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Piglet Runs For Office. :D
Me: "I'm gonna vote for Piglet for town commissioner".
Mom: "That's not funny. Don't do that. You really should take voting seriously…"
Me: "But I don't know any of the people running. So I'm gonna vote for Piglet".
Mom: "People fought for years for their rights to vote and you just have to make a joke out of it".
Me: Geez, mom. Calm down. First I'm joking and do you really think Piglet would actually win. Imagine if the radio guy said, 'Bar Harbor Town Commissioner is…..PIGLET!!!'.
Mom: Leave it blank if you don't know who to vote for.
Me: But that's not voting. People fought for their rights to vote and now am gonna leave it blank. At least Piglet is a real…well….you get my point.
Okay, so I got a question for my Tumblr friends. So at my local pizza place, "Pat's Pizza". There's this girl that I like. She funny, cute, smart, blonde, and short. Everytime I go there she stops by my table to chat and ask how am doing. When my mom goes in without me, the girl, Sarah will ask where I am. So, the other day, my mom pressured me to ask this girl out. She like, "You better ask her out!! Just ask her to the movies. What's wrong with you". I get really really shy and nervous about asking girls out, cause I think they'll say no and I don't need my heart crushed and shattered by a girl I don't know. My mom eats at Pat's way more than I do, so she's known her longer as a waitress. I wasn't interested in her for months and didn't care about her, until my mom said, "She's soooo cute!!!! She soooooo cute!!! She's like a little doll!!!", so I was like "Whatever!!!" Then a few weeks ago I went into Pat's and started to like this girl. She was coming up to me and asking about my movies and my summer camp job. I'm now wanting to ask her out, but problem is i have no idea if she's single or not. Should I ask my mom to ask her if she single without making it look like I told her to do it?? My mom says she'll do it, but thinks am a wimp. I said if she single and not in a relationship, I'd ask her out on a date. Which am sure I'll back out at the last minute and end up not doing. Anyway, now I can't get this girl outta my mind. I barley know anything about her. She could smoke, drink, and listen to Punk, three things I hate. but guess I should give it a try and just ask her out as two friends. I'm the kinda person when someone offers me something like a job or something, I always take it cause I love where life leads you and the unexpected people you meet along the way. But when it comes to dating, am like nervous wreck.
- Mom: Those people on Tumblr are going to come to the house and kidnap you.
- Me: Mom they barely ever leave their room.


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An effectiveness study of an integrated, community-based package for maternal, newborn, child and HIV care in South Africa : study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
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An effectiveness study of an integrated, community-based package for maternal, newborn, child and HIV care in South Africa : study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Tomlinson, Mark
Doherty, Tanya
Jackson, Debra
Lawn, Joy
Ijumba, Petrida
Colvin, Mark
Nkonki, Lungiswa
Daviaud, Emmanuelle
Goga, Ameena
Sanders, David
Lombard, Carl
Persson, Lars-Ake
Ndaba, Thoko
Snetro, Gail
Chopra, Mickey
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Background Progress towards MDG4 in South Africa will depend largely on scaling up effective prevention against mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV and also addressing neonatal mortality. This imperative drives increasing focus on the neonatal period and particularly on the development and testing of appropriate models of sustainable, community-based care in South Africa in order to reach the poor. A number of key implementation gaps affecting progress have been identified. Implementation gaps for HIV prevention in neonates; implementation gaps for neonatal care especially home postnatal care; and implementation gaps for maternal mental health support. We have developed and are evaluating and costing an integrated and scaleable home visit package delivered by community health workers targeting pregnant and postnatal women and their newborns to provide essential maternal/newborn care as well as interventions for Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV. Methods The trial is a cluster randomized controlled trial that is being implemented in Umlazi which is a peri-urban settlement with a total population of 1 million close to Durban in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. The trial consists of 30 randomized clusters (15 in each arm). A baseline survey established the homogeneity of clusters and neither stratification nor matching was performed. Sample size was based on increasing HIV-free survival from 74% to 84%, and calculated to be 120 pregnant women per cluster. Primary outcomes are higher levels of HIV free survival and levels of exclusive and appropriate infant feeding at 12 weeks postnatally. The intervention is home based with community health workers delivering two antenatal visits, a postnatal visit within 48 hours of birth, and a further four visits during the first two months of the infants life. We are undertaking programmatic and cost effectiveness analysis to cost the intervention. Discussion The question is not merely to develop an efficacious package but also to identify and test delivery strategies that enable scaling up, which requires effectiveness studies in a health systems context, adapting and testing Asian community-based studies in various African contexts. Trial registration ISRCTN: ISRCTN41046462
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An exquisite collection of Chinese antiquities spanning more than 6,000 years of Chinese history will go on display Thursday, April 22, in Cal State Northridge's Oviatt Library. Entitled "Possessing the Past: Mysteries of Ancient Chinese Art," the exhibition will be open to the public through August 27.
Marking the first public showing of The Tseng Collection, the exhibition will include more than 100 pieces of archaic jade, an assortment of ancient bronze, Neolithic pottery, earthenware and Stone Age tools.
Collection highlights include a unique 3,000-year-old gold and bronze vessel valued at $5.5 million, a bronze bull with inlaid gold and silver dated between the eleventh and sixth centuries B.C.E., a glass water buffalo weight dated between 400-221 B.C.E., and a Stone Age axe blade believed to be between 1.5-2 million years old.
In fall 2003, entrepreneur Roland Tseng pledged to Cal State Northridge a collection of Chinese antiquities valued at up to $38 million.
Designated for public display and academic study, Tseng's donation was the largest in the history of Cal State Northridge and the California State University system. The antiquities now are part of the Special Collections and Archives area of the Oviatt Library.
Visitors to the exhibition in the library's C.K. and Teresa Tseng Gallery-named for Roland Tseng's parents-will be struck by the detail and fine craftsmanship that went into each piece, said curator Tony Gardner.
"I personally was amazed at the level of craftsmanship of these ancient artisans," Gardner said.
Tseng, a veteran art collector who also has helped the Chinese government with its own preservation efforts, said he chose Cal State Northridge for the collection because of the university's strong connections with China, and because the university is a place where the antiquities can be publicly shown and studied in many different disciplines.
In recognition of the gift, the CSU Board of Trustees in January approved renaming the College of Extended Learning as the Roland Tseng College of Extended Learning, and the west wing of the Oviatt Library-where the prized art will be displayed-as the Tseng Family Wing.
Roland Tseng is a corporate founder and inventor, an internationally published author, a photographer and martial arts expert. His gift also will establish an endowment to permanently support the collection, expected to become a focus for academic research by the university's own faculty and students, and by researchers from around the world, including China.
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A cure for the blues?
SAPDs sexual-misconduct woes reflect a national problem
Published: 6/16/2010
Since 2007, 11 San Antonio Police Department officers have received indefinite suspensions related to sexual misconduct. In 2009, one third of officers fired for misconduct were investigated for a sexually motivated offense. That doesnt surprise national experts; police departments throughout the country face similar issues with rape, sexual assault, improper searches, baseless traffic stops, and officers demanding sexual favors from suspects and victims of crime. Last years high number of SAPD officer-misconduct investigations across the board generated an external review of the department and a massive reorganization. But will that be enough for San Antonio to successfully change behavior that police officers have engaged in throughout the country for as long as laws have been enforced?
Trying to study or compare police sexual-misconduct cases results primarily in frustration, because large police departments dont track those numbers. Timothy Maher, one of the few academics who specializes in the issue, had to conduct his own surveys between 2001 and 2005 of police departments just to have a data set to evaluate previously none existed. The former police officer and criminology professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis also had to develop the definition of what he calls Police Sexual Misconduct. In a 2003 article for the Criminal Justice Review, Maher defines police sexual misconduct as any behavior by a police officer whereby an officer takes advantage of their unique position in law enforcement to initiate or respond to some sexually motivated stimuli, including everything from flirting on-duty to rape.
In his survey of 14 departments in the St. Louis metropolitan area, Maher discovered that none specifically mentioned police sexual misconduct in written policy. A national report by the women and transgendered people of color advocacy group INCITE stated that the NYPD, the countrys largest police department, also did not have a definition for sexual misconduct or policies pertaining to it. Following suit, SAPD does not include specific mention of police sexual misconduct in their rules and regulations. Like most other departments, SAPD includes non-violent forms of sexual misconduct as a violation of standard conduct and behavior rules. There is no separate category for creepy behavior, wrote City Attorney Robert Reyna in an email.
Yet both Mahers study and INCITEs report found such bad behavior to be widespread. In Mahers interviews with 40 police officers in the St. Louis area, most officers estimated they knew of at least 20 sexual-misconduct incidents per year. The officers reported having firsthand knowledge of 213 such incidents over the last year and secondhand knowledge of 690 such incidents over the same time period, excluding two officers who reported extremely high numbers. According to the INCITE report, sexual misconduct accounted for nearly 25 percent of law-enforcement license revocations in Florida and Missouri.
In San Antonio, city officials prefer to speak in more general terms, but acknowledge serious concerns about officer behavior. While Mayor Julián Castro applauds SAPD for its crime-fighting capacity, he makes a point to keep informed about behavioral issues. Theres been numerous sexual assaults. Weve seen speeding, and weve seen officer-involved shootings, he said during a phone interview. Im interested in how better training and management can enhance the departments performance. Assistant City Manager Erik Walsh, who oversees the police and fire departments, said the City Managers office called for an organizational and operational review by Matrix Consulting Group because wed had a number of issues that had surfaced over the past 12-24 months. We had misconduct, we had issues with crime statistics two years ago, just a whole host of internal and external issues.
The resulting Matrix report, a 197-page document released in May, states, there have been several public incidents in the past few years which have raised issues relating to the soundness of organizational culture. According to Maher, INCITE and other organizations that have investigated police sexual misconduct, reported offenses, those in which a police department has taken disciplinary action against the officer, are the tip of an iceberg largely comprising unreported or ignored misconduct.
Craig Nash: On an early morning/late night in February, Craig Nash, 39, then an on-duty SAPD patrol officer, allegedly picked up a transgendered woman near Guadalupe and Zarzamora streets. He handcuffed her, put her in his squad car, and took her to a secluded area where he then forced her to give him oral sex and raped her, said the victim. Immediately after the incident, she took the bus to the South Frio police substation to report rape by an on-duty officer and said she had cum up her butt to prove it, according to Nashs arrest-warrant affidavit.
This time, the SAPD leapt into action, arresting Nash that day on criminal charges of rape and official oppression. But his actions werent without alarming precedent. After Nashs arrest, a second person, a male, came forward to allege he was sexually assaulted in the summer of 2008. Texas Civil Rights Project Director James Harrington said he helped file a complaint in August 2009 about Nashs rough and inappropriate treatment of a domestic-violence victim discovered screaming downtown by Harringtons son late one night last summer. Harringtons son called the police, and Nash responded, eventually resorting to scare tactics to get the name of the womans abuser. We went to City Council, said Harrington, and we said this guy is off his rocker. Their complaint was filed with Internal Affairs and Harrington met with Police Chief William McManus in September, but the department never investigated the complaint.
Nashs case represents not only an extreme example of an on-duty officer-turned-sexual predator, it also highlights two issues complicating any thorough evaluation of police sexual misconduct: unreported incidents and what Maher calls the blue wall of silence. In his report, Maher writes, police departments and police officers allegedly cover up, ignore or remain silent about incriminating matters, even when brought to their attention.
There is no way to determine how many police sexual-misconduct complaints go unreported. Local critics have complained that SAPDs complaint process intimidates civilians [see Dismantling the Boys Club, May 26], but underreporting of sexual abuse is a global phenomenon not limited to police-instigated offenses. The INCITE report states it is estimated that overall, only 1/3 of rapes and sexual assaults are reported to law-enforcement authorities. One can only imagine that this rate is far lower among women who are raped or sexually assaulted by the very law-enforcement agents charged with protecting them from violence. Maher told us by phone, Many women say, I just want this to go away, and try to forget about the incident completely.
To further ensure they wont be disciplined by their department, some police officers target groups they perceive as less trustworthy. Among the victims of the 11 complaints against SAPD officers were a mentally ill woman, a teenager, a prostitute, a transgendered woman, and a woman in possession of marijuana. Even if the officers are caught, victims may feel intimidated or mistrustful of police and therefore less likely to issue a complaint. The INCITE report points out that while the victim of such misconduct may also legitimately be charged with a crime, an officer is often trained to provide expert testimony. Who are they gonna believe? asked Maher. The cop or the dancer from the strip club?
In very rare cases do fellow officers ever come forward in support of complainants or with allegations of their own. John Van Maanen, an ethnographer who spent a year studying a police force by going through its academy and working on patrol for six months, attributes this to the extremely tight bonds developed and promoted within the police department due to the trust officers must have in their co-workers for the high-stress aspects of police work. While Van Maanen says a proportionally small number of officers are responsible for most complaints against the department, the rest are bystanders, and they dont speak out against an officer. That largely defines the culture. Chief McManus echoed this sentiment. When asked if the department could make officers feel more comfortable coming forward with complaints about fellow officers he said, Its not so much a problem with supervisors, its more about peer pressure and everybody looking at you because you ratted out a fellow officer.
Gregory Mickel: Last summer, a police officer stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation on the East Side. After learning one of the occupants had prior prostitution arrests, he ordered the male driver to leave, and then had sex with the female occupant in a dark parking lot near Burnet. When she reported she was raped, Gregory Mickel made himself the responding officer to her call and canceled all medical care for her. He also attempted to close out the case himself, telling other investigating patrol officers the woman was mentally ill and lying about the incident. Mickel was indefinitely suspended one month later. In September he plead guilty to two misdemeanors of official oppression and violation of civil rights.
James McClure: On September 1, James McClure stopped a female driver for traffic violations. When he noticed a suspicious bulge in the womans pants, he instructed the woman to follow his squad car to a business center on Hardy Oak. Once there, he told the woman to strip naked, at which point he discovered a bag of marijuana in her pants. Instead of arresting the woman, he fondled the naked woman and returned the marijuana, letting her go free. He was indefinitely suspended six months later.
Stories from women who get out of traffic tickets based on their looks and interaction with male officers are fairly common, but what if, like racial profiling, physical appearance is what gets a woman pulled over in the first place?
Many departments, like ours, keep data on racial-profiling complaints. Yet there are no such statistics for gender profiling. A 2002 report entitled Driving While Female, conducted by the University of Nebraskas Police Professionalism Initiative, issued a scathing report accusing police departments across the nation of engaging in questionable stops of female drivers that sometimes lead to harassment or more serious sexual abuse.
While the vast majority of women pulled over for a traffic violation wont end up raped or murdered, gender-based stops are at least an improper use of police resources to gratify some sort of private goal or curiousity, which constitutes the type of sexual misconduct Maher says is most prevalent among cops.
Its almost like a perk of the job, to some officers said Maher, who himself served as a police officer for more than two decades. Maher wrote that police officers commonly pull drivers over in order to check out or talk to the driver or passengers simply because they are female. In our phone interview, he said most interactions dont result in physical abuse of the driver. Theyre flirting, and theyre fishing, but its inappropriate. The Driving While Female report takes a harder line: These abuses are systemic of a pervasive sexist culture within a police department. The report hypothesizes these stops continue due to the same reasons that many police officers still engage in sexual misconduct. Police tolerate them by failing to act on citizen complaints, failing to adopt necessary policy and training and failing to supervise their officers in a professional manner.
Christopher Martinez: In an internal-affairs investigation of Christopher Martinez that ranged from August to November, 2009, investigators turned up on- and off-duty sex in public (in both instances, private security firms caught Martinez), phoning in a false narcotics lead against an ex-girlfriends new boyfriend, visiting female acquaintances instead of responding to on-duty calls for service (he also submitted an overtime request for one of these instances), running background checks and telephone-record reports on female acquaintances, and disabling his patrol cars GPS unit. Martinez was indefinitely suspended in March 2010.
No matter what behavior-related policy police departments put in place, what data they ask officers to record or discipline they threaten to levy, enforcement wont come easily since most patrol officers work their territory solo. Police work is something you do on your own, said Van Maanen. Very rarely do sergeants and lieutenants ever see what you do. That makes it very difficult to supervise. Though SAPD internal-affairs investigations highlight the extent to which officers can be tracked through the technology they must use, they also describe instances where officers make end runs around the systems by entering phony information and disabling tracking devices.
In the case of SAPD, the Matrix report found that first line supervision is a significant issue in the Department, and their ability to work with the staff they supervise is extremely limited and operations have evolved with this expectation among line employees. It also pointed out that SAPD was well above the sergeant-per-officers benchmark ratio of one-to-six. To that end, SAPD has moved swiftly to reorganize administrative duties away from field supervisors and added 18 more sergeants in the Fiscal Year 2010 budget, a change already in the works before Matrix released its report. What were going to be doing is focusing on supervision, Chief McManus said after a May city council meeting, and making sure that supervision is interactive and proactive throughout the tour of duty. So that you have supervisors riding in on calls, checking in with officers to see how things are going. He told the Current, When someone gets in trouble, when someone commits an act of misconduct, and you think how the heck could that ever happen? the first thing that police do is look at the entrance standards, theres gotta be something wring with the way we recruit people. Turns out in most cases not to be the entrance standards. Then its gotta be the policies, something lacking in our policies that weve gotta address. Turns out our policies are tight. Gotta be the training. So we look at the training. You can never get enough training. But essentially it is not the training. What it turns out to be is supervision.
McManus and Walsh said not only will supervisors be more numerous and more available to officers in most divisions the new sergeant-per-officer ratio goal is a maximum of one-to-eight, they will also stand for discipline alongside their rogue officers.
Theres going to be cases where the first question anybody has is, what was his supervisor doing? Were gonna have to start holding them accountable, said Walsh. The office of the Chief confirmed that any supervisor violating department policy related to misconduct by one of their officers will also be disciplined, though they were vague about what might happen to a supervisor not found to have violated policy personally.
Thats good, if they actually implement it, said Van Maanen of the departments new supervision plan. They may reorganize, but that alone wont change the habits. You dont say OK sergeant, go out and supervise your squad, and the sergeant whos been sitting in the station for 15 years suddenly does it.
The Matrix report noted some discontent among the rank-and-file and their supervisors already. It was equally clear in these interviews and in focus group meetings that a culture has evolved particularly in the field in which line employees do not welcome supervisory presence. And without at least some specific written guideline to complement the verbal instruction about misconduct and behavior McManus says he gives cadets and officers, supervisors may have a hard time spotting police sexual misconduct among their ranks. I think it goes back to airing dirty laundry, said Maher, speaking in general about police departments reluctance to issue specific sexual-misconduct regulations. This does not make a department look good. To come up with a policy suggests you have a problem. To suggest you have a problem makes you look bad, but I would argue just the opposite: Theyre being proactive.
Sooner or later, SAPD may find itself forced to be proactive. Maher sits on a task force with the International Association of Chiefs of Police, which intends to develop guidelines to prevent police sexual misconduct. The IACP is one of four groups that form the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, which SAPD should join early next year, after the three-year accreditation process concludes in December. Should the IACP guidelines be adopted by CALEA, the SAPD would have to demonstrate its adherence with up-to-date proof of compliance.
In some related areas, the SAPD is already being proactive. For instance, the department has a policy that any sexual act on duty, consensual or not, is coercive. In-service training by members of the GLBT community has been offered quarterly for the past three years (though only one session was directed at senior officers). The Rape Crisis center confirmed that they offer one full day of training per week to SAPD that covers sexual assault. Cadets also receive one hour of training from Internal Affairs about previous police sexual-misconduct cases. The maligned complaint process has become slightly less intimidating, and may get more transparent at the behest of the Mayors office and CALEA standards.
To implement the Matrix review recommendations, the Department put together a committee of community stakeholders, including the director of the Rape Crisis Center and the Battered Womens Shelter and a member of the San Antonio Gender Alliance, which may bring a different perspective to how police interact with women. Also on the committee are community representatives from the East, North, South and West sides of the city and three academics, including UTSAs Michael Gilbert, a leader in the field of restorative justice, which examines criminal justice through the needs of victims and the goal of reduced recidivism.
At the groups first meeting, the 14 committee members, plus five officers in uniform and one representative from the San Antonio Police Officers Association, gathered around a long table at City Hall. Maybe it was just the excitement of finally being asked their opinions, but members we spoke with after the meeting, including Lyn Blanco, director of the Rape Crisis Center and Lucy Hall, a member of the Community Workers Council on the West Side, had only positive things to say about SAPDs outreach. Noting that the group would meet weekly for the immediate future, Blanco said, That kind of real intensive look surprised me. [The SAPD] really want to make changes quickly. Hall viewed the meetings as a continuation of community outreach which had already resulted in fewer resident complaints against the department from her neighborhood.
Changing culture requires more than just new policies and oversight. Among those who study police behavior, there is a consensus that to be successful, the shift needs to encompass recruitment (more women, for instance), training, and the connection police officers feel to the community they represent. People who talk about how to change police culture often have great suggestions, but they dont get very far, said Van Maanen, pointing to failed policies in large departments like New York, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Theres a sense of entitlement that officers obviously take advantage of. Having been there myself, I can understand why. I just cant justify it ethically or morally. Ultimately, it comes down to figuring out how to institutionalize the most basic principle McManus conveys to his cadets: The communitys confidence is everything, and the way that we keep that confidence is by treating people the way we want members of our family to be treated if they get stopped by the police.
All officers except Mark Hunt received indefinite suspensions. Hunt received a 10-day suspension. Officers Gonzalez, Nash, Mickel and Muriel faced criminal charges.
6/26/2007 While on-duty, officer Victor H. Gonzalez arranges for an 18-year-old prostitute to give a customer a blowjob for $60. He also receives a blowjob. She reports the incident to SAPD when she is arrested in November.
8/24/2007 Officer David Alonzo begins dating a woman he previously arrested on a DWI charge, and against whom he knew he would have to testify in her upcoming trial. He later denies their relationship to an assistant district attorney investigating the womans DWI charge.
9/1/2008 After stopping a woman for a traffic violation and suspecting her of carrying drugs, officer James C. McClure takes the woman to an office park where he tells her to strip naked. He then fondles her and lets her go without arresting her for a bag of marijuana he found (and returned to her) during the strip search.
12/18/2008 Officer Richard W. Acuna stops a woman walking on South Presa and he learns she has two outstanding warrants. He drives her to a nearby underpass and under the pretext of a drug search fondles the woman underneath her clothes and then releases her without arresting her for the warrants.
1/12/2009 A 14-year-old accuses officer Mark E. Hunt of showing her provocative photos of women he had on his cell phone while Hunt patrolled a housing project on the South Side. This followed a similar accusation made in September 2008.
2/2/2009 Two women claim a man exposed himself to them while they were on the main campus at UTSA. Police later learned the man was SAPD officer Patrick Muriel.
4/27/2009 Officer Anthony A. Sterling leaves his post at SAPD communications for an hour and a half to run a personal errand and get a blowjob.
6/26/2009 During a traffic stop, when officer Gregory Mickel learns the female passenger has prior prostitution arrests, he orders the male driver to leave the vehicle while he has sex with the female. When the woman later calls SAPD claiming Mickel raped her, he makes himself the responding officer and attempts to close out the case and cancel medical care for the victim.
8/25/2009 While off-duty, officer Kyle B. Goodwin throws a birthday party for his girlfriend during which he assaults a female guest, groping under her swimsuit top and forcing her hand over his crotch.
9/24/2009 Allied Barton Security catches officer Christopher Martinez for the second time in one month having sex with a female in a remote area of Brooks City Base. This time Martinez was on-duty; the first time he was off-duty but used his SAPD status to get released from custody. A related investigation discovered Martinez also used police resources to search the records of female acquaintances, called in false information on an ex-girlfriends new boyfriend, and failed to respond to calls while on-duty in order to conduct personal business.
12/13/2009 After meeting an employee at a La Cantera store the evening before, officer Gabriel Villarreal uses police resources to find the womans current address then visits her under the pretext of a 911 hang-up call. The related investigation unearths multiple inappropriate conversations with fellow officers and use of police resources to search personal information of many other women. Three other officers receive lesser disciplinary action related to the investigation.
2/25/10 A transgenedered woman accuses officer Craig Nash of rape after he picks her up while on-duty. SAPD arrests Nash the same day. A second male alleges Nash sexually assaulted him in the summer of 2008.


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Katy Perry may or may not kiss a girl come Sunday night at the MTV Video Music Awards, but she will act "Like a Virgin." The singer will perform the Madonna hit on the award show, host Russell Brand told MTV.Early rumors had Perry ready to engage in a lip-lock onstage with Lindsay Lohan and it could still happen as Lohan is scheduled to be a presenter. And lest we forget, "Like a Virgin" produced that infamous Madonna-Britney Spears (and Madonna-Christina Aguilera) saliva swap five years ago.Aguilera will also hit the stage, which will be her first performance since giving birth to son Max in January.Brand also dished on other much-anticipated performances: T.I. will debut "Live Your Life" with Rihanna; Taylor Swift will introduce the Jonas Brothers; and Kanye West will close the broadcast.Spears, of course, will open the show. The 25th annual VMAs airs live Sunday at 9 pm/ET. Joyce Eng
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MTV announced Wednesday that Britney Spears will open this year's Video Music Awards but not with a musical performance.The network confirmed to TVGuide.com that the pop star will kick off Sunday's event (Sept. 7, 9 pm/ET) in a surprising way, although details were not revealed. Spears, who's nominated for Best Female Video, Best Pop Video and Video of the Year for "Piece of Me," may be making something of a comeback after her shocking 2007 routine. Already, she's appeared in two promos with 2008 host Russell Brand and hasn't missed a step (yet)."MTV has long played an important role in my career. How can I not be there to kick off their 25th VMAs?," Spears said in a statement. "I'm excited to open the entire show, to say hi to my fans and to be nominated."The pop star's 2007 performance was, of course, not her only noteworthy VMA moment. In the past, she's danced with snakes and famously smooched Madonna, among other antics. What could possibly top those? You tell us. ...
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After a debacle of a performance at the 2007 Video Music Awards, Britney Spears is now poised to take top honors at this year's event.The pop star's "Piece of Me" video has been nominated in three categories for the 2008 VMAs, including Best Pop Video, Best Female Video and Video of the Year. Spears' nominations should come as a welcome bit of success for the star, who, in the past year, was involuntarily hospitalized on several occasions, had her assets taken over by her father and fought a public custody battle. Yet, in recent months, with gigs like a guest role on How I Met Your Mother and an appearance in promos for the VMAs, it's seemed that she may be on the upswing. In the shadow of recent events, she's back in the spotlight, with nominations that pit her against some of pop's newer, reigning kings and queens: For the video of the year, Brit's up against the Jonas Brothers' "Burnin' Up" and Chris Brown's "Forever," among others. In the pop and female categories, the competiti...
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Still like a virgin? Hardly. But Madge has maintained her mad moves. Sources close to MTV tell TVGuide.com that Madonna will be among the nominees for Best Dancing in a Video for "4 Minutes," in which she and Justin Timberlake bust a move (or however the kids put it these days) at the 2008 Video Music Awards, airing Sept. 7.That reveal, with the rest of the nominees for Best Dancing as well as the Best New Artist contenders, will be made on Friday night's FN MTV, airing at 8 pm/ET. Matt Mitovich
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Veteran Indian batsman Rahul Dravid, who provided inspirational leadership to the beleaguered Rajasthan Royals this season, has decided to call it quits from the IPL with the upcoming Champions League Twenty20 being his last assignment for the franchise. "At 41, 12 months is a long way away. Luckily we have qualified for the Champions League (in October) which is a few months away. You know, I think that would be it," the 40-year-old said after RR went out of the IPL following a four-wicket loss to the Mumbai Indians in the second Qualifier on Friday. Dravid enthralled his fans showing some great agility and a new-found aggression in leadership especially at a time when his team was battling spot-fixing allegations, which led to the arrest of its three players. The arrested trio included, India Test pacer S Sreesanth. Starting out as a dark horse, Rajasthan Royals enjoyed a fairytale run as it challenged all the big teams, had a dream eight out of eight home wins and almost made the final before losing to Mumbai Indians in a nail-biting penultimate ball finish on Friday. "It's always disappointing when you lose a game. It was a close game, one of those which could have gone either way. Unfortunately we ended up on the losing side. But all the boys should be proud with the way we fought today and ended our campaign."
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Everything was calm, quiet and peaceful in the sewers of New York City. The sounds of rats and cockroaches squeaking and water dripping echoed throughout the dark sewers.
Suddenly, on one of the dark and wet sewer wall, a swirling portal opened up. A strange, male creature—not of this Earth—jumped out. Or fell out, more likely. The creature, a Werevel (a biological mix between a werewolf and a lizard), stood up. Scratches, gashes, bruises and blood—both fresh and dried—covered his entire body. Bloodstains on his jacket and his hair was all messed up. The Werevel growled in both pain and frustration.
"Can't believe this happened." Dusk hissed under his breath. He held out one paw and looked at his palm. It was coated with blood and a couple of scratches. He groaned and winced in pain as he put his paws in the pocket of his jacket. He tried to walk but there was a gash on his right leg; every time he tried to walk on it, it only made it hurt more. Dusk limped away, paws in the pockets of his jacket, and he made his way through the dark and disgusting sewers.
Jade was walking through the sewers. She, the girls, the guys and Turret had been watching TV but Jade had suddenly felt the need to stretch her legs. So she decided to go take a quick walk through the sewers.
Jade was about to turn around and go back to the lair when she heard something. Her ears twitched and she started walking towards the sound. It sounded like footsteps. She sniffed the air; she could sniff and define anything. Humans, Kraang, animals and even mutants. She sniffed the air and a strange scent caught her nose.
"That's Werevel scent…" Jade thought. She was about to call out, "Turret? Is that you?" when she sniffed again to make sure it was him. That wasn't Turret's scent; it was another Werevel, and whoever it was, their scent seemed somewhat familiar. There was another scent along with Werevel.
Was that…Blood scent?
Dusk continued to limp through the sewers, but he stopped when he heard something.
Dusk looked up. "Who's there?" He called out.
"Who's there?" Jade stopped dead in her tracks. Someone—the Werevel, probably—called out. Jade said nothing as she continued to walk through the sewers. She sniffed the air again. The Werevel was defiantly closer to her now.
Silence reigned. Dusk sighed; it was probably just a few rats scampering through the sewers. He continued to limp through the sewers, completely unaware of what lied ahead of him.
Jade sniffed one more time. Now the Werevel was very close by. Jade suddenly spotted something.
A moving shadow.
Jade, quickly and silently, placed her paws on her Naginata and pulled it out. She narrowed her eyes and with her night vision, she could see a figure limping towards her in the darkness.
Using her ninja stealth, Jade crept into the pitch-black shadows so the figure would not see her. The figure—by now, see could see that it was defiantly the Werevel (because of its drone tail)—had limped closer to Jade and she could now see who it was.
The mutant cat's eyes widened as she realized who the Werevel truly was.
"Dusk…" Jade whispered, in both shock and anger.
"Dusk…" The gray-furred Werevel suddenly stopped; terrors filled his stomach as he heard someone—female, by the sound of their voice—say his name. He slowly turned his head to the left, to a bunch of pitch-black shadows; he was pretty sure that's where the voice came from.
Suddenly, he saw a pair of eyes; they were staring right at him. Dusk's green eyes widened as he stared right at the pair of chocolate-brown eyes.
All of a sudden, out of nowhere, a brown-furred mutant cat leaped out of the shadows and tackled Dusk on to his back, making the Werevel scream in fear and surprise.
Jade held Dusk down, placing the blade of her Naginata on Dusk's neck. If she pressed down, she would draw blood from the Werevel, killing him instantly. But she did not. The mutant feline didn't move the blade of her weapon at all. Dusk remained underneath the feline, his heart beating rapidly in his chest and he panted in fear.
After what felt like an eternity, Jade finally spoke.
"Why are you doing here, Dusk?" She hissed, not moving from her spot on top of the Werevel. "I thought we drove you and your good for nothing father away."
Dusk sighed. "Adopted father." He corrected quietly in frustration, making Jade blink in confusion.
"What?" She asked.
"Sir William's not my real father." Dusk growled, looking directly into the feline's eyes. "He's my adopted father. My real father left before I was born; Sir William took me in after my mother died." The Werevel sighed in frustration. "And why I am here isn't my fault; my so-called father shoved me through a portal after he and that good for nothing General Metal did this to me." The Werevel motioned towards the wounds all over his body.
Jade's eyes widened and she got off of Dusk. He didn't move except for the rise and fall of his chest as he breathed; the werewolf-lizard hybrid was too injured to fight and Jade knocking him down certainly did not help his bruised back.
Jade put her Naginata away and kneeled down, placing her paws underneath him and picking him up. She held Dusk in her arms; the Werevel hissed in pain.
"Don't worry, Dusk." Jade said as she started walking down a certain tunnel. "You'll be fine."
A few minutes of walking had passed and Jade had finally made it to the place she was heading for. It was another abandon subway station; just like the one that Jade and her friends and family lived in. Except this subway station was different from the lair.
It was dusted and completely clean, as if it had been cleaned every five minutes for years. There was a couch in the pit of the living room and a big flat screen TV in front of it; an Xbox 360 right next to it along with a few games on top of the gaming platform. Next to the couch was a box filled with several books.
Jade walked into the pit and lied Dusk down on the couch. Dusk tried his best to hold in a hiss of agony from his stinging scratches.
"Hold on, Dusk." Jade said. The feline disappeared into another room for less than a minute and came back holding a first-aid kit. She kneeled down next to Dusk, set the first-aid kit down, opened it up and took out some wet wipes, ointment and bandages.
"Hold still, Dusk." Jade said as she grabbed one of the wet wipes and took Dusk's right arm, pulled the sleeve of his jacket up and started it clean some cuts on Dusk's arm.
"Ah!" Dusk gasped. He groaned in pain as Jade continued to clean his wounds. "Dang it, this hurts!"
"Just deal with it, Dusk." Jade said. She put down the wipe, which had some blood on it, and picked up the ointment. She squirted some into her paw, rubbed both her paws together and started gently rubbing Dusk's arm. It still hurt a little, but the ointment made Dusk's arm feel better.
Once Jade finished with the ointment, she wiped her hands off, and picked up the bandages. The brown-furred cat started wrapping up Dusk's arm.
Dusk turned his head and looked at Jade. When he looked at her, he suddenly got a weird feeling in the pit of his stomach. He didn't know what the odd feeling was, but he liked it.
"Uh…excuse me?" Dusk asked, gaining Jade's attention. She looked up.
"Yes, Dusk?" She asked. Dusk's green eyes looked directly in Jade's chocolate brown eyes. Dusk blushed a light pink, but it wasn't visible beneath his gray fur. He suddenly felt his heart beat a little bit faster as the feeling in his stomach grew stronger.
Jade stared at Dusk. "Um…Dusk?" Jade asked confused. Jade's voice snapped the Werevel out of his thoughts.
"Oh, right." Dusk said, clearing his throat. "I…I just wanted to thank you for doing this."
"You're welcome." Jade said. "But don't think I'll forget what you did to my friends and family back on Zecon." Jade finished rapping up Dusk's arm. "Now, are there any wounds on your back?"
"Yes." Dusk answered. "That stupid Sir William and that lousy excuse for a general kicked me in the back a few times. I think it might be bruised."
"Okay." Jade said. "Turn on to your stomach and take your jacket off; I'll check it out."
Dusk did as Jade said. He sat up and took his jacket off before turning on to his back. Jade inspected Dusk's back; there defiantly were bruises on his back. They were very visible beneath his fur. Dusk blushed as Jade looked at him.
"Doesn't look too bad." Jade said. She took some lotion out of the first-aid kit, put some on her paws and started rubbing Dusk's back, making him blush deeper and close his eyes in pleaser. It felt good to have Jade's warm paws rub lotion on to his back.
"By the way," Dusk said. "What's your name again?"
Jade smiled at him. "Jade." She told him. "My name is Jade."
"Jade…" Dusk said, still keeping his eyes closed as Jade continued rubbing his back. "That's such a beautiful name."
Jade blushed a little. "Thanks, Dusk." She said, smiling. Jade didn't know why, but when she looked at Dusk, she had unusual feeling crawl into his stomach. This feeling, whatever it was, it felt…warm, delightful and it filled Jade up with pleasure.
A few minutes later, Jade finally stopped rubbing and continued with cleaning and bandaging up all of Dusk's other wounds. Once she finished, Dusk put his jacket back on and sat up on the couch. Jade picked up the remote to the TV and turned it on. She handed it to Dusk. "Here, Dusk." She said. "You can watch TV if you want. I'll let you pick the channel."
Dusk smiled and took it from Jade. "Thanks." He flipped through the TV channels until he came across a TV show called "Scrubs".
"Ooh, I love this show." Jade said, sitting down next to Dusk. "It's one of my favorites." Jade smiled brighter as she realized that it was her favorite episode "My Best Friend's Baby's Baby and my Baby's Baby".
As they watched the episode together, Dusk kept asking questions about the show and Jade answered them. They both laughed when Jordan gave Dr.Cox the "talk until I want to commit suicide" treatment.
Once the episode ended, Jade decided to finally leave. "I have to leave now, Dusk." She said. "Everyone will be wondering where I am. Stay here in this station, okay?" Dusk nodded. "Alright. If you get hungry, there's food in that room." She pointed to one room. "And there's a bed in that other room, in case you get tired." Jade pointed to another room.
Dusk smiled. "Thank you, but…I have a question. What is this place and…why are you being so nice to me?"
Jade smiled at Dusk. "This is my secret place." She explained. "I always come here when I'm upset or need some time alone. And the reason I'm so nice to you…I couldn't leave anyone who is injured. You may be one of my enemies, but I thought it was too harsh for Sir William and General Metal to do that to you." With that she turned and left the station. "Bye, Dusk!" She said as she headed back to the lair.
Dusk smiled and blushed as she left. He continued to stare in the direction she left for a few minutes before turning his attention back to the TV.
Jade walked towards the lair. She peeked in and saw that everyone was in the pit watching TV. Jade walked through the turnstiles, making everyone turn to her.
"Oh, hey Jade." Kate said as the brown-furred feline walked towards them. Jade sat down next in between Scarlet and Angie.
"Where were you?" Jane asked her.
"Oh, just out taking a walk." Jade replied to the dingo. Jane smiled and went back to watching TV with everyone else.
As she watched TV with them, Jade thought about how Dusk. She had to keep the secret from everyone about him, or else they would find and attack him. And Dusk was not in the condition to fight anyone right now. Jade smiled as she thought of Dusk once more.
Dusk was now lying in the bed in the other room; a soft, warm blanket covered his body. He smiled as he close his eyes and thought about Jade. When he saw Jade, he saw this beautiful creature with long brown fur dangling down one side of her face and amazing chocolate-brown eyes. To him, Jade was beautiful on both the outside and the inside.
Jade crossed Dusk's mind once more before he fell asleep.
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Question: Do the forms in Old and Imperial Aramaic without a mater lack a final vowel, or are they simply written defectively?
Thesis: Final unstressed long vowels in Old and Imperial Aramaic, could be, and often were, written defectively. This is especially true of final -Cā; only in the Middle Aramaic period do we have full orthographic evidence for the existence of these vowels.
Since F. M. Cross and D. N. Freedman published their Early Hebrew Orthography in 1952, the prevailing view of Old Aramaic orthography is that "the spelling of these inscriptions is characterized by the regular use of matres lectionis to indicate final vowels, the absence of medial vowel letters …, and the consistent representation of diphthongs by their consonantal element." However, Klaus Beyer suggests that final long vowels were written consistently only when stressed. This essay is devoted to examining some typical Aramaic forms in the light of Beyer's suggestion.
A prominent set of unstressed final long vowels in Aramaic is the array of pronominal suffixes occurring after a long syllable. The 3rd masc. sg. pronominal suffix attached to masc. pl. endings is spelled -wh in Old Aramaic texts, -why in Imperial Aramaic and its daughter Standard Literary Aramaic, and vocalized [-ōhī] (<*awhī) in Biblical Aramaic and in the Onqelos and Jonathan Targums. Thus, the evidence from later dialects indicates that the quality of the final vowel was long. Given, then, that the later dialects all testify to the presence of [-hī] as the masc. suffix after a long vowel/diphthong, the interpretation of Old Aramaic -h in that environment as representing [-h] (without the long vowel) is improbable. Another example of the masc. sing. suffix which was probably written defectively in Old Aramaic is the suffix -h occurring on the "energic" forms of the imperfect. Beyer posits for Imperial Aramaic two energic forms, parallel to the two Arabic energic forms: [-an] on imperfects without sufformatives and [-nn(a)] on forms with sufformatives. He suggests that in the 3rd century B.C.E. the short vowel series was leveled throughout, accounting for the vocalization of Biblical and Targumic Aramaic.
With respect to all the suffixes (3rd, 2nd, and 1st person), the pattern of evidence from later dialects suggests that final unstressed vowels were written defectively in the early texts and plene in the Middle Aramaic texts; in Late Aramaic the final unstressed long vowel disappeared. The only way to avoid this conclusion is to posit some kind of dialect levelling in the Persian period based on Imperial Aramaic. It is likely that the influence of Imperial Aramaic didlead to some kind of dialect levelling, but there is no evidence that a preservation or restoration of final unstressed long vowels was among the features levelled through.
Therefore, the main "problem" for those who argue against defectively written long vowels in Old Aramaic is their appearrance in later dialects, particularly the 3rd person masculine singular suffix on a masculine plural noun (-wh) and the 1st person plural perfect sufformative (-n), which are followed by long vowels in later Aramaic (-ōhī and -nā respectively). If long vowels are reconstructed in these positions for Proto-Aramaic, and they also appear as long in later Aramaic dialects, then why should we not assume they were there in Old Aramaic?
Unstressed final long vowels could be written defectively, particularly if the vowel was -ī because the vowels i and u have homoorganic consonants readily at hand to express them, y and w, respectively. The vowel ā, on the other hand, has no such "natural" consonant to signal it, which may have caused it to be written defectively.
Questions and issues:
- Cook argues that it is "surely unlikely" that Old Aramaic dropped the unstressed long vowel like Syriac, but his only argument against it is the time gap between Old Aramaic and later Syriac. However, such a phonological change does not seem to require a close temporal proximity.
- Cook's reasoning that the "the orthography -wh crosses dialect lines, being found far to the south at Tell Deir-'Alla (ʔlwh, "to him," I:l) and to the east, in Assyrian territory, at Tell Fekherye (mwh, "his water," line 2)" does not prove that the Imperial dialect was not responsible for the later dialects. (1) The identification of the dialect at Deir-'Alla as Aramaic has been disputed, and it should be used only with reservation. (2) The same can be said of Tel Fekhereye. As he himself acknowledges, the Tell Fekhereye inscription is full of medial matres, setting it apart orthographically from other Old Aramaic inscriptions, and it seems to be more the exception than the rule. Some have argued that it is the closest extant progenitor to Imperial Aramaic, which would actually argue against Cook. (3) The main problem seems to be Cook's view of Old Aramaic as a monolithic, consistent language-dialect cluster across geographical boundaries (similar to Imperial Aramaic and SLA), which it is not.
- Is it not equally likely that the dialect that influenced Imperial Aramaic had a long vowel but the other dialects of Old Aramaic did not?
- Cook also seems to assume that orthography is scribal/regional but pronounciation is consistent.


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St. John's fans know this God`sGift Achiuwa graphic well. Used in the review of Achiuwa's 2011-2012 season on Rumble in the Garden.
Anthony Mason Jr. training video from a couple years back. Mase, aka YungMase on the Twitter, has signed with French club Cholet Basket as first reported on Rumble in the Garden. Marco Bourgault played for their youth squad about 4 years ago.
UNC-Asheville, screwed out of a chance of and upset bid against Syracuse, will come to Queens to face St. John's this winter, looking to show the world that the Big South can beat a Big East team.
St. John's faces UNC-Asheville in December. Read more about the St. John's schedule on Rumble in the Garden.
Rowan Barrett (#24 in red) playing for St. John's in the 1994 Big East Tournament. Both photos: AP/ Bob Child.
Johnnies alum Rowan Barrett is now assistant general manager/executive vice-president of Canada Basketball's senior men's program - their national side. Steve Nash was named GM of the program. It's an exciting time for Canadian hoops, with a lot of young talent emerging from the collegiate ranks.
DJ Kennedy made his NBA debut for the Cleveland Cavaliers, scoring 12 points on 5/6 shooting in a loss to the Washington Wizards. More from the Rumble - and congratulations to DJ Kennedy.
Jakarr Sampson returns to St. John's, a video.
Moe Harkless' game winner against Cincinnati on January 7th. The Red Storm host the Bearcats for a return engagement tomorrow, February 8th. Rumble in the Garden is your place for St. John's pre- and pos-game coverage.
It's time to discuss this odious media campaign of Syracuse, and how St. John's basketball team needs to eradicate this evil from our fair streets.
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With one "mistake" (Freudian slip), Mark Udall just nailed the real essence of Martin Luther King's activism.
With one "mistake" (Freudian slip), Mark Udall just nailed the real essence of Martin Luther King's activism.
A few pics from the modern consequences of the other side's long ago victory in the civil rights movement.
They wanted to be free, and they got what they wanted.
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A few more rundown items about YKW before I have to drive back to Jeff City.
* Steve Patterson of Urban Review STL does some photography along the drag named for YKW, like he does every year at this time.
Though I don't know why I'm bothering — You know what you're going to see.
But here, he has a photo from 1963, back when it was Easton Avenue.
* Another day, another call for a day-long TNB truce.
If these things ever worked, why not call for at truce that lasts for longer than just one day?
In reality, the most dangerous days are days when civil rights leaders and cracker jack box theology degree black preachers call for truces.
* To wit. So much for that truce.
This was at 10th and Convention Plaza. If you go north on 10th Street one block from that point, guess what street you encounter.
* Conservative students at Dartmouth blocked from going to the campus's events honoring YKW.
Obvious naked emperor white elephant question: Why do conservative students even want to go to events honoring YKW, when YKW was no kind of conservative when He was alive and would not be today? He wouldn't even be comfortable in the ranks of watered down YKW-loving neo and lamer cons.
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blasphemy truth telling about YKW allowed.
* Not YKW related as such, but all over Twitter all weekend, people have been talking about "These black gay dads and their three kids have the cutest Instagram ever." Without having to click on it, I just knew it was Atlanta, because Atlanta is practically the capital of black LGBTQMIAPDLOLPLPLTH not just in Amurrika, but the whole world. And we all know which city YKW got His start.
P-D asks: What if MLK were alive today?
And they pretty much get it right. He would do little more than parrot DNC talking points.
We do know that he wouldn't be any kind of conservative, neo, lamer, right-libertarian or otherwise. (Sorry, Rand Paul.)
Chocolate City St. Louis
AP feature on the travesties that are Martin Luther King streets through the Bell Curve Cities in which they run. Dateline St. Louis.
None of this is a shock to the typical person reading these words:
The template can be found just a mile away. Delmar Boulevard, which saw a similar decline, is now a vibrant retail corridor packed with restaurants, nightclubs, a renovated movie theater and a boutique hotel. The renaissance earned Delmar recognition in 2007 as one of "10 Great Streets in America" by the American Planning Association.
What they're talking about is the U-City Loop along Delmar west of the city limits gradually spreading east of the city limits eastward along Delmar in the general direction of the MissingLink stop. But that's not a result of black people, those are the doings of SWPL leftist white people. And remember, The Loop on both sides of the city limits have seen several outbreaks of mahogany mobs in a recent handful of years.
Journalist Jonathan Tilove, who wrote a 2003 book based on visits to 650 King streets nationwide, called the King byways "black America's Main Street."
"Map them and you map a nation within a nation, a place where white America seldom goes and black America can be itself," he wrote. "It is a parallel universe with a different center of gravity and distinctive sensibilities. … There is no other street like it."
"Where white America seldom goes" because of black crime, and "where black America can be itself," and therefore you see the results.
More than 50 years after King led his march on Washington, communities large and small still debate whether to rename local streets in his honor. In Harrisonburg, Va., city leaders recently agreed to rename a street for King over protests by some residents. A similar debate continues in High Point, N.C., where a King street proposal first suggested two decades ago remains up in the air.
But in the rare circumstances where white people get to vote on such things, they tend to reject naming any streets after Martin Luther King.
Don't rest on your laurels just yet. Wait until we start getting a glut of ghetto boulevards renamed for Barack Obama. Already, a part of Washington Avenue through Midtown is secondarily named for him. The point is, we know to stay away from Martin Luther King street, and we will soon know to stay away from Barack Obama street.
For the record, the original name for St. Louis's Martin Luther King Drive was Easton Avenue from the city limits eastward to where it shifts diagonally toward Downtown, and through Downtown it was named Franklin Avenue. The Martin Luther King Bridge was the Veterans Bridge, and Martin Luther King Drive through Wellston, which is actually the same drag as the city's MLK Drive, was St. Charles Rock Road, which it still becomes once you get west of Wellston.
Does anyone see the irony of this?
Wentzville, which has been booming in population in recent years because white people are trying to avoid the black undertow and creating a new whitopia, is celebrating the birth of the God of the black undertow.
This would have been like the legendary Hebrew slaves in Egypt worshiping Amon-Re instead of Jehovah.
And yes, peanut gallery, I know there's a mini-ghetto in Wentzville, entirely a result of the GM plant and transplanted black employees from the old North City plant long ago. But none of these events seem to be taking place in the mini-ghetto.
Stupid Party sends out a tweet honoring Rosa Parks. Think Regress loses its shit in earnest.
They're both wrong, BTW. Which is usually the case when the Stupid Party and the kook left start "arguing" about race.


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This location is in Merrick. Nearby parks include Julian Lane Park, Cammanns Pond County Park and Merrick Road Park.
Nearby schools include Norman J Levy Lakeside School, Shore Road School and Birch School.
The closest grocery stores are Merrick Shopping Center Inc, Trader Joe's and Waldbaum's.
Nearby coffee shops include Starbucks, Merrick Bagel Cafe LLC and Dunkin' Donuts/Baskin n Robbins. Nearby restaurants include Sunset Bar & Grill, Shinsena Sushi and Kwik Wok.
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We offer the following asana classes at various locations around Australia:
Yoga Asana classes increase flexibility, strengthen and tone muscles, balance hormones, cleanse and flush all the internal systems of the body, calm the mind and reduce stress. Our classes are non competitive and focus on safely progressing from easy to more challenging poses. Classes are suitable for all levels. All classes include kirtan, meditation and relaxation.
Gentle stretching and breathing for every body. In this class you'll gently loosen stiff joints and ease out aching muscles while soothing the nervous system and calming the mind. A wonderful class for pregnancy*, for those recovering from injury* or for those looking for a gentler, more relaxing class. Classes include kirtan, meditation and relaxation.
Energy Asana classes combine strength, flexibility, focus and breathing. These classes will increase your aerobic fitness, invigorate your body and deepen your asanas. This challenging class is suitable for students familiar with alignment and muscle control.
Easy stretching for every body combined with deep relaxation, kirtan and meditation. This class is soothing and restorative, a great class for pregnancy*, those recovering from injury*, and seniors*. Free the body then calm the mind.
To support the health and well being of individuals in our community, we are happy to offer many free or low cost yoga asana, meditation and relaxation classes. More details
*It is always best to consult your health care professional before commencing any new exercise program. If you are pregnant or have health concerns or injuries, please inform your teacher before commencing the class so they may guide you on how to safely practice.
For more information on our available classes please contact us or browse our centre locations page and find a centre closest to you.
Yoga Australia Accredited Yoga Asana Teacher
Gold Coast
With his London banking background and his many years on the hockey field, Andrew is living proof that you don't need to be a gymnast to derive the true benefits that hatha yoga offers and that yoga really is for everybody. Andrew's classes incorporate a balance of meditation, relaxation and yoga asanas that everyone can do, to quiet your mind and bring relaxation to your body. Andrew teaches yoga asana classes several times a week at Nerang and Mermaid Beach for many years has taught yoga asana at local drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs and many other free classes throughout the community.
Senior Yoga Australia Accredited Yoga Asana Teacher
Jill has been practising yoga asana for many years and her classes are friendly and varied but always incorporate joint flexibility, back therapy and strength work. Each person is encouraged to work at their own level as yoga asana is not about a competition in flexibility and strength with other people. Each class ends with deep relaxation and very soothing sacred chanting meditation so you'll always feel enlivened, refreshed and calmer after one of Jill's yoga sessions.
Senior Yoga Australia Accredited Yoga Asana Teacher
Gold Coast
Margaret is the Australian School of Meditation and Yoga's most senior yoga asana teacher and the director of all our Gold Coast yoga asana programs. Drawing from a wealth of knowledge accumulated over many years of study, practice and teaching, Margaret teaches traditional hatha yoga, skillfully modifying asanas according to her students' strengths and limitations. You'll also see Margaret organising the monthly Balanced Life retreats and sharing her knowledge through newsletter and internet articles.
Yoga Australia Accredited Yoga Asana Teacher
Simon has been passionate about yoga asana since he started practicing 7 years ago. He is particularly focused on alignment which sets a good foundation for one's asana practice and helps people to develop good habits. His style of teaching and practice are greatly influenced by using the breath as a guide to finding one's own pace, allowing the release of tension and stress and at the same time being able to re-energize. Simon creates a warm and friendly atmosphere and encourages people in their yoga asana practice. Simon teaches at the Australian School of Meditation and Yoga West End centre.


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about Electrelane. That's good. A sense of mystique is vital to music like
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instrumental grace that will serve the individual members well when they're
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about Electrelane. The final freak-out, "Mother," lasts over 23 minutes
and reminds me of Quickspace–or Suicide, if I want to show my age.
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