to be issued in the chronological order in which the Native Americans lived or the events occurred.

The themes to be depicted as well as the actual designs are selected by the Secretary of the Treasury following consultation with the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate, the Congressional Native American Caucus of the House of Representatives, the Commission of Fine Arts, the National Congress of American Indians, and review by the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee.

The following design themes have been chosen for the program:

2009: Spread of Three Sisters Agriculture

2010: Government and the Great Tree of Peace

2011: Diplomacy Treaties with Tribal Nations

2012: Trade Routes in the 17th Century

2013: Delaware Treaty of 1778

2014: Native Hospitality and the Lewis and Clark Expedition

2015: Mohawk Ironworkers

2016: Native American Code Talkers of World WarI and World War II

The obverse design for each year of the series has featured the portrait of Sacagawea and child originally designed by Glenna Goodacre for the previous Sacagawea Dollar series. For the current series, the design was slightly modified by moving the inscriptions of the date and mint mark to the edge of the coin where they appear along with the motto “E Pluribus Unum”.

Native American Dollars have been issued alongside the Presidential Dollar series, which features four different designs per year honoring the former Presidents of the United States. Legislation requires that each year at least 20% of all dollar coins produced must carry the Native American Dollar designs. This requirement has had a significant impact of the mintage levels throughout the series.


                                   FACTS

       During the summer of 2012, A., the daughter of appellant Benjamin Newman,

brought her friend C.J., then 13, to visit appellant in his trailer home. C.J. testified that, on

the night of June 19, A. went to sleep in a bedroom, and appellant and C.J. remained in the

living room, watching videos and drinking alcohol. C.J. fell asleep in a chair and woke

during the night to find appellant putting his tongue in her mouth and his hands down her

pants. She told A. about this the next morning, but toldno one else.

       On the night of July 4, C.J. and appellant again stayed up watching videos and

drinking alcohol while A. slept. When C.J. fell down on the floor, appellant got on top of

her, looked down her pants, said he wanted to see more, and told her to go into his bedroom.

There, he removed her clothing below the waist and had intercourse with her for what C.J.

thought was about half an hour. He then told her to clean up; she did so, put on her clothes,

and went to sleep. A couple of weeks later, she told A. what had happened. She and A.

agreed that, if it happened again, they would leave appellant’s trailer.


drilled a pair of goals in the El Camino finale against Wilcox, entered the CCS competition as the Mustangs’ leading goal scorer with seven. Junior Caitlyn Wong tallied six, while seniors Katherine Newton and Gabrielle Squarcia scored five each. Squarcia also delivered eight assists, giving her the team lead in points with 18.

Other contributors to the Homestead cause this season were senior Jamie Dodge, who shared captain duties with McCafferty and Newton, juniors Kristen Torres and Jasmine Parekh, sophomores Vida Pourmond and Isabella Stavoli and freshman Maylis Basturk.

Sophomore goalkeeper Daniele Ortiz benefited from stout defense in front of her, scoring six shutouts in the last seven league contests and 12 overall. She made 73 saves and let in just eight scores. Other than the three goals allowed toLive Oak, Homestead never allowed more than one to any team, outscoring opponents 52-8 in 18 games.

Freshman Casey Dry-den, a goalie on the junior varsity team this winter, was added to the varsity roster for the CCS tourney.

Matadors in again

It has been a long time since Monta Vista did not earn a berth in the CCS playoffs. The match with Lincoln this week marked the ninth year in a row that the Matadors competed in the D-I tournament.

Coach Alan Kute’s squad was a defensive-minded unit that permitted just 20 goals in 20 regular season matches this season. With junior Gal Haroush in goal, the Matadors closed De Anza Division play with four shutouts in a row, including scoreless deadlocks against league front-runners Los Gatos and Mountain View.

Junior Hadar


Sachs paced Monta Vista scoring with 11 goals and five assists. Senior Gabby Ley had four goals and two assists for the Matadors, who took momentum into the playoffs by finishing the season 5-0-3 in its last eight games.

Six players scored five or more goals as The King’s Academy earned second place in the eight-team West Bay Athletic League.

Sophomore Michael Svozil scored nine goals and three assists to lead the Knights, who put together a 10-3-1 record in league play and a 13-5-1 overall slate. Senior Josiah Pekary was the points leader (24) for the Knights with seven goals and 10 assists. Other big offensive contributors were seniors Brian Bostrom (seven goals, five assists), Nick Altabet (five goals, six assists) and Jacob Shull (five goals, three assists). FreshmanEmilio Gallegos made a strong impact during his first season with five goals and five assists.

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Investigators believe a Russian couple knocked their victims out with sedatives, then skinned them alive. Afterward, police say, they ate parts of their victims, froze the remains or packed them in jars filled with saline solution.

Otto Warmbier was arrested in January 2016 at the end of a brief tourist visit to North Korea. He had been medically evacuated and was being treated at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center when he died at age 22.


for by subtracting the Fourier transform of the first frame. The third row plots the development of the total intensity of the images minus the intensity in the isotropic phase, as determined from an isolated isotropic region, normalized by the initial nematic intensity. Qualitatively the difference between the concentrations is obvious. In the first two images, i.e. the two highest concentrations, isolated dark ellipsoidal structures can be seen on a bright back ground. These are droplets of the isotropic phase referred to as tactoids. The number of tactoids increases when the concentration is decreased (b and c) until the structures become interconnected (d and e). This also follows from the fourier transform of the pictures where a ring is detected for the lowest concentration and a constant increasingCollins Construction Website Launches

We are delighted to announce a new working relationship with commercial fit out and refurbishment company, Collins Construction.

Appointed to design and deliver a fresh, engaging website to better showcase the project portfolio and modernise the firm's online offering, Avenue is pleased to share news - not only of our new client, but of our latest Umbraco launch too - after a very ambitious timeframe which kept us very busy through January! Check out the website here.

Collins Construction is 60 years old this year, and the website launch coincided with the official anniversary date, 25th January 2016. Collins Construction provides refurbishment and fit out services to owners and occupiers, and delivers projects costing up to £20 million within the commercial office, healthcare, education and leisure sectors.

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Recent years have witnessed a number of happy events in the study of Ancient Near Eastern medicine. One of these was the publication of the book under review, which is a comprehensive investigation of the status, nomenclature, pathologies, and treatments of the eye according to sources written in the cuneiform script. The bulk of these stem from Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) and are in Babylonian, but a small number, from Anatolia (ancient Turkey), are in Hittite.

The author, a meticulous and versatile scholar, has digested a large body of relevant scholarly literature, done extensive philological work on primary texts, and also sought to integrate the evidence of the ancient sources with modern medical knowledge. In this, she wisely sought the assistance of the medical profession. The result is impressive, andking of the Doliones in Mysia.

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Homonoia between cities proclaimed their commonality of interests, like that of "sister-cities" in the modern world, and was based on political, economic and religious connections. The cities of Asia Minor preserved this tradition under the Roman Empire, with an extensive interlinked system of such commonalities. Among the cities participating in homonoia, Ephesus seems to have been the most popular, undoubtedly due to its status as the principal cult center of Artemis. Cyzicus, an economic powerhouse due to its location on the southern shore of the Propontis, dominated the trade routes between the Black Sea and the Aegean since the Classical period. Thus, a reciprocal alliance between the major regional trader and the cult site would benefit each other immensely.

This type cannot be adequately explained, but mustin thymectomized mice or spontaneous lesions in IQI/Jic mice developed independently of the tolerance through Treg.

Yersiniosis was prevalent among a caprine herd during the late autumn of 2003 in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. The disease affected 29 of about 100 lactating goats, but not dried or nonparous goats, mature male goats or kids. Four animals died within an epidemic period of 20 days. Affected animals developed decreased milk production with subsequent watery diarrhea, neutrophilia with increased band forms and multiple microabscesses characteristic of yersiniosis in the intestinal mucosa from the jejunum to caecum as well as in the mesenteric lymph nodes. Y. pseudotuberculosis serotype III was isolated from intestinal contents and mesenteric lymph nodes. The organism was also cultured from clinically normal dried animals. The outbreak might have been


Be You magazine is a lifestyle magazine for upwardly mobile individuals who like to splurge on themselves and experience the good things of life while they keep abreast of the goings in the Niger Delta.

Adamawa PDP gov primary holds tomorrow

A day to the conduct of its governorship primary in Adamawa State, the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has refused to release the names of its officials that will conduct the exercise.

The exercise holds in Yola on Saturday (tomorrow).

Efforts made by punch correspondent at the national headquarters of the party at Zone Five, Abuja on Thursday to get the names of the party’s officials that would be saddled with the responsibility of conducting the primary were not successful.

None of the national officials of the party was availableto speak on the matter.

While the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, was said to have travelled outside the country, the National Organising Secretary, Alhaji Abubakar Mustapha, was said to have travelled to Kaduna in preparation for the wedding of his daughter coming up this Saturday.

Metuh’s deputy, Alhaji Ibrahim Jalo, said he was not briefed on such matter when contacted.

“I don’t have any information on the issue,” he said.

However, investigations by our correspondent showed that the party was waiting for the outcome of the meeting President Goodluck Jonathan scheduled to have with the 14 aspirants at the presidential villa on Thursday night.

It was gathered that the meeting was aimed at persuading the aspirants to accept a consensus candidate for the primary.

Many of the aspirants were


however said to have insisted that the primary must hold and promised to support whoever emerged as the winner during the October 11 governorship election.

A member of the National Working a Committee, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told our correspondent that the non-release of the names was tactical.

He said though the party was waiting for the outcome of the meeting the President was going to have with the aspirants, he also said “we refused to release the names in order to avoid them being compromised.”

Meanwhile, the immediate-past National Chairman of the PDP, Ambassador Bamanga Tukur, has called on Nigerian politicians to ensure the enthronement and sustenance of equity and justice in their political crusade and dealings.

He said that equity and justice remain the bedrock for the consolidationThe Bobby McIlvaine World Trade Center Investigation Act is draft legislation that would establish a Select Committee in either chamber of Congress to reinvestigate the destruction of the three World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001.

The Act is named after Bobby McIlvaine, who was tragically killed at the age of 26 while entering the North Tower of the World Trade Center and whose father, Bob, has been an outspoken leader in advocating for a new investigation.

Mr. McIlvaine and Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth call on everyone who supports a new investigation to contact your members of Congress and urge them to introduce the Act. You can contact your members of Congress through our website at http://AE911Truth.org/Justice or directly on your own.


Playing other people's pieces helps to introduce you to new people and make new friends

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Training composers to write for other instruments is important and is easier if you make friends!

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Composer Chen Yi sits down with CIM's Head of Composition, Keith Fitch, to discuss the importance of composers continuing to perform.

Composers:Chen Yi

Instruments:Composer

Recorded Date:
04-04-2014

Keith Fitch

Composer

Keith Fitch currently heads the composition department at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he holds the Vincent K. and Edith H. Smith Chair in Composition and also directs the CIM New Music Ensemble. Called “gloriously luminous” by The Philadelphia Inquirer, his music has been consistently noted for its eloquence, expressivity, dramatic sense of musical narrative, and unique sense of color and sonority. Reviewing a performance of his work Totem by Wolfgang Sawallisch and The PhiladelphiaOrchestra (chosen by Maestro Sawallisch to celebrate the orchestra’s centennial), The Wall Street Journal praised “the sheer concentration of his writing, and its power to express a complex, unseen presence shaping the course of musical events.” His works have been performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan by such ensembles as The Philadelphia Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, the New York Youth Symphony, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, the Da Capo Chamber Players, and new music ensembles around the country. Additionally, his music has been heard at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the June in Buffalo Festival, the Midwest Composers’ Symposium, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Milwaukee PremiereFest, New York’s Carnegie and Merkin Halls, and


in university settings nationwide. Highlights of recent seasons include the premieres of ’Tho Night Be Falling (commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation for the Colorado String Quartet); Midnight Rounds, written to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Da Capo Chamber Players; and Mean Fiddle Summer, composed for the acclaimed violinist Lina Bahn. The 2012-13 season brings the premieres of Knock on Wood (for the harp/guitar duo of Yolanda Kondonassis and Jason Vieaux); Cascade, a fanfare commissioned by Cleveland’s Museum of Contemporary Art for the inauguration of their new building; and In Memory, a new chamber orchestra work commissioned by the League of Composers Orchestra (NY).

A native of Indiana, Keith Fitch (b. 1966) began composing at age eight and began formal musical training on the double bass at ageeleven. While still in high school (age sixteen), he received his first professional orchestral performance. Subsequently, he attended the Indiana University School of Music, where he completed his Doctorate in 1995. At Indiana, he studied composition with Frederick Fox, Eugene O’Brien, and Claude Baker, double bass with Bruce Bransby and Murray Grodner, and chamber music with Rostislav Dubinsky, founder of the Borodin Quartet. He also counts Donald Erb and Joan Tower among his compositional mentors. Among his many awards are the annual Dean’s Prize for Composition at Indiana (1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994), the Kate and Cole Porter Memorial Fellowship at Indiana (1993-1995), three ASCAP Young Composer Awards (1988, 1989, 1993), the ASCAP-Raymond Hubbell Scholarship (1988), three National Society of Arts and Letters awards (1990, 1992, 1993),


an Individual Artist Grant from the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts (1994), and a Fromm Foundation Commission (2005). He has enjoyed multiple residencies at The MacDowell Colony (1998, 2001) and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2002, 2003, 2004, 2007), as well as at The Charles Ives Center for American Music (1991), and the Atlantic Center for the Arts (1989), and he has twice served as Resident Composer and faculty at the Chamber Music Conference and Composers’ Forum of the East (2002, 2006). He has also served as guest composer at California Summer Music (2010) and at the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music at Bowling Green State University (OH, 2010). Most recently, he was the recipient of a 2012 Individual Excellence Awardfrom the Ohio Arts Council.

Highly regarded as a teacher, chamber music coach, and conductor of new music, he has taught at Indiana University (2001), Bard College (2005-2006, 2007-2008), and for eleven years served on the faculty of the Mannes College of Music in New York (1997-2008), where he founded the new music ensemble, CIRCE. His students regularly win awards from such prestigious organizations as ASCAP, BMI, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Fulbright Foundation, as well as attending leading summer festivals around the world. Students interested in studying with Dr. Fitch are strongly encouraged to contact him at The Cleveland Institute of Music (www.cim.edu) prior to auditioning.

His music is published by Non Sequitur Music (www.nonsequiturmusic.com).

Chen Yi

Composer

As a Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City


Conservatory of Music and Dance, a prolific composer and recipient of the prestigious Charles Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2001-04), Chen Yi* blends Chinese and Western traditions, transcending cultural and musical boundaries. Through doing so, she serves as an ambassador to the arts, creating music that reaches a wide range of audiences, inspiring people with different cultural backgrounds throughout the world. She holds both a BA and MA in music composition from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and received her DMA from Columbia University in the City of New York, studying composition with Wu Zuqiang, Chou Wen-chung and Mario Davidovsky. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.

Chen Yi's music has been commissioned by YehudiMenuhin, Yo-Yo Ma, Evelyn Glennie, the Cleveland Orchestra, the BBC, the Seattle, Pacific, and Singapore Symphonies, the Brooklyn, New York, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Raschèr Saxophone Quartet and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke's, and recorded on many labels, including BIS, New Albion, CRI, Teldec, Telarc, Albany, New World, Naxos, Quartz, Delos, Angel, Nimbus, and KIC.

Dr. Chen has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (1996) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1994), as well as the Lieberson Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1996). Other honors include first prize in the Chinese National Composition Competition (1985), the Lili Boulanger Award from the National Women Composers Resource Center (1993), New York University’s Sorel Medal (1996), the


CalArts/Alpert Award (1997), a Grammy Award (1999), the University of Texas Eddie Medora King Composition Prize (1999), the Adventurous Programming and Concert Music awards from ASCAP (1999 and 2001, respectively), the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Elise Stoeger Award (2002), the Edgar Snow Memorial Fund’s Friendship Ambassador Award (2002), the Kauffman Award in Artistry/Scholarship from the UMKC Conservatory (2006), and honorary doctorates from Lawrence University in WI (2002), Baldwin-Wallace College in OH (2008), the University of Portland in OR (2009), and The New School University in NYC (2010).

Chen Yi was the first woman to receive a master’s degree in composition in China (June 1986) when she gave an evening concert of her orchestral works in Beijing, performed by the Central Philharmonic of China. She is also thefirst woman to give an evening multimedia orchestral concert in the US (for orchestra, choir, Chinese traditional instrumental soloists, dancers, and image projection – the Chinese Myths Cantata), which occurred during her 3-year residency with The Women's Philharmonic and Chanticleer (May 1996), supported by Meet The Composer. She has given two more whole evening concerts of her orchestral and choral works presented by the China National Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in 2001 and 2008, and was appointed Changjiang Scholar Visiting Professor at the Beijing Central Conservatory by the China Education Ministry in 2006.

Premieres in 2009 included Septet, a mixed ensemble piece for Prism Saxophone Quartet and Music From China, Prelude and Fugue for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (MTC/ASOL Music Alive Residency), a duet From Old Peking Folklore


for the Music Teachers’ Association of California Friends of Today, and Jing Marimba for the Zeltsman Marimba Festival. New commissions include a wind ensemble work, Dragon Rhyme, premiered by the Hartt School of Music Wind Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, a work for the San Francisco Girls Chorus and Cypress String Quartet, and a work for solo violin (in memory of her violin teacher Lin Yaoji) to be premiered at the China National Concert Hall. Future commissions in 2011 include works for eighth blackbird, the Mid-America Competing Band Directors Association, the American Choral Directors Association, Singapore ACJC, Gustavus College Orchestra (MN), Central Bucks High School Choir (PA), and the Seattle Symphony.

Recent world premieres from 2008 include a song cycle From the Path of Beauty for Chanticleer and the ShanghaiString Quartet, Suite from China West for the Metropolitan Wind Symphony, Tunes from My Home for the Newstead Trio, a recorder concerto, Ancient Chinese Beauty, for Michala Petri, Concerto for Reeds for oboe, sheng, and chamber orchestra, Rhyme of Fire for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (commissioned by the BBC Proms and conducted by Leonard Slatkin), Woodwind Quintet No. 3 for the Eastman School of Music, and Prospect Overture for the China National Symphony Orchestra, commissioned by and premiered at the China National Center for the Performing Arts to celebrate the 2009 New Year in Beijing, conducted by Daniel Harding.

Important premieres in 2007 include Three Bagatelles from China West for flute and piano at Carnegie Hall (for the 21st Century project Meet The Composer flute book, Eight Visions), Tibetan


Tunes for the New Pacific Trio (Barlow Endowment for Music Composition Commission Award), Looking at the Sea for the Peninsula Women’s Chorus, and China West Suite for Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa at the Ruhr Piano Festival in Germany. Other world premieres in 2005 and 2006 include Celebration for the Maryland Classic Youth Philharmonic, Spring in Dresden for Mira Wang and Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden (co-commissioned by the NY Phil, premiered in Germany), the 2006 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Si Ji (Four Seasons) for the Cleveland Orchestra (a Roche Commission, premiered at the Lucerne Music Festival in Switzerland, Severance Hall in Cleveland, and Carnegie Hall), Ji-Dong-Nuo, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for Emanuel Ax, Ancient Dances for Wu Man, commissioned by the Walton Arts Center in Arkansas, The Ancient BeautyJackson-Olin defensive end and Alabama commit Quandarrius Robinson has been named to the preseason watch list for the Bobby Dodd National HS Lineman of the Year award from the Touchdown Club of Atlanta.

Other players on the list include Auburn linebacker commit Trenton Simpson, from Mallard Creek (N.C.) High; Clemson defensive line commit Bryan Bresee, from Damascus, Maryland; and Alabama and Auburn tight end target Arik Gilbert, from Marietta, Georgia.

Robinson is the only Alabama player on the TCA’s preseason watch list for the Bobby Dodd National Lineman and Back of the Year preseason watch lists.

Last year, Thompson quarterback and Alabama signee Taulia Tagovailoa won the Bobby Dodd National Back of the Year award.

Log your vote for the Mount Rushmore of Coastal Alabama HS football https://t.co/xbTweLkfP0 pic.twitter.com/UzC3iGuBsR — AL.com H.S.


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The 6-foot-4½, 220-pound Robinson plays defensive end at Jackson-Olin, but he’s listed as a weakside defensive end by recruiting websites. Jackson-Olin coach Tim Vakakes has said he expects Robinson to be a pass rusher in college.

Robinson shot up the national recruiting rankings this spring and 247Sports now has him ranked as the state’s No. 1 recruit, and he recently competed at The Opening Finals recruiting showcase in Frisco, Texas, as a linebacker.

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of the experimental classes. The sessions with students were scheduled as follows: first, a group work aimed at negotiating a shared definition of jokes, cyberbullying and aggression. Once each group had defined these phenomena, they then had to identify differences and similarities between them. At the end of this activity, a representative from each group read to the class what emerged from their group discussion. Then all students chose the best definitions. The most highly voted work was exhibited in the classroom so that all students could share the same definitions of jokes, aggression, and cyberbullying. Then, during the second meeting, the Tabby videos described above were used. The videos were used as a stimuli from which to start a guided discussion regarding students' experiences in the cyberspaceconsent from the custodial adults, and the participating students. All students filled in the Tabby online questionnaire before and six months after the whole intervention stages (T1 and T2). The first data collection was scheduled within the third month from the beginning of the school year, and then the procedure varied according to the condition (Experimental Group = EG, Control Group = CG); only students, teachers and parents of the EG received the intervention. The second data collection (follow-up T2), took place after six months, a few weeks before the end of the same school year.

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of action does not accrue until the plaintiff has discovered or with reasonable diligence should have discovered the injury, was the correct limitation statute to apply. The Carders filed affidavits, which stated that they learned of the actions of BASF in the year 2002.
¶ 7. The chancellor heard arguments on the motion to dismiss on October 30, 2003. On November 19, 2003, the chancellor executed an order dismissing the Carders' claims. The chancellor gave two reasons for his dismissal of the Carders' complaint. First, he said that the Carders had properly alleged that BASF had engaged in an interstate and international conspiracy to unlawfully fix the price of vitamin products, but they had not shown that the actions of BASF met the requirement of the Mississippi antitrust law,because of its fraudulent concealment. Fraudulent concealment applies to any cause of action, and will toll the statute of limitations. Stephens v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, 850 So.2d 78 (¶ 18) (Miss.2003). However, a plaintiff, who seeks to avail himself of the fraudulent concealment doctrine, must plead fraudulent concealment, and then prove that some affirmative act or conduct was done by the defendant which prevented discovery of a claim and that due diligence was performed on his part to discover it. Id. The plaintiffs pled fraudulent concealment in the second amended complaint.
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new job. An inquest heard how the night before her death she had taken BenzoFury and another substance 5MAPD, as well as a line of cocaine.

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John V (c. 1010 – c. 1040) was the consul and duke of Gaeta from 1012 to 1032. He was the son of John IV and Sichelgaita, sister of Sergius IV of Naples. He was either very young (an infant) when he succeeded his father or perhaps he was even born posthumously.

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Later, when Ranulf


U.S. catastrophe & weather economic losses pass $1bn in February: Aon

8th March 2016 - Author: Artemis

Economic losses caused by catastrophe and weather events in the U.S. in February 2016 are expected to surpass $1 billion, while the insurance and reinsurance industry will deal with losses “well into the hundreds of millions (USD)” according to broker Aon. Severe convective thunderstorms resulted in the highest number of February tornadoes in the U.S. since 2008, according to reinsurance broker Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team Impact Forecasting, driving the economic losses suffered last month.

Damage as a result of tornadoes, straight-line winds and large hail was recorded in the Plains, Midwest, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Virginia state saw its strongest February tornado on record.

Impact Forecasting estimates that combined economic losses for U.S.catastrophe and severe weather in February 2016 will exceed $1 billion. That figure includes damage resulting from heavy snow and ice seen during the month.

Insurance industry losses are set to reach “well into the hundreds of millions (USD)” Impact Forecasting said, which no doubt raises the prospects of some losses accumulating on aggregate reinsurance contracts which can have ILS fund participation.

Around the rest of the world February 2016 saw a fair amount of catastrophe and weather loss activity, with the most significant the strongest tropical cyclone on record for the southern hemisphere, when Tropical Cyclone Winston struck Fiji.

Economic losses from Winston are estimated at USD470 million). Impact Forecasting notes that this equals roughly 10% of Fiji’s GDP. Insurance claims were reckoned to be much lower, at a reported


USD47 million.

Further European windstorms also struck during February, with windstorms Norkys and Ruzica, named locally as Henry and Imogen, bringing high winds and coastal flooding to areas of Ireland and the UK. Total combined economic losses from both windstorms have been estimated at EUR160 million (USD175 million).

Steve Bowen, Associate Director and Meteorologist at Impact Forecasting, commented that activity has perhaps been higher due to the El Niño conditions; “Despite starting to show signs of weakening in the Central and Eastern Pacific Ocean, the record-tying El Niño left its fingerprint on many global natural disaster events in February. From Tropical Cyclone Winston’s record intensity landfall in Fiji to flooding rains in California to the worst drought in decades across parts of Southeast Asia and Africa, it is clear thatclaims.

A magnitude-5.1 tremor in the U.S. state of Oklahoma caused minor damage. The USGS cited the event was likely the third-strongest earthquake ever recorded in Oklahoma.

Worsening droughts in Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Thailand and Haiti resulted in near to USD9 billion in economic losses this month.


Like every squad in Major League Soccer, the Vancouver Whitecaps have had to deal with injury issues. Those issues began at the end of last season, when rising start Brett Levis tore his ACL. While not a starter yet, Levis had impressed over the past season and looked to be ready to challenge Jordan Harvey and Sam Adekugbe for the Caps left back position.

Unexpected injuries continued to be a problem when, during the off-season, David Edgar was involved in a freak hit-and-run accident while on a golf trip in Arizona. The Canadian centerback was expected to anchor the Whitecaps defense in 2017. Instead, he was placed on long-term injury with a PCL and MCL tear, and will miss the entire 2017 MLS season. Luckily, Tim Parker and KendallWaston have been solid and so that Caps have not felt the Edgar injury as strongly.

Related David Edgar suffers right knee injury

Brought in to replace Pedro Morales in the center of midfield, Yordy Reyna has yet to suit-up for Vancouver in a regular season match. Reyna excited fans in his few appearances in Portland’s annual tournament. However, in the team’s preseason finale, Reyna fractured a metatarsal in his left foot that required surgery.

Related Yordy Reyna undergoes successful left foot surgery

Another transfer addition yet to make an appearance with the Caps is 24-year-old Bernie Ibini. Acquired at the end of the primary transfer window, Ibini was injured in his final match in the Australian A-League, where he was on loan from Belgian Pro League side Club Brugge KV.

In addition


to newcomers having injury problems, several tenured Caps are also on the disabled list. Christian Dean has made his annual trip to the DL with a foot injury, while Erik Hurtado suffered a foot contusion against LA Galaxy. More recently, Nicolas Mezquida joined the unable-to-walk wounded with, you guessed it, a foot injury. Mezquida was ran into by Montreal’s Marco Donadel in the second leg of the Canadian Championship, suffering a high ankle sprain that will keep him out for six to eight weeks.

Despite the recent injury woes, the Caps could be getting some important pieces back shortly. Club reporter Farhan Devji recently informed us that Ibini was back training, and Carl Robinson noting that Reyna’s boot was off and he was going to begin training in June.

Smaller‘opportunity’ of further integration in the eurozone to recast Britain’s relationship with Brussels.

Several Cabinet ministers, led by Education Secretary Michael Gove, want to threaten to withdraw from the EU altogether to get a better deal.

Clash: Boris Johnson, left, said closer political or economic cooperation with the EU was ‘nonsensical’ as David Cameron, right, and the British were compared to grumpy duo Statler and Waldorf from The Muppet Show

However, senior sources in Berlin say Mrs Merkel – who is due to visit London early next month – is ready to cut the UK adrift.

Der Speigel, which boasts close links to the upper echelons of the German government, described ‘a Europe in which the British are at best spectators in the gallery, like Statler and Waldorf, the two old men


fully adorned with flowers. Now, they were expanding outwards, past even their leaf tips, to drift downstream and create new life. I was watching the world expand in its physical form, and it was a rich, hazy, and wholly mysterious dance.

As we come close to the first new moon of Gemini, I find myself sinking into the gifts of where we’ve been. May is the month of Taurus, the astrological sign of embodiment, sensuality, physicality and the earthly delights. It marks a time in the wheel of the year when we are invited to come into the lusciousness of life and fill all the corners of our physical being. In between the wood of spring and fire of summer, May is a moment to drop soulfully into theTribute to Sam Manekshaw by the Pakistan Daily – ‘Dawn’…

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This is an article on Sam Manekshaw carried in the ‘Dawn’ of Karachi, Pakistan when he passed away –

SAM Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw was his full name by which he was rarely called, as he was known familiarly and affectionately by his men and officers and friends as ‘Sam Bahadur’.

Manekshaw was no ordinary run-of-the-mill man. Born in Amritsar in 1914, he died in Wellington, Ootacamund, in the Nilgiri Hills of South India at the age of 94.

Field Marshal Sam Maneckshaw, MC, was the second Indian soldier to be so honored, with justification, with the highest rank that can be bestowed upon a soldier. The other being Field


Marshal K. M. Cariapa, the first Indian to command the Indian army and who was friend and contemporary of our Field Marshal Ayub Khan, the first Pakistani to command the Pakistan army. However, unlike Ayub, both Cariapa and Manekshaw were honored for their military skills and prowess.

Sam Bahadur became India’s chief of army staff in 1969 and, as we in Pakistan must accept with heavy hearts, the highlight of his outstanding career was his resounding victory over the armed forces of Pakistan in 1971, when we lost East Pakistan and it became Bangladesh.

Anecdotes about the field marshal abound. His most famous remark, according to one obituary in the English press, was made on the eve of the outbreak of the December 1971 war when India’s prime minister, IndiraGandhi, asked him if he was ready for the fight. His reply came pat: ‘I am always ready, sweetie.’

He famously said that he could never bring himself to call Mrs Gandhi ”Madam’ because it reminded him of a bawdy house. His other well-known exchange with Mrs Gandhi was when she once questioned him about rumors that he was plotting a coup. He asked her if she would accept his resignation on grounds of mental instability.

Held in awe by India’s politicians for his military professionalism, he was loved by the men of the army he led. I had the good fortune and honour of meeting him in Delhi, in 2001, when he was 87 years old, upright, with his moustaches bristling. I had heard much about him from my


very good friend, Lt Gen Attiqur Rahman, who knew him from the days when they served in the British Indian Army as young officers of the Fourth Frontier Force Regiment and were sent to the Burma front.

In February 1942, they were together holding a bridge over the Sittang River when Sam nearly lost his life. After a night sharing a mackintosh in a bit of hollow ground, Sam was ordered to take his company down the road to investigate the firing from the jungle. When Attiq later went off down the road, he saw Sam being carried on his orderly’s back, unconscious, his face ashen. He asked the regimental doctor how badly he had been wounded and was told that he would probably be dead by the timehe reached the other end of the bridge.

Later, whilst reorganising, he heard that Sam was in hospital at Pegu. He went to see him and it was obvious he was in terrible pain. He hung on to Attiq’s hand and in a whisper, asked him to leave his pistol so that he could shoot himself. Attiq told him not to be silly and that all would be well. As we now know it was all well but it was a close call. The surgeon attending to him almost gave up on the bullet-ridden body.

The story goes that as he lay in hospital, an English General (most probably Sir Frank Smythe, himself a VC), pinned his own military cross on to the chest of Captain Manekshaw as he knew


that the MC could not be awarded posthumously. Attiq and Sam did not meet again until 1945 when Sam was one of his instructors at the Quetta Staff College.

Another good friend of Manekshaw from this side of the border was our Rangila Raja Gen Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan. At the time of partition Major Manekshaw and Major Yahya Khan were together on the staff of Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck. Sam owned a red James Motor Cycle which Yahya had always had an eye on. He offered to buy it and did, for the princely sum of Rs 1,000 which he promised to send over from Pakistan. Yahya, being Yahya, let it lapse. After the 1971 victory, Sam was heard to quip, ‘Yahya never paid me the Rs1,000 for my motorbike but now he has paid with half his country’.

When I met the Field Marshal,I told him that Yahya had never forgotten the debt, but had never got round to it. I offered to pay back the Rs 1,000 with interest, on his behalf. No, no, said the field marshal, Yahya was a good man and a good soldier and we served together. There was not one mean or corrupt bone in his body. Your politicians are as bad as ours. Yahya was condemned without being heard. After he was put under house arrest at the end of December 1971, up to his death in 1980, he clamored unceasingly for an open trial. Why was he condemned unheard?

Sam was buried quietly in his home in


Argentina's interior minister rejects David Cameron's accusations as 'totally offensive' Reuters

Britain and Argentina have revived the rhetoric of the 1980s after David Cameron accused Buenos Aires of adopting a colonial attitude towards the Falkland Islands.

Amid growing tensions ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Argentinian invasion, the prime minister said he called a meeting of Britain's national security council (NSC) on Tuesday, mainly to discuss the islands.

Afterwards, William Hague, the foreign secretary, flew off of a pre-arranged visit to Brazil to raise Britain's concerns over Argentina.

Britain is prepared to increase its military presence in the South Atlantic if Argentina embarks on further provocative measures, though this is seen as highly unlikely.

The latest row erupted as the prime minister threw Argentina's rhetoric back at Buenos Aires which refers torewrite history."

Hague received a frosty reception when he raised Britain's concerns with the Brazilian government. Antonio Patriota, the Brazilian foreign minister, said he would support the Argentinian call for Mercosur nations – Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay – to turn away vessels flying Falkland Island flags. "Minister Hague knows that Brazil … supports the sovereignty of Argentina over the Malvinas and we support the United Nations resolution that calls for discussion about the issue with Argentina," Patriota said.

Buenos Aires recently persuaded Mercosur members to close their ports to ships flying the Falkland Islands flag. Argentina has also been highly critical of the decision to deploy the Duke of Cambridge to the Falklands for six weeks in his role as a search and rescue helicopter pilot. The Ministry of Defence


said the deployment was standard practice.

Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands in April 1982 after Britain lowered its military strength in the South Atlantic in the wake of defence cuts introduced by Margaret Thatcher's newly elected government.

Ministers at Tuesday's meeting of the NSC made clear they were prepared to increase the British military presence in the South Atlantic. However, no move is imminent.

The Foreign Office, which is concerned about the tough language from Buenos Aires in recent months, believes that Britain's military presence on the Falkland Islands will deter Argentina. "There is a lot of shadow boxing," said one source who pointed out that Falkland Islands ships had no problem docking in Mercosur ports because they fly the Red Ensign.

The prime minister later reiterated his message at a pressMy Books!

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Saturday Sample: The Best Selling Toy Of The Season

I love Christmas. That's why I have two novels set a Christmas time. I've shared some excerpts from The Table in the Window, so today here's an excerpt from The Best Selling Toy of the Season. In this scene my hero meets my heroine.

Finally, his turn came. He thankfully paid for his gag gift and

joined the throngs of people either going out or coming in. He saw

Bill English and lifted his hand to wave goodbye, but he didn’t see the

woman in front of him until he plowed into her. Both he and the

young woman who had helped him find his gift went sprawling to the

floor. Something in her bag broke with a loud crash when Tommy’s

knee


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 Ido Efrat and Moshe Jarden, Free pseudo p-adically closed fields of finite corank, Journal of Algebra 133 (1990), 132-150.
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 Moshe Jarden, Algebraic realization of p-adically projective groups, Compositio Mathematica 79 (1991), 21-62.
 Wulf-Dieter Geyer and Moshe Jarden, The p-adic closure of a PpC field, Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg n61 (1991), 63-71.
 Moshe Jarden and Jurgen Ritter,Bordeaux 18 (2006), 371-377.
 M. Jarden and W. Narkiewicz, On sums of units, Monatshefte für Mathematik 150 (2007), 327-332.
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 L. Bary-Soroker and M. Jarden, PAC fields over finitely generated fields, Mathematische Zeitschrift 260 (2008), 329-334.
 M. Jarden and A. Lubotzky, Elementary equivalence of profinite


groups, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
 M. Jarden and A. Razon, Rumely’s local global principle for weakly PSC fields over holomorphy domains, Functiones et Approximatio XXXIX (2008), 19–47.
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 M. Jarden and E. Paran,Fleetwood and Molinari star again as Europe shine

Tommy Fleetwood and Francesco Molinari delivered a third successive point as Europe took a commanding 8-4 lead on a record-breaking morning at Le Golf National.

Thomas Bjørn's team came into the second day with a 5-3 lead after bouncing back from losing the opening fourballs session 3-1 to record the biennal contest's first-ever whitewash in the afternoon foursomes.

And they extended that advantage on Saturday morning, winning the top three fourballs matches in a reverse of Friday's session to become the first team to claim eight successive points since the current format was introduced in 1979.

The only bright spot for America was Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas' 2 and 1 victory over Ian Poulter and Jon Rahm in the anchor match, which prevented


a first-ever double clean sweep.

Experienced duo Rory McIlroy and Sergio Garcia led from the front, beating Tony Finau and Brooks Koepka 2 and 1 to win the first point of the day before Englishmen Paul Casey and Tyrrell Hatton won their first point together against World Number One Dustin Johnson and Rickie Fowler shortly after.

Open Champion Molinari and last year's Race to Dubai winner Fleetwood then showed just how strong their partnership is with a thumping 4 and 3 victory over Tiger Woods and Patrick Reed, becoming the first European pair to win their first three matches since Rory McIlroy and Thomas Pieters in 2016.

Fleetwood, who looked right at home on his Ryder Cup debut on Friday, started well again on day two, rolling in from 25 feetfor a birdie at the second to put Europe one up.

At the third, Reed and Fleetwood both drove into the water, Woods found the heavy left rough and neither of the Americans could even make par as Molinari and Fleetwood went two up.

Woods notched the USA's first birdie of the day at the seventh to peg Molinari and Fleetwood back, and the 14-time Major Champion levelled things up with a close-range birdie at the tenth.

But Molinari reeled off three straight birdies from the 11th to put the Europeans three up before Fleetwood's par at the 15th secured the point which saw Europe equal the record for the most points won in consecutive sessions.

The Italian, who will once again play alongside Fleetwood in the afternoon foursomes, wants Europe to


pigeons raised in different lofts have different responses to magnetic anomalies: One finds its way despite the weird magnetic pattern; the other is bewildered by it and loses its sense of direction.

Individual birds are also just eccentric and seem to use their orientation cues according to their own styles. Walcott tells the story of one pigeon raised near a prominent hill in Massachusetts. When released at an unfamiliar site, he always flew to the nearest mountain before flying home—unlike any of the other birds raised in his loft. Another pigeon was a champion distance navigator, but once he got within six miles of his loft, says Walcott, he just kind of gave up and landed in a garden somewhere. In this arena, as in all aspects of birdof Optometry class of 1997. She did her internship training at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio, Muncie Eye Center in Muncie Indiana, and IU’s Indiana School of Optometry.

Dr. Walden enjoys fitting all types of contact lenses, especially multi-focal lenses. In her spare time she enjoys playing golf, working out, and spending time with her family cheering on the Indianapolis Colts.

Andrew Burkhart, O.D.

Dr. Burkhart, a Noblesville Eye Doctor, has been with Lenscrafters since 2008, working primarily out of the Noblesville, Indiana location. He is a second generation Noblesville Optometrist who graduated from The Indiana University School of Optometry in 1997. During school he interned at Kessler Air Force Base in Biox Mississippi, Marian Eye Center, in Marion Indiana, and IU’s Indianapolis Eyecare Center.

Noblesville Optometrist, Dr. Burkhart,


enjoys fitting all types of contact lenses including gas permeable lenses, and hard to fit prescriptions. In his spare time he likes to spend time with his family while cheering on the Indianapolis Colts, the Indiana Pacers, Cincinnati Reds, and his IU Hoosiers.

Elaine McGrath, O.D.

Dr. McGrath, a Noblesville Optometrist, is a 1995 graduate of University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Optometry. She enjoyed being active in SOSH-Students in Optometric Service to Humanity-where she participated in mission trips to Guadalajara and Aguascalientes, Mexico and Kingston, Jamaica. She started her career in private practice in Alabama for 8 years before moving to Indianapolis, IN in 2003. She has been an eye doctor with Lenscrafters since 2008, working mainly in the Glendale Mall LensCrafters location. She has been marriedOutlook • According to court documents, settlement negotiations have been going on for weeks, encompassing the months of July and August. It looks as if this case could end in a settlement, which could bring PSL holders several million dollars in total. If negotiations are successful, a settlement could be reached sometime this year.

Two factors may have steered the Rams toward settlement negotiations: the ruling for class-action status and the nearly $12.5 million award in June to former NFL running back Reggie Bush in St. Louis Circuit Court.

Bush suffered a knee injury at the dome in a 2015 game as a member of the San Francisco 49ers when he slipped on the exposed concrete surface at the edge of the floor after running out of bounds.

The Rams were


found 100 percent liable for the injury. The size of the monetary award surprised some NFL observers because Bush was near the end of his career at the time of the injury and hadn’t done much as a player since 2013.

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Destiny Douglas says she was “vindicated” when Ontario’s highest court upheld the sexual conviction Tuesday against her rapist — former Toronto Police officer Roy Preston.

The Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed Preston’s appeal of his 2018 conviction and upheld his three-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting the security guard.

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Preston and Douglas were working for the same security company and attended a barbecue and bonfire on Manitoulin Island in northern Ontario on July 31, 2015. He was 46 and her supervisor while Douglas was 19.

She testified that Preston groped her breast when they went to retrieve firewood.


We are delighted to have a trio of papers from senior staff members of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the strategic development plans for psychiatric services in the African Region, in Latin America and the Caribbean, and in the Western Pacific. We are truly privileged to publish these valuable documents, which reflect the current state of the WHO's attempts to improve psychiatric services worldwide.

Dr Carina Ferreira-Borges reports from Africa, and draws attention to the WHO's Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan for 2013--20. This emphasises the importance of delivering care in the community and of considering the notion of recovery. Despite the emphasis in the plan on moving away from a purely medical model to a socially responsive model of care for people with mental health problems, therehas been little movement in this direction in Africa. Unfortunately, in most African states, mental health has a low priority. It is considered to be a 'small problem' compared with the burden of communicable diseases, an attitude fostered by the big donors from the West.

Dr Jorge Rodriguez reflects on the possibilities of delivering the objectives of the WHO's Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan in Latin America and the Caribbean. He points out that the small proportion of the health budget of countries in the region that is spent on mental health is targeted largely at mental hospitals. Only two-thirds of countries in the region have a national mental health plan. There are considerable constraints and difficulties to overcome before 2020.

Finally, Dr Xiangdong Wang reports from the Western Pacific.


Who will join Frank Lampard's Blues? Get our daily Chelsea newsletter Sign me up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid Email

Steve Sidwell has lifted the lid on Chelsea players’ reactions to the sudden news that Jose Mourinho was leaving the club in September 2007.

Mourinho had brought huge success to Stamford Bridge since joining the club in 2004, winning back-to-back Premier League titles, the FA Cup and two League Cups in just three seasons.

However, a series of disagreements with owner Roman Abramovich and a slump in form led to the Portuguese’s abrupt departure from the west London club just weeks into the 2007-08 season.

And the news was so unexpected that Blues players were either speechless or overwhelmed by emotion, accordingbroke the news, reported that the Mean Girls star is also recording music for soundtracks.

Lohan released Speak in December 2004 to generally positive reviews. The pop-rock album peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200. The following December, she released her second disc, which featured the single “Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father)” and only reached No. 20 on the Billboard chart.

The former child star’s return to the music business comes after her MTV reality show, Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club, was canceled after just one season. She told Us in a statement on Wednesday, June 19, that the series “was moving into a new direction … perhaps not enough drama in my life for reality TV formula.” A source, however, told Us that “there were creative


The first significant controversy of the first black president's tenure in office was a racial one.

When President Obama came to the defense of African-American Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates — who was arrested while trying to enter his own home and said the white officer involved acted “stupidly,” an erosion in his already tenuous white support began and never fully recovered.

Obama tried to make the most of this so-called “teachable moment,” by holding a "beer summit" with Gates and the policeman. The meeting however was ridiculed for being ineffectual in terms of addressing implicit bias. The critique that emerged became a familiar one — that the first black president was passing up an opportunity to truly enlighten the country on race.

But, historians and political experts say that premiseoverlooked that race is a subject that Obama has often delved deeply into; first as an author, then as a candidate and eventually as a president.

Related: How Americans See Race and Racial Relations is Shifting Dramatically

"Every time the president, in a delicate parsed way, talked about the racial challenges before the country and the fact that the challenges didn't start yesterday and didn't start with his administration or begin or end with the police, he forced a deeper conversation," NAACP president and CEO Cornell William Brooks told NBC News. "There are many who wish he went farther but relative to what we've heard in the past it's simply unprecedented."

The national dialogue on race that President Bill Clinton called for nearly 20 years ago has arrived — and it


Matter" movement). It was also a period which saw an unprecedented expansion of efforts to curtail voting rights and the successful gutting of the Voting Rights Act.

US President Barack Obama (6L), First Lady Michelle Obama (4L), former US President George W. Bush (5R), Laura Bush (6R), and US Representative John Lewis (5L), Democrat of Georgia and one of the original marchers, lead a walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches in Selma, Alabama, March 7, 2015. US President Barack Obama rallied a new generation of Americans to the spirit of the civil rights struggle, warning their march for freedom "is not yet finished." In a forceful speech in Selma, Alabama on the 50th anniversary of theabout the shooting deaths of young black men like Trayvon Martin, famously saying "If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon." He repeatedly attempted to speak truthfully about the real gulf that exists between law enforcement and communities of color in this country.

And yet, despite consistent sky-high approval ratings with African-American voters, Obama has been harshly criticized for not using his bully pulpit more to advance the conditions of black America.

"He's not Jesse Jackson, he's not Al Sharpton, he's not even Van Jones," said Mark Anthony Neal, professor of African and African-American studies at Duke University. "You had these clear examples of anti-black racism, and he had an inability to really show any sense of connection to what's going in these communities. His rhetoric was moreso to


lecture black folks. That's just the way he processes race in America."

Obama has routinely argued that he must be president for all Americans, and as the Gates affair demonstrated, he took great political risks by wading into racial politics.

"I think his administration, particularly his support system, were surprised at the kind of pushback he got to [the Gates incident]," added Neal. "From that moment on his inner circle was very much afraid of taking on race issues more directly."

During his presidency, he was accused of being racist himself, of favoring blacks over whites, of not loving America, of having terrorist sympathies and perhaps most infamously, not being a U.S. citizen.

Amid that onslaught, Obama projected a cool and calm demeanor.

In his recent piece in The Atlantic, author and columnistTa-Nehisi Coates argued that the president's tempered demeanor was borne both out of political necessity but also an inherent faith in the decency of most white people, forged early in his life through his positive interactions with his white ancestors.

"He had an ability to emote a deep and sincere connection to the hearts of black people, while never doubting the hearts of white people," Coates wrote. "For eight years Barack Obama walked on ice and never fell. Nothing in that time suggested that straight talk on the facts of racism in American life would have given him surer footing."

And while his conciliatory nature has left some apoplectic, Obama has forged his own subtle path on race.

He has made history by appointing the first and second African-American attorney generals,


of the kinds of changes and shifts we’ve seen in mainstream corporate culture, the military establishment," Neal said. "There is no question that symbolically he represented something that is important."

As the first post-Vietnam generation president with a facility with pop culture and social media, Obama was accessible to younger generations in a way no president has been since perhaps John F. Kennedy. And, for a whole generation of Americans, the idea of a black president was a reality instead a pipe dream.

President Barack Obama sings "Amazing Grace" while delivering the eulogy for South Carolina state senator and Rev. Clementa Pinckney during Pinckney's funeral service June 26, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Suspected shooter Dylann Roof, 21, is accused of killing nine people on June 17th during a prayermeeting in the church, which is one of the nation's oldest black churches in Charleston. Win McNamee / Getty Images

That symbolism has often served as inspiration, for instance when he performed the role of consoler-in-chief following the racially motivated massacre of nine African-Americans at the historically black Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Related: A presidential speech sometimes change a life

While delivering a eulogy for the victims, an emotional Obama began singing the classic spiritual “Amazing Grace.” The president had shown off his able baritone before, but the content and context this time could not have been more different.

This was our nation’s first black president seeking to soothe racial wounds in real time. There would be more deaths and pain in the black community in the weeks and


as Radley Balko points out in Rise of the Warrior Cop) raided David Koresh’s compound outside Waco, Texas, smashing the walls with tanks and shooting 350 rounds of tear gas inside.

Seventy-six people died. But Bill Clinton was in the White House. The gun control lobby was experiencing what would be, in retrospect, its finest hour—the passage of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which banned the sale of “assault weapons” until 2004.

As conservatives and libertarians saw it, and as the gun lobby saw it, the government was arming a police state while making it illegal and impossible for citizens to defend themselves from tyranny. “Not too long ago, it was unthinkable for federal agents wearing Nazi bucket helmets andalso needed more fundamental reforms such as a cabinet system for Westerners to regard them as civilized.

"Translating" the Western notion of sovereignty, then, turned out to be fraught with unforeseen complexities. James Hevia has proposed that translation can be understood "as a special form of violence" or warfare, on the grounds British linguists in China and their political masters used their knowledge of Chinese to advance Britain's aggressive aims.20 In this sense, Martin's motivations in translating Wheaton fit Hevia's framework of paternalistic and slightly sinister "pedagogy"—the effort to teach the Chinese how to behave properly in the international sphere.21 But this misses half the story. There is no doubt that foreigners used their knowledge of Chinese to shore up their moral and political position. There is further no


flourished without change, resting on the unity of kings and teachers ( _yi jun jian shi_ ) and guiding governance ( _yi jiao wei zheng_ ). The Qing, with its special efforts to support Cheng-Zhu orthodoxy, edit the classics, and purge heresies, represented a kind of acme of the unity of the Teaching and governance ( _zhengjiao xiang wei_ ).

And what, at root, was the Teaching? For Zhang, it lay in the ethics of the Three Bonds: ruler-subject, father-son, husband-wife. The Three Bonds were simultaneously a political, a social, and a moral prescription. In a flurry of classical quotations, Zhang concluded that it was the Three Bonds that defined both the sage and China.16 People respected those whom they should respect and were filial to those whom theyabout through violence. Equality and rights were inseparable. Citizens recognized no distinction between rulers and ruled. Women and workers were specifically included in this embrace of citizenship, and the author attacked contemporary society for depriving peasants of their rights: oppressed by officials, exploited by landlords, and abused by criminals. A key role of the state was to support rights with law. "In sum, the rights of the citizens must be established through constitutional provisions; only then can they be called rights."71

In this view, the claim to rights was first made through revolution, then maintained by legal habit. A key figure in this "revolutionary rights" thinking was Liu Shipei, though he was not exactly a republican.72 In his 1905 textbook on ethics, Liu spoke of rights as a form


of the original Articles—that the Qing was to leave the Forbidden City.96 Above all, the retention of the imperial system in the midst of Beijing "was in great conflict with the popular sentiment of the republican] political system."[97 Feng's government spoke of its own actions as rooted in loyalty ( _zhongai_ ).98 And it assured one and all that Puyi would still be treated well.99 Or as Li Shizeng later put it to a worried Duan Qirui, who was preparing to return to the government: "Louis XVI was killed in the French Revolution, and numerous kings were killed in Britain. The Articles of Favorable Treatment in regard to Puyi are not a foreign relations problem."100

The priceless treasures in the court's keeping attracted enormous interest.101 (The court had beentime of the revolution's success, Zhang had favored a strong presidency, but he and Yuan soon became mutually disaffected.

. Li Yuying, _Li Shizeng xiansheng wenji_ , 2:314.

. Chen Duxiu, "Ouxiang pohuai lun"  , DXWC, 227–230.

CONCLUSION

An earlier version of a portion of this chapter has been previously published as "Chinese Conceptions of the State during the Late Qing Dynasty (1860–1911)," pp. 235–259, in Takashi Shogimen and Cary J. Nederman, eds., _Western Political Thought in Dialogue with Asia_ (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).

. Fitzgerald, _Awakening China_.

. Kuhn, _Origins of the Modern Chinese State_ , chap. 1 (on "constitutional dilemmas," 8–24).

. See Elvin, "The Collapse of Scriptural Confucianism."

. Liang Qichao, "Baojiao fei suoyi zun Kong lun," YBSHJ wenji 9:59, 55. Writing in 1902, Liang was not rejecting all


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on June 13, 1896 at Lahore and died at the same place on January 31, 1959. He wrote over 350 books in Urdu, Persian and English apart from penning poetry. He translated Gita in Urdu. I (Muslim Saleem) have uploaded the picture of Dr. Khalifa Abdul Hakim, who was my grand uncle. The picture first appeared on my web site khojkhabarnews.com link ghazal link Dr Khalifa Abdul Hakeem or http://khojkhabarnews.com/?page_id=118. The picture has been contributed by Dr Rafia Hasan, the daughter of Dr Khalifa Abdul Hakim. Dr. Khalifa Abdul Hakim did his Matriculation in 1910; FA in 1913 from Aligarh Mohammadan Anglo Oriental College (Which was declared as Aligarh Muslim University in the year 1920); BA in 1915 from Delhi St Stephens College; MA in 1917 also fromDelhi St Stephen's College; LLB in 1918 Lahore from Law College. He was appointed Assistant Prof of Philosophy 1919 Osmania University Hyderabad Deccan. In 1925, he did his PhD from Heidelberg University, Germany (paid for by his salary and a loan from the University); The same year (1925) he became, Head of Department Philosophy of Osmainia University Deccan. He became Principal of Amar Singh College 1943-47 Srinagar, Kashmir and Director Education on Deputation. One again, he was appointed as Dean Faculty of Arts 1948-49 Osmaina University Hyderabad Deccan; He was awarded LLD (Honoris Causa) by the Punjab University Lahore 1957. He penned hundreds of books in Urdu, English and Persian and translated many an epic from Persian. He also translated Gita in Urdu in poetic form, which has


been published by Haryana Urdu Academy and Bharti Vidhya Bhavan, Mumbai. His book Fikr-e-Iqbal is taught in higher Urdu classes. Dr Khalifa Abdul Hakim was also the Founder Director, Institute of Islamic Culture, Lahore (1949-1959).Prashar Lake: The Seat of Rishi Prashar

Perched at an altitude of approximately 9000 ft. above sea level is the pristine Prashar lake. The lake receives its water mostly from rainfall and melting ice and is believed to be formed by the Pandavas during their years in exile. It is said that the depth of this lake is unknown after many divers being unable to find the base of it. Beside the alpine lake is a 13th century temple, a testament to Kath-Khuni style architecture, which is said to be built out of a single Deodar tree.

According to the legends, the island in the Prashar Lake was the seat of the great sage Prashar, sitting on which he meditated for centuries. Another interesting fact about the island is that


boilers. Initially, however, internally ribbed tubes were lap-welded tubes. Eventually, it was proposed to produce seamless internally ribbed tubes for boiler applications as represented by U.S. Pat. No. 1,465,073 to Davis. The Davis patent referred to the internal ribs as increasing the heating surface and the effectiveness of heat transfer to water and steam inside the tubes. The use of internally ribbed tubes was still limited because the benefit derived from the internally ribbed tubes was not as great in many boiling ranges with certain arrangements and dimensions of the ribs.
In a boiler there are two known types of boiling that can occur: nucleate and film. In nucleate boiling, steam bubbles are formed and released on the inside surface of a tube with water wetting the inside surface,Toyo Harada and Peter Stanchek. Master and apprentice. Creator and destroyer. Alpha and Omega. Humanity's most powerful psionic, Pete Stanchek, has been run to ground. His few friends and family are gone. He is loved is by no one. At the nadir of his brief, 18-year existence, he has been drugged, deceived and deluded by a corporate master. But now he's finally had enough. Tonight, the human race will find out exactly how powerful he is. Tonight, the boy who has nothing will go to war against the man who has everything. And soon the Valiant Universe will discover that everything has an end - even the world.


had passed by the time Osborne sent the additional

letters. In finding that the letters are solicitations, the court, in effect, determined that, although

Osborne sent the second and third letters after the July 30, 2014 election, there was one

solicitation period, and all three letters related to the July 30, 2014 shareholder meeting, because

Osborne sought through the state-court action to void the election and require a new election.

(PID 305.) The court assumed that if Osborne obtains the relief he requests, he would then have

the opportunity to solicit shareholder support in his behalf or to withhold or revoke proxies for

the board-nominated directors. Considering the nature of the letters and the circumstances under

which they were delivered, we uphold the court’s ruling that the letters are solicitations under

Regulation 14a.

    for the July 30, 2014 election period, which he contends he did,

he should be exempt during the extended period unless he takes action during the solicitation

period inconsistent with the exemption.

        Gas Natural argues the exemption is unavailable to Osborne because he elected to engage

in a proxy fight and admitted to seeking support to replace the current board of directors and

regain his seat on the board. (Gas Natural Br. 18.) The record, however, supports that Osborne

sought to (1) solicit shareholders to withhold or revoke proxies for the July 30, 2014 election and

(2) obtain a judicial order invalidating the July 30, 2014 election and thereby regain his position

on the board. (PID 305.) Although Osborne wrote to the corporate secretary stating that he

wanted the


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him in regaining his seat, and did not disavow an interest in a future proxy contest. Unless

Osborne actually solicits a proxy or falls within an exception to the exemption, he can operate

within the exemption during the July 30, 2014 solicitation period, even as extended by the court

due to the state lawsuit. We further note that although the district court held that the state-court

action effectively extended the July 30, 2014 election period, creating overlapping election

periods, the July 30, 2014 election period must eventually close—either as a result of the state-

court ruling or the election of directors at a subsequent election.6

              Evaluation of infrastructure, equipment and training of 28 burn units/burn centers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Treatment of burn patients requires special training and skills, and an adequate infrastructure. In the United States, burn center referral criteria and requirements of burn centers are defined by the American Burn Association (ABA) in the Guidelines for the Operation of Burn Centers, and in Germany, by the German Society for Burn Treatment (DGV). The European Burn centers in Austria and the German-speaking part of Switzerland share the standards in the setting of the German-speaking Association for Burn Therapy (DAV) with some modifications. The aim of this study was to evaluate the current infrastructure of burn centers in the three German-speaking countries with respect to the existing guidelines. Therefore, guidelines for burn center


honor his request for counsel. He also contends that his statements were involuntary. Tagala also challenges the state's use of the computer system to obtain the criminal records of prospective jurors. We affirm.
On October 2, 1988, David C. Stailey was shot and killed outside of the Baywatch Lounge in Homer. Witnesses informed the police that, just prior to the shooting, Stailey and Tagala were sitting together in the bar. Stailey left the bar a few minutes after Tagala. Moments later, gunshots were heard and Stailey came back into the lounge and fell to the floor. Witnesses also indicated that there was "bad blood" between the two men, prior assaults had occurred, and Tagala had previously stated that he carried a gun to protect himself from Stailey.
The Homer policetried unsuccessfully to locate Tagala throughout the night of October 2. They had information concerning the car he was driving. The next morning, a patrol officer saw the car. Sergeant Luther Christopher then spotted the car, made a u-turn, put on his overhead lights and pulled over the car which Tagala was driving. Two more police cars arrived, and the officers conducted a pat-down search of Tagala. After the officers conferred among themselves, they decided not to formally arrest Tagala and so informed him. Instead, they asked him to come to the police station and answer some questions. He agreed.
Tagala rode to the station in the front of a police car. He was not physically restrained. He entered the station house unaccompanied, and was directed to an interview


room.
Officer Andrew Klamser interviewed Tagala for less than two hours. The interview was tape-recorded. At the start of the interrogation, Tagala was again informed that he was not under arrest and that he was "free to leave." Klamser did not give Tagala a Miranda warning. At *607 some point, Tagala admitted that he shot Stailey. Later, he agreed to provide blood and urine samples. After the interview ended, Tagala accompanied police officers to look for the weapon he had discarded.[2] The police then dropped Tagala at a friend's house where he had been staying. The police kept the house where Tagala was staying under surveillance.
Later that afternoon, Christopher returned to the house and asked Tagala to come back to the station for a second interview. He agreed. Christopherfact that he was told he was not under arrest, this court concluded that a reasonable person would have believed that he was not free to leave and therefore, he was in custody during the interrogation. Hampel, 706 P.2d at 1178-79.
In Lowry, the defendant was also a suspect in a homicide investigation. In determining that he was not in custody during police questioning, the court stressed the fact that an officer initially telephoned Lowry, and Lowry agreed to meet with them. Before any show of force was used, the defendant indicated a predisposition to being interviewed. Lowry, 707 P.2d at 284.
There is little question that Tagala was detained during the initial investigative stop. However, "a temporary stop cannot be equated with a formal arrest, even when considerable force


free to leave and that he was not under arrest. Tagala voluntarily agreed to come to the station. He rode in the front of the police car and walked, unaccompanied, into the station. He was never physically restrained, and left at the end of the interview. We conclude that the trial court could properly find that Tagala was not in custody during the first interview, and we affirm the trial court's ruling.
Later in the day of October 3, 1988, Sergeant Christopher returned to the house where Tagala was staying. He drove Tagala back to the station for a second interview. At the start of the interview, Christopher read Tagala his Miranda rights. As we have previously pointed out in more detail, Tagala invoked his right to counsel atin the plea are left open.

Vodafone also submitted that if aggrieved by the order passed by the IT department, it will approach the court.

The government had earlier told the court that by not responding to the show cause notice, the company was trying to delay the assessment process beyond the March 31 deadline.

In its notice, the department had asked the company to show cause why its 2011-12 financial records should not be subjected to special audit to arrive at the total income for assessment year 2012-13.

In its plea challenging this notice, Vodafone has also challenged the amendment to section 142(2A) of IT Act that says the assessing officer can seek a special audit in certain circumstances.

In its show cause notice, the IT department had said, "during course of


46,000 feet (13.8 km) by its launcher, the White Knight, SpaceShipOne is able to leave the Earth’s atmosphere in a sub-orbital space flight at an altitude of 100 kilometers (62 miles).

Cosmos 1, the world’s first solar sail spacecraft is launched into orbit aboard a Volna rocket fired from a Russian submarine submerged in the Barents Sea. A 825 km quasi-polar orbit was intended for the 112 kg Cosmos-1 spacecraft with an eight-petaled solar sail consisting of 650 square meters of a thin aluminum alloy coated film. The non-profit Planetary Society financed the four million dollar project, which constructed the spacecraft in Russia at the Lavochkin Association and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy. It was designed for experiments in controlled flight while in orbit, achieved byGovardhan Puja – Mha Puja – Nepal Sambat

Govardhan Puja, Mha puja and Nepal Sambat is the fourth day of Tihar festival, and people worship different subjects depending upon their specific cultural background.

Govardhan Puja

However, the ‘Govardhan Parvat’ is widely worshiped in this day, thus giving this name. A small pile of cow dung, which is constructed similar to the shape of the mountain, is taken as the resemblance of the Govardhan Moundain, and is worshiped by the people. No puja is considered to be complete without the cow dung in the Hindu culture. Mainly followed by Vaishnavs, this ritual is performed by many other ethnical Hindus too. In this day, the oxen is also worshiped, and hence, this day is also known as Goru Tihar.

Mha puja

The Newar people inside


or outside the Kathmandu valley do the Mha puja in this day. ‘Mha’ means body-worship or self-worship, and the self-worship is done by the Newari community because it is believed that the process purifies the body and soul. The Mha Puja is done in a special mandap (decorated by flowers, garlands, sweets, meat, lentil and fruits) for each, by being offered a Shagun (which consists of fried eggs, fish, fruits and local alcohol) by the female family member. People continue to play Deusi and Bhailo in this day too. The house are continued to be made bright.

Nepal Sambat

Nepal Sambat is the new year for newari community. The government of Nepal recognised the Nepal Sambat as the national calendar in 2007 A.D. This calendar was the national calendar ofNepal in Malla and early Shah era too, It was replaced by Bikram Sambat as the national calendar latter. However, the calendar is still in use because most of the Nepalese festivals are celebrated according to the nepal sambat calendar.

This is a lunar calendar. It consists of 354 days per year and an added one month every third year. This calendar came into being and into official use during the reign of king Raghabdev, immediately after the completion of Mandev Sambat 304 (881 AD). Nepal Sambat is an unique calendar in the whole world.

The New Year’s Day of Nepal Samvat (Kartika Sukla Pratipada) coincides with a family celebration among the Newars, both Buddhist and Hindu, known as mha puja (literally, body-worship or self-worship). Although the puja is evidently


supervisors and a public defense social worker also testified on her behalf.
¶ 27 There was no dispute at trial that Vandermeer engaged in all court-ordered services. She completed the psychological evaluation with Dr. Freedman, followed all treatment recommendations by engaging in individual counseling with Springer, and attended approximately 40 to 50 domestic violence support group sessions. Throughout the dependency, Vandermeer also worked full time and paid child support to DSHS.
¶ 28 Furthermore, there was no dispute that when Vandermeer had custody of the children from March 2006 to May 2007, she exhibited excellent parenting skills and was able to protect her children from harm. And when the children were in foster care, Vandermeer regularly spent time with them and continued to exhibit excellent parenting skills. For example, thecurrent wife in March 2009.
¶ 30 Vandermeer testified that at first she did not believe Schnebly harmed B.R., and that he was never violent towards her. Vandermeer said that after learning that Schnebly injured B.R., she only saw Schnebly the one time when she attended his mother's funeral in August 2006.
*1126 ¶ 31 Vandermeer testified that Renfro never physically harmed B.R. or T.V. and he had not abused her since shortly before B.R. was born in 2003. Vandermeer admitted having contact with Renfro in 2008, and that she had sex with him in November 2008, resulting in her third pregnancy. But Vandermeer said that Renfro's recent conviction for assaulting his wife convinced her that he would not change. Vandermeer testified that she had taken steps to avoid any


Peerless Pool, near Old Street, was a favorite bathing place fed by a natural spring. Click image to enlarge

Picture of the present location of the Peerless Pool

Street names still can be found refering to the old wells.

The position of the Kilburn well is located under Holland and Barrett's shop on the junction of Kilburn High Street and Belsize Road. A plaque on the building and another on the pavement commemorates the well.

Old plan showing Black Mary's well and the St Pancras well. The map is dated to the early 1700's. Click to enlarge.

London's Holy Wells

The concept of the ‘holy well’ or sacred healing spring dates back to Celtic times and before. As an important centre London had a number of ‘holy wells’ most of which, sadly, have longonly be accessed via a manhole cover. At least it still exists and the water looks clean and wholesome, saving only a ubiquitous plastic cup floating on its surface - shame! The image has been doctored to remove this item.

The present 'Holy Well' under the Australian High Commission building in the Strand (click image to enlarge)

Map showing position of the holy well, in Holywell Street, before the building of the Aldwych.(Click image to enlarge)

The first known mentioned of the well was by William FitzStephen (ca 1174/1183) a medieval monk who wrote:

“There are also in the northern suburbs of London springs of high quality, with water that is sweet, wholesome, clear, and "whose runnels ripple amid pebbles bright". Among which Holywell, Clerkenwell and St. Clement's Well have a particular


of St. Clement's.”

It is clear then that there is some confusion as to which 'holy-well' is indicated. That Stow later goes on to refer to the well of Dame Annis-the-Clear as being north of holywell strongly suggests that he was alluding to the Shoreditch well and not the one in the Strand.

The site of the Strand holy well well is shown on the Ordnance Survey sheet of 1894 (see insert above) and has been confirmed by inspection.

St Clement’s Well, Strand (TQ 3096 8109)

The site of this well is to be found in the west gardens of the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand. A map dating to 1879 suggests a location in the centre of the West Gardens car park.
Of the well Stow states:

“The fountain called Sainthouse. Believing the waters to have miraculous medicinal powers, people flocked to Sadler’s Wells to enjoy musical entertainment and to stroll in the gardens and take the water.”

The well can still be seen today and has been incorporated into the new Sadler’s Wells Theatre.

The Sadler's Well

Holywell, Holywell Lane, EC2 (TQ3315 8224)

This is another of London’s holy wells that has long since disappeared under housing or road development. It is mentioned in John Noorthouck's History of London published in 1773 as follows:

“In the parish are two prebends, and part of a third, belonging to St Paul’s cathedral, in the city of London: The first dominated by Eald-Street, or Old Street, received that appellation from the Saxons being part of the Roman military way: the second, which had been a


separate village for many years, by the name of Hochestone, vulgarly Hoxton, likewise itself to be of a Saxon origin: the third called Haliwell, had its name from a vicinal fountain, which, for the salubrity of its water, had the epithet Holy conferred on it.

In King John’s Court, Holywell-lane, are to be found the ruins of the priory of St. John Baptist, of Benedictine nuns, founded by Robert the son of Gelranni, prependary of Haliwell, and confirmed by charter of Richard I in the year1189. It was rebuilt in the reign of Henry VII by Sir Thomas Lovell, knight of the garter; who was there buried: and the following ditty was in consequence painted in most of the windows.
“All the nuns of Holywell,
“Pray for the soul of ThomasLovell.”

In his London survey John Stow’s (1525 – 1603) states:

“Holywell is much decayed and spoiled, with filthiness purposely laid there for the heightening of the ground for garden plots.”

This suggests that the well was in a more rural area at the time which fits with it being associated with the orchard area of the old Priory. A possible location is shown below based on John Rocque's 1747 map, where a circular structure is shown (highlighted in blue). However Chassereau's plan of Shoreditch in 1745 shows the well more to the west approximately in the position of the well shown in the conjectural plan below. If Rocque is right then the location of the well would be just to the west of the railway arches of Bateman's Row (see


picture below).

Detail from John Rocque's 1747 map showing the probable position of holy well marked in blue and a picture of the present location.

A conjectural plan of the Priory of St John the Baptist taken from Besant's survey of London published in 1906 shows two positions for the well. The first in the Great Court and the second in the Convent orchard.

St Bride’s Well, Fleet Street, EC4 (TQ 3151 8110)

This well was located close to the south-east corner of the present church. St Bride’s is one of the oldest of the London churches and probably built upon an ancient shrine dedicated to the Celtic goddess Bridget. The well has disappeared under a modern house/office extension but evidence suggests that it was still providing water in the 19th Century.A beautiful specimen of one of London’s Plane trees lies close to the spot of the well, which we might suppose connects to its healing energies.

One of London's Plane trees marking the spot of the well.

Location of St Bride's well at the rear of the church.

Clerk’s Well, Farringdon Lane, EC4 (TQ3145 8212)

Mentioned by Fitzstephen as early as 1174, the Clerk's Well was the scene of medieval miracle plays performed by the Parish Clerks of London, and gave its name to the district of Clerkenwell. Until the reformation, the well was located in the boundary wall of St Mary's Nunnery. After the dissolution of the nunnery and the destruction of its boundary wall, the well was located in the basement of a building in Ray Street (now Farringdon Lane).


In 1800 a pump was placed at pavement level to facilitate public use but by the middle of the 19th century the well had been closed. The exact location of this important site was uncertain but was rediscovered in 1924, during building work in Farringdon Lane. After renovation in 1984, the Clerk's Well now has an accompanying exhibition outlining the history of the well and its environment.

The present well, which can be visited by calling the Islington Local History Centre 020-7527-7988

Agas plan of Clerkenwell (1558) showing the church. The well can just be made out spouting from a fountain in the west wall into a trough.

Other Wells

St. Agnes Well- Kensington Gardens (TQ 2671 8068)

I can find very little mention of this well, excepting the naming of St AgnesVillas on the other side of the Bayswater Road to be found on the 1830 Greenwood map of London. The well is situated close to the pump house facing the Italian Gardens and is marked by a small square metal cover.

St Govor's Well - Kensington Gardens (TQ 2611 7987)

The inscription written around the well states: "This drinking fountain marks the site of an ancient spring, which in 1856 was named St Govor's Well by the First Commissioner of Works later to become Lord Llandover. Saint Govor, a sixth century hermit, was the patron saint of a church in Llandover which had eight wells in its churchyard." The well is mentioned in a story by J.M.Barrie the author of Peter Pan. A picture of the old well can be


found in the Chelsea and Kensington archives. Please click here.

Site of St. Agnes Well - Kensington Gardens

Site of St. Govor's Well - Kensington Gardens

St. Agnes Well - Old Street (TQ33074 82557)

Of the well Stowe writes in 1603

"Somewhat north from Holy-Well is one other well, curbed square with stone and is called Dame Annis the Clear
and not far from it, but somewhat west is also another clear water called Perilous Pond."

By the time of Rocques Map in 1746 the name Dame Annis the Clear had changed to St Agnes Le Clare as evidenced by the name that later became associated with the Old Street roundabout. The indication from Stowe's description suggests that the well was located towards the eastern end of Old Street and the name St Agnes LeClare (on Rocques Map) indicates the approximate position of the well, which almost certainly would now be found to the rear of the Foundry public house building in Old Street. This site is shortly to be developed and excavations will uncover the siting and positioning of the well, which reputed delivered some 10,000 galls of water a day.

Bagnigge Wells - King's Cross Road (TQ 3089 8259)

There were two springs at Bagnigge wells, which became a very fashionable spa in the 18th century. The original site of the spa, Bagnigge House, was claimed to have been owned by Nell Gwynne the mistress of Charles II. In the rear garden ran the Fleet river, known as the river of "wells" because of the number of wells associated with it. Two