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Former Jigawa Governor, Sule Lamido to remain in police custody
Former Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, who was arrested on Sunday , will remain in custody for further investigation, according to Kayode Aderanti, the Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 1, Kano State. Aderanti, speaking through the Public Relations Officer, Zone 1, DSP Sambo Sokoto, stated this while briefing newsmen in […]
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Reps ready to pass new minimum wage bill – Dogara
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said that they are committed to passing a new minimum wage bill. Dogara made this known in a statement released on Sunday to mark the 2017 Workers’ Day, signed by his Special Adviser, Media and Public Affairs, Turaki Hassa. “I wish to congratulate the entire […]
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Chelsea loanees help Vitesse Arnhem to first-ever trophy in Dutch Cup
Vitesse Arnhem collected a major trophy for the first time in their 125-year existence by beating AZ Alkmaar in the Dutch Cup final on Sunday.
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Celtic’s Sinclair makes social media post showing alleged racist abuse
Scott Sinclair has posted a picture on social media showing the alleged racist abuse he suffered during Saturday's Old Firm derby.
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How Nigerian boxing officials rejected Anthony Joshua
Jeremiah Okorodudu, a former boxing champion, has revealed how boxing rave of the moment, Anthony Joshua, was rejected by Nigerian boxing officials nine years ago.
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University as domain of Sadducees and Philistines
Some of the victims who claimed they got tired of attending morning and afternoon services while preparing for examinations, said they were stopped from writing their examinations as part of the punishment. A number of the victims are final year students scheduled to graduate within ten weeks.
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Making and unmaking of a “small” President
I have a question: who produced Goodluck Jonathan as the President of Nigeria? I also have the answer: Olusegun Obasanjo, the Balogun of Owu.
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May Day: Gov. Ahmed felicitates with workers
The Kwara State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, has felicitated with workers on the occasion of the Workers Day, with an assurance improved welfare.
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Jose Mourinho blasts ‘not human’ Man United schedule
Jose Mourinho described Manchester United’s jammed-packed schedule as “not human” after a growing injury list threatened to wreck hopes of a place in next season’s Champions League.
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Boko Haram: Yobe to domesticate Administration of Justice Act
The Yobe State Government has commenced the domestication of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act as part of measures to recover the setbacks suffered by the justice sector from the Boko Haram insurgency era.
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535 Nigerians in China prisons for drug trafficking
There are at least 535 Nigerians in prison in China, jailed for drug-related offences.
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Atiku commends Guild of Editors on rancour-free elections
Former Vice President and chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, Atiku Abubakar, has felicitated with the entire members and leadership of the Nigeria Guild of Editors on a peaceful and successful election at its biennial convention in Lagos at the weekend.
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Police warn IPOB against planned protest in Abuja
The Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory Command, Musa Kimo, has warned the Indigenous People of Biafra against its planned protest in Abuja.
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APC, Peterside flay Wike over alleged assassination plot by Police chief
The National Security Adviser, Minister of Interior and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) have been advised to consider Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike’s allegation that the police planned to assassinate him as a threat to national security.
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Biafra: Police warns IPOB against protest in Abuja
The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has warned the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), against embarking on any street protest during the May Day celebration in Abuja on Monday. This was contained in a statement signed by its spokeman, ASP Usen Omorodion, on Sunday. Omorodion said that they had information, that the IPOB members were […]
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IPOB names Fayose honorary Governor of Biafra Republic
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has named Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, as the honorary Governor of Biafra Republic. This was contained in a statement released on Sunday, where IPOB thanked Fayose for his solidarity towards Nnamdi Kanu. The statement was signed by the media and publicity secretary of the group, Comrade Emma […]
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Dollar edges up, European inflation data underpins euro
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S. Korea's military 'sodomy law' should go
An alleged crackdown by the South Korean army on gay male service members, which came to light in April, is striking fear into gay soldiers and potential conscripts.
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There are two Antonios, says 'animal' Conte
Chelsea boss Antonio Conte says he is an "animal" during games, after watching his Premier League leaders beat Everton 3-0.
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FRSC nabs vehicle trafficking 17 children
Operatives of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) have intercepted a vehicle conveying minors suspected to be trafficked. A statement from the Head, Media Relations and Strategy of the Corps, Bisi Kazeem, on Sunday, said operatives from the Kaduna State command were carrying out their duties and impounded a vehicle for overloading and broken windscreen […]
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Dogara hails emergence of Egbemode as President of Editor’s Guild
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has congratulated Managing Director of New Telegraph Newspaper, Mrs. Funke Egbemode, on her re-election as President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors. In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media & Public Affairs, Turaki Hassan, Dogara urged Egbemode to continue from where she stopped […]
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Obasanjo rains curses on saboteurs of Nigeria’s economy
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, at the weekend, cursed local and foreign saboteurs of Nigeria’s economy. The ex-President, expressed his anger in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, at an interactive session with the Indian Professionals’ Forum(IPF) in Nigeria. He condemned companies that have made the country a dumping ground for sub-standard and fake products. Obasanjo said: […]
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Why I refused to declare my assets publicly – Jonathan
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said he didn’t declare his asset publicly, because it was not the right thing to do as President. Jonathan made this claim in a book titled ‘Against The Run Of Play’ written by Olusegun Adeniyi. He argued that declaring his assets publicly, could not reduce corruption in the country. “It […]
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Nigerian newspapers: 10 things you need to know this Monday morning
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Former President, Goodluck Jonathan has said he didn’t declare his asset publicly while in power, because it was not the right thing to do as President. Jonathan made this claim in a book titled ‘Against The Run of Play’ written by Olusegun Adeniyi. He argued […]
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10 killed in U.S tornado
A severe storm bringing flash flooding and tornadoes killed 10 people and injured dozens, with a trail of destruction across Arkansas, Missouri and Texas.
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Taekwondo: 14 players for championship in Korea
The Nigeria Taekwondo Federation (NTF) selects 14 players for the 2017 World Championship that willhold from June 24 to 30 in Muju, in Korea.
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With a week to go, Macron and Le Pen to hold duelling May Day events
France’s rivals for the presidency, centrist frontrunner Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen, are set to hold duelling rallies in Paris on Monday, the May Day holiday that will also see major demonstrations against both candidates.
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Monit’s smart diaper sensor lets parents avoid the sniff test
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New chip under development at UTSA extends battery life of electronics
(University of Texas at San Antonio) Ruyan Guo, Robert E. Clark Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has received a $50,000 I-Corps grant from the National Science Foundation to commercialize a chip that can make lower power electronics, like cell phones, work more efficiently.
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Preschoolers' story comprehension similar for print and digital books
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Get ready: Your future surgery may use an automated, robotic drill
(University of Utah Health) A computer-driven automated drill, similar to those used to machine auto parts, could play a pivotal role in future surgical procedures. Researchers at the University of Utah developed the drill that produces fast, clean, and safe cuts, reducing the time the wound is open and the patient is anesthetized, thereby decreasing the incidence of infection, human error, and surgical cost.
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Police: 8 shot during San Diego pool party; suspect dead
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Police say officers shot and killed an armed man suspected of shooting eight people Sunday at an apartment complex near the University of California, San Diego.
The San Diego police chief tells the Union-Tribune (http://bit.ly/2plxCfS ) that police received reports of a man shooting people by the swimming pool.
Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman says a department helicopter arrived first and its crew saw the suspect was still in the pool area and appeared to be reloading.
Three officers arrived on foot and shot the suspect after he pointed the gun at them.
She said several of the victims are in critical condition. Authorities have not released the names or ages of the victims.
The chief said she didn’t have any information about a motive or the identity of the gunman.
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AP reveals hidden horror of sex assaults by K-12 students
By ROBIN McDOWELL, REESE DUNKLIN, EMILY SCHMALL and JUSTIN PRITCHARD
BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) — Chaz Wing was 12 when they came after him. The classmates who tormented him were children, too, entering the age of pimples and cracking voices.
Eventually, he swore under oath, the boys raped him and left him bleeding, the culmination of a year of harassment. Though Chaz repeatedly told teachers and administrators about insults and physical attacks, he didn’t report being sexually assaulted until a year later, launching a long legal fight over whether his school had done enough to protect him.
Chaz’s saga is more than a tale of escalating bullying. Across the U.S., thousands of students have been sexually assaulted, by other students, in high schools, junior highs and even elementary schools — a hidden horror educators have long been warned not to ignore.
Relying on state education records, supplemented by federal crime data, a yearlong investigation by The Associated Press uncovered roughly 17,000 official reports of sex assaults by students over a four-year period, from fall 2011 to spring 2015.
Though that figure represents the most complete tally yet of sexual assaults among the nation’s 50 million K-12 students, it does not fully capture the problem because such attacks are greatly under-reported, some states don’t track them and those that do vary widely in how they classify and catalog sexual violence. A number of academic estimates range sharply higher.
“Schools are required to keep students safe,” said Charol Shakeshaft, a Virginia Commonwealth University professor who specializes in school sexual misconduct. “It is part of their mission. It is part of their legal responsibility. It isn’t happening. Why don’t we know more about it, and why isn’t it being stopped?”
Elementary and secondary schools have no national requirement to track or disclose sexual violence, and they feel tremendous pressure to hide it. Even under varying state laws, acknowledging an incident can trigger liabilities and requirements to act.
And when schools don’t act — or when their efforts to root out abuse are ineffectual — justice is not served.
This, Chaz Wing said in his lawsuit against the Brunswick school district, is precisely what happened to him.
Though both sides contest whether any rapes occurred, the AP found that school administrators allowed Chaz’s bullying to escalate and then failed to adequately investigate his allegations of sexual abuse.
From almost his first day at Brunswick Junior High, Chaz said kids harassed him, taunted him about his weight and subjected him to ordeals like a “gay test.” Complaining to teachers and administrators didn’t help, he said. He slid into depression and refused to go to school.
Then one day in 2012, his mom came home and found him curled up in her bed, rocking back and forth. She begged him to tell her what was wrong. Slowly, his words came out.
“They hurt me,” he cried.
He said he’d been raped. Three times.
Chaz told police, child-abuse investigators and lawyers under oath that he kept quiet about the assaults for nearly a year because of threats against him and his family if he talked.
Sexual abuse allegations can be difficult to investigate. Because many accusers initially keep quiet, physical evidence can be long gone once investigators step in. Often, there are no eyewitnesses, leaving only the conflicting accounts of the accuser and the accused.
What Chaz told authorities and investigators — multiple times over four years — remained consistent, an AP review of government and court records shows. And a child-abuse examiner wrote of “strong evidence” that Chaz was sexually assaulted.
The school district staunchly defends how it handled its investigation. The junior high principal said his inquiry determined that the sexual assaults were “very unlikely.” One of the accused boys, he noted, had never even heard of anal rape.
“There is — as there should be — always an inclination to believe allegations of sexual assault at the outset,” district lawyer Melissa Hewey said in an email to AP. “But sometimes, the evidence compels the conclusion that those allegations are false.”
“The little boys who were accused,” she said, “are the real victims in this case and they deserve to be protected.”
A HIDDEN PROBLEM
Children remain most vulnerable to sexual assaults by other children in the privacy of a home, according to AP’s review of the federal crime data, which allowed for a more detailed analysis than state education records. But schools — where many more adults are keeping watch, and where parents trust their kids will be kept safe — are the No. 2 site where juveniles are sexually violated by their peers.
Ranging from rape and sodomy to forced oral sex and fondling, the sexual violence that AP tracked often was mischaracterized as bullying, hazing or consensual behavior. It occurred anywhere students were left unsupervised: buses and bathrooms, hallways and locker rooms. No type of school was immune, whether it be in an upper-class suburb, an inner-city neighborhood or a blue-collar farm town.
And all types of children were vulnerable, not just kids like Chaz who have trouble fitting in.
Unwanted fondling was the most common form of assault, but about one in five of the students assaulted were raped, sodomized or penetrated with an object, according to AP’s analysis of the federal incident-based crime data.
About 5 percent of the sexual violence involved 5- and 6-year-olds. But the numbers increased significantly between ages 10 and 11 — about the time many students start their middle-school years — and continued rising up until age 14. They then dropped as students progressed through their high school years.
The AP counted only the most severe forms of sexual assault, excluding categories that were more broadly termed, such as sexual harassment, or behavior like kissing on the playground.
Contrary to public perception, data showed that student sexual assaults by peers were far more common than those by teachers. For every adult-on-child sexual attack reported on school property, there were seven assaults by students, AP’s analysis of the federal crime data showed.
Schools frequently were unwilling or ill-equipped to address the problem, AP found, despite having long been warned by the U.S. Supreme Court that they could be liable for monetary damages. Some administrators and educators even engaged in cover-ups to hide evidence of a possible crime and protect their schools’ image.
“No principal wants their school to be the rape school, to be listed in the newspaper as being investigated. Schools try to bury it. It’s the courageous principal that does the right thing,” said Dr. Bill Howe, a former K-12 teacher who spent 17 years overseeing Connecticut’s state compliance with Title IX, the federal law used to help protect victims of sexual assault in schools.
Laws and legal hurdles also favor silence. Schools have broadly interpreted rules protecting student and juvenile privacy to withhold basic information about sexual attacks from their communities. Victims and their families face high legal thresholds to successfully sue school districts for not maintaining safe learning environments.
“Everyone feels like we don’t have a problem, and the reason they feel that way is they have their heads in the sand,” said Oregon psychologist Wilson Kenney, who has helped develop student intervention programs.
Student-on-student sexual assaults live in the shadows compared to the attention paid to gun violence in schools, most notably the Newtown shooting, Kenney noted. “There’s no Sandy Hook for sexual misconduct. But I think the potential harm is great,” he said.
Chaz’s legal fight with Brunswick Junior High offers a rare insight into a school investigation of student sexual assault allegations.
The AP reviewed about 1,500 pages of sworn testimony, emails, court documents and investigative reports, as well as videotaped depositions of 15 school administrators, teachers and police, and interviews with a dozen people tied to the case.
School and district officials declined AP’s interview requests. So did parents of some of the students accused in the attacks, except to say their sons were innocent.
The AP does not usually name alleged victims of sexual assault, but Chaz and his parents decided to speak publicly in hopes of helping others.
“I don’t want this to happen to other kids,” said his mom, Amy Wing.
WARNING SIGNS
From Chaz’s first days at Brunswick Junior High in September 2010, teachers say it was clear he was the type of kid bullies would target.
Overweight with a brown mullet, he had unpopular opinions and wasn’t shy about expressing them. He despised sports, video games and pop music. When other boys showed up for a class project in soccer jerseys, he displayed his love of gardening by wearing a hat and gloves, carrying a trowel and handing out flower-shaped sugar cookies.
Early on, Chaz testified in his lawsuit, several boys cornered him at his locker, mocking him and calling him fat. What bothered him most, though, was the “gay test.” Feeling a light touch on his shoulder in social studies class, he brushed off a boy’s hand. Seconds later, it was back. It was a test, he was told: If he didn’t notice for 10 seconds, he must like it and be gay. Before long, half the boys in the class were doing it.
“Why are they so mean?” Chaz often asked Amy when he came home. “Why do they hate me?”
Initially, Amy urged him to ignore the bullying and try to get along with others. But after the “gay test” began, she also encouraged him to report incidents as they happened and so he did, dozens and dozens of times to teachers, his guidance counselor and the principal. He complained so often that he came to be seen as an overly sensitive nuisance.
One teacher asked Chaz if he was gay, he testified. “I told her ‘no’ and she said then don’t worry about it.”
Finally, Chaz made an appointment to see the principal, Walter Wallace, who had formed an anti-bullying committee shortly after joining the school. In early 2010, Wallace testified, Brunswick students had participated in a survey in which 1 in 6 pupils reported being regularly physically victimized. Wallace implemented a system for documenting student abuse, but it recorded only complaints that were confirmed and then only in the files of the accused, not the victim.
In their meeting in late 2010, Chaz said he detailed the harassment — but the problems continued. Wallace later testified he spoke to the boys Chaz identified and “never heard about it again.” But Chaz said another wave started with a different set of boys.
By January 2011, losing patience, Amy first met with Wallace. “It needs to stop,” she told him. Two weeks later, as the bullying continued, she was back in his office.
Wallace later told her he’d talked to the four main instigators and at least one acknowledged taking part in the “gay test.”
Chaz entered Brunswick Junior High with a “gifted and talented” designation, but by the time he started seventh grade in fall 2011, his academic marks had dropped. His harassment complaints were consuming so much of teachers’ time that they asked Wallace and his vice principal to take over.
“It wasn’t happening when we were watching and we were trying to keep a close eye on it,” one teacher testified, “but it was always around the corner and away from us.”
The principal said he thought Chaz was becoming overly sensitive and made many reports teachers could not substantiate. But Chaz’s seventh-grade counselor, Bunny Andrews, testified that she became “very, very concerned” as incidents began to pile up.
“Chaz was bullied,” she said. “I could never deny that.”
Then the physical torment he was experiencing escalated dramatically, Chaz testified: In November 2011, he said, he was sexually assaulted by classmates for the first time.
According to the lawsuit, the boys crawled under the door of the bathroom stall, put the blade of a small knife against his wrist, ordered him to the ground and overpowered him. After they raped him, Chaz said, one boy threatened to burn down his house, harm his family and kill his pets if anyone found out — then sliced into his right arm.
By the following February, Amy noticed Chaz was stressed and unable to complete his work, so she contacted the school.
That was around the time Chaz said he was raped again. He testified he had been changing clothes for gym in a locker-room stall because he felt self-conscious about his looks. A different boy pushed his way in past a broken lock as a second boy stood guard outside.
The boy forced him against the wall and ripped down his shorts, Chaz said, and it was over in less than two minutes. He stayed silent, he said, cowed by the threats of the first assault.
One day in late spring — Chaz can’t recall whether it was April or May — the school’s power went out shortly before lunch so he left class early to beat the crowd to the cafeteria. As he passed a bathroom, he testified, he was grabbed from behind, dragged inside and pinned against the back wall. It was too dark to see his attackers, but he felt a boy on either side hold his arms. After they finished raping him, he said, he stuffed toilet paper in his underwear to stop the bleeding.
Again, Chaz didn’t speak out, he said, because he was afraid.
Still, records show the school knew Chaz’s bullying had become more physical, including an attack he reported in which he was stabbed with a pencil, with the lead breaking off in his arm.
In June, school officials created a safety plan that included a teacher escorting him between classes. Two days later, after others gave him grief, Chaz told his escort, “Please, just don’t. This is making things worse
By the end of seventh grade, Chaz was missing days of class and easily agitated and angry. Amy called a lawyer at a non-profit defense fund who thought Chaz might have a case because he was bullied over his perceived sexuality.
On the last day of class, Amy marched into the school district’s office for a copy of its anti-bullying policy. Two weeks later, she filed a complaint with the Maine Human Rights Commission — kicking off the legal fight that lasted more than four years.
OBLIGATED TO ACT
Studies have long found bullying can be a precursor to sexual harassment and assault. Typically, victims’ grades drop, attendance falls and rates of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts increase. Schools sometimes miss the warning signs, though, and think it’s just “kids being kids.”
“There’s just a reluctance to see that there’s sexual violence at such a young age,” said Dorothy Espelage, who researched sexual offenses and harassment among middle schoolers while at the University of Illinois.
In October 2010 and April 2011, the U.S. Education Department reminded public school districts that Title IX obligates them to act on bullying and sexual violence. They are required to investigate — separate from any police inquiry — and take prompt action. The department specifically called out anti-gay slurs, sexual remarks, physical harm and unwanted touching — much of what Chaz testified he was telling school officials.
School districts have had to report all sorts of data about students, from those who received free lunches to those who brought in firearms. But there is no federal mandate to track sexual violence.
By contrast, colleges and universities must keep a public crime log, send emergency alerts about sexual assaults, train staff and aid victims under a federal law named for a student who was raped and murdered in 1986.
“Obviously, we care enough to make colleges report,” said Kansas City, Mo., lawyer Chris Dove, who has represented peer sex-abuse victims. “Shouldn’t we care even more about kids under 18?”
Whether — and how — school sexual violence is tracked is determined by individual states, AP found, with wide variations in whether that information is verified or any training on student-on-student sexual assault is required. A survey of state education departments found:
—32 states and the District of Columbia track student sexual assaults, though some did so only if incidents led to discipline like suspension or expulsion; the other states, including Maine, did not.
—18 states reported they had training requirements for teachers, school administrators or students about peer-on-peer sex assault.
—Some of the nation’s largest school districts reported zero sexual assaults over a multi-year period, and some state education officials told AP they doubted their districts’ numbers.
In multiple cases, AP found that school districts bungled investigations, failed to supervise students they knew were trouble, neglected to inform authorities or worse.
A Mississippi high school failed to secure a computer lab that was the scene of a girl’s alleged rape in 2014 and janitors cleaned it before law enforcement could collect evidence, according to court records. District lawyers said that happened because the girl didn’t initially say the sex was forced. The three boys accused were suspended but returned to class days later.
A Missouri middle-school boy with a disciplinary record of groping girls fondled a female student on a school bus in 2014 and told a school official, “I can’t seem to stop,” according to a police report. When he moved to the district’s high school the next year, he allegedly assaulted a girl in a classroom, police said. The boy claimed it was consensual and was initially suspended for 10 days, but later was charged with second-degree rape, the report said.
And in Iowa in 2013, parents didn’t report their daughter’s allegations of sexual assault to authorities because the elementary school principal indicated he would do so. They found out months later that didn’t happen when they sought the police case number, according to the family’s lawsuit. The parents then contacted authorities, and a sheriff’s investigator took over. The results of his findings in the juvenile case are confidential.
When schools mishandle such cases, victims often have little recourse. Prosecutors are sometimes reluctant to charge kids, and clearing legal hurdles to sue districts is difficult.
A federal court in Alabama blocked the case of a 14-year-old girl who said she was used as “rape bait” and assaulted in 2010 in a botched plan to catch a boy suspected of sexual misconduct. Her case did not meet the legal standards to hold the school district liable, the judge wrote, even though he said the plan, devised by a middle school teacher’s aide, was “foolish” and backfired “horribly.” The ruling was successfully appealed, and the district ultimately settled for $200,000.
Settlement amounts can be so low that lawyers are reluctant to take on what are typically lengthy, complicated cases. For families, the painful and costly process usually is driven by more than a desire for money.
“The notion of holding schools accountable and making sure they make changes to address sexual assault is very important to victims,” said Adele Kimmel, a lawyer with the Washington, D.C., legal nonprofit Public Justice.
THE INVESTIGATION
Chaz’s eighth-grade year had begun well but, as the bullying flared again, he stopped attending school. When he finally told his mom in October 2012 that he had been sexually abused, she called school officials to say Chaz would not be returning to Brunswick.
Wallace, the principal, was out of town but alerted his boss, Superintendent Paul Perzanoski. The superintendent said in a deposition that he had not known bullies were targeting Chaz until Amy picked up the anti-bullying policy.
Instead of bringing in an experienced investigator, Perzanoski testified that he decided the junior high administrators could handle it. Wallace led the case with the help of Vice Principal Lisa Cushman — the same two people who were tasked with stopping Chaz’s bullying. Neither had investigated a sexual assault before or had Title IX training.
Cushman interviewed Chaz, with his mom and his guidance counselor present.
And Wallace spoke to the four boys Chaz had identified as playing a role in the attacks, in the presence of their parents and a Brunswick police officer assigned to the school, Mike Andreotti, who later testified the principal hadn’t kept him informed of Chaz’s bullying complaints.
Under Education Department guidelines, schools are to conduct their own investigations separate from police inquiries. But, in his deposition, Wallace said he directed the questioning of the four boys, even though it was Andreotti’s only meeting with the accused.
“It was very strong denials or it was confusion,” Wallace said of the boys’ responses. One, he said, “had no frame of reference for anal sex.”
Wallace testified he surveyed the scenes where Chaz said the attacks took place. He also talked to a coach, who said that based on the space, location and the five to eight minutes boys had before gym, it would be virtually impossible to carry out a rape.
Wallace told Perzanoski the sexual assaults were “unlikely,” but did not submit a written report. He never interviewed Chaz or talked to his parents about his findings. Instead, he emailed the Wings to say Chaz should return to school.
The school resource officer did interview Chaz, over 90 minutes at the police station. Unlike the interview with the accused boys, Chaz’s parents were told to wait outside. Andreotti testified that he wasn’t sure if they might be part of the problem — even though, Amy noted, they were the ones who had called police.
Andreotti told Chaz’s parents he would conduct follow-up interviews with the four boys, but he did not do so after deciding there wasn’t credible evidence of a sexual assault. Prosecutors agreed.
During his deposition, Andreotti was asked whether his viewpoint was changed by a child abuse evaluation he requested, which said Chaz’s statements “were clear, consistent and provided idiosyncratic and sensory details” and found “strong evidence” Chaz had been sexually assaulted.
“Absolutely,” Andreotti said, but he added that a physical examination had found no evidence of recent abuse or trauma. A lawyer for Chaz noted the examiner also said such an absence did not mean abuse didn’t occur.
“That’s correct. It’s leaving the option open that it could have occurred,” Andreotti replied.
The retired police officer declined AP’s requests for an interview. Brunswick police also declined to discuss Chaz’s case or provide a copy of its investigative report, saying juvenile cases were confidential under state law.
Andreotti had interviewed about 20 students and teachers and his investigation was “thorough,” said Commander Mark Waltz, a police spokesman.
“It was all presented to the DA’s office, and there were good reasons they made the decision that they did,” Waltz said, refusing to elaborate. The Cumberland County district attorney’s office declined comment.
To file suit, the Wings needed to convince the Human Rights Commission that Chaz was harassed over his perceived sexuality, that his learning environment turned hostile and that the school knew yet failed to take prompt, appropriate action.
The district said in filings to the commission that the school had taken Chaz’s complaints seriously and argued Chaz’s perception often “did not line up with the reality of the events,” such as the time he reported one of his main bullies hit him with a lacrosse stick. The boy “credibly stated that he tapped” Chaz to say hello, the district said.
Lawyers for the district also alleged Chaz quit coming to class in an attempt to bolster his complaint. In fact, he had been hospitalized in December 2012 — the first of four times — diagnosed with depression, suicidal thoughts and PTSD and told not to return to Brunswick.
In June 2014, the commission’s investigator found reasonable grounds to believe the district had discriminated against Chaz. She said the school district failed to see the “overall picture” of bullying and allowed “a hostile education environment to persist.” But she reached no conclusion on the reported rapes because, she said, the other harassment was sufficient for her finding. She also noted that the scar on Chaz’s arm and his ongoing treatment for depression “tend to support his allegations.”
While the school “had good policies in place … it did not do enough,” in part by handling each incident on a case-by-case basis.
One month later, the commission cleared the way for the Wings to sue, which Amy did in July 2015, alleging Title IX violations. The commission joined as a co-plaintiff, it said, “to ensure that Brunswick has in place effective measures to prevent a hostile education environment based on sex and sexual orientation.”
The district’s lawyers aggressively quizzed Chaz during his eight-hour deposition. “How long was the first one on top of you?” one lawyer asked. “You just did what he asked you to do?”
As the judge neared a decision on whether the case could proceed to trial, the two sides considered a settlement. Weeks of negotiation led to a deal in the fall of 2016: The lawsuit would end, Brunswick would fix some of the tracking flaws that Chaz’s case exposed, and Chaz would get $50,000.
There would not be an apology — one of the things that Chaz had wanted most.
Perzanoski declined AP’s repeated requests to meet with him, Wallace and others involved in Chaz’s case. He offered only a brief email comment, saying a major reason for the settlement was to allow everyone “to put the matter behind them and move forward.”
SEASON OF HOPE
Chaz and Amy mark progress by the seasons: Last year, for the first time since telling his mom he’d been raped, he didn’t spend part of the fall in a hospital.
“The fall is always a hard time for me every year,” Chaz said, “because that’s the time that the first assault happened. That’s the time when I was finally able to tell my mom about what had happened. It’s also the time that I left Brunswick Junior High School.”
Amy sold the home with the big backyard across the street from her folks where Chaz and his brother had lived all their lives and moved to a nearby town so the boys could attend a different school.
Chaz continued to miss class his first two years at his new technology and science high school, where he received specialized instruction because of his depression and PTSD. After changing medication, he missed fewer classes. He sees a counselor every other week.
He is one of the youngest owners of a booth at a local flea market, where he chats with weekend visitors about his stash of old rotary phones, TVs, and other vintage electronics. He also works part time at a radio station, reading the weather and selling ads, and thinks he might like a career in broadcasting.
In a few weeks, Chaz turns 18 and will graduate. He’d always sworn he’d never leave Maine. Recently, though, he’s been thinking about studying or working out of state. It’s a sign his horizons may be widening.
“I’m still not really sure what I’ll do,” Chaz said. “Life is an open road.”
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McDowell reported from Brunswick; Dunklin and Schmall from Dallas; Pritchard from Los Angeles.
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US Congress agrees funding deal in effort to avert shutdown
US congressional leaders have reached a deal on a federal spending bill which if passed by lawmakers this week will avert a government shutdown, a top lawmaker and congressional aides said late Sunday.
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Tornadoes and floods kill at least 13 in US
At least 13 people in the US have been killed by tornadoes or flooding in the South and Midwest by a storm that also dumped a rare late-season blizzard in western Kansas.
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Plague of moths blamed on warmer weather
The mild winter and early start to spring have meant moths are having a bumper time - and our clothing is suffering.
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Congress just reached a funding deal to keep the government open
No wall, no Planned Parenthood cuts — it’s a huge win for Democrats
Congress struck a deal Sunday night for a roughly $1 trillion spending bill to avert a government shutdown, a measure that appears to be largely a victory for Democrats and gives in to almost no conservative demands.
Congressional aides confirmed to Vox Sunday night that the House and Senate have come to an agreement on a larger omnibus spending bill which will funding the government through September. The bill doesn’t include any money for a wall on the US-Mexico border, nor does it cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood, but includes enough increases to military spending and border security for Republicans to claim small wins.
This deal comes after weeks of marathon bipartisan negotiations on Capitol Hill, with little input from the White House. A one-week temporary funding bill passed Friday averted a government shutdown over the weekend and bought more time to iron out lasting disputes between Democrats and Republicans. The new deadline is May 5, and it’s not yet clear when in the next week the House and Senate will vote on the bill.
The final agreement looks to be a huge win for Democrats, who have been using the threat of a filibuster in the Senate to push against President Donald Trump’s request to partially fund the border wall, increase defense spending, and gut environmental and science programs. According to a senior congressional aide, the agreed-upon spending bill:
- Increases defense spending by $12.5 billion — less than half of Trump’s $30 billion request. There is also the possibility of an additional $2.5 billion in defense, contingent on Trump presenting a plan to Congress to fight ISIS.
- Does not include money for the southern border wall or for an expanded deportation force, and leaves funding for sanctuary cities untouched. The deal will include $1.5 billion for border security for technology and to repair the existing infrastructure.
- Does not cut funding to Planned Parenthood
- Does not include Trump’s proposed $18 billion cuts to non-defense spending. Instead, it adds $4.6 billion in new non-defense spending to make miners health benefits permanent, gives Puerto Rico $295 million for Medicaid, adds $2 billion for disaster relief in California, West Virginia, Louisiana and North Carolina, and includes an additional $600 million for the opioid crisis and infrastructure.
- Increase spending for National Institute of Health by $2 billion to a total of $34 billion, despite Trump’s request to cut the budget;
- Cuts the EPA budget by only 1 percent, rather than the 31 percent Trump requested
- Increases clean energy and science funding by $17 million, increase the Department of Energy’s Office of Science funding by $42 million, and increase ARPA-E funding by $15 million
In other words, it doesn’t include many of Trump’s major campaign promises — including the border wall — or the budget cuts he proposed for the upcoming fiscal year. It’s a huge blow for the Republicans, who control the House, Senate and White House.
But Democrats had a lot of pull in the this spending fight and made it clear from the outset they would not allow any “poison pill” provisions — like the border wall and defunding Planned Parenthood. They appear to have gotten their way.
How Democrats got their way
Republicans, despite controlling both houses of Congress and the White House, had a problem when it came to funding the government: They needed Democrats to sign on.
Unlike Trump’s cabinet nominations, which only a need a simple majority of 51 votes in the Senate to pass, a spending bill needs 60 votes — meaning Republicans in the Senate need their entire party and at least eight Democrats to sign on to the omnibus.
If Republicans didn’t need Democrats to pass a bill, they could have hiked defense spending, appropriated money to start Trump’s border wall, and maybe even defunded Planned Parenthood (although Speaker Paul Ryan has said that belongs in the health care debate).
But from the beginning, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi warned Republicans that any attempt to fund the border wall, roll back environmental and consumers protections, or pull funding from Planned Parenthood would meet with unified Democratic opposition.
It appears as though Democrats got their way — and conservatives got almost nothing they wanted.
Because Republicans needed Democratic votes to fund the government, the result was a spending package that was a tough sell for conservatives. The more Republicans lost votes on the right flank, though, the more Democrats they needed to avoid a shutdown — so the spending bill kept moving ever-further left. As the chair of the Democratic Caucus, Rep. Joseph Crowley, (D-NY) said last week, the negotiations have made it apparent that Republicans would need Democratic help to pass the bill in the House as well.
The White House took its fight from Capitol Hill to Twitter.
For a moment it looked like the White House was going play the tough guy.
When members of Congress returned to their districts in early April, the administration took a harder line on the shutdown deadline, saying funding for the wall is a “must.” Trump tweeted that Obamacare is in “serious trouble.” The president was seemingly hinting at a deal that Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney suggested: for every dollar Republicans put toward Obamacare subsidies, Democrats could agree to a dollar for the border wall.
Then, a Democratic aide said Mulvaney told Pelosi that the White House could stop funding Obamacare’s subsidies as soon as next month, further escalating tensions over the omnibus bill. At the time, Democrats wanted to include funding for the subsidies in the funding bill, which Speaker Ryan said he would not stand for.
But the White House rolled back its threat on Obamacare subsidies last week, which put Pelosi at ease. Trump, himself seemed to soften the urgency of building the border wall, saying it could wait until September.
The White House’s brief attempt to strong-arm negotiations on Capitol Hill fizzled. Instead, Trump took his “fight” to Twitter, angrily tweeting at Democrats over blocking border wall funding and pushing for Medicaid payments for Puerto Rico.
Neither proved to be big enough sticking points to stop a deal.
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Congress agrees $1 trillion budget deal – but no money for border wall
Negotiators reach agreement on spending package to keep the US federal government funded until September, according to aides
Negotiators have reached a bipartisan agreement on a spending package to keep the US federal government funded until the end of September, according to congressional aides.
The House of Representatives and Senate must approve the deal before the end of Friday and send it to President Donald Trump for his signature to avoid the first government shutdown since 2013.
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Lawmakers seal deal on $1T plan government-wide funding bill
By ANDREW TAYLOR
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Capitol Hill negotiators reached a hard-won agreement on a huge $1 trillion-plus spending bill that would fund the day-to-day operations of virtually every federal agency through September, aides said Sunday night.
Details of the agreement were expected to be made public Sunday night, said aides to lawmakers involved in weeks of negotiations. The House and Senate had until midnight Friday to pass a measure to avert a government shutdown.
The catchall spending bill would be the first major piece of bipartisan legislation to advance during President Donald Trump’s short tenure in the White House. It denies Trump a win on his oft-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but gives him a $15 billion down payment on his request to strengthen the military.
It also rejects White House budget director Mick Mulvaney’s proposals to cut popular programs such as funding medical research and community development grants and adds $1.5 billion for border security measures such as additional detention beds.
Most of the core decisions about agency budgets had been worked out, but unrelated policy issues — such as a Democratic request to help the cash-strapped government of Puerto Rico with its Medicaid burden — were among the final holdups.
The aides required anonymity because they were not allowed to speak about the agreement by name.
Democrats have denied Trump a big-picture win on obtaining an initial down payment for his oft-promised border wall with Mexico, while anti-abortion lawmakers didn’t even attempt to use the must-pass measure to try to cut off federal money for Planned Parenthood.
Details were being closely held ahead of an agreement, but Trump and Capitol Hill defense hawks procured a $15 billion infusion of cash for Pentagon readiness and won funding for other border security accounts, such as detention beds for people entering the country illegally.
Democrats praised a $2 billion funding increase for the National Institutes of Health — rejecting the steep cuts proposed by Trump — as well as additional funding to combat opioid abuse, fund Pell Grants for summer school and additional transit funding. A provision extending health care for 22,000 retired Appalachian coal miners and their families was on track to provide permanent health benefits, a priority of Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other Appalachia region lawmakers.
Democratic votes will be needed to pass the measure, so even though Republicans control both the White House and Congress, Democrats have been actively involved in the talks, which appear headed to produce a lowest-common-denominator measure that won’t look too much different than the deal that could have been struck on President Barack Obama’s watch last year.
Republicans had pressed for policy wins with so-called riders related to other abortion-related issues and blocking environmental regulations such as Obama’s sweeping expansion of the Clean Water Act. They also hoped to chuck new financial rules. But Democrats pushed back and were hopeful that the measure would not contain many items they deemed “poison pills.”
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Blair is back: 'I want to be part of the debate'
Tony Blair has indicated a return to a more active role in politics, saying he wants to be "part of the debate" while expressing concern that the centre-ground is being "squeezed out" by the left and right.
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First picture of man killed by Dorset intruders
A man shot dead by intruders at a house in Dorset has been named as 61-year-old Guy Hedger.
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Sebastian Gorka to leave White House amid accusations of links to far-right
Briton, who previously worked for Fox News and Breitbart, had been hired to sit on an advisory panel created by Steve Bannon
Sebastian Gorka, an adviser to Donald Trump who has been under pressure over his links to Hungarian far-right groups, is leaving the White House.
A senior official said Gorka, a former counterterrorism analyst for Fox News who joined the administration as an adviser, will be leaving the White House in the coming days.
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Congress reaches deal to fund the government through September, alleviating fears of a shutdown later this week
Congressional negotiators have reached an agreement on a spending package to fund the government through the end of September, said several congressional aides. Congress is expected to vote early this week on the package. The bipartisan agreement is expected to include increases for military spending and border security, a major priority for GOP leaders in […]
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The past, present, and future of design in Silicon Valley
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Trump Leaves Open Possibility of Military Action Against North Korea
President Donald Trump left open the possibility of military action against North Korea in an interview aired Sunday, adding that he “will not be happy” if Pyongyang conducts another missile test.
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In Utah, the Warriors get a playoff crash course
Ten years ago, it was the Utah Jazz that ended the run of the Warriors’ squad known as “We Believe.” The Jazz was the tried-and-true traditional basketball team that would put the fun-and-gun Warriors in their place. Utah had size, focused on rebounding and defense, had interior scoring.
A decade is a long time. And the proof in how drastically things have evolved since then are evident in this second-round Western Conference series that begins Tuesday at Oracle.
The Warriors and Jazz will meet again in the playoffs for the first time since 2007, when Baron Davis’ epic dunk over Andrei Kirilenko overshadowed the fact the Warriors were proven to be gimmicky. And the circumstances are drastically different.
The Warriors’ gimmicky style now rules the NBA. They are the NBA’s flashy, high-scoring show that thrives on the perimeter. The up-and-coming Jazz are the plodding, methodical, front-court centered squad few are giving a shot to take down the championship favorite.
In Utah, the Warriors get an opponent whose contrary style figures to impose the biggest threat to the Warriors. And even if the Jazz are too overmatched to truly challenge the Warriors, tackling this style is good prep work. If they are headed for a crash-course with San Antonio — which is like the version of the Jazz that has DirecTV — this series is a fitting precursor.
“They are methodical in how they execute every possession on both ends of the floor,” Warriors point guard Stephen Curry said of the Jazz. “So they’re never in a rush. They never have to hurry to do anything really. … They usually run the clock down looking for the best shot, making the defense work every possession. And then God forbid you give up an offensive rebound and you’ve got to do it all over again. That’s where they kind of beat you down mentally with their pace.”
It would’ve been more captivating to take on the Clippers. Probably not more competitive, but definitely more entertaining. But an ugly grind series is what the Warriors’ need. After getting little resistance from the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round, the Warriors, with Kevin Durant in tow, could use a punch in the mouth.
The Clippers wouldn’t have been able to offer that, though they’d like to think they are a worthy adversary. The Warriors own that matchup for reasons that have not changed.
But Utah, it has been a bit of a thorn for the Warriors. An irritant that requires the Warriors to bring their A game. A yawn of a foe that challenges their attention to detail and energy levels.
There is no hype in this matchup that is going to drive the national storylines and give the Warriors an extra layer of motivation. There is no doubt to drive them, no history in this matchup that should make them feel threatened. There is no beef with the Jazz to anger the Warriors into being locked in.
OK. Maybe there is some beef. At least something that can be manufactured into beef like a fast-food burger. Jazz center Rudy Gobert, the 7-foot-1 Defensive Player of the Year candidate, has never been shy with his Twitter presence.
Back in July, after news that Kevin Durant chose the Warriors’ broke, Gobert tweeted out “Wow. Only problem, there’s only 1 ball …”
In December 2015, after a hard-fought win in Utah by the Warriors, a Jazz reporter accused the Warriors of being disrespectful in the locker room after the game. The reporter tweeted out that Curry and Draymond Green mockingly laughed at a comment they saw on TV about the Jazz playing like champions. Both Curry and Green denied the report, but Gobert chimed in on Twitter, proclaiming greatness in Utah’s future and included a shot at the Warriors’ through a hashtag: #laughwhileyoucan.
So maybe there is enough there to spark something in Green, Curry and the Warriors. They might need to fabricate some edge because this series is going to be a grind, a test of the Warriors’ mental toughness.
This series will be in part about about imposing their will on the Jazz, getting Utah to fall for the gimmick. It will also be about proving they can thrive in the traditional sense, that they can execute in the halfcourt and contend with legitimate size. Both will be pivotal in a potential future series against the Spurs, and the expected NBA Finals rematch with Cleveland.
The Warriors won the 2014-15 championship by going through the grit and grind of Memphis. It prepared them for what they were to face against Cleveland and they pulled through.
Last season, they faced Houston, Portland and Oklahoma City before losing to Cleveland. Those were all teams that played similar styles. They were indeed tested by Oklahoma City. But at their own game.
So maybe it is good for them to get a foe with a traditional bent. If for nothing else, they can exact revenge for We Believe
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The best guide to mechanical keyboard switches
Like me, you may have taken an interest in mechanical keyboards only to uncover a world of baffling options. "Can I have a clicky one, please" is like asking for a drink in a pub: they'll stare at you for a moment then say "which one, mate?" Brandon West reminded me that Input.Club is the best guide to all the options available, so when someone asks you if you want your Cherry Yellow or a nice Lubed Zealio, you'll know to slap them hard across the chops and say, "How dare you. 55g Topre Realforce Linears or nothing."
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Is Biden preparing for a 2020 bid?
Joe Biden's return to this early primary state of New Hampshire has Democrats buzzing: Does he have one more race left in him?
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PSG's title hopes hang by thread after loss to Nice
Mario Balotelli hit his 14th league goal of the season and Ricardo Pereira scored a cracker as Nice blew a big hole in Paris Saint Germain's title defence with a 3-1 win on Sunday.
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Biopic of "little old lady" folk artist a hit in theaters
Canadian artist Maud Lewis lived in a tiny house covered in her paintings, which she sold door to door in Nova Scotia. A biopic of her life, Maudie, is a surprise hit in theaters, reports the BBC.
The film's success has also been spurred by a rather serendipitous find: an unknown Maud Lewis painting found in a thrift shop is being auctioned off for charity, with bids topping C$125,000 ($91,500, £70,685). The work was authenticated by Mr Deacon, a retired school teacher who is now somewhat of a Maud Lewis sleuth. ...
Typically characterised as a "folk artist", Lewis was self-taught and lived her whole life in poverty. Unable to afford things like canvas, she'd paint on anything from scraps of wood and plywood to thick card stock. Her subjects were the things she saw in her everyday life - fishermen, wildlife, flowers and trees. "Maud was not a person who travelled to other galleries or saw other art, so there's a kind of naivete to it," Noble told the BBC.
Here's the trailer:
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Path of the Rabbit, a free game where you lead a rabbit to water
The trick is to arrange tiles to allow multiple leaps and to avoid the edge, from which the rabbit can't come back from, while keeping it regularly watered and occasionally beating up foxes to level up. It's surprisingly tough going, but I kept going back!
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With AI investments, Taser could use its body camera division for predictive policing
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