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It was a long time in coming but it did come. On a dismal morning in January 2000, retired FBI agent Robert Fitzpatrick stood at the rim of a gully in Dorchester and watched as forensic excavators carefully removed the remains of three victims of James "Whitey" Bulger that had been moldering in a shallow grave beside the Southeast Expressway in Boston, more than 15 years after they died and almost 20 years after Fitzpatrick warned his superiors at the FBI that Bulger was a dangerous and unreliable informant who should have been "closed" by his handlers in the FBI years before.
"As I stood on the lip of the dirt pile, looking down at the assemblages of bagged-and-tagged pieces of what had once been a man, the war I'd waged against organized crime and my own associates in the FBI for that entire period hit me hard and fast," Fitzpatrick recalled in his recently published memoir, "Betrayal: Whitey Bulger and the FBI Agent Who Fought to Bring Him Down."
That entire period was not something Fitzpatrick was anxious to remember. What you can sense, as you read through the astonishing history of one of the biggest blunders in the history of law enforcement, is that Fitzpatrick revisits – it's tempting to say, regurgitates – the frustration of his Boston bureau days with the knowledge that the body they were carefully excavating would not have been there if they "closed" Bulger when Fitzpatrick recommended it.
Instead, his superior officers either chose to ignore or actively stymie all his attempts to shut down the privileged status Bulger had maneuvered himself into, with the help of his "mortal friend" John Connelly, the agent who brought Bulger into the agency's stable of informers and systematically protected from prosecution, even as Bulger was killing rivals or witnesses on his way to the top of the Boston underworld. Very few people have not heard at least part of the Whitey Bulger story, but to refresh:
James "Whitey" Bulger was an organized crime figure in Boston especially known for his viciousness and cunning. He parlayed a childhood friendship with a kid from South Boston who became an FBI agent assigned to the Boston office. He renewed his friendship with Whitey when he got back and then fell prey to what Fitzpatrick calls "mortal friendship," a peculiar syndrome where an agent forgets why an informant was recruited and actively becomes friendly and loyal to the informant and forgets his loyalty to the agency. It would be easy to say that could happen to any agent but it was far too easy for Connelly.
Fitzpatrick says he knew very early on that Connelly was not your typical FBI agent. There was too much swagger, too much arrogance in Connelly's make-up to make an effective or even harmlessly incompetent law enforcement officer. But the true picture of the pernicious consequences of Connelly's lack of morality and the real shame that he would bring to the FBI was years away. It was a picture that got so ugly as it came into focus that no one above Fitzpatrick's rank in the agency was willing to look at it. Fitzpatrick saw it the first time he met Whitey, to determine if he would recommend keeping him as an informant. Fitzpatrick's specialty in the agency was that peculiar art of psychological profiling. He had been doing it for years.
"I observed countless subjects who had been adjudged psychopaths," wrote Fitzpatrick. "I knew I was looking at a psychopath now."
After that meeting, the agent who drove Fitzpatrick to the meeting and assured him he was going to "like this guy," asked him what he thought of Bulger as soon as he got back in the car. Fitzpatrick said he didn't like him and said, "We're going to close this guy."
"Without missing a beat, and suppressing his surprise, Morris responded, 'No, you're not.'"
Fitzpatrick, who outranked Morris, was surprised that he would say that to his boss. Unfortunately, Morris was right. Just about every other honest cop in the state knew that someone in the FBI office was tipping off Bulger and his partner, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi about every move that was being made against them, by their rivals and other law enforcement agencies, including the impending indictment on racketeering charges that prompted Bulger to notoriously flee Boston in 1995. The colonel of the Massachusetts State Police met with the new Special Agent in Charge of the Boston office in a suburban restaurant and complaints that the audio surveillance equipment they had so carefully planted in Bulger's headquarters went silent, within hours of the trooper task force that placed them told the FBI about it. The new bureau chief called Fitzpatrick in to look into the leaks. The FBI was after the New England "mafia" and Fitzpatrick, fresh from the successful ABSCAM investigation in Florida, was the man to call.
"Jerry Angiulo was the underboss of the New England LCN [La Cosa Nostra], presiding over sixteen ranking members who reported to him," wrote Fitzpatrick. "Everything about these wiseguys was steeped in their own bloody traditions, such as the initiation ceremonies that offered a sense of code and moral backing to their actions, as loathsome and reprehensible as they were. 'The Godfather' movies and 'mafia' pulp fiction glamorized the culture, enticing wannabes to emulate the fictionalized images."
The Winter Hill Gang, Whitey's guys, were not part of it. "These Somerville wiseguys were decidedly Irish muffs tagged by the FBI as a nontraditional group of the organized crime element. We knew approximately twenty of these guys were in leadership positions, supervising 300 soldiers and grunts, all under the auspices of Bulger and his right-hand man, Stephen 'The Rifleman' Flemmi," according to Fitzpatrick. "It was abundantly evident that both groups had their preferred methods of violence and murder. The Irish wiseguys would "frag" [kill] a bunch of people to get their target, while the Italian wiseguys would just garrote the one target and stuff him in the trunk of some car. The Irish were definitely more homegrown, all in all, than the Italian mob, which led them to be even more insular.
"I knew Bulger as a thug, a street enforcer who'd spent a quarter of his life behind bars, including a stretch at Alcatraz and another at Leavenworth in Kansas. I'd heard he prided himself on being a tough guy who inspired fear in allies and enemies alike. Ruthless and brutal, as his rise to the top of the Winter Hill Gang in the wake of Howie Winter's imprisonment attested. He wasn't a big guy physically, and word was he wasn't just street smart; he was smart, period, capable of playing chess while those around him opted for checkers. But he played for real, to which the 43 murders he's allegedly responsible for more than demonstrate."
The bureau chief explained that Bulger was a major informant against the Angiulo family and very valuable to the FBI in their efforts to bring down the Italian mob. Bulger himself was not a priority at the time. That was the first hint that Fitzpatrick got that something was wrong. An active head of an organized criminal enterprise is not an acceptable informant. In addition to using information to bring down rivals, that kind of informant, especially one as cunning as Bulger, will garner as much "intelligence" as he gives. At the time, no one higher up in the FBI knew that, as far as Bulger was concerned, his handlers were helpfully giving everything they knew to him.
"We did have a lot of good agents but a lot of them were in the dark about what was going on," said Fitzpatrick. "A lot of them just didn't want to believe it."
"Betrayal" is the story of how Fitzpatrick got to Boston, did his job, told his superiors what was going on and was more or less forced out of his job and slandered for all his efforts. He says now that he has let a lot of the old anger go and got on with his life. After working out of the Providence Branch of the Boston office for a few years, he retired in 1987 and started his own private detective business. With the capture of Bulger last summer, people again came looking for Fitzpatrick.
It took him a while, but after the story of the corruption in the Boston office unfolded in the 1990s, Fitzpatrick finally got some justice for himself and for the victims of that corruption. Once it was learned that agent John Connelly had been telling Bulger about informants prepared to testify against him, the family of one of those informants sued the FBI for the wrongful death of the father, son and brother that was being picked up in pieces from that pit beside the Southeast Expressway. With Fitzpatrick's testimony and enough corroboration, a judge ruled that the FBI was responsible for the death of John McIntyre.
Judge Reginald Lindsay ruled that it was Connelly who caused the death of McIntyre and the U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the ruling, saying Connelly, "because Connelly, acting within the scope of his FBI employment, disclosed information to Bulger and Flemmi sufficient for them to identify McIntyre as a government informant, and McIntyre's death was a foreseeable consequence of that disclosure."
The book, of course, gives a much more vivid picture of Fitzpatrick, Connelly and Bulger and the frustration of Fitzpatrick when no one looked when he peeled back the scab of corruption that led to all that mayhem.
"Sometimes, even the good guys don't want to hear about it," said Fitzpatrick, who continues to teach law enforcement, hoping to prepare future officers for dealing with a world that demands the best of its sworn officers and doesn't allow for "mortal friendships" to develop.
"I continue to advocate that all police academies require that cadets work in corrections before they become police officers," said Fitzpatrick, who also noted that disgraced ex-FBI agent John Connelly will probably die in prison. "That will give them a chance to see who and what they are dealing with. They won't find that very glamorous."
Fitzpatrick and co-author Jon Land will be featured speakers at a dinner presentation hosted by Westbay Community Action, Saturday, April 14 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Potowomut Country Club, 439 Ives Road. Tickets are $65. For additional information and tickets, call Susan Lewis at 732-4666 x154.


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This special collection contains 36 Bella and Rosie stories plus a pair of small plush companions for one low price. The Class Pack includes six copies of each book and a lesson card for each book, packed in two sturdy boxes.
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- Dirty and Wet Dogs L/19
- Going To School I/16
- Hungry Holidays for Bella and Rosie J/17
- Keeping Watch K/18
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- A New Friend at the Beach G/12
- A Trip to the Beach F/9
- The Ocean H/13
- The Sand Castle G/11
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- Bella's Busy Day B/2
- Dinner Time for Bella and Rosie A/1
- Looking Out A/1
- Playing Together B/2
- Rosie Likes Pink A/1
- Snow Fun B/2
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- Bella and Rosie Trick or Treat E/8
- Five Little Dogs D/6
- Haircuts for Bella and Rosie E/8
- Rosie is Cold E/8
- Surprise Party F/9
- We Like Hats B/2
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- Bella and Rosie Love the Fall F/10
- Puppies for Rosie G/11
- Rosie Feels Sick G/12
- The Thunderstorm J/17
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- A Hungry Puppy D/6
- Come Here, Puppy C/3
- More Trouble I/16
- Play with Me E/7
- Puppy Trouble G/12
- The Missing Puppy D/5
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- Bella and Rosie Play Hide and Seek D/6
- Bella is a Bad Dog H/13
- Bella's Birthday C/4
- Fun in the Snow C/4
- Help for Rosie H/14
- Lost in the Woods E/8
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bella and rosie are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cute. dont ya think? –mikayla
- awesome dogs (Posted on 5/8/2014)
Never on the shelf –Brenda
- I ordered this set for the bookroom and it is never there. The teachers and kids love the books and they are always checked out. (Posted on 7/17/2013)
All the books are Perfect for Struggling Readers –Amy
The Bella and Rosie series motivated one of my hardest to teach students. She began the intervention program mid-year, reading at text level 5. By the end of the year, she was soaring at text level 18. Her father witnessed a transformation and was grateful that his daughter could read and write so well. One of the literacy keys for this student was her love of Bella & Rosie. Every level had a familiar book that she could depend on! She looked forward to each book and even wrote a personal letter to them. What a joy to watch another child unlock the door of learning!
(Posted on 7/15/2013)
My class loves Bella and Rosie!! –Karen
- My students love the dogs and can't wait to read what adventure they will encounter next. The most important factor for me is that the students are excited when they see the book cover with the dogs on the front. They want to get started! This motivates all of us to get reading! (Posted on 7/15/2013)
My students love them! –Janna
- My students always choose the Bella and Rosie books! They get so excited when they get to read a new one. I recommend these books with confidence! (Posted on 7/15/2013)
Second language learners also love Bella and Rosie. –carla
- As a new Reading Recovery teacher, I'm just learning what books work best, and having Bella and Rosie books to choose from made my work successful. Whether it was getting a book with the right language, or having characters to motivate my readers, these books really made a difference. Even the students who didn't seem to like anything liked Bella and Rosie! They kept asking me, are these dogs real? Next year I plan to having them write letters, to deepen their engagement with stories. I don't have all the books in the series yet, so I'm looking forward next year to buying the rest. (Posted on 7/1/2013)
Bella & Rosie books are like friends to our readers! –Kristi
- I have purchased these books for guided reading In our elementary school and the kids love them. They enjoy seeing the same characters reappear in the books. The students feel like Bella and Rosie are their friends! So great for our ESL population too! (Posted on 6/26/2013)
Great for Character Studies! –Cara
- In my kindergarten classroom, we use Bella and Rosie books throughout the year in guided reading groups. We have a "Bella and Rosie" focus for our character study for the whole class. They are great models for mini-lessons on character traits, predicting what characters will do, comparing and contrasting characters etc. Unlike most books with characters, there are a wide a range of levels to meet the needs of most children in the class. All children can participate and have access to the classroom conversations about the characters which supports the development of accountable talk. Also, my students and I love the reader's theatre, personalized books, and stuffed animals that are available. Thank you for these fantastic books! (Posted on 6/25/2013)
Motivation! –Susan
- My Reading Recovery students love every Bella and Rosie book! I found another motivation is to purchase the small Bella and Rosie stuffed animals. I tell my students they are to look at while we work together, but they will get to take one home at the end of program if they show me their best effort every day. (Posted on 6/24/2013)
Kids love them! –Amy
- I love character series books and so do the students in my class. They shop for books to put in their cubbies each week and they are so excited to get a Bella and Rosie book. I wish I had more! (Posted on 6/24/2013)
Great books for growing readers! –Lisa Cicurel-Jones
- Our first grade team used the Bella and Rosie collection this year as an integral part of our guided reading instruction. Each and every one of my students loves reading about Bella and Rosie! I find the font and text layout to be ideal for young readers. The stories are engaging and the photographs are charming. The kids especially like the books that include a Readers' Theater script. Out of all the books I use for reading instruction, the Pioneer Valley books are the very best! I highly recommend them. (Posted on 6/24/2013)
first chapter book –susan
- New readers want to read "chapter books" . I was fortunate to have the series where Rosie and Bella get ready to go to the beach, arrive at the beach and have adventures with another dog. Children not only are excited about having a book with chapters, they are thrilled to have a series to read. The photos are adorable and every child I have worked with loves to read about the adventures of these little dogs. (Posted on 6/24/2013)
Bailey –Ann
- I just can't wait to see what these two little pups will get into next. I am a retired reading specialist but continue to tutor struggling readers. I am currently working with a second grade boy who tries to avoid looking at anything in print but manages to ask about what will happen at Christmas time to these characters in the chapter book Hungry Holidays. This book has helped him build fluency and motivates him to try harder to decode unknown words using a variety of strategies. (Posted on 6/24/2013)
Love Rosie and Bella –tracy c
- My partner teacher and I love these books. A retired teacher friend of mine actually has a Bichon Frise! She brings her in and the children love it. We love how consistent the leveling system is in these books. "a" books are really "a" books! (Posted on 6/15/2012)
very motivating –gina
- My child (a frist grader) was reading at a level "c" earlier in the year. She was very defiant and it was a struggle to get her to even hold a book. She fell in love with the Bella and Rosie characters and now enjoys reading and has improved her reading level to "g/h". Thank you Bella and Rosie!! She especially loves the early chapter books. I hope more are coming soon. (Posted on 5/30/2012)
Bella and Rosie books are so motivating! –Marie
I am a Reading Recovery Teacher Leader, and I always recommend these books to the teachers I work with. They are so well written, and children really connect with the characters. Kids fall in love with the dogs, so it helps to also purchase the little stuffed Bella and Rosie toys. The other motivator is that children can watch videos of the "real" Bella and Rosie on the website, and can write to the dogs and get a personalized response from them, signed with a paw print. There's a cute bookmark included as well. Many of the children I have worked with have truly learned to read and write because of Bella and Rosie.
(Posted on 5/23/2012)
"Puppies for Rosie" is a favorite book because it is so funny. –Anne
- One of my Reading Recovery students just LOVED "Puppies for Rosie". He laughed and laughed and begged to get to read it to his class. He did a FABULOUS job of using expression and desperately wanted to read another Bella and Rosie book. "Bella and Rosie" books have been a great incentive for him to read and read and read. We look forward to reading many more. (Posted on 1/25/2012)

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Editorial board member Joe Rago on how ObamaCare will change the practice of medicine. Photos: Getty Images
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Rape is the most common violent crime on American college campuses today. 1 This guide describes the problem of acquaintance rape of college students, addressing its scope, causes and contributing factors; methods for analyzing it on a particular campus; tested responses; and measures for assessing response effectiveness. With this information, police and public safety officers can more effectively prevent the problem.
Researchers believe that college rape prevention programs, including the most widely used ones, are insufficient. Most rapes are unreported, perhaps giving campus administrators and police the false impression that current efforts are adequate. In addition, campus police may be influenced by college administrators who fear that too strong an emphasis on the problem may lead potential students and their parents to believe that rape occurs more often at their college than at others.
Acquaintance rape is but one aspect of the larger set of problems related to sexual assault of college students, and a coherent college strategy should address all aspects of these problems. This guide is limited to crime addressing acquaintance rape. Other related problems not directly addressed by this guide include:
"Women ages 16 to 24 experience rape at rates four times higher than the assault rate of all women,"2 making the college (and high school) years the most vulnerable for women. College women are more at risk for rape and other forms of sexual assault than women the same age but not in college.3 It is estimated that almost 25 percent of college women have been victims of rape or attempted rape since the age of 14.4
Rape rates vary to some extent by school, type of school and region, suggesting that certain schools and certain places within schools are more rape-prone than others.† Some features of the college environment—frequent unsupervised parties, easy access to alcohol, single students living on their own, and the availability of private rooms—may contribute to high rape rates of women college students.
† For instance, private colleges and major universities have higher than national average rates, while religiously affiliated institutions have lower than average rates (Sanday 1996). Also, students at two-year institutions (15.6%) were significantly more likely than those at four-year institutions (11.1%) to report they had been forced during their lifetime to have sexual intercourse (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1995). [Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance: National College Health Risk Behavior Survey -- United States, 1995] [YRBSS - National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS)]
College women are raped at significantly higher rates than college men.‡ College men are more likely to report experiencing unwanted kissing or fondling than intercourse.5 College men who are raped are usually raped by other men. However, since so few men report, information is limited about the extent of the problem.6 Even current national data collection systems fail to capture information about rape of men; the FBI's Uniform Crime Report (UCR) does not provide data on male rape victims.§ Researchers have begun to fill this information gap with survey data, which suggest that up to 10 percent of acquaintance rape victims on campus are men.7 Since so little information is available about acquaintance rape of college men, this guide focuses on college women.
‡ Women are also the victims in the vast majority of rapes not involving college students.
§ FBI data also do not capture most acquaintance rapes of women since the FBI only requires reporting of rapes that involve force or fear.
The most recent large-scale study, including students at both two- and four-year colleges, found 35 rapes per 1,000 female students over seven months8 (rape was defined as "unwanted completed penetration by force or threat of force"). Based on this study, a college with 10,000 women students could experience 350 rapes a year. This conflicts with official college data.† In 1999, reported forcible and nonforcible sexual offenses totaled 2,469 incidents for all U.S. college campuses combined,9 underscoring the low levels of rape reporting.
† Congress enacted the Student Right-to-Know and Campus Security Act of 1990 [U.S.C. 1092(f)(1)], covering all colleges and universities receiving federal funds, and a 1992 amendment to the act requires campuses to spell out rape victims' rights and to annually publish information on prevention programs. A 1998 amendment added reporting obligations and renamed the act the Jeanne Cleary Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act. Jeanne Cleary's rape and murder on a college campus brought to light some of the inadequacies both in knowledge of the problem and in college reporting of crime.
Stranger rape of college students is less common than acquaintance rape. Ninety percent of college women who are victims of rape or attempted rape know their assailant.10 The attacker is usually a classmate, friend, boyfriend, ex-boyfriend, or other acquaintance (in that order).11, ‡ Most acquaintance rapes do not occur on dates; rather they occur when two people are otherwise in the same place (e.g., at a party, studying together in a dorm room). Thus, "date rape" (rape that occurs during or at the end of a date) is not the appropriate term to describe the majority of acquaintance rapes of college women, as date rapes account for only 13 percent of college rapes (although they make up 35 percent of attempted rapes).12 Gang rape of college women (multiple men taking turns raping a woman) is also a problem, although to a lesser extent than even date rape.13
‡ The most recent survey on college rape "did not find that college professors committed any of the rapes or sexual coercions; however, they were involved in a small percentage of the unwanted sexual touching" (Fisher, Cullen and Turner 2000). [Full text]
Fewer than 5 percent of college women who are victims of rape or attempted rape report it to police.14 However, about two-thirds of the victims tell someone, often a friend (but usually not a family member or college official). In one study, over 40 percent of those raped who did not report the incident said they did not do so because they feared reprisal by the assailant or others.15 In addition, some rape victims may fear the emotional trauma of the legal process itself. Low reporting, however, ensures that few victims receive adequate help, most offenders are neither confronted nor prosecuted, and colleges are left in the dark about the extent of the problem.16
Many acquaintance rape victims (using the legal definition of rape) do not label their assault as rape.† Perhaps it seems unimaginable that an acquaintance would rape them, and victims often initially blame themselves. Acquaintance rape victims offer a range of reasons for not reporting the rape to authorities:17
† One of the largest studies of the problem found that in nearly half the incidents legally categorized as completed rapes, the women did not consider the incident to be a rape (Fisher, Cullen and Turner 2000). [Full text]
Some police officers believe that there is an unusually high rate of false rape reports (by both college students and the general population of women). The FBI does not separately track false reports; it tracks only the total number of unfounded reports. The category of "unfounded" consists of both baseless cases—in which the elements of the crime were never met—and false reports. In 1998, unfounded rape reports accounted for 8 percent of total reported rapes; however, this number is questionable. Some police officers incorrectly think that a rape report is unfounded or false if any of the following conditions apply:
‡ For more detailed information about unfounded allegations and the need for accurate training on this subject, see: www.vaw.umn.edu/documents/acquaintsa/acquaintsa.shtml.
In examining the problem of acquaintance rape of college students (which, as noted, accounts for 90 percent of college rapes), it is important to define the subproblems for analysis, investigation and prevention purposes. Among them are:
In each case, the offender's behavior before the attack and the contributing environmental factors during the attack may be different.† For instance, the typical party rape occurs at an off-campus house or on- or off-campus fraternity and involves the offender's plying a woman with alcohol or targeting an intoxicated woman. Environmental factors that could facilitate the rape include easy access to alcohol, availability of a private room, loud music that drowns out the woman's calls, and, potentially, a cover-up by the house's residents, who may choose to maintain group secrecy over reporting the rape. By contrast, a date rape typically involves two people who are just becoming acquainted, and the offender rapes the woman in a car or residence after the date. [Stranger rapes tend to occur in isolated areas of campus (e.g., parking lots or campus garages) or in the woman's dorm room. In these cases, the victim usually has not drunk any alcohol, and there is no prior relationship or even acquaintance between the victim and the rapist.
† For a discussion of the need to study different types of acquaintance rape, see Koss and Cleveland (1996).
Refining recordkeeping to include subtypes of acquaintance rape allows police to better understand the dynamics of rape, design prevention around the subtypes, and improve rape investigations within the subtypes.‡
‡ Although this guide does not focus on investigation, it is important to mention that the defendant generally does not claim consent as a defense in a stranger rape case. Thus, the investigation need not focus intensely on disproving consent. However, in an acquaintance rape case, consent is the most likely defense. Disproving consent becomes the most important part of the investigation. It also follows that evidence of nonconsent in a party rape will differ from that of nonconsent for a date rape that occurred in a car.
In addition, there are patterns regarding time (temporal), place (geographic), victim injuries, victim resistance, fear of rape, psychological harm to victims, and attitudes about acquaintance rape. These patterns are outlined below.†
† Some of the research covers data for both acquaintance and stranger rape of college students. Since nearly 90 percent of the time, college rape victims know their assailant, these temporal, geographic and victim resistance patterns would likely apply to college acquaintance rape, although perhaps with some slight variations.
College students are the most vulnerable to rape during the first few weeks of the freshman In fact, the first few days of the freshman year are the riskiest, limiting the value of any rape prevention programs that begin after that. Research has shown that rapes of college women tend to occur after 6 p.m., and the majority occur after midnight.19
Thirty-four percent of completed rapes and 45 percent of attempted rapes take place on campus.20 Almost 60 percent of the completed campus rapes that take place on campus occur in the victim's residence, 31 percent occur in another residence, and 10 percent occur in a fraternity
Only 20 percent of college rape victims have additional injuries, most often bruises, black eyes, cuts, swelling, or chipped teeth.22 Thus, investigative practices should be modified to obtain more subtle evidence of lack of consent, rather than just use of force.
Slightly more than 50 percent of college rape and attempted rape victims use force against their assailant, and 50 percent tell the person to stop. Most victims try to stop a rape by doing one of the following: using force, telling the assailant to stop, screaming, begging, or running away.23
The fear of rape is widespread among college women, although they fear stranger rape more than acquaintance rape, even though the latter is much more common.24 College women—even those aware of acquaintance rape's pervasiveness—take more precautions to guard against stranger rape—even if they have been a victim of acquaintance rape.25
Acquaintance rape victims suffer the same psychological harms as stranger-rape victims: shock, humiliation, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, suicidal thoughts, loss of self-esteem, social isolation, anger, distrust of others, fear of AIDS, guilt, and sexual dysfunction.26 College acquaintance rape victims face additional consequences. Many drop out of school27 because, if they stay, they might regularly face their attacker in class, in their dorm, in the dining hall, or at campus functions and events. Since most victims do not report, colleges cannot intervene to protect them from reencountering their attackers.
During the 1990s, researchers found that attitudes about acquaintance rape victims improved. However, in general, college students, campus administrators, police, prosecutors, judges, and juries still overwhelmingly view and treat acquaintance rape less seriously than stranger rape, sustaining the myth that stranger rape is "real rape," while acquaintance rape is less serious and less harmful. College studies still find that many on campus, both men and women, have little understanding of acquaintance rape because, as discussed below, it is a much more complex crime than stranger rape.
Rape myths allow us to believe that a "real rape" is one in which a victim is raped by a stranger who jumps out of the bushes with a weapon, and in which she fought back, was beaten and bruised, reported the event to the police, and had medical evidence collected immediately. In a "real rape," the victim has never had sex with the assailant before, is preferably a virgin, was not intoxicated, was not wearing seductive clothing, and has a good reputation.… Unfortunately, acquaintance sexual assaults contain few, if any, of those elements. In many acquaintance rape situations, the victim had been drinking, did voluntarily go with the man to his apartment or room, was not threatened with a weapon, did not fight back, did not report the event to the police immediately, did not have medical evidence collected, and may have even had sex with the assailant voluntarily before.28
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My guess is that if it does happen during the Base or Build part of my training, it is not going to be a huge problem. I had no choice so I will call this time off the bike a "Super Recovery Week" and make a couple of changes to the rest of the program, perhaps shortening one of the cycles or postponing my return to racing.
The knee injury has been managed by a couple of visits to the physiotherapist, ice, lots of exercises and a few short, zero resistance spins on the trainer. I was surprised with the improvement I felt after just one visit to the physio so I am sticking to it.
With the exception to the visits to the physio and a trip to work, I had no choice but to sit at home last week and try to manage my knee injury as well as possible. I needed to find things to do so a bit of time in the garage working on my bid to help the planet seemed like the right thing to do…
Twelve tubes got fixed, tested and packed... under some stringent guidance and background music by JJJ. Very therapeutic to say the least!
Heading out on Sunday (after spending some time with Sandra and doing my exercises and trainer session) I met a few of the QSM Team riders who were racing the Dutton Cycles Criterium. It made it easier to decide on what to do in relation to my program. I will be shortenning the Base phase by one week, racing with the team next Sunday (first open event since Sep 09) if the knee holds up and will start the last block of Base the following week.
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When a classic movie fan hears the name "Topper" they can go in one of two directions. Either they instantly think of Roland Young beset by the ghostly George and Marion Kirby or they have the image of Hopalong Cassidy's white horse of that name and bad guys being chased through Lone Pine, California. Fond though I may be of the screwball comedy antics of ghosts, my first thought goes to the cinematic range.
George "Gabby" Hayes (1885 - 1969) was a vaudeville veteran who was considering retiring when Wall Street laid that colossal egg and his wife and show business partner, Olive Ireland, suggested he cast his lot with Hollywood. Talented character actors were in demand and George was kept busy in B pictures with occasional A parts coming his way such as the down-on-his-luck farmer who confronts Gary Cooper in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. Seeing a niche for himself in B westerns, George learned to ride at the age of 50. In 1935 he played a sympathetic barkeep in the Hopalong Cassidy outing The Eagle's Brood, sporting a moustache and assaying a twangy way of speech that would soon become familiar to movie fans. That same year he sprouted whiskers and perfected his "durn tootin" persona in Bar 20 Rides Again. Windy Halliday had come to stay! A comic foil, the dupe of lovelorn ladies and teased by those young whippersnappers, Windy was also savvy and brave - a fellow you could trust in a tight spot. After 3 years and 23 pictures Gabby parted ways with Windy when producers failed to appropriately acknowledge his popularity by increasing his bank statement. As "Gabby" the character remained the same and George backed up the likes of Roy Rogers, John Wayne and Randolph Scott. Mr. Hayes was inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Hall of Fame Museum in 2000. Next to Charlie Chaplin or Mickey Mouse can you think of a more recognizable film character staple? And the man was going to retire!
Andy Clyde (1892 - 1967) was born in Scotland and was also a vaudeville veteran when he came to Hollywood and started working for Mack Sennett. He worked his way up from extra to featured player and married one of the famous bathing beauties, Elsie Tarron. If this had been the sound era perhaps Andy would have become Hollywood's resident Scot, but with old age make-up he created a successful curmudgeonly silent screen clown. Like Stan and Ollie, sound only added to Andy's comedy and bankability. For over 20 years starting in the 30s he made comedy shorts for Columbia, mostly as "Andy Clyde" beset by sitcom plot difficulties. Mrs. Clyde was played by a favourite around these parts, Esther Howard. Andy joined the Hopalong team in 1940s Three Men from Texas. He replaced Windy, but he didn't play that role. California Carlson is as brave as his predecessor, but he's a little might more gullible, apt to rush in where angels fear to tread, has a way with a double take that is sheer delight and a giggle that makes me grin. Scripts (38 of them, plus radio & television) provide ample opportunity for Andy to display his well-honed comic abilities. Andy Clyde became as familiar a face to television audiences as he was to movie-goers in programs such as The Real McCoys, Gunsmoke, The Andy Griffith Show and Lassie. 373 movie and television credits from 1921 to 1966! I don't imagine Mr. Clyde ever considered retiring.


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Dr. Barbara Ann Torpie, 71, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who had maintained a practice in Wyndmoor for more than a decade, died April 21 at her home in Chestnut Hill.
Dr. Torpie was an active member of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Foundation. A dedicated clinician, she was a faculty member at the former Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute and Society of Pennsylvania Hospital.
Born Barbara Ann Pilik in Philadelphia, she was a graduate of Temple University and Hahnemann Medical College. At a time when medicine was a male-dominated field, she stood out as one of three women in her graduating class of 91 physicians.
While at Hahnemann, she met her future husband, Dr. Richard J. Torpie. The couple graduated together in 1966 and later moved to the Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia where they raised three children.
Dr. Torpie is survived by a son, Christopher; daughters Jennifer and Melissa; a sister, Marlene Graham, and two grandchildren.
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This is the first in a series of blog posts reporting on the confirmation hearings for Solicitor General Elena Kagan. Check back for posts throughout the hearings!
By Lucy Panza, DC Policy Intern
Solicitor General Elena Kagan completed her testimony in the Supreme Court nomination hearings yesterday. She answered many questions with entertaining wit and humor, something not commonly seen in these types of proceedings, but without much substance on any issue that could conceivably come before the Court during her future tenure there. As The New York Times reported:
Elena Kagan deflected questions about her own views on gun rights and abortion during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings on Tuesday, instead describing Supreme Court precedents. She declined to say whether terrorism suspects must be warned of the right to remain silent, saying the issue was "quite likely to get to the courts."
The main attack narrative leveled at the nominee was that she is a lifelong political lawyer who would be unable to "take off [her] political hat," as Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) said at one point, to become a Supreme Court Justice. The attacks came from two angles: most of the Republican Senators reviled Kagan's past reluctance to allow military recruiters onto the campus of Harvard Law School while she was Dean because of her objection to the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy; and expressed a lot of concern about Kagan's clerkship with former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall because of Marshall's supposedly "activist agenda." Having answered the same question dozens of times, Kagan finally told Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ), "I love Justice Marshall. He did an enormous amount for me, but if you confirm me to this position, you'll get Justice Kagan, you won't get Justice Marshall. And that's an important thing."
Democratic Senators helped Kagan by asking mostly softball questions that helped the nominee rebound from the Republicans' fierce attacks. At other times, however, even Democrats asked some tough questions. Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA), for example, pressed Kagan on the durability of Roe v. Wade and its progeny, and then about the notorious Gonzalez v. Carhart case, which upheld a federal ban on late-term abortions without an exception for the pregnant woman's health. Kagan sidestepped her personal opinions on these important questions by pointing out that they are all "settled law" that deserve as much deference as any other legal precedent. While calling Roe a decided legal precedent is important in protecting women's rights, saying the same about a ban on late-term abortion can be seen as quite the opposite.
Kagan also said in response to Senator Charles Grassley's (R-IO) question about the "penumbra of privacy rights" identified in Griswold v. Connecticut that eventually led to Roe, that rights must have textual support in the Constitution and that she did not agree with the "penumbra approach." This approach finds privacy and other rights in the Constitution by implication through other rights that are explicitly listed (such as the right not to be forced to quarter soldiers in one's home or incriminate oneself in a criminal trial). The term "penumbra approach" refers to a ripple effect that emanates from these specifically named rights to include others, such as privacy and the right to an abortion, that are not explicitly named. Kagan rejected this approach but said that she would have found the privacy and abortion rights elsewhere – in the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment – so that the result of these cases would be the same. Clearly, Kagan's goal was to appeal to Senators on both sides of the political aisle on this and other political hot topics.
There were many issues that were conspicuously missing from the hearings, as Talking Points Memo (TPM) notes. One of those was immigration. No Senator mentioned Arizona Senate Bill 1070 or any other similar bills winding their way through state legislatures. Another was healthcare. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) briefly asked a question about the constitutionality of the individual insurance purchasing mandate in the new healthcare reform legislation, but after Kagan quickly refused to answer on the basis that it was an issue coming before the Court soon, no one else brought it up.
What does this absence of questioning symbolize? Is it a tapering off of the so-called "culture wars," as TPM suggests?
Today, outside witnesses begin giving their testimony for and against Kagan's nomination. This is a long-standing tradition that had disappeared in recent years but has now returned. Some witnesses are invited to give a more academic account of what impact, if any, a Kagan confirmation could have on the development of American law. Others, like Lily Ledbetter, are expected to give testimony on how the law affects ordinary people's lives everyday – a necessary reminder that the confirmation of a new Supreme Court Justice is an extremely important event that affects us all.
By Lucy Panza, DC Policy Intern


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by Tom Utescher
The defending District 1 champion Mount St. Joseph Magic laid a solid foundation for another successful season before going into their holiday break, reaching an overall mark of 7-0 with last Thursday night's 50-21 win over visiting St. Basil. The league victory gave the Magic a 4-0 record in Catholic Academies competition.
Sophomore Alex Louin (four steals) topped a list of nine MSJ scorers with 14 points, and two fellow guards, senior Bridget Higgins (seven rebounds, five steals) and junior Kelsey Jones, added eight points apiece. Among the forwards, senior Cailin Schmeer netted four points and pulled in a team-high nine rebounds, and junior Meg Geatens put up six points.
Senior guard Maddie Kohler and sophomore forward Carly Monzo each scored three points, and afterwards Kohler observed "I think we're playing a lot better as a team now. In the beginning of the season we weren't executing our offense the way we wanted to."
The two new starters for the squad this year are tenth-graders Louin and Monzo, and Kohler commented, "Alex has really settled into her role on the team. Carly's getting used to being in the forward position, and she's really skilled, also. They're both very athletic."
Last Thursday's guest, St. Basil, headed back to Jenkintown with a record of 1-4 overall, and 1-3 in the AACA. Senior guard Erin Fenningham paced the Panthers with 10 points at the Mount, and sophomore Molly Greenberg led the visitors on the boards with six rebounds.
Fenningham fired the first field goal of the game, a three-pointer from the right corner. More than three minutes elapsed before the Magic got on the board thanks to Louin's score off a steal. Offense from Higgins and Jones helped the Magic move into an 8-5 lead by the close of the quarter.
Just as the second period got underway, Geatens stole the ball and broke downcourt for a basket, then a pair of lay-ups by Jones and a free throw by Schmeer put more distance between the Magic and the Panthers, with the 7-0 MSJ spurt making it 15-5.
Midway through the second round, a "three" by the visitors' Holly Forst (five points total) cut the gap to seven points, and that proved to be the last field goal of the first half. From the free throw line, the Magic shot four-for-six in the remaining minutes, while St. Basil was two-for-six, setting the tally at 19-10 for the intermission.
Mount St. Joe had the upper hand, but did not appear invulnerable.
In the MSJ huddle, Kohler reported, "Coach told us to contain Fenningham. He wanted us to play full-court defense and emphasize doubling on her, and we wanted to play good help defense because they were driving the whole time. We needed to rebound better, also, and I think we did that in the second half."
After the break, Louin scored 12 of her 14 points for the night. She and Higgins each dropped in transition lay-ups, and a jumper and a free throw by Schmeer rounded out a 7-2 Magic surge to start the second half. The remainder of St. Basil's points in the contest came on three widely-separated three-pointers, not the stuff of a meaningful comeback attempt.
In a six-minute stint spanning the third and fourth quarters, Mount St. Joe scored 15 unanswered points, and with the count at 41-15 with under five minutes to go, the hosts began pulling starters off the floor for good. A lay-up by sophomore Regan Gallgher (two assists) and two free throws by junior Adrienne Cellucci helped spread to score to 50-18 before the Panthers put in the final field goal of the evening, a three-pointer banked off the glass with 15 seconds remaining.
Kohler, a 5'3" guard, may not play basketball in college, but she wants to keep improving her game during her final high school season.
"I'm continuing to work on my shot," she said, "and I'm trying to drive a little bit more, but with my size it's kind of hard. I've gotten more rebounds this year, though. Sometimes I can sneak in under people, and I also get some by running the floor hard on the fast break so I'm there if a rebound comes down."


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In Memoriam: Joseph Ribeiro
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution announces with great sorrow the death of retiree Joseph Ribeiro on April 3, at his home after a brief illness. He was 85.
Joseph was born in Cambridge, MA, and resided in New Bedford most of his life.
Joseph began working at WHOI in 1960 as a messman about the R/V Bear and over 28 years worked on many of the Institutions research vessels. In 1961, he transferred to the R/V Chain and in 1962, he was promoted to cook on the R/V Gosnold. From 1964 to 1989, he worked as steward and cook about the R/V Crawford, R/V Atlantis II, R/V Oceanus, and R/V Lulu. He retired in 1989 and was rehired in 1991 as a relief steward aboard the R/V Oceanus until 1992.
Joseph was a parishioner of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church. He loved to travel all over the world, and enjoyed collecting precious metals and ivory. He was World War II Army Veteran.
Joseph was the husband for 48 years to Aurora (Taveira) Ribeiro and the son of the late Jose and Rosa (Sousa) Ribeiro. He is survived by his wife of New Bedford; two sons, Thomas Ribeiro of New Bedford, and James Ribeiro of Virginia; one daughter Irene Rose Andrade and her husband Antonio of New Bedford; one brother Manuel Ribeiro of South Africa; and one sister Ilda Ribeiro of Portugal. He is survived by five grandchildren, Melissa, Stacie, and Marc Ribeiro and Kassandria and Alexander Andrade, and many nieces and nephews.
A Mass of Christian Burial was held on April 9, at Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church in New Bedford, followed by Interment with military honors was at Sacred Heart Cemetery #2. For online condolences, please visit www.cabralbaylies.com.
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Bernie Mac, a stand-up comic who played evil-tongued but lovable rogues in films like "Bad Santa" and "Mr. 3000" and combined menace and sentiment as a reluctant foster father on "The Bernie Mac Show" on Fox, died on Saturday in Evanston, Ill. He was 50 and lived near Chicago.
The cause was complications from pneumonia, said his publicist, Danica Smith.
Mr. Mac, an imposing stage presence with a line of scabrous insults, parlayed his success as a stand-up comedian onto the big screen in a string of comedies that cast him in cameo roles, usually as wily con men like Pastor Clever in "Friday" and Gin, the store detective in "Bad Santa." He also excelled as short-tempered misanthropes, notably in his starring role as Stan Ross, the nation's most hated baseball player, in "Mr. 3000."
In 2001, the Fox network took a gamble with "The Bernie Mac Show," an unconventional family comedy with Mr. Mac portraying a childless married comedian who reluctantly takes in his sister's three youngsters when she goes into a drug-treatment program.
The irascible Mr. Mac made a different kind of TV dad, "more Ike Turner than Dr. Spock," Chris Norris wrote in a 2002 profile for The New York Times Magazine. Mr. Mac's special style of tough love — "I'm gonna bust your head 'til the white meat shows," he warns his surly teenage neice — set the show apart from other family sitcoms and raised a few critical eyebrows, but audiences saw enough of the character's soft center to find the show touching.
"The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of," Mr. Mac told The Times in 2001. "It's a joke, believe me. I'm not trying to hurt anybody."
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"The Bernie Mac Show" show ran for five seasons, and Mr. Mac won Emmy awards as outstanding actor in a comedy series in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
Bernard Jeffrey McCullough was born in Chicago to a single mother who inspired him, indirectly, to become a comedian. When he was 5, he told a television interviewer in 2001, he saw her sitting in front of the television set crying. "The Ed Sullivan Show" was playing, and when Bill Cosby began telling a story about snakes in the bathroom, she started laughing despite herself. "When I saw her laughing, I told her that I was going to be a comedian so she'd never cry again," Mr. Mac said.
His mother died of cancer when he was 16, and he was raised by his grandmother on the South Side of Chicago. His two brothers also died, one in infancy, the other of a heart attack in his 20s.
At Chicago Vocational Career Academy, he was voted Class Clown by his graduating class. Already serious about his intended profession, turned down the honor "I said, 'I'm funny. I'm a comedian, I'm not a clown,'" he later recalled. "My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense."
After high school, Mr. Mac worked as a janitor, a mover and a school bus driver before finding a job at a General Motors plant. In 1976 he married his high school sweetheart, Rhonda who survives him, as does their daughter, Je'Neice, and a granddaughter.
Desperate to get started as a comedian, he told jokes for tips on the Chicago subway and worked comedy clubs, many of them off the beaten track. "When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work," he told The Washington Post. "I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature."
In 1983 he was laid off at GM and for a time his family had to move in with relatives. Plugging away at his comedy career, he caught the attention of Redd Foxx and Slappy White, who invited him to do off-the-cuff material in Las Vegas in 1989, and a year later he won the Miller Lite Comedy Search, a national contest, with his profanity-laced monologues on events in his own life and on black life in Chicago
In 1990, he was invited to do two shows with Def Comedy Jam, a tour featuring young black comedians that was filmed for HBO. Small film roles followed, in "Mo' Money" (1992), "Who's The Man?" (1993) and "House Party 3" (1994), as well as an HBO variety series, "Midnight Mac," and a spot with the Original Kings of Comedy, a tour that showcased some of the most popular contemporary black comedians. The tour, which grossed an astounding $59 million, generated several HBO specials and a film by Spike Lee, "The Original Kings of Comedy."
Mr. Mac made the move to television reluctantly. "The people come to see you, the person they fell in love with, but when they see you on TV you bvecome a whole other character, another person, and they become disappointed, and I wasn't going to allow that to happen to me," he said.
Nevertheless, he appeared in a recurring role as Uncle Bernie on the UPN sitcom "Moesha" for several years beginning in 1996, and in 2001 he took the plunge with "The Bernie Mac Show."
Praised by the critics for its fresh irreverent take on the family sitcom, it became one of Fox's biggest hits.
The show coincided with a spate of films that made Mr. Mac, if not a box office star, a welcome comedic presence in films like "What's the Worst that Could Happen?" "Ocean's 11" and its two sequels and "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle."
In July, Mr. Mac, a fervent Barack Obama supporter, dismayed his candidate at a fund-raising dinner in Chicago. Delivering a stand-up routine, he told salacious jokes and drew a reprimand from Mr. Obama, who warned him, "Bernie, you've got to clean up your act next time."


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Bale double helps Wales sink Scots
Chris Coleman claimed his first win as Wales boss in Cardiff - and heaped even more pressure on Scotland manager Craig Levein in a a 2-1 win in their World Cup qualifier.
With both teams starting the night in need of a first Group A victory, it was the Scots who took a first-half lead through James Morrison.
But hopes of a morale-boosting win were shattered in the second half when star man Gareth Bale won and converted a penalty, before grabbing a stunning long-range winner with a minute to go. The win sees Wales take their first points of the campaign and move above Scotland, who have just two points from three matches.
The match began at a frantic pace with the visitors exerting some early pressure before Bale hooked over from distance with the first real chance of the match. The Tottenham man then came much closer to opening the scoring with a curling drive that fell across the face of goal and just inches past the far post.
Steve Morison passed up a great chance to break the deadlock when he nodded wide from a lovely Bale cross from the right and it was an opportunity they would be left to rue as Scotland surged into the lead seconds later.
Goalkeeper Allan McGregor punted a long ball up the pitch which was met by Steven Fletcher who flicked on for Morrison to drive home with a cool finish with 27 minutes on the clock.
Steven Fletcher could have added his own name to the scoresheet but connected awkwardly with an inviting cross from Danny Fox and the chance was lost, before nodding down for Morrison but, this time, he volleyed over.
Wales tried to haul themselves back into the game in the second half and Morrison had another chance to leave the net bulging with a point-blank effort that stung the palms of the Wales goalkeeper. Aaron Ramsey should have levelled for the home side when he burst through on goal with only Alan McGregor to beat but the goalkeeper raced off his line to block with his legs.
The Scots thought they had doubled their lead when Steven Fletcher bulleted a header into the back of the net. But the assistant referee deemed Charlie Adam's cross had swerved out of play and the effort was disallowed, although television pictures suggested this may not have been the case.
Wales were back on level terms with 10 minutes to go when Shaun Maloney was deemed to have fouled Bale in the box, and the winger brushed himself off to rifle past McGregor from the penalty spot. Alan Hutton then fired just over as the Scots searched for a late winner but the honours went to Wales instead with a minute to go when Bale curled a left-foot shot past McGregor to claim a last-gasp win.


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If you want to like Disney movies, but hate the fact that those lucky jerks get to live "happily ever after" while the rest of us slog away in anonymous misery, watch this video!
According to this one-man a cappella group, their happiness, too, is fleeting. And then terrible, terrible things happen ... to all of them. It is wonderful. Enjoy!


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Çerkezköy is a city in Eastern Thrace.
Started its life as a village for Circassian refugees in 1800s (hence the name Çerkez-köy, which literally means "Circassian village"), the population of today's Çerkezköy is a mix of typical Thracian locals who are mostly descendants of Balkan emigrants who settled in the area in late 1800s/early 1900s and much more recent immigrants from central and eastern Turkey.
Çerkezköy today is a rapidly growing city of drab apartment blocks, surrounded by a diverse range of industries. You will have a hard time for finding a reason to spend time more than absolutely necessary in this place.
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An extensive network of minibuses and dolmuş minibüses connect Çerkezköy with surrounding towns and cities of Tekirdağ (1h 25min, 9 TL) and Çorlu to south, and Saray and Vize to north.
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A motorway, branching off the main O-3/E80 (toll road), connect the city with Istanbul and Edirne and ends almost at the city centre. Another well surfaced highway up to motorway standards connect with Çorlu to south and a narrower but still well surfaced one with Saray in the north.
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There are 4 tiny cinema halls in a place called "Lemar" and also video game and bowling place are located there.
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Textiles are relevantly cheaper in Çerkezköy as it is very near to textiles manufacturers, i.e a pair of sockets would just cost 1 TL.
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Çerkezköy is full of great restaurants that serve various dishes from allover Turkey, good choices like, Enesoĝlu (also specialized in Turkish Desserts along with main courses) and Șerifoĝlu (Eastern Turkish dishes from city of Urfa).
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According to the Tennessean, country singer Trace Adkins' Brentwood, TN, home was destroyed by a fire Saturday, claiming "all of his music awards and his family's possessions within minutes."
Initial reports said that the dryer in the garage of the 5,000-square-foot mansion started the fire, though Adkins' wife, Rhonda, said that is highly unlikely, as it hadn't been used in a week.
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I wonder if it's possible for Guts to reach the heart with his sword the way things are now. Is the force of the heart beating actually knocking him back a little? I think the merrows' attack will somehow open up an opportunity for Guts. I am not sure how, though.
Although the Sea Horse is clearly a great ship with a great captain, what can it do against that giant thing?? I think their efforts will be in conjunction with Isma and the merrow squad.
The battle has just begun. Unfortunately, I believe this is going to be another one of those fights where Guts is in critical condition afterwards. He is going to look like hell.
I do think the merrows will aid Guts. Even some cannonballs from the Sea horse, but most of the damage is still going to be Guts.
Great episode, as always. And do they mention at the end of the book when the series will resume, or is there only an announcement of a break with no given date of resumption?
I wonder if it's possible for Guts to reach the heart with his sword the way things are now. Is the force of the heart beating actually knocking him back a little?
It doesn't say anything, just "to be continued".
The heart did knock him back a few times this episode, but I still maintain that Guts may have scored a hit against it at the end of the scene. Notice how the DS is just off-page after Guts thrusts through that monster.
So the episode 325 will be out in the next YA issue, on August 13, as expected?
I don't know man, I don't think that's conclusive. To me no hit is implied in that scene, and the eel would have been a bit away from the heart so transpiercing it doesn't necessarily mean anything.
For me, it feels as if Guts is about to get to the heart after piercing that other monster. The heart reacts just in time before the DS gets to him.
With reference to the bloodshot eye - pages 10 and 13 have the same shading for the eye as the pic above. Also, the burst of blood around the iris is also visible in the other panels (to me at least!).
This is definitely a sign of trauma to the heart.
No, on the preceding pages wherever the heart's eyes appear, they only have their blood vessels showing. As if displaying the Sea God's distress at the intruder (Guts) having gotten close to his heart. On page 15 however, those blood vessels in that eye are clearly hemorrhaged, with blood leaking into the eye's sclera (whites) and surrounding the iris. This is definitely a possible sign of physical trauma to the heart.
I didnt expect sound waves from heartbeat can be this powerful... Usually the ears will be deaf first before any physical damage can be done to the body (Does that mean guts has the possibility of going deaf?)
Also judging from the bloodshot eyes, am I right to assume that the heart actually intensify (or control) its heartbeat on purpose just to repel Guts away?
Would it work on the God Hand? Imagine Guts yelling "FEMTO!" at Griffith, resulting in his transformation.
I wonder how that notion of Mana will be used later on. We're probably going to hear about it again in Elfhelm, and I wonder how the whole "having power over astral beings" thing will work out. Will Guts find astral allies in his battle against evil, like some have been speculating for a long time? Could it be used by some characters for nefarious purposes, like Ivalera warned?
Also, was I the only one to think that Puck's reaction to that information was as ambiguous as ever? It reminded me of his strange nonchalance when the group talked about the King of the Flower Storm in volume 28. Could be nothing, but...
I have also wanted to see his actual transformation process from his human form to demon form. The closest thing we get is from the lost episode.
I could see Skullknight shedding some more light about how how true Names work with powerful astral beings like the God Hand, or even just ones like the Dragon we saw on the castle when the merging took place. Schierke will have something to say about this for sure as well.
However I don't see Guts and co. running around, reading Names from a long scroll of true names that was left in one of the elf kings chests.
That aside, I think Guts will be more injured than ever when this is over. The trip might even take it's toll on Schierke as well.
Skullknight and his Sword might be the only way out,
I don't think the Skull Knight necessarily needs to show up and weigh in on it, though that'd be nice. He's more of a master of riddles than he is a walking encyclopedia.


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