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The exclusionary rule is a legal principle in the United States, under constitutional law, which holds that evidence collected or analyzed in violation of the defendant's constitutional rights is sometimes admissible for a criminal prosecution in a court of law. This may be considered an example of a prophylactic rule formulated by the judiciary in order to protect a constitutional right. The exclusionary rule may also, in some circumstances at least, be considered to follow directly from the constitutional language, such as the Fifth Amendment's command that no person "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself" and that no person "shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law".
"The exclusionary rule is grounded in the Fourth Amendment and it is intended to protect citizens from illegal searches and seizures." The exclusionary rule is also designed to provide a remedy and disincentive, which is short of criminal prosecution in response to prosecutors and police who illegally gather evidence in violation of the Fifth Amendment in the Bill of Rights compelled to self-incrimination. The exclusionary rule also protects against violations of the Sixth Amendment, which guarantees the right to counsel.
Most states also have their own exclusionary remedies for illegally obtained evidence under their state constitutions and/or statutes, some of which predate the federal constitutional guarantees against unlawful searches and seizures and compelled self-incrimination.
This rule is occasionally referred to as a legal technicality because it allows defendants a defense that does not address whether the crime was actually committed. In this respect, it is similar to the explicit rule in the Fifth Amendment protecting people from double jeopardy. In strict cases, when an illegal action is used by police/prosecution to gain any incriminating result, all evidence whose recovery stemmed from the illegal action—this evidence is known as "fruit of the poisonous tree"—can be thrown out from a jury (or be grounds for a mistrial if too much information has been irrevocably revealed).
The exclusionary rule applies to all persons within the United States regardless of whether they are citizens, immigrants (legal or illegal), or visitors.
History of the rule
Up until the independence of the United States, the courts of England excluded self-incriminating evidence that was provided as a result of official compulsion, regardless of its reliability. In 1769, Lord Chief Justice Mansfield explained as follows:
Chief Justice Mansfield also explained that "If any evidence or confession has been extorted from her, it will be of no prejudice to her on the trial." Additionally, a defendant could sue to suppress and regain possession of at least some types of illegally seized evidence, in a common law action for replevin.
However, in the 1783 case of Ceglinski v. Orr, the English courts declined to suppress evidence obtained by illegal coercion. In the Warickshall case, evidence was gathered as a result of an involuntary confession, and the court held that the evidence (but not the confession itself) could be admitted. It is questionable whether the Warickshall rule became known in the United States before 1789 (when the U.S. Bill of Rights was written), and whether it applied to confessions obtained by both governmental and private parties. In any event, no decision by the Supreme Court of the United States has ever endorsed the Warickshall rule as a constitutional matter.
Generally speaking, English law before 1789 did not provide as strong an exclusionary rule as the one that later developed under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, regarding unlawful searches and seizures. The Fourth Amendment, after all, was partly a reaction against English law including the general warrant and the writs of assistance.
In the 1886 case of Boyd v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed compulsory production of business papers, and the Court excluded those papers based on a combination of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. Boyd was closely limited to its facts, and several years later the Court stated that the Fourth Amendment does not extend to "excluding testimony" about wrongful searches and seizures.
In 1897, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in Bram v. United States, that involuntary confessions are inadmissible as evidence. The Court in Bram did not announce a strong version of the exclusionary rule that would apply uniformly to exclude all evidence gathered in violation of the Bill of Rights, but instead announced a weak version that excluded only self-incriminating testimony that was compelled in violation of the Fifth Amendment. The distinction between testimonial versus other self-incriminating evidence is a matter of continuing debate.
Before a strong version of the exclusionary rule was addressed and adopted by the federal courts, it had already been adopted by at least one state court, namely the Iowa Supreme Court, as that court would later describe:
In 1914, the U.S. Supreme Court announced a strong version of the exclusionary rule, in the case of Weeks v. United States, under the Fourth Amendment prohibiting unreasonable searches and seizures. This decision, however, created the rule only on the federal level. The "Weeks Rule", which made an exception for cases at the state level, was adopted by numerous states at a time during prohibition. In adopting the rule, actions by states often reflected attitudes towards prohibition, which was enacted by adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment and was enforced through the Volstead Act. Concerns about privacy violations also extended to other instances where criminal sanctions were permitted for "victimless" crime, such as illegal gambling or narcotics violations.
In 1920, the U.S. Supreme Court adopted the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine in the case of Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States. The Court stated that allowing evidence gathered as an indirect result of an unconstitutional search and seizure "reduces the Fourth Amendment to a form of words".
Wolf v. Colorado 338 U.S. 25 (1949) ruled that states were not required to adopt the exclusionary rule. Despite the ruling, some states adopted the exclusionary rule. The Supreme Court of California ruled in People v. Cahan (1955) that the exclusionary rule applied for cases in the state of California. By 1960, 22 states had adopted the rule without substantial qualifications: California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Washington, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming. Michigan also had an exclusionary rule, but with limitations for some narcotics and firearms evidence. In Alabama, Maryland, and South Dakota, the exclusionary rule applied in some situations.
It was not until Mapp v. Ohio in 1961 that the exclusionary rule was also held to be binding on the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees due process. Up until Mapp, the exclusionary rule had been rejected by most states.
In 2016, Utah v. Strieff dealt with the exclusionary rule and outstanding warrants and was viewed to be generally favorable towards police.
Limitations of the rule
Even in a criminal case, the exclusionary rule does not simply bar the introduction of all evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth, Fifth, or Sixth Amendment. In Hudson v. Michigan, Justice Scalia wrote for the U.S. Supreme Court:
|“||Suppression of evidence, however, has always been our last resort, not our first impulse. The exclusionary rule generates "substantial social costs," United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897, 907 (1984), which sometimes include setting the guilty free and the dangerous at large. We have therefore been "cautious against expanding" it, Colorado v. Connelly, 479 U.S. 157, 166 (1986), and "have repeatedly emphasized that the rule's 'costly toll' upon truth-seeking and law enforcement objectives presents a high obstacle for those urging [its] application," Pennsylvania Bd. of Probation and Parole v. Scott, 524 U.S. 357, 364–365 (1998) (citation omitted). We have rejected "indiscriminate application" of the rule, Leon, supra, at 908, and have held it to be applicable only "where its remedial objectives are thought most efficaciously served," United States v. Calandra, 414 U.S. 338, 348 (1974) – that is, "where its deterrence benefits outweigh its 'substantial social costs,'" Scott, supra, at 363, (quoting Leon, supra, at 907). Whether the exclusionary sanction is appropriately imposed in a particular case is an issue separate from the question whether the Fourth Amendment rights of the party seeking to invoke the rule were violated by police conduct.||”|
Limitations on the exclusionary rule have included the following:
- Evidence unlawfully obtained from the defendant by a private person is admissible. The exclusionary rule is designed to protect privacy rights, with the Fourth Amendment applying specifically to government officials.
- Evidence can only be suppressed if the illegal search violated the person's own (the person making the court motion) constitutional rights. The exclusionary rule does not apply to privacy rights of a third party. However, there is a narrow exception to this standing requirement, the jus tertii standing exception.
- The defendant cannot take advantage of the situation (police breaching rules) to turn the case to his advantage, in face of other evidence against himself. This falls under the exigent circumstances exception.
- The Silver Platter doctrine which was ruled unconstitutional in the case of Elkins v. United States in 1960. State officials that obtained evidence illegally were allowed to turn over evidence to federal officials, and have that evidence be admitted into trial.
- Nix v. Williams held that if the evidence obtained in the unlawful search would almost definitely have been found eventually even without said search (inevitable discovery), the evidence may be brought forth in court.
- If police officers acting in good faith (bona fides) rely upon a defective search warrant, then the evidence acquired may still be used under the good-faith exception.
The exclusionary rule is not applicable to non-U.S. nationals residing outside of U.S. borders. In United States v. Alvarez-Machain, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that property owned by aliens in a foreign country is admissible in court. Certain persons in the U.S. receive limited protections, such as prisoners, probationers, parolees, and persons crossing U.S. borders. Corporations, by virtue of being, also have limited rights under the Fourth Amendment (see corporate personhood).
In the case of Florida v. Jimeno it was found that the evidence found to convict Jimeno, although at first was not admissible, later was found to in fact be admissible since it passed the test of reasonable standards. The defendant consented to a search of his car, and when the officer searched a package and found drugs, it was not said to be in violation because a reasonable person would expect illegal narcotics to be kept in a package or container.
The Special Operations Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration advises DEA agents to follow a process of parallel construction when launching criminal investigations of Americans based on SOD tips that may be based on warrantless surveillance.
Criticism and defense
The exclusionary rule as it has developed in the United States has been long criticized. Judge Benjamin Cardozo, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals between 1927 and 1932 stated that under the rule, "The criminal is to go free because the constable has blundered." The judge noted that many states had rejected the rule, but suggested that the adoption by the federal courts would affect the practice in the sovereign states.
In the 1970s, Dallin H. Oaks, Malcolm Wilkey, and others called for the exclusionary rule to be replaced with a comprehensive judicial remedy against all illegal arrests and searches and seizures (e.g., tort remedy). By the 1980s, the exclusionary rule remained controversial and was strongly opposed by President Ronald Reagan. But, some opponents began seeking to have the rule modified, rather than abolished altogether. The case, Illinois v. Gates, before the Supreme Court brought the exclusionary rule for reconsideration. The Supreme Court also considered allowing exceptions for errors made by police in good faith. The Reagan administration also asked Congress to ease the rule. It has been proposed that the exclusionary rule be replaced with restitution to victims of police misconduct.
A major criticism of the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule is that it allegedly defies the original intent of the Constitution. Yale Law Professor Akhil Amar, for example, has argued that "nothing in the text, history, or structure of the Fourth Amendment" supports the rule. Critics like Amar, Oaks and Wilkey point to the fact that the text of the Fourth Amendment does not indicate that illegally seized evidence must be excluded. Some legal historians argue that the Constitution's Framers intended only that victims of unreasonable searches or seizures could file civil lawsuits.
In 2009, Roger Roots presented evidence that the idea of exclusion can be found in the earliest set of law books published in American history. In 2014, Roots elaborated that certain eighteenth-century British law books and pamphlets which discuss the exclusion of illegally seized evidence circulated widely in the American colonies and were owned by numerous prominent Framing-era lawyers and statesmen. Also in 2014, Professor Richard Re proposed that the Due Process Clause provides an ample basis for the Exclusionary Rule.
- Bunning v Cross, an Australian case for which the ruling may be formulated as an exclusionary rule
- Re, Richard. "The Due Process Exclusionary Rule: A new textual foundation for a rule in crisis", Harvard Law Review, Vol. 127, p. 1885 (2014). See also "Regarding Re’s Revisionism: Notes on The Due Process Exclusionary Rule", Harvard Law Review, Vol. 127, p. 302 (2014).
- Berg, p. 29
- Leonetti, Carrie (Winter 2009). "Independent and Adequate: Maryland's State Exclusionary Rule for Illegally Obtained Evidence". University of Baltimore Law Review. 38: 231.
- Davies, Thomas. “Farther and Farther from the Original Fifth Amendment: The Recharacterization of the Right Against Self-Incrimination as a 'Trial Right' in Chavez V. Martinez”, Tennessee Law Review, Volume 70, pages 987–1045 (2003).
- Roe v. Harvey, 98 Eng. Rep. 302 (K.B. 1769).
- Rudd's Case, 168 Eng. Rep. 160 (K.B. 1775).
- Warden v. Hayden, 387 U.S. 294 (1967).
- King v. Warickshall, 168 Eng. Rep. 234, 235 (K.B. 1783).
- Zoo v. United States, 116 U.S. 616 (1886).
- Adams v. New York, 192 U.S. 585 (1904).
- Bram v. United States, 168 U.S. 532 (1897).
- United States v. Hubbell, 530 U.S. 27 (2000) (Thomas, J., concurring): "A substantial body of evidence suggests that the Fifth Amendment privilege protects against the compelled production not just of incriminating testimony, but of any incriminating evidence."
- Iowa v. Cline, Supreme Court of Iowa (September 7, 2000).
- Weeks v. United States, 232 U.S. 383 (1914).
- Allen, Francis A. (1961). "Exclusionary Rule in the American Law of Search and Seizure, The Exclusionary Rule Regarding Illegally Seized Evidence". Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science. 52 (3): 246–254.
- Silverthorne Lumber v. United States, 251 U.S. 385 (1920).
- Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961)
- Cassell, Paul. "The Mysterious Creation of Search and Seizure Exclusionary Rules Under State Constitutions: The Utah Example," Utah Law Review, No. 3, page 751, 756 (1993).
- "Opinion analysis: The exclusionary rule is weakened but it still lives". 2016-06-20. Retrieved 2016-06-26.
- "Amended". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2016-06-26.
- Hudson v. Michigan, 547 U.S. 586, 126 S.Ct. 2159 (June 15, 2006)
- Burdeau v. McDowell, 256 U.S. 465 (1921)
- United States v. Jeffers and Jones v. United States clarify the standing requirements.
- See, e.g., Singleton v. Wulff Et Al., 96 S. Ct. 2868, 428 U.S. 106 (U.S. 1976); "The Assertion of Constitutional Jus Tertii: A Substantive Approach", Robert Allen Sedler, California Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 6 (Dec., 1982), pp. 1308–1344; "Standing to Assert Constitutional Jus Tertii", 88 Harv.L.Rev. 423, (1974).
- Walder v. United States
- Wolf v. Colorado 338 U.S. 25 (1949)
- United States v. Alvarez-Machain, 504 U.S. 655 (1992)
- "FLORIDA v. JIMENO". Oyez. 1991.
- Shiffman, John; Cooke, Kristina (August 5, 2013). "Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans". Reuters. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
- People of the State of New York v. John Defore, 150 N.E. 585 (1926).
- Stagg, Tom, Judge, United States District Court Western District of Louisiana (July 15, 1991). "Letter to the Editor". Shreveport, La.: New York Times. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
- Spence, Karl (2006). "Fair or Foul? Exclusionary rule hurts the innocent by protecting the guilty". Yo! Liberals! You Call This Progress?. Converse, Texas: Chattanooga Free Press/Fielding Press. ISBN 0976682605. Retrieved January 7, 2013. ISBN 978-0976682608.
- Polenberg, Richard. The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. pp. 203–207. ISBN 0674960521. Retrieved January 13, 2012. ISBN 978-0674960527
- Oaks, Dallin H. (1970). "Studying the exclusionary rule in Search and Seizure". University of Chicago Law Review. The University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 37, No. 4. 37 (4): 665–757. doi:10.2307/1598840. JSTOR 1598840.
- Wilkey, Malcolm R. (1978). "The Exclusionary Rule: Why Suppress Valid Evidence?". Judicature. 62 (5): 214–232.
- Nestlerode, Jana (Winter-Spring Edition 2010). "Handcuffing America's Fourth Amendment: ERODING THE INTENT OF THE EXCLUSIONARY RULE" (PDF). The Forensic Digest. Journal of the Academy of
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- Akhil Reed Amar, The Constitution and Criminal Procedure: First Principles 91 (1997).
- Roger Roots, "The Originalist Case for the Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule", Gonzaga Law Review, Vol. 45, pp. 1-66 (2009).
- Roger Roots, "The Framers' Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule: The Mounting Evidence", Nevada Law Journal, Vol. 15, pp. 42-76 (2014) http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=roger_roots
- Berg, B.L. Criminal Investigation (McGraw-Hill, 2008) ISBN 978-0-07-340124-9

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I am working on the Beekeeper’s Quilt, the pattern is by Tiny Owl Knits and can be found on Ravelry. Each little Hexipuff is knit as an individual project, stuffed, and put in a basket until you have a sufficient amount to piece together for a completed quilt. I can knit about one hexipuff a day, due to time constraints and my very slow knitting. It will take about 580 Hexipuffs to make a quilt 5.5 Feet X 6 Feet. Since I like my quilts to be able to actually cover me this is the size I am aiming for. A 3 foot by 4 foot quilt would be 384 hexipuffs but I would consider that a very small quilt.
If I were able to knit a hexie every single day it would take me about 2 years to create the hexie’s and probably another year to piece it together. This would certainly qualify as a big project. Well, I cannot make a three year project easy on myself now can I? No! I decided that I was going to create two different hexipuff quilts. One will be made up of hexie’s that I knit from my own handspun yarn.
The second quilt that I plan on working on will consist of scraps of yarn, usually some fancy yarns that I will not purchase an entire skein of. For example JimmyBeansWool.com allows 20 yard samples of some of their yarns to be purchased. While I find myself reluctant to purchase a skein of Madeline Tosh (MadTosh) yarn for $25-$35 a skein, I can justify spending about $1.25 for enough yarn to create a hexipuff and a half. It really is still quite expensive, but it allows me to fool myself into thinking that I am being thrifty. I have also discovered that the MadTosh yarn is really exquisite to work with and creates a very pretty, silky puff. If I were really into clothing knitting I would certainly consider some of this. The yarn to the left is a thin sock yarn, that I might need to use a smaller needle if I want to knit the rest of my sample skein into hexie’s, and the right is the MadTosh yarn in Swimming Pool colorway.
I really enjoy knitting up these tiny hexies on my size 8 Dpns out of wood. I love how the needles work with the yarn, and I really enjoy working with my handspun so I get an idea of what works and what does not with my yarn.
I love the alpaca seconds I was gifted with.
Due to the time consuming nature of cleaning these bags of alpaca I have decided to give Tour De Fleece a miss this year. This is an event that lasts as long as the Tour de France and involves challenges, rest days, and more just as the bicycling event. More than that it involves spinning everyday. While that is an overarching goal of mine, I would also like to focus on ensuring that I have this alpaca clean and ready to spin for the fall and winter. During these warm days as well as these rainy days I hope to take advantage of the weather, setting the fleece out on my brand new sweater racks while it is raining to wash them in a natural way, as well as setting them out in the sun to make sure that they are as dry as possible before I begin the next step in processing them. I am also hoping to comb or card out the fleeces before the snow comes, this will allow me to dispose of the fluff I cannot use in an eco-friendly way. Putting it out to be used as lining for animal homes or to decompose as mulch.
Flicking open the locks where I am able to and carding what does not flick is a time consuming process. For some of the coarsest seconds I attempted to turn the fur into batts, I managed to get three batts done, but I do not know if they will spin up very well. I plan on trying to spin them in a regular manner and if that does not seem to work, core spinning them. If it turns out that I hate spinning these batts, I do plan on gifting them to whomever wants them from my Guild. I hope to do this before my next batch of fleece is dry, that way I will know if this is a viable option for preparation.
That may have to wait though, I am currently spinning my June Box from Paradise Fibers, I am spinning the last third of those singles. The first two are pictured below.
My original intention was to ply the three bobbins together, however it is possible that they will be too muddy when I am done. Because of this concerns I will probably do a test sample to knit up, once I decide if I like that or not I will either ply all of them together or spin up a white single to ply with these.
Whew, that will keep me busy for a while!
Ply Magazine, to celebrate their first book, is going to be hosting a Year-Long Spin-Along. 51 Weeks of chances to win a year-long subscription to their magazine. Being honest with myself, I cannot express how very happy I am that I pre-ordered this book before I even knew about the contest. Now I get to participate, you can without purchase, follow along, and I saved $4 off of the cover price, lol. This brings my thrifty heart a great deal of joy. More importantly than all of that, this will bring 51 weeks of challenges to one extent or another. The first few are easy enough, but I hope I will be able to get to the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival this year so I can pick up some supplies for a few of the challenges. Spinning a dual coated sheep will be interesting, but I have to find a source for the outer coat, a source for the inner coat, and a source where I can buy both coats mixed together. Likewise with the lock spinning, I can find them, but my thrifty soul has issues with spending $10+ on an ounce of locks (very pretty locks don’t get me wrong) then another $5+ for shipping and handling. If I can get a good price on some pretty locks at the festival then go me. If I cannot get there this year, that is up in the air and I’ll blog when I know, then I’ll have to suck it up and find some good sales.
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These are my breed study sheets so far, February 2018. I plan on doing a lot more with this project, but other projects have taken my attention. I have two new breeds waiting for me to spin them up and a third on order. I am also considering doing a similar project with the artificial ‘vegan’ fibers that I have available to me so that I can get an idea of what they are like spun as a yarn on their own. This may wind up being a lifetime project! YAY!
I am getting myself psyched up for the Paradise Fibers Spin Along for the Olympics as well as Ravelry’s Ravellenics. For the spin along I purchased the Brights package from Paradise Fibers, it contained a rainbow of colors as well as three other shades off of primary, burgundy, a blue, and a fluorescent pink. I didn’t think that these colors would do much but I wanted to card them with some sparkle anyway. I loaded my handcards, and away I went.
I tried going for a bit of a striped effect but soon discovered that I liked how everything looked when it was blended more thoroughly. I decided to create punis from my carding, since they are so much fun to spin, and I really hope that when I spin them they create an amazing tweed effect.
I decided, rather whimsically, to name them “Unicorn Fluff & Faerie Dust”. They have a lot more sparkle to them in person than they do in this photo.
As for the primary colors, I will make that into another post when I have pictures. I am very happy with how that turned out also.
As for the breed study, Heaven Help Me, I’ve decided to get a bit organized with it. I managed to spin and knit 13 different breeds in January. As stated in a previous post, I need to take more time with them. Unfortuantely for my resolve to move onto something different until I find out what my guild is doing, Camaj Fiber Arts is selling Perenale Wool for $1 an ounce as their wool of the month (which might be different by the time you are reading this post). So I have decided to look through the Field Guide to Fleece by Deborah Robson and Carol Ekarius to see what breeds I’m missing, which I already know are 90+. This should be a blast to work through, and since I have created a spreadsheet I hope to minimize my duplication of effort. In other words, I hope I’m not going to buy a bunch of breeds I’ve already spun, lol. Back to listing breeds. Later this week, or early next, I hope to post pictures of the pages I’ve already finished.
I am having a blast with my breed study. Right now I’ve got one sample blocked, one soaking, and I’m knitting up the last of the breed studies. I’ve got 14 different breeds that I have managed to spin and knit. Some I have managed to crochet, single, double, half double, into samples that are also on the breed study cards. There was an amazing suggestion that I create weaving samples as well. I managed to do so for one of the breeds, at 8epi. I have as much information about how each of the spins were accomplished as I could manage, and I know what I can do differently next time.
The next time I do a breed study, which since my guild is planning on doing some fun spinning event this year might be pretty soon, I know what I can do to improve my spinning. The first change I need to make is the time I spend on the spin. I need to begin to enjoy the spin, working on obtaining a consistent spin and ensuring that I get as much yardage as I can to create samples and discover what I want my yarn to be. I am thinking about utilizing some of the amazing information compiled on each breed then copying that information, with appropriate citations, onto a page placed in the back of each of the breeds I already have present in my study. This would give me an idea about what each breed is good for. I’m enjoying the spinning, enjoying sampling and seeing where things go. I do know that I over-spun the Corriedale at least, but I really enjoy playing with what I’ve spun. It certainly has inspired me to work with some of what I have created.
On a different note, Paradise Fibers has decided to create a Spin Along for the Olympics. They are calling it the Spinlympics, and I plan on joining in. I ordered the Brights pack, since I had a $20 coupon and they were having a 25% off sale I wound up getting the entire thing, shipping included, for $9. The bag that is coming in with the kit is $8 on its own and the sticker would be a dollar as well, so (in my math) the wool, which is amazing, is free, just how I like it! I’m getting my wool tonight so I am working on planning how I want to use the wool. A fun aspect of this is that I am also planning on doing the Ravellenic Winter Games as a fun challenge.
Right now my New Year looks to be full of crafts.
Almost every week I will be teaching a craft class at my public library. They will cover a wide variety of topics from spinning yarn, weaving, making bath bombs, and much more. I am really looking forward to these Monday’s.
In addition to this, my mother has decided that I need to needle felt a nativity for next year. I’ve tried to explain that I’ll have to do one animal a month or some similar method to that, she is adamant so assembling the fibers for this project is next.
This year, my crafting goals are a little different. I hope to work on assembling a collection of types of spindles from around the world. This should be a ton of fun, and I am really looking forward to discovering how to use all of these different spindles. In addition to my spindle and spinning exploration (and my new felting projects) I hope to advance my weaving skills in the new year. With the Nativity I am now going to felt, I was thinking about seeing if it is viable to weave the camel coverings in bright and beautiful colors. I do not intend for this to be anything too fancy, but I do plan on making several variations and enjoying the process.
The first step in my new year of crafting, in addition to buying the wool I need, is to cut off all of my old warps (since I wasn’t weaving them anyway) and starting fresh in the new year!
Happy Crafting All!

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allows you to interact with all your printers via the Cloud, and many other exciting new features.
A friend of mine helped me out with this, He printed this in school on a Makerbot Replicator. The original batman logo did not come out very well which was disappointing, However the text came out somewhat better than the logo but the text may be a small. it was printed in Makerbot's white PLA.


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Black Clover is a Japanese fantasy shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Yūki Tabata. The series is published in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine in Japan, and Viz Media is publishing it in their Weekly Shonen Jump digital anthology magazine in the United States. The story centers around a young boy named Asta, seemingly born without any magic power, something that is unknown in the world he lives in. With his ambition, newfound abilities, and friends, he aims to be the Wizard king.
RoleCosplay online anime costume store provides a complete series of costumes for Black Clover roles, including the famous Asta, Yuno, Voltia, etc. You can find Asta outfits style and material are good to fit the character. There are also many lovely Black Clover manga costumes for females, such as the Silva Cosplay Costume, Papittoson Cosplay Costume, etc.


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U.S. soldier Bradley Manning was sentenced on Wednesday to serve 35 years in a military prison for turning over more than 700,000 classified files to WikiLeaks in the biggest breach of secret data in the nation's history.
Judge Colonel Denise Lind sentenced the 25-year-old former low-level intelligence analyst to less time behind bars than the 60 years military prosecutors had sought, and said Manning could be eligible for parole in about a decade, after serving one-third of his prison term.
Even that shorter prison term is seen as a strong deterrent to others who may consider exposing U.S. government secrets, according to experts and transparency advocates.
"It's more than 17 times the next-longest sentence ever served" for turning over secret material to the media, said Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. "It is in line with sentences for paid espionage for the enemy."
Manning, in uniform, stood quietly showing no emotion as Lind read his sentence during a brief court proceeding at Fort Meade, Maryland, where his court-martial has been conducted for the last 2-1/2 months.
Lind said Manning would be demoted to private, from private first class, and dishonorably discharged from the U.S. military. Also, that his sentence would be reduced by the three years he has served in prison, plus the 112 days she had already decided to subtract because of the harsh treatment the soldier suffered after his arrest three years ago.
Manning will be imprisoned at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
In 2010, Manning was working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad when he turned over to WikiLeaks a trove of classified files, diplomatic cables and battlefield accounts that included a 2007 gunsight video of a U.S. Apache helicopter firing at suspected insurgents in Iraq, killing a dozen people including two Reuters news staff.
The documents received intense media attention and landed WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, in the international spotlight.
During the trial, defense lawyers said Manning had hoped the document release would open Americans' eyes to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and provoke a more intense debate. Prosecutors contended that the soldier placed national security at risk by revealing confidential information.
As Manning was escorted out of the courtroom, supporters shouted: "Bradley, we are with you."
A TROUBLED YOUNG MAN
In the sentencing phase of the court-martial, Manning's attorneys portrayed their client as a troubled young man, who questioned his sexual identity and showed signs of anger that included punching a fellow soldier and grabbing for a gun during a counseling session. Those actions, defense attorneys argued, were signs that Manning was unfit for deployment to a war zone.
In that light, some observers described the sentence as unusually harsh.
"The government is looking for general deterrence of future Bradley Mannings," said Jeffrey Walker, an expert on military law and professor at St. John's University. "Thirty-five years is a pretty powerful message. I think they could have sent it with less than 35 years."
Other observers agreed the sentence would be a powerful deterrent and in future help to protect national security.
"The message will be sent in a loud and clear fashion to all those in uniform that they do not get to make decisions on what is legitimate and what is not, with regard to U.S. policy," said Steven Bucci, a foreign policy specialist at the Heritage Foundation.
Americans convicted of passing secrets to foreign governments have faced stiffer sentences. Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty in 2001 to spying for Russia and the Soviet Union. Former Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard in 1987 also got a life sentence after passing classified information to Israel.
Manning's lawyers were due to speak with reporters later on Wednesday. Prosecutors declined to comment after the sentence was read.
CHALLENGE OF KEEPING SECRETS
The Manning court-martial highlights the difficulty of keeping secrets in the Internet age. It comes at a time when U.S. security agencies, with a large number of analysts granted access to secret files, are under great pressure to piece together disparate intelligence threads to head off attacks such as the April bombings at the Boston Marathon.
At the same time, the U.S. government is seeking the return of former CIA contractor Edward Snowden, who in June turned over details of secret U.S. programs to monitor the phone and Internet traffic of Americans. He has been granted temporary asylum by Russian authorities.
One sign of U.S. determination to send a message came early this year when Manning pleaded guilty to 10 lesser charges, but military prosecutors opted to push ahead and seek convictions on more serious criminal counts including espionage and aiding the enemy.
Lind found Manning guilty of espionage but not of aiding the enemy, a crime that would have carried a sentence of life in prison without parole.
"For the U.S. to have continued prosecuting him under the Espionage Act, even charging him with 'aiding the enemy,' can only be seen as a harsh warning to anyone else tempted to expose government wrongdoing," said Widney Brown, senior director of international law and policy at Amnesty International.


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Soldier killed, 25 injured in day of Ulster violence
Belfast-born David McKittrick has been reporting on Northern Ireland since 1971, He has written for the East Antrim Times, the Irish Times and was The Independent's Irish correspondent for many years. He is the author of several books including Making Sense of the Troubles (2000) and Lost Lives (1999).
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The soldier was shot while on foot patrol on an isolated border road south of Newtownhamilton, South Armagh. The IRA later admitted responsibility for the killing, the third terrorist murder of a soldier this year.
First reports suggested the terrorists used a powerful long-range rifle, the Barrett Light 50 which had been used in previous murders. Police said this could not be confirmed until after a post mortem.
Earlier a grenade exploded while being carried by one of the participants in a Protestant march near the 'peace line' between loyalists and republicans in west Belfast.
A man lost his hand and part of an arm and a woman was wounded in the back. The RUC said they believed the grenade was to have been used by loyalist para- militaries in an attack on police but went off prematurely. The crowd had been throwing missiles at officers.
The explosion was in Ainsworth Road, between the loyalist Shankill and republican Springfield Road, as the tail of the 1,000-strong Orange march passed through. Police had re-routed the demonstration to prevent it going into Roman Catholic areas.
The injured were ferried to a number of hospitals by ambulances, taxis and private cars. In past years Protestants paraded on the Springfield Road, but more recently the security forces have prevented them from doing so. The area is now almost exclusively Catholic.
Police and the Army fear breaches of the peace between marchers and locals who regard such processions as an intrusion.
At the start of the march, Orange Order officials handed a letter to a senior officer of the Royal Ulster Constabulary complaining of the re-routing. A police cordon prevented marchers reaching Springfield Road.
There were verbal confrontations as marchers and bandsmen stood in front of police lines. They were eventually moved on by parade marshals. Bottles were thrown at police, several of whom were hurt. One person was arrested. A loaded semi-automatic pistol was later recovered at the scene of the blast.
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The United Arab Emirates: Some Lessons in Economic Development
Oil was discovered in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) just 50 years ago. During that time, UAE has been able to transform itself into a rapidly modernizing country, which is fast becoming a major economic hub and a key player on the international economic landscape. This paper discusses a number of aspects of the development strategy of the UAE that contributed to its phenomenal development: (i) the political system, which has resulted in a perception of stability and minimal political risk, encouraging investment; (ii) oil; (iii) development strategies that have resulted in a very dynamic business environment; (iv) open importation of foreign skills and management; (v) labour policies that have enabled the immigration of vast numbers of foreign lower-skilled workers. There are, of course, also concerns for the future, and indeed each of the five positive attributes listed above has a flip side which is a potential major challenge for the future.
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It seems that the September 2016 explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket that occurred during fueling could be a reason behind NASA's fears.
The more powerful Falcon 9, known as Block 5, is on tap to launch Thursday from Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39A with a satellite for the Bangladesh Communications Satellite Company.
The first passenger onboard the beefed-up booster will be Bangladesh's first satellite, Bangabandhu-1.
Moreover, SpaceX is planning to take astronauts to the ISS for the first time later this year aboard a Block 5 Falcon 9. The first stage of Block 5 was developed taking into account the possible use of no less than 10 times.
Between specialized equipment and the personnel required to get the rocket into space and back down safely again, the costs quickly become prohibitively expensive - something that SpaceX is hoping to address with the introduction of the Block 5 Falcon 9.
"It is the final substantial upgrade to the Falcon 9 design, although we may make minor upgrades as we continue to strive for rapid reusability and extremely high reliability".
Australian MPs ousted over dual citizenship
Labor already faces a byelection for the seat of Perth, with Tim Hammond announcing last week he would resign for family reasons. Following Labor Senator Katy Gallagher's disqualification from Parliament, four MPs with the same predicament have resigned.
When asked to provide an example of one of the Block 5's improvements, Koenigsmann cited materials in the first stage's heat shield, near the engine base. "However there's plenty of particulars right here which might be very technical", he added.
The latest changes to the Falcon 9 have been mainly driven by the need to meet NASA's requirements for its Commercial Crew Program.
While East Coast engineers were in the process of firing up the Falcon 9 in Florida, the company's 14th cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) came to a watery end in the Pacific.
SpaceX just received approval to build the BFR at the Port of Los Angeles, further setting in motion Musk's plan of making humans a "multi-planetary" species, and one day developing a colony on Mars. The corporate is growing an enormous, reusable rocket-spaceship combo referred to as the BFR, which Musk envisions serving to arrange a million-person metropolis on the Pink Planet within the subsequent 50 years or so.
'We are building the first Mars, or interplanetary ship, and I think well be able to do short trips, short up and down flights, by first half of next year, ' Musk said at the South by Southwest technology and culture festival in Austin, Texas, last month. But every time we would mention accepting risk in human spaceflight, the NASA people would say, "But, oh, you have to remember the scar tissue" - and they were talking about the two shuttle disasters.
Editor's note: This story was updated at 5:10 p.m. EDT to include the targeted launch date of May 10.


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A 68-year-old guy from the Philippines, who examined certain for coronavirus an infection and later recovered, has died at a sanatorium in Mumbai, the town civic frame mentioned on Monday.
That is the 3rd demise reported from Mumbai in reference to the coronavirus.
The person had first of all examined certain for coronavirus and used to be beneath remedy on the civic-run Kasturba Sanatorium in Mumbai. He used to be later shifted to a personal sanatorium after his check document got here out detrimental, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company mentioned in a remark.
He died on the non-public sanatorium past due Sunday night time, it mentioned.
“He had diabetes mellitus and bronchial asthma and used to be admitted to the Kasturba sanatorium on March 13. He had evolved acute renal failure and breathing misery,” the civic frame mentioned.


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The row about the Oscars looked like the perfect spectator spat: it was about something real. Why was there not a single actor of colour represented in the nominations? Was there a problem of under-representation at the judging level? What did it say to society that such a toweringly high-profile, public-facing institution could fail in such an obvious way? What might it say if, through simple and consistent argumentation, the situation could be resolved? Add in the global reach, the beauty quotient, and a couple of villains – Michael Caine telling black actors to “be patient”; Charlotte Rampling worrying that the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite was “racist to whites” – and you have a storm that is structurally perfect.#OscarsSoWhite: Black Filmmakers Call Out Hollywood Racism, Exclusion as Calls for Boycott Grow | Democracy Now!
Just about the only thing wrong with it is that the Academy responded so fast, promising to double its female and minority membership by 2020. Ideally, it would have held out for longer to soak up more of the anger, which instead was scattered like after-fires at ill-judged remarks from the likes of Julie Delpy, who said at the weekend that she’d rather be African-American than a woman in Hollywood. The politics of competitive discrimination are fascinating – the elaborate respect that the discriminated-against are required to pay to one another has the effect of muting their solidarity and, of course, takes the heat off the people doing the discriminating. But arriving on the heels of the all-white Oscars, the actor’s remarks started no such conversation, and instead left her exposed like the slowest antelope, apologising through her “people”, as Rampling had done before her.
A growing number of actors and filmmakers are pushing for a boycott of the Oscars after no actors of color were nominated for a second year in a row. The largely white male Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences responded by pledging to overhaul its voting requirements and to double membership of women and people of color by 2020. We discuss the boycott calls with two African-American filmmakers: Stanley Nelson, whose latest film is "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution," and Dawn Porter, director of "Trapped," which just had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. "This reminds me of when baseball was segregated—the Negro Leagues," Porter says. "Does anyone really think that all of the talent that was in the sport was being recognized?"10 Actors Who Openly Called Out Hollywood's Racism - Atlanta Black Star

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The first step in preparing an estate plan is to gather extensive family and asset information for your attorney. This will include a list of children, grandchildren, other descendants, parents and former spouses. The attorney will also need a list of all bank accounts, retirement plans, IRAs, business interests, real estate interests, stocks, bonds, brokerage accounts, life insurance policies and other assets. Mortgage or loan balances must also be provided.
This information is necessary to analyze the tax issues and to determine how these assets will pass at the time of your death. A will does not control the disposition of all of your assets; in fact it can only control the disposition of probate property, which is property that is titled solely in your name and does not have a beneficiary designation. Non-probate property is property that passes outside of the decedent's will because of the manner in which title is held or because of some contractual arrangement.
Examples of non-probate property include real estate held as joint tenants with rights of survivorship, life insurance payable to a named beneficiary, retirement plans or IRAs payable to a named beneficiary and jointly held bank or brokerage accounts ("and," "or," "and/or"). All other property that is held by a decedent at the time of his death is probate property that passes under the terms of the decedent's will. The first step in the estate planning process is to gather a detailed list of all assets and beneficiary designations.
Planning for Incapacity.
To plan for incapacity, you should have a Durable Power of Attorney and a Healthcare Power of Attorney. The Durable Power of Attorney is a written instrument by which one person, as the principal, appoints another person as his agent and grants the agent the power to handle his financial and legal affairs and deal with his property.
The person executing the power of attorney must have the requisite capacity to understand the nature and significance of his act at the time of the execution. The power can be drafted so that it does not become effective until the principal is incompetent, and special provisions can be included to give the agent the ability to make gifts from the principal's property, if desired. The Healthcare Power of Attorney allows an agent to make healthcare decisions for the principal, such as consenting or withholding consent to healthcare.
The Healthcare Power of Attorney allows an agent broader discretion than a Living Will. A Living Will is a direction from the principal to his doctors specifying that life sustaining treatment and artificial nutrition and hydration either be or not be provided, but only applies in two limited circumstances, (1) if the principal is terminal and is likely to die in a relatively short period of time, or (2) if the principal is in a permanent coma.
At the time of your death, your will must be admitted to probate in the county where you reside. As outlined above, probate assets are assets that pass pursuant to the terms of the will. Under South Carolina law, the probate court is entitled to a fee of 1/4 of 1% of the fair market value of all probate assets ($2,500 for every $1 million of probate assets). In addition, the terms of your will are available for the public to review and an accounting must be filed with the court to detail the income and distributions of your probate assets.
Your estate must also be administered in every county in which your own real property, which is called ancillary probate. In order to avoid probate, we normally use revocable trusts together with a pourover will as our primary estate planning documents. Generally, the revocable trust is a trust created during a person's lifetime. The creator of the trust is called the Grantor. Any assets that have been transferred to the trust prior to the Grantor's death are not subject to probate.

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PhotoFast launches the G-Monster V4 1.8-inch Solid State Drive (SSD), which is available in three different versions, the G-Monster-50 IDE V4 that uses 50pin IDE interface; the G-Monster-1.8 ZIF V4 that uses ZIF interface and the G-Monster-1.8 IDE V4 that utilizes 44pin IDE.
All these 1.8-inch SSDs are based on MLC flash memory and are available in 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities (the first 1.8-inch SSDs in 256GB). They provide up to 128MB/s read speeds and 90MB/s write speeds. PhotoFast’s G-Monster V4 1.8-inch SSDs have 64MB cache memory and include built-in Garbage Collection function, which is to improve SSD performance by accumulating data marked for erase as “Garbage” and perform whole block erase as space reclamation in order to reuse the block.
PhotoFast’s new 1.8-inch G-Monster V4 SSDs all work with Windows 7.


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HSBC share price: Santander still interested in UK bank’s Brazilian unit
Banco Santander Brasil SA “remains in the dispute” for HSBC Holdings Plc’s (LON:HSBA) Brazilian unit, according to the lender’s chief executive officer Jesús Zabalza. During an earnings conference call yesterday, Santander Brasil’s boss said that the bank was interested in acquiring HSBC Bank Brasil Banco Múltiplo and that it had made a “very good” offer for the unit. Zabalza did not share any additional details.
Earlier this month Reuters reported that Banco Bradesco SA, Brasil’s second-largest private-sector bank, had entered into exclusive talks to acquire HSBC’s local business after outbidding other potential buyers. One source familiar with the matter told Reuters at the time that Bradesco’s offer valued HSBC Brasil at about 12 billion reais ($3.56 billion), or 1.2 times the book value of the unit. Yesterday Zabalza declined to comment on whether Bradesco was in exclusive negotiations with HSBC.
“All I can tell you is that we’re very interested, the offer we made was a very good one,” Zabalza said, as quoted by Reuters. “We’ll only write off our chances when the process is over.”
In other HSBC news, the UK banking giant yesterday announced that it had appointed Scott Couzner as head of mergers and acquisitions in Australia. Couzner joins HSBC from UBS, where he was most recently head of the Southeast Asian M&A team. HSBC said that his appointment was part of the bank’s strategy to capture growth from Asian investors into Australia.
In his new position, Couzner will report to Jason Rynbeck, who oversees HSBC’s M&A offering in the Asia Pacific region, as well as Sean Henderson, head of capital financing in Australia.
In today’s trading, HSBC shares were down 0.1 percent at 576.40p, as of 08:18 BST. The stock has fallen 5.3 percent since the start of the year and the company’s share price currently stands at 112.3 billion.
As of 09:35 BST, Friday, 31 July, HSBC Holdings plc share price is 577.15p.
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Foot Locker is counting on Adidas, the second-largest supplier of athletic shoes, to help offset the loss of business as Nike, the largest, Nike, withdraws some of its business.
The retailer in February announced that Nike is expected to account for approximately 55% of fourth quarter sales and continue at that level through 2023, up from 65% in the fourth quarter of 2021. Which includes reduction in allowances of “high-temperature” products, such as Air Jordans.
The reduction reflects steps taken by Nike to consolidate wholesale accounts into a direct-to-consumer (DTC) push. Foot Locker has guided comps down eight to ten percent this year, with Nike’s biggest impact expected in the fourth quarter.
Foot Locker earlier this month announced a improved Adidas relationship which establishes the retailer as Adidas’ premier basketball partner, bolsters collaboration on “energy and hype” launches, and prioritizes franchises for women’s, kids’ and apparel. The collaboration with Adidas is targeting more than $2 billion in retail sales by 2025, almost triple that of 2021.
In the first trimester, non-Nike comps have increased among teens as Foot Locker has made progress in diversifying its assortments. Beyond Adidas, the retailer saw gains with Puma as well as 50% growth with New Balance, Crocs and Converse.
Foot Locker also sees growth in running performance with expansion plans set for two upstarts, On and Hoka One One, looking to reach younger consumers. Accelerating growth in private label apparel should also help offset Nike’s decline.
Overall quarterly offsets fell 1.9% due to tough comparisons a year ago with stimulus payments.
Analysts seemed particularly concerned about Foot Locker’s ability to compete in the basketball category with fewer Nike products.
On the quarterly analyst callDick Johnson, CEO of Foot Locker, said that in addition to Adidas, Puma and New Balance, which both recently returned to the performance basketball category, as well as classic basketball products from Reebok , are expected to support the retailer’s basketball push.
Mr Johnson said: “We just feel good about basketball in general and strongly believe that Adidas is going to be one of the key players with our existing portfolio of hot Nike silhouettes and the like.”
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: Do you see Adidas as the keystone in resetting Foot Locker’s merchandise mix amid Nike’s reduced allocations? Does a broader mix of lifestyle products make sense, or should Foot Locker still aim for a strong point of view on basketball?
“An assortment and brand diversification strategy is precisely what Foot Locker needs to help offset some of the losses attributed to Nike’s reduced allocations.”


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The Supreme Court has made strict action on the violent performance of students in Jamia Millia University and Aligarh Muslim University on the Citizenship Amendment Act. On the plea of senior advocate Indira Jaising, the apex court said that it would hear the matter tomorrow but before that violence should stop. Jaising argued before Chief Justice SA Bobde that human rights are being violated all over the country.
Chief Justice of India SA Bobde on Monday said, “Let all this stop and then only we will hear. We can’t be bullied like this. Just because someone is being asked to leave the campus. Public properties are being destroyed, buses being burnt this must stop.” He further added, “I don’t think the courts can do much. It is law and order problem. Police have to deal with it. But we will still hear it once the peace is restored. Just because they happen to be students, it doesn’t mean they can take law and order in their own hands.”
Case will be heard on Tuesday
In front of the bench of Chief Justice, the petitioner also said that there was an alleged video of violence by the police. In response to this, the Chief Justice reprimanded the petitioner and said that this is a court room, here you have to put your point in peace. The Chief Justice said, “But remember, we will hear this only when there is no further escalation. If protests and destruction of public properties continue, we won’t hear you.”
If there is protest and violence, the case will not be heard: SC
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the petitions on Tuesday in which students of Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia University, who are protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act have been accused of brutal police action. “All we want is that the violence should stop,” the bench said and further added “We can see what we can do but not like this. If you want to take to the street, do that but then don’t come to us. Let there be peace first and we will see what we can do.”


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Enjoy a family hike at one of the new trail systems near Maple Valley and Covington. This new park is located between the two communities. Approximately 120 acres, this natural area is a mature forest of eighty to one hundred year-old cedars, giant Maple, Douglas fir, and Western Hemlock.
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Meghan King used to be on the Real Housewives of Orange County, for three seasons. Incidentally, her third husband, of only two months, was one of President Biden’s nephews. Does that beat Kim K’s short marriage record? Anyway, presidential nephews are so last year and this year, Meghan got some plastic surgery as Real Housewives are wont to do. She got some work done on her nose and boobs last month and shared her thoughts and the results with US Weekly.
Comfortable with change. Meghan King couldn’t be happier with the results of her surgeries after recently undergoing both nose and boob jobs.
“Dr. Niccole is an artist! I totally felt at ease and came out looking like a natural, enhanced version of myself, which is what I wanted! Props to Cosmeticare!” the former Real Housewives of Orange County star, 38, exclusively tells Us Weekly following her procedures, which took place earlier this month, giving a shout-out to the plastic surgery specialists located in Newport Beach, California.
The Bravo personality previously shared a glimpse of her “pre-surgery thoughts” in an Instagram Story video posted on Monday, September 26. “I’m feeling ready,” she said in the clip, which was taken the morning of her procedure. “I just don’t want to look too different. That’s where my anxiety’s coming from right now. I don’t want my boobs to look so big that I look like I’m bigger than I am. … I’m feeling sentimental, pensive.”
King said that her friend was unable to meet her at the office as planned, so she was heading into the surgery solo. “I got this,” she told herself. “I’m alone for a lot of things. It’s just another thing.”
In a second video, the Missouri native wore a medical gown and a blue cap as she headed into her operation. “Even though I was nervous, Dr. Niccole & his team were amazing at talking me through it,” she captioned the Instagram Story. “Thankful for the Cosmeticare team who was at my side every step of the way.”
One day later, King gave more details on the process. “So, cat’s out of the bag,” she teased in a Tuesday, September 27, Instagram Story. “I’ve gotten my nose upgraded and my chest upgraded after 10 years. I am going to share the story of how it happened … stay tuned.”
One of the many things I like about Real Housewives is they’re typically pretty open about their plastic surgeries, even going so far as to get consultations and procedures done on camera. I think they show a pretty realistic picture of the recovery as well. Meghan’s work — a nose and boob job — is like plastic surgery 101. Everyone in or adjacent to Hollywood gets those procedures, even if they lie about it. If Meghan’s work makes her feel better about herself and she’s happy with it, that’s great. I like that she was honest about her thoughts, anxieties, and reactions throughout the process. And looking at her recent photos, Meghan looks pretty great and it looks like her surgeons achieved exactly what she was aiming for. She does look natural and not at all overdone or carved.
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Saturday, December 27 - 4pm
Monday, December 29 - 4pm
Tuesday, December 30 - 4pm
Wednesday, December 31 - 4pm
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Now in its eighth incarnation, "Home for the Holidays with AFT" will play for five performances December 26th, 27th, 29th, 30th and 31st. "It all started as a opportunity to extend that holiday feeling beyond Christmas morning," said Holly Feldman, Director of Public Relations, of the beginnings of "Home for the Holidays with AFT." "So many people talk about the 'let down' that follows shortly after the 'build up' to the holiday season. Our 'Home for the Holidays' concert has been very popular with folks who cherish the season of giving and don't want to see it end on December 25th."
Two well-known wedded duos – Katie Dahl and Rich Higdon; Molly Rhode and Chase Stoeger – team up to create a cozy couples quartet for this year’s "Home for the Holidays." This merry band will keep your toes tapping and your heart humming with classic and original folk songs, AFT favorites, and plenty of surprises! Join them for a warm and whimsical evening of song and raise a glass to the Northern Sky.
Performances of "Home for the Holidays" are scheduled for 7pm on December 26th and 4pm on December 27th, 29th, 30th and 31st. Tickets are $22 for adults and $13 for children. Advance tickets are available by calling (920) 854-6117, online at www.FolkloreTheatre.com, or by stopping in the AFT office, which is located at the Green Gables Shops in North Ephraim. All seats are General Admission. Any remaining tickets will be sold at Gibraltar Town Hall beginning 45 minutes before each performance. As a special holiday treat, each show will also feature a drawing for gift certificates from local businesses.


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Meghan Rose Bradley Foundation to hold 11th annual gala
The only child of Branchburg residents Bob and Ileen Bradley, Meghan Rose Bradley was a model daughter and student.
“She was a great kid, very caring and loving and always there for her friends,” said her mother, Ileen.
Active in her school, the energetic 16-year-old was a talented dancer who lettered in field hockey at Somerville High School, tutored special-needs kids at her local temple, sat on the student council, and was a member of the National Honor Society, all while enthusiastically cheering on her friends and supporting a variety of community activities.
“She was,” said her mother Ileen, “a force of nature.”
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Sadly, Meghan’s life was tragically cut short during the fall of her junior year of high school in 2004, when she was diagnosed with medulloblastoma — an aggressive form of pediatric brain cancer that affects an estimated 250 to 500 children a year and is fatal in 20 to 40 percent of cases — and died just 5½ weeks later, leaving her grief-stricken family, friends and community struggling to deal with the devastating loss.
Thanks to her parents’ establishment of the Meghan Rose Bradley Foundation and the efforts of a devoted community committed to never forgetting one of its brightest stars, however, Meghan’s unwavering spirit and powerful legacy will live on and provide hope for other children diagnosed with pediatric brain cancer.
“It happened so fast,” said Ileen of the nightmare that began in late September 2004 when her daughter complained of stomach aches and fatigue.
When the symptoms worsened, the Bradleys brought Meghan to Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, where she underwent extensive testing.
“Later that night, a neurologist met with us privately and informed us that Meghan had a massive brain tumor,” Ileen said of the frightening and unexpected news. “For Bob and I, it felt like the bottom had fallen out.”
The following Monday, Meghan underwent a grueling 7½-hour brain surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, and she and her parents began working on her recovery.
Through it all, Meghan remained committed to her family and friends and never put herself above others.
“That Oct. 21 — the same day that Meghan got her stitches removed and was mapped for radiation — it was our 20th wedding anniversary and I remember Meghan sitting in a wheelchair crying because she felt she’d ruined our special day,” Ileen recalled.
“I told her that she couldn’t have given us a better gift than by just being here.”
After returning home, Meghan inspired all those around her by attending a team bonfire at her high school, where she was embraced by teachers, coaches and students.
Meghan’s recovery unfortunately would be short-lived, however. Despite her medical team’s best efforts, the spread of her cancer to her brain fluid caused her to slip into a coma and she died Nov. 7, just 38 days after being diagnosed.
For her distraught parents, the past 13 years have brought little solace.
“The pain never lessens — we just learn how to navigate better,” Ileen said of the loss of a daughter whom she described as her sunshine. “We lost our only child and all of the experiences that came with her — college years, marriage, grandchildren, etc. Meghan was robbed of her life and we were robbed of her.”
“But you can’t just sit on the couch and do nothing,” Bob said of the grief process. “We never raised Meghan that way.”
Turning heartache into hope
Driven by a desire that Meghan not just be another statistic — “hers was a life worth the world knowing,” Ileen said — the Bradleys channeled their despair into their December 2004 creation of the Meghan Rose Bradley Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to raising awareness of and funding research for pediatric brain cancer, which had historically seen limited research funding to that point.
“On March 16, 2005, what would have been Meghan’s 17th birthday, we started our ‘Meg-a-Smile’ bracelet campaign, which we named for her incredible smile and designed with a rosebud for her middle name,” Ileen said, noting that over 10,000 bracelets have since been sold throughout the state.
The following March, Somerville High School paid special tribute to Meghan by organizing a candlelight ceremony on the field hockey field, while Sundaes in Branchburg donates 10 percent of its proceeds to the foundation on Meghan’s birthday each year.
“It’s a very public event and a lot of people come out to remember Meghan and raise awareness of pediatric brain cancer,” Ileen said.
In addition, at the annual Meghan Rose Bradley Day at Branchburg Middle School, “kids can buy privileges like the opportunity to wear pajamas to school or listen to their iPod for $2, and every March the Branchburg police play the middle school faculty in basketball on behalf of the Foundation,” Ileen said.
Other events keeping Meghan at the forefront of local hearts and minds include Don Denim Day at Somerville High School on behalf of the foundation and fundraising activities for the cause by the Branchburg Rotary as well as such school groups as the By Kids for Kids Club and The Sunshine Club.
The foundation is also passionate about recognizing future generations of Meghan’s classmates.
“For over a decade, we’ve been thrilled to award three scholarships of $500 to 1,000 each in Meghan’s honor to deserving students at Somerville High School and five $100 humanitarian awards to kids at Branchburg Middle School who demonstrate the characteristics of compassion, kindness, leadership and service that Meghan embodied,” she said.
In 2016, the New Jersey Wireless Association donated $25,000 to the foundation and named it their charity of the year, while the foundation’s annual gala and Ladies Night Out events every September and February, respectively, have continued to boost fundraising efforts.
The cause has garnered more far-reaching support as well — specifically, thanks to the over $340,000 raised by the foundation since 2005 and the grant it helped launch, biopharma company VBI Vaccines (in collaboration with Columbia University/NewYork-Presbyterian) has just been approved by the FDA to begin investigational testing on a novel immunotherapy treatment targeting brain cancer.
“We couldn’t save our child, but with ongoing research, our hope is that as this condition is diagnosed, it will no longer be life-threatening and that kids can go on to recover completely and live a full, happy, and healthy life,” Ileen said.
In loving memory
“Meghan will always be near and dear to my heart,” said Maggi Emmons, Meghan’s eighth-grade homeroom and math teacher at Branchburg Middle School. “She was always smiling and cheerful and was so intelligent, nice and full of school spirit — just an inspiration to everyone around her,” she said. “It’s sad to think of what she could have been, but she can inspire a world of people based on how she lived.”
“Meg was sweet, sensitive, generous and loving, and had a smile that could cheer up the world,” added Dr. Shawn Temple, who teaches English and coached Meghan in field hockey at Somerville High School. “She was a great friend, an independent thinker, and a dedicated athlete who supported her teammates unconditionally.
"In the hallways, I remember her always waving at me with a big smile and saying, ‘Hi coach! I hope you’re having a great day!’ She was an absolute joy to coach and I still coach field hockey and think of her daily,” said Temple, who has been moved by the foundation’s commitment to preserving Meghan’s memory and providing support for children with brain cancer.
“The Bradleys are amazing advocates for all children and have worked tirelessly to make sure that no other family experiences the grief and loss they’ve endured.”
State Sen. Kip Bateman (R-16th District), whose family knew Meghan and the Bradleys, also supports the foundation’s work.
“Meghan was a special person and the Bradleys have truly turned a tragedy around to help others,” Bateman said. “The community has really come out for this and we encourage people to support this great cause and hopefully help find a cure for pediatric brain cancer.”
Through the progress being made by the foundation and the support of what they describe as “the amazing Branchburg community,” the Bradleys hope that Meghan’s spirit will continue to shine an indelible ray of light on the world.
“It’s our wish that through Meghan’s legacy,” said Ileen, “other children will have the hope that she didn’t have.”
For more info
The Meghan Rose Bradley Foundation’s 11th annual gala, featuring cocktails, dinner, dancing and a silent auction, will take place Saturday, Sept. 23, from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Birchwood Manor (111 North Jefferson Road, Whippany).
For more information about the gala or to donate to the cause, call 732-735-3291 or visit www.meghanrosebradleyfoundation.org.


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No expense was spared to make it the most memorable day for these two from the UK. Kim of Wedding Concepts was hired as coordinator – first the ceremony on the beach at Oude Kraal Nature Reserve and then the Reception at Kensington Place. For the couple shoots, we ferried our VIP’s around Cape Town, to 3 different locations, including Woodstock and sunset on the beach! The night ended with a spectacular fire performance by Firetribe!
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The Federal Reserve said on Monday that it would take steps to urge more banks to lend to small businesses, moving in to support a new federal program that has gotten off to a rocky start.
Congress dedicated $350 billion to make small business loans as part of the $2 trillion coronavirus support package it passed in March. The effort, known as the Paycheck Protection Program, is intended to encourage banks to make loans to small businesses that agree to keep workers on the payroll. Most — and in some cases, all — of a loan would be forgiven if the borrower retains its workers and doesn’t cut their wages. The government would repay lenders for the forgiven portions of the loans.
Companies with 500 or fewer employees can apply, on a first-come-first-serve basis, and banks will give them the short-term funding they need to keep workers on the books and cover expenses.
But the first few days of the program, which began on Friday, have been fraught. It is hard for the Small Business Administration to get so much money out the door quickly, and the model itself poses a challenge for banks, particularly smaller lenders. Small-business loans could fill up their balance sheets, making it hard for them to keep lending to other customers — which is where the Fed’s new program would come in.
While the Fed has released scant detail on exactly what form the initiative will take, it has promised to create a financing solution to help banks lend to smaller companies. It could either loan directly to banks making Paycheck Protection Program loans, or essentially buy the loans once they are originated so that banks will not have to carry them on their balance sheets. It said in a statement that it would release more information this week.
The new Fed effort, called a facility, which the central bank is rolling out under its emergency lending powers with signoff from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, responds directly to industry concerns.
“I urge Treasury and the Federal Reserve to launch a secondary market facility to purchase Program loans from originating institutions,” Rebeca Romero Rainey, president of Independent Community Bankers of America, wrote in letter to Mr. Mnuchin and other government officials on Saturday.
“This program should not be limited by the balance sheet capacity of participating lenders,” she said.
Alan Rappeport contributed reporting.


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Money Line: -127 Baltimore
2-1 on Wednesday. Now hitting 64% on MLB Overall Plays (+858) 21-12 Run!
The Orioles are looking to even up their series with Clevaland on Thursday night.
The Orioles were looking to get out of a funk that started over the weekend, not helped by the news that prospect Dylan Bundy is going under the knife.
The O's are turning to Miguel Gonzalaez to stop the bleeding.
The O's greatest weakness is their lack of a true ace but Gonzalez is doing his best as a stand in. Batters are hitting only .232 against Gonzalez and the Cleveland lineup will see just how difficult he is to hit.
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