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Abu 'Abdallah Ahmad ibn Abi Du'ad al-Iyadi () (776/7–June 854) was an Islamic religious judge (qadi) of the mid-ninth century. A proponent of Mu'tazilism, he was appointed as chief judge of the Abbasid Caliphate in 833, and became highly influential during the caliphates of al-Mu'tasim and al-Wathiq. During his tenure as chief judge he sought to maintain Mu'tazilism as the official ideology of the state, and he played a leading role in prosecuting the Inquisition (mihnah) to ensure compliance with Mu'tazilite doctrines among officials and scholars. In 848 Ibn Abi Du'ad suffered a stroke and transferred his position to his son Muhammad, but his family's influence declined during the caliphate of al-Mutawakkil, who gradually abandoned Mu'tazilism and put an end to the .

As one of the most senior officials during the reigns of several caliphs, Ibn Abi Du'ad's stature at the Abbasid court has been compared with that of the Barmakids at their height. Considered a leading Mu'tazilite and one of the chief architects of the , his persecution of orthodox scholars, including the famed theologian Ahmad ibn Hanbal, caused his reputation to suffer after his death, and he was made into an object of vilification by later Sunni biographers.

Early career

Born in Basra in 776 or 777, Ibn Abi Du'ad belonged to an Arab family that originated from a village near Qinnasrin in northern Syria and which belonged to the Adnanite tribe of Iyad, although the latter claim was later contested by Ibn Abi Du'ad's enemies. Early in his life he moved to Damascus with his father, and he spent his youth learning Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) and scholastic theology (kalam). His teacher Hayyaj ibn al-'Ala' al-Sulami had formerly been a pupil of Wasil ibn 'Ata', the founder of Mu'tazilism, and under his tutelage Ibn Abi Du'ad became an advocate of Mu'tazilite doctrines.

Following the completion of his studies, Ibn Abi Du'ad became affiliated with Yahya ibn Aktham, the chief judge (qadi al-qudat) under the caliph al-Ma'mun (r. 813–833). It was while in Yahya's service that he first met al-Ma'mun – according to one anecdote, this occurred as early as the year of al-Ma'mun's arrival in Baghdad in 819 – and he quickly found favor with the caliph. Al-Ma'mun was himself inclined toward Mu'tazilism, which represented a moderate alternative between orthodoxy and the Alids while simultaneously affirming his authority as imam to preside over religious matters, and in 827 he proclaimed his belief in a central Mu'tazilite tenet, that the Qur'an had been created. By the end of al-Ma'mun's reign in 833, Ibn Abi Du'ad had become a close associate of the caliph, and on his deathbed al-Ma'mun recommended to his brother and successor al-Mu'tasim that he admit Ibn Abi Du'ad to his circle of advisors.

Chief judge under al-Mu'tasim

Following the accession of al-Mu'tasim, the new caliph followed his brother's advice by appointing Ibn Abi Du'ad as chief judge, replacing the latter's erstwhile patron Yahya ibn Aktham. During al-Mu'tasim's reign (r. 833–842), Ibn Abi Du'ad wielded enormous political and economic influence, and the caliph was said to be completely under his power, with neither his public or private business done without his advice. He became one of the senior officials of the state, although he was forced to contend with the vizier Muhammad ibn al-Zayyat, who became his chief rival in the administration.

During the reign of al-Mu'tasim, Mu'tazilism was maintained as the official creed of the state. Although the caliph reportedly lacked al-Ma'mun's personal zeal for Mu'tazilism, he nevertheless continued his brother's religious policies, allegedly due to the influence of Ibn Abi Du'ad. To ensure compliance with the doctrine of the created Qur'an, the chief judge continued the Inquisition or . Initiated by al-Ma'mun just four months before his death, the  required officials, judges and scholars to be tested on their beliefs regarding the nature of the Qur'an; individuals who refused to adhere to the position that it had been created were subject to dismissal, arrest or torture. Among the victims of the  during this period was Ahmad ibn Hanbal, the founder of the Hanbali school of jurisprudence, who was tried by Ibn Abi Du'ad and flogged for maintaining his orthodox beliefs. Ibn Abi Du'ad also oversaw the appointment of several like-minded qadis to various cities throughout the empire, who similarly prosecuted the  within their respective jurisdictions.

Outside of his overseeing of the , Ibn Abi Du'ad spent his time at court developing a reputation for moderation and compassion, interceding on several occasions to save individuals who had become subject to al-Mu'tasim's wrath from punishment and securing favors from the caliph for various patrons. At the same time, he came to play an important role in the fiscal affairs of the caliphate, his staff overseeing, for example, the division of spoils during the Amorium campaign in 838; he is also said to have pushed through an irrigation canal project in Khurasan, and following a large fire in Baghdad he was able to convince the caliph to entrust him with distributing five million dirhams for the relief of the citizens there. Ibn Abi Du'ad additionally took part in the move to the new capital of Samarra in 836, where he received a land allotment in the central city, and in 840 he presided over the heresy trial of the disgraced general al-Afshin.

Under al-Wathiq

Ibn Abi Du'ad remained influential under al-Mu'tasim's son and successor al-Wathiq (r. 842–847), who similarly maintained the doctrine that the Qur'an had been created. For the majority of al-Mu'tasim's reign, the  had generally been only lightly enforced, although Ibn Abi Du'ad and his allied qadis had escalated their activities in the last year of the caliph's life.  With the accession of al-Wathiq, however, the new caliph ordered that the severity of the  be increased, giving advocates of the inquisition approval to proceed with vigor. At the beginning of al-Wathiq's reign, Ibn Abi Du'ad appointed several new qadis to Baghdad who supported the , and in the provinces there was a marked increase of persecutions against individuals who were considered dissenters. In 845 the  was even extended to Muslim prisoners held by the Byzantines, when Ibn Abi Du'ad sent an agent to test their opinion on Qur'anic createdness and ransomed only those who supported it, leaving those who did not in Byzantine custody.

Al-Wathiq's continued adherence to the belief of the created Qur'an eventually prompted a traditionalist backlash, which manifested itself in 846 as a planned popular revolt in Baghdad. The plot was discovered ahead of time, however, and its ringleader Ahmad ibn Nasr al-Khuza'i was arrested and sent to al-Wathiq in Samarra, where he was questioned on his beliefs regarding the nature of the Qur'an. Ahmad's statements during the interrogation enraged al-Wathiq, and despite Ibn Abi Du'ad's reluctance to have him killed the prisoner was personally executed by the caliph and his soldiers. The public death of Ahmad only further increased populist agitation in Baghdad against the caliph's religious policy, and Ahmad was soon turned into a martyr by supporters of orthodoxy.

Under al-Wathiq, the rivalry between Ibn Abi Du'ad and the vizier Ibn al-Zayyat continued. During a general crackdown against the state bureaucracy in 843-4, Ibn al-Zayyat took action against the chief judge and other court of complaint (mazalim) officials, who were investigated and imprisoned as a result. Their cases were presided over by Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Mus'abi, and they were publicly displayed and treated in a harsh manner.

Downfall and death

Following the death of al-Wathiq in 847, Ibn Abi Du'ad formed a council with Ibn al-Zayyat and other senior officials to determine who should succeed the caliph, eventually settling on al-Wathiq's brother Ja'far. Ibn Abi Du'ad gave the nominee the regnal title of al-Mutawakkil, and the latter was accordingly invested with the caliphate.

Al-Mutawakkil's reign (r. 847–861) marked a significant break with the policies of al-Mu'tasim and al-Wathiq. The new caliph was determined to eliminate the officials who had played a dominant role in the governments of his two predecessors, and in the first years of his rule he succeeded in killing or removing from power the majority of these men, including Ibn al-Zayyat and the chamberlain Itakh. Al-Mutawakkil also decided to diverge away from the religious policies of the previous caliphs, opting instead to put a stop to the controversy over whether the Qur'an was created or uncreated. Although he was not a partisan of the traditionalist party, he gradually abandoned Mu'tazilism and suspended the , ultimately putting an end to the doctrinal regime that had been in place since 833.

The new caliph initially took no action against Ibn Abi Du'ad, who continued to appoint qadis to provincial cities. Less than a year after al-Mutawakkil's accession, however, the chief judge suffered a debilitating stroke that left him partially paralyzed, and his son Muhammad was forced to take up the actual discharge of his duties. Muhammad proved to be less influential than his father, and the family's standing declined as al-Mutawakkil spent the next several years taking hostile steps against the Mu'tazilites, dismissing a number of Ibn Abi Du'ad's qadis from office and ordering an end to debate over the nature of the Qur'an.

In  late 851, al-Mutawakkil decided to completely remove Ibn Abi Du'ad from power and stripped Muhammad of his positions in the mazalim courts. He also ordered that the estates of Ibn Abi Du'ad and his family to be seized and liquidated, and Muhammad and his brothers were placed into prison. At the same time, the caliph took steps to definitively end the . In place of Ibn Abi Du'ad, Yahya ibn Aktham was re-appointed as chief judge, while several more of Ibn Abi Du'ad's qadis were dismissed. The caliph also attempted to reconcile with Ahmad ibn Hanbal and removed Ahmad ibn Nasr's body from public display, and finally, in March 852, he ordered that all prisoners held on account of the Inquisition be released, thereby largely bringing a close to the  period.

Ibn Abi Du'ad survived for only three years after the loss of the chief judgeship. He died in June 854, twenty days after the death of his son Muhammad.

Legacy and assessment

With the political decline of Mu'tazilism and the victory of orthodoxy, Ibn Abi Du'ad was criticised for his doctrinal beliefs and the prosecution of the . Sunni writers often made no attempt to conceal their hostility toward him, and passed severe judgement on his tenure in office. The trial and flogging of Ahmad ibn Hanbal in 834-5, in which Ibn Abi Du'ad played a major role, was particularly condemned. Ahmad himself is quoted as having remarked that Ibn Abi Du'ad was a "disbeliever of God Almighty (kafirun bi'llah al-'azim)" and "the most ignorant of people in knowledge ('ilm) and theology (kalam)," and later sources portrayed Ahmad as heroically defending the traditionalist cause in the face of an ignorant bigot. Individuals associated with Ibn Abi Du'ad also occasionally faced discrimination after his death, as when the caliph al-Mu'tazz (r. 866–869) cancelled the appointments of eight men as qadis and exiled them to Baghdad upon learning that they had been followers of the former judge.

While condemned for his religious policies and activities, Ibn Abi Du'ad was simultaneously praised by the sources for his tolerant and humane nature, along with his learning and magnanimity. Numerous anecdotes consistently portray the chief judge as a man of compromise and generosity, and he is frequently shown as intervening to resolve disputes between the caliphs and their opponents in an effort to prevent bloodshed. He was also known as a competent poet, and was a patron of various poets and literary men. He particularly was associated with the fellow Mu'tazilite and author al-Jahiz, who dedicated at least one of his works to him and provided him with theological arguments to use against the traditionalists.

More recently, some modern scholars have argued that Ibn Abi Du'ad's role in maintaining the  under al-Mu'tasim and al-Wathiq may have been overstated by the sources. Tayeb el-Hibri believed that with the gradual rehabilitation of orthodoxy to the caliphate following the abandonment of Mu'tazilism, orthodox traditionalists became less inclined to discuss the role of the caliphs in fostering the ; as a result, the caliphs were re-imagined as reluctant supporters or even outright opponents of Mu'tazilism and the Inquisition, and the blame for these was instead shifted to Ibn Abi Du'ad. Muhammad Qasim Zaman, who characterized the chief judge as a "much maligned figure" in Sunni sources, likewise saw the portrayal of al-Mu'tasim and al-Wathiq as halfheartedly continuing the policies of al-Ma'mun as a narrative pushed by traditionalists in an attempt to de-legitimize the . By making the Inquisition the product of a subordinate official rather than of the caliphs themselves, supporters of orthodoxy hoped to prove the moral bankruptcy of the affair and mitigate the culpability of the caliphs.

Notes

References

Tillier, Mathieu. (2009). Les cadis d'Iraq et l'État abbasside (132/750-334/945). Damascus: Institut français du Proche-Orient, 2009. .

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Ok, I hope i translate this right..if not let me know..The hotspot coordinates would be according to your project, you would change these as u wanted..
This puzzle is designed so u can put a picture together, all square pieces. It would look somewhat like a slider. Only you click one picture, then another, and they exchange places. This puzzle is similar to what u see in most Nancy Drew games..MCF games..ect..
This is for 6 pieces, anymore and u would have to add to the subroutines.
In my puzzle, I didn't move the hotspots around, just the image in the hotspot.
When the user selects a puzzle piece, I put a border around the hotspot, then when the user selects the next piece, the border is gone, the images are swapped and I check to see if the puzzle is solved. If not, then when the user selects the next puzzle piece I start all over.
The pieces don't move around either in this one..they exchange places..Or do u mean Keygaurd?..where u can move them from upside right..ect..?
What I would like to add to this one....I like the idea of a border..
With this one..you can't tell u clicked a piece..you simply click a piece and then click another--they exchange places..
I would love to see the demo u have too ..cause I like the idea of a border..This way the user knows they clicked that hotspot/picture..
When the user selects a puzzle piece, I put a border around the hotspot, then when the user selects the next piece, the border is gone, the images are swapped.
Does the border appear on the other piece..to let u know u have selected it to swap with..?
I don't understand...Are u saying that if the piece isn't correctly placed..it goes back..and the user has the option to click the "right" piece..Basically they keep going back till the user selects the right piece for the right place..?
Thanks so much for reply..Please post your tut!~...I really want to see it... ..The option to turn pieces would be neat too..Something that could be added later..cause i like that idea alot..
When I mentioned the blocks one..did that sound familiar to u..?..I know u have tried some ND games..which is why i asked..
How do you check if the right picture is on the right hotspot loaded?
As I made this, first I want to change only the pictures but I'm stuck how to check if the picture has loaded the right image.
For the block one: I think I have an idea to do this.I'm going to check it out this evening.
I created 2 comma-delimited lists.
The first one contains the correct order of hotspot indexes.
The second contains the randomized order of hotspot indexes.
The numbers coorespond to the hotspot indexes that they should belong too. So, I just use the index numbers to determine what image I have.
Can you make a short tutorial for this?
I'm not sure how it should work. I never have worked with comma-delimited lists.
you haven't tried delimited lists! You'll love them! It's a great alternative to global arrays!
I have a tutorial on lists in the tutorial area, but I think I called it global arrays. It includes several functions that allows you to do almost anything with a list.
I'll see what I can put together. My puzzle code is a bit bloated.
I made the mistake of putting the code together, and the hs's and coordinates were in order when i did it..
I lined them up 1-16...with the pictures matching the HS numbers.
Then I mixed up the tiles..
Is there any way to fix it... so that..
It will work mixing the tiles up...any way..
This way as long as HS(1) ends up where HS(1) should be..and you can mix up the tiles any which way on the frame..
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Without taking the time to look at your code (I'm at work and need to get started), I think you can create a variable for each hotspot that will act as the hotspot's index in the puzzle. I did this in the Key Sequence puzzle for the very reason that got you. I didn't want to rely on the hotspot index. I believe I called it "keynum" and I set it's index at the top of each hotspot advanced tab.
I hope this helps...like I said I'm at work and don't have time to look at the code right now.
PM me if you still need help!
Is there example for this tutorial?


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Memory Lane: Old Steelworkers Hall a community gathering spot – by Vicki Gilhula (Sudbury.com – July 13, 2022)
https://www.sudbury.com/
The structure, built by the Legion in the 40s and sold to USW in the 60s, was destroyed in a fire in 2008
For more than 40 years, the handsome Steelworkers Hall on Frood Road was a place where men and women came together for union solidarity and camaraderie. The building was home to Steelworkers Local 6500 and Local 2020. In addition to union offices, it was a centre of union activities and social events.
Union members enjoyed beer, pickled eggs and conversation downstairs in the beer hall. The Steelworkers Hall was also popular with the community at large as a venue for weddings, celebrations, banquets, gala events and trade shows.
A fire destroyed the building in the early morning hours of Sept. 19, 2008. The fire was reported at 2:12 a.m. and it burned for more than 24 hours. There was an estimated $11 million in damages.
The building at Frood and College was originally built as Sudbury's first Legion Hall. W. E. Mason, the wealthy and influential owner of The Sudbury Star, donated land to the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League. The name was changed to Royal Canadian Legion in 1957.
For the rest of this article: https://www.sudbury.com/memory-lane/memory-lane-old-steelworkers-hall-a-community-gathering-spot-5577873
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CSIRO joins deep-sea mining project in Pacific as islands call for industry halt – by Graham Readfearn (The Guardian – July 14, 2022)
Belgian battery company announces $1.5-billion investment in Ontario – by Gabriel Friedman (Financial Post – July 13, 2022)

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4 Extra Debut. Singer Catherine Bott and pianist Jonathan Cohen consider the impact of music on the Bronte sisters' lives and work by way of their restored piano. From March 2012.
Singer Catherine Bott explores the Bronte sisters' musical world through their newly restored piano, now returned to the parsonage in Haworth. Joined by pianist Jonathan Cohen, Catherine looks through the Bronte's family music collection - including Anne Bronte's own songbook, copied by hand - and discovers how musical life at the parsonage underscored the sisters' creative life, their work and tastes.
The Brontes' piano was originally made by John Green of Soho Square at the turn of the C19th and is thought to have come in to the parsonage sometime in the early 1830s. The sisters all loved music. Emily was described as playing 'with precision and brilliancy'; Anne preferred to sing. Charlotte's poor eyesight meant that she couldn't read the notes to play, although knowing references to music, song and piano performance figure throughout her fiction.
The piano itself has an interesting history: it was lent to Mr Grant, the curate of Oxenhope by Patrick Bronte after his children's deaths, and then sold at an auction of Bronte items in 1861. It then passed through numerous hands and was put up for sale at Sothebys in 1916, before eventually finding its way back to the parsonage. It has been recently restored - for the first time opening up the sound world of the Brontes' private, domestic musical life. Does their music-making show us a different side to the sisters - perhaps one that doesn't quite fit with how we want or need them to be?


Make your own clay characters come to life, just like Shaun the Sheep! Participants will work with a partner to build their own clay characters, sets and props; develop their own script; shoot their movie scenes; and then learn to edit and add sounds and special effects to complete the whole project. Don't worry parents, there will be plenty of time devoted to outdoor games and activities!.
more infoMake your own clay characters come to life, just like Shaun the Sheep! Participants will work with a partner to build their own clay characters, sets and props; develop their own script; shoot their movie scenes; and then learn to edit and add sounds and special effects to complete the whole project. Don't worry parents, there will be plenty of time devoted to outdoor games and activities!
Schedule Info: For 9 to 12 year olds. This camp runs Tuesday to Friday. 72 hour cancellation notice required.


The Hanford Nuclear Reservation, located in Eastern Washington along the Columbia River, is 586 square miles of sagebrush steppe habitat dedicated to manufacturing nuclear bombs during World War II. Since the 1960s, the U.S. Department of Energy has been cleaning up the resulting contamination and remediating the land.
In 2000, President Clinton created the Hanford Reach National Monument. Over 300 square miles of riparian habitat and buffer lands surrounding active central Hanford lands were designated for management by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Seventeen years later, another 200+ square miles of central Hanford lands are remediated and ready to be managed for other uses.
These lands, which have been off-limits to most human access and disturbance during nuclear weapons production and cleanup, include some of the best quality sagebrush shrub steppe habitat remaining in our state. They represent the heart of Hanford, linking the outer semi-circle of the Hanford Reach with critically important lands that provide refuge for birds and other wildlife.
Audubon believes that these lands serve as a vital link for biodiversity in the region and is committed to exploring options that would protect the existing Hanford Reach National Monument and ensure management of Central Hanford lands in a way that recognizes their unique conservation values within the sagebrush ecosystem.
First it was threatened, now could Hanford Reach expand?


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//!
//! \file   MonteCarlo_SubshellDopplerBroadenedPhotonEnergyDistribution.hpp
//! \author Alex Robinson
//! \brief  The subshell Doppler broadened photon energy distribution decl.
//!
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------//

#ifndef MONTE_CARLO_SUBSHELL_DOPPLER_BROADENED_PHOTON_ENERGY_DISTRIBUTION_HPP
#define MONTE_CARLO_SUBSHELL_DOPPLER_BROADENED_PHOTON_ENERGY_DISTRIBUTION_HPP

// Trilinos Includes
#include <Teuchos_RCP.hpp>

// FRENSIE Includes
#include "MonteCarlo_DopplerBroadenedPhotonEnergyDistribution.hpp"
#include "MonteCarlo_SubshellType.hpp"
#include "Utility_TabularOneDDistribution.hpp"

namespace MonteCarlo{

//! The subshell Doppler broadened photon energy distribution class
class SubshellDopplerBroadenedPhotonEnergyDistribution : public DopplerBroadenedPhotonEnergyDistribution
{

public:

  //! Constructor
  SubshellDopplerBroadenedPhotonEnergyDistribution(
		    const SubshellType interaction_subshell,
		    const double num_electrons_in_subshell,
		    const double binding_energy,
		    const Teuchos::RCP<const Utility::TabularOneDDistribution>&
		    compton_profile );

  //! Destructor
  ~SubshellDopplerBroadenedPhotonEnergyDistribution()
  { /* ... */ }

  //! Return the subshell
  SubshellType getSubshell() const;

  //! Return the number of electrons in the subshell
  double getNumberOfElectronsInSubshell() const;

  //! Return the binding energy
  double getBindingEnergy() const;

  //! Evaluate the distribution
  double evaluate( const double incoming_energy,
		   const double outgoing_energy,
		   const double scattering_angle_cosine ) const;

  //! Evaluate the PDF
  double evaluatePDF( const double incoming_energy,
		      const double outgoing_energy,
		      const double scattering_angle_cosine ) const;

  //! Evaluate the integrated cross section (b/mu)
  double evaluateIntegratedCrossSection( const double incoming_energy,
					 const double scattering_angle_cosine,
					 const double precision ) const;

  //! Sample an outgoing energy from the distribution
  void sample( const double incoming_energy,
	       const double scattering_angle_cosine,
	       double& outgoing_energy,
	       SubshellType& shell_of_interaction ) const;

  //! Sample an outgoing energy and record the number of trials
  void sampleAndRecordTrials( const double incoming_energy,
			      const double scattering_angle_cosine,
			      double& outgoing_energy,
			      SubshellType& shell_of_interaction,
			      unsigned& trials ) const;

private:

  // The interaction subshell
  SubshellType d_interaction_subshell;

  // The number of electrons in the subshell
  double d_num_electrons_in_subshell;

  // THe subshell binding energy
  double d_subshell_binding_energy;

  // The compton profile for the subshell
  Teuchos::RCP<const Utility::TabularOneDDistribution> d_compton_profile;
};

} // end MonteCarlo namespace

#endif // end MONTE_CARLO_SUBSHELL_DOPPLER_BROADENED_PHOTON_ENERGY_DISTRIBUTION_HPP

//---------------------------------------------------------------------------//
// end MonteCarlo_SubshellDopplerBroadenedPhotonEnergyDistribution.hpp
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------//

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Friedrich († 25. Oktober 954 in Mainz) war von 937 bis 954 Erzbischof von Mainz.

Seine Herkunft ist unbekannt. Nach dem Tod Hildeberts 937 trat der von Otto I. eingesetzte Sachse Friedrich als Erzbischof erstmals politisch hervor. Bei der Empörung des Frankenherzogs Eberhard 938 gegen Otto vermittelte er den Frieden. Im September 938 vermittelte er zusammen mit Bischof Rudhard von Straßburg erneut einen Frieden zwischen Eberhard und Otto. Doch nahm Otto den Vorschlag der Vermittler nicht an, wodurch Friedrich auf die Seite der Gegner wechselte. In der Schlacht von Andernach im Oktober 939 musste er sich Otto ergeben, wurde aber 940 entlassen. In den 940er Jahren besserte sich sein Verhältnis zu Otto. Die Bistümer Havelberg und Brandenburg wurden Mainz unterstellt. Im Reimser Streit, bei dem es auch um die Besetzung des Reimser Erzstuhls ging, zwischen Ludwig und Hugo überbrachte Friedrich als päpstlicher Legat ein Mandat von Papst Agapet II. 951 nahm Friedrich an Ottos Italienzug teil. Seine Gesandtschaft mit dem Bischof Hartbert von Chur zum Papst wohl wegen der Kaiserkrönung Ottos scheiterte. 954 handelte er einen Frieden (pactum) zwischen Otto dem Großen und dessen Sohn Liudolf aus. Friedrich verwandte sich gegen die Interessen des Königs Otto so hartnäckig für den Vertrag, dass er sich dadurch bei den Parteigängern des Königs verdächtig machte. Als Reaktion bot Friedrich einen Eid an, um zu beweisen, dass er nie dem König feindlich gesinnt sei. Auf dem Reichstag von Langenzenn im Juni 954 versöhnten sich beide. Otto erließ Friedrich den Eid, indem er den Willen für die Tat annahm.

Quellen
 Widukind von Corvey: Die Sachsengeschichte des Widukind von Corvey. In: Quellen zur Geschichte der sächsischen Kaiserzeit (= Freiherr vom Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe. Bd. 8). Neu bearbeitet von Albert Bauer, Reinhold Rau. 5. gegenüber der 4. um einen Nachtrag erweiterte Auflage, Darmstadt 2002, ISBN 3-534-01416-2, S. 1–183.

Literatur
 Gerd Althoff: Die Ottonen. Königsherrschaft ohne Staat. 3. durchgesehene Auflage. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart u. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-17-022443-8.

Anmerkungen

Römisch-katholischer Bischof (10. Jahrhundert)
Erzbischof von Mainz
Geboren im 9. oder 10. Jahrhundert
Gestorben 954
Mann

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Several dermpath fellowships take foreign-trained pathology residents. I personally know of more than five dermpath fellows who were path-trained abroad.
You simply need to do the grunt work, read program websites, and contact each one.


A masterplan competition for the coastal city of Novorossiysk was awarded to Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), the studio announced, according to Arch Daily.
ZHA teamed up with Russian practice Pride TPO to compete for the Admiral Serebryakov Embankment competition and was selected out of 40 teams from 13 countries. Miralles Tagliabue (Spain) with Progress (Russia) won second place, while third place went to Rudy Riccotti (France) with ProjectService (Russia) and JNC (Belgium).
Novorossiysk is home to Russia's largest shipping port and connects the country to the Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean, and Suez Canal.
The 13.9-hectare phased masterplan combines work and play in nine buildings planned to be "nine iterations of a single form, evolving in a gradient across the project site. The configuration of each building is established according to its unique function, conditions, and requirements," ZHA explained.
The masterplan will feature new public spaces and facilities that can accommodate global and academic conferences, trade fairs, and outdoor recreational and athletic spaces that locals and visitors alike can enjoy. The first phase of the masterplan will focus on civic, cultural, and corporate event facilities and a hotel.
Zaha Hadid Architects is a British international architecture and design firm founded by the late Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid.


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Heaven's Crooked Finger: An Earl Marcus Mystery
By Hank Early
2018 Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner!
Eerie, intense, and masterfully-crafted, Hank Early's gripping series debut Heaven's Crooked Finger transports readers to a secretive community in the Georgia mountains.
Earl Marcus thought he had left the mountains of Georgia behind forever, and with them, the painful memories of a childhood spent under the fundamentalist rule of his father RJ's church--a church built on fear, penance, and the twisting, writhing mass of snakes. But then an ominous photo of RJ is delivered to Earl's home. The photograph is dated long after his father's burial, and there's no doubt that the man in the picture is very much alive.
As Earl returns to Church of the Holy Flame searching for the truth, faithful followers insist that his father has risen to a holy place high in the mountains. Nobody will talk about the teenage girls who go missing, only to return with strange tattoo-like marks on their skin. Rumors swirl about an old well that sits atop one of the mountains, a place of unimaginable power and secrets. Earl doesn't know what to believe, but he has long been haunted by his father, forever lurking in the shadows of his life. Desperate to leave his sinful Holy Flame childhood in the past, Earl digs up deeply buried secrets to discover the truth before time runs out and he's the one put underground in Heaven's Crooked Finger, Hank Early's thrilling series debut.


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Understanding Self-Directed IRA Fraud
The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) is warning investors about con artists and self-directed IRAs. NASSA says it is one of the top threats facing investors. Investors should be cautious and knowledgeable about the potential fraudulent schemes involving self-directed IRAs.
A self-directed IRA is a different type of IRA that allows its trustee or custodian to invest in a variety of assets that may include real estate, promissory notes, tax lien certificates and private placement securities . Most regular IRAs allow its trustee or custodian to invest in only approved stocks, bonds, mutual funds and CDs. However, the new found freedom to invest in more investment options with self-directed IRAs can open the door to a greater potential for fraud.
How Fraud Promoters can Scam Investors
The SEC says these investments are not always bad. However, they may often involve certain risks, such as lack of disclosure and liquidity or fraud. Financial experts suggest investors do their homework with thorough due diligence, research and closely monitor their investments. Sometimes fraud promoters and scammers will encourage investors to relocate assets from a current self-directed or traditional IRA into a phony self-directed IRA, which may be created and owned by the schemer.
Often fraud promoters involved in Ponzi schemes or other misconduct seek out self-directed IRAs since they allow investors to hold unregistered securities. Fraud promoters use this to their advantage and perpetrate fraud on investors.
Since the duties of custodians and trustees of self-directed IRAs may be limited, they may not always evaluate the legitimacy of an investment or its promoter. As a result, the lack of available information for alternative investments in self-directed IRAs may leave them vulnerable to fraud promoters.
Also, the tax-deferred aspects of self-directed IRAs make them attractive to fraudsters, because con artists know some investors will keep their funds in a fraudulent investment longer since investors do not wish to pay a penalty for an early withdrawal.
How to Protect Yourself From Self-Directed IRA Fraud
Investors need to protect themselves by avoiding unsolicited investment offers, double-checking information in their self-directed IRA account statements for accuracy, be leery of a promise of guarantee returns, and take charge of their money by asking questions. Investors can view here for more information about self-directed IRA fraud alerts.
Examples of Self-Directed IRA Scams
The SEC is always investigating and prosecuting individuals or companies involved in fraudulent investment schemes. Investors should keep abreast of current cases involving self-directed IRA scams and other investment fraud. Below you will find links to recent SEC cases and outcomes.
SEC v. United American Ventures
SEC v. Durmaz
SEC v. Stinson
State v. Smith (24C02-1102-FB-00044) and State v. Snelling (24C02-1102-FB-00046) (Indiana)
Get Legal Help and Advice
If you feel uneasy about an investment opportunity or have become a victim of a self-directed IRA investment scheme, contact the securities lawyers at Silver Law Group, a national Securities Arbitration & Investment Fraud Law firm. Their lawyers are admitted to practice in New York and Florida and represent investors nationwide to help recover investment losses due to security and investment fraud or stockbroker misconduct. The securities lawyers at Silver Law Group work hard to protect your money from the bad guys. Contact us at (800) 975-4345.
Attorneys' Fees in Securities Arbitration
Potentially Fraudulent Investment Schemes on Radio Programs
Prospectus or Offering Document
Protection From Investment And Stockbroker Fraud
Risk of Using Self-Directed IRAs
Social Media and Securities Investing – Avoiding Investment Fraud
Understanding Self-Directed IRA Fraud | Securities Fraud Lawyer Silver Law Group


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Vaccine Town Hall: Meet the Panel
Join us on Tuesday, Jan.12, at 5:30 p.m. as we bring together local healthcare providers with community leaders for a virtual town hall on building trust in vaccines and overcoming the obstacles faced by communities of color in accessing care.
Valerie A. Arkoosh, MD, MPH: Chair, Montgomery County Board of Commissioners
Dr. Valerie Arkoosh has served on the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners since she was first appointed to fill a vacancy on the Commission in January 2015. Arkoosh won election to a full four-year term in November 2015 and served as Commission Vice Chair until her election as Chair in November 2016. She was re-elected in November 2019 and unanimously chosen by her two colleagues to again serve as Chair in January 2020. Montgomery County, located in southeastern Pennsylvania, is the third most populous county in Pennsylvania with over 830,000 residents. The three member Board of Commissioners oversees a budget of $430 million and directs more than 2,500 employees. The Commission manages human services for more than 100,000 residents, Voter Services, over 130 county bridges, 75 miles of roads and other infrastructure, 7 county parks and nearly 100 miles of trails.
Dr. Arkoosh is bringing innovative reforms to county government. She is improving services for children, Veterans, and seniors while ensuring an effective, transparent, and fiscally responsible government. She has led the efforts to eliminate street homelessness of veterans, streamline delivery of human services, increase repairs for county roads and bridges, and open 10 new miles of trails across the county. As a physician, Arkoosh is at the center of the County's efforts to combat the opioid overdose epidemic, overseeing a multi-pronged, integrated response. In 2015 she issued a "standing order" to enable participating pharmacies in Montgomery County to dispense the overdose antidote naloxone at the request of any member of the public.
Upon obtaining her Master of Public Health in 2007, Arkoosh became deeply engaged in the national effort to achieve comprehensive health care reform. She led the National Physicians Alliance, a national non-profit organization of physicians, who, putting their patients before profits, joined a broad-based nation-wide coalition for reform. During this time, she developed policy and legislative strategy, and promoted public engagement in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, and throughout the country. Dr. Arkoosh maintains a comprehensive knowledge of the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and its impact on individuals and the health care system.
While much of her career has been in medicine and public health, Arkoosh has substantial experience in dealing with many of the same challenges governments face. She has significant leadership experience managing complex organizations during times of fiscal challenge. Arkoosh served for five years as Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the Drexel University College of Medicine where she successfully drew upon her undergraduate training in economics to restore her department to fiscal solvency following the Allegheny University bankruptcy. During this challenging time, she also served as Interim Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and was actively involved in the financial oversight of the medical school clinical practice plan.
Prior to stepping into public service, Dr. Arkoosh was Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. Arkoosh is a graduate of the University Of Nebraska College Of Medicine and received a Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She performed her residency at Jefferson Medical College in Anesthesiology with a special focus on Obstetrics. She has an undergraduate degree in economics from Northwestern University.
Arkoosh lives in Springfield Township, Montgomery County, with her husband, Jeff Harbison, and their three children.
Jonathan Corson: President, Pottstown NAACP #2288
Johnny Corson is the current president of the Pottstown Branch of the NAACP. Johnny is a pillar in his community, continuously doing outreach to engage civic leaders, school districts, and community members to ensure the future of children in marginalized communities. Johnny has lived experience within the foster care system, and brings that knowledge and empathy with him to every meeting and event that he participates in.
Coupled with his understanding and expertise, Johnny has worked for over 15 years in diverse manufacturing careers and seeks to empower and improve the local community through reform and policy changes to ensure that industry and business remain in his community, ensuring a bright future and vibrant economy for the residents of Pottstown. Johnny has raised his children in Pottstown and understands the community through the eyes of a parent, allowing him to understand that nuance and needs of a diverse community in a way that sets him apart from other community leaders. Johnny continues to endeavor the uplift the community through food drives, vaccine clinics, and job fairs to ensure the sustainable and long-term betterment of the community for Black and BIPOC residents of Montgomery County.
Nelly Jimenez-Arevalo: Executive Director and CEO, ACLAMO Family Centers
Nelly is the Executive Director and CEO of ACLAMO in Montgomery County. ACLAMO provides educational programs, social services and access to health and wellness programs to Latinos and other community members to empower them to fully achieve their life potential.
Nelly is an appointed member of the Pennsylvania Governor's Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs and is the Chair of the Health and Wellness Committee for the commission. She is a co-organizer of the Latino Professional Luncheon Scholarship Program in Chester County and a board member of the Advisory Board of the Korean American Association of Greater Philadelphia. She also serves on other boards including the Norristown Police Department, Montgomery County United Way, Norristown Chamber of Commerce, Diversity Council Advisory and Montgomery County Community College Cultural Affairs.
Nelly has received several awards including the 2013 Power Women Award by Main Line Today Magazine, recognition as the 2015 Most Influential Latina of the Delaware Valley and the 2018 Superhero Award by United Way of Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey.
Richard Lorraine, MD, FACP: Medical Director, Montgomery County Office of Public Health
Lt. Col. Richard S. Lorraine assumed command of the 193rd Special Operations Medical Group Detachment 1, 193rd Special Operations Wing, on October 27, 2016. As commander, he ensures that the Detachment is organized, trained and equipped for its vital Homeland Security mission of CBRN response and medical treatment.
Lorraine directly commissioned as an Internal Medicine physician with the Air Force Reserve in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, in October 2003, and served as OIC Physical Exams and Standards. He transferred to the Air National Guard in May 2007 and was assigned to the 111th Medical Group at Horsham Air Guard Station, PA. He served as the Chief of Clinical Services, and during this time he also deployed several times as a Critical Care Air Transport Team leader. In January 2014, he transferred to the newly formed Chemical, Biological, Radiologic, Nuclear Enhanced Response Force Medical element, 193rd SOMDG, serving as Chief Medical Officer until assuming command of the CBRN Task Force Medical Detachment based at Ft. Indiantown Gap, Annville Pennsylvania.
Lorraine holds an active Pennsylvania medical license and is the President and Lead Physician of Harleysville Medical Associates, a primary care group practice in Harleysville, PA. He has served as the Principal Investigator in over one hundred clinical research trials. In December 2016, he also was appointed as the Medical Director of the Montgomery County Health Department. As a military physician, Lorraine participated in humanitarian missions to Panama and Kodiak, Alaska. Lorraine deployed to Ramstein AB, Germany in 2012/2013 and to Bagram AB, Afghanistan in 2013/2014 in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. During Operation COVID-19 in 2020, he led the 193 SOMDG/DET 1 as they designed, stood up and staffed the first Community Based Testing Site in Pennsylvania, and later served as the Pennsylvania Task Force Surgeon assigned to the Military Medical Planning Team.
Irene Shepherd, CPNP: Chief Medical Officer, Community Health & Dental Care
Irene Shepherd MSN, CPNP is Chief Medical Officer of Community Health and Dental Care, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Pottstown. Irene has been with CHDC since its beginning in 2008, initially as a pediatric nurse practitioner. As Chief Medical Officer, Irene has been responsible for overseeing all clinical aspects of care at CHDC for the past 2 years. The most significant role in the past year has been leading the Health Center's response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
After graduating with a BSN from the University of Pennsylvania, Irene worked at Children's Hospital for 10 years. Irene returned to the University of Pennsylvania to receive her MSN and certification as a pediatric nurse practitioner. As a PNP, Irene has worked with underserved populations in Reading, Allentown, and Pottstown. She welcomed the opportunity to join CHDC, providing healthcare to her community in Pottstown.
As a pediatric provider for 40 years, Irene is committed to advocating for optimal health and wellness for children as well as optimizing quality care for adults in the community.
Meghan Smith, MPH: Planning and Promotion Coordinator, Chester County Health Department
Meghan Smith is the Health Planning & Promotion Coordinator at the Chester County Health Department. Her background is in non-profit administration and grant management.
She received her MPH from the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University and joined the Chester County Health Department in 2019.
Stacey Woodland: CEO, YWCA Tri-County Area
Stacey joined YWCA Tri-County Area (YW3CA) in 2014 as CEO. Since joining the YW3CA, Stacey has led YW's expansion by increasing the number of adult education students and enrollment in early education and youth empowerment programs. YW3CA is building a reputation as a thought-leader in and advocate for Equity in Education offering Implicit Bias trainings and partnering with other organizations in the fight for the elimination of racism and the empowerment of marginalized women, girls and families.
Ms. Woodland is a 2020 Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute (NELI) Fellow, a 2017 graduate of Harvard University's Strategic Perspectives in Non-Profit Management and currently serves on YWCA USA's CEO Advisory Council and the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey's President's Council. She is a former Commissioner on the Montgomery County Commission on Women and Girls and has served as a national delegate for Vision 2020.
She lives with her husband in Audubon, Pa and is the mother of two married adult children (one daughter and one son) and grandmother of two boys and two girls.
John Harris (Moderator): Director, Veralon
John Harris is a director with Veralon, a healthcare management consulting firm. He recently led Veralon's efforts, along with the Hospital and Health System Association of Pennsylvania, to predict COVID-19 volume at Pennsylvania hospitals. John teaches strategic planning for the American College of Healthcare Executives. He is also editor of the book Healthcare Strategic Planning, 4th Edition.
John has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA in healthcare management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.


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Guest Column: Will Bigotry Sabotage Republicans in 2012?
Politics, religion, and the fights they bring.
by Robert Cogan
In 2008, a controversy erupted between Pastor John Hagee of the 19,000-member Cornerstone Evangelical Church in San Antonio, Texas, and William Donohue, the head of the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights. Hagee had made claims about Catholicism spawning a theology of hate toward Jews. Donahue said that these remarks were insulting to Catholicism. The spat was patched up (at least temporarily). But there has been a history of harsh words between Protestant and Catholic officials. It goes all the way back to Martin Luther's excommunication (1521.) Look back over 2,500 years of Western History. Occasional riots preceded verbal spats, and extreme violence: occasional massacres, persecutions, inquisitions, and wars preceded riots. The young Mormon Church was violently expelled from eastern states where it was founded. But once it got control of Utah, its members were prominently involved in at least one massacre of non-Mormons (Mountain Meadows, 1857.) In May 1844, there was a riot in Philadelphia over whether only the Protestant Bible, or also the Catholic Bible, could be read in public schools. Thirteen people were killed. Even today, sporadic war between religious groups, frequently evangelical Christians versus Muslims, goes on literally around the world along the Tenth Parallel north of the equator (see the book The Tenth Parallel.) Here in the U.S. controversy occasionally erupts about the practice of some Mormons baptizing the dead. Some people of other faiths object that it's "attempted soul stealing." Recently Maureen Dowd, (New York Times, "Is Elvis a Mormon?" 3.18.12) noted that Romney admitted to Newsweek in 2007 that he had engaged in that practice. He said he had done this sometime in the past, but not recently. Romney is a bishop of the Mormon Church. Meantime Rick Santorum has claimed that President Barack Obama's agenda is "about … some phony theology… not a theology based on the Bible..."
Why are religious differences such durable sources of division among humans? A religion is a group of humans, larger than a cult, which has a church, a creed, and a code of morals. The creed is the dogma, sentences such as "I believe in one God…" etc. Or is it three Gods in one? Sentences of dogma do not claim anything that could be checked by observation with our senses. And history reveals that they are not subject to major revision or withdrawal from within the religion. The same non-verifiability is true of non-behavior implying claims about another person's pure states of mind, e.g., beliefs. There is no way, e.g., to verify or falsify claims that "X is not a Christian" or "X is a Christian," in his mind, in his secret heart of hearts. Unless of course, the claimant is a mind reader! Religions emerged before nations. But their sheer size, in number of adherents and territory of prevalence, is so large that their church leaders must contend with others for domination of people, their labor, and resources to support their church personnel (land, water, crops, craft goods, trade, and temple offerings, i.e., pre-taxes.) That conflict is the source of their nation – like characteristics. It further sustains all forms of intolerance: bigotry, racism, sexism, and hyper patriotism.
Religions are inherently political. They are proto-nations, nascent governments. Their personnel (whatever called) judge and police their member's behavior. Proselytizing, seeking converts, sometimes by Evangelism, spreading their "good news," is their form of expansion. When applied to nations, it becomes "imperialism." Like nations, they have had coercing forces, often explicit armies. Dominionism is the Christian religion's Manifest Destiny. Martyrdom is honored among Dominionists as is extreme valor in a national military cause. After all, it is refusal to switch loyalties, even under torture or death threat. "Onward Christian (Jewish, Muslim, etc.) Soldiers!" Prohibitions on masturbation and homophobia: well, they won't produce cannon fodder, will they?
Creeds function like pledges of allegiance. That's a reason the most powerful atheist writers and science-based debaters can't faze religious witnesses by challenging them with any facts. They may affect audience members, but it's really at cross purposes to answer "I believe in…" with "Your belief is false, and here's why…" In western societies (European), disagreements in creeds between religions often arose out of exegesis, interpretations of basically "the same" scripture. But no factual inquiry can progress to settlement. When such disagreements became acute, schism, persecutions, inquisitions, even wars have occurred. Church rulers arrogated to their own authority not only dogma, but notions they develop about how congregants should behave, such as the 613 commandments of the Torah. These often go far beyond what creeds explicitly imply. Many of these in all religions eventually appear to laity as inconvenient, restrictive, irrational, exploitative of money, without survival value, anti-scientific, and sometimes even harmful. How inconvenient and restrictive are some of these religious dictates? Here's an example: "Sickness is the Will of God, to be treated only by prayer." Another is: "No one should ever have or perform an abortion under any circumstances." For a scientifically-minded person, to cite a fact, such as that 50% – 70% of fertilized eggs never implant," is simply not relevant to contradicting people who hold such a religious allegiance. In a secular democracy, all one can do is beat them at the polls in making law and hack out a compromise like Roe v. Wade.
Dictionaries define "bigotry" as a stubborn devotion to a church, or creed, and intolerance of any that differs. The word itself may even have originated in emphatic religious swearing, "By God!" Similar devotion to and intolerance of other races, nations, or sexual orientations gets other names: racism, jingoism, homophobia, etc. Partisans, even extreme, just take the part of some cause. Bigotry is more virulent. Bigotry deforms one's intellectual character and damages one's potential moral character. Bigots have trouble with reality. They commit to un-provable dogma, and so can't acknowledge some facts. Bigotry stupefies people, substituting their strong emotions for reason and reality. Thus it impairs capacity for citizenship in a tolerant civil democracy. Bigots pridefully think: "I'm theologically correct; others are perverse in belief and morals, e.g., they sanction outright murder!" Bigotry may play a large role in defeat of any Republican candidate in 2012. People who claim others are "not real Christians," have "phony theologies" or demonstrate irrelevantly at funerals like the homophobic Westboro Baptists, or burn Korans, as well as dead soul baptizers, are "playing the religion card." In motivating violent behavior, the religion card may trump even the race card. Our founders wisely wrote, "No religious Test shall ever be required as a qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States" (Constitution, Art. 6 Sec. 3.) For presidential candidates to make such theological, or mind-reader claims, publicly sets a divisive example. It opens the lid of Pandora's Box to a past fetid with insults and, earlier, riots, mass murder, inquisitorial torture, and genuine war.
It's possible that some of the remarks of candidates were meant for other purposes than to win nominations. American politics is also bad theater "entertainment." Masses of Americans freely contribute small sums of money to candidates, failing to realize that many small donations add up to a lot of influence, even money power. A lucrative career may await anyone, like Santorum, who gains such support. The career is that of being an avatar for the contributors' religious – political views. Look at the salaries of Fox newscasters, or better, the contracts of "hatertainers" Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. But since it's divisive, bigotry ought to divide people and be politically vincible. Maybe many Mormons won't come out and vote, if Republicans eventually nominate two non-Mormons. Perhaps many Catholics won't vote for Republicans, if no Catholic like Santorum gets either nomination. Possibly a lot of Evangelicals will be unmotivated to vote by a ticket with a Mormon like "flip flopper" Romney at the top and a Catholic like Santorum for Vice President. We'll see.
Guest Editorial: Saving Human American Citizens, Rather than Corporations
by Robert Cogan8/8/2012, 11:00 AM
Robert Cogan says congressional gridlock is nearly completely phony. Do you agree?
Guest Editorial: Shopping the Supermarket: Mirage of a Free Market
by Robert Cogan6/13/2012, 7:30 AM
Supermarket Illusions: Scores of brands of cereal, made by very few producers. So many are already sweetened it's hard to choose unsweetened "original" ones. Pre-sweetened ones are deceptively "cheap," because you pay taxes to subsidize corn production.
Guest Editorial: Cruising Toward the End of Western Empire
by Robert Cogan5/22/2012, 12:34 PM
Ships and passengers, like the Titanic and those aboard, sometimes represent whole societies. Their wrecks represent apocalypses often caused in part by human moral failings.
Guest Editorial: Wall Street, Main Street: Whose Economy Got Served, Part Two
Inflation is not everybody's enemy equally.


In tropical countries, a garden filled with plants has become one feature in designing a house. VTN Architects and ICADA subtly collide a house and a garden, by designing Hoan House as a 'hanging garden' where nature coexists with architecture.
Hoan House—included in the architect's series of 'house for a trees'—is located among the mountains and ocean. The shape of Hoan House responds to the shape of mountains by sloping in a staggered appearance. It also behaves to the local building code that requires the roof to be sloped. The local code also directs how fifty per cent of the roof has to be covered with grey or orange-colour tiling. The roof is finally divided into parallel bands of the green areas and the grey-tiled area, creating a rhythm between the plants and the roof.
The interior of Hoan House is furthermore structured by the system of parallel bands itself. Materials which are used to cover the upper roof intentionally arrange the spaces underneath it. The living room, dining room, and bedrooms are placed under the tiled roof, while the services areas are placed under the green roof, where the ceilings are lower.
In order to intensify air circulation and natural lighting, there is a void and three patios inside the house. The architect also enhances the tropical ambience in Hoan House by enhancing wooden materials with wide windows.
Whether as a residential building or a 'hanging garden', Hoan House successfully creates a space to grow plants while at the same time allowing the residents to enjoy the breath-taking view of the mountains.


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Malta news: City Gate project
Malta news: City Gate project - Further 'praise' for North Korea - Malta seeing low fertility rate, steep increase in working women - European Investment Bank to help finance City Gate project.
Further 'praise' for North Korea
Recent claims, later denied, by a North Korean news agency that President George Abela and Opposition Leader Joseph Muscat had praised their regime were not a first, as a look at the agency's archives uncovered other instances when Maltese politicians were quoted uncharacteristically paying tribute to North Korea. A search through the Korean Central News Agency's archives – articles dating back to 1997 are available online – reveals reports of similar praise from former presidents Ugo Mifsud Bonnici and Guido de Marco. Their "statements" sound particularly atypical of both men – as was the case with Dr Muscat and Dr Abela, further reducing the credibility of the latest reports. Earlier this month, the KCNA reported that Dr Muscat and Dr Abela both praised the country's leadership and policies. Both denied the reports, but the Nationalist Party has repeatedly condemned Dr Muscat for what he allegedly said over the past few days, linking it to an agreement a Labour government had reached with North Korea in the 1980s.(independent.com.mt) It is a way to attract investment.
Malta seeing low fertility rate, steep increase in working women
Maltese society is seeing a low fertility rate and a sharp rise in the number of women who are working, a parliamentary committee has been told. The subject was discussed at a meeting of the Family Affairs Committee in the context of a discussion on priorities in the work-life balance. The Director of the University Centre for Family Studies, Prof. Angela Abela, said that a silent revolution is taking place in Malta. Although only 40 per cent of women in Malta are in employment, the pattern is changing radically according to different age groups. The female work participation rate for the 25 to 29 years group had increased by 14 per cent from 56 per cent of the female working population in 2001 to 70 per cent in 2010. This increase was the steepest in all EU member states over the same period, meaning that the country was shifting from a traditional society to one of working couples. The increase in female work participation was also much in evidence in the 30 to 34 year groups from 49 to 60 per cent and among the 35 to 39 year group from 27 to 50 per cent. The statistics, she said, were the result of research made by 39 members of diverse professions. The research also showed that 31 per cent of young mothers were prepared to return to work after six months of birth to be able to cope with the family's financial burdens.(timesofmalta.mt) Educate and work together is not easy.
European Investment Bank to help finance City Gate project
Finance Minister Tonio Fenech said today that the European Investment Bank has agreed to finance half of the City Gate/new Parliament project through a low-interest loan of €40m. Speaking at a press conference this afternoon, Mr Fenech said the loan will be given to Malita, the investment company which the government has created as a special purpose vehicle to finance the project. He said that other funding for the project will include €25m of government capital investment in Malita and €15m through public subscription of shares in the company. Malita will lease the parliament building to the government. He did not say what the company's revenue from this source would be. The minister was reacting to comments made this morning by Opposition leader Joseph Muscat. Dr Muscat said the creation of a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to finance the City Gate project did not make sense. Addressing a news conference in front of the new Parliament building, Dr Muscat said that the government was committing future revenue to service this project, putting future generations in debt. Finance Minister Tonio Fenech yesterday said that an investment company, Malita, had been set up as an SPV to finance the €80m City Gate project. The government will retain 70% shareholding in the company and open the remaining shareholding to public subscription.(timesofmalta.com) It's good thing for Malta.
France défiscalisation: immobilier loi scellier - loi duflot simplifiée
Journée de la laïcité 2012: par delà laïcité et tolérance?
Des milliers de manifestants défendent l'unité de l'Espagne
Condamnés au bénéfice du doute
UMP: à quand la fin de la crise?
Vendredi 25 Octobre 2013 - 18:52	 Fête des bergers et des traditions de Provence
Mardi 11 Décembre 2012 - 19:29	 France défiscalisation: immobilier loi scellier - loi duflot simplifiée
Dimanche 9 Décembre 2012 - 23:43	 Journée de la laïcité 2012: par delà laïcité et tolérance?


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"Every generation rewrites the book's epitaph; all that changes is the whodunit."
Matthew Schantz August 13, 2012
Proclaiming the death of the book has been in vogue nearly as long as the book itself. Leah Price presents a short history of our pessimism for the future of the written word.
Matthew Schantz is an intern for The Millions. He is currently studying English and Russian at Columbia University.
Identifying in the First Person
Kaulie Lewis August 8, 2014
Lob One for Iain
Thom Beckwith April 5, 2013
Amidst the tragic news that Iain Banks has cancer, The Telegraph responds with a headline for the ages: "Iain Banks taught me that books can be a hand grenade"
The Graphic Novel Warhorses
Ujala Sehgal October 18, 2010
Alexander Chee posts the list of texts he used to teach his seminar on the graphic novel at Amherst – the graphic novel "warhorses," as he calls them – and explains why they are the essential books for those interested in getting to know the form. (via The Rumpus)
Ujala Sehgal
Facebook Fun
C. Max Magee August 13, 2009
Millions Fans: The Millions Facebook group now has over 400 members. We'll be asking group members to help us with some upcoming special features, so join up (if you're into that sort of thing.)
"Loving" to Read
Kaulie Lewis February 7, 2015
Shhhh!
Nick Moran April 7, 2012
"A quiet hero of contemporary literature"
At The Paris Review, a remembrance of Evan S. Connell, whose work has been cited as an influence by Jonathan Franzen, Lydia Davis and Zadie Smith.
Also, Empathy
Cara DuBois August 21, 2015
Recommended Reading: In The Atlantic, Alaa Al Aswany shows how literature can inspire empathy by analyzing one word, "also," in Dostoyevsky's The House of the Dead. Al Aswany also has a new book out this week, featured in our latest New Release Day.
Cara DuBois


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Tomboy hace referencia a varios artículos:

 Tomboy es una mujer que demuestra una apariencia o actitud que se consideran tradicionalmente masculinos, sin que esto influya de ninguna manera en su orientación sexual.
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Mt. Eden 1978-82
Drew Hubner
It started in a pool hall. Juan Colon had a girl friend, and so did the cop, Jimmy O'Donnelly. The problem was it was the same girl. Usually a policeman is issued whatever number comes up, but special requests can be made. His father arranged for Jimmy O'Donnelly to get his namesake's shield, from grandfather to grandson. His wife had their third kid in four years. They were high school sweethearts. Neither of them had been with anyone else.
Juan Colon on the other hand was a mac daddy. And this girl Clemente had it bad for him. She was trying to get Juan's attention somehow and she met O'Donnelly.
That day after the protest we all met at the pool hall. Not O'Donnelly's wife of course, she was home with the kids, but the other three and the men got into it.
The sister was playing with the cop and she bent over the table and Juan Colon whistled. It wasn't just any whistle either. It was like I've had that shit and I can get it again any time I want.
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Jimmy O'Donnelly didn't like that. He didn't like where he was. He didn't like the fact that he was here cheating on his wife while she was home with the three bawling children.
Juan Colon was the kind of man to pick up on something like that. Juan had that easy confidence and that really strong sense of himself in his own skin.
Jimmy O'Donnelly was the exact opposite. He was that white boy shutdown angry energy, all uptight and not in touch with his physicality at all. They say that white boys can't dance. Juan Colon could dance. He moved like a woman, and he fought like a wild cat.
O'Donnelly got in over his head, and he had to back off. He had gone in there alone with the Clemente girl. Something in him did not feel too comfortable with what he was doing and who he was. He never had a choice in love. He and his wife knew each other from way back, from dads in short sleeves off work from the job at cookouts cracking open beers in the backyard, little girl, little boy chasing each other around, all cute and cuddly from the beginning of time as they knew it.
He had to be a cop. Yet he was a natural; he was good at it and if he had ever the chance to grow into that role he would have been very good at it, but he never got that chance. Not after Juan Colon.
In the poolhall O'Donnelly was surrounded and humiliated. He popped Colon real good a couple of times, but there were no other cops and a lot of Juan Colons.
Miss Clemente was tall and curvy and pistol smart. Her father took her out of school and put her to work in that clothing store on the Hub. She and Jimmy O had in common that they were under the great big thumb of their fathers. Officer Jimmy O'Donnelly went back to his wife and his family. What else was he going to do? He told himself it was forever with Lucy Clemente every time they were together, but it was only forever in the moment. She fell into the discos. She was well known in the Bronx and even in Manhattan.
When next she was seen, it was in one of those heroin and crack sweatshops with one Manny Colon. She was not one of the naked girls who handle the product, she was the one with the whip, the overseer of the slaves. While Manny ran the streets, she oversaw the operation on the home front.
She got into it a little herself at the time, a little too much blow, the pretty girl's cold, back and forth with dope to balance each other out, then she dropped out suddenly. Even Manny could not find her. She had met a man on the train; they had gone on a few dates. She had one of those irresistible faces and like Juan, a graceful leonine athleticism. After five or six dates they became serious and this man proposed to her.
She lives in Greenwich now and has a horse and a stable and three beautiful children. He does not ask her about her past and she does not tell him.
That afternoon Jimmy O'Donnelly took her by the hand and out of the pool hall, but in a matter of seconds by the way she looked back, it was clear even to him, blinded by rage and pride as he was, that she would never be able to leave behind Juan Colon.
Jimmy O'Donnelly released her and she ran back inside, and for the most part, out of his life. They saw each other a few more times, but that moment had made itself clear.
Juan had yelled out to O'Donnelly, something tough and cocky like,
Don't ever let me see you again.
O'Donnelly said at most two words of his own, something like,
So next they met on Melrose Avenue in the middle of the night, on the occasion already described by two different witnesses. Clearly through no fault of their own they experienced mere fragmentary aspects of our complete story. Let me humbly add to the confusion.
First and foremost Juan Colon did not die on Melrose Avenue that night. He certainly must have appeared as good as dead to the adjunct professor. And maybe he was confused about the timing of it all. Which is understandable under the circumstances. One of Juan Colon's back ribs was ruptured and sticking through his skin, puncturing his lung. His face was a bloody mess, his skull cracked.
O'Donnelly did not run him down with the car as wantonly as the adjunct professor describes.
Juan saw the car and tried to jump out of the way.
O'Donnelly swerved and at the last instant in a jump of balletic grace Colon leaped atop the car as it screeched to a stop, then bounded against the windshield, since the Dodge was not going that fast, even if he had gunned it as described it was up hill and he was barely moving as they pulled away from the curb after making the pickup of the bag of money from one, Frank Ellis, itinerant piano jazz genius, paramour and escort of blue blooded young ladies by evening, little league coach by weekend, capable of paying off teenagers to induce them to commit casual arson and at the same time convince an heiress to trust and marry: Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name.
In fact old Frankie did a Latin jazz Willie Bobo accompanied Stones medley of that song with "Gimme Shelter" and "Midnight Rambler" that was funny, freaky and chilling all at the same time, my brother.
Follow this: Frank Ellis witnessed the beating Jimmy O'Donnelly administered to Juan Colon on the Melrose Avenue sidewalk. I got this from the lucky devil himself.
The thing was that O'Donnelly got it just as bad.
A cop is taught to shoot for center force. A cop is not supposed to be marksman; this does him no good. He is not taught to shoot to kill. A marksman is someone who can bring down a target with one shot. This is well and good for a sniper, but we are not talking about a sniper situation. We are talking about a squad of vice cops going into a known narcotics operations spot with their weapons drawn and flushing out between fifteen and twenty perpetrators. The facts are known that O'Donnlelly shot Colon in the chest twice and if the first shot, which pierced an already damaged lung, was not enough to kill him, the second, which essentially exploded his heart, was.
Colon was dead in a few moments and O'Donnelly and the bust went on. Colon was holding a hammer and clutched it in his death convulsions. Whether the circumstances of this decision or instinctual shot haunted O'Donnelly is a good question, he never talked about it. He never talked about much besides his family, the Yankees and the job.
What's interesting to think about for any student or inquirer into the nature of manhood is whether or not their prior relationship had anything to do with the way that either man reacted to the moment of the situation. They saw each other. They shouted in recognition. They were barely inches away, in a darkened hallway that both had stepped into in a virtually simultaneous instant of movement. Colon raised the hammer and O'Donnelly pulled the trigger.
Another sidebar worth mentioning is the amphetamine habit that O'Donnelly had at the time. It was going around. It was the age of greenies for baseball players and a lot of heads, even college students were into pink hearts, white crosses and the like. It was the peak year for No-Doz nationwide in terms of sales, which is interesting to note. Whether this all got replaced by cocaine when it got easier and cheaper to get is, while pretty much obvious to any dopefiend, not something that anyone has the means to prove.
At this point, O'Donnelly, like the crowd he ran with in the department, was popping pills to get up in the morning, pills for the job, pills for sex and pills to drink more and then drinking more to be able to pass out and then having to pop another pill or two in the morning to make up for that. He was always a speed freak. His brother talks of him going into crazy Evel Knieval-type tricks, even as a kid with his bicycle, jumping over trash cans, a gushing fire hydrant, even once the family dogs: a collie and a lab.
That three of the other dealers involved were shot in this raid had some bearing on how the whole thing played out. There were witnesses among the underground who saw what happened between Juan Colon and Jimmy O'Donnelly and one of them was a brother by the name of Manny Colon a/k/a "The Mule."
He witnessed his brother's death from less than twenty paces. He saw the fatal confrontation from a stairway. He stopped dead right there and was taken under arrest by one of O'Donnelly's partners.
He was walked by the body of his heaving, dying brother.
O'Donnelly had caught a glimpse of Manny without of course knowing who he was. O'Donnelly saw him being subdued in the next frame of instant and moved on. They had a house to clear, an operation to eliminate, a job to do and the fact that he had just shot a man did not allow him even an instant to pause for that might get him shot.
They ended up in the backyard with 12 men and boys including Manny Colon on their faces in the scraggly dirt in grass of a late afternoon. The paddywagon arrived, the prisoners were marched single file around to the front and taken to the 3rd Avenue courthouse and jail for eventual arraignment. The arresting officers went to the bar.
Since Manny Colon was only seventeen, he was released to his father hours after the Walton Ave stash house bust. Two days later they held poor Juan's funeral. From which Juan Colon, a popular kid, became a Tremont legend. The wake filled the three blocks surrounding the funeral parlor up by Poe's Park, with fire hydrants open in Juan's honor, and 4 two-man squads of police on patrol.
For the Mule, it became the thing in his life, at first a motivator and later quite something else. He never got the look of the guy who shot his brother out of his head, point-blank range, twice in the chest and so when he saw him again he knew what to do.
It was like a picture that was already painted. It was just a matter of filling in the colors.
Two things were set into the inextricable destiny of the world in that dusty hallway on Walton Ave by the college: that Manny Colon would become a kingpin and that one day he would avenge the killing of his brother at the hands of one Jimmy O'Donnelly.
He finished his schoolboy football career all state topping the league in tackles and concussions. He had a way of leading with his head. He became the Mule. What once had hurt him, he started to enjoy, to relish, to explore. He shook his head a couple times and got back in the game.
He went through money like it was water. He treated women with respect and grace, but cheated on them at will and whim. He had a place on the upstairs porch of one of the stash houses on Bush Ave where he sat and took time for himself. Otherwise he never stopped in his single mission. He fought, killed, and fathered. He was a man of his word. Who didn't know his name paid for it.
Somehow when he sat on the porch, he got that it was already written somewhere and it was his job to take it as painless as possible, to turn water into wine, to fill others lives with grace, no matter the circumstances and that was what everyone would say about Manny that he was a man nonetheless. You might shake your head, but you would respect him. He never even cheated the low-level corporal or dealer.
He always treated the police with respect. He spoke reverently of his childhood dream to be a pilot as if he had somehow achieved it, as if it were a real thing. He was a true psychopath in the strictest sense of the term. He had the ability, the innate talent, to perform whatever task he had before him while having his mind exist in a wholly other realm. He told his recruits tales of King Arthur and got them to believe. He believed his own bullshit.
Until that day on Anthony Ave when shots rang out and everyone on the street ran up the hill, just a block and a half from the droning din of the Cross Bronx Expressway. A crowd of hundreds gathered in moments.
The Cassidy Mansion was the first house in the Bronx.
If you'd ever had the opportunity to be invited there to a birthday party back in the day, you still spoke of it. Everyone was welcome. Even Frank Ellis, when he was the prince of the place for his short reign, invited some into the yard during the neighborhood block parties.
Because that's what they were, the Royal family of Tremont, and the way that subjects identify with the kings and queens was the way that we felt about our Cassidy Mansion, so on that day when the shots rang out and Townes Walker lay on the driveway, we all went up there to see what happened.
Maggie's mother was bleeding and someone had given her a handkerchief. The police and ambulances were there.
The fallen man was put in the rescue squad truck and the crowd parted. The Mule was watching with everyone else until the instant when he saw O'Donnelly. Then it was like one of those parts in the movie when a laser point comes on the screen and zeroes in one face like a sniper sight on a high powered rifle.
He recognized O'Donnelly though it was almost four years since the killing of his brother Juan on Walton Ave. Manny Colon had become the youngest kingpin in our knowledge of the world; he was a legend. He had been checking his crew of four or five dealers in the area, four who manned the corners opposite the points of the circle where Tremont meets Webster and one that roamed, getting customers wherever he could.
There was a constant stream of traffic and business in those days. It is hard to describe except to note that a dealer, from the moment he showed up on the street with product, was busy until he left. Guys were accosted until they became weary of the sight of their brood, until they became hooked to the power they held over their own minions.
They kept their stashes in their pockets and a larger one in a paper bag they would discard nearby, in a trash can by a curb or whatever, and if anyone touched it, or even looked at it, there would be a very big problem.
This was Manny's biggest rule. It is not a matter of shit, it's a matter of pride. If someone takes you off they don't respect you and this must be taken care of. There is no other way.
O'Donnelly had put on a little weight. He wore a military regulations mustache out to the corners of his mouth. He had a crew cut because it was dead summer. He had taken his hat off to scratch his brow. The Mule saw a certain look in his eye and said something like,
Uh, can I get you something?
O'Donnelly wasn't stupid. He saw who and what Manny was. He was a man who could get him as much crack as he wanted for as long as he wanted, for a nice two- or three-day run until he discarded him because you know he was a cop. He was vice squad, and Manny Colon, he didn't recognize him in the front part of his awareness of the situation though he knew who he was as a local dealer.
Drugs are like that; they allow the taker to layer the things in his mind so that there are different levels of reality. He knew who Manny was, point-blank, but if anyone asked him he needed to have a level of plausible deniability, why, don't ask that kind of question. It is enough to say that it had come up in passing a couple times in precinct business that this wannabe kingpin kid was the little brother of the man he had killed with his service revolver. Most cops, contrary to television and popular conceptions, never kill anyone in the line of duty. Most seldom even fire their guns, so if you do, you remember.
There was another emotional dimension that had to be respected.
He could not admit at first that he still dreamed of Juan Colon and that hallway. He dreamed of what could have happened had it gone down differently at either stage, at the pool hall, on Melrose Ave or in the hallway.
He and Juan matched up perfectly as opponents, and just as a man, if he is lucky enough, gets to meet his or her perfect lover, or certainly the closest thing that will come to it in their lifetime before death, and always dreams of this person as a fallback sort of thing, whenever unhappy, if he ends up with someone else or not, even if he may dream of the younger more agreeable version of his own wife, as Jimmy O'Donnelly also did; but Manny Colon and O'Donnelly didn't bullshit each other, they were too smart for that, and for the next four days they danced, each teasing himself with the delicious idea of killing the other at the right moment, like a delicious tango that neither one of them could deny, like the couple who see each other across a crowded dance floor and simply must end up having a drink at the bar.
Then it's your place or mine.
This is what happened that moment with Jimmy O'Donnelly and Manny Colon. But let's forget, if we can forget all that three- and four-dimensional crap and get to the bare bones of the what took place in the next ninety-six hours.
O'Donnelly had made detective.
He wore his shield on his shirt now. He looked good, he looked like Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity, with white shirt and chinos, in the sun, but if you looked closer you realized he was much more like Monty Clift because there was something haunted about his handsome face. He was looking for his own death and, just as something clicked in Manny in that moment, something also clicked in Detective Jimmy O'Donnelly because he had found his destiny.
You got something for me, you say.
They played it out like it was a tip. This was plausible enough. Dealers, especially ones as high up as the Mule, often talked to the cops, to tease them, to get them drugs or women if they were so inclined or to lay a seed for later if they were not. They reinitiated contact and proceeded to have a conversation at a pizza place that had a window where they served slices and sodas to the people of the sidewalk.
This was back down Tremont Avenue. Even here they were still on the fringe of the crowd that had gathered around the scene of the murder. There would be people soaking up the remnants of dispersed energy and madness there for the rest of the day because murder scenes are like that. This is what the ghetto gets off on, the street dramas that everyone is so addicted to it's like sports.
They stood talking even though anyone watching would not have been able to tell Manny gave him the small paper bag of crack and heroin he just happened to have as a drop off to one of his lieutenants. As in look what I found officer you better take care of this.
Jimmy went on a legendary run, and went on to suffer the worst death of any of the rogue crack cops of his era. He was found in a room on Webster Ave with his head stove in and the carpenter's hammer that had done the deed still stuck in his skull four days later.
Manny kept an eye on him whether it was his or not until O'Donnelly was depleted and delirious and then he took his life, as O'Donnelly had taken his brother's.
Manny was able to stay on the street for some time and then he himself was arrested and there was no one to testify to the murder and no evidence that could be pinned to him. What Manny had done was put Jimmy O'Donnelly in the able hands of his lieutenants both male and female, so he knew where he was and what he was doing the whole time. He checked on him once or twice. He knew he cried to a whore, that he bragged to a barroom full of Yankee fans that he went home to tearfully kiss each of his children as if he knew what train he had gotten on and where it would crash.
It is said that O'Donnelly spent the last hours of his life looking out a corner window of the Tremont Plaza Hotel south and east toward the Tremont Oval, where in those days at night the gatherers there at the head of the drug bazaar the circle had become wandered to and fro like the penitent congregants of some long forsaken and outlandish pagan pageantry, where its denizens sat on the benches jabbering in unintelligible tongues, lighting up in full view of passersby or passed out on the same grass in various states of ecstasy and ruin. In his mind at the end it was a source of both envy and disdain for the born cop that he could not join them, that his own bloody transcendence awaited him, and would be met in the dark hovel, his final refuge.
Officer Bobby O'Donnelly was found in the Webster Hotel with the carpenter's hammer embedded in the frontal bone of his skull, it was only a matter of time for Manny Colon. Granted it would take a little while. These things always do. The police force was in shambles, overworked, underpaid and undernourished in terms of appreciation from the public. The shine had worn off the badge. Also he was only one asshole and there were a lot of them out there, but if he was not public enemy #1, for what he had done to O'Donnelly, he was running a close second, rogue cop or not.
Note one: the frontal bone is the one at protects the brain and as such is the strongest bone in the body. The officer's skull had been penetrated not once but not less than four times. The bone was effectively broken in half and the point of the back-end of the hammer damaged the officer's inner ear.
Even the most seasoned officers upon entering the room and looking around for a moment soon rushed out when it dawned on them what had happened here and were sick in the hallway bathroom, a few only made it as far as the trashcan by the cot.
Officer O'Donnelly was given a full honor guard funeral. For those of you who don't know, Tremont Ave goes all the way east to the end of the great North American continent in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx. A few blocks south of our avenue, on Lafayette, there's a graveyard, St. Raymond's, and that's where Bobby ended up, next to his grandfather, on their graves was carved the very same shield number. The wails of the widow reached such a pitch that they were imitated by a flock of birds that alighted in the upper branches of nearby trees, achieving at one point a relatively perfect pitch of high C.
After he left the room in the Webster Hotel, Manny Colon took a shower down the hall, shaved, shit, changed his clothes, applied cologne and went on a hot date with a freaking fly sister by the name of Delilah Gomez. It had taken him six months of preparation for this. She was an undergraduate nursing student at Hostos. She was 19. That was by day. By night she graced the club sport spots of our neighborhood with her long legs, leonine grace and bubble packed booty.
If the bus stop and the bump were not invented to show off her God-given gifts, after a few minutes watching this fine young thing in their employment any witness would agree it was academic anyway. Nothing mattered after seeing her shake that thing and more babies were born just because of what watching her did to the boyfriends and husbands of those girls present in Delilah's sphere of influence. For all that it was her teeth, her smile and the well… intelligence with which she danced, that she brought to the dance floor that distinguished her. Manny was with her when they saw the police report on the O'Donnelly cop killing. Jimmy came on and spoke briefly about his brother and it was in that instant that Manny realized he had killed the wrong one.
He dropped a water glass and it shattered on the tile floor. He put on his pants and walked out the door.the young lady yelled after him, to no avail. This was the first year of the Serrano Scholars program at Hostos, and she would be one of the first students chosen to continue her education begun at Hostos, at Columbia University. After graduation she next landed in Ethiopia, Sri Lanka and Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia before decamping to a 3-bedroom condo in Bethesda where she worked in the state department. At each stop of the way, accommodations had to be made for the son she had conceived with Manny Colon the very night of the morning that began with Officer Bobby O'Donnelly's head stove in.
Manny the Mule lasted on the streets for exactly 337 days and nights, which put him exactly that many steps behind his mentor Frank Ellis on the staircase down to hell that officials call the New York State Penal system. Manny Colon had enough uncut cocaine to keep him up all but maybe three hours a night. He only slept well after sex and when he awoke like a bolt he did a little of the white horse to ease himself into the next thing that happened. The one or two nights that he slept through were spent in the wreckage of the train station where our grandfather still stood sentinel. The transit company had installed automated ticket machines and the building was condemned so only our grandfather went inside and for his old ward Manny Colon it was the perfect place to hide and the only time he knew any rest.
There was an All Points Bulletin put out in all five boroughs for the arrest of Manuel Colon thirty two minutes after Officer O'Donnelly's body was discovered, which happened not incidentally a full 83 hours after he expired. It was on a tip from a desk clerk who became disgusted upon discovering that some local rounders were bringing gawkers by for looks; and the smell, which was awful, even with the window open. Manny Colon's wandering sojourn often ended for some minutes respite on the park bench at the end of Mt Eden Ave where he liked the view of the passing cars especially at night on Webster Ave. Other times it ended on one of the benches of Echo Park across Tremont Ave from our church.
I saw him myself after he had been on the run for the better part of a year. Sure he had lost a little weight, but I can swear in the words of the bard that he did look great. In the Cassidy mansion in the drawing room was a Steinway piano. I was walking by the big empty house one night and decided to pay a visit. I was playing for hours before Manny came down the stairs, wiping sleep out of his eyes.
We both laughed at the same time. He was arrested a few weeks later, it was the last time I saw him for a long time.
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