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The NFL conference championships are over, and the stage is set for Super Bowl LVII as the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs are set to battle it out for the chance to hoist the Lombardi Trophy. Here’s a look at the results from yesterday’s games:
Philly Dominates 49ers to Take NFC Championship
The 49ers’ season was destined to become complicated due to their problem with injured quarterbacks. But, unfortunately, this theme came back to haunt them during Sunday’s NFC Championship Game. Brock Purdy, the unbeaten rookie quarterback, injured his throwing elbow on the 49ers’ first possession of the 31-7 loss – the third-most lopsided defeat in 49ers playoff history.
San Francisco has now lost in the NFC Championship Game for a second consecutive season. However, unlike last year’s defeat in Los Angeles, this game looked doomed from the start and is sure to cast a dark cloud over the offseason. The team’s 2021 top draft pick, Trey Lance, was lost with a broken ankle in the home opener and had follow-up surgery only a month ago.
Meanwhile, Jimmy Garoppolo had had a short return until he fractured his foot in early December. Purdy had won eight games in a row and needed one more to become the first rookie to start at quarterback in the Super Bowl.
The Eagles had the luxury of a 14-point halftime lead, which they earned on three touchdown runs. Johnson came in to replace Purdy but couldn’t make an impact, going 7-of-13 for 74 yards and two sacks before suffering a concussion. Purdy then re-entered despite being in no shape to attempt more than two short passes, ending any chance of a comeback.
It was such a dire situation for the 49ers that they sent running back Christian McCaffrey to quarterback for a trick play in the final minutes. San Francisco has now lost six times in the NFC Championship away from home, with this being their most lopsided defeat.
Chiefs Get Close Win Over Bengals To Clinch AFC
The Kansas City Chiefs clinched the AFC Championship on Sunday, defeating the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium. The win sends the Chiefs to the Super Bowl to take on the NFC Champion Philadelphia Eagles. The victory was a genuine team effort, with everyone contributing, from quarterback Patrick Mahomes to all the players on the game-day roster.
KC defensive tackle Chris Jones also had a great game and deserved recognition for his two key sacks. Jones had been without a playoff sack coming into the game, but his presence was felt in a big way on Sunday as he hit Joe Burrow five times, including on the final play of the Bengals’ season.
Mahomes then scrambled for a five-yard gain and had another 15 yards tacked on to the end of the play after a personal foul on the Bengals’ Joseph Ossai for hitting him out of bounds. The costly penalty set up Kansas City kicker Harrison Butker for a 45-yard field goal with eight seconds left on the clock to give the Chiefs the win. Butker struggled during the season due to an ankle injury, but he has come through in the biggest moments this season.
The Chiefs’ victory was made all the more special by head coach Andy Reid, who won six division titles and an NFC Championship in 14 years with the Philadelphia Eagles before coming to Kansas City and winning seven division titles, three AFC titles, and a Super Bowl in ten years.
Sunday’s game was supposed to be the start of the Bengals’ Super Bowl window, but instead, it was the Chiefs who showed why they are a true dynasty. With one more victory in 2022, the narrative will be complete.


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Ironically, Harare City Council dug the greater part of the Central Business District and some residential areas last year, replacing aged water pipes in an exercise that was abandoned before completion.
The Sunday Mail has gathered that the local authority will pump $20 million into the project while a private partner will inject $2 million towards the exercise.
This follows years of the capital city’s reliance on old water infrastructure, resulting in frequent water leakages.
Harare mayor councillor Herbert Gomba said, “We are going to be replacing old water and sewer pipes in the city.
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Martha Cooper, the American photojournalist credited with bringing New York’s 70s and 80s graffiti scene to global visibility, will be in Bucharest for the community street art event Zilele Uriaşi de Pantelimon. The event takes place between October 13 and October 15 at Make a Point.
Cooper worked as a staff photographer for the New York Post during the 1970. She started taking photographs of the graffiti in the city on her way to work. Her book, Subway Art, was dubbed the bible of graffiti.
An exhibition of her work can be seen on October 14 and October 15, from 10:00 to 22:00 at Make a Point (1 Morarilor Road). The photographer will also sit for a discussion with the public on October 15, starting 19:00, also at Make a Point.
Other international artists coming at the event are Moose (UK), the inventor of reverse graffiti; Ella & Pitr (France), the authors of the world’s largest mural; Victor Ash (Denmark), the creator of the world’s largest stencil; Biancoshock (Italy), who has worked in Romania before; and Nada Krstajić (Serbia). They will be joined by Romanian artists Tom (Sorina Tomuleţiu), Robert Obert, Nomado, and Cristiana Comănici.
The public can attend a calligraphy workshop, delivered by Carmen Nistor (Germany), see photo exhibitions, film screenings or contemporary dance performances.
Zilele Uriaşi de Pantelimon will also present the largest rooftop paining exhibition in South East Europe, the organizers said.
Entrance to the event is free. Further details on the program here.
(Photo source: Mikael ‘Mika’ Väisänen/ Wikipedia)

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PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – Pittsburgh Steelers halfback Rashard Mendenhall remained a target of sharp criticism by Twitter users on Tuesday after he posted a message questioning whether news that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed should be cheered.
Hardly “news”, really… the reaction to Mendenhall’s Tweets about bin Laden serves as yet another example of the way Americans, and their corporate media, shoot the messenger rather than address any questions. Notice the Steelers corporation’s immediate response was to “support the troops”, as if asking why they’re fighting in the first place is unfathomable, unpatriotic or objectionable. Actually, Mendenhall addressed this very dilemma succinctly with his reply to some of the Twitter responses: “There is not an ignorant bone in my body. I just encourage you to think.”
Bravo, sir! It’s wonderful to see an athlete serve as a true role model, for a change. Thank you.
As spontaneous celebrations broke out in the hours after the nation learned bin Laden was shot dead by U.S. forces in Pakistan, Mendenhall used the social media site to denounce the response.
“What kind of person celebrates death? It’s amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. We’ve only heard one side,” Mendenhall wrote in a message posted to the social media site on Monday.
Some Twitter users responded by asking if Mendenhall would have said “the same thing when people celebrated Hitler’s death,” others said it was “ignorant” to give bin Laden the benefit of the doubt.
Mendenhall posted a series of about six Tweets, including one questioning whether the collapse of New York’s Twin Towers was actually the result of al Qaeda hijackers flying planes into the buildings.
“We’ll never know what really happened. I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition-style,” said Mendenhall of the tragedy on September 11, 2001 that claimed 2,752 lives in New York City.
Steelers President Art Rooney II said in a message posted on the team’s website that he had not spoken with Mendenhall, “so it is hard to explain or even comprehend what he meant with his recent Twitter comments.”
“The entire Steelers’ organization is very proud of the job our military personnel have done and we can only hope this leads to our troops coming home soon,” Rooney said.
Mendenhall did not immediately respond to messages sent to him through Twitter.
(Reporting by Dan Lovering; Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Jerry Norton)
Here are the other Tweets sent by Mendenhall, as reported in a more thorough AP story, “NFL Star Sparks 9/11 Controversy, May 3 at ESPN (which has since been “updated” and significantly changed at that original link):
PITTSBURGH — Rashard Mendenhall has created a stir with comments made on his official Twitter page regarding Osama bin Laden’s death.
The Pittsburgh Steelers running back on Monday tweeted: “What kind of person celebrates death? It’s amazing how people can HATE a man they have never even heard speak. We’ve only heard one side . . .”
Mendenhall didn’t hold back, even making a reference to the Sept. 11 attacks.
“We’ll never know what really happened. I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style.”
The Steelers felt compelled to act. On Tuesday, team president Art Rooney II released a statement.
“I have not spoken with Rashard, so it is hard to explain or even comprehend what he meant with his recent Twitter comments. The entire Steelers organization is very proud of the job our military personnel have done and we can only hope this leads to our troops coming home soon.”
Mendenhall, who profiles himself as a “conversationalist and professional athlete” on his Twitter page, turned some heads in March, as well, when he supported a comment by Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson comparing the NFL to “modern-day slavery.”
“Anyone with knowledge of the slave trade and the NFL could say that these two parallel eachother,” Mendenhall posted at the time.
Mendenhall is coming off a tremendous season, as he led the AFC champions in carries (324), rushing yards (1,273) and rushing touchdowns (13). He has 2,439 yards in three seasons since being drafted in the 2008 first round out of Illinois.
In the 2010 postseason, Mendenhall ran for 230 yards on 61 carries in three games with four touchdowns, as Pittsburgh defeated the Baltimore Ravens (31-24) and New York Jets (24-19), before falling to the Green Bay Packers 31-25 in the Super Bowl.
Among his other bin Laden tweets:
“I believe in God. I believe we’re ALL his children. And I believe HE is the ONE and ONLY judge.”
“Those who judge others, will also be judged themselves.”
“For those of you who said you want to see Bin Laden burn . . . I ask how would God feel about your heart?”
“There is not an ignorant bone in my body. I just encourage you to think.”
Mendenhall’s string of tweets ended around 6 p.m. Monday. He has not tweeted since.
Sports radio talk shows in Pittsburgh — and around the nation — were fielding calls on Tuesday about his comments.
Mendenhall has 13,631 followers on Twitter, and he personally follows 66. Included in the group he’s following is the Dalai Lama, comedian Sarah Silverman and the Park Community Church in Chicago.

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A short talk by Artur Bildziuk on the development on the cracking of the more advanced encryption used by the German military during the WWII and recognising those unsung heroes who played their part in this story.
The Jozef Pilsudski Institute of London offered an exclusive opportunity to see the Polish Enigma Double next to Enigma machine’s successors: Fialka and NEMA. Jerry McCarthy explained how the messages were encoded and that the Enigma code was considered by its users to be virtually unbreakable; he went on to explain that Polish mathematicians were able to break the code, and created several systems to do so, thereby starting the Enigma Relay.
During the annual Museum, Archives and Libraries Conference (MAB) held in Paris on 28th-30th August 2018, our Institute had the honour of being awarded the Polish Republic’s Diploma of Recognition, signed by the President Andrzej Duda, for outstanding achievement in the conservation and preservation of Polish Culture outside of Poland’s borders.
The special Awards was handed to Anna Stefanicka, Secretary General of Pilsudski Institute of London by Janusz Kuligowski, director of the Archives from President’s Cabinet and celebrates one hundred anniversary of Polish Independence and of fortieth anniversary of MAB conferences. It is in appreciation and thanks to our Institute and especially to its workers, volunteers, interns and other supporters for their dedication, energy and hard work.
On Saturday we had an honour of participating in an unveiling of a long awaited Henryk Zygalski’s memorial stone. The event took place at the Memorial Garden of the Chichester Crematorium in the presence of the cryptologist’s relatives Dr Jeremy Russell, Georgina Donaldson and Anna Zygalska-Cannon, Ambassador of Poland Arkady Rzegocki, Alan Turing's nephew Sir Dermot Turing, and Mayor of Chichester Martyn Bell. We are very grateful to Zygalski’s family for inviting us to witness this moving ceremony commemorating one of the Polish pioneer breakers of the Enigma code.
On Sunday the Institute held a private technical forum presented by Jerry McCarthy focusing on the Zygalski sheets which cracked the German Enigma code in 1938. Our honoured guests included the family of the famous Henryk Zygalski - Mrs Anna Zygalska-Cannon Jeremy Russell, and Georgina Donaldson. It was a perfect opportunity to present our long term supporters Jerry McCarthy and Dermot Turing with the silver badge of the Pilsudski Institute of London.
With a truly International and diverse audience attended by Councillor Daryl Brown, Mayoress of Hammersmith and Fulham with her consort Benito Brown, and Mr Jerzy Uklanski the Polish Consul, Tadashi Imai’s piano recital of Polish composers was outstanding. His background description on each piece captured the history and mood of the time and of the composers lives adding a dimension of empathy to the passionate music created during Poland’s partitioning and strong desire for independence.
Congratulations to the Polish Heritage Society UK on the successful and well attended 6th Conference hosted by the Polish Embassy in London. The presentations about Poland restoring her independence in November 1918 after 123 years of partitioning, together with the mood in the international arena at the time were very interesting. Our Institute was proud to participate with Anna Stefanicka giving an outstanding portrayal about the important contribution of women in Pilsudski's little known about "secret army".
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Flir K45 240 x 180 Thermal Camera Kit
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By Van Smith
Published in City Paper, July 30, 2008 (Photo from Baltimore City Police Department)
“Come here with an ambulance, quick!”
15-year-old Ronald Alberto Hinton cries over the phone to the 911 operator just after noon. “My little cousin fell on the porch, hit her head, she ain’t getting up. Come on, hurry up!” Seconds later, he tells the operator she “fell and hit her head on the ground.” When the responding medics and police arrive, Hinton, who is the baby sitter, tells them that 4-year-old Ja’niya Ebony Woodley fell while jumping on the bed.
Hinton is at 2908 Goodwood Road in Northeast Baltimore, a house rented by his uncle Leland Slater and Slater’s longtime companion, Deborah Wall, who are the unconscious girl’s grandparents. Daikwon Eaddy, the girl’s 7-year-old brother, is the only other person at the house when the authorities arrive. He corroborates the fall from the bed, but his version differs from Hinton’s on where she landed.
The first responders quickly conclude the child’s extensive injuries–the most obvious are that her face is black and blue and swollen, her lower lip is busted, and there are bite marks on her chest and thigh and bruises all over, especially on her thigh and back–resulted from child abuse, some of it sexual. The boys’ stories don’t hold up. One of the medics, according to her statement in the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) homicide file of the case, says that “seeing the bruises, I knew that no matter how high the bed was, the bruises were older than what [Hinton] made them appear to be.”
Shortly after 1 p.m. on June 21, 2006, the victim is transported by ambulance to Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore, where Dr. Jamie Schwartz examines her and tells Baltimore police detectives that her injuries “are not accidental,” noting her condition: “critical with minimal brain activity, a bite on her nipple, old bites on chest, and left thigh.” Injuries to the vaginal area are also observed, and a kit used to gather evidence of rape is administered, including a swab to test for genetic material left in the bite marks on the left thigh.
Also arriving at the hospital are several of the victim’s relatives, and a chaotic scene soon erupts when the child’s actual parentage becomes known to shocked family members for the first time. Her name is not Ja’niya Woodley, it turns but, but Ja’niya Williams. Tempers flare as the child’s mother, Joy Eaddy, is caught having lied to Keenan Woodley, who up until that moment thought he was Ja’niya’s father, and John Williams, the child’s actual father, who learns suddenly that Keenan Woodley was also helping to raise the child. The shift in the family tree also means Hinton is not Ja’niya Williams’ cousin, as he thought when he called 911 a couple of hours earlier, and that Slater and Wall are not her grandparents.
A city Department of Social Services (DSS) social worker attempting to interview family members reports that she encounters rage and indignation as they start “yelling they did not abuse” the victim. Joy Eaddy does “not show any signs of remorse, sadness or concern” over her daughter’s injuries, and is “quickly angered” and refuses “to answer any more questions.” A distraught Wall tells paramedics and the police that the child is not abused and that her only injuries occurred the day before, when she fell into a fan and hurt her head. Another DSS caseworker informs police that Joy Eaddy “has a DSS history of child neglect,” without providing details, but tells them that Daikwon Eaddy “was to have no contact with his mother . . . until further notice.”
At police headquarters downtown, at 10 p.m. later that night, Hinton sits in a waiting room with his mother, Francine Toney; he’s been there since shortly before 5 p.m. Daikwon Eaddy is there, too, in Slater’s care. They are waiting to speak with two detectives–William Wagner of the child-abuse section and homicide investigator Todd Corriveau–who have just arrived after spending the afternoon and evening at the hospital, gathering information about Ja’niya Williams’ injuries and family circumstances. At quarter to midnight, after taking a statement from Slater, the detectives start to tape their interview of Eaddy.
Eaddy, the detectives write, says Hinton was “slamming [his sister] on the bed” and “kept on messing with her,” even though “she kept crying for me” to help and Eaddy was telling Hinton to “Stop! Stop!” He describes his sister as “unconscious,” “bleeding from her nose and mouth,” and as having “many bruises on her body.” Eaddy recalls Hinton “was holding his sister’s hands and shaking her,” and also “dragging his sister on the steps inside the home.”
At 12:06 a.m. on June 22, right after Eaddy’s statement is taken, Corriveau writes in his log of the investigation that “Ronald Hinton is now a suspect,” though Hinton and his mother do not know this.
At 12:35 a.m., Hinton is advised of and waives his Miranda rights in the presence of his mother, who is then ushered away. The detectives begin an hourlong preliminary interview, which is not tape-recorded. At 1:36 a.m., they turn on the tape recorder and go over it all again for posterity.
Wagner writes in the charging papers that Hinton confessed to “performing cunnilingus on the victim, fondling and digitally penetrating the victim’s vagina with his fingers, and putting his penis partially in the victim’s vagina. The defendant also bit the victim on her right breast and bit the victim twice on her left thigh. He struck her multiple times with an open hand to the face. At one point the victim ran downstairs and he pursued. He caught her and carried her back upstairs, retrieved a black belt from a closet and beat her with it.”
The detectives note that “Hinton provided information that only he–the suspect–had knowledge of, such as the exact injury to the victim’s body and how her injuries were inflicted,” though the detectives, too, know Williams’ injuries.
At 3:15 a.m., Hinton is charged with rape and assault and put in temporary lockup at the Central District police station. At 4:10 a.m., Corriveau checks to see if Ja’niya Williams is still alive. She is, though she never regains consciousness and dies of her brain injuries on June 23. The next day in the early evening, after the medical examiner rules her death a homicide, murder is added to the list of Hinton’s charges.
When Hinton is transferred to the Central District Intake Facility and is preparing for his bail-review hearing on June 26, his cousin, correctional officer Robin Smith, recognizes him. She looks at his paperwork and listens to what he has to say. “They said I tried to murder somebody,” Smith recalls Hinton saying. “I didn’t do it,” he continues, crying. “They made me sign something, and [said] if I didn’t I would never get to see my mother again, and I’d never go home. They forced me. They made me say I did it, but I didn’t do it.”
After listening to Hinton’s story, Smith gives him some advice: “Don’t talk to no one if they’re not your mother or your lawyer.” She also tells him not to show his charging papers to anyone, warning him that “papers like that can get you killed in here.”
When Ja’niya Williams’ autopsy is conducted on June 24, the medical examiner, Dr. Laron Locke, fills out a diagram with front and back views of a human body. It is used to indicate and describe her external injuries, and it is crowded from her head to her knees with circles and dots connected with lines and arrows to short descriptions of what is observed at various locations. Regarding the head, the notes say: “Whole forehead = general bruise,” with “minor scratches” and a “bruise” around the eyes, while both cheeks are described as “swollen” and the left lower lip is “swollen” with a “small cut” inside.
Corriveau attends the autopsy and compares the findings with Hinton’s confession. He learns that she died as a result of suffering a subdural hematoma, in which veins inside her cranium ruptured, causing blood to constrict and ultimately shut down her swelling brain. Corriveau writes in his summary of the autopsy that this, along with “general blunt force injury to her head,” is “consistent with suspect’s confession that he `beat’ the victim about her head.” He also points out that “skull not fractured; no specific contact `point of impact’ on victim’s head,” and that there are no signs “of any type of strangulation/smothering.”
Corriveau continues his comparison. He notes “abrasions to outside of vagina,” and is reminded that Hinton said he “put his fingers/penis in/on and `rubbed’ victim’s vagina.” He finds the bruising observed at the entry of her vagina, along with the fact that her hymen is intact, consistent with Hinton’s admission “that he `only put it in a little bit.'” Hinton said “he hit her in her bottom lip with his hand,” which explains the swollen, cut lip. The bite marks–on the right breast and on the left thigh–correspond to Hinton’s statement that he “bit her `on her right breast'” and “repeatedly” on the left thigh. The “small linear abrasion to lower back,” Corriveau surmises, is “possibly caused by belt striking her, per suspect’s confession,” and the “bruising and/or possible faded bite marks to right rear buttock” is “consistent with suspect’s confession that he struck her in buttocks with belt.”
Many of Williams’ injuries do not directly correlate to Hinton’s confession, Corriveau notes. The “swollen cheeks,” the “general redness/bruising to forehead,” the “minor scratches/bruising to eyes & in between eyes,” the “bruising to right shoulder,” the “scratch on right arm,” the “bruise to front of right thigh,” the “abrasion to left clavicle,” the “abrasions/contusion to left rear shoulder,” the “bruising to inner left bicep/outer left bicep,” the “bruise” on the “left forearm,” the “scratches/bruise to left hand/wrists,” and the “large contusion/abrasion to middle top back”–these aren’t explained by Hinton’s description of how he injured Williams.
The bite marks on Williams’ body, Corriveau writes, “appear more similar to severe `hickeys’ than to actual puncture wounds or tears to her skin.” But, he adds, “the shape of a mouth is clearly seen on the bite marks, with some spots having clear indications where teeth touched the victim’s skin.” So Corriveau has the medical examiner prepare photographs of them, to scale, “for future comparison purposes to the suspect’s teeth.” The photos, he explains, “will be a better indicator” for comparison that “actual cut-out samples of the victim’s skin,” given the skin “not being drastically broken by the bite marks.”
Two days after the autopsy, Corriveau contacts forensic odentologist Warren Tewes, of the University of Maryland, and discusses with him the possibility of getting “dental molds of the suspect’s teeth, via search warrant, for comparison purposes to the photos of the bite marks on the victim.” On June 28, Corriveau meets with Tewes, who says that dental molds of Hinton’s teeth–which ultimately were not obtained–“are not applicable” for comparing to the photos because the bite marks “have a `lack of definition’ that is necessary for effective and conclusive comparison purposes.” However, Corriveau continues, “Tewes provided general, basic information regarding the bite marks on the victim’s skin that may or may not be of relevance for court and/or testimony purposes” at trial.
The day of the incident, police seize all manner of property from Slater and Wall’s home: sheets, pillows, towels, comforters, a washcloth, a T-shirt, a pair of panties, a pair of flip-flops, a cap, and a pair of shorts with blood on them. They also take swabs of suspected blood from a dresser, a bathroom, a foot stool, and a wall. On June 24, they return and retrieve a belt with “possible blood stains.” Hinton told police about the belt during his confession two days earlier, but the warrant is served only after the autopsy “corroborated the suspect’s claim that he beat the victim with a belt (mainly a 2-3 inch linear abrasion on her back, as well as other bruises on her body),” Corriveau writes in his reports.
After getting the blood and DNA profiles of Ja’niya Williams and Hinton, whose fingerprints are also obtained, Corriveau on July 5 asks for lab work to be done on the seized property. He orders that the belt be analyzed for possible fingerprints and blood, and also asks for the blood on the shorts and the four blood swabs taken from the house be compared to Hinton’s and Williams’ blood. The DNA comparisons he asks for are from a hair found on a sticky pad from the victim’s body at the hospital, and from the swabs taken from Williams’ bite marks, vagina, and anus. He explains that these swabs, which were taken “approximately four hours after” the incident, “are most likely better samples for comparison purposes” than those taken at autopsy three days after Williams arrived at the hospital.
Meanwhile, Corriveau spends the midmorning of June 24 canvassing neighborhood residents. He writes in his report that several of them say they already told news reporters their thoughts about Ronald Hinton, which are, as Corriveau summarizes them, that he “has a history, over the past 4 years (approximately), of violence, lying, abusive language, and sexually charged comments to neighborhood women.” The residents request anonymity and don’t give recorded statements, though Corriveau has their names and contact information. Later that day, he phones a DSS Child Protective Services worker and e-mails BPD public-information officer Donny Moses to inform them of his findings.
Twice more, on July 3 and July 9, Corriveau visits the neighborhood to collect firsthand knowledge of Hinton’s past behavior from four more nearby residents. They, too, ask to remain anonymous. They tell him Hinton is “easily argumentative,” “very confrontational,” and that he “has been seen `beating on’ his `little brothers and sisters’ in his front yard until they either ran away or until `his big brother’ physically stopped him from doing so.” They recall that Hinton “strangled their son approximately 5 years ago, by using both his hands to squeeze their son’s throat, and that suspect had to be physically pulled from their son.”
(Toney reacts to the details of the neighbors’ anonymous accusations with indignation. “It makes me furious,” she says. “We weren’t really welcome to the neighborhood when we moved” there in the mid-`90s, she observes, and alleges that her family has periodically been subjected to racist comments from neighbors. She says her son has taken his share of guff around the neighborhood over the years, and that at times he’s taken the bait–such as the time several years ago that another neighborhood child “hocked spit in his face,” and they fought. But as for the contention that he beat up his younger siblings, Toney says “that didn’t happen.” And she dismisses the suggestion that he makes sexually inappropriate comments as the neighbors “just trying to make him out to be a monster. He did things some children do, he’s not perfect, but that he’s this monstrous thing–I won’t accept it.”)
Corriveau finds that Hinton has no prior juvenile criminal record, though he was the victim of an alleged aggravated assault two years earlier. And a review to see if he has a record of any “citizen contact receipts”–documentation of police-initiated interactions that don’t result in charges–turns up nothing.
On July 10, Corriveau joins the prosecutorial team handling the case–Baltimore assistant state’s attorneys JoAnne Stanton and Temmi Rollack–to interview Daikwon Eaddy at his mother’s home. He arranges the meeting “in order for Stanton and Rollack to meet” the young boy, “ask him preliminary questions regarding the incident in question, and to obtain a `feel’ for him, in terms of his pending court testimony.” The star prosecution witness has a surprise for them.
“During the meeting,” Corriveau writes, Daikwon Eaddy “disclosed that on the day of the incident in question, suspect Ronald Hinton beat him with a belt (previously undisclosed).” Two other people, whose names are redacted from Corriveau’s report, recall that “each observed marks on his back, consistent with being hit with a belt” when Eaddy returned to his grandmother’s house after his June 21 interview with police.
In December 2006, Francine Toney calls City Paper. It is not the first time she’s been in contact with the paper. More than a decade ago, City Paper published an extensive, investigative cover feature and two follow-up news articles about the 1992 death of her husband, Baltimore police trainee Sean Hinton, who was Ronald Hinton’s father (“Dead in the Water,” May 8, 1996; “Another Look,” Mobtown Beat, Dec. 4, 1996; “Questionable Death,” Mobtown Beat, June 4, 1997). Over the intervening years, she stayed in touch, but attempts to reach her after Ronald Hinton’s confession had been fruitless: She’d changed her phone number and moved. Now she’s on the phone, and the emotions are running high.
“The DNA [analysis of evidence in Williams’ homicide] came back, and Ronald couldn’t have done things he confessed to,” Toney explains. “The detectives told me, `The DNA will show everything,'” she continues, in tears. “Now it’s back, and it shows he didn’t do it!” She asks if police would go out and find who killed Williams, now that it was obvious her son didn’t. When asked why he confessed, she says, “he’s afraid of police because of what happened to Sean [Hinton]. The detectives balled up their fists and threatened him, and told him he could go home if he said he did it. He just wanted to be out of there.”
Toney says she does not have all the details, but she knows this much: Ronald’s DNA was not in the bite marks; somebody else’s was. “He didn’t bite her,” Toney says. “Somebody else did. And there’s other people’s DNA at other places, too, different people.” She adds that since her son has been held in jail, turmoil between the two families has been taxing, but the new DNA findings are “going to make things worse. Who did these things to that poor child?”
Toney takes out a second mortgage on her house to hire Janice Bledsoe as her son’s criminal-defense attorney in early 2007. She invites a City Paper reporter to go with her and several members of her family for a February 2007 meeting about the case at Bledsoe’s office. Color photographs of Ja’niya Williams lying face up in a Hopkins hospital bed are reviewed, prompting remarks (including by this reporter) that some of the bruises look less than fresh. No one in the room is an expert on such matters, but everyone bruises, and therefore knows that bruises change color over time. Some of Williams’ many bruises appeared to have a greenish-yellowish hue, suggesting some time had passed since they were sustained.
If someone’s DNA other than Hinton’s is in the bite marks, and if Williams’ sustained earlier injuries when Hinton was not present, then Toney and the rest of Hinton’s family have hope that perhaps his confession can be overcome at trial. The jury is going to need an explanation of why Hinton confessed falsely, and the one that Toney suggests–his deep-seated fear of police, because of what he believes about his father’s death when he was an infant–is the only one available.
During the weeks after the incident, the issue of prior injuries to Williams is brought up during Corriveau’s interviews with family members, as transcribed in the homicide file. He asks the witnesses if Hinton has been the children’s baby sitter on prior occasions, and if any injuries were observed at those times. He learns that Hinton has, and that no injuries were noticed before–except on the day before the incident, and Corriveau gets different versions of the story.
Deborah Walls, at the hospital on the night of the incident, is on record mentioning that Williams had injured her head in an accident with a fan. But when she’s interviewed later by Corriveau, she tells it differently. “When I got home I noticed a hickey on her forehead, on her left side,” Walls says during a July 1, 2006, taped interview. “I said, `Where did you get that?’ And she said she had fallen getting a towel, and I got right on the phone immediately and called her mother and let her talk to her mother. I tell her mother any time they got injured playing or anything, that’s the first thing I did.” By “hickey,” she explains, she means “a bump, as a bump on the head.” She says Ronald Hinton told her that “[Ja’niya] fell.”
Leland Slater is also interviewed on July 1, and in his version, it’s the fan that hurts Williams, but on her back rather than her head. He recalls he was in the kitchen with other family members on the night before the incident, and somehow Williams’ shirt rode up her back. He says he saw “marks on her back,” and when Williams was asked about them, he recalls Ja’niya saying that “I was upstairs” and “I fell over the fan.”
The conflicting explanations of the nature and cause of Williams’ injuries the day before raises the question: Are there any other indications that some of Williams’ injuries may have happened before June 21? And there are. The medic, for instance, who helped treat Williams before she arrived the hospital, and who told police she thinks some of the “bruises were older.” And Dr. Schwartz at Hopkins, who described “old bites on chest, and left thigh,” a phrase that was used in the charging documents and search-warrant affidavits in the case against Hinton. Corriveau himself, in his report about the autopsy, describes “bruising and/or possible faded bite marks to right rear buttock” (emphasis added).
Corriveau clearly suspected Hinton had abused Williams before, but witnesses didn’t corroborate that idea. As a result, his investigative record suggests Williams had older injuries–including at least some of the very bite marks that Hinton confessed to giving her.
Raising the importance of the bite marks even further is the fact that the ones on the upper left thigh were swabbed and came back positive for the presence of DNA belonging to an unknown person other than Hinton. Yet the homicide file has nothing in it to suggest investigators even considered taking steps to try to identify that person. Nor are there any indications in the file that attempts were made to learn the source of the DNA recovered from a variety of other locations on the tested evidence belonging to people other than Hinton.
After all, who needs DNA when you already have a confession?
“Ronald Hinton is the son of Sean Hinton and Francine Toney,” Bledsoe tells the Baltimore City Circuit Court jury. She’s five minutes into her opening statement on the first day of the trial, April 23, 2008, and she is trying to tell the jurors why, if Hinton didn’t rape and beat Williams, he would tell the police he did. “The Hinton family has an unusual history,” Bledsoe says. “Sean Hinton was a police officer–”
“Objection,” Stanton says.
Bledsoe shrugs in frustration as she and Stanton approach the bench to argue before Judge John Addison Howard. Stanton hardly says a word in the ensuing debate, though, as it is apparent that Howard has already made up his mind: Bledsoe won’t be allowed to discuss Hinton’s father in front of the jury.
“It’s a bunch of hooey and a lot of hearsay,” Howard tells Bledsoe during the bench conference, “and you’re not going to be able to go into it.”
Bledsoe explains the situation to Hinton and his family out in the hallway–that the main thrust of his defense was just yanked out from under him. She adds that it is even worse than that, because the jury, having heard only half of her sentence, is left with the impression that since Sean Hinton was a police officer, his son would have strong reasons to trust the police, not to fear them. The last guilty-plea offer from the prosecutor, prior to the beginning of the trial, was 20 years of imprisonment, but Hinton and his family still don’t want to take the deal. Ronald is innocent, they say, and they want a trial. So the trial continues.
The tape of Ronald Hinton’s confession is played. Though it doesn’t appear in the transcript–and though Corriveau and Wagner testify that once they turned on the tape recorder, they never turned it off again until the confession was over–Bledsoe points out to the jury that the very beginning of the tape has a split-second of a human voice loudly saying, “Stop messing with me!” It sounds like Hinton’s voice.
Corriveau insists that he didn’t use leading questions when interviewing Hinton, didn’t suggest Williams’ injuries so that Hinton had the information he needed to admit to details about the injuries that Corriveau knew from visiting her in the hospital–and then Bledsoe proves he did on two occasions, when Corriveau asked Hinton whether or not he put his hands between Williams’ legs and his fingers in her vagina. Corriveau explains that Hinton had already provided that information in the preliminary interview.
Wagner testifies that he took notes rather than record the preliminary interview in order to have a complete record–and then admits that, yes, recording the preliminary interview, too, would have provided a more complete record of what transpired in the interview room. (Hinton’s false-confession claim was included in a City Paper article [“Fess Up,” Mobtown Beat, Jan. 23] about a law that passed in Maryland’s 2008 General Assembly session requiring police to videotape all aspects of interviews with suspects in murder and sexual-assault cases. The law is intended to help create foolproof confessions, while also assuring police interviews are on the up-and-up.)
Corriveau’s theory that Hinton had abused Williams on prior occasions does not come up at the trial. In fact, other than the “hickey” on Williams’ forehead, no one–not Corriveau, not the medic, not Dr. Schwartz–testifies that they observed any signs that some of Williams’ injuries may have occurred before the harm Hinton confessed to inflicting. Under cross examination, though, the medical examiner admits the possibility that Williams’ death could have been caused by more than one brain injury in succession. In other words, it’s theoretically possible that whatever harmed Williams’ head on June 21 may have worsened a brain injury that occurred earlier.
The conflicting stories used to explain Williams’ hickey–was it tripping on a towel, falling into a fan, or both?–are not brought up for the jury. Nor is there any mention of the marks on her back that Slater said he observed in the kitchen the night before the incident. In fact, Slater doesn’t testify at all. Whatever became of Corriveau’s attempt to compare Hinton’s dental pattern to Williams’ bite marks also is not in evidence at the trial.
Daikwon Eaddy, now 9, gives confusing testimony broken up by bathroom breaks and a tearful inability to answer questions. He says nothing about Hinton beating him with a belt, and though his testimony describes menacing behavior by Hinton, he does not say Hinton committed the violent acts he’d told investigators about the night of the incident.
At one point, Judge Howard comes down off the bench, crouches next to Eaddy, and has a quiet conversation with him in front of the jury. “You’re doing good,” the judge tells him. When Bledsoe asks twice for a recess, so the jury won’t continue see Howard giving Eaddy a pep talk, the judge gets testy: “I heard you the first time, Ms. Bledsoe.”
The DNA evidence is presented, including a dramatic cross examination of the DNA expert by Bledsoe’s partner, Sandra Goldthorpe, who reveals to the jury that the DNA in the bite marks not only isn’t Hinton’s but that it’s a female’s. All told, six of the analyzed items excluded Ronald Hinton’s DNA, but included the DNA of others, male and female. If any of the jurors want a solid basis on which to build reasonable doubts about Hinton’s guilt, it is the DNA evidence. But they still have the confession to consider, and they still don’t have an explanation for why anyone would lie about such things.
The prosecution team wraps up its case, and Ronald Hinton takes the stand in his own defense. He accuses Corriveau and Wagner of threatening to beat him up in the interview room if he didn’t confess. “That’s when I kept on telling them, like, `Leave me alone,'” Hinton testifies. “And that’s when I said I didn’t do nothing. That’s when they said, `If you tell us you did it, we’ll let you go home.’ I thought I was going to go home, because I was scared, because I thought something was going to happen to me, because I don’t like police officers, and the reason I don’t like them–”
“Objection,” the prosecutor says.
“Sustained,” the judge says.
Bledsoe tries to elicit Hinton’s response in a variety of ways and is blocked two more times by sustained objections before the judge allows her line of questions to continue.
Bledsoe turns to Hinton and asks, “Why were you afraid?”
“Because my father,” Hinton answers, “he was killed by policemen, even his own partners.”
That’s all Ronald Hinton’s jury heard about his father’s story: two mentions on either end of the trial, with no details, no context, and no questions asked or answered. It’s a case that stands out in the memories of many Baltimore police officers, and it has deeply haunted the Hinton family.
Sean Hinton was 22, weeks away from his city police academy graduation, and had just undergone field training in the Western District with police officer Stanley Gasque. On Oct. 24, 1992, a Friday night, Hinton had a minor car accident downtown and was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol. The next day, after getting his car out of the tow lot, he walked out of his home. His last contact with his family was a phone call from the Amtrak station in Baltimore to his family.
Ten days later, his body was recovered from the New York Harbor off Battery Park in lower Manhattan. His wrists were bound tightly in front of his body with the drawstrings of a jacket, and though the autopsy report did not note head trauma, it appeared evident in the accompanying photos. His fingers and hands still had skin on them, though it had slipped a bit, but his swollen, misshapen face was devoid of skin from the scalp to below the chin.
New York medical examiner Mark Flomenbaum, after three weeks of consideration and after learning from the Baltimore police that what was characterized as a suicide note had been found, on Nov. 27, 1992, ruled the case a suicide by drowning. He attributed the condition of the body to the postmortem effects of floating in the water.
City Paper published photos from Hinton’s autopsy, with his family’s permission, in the 1996 article titled “Dead in the Water.” It explored a variety of facts that Flomenbaum did not have at his disposal when he made the suicide ruling, including the contents of the letter he left for his family and the very suspicious circumstances involving Hinton and Gasque that occurred the week he disappeared. Those circumstances involved accusations that together they robbed a drug dealer in West Baltimore, and that federal law enforcers suspected Gasque was protecting a drug organization known for torturing and robbing other drug dealers. It took years of investigating before, ultimately, nothing came of the accusations against Gasque and Hinton.
The members of Sean Hinton’s family, though, say they have no doubt that he was murdered before he shared information about unaddressed police corruption. The story is fact in the Hintons’ minds, even if it never can be proven. And their interpretation of the fact that the BPD mounted a 21-gun salute at Sean Hinton’s funeral–a rare police honor–is that they’re not the only ones who believe Hinton was killed in the line of duty.
Not so the jurors, who learn nothing of the family’s story, nor of the facts about Sean Hinton’s death. They also have no expert testimony to explain the female DNA in the bite mark–though Stanton, in closing arguments, assures them that it was attributable to contamination during Williams’ medical treatment. And she points out that, at the end of his confession, Hinton apologized–something, she argues, an innocent suspect would not do. After four hours of deliberation, the 12 jurors unanimously decide Hinton’s confession was true and voluntary, and on May 5, 2008, they convict him on all counts.
On July 21, Ronald Hinton is sentenced to life in prison, plus 25 years. He files an appeal the same day, and in June he sends a letter from jail to the Innocence Project, a group that uses DNA and evidence of false confessions to work for the release of innocent convicts. To date, Toney says, Hinton has not heard from the organization.
“If the DNA matched, I would accept that he did this,” Francine Toney says of the case. “It doesn’t, so I still believe he said he did it because he’s so afraid of the police.”
If the appeal succeeds, Hinton might get a crack at another jury. If not, he’s in for the long haul, serving life for the rape and murder of a child–crimes that tend to put an inmate convicted of them in low esteem among fellow prisoners. If he didn’t do it, that’s a particularly hard position to be in. If he did, well, prison authorities are responsible for keeping him safe, as best they can.
“I got a letter from him,” Toney explains over the phone on July 25. “He’s in a cell by himself, with two shelves and a bed. The bed is comfortable, and there’s enough room for him to pace back and forth and pray to God.”
She starts to cry. “It hurts me, because I feel so helpless now that I can’t help him. It’s so sad. Ja’niya is gone, and that hurts me, too. But what about the DNA? The prosecutor said [to the jury] don’t worry about the DNA, the DNA doesn’t matter in this case. Well, what’s so different about Ronald’s case?
“I am so tired of the falsehoods about my family–my husband killed himself, Ronald did this to Ja’niya, Ronald is abusive. I am just not going to accept it. If the DNA matched, I’d have no choice to accept it. But it didn’t, and I won’t accept it.”
Ja’niya Williams’ father, John Williams, speaks to a reporter on July 26, while working at his job as a drug-store security guard. He has no doubts whatsoever that Hinton did it. Asked about prior wounds on his daughter’s body, especially any bite marks, Williams says: “I know about that. She got bit on her arm, playing with her cousin a few days before,” indicating his left bicep. When informed that others observed older bites and bruises at other locations, and that the jury did not hear about that evidence, Williams sticks to his guns. He’s 100-percent certain they’ve got the culprit behind bars.
“That boy boxed himself in,” Williams observes. “I would never, ever say I did anything I didn’t do–especially something like that.”


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San Francisco will clear the convictions of thousands of people who were charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana dating back to 1975.
The San Francisco District Attorney’s office said it will retroactively apply Proposition 64, which this year legalized the recreational use of marijuana for adults who are 21 and older. California voters approved the measure in 2016, and the law took effect this year.
The District Attorney’s office said it will review, recall and re-sentence as many as 4,940 felony marijuana convictions, in addition to dismissing 3,038 misdemeanors.
“While drug policy on the federal level is going backwards, San Francisco is once again taking the lead to undo the damage that this country’s disastrous, failed drug war has had on our nation and on communities of color in particular,” San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement on Wednesday.
Proposition 64 includes a provision allowing people convicted of marijuana-related crimes to petition to have their convictions cleared or reduced, but Gascón said San Francisco will begin the process without people having to take any action.
“While this relief is already available pursuant to Proposition 64 for anyone with a conviction, it requires that they know it is available and to retain an attorney to file the expungement paperwork,” Gascón said in a statement.
“A criminal conviction can be a barrier to employment, housing and other benefits, so instead of waiting for the community to take action, we’re taking action for the community.”
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One major stereotype at my school is that it is a huge party school. People think that SUNY Cortland is full of alcoholics who only know how to party, drink, and do drugs. Another stereotype is fraternity and sorority kids. I obviously did not know this before coming to school here, because that would have been a major turn off for me but I heard things of that nature from people once I started going here. After being at school here for three years, I have noticed that my school is full of students who are hard workers and eager to learn. Yes, greek life is a large aspect but it is also full of athletes and many other educational clubs to become a part of.
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It was a day for making memories at Ruthin for Dylan and Elen Davies and family of Drefach, Llanybydder, as not only was it the first-time selling calves from their 20-cow suckler herd, but they also took the championship and sold for the day’s top price of £6,000.
The winning heifer which caught the eye of judge, Blair Dufton, Aberdeenshire, was Baby Shark, a Limousin-sired heifer by Mereside Lorenzo and out of a Limousin cross British Blue cow. It was knocked down for £6,000 to the Northern Irish commercial show team, JCB Commercials, Newtownards, Co Down.
Next, selling for £5,100 was the steer and reserve overall champion from J. M. and A. M. Lewis, Llanwrda, Carmarthen. By the herd’s pedigree British Blue stock bull, Dragonblues Firefly, this one sold to Donald Morrison, Kinlochbervie, Sutherland.
A call of £4,500 from Phil and Sharon Sellers, Lincoln, secured the third highest price on the day for Cefnbarrach Oulu, a pedigree Limousin heifer from David John Lloyd and Co, Trefeglwys, Caersws. This one is by Corlea Klassic.
Next best at £3,200 was another from the Lewis family’s string in the form of a Limousin cross heifer. This one stood second to the overall champion and is by a home bred bull out of a former show heifer. Taking this one home for further showing was Aled Roberts, Gaerwen, Anglesey.
The best price for a Charolais cross was £3,050 for one from the Welshpool-based Bowen and Bowen pen, which found a new home with H. Parry, Llangefni, Anglesey.
The reserve heifer champion, another Limousin cross and this time from Dion Hughes, Corwen, sold for £2,700 to R Whitfield, St Helens.
Averages: 18 heifers £2,117.78, 15 steers, £1,596.
Auctioneers: Ruthin Farmers.


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The City’s Next Wave of Major Streetscape Improvements
Monday, Jul 15, 2013, by Curbed SF Staff
Notice a plethora of construction work on city streets lately? Well, get ready for more. San Francisco’s streets are about to get prettier with the upcoming implementation of twenty streetscape improvement projects covering nearly every part of town from the Wharf to the Outer Sunset. Thanks in large part to the 2011 Road Repaving and Street Safety Bond, these projects should help make neighborhood commercial corridors and many major thoroughfares greener, safer places to walk and bike.
Here is a map of the projects complete with renderings.

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The MDF Italia Flow Dining Chair is a very popular family of seating, with a strong image and great comfort. The chair comes in an array of styles, with either white, black or grey polycarbonate shell to be optionally completed with upholstery in fabric or leather, with a smoked grey polycarbonate shell and a leather pad. The base options are: 4-legged; sled; sled with arm; 5-legged; 5-point-star; with central leg; 4-legged in oak. 4 and 5 legged bases are available in a new version with connecting elements in steel wire and height-adjustment.


text: But this bride is not alone. It seems that many brides believe in contracts for their wedding parties. It may seem like a request from Bridezilla, but if the other party agrees, why not? According to Joyce Scardina Becker, events and wedding planner at Events of Distinction, “there are five basic criteria that are required for a contract. The first is “The agreement”, which must be concluded between two parties (in this example, it would be between the bride and a bridesmaid) before a contract can be signed. If the two parties do not reach an agreement, no legal and binding agreement will be signed. No one can get someone to sign a contract. I will send it on a card to each of my friends if I ask them to be a bridesmaid. ___ YOU WILL NOT GAIN more than 4 pounds of the weight you were when you were asked to be a bridesmaid. .


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MOTORISTS and other road users have sent 52,174 dash cam recordings of potential traffic offences to UK police forces since 2017, with more than a third resulting in a court summons, Fixed Penalty Notice, driver awareness course or warning*.
A Freedom of Information request was sent to every UK police force by the country’s leading new car buying platform and consumer champion, What Car?. It found police forces across the UK receive more than 35 pieces of dash-cam footage every day.
Just over 10% of the incidents captured on film were severe enough to warrant a court prosecution and 9.6% resulted in a Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN). A further 10.5% resulted in the driver being asked to attend a driver awareness course, and 3.0% of drivers were given a warning.
Thirty-five of the UK’s 42 police forces have a system in place to process and fine drivers and motorcyclists based on dash-cam evidence from other road users.
The use of dash cams by drivers and other road users has shot up by around 850% since 2017, when insurance companies started accepting footage as evidence for claims and the courts first used footage to convict an offender.
Dyfed-Powys Police in South Wales is the most active in using dash cam footage. It has taken action over 81.3% of the videos it’s received, with 40.2% of offenders receiving a warning, 18.6% of them were prosecuted in court and 18.4% were asked to attend a driver awareness course, while just 4.0% were handed an FPN.
London’s Metropolitan Police received the largest volume of submissions – nearly 25,000 videos over four years – and acted in 45.4% of cases, issuing court proceedings to 18.9% of offenders, driver awareness courses to 13.9%, FPNs to 9.6% and warnings to 2.9%.
Steve Huntingford, editor of What Car?, said: “Our Freedom of Information request shows the vast majority of police forces in the country can now receive and process footage from dash cams in a matter of hours, meaning reckless driving is more likely than ever to lead to a fine or even a court summons.”
Police forces that have taken the highest share of actions per footage received –
|Police Force||Number of|
dash cam videos
received 2017 – 2020
|Number of videos|
action by Police Force
|Percentage of videos|
action by the Police Force
|Norfolk & Suffolk Constabulary||1877||966||51.5%|
|Metropolitan Police Service||24,799||11,247||45.4%|
|Devon & Cornwall Constabulary||1182||379||32.1%|
|North Wales Police||1857||516||27.8%|


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The first time I encountered Dapo Ojo, it was on Seun Odukoya’s blog.
To say I fell in love with the character would be a mild way of putting it. Dapo was exciting, intriguing, annoying and fun. With Yemisi, I felt like I’d found a kindred spirit- someone who shared a few similarities with me. Mope, I liked. Mope was the friend I deeply cared about who had gotten hurt by love and still didn’t give up on it. In Yemisi’s mum, I saw bits of my mum. That effusiveness was totally relatable.
So after meeting these people on the blog, I finally got another chance to meet them properly again in the book Saving Dapo written by the very same Seun Odukoya.
In the book Saving Dapo, you find characters you can connect to and relate with. The characters are real and come alive not just in your head but also in your heart.
We all know one someone (friend, sibling, acquaintance) who has loved probably just once and has been unable to totally let go and move on. That’s Dapo. Someone who is seemingly surrounded by so much darkness to the point he finds it comforting. You want to bring them out of their shell, you want to help them heal, you want to make them happy again…
We all have that one friend who cares about us selflessly to the point that they would risk getting hurt just to see us happy. So they go ahead and do all sorts of crazy stuff simply because they care. That’s Yemisi. The girl goes and asks Dapo out. In a public place! And you people think I’m crazy. But that’s by the way.
There’s also Remi. All these mysterious guys who are all shades of trouble. Like you meet them and you know you should run but there’s this pull you can’t resist. Sometimes they turn out to be good for you, at other times… Well, go and read the book.
Then there’s Yemisi’s mum. If she’s not your mother, she’s your friend’s mother. Exciting, bubbly, full of life, always prying and sometimes a pain but you love her all the same.
There’s Toke, loyal best friend and business partner. Really great chic.
The major characters in this book excited me. A whole lot. And I think the simple reason that happened is what I had earlier stated; the characters are real. They are me, they are you, they are people you know.
The interactions, the conversations, they are not exactly everyday occurrences but you can connect to them.
The thing about the writer is, he has a way with words. They simply obey him.
So you would probably read ten pages straight and not realize that you haven’t blinked once.
Ok. Maybe I exaggerate. But you get the picture. This book will hold you down.
The central theme is love. But not by your usual definition. You want to know what I mean by that? Pick up the book for yourself. There is the theme of friendship. Seun really played about with that a lot. And I liked it a lot. It made me realize that friendship is a crucial ingredient in love. You cannot separate the two. You absolutely can’t! Then there are the more subtle themes of faith, forgiveness, ambition, passion…
There’s actually quite a lot going on yeah, but not too much that you’re distracted or lost. The book also has some illustrations which I liked.
I guess the only thing that did not work for me was the lack of closure for some of the characters.
Like Mope. As she didn’t get married, what now happened to her? It just felt like there’s a whole new story out there waiting to be told.
And Dapo, was he really saved at the end of the day? That’s one question I really cannot answer.
Anyways, it is 350 pages of excitement. And I assure you, you will thank me when you’re done.
And if you think it doesn’t get better, check out the CD with the soundtracks. When I listened to the songs, I was like, this Seun ehn, shebi he wants to finish somebody?
There are about six tracks but my favourite 3 are Dapo’s Nocturne because it’s purely instrumental and has a classical feel to it. (I have a thing for classical music), after that is Love Story because the lyrics blew my mind!!!! I am not even joking. I had to hit Seun up immediately and let him know. The lyrics were awesome!!! And the music was beautiful as well. And finally, Ore because it had this romantic feel to it that made you want to fall in love with your best friend. Dope stuff.
So kudos to the writer and if you haven’t picked up your copy, please do so.
The book is available at Terra Kulture, in Victoria Island, Glendora Bookstore at the Ikeja City Mall and Patabah Bookstore at the Adeniran Ogunsanya Mall in Surulere.
Per adventure you’re not in Lagos and would like a copy of the book, please indicate in the comment section as well and we’ll find a way to reach you.
And if you have gotten the book and read it, please leave your thoughts in the comments section. Let us know how the book made you feel, what you feel the author did not do well enough and what not.
Seun Odukoya (the author) blogs at www.seunodukoya.wordpress.com and tweets from the handle @seunodukoya. He’s an amazing person and the stories he tells will leave a mark with you. You don’t have to take my word for it. Check him out for yourself and you’ll see
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13 Jul Jada: The good harvest in Goodland area
Pictured in this post are photos of a field being cut in Kanarado, Kan. This field ranged from 45 to 95 bushels per acre. Most wheat averaged 60 bushels per acre in the area.
The Goodland harvest has been wonderful. Locals said it was dry, but right when the wheat was planted and rain was really needed—it rained. The area had a dry winter but received a good germinating rain as the wheat was heading out and rain ever since. The result was a crop yielding between 60 and 85 bushels per acre. Rain has been the only downfall to the harvest this season. For the past three days, rain has prevented us from harvesting until around 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. The moisture has also made for early nights. The combination of the excellent crop and the moisture has made progress slow. We are almost finished and need to be because our next stop- Limon, Colorado- is almost ready. We are looking forward to running into the Zeorians at Limon!
Jada Bulgin can be reached at email@example.com. All Aboard 2009 Wheat Harvest is sponsored by High Plains Journal and DuPont Crop Protection.

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