in a month with 58 for June. Earlier in the month, Breitbart News reported on the discovery of two dismembered bodies abandoned on the side of a road with a narco-message in Ciudad Obregón. Also this month, two cartel attacks in the border cities of Agua Prieta and Naco occurred, leaving at least nine dead.

The recent uptick in violence is attributed to an ongoing territorial dispute between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Beltran Leyva organization’s regionally aligned gangs.

Robert Arce is a retired Phoenix Police detective with extensive experience working Mexican organized crime and street gangs. Arce has worked in the Balkans, Iraq, Haiti, and recently completed a three-year assignment in Monterrey, Mexico, working out of the Consulate for the United States Department of State, International Narcotics and Lawto play with their robot nanny:

"Come on!" Bobby shouted.

Abruptly Nanny moved, spinning slightly as her treads gripped the floor and turned her around. One of her side doors opened. A long metal rod shot out. Playfully, Nanny caught Bobby's arm with her grapple and drew him to her. She perched him on her back. Bobby's legs straddled the metal hull. He kicked with his heels excitedly, jumping up and down.

"Race you around the block!" Jean shouted.

And in his chilling Cold War tale Second Variety, robots that imitated lost little boys were the scariest of all.

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Dads will be able to take up to six months' paternity leave while their child's mother returns to work, under government plans announced today.

Fathers will have a legal right to take the place of the mother at home for the last three months of her nine-month maternity leave.

During that time, they would be eligible for statutory government pay of £123 a week. They would then be allowed to take an additional unpaid three months off, which would effectively allow couples to have a total of 12 months' parental leave between them.

The measure would allow mothers who earn more than their partners to return to work earlier, and is a victory for Harriet Harman, the Women and Equalities minister, who has championed extra parental leave and flexible working rightsfor parents.

Ministers intend to push through the necessary legislation by this April - prior to the general election, which is expected to be held in May. The changes will affect parents of children due on or after 3 April 2011 in "order to give employers time to adjust".

Last year, the government postponed plans to extend paid maternity leave to 12 months and allow parents to split this allowance between them, citing the economic climate and the costs and bureaucracy it would cause employers.

Harman said: "This gives families radically more choice and flexibility in how they balance work and care of children, and enables fathers to play a bigger part in bringing up their children.

Ministers estimate that between 4% and 8% of those eligible for the new leave will


try to deny, minimise or justify their behaviour, as they often make these excuses to themselves to feel better about what they are doing.’’

The fact is, perpetrators of family violence make a choice. Just as Osborne did when he took the lives of his innocent, defenceless children. No one else did it. It was his choice.

But all too often we hear of high-profile stories such as that of Matthew Newton, who claims mental illness is the reason behind his violent behaviour.

Again, his female victims were weaker than he. As were his alleged male victims.

He never picks a fight with someone stronger than himself – so he makes choices.

Men who are only violent behind closed doors, or towards people weaker than them, have a sense of entitlement. They haveHe has also worked as a Production Designer on the films Justice (2004), Nobody (2009), and Thin Ice (2011). He has served as an Art Director for the films A Prairie Home Companion (2006) and The Experiment (2010) and the HBO series Enlightened. He was an Assistant Art Director for the Coen brothers film A Simple Man (2009).


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Solve puzzles, explore the varied locations and fight boss battles, controlling one brother with each thumbstick.

A man, clinging to life. His two sons, desperate to cure their ailing father, are left with but one option. They must set out upon a journey to find and bring back the "Water of Life" as they come to rely on one another to survive. One must be strong where the other is weak, brave


where the other is fearful, they must be... Brothers.

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People that have played Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons usually fall into two groups. The first group of people looked at the glowing reviews that this game received, tried it, then found it stupendously overhyped and underwhelming. Then, there’s the other group, who found the game to be perfect. I am glad to say that I belong to the latter party.The late great film critic Roger Ebert once said thatas scientific questions, for reading itself is a highly politicized and romanticized activity. Cathy Davidson is another literary scholar who now works in education and technology; her 1986 Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America sketched the anxiety (even hostility) of early American elites to the increasing variety and availability of novels, and what kind of awful ideas they might implant in their readers, especially women. Harvard scholar Leah Price, who met literature and never left it, is about to publish Overbooked: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Reading Wars, which argues that an embrace of ever more accessible print, and its unique capacity to edify and refine individual readers and the body politic, is an artifact of the Victorian era.

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become more cautious, so there is less lending and therefore less money so that the economy can go from boom to bust as happened in the UK and many other Western economies after 2007.

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TIJUANA, Mexico -- U.S. border inspectors have begun allowing a small number of Central American migrants to enter the country to seek asylum. Many more remain stuck on the other side of the border.

Video shows the first group from the "caravan" of Central American immigrants to make it into the U.S. They traveled nearly 3,000 miles to get to a cramped waiting area, hoping to be granted asylum.

For those on the Mexican side of the border, that was reason enough to celebrate. So far, 14 members of the group have trickled into U.S. Customs for processing, including the first, Gabriella Hernandez from Honduras. She's a mother of two, with another on the way.

Hernandez says she had no choice but to leave to protect her family from gang violence.The process could take months, and an immigration judge will have the final say. For the rest of the group still waiting at the Tijuana border -- nearly 140 people -- there's a mix of anxiety and hopefulness.

In the first year of the Trump administration, more than 26,000 people were granted asylum, which includes 1,300 from China and 841 from Egypt. There was an increase of 27 percent from 2016. Some 31,000 from Central American countries sought asylum in 2017, but about 70 percent were denied.

The caravan hasn't been without controversy. The Justice Department charged 11 people crossing the border illegally after finding them Monday night. Officials say 10 of them come from countries associated with the caravan. But group organizers say the Justice Department is trying to


in cambrils overnight and the connections of the five dead terrorists to those involved in yesterday's van attack in Barcelona. But the existence and the size of the ISIS terror cell has stunned Spanish police. ISIS promotes these types of attacks because they're easy. You can take people who have received no training, who are using items that are easy to acquire and they can still commit mass murder. Reporter: Police this morning are still racing to locate everyone involved in the Barcelona van attack. Officials say the van was rented in the name of this man, 28-year-old Moroccan born driss oukabir but he claimed his license was stolen and police tell ABC news this morning he has now been released with a new focus on his youngerbrother as a possible driver. The Barcelona attack comes straight out of the ISIS playbook with its followers urged to use any means available to attack innocent civilians. This ISIS fighter was described as an American goading others to attack. Are you capable of staffing him with a knife or running him over with a car? Reporter: Just this may ISIS gave details of the best truck to use in an attack and now there's been almost a dozen such attacks in Europe, nice, France, 86 killed. Berlin, 11 dead and then in London another dozen people killed. And what Spain is dealing with this morning was no lone wolf attack but instead a much more complex operation involving at least eight people who ISIS claims were soldiers


The political landscape as Ireland approached this year’s general election was almost unrecognisable from the stolid certainties that have characterised much of our history.

Fianna Fáil was a shadow of its former self. Labour faced a showdown with voters that some party members feared could destroy them. Fine Gael had replaced Fianna Fáil as the largest party. However, it approached the election not confident in its new status but wondering how it could best contain inevitable losses. It waited, increasingly impatiently, for its fortunes to recover. Momentum was with the insurgent forces: Independents, the radical left, Sinn Féin and a scattering of new parties and groups. Never had the politics of the Republic looked so fractured and uncertain.

So how did the parties approach the campaign, and what were thestrategies that would win – and lose – the general election?

Fine Gael approached the election from an unfamiliar starting point: government, opposition; as the largest party, not the challenger; and as the favourite, not the underdog. But the general structure of its approach was consciously similar to the elections of 2007 and 2011. Although the party had been heavily defeated in the local and European elections of 2014, its chiefs were not unduly worried. These were, they concluded, the customary trials of the biggest party, governing in a time of austerity. “I wouldn’t say we were spooked,” a senior party figure says. “Spooked would be a bit strong. We anticipated a wallop, and it was worse than we expected.”

In December 2014 senior officials and politicians met at the


Shelbourne Hotel, on St Stephen’s Green in Dublin, to begin preparations for the next general election. A national strategy committee, chaired by Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald, had four subcommittees: organisational, chaired by the deputy leader at the time, James Reilly; candidate selection, chaired by the MEP Brian Hayes; communications, chaired by Minister for Health Leo Varadkar; and policy, headed by Simon Coveney.

Aside from the politicians the most important figures were, as ever, the general secretary, Tom Curran; the long-term party adviser Mark Mortell, a public-relations expert at FleishmanHillard; and the Taoiseach’s chief of staff, Mark Kennelly, and chief policy adviser, Andrew McDowell. The goal was to have the campaign ready to go by the end of the following summer.

In order to craft an election message that theyhoped would resonate with their target voters Fine Gael strategists looked at masses of research. As the largest and best-resourced party its material was broad and deep, including quantitative polls (both published and private), qualitative work through focus groups, and constant feedback from the public and members. The findings of commissioned research were kept to a limited group. “We researched it to death,” one strategist says.

Strong themes were obvious from the beginning. The success in creating jobs – the “jobs-led recovery” – was a core Fine Gael strength, they judged. In addition both their own polls and regular polling by Red C for the Sunday Business Post found that strong majorities of the public believed the country was on the right track – frequently a harbinger of electoral


era of the 2007 general election. Fine Gael TDs said that it appalled supporters who had expected prudence.

There was a view within Fine Gael that their match-winner would be Noonan, hailed within his party as the man who saved the economy. He had been cultivating a “wise old owl” persona in government, and Fine Gael grassroots swooned with admiration. The public appeared less impressed.

In addition, Noonan – who was 72 at the time of the election and has had bouts of ill health in recent years, including a spell in hospital at Christmas – was not the energetic campaigner of old. He may have been the most important minister in the outgoing government, but an election-winner he was not.

The campaign was in only its third day when agroup of heavily armed criminals, dressed in Garda-style uniforms, murdered David Byrne, a gangland figure, at the weigh-in of a boxing match at the Regency Hotel in Drumcondra. It was quickly followed by the retaliatory killing of Eddie Hutch, a taxi-driver brother of the well-known gangster Gerry “the Monk” Hutch.

There might have been only three gangland murders in 2015, compared with 22 in 2010, but that didn’t matter. It was an opportunity for Fine Gael to play its traditional law-and-order card, but instead the government was on the back foot, accused of underfunding An Garda Síochána. Frances Fitzgerald initially said funding was not an issue, then announced a new armed unit for Dublin and found another €5 million to pay for tens of thousands of hours of Garda


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claim that half of small business income will be impacted, creating a drag on investment and innovation in a weak economy.

But Dems will counter that this only proves their point -- most of the small business income that would be impacted by ending the tax cuts for the rich is concentrated in the hands of a tiny group of people. Look for this to become part of the Dem argument -- and part of the ongoing White House and Dem offensive against Boehner -- as the skirmish over the tax cuts heats up.

UPDATE, 11:16 a.m.: Boehner spokesman Michael Steel responds without directly addressing the three percent figure:

"There is no argument that the President's plan would raise taxes on half of the small business income in the United States,member of the fraternity of Audi. The engineering successes and innovations derived from the Audi racing program are passed along to the passenger cars to make them superior road-going vehicles that you may simply love for your uses and always bring you home.

You are part of a legendary automotive institution and your cars have been honored on many occasions in many designations. Between its inception in 2004 (for a 2005 award) and 2016, the World Car of the Year awards named Audi to winning positions eight times in three categories, starting with 2005 when the A6 was the very first World Car of the Year. Numerous international juries, automotive journals and motoring marketplaces recognize Audi excellence annually. Recently the industry publication Auto Test named the Q7 3.0 TDI


cutting league office employees' salaries by 25%.

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan has also reportedly decided to forgo his salary indefinitely during the break caused by the coronavirus. Monahan's senior management team has additionally agreed to a 25% salary cut until further notice.

There are more than three million confirmed cases of the coronavirus worldwide, causing at least 210,000 deaths. There are more than one million confirmed cases in the United States.Pod of killer whales trapped in sea ice struggle to survive

Local villagers plead with Canadian government to provide icebreakers to save trapped orcas

A REMOTE fishing village in northern Quebec has urged the Canadian government to help free a pod of killer whales that has become trapped in the sea ice of Hudson Bay.

Around a dozen killer – or orca - whales and several calves are said to be boxed into a small area of water, which is shrinking as the sea continues to freeze over.

The animals are thought to have been hunting seals when cold weather hit two day ago and froze the bay, which had remained open late into winter because of unseasonably warm weather.

Andrew Trites, director of marine mammal research unit at the University of British


Kragthorpe taking smaller role for Tigers

LSU: First-year coach has Parkinson’s disease

The excitement of LSU’s first day of fall practice was tempered Thursday by news that first-year offensive coordinator Steve Kragthorpe has Parkinson’s disease and will relinquish some of his duties.

Kragthorpe, a former head coach at Tulsa and Louisville and a noted developer of quarterbacks, will continue as quarterbacks coach, have input into game plans, and coach from the press box on game days. But the offensive coordinator’s duties, most notably play-calling, will be assumed by fifth-year offensive line coach Greg Studrawa, who was the offensive coordinator at Bowling Green for four seasons before joining the Tigers staff.

LSU coach Les Miles referred to Studrawa as “the play-caller and acting coordinator,” and twice referred to his new position as “ahills and seemingly limitless expanse of Arctic tundra.

Norway stretches north in a long, slender band from the Skagerrak, the choppy channel that separates the country from Denmark, its coastline battered and buffeted by the Atlantic as it juts up towards the Arctic Sea. Behind this rough and rocky coast are spectacular mountain ranges, harsh upland plateaux, plunging river valleys, rippling glaciers, deep forests and mighty fjords of unsurmounted beauty – an exhilarating landscape begging to be explored by car, boat or bike, on skis or even husky-drawn sled. Perhaps inevitably, the fjords are the apple of the tourist industry’s eye – with the infrastructure to prove it – though when well-heeled English and German gentlemen travellers arrived here in the late nineteenth century on the hunt for the


Scandinavian exotic, Norwegians were so poor that you could hire a gillie or two for next to nothing. It is this stark contrast – between a severely impoverished past and an astoundingly wealthy present – that, for locals at least, remains a salient characteristic of life up here. Since the country happened upon vast oil and gas reserves under the Norwegian Sea in the 1960s, Norway has managed to assemble one of the most civilized, educated and tolerant societies in the world – one that its population maintains a deep loyalty for and pride in.

Norway may have a clutch of attractive, cosmopolitan cities, appealing destinations in their own right, but where the country really shines is not in its urban culture, but rather in the low-key, amiable small-townits porters and ticket officers. He has lived alone in the same house since his wife died in 1987. He keeps photos of the busy days, when hundreds of passengers used the station, including airmen from nearby RAF Lakenheath. “But times change, don’t they,” he says in a break between writing his Christmas cards.

Lorries killed the vegetable trains, and the narrow stretch of road past Shippea Hill is known to some locals as the Casserole Highway, thanks to the frequency of shed loads. Chris and Kate Fulford live with their three children in the former schoolhouse on a sharp corner, 300 metres from the station. A church and village hall have long disappeared, and the school closed in the 1970s as farms merged and the village died. But


ZTE, after launching its Axon, Axon Elite, and Axon Lux earlier this year, over the weekend launched a new smartphone - Axon Mini. The handset would debut in China followed by Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Russia, Japan, India, Australia, France, Germany, Turkey, Spain and Italy 'in coming months'.

While the Ion Gold and Chromium Silver colour variants would cost CNY 2,299 (roughly Rs. 23,500), the Rose Gold variant would cost CNY 2,399 (roughly Rs. 24,500). The company also mentioned about a Premium Edition version of the smartphone, which would cost CNY 2,699 (roughly Rs. 27, 600). Unfortunately, the details of the Premium Edition is scarce at the moment. The ZTE Axon NBA version was also launched by the company.

First unveiled in July this year, the ZTE Axon Mini's claimout the dispensary permits, the department divided Pennsylvania into six regions. The Southeast Region includes the following counties: Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware, Chester, Lancaster, Schuylkill and Berks.

The Southeast Region will get 10 dispensary permits. Three of those permits are set aside for medical marijuana dispensaries in Philadelphia, two are in Montgomery County, and one permit his been allotted for each of Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Lancaster counties.

Pennsylvania's regulations allows each marijuana dispensary owner to operate up to two other dispensaries in two different counties within the same region, but not within the same county of the original dispensary.

For example, the owner of a medical marijuana dispensary in Philadelphia could operate another dispensary in Bucks County and one more in Delaware County. But the dispensary owner could not


run more than one dispensary in Philadelphia County, nor could he operate one in Philadelphia and two in Bucks.

The new medical marijuana law, signed by Gov. Tom Wolf in April, is expected to be fully implemented by early 2018. By then, the state expects to have 25 medical marijuana growers and processors and 50 dispensaries.

The bipartisan legislative effort makes the drug available by prescription in pill, oil or ointment form legal for patients suffering from one of 17 qualifying conditions.Best Buy founder and chairman Richard Schulze will resign from the company next month following an internal probe. The latest high profile departure from Best Buy follows a resignation from former CEO Brian Dunn in April, related to a personal misconduct investigation. An internal investigation found that founder Richard Schulze failed to alert Best Buy's board of directors that his handpicked chief executive, Brian Dunn, was in a relationship with a female colleague.

Schulze discovered Dunn's inappropriate personal relationship in December, but he failed to pass along the information to the board's audit committee. The woman at the center of the probe is still employed by Best Buy working in the retailer's leadership training institute. "I understand and accept the findings of the audit committee," said Schulze in a


statement this week, before revealing his resignation. Schulze, who served as Best Buy CEO from 1983 to 2002, originally founded the company back in 1966 when it was a stereo shop called Sound of Music. Schulze will remain on the company board until June 2013, but his resignation comes at a time when the retailer faces a number of challenges. The company posted a $1.7 billion quarterly loss in its fiscal fourth quarter 2012, and announced that it will close 50 US stores to reduce costs in a restructuring effort.Badminton World Championships: Saina, Kashyap lose

The London Olympics bronze-medallist, a quarterfinalist in the last two editions as well, was erratic and could not hold her nerves as she went down rather tamely 21-23, 9-21 in a 40-minute match at the Tianhe Indoor Stadium.

Badminton World Championships: Saina, Kashyap lose

Saina played an aggressive game in the opening match and opened up a 11-7 lead at the interval. Her baseline smashes got her a lot of points as the Indian was in control of the match.

However, Bae, who looked off-colour initially as she struggled with her strokes and reach, slowly narrowed down the lead and clawed back at 19-19. Saina was struggling with the drift as she lost a lot of points hitting wide. The Indian also faltered at the net.

From


nowhere, Bae not only came into the contest but also exerted the pressure on the Indian and after a hard fight won the opening game when Saina's shuttle kissed the net and toppled outside the court.

Badminton World Championships: Saina, Kashyap lose

Losing the opening game dented Saina's confidence as she failed to put any resistance to Bae strokes. Bae, on the other hand, was confidence personified as she played like a champion and decimated the Indian.

The left-handed Korean dominated the proceedings completely as after a 5-5 initial fight, she moved to the interval with a 11-6 lead. The Korean's strokes were powerful and drops deceptive as she reduced Saina to a bystander.

Badminton World Championships: Saina, Kashyap lose

Kashyap, who was also playing at the adjacent court, played out of hisWhite sphere room

An ascetic space in which a near-white sphere has been placed – this is the form to which Norman Leto reduces human life. The video was created with the use of a computer script, written by the artist, which transforms biographic data (such as the number of kilometres covered or addiction patterns) into 3D visualisations. The artist commented on the work, “Interestingly and somewhat frighteningly, the biographic visualisation of a patient who had been in a coma for a decade turned out to be an almost perfect white sphere.” Kula. White Sphere Room is a great example of the strategy of Norman Leto, who creates virtual 3D spaces based on scientific concepts.


Syfy's great success story remains Battlestar Galactica, the cheeseball 1970s space opera show that Ronald D. Moore brought back as a gritty, more serious look at the remnants of humanity trying to survive after a robot massacre. So now that Syfy is apparently picking up Blake's 7, the 1970s British space opera, can the channel repeat that accomplishment?

According to Deadline, Syfy has ordered a pilot script for Heroes producer Joe Pokaski's reimagining of Terry Nation's saga about a group of political dissidents and criminals facing a totalitarian galactic Federation. If Syfy likes the script, Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, Green Lantern) will direct the pilot — and Syfy has already agreed that if the pilot gets filmed, so will another dozen episodes of the first season.

If Syfy's Blake's 7of CO2 equivalent emissions - than using ordinary jetfuel, as a tonne of feedstock is normally burned in the conversion plant for each tonne of juice produced. The move is more brown, or even black, than it is green.

However, coal and gas for synthi-fuel are seen as possibly cheaper and easier to obtain than crude from the potentially war-torn African and Arabian/Persian coasts.

In the longer run, many in the aviation world hope that jet fuel could be made from sources such as saltwater algae. This would avoid the controversial use of food crops, the uncertainties of crude oil and the heavy carbon burden of fossil synthetics. However, algae able to grow in seawater without carbon-intensive fertilisers seem a long way off.

Other future MoD ploys, according to Stein, might


include the use of biodiesel made from hardy jatropha plants which can grow in deserts. Such fuel might one day run the powerplants of British warships and tanks, though again there are obstacles ahead. Ultra-lightweight aircraft like the Qinetiq Zephyr testbed - now a contender in the US "Vulture" programme - might run instead on solar power.

The MoD is already, of course, a major UK user of secure low-carbon energy. The Royal Navy's latest submarines, the Astute class, will run on nuclear power for 25 years without refuelling at all, enabling them to ignore fuel supply issues during their operational life.

Apart from diversifed energy sources, the MoD also wants to big up certain other forms of new technology. In particular, there is apparently a desire for more unmannedDuring the trip, which included an emotional press conference, the 40-year-old actor and director reunited with the family of a Syrian girl named Hala, whom she first met during a trip for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2014.

On the latest visit, the star and Hala’s family had dinner together, a source tells PEOPLE.

They sat on the floor together, ate together, and colored while talking, the source says. Hala shared her dreams of returning to Syria, while her brother, Nemer, told Jolie Pitt he wants to acquire a vocational skill to use upon their return.

Mostly, however, Hala told the actress that she wants to return to the country to place flowers on her mother’s grave.

Below is Jolie Pitt’s full speech, during which she charged that the


to return home when the war is over and it is safe for them to do so – not with resignation, but with the light in their eyes of people dreaming of being reunited with the country that they love.

I have seen on this visit just how desperate the struggle to survive now is for these families. After five years of exile, any savings they had, have been exhausted. Many who started out living in apartments now cluster in abandoned shopping centers, or informal tented settlements, sinking deeper into debt.

The number of refugees in Lebanon living below the minimum threshold for survival unable to afford the food and shelter they need to stay alive – has doubled in the last two years, in a country where 79 percentI believe my other life experience was necessary to prepare me to be a better practitioner. Before massage, I had an eclectic career, traveling the world as a chef in the yachting industry. I even wrote a novel based on my experiences! In 2006 I became involved in continuing education/self-development & expanded into a Life Coaching practice helping others achieve their personal & professional goals. Married since 2011 to an AMAZING man, in 2016 we moved to Port Orange to become permanent care-takers for my ailing mom and opening KBV Massage in Spruce Creek Fly-in.


In a shocking incident that transpired in front of gate no.1 of the secretariat annexe building in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, a Muslim cleric carrying a knife, identified as Rafiq Ahmed, sat on the middle of the road, read namaz and later hurled abuses at PM Modi and the Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath who was incidentally present in the building at that time.

What is being seen as a major security lapse is that the incident took place in front of the secretariat, which is supposed to be a high-security zone.

While it was reported that a man wearing a green turban came riding on a scooter, sat in the middle of the road, disturbing the regular traffic, read namaz and then hurled abuses at the Government, what is shockingbeen refracted through the formation adjacent the wellbore. This compressional wave travels as a fluid pressure wave in the wellbore mud from the transmitter to the formation where it travels at the compressional wave velocity of the particular formation. The compressional wave then travels to the receiver through the wellbore mud as a fluid pressure wave.
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Marcus Lattimore says he will surprise everyone with recovery

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This July 20, 2011, file photo shows former South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore talking with reporters during Southeastern Conference football media days in Hoover, Ala. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

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MOBILE, Ala. -- It was one of the most gruesome injuries of the college football season.

South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore, who had come back strong from a knee injury that ended his 2011 season, took a handoff Oct. 27 against against Tennessee when his right knee was bent grotesquely during a tackle.

"I watched it one time," said Lattimore, who attended the South team practice at the Senior Bowl inMobile on Tuesday. "Maybe a day after."

Another season ended prematurely for Lattimore by a knee injury, this time classified as "extensive damage" to the ACL and MCL. Though he received an outpouring of support from players across the SEC and the nation, many feared for his future.

"I got cards from every school in the SEC, schools across the nation,. That makes me feel good that they respect me as a player," Lattimore said. "And most importantly -- forget the player -- the person I am."

The person and the player now are more determined than ever to overcome. Lattimore, who is bypassing his senior season with the Gamecocks to enter the NFL draft, said his recovery is moving along quickly, and he hopes to be ready for the start


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In his previous three starts, Bonser had managed to strike out 4 and was getting strong with each outing - producing Game Scores of 46, 53 and 68 respectively. The offense had been uncooperative for the Twins righty who was only receiving 1.33 runs of support in those starts, this time however, it was certainly a different Boof this go round. His four lackluster innings complete with 6 earned runs and matched his walk total for the season (2) plus failed to strike out one member of the team that had 4 players that had struck out more than 112 times in 2007. The run producing pitches, including the home run to Eric Hinske and the rbi single to Evan Longoria, appeared to be upHageman produces spot-on analysis ... relying on in-depth stats and lots of charts. He takes a sober, performance-based view of players, letting others fall for a player's heart or his leadership skills in the clubhouse. Hageman is one of the four pillars holding up the Star Tribune's TwinsCentric blog."


Roland and Boss.

Artwork and title
The album's cover photograph was taken at Beachy Head, a chalk headland on the south coast of England known as one of the world's most notorious suicide spots. In a 2012 interview, Cosey explained the album cover and tongue-in-cheek title:

We did the cover so it was a pastiche of something you would find in a Woolworth’s bargain bin. We took the photograph at the most famous suicide spot in England, called Beachy Head. So, the picture is not what it seems, it is not so nicey nicey at all, and neither is the music once you take it home and buy it. We had this idea in mind that someone quite innocently would come along to a record store and see [the record] andA government which refuses to assess responsibility

The refusal of the government led by the ARENA party to investigate responsibility for the extent of damage caused by natural disasters is similar to its refusal to look at responsibility for atrocities committed during the civil war. This critique is made in the October 19, 2005 issue of Proceso, the publication of the University of Central America, now available on its web site:

According to the present ARENA administration, both God and nature would be mainly responsible for the last national tragedy. God, because he created things in an imperfect manner, he created a country in a high-risk area, subjected to earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and eruptions. Surrounded by volcanoes and mountains, many inhabitants had no choice but to build their houses in


First Major Bare-Knuckle Boxing Event in 130 Years Gets Bloody

Promoter David Feldman, center, prepares for a news conference for a bare-knuckle boxing event at the Cheyenne Ice and Events Center in Wyoming (AP Photo/Bob Moen)

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In what is being called a first since 1889, a large-scale, government sanctioned bare-knuckle boxing event took place in Wyoming on Saturday night and things got bloody. Per USA Today, a sold out crowd of 2,000 people in Cheyenne watched as 10 bouts played out before them with fighters protected only by a little gauze around the palm. An even larger audience likely tuned in via pay-per-view to see the fights, including four heavyweight bouts. Fighters came from several backgrounds including boxing, UFC and MMA. The quickest knockout occurred when Sam Shewmaker used onepunch to send Eric Prindle to the canvas 18 seconds into their heavyweight bout. "It felt like hitting a home run," Shewmaker told the AP., a fourth-generation stone mason from the tiny central Missouri town of Gravois Mills. "I didn't think I would be able to catch him that early, but luckily I did."

In the only female fight of the night, 29-year-old Bec Rawlings from Brisbane, Australia stopped Alma Garcia with a TKO in the second round. Rawlings and her fellow combatants were all eager to become the first to take off the gloves for a large-scale event since July 8, 1889, when John L. Sullivan went 75 rounds to beat Jake Kilrain. Even that event was illegal and had to be staged under the cover of secrecy


as most states had outlawed the non-gloved version of boxing. Fighting was forced underground until 2011, when a Yavapai Nation sanctioned a match that drew more than a million viewers. The promoter of that event and Saturday's, David Feldman, realized there was a hungry market for bare-knuckle fights. Wyoming has since become the first state to sanction and regulate the sport. (Read more Wyoming stories.)

Your article refers to BK Fighting Championship's June 2, 2018 bout as being the first 'LEGAL' Bare Knuckle Boxing (BKB) event held in the US since 1889. THIS SIMPLY IS NOT TRUE. Corey Williams' Bare Knuckle Boxing events have been held in Wyoming with the acknowledgement of the WY MMA Commission and a visible police presence for over a decade. Use of the term"bareknucklefc" which is is short for "bare knuckle fight club", and Feldman decided to start using that in his social media address, another trademark violation, 3. Feldman refers to Mr. Williams' medical research in the media without crediting the source of his statistics proving BKB is no more injurious than gloved boxing. Feldman has also claimed to have been turned down by 28 states in his quest for legal BKB, yet no news outlet has requested any documentation to substantiate that claim. Fraudulent Feldman is flat out crediting himself with Corey Williams' accomplishments and attempting to monopolize the sport and phase Corey Williams' established business out of the arena. Feldman's fraudulent claims are injurous to Corey Willams' personal and business reputation. When media outlets print Feldman's lies, they


by users do not reflect the opinions or views of CycloneFanatic.com or Iowa State University. The names, words, symbols, and graphics representing Iowa State University are trademarks and copyrights of the University protected by the trademark and copyright laws of the United States of America and other countries and are used on this web site under license from the University. Original site design, premise & construction by Jeremy Lind.potential rejects, it’s occasionally seen drivers with a lack of success go back down a peg. This year, it was Roberto Merhi who found temporary drives with Campos and Rapax.

In his first appearances in the series formerly known as GP2, Merhi competed against two Swiss teammates: Ralph Boschung and Louis Delétraz. He failed to make Gruyère out of them, scoring 16 points in Spa and Monza which was enough for 18th in the overall standings.

Formula E

The 2016-17 season of the electric championship played out similarly to the previous one: a season-long battle between Audi and Renault, specifically between Sébastien Buemi and Lucas di Grassi. Buemi’s pace advantage increased this season as he stormed to six wins in the first eight races. Di Grassi’s consistent scoring allowed him to


stay in touch with his rival, helped by Sébastien enduring amistake-prone race in Mexico and a disqualification in Berlin.

Things began to go wrong for the Swiss driver as endurance commitments forced him to miss the double-header in New York. Di Grassi scored valuable points while Buemi’s replacement Pierre Gasly scored an impressive 18 points, more than perennial Renault doormat Nico Prost. A dismal accident-filled weekend in Montréal followed for Buemi as di Grassi scored 34 points to win an unexpected maiden Formula E title.

di Grassi in Paris (REUTERS/Benoit Tessier)

The Techeetah team had a rather high concentration of rejects. Jean-Éric Vergne had his best season yet with five podiums culminating in victory in the season-closing race, earning him a well-deserved fifth place in the standings. His initial teammate MaQing Hua was soon replaced by Esteban Gutiérrez who recorded points finishes in his native Mexico and Monaco, followed by a trademark 11th place in Paris. Nonetheless, he was promptly turfed out in favour of the ever-competitive Stéphane Sarrazin, who had just left Venturi and would score two podiums for Techeetah.

This was in stark contrast with his fellow Francophone Jérôme d’Ambrosio, whose torrid year with Dragon Racing left him behind his teammate Loïc Duval in a disappointing 18th overall. Despite generally having the upper hand over Duval, Loïc was able to snag a couple of big results for Dragon, which found itself propping up the rear of the field after two successful seasons.

2017-18 has started rather differently, with Vergne’s strong Hong Kong offering leaving him second in the


during practice for the 101st Indianapolis 500

The ultra-talented Max Chilton came on well in his second season, recording six top-ten finishes led by a commendable fourth place at Indianapolis. He came within seven points of outscoring his illustrious teammate Tony Kanaan and generally had the measure of other teammate Charlie Kimball.

Chilton’s final 11th place makes for a good segue into Esteban Gutiérrez, who made seven appearances for Dale Coyne halfway through the season. Esteban failed to score a top ten finish, in stark contrast to the man he was replacing, the injured Sébastien Bourdais. The Frenchman had won the season opener and followed it up with second at Long Beach, but a severe crash during qualifying for Indianapolis ended his unexpected title challenge, though Bourdais was able toreturn for the last couple of events.

World Endurance Championship

With Audi pulling out of WEC at the end of 2016, the Porsche-Toyota struggle for honours boiled down to two individual cars which swept the season. The all-reject Toyota of Sébastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Anthony Davidson (joined in Austin by Stéphane Sarrazin) won the first two and final three races, while the intervening four rounds (including a thrilling recovery drive at Le Mans) were won by the Porsche of Timo Bernhard, Earl Bamber and then-future F1 driver Brendon Hartley.

By virtue of one more podium and Le Mans counting double, it was Porsche who prevailed for the third straight year, providing Bernhard and Hartley with a second WEC title. Behind them, the sister car of Neel Jani, Nick Tandy and


André Lotterer recorded an impressive seven podiums but no victories.

The Vaillante Rebellion of Bruno Senna, Julien Canal and Nicolas Prost was often the best LMP2 entry, winning their class four times along with the title. In the meantime Jean-Éric Vergne toiled away for 15th overall with teammates such as Tor Graves, Jonathan Hirschi, Ben Hanley and Matt Rao. The man they call JEV was also replaced for the Nürburgring by Roberto Merhi, who finished ninth.

In the LMGTE Am class at Aston Martin, Pedro Lamy teamed up with Paul Dalla Lana for the fifth straight year and Mathias Lauda for the third. Thanks to four class wins, the trio won its first title after three years of narrowly missing out. At Le Mans, the LMGTE Am class was joinedby GT veteran and soon-to-no-longer-be-the-last Monégasque F1 driver Olivier Beretta, who finished seventh in class for Spirit of Race with Thomas Flohr and Francesco Castellacci.

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship

The IMSA’s high tolerance for one-off entries makes it fertile ground for F1 rejects, and it didn’t disappoint. While no rejects competed in the Prototype class full time – Christian Fittipaldi was the only former F1 driver to do so – the GT Le Mans category was won by Jan Magnussen and Antonio García, the pair’s close-fought second title in nine seasons together and their first in IMSA.

Halfway through the season they were joined by Gianmaria Bruni. After nine years and two WEC class titles with Ferrari in GT racing, the Italian jumped ship to Porsche and teamed up with Laurens Vanthoor


for the remaining seven rounds. Bruni and Vanthoor scored 186 points to the 185 scored by the sister car of Patrick Pilet and Dirk Werner in the same period of time, proving that Bruni is still as good a driver as ever.

As the Rolex 24 at Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring remain prestigious endurance races, several WEC drivers attended them as endurance-only third or fourth drivers. Bruno Senna and Brendon Hartley teamed up in a Nissan, while Sébastien Buemi competed with Nick Heidfeld and Neel Jani for Rebellion. Both teams duly finished both races in the top ten, and the latter was joined in Daytona by Stéphane Sarrazin. Hartley and Senna also returned for the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, where the Brazilian finished fourthand the Kiwi took the overall win with Scott Sharp and Ryan Dalziel.

Sébastien Bourdais similarly appeared in the GT Le Mans class with Joey Hand and Dirk Müller, winning the class in Daytona and finishing second in Sebring. Pedro Lamy also raced at Daytona in the GT Daytona class with his regular WEC Aston Martin teammates and Marco Sørensen. They finished twelfth in class.

European Le Mans Series

Jan Lammers had largely stopped racing in serious championships after 2012 at the young age of 56, but following some historic racing in 2016 and his friendship with wealthy Minardi enthusiast Frits van Eerd, he returned in style with a full-time drive with Racing Team Nederland. Sharing a Dallara LMP2, the ageing Dutchmen were rarely competitive and recorded a high mark of


seventh place at the Red Bull Ring, highlighting van Eerd’s inexperience and Lammers’ lack of practice.

Jan Lammers tests his Dallara LMP2 at Sebring

For the final two races, the LMGTE JMW Motorsport team benefited from the services of former Caterham and Marussia driver Will Stevens, who had been selling his services to any GT team around. Teamed up with Jody Fannin and Robert Smith in a Ferrari 488, the trio finished second in class in both Spa and Portimão to seal the class title by two points.

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Thomas De Bock is an engineering student, competitive quizzer, geocacher and musician who sometimes writes things. A self-proclaimed knowledgeable fan of Formula One since the age of 7, Thomas is notably Belgian.Lorenzo Gabriele with Jean-Pierre Marielle, Mylène Demongeot and Léa Drucker.

In 2016, he signed the music of a big show at the Grand Palais in Paris (France), The Conquest of the Air, a full 360° 6000 m2 picture with a 3D music as a tribute to the 100 years anniversary of the French aviation.

In 2017, he attended a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival in the south of France where he announced the release of a new 3D system of spatialization called ARPEGAM and dedicated to the recording of feature film music.

Though Malet is currently celebrating 17 years' collaboration with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, he has devoted himself mainly to composing music for more than 100 documentaries and more than 250 films for TV and cinema.

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I headed for the bathroom and straddled the toilet to face the wall. I laid everything out on top of the tank. Syringe, matches, a cup of water, spoon and cotton. Biting the tiny knot of the balloon I ripped it open with my teeth. I was careful not to spill any as I poured the contents into the spoon. I used the syringe to squirt water and then lit an entire book of matches, holding the flame underneath the spoon until it started to simmer. As the powder dissolved, the smell of Sulphur, burnt sugar and dope filled the air.

I pulled the brownish liquid into the syringe, spun around and wrapped my left bicep with a belt. There was a bit of resistance before the needle popped  Background
    Holleman was a prisoner at Pendleton Correctional Facil-
ity near Anderson, Indiana, from 2012 until November 2015.
He alleges he had approximately seven hours of access to the
law library weekly and was housed alone rather than sharing
space with a cellmate. He also worked as a law clerk for a time
while at Pendleton, helping other prisoners ﬁle lawsuits and
pursue legal remedies. He was highly eﬀective in this role. He
has also pursued litigation of his own over the years, gener-
ally claiming constitutionally inadequate conditions of con-
ﬁnement. Some of his lawsuits have been successful and at
least one resulted in a substantial monetary award.
    Holleman recounts a troubled history between himself
and the oﬃcials at Pendleton—speciﬁcally Dushan Zatecky,
the superintendent at Pendleton. Holleman alleges multiple
instances of retaliation


       Holleman had written letters to various entities
          complaining of the conditions at Pendleton Cor-
          rectional Facility. With the multitude of com-
          plaints and grievances it became apparent, due
          to the age of the facility, 2 the only viable solu-
          tion was to transfer Oﬀender Holleman to a
          more modern facility.3

    1 Wabash Valley is located 30 miles south of Terra Haute, Indiana, and

is overfor Holleman. After being approved
by Defendant Michael Osburn, the Indiana Department of
Correction (“IDOC”) Regional Director, the transfer was com-
pleted and Holleman was transported to Wabash Valley on
November 20, 2015.
    Both Pendleton and Wabash Valley are maximum-security
facilities. Holleman was housed in the general population at
both prisons and subject to a similar level of restriction at
both. Even so, Holleman alleges four adverse consequences of
his transfer. First, he claims he witnessed more violence at
Wabash Valley than at Pendleton, though he alleges only 25
percent of incidents of violence are reported at Wabash Valley,
because the inmates fear retribution from the oﬀenders for
“snitching.” Holleman claims to have been the victim of vio-
lence himself from his new cellmate at Wabash Valley, leaving
him with a scar and bruises; however, he did not report


this
incident. Second, he claims he only had access to the law li-
brary at Wabash Valley for four hours per week, as opposed
to the seven hours per week he enjoyed at Pendleton. Third,
Holleman was housed with a cellmate at Wabash Valley,
whereas at Pendleton he had an individual cell. Finally, Hol-
leman alleges that even in the absence of any worsened con-
ditions, a transfer from one prison to another is adverse in and
of itself because it disrupts the prisoner’s lifestyle and re-
moves him from his accustomed home.
    Soon after he arrived at Wabash Valley, Holleman sent a
letter to Superintendent Brown. In this letter, he complained
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Many die in Samarra, Ramadi attacks

At least 28 people have been killed, including eight policemen, in an upsurge of violence mainly in the Iraqi towns of Samarra and Ramadi.

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The Samarra attack was aimed at an Iraqi officer's house

Twin bombings targeting the home of an Iraqi special forces officer killed at least 11 people and wounded 20 in the town of Samarra on Saturday, north of Baghdad, police and medics said.

The bomber, accompanied by another five cars loaded with heavily armed men, on Saturday slammed into a wall outside the home of Lieutenant Muthana al-Shakir, a member of a special forces unit, in Samarra, 95km north of Baghdad, said Lieutenant Qassim Muhammad of the Samarra police.

All those killed were on the street when the


attack occurred and not in al-Shakir's house. He was not injured, Muhammad said.

At least six were killed in the initial explosion and the rest died later, hospital officials said.

Fighters killed

Two fighters were killed when a roadside bomb they were planting outside al-Shakir's house after the attack blew up, he said.

That bomb was intended to kill police and emergency services members when they arrived at the scene, Muhammad added.

The Samarra blast woundedat least 20 people

The

attack occurred at 4pm (1200 GMT) when six cars arrived on the street in front of al-Shakir's house.

The five cars, whose occupants were armed with automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades, blocked the road and opened the way for the attacker to barrel into the home.

In Ramadi, armed men ambushed a highway checkpoint in western Iraq,al-Ghadiya was considered one of the founders of Jund al-Sham (Soldiers of al-Sham) with al-Zarqawi in training camps in Afghanistan in 1999, before he moved to Iaq to set up the Tawheed and Jihad group that later joined up with al-Qaida.

In a separate operation in the Zankura area of Ramadi, Iraqi soldiers backed by US forces arrested Jubair al-Jilbawi, an alleged partisan of al-Zarqawi, during a raid on his home, a military statement said.

Al-Jilbawi was identified as the commander of The Brigades of God's Wrath, which has been connected to several bomb attacks in Iraq.

Policemen killed

In a separate incident on Saturday, armed men killed three policemen on a road about 75km south of Amarah, police 1st Lieutenant Hussain Karim Hassan said.

Armed men ambushed the Iraqipolicemen late on Friday

The


attackers got out of their car and opened fire on the policemen, killing them instantly, witnesses told police. Amarah is 290km southeast of Baghdad.

Elsewhere, armed men killed two policemen patrolling western Baghdad and wounded three others, police 1st Lieutenant Thaer Mahmud said. The victims belonged to a commando unit, he said.

Iraqi police found the corpse of a uniformed policeman in another section of Baghdad on Saturday.

The policeman had his hands bound behind his back and plastic wire around his neck, indicating that he had been strangled, police Captain Muhammad Izz al-Din said.

Fighters often attack Iraqi security forces because they are seen as collaborating with the Shia-led government and the United States.

Five found dead

Five Iraqi Shia buying poultry from farms south of Baghdad for resale in the capital werefound dead near a river in the Triangle of Death area, a relative of two of them said.

The men, aged 20 to 45, went missing two days ago after leaving Baghdad in three mini-buses to buy poultry in Yussifiyah, said Hashim Abd al-Hussain, 32, who lost two of his nephews.

He and other relatives were led to a small river in the lush agricultural area to identify the bodies.

"It was a horrible sight," Abd al-Hussain said. "Unbelievable."

He said they were all shot in the head and their hands tied.

Detained

Iraqi and US-led forces have detained 51 suspects during raids in the area and further south around Mahawil and Hilla since Thursday as part of the recent expansion of the offensive dubbed Operation Lightning, a Defence Ministry statement said.

A crude oil


pipeline in Yussifiyahwas attacked on Friday

A crude oil pipeline near Yussifiyah that was attacked with an explosive device on Friday left firefighters continuing to battle the huge flames, said a spokesman at the oil ministry in Baghdad on Saturday.

The pipeline carries crude from the southern fields around Basra to the large refinery and power plant complex in Dura in southern Baghdad, said Asem Jihad.

Clashes

In other clashes, a civilian was killed and four wounded in clashes between US, Iraqi forces and fighters in Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq after a roadside bomb attack against a US military convoy, said Captain Chaker Muhammad of the local police.

An Iraqi Kurdish contractor was shot dead and another wounded in a drive-by shooting south of the northern city of Kirkuk, a police officersaid.

Clashes in Tal Afar resulted inthe death of a civilian

Asu Ahmed died late on Friday and Khalil Muhammad was seriously wounded after armed men sprayed their car with automatic weapons fire in the village of Al-Salsah, Colonel Muhammad Khalid said. The men worked for a US company installing concrete blast walls.

The oil hub of Kirkuk is disputed by Iraqi Kurds, who want it to be the capital of their three autonomous provinces, claiming the ethnic make-up of the area was altered by the Arabisation drive of ousted leader Saddam Hussein. This has pitted them against Sunni Arabs and Turkmen.

In other violence, a firefight between police commandos and an unknown number of attackers in western Baghdad left two policemen dead and three wounded early on Saturday, a Defence Ministry


April the Giraffe — a giraffe at the Animal Adventure Park in upstate New York — gave birth to a baby calf on April 15, completing weeks of a live stream from the zoo. Toys R Us sponsored the live feed, which attracted millions of viewers, brought in thousands of dollars in donations, and launched their own site and store for April the Giraffe. The New York zoo’s successful marketing campaign has now inspired SeaWorld in San Diego to launch a similar one, as it provides updates and livestream discussions with trainers featuring a pregnant 25-year-old orca in captivity named Takara. On April 20, SeaWorld announced that Takara gave birth to her calf.

Takara’s baby is supposed to be the last to be born into captivity after the companyknow the life he or she was meant to live. I can’t see anything redeeming about that.”

Takara was born in captivity in 1991 at SeaWorld San Diego to orca parents captured near Iceland. She will be giving birth to her fifth calf, two of which were taken from her — one transported to a park in Spain, and the other transported to SeaWorld Orlando. Orcas in the wild generally give birth to a calf every six to 10 years, but this will be Takara’s third calf in just six years. Another orca similar to Takara, named Kalina, died suddenly at the age of 25 in 2010. Kalina was forced to give birth five times in a short span of time, which likely contributed to her early death. Female


and shipped her to another country where now she has been inbred multiple times. With no mother or any other adult female to help or teach her, Kohana rejected her two calves and the second died at only 10 months old.”

Takara then had a male calf named Trua in Florida, but Takara was shipped away to the Texas park where they needed a dominant female. There, she was artificially inseminated again. “In the wild, [female orcas] are 13-15 years old before they become pregnant with their first calf. SeaWorld has forcibly artificially inseminated females as young as 8 years old,” Hargrove said. “In the wild, it takes three years or more before a female could become pregnant again. SeaWorld has forced pregnancy as soon as the females firstexperience living in the wild.

Unlike the water in the ocean, the water in orca tanks is filled with so much chlorine to neutralize the orcas’ own waste that the water burns the eyes of the trainers and the orcas who have to swim in it. SeaWorld also regularly doses its orcas with antianxiety, antidepressant medications, proton pump inhibitors to reduce stress-induced ulcers, and antibiotics to mitigate infection from the dental issues orcas often face in captivity.

SeaWorld has tried to grapple with and rebrand itself in the wake of the Blackfish documentary, and activist-driven movements raising awareness of the inhumane, cruel and unsafe practices associated with keeping orcas in captivity for entertainment. In response to these movements, the company has promised to end captive breeding, yet is helping its


addition, the Trustee had concluded that the annuity was not a
retirement account, that the Debtor had control over the investments made with the
assets in the annuity, and that the Debtor could withdraw the funds without penalty
after he had held the annuity for a minimum period of time. As a result, the Trustee
had concluded that the annuity was a financial investment rather than a retirement
account acquired pursuant to an employment relationship and was therefore not
exempt under § 550.37, subd. 24, and In re Raymond.

       As mentioned above, the Debtor still maintains that the annuity and IRA were
exempt all along and that he was coerced into the Settlement by the Trustee’s
threatened objections to his exemptions. However, as the Bankruptcy Court stated

   awake until 2:30 AM (as well as the subsequent phone call from my ex-manager reminding me to concentrate on the course material for exams and not on my partner).

Eugent Bushpepa mentioned in an interview that he wrote the lyrics when he was “away from his family, away from his better half.” But unlike me, who only managed to pull off a 2:30 AM sleep-deprived letter closely resembling a 2-page drunk text, he actually wrote a coherent poem, fit it to a tune, and won a music festival with it.

In 2015 SBS was told that Australia could stay as long as they won. They haven’t won yet, but last year Australia almost won the entire contest and actually placed first in the jury vote. So maybe they’re here to


County, Florida, a federal case in which a court ruled a Florida school system must allow a 16-year-old trans boy to use the men’s room.

The 2018 case was decided in the 11th Circuit, which has jurisdiction over Georgia in addition to Florida and Alabama. The St. Johns County district, which encompasses St. Augustine south of Jacksonville, has appealed the case, which is scheduled for a hearing in December, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

Pickens County schools' decision comes after a heated Monday night school board meeting attended by almost 600 people — a large showing for a county of just over 30,000 residents. Close to 50 people spoke for or against the policy, NBC Atlanta affiliate WXIA reported.

“You should be able to use any restroom that you want to use,”Scooter boys

Scooter boys or The parkesrs were in some senses a transitional form between the mods and skinheads.

Mod revival of the 1970s, emerged an almost organic cultural collective – Scooter Boys. With an underlying musical focus on Northern Soul and R&B, these scooter boys developed a passion for steamy all-nighters, fueled by a fast, absorbing and intrinsically nomadic lifestyle. They gathered in their thousands at an array of coastal resorts all over the British Isles (and beyond) for all weekend parties, making their own rules and their own enemies. The cultural icon at the epicenter of this phenomenon were the Italian motor-scooters which mobilized this unique way of life.

The high point for scooterboys in Great Britain was from 1984 to 1987. Scooter rallies during this period were attracting


numbers in excess of 10,000 or 15,000 people. Scooter rallies usually involved camping, allnighters and alldayers, watching bands, dancing to DJs, drinking and drugs and participating in various scooter-related activities. In the 1980s, scooterboys listened to various styles of music, including ska, 2 Tone, psychobilly, punk rock, Oi!, and northern soul.
The scooterboy subculture has spread around the world, partly due to magazines such as Scootering, which has been published in the UK since 1985, and Scooter Scene, which was published until 1989.

In the 1990s, yet another string was added to the bow of scooter culture, courtesy of artists such as Oasis, Ocean Colour Scene and Cast. These bands, along with the already scooter-credible Paul Weller, helped fuel a new generation of scooter-loving individuals.

Scooter boys style

Unlike the mods, whoattended, the clubs they have belonged to and the brand of scooter they prefer.

New school Scooter boys

Not every Scooter boy prefers a vintage machine. In fact, the number of new school scooter boys in North American scene will someday eclipse that of vintage riders. Modern Scooter boys already out-number old ones and many owners of these twist-and-go modes becoming active in the rallies.


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CONACHER SPARKS BUFFALO WIN OVER EDMONTON

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- Sabres.com (@kwsnow)
| Friday, 03.21.2014 / 4:35 AM

EDMONTON – Cory Conacher spent many nights during his four years at Canisius College taking charge of games and leading his team to victory. On Thursday, the seventh-leading scorer in school history brought back some of that Golden Griffins magic to help bring an end to Buffalo’s seven-game losing streak.

Conacher scored his first two goals as a Sabre, and chipped in an assist as Buffalo defeated Edmonton 3-1 at Rexall Place. Matt Hackettmade 35 saves to earn the win in his first start for Buffalo, and first NHL win in over two years.

Claimed off waivers from Ottawa on March 5, Conacher was just the offensive spark that Buffalo needed on this night to avoid tying a franchise record with eight straight losses.

After playing his first six games in Buffalo on a line with Drew Stafford and Tyler Ennis, Conacher was shifted to the wing with Cody Hodgson and Torrey Mitchell. The move seemed to jumpstart Conacher, who was the Sabres’ most energetic forward all night long.

“Mitchell’s a fast player like myself. He’s got some grit to him as well, and it’s nice to play with another guy like that,” said the 24-year-old Conacher. “Stafford and Ennis are both highly skilled


guys, but maybe I fit better with those two guys tonight.”

For the second night in a row, the Sabres opened with a perfect road game. They clogged up the neutral zone and limited Edmonton to just a pair of shots on Hackett in the first 12 minutes. That changed in a hurry as the Oilers used a pair of power plays to gain an edge in momentum, and went on to outshoot Buffalo 12-3 over the final 7:25, including eight shots with the man advantage.

After Justin Schultz and Taylor Hall took turns ringing shots off the post, Buffalo’s luck finally ran out with Tyler Ennis in the box for high sticking. On an alert play that was started back in the Oilers zone by goaltender Ben Scrivens, Hall11th in the last 20 games.

Conacher capped off his second career three-point night with an assist on Stafford’s goal. His only previous three-point game was on February 1, 2013 against Winnipeg with Tampa

Buffalo held Edmonton to just nine shots in the third period, after giving up 27 through the first 40 minutes.

The Sabres traveled to Vancouver immediately after the game, and will enjoy an off day on Friday in the scenic west coast city. The Sabres return to action on Sunday when they face the Canucks in game three of this season-long, five-day road trip at Rogers Arena. Game time is 8 p.m. ET.

EDMONTON –Cory Conacher spent many nights during his four years at Canisius College taking charge of games and leading his team to victory. On Thursday,


the seventh-leading scorer in school history brought back some of that Golden Griffins magic to help bring an end to Buffalo’s seven-game losing streak.

Conacher scored his first two goals as a Sabre, and chipped in an assist as Buffalo defeated Edmonton 3-1 at Rexall Place. Matt Hackett made 35 saves to earn the win in his first start for Buffalo, and first NHL win in over two years.

Claimed off waivers from Ottawa on March 5, Conacher was just the offensive spark that Buffalo needed on this night to avoid tying a franchise record with eight straight losses.

After playing his first six games in Buffalo on a line with Drew Stafford and Tyler Ennis, Conacher was shifted to the wing with Cody Hodgson and Torrey Mitchell. The move seemedwith the man advantage.

After Justin Schultz and Taylor Hall took turns ringing shots off the post, Buffalo’s luck finally ran out with Tyler Ennis in the box for high sticking. On an alert play that was started back in the Oilers zone by goaltender Ben Scrivens, Hall slid down low to the left faceoff dot and one-timed a Schultz pass behind Hackett for his 24th of the season at 17:48.

Buffalo got into penalty trouble again in the second period, but managed to even the score on a power play of their own thanks to Conacher’s first goal of the night that was aided by an eclipse-like screen from John Scott, the unlikeliest of power play specialists.

Sabres defenseman Jamie McBain unleashed a point shot that Conacher tipped at the


Conacher deftly redirected over the left shoulder of Scrivens for his third-career two-goal game.

The red-hot Stafford made it 3-1 at 4:44, burying a shot over the sprawled Scrivens at 4:44 after the puck pinballed through the Oilers zone. The goal was Stafford’s 15th of the year, and 11th in the last 20 games.

Conacher capped off his second career three-point night with an assist on Stafford’s goal. His only previous three-point game was on February 1, 2013 against Winnipeg with Tampa

Buffalo held Edmonton to just nine shots in the third period, after giving up 27 through the first 40 minutes.

The Sabres traveled to Vancouver immediately after the game, and will enjoy an off day on Friday in the scenic west coast city. The Sabres return to action on Sundaywhen they face the Canucks in game three of this season-long, five-day road trip at Rogers Arena. Game time is 8 p.m. ET.

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black and white photo below, you can see the triflats at the back of the stage. the production was funded by the students union, SMCSU from part of their budget derived from student activity fees.

I must have been influenced by William Windom in MWAWTI to decide to do the sketch play of Thurber humour. I thoroughly enjoyed him and that show.

Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site of Canada commemorates the importance of immigration to Canada, particularly via the entry port of Québec, from the early 19th century to the First World War.

Grosse Île also commemorates the tragic events experienced by the Irish immigrants at this site, primarily during the typhoid epidemic of 1847.

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Some photos of a Huron village site, more precisely the midden next to the village. Midden is the polite word for the village dump, which has been sitting on the edge of a gully side that drops down into a creek. All of this near Penetang, Ontario. The village, undated at the moment, either from the 17th century and the time of the French contact time or earlier. This site was not officially known until a few weeks ago. Sadly it has been picked over to some extent by people who some call “looters” and others label them “curiosity seekers”.

Today was day one of a


two day public but controlled numbers access to the site hosted by the Ontario Archaeological Society Huronia Chapter with the site under the direction of the licensed archaeologist, Dr Alicia Hawkins. The Simcoe County Forest was in on this as well. There was participation by some staff from the Simcoe County Museum.

I took photos with my Nikon D3100 and 18-55 lens, with no light or with the Metz 44 flash unit or with the Polaroid ring light attachment. It has rained hard yesterday and today, but not when I walked in and took photos. The workers had a blue tarpaulin tied between trees to shelter the area being worked and where the dirt was screen shaken and checked. Even with the tree cover there was good light andon a bi-weekly basis. Meeting dates for 2015:

Tanzania Summer 2014

Members of Spartans Without Borders (a sister organization to Engineers Without Borders) traveled to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in August of 2014 to help implement a borehole well project. The well is approximately 80 meters deep, and now provides fresh water to the surrounding community.

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are supported by farming. Many El Balsamar families lack basic resources, including infrastructure and roads, clean water, and sanitation. The sanitation issues stem from a lack of human waste management facilities, which leads to the community being more susceptible to diseases and contamination of water sources in the region. One proposed project is to build 30-33 composting latrines throughout the community, targeting households with children of age five or less, and households near water sources.

The Michigan State University chapter conducted an assessment trip to El Balsamar from May 9 - May 15, 2012. The trip served as a way for our group to meet the community, to determine the feasibility of this project, and to gather information for the latrine design. With the conclusion of the assessment trip,Community-orientated medical education: extending the boundaries.
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Mormon. The story with which we are quite familiar from Sunday School and Seminary describes Joseph using the Urim and Thummim (the Nephite interpreters) to look at the gold plates while screened from his scribe by a curtain. Joseph dictated the entire text of the Book of Mormon to his scribe, picking up the next day right where he had left off the day before, and the text was written without any punctuation. Joseph never required that any of the previous text be re-read when the translation started again the next day. The bulk of the translation was accomplished within a roughly three-month period, and the resulting text is remarkably consistent not only with itself, but with the Bible. The circumstances surrounding the translation and production of theare true for the people who are telling them.” ((Brant A. Gardner, The Gift and the Power: Translating the Book of Mormon (Draper, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2011), 8.))

What did Joseph and Oliver say?

The logical place to begin is with the translator himself. What did Joseph Smith say about the Book of Mormon translation process? As it turns out, he said very little about the actual translation method used to produce the Book of Mormon, except to note that it was performed “by the gift and power of God.” The Student Manual notes that Joseph deliberately did not give many details of the process.

The Prophet was reluctant to give the details about the translation. In a Church conference held 25–26 October 1831 in Orange, Ohio, Hyrum requested that


a firsthand account of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon be given. But the Prophet said, “It was not intended to tell the world all the particulars of the coming forth of the Book of Mormon.” Joseph explained in an open letter to a newspaper editor in 1833 the heart of the matter, but he gave few particulars, stating that the Book of Mormon was “found through the ministration of an holy angel, and translated into our own language by the gift and power of God.” His explanation is consistent with the Doctrine and Covenants, which says that he was granted “power to translate through the mercy of God, by the power of God, the Book of Mormon” (D&C 1:29) and that the Lord “gave himlife in 1879, some 49 years after the publication of the Book of Mormon, Emma Smith Bidamon was interviewed by her son Joseph Smith III. Emma described her memories of the translation process. “In writing for your father I frequently wrote day after day, often sitting at the table [Page 127]close by him, he sitting with his face buried in his hat, with the stone in it, and dictating hour after hour with nothing between us.” ((“Emma Smith Bidamon Interview with Joseph Smith III, February 1879,” in Early Mormon Documents, ed. Dan Vogel (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996), 1:541.))

This description raises some immediate questions. Where is the Urim and Thummim? Where is the curtain? Why is Joseph using a hat? Where are the plates? It is very


this information.

Next, we examine what Martin Harris had to say. Martin was quite closely involved with the early translation process, since he acted as Joseph’s scribe for the first 116 pages of manuscript. As indicated by the Student Manual, near the end of his life, Martin Harris also provided a description of the translation process. Martin granted an interview to Joel Tiffany in 1859, in which he described the translation instrument that we commonly know as the Urim and Thummim.

The two stones set in a bow of silver were about two inches in diameter, perfectly round, and about five-eighths of an inch thick at the centre; but not so thick at the edges where they came into the bow. They were joined by a round bar of silver,was repeated almost one month later in a New York publication called The Gem: A Semi-Monthly Literary and Miscellaneous Journal, “By placing the spectacles in a hat and looking into it, Smith interprets the characters into the English language.” ((“Golden Bible,” The Gem: A Semi-Monthly Literary and Miscellaneous Journal (Rochester, New York: 5 September 1829), 70. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/BOMP/id/161.))

Four months later, in February 1830, Martin Harris is quoted in the New York Telescope,

[H]e proceeded to the spot, and found the bible, with a huge pair of spectacles. . . . He is said to have shown some of these characters to Professor Samuel L. Mitchell, of this city, who could not translate them. Martin Harris returned, and set Joseph Smith to the business of translating them: who, “by placing the


[Page 132]spectacles in a hat and looking into them, Joseph Smith said he could interpret these characters.” ((C. C. Blatchley, “Caution Against the Golden Bible,” New-York Telescope 6/38 (20 February 1830), 150. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/BOMP/id/4211.))

In June 1830, The Cincinnati Advertiser mentioned a “white stone” and the hat.

A fellow by the name of Joseph Smith, who resides in the upper part of Susquehanna county, has been, for the last two years we are told, employed in dedicating as he says, by inspiration, a new bible. He pretended that he had been entrusted by God with a golden bible which had been always hidden from the world. Smith would put his face into a hat in which he had a white stone, and pretend to read from it, while his coadjutor transcribed.and Thummim to refer to the spectacles. They were, however, quite aware of the placement of the spectacles in the hat. The story has evolved somewhat to the point that the plates are in the hat as well.

In the year 1828, one Joseph Smith, an illiterate young man, unable to read his own name, of Palmyra, Wayne County, New York, was reported to have found several golden plates, together with a pair of spectacles, relics of high antiquity. The spectacles were designed to aid mental vision, under rather peculiar circumstances. [Page 134]They were to be adjusted, and the visage thrust into a close hat. This done Smith could interpret the sacred mysteries of the plates, in which lay, by the hypothesis, in the top of the hat! ((“Mormonism,”


Protestant Sentinel (Schenectady, New York) n.s. 5/1 (4 June 1834): 4–5. Reprinted from New England Review, ca. May 1834.))

The phrase “aid mental vision” is worthy of note. Although we do not know where the writer got this idea, the statement implies that the spectacles did not necessarily function like a pair of glasses, but more like a seer stone.

The New York Weekly Messenger in 1835, five years after the Book of Mormon was published, claimed that both the “plate” and the “two smooth flat stones” were placed in a hat.

Smith pretended that he had found some golden or brass plates, like the leaves of a book, hid in a box in the earth, to which he was directed by an Angel, in 1827,—that the writing on them wasthe publication of the Book of Mormon, talked of Joseph placing the Urim and Thummim in a hat.

[Page 135]He translated them by means of the Urim and Thummim, (which he obtained with the plates), and the power of God. The manner in which this was done was by looking into the Urim and Thummim, which was placed in a hat to exclude the light, (the plates lying near by covered up), and reading off the translation, which appeared in the stone by the power of God. ((“William Smith, On Mormonism, 1883,” in Early Mormon Documents, 1:497.))

Joseph Knight was a good friend of the Prophet Joseph. His account identifies the Urim and Thummim as the glasses. Significantly, Knight also mentions the hat.

Now the way he translated was he put


the Urim and Thummim into his hat and darkened his eyes, then he would take a sentence and it would appear in bright Roman letters, then he would tell the writer and he would write it. Then that would go away, the next sentence would come, and so on. But if it was not spelled right it would not go away till it was right, so we see it was marvelous. Thus was the whole translated. ((“Joseph Knight Sr., Reminiscence, Circa 1835–1847,” in Early Mormon Documents, 4, 17–18. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized for readability. Original spelling is as follows: “Now the way he translated was he put the urim and thummim into his hat and Darkned his Eyes than he would take a sentance and itthen, did the spectacles found by Joseph Smith come to be known as the Urim and Thummim? One of the earliest known references to the spectacles as the Urim and Thummim appeared in the Latter-day Saint newspaper The Evening and Morning Star in January 1833, three years after the Book of Mormon was published. The wording is interesting, as it appears to be one of the earliest times that the term Urim and Thummim is applied to the instruments of translation.

The book of Mormon, as a revelation from God, possesses some advantage over the old scripture: it has not been tinctured by the wisdom of man, with here and there an Italic word to supply deficiencies.-It was translated by the gift and power of God, by an unlearned


of the Church of Christ up to the latter part of the year 1833, or the year 1834. The “Book of Commandments” to the Church of Christ, published in Independence, Mo., in 1833, does not contain any allusion to Urim and Thummim; though the term was inserted in some of the revelations in their reprint in the “Book of Doctrine and Covenants” in 1835. ((The True Latter Day Saints’ Herald, 26/22 (15 November 1879).))

The association of the term Urim and Thummim with the spectacles thus appears to have come into use several years after the publication of the Book of Mormon. The term may not have actually been used during the period of translation itself. Historian D. Michael Quinn, however, feels that the term may have been appliedas early as 1828. “This was the term in the ‘Manuscript History of the Church’ for the object through which early revelations were received to 1830, and this statement about the Urim and Thummim has appeared in the headings to these early revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants from 1921 to the present.” ((D. Michael Quinn, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, Revised and Enlarged (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1998), 174–75.))

However, Quinn also notes that “there was no reference to the Urim and Thummim in the headings of the Book of Commandments (1833) or in the headings of the only editions [Page 138]of the Doctrine and Covenants prepared during Smith’s life (in 1835 and 1844).” ((Quinn, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, 175.))

In 1836, we


finally find a reference to the Urim and Thummim in a non-LDS publication. The story was printed in the Ohio Observer. Truman Coe resided in Kirtland, Ohio, but was not a member of the Church. He appears to be repeating what either Joseph Smith, or other Church members in Kirtland, told him, and therefore employs the term Urim and Thummim to refer to the interpreters. Significantly, Coe does not mention the use of a hat. “The manner of translation was as wonderful as the discovery. By putting his finger on one of the characters and imploring divine aid, then looking through the Urim and Thummim, he would see the import written in plain English on a screen placed before him.” ((“Truman Coe Account, 1836,” in Early Mormon Documents,the eyes and there is no mention of the use of a hat.

He declared that an angel was sent from God to make known to him the place in which the book was concealed,—that he searched and found the same,—that the words were engraved on plates of gold in a language [Page 139]which no man understood,—and that two large jewels resembling diamonds were given to him, which, being applied to the eyes, like spectacles, enabled him to get at the meaning and translate the Book of Mormon into English. These jewels were, he said, the Urim and Thummim of the Old Testament. ((A Letter to Those Who Have Attended Mormonite Preaching (London: J. B. Bateman, 1840), 1–4.))

An 1891 interview with the prophet’s brother William Smith provides a description


of the Urim and Thummim and its relationship to the breastplate. At the time that William gave his description, the term Urim and Thummim had been used for many years to describe the Nephite interpreters. William said that “a silver bow ran over one stone, under the other around over that one and under the first in the shape of a horizontal figure 8 much like a pair of spectacles.” William also said that the spectacles were “much too large for Joseph,” and that Joseph “could only see through one at a time using sometimes one and sometimes the other. By putting his head in a hat or some dark object it was not necessary to close one eye while looking through the stone with the other. Inwas translated by use of the Urim, and Thummim, and that was the part that Martin Harris lost, after that he used a small stone, not exactly, black, but was rather a dark color.”))

With this statement, Emma establishes a timeframe for the transition from the Nephite interpreters to the seer stone. She states that it occurred after the loss of the 116 pages and upon the resumption of translation.

[Page 142]David Whitmer, who only observed the translation after the loss of the 116 pages, also distinguished the Urim and Thummim (the spectacles) from the seer stone.

With the sanction of David Whitmer, and by his authority, I now state that he does not say that Joseph Smith ever translated in his presence by aid of Urim and Thummim; but by


one of the attributes of Deity, an All-Seeing Eye.” ((Matthew B. Brown, Plates of Gold (American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, 2003), 167.))

Brown goes on to note that Brigham Young confirmed this view, “When Joseph had a revelation he had, as it were, the eyes of the Lord. He saw as the Lord sees.” ((Brown, Plates of Gold, 167.))

In fact, upon receiving the Nephite interpreters, Joseph viewed them as a more powerful version of the stone that he already possessed. Joseph Knight recalled that Joseph appeared to be more excited about receiving the glasses than the gold plates themselves. After Joseph returned from retrieving the plates, Joseph Knight recalled,

After breakfast Joseph called me in to the other room and he set his foot on the bed and leaned hishas been made by some writers that the Prophet Joseph Smith used a seer stone part of the time in his translating of the record, and information points to the fact that he did have in his possession such a stone, yet there is no authentic statement in the history of the Church which states that the use of such a stone was made in that translation. The information [Page 146]is all hearsay, and personally, I do not believe that this stone was used for this purpose. The reason I give for this conclusion is found in the statement of the Lord to the Brother of Jared as recorded in Ether 3:22–24. These stones, the Urim and Thummim which were given to the Brother of Jared, were preserved


interpreters or the seer stone in the hat during this period of time. One thing seems certain based upon witness accounts—during the period of the translation process after the loss of the 116 pages, Joseph sat in [Page 148]the open, without a curtain, dictating to his scribe while looking into his hat.

The Spectacles and the Stone as Urim and Thummim

At some point several years after the publication of the Book of Mormon, both the Nephite interpreters (the spectacles) and the seer stone became referred to as the Urim and Thummim. When the term Urim and Thummim was introduced in 1833, it did not refer uniquely to the instrument that Joseph recovered with the plates, but also referred to Joseph’s own seer stone, which he possessed prior to the2:63).

The Urim and Thummim is not a unique instrument: God did not provide the Urim and Thummim, but instead provided a Urim and Thummim. There can be more than one instrument called “Urim and Thummim.”

The Biblical Urim and Thummim was also used to receive revelation, and indicated in 1 Samuel 28:6, “And when Saul enquired of the Lord, the Lord answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.”

Didn’t Joseph Smith Talk of the Urim and Thummim?

During the latter part of his life, Joseph Smith clearly referred to the instruments used for translation as the Urim and Thummim. Joseph Smith said in the Elders Journal in 1838, “I obtained them and the Urim and Thummim with them, by the means of which I translated the


151]he was translating the Book of Mormon? Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith credits Joseph Smith as saying, “The angel was rejoiced when he gave me back the Urim and Thummim.” ((Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, (2007), 71. Quoted by Lucy Mack Smith, “The History of Lucy Smith, Mother of the Prophet,” 1844–1845 manuscript, book 7, p. 11, Church Archives.)) It initially appears from this statement that Joseph used the term Urim and Thummim to refer to the Nephite spectacles at the time he was translating. However, an examination of the endnote for this entry reveals that this text is from Lucy Mack Smith’s 1845 manuscript history of the Prophet’s life, which was written well after the term Urim and Thummimits audience was primarily members of the Church. It is clear that by 1834, Urim and Thummim was the accepted name within the Church for the instruments used during the translation. There is no distinction being made between Nephite interpreters and seer stone.

After Oliver left the Church, he continued to hold to his testimony of the Book of Mormon, although he no longer believed that Joseph Smith was inspired to lead the Church. There is a well-known quote attributed to Oliver Cowdery circulating on the Internet that is used as evidence that Oliver became skeptical of his role in the translation of the Book of Mormon, and that he specifically mentioned the use of the seer stone as the Urim and Thummim. Oliver is purported to have said