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Guilty Until Proven Guilty: Threatening the Presumption of Innocence
The stunning acquittal of Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani on all but one of 284 counts was the first time a jury had not been cowed by the notion that to be accused of terrorism is tantamount to being guilty.
Karen J. Greenberg, Contributor
Director, Center on National Security at Fordham Law School
Nov 18, 2010, 06:55 PM EST | Updated Dec 6, 2017
Crossposted with TomDispatch.com.
Liberty versus security, that initial heated debate over the war on terror, is again rearing its head with much bravado, nowhere more so than in our nation's courtrooms where American justice continues to pay the price.
Over the course of the past nine years, in the name of counterterrorism, there has been a notable and unappreciated development inside the criminal justice system that is cause for alarm: a growing, if often veiled, intolerance for basic guarantees of justice in cases where "national security" is invoked. This trend leaves the nation's justice system at risk.
Last weekend, as the Washington Post reported, Obama administration officials inadvertently called attention to this development in a non-decision over whether, where, and how to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to trial. Usually referred to only by his initials, KSM was the operational mastermind behind the attacks of September 11, 2001. Captured in Pakistan in 2003, and transferred to the American prison at Guantanamo Bay in 2006, he is the highest ranking al Qaeda member taken into U.S. custody since 9/11.
At issue is whether the Obama administration will try this close associate of Osama bin Laden via a military commission at Guantanamo or a jury of civilians in federal court in lower Manhattan or elsewhere. In a recent news conference, Attorney General Eric Holder mentioned that the decision was close. The response from New York's politicians -- Democratic Senator Charles Schumer, Republican Representative Peter King, and even Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo -- was prompt. There would, they insisted, be no 9/11 trial in New York City. At week's end, according to the Post, unidentified administration officials were backpedaling fast, saying that KSM would likely "remain in military detention without trial for the foreseeable future."
Since the moment a year ago when Holder first announced the administration's decision to try KSM in Manhattan (and four other Guantanamo detainees in federal courts), the fierce and growing opposition to such trials has focused mainly on issues of cost and security. It was claimed, in particular, that a trial of KSM would demand so much security that it would impede business in Manhattan, while putting a cost burden on New York City that could not be borne without federal aid. Behind such seemingly practical issues, though, lies a deeper current of opposition based on the fear of potential acquittal, the single unacceptable outcome for a trial in which terrorism is the charge.
This Wednesday's stunning acquittal of Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani on all but one of 284 counts by a jury in a federal courtroom in Manhattan was the first sign in years that jurors felt confident enough to utter the word "acquittal" inside an American courtroom in a terror trial. (He may still get a life sentence for the single charge on which he was found guilty.) It was also the first time a jury had not been cowed by the notion that to be accused of terrorism is tantamount to being guilty. This verdict probably ensures that the Obama administration will never bring KSM before a jury of American civilians.
I've been following terrorism cases, both in civilian courts and at Guantanamo, for years and it would be easy enough for me to go off on a jag about the need to prove that civilian courts can try terrorists (without fear of a terrorist attack). Or I could write about how indefinite detention, a concept that lies outside the accepted norms of American civilian and military law, could take us down a path leading to the eradication of civil liberties on a far wider scale.
I could recite -- yet again -- all the ways in which transparency should be a key to such trials, and how healing it is for victims to be able to observe a trial in process. I could reassure you about how KSM's guilt is remarkably well-documented and how he might get what so many seem to want for terrorists, and what, as he's made completely clear, KSM wants for himself: execution.
All of that is important. But with the Ghailani verdict and the administration's recent non-decision over what to do with KSM as our guide, we should really be looking at something even more basic to our system: the presumption of innocence. It's clear that the Obama administration is now shying away from its earlier inclination to bring key terror suspects into civilian courts out of fear that the political backlash from a decision to try KSM in Manhattan will prove disastrous, and that the ongoing national hysteria over national security, easy to trigger and hard to calm, will be ratcheted up by the thought of acquittal, the 800-pound gorilla in the room when it comes to terrorism trials.
A Conviction Rate Approaching 100%
Some of us who study terrorism trials see in this a particular dilemma for American justice. The Department of Justice and those who have supported civilian trials for terrorism suspects repeatedly try to bolster their case by playing up the spotless conviction record of federal courts, with profligate use of the word "success." In this context, success never refers to the system's theoretical skill when it comes to weeding out wrongly charged individuals -- or those who used to be called "the innocent" -- only to convictions.
The political debate over closing Guantanamo has put special emphasis on this definition of success. After all, the military courts at that prison, which in all these years have barely gotten off the ground, have had few convictions and are therefore less successful, many argue, than the federal ones. There, on terrorism cases, a near-90 percent conviction rate is the norm, if you include the penny-ante stuff, and on high profile cases nearly 100%. In an effort to bring the Guantanamo trials to the United States, liberals and progressives, who might otherwise have questioned the use of "success" as a synonym for "conviction," have signed on definitionally speaking.
Not surprisingly, then, when in November 2009 Attorney General Holder went before the Senate Judiciary Committee to defend his decision to try KSM in New York, he insisted that "failure is not an option. These are cases that have to be won. I don't expect that we will have a contrary result." KSM's guaranteed fate, he implied, would be death. As he emphasized when he announced his decision for the Manhattan trial, "I fully expect to direct prosecutors to seek the death penalty against each of the alleged 9/11 conspirators."
Holder's confidence a year ago was well-based in fact. Not only would KSM be found guilty in a federal trial, but those courts have a conviction rate in such cases that would be the envy of prosecutors anywhere. Nearly everyone accused of terrorism since 9/11 has, in fact, been convicted, even the weak cases, even when cases go to trial rather than ending in plea bargains.
A year later, Holder's hand should have been strengthened, since the record remains remarkably unblemished when it comes to convictions. Since he announced his decision on KSM, the New York City federal courts have successfully tried a number of high-profile terrorism cases. They have gotten convictions in the jury trials of Aafia Siddiqui (an American-educated Pakistani scientist found guilty of intending to kill her American interrogators in Afghanistan and sentenced to 86 years in prison), the JFK airport plotters, and the Bronx synagogue plotters, all of whom are awaiting their sentencing hearings.
This is the context in which untold numbers of Americans are worrying that KSM or others will be set free in federal court. Foreigners and U.S. citizens alike have been convicted in every terror case of any possible significance brought into a civilian court. With or without juries, via full trials or plea bargains, until the Ghailani case (as close to an acquittal as we are likely to see), the outcome has always been the same: guilty.
The Presumption of Guilt
Human rights groups, civil libertarians, and those of us who opposed the Bush Justice Department's disdain for the role of the federal courts in trying individuals once labeled "enemy combatants" have championed the push to bring the Guantanamo detainees to federal court. As it happened, most Americans did not. Many evidently assume that federal court equals a higher shot at acquittal (and greater odds of terrorist acts to free the prisoner). Despite conviction after conviction, a storm of political and media criticism has played up the strange idea that the most significant terrorist the U.S. has ever had in custody would somehow beat the rap against him. Although it is increasingly politically incorrect to insist on this point, in the American system of justice, a trial -- even in the context of terrorism -- should not, in fact, have a foreordained verdict. That verdict should not be known in advance, nor should it, in essence, need to be announced by the Attorney General before the trial begins. A jury should consider all the facts that the law allows to be presented to them in the context of the presumption of innocence; and those 12 jurors should come up with their own determination of guilt or innocence.
In the case of KSM, the courts would confront a figure whose role in terrorist attacks on U.S. targets is known and recognized around the world. And yet, even with this, trust in the system is so broken that fear of acquittal trumps all else -- despite the fact that, in case after case where, unlike 9/11, no attack came about, even where an FBI informant seemed to be doing much of the planning, convictions have still been the rule.
Had there been a full-scale acquittal over the past nine years, especially in one of the terror cases that look suspiciously like cases of entrapment, the system would be stronger for it. A candidate for such a fate would certainly have been one or more of the minor defendants in the Bronx synagogue bomb plot case this past summer. There, an FBI sting operation led four men to place what they thought were bombs at a synagogue and a Jewish community center in Riverdale, New York, and to purchase an inoperable surface-to-air Stinger missile to fire at airplanes at Stewart Air Base in Newburgh, New York.
Despite allegations of FBI entrapment, an entrapment defense failed, even though the predisposition of the lead defendant in the case, James Cromitie, was towards anti-Semitism rather than jihadist violence -- a subject the FBI informant claimed to know about. However, even the most peripheral players in this hapless "plot," one of whom seemed at best only dimly aware of what was going on, were convicted. Here was yet another recent moment when a chance to distinguish between guilt and innocence in a terrorism case was thrown away.
Since September 12, 2001, Americans have been systematically cowed to a degree that is hard to grasp, and the justice system in this country has in no way been inoculated from this virus. If you need a measure of which way the currents of politics are running today, start with the political calculation that the Obama administration has had to make when it comes to the trial of KSM, which has only grown that much more difficult in the wake of the Ghailani verdict.
So, too, for those of us who favor civilian trials. How do we really feel about having been put in a position where, to defend the merits of the system of justice, we feel compelled to equate certain conviction with the notion of success?
The deepest principle of American justice is being tested, right now in Washington, in lower Manhattan in the wake of the Ghailani verdict, and elsewhere. With terrorism trials, the more serious they get, the more the presumption of innocence seems to lie at the mercy of politics.
Karen Greenberg is the Executive Director at the Center on Law and Security at New York University Law School. She is author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days (Oxford University Press, 2009). Her daily commentary on the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani in Manhattan can be read by clicking here.
Copyright 2010 Karen Greenberg
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced July 14, 2015 to determine cut-off marks for admission of candidates into tertiary institutions.
The date is also the date it will hold its 2015 Policy meeting. This was disclosed by Mr Fabian Benjamin, the board's Public Relations Officer.
"The 2015 Policy Meeting which usually comes up with the cut-off point has been fixed for 14th July, 2015."This meeting defines the criteria for the year's admissions into higher institutions," it said.
The statement said that the cut-off points are arrived at after extensive deliberations with vice-chancellors of universities, provosts of colleges of education, rectors of polytechnics, monotechnics as well as innovative enterprise institutions and other stakeholders.
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The statement said that the CBT had assisted the board to fight against examination malpractice within the nation's examination system.
The statement also said that the 2015 examination was one of the most successfully conducted exercises by the board.


The first fine dining 24 hour restaurant in London is to open and will be aimed at bankers and those people who want high quality food in London at strange hours of the day.
The restaurant, The Duck & Waffle, is part of the Sushi Samba chain and will offer a wide ranging menu that changes throughout the day. Breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner and late night menus will all be catered for with food that varies across a broad European and British influence.
The idea is to build the restaurant to show off the skills of those who work their with chefs and cocktail makers on full display to reveal the tips and tricks needed to prepare their food and drinks.
The restaurants which aims the way people look at late night dining in London will open in August in the Heron Tower in Bishop's Gate London.


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How urber chic is this remix that Chasity of The Curvy's Girls Guide to Style created. This is super smart and a wonderful display of celebrity style on a realistic budget. I loved this look soo much that I have been inspired to recreate my own.
The folks at EatSleepDenim have given us another great showcase of how to wear denim: black and denim parings. I am utterly in love with the leather peplum top with the cuffed boyfriend jeans. The mix of black with denim creates a chic and polished look.
A pair and a spare continues to amaze with beautiful DIY projects. This sequin blazer looks so easy to do and is a great transitional piece from summer to fall. Another DIY project and I am soo up for the challenge. Are you?
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While Channing of channinginthecity is away, she has collaborated with blogging friends to create a series of fabulous guest posts. The latest contributor is Sereeda from eclechick.com. She offers up a super cute tutorial on how to create a cotton candy dot mani complete with tips on polish secrets and step-by-step pictures to assist us in creating this beauty.


Buyers remorse is a drag, especially when it comes to your religion. One day you're just minding your own business, enjoying a healthy bowl of communal gruel or mending the one burlap sack you've been given as clothing and all of the sudden it hits you: "Oh my god, I've pledged 1 billion years of servitude to the WRONG CULT!" Well, you're not alone, and there is no need to panic. Just remember those magic words "fake it till you make it." Knowing where to begin can be daunting. So, here is some advice on how to dress for the cult you want, not the cult you're in.
Survey the Field – There are so many great cults out there. But you should never start a cult-search with a grab bag approach. Be sure to weight your options and choose a path.
Find a cult that shares your values right down to your very bones. This is important because upon death they may need to grind your bones up and eat them.
Details are Important – With your dream cult now in play, it's time to go beyond just wearing the same clothes. Even the most basic initiate can find a matching robe. In today's highly competitive cult environment, if you want to stand out, you're going to need to go the extra mile. Identify special jewelry, footwear, bead shape, cryptic tattoos that could be pieces of a map if they were ripped off the skin of several people and then assembled like a big, bloody puzzle.
Wear What You Know – Keep shopping at places you're familiar with. You'll already be familiar with how things fit and sticking to the places you've shopped in the past can be a great way to keep your budget under control. Plus the Dollar Store rolls over cashiers so often you'll be harder to ID.
Stay the Course – You're going to get some resistance from friends and loved ones. They may have questions like, "Why are you wearing a Carhartt jumpsuit in July?" Just remember, you cannot trust any of them now that the truth has been revealed to you.
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With this advice in your arsenal you'll be in your dream cult in no time. Just remember not to get too flashy. Looking like you want to move up can get you moved down. Introduce changes to your ensemble slowly and suddenly, less the leader grow suspicious of your plans to flee and sentences you to the cry chamber for another fortnight.


This is a hard post to write. Ugly Betty has been one of the most delightful things on television. And America Ferrera is, well, just look.
But Betty did not have a good year. Oh sure, Betty Suarez had her share of "ups" this year, including a rich boyfriend and admission to the elite Young Editors Training Initiative for aspiring fashion magazine editors.
Ugly Betty, however, seemed to flounder in Season 3. And ABC's announcement this week that the show will move to Friday for Season 4 seems to be the network's way of shoving Betty on the subway back to Queens.
Tonight's two-hour season finale promises some surprises, including guest appearances by Rachel Dratch (as twins!) Rachel Maddow and Billie Jean King, and the return of Christopher Gorham's Henry.
But I'm not confident that even the best of finales can save Betty. As much as this pains me, I find myself agreeing with most of BlackBook's 7 Reasons Why Ugly Betty Spirals Toward Ugly Fate. Here are some highlights — or, more accurately, lowlights.
No, BlackBook isn't anti-teeth-straightening, but Betty's dental appliance isn't so cute and campy anymore. After three years at an upscale magazine, has no one told Betty about invisible braces? The bright braces have come to symbolize Betty's failure to break out of her assistant role despite her successes. Betty Suarez is not an idiot. Her integrity certainly would keep her from becoming a Mode clone, but updating her hair and wardrobe would not be an indication that her inner beauty is less dazzling. Fail.
Rebecca Romijn as Alexis Meade was a revelation — and an amazing breakthrough for network television (from ABC, no less). Alexis was the "most fully-realized transgender character to surface on primetime." And she was hot. Why send her to France? Fail.
Jensen's Christina McKinney is the most consistently funny character on Ugly Betty. She's also been Betty's main confidante at Mode. I know that Jensen stayed in L.A. when the show moved to New York. But producers should've made the commute work. Fail.
Betty is a gem, yes. Betty's inner beauty shines through her glasses and braces and garish clothes, yes. But the only realistic relationship Betty had (hi, Henry) turned into something out of an overwrought soap opera. Yes, I know Ugly Betty is based on an overwrought soap opera. No excuse. Fail.
I wish I could disagree. I wish the article (read the rest here) made me angry and sparked a brilliant defense of Ugly Betty along with seven compelling reasons why the show will return to its former glory. But instead, it just makes me sad. I don't want you to go, Betty. But I'm not sure I want you to stay, either.
What do you think? Can Ugly Betty bounce back? What needs to happen for Betty to be network TV's darling again?


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Mandela appeals on behalf of Lockerbie bomber
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Mon 10 Jun 2002 11.02 EDT
Former South African president Nelson Mandela today called for a fresh appeal in the case of the Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, and asked that the prisoner be transferred to serve out his sentence nearer his native Libya.
Mr Mandela met with al-Megrahi for more than an hour at Glasgow's Barlinnie prison, where he is serving a life sentence for murder. Megrahi was convicted last year of smuggling a bomb aboard Pan Am Flight 103, which exploded over Lockerbie on December 21 1988. The bombing killed 270 people.
Mr Mandela today called for Scottish authorities to consider Megrahi serving his term in a Muslim country closer to his family.
"Megrahi is all alone," Mr Mandela told a packed press conference in the prison's visitors' room. "He has nobody he can talk to. It is a psychological persecution that a man must stay for the length of his long sentence all alone."
Mr Mandela added: "It would be fair if he were transferred to a Muslim country - and there are Muslim countries which are trusted by the west. It will make it easier for his family to visit him if he is in a place like the kingdom of Morocco, Tunisia or Egypt."
Mr Mandela also hopes to meet the prime minister, Tony Blair, and the US president, George Bush, to discuss the case.
Mr Mandela, who spent more than 20 years as a prisoner of South Africa's apartheid regime, said Megrahi was being "harassed" by other inmates at Barlinnie.
"He says he is being treated well by the officials but when he takes exercise he has been harassed by a number of prisoners. He cannot identify them because they shout at him from their cells through the windows and sometimes it is difficult even for the officials to know from which quarter the shouting occurs," he said.
During the 30-minute press conference, Mr Mandela described in detail how a four-judge commission from the Organisation for African Unity had criticised the basis by which Megrahi came to be convicted.
"They have criticised it fiercely, and it will be a pity if no court reviews the case itself," said Mr Mandela. "From the point of view of fundamental principles of natural law, it would be fair if he is given a chance to appeal either to the privy council or the European court of human rights."
Mr Mandela played a crucial role in persuading Libya to hand over the two men suspected of the bombing to be tried in a Scottish court in the Netherlands. He has been in touch with the Libyan leader, Colonel Gaddafi, about Megrahi's case.
Today the Labour MP Tam Dalyell, the father of the House of Commons, welcomed confirmation of Mr Mandela's visit and reiterated his belief that Megrahi was a political prisoner who had been guilty only of sanctions busting.
He told BBC Radio Scotland: "I asked him [Megrahi] what he was doing in Malta. He told me in detail how he had been a sanctions buster - getting components for Libyan Arab Airlines because of the sanctions, going to Nigeria, Brazil, above all to Ethiopia, having contacts with Boeing, in order to get much needed parts for aircraft."
Mr Dalyell said he had evidence, never presented at the trial, that may prove Megrahi's innocence. He claimed Iran had made a payment of $11m (£7.5m) to a militant Palestinian group two days after the bombing.
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President Trump's second pardon was a much-anticipated one.
The White House announced Friday that the president pardoned Navy sailor Kristian Saucier, who was put in jail in 2016 for taking unauthorized photos aboard a U.S. submarine–an act President Trump called "nothing" in comparison to Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while Secretary of State, NBC News reports.
Saucier, a petty officer, was sentenced to 12 months in prison for using his personal cell phone to take photos of the vessel propulsion system in the USS Alexandria's engine room. The pictures were classified as "confidential," the lowest classification level.
In his defense, Saucier cited the classified emails found on Clinton's private email server. Trump adopted the argument to question the Democrat's fitness as a presidential candidate. At one point, he said that Saucier's offense was "nothing" compared to Clinton's, the Washington Examiner reported.
"They put him in jail. And you see what she does and she's allowed to run for president. Folks do you know what it tells you? The system is rigged, and I've been saying that for a long time.
Hillary Clinton (L) talks with aide Huma Abedin. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images).
In January, Trump again invoked Saucier in a tweet urging the Justice Department to further investigate Clinton and the FBI's handling of her case.
"I think it should be upsetting for all American people that we're held to a different standard than crooked politicians," Saucier said in reaction to the president tweet.
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File).
The family's cars were repossessed while he was in prison and he was still required to wear an ankle monitor until his pardon.
The former sailor said the felony conviction made it hard to find work. Saucier supports his wife and daughter by working as a garbage man, according to the Washington Examiner.


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Susan Pietsch Art
Telling a story…from a different perspective
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Landscape, Painting
Cable Beach, Broome, Australia
I was once accused of using someone else's image in a piece of work. It was the image above that I took while on holiday in Broome. The accusation was an easy mistake to make. Why? Because the image of camels at sunset on Cable Beach has been taken over and over – camels in silhouette, stunning sky and sea behind. It's like a story that is told over and over. Camera angle may be different but it's essentially the same old tired image. Do an image search and thousands of the same thing will pop up. So what to do when you're at a popular location? How to present or use the imagery in a way that breathes a new story into the place?
Cable Beach, Broome. Copyright Susan Pietsch
My approach was to start with this image. Firstly you will note it's sans camels. What that then highlights is the patterns and colours playing out on the sand. The fading sunlight also got me thinking about life, in all its rich colours which also eventually fade away. Life is temporal.
I then decided to place it within a circular shape as a reference to the Pearl industry of the area but also a biblical verse about a "pearl of great treasure". The verse raised questions about what is important about life – of interest to both secular and religious people. Thus the final work became
A Pearl of Great Price – Dusk. Acrylic on paper, 45x 45cm. Private Collection
The story behind the piece…
…what is the one thing in this world that I would give up everything for?
The time in life is late. The sun is setting. There is still light in the sky however, still time to ponder…
What really matters in your life? What are you earning all that money for?
This piece and its companion, Twilight, was generated from two sources. One being listening to Marjorie Jackson-Nelson saying she would give up everything – Olympic medals, material wealth – just to have her husband back. The other from the Gospel of Matthew in the Bible –
"..the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:
Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all he had and bought it."
(Matt 13:45-46 KJV)
Which brings us back to…
So when faced with a location that has had the same story told numerous times, look for the different perspective. What other story can you tell?
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Tackling the creative fear
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A true chronic pain patient protest has gained remarkable progress in the last month.
The "Don't' Punish Pain Rally" that was created by a Rhode Island woman will have events in 46 states on Tuesday September 18th. Her name is Claudia Merandi.
In case you are wondering, the states that have not scheduled rallies are North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico, Vermont.
"I would say, each state, has between 30 and 200 people protesting, depending on the venue. Some states have two to three venues," said Merandi.
Merandi believes that this effort, which started because she (as a chronic pain sufferer) thought the CDC guidelines were negatively impacting fellow patients, was worthy of protest.
Here's a link to the Don't Punish Pain Rally Facebook page.
"I guess the biggest complaint that we hear is there are still thousands that don't know about the protest because we're limited in how we can advertise due to being a volunteer- based organization," she said.
In case you are wondering what happens after Tuesday's rallies, Merandi believes it's only the beginning.
"Post September 18th, I will focus on Canada and Australia, get them organized, and then put most of my energies into legislation," said Merandi.
Click here to find a rally near you.
I'm confused. Is this about using opioids for chronic pain management?
The Don't Punish Pain Patient's movement is amazing. They have literally saved my life.
If I had not found them and the support of all there, I would not be here today. I owe these people my life and they gave me a voice when all of my Doctors had abandoned me, after decades in Palliative Care for my Incurable Chronic Pain that began 38 years ago when I was in a near fatal car accident that broke me apart head to toe. Without palliative care my life would have been spent in a bed 24/7. Now, I am back to square 1, Thanks to our Government. It is horrible in TENNESSEE.
The leaders here have/are causing the needless suffering of far too many.
Thank you Claudia Merandi and all the AMAZING PEOPLE WHO ARE HELPING US ALL TO HAVE A VOICE IN THIS COUNTRY WHEN TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING NEEDLESSLY AND CHOSING DEATH OVER 1 MORE DAY IN INCURABLE CHRONIC UNMANAGED PAIN.
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Thank you for your efforts….
I agree there's a big difference between the addict and the addiction to the chemical. I have had chronic pain for over 22 years. It killed me but….after 10 months in the hospital a Pain Pump, Morphine, was placed in me with a catheter attached to my spine and worked well for 13 years until it literally started coming out of my body. They removed it and put me on oral maintenance meds and it took me mths to find the right med. I couldn't take morphine because it knocked me out and I wasn't able to function on anything until oxmorphone ER. I could function! I have to fight with the ins co every year and have a emotional breakdown every time and the pharmacy where they carried it humiliated me by questioning everything about me. Why? I don't use them for a high. I don't like drugs and I have a healthy fear of them, as my Dr puts it. I'm saying this because I'm a recovering alcoholic and have been in recovery for 23 years. I know the difference believe me. My prayers are with all of you who suffer from chronic pain and I thank you all for fighting a very worthy cause. To me out government isn't too smart or realistic about the Opiate Crisis unless they realize that we the pain sufferer, are the ones in CRISIS!
To the person who said they cant find Georgia they have a group on Facebook Georgia dont punish pain rally or go to http://www.dontpunishpainrally.com and look at the locations there they are all listed should have listed this website on the article for people!
Congratulations! Claudia! What an amazing advocate. I sure hope the media is there to film & interview cpp's. My site is either 5 hours away or 3 hours, not sure I can drive that far. But I'm going to do something locally. Having trouble getting permission to post flyers. I will continue to do my best.
They should protest the Dental Boards, too. I need extensive dental work, but because I have a pain med prescription, they do not allow me pain meds for dental work; no matter how extensive. The Dentist told me that Motrin works best, but I can't take Motrin. Then the Dentist told me to take an extra pill. I don't get extra pills, but didn't take it up with the Dentist.
I've called around and most Dentists are very against opioids. I don't know what I'm going to do to get my teeth fixed. I just spent the last couple of days, in extreme pain from a molar extraction. A few months ago, I had a molar extraction and bone graft; which was the same deal. The pain was excruciating and my body was going into shock, before I had to use my back pills, leaving me short at the end of the month.
I just don't understand how the Dentists can justify doing this to their patients.
How marvellous! Thank you so much for thinking of this fantastic idea! Wouldn't it be wonderful if CNN, The New York Times and other news outlets would get a hold of this to show the country that we are real, we hurt constantly, that because of the CDC arbitrarily packaged us with drug addicts, our suicide rate has increased, the governmental goons from the DEA are after our doctor's for prescribing opiates. It seems that this is the only avenue for us to have our voices heard!
You can reach 100's of thousands of chronic pain patients via Care 2.com petitions. My writing skills are terrible but socially you can reach people by email (care2 being a great avenue) for those of us who are not accepted on Facebook to as people put it "complaining drug addicts" but start petitions and I have at least one hundred friends and aquaitances who in turn have another hundred each to get these messages out there and at the same time petitions that work given the opportunity and right backing to get to them into the necessary officials hands. There are many patients I know with mildly extreme to extreme chronic pain are not listening to my trying to get them involved in this site but a quick petition and the mention of the many with same issues will get them to this site where they have felt hopeless will give them hope and and the MUCH needed involvement. If there's a Twitter and or Instagram account all about the pain and Drs hands tied please let me know so that we can grow to size no one can ignore. People whom I'd thought would never take the time or get mad at me for emailing extra crap for them to read have been signing and sharing petitions. So please consider this idea with care 2.com.
I just heard on NPR that people from other countries who invest marijuana have been banned from entering this country!
As Canada moves to legalization, now it's feared that Canadians investing in MJ will be added to the list.
Incredibly bizarre since in many states, even recreational MJ is legal, and Americans including former GOP House Speaker John Boehner invest in MJ.
Boehner has invested in FL, which now is only medical MJ, but really, if — when — it become legal recreationally, does anyone believe that he won't invest? And I don't know if he has other MJ investments.
One thing I dont' understand — when I first started one of my opioids — a popular one among addicts I believe — it made me so incredibly nauseated that I threw up. My doctor wanted me on it and so I stuck it out until I adjusted, but it certainly made me wonder why anyone would voluntarily take this drug. Apparently my reaction is not uncommon. So, yes, most people who take these drugs need them for legitimate pain reasons and why we are under attack is something I will never understand.
I'd never heard of Don't Punish Pain, so thank you for this article. I wish my pain would let me go a rally, but I can barely sit up straight or stand. My guess is that rally attendance will be limited simply due to the fact that the constituent members are in pain and limited in their activities.
I'm not on Facebook but did get on the Don't Punish Pain website for info and sent them an email.
Is there anyway of finding out by city how many are attending in one's city. I RSVP'D Yes, but I've got a very bad case of Bronchitis and double sinus infection for the past 3+ weeks (can't get rid of it because of my compromised immune system of chronic illnesses). I'm going to try my best to make it, but I'm hoping we have a strong turnout in NJ so I won't feel so guilty if I cannot go.
Tried to find events in GA but couldn't. Facebook won't let me join because when I followed their directions and clicked on the confirmation link they thought I was trying to open 2 accounts. With no way to get in touch with them I have no way to resolve the issue. Can we use Twitter to notify people of events.
Yes! Can't wait to join the other CPP on Tuesday in Madison, WI! If you are not on Facebook, it doesn't matter. Just show up!
I just got slammed in the floor by two security guards, rolled over, handcuffed, and snatched up like a rag doll at local ER because the doctor thought I was lying to him. I was in pain and had rash from my neck to my ankles. He said not only am I not treating ur pain, I'm not treating ur rash. I been dealing with this kind treatment for ten years. I forgot, forgive me for the brain fog, that I had received some pain meds in July. I got to crying and volunteered to leave. He called security on me and I screamed dont touch me, i dislocate easily. They grabbed me cause i was going out wrong door. The called police on me. Decided not to charge me and let me go then i end up involuntarily committed, picked up at home, back in handcuffs in another cop car, back to same hospital for 4 days, discharged and back in handcuffs again and taken to sheriff holding tank because after two days security decided to charge me with simple assault cause my shoulder brushed his, simple trespassing even though I volunteered to leave and simple disturbance of the peace for yelling cause I didnt want them grab me and dislocate me. WTH!!!!!!!!!!!
I live in Bowling Green Ky and am planning on attending the protest in Frankfort. I also printed flyers and found out that Walgreens and Kroger do not allow signs of any kind. But I was lucky at the public library and Sheldons pharmacy as well as my church (the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bowling Green Ky). Thank you for organizing this event, Claudia. It isn't going to be easy for me to make the drive, but I'm going to do it!!
True pain patients simply desire to live as normal of a life like anyone else. An addict is someone who searches out that high to escape life…not to live it and this is the difference. The cdc. Government believes we are all the same!!! Out there to chase a high!!!! And on top of this they are treating addicts with clinic to have the option of suboxone or methadone. More facilities and beds. Ive even heard about these houses where a heroin addict can go to and receive clean needles a bed nurses helping out in case they od. And from what i have heard some can get free heroin!!!! So if one nods out to the point of thdir breathing stops the nurse gives them narcan. They all aplaud another life saved. So my question is when these houses are closed, whose to say this addict will not simply go elsewhere shoot up again and od!!! The government is treating addicts whose only desire is to get high, nod out, escape life better than serious chronic pain patients!!! Theres something so wrong with this picture!!!! What is our country doing to us, simply because se have pain???
Congratulations Claudia. You have done an outstanding job of developing this and seeing it thru to fruition. Your hard work is certainly appreciated by all in the pain community.


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Q: .strings file from NSDictionary at Runtime I am making a request to retrieve a dictionary of strings from a server. How can I write those string resources to a .strings file and retrieve individual entries at runtime?
I know it's possible by saving the file to Library/Application Support directory, but I'm having trouble retrieving individual entries from the file.
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But this is not returning values, it only returns key names. I'm also not convinced it is even reading the correct file because the key names it is returning are not in the file I'm specifying.
Does anyone know how I can store the contents of my dictionary in a file and then pull individual values from that file based on the key?

A: try this:
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american dream- LCD Soundsystem
It wasn't until seeing the band headline a festival last year that I understood exactly why they're so revered. This isn't to say that I'm suddenly a #1 fan of James Murphy's repetitive 7-minute electronic poetry, but I respect his craft and recognize him as an auteur of genuine art.
A cursory glance shows that this new song bears all the hallmarks of your standard LCD Soundsystem song. It's six minutes long, built over a cyclical chord progression, and the lyrics are about a guy disillusioned with modern love. Unlike the rambling milquetoast of "Someone Great" however, "american dream" is- dare I say, melodramatic? The celestial keyboard riff sounds like the saddest lullaby melody ever recorded, and Murphy sounds legitimately distraught at times. There's even a fully cohesive outro where everything escalates and comes together like a real song and everything. New York's poet laureate actually caved and wrote something in traditional song structure, and it worked out wonderfully.
III Ray (The King)- Kasabian
Kasabian are part of that group of second-tier UK garage-rock revivalists who had a few big hits about a decade ago and then subsequently dropped off the buzz bin radar. See also: Kaiser Chiefs and Hard-Fi. However all three of these bands have continued to release dependably solid and criminally underrated albums over the past ten years. Kasabian's track record is pretty great, barring 2011 misstep Velociraptor.
This album looks to be another collection of eminently listenable tunes, with this song being a feisty highlight. It's a high-energy Arctic Monkeys knockoff, but it's fun and in the absence of material from that band it'll do.
Thunder Rolls- All That Remains
A metal version of a country classic sounds like a very bad idea, but there are a few rare instances where it's worked. As with any cover though, the new version needs to bring something original to the table to justify its existence. This one is just sort of a slightly heavier cousin of the Garth Brooks version. There are the scorched earth guitar solos that ratchet up the attitude by a few watts, but there's no "wow" moment. The end of the song limply crosses the finish line without a massive final chorus. It's still miles above the literal trash you'll find on any of the "Punk Goes…" compilations, but it's not the fist-pumper it could have been.
Loneliest- Incubus
"I'm the loneliest I've ever been tonight" sings rock star and early 2000s poster boy Brandon Boyd– and that's the least cringeworthy lyric in this song. The story is a little muddled, but on the surface it seems like this is what's happening: Boyd is lonely, the loneliest he's ever been. A mysterious stranger, perhaps some sort of escort, offers him some fun for the night. They're definitely offering him something he's never tried before (as you know, rock stars are chaste puritans). He's tempted, but at the last moment he sings:
"I guess I'm going digital tonight"
Hold up- so the song is about Brandon Boyd alone at night and deciding to browse PornHub? BECAUSE THAT'S DEFINITELY WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE.
A shame, because if it wasn't for the lyrics this would be a pretty great song! It's different from anything the band's ever done- a hushed electronic tune with a dark bass line to match. A rare case where an instrumental version would be better than the full deal.
Content- Joywave
Full disclosure: my opinion of this band is formed partially due to meeting them prior to a concert of theirs in Toronto. The lead singer was rude and pretentious and incredibly dismissive. But the rest of my opinion is formed because they can't write a good song to save their life. The only good thing to come out of them was a Giorgio Moroder remix of one of their songs.
Anyway, this new one is garbage. Not only does it have a stupid chord progression, it also jumps on the "blown out EQ" bandwagon a year late. They fail even at being opportunistic copycats.
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Huawei's HarmonyOS is coming to smartphones
Huawei has announced the second version of its HarmonyOS operating system and detailed plans to bring it to a wider range of devices, including smartphones. Consumer business CEO Richard Yu made the announcement today at Huawei's developer conference in Shenzhen, China.
Huawei will make a beta version of the HarmonyOS 2.0 SDK available to developers today, though it'll initially only support smartwatches, car head units, and TVs. A smartphone version of the SDK will follow in December 2020, and Yu hinted that phones running HarmonyOS might appear next year.
Huawei is also kicking off its OpenHarmony project, which allows developers to build upon an open-source version of the OS — similar to what AOSP is to Android. As of today the project only supports devices with 128MB of RAM or below, but that'll expand to 4GB in April of next year, and the memory limit will be removed completely by October 2021.
HarmonyOS is a strategically important project for Huawei, as it could serve as a bulwark against sanctions prohibiting the Chinese giant from doing business with American companies. Huawei is currently forced to ship its Android-based phones without Google services, crippling its app ecosystem and functionality for users outside China.
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The Angola Transfer Company, organized in November 1906, was a railroad car float operation that primarily ferried cars of the Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company across the Mississippi River between Angola and Naples, Louisiana. The route was shortened to Angola–Torras in 1928 when a joint highway–rail bridge was built across the Atchafalaya River at Simmesport. The LR&N took over the Angola Transfer Company's property in 1929, concurrently with its lease to the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway. The L&A absorbed the LR&N in 1934 and abandoned the car float in 1940 after the Huey P. Long Bridge opened at Baton Rouge.

The Angola Ferry used to operate nearby, carrying automobiles across the Mississippi; its west landing is about  south of the old Torras landing of the L&A.

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Wing Commander Darren Clare is marshalled into the parking area by a Lockheed Martin maintainer after returning from a training mission where his wingman Squadron Leader David Bell flew the 1000th sortie in a Royal Australian Air Force F-35A.
The Williamtown-based Tactical Fighter Systems Program Office is responsible for acquisition and sustainment of the F/A-18AB Classic Hornet.
In July 2016 the Hornets had only four years' service life remaining, and the Systems Program Office had to plan for closure in December 2021 while maintaining high-tempo and deployed operations.
They began an ambitious reform agenda to outsource Hornet support and save the Commonwealth $13 million over 4.5 years while releasing 98 staff to other Air Force capability projects. The challenge required an agile approach and the critical changes were achieved in only 18 months.
Tactical Fighter Systems Program Office leadership set a clear mission statement: transform to support the establishment of fifth generation air power while delivering air combat capability. This helped Defence staff understand the need to contribute to higher Defence goals and reaffirmed the need to maintain quality support for Air Force throughout the reform process.
The result was a relationship-based contract with Boeing to deliver sustainment services for the Classic Hornet fleet. Building trust and a common understanding of the challenge with Boeing was key.
Despite the challenge of working in a change environment, the personal commitment to Defence from both Commonwealth and Boeing staff resulted in historically high Classic Hornet performance levels.
The Tactical Fighter Systems Program Office now operates on a 'lean' model, focusing on governance and assurance so that the contract delivers on Commonwealth and Air Force expectations.
Three key factors contributed to the success of the Tactical Fighter Systems Program Office's reforms. First, strong, evident and committed leadership provided a clear vision of maintaining air combat capability. Second, the Systems Program Office built the right team to guide the change. Finally, transparency with staff, customers and industry support partners was essential for cultivating trust and credibility.


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Maxwell to challenge accusers, seek distance from Epstein at sex abuse trial
Epstein's recruiter Maxwell to be sentenced for sex trafficking in June
Virginia Giuffre 'unlikely to accept purely financial settlement' with Prince Andrew, says lawyer
UK veterans call for Prince Andrew to be stripped of military titles
Prince Andrew must face sex abuse accuser's lawsuit - US judge
Ghislaine Maxwell to seek new trial after juror's sexual abuse claim -lawyer
Epstein died by suicide at 66 in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex abuse charges
Ghislaine Maxwell makes eye contact with her sister during jury selection in the trial of Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's associate accused of sex trafficking, in a courtroom sketch in New York City, U.S., November 17, 2021. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell's defense in her sex abuse trial will focus on undermining her accusers and distancing her from Jeffrey Epstein, the financier for whom she is charged with recruiting underage girls, according to legal experts and court filings.
In what is viewed by some legal experts as a risky strategy in the post-#MeToo era, Maxwell's lawyers will question the credibility of four women who say she groomed them as teenagers for Epstein to abuse from the 1990s to the early 2000s, arguing that their memories are faulty or that they are lying because of financial incentives. They have said in a court filing that one woman was motivated by a "desire for cash."
Epstein died by suicide at 66 in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex abuse charges.
"[Maxwell's lawyers] want to say the real villain is no longer around to be prosecuted, so they're using her as a scapegoat," said Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
Jury selection is underway in Manhattan federal court for Maxwell's trial, with opening statements scheduled for Nov. 29.
Maxwell has pleaded not guilty to eight charges including sex trafficking.
Her lawyers have argued that prosecutors, unable to convict Epstein because of his death, are seeking to "substitute" Maxwell in order to hold someone responsible.
"Left with no fish to attempt to fry, the government belatedly turned to Ms. Maxwell," her lawyers wrote in a Feb. 4 filing.
The office of US Attorney Damian Williams in Manhattan, which is prosecuting the case against Maxwell, declined to comment. Maxwell's lawyers did not respond to requests for comment.
Jeffrey Pagliuca, a lawyer for Maxwell, said at a Nov. 10 hearing that the defense would question the women who say they were abused about why they waited so many years to come forward.
Two of the women - Annie Farmer and another who will testify under a pseudonym - did not accuse Maxwell of wrongdoing until long after Epstein's alleged abuses, according to Maxwell's defense.
A diary Farmer kept in the 1990s describing interactions with Epstein did not mention Maxwell, and the unidentified witness said nothing about Maxwell until June when prosecutors showed her a photograph, the lawyers said.
Psychologist testimony
The defense will in part rely on the expert testimony of Elizabeth Loftus, a psychologist who studies how memories can become distorted over time.
There are risks for the defense team, some lawyers said, particularly since the #MeToo movement in which women accused powerful men of sexual harassment and abuse.
"Victim shaming ... doesn't work especially now in 2021, and it usually hurts you," said Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma, a New York defense attorney who specializes in sex crimes cases. "You have to show the utmost empathy in my opinion to people who have been victimized."
Maxwell's defense also has indicated that they intend to argue the women are belatedly accusing Maxwell because of the possibility of a payout.
All four accusers have accepted payment from a victims' compensation fund established by Epstein's estate, Maxwell's attorneys said in a court filing.
"The motive for fabrication could not be clearer," Laura Menninger, another Maxwell lawyer, wrote in connection with a civil lawsuit Farmer filed against Epstein's estate. Farmer dropped that case when she sought compensation from the victims' fund.
"Her newly asserted memories of abuse - without corroboration - are not based on the truth or a desire for 'justice' so much as her desire for cash."
Lawyers for Farmer did not reply to a request for comment.
Legal experts said that the prosecution would not have brought the case unless they had believed the women could withstand attacks on their credibility.
"I don't think they go after her unless they have these women able to really put her in the crosshairs, and to situate her at the centre of this," said Deborah Tuerkheimer, a professor at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law in Chicago.
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This in fact allows you to have a constant "backend" in the form of services which retain their state throughout the entire life cycle of the app, while controllers are temporary things bound to views which come and go as the GUI changes.

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Angular services are:
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Singletons – Each component
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You can read more about it in Angular's documentation: https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/services.

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And bin Laden's Egyptian deputy Ayman al-Zawahri, who is believed to be moving between the Pashtun tribal lands on either side of the Pakistan-Afghan border, had last month issued a videotape again calling for Pakistanis to overthrow Musharraf.
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The leaflet was circulated in Miranshah and Mir Ali, two towns in North Waziristan, where clashes between pro-Taliban militant tribesmen and security forces have worsened since early March after helicopter gun ships smashed a compound used by fighters, mostly from Chechnya, Central Asia and Afghanistan.
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There has been a lull in fighting for the past few days, and an unofficial truce is expected to hold through to the middle of next week as thousands of Muslim preachers and scholars have converged on Miranshah to hold a congregation over several days.
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Bin Laden is believed to have passed through North Waziristan during his flight from Afghanistan in late 2001, but most security analysts believe that while he is probably somewhere in Pakistan he is unlikely to be in the tribal areas.
Military officials say they have killed 324 Muslim fighters in North Waziristan and lost 56 soldiers since the middle of last year.
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