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Black Man Attacked By 5 White Supremacists in Charlottesville – Felony Charge for Fighting Back
Let's see…Young black guy standing in a garage watching the "festivities" between protesters in Charlottesville a month ago, get jumped by a gang of KKK/neo-Nazi types, beaten with stick and flagpoles…And the black guy gets charges with a "Felony" for defending himself by striking one of his attackers.
Yeah…Must have been because the half dozen KKK/neo-nazi types were so vastly outnumbered by one black guy.
What possibly could be wrong with this picture?
Black man attacked at white nationalist rally in Charlottesville faces felony charge
A black man brutally beaten at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville is now facing a felony charge related to the August attack.
A local magistrate on Monday issued an arrest warrant for DeAndre Harris on an unlawful wounding charge after an accuser, whom police did not identify, claimed to have been injured by the 20-year-old during the brawl, authorities told local media.
S. Lee Merritt, a civil attorney for Harris, told The Washington Post the charge was "clearly retaliatory" and described the accuser as a member of a white supremacist group. He maintained that Harris did not instigate the fight.
"We find it highly offensive and upsetting, but what's more jarring is that he's been charged with the same crime as the men who attacked him," he said.
Merritt added that it was "highly unusual" for the warrant to come from a magistrate rather than police, and suggested that the accuser had previously tried to implicate Harris in the violence without success. He said his client would turn himself into police in the coming days.
In a statement provided to WVIR, the Charlottesville Police Department said the alleged victim went to the magistrate's office in person to explain what happened. After discussing the accuser's story with a detective, the magistrate issued the warrant.
Harris was marching in opposition to the rally on Aug. 12 when a scuffle broke out between a group of white supremacists and several counterprotesters at a downtown parking garage.
Videos from the scene showed a white supremacist thrusting a Confederate flag pole at a counterprotester and Harris swinging a flashlight at the man. Six white supremacists then descended on Harris, kicking him and striking him with wooden sticks as he lay curled up on the pavement, as The Post has reported.
Images of the brawl and Harris's bloodied face went viral, prompting a frenzied campaign on social media to identify his attackers.
Two men were later arrested in the attack on Harris, who said he suffered a concussion, a head laceration that required 10 staples and other injuries. Both were charged with malicious wounding, a felony…
Posted by btx3 on October 10, 2017 in BlackLivesMatter, Domestic terrorism, The Definition of Racism, The New Jim Crow
Tags: assault, Attack, beating, black man, charges, Charlottesville, cyber racism, DeAndre Harris, felony, gang, KKK, magistrate, neo-Nazis, race, Racism
Another Unarmed Man Murder by Cop in Utah
I guess in Utah they don't issue throw away guns to be planted on victims – so the bad COps have to make do with pen knives.
Let's see, a guy 15′ away, running away from you is a real danger! That 2 1/2″ knife (which he probably didn't have before it was planted) sure is dangerous 15′ away.
Posted by btx3 on October 9, 2017 in BlackLivesMatter
Tags: black man, BLM, murder, Plice, shooting, unarmed
Uber Driver Boots Racist Trumpazoids
Another calm brother ends a bad situation of racists acting badly
WATCH: Uber driver calmly boots 'white privilege' boasting bro for calling him a 'b*tch-ass n**ger'
In a video uploaded to YouTube, a black Uber driver boots a group of young white people out of his car after they begin boosting about "white privilege." The ride ends with one man calling the driver a "b*tch ass n**ger."
In the video, flagged by The Root, the driver can be seen patiently waiting while the group climbs in and scrambles for seats. One man bizarrely states "white privilege" as a woman carrying a beer bottle is relegated to the back seat and knocks open a video screen on the car's ceiling.
After some back and forth with one rider who took the front passenger seat, the driver asks if he's okay, because "you're sweating like crazy."
The driver then insists his passenger put his seat belt on as he begins to drive, before asking the same passenger to not touch his belongings that are in the front, which gets some unintelligible push-back.
"I need you to get out," he states as he pulls over.
"Me?" the front seat passengers asks, to which the driver politely states, "Yes. Please I need you all to get out."
"You're a f*cking joke," the passengers replies.
"No, I'm not. White privilege, leave" the driver shoots back.
"Get the f*ck out, bro," the man replies. "You're a f*cking — f*cking b*tch ass n**ger."
That is when the driver leaves the car and the passengers exit, where a contentious argument can be barely be heard with the driver accusing them of being racists.
Posted by btx3 on September 18, 2017 in The Clown Bus, The Definition of Racism
Tags: black man, booted, driver, n word, race, Racism, racists, Uber, white passengers, white privilege
Just Another Undercover Black Man – and the alt-right
Some research on the enemy…
Posted by btx3 on September 16, 2017 in Second American Revolution, The Definition of Racism
Tags: alt-right, black man, hate groups, infiltration, online, race, Racism
Another Murder by Trumpazoid
White-right Trumpazoids with knives…
Need to meet black folks with guns.
A typical racist, violent Chumph supporter threatens anti-Trump protesters with a knife in Berkley
'Major Trump supporter' accused of fatally stabbing black man following bus stop political argument
Police say an argument about sports and politics led to a fatal stabbing in Oakley on Saturday.
Phillip Wade, 38, of Antioch was arrested for allegedly stabbing 57-year-old Anthony Johnson of Pittsburg multiple times at a bus stop in Oakley on Saturday afternoon. According to police, Johnson and Wade were arguing over sports and politics on a Tri Delta Transit bus.
The argument continued after both men got off the bus on Main Street near Charles Way.
Wade then allegedly produced a knife that he used to stab Johnson multiple times. A witness passing by stopped his vehicle and pulled out a gun and told Wade to get on the ground until police arrived.
Without knowing who was who, the police took the witness and the suspect into custody, but later released the witness.
Johnson was transported to the hospital, but later died from injuries sustained in the assault.
Johnson's brother, James Johnson, said that "Tony" was not a violent man, but that he liked to socialize a lot and was well-known in Pittsburg.
"He just talked a lot. He could talk to anybody and sometimes he would talk loud," James Johnson said. "He socialized a lot and he talks, but he wasn't a man to be violent like that."
Tony's brother said that Tony had moved from Alabama back home to Pittsburg three years ago after his wife passed away.
Lavonda Harts, Anthony Johnson's niece, said her uncle was passionate about life and loved to talk about sports and politics.
"He was very quick with his words and everyone always has a joke that he's told them," Harts said. "He left some funny jokes with anyone he ever met."
The incident marks the third stabbing in six years for Wade.
In March of 2011, Wade stabbed 23-year-old Justin Garza in the Brentwood BART park-and-ride after an argument on the train carried into the parking lot. Garza survived the incident.
Then in August of 2013, Wade fatally stabbed 49-year-old Kann Cendejas, a homeless veteran, at a Chevron gas station in the 3200 block of Delta Fair Boulevard in Antioch.
Antioch police did not return calls for comment on this case, but Wade's friend, Gabriel Desta, said he was released after a few days.
"He's had many altercations over the years and it's gotten more severe," Desta said. "He was never like this before. He's been very vocal ever since I met him, but lately he was getting paranoid. Unusually paranoid."
According to Desta, Wade had been taking a lot of medication for seizures and started telling Desta that people were talking about him, even when the people in question were too far away to be heard.
"The other day at Mel's Diner, he told a waitress that he would stab a group of black guys there, saying they were talking bad about him, but they weren't talking about him," Desta said.
Wade's Facebook page outlines increasingly hostile statements and threats towards Muslims and African-Americans. On May 19, Wade posted a threatening racist statement concerning former president Barack Obama along with the gun emoji and the emoji of a man wearing a turban.
Desta said that Wade could be prejudiced at times, but described him as "more of a follower," who became a "major Trump supporter."
The victim in Saturday's fatal stabbing was black.
On Monday, Oakley police chief Chris Thorsen said they do not believe the incident was racially motivated, but continue to investigate.
Posted by btx3 on June 6, 2017 in Daily Chump Disasters, Domestic terrorism, Second American Revolution, The Definition of Racism
Tags: black man, Bus stop, Ca, hate crime, murder, Oakley, stabbing, supporter, trump
"Alt-Reich' Hater Murders Black ROTC Grad on U-MD Campus
Another one of those Dylaan Roof types randomly attacks and kills a black man waiting for a cab. Another racist Trumpazoid…Another murder.
Black ROTC cadet stabbed to death by member of 'Alt-Reich Nation' racist Facebook group
A black ROTC cadet set to graduate from Bowie State University this week was stabbed to death by a white University of Maryland student who's a member of a racist online hate group, the Baltimore Sun reports.
Richard Collins III, 23, was visiting UMD this graduation weekend when he was attacked by Christoper Sean Urbanski, 22. Collins and two friends were awaiting an Uber ride around 3 a.m. Saturday morning when an "intoxicated and incoherent" Urbanski stabbed him. Authorities who reviewed videotape of the incident described the attack as unprovoked.
Police charged Urbanski, a member of the Facebook group, "Alt-Reich Nation," with first-degree murder Sunday. The FBI is investigating the stabbing as a possible hate crime.
"Making a determination of motive especially if it's a crime based on hate it's something that has to be done with the totality of the circumstances," FBI Special Agent Gordon Johnson told ABC News. Johnson also described the victim as a "national treasure."
"This is a terribly, terribly dark time for [the family], and we can't forget about that," Johnson said.
Family spokesman, the Rev. Darryl L Godlock, said Collins will be remembered as a bright and funny family man who hoped to follow his veteran father's footsteps. Last Thursday, Collins was commissioned into the Army as a second Lieutenant. He was set to graduate from Bowie State on Tuesday.
"He wanted to make his parents proud of him so he went into the military to serve his country," Godlock said. "It was a great opportunity for him to advance forward and make the most out of his career."
"[Collins] wanted to be a general of the United States Army, that was his ultimate goal," friend and classmate Vidal Adams said. "He was the definition of a leader."
Police originally said there was no indication race played a role in Collins' murder, but University of Maryland Police Chief David Mitchell told the Root they're investigating the Facebook group "Alt-Reich Nation," of which Urbanski was a member.
"When I look at the information that's contained on that website, suffice it to say that it's despicable, it shows extreme bias against women, Latinos, persons of Jewish faith and especially African-Americans," Mitchell said at a press conference Saturday.
"It never gets any worse than this," Mitchell added. "When I sat with the victim's father, who is a military veteran, and his pastor and we shed tears together."
"I can tell you, it rips your heart out," he concluded.
A funeral for Collins will be held Monday.
Posted by btx3 on May 22, 2017 in BlackLivesMatter, Daily Chump Disasters, The Definition of Racism, The New Jim Crow
Tags: black man, Bowie University, murder, ROTC, university of maryland, unprovoked attack, white supremacist
A black Samurai in Japan? The Hidden Story of Yasuke
A black Samurai in Japan in the 16th Century? Truth is stranger than fiction as the story of Yasuke is planned to hit the Big Screen.
Forgotten Tale Of Japan's First Black Samurai Bound For The Big Screen
The Japanese revered the African former slave in the 16th century.
There is very little recorded history on Yasuke, the young African man believed to be Japan's first black samurai, but his story may soon be told on the silver screen.
Lionsgate has asked screenwriter Gregory Wilden, the creator of the 1986 film "Highlander," to write a script for an action drama based on Yasuke's centuries-old story, according to the Hollywood Reporter and Deadline.
The Lionsgate film "is based on the true story of an African whose journey to Japan comes with conflicting background stories," Widen told Deadline last week. "The one I've chosen is that he was a slave soldier after the fall of Abysinnian Bengal, a black kingdom run by Ethiopians."
In that story, Yasuke was sold into slavery and "found himself in the care of Alessandro Valignano, an Italian missionary," Widen explained. "They formed a bond, and when there were complications in Rome, he was sent to Japan and took Yasuke with him," he added.
Yasuke was an African slave in his early 20s when Valignano brought him on a missionary trip to Japan in 1579, according to historical accounts that Oxy reviewed. He stood out there because of his tall stature and dark skin and he soon became a local celebrity. His real name is unknown, but locals called him Yasuke in Japan ― likely a Japanese version of his birth name.
When Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga learned of Yasuke and his impressive strength, he hired the young African as a feudal bodyguard. Under Nobunaga, Yasuke quickly rose in the ranks to become a well-respected samurai warrior who spoke fluent Japanese.
"They presented him with a blade, and he went to work," Widen told Deadline.
Parts of Yasuke's story lived on in a 1916 Japanese children's book called Kuro-suke, about a young, black samurai who often dreams of his parents in Africa.
Posted by btx3 on March 29, 2017 in Black History, News, The Post-Racial Life
Tags: Big Screen, black man, Japan, Japanese History, media, Movie, Samurai, Yasuke


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Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is a fully-fledged RPG experience based on Akira Toriyama's legendary property.
Sayem Ahmed | January 16, 2020 4:20 pm GMT
With a length of over 40 hours to get through the main story, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot might linger a bit too long for those looking for a varied experience, as the variety in sidequests is incredibly lacking. While everything looks pretty enough and with a healthy dose of fanservice and nostalgia for those who are diehard Dragon Ball Z fans, it often feels like more effort than it's worth.
Fantastic details in its world and UI design
Tells the entire Dragon Ball Z story
Huge amount of fanservice
Lacklustre sidequests
Bosses can come across as damage sponges
Frustrating combat controls
Review Price: £49.99
Developer: Bandai Namco/CyberConnect2
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, PC (version tested)
For a certain age group, Dragon Ball Z was a first foray into the world of serialised kids television, with characters, a sense of humour and lots of screaming. From a young age, the Dragon Ball series has never really grown up, and that's a good thing. It's a portal into a simpler time, where for some reason there are tiger-dudes and dragons roaming around in the countryside. Gaming adaptations of Dragon Ball have often come and gone, most of them fighters. But a select few have attempted to capture the same world and tone of the series, but they never quite hit the mark.
Like the Legacy of Goku series and the Dragon Ball: Sagas game before it, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot attempts to adapt the entirety of the Dragon Ball Z anime. This is no easy task, as the decades-spanning series sees our characters age, and always pushes the intensity higher. With the scale of the concept, the developers at Cyberconnect 2, of Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm and Asura's Wrath fame gave it their best shot. And it comes with fairly mixed results.
Although it's named Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, you are able to play as a litany of the main characters featured throughout the series including Gohan, Piccolo, Trunks and Vegeta as they go on their quest to hunt the Dragon Balls, save Earth by way of lots of punching, or just have a lovely time fishing.
Related: Yakuza 7
The world of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is not actually open-world, instead opting for a Witcher 3-esque open region system. You're able to fly around and collect orbs throughout the world, which allow you to unlock character upgrades. This wouldn't be an issue if it didn't actively take away from enjoying actually being in the universe. It looks like someone has littered all over the place, and the system being partially dependent upon unlockable skills makes for an unsatisfying grind at certain points.
Within the world however, you're able to undertake sidequests, collect materials to cook a meal, obtain materials for crafting and more. However, these interactions with the world almost always feel hollow, as if they were placed there to fulfill a checkbox over at Cyberconnect2's offices instead of having any meaningful impact. The level of depth offered here is incredibly limited. However where it shines is in the small details. You're able to find nuggets of memories in the world that call back to the original Dragon Ball series, in addition to being able to meet beloved characters and help them out along the way. The world of Dragon Ball has never been so well-realised as it is in Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot.
There's a lot for fans to chew on, so where it falls down in mechanical depth or effect in the actual world, it makes up for in pure, unadulterated fanservice. Even if it's the way that Goku guzzles down a meal fit enough to feed several families, or helping Goku and Piccolo go on a driving lesson, you can't help but smile throughout these well-realised moments. This goes a long way for many aspects of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot's world design. You're able to meet characters and build up several different communities which provide special ability boosts to your character or the world.
See also: Everything we know about FF7 Remake
As you traverse the world, you have a form of "random encounters" which involves laying the beatdown on enemies on your journey. These generic mobs are a bit of a downer, and are usually just a momentary distraction away from whatever you were doing. Unfortunately, the combat in Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot suffers from being just as frustrating. With some genuinely puzzling controls throughout, Kakarot focuses on high-octane, fast-paced action. However, the way skills and button placement are dealt with left a bad taste in my mouth thanks to confusing menu navigation.
Instead of simply being a button-basher, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot relies on reading and learning your enemy's moves, and counter attacking at opportune moments to deal some huge damage. One early example is a fight with Nappa, who likes to release a spinning kick after charging it up and glowing red. While it's an opening to attack, his consecutive spinning kicks can chop off a huge chunk of your health bar if you're not being careful.
These challenging fights often highlight just how clunky the combat is. To close distance, I dashed forward, pressing the left stick in, then started a barrage of melee attacks with one of the face buttons, defended against their attacks with the left trigger, and in order to do a special attack, you have to do a combination input of left bumper in addition to a face button. All of that happens within milliseconds of each other, meaning that you're going to have a very tough time against the controls in the opening hours.
Related: Upcoming PS4 Games
The payoff for these set piece encounters are often excellent cinematics that look great. With character movement, fidelity and the original voice actors returning for the game, nothing about Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot's visual fidelity disappointed us. It's no Dragon Quest 11 when it comes to overall presentation, and in smaller moments we couldn't help but see that there was incredibly limited character animation, which can detract from the experience.
Should you buy Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot?
With a length of over 40 hours to get through the main story, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot might linger a bit too long for those looking for a varied experience, as the variety in sidequests is incredibly lacking. While everything looks pretty enough and there's a healthy dose of fanservice and nostalgia for those who are diehard Dragon Ball Z fans, it often feels like more effort than it's worth.
However for those fans that want to retread the Dragon Ball Z story and explore its world, this is the best, and most fully-realised Dragon Ball world ever made – and that in itself makes up for frustrating combat and lacklustre sidequests.
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There are important differences between the adult and juvenile criminal justice systems. Juvenile delinquency courts are dedicated to adjudicating felony and misdemeanor crimes allegedly committed by minors. Juvenile court also handles "status offenses" such as truancy and curfew violations. Status offenses only constitute criminal acts when committed by juveniles.
Moreover, in juvenile criminal court cases, there are no trials or juries. Cases are adjudicated over by a Judge or Commissioner and he/she is the only person to determine the guilt or innocence of the juvenile.
Also, juveniles may not be released on bail. When a minor is arrested, the authorities decide whether to release the minor to his/her parents or send the minor to juvenile hall. Even though there is no system of bail for juveniles, the minor is entitled to a detention hearing whereby the judge decides whether or not the minor goes home or stays in juvenile hall pending proceedings, which could take weeks or even months.
For nonviolent misdemeanors, the detention hearing must take place within 24 hours of the arrest. For felonies or violent misdemeanors, the hearing must be within 72 hours, weekends and court holidays excluded.
For charges such as murder, violent felonies and some serious sexual offenses, minors aged 14 and older must be tried as adults.
If a minor has been found guilty in the juvenile court system, he/she undergoes a disposition, which is similar to a sentencing hearing in a criminal court. The most obvious difference between being convicted as a juvenile or an adult, is that for juveniles the goal is 'rehabilitation'. For adult convicts, the purpose is to punish the offender. The biggest difference is that the juvenile justice system has a "goal of rehabilitation". When an adult is convicted of a crime and sentenced to jail or prison, the purpose is to punish the offender. When a minor is placed on probation, or committed to camp or DJJ, the purpose is to rehabilitate the minor.
There are several potential outcomes of the disposition. The least serious is an informal probation whereby a minor is usually required to enroll in a program that includes education and counseling.
Another option is deferred entry of judgment, which requires the minor to admit guilt but results in a dismissal of the charges upon successful completion of a diversion program.
Minors who need a greater level of structure can be sent to probation camp for a period of between three months and one year. These are dormitory-based institutions with a structured daily schedule that includes education and treatment programs.
In the most serious cases, minors are sent to the California Youth Authority (CYA) which is akin to prison.
A juvenile has the same constitutional Miranda rights to remain silent and to counsel, even if the minor is not questioned. In fact, a probation officer must inform the minor and their parents of their constitutional rights within a set number of hours after they have been taken into custody. A minor must be allowed to make 2 phone calls within the first hour, one to their parents and one to their lawyer.
False confessions are a common theme in juvenile court cases because detectives and law enforcement know how to use their superior interrogation techniques to coerce a minor into making statements.
Motions to exclude confessions and admission may be made orally at the jurisdiction hearing.
When a minor denies having made a confession, a minor is entitled to a hearing and the prosecution must prove that the statements were made voluntarily by a preponderance of evidence in court. They are typically allowed 7 days to subpoena witnesses to "prove the allegations of the petition" W & I § 701.
Most interrogations must be electronically recorded when it's a serious felony case such as a murder case PC 859.5.
Skilled attorneys know how to persuade the courts to exercise special care in evaluating whether a minor's custodial confession is voluntary. Although the legal standards are the same as for adults, the age of the minor may color all or most aspect's of a court's analysis given that threats, promises, and similar misconduct are likely to have a more coercive effect on a child than on an adult. In Re Aven S. (1991) 1 CA4th 69, 75. See also In re: Shawn D. (1993) 20 CA4th 200, 208.
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The fitness hearing is a proceeding where it is determined whether an individual should be tried as a juvenile or as an adult.
Five factors are assessed pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code 707:
1. The degree of criminal sophistication
2. Whether the minor can be rehabilitated prior to the juvenile court's expiration of jurisdiction
3. Prior delinquent history of the minor
4. Success of previous attempts by the juvenile court at rehabilitation of this minor
5. Circumstances and gravity of the offense alleged in the petition.
Any one of these factors if proven, is a basis to deem the minor unfit.
The law deems a minor to be presumed unfit in certain cases for certain offenses if they are over 16 and other categories specified in the law. Moreover, if presumed unfit, the prosecutor must only show that there was a probable cause that a violation of the law has occurred.
In other words, a successful defense for a minor attempting to keep the case in juvenile court (which carries with it shorter sentencing implications than if tried as an adult), will be to show that the minor meets ALL of the criteria.
Forensic psychologists and other experts are frequently used by criminal defense attorneys to support findings that minors should remain in juvenile court for the criminal trial proceedings. These mitigating factors turn out to be critical evidence to convince a court that the minor still has hopes of rehabilitation in the juvenile system..
Sometimes a plea negotiation with a prosecutor may include a disposition that the DA will not file for a fitness hearing but agree to adjudicate the matter in the juvenile court system.
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Our experienced team of attorneys knows how to raise issues and make persuasive arguments that Miranda (right to remain silent) was not properly invoked under the totality of circumstances.
For one, if the minor makes an unequivocal statement that he doesn't wish to answer any more questions, this should be enough to invoke Miranda.
A minor's request to speak to parents is a factor in totality of circumstances analysis.
Once a juvenile suspect has made a valid waiver of Miranda rights, any subsequent assertion of right to counsel or right to silence during questioning must be articulated sufficiently clearly so that a reasonable police officer in the circumstances would understand the statement to be an invocation of such rights.
If there was a valid Miranda waiver, a minor's continual requests to speak to the parent does not require the officer to terminate questioning or even to clarify whether they understood they had a right to counsel or to remain silent under Miranda.
In a typical case a defendant claims involuntary statements were made by a minor due to the coercion and duress of the investigating officers. In that case, the DA must prove by preponderance of evidence that the statement made was voluntary based on the following facts:
1. Minor's age;
2. intelligence;
3. education;
4. ability to comprehend meaning and effect of the confession.
Factors of voluntariness under totality of circumstances are set forth in the seminal case of People v. Lessie (2010) 47 C4th 1152.
No Constitutional Right to Bail
Although there is no constitutional right to bail, if the minor is fit to be tried as an adult at the fitness hearing, all constitutional bail requirements apply.
The California Youth Authority is the housing facility for juvenile detainees and it comprises of serious gang members, sex offenders and other violent youth.
Statistics show that a juvenile may spend up to 40 months on parole in such an institution.
Recent legislation such as AB191 has reduced the population which has been transported to local county housing authority instead.
Pending proceedings, there are three juvenile hall locations in the Los Angeles County area:
1. Los Padrinos in Downey
2. Central Juvenile
3. Barry J. Nidorf in Sylmar
There are also separate juvenile hall facilities in Riverside County and Orange County
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The always interesting texts from "Writers Ask," the quarterly magazine produced by Glimmer Train, include a quote from Charles Johnson that could apply to all writers, whether of fiction or non-fiction.
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When one thinks about it, writing a book is a lot like being like Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. The reader is the wedding guest, a guy who's got his mind on much more fun things than to listen to your story, and who's very resistant when you collar him and demand that he pay attention.
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The excellent organization Glimmer Train used to provide subscribers with a booklet called "Writers Ask," in which fiction writers talk about their craft, work habits, challenges, and other matters to do with putting words into an interesting order and getting them printed by a publisher.


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The Incredible True Story Behind the Toronto Mystery Tunnel
This is an amusing story. It reminds us of the human need for refuge where you can retreat to the world of your own thoughts. That is often not so easy to do when surrounded by folks who all are inclined to whine for attention. Thus digging a hidey hole is a plausible option when you are twenty some and work all day on construction anyway. There are obviously far easier ways to create an refuge than this though.
I am sure he will get his cabin in the woods some day. There are plenty of those around and are easy to rig out.
Besides underground structure are rarely built strong enough. Unconsolidated ground has a bad habit of consolidating over time. This then slowly loads the structure from all directions with asymmetric forces and it will twist out of shape until it collapses. It was a nice idea but on the border of been dangerous.
Why Elton McDonald built the Toronto tunnel that captivated the world
Photograph by Della Rollins
Nicholas Köhler
The digger Elton McDonald grew up on what's probably the toughest street in Toronto—maybe even Canada—and he still lives there with his mother and two sisters. Three summers ago, a man got shot in the head behind their townhouse. Elton's sister Anora Graham went to the man's aid, pressing a shirt she'd run to fetch against the wound. He died two weeks later. Lots of others here have, too. "Elton went to school with kids who are not alive anymore," says Anora. "They died when they were 16."
The townhouse, in a public housing development in the city's far northwest called Driftwood Court, is small: a kitchen and living room on the ground floor, three bedrooms on the second. Every now and then, Elton and his sisters start watching the same movie on the TVs in their three separate rooms—as they did not long ago, withLife of Pi —keeping their doors open to chat across the hall during commercials. Sometimes they call their mother, Tracy Graham, who sleeps in the basement, to see if she's watching, too.
A print of a dark-skinned Madonna and Child hangs in the living room. "It's good to believe in something higher than yourself," says Tracy, "and to us, that's God." Tracy is 40 and cleans houses for a living. She arrived in Canada as a child, but you can still hear the Jamaica in her voice. Her own kids were still toddlers when they moved to Driftwood Court in 1995. Now Anora's 24, Elton 22, and Tracyann McDonald, whom they call Shantay, 21. "I used to think Tracy was a little crazy," says Sytha Sorn, 30, who's lived next door since before they arrived. Sytha laughs. "She's not. She's very loving, very caring. She's just very outgoing and very loud."
Elton is quiet. "I spend a lot of time thinking," he says. "I don't talk a lot, but my mind is working overtime." The tunnel that Elton built, a 10-minute walk from home in the ravine below Driftwood Court, was his portal into a world of quiet. He'd slip out his front door, down through the trees, and skip between the rocks across the creek—sometimes, if it was too swollen with rain, he'd lay a ladder across it, like a bridge—then climb to the spot where he dug the hole. "I was getting away from regular things, away from life," he says. "Nothing in particular. Just life itself."
In January, a conservation officer drawn to the site by a strange new mound of dirt uncovered that hole, and found a ladder that dropped into the darkness as into a secret cave from One Thousand and One Nights.
First reported by CBC News last month, the mystery tunnel made international news: 10 m long, more than two metres high, and expertly constructed, braced and camouflaged, it featured water-resistant electric lights and drew power via underground wiring from a generator in a soundproof, subterranean chamber nearby. A sump pump worked to suck up groundwater seepage. Police announced they needed the public's help to identify those behind the tunnel, which likely took weeks to build, probably even longer. They described a rosary and a Remembrance Day poppy strung up on the wall.
The hole triggered worldwide speculation that it was part of a terrorist plot aimed at disrupting the 2015 Pan Am Games, some of which will take place in July at the Rexall Centre, as well as elsewhere on the nearby York University campus. On Twitter, it became the #terrortunnel. But it ended being Elton McDonald, a young construction worker from a tough neighbourhood on the other side of the Black Creek ravine. It was his fifth try at building underground, and it would take toil, determination and the better part of two years to get it done. It took pursuing a kid's dream into adulthood. And in the end, even Elton's father, a farmer in Black River, Jamaica, whom Elton has not seen in many years, had heard of that tunnel. "He didn't know it was me," Elton says. "He's proud. He thinks it's cool."
For the kids of Driftwood Court, and for Elton, in particular, it's hard to overstate the importance of Black Creek, which meanders picturesque through thick brush under the shabby, bunker-like facades of the public housing development. The treed ravine slopes up steeply on either side and, in Elton's childhood, this landscape became common ground for the offspring of the different families here—Somali, Jamaican, Cambodian—a wilderness of tree-climbing and bug-collecting and tobogganing in winter. Elton never grew out of it. "You can get lost in there," he says, "like you're somewhere else completely."
Elton and his sisters grew up catching fish, snakes and frogs, hearing woodpeckers, glimpsing deer or fox, a trio of urban Huck Finns. "It was almost a zoo to us," he says. Years ago, Elton's dad caught a turtle in the creek waters here, carrying it home and putting it in a box as a pet. But the turtle proved too wild and, after they returned it, Elton swears he'd see it on his walks, like a ghost. Another year, Elton and his sisters surprised their mom with a Christmas tree they dragged from the ravine, leaning it against a wall in the townhouse on its stump.
Black Creek was perfect, too, for games of cops and robbers, manhunt and tag—away from the alternative universe of Driftwood Court, where those games were deadly and real. Up there, if they heard gunshots, kids judged how close or far they sounded before deciding to go inside. Some days, they didn't leave the house. Elton was playing basketball once when he saw three masked gunmen emerge from the ravine; later that night, he heard machine-gun fire for the first time. It's not for nothing the words "My trust is limited" are inked into the inside of his right arm, the tattoo a gift from Tracyann. "I've seen stuff," he says.
Elton is six foot, weighs 180 lb., and is lithe. When he walks, it's a smooth process despite his size, like he's gliding on skates. His quick, craggy grin feels just as otherworldly. "He's strange and caring all at once," Sytha says, "like a gentle giant. He never gets into fights. For all the years I've known him, never ever—unless it has to do with his mother. That was the one time I've ever seen him angry."
He has always been a builder. There's a photo of him as a little kid wearing blue-jean overalls emblazoned with the words "Handy Man," under a yellow screwdriver and a blue wrench. "I have memories of not wanting to take them off," he says. He'd pull things apart and put them back together again, and stopped to watch at construction sites. "Since he was small, he was always a fixer," says Tracy. "Or break it, then fix it," says Tracyann. He made his first money scavenging broken-down lawn mowers and fixing them to cut grass around Driftwood; he made as much as $400 a summer.
Elton tried building his first subterranean structure in middle school with the same kid who'd later help dig the tunnel that made him famous (that young man doesn't want to be identified; let's call him Jim). Elton thought of digging a big square hole, then covering it over with earth—less a tunnel than a bunker. He started that, but grew discouraged and quit. Three more attempts just led to holes that filled with water. They were too near the creek, Elton says. Besides, he wasn't ready.
He worked his first construction job in the summer after Grade 7, hauling two-by-fours for $15 an hour. He could not get enough. Later, a co-op program at Westview Centennial Secondary School changed Elton's life. He worked for Boko "Bob" Marich, whose family business, Zden Bomar Contracting Inc., does heavy construction around Greater Toronto. Originally from Croatia, Boko took to Elton in a way he didn't with most students. "I realized his potential from the second day he came," he says. "I show him one thing to do, he's going to multiply it by five. He's going to do it right, he's going to do it fast. "
Building was a passion both men shared. "Because he wants to be a builder, he's asking me questions all the time," Boko says. "Other students, they were not on time, they were lazy, they were not interested. I was calling them pencil pushers." Elton was no pusher of pencils. When he graduated from Westview in 2011, he became a regular member of Boko's crew. He learned to frame, drywall, paint—and thrived. "I told him so many times, 'You just listen, you be who you are and time will develop you to be a good builder—even better than I am,' " Boko says.
It was in the summer of 2013 that Elton started in on tunnelling for the fifth time. He was ready. "I knew 10 times more," he says. "The engineering of everything—the water, the land, the kind of dirt." He'd found the perfect spot, too: hidden in a clump of brush, where the earth was not too moist and where, after digging a test hole, he discovered a proportion of dirt to clay exactly as it should be. And there was something else. Looking out across the creek to the opposite rise, he could see the townhouse in the distance, the grey block of Driftwood Court.
Using discarded beer bottles and a tape measure, he laid out his plan: The tunnel would head north 10 m, with two rooms like wings branching off east and west. Elton cut a manhole-sized circle into the earth with a shovel and began to dig. Soon, he'd got far enough that he needed a ladder. In the yard behind the townhouse, he made one of junk wood. This caused concern in the family. "Go buy a regular ladder," Anora told him. "I was—'Elton, this isn't safe!' " Now he could get in and out of his hole (he later scrounged a store-bought ladder). It took two seven-hour days to get four metres down. He shovelled through water and, with a garden hose, siphoned out what he could, sucking at the rubber until he tasted dirt.
Elton is telling the story of how he built his tunnel at a McDonald's near the Steeles and Jane intersection, not far from where he lives. He is excited. "Don't talk so loud," says his older sister, Anora, sitting beside him. He shifts smoothly into a lower register.
At first, he spread the dirt out thin across the ground, hiding it in the grass. He worried that residents of a high-rise overlooking the ravine might see him digging. Sometimes, York University students took a shortcut nearby. "I was thinking, 'Is this something I should be doing?' " he says. It was not his land. "I don't want to say it didn't matter. Honestly, I loved it so much. I don't know why I loved it. It was something so cool, so under the radar. I never really thought I'd get that far."
He wore plastic bags over his construction boots to keep his feet dry in the hole, a mask to keep the dirt from his mouth, and he ignored the mosquitoes. He made the tunnel entrance below wider than the mouth above, tracing an outline into the north face with a small pickaxe and starting in on the horizontal.
It was at this point he knew he could go no further alone. He needed help to get the dirt out. He called on Jim, a friend from the neighbourhood still in his teens, who has been involved in all four of Elton's tunnel attempts in the hills below Driftwood Court. Anora calls him a good-looking, introverted kid with a talent for math. "He's like family to us," she says. "We have his back, and make sure he doesn't go down the wrong path." Elton knew he could trust him to keep a secret. "I was going to get it done, just me and him, or not get it done at all," he says.
They began collecting buckets—they'd amass 50 of them, some from Elton's work, some from a local wine-making enthusiast—and Jim's job consisted mainly of hauling dirt. The work was hard, and they'd dig any chance they got: on weekends, after work, putting in six hours at a time. Some mornings, Elton climbed up out of the hole at 5 a.m. so he could get home covered in dirt while it was still dark. Progress could be slow—a few feet a day. "Either way, the dirt had to leave the tunnel," he says. Now and then, they came across rocks and dragged them out; one boulder two or three times the size of a basketball they cinched with a chain to pull out.
Jim wasn't always happy, and even Elton had his concerns that the tunnel, which between them they called "the Hole," or the "H" wouldn't work. "There were times I doubted," he says. "There were times when both of us thought it was pointless." They'd take time away from the work now and then, a week here, a month there. But while Elton always recovered his enthusiasm, Jim's concerns were more pronounced, and it could be hard to get him to the site. Elton had to coax him, especially at those crucial moments when inattention might spoil all they had already done.
Toronto Police
Such a moment came two months in, when the tunnel reached 3.5 metres in length. Now, when Elton and Jim climbed down, they'd find evidence the ceiling was collapsing. A metre of earth divided the tunnel's ceiling from the surface overhead. Several times, they'd hear a grumble, then the dirt fell in; Elton saw what he calls "crumbs" of soil on his shoulders. They had been playing music while they worked; now they stopped, the better to hear the telltale sound of the ground shifting above. Elton knew he couldn't just rely on his ears. "It's not like the dirt's talking to me, telling me when it's going to happen," he says.
He'd always known he'd need to brace the interior of the tunnel. Many of the tools he used so far he'd borrowed from Boko, modifying one shovel for manoeuvrability in tight spaces by shortening the shaft. Now he asked Boko for the lumber he needed to reinforce the tunnel. At first, Boko had thought Elton was finishing his basement. Now something told him that wasn't it. "I realized he's digging, excavating," Boko says. "I said, 'Be careful, man! If you don't do it right, people won't pay you! Ask and I'll give you advice!' "
Elton laid a sheet of thick construction plastic down on the tunnel floor, with holes punched through to permit groundwater to flow. On top, he spread a layer of gravel, then placed large bricks equidistant on either side of the narrow passage, not even a metre across, spacing them every metre or so along the walls. This was his foundation. He dug a water trap to collect all the moisture seeping in—large enough to catch a day's worth. (Sometimes Elton arrived to find a metre and a half of water down there, and slugs on the walls.)
He could start framing now. It went fast—a day's work. Elton nailed two-by-eights together in pairs and laid these lengthwise against the wall atop the bricks. He hoisted the longer ribs of wood up vertically along the walls, reinforcing these with more two-by-fours running above, and installed plywood against the ceiling.
He wanted a tunnel that would last and that was secret. "If this had been known—what's the point?" he says. He'd take a different route to the site each time he went (a trick his neighbours used to thwart the layabout robbers who hang out on Driftwood). He made a shallow box he filled with dirt, and fit this into the mouth of the tunnel—an invisible door. In the spring, he'd have planted grass in there.
At home, they knew Elton was up to something. He'd come home filthy at all hours and, suddenly, the townhouse was full of dirt—"dirt everywhere," Anora says. It seemed to Tracy that all she did was sweep, and still there was dirt, and you knew Elton was home when you saw the big footprints in the shower. He started measuring his progress against just how dirty he had to get. "After a while, I started coming out clean," he says.
All this created not a little interest at the townhouse. Anora, in particular, imagined Elton building, as she puts it in her rapid-fire way, "some kind of underground house." She admits to hounding him. "I'm the kind of person, I want to know what's going on," says Anora. "Me and my mum were talking about going to follow him."
An aspiring commercial photographer, Anora quit her job as a telemarketer not long ago after reading the 1959 self-help classic The Magic of Thinking Big, and she often visits with Elton to give him what she calls "life talks." She encourages him to break free of his shell, to break cycles, to leave his comfort zone and to dream of spectacular futures. She says it's about "not being another statistic, getting free of negative stuff." Still, she has sympathy for Elton: "three girls, hot-headed temperaments, him being the only boy—he's done," she says. "He builds, and mostly tries to stay out of the arguments."
Tracyann, closer in age to Elton than Anora and something of an ally, worried about hints her brother was dropping that he was doing dangerous work in the woods. She asked him to leave a hand-drawn map showing approximately where he went on his outings, so that if he did not come home, they could find him.
One day, in a bus shelter across the street from the Redpath sugar refinery, on Toronto's downtown waterfront, Tracyann found a mysterious leather pouch. She opened it and a wooden rosary with a hand-carved Jesus poured out. This she blessed, ridding it of spiritual baggage—"bad vibes," she calls them—just the way her mum had taught her. She gave the rosary to Elton, who nailed it to the tunnel wall with a Remembrance Day poppy in the spirit of the gift—as protection.
Meanwhile, he kept at his work on the eastern slope of the Black Creek ravine. He scrounged a generator and sump pump, installing them in a hollow he dug near the hole and that he lined with soundproofing foam. Down below was mosquito-free and cool in summer and, in winter, it was warm. He and Jim brought chairs down, listened to music on a laptop, or watched movies—Edge of Tomorrow with Tom Cruise,Scarface with Al Pacino. In summer, they barbecued chicken and sausages at the mouth of the hole under cover of the brush.
"It was pretty cool," Elton says, smiling and looking down. The last time he visited was last Christmas. He was going to leave the tunnel there, maybe never visit for five years. Leave it to settle, like a fruit that needs ripening. "I'd always know it's there—something outside of this world."
Elton hadn't been to the tunnel for weeks when he first heard news that a bunker had been found in Toronto. It had to be someone else's, he thought; his hole wasn't under the Rexall Centre, like the one in the news reports. Then he saw the police photographs, and recognized Boko's tools in the snapshots. When he heard news people talk about the bunker in connection with terrorist groups like Islamic State, he thought that any minute a SWAT team would descend on the townhouse. "Anora," he said, "that thing that I was doing is on the news."
Tracy, Anora and Tracyann watched the reports with rapt attention. They'd seen Elton trundle down into the woods with a shovel and a couple of buckets. What they saw in those tantalizing police photos was like nothing they thought Elton could do. "I surprised them," he says. "It looks like our house's hallway," says Tracyann.
In the Driftwood Court townhouse, discussion turned to what they should do. Except for a brush with the law several years ago—Elton says a gun that police uncovered in the townhouse was planted, and the charges laid against him eventually went away—Elton has kept out of trouble. Nevertheless, the family was skittish about telling authorities the tunnel was his.
The next morning, Elton went to work as usual. Boko, too, had seen the news and recognized the tools in the photos. As soon as they saw each other, Elton told him he was the guy who'd built the tunnel on television. "He was laughing, because he couldn't believe it was me," says Elton. But Elton was worried. He asked Boko what he should do. "I will find out," Boko told him. "You don't have to worry."
Despite those words of encouragement, Boko, too, was worried. He did not go immediately to police, but instead sought out an intermediary—someone who could give him assurances this was not a criminal matter, and that Elton would not be charged. He reached out, without success, to Toronto Mayor John Tory, then to former mayor and current city councillor Rob Ford. Next, he turned to Ford's older brother Doug, himself a former Toronto city councillor, and an acquaintance.
According to Boko's account, he explained his predicament to Ford at the latter's private business offices at Deco Labels and Tags. Ford, now a private businessman, told him he knew just whom to call, and left the room. Minutes later, Ford returned and informed him that whoever was behind the tunnel was unlikely to face charges. But he went on to say it was Boko's civic duty to inform authorities, who were in the midst of an expensive investigation to track down the mystery digger. Boko says Ford asked him if he'd object to his inviting police to speak to him at Deco Labels. In a few minutes, Boko was in conference with investigators. "They told me not to talk to no one—not even Elton," he says.
Soon after, Elton got a call at the townhouse. It was the police. "We want to talk to you about the hole you dug," an officer told him, and asked that he come down to 31 Division, the busy Jane and Finch police station. "I thought there was a chance I wouldn't come back home," says Elton.
Doug Ford had been right: There would be no charges. Toronto police, announcing they'd unravelled the mystery, said two men had built the tunnel for "personal reasons." Chief Bill Blair later told reporters this was not unexpected: "One of the theories was maybe this is just the coolest fort ever." All Elton got was a little advice: "Don't dig any more holes," the police told him.
Yet his discovery did not come without punishment. The police filled in the tunnel. "It took a couple of years to do it and it took them one day to fill it up," he says. He misses just knowing it was there, and the family feels his sense of loss. "I'm sad they found it," Tracy says.
Elton first revealed his identity in an interview with the Toronto Sun. The media attention this unleashed surprised everyone. Journalists congregated outside the townhouse and tried to charm Tracyann into interviews through the window (Tracyann is not easily charmed). They staked out the parking lot at Driftwood Court. Others showed up at Boko's work sites, looking for Elton or anyone who knew him. "That was him!?" one man who's worked with him (and who has been so disgusted by the performance of the Toronto Maple Leafs that he stopped watching the news entirely) asked a reporter last week. "Get outta here! I thought it was al-Qaeda!"
The media storm forced Elton to take time off work and to hole up in the Driftwood Court townhouse. And he got to thinking. Months ago, Anora's life talks had turned to what Elton wants to do with his life. Now she was starting to use Elton's escape hatch to spin new homilies. "I use this now as an example. 'You put your mind to something,' " Anora says. " 'You manifested your dreams.' "
Here was a chance to make more of his dreams a reality. Elton thought about his future, how he wants a contracting business like Boko's. And he thought about the kids of Driftwood Court. He envisions a summer program that will give neighbourhood kids a chance to work cutting grass like he did, even do some light landscaping. It's not just about creating summer jobs. "I'll make a new definition of cool—because what I think is cool now is having your own house, getting married," he says.
Last week, he launched an online fundraising campaign, called Eltons Tunnel Vision Fund, to help get his contracting business and that summer program up and running. His goal is $10,000 by summer. (Update: Two days after this story was published,McDonald met his goal, thanks to many supporters.)
"I'm going to be a big contractor one day," he says. "And I want to be a good parent."
"And you'll teach your kids like I did," his mother, Tracy, says. "You got to break the cycle somehow."
Will he ever build another tunnel? "It's something, for sure, I'm going to do again," he says. "When I have my own property."
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Боян Мага, също срещан и като Баян, Боян Магесник, а и с християнското си име Вениамин, е син на цар Симеон Велики. Описван е от средновековните книжовници като човек, умеещ да се превръща във вълк и владеещ чудодейни сили. Без за това да има исторически доказателства, проф. Николай Райнов, Петър Димков и други съвременни литературни автори го смятат за основоположник на богомилството.

Според други твърдения на Дамян Попхристов и доцент Веселина Вачкова Боян Мага получава своето висше посвещение в Сирия, която в тези времена била центърът на езотериката.

Исторически извори
За него свидетелства кремонският епископ и историк Лиутпранд през 949 г., посланик на немския император Отон I в Цариград:

"Той (Симеон) имал два[ма] сина; единият се наричал Баян, а другият, който и до ден-днешен още живее и здраво управлява българите, Петър. Баян обаче чак дотам бил изучил магията, че от човек ставал веднага на вълк и на какъвто друг звяр поискаш. ...бе силен в магия, вълшебство и тайно очарование".

Византийски хронисти също го споменават и пишат, че той приемал формата на различни животни – вълк и орел.

Друго автентично средновековно произведение, което представя митологизирания образ на този български принц, е руският източник "Слово за похода на Игор" (Слово о полку Игореве), където той е описан по абсолютно същия начин, като в бележката на Лиутпранд:

"Таз песен да започнем за станали събития, за истински неща, а не с измислиците на Боян! Боян е вещ в словата, но щом засъчинява, в дървета се оплита и като вълк се скита, като орел под облаци облита. За прежни времена на битки щом си спомни, соколи десет пуска срещу ято лебеди и първият догонен лебед пее за грохналия Ярослав, за храбрия Мстислав, заклал Редед пред полкове касожски, за аления Роман Святославич. Но не соколи десет срещу ято лебедово е Боян изпратил, братя, а своите пророчески умели пръсти върху живи струни е полагал и те за княжеската слава са гърмели".

Този пасаж аргументирано доказва, че образът на този син на Симеон отрано е обрастнал с легенди, които стават част от културното достояние не само на нашия, но и на други съседни народи.

С това автентичните и надеждни сведения за Боян се изчерпват. Всички изложени по-долу подробности най-вероятно не почиват дори на наистина записани от изследователи народни предания, а по-скоро са рожба на въображението на наши писатели-романтици от първата половина на XX век.

Легенди
Образът му, като "Боян Магесника", "Песоглавеца" и т.н. е запазен в народни легенди, особено разпространени в годините на мор (епидемии) и на падането под византийско владичество, татарските нашествия и поробването на България от османските турци. Според тях след като дълги години обикалял, лекувал и помагал на народа, той се оттеглил и останал да живее вечно в дъното на дълбока пещера (около Русенски Лом, Мадара или другаде в Североизточна България или в Югозападна България – Рила, Пирин, Македония, Албанските планини), омаян и отвлечен от красива самодива, но не е заспал, а бди и излиза, сам или предвождащ своите воини, да помага на българите и войските им в много тежки времена.

Георги Раковски в "Народна българска песен" представя княза като вожд на българската войска в народната песен за Боян Магьосника, в пълното му бойно снаряжение и сила, неотстъпващ на баща си цар Симеон:"Трещи! Плющи! Боян напред върви,клин си върти, път прави, Златна врата гледа!Семо гърци троши, над глава му орле фърчи!та уплаши мегкушави гърци, тии назад бягат!Ей, Семо! Семо! Български царю! (Раковски 1984б: 76).

"Боенец" е буйно, несключено хоро, което се играе през Велики пости в Североизточна България и се свързва с името на Боян Мага. Част от пролетния фолклорен цикъл е празникът "Буенец"  (буенек, боеница, боеника данец, буенак) при деня на Свети Княз Боян Български, който е историческа личност, екзекутиран за противопоставяне на официалната тогава държавна религия, брат на прапрапрадядото на княз Боян-Венеамин.

Животът на княз Боян Магьосника е митологизиран.

Епоха
След смъртта на Симеон Велики се възцарява багренородният, но трети по старшинство син Петър.

Цар Петър подобно на дядо си Борис I и прадядо си Пресиян, отчитайки сериозното усилие, което са стрували на България непрестанните войни, не подкрепя антивизантийската позиция на голяма част от българската аристокрация и води съглашенска политика. Допуска усилването на византийското църковно влияние и се занимава повече със схоластични въпроси, отколкото с държавно строителство.

В това време се заражда в България и се разпространява широко богомилството. Пет години след падането на Преслав в 971 г. при сина на цар Петър – Борис II, византийците са прогонени в 976 г. от Североизточна България, тя е освободена и заедно с отвъддунавските области е под скиптъра на цар Самуил. Споменава се, че това извършват Боян и Петър. Дали споменатото наистина е точно за тогава (в "Записките на Готския топарх", в които пише за българката армия, преминала Дунав и настъпила в завладяната от византийците част на Отвъддунавска причерноморска България, те не са споменати) или за византийски поражения в по-ранно време, и дали този Боян е или не е князът магьосник, не може със сигурност да се установи.

Литературен образ
Историческата личност на княз Венеамин-Боян е преобразена в художествения образ на "Боян магьосника" много отдавна. Произведенията на Николай Райнов, Юрий Венелин, Димитър Маринов, Александър Тодоров, Васил Пундев, Георги Константинов, Цветан Минков, Петър Карапетров, д-р Найден Шейтанов и т.н. надграждат народната легенда и създават един красив, идеализиран, романтично мистичен образ на български закрилник, създател на богомилството и европейски просветител, което, макар да е художествена измислица (проф. Николай Райнов не е историк и никога не е имал претенции да е такъв), дълбоко заляга в разпространеното възприятие за този средновековен български княз.

Източници и литература

 Ето накратко за богомилството
 Юлия Йорданова, Полемични полета (М. Арнаудов, Д. Маринов)
 Николай Райнов, Богомилски легенди, С, 1912 г.

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Български князе
Крумова династия
Първа българска държава
Българска аристокрация
Родени във Велики Преслав
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Q: Flip an instance I've searched everywhere and never found what I was looking for, simple as it is. I just want to flip an instance vertically and horizontally in ActionScript. I've tried multiplying the width by -1, but it didn't do anything at all. I've looked into transformations but to no avail either.

A: Set the object's scaleX/scaleY property to -1

A: sydd is almost right, I think they just typed it wrong in haste. You want to multiply the objects scaleX/scaleY by -1. This inverts the number. For example:
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Will flip horizontally. Likewise:
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Will flip veritcally.

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New York, March 15 (IANS) A team of Columbia University researchers led by an Indian-American engineer has invented a technology that may double radio frequency data capacity.
The new "full-duplex radio integrated circuits" (ICs) can be implemented to enable simultaneous transmission and reception at the same frequency in a wireless radio.
Up to now, this has been thought to be impossible: transmitters and receivers either work at different times or at the same time but at different frequencies.
"This is a game-changer," said associate professor Harish Krishnaswamy who led the team.
"By leveraging our new technology, networks can effectively double the frequency spectrum resources available for devices like smartphones and tablets," Krishnaswamy added.
In the era of Big Data, the current frequency spectrum crisis is one of the biggest challenges researchers are grappling with and it is clear that today's wireless networks will not be able to support tomorrow's data deluge.
Today's standards support 40 different frequency bands, and there is no space left at radio frequencies for future expansion.
At the same time, the grand challenge of the next-generation 5G network is to increase the data capacity by 1,000 times.
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Krishnaswamy noted that other research groups and start-up companies have demonstrated the theoretical feasibility of simultaneous transmission and reception at the same frequency, but no one has yet been able to build tiny nano-scale ICs with this capability.
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Q: initialization increment decrement And and or operators Can any one explain this statement
int x=1,y=11,z;
z=x--&&y++¦¦--x;

I know the answer but not able to think that how it is coming

A: It pretty simple
x--

returns 1 (true). Therefore
y++

is evaluated. It returns 11
1 && 11

returns true. Since
true || X

is always true
--x

is not evaluated. The statement returns true (1).
This is called short-circuit evaluation. E.g.
a && b || c

means
if a is true
    evaluate b
if a && b is false
    evaluate c

You could rewrite it as
int x=1,y=11,z;
z=[&]() {
    if (!(x--)) {
        return false;
    }
    if (y++) {
        return true;
    }
    if (x++) {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}();

It's important to notice that the order of evaluation is as described. That's one of the reasons you shouldn't overload operator&& or operator||. The described behavior only works if the operators are not overloaded.


The plunger has been custom made in natural-colored nylon 6/6 by reverse-engineering an original plunger. The spring has been custom made from type 302 stainless steel by reverse engineering an original spring. All parts are made right here in the USA!
Complete rebuild instructions that illustrate the use of this kit can be found on the Muscle Car Research web site. Dealer inquiries are welcome - please contact us for pricing.


After its nation-wide launch yesterday,� Honda Cars India Limited (HCIL) is all set to launch the new-gen Amaze sedan in Mumbai today. The Amaze is one of the more important launches for the company in recent times and is expected to boost sales for the company in the coming year.
The new Honda Amaze has a revised side profile with a slightly lower roofline, that possibly makes it more aerodynamic. The new Honda Amaze that has been showcased at the 2018 Auto Expo sports a new shade of red that makes it look more premium than the existing shades on offer. The rear profile of the new Honda Amaze retains certain elements but at the same time looks a lot fresher and smarter in appearance.
As we reported in our first drive review, the engines will be the same as before which means the petrol engine will be Honda's 1.2-litre, four-cylinder petrol engine offering 90PS and 110Nm that also powers the�Honda Jazz�and Brio. The diesel will be the same, 1.5-litre four-cylinder diesel as the City and Jazz. Outputs for the diesel stand at 100PS and 200Nm for the manual and 80PS and 160Nm for the automatic version.
The company has started production of the sedan at the Tapukara plant in Rajasthan. HCIL states that India is an important country for the Japanese car manufacturer as the global launch of the 2018 Amaze happens here. While Honda dealers across the country have already started accepting bookings for the 2018 Amaze, the deliveries will begin shortly after the launch, confirmed an official statement.
The all-new Honda Amaze's design draws inspiration from the Honda City and Honda Civic. The interiors are all-new as well, with the dashboard sporting a completely new design. The central air-conditioning vents sit right at the top of the centre console.
The new Honda Amaze is based on new chassis which makes it lighter than the outgoing car. It also offers a CVT auto option on both the engine options.
The 2018 Amaze is powered by Honda's 1.2-litre petrol engine offering 90PS and 110Nm, an improved version of the earlier car's motor. The diesel will be the 1.5-litre. Outputs for the diesel stand at 100PS and 200Nm for the manual and 80PS and 160Nm for the automatic version.
Before the launch, read everything there is to know about the new Amaze here.


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Der Traismauer Triathlon ist eine Triathlon-Veranstaltung, die seit 2019 jährlich um den Naturbadesee Traismauer im Bezirk Sankt Pölten-Land in Niederösterreich ausgetragen wird.

Organisation
Der Traismauer Triathlon ist eine Nachfolgeveranstaltung des bis 2018 ausgetragenen Krems Triathlons. Dieser Wettkampf wird seit 2019 über zwei unterschiedliche Distanzen von der Firma Bestzeit ausgetragen:
 Sprintdistanz (750 m Schwimmen, 22 km Radfahren und 5 km Laufen)
 Olympische Distanz (1,5 km Schwimmen, 36 km Radfahren und 10 km Laufen)

Ergebnisse

Olympische Distanz
Der letzte Bewerb auf der Olympischen Distanz (1,5 km Schwimmen, 40 km Radfahren und 10 km Laufen) fand am 31. Juli 2020 statt.

Sprintdistanz

Weblinks
 Website des Traismauer Triathlon

Einzelnachweise

Triathlonwettbewerb
Sportveranstaltung in Niederösterreich
Erstveranstaltung 2019
Triathlon (Österreich)


Picture from Scotland - Chrysanthemum.
These hardy plants are natives of China, Japan, northern Africa, and southern Europe. They belong to the Daisy family, Compositae. Their flowers come in every color except blue. Their blooms come in a huge variety of shapes and sizes. Some are spherical in shape and have incurved petals at the center. Some have tubular-shaped petals of unequal length with little hooks at the end. Spoon Chrysanthemums have rather flat petals that are spoon-shaped at the end.