met a client at a bank to cash a disability check in one instance, the staff member said.

After The Frontier and StateImpact Oklahoma asked Firstep about its practice of taking workers’ compensation benefits from clients, the program issued Misener and Staats refund checks.

Close ties to company and city

The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating the Firstep program for how it compensates people recovering from addiction for their work while in the program.

Some of the Oklahoma employers who use workers from the Firstep program settled claims with the Department of Labor last year over unpaid overtime wages.

The Department of Labor confirmed it still has an active, ongoing investigation into the Firstep program, but would not disclose additional details.

After the Department of Labor began investigating the Firstep in 2017, thesaid.

After Firstep kicked her out of the program, a Grady County judge sentenced her to 15 years in prison for possession of methamphetamine.

Porter is now serving her sentence at Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Center in Taft, where she said she’s doing well and taking college classes.

The city has since stopped contracting with Firstep to clean the Civic Center Music Hall. The cleaning contract is now handled by a private foundation, Simpson said.

Oklahoma City now requires Firstep workers to fill out a city time card to keep track of the number of hours worked.

But Jeromy Storment, 41, was court-ordered to attend Firstep from drug court in Haskell County in October 2017 and said the program instructed him not to report any overtime from the city on his timecard.

Storment graduated


sits on rural land owned by the city’s Water Utility Trust. The nonprofit that runs Firstep, OKC Metro Alliance Inc., also holds a contract to operate the city’s detox center — Firstep clients do not work at the facility.

Retired Oklahoma City Councilman Pete White was instrumental in the founding of the Firstep program in the mid-1990s and helped arrange for the program to move onto an isolated piece of city land when residents in other parts of the protested a rehab program moving into the neighborhood.

White still hires men from the Firstep program to do chores on his acreage in southeast Oklahoma City on the weekends — jobs like feeding his horses and cutting grass. He pays the men for their work and also feeds them lunch, hebetween the northern Adriatic Sea and the Danube region, it was the historical capital of Carniola, a Slovene-inhabited part of the Habsburg Monarchy. Being a meeting point for several cultures, the city doesn’t have one defined style. Baroque and gothic mix with Austro-Hungarian influences, giving each building its own individuality.

The architect that most contributed to Ljubljana’s infrastructure was Jože Plečnik (1872-1957), who previously worked in Vienna and Prague and tried to model Ljubljana on ancient Athens. His numerous creations in the city, referred to as a whole as “Plečnik’s Ljubljana”, include the National and University Library building, the Ljubljanica river embankments and bridges (the most notable among the latter being the Triple Bridge and the Cobblers’ Bridge), the Central Market, the Križanke Summer Theatre, the Bežigrad Stadium, the


funeral home at the Žale cemetery, and the Church of St. Michael in the Marshes. That’s one busy man!

The setting

Although the city’s origins are still debated, the initial settlement almost certainly formed due to the intersections of several larger rivers. The main watercourses in Ljubljana are the Ljubljanica, the Sava, the Gradaščica, the Mali Graben, the Iška and the Iščica Rivers. The city is also equidistant to several major cities, making it ideal for other European pit stops:

200 miles south of Munich

296 miles east of Zürich

160 miles east of Venice

220 miles southwest of Vienna

139 miles south of Salzburg

250 miles southwest of Budapest.

The city centre, located along the Ljubljanica River, is overlooked by Ljubljana Castle, which sits atop Castle Hill (Grajski grič). The castle is accessible by foot, buthour of 9:30 P. M., the complaining witness, Hubbert, was employed as a driver of a motor coach for the Los Angeles Motor Coach Company, on the Silver Lake Boulevard route in the city of Los Angeles. That since November, 1934, and up to and including the date of the alleged offense, the employees of the Los Angeles Railway and the Los Angeles Motor Coach Company were out on strike. That all three of the defendants were striking employees of the Los Angeles Motor Coach Company. The complaining witness testified that he stopped his bus on Silver Lake Boulevard, near Moreno Drive, to pick up a passenger; that the defendant Shepherd boarded the bus and inquired if the bus went to Riverside Drive; that in the meantime the


other two defendants boarded the bus, and appellant Wiggington said, "Let him have it," whereupon the defendant Shepherd struck him over the head with a wooden club. Hubbert further testified that the blow knocked him out of his seat to the floor of the bus, and as he lay there appellant Wiggington attempted to stomp on his face, but Hubbert kicked him away. About this time, according to the complaining witness, appellant Streich grabbed the box used to collect fares in the bus and threw it at the complaining witness, who blocked it with his hands. As a result of this assault, the complaining witness testified, he received a cut over his right eye, requiring six stitches to close, and also a bruised hand, *516 all of whichrequired his hospitalization for a period of twelve days.
 The only other witness to the incident was Jane Parmele, a passenger on the bus, but she could not identify appellants as being the assailants.
 The evidence also indicates that although the complaining witness identified the three defendants at their trial, he had, shortly after the alleged assault, identified one O. L. Watson as one of the three men who assaulted him, but later withdrew his identification of Watson, who was released.
 Appellants took the witness stand at the trial, and each denied any complicity with or participation in the assault in question. They also produced numerous alibi witnesses, who testified that appellants were not at or near the scene of the assault.
 On the hearing of the motion


Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South Korea in June. A month earlier, Mr. Trump said he had received a “beautiful” letter from the North Korean leader.

The president has also publicly downplayed recent North Korean short-range missile tests, a sharp departure from two years ago when he threatened in a speech at the U.N. General Assembly to annihilate North Korea and derided Mr. Kim as “Little Rocket Man.”

Mr. Trump is slated to speak Tuesday at the annual gathering.

With North Korea reportedly not having sent its top diplomat this year, analysts touted the significance of Mr. Trump’s meeting with Mr. Moon, who is eager to expand diplomacy with the Kim regime and is widely credited with facilitating the first Trump-Kim summit in Singapore last year, as well as the twoSPN Podcast - Maria Topalovic on Hamilton SPN

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before launching for his race.

My only other thrill of the day came from meeting Matt Carey, one of the athletes from the M2X event, who was casually making his way through the cooldown area in the stroke seat of his double…with no bow man. As I rowed by (with an obvious look of bewilderment, no doubt), he flashed me a big smile and said, “Want a ride!?” Apparently the pollen content of the air was a bit too much for his partner this morning, and he was carted off by an official’s launch at the finish line, leaving Matt to… row his cooldown in the 2X by himself. Despite all that, he was all smiles and flirting with the ladies, so I take it there were no hardoff to help growers minimize double planting in headland areas. Collins demonstrated what the system looks like with a side-by-side video showing the planter in the field and the layout of the field on the display monitor as it went through and automatically turned off over areas the grower did not want to have planted and then turning back on.

The system can be adapted to John Deere, Kinze and Deere-Bauer-built planters.

Swath Control Pro for planters will be tested on select farms throughout North America this season to be available for purchase in time for the 2008 planting season. Find out more here – Swath Control Pro.

The vast majority of corn, soybean and wheat farmers attending the 2007 Commodity Classic in Tampa this week are very interested in learning


reported.

These are preliminary results of the research study, which was compiled from hundreds of grower interviews during the past three months and is designed to create a comprehensive benchmark of precision technology adoption among row crop growers in the United States.

The research is now entering its final phase, which will feature focus groups designed to ground-truth key findings, as well as unearth more of the psychological barriers to precision adoption. The final results of the research will be released at the InfoAg Conference, July 10-12, 2007, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Springfield, IL.

AgriTalk was live here in Tampa, Florida on the first official day of the Commodity Classic interviewing a number of representatives.

Pictured here with AgriTalk host Mike Adams (right) from left to right are Kyle Collins,Not even a week since launching the game, the creators of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite have announced a Pokémon Go-style fan fest, to be held over the Labor Day weekend in Indianapolis.

The festival for the augmented reality mobile game will be Aug. 31 to Sept. 1 at the White River State Park, which is right across aforesaid river from the Indianapolis Zoo in the city’s downtown. A news release from Niantic promised that players “will be able to engage in a variety of interactive experiences bridging the in-game experience with the real world.”

That means players on the scene will explore the city and the park “to discover mysterious artifacts, cast spells, and encounter fantastic beasts alongside their friends and other players.”

Since launching Pokémon Go in 2016, Niantic has


held three fan fests for the game in Chicago — the first one going so poorly that Niantic settled a class-action lawsuit with the more than 18,000 who attended. Neither the game, nor its servers, nor the wireless service in the area could handle a crowd that size; Niantic’s chief executive was booed from the stage, and the company refunded tickets and offered in-game currency as a make-good.

The festival returned to Chicago in July 2018 and the event went much more smoothly, with better mobile connections, more engaging activities and a better focus on solo play to help manage the throng. This year’s fan fest was just held in Chicago (back on June 13-16), and there will be one in Dortmund, Germany on July 4-7 and another inarchaic words and obsolescent forms longer than
other people. However, it was only after the
Spanish Expulsion of 1492 that Ladino began to be a specifically Jewish
language. Although the Jews had been ejected from the Iberian Peninsula
and thus cut off from its language while this was still in the process
of evolution, they preserved the Spanish and Hispanic dialects that had
been spoken and written before Cervantes and the Golden Age, and which
basically reflected the phonetics, morphology, and syntax of the
14th and 15th centuries. A gap, wider or narrower
according to the country to which the refugees fled, began to appear
between the written and spoken language on the one hand and the language
of secular and rabbinical literature on the other. The language of Bible
translations and prayers, which remained more resistant to the words,
expressions,


and syntactic patterns of the local tongue, became, in the
course of the centuries, less and less comprehensible to the masses.
(Moshe Lazar)
-The Topography of Ladino
The lack of contact between the Sephardim and Spain after 1492 led to a
situation in which the Sephardim did not make use of the standardized
norm of Spanish and allowed for the conservation of many rustic and
popular forms, rejected by the Castilian norm, as well as an
extraordinary geographical and social linguistic variation.
This, added
to the confluence of Sephardim of different regional and social origins,
allowed the development of independent koinés in Salonika and Istanbul –
supposedly also in Safed – evident from the end of the 17th
century (i.e., the formative period of Judeo-Spanish). The result was –
as the texts of the 18th century suggest – that the
Judeo-Spanish dialectal mixturewas not dominated exclusively by
variants of a single region. Although Castilian features were selected
rather more frequently than non-Castilian, perhaps reflecting the
already higher prestige associated with Castilian variants in the late
15th century, selection of features typical of the other
peninsular regions was frequent. In the communities of the Ottoman
Empire, the linguistic contact with the local languages, especially with
Turkish and Italian, led to the adoption of numerous loans. From the
16th century the influence exercised by Hebrew intensified on
Judeo-Spanish and gave rise to the adoption of many words and
expressions. This influence is also reflected in some syntactic
structures. Finally, Judeo-Spanish shows a considerable degree of
innovation, especially in phonology and lexis. This view contradicts the
conventional opinion that Judeo-Spanish is intensely conservative in
nature, although it does not deny that Judeo-Spanish preserves some
features of 15th-century Spanish


which have disappeared
everywhere else (i.e., the Classical period or Golden century of
Judeo-Spanish). As of 1839 Western culture – and France in particular –
were the main model of modernization in the Ottoman Empire, and the
Sephardi communities began to undergo westernization and secularization.
The influence of French through the Alliance Israélite Universelle from
1865, and to a lesser extent of Italian and modern Spanish, caused many
Sephardi intellectuals to adopt a purist attitude to their language
expressed by replacing Turkish and Hebrew elements by others of Romance
origin, and giving rise to what is called New-Judeo-Spanish.
In the Amsterdam and London communities, Jews continued to speak
Castilian and Portuguese, which were constantly enriched by contact with
the literature of the Iberian Peninsula and the contribution of
marranos who returned to Judaism. In Italy, too, Castilian
generally resisted tendencies to obsolescenceCentral area (Turkey and Greece
communities) with a stronger linguistic norm; and Peripheral area more
flexible with the European area (Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia,
Serbia, and Bosnia communities), and the Israelian
Judeo-Spanish influenced by the Hebrew spoken by Oriental and
Maghrebian Jews and Local Arabic.
b) Lexical areas: East Area (communities in Turkey, Israel,
and West-Bulgaria) developed from de Istanbul koine; Central
area (with Salonika and the communities situated in East-Bulgaria,
Romania, Serbia, and Macedonia) developed from de Salonician koine; and
West area (communities in the Adriatic coast and in Croatia
and Bosnia) more influenced by Portuguese and Italian loans.
The development of the dialectal areas in Judeo-Spanish took place from
the 16th century and does not have a relation with the
regional origin of its speakers.
SYSTEM OF WRITING
For several centuries the Hebrew alphabet has been in general use for
the writing of Judeo-Spanish.


The unvocalized Rashi script was most
often used both for religious texts and secular literature, and was also
the basis of the cursive script. However, from the 16th
century onward, many books were printed in square lettering and were
completely vocalized. Few books were printed in Latin characters, and it
was only in the 20th century that the use of the Latin
alphabet increased, particularly in journalism, without however
affecting the circulation of newspapers and books in Rashi script. In
the early 21st century an official spelling does not exist to
write the Judeo-Spanish with the Latin alphabet, and its speakers
usually use the system of the national language of their respective
countries. In Israel, especially after the constitution of the National
Authority of the Ladino and its Culture in 1997, the one phonetic
spelling is that of the magazine Akihechićería
y lo hiźo alevantar a Titus ha Rašáÿ…
When the Nazis exterminated many communities in which Judeo-Spanish had
been the principal means of communication, Judeo-Spanish became almost
irrevocably condemned to gradual disappearance. Judeo-Spanish–speaking
Jews who immigrated to Israel and other Western countries adopted the
language of the country and for their children Judeo-Spanish became only
a residual language. Nevertheless, recent years have seen something of a
Sephardic vernacular renaissance. Altogether some 200,000 people still
speak or understand it.
The interest of linguists in the study of the Judeo-Spanish language
began in the late 19th century, but it was only in the
20th century that most serious and detailed researches were
undertaken. In the last two decades the study of Judeo-Spanish in the
universities, especially in Israel and Germany, became more important to
the point of becoming a university discipline.
(Aldina Quintana (2nd ed.)
A


Dictionnaire de Judéo-Espagnol by Joseph Nehama and Jesus
Cantera was publishd by the Instituto Benito Arias Montano, of the
Estudios Hebraicos Sefardies y de Oriente Proximo (Madrid, 1977).
-Ladino Literature
The literature written in Ladino is not to be confused with that
produced in Spanish by the western Sephardi communities, mainly that of
Amsterdam. In contrast to the vast majority of the observant Spanish
Jews who were exiled to North Africa and the Ottoman Empire in the
15th century, the marranos , assimilated into Spanish
culture and more integrated within Christian society, left Spain
gradually during the 16th and even the 17th and
18th centuries, many of them settling in Western Europe.
These elements maintained direct contact with the civilization of their
old country. Not only are their religious, philosophical, scientific,
and literary works not written in Ladino, but they express anentirely
different spirit from that found among the "Oriental" Sephardi thinkers
and writers.
RELIGIOUS LITERATURE
In contrast to secular literature which, with the exception of the
romancero, began to flourish in Ladino only in the
19th century, Ladino religious literature had its origins in
pre-expulsion Spain. It was only in exile, however, that it really
developed.
The religious literary tradition began between the 13th and
15th centuries with a series of Bible translations, of which
a few unique specimens have been preserved as manuscripts in Spain (such
as the Mss. I-j-3, I-j-4, and
J-II-19 of the Escorial Library). All these texts are,
however, written in Latin characters. This tradition was revived
successfully after the expulsion, particularly in Constantinople and
Salonika, and the translations produced in these centers were adopted,
and later revised here and there in the Sephardi Diaspora (Venice,
Leghorn, Pisa, Amsterdam, Vienna). These translations,


written in Hebrew
characters and having their own vocabulary and syntax, are clearly
distinguishable from the Spanish Bibles produced by Christians. Over the
centuries, they helped to mold the written language of the Sephardim.
The major original translations include the Book of Psalms
(Constantinople, 1540); the Pentateuch (Constantinople, 1547); the
Prophets (Salonika, 1572); and a complete translation of the Bible by
Abraham ben Isaac Assa (Constantinople, 1739–45), which became the most
popular text among the Sephardi communities of the East. To these
translations should be added the anonymous glossary known as Ḥeshek
Shelomo (Venice, 1588).
Within Ladino religious literature a separate subdivision is constituted
by a series of works adapted from Hebrew: books of biblical
interpretation and of ethics, together with manuals of religious ritual
and prayer books. These include Baḥya ibn Paquda 's Ḥovot
ha-Levavot, isaac aboab 's Menoratha-Ma'or,
Joseph Caro's Shulḥan Arukh, and elijah b. benjamin
ha-Levi's Shevet Musar. The original works Reğimiento de
la Vida by moses almosnino (1564) and Ẓorkhei
Ẓibbur by Abraham Assa (1739) come into the same category. Thus,
two centuries after the expulsion, Ladino literature comprised a very
rich collection of adapted and original works in all spheres of creative
activity, among them poetry, mysticism, biblical exegesis, history,
medicine, and ethics. From the 18th century onward, the
number of these original works increased steadily, but only part of the
output has been preserved. The masterpiece of this ethical-religious
literature, and one which has had a profound influence on the masses to
the present day, is the Me-Am Lo'ez , an encyclopedic work begun
by jacob culi in 1730 and continued by other writers after his
death. This thesaurus of Sephardi knowledge draws its inspiration from
the traditional sources


of Jewish thought: Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, and
Kabbalah.
-Ladino Poetry
Original poetic works in Ladino are extremely limited, and there is no
doubt that this art was not as popular among the Levantine Sephardim as
it was among the Sephardim of the West. However, some poetic tradition
did exist, exemplified preeminently by two important works: the
14th-century Proverbios morales of Shem Tov
(santob ) de Carrion and the Poema de Yoçef, comprising
some 300 quatrains, which must have been composed at the beginning of
the 15th century. The latter poem, of which there is a
fragmentary manuscript in Cambridge, England, and a complete version in
the Vatican, is an adaptation
from the Midrash and the sefer ha-yashar of the story
of Joseph and his brethren. This is written in a strophic and metric
form which points to a merging of a medieval Spanishstructure (the
"cuaderna via") and that of the Hebrew piyyutim.
In Ladino poetry the Poema de Yoçef has no less importance
and literary value than the Poema de Yuçuf written in Spanish
in Arabic characters, which is today an integral part of Spanish
literature. A better-known and more popular Ladino poem on the same
subject is Coplas de Yoçef Ha-Ẓaddik, written by Abraham de
Toledo in 1732. This work, which comprises some 400 quatrains, had its
own special melody and was sung on the festival of Purim. Two quite
distinct versions have been preserved: one from Constantinople (1732),
and another from Belgrade (1861) composed on the lines of the Salonika
version (1755) which is now lost. Among minor poetic works there are
various songs and poems, very variable in quality, devoted especially to
Jewish festival themes. Many of them are connected


with Purim, and these
compositions, both serious and humorous, are to be found scattered in
collections and almanacs under the title Coplas de Purim. The
genre flourished in the 19th century.
THE ROMANCERO
The Ladino romancero occupies a place of its own in the
literature and everyday life of the Sephardim. When they left Spain, the
Jews retained in their oral tradition innumerable "romances" – popular
and traditional Spanish ballads – which had been widely diffused
throughout the country in the course of the 14th and
15th centuries. (For musical tradition in the
romancero, see below.) The melodies that accompanied these
romances and made them easier to memorize also contributed to their
preservation and to their transmission, from the 16th to
20th centuries, through all the communities of the eastern
Sephardim and North Africa. Since the romancero was a
"popular" genre, it hardly existedin western Sephardi centers. The
Ladino romancero is largely a continuation and an adaptation
of the Spanish romancero of both the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance. It includes some romances which are still to be found in
collections of Spanish poetry and others which did not survive in the
Iberian Peninsula or which are variations or adaptations, as well as
many original romances and songs of later composition. The general
subject matter of the Ladino romancero has sometimes been
enriched by new Spanish romances composed in the late 15th
and 16th centuries. The subject matter varies according to
the distance of a given Sephardi community from Spain; thus the romances
of North Africa differ considerably from those of the Ottoman Empire.
The common characteristic, however, is what may be called the
"dechristianization" of the traditional romancero. Jews
tended to eliminate from the


translations stimulated Sephardi
writers to produce a considerable output of original plays, love
stories, historical novels, and other works in Ladino. The literary
quality of the later Ladino works is on the whole mediocre and most of
them have been completely forgotten.
Ladino folktales and proverbs, capable of filling several volumes, have
not yet been collected or adequately studied.
(Moshe Lazar)
-In the 19th and 20th Centuries
With the decline of learning in the mid-19th century among
the Jews in the Ottoman Empire, secular works in Ladino started to
appear. The first secular works in Ladino were of a didactic character,
consisting mostly of historical works, biographies, and travel books.
With the liberalization and secularization of Jewish society in the
Ottoman Empire in the second half of the 19th century,
together with the general broadening of culture there and the marked
influence of Westernculture upon the Jews especially through the medium
of the Alliance Israélite Universelle , the need was felt for
the emergence of a secular literature in Ladino in all literary genres.
The first attempt to fill this vacuum was the creation of Ladino
newspapers . These intensified the demand for such a literature.
With the aim of propagating Western culture among Jews, young educated
people undertook to translate and adapt plays and novels from general
and especially French literature. The first translated novels were
published in the 1880s and their number grew rapidly, only very few
original novels being written. Between 1901 and 1938 over 150 novels
were translated. These translations were mostly from classical and
modern authors as well as from Hebrew and Yiddish writers such as Shalom
Aleichem, I.L. Peretz, and Shalom Asch. These novels, often adapted
rather than


translated, were usually first published as feuilletons in
the Ladino press. Although the original intention of their publishers
was educational, they commonly produced love stories and chapbooks,
usually appearing without mention of their author or translator. The
chief translators were Isaac Gabai, David Fresco, Victor Levy, Alexander
ibn Ghirat, Jean Florian, and Elijah Carmona, who revived the Ladino
language by creating its modern literary style. They also published
original works, mostly novels and biographies of Jewish philanthropists
and historical personages, as well as many popular books on historical
or scientific subjects (e.g.,
Historia Judia Universal in 13 vols., and Tesoro del
Judaesmo by H.Y. Chaki). With the emergence of the Zionist
movement, nationalistic themes began to appear in Ladino literature,
expressed in original novels and plays on purely Jewish themes
(especially by Jacques Luria), and often depicting Jewish life and types
on themodel of Shalom Aleichem and Mendele Mokher Seforim.
Ladino dramatic literature also appeared as a new genre at the close of
the 19th century. Unlike the fiction it developed essentially
around Jewish themes, though plays by Molière and Shakespeare were also
translated. Those who distinguished themselves especially as playwrights
were Jacques Luria, Yakim Behor, Joseph Djaen, Bahor Azario, and Abraham
Capon. Of special interest are the books and pamphlets published in
Ladino by the Protestant mission in the Ottoman Empire. Most of them
deal with the New Testament or criticize Judaism and the Talmud. For a
few years (from 1825) the mission even published an illustrated magazine
in pure Spanish written in Hebrew characters, featuring articles on
scientific and historical subjects, including Judaism. With the decline
of Ladino as a spoken language and its replacement by Turkish and other
tongues, Ladino


became devoid of any use as a literary medium and was
hence discarded as such. The virtual liquidation of the Sephardi
communities of the Mediterranean area, partly through Nazi persecution
(apart from Turkey) and partly through immigration to Ereẓ Israel and
elsewhere, has contributed to the virtual extinction of Ladino
literature, though newspapers in Ladino still appear in Turkey.
(Henri Guttel)
-The Musical Tradition of the Judeo-Spanish Romancero
Sephardi secular life has always been richly imbued with traditional
songs and paraliturgical hymns to celebrate the varied phases of the
life cycle, social functions, and ceremonial gatherings. Among the
traditional songs are the cherished and orally transmitted Castilian
Romances ("ballads") which Sephardi women, in particular, sang at every
occasion, and even during their daily household and infant-rearing
chores.
The importance of the romancero or ballad tradition rests
primarily on its retention of archaic linguistic featuresand
preservation of themes that had long become extinct on the Iberian
Peninsula. The postulation of a musical link between the extant
Judeo-Spanish and the much older Peninsula ballad traditions on the
basis of their strong textual ties, which gave rise to many scholarly
and even romanticized notions concerning their melodic connections with
15th- and 16th-century Spanish cancioneros and
vihuelista manuals, has proven nothing more than speculative.
Within decades after the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain (1492) and
from Portugal (1497), contacts with the Peninsula became increasingly
sporadic, especially in the Eastern Mediterranean region where relations
among the widely scattered Sephardim communities slackened, resulting in
the isolation of particular communities which increasingly absorbed the
musical influences of their new environments.
From about 1700, the stylistic differences between the Eastern (Turkish,
Greek, and Balkan) and Western (North African, mainly Moroccan)
repertoires had probably begun


to develop. Because of Morocco's
proximity to Spain, the flow of peninsular ballads was almost
uninterrupted, whereas, in the Eastern tradition, ballad repertoires
suffered greater isolation. In mid-20th century Israel, where
the earlier Eastern Sephardim community had already constituted an
amalgam of former Ottoman centers prior to 1947, the musical and
thematic contrasts between its collective ballad repertoire and that of
the North African Sephardi settlers, who arrived after 1947, continued
to be reflected in their respective traditions.
Interest in the Judeo-Spanish romancero owes its impetus to
R. Menéndez Pidal's (1869–1968) famous Catálogo del romancero
judio-español, which listed over 140 ballad incipit (representing
themes) then known to be extant in the Sephardim tradition. M. Manrique
de Lara (1868–1929), who worked closely with Menéndez Pidal, was the
first serious collector of the Sephardim musical tradition who traveled
to the major Sephardim communities in theEastern Mediterranean (from
the latter part of 1910 to the early part of 1911), and later, during
his military expeditions in northern Morocco (during the summers of 1915
and 1916). S.G. Armistead's three-volume catalog, published in 1978,
which supersedes the earlier Catálogo, not only identified
each item from Manrique's massive manuscript collection – housed at the
Menéndez Pidal Archive in Madrid – but added additional themes. In the
United States, S.G. Armistead and Joseph H. Silverman began recording
ballads in Los Angeles (in 1958) among the Sephardi Jewish community
from Rhodes, and a year later were joined by Israel J. Katz, who
collected ballads in Israel (1959–61). The team's continued
collaborative fieldwork in the United States, Morocco, and Israel has
yielded more than 1,500 items, which form the basis of their
multi-volume Judeo-Spanish Ballads from Oral Tradition (1986–
), five volumes of


Thursday, October 2, 2008

Missing Britney

The following italicized article is from www.nypost.com:

Britney Spears just swept through town with a familiar face missing from her side. Spears' cousin and former assistant, Alli Sims, told Page Six she's still not allowed to be in contact with the pop tart. "I have no idea when I'll see her again. I miss her every day," Sims said. Spears has been in the city at meetings for her fragrance line and plugging her new single, "Womanizer." Although she looks cleaned up, the rules imposed by her father, Jamie Spears, still stand. "When [Britney's] dad gained control, he put some rules down . . . it's just best for her to not communicate with a lot of people. My main concern is her being OK,"picked up at the port (arranged by the hotel, 20Euro charge) and taken directly to the hotel for a pleasant and efficient check-in my Mariana. The driver and Mariana were a wealth of information about the area. We booked...

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his right arm injured, Denard Robinson made a position change to running back to help his team in another capacity. Against Iowa and Ohio State, he managed a combined 220 yards and a touchdown in the new role. It appears Robinson will remain at running back against South Carolina.

Box Score: Michigan's defense stifled its opponent in the first half, limiting South Carolina to three points. The Gamecocks fought back in the second half and Alex Yates' field goal with 6:35 remaining tied the game. A few minutes later, Connor Shaw found Ace Sanders in the end zone for the go-ahead score.Avg. Score (1,001 Simulations): South Carolina 22, Michigan 20

I really can't wait to see DR line up at RB against our defense. There will be a lot ofRobinson made a position change to running back to help his team in another capacity. Against Iowa and Ohio State, he managed a combined 220 yards and a touchdown in the new role. It appears Robinson will remain at running back against South Carolina.

Box Score: Michigan's defense stifled its opponent in the first half, limiting South Carolina to three points. The Gamecocks fought back in the second half and Alex Yates' field goal with 6:35 remaining tied the game. A few minutes later, Connor Shaw found Ace Sanders in the end zone for the go-ahead score.Avg. Score (1,001 Simulations): South Carolina 22, Michigan 20

When I edited the lineup to move ML21 out of the lineup (Shaw/Miles/Davis) I get a score of 23-3 Gamecocks. When I move Dylan to


who normally don’t get the spotlight to have their own moment of glory. In fact for some, the Europa League has in many ways been more entertaining than the Champions League.

Atletico Madrid are still in hunt for a 4th place finish in the La Liga, mathematically that is. That in many ways has prevented Simeone from resting any of his top players before the Europa League final. But Atletico have been here before. In fact they won the Europa League just two seasons back in 2009-2010 beating Fulham in the final. They will start as favorites on paper, but as a famous line goes “Games are not played on paper, are they?“

Athletic Bilbao on the other hand have had a contrasting La Liga and Europa League. They havefaltered in domestic league and presently stand in 10th position. There poor performance in the league has been inexplicable. In Europe though, they have been as good as it gets. The story of Bilbao would make a wonderful motion picture. Marcelo Bielsa is widely accepted as one of the best managers around. He has moulded this talented team and made out of Basque players into a well oiled machine. If they win the trophy today, it will go down as the biggest achievement in the club’s history.

TheHardTackle brings you the preview of this mouth-watering clash between Los Leones and Los Colchoneros.

Team News and Tactical Brief

Atletico Madrid

Diego Simeone does have some selection headaches before the big game. Tiago Mendes will miss the final, following his dismissal in the 2nd


to Watch Out For

Radamel Falcao (Atletico Madrid) Radamel Falcao (Atletico Madrid)

The Colombian striker has been in wonderful form this season. He has scored a total of 30 goals already, seven of which have come in the European competition. In fact, Falcao has scored 27 goals in 28 Europa League games in his career so far.

The prolific striker has attracted a lot of attention from top clubs across Europe and it will be interesting to see how long the Spanish side can hold to to their prized asset. Whatever his future holds, Falcao is sure to have an impact in this mouth-watering clash.

Fernando Llorente (Athletic Bilbao)

ThisAi?? clash between the two Spanish sides will showcase two of the best strikers in the world at the moment. While Atletico will beTwo of WWE's most seasoned Ladder Match competitors collided in the high risk environment in September 2003, when Rob Van Dam and Christian battled over Captain Charisma's Intercontinental Championship Title.

From the beginning, it was RVD's athelticisim against Christian's cunning as Van Dam launched his educated feet the way most competitors throw punches, while the champion targeted his opponent's lower back to keep him grounded. Captain Charisma's game plan was wise and very well may have worked on any ordinary Superstar. Of course, Rob Van Dam isn't an ordinary Superstar. In the end, RVD executed his trademark Five-Star Frog Splash onto Christian from the very top of a ladder positioned in the corner of the ring. Most competitors would have reported to the nearest chiropractor to have their spines


Wade scored eight of his 19 points in a third-quarter spurt that saved Miami from what was starting to look like a freefall, and the Heat went on to defeat the Celtics 115-99 on Thursday night. Miami led by as many as 26 shortly after halftime, then saw the Celtics peel off 16 unanswered points before Wade helped quickly restore order.

"I've been on this train with him for a long time," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "He has a way of making all of us look a lot better. ... Sometimes this league is just about having great players in those important moments, swing moments during the course of a game."

"We're trying to move up. We're trying to continue to get better," said Wade, who helped the Heateven their record at 20-20. "You want to be able to win some of these games against the top teams."

Kyrie Irving led all scorers with 22 on 10-for-19 shooting for the Celtics, who scored a season-high 135 points one night earlier in a win over Indiana — but were held under 100 for only the fourth time all season, the first since Nov. 17.

Irving went to the Heat practice court immediately after the game, shooting for about 30 minutes.

"Just good to get some shots up, just release some stress a little bit after a tough loss," Irving said.

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Marcus Smart scored 18, and


Jayson Tatum and Marcus Morris each had 17 for the Celtics.

Miami outscored Boston 17-4 in the final 3:07 of the first half and took a 61-43 lead into the break — the largest halftime edge for the Heat since November. And an 11-3 run to start the third pushed the lead out to 72-46, which would seem to indicate that Miami was in complete control.

Looks were deceiving.

Boston scored the next 16 points, with Tatum getting six of them and the Celtics were right back in the game. Wade made a 3-pointer to stop the run, and scored eight points in the final 3:47 of the quarter as the Heat took an 83-72 lead into the final 12 minutes.

Tyler Johnson got a pair of 3s to fall in a67-second span early in the fourth, and just like that Miami was back up 95-76.

"They really, really shot it and made big ones when we came back in the second half to stymie that," Celtics coach Brad Stevens said. "But that's a result of being comfortable all night."

TIP-INS

Celtics: Boston trailed for 4:04 in its last four games, combined. It trailed for 4:14 in the first quarter alone Thursday. ... Boston has now lost three straight to Miami, the first time that's happened since 2012.

Heat: It was Miami's 400th consecutive home sellout. ... Winslow wore "RIP Sammy Farkas" on his sneakers, a tribute to a Miami Beach teen who died in a fall earlier this week. ... Jones made a 40-footer to end the first half, and had a


60-footer to end the third quarter hit the rim and bounce off. ... James Johnson got rave reviews from teammates for dunking on Irving in the opening minutes. "Definitely nice," Tyler Johnson said.

HELLO, AGAIN

Boston and Miami didn't play each other in 2018 — the last meeting between the clubs, before Thursday, came on Dec. 20, 2017. The Celtics played every other NBA team at least once in 2018; the Heat played every team besides Boston and Golden State, who they last faced on Dec. 3, 2017 and won't see for the first time this year until Feb. 10 in Oakland.

NOTHING EASY

The game's first free throw came more than 17 minutes after tip-off, when Winslow got to the line for Miami. Boston didn't take a free throw until 10:31Preliminary development of the School Health Intensity Rating Scale.
Nursing consultants from the states included in the Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center, U.S. Dept. of Education, identified the need for a scale to classify student health status. The classification would allow schools to determine the level of needed student health services. This identified need led to the development of the School Health Intensity Rating Scale (SHIRS) degree in partnership with Donna A. Peters. RN, PhD. FAAN, developer of the Community Health Intensity Rating Scale (CHIRS). The consultants and school nurses participating in the project piloted the scale and a scale research project is now in progress.


is sufficient to support Jones's conviction, the in-court identifications were not
 tainted, and the trial court did not err in admitting the four witnesses' testimony under
 exceptions to the hearsay rule and the extraneous offenses to show Jones's motive to kill
 Graves, we affirm the trial court's judgment.

                         FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

        Yolanda Graves and Stevie Jones met and began dating in high school. After Jones
 started buying Graves expensive presents and taking her on trips, Graves's father, W.D.
 Johnson, asked her to move from his house. At this time, Graves also dated Jerry Wayne
 Leffall, whois known as both "John" and "Chief."

                                     The Leffall Shooting

       At about 5:30 to 6:00 P.M. on March 6, 1988, Jerry Wayne Leffall took Frederick
Hunter to the grocery store to buy cigarettes. Leffall waited in the car as Hunter went into
the store to buy cigarettes. While Hunter was in the store, Jones drove up and parked
behind Leffall's car. Jones then got out of his car and walked to the driver's side of Leffall's
car. Jones asked Leffall if his name was "John." Leffall told him "no," and


Jones fired at
him twice. Leffall laid on the seat of his car and pretended to be shot. Jones stepped back
arid started shooting again. Jones then got back into his car and shot at Leffall again before
he left. When he heard the shots, Hunter ran out of the store, opened Leffall's car door,
and saw that Leffall was not hurt.

      The two then went to Hunter's house and called the police. Dallas Police Officer
 Paul Rodgers responded and interviewed Hunter and Leffall about the shooting. He
 testified that Leffall told him that he was dating Graves and that angered Jones. Leffall told
 the officer where Graves lived. The officer then talked to Graves who said that Jones had
 admitted to her that he had triedto shoot Leffall. The day after the shooting, Hunter
 picked out Jones's picture from aphotographic array as the person who tried to shoot him.
 The next day, Leffall also selected Jones's picture from the same photographic array.
                                   The Graves's Shooting

        Graves moved back into her father's house aweek or two before her murder. Soon
after Graves moved home, Johnson testified that Graves told him that she thought that
Jones would kill her and that she was scared of Jones. Graves slept on the living room
couch. On March 5, Graves's


stepsister, Yolanda Rivers, overheard Jones and Graves
talking in the living room while she got something to eat in the kitchen. Jones told Graves
that he loved her and that she owed her love to him. Jones also reminded Graves of his
gifts to her. Graves then came into the kitchen, and Jones followed her. In the kitchen,
Graves told Jones that she was pregnant with Leffall's baby. Jones replied that he would
now kill Leffall.

       On March 6, Jones spent the afternoon with Graves at her father's house. When
Graves went to the restroom, Jones took the clothes from her closet that he had bought for
her and left. Later that evening, Graves talked to her aunt, Patsy Henderson, on the phone.
Henderson said that Graves put her onher
 because she feared what Jones might do. Henderson testified that Graves called again
 around midnight to tell her that Jones had called her father and told him that he gave his
 daughter syphilis. Graves told Henderson that she only talked to Jones because she wanted
 to tell him that he was aliar. Henderson testified that she told Graves to quit answering
the phone because that is how Jones knew that she was at home.

        Johnson and Rivers each said that they overheard Graves as she talked on the phone
with Jones. Johnson testified that he heard Graves tell Jones that she knew he tried to kill
Leffall, and that she was going to tell the police about the shooting and ask ajudge for


a
peace bond to keep him away from her. Rivers testified that Graves also told Jones that
he should hurt her and not Leffall because she was the one that ended their relationship.
After the conversation on the phone ended, Graves told her father that Jones tried to shoot
Leffall. Johnson demanded that Graves not talk to Jones again. That same day Officer
Rodgers came to the Johnson house to interview Graves about the Leffall shooting. Officer
Rodgers testified that Graves told him that Jones had admitted to her that he had tried to
shoot Leffall.

                                           -4-
        At about 3:00 A.M. on March 7, someone fired gunshots into the Johnson home
 through the living room windows. The Johnson household ran into the room and found
 Graves unconscious on the living room floor with six gunshot wounds and called the police
 and an ambulance. When the police arrived, Graves was able to tell them that "Stevie" had
 fired the shots. One of Graves's stepsisters told the police that "Stevie" was Stevie Jones.
 The ambulance took Graves to the hospital, where she later died.
        Lawrence Durham, the neighbor who lives two houses down from Johnson, testified
 that he heard gunshots on the night of Graves's shooting. When Durham


turned on his
 porch light, he saw Jones run from Johnson's house toward his house, get into acar, and
leave the scene.

       Dallas Police Detective Fred Milligan collected the physical evidence from the
shooting scene. He testified that the gunshots came through the living room windows and
that he recovered fifteen shell casings from the shooting scene. Detective Milligan said the
shots fired into the living room were fired in adownward motion towards the couch on
which Graves slept. He also said that the shots were not random, but were localized and
aimed toward the couch. Dr. Charles Petty, chief medical examiner for Dallas County who
performed Graves's autopsy, testified that Graves was not pregnant and that she died from
her gunshot wounds.

       identified Jones as the man
               who shot at him; and

        (7)    At trial, Leffall identified Jones as the shooter and said he would never forget
               Jones's face.

        Leffall had a clear opportunity to observe his shooter, identified Jones from a
 photographic lineup shown to him two days after the shooting, and never identified anyone
 else as his shooter. Leffall knew Jones from aprevious encounter. Leffall identified Jones
 in open court as the person who tried to shoot him. Viewing the totality of the


that he loved her, wanted her back, and she owed
             him her love;

      (2)    she heard Graves tell Jones that she was pregnant and that he was not the
             baby's father;

      (3)    in response to this statement by Graves, she heard Jones tell Graves that he
             would kill Leffall; and

                          In his ninth point of error, Jones contends that the trial court erred in admitting
 evidence of unproven, extraneous offenses that have not resulted in final convictions. He
 argues that section 3(a) of article 37.07 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure precludes
 the admission of specific conduct to show his character at the punishment phase of trial.
        At the punishment phase, Jones testified that he never sold drugs for himself or
Jamaican drug dealers. After both sides closed, the State asked the trial court's permission
to reopen the case and allow LaTonya Peoples to testify and rebut Jones's testimony.
Peoples testified that Jones sold drugs for aliving and that she had visited his drug house
where she had seen Jones put marijuana and cocaine


A coalition rift was blown into the open when the Liberal Democrats condemned George Osborne for "playing politics" with the deaths of six children after the chancellor highlighted the Mick Philpott case to raise questions about high welfare payments.

Amid deep unease among senior Lib Dems – up to and including Nick Clegg – over the Conservatives' use of the deaths of six children to make the case for controversial welfare reforms, the party went out of its way to distance itself from the chancellor's remarks.

Danny Alexander, the Lib Dem chief secretary to the Treasury, who is usually careful not to criticise the chancellor, made clear his unease. "The Philpott case is an individual tragedy," he said. "Children have died in that case. I think that is where wechoice. I think that is entirely legitimate."

Cameron's intervention shows that the Tories are prepared to use the case of Philpott, who was said to have been claiming £54,253 a year in benefits with his partners and children, to reinforce the series of welfare changes coming into place this month. These include a £26,000 cap on household benefit claims.

On Thursday, Philpott was given a life sentence for the killing of his children in a house fire in Derby. Mrs Justice Thirlwall said he should serve a minimum of 15 years in jail.

The chancellor sparked a storm of protest on Thursday when he questioned the way in which Philpott had been able to claim high levels of benefits. Speaking in Derby, the town where the killings took place, Osborne said:


Key results

Scotland 2 England 2

England’s major wobble in qualifying came in Scotland. The 114th instalment of the world’s oldest international fixture was fiery and full of late drama.

England began four points clear at the top of Group F and dominated the game from the off. Harry Kane had a long-range effort over the stranded Craig Gordon cleared off the line by Kieran Tierney, with Marcus Rashford shooting wide from the rebound, but the match went into half-time goalless.

Then came a breathless second half in which four goals were exchanged in the last 20 minutes. Substitute Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain fired England ahead on 70 minutes, but two exquisite free-kicks from Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths – his first and second goals for Scotland, one in either corner past a despairing JoeHart – within only four minutes of each other turned the game dramatically on its head with time running out. Hampden Park rocked – that is, until Kane volleyed home an ice-cool equaliser for England in the fourth minute of stoppage time (above). For all of their dominance, however, the visitors could only come away with a point.

England 2 Slovakia 1

First hosted second in the group on matchday eight of 10, and after needing a 95th-minute Adam Lallana strike to claim the points in the reverse fixture England were well aware of the challenge Slovakia would present.

That challenge only grew when Stanislav Lobotka ghosted in behind a sleeping defence to give the visitors the lead in the third minute. It took more than half an hour for England


EXCLUSIVE: Despite a lackluster summer and a meh Fourth of July weekend, this past holiday ended up the fourth-best three-day holiday weekend in 21 years — up 40% from last year. How is that even possible? Well, given that the calendar year fell on a Monday, Sunday basically performed like a Saturday and the diversity of product in the marketplace — Finding Dory, The BFG, The Legend Of Tarzan and The Purge: Election Year — also helped (even though there was clearly cannibalism between family titles). This three-day was well above last year’s, when box office monster Jurassic World was in its fourth weekend and the animated family favorite Inside Out was in its third weekend.

One of the big reasons for the surge is where the Fourth ofHow far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving andtolerant of the weak and strong.Someday in your life you will have been all of these.- George Washington Carver

Mexico City

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn,
good and ill together.- William Shakespeare

Afghanistan

The great use of a life is to spend for something that outlasts it.- William James

Japan

May you live every day of your life.- Jonathan Swift

India

Afghanistan

This boy has never held a book in his hands, has never attended school, and has never knowna life without the threat of violence.

Morocco

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.- Rabindranath Tagore

Afghanistan

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Brazil

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.- Boris Pasternak

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to picnic and partied among themselves. Gradually they were able to obtain their own accommodations and earn enough to provide food and clothing for their now growing families.

As mentioned earlier the Latvians had a very different experience during the war years. In Germany they were considered refugees or displaced persons. Many were housed in United Nations-sponsored DP camps. There the school age children attended school while their parents did their best to plan for their futures. The greatest hope was that Latvia would be liberated by the Allies. Barring this, they looked to emigrate to North America or Australia.  Through their connection with people in the gypsum or cement industry, and through Ernest Leja, a small group made their way to Lower Saxony where they connected with BalticConfirmed: David Hogg A Supporter Of John Podesta’s ‘Center For American Progress’

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Outgoing senior Obama adviser John Podesta reflected on his latest White House stint Friday, listing his favorite moments and biggest regrets from the past year. Chief among them: depriving the American people of the truth about UFOs.The Syrian “civil war” has entered its seventh year. While the Syrian Arab Army and its allies have successfully retaken the cities of Aleppo and Palmyra from the Islamic State (IS) group, the proxy groups that have backing from U.S., NATO and Gulf Cooperation Council forces continue their bloody offensive against the Syrian government.

“Rebel” groups continue to rebrand and regroup into various coalitions. All these groups aim to destroy Syria, which is why the U.S. and NATO powers as well as their allies Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and Israel have at times armed or financed them or given them other aid.

The Syrian Army, with the support of Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq and Russia, leads the charge against these forces.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), including the Democratic Union Party


mm rounds containing depleted uranium (DU) were shot from Air Force A-10 fixed-wing aircraft on Nov. 16 and Nov. 22, 2015, destroying about 350 vehicles in the country’s eastern desert.”

The U.S. used large amounts of DU weapons in Iraq in 1991, in Yugoslavia in 1999 and again in Iraq in 2003, mainly against tanks, as DU shells penetrate armor. Iraqi scientists found an increased incidence of cancer, birth defects and other health problems in regions where there had been heavy use of DU weapons.

Desperate, U.S. escalates conflict

As the Syrian Army continues its offensive against reactionary sectarian forces, some U.S.-backed, the U.S. deployed an estimated 400 Marines and Rangers to Manbij, Syria. (Reuters, March 9) A U.S. Air Force official stated that the purpose of the deployment is toto the region, they have participated in multilateral training exercises at the United Arab Emirates' Air Warfare Center. That may be what they are doing now. Their presence has not gone unnoticed. Iran's Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi told the state-run Fars news agency that it "is a harmful move" that could jeopardize regional stability, reported Bloomberg April 30. The Air Force also has been deploying F-15C Eagles to the region for the first time in years to help promote regional stability and security.


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Edenfield Training has supplied a Cheshire school with a brand new Automated External Defibrillator (AED), and is in the process of training staff in its use. Darnhall Primary School, in Winsford, have engaged Edenfield previously to train the school’s first...Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a traditional North American holiday to give thanks at the conclusion of the harvest season. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada.

The earliest Thanksgiving events were held in the British Colonies, at present day Berkeley Plantation in Virginia in 1619 and at Plymouth in present day Massachusetts in 1621.

On December 4, 1619, a group of 38 English settlers arrived at Berkeley Hundred on the north bank of the James River about 20 miles upstream from Jamestown, where the first permanent settlement of the Colony of Virginia was established on May 14, 1607.
The group's charter required that the day of arrival be observed yearly as a "day of


thanksgiving" to God. On that first day, Captain John Woodleaf held the service of thanksgiving.

Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts were particularly grateful to Squanto, the Native American and former British slave who taught them how to both catch eel and grow corn and also served as their native interpreter. Without Squanto's assistance, the settlers might not have survived in the New World.

The Plymouth settlers (who came to be called "Pilgrims") set apart a holiday immediately after their first harvest in 1621. They held an autumn celebration of food, feasting, and praising God. The Governor of Plymouth invited Grand Sachem Massasoit and the Wampanoag people to join them in the feast. Evidence to support that claim came from diaries of Plymouth. The settlers fed and entertained the Native Americans foreach set from scratch, from the video to the music selection. But we knew it would be really boring having just a video, so we had the idea to have other on-stage live dancers.

Hatsune Miku’s opening act on June 2nd at Lady Gaga’s artRAVE in San Diego

CFM: Even though Miku was announced as an opening guest, we knew the majority of the audience would be Gaga fans, so we decided to try something new. We wanted to do something special for the music set list, and the first song I found was “Glass Wall“. It was a really good song, and the English was well done. The song gave me a feeling similar to the first Hatsune Miku songs from 2007, when she first started getting popular. So


hip, hard, and cool". Fosse combined "vaudeville, striptease, magic shows, nightclubs, film and Broadway musicals".

Pop music and television

Contemporary jazz became well known because of shows like So You Think You Can Dance. Mia Michaels's earlier work exemplifies this style. Some other companies and choreographers that create contemporary jazz dance are Sonya Tayeh, Mandy Moore, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. Commercial jazz, which has been popular since the 1980s, combines aspects of hip hop and jazz and is often done to pop music. This style can be seen in the music videos of Janet Jackson and Paula Abdul. Commercial jazz often includes more "tricks." Commercial jazz and contemporary jazz are both seen at dance competitions. Another variety of jazz is Latin jazz. "Maria Torres developed and popularized the fusionfurther animal studies to establish the effective dose, followed by human trials. ďPeople who are suffering should have the right to decide carefully for themselves whether or not to take MDMA,Ē says American drugs policy campaigner Rick Doblin. His organisation, MAPS, recently won approval from the Food and Drug Administration for a human trial of ecstasy for treating post-traumatic stress disorder.

Regaining control

The latest study was prompted by the experiences of a former stuntman, Tim Lawrence. He made headlines when he claimed in a BBC TV documentary that ďEĒ enabled him to regain control of his body for hours at a time.

Parkinsonís experts at the University of Manchester decided to test Lawrenceís claims. Concerns about the dangers of MDMA ruled out human trials, says team member Jonathan Brotchie, who


In the very opening stages of the rebellion, Margaret Keogh was to become the first civilian fatality of the fighting.

A nurse at the South Dublin Union (SDU), she had been employed there since 1897, caring for some of the most unfortunate people in a city that knew great poverty and hardship. The SDU had been described as housing “thousands of the capital's destitute, infirm and insane.”

Over a sprawling fifty-acre site, the SDU would witness some of the fiercest fighting of Easer Monday, a day that was relatively quiet for many of the rebel garrisons. The task of seizing it fell upon Éamonn Ceannt, who commanded the 4th Battalion of the Irish Volunteers.

To his great misfortune, he found a body of men that numbered approximately 120 at his disposal.In the confusion of the countermanding order of Easter Sunday, many of his men had stayed at home. He should have had a force of 700 men to call upon.

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Why occupy the SDU? Given that it was home to some of the poorest inhabitants of the city, it may seem morally questionable to us today. The primary logic in seizing the site, historian Paul O’Brien maintains, was its location.

Having


examined the fighting there in detail, he maintains that “the South Dublin Union and its outposts were a major defensive position in the south-west of the city.”

Ceannt and his men intended to make life difficult for British forces entering the city from Kingsbridge Station (Heuston Station to us today), and to attack reinforcements entering Dublin city from the Royal Barracks (Collins Barracks) and the Richmond Barracks.

Ceannt’s men moved into action calmly as the rebellion was beginning. One staff member at the SDU recalled that “they immediately took over the buildings known as the board room and clerks offices and also a department called the orchard sheds and the Nurses home where Ceannt remained in command. No word was spoken to me.”

Remarkably, Margaret Keogh did not abandon her position.One account has it that she informed Ceannt and his men that she was “with them heart and soul.” Regardless of that political sentiment, her first priority was the sick and infirm.

The Volunteers at the SDU were engaged in combat shortly after occupying the complex by members of the Royal Irish Regiment, while the Royal Dublin Fusiliers were also to become entangled in the fighting.

Dan McCarthy, a rebel on guard within the Acute Hospital building of the complex, recalled the tetchy atmosphere on the first day of the Rising, remembering that “to our surprise a British military party appeared in the corridor and we opened fire on them. Since there were only the two of us in it, having fired on the military party we decided to get


participant. Academic publications, popular histories and even Wikipedia list her as a member of Cumann na mBan, the women’s auxiliary to the Irish Volunteers.

In reality, she hailed from Leighlinbridge in Carlow, and was a descendent of Myles Keogh, the celebrated American military leader who perished in June 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, better known today as ‘Custer’s Last Stand’.

It was Myles who first adopted the unusual spelling of the more-common surname Kehoe, and Margaret appears to have used (or at least been known) by both variations. The confusion around her background may stem from the fact she was listed in The Last Post, a republican commemorative book first published in 1932, where it is noted Ceannt told his men that "Nurse Keogh was theFirst Martyr", and that he "asked the Volunteers to so remember her."

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In recent times however, a new and intriguing argument has been made by Clare historian Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc, author of a new history of the Truce period that marked the end of the War of Independence.

In his book, Ó Ruairc details the murder of another woman of the same name, shot on her own doorstep at Stella Gardens in Irishtown on 10 July 1921. An active member of Cumann na mBan, she is buried in


Ukraine Prepares To Sign EU Trade Deal That Was At The Center Of The Euromaidan Protests

Members of Ukraine's State Security Administration (top) clash with members of the Euromaidan movement's self-defense units during a rally outside the cabinet of ministers building in Kiev on April 30, 2014. Photo: Reuters/Andrew Kravchenko

Ukraine is finally set to sign the trade agreement with the European Union that became the focal point of nationwide protests against pro-Moscow leader and former President Viktor Yanukovych last fall and ultimately led to his ouster, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

The agreement with the EU, expected to be signed Friday, contains a framework of regulations for Ukraine to follow to reduce corruption and resurrect the debt-ridden economy, AP reported. The EU deal was to be signed by Yanukovych, butcountry's east and led to Russia's takeover of the Crimean peninsula, also triggered clashes between separatists and government troops across eastern Ukraine. And it's feared that with the signing of the new deal Friday in Brussels by Ukraine's new president, Petro Poroshenko, the clashes, which have turned increasingly violent and led to hundreds of deaths and thousands being displaced, could worsen.


Forces loyal to the Syrian regime amassed outside the ancient city of Palmyra on Wednesday, preparing to wrest it back from Islamic State (IS) militants.

The extremist group overran the area in May 2015, seizing its modern town, UNESCO-protected ruins, and a prison so notoriously brutal that it was once described as the "kingdom of death and madness."

Although pro-government media outlets had claimed for months that President Bashar al-Assad's army was on the verge of recapturing the city, it has taken a fresh offensive backed by Russia and Iran to turn that claim into reality.

"At this stage, I look to the involvement of the regime's allies — the Russian air and ground troops and Iran-backed militias — as a way of gaging how serious an operation is," said ChrisKozak, an analyst at the Institute for the Study of War who specializes in mapping Syria's conflict.

Assad's army has all but collapsed under the pressures of its five-year war, leaving his foreign backers in control of the fight across key battlefronts.

Experts said that Russia's deepening involvement in the fight for Palmyra, coming just over a week after President Vladimir Putin announced the partial withdrawal of his troops from Syria, points to a short-term shift in the country's fighting priorities.

With the fight against opposition groups largely on hold thanks to an internationally brokered ceasefire, Russia is turning its attention to IS, the group whose threat Putin initially used to justify military intervention back in September.

"From Putin's perspective, this is the time to turn attention to the Islamic State," said


Kozak. "While the cessation of hostilities means fighting is largely neutralized on other fronts, this is a very clear way to show the Europe that it's genuinely interested in fighting Islamic State."

Palmyra's recapture would also be a strategic victory. He who rules the oasis city will also control its surrounding desert, an area of some 12,000 square miles extending to the Iraqi border — and bring protection to the largely regime-cities of Homs, Hama, and Damascus to the west.

Moscow said this week that it was flying up to 25 sorties a day in support of government forces in the Palmyra countryside. There were also suggestions that Russian special forces were involved in the battle: IS boasted last week that it had killed five of Moscow's soldiers, at leastone of whom appeared to have been involved in bomb disposal.

Local reports also suggested this week that Iran, a key regime ally, had sent elite forces and an Afghan-dominated militia to the Palmyra area.

In response, IS fighters appeared to be putting up a fierce fight, killing at least 26 pro-government fighters on Monday alone, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group.

"They're telling us all to stay in our houses. The noises are terrible," one resident, who asked not to be named out of fear for his family's safety, told VICE News. "It feels like a battle for the end of the world."

Another, identified as Khaled, told Syria Direct that IS front-lines were largely being manned by teenagers, following heavy losses in earlier pitched


battles and airstrikes.

"We are seeing hundreds of rockets and shells a day, either from planes or ground artillery and mortars," he said. "This bombardment has flattened entire neighborhoods."

This is only Moscow's second concerted attempt to take on IS, after an earlier intervention to break the militants' long-standing siege on a regime air base in east Aleppo last year.

Human rights groups have instead accused Russia of focusing the majority of its firepower on opposition-held areas, many of them heavily populated. Hundreds of civilians have been killed in the air raids and hospitals appear to have been deliberately targeted.

Victory in Palmyra would be deeply symbolic. The IS takeover of the city and its ancient ruins horrified international observers, generating wall-to-wall media coverage of the regime's collapse in the face ofthe extremist group's advancing army.

The resident who spoke to VICE News described the militants' rule as a 'lifetime of hell'

They have ruled the city with an iron fist. Its sandy amphitheater, one of the ancient panorama's most famous sites, has been repurposed as a stage for executions. Public squares have been turned into forums from which the militants trumpet their latest diktats, and many of the ancient ruins — once part of the most complete panorama to survive classical antiquity — have been blown to smithereens.

The resident who spoke to VICE News described the militants' rule as a "lifetime of hell." In the family's moments of greatest fear, he said that his 16-year-old daughter had spoken of suicide, a deep taboo in Arab societies. "I'm not ashamed to


defense for civilization," he said, using an alternative acronym for IS.

In footage broadcast by the Syrian Ikhbariya television station on Wednesday, a group of regime officers, apparently standing at the city's outskirts, broke into pro-government chants as their commander said: "God willing, within few hours we will enter and secure the town."The path of the insights and beauty is at the Five Lands and Portofino, Italy

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Posey was again one of the sport’s most disciplined hitters in 2018 and trailed only Wilson Ramos in batting average among all catchers with at least 400 plate appearances, but the 31-year-old was a huge disappointment for those that paid top dollar for him. The reasons behind Posey’s downfall weren’t too surprising. He played only 105 games before getting shut downfor good after late-August hip surgery and saw his power tail off when he was healthy, continuing a trend that’s persisted since 2015. More troubling was the fact that the power loss was even more acute than usual, as his ISO plummeted from .142 in 2017 all the way to .098, limiting him to just five homers. With Posey's status for Opening Day in peril and his home-run output unlikely to dramatically recover, he's not a comfortable top-five draft pick among fantasy catchers, even though his name brand will probably keep him in that range in more casual leagues.

Posey remains the best pure-hitting catcher in the major leagues, but his fantasy appeal has been dinged in recent seasons by steadily declining power and a depletion of talent around


him in San Francisco. In a season that saw record home-run totals, Posey managed 12 long balls 568 plate appearances, marking his third consecutive season of decline in that department. He hit just three homers at home and now has a total of 16 homers at AT&T Park over the past three seasons. His strikeout and walk rates were nearly identical from 2016, with Posey posting stellar marks of 11.6 percent and 10.7 percent, respectively, but the counting totals suffered as the Giants posted the second-lowest run total in the National League. He's still worthy of a lofty investment, but Posey is now clearly behind Gary Sanchez at the catcher position, and the likes of Willson Contreras and J.T. Realmuto are closing the gap behind Posey.

Posey had anunderwhelming season -- by his standards -- in 2016. While his production was still good enough to rank in the top five among all catchers, he produced below the standard he set from 2012 to 2015. His home runs, RBI and OPS all decreased from 2015, but he did hit more doubles (33) and stole a career-high six bases. The lack of RBI can be attributed to the Giants' struggles at the top of the order in the first half of the season. Missing Hunter Pence to injury for the majority of the season also removed the All-Star catcher's protection in the lineup. Posey's swing and contact rates were right in line with his career percentages, so there is no sign of a significant decline in his approach


at the plate. His numbers only seem disappointing when considering his draft day price. On the bright side, his down year may result in a reduced cost heading into next year's drafts. Posey will likely see his numbers bounce this season to his previous elite levels.

Another year, another All-Star performance from Posey. He ranked first among all catchers in batting average (.318), RBI (95), OBP (.379), SLG (.470), OPS (.849) and WAR (6.1). Those who paid the steep price for him on draft day were rewarded with the best fantasy catcher in the game, especially in leagues that factor in OBP and SLG. He is able to sustain his elite performance with a less-than-intimidating supporting cast due to his patience at the plate (47.9 swing%) and high contactof the last three seasons, and he didn't hit below .250 in any month of the 2014 campaign. He struggled in the postseason (.558 OPS) and especially in the World Series (4-for-26), but Posey was one of the main reasons why the Giants earned a wild card birth in the first place, and of course San Francisco won it all regardless. Against right-handers, Posey hit .314/.366/.478, up from .283/.362/.431 a year before, and he was red-hot down the stretch in the regular season, finishing with a .978 OPS in the second half. Sure, his walk rate was down more than two percent (from 10.1% to 7.8%), but Posey again improved his strikeout rate (to 11.4%) and has proven to be an extremely consistent offensive contributor. He'll be just


May thanks to a brutal collision at the plate, so his follow up to his Rookie of the Year campaign came to a premature end. He wasn't playing as well as he did in 2010 before going down, and while the big drop came in slugging percentage (.505 compared to .389), his OBP was actually up (.357 to .368). The injury was gruesome (broken fibula and severely strained ligaments), and there's concern about his long-term ability to catch, but he suffered it early enough in the season for him to be expected to be fully ready for 2012. Posey has terrific work ethic, and his bat is for real, so he should be one of the first five catchers off the board during fantasy drafts.

After Posey showed hehad nothing left to prove in the minors by hitting .349/.442/.552 over 172 at-bats in Triple-A last season, the Giants finally promoted him in late May, and he stayed with the big club for good. He posted an .862 OPS with strong plate discipline, winning National League Rookie of the Year honors in the process. Posey's 18 homers were the second most by a catcher in the NL, and he did it in just 406 at-bats. He also got rave reviews for his work behind the plate, and don't forget he's still just 24. Posey doesn't have the benefit of the DH during his off days catching, and his home park typically suppresses homers, but he's one of the best young hitters in the game and is locked


in the middle of San Francisco's lineup. With his natural ability to hit for average combined with his developing power, there's an argument Posey should be the first catcher off the board in fantasy leagues.

Posey hit .325 with 18 homers, 84 runs scored and 80 RBI over 422 at-bats during his first real stint in the minors last year. He also showed good plate discipline (68:62 K:BB ratio) and more than held his own as a 22-year-old in Triple-A (.902 OPS), as he’s been put on the fast track. Since he was given just 17 at-bats with the Giants, it’s unclear why the team called him up at all, other than to prematurely start his arbitration clock. Posey is clearly one of the best prospects in all ofbaseball, but he’s not ready for a full-time gig behind the plate in the majors. He could enter 2010 with the Giants with a big spring training, but Posey will likely share catching duties with a veteran in San Francisco if he’s not getting more seasoning in the minors.

Posey was awarded the Golden Spikes Award as the top amateur player in 2008. He led the nation in batting average (.472), on-base percentage (.572) and slugging percentage (.908) in his junior season at Florida State. The fifth overall pick in last year’s draft, Posey immediately became one of baseball’s best prospects. The former shortstop should be able to handle catching duties, and his bat is for real. Posey is worthy of a high pick in keeper leagues and should


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Even the AS's decision to place Baberowski's project on the agenda against the expressed wishes of the student body reveals its utterly anti-democratic character. On April 25, the student parliament voted almost unanimously against the project. Only two of the three deputies from the RCDS, the student organisation of the Christian Democrats, voted against the motion. The student parliament not only condemned Baberowski's project on dictatorships, but also the attempts by the university administration to suppress student opposition. The full text of the resolution read:

“The student parliament condemns the personal and political attacks on a student member of the AS from university administration, several media outlets, and professors. They legitimately published parts of the document on Twitter that will serve as the basis for the discussionin the public part of the AS on whether a centre for centre for comparative research of dictatorships should be established. The student parliament opposes the use of Humboldt University funds to create the centre, which is conceived of as a think tank based on the theories of Carl Schmitt, the 'crown jurist of the Third Reich,' and aims to advise political decision-makers on options for action. The issue here is not the scholarly examination of dictatorships, but the legitimation of authoritarian forms of rule. The student parliament calls on the members of the Academic Senate to continue to oppose the creation of such a centre in the future.”

Baberowski filed the motion in support of creating the centre with Anna-Bettina Kaiser, a law professor who has worked on


who was already calling for authoritarian forms of rule during the Weimar Republic and backed the Nazis' consolidation of power following 1933. In honour of this Nazi jurist, Baberowski delivered the Carl Schmitt lecture at the university in late 2016 after being invited to do so by the Carl Schmitt Foundation.

Through a number of cooperation agreements, Baberowski's project is to be expanded both nationally and internationally. His department was recently invited to a “dictatorships in transition” workshop at Princeton University, which made available $300,000 for a joint project.

Baberowski's initial attempt to have the AS quietly pass the motion on January 15 failed.

Prior to the vote, the project met with strong opposition in the review process, when it was attacked by two out of the four academics and bythe students. Prior to the AS meeting, a student representative posted extracts from the motion on Twitter along with critical comments. The IYSSE posted a statement titled “‘Dictatorships as alternative orders’: Not on our watch” on its homepage. The TAZ newspaper also took up the issue and published a critical article.

This triggered a storm of outrage, led by Baberowski himself. He denounced his students as criminals and left-wing extremists on Facebook and insulted the TAZ journalist in the style of the far-right Alternative for Germany as a “denunciator.” Several right-wing media outlets that previously backed Baberowski, including Cicero, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Welt rushed to his defence.

HU President Sabine Kunst, a Social Democrat who had previously taken legal action against the student council at the initiative


of the AfD, resorted to authoritarian measures to suppress the opposition among students to Baberowski's right-wing think tank and the manoeuvres of the HU administration.

At the next AS sitting, she introduced a motion to change the order of business and restrict in principle access to the documents of the session. Although this motion was not immediately passed by the Senate, it pursues a definite goal: the university's decisions on which dubious, right-wing think tanks to fund should remain private affairs. Any criticism from students or the media is to be blocked from the outset and its authors intimidated.

The university administration's dictatorial actions, supported by their allies in the AS, underscores the extent of the shift to the right within ruling circles. To prevent the return of dictatorship andthe -million construction cost was shared by the city and the Centre's patrons. The Bluma Appel Theatre has been the Canadian Stage Company’s main stage for over 25 years.

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Scott K. Murray, 81, of Wapakoneta, died at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, at his residence.
He was born Dec. 31, 1929, in Bluffton, the son of Ethel (Scoles) and Nile Murray, who preceded him in death. On Sept. 8, 1948, he married Patricia J. O’Brien, and she died July 18, 2005.
Surviving are four children, Jeff (Elizabeth D.) Murray, of Wapakoneta, Marie Madeiros, of Wapakoneta, Kelly (Martha) Murray, of Botkins, Julie (Nathan) Martin, Yankton, S.D.; a former daughter-in-law, Druscilla Caudill, of Cresent City, Fla.; a special friend and companion, Macky Thompson, and her daughter, Nikki, of Wapakoneta; 15 grandchildren; 11 great grandchildren; three siblings, Jeanette (Max) Miller, of Loveland, Maurice (Dolores) Murray, of Seattle, Wash., Marilyn (Howard) Shelly, of Bluffton.
He was preceded in


death by a son, Thomas “Tom” Murray; and a brother and sister-in-law, Roger and Kay Murray.
He worked as an electrician and high voltage lineman with the Ohio Power Co., and later with the city of Wapakoneta and the city of St. Marys. He was a member of the NRA., a charter member of the Shawnee Long Rifle Association, and SOFA (Southern Ohio Forge Assn.) His hobbies included gunsmithing, blacksmithing, and playing the mandolin.
A Celebration of Life will be at 1 p.m., Sat. Sept. 10, 2011, at Scott’s woods.
Arrangements are being handled by the Bayliff & Eley Funeral Home in Wapakoneta.
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by one radical faction within a democracy.
And that radical faction has as one of its major goals the elimination of democracy.
Sure, they mouth platitudes about the glories of the homeland, as Hitler did. But take the Holocaust away from the history of the Third Reich and tell us, honestly, if you think the Busheviks are headed in a different direction?
Hitler was brilliant in selecting Goebbels as his propaganda minister. Both of them knew that mass media was the way to incite the masses and gain their allegiance to sanction a takeover of the state.
Hitler did it with film, radio and print media. The Busheviks are doing it with television and radio as the leading edge of their blitzkrieg toward permanent one-party control of America.
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