wept for joy at her
safety. He did neither. He could show no joy. Why not?

Edmonstone arrived in town, and broke his fast at an hotel--he had
travelled all night. After breakfast he drove, with his luggage, first
to the offices of the P. and O. Company in Leadenhall Street. He stepped
from that office with a brisker air; something was off his mind;
something was definitely settled. On his way thence to Waterloo he
whistled lively tunes in the cab. By the time he reached Teddington and
Iris Lodge, the jauntiness of his manner was complete. In fact, his
manner was so entirely different from what his mother and Fanny had been
prepared for, that the good ladies were relieved and delighted beyond
measure for the first few minutes, until a something in his tone pained
them both.

"Ohthis. Come and see
her. She will be so pleased--but so grieved when she hears you are going
out again. I am sure she has no idea of such a thing. And to-morrow,
too!"

Dick followed Mrs. Parish from the room, wishing in his heart that
convalescence was a shorter business, or else that Alice might have the
advantages of climate that in a few days, and for evermore, would be
his; also speculating as to whether he would find her much changed, but
wishing and wondering without the slightest ruffling emotion. He had
some time ago pronounced himself a cure. Therefore, of course, he was
cured.

There were two fireplaces in the dining-room, one on each side of the
conservatory door. In the grate nearer the windows, which were all at
one end, overlooking lawn and river, a fire of


of the 2017 pow wow season and remaining calendar year.

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Effects of environmental conditions on the movement patterns of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) into and out of experimental huts in Thailand.
Mark-release-recapture experiments with Aedes aegypti were performed using experimental huts equipped with entrance and exit traps to evaluate their movement patterns during a two-year period in Thailand. Results indicate no significant differences in the patterns of movement between the two years of observation. Movement into the huts occurred during the early morning period (06:00-11:00) with a peak at 07:00 in the summer and rainy season and 09:00 in the winter. In contrast, the exit pattern was observed during the late morning (09:00-12:00) and early afternoon (12:00-16:00), with a peak at 16:00 in the winter, 11:00 in the summer, and 14:00 in the rainy season. Multiple regression analysis indicatedsupposed to. Steve and Sharon’s connection strengthens once he learns of her relationship with Peggy. This is a turning point for Sharon’s life as she is faced with some tough decisions.

In preparation for the film, VanCamp extensively researched about her character which allowed her to really understand Sharon Carter. Her experience from the television show “Revenge” helped her with the movie’s fight scenes, but surprisingly the movie was less intense than the television show. The movie was such a huge undertaking that it was very rare for VanCamp to see anyone in the cast– the cast was spread out all over the set and many of the scenes were filmed simultaneously. VanCamp plays a strong female character in this movie who is able to inspire many women across


For maintenance: Maintenance activities would control the stiffness of cartilage and bone, which would also affect a joint's momentarily loaded area. These activities would usually repair whatever microdamage normally arises in those tissues, and could modify their microdamage thresholds too. In children, modeling and maintenance in bone and cartilage would function effectively. In adults chondral modeling becomes ineffective, but maintenance activities in bone and cartilage would remain effective, and likewise for modeling in the subchondral bone. This model assigns special importance in joint design to the stiffness of bone, cartilage, and ligament (as distinguished from their strength), to the typical largest unit loads applied to them by a subject's usual weekly physical activities, and to their microdamage.Image copyright CBC News Image caption David Tait Jr (L) and Leon Swanson choked back tears at an emotional press conference

Two men in a remote community in Canada have found out they were switched at birth 41 years ago.

Leon Swanson and David Tait Jr know each other and continue to live in the same town of 5,000 people, who are mostly indigenous from the Cree Nation.

This is the second such case to come to light in a year.

Canada's health minister said it was an "important reminder" of the "urgent need to provide all indigenous people with high-quality health care".

Mr Tait and Mr Swanson were swapped in the government-run Norway House Hospital in 1975.

DNA testing has confirmed that they were sent home with each other's biological parents shortly after


Kaufman was no stranger to smut, having directed several porn films in the early 70’s, as well as having a 15-year old girl, Kansas Bowling, as his “protégé”. (Kansas directed the Satanic-as-fuck video for the Death Valley Girls at age 15, later going on to make a video where she and her sister sucked on ping pong balls, force fed each other pizza, and got led around like dogs in their panties by Kansas’ 70-year old boyfriend Rodney Bingenheimer).

Kaufman also is friends with Tony Podesta, who favors pedo art and occasionally enjoys “spirit cooking” with his Satanic-as-fuck friend Marina Abramovic. (I have to wonder what a super powerful D.C. lobbyist and the head of a trashy B-movie studio could possibly have in common . . .).

Again, none ofencomiums of Stewart that have been written in the days since his retirement, there is nothing quite like hearing it from the mouth of the man himself. This week, breaking the fundamental principle in its very title, The Daily Show Podcast Without Jon Stewart welcomes Jon Stewart to give his sardonic take on the key decisions that he and his producers made that led the show to greatness. Stewart is, to no great surprise, hilarious as he credits his contributions in faux-bloviating style, with all of them related to food. The hosts, Jen Flanz, Steve Bodow, and Adam Lowitt, have all been at the show for nearly as long as Stewart, and the rapport that they have together is emblematic of a well-functioning family. It raises stark feelings


delayed European fighting forces who attempted to meet them in battle. Though eventually conquered, it was with respect, and many officers noted they were superior to male soldiers in every notable way.

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The vast majority of failing schools are located in poor areas and composed of mostly minority students. One such school is Ferguson, Missouri’s Normandy High School, which lost its state accreditation in 2013 after 15 years of underperformance (and from which Michael Brown graduated eight days before he was killed). In the first part of a two episode examination of school integration, education reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones looks at what happened in the aftermath of this turn of events, telling the story of how the forced integration of Normandy High School with theScott and Scott Aukerman finally catch their white whale, landing a nearly 90-minute interview with those “lovable lads from Liverpool,” U2. As the band’s lead singer Bono winkingly says at the outset, they agreed to the interview in hopes of finally bringing about the end of the podcast. Jetting into New York City and meeting the band at the iconic Electric Ladyland Studios, the Scotts are clearly and understandably nervous. To break the ice, Bono presents them with a hand-drawn dick, which he has signed “Bonobos,” to join the ranks of those scribbled by Adam Scott during recording. From time to time the Scotts break in to provide some hilarious commentary as they cringe through the recording in real time. Eventually they loosen up, falling into a wonderful


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Roku Launches new Chromecast-like feature

Roku said it will add a new feature that lets users stream content straight from third-party mobile apps, mimicking the function of Google's Chromecast device.

CEO of Roku Anthony Wood talked about the new update, as well as his company's competition with Google, at the Next TV Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday.

Wood called Google his company's biggest competitor because of Google's extensive investment in TV and other connected devices. He also said that the key to succeeding in this market will be the TV integration with Roku's technology,which Wood thinks his company has the leg up on on Google in this area. "We think we are well ahead of Google in terms of licensing," he spoke at the summit.

The new Roku feature --Every Sunday, we pick a new episode of the week. It could be good. It could be bad. It will always be interesting. You can read the archives here. The episode of the week for April 3 through April 9 is "The Burns Cage," the 17th episode of the 27th season of Fox's The Simpsons.

The Simpsons has lived long enough to see itself become the villain.

The series' first episode aired in December of 1989, and befitting a show that has aired new episodes in four separate decades, it has a bunch of elements that feel very early '90s. The series' setting of Springfield occasionally incorporates modern technology, but for the most part, the internet, smartphones, and social media might as well not exist, if they're not at the


center of that week's plot line.

But this extends to some of the show's characters, who play around with stereotypes that fewer viewers were sensitive to back in the 1990s. In particular, the series has been hit by criticism of Apu, the Indian immigrant who runs Springfield's convenience store, and Waylon Smithers, the long-suffering gay assistant of Mr. Burns. Apu is an out-and-out stereotype of an Indian immigrant, while Smithers has seemed stuck in an early '90s conception of a gay man for some time.

But in its 27th season, The Simpsons is doing something about this problem — albeit half-heartedly.

The Simpsons doesn't want you to think too hard about how all its characters are stuck

"The Burns Cage" is a good example of this. The plot is centered on howbe the guy who's in love with his oblivious boss for no apparent reason.

The Simpsons is dealing with its messy legacy

The show also tried to tackle the question of Apu back in January with "Much Apu About Something," featuring Utkarsh Ambudkar, an actor who has criticized the character of Apu harshly in the past. Indeed, the plot of the episode features Ambudkar's character, Apu's nephew Jay, telling his uncle that he's a relic of the past and needs to step aside for something new.

Again, the show tries to have things both ways — by arguing that Jay (a hipster millennial) is just as much of a stereotype as Apu — but it also advances an argument that many of the show's characters are based on stereotypes that the


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Sinclair forces Time Warner Cable to black out Fox station

In a possible aftermath of a recent rancorous retransmission agreement, Sinclair Broadcasting Group (Nasdaq: SBGI) has invoked its right under a rarely used non-duplication rule to force Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC-WI) to remove the Sinclair-owned Fox affiliate in Rochester in favor of its Buffalo-based Fox affiliate. The action impacted Time Warner Cable subscribers in some northern New York counties.

The blackout is sporadic, occurring only when the two stations are showing only the Fox national programming feeds. Local news was not impacted, but as soon as the newscast ended, the WUHF channel 12 signal was again blacked out.

The blackout comes months after a relatively rancorous retransmission consent battle between TWC and Sinclair. During that tussle, Time Warner CableGaza explosions: 'Suicide bombers' kill three police officers Published duration 28 August 2019

image copyright Reuters image caption Hamas said security forces were pursuing those behind the bombings

Hamas is arresting suspected jihadist activists in Gaza, which the militant Islamist movement controls, after what a security source said were suicide bomb attacks on two police posts.

Three police officers were killed in the attacks, which are thought to have been carried out by extremists with links to the Islamic State (IS) group.

Gaza's interior ministry declared a state of emergency after the bombings.

Hamas leader Ismail Haniya vowed to hold those responsible to account.

The bombings would "not be able to undermine the stability and steadfastness of our people", he added.

image copyright AFP image caption Hamas security forces deployed hundreds of personnel on main


roads across Gaza

According to reports from Gaza, two police officers were killed in Tuesday night's first attack, in which a motorcycle exploded as it approached a checkpoint.

A second, similar, attack less than an hour later killed another police officer.

Israeli military sources immediately denied that they had launched any operations in Gaza and suspicion fell on Salafist jihadist factions, who have periodically challenged Hamas' authority in the Palestinian territory.

image copyright AFP image caption A state of emergency was declared following the bombings

Hamas recently released several prisoners from detention, as a gesture of goodwill, including some members of militant groups affiliated with IS.

The BBC understands that at least one of the suspected bombers had been previously detained and was one of those recently released.

The BBC's Wyre Davies in Jerusalem saysFormer federal Liberal cabinet minister Andy Scott died in Fredericton of cancer and is being remembered as a politician with a social conscience. He was 58.

Scott represented Fredericton in the House of Commons from 1993 to 2008 and served as solicitor general under former prime minister Jean Chretien and then the minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development in the Paul Martin government.

Many of Scott's friends and colleagues described him on Tuesday as a leader and a politician with a social conscience.

Flags on all government buildings in Fredericton will be at half-mast until sunset the day of his funeral, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore posted on Twitter.

Andy Scott, a former federal cabinet minister, died in Fredericton. He was 58.

Premier David Alward issued a statement,


saying he learned of Scott's passing "with great regret and sadness."

He described Scott as a "tireless community builder," who was "always driven to help people and lay the foundation for a better future in his community and throughout our province."

"Andy never backed away from a challenge or an opportunity to make a difference," Alward said.

Former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna said he spoke with Scott last week. Their friendship spanned decades.

"He was the most earnest and the most compassionate human being that I have ever come across," McKenna in an interview with Terry Seguin of CBC's Information Morning Fredericton.

Scott worked for McKenna as a senior civil servant, where he was responsible for spreading the importance of literacy around the province.

The former premier said Scott’s work to advance thecause of literacy will be one of his lasting legacies.

"He is going to be one of the last of the old-time politicians, somebody who wanted to touch the people, not through social media, not through robocalls, but being there with them and by just soaking up their emotions," McKenna said.

Another of Scott’s legacies is his work with First Nations communities across the country from his time as a federal minister and his later work on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Martin, who had appointed Scott as the minister of Indian affairs, described Scott as "the architect of the Kelowna Accord," the agreement that promised more than $5 billion over 10 years to upgrade health care, housing and education for First Nations.

But the former prime minister said he knew how


much the people of Fredericton meant to Scott.

Martin said he visited Fredericton’s Boyce Farmers Market on several occasions with Scott and said he could tell how much he meant to his constituents.

Scott was known to spend hours every Saturday morning at the market, speaking to people about the issues of the day.

"Andy Scott, the politician, was Andy Scott, the person. There was no pretence about him. He was a very generous, he was a very compassionate person," Martin said.

"He was so gentle, and yet he was a tremendous fighter for the things in which he believed. He loved New Brunswick."

Liberal Leader Brian Gallant also praised Scott's commitment to social causes.

"Andy’s passing is a great loss to all. His passion and dedication to social issues knew no limits andextended well beyond partisan lines. Andy was a great father, leader and Canadian. He meant a lot to many and will be sadly missed," Gallant said in a statement.

Federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said Scott's commitment to community was "the hallmark of his character.

"Throughout his life, and long before Andy entered federal politics, he sought to empower those around him, particularly the disadvantaged as well as persons with disabilities," Trudeau said in a statement.

"While losing Andy comes as a shock to us all, he leaves behind a great legacy of championing social justice and evidence-based policy."

Scott was also remembered warmly by people who represented other political parties.

Dennis Cochrane, a former leader of the New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party, said Scott’s ability to hold the riding of Fredericton, which


is traditionally a Conservative seat, demonstrated how he could reach out to people who did not always agree with him.

"As a very left-wing Liberal, there is no doubt that Andy had a very strong social conscience," he said. "He was left of centre, and Fredericton, normally by tradition, is right of centre, but Andy still represented Fredericton well.

"He was extremely conscientious of keeping in touch with his constituents and spoke well of the traits he had in politics."

Federal political career

Scott entered politics in 1993, winning the Fredericton seat for Chretien’s Liberals.

He was promoted to cabinet in 1997. His cabinet career, however, was cut short.

He was forced to leave the Chretien cabinet in 1998 after he was overheard by NDP MP Dick Proctor discussing an inquiry into the RCMP'shandling of protests at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation conference on an airplane.

Scott walks in Fredericton with his wife, Denise Cameron Scott. (CBC)

Scott said he did not prejudge the inquiry's outcome, but he resigned from the Chretien cabinet.

He was also known to take controversial stands on social issues. In 2003, Scott was attacked in his constituency office in downtown Fredericton over his support for same-sex marriage.

Scott decided not to run in the 2008 federal election.

After politics, Scott led a social policy research network at the University of New Brunswick.

In the last year, Scott also served as an honorary witness for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

His commitment to education was also celebrated by the New Brunswick government last week.

Education Minister Jody Carr named Scott New Brunswick's first "Official Learning Champion"


Minute observations and theoretical framework of Darwin's studies on climbing plants.
The role of movement in plants was unrecognised for a long time, due to the relative slowness of such movements by comparison with those of active animals such as insects and vertebrates, and to the difficulty with which they are distinguished from mere growth processes. Given this, the pioneer work of Darwin (On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants1865) is a milestone in botany. It is always cited as the beginning of any rigorous analysis of plant movement. Such a successful approach results at once from Darwin's broad knowledge of natural history, his use of numerous direct observations and simple experiments, but also from his own talent, which compensated for technical gaps in several instances. His useSaudi women are beginning to exercise their new rights to travel without guardian approval as the Kingdom continues to enact progressive reforms as part of its Vision 2030 social and economic blueprint.

This week’s announcement by the Departments of Passport and Civil Status that the organization has begun enforcing the amended Travel Documents Law and regulations meant that Saudi women would now be able to travel without guardian approval, drawing praise from both Saudis and others worldwide.

Women over 21 can now get a passport and go abroad without permission in Saudi Arabia.

This week, according to Reuters, women are starting to exercise their new rights. The news service interviewed a Saudi woman named Salma, a 40-year-old mother of three, who travels abroad regularly with authorization from her legal guardian –


Rémy Vogel

Rémy Vogel (26 November 1960 – 17 October 2016) was a French international football defender. He played for RC Strasbourg and AS Monaco FC. He also played one international game for France. Vogel served as captain for Strasbourg between 1985 and 1987.

He died after a long illness on 17 October 2016 aged 55.

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Boomer's

400 Block of Main Street

Grand Junction was once home to a classy Jazz club. Boomer's operated for a number of years on the north side of Main Street. On any given night you would find the owner, Chet, sitting at the bar. Great Jazz groups including the Michelle Wilkinson Trio, Walt Smith, and more, would play there. The dress code was pretty sharp, and the atmosphere was magnificent.

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Aladdin's Castle

Mesa Mall - Cafe Court

If you've been around a while, you can remember a time when people didn't have home gaming systems. For that matter, you can remember a time when there was no such thing as home gaming systems. You had video games and not many of those. They were gigantic,this restaurant ever did. There was a parking area behind the building, and almost everyone entered the restaurant through the back by the kitchen. For breakfast, you could order the "Waylon." That was two eggs over easy, two strips of bacon, Grits, wheat toast, and coffee.

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The Oasis Restaurant

Corner of 4th and North Avenue

The Oasis was the working definition of a "coffee shop." Every day of my childhood was spent there, and I think the only thing we ever had was coffee. I would go there with my dad in the early 1970's and pound coffee by the gallon. The booth seating was covered in duct tape, and the place was all the better for it. Eventually, for reasons unknown, the place changed its name to "The Prairie


Schooner." It closed shortly after.

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Guyton's Fun Junction

North Avenue across from Walmart

Back in the 1970's, 29 Road and North Avenue were to Hell and gone. You were out in the boonies. There were no Walmarts or national steakhouses. You had two drive-in movie theaters, a baseball field, and the biggest amusement park between Denver and Salt Lake City, Guyton's Fun Junction. They had bumper boats, Tilt-a-Whirls, miniature golf, this spider type thingy, and a way cool roller coaster.

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The Cafe Caravan - Jungle Bar

1st Street - West Main

The Cafe Caravan featured the legendary Jungle Bar. Bands like Ralph and Clyde used to play there all the time. Back before he became a big star, Collin Raye used to perform at the Cafe Caravan from time to time. The building'sa comfortable level of 20°C (68°F) throughout the year, as the local Korean guides say “cool in summer and warm in winter”.

YPT tourists riding metro

Construction station

YPT tourists departing Rejuvenation station

Triumph station

The North Koreans praise their own efforts in constructing their metro system with the assistance of China and the Soviet Union which is why the architecture and style is very similar to the Moscow Metro in Russia or the Kiev Metro in Ukraine.

The stations have been uniquely named after revolutionary feats during the liberation of Korea from the Japanese after World War II, as well as the Korean War. The names of some of the Pyongyang metro stations translate into English as Reunification, Rejuvenation, Glory, Triumph, Harvest, Red Star, Liberation and Construction for example. The Mansudae Art Studio


was in charge of all the elaborate mosaics, portraits, chandeliers, and sculptures to match the theme of the station.

The Pyongyang subway system was also built with a second purpose of being a bunker to shelter citizens from any possible attacks on the city. This intention is only noticeable once stepping off the descending escalators and walking towards the platforms. You’ll pass three separate blast shields built behind the wall and ceiling covered by removable metal sheeting. Each station we have explored has this same noticeable design near the entrance and exit of the station.

YPT Guide Rowan Beard takes you to 13 out of the 16 metro stations in Pyongyang

History of Pyongyang Metro

In 1968 construction on Chollima line 1 which first only consisted of 6 metro stations begun. In1973 it was opened to the public for use and costing only 5 Korea Won to ride no matter how far the travel distance, which is less than 1 US cent thus making it the cheapest subway system in the world. The cost has not changed and is still in effect today!

In the early 1970s construction began on Hyoksin line 2 and was opened in 1975 to the public.

During the 70s and 80s, Pyongyang’s rolling stock consisted mostly of Chinese designed and made cars in Beijing. This was later sold back to Beijing subway as the Koreans imported metro cars from East and West Berlin from 1997.

The German’s cleaned the metro cars from vandalism and graffiti made to the walls and seats. The Koreans were given the option


to replace the windows on the subway cars as they too were scratched with vandalism. This offer was declined as it would have added further costs, and you can still see German graffiti on the Pyongyang metro today. The North Koreans fitted portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in each carriage as well as connecting the speakers to Pyongyang underground radio station with hourly updates and propaganda music.

Retro Beijing Subway at Construction station

Victory Station with Beijing Rolling stock

In 1987 two more stations were opened on line 1, Rejuvenation station located near the Munsudae Art Studio and Glory station located underneath the Pyongyang International Railway Station. These two stations are considered to be the largest and grandest stations on the metro.

In 2010 the National Tourism Agencyride it. There is a red plaque on the side of the train signifying when Kim Jong Un tested the train himself when it was first operated.

In 2019 Triumph and Reunification station on line 1 was reopened to the public after being completely renovated.

In 2020, Comrades in Arms station and War Victory station, the two stations that allow passengers to transit between line 1 and 2 was renovated.

Experience

Riding the metro is an experience within itself. Whether you’re in Pyongyang for a day or longer, boarding the metro is one of the very few times you can openly mingle with North Koreans. The locals are a mix of office workers, grandparents, families, school students, or military men and women.

They usually tend to be a little shy at first seeing


the police report, however, points to something either in addition to an inmate visit, or possibly an entirely different purpose for Jauch to go to Bureau County.

“He stated that a man that he had never met before who had been in the bar with a female, had gotten on
his motorcycle and was behind him.” –Based on the police report, Jauch was in a bar with a female. Maybe she was a former inmate?

“Lanham stated that he was told by Brent Vogel, that one of his friends was out in a car with a girl from the bar. He stated that he went out into the parking lot in an attempt to speak with him. He stated that when he reached the car, he noticed it was not hisfriend, but who he described as Jauch in the car.” – So Jauch is actually in a car with a woman, who is not his wife. Maybe she was a former inmate that he needed to speak with at the bar or in his car….Sam I am.

“Richard stated that he grabbed his brother, Jerry, to try and break up the fight, and was told by Jerry, that Jauch had hit his sister.”

“At this time the man took a swing at him and he ducked. He stated that the man hit Barbara Lanham in the face.” – So an officer of the law actually hit a woman?

Reading the entire police report raises more questions than we have time for, but it does appear that Officer Jauch is not the


Comcast Wants to Ban States from Protecting Privacy, Neutrality

Comcast is joining Verizon in urging the FCC to ban states that are trying to protect consumer broadband privacy and net neutrality. Earlier this year large ISPs paid lobbied the GOP and Trump administration to gut consumer broadband privacy rules. Lawmakers admitted they utilized the public's focus on losing health care to quickly dismantle the rules, which would have required ISPs be more transparent about what personal data is collected and sold, and required ISPs provide working opt out tools for those interested in privacy.

The rules were crafted only after Verizon was caught covertly tracking users around the internet and AT&T tried to make privacy a luxury option for an additional fee.

But when ISPs killed federal rules, numerous states decidedthat covers the whole spectrum of learning from the Arts, Sciences and Humanities. The university's beginning at the Kuala Lumpur campus dates back to 1959 and thus far has a huge alumni of over 100,000, among them renowned and illustrious personalities and leaders in various fields. http://www.oeconsortium.org/members/view/427/

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The Virtual University (Urdu:ورچوئل یونیورسٹی; Vu), is a public university located in urban area of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Its additional campus is also located in residential area of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.

Established in 2002 by the Government of Pakistan to promote distance education in modern information and communication sciences as its primary objectives, the university is noted for its online lectures and broadcasting rigorous programs regardless of their students' physical locations. The university offers undergraduate and post-graduate courses in business administration, economics, computer


Google has signed a contract to buy 111 8th Avenue in Manhattan, one of the world's choicest pieces of Internet real estate, the Wall Street Journal reports. The search company will pay for approximately $1.9 billion, the Journal says, citing sources familiar with the deal.

111 8th Avenue is one of the premier "carrier hotels" in New York. The enormous building houses major data center operations for Digital Realty Trust, Equinix, Telx and many other providers and networks, as well as 500,000 square feet of office space for Google.

The 2.9 million square foot building, which occupies the entire city block between 15th & 16th Streets from Eighth to Ninth Avenues, was placed for sale in September by an ownership group including Taconic Investment Partners, the New York State CommonRetirement Fund and the German investment group Jamestown.

111 Eighth Avenue is among the world’s most wired buildings. It was originally built as the Port Authority Commerce Building in 1932, and was redeveloped for telecom use by Taconic in the late 90s. The offering is being closely watched as a barometer of the Manhattan real estate market.

Google's purchase of the building provides access to additional office space for its growing New York sales and engineering operation at 111 8th Avenue. As the building owner, Google has the ability to easily expand into vacant space if needed. About a quarter of the building is dedicated to data center and telecom space, but the tenant list also includes Deutsche Bank, Barnes & Noble, Armani, Nike and Lifetime Networks. Google is also


now the landlord for many networks and service providers, which could create interesting possibilities.

While Google could build out its own data center space at 111 8th Avenue, the cost of power in New York probably precludes a massive server farm in the building. Most of Google's large-scale data centers are located in suburban or rural areas with cheaper power.Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce teamed up to create the iconic brand. Rolls was the owner of several successful car dealerships, and Royce was an established automobile designer and engineer.

The company made their official debut in 1906, with the release of the Silver Ghost. The car caught the attention of the masses by breaking a world record – traveling nearly 14,500 consecutive miles. The emergence of the
Click Silver Ghost paved the way for one of the brand’s most popular models to this day – the Ghost series.

Rolls-Royce vehicles were originally purchased by the ultra-wealthy, but as WWI began to affect the European economy, fewer people were able to splurge on items like luxury cars. The brand’s founders shifted their attention to aviation efforts, which were used by the


Allies during the war. Rolls-Royce continued creating luxury cars, and by the 1930s, the
Click Phantom model had gained critical acclaim.

Eventually, Rolls-Royce vehicles became so popular that the royal family began using them. Princess Elizabeth drove the exclusive Phantom IV during the 1950s, of which there were just 18 produced. This spark of popularity exhibited by the royal family caused other notable figures and celebrities to purchase Rolls-Royces.

Nowadays, Rolls-Royce vehicles are still manufactured across the pond, in Goodwood, England. Rolls-Royce vehicles are still considered extremely exclusive, but the brand has expanded into making more models, and is currently working on an SUV. Models like the
Click Rolls-Royce Dawn and the
Click Rolls-Royce Wraith continue to captivate the masses.

Bentley

Walter Bentley founded a luxury vehicle company that bore his name in 1919. Walterwas the youngest of nine siblings, and like his company, he emerged from humble beginnings. He began investigating the mechanics of motion from an early age, riding and dismantling bicycles to better understand how they worked. Later on in his youth, he began working for a railway company, where he could watch trains in motion and glean information from these larger machines.

Walter then moved on to racing motorcycles, during which time his engineering skills were nurtured ever further. Having thoroughly immersed himself into studying movement and the engineering principles behind it, he transitioned into importing vehicles from out of the country with one of his brothers in 1912. Bentley was inspired to make cars out of a more lightweight material after working in the industry, and eventually created


a new formula that was made mostly from aluminum.

Finally, in 1919, Bentley was born. Walter’s mission was to create reliable, fast cars that would stand above the vehicles currently in their class. One of the original Bentley models, with a 3-litre 85hp engine, won several racing awards, setting Bentley Motors apart from the pack.

Walter continued producing cars that wowed the masses up until his final creation, the 8-litre. The car was anticipated to break speeds up to 100mph, making it an anomaly for the time period. The engine was super powerful and was promoted as being completely silent. Sadly, only 100 models of the car were ever made, as the market crashed shortly before the vehicle’s launch, making it an unattainable purchase for many.

Today, Bentley is known forAs wine editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, Jon Bonné is the leading voice in a general-interest publication covering the heart of the California wine industry. He’s also controversial, for he has been one of California wine’s harshest critics.

In “The New California Wine: A Guide to the Producers and Wines Behind a Revolution in Taste,” published in November by Ten Speed Press, Bonné argues that California’s wine industry has been on the wrong path for more than two decades, pursuing bigger, riper wines and higher point scores from critics at the expense of the character that made California wines great in the first place.

“Again and again I was disappointed by what I found to be the shortfalls of California wine: a ubiquity of oaky, uninspired bottles and a


awesome it was, California had drunk the Kool-Aid.”

Bonné’s book should be mandatory reading for all fans of American wine. He details how California became divided between Big Wine: the three companies (E&J Gallo, Constellation and the Wine Group) that produce nearly two-thirds of the state’s wines; and Big Flavor, the exorbitantly priced cult wines that favor extraction, oak, high point scores and exclusivity. From boring to . . . well, expensive and boring. Bonné searched for something between the innocuous supermarket wines and the cult cabs.

He found a few familiar holdouts for the old California style in Paul Draper at Ridge, Ted Lemon at Littorai and Josh Jensen at Calera. Over time, as Bonné explored California’s wine regions, he met others. Most, such as Steve Matthiasson with hisPages

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Peering from his hiding place in a corpse-strewn alley of 15th century Soissons, young Nicholas Hook watched in horror as his fellow English archers, surrendered by a treacherous nobleman for a pouch of coins then disarmed, are set upon by their French captors. First, their bow fingers are sliced off, something Hook had heard stories about in the short time he had spent with his company. But then they were grabbed by the hair, their heads wrenched back, and their eyes gouged from their sockets. Still the Frenchmen’s bloodlust was not sated. Drawing their daggers, the French men-at-arms castrated the screaming, blinded men and left them to bleed to death, writhing on the cobblestones of the square in front of the little church where they


1415, on the feast day of St. Crispin and St. Crispian, the patron saints of the town of Soissons.

Nicholas Hook escapes the carnage, along with a young novice, Melisande, the bastard daughter of a wealthy French nobleman. The couple flee to Calais where Nicholas relates all he has seen to the English commander there. As one of the few survivors of the butchery at Soissons, Nicholas is then summoned to London to repeat his story to King Henry V. Afterwards, the king assigns him to the company of Sir John Cornewaille (sometimes spelled Cornwall).

Sir John Cornewaille was born in 1364 to a noble family. His father, also Sir John Cornewaille, had been in service to the Duke of Brittany. His mother was, purportedly, the niece of the Duke.Sir John (the younger) served Richard II in Scotland. Then, he fought for the Duke of Lancaster in Brittany and, later, King Henry IV. Sir John was made a Knight of The Garter in 1410 for his numerous acts of courage on the battlefield. King Henry IV even gave him Elizabeth Plantagenet, the Duchess of Exeter, daughter of the third surviving son of King Edward III , in marriage.

But, although he was a celebrated tournament champion as well as decorated soldier, Sir John was not the romanticized warrior that people often think of when the subject of knights and chivalry arise. His training speech, as related by Cornwell, would make a U.S. Marine drill sergeant proud:

“ …you rip their bellies open, shove blades in their eyes, slice their


the climax of the novel is the battle of Agincourt. The battle itself lasted for about three hours and Cornwell’s account of the slaughter that occurred in those three hours left me as emotionally drained as those unarmored archers who, after exhausting their supply of bodkins, struggled in the knee deep mud of that sodden wheat field to fight off French knights wielding shortened lances and spiked maces.

I had always heard that the English won the battle of Agincourt because of their archers with their famous long bows. But, actually, the archers depleted their arrow supply on the first French battle charge. The second wave was repulsed in hand to hand fighting along the entire English line, with archers discarding their bows and resorting to secondary weapons likeRome!”. I’ve only read two of Wilbur Smith’s novels, “The Seventh Scroll” and “River God” but the narrative style of these two novels is quite similar to the storytelling technique used by Ben Kane in this first of a projected series of novels featuring heroes developed in this work.

Kane introduces each character in their own unique context within the boundaries of the Late Roman Republic. We first meet Tarquinius, one of the last of the Etruscan haruspices (soothsayers), raised as a poor freedman on a large latifundia owned by a politically ambitious patron with ties to the richest man in Rome at the time, Marcus Licinius Crassus. Warned by his tutor to escape to the east where he will find his destiny, Tarquinius abandons his home and joins


the forces of Lucullus fighting Mithradates in Asia Minor.

Next we meet Brennus, a towering Gallic warrior whose people are crushed by the legions of Julius Caesar. The only survivor of his village, he is taken in chains to Rome where he is sold to the largest gladiatorial school in the capital.

Then we meet the twin brother and sister slaves, Romulus and Fabiola, the spawn of Julius Caesar and a slave girl he ravaged on the streets of Rome when coming home from an evening of revelry with his friends. The twins’ cruel owner, a less-than-profitable merchant in debt to the greedy Crassus, sells the 14-year-old twins, sending Romulus to the gladiator school and Fabiola to the Lupanar – the most prestigious brothel in Rome.

Romulus has fortunately received someRoman nobleman who just happens to be the hated former patron of Tarquinius. To escape crucifixion, the two flee south where they hear Crassus is assembling an army to invade Parthia. In Brundisium, they meet Tarquinius and our ensemble cast is finally ready to get into some serious trouble in the deserts of Syria where Crassus will meet his inevitable fate at the battle of Carrhae, the climax of this first installment.

Kane obviously knows the rudimentary history of the late Roman Republic and its key players and his characters have some depth. I like the way he interjects the occasional Latin term into the narrative in a context that clearly reveals its meaning without delivering a specific definition. This is the natural way that people learn another language


his own wife was ill or not.

Then Romulus narrowly escapes being run over by an ox cart in the streets of Rome in the middle of the day. I had previously read that wagons and carts were forbidden by law to enter Rome until after dark. I mentioned this to my friend Pat Hunter, author of “Immortal Caesar,” and she told me that she thought the legislation was passed after Caesar returned from Gaul so this criticism may be unjustified.

Later, Romulus defeats an experienced and successful gladiator in a “duel” at the gladiator school. It is hard for me to believe that a 14-year-old boy with occasional training with a sword could defeat a veteran gladiator in single combat on his first outing. Gladiators were burly, barley-fed brutes(how’s that for alliteration!) whose body mass alone would have nearly guaranteed victory in such an encounter. Perhaps Kane was trying to appeal to a younger demographic with that one.

Then, I seriously doubt that a Roman noble, irregardless of how besotted he was with a beautiful prostitute, would have taken her to a formal Roman dinner party. I realize Rome had become Hellenized to some extent since the second Punic War but prostitutes from a brothel were not treated as Greek heitera in Roman social circles. He also would not have taken her to Roman gladiatorial contests or at least not sat with her and discussed combat tactics. Women were relegated to the uppermost seats, totally segregated from the men at Roman games, or at least they were


less than a century later when the Flavian amphitheater (Colosseum) was built.

Kane also explained that only the most blood-thirsty Romans stayed for the gladiator bouts late in the afternoon, after watching the beast hunts and executions. This was laughable, as the gladiator contests were viewed as the climax of the entire experience. If anyone left, it was to grab a bite to eat at lunch during the criminal executions.

But, despite these perceived historical missteps, Kane spun a good yarn. I would agree with Rollins that the story was engaging, although “visceral”, no, not after reading one of Bernard Cornwell’s battle sequences in which his protagonist slashes wildly with a battle ax, wiping the spray of blood from a severed artery out of his eyes and flicking a fragmentof bone and brain from his cheek – I was listening to Bernard Cornwell’s “Agincourt” during my morning workout at the same time I was reading the hard copy of “The Forgotten Legion” in the evening. Now that is my idea of visceral!

The young Roman protagonist of classicst Paul Waters' first novel, "Of Merchants and Heroes", seeks to find his own identity in a society in the midst of redefining itself, as the traditionally conservative Roman culture begins to embrace, albeit uncertainly, Greek Hellenism at the end of the second Punic War. Born of a landed but impoverished family on a farm in the centuries old city of Praeneste, young Marcus' life takes a dramatic turn when he and his father, along with other travelers, are captured by


pirates, led by a ruthless but charismatic rogue named Dicaearchus (Dicearchus, or Diceärch - d.196 BC), an Aetolain rogue (and real historical figure) employed by Philip V of Macedon to raid the Cyclades and Rhodian ships after the second Punic War.

Marcus, alone, escapes and flees to the house of his uncle, a prosperous merchant who has capitalized on the war with Hannibal. Forced to become his uncle's adopted son, Marcus accompanies his uncle to Tarentum where his uncle has obtained a contract to oversee properties seized from Tarentines who supported Hannibal in the recent war. There, he saves the life of the father of Titus Quinctius Flamininus, a man who would play a prominant role in the future of Greco-Roman relationships and command the allied forces of Romeand Greece in the defining battle of Cynoscephalae in 197 BCE.

Titus, like many young elite Romans of the period, had selectively embraced a number of Greek customs while living in Tarentum, a city originally founded by a group of exiled Spartans in the 8th century BCE. Since its founding, Tarentum had become a thriving trading center and bustling seaport where many nations of the ancient Mediterranean co-mingled, sharing ideas and lifestyles. At one of Titus' dinner parties, Marcus encounters his first hetaira, a lady he grows to respect as they encounter each other a number of times throughout the story. Pacifae personifies the skilled courtesan described by Lucian in his Dialogues of the Courtesans:

"In the first place, she dresses attractively and looks neat; she's gay with all the


an Athenian hoplite and Marcus as a Roman tribune – in the climax of the novel.

The thing that struck me as particularly unique about this novel was the development of the character of King Philip V of Macedon. He is usually mentioned only in passing in many books focusing on this period, presumably because Hannibal is such a charismatic figure he steals the show, so to speak. But King Philip V is presented by Waters as quite a dashing, if a bit roguish, commander of note in his own right who mounted a serious threat to Roman dominance in the Aegean. True to his ancestors, he was a master of subterfuge and seemed to have a formidable grasp of both siege and naval warfare. He was an intelligentcultural identities in dialogue with one another. It attributes a central role to cultural change in the process of redefinition of Roman identity, represented politically by the crisis of the Republican system and the establishment of the new Augustan order. Whether or not it is right to see these changes as 'revolutionary', they involve a profound transformation of Roman life and identity, one that lies at the heart of understanding the nature of the Roman Empire.

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading and has been Director of the British School at Rome since 1995. His previous books are Suetonius: The Scholar and his Caesars (1983), Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum (1994) and Domestic Space in the Roman World (co-edited with Ray Laurence,


1997). He is currently directing a major project on a Pompeian neighbourhood with Michael Fulford and, since 2001, has directed the Herculaneum Conservation Project. He frequently contributes to radio and television programmes on various aspects of Roman life and in 2004 was awarded an OBE for services to Anglo-Italian cultural relations.

While I was browsing new ancient-themed books on Amazon I saw this interesting list by Mary Beard of ten books that illustrate why Romans were great lovers. I definitely agree with item 9. When I visited the Museo Archaeologico in Naples a couple of years ago and ventured into the "Secret Room" I did not find the semi-erotic paintings particularly shocking, as did the first female Victorian visitors, but found the heaps of phallic-shaped votive offerings and explicitpartner. Read: Apuleius, The Golden Ass (Penguin Classics), translated by E. J. Kenney.

8. Rough-trade

Roman women went for the rough, tough sporting heroes of the ancient world. Successful gladiators became the heart-throbs of the Roman girls. Read: Catharine Edwards, The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome.

9. In touch with their inner-selvesThe anxiety of Roman men was one of their more endearing features. Images of the phallus were everywhere in Roman towns – but so too were images of castration and mutilation. The ancient man never took his prowess for granted. Carlin A. Barton,The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans.10. Not afraid to say 'I love you'

The walls of the buried city of Pompeii are covered with written messages from satisfied (and a few unsatisfied) men. ‘Oh Chloe, I had a


Augustus sought immortality—an eternal glory gained through deliberate planning for his niche in history while flexing his existing power. Imperium and Cosmos focuses on Augustus’s Mausoleum and Ustrinum (site of his cremation), the Horologium-Solarium (a colossal sundial), and the Ara Pacis (Altar to Augustan Peace), all of which transformed the northern Campus Martius into a tribute to his major achievements in life and a vast memorial for his deification after death.

Rehak closely examines the artistic imagery on these monuments, providing numerous illustrations, tables, and charts. In an analysis firmly contextualized by a thorough discussion of the earlier models and motifs that inspired these Augustan monuments, Rehak shows how the princeps used these on such an unprecedented scale as to truly elevate himself above the common citizen. "

College Levelhealth by smoking cigarettes. This is so despite government campaigns to warn people of the dangers of smoking. Reluctantly, one has to draw the conclusion that the mandatory warnings that tobacco companies are required to print have had no effect. Which one of the following, if true, would refute the argument in the passage?

(A) Many people who continue to smoke are aware of the dangers of smoking.(B) Some people smoke cigarettes for legitimate reasons.(C) Government has had to force companies to warn potential customers of the dangers of their products.(D) Some people who are aware of the dangers of smoking were made aware of them by the mandatory warnings.(E) Smoking is clearly responsible for a substantial proportion of preventable illness in the country.

As the content of the LSAT


given in Puerto Rico, but the LSAT is only given in English. Puerto Rico has its own little universe of colleges and law schools that nobody in America has ever heard of because they use Spanish as their language of instruction, but the LSAT is so useful that Puerto Rican law schools insist on their applicants taking it (along with a GRE-like test in Spanish).

The LSAT is one test where African-American men outscore African-American women, but only about 60% as many black men take the test as black women.

Le Carrefour goes on to offer an LSAT to IQ conversion chart. I suspect, however, that it slightly underestimates IQs relative to LSAT scores. It assumes that somebody who scores 151 on the LSAT has an IQ of 105, whichstrikes me as five or ten points too low for somebody who is close to graduating from college or has already graduated and is considering three more years of study.

March 26, 2009

Now that the NBA requires one of college basketball (or European pro play) before it will draft young stars, the NCAA basketball tournament has become much like American Idol, with a different cast each year. This has its appealing side, but it's also lacking in continuity. It's not like the 1984 NCAA championship game, when super centers Patrick Ewing of Georgetown and Akeem Olajuwon of Houston, both of whom had lost heartbreaking final games in previous seasons, fiinally faced off.

This year, I haven't been paying any attention all season so all I know about the participants is


that there's this giant homeschooled mulatto kid and his older brother on one of those schools in Oklahoma.

Personally, I would like to see college players stick around longer. For example, Kevin Love was an All-American as a freshman last year at UCLA because of his Bill Walton-like skills. His father Stan Love played for Portland in the NBA. (His father's brother Mike Love is a Beach Boy.) He looked awesome through the first four rounds of the tournament, until he ran into Memphis's NBA-quality athletes in the semifinal, where he looked short and slow.

So, he might not have personally carried UCLA to an NCAA championship, but what a team player to recruit around. If he had announced he was staying all four years, UCLA could have recruited startime). This would encourage more players to stay in college, where they really do get better coaching in fundamentals, provide continuity, but keep a few teams from stockpiling all the best players.

Sanford Kurland, who was Angelo Mozilo's right-hand man at Countrywide Financial through 2006, has a new business, PennyMac, which buys dubious mortgages for pennies on the dollar that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has wound up with from taking over collapsing banks.

It all makes perfect sense. Who knows more about toxic assets than Countrywide executives?

Interestingly, one of the largest banks to be "resolved" by the FDIC last year was IndyMac.

IndyMac, PennyMac. Hmmhmm ... Must be just a coincidence.

Except, that IndyMac was another spinoff of Countrywide. Wikipedia says:

PennyMac is also a private corporation, although it does a lot


cash in.

March 25, 2009

A former stripper accused of orchestrating a massive mortgage fraud scheme pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Greenbelt, admitting that she played a central role in swindling desperate homeowners out of millions of dollars.

Joy Jackson, who lived lavishly while the real estate market boomed, wore a green jail jumpsuit with the word "PRISONER" across her back. She was a world away from her $800,000 wedding at the Mayflower Hotel in 2006, where she was feted by more than 300 guests and serenaded at the reception by Patti LaBelle.

Jackson, 41, who was the president of the Metropolitan Money Store in Lanham, faces a decade or more in prison.

Instead of helping people hold onto their homes, as they promised, Jackson and her co-conspirators took titles toHe said Jackson danced under the name "Night Rider" from 1997 to 2003. One of her most memorable stunts involved riding in on a white stallion, a la Lady Godiva.

"She was very popular, very creative," he said. "She stood out."

It wasn't just the patrons who noticed Jackson's act. Kurt Fordham, a popular disc jockey in Prince George's clubs, liked her, too, and the two started dating.

Jackson eventually stopped dancing to focus on her career as a loan officer, moving from one mortgage firm to another. In September 2004, she teamed with McCall, 46, to open Metropolitan. They advertised on gospel and R&B radio stations and other African American media outlets, promising to help homeowners with cash-flow and credit problems.

Veronica Savoy was two months behind in mortgage payments on


live rent-free for a year and then buy back their homes at the end of the year.

But when the homes passed to the straw buyer, Metropolitan would borrow as much as possible against the value, effectively siphoning out the equity and increasing the cost of the house, according to the suit. The original owners were often unable to repurchase their property; some said they were unaware they were signing over their deeds. ...

Neighbors knew little about the couple but said signs of conspicuous consumption were everywhere. Eight cars were regularly parked outside their home, including a Jaguar, a Porsche, a Corvette and a Cadillac Escalade, several neighbors said. Fordham was seen each day outside wiping down his vehicles and moving them from space to space, neighbors said. Awas inflicting upon itself something that could turn into another Quebec a generation or two down the road. Or worse, a Kosovo, which was plunged into war in the 1990s by decades of unassimilated illegal immigration from Albania into a Serbian part of the republic formerly known as Yugoslavia.

And, it struck me, the man who did more to head off the dangers posed by bilingual education is a friend of mine. In fact, he’s my boss: The American Conservative’s publisher Ron Unz.Okay, I’m biased. But a decade after the 61-39 landslide victory of Ron’s initiative, Proposition 227, put bilingual education on the ropes in California, America’s forerunner state, it’s time to review how the seemingly predestined triumph of bilingualism was knocked off track.

The history of educational plans in


to power falling into the hands of increasingly leftist elements, ending up with Lenin.

The Bolshevik takeover led to the near paralysis of the Russian economy. In the midst of the world's largest forest, the Communists were soon running out of the paper to print their decrees, propaganda, and currency. What did they have to sell to buy imported weapons to help them stay in power?

Treasure. The gold, silver, and jewelry amassed over the generations. Lenin and Trotsky imposed a policy of looting on a mass scale. As Marx had prophesied: "The knell of private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated."

This didn't prove as immediately successful as the Bolshevik braintrust had hoped. For example, "inventory shrinkage" proved a recurrent problem. When Lenin and Trotsky called for mobs to sacklocal landowners, bourgeois households, and churches and send the loot to them, the amount received wasn't as lucrative as expected. Rather a lot seemed to stick to the fingers of local Party operatives.

For instance, the murder of the deposed Czar and his family could have been a gold mine for the regime since the daughters had diamonds stuffed in their undergarments. But, not much got back to Party Headquarters. As late as the 1930s, Stalin would send the Cheka to the villages around where the Romanovs were murdered and the goon squads would find locals who had 100-carat diamonds stuffed away.

Just as it was hard for poor peasants to fence humongous diamonds, it was hard for the Bolsheviks to fence their robberies, of which the largest was the


Russian government's huge central gold reserves. The French, in particular, were honorable about not fencing the stolen properties of their old allies, who had saved Paris in 1914 by launching the Russian Army on a kamikaze offensive into Eastern Prussia.

Germain Seligman, whose father Jacques had been one of France's leading dealers in Russian art before the revolution, was invited to Moscow by Mikoyan in fall 1927 to inspect items the Bolsheviks wished to sell in Paris. Taken on a tour of the Gokhran's jewelry storerooms, Seligman later recalled the impression that he had been ushered into "a great cave of ormolu and gilt bronze, with stalactites and stalagmites of gold and crystal. Hanging from the ceiling ... was an incredible array of chandeliers and candelabra." Although impressed bythe sheer volume of gilt objects on display, Seligman informed Mikoyan that he was an art dealer, not a jewelry thief...

Although an enormous amount has been written about "Nazi gold" laundered through Switzerland, the much larger amount of "Bolshevik gold" laundered through Sweden in 1918-1923 has previously received little attention. Lenin's problem was that gold ingots stamped with the tsarist Russian seal were obviously stolen by the Bolsheviks, so they traded at a large discount. He found a capitalist, Stockholm bank Olof Aschberg, to sell him the rope. Aschberg would buy Russian gold in Estonia, ship it across the Baltic, and have the Swedish Royal Mint melt down the gold and put its own insignia on this. In return, Aschberg would sell the Soviets weapons needed for their


civil war and subsequent 1922 war with their own peasantry.

On the political front, British PM David Lloyd George tired of blockading the Baltic, and legitimized Soviet trade representatives in order to get orders for British factories. The British signed a trade agreement with the Soviets in 1921 and the German Foreign Office, which had done so much to put Lenin in charge of Russia in 1917, signed a loan deal with the Bolsheviks at Rapallo in 1922, just as their gold stock was running out.

By the late 1920s, moral scruples like Seligman's seemed old-fashioned. U.S. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon bought dozens of Old Master paintings from the Hermitage in 1930-31, which helped Stalin finance his war on the Ukrainian peasants. Those fenced goods now form the heart ofthe collection of our National Gallery on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. McMeekin writes:

In one of the most grotesque ironies of Communisms, it was Western fat-cat capitalists like Mellon who inherited the great part of Russia's patrimony, while the Russian proletariat received only the lash. It is hard to imagine a better program for destroying a country's wealth than by robbing and murdering its most successful wealth-producers and shipping their riches out of the country. In this way the Russian people were robbed not only of their cultural past, but of their economic future as well.

P.S. Looking through the book's handy appendix summarizing its Dramatis Personae, it becomes evident that, yes, a lot of the figures involved were Jews, such as the key Swedish banker Olof Aschberg.


With Aschberg, ethnocentrism doesn't seem to have played a large role: as well as all the help he provided Lenin and Trotsky, he had previously arranged loans for the Czar in 1916 and for Kerensky in 1917. In general, he was a man of the left (he remains a hero to Swedish Social Democrats), but mostly he'd seen his opportunities and he took them. On the other hand, some of the good guys in the book, such as Germain Seligman, were Jews, and many of the book's bad guys who helped the Bolsheviks cling to power, such as Lloyd George and the German diplomats and generals, were not.

One of the bigger holes in the social sciences is that we have do not have a definitive explanation of whya Harvard mission to provide advice to the Russian government of Boris Yeltsin, but quietly went into business for himself in violation of his contract, got caught and fired, but retained the sympathy and protection of his mentor, even as Summers served as Treasury Secretary and president of Harvard. A US District Court judge ultimately found Shleifer and Harvard to have committed fraud. The episode has become a standard item in Russia’s anti-American lore. ...

This is by no means to accuse Summers personally of corrupt involvement in the Rape of Russia. The real issue is that this kind of stuff seldom comes up in the press for criticism. I type "lawrence summers russia" into Google and the first page is by Mark Ames and the second one is


the cause of educational reform—by saying that I'm inclined to agree. The improbable story of how KIPP was founded in 1994 by David Levin and Michael Feinberg, two young Teach for America alumni in Houston, is thrilling and worthy reading. KIPP's mission has been akin to putting the first man on the moon: an all-out education race, requiring extraordinary, round-the-clock dedication from parents, students, and teachers alike. But the program is not the proven, replicable model for eliminating the achievement gap in the inner city that Mathews imagines, and this distinction is crucial. KIPP may be something more important: a unique chance to test, once and for all, the alluring but suspect notion that there actually is an educational panacea for social inequality. As of yet, the evidenceon home mortgage defaults since then has been in California.

87% of all home value inflation from 2000-2007 took place in just four heavily immigrant states: CA, AZ, NV, and FL, with equivalent losses on foreclosures over the last two years.

So, how’d that immigration –> home price inflation strategy work out for us the last time we tried it?

Somebody should summon the ghosts of Henry George and Benjamin Franklin to explain why high land prices are not a good thing for America. It's funny how the first great work of social science theory in American history, Franklin's 1751 Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, which Malthus credited as the precursor to his work, has been written out of America's intellectual history largely because of its call for immigration restriction.

Here's


-- replace the AT with the usual @). If Chase asks for the name on my account, it's Steven Sailer with an n at the end of Steven. (Non-tax deductible.)

My Book:

"Steve Sailer gives us the real Barack Obama, who turns out to be very, very different - and much more interesting - than the bland healer/uniter image stitched together out of whole cloth this past six years by Obama's packager, David Axelrod. Making heavy use of Obama's own writings, which he admires for their literary artistry, Sailer gives the deepest insights I have yet seen into Obama's lifelong obsession with 'race and inheritance,' and rounds off his brilliant character portrait with speculations on how Obama's personality might play out in the Presidency." - John Derbyshire Author, "Prime Obsession:Cleveland Browns quarterback Brian Hoyer is trying to get the Browns an AFC North title and postseason trip.

But Sunday's game against the Houston Texans and coach Bill O'Brien is also something of an audition. Hoyer and O'Brien worked together in the past and they have an interest in doing the same in the future, league sources said.

Hoyer trusts O'Brien as much as any coach in the league from their time together in New England, sources said, and he would welcome a reunion.


College hockey has grown in the last few years, with Penn State and then Arizona State adding Div. 1 NCAA programs.

So far, both have been fairly successful at least insofar as establishing their spot in the sport, and seem to be well-supported. And possibly as a result of how well those schools have transitioned from club hockey to the highest level of the college game, others are starting to dream bigger as well.

Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, and Minot State University in Minot, North Dakota, are both now reportedly considering a jump to Div. 1 as well.

As far as bonafides go, it's important to note that Minot State and Simon Fraser are both NCAA Div. 2 participants right now. SFU, despite being located in Canada, wasFormer FBI Director James Comey’s characteristically measured testimony Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee communicated one fact clearly: he doesn’t think much of the current President of the United States.

Over and over during his three-hour-long appearance, Comey painted Donald Trump as a free-wheeling, habitually untruthful commander-in-chief with little respect for the independence of the FBI.

Trump himself has taken gleeful potshots at Comey, tweeting in the days after he removed Comey as FBI director that he had “lost the confidence” of both Republicans and Democrats and denigrated the “spirit and prestige of the FBI.” He also reportedly told senior Russian officials that Comey was “crazy, a real nut job,” who was insistent on pursuing an investigation into their interference in the 2016 election.

Now a private citizen, and knowing the


applications: the study of volcanic eruptions, the study and monitoring of the reentry into the atmosphere of meteorites or satellites at the end of life, counting and location of avalanches, monitoring nuclear explosions, measuring gravity waves induced by the movements of convection in the atmosphere, the study of atmospheric models, studies of inaudible waves generated by wind turbines, trains, aircraft, underground trains.
On account of their very low frequency, infrasonic waves have the property of propagating over long distances in the various layers of the atmosphere while being appreciably less attenuated than waves in the audible range: several times around the earth for high-energy phenomena such as nuclear explosions, several thousand kilometers for certain natural phenomena such as volcanic eruptions.
To efficiently measure infrasonic waves, microbarometers must have the followingenough, Groh put out a statement through the school when he was fired Oct. 8, saying he respected the decision. "I appreciate all the help and input from (assistant defensive coaches) Charles Kelly, Joe Speed and Andy McCollum, and the effort of all the players. I aimed to give the best that I had every day. It’s been an honor to be a part of the legacy of Georgia Tech football. I feel positive that this is a good time in life to move on to a new situation," Groh said.

There is no question that Georgia Tech struggled defensively this year. At the time Groh was fired, Georgia Tech had given up 40 or more points in three straight games -- a school record that nobody wants to


de Mexico… [Kid Frost] es un poetastro hip-hop de la viaja guardia, de la vieja escuela quien vivio en Pomona… de la old school.”  To continue the literary allusions, Gunnar goes on to shut down the fetishization of Latino America—“Gunnar wrote “Machisma Hermeneutics – Hemingway and the Hacienda Gringolust, An Obsession with the Latino Male.”  Similarly, Gunnar references the Farm Workers Movement and the Chicano Movement through the character of Manny—“Manny was a tall curly-haired Chicano whose mission in life was to improve the posture of every hunchbacked laborer, swaybacked [sex worker], and stoop-shouldered hoodlum in the neighborhood.”  We even get introduced to Psycho Loco's (Cuban) Old Abuela Gloria. Finally, Beatty remains true to Chicano slang from the time period with words like “pocho,” “firme,”film.)

It's a "gorgeous" improvement: Deathly Hallows is "monumental cinema," says Philip Womack at Britain's Telegraph, and its "greatest triumph" is that it overcomes the "deficiencies" of Rowling's novel. In her pages, the climactic final battle at Hogwarts was "a damp squib," failing to "muster the epic feel needed." But the film manages to turn Rowling's fight scene into a "genuinely terrifying spectacle." The film, in turn, becomes a "triumph."

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, review"

And justifies the decision to split the last book into two films: The "squabbling" that plagued Deathly Hallows Part I is a thing of the past, says Todd McCarthy at The Hollywood Reporter. The "narrative balance and refinement," and perfectly orchestrated "massive chessboard of events" in Part II make this film an


"outstanding capper" to the franchise, "fully justifying" the decision to split Rowling's sprawling book into two parts. Deathly Hallows Part II "will grip and greatly please anyone who has been at all a fan of the series up to now."

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2: Film review"

C'mon, it's not that good.: It's true that Rowling's final book could've used some editing, says Richard Godwin at This Is London. The prose "flowed to hundreds of pages, without ever quite coming into focus," spurring Warner Brothers to split the novel into two films. And director David Yates does, for the most part, "make up for the shortcomings of the final book." Yet despite his effort to "oomph it all up for the climax," the film ultimately fails toJamaica Bay and the Rockaways

Beach Channel Park

Beach Channel Park is located in the Rockaway Park section of Queens. It is bounded by Beach 116th and Beach 124th Streets and lies between Beach Channel Drive and the Jamaica Bay bulkhead line. The City acquired the property in three stages. In 1912, the New York Supreme Court ruled in favor of the City in a land dispute known as City of New York v. Rockaway Park Improvement Co. The following year, additional acreage was acquired through an agreement approved by the Sinking Fund. This fund, now called the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, ensured the payment of City debts by withholding parcels of land. The property had previously belonged to West Rockaway Land Co. and Belle Harbor-Edgemere Realty Co. In


1930, the Board of Estimate appropriated the complete property through a condemnation proceeding. On July 1, 1930, Parks gained jurisdiction over the park. Originally named Marine Park, Commissioner Stern gave the property its present name in 1985.

Beach Channel Park adjoins Jamaica Bay, an 18,000-acre wetland estuary bordered by the Rockaway Peninsula to the South, Brooklyn to the West, and Queens to the East. The bay has a total area nearly equal to that of Manhattan, and contains numerous islands separated by a labyrinth of waterways. The region also supports meadowlands and two freshwater ponds. The wetlands of Jamaica Bay are protected from the harsh environment of the Atlantic Ocean by the Rockaway Peninsula, and provide a unique environment for both wildlife and urban recreation. The region is hostto more than 325 species of birds, 50 species of butterflies, and 100 species of fin-bearing fish. A favorite stop for migratory waterfowl, the area is an integral part of the larger, regional ecosystem. Jamaica Bay is one of New York City’s most extraordinary natural resources and remains undeveloped by virtue of federal, state, and city legislative and legal protection.

The name Rockaway is closely related to the language of the Delaware and Chippewa Native Americans. Linguistic experts recognize both Reckonwacky, meaning "the place of our own people," and Reckanawahaha, meaning "the place of laughing waters," as the area's indigenous names. Following the region's European colonization during the seventeenth century, the present name was derived from these meanings. Other interpretations include lekau, meaning sand, and lechauwaak, for fork or


branch. All interpretations reflect the historic and geographic traits of the peninsula.

The Canarsie Tribe, which originally inhabited the area, sold the mostly barren land to Captain Palmer, an Englishman, with a deed granted by then Governor Thomas Dongan (1634-1715) in 1685. Disappointed with his purchase, Palmer sold the land in 1687 to a prominent iron master from Long Island, Richard Cornell, whose descendant, Ezra, founded Cornell University in 1865.

Beach Channel Park provides visitors with a grassy area, a pedestrian path, and breathtaking views of Jamaica Bay. The path permits safe passage along a busy stretch of Beach Channel Drive. The park also contains a seawall that prevents erosion and protects the surrounding community from storm floods.at the forefront,” said Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio), who is leading legislative efforts in the House.

There are currently no overarching federal laws specifically governing the operation and deployment of self-driving cars, though there are a number of laws already on the books that developers must obey.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released the first-ever federal guidelines on the issue last fall, which included a voluntary, flexible framework that created a 15-point “safety checklist” for automakers.

But in the absence of concrete federal laws, a number of states have stepped in with their own driverless car regulations, prompting panic from the industry.

The concern over a messy patchwork of regulations is likely to be one of the main issues addressed in upcoming congressional legislation.

In the Senate, John Thune John Randolph ThuneHouse


says, there's a surplus of "very high-end, high-amenity condos that are both for sale and for rent."

Miami

"Florida was one of the earliest markets into the housing crash," Mr. Nadji says. "You would expect it to be coming out of it, but it's not," and probably won't be for three to five years, he says. For now, he sees urban, high-end condos for sale or rent as good opportunities.

Rental vacancies in Miami have climbed to 5.8% from 3.9% in 2007, he adds. Couple that with the high cost of repair services, and renting could be an attractive option for some.

Phoenix

Phoenix also has an oversupply of homes. But from a lifestyle perspective, says Mr. Nadji, the low housing costs, relatively low cost of services and numerous amenities (read: loads ofAt Golden Matzah Bowl, taste is in the heart of the beholder

Who knew matzo balls could be so divisive? Whether you like them chewy or fluffy, prefer more flavor in the ball or the broth, everyone seems to have an opinion.

At the second annual Golden Matzah Bowl, held at Forest Trace at Inverrary, a panel of eight judges and about 100 residents and guests put those opinions to work in tasting and rating matzo balls. Two restaurants and one catering company supplied the matzo, and the judges supplied the comments.


The NFL draft has a new date -- and a new home.

Next year's draft will be at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University in Chicago from April 30 to May 2, commissioner Roger Goodell and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel confirmed.

"Chicago is pleased to welcome the 2015 NFL draft to America's heartland," Emanuel said in a statement. "Next year, NFL fans from across the country will travel here or tune in as the future of their team is decided in Chicago."

The draft will be a week earlier than last year and a week later than normal.

Los Angeles was the other contender to replace New York City as the home of the draft, which became a necessary move due to Radio City Music Hall -- the traditional venue -- beingunavailable.

The draft was held in Chicago in 1938, 1942-44, 1951, and 1962-64.

"We're very excited for the city of Chicago, for the mayor, his staff, Don Welsh and everyone at the Choose Chicago committee," Chicago Bears chairman George H. McCaskey told the team's website.

"Congratulations to them on their hard work. This is going to be great for the NFL and it's going to be great for the NFL's greatest fans here in Chicago. It's going to be a very fan-friendly event. We're going to get people involved. It's going to be exciting."

Moving the draft out of New York, where it has been held for decades, was likely once the league began taking bids for the event.

The NFL soured on Radio City Music Hall after it was forced to move


the draft back two weeks into May this year. But under Goodell, the league also has considered moving around the draft for a while.

"We are excited to have fans from throughout the Midwest experience the NFL draft," Goodell said in the statement. "We look forward to returning the event to the city of Chicago and working with the city, Choose Chicago, and the Chicago Sports Commission to create a weeklong celebration of football for our fans."

The Auditorium Theatre opened in 1889 and has hosted operas, concerts, musicals and ballets. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William McKinley gave speeches at the theatre.

"There's been so much interest in the draft," McCaskey said. "Just a couple years ago who would have thought that an event of this type would have the typeA study of the content of rare earth elements in U.S. coal ashes shows that coal mined from the Appalachian Mountains could be the proverbial golden goose for hard-to-find materials critical to clean energy and other emerging technologies.

In the wake of a 2014 coal ash spill into North Carolina's Dan River from a ruptured Duke Energy drainage pipe, the question of what to do with the nation's aging retention ponds and future coal ash waste has been a highly contested topic.

One particularly entrepreneurial idea is to extract so-called "critical" rare earth elements such as neodymium, europium, terbium, dysprosium, yttrium and erbium from the burned coal. The Department of Energy has identified these globally scarce metals as a priority for their uses in clean energy and other emerging technologies.


The White Sox added righty Jason Berken to their Triple-A roster, tweets Mark Gonzales of the Chicago Tribune. Berken, 29, tossed 19 2/3 big league innings in 2012, mostly for the Cubs, but was removed from their 40-man roster in October. For the Orioles' Triple-A club, he posted a 3.50 ERA, 6.1 K/9, 2.4 BB/9, and 0.63 HR/9 in 144 innings last year. Four years ago, Baseball America explained that Berken can throw strikes with any of his four pitches, but doesn't have swing-and-miss stuff.

The White Sox also released outfielder Stefan Gartrell, tweets Gonzales. Gartrell had signed a minor league deal with an invite to big league camp. The 29-year-old hit .251/.335/.452 over 472 plate appearances last year for the Braves' Triple-A affiliate.The flhDC gene affects motility and biofilm formation in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.
The flagella master regulatory gene flhDC of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis serotype III (YPIII) was mutated by deleting the middle region and replaced by a tetracycline resistant gene, and the subsequent mutant strain named YPIIIDeltaflhDC was obtained. Swimming assay showed that the swimming motility of the mutant strain was completely abolished. The promoter region of the flagella second-class regulatory gene fliA was fused with the lux box, and was conjugated with the mutant and the parent strains respectively for the first cross. LUCY assay result demonstrated that flhDC regulated the expression of fliA in YPIII as reported in E. coli. Biofilm formation of the mutant strain on abiotic and biotic surfaces was observed and quantified. The results showed that mutation


said of Bond producer Barbara Broccoli, the daughter of Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, who originally bought the screen rights to the character. Still, he had nothing but praise for his own experiences with the franchise.

FILE - Pierce Brosnan and American actress Denise Richards on the set of "The World Is Not Enough." (Photo by Keith Hamshere/Sygma via Getty Images)

“James Bond has a certain significance and a deep pride," he said. "I will be asked about him until my dying days – it just goes with the territory. He's a beloved character. I was honored to play the role and I rejuvenated a franchise that had been dormant.”

Brosnan previously endorsed Tom Hardy as the next Bond, telling The Mail on Sunday in 2018, “I think Tom Hardy could be aMothers' views on feeding infants around the time of weaning.
To describe women's views about aspects of infants' diets around the time of weaning, making comparisons with national guidelines. A survey of women with a 9-month-old child. Adelaide, South Australia. Five hundred and five women who joined a longitudinal study during pregnancy. Sources of information varied, with written material most commonly used (37%). Cows' milk was considered suitable as the main drink for weaned infants by 14% of women. There were divergent views about the suitability of eggs, with many women concerned about allergy. The majority of women (84%) viewed fruit juice as suitable although many qualified their response, often by stating that fruit juice should be diluted. Almost all women considered the amount of sugar mattered, primarily because


Thirteen-year-old Miller Middle School student Molly Stanifer, daughter of Devon Daney and Mike Stanifer of Durango, with her horse Dixie, was recognized Feb. 11 as the winner of the North American Trail Ride Conference Region 3 junior team award for the 2017 season.

Molly started trail riding at 4 years old and entered her first competition two seasons ago. At first, it was a way to continue riding and have fun instead of be competitive, she said. She completed two rides that season, in 2016.

“My favorite ride was the first one at Chicken Creek in Mancos,” Molly said. “The scenery was really pretty. I just wanted to have fun...”

Sunday, March 11, 2018

With the Saturday night banquet and National Awards ceremony, the annual AERC Convention came to a close inReno, Nevada, with new Hall of Fame inductees.

Recently retired SW Region Director, Roger Taylor, was named Hall of Fame person, and SW rider Stephanie DuRoss and Hadji Halef Omar were awarded the Pard’ners Award. No Hall of Fame horse was named for 2017. Monica Chapman was named the Ann Parr Trails Preservation Award recipient, and Carol Thompson was honored with the Volunteer Service Award.

Saturday, March 10, 2018

A celebration of 45 years of endurance riding is underway at the annual AERC convention in Reno, Nevada.

Friday's events opened with the Hot Topic of AERC and International riding, with passionate discussions on both sides of the debate. Throughout the day, a number of veterinarians tackled topics affecting endurance horse performance.

Tuesday, March 06, 2018

• The Tack Swap is open the same hours


Distance National web page under Exhibitor Information.

Sunday, February 25, 2018

Three horse and riders crossed the finish line together in the 20 Mule Team 100 on Saturday, February 24 in the Ridgecrest, California desert, in a ride time of 9:49.

As no ties were allowed, John Stevens, from Lincoln, California, took first place aboard Rabbalad (on a coin toss, I heard), with his wife Diane taking second aboard Banderaz LC, and Jenni Smith, from Moraga, California, taking third aboard French Fry.

French Fry looked fabulous in taking the Best Condition award this morning.

25 out of 30 riders completed the 100, with the last rider, Laurie Birch, crossing the finish line in 14:50.

The famous Monk, owned by Chris Martin and ridden by 16-year-old Young Rider Alex Shampoe from Colorado, won the AERC65 and FEI 2* 120 km ride. Alex's mom Aileen Ellis said, "Alex confirmed that Monk really is a living legend and how lucky she is that she got to experience the ride on Monk. "

The 2018 American Endurance Ride Conference Convention will be held Friday and Saturday, March 9 and 10, at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada. The full agenda includes provocative, educational seminars, an eclectic Trade Show, Tack Swap, and Friday night music and dance, culminating with the Banquet and Awards ceremony Saturday night.

Friday, February 23, 2018

The Davenport Arabian Horse Conservancy is proud to announce the publication of Homer Davenport’s Quest of the Arabian Horse.

“I feel this is one of the most definitive books on the establishment of Arabian horse breeding in America which


athlete has been selected to the WEG U.S. Endurance team or has an advantage to make the WEG team.

The following athlete-and-horse combinations, listed in alphabetical order, have been invited to compete at the WEG Endurance Test Event:

Friday, February 16, 2018

The sun will not yet have risen when Lawrence Serrano will give a two minute warning. A second warning follows one minute later.

Next, the 10 second countdown starts. Finally, approximately 100 highly charged endurance riders and their mounts will head off across the desert just as the sun peeks over the eastern horizon. The Land of the Sun Endurance Ride will have begun.

Held at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum’s Boyd Ranch, The Land of the Sun Endurance Ride is the longest standing endurance ride in the southwest division. TheJunior endurance rider, and the Junior AERC Representative, from Friendsville, Tennessee, studies Materials Science Engineering at Georgia Tech, "where she brings her own flavor of quarky neediness to campus. She… is thrilled to have her superposition sentence emulated in so many alternate realities in the entries of Quantum Shorts 2017. "

Her 2015 Quantum Shorts Sci-fi Essay Contest entry, "Qubits of College Acceptance" was selected as the People's Choice winner. She is hoping for a repeat victory this year, and "A Future with Fortran" is eligible for this award. The essay with the most viewers' votes wins people's choice and a $500 cash prize.

Monday, February 12, 2018

This annual award is given to the Arabian or Half-Arabian/Anglo-Arabian horse with the highest AERC points in the National 100 Mile Award. These


accumulated in the 2017 year by competing in 50-99 mile endurance rides.

The 2017 Middle Distance High Point Endurance Arabian with a total of 2,461 points, is OT RASA RSI, owned, bred and ridden by Crockett Dumas. This athletic chestnut mare began her endurance career in 2016. Since then she and Crockett have attended 68 rides and completed all but four of them! They finished 36 rides in 2017 alone, totaling to 1,835 miles. Their biggest ride of 2017 was the Outlaw and the Virgin Pioneer ride, where they completed 250 miles in five days!

Join Us for the 2018 National Convention in Reno, Nevada!
March 9 & 10, 2018

Time to get ready for a fun-filled weekend of informative lectures, great shopping, meeting up with friends, awards ceremonies, and celebrating 45Air Force veteran and endurance horse rider, is working on completing his book, "To Live With Honor."

THE HORSE

The Thoroughbred yearling, abandoned and left for slaughter, came with only one thing: a name printed on wrinkled paper--"Honor." Filthy and frothing with contempt, the colt sprints laps around the paddock and cartwheels through fences. As untamed as he is angry, Honor refused to stop running from whatever invisible demons chased him.
When a man with ghosts of his own gives Honor a chance, Honor still refuses to stop running. Except this time, for his name-sake, it's toward a finish line.

THE MAN

Tim Finley was an Honor Guard, a folder of flags. For a Guardsman, honor comes with death. But when honor and death become indistinguishable, Finley's idea of honor rots into haunting


ghosts. Finley must face his own mortality and rewrite his understanding of what honor means, or else lose the battle against himself.
When fate drags Finley to a wretched livestock auction, his ghosts compel him to bid on horse number 5752, a horse by chance, who comes with nothing but a name.
"Tim's words immediately jumped off the page and punched me in the face. I sat in my chair for a good 15 minutes after reading the first chapter, stunned. So compelling."
— John Wilkinson
Managing Editor, Horse Nation

Thursday, February 08, 2018

OT RASA RSI came away as the winner of this prestigious award at the 2017 Arabian Horse Association Annual Convention. This athletic ten-year-old chestnut mare is owned and bred by Outlaw Trail - Crockett Dumas.

Over the past two years, OTRASA RSI and Crockett have completed 3,275 total miles. They have completed 1,835 miles in the 2017 competition season alone. Over her career thus far, OT RASA RSI has a 94 percent completion rate! She completed all but one of her 2017 rides.

OT RASA RSI is an exemplary mare and deserving of her title as the 2017 Distance Horse of the Year. Congratulations to Crockett and his mare, OT RASA RSI. Good luck in the 2018 competition season!

Columbus, OH --- California bred Shotgun Rider is the 2017 High Mileage Standardbred, presented by the USTA in partnership with the American Endurance Ride Conference.

By Distinguishedbaron, he is the 16th and final foal out of the Big Towner mare Anatola Hanover. Thirteen siblings made it to the races, with four taking


sanctioned endurance rides, some out of her Teeter Ranch in Oreana, Idaho.

Melde writes a blog, Merri Travels, and here is a link to her post about how the pair got Willie and his first endurance ride on June 8, 2017. Willie also has his own set of cartoon stories, which can be viewed here.

The AERC High Mileage Standardbred award is given to the Standardbred that has the most miles ridden during the ride season (Dec. 1 through Nov. 30). All rides are considered, including the limited distance 24-35 mile rides, and standard endurance rides (50-plus miles). Riders must be a member of AERC in order to track horse and rider mileage. For more information on the AERC, visit their website at www.aerc.org.

Since 1996, the Standardbred Equine Program hasprobably know him as "Stuart" the one-eyed horse. Linda calls him a "grandchild," since Hannah bred her mare Shazams Zhope (by Ibn Shazam) to Linda's stallion Kourageus.

Stuart currently has almost 1700 AERC miles in 8 seasons, 27 completions in 29 starts, two Tevis finishes (9th and 15th), 6 out of 7 100-mile completions, 13 Best Conditions, and twelve first-place finishes, including the Big Horn 100 twice. Hannah and Stuart finished second in the 2017 AERC 100-mile Championship in Colorado by a nose, and were awarded Best Condition. They ended up third in the 2017 National Best Condition standings.

Another home-bred horse Linda likes to mention is Kenlyn Kourvy, a 2010 mare by Linda's stallion Awesome Knight out of Kourvaceous, currently being ridden by Taylor Fisher - and that brings


us to one of Linda's human grandchildren.

"She's my little clone!" Linda says of her 14-year-old granddaughter Taylor. "She rides just like me - in fact she can outride me, and she breathes horses just like I did. Her father, my son, wasn't interested in horses, so I guess it skipped a generation. Taylor lives in Ft Collins, 80 miles from me. So when I could, I used to train together with her and teach her. I started riding endurance with her and her little sister Samantha. Sammi will ride now when she has to, but she doesn't have quite the enthusiasm that Taylor has."

Taylor's first endurance ride was at age 5 in 2009, in a 25-miler aboard one of her grandmother's horses, Tupelo Honey Tu+, riding, of course,with Linda. "Because of my bad knees," Linda said, "I've held Taylor back - she's been riding with me on the Limited Distance rides. But last year I let her go and I put her with all my 50 miler friends, and she was able to do the 50s."

Taylor not only started riding 50's in 2017, but she logged a total of 405 endurance miles, and she qualified for, and won, the Junior AERC National Championship 50-mile honors in Colorado in August, riding Kenlyn Kourvy.

Taylor's sponsor for that ride was Steve Downs, of Phelan, California, riding Kenlyn Porsche (Night Runner GWA X Mahoganaska, by Padrons Mahogany). That's one of three Kenlyn horses that Steve currently owns, the other two being 7-year-old Kenlyn Sonata (Awesome Knight X Kenlyn Steele,