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Madison - Justice Patience Roggensack wrongly listed a reserve judge as one of her endorsers despite being told that he would not support her.
A Roggensack campaign adviser said the name was listed in error, and it was removed from her website by Saturday morning. It was the second time Roggensack listed an endorsement on her website that she did not actually receive.
Roggensack faces Marquette University law professor Ed Fallone in the April 2 election. The winner will serve a 10-year term on the seven-member court.
Robert E. Kinney, a reserve judge who spent more than 30 years as an Oneida County Circuit Court judge, said Roggensack asked him to endorse her in November but he declined. He discovered he had been listed as a backer on her website on Thursday and sent her an email asking for his name to be taken down.
"Near the end of our conversation, I told you that I disagreed with your position in virtually every 4-3 decision rendered by our court, and, for that reason, the best you could hope for from me was that I wouldn't endorse anyone. Surely you must remember that," Kinney wrote in his email.
"I don't know how this mistake was made, and I certainly hope that it does not call into question the accuracy of the rest of your list," he added, saying he thought candidates in statewide races usually had endorsers sign statements of support to avoid mistakes.
In an interview, Kinney said Roggensack wrote him back Thursday to say his name had been included on the site by mistake and that it would be removed. He said he was pleased with her response and had not intended for his email to Roggensack to become public.
Kinney said he declined to endorse Roggensack because he differed with certain court decisions, though he declined to name them.
"The primary thing (in deciding whether to endorse) is deciding cases, and on that we're just a long way apart," he said in an interview. "So I couldn't consider endorsing her."
Roggensack campaign adviser Brandon Scholz said the campaign assembled a list of more than 100 judges who are backing Roggensack and inadvertently included Kinney's name on it. He said he was "absolutely confident" the others listed had endorsed Roggensack and that Kinney's name would be quickly removed from the site.
In January, the Journal Sentinel reported that Roggensack had listed on her website that she had been endorsed by Joseph Kearney, the dean of Marquette Law School, but that he had not actually endorsed her. Roggensack's campaign manager said at the time that was a mistake.
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There were 149 samples diagnosed for plant diseases or abiotic stress in the 2006 season. Many were diagnosed with abiotic stress and chemical injury. Turf was at the top of the frequently submitted category at 31 entries total. Of the turf samples, fading out (Curvularia spp.) and Fusarium spp. were the most frequently isolated. Other common turf pathogens were snow mold (Michrodochium nivale) and take-all (Gaumanomyces spp.). Dothistroma needle blight is present in Utah and has shown up on a couple of Austrian pines (see below). The UPPDL had one greenhouse sample test positive for impatiens necrotic spot virus. Viral diseases can be difficult to recognize, so be on the lookout to spot them in commercial greenhouses.
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The 2006 season brought about some interesting pathogens and symptoms on host samples submitted to the UPPDL. A peppermint grower submitted a sample that was infected with a pathogen and was thought to be Verticillium wilt but was not. The UPPDL diagnoses found that it was a Phoma sp. Verticillium in peppermint can ruin a grower's ability to produce the crop.
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The UPPDL has initiated long-term storage of pathogens that were positively identified in submitted samples. Among these are an Alternaria sp., Bipolaris spp., Curvularia spp., Fusarium spp., and a Verticillium sp. (all are fungi). This is a plus for research in that the location information is recorded in the database and can be traced directly to the isolate. The cultures will serve as a reference collection and for future research.
Disease Profile: Dothistroma Needle Blight
Common name: Dothistroma needle blight or red band disease.
Host Range: Susceptible hosts include Austrian, Lodgepole, Mugo and Ponderosa Pines. Less susceptible hosts are Douglas-fir, European Larch, and Sitka Spruce.
Symptoms: Symptoms on needles appear as yellow bands that progress to red. The color change is due to the fungal production of a toxin called dothistromin. Once the fungus has girdled the needle, the upper portion turns brown while the base remains green. Rarely will you will see black fruiting bodies called stromata that develop in the dead needles. Trees can lose their needles. Disease progression will be from the lower branches upward. Pathogen development is where humidity is highest. Dothistroma attacks first, second, and third year growth. Stress predisposes the trees to the disease.
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2006 was a busy time for insect and arthropod-related submissions, with more than 100 submissions. Our Insect Diagnostician, the late Alan Roe, communicated with USU Extension personnel and individual homeowners about identification and management options. Alan was an excellent taxonomist and readily answered hundreds of email and phone inquiries every year.
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The League of St George is a Neo-Fascist organization based in the United Kingdom. It has defined itself as a "non-party, non-sectarian political club" and, whilst forging alliances with different groups, has eschewed close links with other extremist political parties.[1]
The League was formed around 1974 as a political club by Keith Thompson and Mike Griffin as a breakaway from the Action Party, founded by British fascist, Oswald Mosley. The League sought to continue what it saw as a purer form of the ideas of Mosley than those offered by then leader Jeffrey Hamm.[2] In the 1970s the League became a political home for the more intellectual adherents of "Neo-Nazi" ideology, particularly those who wanted a united Europe with a European-derived population, a continuation of Mosley's Europe a Nation policy. Alongside this the League also followed Mosley's lead in endorsing Irish republicanism, something of a change from their contemporaries in the British far right who reserved their support for Ulster loyalism.[3] The League was never intended to be a political party, but more of a social, intellectual, and cultural organization, albeit with the ultimate political aim of promoting European people and their culture. Intended as an exclusive club for what were seen as the leading minds on the British far right, its membership tended to be restricted to around 50–100 members.[4] Indeed, membership of the League was restricted to those invited to join only.[5]
The group often had a torrid relationship with the far right parties, and indeed the National Front barred its members from joining the League in 1977.[6] Around this time Spearhead even included articles claiming that the League was in fact a cult dominated by clandestine leaders, secret oaths and profane initiation ceremonies.[7] Nonetheless individual members maintained ties to both organisations, with some contributing to both Spearhead and The League Review.[8] Similarly the British Movement, which had originally co-operated with the League, eventually severed its ties over the Northern Irish issue.[9] 'The Enemy Within' is an account of the League of St George written by a former member, the cartoonist Robert Edwards, who now publishes his own Mosleyite newspaper called 'European Socialist Action.'[10]
International contacts[edit]
Adopting the emblem of the Arrow Cross, the League sought to forge links with like-minded groups in Europe, and took part in international Neo-Nazi rallies at Diksmuide in Belgium, where it forged links with the Vlaamse Militanten Orde and the National States' Rights Party.[11] Eschewing the route of electoral politics, the League instead sought to set itself up as an umbrella group for National Socialists of any affiliation, although the League did work closely with first the British Movement and then the British National Party when it was founded (with Thompson and John Graeme Wood attending the party's inaugural meeting while claiming to speak for the League).[12]
Steve Brady, a former activist in the short-lived National Party (and who retained close links to the Ulster Defence Association despite the League's avowed support for Irish republicanism), was appointed International Liaison Officer in 1978 and helped to oversee the development of links with groups internationally such as the Faisceaux Nationalistes Européens of France, founded by Mark Fredriksen, and Italy's Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (NAR).[13] Brady also wrote a column in League Review, under the nom-de-plume Heimdall. The group also gained support in South Africa amongst some leading supporters of the Herstigte Nasionale Party who were responsible for funding the League during the early 1980s.[14]
The League went into hiatus in the early 1980s after an episode of ITV current affairs show World in Action exposed its attempts to set up safe houses for suspected Italian terrorists,[15] based on information given by Ray Hill, who had been active in the League.
Subsequent activities[edit]
Following these revelations the group became less active, but did not close down altogether. Its magazine, The National Review, received some attention in far-right circles in 1986 when Colin Jordan published an article calling for the development of an underground struggle.[16] This article was credited with attempts to revive the British Movement and to set up other groups to carry out Jordan's ideas.[17]
In 1996 it was alleged in Searchlight that members of the League had recruited mercenaries for a mission in South Africa organised by Constand Viljoen with the aim of assassinating the country's leaders and damaging its infrastructure. Ultimately the plan was foiled by the South African secret service and by a change in strategy by Viljoen, who abandoned his Afrikaner Volksfront in order to lead the Freedom Front.[18]
It continues to exist under other leadership to this day. Previously publishing a regular magazine, The League Review, which had a comparatively wide European readership, it now publishes a quarterly journal, The League Sentinel.[19]
The group was featured in Bill Buford's Among the Thugs where the author commented to a member that his ideas of leaving urban life and returning to the soil recalled those of the Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.[20]
Leading members of the League have included Dagenham-based John Harrison, millionaire Robin Rushton, Mike Griffin, and Roger Clare, who has also been active in South Africa and New Zealand.[21] Ian Souter Clarence, the former head of Column 88, was a member,[22] while both publisher Anthony Hancock and National Front and National Party veteran Denis Pirie were also closely associated with the group.[23]
Media coverage[edit]
An article by Ian Cobain in The Guardian newspaper dated 24 November 2016 reported that the League of St George of today is mainly active in publishing and distributing fascist books.[24] The League's publishing arm is Steven Books. [25]
- ^ Michael Billig, A Social Psychological View of the National Front, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, p. 101
- ^ Ray Hill & Andrew Bell, The Other Face of Terror, London: Grafton, 1988, p. 184.
- ^ Hill & Bell, The Other Face of Terror, p. 185.
- ^ Glyn Ford, European Parliament Committee of Inquiry on Racism and Xenophobia - Report on the Findings of the Inquiry, 2.12.27
- ^ Peter Barberis, John McHugh, Mike Tyldesley, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations: Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2000, p. 185
- ^ S. Taylor, The National Front in English Politics, London: Macmillan, 1982, p. 100.
- ^ Billig, Fascists, p. 117
- ^ Billig, Fascists, pp. 117-118
- ^ Barberis et al, Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations, p. 177
- ^ http://www.oswaldmosley.net/
- ^ Hill & Bell, The Other Face of Terror, pp. 195–6.
- ^ Hill & Bell, The Other Face of Terror, pp. 165–6.
- ^ Hill & Bell, The Other Face of Terror, pp. 185–9.
- ^ Hill & Bell, The Other Face of Terror, pp. 255–6.
- ^ A Century of British Fascism Archived 2006-08-28 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Ford, European Parliament Committee of Inquiry on Racism and Xenophobia - Report on the Findings of the Inquiry, 2.12.25
- ^ Ford, European Parliament Committee of Inquiry on Racism and Xenophobia - Report on the Findings of the Inquiry, 2.12.26
- ^ 'South Africa'
- ^ League Sentinel
- ^ Review of 'Among the Thugs'
- ^ Fascism Today - Groups in Britain from Bernard O'Mahoney's site
- ^ Hill & Bell, The Other Face of Terror, p. 198.
- ^ Hill & Bell, The Other Face of Terror, pp. 205–6.
- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/24/britains-far-right-in-2016-fractured-unpredictable-dispirited-and-violent
- ^ https://www.stevenbooks.co.uk/
- R. Hill & A. Bell, The Other Face of Terror- Inside Europe's Neo-Nazi Network, London: Collins, 1988


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1614?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12711653#action_12711653 ] Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-1614: -------------------------------------------- {quote} On the other end of the scale... getting rid of "if (firstTime)" is another check I've long wanted to eliminate. if doc() produced -1 the first time, before any calls to next() or skipTo(), we could get rid of the if (firstTime) code in ConjunctionScorer and others I think. The question is, would this be a burden to any scorers or DISI implementations? {quote} +1 Since we're changing DISI's semantics, now seems like a great time to make this change to. Eliminating the "if (firstTime)" from next() would be great. But: wouldn't ConjunctionScorer still need an init() to sort its sub-scorers? (Though, really, we ought to do that sort based on more accurate criteria, eg add a DIS.approxCount() (the first docID of each sub-scorer is an approximation that could easily be very wrong). If we had that, then in the ConjunctionScorer's ctor we would do the ordering). > Add next() and skipTo() variants to DocIdSetIterator that return the current doc, instead of boolean > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-1614 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1614 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Search > Reporter: Shai Erera > Fix For: 2.9 > > Attachments: LUCENE-1614.patch, LUCENE-1614.patch > > > See http://www.nabble.com/Another-possible-optimization---now-in-DocIdSetIterator-p23223319.html for the full discussion. The basic idea is to add variants to those two methods that return the current doc they are at, to save successive calls to doc(). If there are no more docs, return -1. A summary of what was discussed so far: > # Deprecate those two methods. > # Add nextDoc() and skipToDoc(int) that return doc, with default impl in DISI (calls next() and skipTo() respectively, and will be changed to abstract in 3.0). > #* I actually would like to propose an alternative to the names: advance() and advance(int) - the first advances by one, the second advances to target. > # Wherever these are used, do something like '(doc = advance()) >= 0' instead of comparing to -1 for improved performance. > I will post a patch shortly -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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In my eleven years of researching, writing about and campaigning to close the US prison at Guantánamo, I have got to know some remarkable people — from lawyers and former prisoners to individuals who, often for little or no financial reward, have devoted considerable time to covering important aspects of the Guantánamo story that others — often in the mainstream media — have missed or ignored. Some of my supporters would put me in the category of those covering important aspects of the story for little or no reward, and I'm grateful to those who recognize this, but I'm pleased, today, to be able to promote the work of two other people I admire a great deal who also fit this category of truth-seeker — the New York-based blogger The Talking Dog, and the San Francisco-based psychologist Jeffrey Kaye, who was interviewed by the Talking Dog by email just a few weeks ago, for an interview first published here, and cross-posted below.
For over ten years now, The Talking Dog has been interviewing lawyers, former prisoners, former guards, journalists and other involved in the Guantánamo story, and over 70 interviews are posted and linked to at the end of this article, which are essential reading for anyone researching, writing about or just interested in Guantánamo. TD interviewed me back in the summer of 2007, just before my book The Guantánamo Files was published, and we have been friends ever since.
Jeff and I have also known each other for many years, meeting for the first time at Berkeley Says No to Torture Week (in October 2010), which was my third visit to the US, and then again in January 2012, and again in January 2014, and I have long taken an interest in his work, cross-posting articles of his in 2011 and 2012 — see The Time is Right for Americans to Pay Attention to Human Rights Watch's New Torture Report, New Revelations About The Use of Water Torture at Guantánamo, More Evidence of the Use of Water Torture at Guantánamo and in Afghanistan and Iraq, and also two articles written with Jason Leopold, US Training Manual Used As Basis for Bush's Torture Program Is Released by Pentagon and Pentagon Report into the Drugging of Guantánamo Prisoners Is Released, and, of particular relevance right now, Were Two Prisoners Killed at Guantánamo in 2007 and 2009? Read the rest of this entry »
With just over 100 days remaining for President Obama to fulfill his promise to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay that he inherited from George W. Bush, where men subjected to torture and other forms of abuse are still held without charge or trial, undermining the US's belief that it is a nation that respects the rule of law, I continue to work to close the prison, through my writing here, and through the Close Guantánamo campaign that I established with the US attorney Tom Wilner in January 2012, on the 10th anniversary of the prison's opening.
A specific initiative of the "Close Guantánamo" campaign is the Countdown to Close Guantánamo, in which, every 50 days, those who wish to see Guantánamo closed have been submitting photos of themselves with posters reminding President Obama how many days he has left. Please print off the latest poster, marking 100 days remaining for President Obama to fulfill his promise on October 11, take a photo of yourself with it, and send it to us to add your voice to those calling for the prison's closure.
This January, as President Obama prepares to leave office after eight years as president, it will be 15 years since Guantánamo opened, unless he somehow manages to close it — by executive order, perhaps — in the brief period between the presidential election in November and the inauguration of the next president in January 2017. That seems unlikely, however, because Congress has, for years, imposed bans on spending any money to bring any prisoners to the US mainland for any reason, and overriding lawmakers will unleash a fury. Read the rest of this entry »
The November 2015 issue of The American Lawyer featured a "Special Report: The Guantánamo Bar," consisting of six interviews with attorneys who have worked on Guantánamo. I'm cross-posting them below, as I think they will be of interest, and I also estimate that many of you will not have come across them previously.
The six lawyers featured were: Thomas Wilner of Shearman & Sterling; David Remes, formerly of Covington & Burling; Jennifer Cowan of Debevoise & Plimpton; J. Wells Dixon of the Center for Constitutional Rights; Public Defender David Nevin; and Lee Wolosky of Boies, Schiller & Flexner. Wolosky was appointed last June as the White House's special envoy for Guantánamo closure, while the rest have represented prisoners held at Guantánamo.
Thomas Wilner represented a number of Kuwaiti prisoners, and also represented the prisoners in their habeas corpus cases before the Supreme Court in 2004 and 2008. He is co-founder, with me, of the Close Guantánamo campaign, launched in January 2012, through which, for the last four years, we have been attempting to educate people about why Guantánamo must be closed, and who is held there, and I'm pleased to note that The American Lawyer described him as "the most vocal proponent in the Guantánamo bar for the closure of the offshore prison." Read the rest of this entry »
In June, I wrote an article, "Skeletal, 75-Pound Guantánamo Hunger Striker Tariq Ba Odah Seeks Release; Medical Experts Fear For His Life," about the desperate plight of Tariq Ba Odah, a Guantánamo prisoner who has been on a hunger strike since 2007 and is at risk of death. His weight has dropped to just 74.5 pounds, and yet the government does not even claim that it wants to continue holding him. Over five and a half years ago, in January 2010, the high-level, inter-agency Guantánamo Review Task Force that President Obama established when he took office in 2009 to review the cases of all the prisoners still held at that time, concluded that he should no longer be held.
The task force approved 156 men for release, although Tariq was one of 30 placed in a category invented by the task force — "conditional detention," made dependent on a perception that the security situation in Yemen had improved or "an appropriate rehabilitation program or third- country resettlement option becomes available," as his lawyers described it.
Collectively, the whole of the US establishment has — with one exception — refused to repatriate any Yemenis approved for release since January 2010 (after a foiled terror plot was revealed to have been hatched in Yemen), although, since last November, the administration has been finding third countries willing to offer new homes to Yemenis approve for transfer — in part became of persistent pressure from campaigning groups. 18 Yemenis have so far been found homes in third countries — in Georgia, Slovakia, Kazakhstan, Estonia and Oman — so all that now ought to prevent Tariq Ba Odah's release is if the US government proves unable to find a third country prepared to offer him a new home. Read the rest of this entry »
Congratulations to Vice, which describes itself as "an ever-expanding galaxy of immersive, investigative, uncomfortable, and occasionally uncouth journalism," who have shown up the mainstream media by publishing a major feature on November 10, "Behind the Bars: Guantánamo Bay," consisting of 18 articles published simultaneously, all of which are about Guantánamo — some by Guantánamo prisoners themselves, as made available by their lawyers (particularly at Reprieve, the legal action charity), others by former personnel at the prison, and others by journalists. "Behind the Bars" is a new series, with future features focusing on prisoners in the UK, Russia and beyond.
Following an introduction by Vice's Global Editor, Alex Miller, there are five articles by three prisoners, as follows:
Sometimes life takes us down unexpected routes, and yesterday, while looking for links for my last article, a transcript of a talk I gave in Los Angeles during my recent US tour calling for the closure of the prison at Guantánamo Bay on the 12th anniversary of its opening, I found myself visiting a page I first created in May 2010, entitled, "Guantánamo Habeas Results: The Definitive List."
The page is a list of all the prisoners whose habeas corpus petitions were ruled on by judges in the District Court in Washington D.C. following the Supreme Court's important ruling, in June 2008, in Boumediene v. Bush, granting the prisoners constitutionally guaranteed habeas corpus rights. At the time I created the list, there had been 47 rulings, and in 34 of those cases, after reviewing all the evidence, the judges concluded that the government had failed to demonstrate that they were connected in any meaningful manner with either al-Qaeda or the Taliban, an ordered their release.
This was humiliating for those who sought to defend Guantánamo, especially as the habeas hearings involved a low evidentiary hurdle — requiring the government to establish its case through a preponderance of the evidence rather than beyond any reasonable doubt. It was, moreover, a vindication for those like myself and some other journalists, as well as lawyers for the men, NGOs and others concerned by the existence of Guantánamo, like Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, who had worked on the tribunals at Guantánamo, who had long maintained that the supposed evidence against the men was flimsy and untrustworthy, in large part because it was gathered using torture or other forms of coercion, or, in some cases at Guantánamo, because certain prisoners were bribed with better living conditions if they told lies about their fellow prisoners. Read the rest of this entry »
Next March it will be eight years since I gave my life over to chronicling Guantánamo and the 779 men (and boys) held there, and campaigning to get the prison closed. I did this initially through my book The Guantánamo Files, and, for the last six and a half years, I have continued to seek the prison's closure — and to educate people about the men held there and the lies told in the "war on terror" — as a full-time independent investigative journalist.
Nearly four years ago, I began to put together chronological lists of all my articles, in the hope that doing so would make it as easy as possible for readers and researchers to navigate my work — the 2100 articles and pages I have published since May 2007. Unfortunately, I have found it difficult to keep up to date with this project for the last two years, hence this belated entry covering all the articles I wrote from July to December 2012.
In this period, as well as relentlessly covering Guantánamo, I continued to be involved in campaigning to resist the age of austerity cynically introduced by the Tory-led government here in the UK, which is being used to wage a disgusting and disgraceful civil war against the poor, the unemployed and the disabled, and whose main aim is to destroy the state provision of services. In the period covered in this article, my previous efforts to save the NHS from privatisation fed into a campaign even closer to home, as the government and senior NHS managers proposed to severely cut services at Lewisham Hospital, my local hospital in south east London, to pay for the debts of a neighbouring NHS trust that had got into financial difficulties — in part because of ruinous private finance (PFI) deals, providing unjustifiable profits to private companies building hospitals for the government. Read the rest of this entry »
Exactly a year ago, on September 8, 2012, Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, a Yemeni prisoner at Guantánamo, died in circumstances that are still disputed. The US authorities claim that he committed suicide by overdosing on psychiatric medication that he had hoarded, but that has always seemed unlikely, given that the prisoners at Guantánamo are closely monitored, and it has become clear that he was moved around the prison on a number of occasions before his death, making the hoarding of medication even more unlikely.
Despite the inconsistencies in the US authorities' account of Adnan's death, it is undisputed that, throughout his ten years at Guantánamo, he had attempted to commit suicide on several occasions. A talented poet, and a father, Adnan also had severe mental health problems, the result of a car crash in Yemen many years before his capture. Adnan always claimed that he had traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan in search of cheap medical treatment for his head wounds, in contrast to the US authorities' attempts to portray him as a member of al-Qaeda.
Those claims, however, evaporated over the years of Adnan's long and pointless imprisonment, as he was cleared for release on three occasions, only to discover that decisions to release prisoners meant very little, especially in the case of Yemeni prisoners. At the time of his death, 87 of the remaining 167 prisoners had been cleared for release, by an inter-agency Guantánamo Review Task Force that President Obama established when he took office in January 2009, but were still held, and 57 of these men were Yemenis. Read the rest of this entry »
After seven and a half years of researching and writing about the prisoners held in the "war on terror" prison at Guantánamo Bay, it's always refreshing to hear from former prisoners — and, in many cases, to see their faces and hear their voices for the very first time.
The highlights of "Life After Guantánamo," Al-Jazeera America's newly released documentary about Guantánamo (available below, via YouTube) are interviews with two released Yemeni prisoners, Mohammed Hassan Odaini (freed in July 2010), and Farouq Ali Ahmed (freed in December 2009). I told the story of Ahmed, the victim of two notoriously false allegations made by other prisoners, in an article following his release, and I told the story of Odaini, an innocent student seized in a house raid in Pakistan in March 2002, in a series of articles between May 2010, when he had his habeas corpus petition granted, and his release 48 days later (see here, here and here).
At the time, it was clear to me that both men were palpably innocent, and seeing and hearing them now only confirms it. Both are charming and articulate, working, married, and expecting their first children, and, importantly, neither man even remotely fulfils American fears that released Yemenis will "return to the battlefield." Read the rest of this entry »
This article, published simultaneously here and on the "Close Guantánamo" website, contains exclusive information from the unclassified notes of a visit to Abdelhadi Faraj — a Syrian prisoner, and one of 86 men cleared for release from Guantánamo but still held — by his attorney, Ramzi Kassem, in October 2012. During that visit, Faraj spoke about the death of Adnan Latif, the Yemeni prisoner who died at Guantánamo last September, and the notes from that visit, made available to me via Ramzi and his team at CUNY (the City University of New York) are compared and contrasted with the military's own account, as described in a report released to the journalist Jason Leopold through FOIA legislation at the start of July 2013.
Ten months ago, on September 8, 2012, Adnan Latif, a Yemeni prisoner in Guantánamo, died in his cell. While no one at the time knew the circumstances of his death, it was clear that, however he had died, it was the fault of all three branches of the US government — of President Obama and his administration, of Congress, and of the Supreme Court and the court of appeals in Washington D.C. (the D.C. Circuit Court).
Latif, who had severe mental health problems, had been cleared for release in 2006 by a military review board under George W. Bush, and again by the inter-agency Guantánamo Review Task Force, established by President Obama shortly after taking office in January 2009. He also had his habeas corpus petition granted by a District Court judge in July 2010, but the Obama administration appealed that ruling, and the D.C. Circuit Court overturned it in November 2011. In 2012, when Latif appealed to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land refused to accept his case (or those of six other prisoners), and three months later he was dead.
Two weeks ago, in response to a FOIA request submitted by the journalist Jason Leopold, the military released its report into Latif's death, which found that the prison guards and medical personnel responsible for him had failed to follow the prison's rules in dealing with him, and that Latif himself had "hoarded medications and ingested them shortly before he was found unresponsive in his cell."
However, not everyone finds this explanation convincing. Read the rest of this entry »
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TWO major climacterics in Bill Burnett's life give some clue to the inner dynamic of the man. The first was his decision in 1967 to leave diocesan episcopal ministry in Bloemfontein and become the general secretary of the South African Council of Churches. This response marked his strong commitment to church unity and united Christian witness in public affairs. The second was in 1972 when, in the private chapel of his episcopal residence in Grahamstown, he was baptised in the Spirit. This profound charismatic experience was to dominate the rest of his ministry before and after retirement.
Born in the Orange Free State, Burnett became bilingual in English and Afrikaans and was schooled at Bishop's College in the Cape and at Michaelhouse in Natal before entering Rhodes University. He taught for a short time in 1940 at Umtata before joining the South African Defence Force. He was captured in North Africa and became a PoW in Italy. He escaped and in 1944 came into the care of the British forces. The exigencies of war as they affected public worship kindled his dissatisfaction with denominationalism.
His ordination training was at St Paul's, Grahamstown, and he went as deacon in 1946 to St Thomas's, Durban. In 1950 he became Chaplain at Michaelhouse and there wrote Anglicans in Natal (1953). In its prologue he writes significantly: 'It was a divided church that eventually planted the gospel in southern Africa.'
He became Bishop of Bloemfontein in 1957 and led the work there for 10 years. His work with his episcopal colleagues, notably Robert Selby Taylor, who was to precede him as Archbishop, brought him into the debate about the future of the then Christian Council and decisions to take forward the church unity process. The change to the SACC was both geographical from Cape Town to Johannesburg, and also structural. Between 1967 and 1969 Burnett as General Secretary led the reconstruction.
It was close to the time when the influence of the World Council of Churches and the Programme to Combat Racism made public headlines. Burnett's contribution to the dialogue at home and overseas was important. But it was evident that his labours also brought great tension to one who was fundamentally a shepherd of souls. In 1969 his own church called him to become Bishop of Grahamstown and he readily accepted. He said: 'It was a relief to return to a real fellowship in Christ.'
Burnett had always been an outspoken critic of apartheid. What began at Bloemfontein, when he had spoken against the policy and doctrine of race separation, was carried forward in the five Grahamstown years. Always his critique and protest were based on his commitment to the word of God. Undoubtedly his continued devotion to scripture influenced his 1972 experience.
Just before his enthronement as Archbishop in 1974 Burnett took part in a great charismatic renewal campaign which swept across much of the Republic of South Africa. This marked the confluence of his zeal for ecumenism and pentacostalism. It is remarkable that these influences found root in a bishop of a province with deep formal traditions.
Many hopes were raised when in 1974 this indigenous bilingual bishop was called to Cape Town. It was a coming-of-age for South African Anglicanism. He was destined to be a forerunner of the time when another indigenous bishop, Desmond Tutu, would succeed to the throne. At his enthronement Burnett called for a new Pentecost. At that time South Africa was debating the problem of conscientious objection to national service. The SACC had published a resolution about the injustice involved. In the presence of the President and the military he gave the resolution his support knowing that he had himself taken a comparable stand as a young man. His passion steeped in ecumenism, charismatic renewal and traditional ecclesial faith was unmistakable.
Burnett's retirement in 1981 left him free to offer his services to the renewal movement. He had led the charismatic bishops at the Lambeth Conference of 1978. He travelled world-wide in the campaigns for renewal and established friendships with kindred evangelists. He edited their publication By My Spirit in 1988 and in 1993 his autobiography The Rock that is Higher than I was published.
He had married Sheila Trollip at the end of the war and she survives him with their two sons and daughter. He returned to his beloved Grahamstown in retirement and there he died, knowing that the land he served had achieved democracy for all its peoples. For him structured traditions ecclesiastical and secular needed constant transformation.
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From Battlefields to Farm Fields: Military Veterans Training to Become Organic Farmers
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Hannah Hart's (@myharto) meteoric rise to YouTube stardom started with a few drinks and some simple ingredients leading to the popular YouTube series 'My Drunk Kitchen'.
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Travel Eco-Friendly on Earth Day at These Airbnbs
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As I've mentioned a few times now, THIS blog has been nominated for two Mobbies awards. Sponsored by The Baltimore Sun, the Mobbies recognize the best in local Baltimore blogs each year. To my knowledge, this is the first time we've been nominated. The categories we have been nominated in are:
Best College/Amateur Sports Blog
Best Community Blog
It's an honor to have been included in the conversation with best blogs in Baltimore, but we're still competitors and like to win things, so if you haven't already voted, here's what you need to do.
1. Visit The Mobbies official voting site
2. Register (it's simple, and also free)
3. Make your selections among the categories - of course voting for TWSS where applicable!
Now we are obviously going up against some very popular blogs, so I don't expect our chances are that great, but I know we have some terrific followers out there that can help us bring home the title(s)!
You have until November 9th at 5pm to vote, and you can vote one time per day.
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- Seth said...
Polls where you can vote multiple times (i.e. once a day) really get on my nerves. Why should a loser, living in mom's basement, with significant free-time, have 100 times the voting power of me?
OK, I feel better now. You have my (singular) vote.
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December 11th 2016
Chef Shawn Harris wants to tell you about the "Love " cookie—a secret family recipe that has shaped his culinary signature and reputation, and features ample quantities of white chocolate, dark chocolate, oatmeal and….love.
"Love," laughed Chef, "better known as butter!"
Love cookies are almost always on hand in the kitchen at UrbanPromise where Chef Shawn oversees UrbanChefs Catering, a new social enterprise for UrbanPromise. "We want to operate programs that generate employment for our youth and have a self-sustaining business model," said Matthew Speh, who has been Director of Social Enterprise at UP for about one year, and oversees UrbanChefs and the soon- to-launch UrbanPromise Thrift Store. "Both," said Speh "will build professional skills, help our students with college and help them build a resume."
Chef Shawn agrees—he teaches more than just cooking. Through UrbanChefs, Chef will train five young people every six months. Along with cooking instruction, he teaches the value of professionalism, timeliness, courtesy and a welcoming smile. "I set an example," he said, grinning. "My mom constantly told me to smile."
His mom—and grandmother—also taught Chef the foundations of cooking. He laughs that he was the only man in his family that couldn't fix a car, but could fix you dinner. After a year of college football-and injuries, Chef came home, unsure of what to do. His mother urged him to pursue his passion for cooking. At culinary school at Atlantic County College, he found his passion. "I loved it! It was everything I wanted to do!" As a young chef, he found work in Chicago ("that windy thing, that's for real") before moving to warmer Atlanta where he worked at a luxury hotel, for Planet Hollywood and in catering before returning to South Jersey. Chef Shawn lives in Cherry Hill now and is raising two daughters. He came to UrbanPromise from working at the Culinary Institute at Respond, Inc. in Camden—so he knows the territory of working with young people, catering and Camden very well.
The school cafeteria at UrbanPromise transitions to his classroom after lunches are served. UrbanChefs has a focused clientele, targeting school and church events in and around Camden. To date, UrbanChefs has catered all UrbanPromise events, including board meetings and volunteer days. Additionally, UrbanChefs has catered ten external events since July, everything from a barbeque lunch for 150 at the Kipp Charter School to a featured spot at a "Taste of Nazarene" Church fundraiser. The calendar is filling up with jobs, as the reputation grows. "We want to build the catering business to be self-sustaining." Chef Shawn, his students and the Love cookie are off to a good start.
For information about UrbanChefs catering services please contact Chef Shawn Harris at (856) 465-4359 or email@example.com.


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After a little vacation I am back to writing the Daily Friar for you all. I guess while I was away we had some technical issues and the Padres took another series from the Rockies over the weekend. I would have posted yesterday, but I have been dealing with some personal issues after this weekend, not to mention the Padres had an off day. So now that they are playing again I am here to continue giving you Padres news on a daily basis, at least for the time being. Some days it will be me and some days it will be Alex Bartlett. Either way continue to come to Friarhood.com for your Daily Friar news. Here are your Padres links for today:Submit articles and follow me on twitterStults gives good effort, but Padres offense stalls – Padres.com"On Tuesday, though, it was simply a case of the other guy being better, as D-backs starting pitcher Ian Kennedy allowed one run over eight innings, as Arizona held off a late charge for a 3-2 victory over the Padres in front of a crowd of 20,811 at Ch...
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Westerdorf in Tyrol offers a wide range of holiday offers. Both in summer and in winter the landlords and hotels know how to regale their guests at great prices. Below you can find attractive package deals and offers for your holiday in Westendorf, Tyrol, in the midst of the Kitzbühel Alps.
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TOURING car ace Frank Wrathall is hoping to start this season where he left off last year — on top of the podium.
The Dynojet Toyota driver claims his win in the final round of the 2012 British Touring Car Championship "changed absolutely everything".
And the 26-year-old Lancastrian plans to build on the momentum to become a regular challenger for victories.
Wrathall, who is entering his third BTCC season, said: "Winning that race was huge for us, absolutely massive.
"Even though we'd had a pole and a couple of podiums, up to that point it hadn't been a great year and we were outside the top 10 in the championship.
"We had good pace in qualifying but for one reason or another it just didn't happen in the races.
"Winning meant so much to everyone and it has probably taken a lot of the pressure off.
"This year, if we can show the same pace as we did in 2012, qualifying regularly inside the top five, then hopefully we can be more consistent and transform that pace into better race results."
Wrathall, who insists his ultimate ambition is to become a genuine title contender, added: "We are in good shape, better than we have ever started a season before.
"In 2011 and 2012 our car was not ready for the first races and we fumbled our way through with nothing to show for it.
"This season we are ready to go with the Toyota. The chassis is really good and we have not spent the winter trying to reinvent the wheel or be too clever.
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In Praise Of The Upright Bike
North American bike culture is changing. Fast. And a big part of that shift is in the type of bicycles people are choosing to ride. Traditional upright city bikes have seen an explosion in popularity in recent years, with real implications to the way we design and experience cities.
While this trend may have started with images of stylish cycling Scandinavians circulating on blogs and social media, it is becoming increasingly clear these machines aren't just a style or passing fad. Urban bikes interact with the city environment in a notably different manner, broadening the way we provide citizens of all ages with healthier, happier, more social, and less expensive means of mobility.
First and foremost, it's important to clarify what we mean by upright city bikes, and how they differentiate from other styles you may see. With their high, sweeping handlebars and sometimes step-through frames (which are not suggested to be gender-specific anywhere but in North America -- just practical, comfortable design), they are designed for a different posture: riding in an upright position -- rather than hunching over -- taking all strain off your back, shoulders, forearms, wrists, and hands.
Not only are they designed for comfort, they're sturdier and safer, making them ideal for cruising at slower speeds, providing opportunities for an intimate, unfiltered awareness and experience of the people and places around you. They're not meant for long distances or off-roading, but are the perfect means for a short, slow, non-sweaty jaunt around your neighbourhood.
To be perfectly clear, we have nothing against other styles of bike. We both have or have had just about every type, for different occasions and purposes, and there is room for each and every one of them on our city streets: mountain, hybrid, road, recumbent, unicycle, tricycle, tall-bike, or even electric-assisted. But as many North American bike cultures rapidly grow and mature, the number of machines specifically designed for urban movement is also increasing. That's a welcome development, because it's encouraging folks of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds to give it a try.
The primary goal of modern bicycle planning is to increase ridership, predominantly among those less represented in current North American cycling: women, children, and seniors. The Holy Grail of bike planning is the achievement of 8-80 and 50/50 -- eight-year-old kids to 80-year-old seniors, and an equal split of men and women. The myriad benefits of accomplishing this have been well documented, and include economic, health, social, creativity, traffic congestion, and environmental advantages.
In recent decades in North America, a small niche of riders dominated cycling (if cycling existed at all); mostly able-bodied, middle-aged men, who rode fast, and dressed the part (including the so-called "middle aged men in lycra," or MAMILS). Until recently, much of the discussion among city designers has centred on how to design for them, with one of the most important challenges being providing facilities at work for showering and changing after all that sweating. For years, this made it very hard to grow ridership numbers beyond a limited base.
Outside of North America -- particularly in Europe -- city cycling has always been a more diverse and inclusive endeavour. In key cycling cultures, almost everyone rides a bike for transportation -- including women, children, and seniors -- and they do it in their regular street clothes. It's not uncommon to spot women pedalling down the street in dresses and high heels, and men in suits, carrying open umbrellas if it's raining.
It's not just that streets and places are designed differently in bike-friendly cities -- they are of course, many with a comprehensive network of safe and separated cycle tracks -- but it's also that bikes have been designed differently too.
Amazingly, in the last five years or so, these bikes have spread everywhere -- perhaps most visibly in the proliferation of public bike-share schemes that utilize them almost exclusively -- and they are changing the conversation about how we design a more accessible, equitable and resilient city.
The ripple effects of the growth of city bikes may not be immediately obvious, but they are most certainly there. City planners are beginning to think beyond building "fast lanes" for commuter cyclists, and focusing on establishing a fine-grained grid of bike-friendly streets.
We're not just designing for speed, but also for convenience, accessibility, and flexibility. And we're beginning to understand how upright cycling on main streets can benefit street-level retailers -- facilitating slower speeds, better views of storefronts and signage, and spontaneous stops (and purchases) which become much more straight-forward and likely with the means to carry objects in an easy basket or bags.
There are many other policy implications that come with the spread of slower, safer city bikes -- here in British Columbia, a big one is around mandatory helmet laws. Many such laws were passed at a time when fast, forward-leaning cycling was the norm, and safe bike infrastructure was virtually non-existent. When drifting along at a walking pace, in an upright position, on a dedicated cycle track, the notion of legally requiring head protection certainly changes.
And in recent years, those American cities that have seen the largest uptakes in cycling --especially through bike-share use -- have also seen noticeable reductions in helmet use and in injuries and fatalities (head or otherwise).
This provides further evidence of something we now understand, or should understand -- that the safest thing for cyclists is more cyclists, and creating unnecessary conditions and barriers to more bike riding is counterproductive. For more on the debate about mandatory helmet laws, see here, here and here, but our point is that part of the unravelling of the argument for helmet laws comes from the changing nature of bike designs and their related speeds.
The most important thing about the growth of sit-up cycling is that it facilitates getting more people on two wheels, changing our perception of how we can move around our cities, making cycling more appealing to demographics that were traditionally left on the sidelines. These bikes help take cycling beyond speed and sport, making it a much broader, inviting, inclusive activity.
We have nothing against spandex, dropped handlebars, and long commutes, and we definitely aren't against helmets as a choice. These all will remain a portion of city cycling, and that's generally a good thing. But it's important that we grow ridership beyond this limited base, as more and more choose cycling as a reliable, effortless part of their everyday life: in ordinary clothes, with no showers necessary. The upright bicycle has played a central role in that cultural evolution. So yes, we are big fans. Not as a matter of style, but because they can help transform our cities for the better.
Brent Toderian is an international consultant on city planning & advanced urbanism with TODERIAN UrbanWORKS, Vancouver's former director of city planning, and the president of the Council for Canadian Urbanism. Follow him on Twitter: @BrentToderian.
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Cycle deep into Austria's 'Little Canada', surrounded by the country's highest mountain peaks. Pedal away from St Michael im Lungau through a National Park rich with birdlife all the way to the buzz of Graz, the lively capital of Styria. Forests, farms and trailing vineyards await. Details: cyclebreaks.com.
Cycle the diverse regions of Mount Etna from the summit to the shores of the Med. Quality rides rule - you can forget guidebook-style sightseeing. Stay at Castello Camemi, an impeccably restored 15th-century castle with a pool and spa, and enquire about family cycling holidays. Visit backroads.com for more details.
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Limousin, in the foothills of the Massif Central, is a paradise for anyone looking for a gentle biking holiday. Take in the Dordogne Valley, the regional parks of Millevaches and Périgord-Limousin and some of the prettiest villages in France. Discover its medieval villages, granite churches, magnificent countryside and mouth-watering cuisine at your leisure. More details: bonkersfrog.co.uk
With a host of newly refined biking trails, and increased facilities for cycling enthusiasts, Gstaad is the place to be seen in 2102. There are 11 new specialist certified 'bike hotels' which offer on-site repair services, hire services, expert advice, packed lunches and wellness facilities to relieve sore muscles at the end of a long day. Visit gstaad for more information.
Cycle Mallorca's Tramuntana Mountain range - as well as lots of less demanding flatter country rides - on a four-day trip with The Healthy Holiday Company. From £1,165 per person based on two adults sharing with three much-needed massages thrown in.
Montenegro boasts towering mountains, immense lakes, a beautiful coastline and a varied array of mountain biking trails. Saddleskedaddle's eight-day trip takes in the Ziovo mountains along the Montenegrin-Albanian border, as well as the mysterious high plateau of Sinjajevinja, followed by lunch with local shepherds. Prices from £995 per person (excluding flights).
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This one isn't for the fainthearted. If you have lots of mountain biking experience and a good level of fitness, the Atlas Traverse trip offered by saddleskedaddle promises thrills galore. The Central High Atlas is one of the most unspoilt mountain regions in the world, and offers some of Morocco's best mountain biking terrain. The Atlas Traverse costs £895 per person exlcluding flights. Visit www.saddleskedaddle.co.uk for information.
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The 11,000 sq ft new look flagship, which was Apple's first retail outlet in Europe when it first opened in 2004, had been completely shut since June.
The shop has been painted in a palette of neutral white, grey and natural oak colours "to create a calm environment for an enhanced shopping experience".
The redesign by architects Foster & Partners is one of the biggest since Chingford-born Sir Jonathan Ive was appointed the Silicon Valley giant's chief design officer last year.
For the first time, some of the products on display, iPhones and iPads, will be "untethered" - not connected to a security cord - allowing customers to pick them up and walk around with them.
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NERVOUS nine-year-old singer Malakai Paul wowed the Britain's Got Talent
judges tonight with his impressive audition.
After a shaky start, the youngster burst into tears and Alesha Dixon and his
mother Toni-Ann had to rush on to stage to comfort him.
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And David Walliams said: "I thought that was a really, really special
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Simon Cowell added: "What I like about you, is that you are brave."
Meanwhile, wannabe Graham Blackledge, 42, from Preston performed a routine on
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Simon gave Graham a no, but with two votes from the other judges Alesha and
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The Jive Aces, a six-piece band aged between 33-35, wowed the panel, with
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Alesha was happily surprised by dance troupe Nu Sxool, a group of movers and
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Culture conscious Wolverhampton's plan to spend £1,800 on a painting of a packet of cigarettes was greeted less than enthusiastically yesterday in the town, where rates have risen by 56 percent in a year.
Sceptics are being told that the 9-inch square painting is an important addition to a pop art collection which already boasts "Adonis in Y fronts," a man wearing underpants using a chest expander, bought for £1,500, "Purist painting of bottles" which cost £35,000, and a study of two front doors which was a relative snip at £800 in 1974.
The council's leisure committee voted to spend £900 - expecting a Government grant of £900 - to buy "Cigarette Pack" by Peter Blake, one of a group at the Royal College of Art who pioneered the pop art movement in the 1950s.
The picture shows a tilted packet of 20 Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes with the cellophane wrapper hanging free. It is being offered by a London gallery - and the grant comes from the Department of Education and Science.
The chairman of the Labour-controlled leisure committee, Councillor George Howells, said that "Cigarette Pack" would form "an important addition to our already important pop art collection."
Other councillors were not so sure. Some expressed bewilderment at such expenditure in a town with the highest unemployment in the West Midlands.
Councillor Jim Carpenter, Conservative finance spokesman, said: "Cigarettes carry a Government health warning. This should carry a warning to the ratepayers."
Another Conservative, Mrs Paddy Bradley, said that although the purchase had been recommended by the curator of the town's art gallery her personal judgment was that "a two-year-old could have done it."
Mr David Rodgers, curator of Wolverhampton Art Gallery, said, "All I have done is to suggest that the ratepayers acquire a painting of market value of £2,000. As our fund for such works now stands at £6,000, it's hardly splashing out. The Tate Gallery has also vetted the painting."
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It's time for a mashup. Let's take the classic Daphne Du Maurier story *Rebecca* and see what happens when we apply H. P. Lovecraft's style of writing to it....
Last night I dreamed I came again to Manderley. The car glided up the drive, the rhododendrons crowding in on either side, dark and monstrous like the moonless night. The house reared up before me, crenellated and bespired, a gothic imagining of the houses of drowned R'lyeh. The car hissed to a halt before the doors, and they swung silently inwards, the angles still subtly wrong. Mrs. Danvers slithered across the threshold, phosphorescent slime dripping from the cilia that formed her face, and greeted me in glutinous tones that sent a shiver down my spine.
"Welcome back," she said, sounding like she was gargling molasses. "Rebecca is up with Mr. de Winter."
I heard the baying of the Hounds, unsacred dogs imported from remote Tindalos for whom any corner is but a doorway, and my blood felt like ice in my veins. Rebecca was dead, thrown from a horse into the crashing surf and Maximillian de Winter was my husband… wasn't he?
Somehow I was outside the car now, and try as I might, I could not wake.
Mrs. Danvers slithered back in across the threshold, beckoning me to follow her with a hand that seemed abnormally long and pale. The car's engine purred back to life and before I could open the door and return to relative safety the driver had put it into gear and pulled away. I listened to the crunch of the wheels as he turned on to the gravelled path that lead around the house to the stables and wondered what madness had seized me that I had returned to Manderley.
Left with little choice now I went into the house, and the door swung shut behind me with an echoing slam. The first time I had been here that had scared me, but an afternoon spent with a screwdriver and a torch had uncovered the hydraulic lines that enabled the door to be opened and closed remotely. At the time I had thought it most amusing, though now I wondered at the kind of mind that tried to fool its guests so.
The house was as badly lit as I remembered; gaslights burned dimly in the wall-sconces, and any attempt to turn them up would only enrage Mrs. Danvers. The hall still smelled of damp and sulphur, and too many of the doors in the hallway stood ajar. I had locked them, one after the other, closing away things that should not be disturbed, things that should not be seen, and in two cases, things that simply should not be. I doubted that Max would have reopened them; he had an unwillingness to face up to reality and as he had abandoned anything in the house that Rebecca has owned after she'd died, so I'd expected him to abandon anything that I had touched when I was there.
I sniffed, and regretted it, the musty damp mixing unpleasantly with the sulphur, a hint of something acrid, and the earthy, mucosal stench of the Hounds. Clearly my last orders on the regular airing and cleaning of the house were not being heeded.
Mrs. Danvers led me into the library and left me there, slithering away with the sounds of a hundred worms mating. I looked around me; the ancient bookcases built from driftwood thrown up on the shore still towered to the ceiling and lined all the walls. The glass-fronted ones were open again, despite my locking them and then swallowing the key. Morbid curiosity drew me over, but the locks had not been forced that I could see. The dust on the books had been cleaned off, and several of the books had left tracks in the dust on the shelves: they had been taken down and presumably read.
The shelf of romantic fiction I'd put out was missing in its entirety, and I wished as I saw this that I didn't feel faintly satisfied, as though some part of me had known that this must happen.
Mrs. Danvers slithered back into the room, the cilia on her face spread wide and glowing brightly, a sign of happiness for that unhappy monster.
"Rebecca will be in to see you shortly," she announced.


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