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Retired police officers who give evidence to an inquiry into undercover policing will not face retrospective action for wrongdoing, The Ferret can reveal.
The Met Police has confirmed that former undercover officers who give evidence to the Pitchford Inquiry will not face misconduct proceedings even if evidence of serious misconduct comes to light.
The assurance was given in response to a request by the most notorious former officer Mark Kennedy who asked for immunity.
Kennedy – who operated in Scotland at least 14 times – asked that no retrospective proceedings be taken against retired officers.
He submitted his request over fears that the new Policing and Crime Bill might allow for action to be brought against former officers.
The Pitchford Inquiry was established to examine undercover policing in England and Wales after a major scandal over the behaviour of police.
Officers abused their positions and duped women into long term relationships and caused miscarriages of justice.
Some stole the identities of dead babies and one officer fathered a child with a woman he was spying on before abandoning her.
Seven women successfully sued the Met as a result arguing their lives had been shattered due to deception.
Kennedy infiltrated protest groups in Scotland and spied on protestors at the G8 Summit at Gleneagles in 2005.
His request to the inquiry for immunity said: "In accordance with the undertakings ruling it is plainly in the public interest that those who are core participants before this inquiry are able to give open and frank evidence without fear of personal consequences."
A Pitchford Inquiry official said that "any such undertaking would be issued by the relevant police force".
The Met Police said in a statement: "The MPS has made its submission to the Public Inquiry regarding undertakings for former officers. The starting position is that the MPS would wish to consider disciplinary proceedings where evidence of serious misconduct comes to light on the part of serving, or if the law changes, former MPS officers."
"However, the MPS has to balance the importance of officers having the confidence to provide full and frank evidence to the Inquiry to allow the truth to be established, and this point is raised by a number of core participants in their submissions."
"As such the MPS is prepared to give an undertaking, if invited to do so by the Chairman, not to use the evidence given to the Inquiry by a former officer against that officer in any disciplinary proceedings or in deciding whether to bring such proceedings, should the law change in the future, to allow this to happen."
"At present, the statutory position does not allow for misconduct proceedings to be brought against former officers."
A former political activist called Jason Kirkpatrick who attended the 2005 G8 Summit and had a five-year friendship with Kennedy, said: "It is absolutely essential that the truth comes out as a part of the Pitchford Inquiry , that is of utmost importance."
"What happens later with the facts that are exposed is a question I want to examine later. However, we have recently seen the surreal example from the Stephen Lawrence murder case, where a senior officer was allowed to retire to avoid disciplinary charges over an alleged plot to spy on the Lawrence family."
"What I want is justice and accountability for those who have made decisions to wrongly target myself and others."
Calls for a Scottish inquiry
Meanwhile, pressure was mounting on the Scottish Government to hold its own inquiry into undercover policing after the Home Office ruled out extending it north of the border.
Labour MSP Neil Findlay said: "The onus is now very firmly on the SNP Government – all along they have said they would wait on the response from the UK Government before deciding what to do – well now we have the UK Government's response and it is a refusal to extend the Pitchford inquiry."
"It would be completely and utterly unjust for Scottish victims to be denied access to the truth . There is now no other option available to the Scottish Government – they must hold their own inquiry into this scandal. I have today written to the Justice Secretary, Michael Mathieson calling on him to act."
Neil Findlay MSP
The call has been backed by trades union officials.
STUC Deputy General Secretary Dave Moxham said: "We know as a fact that Scottish trade unionists and other political activists were victim to these outrageous and anti-democratic practices.
"The STUC is concerned and angry at the refusal to extend the Pitchford Inquiry to Scotland. The Scottish Government must now act to ensure that justice is served here and we look forward to a swift announcement of an inquiry in Scotland.
Pat Rafferty, Unite Scottish Secretary, said: "Unite have been pushing the Scottish Government for some time for a full public inquiry into the blacklisting of trade union activists in Scotland – particularly as there are a disproportionate number of Scottish workers listed on the Consulting Association blacklist used by some construction companies and the potential that Scottish police forces may have been involved in this."
"The latest revelation that the Pitchford Inquiry will not cover Scotland makes it crucially important that the Scottish Government now organises a Pitchford style inquiry in Scotland to deliver full justice for workers and political and environmental activists who may have suffered through immoral and undemocratic covert surveillance."
A Scottish Government spokesperson was critical of the decision to restrict the inquiry to England and Wales but stopped short of confirming a separate Scottish inquiry would be held.
They said: "The Scottish Government is extremely disappointed that the UK Government has indicated it will not extend the remit of the Pitchford Inquiry to consider the activities of undercover Metropolitan Police units in Scotland."
"We continue to believe that a single inquiry across the UK is the most effective approach to provide a comprehensive and coherent investigation into these matters. This narrower approach risks doing a disservice to people in Scotland affected by the activities of a force which falls under the oversight of the Home Office. We will now consider how best to take this matter forward."
A version of this story was published by the Sunday Mail newspaper on 31st July 2016.
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Treasurer signals right first step towards affordability fix
PowerHousing Australia, the peak body representing 28 of Australia's largest Community Housing Providers (CHPs), has welcomed Treasurer Scott Morrison's commitment to deliver a raft of measures that address housing right across the lifecycle spectrum.
From aiding new supply, to creating more social and affordable housing, supporting first home buyers and seniors looking to downsize, this package has been a while coming but signals a step in the right direction for fixing Australia's housing affordability challenges.
PowerHousing CEO Nicholas Proud said adopting the UK bond aggregator model will open streams of institutional funds to increase the supply of social and affordable housing. Community Housing Providers, the industry's quiet achievers, are well-placed to leverage these funding flows to maximise new housing stock.
PowerHousing Members have, over the past 10 years, grown into credible scale managers, operators and developers of new and existing social housing dwellings and we do this by quietly achieving the highest level of social outcomes.
Public housing has decreased by 24,000 since 2007, community housing in Australia has over the same period grown from 33,526 to 72, 410 dwellings as per the recent Productivity Commission Report on Government Services. The community housing sector has largely built scale on the basis of property transfers and the Federal National Rental Affordability Scheme.
Providing funds through to the community housing sector will deliver more affordable homes more cost-effectively and assist those on low incomes through to first home ownership with more options, new housing and the potential for a suite of wrap around services to aid training, education, health and livable outcomes.
Australians will have to wait until the Budget to know whether the Treasurer will secure the deep funding measures that are required to meet the gap between what those in affordable housing can provide and what it is vital to deliver in terms of dwellings into the long-term future. This is an integral part of the CHP model and PowerHousing is hopeful this gap will be addressed in the upcoming federal budget.
There has been some solid work undertaken in the states with reviews of New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania showing good progress in meeting National Agreement Targets such as facilitating 35% of public housing being operated by the Community Housing Sector.
Ultimately access to new finance streams, as suggested here, allows for the best return on government investment with more affordable housing delivered at the lowest cost to taxpayers – a win-win situation.
Today's announcements are a strong Federal Government acknowledgement of our CHP Members' commitment to being commercially astute and achieve economies of scale by working with government, tier one/innovative financial lenders and scale developers to design and construct affordable housing options.
Nicholas Proud will be attending the AHURI Conference in Melbourne and will be available for comment.
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We believe that learning and growing should be a fun and exciting time for children, so our curriculum is designed to engage the children through hands on learning games and activities. Our theme based curriculum uses themes that are exciting for Preschoolers to learn about and explore like Dinosaurs, The Rainforest, Pirates, Sports, and Creative Movement, to name a few.
We use the Evan-Moor Everyday Literacy Reading and Writing Kindergarten Curriculum combined with fun literacy games and activities to help your preschooler develop reading skills to prepare them for Kindergarten. We focus on teaching children to recognize letters by sight and sound, associate letters with words, build and read 3 letter words, and recognize rhymes.
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Harper High School is the oldest neighborhood school in Englewood. Over the last century, thousands of residents have graduated from there. Yet last month, the Chicago Board of Education voted to close Harper High School in the next few years. It is, by all accounts, considered a failing school. But for those who go to Harper now, the decision threatens to tear apart the social fabric that's been woven across generations.
What happened to Harper, exactly? It's difficult to answer head-on. Since its beginnings, Harper, like many urban schools, has been the victim of flawed educational policies around segregation and school funding. Harper's portrayal in the media is itself a recursive citation to the city's gang violence. It's also been the subject of radical reform attempts. This confluence of bad precedents helped construct the good school–bad school paradigm that's colored our perspective of the school.
But there's more to Harper's story than the negative press. What's been forgotten in the margins of Harper's history has been its moments of promise. Neighborhood schools like Harper are touchstones of deep social meaning. For many, Harper High School is a beloved institution. This profile aims to give a more nuanced portrait of the school, as remembered by past students, one not defined by gunshots and gang lines.
The announcement of the closure of Harper, of course, did not sit well with those fighting to keep the school open. Community activists, students, teachers, and parents demanded the Chicago Board of Education cancel the vote on the grounds that the entire process had been a sham. Even members of the steering committee resigned because they claimed they were misdirected. Despite their passionate pleas, the Board nearly unanimously voted to shutter Harper High School, John Hope College Prep, and TEAM Englewood Community Academy after its students graduate, and to close Robeson High School immediately.
There have always been doubts about the "community support" touted by CPS around its decision to close four public high schools in Englewood. For example, there was the West Englewood Coalition, a vocal group that showed up to community meetings in matching black t-shirts to pledge support for the new multimillion-dollar high school to be built on Robeson's campus. They posed an intimidating presence; during the first community meeting introducing the proposal, the Coalition walked in single file into the hall, stood up in unison at various points in the evening, and interrupted speakers.
The weekend before the vote, however, reporters at the Sun-Times revealed that this organization is based in Homewood, IL, though they claim to have operated and recruited in Englewood for years. Emails obtained by the Sun-Times revealed the influence of a paid CPS contractor, who had a seat on the Community Action Council, and Leon Finney, a prominent Woodlawn-based pastor and supporter of previous school closings, who both leveraged their combined influence to court the new high school.
The backlash to the closings has been so swift and fierce that two weeks prior, CPS made a tepid concession to allow the current students of Harper, John Hope College Prep, and TEAM Englewood to finish their academic careers at their respective schools. But the phase-out plan, as it has been coined, has not done much to foster goodwill with the Englewood residents.
Why should Harper, or any other neighborhood school, be saved? Observers of public education have forecasted the death of neighborhood schools for years now. Gene Demby, writing in 2015 for NPR on what we stand to lose when neighborhood schools close, notes that tearing down the school "that nobody wants" also means "wiping out something central to our personal stories of growing up and coming of age and being from a place." The oversaturation of charter schools in urban areas helped accelerate neighborhood schools' demise. Shrinking budgets and the cutting of school programs, along with high crime and poverty in the surrounding neighborhoods, also led to under-enrollment and low academic performance in these schools. But what we lose, Demby goes on, cannot be measured in grades and test scores. Harper's early days paint a picture of a school where people found a place to belong.
Harper High School opened its doors in 1911 at the intersection of 65th Street and South Wood Street. The school is named after William Rainey Harper, a well-known education reformer and activist of the late nineteenth century. The school mascot is the cardinal, the state bird of Illinois.
Harper's identity is inextricably linked to the social, cultural, and economic transformations of its neighborhood. In the early twentieth century, Englewood was majority-white and made up of mostly German immigrant laborers. Railroad workers, truck farmers, and stockyard workers purchased homes in the neighborhood, which was in the midst of a commercial boom.
The dynamic of the neighborhood soon changed. Beginning as early as 1916, the Great Migration saw thousands of African Americans move from the South to parts of the Midwest. In the 1930s, redlining, or the refusal or limitation of loan lending based on geographic location, particularly in Black neighborhoods, detracted from the property values of homes and impeded commercial development in the area. In the late 1950s, blockbusting, or the tactics of real estate brokers to convince white homeowners to sell their properties out of racial panic, quickly led to turnover of neighborhoods from majority-white to majority-Black. During the same period, the construction of what would later be the Dan Ryan Expressway forced Black families to move to the South and West Sides of the city. Many of these residents settled in parts of Englewood.
Sherry Williams, a 1978 Harper graduate, was one of the first Black residents to move to West Englewood in the seventies. Williams's mother moved her and her brothers to a house on 60th Street and South Marshfield Avenue. Her family was the second Black family to move to that block. Within three months, Williams recalls, Black families occupied the entire block.
The transition of Englewood from white to Black from 1950 to 1960, as Natalie Moore writes in her book The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation, saw the number of white homeowners selling their homes rapidly rise as speculators played into their fears of the rising Black population to turn a profit. Black homeowners' payments on their newly acquired properties were set sky high. Soon, the outlying suburbs saw increasing investment and attracted more consumers. Shopping malls were built outside of the cities that drove activity away from 63rd and Halsted. Other harmful practices, like redlining and the refusal of businesses to open up shop in Black neighborhoods, halted economic progress and denied residents access to financial capital.
As a kid, Williams witnessed white flight first hand.
Williams also remembers the challenges of navigating a racially divided neighborhood and the strict codes of conduct that were socially enforced.
Betty Tobler, who graduated from Harper in 1981, also moved to the neighborhood in the seventies. Her older brothers went to Harper at the time. She remembers those rough early days where she heard stories of her brothers having to dodge the white teens in the area in order to avoid getting beat up.
"They had to fight to go to school," she said.
At this time, the stewardship of neighborhood schools by CPS was in crisis. In 1960, African Americans made up twenty-five percent of the city's population, but majority-Black schools were languishing due to overcrowding and by the administration's refusal to reallocate resources. That same year saw CPS superintendent Benjamin Willis's infamous use of mobile buildings or "Willis Wagons" to relieve overcrowding. For students and teachers, it was a poor consolation and only further proved the administration's refusal to provide better resources and working conditions to Black schools. These conditions led to the famous 1963 school boycott.
In 1966, after Willis resigned, the new superintendent James Redmond introduced plans to desegregate schools, which were met with formidable opposition. The perceived threat of an integrated public school was another central catalyst of white flight in many U.S. cities.
Amid the backdrop of this upheaval in public education, Harper then became the center for West Englewood's Black community life.
When Helen Tyner, a 1977 Harper graduate, heard the news that her alma mater's closing was final, it brought tears to her eyes. Memories of her teen years at the school flooded her mind. Tyner was a good student, but reserved, and she kept a close circle of friends. She was drawn to Harper's woodshop, because she liked the way she could build and create something with her hands. As an adult, she became an artisan, designing and creating jewelry using equipment she kept in her basement. Tyner later served as the community representative on Harper's local school council in the early 2000s.
Other graduates shared this sentiment. Derrick Lawson transferred to Harper in the middle of his high school years and graduated from there in 1988. The Black teachers at the school became his role models, and he ended up joining the baseball team. He holds fond memories of his days as a player.
"I loved Harper. The sports [at Harper] had been staples in the community… It was a big deal at the time. They were competitive. They were in the playoffs every year. At Harper, I played varsity baseball to my senior year. I was able to stay active," Lawson said.
Williams also reflected on the lasting impact having Black teachers had on her education. She recalled her teachers assigning her Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America by Lerone Bennett Jr. It spurred on her love of history, and she now serves as the President of the Bronzeville Historical Society. (As of 2015, only twenty-three percent of teachers in CPS were Black, compared to about forty percent of students).
In 1981 a consent decree was signed to fully integrate CPS schools, but desegregation faded as a priority within a few years. Busing students was a contentious issue and the dwindling white population in CPS made integration less feasible. All-Black schools in CPS after 1980 still endured the consequences of segregation sanctioned decades earlier.
Much like in other urban areas across the U.S., Chicago's minority neighborhoods in the eighties and nineties faced an epidemic of drug use; they also saw an uptick in gang activity. The federal government's strict anti-drug policies led to hyper-policing of those areas. Increased arrests for low-level drug offenses resulted in higher incarceration rates as well.
In 1991, forty percent of all homicides in Englewood were tied to drugs and gangs. The effect of this rise in drug- and gang-related crimes also spread into the schools. Educator and civic leader Nicole Jeanine Johnson of Teamwork Englewood, a neighborhood organization that focus on youth and community development, outlines the long-term damage: "When you take out those stabilizing forces and the tax base is limited, the community goes into a downward spiral. In the midst of all that, there were residents who had to circumvent those social illnesses to support the community," she said.
These struggles gave rise to several social service organizations, like Imagine Englewood If and a host of others that sought to fill the gaps in both government and schools by providing youth leadership development, healthy living, and mentorship programs. In 2003, Teamwork Englewood was formed to unify several community agencies and bring residents together to draft the neighborhood's Quality of Life Plan.
Harper, along with other neighborhood schools, was not immune to the changes around it, and in the decades to follow, the school would become the poster child of urban inequity. In the 1990s and the 2000s, Harper underwent an on-and-off whirlwind of restructuring plans. In 1997, Harper, along with Orr High School on the West Side, went through "reconstitution," a highly experimental and controversial school reform strategy at the time that required the firing of a substantial portion of the school's key personnel, including principals, teachers, and other critical support staff.
There appeared to be immediate positive results: an increase in staff morale and a drop in truancy rates, and in 2005, the school gained a new computer lab with the hopes of concentrating their efforts to improve the students' reading levels. But years later, testing showed that students still read at a fourth grade level. Critics of reconstitution argued that the drastic intervention produces more harm than good as it undoes the social fabric of the school.
In 2008, to combat declining resources at the school, CPS CEO Arne Duncan selected Harper as one of the first schools in his turnaround agenda. Even though millions of dollars were invested in the school, the plan required teachers to reapply for their jobs the following year in order to keep the money. Many of those teachers were not rehired, as reported by the Chicago Reporter. In 2011, Harper was once again selected by the Chicago Board of Education for another turnaround, citing the school as one of the lowest performing in the nation.
During another period of staff overhaul and restructuring, This American Life ran a four-part series on Harper in 2012 that amplified the school's profile on the national stage. The story documented the presence of gangs at Harper, how student lives were paralyzed by violence, and how educators and social workers worked around the clock to prevent conflicts wherever they could. While most national and local news coverage of the school over the years, including from the New York Times, focused on incidents of violence and gang activity, the This American Life story served to humanize the lives of the Harper community in contrast to the superficial, crime beat reporting of other outlets. But the follow-up coverage from other outlets focused on one eye-catching number: twenty-nine current or recent Harper students shot in one year.
In the past ten years, the student population of Harper and its fellow Englewood neighborhood schools has been slowly dwindling. As of 2016, only eleven percent of the high school age population in Englewood attended neighborhood schools. There are only 125 students enrolled in Harper this year; a decade before, there had been over a thousand. In 2017, CPS rated Harper as a Level 2 (in need of intensive support) on its annual school rating scale. Harper received low marks in public safety and academic growth.
As the phase-out plan goes into effect, the halls of Harper High School will become ghost towns. With each passing year, there will be no incoming freshman class. It will render the school's enrichment clubs obsolete. There won't be enough students for the football team, marching band, or choir. The vanishing student body will be robbed of a high school experience altogether.
The new Englewood school's promise of innovation and resources could turn the tides for Englewood's neighborhood schools. Or it could signal the first waves of gentrification, as more affluent families begin to see Englewood, increasingly depleted of its Black families and students, as an attractive option. There's the question of whether or not the building will become another blighted property, with no official discussions so far on if or how the space will be converted. There's also the question of the safety for the students who will go to schools outside of Englewood, with many expressing fears about crossing into another gang's territory.
But if Harper must serve as a cautionary tale, one critical lesson is the harm done by pathologizing Black schools, both by CPS, who failed to provide investment and resources, and by media, who seized on the school's violent reputation for a good story. Right now, there is no framework, no language that opens up the conversation on urban schools to see their strengths and what they mean to their communities. By understanding Harper only through the prism of dysfunction, we ignore signs of hope and possibility.
That is the underlying dissonance between the way CPS measures the value of schools and the way its community does. For schools like Harper to thrive, there needs to be investment in people, not just buildings. Harper's students, old and new, will act as its last living history—proof that the preservation of the community of a school matters. After all, it has survived all these years.
Harper High School has assets currently underutilized. Those of us in mentioned in this article are savvy and ambitious enough to build resources at Harper. Just thinking out loud how triumph is possible.. Ask Derrick Lawson about the needs of African American veterans in Englewood. He would gladly support use of the pool, library, auditorium for the Veterans he services. I could easily see transitioning empty classroom into spaces for student and community sewing, cooking courses and exhibition spaces…. this is just a start of ideas for REPURPOSING and REVITALIZING our beloved Harper High School. Thank you for bringing the demise of Englewood High Schools to light.
I graduated from Harper in June of 1966. Sure, the school had problems (everyone does) but overall everyone got along with each other. We had some very dedicated teachers there, many who retired there from many years of service. One of my favorites was my Biology teacher, Miss Goodlow. It was because of her, and several others, that I became a high school teacher.
I hope others chime in, but the school was a tremendous resource to many generations. I know much has been done to try turning things around for the better, and I hope things do succeed soon, but I'm hopeful perhaps the building will be used as a community center, as others have suggested.
I came to Harper High School in 1966 as a Biology teacher. At that time, we had about 3500 students. We had Black and White students. Everyone, including faculty and students were very proud. We had a good academic and athletic program. Those were some of my best days. I retired in 1994 as Dean of Students and Disciplinarian. We did not have the problems that you now talk about. I hate to see Harper close. It was a great school.
I am sadden by this news. Growing up, my family moved a round a lot. I didn't have the privilege to attend a school longer than a year. Harper was the first school that I was able to attend all four years. During my time at Harper, I've met some outstanding people. I've built friendships that stands strong til this day. Encountered wonderful staff like Coach Wiley and Dr. Boraz. I couldn't imagine attending that school without any extracurricular activities. It was there I decided to join the United States Army. My education and experiences at Harper greatly contributed to the woman I am today. Signed Class of 2004.
Great story. Englewood residents do not want to see these schools go.
I graduated from Harper High in 1960, I lived at 66th and Wolcott just a block away. In hindsight at that time it was somewhat educationally limited but I did go on to degrees in engineering physics, biophysics and molecular biology and just retired from being a professor at Duke University Medical Center. Its sad to hear of this, and yes integration was just beginning at Harper in my final year. Black students were driven to school and it appeared as though most of them joined ROTC. At that time the immediate neighborhood around the school was a mixture of different ethnic groups or mixed marriages of a different kind–like my father whose father came from England marrying my mother whose parents came for Lithuania. I remember St. Mary's church on Marquette road and its Italian carnival each summer. It was an interesting neighborhood. As a kid, I did not quite understand the fear engendered by racial differences but given what has happened to our country lately, I think we have a habit of being pushed and pulled by two emotions that short cut around the better pain of our working brain-fear and anger. And politicians seem to be taking advantage of this drawback.
I enjoyed the article about Harper, but there was a noticeable hole in your commentary about its past and that was how the neighborhoods functioned before they changed from predominantly white to predominantly black. We who went to and graduated from Harper lived in those ethnic neighborhoods without problems and were proud of our homes and neighborhoods. Through my life, I have literally bragged on the camaraderie that was present and how neighbor helped neighbor every day. I spoke of how I loved to walk through our neighborhood at supper time and enjoy the aromas of those various ethnic dishes being prepared. We had no fear of being outside and conversing with our neighbors and catching up on activities with them. As a graduate of Harper in 1958, I felt I received a great education and have always credited my teachers with the success that I have enjoyed. I went on to my Bachelor's degree and later got a Master's degree. It is indescribable how the neighborhoods were together and apparently the glue that held them together failed as they changed. In many ways, Harper was like a dungeon, especially on the bottom floor, but light and art and education prevailed throughout the halls and classrooms. If that feeling could be regained, Harper would go on forever.
Reading this story, and the comments that follow, makes me feel and think that Harper is doomed. The problem is so multifaceted that there seems no way in to address it. Where does one begin? If there is no neighborhood, there can be no neighborhood school. The undermining of public schools brought about by the charter school movement seems unstoppable. Gangs ruling neighborhoods? How do you stop that? I graduated from Harper in 1953, yeah, I go WAY back. I certainly wish our neighborhood had been able to be integrated back then, at least to SOME extent. We would have been so much richer for it individually and collectively. But fear dominated, just as it does now. I feel hopeless about the way this is playing out. Certainly white privilege plays a part locally and nationally (unfortunately). Pray and work for change, that's about all we can do.
I attended Harper High School on Chicago's southwest side. Gun deaths in the Harper neighborhood have kept headline writers, sociologists, and, so I hear, Spike Lee busy exploiting, studying, and trying to understand the tragic deaths of young people living close to my old school. Here's a story from the old days of Harper High–1954-55 when I was a senior at that school.
The almost automatic response to a request for a drag was, "Don't n____ lip it." Racism, conscious and culturally taught, was a nonchalant sickness with most of us at this time.
This racial slur was not used frequently or even by everyone. Among the guys I knew best at Harper, the n-word seemed to be used situationally–in the occasional racist joke (First heard where? At home would be my guess.) or in reference to other high schools which had nearly all black student bodies, schools like Crane, Dunbar and DuSable. But by the end of the school year in 1955 this racial epithet was heard with great frequency and uttered with much vehemence.
Did I mention that in the fall of 1954 Harper was integrated by four brave young girls? Many at Harper made the lives of these young African American students a kind of hell. I wish I knew their names. I wish everyone knew their names.
I grew up In englewood… and though I did not go to Harper high school…I remember the summers when we would go to Harper high school for free swim in their swimming pool…it was so much fun…it was racially divided…but my friends were both black and white…I had no problems…please don't close that great school!!


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Unlikely Duo On The Café
By Rome Neal
November 26, 2003 / 6:29 PM / CBS
"The Trouble With Humans" is the second collaboration between veteran singer/songwriter Chip Taylor, and young fiddler/singer Carrie Rodriguez. Their last album "Let's Leave This Town" was a sleeper hit in 2002, reaching No. 2 on the Americana chart and scoring three stars in Rolling Stone.
The two stop by The Saturday Early Show and are the latest to grace the Second Cup Café's stage with performances from their album.
During the '60s and '70s, Taylor was one of America's most successful songwriters, penning tunes that became hits for artists as diverse as Juice Newton ("Angel of the Morning"), Dean Martin and the Troggs ("Wild Thing").
As a junior in high school, Taylor and his band, The Town and Country Brothers, was the first white act signed to King Records. Soon after, as a solo artist, Taylor had his first hit single, "Me As I Am."
Later, Taylor became a pioneer songwriter and country-rock recording artist and record producer.
After leaving the music business for 15 years to pursue a career as a professional gambler, Taylor (who's brother happens to be Jon Voight) returned to writing and performing in the mid-'90s, and now tours the Americana circuit as a duo with the Berklee-trained Rodriguez.
Rodriguez is the daughter of noted Texas singer-songwriter David Rodriguez and visual artist Katy Nail. A concertmaster with the Austin Youth Symphony during her teen years, Rodriguez also appeared as a soloist with the Austin Civic Orchestra.
She studied violin at Oberlin Conservatory before transferring to Berklee College of Music, where she graduated magna cum laude. While at Berklee, Rodriguez was invited by Lyle Lovett to join him onstage at a Boston show to play on her father's song "The Ballad of the Snow Leopard," which Lovett recorded on his "Step Inside This House" CD and was written for Carrie's mother.
Taylor and Rodriguez met in 2001 at a music festival in Austin. Soon after, they started touring in the U.S. and then Europe. And with a little encouragement from Taylor, Rodriguez, who is an untrained singer, started vocalizing for the audience, too.
Now, the duo, with different musical experience and styles, are musical equals with a lot to sing about.
First published on November 26, 2003 / 6:29 PM


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Pizza by the slice is a fast food sold by pizzerias and food stands, making it also often a street food. The pizza slices may be plain or have various toppings.[1] Some restaurants and pizza stands only sell pizza by the slice, while others sell both slices and whole pizzas. The jumbo slice is a large-sized slice of New York-style pizza made in areas of Washington, D.C. Pizza al taglio is a style of rectangular slice of pizza that originated in Rome and is typically sold by weight.
Some pizzerias and food stands sell pizza by the slice and whole pizza pies, and some only sell slices.[1] Pizza by the slice is typically pre-baked and pre-sliced, and is characteristically kept warm under heat lamps.[1][2] Slices are sometimes re-heated or have toppings added before going back into the oven briefly. Selling pizza by the slice offers an economic and speedy dining option to a purchaser while optimizing profits for the seller, as the total value of a pie's slices typically is considerably more than selling a whole pie.[1] The price of pizza slices is also typically significantly less than the cost of a whole pie.[1]
Pizza by the slice is prevalent in the United States.[1][2] There are over 1,000 pizzerias and "slice shops" in New York City[3][4] selling New York-style pizza by the slice,[4] with Sicilian pizza slices also often available.[5][6] It is a common street food there,[7] and the most popular way pizza is ordered. There is a lively competition for which pizzeria sells the "best" slice in the city.[8]
The dish is common in some areas of the Balkans[9] such as Bulgaria.[9][10]
Pizza by the slice is also manufactured frozen, and is sometimes packaged in individual microwavable portions.[11]
New York-style pepperoni pizza, displaying its characteristic thin foldable crust
A sign for pizza by the slice at a restaurant in San Francisco, California
Red Baron brand frozen pizza by the slice,[12] uncooked and cooked
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Slices of New York-style pizza, chicken pesto on the left, pepperoni on the right
Main article: Jumbo slice
The jumbo slice is an oversized slice of New York-style pizza[13] sold in areas of Washington, D.C.,[14] especially favored as a late-night snack by bargoers after closing time.[13][15]
Main article: Pizza al taglio
Pizza al taglio in Rome, Italy
Pizza al taglio is an Italian pizza variety of rectangular pizza that is sold by the slice, typically by weight.[16][17] The dish originated in Rome, Italy, and is common there, as well as being sold elsewhere around the world.[18][19][20][where?] The dough for Pizza al taglio is sometimes parbaked ahead of time, allowing sauce and various toppings to be added later and the pie finished in the oven when needed.[21]
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^ a b Pizza Today. Pro Tech Publishing and Communications. 2010. p. 48. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
^ Crowley, Chris (September 12, 2017). "Times Critic Says New York's Best Pizza Is in New Jersey". Grub Street. Archived from the original on January 29, 2018. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
^ a b Smith, A.F.; Oliver, G. (2015). Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover's Companion to New York City. Oxford University Press. p. 462. ISBN 978-0-19-939702-0. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
^ New York. New York Magazine Company. 1975. pp. 32–33. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
^ Weinstein, Lauren R. (November 1, 2015). "The Ten Best Old-School Pizzas in NYC". Village Voice. Archived from the original on February 1, 2018. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
^ Stern, J.; Stern, M. (2011). Lexicon of Real American Food. Lyons Press. p. pt211. ISBN 978-0-7627-6830-1. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
^ Keshner, Andrew (January 31, 2018). "Judge dishes Famous Joe's Pizza partial win in copycat suit". NY Daily News. Archived from the original on January 3, 2018. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
^ a b Kraig, B.; Sen, C.T. (2013). Street Food Around the World: An Encyclopedia of Food and Culture. ABC-CLIO. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-59884-955-4. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
^ Strnadel, L.; Erdley, P. (2012). Bulgaria (Other Places Travel Guide). Other Places Publishing. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-9822619-9-6. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
^ Hoover's Handbook of Private Companies 2005. Hoover's Handbook of Private Companies. Hoover's Business Press. 2005. p. 437. ISBN 978-1-57311-102-7. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
^ Brandweek. Adweek L.P. 2003. p. 226. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
^ a b Stern, J.; Stern, M. (2011). Lexicon of Real American Food. Lyons Press. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-7627-6830-1. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
^ Morgan, S. (2015). 100 Things to do in Washington DC before you die. 100 Things to Do Before You Die. Reedy Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-935806-92-9. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
^ Nelson, E. (2016). The Beltway Bible: A Totally Serious A-Z Guide to Our No-Good, Corrupt, Incompetent, Terrible, Depressing, and Sometimes Hilarious Government. St. Martin's Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-1-250-09925-9. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
^ The World's Best Street Food: Where to Find it & How to Make it. Lonely Planet Publications. 2012. p. pt129. ISBN 978-1-74321-664-4. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
^ Lombardi, M. (2007). Essential Italy: Rome, Florence, Venice and the Top Spots in Between. Fodor's Essential Italy: Rome, Florence, Venice & the Top Spots in Between. Fodor's Travel Publications. p. 419. ISBN 978-1-4000-1746-1. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
^ Braimbridge, S.; Glynn, J.; Halsey, K.; Jones, C.L. (2003). A Little Taste of Italy. Murdoch Books. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-86411-947-6. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
^ Marchetti, D.; An, S. (2013). The Glorious Vegetables of Italy. Chronicle Books. p. 164. ISBN 978-1-4521-2964-8. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
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^ Manfredi, Stefano (August 20, 2017). "Stefano Manfredi's Roman pizza with eggplant parmigiana recipe". The Guardian. Archived from the original on February 2, 2018. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
Kleinfield, N. R. (March 31, 2012). "In Manhattan Pizza War, Price of Slice Keeps Dropping". The New York Times. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
Lawrence, Julie (September 2, 2015). "Milwaukee grasps pizza by the slice". OnMilwaukee. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
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Benguerra Island in Mozambique is the second largest island in the Bazaruto Archipelago, which broke away from the mainland thousands of years ago. The island is approximately 55 square kilometers (11km long x 5.5 km wide), and lies 14km offshore. Portuguese explorers also gave the island the name Santa Antonio. It is famous for its unspoiled white beaches, dive sites, luxury resorts, horseback riding and fishing.

Habitat

Benguerra Island comprises forest, savannah, freshwater lakes and wetland eco-systems that sustain a diverse population of fauna and flora. Fresh water crocodiles can be found in the three lakes, bearing testimony to the island's mainland past.  The island, which is home to approximately 140 bird species, was declared a National Park in 1971.

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The TV adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials hasn't even aired yet and a second season has already been confirmed.
Philip Pullman is the kind of author who always comes up in conversations for one very good reason: he created a whole new other world for everyone to enjoy.
And now that world will be brought to life on the small screen.
The His Dark Materials trilogy (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass) follows the characters of Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry as they enter parallel universes. Their story is set to light up our screens in the not-so-distant future, and the people behind the TV adaptation are so sure of its success that a second season has already been confirmed.
And the people behind it are so sure of its success that a second season has already been confirmed.
Here's everything that we know so far.
Now, HBO has got involved and is set to co-produce and will distribute the series outside of the UK.
Written by Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) and directed by Tom Hooper, both seasons will also be eight episodes long.
Of course, the cast is a good as you'd imagine. Comprising of: Clarke Peters, Ariyon Bakare, Will Keen, Ian Gelder, Georgina Campbell, Lewin Lloyd, Lucian Msamati, James Cosmo, Daniel Frogson, Tyler Howitt, Ruta Gedmintas and Mat Fraser. Along with a few big names, too.


You know, I have three, maybe four things a year that I really look forward to. Things for which I cannot be sick. And yet, with the Kidlitosphere Conference merely two days away, I have a stuffy-nosed cold. I'm going, don't worry about that, but I'm kinda irritated that I'm all sniffles as I prepare to meet and greet lots of bloggers and authors.
Since I'm feeling rather cranky, it felt like a good time to pull out these notes I wrote on a couple of picture books that didn't please me. A little mean-spirited? Yeah, probably.
Maybe this is a laugh riot for kids, but I could not enjoy this picture book of a dad who has "misplaced" his daughter in his baby backpack and searches for her for the whole book. Maybe if she were a baby, a baby who couldn't tell him where she was. Maybe if he didn't portray that doofus daddy thing. Maybe if it weren't the whole, whole book. I also was not crazy about the "almost" rhymes — cot and shock, pen and end — especially when mixed with actual rhymes. So which is it, are you trying to rhyme or not? There is also an awkward feel to the reading. So are you trying to keep the same reading rhythm or not? An annoying book in so many ways.
She hides it in a hollow log and then can't find it for bedtime. She has to sleep without it, even though it's tough for a while. She looks for the blankie for a while too, but eventually forgets about it. One day, a long time later, she sees her blankie with a baby fox. "Bean looked at the tiny baby fox and knew now that her mommy was right — she really was much to big for her blanket." This strikes me the wrong way. I can see that she needs to stop carrying the blankie around, but what's wrong with her having one? I didn't like the message in the book, and since that's really all there was to it other then some cute watercolored bunnies, I didn't like the book.
It doesn't matter what I think about the Gorbachev books; at least I know what to expect: (1) Lots of repetition and (2) lots of repetition. In this story, Turtle is going across town to see something red. Along the way he passes lots of red things, but they are not the red thing he seeks. He is joined by all the animal village folk, and you'd think that he could just tell them where he was going and save everybody the trouble. At the end, it's the sunset that he is going to see — I didn't spoil it for you, did I? — and everyone is there to see it. This book isn't really bad, just a little obvious in an annoying way.
Now I'm going to drink some more orange juice — it can't hurt — and find the softie tissues for my red, red, red nose. Sniffle. Sniffle.
I have to say I liked "Where's My Darling Daughter?" and so did the 3 crowds I read it to a story time last spring. I think it kind of fits the "Blue's Clues" sort of style--kids LIKE it when the grown-ups don't get it and they DO get the joke. They really liked trying to point out to Dad where his daughter is--and that sort of audience participation really helps with 2 and 3 year olds!
Yeah, the rhyme's not perfect, but it swung well enough when read out loud.
Hope your nose is feeling less irritated. It's a bad allergy season here in NoVa--all we can do is hope for some rain!


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Represented Maryland's 1st Congressional District. This is his 4th term in the House.
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Andy Harris and Jim Langevin are from different parties and disagreed on 71 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
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World War One and Charles Dabney Baker
War heroes come from all walks of life, and are deemed noteworthy for all sorts of reasons. In April 1918, during World War I, the North Country was justifiably proud of five lesser headlines in the New York Times beneath a bold proclamation: "Plattsburg Youth A Transport Hero."
The story was particularly unusual for one main reason—though the youth was a lieutenant in the infantry, he and his foot-soldiers had performed heroic deeds with no land in any direction for perhaps 1000 miles.
Plattsburg (no "h" used in those days) was a principal military training facility, and many death announcements during the war ended with a single, telling entry: "He was a Plattsburg man." In this case, the Plattsburg man in question, Charles Dabney Baker, was still very much alive and receiving praise from both sides of the Atlantic for astute leadership and remarkable calm during a crisis situation.
The odd circumstances surrounding Baker's citation complemented his unusual path from childhood to the military. Historically, the vast majority of fighting men do not come from affluent backgrounds. Men of money and power have often been able to protect their children from serving. Poorer folks, on the other hand, often joined for the guaranteed income and the financial incentives dangled before them. A few thousand dollars was nothing to a person of wealth, but constituted a small fortune for someone in need.
Charles Baker was certainly part of an affluent family. He was born in Far Rockaway, Long Island in 1891, the son of a Wall Street banker. When he was but eight years old, the family household of four children was supported by a live-in staff that included two nurses, a waitress, a cook, and a chambermaid. A kitchen maid and a laundress were later added. Life was sweet.
Charles graduated from Princeton in 1913 and went to work for the Bankers' Trust Company in New York City. It was an ongoing life of privilege, but after two years in the banking industry, he opted to join the military. Following a stint on the Mexican border, he was promoted to the rank of sergeant, and then trained at Plattsburg as America finally entered the war in Europe.
For Baker, who was prepared for battle, disappointment ensued when his regiment was ordered to France without him. He was instead tasked with commanding a detachment of men assigned to care for 1600 mules and horses that were being shipped to Europe in support of the troops.
As the journey began, a series of problems developed, culminating in a crisis situation in the middle of the ocean. A powerful storm threatened the mission, with winds estimated at 80–90 miles an hour. The ship was badly tossed, and a coal port lid failed (it was said to have been the work of German spies who had loosened the bolts when the craft was docked).
As the ship began to flood, chaos and disaster loomed. Baker, the highest ranking officer aboard, took charge of his landlubber crew and whipped them into action. The partially flooded ship rocked violently, and its precious cargo suffered terribly. A sailor on board later reported that many of the horses and mules "were literally torn to pieces by the tossing and rolling. Their screams of agony were something awful to listen to." A number of others drowned.
Under Baker's orders, bailing crews were assigned, dead and living animals were tended to, and the remaining men battled to keep the ship afloat. Days later, they limped into port and assessed the damages. It was determined that 400 animals had been lost, but the remarkable response by Baker and his infantrymen resulted in the survival of 1200 others. A complete disaster had been averted, and after delivering their cargo, the 165th Infantry was soon on the front line in France.
The story of the ocean trip might have remained untold except for brief mention that appeared in some newspapers. Among those reading the report was a sailor who had shared the voyage. He contacted the newspapers, and soon the story was headline news, praising Baker and his soldiers for great bravery and heroism under extreme conditions.
While the story gathered momentum, Charles and his men were otherwise occupied, already engaging in trench warfare. Just a few weeks after joining the fight, the 165th was pinned down under withering bombardment by the Germans. As Baker encouraged his troops, a shell exploded nearby, puncturing his eardrum.
For three days the barrage continued. Against the advice of his men, Baker endured the pain, refusing to withdraw to seek treatment. He felt his troops were best served if he remained on duty with them.
In early May it was announced that the French government had conferred upon Baker the Croix de Guerre medal, accompanied by the following citation: "First Lieutenant Charles D. Baker showed presence of mind and bravery during a heavy bombardment of nine-inch shells. Went calmly to his post in the trenches despite a destructive fire, assuring the safety of his men and locating the enemy's mortars which were firing on the positions."
Baker was forced to spend time recovering in the hospital. Despite his adventures, the frequent praise, and the French medal, Baker was described as humble, unassuming, and much admired and respected by his men. Soon he was back on the battlefield, right in the thick of things.
In July 1918, less than six months after Baker's arrival in Europe, the 165th was involved in heavy fighting on the Ourcq River about 75 miles northeast of Paris. The Germans had the better position, and Allied forces suffered very heavy casualties as machine gunners cut down hundreds of men. Some of the Allied commanders took to an old method of moving forward by sending only two or three men at a time, backed by intense cover fire. It was difficult and deadly work.
On July 29th, while involved in fierce fighting, Charles Baker was badly injured by machine-gun fire and was once again removed to a base hospital in France. Nearly six weeks later, on September 12, he succumbed to his wounds.
From the crisis on the high seas to his eventual death on the battlefield, barely eight months had passed. It was a tragedy that was repeated millions of times during the war. And in this case, it was duly noted: Baker was a Plattsburg man.
Photo: Charles Dabney Baker, 1913.
Lawrence Gooley has authored ten books and dozens of articles on the North Country's past. He and his partner, Jill McKee, founded Bloated Toe Enterprises in 2004. Expanding their services in 2008, they have produced 19 titles to date, and are now offering web design. For information on book publishing, visit Bloated Toe Publishing.
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a 2006 American drama film based on a 2001 memoir of the same name by author, director, and musician Dito Montiel, which describes his youth in Astoria, New York during the 1980s.
Montiel wrote and directed the film adaptation, which was released in the United States in September and October 2006 and in Europe in March 2007. The film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Montiel with Shia LaBeouf as a younger Montiel.

The film's narrative jumps frequently between 2005 and flashbacks from 1986 (filmed largely with shaky camera with short shots) with characters occasionally addressing the viewer.

Plot
Present Day (2001):
Dito is a successful writer in Los Angeles. One day, after being urged by his mother, Flori, and his friend, Nerf, Dito visits his childhood home, Astoria, New York, because his father has suddenly become very ill. The film switches back and forth between the present and flashbacks with Dito's memories in the summer of 1986.

Dito meets Nerf, and talks with him in a parked car, where they can talk undisturbed, which would not have been possible at Nerf's house. Dito then visits Laurie, his childhood sweetheart, who is now a mother. They only talk through the open window; she does not let him in. Dito finally visits his overprotective father, Monty. Monty used to ignore Dito's feelings, and he didn't want Dito to travel. He is angry at Dito for leaving, and for not returning sooner to visit; he then sends Dito away. Laurie urges him to be a man and come to terms with his father, who was heartbroken when he left. Dito does leave, but returns later, to insist that he take his father to the hospital.

1986:
Antonio, an overconfident, volatile boy with an abusive father, eventually kills someone: the Puerto Rican gang member Reaper, as payback for an attack on young Dito.

Viewers are then introduced to Antonio's younger brother, Giuseppe - reckless, destructive, and possibly insane.  Giuseppe lies on a subway track; in spite of urgent warnings from his brother Antonio and Nerf, that a train was coming, he failed to get back on the platform and was killed.

Mike O'Shea, another friend of Dito's, was a Scottish boy who dreamt of becoming a musician. Mike and Dito had planned to go to California on a bus. They worked for a gay  drug addict, Frank, with a dog-walking business. They went to his house to collect the wages he was slow in paying. At first he did not listen to them, but then he gave them all the money he kept in the refrigerator, more than he owed them and told them to leave town. Shortly thereafter, Mike was murdered by a member of a Puerto Rican gang in retaliation for the murder of Reaper, after which Dito travelled alone to California.

Present Day:
Dito visits the adult Antonio in prison and sees him as a changed man of wisdom. The film concludes with the two of them sitting down in conversation.

Cast

 Robert Downey Jr. as Dito Montiel
 Shia LaBeouf as young Dito
 Rosario Dawson as Laurie
 Melonie Diaz as young Laurie
 Eric Roberts as Antonio
 Channing Tatum as young Antonio
 Chazz Palminteri as Monty Montiel
 Dianne Wiest as Flori Montiel
 Scott Campbell as Nerf
 Peter Tambakis as young Nerf
 Federico Castelluccio as Antonio & Giuseppe's father
 Adam Scarimbolo as Giuseppe
 Martin Compston as Mike O'Shea
 Anthony DeSando as Frank the dog walker
 Eleonore Hendricks as Jenny
 Michael Rivera as Reaper

Production
This film was Montiel's directorial debut.

Initially, Montiel refused to see LaBeouf for the part, having only seen him as the "Disney guy." Once he got to audition for the role, he "fucked his office up," putting a "hole through the wall" and went as "crazy" as he could in order to change the image Montiel had of him to land the part.

Characters
Montiel states that all the characters in the film are a combination of at least three people and sometimes six or seven, although some characters are given the names of people from real life. Listed below are some of the main differences between four characters and their real-life counterparts.

Laurie
Montiel said that he made the film because "I wanted to walk down those streets again and fall in love with Laurie again, it would have been nice to have had that moment at the end of the film where Dito met Laurie, reconnecting as adults." The real-life Laurie was white instead of Hispanic and died two years earlier from AIDS.

Antonio
Montiel states that Antonio is a composite of three people. The book mentions a kid named Antonio Ruggeria who was sent to prison for manslaughter, escaped, and was later sent to prison again for things "that are even beyond putting in a movie that people might find redeemable." In the book, a copy of a newspaper article describing Antonio's escape from Rikers Island has the crime he committed blanked out.

Giuseppe
The film shows Giuseppe getting killed on a subway track. The inspiration for the scene was a kid named Billy who was "riding" trains when he was killed. The real Giuseppe Ruggeria is a career criminal who was deported to Milan. Montiel describes the real Giuseppe as being like a cat. "The train would come and two seconds later he would pop up."

Mike
The Scottish character Mike is a composite of a man named Mike O'Shea; a kid named Ray, who used to go to the city with Dito, sniff amyl nitrite and smoke hashish; and Angelo Ruggeria (a younger brother of Antonio) who was later murdered. The real Mike O'Shea is Irish, alive, married, and living in Essex, England.

Reception
The film made $2,035,468 worldwide. It currently holds a 75% "Certified Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Awards and nominations
Sundance Film Festival

Gijón International Film Festival

Independent Spirit Awards

Home video release
The DVD of the film was released on February 20, 2007 in the United States.

References

External links

2006 films
American crime drama films
2000s Spanish-language films
2006 crime drama films
Hood films
American independent films
American coming-of-age drama films
Films set in New York City
Films set in 1986
Films set in 2001
Films based on memoirs
Films directed by Dito Montiel
Films produced by Trudie Styler
Films scored by Jonathan Elias
2006 directorial debut films
2006 independent films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films


By 1763, however, Britain's national debt had risen to £122 million, or over 150 percent of the Gross Domestic Product, and in the face of growing resistance to high taxes in Britain itself, the British government abruptly changed course. George III's new ministers blamed the escalating debt and the punishing level of British taxation on Pitt's aggressive global foreign policy and his unwillingness to have the colonies pay directly for the war effort. George III's ministers were determined to end what they perceived as economic redistribution to the colonies at the expense of wealthy English landowners and the government itself. Instead of subsidizing immigrants, George III's Prime Minister George Grenville announced the Proclamation Line of 1763, designed to limit the demographic expansion of the North American colonies. Instead of encouraging the colonies to trade with Spanish America, the ministry instructed the Royal Navy to prohibit any intercolonial trade. Rather than lowering customs duties in order to encourage commercial activity, the ministry passed the 1763 Hovering Act, which made it easier to enforce existing customs regulations. Instead of allowing the colonies to bet on future growth by printing paper money, Grenville passed the Currency Act of 1764, which forbade the colonies to emit any new currency. Finally, in 1765, Grenville ushered the American Stamp Act through the House of Commons, a measure that was designed in part to restrict the colonial land market.
The economic policies of Europe are not justifiable in terms of logic, history, economics or common sense. One wonders why they are executed at all. Time for my political economy course, I'd say.
I wonder if Greece would have been better off if they had, back in 2010, simply said, "We are defaulting on our debt and we are leaving the Eurozone." Sorry, bankers. Sure, in the short time they would have had to cut spending to the level of revenue, since no one would be willing to lend them money. But by now they would be much better off.


If a fourth set of cards is needed, descriptions of the future mates will interest the questioners—and add to the fun. Upon each card should be written some descriptive adjective: Tall, lank, fat, pretty, plain, dark, blonde, thin, stupid, charming, adorable, beautiful, aristocratic, fascinating, etc.
The interest is more sustained if each person successively has a turn at the wheel—and reads his or her card aloud. Or, if very flattering, it may be passed to the hostess to be made public.
Any amount of harmless fun and merriment may be had by telling fortunes by the grounds in the tea-cup. Given a little imagination, figures, initials—all sorts of indications may be seen. After the tea has been drunk—leaving but a few drops to "carry the grounds" —the inquirer must make a wish, repeating it in mind three times, after which the tea-cup must be whirled around vigorously to throw the grounds as much as possible into the upper part of the cup. This must be done three times from left to right, when the cup is turned over into the saucer to "settle the affairs of the future," given three turns again from left to right and then handed to the fortune-teller, without looking into the cup one's self, or else, so the oracle says, the spell will be broken.
The prophet or prophetess then picks it up and begins reading from the bottom of the cup (the past), and then around spiral fashion until the top (present or near future) is reached; or three cups may be used— one for the past, the second for the present, the third for the future.


Crafted for Ferrari's fans, it's straight to the racetrack with this watch collection.
'Lap Time' is strategically inspired by the intricate design of Scuderia Ferrari racing cars.
Each timepiece is constructed with a stainless-steel wrapped polycarbonate case.


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Q: Selector not called on selecting menu item after force touch I have this code, for responding to a menu item being tapped after a force touch:
class InterfaceController: WKInterfaceController {
    override init() {
        super.init()

        self.addMenuItemWithItemIcon(WKMenuItemIcon.Pause, title: "Pause", action: Selector("test"))
    }

    func test() {
        print("test")
    }
}

When I force touch, the menu appears. When I tap the "Pause" button, test() is not called.
Any ideas why this might be?

A: Solved.
Though its the result of a silly mistake (aren't most problems?), I think this is something a lot of people will run into, so I'll keep it here with my answer.
I enabled force touch on the simulator, so I could show the menu. When I'm tapping again on the button, force touch is still enabled, so I'm force touching, thus dismissing the menu.
Solution: Disable force touch before tapping a menu button.

A: I wanted to comment with my thanks for this solution but I don't have the rep so I'll begin with, THANKS!
However I can also add an addendum to the solution by pointing out the shortcut keys are really handy here for switching between force press pressures.
⇧⌘1 - for shallow pressure (tap)
⇧⌘2 - for deep pressure (force press)
Make sure the iOS Simulator (watch) is focussed and you'll be good to go.

A: I'd like to add a small detail to make the SIM procedure more explicit because I actually saw this question and answer before and didn't perform it correctly because it wasn't totally obvious (to me at least).

*

*Press ⇧⌘1 for all regular presses.

*Press ⇧⌘2 before you use force touch.

*Tricky part: After the menu item appears press ⇧⌘1 again before dismissing the menu item!

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This release on Next Phase Records sees label boss Infest continuing to explore the expressive world of atmospheric sound design, this time without the aid of drums or bass.
"Barriers From Within" is the follow up to his second album "Time Will Tell", it contains two fifteen minute compositions of opulent synths and lavish guitar melodies. Cinematic in feel, both tracks have a bewitching spellbinding quality, starting enigmatic and ambiguous they swell with optimism as they begin to unfold.
Although more commonly known for intricate drum and bass releases these productions highlight a natural talent for crafting free-spirited and captivating soundscapes. Infest's most personal work to date, "Barriers From Within" was recorded using only a guitar, FX pedals, synths and a loop station.
This mini-LP will be released on digital formats and cassette tape limited to only fifty copies worldwide.


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Agim Ibraimi (né en 1988), footballeur macédonien ;
 Besart Ibraimi (né en 1986), footballeur macédonien.


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package org.optaplanner.core.config.constructionheuristic.placer;

import java.util.Collection;

import com.thoughtworks.xstream.annotations.XStreamInclude;
import org.optaplanner.core.config.heuristic.policy.HeuristicConfigPolicy;
import org.optaplanner.core.impl.constructionheuristic.placer.EntityPlacer;
import org.optaplanner.core.impl.domain.entity.descriptor.EntityDescriptor;
import org.optaplanner.core.impl.domain.solution.descriptor.SolutionDescriptor;
import org.optaplanner.core.impl.solver.termination.Termination;

/**
 * General superclass for {@link QueuedEntityPlacerConfig} and {@link PooledEntityPlacerConfig}.
 */
@XStreamInclude({
        QueuedEntityPlacerConfig.class,
        PooledEntityPlacerConfig.class
})
public abstract class EntityPlacerConfig {

    // ************************************************************************
    // Helper methods
    // ************************************************************************

    protected EntityDescriptor deduceEntityDescriptor(SolutionDescriptor solutionDescriptor) {
        Collection<EntityDescriptor> entityDescriptors = solutionDescriptor.getGenuineEntityDescriptors();
        if (entityDescriptors.size() != 1) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("The entityPlacerConfig (" + this
                    + ") has no entitySelector configured"
                    + " and because there are multiple in the entityClassSet (" + solutionDescriptor.getEntityClassSet()
                    + "), it can not be deducted automatically.");
        }
        return entityDescriptors.iterator().next();
    }

    // ************************************************************************
    // Builder methods
    // ************************************************************************

    public abstract EntityPlacer buildEntityPlacer(HeuristicConfigPolicy configPolicy, Termination phaseTermination);

    protected void inherit(EntityPlacerConfig inheritedConfig) {
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return getClass().getSimpleName() + "()";
    }

}


Oregon's military heritage goes back thousands of years, including native people's warrior traditions. Most of the cultures in this region were relatively peaceful, even welcoming visiting strangers, such as the Lewis and Clark overland Army expedition in 1805–1806. Then, overwhelming numbers of fur trappers, merchants, settlers, and miners began taking over traditional native grounds. From 1847 to 1880, native peoples experienced eight major conflicts with Army and volunteer forces. Army units built several forts from Oregon's coast to the Great Basin. Oregonians adopted militia laws, served in volunteer units, and organized the Oregon State Militia, which became the Oregon National Guard in 1887. The Guard benefited the state in many civil-support actions and served the nation in major overseas conflicts from the Spanish-American War to the current Operation Enduring Freedom.


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Sheringham Park
Bunny has been hopping through Sheringham Park and found so much to do that a choice of two trails has been provided to lead you to a yummy Cadbury Easter treat.
Booking not needed. Normal entry charges apply.
Norfolk Sea Angling Festival
Sheringham to Cley
Register online at www.norfolkseaanglingfestival.co.uk to receive your info pack or contact 01263 838248.
Sheringham Arts and Crafts Fair
Oldfellows Hallf
Free entry - Refreshments Available.
Spring Steam Gala
The NNR's Spring Steam Gala showcases a mixture of home and visiting locomotives, it's as popular with visiting holidaymakers as it is with enthusiasts.
St Georges Day Vintage Car Rally
This annual event runs from the station car park and finishes at Holkham Hall. The event is in aid of the East Anglian Air Ambulance and is part of the FBHVC National Drive It Day.
That well known cheeky engine will be paying a visit to the North Norfolk Railway once again in 2017!
Why don't you come and join Thomas and other really useful engines for a day of family fun at our friendly railway?
Thomas will be working hard whilst he's here, so be sure to come and show your appreciation for everyone's favourite engine!
Crab & Lobster Festival
Sheringham & Cromer
The seventh annual Crab & Lobster Festival has a wide range of events and activities celebrating Sheringham & Cromer's close links to the sea.
Dad's Army Live
Don't Panic, it's Dad's Army Live!
This family friendly weekend is sure to get you giggling. Re-live some of the best moments from the hit BBC comedy with live action from our friends at the Thetford Dad's Army Museum.
Youth Musical Theatre: Little Women
Sheringham Little Theatre
Music by Jason Howland, Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, Book by Allan Knee.
This musical version of Louisa May Alcott's classic tale was adapted by Allan Knee with lyrics by Mindi Dickstein and music by Jason Howland.
It follows the story of the four March sisters; traditional Meg, wild Jo, timid Beth and romantic Amy, as they challenge the expectations placed on them as women in 19th century America.
Aided by their loving Marmee and the adventurous boy next door Laurie, the girls strive to follow their dreams, experiencing great love, loss and friendship along the way. This is a story of growing up, female empowerment and love in all its forms.
Summer Theatre: Don't Dress for Dinner
In a stylishly converted French farmhouse, Bernard is hoping to entertain his chic, Parisian mistress, Suzy, for the weekend. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook to furnish the gourmet delights, is in the process of packing his wife, Jacqueline, off to her mother, and has even invited along his best friend Robert as a suitable alibi. It's foolproof, what could possibly go wrong…?
This fast-paced comedy from master of farce, Marc Camoletti, is classic, traditional entertainment. Not to be missed!
Summer Theatre: Double Double
Phillipa James has picked up down-and-out Duncan McFee from London's Embankment and brought him to her husband's luxury apartment. It is, she explains, purely a business arrangement based on Duncan's uncanny resemblance to her husband Richard, unfortunately deceased a few weeks prior to his forty-fifth birthday when he should inherit a million pound trust fund.
Now with only a week to go to the birthday all Duncan has to do for a half-share in the fund is impersonate Richard at a party and convince the family solicitor that Richard is alive and well and married to Phillipa. But Phillipa hasn't reckoned on falling in love with Duncan and has she told him the whole truth?
Summer Theatre: Living Together
Living Together sees Annie living in the shabby Victorian house where the family was brought up looking after her formidable mother. Reg, her brother, and his wife Sarah come to stay for a week-end so that she may go away for a 'rest'. The idea is that Annie ought to pair off with Tom.
But for this weekend it is Norman, the raffish assistant librarian husband of Annie's sister Ruth, with whom she planned to go. They were to meet secretly but Norman turns up early. When Annie calls the whole thing off Norman decides to stay on at the house and gets drunk much to everyone's annoyance.
Family Theatre: Jumble Tales
What if your favourite fairy tale characters were not 'far, far away'? What if they were right here, right now, and what if they needed your help? A selfie-obsessed Prince Charming, compulsive cleaner Cinderella, naughty prankster Rumplestiltskin and a Sleeping Beauty who's always sneaking a nap when you need her the most; just some of the many characters you will meet on a trip to the seaside that turns into a hilarious quest for Happy Ever After.
Come and join the fun, a show for all the family, the perfect summer treat full of comedy, characters and audience participation.
Ages from 4yrs+
Summer Theatre: A Passionate Woman
Betty, a passionate, doting mum from Leeds finds it hard to accept that her son, Mark, is leaving the fold to get married. On the wedding morning she retreats to the loft where she relives her long-lost youth and the affair with the man she might have married, and gradually reconciles herself to the imminent departure of Mark.
A heartfelt, provocative, masterful play, penned by popular TV writer Kay Mellor (Girlfriends, Loves, Lies and Records, Fat Friends).