For a man who has long seemed most comfortable surrounded by people who hate him, there must have been a certain appeal to CityCenterDC, where he bought a $1 million two-bedroom in 2014 (paid for, property records indicate, with the help of his parents). Not only did the sparkly glass complex in downtown Washington feature retailers like Gucci and Hermès and stylish restaurants like Momofuku, but it was also home to such establishment luminaries as Attorney General Eric Holder and Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill.

Since arriving in Washington, Miller had sanded off some of the rougher edges of his merry-prankster persona, refashioning himself as a serious ideologue. But he remained an agitator. Still in his 20s, Miller had become known on Capitol Hill as the chain-smoking, right-wing gadfly fromSenator Jeff Sessions’s office who blasted out rambling emails to reporters and congressional aides at all hours on the dangers of illegal immigration. In 2013 he emerged as a devoted foot soldier in the populist right’s drive to kill a bipartisan immigration-reform bill—an effort that ultimately succeeded.

To the extent that Miller, a notorious workaholic, had a social life, it often involved getting together with reporters from Breitbart News, a reliable booster of his boss’s agenda. He grew especially close to Julia Hahn, an acid-penned writer and Steve Bannon protégé with whom he was sometimes seen at parties, engaging in private, intense-looking conversations away from the rest of the group. (Hahn would later follow Miller and Bannon to the White House, where she serves as a special assistant to


the president.)

Trump was the manifestation of everything Miller cared about: an opponent of political correctness, a hard-liner on immigration, an enemy of the political establishment—and a world-class troll.

In this scene, Miller was not a misfit or a menace, but part of the vanguard of a growing conservative-populist movement.“People in that circle took him really seriously as an intellectual,” said a Republican Hill staffer who hung out with the group a handful of times in 2015. She recalled one get-together at which Miller asserted matter-of-factly that the Catholic Church was engaged in a conspiracy to financially benefit from the refugee crisis. The Hill staffer, a Catholic, was bewildered that no one else in the group was challenging him. “He just said it like it was fact, like it wasindisputable,” she remembered—and when she asked him for evidence, he was “caught off guard.” For the rest of the evening, she said, “there was a different energy between us.”

When Donald Trump entered the presidential race in the summer of 2015, it was perhaps inevitable that Miller would find a way onto the campaign. The rest of Washington scoffed at Trump’s candidacy, but for Miller, the New York billionaire was the flesh-and-blood manifestation of everything he cared about most: an opponent of political correctness, a hard-liner on immigration, an enemy of the political establishment—and a world-class troll.

Of the many things Miller admires about his boss, Trump’s talent for performance and provocation is what gets him most worked up. “If this was a fair political culture,” he told me, “there


woman who takes a half-dead snake into her home and nurses him back to health. The snake responds by biting her. As she dies, she asks him why he did it. The moral of the lesson is in the concluding couplet:

“Oh shut up, silly woman,” said the reptile with a grin.

“You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in.”

Trump uses the deceitful, poisonous snake to represent Syrian refugees and undocumented immigrants. It is objectively one of the most demagogic things he regularly says out loud (as an added bonus, it also works as a metaphor for Trump himself, something he seems to know and delight in). It is quintessentially Trumpian rhetoric: shocking, offensive, and destined to send his haters into paroxysms of outrage.

Early inhe works closely with the communications office to shape the administration’s message, and he has a seat at the table in most areas of domestic policy. And yet—remarkably, given the divisiveness of his views—Miller has remained largely absent from news stories about intramural combat in the West Wing. While dozens of top officials have departed over the past 16 months, Miller has kept his head down and survived.

The lack of damaging leaks about him is partly a function of the fact that he is generally well liked among his close colleagues, who say he is more self-aware than his strident on-camera persona would suggest. “He knows the charges against him,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says, and he enjoys playfully nodding to his villainous image in


the airports and riot.” They counted the anger on display as a political win.

Miller played a similarly disruptive role a year later, during congressional negotiations over immigration. While lawmakers scrambled to reach a compromise on legislation that would protect some 700,000 young undocumented immigrants who had come to the country as children, Miller was quietly hustling to block any deal that didn’t include major Democratic concessions, according to aides on both sides of the aisle. When Miller found out one afternoon in January that Senators Lindsey Graham and Dick Durbin were coming to the White House to pitch Trump on a bipartisan bill, he reportedly moved to stack the Oval Office with hawkish conservatives in hopes of swaying the president. By the time Graham and Durbin arrived, Trumpthis excavator was emblematic of much more. The 71-year-old Alabama native and mining veteran had bowed out of the industry in 2014, when he says the Obama administration’s “war on coal” pummeled the market. But with Donald Trump’s election came a wave of “optimism,” he told me: optimism that the crush of regulations would ebb, that the “dirty” caricatures of the industry, aggravated by Barack Obama, would start to soften. So at the turn of the year, when he learned of an idle reserve in Bessemer, Johnson reopened his company, called one of his old foremen, and made the largest investment of his career.

People know a famous community of killer whales as individuals, with their own names, families, and personalities—which has made their woes even harder to take.

The


first half of the killer whale’s scientific name—Orcinus orca—comes from the Latin for “of the realms of the dead.” For one population of orcas living in the waters of the Pacific Northwest, that etymology has taken on a newly dark resonance.

Last month, a 20-year-old female orca named Tahlequah (J35) gave birth to a male calf that died after half an hour. While many orca mothers have been seen carrying the bodies of their dead calves for a day or so, Tahlequah did so for 17 days—a heartbreaking tour that captured the world’s attention, and that ended last Friday. “I have never seen that kind of grief,” says Ken Balcomb from the Center for Whale Research.

Meanwhile, scientists noticed that a 3-year-old female named Scarlet (J50) was looking severely emaciated,Downstream Impacts: Defending Wood Buffalo National Park

Although Wood Buffalo National Park straddles northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories, the waters and wildlife within it know no jurisdictional boundaries. The park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a site of great spiritual and cultural significance to local First Nations. It also contains incredibly unique ecosystems and provides vital habitat for threatened species such as the wood bison and whooping crane.

However, the park is located downstream from some of the largest industrial projects in the world, like the Alberta oil sands, the Bennett Dam, and the recently approved Site C dam. These projects affect the hydrological and ecological function of the Peace-Athabasca Delta--the largest inland freshwater delta in the world. Strong evidence suggests that Wood Buffalo National Park is at


A moment during which the New England Patriots lightning-rod coach appeared to put his hands around a female official’s neck during a game against the Eagles on Sunday raised eyebrows around the Internet

Thomas is the first full-time female game official in NFL history. This has been a difficult season, however, for her crew, which is led by referee Pete Morelli. Following what was unanimously seen as a disastrous officiating performance during last week’s game between the San Francisco 49ers and Arizona Cardinals, Thomas and Morelli’s officiating crew was reassigned from the NFL’s primetime Sunday night game to instead work the Patriots versus Eagles game …The embattled FTSE-100 mining group Anglo American is drawing up plans to replace its veteran finance chief as it pursues a radical restructuring triggered by the rout in global commodity prices.

Sky News has learnt that Anglo is at the early stages of a process to identify a successor to Rene Medori, who has held the role since 2005, making him one of the longest-serving finance chiefs in Britain’s blue-chip share index.

The search for Mr Medori’s successor comes after a torrid period for Anglo as well as rival London-listed mining groups such as BHP Billiton and Glencore, which have been forced to slash their dividends as their profits have slumped.

Anglo is best known for its controlling stake in De Beers, the diamond company.

Last month, Anglo American’s chief executive, Mark


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A portrait of anti-corruption investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia is seen on the site of her murder in the run-up to activities marking one year since her assassination in a car bomb, in Bidnija, Malta October 15, 2018. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi

Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, who penned an anti-corruption blog, was killed on Oct. 16 2017 when a bomb placed inside her car blew up as she left her home in the peaceful hamlet of Bidnija, near the capital Valletta.

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, a frequent target of Caruana Galizia’s writings, offered a million euro ($1.2


million) reward for information leading to the arrest of the culprits, and called in the American FBI and Europol to assist the Maltese police.

But despite the fact three suspects were arrested in December and subsequently charged with killing the journalist, police are convinced that some as-yet-unidentified person gave the order to carry out the attack.

Malta is equally stymied on how to remember Caruana Galizia.

Some on the island, typically supporters of the ruling Labour Party, cannot forgive what they regard as a tilted campaign that she ran on her blog against figures often close to their camp.

For others, many of them supporters of the rival Nationalist Party, she was a martyr. They are determined to preserve both her memory and to continue her fight against corruption.

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A Great Giant Has Fallen: South African Labor Pays Tribute to Nelson
Mandela

A great giant has fallen – NEHAWU salutes one of the 20th century`s greatest statesman

6 December 2013

NEHAWU is greatly saddened by the news of the passing away of former ANC and South African President, Comrade Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela yesterday after a long illness.We send our deepest and heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, comrades and to the entire nation.

Tata Madiba was a stalwart of the South African struggle for liberation and one of the country’s founding fathers, who dedicated his entire life to emancipating his people from political and economic oppression. This fearless revolutionary led his people during the darkest days of our country; he never wavered and was always determined to die standing for his peopleand his principles.

We salute one of the 20th century’s finest historical and political figures; a towering symbol of revolutionary qualities like sacrifice and internationalism. This anti-apartheid revolutionary was the very essence of compassion, dedication, integrity and a symbol of selflessness.

The nation and the entire world has lost a visionary leader whose wisdom and courage was unparalleled and whose love for South Africa and its people knew no bounds. His mental strength, charisma and values outlived the brutal system of apartheid and his humility and vision helped reconcile enemies and forge a common nation united in its diversity.

The world is poorer today after the departure of this moral giant and a political titan. Tata Madiba will remain a global icon and a symbol of hope for the oppressed. His


next generation to rise to the arduous challenge of preserving his legacy and leading the nation forward to a better future.

We lower our banners and salute this revolutionary freedom fighter. He loved freedom. He loved his people. He loved life.

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COSATU pays tribute to Comrade Madiba

6 December 2013

The Congress of South African Trade Unions joins all South Africans, and millions more all over the world, in mourning the sad loss today, 5 December 2013, of the greatest ever South African and most inspirational leader in our struggle for liberty and democracy, our beloved Comrade, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.

Comrade Madiba inspired all those fighting for freedom in South Africa and around the world. He suffered long and brutal incarceration, but never became embittered and revengeful. He waselected as our first democratically elected President, but remained a humble and modest servant of his people, who never put his personal interests before his commitment to the struggle.

He never compromised his democratic principles or thought of anything but how to win the ultimate victory of the struggle he lived for, and was prepared to die for - for a non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and free South Africa.

Although Comrade Madiba would have insisted that full credit be given to the other giants of the struggle - Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Chief Albert Luthuli, Joe Slovo, Chris Hani and many others – he was unique, the South African who, more than any other, became the embodiment of the struggle against racist dictatorship, apartheid brutality and the exploitation of workers and


all his friends and comrades.

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) learnt with sadness the sudden passing of its Honorary President and former President of the republic Nelson Mandela.

Mandela who has throughout sacrificed and dedicated his life for the good of the people of South Africa and the world will be solely missed as a global icon, a peace maker and a freedom fighter of note. As an Honorary President of the NUM, he has been an inspiration through and through and has on many occasions motivated Mineworkers to take education seriously as he believed that it is through it that their children will head mines.

"As we dip our banners and celebrate the life and times of this stalwart, it is time that as South Africans we reflect onon pan-african and global affairs.
PANW editor Abayomi Azikiwe is often solicited by various newspaper, radio and television stations for comment and analysis on local, national and world affairs. He serves as a political analyst for Press TV and RT worldwide satellite television news networks as well as other international media in the areas of African and world affairs. He has appeared on numerous television and radio networks including Al Jazeera, CCTV, BBC, NPR, Radio Netherlands, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, South Africa Radio 786, Belgian Pirate Radio, TVC Nigeria and others.


Craig Levein

The Hearts owner Ann Budge was determined to replace Cathro with an experienced figurehead and, after speaking to Steven Pressley, Paul Hartley and Billy Davies, she has gone for 52-year-old Levein. His director of football position is likely to be made redundant as part of the reshuffle.

Jon Daly, the club’s Under-20 coach, had been interim head coach since Cathro’s exit. He took charge for the first four matches of the Premiership campaign against Celtic, Kilmarnock, Rangers and Motherwell. After two defeats, a win and a draw, he now reverts back to his youth role.

The change of title takes Levein back into a job he occupied for four years between 2000 and 2004. As Hearts manager, he guided them to successive third-place finishes in Scotland’s top flight in2003 and 2004, and took them into the UEFA Cup group stages.

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The 52-year-old left for Leicester City in October 2004 and later managed Dundee United and Scotland. Budge appointed him director of football when she took charge at Tynecastle in May 2014.


(Sports Network) - The Golden State Warriors will play back-to-back games on the road, starting with Wednesday's showdown with the New Orleans Hornets in the Big Easy.

The Warriors have dropped four straight overall since winning three in a row and are coming off Monday's 97-93 setback versus Minnesota in Oakland. David Lee had 25 points and nine rebounds, while recently-acquired Richard Jefferson scored 19 for the Warriors, who played their fifth straight game without shooting guard Stephen Curry.

Curry is hobbled by a sprained right ankle and is out indefinitely. Fans also booed Golden State owner Joe Lacob during a halftime ceremony honoring former player Chris Mullin. Mullin had his No. 17 retired and was forced to interrupt his own ceremony to address the booing of Lacob. The ownerhas drawn the fans' ire, largely for trading leading scorer Monta Ellis to Milwaukee for injured big man Andrew Bogut. Rick Barry also chastised the crowd for the behavior.

Head coach Mark Jackson addressed the incident after the game.

"Pulling the trigger on a Monta Ellis trade is not easy," said Jackson. "But we understood that it was a play that put us in a position where the future is awfully bright. We talked about it, this is a process, and we're gonna keep on battling."

Golden State will visit Houston tomorrow night and is 8-12 as the guest this season. It is five games off the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference.

New Orleans will commence a three-game homestand tonight versus the Warriors, Clippers and Spurs, and has


dropped four in a row as the host. It just 4-19 in the Big Easy this season.

The Hornets ended a three-game slide with Saturday's 102-94 win at New Jersey, as Chris Kaman and Marco Belinelli scored 20 points apiece to lead the way. Jarrett Jack netted 16 points and handed out six assistsJarrett Jack netted 16 points and handed out six assists for New Orleans, which won for only the second time in the past nine contests.

"I think in the second half, we played very good basketball, especially on defense," Belinelli said after the win. "I think that's why we won the game."

New Orleans and Golden State are meeting for the first time since the Warriors took two of three matchups a year ago. The Warriors have lostAmong electric vehicle driving devices, particularly an electric vehicle driving device which directly drives a wheel is called an in-wheel motor. The in-wheel motor mentioned herein is a driving device which is installed near a wheel provided in an electric vehicle. Furthermore, the in-wheel motor may not be necessarily accommodated inside the wheel. The in-wheel motor needs to be disposed inside the wheel or near the wheel. However, the inside of the wheel or the vicinity of the wheel is a comparatively narrow space. Accordingly, a decrease in size of the in-wheel motor is demanded.
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On the other hand, since the in-wheel motor of the direct drive type transmits the rotational force to the wheel without through the speed reduction mechanism, the energy loss mayTwo years ago, in the middle of an already -- and uncharacteristically -- lost season, Oregon started looking toward the future.

The Ducks named Justin Herbert, then a scrawny and unpolished 6-foot-5 true freshman, as starting quarterback the week of their home game against No. 5-ranked Washington. Herbert had thrown only five passes in his fledgling college career, all in the fourth quarter of an 18-point loss at Washington State the previous week.

What followed was one of the lowest moments in the recent history of Oregon football.

Herbert threw an interception on the first play of the game, an appropriately inauspicious start to a 70-21 defeat to the Huskies that snapped Oregon's 12-game winning streak in the rivalry and signaled a dramatic shift in power in the Pac-12 conference.

That miserable


highest-scoring (45.6 points per game) and most-productive offense (503.6 yards) midway through the season.

They'll find themselves up against Washington's league-best defense (304.5 yards per game) in the latest update of the classic "unstoppable force vs. immovable object" paradox.

"He's special, there's no question about it," Washington head coach Chris Petersen said of Herbert. "He played good against us that first time, I remember thinking that. It was his first time playing and he played well. And he's continued to trend up from there."

For the Huskies, that rout in Eugene was the culmination of a rebuild under Petersen that had roots in a similar transition to a true freshman quarterback a couple of years earlier.

Jake Browning was the foundation of Petersen's first full recruiting class in 2015, becoming the firsttrue freshman in Huskies history to start a season opener later that fall. Browning entered the game against Oregon with modest but promising numbers: He was completing 62 percent of his passes for an average of 226 yards per game and had thrown as many touchdowns as interceptions (5).

That drizzly night in Seattle signaled a subtle shift in the rivalry, with Browning leading the Huskies to within a score of the Ducks in a 26-20 defeat after more than a decade of losing games that were no closer than 17 points.

Jake Browning's point at an Oregon defender in a 2016 win signaled a changing of the guard in the rivalry after Washington lost 12 straight to the Ducks. Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images

"It was close until the very end,"


Petersen said. "We weren't skilled enough yet in terms of finishing out those kinds of games. But we were probably closer than people gave us credit for."

At Autzen Stadium the next year, Browning and the Huskies finally broke through in that cathartic 49-point beatdown of Oregon.

Browning passed for a school-record six touchdowns and ran for two more, the first a 1-yarder where he pointed at a Ducks defender while crossing the goal line. That bit of uncharacteristic brashness from Browning drew a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty that nonetheless galvanized the Huskies, who went on to win the Pac-12 and earn a spot in the College Football Playoff.

"That was pretty much making a statement, like, 'We got you this year,'" then-senior defensive end Joe Mathis told reporters after thegame.

Meanwhile, the ascendance of Herbert came in the midst of the decline of the Ducks' dynasty. Herbert threw for 179 yards and two touchdowns in the loss, the lone bright spot in the most lopsided outcome in the 116-year history of the series. A day later, the Oregonian's headline for the game story read "ROCK BOTTOM?"

"I apologize for that score," then-Oregon coach Mark Helfrich said. "It's different than a normal loss, no question."

Helfrich was fired at the end of that season, paving the way for new head coach Willie Taggart and co-offensive coordinator Mario Cristobal to work with Herbert in 2017. Together they won four of their first five games, but Herbert missed the next five games with a collarbone injury, and the Ducks lost four of those


including a 38-3 humiliation at Washington. Taggart's surprising exit for Florida State in December gave Cristobal the opportunity to take over as head coach.

His inheritance of Herbert has given them an opportunity to finally tap into those gifts that they -- and even Petersen, who showed interest late in his recruitment -- glimpsed when he was starring in high school in Eugene, an undervalued prospect who picked the hometown Ducks over Nevada, Montana State, Northern Arizona and Portland State.

"Justin has come a long way," Cristobal said. "He's done such a good job as a competitor, allowing us to coach him and coach him hard. But I also think he has a process that we trust as well."

Today Herbert is listed an inch taller at 6-foot-6, has added almost20 pounds to get up to 233, and has the production to match his potential, setting a school record by surpassing 5,000 career passing yards one game faster than 2014 Heisman winner Marcus Mariota.

"He looks even better than last year," said ESPN NFL draft analyst Mel Kiper, who moved up Herbert six spots to No. 8 -- and the top quarterback -- in his most-recent ranking of the Top 25 draft prospects. "He's more poised, more in control of everything. Come April, he'll probably be in the top five."

And if not for an inexplicable fourth-quarter implosion against Stanford last month, the Ducks would be undefeated, the Pac-12's best hope for the CFP, and Herbert -- fighting skepticism of Oregon's weak nonconference schedule and the relative obscurity of playing


on the West Coast -- might have a better shot at the Heisman.

But Saturday, in this tale of two quarterbacks and rival programs, Herbert and the Ducks will again be an underdog to Browning and the Huskies.

Browning recently became the all-time leading passer in school history at a program with a legacy of prolific passers like Warren Moon, Jake Locker and Brock Huard, and now has the distinction of being the quarterback who helped Peterson restore Washington to national prominence.

Kiper is less enthused about Browning's NFL chances ("As a pro prospect, you've got to temper things a bit. ... I think he's a good Day 3 prospect"), but in Seattle they have a deep appreciation for the role he has played in the Huskies' resurgence.

"He was in thereBahia.  The lives of the sailors of sloops in the bay from which Bahia gets its name are centred on the mythology surrounding the goddess Iemanjá, the "Queen of the Ocean" or the "Mother of Waters", are central to this novel, which portrays their daily struggle for survival. The novel features a variety of characters whose lives unfold around the story of two lovers, Guma and Lívia. They include the black Rufino and his mulatto lover Esmeralda; Francisco, Guma’s uncle, who mends nets; and the foul-mouthed Rosa Palmeirão.

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Sjón, born Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson, has spent the past two decades writing a trilogy of books about a man who was born at the exact same time as him. Originally, he was influenced by what it meant to create human life, but over the course of 20 years, he expanded his scope beyond what he ever imagined.

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CoDex 1962 is a trilogy of books originally published in Icelandic in 1994, 2001, and 2016 under the titles Thine Eyes Did See My Substance, Iceland’s Thousand Years, and I’m a Sleeping Door. The three volumes weave multiple


genres through a decades-long story of a family. While that general synopsis may sound like a typical generational family saga, Sjón moves far beyond that. The narrator, Josef Löwe, is the one who was born exactly when Sjón was, yet this is far from a work of autofiction. The author merely uses his experience in time to set the stage for what another’s life could have been in a different world. He explores Josef’s life (before and after) through three books, each with its own genre entirely. The first book is a love story while the second is a crime story. The third shifts to sci-fi thriller all while exploring the creation of life.

The Icelandic author has won numerous award for his fiction, including the 2003 Nordic Council’sLiterature Prize for The Blue Fox. He’s been nominated for an Academy Award for his songwriting. He played an instrumental role in Björk’s early band The Sugarcubes. In addition to his long-gestating trilogy finally coming to completion, he was selected to write a book for the Library of the Future, which will publish novels 100 years from now.

I spoke with Sjón about the history of politics and literature of Iceland, how his trilogy shifted course over the last two decades, and his interests in eccentric world-views.

Adam Vitcavage: What is the background of the Icelandic literary history?

Sjón: Literature is the only constant cultural activity since Iceland’s settlement in the 9th century. They started writing prose narratives in the Icelandic language in the 12th or 13th century. Those were the


paintings or anything. The only thing that we kept working on was writing. We were always a written culture.

There was a great revival of Icelandic literature in the middle of the 19th century with the romantic movement. It was a big national ideal that was brought to Iceland from Germany via Denmark. That is when the renaissance of Icelandic literature.

During the 20th century we, of course, have many great writers. The big man of Icelandic literature was Halldór Laxness, who received the Nobel Prize in 1955.

AV: What sort of stories were being written during these centuries?

S: The sagas are really big prose narratives usually revolving around a real character from the settlement. For instance, there is one of a poet and warrior that tells his story, but alsotells about the politics of the time between the Icelandic settlement and Norway. These stories are remarkable because they are told in a Hemingway-esque style. There is not an extra word put in. It’s very sparse. Authors weaved poetry into the text. They included supernatural aspects that were considered part of the world. You just had to battle a group of the walking dead and you’d continue with the story.

They are close to what later became the novel. At the time they moved away from folklore and mythological. They are stories about people and their struggles in the world.

AV: Was there any country in particular that had a heavy hand in influencing Icelandic literature?

S: The mythological base and the world-views that are present in the sagas are the


Germanic myths. You have Thor and Loki there. The influence from Celtic mysteries and legends can be found in certain sagas. The people populating the sagas, the character gallery, are from Norway, Denmark, Ireland. They go from Iceland all the way to Jerusalem and North Africa. There is a large reach in those sagas.

They were written by Christian people. By the learned man and possibly women. It was around the 12th century and they were highly versed in literature and allegory. It was an incredibly tight web they weaved in those books. They were also translating very early on and would bring books from Europe to Iceland. For instance, the story of Tristan and Isolde was translated. Translation is nothing new. It has fueled literature always.

Literature is theonly constant cultural activity since Iceland’s settlement in the 9th century. We are an old literary culture.

AV: The novels in this trilogy touch heavily on politics. How much has politics played a role in Iceland’s history?

S: For a few centuries after the settlement, Iceland was a rare case because there was no king. We were under the Norwegian crown and the Danish crown. For centuries, we were a Danish colony. We only became a fully independent colony in 1944 just at the end of the second world war.

The movement toward independence began in the mid-19th century. The romantic poets played a role in making people love their country and see the beauty in the harsh landscapes that were monstrous and hostile then. We became sovereign 100 years ago


realized it would be the story of the impossible creation of this being.

I set it in the second world war because when I thought about where I came from, my beginning is in the war as my parents were born. My parents were born in 1936 and 1939. My existence in this world go back to then. I was born 18 years after World War II and I realized I was born into the aftermath of that horror. It was more about how the trauma of that war colored everything.

I realized I would need more volumes to tell the story. The first book is about the mother. The second is about the father. The third book is about the son. In a way, it’s a classic trinity tale.One of the Senate's top Democratic stalwarts on climate change is pushing back against Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's proposed move to eliminate the position of climate change envoy.

"Secretary Tillerson must retain this position so that the United States keeps a seat at the table," Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., said Tuesday.

Tillerson sent a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Monday detailing his plan to end to eliminate "special envoy" positions, including the climate post. Markey serves on the Foreign Relations and the Environment and Public Works committees and is co-chairman of the Senate Climate Action Task Force.

"The special envoy for climate change was established to ensure American leadership on climate action and our clean energy future," Markey said. "The elimination of this critical position is just


one more example of the Trump administration ceding American climate and clean energy leadership to countries like China and Germany."

Tillerson's letter to cut the envoy positions came as President Trump spoke in detail about how he and Finland will work on environmental issues affecting the Arctic, notably the reduction of "black carbon" that scientists say is exacerbating the effects of climate change in the frozen north.

"If we lose the Arctic, we lose the globe. That is the reality," Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said with Trump standing next to him at a joint press conference Monday.

Trump and Niinisto agreed to work on the issue of black carbon through the Arctic Council, which the State Department takes the lead on in representing the U.S. with other Arctic countries. The U.S.Business Directories

US consumer sentiment unexpectedly fell in February from an 11-year high amid worries over slowing economic growth, suggesting a recent weakness in spending might last for a while.
The ebb in sentiment came despite strong job gain

South Korea's imports of Iranian crude oil rose 6.5 per cent in November from a year earlier, but shipments for the first 11 months of the year were still below the 2013 average, in line with international sa

Iran resumed gasoil imports this quarter after a gap of several months on rising consumption of heating oil during winter, but the arrivals are unlikely to continue as the demand is only seasonal, industry source

About 70 per cent of food products in the Gulf Cooperation Council are imported, of which cereals comprise around 55 per


Caer Cynan is similar in design to other early Norman castles, such as the Tower of London and Dover castle. The huge stone keep was constructed in 1120 and the outer curtain wall was built ten years later. The castle features a large central three-story keep. The upper portion is open to allow easy access to the interior. The castle entrance is on the second floor and is reached by a flight of stone steps. A 70 foot tower is located at each corner of the keep.

The bailey is reached by two gates, a fairly large front gate and a much smaller postern gate. The outer curtain wall has two towers guarding each gate, one tower at each corner, and one mural tower along each side of theaccurate measure of the cost. This new technology allows Orsola Albano to better serve her clients and meet their needs faster, and more efficiently, and with confidence in her projects.

As the world is becoming more sensitive to environmental issues, Orsola Albano is noticing that more and more of her clients are interested in creating eco-friendly, yet beautiful spaces in their homes and businesses. Orsola Albano works for several designers who specialize in eco-friendly and recycled materials to create their designs.

Orsola Albano has followed her passions since she was 14 years old and has become one of the top interior designers in the world. Currently, she is a principal interior designer at Albano Mobili in Italy. By following her passion, Orsola Albano is able to make the world a


A fiery Question Time in the House of Representatives dissolved into farce on Wednesday as two Labor MPs were ejected for bringing unicorn toys into the chamber to mock treasurer Scott Morrison.

Let's back up a bit. Morrison was on a media blitz last week, delivering an address to the National Press Club and giving interviews all over radio and TV to talk up the government's negative gearing and tax plans. Despite all his work, much of the attention was focused on just one line that he repeated a few times.

"They are selling a unicorn to the Australian people -- higher taxes for higher spending," Morrison said of Labor's announced tax plans.

In a later interview, he said "“I’m realistically optimistic, but at the same time the environment for thebudget is difficult, and I’m not going to be a Treasurer who tries to sell the public a unicorn on this thing."

Labor's Andrew Leigh sarcastically said he "applauds Morrison's strong anti-unicorn-trafficking stance".

On Wednesday, quite a few days after the unicorn comments first surfaced, Labor MPs Tim Watts and Pat Conroy came to Question Time, and they were prepared. When Morrison approached the dispatch box, they pulled out a few props of their own.


the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to protect and enhance the rights and opportunities of disabled people, including those with psychosocial disabilities.[159]

In psychiatric social work there are three distinct groups. One made up of the social workers in psychiatric organizations and hospitals. The second group consists members interested with mental hygiene education and holding designations that involve functioning in various mental health services and the third group consist of individuals involved directly with treatment and recovery process.[85]Halsey Minor is no stranger to being at the bleeding edge of a new industry.

Over his more than two-decade career as an tech entrepreneur and businessman, Minor has been involved with numerous pioneering startups. CNET, which he co-founded, was one of the first web publishing companies. Salesforce.com, in which he was an early investor, was one of the first cloud services companies. And Rhapsody, in which he also was an early investor, was one of the first subscription music services.

After some real estate investments went bad, he filed for bankruptcy in the wake of the Great Recession. But now he’s returned to tech and is focusing on yet another nascent business — virtual reality. Live Planet, his new company, has developed a camera system designed to record stereoscopic


households and businesses by about USD197 billion.

In the wake of rising Brexit risks, the report also warned that the nation’s highly leveraged real estate business will fall, which was mainly driven bypiling debts, should employment and growth in income decline in the months following UK’s exit from the European Union. The BoE had announced last week that it would extend its indexed long-term report operations on a weekly basis until the end of September 2016 to provide extra liquidity insurance to banks.

Moreover, the Bank of England governor, Mark Carney said in his speech that there are prospects of an economic slowdown in the British economy. Households are most susceptible to be hurt in the wake of a tougher economic outlook, he added. Further, the BoE expects the CCBused as loan collateral, reduced property valuations could deter corporate borrowing which would suggest some ripple effect across the wider economy. Outflows from REITs, which appear to have picked up following the referendum, threaten to depress the sector even more given that they represent around 7 percent of all investment in the UK commercial real estate market.

Lastly, the central bank governor also aimed at easing policy stance as it prepares to hold a monetary policy meeting on July 14. However, that would be a careful judgment taking into account any financial stability risks from too-low borrowing costs. Officials also encouraged the use of flexibility in Solvency II regulations in insurance companies to recalculate capital levels as they move between regulatory frameworks, so that they fail to rise as


better.I was fooled by his appearance. Mistake number two.

I was pretty relaxed the whole evening, and this was one of the few occasions where I did not take my payment upfront. In fact I counted the fee the following day,the reason being that I thought there was no way a man in his late sixties, in his line of business, and staying in a five star boutique hotel would con me. Mistake number three.

By the time I realised what had happened, he was on a flight back to New York. I believe what he did was intentional ,and deliberate. I recognise that I had a responsibility to check the money in front of him, and challenge him. Furthermore, when he asked about the dinner date, I should haveAirCare crew members Ron Hopson, Kevin King and Kevin Kennedy speak to students of the Topeka-Tilton Attendance Center in Monticello during the school's annual health fair.

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Ten-year-old Luke Smith lay motionless with a crushed pelvis, his head pinned between the wheel and fender of the ATV he was riding only moments before.

That was how his grandfather found him that day in 2011, at his home in Sontag.

Luke was initially taken to King's Daughters Hospital in Brookhaven, but with the severity of his injuries it was deemed necessary for him to be medically evacuated to the University of Mississippi Medical Center for a higher level of care. ...


Luo Meizhen, born in Guangxi in 1885, has died aged 127 years old. She was the world’s oldest woman, and may have been the oldest person ever to have lived.

Though official documents said that Luo was born in 1885, international authorities, including Guinness World Records, never recognised her claim to be the oldest person ever to have lived. China did not have a reliable birth certification system at the end of the nineteenth century, and though Luo’s birth date was listed on her hukou and identity card, both where issued in recent decades.

Luo, who lived in a remote village in Guangxi province, had five children, one of whom she allegedly gave birth to aged 61.

Guinness World Records officially recognises Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment as the oldest person to haveever lived. Calment died in 1997 aged 122 years and 164 days.

“She was 127 when she died, it wasn’t unexpected,” her grandson Huang Heyuan told AFP.

Jiroemon Kimura, the oldest man to have ever lived, also died this month. Kimura passed away in his home in Kyotango, Japan. He was 116.

The title of oldest living person passes to Misao Okawa, also from Japan, who was born on March 5, 1898. 20 of the 55 people over the age of 110 living today are from Japan, where life expectancy at birth is 83 years.

Luo’s county in Guangxi is famous for its residents’ longevity. Bama Yao Autonomous County had 81 centenarians in 2011, a rate of 31.7 per 100,000 people, far higher than the global average, which is 7.5 centenarians per


of civil liberties in Hong Kong.

At the start of the protests, domestic media from mainland China gave them only limited coverage but they now dominate headlines in both state-owned newspapers and online publications.

Several celebrities from mainland China severed ties with a number of fashion labels this week, after online users pointed out they had released apparel that referred to Hong Kong and Taiwan as separate from the People’s Republic of China.

Versace, Calvin Klein, and other brands each issued public apologies online, either on Chinese social media accounts or overseas ones.

Coach, which drew fire for a T-shirt that implied Taiwan was a distinct entity from China, said that in May 2018 it discovered a “serious inaccuracy” in one of its clothing items and pulled it from store shelves.song are set in 1941 France and it "explores decidedly non-pop territory of accommodation and justification, of guilt and evasion and anger". "Did She Scare All Your Friends Away" is "not much less intense [...] weakness is paramount in a man who had "retired into a well of sweet vermouth", a rorting defence lawyer who's a "liberating angel with a clothes peg on his nose" or the narrator, whose explanations are rough and double-edged."

The final track, "The Radicalisation of D" is based on the life of David Hicks with several details from Liddiard's own childhood. It has been called "a superbly engaging quarter of an hour" and "the album's magnum opus". "The grim horror of what is about to unfold," writes Parker, "[is] humanized implicitly by Liddiard's unhurried


Information presented to the Bureau of the World Heritage Committee in 1995

The site was inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 1992. Missions to the site were carried out in 1992 and 1993. The situation remains critical due to armed conflict and the political situation in the region which remains unchanged. The Committee at its eighteenth session decided to retain the site on the List of World Heritage in Danger and another fact-finding mission to this area, particularly to the Korkaova Uvala Virgin forest is to be scheduled for 1995-96.

Action Required

Given the continued armed conflict in the region, the Bureau urges the Committee to retain the site on the List of World Heritage in Danger.

Conservation issues presented to the World Heritage Committee in 1995

The sitewas inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 1992. Missions to the site were carried out in 1992 and 1993.

The Committee at its eighteenth session decided to retain the site on the List of World Heritage in Danger and that another fact-finding mission to this area, particularly to the Korkaova Uvala Virgin Forest is to be scheduled for 1995-96.

The Centre received information from both the Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Croatia to UNESCO and the National Croatian Commission for UNESCO, that the site has been visited and that damage from the period of occupation was evident. The World Heritage Centre jointly with the authorities are now scheduling a management planning workshop for early 1996 which will address the future management of the Park.

Analysis and


Conclusion by World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies in 1995

The Bureau may wish to underline the need to review management planning for this Park with a recommendation that action should be taken to repair the serious damage to the infrastructure. The Bureau therefore recommends the Committee to retain the site on the List of World Heritage in Danger.

Decisions adopted by the Committee in 1995

Adopted

Draft Decision

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Plitvice Lakes National Park (Croatia)

The Bureau recalled that the site was inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 1992. Missions to the site were carried out in 1992 and 1993. The situation remains critical due to armed conflict and the political situation in the region which remains unchanged. The Committee at its eighteenth session decided to retain thesite on the List of World Heritage in Danger and another fact-finding mission to this area, particularly to the Korkaova Uvala Virgin Forest is to be scheduled for 1995-96. Given the continued armed conflict in the region, the Bureau recommended to the Committee to retain the site on the List of World Heritage in Danger.

19 COM VII.A.1.4

SOC: Plitvice Lakes National Park (Croatia)

VII.4 Plitvice Lakes National Park (Croatia)

The Committee recalled that the site was inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 1992 and that information was received from both the Permanent Delegation of the Republic _of Croatia to UNESCO and the Croatian National Commission for UNESCO, indicating that damage from the period of occupation was evident. The Committee furthermore noted that the site was reopened to


the public on 10 August 1995 and that the Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee approved a request for emergency assistance (communications equipment) for an amount of US$ 30,000. Upon the granting of US$ 30,000, the State Party agreed to provide a contribution of US$ 60,000 for a total of US$ 90,000. The Centre informed the Committee that a management and planning meeting for the Park is scheduled for spring 1996.

The Committee took note of the report presented by the Secretariat and commended the State Party for its special contribution and endorsed the management and planning meeting for the Park scheduled for spring 1996. The committee decided to retain the site on the List of World Heritage in Danger until the region stabilizes.

The Bureau recommends the Committee towas electrocuted. His three minor children filed a claim with the State Board of Workmen's Compensation *618 against Rosamond & Sons and its insurer. On the hearing, the sole issue was whether Lanier was an employee of Rosamond & Sons or of an independent contractor. The director found that he was an employee and that, consequently, Jerry Johnson was also an employee of Rosamond & Sons and directed that its insurer pay compensation to the claimants. Rosamond & Sons and its insurer appealed to the superior court which affirmed the award, and that judgment is the subject of exception in this court.
The only evidence touching on the relation between Rosamond & Sons and Lanier was the testimony of Lanier and of Mr. H. L. Rosamond, a partner in


of a contractor would seem to be that he renders service in the course of an independent occupation, representing the will of his employer only as to the result of his work, and not as to the means by which it is accomplished.'"
There was nothing in the testimony of either of the two witnesses that authorized a finding that Mr. Lanier was an employee of Rosamond & Sons. The fact that an employer continuously checks the work of an independent contractor to see that the work is being done according to the specifications of the job is thoroughly consistent with the relationship of employer and independent contractor and with the mere right of the employer to insist on a certain specific result. There is nothing in the testimonygenuine rags to riches story. Born in 1974, he grew up the youngest child – and only boy – of nine children. He wore his sisters’ pink hand-me-downs to school. His father died when Tisci was four and the siblings had to work to keep the family afloat. He has spoken before about one meal a day being the norm, how he was helping his uncle with plastering from the age of 11. It’s all a long way from rooftops with a view of the Houses of Parliament.

Tisci’s unlikely success is, he says, down to “angels I have crossed in my life”. The first arrived when he stopped attending primary school. “The teachers came to my house, Miss Besio and Mr Borriero. They said to my mum, ‘Your


son needs to study because he has something different to all the other children.’” Tisci stayed in school. This continued in London – on an internship, fellow designer Antonio Berardi saw his illustrations and sent Tisci to renowned fashion college Central Saint Martins. While there, tutor Willie Walters ensured he received a grant so he was able to study. Tisci was made creative director of Givenchy in 2005, aged 29. “I am a self-made person,” he says now, with a drag of an American Spirit. “My mum gave me love but that is the only thing she gave me.” (Tisci is prone to these telenovela-ish soundbites, which is understandable when you find out he has a story worthy of a box set.)

Rihanna wears a Burberry trench on stageat a Fenty Beauty event. Photograph: Mark Ganzon/Getty

Tisci sees a kindred spirit in Thomas Burberry, who started the eponymous brand in 1856, at the age of 21, in the far from fashionable environs of Basingstoke. He invented gabardine, the waterproof fabric that went on to be used for the trenchcoat, in 1879. Adopted by explorers and intrepid types including Ernest Shackleton and Betty Kirby-Green, Burberry trenches were worn in the trenches in the first world war. By 1965, it’s said that one in every five coats exported from the UK was made by Burberry. These days, the brand employs around 10,000 people and is the only luxury fashion brand in the FTSE 100. It also looms large in British style. In the time I have been working on


“In the day it was a horse, in the night it became a unicorn,” Tisci says. “I thought it was a very beautiful thing. In a way, it’s very relatable to what happened in my life… My sisters were like Thomas Burberry. During the day, they have to be strong warriors, but in the night they would take off all this armour and be very sweet mothers to me.”

Family comes first for Tisci. He remains very close to his mother, who is now 90. His formative experiences of fashion came from watching his eight sisters – who, he says, are four pairs of best friends – get ready to go out, when he was a child. “They would be in the bathroom, putting makeup on. I was sittingon the bathtub thinking, one day I can go out and meet the people around the world.”

Tisci has said before that he took the Givenchy job so he could buy his mother a house. His break with the brand was also prompted by family – at the funeral of his brother-in-law in 2016, he realised his mother was getting older, his nieces and nephews were growing up. And he wanted in. “I wanted to be the son of my mother, the brother of my sister, that I have never been really because life never gave me the opportunity,” he says. He quit Givenchy the following spring. The announcement went out while he was in a desert in Algeria, with his phone switched off.

Sitting back. Model Freja Beha Erichsen


to become current.

Findings of Fact.
On October 31, 1998, debtors executed a simple interest motor vehicle contract and security agreement with Patrick Chevrolet, Inc.[1] Patrick Chevrolet assigned the contract to Tidewater.
Under the terms of the contract, the installments were due on the fifteenth day of each month beginning on December 15, 1998, with a seven day grace period. On the day of debtors' filing, December 17, 2001, debtors had not yet made their December 15, 2001, payment to Tidewater.[2] As of the date of the instant preliminary hearing, debtors were current in their payments under the contract and the vehicle was covered by an insurance policy.
Debtors filed their Statement of Intention under 11 U.S.C. § 521(2) of the United States Bankruptcy Code in which they indicate that their intentionhand. In DeJournette, debtors were delinquent at the date of filing their bankruptcy petition. As of the date of the hearing, the DeJournette debtors had paid payments to bring them current on their loan; however, debtors did not pay the late charges or legal fees and costs associated with their prior arrearage.
In this case, debtors were not in default when they filed their chapter 7 petition because they were within the contractual grace period, nor were they in default on February 27, the date of the preliminary hearing on relief from stay. While there was a time in between debtors' bankruptcy filing and the date of the hearing where debtors fell behind in their payments, they were current as of the hearing date.
Tidewater has failed to demonstrate any


the fetal position on her bed. Her blonde hair spread across the pillow behind her head, and the sheet was down around her hips. I'd never seen her asleep, and in the morning sunlight she looked absolutely innocent. I sat on the edge of the bed and caressed her shoulders until she began to move. She rubbed her eyes with her knuckles like a baby and turned onto her back.

"Dan?"

"Yeah, it's me. Good morning."

She went from sleep to panic in seconds. "Sandy didn't come back?"

"Shh. Relax. She's here."

Her eyes widened as her alarm heightened. "What are you doing? You've got to get out of here," she whispered. She pushed at me with her hands. I grabbed them and pressed them back gently until they were beside her headon the pillow. I kissed her on her forehead.

"It's OK," I told her, sitting back up.

Her face was all confusion, unsure of what she was hearing. Holding her wrists, I bent forward and kissed the corner of her right eye. "It's..." I kissed the corner of her left eye. "...I think, somehow..." I kissed the corner of her right eye again..."I think it's going to be OK,"

She was about to say something, but before she could, I kissed her lips. Just a soft, sweet good-morning kiss, Her lips turned to velvet under mine. I knew this was not the time to continue, and I pulled back from her. But the stretch of her neck and the rise of her breasts in the morning light were irresistible. Sandy was


downstairs and I was holding Lee pinned to the mattress. All the danger, all the thrills, rushed through me. And Lee's eyes, when I could tear my own away from the sight of her on her back, on the bed, somehow resisting me and urging me on at the same time, were burning. I pushed harder on her wrists, and she arched up to me.

"Dan!"

Her voice brought me back to some semblance of normalcy.

She was looking up at me. "I don't think it's going to be OK."

Whatever Sandy had said downstairs, however composed she'd been, I knew in that moment that Lee was right. I eased off, but then the sight of her, on her back, submissive, her arms up like that and her breasts rising, was morewent out the door and back down the stairs. Sandy was where I'd left her, sitting at the table, and her eyes raised to mine.

"She'll be right down," I told her.

Sandy nodded and took a sip of her coffee.

I didn't know what I should do, and I just stood there, fidgeting, wondering if I should sit again at the table. Sandy offered me no help. I was trying to figure what to say when I heard Lee behind me on the stairs. She came down slowly, but before I could turn to look at her, Sandy stood and pulled out the chair next to her.

"Lee."

I completed my turn. Lee was on the bottom step. She had on her short silk robe, and she hadn't done anything to get


herself ready for whatever was coming. Her hair was a blonde, glorious mess, her breasts thrust out through the lose silk, and her long lightly tanned legs stretched forever above her bare feet.

I gawked as she sauntered over to the table and sat down. I looked at Sandy. Her sweet brown eyes gave nothing away. "Coffee, Lee?"

"No. I don't think so." The hot blue fire I'd seen so often in her eyes flashed and then turned passive as she looked at Sandy.

"All right, then." Sandy sat down. "Let's get to it." She looked at me and I had to look away. What the hell was going on? I had been sure this was all going to work out.

Sandy leaned forward and rested her arms on the table. "So,back in her chair and her robe opened. Her breasts swelled against the silk and she lifted a foot and laid it on the table. The long line of her thigh and the beginnings of the curve of her ass were exposed to us. Sandy gasped at what she saw. Lee just looked at her. The bright blue fire in her eyes lit up again, daring Sandy to respond.

This was my moment to step in, to say something in this short tiny moment that might turn aside the animosity that was building between them. I felt my mouth open and then close before anything could come out. My eyes flitted back and forth between them.

Sandy was leaning back in her chair, slack jawed. glancing sometimes up at me


but mostly looking at Lee's brazen display. I was looking at Sandy, trying to gauge her take on what was going on, but my eyes kept shifting to Lee in her chair.

The fire in Lee's eyes had dimmed again and a languid, supremely self-assured look had taken its place. She looked down over her stretched leg and then up into Sandy's eyes.

"Get real, Sandy." She lifted her other leg and crossed a perfect foot over her perfect ankle. "He's a guy." Her robe fell away from her legs and I had to stare at the shaved mound just hidden between her thighs. I pulled my eyes away and looked over at Sandy.

Two minutes ago, Sandy had had all the cards in her hand. She'd had me, the cheatingThere are probably at this point more people defending Mario Lopez than attacking him over his comments about the dangers of the #BelieveWomen and of affirming young children who claim to be transgendered. But so long as the social justice movement exists, the hazards of both of those things will, too.

It’s worth recalling an article in the Atlantic magazine last year that told the stories of minors who mistakenly believed that they did not mentally identify with their physical sex.

One young girl profiled by the magazine was 14-year-old “Claire.” She recalled previous, internalized feelings that she was male and she had pleaded for her parents to help her find hormone therapy. She eventually asked them to support her in undergoing a double mastectomy to remove her breasts. The


Thursday night was the season finale of Scandal, and before they went to a secret underground bunker to live-tweet the episode on ABC, the cast gathered at the Paley Center to dish about being Team Olivia, shocking last-minute edits, and Scott Foley's sneaky secret fake farts.

Fitz still gets our votes. Mostly.Although there wasn't nearly as much sex this season as in years past, the sizzle reel that played before the panel included highlights that had fans in a tizzy. There were some cheers for those scenes with Jake (Scott Foley) and Olivia (Kerry Washington) basking in the sun and, you know, doing other stuff in the sun, but the scenes with Olivia and Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) got the loudest cheers.

Forget Fitz and Jake. Let's talk about Team Olivia.AfterGrant (Young) and Rowan Pope (Joe Morton) share a pivotal scene in the season finale that was teased at the end of the second-to-last episode. The explosive interlude sets off a chain reaction that shocks Mellie and the rest of the Scandal crew — well, most of them. It was also the first chance they had to work together since they'd been on The X-Files in 2000. Young had been chomping at the bit to have a scene with Morton after watching Papa Pope's poetic monologues. "I want my eyebrows to be burned off!" she said. (Suffice it to say, no eyebrow was left intact after their scene.)

There's nothing like sharing a beer and a laugh to staunch the blood.There was a welcome moment of levity in the


penultimate episode with Jake and Russell (Brian White) where they share a beer and uncannily imitate their old boss Rowan. Foley received rewrites that included this new scene when he was already in bed the night before an early morning shoot. "Somehow, these two men metabolized that scene and made it so brilliant within hours," Washington said. Morton, who had no idea about the scene until he saw it on the show, added, "It was like being a voyeur on two of my kids, sort of making fun of Dad. It was a complete surprise. They nailed it."

Fitz and Mellie have been suspiciously chill this season.When moderator Lara Spencer evinced some skepticism about just how happy the first couple was this season, Young exclaimed, "Let us enjoy theof formaldehyde!"

Scandal's coming-of-age moment was its treatment of race this season.Scandal isn't a show to shy away from subversive material or political statements, but this season addressed political issues like the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson and the epidemic of rape in the military head-on. As Washington pointed out at the beginning of the panel, Olivia's kidnapping, which triggered Fitz's ill-advised attack on West Angola, was an interesting parallel to the Boko Haram kidnappings in Nigeria. "The idea that the life of this black woman was valuable enough that she has become a Helen of Troy was such a subversive way of saying we all have value as human beings," she said

However, "The Lawn Chair" episode drew heavily on the events in Ferguson in a way that


brought Olivia's race into play like never before. "I feel like in the beginning of the show, we were careful to tread very lightly around issues of race," she noted, "because I think it was important for everyone that race be one part of who Olivia is. It's not something that I could walk away from; as soon as I'm onscreen, I'm a black woman." Although there were more subtle moments that spoke to Olivia's experience as a woman of color. "We didn't want to push that as what the show was about or who this woman was. So, for me, I felt like the Ferguson episode was a real coming of age for the show and for Olivia, because it was a moment where another character calledthe Golden Temple in Jehol created for the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago.

Sven Hedin's Sino-Swedish expedition began doing research in China in 1927. On a visit to the United States in the summer of 1929, Hedin met Vincent Bendix, who agreed to finance a project which resulted in the creation of a reconstruction of the Jehol temple at the Century of Progress Exposition along the Chicago lakefront. The story of Indiana's role in the disposition over the years of the duplicate temple of the one built by order of Emperor Kangxi (1661-1722) in China is the topic of this brief essay.

In 1967 Indiana University Professor of Government Lynton K. Caldwell, a graduate of the University of Chicago in 1934, " because of faculty interest and longstanding


interest in this remarkable building and in Indiana University's Asian Studies Program" wrote to Chancellor Herman B Wells at the Indiana University Foundation about the possibility of bringing the temple to Indiana.

(By that time, though it was owned by Harvard's Yenching Institute, it rested in pieces in an Ohio warehouse after being visited by thousands of people in Chicago and New York City.)

Caldwell to Wells (August 1st, 1968) :

"As you may possibly recall, the original funds for the reconstruction of the building and for its transportation to America were largely the result of the interest of an Indiana industrialist, Vincent Bendix of South Bend. It is my understanding that the copper shingles for the roof of the temple were in fact made at the Bendix plant in SouthBend. Should it prove feasible for the temple to be acquired by Indiana University, it would be a curious and poetic turn of events -- the temple returning to the state from which the impetus for its reconstruction first came."

By the end of 1968 John C. Pezel, Director of the Yenching Institute, wrote to Caldwell (December 20th, 1968):

"transfer of the Lama Temple to Indiana University may be effected as soon as the Chairman may have a statement of that University's intent to reconstruct the temple for academic or cultural purposes."

Though the temple was transferred to Indiana University Foundation ownership, carrying through proved problematic. As Professor Denis Sinor, then at the Asian Studies Research Institute, Goodbody Hall, wrote on July 12, 1979:

"I.U.'s dealing with the Temple goes back more


TEENAGERS from a church have been banishing the hoodie stereotypes - by helping to clean up a Nuneaton neighbourhood.

Volunteers from the Kings Community Church in Bedworth took time out of their half-term holidays to do some work in the community.

They have been putting the finishing touches to painting Ash Green School in Exhall and have cleared land in Chapel End.

Liesl Hill, youth worker with the Bulkington Road church, said: "We're doing a three-day mission called Urban Flavour which is all about getting out into the community and getting to know different people.

"We're based in Bedworth but we don't just feel it's about Bedworth, it's an area thing with Nuneaton and Coventry."

She added: "All of the people in our youth group want to serve the community in whatever waycolumn after joining the International Finance Corporation in 2004, and he rejoined the Financial Times, as economics leader writer, in April 2006. He is also a member of the newspaper's editorial board.

Tim has spoken at TED, PopTech and the Sydney Opera House. He is a visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

In August 2007, he presented a television series on the BBC, Trust me, I'm an economist.

In October 2007, Harford replaced Andrew Dilnot on the BBC Radio 4 series More or Less. He is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.

From November 2016 he presented an economic history documentary radio and podcast series 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

Awards
 More or Less won the Royal Statistical Society's 2010 award


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Whether Alvarez gets an opportunity to hand Nurmagomedov his first loss is anyone's guess at the moment.

Alvarez is a former champion and has won four of his past five, but he's potentially in competition with Conor McGregor, Tony Ferguson and even Georges St-Pierre for the next lightweight title shot.

"Tony's knee is busted; he's out for 2018 is the way I look at it. Conor also might be out for 2018. Georges has never fought at 155. I'm the only guy standing here. And I happen to be his worst matchup." Eddie Alvarez, on his chances of


striding over to the fireplace, found what he was looking for within seconds: a small box containing glittering Floo powder.
  He crouched down in front of the empty grate, his hands shaking. He had never done this before, though he thought he knew how it must work. Sticking his head into the fireplace, he took a large pinch of powder and dropped it on to the logs stacked neatly beneath him. They exploded at once into emerald green flames.
‘Number twelve, Grimmauld Place!’ Harry said loudly and clearly.
  It was one of the most curious sensations he had ever experienced. He had travelled by Floo powder before, of course, but then it had been his entire body that had spun around and around in the flames throughthe network of wizarding fireplaces that stretched over the country. This time, his knees remained firm upon the cold floor of Umbridge's office, and only his head hurtled through the emerald fire …
And then, as abruptly as it had begun, the spinning stopped. Feeling rather sick and as though he were wearing an exceptionally hot muffler around his head, Harry opened his eyes to find that he was looking up out of the kitchen fireplace at the long, wooden table, where a man sat poring over a piece of parchment.” - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 29 (Careers Advice)

This makes some sense - to be able to stick their head in fire, the person making the call would need to use Floo Powder


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House Majority Leader Robert Nutting, R-Oakland (from left), Maine Senate President Kevin Raye, R-Perry, and Gov. Paul LePage listen to Maine Chief Justice Leigh Saufley's annual State of the Judiciary address on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, at the State House in Augusta.

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Maine Chief Justice Leigh Saufley (left) is greeted by legislators as she enters the House Chamber to deliver her annual State of the Judiciary address to a joint session of the Legislature on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, at the State House in Augusta.

“We know that one of the most important tools in averting repeated violencebeen detected within the European Union.

According to Basiakos, the owner of a small turkey farm with 20 birds informed the local veterinary service about "the presence of strange symptoms and losses among the turkeys".

Samples taken

A veterinary team from the nearby island of Chios travelled to Oinouses, a 14sq km island with a population of about 700 people, and took samples from the suspect birds.

Tests carried out in Athens found that one of the nine samples tested positive for the H5 virus.

Greece wants more regional coordination on the virus

The ministry ordered that new samples be taken and sent to a central veterinary testing centre in the northern port of Thessaloniki as there was a pressing need for verification of the analysis.

The ministry placed the farm under quarantine, banning the


New Zealand’s ability to attract students from around the world and incorporate them into society is a crucial component to the country’s ongoing ability to achieve its objectives, according to a new report from Education New Zealand.

International education is a major driver for soft diplomacy in New Zealand. Photo: ENZ

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NZ's relatively small economic position meant that it needed to use other subtle forms of influence

The Beyond The Economic report, which compiles research from destinations including Australia, the US, UK and Canada and contextualises it to New Zealand throughA “catastrophic failure” of the electrical system at 650 Parliament St. caused an explosion in the electrical room that led to the fire that displaced around 1,500 people last year, according to Toronto Fire Services.

In a Monday news release, Toronto Fire Chief Matthew Pegg confirmed the Ontario Office of the Fire Marshal had passed along a report, which has not been made available to the public, detailing the cause of the devastating fire.

“(The report) determined that a catastrophic failure of the electrical system in the building caused an explosion in the electrical room, and smaller explosions and fires throughout the building,” said Pegg in the release.

The six-alarm fire, which took place Aug. 21, 2018 at a residential highrise on Parliament St. between Bloor and Wellesley Sts., burned for


It was the second conviction for Ahmet Turk in a week

A court in Diyarbakir said Ahmet Turk's use of "Sayin" - meaning "esteemed" - implied respect for Ocalan.

Ocalan is serving a life sentence after he was found guilty of treason for leading the Kurdish armed campaign in which more than 30,000 people died.

Ahmet Turk leads a pro-Kurdish party. He is reportedly considering an appeal.

The term "Sayin" is also sometimes translated simply as "Mr".

Ahmet Turk was sentenced by the court on a charge of supporting a criminal in a speech he made in January 2006.

It was the second conviction for the leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in seven days.

Last week, Ahmet Turk - alongside with a DTP deputy leader - was sentenced to 18 months inprison for distributing party materials in the Kurdish language.

Turkish law allows distribution of political literature only in Turkish.

'Harassment campaign'

Tuesday's ruling against Ahmet Turk is the latest in a wave of legal proceedings against his party, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Istanbul says.

Abdullah Ocalan was captured in 1999

According to one tally, more than 50 DTP members of the pro-Kurdish DTP have been arrested and at least seven senior officials charged in less than a fortnight, our correspondent says.

Party officials argue they are victims of a sustained campaign of harassment, saying the authorities are trying to close the party down before a general election later this year.

The DTP campaigns for greater cultural and political rights for Turkey's large Kurdish population, our correspondent says.

But she says the party is viewed with


were evaluated by nonmusician participants in terms of arousal, emotional valence, and pleasantness using a 10-point scale. Participants were also asked to report if the music was familiar or not. The selected piece was chosen for its positive valence, medium arousal quality and for being rated as pleasant and unfamiliar.

Three blocks for each condition (music or silence) were presented to each subject, giving a total of 6 experimental blocks. Each block consisted of three phases, namely, encoding, interference, and retrieval. In the encoding phase, 15 words were displayed successively against a background of music or silence. The auditory stimulation started 15 s before the first word was displayed, continued during the sequential display of words, and ended 15 s after the last word. Words in each block were displayed for3 s per word, amounting to 45 s for the sequential presentation of 15 words. Each encoding phase therefore lasted 75 s (15 s background, 45 s words, and 15 s background). Verbal stimuli were visually presented in white on black background in the middle of the screen. Auditory stimuli were presented using in-ear headphones, and the overall loudness of the excerpts was adjusted subjectively to ensure a constant loudness throughout the experiment.

Prior to the retrieval phase, subjects were asked to count down from a given number displayed on the screen until the word "stop" appeared. The interference phase lasted 30 seconds.

The retrieval phase was divided into 15 s of a "search for" phase, in which the previous encoding background was presented in the earphones and subjects were asked to mentally recall the previously seen


within the city of Teotihuacán; one of the largest and most important cities of ancient Mexico. Around the year 1100 AD, Otomi-speaking peoples formed their capital city-state, Xaltocan. Xaltocan soon acquired power--enough power to demand tribute from nearby communities up until its subjugation. Thereafter, the Otomi kingdom was conquered during the 14th century by the Mexica and its alliances. The Otomi people then were subject to pay a tribute to the Triple-Alliance as their empire grew; subsequently, Otomi people resettled in lands to the east and south of their former territory. While some Otomi resettled elsewhere, other Otomi still resided near current-day Mexico City, but most settled in areas near the Mezquital Valley in Hidalgo, the highlands of Puebla, areas between Tetzcoco and Tulancingo, and as far asthing to do is not focus on the people who marry inter-racially, but concentrate on the ones that don't.

Theres a new/old product in the product. It's called Blakout. Used specifically for the purposes of removing the imminent threat of Jungle Feverr Agendas on the part of the growning number of melanin challenged female species.

Theres a new/old product in the product. It's called Blakout. Used specifically for the purposes of removing the imminent threat of Jungle Feverr Agendas on the part of the growning number of melanin challenged female species. Brothas beware


privilege to the requested production. While Current

Management produced a large volume of information, the information they withheld

serves as the basis for the current dispute.

       While the litigation continued on Derivative Plaintiffs’ claims, the Committee issued

its report to the Foundation and the Corporation in August 2014 with an addendum in

March 2015. The Committee concluded that reconstitution of the Boards was proper and

consistent with the business judgment rule.7 Accordingly, the Committee concluded that

6Derivative Plaintiffs also sought a declaratory judgment that the removal of the Original
Board and reinstatement of the Reconstituted Board was improper as part of Count III.
As Counts III and IV are not before this Court, we will not address these claims herein.
7 In a prior motion, the parties had disputed whether theOn an excellent edition of Soccer Republic last night, Jimmy Magee picked his all-time League of Ireland XI. There was a definite bias towards players from the 60s and 70s, with not one single modern day player making the grade. Pat Morley was a recent as it got.

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is an ancient city in northwestern Iran, and the capital of Ardabil Province). The city was first divided into five regions: north, south, east, west and central, and then randomly selected a number of clusters (schools) proportional to the population of each region. The sample size was determined based on inclusion criteria and 95% confidence level and 80% test power. Inclusion criteria include: 10--14 years old, menarche experience, residence in Ardebil city, would like to participate in the study. And exclusion criteria, including those under 10 and over 14 years old. Inexperienced Menarche, not wanting to take part in the study.

For this study, a self-care puberty researcher-made questionnaire was used. The validity of questionnaire was determined by two methods of face validity and content validity, which confirmed by experts ofThe fate of South Australia's deal with Elon Musk's Tesla to supply free household batteries to 50,000 homeowners remains uncertain, following the electoral defeat of SA Labor.

Former premier Jay Weatherill announced the policy in February with much fanfare, declaring it would create the world's "largest virtual power plant".

Under the plan, more than 1,000 housing trust homes were to receive the scheme over the following year, with another 49,000 properties to get solar panels and Tesla batteries over the next four years.

SA Premier Steven Marshall says his Government will honour existing contracts. ( ABC News: Nick Harmsen )

But it is unclear how much of the project — which was announced about a fortnight before the government entered caretaker mode — was formally entered into.

At the time of the announcement,


A federal appeals court in California took action Friday that would temporarily allow the Trump administration to return asylum seekers to Mexico.

The decision is in response to the Trump administration's emergency motion filing from Thursday asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco to stop a nationwide injunction that would bar the government from continuing its policy of forcing migrants to wait in Mexico as their asylum cases play out.

The court asked that opposition to the emergency motion be filed by Tuesday, 9 a.m. local time.

The government's motion said the injunction issued Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg rested on "serious errors of law" and blocked an initiative "designed to address the dramatically escalating burdens of unauthorized migration."

The administration had askednight. The group is part of the lawsuit seeking to stop the policy.

"The plaintiffs and others like them are very vulnerable to harm in Mexico and should be able to pursue their asylum claims in the United States," she added.

The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the decision.

The organizations seeking to stop the policy of returning migrants to Mexico said in a brief earlier Friday that the government's request should be denied and that there was not "sufficient urgency" to warrant an administrative stay.

"The government should not be allowed to manufacture the need for an emergency administrative stay by failing to timely file a stay request," the brief said.

In issuing a preliminary injunction temporarily stopping the policy, Seeborg had ordered that


The former England international left-back has been impressed with Tottenham head coach Mauricio Pochettino’s policy of playing young players this season.

So far this campaign, Spurs have played only one footballer in his 30s once (goalkeeper Michel Vorm).

Should Vorm remain on the substitutes’ bench for the final five games of the campaign, then Tottenham will become only the second Premier League team in history to go an entire season when a player aged 30 or over has made a single appearance or fewer.

Subhankar Mondal

A football journalist based in Wakefield, Subhankar Mondal has previously worked for Goal.com International and Skysports.com, and has had his sports articles published in The Guardian and The Observer. He has also been on the BBC in the past and his name once found its waywith the victim, Dimitar
Batchiyski, who was riding a bicycle. Amaya left the scene. Batchiyski suffered severe
head trauma. On December 26, 2013, Batchiyski died from his injuries.
       On January 13, 2014, police officers received information from a witness that
eventually led them to locate Amaya’s truck and trace it to him. Amaya admitted that he
had been involved in the accident, and stated that a bicycle hit his truck while he was on
his way to work. He knew that he made a mistake by not reporting the accident, but he
wanted to get his windshield, which was damaged during the accident, fixed. He had
returned to the accident site and saw paramedics treating someone. Several days after the
accident, he had his windshield replaced.


Nicholas Negroponte on the Last and Next 30 Years of Tech Innovations

Nicholas Negroponte founded Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1985, and the lab quickly gained fame as an interdisciplinary research laboratory devoted to projects at the convergence of technology, multimedia, sciences, art and design.

In the TED talk below, Negroponte takes us on a journey through the last 30 years of technology innovations. He highlights interfaces and innovations he foresaw in the 1970s and 1980s and he leaves us with a thoughtful prediction for the coming 30 years.towed coal barges, acted as guard for , and shared in the fighting in the York, James, and Nansemond Rivers.

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Text of report by "E.B." entitled "Serbian drug barons are big players in Europe" published by Serbian newspaper Blic on 27 March

Belgrade: Serbian drug barons, who maintain strong ties with cocaine traders in Colombia, the world's biggest producer of this narcotic, have strong business contacts also with the Albanian mafia, police information indicates.

These good contacts on both sides of the Atlantic and highly functional trafficking routes, whereby tons of cocaine are smuggled from South America to Europe, have enabled them to take a place among the most powerful drugs traffickers in Europe.

People have only recently become aware of the existence of one of them, Dragan Ilic from Nis, who was arrested in Argentina for the smuggling of 171 kg of cocaine in 0.7 litre bottles designated for Spain;two others are still out of reach of the police. Ilic would have remained out of the public eye if he had not drawn attention to himself with his spectacular wedding to Miss Venezuela, at which stars of our entertainment industry firmament performed, led by Ceca Raznatovic.

One of those not available to the police was born in Kosovo and is associated with a shipment of 200 kg of cocaine in earthenware jars, while the other is associated with the smuggling of 164 kg of the drug from Panama to Bosnia-Hercegovina. A shipment of nearly 100 kg of cocaine, seized by the Greek police in Athens, is also attributed to him.

"Ilic was introduced into the business by Sreten Jocic, better known as Joca Amsterdam, while the other two made


smuggled by ship from South American ports - Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Panama and Mexico - to the most far-flung point of Europe, the Spanish Canary Islands. From there it goes to other ports, such as Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Hamburg in Germany, Marseille on the Cote d'Azur, and Piraeus, as well as Scandinavian, Italian and Belgian ports," our source explains.

Apart from the main smuggling route through the Canary Islands, there is also a direct line between South America and Europe, where the Serbian troika has a significant share of the market. Their strong positions are due in a large measure to good cooperation with the Albanian mafia, both in smuggling cocaine from South America and in using the Albanian connection inside Europe.

"Part of the cocaine ends upon our market as well, coming in mostly by way of the port of Bar, but these are small quantities," our source in the police says.

Ilic would have remained out of the public eye if he had not drawn attention to himself with his spectacular wedding to Miss Venezuela, at which stars of our entertainment industry firmament performed, led by Ceca Raznatovic.

Hey Dragan, way to keep a low profile. Here's the shy and retiring Ceca:

"In late 1997, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), funded largely with illegal drug money from the Albanian mafia, (with weapons supplied by Osama bin Laden and Iran) began a series of attacks on Serbian police forces, government officials, and Serbian refugees in Kosovo. The Milosevic Government responded by sending the Yugoslav army into Kosovo


CEDAR RAPIDS — Cedar Rapids police officer Lucas Jones says he did not order his K-9 officer to “kill” Jerime Mitchell during a traffic stop last November that ended with Jones shooting Mitchell, who now is paralyzed from the neck down.

Instead, Jones — in response to a lawsuit filed by Mitchell and his wife Bracken Mitchell — says he told the Dutch shepherd dog to “stellen him,” a Dutch language command used in dog training that directs a canine to apprehend a suspect.

This is among the many denials by the city of Cedar Rapids and Jones to allegations made in the lawsuit, which was filed by the couple in February. None of the denials provide explanation, except for two brief statements by Jones. The city and Jones evendeny some statements, due to “lack of information,” such as Mitchell and his wife are married and Mitchell is older than age 18.

The Mitchells are suing the city and Jones for negligence, assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and loss of consortium, and asking for damages. The suit claims Jones and the city were “reckless, willful and wanton” in their actions.

The Incident

Authorities said Mitchell’s pickup truck was pulled over by Jones in the early morning hours of Nov. 1 on Coe Road near the Coe College campus. An altercation ensued between the men. Mitchell tried to drive away but Jones became stuck in an open driver’s side door of the truck. Jones then shot Mitchell, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down.

Police recovered a pound of


marijuana, scales and cash in a backpack inside Mitchell’s truck, indicating Mitchell was on the verge of making a marijuana deal, Linn County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden said.

Vander Sanden convened a grand jury following an investigation by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation. In both cases, it was determined Jones did not break the law by shooting Mitchell.

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A police squad car dashboard camera captured the shooting on video, but Jones’ body microphone was not functioning, so audio of most of what the men said was not recorded.

Lawsuit Allegations

According to a timeline presented in the lawsuit, Mitchell had finished working a late shift Nov. 1 and was going to check on his mother, who was recovering from a stroke. The lawsuit claims include:

• “Jones had nolegitimate, articulable reason for initiating the traffic stop.” Authorities have said Jones stopped Mitchell because a license plate light was out, but Mitchell says the light was working.

• Mitchell provided Jones with his license and registration as requested, but then Jones ordered Mitchell out of his truck and attempted to open the door.

• Jones put Mitchell in an arm bar, forced his hands behind his back and pushed him against the truck without telling him why he was being detained.

• Jones kneed Mitchell and swept him to the ground before releasing his police dog. Mitchell asserts Jones ordered the dog to “kill him.” Mitchell then retreated to inside his truck. Jones added explanation about the Dutch language command.

• Once Mitchell was driving away from the scene with Jones


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Place carrots and onions in bottom of slow cooker. Lightly brownchicken in oil in a skillet, then transfer to slow cooker. Mix theremaining ingredients (except green pepper)its predecessor. Ra provides a profound insight into the true nature and mechanics of our kind and the transformation possible through Human Design. This is a transcript of the first in a series of free lectures given by Ra Uru Hu on May 4, 2008.Lecture 2: The Four TransformationsA Guide to Achieving Difference
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