to enter into the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels are fulfilled." Brother Branham will pour out the Seventh vial of jealousy on the non-elect church at the close of the Christian dispensation to distinguish the foolish virgins from the unbelievers and make-believers (Revelation 16:17). Then the resurrection and glorification of the sleeping Church Age saints and the manifestation of the Sons of God "who are alive and remain" will commence.

Revelation 16:17, "And [William Branham] the seventh angel poured out his Vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne breaking the "Silence in heaven" saying, It is done," as the Seventh Vial of God's wrath pours out upon the apostate world church system.

Revelation 21:6-7,"The seventh angel, William Branham, told John, It is done. [The perfect tense of Jesus' declaration, "It is finished," continues "to be finished" to the end of the age, through the millennium to the general resurrection and white throne judgment, until sin, sinners, history and anything that is an affront to God is cast into the Lake of fire where the pope and Satan are (Revelation 20:10). Then John (representing Christ's end-time Bride) sees New Jerusalem, Christ's Bride of all Ages "prepared as a bride adorned for her husband" descending from God out of heaven to a fifteen hundred mile high Mount Zion on the renewed earth. This will be "the restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since


in Newsletter 976, North Korea was created by Jew-controlled USA after WWII as a wedge between China and Russia to trigger war at the opportune hour. Like Iran, North Korea wishes to be treated with respect but needs a deterrent against US aggression. Propaganda suggesting North Korea might strike the US mainland exposes the low IQ of those who watch TV. What would they do next? North Korea's goal is normalization of US-North Korea diplomacy through a peace treaty, a guarantee of its sovereignty and perhaps reunion with the South. Russia, China and Iran all desire peace, but the 'hidden hand' seeks global hegemony and the united States has a death wish.

In our main article "The Cupola" Brother Branham said, "the revival is just about over. You rememberas THUS SAITH THE LORD, I said, America made her final decision in 1946. Watch, since then. She's gone, and there's nothing left but judgment and chaos. Look what's happened in that much time. Just watch it, how it's going to keep faster and faster. We're at the end. We're living in the shadows of His coming. "There'll be signs in the heavens above and in the earth, men's hearts failing, fear, perplexed of times, distress between the nations." How the people will "be heady, high-minded," how "the daughters of Zion, the church will walk haughty, high-minded, with the way she'd walk, and mince and twist as she went." Where are we at? We're with Belteshazzar's big rock-and-roll party. And the church has been caught in the tide


Bible.

Your brother-in-Christ Anthony Grigor-Scott

Washington pushes harder against Russia

July 31, 2017 — The Russian government, like Chamberlain's, has not responded to provocations far more dangerous than Chamberlain faced, because, like Chamberlain, the Russian government prefers peace to war. The question is whether the Russian government is avoiding or encouraging war by its non-response to illegal sanctions and propagandistic accusations and demonizations. Russia has even allowed Washington to put ABM bases on its borders with Poland and Romania. This is like the US permitting Russia to put missile bases in Cuba.

Russia is disadvantaged because, unlike the United States, Russia is an open society, not a police state like the US where dissent is controlled and suppressed. The Russian government is handicapped by its decision to permit foreign ownership of someof its media. It is disadvantaged by its decision to accept hundreds of American and European financed NGOs that organize protests and constantly level false charges at the Russian government. The Russian government permits this because it mistakenly believes Washington and its vassals will see Russia as a tolerant democracy and welcome it into the Western Family of Nations.

Russia is also disadvantaged by its educated upper class, professors and businessmen who are Western oriented. The professors want to be invited to conferences at Harvard University. The businessmen want to be integrated into the Western business community. These people are known as "Atlanticist Integrationists." They believe Russia's future depends on acceptance by the West and are willing to sell out Russia in order to gain this acceptance. Even some


of Russia's youth think everything is great in America where the streets are paved with gold, and some of the Russian media take their cue from the Western presstitutes.

It is a difficult situation for the Russian government. The Russians mistakenly believed that the demise of the Soviet Union made us all friends. It seems only Gorbachev understands that the Soviet collapse removed all constraint on Washington's hegemonic behaviour . . . Full story: paulcraigroberts.org

Comment: Under HR 3364, the "Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act," or edict, the EU (and indeed all) nations that ignore trade sanctions against Russia, North Korea and Iran will lose all assets in the US, be refused entry to international banks and forbidden to pursue business activities outside EU. But Daniel 9:26 and Revelation17:11-16 inform us that Rome and the Black Nobility will gain the upper hand over the US which will come under Judaeo-Roman and Jewish bankster suzerainty and serve as Rome's bag man and enforcer, the (once) Protestant image unto the beast.

This will divide the East from the West after the midst of Daniel's Seventieth Week as Daniel and Jesus prophesied. I see the Eastern nations forsaking the SWIFT money transfer system for the BRICS alternative. The Rouble and Yuan have strong gold backing, the US dollar is backed by Chutzpah, gold stolen from the Ukraine and Libya (US$150bn) and forced payment for oil in US dollars that many nations bypass, and the oil price is falling. Vatican City State will reinvigorate the US and Western European states when


it refinances the US dollar with gold.

Churchill the Movie

June 10, 2017 — Churchill certainly acted on occasion as a "doddering fool" as portrayed in the new movie Churchill, reviewed by Chris Knight (NP June 9, 2017). However, to dismiss his disastrous seeming ineptitude as merely drunken stupidity, hardly does him credit. The Great Man was arguably the most profoundly evil war criminal of all time. He was also probably the greatest con-artist ever, spellbinding the media and whole otherwise-sane populations into thinking WWII was a splendid idea, even though the catastrophic experience of WWI was still within recent living memory.

In 1939, Churchill and his "War Party" campaigned for war against Germany in the full knowledge that the real threat to Western Civilization was Bolshevist Russia, not our culturedChristian German kinfolk who had done nothing to harm us. Clear confirmation of his perfidy emerged when Germany and Russia invaded Poland and Britain declared war only on Germany when the occasion called for neutrality and eventually a NATO-style alliance to overthrow the cruel Soviet dictatorship and liberate its terrorized subjects.

Britain had a second chance to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in 1940 when Hitler offered a munificent peace treaty that would have saved the British Empire and millions of lives, but Churchill, inflamed by hatred imparted by his secret, vengeful Zionist paymasters, rejected the offers and doomed Britain, and Western Civilization to inevitable collapse. For this calamitous, contrived blunder and his many other fatal decisions, "that Bastard Churchill", as he was known to colleagues who


understood him, does not deserve enshrinement in movies as a statesman, no matter how inept, but rather should be condemned in perpetuity as an arch-traitor and war monger supreme, responsible for incalculable loss of life and loss of freedom, especially freedom of speech, by survivors and their descendants.

Churchill's image as a competent and fearless leader is a myth that can be demolished easily by any objective, intrepid researcher. The myth originated when Churchill was sent to South Africa as a young correspondent to cover the Boer War. To create a story, he persuaded a gullible local British Commander to send an armoured train into Boer territory and to take him along. The Boers readily captured the train, taking the troops and Churchill prisoner. Churchill, left unguarded, easily "escaped",and was given undeserved acclaim, while the British Commander was reprimanded for his folly.

The notoriety helped Churchill win a seat in Parliament and eventually appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty, He soon revealed his bloated ego and incompetence in the Dardanelles Campaign when thousands of Australians and New Zealanders were mindlessly sacrificed in a hopeless assault (a lethal stupidity Churchill repeated when he sent Canadian soldiers to be slaughtered on the impassable beach-front at Dieppe).

In the mid-'thirties, the discredited warmonger, after accepting large payments from Jewish-American millionaires to stave off his impending bankruptcy, formed a group known as the "War Party" that strongly urged Britain to make war on Germany. After war was declared and the British Army quickly defeated, Britain was left defenceless, but spared by


the pro-British Hitler who allowed the 300,000 man British Army to leave France unhindered. and offered Britain an honourable peace that would have preserved the Empire intact, with German military protection if required. Although Hitler's magnanimity made possible the "miracle of Dunkirk", Churchill, contemptuously and contemptibly, rejected the peace offer, sealing the fate of hundreds of millions, dooming Western Christian civilization and sacrificing his own country, simply to satisfy his quest for Supreme War Lord status and to satisfy his Shylockian Zionist paymasters.

As for hero status, he was a coward, cynically trashing the lives of trusting subjects, military and civilian, while ensuring his own safety (during the Blitz, Churchill would leave London when Intelligence informed him of an impending Luftwaffe attack, then return to bomb sites as soonas the raid ended for photo-ops, giving the impression he had shared the danger).

To satisfy his blood-lust and ensure, before the war's end, his place as the most indefatigably sadistic war criminal of WWII, he ordered the fire-bombing of the undefended City of Dresden, knowing it was packed with women and children fleeing the rapacious Red Army and that most would be burned alive in the holocaust. (W/C "Giff" Gifford of St. John, NB, who unwittingly led an RCAF Squadron in the diabolical attack said, upon learning of the purpose and result of the raid (as told to the Senate CBC "Valour & Horror" enquiry) that he "felt remorse every day" for the rest of his life for the murder of the innocents and mindless obliteration of Europe's


posed by our resurgent, friendly, compatible, cultured German kin.

Churchill became an icon by combining outrageous chutzpah with cunning, deception, duplicity and unmatched eloquence but as a leader was hardly more competent than Steven Harper, and couldn't hold a candle to Mackenzie King, or Hitler, for that matter. Most young Canadians of my era fell for his oratory, and many paid with their lives.

Had justice prevailed, Churchill would have been charged, convicted and hanged as the greatest war criminal of WWII, if not of all time. By declaring war, then prolonging the war instead of accepting Hitler's generous offer of an honourable peace in 1940, he caused 150 million unnecessary casualties, incalculable suffering, destroyed Britain, the country he cynically pretended to save, eliminated Christian Germany as a bulwark againstthe genocidal Soviet dictatorship, betrayed Poland into Stalin's clutches and, calamitously, as it turned out, abandoned innocent, defenceless Palestinians to the tender mercies of sadistic, predatory Zionists.

Churchill set the stage for the Cold War, Middle East wars, Third World chaos, ethnic conflict, refugee invasions and subversion of the Western Christian democracies, leaving them under hostile Jewish hegemony—a much more deadly threat to their race, traditions, property, freedom and ultimate survival than the invented threat posed by Hitler's Germany. Had it not been for Churchill's diabolical treachery, which cannot be excused by mere bouts of drunken megalomania, the world today would be, in every respect, a far better and safer place.

The Squeeze is On

'Whereas the economic "growth" of the past 30-plus years has largely been due to the private


and creation began we would have witnessed the fullness and finality of God's eternal thoughts, the Attributes of what He is, expressed as the Logos—a Greek word meaning thought in speech. Ezekiel 1:28 described this amber-coloured Pillar of Fire as the "the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord": God is Light.

The natural types the Spiritual: "in the beginning" the Logos created an immense blazing sun soaring through the vacuum of space with no determined course, disgorging segments of itself to give birth to stars and planets. Over perhaps billions of years in which "the earth was a chaotic wasteland" they established an interdependent balance of predetermined orbits we know as "the heavens and the earth . . . the world that then was".

God wascreating His first Bible we call the Zodiac. Sanchuniathon and other ancient historians inform us the seven vowels in the earliest alphabet were "so arranged as to express the places of the seven visible planets in the Zodiac" at the time when the alphabet was completed. The twenty-five letters and the twelve zodiac signs were superimposed, with the vowels unevenly spaced to represent the planetary positions at that time. Thus the alphabet records "an exact notation of the actual condition of the heavens at an ascertainable date, which can occur but once in many thousands of years, and that date is the seventh of September, 3447BC" (Joseph Seiss, Gospel in the Stars p. 23, 174).

Even if he has miscalculated by a day or two, a finished astronomical science


as well as writing were already completely developed in Adam's lifetime and these astronomical facts and chronologies were preserved in the Great Pyramid.

Since Mary's conception by the Word of the Angel, when Earth was in Virgo, the first sign of the zodiac, Earth's position in space has moved about 30 degrees, or one full sign so that Leo, the last sign in the zodiac will take Virgo's position when the Zodiac has travelled its full cycle. This prophecy is recorded in the Sphinx that stands before the Great Pyramid in which the Body of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the Church, is united with the Head of the Virgin, in the catching-away of Christ's Bride, the Church.

The word sphinx derives from the Greek "sphiggo" which means"to bind closely together" and this signifies to us Christians the cycle began with Jesus' conception by the eternal Word and it ends by taking the Offspring of that Word back into eternity with Him (Isaiah 53:10; I Thessalonians 4:17).

God's second Bible the Great Pyramid tells the same story as the Zodiac. It represents New Jerusalem, Jesus Christ and His Bride of all Ages, our 144,000 elect Israelite attendants and the Old Testament saints. Silent geometry reveals a remarkable witness. It has been called "the Bible in stone" because its passageways and chambers reveal geometrically, in line and symbol, the profound spiritual truths of the plan of redemption.

One enters the Great Pyramid at the Descending Passage which has an elevation of 26° 18' 9.7", the elevation of the


Pole Star, Alpha Draconis, the chief star in the Constellation of the Dragon or Great Serpent at that latitude in 2170BC around the time of the Flood.

The Great Pyramid speaks of "the heavens and the Earth which are now." A perfect prophecy in stone whose passageways are aligned with the heavens today.

When earth had its water baptism the Great Flood only washed away past sin. Sinful Ham was in the ark with the remnant, so as man entered the post-diluvium world symbolized by the pyramid he was under the Dragon star sign and dominion of Satan on the Descending Passage and bound for the Pit. However a quarter of the distance down the Descending Passage we meet an Ascending Passage, indicating a separation from sin and representing God'sdealings with Israel in the Exodus and under the Law until Calvary.

The elevation of this narrow upward passageway is 26° 18' 9.7". The ceiling is so low one must stoop indicating the Law was based upon works of obedience that no man could satisfy. The Grand Gallery continues upward at the same angle, representing Pentecost and the Seven Church Ages. Its corbelled walls are formed by seven successive overhanging courses of masonry at an elevation of 26° 18' 9.7" so although the way is strait and narrow, it is no longer necessary to stoop.

This is a picture of the Grand Gallery looking back down the ascending passage from the Great Step at the top of the climb. Soon after the commencement of the Grand Gallery, we encounter the


its forerunners and is often referred to as "the Word" or Logos. Like the Zodiac and the Great Pyramid it tells the story of God changing His form or unfolding Himself from the eternal Spirit alone with His thoughts through faith in His Word to the flesh of His glorified Family. This is a NEW CREATION. Through Adam man was of the old order or creation, now in union with Christ Who is the last Adam, he has become the NEW CREATION of God. Jesus Christ is the Beginner and Author of this creation, and "we are His workmanship created in union with Christ Jesus unto good works" (Ephesians 2:10) as "epistles written" of "the present Truth . . . read and known of all men" by Histhat. He created the very cells in the womb of Mary for that body. It was not enough for the Holy Spirit to simply give life to a human ovum supplied by Mary. That would have been sinful mankind producing a body. That would not have produced the "Last Adam." Of Him it was said "Lo a body have You (Father) prepared for Me" (Hebrews 10:5). God (not Mary) provided that body. Mary was the human incubator and she carried that Holy Child and brought Him to birth. It was a God-man. He was the Son of God. He was of the NEW creation. Man and God met and joined; He was the first of this new race. He is the head of this new race.

Colossians 1:18, "And


He is he Head of the body, the Church: Who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; that in all things He might have the pre-eminence".

II Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a NEW CREATION, old things have passed away, behold all things are become new" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 336:4).

Jesus Christ is the manifestation of Logos, the One Person of God manifest in virgin-born flesh. John 1:1-3, 14, "In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God [as His eternal thoughts], and the Logos was God ["for as a man thinks in His heart, so it He" (Proverbs 23:7)]. The same was in the beginning with God. Through Him everything came into being andwithout Him nothing that exists came into being . . . And the Logos was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth".

There is an unusual feature which Brother Branham mentions concerning the Great Pyramid. "These people who died in here are depending and waiting on us. So this church has got to come to perfection in order to bring the resurrection, and they're souls under the altar, waiting for this church to come to its perfection. But when Christ does come, and this church, you see, is coming smaller in the minority. (It's a whole lot sharper than that, but just as I write that cross there, see?), It's


ministry." There was a resurrection and they too, are gathered around the descended body-Word of the Son of Man. "Where the carcass is the eagles will be gathered" (Matthew 24:28; COD, p. 1021:118-120).

"The Son of God has come into this remnant to pull a certain people for the Cap-Stone in order to bring back the Son of God (the full revealing Spirit) to complete the thing for the coming of the Lord Jesus:" The Son of Man Body-Word revealed" (Elijah and the Meal Offering, p. 21:129).

"In the Church Ages the full church (Christ) was the Cornerstone (foundation) the Cap never came, because it was the Headstone." The top (Standing in the Gap, p. 19:77).

The capstone is a small pyramid, too. We are at the plane, the fiftieth level,Trumpets, p. 15:112). The GREAT STEP represented the RAPTURE at the end of the Seventh Church Age. The top of this step is on the 50th course of masonry, which represents the jubilant JUBILEE. This step is three feet high. In one's going up THE GRAND GALLERY, each inch represents a year. At the end we come to this Great Step. This was the year 1909, the year of Brother Branham's birth and years later the Lord revealed to him His Message. The Great Step is the "little introduction plank" Brother Branham mentions (God's only Provided Place of Worship, p. 33:217).

The Great Step starts in 1909 at point 'A'; rises to 1946 at point 'B.' Remember the Jewish people was declared a nation [at the UNSCOP Committee at


Lake Success] on April, May [(UN docs. A/C.I/P.V.46-57 (May 6-13)] the sixth, on 1946, and the Angel of the Lord appeared to me on May 7, 1946 at Green's Mill, Indiana . . . come into the room where I was at, a Man walking. He didn't have wings; He was just a big man, had a white garment down to His feet. And He said that I was born to pray for sick people. And I told Him I was uneducated, illiterate, and I wasn't able to go. He said I'd be praying for kings and monarchs, and Message around the world, a Message that would bring the second Coming of Christ was near . . . THUS SAITH THE LORD, I said, America made her finalroad. It is on this step that a guard meets the oncomer of the Church Ages. This guard helps the person up the three foot step to the fiftieth course level. This guard would have to represent the end time eagle-prophet who has the Rapture Message to lift a believer up to the King's level.

Brother Branham speaks about the end-time eagle-prophet in his Message, The Future Home of the Heavenly Bridegooom and the Earthly Bride: "There is another measure, the pyramid, that proves it. This, being this a way, would answer exactly Enoch's sign in Egypt, the Pyramid. Would it? Enoch, before the antediluvian destruction, when justification was coming in, he brought forth a sign, and in this Pyramid is seven steps going to the King's Chamber. Watch


Daniel. Brother Branham said: "Let me give you a little something on the iron and clay. Remember when Khrushchev beat his shoe on the desk at the UN? Well, there were five eastern nations there and five western. Khrushchev spoke for the East, and Eisenhower for the West. In Russian, Khrushchev is clay and Eisenhower means iron. The two main leaders of the world [both Jews], the two big toes of the feet of iron and clay, were side by side. We are in the end of it all" (An Exposition of the Seven Church Ages, p. 237:1-2; Daniel 2:40-45). British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was making a speech in the UN in 1960 when Soviet leader Khrushchev took off his shoe and banged it to on thedesk. "We will bury you . . . We do not have to invade the United States; we will destroy you from within."

Macmillan merely waved his hand and said, "Later, my man, later." Like Matthew 27:25 this was prophetic, for God has raised up Judaeo-Communism to destroy the false church as He raised Nebuchadnezzar to chastise Judah. Now after fifty-seven years the Jewish-ruled united States is provoking Russia, China, Iran and North Korea to "throw the first stone" in World War III as Jewish traitor F.D. Roosevelt forced Japan into World War II. In this war the US mainland will be invaded and briefly occupied. In the peace she will betray Russia as she has twice betrayed Germany.

The Prophet said, "There's your iron and clay [that] will not


mix. And he pulled off his shoe and beat the stand with it and everything else. It won't mix. But it's in the days of these empires[—the USA and Russia] that the Stone, that was hewed out of the mountain without hands, smote the image in the feet" (Seventy Weeks of Daniel, p. 115:126). The end of the Gentile dispensation is at hand.

Brother Branham stood in the breach between the Capstone and the Seals calling Christ's end-time Bride out of Babylon into the unity of the faith by the "Shout" of I Thessalonians 4:16 which restores us to the faith once delivered unto Paul and the apostles (Malachi 4:5, 6b; Matthew 17:11) and "finishes the mystery of God" (I Corinthians 13:10; Revelation 10:1-7) which was sealed by theCapstone from "lively stones" shaped and dressed by the perfect interpretation of the Bible delivered through the ministry of Brother Branham, the "neck" of the Capstone, the fullness of the Word that positions and fastens us to the Body of PART-Word saints. The Capstone Bride perfects, finishes, completes and consecrates the Body such that when the seventh angel pours out his Vial a great Voice from the Throne will say, "It is done" (Revelation 16:17; 15:8). nl985.htm Homework: Please review the main article in Newsletters 633, 679, 773, and 911.

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The Toronto Wolfpack burst onto the Canadian sports scene last year with an impressive rugby league debut, earning promotion to the second-tier of English competition.

But what exactly is rugby league?

Canadian sports fans are more likely familiar with rugby union — the 15-a-side version of the game made famous by teams like the All Blacks — and rugby sevens, which made its Olympic debut last in 2016 with Canada winning bronze in the women's tournament in Rio.

So before you watch the Wolfpack in action on CBC Sports, here's everything you need to instantly become a rugby league expert.

Rugby league vs. rugby union

The Wolfpack play rugby league — a fast-paced, hard-hitting sport that's popular in northern England and Australia.

If you're thinking "all rugby is the same," well, good for youfor not discriminating, but you should still know what goes on in a rugby league match that makes it different from rugby union.

The ball can be kicked forward or passed backward or laterally, just like in the "other" rugby, but the inventors of rugby league wanted to speed up game play even more.

In addition to reducing the number of players on the field for each team to 13, they changed what happens after a tackle is made. Once a player is brought to the ground, the defending team has to back up 10 metres and the offensive team restarts play.

Teams get six tackles on offence before the ball is automatically turned over — like what happens after four downs in American football — so teams need to score


or kick the ball away before the sixth tackle is made. This differs from rugby union as it eliminates rucking, the part of the game where both teams fight for the ball after the tackle is made.

Those are the basics, but it helps to see it in action:

Adam Higson scored a pair of tries, and Ryan Brierly intercepted a pass and ran it nearly the length of the pitch for a score, as Toronto beat the Dewsbury Rams 23-12. 4:59

In addition to streamlining game play, the value of scoring plays separates rugby league from its union counterpart:

Tries (touching the ball down in the endzone) are worth four points in league versus five in union

Conversion kicks after tries are worth two — this applies to both codes

Penalty goals (likea field goal in American football) are worth two points in league versus three in union

If this seems overwhelming, get whelmed with this simple mantra: You have six tackles to score six points.

Don't be a one-man Wolfpack

If the first thing that comes to mind when you hear Toronto's team name is Zach Galifianakis' speech from The Hangover, keep in mind that some of the city's other pro franchises involve dinosaurs and foliage in their names.

Toronto currently plays in the second tier of the Rugby Football League, a predominantly British loop, after winning the third-tier title in its inaugural season. All of the team's other opponents are a transatlantic flight away, so the Wolfpack play large chunks of their season overseas and return for lengthy homestands at Toronto's Lamport


Stadium — except for one game in Markham, Ont., in May.

The team bolstered its roster this offseason with several high-profile additions from rugby league's top flights in England and Australia's National Rugby League — like new captain Josh McCrone — but mainstays like Liam Kay and Greg Worthington are still strong contributors to the club. Ryan Brierley took over kicking duties for the departed Craig Hall, and mid-season signing Gareth O'Brien is turning heads in the league.

While you can watch all of the Wolfpack's matches in the Betfred Championship live on CBCSports.ca and the CBC Sports app, the team also competes in the concurrently contested Ladbrokes Challenge Cup, where they take on teams from all three tiers of rugby league (think England's Premier League and FA Cup).

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The timber case

'Peeler block', 'lumber log', and 'de-limbed softwood tree-length' — strange, special terms from the world of logging. In the spring of 2013, at the first trial of Alexei Navalny, these words suddenly appeared on the lips of anyone interested in politics. The best-known representative of the Russian opposition, Navalny was facing trial in the city of Kirov, 900 km from Moscow. But the long distance did not prevent a significant number of supporters coming to observe; and most of the leading non-state publications covered the court hearings in detail.

Together with Petr Ofitserov, owner of Vyatka Logging Company (VLC), Navalny was accused of stealing 10,000 cubic metres of timber worth 16m roubles (£190,000 as of 30/12/2014) from the state enterprise Kirovles in 2009, while he was adviserto the liberal governor of the Kirov Region, Nikita Belykh. VLC was supposed to have bought timber for less than the market price and Navalny apparently helped tie up the unprofitable contract. Navalny and Ofitserov were accused of misappropriation of state funds and embezzlement under Article 160 of the Russian Federation Criminal Code.

Navalny and Ofitserov maintained that the timber had been sold at market price and that the 16m roubles declared as a loss by the state enterprise was the full price of the timber bought and paid for by VLC.

On 18 July 2013, Judge Sergei Blinov handed down the sentence: Navalny was given five years of imprisonment and a 500,000 rouble fine (£5,600); Ofitserov received four years and a similar fine. Both were arrested in the courtroom


and taken into detention.

Later that day, however, several thousand Navalny supporters gathered in front of the State Duma in Moscow in spontaneous protest against the sentence. The police broke up the demonstration. The next day, 19 July, the Kirov court released Navalny and Ofitserov on the condition that they would not leave the city until the sentence came into effect (which would only happen in the autumn, when the Kirov regional court amended the prison term to a suspended sentence).

Moscow mayoral election

One should not be too hasty in connecting the Duma demonstration to the sudden release of Navalny. The prosecution had already submitted its appeal against the sentence in the afternoon before people started to gather in the centre of Moscow. For many, this decision was linked tothe upcoming Moscow mayoral elections scheduled for the autumn. There was a lot of talk about the incumbent mayor Sergei Sobyanin's need for a convincing victory over a real, rather than fictitious, candidate, and Navalny intended to stand, having registered as a candidate just before the sentence in Kirov was announced.

Navalny campaigned on an anti-corruption and anti-immigrant ticket in Moscow's mayoral election. (c) Demotix/Nickolay Vinokurov

Navalny conducted an intensive election campaign upon release. The official election results on 8 September 2013 gave Navalny 27.24% versus Sobyanin, the incumbent, who won 51.37%. The following day, as supporters of Navalny demonstrated on Bolotnaya Square in central Moscow, Navalny announced that Sobyanin had received the percentage necessary to avoid a run-off — but only because the vote had been rigged.

'Some of you


it. We shall carry on working, finding like-minded people and bringing them on side. We will show that we are the main opposition force in the country,' Navalny promised.

Six weeks later, at the end of October 2013, Alexei and his brother Oleg were officially charged in connection with the Yves Rocher case.

The Yves Rocher case

Navalny and his brother Oleg, who used to work for the Russian Post Office, are accused of fraud in connection with freight transport agreements for Yves Rocher Vostok and the company MPK in 2008-2011. A firm belonging to the brothers (Glavpodpiska) was alleged to be a bogus company that offered services to companies at inflated rates, thus causing some 30m rouble (£339,000) financial losses to Yves Rocher and 4.4m roubles (£48,000) to MPK.

In Februarywere bandied about the courtroom — 'round trip', 'pallets', and some incomprehensible acronyms. On this occasion, however, only a handful of people and the occasional independent journalist attended the trial of the man who, during the 2011-2012 protests, had been hailed as a 'future president of Russia'.

The brothers and their lawyers maintain that the investigation is trying to represent ordinary and legal business activity as criminal. During the court hearings, witnesses for the prosecution were unanimous in their agreement that they had suffered no losses. Yves Rocher carried out an internal audit, which showed that they also had incurred no losses from the collaboration with the Navalny brothers.

Indeed, when every witness had been cross-examined and confirmed that there had been no financial loss, Navalny turned to the judge.


'Your honour, a question: perhaps we have already reached the point where everyone should be acquitted and the case closed?'

'Your honour, a question: perhaps we have already reached the point where everyone should be acquitted and the case closed?'

A series of lawsuits

In between the Kirovles and the Yves Rocher cases, Navalny acquired another conviction when he lost a whole series of lawsuits brought by state officials, whom he regularly exposes on his (as yet unblocked) website.

In February 2014, Navalny lost a lawsuit brought against him by Konstantin Kostin for damages done to the latter’s honour, dignity and business reputation. Navalny had described Kostin — Chairman of the Foundation for the Development of Civil Society — as a swindler and was fined 500,000 roubles (£5,600).

In April 2014, State DumaNavalny's closest associates were subjected to police searches in connection with charges of fraud brought against him during the mayoral election campaign. According to the authorities, members of Navalny's campaign staff, Nikolai Laskin, Konstantin Yankauskas and Vladimir Ashurkov, each transferred 1m roubles (£11,300) to Navalny’s bank account just before the election. They then posted appeals on the internet asking people to transfer money to online payment service Yandex.money and other accounts to support his election campaign, and so recoup their own outlays. The investigation insists that Laskin, Yankauskas and Ashurkov stole something like 10m roubles (£113,000) from contributions by Navalny supporters.

Yankauskas, a member of the Moscow city legislative assembly for the Zyuzino district, was placed under house arrest in connection with this case. Laskin, leader of the Moscow


branch of Navalny's Party of Progress is not allowed to leave the country. The businessman Vladimir Ashurkov sought political asylum in the UK.

In August, Navalny unmasked the head of the Moscow city transport department Maxim Liksutov for owning foreign assets, which led to a 600,000 rouble fine (£6,800) and another refutal.

To round off this impressive collection of lawsuits, prosecutors have yet to press charges relating to the privatisation of the Urzhum spirit factory. But the investigation into Navalny's advertising company Allekt continues. According to the investigation, in 2007 this firm provided services to the liberal political party Union of Right Forces and, in the process, stole 100m roubles (£1,191,000) from it. The accusation is denied by both Navalny himself and the leader of the party at the time,Nikita Belykh.

'The bad and the good man'

In June 2014, investigating officers once more came with a warrant for a search of Navalny's home, where he was under house arrest. They confiscated a drawing entitled 'The bad and the good man'. According to the officers, the painting had been stolen from a fence in the centre of the town of Vladimir and given to Navalny by Georgy Abdulov, a staff member from the Anti-Corruption Foundation, which Navalny himself had founded. Abdulov is accused of theft, and faces a possible sentence of five years in prison.

According to the officers, the painting had been stolen from a fence in the centre of the town of Vladimir

The drawing found at Navalny's home was done by 66-year-old Vladimir artist, Sergei Sotov, who has


and commentator Viktor Shenderovich, the poet Lev Rubinshtein and the writer Boris Akunin for questioning.

Navalny had assumed that the Yves Rocher case would simply collapse in court, so that he and his associates could face new charges of secretly receiving money from the Kremlin. Yet the accusations of secret finance from the Kremlin are described as absurd — not only by Navalny, but by sources in the Kremlin as well.

The court date for the Yves Rocher case — originally set for 15 January 2015 — had been heralded as a significant opposition event. Despite reported state interference in social media, a demonstration in support of Navalny was due to be held on Manezh Square, opposite the State Duma and the Kremlin. Judging by planned attendances on Facebook, thedemonstration was set to be the largest opposition gathering since anti-war protests in September 2014.

As momentum gathered in opposition circles ahead of this date, however, the local Zamoskvoretsky court in charge of the case announced on 29 December that the sentence would be issued on the following morning — two weeks earlier than planned.

Finding the Navalny brothers guilty of embezzlement, on 30 December Judge Yelena Korobchenko sentenced Alexei Navalny to a three and a half year suspended sentence, and Oleg Navalny to three and a half years imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 roubles (£5,800). Alexei will also have to pay 4.8m rouble (£55,000) compensation to the Russian company MPK. Prosecutors had previously demanded a 10 year sentence for Alexei, and 8 years for Oleg.

This is likely to


Carol Danvers will continue her reign as the "Boss of Space" into 2019! CAPTAIN MARVEL #1 will makes its debut January 2, 2019 with Kelly Thompson on board as the writer and art by Carmen Carnero, with color by Tamra Bonvillain. Also revealed in the announcement was the powerful cover for the first issue by Amanda Conner! This issue will mark a new journey for Earth's mightiest hero after celebrating 50 years since the introduction of Carol Danvers.

CAPTAIN MARVEL #1 will bring Danvers back to New York City where she will face new threats and obstacles. According to the New York Times, "[t]he series will reconnect Captain Marvel with allies like Iron Man and her best friend Spider-Woman, as well as offer new relationships." Thompson told the Times:Sheriff’s Bomb Team Removes Package Near Cheney Bldg

The Natrona County Sheriff's Department bomb squad examined and removed what was described as a "suspicious package" from behind the Cheney Federal Office building in Casper this afternoon.

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An Ambulance and a Casper fire-EMS truck were at the scene just in case.

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When asked by K2 Radio News about the device, the Deputy told us to ask the folks at the federal building.

The Federal Protective Service made the call for the sheriff's team, and the device was removed for analysis.

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The building was not shut down or evacuated. The Casper Police cordoned off a small area behind the federal offices, near the BNSF building, while the Deputy retrieved the package, and the area was cleared


led the Red Sox to an early exit from the playoffs by the gloves of the Angels, who coincidentally ranked first in the majors in defense. In the midst of this defensive debacle stands Mike Lowell, a 35-year-old third baseman who can still hit, but injury problems have limited his range in the field.

Lowell faced constant back and hip problems, which limited his range significantly at third base. The injuries forced the one-time gold glove winner to play 12 games at DH with more to come in 2010 and beyond.

Possible Lowell Trade Scenarios

ESPN’s Jayson Stark has reported that the Red Sox could trade Lowell to two or three teams right now if they took a similar contract back. I took a quick look at MLBTradeRumors.com’s list of badworst season of his career. However from 2005-2008, Beltre averaged 151 games and hit .266 with an average of 24 home runs, 36 doubles and 88 runs batted in per season.

He played his home games at Safeco Field, which zaps righties of their power. In that span he also won two gold glove awards and has earned the reputation as one of the best defensive third basemen in the game.

His defense fits the Red Sox blueprint for success, which is play good defense and hit a decent ball. Beltre’s offensive numbers could be revived at Fenway where the “Green Monster” would be the recipient of many of his line drives due to his propensity to pull the ball, especially for power.

It’s clear that Lowell’s future is not with


Little Dieter Needs to Fly

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Directed by: Werner Herzog

Written by: Werner Herzog

Language: English, German

Extraordinary documentary focussing on German immigrant, Vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war Dieter Dengler as he narrates his sufferings and offers up his tips for survival. Herzog contrasts Dengler's narration with Vietnam-era military training videos, managing to capture the experience of war in all its solemn strangeness.Brian Lashoff WAS born ON July 16, 1990, in Albany, New York. A product of the Ontario Hockey League, where he played predominantly with the Barrie Colts, Lashoff was undrafted by an NHL club, but instead signed as a free agent by the Detroit Red Wings in the summer of 2008.

Lashoff's first full professional season was the 2010-11 campaign. He would appear in 37 games for the Red Wings AHL affiliate, the Grand Rapids Griffins, tallying three assists.

With the NHL locked out to start the 2012-13 season, Lashoff would once again begin the year in the AHL. When play resumed at the NHL level, he would get his first shot at the big time. He made his NHL debut on January 21, 2013, against the Columbus Blue Jackets.


Smile is a 1975 film directed by American director Michael Ritchie, with a screenplay by Jerry Belson, about a beauty pageant in Santa Rosa, California. It stars Bruce Dern and Barbara Feldon and introduced a number of young actresses who later went on to greater success and recognition, such as Melanie Griffith, Annette O'Toole, Denise Nickerson, and Colleen Camp. The film is a satirical comedy-drama focusing on small-town America and its peculiarities, preoccupations, and hypocrisies.Should also work in FSX and earlier P3D versions.

My repaint of the Project Airbus A320-232 in British Airways Landor Livery. Includes the A32X panel by Stefan Liebe, which includes a SFCC (slats/flaps computer) which I have pre-configured, Callouts, V1 calculation, autoflare and so much more. Also incuded is the IAE2500 soundpack by SkyHigh Simuations.

FSX/P3D 3 & 4 McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 Air Afrique triple livery pack. Air Afrique operated 3 DC10-30's with the following registrations: TU-TAL "Libreville", TU-TAM and TU-TAN "Niamey".
These aircrafts were delivered new to Air Afrique in the 70's. TU-TAL "Libreville" was the first to enter service in February 1973, followed by TU-TAM in January 1975 and finally TU-TAN "Niamey" in August 1979.
Mostly assigned to US and European routes, they were regular visitors to major international airports


such as New York JFK, Paris CDG, London Gatwick, Geneva Cointrin or Rome Fiumicino.
FSX Native Model (V2) by Eric Cantu and Thomas Ruth, with full animations and flexi-wings. Complete DC10 VC by Thomas Ruth, with some updated gauges by Thomas W., working wipers and also Altitude Callout.
Updated flight dynamics: corrected weight and balance, aircraft geometry, contact points, flaps, fuel, autopilot, electricals and other parameters. The result gives a very realistic feel of the performances, weight and size of this "heavy" wide-body classic airliner.
The flying experience is further enhanced by the fantastic GE CF6-50C turbofan engine and environment sounds, from original sound files by Benoit Plamondon. All textures are highly detailled, saved in DXT3 format, with updated alpha layers.
Also features 12 external camera views, new lighting, new effects andIt's like this. James Blunt has heard You're Pitiful. He loves it, he thinks its hilarious, he's given his official thumbs up to the parody.

But, Atlantic Records, Blunt's record label, does not like it. So they've threatened legal action.

As Weird Al points out in the article, the legalities are fairly moot. It's been shown many times that Weird Al is officially parody, and is therefore safe from all kinds of lawsuits like this one. But still, rather than launch into a long, drawn out legal battle, Weird Al decided to remove the song from his album.

As Al says in the article, James Blunt could ask Al to put the song on his next album, but Blunt doesn't want to alienate his record label. Al could go ahead and


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Heart Beat Circuit is an album five years in the making. After completing his Master's degree in music performance in 2010, George "Smoke Thief" Baker began to conceptualize what would take shape into his first album. An image came to him of a futuristic female android whoachieves sentience, which opens up a world of new experiences to her and the opportunity to forge a new life. This android, later named Krystal, serves as the main inspiration for the album, as well as appearing on the album cover.

Smoke Thief experiments with a variety of musical styles to explore Krystal's world and experiences. He strives to contrast the mathematical, logical aspect of music with its more human qualities by mixing genres from ambient to jazz, and fusing electronic elements with instruments such as saxophone.

With contributions from renowned video game composers Manami Matsumae (Mega Man), Saori Kobayashi (Panzer Dragoon Saga), and Takahiro Izutani (Bayonetta), Heart Beat Circuit takes the listener on a futuristic journey through the mind of this groundbreaking composer and that of Krystal, his muse.

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Capcom Pro Tour North American Ranking event

DreamHack Austin is part of the 2016 Capcom Pro Tour as a North American Ranking event, today we are announcing the full tournament details and opening up the the player registration. Secure your spot in the tournament now by signing up below!

DreamHack Austin, DreamHacks first event in North America is arranged at the Austin Convention Center May 6-8th 2016. The Capcom Pro Tour in Street Fighter V will feature a guaranteed $5,000 pot bonus and reward the top 16 players with Capcom Pro Tour points, the winner of the DreamHack Austin Capcom Pro Tour tournament will also receive a direct invite to the Capcom Pro Tour North American Regional Finals to be able to fight for a spot in the Capcom Cup.

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around the country, saw the family farm start as a sustainable operation, then expand through "four decades of a chemical nightmare and depleted soils," only to turn to a new state of sustainable farming.

"Everyone was making a living from my land but me," Huesby says. "And I saw problems on my farm that weren't being addressed. The dirt was blowing away. The soil wasn't holding moisture. I was forced to face the harsh truth -- my farm was a failure."

The Beefing Up project, if successful, could be a model for other farms and ranches across the state. The timing couldn't be much better. A sizeable chunk of land out of Washington state's million acres in the Conservation Reserve Program -- which paid farmers to take acres out ofprofile of antidepressants in the acute treatment of depression does not seem to offer a clear advantage for children and adolescents".

The study authors recommend that "children and adolescents taking antidepressants be carefully monitored closely, regardless of the antidepressant chosen, particularly at the beginning of treatment".

Major depression is common in these age groups, with around 3 per cent of children and 6 per cent of adolescents reporting depressive symptoms.

Withholding drugs could also cause harm: Guidelines

Health experts are concerned about a large increase in Australian children and young people being prescribed strong drugs such as antidepressants medications.

A study by University of Sydney researchers in 2014 looked at prescribing patterns for children and adolescents from 2009 to 2012.

The number of children aged between 10 and 14 given antidepressants jumped by more


Company (Nantahala) applied to the North Carolina Utilities Commission for permission to raise its retail electric utility rates and to revise a purchased power cost adjustment clause applicable to such rates. Treating the matter as an application for a general rate increase under G.S. 62-133, the Commission ordered investigation, posting of notices, and held public hearings. The Attorney General on behalf of the consuming public of North Carolina, the Town of Bryson City, the County of Swain, and Henry J. Truett were allowed to intervene in the proceedings.
During the hearings, intervenors moved (a) for an order by the Commission joining as parties respondent Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) and Tapoco, Inc. (Tapoco), and (b) for an order by the Commission compelling Nantahala to produce information sufficient to allowCommission to require Nantahala to insure its ability to refund any excess premiums that may be found to have been charged upon final determination of the rate schedule proper to this case.
The somewhat intricate factual background of this case is not generally in dispute. Incorporated in North Carolina in 1929, Nantahala is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alcoa. It owns and operates hydroelectric generation and transmission facilities in the western part of this state and serves the public in six western counties with retail electrical service. For many years, a large percentage of Nantahala's total kilowatt hour production was transferred to Alcoa's facilities in Tennessee. With the population growth of western North Carolina after 1960, however, an increasing proportion of Nantahala's production has been required to satisfy its


public service utility load. Indeed, since 1971 Nantahala has not directly transferred any of its electrical output to Alcoa.
Tapoco was incorporated in 1900 in Tennessee as Knoxville Power Company. It was domesticated in North Carolina in 1954. In 1955 Tapoco, along with Nantahala and Carolina Aluminum Co., jointly filed with the North Carolina Utilities Commission for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to permit Tapoco to acquire and operate two electrical generation facilities at Santeetlah and Cheoah then owned by Carolina Aluminum. In the order granting the certificate, the Commission directed that Tapoco supply to Nantahala the power necessary to satisfy Nantahala's public service loads in the two villages of Santeetlah and Tapoco in Graham County. This certificate is still in effect. Tapoco is a wholly ownedsubsidiary of Alcoa.
The transmission facilities of Nantahala and Tapoco are integrated and interconnected into a single system. Alcoa controls the ultimate operation and accounting policies of both utilities. The chief executive officers of both Nantahala and Tapoco report directly to an Alcoa vice president. Members of the board of directors of both utilities are employees of Alcoa.
In 1941 Alcoa entered into a twenty-year agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), pursuant to which Alcoa caused Nantahala (not a party to the agreement) to transfer to TVA a large part of Nantahala's real property holdings. The property so transferred was valued at approximately 3.5 million dollars and was eventually used in the construction of TVA's Fontana Dam. In return for the transfer, TVA agreed to supply Alcoa a continuous


stream of 11,000 kw for the term of the contract. During the period of this contract, Nantahala produced electricity in excess of its public service load. This excess was sold to Alcoa at "dump" prices.
Effective 1 January 1963, the 1941 agreement was modified and largely replaced by the "New Fontana Agreement," to which Nantahala, Alcoa, Tapoco, and TVA are parties. This agreement allows TVA to coordinate Tapoco's operations and most of Nantahala's in such a way as to integrate into a single system the two utilities' electrical production and distribution. Instead of supplying Alcoa with electricity, TVA receives all of the electrical output of the Tapoco and Nantahala plants (except that *587 of three small facilities belonging to Nantahala) and grants to Nantahala and Tapoco in return averagemeaningful indication of how often Nantahala's output was in fact in excess of its requirements. However, a comparison of the 1975 generation and requirement figures on a month by month basis reveals that in February, March, April, May, June, and November of 1975, Nantahala's actual generation was considerably in excess of its public load demand. In March, 1975, for example, the Nantahala system generated over 67 million kwh. Its load requirement that month was slightly over 41 million kwh. Nevertheless, by virtue of the 1971 apportionment agreements, Nantahala's entitlement from TVA was limited to 30 million kwh per month. Nantahala thus would have had to purchase an additional 11 million kwh from TVA to meet its load requirements for March, despite the fact that its actual generation in


In October 2008, the month after Lehman failed and the Great Recession started, industrial bellwether Caterpillar underwent a series of 19 consecutive, record, declines in Global dealer retail sales declines, finally emerging from its unprecedented funk in May of 2010, just in time to celebrate the start of financial and economic Greece's collapse which ended with a sovereign default. Well, as of July 2014, that record is no longer valid, because starting with a -1% drop in Global retail sales in December 2012, CAT has now posted a new record of 20 consecutive global delaer retail sales declines, after a -9% Y/Y print for the month of July.

In other words, for Caterpillar, the Great Recovery is now worse than the Great Recession.

Of course, in a world in whichand transfer ownership of the waterfront property, valued at around $5 million, to compensate for the construction effort. The firm will get title to the 20-acre Hudson River property, which it plans to redevelop, upon issuance of the certificate of occupancy for the school.

From the school district’s perspective, the most beneficial twist to the project is that U.W. Marx will initially finance and own the school. The school district has already sold bonds for its eventual purchase of the facility, which broke ground in June and is set for completion by the end of the year.

In the end, the school district will have a new 278,000-sq-ft school, the contractor will have a valuable property to develop, and the city of Rensselaer, with a population of about 7,700 in


She [the Roman Catholic Church] may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Pauls.1

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On Rankes History of the Popes. 1840.

Note 1.The same image was employed by Macaulay in 1824 in the concluding paragraph of a review of Mitfords Greece, and he repeated it in his review of Mills Essay on Government in 1829. What cities, as great as this, have promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others . Here stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds; there their senate-house, but now the haunt ofevery noxious reptile; temples and theatres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.Goldsmith: The Bee, No. iv. (1759.) A City Night-Piece. Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself will sit down upon the banks of the Seine, the Thames, or the Zuyder Zee, where now, in the tumult of enjoyment, the heart and the eyes are too slow to take in the multitude of sensations? Who knows but he will sit down solitary amid silent ruins, and weep a people inurned and their greatness changed into an empty name?Volney: Ruins, chap. ii. The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, in time a Virgil at Mexico,


and a Newton at Peru. At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Pauls, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.Horace Walpole: Letter to Mason, Nov. 24, 1774. Where now is Britain? . . . . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks where stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude. Henry Kirke White: Time. In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and"Dressed in his trademark blue suit, Less adorably butchers the German language, nearly falls in love in Paris, celebrates his birthday in the desert and, somewhere along the way, discovers something new and fragile about the passing of time, about the coming and going of love, and what it means to be the fool of your own narrative. It's nothing less than wonderful."--Book Page

"A piquantly funny fifth novel." --Entertainment Weekly

"Greer, the author of wonderful, heartfelt novels including The Confessions of Max Tivoli, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells and The Story of a Marriage, shows he has another powerful weapon in his arsenal: comedy. And who doesn't need a laugh right about now?"--Miami Herald

"Greer elevates Less' picaresque journey into a wise and witty novel. This is no Eat,


Pray Love story of touristic uplift, but rather a grand travelogue of foibles, humiliations and self-deprecation, ending in joy, and a dollop of self-knowledge."--National Book Review

"Less is the funniest, smartest and most humane novel I've read since Tom Rachman's 2010 debut, The Imperfectionists....Greer writes sentences of arresting lyricism and beauty. His metaphors come at you like fireflies....Like Arthur, Andrew Sean Greer's Less is excellent company. It's no less than bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful."--New York Times Book Review

"Greer is an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy.... Brilliantly funny.... Greer's narration, so elegantly laced with wit, cradles the story of a man who loses everything: his lover, his suitcase, his beard, his dignity."--Ron Charles, Washington Post"Greer's novel is philosophical, poignant, funny and wise, filled with unexpectedMeghan McCain condemned Karl Rove in her new book, hitting out at the former Bush adviser for rumors about her adopted sister during the 2000 campaign.

McCain's younger sister Bridget was adopted from Bangladesh in 1991. Twelve years after her father's run for the White House, Meghan McCain hasn't forgotten about nasty rumors that Bridget was his illegitimate black child.

She described her reaction to the vitriol in "America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom," writing that it left "an everlasting painful mark on my and my family's lives." She pulled no punches when it came to Karl Rove, whom she blamed for starting the rumors.

“Yes, sick, f—-ed up, a disgusting and embarrassing scar that will forever remain on presidential politics and South Carolina history. I was furious,


herself faces backlash for her recent criticism of the GOP. She caused a small uproar last week when she questioned the popularity of Michelle Malkin and Andrew Breitbart, and said that some conservatives treat her like "a freak" because she is a moderate on some issues. McCain received vicious attacks — many of which have targeted her looks — in wake of the comments, and spoke out against Internet bullying in a column over the weekend.ordeal at her elegant
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As the crew cleaned up all the boxes and chairs, Everything is getting better all the time began with Giulia Carotenuto striding on dressed in the suit and tie of an impresario. Striking a series of poses that didn’t elicit an enthusiastic enough response from the audience, she sulked a bit and glanced accusatorily at the busy and ambivalent crew. It was as if she’d come onstage absurdly late, after the club had closed for the night. She kept doing a mawkish handroll and deep knee bends but it just wasn’t working. When she tried to give up, a dancer entered, gave her a word of encouragement, and she soldiered on.

Carotenuto’s action wasleading scientific minds of the time came up with a new theory-that the planet is actually hollow. This idea has turned out incredibly durable.

To this day, there are huge numbers of Hollow Earth believers who are dealing with valiantly to validate their particular ideas through books, online social media websites, conferences and some extremely driven travel plans.

An account of Olaf Jansen and his father Jens Jansen, Norwegian fishermen, accidentally discovered the North Polar Opening in 1829 in search of the “Chosen Ones” of their ancestors and entered the hollow earth in which they lived for two years with the giant people there. Olaf then returned to Sweden by way of the South Polar Opening after being recovered by a Scotland whaleboat from an iceberg. His father was wiped


out when their fishing boat was knocked and sunk by the iceberg in Antarctica. Olaf later immigrated to the United States and died in Los Angeles in 1908.

The Hollow Earth theory and an expedition to the Arctic

The Hollow Earth idea states that the Earth is a hollow planet along with historic entrances to the subterranean world scattered throughout it, which includes near both polar caps.

This theory has been reported since ancient times and scientists such as Edmund Halley have defended it throughout history. Amid most believers, the interior of the Hollow Earth is a lush tropical paradise that very likely houses an advanced race of humans, aliens, giants. In most scenarios, the inhabitants are the descendants of historic races such as the Lemurians. according to modern theorists likeDallas Thompson.

The beings there dwell thousands of years, “protected from the harmful cosmic rays and other pollutants that exist on the surface.”

Generally, this new perspective of the hollow Earth is accompanied along with the theory of a small sun that hangs in the very center, creating a lush, livable environment on the flip side of the Earth’s surface.

According to a number of hollow Earth websites, this vision was formulated among famous mathematicians and scientists such as Leonhard Euler in the 18th century and Sir John Leslie in the 19th century, although the sources for these accreditations seem to be somewhat nebulous.

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Regardless of where it originated, the version of a Hollow Earth managed to grow and succeed. In 1818, John Cleves Symmes, Jr. published his


Edmund Halley, of Halley’s Comet fame. Suggested in 1692 as a way of detailing anomalous compass measurements. Halley’s theory is that the planet is a sequence of nested, spherical shells, spinning in different directions. All surrounding a central core.

In his evaluation, primarily based on measurements of the magnetic field and what he knew of the gravitational pull of the sun and the moon on the Earth. This model could account for any inaccuracies in his readings of the magnetic fields of the planet. He also put forward that the space in between each shell may have had luminous atmospheres suitable of supporting life.

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tip money into the NHS and triple-lock pensions – good causes both – as well as vanity projects such as aircraft carriers, high-speed trains and nuclear power stations. Councils have no such discretion. Since 2010 their spending has shrunk by over a third, with central government grants slashed by as much as NHS spending has risen.

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Revisiting a Cafe's Society of Brazen Violence

Not long ago, Caffe Giannini in Ridgewood, Queens, was the sort of place where a customer could sit for hours at one of the round marble tables, drinking cappuccino brewed on the antique brass espresso machine. But according to federal agents, the tiny thriving storefront cafe did more than serve good coffee, cannoli and mozzarella sandwiches to its clientele.

It also served, they said, as the clubhouse for an exceptionally violent group of neighborhood toughs who performed a vast array of dirty business for the mob.

Members of the group, the Giannini crew, have already been prosecuted twice through a pair of linked indictments that led to more than two dozen guilty pleas and the closure of Caffe Giannini in 1998. Andlater this year, 16 more members, including the crew's reputed leader, Baldassare Amato, are scheduled to go on trial under yet a third indictment in Brooklyn.

The crew's exploits were so unusually vicious that a judge once said in court that she had never seen anything like them in all her years on the federal bench. Richard A. Brown, the Queens district attorney, who prosecuted some of the first cases against the gang, said, ''They have never hesitated to use violence to settle a personal score, to extort a small businessman or to commit a robbery,''

In court documents, sworn statements and interviews with investigators, a portrait emerges of a nefarious band of brazen hoodlums attracted to all types of illegalities -- bank robbery, loan-sharking, arson, extortion, drug dealing, gambling


by federal prosecutors contained in the case file, members of the crew stuffed the bodies into plastic garbage bags, loaded them onto Mr. Ruisi's truck, then drove to a street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where one crew member, Anthony Sciacca, drenched the bodies in gasoline and set them on fire. The letter said Mr. Sciacca later told other gang members that Mr. Ruisi, though shot in the temple, had still been alive. ''Ruisi apparently said the gas felt cold when it splashed on his body,'' the letter said.

While the crew frequently worked with the Bonanno crime family, it was largely a freelance operation. ''They were sort of like per diem wise guys,'' said a defense lawyer who once represented a member of the crew. ''A little Colombo. A littleBonanno. The Gambinos needed a leg broken -- they'd do that, too.''

In November 1992, for instance, three members of the crew joined forces with Vito Guzzo, a Colombo family associate, in trying to kill a Colombo soldier, Vincent Ricciardo, according to an indictment. Wearing Halloween masks, the government says, the gunmen cut off Mr. Ricciardo's car on a quiet street in Queens and fired dozens of rounds at him, at point blank range. Remarkably, he survived.

These days, Ridgewood is still predominantly Italian despite a growing Hispanic and Russian population. Televisions in the restaurants and bars on Fresh Pond Road, where the Caffe Giannini sat, are often tuned to the Italian-language cable station, and old men can be seen each morning shuffling into neighborhood coffee joints.

While most members of


the Giannini crew were described as would-be wise guys recruited from those cafes and bars, the government said some, like Fabio Bartolotta, 23, came from entrenched mob families. Prosecutors said that his mother, Francesca Bartolotta, and uncle, Paul Ragusa, were members of the crew, and that his father, Salvatore Bartolotta, and great-uncle, Fillipo Ragusa, were linked in the early 1980's to a Bonanno heroin ring, whose downfall formed the basis for the notorious ''Pizza Connection'' drug-trafficking case.

According to investigators, Mrs. Bartolotta owned the building at 66-12 Fresh Pond Road which housed the Caffe Giannini and she served as a sort of den mother for the 20-something mobsters, letting them use her house and finding them lawyers when they were arrested.

Records show that many of the crew's crimes weredecidedly small-time. There were, for example, the two members convicted of stealing the Sunday collection plate of a local church from a parishioner in the church parking lot. Or the other accused of owning an illegal pet: a 9-month-old cougar.

And there is also the unfortunate tale of the National Westminster Bank on Myrtle Avenue in Queens, which the authorities say was robbed by the crew three times within 10 months in 1993 and 1994.

Still, the government said the crew had serious roots in organized crime, perhaps best exemplified by Mr. Amato, the balding, bespectacled 48-year-old described as its leader. Mr. Amato got his start in the mob as a bodyguard for Carmine Galante, the former Bonanno family chief, and was sitting just feet from Mr. Galante when masked


gunmen killed the aging crime boss at Joe and Mary's Restaurant in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in 1979. Though investigators have long believed that Mr. Amato helped plan the killing, he was never charged. But he went to prison in 1987 on a conviction in the Pizza Connection case.

Described in a transcript of a detention hearing as a ''respected and powerful member of the Bonanno crime family,'' Mr. Amato has been indicted on charges of associating with the Giannini crew ''to make money and, at times, settle personal grievances,'' court documents say. But Paul Bergman, Mr. Amato's lawyer, has said that his client has led a successful and law-abiding life since getting out of prison in 1990 and that he now owns his own company, which does -- all punsaside -- extermination work.

The most serious charge against him in the new indictment is that he ordered the murder of Sebastiano DiFalco, the proprietor of a Ridgewood restaurant down the block from the Caffe Giannini, which Mr. Amato ran from 1990 to 1994. The government said that Mr. DiFalco's body was found stuffed inside the trunk of a stolen BMW on a street in Brooklyn after the two men argued in 1992.

Despite the savage crimes the Giannini crew members have been charged with committing, their lawyers, friends and neighbors have routinely said in court filings that they are remarkably good-natured and responsible young men. In transcripts of F.B.I. wiretaps, they sound extraordinarily average, talking about girls and other friends, though between discussions about pending criminal cases.

''These guys are,


Meg Whitman says the disastrous oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has caused her to change her position on offshore oil drilling in California, adding that she no longer is certain technology can make it safe.

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James Carouso, charge d'affaires for the United States Embassy in Canberra said the US was committed to protecting refugees.

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The ABC understands the Federal Government has been talking with the United States, Canada, Malaysia and New Zealand about resettling refugees


Shehu said the first blast came after Sheik Dahiru Bauchi gave an annual Ramadan speech for thousands of faithful in an outdoor service. Sheik Bauchi is known for preaching against the violent extremism of Nigeria's Islamic militants, Boko Haram.

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By Godwin Isenyo and Heather MurdockAssociated Press

KADUNA, Nigeria

Bomb blasts appearing to target former Nigerian military ruler Muhammadu Buhari and a prominent moderate Muslim cleric killed dozens of people Wednesday, but left both leaders unharmed, according to Nigerian state security.

At least 39 other people were killed in the two blasts, said State Police Commissioner Umar Usman Shehu. The death toll is expected to rise, as witnesses at both bomb sites said dozens of people were killed in each of the blasts.

The bombings were condemned by President Goodluck Jonathan whosaid he "denounces the dastardly targeting of the prominent political and religious leaders by terrorists and enemies of the nation in an odious attempt to inflame passions and exacerbate disquiet, fear, insecurity and sectional divisions in the country."

After surviving the marketplace bombing, Buhari said the attack "clearly an assassination attempt, came from a fast moving vehicle that made many attempts to overtake my security car. I came out unhurt, but with three of my security staff sustaining minor injuries."

Buhari is currently a leader of Nigeria's leading opposition party who has been outspokenly critical of President Jonathan. He is not yet a candidate for president as no contenders have been formally declared ahead of 2015 elections.

The other bombing appeared to target Sheik Dahiru Bauchi, who gave an annual Ramadan


speech to thousands of faithful in an outdoor service. Bauchi is known for preaching against the violent extremism of Nigeria's Islamic militants, Boko Haram.

"They were waiting for him," said police commissioner Shehu of the boy who threw a bomb at the sheik. "It's when he was passing the boy headed to him."

The cleric survived the blast but the boy was killed, said the police commissioner, who added that no arrests were made immediately.

The second blast, which hit the Kaduna marketplace where Buhari was about two and a half hours after the first explosion, left bodies and body parts scattered, said witnesses. More than 50 vehicles were destroyed, the witnesses said.

A 24-hour curfew was declared by Kaduna state governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero immediately after Wednesday's bombings, leaving many peoplestranded at their jobs, unable to go home for the night.

The governor did not directly blame Boko Haram but called the attackers a "common enemy" who are not true Muslims.

"Enemies of peace have visited us with their ungodly venom of wanton destruction of human lives," said Yero in a statement. "This blast, coming in the holy month of Ramadan is a clear indication that those behind the act have no iota of fear of God."

Boko Haram has killed thousands of people in five years of insurgency in Nigeria, including several prominent sheiks and politicians.

Kaduna is outside the region of Nigeria that is under emergency rule but it has been frequently targeted for violence by Boko Haram militants. In recent months, the Boko Haram insurgency has intensified, with near-daily