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Philadelphia - A union staffer's 2002 court declaration asserted that current governor and former Philadelphia mayor Ed Rendell (D) encouraged Teamsters to pursue assault charges against a nonviolent protester, The Bulletin has learned. Testimony Mr. Rendell offered earlier that year differed markedly from the account. The differing versions emerge from the saga of assault victim Don Adams's arduous legal battles. After the Teamsters agreed in March to settle his almost decade-long civil action, Mr. Adams found the justice he received welcome, if incomplete. Mr. Adams, his sister Teri and about 40 others went to Center City to protest a visit...

Based on David McCullough's 2001 best-selling book, "John Adams," the HBO 7-part mini-series starring Paul Giamatti as John Adams and Laura Linney as Abigail Adams is as important for the message that it sends as it is for the history it conveys. Beginning with young attorney Adams's defense of the British soldiers on trial for the Boston Massacre (for whom he won an acquittal), the story follows the political career and personal life of Adams as he becomes a key member of the Continental Congress, editor/co-drafter of the Declaration of Independence, minister to France and England, vice president, then president....

For those awaiting the HBO John Adams, HBO is now playing over the next few days a 30 minute description of how the movie was made with particular emphasis on the technical aspects. It is well worth watching particularly if you can find one of the HD broadcasts. Now I begin to understand why movies are so expensive and how much artistic technology is involved. The link to an HBO schedule for this technical preview is at http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleServlet?ACTION_DETAIL=DETAIL&FOCUS_ID=664475. The schedule for the actual HBO series is at http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleServlet?ACTION_SEARCH=GO&KEY=TITLE&VALUE=adams.Enjoy

When Hollywood's movie-makers and docu-dramatists get their hands on American history, accuracy, reality and truth often are tortured beyond recognition. But starting at 8 p.m. Sunday, March 16, HBO Films will be delivering the seven-part, nine-hour mini-series "John Adams." ... it is by all accounts a high-quality, historically accurate and meticulously faithful adaptation of super-historian David McCullough's blockbuster 2001 book of the same name. I talked to McCullough about the making of the HBO series Tuesday by phone from his home in West Tisbury, Mass.

Founder’s Quotes – Jefferson and Hamilton on Citizens Duty to be Armed “The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves in all cases to which they think themselves competent, or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press.” Thomas Jefferson (letter to John Cartwright, 1824) ”If the representatives of the people betray...

COMMITTEE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTICE P.O. Box 306, Cheltenham, PA 19012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 10, 2007 Contact: Don Adams, ###.###.#### Teamster Beating Victims Appeal Judge’s Order To Pay Union $15 Grand Philadelphia – Two Clinton protesters, viciously beaten up by a group of pro-Clinton teamsters outside Philadelphia’s City Hall during a presidential visit nine years ago, last week appealed a federal judge’s order to pay two teamster unions $15,000.00 in legal costs stemming from an October, 2000 Federal Civil Rights suit. Five members of Teamsters Local 115 eventually pled guilty to criminal assault, conspiracy, and various other charges in the...

WILMINGTON -- An associate professor is suing the University of North Carolina Wilmington, claiming he was denied a promotion because of his conservative religious and political beliefs. Mike Adams is a national columnist who has taught at the university since 1993. The Board of Trustees turned down his application for full professorship last fall. Adams is seeking monetary damages and legal fees, but he says the fight is really about his reputation. "From the time I was an atheist and a democrat and after the time I became a Christian, and an outspoken conservative as well, I think some of...

Yesterday afternoon, I logged on to the "Global War" blog (global-war.bloghi.com) of Associate Professor Julio Pino – a Muslim convert who teaches at Kent State University. The heading for the site used to read "The Worldwide Web of Jihad: Daily News from the Most Dangerous Muslim in America." Now it reads "Are You Prepared for Jihad?" IN THE NAME OF OBL. 2007: THE YEAR OF ISLAMIC VICTORY!" Hardly able to believe what I was reading, I called Pino at his office in Ohio around 4 p.m. According to his secretary, he had not been at work that day (he only...

Good morning (name deleted): I want to take a few minutes to discuss a problem that I think will impair your ability to pass my class this semester. I also think it will impair your ability to be taken seriously as an adult in whatever profession you may choose. I am talking, of course, about your persistent inability to refrain from blurting out your thoughts while other people are trying to speak - your fellow students and, especially, your professors.

Hello students! Welcome back to UNC-Wilmington for another semester. My name is Dr. Adams and I’ll be your professor until May. I’ve prepared a handout for you explaining your one (and only) out-of-class assignment for the spring semester. During the course of the semester, you will be asked to make at least three trips down to 4th and Princess, which is the home of our local county courthouse. Of course, given the tendency of UNC-Wilmington students to drink and drive, several of you will be making more than your share of trips to the county courthouse. But let’s not deal...

Professor John Lewis Gaddis’ recent provocative analysis of the origins of “unilateralism” in American foreign policy highlights the pivotal role of John Quincy Adams. With candor and humility, Gaddis further reveals that his own contemporary assessment, “…is not a new interpretation. If you go back and read the famous Samuel Flagg Bemis, the very distinguished Yale diplomatic historian from half a century ago, Bemis was certainly making this argument about the importance of John Quincy Adams. But I think this has been lost somewhat in intervening years. So, to an extent, I am trying to rediscover John Quincy Adams, in...

Two Republican terror groups opposed to the Good Friday Agreement have denied they are involved in any plot to kill Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. The Irish National Liberation Army and the Continuity IRA said this weekend there are no plans to assassinate Sinn Fein leaders. They also condemned any threats to the two Sinn Fein MPs even though they were political enemies. The INLA and its political wing, the Irish Republican Socialist Party, described claims by Adams that he and Martin McGuinness and Gerry Kelly were under threat as 'nonsense'. An INLA spokesman told The Observer that the allegation...

Don’t let the biting sarcasm and all the talk about firearms fool you. There are times when I am wholly lacking in courage and simply afraid I have bitten off more than I can chew. In fact, I was feeling that way just last week when I arrived at the University of Minnesota- Morris to give a speech called “How to Win Friends and Irritate Feminists.” When I walked into the room - which initially had only 100 seats – they were bringing in extra chairs for the overflow crowd. That helped eventually squeeze 168 people into the room. With...

Until just recently, the UNCW administration was trying to deprive me of both a) my right to appeal their decision to deny my promotion to full professor and, b) my right to a written explanation of that decision. Now, the leader of our local communist dictatorship has given me a written explanation although I am told by university officials that I have no right to use it in an appeal. In fact, here at UNC-We Hate Due Process, I can’t appeal the decision with any documents at all. There is no appellate process whatsoever. Given that I have won several...

<p>PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A special three-judge panel of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals will convene tomorrow to hear arugments as to whether a federal civil rights suit may proceed against Governor Ed Rendell for his alleged role in the 1998 Teamster beating of two Clinton protesters outside Philadelphia's City Hall. The incident occurred during a presidential fundraising visit at the height of the Lewinsky scandal, when calls for Clinton's impeachement were at a fever pitch.</p>

Dear Students: First of all, I would like to thank each of you for signing up for my class this semester at UNC-Wilmington. Part of my job as your professor is to dispel certain myths you learn in your other classes, especially sociology. If you decide to question these myths in Sociology 101, your professor is likely to assign you to sensitivity training sessions. Because our university faculty is so overwhelmingly liberal, many of these myths constitute arrogant dismissals of conservative ideas – ideas that your professors would take more seriously if they had a little more experience interacting with...

 David McCullough was born in 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was educated there and at Yale University. Author of 1776, John Adams, Truman, Brave Companions, The Path Between the Seas, Mornings on Horseback, The Great Bridge and The Johnstown Flood, he has twice received the Pulitzer Prize and twice the National Book Award, as well as the Francis Parkman Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. The following is adapted from a public lecture delivered at Hillsdale College on March 31, 2006, during Mr. McCullough's one-week residency at the College to teach a class on “Leadership and the History...

Well, it seems as if the rank and file elitist Country Club Republicans are flexing their muscles in the High Desert, not to mention down the hill, too, when it comes to who backs whom for the 59th assembly district race and why. When it comes to the two most likely frontrunners in the Victor Valley—encompassing Hesperia and Apple Valley—longtime GOP grass-roots crusader and people’s champion, Barry Hartz, versus government bureaucracy insider and recipient of Supervisor (San Bernardino County First District) Postmus’ back-scratching political favors, Anthony Adams, the battle lines have clearly been drawn and it’s easy to see, when...

April 10, 2006 issue - America's first fight was over faith. As the Founding Fathers gathered for the inaugural session of the Continental Congress on Tuesday, September 6, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Thomas Cushing, a lawyer from Boston, moved that the delegates begin with a prayer. Both John Jay of New York and John Rutledge, a rich lawyer-planter from South Carolina, objected. Their reasoning, John Adams wrote his wife, Abigail, was that "because we were so divided in religious sentiments"—the Congress included Episcopalians, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, and others—"we could not join in the same act of worship." The objection...

America’s Earliest Terrorists: Lessons from America’s first war against Islamic terror. By Joshua E. London (author of "Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation," John Wiley & Sons, September 2005, http://www.victoryintripoli.com/ ) At the dawn of a new century, a newly elected United States president was forced to confront a grave threat to the nation — an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on Americans by Muslim terrorists. Worse still, these Islamic partisans operated under the protection and sponsorship of rogue Arab states ruled by ruthless and cunning dictators. Sluggish...

Experts Say IRA Has Criminal Empire By SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press Writer Thu Sep 29, 9:50 PM ET The Irish Republican Army may no longer want to fight the British, but detectives say it's still in business — as owners of pubs and clubs, smugglers of fuel and cigarettes, bank robbers by night and property investors by day. Throughout the past 35 years of conflict over this British territory, the IRA has built a sophisticated criminal empire throughout Ireland and beyond, laundering profits through legitimately owned businesses and properties worth more than $400 million, anti-racketeering experts say. Now that weapons...

Actor Don Adams Dies at 82 Monday, September 26, 2005 LOS ANGELES — Don Adams (search), the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s television spoof of James Bond (search) movies, "Get Smart," has died. He was 82. Adams died of a lung infection late Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (search), his friend and former agent Bruce Tufeld said Monday, adding the actor broke his hip a year ago and had been in ill health since.

Don Adams, who gained worldwide fame and three Emmy Awards starring as Agent 86, Maxwell Smart, in the classic television comedy GET SMART, died at 8:02 p.m PDT, Sunday, September 25, 2005, at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Beverly Hills. He was 82. Although he had been in failing health for more than two years due to bone lymphoma, his death resulted from a sudden lung infection for which he was hospitalized the previous day. Born Donald James Yarmy on April 13, 1923 [correct, despite frequently reported erroneous dates] in New York City to Irish-Hungarian parents, Adams hoped for an engineering career....

Boulder, Colo. Founding a democracy, rather like living in a democracy, can be very tough on friendship. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson began as friends. The tensions and frictions of the early Republic took care of that. Then, after years of silence between them, a mutual friend persuaded them to write to each other. In 1812, they launched into a correspondence that continued until it was ended by their deaths. That ending point was on their minds and drove their correspondence. As Mr. Adams wrote Mr. Jefferson, "You and I ought not to die, before we have explained ourselves to...

Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. .................................................................. .................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should...

Did You Know that Half the Declaration's Signers Had Divinity School Training? by Larry Schweikart No phrase has been more egregiously misapplied than Thomas Jefferson’s infamous “wall of separation between church and state,” a line he used in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802.This line, along with references to the supposed lack of Christian faith among the Founders, has for decades fed the fires of the American leftists in their drive to excise any references to God and/or Christ from the public square. Yet how “ir-religious” were these Founders? It is worth beginning at the beginning...

Cubanow.- A good laugh or even the slightest smile can be beneficial to one's health, especially in emergency situations. This is a long-standing conviction among the followers of American medical doctor Hunter Adams, who is also an outstanding writer and clown, better known as Patch. Although he doesn't use computers, his message is being spread all over the world. Patch Adams has dedicated his life to visiting remote places, including hospital wards in Russia, Afghanistan, Australia, Great Britain, Italy, Holland and several Central American countries, trying to help suffering human beings. He plans to spend some time in Palestine and...

Gerry Adams gets warm welcome, Liberty Bell model By EARNI YOUNG Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, who has been snubbed by U.S. political leaders in Washington and New York, received a warm welcome and a miniature Liberty Bell replica yesterday from City Councilman Jack Kelly. Kelly presented the bell to Adams at a press conference in the mayor's formal reception room in City Hall. Mayor Street did not attend the brief ceremony. Street's press office said the mayor never planned to meet with Adams and did not authorize the presentation of the Liberty Bell, an honor bestowed on visiting dignitaries....

Toronto Mayor David Miller attended the Second Annual "Friends of Sinn Fein Canada" dinner, held in Toronto in November 2002. Miller, who attended the fundraiser when he was a city councillor, was elected as Toronto’s mayor in November 2003. In an election year, Miller posed for photographs with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, along with Canadian Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett. Adams has had the door slammed on his North American fundraising stops on the heels of demands that the Sinn Finn end its support for criminal and terrorist activity in its support of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). On Thursday,...

Sinn Fein has had to call off a series of St Patrick’s Day fundraising events in America this week as pressure on Gerry Adams, the party’s president, spreads across the Atlantic. The events have been downgraded to speaking engagements after Adams was advised he would not be given permission to raise money in America because the IRA has come under heavy criticism for its involvement in bank robbery, money laundering and murder. Senior Irish-American senators have now demanded that the terrorist group disband. The reversal in Sinn Fein’s fortunes is largely due to the unrelenting campaign mounted by the girlfriend...

President Bush personally ordered that Gerry Adams be frozen out of official engagements during his visit to America, furious that the Sinn Fein leader had betrayed his efforts to help to re-start the Northern Ireland peace process. Mr Bush now views Mr Adams in the same unfavourable light as he did Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader, a senior presidential adviser said last night. "At the White House, Adams is now regarded with the same sort of disdain as Arafat," the adviser told The Telegraph. "The President no longer considers Mr Adams a reliable partner for peace. He doesn't want...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams, facing heavy criticism at home over Irish Republican Army activities, unveiled a weeklong trip Friday to the United States to seek support from Irish-American activists. Adams, a reputed IRA commander since the mid-1970s, said his trip, starting Saturday in Cincinnati, would allow him to tell American supporters about "the grave difficulties" surrounding Northern Ireland's peace process and to seek their support "to get the process back on track." Adams was banned from visiting the United States until 1994, when President Clinton (news - web sites) overturned traditional State Department policy...

...snip CU officials say roughly 15 percent of Churchill's $92,000-a-year salary - $13,800 - comes from state tax dollars. The remaining 85 percent - $78,200 - comes from tuition. But about 74 percent of that tuition - $57,868 - comes from out-of-state students, CU says. Ward Churchill gets paid plenty by the rich parents of kids from the country's major metropolitan areas who can afford CU's hefty nonresident bills. He owes his professional existence to the very "technicians of empire" he likened to "little Eichmanns."

Ward Churchill said in his most recent speech that Wall Street was named because of a wall that had once been part of a holding pen for slaves. He also said that the Wappinger tribe only thought they had rented a portion of Manhattan to the Dutch and that when they contested the sale the settlers massacred them, cut off their heads, and played kickball with the heads at roughly the site of the Twin Towers. The facts are easily googled. “A century before, Dutch settlers had built a wall to protect themselves from Indians, priates(sic), and other dangers.” -...

The University of Colorado is....hearing from Indian country [http://www.indiancountry.com] scholars whose previous protests against Churchill's appointment fell on deaf ears. The three-person panel reviewing Churchill's work is receiving studies that accuse him of fabricating evidence for his academic writing and even of plagiarism. At least one member of the UC faculty has also questioned why the University hired and promoted Churchill in the first place... Charges such as these will be grist for the University of Colorado review mill over the next 30 days. As DiStefano described it at the tumultuous Board of Regents meeting, it would consider two questions:...

Comment: Rod Liddle: Al-Qaeda is more honest than Gerry Adams It’s good to have the old murderous Provos back in the headlines, isn’t it? Al-Qaeda may, of late, have rather stolen their thunder but the crisis in the peace talks shows that there’s plenty of life left in the old dogs of the IRA. Of course, if you live in Belfast, and especially if you live in the nationalist areas of Belfast, they haven’t really been out of the headlines at all. You could be forgiven for wondering what on earth was all this fuss about the Islamo-fascist terrorist menace....

Bullet through both hands is latest atrocity by IRA By David Lister THEY call it the “Padre Pio”, but even by the sinister standards of Belfast punishment beatings it is particularly grotesque. At least three teenagers are known to have fallen victim to the IRA’s latest mutilation technique: with their hands tied together as if in prayer, they are shot through both palms with a single bullet from point-blank range. Named after the stigmata of Christ’s wounds from the Cross, the punishment is designed to teach a lesson to youths who dare to stand up and challenge their local IRA...

Since midsummer, the Senate Intelligence Committee has been attempting to solve the biggest mystery of the Iraq war: the disparity between the Bush Administration’s prewar assessment of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and what has actually been discovered. The committee is concentrating on the last ten years’ worth of reports by the C.I.A. Preliminary findings, one intelligence official told me, are disquieting. “The intelligence community made all kinds of errors and handled things sloppily,” he said. The problems range from a lack of quality control to different agencies’ reporting contradictory assessments at the same time. One finding, the official went...

GURA & DAY, L.L.C. 11350 RANDOM HILLS ROAD SUITE 650/800 FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA 22030 Phone: 703.###.#### Fax: 703.###.#### EMBARGO UNTIL 12/9/04 CONTACT: Trey Mayfield, Esq., 703.###.####   THIRD CIRCUIT ASKED TO RECUSE ITSELF IN SUIT AGAINST RENDELL   Philadelphia – Appellants in the federal civil suit, Adams et al., v. Teamsters Local 115, Rendell, et al., have announced today the filing of a highly unusual motion requesting that the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recuse itself from presiding over the case due to potential conflicts arising from the spousal relationship of one of its members, the...

A couple of DC chapter freepers have decided to do a $1000 "Christmas for Don and Terri" drive. We will match dollar for dollar all contributions up to a total aggregated maximum of $1000. The original thread is here. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1298998/posts Envelopes must be postmarked after Dec. 15, 2004 and before Dec. 25, 2004 and the envelope must have "Merry Christmas" on it. And that means "Xmas" or "Happy Holidays" will not do. Neither will "Merry secular gift giving day" Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas.

Of Holt and Hypocrisy December 13, 2004 Wythe Holt, a law professor at the University of Alabama is a self-proclaimed defender of the First Amendment. In 2002, Professor Holt came to the aid of a young black female, who had been censored by officials at her high school in Huntsville, Alabama. The student, Kohl Fallin, had written a poem comparing blacks and whites with the following line: “We are worth more than your pale white skin. Not a penny less but a thousand billion pennies more.” She also described the way she felt when racist remarks were directed towards her...

I was doing reasearch this evening for a debate tournament I am participating in a couple of weeks when I came upon this quote: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." -John Adams It seems to me this just nails the aclu argument about separation of church and state. Here we have a founding father stating that the constitution does not work if the people are not moral and religious. It seems to me we should be using this quote much more often in debates with...

It's A Restless Hungry Feeling ...11/19/2004 04:22:15 pmThe dreadful fallout from the re-election of George W. Bush continues apace. We'll be lucky if any of us are left alive at the end of the next four years to vote for Hillary. (That must be his plan!) The following article left me stunned and all but in tears: More New Yorkers At Risk For Hunger, Survey Finds. More New Yorkers are having trouble putting food on the table, according to a survey by the Food Bank for New York City. The study found 31 percent of city residents are “at risk...

...Kennedy did only slightly better in 1960, scoring 49.8% against Nixon. His plurality was one of the smallest in U.S. history..... This election was significant in that it marked the occasion when TV played a major, perhaps determining, part. Roosevelt had already demonstrated the importance of radio when his skill at the media, honed in his "Fireside Chats" as president, helped to secure his landslide re-election in 1936. In 1960, the media (overwhelmingly pro-Democrat) judged Kennedy an outright winner in the TV debates. It was said that his team persuaded the studio to turn up the lights so that Nixon...

Remarks by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Bush-Cheney '04 Policy Director Tim Adams Regarding the New Bush-Cheney '04 Health Care Ad(title edited for length)ARLINGTON, VA-- Today, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and Bush-Cheney '04 Policy Director Tim Adams made the following remarks regarding the new Bush-Cheney '04 health care ad: Senator Bill Frist:"Several points: Kerry’s health plan ultimately takes the power to make healthcare choices away from individuals and ends up giving it to the government. It costs more than twice as much as Kerry claims and will absolutely result in higher taxes on the middle...

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My new single-question IQ test Mike S. Adams Recently, a reader wrote to tell me that he had lost all faith in my intelligence because I made a derogatory remark about Charles Darwin in one of my recent editorials. The reader seemed to suggest that IQ could be measured with a single question. Apparently, his question was “do you believe in evolution?” Of course, that is not a good question to use on a single-item IQ exam. Intelligent people know that, since it was created, evolution has evolved into two theories. Micro-evolution tries to use Darwinian principles to explain variations...

A recent column, for those of you so thoughtless as to have missed it, was about what it might have been like if some of today’s liberals were involved with drafting the Declaration of Independence. I wrote that many of the Founding Fathers were geniuses who shared their talents in forming this, the greatest of all countries. I revere them. This is not a universally held view. A local man reminded me of that with correspondence he sent: "Just like the bullies that Republicans are. Take advantage of someone weaker than you and make it seem like you did something...

John Major was so angry at Bill Clinton for granting Gerry Adams a visa that "for days" he refused to take his telephone calls, according to the former American president's memoirs. Mr Clinton concedes that the row in January 1994 provoked the first serious disagreement among his foreign policy team. The State Department, the CIA, the Justice Dept and the FBI all argued, he recalls, that the visa would make America look "soft on terrorism" and "could do irreparable damage to our vaunted 'special relationship' with Great Britain". But he stands by his decision, arguing that Mr Adams's visit to...

On April 19, 1775, British and American soldiers exchanged fire in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord. On the night of April 18, the royal governor of Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage, commanded by King George III to suppress the rebellious Americans, had ordered 700 British soldiers, under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith and Marine Major John Pitcairn, to seize the colonists' military stores in Concord, some 20 miles west of Boston. A system of signals and word-of-mouth communication set up by the colonists was effective in forewarning American volunteer militia men of the approach of the British troops. Henry Wadsworth...