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Jesus accomplished (past tense) our liberation from sin and death on the cross, then proved it by His resurrection three days later. Now, today, God saves us by that work, His grace, and through faith. He then sustains us in our salvation through Jesus, announcing who He truly is and then reminding us of His person and work over and over and over again.

Throughout What We Talk About Bell has shifted the focus of the gospel away from Jesus and onto the individual. This is perhaps the most dangerous aspect to the entire book.

We cannot take the focus of the gospel off Jesus and onto ourselves, even for a moment. The gospel is about Jesus, not about us. But the gospel is for us.If Bell wanted


of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang; (2) Department of Child Health Care, the Affiliated Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang; (3) Department of Child Health Care, Ningbo Women & Children's Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang. According to the diagnostic criteria developed by the Working Group for Obesity Task Force in China \[[@B24]\], the 85th and the 95th percentiles of age- and sex-specific BMI were used as cut-off points for defining overweight and obesity, respectively. In addition, we recruited 194 healthy children ("control") who were ascertained at the Department of Child Health Care, Children Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine. Exclusion criteria for the controls consisted of the known presence of diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, other endocrine metabolic or kidney diseases and the use of medicationsBillboard credited songwriter, record producer
MC Jin, pioneer in the Asian-American hip-hop scene
Norah Jones, musician, Grammy Award winner, daughter of Ravi Shankar.
Jessica Jung, Korean American member of girl group SNSD.
Krystal Jung, member of South Korean girl group f(x)
Nicole Jung, member of South Korean girl group KARA
Scott Jung, (Also known as The Magnificent Butcher) hip hop producer, rapper
Tony Kanal, Two-time Grammy Award winner, bass player for No Doubt.
Michael Kang (musician), mandolin player, violinist, and vocalist for String Cheese Incident, is South Korean.
Jeff Kashiwa, smooth jazz saxophonist
Natalise Kalea, Burmese-Chinese singer
Dennis Kim, underground rapper and spoken word artist
Eli Kim, member of South Korean boy group U-KISS
Amber Josephine Liu, member of South Korean girl group f(x)
Nora Lum, rapper known as Awkwafina
Yo-Yo Ma, renowned cellist
Baiyu, singer and songwriter
Bruno Mars, singer-songwriter music producer
Zubin Mehta, conductor,


of U.S. Special Operations Command, Africa (SOCAFRICA); Japanese American and first Asian American SEAL flag officer
 Viet Luong – brigadier general, U.S. Army. First Vietnam-born general officer.
 Ron J. Maclaren – rear admiral (lower half), U.S. Navy. Director, Joint Contingency Acquisition Support Office; Filipino American
 Eleanor Mariano – rear admiral (lower half), U.S. Navy, retired. First Filipino American to be promoted to a flag officer rank. Former White House physician
 Susan K. Mashiko – major general, U.S. Air Force
 Roy Matsumoto – master sergeant, U.S. Army.  Member of Merrill's Marauders, and an inductee of the U.S. Army Rangers Hall Of Fame and the Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame
 Spark Matsunaga – captain, U.S. Army. Senator from Hawaii, 1977–1990
 Hiroshi Miyamura – staff sergeant, U.S. Army. MedalIn response to growing threats from Russia and other adversaries, the F.B.I. recently moved nearly 40 agents and analysts to the counterintelligence division, the senior bureau official said in an interview this month. Many of the agents will work on the Foreign Influence Task Force, a group of cyber, counterintelligence and criminal experts. Officials have made that task force, initially formed on a temporary basis before the midterm elections, permanent.

The Department of Homeland Security made its midterm election task forces permanent, folding them into an election security initiative at their National Risk Management Center. And the National Security Agency and the United States Cyber Command have also expanded and made permanent their joint task force aimed at identifying, and stopping, Russian malign influence, officials said.

Intelligence officials have said


What exactly was going on with Mitt Romney during his speech last night? Addressing his supporters in Schaumburg, Illinois after his swift win in the Illinois primary, Romney stumbled his way through his remarks, making multiple false-starts and misreads and bumbles. Maybe he was just chuffed to bits at having won the Illinois primary over Rick Santorum, which is every child's dream. Or perhaps he was bereft of trees to talk about, botanically. OR MAYBE THE CHICAGO MACHINE GOT TO HIM!Monday, June 11, 2012

Boy Things - Equations EP

Boy Things first captivated my ears in early 2012 with their self titled six song EP.
Upon hearing the bands warm, upbeat pop sounds, I was convinced I was listening to some seasoned Indie Pop veterans that I had somehow missed the boat on. Lucky for me, the boat was just beginning to set sail and I was getting the opportunity to see/hear an amazing new act still in it's infancy.

The EP's title track "Equations" features a lush acoustic guitar sound that's followed by synthesizers and drumming that add a certain degree warmth and texture to the track. But it's when Beth's hypnotic and beautiful voice enter the fray when the senses hit overload.

The B side opens with "Sit, Stay, Rollover". The


previous estimates, suggesting a significant population decline in the past two decades."

China is already considering upgrading the conservation status of the Yangtze population of finless porpoises, from a national II conservation grade to national I.

An extensive survey in 2006 failed to find any sign of the Baiji

However, "at least in China, most conservation biologists and cetologists have a strong feeling that the Yangtze finless porpoise has a very high risk of extinction, and is very likely to follow the Baiji to extinction within a short-term period unless conservation measures are put in place," says Prof Yang.

The Yangtze River holds the dubious distinction of being the site of the first recorded extinction of a cetacean (whale, dolphins and porpoises) since records began.

In 2007, conservationists declared extinct the Baiji (LipotesThe invention relates to a common rail injector for fuel injection in a common rail injection system of an internal combustion engine, which has an injector housing with a fuel inlet which communicates with a central high-pressure fuel reservoir outside the injector housing and communicates with a pressure chamber inside the injector housing from which highly pressurized fuel is injected depending on the position of a control valve which assures that a nozzle needle, which can move axially back and forth in a longitudinal bore in the injector housing counter to the initial stress of a nozzle spring, lifts up from a seat when the pressure in the pressure chamber is greater than the pressure in a control chamber, which can be connected by means of an inlet


throttle to the fuel inlet and can be connected by means of an outlet throttle to a discharge chamber.
In common rail injection systems, a high-pressure pump feeds the fuel into the central high-pressure reservoir which is referred to as a common rail. High-pressure lines lead from the high-pressure reservoir to the individual injectors which are associated with the engine cylinders. The injectors are individually triggered by the engine electronics. The rail pressure prevails in the pressure chamber and at the control valve. When the control valve opens, the nozzle needle lifts up from its seat and highly pressurized fuel is injected into the combustion chamber of the engine.
In conventional injectors of the type disclosed, for example, by reference to German Patent No. 197 24 637 A1, the controlchamber is disposed centrally in the injector housing, at the end of the longitudinal bore remote from the combustion chamber. The connection between the fuel inlet and the pressure chamber is produced by means of a bore that extends outside the longitudinal bore. This additional bore in the injector housing is subjected to the full rail pressure, at least during injection. As a result, insuring that the sealing of the injector housing occurs is quite a complex operation in terms of manufacturing engineering.
The principal object of the invention is to produce a common rail injector of the type described hereinbefore yet which has a simple design and is inexpensive to produce.
It is another object of the invention that the seal effectiveness should be improved.
In a common rail injector


inlet and can be connected by means of an outlet throttle to a discharge chamber so that the object of the invention is attained by virtue of the fact that the communication between the fuel inlet and the pressure chamber is disposed on the inside in relation to the control chamber. The design of the injector according to the invention is practically the reverse of the design of conventional injectors. By means of this measure, the high-pressure sealing of the injector housing is considerably simplified in terms of manufacturing engineering.
In one embodiment of the invention the nozzle needle has a central bore via which the fuel inlet communicates with the pressure chamber. The bore in the nozzle needle has the same function as the bore in the injectorhousing of conventional injectors. As a result of the embodiment of the injector according to the invention, the injector housing can be embodied [as] more compactly.
In another embodiment of the invention there is provided on the nozzle needle between the fuel inlet and the pressure chamber, at least one flat surface along which fuel can travel from the fuel inlet into the pressure chamber. This embodiment offers advantages particularly with regard to the high-pressure impermeability of the injector.
In yet another embodiment of the invention the central bore is an axial blind bore whose end communicates with the pressure chamber by means of at least one radial bore. If four radial bores extend out from the blind bore in a star shape, the highly pressurized fuel is distributed uniformly


in the annular pressure chamber.
In still another embodiment of the invention the control chamber is disposed between the inner circumferential surface of the longitudinal bore and the outer circumferential surface of a sleeve, which can be slid in a sealed fashion onto the end of the nozzle needle remote from the combustion chamber and is held in contact with the injector housing with the aid of the nozzle spring. The sleeve provides a simple way of separating the control chamber from the fuel inlet.
In a further embodiment of the invention a biting edge is disposed on the surface of the sleeve which contacts the injector housing. This edge insures that the control chamber embodied outside the sleeve remains separate from the fuel inlet inside the sleeve in aRep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, greets supporters Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

The party of identity politics cannot seem to identify its own hypocrisy.

The Democrats continue to manipulate standards in order to contort results to their liking. After primary results came in on Tuesday Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard received a requisite amount of delegates to entitle her to appear on the stage at the upcoming Democratic debate, in Arizona. The announcement has been made by the DNC that a new set of rules is installed, and Gabbard will be declared ineligible for the March 15 debate.

Following a dismal ride on Super Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren announced she was shutting down her campaign for the presidency. What followed in the wake of her departure was a wave of


politicians and pundits decrying that no females remain in the race. The prevailing attitude sounded like qualifications were secondary to internal plumbing.

The other problem with this is how misogynistic these experts were in their call for female empowerment because candidate Tulsi Gabbard is still a running candidate. It makes for a confounding reality within the Democrats. The complaint about lack of female representation is directed at the party that usually accuses others of sexism — yet those complaining are completely disregarding another woman in the process.

The Democrats had been under fire following the 2016 election for the manner they apparently tilted the contest in favor of Hillary Clinton. This led to the DNC announcing a series of election rules changes which would be implemented for this year’s campaign.Then the DNC promptly altered those rules on the fly, repeatedly.

Following her surprising performance at a debate where she cut Kamala Harris down a few notches, Gabbard saw herself getting sidelined by the party leadership for following debates. While Gabbard has appropriate poll numbers the party arbitrarily declared which polls would be accepted, allowing for her to be excluded by their whims. Later Michael Bloomberg was a fixture on the debate stage, effectively buying his way in when the DNC altered standards again to see fit to include the billionaire. Now the DNC is erasing the rule book once again.

With a strong second-place performance in the US territory of Samoa Gabbard received two delegates, and this was sufficient for her to make the Arizona debate — by previous


Opening a new chapter in an infamous stamp-world mystery, a valuable "inverted Jenny" stamp has surfaced six decades after it was stolen from a collectors' convention.

The stamp — one of the world's most famous pieces of postage — was among four of its kind taken from a 1955 collectors' convention. While two were recovered over 30 years ago, there had been no sign of the others until this one was submitted to a New York auction house this month and authenticated.

"It's one of the most notorious crimes in philatelic history, and there's a piece of the puzzle now that's in place," said Scott English, the administrator of the American Philatelic Research Library, which owns the stamp and is working with auctioneers Spink USA and federal authorities to recoverit.

The would-be consigner, a man in his 20s who lives in the United Kingdom, said he'd inherited the stamp from his grandfather and knew little about it, said George Eveleth, head of Spink USA's philatelic department. He said authorities had told the auctioneers not to release the name of the consigner, who is in his 20s.

While it's unclear whether the man can shed any light on the long-cold trail to the thieves, the stamp was accompanied by an intriguing item: a 1965 letter about a monetary loan from a noted stamp dealer to a well-known auctioneer, both now dead, Eveleth said. The letter isn't necessarily connected to this stamp, however.

Still, the Bellefonte, Pennsylvania-based philatelic library hopes the stamp's discovery could lead to new clues.

"We're going to remain optimistic,"


English said. "Because think about it: Here we are, 61 years later, and a stamp has appeared."

Worth 24 cents when issued in 1918, inverted Jenny stamps fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars today. While other stamps are rarer, the Jenny is one of few that is readily recognized even by non-collectors, Eveleth said.

It made its way into popular culture in movies such as 1985's "Brewster's Millions," in which Richard Pryor's character uses one to mail a postcard, and television shows including "The Simpsons," in which Homer Simpson finds but disregards a sheet of them at a flea market. The Postal Service issued a commemorative inverted Jenny stamp in 2013.

The original was made to celebrate the launch of U.S. air mail. Some were printed with the Curtiss JN-4H "Jenny"biplane inverted, and a savvy customer bought a 100-stamp sheet before anyone realized the error.

Over the years, they were separated, coveted, counterfeited and narrowly saved from the blitzkrieg of London in World War II and from a flood in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

A block of four was on loan to the American Philatelic Society when stolen from a display case at its 1955 convention in Norfolk, Virginia. The lender, who died in 1980, gave her rights to the stolen stamps to the society, which shares some ties with the American Philatelic Research Library.

Two of the Jenny stamps were recovered in the '70s and '80s from different Chicago stamp connoisseurs, who said they'd bought the stamps from people who had since died or whose names they didn't know, according to a


MELBOURNE has received back-to-back NAB AFL Rising Star nominations, with emerging midfielder Angus Brayshaw the latest player to be given the nod.

The 19-year-old impressed with his 18-possession performance (15 kicks, three handballs), six tackles and a goal during Monday's 25-point loss to Collingwood.

Click here for all your NAB AFL Rising Star news

Brayshaw particularly stood out in the second and third quarters and finished with seven inside 50s and four goal assists.

The 187cm youngster helped set up two consecutive goals for livewire forward Jeff Garlett in the second quarter, courtesy of two long kicks from the wing and half-back.

Brayshaw kicked the ball into an open forward 50 on both occasions, when Garlett pounced to register near-identical goals.

The No.3 selection in last year's NAB AFL Draft has demonstrated his hard-nosedapproach to the contest in his 10 appearances at the elite level this season.

Brayshaw is ranked No.1 among all the Rising Star contenders in the competition for total tackles with 55 after 10 rounds.

Melbourne captain Nathan Jones said he had tremendous respect for Brayshaw's work ethic at the club.

"He lives about one minute away from my house so we've been close ever since the day he got drafted," Jones told Channel Nine on Monday night.

"He's got all the attributes physically but when a young player comes in with the mentality that he has, it's just terrific to see.

"He's cut from the same cloth as (Melbourne forward) Jesse Hogan."

Brayshaw was recruited from TAC Cup side Sandringham Dragons and is the son of AFL Coaches Association chief executive Mark Brayshaw.

The


their "SEE ME FOR ME" campaign. This week's feature is on education and the call to "See Me as Your Neighbor." The Johnson* family is a family of four from Somerset, PA. In February, heavy rains caused their trailer roof to leak and the family moved to a hotel until they can tackle the large...

On March 13, 2018, YAP was selected as the Mental Healthcare Giver of the year by Central Penn Parent’s 11th annual Healthcare Heroes awards program. The Central PA programs recognized include York, Adams, Tri-County (Dauphin/Cumberland/Perry), Lancaster and Lebanon Counties. The award“recognizes excellence, promotes innovation and honors the efforts of individuals and organizations making significant positive impacts on the quality of health care in Central Pennsylva...rail to extend in the longitudinal direction of the guide rail. The runner is provided with power supplying brushes slidably contacting the comb-like electrodes, and coils energized by the brushes.
When the coils of the runner are energized, the runner is linearly driven by currents flowing in the coils and the magnetic flux of the permanent magnets in the guide rail according to Fleming's left-hand rule. According to the movement of the runner and depending on a contacting state between the comb-like electrodes arranged in the guide rail and the brushes of the runner, the polarities of the coils of the runner are changed such that the runner is linearly driven in the same direction.
In such a prior art linear motor, the runner is energized through the comb-like electrodes


Fugleværnsfonden's Bird Sanctuaries

Fugleværnsfonden
(The Danish Bird Protection Foundation) is a fund under
Dansk Ornitologisk Forening
(The Danish Ornithological Society) with the purpose of establishing and
preserving bird sanctuaries in Denmark. By the end of 2018, 22
sanctuaries totalling 994 hectares are owned or managed by the
fund. As the sanctuaries are established for the benefit of the birds,
access to most of them is restricted. Watch the birds from public road
or trail, or use the observation towers or hides built at some of the
sanctuaries (marked with
).Green entered the store and found no one there. Green testified that he called the police from a pay telephone that was close by.
Inside the store, the police found evidence that indicated that Cook had been forcibly abducted. A package of Kool cigarettes, which showed traces of blood, was found on the floor. Traces of blood were also found on the front door of the store building. The police found a woman's watch that appeared to be twisted as if had been forcibly wrenched from someone's arm.
Monica Cook's body was found on January 30, 1986, in the vicinity of Riser's Mountain near Riser's Mill Road. In one ear, police found an earring. Cook's clothing was in disarray. Evidence indicated that she had suffered numerous blunt force injuries and


that as a result of one such blow her skull was fractured. Physical evidence indicated that Cook had been both raped and sodomized.
Upon his arrest for unlawful possession of a handgun, Wilson waived his Miranda rights and denied possession of the pistol. However, when police questioning shifted to the investigation of Monica Cook's murder, Wilson asked for an attorney and all questioning then ceased. The trial court found that the police did not arrest Wilson as a pretext to question him about Monica Cook, and the court further found that *1254 Wilson had made no incriminating statements at any time before the appointment of his attorney.
On the day after the handgun arrest, George Sims was appointed as Wilson's attorney, and Sims was contacted by the district attorney, whowas seeking permission to search Wilson's home in connection with the Monica Cook investigation. Sims consulted with Wilson about the search and advised Wilson not to consent if he was involved with the Cook case. Wilson denied any involvement and subsequently signed a written consent to the search of his house and car, and both Wilson and Sims were present during the house search. Wilson's car was found on the property of his mother and was searched there.
Significant circumstantial evidence implicating Wilson in Monica Cook's death was discovered during these searches. This evidence included: (1) a simulated pearl earring substantially similar to the one found on Monica Cook's body, found in the carpet in Wilson's house; (2) fibers taken from carpet in Wilson's home that were later found


presence.
After the conversation between Sims and the district attorney, Kidd approached Wilson and Wilson told him that he still wanted to discuss the Cook investigation. Wilson was again advised of his rights and was informed of Sims's willingness to be present, and Wilson indicated that he wished to discuss the case without Sims's presence. During the interview, investigator Kidd discussed with Wilson some of the evidence that had been found in the search that linked Wilson to Cook's murder. Wilson eventually stated that he had unintentionally strangled Cook after they had had sexual relations. Wilson stated that he was angry at Monica Cook because she did not have the money she allegedly received from selling his marijuana and he admitted that he struck her with his fists. Hefurther admitted that he had left the body in his residence for several days, and had slept in the same bed with the body on at least one occasion before dumping it in the area where it was later discovered.
The trial court found that Wilson's statement had been made voluntarily and without coercion. The trial court further found that even though the statements given by Wilson were given at approximately 3:00 a.m. on the morning of February 16, 1990, he was not exhausted at the time the statements were given and was aware that he could stop the interview at any time.
At trial, the state presented evidence obtained as a result of the searches of Wilson's residence and vehicle. The incriminating statement was also allowed into evidence. Wilson


the issue of "future dangerousness." In this case, the defendant's counsel was informed that the examination would encompass matters of mitigation and the defendant was informed of his Miranda rights prior to the examination. In Estelle, the Supreme Court stated:
"Respondent, however, introduced no psychiatric evidence, nor had he indicated that he might do so. Instead, the State *1259 offered information obtained from the court-ordered competency examination as affirmative evidence to persuade the jury to return a sentence of death. Respondent's future dangerousness was a critical issue at the sentencing hearing, and one on which the State had the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. To meet its burden the State used respondent's own statements, unwittingly made without awareness that he was assisting the State's efforts to obtainBuchenwald

one of the largest concentration camps on German soil. It was constructed in 1937 in Weimar, Germany. Originally a camp for political prisoners, 10,000 Jews were imprisoned there after Kristallnacht.

At that time the Jews were subjected to extraordinarily hard treatment then released to their families. The object was to get them to emigrate from Germany. With the outbreak of WWII thousands of Poles were housed there in a tent camp. Armament factories were established nearby and the camp's population grew.

In January 1945, as Soviet forces swept through Poland, thousands of concentration camp prisoners were marched in death marches to Buchenwald. On April 11, 1945, the camp was liberated by American forces. Some 21,000 prisoners were liberated including 4,000 Jews, and including 1,000 children. In 1947, 31 members of


the Alcalde of the jurisdiction of Liberty from the exercise of his constitutional functions.

Fifth: By appointing to the revenue department of Galveston, a man whose character for infamy had been clearly established, and made known to the Government, and whose principles are avowedly to the true interest of the people of Texas; and that, too, when their character for infamy had been repeatedly established.Sixth: By the military commandant of Anahuac advising and procuring servants to quit the service of their masters, and offering them protection; causing them to labor for his benefits, and refusing to compensate them for the same.

Seventh: By imprisonment of our citizens without lawful cause; and claiming the right of trying said citizens by a military court for offense of a character cognizable by theTheresa May clearly isn't a fan of Lord Buckethead

The disdain for Lord Buckethead was palpable.

Theresa May has had a very difficult night, after a desperately poor election campaign. The Prime Minister called a snap election with the aim of securing a vast majority in the House of Commons ahead of Brexit negotiations.

Instead, the Tories lost 12 seats, and with 314 seats, fall 12 short of securing a majority.

Labour gained 31 seats, and performed well above expectations from the beginning of the campaign. Neither party have gained the 326 seats required to form a majority, and everything is up in the air at the moment.

It wasn't meant to be like this for the Tories... https://t.co/C6SJUUZIvE — JOE (@JOE_co_uk) June 9, 2017

The situation will become clearer over the coming days,


but it appears that May's position as Prime Minister is very precarious. The Tory leader is facing calls to resign after her underwhelming election campaign.

Her embarrassing night was made worse by the ignominy of losing votes to a man wearing a bucket.

May lined up to hear the declaration of the results in her Maidenhead constituency alongside a candidate wearing an Elmo costume, and Lord Buckethead, (or Jonathan David to give him his full name).

This is democracy at work, people.

Lord Buckethead even dabbed when his results were read out. That's right, 249 people voted for a man wearing a bucket on his head. And, to think, some say politics is boring.

"Lord Buckethead" and "Elmo" took votes away from the current Prime Minister of the UK pic.twitter.com/FEjvhKxIy4 — Timothy BurkeChina has been refining designs for the J-20, first glimpsed by planespotters in 2010, in the hope of narrowing a military technology gap with the United States. President Xi Jinping has pushed to toughen the armed forces as China takes a more assertive stance in Asia, particularly in the South China and East China seas.

“It is clearly a big step forward in Chinese combat capability,” said Bradley Perrett of Aviation Week, a veteran China watcher.

State-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) was also bullish on China’s appetite for new civilian planes, estimating the market would need 6,865 new aircraft worth $930 billion over the next 20 years.

The COMAC forecast - similar to long-term outlooks from well-established rivals Boeing Co and Airbus Group - said China would make up


PASSENGER JET ABSENT

Other aircraft on display on Tuesday alongside the latest Chinese weapon systems, radar and drones, included the Xian Y-20 strategic airlifter, and what organizers say is the largest amphibious plane now in production - the AG600.

The flying boat is officially promoted as a fire-fighting or search and rescue plane. But analysts note the AG600 - first unveiled 10 days after a Hague tribunal ruled against China’s claim to parts of the South China Sea in July - is well suited to resupplying military outposts in the disputed area.

A model of a wide-body jet being developed by COMAC and Russia’s UAC was also on show, revealing design details such as wingspan and cruising speeds for the first time. Airbus and Boeing dominate the wide-body segment.

Notably absent fromthe airshow schedule, though, was the 150-seater COMAC C919 passenger jet, which has been beset by delays and is now running three years behind original plans.

COMAC said at the show that China Eastern Airlines will be the launch customer for the C919, which may take its first test flight later this year or early 2017, and that it had clinched 23 new orders for its C919, taking total firm orders to 570.


The rolling Stones and the operatic Nessun Dorma blasted out from the loud speakers seemingly on loop before the warm-up acts arrived on stage.

Among them a conservative radio host who whipped the crowd into a frenzy with his impression of Obama along with the mother of a deceased veteran detailing how her son would still be alive if Mr. Trump was president.

Finally the moment we’d all been waiting for arrived. The Donald entered the arena, the crowd went wild, free banners were waived and young children were hoisted onto shoulders.

I would love to describe how Mr. Trump spoke eloquently, with poise and consideration, detailing with specifics how he was going to improve on what already makes America great. Alas, he instead proceeded to bash the Mexican president, pontificateand Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market.
RPGs (of any nationality) and MMORPGs are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games.
He is also one of the few surviving fans of the flight simulator genre on Earth.


anaesthetized and positioned in the CT scanner. A CT scout view in 2 plans was performed by a preliminary CT scan with 3 mm axial slices of the lung section, containing the lesion of interest. The access point was planned and the distance to the target was measured taking into consideration the topography of the lesion in relation to the surrounding structures. The entry site on the skin was marked with a pen guided by the laser lightning of the CT scanner and followed by antiseptic procedure. No local anaesthesia was used. A small incision was made in the skin, and a 19G coaxial biopsy needle (BARD Truguide Coaxial Biopsy Needle) was placed in the thoracic wall nearby the pleura while checking the progress of the needle by meansSaturday, August 9 | The Green Music Center of Sonoma State University

Committed to promoting new music in the classical realm, pianoSonoma launched its first Young Composer Program on Saturday, August 9 with a public reading at 10:00AM, using the Green Music Center’s state-of-the-art facilities. This year’s selected Young Composer was Thomas Feng, who premiered Two Pieces for Cello and Piano. pianoSonoma’s own Artists in Residence performed the work, and the event was free and open to the public.

In addition to the public read through, Thomas received a one-on-one coaching with pianoSonoma’s Composer-in-Residence Paul Frucht.

More about Thomas:

Thomas Feng (b. Pittsburgh, PA, March 3, 1994) is a student composer, pianist, and flutist. His music has already garnered multiple honors from such organizations as ASCAP, the Pacific Musical Society, the National


Foundation for Advancement of the Arts (YoungARTS), Project21 at Oklahoma City University, New York Art Ensemble (now Tribeca New Music), the Boston Metro Opera, and readings and performances by pianoSonoma, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, the Community Music School at Webster University, and Areon Flutes. Most recently, he was the winner of the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra Youth for Youth Commissioning Program, and will be writing for them a new work for string orchestra.

In the coming fall, Thomas will be a junior at UCLA. He has studied with Sean Friar, Mark Carlson, David Conte, and Corbin Hines for composition, Claude Monteux and Shao Jiang Huang for flute, and Walter Ponce and Hojoon Kim for piano. Additionally, Thomas has participated in workshops, masterclasses, and additional studies with Stephen Dankner, Paul Chihara,and the faculty at the 2012 European American Musical Alliance summer program in Paris, France (including Narcis Bonet and Philip Lasser).

Composition aside, Thomas is a versatile musician, participating in various roles in the UCLA Chorale, Early Music Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, Music Outreach Program, Contempo Flux (contemporary music ensemble), Philharmonia, and Act III Theater Ensemble. This summer, he is the Community Engagement Intern at the American Youth Symphony, sponsored generously by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.


Markets & Finance

Ben Bernanke on Recovery and Stress Tests

May 05, 2009

A sampling of what Wall Street economists and strategists had to say about the Fed chief's May 5 congressional testimony

By BW Staff

After concluding his prepared testimony on the U.S. economy to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress on May 5—in which he indicated a slower-than-usual recovery unfolding later this year—Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke faced his accustomed grilling from lawmakers on the health of U.S. banks. With the May 7 release of stress tests on 19 major U.S. financial institutions looming, Bernanke declined to provide any specific details, but said he is "satisfied" with the results.

What did Wall Street economists and strategists have to say about Bernanke's appearance and other important topics on May 5? BusinessWeek offers asampling of their comments:

Action Economics

Bernanke sees signs of bottoming in the housing market, according to his prepared testimony before the JEC. He still expects the economy to turn up later this year, but he added, a relapse in the credit crisis could stall the recovery. The recovery will be only gradual, he warned, with the major risk to the economy coming from the labor market. He believes we are likely to see further "sizable job losses and increased unemployment" in coming months. Business investment also remains "extremely weak."

The Fed chief refused to "pre-disclose" stress test results, but is "satisfied" with the data. He is hopeful that many banks will be able to raise private capital, given their "substantial" earning capacity, although their ability to raise private funds remains


Last Chance to See the Small, yet Haunting Exhibition: Artifacts related to Christianity: Jesuit Missionaries and Belief under Prohibition- at the National Museum in Ueno (Ends May 6th) 5 May, 2013

By Avi Landau

I had a rare full day to myself, and as I am apt to do when I have the chance, I headed for the National Museum in Ueno to see the current special exhibition. This season`s extravaganza is called The Grand Exhibition of Treasures from Shinto Shrines, and since I had plenty of time I planned to take it in slowly (and eventually write an article about it ).

As it turned out, my going on that day was a big mistake. It was a national holiday, and the exhibition was so crowded that it was impossibleor being tossed into a volcano (at Mt Unzen in Nagasaki Prefecture).

And I thought that spending two hours in a crowded museum was an ordeal!

Besides the Fumi-E, there are other items on display from the museums collection which had been confiscated by Japanese authorites during the Edo Period and had been kept at the Nagasaki Magistrates (Nagasaki Bugyo) Office, which obviously specialized in dealing with secret Christians.Some of the items were apparently confiscated as late as 1865 when groups of KAKURE KIRISHITAN (Hidden Christians) were discovered and rooted out .

There are rosaries, and paintings, and most interesting for me- the statues of Kannon, the Goddess of Mercy holding a child, which secret Christians kept as a replacement for an image of Mary and the baby Jesus ( there


since by then the custom of E-Bumi had spread to other parts of Japan. Fumie were used to screen for Christians until 1858- when the practiced was abolished ( though Christianitiy still remained banned).

Ironically,just as the Inquisition had been set up in lands ruled under the Spanish crown to root out secret Jews, Muslims, and any other non-Catholics, and then confiscate their property, in the Japan, the office of the SHUMON ARATAME was set up with the similarly resolute purpose of completely ridding the Japanese Islands of Christianity and making the country theologically homogenous. Informers were richly rewarded for reporting the existance of Christians (and especially foreign priests) and all Japanese were forced to become affiliated with an officially sanctioned Buddhist temple even long after most Japanese Christiansvast territorites under their control one hundred years earlier. Interestingly, the Spanish Inquisition and the Japanese office of the SHUMON ARATAME (which had the same function) were both established after long struggles to unify their respective countries. Encouraging obsessive fear and hatred of secret enemies and creating a thorough system to sniff out those who are different helped these dictatorial (and paranoid) rulers to maintain a firm grip on their newly created unions.

Many Japanese, especially those who like to glorify the Edo Period (in which Japan almost completely isolated from the outside world), point out that the ban on Christianity was necessary to protect Japanese sovereignty. They point out how the Aztec, Mayan, and Incan Empires had been vanquished by Catholic nations. They mention the Philippines.

I find such


EU disintegration is a “realistic possibility” in the next 10 to 20 years, according to a majority of voters. European voters even fear that a war could break out between EU member states in the coming decades. The shock declaration follows the release of internal European Parliament research that claimed support for the EU was recorded at record highs.

According to the survey, commissioned by the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank, voters in France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Austria, Slovakia, Romania, Poland, Greece, The Netherlands and the Czech Republic believe next week’s European elections could be the last.

The research, conducted by YouGov, with 46,000 interviews across 14 countries, which make up 80 percent of European Parliament seats, show only Sweden (44 percent), Denmark (41 percent) and Spain (40Watch previously expressed concern regarding the broad definition of “sowing corruption on earth” in the revised penal code, under which authorities can prosecute, convict, and sentence political dissidents and others exercising their basic rights to freedom of speech, assembly, association, and religion. Human Rights Watch is opposed to the death penalty in all cases, due to its inherently cruel and irreversible nature.

Iran is one of the world’s most prolific jailers of writers, according to Reporters Without Borders. As of July, at least 65 journalists, bloggers, and social media activists were in prison on various charges related to their speech or writings. Since President Hassan Rouhani’s inauguration in August 2013, security and intelligence agents, including the Revolutionary Guards, have apparently stepped up a crackdown on dissent through the Internet,


40 percent of all state and federal prisoners despite constituting 13 percent of the U.S. population. But the correct benchmark for imprisonment is not population proportions but rates of criminal offending. And this is where the narrative of white privilege begins to crumble.

In The War on Cops, Heather MacDonald provides a battery of heart-rending statistics. From 1976 to 2005, blacks Americans committed over 52 percent of all homicides in the U.S. They also made up roughly the same number of homicide victims, as these crimes are often committed within the same communities. In 2005, the black homicide rate was over seven times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined. In 2006, blacks constituted 39.3 percent of all violent-crime arrests, including 56.3 percent of all robbery and 34.5 percentWorkcamp Parquet in the Netherlands – Osmo as partner and sponsor

Under the motto “innovation through tradition”, experts from the parquet and wooden flooring industries met from the 1 to 9 September 2018. This annual training project brought master craftsmen, professionals and apprentices from 15 nations together to work on one project and to exchange work methods and techniques.

This year 40 participants took part in the restoration of the wooden flooring at the Castle Grounds in Arcen near The Hague. Nearly 140 square metres of parquet were laid in a traditional Tapis or herringbone pattern, which is common in the Netherlands, Belgium and parts of France. The project and the traditional parquet installation both gave an intense look into the specialities of Dutch craftsmanship. Every craftsman had the opportunity


tax-exempt Columbia Administration's landgrabbing/real estate development profit in West Harlem/Manhattanville was originally obtained by the Columbia Administration's financial backers. As Andrew Sorkin observed in his May 5, 2006 New York Times article:

"Mario J. Gabelli, the famed money manager, settled a long-running legal battle yesterday with his first investor, agreeing to pay him and another early investor more than $100 million.

"The settlement comes after years of back-and-forth about the value of the investment in Mr. Gabelli's mutual fund empire and after a barrage of accusations that he had looted the company and breached his fiduciary duty.

"The lawsuit had been brought by Frederick J. Mancheski, 79, who was Mr. Gabelli's first investor in 1976, and David M. Perlmutter, a former lawyer for Mr. Gabelli.

"Both men contended that Mr. Gabelli hadprevented them from selling at fair market value their stake in his private company, Gabelli Group Capital Partners, the controlling shareholder of Gamco Investors, which is Mr. Gabelli's publicly traded mutual fund company.

"Throughout the fight, a spokesman for Mr. Gabelli had described the lawsuit as meritless and at one point called it `'tantamount to greenmail,'' suggesting that the men were trying to `'reap huge additional gains at the expense of the other shareholders.''

"But in late March, the judge in the case issued a partial summary judgment in favor of the two investors. The judge, Linda S. Jamieson of New York State Supreme Court in White Plains, also said, `'There are allegations made against Mr. Gabelli that trouble this court.''

"The settlement ends a nasty legal fight for Mr. Gabelli,


and Columbia Business School Board of Overseers Member Gabelli and companies affiliated with him also had to pay $130 million in 2006 "to settle allegations that he used sham companies to buy cellphone licenses under a federal program for small and minority-owned businesses," according to a July 14, 2006 Washington Post article. As Washington Post Staff Writer Brooke A. Masters observed:

"The federal government alleged that 38 individuals and companies backed by Gabelli's money improperly participated in eight wireless spectrum auctions under special Federal Communications Commission rules reserved for small businesses. The Gabelli-backed entrepreneurs included his relatives, a former aerobics instructor, the caretaker of his vacation home and a retired professional basketball player, the government alleged. Gabelli was not eligible.

"`The FCC and all government agencies should be able toTwo 2017 Pittsburgh Penguins Stanley Cup rings have been stolen in Etobicoke, police say.

They were taken during a break and enter Monday in the The East Mall and Burnhamthorpe Rd. area, police say.

The rings belonged to former Penguins defenceman Cameron Gaunce, who now plays for the Syracuse Crunch in the American Hockey League, and his wife.

Gaunce is originally from Sudbury.

"Last night, my brother and sister in laws Stanley Cup rings were stolen," Utica Comets forward Brendan Gaunce tweeted Tuesday morning. "They were being kept in a safe, yet that didn't stop the culprits from taking the entire safe out of the house."

Cameron Gaunce's ring is described as silver in colour, with an engraving of the NHL logo, the name "Gaunce" and the number 24. His wife's ring is


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University of Texas at Austin Opens Engineering Education and Research Center

University of Texas at Austin Opens Engineering Education and Research Center

10-9-2017

Austin, Texas

The University of Texas at Austin opened the $310 million Engineering Education and Research Center (EERC) in late September of 2017. Designed by Ennead Architects and Jacobs, the nine-story, 433,000-sf facility provides the Cockrell School of Engineering with multidisciplinary research labs, teaching labs, classrooms, meeting rooms, faculty offices, a three-story atrium, and a 267-seat auditorium. The project, which houses the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, offers approximately 50,000 sf of collaborative research space. LEED Silver sustainable design certification will be sought for the facility, which features the two-story, 23,000-sf National Instruments Student Project Center, the Texas Instruments Laboratories, and the Innovation Center. The projectDrought, what drought? The Victoria Falls – which triumphantly straddles the borders of Zimbabwe and Zambia – have come roaring back to life in 2020, after an unforgiving summer threatened to leave the attraction high and dry. Footage captured this week shows the falls at their magnificent best.

Victoria Falls fights against drought – and wins

The Victoria Falls water levels were 11 centimetres below the ten year average as of October 2019 – just a few centimetres higher than the lowest level recorded in 1995. Standing at 355 feet high, the impressive landmark draws thousands of tourists each year and generates much-needed business to the area.

BEFORE: The UNESCO world heritage site had recorded the lowest levels in recent times due to a severe drought in Zimbabwe – 13 November,


WASHINGTON — President Trump has given Defense Secretary Jim Mattis the authority to determine troop levels in Afghanistan, three administration officials said Tuesday, opening the door for sending more American forces to a war that the Pentagon chief acknowledged the United States was “not winning.”

Mr. Mattis is believed to favor sending several thousand more American troops to strengthen the effort to advise Afghan forces as they push back against gains made by the Taliban, the Islamic State and other militant groups. But officials said he had not yet decided how many more forces to send to Afghanistan, or when to deploy them.

One United States official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was discussing internal deliberations, said that Mr. Trump decided on Tuesday morning to grantMr. Mattis the authority. It was the latest in a series of moves by the White House to give the Pentagon and its military commanders more latitude to deploy forces and carry out operations.

Mr. Mattis alluded somewhat cryptically to the decision when he testified on Tuesday morning to the Senate Armed Services Committee. During his appearance, the defense secretary promised Congress that the Trump administration would develop a new strategy for Afghanistan by mid-July to turn around the war.


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China's Jade Rabbit Moon rover is in trouble after experiencing a "mechanical control abnormality", state media report.

The Moon exploration vehicle ran into problems due to the moon's "complicated lunar surface environment", Xinhua news agency said, citing science officials.

The rover landed in December as part of China's Chang'e-3 mission - the first "soft" landing on the Moon since 1976.

It was expected to operate for around three months.

Earlier this month, the Beijing Aerospace Control Centre said that Jade Rabbit, also known as Yutu, had successfully explored the surface of the Moon with its mechanical arm.

Lunar night

The malfunction emerged before the rover entered its scheduled dormancy period on Saturday, Xinhua reported, citingthe State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND).

Scientists were organising repairs, the news agency added, without providing further details.

The rover was due to become dormant for 14 days during the lunar night, when there would be no sunlight to power the rover's solar panel, reports said.

The malfunctioning rover presents the first public mishap China's ambitious space programme has experienced in years, following several successful manned space flights, the BBC's Celia Hatton in Beijing reports.

Xinhua said the news of the rover's troubles had generated extensive discussion on Chinese social media.

"People not only hailed the authority's openness to the accident, but also expressed concern," it said.

On Sina Weibo, China's largest microblog provider, users began tagging their posts with the hash tag "#hang in there Jade Rabbit".

Users


KOLKATA: Nabanna officials are planning to tighten attendance rules soon by introducing the biometric system.

The government has already started collecting fingerprints from the staff members as they plan to start it after the Puja vacation. Biometric attendance machines have already been installed in all the floors.

On Monday, the state government announced half day on September 17 on account of Viswakarma Puja, but on the same day, the staff members of the chief minister ’s office were asked to reach office by 10.45pm. The official rule is to attend office by 10.15am. One has to be marked late if he or she attends office between 10.15am and 10.45am and after that, they should be marked absent. However, most employees come late on the plea that the lifts do notFacts
      a. Daughter’s Birth
      In 2002, S.T. married Martin and had their son Frank. In 2006, S.T. and Martin
separated for approximately 18 months. During their separation, they did not live
together. S.T. filed for divorce from Martin in 2006. She met W.S. sometime in 2007 or
2008 while working at a car dealership. The two began a relationship. At the time, W.S.
believed S.T. was divorced and lived with her mother.
      In 2008, S.T. became pregnant with daughter. By that time, S.T. said she had
reconciled with Martin and was living with him. She told W.S. he was not daughter’s
father, and W.S. did not press her for details. During S.T.’s pregnancy, Martin attended
prenatal classes with her. He


drove her to the hospital when she was in labor and took
several weeks off work so he could help afterwards. Martin was in the room during
daughter’s birth and cut her umbilical cord. His name was put on daughter’s birth
certificate. According to Martin, S.T. breastfed daughter when she was a baby, and
daughter would wake up every two hours. Martin helped S.T. take care of daughter. He
changed daughter’s diaper, washed her laundry, and rocked her to sleep. When daughter
started drinking formula, Martin would prepare bottles for her. Daughter slept with S.T.
and Martin in their bed until she was approximately four and a half years old.
      Shortly after daughter’s birth, S.T. suspected W.S. was daughter’s father based on
her features. Her suspicions were confirmed by a DNAhave noticed she was not at home. Martin described that as daughter
got older, he continued to be very involved in her life. He cleaned up for her, cooked for
her, and used to pick her up at daycare. When it was time for daughter to sleep, Martin
would put her to bed by either reading to her or putting on a movie.
       Martin could not recall the name of daughter’s preschool. He did not pick her up
or drop her off at preschool and did not participate in any of the school activities. He
believed S.T. was the one paying for the preschool.
       Daughter was on Martin’s health insurance. Martin scheduled daughter’s dentist
appointments and knew the name of daughter’s doctor.


      In Jason P., the appellate court upheld the trial court’s conclusion that the father
had sufficiently “received” his son at his apartment in New York, noting that the child
spent time at the father’s apartment in New York, the father made arrangements with his
assistant to accommodate the child while he was there, he took the child to the park when
he was not working, he fed, played music for, and read to the child, he arranged for an
allergist to see the child, he obtained a baby gate for the child to prevent him from falling
down the stairs in his apartment, and he gave the child his own room in the apartment.
(Jason P., supra, 9 Cal.App.5th at p. 1022.) These acts “unambiguously demonstrated a
parental relationship” betweenfather and child during his visits to his father’s New York
apartment. (Id. at p. 1023.)
       In S.Y. v. S.B. (2011) 201 Cal.App.4th 1023, the appellate court held there was
substantial evidence that a mother in a same-sex relationship had received their children
into her home. (Id. at p. 1032.) While in a relationship with her former partner, the
mother maintained a separate residence but regularly spent three or four nights a week at
her former partner’s home and helped take care of their first child. She also stopped by
after work to see the child and assisted in his care. (Ibid.) When the second child was
born, the mother was no longer in a relationship with her former partner. However, she
continued to go to her former partner’s home


interest, protected as a matter of
substantive due process, in his relationship with daughter. He also argues section 3010
violates equal protection principles, because it automatically grants custody to biological
mothers while requiring fathers to establish “presumed” parenthood under section 7611.
He argues California law further divides fathers into various subclasses based on their
marital status, readily granting married fathers presumed parenthood status while

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requiring unmarried fathers to additionally prove receipt of the child into the home and
acknowledgement of the child as his own.
   to Hobart for a few tests. Police said the gap between his last reported sighting and when he was reported missing was due to the fact Mr Ingham had few ties within Tasmania.

“He lived by himself with occasional visitors and people staying with him,” Detective Senior Sergeant Chapman said.

Mr Ingham’s 2002 silver Jeep Grand Cherokee, registration number EN6838 is no longer at the address, it is thought he may be travelling in this vehicle. Anyone with information that may assist police to locate Mr Ingham is urged to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or Devonport CIB on 6478 4036

FORENSICS: Uniform police and forensic services personnel at the home of a 58-year-old Ulverstone man who was reported missing on October 7.

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In the middle of the salt-water Lake Budi, seven metres below sea level, remote Nahuelhuapi Island is home to a Mapuche community. The island is located in Cautín province, in the Saavedra district of the Araucanía region, in southern Chile.

At first sight, it might seem as though the inhabitants of Nahuelhuapi live in paradise, surrounded by great natural beauty. However, the 11 families living on the island face daily difficulties as a result of the remoteness and the climate. The fact that it is anmedicines to them."I think it's a really good system," said Elisa Catrinao Painemilla, who lives on the island. "We all benefit from it, because we all live in such a remote spot."

While the adults were being treated, volunteers entertained and played with the children, who also had a check-up.

Since 2007 the Chilean Red Cross, with ICRC support, has been running health days, first-aid courses and disease-prevention workshops in rural communities in Araucanía. The region is gripped by tensions between the security forces and the Mapuche communities. "Our priority is to alleviate people's suffering as a result of the situations of violence in some communities in the region," explained Felipe Donoso, head of the ICRC regional delegation, who oversaw the work in Nahuelhuapi.


studies with a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University, where she graduated cum laude. She continued with her medical degree at the College of Medicine at Texas A&M Health Science Center.A native of Odessa, Dr. Liedtke comes to Sweetwater with her husband, Ty, and baby, Kylee.“Living in relatively small communities most of my life, I can appreciate the lifestyle of rural Texas,” Dr. Liedtke explained. “When I began my journey as a physician, I knew that I wanted to practice in a smaller community like Sweetwater.”In addition to family practice services, Dr. Liedtke will also provide obstetrics care for women. She said that one of the reasons she choose RPMH was because of the exceptionally fine program the hospital has for its size.“Rolling Plains Memorial Hospitalwould provide where the kids are located,” Danielle Kingston told East Idaho News this week.

“If she could provide that assurance and proof of life, this goes away. But she has rights—including her right to bail.”

Vallow’s 17-year-old daughter Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old son J.J. have not been seen since September, and when police started making inquiries, she and husband Chad Daybell picked up and moved to Hawaii.

She was ordered to return to Idaho and produce the kids. When she didn’t, she was arrested on charges of child desertion, contempt of court, and promoting a criminal act and extradited from Hawaii.

In addition to hunting for the kids—who police have said are in danger—authorities are also investigating the death of Vallow’s last husband, Charles, who was shot dead by her brother,


a proper plate. Americans are, as a rule, much more easygoing about such matters, especially in an emergency, and I can promise you, it _was_ an emergency." She lifted her chin and gave me a searching look. "You've known what it is to be hungry."

I froze again, this time in surprise. It was true that I'd gone through some lean years after my mother's death, but Amelia Thistle couldn't have known it. If she was Mae Bowen, however, and could see into a crocus's heart, perhaps the human heart was open to her as well.

"Yes," I said. "I've known what it's like to be hungry. It's the kind of thing a person doesn't forget."

"You'd be surprised by the number of people who do." She opened one of thean English-language version of the memoir's second page.

"No, no," said Amelia, waving her off. "I wouldn't dream of stealing your thunder, Mrs. Bunting. You and the gentlemen did the work. One of you must read it to the rest of us."

"As I wrote it, I'd better read it," said Lilian. "I can read my handwriting, but I'm not sure Teddy or William can." She waited until we were all seated around the fire before explaining, "Teddy, William, and I followed Alfred's example and translated the Latin text rather loosely."

"It's a personal recollection, not a scholarly treatise," the vicar interjected. "We wanted it to sound...personal."

"In the first two sentences," Lilian continued, "the Reverend Gowland reiterates his hints about the trail of clues he left behind. He then goes on


to attention.

"Did he?" I asked, trying very hard to sound nonchalant.

"Yes," she replied. "He was on his way to deliver a lecture in Oxford—something to do with Anglo-Saxon law, I believe—but he dropped by to present me with a guide to local walking trails. He thought I might find it useful."

"He's a thoughtful man," I said.

"He is," she agreed. "He invited me to explore his property as well. He was especially keen to show me a rare orchid he discovered on his estate." She came to a halt and gave me a searching look. "You haven't told him about Mae Bowen, have you?"

"Not a word," I said, relieved that I hadn't kept my promise to Bill.

"I just wondered..." She gazed at me a moment longer, then walked on.as they failed in 2000-2002 and 2007-2009. However the Fed actions will drive gold and silver prices much higher.

The excessive debt, continued dollar devaluation, and added currency in circulation will encourage investors to move into gold and silver investments (insurance) to preserve their savings and purchasing power. Panic, fear, political turmoil, a banking crisis and war are also probable.

Gold and Silver Markets:

The Big News:

“The Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday for the second time in three months, citing continued U.S. economic growth and job market strength, and announced it would begin cutting its holdings of bonds and other securities this year.”

MY COMMENT: The Fed sees continued job market strength but real people see unemployment, “food stamps,” disability applications, layoffs, minimum wage jobs, and working two or three


personal interactions with crew members  regarding the availability of certain shore excursions in Nassau for the day the Navigator was in port. Plaintiffs became interested in an excursion called the "Caribbean Segway Nature Tour," which RCL advertised as a "family fun" excursion during which participants would enjoy "natural Nassau on a picturesque off-road Segway ride." The excursion, operated by a company known as Caribbean Segway Tour, was to take place on a remote, 162-acre private nature preserve known as "Earth Village." Based on these Royal Caribbean representations, Plaintiffs purchased tickets for the excursion from the Excursion Desk, located aboard the Navigator and manned by a Royal Caribbean employee.
However, the excursion was not the experience Plaintiffs anticipated. Plaintiffs and the other excursion participants, while touring Earth Village, wereGOLDEN GIRL: Paris Hilton is covered in gold paint and crawling across a desert in a new advertisement for her wine in a can brand, Rich Prosecco.

Socialite Paris Hilton has posed naked in a new advertising campaign to launch her luxury sparkling wine in a can brand.

The hotel heiress can be seen nude, covered in gold paint and crawling across a desert for the advertising campaign for her drink Rich Prosecco.

The drink is described as: "The perfect 'starter drink' for your night or a special pleasure as a reward at the end of the day."

Paris, 26, is launching the new "bubbly blonde" drink - which comes in original, passion fruit and strawberry flavours - in Berlin, Germany, this week and in the US next year.

The venture is the


latest addition to Paris' expanding empire.

She already has her own perfume, jewellery range, shoe collection, bag line and has released a pop album and starred in a number of films.

In June, Paris spent 23 days in jail for driving with a suspended licence - a term of her probation from a previous DUI (driving under the influence) charge.

The socialite now always makes sure she is driven home after a night out partying.A study recently published in Ecological Economics titled, "Cannabis legalization by states reduces illegal growing on US national forests," has shed some light on the impact that recreational cannabis legalization has had on the number of cannabis cultivation sites operating illegally in national forests.
Based on sta...

Just as last month was coming to an end, something profound happened in the pot industry.
A successful vote (267-165) by the U.S. House of Representatives saw the approval of a bipartisan amendment to safeguard state-legal cannabis programs. It was the first time that a congressional chamber victoriously voted in favor of pro...


Better late than never in Tiger volleyball

Wednesday

Aug 28, 2013 at 3:32 PMAug 29, 2013 at 6:25 AM

(Some two years in the making, or at least it took almost that long for the KVA to post on their website the "Programs for the Year" for Kansas State volleyball. So - its better late than never to give these gals and their coaches credit.)

Barry Ragan

(Some two years in the making, or at least it took almost that long for the KVA to post on their website the "Programs for the Year" for Kansas State volleyball. So - its better late than never to give these gals and their coaches credit.)

The Kansas Volleyball association recently announced that the 43-2 St. John-Hudson Tigers and their head coach Trish Wade have been awardedthe 2011-2012 1A Volleyball Program of the year. In doing so the Lady Tigers had to defeat perrenial power, the Centralia Panthers in the championship final - and so they did 25-21, 23-25, 25-12. This was the second State Championship in a row for the Tigers who earlier captured the 2010-2011 championship.

Criteria for "Program of the Year" follows seven steps: 1.)current year record and finish, 2.)repetitive success, 3.)improvement of existing program, 4.)junior varsity/underclassmen success, 5.)professional development, 6.)contributions to the improvement of volleyball and 7.)personal coaching improvement.

A school/or program is ineligible for a period of four years after being named "Program of the year".

A team from each of the six classes from 1A-6A is selected each year.

This is the first time that St. John-Hudson has been selected for this


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LAHORE: Pakistan karate team returned home on Monday from India after winning altogether 19 medals in the 3rd South Asian Junior, Cadet & Senior Karate Championship held from 22-25 September at New Delhi India.

Pak martial art players demonstrated high quality display of skills, technique and vast stamina to win 3 Gold, 8 Silver and 8 Bronze Medals.

The trio of Pakistan karatekas Naseer Ahmed and Baz Muhammad, Kulsoom put up excellent performance and won bulk of medals, said Shamim Hashmi, Secretary, Pakistan Karate Federation here. Naseer won 1 Gold, 1 Silver, Baz Muhammad I Gold 2 Silver, Kulsoom 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze Medals in the event.

He said Pakistan was the champion of 1st South Asian Karate Championship India, but Indian Embassy did not issue the visa todealing with sexual injuries

9.4. An example of a woman who feels drawn to a man

9.5. Exploring the truth about who our soulmate is

9.5.1. The example of when Mary met AJ

9.5.2. Exploring the emotional basis of sexual attraction

9.5.3. The example of the woman who feels drawn to a man (continued)

9.5.4. The example of when Mary met AJ (continued)

### Sexual Attraction: Session 1 Part 2

10. Reasons that people feel shame when discussing sex

10.1. Erroneous reasons for shame about sexual matters

10.2. Pure reasons for shame about sexual matters

10.2.1. An example of a man becoming more sensitive to unloving sexual actions

10.3. The two areas that create sexual shame

10.4. Healing injuries relating to sexual attraction requires open discussion

10.4.1. Most sexual injury is not related to sex

11. The emotional basis of sexual attractions and


to share in the relationship with you, or to share in the sexual engagements that happen with you. So the more you understand about sexual attraction, the safer your life becomes sexually because there are fewer spirits influencing all of your decisions about relationships.

Mary: And less injury really, isn't it?

Yeah. So that's why we wanted to discuss that topic with you today. Firstly though we thought we'd have a bit of a summary of the soul, how it splits and how it incarnates, just so that we remember the basics about the soul and soul attractions. This is because sexual attraction is actually a part of the soulmate relationship, and therefore we need to understand why it exists, both in a pure state and in an error-based stateit. A spirit body and a physical body are created for it at the time of conception. The soul then envelops those bodies and remains connected to those bodies for its entire lifetime while it's developing on Earth. It then releases the physical body and then there's a period of time all the way through the spirit world up until the soul union condition, which we'll talk about in a second, where it can release its spirit body. So the souls then join back together.

Souls split in two and each join with two bodies, the physical body (PB) and spirit body (SB), when they incarnate

The spirit and physical bodies are a necessary part of the half of the soul while the soul hasn't joined with its other half.


occurring onto other planetary systems that are in the universe. But on this particular Earth they were the first seven. There have been others since then I feel, but they are the first seven to have gone through this experience for a purpose. And the purpose is to teach these kinds of principles to mankind, and help mankind understand the entire process of the soul, including understanding and receiving Divine Love.

Now the majority of those fourteen are aware of who they are, but they're in very strong denial of their emotions. So they've gone through a period of realising who they are, but then as soon as they did that they started getting very frightened and as a result of their fear they now turn off the entireof time in your life when you don't remember what you did when you were four years of age for example. And then all of a sudden something will trigger you and now you'll remember because there's a connection point, and it's exactly the same for all of the people who've reincarnated. They have to go through this series of connection points through their experience and then allow the emotions to be present before they will remember, and many of the first fourteen to reincarnate have a deep resistance to doing that process. There's a deep resistance to remembering anything about what or who they were; they are resisting their memories quite strongly. Now in some cases they are accepting their memories, for example John the Baptist is;


feeling that something's happening to someone else and you don't even know that other person, let alone know what's happening to them, but it's something not very nice. You know in other words there are these feelings of what the Apostle John would call discombobulating! (Laughs)

Mary: An unsettled feeling.

An unsettled feeling inside of yourself, and not understanding any reason why you feel so unsettled or anything like that. But the reality is that often it's the other half of yourself that's quite unsettled or going through some pain or suffering. And one half, your half, is feeling that. So yes, there is an energy flow of information and emotions and feelings to the other half of the soul, and that will always be the case. However, the moreBut if you can now feel yourself and you activate yourself, and when you feel and stay in your passions and desires, what effect does that have on everyone around you? Everyone around you feels like they know you better and that they can feel you, they can feel these things coming out of you, therefore there's a feeling of recognition that they have of you; they can feel your passions and desires. Now that applies very much to your soulmate of course. So your soulmate feeling you is a powerful thing! If you're not feeling you, then how can your soulmate feel you easily? It's pretty hard. It's pretty hard for the soulmate to do that. [01:17:46.08]

So far we've talked about the actual process of incarnation, and


can have that one open and that one closed. You can have that one operating in the reverse direction and this one operating in the right direction. You can have all sorts of things happening as a result of the two states. But let's simplify and just look at the front, in terms of our current state, because it's our current state that generates or determines most of what happens in terms of attractions between the two people. [01:21:43.16]

6.2. Sexual attraction for an uninjured person

Mary: Can we talk about what it's like if we were not emotionally injured? What would happen sexually?

What would happen in a non-injured state is that every one of these chakras would be completely open and working perfectly. And I would have no sexualtouches you sexually and then you feel really annoyed by it, then let yourself really express your annoyance.

Mary: Not to your partner, obviously.

Well obviously he's going to be present because he's just touched you, but if you express your annoyance just in terms of letting the emotion flow, what will come out of your mouth will often be a complete reflection of that anger. You'll be surprised sometimes what comes out of your mouth. I've been often surprised what comes out of mine when I've felt something between myself and Mary, and then I go into this emotion, and off I go and then wham! There it is! That's the emotion. I can feel that now, just by saying the words that are coming out of me while


word the question for you? If you've had such a longing for a life partner, then why have you not met him? And this is why you're looking at the potential answer of, "Oh, he must have died." And I suggest to you that there are other reasons why you have not met him. In fact one of the reasons is about this longing for the life partner. If you, for example, get a book and write down a list of all the things you expect from your life partner, in the end you'll probably find that you'll fill up that page, and you'll probably even be able to go over a few other pages, having a long list of different expectations. Can you see that every expectationAnd one day he asked me, "Have you ever thought we could be soulmates?" and I said, "Oh no way!" I pushed him away. But sometimes when I'm next to him, I don't know, I just feel paralysed and I don't want to stay but my mind is saying, "You need to go away." It's really strange. I don't really know how to explain it.

Mary can understand many of those emotions.

Mary: Yep!

Participant: And so I was feeling more and more things, and I have tried to open up to this. I want to spend time with him and see what's happened because he doesn't really match my demands and expectations. He's not really the guy I'd like my soulmate to be. And at the same time I really


process. And I feel that's what many people need to do; they need to investigate these things without condemnation of their own feelings of the process. Now many others condemn your feelings, but the key is to forget about that. And this is what I liked about what Mary did, she enough presence of her own character and mind, and courage, to investigate the process knowing that she could do whatever she wanted in this process, and work her way through the particular issues involved. I feel, just to explore without being loving is better than actually shutting down the whole exploration process at all. To me, that is just a complete avoidance and denial of what's present, when you do that. While exploring lovingly is great, justthe process of exploring is also, I feel, quite powerful. [02:28:32.21]

Mary: And of course to purify your soulmate desire you're going to need to be humble. You're going to need to look at, "Well, what are my expectations? What emotions do I want a man to help me avoid?" And the more you look at that, the more your pure desire will emerge.

9.5.2. Exploring the emotional basis of sexual attraction

So ask yourself some basic questions, Nina. What do I find sexy in a man? Write down a list of all the things you find sexy in a man. Write down all the things that you want in your ideal partner because many of these things are based on emotional injuries that we've picked up through our life, in


I don't know if all soulmate relationships start that way though, but ours obviously had a lot of pretext.

In the first century, ours was similar actually. When we first met I felt I knew who she was. Mary didn't have a concept of soulmates at the time but she felt quite a strong attraction to me but within a very short period of time she was bitterly angry with me as well.

Mary: I've been angry about that too, Nina! I'm always the bad guy! (Laughs)

So she was even angry about being angry with me! (Laughs) She was angry that I'm never angry with her and she's always angry with me. What's going on? (Laughs) That kind of thing. And so the key is to be willing to explorethey're less blocked to sex and so pornography becomes a tool to use in order to feel excited sexually.

11.2.3. Emotions surrounding oral sex

Let's look at oral sex. What would most of the taboos about oral sex be involved with, do you think? [00:48:00.12]

Mary: It's not for procreation.

It's not for procreation. So it should be wrong then, according to many religious movements. Can you see that a lot of issues with oral sex are going to be about bodily functions? And not loving the genitalia, not loving genitals but actually feeling an aversion to the genitals. To the smell, taste, and so forth of those functions too. I don't feel oral sex or masturbation is an injured thing unless there are certain things happening along with them. They're not


or I behave badly towards someone, that turns me on. [01:02:30.21]

You feel more emotionally connected, yeah.

What about on the giving side? We talked a lot about the receiving side of the S&M, but what about the giving? There's somebody doing the whipping; what are they feeling? What emotions do you feel that they're in denial of? [01:02:50.19]

Participant: I think with sadism it's a revenge for things that happened to them before.

Yes. A feeling of revenge is one of the emotions towards the gender that it's aimed towards.

Mary: What's under that feeling of revenge?

It could be that their opposite gender parent has treated them badly or treated their mother badly; they've treated the same gender as themselves badly and so they only feel powerful sexually when they're connected withthe underlying emotion that creates the desire. That's what we need to do.

Mary: Keep in mind that the pure state is "Sex with my soulmate."

In whatever form that may take. But if that takes an S&M-type form, then obviously there are still emotions to deal with because one is dominating and one is submissive. And does that sound like to you like a healed sexual relationship? No, it's not. It's not healed yet. We don't condemn the fact that it's like that but we go through the process of working through the emotions to heal it. That's what we do instead; if we want to be at-one with God, that's what we do. [01:07:53.26]

If we want to be at-one with God, we will always look at the practice,


I mean by that? We basically say, "Well, yes, I am involved with S&M and it's okay for me to be involved in S&M." I'm not actually saying it's not okay, because at the end of the day you have free will and you can do anything you like; even if it is damaging to another person you can still do it. I'm not saying that you haven't got free will, but what I'm saying is, if we ever want to be at-one with God and at one with our soulmate, we do need to address the unbalanced desires that are out of harmony with love in the process.

There's a lot of spirits at the moment projecting at the group, "Can we really say these things?" [01:09:41.02]

Mary: Yeaha huge amount of suppression of the truth about abuse on the planet and that's what causes the shutdown of healing it. [01:29:53.06]

12.3. How to deal with children who are being abused

Participant: May I ask you a very personal question? Because I'm a teacher...

Yep.

Participant: I have a lot of kids who are either sexually abused or abused by violence and sometimes I do not know how to handle it. I give them the chance as often as possible to talk to me and I tell them, "You have the right for your feelings, not acting it out," which some of them do. But then in the end I feel very helpless. I don't know what to do and I was going to ask you, what can I do?


she abused children while she was Earth. That's one potential reason. And she then steps in when you're getting abused. When you go out of your body she then steps in and looks after that thing because she actually likes it then. Does that feel truthful to you?

Participant: I feel that she's my friend.

I know you feel that she's your friend. You feel that she was your friend. You feel she was your friend because she saved you from feeling the feelings. But the reality is that she likes the feelings. That's why she steps in at that point. There's only one other reason why she would do it. Remember I said that there were two reasons for it.

Mary: What's the other reason?

But you're going to very muchmake me feel secure, I'm totally able to be care for myself, thank you very much." If he's still in his expectation and his addiction, he then projects at his daughter; "I'm the person who protects you, I'm the person who makes you feel secure and I'm the person who makes you feel safe." Now she of course doesn't have the same feelings as the wife and so she will feel back to him, "Yes, daddy, you make me feel safe and secure. I love this relationship with you. It makes me feel like I'm a good woman and I'm safe and secure." [02:02:25.20]

Can you see what's happening? He may still have sex with his wife and she may still give to him sexually, that might be still


emotion, so in the presence of that person there's a deep feeling of, "It's okay to be myself, however I am." A lot of people, not even actually knowing the person but in the vicinity of that person, spontaneously open emotionally. We talk constantly about the effect of injuries on the Law of Attraction, the effect of injuries on the way the planet works and the emotions in kids and the way structures work. Well, conversely, because God's Love is far more powerful than any hateful emotion, just one person in this state of at-onement has a massive effect on the Law of Attraction on everything around them. We have this common conception that dark forces are very powerful and scary, and I know I certainly have hadthat feeling, but the truth is that God's Love is a far more powerful force, so just one person living in harmony with that has a hugely beautiful effect.

Yeah. The best way to illustrate it, Pauline, in the end is for one person to get into that state. And once one person's in that state in front of you, then you have an idea of what that state looks like and feels like. And that's one of the reasons why we wanted to return to Earth, to go through the process of demonstrating how to get into that state, and then to get into the state for the purpose of demonstrating what the state looks and feels like. That way those people who've been interested in the process


and in your experience. You can deal with some emotions and come together in a pure desire or a desire that's based fairly purely, and stay connected with each other and your body in that state and no spirit can be involved. It's when, if you're in that act, something gets triggered for one of you and you suppress it, then you open it. [01:49:47.17]

Can I draw to your attention too, Anto, that spirits who do this are all in the hells or in a condition of the hells. If you together are in a second sphere condition, they are already going to be very uncomfortable around you, no matter what emotions you feel.

Participant: I mean when we started this path we actually had experiences where we realisedit wasn't actually us.

Exactly, where you were totally over-cloaked.

Participant: We woke up and realised we were actually having sex and we weren't aware of it. But now things are slowly changing.

And as your condition grows, once you get to about a third sphere condition together, in that place you're in total truth with each other and you no longer have any fear dominance in your entire life. In other words truth always dominates your entire life, and you'd never engage anybody in a fearful way. In that state it's very, very hard for any spirit now to influence the sex act between the two of you because most spirits who could do so would be in the hells and they feel that to even be in your presence


relationship with her now and she's got no partners around.

Exactly. Yep.

Participant: And even my son now wants to go and look after her in a sense emotionally.

Of course he will. He'll be feeling your guilt and other emotions as well. So the real problem you face is not to do with your fear of a sexual relationship. Your real problem is your fear of your angry mother and her opinions of you having a sexual relationship.

Participant: Yep. The guilt.

That's the emotion that needs to be addressed first. When you address that emotion, you will find that your fear of the sexual relationship will lessen quite considerably, and as a result of that you'll feel more inclined to sexually engage a person who you feel is your soulmate. IfWith only a few hours remaining before the Presidential election in the United States, the cover of the current Time Magazine captures the mood in the country about the election process: Hillary and Trump are shown holding a sign reading "The End Is Near."

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Clint Hill (second from right) had an effort cleared off the line

Rangers were held to a third Scottish Premiership draw of the season as Ross County claimed a point at Ibrox.

The hosts - without Joey Barton, who was sent home earlier in the week after an internal row - came close with Josh Windass' effort cleared off the line.

Clint Hill was also denied by a goal-line intervention and substitute Michael O'Halloran headed off the bar.

County threatened through Jonathan Franks and Alex Schalk, goalkeeper Wes Foderingham saving from both.

Barton missed?

The home crowd seemed in little doubt, reserving their loudest cheer for Andy Halliday's name when the starting line-up was read out.

It was Halliday who Barton argued with in training, before also having words


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Rangers tried to recapture the dynamism of last season's form in winning the Championship, with Halliday joined in midfield by Jason Holt and Windass, two players capable of pressing and working at a high tempo. The pace improved the home side's play, although there was still a lack of cohesion in the final third.

Windass had an effort disallowed for offside after three minutes and then saw another shot cleared off the line by Paul Quinn, the midfielder having rounded County goalkeeper Scott Fox.

Windass (second from right) netted but was flagged offside

County cling on

The visitors were organised and assertive in the way they defended on their first visit to Ibrox. Rangers enjoyed greater possession, whichbehind the leaders, who have two games in hand, and face a trip to Aberdeen next weekend.

The home fans booed the players off at the end, disgruntled by the scoreline, and there are still problems for Warburton to solve.

Warburton's side have taken nine from a possible 18 points so far this season

Managers' reaction

Rangers boss Mark Warburton: "I'm never happy about dropping two points at home but I'm very pleased with the performance. That's our best 90-minute performance of the season.

"I'm sure you'll agree we created more than enough chances to win two or three games. We just hit every part of the goalkeeper's body.

"It was one of those days but we've got to be much happier with the quality of performance. Nine times out of 10 that will


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According to the UFC, USADA will work to ensure that "the Commission has the necessary information to determine its proper judgment of Brandao's potential anti-doping violation."

The statement said that the substance in question was Carboxy-THC and it was above WADA's limit of 180 ng/ml. The NAC limit is 150 ng/ml.

Brandao (20-11), a Brazil native, lost to Brian Ortega via third-round submission at UFC 195 on Jan. 2 in Las Vegas. The former winner of The Ultimate Fighter won two in a row before that. Brandao, 28, has a 6-4 record in the UFC.

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A 17-year-old student killed herself at an Orlando-area high school after excusing herself from class Wednesday morning, investigators say. The student shot herself with a handgun just before 8 a.m. at Lake Mary High School, Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said at a news conference.

Lemma said the 11th grade student was in class around 7:50 a.m., just before the end of first period, and asked her teacher to go to the bathroom. She went to an isolated area in the school's auditorium, and a gunshot was heard in the building about five to 10 minutes later, Lemma said.

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you were afraid something was going to happen to your mother?" she answered "I don't know." The district attorney then asked, "You are not saying you didn't tell me though, are you?" and the complainant answered "No." She also stated that her mother had taken her to visit the appellant while he was in jail. She agreed with the district attorney that she and the appellant had talked about the case and that the appellant had asked her to say that "it did not happen." She testified that she had written a letter to her aunt after the incident saying in effect that if he did anything more to her she would hit him.
2) She agreed, on cross-examination by the State, that she told the district attorney onknown about these things *912 because the child had never seen him and his wife when they engaged in sex.)
4) The appellant took the stand in his defense and at no time denied doing the act charged. He stated that: he had a good relationship with the complainant; he never disciplined her; and there was no reason for her not to like him. He agreed that: he talked with her twice while he was in jail; his wife worked at night; he was unemployed; and he was with the complainant during these times; and the child had never seen him and his wife when they engaged in sex.
5) The State's witness, Derrick, age 10, Lisa Herbert's son, testified that when he visited the appellant's household on a Saturday,


appellant sent him and Charles, complainant's brother, to the store. When they came back, he went into the house, and Charles stayed in the street with some of his friends. He began looking for the appellant and opened a door and saw appellant getting up and the complainant lying on the bed naked. He said that as the appellant got up, he was trying to put on his underwear.
The majority urges that this event testified to by Derrick was never shown to have occurred on the date alleged in the indictment, or within the period of limitations for this offense. I disagree. The applicable period of limitations for this offense is five years. Tex.Code Crim.P. art. 12.01(3)(C).[1] The evidence shows that the complainant's mother stated that on June16, 1986, the date of trial, her brother, Chester Herbert, was living with her and the appellant until about "two and a half to three years ago." Chester, was single at the time, and was "laying around the house and wouldn't get up and find a job." So they asked him to leave. Chester's wife, Lisa Herbert (Derrick's mother), testified that she first met Chester two years before the June 16, 1986 trial and had married him about seven months before the trial. The indictment alleged that the incident of indecency with a child occurred on or about March 9, 1986, approximately two years and 10 months after Chester moved out of appellant's home, and one year and nine months before March 9, 1986, when Chester first met