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Friday, October 31, 2008

Obama's Church: It's Hidden Ties to Black Extremism and Communism Part 2

For part one go here

By Max Friedman

Since Obama officially joined the UCC about 1988 (though his first contact with Wright was in 1985), we have to look at what the Reverend and his church have been doing ever since. While some of the Church's newsletters are not available on their website, other information about their activities do appear in the websites of black reparationists and in a black Marxist publication.

As was mentioned in Kincaid's piece, in 1998, Rev. Wright was a panelist during a conference held by the avowedly marxist, anti-imperialist "Black Radical Congress." In fact, this information was listed in "The Black Scholar" magazine (Journal of Black Studies and Research), Vol. 28, No. 3/4, Fall/Winter 1998 and was found in the section " Black Radical Congress: Summary of Workshop Sessions June 19-21, 1998, University of Illinois at Chicago".

Others on this panel entitled "Faith as a Weapon: Spirituality and the Role of the Church in the Radical Movement" were also from the far-left and included well known leftist (Prof.) Michael Eric Dyson, marxist Prof. Cornel West, and CPUSA supporter Kevin Tyson (coordinator).

Obama supporters and DSA members Cornel West and Michael Eric Dyson

In fact, many of the participants were actual co-founders of the BRC included Alkalimat, Bill Fletcher Jr (DSA), Manning Marable (DSA/COC), Cornel West (DSA), and Ahmed Obafemi (chairman, National Committe to Defend the New Afrikan Freedom Fighters - see next paragraph). Groups that helped to found the BRC included the New Afrikan People's Organization (NAPO), Black Workers for Justice, The Labor Party, the Communist Party USA, its split-off faction the Committees of Correspondence (COC), the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, African American Agenda 2000, and the Chicago Ida B. Wells Forum. The only way to describe these groups would be marxist, communist, and/or black extremist. The NAACP and the Urban League were no where to be found, and wisely so. [See: "Obama File 34 Black Radicals for Obama", 10/04/08, by the incredible research/writer Trevor Loudon of New Zealand].

[The Nov. 16, 1984 issue of "Information Digest" featured two major articles on the New Afrikan Freedom Fighters (NAFF) and the "New Afrikan People's Organization (NAPO). The NAFF was described as the "military arm of the Republic of New Afrika", while the NAPO was described as a group supporting the RNA, BLA, the Weather Underground and its front, the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC). "NAPO's national secretary is one Akinyele Ujoma". Ujoma was listed as a signer of "A Call to Act to Prevent World War III: April 29 (1985)" created by the marxist united front known as "No Business As Usual" (NBAU) among other causes.

ID reproduced the NAPO's "statement of principles" which included the
following: "NAPO is fully committed to the building of a sovereign socialist Black nation - the Republic of New Afrika. NAPO, along with other forces in the New Afrikan Independence Movement, sees what is presently known as Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina ... s the national territory of the Black nation (New Afrika), and sees to build a national liberation movement to free the land by any means necessary."

The FBI has also characterized the RNA as a violent, terrorist group, especially for its involvement in the deadly October 1981 Brinks robbery and killings in Nyack, NY. A detailed report on the RNA was featured in the March 18, 1983 issue of "Information Digest, which listed its key members, fronts, and relationships to other marxist and/or black extremist organizations The first "president" of the RNA was Maoist criminal Robert F. Williams, formerly of RAM ].

Many of the BRC's "Sessions" moderators and panelists were from the Communist Party (CPUSA), which constituted the largest organized group at this affair, while other participants had been active members of such diverse older marxist fronts and radical groups such as "The Guardian" newspaper, American Committee on Africa, National Lawyers Guild, Democratic Socialists of America, and Institute for Policy Studies.

Many people held multiple memberships in these and other groups interrelated groups and projects including the Reparations Coordinating Committee including Johnnetta Cole, Cornel West, Ronald Walters, and Randall Robinson, the leader of the marxist terrorist support group known as "Transafrica" whose successor leader Bill Fletcher Jr., was a co-founder of Progressives for Obama with Tom Hayden (SDS, Mr. Hanoi), castroite Danny Glover, and marxist Barbara Ehrenreich who poses as a "socialist."

The sponsoring Black Radical Congress/"The Black Scholar" magazine had a list of "Contributng and Advisory Editors" who came from such marxist, far-left groups or black enthnocentric movements as the CPUSA and its split off, the Committee of Correspondence (for Democracy & Socialism), Venceremos Brigade (a CPUSA/SDS founded Cuban support group), US, Republic of New Afrika (a Maoist-oriented black extremist group with a history of armed violence), and some of the early leaders of the "Black Power" movement.

The BRC has served as a nexus of many black marxist and black racist/ethnocentric organizations as will be seen below, as have a few other reparations groups. This interlocking web of extremists must be viewed in its entirety in order to understand how it provides a nationwide structure in which individuals and groups can move, recruit, raise money, lobby legislative organizations, and propagandize, often right under the nose of unsuspecting moderates, including many churches.

For example, at the Trinity Church, Rev. Wright and his cronies were also members of and/or attending conferences held by the black racist/separatist group known as N'COBRA, National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, as mentioned in the Kincaid columns. This group started out as a small group of black extremists in Philadelphia and has spread across the country, though its actual membership appears to be a lot smaller than they will admit to.

They publish a newsletter entitled "Black Reparation Times" which started in 2003. We will get back to the "BRT" in a few paragraphs.

An initial search of the N'COBRA website and some of its links, brought up a copy of "ENCOBRA" Special Fundraising Edition, Vol. XII, No. 1, Summer, 2003, with a cover story entitled "National Five Year Strategic Plan, Building N'COBRA and the Reparations Movement, 2003-2008". It concerned their National Board Meeting and Retreat in Princeville, No. Carolina.

Of interest was the following description of American society by Dorothy Benton Lewis, National Co-Chair, as mentioned in her yearly review and mission statement.

"The work we do in the reparations movement will transform the toxic society in which we live. We most also transform the toxic effects this society has on us."

Her hate-America venom flowed freely but Lewis' history is an interesting one, that must be brought out because of her ties to Rev. Wright and his church.

Among the groups that she credited with being predecessors of N'COBRA were the "Self-Determination Committee, Black Reparations Commission, Africa People's Socialist Party, African National Reparations Organization and the Republic of New Afrika, to new a few."

Well, the APSP pretty much describes itself as "socialist" or marxist, while the Republic of New Afrika has been a terrorist organization responsible for the killing and wounding of several police officers as well as having some of its members involved in terrorist acts across the country. They follow the old Communist Party plan of establishing an independent black nation consisting of about five states in the Black Belt of the southern U.S. (See: "The American Negro in the Communist Party", report, Dec. 22 1954, House Committee on Un-American Activities, for a short summary of the CP's plans for the south).

The African National Reparations Organization (ANRO) is very interesting because so little is known about it by the public outside of the black extremist movements. According to the authoritative publication "Information Digest" of Aug. 17, 1984, this group "was established in November 1982 by the African People's Socialist Party (APSP), an Oakland-based Marxist group that occupies a niche (and a headquarters) previously filled by the Black Panther Party (BPP). The ANRO chairman is Dorothy Lewis, formerly a leader of the National Black Independent Political Party (NBIPP). APSP chairman Joseph Waller, aka Omal Yeshitela, founded APSP in St. Petersburg, Fla. in the early 1970's."

[Note: the NBIPP was an attempt to unite many black leftist and ethnocentrist groups under one political umbrella, and it lasted for only a couple of years at the most. Leftist Ron Daniels was one of its leaders, in between his many stints with other marxist groups such as the CPUSA-National Lawyers Guild-created Center for Constitutional Rights].

Chokwe Lumumba

This brief report also mentioned that Waller, Ben Chavis (UCC, NAACP leader, CPUSA front leader, and now Black Moslem), and others set up an International Prisoners' Solidarity Committee (IPSC) and an International African Prisoners of War Solidarity Day rally (March 30-31, 1973) "in Jackson, Miss. in support of the Republic of New Afrika(RNA)" which was "initiated by leaders of the RNA" in "support of both
Eldridge Cleaver, then living in Algiers and 11 RNA members arrested after an August 1972 shootout with police and FBI agents during which one officer was killed." "Cleaver's BPP faction had given rise to the terrorist Black Liberation Army (BLA) during the 1971-72 period. Among the principal RNA organizers of the protest were Chokwe Lumumba (BRC Sessions), Leroy Boston, and Cynthia Boston (aka Fulani) - all prominent in the investigations and prosecutions following the October 1981 Brinks armed robbery and murders of two Nyack police officers and one Brinks guard), in Nyack, NY."

[Chokwe Lumumba was listed as the RNA Minister of Justice in the 3/18/83 issue of "Information Digest"].

Joseph Waller, aka Omal Yeshitela

A much longer piece on Waller was found in the "Information Digest" of March 9, 1984 in the section " "Burning Spear: African Peoples Socialist Party." It gave more information about his past ties to violence-advocacy groups, crime, domestic terrorist support groups and even foreign terrorist groups in Ireland (IRSP), Palestine (PFLP), South Africa (PAC), El Salvador (FMLN), and Nicaragua (FSLN). Domestic marxist and terrorist support groups included the mixed marxist Mass Party Organizing Committee, led by marxist attorney Arthur Kinoy (CPUSA fronts, NLG, CCR), which later became the National Coalition for Independent Political Action (NCIPA) and the Weather Underground Organization's Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC).

Waller/APSP also set up a "white" members support group known originally as the African People's Solidarity Committee (APSC) which later became the Committee in Solidarity with African Independence (CSAI), a telephone booth-sized organization. The CSAI set up a front group for themselves called the African National Reparations Organization Support Committee (ANRO-SC).

This information on the ANRO/APSP and its ties to both the RNA and BLA are important because they also tie these marxist extremist groups into the white Weather Underground Organization of Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn. The old WUO morphed into the May 19th Communist Organization, led in part by Kathy Boudin, whose son Chesa has been raised by the Ayers while his mother serves a long sentence in jail for her part in the Nyack killings (his father is serving life for this crime).

The Nyack robbery was one of several done by a joint group of M19C and BLA/exRNA members in New York and possibly other states. While this has some distant connection to Sen. Obama thru the Ayers (whom he did not know at that time), it also connects him to the Rev. Wright and his church who had direct ties to some of these people in the reparations movements, especially Lewis, Lumumba and others who either were participants and/or members of the Black Radical Congress (Cole - Venceremos Brigade, an SDS/CPUSA project; Maulana Karenga - US; Imari Obadele - RNA); and Ron Walters - too many groups to list), as well as the "Sessions" partici-pants of June 1998 (Lennox Hinds - National Conference of Black Lawyers, the US affiliate of the Soviet legal front, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers which operates thru a sister front known as the Association of American Jurists headquartered in Cuba, and who was married to Jennifer Dohrn, Bernadine Dohrn's sister); Adjoa Aiyetero - black lawyer, N'COBRA NCBL; and Tim
(Timuel) Black, a Chicago political power and friend/supporter of Obama (ACLU board member and supporter of an effort to put the CPUSA on the Illinois ballot in 1974, ("Daily World", 8/24/74, "Illinois Communists press court fight for ballot status").

According to one interesting article on Imari Obadele, entitled "Imari Obadele: The Father of the Modern Reparations Movement" by Robert C. Smith, June 2000, Obadele formed the RNA with "his Malcolm X Society associates in 1968."

From the House Committee on Un-American Activities report "Guerrilla Warfare Advocates in the United States", May 6, 1968, we find the following information on the Malcolm X Society on page 24.

"On the weekend of March 30, 1968, a convention of black nationalists was held in Detroit under the sponsorship of the Malcolm X Society. Fifty delegates to the convention signed a declaration of independence calling for the establishment of a separate Negro nation in the territory encom-passed by the States of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and South Carolina.

Robert Williams (ed:an avowed Maoist and one-time federal fugitive from kidnaping charges) was elected president of the group. H. Rap Brown, chairman of SNCC (ed: now a Black Moslem, is serving a life sentence for the murder of a law enforcement officer) was elected as the organization's 'minister of defense.' The widow of Malcolm X, Mrs. Betty Shabbazz, was elected a vice president."

Betty Shabazz

Shabazz has been a steady supporter of both communist and black moslem groups, as well as the RNA, and has accused Rev. Louis Farrakhan of having a role in the slaying of her husband, Malcolm X, the leader of a Nation of Islam faction in 1965.

Many of these names will keep appearing in other groups and causes through the years, from a few innocuous groups to those on the hardcore marxist left and/or in the black extremist arena].

For part three go here

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Minnesota Wild v Los Angeles Kings

NHL on NBCSN: Kings-Wild highlights a Monday night doubleheader

NBCSN continues its coverage of the 2013-14 campaign tonight with a doubleheader. The New Jersey Devils host the Florida Panthers at Prudential Center at 7:30 p.m. ET followed by the Los Angeles Kings hosting the Minnesota Wild from Staples Center at 10:00 p.m. ET. In addition to NBCSN, you can also watch the game online.

The Western Conference playoff race isn’t quite as exciting as the Eastern Conference, but when the Kings host the Wild tonight, it’s a crucial game for Minnesota.

The Wild have the Coyotes nipping at their heels in the wild card race. Minnesota has the first wild card with 87 points and Phoenix is right behind them with 84. The Wild would ideally like to get some distance on the Coyotes as the Dallas Stars are just one point back of them and in this situation, three is definitely a crowd.

One problem for the Wild will be dealing with a Kings team that’s won six in a row and 14 of the past 17 games. L.A. is rolling and causing headaches for either the San Jose Sharks or Anaheim Ducks when it comes to the playoffs. Whoever doesn’t win the Pacific Division of those two teams has a date with the Kings in the first round.

Facing the Kings means having your hands full with Jeff Carter, Anze Kopitar, Drew Doughty, and Jonathan Quick. That means Zach Parise, Jason Pominville, and Ryan Suter have their work cut out for them.

Editor’s Note: Pro Hockey Talk’s partner FanDuel is hosting a $1,000 Fantasy Hockey league for Monday’s NHL games. It’s just $10 to join and first prize is $200. Starts Monday at 7:30pm ETHere’s the FanDuel link.

source: APIn New Jersey, the Devils are hoping to keep the playoff dream alive. With eight games to play, the Devils are five points behind Columbus for the second wild card. A loss to Florida would put a major dent in their hopes and any slip-ups from here on out are potential season-enders.

Patrik Elias, Jaromir Jagr, and Adam Henrique have been the offensive studs for New Jersey this season with Jagr outpacing everyone. Leave it to a legend to show the way. In goal, things have been a bit more nerve-wracking as Cory Schneider has been in a funk and Martin Brodeur has stayed at about the same level he has this season. Hearing Brodeur talk about what his future might have in store for him isn’t helping much either.

The Devils catch a bit of a break facing a Panthers team that has Roberto Luongo out injured. The Devils also have to be happy Florida   is one of the lowest-scoring teams in the league. Scottie Upshall leads the team with 35 points and Brad Boyes is the top goal man with 19.

Unless Brodeur or Schneider are totally off their game, the next two games on New Jersey’s schedule could help them put a scare into the rest of the teams chasing the wild card in the East as they head to Buffalo on Tuesday.

Don’t assume Fleury will be traded, says Penguins GM

PITTSBURGH, PA - MAY 02:  Marc-Andre Fleury #29 of the Pittsburgh Penguins looks on from the bench in Game Three of the Eastern Conference Second Round against the Washington Capitals during the 2016 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Consol Energy Center on May 2, 2016 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  (Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images)
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Just because Matt Murray signed an extension doesn’t mean Marc-Andre Fleury‘s days in Pittsburgh are numbered.

That was the message today from Penguins GM Jim Rutherford, after Murray re-upped through 2019-20.

“The focus seems to be on what happens with Marc-Andre, but let’s let this play itself out first,” Rutherford said, per the Post-Gazette. “Let’s not just presume that Marc is automatically out. He’s been the franchise goalie here, he is a terrific person, he’s a terrific player and I think that assumption, we’re getting a little bit ahead of ourselves.”

This wouldn’t be such a hot topic if there was no expansion draft in June. But there is, and when it takes place, each team will only be allowed protect one goalie. And if the Penguins don’t trade Fleury, they’ll be obligated to protect him, unless he’s willing to waive his no-movement clause.

Protecting Fleury would, of course, leave Murray as a prime candidate to be chosen by Las Vegas. Unless, that is, Rutherford could strike a deal with George McPhee to, say, send Vegas a draft pick or player, in return for Vegas not picking Murray. Yes, that kind of deal is allowed.

So it’s complicated.

At this point in time, it’s quite possible that Rutherford doesn’t know what he’s going to do. The season is still young, and it remains to be seen which goalie will emerge as the starter in Pittsburgh. If it’s Murray, Fleury might want to be a starter elsewhere and Rutherford’s decision will be an easy one.

If it’s Fleury, the decision could be tougher. While keeping both goalies would be nice, it would also be expensive. Next season, Fleury and Murray will make a combined cap hit of $9.5 million, and there’s only one net.

Again, though, a decision doesn’t have to be made now.

“Our focus this year is winning,” said Rutherford, “and we’ll deal with the expansion draft at the appropriate time.”

Goalie nods: Price to make long-awaited season debut

TORONTO, CANADA - APRIL 13: Carey Price #31 of the Montreal Canadiens stands during the anthem prior to a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs on April 13, 2013 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Canada. The Leafs defeated the Canadiens 5-1. (Photo by Claus Andersen/Getty Images)
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That was the likely refrain from Habs fans on Thursday, as head coach Michel Therrien confirmed that Carey Price‘s long-awaited season debut would happen tonight, when Montreal hosts Arizona at the Bell Centre.

Price, who missed almost all of last year with a knee injury, hasn’t played since late November of 2015 (his last appearance at home was on Nov. 22.) While he did recover to backstop Canada to the World Cup of Hockey championship, he caught a nasty case of the flu prior to the start of the regular season, and sat for the Canadiens’ first three games of the year.

Price’s backup, Al Montoya, did incredibly well in relief, going 2-0-1 with a 1.30 GAA and .926 save percentage.

Speaking of backups, the Coyotes will have theirs between the pipes tonight as Louis Domingue makes his first start of the season, in place of the injured Mike Smith. Smith was returned to Arizona today to be re-evaluated by team doctors.

— Good matchup in Boston, where Tuukka Rask and the B’s host Cory Schneider and the Devils.

John Gibson is back for the Ducks, after allowing two goals on 28 shots in a loss to New Jersey on Tuesday. He’ll be up against Steve Mason, who gets the nod for Philly after replacing Michal Neuvirth in a defeat to Chicago.

— The Stanley Cup Final rematch between San Jose and Pittsburgh has a slightly different look: Martin Jones, the Sharks’ usual starter, is in goal but Marc-Andre Fleury, who backed up Matt Murray last spring, goes for the Pens. Murray is out with a hand injury.

— It’s Braden Holtby versus Roberto Luongo as the Caps visit the Panthers in Florida.

— Colorado goes right back to Semyon Varlamov after he allowed three goals on 40 shots in Tuesday’s loss to Washington. Ben Bishop is in goal for the Lightning.

Jhonas Enroth makes his Maple Leafs debut in Minnesota. He’ll go up against Devan Dubnyk.

— The Kings will try their luck with Peter Budaj tonight against Dallas. Budaj replaces the ineffective Jeff Zatkoff, who replaced the injured Jonathan Quick. The Stars are going with Kari Lehtonen.

— After Chad Johnson started the last two games, Brian Elliott regains the net for Calgary. He’ll be up against Eddie Lack, who allowed four goals on 31 shots in Sunday’s loss to Vancouver.

Jake Allen versus Cam Talbot tonight in Edmonton, as the Oilers host the Blues.

Jacob Markstrom makes his third straight start for the Canucks, who host the Sabres. Ryan Miller will return to back up after missing Tuesday’s win over the Blues with “tightness.” For Buffalo, it looks like Robin Lehner in goal.

An encouraging start for the Leafs, except for the blown leads

OTTAWA, ON - OCTOBER 12: Auston Matthews #34 of the Toronto Maple Leafs celebrates his first career NHL goal against the Ottawa Senators with team mates Jake Gardiner #51, Nikita Zaitsev #22 and Martin Marincin #52 at Canadian Tire Centre on October 12, 2016 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  (Photo by Jana Chytilova/Freestyle Photography/Getty Images)
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The Toronto Maple Leafs are a young team, and they showed it last night when they jumped out to a 4-0 lead in Winnipeg, only to lose, 5-4, in overtime.

Winnipeg scored three times in the third and Patrik Laine completed his hat trick in overtime, marking the second time this young season that the Jets had won a game they trailed 4-1 after 40 minutes.

“They got better in the third and, in the end, you get what you get,” said Leafs coach Mike Babcock, per the Toronto Sun. “It’s disappointing, you want to shut the game down.”

Frederik Andersen had another tough outing. The Leafs’ starting goalie allowed five goals for the second time this season. After three starts, his save percentage sits at just .876. It’s still very early, and he did play well Saturday, but it’s a story worth monitoring given he’s signed through 2020-21 with a $5 million cap hit.

Overall, though, it’s been an encouraging start for the blue and white. Auston Matthews and William Nylander have been a dangerous duo offensively, even if Babcock would like them to be better defensively. Mitch Marner has shown well; he scored his first NHL goal on Saturday. The Leafs have had a chance to win all three of their games. They did win one of them; they blew third-period leads in the two others, falling both times in overtime.

Toronto plays again tonight in Minnesota, then finishes its road trip Saturday in Chicago.

Backup Jhonas Enroth is scheduled to be in goal against the Wild, his first regular-season start as a Leaf.

Auditions for Gaudreau-Monahan linemate in Calgary continue

CALGARY, AB - JANUARY 7: Johnny Gaudreau #13 (L) of the Calgary Flames confers with his teammate Sean Monahan #23 during a break in play against the Detroit Red Wings during an NHL game at Scotiabank Saddledome on January 7, 2015 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Derek Leung/Getty Images)

One of the most appealing — and vacant — forward positions in the league will have a new look on Thursday night, as Alex Chiasson gets his chance to skate with Johnny Gaudreau and Sean Monahan on Calgary’s top line.

That spot was initially held by Kris Versteeg, who turned down a contract in Edmonton partly because of the opportunity to play with Gaudreau and Monahan. Versteeg got his shot, but didn’t have much success — no goals, just one assist through the first four games — and was replaced by Chiasson during Tuesday’s 4-3 OT win over the Sabres.

Chiasson, 26, is an interesting candidate. He broke into the NHL with Dallas under current Flames head coach Glen Gulutzan — scoring six goals and seven points in seven games — and has, at times, shown offensive promise.

He scored 13 goals and 35 points for the Stars during the ’13-14 campaign, and 11 goals and 26 points for Ottawa two years ago. The Boston University product fell on hard times after that, though — his offense really dried up for the Sens last season, and he was flipped to Calgary in exchange for d-man Patrick Sieloff.

The goal, it would seem, is to find the next Jiri Hudler. The veteran Czech winger enjoyed a terrific year playing with Gaudreau and Monahan in ’14-15, scoring a career-high 31 goals and 76 points.

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Enraged Wife Cuts Off Husband's Penis, Throws It Into River

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A 30-year-old Vietnamese woman identified only by her last name, Pan, cut off half of her sleeping husband's penis with a pair of scissors at their home in Tainan, a city in southern Taiwan. She reported herself to police claiming her act was in revenge for beating by her husband after she confronted him about an extra-marital affair. She told police she threw the severed part into the river.

The condition of her jobless 29-year-old husband, a drug user was unclear at the time of this report. According to unconfirmed reports, Pan has no regret for mutilating her husband which she justifies due to his physical abuse of her and unhidden affair with another woman. She claims to have suffered beatings by her husband even though she supported the family since their marriage two years ago from a job at a karaoke shop.

Pan remains in police custody awaiting court arraignment. A police officer told reporters: "She has been taken into custody on charges of assault." She could face up to 12 years in prison if found guilty.

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Comment from: Uzor [Visitor]
UzorThat is an assault. in fact if the woman is found guilty by the court she should be prosecuted
10/19/11 @ 03:55
Comment from: Oha damian [Visitor] Email
Oha damianIs unfair 4 a married woman 2 chop off her husband penis,even at any cause shld not tempa with her manhood.we are stil discusing about de kenja woman who chop off her fiance penis just becos the divorce wife of the man insulted her,dat she need 2 reveng.
10/19/11 @ 06:36
Comment from: IKTOGREAT [Visitor] Email
IKTOGREATDifferent Strokes. God Have mercy.
10/19/11 @ 08:17
Comment from: kennedy oboirah [Visitor]
kennedy oboirahThis cruel. The woman should be let go but must not quit the marriage and lets see who suffers on the long run. She must also be put under close watch in other not to engage herself in the very act for which she accused her hussy.
10/19/11 @ 14:51
Comment from: samuel [Visitor]
samuellife is a strugle that is life 4 her.
10/20/11 @ 00:43
Comment from: evey [Visitor]
eveyNa Wao o!This is a harsh penalty for an irresponsible man, a lighter punishment would have been accepted though, make em eye rest small.
There is a lesson in every situation, so Men learn
10/20/11 @ 04:15
Comment from: olowu [Visitor]
olowuthat is why it is good to pray very well b4 one jump into marriage let us pray for them
10/21/11 @ 05:24
Comment from: D ST [Visitor]
D STThat is too wicked of the woman no matter what he did.
10/21/11 @ 11:48
Comment from: Nnabugwu A. M [Visitor] Email
Nnabugwu A. MIncredible! pan must be a devil she has to go in for life if found guilty. 12 year behind the bar cannot pay a prise for man's penis
10/23/11 @ 01:17
Comment from: Bala J Wajoh [Visitor]
Bala J WajohNa wa oh, this is serious, i think there was a better way than this. patience and dialogue
10/25/11 @ 04:43
Comment from: Bala J Wajoh [Visitor] Email
Bala J Wajohwow this is serious, God help, that man, but his wife when to the extreme, she should have looked for other ways of resolving the problem.
10/25/11 @ 06:47
Comment from: francis abraham [Visitor] Email
francis abrahamMrs pan is so wicked,she should go for life behind the bar.
11/22/11 @ 14:19
Comment from: vincent [Visitor]
vincentmay be dat woman is from borno state,and a boroko haramis married outside,well,nw she can have de man all alone
12/13/11 @ 09:19
Comment from: kizy [Visitor]
kizyoh God no understandin among dem bt let d marriage continue nd let d woman b monitorin very well so dat she will never go outside so dat let her enjoy stayin witout love nd sex
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Comment from: Comment from Genevieve (visitor) [Visitor] Email
Comment from Genevieve (visitor)U kno men are stupid. I may not blame dat woman entirely, who knows what she is going through. Let her kept under a close watch and interview. She might hv her reasons. My best friend died wit her baby because of bad maltreatment from his stupid husband.
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Comment from: amah [Visitor]
amahWhat a shame. every body should learn from this.The so called soldier should have paid the woman to avoid disgrace.
03/20/12 @ 09:15
Comment from: ayomidadekola [Visitor]
ayomidadekolait is unfair
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Symposium Speaking Out Loud

launch of Gate peepin', a new work by Linda Hilfling

Florian Cramer, Jaromil, An Mertens and Peter Westenberg, Linda Hilfling

This event will be Streamed Live via

Most works in the Speaking Out Loud exhibition suggest that language is a fluid, dynamic system which offers itself for individual expression and performance. On the other hand, language is a rational system not driven by instinct but whose strict rules and signs we must learn in a life long, enduring process. Looking at language from this other perspective, we are confronted with an authority, a rigid system of code that is preserved and governed even. Language shares this ambivalence with the Internet, a system that on the one hand develops dynamically through its users' contributions, on the other hand, it is a highly regulated space, that is less and less public but where the transfer of copyrights and censorship affect the Internet's appearance and use at its core.

In this session, the speakers will discuss the nature of both systems language and the Internet from their various perspectives, particularly looking at ways to artistically respond to, escape and circumvent their rigidness and constraints. On this occasion, Linda Hilfling will launch 'Gate Peepin', her new work that she has developed during a residency at NIMk.

Florian Cramer is a theoretician and course director media design at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. He is the author of the essay 'Words Made Flesh, code, culture imagination'
Previously, Florian was a junior lecturer in Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin and had published papers in the area of code poetry, comparative studies in the literature and the arts, modernism, text theory, literature and computing, collaborated on the Software Art repository and edited the Unstable Digest of code poetry.

Jaromil is a media artist, GNU/Linux hacker, activist and researcher at the Netherlands Media Art Institute. In 2005 he and joined for an artistic collaboration that led to the development of a tool to write and publish time-based text to be used in email communications and websites. 'Time Based Text' is currently exhibited in the Speaking Out loud exhibition and very recently has been nominated for the Vilem Flusser Theory Award of transmediale.09. Jaromil will talk about the background and intention of Time Based Text and the concept of property in the context of new media.

An Mertens and Peter Westenberg are members of Constant, Brussels. Constant develops radio, electronic music and database projects, by means of migrating from cultural work to work places and back again.
An Mertens is a fiction writer, storyteller and dramaturge. She is experimenting with analog and digital forms of storytelling. Peter Westenberg is visual artist and film- and videomaker. His projects evolve from an interest in social cartography, urban anomalies and the relationships between locative identity and cultural geography. Together they will talk about thoughts and motivations underlying their up-coming long-term project 'Schaerbeekse taal / La langue schaerbeekoise' which deals with the construction of an artificial language.

Danish artist Linda Hilfling works with the premises of participation and public spaces within media structures, with a focus on means of control (codes, organisation and law) and their cultural impact. Her artistic practice takes the form of interventions reflecting upon or revealing hidden gaps in these structures.

She will discuss her new art work 'Gate peepin' that reflects on the hidden layers of regulations governing the use of so-called democratic web-spaces. The Firefox extension analyses the terms of services of Web 2.0 platforms and reedits their content, thus enabling a new browsing experience. At the launch, copies of the 'Gate peepin' publication will be available for free.

Moderated by Susanne Jaschko

Start 20.00 hours
Entrance 3,50 (2,50 students)
Language: English

Time Based Text van Jaromil (IT) en Jodi (NL)
WORDS MADE FLESH door Florian Cramer


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Sthol v. Zglobicki

January 24, 2008

On appeal from the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Ocean County, L-2228-04.

Per curiam.

Argued: November 15, 2007

Before Judges Axelrad, Sapp-Peterson and Messano.

In this motor vehicle accident case, following a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff John Stohl*fn1 in the amount of $750,000 and his wife Mary on her per quod claim in the amount of $250,000, defendant*fn2 appeals several of the trial court rulings and denial of his motion for a new trial. More particularly, defendant argues: (1) the jury verdict is against the weight of the evidence and constitutes a miscarriage of justice under the law; (2) the court erred in failing to strike or otherwise cure plaintiffs' counsel's comments during opening and closing arguments suggesting a correlation between the damage to the vehicles and plaintiff's injuries; and (3) the court erred in denying defendant's motion for a new trial pursuant to Rule 4:49-1, and declining to view the post-trial surveillance videos of plaintiff and denying defendant's motion to vacate judgment pursuant to Rule 4:50-1(b) and (c). We reject each of these arguments and affirm.

Plaintiffs filed a personal injury suit for damages resulting from an August 19, 2002 motor vehicle accident. On the morning of trial, defendant conceded liability and chose to defend the case solely on the issue of the "Limitation of Lawsuit Threshold." Plaintiffs testified as to the events on the day of the collision, the injuries suffered by plaintiff and the effects those injuries had on him and his family. Both parties presented testimony of board certified physicians who examined plaintiff and reviewed the records of his injuries and treatment following the collision. Plaintiffs' expert Dr. Martin Riss opined there was substantial objective evidence that plaintiff had suffered a permanent injury as a result of the accident. The defense expert Dr. Michael Gordon, however, disputed causation of plaintiff's medical conditions and opined those related to the accident were not permanent.

The following facts were developed at trial on November 14 and 15, 2006. While thirty-six-year-old plaintiff was driving his 1987 Nissan Pulsar NX sports car near the intersection of Leesville and Freehold Roads in Jackson Township on August 19, 2002, he was broadsided on the driver's side by defendant, who drove his Mercury Grand Marquis through a stop sign and blinking red light. Plaintiff was launched into the door and towards the open "T" tops of his car. The force of the impact pushed plaintiff's car across the intersection and into a pole on the opposite side of the road, totaling the vehicle. Emergency personnel removed plaintiff from his vehicle and transported him to the Kimball Medical Center emergency room. Plaintiff was treated for neck, lower back, and left shoulder pain. X-rays were negative for fracture.

The next day plaintiff began treating with Dr. Mark Feldman, an orthopedic surgeon, complaining of numbness in his neck and left shoulder, no feeling in the "little fingers" of his left hand, and back pain. He treated with Dr. Feldman through January 2003, during which he was supplied a lumbar spine brace and prescribed pain killers, sleeping pills, and anti-inflammatory medications (Percoset, Valium, Lidocaine patches, OxyContin, and Vioxx). Plaintiff then pursued a two-month period of aggressive physical therapy and continued medication with another orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Aldo Iulo, which resulted in no improvement to his cervical, lumbar, and left shoulder conditions. From July 2003 until the winter of 2004, plaintiff was under the care of Dr. John Petrillo, an orthopedic surgeon, who provided him with more therapy, medications, and epidural injections. In June 2004, plaintiff sought treatment with Dr. Jeffrey Petersohn, a pain care specialist, who provided him with more injections, therapy, and medication.

Plaintiff described in detail the daily pain, numbness and weakness he experienced since the accident and recounted for the jury the numerous diagnostic tests and treatment he underwent, unsuccessfully, in an effort to resolve the injuries sustained in the automobile accident. For example, plaintiff explained that several of the medications gave him "really bad mood swings"; he was physically unable to work for six months, which resulted in money crises and arguments with his wife; he had to sleep in the other room because he and his wife were awakened several times a night by his jerking arm movement when it alternated numbness then tingling; and the symptoms and pain abated very little from the date of the accident. Plaintiff testified the injuries he sustained from the accident kept him from many of his former regular activities, such as archery/bow hunting, carpentry, motor biking, significant home redecorating and repairs, and yard work; he could no longer walk long distances or sit still very long; and his activities with his wife and ten-year-old daughter were severely limited. Plaintiff further explained his injuries prevented him from returning to his employment as a union floor installer. Fortunately, however, plaintiff was able to open his own floor covering business in which he dealt with clients and public relations instead of performing physical work, providing flooring to malls from New York to Maryland, and earned substantially more money. Accordingly, plaintiff made no wage loss claim.

Plaintiff's wife of eighteen years testified about how the accident impacted the parties' family life. Their activities were significantly curtailed, plaintiff was unable to make repairs and perform work around the home that he had previously enjoyed, he became short-tempered and his demeanor changed drastically, he was less patient with their daughter and less able to help her with her homework, their sleep was disrupted, and their marriage became strained. Mary also testified that prior to the accident plaintiff was an avid hunter but he had not gone hunting since the accident because it entailed alot of walking and tree climbing.

Dr. Riss testified he was retained by plaintiffs' counsel to review plaintiff's treatment records and he examined plaintiff on June 11, 2006 for the purpose of this litigation. Dr. Riss summarized plaintiff's medical treatment following the accident, detailing in particular the objective medical tests, and testified about the results of his examination. He noted that an MRI of plaintiff's lumbar spine performed on December 11, 2002 revealed a straightening of the normal lumbar lordosis, a right lateral annular tear with disc protrusion into the right neural foramen, creating moderate stenosis at L5-S1 and retrolisthesis (shifting of the spine) and straightening at the L5-S1 with a right lateral disc protrusion. Dr. Riss explained that plaintiff's complaints of pain, numbness, tingling, and pressure and findings of pain down nerve patterns reflected in Drs. Feldman and Iulo's records were consistent with the objective results of a protruding disc pressing on the nerve of his lower spine.

Dr. Riss then read and explained the report of the results of an EMG performed on plaintiff on March 11, 2003. He testified that the test was inconclusive, [as] the specialist found "[m]ild left C7 and/or C8 radiculopathy possible but cannot be confirmed on EMG testing due to the persistent and diffuse left cervical muscular spasm." Plaintiffs' expert explained that the specialist did not find an electrical defect or the existence of left carpal tunnel syndrome in the lower neck but made objective findings of left cervical muscular spasm with the possibility of left-sided thoracic outlet syndrome. According to Dr. Riss, plaintiff's complaints of pain and numbness traveling down his left arm and fourth and fifth fingers of his hand corresponded with radiculopathy at C7-8. The MRI of plaintiff's cervical spine performed on July 30, 2003 revealed mild left neuroforaminal stenosis, C5-6 disc bulges, left vertebral spurring and left neuroforaminal stenosis.

Dr. Riss recounted plaintiff's complaints to him approximately two years after the accident regarding pain in his neck, left shoulder and lower back; numbness of the fourth and fifth digits of his left hand; pins and needles down his left arm; and the pain in his back extending into the back of his left thigh and calf. Plaintiff also complained of difficulty sitting, standing, bending, lifting, and raising his left arm; an increasing inability to turn his neck; increased pain during cold weather; and muscle spasms in his neck and shoulder. Plaintiff had further explained to Dr. Riss that the pain would wake him up at night and he was stiff in the morning, and he had to use his TENS electrical unit three times a day on his neck, left shoulder and back for relief. Dr. Riss recounted that plaintiff also informed him that he "could no longer bow hunt, he couldn't apply any tension to his left shoulder, he couldn't take long walks [and] [e]verything he did, he only did for short periods of time [and] [h]e couldn't do things on a sustained basis."

Dr. Riss found tenderness to palpation and spasm in examining plaintiff's cervical spine. His examination disclosed a significant restriction in the range of motion of plaintiff's neck (40° downward instead of 80°, 25° extension instead of 45°, and 45° rotation instead of an ability to look over his shoulder). The doctor further noted that plaintiff's shoulder lost 35° in its ability to flex and plaintiff also demonstrated a clear-cut impairment in the range of motion on his back. Dr. Riss testified that he "noted on [his] examination that throughout the time, [plaintiff] was holding his left arm against his body to protect it." He also noted in his examination that he found plaintiff's strength was "markedly diminished on the left as compared to the right and that [plaintiff is] left hand dominant." Dr. Riss explained that a left-handed person's left extremities would mainly be stronger than the right and attributed the significant loss of strength in plaintiff's dominant hand and arm to the accident.

Dr. Riss concluded that, as a result of the accident, plaintiff suffered a cervical sprain, bulges throughout the cervical spine, radiculopathy of C7-8 (nerve pattern of pain and numbness into his hand, fourth and fifth finger), left shoulder sprain and possible tear, lumbosacral sprain, retrolisthesis, muscle spasm and disc protrusion, and right sleeve cyst root at L5-S1. He opined that the injuries plaintiff sustained in the accident were permanent, noting that four years later, plaintiff still had "spasm," "that serious tightening of the muscles," "a very considerable impairment in the range of motion," and "numbness and patterns going into his arm that haven't deviated from the very beginning." The doctor reiterated that plaintiff had made an attempt at every treatment, including physical, orthopedic and chiropractic therapy, as well as injections, but nothing worked. Dr. Riss was of the opinion that plaintiff had reached "maximum medical improvement," was not a candidate for surgery, and was "not going to get any better with any other treatment." Thus, although plaintiff could be prescribed anti-inflammatory drugs and pain relief medication, "there is nothing to offer him that's going to make [his injuries] go away."

Dr. Gordon testified that when he examined plaintiff on behalf of the defense on October 5, 2005, plaintiff did not complain of back pain; he complained of neck pain radiating down his entire spine into his left arm and trapezius on a constant basis, with lack of sensation and numbness in the two small fingers of his left hand. Plaintiff rated his pain as a six to eight out of ten. The defense expert explained the tests he performed and his findings of normal range of motion of neck, no evidence of spasm or pinched nerve, no evidence of motor weakness, and normal reflexes. Dr. Gordon showed the jury MRI films of plaintiff's cervical and lumbar spine and shoulder, opining there was no impingement or pressure at any of the levels of the cervical spine where the nerve root travels to the shoulder, arms, and hands. He further explained the March 2003 EMG test was not considered valid as plaintiff had some spasm in his neck and stated that a March 8, 2004 EMG was normal. Dr. Gordon was of the opinion there was not anything on the MRI, EMG or x-rays of plaintiff that would point to a concrete cause for his subjective complaints. The defense expert diagnosed plaintiff with degenerative disc disease of the cervical and lumbar spine not related to the accident; and cervical and lumbar sprains and a contusion of the left shoulder attributable to the accident, but which were not permanent conditions.

On cross-examination, plaintiffs' counsel emphasized Dr. Gordon's testimony that his physical examination of plaintiff had revealed limited range of motion in the left shoulder. Dr. Gordon also testified he had noted that during parts of the examination, plaintiff favored his left arm and held it to his side in a protective manner, consistent with his behavior during the emergency room treatment and his examination by Dr. Markowitz on March 11, 2003 in connection with his MRI test. Plaintiffs' counsel emphasized Dr. Gordon's contrary interpretations of the MRI and diagnoses from plaintiff's treating physicians, specifically, Dr. Iulo's belief that the L5-S1 disc protrusion reflected in the lumbar spine MRI was the cause of plaintiff's low back and buttock pain, and Dr. Petrillo's diagnosis of cervical radiculopathy with left rotator cuff tendonitis.

In summation, defense counsel argued that based on objective medical tests as explained by Dr. Gordon, plaintiff suffered only relatively minor injuries in the collision that were inconsistent with his claims, and that plaintiff was not entitled to a damage award because such injuries were not permanent. He also posited why Dr. Gordon was a more experienced and credible expert.

Plaintiffs' counsel argued the objective proof of permanency sufficient to overcome the verbal threshold includes physical examination as well as medical testing. He recounted plaintiff's complaints and summarized the multiple objective findings of plaintiff's treating physicians that supported Dr. Riss' conclusion of causation and permanency.

The jury unanimously found that plaintiff sustained a permanent injury as a result of the accident, and by a five to one vote awarded plaintiff $750,000 in damages for pain and suffering, disability and impairment, and loss of enjoyment of life due to those injuries, and $250,000 to his wife on her loss of consortium claim.

On November 29, 2006, defendant filed a motion for a new trial, R. 4:49-1, alleging the verdict was against the weight of the evidence and a miscarriage of justice in that plaintiffs did not meet the burden of proof to overcome the verbal threshold, the objective credible medical evidence did not support the award, and plaintiffs' counsel's comments improperly connecting the force of the impact and plaintiff's injuries led to jury speculation and an excessive verdict. On January 3, 2007, defendant filed a supplemental certification and brief seeking to vacate the verdict on the grounds of newly discovered evidence and fraud on the part of plaintiff, pursuant to Rule 4:50-1(b) and (c), based on post-trial video surveillance tapes of plaintiff taken on six days in late December. Defendant noted that throughout the trial plaintiff held his left arm to his side as if he could not move it, even when he walked around the courtroom, that there was significant testimony by plaintiff and Dr. Riss about plaintiff's impairment in the range of motion and difficulty using his left arm, and that he could no longer bow hunt or do things on a sustained basis. According to defense counsel, the surveillance tapes showed plaintiff "using his left arm without any problem, doing such things as washing the windows of his car, carrying a Shop-Vac, doing a 'jump shot' with a bottle, carrying sandbags, and going hunting with a weapon case apparently with intent to use a tree stand [and] . . . hunting for several hours." According to defendant, he was not able to anticipate plaintiff's trial conduct, the surveillance tapes of plaintiff's conduct clearly and materially differed from the trial testimony of plaintiff and his expert and plaintiff's behavior at trial, the new evidence was material to the issue of plaintiff's credibility and the permanency of his injury, was discovered since the trial and based on plaintiff's conduct subsequent to his trial testimony, and was of the nature that it would have likely changed the result of the verdict.

In response, plaintiffs' counsel noted several of his observations of the videotapes, including the following: plaintiff used his right, non-dominant hand to wipe the windows of his car; the Shop-Vac was a mini-version weighing about seven and one-half pounds, which plaintiff only carried from his garage to his adjacent front door; plaintiff merely threw an empty plastic soda bottle towards a nearby trash can; and plaintiff lifted the "corn" bags with his right hand and carried them over his right shoulder. Plaintiffs' counsel further referenced plaintiff's and Dr. Riss' consistent testimony that plaintiff could no longer bow hunt because he could not apply tension to his left shoulder and asserted that a review of the weapons case shown in the video revealed it was a shotgun case that plaintiff was carrying in his right hand. Plaintiffs claimed the video was thus not inconsistent with the trial testimony as plaintiff's physical inability to pull back a hunting bow string had nothing to do with the ability to fire a shotgun.*fn3 Plaintiffs also pointed to other aspects of the video that showed lack of use or awkward use of plaintiff's left arm and hand consistent with the trial testimony. Plaintiffs argued the videotapes were, at best, impeaching and cumulative of the testimony of Dr. Gordon who opined that plaintiff was not seriously injured and was exaggerating his injuries; defendant could have performed surveillance of plaintiff's activities during the two years of litigation prior to trial; and there was nothing in the videos that would change the result of the trial. Plaintiffs emphasized that defense counsel chose not to question plaintiff about his trial conduct, and thus deprived him of the opportunity to explain whether he routinely held his left hand to his body or whether there were extenuating circumstances. Plaintiffs further asserted the public policy arguments of fundamental fairness to plaintiffs and finality in trials.

Judge O'Brien denied defendant's motion for a new trial, declined to view the post-trial video surveillance tapes, and denied defendant's motion to vacate the judgment on the grounds of newly discovered evidence or fraud based on the tapes. The judge considered and rejected defendant's arguments in support of his motion for a new trial that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence in that the verbal threshold was not satisfied and the money judgment was excessive. Judge O'Brien expressly found no error in plaintiffs' counsel's comments regarding the impact of the collision. He summarized the trial testimony, noting it was within the province of the jury to credit the testimony of either doctor and determine the credibility of plaintiff and his wife, who he observed were both good witnesses. Judge O'Brien concluded this was a fair trial, there was no miscarriage of justice, and he "would be acting in contravention of the law if [he] were to set aside [the] verdict and give a new trial."

Judge O'Brien then analyzed defendant's motion to vacate the judgment under Rule 4:50-1, determining it was not necessary to view the video surveillance tapes which had been characterized in writing by both counsel. The judge rejected defense counsel's claim that he was unable to anticipate plaintiff's trial conduct of holding his left arm to the front of his body, stating:

The fact that the plaintiff favored his arm at trial was nothing new. The Court's extensive review of the trial medical testimony reveals that the plaintiff has complained of a left arm injury since the motor vehicle accident. Plaintiff has consistently alleged that his left arm would not function normally. He held his arm to his body throughout his treatment. Treating and I.M.E. doctors witnessed this.

Plaintiff produced a ton of medical testimony and treatment respecting the arm. It is a little incredulous for the defense to say it is shocked by the plaintiff's claims and demonstration of a nonfunctioning left arm at trial. What the plaintiff displayed at trial was consistent with the claims he had made throughout the case.

The judge further commented that it was first learned post-trial that the defense conducted pretrial surveillance of plaintiff, did not disclose it to plaintiffs' counsel and declined to use it at trial.*fn4 Noting that the defense had ample opportunity to videotape plaintiff during the two-year pretrial period, and, in fact, had done so, and having waived its rights to conduct pretrial surveillance and present it at trial, the judge concluded that defendant could not admit "newly created evidence" at a post-trial proceeding. Judge O'Brien stated:

It is reported to the Court now that the defense had a surveillance video of the plaintiff pretrial but declined to use it at trial. This video was not mentioned during the trial. Nonetheless, the defendant if unhappy with the contents of the video could have surveilled the plaintiff again pretrial if it felt he was perpetuating a fraud. Defense elected not to do that, but now wants to surveil post Judgment.

The post Judgment surveillance does not really constitute "newly discovered evidence," since the evidence could have been secured pretrial. Rather the evidence is "newly created evidence." The defense learned nothing at trial that it didn't already know pretrial in that plaintiff's lack of left arm function was presented from the date of the motor vehicle accident. The defense's failure to surveil plaintiff pretrial precludes its surveilling the plaintiff post Judgment.

The Court does believe it is against the public policy to surveil in these circumstances [a] plaintiff post Judgment who has received a substantial verdict. It would open Pandora's box. Would every jury verdict be subject not only to a new trial motion, but also a 4:50-1 motion to vacate Judgment and yet another ground for appeal[?] For how long post Judgment would the plaintiff be subject to surveillance; one month, one year, five years? How about the fact that people's medical conditions can and do sometimes improve?

At any rate, the defense was not surprised here and could have surveilled all it wanted pretrial. Defense waived its rights to surveil pretrial. That was voluntary.

Judge O'Brien also considered defendant's assertion of fraud, including plaintiff "holding his left arm to his body to give the jury the perception that his arm was frozen somewhat, that he's crippled, that he can't function at all with his arm." The judge commented about his observation that "either this guy is Academy Award material or his left arm is hurt" and that he "kind of thought [plaintiff] was faking" but recognized it was the "jury's job, not [his] job" to make that determination based on its assessment of the witnesses and evidence presented. Considering the totality of the circumstances, however, the judge was not convinced that defendant proved fraud by clear and convincing evidence. Judge O'Brien noted all of the medical evidence presented at trial respecting plaintiff's left arm and that plaintiff never testified he "[could]n't move [his] left arm," "couldn't function at all with his arm," or "[could]n't do anything." Following argument, the judge thus entered the January 19, 2007 order denying defendant's motion to vacate the jury verdict pursuant to Rule 4:50-1, and this appeal ensued.

On appeal, defendant renews the arguments he made to the trial court, additionally arguing that Judge O'Brien erred in declining to view and consider the post-trial surveillance videos of plaintiff in connection with defendant's new trial motion. We discern no abuse of discretion nor misapplication of law in the trial court's rulings and affirm substantially for the reasons articulated by Judge O'Brien during oral argument of defendant's new trial motion.

The trial court may only grant a motion for a new trial when, "having given due regard to the opportunity of the jury to pass upon the credibility of the witnesses, it clearly and convincingly appears that there was a miscarriage of justice under the law." R. 4:49-1(a). In examining a motion for a new trial, a trial judge cannot pass upon the credibility of witnesses and must not balance the persuasiveness of the evidence on one side against the other, but must review the record and "determine whether reasonable minds might accept the evidence as adequate to support the jury verdict." Dolson v. Anastasia, 55 N.J. 2, 5-6 (1969). The trial court should set aside verdicts only in "clear cases," Fritsche v. Westinghouse Elec. Corp., 55 N.J. 322, 330 (1970), and we should not reverse a trial court's ruling on a motion for a new trial "unless it clearly appears that there was a miscarriage of justice under the law," R. 2:10-1.

In a civil suit for non-economic tort damages, a plaintiff must meet the verbal tort threshold by proving by objective credible evidence that he suffered a permanent injury within a reasonable degree of medical probability. N.J.S.A. 39:6A-8a; Juarez v. J.A. Salerno & Sons, Inc., 185 N.J. 332, 333-34 (2005); see also DiProspero v. Penn, 183 N.J. 477, 504-05 (2005); Serrano v. Serrano, 183 N.J. 508, 510, 516 (2005). Defendant's argument that plaintiff did not suffer permanent injury and the pain and suffering award is grossly excessive is based upon the mistaken impression that the jury had no basis to credit the testimony and opinions of plaintiffs' expert, Dr. Riss, over that of the defense expert, Dr. Gordon. As recognized by the trial judge, there is ample evidence in the record of diagnostic tests and medical opinions rendered by plaintiffs' treating physicians supporting Dr. Riss' physical examination and opinion as to causation and permanency sufficient to satisfy the verbal threshold.

A new trial cannot be granted simply because a person disagrees with the verdict or the verdict is debatable. It is well settled that "persons of equal intelligence, sincerity and impartiality draw wholly different inferences from identical facts." Kulbacki v. Sobchinsky, 38 N.J. 435, 444 (1962). The trial court should not interfere with the quantum of damages assessed by a jury unless it is so disproportionate to the injury and resulting disability shown as to "shock [its] conscience and to convince [it] that to sustain the award would be manifestly unjust." Baxter v. Fairmont Food Co., 74 N.J. 588, 596 (1977). In making this determination, the trial court must:

[A]ccept the medical evidence in the most favorable light to the plaintiffs; it must accept the conclusion that the jury believed the plaintiffs' injury claims and the testimony of their supporting witness, and if, tested on such bases, the verdict (even if generous) has reasonable support in the record, the jury's evaluation should be regarded as final. [Id. at 599 (citation omitted).]

The jury heard extensive testimony by plaintiff and his wife regarding plaintiff's injuries, his pain and suffering and the impact of his injuries on his and his family's lives. The jury apparently found this testimony, buttressed by plaintiffs' medical testimony, to be credible, and rejected the defense position that plaintiff was faking or exaggerating his injuries. The fact the jury compensated plaintiff and his wife generously for his pain and suffering, disability, impairment and loss of enjoyment of life, and her loss of her husband's services, society and consortium, does not exceed the wide scope of its latitude or constitute a verdict so wide of the mark that it should be considered grossly disproportionate or manifestly unjust.

Moreover, the magnitude of plaintiff's injuries are not diminished by the fact that he did not suffer a monetary loss of income. The record is clear that plaintiff was no longer physically capable of performing his prior occupation as a floor installer. Fortunately, based on his experience and contacts in the flooring industry, plaintiff was able to start his own installation company and secure an exclusive contract with a large national retailer, which did not entail the physically demanding duties of his prior job. Plaintiff candidly informed the jury that he obtained an alternate source of income for himself and his family despite his physical limitations in an amount greater than he had previously earned, and thus he did not assert a lost wages claim.

There is no merit to defendant's assertion of error by plaintiffs' counsel in describing the accident in violent terms.

R. 2:11-3(e)(1)(E).

We are satisfied that Judge O'Brien acted within his discretion in determining that on the record before him there was no need to view the two videotapes of the post-judgment surveillance. The judge was provided with a detailed summary of the exhibit sufficient to address defendant's motion. We are also satisfied the judge acted within his discretion and consistent with law and public policy in denying defendant's motion for a new trial based on these tapes.

Rule 4:50-1 provides, in pertinent part, that the court may relieve a party from a final judgment or order for the following reasons:

(b) newly discovered evidence which would probably alter the judgment or order for which by due diligence could not have been discovered in time to move for a new trial under Rule 4:49;

(c) fraud (whether heretofore denominated intrinsic or extrinsic), misrepresentation, or other misconduct of an adverse party . . . .

Rule 4:50-1 motions should be granted sparingly and only in exceptional circumstances. Housing Auth. of Town of Morristown v. Little, 135 N.J. 274, 289 (1994); Town of Phillipsburg v. Block, 380 N.J. Super. 159, 173 (App. Div. 2005); Eaton v. Grau, 368 N.J. Super. 215, 222 (App. Div. 2004). Motions for a new trial and for relief from judgment are addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court and will not be disturbed unless that discretion has been clearly abused. Quick Chek Food Stores v. Springfield Twp., 83 N.J. 438, 446 (1980).

In order for relief to be granted on the ground of newly discovered evidence, the new evidence must (1) be material to the issue and not merely cumulative or impeaching, (2) have been discovered since the trial and must be such as by the exercise of due diligence could not have been discoverable prior to the expiration of the time for moving for a new trial, and (3) be of such a nature as to have been likely to have changed the result if a new trial had been granted. Quick Chek Food Stores, supra, 83 N.J. at 445; see also Pressler Current N.J. Court Rules, comment 5.2 on R. 4:50-1(b).

Judge O'Brien properly concluded that the post trial surveillance tapes were "newly created" evidence rather than "newly discovered" evidence and thus not a basis for relief from the judgment. In his determination the judge was cognizant of two primary points: first, that defendant had no justification for waiting until he received an unfavorable verdict to conduct the video surveillance of plaintiff; and second, that allowing defendants to reopen judgments by after-acquired evidence under these circumstances would have the significant adverse policy implications of circumventing the due diligence requirements of trial preparation and the finality of trials and judgments, of causing undue expense and delay, and of intruding upon a plaintiff's privacy.

In Gross v. Borough of Neptune City, 378 N.J. Super. 155, 156 (App. Div. 2005), we held that an employer in a workers' compensation case could not avoid its notification obligation by delaying surveillance of the plaintiff without justification until after the trial began, and then offering the videotapes just before its last medical expert testified. The excuse given for the delayed taping was that defense counsel did not realize until plaintiff testified that she was exaggerating her injuries. Id. at 157. The trial judge noted, however, as did Judge O'Brien, that long before trial, defense counsel had obtained a report from his medical expert disputing that plaintiff's injuries were as serious as claimed by her physicians. In upholding the trial judge's refusal to admit the videotapes into evidence, we stated:

Although the Division's rule expressly addresses discovery of pre-trial surveillance tapes,*fn5 we think it implicit that surveillance tapes made after trial has begun would be inadmissible in the proceedings unless the employer can show that it was unaware, and could not have been aware, of the circumstances warranting surveillance before the hearing. As the judge noted in refusing to admit the videotapes, one of the problems caused by allowing the course pursued by Neptune in this case is that the employee would probably have to recall her medical experts. That would be financially burdensome and would unduly delay conclusion of the case.

Over a half century ago, in a workers' compensation case, we held that surveillance films can give 'deceptive impression[s].' . . . To countenance what occurred here, withholding surveillance until after the trial has begun, would not only cause undue expense and delay -- it would be inconsistent with the purposes of the rule and with a decent respect for the notice requirement that is central to our concepts of due process and fundamental fairness. . . . [Id. at 158 (internal citation omitted).]

The rationale and policy considerations discussed in Gross for excluding the undisclosed videotape at trial are even more compelling in the context of a request to vacate a jury verdict based on a video surveillance conducted after the trial. At depositions in August 2005, plaintiff described his current symptoms resulting from the accident as a constant sharp pain and numbness radiating down his neck to his left shoulder, down his left arm, to his pinky and ring fingers, and also down his lower back to his left leg. He testified he could no longer "bow hunt, rifle hunt, ATV ride, [do] excessive walking, hiking . . . heavy lifting [around the house] or install [carpets]." Dr. Gordon noted that during parts of his examination of plaintiff on October 5, 2005, plaintiff favored his left arm and held it to his side in a protective manner, consistent with conduct during examinations by other doctors. Although the defense doctor found limited range of motion in plaintiff's left shoulder, he was of the impression that plaintiff was exaggerating his injuries. Thus, as in Gross, defense counsel was aware long before trial of plaintiff's predilection to hold his left arm to his side and that Dr. Gordon disputed the extent and severity of injuries claimed by plaintiff and set forth in his medical records.

The defense had more than ample opportunity to conduct surveillance of plaintiff during the two-year litigation period and, in fact, apparently felt compelled to do so in February 2006. Defendant chose not to pursue further pretrial surveillance, not to disclose the tape, and not to use it at trial. Defense counsel further made a conscious strategic decision at trial to conduct limited cross-examination of plaintiff and his wife and to defend through the experts. He also chose not to address with plaintiff his arm-holding, thus depriving plaintiff of the opportunity to provide an explanation, and never expressed to the court at trial that he was concerned with the jury's perception of plaintiff's body language. Perhaps defense counsel believed plaintiff was over-exaggerating his symptoms, which would adversely affect the jury. Nor did defense counsel confront plaintiff with his deposition testimony about no longer being able to "rifle hunt," which was conspicuously absent from plaintiff's trial testimony. Instead, the defense waited until an unfavorable verdict was announced, and then attempted to resurrect its case through a post-trial video surveillance that it had no explanation for not conducting pretrial. Based on defendant's lack of diligence, consideration of the after-acquired videos would clearly be inconsistent with the notions of due process and fundamental fairness.

The record also supports Judge O'Brien's discretionary decision to reject defendant's new trial motion on the grounds of fraud under R. 4:50-1(c). "[I]t is within the discretion of the trial court to grant a new trial on the basis of revelation of wilfully false testimony substantially affecting the result." Balip Auto. Repairs, Inc. v. Schroeder, 8 N.J. Super. 238, 246 (App. Div. 1950), aff'd, 7 N.J. 152 (1951). The ground of fraud encompassed by R. 4:50-1(c) includes perjurious testimony, even if not accompanied or concealed by other and collateral acts of fraud provided that the testimony is willfully false, material to the result, and not earlier discoverable by reasonable diligence. Pavlicka v. Pavlicka, 84 N.J. Super. 357, 366 (App. Div. l964). Perjured testimony warranting disturbance of a final judgment must be proven by "clear, convincing and satisfactory evidence to have been, not false merely, but to have been willfully and purposely falsely given, and to have been material to the issue tried and not merely cumulative but probably to have controlled the result." Shammas v. Shammas, 9 N.J. 321, 330 (1952).

The case relied on by defendant, Balip Automotive Repairs, is factually inapposite as the record established perjurious testimony by the plaintiff and due diligence by the defendant. In Balip the record established that the plaintiff corporation's president provided willful and purposely false testimony at trial and did not produce company records to substantiate his testimony as requested by the defendant, that the defendant could not have anticipated that the plaintiff would offer and rely upon the testimony in question and informed the court it was taken by surprise at the production of such testimony, and the defendant established the fraudulent testimony by court-ordered deposition four days after trial. Balip Auto. Repairs, Inc., supra, 8 N.J. Super. at 240-41.

In contrast here, the record neither supports a finding of willful and purposely false testimony or conduct by plaintiff nor due diligence by defendant. The medical testimony presented at trial supported plaintiff's claims of injury and, in fact, both experts agreed that plaintiff exhibited a partial loss of range of motion to his left shoulder. The post-trial surveillance videotapes may have had some impeachment value had they been used during trial but even as depicted by defendant, the activities do not demonstrate clear and convincing evidence of fraud by plaintiff. Plaintiff never claimed nor testified at trial that he lost the full use of his left arm or that he could not perform simple tasks with it for short periods of time. On the contrary, he testified he was gainfully employed in a business that requires driving and supervising floor installation jobs in malls located from New York to Maryland, and still performs household repairs, though significantly less than before the accident. Plaintiff's conscious or unconscious placement of his left arm against his body throughout trial, though it may have conveyed an inability to use his arm, in and of itself does not rise to the level of willful and purposefully false testimony or conduct. Moreover, although plaintiff testified at trial that he was unable to specifically go bow hunting, he was never asked as to other forms of hunting.

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  The Shins have a new album. well - in three months.

a little like i did over the last weekend,

The Shins disappeared.

there are bands that are destined to get big (Death Cab), play in arenas, major festivals, and tour relentlessly to increasingly bigger and bigger audiences. there are bands that skip this part (Panic? at the Disco) - they fly right to fame, made by chance, filling an image for which the people are already hungry. and then there are bands that are never meant to reach fame at all. and this is The Shins.

for instance: why is it that you can't talk about them without mentioning Natalie Portman - or, perhaps more relevantly - Zach Braff? why is it that most kids go to shows mouthing the words to New Slang, but then glancing awkwardly at their friends, garbling syllables to pretend they know anything else? why is it James Mercer stands so frightfully off to side-stage, leaving the rest to gawk at the audience and make off-hand comments?

this little Sub Pop signing never knew what was coming to them.

now, with only two full albums and almost six years of a Sub-Poppian contract (here's the disappearance part), they're soon to release their third LP, Wincing The Night Away, after almost four years of relative silence (yet their name has become so deafening, hasn't it?). and i do have it. i refuse to post anything, however; first of all, a million RIAA freaks would be after me and they'd shut down the search for Toaster's noise, and i know you would all be devastated. but mostly it has to do with loyalty. the Albuquerque (stare at that word for a minute, will you?) band means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, and i don't pretend to be the only independent music geek with a fierce love for the back-to-basics, definitively "indie rock" Oh, Inverted World and Chutes Too Narrow. i also don't pretend to be alone in that testimonial that their first release ('02 ish, for me) helped start my quest for unknown, unheard bands (you might say that it was actually the Lips, but that's a whole other story) - thus leading to the creation of this blog.

but this new album is... oh, guys! it's so totally less-than. it is painfully, heart-wrenchingly mediocre. so much so that i had to write an entire rambling and aimless post about it. my hopes were dashed, my perception of reality and my love for music ripped away from me - no no, that's not true at all, theatrics my friends, theatrics. but it's just not what i wanted to hear. IT IS SO PRODUCED. oh my GOD. i don't know if Mercer's voice can really handle the big-band rock sound of some of these tracks. like "Turn On Me." wow. and it is so, SO one track long. the variation is gone. the tymph is there, the occassional outbreaking Mercer wail, the poppy jangle and about four times as many New Slangs - yeah, it's there. but the other thing that looms large is the (increasingly more obvious) sultan of "alternative" - you guessed it, kids. you flippin' guessed it. who else but Thom Yorke, standing silhouetted and off to the side, the Big Brother figure of all today's music. the subtle but evident electronic elements, especially in (gasp!) voice distortion - the tone, the cloudiness, everything. and what's this, strings on "Red Rabbits?" mind you: this report is brought to you following the first tracks, Chutes-outtakeish "Australia." but listen to "Pam Berry" and "Black Wave" and you tell me you don't hear Radiohead. i dare you.

even when Weezer put out Make Believe, i walked around saying - bands change, genius does strange things to people (to Rivers), we have to be able to accept the capacity for a band to grow blah blah blah. and then i heard the album (ha). this isn't another case of Rivers holing up in a black room and then doing weed with Rick Rubin, only to dry-heave a bunch of airy bullshit into a microphone and call it music (cough, sputter). but this is a case of a band changing. this is a case of: can they handle this success? were they really meant to get this big. The Shins are certainly departing. to put a label on it this early in the game is ludicrous - sure, i've called it mediocre, but that's sort of a cop-out, isn't it? - and i refuse to give up so easily on a band that was so much to me. these questions just need to be asked. so, rest assured, you'll hear from me again, and i'll just continue to fruitlessly pique your interest until you get the chance to acquire it for yourself.

for now, lovelies, check out their newly refurbished website (little floating boat!) here. they're much much much more interactive with their News string, so keep up to date! and don't spam their myspace, apparently. that's bad, friends. spam is bad.

alright. actual mp3age later, i promise. just wait until you see the goodies i have lined up for you.

and HAPPY HALLOWEEN. if you have kids, you should get dressed up too, otherwise the walking dead will recognize you and invade your souls. what, you don't know your All Hallow's Eve history? pfft. go ask Wiki.
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• Very interesting …

    by  • January 29, 2008 • trainin and tactics • 6 Comments

    Zinn writes up about a bit of research presented by some egghead biker riders.

    pretty cool stuff and i pulled out a couple scans ~
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    “The upshot of his research skewered two rather sacred beliefs of cycling fitters. One of his conclusions is that floating pedals do not reduce the rotational and lateral moments about the knee and are hence of no use in preventing knee injuries. The other conclusion is that 10 degrees of valgus canting (i.e., tipping the foot inward, or knock-kneed), reduced rotational and lateral moments about the knee and are therefore beneficial in preventing knee injuries.”

    “… seemed to dispel the ideas that cycling adaptation takes time, that pedaling technique refined over time is important, particularly to learn to pedal efficiently at high RPM, and that avoiding “working against yourself” on the backstroke (revealed in graphs showing a net negative torque past bottom dead center) is useful.”wordly.jpg

    “Martin says that you are then left with two things to go faster. Hard training and good nutrition, hydration and recovery are the keys to maximizing the power you can produce. And reducing aero drag and reducing braking are some ways you can minimize the power you must produce. That’s it. Simple.”

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    okey-dokey, then.

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    1. Brian Peterson
      January 29, 2008 at

      Sweet. Does this mean I don’t have to try and spin an 86 inch gear again this Saturday and can just mash away the big gear with everyone else? 50×14? I might not feel like a blender that way.

    2. January 29, 2008 at

      Yay! I can mash! Oh, but then that means fitness is my limiter, and not technique. It sounded better to say I am working on technique than to say I am out of shape….

    3. Anony-Rat
      January 29, 2008 at

      Geeks Gone Wild.

      Seems like our pedalling lab rats offered more contradictory conclusions than a convention of economists.

    4. Dyrwaldo
      January 29, 2008 at

      Wow. That Martin’s a genius. Don’t brake, and you’ll go faster.

      Should I stop dragging my cat behind when I ride, too?

      I suppose this means I can dust off the old platform pedals too (the ones with the reflectors on them), since there is no benefit to “pedaling circles”. And now that I’ll no longer be clipped in, maybe I won’t fall down so much!

    5. L
      January 30, 2008 at

      we are such nerds.

    6. sdizzle
      January 30, 2008 at

      After hearing about this “secret” on the topica (now google) wattage group, I abandoned my concentration on trying to maintain an “efficient” pedal stroke and high cadence last year. Bc most of my training here in the land of ice and snow is on the trainer through the winter, that means my avg cadence was dropping from 100+ to the high 80s, with some harder efforts in the low 80s.

      Guess what? Best year of my not-so-storied amateur career. Plus as soon as the snow melted and I started riding outside, lo and behold, my cadence returned to “normal” of 100+ or so.

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Hiking - Moxham Mountain

Yesterday, I joined a Schenectady ADK hike to Moxham Mountain, near Minerva, NY. This mountain has no trail, though NYSDEC has proposed someday building one, as outlined in the Vanderwhacker Mountain Wild Forest Unit Management Plan, Appendix J.

The day's plan was to try to follow the route of the proposed trail. This would involve about a 2.5-mile bushwhack each way, with lots of twists and turns to avoid the private land at the beginning and to attempt to stay on the intended route. Norm did an outstanding job with GPS and compass to guide us through the sometimes thick and featureless woods, and approximated the route very well.

The mountain itself was spectacular, especially as we approached the summit along the open rocky ridge.

The view from the summit was well over 180 degrees, stretching from the Hudson River in the east, through North Creek and Gore Mountain to the south, all the away around to Blue Mountain in the northwest, and beyond. I failed to capture the east and south views, probably because of the direct sun from that direction. The view further west and north was my favorite. Click on the photo to enlarge.

Having successfully followed the trail's proposed route on the ascent, we opted for a slightly shorter route on the descent. That's the beauty of bushwhacking - you can go wherever it suits you. Once again, Norm steered us around a beaver swamp and the faintly marked property lines and brought us out perfectly back at the cars.

This will become a very popular hike if the trail is ever built as described. As it was, we were in the woods for about 5 hours, plus a long time on the summit enjoying the views. It was a long slog but well worth it, and will be even better if and when that time is shortened by a marked and maintained route.

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Thanks again, @resachica, for the tip about this one!

  1. Grabbed this one as soon as I got the email. Ipsy has some awesome deals sometimes. I got 2 of the newest Real Techniques brushes (regular line) for $13. And not too long ago they had a deal on the I.T Naturally Pretty Palette for $25 but I didn't jump on it fast enough and it was sold out before the first day was over. So you're right, don't wait for this one!!

  2. I grabbed as soon as I saw this!!! I can't wait to try it, especially for this good of a price!

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How many different ways can you find of fitting five hexagons together? How will you know you have found all the ways?

Exploded Squares

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For this activity, you'll need:
  • A square piece of paper (you could use a gummed square or plain paper or wrapping paper ...)
  • A piece of plain backing paper, larger than the square of paper
  • Scissors
Start by folding the square piece of paper exactly in half.

Keep the square folded and hold it so that the fold is on the left or the right. Then cut from top to bottom of the folded square, near the open edges, like this:

You could cut in a straight line, in a 'zig-zag' line or in a wavy line, it is completely up to you. You should now have two strips of paper and the rest of the folded square.

Repeat this a few times so that each time, you cut off two pieces of paper from the open edge of the rest of the folded square.

You should be left with lots of strips and the folded edge, which you can open out:

Mark out the centre of the backing paper.

Next, stick the piece which was the folded edge of the square onto the backing sheet so that the centre of the backing sheet is exactly underneath the fold.

Can you lay out the strips of paper on either side of the folded piece so that they form mirror images of each other, with the fold being the mirror line?

You could create more exploded squares. For example, what happens if you ...
  • fold the square of paper in half in a different way?
  • have the mirror line in a different orientation (e.g. horizontal, vertical ...)?
  • fold two (or more) squares together so that you cut them in exactly the same way but arrange them differently on the backing paper?
  • fold in half again before cutting?

I am sure you can think of your own 'what if ...?' questions.

Please do send us photos of your exploded squares. We'd love to see them.

This activity is based on an idea in Mathematics Through Art and Design published by Collins Educational.