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According to the New York Times, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the much-demonized former pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, once issued something called a "War on Iraq I.Q. Test" which included the following question: "Which country do you think poses the greatest threat to global peace: Iraq or the U.S.?" ("A Candidate, His Minister, and the Search for Faith," Jodi Kantor, April 30, 2007.)
Although the March 2003 U.S. military invasion of Iraq and the savage pacification that continues to this very day mooted this particular item on the Reverend's old "Iraq I.Q. Test," imagine, let us say, that instead of it being April 8, 2008, it was six years earlier, April 8, 2002. —
Knowing what you know now, how would you have answered the Reverend's question about the "greatest threat to global peace" back then, in April 2002?
More important, how would you answer a revised version of the same question, were it posed to you today as follows:
Which country do you think poses the greatest threat to global peace:
I won't presume to tell you how you should answer a question such as this. Just remember that this is the
By "existing UN mandate," Milne means UN Security Council Resolution 1546 of June 8, 2004. This notorious resolution handed to the
Recognizing the request of the government of Iraq for the continued presence of the Multi-National Force (MNF) in Iraq, and following consultations with Prime Minister Ayad Allawi of the Iraqi Interim Government, I am writing to confirm that the MNF under unified command is prepared to continue to contribute to the maintenance of security in Iraq, including by preventing and deterring terrorism and protecting the territory of Iraq.
Critics in the States used to complain about a film like The Godfather and cable – TV programs like The Sopranos that they unfairly depicted Italian – Americans as a bunch of bloodthirsty hoodlums. But for as long as Iraq has been a recurring item before the Security Council — since August 2, 1990, that is — the fabled International Community has conducted its affairs like the most bloodthirsty villain in United Nations history. And now this killing machine is on the verge of being returned — privatized, in effect — to the strict control of the Americans? With zero UN oversight?
So let me get this straight. — First, the
"Testimony on the Situation in Iraq," Committee on Armed Services,
"Testimony of Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker," April 8-9, 2008
"Report to Congress on the Situation in Iraq," Gen. David H. Petraeus, April 8-9, 2008. (Also see the accompanying charts.)
"Secret U.S. Plan for Military Future in Iraq," Seumas Milne, The Guardian, April 8, 2008
S/RES/1546, UN Security Council, June 8, 2004
"Crocker and Petraeus Do Washington," ZCom, September, 2007
"Crocker and Petraeus Do
Afterword. Believe it or not, a copy of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's "War on Iraq I.Q. Test" has survived (at least in this version, which I found posted to the mindfully.org website). For the sake of archiving a copy of it before it disappears, let me re-post it here.
According to mindfully.org, the document was originally posted to the "Pastor's Page" at the website of the Trinity United Church of Christ in
(Although I myself took the Reverend's "Iraq I.Q. Test," I won't divulge how I scored. Such data is confidential.)
War on
I.Q. Test Iraq
REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT / Trinity Pastor's Page, February 23, 2003
Take the War on
Do you know enough to justify going to war with
1. Q: What percentage of the world's population does the
A: 6% [correction - 4.8% of world's population - 6.2 billion vs. 280 million]
2. Q: What percentage of the world's wealth does the
A: 50% [correction - 22% of global GDP]
3. Q: Which country has the largest oil reserves?
4. Q: Which country has the second largest oil reserves?
5. Q: How much is spent on military budgets a year worldwide?
A: $900+ billion
6. Q: How much of this is spent by the
A: 50% [explanation - military expenditures for FY2003 may be $460-470 billion including $378.5 billion for the Pentagon, $15.4 billion for nuclear weapons programs, $3.8 billion for foreign military assistance, $1.4 billion for military-related activities of other agencies, $32 billion for military retirement benefits and health care for current employees, $30 billion for the CIA, plus funding for the Homeland Security Department]
7. Q: What percent of
A: 10% (that's about $40 billion, the amount of funding initially requested to fund our retaliatory attack on
8. Q: How many people have died in wars since World War II?
A: 86 million
9. Q: How long has
A: Since the early 1980′s.
10. Q: Did
A: No, the materials and technology were supplied by the
11. Q: Did the
A: No
12. Q: How many people did Saddam Hussein kill using gas in the Kurdish town of
13. Q: How many western countries condemned this action at the time?
14. Q: How many gallons of agent Orange did
A: 17 million.
15. Q: Are there any proven links between
A: No
16. Q: What is the estimated number of civilian casualties in the Gulf War?
17. Q: How many casualties did the Iraqi military inflict on the western forces during the Gulf War ?
18. Q: How many retreating Iraqi soldiers were buried alive by
19. Q: How many tons of depleted uranium were left in
A: 40 tons
20. Q: What according to the UN was the increase in cancer rates in
21. Q: How much of
22. Q: Is there any proof that
A: No
23. Q: Does
A: No
24. Q: How many civilian deaths has the Pentagon predicted in the event of an attack on
25. Q: What percentage of these will be children? A: Over 50%
26. Q: How many years has the
27. Q: Were the U.S and the
A: No
28. Q: How many pounds of explosives were dropped on
A: 20 million
29. Q: How many years ago was UN Resolution 661 introduced, imposing strict sanctions on
A: 12 years
30. Q: What was the child death rate in
31. Q: What was the estimated child death rate in
A: 131 (that's an increase of 345%)
32. Q: How many Iraqis are estimated to have died by October 1999 as a result of UN sanctions?
A: 1.5 million
33. Q: How many Iraqi children are estimated to have died due to sanctions since 1997?
34. Q: Did Saddam order the inspectors out of
A: No
35. Q: How many inspections were there in November and December 1998?
36. Q: How many of these inspections had problems?
37. Q: Were the weapons inspectors allowed entry to the Ba'ath Party HQ?
A: Yes
38. Q: Who said that by December 1998,
A: Scott Ritter, UNSCOM chief.
39. Q: In 1998 how much of Iraq's post 1991 capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction did the UN weapons inspectors claim to have discovered and dismantled?
40. Q: Is
A: Yes
41. Q: How many UN resolutions did
A: Over 65
42. Q: How many UN resolutions on
43. Q: How much does the
A:$5 billion
44. Q: How many countries are known to have nuclear weapons?
45. Q: How many nuclear warheads has
46. Q: How many nuclear warheads has US got?
A: over 10,000
47. Q: Which is the only country to use nuclear weapons?
A: the
48. Q: How many nuclear warheads does
A: Over 400
49. Q: Has
A: No
50. Q: What percentage of the Palestinian territories are controlled by Israeli settlements?
51. Q: Is
A: Yes
52. Q: Which country do you think poses the greatest threat to global peace:
53. Q: Who said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter"?
A: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
"Audacity and Hopelessness," ZCom, March 16, 2008
"Rev. Jeremiah Wright for President," ZCom, March 17, 2008
"Audacity and Hopelessness II," ZCom, March 30, 2008
"'The Day of Jerusalem's Fall'," ZCom, April 4, 2008


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In light of the WHO declaring the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as a public health emergency of international concern and the continuing loss of life in the four involved countries including that of nurses and other health care workers, ICN wishes to send a message of continued support to those providing health care in these countries and our condolences to those who have been most affected. The ICN acknowledges and applauds the courageous work of the nurses and other healthcare workers in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria during this tragic outbreak. We continue to monitor and discuss the situation with our colleagues within the WHO. For more information, we refer you to the WHO websites below as they have the most up to date information informed by in-country teams:
Web page on the outbreak: http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/epidemic-a-pandemic-alert-and-response/epr-highlights/4164-ebola-virus-disease-in-west-africa.html
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Africa's female Mandela? Victoire Ingabiré Umuhoza on trial
by Ann Garrison
Two weeks earlier, on April 7, speaking at a commemorative ceremony on the 16th anniversary of the civilian massacres known as the Rwanda Genocide, Rwandan President Paul Kagame referred to Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza as "some lady," an example of "some people" who "just come from nowhere, useless people." He refused to speak her proper name, though she is widely acknowledged as the leading opposition candidate in Rwanda's 2010 presidential election, and many of her supporters now call her Africa's female Mandela:
"Some people want to encourage political hooliganism. Some people just come from nowhere, useless people. I see every time in the pictures some lady who had her deputy, a genocide criminal, her deputy, talking about "you know, there's Rwanda Genocide, but there is another … so that is politics. And the world says, 'The opposition leader!' But I know those who say it and who support that. They know it is wrong, but it is an expression of contempt these people have for Rwandans and for Africans, that they think Africans deserve to be led by these hooligans, and to that we say NO, a big NO. And if anybody wants a fight there, we'll give them a fight." – Paul Kagame, http://www.youtube.com/watchv=vO9Zad51kJc&feature=related
Two weeks later, on April 21, Kagame's security police arrested Ingabire, then brought her before a Rwandan court for a bail hearing within six hours, creating a flurry of international news. Not only the African press, but also the BBC, Radio Netherlands, CNN, Yahoo News via Agence France Presse and other outlets around the world, including the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper, Black Star News and Global Research reported the story, and it appeared on blogs across Africa, Europe and North America, often with notes urging readers to contact Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
Two days later, on April 23, Rwandan authorities Rwandan authorities gave Human Rights Watch researcher Carina Tertsakian 24 hours to get out of the country.
Even the New York Times, which had until then ignored this year's Rwandan presidential election, finally published three accounts of Ingabire's arrest on April 21, and the next day the Washington Post, which had also been ignoring the story, finally published a Reuters wire reporting that Ingabire had been released on bail that morning.
Shortly after the news of her release, the International Humanitarian Law Institute of St. Paul Minnesota announced that its director, William and Mitchell Law School Professor Peter Erlinder, and Wichita lawyer Kurt P. Kerns will join Ingabire's Rwandan lawyer, Protais Mutembe, in her legal defense. Ingabire is charged with "genocide related crime," meaning crime related to the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, the central narrative justifying Rwanda's political life and relationship to the outside world and, most of all, to its most ardent defenders and donors, the U.S. and the U.K.
Erlinder is professor of constitutional criminal law and international humanitarian law at William Mitchell College of Law, president of ICTR-ADAD (Association des Avocats de la Defense) and past president of the National Lawyers Guild in New York City. Most significantly in Ingabire's case, he is the lead defense counsel in the Military-1 trial at the UN's International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (ICTR), where he won a victory of enormous significance to Rwandan history – the acquittal of four former top military leaders accused of conspiring and planning to commit genocide or any other crimes in 1994.
The ICTR acquitted its highest ranking defendant, Col. Bagosora, on Dec. 18, 2008, after which Erlinder wrote:
"All of the top Rwandan military officers, including the supposedly infamous Col. Bagosora, were found not guilty of conspiracy or planning to commit genocide. And Gen. Gratien Kabiligi, a senior member of the general staff, was acquitted of all charges! The others were found guilty of specific acts committed by subordinates, in specific places, at specific times – not an overall conspiracy to kill civilians, much less Rwandan-Tutsi civilians.
"This raises the more profound question: If there was no conspiracy and no planning to kill ethnic (i.e. Tutsi) civilians, can the tragedy that engulfed Rwanda properly be called 'a genocide' at all? Or was it closer to a case of civilians being caught up in war-time violence, like the Eastern Front in World War II, rather than the planned behind-the-lines killings in Nazi death camps? The ICTR judgment found the former.
"The court specifically found that the actions of Rwandan military leaders, both before and after the April 6, 1994, assassination of former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, Rwanda's head of state at the time of his murder, were consistent with war-time conditions and the massive chaos brought about by the four-year war of invasion from Uganda by Gen. Paul Kagame's RPF Army, which seized power in July 1994." – Professor Peter Erlinder, "Rwanda: No Conspiracy, No Genocide Planning … No Genocide?," published Dec. 23, 2008, in Jurist and Jan. 24, 2009, in Global Research
Erlinder says that the Court's ruling in December 2008 should have radically revised the world's understanding of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, but because there were no international media covering the ICTR by December 2008, 14 years after the slaughter that left 1 million or more Rwandans dead and because of international political investment in the received history, it continues to be told in the Wikipedia and repeated by most news outlets whenever they revisit Rwanda or the Rwandan violence of 1994.
At the ICTR, Erlinder was able to assemble the evidence and argue the case that led to the court's conclusion that there was no conspiracy and no planning to commit genocide and therefore no genocide crime like that covered by the international law created by the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide after the Nazi death camps of World War II.
Though the international press had indeed turned away from Rwanda and the ICTR by December 2008, its attention is now on Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza and her trial, less than four months before Rwanda's Aug. 9 polls. Though her party, the United Democratic Forces (UDF)-Inkingi, remains unable to register and she herself has now been indicted, she continues to attempt to contest the election.
"Ingabire was arrested on trumped-up, political thought crimes, including association with a terrorist group, propagating the genocide ideology, genocide denial, revisionism and divisionism, all arising from the 'crime' of publicly objecting to the Kagame military dictatorship and Kagame's version of the Rwandan Civil War," Erlinder said.
If he and Rwandan lawyer Protais Mutembe can make the same case that he was able to make at the ICTR, then the international press may have to decide whether or not to report that in Rwanda in 1994, there was "no conspiracy, no planning … no genocide?" This, of course, depends on how the world defines "genocide," but, the genocide ideology statutes that Victoire is charged with violating – for having said that Hutus as well as Tutsis were victims of crimes against humanity – would become impossible to defend.
And it might finally emerge that there has been a massive cover-up of the real story of what we know as the Rwanda Genocide, as Global Research writers have pointed out for years in, e.g., "Rwanda: Installing a U.S. Protectorate in Central Africa" and "The Geopolitics behind the Rwanda Genocide: Paul Kagame Accused of War Crimes" by Michel Chossudovsky, "The US Sponsored 'Rwanda Genocide' and its Aftermath: Psychological Warfare, Embedded Reporters and the Hunting of Refugees" by Keith Harmon Snow and "U.S./U.K./Allies Grab Congo Riches and Millions Die" by Peter Erlinder.
If international reporters finally do begin to cover the real story of the Rwanda Genocide and the Congo War, then Paul Kagame's regime, which Hillary Clinton has called "the beacon of hope" for Africa, will cease to seem so to the outside world.
No one, least of all Professor Erlinder, denies that the bloodshed in Rwanda in 1994 was horrific, but he says, as he did when I spoke to him for KPFA Radio, that the received history of Rwanda in 1994 and the ensuing war in neighboring D.R. Congo are history written by the victors and by their backers, the U.S. and the U.K.:
Indeed, on April 30, in an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, court, Professor Erlinder, Kurt B. Kerns and Oklahoma lawyer John P. Zelbst filed a lawsuit alleging that Kagame and nine of his current and former military officers and government officials are guilty of the assassination of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira and subsequent acts which caused the civilian massacres that came to be known as the Rwanda Genocide, costing a million lives.
And that they are guilty of racketeering to acquire and maintain an interest in the resources of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, at a cost of 6 million more lives.
D.R. Congo is one of the most resource rich nations on earth and its mineral wealth, most of all its cobalt reserves, are essential to modern military industries' ability to manufacture for war. The U.S. is the world's largest consumer of cobalt.
The eight counts alleged in Habyarimana vs. Kagame are:
- Wrongful Death – Murder
- Crimes against Humanity
- Violation of the Rights of Life, Liberty and Security of Person
- Assault and Battery
- Intentional Infliction of Emotional Stress
- Violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act
- Torture
- Conspiracy to Torture
Media outlets around the world reported that Kagame had escaped process service in the U.S. on April 30, but Peter Erlinder told KPFA Radio News that Kagame had violated the law by doing so and that, assuming the law is upheld, he will be served and required to answer.
Click to listen to KPFA Radio News, May 2, 2010:
As Erlinder and lawyers Kurt P. Kerns and John P. Zelbst prepare to advance the case against Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Erlinder and Kerns also prepare to defend Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza against Kagame's Rwandan government.
"I consider it my job to say things that my clients are not free to say," says Erlinder, "and I'm sure that Mrs. Ingabire realized that when she asked me to defend her."
Also, click to play:
- KPFA Radio News, April 4, 2010: Peter Erlinder and Paul Rusesabagina on the 16th anniversary of political assassinations that triggered the Rwanda Genocide
- KMEC Radio News, April 28, 2010: Parti Social-Imberakuri Candidate Bernard Ntaganda and banned Rwandan Umuseso Newspaper Editor Didas Gasana on political and press repression in Rwanda
- Rwanda/Congo News videos on AnnieGetYourGang, a YouTube channel
Ann Garrison is an independent journalist based in San Francisco, a regular contributor to the San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper, Global Research and Digital Journal and a news producer for KPFA Radio, Berkeley. This story first appeared on Global Research, at http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19200.
9 thoughts on "Africa's female Mandela? Victoire Ingabiré Umuhoza on trial"
Bob G
Revisionism, something we all must be on guard for. I find it interesting NOW there is more media attention. It seems all of a sudden Victoire Ingabiré has been painted as some sort of martyr, without a trial. So who is say the charges are not true?! Where was this very same media when HELL ON EARTH visited Rwanda in those tragic days in 1994 and world stood on it's hands while EVIL put the boots to Rwanda. LEST WE FORGET!!!!↓
United for Victoire
Dear Bob did you read this?
As the United States defence legal team led by Professor Peter Erlinder set foot in Rwanda today, a presidential exclusive interview justifying why his government will freeze in jail Ms. Victoire Ingabire, FDU INKINGI presidential candidate, is making headlines. Though the threat is clear crystal, the saddest is that it's full of sheer lies and an obvious contempt of the Rwandan justice. I was honoured by the incumbent's calumniation alleging that I confessed to 7 charges out of ten things the prosecution came up with, and that his regime has overwhelming evidence for my trial.
The exclusive interview granted in Kigali last week by President Paul Kagame to Monitor Managing Editor DANIEL KALINAKI (online since 22nd May 2010) is disturbing. Either the Monitor is spreading forgery, fiction or falsification, either the President is overtaking and derailing the justice system he tailored from scratch. In either case, he needs to clear this situation.
He stated: "…Now she's saying that seven of them are actually true (…). Initially she had denied that she only used to just give supportive comments. Then the evidence of these FDLR colonels who are here with us and when they confronted her they said 'you were with us' and she said 'yeah, I'm sorry I visited you so many times'. This is in court of law". He continued: "When we confronted her afterwards she almost collapsed. This is in broad daylight, in courts of law. This is somebody, a candidate, a so-praised opposition leader, yes, but wait a minute; if there are cases to answer, you answer them… This woman will certainly be where she belongs. She was charged in the court of law …"
I am seriously wondering if the President is talking about my case or another story. Of course every body knows he can arbitrary order my arrest anytime he wants, but if he needs a court of justice to do that job for him he should respect some legal rules as well. The separation of powers and the rule of law are guaranteed by the constitution. The President should avoid putting pressure on courts and judges. Most judges in Rwanda are nominated but under the current regime only a super-judge can resist such injunction. Nevertheless it's in nobody's interest to challenge a presidential command. This is a blatant violation of the independence of a judge. The colour of the court ruling in my case will be a result of this unrelenting presidential pressure on the system. We all know that this politically motivated case was initiated by the President who, visibly and closely is still pulling the strings all the steps around.
The current justice system built on scratch in the last decades is still very fragile and politicians, especially the President or any of his cronies should not meddle into pending court affairs and deliberations. How Rwandans and the world will know the truth in case of an expeditive justice? As the case is still pending with the court, there is such thing as sub judice and he can not just publicly comment on a case, interfere with judicial proceeding or put pressure on magistrates and still make people believe there is independent justice. Many Rwandans are victim of similar practices under the mercy of those in power. Justice appeared to be served, but the scars would never heal for the victims, their families and our people. This might be one of the reasons why the regime has sealed off the political space, and is instead yelling out the pretext to avoid backsliding to genocide.
As far as I am concerned, the court hearings on the so-called overwhelming evidence or ghost proofs have not yet started. I was arbitrary arrested on 21st April 2010, and released on bail the second day. Until now the prosecutor is not yet in order with his papers. I have never met the much publicised FDLR renegades in the hands of the regime. There has never been any confrontation. The non-violence is and will always be my motto.
Many questions remain unanswered: how is the President planning to extract forced confessions? Considering the fact that only 3 counts were levelled against my person, while the President is talking about 10, when his services will release and substantiate the remaining charges? Will it happen after the presidential campaign is closed?
Since my return to Rwanda in January 2010, I have been trying to get my political party, FDU INKINGI, registered and by 6 times, the government derailed our constitutional congress. The official reason is the criminal charges levelled and the subsequent never-happening trial.
Don't shy away free and fair competition and to stop using justice for your own purposes. There will be no democracy and justice for all without truth and healing.
Ms. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, Chair
The RPF dictatorship thinks everyone is too blind to recognize a political prisoner when we see one. The so-called witnesses against this presidential candidate, two of them have been in a Rwandan military prison for more than a year. After you have been in a Rwandan military prison for a year, trust me, you will be willing to say anything against anyone in order to stop the pain.
On April 21st, 2010 during the bail hearing, Mrs Ingabire made it clear that her party FDU has no military forces because the kind of problems facing the country are normally solved politically. She confirmed that she is not acquainted with and did not communicate with the rebel Colonel who claims to have collaborated with her. She reminded the court that if she had a military force she would have had no reason to participate in the peaceful political process. She would have just waited and returned to the country only after the military victory.↓
Victoire Ingabire is on trial for promoting democracy in Rwanda. This is a fact. If RPF from the very beginning had provided it as it advocated for at the time, Rwandans wouldn't be still struggling to have freedom of speech, fair justice, more equality, less discrimination, fairer redistribution of national wealth.
I think she has started an unstoppable train for democracy, which will only stop when it gets at destination. Rwandans (the majority of course), not their elite, have overwhelmingly suffered at the hands of Paul Kagame's regime. Most of them feel ready to take a chance for changing their imposed destiny.↓
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In the end the truth will win. No matter what happens to Ingabire she'll be remembered as a hero!! More rwandans should join her efforts and end their fear because fear will not set you free but the truth will!!↓
Pyotr Nemov
Africa's female Nelson Mandela? Give me a break! Without even talking about her patent lack of clear political objective, a 'Mandela' would mean that there was an apartheid in place. Let's hear the description of Apartheid Rwanda that this article so unsuccessfully tries to create. Let's not bandy the great man's name just for the thrills. As for Ingabire's democratic credentials – fun experiment, try and write anything negative on her FB page, see if it doesn't get deleted.
For the record, Bagosora is serving a life sentence[did I read 'acquitted'?] and the former Prime Minister of Sindikubwabo's genocidal [yes, it was a genocide, not 'civilian on civilian massacres'] government, Jean Kambanda was convicted on conspiracy of genocide charges. Bagosora got off on the charge because everyone he conspired with is in the ICTR pleading not guilty to everything.↓
Kagame may not be a saint but if one is going to say he is repressive because he arrested Ingabire for associating with sworn enemies of the country [FDLR], kick out a researcher for not having her papers in order [note HRW has not been closed down] and arrest a US lawyer for statements that he made publicly, not in court, for which he could have been arrested in over 14 countries had he been talking about the Jewish holocaust then she should be held to a similar standard. Could we just as easily say that she is a preacher of hate and extermination because both her parents were found guilty of genocide by the residents of the places where they lived, in her mother's case it was reported that she did unspeakable things to her patients in Butamwa Health Centre or because her deputy was a fugitive from justice and was similarly convicted on charges of genocide [she initially stood by his denials before withdrawing her support upon revelations of the man's confession] or how about a UN report that alleges that she has ties with the FDLR in Eastern DRC, who have been the single largest cause for the highest incidence of fistula in the world in North and South Kivu [without even talking about their aim to come and 'finish up' what was started ie the 1994 genocide]. How about recent reports of her links with the extremist CDR party? A party so extreme and hate driven that it was not included in the list of parties in the 1993 Arusha accords.
Its always interesting to see how Ms. Ingabire is described in the media as the "Head of the Rwandan Opposition". Show me 20 members of her party, let alone this amorphous opposition everyone is speaking of. She may be many things but she is not Mandela or Aung San Suu Kyi. Calling her any of these things is like someone describing Jörg Haider as Lech Walesa↓
@Oscar, so you had to wait for more than 6weeks, to come and report you New Times inspired comment/propaganda, on this article? those hatred nonsense, nobody believes them anymore…I bet even NGOGA; your own NGOGA want buy it…
HERE SOMETHING TO READ…..Manipulating the memory of the Rwandan genocide.. http://www.afrik-news.com/article17976.html↓
@Veritas: Just using the prevailing standard of this article. The 6-week delay says more about the amount of time I can devote to articles like this than whatever you are trying to insinuate. Interesting that you chose to label my comment in your first line rather than respond to it. If your heroine is as Mandela-like as this article claims, I'm sure she would disapprove.
The article is more balanced than most but it is a charge that is not new. People seem to think you can have policy in Rwanda that ignores the genocide of '94 for to do so would be 'manipulating' the memory. Laws against hate speech and incitement are in the public interest. Similar laws exist in some European countries as I am sure the Professor knows. Also as a scholar in law I would have thought he would be more specific about the sections within these laws that he thinks can be abused. Or is it that he believes the problem is not the law but those implementing it? If so, it is something he should have made clear from the beginning rather than trying to fudge the issues.↓


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Tom Cruise is Nuts
Tom Cruise's alien bunker
September 27, 2007
(BANG) - Tom Cruise is allegedly planning to build a $10 million bunker underneath in preparation for the end of the world.
The 'Top Gun' star, who is a devout follower of Scientology, is said to believe evil intergalactic ruler Xenu will attack Earth and so has designed a place to hide underneath his Colorado mansion.
A source told America's Star magazine: "Tom is planning to build a $10 million bunker under his Telluride estate.
"It's a self-contained underground shelter with a high tech air-purifying system where up to ten people can survive for years."
Scientology's founder, science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, claimed extra-terrestrial beings were sent to Earth by intergalactic ruler Xenu, who then destroyed the aliens with hydrogen bombs in a volcano. The aliens' souls attached themselves to chosen humans, known as thetans, who will be one day be saved.
Tom is a devout follower of the bizarre sci-fi cult and has been hailed by leaders of the faith as the "chosen one" who will spread the word of the religion.
The 45-year-old actor is currently in Berlin filming World War II drama, 'Valkyrie'.
He has been joined by wife Katie Holmes and 17-month-old daughter Suri, but his adopted children with first wife Nicole Kidman - Isabella, 14, and 12-year-old son Connor - are said to have spent the summer at a Scientology camp.
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Brainwashing can do amazing things, amazingly ridiculous in this case but amazing nonetheless.
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I want a secret underground base too
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weird much?
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I am a member of Scientology and don't think any of you have a clue what you're talking about. Tom Cruise is looking out for his family, protecting them from Xenu... what's so wrong with that?!
When Xenu comes, you'll all wish you had listened to Tom.Disclaimer: I'm an idiot.
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This guy is a nut. Just watch that Oprah episode.
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This guy is a nut. Just watch that Oprah episode.
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I am a member of Scientology and don't think any of you have a clue what you're talking about. Tom Cruise is looking out for his family, protecting them from Xenu... what's so wrong with that?!
When Xenu comes, you'll all wish you had listened to Tom.Zeus wrote:
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Now how could ANYBODY think this is insane?
The story of Xenu is covered in OT III, part of Scientology's secret "Advanced Technology" doctrines taught only to advanced members. It is described in more detail in the accompanying confidential "Assists" lecture of 3 October 1968 and is dramatized in Revolt in the Stars (an unpublished screenplay written by L Ron Hubbard during the late 1970s). Direct quotations in this section are from these sources. (See also Scientology beliefs and practices)
Seventy-five million years ago, Xenu was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy which consisted of 26 stars and 76 planets including Earth, which was then known as Teegeeack. The planets were overpopulated, each having an average population of 178 billion.[1][2][3] The Galactic Confederacy's civilization was comparable to our own, with aliens "walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute" and using cars, trains and boats looking exactly the same as those "circa 1950, 1960" on Earth.
Xenu was about to be deposed from power, so he devised a plot to eliminate the excess population from his dominions. With the assistance of "renegades", he defeated the populace and the "Loyal Officers", a force for good that was opposed to Xenu. Then, with the assistance of psychiatrists, he summoned billions[1] of his citizens together to paralyze them with injections of alcohol and glycol, under the pretense that they were being called for "income tax inspections". The kidnapped populace was loaded into space crafts for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Teegeeack (Earth). The space craft were identical to the Douglas DC-8 with the exception of having different engines.
When they had reached Teegeeack/Earth, the paralyzed citizens were unloaded around the bases of volcanoes across the planet. Hydrogen bombs were then lowered into the volcanoes and detonated simultaneously. Only a few aliens' physical bodies survived. Hubbard described the scene in his film script, Revolt in the Stars:
Simultaneously, the planted charges erupted. Atomic blasts ballooned from the craters of Loa, Vesuvius, Shasta, Washington, Fujiyama, Etna, and many, many others. Arching higher and higher, up and outwards, towering clouds mushroomed, shot through with flashes of flame, waste and fission. Great winds raced tumultuously across the face of Earth, spreading tales of destruction. Debris-studded, and sickly yellow, the atomic clouds followed close on the heels of the winds. Their bow-shaped fronts encroached inexorably upon forest, city and mankind, they delivered their gifts of death and radiation. A skyscraper, tall and arrow-straight, bent over to form a question mark to the very idea of humanity before crumbling into the screaming city below...
– L. Ron Hubbard, Revolt in the Stars treatment
The now-disembodied victims' souls, which Hubbard called thetans, were blown into the air by the blast. They were captured by Xenu's forces using an "electronic ribbon" ("which also was a type of standing wave") and sucked into "vacuum zones" around the world. The hundreds of billions[6] of captured thetans were taken to a type of cinema, where they were forced to watch a "three-D, super colossal motion picture" for thirty-six days. This implanted what Hubbard termed "various misleading data"' (collectively termed the R6 implant) into the memories of the hapless thetans, "which has to do with God, the Devil, space opera, et cetera". This included all world religions, with Hubbard specifically attributing Roman Catholicism and the image of the Crucifixion to the influence of Xenu. The interior decoration of "all modern theaters" is also said by Hubbard to be due to an unconscious recollection of Xenu's implants. The two "implant stations" cited by Hubbard were said to have been located on Hawaii and Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.
In addition to implanting new beliefs in the thetans, the images deprived them of their sense of personal identity. When the thetans left the projection areas, they started to cluster together in groups of a few thousand, having lost the ability to differentiate between each other. Each cluster of thetans gathered into one of the few remaining bodies that survived the explosion. These became what are known as body thetans, which are said to be still clinging to and adversely affecting everyone except those Scientologists who have performed the necessary steps to remove them.
The Loyal Officers finally overthrew Xenu and locked him away in a mountain, where he was imprisoned forever by a force field powered by an eternal battery (Some have suggested that Xenu is imprisoned on Earth in the Pyrenees, but Hubbard merely refers to "one of these planets" (of the Galactic Confederacy). He does, however, refer to the Pyrenees as being the site of the last operating "Martian report station", which is probably the source of this particular confusion.[7] Teegeeack/Earth was subsequently abandoned by the Galactic Confederacy and remains a pariah "prison planet" to this day, although it has suffered repeatedly from incursions by alien "Invader Forces" since that time.Zeus wrote:
When are you going to realize that picking out the 20 bad throws this year and ignoring the 300 good ones does not make your point?
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7:30am Wednesday 8th January 2014 in News By Katriona Ormiston
A STOLEN car found by police almost 100 miles away has been reunited with its owner.
Burglars raided Mick Partlett Car Sales in Witney and took the blue Renault Clio 1.6GT on November 13.
Police later found the £6,500 car near Wolverhampton and returned it to Mr Partlett's Station Lane garage the week before Christmas.
Mr Partlett said: "The phone call from the police to say they found it was out of the blue.
"It is really lucky. I didn't think I'd ever see it again.
"I'm really happy to have it back, and pleased it only had about £50 worth of damage.
"We had to have it repainted but other than that it was OK."
Mr Partlett said he had been worried that his insurer would not pay out, because the car keys had been left inside.
Charity collection boxes, number plates and invoice pads were also taken in the raid.
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Beautiful wearables by Younger KnitsAuthor: Cathy Lynn
Rebekah Younger, Younger Knits
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Currently showing at the Gallery Five Showroom in Tequesta, Florida, a beautiful, colorful collection of over 50 hand-loomed knit wearables: sweaters, jackets, tunics, shawls, and scarves.
Using hand-loomed knits as my canvas, I move beyond the confines of the knitted stitch. Dyeing or discharging freehand, in gradation or with shibori techniques, I often develop my own methods for dyeing knits by adapting processes designed for woven fabric. Color is what inspires and thrills me about the work. I play with it in sheer layers, in subtle gradations or with bold and fluid markings across the surface of the fabric.
I make sure that the garment is more than just a joy to behold, but also a sensual pleasure to wear. I work only with natural fibers and simple clean forms to create garments that have grace, femininity and feel luxurious. It is very important to me that the garment, though a unique statement, also become a staple of the wearer's wardrobe. I believe wearable art should be true to its name and be truly wearable.
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Written by three British-based scholars – a political scientist, human geographer and sociologist – Anti-War Activism is the first book-length academic analysis of the post 9/11 anti-war movement in the
Focussing on six organisations – Stop the War Coalition, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Faslane 365, Muslim networks, the Quakers and Justice Not Vengeance – the study is based on 60 interviews with activists, including Peace News editor Milan Rai and columnist Maya Evans.
It includes a thorough exploration of a variety of issues, including the evolving media landscape, alliances and fractures within the movement, the use of new media and how activists deal with information overload. Particularly interesting is the authors' examination of the heightened Muslim participation in anti-war activism, which they see both as a positive development and a missed opportunity, pointing out that the interaction and debate between Muslim networks and the rest of the movement has actually been very limited. In addition the book has a useful list of abbreviations, extensive bibliography and a large directory of active anti-war and peace groups.
The problem is that while the book may induce nods of recognition among activists, these same people will learn little, having already encountered and overcome – by trial and error no doubt – most of the issues described. Frustratingly the authors also have a tendency to make blindingly obvious statements as if they were profound utterances of great importance. Just who hadn't thought that "the ways in which a group represents campaign messages can be vital to its success" or that "there is a continuum of anti-war activism ranging from the person full-time devoted to the cause to the onlooker who is moved to do little more than sign a petition"?
On top of all this the book is written in extremely dry, controlled academic language, which at best makes reading it something of a chore and at worst produces a study that is effectively inaccessible to all but the most persistent.
Considering its enormous size and influence on the political and social landscape, sadly there has been relatively little written about the anti-war protest that has sprung up against the wars in
Unfortunately, Anti-War Activism is not this book (and to be fair doesn't pretend to be), and is unlikely to inspire anyone to become more involved in anti-war groups. For research purposes only.
Anti-War Activism. New Media and Protest in the Information Age by Kevin Gillian, Jenny Pickerill and Frank Webster is published by Palgrave Macmillan. [email protected]


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Jessica Lee Goldyn, Nikka Graff Lanzarone, Brian Letendre and More Assume Paper Mill's Chorus Line, Beginning Oct. 3
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Paper Mill Playhouse kicks off its 2012-13 season with the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical A Chorus Line, featuring the music of the late Marvin Hamlisch. Performances begin Oct. 3 in Millburn, NJ.
The production will officially open Oct. 7 with a tribute to the late Tony Award-winning composer. Directly following the curtain call, A Chorus Line Broadway alumni, including Kelly Bishop and Donna McKechnie, will join the Paper Mill cast on stage as they reprise a section of the "Finale" in tribute to Mr. Hamlisch. (Cast members from the Broadway production of A Chorus Line from 1975-1990 are encouraged to call Kelly Stevens at Paper Mill Playhouse at 973-315-1640 or email at email@example.com to reserve their free tickets.)
Following the tribute there will be a red carpet, cast/reunion party in Downtown Millburn.
Mitzi Hamilton, a dancer in director-choreographer Michael Bennett's original taped workshop that inspired the 1975 musical, directs and choreographs the New Jersey staging. Hamilton provided the inspiration for the character of Val and performed the role in the original London company and then on Broadway.
"We are thrilled to have the opportunity to honor and celebrate the life of Marvin Hamlisch," said director Hamilton in a statement.
Jessica Lee Goldyn, who originated the role of Val in the 2006 Broadway revival of A Chorus Line, stars as Cassie. She is joined by Ashley Arcement (Grease) as Val, Kyle Brown (Legally Blonde) as Greg, Mike Cannon (West Side Story) as Al, Kevin Curtis (A Chorus Line national tour) as Richie, KC Fredericks (Wicked national tour) as Mark, Julia Freyer (A Chorus Line national tour) as Judy, Martin Harvey (West End's Dirty Dancing) as Zach, Nikka Graff Lanzarone (Chicago) as Bebe, Brian Letendre (Marry Poppins) as Larry, Mark Myars (West Side Story) as Mike, Jeffrey Pew (Billy Elliot national tour) as Don, Rachelle Rak (Catch Me If You Can) as Sheila, Amanda Rose (Paper Mill's Curtains) as Kristine, Gabrielle Ruiz (In the Heights) as Diana, J. Manuel Santos (West Side Story) as Paul, Alexzandra Sarmiento (A Chorus Line in Japan) as Connie, Kyle Vaughn (The Nutty Professor) as Bobby and Karley Willocks (A Chorus Line national tour) as Maggie.
Rounding out the cast are Carleigh Bettiol as Lois, Kevin Boseman as Butch, Jennifer Cordiner as Vicki, Jordan Fife Hunt as Roy, Chris Klink as Frank, Grant Thomas as Tom and Jessica Vaccaro as Tricia.
Set during an audition for an upcoming Broadway show, A Chorus Line, according to Paper Mill, "shines a light on the hopes, fears and dreams of performers vying for a chance to do what they all know they were born to do. A Chorus Line is an enthralling and emotional metaphor for what drives each of us to achieve our dreams."
John O'Neill serves as the production's music director and conductor. A Chorus Line, originally conceived, choreographed and directed by Bennett, features a book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante with music by Hamlisch and lyrics by Edward Kleban.
Other members of the creative team include scenic designer James Dardenne, costume coordinator Gail Baldoni, lighting designer Julie Duro, sound designer Randy Hansen, hair designer Mark Adam Rampmeyer and production stage mamanger Joshua Halperin.
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text: "Dear Universe, Sincerely Harriet" is a series of handwritten letters addressed to Dear Universe from Sincerely, Harriet. The 12-year-old author is named Lilia Juhl Carpenter. Lilia lives in Philadelphia and commutes to New York on weekends to be with her mother. This book was was written in California however with design assistance by Dorothy Nissen and Redford, a poodle. "Dear Universe, Sincerely Harriet" is a masterful inquiry into the meaning of life in the universe.


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PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A day after agreeing to the deal in principle, the Pirates signed free-agent catcher Russell Martin to a $17 million, two-year contract on Friday.
Martin, 29, a three-time All-Star, hit .211 with 21 homers and 53 RBIs in 133 games last year with the New York Yankees. Martin's batting average has declined in each of the last five seasons after he hit .293 and made his first All-Star game while playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2007.
The signing reunites Martin with right-hander A.J. Burnett. The two played together with the Yankees in 2011 before Burnett was traded to Pittsburgh last spring.
The Pirates were in need of an experienced backstop after declining the club option on Rod Barajas, who struggled in his one season in black-and-gold. Barajas hit .206 with 11 homers in 104 games and struggled defensively, throwing out just 6 percent (6 of 99) potential base stealers.
After a surprising start, Pittsburgh stumbled down the stretch last season. The Pirates finished 79-83.
Martin was offered a three-year, $20 million deal by Yankees general manager Brian Cashman in spring training and did not accept it. New York did not make him an offseason offer.
"I like Russell Martin," Cashman said Friday at a charity event in Stamford, Conn. "I'm a big Russell Martin fan. But ultimately we have a lot of holes to fill and we have to be very careful how we spend our money. The market for Russell was aggressive as it should have been and again our focus has been our pitching."
Mike McKenry, the backup to Barajas last season in Pittsburgh, fared better than the starter, but does not have Martin's resume. Martin threw out 25 percent (20 of 83) of base stealers last season and committed just six errors in 128 games at catcher, the same total Barajas had in 24 fewer appearances.
The signing is the latest dip into deeper pockets by Pittsburgh, which tied for the franchise's best record in 20 years last season. The year was marred by a late fade in which the Pirates fell from playoff contention. But the team opted to not make any major changes to the front office and instead focus on upgrading several spots, with catcher being among the top priorities.


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Here's the thing about the Rawlings Gold Gloves ... We're always going to argue about them. Even if you look at the statistics, there's always going to be a fair amount of space between reasonable answers. Ideally, we would probably like every Gold Glove winner to be an outstanding defensive player. Realistically, we should be generally content if the winners are good, at least.
With that in mind, I have just one serious question ...
It's like the voters are telling everyone, "Okay, you nerdballs, we won't give Derek Jeter another one. But that doesn't mean we're actually going to give that Gold Glove to a good shortstop."
Brendan Ryan is a fantastic defensive player. He started 120 games at shortstop this year. Okay, so that's not a lot. Alcides Escobar had a really good season. Elvis Andrus and Alexei Ramirez are solid.
None of those guys were even close to winning. Monday, ESPN released lists of three "nominees" for each of the awards. Now, it should be said that upon posting this news in this space, I started getting these odd tweets from Rawlings, claiming that there's no such thing as "finalists" (the word I used, rather than "nominees") and nobody knows who finishes second (which isn't actually something I suggested, but whatever).
Essentially, Rawlings went to Twitter and half-heartedly disowned the whole notion of nominees and finalists and anything except one guy winning and everybody else finishing last.
Whatever. If you believe ESPN, the three nominees for American League shortstop were Erick Aybar, J.J. Hardy and Asdrubal Cabrera. Essentially -- if you believe the numbers anyway -- Rawlings or the voters or whoever chose the three worst non-Jeter every-day shortstops in the American League as the three nominees. In the Fielding Bible balloting, Cabrera, Hardy and Aybar finished seventh, eighth and ninth.
The Gold Glove process simply whiffed on the American League shortstops, and I have no idea why. We can blame the (reported) serious consideration of Hardy and Cabrera on their bats, but Aybar didn't do anything special as a hitter this year.
There certainly were other questionable choices. It's something of a crime that Brett Gardner didn't win, but at least Alex Gordon had a good year in the field. Not great like Gardner, but good.
But the only other award that strikes me as truly egregious is Matt Kemp's. The guy had a phenomenal season with the bat, of course. And he improved massively, as a fielder, over his terrible performance in 2010. But he didn't go from terrible to excellent; he went from terrible to adequate. In the American League, the biggest gap between the actual winner and the deserving winner is the gap between Erick Aybar and Brendan Ryan. In the National League, the biggest gap is between Matt Kemp and Arizona's Chris Young. In fact, if I had a Gold Glove ballot I probably would have given the award to Diamondbacks at all three positions.


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A Logansport couple await a decision on whether the sale of drugs at their store constitutes a felony.
Vincente and Norma Garcia face seven charges stemming from the alleged sale of prescription drugs out of their grocery store. At a hearing Tuesday, attorney Matthew Barrett, who represents the Garcias, argued that the drugs sold were not prescription drugs and that the prosecution could not count the individual ingredients making up the drugs as an offense.
Cass County Superior Court II Judge Rick Maughmer took the matter under advisement.
The Garcias were two of seven people arrested after the Cass County Drug Task Force and Food and Drug Administration used search warrants on May 25, 2011, in three Logansport stores — Tienda Michoacan, La Fiesta Carniceria and La Hidalguense — to look for prescription drugs. Both agencies had previously conducted controlled drug buys at the stores.
Both Garcias initially faced 11 charges, but three class C felonies of practicing medicine without a license and a class D felony charge of maintaining a common nuisance were dismissed this past summer. The seven remaining charges are three counts of unlawful sale of legend drugs, a class C felony; three counts of unlawful possession or use of a legend drug or precursor, a class D felony; and one count of maintaining a common nuisance for legend drugs, a class B misdemeanor.
The issues brought up at Tuesday's hearing are only a part of the motion Barrett filed in June, in which he argues that the raid on the store was unconstitutional and that the court should suppress evidence from the raid and the defendants' statements to police.
At Tuesday's hearing, Barrett again argued that Pentrexyl and Flanax — the drugs the Garcias are accused of selling — are not prescription drugs because they are not FDA-regulated and not found in the FDA's "Orange Book," which governs prescription drug products.
However, the charge information was changed by Deputy Prosecutor Andrew Achey on Oct. 17 to use generic names for ingredients in the drugs instead of using the brand names. The Garcias are accused of selling naproxen sodium and ampecillin, the active ingredients in the drugs.
Barrett protested these charges as well, saying that a prescription drug is defined by the sum of its ingredients.
"A drug ingredient alone is not a drug, let alone a legend drug," Barrett said.
He added that naproxen sodium is found in other non-prescription drugs.
Because of these issues, Barrett argued that the remaining charges should be dismissed.
Achey countered that because the drugs contained 550 mg of the active ingredients, they did constitute a legend drug, as outlined in the Orange Book.
"I don't think the charges here should be dismissed because they're in violation of state law, maybe even of federal law," Achey said.
At Maughmer's request, Achey also said he would change the brand names of the drugs to ingredient names in the four remaining charges.
He added that prescription drugs containing ampecillin require a prescription.
During the hearing, Barrett also objected to the fact that he had not received audio recording from a probable cause hearing that he claims occurred May 23, 2011. However, Maughmer said he would rule in the written order that he would stand by his initial ruling, in which he said the hearing did not occur.
"I'm going to deny the motion to reconsider," Maughmer said.
The penalty for a class C felony is two to eight years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000, and the penalty for a class D felony is six months to three years in prison and a fine of up to a $10,000. The penalty for a class B misdemeanor is up to 180 days in prison and a fine of up to $1,000.


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The curb can be a confusing place at Logan Airport. Where is my friend supposed to pick me up? Which way is the Silver Line? Why can't I find a cab?
Logan officials are trying to help bewildered passengers navigate the airport by reconfiguring the transportation options on the arrivals level of each terminal.


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Roundtable among BruinsNation frontpagers discussing UCLA's opening weekend victory over the Wolfpack.
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Nevada's Cody Fajardo (and his head coach Brian Polian) are fired up to play the Bruins in their season opener and coming in with a little chip on their shoulder.
Coach Mora met with the media after practice and talked about where the team is, and where he is as a coach, as they are just 3 days away from the start of the 2013 season.
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The Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) offers license plates and placards for customers with disabilities that limit their mobility, permanently or temporarily. Plates and placards are marked with the International Symbol of Access (wheelchair) and grant special parking privileges to those who hold them.
Placards and plates may be used on vehicles that are owned by people with disabilities, frequently operated by people with disabilities, or used to transport people with disabilities.
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- Permanent loss of the use of one or both legs.
- Permanent restriction due to a pulmonary or cardiovascular disability, arthritic condition, orthopedic condition or neurological impairment.
- Permanently blind or visually impaired as defined by state law in Indiana Code 12-7-2-21 or 12-7-2-198. This requires a practitioner's certification.
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The Louisiana Department of Corrections announced today that former DeQuincy prison, C. Paul Phelps Correctional Center, will reopen as a transitional work program for non-violent offenders.
"Repurposing Phelps as a TWP honors the Department's commitment to area leaders to find the best possible use but in a fashion that encourages education, training and self-support, in an effort to reduce incarceration and recidivism rates," said DOC Secretary, Jimmy LeBlanc.
The program will be open to 300 adult males who are non-violent, non-sex offenders and who are within four years of their release date.
Participants without previous job training or vocational certification will have the opportunity to achieve certification in an "in-demand" skilled trade.
"The TWP provides increased opportunities for offenders to enhance existing skills or to obtain new skills for in-demand jobs such as welding, carpentry and plumbing," said LeBlanc. "It also provides employees (in southwest Louisiana as well as other areas of the state) with qualified employees to meet business and expansion goals."
Upon completion of the program, participants will leave with approved employment and residence plans and plans for employee retention.
"Direct and indirect job creation in Southwest Louisiana associated with Sasol and other projects is tremendous — 20,000 jobs estimated in this area alone," said LeBlanc. "There is a definite role that Corrections can play in meeting the demands for an accessible, skilled-labor workforce across various industries."
On Friday, the DOC also issued an RFP or "Request for Proposals" to potential contractors to run the TWP at the former Phelps site. That contractor would be required to acquire and maintain accreditation with the American Correctional Association just as state corrections facility do.
The contractor would also be responsible for routine and preventative maintenance of the facility as well as proper insurance. A pre-proposal conference is scheduled for April 8 and proposals must be submitted by May 13.
Officials hope to move in the first round of TWP participants in late summer, early fall.
The DOC closed Phelps on Nov. 1, 2012, claiming it was old, inefficient and costly to keep open. When the facility closed, it housed nearly 900 inmates and employed just under 300 Southwest Louisiana residents.
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The diary of a major league baseball player during one season reveals the game's venal and foolish aspects
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Jim Bouton's Ball Four was among the first books authored by a gentleman jock to break the code of the locker room. The scandalous revelations of players and coaches using amphetamines, dope, and alcohol made Bouton a pariah among his peers. It is also a compelling account of a man facing the pain of promise unfulfilled (What Happens to a Dream Deserted could be the subtitle). Bouton is a man in transition: an all-star by age 24, injuries have slowed his fastball and
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Today Mr. Small came out to the outfield where the pitchers were running and said, "Gentlemen, from now on we can all run with our hats off. It's really silly for us to run with our hats on, because the band gets all sweaty and ruins the hat."
"How come you weren't able to think of that a few weeks ago?" I asked him.
"Well, it wasn't as warm then and we weren't sweating at the same rate we are now."
We've been running short of greenies. We don't get them from the trainer, because greenies are against club policy. So we get them from players on other teams who have friends who are doctors, or friends who know where to get greenies. One of our lads is going to have a bunch of greenies mailed to him by some of the guys on the Red Sox. And to think you can spend five years in jail for giving your friend a marijuana cigarette.
There's a zany quality to Joe Schultz that we all enjoy and that contributes, I believe, to keeping the club loose. Last night he got thrown out of a ballgame for the first time after disputing a home run that everybody knew was foul except the umpires. But that's not what he got thrown out for. He got thumbed out for offering the plate umpire his glasses, a very obvious gesture, which I enjoyed all the way out in the bullpen.
On the bench he's always saying all kinds of silly things. Like the other night when we scored six runs in the eleventh and the Red Sox scored five in the bottom half, he said, "Had them all the way." He gives a countdown on the outs when we're ahead. "Only eight outs to go—oops, only seven." And he's running up and down the dugout and jumping around like a little kid. At the same time he's letting Harper run on his own and letting the guys hit and run, and he doesn't get angry when they get thrown out stealing. It makes for a comfortable ballclub.
The knuckleball is groovy and still I can't get into a game. Tonight they could have put me in early with a 4–0 lead and Brabender pitching in a lot of trouble. They warmed me up, which means they're now thinking of me as a long man, which isn't a very good sign because there aren't many chances for a long man to get into a game when it matters. When they need short relief, both Segui and O'Donoghue get into the game.
Intellectually, I can understand Schultz's thinking. He has a lot of confidence in Segui, who was a top reliever last year, and O'Donoghue is his left-handed relief man and does pretty well against left-handers. Still, it gets me angry when the phone rings and it's not for me. After a while I cool off and think how I would have felt about the position I'm in now while I was with Vancouver, or in spring training, when I wasn't sure I was going to make the team. Also, the team is managing very well without me. We're playing heads-up ball. The guys on the bench are alive, and when the other team makes a mental error we take advantage of it right away. We're hitting the hell out of the ball, and we're even getting the breaks, which is part of it too. Besides, California is losing a lot of games, and what I see again in the crystal ball is third place.
What I also see in my crystal ball is that I'm the only guy in the big leagues who may finish behind his team. I was so embarrassed tonight I wanted to go off and join a monastery. We had the voting for player rep. Bell handled the meeting so well that it was impossible not to vote for him. Good for him. He'll enjoy driving the free car this summer, at least until he's traded.
The team doesn't take voting for player rep seriously. If it did Mike Marshall would have been elected. He's the most qualified guy on the club; bright, well read, knows a lot about the pension plan and is just the man for persistence and the paperwork. (Like he handled the shipping of our cars without a hitch and no fuss.) Except that he wasn't even nominated, because the vote for player rep is more of a popularity contest.
Which doesn't say much for me. Don Mincher, Tommy Harper and I were nominated for assistant. Tommy got six votes, Mincher got seventeen. I got one. I couldn't even break my Yankee record. I shudder to think what would happen if I wasn't trying to be one of the boys. I seem to be bearing up well under all of this. Inside, though, I'm a mess.
From Ball Four by Jim Bouton. Copyright 2012 RosettaBooks. Excerpted by permission of RosettaBooks.
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With life-threatening allergies among children on the rise, a new law permits Illinois schools to keep on hand a supply of potentially life-saving epinephrine auto-injectors, more commonly known as EpiPens. To learn more about this important new law, please read the fact sheets below. Physicians can also consult the posted toolkit to assist in providing a school with a prescription for an epinephrine auto-injector, including a standardized standing order and prescription form.
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Day 1 (Glacier National Park) Head straight to Glacier National Park this morning to begin your adventure! On the drive up and over the Going-to-the-Sun Road, breathtaking scenery and wildlife viewing prevail. Your guides on this journey are experienced naturalists familiar with the region, and they are excited to introduce you to what many people consider the most pristine national park in the Lower 48.
Day 2 (Glacier and Waterton National Parks) Your day begins with a nice hike in the Many Glacier area, with the guides providing interesting interpretation of the flora, fauna, and history of the area as you trek in the park. Enjoy lunch on the trail before returning to Many Glacier in the early afternoon. The group then crosses the border into Canada, headed to Waterton Lakes National Park, where dinner on the shores of Lake Waterton completes a fabulous day.
Day 3 (Waterton Lakes National Park) With a full day to experience Waterton Lakes National Park, youll see towering cliffs, unusual geological formations, beautiful waterfalls, and snow-clad mountain peaks as you scan the hillsides for bear, moose, bighorn sheep, and mountain goats. Your guides tailor the day, selecting hikes based on the interests of the group.
Day 4 (Waterton and Island Lake Lodge) After a nice morning hike, we set out north through Pincher Creek and west to Crowsnest Pass. At the town of Frank, we stop to visit the site of a devastating rockslide that thundered down over the town in 1903. The surreal landscape is a testament to the ultimate authority of nature and the reality of frontier life in the mountains. Later this afternoon we arrive in the beautiful Elk Valley. Our luxury backcountry lodge is in a secluded and pristine wilderness setting with a world of nature at our fingertips.
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Two arrests have been made in the shooting death of 53-year-old Jerry Stover of Ragley.
Beauregard Parish Sheriff Ricky Moses on Wednesday said that arrested were 54-year-old Catherine Anderson and 50-year-old Cheryl Schonsby.
Moses said that Anderson was arrested at around 1:15 a.m. Wednesday, and Schonsby was taken into custody at 7 a.m. Wednesday.
It was early morning on Christmas Eve when Stover's body was found outside of his home on Highway 171 in Ragley. He had been shot to death. Moses said officers received a 911 call from his live-in in girlfriend Catherine Anderson.
"We received a call Christmas Eve morning approximately 8 o'clock that a subject was laying just outside of his home, driveway area, that had been shot. Deputies responded, found Mr. Jerry Stover, age 53, deceased, from an apparent gunshot wound," said Moses.
Yet, within 48 hours the investigation led to the arrest of Anderson and Schonsby.
"She (Schonsby) was there at the scene. We determined she was there at the scene that morning and she's supposedly best friends with Ms. Anderson," said Moses.
Moses said the motive may have stemmed from alleged domestic violence.
"We've gotten some information that there's possibly been some domestic abuse in the past. We're exploring that and we think that may have been the motive in the killing."
Moses said authorities believe the murder may have been planned.
The women have been booked for second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. They will likely get a right to counsel hearing on Thursday morning during which attorneys will be appointed for each, unless they can afford to hire their own counsel.
Both are being held in the Beauregard Parish Jail with $1,250,000 bond set for each.
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We flew in from Denver the night before departure and stayed at the Courtyard Marriott on the Ft. Lauderdale beach. This was a great location down from Port Everglades and allowed us to walk to the beach the morning before the cruise as well as sit out on Las Olas Boulevard to see the sights the night before. Embarkation was really easy. We waited about 45 minutes and were on about noon if my memory is good.
We thoroughly enjoyed this cruise and Holland America. Some reviews warned parents with kids away from HAL. While it is true that the average age group is on the older side, my kids still had plenty to do on the ship and really liked it. I have two very active athletic boys who managed to entertain themselves quite well. They do not like participating in the cruise line kid clubs, whether on Carnival or HAL. They really liked the swimming pool on the Lido Deck. They thought it was much larger than the Carnival pools and because there were less kids - the pool and associated hot tubs were less crowded. The Noordam staff typically closed the pool dome at night which transformed the pool from an outdoor cruise ship feel - to more of a fancy hotel inside pool ambiance. They also really liked the Ship Flicks movie collection and their ability to check out DVD's for the room. There is also an arcade that had about the same number of games as those found on the Carnival ships. They used the basketball court a few times, but thought it was too windy at times. They did miss not having a putt putt golf course that is found on most ships.
From the grown-up perspective, I thought the food was really good. While I like the food on Carnival just fine, I did think this was a step up. Probably my favorite meal was at the Canaletto Restaurant. I had the veal and it was outstanding. I also enjoyed having the "no charge" cappuccino in the main dining room each night. My Dad did miss the 24 hr. self-serve ice cream he is used to on the Carnival ships, but the ice cream HAL had was really good! We also really enjoyed the outdoor BBQ that the staff did for us the night we sailed around the Pitons of St. Lucia. The food was fantastic and the decorations and view of the Pitons made the night very special.
We were also lucky enough to participate in the Cruise Critic Meet and Greet. Candy Brock, a definite HAL veteran, hosted this event. It was apparently the largest one HAL had done, and was attended by several crew members. HAL provided a chocolate soda fountain and many fruits and desserts. We also had a grab bag exchange and we ended up with some great jams and tea from England. I did find it easier to get to know the crew on this sized ship as opposed to the larger Carnival ones we were on previously.
The ship itself is really spectacular. I love the glass elevators as well as the artwork found throughout the ship. There is always something to look at and study. My primary negative comment for the ship was the cabin layout. On the Carnival ships, I was used to having a queen bed as well as an upper and lower that turned into bunk beds for the kids (same room). HAL's set-up is not so great. The upper comes down over the queen bed and you only have about a foot until you hit your head. We turned around and put our feet under this to avoid the head bumps. Unfortunately, I had to unmake/remake the bed most nights as we were confusing the cabin stewards. Also, once the lower couch kid bed was down and made - you are blocked from the balcony unless you want to crawl over the bed. Very tight quarters - Carnival was much better on this account.
We did see one of the Broadway type shows as well as a comedian, Jeff Nease, who was quite good! Also, on the afternoon that we sailed around St. Lucia, the Captain opened up the bow of the ship while we went from Castries to Soufriere, and we were able to go out and have drinks and take pictures.
Speaking of drinks, I thought they were OK. For me, I was more used to a lot of frozen concoctions that Carnival served, while these were more basic drinks - not so much the frozen type.
My husband and I did use the thermal suite and really liked it. I would highly recommend this activity. It is like a really fancy large hot tub that smells great. You also get to use the steam-rooms and the tiled, heated chairs that overlook the ocean. Really nice. We had a couples massage the last night of the cruise and enjoyed this as well.
I will review the ports in the next section, but I will say they were all great! This cruise went to St. Lucia, Dominica, St. Thomas, St. Maarten and Half Moon Cay, Bahamas. Dominica was our favorite and I can say we did not get to spend enough time in St. Lucia or St. Maarten to really get to see that much. If you haven't been to Dominica and like true rain forests, then put it on your list. But more detail in the next section....


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DENISON, TX -- Construction on a multi-million dollar new high school continues in one Texoma town, and the final look of the new building is starting to take shape.
Workers are making progress on the new Denison High School on the Highway 75 frontage road at Highway 91.
A large part of the structure and frame of the $61 million dollar building is now visible, and some driveways are complete. All the work is scheduled to be finished by next spring, with the school opening in the fall of 2014.