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The experience of Shaw and his regiment was memorialized in the critically acclaimed 1989 movie Glory, starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, and Morgan Freeman, which was based on Luis F. Emilio’s book, A Brave Black Regiment: The History of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

In a detective story filled with plot twists and "ah-ha" moments, MHS staff were able to piece together a detailed chronology of events and trace the sword back to its roots. Following Shaw’s April 17, 1863 commission to colonel of the 54th Regiment, George R. Russell, his uncle, ordered an officer's sword from master English swordsmith Henry Wilkinson for Shaw. On May 11, 1863, the blade was proofed by Wilkinson in London. Sword number 12506, a regulation infantry sword, was etched on the back side of the blade with the initials R.G.S., mounted, and sold on May 23, 1863 per Wilkinson’s records. On July 1, 1863 Shaw wrote to his father that, "A box of Uncle George’s containing a beautiful English sword came all right." Three days later, Shaw wrote to his father again, "All the troops, excepting the coloured Regiments, are ordered to Folly Island. … P.S. I sent you a box with some clothes & my old sword." The "old sword," from Shaw’s time serving in the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment, was also donated to the MHS by the Minturn family in 2013.

Shaw was shot in the chest as he stood on the parapet of Fort Wagner, sword in hand. Overnight his body was robbed of personal effects and arms and stripped of clothing. Sources differ as to the culprits. Capt. Luis F. Emilio, commander of Company E, 54th Infantry, survived the attack at Fort Wagner and later described Shaw carrying a sword with his initials on it. He spent his life trying to locate Shaw’s belongings.

On June 3, 1865, Gen. Charles Jackson Paine, district commander at New Berne, wrote to his family: "I heard the other day of the sword of the late Robt. G. Shaw killed at Fort Wagner, in the possession of a rebel officer about sixty miles from here. I sent out and got it; the scabbard was not with it. I am going to send it on as soon as I have an opportunity." (Paine Ancestry. The Family of Robert Treat Paine, Signer of the Declaration ... By Sarah Cushing Paine, Charles Henry Pope: D. Clapp & Son, 1912; page 266).

The sword was retrieved near Goldsborough, North Carolina by U.S. Colored Troops under the direction of General Paine. Francis Shaw confirmed it as his son’s sword by the initials engraved upon the blade. It was returned to the Shaw family in 1865 by Capt. Solon A. Carter, who received this acknowledgment from Shaw’s father: "So far as such words may be applied to an inanimate thing it is the weapon which has done most for our colored people in this war, and it is to me likewise as well as to you a source of great satisfaction that it was recovered and restored by officers of colored troops."

Shaw's sister, Susanna, is believed to have given the sword to her young grandson, whose children discovered it in the attic as they cleared out the family home. Familiar with Emilio's description, they realized at once what they had found and generously added it to their previous gifts to the MHS.

Beginning July 18, the sword will be on display at the MHS with a selection of related materials.

MHS Civil War Collections
The MHS holds extensive collections related to the service of black soldiers and sailors in the Civil War including the personal papers of Gov. John A. Andrew, who ordered the recruitment of the 54th Regiment. The Society’s collection also includes photographs and other material collected by the commander of Company E, 54th Infantry, Capt. Luis F. Emilio.

As part of the Shaw and Minturn family papers are letters written by Shaw to his father, Francis Shaw, regarding his promotion to the colonelcy of the 54th, filling the new regiment, and movement and action seen in South Carolina shortly before his death.

The collection also includes letters from Gov. John A. Andrew of Massachusetts to Shaw’s father regarding his plans to raise a separate regiment of colored men. The collection includes three paintings, one of Susanna Shaw, Robert’s sister, who married Robert B. Minturn, Jr. and a copy of a photograph of Robert G. Shaw. Related Minturn family papers include Robert Minturn’s diary and account book kept on a trading voyage to Calcutta, 1856-1857; letters to Minturn from Daniel Webster, Henry W. Longfellow, William H. Seward, Washington Irving, and Grover Cleveland; correspondence between Robert Minturn, Jr. and his family; and a letter from Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Jay to his daughter Maria.

Noone cares

Lawyers being shitty people isn't news

>>157531
Yeah it's basically a requirement for law school. It goes beyond the idea of being competitive, you're actually encouraged to sabotage your peers via connections.

"People are particularly sensitive to any areas of your mouth that don't look realistic. If you don't render teeth right or the chin moves at the wrong time, people can spot it right away and it's going to look fake," said Supasorn Suwajanakorn, lead author on the study.

The tool could be used to manipulate videos to create realistic-looking fake clips. But it can only put audio spoken by a person into their mouth.

"You can't just take anyone's voice and turn it into an Obama video," said Seitz. "We very consciously decided against going down the path of putting other people's words into someone's mouth."

A separate organisation earlier this year created an AI that can emulate almost any human voice. The Lyrebird can create new sentence to sound as if they have been spoken by Obama, Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

The researchers behind the video manipulation added that their program could also be reversed to make a verification tool. Videos could be fed into the system to check if they are real or have been tampered with, they said.

> their program could also be reversed to make a verification tool.
Glad this can happen.

Our society is doomed when no one knows what's real any more. We need to get back to local communities deciding everything. We need to make our economies entirely local again. If we keep going the way we're going, we're headed for a society of nothing but slaves toiling away for a small number of super wealthy oligarchs who control everything, including people's minds.

lolz missysissy burning

>>156108
haha good riddance to the white coon trash, spics & niggers that make up the marines

I'd like to take this opportunity to state that although I wish for the end of the USA as a nation state, I bear no ill will to their citizens as a whole and wish the majority of them long and fruitful lives.

>>156986
Woweewowwee zowweee

>Trump vaguely mentioned something at the same time some other unrelated thing may have happened or not, we don't know.

HOLY SHIT
IMPEACH NOW

even if he did, is that an important detail?

depending on how much he knew and what they expected to happen during the meeting are the important details with regard to determining whether there was conspiracy.

it all smells very fishy but it's not enough to convict anyone of anything by itself.

>The U.S. Supreme Court has generally upheld the public financing of campaigns, within the limits of the First Amendment, saying that “public financing as a means of eliminating the improper influence of large private contributions furthers a significant governmental interest” — helping to eliminate corruption.

>Under the complaint’s rationale, virtually any public financing of campaigns that relies on tax revenue would be impermissible.

>The lawsuit does not seek an immediate court order that would block the use of the vouchers this year; Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Ethan Blevins said that was a strategic move to give the court time to weigh the case, rather than rush a decision.

>Adav Noti, a lawyer with the Washington, D.C.-based Campaign Legal Center, which supported Seattle’s law, said he didn’t know offhand of any other lawsuit that has challenged public campaign financing on grounds that it compels speech. He called the arguments weak, noting that people typically can’t sue over how the government chooses to spend their taxes and drawing an analogy to the current White House press secretary.

>“Could somebody bring a lawsuit saying, ‘I don’t want to subsidize Sean Spicer’s salary because I don’t like his speech?’” Noti asked.

>So far two City Council candidates — Teresa Mosqueda and Jon Grant in the Position 8 race — and City Attorney Pete Holmes have qualified to accept the vouchers by collecting threshold numbers of small-dollar contributions. Grant has redeemed the most, nearly $130,000 worth.

>That particularly irks Elster, who opposes Grant’s call for tenants to have more control over what they pay in rent. He spoke with reporters Wednesday at his 2,850-square-foot Seattle home, which is assessed at $865,000, according to county records. While he said he is upset about his taxes going up, his concern with the vouchers is philosophical, not financial.

>Grant, he said, “is entitled to his opinion. But he’s not entitled to my money.”

I mean, this is a neat idea and all but
>four $25 vouchers
>cost the average homeowner $11.50 per year
So where do the other $88.50 come from?

>>157063
fucking kys already

posting here wont do shit faggot

go better your life
in b4 /thread

>>157145
you kys you fat ugly whale lolz

Didnt brexit do anything?

>>157115
it's hard to make yourself completely self-sufficient when your nation is composed of two tiny islands with most of the natural resources having been used long ago

workers should be crushed by a strong state

Neighbor shouldn't have interfered. Beating someone to death who've you caught in the act of molesting your child is guaranteed to result in no prosecution or a slap on the wrist at most due to sympathetic juries. It's pretty much a free pass to commit murder.

>>154279
The plus side is that he'll have the rest of his time getting fucked up by his fellow inmates. Even murderers find people like him vile and disgusting. I hope he live a life of hell for what he did

BABY FUCK

>While Chaffetz said $174,000 a year is a “handsome” congressional salary, he explained that subsidizing lawmakers’ housing costs in the pricey D.C. metro area could actually save taxpayer dollars. If he had a proper home in Washington rather than a cot in his office, Chaffetz said, he wouldn’t need to fly home every week on the taxpayers’ dime, and his wife, Julie, could visit more often.

>A 2017 Kiplinger report ranked Washington as the sixth-most expensive city in the country to live.

>A $2,500 monthly allowance would cost taxpayers about $30,000 a year per lawmaker, or roughly $16 million a year for all 535 members.

>It “would allow the non-millionaires to participate and you would be able to have your spouse join you here,” said Chaffetz, 50, who’s spent 1,500 nights away from his wife and children during his eight-plus years in Congress. “If I wasn’t buying as many airline tickets, it would ultimately be less expensive.”

>Chaffetz, one of the most media-savvy lawmakers and a constant presence on cable TV, plans to take a role at Fox News, according to media reports. Chaffetz wouldn’t discuss a potential position at Fox.

>He also told The Hill he hopes to land seats on some corporate boards, do some consulting work for information technology firms and write a book.

>“It’s not a tell-all, gossip-filled expose by any means,” Chaffetz said. “But there are things that hopefully the public will be interested in reading about, including what are some of the possible solutions” in Washington.

>“Particularly in the IT sector, the IT companies of this country don’t understand Washington, D.C., and I feel Washington, D.C., doesn’t understand IT,” he continued. “There are some real big questions about drone technology, who’s going to control that, who’s the law enforcement for that; autonomous vehicles; privacy issues; immigration issues.”

>As chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Chaffetz aggressively investigated then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s response to the deadly Benghazi, Libya, terror attacks, her use of a private email server and her handling of classified information.

>Had Clinton been elected president, Chaffetz would have been the Democrat’s chief antagonist — a post that would have further elevated his national profile.

>But Republican Donald Trump was elected instead, putting Chaffetz in the politically tricky spot of having to lead congressional oversight of a friendly GOP administration. But Chaffetz said he probably would have reached the same decision about leaving Congress had Clinton won the White House.

>“I vowed that I would get in, serve and get out, and at some point you have to say, ‘Let’s get off this crazy train and get a better balance in your life,’ ” Chaffetz said. “It’s hard to say, but I think I’d still probably come to the same conclusion.”

>Given Chaffetz’s reputation as a shrewd and ambitious political operator, many on Capitol Hill saw his decision to abruptly quit Congress as part of a plot to run for higher office.

>Less than two years ago, he stunned colleagues by running against his friend, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), for House Speaker after John Boehner (R-Ohio) resigned. McCarthy quit the Speaker’s race, with Republicans electing House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).

>But Chaffetz insisted he has no ulterior motives.

>“This is not some clever move to do ‘A’ with the real intention of doing ‘B,’ ” he explained. “I’ll put my head down, do this other stuff for a couple years and then wake up and see what the possibilities are.”

>Chaffetz made clear he wouldn’t run against longtime Sen. Orrin Hatch, a fellow Utah Republican, who is up for reelection in 2018.

>But asked about Utah’s gubernatorial race in 2020, Chaffetz, a former campaign manager and chief of staff to former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (R), said he wouldn’t “close the door on anything.”

>Chaffetz said he’s proud of the work he and his Democratic counterpart, Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings (D), have done to uncover bad behavior and “cultural flaws” at the Secret Service, as well as that agency’s response to White House fence-jumpers and the inadequate training of agents.

>But Chaffetz said frustration with gridlock on Capitol Hill also drove him to leave office.

>His committee passed bipartisan postal reform legislation in March, but GOP leadership has put it on the back burner, he said. He also faulted House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) for failing to mark up Chaffetz’s bill smoothing the way for high-skilled immigrants to work in the U.S.

>And Chaffetz said GOP leaders want nothing to do with his bill that gives states greater latitude to charge sales tax on online purchases.

>“You can continue to get frustrated and whine about it or you can leave, so I’ve decided to leave,” Chaffetz said. “I’ve got three big prospects and no daylight to actually get them done, and that absolutely was a factor in making my decision.”

Finally America can get back to normalcy once the Naranja Nigger gets kicked out

>>156945
Racist, go back to /pol/

Corporate democrats are pulling these stunts so early in the investigation because it galvanizes republicans while their own voters are disenfranchised by their lack of focus on policy issues like healthcare, tax reform, EPA that protect the working class.

They WANT to lose in 2018. They're going to slow-walk all reforms in the party, refuse to abandon Pelosi, have Hillary campaign for them in 2018. The idea is to let Republicans decide the next one or two supreme court picks.

This way they never have to meet the promises they make to americans about single payer healthcare or campaign finance reform. They can continue to merely pay lipservice to these things and inevitably once in power shrug and tell Americans they want to make sweeping reforms but the conservative courts won't allow anything but the status quo.

It's not all democrats, but a lot of the corporate democrats share the same donors as the Republicans and are always weary about making good on their promises to the left.

Either kill him or move on. Stop making your pain other people's problem.

Sure, maybe the lady got fingered as a kid. That sucks, I won't deny it.
But they aren't just messing with Woody Allen. That's always my problem with protesters. Just fuck with your target, don't make it my problem to deal with you.

t. security guard and annoyed citizen

Adopted daughter fucker

>>156939
>two stupid women do stupid thing
>read more of my opinion piece at breitbart.com

>"When starting a thread you must include the complete URL of a news article from a credible news site"
>"credible news site"

The flight attendant and a second flight attendant tried to subdue him, but Hudek allegedly shoved them away and moved the emergency release lever halfway up.

One flight attendant later reported that the door could have opened if it was fully disarmed at the altitude they were flying over the northwest end of Vancouver Island, B.C.

Attendants turned to passengers for help as one of them called the cockpit to alert the flight crew of the emergency. The pilot notified the Federal Aviation Administration of the threat, and the flight carrying 210 passengers and 11 crew was diverted back to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Meanwhile, Hudek allegedly punched one of the attendants twice in the face, hit a male passenger in the head with a red dessert-wine bottle and punched him several times.

A flight attendant grabbed two wine bottles and hit Hudek with both, breaking one over his head.

According to the criminal complaint, Hudek was undeterred by the impact of the 1-liter wine bottle and asked, “Do you know who I am?”

It’s unclear what Hudek meant by that.

The male passenger then put him in a headlock, but Hudek freed himself as several other passengers from the first-class cabin jumped into the fight to restrain Hudek.

Hudek was eventually restrained with zip ties, but he “remained extremely combative, and multiple passengers were needed to restrain Hudek and keep him restrained until the plane landed safely back at Sea-Tac Airport,” at 7:10 p.m., the criminal complaint states.

One of the flight attendants gave a passenger instructions on how to arm the emergency exit door and return it to the locked position.

Passenger Dustin Jones, who was seated just behind the curtains that lead to the first-class section, said he could tell that there was a scuffle.

“One of the flight attendants ran back and said there was a Code 3,” Jones told KIRO-TV. “There was a serious fight up front.”

Jones said he saw the man handcuffed and zip-tied being rolled into the terminal in a wheelchair after the plane landed.

“He started yelling for help,” Jones said. “And so he turned the wheelchair over in the middle of the airport, screaming for people to help him, just being belligerent.”

One flight attendant and a male passenger were taken to Highline Wound Care Center in Burien, where they were treated for severe facial injuries.

The flight left Sea-Tac Airport for Beijing again just after midnight on its scheduled 11½-hour flight, according to FlightAware.com.

The Port of Seattle, citing the FBI, said no information suggests there was any national-security threat. Authorities said the cockpit door was not breached.

During Thursday’s detention hearing, a magistrate judge will determine whether Hudek can be released from custody and under what conditions.

Hudek, of Tampa, Florida, faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.

Christine Willmsen: [email protected].
Seattle Times staff reporter Paige Cornwell and news researcher Miyoko Wolf contributed to this story, which includes information from The Associated Press and Times archives.

was there reason to believe she shouldn't have been allowed into the country?

Now let’s look at the general population in the U.S. A new report from the Pew Research Center also suggests that the news media’s credibility problem reaches well beyond the hard-core MAGA crowd. A full 85% of Republicans and those who lean Republican have a negative view of the national news media. And even among Democrats and those who lean Democratic, the press corps is underwater, with 46% holding a negative view compared to 44% holding a positive one.

Each respondent may distrust the media for a different reason. And perhaps investors are not so much ignoring the reported news as they are trying to strike a balance between conflicting reports. For example, let’s say that an investor has concluded that the New York Times and the Washington Times are equally trustworthy. A reader of this story from the New York paper is bound to take away a very pessimistic view of the current White House:

As Air Force One jetted back from Europe on Saturday, a small cadre of Mr. Trump’s advisers huddled in a cabin helping to craft a statement for the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., to give to The New York Times explaining why he met last summer with a lawyer connected to the Russian government. Participants on the plane and back in the United States debated how transparent to be in the statement, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Ultimately, the people said, the president signed off on a statement from Donald Trump Jr. for The Times that was so incomplete that it required day after day of follow-up statements, each more revealing than the last. It culminated on Tuesday with a release of emails making clear that Mr. Trump’s son believed the Russian lawyer was seeking to meet with him to provide incriminating information about Hillary Clinton as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”
The Russia story has become the brier patch from which the president seemingly cannot escape.

But an investor reading this Washington Times story published the same day may conclude that the real danger to the republic was narrowly avoided last November:

While the mainstream news media hunts for evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, the public record shows that Democrats have willfully used Moscow disinformation to influence the presidential election against Donald Trump and attack his administration.
The disinformation came in the form of a Russian-fed dossier written by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele. It contains a series of unverified criminal charges against Mr. Trump’s campaign aides, such as coordinating Moscow’s hacking of Democratic Party computers.
Some Democrats have widely circulated the discredited information. Mr. Steele was paid by the Democrat-funded opposition research firm Fusion GPS with money from a Hillary Clinton backer. Fusion GPS distributed the dossier among Democrats and journalists. The information fell into the hands of the FBI, which used it in part to investigate Mr. Trump’s campaign aides.
Mr. Steele makes clear that his unproven charges came almost exclusively from sources linked to the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He identified his sources as “a senior Russian Foreign Ministry figure,” a former “top level Russian intelligence officer active inside the Kremlin,” a “senior Kremlin official” and a “senior Russian government official.”
While investors may be unnerved to learn how many political operators of both parties seem eager to glean opposition research from Russian sources, they apparently still don’t see it as a threat to American prosperity, or the rule of law on which it depends.

***

In other media news, the Washington Post thinks Tuesday’s column on the Post’s new social-media policy was too tough on the news organization and its owner Jeff Bezos. Kristine Coratti Kelly, vice president for communications and events at the Post says in an email that Mr. Bezos had no involvement in the creation of the new policy, which among other things prohibits social media postings that “adversely affect The Post’s customers, advertisers, subscribers, vendors, suppliers or partners or The Post’s legitimate business interests.”

While the new policy applies to all Post employees, including reporters, Ms. Kelly points to additional language in the policy stating that for newsroom employees, “nothing in this policy is designed to impact or limit their coverage or social media postings that are permitted” under the newsroom’s existing digital publishing guidelines.

Fair enough, but if that’s the intention, this column recommends exempting the newsroom entirely from any social-media policy that includes prohibitions on negative comments about advertisers.