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Jay Cooper was only two when his father was sent away for a crime he didn't commit. Twenty-five years later, can father and son pick up where they left off?
Sitting on the patio of a coffee shop in the Uptown neighborhood of Dallas, Jay Cooper gazes out across the bustling sidewalk. Young couples with beautiful white smiles walk by pushing strollers. Families shop together, eating in the upscale restaurants, waiting in line at the movie theatre. It's a bright Sunday afternoon, Father's Day 2009.
Jay is slender, black, and 27. He wears jeans, a dark blue t-shirt, and a ball cap pulled low over the top of his face. He's sipping a strawberry milkshake and waiting for his dad. This is not his neighborhood. His eyes are fixed on the shadows dancing across the three-story, million-dollar brownstone condos on the other side of the street.
This day doesn't evoke fond memories for Jay. When he thinks of his father, his thoughts aren't of fishing trips, playing catch, or seeking his counsel about shaving or girls. That's because Jay's father, Johnnie Earl Lindsey, was convicted of rape in 1983, when Jay was 2. Nearly twenty-six years later, DNA testing exonerated him. He was apologized to, given a new suit, and released.
This will be the first Father's Day Johnnie and Jay spend together since Johnnie went away. Originally, the plan was a big backyard barbecue, with music and dancing and a family celebration. Then it was a nice lunch. Now it's coffee.
As he waits, Jay tells me about his experience growing up without a father: The awkward moments when teachers ask what your father does for a living, the lonely "Donuts for Dads" mornings in elementary school, the weird feelings you get when you see movies or TV shows or hear a song about dads.
"Later in life there are relationship issues," he says. "You have a hard time trusting people sometimes. And I—I used to have some problems with confidence." If he's lucky, he explains, it's not something he thinks about all that often.
"Until this year," he says, "I probably couldn't have told you what month Father's Day was even in."
Now, after twenty-six years, father and son have the chance to build a relationship that a wrongful incarceration prevented. They have a chance, together, to cultivate meaning from tragic circumstances. Johnnie has his freedom, and Jay has what so few men who grow up without dads get: the knowledge that his father is innocent, taken away by circumstance beyond his control.
When Johnnie first got out, the family rejoiced. Jay wept in the courtroom. His mother had died six years earlier, and he felt like he'd been given a parent back. He picked up Johnnie for breakfast every morning. He volunteered to drive his father around for every errand.
But as the warm glow of what seemed like an unexpected miracle began to fade, and as Johnnie adjusted to living on the outside, life got more complicated: Johnnie's story appeared in newspapers and on television, he got calls from long lost "cousins" who smelled money, he quickly got engaged to an ex-girlfriend. Johnnie couldn't just pick up where his life had been interrupted twenty-five years ago. And no matter how hard both men tried, Jay found it difficult to think of his father as anything more than a new stranger in his life.
"It might sound weird," Jay says, "but it's a lot harder than you think." He checks the time on his phone. Johnnie's late. Jay lowers his head and sips his drink. His voice is soft and his words come out in small drips, like a broken shower nobody has the tools to fix. "You can't just look at someone you don't know and have him be your dad. It's not like… It's not like you imagine as a little kid."
Spending half a lifetime in prison damages people. So does growing up without a father. And dealing with that damage is a lot harder than putting on a glove and playing catch.
A car horn squeals, tearing the tranquility of Jay's pensive moment. The happy shoppers on the sidewalk come to a halt, staring. There's a brown sedan, maybe a decade old, stopped at the curb next to the coffee shop and a smiling black man inside waving his arms.
"There he is," Jay says. "That's my father."
The woman told police she was riding her bike around White Rock Lake that afternoon in 1982. She was 28, white. She said she was on the south side of the lake when a man jumped out and pulled her off her bike. She said he held her down and threatened to kill her. Then he raped her in the bushes in broad daylight. She told police the guy who did it was black, shirtless, and in his 20s.
Johnnie was a prime suspect. He worked in the commercial laundry across the street, he was a 30-year-old black man, and he had a criminal record that included rape. Six years earlier, Johnnie had pled guilty to sexually assaulting a woman in his neighborhood. "I was very young," he tells me later. "It was very stupid. And I never denied it." He says by the time of the White Rock Lake rape, he was getting his life in order. He was getting off drugs. He was holding down a steady job.
A few weeks after the rape, the woman moved to San Antonio. Nearly a year after she filed the original report, Dallas police mailed her a photo lineup. There were six men. Two were shirtless. One of them was Johnnie Earl Lindsey.
At trial, prosecutors contended Johnnie snuck away from the laundry for a few minutes, spotted a beautiful white girl alone in an isolated area, and couldn't resist. Johnnie testified that he never left work that day. His boss at the laundry, a man named Mike Pollard, backed up Johnnie's story.
He produced a time card that showed Johnnie was clocked in all afternoon. He explained that Johnnie worked at the front of the line in a large laundry operation with only a few employees. Had he left the building at the time of the rape, Pollard testified, "the entire line would have stopped. Someone definitely would have noticed that very quickly."
The jury sentenced Johnnie to life in prison. His conviction was thrown out a year later on a technicality—he had been tried under the wrong statute. But Johnnie stayed in jail. "I thought there was no way they were going to do it again," he says, looking back at his second trial. "Not twice. No chance." In 1985, his second trial mirrored his first. He was convicted and again sentenced to life.
During his twenty-five years behind bars, Johnnie had several chances to confess to the crime in exchange for a reduced sentence—and, in some cases, near-immediate release. There were pre-trial meetings, sentencing hearings, and numerous parole board meetings. But Johnnie wouldn't confess.
"I could never say I committed this act," he tells me. "I never wanted to put myself in a situation where I would have to explain later why I said I did something I didn't do."
He wrote letters to lawyers, judges, the Texas Attorney General. But after a decade or so, he began to wonder if maybe he did do it. "You start thinking, did I blackout and commit this act without knowing it? How could I have done it? You just think… How?"
In 2006, after twenty-three years in prison, Johnnie was diagnosed with colon cancer. Not long into his recovery, he wrote another letter, explaining again, in detail, his wrongful conviction. This time it landed on the right desk, that of state District Judge Larry Mitchell. Johnnie got a note saying the judge has assigned public defender Michelle Moore to his case, and that he would be hearing more shortly.
Moore—a warm, bubbly woman with a sweet southern accent—is a board member of the Texas Innocence Project, a legal group that works to overturn wrongful convictions. Until 2007, when Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins took office, Dallas prosecutors resisted the idea of spending thousands of dollars of taxpayer money to run DNA tests for convicted felons, no matter how circumstantial the evidence may have been.
But Watkins, the first black DA in Texas history, created the country's first "Conviction Integrity Unit." The DA's office worked with the Texas Innocence Project to review more than four-hundred old cases. They initially tested the DNA evidence in forty of those cases. One of those was Johnnie's. (continued on page 2)


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An al-Qaida-linked group fighting in Syria has released video of the first American to carry out a suicide attack in the country's civil war, showing him smiling and saying he looked forward to going to heaven.
The Nusra Front released the new video late on Friday. It shows an American citizen, Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, 22, with other fighters before the 25 May attack that targeted several army positions at the same time. It said two of the other three suicide attackers in the assault in the government-held north-western city of Idlib were from foreign countries, including one who was identified as being from the Maldives.
Abu-Salha appears smiling in the video and speaks in broken Arabic.
"I want to rest in the afterlife, in heaven. There is nothing here and the heart is not resting," he says. "Heaven is better. When people die they either go to heaven or hell. There is happiness beyond explanation."
The video, released by Nusra Front's media arm, al-Manara al-Baydha, was posted on jihadi websites. It corresponded with Associated Press reporting about the attack and Abu-Salha. Opposition forces previously identified the American who carried out the bombing as Abu Hurayra al-Amriki and said he was a US citizen. The name al-Amriki means "the American" in Arabic.
It is unknown how many people were killed in the bombing. Opposition rebels with the Nusra Front said Abu-Salha's truck was laden with 16 tons of explosives to tear down the al-Fanar restaurant, a gathering site for Syrian troops. The other suicide attackers targeted nearby army positions.
Abu-Salha grew up in Florida and attended several colleges before dropping out and moving abroad. Thousands of foreign fighters have come to Syria from around the world to fight against President Bashar Assad's forces after the uprising against his government began three years ago. The war has since taken on strong sectarian overtones, pitting a Sunni-led insurgency that includes al-Qaida-inspired extremist groups against a government dominated by Assad's minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam.
Syria's uprising began with peaceful protests in March 2011 but escalated into an armed revolt when government forces launched a sweeping crackdown on dissent. The conflict has killed at least 170,000 people, nearly a third of them civilians, according to activists. Nearly 3 million Syrians have fled the country.
On Saturday, a car bomb exploded in a northern Syrian town near the Turkish border, killing and wounding a number of people. The Aleppo Media Centre said the car bomb exploded in a vegetable market in the town of Azaz. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the car blew up near a gas station in Azaz. The Observatory said the blast killed at least four people and wounded several others while the AMC said it killed and wounded a number of people without offering specific figures.
The Observatory also said a missile shot down the helicopter on Friday night over a neighbourhood of Aleppo known as Camp Nairab. Camp Nairab is adjacent to the Nairab military airport south-east of the city, where government aircraft take off to carry out attacks in northern Syria.
Assad's forces use helicopters to drop barrel bombs, crude explosives that have killed thousands of people and caused widespread destruction, especially in Aleppo.
Rebels have rarely succeeded in downing helicopters, and have long requested anti-aircraft weapons from western and Arab nations. The US and its allies have refused, fearing that such weapons could fall into the hands of extremists, who could use them to target passenger planes.
The Observatory and an Aleppo-based activist who goes by the name Abu Saeed Izzedine said the helicopter crash killed four people, including a child. The Observatory said three of the dead were the helicopter's crew members.
The Observatory also reported on Saturday that the number of soldiers killed over the past few days in a northern military base that was overrun by the extremist Islamic State group has risen to 85. It said the fate of 200 other soldiers is still unknown.
The monitoring group, which relies on a network of activists inside the country, said Islamic State fighters have executed and paraded the bodies of "tens" of soldiers in the northern city of Raqqa, the only provincial capital in rebel hands.
Amateur videos posted online by activists showed more than a dozen beheaded bodies in a busy square, said to be in Raqqa. Some of the heads were placed on a nearby fence, where at least two headless bodies were crucified. The video appeared genuine and corresponded to other AP reporting of the events.

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We're well aware that Christmas isn't even here yet, but now is the time to get your New Year's Eve plans in order.
Head over the jump for a sampling of local New Year's Eve events.
Rapour: Three-course "NYeveXperience" dinner at 7 p.m. $76.65 per person, includes tax and gratuity. For reservations and advance payment, call 909-899-7999. $20 cover charge without reservations. Entertainment includes singer Amanda Castro and DJ PJ Butta. Rapour is at 7900 Kew Avenue, Suite 5410, Rancho Cucamonga. For more information, click here.
Donkey Punch Brewery: 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. $75 per person includes six beers. Only 75 tickets available. For more information, call 909-478-5005 or click here. Donkey Punch Brewery is at 2351 W. Lugonia Ave., Suite G, Redlands.
Vive Lounge: 8 p.m. until 4 a.m. $15 per person. For more information, click here. Tickets available here. Vive Lounge is at 184 West Third St., Pomona.
John's Incredible Pizza: 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. All-you-can-eat-buffet and beverage, free rides and non-ticket game play, and a party horn for only $15 for adults and $10 for kids in advance, $20 for adults and $15 for kids the day of. Add $15 for a $25 Fun Card. For more information or to purchase in advance, click here. Locations in Montclair, Victorville and Riverside.


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Early liver cancer often doesn't cause symptoms. When the cancer grows larger, people may notice one or more of these common symptoms:
- Pain in the upper abdomen on the right side
- A lump or a feeling of heaviness in the upper abdomen
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- Loss of appetite and feelings of fullness
- Weight loss
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These symptoms may be caused by liver cancer or other health problems. If you have any of these symptoms, you should tell your doctor so that problems can be diagnosed and treated as early as possible.
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See the stars at the Red Carpet Premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster and Gerard Butler are all scheduled to attend! Hosted by KIISFM DJ Boy Toy Jesse. Arrivals begin at 2pm. Click the image above to a large version of the flyer!
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Sure, it was a rock fight. Yet to focus on the rock is to miss the fact that the UConn Huskies moved a mountain over 28 glorious days.
Sure, the game was ugly to the eye. Yet defense is beautiful to the soul to a man who Tuesday sounded like he has no intention of walking away.
When sports writers gather for the big events, the Final Four, Olympics, Super Bowl, etc., they have an uproarious tendency to stop being Red Smith and start being Rex Reed. They turn into French figure skating judges. Instead of a guy with a ball, they see a painter with a canvas or an actress with a dramatic role.
Sweat becomes perspiration. Athletics become aesthetics. So when UConn shot 29 percent in the first half and Butler shot 18.8 percent for both halves Monday night in UConn's 53-41 national championship victory, I got to be honest. I couldn't wait to get up Tuesday to turn on the computer and buy papers at the airport.
Pat Forde of ESPN.com called the game "a bomb of historic proportions … a game that was so train-wreck terrible to watch it set the sport back to the hook-shot days. Actually, that's an insult to the hook-shot days."
Can you see George Mikan with those Coke bottle glasses?
Mike Freeman from CBSSports.com went historical: "Not since China built a great wall has the world witnessed such high level masonry. No, Rome wasn't built in a day, but it could have been had the Bulldogs and Huskies played a game then."
Writing in USA Today, Mike Lopresti did one better. He went Joanie Weston: "What if a national championship game was scheduled and a roller derby broke out?"
"Did you see this aesthetically unappealing mess on the court? Mike Wise asked in the Washington Post.
A CBS analyst had. "This is the worst half of basketball I've ever seen in a national championship game," Greg Anthony said at halftime.
Gregg Doyel of CBSSports.com seemed to play a little reverse psychology: "UConn and Butler play the most dreadful championship game in the history of championship games — in any sport — and we relish in it."
Actually fewer of us did. With Butler falling apart in the second half, TV ratings were down 18 percent from last year's Duke-Butler final.
Believe this much. If Butler had held UConn to 18.8 percent shooting, Brad Stevens would be heralded today as the new secretary of defense for Commander-In-Bracketologist Obama. Bill Belichick would be calling to invite him to a Bon Jovi concert.
Yes, one man's ugly is another state's beauty. The country saw a pile of rocks? Connecticut sees Calhoun on the Mount Rushmore of coaches, up there with Knight, Coach K, Rupp and Wooden. The country wanted to cry it was so bad? Upon the team's return, Kemba Walker broke down in tears at the Gampel Pavilion rally when, out of nowhere, he was added to the Huskies of Honor.
There's no disputing that many television sets outside Connecticut and Indiana were clicked off at halftime. But believe this, too. You could have stuffed all the folks — outside of Connecticut and outside of alumni — pulling for the Huskies in the backseat of a Volkswagen Beetle. If that had been Walker and Jeremy Lamb missing and Butler winning for every little Hickory, television numbers wouldn't have been 18 percent down because of 18.8 percent shooting.
"From a purist's standpoint you want to teach defense," Calhoun said. "Take a clip of both teams. You'd see some terrific defense. If you like it wide open, want a 49-42 football game, this wasn't your game. But Butler gave it everything they had. [Matt] Howard gave everything he had. Both teams were matching that.
Lamb, all arms and legs, did a splendid job defending Shelvin Mack. Calhoun used a bunch of players, big and not-so-big to dog Howard, who missed 12 of 13 shots. Andrew Smith butchered layups. The combined first half score was the lowest since 1946. UConn's winning total the lowest since 1949. Butler's 18.8 percent was the lowest ever, breaking a 70-year-old mark.
"To me that's beauty," Calhoun said. "That's what this game should be about. Yeah, you'd like a few more baskets. But it was two teams that weren't going to give into each other and finally our superiority took over. Our quickness and length got to them. But, damn, I loved it in the sense of the fight."
Maybe in the wonderment of Kemba folks forgot defense long has been UConn basketball calling card. Defense is will and no one imposes it better than Calhoun. When it mattered most Saturday night, Kentucky scored only once in its last 10 possessions.
Maybe Louisville Rick Pitino forgot about it, too, when he picked Butler to win by 7-8 points. He insisted UConn was a tired team. Calhoun beat Calipari. He showed Pitino. He beat those who believed NCAA violations would bury his program. If revenge is a dish best served cold, Calhoun's head is probably in the refrigerator of his Pomfret home right now.
"I have no bitterness toward anybody," Calhoun insisted.
He does have plenty of fight. That's why it came as no surprise when he told ESPN Chicago on Tuesday, "I fully plan on coaching basketball next year." Calhoun grew a little less emphatic, but that's the message expected officially in the coming weeks. For me, it has been fairly ridiculous that some in the media are pushing him to walk away. If Calhoun wants to retire, play golf, hang with the grandkids, it is his business. But the guy looks and acts younger now than he did two years ago. This team that brought joy to the state put the basketball joy back into a 68-year-old man, too.
"I needed this team," Calhoun said.
I've always pictured Calhoun, as Tom Moore and other assistants used to joke, being carried out kicking and screaming like Jimmy Cagney in "Angels with Dirty Faces." Or maybe with three national titles elevating his status, he could be carried out of Gampel Pavilion like a Spartan on his shield. My guess is he'll coach to the gauge hits E, until he's spent, when the bell clangs to end the 15th round
To focus on the lack of aesthetics of one game is to miss the compelling 28-day run to glory. To focus on the rock fight is miss the mountain the Huskies moved. Eleven times they faced elimination. Eleven times they fought on until ultimately there were no more fights left.
A 53-41 rock fight to win the national title? To Calhoun, it's a Picasso.
Besides, if everybody wanted more points, they should have let Nate Miles play.
Sure, it was a rock fight. Yet to focus on the rock is to miss the fact that the UConn Huskies moved a mountain over 28 glorious days.


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The Finnish based practice ARK-house Architects recently realised the new building for the Seafarer' Centre close to the main entrance to the Helsinki's Vuosaari harbour. With its organic shape and the use of mailny natural materials it forms a strong contrast to the crushing hectare-sized steel warehouses, and the artificial landscape of tarmac fields and container seas which dominates the area. As the only public building in the area, its role is to serve as a place of respite; a small multipurpose building for the seamen that arrive at the harbour form afar.
"As a counter-point, a soft organic form language was chosen for the building, as well as a wood construction. The architecture of the building could be described as contextual in the wide sense of the word: the preserved hillock, with its trees and rocks, is an essential part of the architecture of the building. The objective in the design of the building has been to create a unique identity, because in the best case scenario the distant traveller can take home a positive memory of something tantalizingly strange yet hospitable. The completely wooden structure and its compact shape are a homage to the building tradition based on the purposefulness of wooden ships and the aesthetics that spring form it, as well as a comment on the ecological challenges of the present. The premises offer both physical and spiritual nourishment: the spiritual word and composure, coffee, a laundry and computers. Particularly important are the cosy atmosphere and the simultaneous experience of familiarity and newness. The commissioners behind the project are the Finnish Seamen's Mission and the Finnish Seamen's Service, both of which have long traditions and an international history of supporting seafarers. The building has been consecrated as a church. The denominational aspect is brought out in a sensitive way, respectful of the religion and cultural background of each visitor."


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Emily Badger is a former staff writer at CityLab. Her work has previously appeared in Pacific Standard, GOOD, The Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Times. She lives in the Washington, D.C. area.
"It'll just take a few minutes!" I plead with the young woman in a Human Rights Campaign T-shirt who had been flagging down tourists in Washington's Dupont Circle. This is supposed to be her line. And it isn't working.
"I'm kind of working right now," she says, trying to disengage eye contact.
And so, empty-handed, I walk away. As it turns out, the college kids on summer break who moonlight prodding you for contributions to support the gay rights cause are not allowed to talk to the media. Nor are the Planned Parenthood canvassers. Or the ACLU kids. If this is one of the hardest jobs in the city – begging strangers to give to charity, eight hours a day, rain or shine, with an assumed astronomical rate of rejection – perhaps the only lowlier job on a 100-degree day is the journalist who gets rejected by them.
The pamphlet-wielding sidewalk solicitor is summer's least popular stock character. Come June and July in cities across the country, these well-meaning 20-somethings are everywhere, particularly everywhere you want to be – emerging out of a subway station, walking through your favorite park, heading into the downtown corridor with all the best lunch spots. No one likes to round a corner smack into these cheery faces. Even Jane Jacobs, who famously celebrated the city's "intricate sidewalk ballet" – with its morning commuters, shopkeepers, idling Longshoremen, primping teenagers, business lunchers, motor-scooter riders, baby carriages, profane drunkards and late-night partiers – left out the Greenpeace kid.
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We know how we feel about sidewalk solicitors. But what have they learned about us? Does the city seem like a more or a less generous place when you encounter several hundred pedestrians each day, and only one of them proffers a credit card number to send an African kid to school?
About half the canvassers we approached turned us down (and we weren't even asking for money!). The other half were great sports about it. After all, you cannot do this job if you have a problem chatting up complete strangers.
So what does a good day look like when this is your job? Signing three donors? More?
"Oh, that's a normal day for some people that are really good," says Stephané Ngekoua, a 20-year-old canvassing for Children International.
"A good day for me would be three or four," laments his partner, 22-year-old Matthew Bowes (he's the guy on the left in the above picture; Ngekoua is on the right). And then there are plenty of days when they stand out here for eight full hours and get no one at all.
"You definitely have days where you think you're at the top of your game, but nobody signs up," Ngekoua says. "You just get 'no, no, no, no, ah, get out of here, no, no, no, no. If you take it personally, you will not be able to survive out here. It is the mean streets of D.C."
Ngekoua and Bowes are expected to average 1.5 donors per day, or seven by the end of a five-day week (they'll come back out on Saturday if they still don't have that many). And that means in an eight-hour day, they may spend five or 10 minutes locking down a donor, and the other seven-plus hours fielding rejection and indifference. This is the startling math behind street canvassing. A lot of these people are paid fundraisers working for third-party for-profit organizations that specialize in hiring and training canvassers on behalf of charities (Ngekoua and Bowes technically work for a company called Dialogue Direct). But even as trained fundraisers and not volunteers, their tactics are expected to work on what may amount to less than 1 percent of us.
So that has to be super depressing, right?
"I know somebody is going to say 'yes' at some point," says 26-year-old Signe Rockhold, another Children International canvasser. "People can say no, they can get mad, they can do whatever they want. But I know that somewhere within that crowd of people, somebody wants to do it, somebody cares. They're human beings. Not everyone doesn't care. That's how you keep going."
This sounds like a good alternate slogan for the city of Washington: Not everyone doesn't care!
Ngekoua and Bowes at least have a sense of humor about the lengths to which they know you'll go to avoid talking to them. They see you cross the street. In fact, they even notice when you disappear and reappear two blocks down the road. You are also not being slick when you pretend to have an urgent call on your iPhone.
"Ah, the phone trick," Bowes laughs. He is particularly amused when people act like they can't hear him. "Then when you say, 'OK, have a great day!' they'll answer back, like they weren't even listening to anything."
Sidewalk solicitors are taught to assume that anyone might be a donor, and so trying your darndest to look like you're broke won't get you anywhere, either.
"There is no 'oh all donors wear brown shoes' or anything like that. People will surprise you," says 28-year-old Laura Kennedy, who works year-round for a company called the Fundraising Initiatives (with whom she was canvassing for ChildFund). Sometimes the guy who looks the least likely to donate is the first one to sign up, she says. "And then you'll look at somebody else and be like, 'oh, that's a Louis Vuitton bag, they must have money to donate.' And that person will walk away from you."
You also cannot throw an objection at Kennedy she has not heard before. So you want to spend more time researching the charity? She's happy to keep discussing it with you. So you want to talk it over with your significant other?
"I'll say, 'well you're obviously a very generous person, I'm sure your husband is a generous person, too,'" she says. "'Do you really think your husband is going to be upset that you saved a child's life today?'"
This is a pretty impressive rhetorical skill, although it also speaks to why the rest of us cringe whenever we see these folks coming. Of course you care about saving children (or maybe you don't; Ngekoua and Benson have actually been heckled by passersby insisting they hate little ones). But what would happen if you were to save the children at 17th and Connecticut, and then the whales at 18th and Connecticut, and then the reproductive rights of women at 19th and Connecticut – only to encounter all of these people on slightly different corners the next day?
Charity canvassing is such a painful rite of summer because we grow inevitably fatigued by all these fundraisers even as the math behind urban generosity requires that they oversaturate the city. At the intersection of those forces, it's practically impossible to say you care about anything without putting your money where your mouth is.
Then again, the system must work for somebody or it wouldn't be such a permanent fixture of the city in summertime.
"A month ago, I stopped somebody here who was actually sponsored through our program," says Ben Sellers, 28, who was also canvassing for ChildFund. "It actually did a great thing for him in Togo. He told me how we did a lot for his community. He was one of the products of it. And it kind of hit me in a different type of light. He's a doctor here now."
So did the doctor donate?
"He actually sponsored three children through our program anyway."
I did not want to suggest to him that this would be an excellent cover story for getting out of giving to the ChildFund.
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To help get essential workers around, cities are revising traffic patterns, suspending public transit fares, and making more room for bikes and pedestrians.
The short-term rental market is reeling from the coronavirus-driven tourism collapse. Can the industry's dominant player stage a comeback after lockdowns lift?
As coronavirus transforms our private and public spaces, how would you map what your neighborhood and community look like now?
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And so it begins. On Friday, Tesla Motors finally debuted the four-years-in-the-waiting Model S sedan, and it did it in typical company fashion with a big gala launch at the factory in Fremont, Calif. More important than all the speeches, which included one from Gov. Jerry Brown (who wondered if the enthusiasm could be channeled into a political campaign), was that actual customers got actual keys to actual cars.
From now on, Tesla doesn't control the narrative about the Model S — the cars are going to get judged in the marketplace. Here's the introduction on video:
So far, it has been mostly journalists providing feedback. And, without exception, they're ecstatic: Katie Fehrenbacher of GigaOm: "The low center of gravity, smooth ride, and lack of vibration were pretty amazing." Wayne Cunningham of CNET: The Model S "felt like a freight train." Frank Markus of Motor Trend: "My eyes are wide and my jaw has dropped." Chris Woodyard of USA Today: "Tesla's Model S luxury sedan is spectacular….The car is a flat-out joy to drive." Me: "Give me the keys to one of the damn things!" Here's video of Fehrenbacher's ride:
So far, the emphasis is on the car's low center of gravity (adjustable through the air suspension), its mind-boggling acceleration (4.4 seconds in the performance edition; 5.6 in the base car), and the fact it can do all of this with all the excess noise of a Quaker church service. I haven't heard much about the 17-inch touch screen yet, but maybe that's because the early adopters are getting enough entertainment from just piloting the Model S.
Unfortunately, unlike lucky Model S owner Bill Lee (at right), I've yet to drive one, though I hope to remedy that sad situation later this week. I'm assuming I'm not going to hate it, but the real news right now is that the car is on the road. As the California governor put it, the goal now is to get "thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, then millions" of electric cars in customers' hands. That's the way the narrative changes from "electric cars are a disappointment" to "wow, EVs rock!"
According to Elon Musk at the ceremony, "What the Model S is really all about is breaking a spell. The world is under the illusion that electric cars can't be as good as gasoline cars, that you have to accept a product that is worse. We're saying fundamentally that an electric car can be the best car in the world — that's what makes the Model S really important."
The ceremony's MC was marketing chief George Blankenship, who I met at the opening of Tesla's latest store in Westchester. Here's Blankenship from that visit:
Franz von Holzhausen, who designed the Model S, said his initial brief from Musk was a car that could carry seven, with the best aerodynamic efficiency, the lowest center of gravity, the best zero to 60 time, best functionality and, not coincidentally, the best-looking car in the world. "Not only did we hit every one of the items on the list, but the car actually got better — it's also the safest car in the world, more functional than some crossovers, and it just might be the most beautiful sedan in the marketplace." That last item was a big applause line. If there's one thing Tesla isn't, it's humble.
A little humility might be useful now. I was surprised to see Tesla's stock price down a bit on Monday, the first full day of trading after the roll-out. But at $33.47 a share, it's doing darn well — people buying at the IPO price of $17 would neatly double their money.
Still, Tesla, which has gone through $759 million and taken $465 million from the Department of Energy (not surprisingly, in the audience at Fremont), has yet to make a dime. The company's first product, the $109,000 Roadster, was something of a loss leader. Only 2,150 were sold. Obviously, the Model S, which could be seen as twice the car at half the money, will sell a lot more.
Tesla is projecting 5,000 sales for the remainder of 2012, and 20,000 in 2013. I have no doubt the company can make the first number, but the second will depend on the car being a significant hit in the marketplace. Good word of mouth will mean more than any hype generated from the Palo Alto headquarters. As the Washington Post points out, Nissan has sold 30,000 Leafs since the car was introduced at the end of 2010, and the Leaf is half the price of the Model S.
A word about pricing: Tesla, like many other electric automakers, often quotes a bottom line inclusive of the $7,500 federal income tax credit all plug-ins get. Since the first 1,000 Model S cars will all be Signature models (with the 85-kilowatt-hour, 300-mile battery), prices at the 14 U.S. stores will actually start at $95,400 before the rebate. Some 10,000 people have put down deposits, and some of them will be buying base cars at $57,400 before the rebate. But, of course, you do get the rebate.
Sometime around now, workers with brooms are sweeping up the tinsel from Friday's celebration. The factory will be getting back to the serious business of churning out the Model S. And then we'll see what happens.


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Elections were an "I love Colorado" moment
By Jessica Peck
Battleground Colorado
My "I love Colorado moment" No. 27,937,293: Yes, this crazy square state — equal parts Tea Partyer and Stoned Secessionist — voted in a united and articulate voice of reason Tuesday. While I may not agree with the chosen path in its entirety, I think I get the underlying thesis.
Notably, instead of backing a massive tax increase (Amendment 66) that would have funded early retirement for an endless sea of education bureaucrats, voters chose a different approach. In ballot after ballot, they said, "Let's tax the hell out of pot and devote the revenue strictly to two things. First, let's create a regulatory framework that actually pays for itself this time. And, second, let's fund stuff that actually helps kids, like putting a roof over their classrooms, for instance."
It's all pretty daring, in my opinion. "Do you mean," the CEA must be thinking, "that the last several rounds of taxpayer-funded tax increases should have been enough? We need MORE."
Regarding pot: As much as we must anticipate at least a minimally measurable — and, more likely, a somewhat sizable surge in black market pot sales — I'd rather see either scenario over the days of 2012, where our tax dollars were flushed down the toilet (otherwise known as clandestine coffers of prohibition enforcement).
Go, Colorado! By freeing the weed, we are funding our schools. At least that's the goal, right?
Time will tell how this all plays out.
Jessica K. Peck is a Denver-based attorney (www.JPDenver.com) and serves as the executive director of Colorado's Open Government Institute. She is a member of The Denver Post's Battleground Colorado panel.


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That chorus rang throughout Citizens Bank Park in Sunday's first game as Ryan Howard put on another historic home run show.
The big first baseman homered in each of his first three at-bats, drew standing ovations, curtain calls and the "MVP" chant. Historic? The first one to deep center was Howard's 50th, a number ever reached before by a Phillies player.
For you clock watchers, they came at 2:00 p.m., 2:26 p.m. (into Braves bullpen) and 3:05 p.m. (left field seats). He batted again at 3:50 p.m. to a standing ovation and singled to center.
The joy and emotional high for the crowd took a sharp decline when, for the second straight day, the Braves, Matt Diaz this time, hit a home run. His three-run blast put Atlanta on top, 6-5, in the top of the ninth.
Resilient is a definite characteristic of this Phillies bunch and they came back to win in their last at-bat. Shane Victorino took the heroes role with his game-winning single.
Atlanta won the nightcap in 11 innings, pinning a loss on Geoff Geary who was the winner in the first game.
Now that Ernesto and the Braves have left town, the race continues against the Astros, a ballclub that has won 12 in a row against the Phillies. Houston has been in the post-season each of the last two seasons, mainly because of their dominance over the Phillies.
Tomorrow is Labor Day, the last holiday of the summer. The 3:05 p.m. pitching match-up has 44-year-old Roger Clements facing 22-year-old Cole Hamels. Both are No. 1 picks in the annual draft, Clemens the 19th overall selection in 1983, Hamels, the 17th overall selection in 2002.
Hamels was barely five months old when Clemens won his first big league game in 1984.
Clemens carries a 4-0 August record and a 1.93 ERA on the road this season.
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FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) – A pregnant Army soldier struggled violently against handcuffs on her wrists and suffered blows to the head before she died from a lack of oxygen, likely caused by someone keeping her in a chokehold, a Georgia medical examiner said Tuesday.
Sgt. Deirdre Aguigui was found dead on July 17, 2011, at her apartment on Fort Stewart. The military charged her husband, Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, with murder in April and conducted a two-day hearing to determine if there's enough evidence to try him in court-martial.
A military autopsy on the 24-year-old woman was unable to determine a cause of death. But investigators got a second opinion from Dr. James Downs, a Savannah-based medical examiner for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation who agreed to look at the case earlier this year.
Using records and photos from the previous autopsy, Downs noted Deirdre Aguigui had a large, deep bruise above her left ear and more bruising on the inside of her lips and left cheek. Both wrists had raw scrapes and bruises that appeared to match a pair of handcuffs found on the couple's bed.
Downs said he concluded the woman was choked or suffocated by essentially ruling out other possible causes of death. Her heart appeared healthy, she showed no signs of allergic reaction and lab tests found no traces of poisons in her blood.
"If you put everything together, I think you would reasonably end up where I am, which is asphyxiation," said Downs, adding he could understand why military doctors hesitated to reach a similar conclusion. "I certainly can see somebody being not willing to make that call and leave it undetermined."
When Isaac Aguigui's Article 32 hearing, similar to a civilian grand jury, opened Monday, Army investigators testified the young soldier received more than $500,000 in life insurance and benefit payments after his wife died. Witnesses testified the couple had been fighting and considering divorce because of the husband's infidelity and drug use. An old girlfriend confirmed Isaac Aguigui sent her a text message hours before his wife died that said: "We'll have plenty of money. All I need is your body whenever I want it."
Civilian prosecutors in neighboring Long County say Aguigui used some of the money to buy guns and bomb components for an anti-government militia group he formed by recruiting other disgruntled soldiers. He and two other soldiers face the death penalty on civilian murder charges in a double slaying a few months after Aguigui's wife died.
Aguigui's defense attorneys Tuesday suggested the wounds on his wife's wrists and other injuries came from them having rough but consensual sex. Chief Warrant Officer Justin Kapinus, an Army criminal investigator, testified Monday that police found the handcuffs on Aguigui's bed along with an array of sex toys and leg restraints. He said Aguigui told investigators his wife liked being restrained with handcuffs and they had sex a few hours before he found her dead on a couch. Kapinus said he suspects the bedroom scene was staged because it looked "too excessive."
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"If someone was into bondage and rough sex, could that account for the bruises?" Capt. William Cook, one of Aguigui's lawyers, asked Downs.
The medical examiner said it was possible. But he said the wrist wounds seemed severe for someone willingly wearing handcuffs.
"In your report you said it's consistent with somebody violently struggling against the constraints?" asked Maj. Jaclyn Grieser, an Army prosecutor.
"That's correct," Downs replied.
The hearing's presiding officer, Maj. John McLaughlin, will report to Fort Stewart commanders whether there's enough evidence to try Aguigui in a court-martial.
Aguigui was jailed months after his wife's death for a different crime. On Dec. 5, 2011, fishermen found the bodies of former Army Pvt. Michael Roark and his 17-year-old girlfriend, Tiffany York, in the woods of rural Long County near Fort Stewart. Both had been shot in the head just two days after Roark was discharged from the Army.
Investigators arrested Aguigui and three other soldiers — Sgt. Anthony Peden, Pvt. Christopher Salmon and Pfc. Michael Burnett — and charged them with the deaths about a week after the bodies were found.
Burnett struck a plea deal with civilian prosecutors and testified last summer that Aguigui led an anti-government militia group he'd formed inside the military called F.E.A.R. — short for Forever Enduring Always Ready. Civilian prosecutors say the group talked of bombing a park fountain in nearby Savannah, poisoning apple crops in Washington state and even killing the U.S. president.
Burnett said Roark and York were killed because Roark had just left the Army and the couple knew too much about the group.
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Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: Flu Fighters
Our last challenge for Weekend Cook and Tell was for all of you to share your favorite remedies and flu preventing foods. We called this Flu Fighters. We appreciated hearing how you personally deal with sickness when it hits in addition to preventing it. Here are our favorite dishes and recommendations to get you back to your best self.
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To celebrate the launch of Gilder Lehrman's new website, we at History Now thought it appropriate to provide readers with a special, expanded issue. We chose for our topic one of the central themes in our national history: the causes and consequences of war. We asked eleven leading historians to explore the ways in which our society has been shaped and reshaped by battlefield conflicts and by the political, technological, and social changes that these conflicts bring in their wake. Thus, in this special issue of History Now, our essays consider conflicts ranging from the imperial rivalries between the French and the English in America, the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the battle of the Alamo, Antietam, war in the Philippines, World Wars I and II, the Korean conflict, Vietnam, and our modern-day Operation Desert Storm. Whether they focus on military strategies, technological innovations, the psychological impact of defeat, the human costs, or the political consequences of these wars, our scholars provide new insights and new information that we hope you, as teachers, can use in your classrooms.
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Some have taken cold comfort in the hope that late term abortion/infanticide is an aberration. But that isn't necessarily so, either in practice, or more particularly, in advocacy. Indeed, the idea that it is ethical to kill newborns—whether after a botched abortion or after normal birth—has been gaining traction for many years.
Nor is the Gosnell trial the first case of alleged killings of babies born alive after an attempted abortion. In 2003, a woman named Sycloria Williams discovered she was pregnant at about 23 weeks. She decided to abort and the abortionist, Pierre Jean-Jacques Renelique, gave her drugs to induce premature labor.
When her contractions began, she went to the abortion clinic, but Renelique wasn't there to kill the fetus. Before he could arrive, her baby girl was born alive. A clinic co-owner named Belkis Gonzalez, entered the room. cut the baby's umbilical cord, and placed the live baby, placenta and afterbirth in a medical waste bag. Staff at the clinic did not call 911 or seek medical assistance for Williams or the baby, the subsequent lawsuit [by Williams] said. Police were notified of the incident by an anonymous caller, and her corpse was later discovered in a clinic closet.
Because Renelique wasn't present, he only lost his medical license in Florida. Because the autopsy couldn't state categorically that the baby died because of negligence, Gonzales eventually pled guilty to practicing medicine without a license, receiving five years-probation.
The murdered, Dr. George Tiller, became infamous for performing very late-term abortions in Kansas. Under Kansas law, before abortions can be performed post viability, the abortionist must obtain a second medical opinion as to the reasons for the abortion and mental health status of the mother. Tiller's friend, Dr Ann Kristin Neuhause, often provided the required second opinion—or perhaps better stated, the rubber stamps. In 2012 she lost her license to practice medicine "for performing inadequate mental health evaluations on 11 patients, ages 10 to 18, who had late-term abortions at Tiller's clinic from July to November 2003."
Many among the pro-choice community support a right to late term abortion, and indeed, some even refuse to say that babies born alive during an abortion should be treated medically like any other infant. Most recently, a lobbyist for the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates named Alisa Laport Snow made headlines when she testified before a committee considering state legislation to require treatment of babies that survive abortion. Asked by Representative Jim Boyd, "If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion, what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child that is struggling for life?" she replied,"We believe that any decision that's made should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician."
Planned Parenthood later "clarified" its position, stating that such children should be treated. But one need not be a cynic to question the organization's sincerity.
Meanwhile, a documentary about four late term abortionists, entitled "After Tiller," was screened "to cheers" at the Sundance Film Festival. According to the Hollywood Reporter, "The audience gave a standing ovation for the filmmakers as well as the four featured doctors who were on hand to take questions from the audience after the film"
More famously, the President of the United States once stated he supports abortion rights through the ninth month. Even more extremely, when he was an Illinois State Senator, he voted against a born alive protection bill on the basis that it might "burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion."
Many see these cases and advocacies as shocking. I view them as merely the first forays of what may one day become legalized infanticide. Indeed, advocacy for killing newborns has achieved outright respectability. Peter Singer, as just one example, has repeatedly stated that infanticide is no different morally from late term abortions. Because of such advocacy—not in spite of it—he was appointed to the world's most prestigious endowed chairs in bioethics at the misnamed Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
This raises a cogent question: How is what happened in Philadelphia morally different from what Peter Singer's "ethical" supposedly "human values" would allow? At a 2010 Princeton conference Singer explicitly said, "The position that allows [late term] abortion also allows infanticide under some circumstances If we accept abortion, we do need to rethink some of those more fundamental attitudes about human life."
So, to answer my own question, other than technical issues of clinical procedures and sanitary methods, and absent the jars of trophy body parts found at the Gosnell clinic, I can't think of a single reason why Singer's values would not permit a "professionally" operated abortion/infanticide abattoir.
So would the ethics of the authors of "After Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live," published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. As I discussed last year here at tothesource, two bioethicists supported infanticide on the basis that aborting a fetus and killing a born baby are no different morally, stating, "The position that allows abortion also allows infanticide under some circumstances. . . . If we accept abortion, we do need to rethink some of those more fundamental attitudes about human life."
Blatant infanticide isn't just talk in the Netherlands. Rather, it is a technically illegal but widely accepted extension of the country's legalized euthanasia policy. Not only are Dutch doctors who kill babies rarely prosecuted, and never meaningfully punished, but in 2005 the New England Journal of Medicine—perhaps the world's most prominent medical journal—respectfully published "The Groningent Protocol," in its august pages.
What is the Groningen Protocol, you ask? A bureaucratic checklist published by a Dutch pediatrician by which doctors at the Groningen Medical Center determine which terminally ill or disabled babies should be euthanized.
So this is where we are: Late term terminations are part of abortion practice in the United States. Many prominent voices believe that legal abortion amounts to a right to a dead fetus—no matter how late in the pregnancy. Late term abortions, in turn, sometimes result in the killing or lethal neglect of born babies, e.g., infanticide. And infanticide is actively promoted as ethical among some of the most prominent bioethicists and in medical journals in the world, and practiced in the Netherlands without meaningful consequence.
It is tempting to dwell on these shocking events and thereby miss the bigger picture. Late term abortion and infanticide are merely the most provocative front in an all-out war being waged in medical clinics and Ivory Tower publications against Judeo/Christian morality based in human exceptionalism and adherence to the principle of universal human rights. We ignore that bigger picture at our substantial moral peril.
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The ladies of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills stick together. This week it was reported that Taylor Armstrong is divorcing husband Russell Armstrong amidst allegations of abuse, and her friend and co-star Kyle Richards is stepping in to make sure Taylor is getting through this tough time.
About Taylor's impending divorce, Kyle tells People,"She's going to pull through. She's a beautiful girl, she's a smart girl; she'll get through it." Kyle has been trying to take her cast mate's mind off of the currents situation with fun distractions like a recent beach day for the pals and their daughters. Commenting on Taylor and Russell's five-year-old daughter Kennedy, Kyle continues,"Kennedy's doing well. She's doing great. She's kind of oblivious to what's going on."
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And just because it's too cute/strange not to mention, Kyle's precious toddler Portia, with hottie husband Mauricio Umansky, is the newest member of the Twitterverse. You can follow Kyle's youngest daughter as she spouts sweet sentiments such as "Dear God, I love u in the morning like a diamond ring." A collective "awww" please!