operations, the United States was reported to have refrained from using this approach out of concerns for civilian casualties and destabilizing the life of a ten million population that depended on oil from ISIL production.[8][14][17] Also, rebel-held areas supported by the U.S. depended on ISIL oil for sustenance.[14] Further, direct hits on oil fields could lead to a natural disaster and make future use difficult.[37]

U.S. airstrike against Jeribe modular oil refinery, September 2014

While Bloomberg Business reported in the fall of 2014 that U.S. airstrikes had significantly reduced ISIL oil business,[19] the Financial Times reported in October 2015 that only 196 of 10,600 air strikes by U.S. led coalition forces were conducted against oil infrastructure since August 2014 and that ISIL continued a very profitable oil business generating aboutair base in Syria. After the November 2015 Paris attacks the French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian indicated that degradation of oil production as the "lifeblood" of ISIL needed to be at the center of military strategy.[5] In an effort to reduce revenue for ISIL more oil tankers were destroyed later in the month.[39] Prior to targeted air raids, smuggling trucks had sometimes waited for weeks in queues near the oil fields to buy crude.[9] The defense ministry of Moscow released satellite images showing columns of waiting trucks near the border of Turkey.[40] After Russian air attacks against smuggling trucks, ISIS changed its system to prevent the formation of long queues.[9]

A report at the end of December 2015 indicated that ISIL was starting to have financial problems due


His dream was a common one.

His challenge in getting there, however, was anything but.

Hawthorne was born without tibias, the large, lower leg bones that allow humans to stand. His fibulas were without muscles or nerves. His feet were clubbed, according to AL.com.

So how to explain the scene inside a sweaty Huntsville, Ala., gymnasium on Saturday? How to explain the blur of a yellow and green uniform, broad back and massive arms, pinning one opponent after another to the mat?

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How to explain Hawthorne standing atop the winner’s podium with a perfect 37-0 record, a state title and two stumps where his legs once had been?

The answer involves pain, perseverance and a whole lot of sacrifice.

Hasaan was born into a world of worry. He was his parents’ first child, and‘Nope. Leave him alone. He knows how to get up.’

“We could be walking through Wal-Mart and all you hear is… ‘Bam,'” she added.

With each passing day, however, the thuds became less frequent. And by the age of 2 or 3, Hasaan had ditched his walker and started to walk around on his hands. He climbed out of his crib and began roughhousing with his father and babysitters.

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“We would wrestle every weekend,” Duke Frison, a family friend and former babysitter, told AL.com. “You could tell that WWE was a big influence on his playtime because he would always jump on me from ‘The top rope’, which was also the top of the couch. For him it was all in playing; sometimes he would hit his head or ‘miss.’ And


himself: no prosthetics, just his natural grit and determination.

During his high school career, Hawthorne has experienced ups and downs. Competing on his amputated legs, what he calls his “nubs,” has led to occasional health complications, requiring additional surgeries and leading to setbacks. But he ended his junior year strongly, finishing third in the state for his weight class.

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For his senior year, he dropped 15 pounds, down to just 145. But that number is a bit misleading. Hawthorne stands six-foot-five-inches tall wearing his prosthetics and with legs, would weigh well over 200 pounds.

Debate rages over whether or not his disability is an advantage on the wrestling mat. Being legless gives him a low center of gravity and makes it harder for opponents to grab him, but it also deprivesThe Portland Timbers are looking to send winger Victor Arboleda on loan to a club in Colombia for the remainder of 2018.

The Timbers hope to have the loan deal finalized in the next 7-10 days.

The club and Arboleda both believe that sending him on loan to the top division in Colombia where he could see playing time at a high level is the best move for his development at this time.

Arboleda has excelled in Portland while on loan with T2 this season, scoring four goals in 10 appearances, but has been unable to break in with the first team. The 21-year-old, who is in his second season with the Timbers, has made just one appearance with the first team this year, coming off the bench in Portland's 4-0


loss to the New York Red Bulls on March 10.

"We're hoping that he seizes this opportunity and he furthers his development," Timbers General Manager and President of Soccer Gavin Wilkinson said. "As a player, the reason he expressed a level of interest in going back to Colombia is to get first team minutes and we didn't see him getting regular first team minutes here from now to the end of the year."

The Timbers have Arboleda under contract with an option for next season and could bring the 21-year-old back after his loan spell in Colombia ends in December. The club previously sent winger Dairon Asprilla on loan to a club in Colombia in 2016 before bringing him back the next season.

By sending Arboleda on loan, the Timbers wouldThis picture is taken from Labour's election propaganda (see also here). The by-election candidate Margaret Curran says

Some of the people that I have met out and about over the past 9 years as a local MSP have been absolutely inspirational. Today I met a man who was up there with the very best that the East End has to offer.

Mr McGuiness is a 93 year old—who looks not a day past 70, by the way—living in a sheltered housing complex that I went to visit today.

Mr McGuiness fought with the Desert Rats in World War II and was treated in hospital for shrapnel wounds. He also fought in Yugoslavia with the partisans against the German occupation.

He reminded me of all the sacrifices our older generation made so that


we can enjoy freedom today. I hope every single voter in the East End uses their hard-fought right to vote on July 24th.

Having met Mr McGuiness today, I am reminded we owe it to people like him to use our democratic right to vote.

What more could you ask for? A smiling endorsement with the candidate from a proud medal holder and old war hero who fought for democracy. Vote Labour!

Mr McGuinness looks in good shape for 93. He looks more like 67. With good reason, he is 67. He was 4 years old when the war ended. The picture above is of the Labour activist John McGuinness who nominated Margaret Curran on her ballot papers. A lifelong Labour activist whom Downing Street got an MBE as a reward.

It'sI hear her screeching, nasal whine on Newsnight, the spiralling blood pressure at the very sight of her Gorgon's face, my general wellbeing will be much improved for her leaving the cut and thrust of Holyrood for a seat on the Government backbenches. I wouldn't be surprised if she secures a minor bag-carrying job at the next reshuffle; not through merit, clearly (ha!), but be

Margaret Curran, Labour's candidate in the Glasgow East by-election, was yesterday forced to clarify a claim she had lived in the east end "all my life" after it emerged she has lived in an affluent part of the south side of the city for the past 20 years.

The Glasgow Baillieston MSP angrily denied allegations that she had misled voters, although an aide later conceded


He has insulted a MBE winner and worst of all great war hero with fake claims about them. It makes my blood boil. Gudio is the fake. Boycott guido blog until he apologises to the war hero.GUIDO APOLOGISE NOW OR FACE A BOYCOTT FROM ALL TRUE PATRIOTS

DES, I shall explain this again slowly. Although I see DK has done most of this while I've been composing this comment.

The picture is of a man who won an MBE. The story was about an ex-soldier Curran had met. Except that the name in the story was the name of the man in the photo, even though the two were unrelated. While this may be just stupidity, it comes across as crassness: political point scoring without a regard for the peopleThe first of the two anonymous male massage therapists who filed sexual battery charges against John Travolta has withdrawn his lawsuit, CNN reports.

OkorieOkarocha, the lawyer representing both masseurs, filed papers Tuesday dropping the client identified as John Doe #1 because he incorrectly listed the date of the alleged incident at the Beverly Hills Hotel as January 16.

Instead of simply changing the date on the filing to January 15 — the day John Doe #1 later claimed the event took place — Okarocha chose to withdraw the allegation from the lawsuit, as it would have diminished the chances of winning John Doe #2's case, he told CNN.

On Tuesday, Travolta's lawyer, Marty Singer, issued a statement, saying: "We fully expect that my client will similarly be vindicated with respect to


Doe #2, as well as with respect to any other person who makes meritless claims against John Travolta."

John Doe #2 alleged Travolta once groped him during a massage at an Atlanta hotel. According to Okarocha, "I can guarantee that John Doe #2 has a truckload of witnesses to back up what he's saying." John Doe #2 also has a series of e-mails in which he complained to his supervisor about Travolta's alleged advances.

"Mr. Doe's lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice, which means that he is still legally entitled to file a lawsuit against John Travolta if he chooses," Allred, 70, said in a statement. "We are in the process of conferring with him regarding the next steps, which he may wish to take. Our client and our firm hasno further comment at this time."

Travolta, 58, has been married to actress Kelly Preston, 49, since 1991. She is the mother of his three children: Jett (1992-2009), Ella (born in 2000) and Benjamin (born in 2010).


officials, State Police, prosecutor's detectives, and local police, who, armed with a search warrant, entered the premises at 22 Ninth Avenue, East Orange, New Jersey. The evidence gathered before they arrested the defendants is extensive and convincingly indicative of the purpose for which the premises were used. The State's brief consumes five pages just cataloging the evidence of the operations conducted on the premises. The police seized there 27 envelopes of lottery slips, a large amount of money, bills and coins in bags and wrappings, all cached in various places, a safe containing over $4,000, two ledger books, 14 unused lottery books, an adding machine and two cartons containing 435 new books of the type used in lotteries. During the raid the police answered incoming telephone calls andSociety for the Reformation of Manners in the East End.

For fifty years, the Society sought out brothels and secret clubs called ‘Molly Houses’ where gay, bisexual and transgender men met. Many were jailed or put into the stocks as a consequence of discovery. In 1728, the house of Jonathan Muff – alias ‘Miss Muff’ – in Black Lyon Yd, near Whitechapel Church, was searched and nine male ‘Ladies,’ including the ‘Man of the House,’ were arrested.

Moving into the twentieth century, after World War One, the phenomenon of ‘drag’ became an established part of East End life. It is commonly assumed that cross-dressing originated in Elizabethan times when men took on female roles in the theatre and, of course, pantomime and music hall traditions include transvestites both male and


female. But it is to the all-male concert party troupes of World War One that we can look to for the origins of drag as we know it.

During the War, the performers cross-dressed as a matter of necessity but the continuation of these groups during the more-liberal nineteen-twenties and thirties saw them composed almost exclusively of gay men.

I was born in the nineteen-fifties when drag acts in the pubs of East London were taken for granted. In fact, during the war, our own Columbia Rd ‘Diamond Lil. had kept everyone’s spirits up and her signature tune, “I want a boy,” was known by all.

Yet Diamond Lil was safe in the bubble of the East End. The West End was a more dangerous territory into which she seldom wandered.In the nineteen-fifties, Daniel Farson, who owned a famous pub called the Waterman’s Arms, said, “When I moved into Limehouse [in the 1950’s] the East End was a No-Man’s-Land for the rest of the capital, yet gay East Enders lived in a world of their own.”

Tolerance was not something East Enders were known for but, if you were part of the tribe, the tribe looked after you. It was far from Nirvana for gay men, yet even for Ronnie Kray, before his violence made him a person to fear, his queerness gave no cause for alarm.

Not being of the tribe and landing in Bethnal Green could be problematic. In the nineteen-seventies, when the Gay Liberation Movement was emerging, Bethnal Rouge Commune was established at 248 Bethnal Green Rd.


These men were part of the Radical Feminists who grew out of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality in support of lesbians whom they felt were being subjugated. Dressed in glorious and outrageous drag, they were at first looked upon with some suspicion until, as I was told recently by one of the former members, “The publican of the nearby Marquis of Cornwallis discovered some of us could play the piano, it was all right after that.”

In more recent years, the political lobbying group Stonewall was founded by a group of East Enders sitting around Ian McKellen’s dinner table in Wapping and the renaissance of East London has brought a new wave gay culture – Glyn and Amy of Sink the Pink call themselves accidental activists. Their party nightsMusic composer for Stage & Screen
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A former imam at a west London mosque known for his staunch criticism of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has been found dead with gunshot wounds.

A murder investigation was launched after a man named locally as Syrian-born Abdul Hadi Arwani, the former imam at An-noor mosque, was discovered in his car in Wembley, north-west London, on Tuesday morning.

The Metropolitan police, who have not formally identified the man, say he was discovered sitting in a dark-coloured Volkswagen Passat in Greenhill, at the junction with The Paddocks in Wembley.

Officers were called to Wembley by the London ambulance service in response to reports of a man found suffering what are believed to be gunshot injuries to hischest.

A postmortem examination will be arranged in due course, the Met said.

Supporters posted tributes to the preacher on Twitter, with one person writing: “It seems like the entire community is in a state of mourning.”

Liza B (@liza_biza) I am so sad to hear of the death of Sh AbdulHadi Arwani. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'oun. May Allah grant him firdous al ala. Ameen

Arwani studied in Jordan before moving to the UK where he taught in Slough and West London, according to the London College for Islamic Studies, which describes him as an authority on marriage and divorce.

He was also known for his criticism of Assad regime, which he described as “more than criminal...less than animals”. During the 2012 Syria Crisis Week he spoke about his memories of


his home country, including his experience of the 1982 Hama massacre that occurred when he was aged 16. Arwani said he was forced to flee Syria after he was sentenced with capital punishment for taking pictures of the aftermath of the massacre.

B (@befroggled) It seems like the entire community is in a state of mourning tonight. Allah yerhamak Sheikh Abdul Hadi.

The investigation into his death is being carried out by detectives from the Met’s homicide and major crime command.

A police statement said: “At this very early stage detectives retain an open mind regarding the possible motive.”

They appealed for anyone in the area from about 10am who may have seen a dark-coloured VW Passat or anything suspicious to get in touch. Local roads have been sealed off as theA former director of food services for the Los Angeles Unified School District has pleaded guilty to illegally approving contracts and forging a signature on a district application.

The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said David Glenn Binkle pleaded Tuesday to three felony counts of conflict of interest and one felony count of forgery.

Prosecutors said that he forged an application to become a vendor with the district and failed to disclose outside financial interests.

Binkle was immediately sentenced to three years of probation and 90 days of community service.

Prosecutors say that between 2010 and 2014, Binkle illegally approved contracts in which he had a conflict of interest and forged a signature on a district vendor application.

The violations were discovered in an audit in 2013.

Binkle, a former professional chef, had


been hailed as a pioneer among school nutrition advocates for accomplishing a near-herculean task: using produce and meats provided by local growers to greatly reduce the number of fatty meals served in the nation’s second-largest school district.

The LAUSD serves nearly 700,000 meals per day, and Binkle helped lead a charge that saw dishes such as vegetarian curries, pad Thai noodles and quinoa salads replace old cafeteria staples like chicken nuggets and corn dogs.

The initiatives won the district numerous awards, drew praise from then-First Lady Michelle Obama as she led a national push to combat childhood obesity and earned Binkle appearances on Tedx Talks.

Binkle was removed from his position in December 2014 after the LAUSD’s inspector general accused him of failing to report payments from vendors to attend school621, et seq. ("the Age Act"). Plaintiff claims that the termination of his employment with the defendant Julius Wile Sons & Co. ("JWS") was part of an unlawful scheme by JWS and its parent corporation, Standard Brands, Inc., between 1972 and 1975 to replace older employees with younger men in order to reduce corporate expenditures relating to salaries and pension benefits.
Plaintiff joined JWS in 1946 as a clerk; the following year he was made a salesman. In 1965, Havelick was made responsible for JWS' mid-western sales territory, and in 1973, he was promoted to manager of the JWS Western Division. At the time of his termination in April, 1975, the plaintiff was a Vice-President and Western Division Sales Manager for JWS, with responsibility for thirteen states, including two


very significant markets, Northern and Southern California. In each of the years 1970 through 1974, Havelick received salary raises and bonuses. However, defendants offered testimony showing that these raises and bonuses were primarily routine.
During the relevant period, defendant JWS was in the business of importing wines and spirits for sale in this country. JWS acted as agent for several foreign producers of wines and spirits, selling these products to distributors who in turn resold the products to retailers. Between 1973 and 1975, the period most crucial here, defendant Howard Blum was JWS' Senior Vice-President and General Sales Manager and defendant Richard Blum was JWS' President and Chairman of the Board of Directors.
*922 Plaintiff's responsibilities as Manager of the Western Division included the supervision of JWS District Sales Managers,and the sale and distribution of JWS products in the western portion of the United States. Plaintiff's direct superior was Howard Blum.
While the plaintiff has presented certain evidence concerning his sales performance, the facts most important to the Court's decision are those relating to the relationship between Havelick and his superiors. Between May 1973 and April 1975 there transpired a series of incidents which must be considered as having a significant bearing on JWS' ultimate decision to discharge the plaintiff.
In May 1973, Howard Blum wrote to the plaintiff, directing him to take a specific list of wine samples to a Mr. Stark of Safeway Stores in an effort to promote JWS' long-time interest in having Safeway carry JWS wines in their supermarkets. Although Blum had asked plaintiff in


further conceded that despite Blum's specific direction that he visit Stark regularly in an effort to cultivate his interest, Havelick called to see Stark only four to six times in 1973. Further, plaintiff conceded that he was criticized by Blum for his failure to follow up on a plan to show Stark the success of JWS' supermarket wine program in Southern California (DX-W).
Howard Blum was also critical of Havelick's continual failure to file written progress reports with the New York office, and his similar failure to insure that his subordinates filed such reports. As a JWS policy statement (DX-J-4) reveals, Howard Blum had directed all salesmen to file regular reports so that the corporate officers in New York could have some understanding of what was happening in thefield. Despite this clear JWS policy, Havelick found himself criticized often by Blum for his failure to insure that his men filed reports (DX-X) and for his own failure to file reports (DX-BB). Indeed, the latter criticism was contained in a memorandum so filled with ire that any reasonable person would have concluded that his employment was in jeopardy. In that memo, dated October 4, 1974, Howard Blum wrote that he was "appalled to call to [plaintiff's] attention" the fact that JWS had received no written progress reports from Havelick since September 6, 1974. Havelick explained that his failure to file reports was due to the fact that in early July, 1974, he had to discharge his secretary for budgetary reasons. Havelick had made a request for a


were charged in northern and in southern California (see DX-KK, DX-LL, DX-MM, DX-NN, DX-OO).
An incident that further provoked Howard Blum to criticize Havelick was the plaintiff's failure to obtain an assistant for his subordinate Mr. Redin to aid Redin in JWS' successful southern California supermarket wine program. In March, 1974, Havelick was directed to hire a part-time assistant for Redin. Two months later, Blum reprimanded Havelick for his failure to obtain such an assistant, and authorized the hiring of a full-time assistant for Redin (DX-RR). It was not until October, 1974, that a full-time assistant was finally hired even though the position, according to Howard Blum, paid $12,000 per year and required relatively modest qualifications.
In March, 1974, Mr. Frank D'Alessandro, a Group Vice-President of JWS' parent, Standard Brands,visited Havelick in San Francisco to discuss, among other things, the California business and Havelick himself. The plaintiff stated that he did not consider this meeting to be part of an evaluation of his performance. The Court finds that it was. Based on this meeting, D'Alessandro recommended to Richard Blum that Havelick be terminated on grounds that he was not serious enough about his work and did not appear willing to devote the time and effort required to develop business. Richard Blum testified that in response to this criticism, the size of Havelick's territory was limited in the hope that he would improve his performance (DX-F-4). In July, 1974, the Central Division states were removed from his responsibilities and Hawaii was added.
Havelick also came under criticism for his


handling of several matters relating to two JWS promotional campaigns to improve sales and distribution of a sherry known as Dry Sack. At the end of the "Venenciador" promotion drive which commenced on March 1, 1974, Blum wrote a caustic memo to Havelick noting that of the six distributors under Havelick's supervision which were selected to participate in the program, only one of the distributors satisfactorily completed the drive (DX-B-3).
In September, 1974, JWS launched a three-million dollar promotional campaign to increase the distribution of Dry Sack. In southern California, JWS' distributor, Youngs Market, had selected inappropriate figures upon which to judge its sales performance in this campaign. Howard Blum testified that Havelick had failed to convince Youngs Market to use an appropriate base year, and that Blum himselfeventually had to intervene to correct the situation. In northern California, Havelick also had significant difficulties with JWS' distributor, Juillard Alpha Liquor Company ("JALCO"). JALCO refused to adopt many aspects of the Dry Sack campaign. JALCO reduced the target figures set by JWS: it failed to set individual sales quotas for its salesmen; it neglected to set point-of-sale quotas; it did not establish bonuses for sales above the quotas; and it did not post the discounts JWS had planned. Although the Dry Sack three-million dollar campaign began in September, 1974, Howard Blum testified that it was not until November, 1974, that he was informed by Havelick that JALCO was refusing to implement the program. While Blum conceded that there had always been problems with JALCO, he testified that


is clear from the evidence that Havelick was opposed to the switch, and Havelick so informed his superiors, stating that he thought he was finally building up a rapport with JALCO and further that Haas' sales staff was too small compared to JALCO's. Taylor then called Richard L. Blum in New York who made the decision to go ahead with Haas. When informed of this, Havelick stated that since the decision had been made, he would go along with the change.
During this visit to California by Blum and Taylor, three rather minor incidents occurred which, in the Court's view, merit limited discussion. Soon after meeting Havelick, Taylor questioned him regarding parts of his territory outside of northern California. Havelick, according to Richard Blum to whom Taylor reported, wasperformance. The JWS management also was apprehensive about whether Havelick could be expected to do an adequate job with its new distributor, since Havelick had opposed the switch from JALCO to Haas.
On April 11, 1975, Howard Blum returned to San Francisco to inform Havelick that JWS was requesting that he take early retirement effective June 1, 1975. Havelick was asked to turn over his files, and following April 11, 1975, he rendered no further services to JWS. At the time, Raymond Havelick was fifty-six years of age. While defendants maintain that Havelick took early retirement voluntarily under the JWS pension plan, it is clear to this Court that Havelick was discharged. In June 1975, JWS paid to plaintiff $15,096.04 in severance pay and a lump-sum pension payment in


the amount of $93,620.95.
On October 6, 1975, plaintiff filed a complaint with the California Fair Employment Practice Commission ("FEPC"). On November 4, 1975, a Commissioner wrote to the plaintiff to inform him of the Commission's intention to order the case closed at its December 4, 1975 meeting since plaintiff had elected court action. On December 10, 1975, the FEPC wrote, to JWS only, to state that the case had indeed been closed on December 4, 1975. Plaintiff did not receive notice of the final action regarding closure until January 13, 1976, when his attorney made inquiry of the FEPC. On January 15, 1976, plaintiff gave notice of his intention to sue in federal court to the United States Secretary of Labor. This action was commenced in April, 1976.
Beforelisted at least twelve separate incidents between early 1973 and April 1975 in which plaintiff's job performance was sharply criticized by his direct superior, Howard Blum. Three of his superiors, Howard Blum, Laurence Taylor and Frank D'Alessandro, each separately recommended Havelick's termination, and a fourth, Richard Blum, had also expressed dissatisfaction with Havelick's job performance. The Court has heard the testimony of Howard Blum, Richard Blum, and of the plaintiff Raymond Havelick. Weighing the respective credibility of these witnesses and assessing the exhibits received in evidence, the Court is compelled to conclude that the decision to discharge the plaintiff was made upon a rational and reasonable basis and in good faith. Plaintiff's failures with respect to Safeway Stores, his inattention to the hiring of an assistant for Mr.


Redin, his inattention to the Venenciador campaign and the major Dry Sack promotional campaign, his failures in dealing with JALCO, and his continued failure to file written reports with JWS all created a situation where the JWS corporate officers no longer had faith in his ability to perform his role as a Division Sales Manager. In April, 1975, when plaintiff opposed the change of distributors from JALCO to Haas Brothers, the defendants determined that Havelick was not the right person to handle the important change-over to a new distributor. This was a business judgment. Plaintiff has failed to carry his burden of proving that this decision borne of the events of recent years described hereinabove was made in bad faith and without a rational basis. As one courtleaves for good. (This one I know Bilbo's age for: 111. Not sure about Frodo's.)
Bilbo arrives at Rivendell, apparently from just walking around randomly and openly in spite of the dangers. (This confused me as well, even though he no longer had the Ring.)
Frodo leaves with his friends and the ponies, first to his fake "new home" and soon after on the great adventure.
Frodo arrives at Rivendell and meets Bilbo, apparently after not seeing him for a long time. (To me, it seemed like at most a couple of years, or even months.)

I'd much appreciate to get the ages of both hobbits for these moments, or alternatively the time that has passed between each point. (Ideally, both!)

A:

The Lord of the Rings contains several appendices at the end of


The Return of the King, and Appendix B, called The Tale of Years (Chronology of the Westlands), contains a timeline of events.
The following years are 'Third Age', at the end of which the events in The Lord of the Rings takes place. The appendix lists Bilbo's birth year as 2890, and 2968 as Frodo's, but no birth date for both – from the first chapter of The Fellowship of the Ring we know it's September 22nd:

Bilbo and Frodo happened to have the same birthday, September 22nd.

The start of Bilbo's journey is in 2941, according to 'The Hobbit' just before May; he is 50 years old.

He returns next year (2942), on June the 22nd (in the middle of an auction selling his property) and is 51 years old.

Bilbo's farewellof Bruinen, into Rivendell on October 20th that same year, but Frodo doesn't wake up until October 24th. So Frodo and Bilbo haven't seen each other in sixteen years.

A:

All timeline information can be found in The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B: "The Tale of Years (Chronology of the Westlands)". Selecting the relevant pieces of information for your answer:

2890: Bilbo born in the Shire.

2941: Thorin Oakenshield and Gandalf visit Bilbo in the Shire. Bilbo meets Sméagol-Gollum and finds the Ring. The White Council meets; Saruman agrees to anattack on Dol Guldur, since he now wishes to prevent Sauron from searching the River. Sauron having made his plans abandons Dol Guldur. The Battle of the Five Armies in Dale. Death of Thorin II. Bard of Esgaroth slays Smaug. Dáin


of the Iron Hills becomes King under the Mountain (Dáin II).
2942: Bilbo returns to the Shire with the Ring. Sauron returns in secret
to Mordor.

2968: Birth of Frodo.

3001: Bilbo's farewell feast. Gandalf suspects his ring to be the One Ring. The guard on the Shire is doubled. Gandalf seeks for news of Gollum and calls on the help of Aragorn.
3002: Bilbo becomes a guest of Elrond, and settles in Rivendell.

3018 [...] September 23: Four Riders enter the Shire before dawn. The others pursue the Rangers eastward,and then return to watch the Greenway. A Black Rider comes to Hobbiton at nightfall. Frodo leaves Bag End. Gandalf having tamed Shadowfax rides from Rohan.

October 20: Escape across the Ford of Bruinen.
October 24: Frodo recovers and wakes. Boromir arrives in Rivendell at night.

InThe Fellowship of the Ring, Bilbo and Frodo have a joint birthday party; Bilbo is 111, as you recall ("eleventy-one"), and the sum of their ages is 144 ("one gross"), so that makes Frodo 33. This fits with their birth years and the year of the Long-Expected Party as mentioned above.
So going through the events you mentioned and checking ages and the relative timeline (noting that the other answer also found proof that their shared birthday is 22 September):

Bilbo makes his journey "There and Back Again" in The Hobbit at 50-51 years old (he leaves in spring and returns the next spring, so one birthday while he's away). Frodo is born 26 years later.
Bilbo leaves for good and settles in Rivendell at 111 years old; Frodo is 33


that domestic
tourists arrivals have touched 1.38 crores.

Those
who took part in the workshop were Additional Chief Conservator of Forests Dr. Amit Malik IAS, Tourism India
Managing Director Mr. Ravishanker KV, Mr. Rajeev Anchal, Member of the
Executive Council of Adventure Tour Operators Association of India Dr. T Samuel, Kerala Tourism ADG Mr. Jaffer Malik IAS among
others. A theme paper on setting up the
new draft policy on Adventure Tourism needed in Kerala was presented by Dr.
Samuel.Harkey, Leiper weigh the future

Published 4:00 am, Tuesday, July 18, 1995

MILWAUKEE - The A's could've used left-hander Dave Leiper and right-hander Mike Harkey Monday night, both designated for assignment earlier this month. But they're not likely to come back to the team.

Leiper cleared waivers Monday and was assigned to Triple-A Edmonton. He has three days to decide whether he'll accept the assignment. "He's anxious to join another major-league team," said general manager Sandy Alderson, "but at this point his options are limited."

For his part, Leiper said, "I felt like they were pretty short with me during a slump, considering the rest of the pitchers on the staff." He left with a 1-1 record and a 3.57 earned-run average, sixth-best on the team.

Harkey, on waivers, has until Wednesday to


decide which direction he will go. It's expected he, too, will be assigned to Triple-A, but Alderson said, "As a five-year player he has the right to say, "I'm not going to Edmonton, you have to release me.' "

Leiper and Harkey combined for a 5-7 record with the A's, but both had been shaky. They were also about to start a period of salary incentives that played into the decision to reassign them.

Dave Stewart's short, ugly outing at Milwaukee left the A's with a woefully thin pitching staff. Left-hander Scott Baker, called up from Edmonton Sunday, was set to start Tuesday night's game but had to take over when Stewart failed to get into the third inning.

Instead, the A's are calling up Steve Wojciechowski, a left-hander who isCarlos Baerga Sunday, didn't start Monday. "Steiny's tired and a little sore from the collision," said La Russa.

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Story highlights One of world's only known albino humpbacks is spotted off Australia

Nicknamed "Migaloo," the whale's movements are being tracked by researchers

Migaloo was first seen in 1991 as a juvenile, experts say

This is the third year in a row he's been spotted

"Thar he blows!" In a scene straight out of Moby Dick, a rare white whale is back and putting on a show for his fans off the eastern coast of Australia this week.

First spotted on Tuesday, the albino humpback has been nicknamed "Migaloo" by researchers who track his movements.

On Thursday he was seen swimming along Sydney's coast on his annual migration. This is the third year in a row he's been spotted

Photos: Photos: Albinos of the animal kingdom Photos: Photos: Albinos of the animal kingdom Albinos ofthe animal kingdom – The albino humpback whale nicknamed Migaloo cruises along the eastern coast of Australia near Coffs Harbour with another whale in 2005. On Thursday, June 19, he was spotted swimming along the coast near Sydney on his annual migration. Hide Caption 1 of 14 Photos: Photos: Albinos of the animal kingdom Albinos of the animal kingdom – A rare 300-pound marlin was caught and released off the coast of Costa Rica during a fishing trip run by Maverick Yachts and Maverick Sportfishing Tours on March 11. It's being called the first-ever recorded albino blue marlin, according to the company's Facebook page . It's unclear whether the fish was albino or leucistic, retaining some essence of its normal pigmentation. Hide Caption 2 of 14 Photos: Photos:


Albinos of the animal kingdom Albinos of the animal kingdom – An albino killer whale nicknamed Iceberg, the only all-white, adult killer whale ever spotted, travels in a pod of 13 orcas near Bering Island off the coast of Russia. Hide Caption 3 of 14 Photos: Photos: Albinos of the animal kingdom Albinos of the animal kingdom – A rare albino tammar wallaby and its twin at Chris Humfrey's Wild Action Zoon in Macedon, Australia. Hide Caption 4 of 14 Photos: Photos: Albinos of the animal kingdom Albinos of the animal kingdom – Two-week-old Sri Lankan Albino cobras at the National Zoological Gardens in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Hide Caption 5 of 14 Photos: Photos: Albinos of the animal kingdom Albinos of the animal kingdom – An albino babyturtle swims with green sea turtle babies in a pond at Khram island, Thailand. Hide Caption 6 of 14 Photos: Photos: Albinos of the animal kingdom Albinos of the animal kingdom – A wild white donkey on the island of Asinara, Italy. The donkey is an albino variant of the more common Sardinian donkey. Hide Caption 7 of 14 Photos: Photos: Albinos of the animal kingdom Albinos of the animal kingdom – These two white albino alligators live in the Alligator Bay zoological park in Beauvoir, France. Hide Caption 8 of 14 Photos: Photos: Albinos of the animal kingdom Albinos of the animal kingdom – Two albino porcupines compete for a corn cob at the Kamla Nehru Zoological Garden in Ahmedabad, India. Hide Caption 9 of 14 Photos:


Photos: Albinos of the animal kingdom Albinos of the animal kingdom – An albino hedgehog in the Zoo of the Botanical Garden in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. Hide Caption 10 of 14 Photos: Photos: Albinos of the animal kingdom Albinos of the animal kingdom – A rare albino buffalo grazes in Hellsgate National Park in Naivasha, Kenya. Hide Caption 11 of 14 Photos: Photos: Albinos of the animal kingdom Albinos of the animal kingdom – An albino squirrel in Hout Bay, South Africa. Hide Caption 12 of 14 Photos: Photos: Albinos of the animal kingdom Albinos of the animal kingdom – A rare albino southern right whale calf surfaces at West Australia's Flinder's Bay. Hide Caption 13 of 14 Photos: Photos: Albinos of the animalkingdom Albinos of the animal kingdom – A rare baby two-humped camel stands with its mother in a private zoo at the Crimean resort of Yalta. Hide Caption 14 of 14

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Albino whales are rare and Migaloo is one of only a small handful of documented all-white humpback adults, according to Oskar Peterson, who runs a website that tracks sightings of white whales around the globe.

"We have photos of a junior Migaloo from a few years ago, but we


haven't seen him since so we don't know if he survived the South Ocean," said Peterson.

"But there is a 100% white whale we've seen photographic proof of in Norway, so Migaloo isn't quite as unique as we once thought."

Migaloo was first seen in 1991 when he was a juvenile and researchers believe he is now in his 20s.

He doesn't show up every year, but his journey is part of the humpbacks' annual migration from the Antarctic to their breeding grounds along the Great Barrier Reef.

"The helicopter crews are all out photographing him today," said Oskar Peterson. "He's giving us all quite a parade this year."

Migaloo passed by Cronulla in Sydney's south on Thursday afternoon and would soon be seen by whale watchers at Bondi Beach, Peterson said.

Spotters ofcase the suspect walked into the bank wearing a plastic mask, approached the tellers and demanded cash, telling them he had a gun and would shoot if they refused to do what he said. [每次抢劫时，疑犯都会戴着塑料面具进银行，直接走向出纳员找他要钱，他说他有枪，如果不按他说的做，他就会开枪。]

Daming (大名):我想起来了还有一件事 —— 我老婆林静，当时那个男的进银行的时候她还在外边儿呢。[I just thought of one more thing – my wife Linjing, she was outside when the man entered the bank.]

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上次我告诉过你们，那个男的出银行的时候抢劫了我老婆。他把枪指着她的胸口，还搜了身，抢走了钱包和手提包。整个过程太恐怖了，我老婆还经常做恶梦呢。[I told you last time that the man mugged her when he got out of the bank. He put the gun to her chest, frisked her entire body and snatched her wallet and handbag. The whole experience was terrifying for her and she still has nightmares about it.]

Wainwright: Right. In these situations we do offer – and recommend – that you attend trauma counselling. I can also to talk to


44 year old Clifford Smith was arrested last Sunday for allegedly attacking a woman after she ate the last piece of chicken at a dinner. According to authorities, Smith became extremely upset after the woman, who was in fact, wheelchair-bound, ate the last piece of chicken.Several people were in attendance at the dinner where the incident took place in Pacolet, South Carolina. According to reports, after Smith yelled that he wanted the last piece of chicken, hit the woman, smashed a beer bottle against the wall, then proceeded to choke her.

The woman attempted to call 911, but Smith took her cell phone and smashed it.

Authorities has charged Smith with with assault and vandalism.Business Profile

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Syrian forces on the city of Aleppo. Frustrated administration officials acknowledged that Syrian President Bashar Assad is making territorial gains with Moscow’s help after the collapse of a cease-fire negotiated by Secretary of State John F. Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. (The Washington Times)

Why Clinton reset button went nuclear

Putin stated that he is ending the Plutonium-elimination agreement because the United States has failed under Barrack Obama to hold up its end of the agreement.

Mr. Putin’s decree cited Washington’s “unfriendly actions” and the U.S. inability to fulfill its obligations under the 2000 deal as reasons for the move. Under the agreement, which was expanded in 2006 and 2010, Russia and the U.S. each were to dispose of 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium, enough material for aboutVon Johnson joined ITC Entertainment as Vice President of Worldwide Technical Services in 1993. ITC was a British production and distribution company formed by the late Lord Lew Grade in 1954. Prior to the acquisition by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment in 1995, ITC boasted the world’s largest filmed entertainment library at well over 10,000 hours. Among this vast collection were the adventure/science fiction gems The Prisoner, Space:1999, The Saint and The Persuaders. ITC also owned Gerry Anderson’s brilliant marionette creations Thunderbirds, Supercar and Fireball XL5. The motion picture collection included Academy Award winners Sophie’s Choice and On Golden Pond.

Under Johnson's administration, the Worldwide Technical services group oversaw film-to-tape mastering, quality assurance, language dubbing, inventory control and international television distribution.


hyena, his chest is canine in form, his hands are paw-like, and his feet are pawed. Yeenoghu is thin to the point of being skeletal, and his only body hair is a mangy crest of putrid yellow from his head to his mid-back. Yeenoghu’s skin is a dead gray in color, and it is smooth. His eyes are lambent amber and large."

And next to it there's a picture of a homophobic poodle crudely attempting to mock a passing Gay Pride parade.

Some later illustrators did eventually manage to do a better job with gnolls. There is something sinister about the way hyenas hunch and grin.

But still: he's a big gnoll, lord of the gnolls. He has a flail, but other than that--not much to go on.

You think--Well why notfor the less well known but still darn cool Dragon Turtle, Dragonne and Disenchanter.

The Dragonne holds a special place in my heart for two reasons.

First, in a thread on EN World about 'Which D&D Monsters Were From Folklore and Which Were from Gary's Head', Gary Gygax himself commented on the origins of the creature. I was able to have a nice but all too brief back and forth with him about the fact that a friend of mine thought they were based on an almost identical looking creature from the mythology of his native country of Burma. Statues of the creature, a lion-like dragon beast similar to the Chinese Foo Dog, adorned numerous temples and monestaries where my friend grew up. Gary said he may have seen pictures


Amazon India to Double Storage Capacity, Add 5,000 New Jobs in 2017

E-commerce company Amazon.in on Tuesday said it is set to double its storage capacity with the addition of 14 new fulfilment centres (FCs) in 2017 in India, including the recently announced seven specialised ones for large appliances and furniture.

The Indian unit of the American e-commerce giant said the additional new seven FCs will be set up in Telangana, Haryana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh to support its regular business, all of which will be fully operational by the end of this quarter.

Besides, the company also announced doubling of storage capacity of the FC in Ahmedabad and six times more space at the urban FC in New Delhi to support increased customer and seller demand.

“Wemerely the start of an awfully big job.

PS: This is, I hope, my last posting on the topic of American politics for a long while, unless something extraordinary (good or bad) happens in the next couple of months. Just blowing off steam here after several years of bottling stuff up.

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A predoctoral BIODEFENSE TRAINING PROGRAM is proposed at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). The program will capitalize on UTMB's outstanding high containment facilities, including the only BSL-4 laboratory at a U.S. university, extensive, and externally funded research opportunities to study the majority of NIAID Category A-C Priority Pathogens with high experienced faculty scientists. Research opportunities include several major NIH-funded programs such as the Emerging Viral Diseases Unit, the World Reference Center for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses, the Biodefense Proteomics Collaboratory, and many regional, multidisciplinary biodefense projects through the UTMB-led Region VI Center of Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases. The program will foster the interdisciplinary training of young biodefense scientists through: 1) role-modeling by experienced faculty mentors; 2) flexible but rigorous didactic preparation in aActivision has sent us the New York Comic Con trailer for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron which you can watch below.

Currently in development by the team at High Moon Studios, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron takes fans through the final, darkest hours of the civil war between the Autobots and Decepticons as they fight for control of their dying planet, ultimately leading to their storied exodus from home.


century. Suppose population growth halted at 14 billion and everyone were satisfied with a per-capita energy use of 7.5 kilowatts (kW), the average in rich nations and about two thirds of that in the United States in the early 1990s. A human enterprise that large would create a total impact of 105 TW, eight times that of today and a clear recipe for ecological collapse.

A scheme for avoiding such an ecocatastrophe over the next century was proposed by John Holdren of the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California , Berkeley . The Holdren scenario (Holdren, 1991) postulates expansion of the human population to only 10 billion and a reduction of average per-capita energy use by people in industrialized nations from 7.5 to 3 kilowatts (kW),and Fertility: Population Reaulation in Preindustrial and Developing Societies, Columbia University Press, New York .

Holdren, J.P., 1991. Population and the energy problem. Population and Environment, 12:231-255.

Keyfitz, N, 1991. Population and development within the ecosphere: one view of the literature. Population Index 57:522

Livi-Bacci, M., 1987. A Concise History of World Population, Blackwell, Cambridge , MA .

Parsons, J., 1977. Population Fallacies, Elek/Pemberton, London .

Revell, R., 1976. The resources available for agriculture, Scientific American 235, no. 3:164-178.

Soule, M. (ed.),1987. Viable Populations for Conservation, Cambridge Univ. Press. Cambridge .

UNFPA (United Nations Fund for Population), 1992. State of the World Population 1992, United Nations, New York .

Gretchen C. Daily is a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California at Berkeley and a Research Associate at the


Officers pulling over the 73-year-old man By: Tanya Malhotra

(Scroll down for video) An elderly man was arrested on a charge of drug possession after allegedly snorting cocaine during a traffic stop in front of police officers, police in Washington said.

Seattle police said that they have arrested the 73-year-old man, who was not identified, after driving without headlights and snorting cocaine on the side of the road.

He was charged with one count of drug possession, and was booked into the King County Jail.

According to the police investigation, the 73-year-old man had a spotless driving record before he was stopped on Tuesday night.

Officer Nic Abts-Olsen was patrolling in the Colman neighborhood near Martin Luther King Jr. Way South and South Massachusetts around 8:30 p.m., when the man in a silverToyota drove past him with his headlights off.

After pulling over the 73-year-old man, Officer Abts-Olsen checked his license and registration, and walked back to the Toyota, where he saw the driver portioning out a scoop of cocaine from a small glass vial.

When officer Abts-Olsen knocked on the driver’s car window, he apparently startled the man, leading him to spill cocaine all over his hands and the floor of his vehicle.

“Are you kidding?” Officer Abts-Olsen asked the man, who quickly tried to brush away the white powder. The man initially denied having any cocaine, though he admitted he had vitamins in his possession.

Finally, the man relented, complimented Officer Abts-Olsen on his keen detection skills and admitted that snorting cocaine in the middle of a traffic stop was a poor


Henry David Thoreau Bicentennial

Refusing to pay federal income taxes is an act of civil disobedience with a long history in the United States and around the world. America’s most well-known war tax resister was Henry David Thoreau.

Born on July 12, 1817, Thoreau’s bicentennial year is being celebrated in 2017. Thoreau is usually remembered as a transcendentalist author, exploring themes around nature, the self, and the meaning of life. However, his words have also inspired multiple generations and different communities to resist injustice, including war and slavery.

From 1841 to 1848 (except for 1843 when he was out of state), Henry David Thoreau refused to pay the annual $1.50 ($36 in 2010 dollars) Massachusetts poll tax because of his disgust for slavery and then the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). He sawwithdrawing one’s own support for evil was a necessary prerequisite for beginning to consider plans for good. His July 1846 arrest and the night he spent in jail was recorded in his essay, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.” Against his wishes, his aunt paid the tax the next morning, which resulted in his release, according to Sam Staples, the tax collector and Thoreau’s jailer (interviewed by Samuel Arthur Jones, The Islander, Ann-Arbor, MI, 1898).

Many war tax resisters look toward Thoreau’s powerful essay, “Civil Disobedience,” as one of the inspirations for their resistance. In the bicentennial of his birth, we celebrate the spirit of disobedience in his writings and urge people to consider their own acts of resistance against government-sponsored violence and wars.

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and Procedural Background

       Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence at trial revealed the

following: On March 1, 2012, Defendant and Joshua Painter drove to Columbia, Missouri,

where Mr. Painter purchased methamphetamine.           On the drive back to Monroe County,

Defendant and Mr. Painter used some of the purchased methamphetamine.

       At approximately 4:00 p.m. on March 2, 2012, Special Agents Jonathan Sutton and Rob

Warner of the Northeast Missouri Narcotics Task Force executed a search warrant on the
residence of Mr. Painter and his girlfriend, Jennifer Lehenbauer.        The officers entered the

residence into the living room, where Defendant was asleep on theNovember 17, groups opposing gay marriage including Alliance of Taiwan Religious Groups for the Protection of Family (護家盟) and the Happiness of the Next Generation Alliance (下一代幸福聯盟) rallied thousands of people together along Jinan Road outside the Legislative Yuan. Dressed in white T-shirts, they raised signs in protest reading “Marriage and Family, Let the People Decide.” A few young students and some families with children could be seen among their ranks.

The protestors were mobilized mainly by Christian groups due to their belief that passage of the act would erode traditional family values. Three versions of the bill were submitted for review. In a departure from the established application of the Civic Code exclusively to heterosexual marriages, the Partial Revision to Articles of the Civic Code Pertaining to Family


The role of side chain entropy and mutual information for improving the de novo design of Kemp eliminases KE07 and KE70.
Side chain entropy and mutual entropy information between residue pairs have been calculated for two de novo designed Kemp eliminase enzymes, KE07 and KE70, and for their most improved versions at the end of laboratory directed evolution (LDE). We find that entropy, not just enthalpy, helped to destabilize the preference for the reactant state complex of the designed enzyme as well as favoring stabilization of the transition state complex for the best LDE enzymes. Furthermore, residues with the highest side chain couplings as measured by mutual information, when experimentally mutated, were found to diminish or annihilate catalytic activity, some of which were far from the active site. InRichard Wolf

USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — Clarence Thomas enters his second quarter-century on the Supreme Court next week much like he began his first — in dissent.

The high court has changed, however, and that gives the nation's second African-American justice a new role to play. Gone is his ideological soulmate, the late Antonin Scalia. Ahead, pending next month's election, may be the court's first liberal majority in nearly 50 years.

Supreme Court faces historic transformation after election

That could make Thomas — a happy legal warrior among friends and allies, yet to the public an enigmatic loner — less powerful but more influential for the remainder of his career. And quite a career it could turn out to be: Having joined the court at 43, he would be the longest-serving justice in


history before turning 80.

Just don't look for him to change.

"It is a bigger burden on him now," says Christopher Landau, an appellate lawyer who clerked for Thomas during his first term in 1991-92. "After 25 years, he's still pretty much the justice he was in year one, and that's often not the case on the Supreme Court."

The 43-year-old rookie justice waited less than five months after his bruising Senate confirmation fight before casting his first solo dissenting vote. He argued that a prison escapee's membership in a white racist prison gang was relevant at his sentencing for murder, in part to help rebut testimony "that he was kind to others."

The lone dissent served as a marker that Thomas, whose elevation to the nation's highest court followed explosive allegationsof sexual harassment, would not be cowed by criminals or colleagues. The defendant ultimately was executed. And Thomas has been dissenting ever since.

Now 68 and the court's second-longest-serving justice, the Georgia native remains known mostly for his contentious confirmation, his conservative record and his virtual silence during oral arguments, when his colleagues pepper lawyers at the lectern with interruptions. But he also is the court's strictest defender of the Constitution's original meaning, and it has led him to become a force on the far right flank.

Thomas has done little to counter his persona, declining most media interviews and speaking almost solely to friendly audiences. When he did speak to the National Bar Association, an African American group, in 1998, he decried the "bilious and venomous assaults" against him


that implied "I have no right to think the way I do because I'm black."

But his defenders, including many of his former law clerks, are mounting a public relations campaign to tout his unique brand of jurisprudence. They've launched a website, JusticeThomas.com, in an effort to recast his legacy.

"Thomas has had this bull's-eye on his back his entire career," says Mark Paoletta, a former assistant White House counsel who helped President George H.W. Bush's nominee navigate past Anita Hill's nearly fatal harassment charges in 1991. "I don't think he's gotten enough credit. ... So many of the stories about him are negative."

Thomas' deep conservatism has made him a target of the civil rights community, embodied by the justice he replaced, Thurgood Marshall, who founded the NAACP Legal DefenseFund in 1940. He opposes racial preferences in college admissions and hiring, as well as drawing election districts to boost minority candidates. The new National Museum of African American History and Culture highlights Hill's allegations but ignores Thomas' 25 years on the bench.

That quarter-century is noteworthy for its focus on an arcane area of law — Thomas' opposition to what he sees as the illegitimate power of unelected bureaucrats. He rejects a string of Supreme Court rulings that granted federal agencies deference to interpret laws and regulations.

Randy Barnett, a constitutional law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, calls Thomas "a fearless originalist."

"He elevates the original meaning of the text above precedent," Barnett says. “In other words, he puts the founders above dead justices.”

'Exceeded expectations'

Bush's nomination of Thomas, a


little-known federal judge and former Reagan administration official, reached pay dirt after a near-record 107 days and a historically narrow 52-48 Senate vote. Today the former president, now 92, remains proud of his pick.

"While Justice Thomas is known both for his consistently sober demeanor on the bench and his thoughtful and respected jurisprudence, he is also widely admired for his warmth among his colleagues, law clerks and the court staff," Bush said in a statement. "He is a very good man."

Thomas was raised by grandparents in the Jim Crow South of the 1950s, and at times he has revealed the same anger at racism and segregation felt by civil rights advocates. He dissented from the court's 2003 ruling that struck down Virginia's ban on cross-burning, calling the practicepart of a "reign of terror ... intended to cause fear and terrorize a population."

But unlike the great majority of African-American lawyers, judges and public officials, he rejects the need for favored treatment of minorities. "Any effort, policy or program that has as a prerequisite the acceptance of the notion that blacks are inferior is a non-starter with me," he said in that 1998 speech.

Civil rights leaders "had him pegged, knew who he was, and that's exactly what he's been," says University of North Carolina School of Law professor Theodore Shaw, a former president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. While Thomas doesn't see eye to eye with the civil rights community on much, Shaw says, "his opinions are often forceful. Even if I disagree with


"Brother Nino" when the two were on the losing side. It appeared he might emerge from a 10-year silence on the bench when he asked several questions in a gun rights case soon after Scalia's death, but he has not spoken up since.

Justice Thomas breaks 10-year silence in court

His opinions on sensitive race and gender issues have disappointed — but not surprised — civil rights and women's rights groups. When the court ruled 5-4 in 2013 that Southern states no longer can be singled out for federal oversight under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, Thomas said the entire provision was unconstitutional. This year, he dissented from the court's 4-3 decision upholding the University of Texas' use of racial preferences in admissions, arguing that all such policiesMassive storm pounds southeast; 2 dead

Will Carter, 15, searches for his dog in the the wreckage of his family's home following a tornado Wednesday Adairsville, Ga.

ADAIRSVILLE, Ga. -- A massive storm system raked the Southeast on Wednesday, spawning tornadoes and dangerous winds that overturned cars on a major Georgia interstate and demolished homes and businesses, killing at least two people.

In northwest Georgia, the storm system tossed vehicles on Interstate 75 onto their roofs. The highway was closed for a time, and another main thoroughfare remained closed until crews could safely remove downed trees and power lines from the road.

WSB-TV in Atlanta aired footage showing an enormous funnel cloud bearing down on Adairsville, about 60 miles northwest of Atlanta, as the storm ripped through the city's downtown area. The


metal dangled from a large tree like ornaments.

"The sky was swirling,'' said Theresa Chitwood, who owns the Adairsville Travel Plaza. She said she went outside to move her car because she thought it was going to hail. Instead, the passing storm decimated a building behind the travel plaza.

Adairsville is a small town in the Oothcalooga Valley, with a historic district lined with trees and a mix of pre-Civil War and Victorian homes. It proclaims itself the first Georgia town to be listed in its entirety on the National Register of Historic Places and looks to draw tourists with its antique shops.

Powerful winds ripped through the entire region, with gusts powerful enough to topple tractor-trailers in several places.

In Adairsville, several were flipped on their side in the parking lotof a gas station and restaurant. Danny Odum, a trucker from Marion, Ill., had stopped for breakfast when the suspected tornado hit. After it passed, Odum said he went outside to find his truck that was hauling diapers on its side with his dog Simon, a Boston terrier, still inside. Simon was scared but otherwise fine.

Bartow County fire chief Craig Millsap said there were reports that two storm warning sirens may have failed, but he said the failed sirens were not in the hardest-hit area.

Access to the area was being restricted, and there was a report of a gas leak in the area, officials said. A shelter was being established at a community recreation center -- temperatures were expected to plummet to the 30s and 40s overnight.

Conditions remained


ripe for tornadoes into Wednesday afternoon, and authorities were still investigating several sites to determine if damage was caused by twisters. Since Tuesday, the system had caused damage across a swath from Missouri to Georgia.

In recent days, people in the South and Midwest had enjoyed unseasonably balmy temperatures in the 60s and 70s. A system pulling warm weather from the Gulf of Mexico was colliding with a cold front moving in from the west, creating volatility.

One person was reported injured by lightning in Arkansas during the storm's eastward trek. Two people suffered minor injuries when a mobile home was blown off its foundation in Kentucky. Only one minor injury was reported in Mississippi, where officials praised residents for heeding warnings and being prepared.

In Tennessee, officials confirmed that atornado with peak wind speeds of 115 mph touched down in Mount Juliet. No serious injuries were reported there, though the path of damage was about 150 yards wide, including homes, a warehouse and an automotive business.

At a shopping center in Mount Juliet, large sheets of metal littered the parking lot, light poles were knocked down and bits of fiberglass insulation were stuck in the trees.

One wall of a Dollar General convenience store collapsed, and the roof was torn off. Mark Fulks Jr. runs Mark's Automotive with his father in a building attached to the Dollar General. The garage door was blown off his shop and sitting on one of the cars inside, and Fulks said several of the cars they were working on had their windshields blown


out.

A nearby office building and a distribution center for The Tennessean newspaper also had severe damage. Rick Martin, who bags the newspapers and helps his wife deliver them, was shocked when he saw what was left of the distribution center.

The metal frame of the building still stood, but its cinderblock walls had crumbled, and papers and plastic bags littered the trees.

"We feel real lucky,'' he said on Wednesday morning as looked at the damage. "I would have hated to be in here when this happened.''

The deaths reported Wednesday ended the nation's longest break between tornado fatalities since detailed tornado records began being kept in 1950, according to the Storm Prediction Center and National Climatic Data Center. The last one was June 24, when a person was killed inWednesday, October 30, 2013

Fatima Bhutto. Abused Goddesses and more

Loved meeting Fatima Bhutto and launching her debut novel 'The Shadow of the Crescent Moon' in Mumbai last evening.
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Images

A few weeks ago, I was sent a link by a
female friend in America to a website featuring dramatically altered images of
popular Hindu Goddesses. She asked me whether the images would cause trouble
for the designers of the visuals in India. On the face of it, the ‘cause’ being
addressed via the campaign was worthy enough. It was meant to draw attention to
the alarming increase in violent crimes against women in India. But the manner
in which this serious issue was being tackled, left me feeling disturbed and
upset. Perhaps, that was the whole point. The images chosen for this purpose
were the


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The newly popular "9/11 Conspiracy Solved: Names, Connections, & Details Exposed!" suffers from one major deficiency: it misses the Mossad connection and Israel's long-standing desire to remake the map of the Middle East starting with the destruction of Iraq. Now comes Ryan Dawson who in great detail and with thorough research fills this gap. Dawson shows that one of the Kurzberg brothers, Mossad agents who have become known as two of the "dancing Israelis" who were arrested and found to have explosives, false passports, and large amounts of cash on their persons, was positively identified as having been in the North Tower on the day before 9/11.

Iraq and especially areas like Falluja now suffer catastrophic rates ofbirth deformities due to the use of depleted uranium ammunition, 50% or higher in Falluja. Iraq is a destroyed, helpless society whose squabbling factions can now never oppose Israeli regional ambitions.

The goal of dividing Iraq into mini-states has been long articulated by Israeli Neocons. Israeli intellectual Oded Yinon wrote in as far back as 1980, in the influential paper "A Strategy for Israel for the 1980s":

"In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and Shi'ite areas in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north." - Oded Yinon, in "A Strategy for Israel for the 1980s"

And in a paper written in


1996 for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Bush administration's prime architects of the Iraq war, Douglas Feith and Richard Perle, wrote:

"Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right — as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions." - "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm"

Most notable of course is former Director of Studies at US Army War College, Dr. Alan Sabrosky, who has gone on record stating that an event of the magnitude and risk of 9/11 could only have been driven by great geopolitical ambition, and that when theClaim: Dr. Arieh Eldad wrote about a burn center patient turned suicide bomber.

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Example: [Collected via e-mail, May 2011]

From: Dr. Arieh Eldad: From: Dr. Arieh Eldad: I was instrumental in establishing the Israeli National Skin Bank, which is the largest in the world. The National Skin Bank stores skin for every day needs as well as for war time or mass casualty situations. This skin bank is hosted at the Hadassah Ein Kerem University hospital in Jerusalem where I was the Chairman of plastic surgery. This is how I was asked to supply skin for an Arab woman from Gaza, who was hospitalized in Soroka Hospital in Beersheva, after her family burned her. Usually, such atrocities happen among Arab families when the women are suspected of having an affair.


We supplied all the needed Homografts for her treatment. She was successfully treated by my friend and colleague, Prof. Lior Rosenberg and discharged to return to Gaza. She was invited for regular follow-up visits to the outpatient clinic in Beersheva. One day she was caught at a border crossing wearing a suicide belt. She meant to explode herself in the outpatient clinic of the hospital where they saved her life. It seems that her family promised her that if she did that, they would forgive her. This is only one example of the war between Jews and Muslims in the Land of Israel. It is not a territorial conflict. This is a civilizational conflict, or rather a war between civilization & barbarism. Bibi (Netanyahu) gets it, Obama doeswas added by some unknown person as a portion of the interview was circulated on the Internet.

As to the veracity of Eldad’s story about a burn patient turned suicide bomber, it is indeed an account of an actual incident, except for the small detail of how the aspiring terrorist came by her burns. (She was injured by a gas tank explosion rather than deliberately by her family in retaliation for a suspected affair.)

On 20 June 2005, twenty-one-year-old Wafa Samir Ibrahim al-Biss was detained at a crossing into Israel when something about her gait struck the guards on duty at that post as somewhat amiss. This Palestinian woman was arrested after a search revealed she had been carrying 22 lbs. of explosives strapped to her body. While al-Biss had


ostensibly been attempting to enter Israel to attend a follow-up appointment at the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva, questioning revealed that it had been her intent to detonate the payload she’d been carrying at that institution. The would-be bomber had been treated there five months previous for severe burns received after a gas canister exploded on a fire while she was cooking at her refugee camp home in the Gaza Strip.

Additional information:

Attack by Female Suicide Bomber Thwarted at Erez Crossing (Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Last updated: 22 July 2014

Sources:or approximately 425 acres; that on March 12, 1934, plaintiff then transferred the remainder of his Andrus-Grant acquisition of August 28, 1929, to Crescent Commercial Company, Inc., of which plaintiff was President and main stockholder; that he and his two sons, Walter J. Harrison and William H. Harrison, acquired said remaining lands, less and without the reserved oil, gas and mineral rights, from said named corporation; that, on December 31, 1936, said two sons then transferred to plaintiff their joint undivided two-thirds interest into said remaining lands, less and without the reserved oil, gas and mineral rights; that since the last named date, plaintiff Harrison had, himself, been in the sole actual and physical possession of all of the lands originally purchased by him from Andrus and Grant


on August 28, 1929, less the part thereof by him sold to Constant on October 22, 1929, as aforesaid, except that, on March 22, 1939, he then sold off about 373 acres to Leroy Shultz and Marguerite Brady, his wife.
Plaintiff further alleged that the oil, gas and mineral rights which Andrus and Grant so reserved to themselves, on August 28, 1929, from their sale to him of their aforementioned marsh lands, and which they subsequently sold to the Grandison Company on July 22, 1930, were lost by non-user for ten years, did revert to him on August 28, 1939, and that defendant, Grandison Company, no longer had any right or interest in and to the oil, gas and minerals in and under the lands then in plaintiff's possession,second diligent and bona fide effort to discover oil, gas or other minerals in paying quantities, but, again without success; that the drilling of such second well began on or about August 23, 1939, and continued until abandonment on December 17, 1939; that such two diligent and bona fide efforts to discover and develop the minerals on, in and under plaintiff's lands, in fact and in law operated an interruption of the 10-year prescriptive period provided for by Articles 789 and 3546 of the Revised Civil Code of Louisiana against nonusage of a servitude such as was enjoyed under the Andrus-Grant reservation of the oil, gas and other mineral rights once appertaining to the lands acquired by plaintiff Harrison, as aforesaid; that such mineral rights have not reverted


to the landowner, never having been lost to defendant Grandison Company by reason of nonusage for ten years, and were still its property; and, accordingly, defendant prayed for judgment recognizing it as owner of the oil, gas and other mineral rights which were reserved by Andrus and Grant from their sale to plaintiff Harrison on August 28, 1929, and were thereupon transferred to defendant on July 22, 1930.
As the outcome of a pre-trial conference it was stipulated, among other things, that the lands referred to were all granted by the United States to the State of Louisiana under the Swamp Land Act of 1849, and were patented by the State in 1901, to plaintiff's predecessors in title as sea marsh or prairie lands; that it was the Gulfdependent on the successful outcome of the drilling operations. Rev. Civ.Code (La.) Arts. 789, 3546; Lynn v. Harrington et al., 1939, 193 La. 877, 192 So. 517; Hunter Co. Inc., v. Ulrich, 1942, 200 La. 536, 8 So.2d 531.
Such interruption applied to the whole of the contiguous area within the boundaries of which such drilling operations took place, and the ten-year nonusage period (which it is absolutely necessary to have as legal foundation for the ten-year prescription by which the land may be relieved from the reserved mineral servitude) was never completed; such part of said ten-year nonusage period as had been building up until occurred the good faith drilling operation, then collapsed into the oblivion of legal nothingness and the ten-year prescriptive term began to run anew


that both of the aforementioned two hatched land areas reflected on the DeArmas sketch comprise nothing but what were swamp and overflowed lands which (the parties stipulated) the United States granted to the State of Louisiana under the Swamp Land Act of 1849, 9 Stat. 352, and which said State patented to plaintiff's predecessors in title, in 1901, as sea marsh or prairie lands, under (La.) Act No. 75 of 1880. Dart's Statutes, § 7185. Both areas were regularly surveyed by William J. Henry, Deputy Surveyor, under contract of September 26, 1871, with the Surveyor-General of the United States (La.); and the sworn official field notes of the survey report the territory in question as open marshy prairie, all subject to tidal overflow except two ridges along Bayouand 28) whereon was drilled the Grandison No. 2 well.
There is no dispute between the parties as to the extent of the land area affected by said second and separate reserved mineral servitude, if it be actually determined that defendant has successfully borne the burden of proving that it, or some one acting in its name, "has made use" of the same, in the manner contemplated by the reservation, within ten years next immediately following the time that the mineral rights appertaining to said land area were withheld and excepted by Andrus and Grant in and from their sale of the Harrison lands on August 28, 1929.
The so-reserved mineral rights were transferred by the owners on July 22, 1930, to defendant Grandison Company, which, on June 6, 1935,


granted an oil, gas and mineral lease with respect thereto to the Gulf Refining Company of Louisiana, and lessee's assignee, Gulf Refining Company of Delaware, in 1939, did operate under said lease, and did enter, on or about August 25, 1939, upon the S½ of Section 21, Township 20 South, Range 23 East, and forthwith began the drilling of Grandison No. 2, within the 10 years from August 28, 1929, when had been reserved from the sale of the Harrison lands all such oil, gas and other minerals as appertained thereto; and did prosecute said drilling operations down to the depth of 12,200 feet (being the depth at which it could reasonably be expected that production in paying quantities might be secured) in a diligent and uninterrupted effortto discover and develop oil, gas or other minerals, which effort persisted from the commencement of the exercise of the mineral servitude (before the expiration of ten years from August 28, 1929,) on said August 25, 1939, up to December 17, 1939, when said Grandison No. 2 was abandoned as a dry hole.
It is, however, contended by counsel that, as was held in Louisiana Petroleum Company v. Broussard, 1931, 172 La. 613, 135 So. 1, the use of a servitude which interrupts the nonusage prescription of 10 years prescribed by Arts. 789 and 3546 (La.) R.C.C., must be that character of use as was in contemplation of the parties to the *775 servitude grant or reservation; and contends that since the commencement (within the ten years) of the


and the respective land coverage of only two are at issue herein.
4. It is satisfactorily established that all parcels of land comprised in the larger and upper one of the two hatched areas appearing on the map or sketch of John C. DeArmas, Jr., C.E., dated January 1942 (which is attached to and made to form part of the parties' stipulation filed in the record hereof on January 31, 1942), are contiguous and form an unbroken and continuous body of land, within the lower portion of which Grandison Well No. 1 was drilled; and it is likewise satisfactorily established that there was a bona fide exercise of the mineral servitude affecting said tract of land, within the ten years from August 28, 1929, when said servitude was reservedby Leonard A. Andrus and Frank W. Grant from their sale and transfer of the Harrison lands.
5. It is satisfactorily established that all acreage comprised in the smaller and lower one of the two hatched areas so appearing on the said DeArmas map or sketch is contiguous; and it is likewise satisfactorily established that a bona fide exercise and use was made within 10 years from the date of its reservation, of the mineral servitude affecting said contiguous area, in the manner contemplated by the reservation.
6. The original plaintiff Joseph De Fuentes Harrison having died since the trial and the submission of the cause, his surviving widow in community, Mrs. Marie Levis Harrison, and his children and sole heirs, Mrs. Lydia Harrison, divorced wife of Charles G. Knight,


Walter J. Harrison, and William H. Harrison, have been duly substituted as parties plaintiff, as appears from the Court's order herein.

Conclusions of Law.
1. The original defendant Grandison Company, in its assumed position of plaintiff in petitory action, has proved by the preponderance of evidence that the remaining two mineral servitudes to which it still lays claim have not been lost by the ten-year prescription for nonuser.
2. As such plaintiff in petitory action, said Grandison Company is entitled to judgment recognizing its continued ownership of all mineral rights relating to and affecting the Harrison lands, to the extent now claimed by said Grandison Company and constituting the two mineral servitudes which, respectively, cover the two hatched areas reflected on the map or sketch of survey of Jno. C. DeArmas,Epoxy based compositions have been utilized in various applications, including the making of articles for use on motor vehicles. For example, these thermoset polymers are suitable for use in applications such as sealants, adhesives, moldings, and decorative features. Depending upon the application, such compositions have typically been either formed and cured prior to application on the vehicle or applied onto the vehicle and cured in place. Alternatively, some epoxy based compositions have been only partially cured prior to application on the vehicle and then additionally cured after being applied. The partially cured state of the epoxy composition provides dimensional stability to an article made with the composition and thus helps the article retain its shape during subsequent processing. The use of thermoset epoxy based compositions on motor vehicles


Gay Man Murdered In New York City Subjected To Anti-Gay Slurs

Mark Carson, A Gay Man, Was Shot And Killed By Man Screaming Anti-Gay Slurs. According to The New York Times:

Mark Carson did not hide that he was gay, and when he went out on the town he would often head to Greenwich Village, where years before he was born, much of the struggle for gay liberation unfolded. Yet late Friday night, just blocks from the Stonewall Inn, among the most important landmarks of that struggle, he was confronted with a man screaming antigay slurs, who then stalked him before pulling out a silver revolver and fatally shooting him, the police said. [The New York Times, 5/18/13]

The Murder Has Been Labeled An Anti-Gay Hate Crime By Police. According toSunday with murder as a hate crime, along with weapons charges, in the death of Mark Carson. [Slate, 5/20/13]

Carson's Murder Sparked A Rally Against Anti-Gay Violence In New York City. According to Mother Jones:

Blinding afternoon sun lit the biggest gay rights demonstration in years in New York's West Village Monday. The LGBT community and its supporters, including a couple of mayoral candidates, marched in the wake of a murder that has capped a month-long spate of homophobic violence. Demonstrators--police say 1,500, organizers say many hundreds more--marched through the leafy streets that gave birth to the gay rights movement to the corner where Mark Carson, 32, was shot in the face and killed Friday night as he walked with a friend. [Mother Jones, 5/21/13, emphasis added]

Analysis: Cable News Coverage


Covering Carson's Murder.

Anti-Gay Violence, Hate Crimes Are On The Rise

Carson's Murder Is The Latest In A Spree Of Anti-Gay Violence In New York. New York's police commissioner reported that anti-gay crimes in the city have spiked 70 percent this year. According to Business Insider:

There's been a spate of other anti-gay attacks in New York City recently. A man said he was gay bashed in the East Village just Monday. There were three other apparent anti-gay hate crimes in New York in May, Gothamist has reported. On Tuesday, New York's police commissioner Ray Kelly said anti-gay hate crime in New York has spiked 70% this year. The New York City Anti-Violence Project -- which collects data on hate crimes against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people -- saw ato BLOCKv, Michael was the CEO at Ogilvy & Mather West and South, one of the largest marketing communications agencies in the world.

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Douyin shows any Photoshopped content (like memes) of the character is banned. Other banned content on the platform include nudity, displays of weapons, and cult preachings.

Peppa Pig was introduced to China in 2015, and it is extremely popular in China among children, young adults, and even celebrities. Prominent figures on social media have tweeted memes and wear accessories featuring the famous pig. There are also plans to open two Peppa Pig theme parks in Shanghai and Beijing in 2019.

loujane and i bought peppa pig bags to match qin fen and xiao gui pic.twitter.com/tzyLfV6WkX — nana♡琳琳 (@wangIinkai) May 1, 2018

Parents reportedly expressed concerns in 2017, complaining that their children were addicted to the cartoon show, and a video that went viral featuring the pig included the slogan “Tattoos onSo…this movie.

The Amityville Horror (1979) has had a long lasting cultural impact, spawning a remake in 2005 and numerous sequels, prequels, sidequels, TV references, and more. Based on a true story, and another example of a supernatural occurrence investigated by the Warrens (of The Conjuring fame), the original film focuses on a family where a father becomes increasingly unstable and a threat to his family, seemingly due to the past events that occurred within the house they recently purchased. While the father’s fall from grace may be due to possession, and the Catholic officials who visit the house experience some immensely negative reactions to it, there is no exorcism in the film.

The sequel to this film, which serves as a prequel to it, does.

It also features incest, rape,


the demon is coming out to play as it blows heavily on her. Says she felt like someone touched her, fingers on her arm. Mother is the religious one, makes them remember to do prayer before eating. As she says the prayer, a mirror falls down, and Father freaks out, blames Sonny. Sonny sees a crack in fallen mirror that gets bigger as he looks. So, yeah, he is set up to be the bad one in all of this. He knows, the look says.

Again with the floating POV camera, going through the house, demonic noises as it sees the crucifix on the wall. They are really not too subtle in this movie, are they? The demon makes a cloth fly to cover the crucifix. The POV stopsJAXPORT welcomes the Höegh Jacksonville

On Friday, Aug. 22, Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown joined executives from Höegh Autoliners and JAXPORT in welcoming the company’s newest auto ship, Höegh Jacksonville, for its inaugural visit to the city it was named after. The ship, named in tribute to the company’s busiest U.S. port, is the first of two sister vessels delivered to Höegh, each able to carry up to 6,500 vehicles.

Höegh Autoliners, a leading global provider of vehicle transportation services, operates out of JAXPORT’s Blount Island Marine Terminal. Jacksonville also now serves as the company’s U.S. headquarters, which relocated from New York in 2013. The company operates 60 ocean carriers and has a worldwide network of approximately 20 offices in four regions.

During the celebration, Mayor Brown, JAXPORT Board Chairman John Falconetti


In the last year of his life, Saint Anthony of Padua had a tree house built in a walnut tree, to use as a hermitage, a place of prayer and contemplation. These are reflections coming from my contemplating God's world as a Secular Franciscan.

Friday, August 30, 2013

For a Jesuit periodical, America magazine seems to frequently call peoples attention to the latest books on St. Francis of Assisi. The latest book is biography written by Andre Vauchez, a French scholar. The work was translated by Father Michael Cusato, OFM, a noted Franciscan historian. America magazine posted a review of the book on their website, as well as a podcast interview with Father Cusato on the book.

Saturday, August 17, 2013

“I have come to set the earth on
fire, and how Ithe ultimate Priest,
is also Christ the Prophet.He is coming
from a long line of Jewish prophets.And
these prophets did not just predict the future; their main role was to speak
the word of God, the word of Yahweh.They spent most of their lives calling the people of Israel back
into a loving relationship with God.Among these prophets was Jeremiah.He lived during a time when the empire King David and Solomon built up
had been shattered, the northern tribes of Israel had been dispersed and
exiled.Only the southern kingdom of Judah was left.The king of Judah,
to insure his kingdom’s survival entered into an alliance with a powerful and
ancient Egypt.Now the price of this alliance was to allow
the worship of the Egyptian gods in Judah, which also allowed the
resurgence of the worship of the ancient Canaanite


gods.The king of Judah was no longer turning to
Yahweh for help and protection.Along comes
Jeremiah, telling the people that salvation lies not in earthly alliances, but
in remaining faithful to the covenant with God. He is trying to shake the
people up, to bring them back to God.Reading the signs of the times, he predicted that this alliance would
ultimately lead to the destruction of the nation.The king and his advisers do not want this
kind of talk getting around, so they initially try to silence Jeremiah
…permanently.God inspired a court
official to convince the king to save Jeremiah; but we see that being a
prophet, especially one with an uncomfortable message, has its consequences.But Jeremiah was committed to reigniting the
fire in the hearts of his people, the love for God, to call them to conversion.

Jesus’coming has changed the world,
the old ways of humanity, the old ways of relating which each other, of
relating to God the Father, were to be wiped away, and a new heaven and a new
earth was to come into being.His
message was not popular with many people, especially those who had a lot
invested in the old ways of doing things, in the old structures of power.They put Jesus to death, hoping to silence
the message, but the Father raised Him from the dead, and his message blazed
out throughout the world, carried by his followers.The Gospel of Christ was, and still is controversial,
because it threatens the way many see the world and their comfortable
relationship with it.We have seen the
negative reactions that many people expressed about Pope Francis’ comments
about capitalism, the world economy,


and her sisters as the contemplative branch of
the Franciscan family, but I would like to share a reflection on another aspect
of Clare’s life and spirituality.

When the Poor Ladies were established at San Damiano, Clare
requested a special privilege from the Pope and the Bishop of Assisi, the
privilege of poverty.Her monastery
would depend only on the income from the work of their hands, or from alms
given to them.At a time when the
established monasteries had huge incomes from the rents on lands gifted to
them, and the dowries of the women who entered the monasteries, this was
unheard of.The Popes of Clare’s time continually
refused this request, believing that the Poor Ladies needed income and
sustenance that only lands and endowments could provide.Now Clare was not an ascetic masochist, nor did
she see poverty as an end.Shesaw
evangelical poverty as a means to an end.As she and her sisters gazed on the San Damiano cross, they saw Christ,
though He was the Son of God, willing to empty Himself for all humanity.And Clare realized that to follow Christ
meant emptying oneself of all possessions, of the need to possess and control,
and be dependent on the love of God.Thus, she held out against the Pope, until finally he relented and gave
Clare and her sisters the privilege of poverty.She received the written permission shortly before her death.

We are also called to empty ourselves so that we can be open
and receptive to the love of God.We,
too, are called to empty ourselves and share the gifts of that love with
everyone.Let us ask for the inspiration
of the Holy Spirit, let us be


June 2013.

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The No. 2 official at the department has become one of the highest profile figures in the Trump administration given his oversight of the Russia investigation and the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller in 2017.

CNN had previously reported that Rosenstein was planning to step down after Bill Barr was confirmed as attorney general, but the precise timing was fluid. A departure next month could potentially serve as another signal that Mueller's work is coming to a close.

The Justice official who confirmed Rosenstein's current thinking disputed the idea that the timing of his departure has anything to do with the latest revelations from


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Thursday, January 24, 2008

The Citizens Committee for Michigan State Parks (CCMSP) will meet Wednesday, Jan. 30, at the Foster Community Center, located at 200 N. Foster in Lansing.

The subcommittees and the entire committee will have working sessions in the morning, beginning at 9 a.m., to discuss 2007 accomplishments and 2008 goals and objectives.

The regular meeting of the committee will begin at 1 p.m. with public comment, followed by a presentation on the status of the Parks and Recreation's Strategic Plan and the goals and objectives. The committee then will review and discuss the status of long-term sustainable funding for the Michigan state parks and recreation system.

The committee will also receive updates and reports on various parks and recreation programs, motor vehicle permits and camping reservations, performance indicators andfinancial reports, various land, policy and legislative issues that affect the state parks and recreation system.

The Citizens Committee for Michigan State Parks is an advisory group created by Public Act 392 of 2004 to address issues concerning state parks and recreation areas, including planning for long-term sustainable funding.

Individuals attending the meeting are requested to refrain from using heavily scented personal care products to enhance accessibility for everyone. Persons with disabilities needing accommodations for this meeting should contact the DNR Parks and Recreation Division at 517-335-4827 a minimum of five working days prior to the meeting to insure accommodations can be arranged.

a news release of the Michigan DNR, "Citizens Committee for Michigan State Parks to Meet Jan. 30 at Foster Community Center", Jan 22, 2008
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