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"Anyone who embarks on a study of Abraham Lincoln … must first come to terms with the Lincoln myth. The effort to penetrate the crust of legend that surrounds Lincoln … is both a formidable and intimidating task. Lincoln, it seems, requires special considerations that are denied to other figures."
— Robert W. Johannsen
Lincoln, the South, and Slavery
Indeed, it would not seem a safe time to critique the wisdom, motivations, and character of Abraham Lincoln. Steven Spielberg's reverential motion picture epic Lincoln fills screens across America. The public increasingly accepts him as America's greatest leader. Academics from the Left — and Right — compete to bestow the grandest laurels on the 16th president.
Yet, such a pursuit is ever more important for a people hurtling forward into an uncertain future, to learn from past mistakes or merely become aware they made them. One growing consensus regarding Lincoln seems credible: He has exerted more influence over the development of this nation than any other person, including the Founders. If Washington be the father of our country, surely Lincoln is its stepfather.
This article will examine the significance of this truly larger-than-life figure's actions regarding three of the many important issues of his time: 1) the Constitution, in particular during the War Between the States, 2) emancipation and blacks, and 3) the Radical Republicans and Reconstruction.
The Constitution
"I am the President of the United States of America — clothed in immense power!" Spielberg's Lincoln thunders. The real Lincoln proved the truth of that claim within days of the April 12, 1861 attack on Fort Sumter. In fact, the attack might have been avoided if he had not decided to reinforce Sumter. Once it occurred, he quickly unleashed a series of watershed actions that forever altered the nature of American government.
On April 13, he declared the seceding states in a condition of rebellion and called for 75,000 troops to deal with them — a declaration expressly reserved to Congress by the Constitution: "The Congress shall have the power … To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions."
On April 15, he called for Congress to return to session — but only on July 15, months after Ft. Sumter .
On April 19, he declared a naval blockade of the South.
On April 21, he instructed the U.S. Navy to buy five warships — an appropriations act needing congressional approval.
On April 27, he began the unprecedented act of suspending the constitutional right of habeas corpus.
On May 3, he called up thousands more troops — for three-year hitches — another act the law did not authorize the president to commit.
At about the same time, he ordered the Department of Treasury to pay two million dollars to a New York City company to outfit and arm his army — another appropriations act needing congressional approval.
Each one of these acts — and many more soon to follow — violated the U.S. Constitution. The majority of the U.S. public supported him, however, as the American people have supported other presidents since, when they felt the need to break the Constitution "for the public good."
This early series of moves proved breathtaking in its shrewd efficiency. For instance, by not calling Congress back into session until July, Lincoln presented it with a fait accompli upon its return: a war months old from which there was now no turning back, unless Lincoln decided such, which he had no intention of doing. Whether or not Congress would have declared war on the South as had Lincoln, it now saw no choice but to fight.
Even Massachusetts' Senator Charles Sumner, one of the spearheads of the Radical postwar Reconstruction and certainly no friend of the South, said: "When Lincoln reinforced Sumter and called for 75,000 men without the consent of Congress, it was the greatest breach ever made in the Constitution, and would hereafter give the President the liberty to declare war whenever he wished, without the consent of Congress."
All this came from the hand of Lincoln, a man who as a U.S. congressman in 1848 declared: "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right — a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize and make their own so much of the territory as they inhabit.''
In his landmark book The Real Lincoln, Loyola College economics professor and Lincoln scholar Thomas DiLorenzo recounted how Lincoln also unlawfully "nationalized the railroads; created three new states without the consent of the citizens of those states in order to artificially inflate the Republican Party's electoral vote; ordered Federal troops to interfere with Northern elections to assure Republican Party victories; deported Ohio Congressman Clement L. Vallandigham for opposing his domestic policies (especially protectionist tariffs and income taxation) on the floor of the House of Representatives; confiscated private property, including firearms, in violation of the Second Amendment; and effectively gutted the Tenth and Ninth Amendments as well."
Maryland, My Maryland
Soon, the Lincoln administration crossed yet another historic line. Without notifying targeted members of the Maryland legislature of charges, or indeed possessing any charges, its troops hauled dozens of legislators it suspected of supporting secession out of their homes in front of their families in the darkness of night and threw them into prison.
The prison was temporarily located at Fort McHenry, from where Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star Spangled Banner." In fact, Key's own grandson would be among the host flung into captivity at the fort. He would write eloquently in American Bastille of how much the nation had changed in less than a half century, as he looked upon the U.S. flag flying at the same location as it was when his grandfather wrote his famous stanzas.
Thousands of Federal soldiers from other states voted in Maryland's November 1861 elections, while local residents had to pass through formations of bayonet-brandishing Federals to cast their ballots. The Maryland legislature, prior to its collective jailing by Lincoln, declared: "Resolved, that Maryland implores the President, in the name of God, to cease this unholy war, at least until Congress assembles; that Maryland desires and consents to the recognition of the independence of the Confederate States. The military occupation of Maryland is unconstitutional, and she protests against it, though the violent interference with the transit of federal troops is discountenanced, that the vindication of her rights be left to time and reason, and that a Convention, under existing circumstances, is inexpedient."
Opposing Supreme Court
Only weeks after the war commenced in 1861, Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus, one of the foundational pillars of American — and Western — liberty, and preeminent among all provisions of the Bill of Rights. The right of habeas corpus (Latin for "you may have the body") is sourced in England's ancient Magna Carta. It requires a warrant be issued by a legitimate law-enforcement authority before a person can be arrested, prevents the jailing of a person without his being charged with a specific crime, and prohibits indefinite detention of that person without the opportunity of appearing before a legally convened court for the exercise of his rights and the hearing of his case.
Despite the central place of habeas corpus in American liberty and an armada of opinion ranging from British jurist William Blackstone to American Chief Justice John Marshall to President Thomas Jefferson that only Congress — and never the president — could suspend habeas corpus, Lincoln's administration did just that in thousands of cases against the citizens of Federal states. (The power to suspend habeas corpus "when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it" is in Article I, the section of the Constitution enumerating congressional power.)
Federal troops arrested Marylander John Merryman without a warrant, jailed him — at Fort McHenry — and kept him there without opportunity for trial or defense. He appealed to the esteemed Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who had already freed his own slaves.
It is difficult to conceive of the political climate in which Taney received this plea. Every day, Federal officers hauled citizens of every stripe — politicians, newspaper publishers, attorneys, business owners, common workers — from their homes and places of business for voicing the slightest criticism of the U.S. government or Lincoln, flung them into jail, and left them there. Taney had no illusions but that that fate likely awaited him if he crossed the president. Yet he ordered the release of the jailed man. Lincoln commanded his soldiers to refuse. The chief justice then penned Ex Parte Merryman, an opinion now famous in constitutional law. Delivered directly to Lincoln at his office, it informed the president that he, not Merryman, was breaching the law and the Constitution, and it ordered Merryman's release.
At this point, Lincoln did issue a warrant of arrest — for Taney. Lincoln apologists deny this action, but contemporary witnesses corroborate it. Though longtime Lincoln colleague and Federal Marshal of Washington Ward Hill Lamon declined to serve the warrant, Lincoln had established that neither Congress, the Supreme Court, nor the Constitution would stand in the way of his carrying out the actions he deemed best for the country.
Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, 85 years old when President Lincoln issued the warrant for his arrest and dead before the end of the war, wrote in Ex Parte Merryman: "If the President of the United States may suspend the writ [of habeas corpus], then the Constitution of the United States has conferred upon him more regal and absolute power over the liberty of the citizen than the people of England have thought it safe to entrust to the crown — a power which the Queen of England cannot exercise to this day, and which could not have been lawfully exercised by the sovereign even in the reign of Charles the First."
That king got beheaded for his dictatorial actions.
The Lincoln administration continued to express great concern over Northerners who did not exhibit what it considered sufficient loyalty, or sufficiently enthusiastic loyalty, to the United States and its war effort. After suspending habeas corpus, the president and his lieutenants shut down over 300 Northern newspapers during the struggle, throwing many of their editors and publishers in jail or prison without trials and often without charges. Approximately 13,000 other Northern citizens met the same fate.
Lincoln's justification: "Measures, however unconstitutional, might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation."
Blacks and Slavery
Abraham Lincoln's own words on the issue of African-American slavery would shock anyone who accepts the popular myth that Lincoln was the "Great Emancipator." While he never uttered a word against the Illinois law that made it a crime for blacks to settle in his home state, he did declare, in Springfield, on July 17, 1858: "What I would desire most would be the separation of the white and black races."During his famed 1858 Illinois Senate debates with Stephen Douglas, Lincoln offered eloquent criticism of American slavery, while demonstrating how different his anti-slavery views were from those of abolitionists who sought not only freedom, but political and social equality, for blacks:
Make Negroes politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this. I will say that I am not nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not nor have ever been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people. And I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And in as much as they cannot so live, while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior and inferior. And I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
Did his views change later, as president? In 1862, he declared: "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slaves, I would do it. And if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it. And if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that."
Emancipation Proclamation
Yet, he "freed" the slaves the following year. Evidence abounds, from Lincoln's own words as well as his actions, that something besides a desire to end African-American bondage fueled his historic Emancipation Proclamation. U.S. Senate Republicans launched a revolt against Lincoln in mid-December 1862, just before he signed the proclamation into law.
According to Lincoln's old friend, Illinois Representative Orville Browning, and others, the senators demanded the president conduct a more resolute war effort, including emancipating all African-American slaves in America. They apparently threatened to bring down his administration otherwise.
Orville Browning's diary of December 31, 1862 recorded that Judge Benjamin Franklin Thomas of the Massachusetts Supreme Court told the regretful Browning: "The President was fatally bent upon his course, saying that if he should refuse to issue his proclamation there would be a rebellion in the north, and that a dictator would be placed over his head within the week."
This enhanced, Radical Republican-dominated effort evidently included emancipation as a method of war that would torpedo the South's economy and ability to defend itself. A slave uprising lay within the sphere of this projection. A howling chorus of protest arose to the proclamation not only from the South, but from many of Lincoln's opponents in the North, as well as in Europe. Horatio Seymour, soon-to-be Democratic governor of New York, called the scheme "a proposal for the butchery of [white Southern] women and children, for scenes of lust and rapine, arson and murder, unparalleled in the history of the world."
Relations between Southern slaves and their owners proved superior to such an eventuality. But Lincoln himself, when told the Constitution gave individual states and not the national government jurisdiction over slavery, claimed emancipation as a war powers act that he as commander in chief could employ — for military purposes. Indeed, he eliminated from an early draft of the decree a call for a violent uprising of slaves.
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation quelled the Senate revolt. But his lackluster feelings for it resurfaced when he eschewed the urgings of much of his Cabinet, including Seward, Chase, Blair, and Bates, and confined his decree to those slaves in Confederate-controlled territory. That is, he freed none of the slaves over which he had control when he had the opportunity.
Wrote Lincoln's colleague Lamon: "None of [Lincoln's] public acts, either before or after he became President, exhibits any special tenderness for the African race…. When he was compelled, by what he deemed an overruling necessity, founded on both military and political considerations, to declare the freedom of [only the Confederates'] slaves, he did so with avowed reluctance, and took pains to have it understood that his resolution was in no wise affected by sentiment." Lamon's perspective on Lincoln's actions once again seems on solid ground, in view of the president's 1861 revocation of Federal General John Fremont's bold emancipation of slaves in Missouri. That countermanding infuriated abolitionists and conservatives alike in the North, albeit for different reasons.
A portion of the completed Emancipation Proclamation addressed another view Lincoln had in mind for Southern, but not Union border state, slaves — "impressment" into the Federal armies, often against their will. A horrendous 68,000 of the 186,000 African-Americans who shouldered arms for Lincoln's armies died during the war. They provided significant manpower in the desperate struggle, however, and deprived the Confederates of their services.
In the end, Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation exhibited political sagacity and brilliance, hastened the demise of American slavery, probably triggered the deaths of tens of thousands more men — including many former slaves — than would otherwise have occurred, and likely contributed to America's future morass in racial relations. In contrast, nearly every other Western Hemisphere nation that practiced slavery ended the practice peaceably. Britain, worldwide purveyors of the slave trade, did so as well, through the patient, often frustrating, but ultimately pacific emancipation effort spearheaded by the devout Christian William Wilberforce.
Freedom and Deportation
But didn't Lincoln yearn to keep slavery out of the new territories and states of the West? Yes, along with all black people. "Now irrespective of the moral aspect of this question as to whether there is a right or wrong in enslaving a Negro," he said, "I am still in favor of our new Territories being in such a condition that white men may find a home.… I am in favor of this not merely … for our own people who are born amongst us, but as an outlet for free white people everywhere, the world over."
What if Congress refused to grant Lincoln's desire for this sprawling, whites-only enclave? "We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, hope of earth," he said.
Thus appears an even more startling revelation, as Lincoln stated in 1857 and many times before and after: "Let us be brought to believe it is morally right … to transfer the African to his native clime … however great the task may be. The children of Israel, to such numbers as to include four hundred thousand fighting men, went out of Egyptian bondage in a body."
Lincoln, as did other presidents before him, wished the permanent shipment of as much of the African-American population as possible to foreign lands, and colonies established for them.
He advocated "emancipation … deportation … and their places be … filled up by free white laborers," in New York City in 1860.
"But if gradual emancipation and deportation be adopted, they [blacks] will have neither to flee … till new homes can be found for them, in congenial climes, and with people of their own blood and race," he declared in his 1862 State of the Union address.
This long desire resounded through the halls of Congress when he asked that body the same year to pass a constitutional amendment "colonizing free colored persons, with their own consent, at any place or places without the United States."
President Lincoln "zealously and persistently devised schemes for the deportation of the Negroes, which the latter deemed cruel and atrocious in the extreme," his friend Lamon wrote.
Lenore Bennett, Jr., an African-American author and no conservative or friend of the Confederacy, wrote in his massive chronicle Forced Into Glory, Abraham Lincoln's White Dream:
Lincoln proposed … that the United States government buy the slaves and deport them to Africa or South America. This was not a passing whim. In five major policy declarations, including two State of the Union addresses and the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, the sixteenth president of the United States publicly and officially called for the deportation of blacks. On countless other occasions, in conferences with cronies, Democratic and Republican leaders, and high government officials, he called for colonization of blacks or aggressively promoted colonization by private and official acts.
According to Bennett, the president put his plans into action when "three months after signing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln became the first and last American president to officially deport native-born Americans for racial reasons, sending some 450 blacks, one-third of them women and children, to an island off the coast of Haiti to establish the first Lincoln colony. The island was a desolate place full of poisonous insects and snakes, and the whole affair ended in a comic-opera disaster, with scores of casualties and the survivors covered with bugs and suffering from various illnesses."
Lincoln didn't ignore free African-Americans, either. He lauded the American Colonization Society, established to ship blacks out of America, saying he "considered it no demerit in the society, that it tended to relieve slaveholders from the troublesome presence of the free Negroes." He was anything but bashful about the subject, declaring in his first State of the Union address: "[It] might well be well to consider, too, whether the free colored people already in the United States could not, so far as individuals may desire, be included in such colonization."
Radical Reconstruction
"By the gods, there will be no trouble now in running this government," Radical Republican Senator Ben Wade promised, upon the murder of Abraham Lincoln by famed actor John Wilkes Booth. Wade scarcely overstated what lay ahead in the postwar United States with his wing of the dominant Republican Party in charge.
As America's most terrible conflict ground to a blood-drenched conclusion in the spring of 1865, the military leaders of both sides wished for a return to productive lives for the Confederate population and a peaceful welcoming them back into the fold by Unionists. Lincoln also wished to put the war — which his side had won and which had devastated both the population and property of the Confederates — behind them, to welcome the South back into the social and commercial fold, and to resume building the United States, now with the Industrial Revolutionized might of the North, the Union preserved, and the slaves freed. But that war, for which Lincoln himself provided the guiding hand, had hurt too many and destroyed too many others. Countless Southerners would no doubt have put the same bullet into Lincoln's head that John Wilkes Booth did. Among Booth's last words upon his own death a few days later: "Tell Mother I died for my country."
Radical Republicans had existed in sometimes uneasy alliance and sometimes tense conflict with the pragmatic president. They held ideological convictions he did not. Like Lincoln, they wished for a centralized national government, but for different reasons. They intended to wield it as a cudgel in pursuit of a generally socialistic political platform. As a group, they were social progressives and either abolitionists or strongly anti-slavery. Many did not share the traditionalist Christianity common to Northern conservatives and Southerners. For Radical Republicans, embittered and philosophically reinvigorated by the harrowing marathon of war, the death of Lincoln both cleared the way and further motivated them for harshly "reconstructing" a Confederacy that stood diametrically opposed to them in nearly every conceivable way.
With both the Confederates and Lincoln gone, the Radical Republicans unleashed a hurricane of change. They sent Southern congressmen home when the latter arrived in Washington, D.C., to resume representation of their states. Supposedly well-intentioned Radical programs like the Freedman's Bureau and the Civil Rights Bill resulted in the legally sanctioned theft of vast tracts of land owned by former Confederates. When President Andrew Johnson opposed their unconstitutional actions, they stripped power from him — impeaching him in the House and coming within one Senate vote of removing him from office.
The Radicals put their heart into passing three new constitutional amendments that officially ended all American slavery, granted citizenship to African-Americans, and extended to them the right to vote. Ruthless and unconstitutional tactics riddled even these laudatory accomplishments, however; and many white former Confederates lost their own rights to vote and to hold office. Plus, one of the new amendments, the 14th, laid the groundwork for the federal government to greatly expand its own power through future amendments and court interpretations.
Dissatisfied with the response to their program from a crushed people now humiliated by military occupation and beset with economic calamity, the Radicals jettisoned the legal jurisdiction guaranteed to states by the Constitution; deprived hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Southerners of their constitutional right to trial by a jury of their peers for crimes ranging from assault to murder; filled juries with Radical sympathizers and supporters; and gave Republican President Ulysses S. Grant the unilateral right both to unleash martial law and to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. No Southern citizen had a right to redress in any of these situations.
This ruthless reign of one-party dominance led to carpetbag governments backed by the bayonet; a cavalcade of government-supported private-sector boondoggles, such as the railroads, mining, and Wall Street financial speculators; the robber barons; the Black Friday Stock Market Crash; the most corrupt presidential administration (Grant's) in U.S. history; the Gilded Age; the Ku Klux Klan; lasting enmity between the black and white races in the South; and the permanent recasting of what Radical leader Wendell Phillips branded "a covenant with death, and an agreement with hell" — the American Constitution.
Short and Sweet
Upwards of 20,000 books have come off the printing presses about Abraham Lincoln, with seemingly as many opinions regarding the central driving force behind his historic actions. So what was it? Lincoln himself summed up his "political principles" when he first ran for political office, the Illinois State Legislature, in 1832: "I presume you all know who I am. I am humble Abraham Lincoln. My policies are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. I am in favor of a National Bank, in favor of the Internal improvements system, and in favor of a high protective tariff."
Never for the next 30-plus years would he veer from that course. Historian DiLorenzo called Lincoln's presidential elections and success the triumph of mercantilism, the late 17th- and early 18th-century British system of massive dispensation of governmental favors to favored business allies.
Edgar Lee Masters concurred, chronicling how Lincoln dedicated his career to carrying forward Henry Clay's so-called American System of government: "Henry Clay was the champion of that political system which doles favors to the strong in order to win and keep their adherence to the government. His system offered shelter to devious schemes and corrupt enterprises. He was the beloved son, figuratively speaking, of Alexander Hamilton, with his corrupt funding schemes, his superstitions concerning the advantage of a public debt, and a people taxed to make profits for enterprises that cannot stand alone."
Lincoln's questionable actions regarding the Constitution and blacks; his unleashing of the Federal military in an unprecedented campaign of total war against the men, women, children, and aged of the Confederate states; and his humane desires for reconciling with the South — they all lay sourced in the headwaters of a strong, consolidated nation, even empire. It offered glittering jewels for its adherents, as well as unnoticed dangers, new firebells in the night. It does so still.
John J. Dwyer is the author of The War Between the States: America's Uncivil War (2005). A new edition of his book is scheduled for release in December.


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well first there's Donald. Lucky for you Theresa, he is far to old for actual intercourse, but prepare to get your pussy well and truly grabed
Then of coarse it's between Vlad and Xi
Vlad will settle for sloppy seconds, or will he? Remember that crazy Russian hacker you met last June? Yes that was Vlad that fucked you. He fucked you hard, and don't lie, you liked it
After Donald, Vlad and Xi what next
Well remember all those countries your grand father raped back in the glorious days of the Empire? well they are all queuing up to fuck you now
All those dirty black foreigners will soon be fucking you hard in revenge for their grand mothers
When it's all over the EU wont really be interested in your bruised and bloodied vagina with the cum of a hundred angry Commonwealth foreign ministers oozing down your leg
So laugh it up now Theresa because it is only a matter of time till you are well and truly fucked

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Yard Waste
Yard Waste
Yard waste (leaves, grass clippings, and garden/flowerbed waste) is collected at the curb on your scheduled garbage collection day starting May 4, 2020 through November 20, 2020 depending on weather. Yard waste must be placed into transparent lawn bags or in a garbage can up to 32 gallons in size. Clear bags can be purchased at most Moorhead grocery, hardware and retail stores. Each container or bag must not exceed 30 pounds, but there is no limit on the total amount that may be picked up.
You can also bring yard waste to recycling drop sites or the City's Compost Site. Branches can not be taken to the recycling drop site but may be dropped off at the City's Compost Site.
Compost Site
1800 Hwy 75 N
(Just north of Centennial Park baseball fields, right on Hwy 75)
Drop off hours: Open May 4, 2020 - November 20, 2020
Monday thru Friday 8:00 am to 4:15 pm
Saturdays 8:00 am to 11:45 am
Yard waste is processed at the City's Compost Site. Finished compost is available to all Clay County residents. For more information or to check the availability of finished compost, please call 218.979.9516.
Branch Pickup
Forestry operates a curbside brush chipping and pickup service Spring to Fall. Curbside service will be offered from May 4, 2020 to September 25, 2020 and will be every other week on your recycle day. When we are not running weekly curbside pickup, you may request brush pickup either on-line at Forestry, or by contacting us at 218.299.5422.
Additional information on branch pickup service.


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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The weekend shopping trip wasn't supposed to end like this. One minute, the grandmother of 3-year-old Acen King steered them toward the JC Penney in Little Rock, Ark. The next, the boy was fatally shot in the seat of her maroon Dodge Charger.
"My [grandson's] been shot," she wailed over the phone to a 911 dispatcher. "Oh my God!"
The shrill screams of the grandmother echoed through the sprawling mall parking lot Saturday night.
The 911 calls released Monday capture the heartbreak of a woman who lost her grandson to gun violence after an apparent road rage incident.
Police continued to search Tuesday for the gunman who killed the child and have offered a $40,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
The honks, then the havoc
The incident began Saturday evening when a driver behind the grandmother grew agitated that she was not moving quickly enough at a stop sign, Little Rock Police Department spokesman Lt. Steven McClanahan said.
The man started honking his horn. The grandmother honked her horn. Then, police said, the man got out of his black Chevrolet Impala and fired into her car.
"One shot was fired and it went through the vehicle and hit the child," McClanahan said.
Not realizing that the boy had been hit, the woman drove to the JC Penney about nine miles away. She realized her grandson was wounded when she went to get him out of the car, according to a police incident report.
"She didn't know he was shot," a bystander told the 911 operator after speaking with the grandmother.
A few minutes before 6:30 p.m., police received the first of several calls that the boy had been shot. The caller, describing what happened to the 911 operator, said the grandmother feverishly performed CPR after the child sustained a neck wound.
People gathered to watch as paramedics arrived and transferred the boy to Arkansas Children's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A 1-year-old child was also in the car at the time of the shooting, according to the police report.
'We're on your trail'
With the suspect still at large, Mercy Church Pastor Terrance Long called on people with information about the gunman to come forward.
"We want to let the killer know, we're on your trail," Long said.
Long pressured those who might know something about the shooting and the suspect but have failed to call police.
"The longer you hold out on information, the more you put yourself in the crossfire of it happening to you," Long said.
Under investigation
Police believe the grandmother and the slain boy had no relationship with the gunman.
"I certainly have no information to say that anyone in this family has done anything to cost this young person's life," Little Rock Police Department Chief Kenton Buckner told KARK. "But this is about as frustrated as you can be as a public safety official or just a plain citizen."
The fatal shooting was Little Rock's 40th homicide of the year, police said. Last year, there were 31 homicides in the city.


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Former KU medical students to get tax refunds
IRS: Students improperly taxed on income while studying
More than 1,100 former medical students at the University of Kansas Medical Center have received a total of $17.7 million in reimbursements for taxes they shouldn't have paid.
State officials said Monday the refunds from the Internal Revenue Service are for Social Security and Medicare taxes withheld from medical residents' paychecks from 1993 to 2005. The average refund will be about $15,570.
The state is expected to receive $25 million, representing the employer's share of FICA withholding.
The IRS agreed to issue refunds after medical schools across the country sued, saying medical residents were students and therefore exempt from FICA taxes under regulations in place during those years.
In response, the IRS clarified in April 2005 that medical residents were full-time employees and not eligible for the student exemption.


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"Female Privilege"Posted in fail, Feminism, New Zealand on February 14th, 2012 by steph – Comments Off on "Female Privilege"
The biggest mistake I made yesterday was reading this article on The Good Men Project when I saw the link. I really knew not to expect anything from a post on the GMP, but I couldn't resist. "I Have Female Privilege". I should've just walked away from the computer and never read this, because cleaning up the resulting mess from my head explosion was just not a great use of my time.
So, apparently the world is now a "woman's world", and women have all sorts of privilege; "I know that battle has not been won everywhere. There are countries or cultures where horrendous things happen to you if you are female. But in my country and in my culture, and in many other western countries, I would suggest the tide has well and truly turned."
1. I'm allowed to be far more open about my sexuality than a man is. In fact, if I'm bisexual, it's encouraged (both male and females encourage it funnily enough). If I'm hetero, I'm allowed to make comments about how hot men are, compliment men without others thinking it's harassment and generally can make lewd comments about any person, be them male or female, and it's considered ok. I can say "I fancy him so much I'd even rape him" or "I need to pull him into the storeroom and show him I mean it" or "He is mega hot" about any male whether he is seventeen (I am forty) or seventy. I can sit in a Twilight movie and drool at Jacob (for instance), and not be seen as a dirty old woman.
As QoT said on twitter last night, "I have privilege because people are happy to objectify my bisexuality!". Some fucking privilege it is that lesbians and bi women are still positioned as being wank-fodder for guys- it's so great not having your sexuality taken seriously! Additionally, the reason women are allowed to make "lewd comments" is because our sexuality is still seen as non-threatening; and, in fact, women are actually shamed for their sexual desires (too high=slut, too low=frigid, and there is no 'perfect medium' because no matter what you do you will always be a slut or a prude to someone). Some privilege that is. I'm not trying to say that men have it much better- in some ways they do, and in others they don't. For me, that's a part of why I'm a feminist; trying to work against mainstream stereotypes of men always being horny and lascivious beasts, and trying to combat homophobia. But just because men have it bad in some ways, that doesn't mean that women have privilege over them in that area.
2. If my partner and I were in a domestic dispute and both violent, or both shouting, and I hit him … if the police were called, my male partner would still be the one far more likely to be taken into custody for the night. If my male partner tried to report domestic violence, it would be harder for him to have the charges laid, than if I did so. In fact, while there is a charge of Male assaults Woman in my country, there is no Woman assaults Male. That would be classified instead as General Assault.
So, because men may not be believed if they accuse a woman of violence, women have privilege? Even though the actual facts also include the statistic that women are much more likely to be the victim of violence (perpetrated by a man) than men? If that is what female privilege is, then you can have it back, thanks. It's so reassuring to know that in a "woman's world", women are at risk of violence (domestic, but also sexual violence and rape outside of domestic spheres). I mean, come on. Really?! REALLY?! Because surely in a woman's world, we would be at very low risk of being victimized. Oh, but men might not be believed if they report being victimized by a woman- well, that does suck. But it is in no way an indicator that the world is a woman's world; in fact, it is a sneaky little byproduct of patriarchy- you know, that system that positions men as the top dogs! Yes, that's right: in the patriarchy, where gender stereotypes roam free, women are seen as weak, submissive, passive, and generally incapable of violence against men. In the patriarchy, a man being hit by his wife is as absurd as a talking horse. So no wonder he might not be believed if he claimed to have been hurt by a woman- it is a ludicrous role-reversal. So, this example of "female privilege" is really just male power and dominant positioning backfiring for men. To be clear: as a woman and a feminist, my ideal world would be one where acts of violence were all treated seriously; I don't want to live in a world where a man who is hurt by a woman is not taken seriously because I don't want women to have power and control over men. That attitude – that the only dynamic is one group having power over the other- comes from the perspective that the world is a zero-sum game, and that improving the lives of women means an automatic switcheroo so that men are now on the bottom. That is a fairly common false conceptualization of what the goal of feminism is, and seems silly when you consider how explicitly feminists state that we want equality (which, as you can see, includes the word "equal". It seems obvious enough…).
3. If my relationship with the father of my children was to break up, I'm far more likely to get the kids. And if I want a child, but don't have a partner, I can do that too. I get to choose whether I have the baby or not, I get to choose whether the father's name is on the birth certificate or not (and if he queries it, he's the one who has to pay for the DNA test) and if he's named as the father, he then has to pay child support, whether he was aware I was trying to have a child or not.
There is so much fail contained in this example. Firstly, the reason a woman might be more likely to "get the kids" is because in this world- the patriarchy!- women are positioned as the caregivers and often the primary parents, so who better to "give" the kids to than their figure of eternal love and nurturing? This attitude is an attitude of the patriarchy, not of a "woman's world", so using this as an example of how women have all the privilege is just hilarious. A patriarchal attitude being used to explain how the world is no longer biased towards men- I find this very, very funny. Another clear example of looking at the small picture and not thinking about the larger causes and dynamics at play. And, to top it off, the idea that women usually "get" the kids is actually disputed- apparently, men not getting custody is often due to men not applying for custody, and when they do they often get it (in some form)- the whole "feminazis have infiltrated the justice system and the courts are female-controlled" line is most often spouted by good old MRA types who love to talk about the "gynocracy".
"And if I want a child, but don't have a partner, I can do that too. I get to choose whether I have the baby or not"
Oh, what a privilege to live in a world where if you did what this first example suggests you would be slammed as a gold-digging deadbeat single mum, and your parenting routinely criticized until the end of time. We do not live in a world friendly to single mums, and often it is actively hostile. So sure, you can "do" that, technically, but to pretend that it is an easy option, and to not mention the backlash that comes with that choice, is utter misrepresentation. And great, we can choose to "have the baby or not". Sucks that while we may have that choice, the world we live in- which is apparently a woman's world- is still generally not very positive about the choice of abortion, nor does it provide great support for parents. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. The post is, apparently, about New Zealand (given that the writer is from here, and mentions "her" country early on) and other western countries: we're apparently awash in the privilege to choose not to continue a pregnancy in New Zealand, where abortion access is not nearly as easy as people believe and where grounds for abortions are laid out in the Crimes Act ("Serious danger to the life or to the physical or mental health of the mother. Risk that the child would be severely handicapped, physically or mentally. Pregnancy as a result of incest or unlawful sex with a guardian. Severe mental subnormality of the mother."). That is not what a "woman's world" in New Zealand looks like to me, and if that is considered to be "female privilege", then it's a fucking joke. Other western countries aren't looking to great when it comes to choosing not to have a child either- the reproductive rights of Americans are being chipped away at, and abortion providers in the USA continue to be targets of domestic terrorist acts (and yes, that is what clinic bombings and the murders of doctors is) committed by anti-choicers, and access to abortion services (choosing not to continue the pregnancy) is fraught for many people in many states of America. This is NOT what female privilege looks like. To argue that because women have "female privilege" because we are theoretically presented with choices about pregnancy is 100% tunnel vision, full stop.
4. I'm allowed to be as education- and career-driven as I want to be, and push for the top, seeking equity and equality in everything. But when it comes to dating and relationships, I'll want the dates paid for, the doors opened, the bling bought. And if I want to choose to not be career-driven, and be instead at home, and not work, then I can far more readily choose that option too than a male partner could.
I'm allowed to be as education and career driven as I want, provided I make sacrifices in other areas of my life that a man would not have to, and put myself out there for criticism that a man would not receive. I can push for the top if I want to be called a ball-breaker, or have my ability to do the job questioned, or have it insinuated that I only achieved success because I used my sexuality and/or got the job because of sexual favours. I also may be the victim of sexual harrassment by coworkers, or be excluded from the old boys network that still exists in many places. And when I want to work and have kids, it's considered "having it all", whereas for men it's called "being an adult" or not called anything at all. Hooray, female privilege! Life is so great.
"But when it comes to dating and relationships, I'll want the dates paid for, the doors opened, the bling bought."
Two words: BECAUSE PATRIARCHY. Patriarchy is why men are expected to take care of women, and it sets up a world where this is an acceptable dynamic. When women are viewed as needing to be looked after and provided for like a small child, of course you are expected to pay for their dinner. Chivalry -such as holding doors for women- is a product of the patriarchy, and doesn't actually mean that it is a "woman's world": in fact, if you actually think about the situation beyond the superficial interaction, it is an example of how it is still a man's world. Chivalry is patriarchal, and patriarchal means, by definition, that the world is a man's world. I guess it sucks to be a guy who is so goddamn pleased with his superior status (as bestowed by the patriarchy), but then realises that this now means he is expected to take care of the people inferior to him as part of the deal.
"And if I want to choose to not be career-driven, and be instead at home, and not work, then I can far more readily choose that option too than a male partner could."
Yeah, it does suck that the expected dynamic is women stay at home and men go to work. But guess what? Once again, that is actually not an indicator that it is a woman's world and that women have the privilege, but it is a byproduct of patriarchal attitudes that say "why the fuck would any red-blooded man want to stay home to fold clothing and change nappies? That's women's work!". So yeah, another invalid example, and another case of looking at the small picture but not the bigger dynamic and what causes the small picture. As a feminist, I would love for it to be easier (both practically, in terms of support systems, but also in terms of reduced social stigma) for men to stay at home with their kids. Women being considered the default caregivers is not a privilege that women have, because it robs everyone of choice.
5. If I write an inflammatory comment, or a blog, or article, and a man questions anything in it, all I need to do to shut the conversation down is call him a bully, or say he's a privileged male. I can also make disparaging comments about his sexuality, his economic standing, the size of his penis, and his ability to do pretty much anything in return for him disagreeing with me. I can do this, because when I do, I KNOW there will be a bunch of other women who will stick up for me.
This is obviously a joke, right? Or written by someone who has never been a woman in a comments section in the internet? Because, come on. That is basically the exact opposite of what it's like to be a woman on the internet. Generally how it goes is: woman has opinion, man calls her a feminazi slut who is too ugly to even be raped, then rinse and repeat. "Men call me things" is a great example of how women are attacked for just existing online. Sure, you will often have many women to back you up against the guy, the usually all that means is that they all get threatened and abused too. Generally, when people accuse feminists of "ganging-up" on a guy, it's because he had blundered into a conversation to denounce their opinions and use his manly male authority to tell them how things ACTUALLY are; i.e. man waves his male privilege about in a space that doesn't kowtow in deference of it, and suddenly he is the victim when his actions don't go down well.
Basically, this whole article about "female privilege" is a huge joke. Most of the examples are actually examples of the patriarchy in action, and are actually not all that privileged when considered in their wider context. It's the equivalent of describing a wrecked car as fine because that one headlight isn't damaged; you absolutely must look at the entire picture, and the author failed spectacularly. And, because of this myopic perspective and the insistence that seeing women using their privilege all the time "sickens" her, and the repeated talk about how women now have freedoms our ancestors did not (did you guys know we can go to university? And, like, own property and stuff? I think women are even allowed to vote and drive cars and wear pants!) just gives the impression of a woman desperate to ingratiate herself with men by proving that she thinks guys are great and actually have it way tougher than them, and how she's brave enough to call women on our greedy, ungrateful attitudes and ignorance of our own good fortune. The statement in her author bio, "She considers herself both a feminist and a masculist", doesn't do anything to change that impression either.


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Efficacy of Treatment Intensification With Maraviroc on HIV-1 Viral Latency in Recently Infected Hiv-1 naïve Patients Starting Raltegravir Plus Tenofovir/Emtricitabine
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00808002
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : December 15, 2008
Last Update Posted : January 31, 2020
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The intensification with maraviroc in recently HIV-1-infected patients of a preferred gold-standard triple therapy composed of raltegravir plus tenofovir/emtricitabine could accelerate the decay of the HIV-1 reservoir in latently infected cells established early in HIV-1 infection.
This could provide further insight into this area, decrease the size of latent reservoir, and translate into clinical benefits for patients.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Drug: Raltegravir Drug: Maraviroc Drug: Tenofovir/Emtricitabine
|Phase 3
A reservoir of latently infected cells established early in infection may be involved in the maintenance of viral persistence despite continuous highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). This is likely to represent the major barrier to virus eradication in patients on successful combination antiretroviral therapy.
The majority of the viruses in the latent reservoir use CCR5 receptor during entry.
More recently, clear evidences for decay of this HIV-1 reservoir in patients who initiated antiretroviral therapy early in infection have been demonstrated. The treatment of acute infection may set the stage for subsequent attempts at eradication. To achieve this, more potent antiretroviral therapy and/or more potent antilatency therapies may be needed.
In contrast to previous antiretroviral drugs, maraviroc does not need to cross the cell membrane, nor does not require intracellular processing in order to exert its activity. In addition, there is no cross-resistance between entry inhibitors and agents that act on intracellular targets.
Maraviroc has demonstrated potent antiviral activity against all CCR5-tropic HIV-1 viruses tested. Maraviroc could thus fulfil the requirements for an optimal candidate for treatment intensification in HIV-1 infected patients with a recent HIV-1 infection.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|30 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Efficacy of Treatment Intensification With Maraviroc on HIV-1 Viral Latency in Recently Infected Hiv-1 naïve Patients Starting Raltegravir Plus Tenofovir/Emtricitabine.
|Study Start Date :
|February 2009
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|November 2011
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|November 2011
Experimental: 1
From Baseline to Week48: Raltegravir BID + Tenofovir/Emtricitabine QD + Maraviroc BID From W48 to W72: Raltegravir BID + Tenofovir/Emtricitabine QD
Drug: Raltegravir
Raltegravir 400 mg every 12 hours
Drug: Maraviroc
Maraviroc 300 mg every 12 hours
Drug: Tenofovir/Emtricitabine
Tenofovir/Emtricitabine 300/200 mg every 24 hours
Active Comparator: 2
Start ARV treatment with : Raltegravir BID + Tenofovir/Emtricitabine
Drug: Raltegravir
Raltegravir 400 mg every 12 hours
Drug: Tenofovir/Emtricitabine
Tenofovir/Emtricitabine 300/200 mg every 24 hours
- Change at 48 weeks in the slope of decay of integrated and unintegrated viral DNA in PBMCs. [ Time Frame: BL, W2, W4, W12, W24, W48 ]
- Decay of residual HIV-1 replication under maraviroc intensification assessed by an ultrasensitive RT-PCR assay with a lower limit of quantification of 5 copies/mL. [ Time Frame: BL, W2, W4, W8, W12, W24, W36, W48 ]
- Blips during the study (viral load >50 copies/mL, preceded and followed by determinations <50 copies/mL in previous and posterior controls). [ Time Frame: From Baseline to W48 ]
- HIV-1 RNA below 50 copies/mL at 48 weeks. [ Time Frame: W48 ]
- Change in the lymphocyte activation marker HLADR+CD38+ from baseline to week 48. [ Time Frame: BL, W4, W12, W24, W48, W60, W72 ]
- Relationship between maraviroc and/or raltegravir plasma concentrations and change in the slope of decay of integrated viral DNA in PBMCs [ Time Frame: W12, W24, W48 ]
- HIV-1 specific CTL responses [ Time Frame: BL, W24, W48, W60, W72 ]
- Plasmatic inflammation biomarkers [ Time Frame: BL, W2, W4, W12, W48, W60 ]
- RNA, DNA and viral p24 associated to cells in ileum biopsy and PBMC [ Time Frame: W48 ]
- Lymphocyte activation marker HLADR+CD38+ in ileum biopsy and PBMC [ Time Frame: W48 ]
- Fibrosis markers in ileum biopsy and PBMC [ Time Frame: W48 ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 99 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV-1 infected adults (>=18 years old).
- No previous antiretroviral therapy for more than 2 weeks.
- HIV-1 infection documented in the past 6 months by a previous negative ELISA test, or a documented clinical acute seroconversion in the past 6 months.
- CCR5-tropism confirmed at screening.
- Voluntary written informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnancy or fertile women willing to be pregnant.
- Active substance abuse or major psychiatric disease.
- Presence of NRTI mutations in the screening genotype.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00808002
|Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol
|Badalona, Barcelona, Spain, 08916
|Hospital Clinic i Provincial de Barcelona
|Barcelona, Spain, 08916
|Principal Investigator:
|Bonaventura Clotet, MD,PhD
|LLuita contra la SIDA Foundation-HIV Unit
|Principal Investigator:
|Josep Mª Llibre, MD,PhD
|LLuita contra la SIDA Foundation-HIV Unit
|Responsible Party:
|Dr . BONAVENTURA CLOTET, Dr. Bonaventura Clotet, Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital
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|First Posted:
|December 15, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|January 31, 2020
|Last Verified:
|January 2020
CCR5 antagonists
Primary HIV Infection
HIV-1 reservoir
treatment naive
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Raltegravir Potassium
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Anti-Infective Agents
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Anti-HIV Agents
HIV Integrase Inhibitors
Integrase Inhibitors
HIV Fusion Inhibitors
Viral Fusion Protein Inhibitors
CCR5 Receptor Antagonists


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Authorities say a California man on probation for crashing his car into a gate at Kylie Jenner's house last year walked into a police station and confessed to killing a homeless man
ANAHEIM, Calif. — A California man who crashed his car into a gate at TV celebrity Kylie Jenner's house last year walked into a police station and confessed to killing a homeless man, which led investigators to link him to the death of a second transient, authorities said Thursday.
Marvin Magallanes, 25, was arrested on suspicion of murder in the stabbing deaths of the two men last year in Anaheim south of Los Angeles, police Sgt. Daron Wyatt said.
Investigators studying forensic evidence determined this month that a single suspect was responsible for the killings last year on Jan. 25 and Oct. 27.
"Detectives were working toward identifying the suspect, and then out of the blue he walked in the front door and said, 'I want to confess,'" Wyatt said.
He was taken into custody a day after his May 11 confession and was being held without bail.
Wyatt did not know the name of his court-appointed lawyer. The crash at Jenner's house happened in June of last year but Wyatt and Los Angeles police could not immediately provide the date it happened.
Both homeless men were asleep when they were attacked less than 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from Magallanes' Anaheim home. Detectives said there's no indication that Magallanes knew the victims or that the victims knew each other.
Magallanes made headlines last year when he was sentenced to 10 days in jail for the crash outside Jenner's house near Los Angeles.
Magallanes is charged with two felony counts of murder with the use of a deadly weapon, according to court records. Prosecutors are also alleging special circumstances, which would qualify Magallanes for the death penalty if he is convicted.
Magallanes was scheduled for his first court appearance on Tuesday, Wednesday and then Thursday, but court records indicated he wasn't brought into the courtroom because he was "hospitalized due to a medical illness or injury," the Orange County Register reported (http://bit.ly/2qFSM77).
Salvador Magallanes told the newspaper that his brother's mental health wavered over the last two years.
"He's been depressed and using pills and alcohol," he said outside the family's home. "He started to imagine things and, like, hallucinate about stuff that wasn't there."
Salvador Magallanes, 28, said his brother's substance abuse and depression were triggered by a breakup with his girlfriend, who is the mother of his young child.
"After that, he wasn't the same," the brother said. "It was downhill."
Court records show that Marvin Magallanes pleaded guilty last year to disturbing the peace and fighting for a 2012 incident. In July 2015, he pleaded guilty to resisting an officer.
Magallanes had imagined a relationship with Jenner after communicating with someone on Instagram he thought was the celebrity, his brother said.
After the arrest at the television star's home and other failed attempts to meet her, Marvin Magallanes' depression worsened, his brother said.
"This isn't the Marvin we know," his brother said.


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The Entombment of Christ by Federico Barocci in the Church of Santa Croce, Senigallia: A Previously Unpublished "Bozzetto per i Colori" and Other Contributions to Our Knowledge of the Artist
In 1579, the lay Confraternity of the Cross and the Blessed Sacrament in Senigallia com-missioned Federico Barocci to paint a large multi-figured Entombment of Christ for their Church of Santa Croce. The altarpiece cost the artist nearly three years of intense intellectual and physical labor, and is generally acknowledged to be one of the supreme masterpieces of the Italian Counter-Reformation.
The development of the work, traced here, is paradigmatic of Barocci's painstakingly elaborate painting method, which entailed producing a multitude of compositional, anatomi-cal, and drapery studies, as well as modelli amd large-scale cartoons in which problems of chiaroscuro and color were fully worked out in advance. Published for the first time is the "bozzetto per i colori" for The Entombment. In addition, the author expands the known cor-pus of related works to include an oil sketch of the head and shoulders of St. Mary Magdalene and a drawing of the head of one of the Virgin's attendants.
Controversy has long surrounded both the date of Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine (Czartoryski Collection, Cracow) and the identity of the sitter. At the tum of the century, Jan Bołoz-Antoniewicz identified the young girl as Cecilia Gallerani, the mistress of Ludovico Sforza ("il Moro"), the ruler of Milan. It was long believed, based on a published document, that Cecilia was Ludovico's mistress by 1481, and that Leonardo painted her shortly after his arrival in Milan the following year. But a number of scholars have moved up the date of the portrait to c. 1490, which is eminently plausible on stylistic grounds. Cecilia later wrote to Isabella d'Este that she had sat for Leonardo when she was quite young, and if the new dating is correct, it would make her at least 25 at the time, scarcely youthful by Renaissance standards.
This article presents recently discovered documents which prove that Cecilia was actually born in 1473 or 1474, and further suggest that she became Ludovico's mistress only in 1489. Moreover, the 1481 document is shown to be a copy of a lost original and full of errors, one of which involves the date, which should instead be read as 1491. The conclusion is that the Cracow portrait is indeed of the young Cecilia and was painted around 1490, the year before Ludovico married Beatrice d'Este.
In January 1992, Leonardo da Vinci's portraits of Ginevra de' Benci and the Lady with an Ermine briefly came together at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. This meeting of works executed 15 years apart provided a unique opportunity to study Leonardo's growth as a painter. The author, who is Chairman of Painting Conservation at the museum, discusses the results of the examinations undergone by the portraits, as well as their current condition and the techniques and materials used in their painting.
The question of whether the original design of Francis I's château at Chambord is traceable to Leonardo da Vinci may never be resolved for lack of documentation. However, the author points out striking similarities between architectural elements drawn by the master—such as central plans, double and quadruple spiral staircases, minaret-type turrets, and windows—and specific features of the château. It is possible that the Italian architect Domenico da Cortona, who was already in the young king's service when Leonardo arrived at the French court in 1516, took over and modified the master's ambitious plans for a palace at Romorantin once these had been abandoned in favor of the Chambord project. The building of the new royal residence began some months after Leonardo's death in May 1519.
Laura with Polia and Berenice by Lorenzo Lotto
In his analysis of Laura with Polia and Berenice, the so-called "Dream of the Maiden," by Lorenzo Lotto (National Gallery of Art, Washington), the author asserts that the painting is based on Petrarch's famous song "Chiare fresche e dolci acque." Details such as the two satyrs are interpreted as symbolizing voluptas, Petrarch's conception of which was the subject of debate in Lotto's time. The figure of Laura conforms to the imagery of the nymph guarding the well which was common at the end of the fifteenth century. The title alludes to the hero-ines of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Francesco Colonna and Gli Asolani by Pietro Bembo.
This article discusses four versions of David Contemplating the Head of Goliath in which Guido Reni was directly involved. The paintings range in date from 1605 to c. 1639, nearly spanning Reni's period of activity. Three of the works are referred to in a letter written in 1631 by Cardinal Bernardino Spada, including the earliest one, now in the Louvre, and a ver-sion started by Francesco Gessi and retouched by Reni (here identified as the David which was once in the Liechtenstein gallery in Vienna). The letter establishes a second autograph David painted before 1631; this is very likely the privately-owned painting that was recently on loan to the National Gallery, London.
One can follow the evolution of Reni's style from the modified Caravaggism of the first David, through the luminosity of his seconda maniera as seen in the second autograph version to the immaterial vision of his last years which is exemplified by his final treatment of the subject, recently discovered by thi author in a private collection in Milan.
Successive Versions of Works by Elsheimer
Explored here are the compositional variations in the different versions of Tobias and the Angel and The Destruction of Troy— including a previously unknown version of the latter in private collection—by the German painter and printmaker Adam Elsheimer. While the com-position and most of the details of the earlier paintings are essentially retained, changes re-flecting the artist's stylistic development may also be observed.
Gabriel Metsu's Vegetable Market at Amsterdam distinguishes itself from similar seven-teenth-century Dutch paintings most notably through the rich and complex relationship betwe many of its elements and a detailed description of the markets of Amsterdam in the popular theatrical farce Moortje by Gerbrand Bredero. Metsu probably chose to focus on the vegetable market because he lived nearby.
The painting may have been commissioned by one of the regents of the city's theater, the Schouwburg, who would have appreciated the allusions to the Bredero play. Alternatively, the patron might have been a regent of the orphanage or the people's home, which shared be-tween them the profits from Schouwburg performances. There is a previously unrecognized precedent for Metsu's receiving a commission from a regent of a charitable institution: the patron for his Justice Protecting Widows and Orphans was a regent of the huiszittenhuis Lei-den which provided assistance to widows and orphans.
Or possibly the patron was a rich vegetable grower or seller or simply someone who loved Amsterdam and its colorful markets.
Dominican saints appear in countless Italian pictures of the fifteenth and sixteenth centu-ries, with St. Vincent Ferrer occupying fourth place in their normal order of importance. His comparative obscurity in modern times, however, has resulted in his frequent misidentification as St. Dominic and sometimes as St. Antoninus of Florence; occasionally, he is simply called "a Dominican saint." Yet his life (1350-1419) and legend are well known,
and such erroneous identifications can be avoided once several conventional aspects of Vincent's iconography are recalled.
The article also discusses hitherto unnoticed features of the cult of St. Vincent, above all his association in various works with St. Peter Martyr. Like St. Roch and St. Sebastian, with whom they also appear, these two might have been seen as guarding against the plague. St. Vincent may even have served as a sort of all-purpose helper, healer, savior, protector, and miracle-worker.
In Odilon Redon's early work, balloons function as visual metaphors for the human need to transcend earthly existence as part of a spiritual quest, as posited by esoteric mysticism. This article argues that the artist was aware of the major developments in aerostation, which were closely linked with French national history, for the different balloon types are reflected in his drawings and prints; and that he may have drawn on firsthand knowledge of balloons for two early images, analyzed here in detail. Rather than use traditional religious or mytho-logical imagery, Redon turned to the hot-air balloon because it was a particularly topical and modern image in the 1870s.


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'I wasn't even thinking about the product or the money. I was thinking about my wife and, holy s--t, there's four people and ... are they going to take her?'
Watch this Ontario cannabis clerk use a bong to fend off four attempted robbers
It was a fleeting pause in 30 seconds of chaos, a flash of defiance from the cannabis dispensary clerk with a glass pipe in his hand, prompted by a provocation from the masked men who had barged into his store and started dousing him, his wife and their chihuahua with bear spray: How is a bong going to defend you from this?
Joshua Lewis-Brant lowered his arms as if to consider the question, then noticed one of his assailants had bent down and grabbed the empty recycling bin by the front door. He shrugged his shoulders, the implication clear: How are you going to hurt me with that?
Lewis-Brant raised his left arm in a defensive stance as the attacker chucked the bin past his head, missing him from point-blank range.
"It just rolled off my back," he said.
Lewis-Brant, 28, gained internet acclaim this week when a video was posted to YouTube of him successfully fending off four would-be robbers who stormed the Recreational Cannabis Farmers Market in Shannonville, Ont., last Thursday. He was idling behind the counter around 4 p.m. when the intruders — three men in masks, plus a getaway driver who later entered the fracas as it neared its conclusion — strode inside carrying bags and wielding the spray, which one of them fixed on Lewis-Brant and his wife, Audrea, the only other employee on duty.
The men "tried to spray the crap out of us," Lewis-Brant told the National Post on Wednesday. "My wife ended up taking most of it. The way our store is, it all fell behind the counter, where we were. There was nowhere else to go."
As the attackers shouted at him to "get the f–k down," Lewis-Brant reached, on instinct, for the item on the counter closest to his grasp: a bong. Security footage shows him shuffling sideways around the counter and toward the men, brandishing the instrument at eye level. A cat-and-mouse game ensued: the men sprinted for the door, then tentatively reversed course, seemingly trying to gain access to the goods along the back wall while staying outside of the bong's range.
"I wasn't even thinking about the product or the money," Lewis-Brant said. "I was thinking about my wife and, holy s–t, there's four people here and what — are they going to take her?"
The clash came to a swift resolution when the intruders appeared to run out of spray and their last-ditch effort to daze Lewis-Brant with the blue bin missed the mark. The men left the store and bolted from the scene in a white SUV, the Tyendinaga Police Service wrote on Facebook last week. Const. Chris Brinklow said Wednesday that the force's investigation is ongoing.
Lewis-Brant credits Audrea with alerting him to the men's impending arrival a few seconds before they entered the store, which gave him a brief head start and a chance to orchestrate his defence. The two of them were treated on site for chemical burns from the spray, while a friend arrived to drive their chihuahua, Cheech — who was also behind the counter at the time of the attack — to an emergency veterinarian in nearby Belleville. The dog was washed down with saline solution and given eye drops.
Employees at the dispensary were forced to trash "a lot of product," Lewis-Brant said, but the store didn't close early that day. It's a family-owned business, and, when they heard the news, many of the employees drove down to help clean. Lewis-Brant returned the following morning for his scheduled shift.
The attack "was traumatic, and obviously it sucked to happen, but it's kind of to be expected in the business, in a way," he said. "I'm just lucky they didn't have any other weapons."
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The State of the Union address typically outlines major presidential policy objectives for the year ahead. In 2012, Obama called on Congress to pass tax credits to support the continued growth of renewables and mandate the production of 80% of electricity from clean sources by 2035. Last year, he talked about making the $0.023/kWh production tax credit (PTC) permanent. In 2014, none of those goals made it into the speech.
The challenge the president faces is that he needs the co-operation of Congress to bring those ideas to fruition, and it has been hopelessly deadlocked, last year passing the fewest number of laws in history.
In fact, much of Obama's 2014 speech focused on how he will use his executive powers to act if lawmakers don't.
"I think it just recognises reality," said Keith Martin, a Washington-based lawyer at legal firm Chadbourne and Parke. "There is a limit to what the administration can do on Capitol Hill on anything."
When it comes to advancing renewable energy, there are some things Obama can do. A background document released with the State of the Union speech noted that the Department of Interior is making progress on the president's goal of permitting 20GW of renewable energy projects on public lands by 2020, including holding the first-ever offshore wind lease sales in 2013.
The administration has also been encouraging the treasury department to look at ways it can interpret the tax laws to help push down the cost of capital for renewable energy, said Martin. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is moving forward with plans to limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants, after issuing proposed rules for new power plants last autumn.
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Given the market realities US wind producers face, action on greenhouse gases could prove particularly helpful. Power demand in the US has grown at an average of less than 1% a year for the past decade, notes Martin. "So where is the big market for lots more power plants? The big market is replacing older power plants that retire. So the action by EPA is significant to the extent it accelerates retirement of coal-fired power plants."
Steve Clemmer, director of energy research for the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the EPA carbon standards are the most important step Obama can take to support wind. "Part of what needs to happen there is encouraging states to use renewables for compliance," he said. EPA chief Gina McCarthy said in a February speech that the agency is looking at ways to use the rules to incentivise renewable energy development.
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Texas State University graduate students in the advanced online media course in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication will be reporting on events at the 2012 South By Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin.
The 2012 SXSW Interactive Festival will take place March 9-13, featuring speakers discussing the most innovative ideas in the technology world. Industry leaders will host networking events and other special activities highlighting advancements in web design, social media, video games and mobile technology.
The SXTXState.com project is a component of the Advanced Online Media course taught by Cindy Royal.
"South By Southwest is a great opportunity for our students to network with and learn from some of the most innovative tech and media thinkers," said Royal. "Students who have participated in this project in the past have made valuable career connections that have led to jobs and internships and have gained a stronger perspective on the trends that are shaping online and digital media."
Leading up to the event, students have prepared panel previews, weekly media news updates and logistical information about SXSW Interactive, all published at sxtxstate.com. Students will then be on site March 9-14 to cover panels and perform multimedia interviews. The class is also utilizing social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest to promote their work.
"Texas State students have been working diligently to report on panels, speeches, forums, keynote addresses and all events surrounding the South by Southwest Interactive Festival," said Ryan Stewart, graduate student and project editor of the SXTXState.com project.
This is the fifth consecutive year that Texas State University has partnered with SXSW Interactive to provide graduate students the opportunity to cover panels and connect with technology innovators. This year, for the first time, student will also be covering SXSWEDU (sxswedu.com) and the Integrated Media Association Conference (http://www.integratedmedia.org/conference), which both events are peripheral to SXSW.
"I used Twitter quite a bit in making initial contacts, and I was very fortunate that the majority of panelists that I contacted via Twitter got back to me right away," said Shannon Delaney, graduate student in the advanced online media class. "I have never attended SXSW interactive, so I want to be sure to make the most of it and make as many connections as I can."
In the past, students have interviewed and met tech luminaries including Wired editor Chris Anderson, social media expert Gary Vaynerchuk and Internet pioneer and Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe.
To follow the project, visit the website here or connect through social media at facebook.com/SxTXState, twitter.com/sxtxstate (hashtag #sxtxstate), and pinterest.com/sxtxstate/.
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text: Be prepared for warmer weather with cool ice cream treats. Olive Oil Ice Cream Makes 2 half-pint bowls 2 cups half-and-half 1½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract 1 cup heavy cream 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil ½ cup sugar In a large bowl combine half-and-half, cream, sugar and vanilla; whisk until sugar dissolves. Add half of the mixture to a frozen bowl fitted for a soft serve ice cream maker. Process 5 minutes. Remove lid and add half of the olive oil. Secure lid and process five to seven minutes more or until desired consistency is reached. Serve immediately. Repeat with remaining mixture and olive oil. -- From Gwen Feher, of Milford, this week's cookbook winner Super-Quick Ice Cream Sandwiches Makes 6 ½ cup chopped chocolate bar 1 pint softened strawberry ice cream (or your flavor of choice) 12 large soft cookies (chocolate chip, oatmeal or chocolate) 6 tablespoons of fudge ice cream topping Stir chopped chocolate into softened ice cream. Spoon ice cream on the flat side of six soft cookies. Spread 1 tablespoon fudge ice cream topping on flat side of each of six additional cookies. Place cookie, fudge side down on ice cream. Wrap and freeze at least six hours until firm. Let frozen sandwiches stand about 10 minutes before eating. -- From Sandy Walker, of Brookfield Crispy Ice Cream Pie Serves 6-8 1 tablespoon margarine 2/3 cup marshmallow cream 2 1/2 cups Rice Krispies cereal 1 1/2 pints ice cream, any flavor Fresh fruit or a prepared topping Butter a 9-inch pie pan. Melt the margarine in a large frying pan. Remove from heat and add the marshmallow cream. Add the cereal and mix until it is completely coated with the marshmallow mix. Press this mixture into the prepared pan, flatten it and build up the sides of the crust. Chill for about 45 minutes. Fill the chilled crust with ice cream. Freeze until firm. Top with fresh fruit or a sauce. -- From Ruth Butkus, of Trumbull Mudslide Ice Cream Cake Serves 15 1 box chocolate fudge cake mix 1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted 1 egg 2 tablespoons milk 4 tablespoons coffee-flavored liqueur or strong coffee, divided 4 cups vanilla ice cream 1 (12-ounce) container whipped chocolate frosting Grease bottom only of a 9- by 13-inch glass dish. In a large bowl beat cake mix, butter, egg and milk with an electric mixer on low speed until well blended. Spread in dish. Bake 16 to 18 minutes in a 350-degree oven. Cool one hour. Brush 2 tablespoons coffee liqueur or strong coffee over cake. Let ice cream stand at room temperature for 15 minutes. Spread over cake. Freeze for 3 hours. In a medium bowl, mix frosting and 2 tablespoons of coffee liqueur or strong coffee. Spread over ice cream and freeze one hour before serving. -- From Mary Ann Arlio, of Trumbull Banana Split Ice Cream Pie Serves 6-8 2 bananas, peeled and sliced 1 (9-inch) prepared chocolate cookie crumb crust 1 quart strawberry ice cream, softened 1 (20-ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained 1 cup heavy whipping cream 1/4 cup chopped walnuts 1/4 cup maraschino cherries, optional Arrange sliced bananas evenly over the bottom of prepared pie crust. Spread softened ice cream in an even layer over bananas. Spread crushed pineapple over ice cream. In a medium bowl, whip heavy cream into soft peaks. Spread whipped cream over pineapple. Sprinkle chopped walnuts over whipped cream. Freeze pie for three hours, until slightly firm. If desired, garnish with cherries before serving. Store in freezer. -- From Mary Ann Arlio, of Trumbull Frozen English Toffee Cake Serves 12-16 1 (18.25-ounce) box devil's food cake mix 1 1/3 cups water 1/2 cup vegetable oil 3 eggs Filling 1/2 gallon chocolate or vanilla ice cream, softened 1 (10-ounce) bag English toffee bits 1 (8-ounce) contained frozen whipped topping, thawed Heat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour two 8-inch round cake pans. Combine cake mix, water, oil and eggs in a large bowl. Beat for two minutes or until well blended. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake for 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted into centers of cakes comes out clean. Cool cakes in pans on cooling rack for 15 minutes. Remove cakes from pans and cool completely on cooling rack. For filling, line three 8-inch round cake pans with plastic wrap, allowing 3 inches of plastic to hang over sides. Divide ice cream equally among the pans. Using a rubber spatula, spread ice cream over bottoms of prepared pans, forming smooth, even layers. Sprinkle 1/4 cup toffee bits over ice cream in each pan. Freeze for three hours or until frozen solid. To assemble, cut each cake layer horizontally in half. Working quickly, remove ice cream from pans. Peel off plastic and place one ice cream circle on each of the three cake layers. Stack cake and ice cream layers on top of each other on a serving platter. Top with remaining cake layer. Frost cake with whipped topping and sprinkle with remaining toffee bits. Freeze until ready to serve. Let ice cream cake stand at room temperature for 5 minutes before serving. -- From Ruth Butkus, of Trumbull Summer Baked Alaska Serves 4 4 store-bought brownies, each 2-inches square and 1-inch thick 1 cup raspberry sorbet 3 large egg whites Table salt 1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar or lemon juice 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar Fresh assorted berries, to garnish Wrap each brownie in plastic wrap and freeze for 30 minutes. After 15 minutes has passed, remove the sorbet from the freezer to soften. Using a serrated knife, cut the brownies in half crosswise across the middle to form 2 thin brownie squares. Arrange the bottom of each brownie square on a work surface. Scoop 1/4 cup of the sorbet on top of each brownie bottom. Top the sorbet with the brownie top and press gently to form an ice cream sandwich. Wrap the ice cream sandwiches individually in plastic wrap and freeze until the sorbet is very hard, about 1 hour. When the sandwiches are nearly hard, heat the oven to 450 F. Line a baking sheet with kitchen parchment, then mist it with cooking spray. In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to whip the egg whites and a pinch of salt until foamy. Add the cream of tartar and continue to beat until the whites hold soft peaks. Add the sugar gradually, beating, and continue beating until the whites hold stiff, glossy peaks. Remove the ice cream sandwiches from the freezer and place them 3 inches apart on the prepared sheet pan. Frost each with some of the meringue, making sure to cover the sandwich on all sides right down to the parchment. Bake the frosted sandwiches in the center of the oven for 4 minutes, or until lightly browned on top. Using a metal spatula, transfer them quickly to 4 plates and garnish each with berries. -- From The Associated Press


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Sunday Supper: Fish and Mussel Stew with Green Olives Recipe
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Editor's note: Each Saturday afternoon we bring you a Sunday Supper recipe. Why on Saturday? So you have time to shop and prepare for tomorrow.
This stew has many of the same ingredients of a bouillabaisse, but comes together with a few simple steps. Adding the fish in two stages allows the first addition to break down and fortify the tomato broth, and the second to add some meaty substance to the final product. This stew is great with a simple loaf of Italian bread, but would go very well with some thick pasta (like pappardelle) and a big green salad.
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- Total time:45 minutes
- Olive oil
- 1 bulb of fennel, finely chopped
- 1 large leek, thinly sliced
- 2 cloves garlic, sliced
- 2 28-ounce cans whole peeled plum tomatoes
- red pepper flakes
- kosher salt and cracked black pepper
- 1 pound tilapia fillets, divided
- 2 1/2 – 3 pounds mussels
- 1/2 cup coarsely chopped green olives
- green onion, thinly sliced (optional)
Heat olive oil in large skillet; once the oil is shimmering, add fennel and cook until beginning to soften, about 5 minutes. Add leek and garlic and cook until those ingredients start to soften, about 5 minutes.
Add plum tomatoes to pan, squishing each tomato between fingers, then add a pinch of red pepper flakes. Bring to a simmer, and season to taste with salt and pepper, then add half of tilapia. Cook until fish begins to flake apart, then add rest of tilapia and all the mussels. Cover with lid and cook until the fish is cooked and all the mussels are open, about 12 minutes.
Once fish and mussels are cooked, add green olives and toss together. Serve with a light red wine and plenty of bread for dunking.
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