Wednesday, March 3, 2010

'I took the photos around Ash Wednesday 2010,' wrote Greg Miller. 'What appears to be the living, suffering Jesus being crucified on a tree. You can see his arms, face, beard, crown of thorns. It's a knot on a tree that I walk by every day, but have told almost no one about. I didn't want to attract a crowd there.'

A poem by the Welsh poet R S Thomas

The Coming

And God held in his hand A small globe. Look, he said. The son looked. Far off, As through water, he saw A scorched land of fierce Colour. The light burned There: crusted buildings Cast their shadows; a bright Serpent, a river Uncoiled itself, radiant With slime. On a bare Hill a bare tree saddened Thereports investigators are determining whether the fire started in a cabin before spreading or started as a wildfire before moving toward the homes.

The fire was attacked quickly by air and ground crews.

Elsewhere in Colorado, a fire near Mancos in the southwestern part of the state prompted authorities to order the evacuation of 55 homes Saturday. Fire spokeswoman Pam Wilson said the blaze was reported Friday and has burned and estimated 2,500 acres.

Crews also were battling a wildfire near Pagosa Springs that has charred more than 18,000 acres of rugged and inaccessible terrain north of the Piedra River. That fire was sparked by lighting May 13 and is 34 percent contained.


Series about girl with 3 billion years of memories slated for May 2019

Dark Horse Comics announced at its Otakon panel on Friday that it has licensed Shinji Kajio and Kenji Tsuruta's Emanon manga series and plans to release the first volume, Emanon Vol. 1: Memories of Emanon , in May 2019. Dana Lewis ( Wandering Island ) is translating the series.

The manga is based on Kajio's Emanon prose stories, which Kajio began in 1983 with a first volume titled Omoide Emanon (Memories of Emanon). He has since published six other volumes for the series, though two of the volumes were later compiled into one.

Tsuruta, the novels' illustrator, is collaborating with Kajio on the manga adaptations of the Emanon series. The Omoide Emanon manga volume shipped in 2008, andKajio and Tsuruta began an adaptation of the second book, Sasurai Emanon , in the same year. The Omoide Emanon manga was nominated for the Seiun Awards in 2009. The fourth Emanon manga volume shipped on April 26.

The title character Emanon ("No Name" backwards) is a mysterious girl who holds 3 billion years of memories — dating from when life began on Earth until now. Dark Horse describes the first volume of the manga:

The story of Emanon Vol. 1: Memories of Emanon begins in February 1967, where a young student is musing about the future on a ferry trip along the southeastern coast of Japan. On one side of the water, the war is escalating in Vietnam; far away on the other side, three astronauts have just died


in the Apollo 1 fire. During the overnight voyage, he'll meet and fall in love with Emanon—a mysterious young woman who carries a past deeper and more profound than all his dreams and fears of tomorrow.

Kurodahan Press published the first prose short story, also titled "Omoide Emanon," in English under the title "Emanon: A Reminiscence" in its Speculative Japan 2 anthology.

Kajio won the Nihon SF Taishō Award in 1991 for his novel Salamander Senmetsu .

Dark Horse is also releasing Tsuruta's Wandering Island manga, which was nominated for an Eisner Award last year. Tsuruta's Spirit of Wonder manga inspired two original video animations (OVAs) in 1992 and 2001. Dark Horse Comics licensed and published the original manga in 1998, and AnimEigo released the first OVA under the title SpiritOn his second day of events in Nashville, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke met with immigrants and refugees living in Tennessee on Monday for a roundtable discussion.

O'Rourke, a former Texas congressman, first held a rally at Marathon Music Works on Sunday, drawing hundreds of supporters to the campaign event where he largely focused on immigration and decried President Donald Trump's policies on detaining migrants at the southern border.

The Monday roundtable was organized by TIRRC Votes, the political action committee of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition. O'Rourke's campaignreached out to the organization about holding the meeting, which took place at The Horn Coffee, a shop owned by a family who came to Nashville in 1996 as refugees from Somalia.

"Here we are in Nashville," O'Rourke said as he


responded to a question about how, as president, he would combat white supremacy and make the country more welcoming to all people.

"I know this from my home state, Texas, places that formed the Confederacy, that this country was founded on white supremacy. And every single institution and structure that we have in this country still reflects the legacy of slavery and segregation and Jim Crow and suppression, even in our democracy."

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O'Rourke addresses immigration, raids, detention centers

First to speak was Martha Pulido a resident of Morristown for more than 20 years who shared in Spanish about being detained during a massive work site raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year at a meat plant Bean Station.

Alberto Librado Chavez, whohas lived in the United States 15 years, also shared in Spanish about his experience being detained for weeks after the raid, which resulted in the arrests of 97 factory workers.

O'Rourke, who is from El Paso, listened and responded to the pair in Spanish.

Through sharing their own stories and from comments made by Stephanie Teatro, co-executive director of TIRRC, the group urged O'Rourke to end work site enforcement by ICE and the use of private immigration detention centers. The also asked to renew protections for recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program Trump has sought to end.

Despite Teatro calling on O'Rourke to shift his position on a repealing a portion of the Immigration and Nationality Act that allows for criminal prosecution for border crossing, he said


from coming to a food bank," he said.

"They're wiling to deny themselves the food they need to subsist on for fear they will be arrested, detained and deported back to a country they haven't been to in 15, 20 years."

TIRRC representatives said they are interested in meeting with any presidential candidates who campaign in the Volunteer State.

"As candidates develop their platforms and vision for our nation's immigration systems, it is critical to understand the experience of immigrant families in America's new destination states," TIRRC Votes said in a statement. "In recent decades, immigrants and refugees are increasingly moving to communities outside of America's traditional gateway cities into communities like Tennessee."

Tennessee's immigrant population is one of the fastest growing in the country, the number of foreign-born individuals in Tennesseegrowing by 101% between 2000 and 2016, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey.

There are currently roughly 332,000 immigrants living in Tennessee.

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suicide, drop-outs and homelessness for male youth.

is a organization that helps place at-risk boys into supportive families and homes, preventing suicide, drop-outs and homelessness for male youth. The End Teen Suicide Campaign is dedicated to identifying and providing help to troubled teens in Colorado.

is dedicated to identifying and providing help to troubled teens in Colorado. CALM is a organization the specifically deal with male teen suicide in the UK. They over both a national and international help line, as well as a help chat-line for suicidal teenage boys.

is a organization the specifically deal with male teen suicide in the UK. They over both a national and international help line, as well as a help chat-line for suicidal teenage boys. 100 Black Men of America is a charity dedicatedto assisting black men and their families, as well as to help young black men go to college.

is a charity dedicated to assisting black men and their families, as well as to help young black men go to college. MenCap is a charity for those with learning disabilities living in the UK.

is a charity for those with learning disabilities living in the UK. CAMP camp is a charity and organization that helps send disabled children to an inclusive summer camps that include proper medical support for them.

is a charity and organization that helps send disabled children to an inclusive summer camps that include proper medical support for them. Top Spin is a charity and organization that combats early high-school drop out, especially in low-income areas. While they primarily


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Friday, November 13

When you are on look for your next read and hear about a book with Nazi and German's, a girl and so on..it least interests you. But when you are told that the narrator of the Story is "DEATH", you surely want to grab hold of the book.

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

I was astound and vehement when I heard about who was the narrator and at the same time excited to get that book. Thanks to a friend, I got it at once.

The protagonist of the story is a 9 year old girl Liesel Meminger, the book thief. After her brother's death, she arrives in German in a distraught state at the home of her new foster parents Hans and Rosa Hubermann.

A childhood aroundwar, Nazi Party, Hitler, Jews, Germany and a self-discovery as a book thief is well written by the author. It has a simple story, but the way it is narrated had a huge impact.

Liesel understands her situation, she is very considerate and a respectful girl. When you see the story through her eyes, it looks so innocent even though the war times are very brutal. Hans Hubermann is a talented accordionist, however a painter by profession. Not so talented when it comes to excelling in crowd, he always finds himself a step back. Hans is a loving and affectionate person and becomes a main source of strength and support to Liesel. He teaches her how to read and write.

Rosa Hubermann is strict and likes to be in control


of everything all the time. Rosa appears to be a complete opposite of what Hans is, however within, she at times is mild and compassionate. In spite angry nature of Rosa, Liesel likes her and she respects her.

Rudy is Liesel's neighbor and friend. They study in the same class and play football. They too share a great story throughout in the book.

Another interesting character in the book is Max. He is a Jew and he takes shelter at Hans's during difficult times. And the Hubermann's accept his stay inspite of the huge risk of Nazi. There is an interesting turn of events within the family due to Max's arrival. He, hiding in their basement, Liesel keeping his secret, reading to him, explaining him the weather outside and theHSBC Holdings Plc, BP Plc, Serco Plc, Rolls Royce Plc, accountants KPMG, De La Rue Plc and Arup, the engineering consultants. Cameron will be joined by four government representatives including universities minister David Willetts and trade minister Stephen Green as well as nine lawmakers from both chambers of parliament.

From Mumbai, Cameron travels to New Delhi tomorrow to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Pranab Mukherjee. He will push for greater access to the Indian market, particularly in the insurance industry and will seek to help move forward an EU-India free-trade agreement.

Cameron will also seek to reassure Indian leaders that Britain will remain a member of the European Union, saying that skepticism among Conservatives and the electorate needs to be tackled.

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If redemption according to law be not made before the 12th day of March, 1945, I will convey said premises to said applicant or his assigns.
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        Treasurer of Maricopa County
        State of Arizona."
The two sections of Arizona Code Annotated 1939, with which the above notice must comply are the following:
"73-835. Treasurer's deed. If any real property, at any time after the expiration of five (5) years from the sale thereof for delinquent taxes, be not redeemed from such sale, the purchaser, or his assigns, including the state of Arizona, may, at his option, instead of filing suit as hereinabove provided, receive a treasurer's deedAfter Weinstein Scandal, a Plan to Protect Models

The spotlight turned to the fashion industry not long after the Weinstein investigations were published in The New York Times and The New Yorker. The model Cameron Russell solicited and began posting anonymous stories from fellow models of their own experiences on her Instagram account, along with the hashtag #MyJobShouldNotIncludeAbuse. Her account is now filled with wrenching stories from both women and men in the industry.

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Trish Goff, a former top model, discussing her experiences with Mr. Weinstein, told The New York Times, “The horrible thing is, as a model, it wasn’t that unusual to be in a weird situation where a photographer or someone feels they have a right to your body.”

The issue was first brought to


the workplace,” said Ms. Rozic, who, when she was elected in 2012, was the youngest woman in the state legislature.

Ms. Ziff, who began modeling when she was 14, remembered “being made to sit on the lap of my booker, who was a man; being sent to castings and told to go into a room alone with a photographer who then asked me to take off all my clothes; going to shoots and being routinely asked to go topless with no warning — all this behavior that in any other industry would be recognized as inappropriate, but in fashion is treated as no big deal.”

Karen Elson, a top model and singer who is on the advisory board of the Model Alliance, said the biggest threat for her was whenworry dumbed down American COWARDS, Satan’s Government from the bowels of hell in Washington DC will be up and running in no time at all. The Satanist PSYCHOPATH Pedophiles controlling the: most vile, most evil, most disgusting, most criminal, most treasonous, most GENOCIDAL, most murderous, filthy government that was planned in hell, raised in hell, and spit out of the bowels of hell, because the United States CORPORATION Government was too evil and vile for hell itself….the PSYCHOPATHS have to keep the American Holocaust and Chemical Culling on track, so they will be back to the following in a very short time: abortion child sacrifices to Baal, poisoning our skies with aluminum, barium, and strontium, making sure the poisonous toxic GMO Endocrine Disrupting Chemical filled FAKE FOOD horror


is getting to the American COWARD toxic dump fat asses and the children they should of NEVER had, poisoning our water with fluoride and other dumbing down EDC chemicals, sending our children to die overseas for Satan’s COWARDLY United States Military of drunken bum dumbed down American COWARDS, and of course the CIA , NSA, FBI, and all the other TREASONOUS COWARDLY human filth in these United States CORPORATION Government Agencies from hell have to keep the American COWARDS under constant surveillance with the help of 5G coming right up your asses and RFID Chipping for ALL the dumbed down toxic dump American COWARDS and the children the American COWARDS suffering from Munchausens Syndrome should of NEVER had…..the list and LEGION of crimes of the United States CORPORATIONrun with the Scottish Agricultural College. She joined the Scottish Fisheries Committee the next year, monitoring effects of the electricity industry on salmon and other fisheries, and was also invited by Shetland Salmon Farming Association to advise on the Braer oil pollution spill.

She was invited to join the Scottish Salmon Strategy Task Force in 1995, and in 1998 became Vice-President of the Scottish Executive Fisheries Committee.

Beyond Scotland, from 1992 she was involved in EU education and training programmes FORCE, COMETT, ERASMUS and LEONARDO. Between 1992 and 1997 she spent periods of time at the Danum Valley Research Centre, Sabah, funded by the Royal Society and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), and on aquaculture and fisheries projects in Sarawak, Philippines, Taiwan and Singapore. In 1994 she worked in


Organic Aquaculture. In Towards Predictable Quality. European Aquaculture Society Special Publication No 27.

Publications from Government Committee
Salmon Advisory Committee technical reports:

Factors affecting emigrating smolts and returning adults (1993).

Run timing of salmon (1994).

The effects of predation on salmon fisheries (1996).

The anti-poaching measures contained in the Salmon Act 1986. (1996).

Salmon in the Sea (1996).

Fish passes and screens for salmon. MAFF Publications, London (1996).

Scottish Salmon Strategy Task Force (The Nickson Committee)

Report of the Scottish Salmon Strategy Task Force (1997). SOAEFD Publications, Edinburgh

Reports
Priede I.G. & Laird L.M. (1986). Fecundity of female mackerel (Scomber scrombrus). Report to the Scottish Office. 34pp.

Laird L.M. & Priede I.G. (1986). Histological investigations of mackerel fecundity. Report to the Scottish Office. 22pp.

Laird L.M. & Priede I.G. (1986). Notes of a stereological technique for the estimation of the number ofdisplay panel having a plurality of source electrode interconnects extending in a first direction (for example, a longitudinal direction) on an inner face of an insulating substrate and juxtaposed in a second direction (for example, a transverse direction) intersecting the first direction, a plurality of gate electrode interconnects extending in the second direction and juxtaposed in the first direction, a thin-film transistor disposed at respective crossover points of the source electrode interconnects and the gate electrode interconnects, constituting a pixel respectively, a plurality of common electrode interconnects for applying a common electrode voltage (hereinafter referred to merely as “common voltage” as well) to common electrodes disposed through the intermediary of a liquid crystal layer, respectively, and an external terminal coupled in common to the common electrode interconnects, and


a liquid crystal drive circuit supplying various signals and voltages for effecting display on the liquid crystal display panel. In this connection, the liquid crystal display device is not limited to one wherein the plurality of common electrode interconnects are coupled in common to the external terminal (also referred to as a common electrode terminal, or merely as a common electrode), outside a pixel region (display region) of the liquid crystal display panel but some liquid crystal display panel has common electrodes serving as a flat electrode in common to all pixels.
In display operation of the liquid crystal display device, the thin-film transistor of the pixel selected by a select voltage applied to one of the gate electrode interconnects is turned on, and an alignment direction of theST. LEO, FLA – Usually when high school athletes advance to the university level they struggle with no longer being the best player on the field. But Saint Leo freshman Ethan Ticehurst is no ordinary lacrosse player. The former Coquitlam Adanacs captain back in B.C., starred during his time in the Western Lacrosse Association where […]


December 09, 2011, 9:15AM

Brandon Roy has given Portland a mountain of memories but none more dramatic than last season's monumental comeback against Dallas in the NBA Playoffs. Roy brought his team back from a 23-point deficit to level the series at 2-2. The all-star guard scored 18 fourth quarter points in one of the greatest comebacks in NBA history.

December 05, 2011, 6:05PM

Team President Larry Miller and acting GM Chad Buchanan say there are no plans to use the amnesty clause on Brandon Roy, and coach Nate McMillan even mentions the possibility of Roy returning to the starting lineup.

July 23, 2011, 10:47PM

A charity basketball game held at Key Arena in Seattle Saturday afternoon was supposed to have featured Brandon Roy among a handful of other players with connections toagency in the USA Mindcruncher –

At the beginning of 2016 we finished the development of landing page for a company which helps start-ups and small companies with a limited budget develop and implement a business idea in the US market. The project is designed at MODX Evolution, it is multilingual, has also animated and adaptive HTML layout. Nominated for csswinner in SOTD category. The complexity of the development was mostly due to a large amount of information to be placed on one page. We are confident that the new site will help the company reach a new level andgive answers to numerous questions of its future clients.

SAP – Prototype for the site of the Specialized Anti-corruption Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine

The main task of the prototype was to create


Prosecutor's Office. The map of the courts of Ukraine allows you to review for each area or specific court the number of planned and postponed meetings on SAP investigations. Also on the site there are news, pages about SAP, its management and about work in SAP.

The project was funded by the International Development Law Organization in Ukraine (IDLO)

The system for translation quality assessment and monitor translation quality TQAuditor –

The site for the system for assessing and monitoring the quality of translation, that appeared as a result of evolution of ChangeTracker project. The system allows you to compare different versions of translated files, categorize errors in corrections by the type and severity, and to determine the quality factor for each job, and much more. The project has an adaptive,clean design with individually designed icons and nice animation.

NABU – Redesign of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine

At the beginning of 2017 we launched an updated version of the website of National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.In the new version, we improved the design, redused and structured menu, added pages "Press Center", "Territorial adminidtrations", "Open Office" and made the block statistics on investigations. We also selected and set up the learning platform, where users could view the lectures, passed courses and be more informed about the work and the life of Bureau, set up integration with marketing tools and made possible to display Live-broadcast directly on the site. The project was funded by European Union Advisory Mission (EUAM).

VUSO – The updated online portal of the insurance company VUSO

The updated


get a grasp of the sites, they more trust innovations and innovative technologies. We had to grab their attention from the first minute spent online. To this end we have gathered a lot of information from the customer and held many meetings to crystallize the most important message to visitors. Also, a lot of time spent on the design, which should be very simple and with the right placed accents. On the site there is a built-in store.

SEOUp – Landing website for the company of promotion and advertising of web-projects on the Internet

Simple, not overloaded with information site now is a mega-popular services for promotion and advertising on the Internet. The main services of the company - SEO promotion and contextual advertising - carried out in the style- we had designed the background and admin part.

Widerstrahl – Rest for all tastes

Teсhnoleх – Quality translations in Ukraine

This site has nominated for the best design in the CSS Aword. It's a good corporate website, where the most important pages are made in the style of the landing. Some of the information submitted with graphics. It have the excellent modern design not accidently - our designers follow the world trends in this area. Both clients and we are very happy with the result.

Academy Montreux – Landing for Academy of Montreux in Switzerland

ArhKottedzhStroy – The site for the construction of wooden houses

The site on which each page is designed as a landing. In fact, every page of the site is an independent selling unit and promotes your product or


of products and goods in the form of a list of categories. Customer very professionally approached the development of the site and proposed a literate version of the basket , and also actively participated in the creating of the prototype. On the site also trigger messages implemented.

Doltec – Landing of professional services company

SunScreenSystem – Landing for selling roller shutters

We were approached by the customer, who has recently developed website. The problem was that no calls or requests from the site had been received. Why so? Because the site has turned out unable to sell. Many long texts, technical information, and so on just "shipped" a visitor with not needed information. We made a simple landing and calls started to appear. Also we placed the navigation buttons on thecontender and shored up his backline in future outings.

For their part, Manchester City were utterly ruthless in how they tore apart their prey. The first goal set the tone: Sergio Agüero was so quick to the flicked-on corner that it left Laurent Koscielny striking a phantom ball with such vigour that he spun into a 180° turn. Theo Walcott twice briefly restored a semblance of hope to proceedings with a few uncharacteristically calm, well-placed shots, but ultimately it was for less than nought.

Then-manager Manuel Pellegrini got his tactics spot-on as his team unlocked the Gunners at will. The score was hardly an exaggeration, Yaya Touré’s last-minute penalty bringing the tally to half of what it could have been. City kicked on from the win and went on to


City on the wings — Monreal achieving redemption after tapping in an early cross from one such move.

After providing the assist for the first goal, Touré was suffocated in midfield along with Kevin de Bruyne and given little space to manipulate the ball. Once Alexis Sánchez secured the winner, it was time for the shop to close up and see out the game reasonably comfortably.

Arsenal would go on to lift the FA Cup — an achievement the conspiracy theorists credit as the reason Wenger still has his job.

Chelsea vs Manchester United (3-1) January 19 2014

Samuel Eto’o’s Chelsea stint was more a stroll in the twilight than a bold pitstop in his illustrious career. You wouldn’t have guessed that during United’s visit to Stamford Bridge during Mourinho’s first seasonback in charge, however.

The Cameroonian was a terror, leaving Phil Jones more flat-footed than a dozing duck before cutting in and finishing from a deflected effort. The Red Devils struggled to cope with the Blues’ movement all game long and could do nothing as Eto’o poached another two goals to complete his hat-trick.

They struggled to break down a formidable backline, meanwhile, and only managed to grab a consolation goal late in the day. Mourinho had Eto’o to thank for spearheading the businesslike display and promptly thanked him by mockingly insinuating that he had lied about his age a few weeks later.

From a United perspective, it was one of the many nails that ultimately doomed David Moyes to obscurity.

Manchester United vs Chelsea (2-0) April 16 2017

Come last season, the


Former special counsel Robert Mueller is sworn in to testify to the House Judiciary Committee about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

A tranche of FBI 302s (summaries of agent interviews) were declassified this week via a Freedom of Information Act request. Among them was a 302 from a July 12, 2017 interview with State Department translator Anatoli Samochornov, who attended the now infamous June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting.

Fox News Contributor and investigator Dan Bongino explains the significance of this 302 in episode 1198 of his daily podcast. This single document proves that Special Counsel Robert Mueller knew in July 2017 nothing nefarious had happened during the meeting. Yet, he ignored theevidence and continued on with his bogus investigation – to protect his own. This was a pivotal month for the Mueller team as you’ll soon see.

In early July 2017, word was circulating through the intelligence community that the FBI would be interviewing the participants of a June 2016 meeting held in Trump Towers. Those who attended the meeting included Jared Kushner, Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya (client of Fusion GPS founder, Glenn Simpson), Samochornov (wife worked for State Department), lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, a former Soviet military officer, and Rob Goldstone, an acquaintance of Trump Jr. who helped set up the meeting. Bongino explains that this meeting was a set-up intended to foster the Russian collusion story.

The story of the June 2016 meeting was leaked


to The New York Times, and on July 8, 2017, the Times published a story entitled “Trump Team Met With Lawyer Linked to Kremlin During Campaign” triggering a media frenzy.

Trump Jr. agreed to the meeting because Goldstone had told him the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton. Who would pass up a chance to gather dirt on an opponent?

After the Russians arrived, they began discussing the Magnitsky Act, legislation which imposed sanctions on Russian officials found guilty of human rights violations. They strongly diapproved of it. Very quickly, Trump Jr., Manafort and Kushner realized they were wasting their time. Kushner texted someone to call him to give him an excuse to leave. The meeting lasted 20 minutes.

The first question that enters Bongino’s mind when an article of thisnature is published in The New York Times or a similar media outlet is, what are they trying to get ahead of?

Four days later, the FBI interviewed Anatoli Samochornov. The 302 states:

There was no discussion of the 2016 U.S. presidential election or collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign…There was no smoking gun. Samochornov did not believe there had been any mention of Hillary Clinton…Veselnitskaya did not offer any materials during the meeting and no papers were exchanged. Samochornov was not particularly fond of Donald Trump Jr., but stated that Donald Trump Jr.’s account of the meeting with Veselnitskaya, as portrayed in recent media reports, was accurate. Samochornov concurred with Donald Trump Jr.’s accounts of the meeting. He added, “they” were telling the truth. Samochornov told


everybody.’

What else?

Paul Manafort’s home is raided on July 26, 2017. (He attended the meeting.)

General Michael Flynn and his son are first contacted by the Mueller team.

Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen was placed under investigation.

Bongino’s final point is that the Mueller team ignores the real Russian collusion that’s going on before their very eyes. The Clinton campaign hired Christopher Steele to produce a dossier which by now they know is fake, because the FBI has interviewed his primary sub-source three times (January, March and May 2017).

In addition, Steele had met with State Department official Kathleen Kavalec in October 2016 telling her his sources were Vyacheslav Trubnikov, the former head of the Russian SVR, and Vladislav Surkov, Putin’s assistant.

Mueller knew two things the whole time:

1. It was actually the Hillaryfor turning in their old bonds. The Euro leaders and the IMF provided around €130bn in new money plus €34bn left over from the previous Greek package to fund the interest to be paid on the new Greek government bonds, repayments to the IMF, money to recapitalise the Greek banks and money for the cash on the PSI deal.

As part of the PSI, the ECB bought up some of these bonds, for which they were guaranteed repayment as they matured by the Greek government, as part of the bailout packages that ensued. In total, the ECB and national central banks bought €56.2 billion of Greek debt, according to analysis by a University of Munich academic. Of this, €29 billion has been repaid, with €27 billion still outstanding. The


Secretary of State Mike Pompeo nailed it in Berlin on Friday. Speaking at the Berlin Wall the day before the 30th anniversary of its fall, Pompeo explained the necessity of an enduring American-led liberal international order.

Pompeo needed this performance. After all, the former congressman and CIA director has had a rough time of it lately. Perceiving his unwillingness to defend their interests to President Trump, the morale of State Department employees is running low. Pompeo has also failed to advance administration policy on Venezuela, where he has sought to present Reagan-type leadership. And the secretary's own frustration has been playing out in his increasingly aggressive media interviews.

But on Friday, at least, Pompeo rediscovered his mojo.

Describing "former KGB officer" Vladimir Putin, Pompeo observed how Russia "invades its neighbors andrefuge in Germany and elsewhere in Europe."

These words will infuriate Beijing, which craves international legitimacy even as it acts in concerted fashion to destroy the liberal international order. Good. The United States remains the indispensable leader against this new imperium. Europe needs reminding that China is no righteous friend.

Not only were Pompeo's words right, so was their timing, and not simply because of the symbolism between the anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall and rising threats to global freedom. After all, President Emmanuel Macron of France this week pretended to be the new leader of the free world, while simultaneously sucking up to imperial China. Macron's absurdity now meets the realism of American leadership.

To those watching, then, both friend and foe alike, Pompeo has reminded the world that


Authorities in Virginia say a 61-year-old man accused of molesting two small children was attacked by the children's father when he discovered what was happening.

The father of the children was not charged in the beating.

The incident happened in the early morning hours of Dec. 29 at a home in Spotsylvania. The Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office says Mark Stanley of Burlington, North Carolina, was in the area visiting family for the holidays.

That morning, one of the family members woke early and went to check on his two children, a 2-year-old and a 3-year-old. When he opened the door to the children's bedroom, he found Stanley in the room with the children undressed from the waist down, the sheriff's office said. When the father asked what he was doing inthe room, Stanley allegedly pushed him out of the room and locked the door, authorities said.

The father then forced his way back into the room and began beating Stanley, authorities said.

Spotsylvania County sheriff's deputies were called to the home and found "a chaotic scene and an older male with severe injuries to his face," they said. The injured man was later identified as Stanley.

The other man was approaching Stanley with a handgun, deputies said. They told the man to drop the gun, and he complied.

Stanley was taken to a local hospital for his injuries and was later sent to Rappahannock Regional Jail with no bond.

The children were taken to the hospital to be evaluated for injuries.

Stanley is facing two counts of taking indecent liberties with a child and


Our house is situated in the out skirt of the city in a peaceful and clean area, we have our own vegetable garden where we grow vegetables, from my home Taxi takes Rs 200/- to take you Golden Temple,

there is big lobby and Vegetable garden

Neighbour hood is very nice and peaceful

After spending a week in budget hotels in Agra and Delhi we decided to treat ourselves to a nice homestay. The room was clean, comfy and had an attached bathroom. But the best bit about the stay was the hospitality. Gurinder was a great host, he sat with us at breakfast, answered our questions about Sikhism and the local area. It was a pleasure chatting with him and talking about his plans for improving the area and makingis a haven for travellers looking for their own sanctuary away from the hustle bustle yet not far away from it. You'll be staying in my humble abode which is now in it's 15th year of life. With conversations flowing around, and memories to be made, you'll surely have a memorable stay.
My journey with Airbnb which started 4 years ago has now been filled with memories for a whole lifetime. Becoming a Superhost has only added to this journey.

•The Place:
Located in the lanes of Chand Avenue, my house is conveniently located in neighbourhood which is close to the main highway leading to Wagah Border.
My house is well-furnished and not only has the modern amenities but also facilities available for travellers of all kind.
•The Room:
The room with a King-Size


the five rivers of Punjab. Enjoy all the modern amenities along with those special homely touches, that encourage you to rest a little bit longer
A perfect place to escape the hectic pace of modern life. We assure you’ll leave Amritsar revitalized and with memories that last a lifetime.

Windsong is located away from the hustle and bustle of the city yet close enough to all the tourist attractions of Amritsar.
Airport: 6 mins
Railway Station : 20 mins
Bus Station : 20 mins
Golden Temple : 25 mins
Wagah Border: 35 mins
Trillium Mall : 15 mins

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Farmstay with Heritage Charm
5-min from Airport, 15-min from Golden Temple
Up to 4 rooms available with private washrooms
Haveli can accommodate max of 11 adults

Green Acres Haveli and Retreat is nestled amongst fruit orchardsin the outskirts of Amritsar city. The owners have recently restored and opened their home and warm hospitality to guests looking for a relaxing and memorable stay in the holy city of the Golden Temple. Just minutes from the International Airport (ATQ), this rustic Haveli is appointed with modern amenities and offers a great alternative to staying in a hotel.
Style and Layout
This Haveli's architecture is a harmonious blend of traditional punjabi village essence and Moghul influences. It has a large gate and high-outer walls surrounding an inner courtyard around which various rooms are built - which is typical of dwellings built by Punjabi landlords between late 19th and mid 20th century. Nanak-shahi bricks that are over 150 years old line the large iron gate entrance to the haveli.
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decorated rooms and suites named after the five rivers of Punjab. Enjoy all the modern amenities along with those special homely touches, that encourage you to rest a little bit longer
A perfect place to escape the hectic pace of modern life. We assure you’ll leave Amritsar revitalized and with memories that last a lifetime.

Windsong is located away from the hustle and bustle of the city yet close enough to all the tourist attractions of Amritsar.
Airport: 6 mins
Railway Station : 20 mins
Bus Station : 20 mins
Golden Temple : 25 mins
Wagah Border: 35 mins
Trillium Mall : 15 mins

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Farmer's Villa Was Founded In Month Of May 2013.
Only a short 15 Minutes drive away from the big city’s noise and fuzz, within beautiful green trees,Free Breakfast, 30% discount on all meals, 50% discount on liquor, Visit to Golden Temple, VIP passes for Wagah Ceremony, Pul Kanjari Tour, Attari Village Tour.

The property is designed in exposed brickwork which is symbolic of the pre partition architecture of Punjab, highlights elements of old Lhaore and Amritsar. There is various art works at display from artists from India and Pakistan, like the truck art of pakistan, ceramic jali work, stone wall mural from Varanasi etc.

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Royal Guest House
2/94 sarwar road Lahore Cantt
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It's on main sarwar road from Rahat bakery( PSO Petrol Pump) signal it's 0.5 km on left side.
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It is located opposite to cantt Public black colour gate


Britain’s security services face new questions over news that perpetrators in the Manchester and London Bridge attacks were “known wolves” — extremists who’d attracted public attention, even proclaiming themselves would-be jihadis.

Yet authorities considered none to be anything more than a “suspicious person” — and certainly not an imminent threat.

One London attacker, Khuram Shazad Butt, actually appeared last year in a TV documentary on “The Jihadis Next Door” unfurling an ISIS flag in a public park.

He also had close ties to one of the 7/7 transit terrorists as well as to a radical preacher known as a recruiter of British Muslims to extremism.

And local Muslims had actually reported his frightening views to officials.

Youssef Zaghba, meanwhile, was detained last year in Italy while trying to travel to Syria to fightand sister, Nina, veto power over everything she wrote in the book. They read every draft, and neither asked her to leave anything out.

It took ages for Jamie to figure out who she is, independently of her father. As early as second grade, a classmate identified her as “famous father girl.” She was fifty before she found “another way to be in the world of music.” And the right path turned out to be concert narration, which she came to quite by accident.

The catalyst was The Bernstein Beat, a program featuring Bernstein’s own music and based on his legendary Young People’s Concerts with the New York Philharmonic. Jamie’s artistic partner is the conductor Michael Barrett, a close associate of Leonard Bernstein. They did a test run with the


through concert narration.

The picture would not be complete without Leonard’s activism. In the 60s and 70s, people were afraid to talk about politics, especially when Richard Nixon was president. But Leonard and his wife, Felicia, were committed to making the world a better place and spoke out when they perceived an injustice. The children grew up with that whole sensibility, which is part of who they are today.

The siblings are devoted to keeping their dad’s legacy alive. The centennial provided an unrepeatable opportunity to introduce young people to his life and music. While many young people have not heard of Leonard Bernstein, they are usually familiar with West Side Story. And now a movie remake of West Side Story, directed by Steven Spielberg, is in production. It featuresof homosexuality in recent decades. Once gay marriage passed, she thought that most Americans viewed gay people as normal. She believes we’re in the midst of a backlash against gay rights, and it’s as hard to talk about difficult topics today as it was in the 60s and 70s.

When asked about the future of classical music, Jamie referenced her father’s passion for teaching and social justice. Her optimism is fueled by personal experience with El Sistema. Founded in 1975 in Venezuela, El Sistema is a national system of youth orchestras and choirs that lifts children out of poverty and gives them tools for life. The concerts she heard in Venezuela were some of the best she has ever attended. “It was like going to a ball game,” she


Laurent Koscielny is leaving us to join Ligue 1 side Bordeaux.

The centre back has made 353 appearances for us since signing from Lorient in 2010. He was part of our Emirates FA Cup-winning squads in 2014, 2015 and 2017.

Laurent, who started his career in the French second division at Guingamp in 2004, has played 51 matches for France and was entering the final year of his current contract with us. We decided to sanction his move to Bordeaux once we agreed acceptable transfer terms.

We thank Laurent for his contribution to the club and wish him all the best for the future.

The transfer is subject to the completion of regulatory processes.commercialization effort. Blank says she wants "a real step-up in ways we engage in the economic development agenda for the state."

During a four-year stint as deputy U.S. commerce secretary, Blank says she learned that economically successful regions attract investment and industries by building partnerships between the public, private and educational sectors — and there is always a large research institution involved.

"The University of Wisconsin-Madison is that research center. It is the ideas factory and the innovation center for the state," Blank said. "It has got to be a partner with the state and with the private sector if we're going to attract the high-tech manufacturing, nutrition, software, health care businesses of the 21st century."

The key job openings Blank will have a hand in filling include director positions at


and what's not," Blank said. "At the end of the day, it's the university's responsibility to make sure we're doing that outreach into the business community.

"Our responsibilities don't end at the borders of our campus. We have a responsibility to figure out whether these opportunities can be useful to the community around us."

It is always difficult for bureaucrats to justify taking a stake in a risky start-up with the promise of lucrative future licensing deals with big companies, said Paul Jones, co-chairman of the venture capital group at the law firm of Michael Best & Friedrich.

But such decisions often must be made for a university to forge start-ups. Right now, many financiers aren't as comfortable working with UW-Madison as they are working with other universities, Jones said.

"Hopefully thisis a sign the university is saying, 'We can't get the money here alone, but we can make it easier for these groups to work with us the way they work with the more experienced universities, the familiar faces,'" Jones said.

Blank said she has no plans to try to tap the vast resources of partner organizations like WARF (with $2.4 billion in assets) and the University of Wisconsin Foundation ($2 billion in assets as of June),which are independent of the university.

However, she pointed out that some other universities — such as the University of Michigan, where she was once dean of the public policy school — are investing in technology commercialization.

"Michigan is 12, 15 years ahead of us. They've been working on this longer, particularly on the venture


capital side," Blank said. The University of Michigan in 2011 committed $25 million from its endowment to fund its own start-up companies.

Research spending

UW-Madison's nearly $1.2 billion of research spending in 2012 ranked it sixth among academic institutions such as Johns Hopkins, the University of California System and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to the Association of University Technology Managers, or AUTM.

But UW-Madison ranked 13th for licensing income in 2012 — 30th when adjusted by university research expenses and 40th when adjusted by the number of technology transfer office employees, according to a Brookings Institute report published in November.

And the university started just four companies in 2012, none of which WARF took a stake in, according to AUTM's data. By comparison, in that same year, with less than$700 million of research spending, Northwestern University created and took stakes in five start-ups.

The university's contributions, and those of University Research Park, are not "fully measured" in many of the statistics, Blank said. University Research Park is a critical part of the D2P plan, because it gives campus entrepreneurs a place to grow their businesses, she added.

Many top-performing universities are relying on partnerships with industry to help transfer technology into commercial products, according to The Burrill Report, a publication of San Francisco financial services firm Burrill & Co. UW-Madison received $23.2 million of its research spending from businesses in 2012, the second-lowest among the country's top 10 academic research institutions, according to AUTM.

Much of the commercialization at places like MIT, Carnegie Mellon and CalTech is coming out of


have supported transferring UW-Madison's research into start-ups, but none has had much success, said Matthew Storms, an attorney at AlphaTech Counsel S.C., a Madison law firm focused on entrepreneurs and start-ups.

"There's a lot of excitement when they're initiated, but there isn't a whole lot of evaluation of the real success of the initiatives," Storms said. "I want to see the accountability associated with it."

D2P will aim to transfer four to seven technologies in the form of start-up companies or licenses to existing Wisconsin companies, and to create at least 20 new professional jobs during its first two years, organizers said in their grant application to the UW System.

The initiative is in its early stages, and the goals will be more concrete once there is a director to forgeFM: Committed to Andhra Pradesh special package

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Finance Minister says Centre committed to giving special package to Andhra Pradesh, says proposal of giving assistance to the state based on the 90:10 formula for 5 years already with the state govt.

Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said that Centre is committed to giving Andhra Pradesh financial assistance equivalent to a special category state. He said, for Andhra Pradesh, the centre is committed to give 90 per cent of the funds, equivalent to special category states, through other means like external agencies.

On Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu's demand for fulfilling the promise of giving the state a special status, Jaitley said such a category did exist when the state was bifurcated in 2014.

For special category status, Centre meets 90


2018-19 Wisconsin Global Educator of the Year award in a brief ceremony January 16 during the Patrick Marsh Middle School all staff meeting in Sun Prairie. State Superintendent Carolyn Stanford Taylor will present the award, commending Kowalczyk for her work to bring an international perspective to her classrooms and community.Outside Linebackers are a combination of a safety's speed, defensive lineman's size, and a middle linebacker's attack mentality.

In this detailed instructional football DVD, Coppell High School's Outside Linebackers Coach Mike DeWitt, presents essential techniques and 10 key drills to help create a high caliber outside linebacker.

Coach Dewitt's drills will show you:

How to attack a blocker to better gain outside leverage to defend the outside and reduce the C gap seam.

How to shed the trap block and still be in position to make the tackle in the backfield on a bouncing RB.

How to look through offensive lineman to back read and maintain position for cut back while not creating a running seam for the RB.

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It was the 1970s, and the chief executive of a leading U.S. dairy company, Kenneth J. Douglas, lived the good life. He earned the equivalent of about $1 million today. He and his family moved from a three-bedroom home to a four-bedroom home, about a half-mile away, in River Forest, Ill., an upscale Chicago suburb. He joined a country club. The company gave him a Cadillac. The money was good enough, in fact, that he sometimes turned down raises. He said making too much was bad for morale.

Forty years later, the trappings at the top of Dean Foods, as at most U.S. big companies, are more lavish. The current chief executive, Gregg L. Engles, averages 10 times as much in compensation as Douglas did, or about $10 milliontenfold, to $9.8 million, according to company records. Similarly, from 2000 to 2009, sales at what would be Dean Foods had roughly doubled, and so had profits, to $228 million. (Engles became chief executive after the company he led bought Dean Foods in 2001 and adopted its name.)

Yet there are vast differences in the way the two men were paid, even when you adjust for the effects of inflation.

In the late 70s — 1977, 1978 and 1979 — Douglas made about $1 million annually in today’s dollars. The largest part of that was a salary; some came from a long-term incentive based on the stock price that would not mature until he retired.

By contrast, in the late 2000s — 2007, 2008 and 2009 — Engles averaged $10.5 million


uses of air and sometimes the use of other gases. For example, both streams tend to include nitrogen and oxygen from the atmosphere since calcining is typically performed in air and air typically provides the oxygen for combustion. Cement plant flue gas often also contains oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, referred to generally as SOx and NOx, as well as hydrogen sulfide and other greenhouse gases.
The production of renewable chemicals involves the capture of carbon oxides and their incorporation into chemical products. Microbial systems offer environmentally sustainable, greenhouse-gas-sparing, and highly energy, water, and carbon-efficient, chemical manufacturing processes for the capture of carbon oxides. Microbial chemical production can be local in most areas, and can be co-located with carbon releasing industries such as cement manufacturing. By using carbon capturedStackley, Chief of Naval Operations Jonathan Greenert, and Lieutenant General John A. Toolan.

John Glenn was delivered in 2014 to the Military Sealift Command's Maritime Prepositioning Force. As an ESD, the ship is under the command of the United States Navy's Military Sealift Command, and thus will not be commissioned into the US Navy (hence her designation prefix, "USNS"). The ship will undergo further construction additions at the Vigor Shipyard in Portland, Oregon.

Ship re-designation
Effective 4 September 2015, U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus officially announced the creation of a new ship designation, "E" for expeditionary support.  Joint High Speed Vessel (JHSV) will be called Expeditionary Fast Transport, or EPF; the Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) will be called Expeditionary Transfer Dock, or ESD; and the Afloat Forward Staging


Daughter of local photographer, a film student, avid Star Wars fan, and budding young fashion model, Katie Shea Walters sure has her hands full modeling, walking in events such as the recent “Philadelphia Fashion Week”, oh, and-as mentioned-she’s a film student.

Katie and I first got together in January of 2013 and have worked together a couple times since then. These images are from our very first shoot together. This was very much a run-and-gun style shoot as we ran around a Philadelphia area town called Manayunk and captured images in several different areas of town. This shoot was a stylized, fashion-influenced, environmental portrait shoot to get Katie some unique and fun pictures that she could add to her portfolio.

The light source in these images was a single light,toyed with what I could using the ambient light (what little there was) in the scene.

Brodi Valos

Brodi Valos is a talented and perpetually hard working musician/recording artist who performs throughout the Mid-Atlantic region with Philadelphia-based group Dirty Electrick. Brodi, who himself hails from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is recognized for his roots rock sense of style in fashion, performance, and in his music videos.

Inspired by classic music icons such as AC/DC, The Rolling Stones, & Ray Charles, and even my all-time favorite group, Social Distortion, Brodi creates a wonderful blend of Rock and Country in his tracks that you’re sure to enjoy.

Did He Just Say 'Ron Paul'?

Brodi is a man after my own spirit and, like myself, views Dr. Ron Paul as the best of the candidates for presidential election


in the upcoming 2012 Presidential election as we rapidly approach the conclusion of the Republican Natl. Primaries.

Gethin Lewis is a musician and guitarist from Philadelphia, PA who, along with playing music with Brodi, creates his own Psychedelic brand of music. A great personality and a bunch of fun to photograph!

We had a great time hangin’ out and shooting these photos and spent some time chatting after we put the camera down. Check out some of my favorites below!

Natural Light Shooting

Penn University

A couple of weeks ago I photographed a student named Andrew Frechinella. He is attending Penn University in Philadelphia. I shot him on the UPenn campus in the University City district of Philadelphia. He’s wrapping up his very own PhD and was looking to try his hand atThe "Habsburg jaw," a facial condition of the Habsburg dynasty of Spanish and Austrian kings and their wives, can be attributed to inbreeding, according to new results published in the Annals of Human Biology.

The new study combined diagnosis of facial deformities using historical portraits with genetic analysis of the degree of relatedness to determine whether there was a direct link. The researchers also investigated the genetic basis of the relationship.

Generations of intermarriage secured the family's influence across a European empire including Spain and Austria for more than 200 years but led to its demise when the final Habsburg monarch was unable to produce an heir. However, until now no studies have confirmed whether the distinct chin known as "Habsburg jaw" was a result of inbreeding.

"The Habsburg dynasty was


one of the most influential in Europe, but became renowned for inbreeding, which was its eventual downfall. We show for the first time that there is a clear positive relationship between inbreeding and appearance of the Habsburg jaw," says lead researcher Professor Roman Vilas from the University of Santiago de Compostela.

The researchers recruited 10 maxillofacial surgeons to diagnose facial deformity in 66 portraits of 15 members of the Habsburg dynasty. Despite differences in artistic style, the portraits are characterised by a realistic approach to the human face. The surgeons were asked to diagnose 11 features of mandibular prognathism, otherwise known as "Habsburg jaw," as well as seven features of maxillary deficiency, the most recognisable of which are a prominent lower lip and an overhanging nasal tip.

The portraits, whichcan be viewed online, are preserved by some of the most important art museums in the world, including the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and the Prado Museum in Madrid.

The surgeons gave scores for the degree of mandibular prognathism and maxillary deficiency in each member of the Habsburg family. Mary of Burgundy, who married into the family in 1477, showed the least degree of both traits. Mandibular prognathism was most pronounced in Philip IV, King of Spain and Portugal from 1621 to 1640. Maxillary deficiency was diagnosed to the greatest degree in five members of the family: Maximilian I (regent from 1493), his daughter Margaret of Austria, his nephew Charles I of Spain, Charles' great-grandson Philip IV and the last in the Habsburg line, Charles II.

The study authors detected


The Hillers family - Bo, Ann, Redding, Nacho (the dog), Sam and Mason, traveled from Baltimore to Mexico's San Miguel de Allende for a two-year sabbatical that has turned into four years.

The Hillers family - Bo, Ann, Redding, Nacho (the dog), Sam and Mason, traveled from Baltimore to Mexico's San Miguel de Allende for a two-year sabbatical that has turned into four years. (Ann Hillers Photo)Monday, November 28, 2005

The Khaleej Times (Dubai, UAE) of November 24 reports that Michael Jackson, who recently settled in Manama, Bahrain's capital, is donating large sums of money (amount undisclosed) to build a state-of-the-art mosque near his luxury palace in the city. "Jackson did so," says the report, "as a token of appreciation to the Bahraini people, who welcomed him and treated him as if he was one of the citizens of their country." Michael's brother Jermaine, formerly of the Jackson Five, converted to Islam in 1989.

An AP report states that 22 Emirati men were arrested at what police called a "mass homosexual wedding" earlier this month at a hotel chalet in Ghantout, on the Dubai-Abu Dhabi highway. Four others were arrested, including an Indian DJ and three


appear yesterday (Wednesday November 23).

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Occasionally, we are permitted a view of the everyday reality of the Israeli occupation in the West Bank, now in its THIRTY-NINTH year. This AP photo appeared today on the front page of our local paper, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, with the caption, "Israeli soldiers stop Palestinian schoolgirls during a scuffle Tuesday in the West Bank town of Hebron before tear gas was fired to disperse the crowd." The message of the photo itself, of course, is much more powerful than the caption.

This photo also reminds me of summer 1993 which I spent in Ramallah with my family. I remember walking with my wife and son, who at the time was five years old, from downtown Ramallah (the Manarah), where we didour shopping, to the Batn al-Hawa district, where we were staying in a friend's apartment. On our way we always passed by the Ramallah bus station. On the roof of a tall apartment building that overlooked the bus station there was an Israeli military post from which soldiers kept watch on the goings-on below. I recall, on more than one occasion, spotting an Israeli sniper, beading his gun on my five year old son.

Monday, November 21, 2005

Here's another piece by Josephine Meckseper, from an exhibit entitled, "IG-Metall und die künstlichen Paradiese des Politischen," at Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, April 24-June 5, 2004. Again, the kufiya, red this time, appears twice. On the left are two figures who appear to be doing the Muslim prayers, using the kufiya as


a prayer rug. A strip of red kufiya material separates the praying figures from the lower half of the body of a glamorous model, clad in fashionable slacks and red high heels. On both sides of the kufiya strip, the figures are depicted in prostrated and worshipful positions.

Sunday, November 20, 2005

It's weird: yesterday I finally got around to scanning and writing about 3 of the kufiyas I've spotted over the last few months. Today, while thumbing through the New York Times T Style Magazine: Travel I find this! The reproduction of a piece by Josephine Meckseper called "Untitled," featured at the Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art that runs through December 31.

Two of the three parts of this work feature the kufiya. First, there is the manikin, wearing thekufiya as a scarf that partially obscures her breasts. She also sports a kind of hoody vest, which covers her head and hints (vaguely) at an Islamic headscarf. Her gold pendant is an iconic marijuana plant. Second, above and to the right is a painting, whose style is remiscent of Russian Futurism. The straight line which looks like it might be part of a question mark is a piece of kufiya fabric. Next to the manikin is the cover of a book, entitled The Angry Brigade, 1967-1984: Documents and Chronology. The Angry Brigade were a left-wing, anarchist-inspired urban guerilla organization in Britain that conducted a series of bomb attacks on "establishment" targets between 1970 and 1972. (The Angry Brigrade could be compared, loosely, to the US Weather Underground.)

Printed


Matter's press release for its book launch for The Josephine Meckseper Catalogue describes what the artist is up to as follows:

Meckseper's work reveals the ways in which counterculture becomes codified through surface concerns such as style and packaging. Hippie accessories such as used Birkenstock shoes, orgy rugs, Palestinian head scarves, and psychedelic wallpaper rub shoulders with conservative political parties' campaign posters, German union logos, and installations of retail windows. Her filmic, photographic, sculptural and performance-based investigations into the aesthetics of political protest are ironically at home in a (mock) publication dedicated to style.

Kufiyaspottings #2-#4 below illustrate well the kufiya's role in the phenomena that Meckspeper is investigating: how countercultural and leftwing politics are closely connected to style, "cool," and commodification.

Saturday, November 19, 2005

This photo is from the backcover of The Libertines' second, self-titled, album. The band member wearing the kufiya is guitarist-vocalist Carl Barat (if you click on the photo you can see a larger and clearer image). Next to Barat, in the hat, is Pete Doherty, The Libertines' legendary bad boy: confessed heroine and crack addict, in and out of rehab and court, boyfriend to Kate Moss. By the time this album appeared, Doherty was out of the band. The Libertines are a somewhat mainstream, Top 40 rock band, often compared to The Strokes, The Hives and the like. It's worthy of note, therefore, that Barat chose to wear a kufiya in this photo. But also important to remember that The Libertines are English. Meaning that: (a) solidarity with the Palestinians is much more


acceptable there than in the US and (b) public opposition to the Iraq war has been much more sustained and vocal than here.

The photo is from the jacket (not the cover) of Defunkt's 1988 release In America. Defunkt was a great and eminently danceable New York jazz-funk fusion band led by trombonist Joseph Bowie. (Bowie's picture is on the cover, the photo here shows the band members.) I think the guy wearing the kufiya is Ronnie Drayton, who along with Bill Bickford plays guitar on the album. (Drayton has also recorded with Nona Hendryx, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Bill Laswell, and James Blood Ulmer.)

It's notable that Defunkt's In America was released in 1988. Kufiyas had been worn for a number of years by US progressives expressing solidarity with the Palestinians,The photo above shows her in front of the "separation barrier" at Gilo. The US press insists on calling Gilo a "Jerusalem neighborhood," but in fact, it is in fact an illegal Israeli settlement on West Bank land.

Meanwhile, the moderator of the Church of Scotland's General Assembly, David Lacy, has just spent two weeks in Israel and the Palestinian territories. After viewing the same wall that the Senator saw, he remarked,"when you actually see where it is, you see that it's not for security, it's for making political statements. It's theft of land and I don't know how you can justify it on the grounds of anti-terrorism." Lacy went on to say the barrier is "a huge, horrible, oppressive sign of distrust and hatred in the birthplace of


the son of God"

David Lacy is, of course, much more in tune with reality, and with world opinion. As for Hillary, she is running for re-election (and of course has her eyes on the White House). This appears to require stating one's unqualified support for the state of Israel. As a UPI report put it, "U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Israel on a visit intended to put to rest any lingering doubts about her support for Israel."

Saturday, November 12, 2005

Interview from TomDispatch with Ann Wright, a native of Bentonville (home of Walmart). Ann is one of three Foreign Service officers who publicly resigned immediately before the launching of the invasion of Iraq, in protest of US foreign policy. In August, she helped run Camp Casey forCindy Sheehan in Crawford Texas, and more recently, she was escorted out of chambers for protesting against Condoleeza Rice's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

(My one quibble with the interview concerns what she says regarding her recent speech at Fayetteville High School. She describes "Fayetteville, Arkansas," as "a very Republican part of the United States." Although Northwest Arkansas is indeed very Republican, Fayetteville is very Democratic.)

Leaving that aside, the U of A should definitely give this woman an honorary doctorate!

A very important article on the US torture debate by Michael Ratner from the Center for Constitutional Rights and one of the leading defenders of the tortured over the last few decades. A couple juicy quotes:

The idea that torture could be so publicly defensible -- and the news


that the United States is maintaining secret facilities in former Soviet-era prisons for torturing nameless and disappeared people -- fills me with shame and horror.

All the fictions that sustained the war on terror -- that abuses were one-time mistakes by low-level grunts; that the rules about human rights weren't clear; that soldiers didn't understand the parameters when they beat and humiliated and tortured prisoners -- have been replaced by a clear declaration: The United States is going to torture people as it sees fit, to subject them to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment wherever and whenever it decides to.

Typically, this article appears in Spiegel and not the US media.

Meanwhile, another very important article, from Ken Silverstein in the LA Times, entitled "U.S., Jordan Forge Closer Ties in Covertdon't tortureWe're a civilized nationWe're avoiding any confrontationWe don't tortureAlleged crimes withheld informationShe gets no sanitationDries her shit on her cell wallFeeling cold and sickShe gets a couple of valiumNow she's relaxed for the next interrogationNaked spreadeagled on her backIt's a better position for internal examinationIt's a better position for giving informationAn armed guard squad she gets a beatingbleeding and wounded she's stopped eatingHas a baby gets nothing for pain They came and took her baby away

Saturday, November 05, 2005

Bouna Traore, 15, born in Mauritania, and Zyed Benna, 17, of Tunisian background: accidentally electrocuted on October 27 at an electricity sub-station in Clichy-sous-Bois, one of Paris' banlieues (suburbs), after reportedly fleeing from police.

Nicolas Sarkozy, France's Interior Minister:

Declares a "war without mercy" on violence in the working-class suburbs/banlieues.

Friday, November


04, 2005

The legendary Brian Eno, French-Algerian Arabo-punkrocker Rachid Taha, Nitin Sawhney (major figure in the Asian Underground movement) and Imogen Heap (Euro-electronica-pop) are joining forces on November 27 in a concert to benefit England's Stop the War coalition. (The concert is at the Astoria in London.)

Eno plays on Taha's latest album, Tékitoi, and has appeared with him in concert earlier this year. The concert marks Eno's first stage appearance in England since 1979. Interviewed in The Independent on Tuesday, Eno had this to say:

It's up to us few who haven't surrendered to television to say, 'Hold on, there's a world out here and it's going badly wrong. Do we want to continue to be proud little partners of a bunch of medieval rednecks [he means Bush & Co.]or are we going to choose to do something about it?'

Although Taha's great song, "Barra Barra," famously appears in the soundtrack of Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down, Rachid is a longtime and vocal opponent of US interventionism in the Middle East. (He gave permission to Scott to use the song based on Scott's earlier movies, but he considers Black Hawk Down "Orientalist.") In the film, "Barra Barra" comes on as Rangers and Delta Force soldiers are gearing up to go into battle in Mogadishu. It is such a kick-ass song that it serves the function of making them look very cool, ready to "rock'n'roll." I later met someone who served in the US military in Afghanistan who said that guys in his unit used to play Rachid Taha's


"Barra Barra" to get pumped up before they went out on patrol. (I should add that the young man who told me this story is now a Middle East Studies student and is not uncritical of US policies in the Middle East.)

Thursday, November 03, 2005

Lisa Schwarzbaum reviews Hany Abu-Assad's film Paradise Now in the latest Entertainment Weekly and gives it an A-! She writes: "Of all the shocks in the riveting and timely political thriller Paradise Now, the most unsettling may be the dignity bestowed on a pair of prospective Palestinian suicide bombers..."

Eitan Haber, former spokesperson and speechwriter for the late Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin, has confirmed in an article published by Yediot Ahranot (read translation here) that Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, assassinated noted Palestinian writer andPFLP spokesperson Ghassan Kanafani. Kanafani and his niece Lamis (pictured above) were killed by a car bomb in Beirut in July 1972. Kanafani, born in Acre in 1936, is one of Palestine’s most famous writers, best known for his novellas Men in the Sun (adapted for a film, al-Makhdu’un [The Dupes], by Egyptian director Tswfiq Salim) and Return to Haifa. (I found this on The Angry Arab blog)

Eitan Haber, by the way, co-authored (with Michael Bar-Zohar) the sensationalist book The Quest for the Red Prince: Israel's Relentless Manhunt for One of the World's Deadliest Terrorists, about Mossad's ultimately successful effort to assassinate Arafat's lieutenant Ali Hassan Salameh, who was said to have been the head of Black September and to have been responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympics


operation, in which 11 Israeli athletes and 5 Palestinian hostage-takers lost their lives. Haber says, in the Yediot Ahranot article, that "two years after the incident took place it was revealed that all of the killed were by German snipers in spite of the fact that everyone believed that the Palestinians killed them". (Whenever Munich is discussed by the US media, it is invariably claimed that the Palestinian hostage-takers killed the Israeli athletes, although it has been known for years that this was not the case.) Although German snipers were responsible for the deaths, Israeli PM Golda Meir, according to Haber,"issued an order to form a ministerial committee in order to assassinate Palestinian figures,and take revenge." A wave of assassinations ensued.

Ali Hassan Salameh, who Mossad eventually managed totake out in 1979, was married to Georgina Rizk, the Lebanese Miss Universe (1971), shown above in hotpants.

Sen. Hillary, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is off to visit Israel next week, to meet with PM Sharon and deputy PM Peres. The purpose, says the New York Times, is "to discuss American-Israeli relations, in a trip that may help her strengthen her support among Jews in New York as she faces re-election next year." As a taxpayer, I'm glad that I can help out with this important project. Hillary will "reiterate her condemnation of remarks made by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran calling for the destruction of Israel." Isn't that brave of her? And she will visit a portion of the "security fence" (a.k.a. separation barrier,


a.k.a. apartheid wall) Israel is constructing in the West Bank, a move that she supports.

Meanwhile, an art exhibition in protest of the separation barrier, called Three Cities Against the Wall, opens this month simultaneously in three cities: Ramallah, Tel Aviv, and New York. The photo above is a painting by Suleiman Mansour, one of the Palestinian organizers of the exhibit. Maybe when Hillary's in Israel she could drop by the Beit Ha'omanim gallery in Tel Aviv, or after her visit to the wall she could check out the Al-Hallaj Gallery in Ramallah. And when she's back in NYC, she could drop by ABC No Rio at 638 East 6th Street.

The press release for the exhibit reminds us:

The Separation Wall was found to be illegal by an advisory opiniongiven by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague on July 9, 2004. In its ruling, the ICJ stated: "The construction of the wall being built by Israel, the occupying power, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in and around East Jerusalem, and its associated regime, [is] contrary to international law."

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Though one of the great and sometimes unnoticed benefits of being at a place like Middlebury is the opportunity for students to get involved and make a difference in the town, in Addison County, and even in Montpelier, our state capital, living and learning at this institution revolves around being part of this intellectual community. It is a community filled with remarkably talented students, dedicated staff, and the very best faculty you can find if you are ready and willing to be challenged


here, and to our College, Painter purchased land on speculation just east of the Otter Creek during a chance trip to the region, and then, years later, when things got stale in his native Salisbury, Connecticut, he moved his family to Middlebury in the early 1770s to take his chances on a new life. When Painter moved to Middlebury, the population numbered fewer than 125, less than half the number of first-years living in Battell today, or slightly larger than the population in Allen Hall.

By the 1790s, Painter, largely uneducated, saw the need for his two sons to obtain a better education than what he had growing up in Connecticut, and what was available in and around Middlebury. Thus, he began negotiations to establish a grammar school, orwhat he called a central academy, to supplement the existing district school, which was located along the falls, on the site that today houses, of all things, American Flatbread Pizza. In 1797, with the help of several prominent Middlebury families, Painter secured land on the west side of the Otter Creek and then a charter to begin a grammar school.

A year later, in the fall of 1798, Timothy Dwight, then president of Yale and, at the time, New England’s most venerated educator, visited Middlebury. The Yale president was in Vermont to complete some research on the economic geography of the region, but also to enjoy Vermont’s wondrous natural environment while convalescing from a recent illness.

The trustees of the new grammar school, and Painter in particular, believed strongly that


if the fledgling town was to become prosperous, and the Champlain Valley was to become a viable region, both would need a college or university. In fact, prior to getting the charter for the grammar school in Middlebury, Painter had decided that the grammar school he was founding needed eventually to be expanded into a college, and believed that gaining the approval and support of someone of Timothy Dwight’s stature would make that all the more possible.

In what College historian David Stameshkin and Painter biographer Storrs Lee describe as the closest thing to a Potemkin Village-like affair, Painter and the grammar school trustees wined and dined Dwight during his visit to Middlebury. They asked Samuel Miller, who was best known and most appreciated for having married an innkeeper’sdaughter, to host what was described as the best prepared meal anyone had ever witnessed in town. They lubricated the meal, and the guests, with Miller’s finest liqueurs, and by the end of the dinner, the hosts had secured Dwight’s approval for the project.

In his own account of the evening, written in his personal papers, Dwight alluded to the unusually fine meal, the intensity and sincerity of the hosts’ cause to start a college, and to the way in which he conveyed his blessings to the project along with a pledge to continue to advise Painter and his colleagues through the tedious process of securing a state charter.

Soon after the Dwight dinner, Painter began his work with the Vermont legislature to gain permission to establish his college in


Middlebury. His proposal failed to make the assembly’s agenda in two successive legislative sessions—the 1798 and 1799 gatherings—but though irritated and impatient, Painter persevered.

As a way to pressure the legislators to take up his cause in 1800, he offered Middlebury, with its spanking new court house, to play host to that year’s legislative session, and his offer was accepted. By the way, in those days, the state capital was not located in Montpelier, as it is today. In fact it was not located in any one place, but rather alternated each year between a town on the eastern side of the Green Mountains one year, and then one on the western side the next.

The 1798 and 1799 legislative sessions might have ignored Painter’s petition for a charter, butthe third session was the charm. During the three-week session in 1800, Middlebury citizens, merchants, and, especially, tavern owners gave the visiting legislators the red carpet treatment, hoping to help Painter and his crew attain the much sought-after charter. Despite the significant and even hostile protests from the 20 representatives from Burlington and Chittenden County, where a university charter was awarded nine years earlier, the assembly approved Painter’s petition, and officially granted a charter for what would become Middlebury College on November 1, 1800.

Perhaps the representatives from Burlington were embarrassed: even though their town received the state’s first charter for a university in 1791, the university, despite having already completed the construction of a president’s house, had yet to hire a faculty member or teach a single student.

Painter


and his colleagues—all New England Puritans, and most of them educated at Yale—donated $4,150 to construct the first college building. Classes began in the newly constructed building, which sat on the site of present-day Twilight Hall. For nineteen years after the College’s founding, as both the College and town thrived, Gamaliel Painter walked the streets of the town and carried with him the famous walking stick that is circulating among you now. At his death in 1819, Painter left a bequest of more than $13,000 to the College, a huge sum of money at the time, and it served to secure the college's future.

I provide this background so you can appreciate Painter’s remarkable vision and determination, and become acquainted with the College’s most important founder. The success ofthis College—indeed its very existence— is the result of Painter’s vision and the elaboration of his vision by generation upon generation of his successors. His cane, a replica of which each graduate of the College receives at Commencement, has become the College’s most important symbol, and has come to represent many of the things we aspire to inculcate in our students—in all of you.

The spirit of Gamaliel Painter lives on in the rich history of this College and through the notable contributions of its alumni. You, the newest members of the College’s extended family, are now a part of this long and great history, and your College welcomes you today with open arms, an open heart, and some very high aspirations for each and every one of you.

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