofits, such as the Salvation Army.
Anton's is perhaps best known for Belle of the Ball — collecting and distributing prom donated dresses. One day each April, Anton's invites eager prom-goers to Simmons College, where they can browse the selection and find something they like. The first event featured just dresses, and now it includes shoes and accessories, he said.(more…)


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Sunday, 26 April 2009
Spanish Practices...
1. Food - for any SE8 resident seeking Spanish cuisine the Dos Tias tapas bar is the obvious choice. Just past Deptford Bridge it deserves to be much better known. Apart from the usual tapas dishes they also offer sandwiches and paninis, and a fantastic Mediterranean breakfast (note weekday opening hours have recently changed to 11-3 however).
2. Clothes - Deptford market is always good for bargains of course, and as this report states it seems to be thriving at the moment. As for footwear Catalonia is famous for its espadrilles - I've sourced a suitable pair from my friends across the river at Only Espadrilles.
3. Guide/phrasebooks - surprisingly Wavelengths library didn't have anything on Barcelona when I visited. I've just tried to access the OPAC to see what Lewisham library holds, unfortunately it seems to be down at the moment. Fortunately there are online alternatives, my own preference (for clarity and conciseness) is for a DK Eyewitness guides. I also bought a set of Pigeon Spanish cards off Amazon and found a useful PDF of Catalan phrases on the Barcelona Tourism site.
4. Travel and sightseeing - the Barcelona Card seems a good buy - free travel on public transport (including the airport train) and free or reduced entry to dozens of attractions. I bought it online to save 10% (it can be collected at the airport on arrival). The unofficial Barcelona Tourist Guide provides some very useful hints and tips on getting around, tours and hotels.
UPDATE 29 May: Well I survived, in fact I had a brilliant time and it's high on my list of recommended cities. I'll certainly make a return trip someday! What stood out for me was its great variety of attractions for visitors - even more so than London, perhaps, as I for one have yet to find a decent beach here! I'm about to go off travelling again, but this time a little nearer to home - Cornwall.
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Enjoy, it's a great city! (Watch yourself on Las Ramblas, mind...)
If you're going to do all the sights, then the Barcelona Card may be good value, but a lot of it's doable on foot and a T-10 metro ticket (a 10-trip carnet) might be better.
- 26 April 2009 at 13:26
- CarolineLD said...
Hope you have a great time! I've been to Spain (but not Barcelona, although it's on my 'to visit' list); biggest culture shock was eating dinner so late at night!
- 26 April 2009 at 16:27
- Kake said...
Oh... so is Dos Tias not open any evening other than Saturday now?
- 26 April 2009 at 21:54
- SE8KER said...
Thanks all, I'm actually sharing a T-10 for the first and last day of my trip and using a five day Barcelona Card for the middle. Kake - I was going by a notice by the entrance a couple days ago, probably best phoning (8469 8114)to confirm. My personal experience suggests the opening hours can be quite variable!
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My blog is dying.
Giving it CPR but it's barely alive.
Cure, anyone?
I've got three more weeks before I can finally be free of all the stress and assignments.
Seeing everyone on Holiday/Raya mood makes me so pissed. And I can't help but keep on going out, making plans, enjoying holidays as if I were having them too.
This semester is really the worst semester ever! Not only do I not have enough ideas to cope with all the assignment designs, everything I do turns out to be just average.
I can't have average! What the hell is wrong with me???
I suppose all my creative juice has been sucked out clean. And now I'm totally dry with not even a drop left.
I'm already worrying about my results now, even though I haven't even passed up the final assignments. There isn't even ONE subject I can be sure I can score nicely.
Not to mention I have tons of distractions distracting me everyday. ==
I go to bed everyday wishing I'll be better the next day. And this routine just continues.
Lack of time lack of time lack of time.
Sorry blog dear
Gimme 3 more weeks and I'll find you the perfect antidote.
This close to dying,


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I just discovered Tagxedo, so I used it to make a cat-cloud of the previous post.
(Speaking of the previous post, "Mary Ellen" seems to be a combination of two sisters, "Susan Ellen" and "Mary." I don't know why people are conflating them; they are two separate individuals in every census. Perhaps that's why my DNA match didn't list Mary at all - too much drama. Genealogy really is a blood sport in more ways than one.)


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Mouth: A very deep, sweet sherry taste followed by rather pungent notes of raisins, molasses and tropical fruits and spices with a rich and long finish. This is a delicious and well balanced rum which feels and tastes very luxurious, but maybe there is a bit too much sherry in the mix for my taste.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
This Weeks Real Estate Transfers
42 Point Beach Dr, Abar Dev LLC to Steve and Karen Fadden, $610,000.
19 Audubon Close Unit 19, Paul H. and Joan D. Sorenson to Emanuel J. Cosmaj, $298,00.
33 Austin Rd, Pamela Fausel to Country Home Loans, $1.
47 Beechwood Ave, Clini Eugene R Jr Est and Eugene R. Clini to Abar Dev LLC, $95,000.
573 Buckingham Ave, Leslie Collins to Melissa J. Bruno and Raymond E. Noel, $232,000.
52 Carriage Path S Unit 52, Gary P. Brechlin to Michelle Labella, $138,000.
14 Cherrywood Dr, Michael J. and Meghean E. Hayes to Mary U. Hewitt, $200,000.
84 Forest Rd, Mark Ochman and Mark A. Healy to First County Bk, $336,822.
53 Hill St, US Bk and Structured Asset INT to Sarah S. and Victor M. Ferrante, $225,000.
140 Hillside Ave, Dorothy V. Anderson to Michael Malone, $270,000.
139 Mary Ellen Dr, Dorothea Matto to Carmella Sheehan, $165,000.
180 Melba St Unit 111, Ocean Point LLC to Raymond H. and Myrna H. Brown, $299,900.
185 Melba St Unit 109, Joan Kalil to Thomas and Deborah Swirsky-Sacchetti, $225,000.
413 North St, Debra Goncalves and Casey Burke to US Bk, $228,964.
Popes Island Rd Unit C23, Theresa A. Bennett to Paul T. Viscount, $9,000.
91 Shelter Cove Rd, Roger E. and Carol A. Laflamme to Thomas W. Cabeen, $175,000.
24 Wayne Rd, Wayne A. Satterwhile to Christopher S. and Mary F. Carlson, $180,000.
337 Wheelers Farms Rd, Sue K. Shields to Samira M. and Murhaf A. Majeed, $249,000.
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The Parallax scrolling effect has become popular again in website designs and WordPress themes have been keen to incorporate this into their builds, but what is parallax? Simply, it means background images move by the camera slower than foreground images or elements. It was used in 2D video games to give the perception of depth to a game, where your character would move faster than the background behind which made the background look farther away. When used subtly it can add a nice finishing touch to page layouts, letting hero images and backgrounds scroll slower than your mouse movement on the scroll bar.
In this post we have hand-picked over 30 examples of the Best Free Parallax WordPress Themes 2016, all these themes are well designed and coded and incorporate some form of parallax movement into the design.
AccessPress Parallax
AccessPress Parallax is a beautiful WordPress theme with Parallax design.
SKT Parallax Me
SKT Parallax Me is a beautifully crafted parallax one page WordPress theme. It has got a nice parallax slider, ability to add upto 10 sections on single one page home.
Corporate Plus
Corporate Plus is a professional-looking multi-purpose WordPress theme. It is simple, attractive and responsive theme with lots of theme options which helps the user to easily customize theme.
Latte is a one-page parallax WordPress theme for developers, designers & freelancers, to showcase their profile.
Llorix One Lite
Llorix One Lite is a free and beautiful one page business WordPress theme, with a flat and clean bootstrap based design and an elegant parallax effect.
Square is a flexible responsive multipurpose theme compatible with all browsers and devices, fully mobile friendly, loaded with lots of features.
Build your site Athena with ease. Athena is a feature-loaded, user-friendly, fully responsive, Parallax modern WordPress theme built with care and SEO in mind.
Himalayas is modern style free one page parallax responsive WordPress theme. Inform your visitors all they need to know right from your home page without requiring to go to the other pages.
Cannyon is an white, clean, elegant, modern, beautiful and creative freemium WordPress theme built with HTML5 and CSS3.
Responsive Boat
ResponsiveBoat is a free responsive WordPress theme, with a friendly and colorful design. It comes with a full-screen layout, a full-width homepage header, elegant parallax effect.
Oria is a responsive masonry theme that lets you tell your stories in a clean and modern environment. Some of the features are: parallax header image, social menu, custom colors, easy access to all Google Fonts, a built-in featured posts carousel.
Treeson is an elegant, modern and beautiful freemium WordPress theme built with HTML5 and CSS3.
One Pirate is a beautiful one-page WordPress theme, with a colorful and playful design, nice animations, full-screen layout, and elegant parallax effect. The theme comes with a full-width header and with catchy icons.
evolve is a multi-purpose WordPress theme that has recently been redesigned as a full responsive theme for all devices. The theme includes a slick Bootstrap and Parallax slider with up to 5 slides on any page and a post slider for 10 posts per post category.
Zerius is a clean, modern, and animated free one-page parallax WordPress theme.
Zerif Lite
Zerif LITE is a free one page WordPress theme. It's perfect for web agency business,corporate business,personal and parallax business portfolio, photography sites and freelancer.Is built on BootStrap with parallax support, is responsive, clean, modern, flat and minimal.
Business One
Business One is a theme for corporate / business website and blogs. It will make your website adaptable with any type of mobile devices. Your site will be adaptive when viewed on a smartphone or tablet.
SKT White
SKT White is a free responsive premium WordPress theme which is flexible, simple and adaptable for any type of website you want to create. So corporate, business, photography, wedding, industrial, restaurant or any sort of industry.
Moesia is the business theme you need in order to build your presence on the Internet. Choose from eleven predefined blocks and build the homepage that best suits your company. Each of the homepage blocks can have a parallax background image and its own set of colors.
Advertica Lite
Advertica Lite is responsive and multipurpose wordpress theme effectively used for business, corporate or portfolio purpose. It works good for creative professionals, advertising agency or even construction business, engineering industry or contractor.
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She's Back in Black8:42 PM
Apologies for my long absence. I've been quite busy.
Okay, I'm not really that busy & I'm not really that sorry. I've just been having a hard time squeezing in this whole blogging thing but I've finally bothered to leave the comfort of my couch, get some outfit photos done & return to the world of cyber with a few photos of my outfit & a lot of my tummy. Hoho. Known to dress up in all black, this one is quite new to me. I've been sporting joggers almost all the time in real life and I always pair them with sneakers. For this look, I decided to play around my goody ol' one strap heels. Of course my inner ghetto self could never abandon snapbacks. As you all know, I'm a hat person. And even when I try to look all lady and shit, I just cant get rid of it haha. To complete my get up, I added my gold chain necklace and loops both from Forever 21 and some wayfarers. Also, this Viva Glam Mac lipstick has never failed me. I'm kinda obsessed with it.
These pictures were taken months ago and this blog post has been on my draft folder more than I can remember. I have no idea why I didn't bother publishing it before haha.
What I wore: Undefeated snapback; Forever 21 accessories; top and joggers designed by me
Perks of being a designer means I can get my desired pieces even before they are released here in my city. I've had joggers way before it got mainstream. But it doesn't matter, its the comfiest bottoms I own so I abuse it all the time.
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President Obama alters the plan for Americans and the health-care law; he will make a change to assure more Americans keep coverage. President Obama's pledge to every American for affordable insurance under The Affordable Care Act is having some issues. Today he announced a change in the plan.
President Obama will let insurers keep individual plans for their customers an additional year. They won't have to comply with the minimum benefits under the new law. He does not want to disappoint 40 million people, who for the first time have an opportunity for health insurance.
He feels this will help many people but not solve every issue. The Department of Health and Human services will tell state commissioners they have the Feds permission to let people keep such policies through 2014. The laws focus was assuring that everyone obtain certain benefits, so this will be on hold until the end of 2014.
President Obama alters the plan so that insurance companies who do not comply will have to inform their customers where they can obtain insurance who does.
Karen Ignami, the president of America's Health Insurance Plans, feels the market and possibly premiums, may increase as companies have already set prices for a year based on age, health and transitions. Obama has acknowledged that the Affordable Care Act did have major issues which they are still resolving, especially the website. "The rollout has been rough, and I'm not happy," Obama said live at the White House.
Approximately 1.5 million people have attempted to sign up and 600,000 have now signed on. The Americans who have insurance will be able to keep what they have for another year, but not purchase new plans which don't meet the criteria. Ten minimum standards which are required by Obamacare include maternity care, emergency visits, mental health treatment, pediatric dental care and others.
House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio doesn't think this is good enough. He also speaks of mistrust and scrapping the law. President Obama did apologize for the notices sent to people with a cancellation for their insurance policy. He cites the technical problems with the web sites as discouraging to folks. According to a map, states such as California, Nevada, Washington, Colorado, Minnesota, Kentucky and New York have the highest enrollment numbers so far. Michigan has the largest amount of people that have had insurance cancelled on them.
President Obama's pledge to every American is that he's determined to make this Affordable Care Act work, to work through the issues and problems. President Obama alters the plan to hopefully keep more Americans with coverage until they can turn over their plan and receive better coverage. The Republicans are skeptical and have plans to vote on a bill 'Keep Your Health Plan Act' come Friday.
According to President Obama, somebody has got to do this and he pledges to solve the problems and bring insurance to every American. He was most likely unaware of how many insurance policies might be cancelled when he was conceiving Obamacare. Most of these plans were bought since 2010 and are private plans not connected with employers. So many are stop gap or limited plans to assist in a small way.
The top amount a person would pay out of pocket is $6,350 and if they have a pre-existing condition, no problem, no turn down. Sounds good. One of the best ideas is the insurance company can not turn you down when you get sick or drop you like they have in the past. This is the pledge to every American, as President Obama alters the plan to fix some issues.
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Thursday, November 08, 2007
Folks, sorry the blog has been suffering lately in both quantity and quality. It's been pretty nutty. The hour change leaves me with less light and lately my assignments have been consisting of basketball practices of area teams and play rehearsals and lots of them. So, I realize it's time to kick it into gear. I don't know if this photo does or not but it is definitely better than a lone tree in black & white : )
This is in front of a local church that is trying to donate two retired army trucks to an orphanage in Africa.
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Episode 105 - Jen Rejoins Us to Discuss the History of Alton Towers!
Join us for episode 105 of the Theme Park Trader podcast.
This week we are rejoined on the show by Jen (episode 99) who comes on to discuss some of the history behind the Alton Towers Resort here in the UK.
In the episode she takes us through some of the weird attractions that didn't last very long at all at the park and we chip in with some of our thoughts (mainly insults) as to why we think the attractions didn't stand the test of time.
We also cover off a few of our favourite Disney attractions that although closed still exist in other parts of Disney today.
Be sure to check us out over on www.themeparktrader.com and do make sure you check out Jen over on Twitter and YouTube!


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There is more to winter than cold, short and dark days – there is a group of people who live for the winter and the opportunities it provides for having fun. Nitro is not your normal company, it´s a family and a collective on a mission to spread the joys of snowboarding to as many people as possible.
28 WINTERS captures the heritage, the team, and the current state of Nitro Snowboarding by showcasing the many different personalities within the family, featuring Nitro Co-Founder Thomas Delago, Marcus Kleveland, Eero Ettala, Elias Elhardt, Austin Smith, Bryan Fox, Sam Taxwood, Jeremy Jones, Sven Thorgren, and the rest of the Nitro team.
Thomas Delago, Marcus Kleveland, Eero Ettala, and the Nitro Snowbard team came to snowboarding by different paths, but they've all arrived at the same place: snowboarding is an escape from reality that's all about freedom, friends, and fun.


text: |During Paris Fashion Week at Comme des Garçons Trading Museum was launched /12 by Willy Vanderperre, a series of twelve single model fanzines, published by IDEA. Dedicated to his longtime muses and to the relationships between them and Willy, the photographer represents his subjects how they really are, without any artifices. The first two zines will be dedicated to male model icon Clément Chabernaud and long-time muse Julia Nobis, both available online from 2nd March 2017.


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JFlo shows you how to make a princess puffy wand with tulle. Great party favor for your next Princess Party!
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Watch our step-by-step video on how to make this craft here: Crankin' Out Crafts Episode 365 - Princess Puffy Wand (Frozen Theme)
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rhinestone ribbon
6" wide glitter tulle
1/4" dowel rode 12"long
coordinating acrylic paint
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