Irish Born Chinese Blog - 愛爾蘭出生的華人的網上日誌: Beckham?
So there were these women going crazy because Beckham was on screen at the hairdressers. If they had gone anymore mad they would have cut something other than hair. Also sounds like the Japanese went CRAZY when he visited it. I'm not surprised. Good looks, loads of money and an amazing talent, wouldn't he be a catch (oh lucky Victoria).
So what's the big fuss all about? After watching the Croatia and England match just now, well Beckham is treated like royalty, his foot is too good for the ball? Foul for a minor touch? What's your view on this?
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Going Undercover: War on Terror Tactics
There are undercover agents infiltrating peaceful protests in America. Pretending to be political activists, law enforcement officials are monitoring the activities of advocacy and protest groups. Operating under the Attorney General's new relaxed guidelines, is law enforcement abusing its power by spying on the lawful activities of ordinary citizens because they disagree with government policy? NOW exposes a disturbing national trend that some say is part of a coordinated effort by the government to criminalize dissent.
Bill Moyers sits down with the Reverend William Sloane Coffin for a poignant and revealing interview with one of America's most prominent and controversial ministers about everything from life, love and finding solace in music, to not fearing death and coping with the loss his son, to standing up to injustice. A civil rights Freedom Rider and a vocal opponent of nuclear weapons proliferation, Coffin's belief in faith as a force for resisting evil drives his commitment to global peace and social justice.
WATCH THE INTERVIEW WITH REV. COFFIN
You can access the original web page for this program at the archived NOW with Bill Moyers website.
MOYERS: Welcome to NOW.
While all eyes were on Super Tuesday, we were thinking about the eyes that may be on you when you least suspect it. This goes beyond President Bush's call this week to renew the Patriot Act giving the government broad powers to wiretap and investigate suspected terrorists. Going after suspected terrorists is not our subject tonight. Going after people exercising their right of free speech, is.
BRANCACCIO: We all love a spy novel. But who knew that you could be plunged into the real world of espionage just by gathering to talk about a protest march? It's one thing to carry out a war on terror. But few realize that Justice Department rules now let FBI agents go undercover to monitor citizen gatherings…whether or not there is evidence or suspicion of criminal activity. And local police are doing the same thing.
Our report was prepared by producer Brenda Breslauer.
March 2003, five days before the invasion of Iraq, outside Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado, what appears to be a garden variety antiwar protest is underway. But something in this picture is not what it appears to be.
It's that woman in yellow. She looks like a protester, but she's not.
PETERS: She sat with us, she chanted and sang with us.
BRANCACCIO: Nancy Peters was one of the organizers of that protest- she and 18 others from the Colorado Coalition Against the War in Iraq were arrested that day. Including that woman in yellow. She'd first shown up at the group's planning meeting the night before.
PETERS: We were taken away in handcuffs one by one. She was arrested, she was even given a summons just like the rest of us. But there was a mystery. Our attorneys couldn't find any police record of any arrest. There were 19 of us, they could only find 18. She was indeed an infiltrator.
BRANCACCIO: The police would later confirm she was one of theirs. Call her what you want: infiltrator or undercover investigator. Government spying at peaceful protests was big during the sixties, waned during the intervening years, but now the practice is back. The Colorado protesters were disturbed by the government's use of its extraordinary powers to monitor their activities. But a month later, when it happened a second time, there were even more serious implications. Nancy Peters' group had notified police they'd be presenting a peace resolution at the Colorado offices of US Senator Wayne Allard. But take a look at this man. He's said his name was Chris, and he had joined up with the group the night before. The nonviolent group didn't know who he was, and Peters says they were taken aback by what he had to say.
PETERS: Chris at one point, said, "Well, I don't see why we don't just form a line of the people who are going to do this protest and just kind of march on past the police. Kind of like storm them." It was ridiculous. I mean, people said "No, come on, you know, are you crazy?"
BRANCACCIO: He too was an undercover officer, and despite his apparent provocation, the protest stayed peaceful. As the others were being taken away, "Chris" was caught on camera chatting with his fellow officers. Nancy Peters put two and two together when she arrived to post bail and ran into him leaving the county jail.
PETERS: I said "Chris, you're out. Wow. What happened?" And he said "Well yeah, I've been, you know, I've been charged and I'm released." And I, "Can I see your summons?" He said, "Oh, my summons." And he starts fumbling around in all his pockets. Then he said, "Oh, you know, they didn't even give me one."
BRANCACCIO: His real name was Darren Christensen, of the Arapahoe County Sheriff's department. In court testimony, he admitted he was working undercover but denied trying to provoke the group into violence.
PETERS: It was surprising that we— that one among us that we trusted and shared solidarity with was actually not one of us at all. But was spying on us.
BRANCACCIO: And it's not just Colorado. Last September, members of the California antiwar group Peace Fresno, got a similar shock when the local paper printed the details of a tragic motorcycle accident. It turned out that a man who had been attending their meetings and protests for the past six months was in fact a local deputy sheriff. He had been "assigned to the anti-terrorist team under the vice-intelligence unit."
Police in Fresno and Colorado say it's all a matter of protecting the public from potential violence. But why are police or Anti-Terror Units infiltrating protest groups without evidence they plan to do anything more sinister than peaceful civil disobedience? Civil Rights attorney and activist Mara Verheyden-Hilliard says she knows.
VERHEYDEN-HILLIARD: This is an effort to criminalize dissent. It's an effort from the Ashcroft Justice department specifically since September 11th, really, to intimidate people in the United States and to try and stifle dissent.
BRANCACCIO: Verheyden-Hilliard and her husband Carl Messineo run the Partnership for Civil Justice, a public interest law firm in Washington, D.C. They have four major lawsuits against the District of Columbia police and federal government for what they say are example after example of law enforcement infiltrating, monitoring, and disrupting protest groups exercising their rights to free speech.
VERHEYDEN-HILLIARD: They're targeting people purely based on people standing up and saying they oppose government policy. That's the trigger.
BRANCACCIO: She says evidence of what is now a four-year pattern of abuse was caught on tape the first day of the Bush Administration, with this incident in a group of protestors along the route of the Inaugural parade.
VERHEYDEN-HILLIARD: You see two undercover plain clothes police officers. One of them is wearing a camouflage jacket with the hat pulled down low.
The other is wearing a red jacket and he's a full black face mask on.
You can see in the hand of the police officer wearing the red jacket a canister of pepper spray. You can actually see him shaking it. You can see that police officer as he stalks through the crowd, pepper spraying peaceful protestors in that crowd.
BRANCACCIO: Verheyden-Hilliard says it took a lawsuit on behalf of the protestors for the DC police to even admit the two were plainclothes officers. And while both the D.C. police and the Justice Department's reviews of the incident conclude there was no use of excessive force, Verheyden-Hillard says the case led to an even greater revelation.
VERHEYDEN-HILLIARD: They currently have police department officers, who are assigned on long-term assignments to pretend to be political activists. To pretend to be part of protest groups. And to carry out these actions, in acknowledgment from the police, is that this is being done in the absence of allegations of criminal activity.
BRANCACCIO: "Done in the absence of allegations of criminal activity." That's an important point. Authorities wouldn't get much complaint for gathering intelligence on groups with histories of violence or violent aims. Al Qaeda or the Ku Klux Klan come to mind. But that is not the case here. Here's what the judge wrote in an opinion in the protestor's lawsuit:
"The District of Columbia,…seems to be admitting that it maintains widespread, extensive spying operations on the activities and operations of political advocacy organizations…on the basis of their political philosophies and conduct protected under the First Amendment." (US District Judge Gladys Kessler)
PATTERSON: I think the public would be very surprised to know that if they go to any meetings at all, they are at some risk of infiltration.
BRANCACCIO: D.C. Council Member Kathy Patterson pressed the issue of police surveillance in hearings last December. The police contend they don't infiltrate protest groups. They just attend meetings undercover to prevent both terrorism and violent incidents like the ones in Seattle in 1999. But even with the police in the witness seat, Patterson had a hard time getting them to be specific about who they were monitoring or how.
BROADBENT: They don't go in there wearing there uniform. Again, these are individuals who—
PATTERSON: No, no, you said that they attend as members of the Metropolitan Police Department. I'm just trying to understand.
BROADBENT: Well, well, let me just explain the language then. They are a member of the Metropolitan Police Department. When they go in there they do not say "I'm a member of the Metropolitan Police Department."
PATTERSON: So they are in fact undercover?
BROADBENT: Yes, they are.
BRANCACCIO: DC, Denver, Fresno—All examples of local law enforcement infiltrating peaceful protest groups. But what happens when federal agents are involved? In fact, for the past two years the FBI has been allowed to do exactly the same thing and they've done it before. Remember the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover?
HOOVER: All work in the future best can be judged by the events of the past.
BRANCACCIO: From the 1950s to the 1970s, in a secret program called COINTELPRO, the Bureau conducted no fewer than 2000 operations of domestic spying, many aimed at disrupting civil rights and antiwar groups.
MONDALE: A lot of people were intimidated.
BRANCACCIO: In 1975, then Senator Walter Mondale sat on the committee which investigated the abuses, chaired by Idaho Senator Frank Church.
MONDALE: The fact of it is, that thousands and thousand of people during this time were investigated, pursued, and some of them hurt by these secret policies of investigation and sometimes just plain abuse.
BRANCACCIO: After the program was exposed, Attorney General Edward Levi issued a series of guidelines to prevent domestic spying by the FBI.
LEVI: In our effort to seek such an accommodation the department has adopted standards and procedures designed to ensure the reasonableness under the Fourth Amendment of electronic surveillance. And to minimize, to the extent practical, the intrusion into individual interest.
BRANCACCIO: Levi's Guidelines said that investigations should be limited to exposing criminal conduct and should not involve simple monitoring of political views.
MONDALE: The idea was to keep some accountability within the bureau so that they didn't go beyond the law.
BRANCACCIO: And that's generally how things stood for almost three decades, with occasional abuses of policy, like in the 1980s when the FBI was caught improperly investigating Americans who opposed U.S. policy in El Salvador. But in the spring following September 11th, the rules against domestic spying were gutted. Attorney General John Ashcroft said that his agents were too restricted in their investigative powers.
ASHCROFT: Today I am announcing a comprehensive revision to the department's investigative guidelines.
BRANCACCIO: To fight the war on terror the Attorney General argued his agents needed aggressive techniques to investigate before crimes were committed. And under Ashcroft's new guidelines, the FBI could attend public meetings like this even if there was no suspicion of criminal activity.
ASHCROFT: For the purpose of detecting or preventing terrorist activities, the FBI is authorized to visit any place and attend any event that is open to the public on the same terms and conditions as members of the public generally.
BRANCACCIO: That legalese meant the FBI could now go undercover — in effect, pretend they were the public. There was an immediate outcry. Even members of the president's own party went on television to voice their concern over the new rules. James Sensenbrenner is the powerful chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
SENSENBRENNER: I believe that the Justice Department has gone too far in changing the domestic spying regulations that have been on the books for 25 years.
BRANCACCIO: Sensenbrenner said the old guidelines seemed to be doing just fine balancing the needs for public safety with those of public expression.
SENSENBRENNER: I get very, very queasy when federal law enforcement is effectively saying, going back to the bad old days when the FBI was spying on people like Martin Luther King.
BRANCACCIO: It's a concern shared by Former Vice President Mondale.
MONDALE: The new Attorney-General almost flaunts his contempt for rules that protect citizens' constitutional rights.
BRANCACCIO: Infiltration isn't the only way the federal government monitors groups engaged in peaceful political dissent. Take the federal Grand Jury which investigates crimes in secret. It's not often that a grand jury subpoena shows up at a university.
MAXWELL: I've been in higher education for 32 years. I have never experienced anything like this in my professional career.
BRANCACCIO: Dr. David Maxwell is the President of Drake University. Drake is a liberal arts school in Iowa. A quiet center of learning in the heartland. So imagine his surprise last month when a grand jury subpoena showed up for documents from an antiwar conference that had been held on campus.
MAXWELL: I think the most unsettling thing was that it seemed to be focused on a legitimate activity of the university.
BRANCACCIO: The subpoena ordered the university to turn over "all records and documents" from the conference "hosted by 'the Drake chapter of the National Lawyers Guild,'" an activist student organization. Not just records of the November antiwar conference the group had sponsored, but names of "participants in the meeting," agendas and other documents going back to 2002.
MAXWELL: We're being asked to do something that makes a basic activity of the university look as if it's illegal.
BRANCACCIO: Here's one meeting at that campus anti-war conference last November, taped by a local news crew. Students and activists planning peaceful civil disobedience at the Iowa National Guard Base the next day.
A dozen protesters were arrested for trespassing.
Three months later, organizer Brian Terrell of the Catholic Peace Ministry received a subpoena commanding him to testify before the federal grand jury. An experience he found intimidating because of the business card that came with it.
TERRELL: The person who delivered the subpoenas left a card identifying himself with the FBI Joint Terror Task Force.
BRANCACCIO: The U.S. Attorney later denied the subpoenas were part of any investigation by the Joint Terrorism Task Force. But Terrell says he was surprised to get that subpoena to begin with because the police had been invited to the conference.
TERRELL: The agenda was public and the agenda and program was sent to the Des Moines Police Department. And we told them they were welcome to come.
BRANCACCIO: It turns out that two Sheriff's deputies did come. But undercover, according to documents unearthed by an attorney defending the protestors. The undercover officers' confidential report included the names of seven individuals who'd discussed strategy during the planning meeting.
TERRELL: I think what was going was they were trying to find some way to pin the label of terrorist on us.
BRANCACCIO: After making national headlines last month, the subpoenas were withdrawn. But the names of those seven people — and likely many more — remain in government files.
TERRELL: Word gets out. The FBI Terror Task Force is looking at a meeting that happened at Drake University. Would you go to that meeting? Would you go to the next one? Are people gonna want to come to that?
MONDALE: We have a right and a duty in these agencies to protect America. But one of the things that ought to be protected is this crucial and sacred right of Americans to protest.
BRANCACCIO: How widespread is government infiltration and monitoring of citizens? The experience of the city of Denver offers a clue. Two years ago, the Denver police were forced to reveal that the department had collected surveillance and intelligence files for decades— files with information on more than three thousand individuals and close to a thousand organizations.
The files included groups the police labeled "criminal extremists." One was The American Friends Service Committee. That's a pacifist group. And it's run by the Quakers.
MOYERS: In a few minutes you'll meet a man who has long been on the frontlines of dissent — William Sloane Coffin. The playwright Arthur Miller calls "the visionary's best companion, a joyfully embattled Christian."
As you're about to hear, he's also no stranger to fear. First, though, we pause so that some public televisions across the country can ask for your support.
BRANCACCIO: For those of you staying with us, we turn to election year politics. As the race for the White House shifts from face-to-face campaigning to making big media buys on TV and radio, NOW has been keeping track of the politics of ordinary people.
In January, we dropped by the Conservative Political Action Conference in Virginia. And in February, we first told you about a new trend in grassroots organizing.
In Kansas City, people have come together to put on what looks like a county fair. They'll set up stands for food and stages to hear live music, but they have ambitions way beyond a Saturday afternoon pastime. They want to reinvent politics.
CHEATUM: Well, corporations and big government have taken us over and this country is founded on the people and the populace and we want to have that again. So that's why we're having this. We're going to take back America.
BRANCACCIO: How does one take back America? People here say you have to put the party back into politics.
That's the mission of the Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour, a series of one-day festivals that bring together people who want to connect with democracy.
Like many efforts to invigorate politics, it's not quite setting the world on fire. But, the founder of Rolling Thunder says you have to start somewhere.
HIGHTOWER: The idea of Rolling Thunder comes from nature. I grew up in north Texas, northeast Texas. And there, the Rolling Thunder is a national phenomenon. It is the harbinger of the rains that green up the grassroots and let the flowers bloom. And in this case, we're talking about the flowers of democracy.
BRANCACCIO: Jim Hightower used to be the Texas agricultural commissioner. Now he's an author, radio commentator and a national rabble-rouser who calls himself America's #1 populist.
His latest book, THIEVES IN HIGH PLACES was a bestseller.
Hightower says that people come out to Rolling Thunder because they feel that politics is not speaking to them.
HIGHTOWER: People are yearning to meet each other. And not just high tech, but high touch. To actually be in touch with each other. And to talk back. And what if we all got together?
BRANCACCIO: Every Rolling Thunder event has tables and dozens of workshops on all sorts of issues, from campaign finance reform, to protecting civil liberties—
The goal is to let people learn from each other about local and national issues—as well as alternative ways of getting things done.
MAN: The antifreeze line right here is running next to the vegetable oil, so they heat it up. And as soon as it's warmed up, you hit the switch and it goes to the vegetable oil. And it goes zoop, zoop, zoop, into your fuel injector.
WOMAN: My job is racial justice, so I work with different populations.
MAN: Small scale neighborhood credit unions instead of a giant, massive—
MAN: Just so money within the neighborhood stays within the neighborhood.
REGGIE: So tie in this these workshops, make a commitment to one of these groups, and get your email on that list so that other people can find you.
BRANCACCIO: The inspiration for Rolling Thunder came from a movement that began in 1874 on the banks of Lake Chautauqua, New York. There, families would camp out every summer to hear speakers and music, put on plays, and engage in open forums on philosophy, literature, art, religion and science. Chautauquas, as they were known, became so popular, they went on the road. And at their peak in the 1920s, they attracted at least 10 million people a year.
Jim Hightower saw the potential in creating a modern day Chautauqua, but one with agitators in the mix.
Like filmmaker and author, Michael Moore.
MOORE: You guys all just gotta do it!
BRANCACCIO: Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.
JACKSON: All Americans deserve the right to a public education of equal high quality.
BRANCACCIO: And columnist Molly Ivins.
IVINS: Y'all need to have more fun.
HIGHTOWER: Agitation is what America is all about. Were it not for agitators, we'd be wearing white powdered wigs singing God Hail the Queen here this afternoon! America was built by agitators!
BRANCACCIO: There's no question that there are plenty of agitators on hand. But after the tents and tables are put away, it remains to be seen if people will go home and reinvent politics.
MULKEE: I think that one of the benefits of getting together like this is to see that there are more of us than we think there are. You know. Even if it is preaching to the choir. You know. That's ok. There's a time for that.
MOORE: And I think people are gonna go from here and do— go back to their towns, go back home and do something. Not everybody. It doesn't have to be everybody.
Just need one Rosa Parks that was here today. That's all we need.
BRANCACCIO: What kind of impact will Rolling Thunder have on the political landscape? Stay tuned. So far, 68,000 people have turned out to the events across the country—
From Seattle, Washington to Asheville, North Carolina. And there are six more cities planning festivals this year.
HIGHTOWER: Politics ought to be part of your life. It's not something that is just in the last thirty days of an election.
But the whole idea of a Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour is to be festive, and mostly for you to enjoy it, and to think, "Hey, this isn't bad. If this is what politics is, I could do this."
MOYERS: You will find at your favorite book store a recent addition called CREDO.
Credo means "I believe." For William Sloane Coffin, faith is life's preemptive answer to the mystery and sting of death. Over the years he became one of America's best known ministers—
A passionate preacher—.
COFFIN: God doesn't want us narrow-minded. God doesn't want us priggish. God doesn't want us subservient, but joyful!
A lover of music—..
Above all, though, it was his commitment to social justice that made William Sloane Coffin pratically a household name.
In the early 60s, he went to jail as a freedom rider challenging segregation in the South.
He was arrested, again, for leading protests against the war in Vietnam.
COFFIN: To strive for military successes is in all likelyhood to invite moral and political defeat.
MOYERS: Garry Trudeau used him as a model for Reverend Sloan in the Doonesbury comic strip.
And that's just the half of this remarkable life: as a child, he trained as a concert pianist; went on to become a captain of army intelligence in World War 2; served at the CIA at the height of the Cold War; and then, for seventeen years, was chaplain of Yale University. He became senior minister of New York City's historic Riverside Church. And then moved on to lead the campaign for nuclear disarmament.
Faith, says Reverend Coffin, is a matter of resisting evil and serving justice.
COFFIN: Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.
MOYERS: Four years ago he suffered a stroke, fought back, and last year, when his heart began to fail, learned that he has little time left. Time enough, however, for that one last book, CREDO, on the fire and passion that have driven his life and witness and taught him how to go gentle into that night without ever giving up.
When you had your stroke, many of us were really worried you were not coming back from that. And yet here you are.
COFFIN: Well, there are different kinds of strokes, you know. Some of them are rather minor, and some are major. For me, I lost my speech, just about. I did. I really did.
MOYERS: How long ago was this?
COFFIN: Four and a half years now. And, it took quite a time, a lot of work.
MOYERS: How did you do it?
COFFIN: My wife. She sat down with me two hours every day.
MOYERS: Randy did?
COFFIN: Yeah. And with great patience. And she did more than I did.
MOYERS: What did you do?
COFFIN: Practice, practice. You just say all kinds of words that are very hard to say. For instance L's are very hard now, and R's. "Reverie" is a very difficult word for me to say. Or "religion." So you have to keep working on it. And I consoled myself with Mark Twain's observation about Wagner's music, "It's better than it sounds." But it took a lot of work.
MOYERS: Two hours a day every day.
COFFIN: Oh, yeah, at least. And then I went to the hospital at Dartmouth for a speech therapist too. I must say, it was great going to the hospital because I ran into all kinds of codgers, older than I was, who had wonderful things to say.
One of them said to me, "You know, I wonder when my wild oats turned to shredded wheat." Very seriously. Another one said, "You know, when I bend down to tie my shoes, I wonder if there aren't other things I should be doing now that I'm down there."
So you know, life is always interesting, even when you can't speak, if you can listen, you know? And your curiosity and humor and compassion stays alive, you can do as well as you can do.
MOYERS: What is it like to know every morning when you get up, that there won't be a day like this, a year from now?
COFFIN: It's a very good incentive to enjoy that day. I think, Tacitus, somebody like that said, "There's nothing like enjoying things when you know you're probably not going to enjoy them again."
MOYERS: Does the day go differently, because you know there won't be another one a year from now?
COFFIN: Day by day, it's pretty much the same. You know, I think it's not death, but debilitation, that's really threatening to people. And if you had Parkinson's, or threatened with Alzheimer's, losing your sight, losing your hearing, that's much more a cause, I think, of distress and suffering, than death. And, as far as death goes, it's the fear of death. You know. And so, the important thing is to get the fear behind you.
I think everybody knows — unconsciously or consciously — that I have only one life to lead. And life is pretty precarious. You know, youth think they're immortal. But when they think about it a bit, they realize it's pretty precarious.
People sense insecurity, and then try to secure themselves against the insecurity, by power. By money. By one thing or another. And false search for security is what does everybody in. But I think everybody fears death at a subconscious level.
COFFIN: What healthy people don't realize is that when you lose your health, death can be quite welcome. Bach had a wonderful aria, Komm, du s—sse Todesstunde. "Come Sweet Death," you know. And when you're either in great pain, or just have no more energy, death is not that fearful.
MOYERS: You know, I did this series a few years ago on death and dying. And I remember a great doctor, who himself had been diagnosed with terminal illness, given about six months. He said a lot of people only get 20/20 vision after they go blind.
COFFIN: Yeah.
MOYERS: And he said, "I've only seen life clearly since I got a diagnosis of death."
COFFIN: First of all, the doctors, when they have a brush with death, they become human beings. And they're, I've seen them, radical change. For me, it's been to be told you have six months, or a year, is a kind of wonderful reprieve.
To find out that you have a limited period gives you time to think. And plan. Do the things that are worthwhile. You know? It's like your house is about to be burned. And you have to figure out, what is there to save, you know? And, it was family, friends, mostly.
MOYERS: One of the dying people I interviewed said that she had spent a good bit of the first week after her diagnosis reviewing her life. And that she'd come to the conclusion that life was not defined by the days. It was defined by the moments. And she was reviewing those moments, she said, in her mind. Have you done that?
COFFIN: There's no question about it. There are certain moments in your life, when everything seemed right. And those, you know— As Eliot said, "Go, go, go, said the bird. Humankind cannot bear very much reality."
But those real moments, when everything seemed to be absolutely right. You know? You love somebody. You marry somebody you love. The kids are just right, at that moment. Or a sentence came out just right.
MOYERS: It's been 30-plus years since you were arrested and jailed for trespassing in the US Capitol, when you were protesting the Vietnam War.
Your fellow demonstrators remember that during the night, when they were uneasy, even depressed, they suddenly heard someone singing. And it was you. Do you remember that?
COFFIN: Yeah. It was a group of clergy and laity concerned with Vietnam. And so, they were all pretty religious folk. So, I started to sing "The Messiah," as I remember. And quite a few people joined in. It was a good night.
MOYERS: What is it that enables a man to sing in prison?
COFFIN: Well. In my case music, after God, has been my chief source of solace. Song is an expression of hope. And hope is something that is experienced with a kind of psychological certitude, rather than intellectual certainty.
It's trusting that things all will be well when the day is done. Or, as Havel said wonderfully, "Hope is not waiting for something good to turn up well. But being grateful that something really makes sense." That's enough to make you burst into song.
I asked an 85-year-old professor, great buddy of mine at Yale, "What makes you cry?" And he said, "Whenever I see or hear the truth." That tear is a kind of a song. You know. It's something apprehended at a very deep level.
MOYERS: But you know, you talk about hope. And I remember the story in the Old Testament, which you talk about here in CREDO. Moses, taken by God to Mount Nebo, to look out across the Jordan River. And told that there is the Promised Land. But of course, Moses never makes it And I've often wondered if that's a cruel trick, a prankster God.
COFFIN: It would be worse, maybe, if we all made it. The journey is what really counts. And, I think all we need to know is who's there, not what's there.
You know, I lost a son. And people will say, "Well, when you die, Bill, Alex will come forth and bring you through the pearly gates." Well, that's a nice thought, and I welcome it. But I don't need to believe that. All I need to know is, God will be there. And our lives go from God, in God, to God again. Hallelujah, you know? That should be enough.
MOYERS: You write in here that before birth, there was God. And after death, there is God. And that's all that matters with you. But how do you know that?
COFFIN: That's you don't know, once again, intellectual certainty. It's not believing without proof. It's trusting without reservation. You and I can trust each other, because we know each other, and love each other.
Same thing with God, you know? You trust God. And that's what faith is. Being faithful to your understanding of God. It's not a question of believing without proof. It's trusting without reservation, that God is good. And that something you've experienced the presence of God in your own life. And that's what you trust.
MOYERS: You speak of your son's death. And that is one of the great eulogies that I've ever read. The eulogy you delivered after the death of your own son. Where did you summon the strength to do that?
COFFIN: Well. We all do what we know how to do, maybe. I went right away to the piano. And I played all the hymns. And I wept and I wept. I did grief work. And read the poems.
Like A.E. Houseman, "To an Athlete Dying Young." And I wept and I wept. And then, I'm a preacher. So. I wrote the sermon. And the folks in Riverside Church had to know whether or not they still had a pastor. Well, so I wanted them to know, they had a pastor. But I also, couldn't think of anything else for the moment, but about Alex, and his death. So, I wrote the sermon about it.
COFFIN: I think the most important thing, I said was you can never say "God caused a death." Nobody knows enough to say that. And, why should I live and another person die? Why should I be healthy, and you have a serious illness? We don't know that thing. But, God is in the response to the death. My comfort is not that it was caused by God, but, God's heart was the first of all the hearts to break.
MOYERS: You're not supposed to outlive your children, are you?
COFFIN: No. I have a little sentence or two, about the Chinese Emperor who sent his wise man off for a month, to figure out, what is happiness? And the wise man's gone back. And the Emperor said, "So? What is happiness?" And the wise man said, "Happiness is when the grandfather dies, and then the father, and then the son." That is on the money. If the order gets mixed up, that's misery. I know that.
MOYERS: You once said it was, I heard you somewhere say, that faith is being seized by love.
COFFIN: Yeah. That's a good definition.
MOYERS: Well, it's yours.
COFFIN: And there are a lot of people who were responding to God's love. Even though they may not say they believe in God. I mean I've worked so much in the civil rights movement and the antiwar movement. And, most recently trying to bring some justice to gays and lesbians. I worked with people who were not believers as I am a believer, you know?
But, if the God believes in them, those are the people I wanna work with. You know? And do you remember Norman Thomas?
MOYERS: Oh, the Socialist Leader.
COFFIN: Yeah. I worked with him, he was a wonderful wonderful wonderful man. And I went to see him in Long Island. He was on his deathbed. And we called him Big Daddy. And I said "Big Daddy, how are you doing?" And he was blind, you know, he couldn't see a thing. And he held up a gnarled fist that I could shake, thoroughly racked his body was with arthritis.
And he said, you know, I'm never going to get off this bed. And I said how do you feel about that? Well, I believe in euthanasia, but it scares everybody else to death, you know. And then I heard myself saying to him, "Big Daddy, do you believe in God?" And he said, "Well, not the all powerful, God that is heard about in seminary."
And I said, "Well don't you think, he's a loving God?" "Yeah, that's what they told me." I said, "But don't you think power is restricted by love? So if you're all loving, you're not all powerful." And he said, "Well, I guess you could get away with that quite a while." And then I said to him, "Well, you know, Big Daddy, whether or not you believe in God, is not important. To me, what's important is whether God believes in you."
And what would, without any condescension whatsoever, "I want to say to you, you are God's faithful servant." And he lay there and the tears began, and he put his hand up, you know, and I took his hand, Said, "That makes me feel good, Bill." And I feel I wasn't trying to comfort him. Or, I mean, God knows I didn't want to condescend in anyway. But I believe that. I believe.
MOYERS: I once heard you speak in which you said, "We must always press the socialist questions. But be careful and dubious about the socialist answers."
COFFIN: Well, the socialist questions are questions about justice. And it's, you can say, with prophet Amos, let justice roll down like mighty waters, but figuring out the irrigation system is complicated. So that justice issue at the heart of socialism. But what's the best irrigation system, maybe combination of a lot of things.
MOYERS: Do you believe that religious faith requires political commitment?
COFFIN: No, but not absolutely. But in certain situations and particularly in our times now when everything is so fragile, precarious. I believe then that politically-committed spirituality, that the people who are politically committed to express their faith.
And my understanding of Christianity is that it underlies all progressive moves to implement more justice. Get higher degree of peace in the world, you know? And although people don't see it, that's what I mean by politically-committed spirituality.
You know, the impulse to love God and neighbor, that impulse is at the heart of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. No question about it. We have much more in common than we have in conflict.
MOYERS: Let me come back to what we began discussing. If you accept death as naturally as you seem to be accepting it, as casually as you seem to be accepting it, is there a risk of undermining the value of life?
COFFIN: I wasn't happy to hear, you said, casual. Because death is a very great mystery. And must not be demeaned, debased in any way. It's a very, very important event. That's why for the Roman Catholic you have last rites. It's recognition of the seriousness. Not the casual attitude toward death.
MOYERS: Do you ever think about what happens when we die?
COFFIN: Not very, not very much. As I said before, who's there, not what's there, is what counts. For me.
When St. Paul says neither death nor life can separate us, for the love of God, or elsewhere whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord. Now that's kind of nice, nose thumbing independence of death. You know, that's not being casual about it. But being able to cooperate gracefully with the inevitable.
MOYERS: Does anything ever make you sad?
COFFIN: Oh, yeah. Really sad music and the personal side, you know, is, well, I have little, very small grandchildren who these days are having a tough time with croup and it's very hard on their parents. And nobody sleeps at night. And that, you know, that makes me very sad.
But no, chirping optimism is terrible. But if you and a lot of people think, "I'll never feel too good about anything so I won't have to feel too bad about anything either." And they think that emotional mediocrity is the good life. No. We should be able to plumb the depths of sadness and rise to the heights of joy, even ecstasy, though at my age, it's not too easy.
MOYERS: What makes you angry?
COFFIN: Well, I'd say people in high places make me really angry. The way of corporations now of behaving the way the United States government is behaving about the same thing.
And what makes me angry is that they are so callous, really callous. Caring— there was a wonderful layperson in England, von Hugel. And he said in his dying breath, "Caring is the greatest thing. Caring matters most." Now when you see uncaring people in high places, everybody should be mad as hell.
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BRANCACCIO: That's it for NOW. We'll break from politics and world affairs over the next two weeks for a couple of those rare conversations that you only find here on NOW.
MOYERS: Forty years ago Maurice Sendak published WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE and launched a spectacular career as a great storyteller and one of childhood's great interpreters.
About that same time Hal Holbrook was discovering a kindred spirit in Mark Twain. Maurice Sendak and Hal Holbrook will be my guests the next two weeks. Each has reached his seventies as I will shortly. So we'll reflect on growing old and moving on. I'm Bill Moyers. For David Brancaccio and all of us at NOW, good night.
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American journalist: I visited Rojava to learn about DAA system in Rojava
"The philosophy of Ocalan encouraged me to visit Rojava to get to know the truth of this thought, and to learn about the Democratic Autonomous Administration (DAA) System" US journalist Debbie Bookchin visited Rojava via the Sêmelka crossing to see the sacrifices and struggles of the Kurdish people in general and women in particular.
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US journalist Debbie Bookchin entered Rojava through the border crossing of Sêmelka yesterday and was received by the administrator in Kongra Star Sana Khalil at the crossing.
The journalist said, "I visited Rojava to see the reality in all respects, especially the leading role played by women in Rojava Revolution."
She added, "The objective of my visit to Rojava is to learn about the living conditions and the situation of the people in Rojava Revolution and the reality they are living in, especially the role of women and their participation in all fields."
"My father told me about his meeting with the leader Abdullah Ocalan," she said, adding "This encouraged me to visit Rojava and to know the true thought and philosophy of the leader Abdullah Ocalan, which is applied in Rojava."
She added, "The letters exchanged between my father and the leader Abdullah Ocalan, which dealt with several topics, especially democratic thought, considering that the leader Abdullah Ocalan is a democratic philosopher."
" Abdullah Ocalan has put forward all the democratic solutions and has shown the truth of Turkish fascism through his writings." The journalist said.
"The Kurdish people are persecuted, an ideal people to achieve equality and democracy at all levels in the region through the sacrifices they make in Rojava," she said.
The journalist showed that women exceeded the customs and traditions imposed by the community and reached this stage through the thought and philosophy of the leader Abdullah Ocalan, which gave the value of women in the liberalization of these restrictions and participation in all fields.
The jurnalist said that she will visit the shrine of the martyrs, "who are valued and respected because they have sacrificed their lives so that the peoples can live in peace and security on their land."


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Preferred Religion (2015)1: Shia
Majority Religion (2015)2: Sunni Muslim (28.1%)
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Muslim 60.77% 88.84% 22.98%
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The country has an area of 4,035 square miles and a population of 4 million. Because parity among confessional groups remains a sensitive issue, a national census has not been conducted since 1932. However, the most recent demographic study conducted by Statistics Lebanon, a Beirut-based research firm, showed 28 percent of the population is Sunni Muslim, 28 percent Shi'a Muslim, 22 percent Maronite Christian, 8 percent Greek Orthodox, 5 percent Druze, and 4 percent Greek Catholic. Over the past 60 years, there has been a steady decline in the number of Christians as compared to Muslims, mostly due to the emigration of large numbers of Maronite Christians and a higher than average birth rate among the Muslim population. There are also very small numbers of Jews, Baha'is, Mormons, Buddhists, and Hindus.
Of the 18 officially recognized religious groups, 4 are Muslim, 12 Christian, 1 Druze, and 1 Jewish. The main branches of Islam practiced are Shi'a and Sunni. The Alawites and the Isma'ili ("Sevener") Shi'a order are the smallest Muslim communities. The Maronite community, the largest Christian group, has had a centuries-long affiliation with the Roman Catholic Church but has its own patriarch, liturgy, and ecclesiastical customs. The second largest Christian group is the Greek Orthodox Church, principally composed of ethnic Arabs who maintain a Greek-language liturgy. Other Christians are divided among Greek Catholics, Armenian Orthodox (Gregorians), Armenian Catholics, Syrian Orthodox (Jacobites), Syrian Catholics, Assyrians (Nestorians), Chaldeans, Copts, evangelicals (including Protestant groups such as the Baptists and Seventh-day Adventists), and Latins (Roman Catholic). The Druze, who refer to themselves as al-Muwahhideen, or "believers in one God," are concentrated in the rural, mountainous areas east and south of Beirut. Divisions and rivalries between various groups date back many centuries, and while relationships between religious adherents of different confessions were generally amicable, group identity was highly significant in most aspects of cultural interaction.
Many persons fleeing religious mistreatment and discrimination in neighboring states have immigrated to the country, including Kurds, Shi'a, and Chaldeans from Iraq, as well as Coptic Christians from Egypt and Sudan. Precise figures were unavailable during the reporting period due to the lack of census data and the tendency of these groups to assimilate into the culture.
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I very much follow the crowd and this is what I have noticed to be hip and happening now.
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If prosecutors have their way ...Conrad Murray will stay locked up, even though an appeals court could reverse his manslaughter conviction in the death of Michael Jackson.
According to new court docs obtained by TMZ ... the California Attorney General is scoffing at Murray's bid for release pending appeal, arguing that he's totally unconvincing when he says he's not a flight risk. Murray is claiming if he gets out he'll live with his GF/baby mama Nicole Alvarez in Santa Monica, but prosecutors are quick to point out ... he has 7 kids with 5 women, which does not exactly make him the poster child of stability.
And get this ... Murray argued that he can't flee because he's a celeb and therefore can't run and hide. But prosecutors blanch at the doctor's argument, claiming it would be a travesty to reward him for becoming a celebrity by killing a true celebrity.
Prosecutors also say the fact that Murray has shown no remorse is a red flag that he might continue to be a danger to the community if set free.
Oooooh ya good one! HA!
The article certainly don't paint Murray in a positive light.
I was wondering when we were gonna hear something about the legal proceedings given TS' latest post. I wish this article would have had a bit more info tho.
hummm :animal0017: Interesting contradictory information about Murray's children !
So now he "allegedly" has 7 kids from 5 women.
Other sources report him having "at least 7 kids with multiple women".
"And get this ... Murray argued that he can't flee because he's a celeb and therefore can't run and hide."
Yeah...Murray is a celebrity alright. An actor just playing his part.
I could almost swear to God, that these two pictures are not of the same Murray!! My mother always tells me that the nose is the best impersonator detector! Even the ears look different in both photos!
it would be a travesty to reward him for becoming a celebrity by killing a true celebrity.
Dr. Conrad Murray found the woman with a very weak pulse aboard Flight 641 from Houston, hooked her up to an IV line he got from the plane's medical bag and monitored her while the jet was diverted to Albuquerque, N.M., his spokeswoman said.
Re the good doc on the plane, in the links about the lawyer McParland that Sim gave, he seems to think that regardless of what the media or defendant says outside of court, it is purely the trial that finds the truth. Obviously CM was innocent because MJ's alive, but MJ's trying to prove a point with this hoax.
The Common Law has shown for centuries that x-examination under oath, before an impartial judge and jury, is the best way to detect liars.
A very fair documentary. It gave CM the chance to give his version of events in response to charge, and he manifestly failed to take it.
The media was putting out all those stories portraying CM as a loving good doc, while the trial 'proved' he was guilty of manslaughter.
However, during MJ's 2005 trial, the media was putting out stories portraying MJ as a bad guilty person, while the trial proved he was innocent.
Obviously CM was innocent because MJ's alive, but MJ's trying to prove a point with this hoax.
LOS ANGELES — A judge who presided over the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor refused Friday to release him on bail, saying he would be a danger to any community where he might try to practice medicine.
Conrad Murray's lawyer asked for his release pending appeal of his involuntary manslaughter conviction, but Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor said he saw little chance that Murray would prevail in getting his case overturned.
Pastor made it clear that his view of Murray had not softened since he gave him a tongue-lashing and the maximum four-year sentence in the superstar's death. He suggested Murray hurt his own chances for freedom in a documentary interview broadcast after the trial saying use of the powerful anesthetic propofol in the home was appropriate.
Jackson died in 2009 of an overdose of the drug that Murray administered in his bedroom as a treatment for insomnia. Expert witnesses testified they never heard of anyone administering the drug outside a hospital.
Pastor also believes Murray, who was born and raised in the Caribbean, would pose a flight risk if he leaves jail. He said the doctor could go to a foreign country that might allow him to practice medicine, and anyone encountering him as a patient would be in danger.
"He was raised in Trinidad and has seven children by five women in different parts of the country, which does not reflect well on his stability," Deputy District Attorney David Walgren argued during the hearing.
Defense attorney J. Michael Flanagan petitioned for Murray to be released on bail, his own recognizance or under house arrest with an electronic ankle bracelet. He and appellate attorney Valerie Wass said Murray should be free during his appeal.
The judge, however, said the defense has not shown there is any substantial legal question likely to result in reversal of the verdict.
"No trial is perfect," the judge said, but nothing cited by Flanagan rises to the level of legal error.
Flanagan and Wass said the appeal issues would include Pastor's refusal to sequester the jury and his decision to allow broadcast of the trial. Pastor said he is confident those rulings and others were legally sound.
He also said he would not reconsider the bail request in the future.
"This is my last statement on this matter," he said.
Under current sentencing guidelines, Murray is likely to serve about half of his four-year term.
Outside court, Flanagan said Murray had lost at least 30 pounds since he went to jail Nov. 7. He said he is held in a single, five-by-eight foot cell with few chances to exercise or go outside.
Murray is considered a high-risk prisoner because of his notoriety.
Wass said she visited Murray and found him in remarkably good spirits.
does it mean that prosecution is gonna use wrongful ways to make sure Murray's not free?
I still think there is a connection, I feel that Mj was suppose to BAM december 21 something must have come up and couldn't Murray and MJ CONNECTION FOR SURE.
This confuses me because if they are trying to prove that the court is right then Murray would be guilty.
This situation does seem to take us back to the 2005 trial, again. And wasn't MJ considered a flight risk too?
tell you what seemed funny to me for the longest time, how murray looked like he kind of had black eyes in his mug shot. i started wondering if he didn't get a nose job in between these two times.
Don't know about that, but remember Jermaine's story about having a plane on standby ready to get MJ out of the US forever, if the trial looked like it was going badly for him?
I really believe that Murray is only one person .. the fact that his nose looks smaller or his ears look different doesn't necessarily mean that there are two of him . Let's not forget that his facial expressions also change from one picture to another which actually explains a lot ! In the second picture , he was smiling , so there's no wonder that the muscles around his eyes were more contracted ! it's natural and we don't really have to read into it that much .
After reading the article I have feeling that Michael needs more time to arrange some important things before he Bam..


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In the spring of 1922, just months after the Black Sox were banned from professional baseball for life, Eddie Cicotte and Swede Risberg partnered with a Chicago theatrical executive to form an independent traveling baseball team called the Ex-Major League Stars. They planned to tour throughout the Midwest, hoping to capitalize on their fame from the 1919 World Series scandal and giving small-town fans a chance to see big-league talent up close.
Following their banishment from Organized Baseball, the players involved in the Black Sox Scandal found an enthusiastic, if not always lucrative, market in which to continue earning a living playing ball during the 1920s and '30s. In the era between the world wars, when baseball was truly the national pastime, every American town of any significant size fielded its own competitive baseball team. Most teams were strictly amateur, but some paid their players a stipend or salary. Revenue was generated by sponsorships from local merchants and municipal officials, gate receipts and, of course, America's other favorite pastime — a wager or two placed on the games.
Their business manager, William C.V. Meek, was a 42-year-old New York City native who served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War. He left his job as treasurer of Chicago's Auditorium Theatre to launch a promotional agency called the Entertainment Service Bureau.1 The agency was based at the Garrick Building on Randolph Street in the Loop, and the Black Sox were one of Meek's first clients. His assistant at the time was David Idzal, an up-and-coming star in the film industry who later went on to manage the prestigious Fox Theatre in Detroit.
Meek and Idzal had no contacts in baseball, so they left the building of the roster to Risberg and Cicotte, who quickly recruited Happy Felsch and Buck Weaver to play ball with them. The rest of the team was composed of a group of undistinguished amateur, collegiate, and semipro players, some of whom they picked up along the way. The Ex-Major League Stars wore gray pinstriped jerseys with the team name on the front in a cursive script. The amateur players were promised $100 a week2, while the four Black Sox and Meek were to divide up the rest of the profits.
Weaver's involvement might have surprised some fans, because it had been widely reported in a syndicated newspaper column3 that he refused to play with his old teammates after they were banned from the majors. When some of the Black Sox formed a team during the summer of 1921 to play ball on weekends at a Chicago amusement park while they were awaiting trial, Weaver backed out because he thought the venture wouldn't be profitable; he was making good money working at his brother-in-law's drug store instead.4 But Weaver would go on to play with and against the other Black Sox on many occasions throughout the 1920s.
Meek was able to schedule a series in early June against teams from northern Wisconsin, and the summer seemed to get off to a promising start. With Cicotte overpowering the semipro hitters, the Ex-Stars beat up on teams from Stevens Point, Waupaca, Marshfield, Marinette, and Hurley. Risberg, who had a strong arm and had been a pitcher in his youth, took a regular turn on the mound, too. His talent far outmatched the local nines.
The Wisconsin tour drew crowds of up to 3,000 for some games, and the fans were generally friendly toward the banished players. But the venture was marred by bad weather and a lack of funds stemming from high hotel and transportation costs. Despite the Black Sox running up the scores, they were also accused of indifferent play at times. Felsch and Risberg sometimes spent their mornings on a nearby lake or river with a fishing pole and a case of beer, showing up to some games half-sober, just before the first pitch.
Cicotte and Risberg stirred up more controversy on June 11 when they were recruited, along with amateur catcher Charles "Buck" Moore, to play in a game for the last-place Appleton team against Menasha in the independent Fox River Valley League. By the time the three players showed up in the second inning, Menasha had already built a six-run lead and won easily. Appleton owner August Brandt's decision to use the exiled Black Sox set off a firestorm that nearly got his team kicked out of the league.7 While the Fox River Valley League was outside the purview of Organized Baseball, commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis had warned that any player participating in a game with the Chicago outcasts would also be blacklisted from professional baseball, as well.
Two weeks after the Appleton debacle, the Ex-Stars were scheduled to play a game on June 23 in Merrill, Wisconsin. Cicotte wasn't keen on pitching, weary from the travel and lack of compensation. Who took his place on the mound? Ray Cannon, one of the Milwaukee lawyers representing Felsch, Risberg, and Jackson in their lawsuits against the White Sox.
Afterward, Risberg told the team he had booked them to play about twenty more games on the Mesabi Iron Range in northern Minnesota. Tired of being away from home for so long, Cicotte demanded to be paid for his participation in advance — he had famously made the same request before the 1919 World Series — or else he would quit the team. Risberg, never known for diplomacy, responded by punching Cicotte in the mouth and knocking him to the ground in front of a downtown moonshine tavern.
Cicotte then went home to Detroit, took a job as a game warden, and continued to pitch semipro ball in southeastern Michigan before embarking on a second career in the service department at the Ford Motor Company.
Without Cicotte and the catcher Moore — who never did leave Merrill, living there for the rest of his life12 — the Ex-Major League Stars traveled by train to Hibbing, Minnesota, and resumed their tour in early July. Their new starting pitcher was another familiar face: Lefty Williams, one of the American League's top young left-handers before he was banned for life in the Black Sox Scandal.
When the 29-year-old Williams got the call to join the team, he was having trouble keeping a job in Chicago and had developed a severe drinking problem. But he still knew how to pitch. On his way to Minnesota, he tuned up with a 19-strikeout performance for the Crivitz, Wisconsin, team against Wausaukee at an American Legion picnic.13 But he never reached those heights with the Ex-Stars. Williams was not in shape and his arm was constantly sore; he played first base more often than he pitched in the three weeks he was with the team.
The Ex-Stars played 12 games, winning just four, against teams from Hibbing, Eveleth, and Chisholm. Hibbing, which defeated the Black Sox team in five out of seven games, was also stocked with a handful of former big-leaguers, including Bill Rumler — who had been implicated in a 1919 Pacific Coast League gambling scandal — Bill Upham, Lee Dressen, Joe Fautsch, and Harry Niles. The fans were more upset that the Black Sox's biggest stars, Eddie Cicotte and Shoeless Joe Jackson, failed to show up as advertised.
Chisholm was the home of Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham, a one-time New York Giants outfielder who gained lasting fame when his name was used in W.P. Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe and the film Field of Dreams. Some writers have claimed Jackson once played against Graham's team in Chisholm, but there is no evidence this ever happened.14 However, his Black Sox teammates Felsch, Risberg, Weaver, and Williams did play two games in Chisholm during the Ex-Stars tour on July 2 and July 6, losing both games. The ballplayer-turned-physician Graham did not participate in these games, but perhaps he was in the grandstands to watch. That tantalizing possibility may remain lost to history forever.
On the field, the Black Sox outclassed the inferior competition — Weaver and Felsch both hit over .400 in the ten games where box scores are available, and Risberg hit .317 while recording a 2.63 ERA in 48 innings pitched — but the rest of the team played poorly no matter who they were facing. By the end of the summer it was clear that if they wanted to continue earning a living playing ball, a barnstorming tour wasn't the answer. They managed to find other ways to hold down steady jobs and still spend quality time on the baseball field. But never again would this many of the banished Black Sox play together on the same field.
After the 1922 tour fizzled out, Swede Risberg stayed in Minnesota, marrying a woman from Rochester and buying a farm there, where he sold eggs and vegetables to the nearby Mayo Clinic. He continued pitching for many years, which he had discovered was a far more lucrative position in independent baseball than his usual shortstop. From 1923-25, he was the captain and star for the Rochester Aces semipro team. He played ball — somewhere — every summer until at least 1934 before making his way west and settling in Northern California.
Happy Felsch went back home to Milwaukee and continued playing ball for semipro teams there until well into his forties. He and Buck Weaver joined forces to play together in Wisconsin during the summer of 1924 and he and Risberg toured western Canada, Montana, and the Dakotas for several years in the late 1920s. Later, he opened a successful tavern in his hometown and was one of the main primary sources for author Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out.
Buck Weaver and Lefty Williams both returned to Chicago. In 1925, fellow exiles Hal Chase and Chick Gandil recruited Weaver to Douglas, Arizona, a copper-mining town just north of the Mexican border, to play ball in the outlaw Copper League. The next year, Williams joined them and became one of the league's pitching stars while based in Fort Bayard, New Mexico. That seems to be the last of his playing days. He got sober, found religion, and then planted roots in Southern California. Weaver spent two seasons in the Copper League before heading home to Chicago, where he played ball until the mid-1930s and lived out the rest of his days. He never stopped trying to clear his name.
1 1920 US Census; 1922 Chicago City Directory, accessed via Ancestry.com.
2 Randy Schultz, "Black Sox Scandal Revisited," Palm Beach Post, July 21, 1977.
3 James L. Kilgallen, " 'Black Sheep' Can Play, But Their Morale Hangs Low," Dallas Morning News, June 14, 1921.
4 Al Spink, "Al Spink's Column," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 6, 1922.
5 Jess Puryear, "Sport Comment," San Diego Union, April 17, 1922.
6 "It's-All-In-The-Slant," Ironwood Daily Globe, May 4, 1922.
7 "Appleton bows to Menasha despite Black Sox," Green Bay Press-Gazette, June 12, 1922; "Playing of Black Sox in Appleton condemned," Oshkosh Northwestern, June 13, 1922; "Valley League has fuss over Black Sox use," Sheboygan Press, June 13, 1922; "Appleton will retain team in Fox Valley league," Wausau Daily Herald, June 21, 1922.
8 For more detail on the Black Sox civil lawsuits against Comiskey and the White Sox, see chapter 17 of William F. Lamb, Black Sox in the Courtroom: The Grand Jury, Criminal Trial, and Civil Proceedings (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2013).
9 "Ray Cannon Pitches for Black Sox Nine," Green Bay Press-Gazette, June 24, 1922; "Black Sox in dispute, may end the tour," Manitowoc Herald-Times, June 26, 1922; Bill Haglund, "Fight on Merrill street corner brought an end to the Black Sox," Wausau Daily Herald, October 15, 1970.
11 "17 inning game gives Newberry 2 to 1 victory," Sault Ste. Marie Evening News, August 28, 1922.
12 Buck Moore stayed in Merrill after the Cicotte-Risberg fight and lived there the rest of his life. After his own playing days ended, he managed Merrill's powerhouse semipro team and became the town's American Legion youth baseball director. Dave Christenson, "Sport Chatter," Wausau Daily Herald, January 2, 1953.
13 "Black Sox hurler beaten 6 to 3 in ten inning clash," Green Bay Press-Gazette, June 26, 1922.
14 See Jimmy Keenan's biography on Moonlight Graham at the SABR BioProject (https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/a054b3d6) for details on the legend of Jackson playing in Chisholm. Jackson's outlaw baseball career is fairly well documented between 1921 and 1925, and there is no evidence that he ever played in Minnesota.
15 "$6,000 a Year Would Be Princely Salary For Black Sox Now," Hibbing Daily Tribune, July 13, 1922.


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Julia MacLean is Annie and Steve Maddock is "Daddy" Warbucks in the Royal City Musical Theatre 25th anniversary production of Annie. Photo by David Cooper.
The Arts Club may be celebrating its golden anniversary in Vancouver, but just a couple of cities to the east New Westminster's Royal City Musical Theatre (RCMT) is celebrating its own milestone with a production of Annie as its 25th anniversary show.
[pullquote]Easton's twelfth show with RCMT, seven as choreographer and six as director, it is one part location and one part raw new talent that keeps her returning to New Westminster year-after-year.[/pullquote]"This is one of the shows that both of the past Artistic Directors at Royal City Musical Theatre had shortlisted and one that we have never done," explains current RCMT Artistic Director Valerie Easton who also directs and choreographs the show.
Calling Annie a fabulous family show, and one she is certain will appeal to the theatre company's demographic, Easton says part of the secret of a successful musical is one that works for both children and adults.
"There are so many wonderful characters in this particular show. Miss Hannigan is one of the great comic characters. It also has a great score and some iconic songs that both the kids in the audience and their parents will know," she says of the show's appeal.
Easton's twelfth show with RCMT, seven as choreographer and six as director, it is one part location and one part raw new talent that keeps her returning to New Westminster year-after-year.
"Massey Theatre is such a magical venue that we don't have many of anymore," she says of the now 60-year old venue whose size allows RCMT to perform large-scale musicals like Annie. "RCMT also has a teaching aspect to it and is seen as a stepping stone for some of the up-and-coming performers who know they will get a professional experience, and perhaps even get seen by other directors as they make their way to being professionals."
Valerie Easton returns to direct and choreograph the Royal City Musical Theatre's 25th anniversary production.
For Easton, size also matters with the sound that the 20 or so piece orchestra that they pack into the Massey's pit each year, all under the direction of James Bryson who shares his own silver anniversary with RCMT. "Along with the big sets and big costumes we also get this really wonderful big sound that you just can't get electronically," she says.
Helping to create that big sound is the large Annie cast, including many children and one dog. But despite W.C. Fields' advice that one should never work with either, Easton says it has been a pleasure even as she finds herself still dealing with final callbacks for the role of Annie's dog Sandy at the time of our interview. Fortunately Easton has had some recent experience with stage dogs as director of last year's Theatre Under the Stars production of Legally Blonde, a show she will direct again in a remount this summer at Malkin Bowl.
Based upon the syndicated Little Orphan Annie comic strip by Harold Gray that ran in newspapers around the world from 1924 to 2010, Annie tells the story of the little orphan with the curly red hair who ends up in the lap of luxury with Depression-era billionaire Oliver (Daddy) Warbucks.
The Royal City Musical Theatre production features Port Moody's Julia MacLean in the title role and Capilano University music instructor Steve Maddock in the role of Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks.
Annie plays the Massey Theatre in New Westminster April 10-26. Visit http://royalcitymusicaltheatre.com for tickets and information.
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Indian cloth paintings have won millions of admirers from every corner of the world. The Indian cloth paintings are perfect blends of Indian cultural history and philosophies. There is incredible diversity and imaginative creativity found in Indian folk paintings especially the paintings from Rajasthan. Most famous paintings of Rajasthan are the Phad paintings. Phad paintings are beautiful specimen of the Indian cloth paintings originating from the royal state of Rajasthan.
Phad paintings have their own styles and patterns and are very popular due to their vibrant colors and historic themes. Phad paintings are the colorful mosaic, depicting the valor of local famous heroes. The unique beauty and themes of Phad paintings have made them the most sought after paintings in the world of art and culture. Most famous heroes of Phad paintings are Goga Chauhan, Prithviraj Chauhan, Amar Singh Rathore, Papuji etc.
Phad painting is an ancient form of folk painting that is basically a large painting on Khadi which depicts the heroic deeds of a heroic figure, the daily life of painters and peasants, rural life, animals and birds, flora and fauna. The smaller version of the phada is known as phadakye. This form of folk art painting makes use of natural earthen colors mixed with gum, water and indigo to get the required colors. Phad paintings are one of the most sought after folk art paintings in the Indian art and cultural context known for their vibrant and enchanting colors and features.
Phad painting is a type of scroll painting. These paintings are created using the rainbow of bright colors and subtle colors. The main themes of the Phad paintings depict the deities and their legends and the stories of erstwhile maharajas. These paintings are magnificent and its outlines are drawn in block and filled with colors. The outlines of the paintings are first drawn in block and later filled with colors.
The paintings depicting exploits of local deities are often carried from place to place and are accompanied by traditional singers, who narrate the theme depicted on the scrolls. The phad paintings are carried from place to place and accompany traditional singers who narrate the theme of the painting. These paintings depict the lives of local heroes in folk style. The stories of Pabuji Ramdevji and Dev Narainji are sung by bhopas around the villages.
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Fans of tactical RPGs will have a new one to check out when Ash of Gods releases from developer Aurum Dust next March.
The developer says Ash of Gods will feature a mix of gorgeous art, lush music, tactical combat, and a powerful story. That story will play out through dialogue driven layer interaction and, depending upon a player's decisions, no two playthroughs of the game should be the same.
Rated "T for Teen" by the ESRB, Ash of Gods is planned for release on Windows PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch.


The Central Board of Secondary Education will be conducting the 11th Edition of Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) on 16/09/2018 (Sunday) for a candidate to be eligible for appointment as a teacher for class I to VIII. Candidates can apply only On-Line for CTET SEPT- 2018 on CTET official website – www.ctet.nic.in .
* Relaxation up to 5% in the qualifying marks in the minimum Educational Qualification for eligibility shall be allowed to the candidates belonging to reserved categories, such as SC/ST/OBC/Differently abled.
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The Internet is an amazing communication tool. It puts me in touch with friends in many distant places, even other countries. Sometimes a person I have never met will respond to a piece I have written and a fast friendship develops.
A column about dogs prompted Joe to invite me to come to High Point, North Carolina, and enjoy some barbeque with him and his wife. He told me about a trip they had made recently to Kenya where the Methodists have a strong influence.
In the Maua area, the Methodists built a hospital that now serves as a regional medical center. They have established many orphanages, schools, and farms. On the farms they teach people how to grow crops. Joe said his church is "drilling a borehole that will service over one thousand families as well as provide water for the demonstration farm." They also plan to build a small clinic that will be staffed by a nurse from the Methodist hospital.
Joe is justifiably proud of his church. It thrills me to hear about a church that is reaching out to the poor, especially in Africa. Evidently Joe's church is practicing what the preacher preaches.
Bruce lives in Wisconsin where it is too cold for an Alabama boy to live. He gave up Florida for all that snow and ice. My column about Ray Stevens' squirrel story stirred Bruce to tell me he has a video of Ray Stevens performing it. Bruce reminded me of the comedian Grady Nutt who had some hilarious church stories. Grady died too young, before I got to hear him in person, but I did hear some of his stories on tape.
My baseball column evoked another Grady's memories of watching his grandson Jason play baseball. Grady recalled that he and his wife, Celestra, went to Jason's games for 10 to 12 years until he finished high school.
I will never visit Lamberene in person but my friend has allowed me to "see" Schweitzer's famous clinic as I had never seen it before. He shared with me a snapshot from his heart.


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A defiant Jason Dufner says he is not going to allow his golfing career be defined by his late collapse in Georgia on Sunday.
A disappointed but defiant Jason Dufner is not going to allow his golfing career be defined by his late collapse at the 93rd PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club on Sunday.
The fluffy-haired, 34-year-old American journeyman had a nightmare finish to what had looked as if it would be a stroll in the park when he went from leading by five shots with four holes to play to losing a three-hole play-off to US PGA Tour rookie Keegan Bradley.
Earlier Dufner had made nonsense of his failure o ever to win a title on the PGA Tour, let alone in a major, with a thoroughly professional performance as he cooly and calmly built up a near faultless five-shot lead after 14 holes and looked set to march on triumphantly and break the domination the Europeans and South Africans in the past six majors.
But then it all went wrong and three straight bogeys from the notoriously difficult 15th saw him slump into a tie with strong-finishing Bradley and then lose the three-hole play-off to the 22-year-old US rookie.
His late, unexpected collapse was not nearly as sensational as Frenchman Jean van der Velde's in the 1999 Open, but similarities have already been drawn as Dufner tries to play things down by insisting that he will not let his career be defined by his collapse as Van de Velde's has been and that he will be back.
"I didn't feel like I was nervous," Dufner said of his late stumble.
"I knew what was at stake. I was confident with my game, but just didn't quite execute a couple of shots coming in.
"I'm disappointed now, sure, but there's a lot of good things to take from this week.
"I love the competition and I want to be as good as I can be. If that's 20th in the world with no majors, first in the world with 10 majors or never win a Tour event I'll be fine with it.
"I'm not going to let this define my career. I have a lot of things ahead of me."
Dufner said his bogey on the 16th was his biggest regret because it was a major mistake to try to play an easy four iron second shot instead of a full-blooded five iron.
"I'm more disappointed about 16 than 15," Dufner added. "I eased off of it, lost it to the right into that bunker, which is not a good up-and-down. Probably the worst iron shot of the week. Just happens.
"But I hate that it happened on the 69th hole of a major. Would have been a lot better if it was the third hole of a major."
Dufner said he felt that he had come a long way and was nevertheless proud of his achievements, which he hoped will provide him with a base to build an increasingly successful career.
"Coming from where I came from, to be in this position, it's a dream come true," he said.
"I could never have imagined playing in major championships, playing with Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods; that's a milestone to me itself.
"I'm not going to let this define my career."