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(12/8/11) - Poultney's new downtown wireless Internet zone is a big hit. By expanding public accessibility, this new tool offers a welcome option for residents and tourists to connect their laptops and smart phones 24/7. Early response to the project has been overwhelmingly positive, with almost 250 users logging onto Poultney Wi-Fi last month alone. Businesses see this growing interest and are already making plans to purchase laptops or work stations for customers to use.
"e-Vermont's assistance in bringing laptops to the library dramatically increases our capacity to help people get online," said Poultney Public Library Director Rebecca Cook. "At the same time, Poultney Wi-Fi is helping downtown visitors access the Internet regardless of library hours."
Poultney is a rural town of about 3500 people but is home to Green Mountain College and boasts a lovely downtown core. Upon first logging into the free network, users are taken to PoultneyWiFi.com, a site that highlights local events, weather, businesses, services, and community organizations. Inspired by Wireless Woodstock, Poultney Wi-Fi runs on Anaptyx wireless hardware which was purchased and installed by e-Vermont. The network can easily be expanded and Green Mountain College is exploring the possibility of extending the network from downtown to campus.
In this video, e-Vermont talks about this project with Rebecca Cook and Jaime Lee of the Poultney Public Library, Bob Williams of Williams True Value Hardware, and Paul Fonteyn of Green Mountain College.


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At 6am the waves were still too big for my taste and I happily went back to sleep. But the swell must have peaked during the night, since when I checked them again later in the morning, they looked a little more manageable.
So I dusted off the 6.10 and hit the boat with the intention to go have a closer look. When we got on the reef, the spectacle was sublime. The wind was light, the texture was perfect, the waves were the softest peeling double overhead you can imagine and there were only two guys out.
This shot screams 10 and that's what the conditions were.
Wonder how that must have looked from the top of the lip? Something like this.
After lunch I went back out with a thin 6.3 Merrick Semi-pro to change it up and obviosly I struggled a bit more, but had a blast nonetheless. The low tide made the waves a lot heavier and there were more people in the lineup, hence "just" a 9.
That lip is not going to be nice to him.
Wonder how that must have looked from his perspective? Something like this. That lip wasn't nice to me either.
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A rousing call to arms for a fairer society from the well-loved Guardian political journalist Zoe Williams.
Whether we have children or not, we all want the future to be fairer and happier, and Zoe Williams believes we need to make that happen collectively. Get It Together is a rousing call to arms for us all to play our parts in creating a more equal society. Zoe believes it's not enough to sit back and watch as our NHS slides away from us, as the young and low earners are forced out of London, as hundreds of thousands of people nationally drift into poverty, as education becomes increasingly divided, and as the wealthiest five people in Britain earn more than the poorest 20 percent.
Zoe will address key questions including: Has the NHS had its day? Has an immigrant stolen your job? Have you ever wondered why you can't afford a house? And who got us into this mess anyway? She will then offer up, in answer, a combination of fact, opinion, and debate that will be as inspiring as it is important.
Zoe Williams brings together here all the arguments that occupy the current political landscape and shows us that on all levels, it's lunacy to be anything other than left wing unless you're actually already an oligarch. She offers us the debate in a truly entertaining way - she's pacey, conversational, and funny.
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- Colin
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A much-needed antidote to political despair
This is a really good, well-thought-out statement of the case for collective political action in the UK, with just enough rant in it (conveyed well by the narrator) to qualify as impassioned without being whiny or hectoring or any of the other things a book like this could be. Listen to it now, before you cast your vote.
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This is neither detailed study nor inspiring. Just cherry picked gloom. I probably would agree with a lot of what she says but every listen leaves you miserable.
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- Macwoman
- Leamington Spa, England
- 23-07-16
Clarion call to the despairing!
This is a brilliant book. If, like me, you have become despairing of the awfulness of the way we run the world, and our country in particular, this is a book to cause you to take heart big time. Williams is brilliant at putting a common sense finger on the kinds of idiocies that allow us to continue to support a world run by financiers who make shedloads of money without apparently the smallest interest in social or political questions like: why are so many people using food banks? And how do you get enough money (this morning's Today programme suggested something like 34k) to put a deposit on a modest home in the suburbs? This in the much vaunted 5th richest country in the world. They said so, didn't they? In the referendum. And could not understand why so many didn't rush to vote us into fourth or third place . . . Perhaps the least discussed question around the result was the 30% who did not vote at all. Who had apparently either given up on politics, or never saw it as a useful way to spend time before.
Williams surveys with ruthless clarity the way that public money has been chucked at ideologically-fuelled projects that cost the earth and delivered zero. The way that public discourse has been turned skilfully against the idea that public ownership is bound to be 'inefficient' and 'bureaucratic' - while private sector failures and lack of dedication to the real task they were paid for makes few headlines. ('Bureaucratic' is itself a brilliant word for implying that life in public administration consists of long coffee breaks, and polite conversations about the children in the canteen). If you really want somebody to collect those taxes from Google et al, who do you think is going to do it? Little green men from Mars?
Williams is not a rightie, as you may guess, and neither am I. I am not a revolutionary socialist either. I would probably answer to social democrat if really pressed, but I liked this book. She doesn't try to persuade us of some party ideology, or against another. She just points out, with razor sharp wit, the reality of the way we live now and take it all for granted . . .
I also like very much the way she is able to spot the underlying unrealism, combined with pessimism, that governs so much political thinking. We can't do that because . . . . It won't won't work because . . . . Even when lots of less rich countries round the world can and are doing . . . .We are stuck in many hidebound ways of thinking that we need to shed, and soon - before the planet goes the same way as the referendum!
Williams' prescription is activism - not the sort that hangs about outside Jeremy Corbyn rallies waving banners and waiting for their leader to speak, but joins some organisation, and gets involved. The former is the type of 'activism' that achieves not much apart from headlines. There are local people brainstorming good ideas near you, campaigning for a better world, in some area that will suit and hold your interest for sure. Go find them. It's not whether Jeremy can deliver that we need to focus on, but on the immediate things under our nose that we can deliver. This is Williams' message, and I for one found it refreshing. Ok, your Party may deliver by 2020 (and then again it may not.) The real question is, what are we going to do meanwhile?
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Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age,
Gods breath in man returning to his birth,
The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
The Christian plummet sounding heav'n and earth;
Engine against th' Almightie, sinner's towre,
Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear,
The six daies world-transposing in an houre,
A kinde of tune, which all things heare and fear ;
Softnesse, and peace, and joy, and love, and blisse,
Exalted Manna, gladnesse of the best,
Heaven in ordinarie, man well drest,
The milkie way, the bird of Paradise,
Church-bels beyond the stars heard, the souls bloud,
The land of spices, something understood.
Prayer by George Herbert
Our pilgrimage on earth is a companioned journey. We are not alone. Beyond the fellowship of fellow believers, scripture says we are cheered on by saints who have gone before us. Most importantly, because of Christ we have access to our Father who welcomes the prayers of His children.
George Herbert's poem today is a magnificent celebration of that glad fact. As Malcolm Guite points out in The Word in the Wilderness, "Its richly laden 14 lines contain no fewer than 27 images or reflections of what prayer might be for us." Here we see poetry at its finest. As Malcolm wrote:
Our first impression is of the sheer wealth, almost over-abundance, of beautiful images contained in striking and memorable phrases we are being offered. This is not the honing and concentration on the single vision, but a kind of rainbow refraction of many insights, a scattering of broadcast seeds. For each of these images is in its own way a little poem, or the seed of a poem, ready to grow and unfold in the reader's mind.
Do you have a testimony of the power of prayer?
Matthew 7:7–8
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
George Herbert by Malcolm Guite
On February 27th the Church of England keeps the feast and celebrates the memory of George Herbert, the gentle poet priest whose book the Temple, published posthumously in 1633 by his friend Nicholas Ferrar has done so much to help and inspire Christians ever since. In an earlier blog post I gave a talk on George Herbert and the Insights of Prayer. I offer this sonnet, part of a sequence called 'Clouds of Witness" in my most recent poetry book The Singing Bowl. The sequence is a celebration of the saints, intended to complement my sequence Sounding the Seasons.
Read and hear Malcolm Guite's A Sonnet for George Herbert HERE
Malcolm Guite is poet-priest and Chaplain of Girton College Cambridge, but he often travels round Great Britain, and to North America, to give lectures, concerts and poetry readings. For more details of these and other engagements go to his Events Page.
For every day from Shrove Tuesday to Easter Day, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it.


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First Friday Events are parish food and fellowship fundraisers. There are three planned for the first Fridays in January, February and May. During Lent the food and fellowship event will be our traditional fish fry. The fish fry will be feld every Friday in Lent. All are welcome!
All the events are held in Sullivan Hall at 130 Bigham Street, Pittsburgh PA 15211
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|The battle rages on!
I've saved the best for last. Here (in all it's Dan DeCarlo art gloriousness) is the epic(?) mud-fight between Betty Cooper, Cheryl and Jason Blossom and Archie Andrews. Instigated by one Reginald Mantle (of course) and highly accepted by one Veronica Lodge (the evil co-conspirator). Scanned in from my personal copy of Betty & Veronica Spectacular~Archie Giant Series #530 (Giant Series Magazine under Archie Comic Publications~September, 1983). Please note Veronica's over-whelming enthusiasm. A total 180 degree turn-around from her opposition to mud-wrestling as observed in Veronica Gets Muddy Pt.1. Bonus detail panels of the fight and GGA art! Also, watch for a classic DeCarlo sight-gag on page 2 (hint: Reggie kicks aside a little girl's sand castle, making her the "3rd damsel"...) Bonus cover scan, as well...
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By Viviane Vogels
BBT Online recently got an intriguing invitation to visit the Catalunya Region of Spain on a trip for 'trendy women'. And a 'different' study trip it turned out to be!
First stop: BarcelonaA very comfortable flight (Brussels – Barcelona) by Vueling, the regional Catalan airline, landed us at the impressive new terminal of Barcelona Airport (www.vueling.com).
After a short transfer we checked in at the Barceló Raval Hotel in the heart of the Raval district. A brand new design hotel – we attended its first anniversary 'people' party the next night – with a number of interesting features in the rooms. Rule number one if you are aiming for a more female clientele: do not put too much electronic or other gadgets in the room…we do not all get it, mostly because we are not that interested in them! With a little help from my friends I did find out how to operate the system that opened the –excellent- blackout curtains, I never did find the minibar though, pity as I would have definitely wanted to try out the compact coffeemaker. (www.barcelo.com)
The highlight of the first day in Barcelona mixed in with the mandatory guided tour and interesting hotel visits, was definitely the two hours we were pampered in the beautiful Arabic Baths at Aire de Barcelona (www.airedebarcelona.com), a new spa concept. Well organized, clean, mysterious and relaxing are some of the words that came to mind when we descended in the vaulted cellars of an old building in the Gothic Centre of Barcelona to be welcomed by the sounds and smells of a bathhouse: eucalyptus, salt, oils…and comforting warmth that enveloped you as a cozy blanket. In between visits to the Jacuzzi, the Turkish bath or the massages visitors lounge and sip delicious tea…a very relaxing experience which all ladies appreciated tremendously, a good idea to insert in a partners program!
After a great breakfast, day 2 started and it was time for some serious work. The theme for this trip being "Travel for Trendy Women", the Catalan Tourist Board had invited a number of their suppliers as well as Sabine Clappaert from Belgium, a marketer and trend watcher specialized in women (www.musecommunication.com). Her fascinating exposé, 'Smart Marketing to Women', on how women react to advertising, how women come to a purchase decision or which impulses will influence women to make their choices will definitely have opened the mind of many present. One of the suppliers present invited us then to attend her walking tour "Women & Barcelona", focused on the role of women in the history of Barcelona.
Fun & Games
One could summarize the gist of the 3-hour walk through the old quarters of Barcelona with the 2 words: convents & brothels. Like most medieval cities Barcelona had its fair share of them over the centuries and it seemed our – very serious – guide knew them all! At first the ladies on the tour reacted with a mildly raised eyebrow when the first institutions were mentioned, I must admit that this turned to fully fledged mirth – to the great despair of our serious guide- when a convent was pointed out where the nuns lived permanently naked and which was situated next to…a brothel! Let's face it, we will never look at Barcelona the same way again, that is for sure. Despite our 'naughty' reactions, we all did enjoy this fascinating walking tour and we definitely look upon Barcelona with a different eye…and not just because of its many 'loose' women! www.coneixerbcn.com
The fact remains that Barcelona is and always will be a city of unlimited possibilities, rich in history but also with the latest avant-garde and design hotels & venues, with a young and dynamic ambiance, great shopping and excellent food! No wonder this city keeps on attracting visitors young & old, not to mention the countless meetings & conventions that have a choice of accommodation to please the most discerning of organizers.
Next stop: Girona
I have a confession to make…I hate long transfers in coaches. So, I was not looking forward to an hour in the dark to reach Girona. This is where the ladies from Turisme de Catalunya surprised us by offering us a selection of subjects on Catalunya either on very instructive and definitely not boring short films or simply by narration. This excellent way of passing time was repeated on all transfers and not only gave us a very good idea of what Catalunya is all about, but prepared us flawlessly for the upcoming destinations. Questions were answered in a most professional manner without being boring, details offered without being overwhelming, first time visitors learned a lot, participants who had done it all before, did not feel annoyed because the manner in which the information was given was varied and interesting. Full marks to Ana Escarpenter and Anna Amigo who did an excellent job keeping this slightly unruly group together and interested by coming really prepared, especially the little game at the end and the little souvenir were very much appreciated!
Girona is a lovely little town and on a beautiful sunny Saturday we attacked the old town for…shopping! This was after all a trip for 'trendy women' …and they sure have a wide choice of trendy and more classical shops in Girona. All is within walking distance and there are not only plenty of shops and little markets to delight you, the strategically placed cafés make sure that weary feet can be rested and refreshing drinks can be imbibed at regular intervals!
A view of the interior
After a delightful lunch at the Mas Falgueron near Puigventos (www.masfalgarona.com) it was wine tasting time! The Castell de Peralada produces some interesting wines and cavas that we tasted with great gusto. A nice touch was the wine that the house had produced for the wedding of King Baudouin of the Belgians to Dona Fabiola of which they still have a number of bottles with special label left! Thank God for the soothing effect of the wine as our transfer to the little village of Viladrau in the dark was a bit hairy.
Anyway at Hotel-Restaurant Xalet la Coromina we were in for a treat! Our host Salvador was – literally-larger than life…his hotel/restaurant comes straight out of a fairytale of Hansl & Gretl…his food: divine!
Our host for the evening welcomed us first at the exhibition of paintings honoring the different witches – good & bad! – living in the sources and waterways surrounding the village…scary tales, yet beautifully rendered by a talented local artist who captured the essence of water. I felt particularly honored as the first painting was about …witch Viviane who enticed innocent young men into her source…I always knew I had it in me …!
What followed was a feast for the real foodie! Did you know that in Catalunya alone there are 7 lady chefs with a Michelin-star each? Our host honored all the ladies by preparing a signature dish of each chef and keeping the dessert – our 8th dish of the evening!! – for his own delicious creation. Spoiled we were, that is for sure and with tales of heavenly creatures and tastes of special food in our heads we retired to our local hotel.
On the final day of this delightful trip we took the leisurely road back to beautiful Barcelona and caught our flight back to rainy Brussels, leaving a splendid sunshine sparkling on the Big Blue behind us…..
Nothing but good memories of a fam trip that was not only well organized and professionally guided by the two Anna's of Turisme Catalunya Benelux. Imagine my surprise and dismay when hearing that Ana Escarpenter, in my opinion a very professional lady and definitely a credit to her destination, has been let go by her boss….another great professional bites the dust…shame on them!
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SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS Trailer Starring Colin Farrell
First trailer for Martin McDonagh's dark comedy Seven Psychopaths, starring Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, and Christopher Walken, has been released.
Farrell, Walken and Rockwell play three lowly con men-dog thieves who inadvertently steal a cuddly shih tzu that belongs to a volatile crime kingpin (played by Harrelson). Unsurprisingly, all Hell breaks loose, including shootings, tearful gangsters, femme fatales, Tom Waits cradling a bunny and the requisite philosophical digressions.
The film also stars Harry Dean Stanton, Olga Kurylenko, Abbie Cornish, Gabourey Sidibe, Zeljko Ivanek, and Tom Waits.
Here's the synopsis for the film:
An alcoholic screenwriter (Colin Farrell) struggling to write a serial-killer script gets more real-life inspiration than he can handle when a dognapping scheme gone awry brings a galaxy of crazies to his doorstep. A top-notch cult-movie cast — including Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits, Harry Dean Stanton-anchors this wacky, blood-spattered commentary on the psycho-killer thriller from the writer-director of In Bruges.
Seven Psychopaths will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September and opens in the U.S. on October 12th, 2012.


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✶ Thank you for your readership and contributions over the past 12-plus years. ✶
Sunday, December 15
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Griswold v. Connecticut
Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), is a landmark case in the United States about access to contraception. The case involved a Connecticut "Comstock law" that prohibited any person from using "any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception." The court held that the statute was unconstitutional, and that "the clear effect of [the Connecticut law ...] is to deny disadvantaged citizens ... access to medical assistance and up-to-date information in respect to proper methods of birth control." By a vote of 7–2, the Supreme Court invalidated the law on the grounds that it violated the "right to marital privacy", establishing the basis for the right to privacy with respect to intimate practices. This and other cases view the right to privacy as a right to "protect[ion] from governmental intrusion."[1]
|Griswold v. Connecticut
|Argued March 29, 1965
Decided June 7, 1965
|Full case name
|Estelle T. Griswold and C. Lee Buxton v. Connecticut
|381 U.S. 479 (more)
85 S. Ct. 1678; 14 L. Ed. 2d 510; 1965 U.S. LEXIS 2282
|Case history
|Defendants convicted, Circuit Court for the Sixth Circuit, 1-2-62; affirmed, Circuit Court, Appellate Division, 1-7-63; affirmed, 200 A.2d 479 (Conn. 1964); probable jurisdiction noted, 379 U.S. 926 (1964).
|A Connecticut law criminalizing the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy. Connecticut Supreme Court reversed.
|Court membership
|Case opinions
|Douglas, joined by Warren, Clark, Brennan, Goldberg
|Goldberg, joined by Warren, Brennan
|Black, joined by Stewart
|Stewart, joined by Black
|Laws applied
|U.S. Const. amends. I, IV, V, IX, XIV; Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 53-32, 54–196 (rev. 1958)
Although the Bill of Rights does not explicitly mention "privacy", Justice William O. Douglas wrote for the majority that the right was to be found in the "penumbras" and "emanations" of other constitutional protections, such as the self-incrimination clause of the Fifth Amendment. Douglas wrote, "Would we allow the police to search the sacred precincts of marital bedrooms for telltale signs of the use of contraceptives? The very idea is repulsive to the notions of privacy surrounding the marriage relationship." Justice Arthur Goldberg wrote a concurring opinion in which he used the Ninth Amendment in support of the Supreme Court's ruling. Justice Byron White and Justice John Marshall Harlan II wrote concurring opinions in which they argued that privacy is protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
- 1 Background
- 2 Court's decision on relationship with the right to privacy
- 3 Precedent for later cases
- 4 See also
- 5 References
- 6 Further reading
- 7 External links
Griswold v. Connecticut originated as a prosecution under the Connecticut Comstock Act of 1873. The law made it illegal to use "any drug, medicinal article, or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception...". Violators could be "... fined not less than fifty dollars or imprisoned not less than sixty days nor more than one year or be both fined and imprisoned."[1] By the 1950s, Massachusetts and Connecticut were the only two states that still had such statutes, although they were almost never enforced.
In the late 19th and early 20th century, physicians in the United States largely avoided the publication of any material related to birth control, even when they often recommended or at least gave advice regarding it to their married patients. Then in 1914, Margaret Sanger openly challenged the public consensus against contraception.[2] She influenced the Connecticut Birth Control League (CBCL) and helped to develop the eventual concept of the Planned Parenthood clinics.
The first Planned Parenthood clinic in Connecticut opened in 1935 in Hartford. It provided services to women who had no access to a gynecologist, including information about artificial contraception and other methods to plan the growth of their families. Several clinics were opened in Connecticut over the following years, including the Waterbury clinic that led to the legal dispute. In 1939, this clinic was compelled to enforce the 1879 anti-contraception law. This caught the attention of the CBCL leaders, who remarked on the importance of birth control for cases in which the lives of the patients depended upon it.[3]
During the 1940s, several cases arose from the provision of contraception by the Waterbury clinic, leading to legal challenges to the constitutionality of the Comstock law, but these failed on technical grounds. In Tileston v. Ullman (1943), a doctor and mother challenged the law on the grounds that a ban on contraception could, in certain sexual situations, threaten the lives and well-being of patients. The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the appeal on the grounds that the plaintiff lacked standing to sue on behalf of his patients. Yale School of Medicine gynecologist C. Lee Buxton and his patients brought a second challenge to the law in Poe v. Ullman (1961). The Supreme Court again dismissed the appeal, on the grounds that the case was not ripe: the plaintiffs had not been charged or threatened with prosecution, so there was no actual controversy for the Court to resolve.
The polemic around Poe led to the appeal in Griswold v. Connecticut, primarily based on the dissent of Justice John Marshall Harlan II in Poe, one of the most cited dissents in Supreme Court history.
(T)he full scope of the liberty guaranteed by the Due Process Clause cannot be found in or limited by the precise terms of the specific guarantees elsewhere provided in the Constitution. This 'liberty' is not a series of isolated points pricked out in terms of the taking of property; the freedom of speech, press, and religion; the right to keep and bear arms in the United States; the freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures; and so on. It is a rational continuum which, broadly speaking, includes a freedom from all substantial arbitrary impositions and purposeless restraints.— Justice John Marshall Harlan II, dissent in Poe v. Ullman.[4]
He argued, foremost, that the Supreme Court should have heard the case rather than dismissing it. Thereafter, he indicated his support for a broad interpretation of the due process clause. On the basis of this interpretation, Harlan concluded that the Connecticut statute violated the Constitution.
After Poe was handed down on June 1961, the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut (PPLC) decided to challenge the law again. Estelle T. Griswold served on the PPLC as Executive Director from 1954 to 1965.[5] Struggling through legal battles against birth control restrictions in Connecticut, Griswold and PPLC made an initial effort to financially support women who wanted contraceptives to bus to cities in New York and Rhode Island.[5] PPLC Executive Director Estelle Griswold[6] and Dr. Buxton (PPLC medical volunteer),[7] opened a birth control clinic in New Haven, Connecticut,[8] "thus directly challeng[ing] the state law."[5] The clinic opened on November 1, 1961, and that same day received its first ten patients and dozens of appointment requests from married women who wanted birth control advice and prescriptions. Griswold and Buxton were arrested, tried, found guilty, and fined $100 each.[9] The conviction was upheld by the Appellate Division of the Circuit Court, and by the Connecticut Supreme Court.[10]
Court's decision on relationship with the right to privacyEdit
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Griswold appealed her conviction to the United States Supreme Court, arguing that the Connecticut statute was a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which reads that "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ... nor deny any person the equal protection of the laws," (Amendment 14 Section 1).[11] By a 7–2 majority, on June 7, 1965 the Supreme Court concluded that the Connecticut statute was unconstitutional.
Justice William O. Douglas, writing for the majority of the court, recognized the right to privacy, even though not enumerated in the Bill of Rights, is found in the "penumbras" and "emanations" of other constitutional protections, such as the self-incrimination clause of the Fifth Amendment, or the freedom of association clause of the First Amendment. The right to privacy is seen as a right to "protect[ion] from governmental intrusion." Justice Arthur Goldberg wrote a concurring opinion in which he used the Ninth Amendment in support of the Supreme Court's ruling, reasoning that the right of privacy was retained by the people. Justice Byron White and Justice John Marshall Harlan II also wrote concurring opinions in which they argued that privacy is protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Justices Hugo Black and Potter Stewart wrote dissenting opinions. Justice Black argued that the right to privacy is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. Furthermore, he criticized the interpretations of the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments by his fellow justices. Justice Stewart called the Connecticut statute "an uncommonly silly law" but argued that it was nevertheless constitutional.
The final decision of the court was later used in other cases related to sexual practices and other personal, often considered private, decisions for the American citizens.
Precedent for later casesEdit
Later decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court extended the principles of Griswold beyond its particular facts.
Right to birth control for unmarried couples, 1972Edit
Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972) extended its holding to unmarried couples, whereas the "right of privacy" in Griswold was said to only apply to marital relationships.[12] The argument in Eisenstadt was that it was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to deny unmarried couples the right to use contraception when married couples did have that right (under Griswold).[13] Writing for the majority, Justice Brennan wrote that Massachusetts could not enforce the law against married couples because of Griswold v. Connecticut, so the law worked "irrational discrimination" if not extended to unmarried couples as well.
Right to abortion for any woman, 1973Edit
The reasoning and language of both Griswold and Eisenstadt were cited in the concurring opinion by Associate Justice Potter Stewart in support of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).[14] The decision in Roe struck down a Texas law that criminalized aiding a woman in getting an abortion.[15] The Court ruled that this law was a violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Abortion became legalized for any woman for any reason, up through the first trimester, with possible restrictions for maternal health in the second trimester (the midpoint of which is the approximate time of fetal viability). In the third trimester of pregnancy, abortion is potentially illegal with exception for the mother's health, which the court defined broadly in Doe v. Bolton.
Right to contraception for juveniles at least 16 years of age, 1977Edit
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Right to homosexual relations, 2003Edit
Lawrence v. Texas (2003) struck down a Texas sodomy law that prohibited certain forms of intimate sexual contact between members of the same sex. Without stating a standard of review in the majority opinion, the court overruled Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), declaring that the "Texas statute furthers no legitimate state interest which can justify its intrusion into the personal and private life of the individual." Justice O'Connor, who wrote a concurring opinion, framed it as an issue of rational basis review. Justice Kennedy's majority opinion, based on the liberty interest protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, stated that the Texas anti-sodomy statute touched "upon the most private human conduct, sexual behavior, and in the most private of places, the home," and attempted to "control a personal relationship that ... is within the liberty of persons to choose without being punished." Thus, the Court held that adults are entitled to participate in private, consensual sexual conduct. While the opinion in Lawrence was framed in terms of the right to liberty, Kennedy described the "right to privacy" found in Griswold as the "most pertinent beginning point" in the evolution of the concepts embodied in Lawrence.[16]
Right to same-sex marriage, 2015Edit
Griswold was also cited in a chain of cases that led the Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage in another landmark case, Obergefell v. Hodges.
See alsoEdit
- ^ a b Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965).
- ^ Johnson, John W. (2005). Griswold V. Connecticut. University of Kansas. pp. 8–10. ISBN 0-7006-1378-1.
- ^ Johnson, John W. (2005). Griswold V. Connecticut. University of Kansas. pp. Chapter 2. ISBN 0-7006-1378-1.
- ^ Johnson, John W. (2005). Griswold V. Connecticut. University Press of Kansas. pp. Chapter 5. ISBN 0-7006-1378-1.
- ^ a b c Cheek, Jeannette Bailey (March 17, 1976). "Estelle Griswold oral history interview about her part in Griswold v. Connecticut, legal challenge to Connecticut birth control law". Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics, and Reproductive Rights – via ProQuest History Vault.
- ^ "Estelle Griswold". Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame.
- ^ "1965 Griswold v. Connecticut Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court says, 'Yes!'". Action Speaks Radio. 2012.
- ^ Garrow, David J. (Spring 2011). "Human Rights Hero. The Legacy of Griswold V. Connecticut" (PDF). Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities.
- ^ Alex McBride (December 2006). "EXPANDING CIVIL RIGHTS Landmark Cases Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)". PBS.
- ^ Laura Carroll (July 2012). The Baby Matrix. LiveTrue Books. ISBN 978-0-615-64299-4.
- ^ "Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- Ratified 1868". pbs.org. 2007.
- ^ Frances Kissling, Jonathan D. Moreno; The Nation (March 22, 2012). "The Nation: Still Fighting 'Eisenstadt v. Baird'". npr.org.
- ^ Sheraden Seward (2008-12-03). "Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)". embryo.asu.edu. Arizona State University.
- ^ Cornell University Law School. "Roe v. Wade (No. 70-18) 314 F.Supp. 1217, affirmed in part and reversed in part. STEWART, J., Concurring Opinion SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES". law.cornell.edu.
- ^ University of Missouri-Kansas City (January 22, 1973). "ROE v. WADE 410 U.S. 113 (1973)". umkc.edu.
- ^ Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003).
Further readingEdit
- Bailey, Martha J. (2010). "'Momma's Got the Pill': How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped US Childbearing". American Economic Review. 100 (1): 98–129. doi:10.1257/aer.100.1.98.
- Garrow, David J. (2011). "Human Rights Hero: The Legal Legacy of Griswold v. Connecticut". Human Rights. 38 (2): 26–25. JSTOR 23032421.
- Hasian, Marouf Jr. (2001). "Vernacular Legal Discourse: Revisiting the Public Acceptance of the 'Right to Privacy' in the 1960s". Political Communication. 18 (1): 89–105. doi:10.1080/10584600150217677.
- Helscher, David (1994). "Griswold v. Connecticut and the Unenumerated Right of Privacy". Northern Illinois University Law Review. 15: 33. ISSN 0734-1490.
- Kalman, Laura; Garrow, David (1994). "Review: The Promise and Peril of Privacy". Reviews in American History. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 22 (4): 725–731. doi:10.2307/2702826. JSTOR 2702826.
- Lockhart, Andrea (1997). "Griswold v. Connecticut: A Case Brief". Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues. 14: 35. ISSN 0896-5595.
- Loewy, Arnold H. (2003). "Morals Legislation and the Establishment Clause". Alabama Law Review. 55 (1): 159–182. ISSN 0002-4279.
- Johnson, John W. Griswold v. Connecticut: Birth control and the constitutional right of privacy. University Press of Kansas, 2005.
- Tushnet, Mark (2008). I dissent: Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases. Boston: Beacon Press. pp. 179–190. ISBN 978-0-8070-0036-6.
External linksEdit
- Works related to Griswold v. Connecticut at Wikisource
- Text of Griswold v. Connecticut , 381 U.S. 479 (1965) is available from: Cornell CourtListener Findlaw Google Scholar Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio)
- Griswold v. Connecticut from C-SPAN's Landmark Cases: Historic Supreme Court Decisions


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Oscar Pistorius's family 'shattered' after appeal bid gets rejected
The athlete's murder appeal bid was turned down 'due to lack of prospects of success'.
JOHANNESBURG - While Reeva Steenkamp's family had welcomed the Constitutional Court's decision rejecting Oscar Pistorius's murder appeal bid, the athlete's family appeared heartbroken.
The court informed counsel for the parties yesterday that it will not hear his application.
Pistorius approached the highest court in the country after the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the State and convicted him of murder.
The athlete was initially convicted of culpable homicide for killing Steenkamp on Valentine's Day three years ago.
Barry and June Steenkamp's attorney Tania Koen, said the couple always had faith in the justice system, adding that the law must now take its course.
Pistorius's brother Carl, simply tweeted the word 'shattered'.
S h a t t e r e d .— Carl Pistorius (@carlpistorius) March 3, 2016
Nine Constitutional Court judges, led by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, considered Pistorius's application before turning it down.
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Last month, State prosecutors argued that they strongly believe it is not in the interests of justice for the Constitutional Court to entertain the athlete's appeal against his murder conviction.
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She said the SCA correctly identified the trial court's fundamental error that because Pistorius believed that Steenkamp was in the bedroom, he could not be convicted of murder.
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|Even picky eaters will eat this mild roasted chicken curry.
Roast Chicken and Potatoes--Don't Worry! This isn't Curry!
(On the other hand, this takes a long time to cook, so don't be in a hurry!)
We have the blonde members of the family coming over tonight, and they're strictly plain meat and veg. Oh well, what they don't know can't hurt them. Right? We'll see. Hopefully one day they'll not only grow used to the redolent aromas of garlic and ginger, they'll even begin to crave them. But you have to start somewhere, so this recipe for a very subtle, mild curry is the beginning.
The Masala
1 cinnamon stick
2 green cardamom
1 inch fresh ginger, thinly sliced into coins
½ teaspoon cumin seed
½ teaspoon coriander seed
2 fresh garlic cloves
½ teaspoon ground turmeric (reserve this)
a few grates of freshly ground pepper (a little later)
Reserving the cinnamon, smash the dry whole spices in a mortar and pestle. Don't worry about removing the husks, or grinding them fine, because they'll be inside the chicken cavity.
The Chicken and Veg
1 roasting chicken sized right for your family I'm using a five pound bird. (If you're using a smaller one, cut down on the cooking times, and add your vegetables earlier.)
halved or quartered potatoes, enough to fill a quarter of your pan, or however many you think they'll eat. Cut them according to their size—you don't want the pieces so small they'll cook too fast and get mushy, but you don't want them so big they have no chance of cooking in an hour.
2 parsnips, peeled and cut into 3 inch pieces, thicker ones halved
1 small cauliflower broken into large pieces, or a portion of a big one
2 butternut squashes cut into 2x 1 inch pieces
2 sweet red peppers cut into 2 inch strips
2 oranges- one squeezed, the other sliced into ¼ rounds
course salt for washing, about ¼ cup
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Put the masala into the cavity reserving the turmeric.
Sprinkle the turmeric on the outside of the chicken and grate a little pepper over the bird. Black pepper activates the healthy compounds in the turmeric, so you always want to serve them together!
Use a large enough non-stick roasting pan for everything. Heat the oven to 350 and put in the chicken. Cook for one hour, take it out, baste the chicken, add the veg, pour the orange juice over the chicken and drape the orange slices over it. By now, you should have enough oils and juices in the bottom of the pan for the veg to nicely roast and carmelize. Cook for another two hours, till chicken is at 180 F on the thermometer, and vegetables are soft. (The vegetables slow the cooking down quite a bit.) Remove the chicken and tent with tin foil to let it gather its thoughts, or let the molecules stop bouncing, for about ten minutes. Crank the heat up to 500, and let the vegetables carmelize while you're waiting for the chicken to cool.
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Aviation: IATA chief decries high cost of air fares, pushes for SAATM
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has advised Nigerian airlines to key into the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) to deepen their operations across the continent.
Speaking at the 14th edition of Akwaaba African Travel Market, Vice President, IATA for Africa, Mrs. Adefunke Adeyemi recalled that SAATM was inaugurated by Heads of States of the African Union (AU) in January to deepen bilateral relations among countries and foster cooperation among the airlines.
The theme for this year's aviation day was: 'Is aviation in Africa making progress or in decline?
According to her, Nigerian carriers have right to fly into about 40 African countries and can establish hubs in these countries through negotiations and mutually beneficial air service agreements.
Adeyemi noted that no Nigerian carrier was flying to Chad and Niger Republic despite the presence of a viable trade on the routes.
Adeyemi also decried the high cost of air fares in Africa which she attributed to excessive aviation charges by African governments and also the notion that air travel was exclusively for the rich.
"It is 45 percent more expensive to fly across Africa than any other region in the world. That is why we are trying to let African governments know that is not an elitist means of transportation," she said.
She said it was regrettable that airlines were not taking advantage of the SAATM the way Ethiopian Airlines had done so far including its entering into a technical partnership with Asky Airline.
Adeyemi said African airlines should form alliances among themselves to improve their operations as well as profits, adding that some of them already belonged to international platforms like Star Alliance.
She added that the airlines should also work towards securing the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) certificate which would enable them play on the global stage.
Former Managing Director, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mr. Richard Aisuebeogun, said governments must find ways to address the infrastructural deficit in the aviation sector in Africa.
Aisuebeogun noted that upgrading of airport infrastructures would crash air fares and attract more investors to the sector.
He said until government deliberately makes air travel more seamless through liberalisation and ease in VISA procurement, we may not make progress.
By Abdullateef Aliyu
Source: dailytrust.com.ng


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The Music and Arts Ministry will continue its primary goal of supporting the vision of the church, to be a light in the community and the world. Through the enhancement of both weekly worship services and special church wide events, the Music and Arts Ministry strives to increase the spiritual enrichment of the congregation, by utilizing a comprehensive strategy to integrate a Christ-centered, spiritual based, educational, diverse and extraordinary program. Our Ministry will attempt to strengthen, heighten and solidify the liturgical and religious foundation of Cascade United Methodist Church.
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Reliable use of mechanical encoders requires two components: a hardware tweak and (of course) code. Although there are many sample code for rotary encoder, I feel the following is the simplest code for rotary encoders. This version is interrupt-based.
The interrupt routine simply detects direction of motion:
void decoder()Here we connect terminal A of the rotary encoder to Arduino's digital pin 4 and terminal B to digitalpin 2. The third terminal of the encoder is connected to GND. In this configuration the rotary encoder pulses will be pulling the pins to GND. In this example, we are controlling volume so one direction is volume up and the other direction is volume down.
if (digitalRead(4) == digitalRead(2))
volUp = 1; //if encoder channels are the same, direction is CW
volDown = 1; //if they are not the same, direction is CCW
We attach the interrupt with:
attachInterrupt(0, decoder, CHANGE);and we detects CHANGE of the pulse. We need to detect rising edge and falling edge of the pulse in order to utilize the full resolution of the rotary encoder.
During set up, we want to enable the pull-up resistors for pin 2 and pin 4 with:
pinMode(VOLUPPIN, INPUT); // Pin 2Note: it doesn't matter which channel is connected to which pin to start with. You can always switch the connections if you expect the opposite result.
digitalWrite(VOLUPPIN, HIGH); // Enable pull-up resistor
pinMode(VOLDOWNPIN, INPUT); // Pin 4
digitalWrite(VOLDOWNPIN, HIGH); // Enable pull-up resistor
Then in a loop we detect when the flags are set and do accordingly:
while(volUp==1) // CW motion in the rotary encoder
volUp=0; // Reset the flag
// Do something
while(volDown==1) // CCW motion in rotary encoder
volDown=0; // clear the flag
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Authorities in Monaco today were forced to quash rumours the target of an international manhunt for an alleged killing and dismemberment had been arrested in the tiny European principality.
As Montreal police revealed there was a possibility Luka Rocco Magnotta could have returned to Canada under an assumed identity after fleeing for France on May 26, rumours the fugitive was apprehended in Monaco circulated on Twitter and were published on a English-speaking website in France.
But police in Monaco said "they had no seen or heard from the fugitive" when contacted by the Ottawa Citizen. The mere mention of the word "Canada" prompted an officer to ask: "Oh, are you asking about the man who was decapitated?"
Montreal police also denied Magnotta had been arrested.
@tiredaile @Interpol_HQ @RivieraReporter This is not true. The suspect has not been arrested yet. The @SPVM is still looking MAGNOTTA. — Police Montréal (@SPVM) June 1, 2012
Detectives today released the name of the victim of the brutal slaying, and conceded Magnotta could have come back to Canada using a different identity.
"All I can tell you know is that he left Montreal [and] he may have returned under another identify but we're engaged in a worldwide search," said Cmdr. Ian Lafrenière during a press conference.
"We don't know exactly which identity he used to travel. He has three different ones."
Magnotta, 29, a self-confessed Canadian porn star wanted in connection with a killing that saw a torso left in a suitcase and a hand and foot mailed to the Ottawa offices of the Liberal and Conservative parties fled to Europe, most likely Paris, police believe.
Born Eric Newman, Magnotta is also known to wear wigs and disguises, Lafrenière said. He also has an extensive Internet presence including blog entries, a website and a Facebook page.
Magnotta's alleged victim is Lin Jun, a 33-year-old Concordia University student from Wuhan, Hubei, China. He was last seen on May 24, police said, and reported missing on May 29. So far, authorities know very little about the victim.
Lafrenière said the victim was "engaged in sort of a relation" with the suspect, but couldn't say for how long.
"You must understand, [the victim] doesn't even have any relatives in Montreal," he said.
Officials from Concordia said Jun was an undergraduate student in the faculty of engineering and computer science.
"It is never easy to deal with the loss of a loved one, particularly when the death is unforeseen. Our hearts go out to his family and friends during this very difficult time," said the university's president and vice-chancellor Frederick Lowy, in a statement emailed to students.
Magnotta linked to white supremest site
A year before he became the target of an international manhunt for an alleged killing and dismemberment, Luka Rocco Magnotta was being hailed as a hero of free speech on a U.S. white nationalist website.
A May 27, 2011 post on Stormfront.org refers to Mr. Magnotta as "an open white supremacist" and claims he was being forced to flee Canada and return to Russia because of "his views on white supremacy."
The post, by a forum member named reddragon1, said Magnotta "is of Russian/Italian heritage," was born in Tolyatti, Russia, moved to Canada at age five and went to the United States to work in modeling and adult entertainment.
"However, after he published his website supporting the freeze on immigration to America and Canada, he was bombarded with hate mail and his website was removed," the post read. "His websites were frequently targeted and removed."
It quoted Mr. Magnotta's website as lamenting that "blacks get their own countries, Chinese get their own countries … however if white people want their own countries then we are denied that right."
A photo of a shirtless Mr. Magnotta accompanied the post, which has now been taken down. A second and final post by reddragon1 the following day made derogatory comments about Jews. Stormfront is run by former Ku Klux Klan leader Don Black.
The blog Anti-Racist Canada, which found the Stormfront posts, reported Thursday that it would be sending them "to the appropriate authorities" and said it suspected reddragon1 to be Mr. Magnotta himself.
Mr. Magnotta appeared again on Stormfront in September, when a member wrote that "Luka Magnotta, he wrote a lot of very interesting articles on multiculturalism. I for one am extremely happy that he is courageous enough to write the things he does, knowing full well he will receive death threats. … He says he is not advocating killing different races, he simply does not want to communicate, work or associate with different races."
Abbee Corb, an analyst with the Hate Crimes Extremism and Investigative Team, which advises police services in Ontario, said Stormfront "has become a social networking site and prominent voice in the right-wing white supremacist community.
"Prominent Canadian right winger Paul Fromm, hosts his radio show on the Stormfront network. Stormfront has a great deal of Canadian and international content. Its users can post and create content promoting events, recruiting and providing commentary on global events."
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Faculty, students and staff have been offered counselling, Lowy said.
Lafrenière said Friday police believe the murder happened sometime in the evening between May 24 and 25.
Police do have airport information about Magnotta, he said, but they are choosing not to make it public.
"We're learning a lot about this individual … [Magnotta's] past is not all that pleasant, I would say. Apparently he would kill animals and that sort of thing. There are investigations ongoing outside of Montreal as well."
One day after Lin's family reported they were unable to contact him, a brand new suitcase appeared among the trash in an alley behind Magnotta's apartment building.
For some reason garbage collectors did not take it away in their regular pick-up that day, and on Tuesday the building's janitor opened the stinking bag to discover a human torso.
The same day packages containing a foot and a hand were found in mail addressed to the federal Conservative and Liberal parties' offices in Ottawa. One of the parcels included a note that police have described as the "ramblings of a mad man."
Police have evidence that the remains are from the same victim but are awaiting confirmation.
On Thursday, Interpol, the world's largest international police organization, issued an alert asking police in its 190 member countries to be on the lookout for Magnotta in relation to the Montreal murder.
"We found some evidence on the scene," Lafrenière said. "We found, also, a letter that was posted on a website making us believe he might be gone out of the country."
As the search broadened, more details emerged about the troubled past of Magnotta, who was born in Scarborough, Ont. According to unnamed sources who spoke with NewsTalk 1010 radio, Magnotta — known as Eric Newman at the time — spent many of his early years being homeschooled, but attended Charlottetown Junior Public School in Grades 5 and 6.
He grew up in a home near Lawrence Avenue East and Centennial Road.
"He spoke with a very soft voice, he had his hair slicked back, he wore a lot of gold rings on his fingers and he was just different," a former classmate told the radio station. "Kids being kids, he was picked on a little bit and made fun of … he just seemed unhappy … just off."
In 2006 he had his name legally changed from Eric Newman to Luka Magnotta, government records show. His mother and sister now both live in Peterborough, Ont., but they declined comment Thursday when contacted by the National Post.
"Eric is my brother, but the entire family has agreed as one unit not to comment at this time," Melissa Newman said.
In a 2007 online article titled "Overcoming Mental Illness," someone calling himself Luka Magnotta and saying he was a professional model said he had spent time in a mental institution after being diagnosed as bi-polar.
"I first realized I was truly sick when I started hearing voices," he wrote. "I was in the park and I just heard screams and people talking in my ear." He claimed to be on medication and to have turned his life around after a time on the streets in Toronto. "I travel the world, ride around in limos, have only the most expensive clothing," he wrote. "I've come a long way from eating out of old pizza boxes on the streets."
If he ever was living the high life, it had come crashing down by the time he moved into a $490-a-month furnished one-room flat in Montreal's Snowdon district about four months ago. It was there that he is alleged to have killed and dismembered his victim, committing acts of cannibalism and necrophilia before disposing of the remains. A video of the acts was posted online, and since Wednesday Montreal police have been fighting an unsuccessful battle to have it removed.
Lafrenière said the video was taken down from one site Wednesday but "some very deranged people" have made copies and posted it elsewhere.
"That scares me a bit about human beings," he said. "I don't understand how people could be interested in watching that. This is so frickin' horrible. It's not an actor. It's someone getting killed and mutilated."
Magnotta had previously attracted international outrage as the suspect behind an online video showing kittens being stuffed into a plastic bag and suffocated with the aid of a vacuum cleaner.
An American lawyer said he alerted Toronto Police Sunday to the gruesome online video of an apparent murder, but his tip was dismissed. Online sleuths had already speculated that Mr. Magnotta, infamous for the kitten video, was the killer in the snuff film.
"I told them there was a video online of the murder, and the murder had likely taken place in Canada. And that the perpetrator was certainly a Canadian, certainly from Toronto," Roger Renville said. "His name was Luka Magnotta. And somebody needed to look at this."
The person taking the call told him what he had seen "was probably fake, probably special effects" and declined Renville's offer to email a link to the video.
Const. Wendy Drummond confirmed that Toronto police did receive a call from Mr. Renville and said he was advised to call the Crime Stoppers tip line.
An arrest warrant made public Thursday afternoon at the Montreal courthouse says Magnotta is wanted for second-degree murder in the May 25 death "of an unknown person." It also alleges Magnotta committed an indignity to human remains.
In 2004, Magnotta was charged with defrauding numerous large retail chains, including Sears Canada Inc., the Brick and 2001 Audio Video. He was also accused of stealing credit card information from an individual.
According to court records in Toronto, he pleaded guilty to all four charges in June 2005, and was given a nine-month conditional sentence and 12 months probation.
His bail conditions were included an order to stay away from the theft victim and a prohibition from owning or using any computers, accessing the Internet and email and possessing any cameras.
A story on a gay-and-lesbian news site reports an old girlfriend describing Magnotta as a narcissist desperate for attention. In that account on the Xtra! news site, she is also quoted saying he spoke constantly about serial killers and was obsessed with Karla Homolka.
"He always wanted to be famous," the story reported the girlfriend, quoted under a pseudonym, as saying.
"I guess now he is."
National Post, with files from Vidya Kauri, Armina Ligaya, Postmedia News and The Canadian Press


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Hello dear readers, a new LE collection has arrived upon us and I decided to make a post on outfits I have styled so far. This collection titled "LE is love" arrives with a proposal of flowers, leather and net fabric giving a a twist to spring fashion.
For this first look I decided to create a look that would be very minimalistic, yet interesting with the avant garde top. I feel like this top was a must have from the collection due to its versatility to be either the top half of a dress or just a top. I also feel like this top is something that is new and unique on stardoll.
One of the most talked about pieces for this new LE that we experimented is the bikinis, the plain garments were popular in between players due to the many possibilities that they represent for an outfit. I used them with this transparent skirt to create a very "tumblr" outfit, with the holographic backpack and the ripped jean jacket.
For look number 3 we move on to a piece that was a big surprise in this collection which is this net top which is originally for men but works for a female dolls body wonderfully. I love how grunge this piece can get to be however for today I decided to just put it on a minimalistic urban outfit. My favorite part of this outfit has to be the shoes which I was finally able to get during the LE sales. Did you got anything interesting from LE sales? post your answer on the comment section.
I love this last outfit color scheme, I was in love with the transparent kimono robe ever since I saw it on the spoilers. I decided to pair it up with yet another LE piece which is this cool peach skirt. I believe that with the necklace tying all colors up a pretty girly outfit is created.
Thats it for today bruh, but keep your eyes open in the comment section as I plan on making a fashion comp. Until next time, stay fetch.
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