Tuesday, 12 February 2013

GOP congressman invites Ted Nugent to Obama speech

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WASHINGTON (AP) - A Republican congressman says he's invited rocker Ted Nugent, who has referred to President Barack Obama's administration as "evil, America-hating," to the State of the Union address.

Rep. Steve Stockman of Texas said Monday on his website that Nugent will be his guest for the president's speech Tuesday night. Stockman has talked of impeaching Obama over his gun control proposals.

In a speech to the National Rifle Association during the 2012 campaign, Nugent said that if Obama were re-elected, the longtime gun-control opponent would either be "dead or in jail."

Nugent's remarks led to meetings with representatives of the Secret Service.

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Sunday, 10 February 2013

Good Cops, Bad Cops. Mostly Bad Cops.

Attorney Mark Overland (L) and former Los Angeles police detective Stephanie Lazarus (R) sit in Superior Court.

Attorney Mark Overland and former Los Angeles police detective Stephanie Lazarus (R) sit in Superior Court just before reading of verdict which found Lazarus guilty of first degree murder for the 1986 killing of the wife of her former lover.

Photo by Brian van der Brug/AFP/Getty Images.

Every weekend, Longform shares a collection of great stories from its archive with Slate. For daily picks of new and classic nonfiction, check out Longform or follow @longform on Twitter. Have an iPad? Download Longform?s app to read the latest picks, plus features from 70 of the world?s best magazines, including Slate.

This list could?ve been much, much longer ? our archive of law enforcement stories is over 70 articles deep, and many focus on officers behaving in less than savory ways. Here are eight of the best:

The Lazarus File
Matthew McGough ? Atlantic ? June 2011

A murder case in Los Angeles, cold since the late ?80s, heats up thanks to breakthroughs in forensic science and leads detectives to one of their own.

?DETECTIVE STEARNS: Had you ever met his wife?

?STEPHANIE LAZARUS: I may have.

?DETECTIVE STEARNS: Do you know?do you remember her name or anything or?or what she did for a living or where she worked or anything about her?

?STEPHANIE LAZARUS: Well, I think she?I?m going to say I think she was a nurse ? I don?t understand why you?re talking about some guy I dated a million years ago.

?DETECTIVE JARAMILLO: Yeah.

?DETECTIVE STEARNS: Well, do you know what happened to his wife?

?STEPHANIE LAZARUS: Yeah, I know she got killed.?

The Crack in the Shield
Michael Daly ? New York ? December 1986

The rise and fall of the Seven-Seven?stationed in the war zone of 1980?s Crown Heights, Brooklyn?and how an idealistic young recruit became part of cash-snatching, drug-reselling, renegade clique of cops.

?'You put somebody in jail and the next day he?s out waving to you,? Brian later said. ?So what did you accomplish??

?Other officers experienced similar frustrations and sometimes administered summary punishment to dope dealers by flushing the drugs down a toilet, tossing the money to neighborhood kids, or otherwise ?busting chops.? These cops included police officer Henry ?Hank? Winter, a fellow Valley Stream Central High School alumnus who lived across the street from Brian?s uncle and who was known to have once left a pusher naked on Jones Beach in December. He now became something of a precinct legend by burning a dope dealer?s bankroll on a table in the roll-call room.

" ?Henry Winter has personality,? Brian later said.

?At some point, Winter began slipping confiscated cash into his pocket. He kicked in doors and rappelled through windows to rob pushers of their ?nut.? He then went back to the stationhouse joking and laughing. Brian had an adjoining locker and sometimes saw Winter count a wad of cash.

? ?He?d say, ?Not a bad night,? ? Brian later said.?

L.A. Confidential
Jan Golab ? Salon ? September 2000

Rogue cops in the LAPD Rampart division?s anti-gang CRASH unit (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) were involved in everything from drug smuggling and bank robberies to, allegedly, the murder of Notorious BIG.

?The Rampart Division polices one of the most densely populated urban areas in the West, home to tens of thousands of Hispanic immigrants and at least 30 gangs. Officer Rafael Perez?s confession to the D.A., which ran more than 3,200 pages, alleged that Rampart gang unit CRASH officers were as out of control as the gangs they policed.

?According to Perez, he and his colleagues engaged in evidence planting, false arrests, witness intimidation, beatings, theft, drug dealing and perjury. Rampart cops dropped gang members out of windows and used them as human battering rams. They set up bachelor pad apartments where they had sex parties with hookers, drug dealers and informants. Perhaps the most chilling admission by Perez was that he and his partner shot an unarmed gang member, paralyzing him for life, and then framed him for assault.?

Murder in the Meth Lab
Sean Flynn ? GQ ? August 2008

A cop kills a fellow officer during a drug bust and claims it was an accident. Others suspect that it wasn?t.

?Marty says he was scared real bad when it happened, and he says that?s why it happened, too, on account of him being scared so bad. He says he was afraid he was going to die, afraid a man with a shotgun was coming into that little bathroom to blow a hole right through him, splatter him all over the walls.

?Scared crapless. That?s exactly what Marty Carson says he was.?

Deluge
Dan Baum ? The New Yorker ? January 2006

How the New Orleans Police Department failed during Hurricane Katrina.

?All over New Orleans, officers like Tim Bruneau were trying to do their best. One swam from his flooded house with his Rottweiler. A heavyset female officer who could not swim huddled on her daughter?s desk all night, floated out on a door, and reported for duty. Kristi Foret, a tiny twenty-five-year-old single mother who joined the department in August after serving with the Army in Afghanistan, spent two days trapped on her roof in the sun. After a neighbor with a boat rescued her, she stayed with him for another three days, sleeping in the boat and pulling people off roofs and out of attics. ?It?s called an oath,? she told me. ?Whenever you give your word, you do exactly what you say you?re going to do.?

?As an institution, though, the New Orleans Police Department disintegrated with the first drop of floodwater. The current chief, Warren J. Riley, likes to say that no department anywhere has ever faced ?an enemy like Katrina.? The flood deprived the department of ammunition, communications, and cars. But the loss of equipment doesn?t fully explain a collapse that shocked even the department?s oldest veterans.?

The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct
Graham Rayman ??Village Voice ? May 2010

In 2008, a Brooklyn cop grew gravely concerned about how the public was being served. So he began carrying a digital sound recorder, secretly recording his colleagues and superiors.

?The same themes?of shit rolling downhill, and that constant pressure to do more with less?appear again and again throughout the tapes dating back to June 1, 2008.

?Bosses spend more time in the roll calls haranguing the officers for ?activity??or ?paying the rent,? as it was known?than anything else. In other words, writing summonses, doing stop-and-frisks (known as ?250s?), doing community visits, and making arrests. Or else.

?Officers were under constant pressure to keep those numbers high to prove that they were doing their jobs, even when there was little justification for it. Like a drumbeat, this mandate was hammered home again and again in almost every roll call.

? ?Again, it's all about the numbers,? a Sergeant D. tells his officers on October 18, 2009.?

The Chickens and the Bulls
William McGowan ? Slate ? July 2012????????????

It can?t be all bad! Here?s the story of a group that posed as cops and built ?most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation?s history? before the law enforcement took them down.

?Impersonating corrupt vice-squad detectives, members of this ring, known in police parlance as bulls, had used young, often underage men known as chickens to successfully blackmail closeted pillars of the establishment, among them a navy admiral, two generals, a U.S. congressman, a prominent surgeon, an Ivy League professor, a prep school headmaster, and several well-known actors, singers, and television personalities. The ring had operated for almost a decade, had victimized thousands, and had taken in at least $2 million. When he announced in 1966 that the ring had been broken up, Manhattan DA Frank Hogan said the victims had all been shaken down ?on the threat that their homosexual proclivities would be exposed unless they paid for silence.?

?Though now almost forgotten, the case of ?the Chickens and the Bulls? as the NYPD called it (or ?Operation Homex,? to the FBI), still stands as the most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation?s history. And while the Stonewall riot in June 1969 is considered by many to be the pivotal moment in gay civil rights, this case represents an important crux too, marking the first time that the law enforcement establishment actually worked on behalf of victimized gay men, instead of locking them up or shrugging.?

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Deal of the Day ? 17.3? Dell Inspiron 17R 3rd Gen Core i5 laptop with Windows 8 and 1TB HDD

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Blizzard kills one, leaves thousands without power

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A blizzard pummeled the Northeastern United States, killing at least one person, leaving hundreds of thousands without power and disrupting thousands of flights, media and officials said.

Forecasters warned of more heavy winds and snowfalls on Saturday, particularly near Boston, where up to 30 inches was expected in some areas, as well as in New York, Connecticut and Maine.

In the first death blamed on the blizzard, one man in his seventies was killed when a driver lost control of her car and hit him in Poughkeepsie, New York, media reported.

The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts lost power and automatically shut down during the storm late on Friday, but there was no threat to the public, said the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Winds reached 35 to 40 miles per hour (56 to 64 km per hour) by Friday afternoon and forecasters expected gusts up to 60 mph overnight.

The storm prompted the governors of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and Maine to declare states of emergency.

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick took the rare step of announcing a ban on most car travel starting Friday afternoon, while Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy closed the state's highways to all but emergency vehicles.

By Friday night some commuter trains that run between New York City and Westchester County, Long Island and Connecticut had already been suspended. Amtrak suspended railroad service between New York, Boston and points north on Friday afternoon.

In many cases, authorities ordered non-essential government workers to stay home, urged private employers to do the same, told people to prepare for power outages and encouraged them to check on elderly or disabled neighbors.

"People need to take this storm seriously," said Malloy, Connecticut's governor. "Please stay home once the weather gets bad except in the case of real emergency."

More than 160,000 lost power in Massachusetts, almost 200,000 in Rhode Island and 34,000 in Connecticut, according to local utilities.

The storm wasn't bad news for everyone.

In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg suggested people relax at home - cook or watch a movie. Bloomberg said he planned on catching up on his sleep.

As she stocked up at a Brooklyn grocery store, 28-year-old Jackie Chevallier said that after two years without much snow, she was looking forward to waking up to a sea of white.

"I'd like to go sledding," she said.

The storm also posed a risk of flooding at high tide to areas still recovering from Superstorm Sandy last October.

"Many of the same communities that were inundated by Hurricane Sandy's tidal surge just about 100 days ago are likely to see some moderate coastal flooding this evening," said Bloomberg.

(Additional reporting by Scott Malone in Boston; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Andrew Heavens)

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Saturday, 9 February 2013

U.N. sees glimmer of hope in Syria opposition offer of talks

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations sees a glimmer of hope for Syria in the opposition leader's offer to meet government representatives to discuss a political transition in an effort to end nearly two years of fighting, a senior U.N. official said on Friday.

U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman said last week's offer by Moaz Alkhatib, the head of the Syrian National Coalition, was "the most promising thing we've heard on Syria recently."

The United Nations said more than 60,000 people have been killed during a 22-month-old revolt against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which began with peaceful protests but turned violent after Assad's forces tried to crush the demonstrations.

"I would argue that given the horrors the Syrian people have endured ... that any opportunity we have to try to pursue a political path rather than a military path is worth trying," Feltman told reporters of Alkhatib's offer.

"Perhaps there is now a slight opening, perhaps that locked door to negotiations is starting to be unlocked," he said. "Moaz Alkhatib does represent a significant and important part of the opposition ... . This is an opportunity worth pursuing."

Alkhatib said he would be willing to meet Syrian officials if they freed political prisoners arrested during the uprising.

Feltman said international Syria mediator Lakhdar Brahimi was exploring how to use Alkhatib's offer to further the stalled bid to broker peace in Syria.

The 15-member U.N. Security Council has been deadlocked since 2011 over Russia and China's refusal to consider sanctions against Assad's government. They have vetoed three resolutions condemning Assad's attempts to crush the revolt.

Brahimi told the council last week that the outline of a political transition in Syria, agreed to at talks among major world and regional powers in Geneva in June last year, could form the basis for a council plan of action.

But diplomats said Russia now believes this initiative by Brahimi had been overtaken by the opposition offer of talks, and that Moscow was focused on helping the two sides cut through any conditions placed on getting them to the negotiating table.

Diplomats said Russia described Alkhatib's offer as an important development generating "positive momentum" and that the Syrian opposition leader, who met with the foreign ministers of Russia and Iran last week in Germany, could visit Moscow.

Russia and Iran have been the staunchest allies of Assad throughout the conflict, and any understanding they might reach with his foes could help get talks started.

(Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Xavier Briand)

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By their powers combined

Friday, February 8, 2013

Although scientists have been aware that magnetism and electricity are two sides of the same proverbial coin for almost 150 years, researchers are still trying to find new ways to use a material's electric behavior to influence its magnetic behavior, or vice versa.

Thanks to new research by an international team of researchers led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, physicists have developed new methods for controlling magnetic order in a particular class of materials known as "magnetoelectrics."

Magnetoelectrics get their name from the fact that their magnetic and electric properties are coupled to each other. Because this physical link potentially allows control of their magnetic behavior with an electrical signal or vice versa, scientists have taken a special interest in magnetoelectric materials.

"Electricity and magnetism are intrinsically coupled ? they're the same entity," said Philip Ryan, a physicist at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source. "Our research is designed to accentuate the coupling between the electric and magnetic parameters by subtly altering the structure of the material."

The Argonne-led team focused on the compound EuTiO3 (europium-titanium oxide), which has a simple atomic structure that suited it especially well to the experiment. The titanium atom sits in the middle of a cage constructed of the europium and oxygen atoms. By first compressing the cage through growing a thin film of EuTiO3 on a similar crystal with a smaller lattice and then applying a voltage, the titanium shifts slightly, electrically polarizing the system, and more importantly, changing the magnetic order of the material.

"The europium and the titanium combine to control the two properties," Ryan said. "The position of the titanium influences the electric behavior, while the europium generates the magnetic nature. There's a shared responsibility for the system's coupling behavior."

This new approach to cross-coupling magnetoelectricity could prove a key step toward the development of next-generation memory storage, improved magnetic field sensors, and many other applications long dreamed about. Unfortunately, scientists still have a ways to go to translating these findings into commercial devices.

Potential magnetic and electric memories each have a distinct appeal to researchers. Electric memories ? like the kind used into today's electronics ? allow computers to write data fast and very efficiently. Magnetic memories are less energy efficient, but are extraordinarily robust.

"The more we learn about magnetoelectrics, the more we open up this space that gives us the best of both worlds," Ryan said.

Because the electric and magnetic parameters in these particular materials are so strongly linked, engineers might also be able to use them in the future to create non-binary memories.

"Instead of having just a '0' or a '1,' you could have a broader range of different values," Ryan said. "A lot of people are looking into what that kind of logic would look like."

A paper based on the research, "Reversible control of magnetic interactions by electric field in a single-phase material," was published in Nature Communications.

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