an opportunity to study Aboriginal languages and customs, Bishop Gibney continued to campaign against black exploitation and mistreatment. He and other churchmen had long advocated the establishment of a royal commission to inquire broadly into the condition of the Aborigines.[32] In 1904, their perseverance was rewarded. Colonial Secretary Walter Kingsmill thought that Queensland’s Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1901 might be a model for new legislation in Western Australia. He invited Queensland’s Chief Protector of Aborigines Walter Roth to Western Australia, to tour with his local counterpart and advise on which elements of the Queensland law might be replicated.

In Queensland, Roth had come to the role of Chief Protector as a well-established anthropologist. His Ethnological Studies Among the North-west-central Queensland Aborigines, published in1897, had been followed by a series of ethnological bulletins, written and published in the course of his wide-ranging work.[33] Most importantly, Roth had been influential in the drafting of the Queensland law, and had supervised its implementation. The value of his visit to Western Australia was broadly recognised, and plans for a royal commission survived the sudden change of government. On Saturday, August 27th, 1904, Roth was interviewed by new premier Daglish and his colonial secretary George Taylor.[34] A few days later, Perth’s Daily News reported:

THE ABORIGINES OF THIS STATE.

A ROYAL COMMISSION APPOINTED.

In this week’s “Government Gazette” the appointment of Dr. T. W. Roth, the Chief Protector of Aborigines in Queensland, as a Royal Commissioner to inquire into the conditions and treatment of the aborigines of this


XIII of his Ethnological Studies included an illustration identical to the offending photograph; secondly, that the publisher of his ‘pornographic’ work was none other than the Queensland government printer; and finally, that His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had graciously received a copy as a gift!

With hardly a raised eyebrow, Roth had shifted the spotlight back upon his accuser, and when it emerged that Hamilton had obtained the photograph by lying to a public servant, the matter was all but settled. Nevertheless, when Roth came to Western Australia to interrogate, perhaps to uncover, a vague reputation for indecency came with him.

During November 1904 the commissioner travelled widely. He took evidence at Wyndham, Derby, Broome, La Grange Bay, and elsewhere. The parallels with North Queensland were striking, butyears earlier, that far too many natives were being imprisoned upon their own admission of guilt. Lamenting the lack of response to his earlier plea, Burt expressed himself plainly: “I do not think a plea of guilty should be accepted from an untutored savage.”[43]

So effective was the change to policing arrangements that when Colonial Secretary James Connolly toured the Nor’-West aboard Koombana in June 1910, he was surprised by the rebalancing of local priorities. Journalist George Romans travelled with him, covering the tour for The West Australian. Under his nom de plume “Vindex”, Romans wrote:

But unfortunately for the municipalities—and it was the subject of complaint everywhere—the native prisoners were not as numerous as they used to be. None of the gaols is full, and Derby prison was stark


with some symptoms peculiar to the Australian Aborigine. By 1905, the disease was widespread; by 1907, few doubted that it had the potential to decimate the black population of the Nor’-West. Even in remote parts the disease was beginning to make its presence felt. Whites had long marvelled at the stealth and mobility of the blacks: their ability to vanish silently into the bush and cover great distances. Few predicted that this ancient gift would be reincarnated as a curse. With consummate ease the natives came to the ports to barter; with equal ease they carried syphilis and other ailments to their homelands.

It is difficult to judge whether members of the white community took an interest in the matter out of sympathy for the Aborigines or concern foron the mainland but on uninhabited islands. There was a strong consensus that only by that degree of separation would the primary objective be met. Bernier Island, thirty miles west of Carnarvon across sheltered water, had been gazetted as a pastoral lease but had been used mainly as a summer holiday camp by the lessee. Having the advantage of some existing buildings, it was chosen as the site for a women’s hospital. Barrow Island, three hundred miles farther north and sixty miles out from Onslow, had abundant fish and game; it was thought particularly suitable for the men.[48]

By far the greater burden of syphilis was carried by women. Female patients being greater in number and need, a women’s hospital on Bernier Island was established quickly. The pioneering staff


been used.[52]

No men’s hospital was ever established on Barrow Island. Early in the planning, a cheaper alternative emerged. By housing the afflicted men on Dorre Island, adjacent to Bernier Island to the south, one doctor and one bacteriologist could serve both exiled communities, and a single chartered vessel could keep both hospitals supplied.

In June 1910, at the end of his Nor’-West tour, Colonial Secretary Connolly visited the hospitals for a second time. Newsman George Romans observed, as others had done, that the women preferred their own bark shelters to the canvas and corrugated-iron structures provided for them, and that tribal divisions did not seem to be the great source of alienation that some had predicted. Certainly, they camped in groups according to their home districts, but with nothe men would move to Bernier.[55]

The new hospital ward, Dorre Island, 1910.

For the touring party, the visit to Dorre Island was largely recreational. Vindex wrote:

When the official duties were completed, the party moved over to the west side of the island, where the sea breaks in magnificent anger upon the reefs, and where oysters that would gladden the heart of an epicure may be collected by the hundredweight from the reefs. Good fishing, too, was enjoyed, and the day’s catch included a couple p106of groper weighing upwards of sixty pounds each. After dinner the natives, whose black bodies had been ornamented with fearsome designs in plaster of Paris cribbed from the building materials, danced a corroboree.[56]

Vindex reported that after sticks and feet had fallen silent, one black man


seized a rare opportunity. He stepped forward, buttonholed the Colonial Secretary and declared: “You good boss fellow, but me wanta my country go.”

* * *

While Fred Lovegrove and Harriet Lenihan worked in isolation from white society, Daisy Bates in the southern capital was dividing her life between her black friends at Maamba and a growing band of liberal white admirers. Word of a white woman living among the blacks on the edge of the city had spread. There was recognition of the unique grass-level fieldwork, and rising celebrity for its audacious originator. By 1909 Mrs Bates was recognised as an authority on the Western tribes and their customs, and much in demand as a public speaker. By all accounts she excelled in that role. Part evangelist and partraconteuse, she was lyrical, entertaining, and highly responsive to the interests and ideosyncrasies of an audience.[57]

Such was the local regard for Mrs Bates that when it became known that the state’s Aborigines would soon be studied in the field by an English party led by anthropologist Alfred Radcliffe-Brown,[58] many simply presumed that she would be involved. Indeed, The Western Mail went so far as to suggest that the expedition was the direct result of her endeavours.

The credit of being the historiographer of the customs of Western Australian aboriginals is due to Mrs. Daisy Bates, whose work in the field of local ethnology is well known. What Howitt, Spencer, and Gillen have been to the vanishing races of Eastern Australia Mrs. Bates has been to the natives of this


State. So much has her work attracted attention in the old world that a special expedition is being fitted out under the auspices of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge (England) to win some further knowledge of the peculiar customs and institutions of our imperfectly known native races in the North-West. This expedition will be here about June next, and it is possible that Mrs. Bates may be permitted to accompany the expedition, and so render it the assistance that her previous experience will enable her to give.[59]

Soon after Radcliffe-Brown arrived from London, an invitation was indeed extended to Daisy Bates and local interest in the project rose suddenly as a result. Brown’s financial position was also dramatically improved, as The West Australian of October 1st, 1910 reported:

Mr.Alfred R. Brown, the leader of the Cambridge Ethnological Exploring Party, lectured before a large audience at the Museum last p107night on the subject of “Primitive Man in Western Australia.” His Excellency the Governor presided. Mr. Brown announced at the close of an interesting lecture . . . that through the generosity of Mr. Samuel McKay, who had placed the sum of £1,000 at the disposal of the expedition, they would be enabled to spend nine months or so longer than they had originally intended in the work of anthropological research in Western Australia. He felt bound to mention that to a lady they owed much in connection with this gift. Mrs. Daisy Bates had been enthusiastic over the matter, and by her urgency the generous action of


Mr. McKay was largely prompted.[60]

Radcliffe-Brown was keen to investigate Aboriginal rules of intermarriage: the so-called four-class marriage system. The sanctity of tribal law had been dramatically demonstrated just a few weeks earlier. At Darlot on September 11th, nine Aborigines had been killed and 27 wounded in punishments exacted for marriage-law and other violations.[61] From an anthropological perspective the killings were interesting. Brown decided that the troubled district would be the expedition’s first destination.

It was a party of four that went east by train from the port of Geraldton. Travelling with Brown were zoologist Elliot Grant Watson, self-described government attaché Daisy Bates, and Swedish cook Louis Olsen, recently hired. Bates wrote:

A few miles from Sandstone township, we pitched our tents among the natives gathered there, a travelling menage thatintroduce them as my two sons.[62]

Despite simmering tensions between tribal groups, the work began well. For Brown and Grant Watson, it was not only their first engagement with Australian Aborigines; it was also their first opportunity to observe Daisy Bates in her ‘native’ element. Grant Watson in particular was struck by her extraordinary rapport with the subjects of their study. Years later, he would write:

Mrs. Bates probably knew more about the Australian Aborigines than anyone else alive. She was not primarily an anthropologist, but an p108enthusiast, who has given all her love and sympathy to these outcasts from their own land. Her guiding spirit was not a missionary spirit, but one of charity and compassion, and she presented in her person, so neat and dapper, and so much


work; Bates was equally insistent that the natives would soon return, and that they should wait and watch. Neither gave way. Each by a different criterion expected deference from the other. Mrs Bates was 47, knowledgable, and determined; Radcliffe-Brown was 29, talented, and egotistical. He was also the leader of the expedition. Daisy’s challenge was too direct for his character and, arguably, his maturity. Without consultation, and with no apparent regard for Bates’s success in trebling the expedition’s finances, he announced that they would relocate to Bernier Island, where hospital patients from many tribal groups could be studied at leisure.[65]

If Brown had any reservation about his decision, it related only to the correctness of leaving a woman behind. In the end he decided that he should treat Mrsfor which Radcliffe-Brown and “Henrietta”, the hard-drinking skipper of the government supply boat, would be held accountable.

She arrived, very tired and very cross, for she had had a terrible time. She had stayed for some days at Sandstone, then had been forced to follow, first to Geraldton then to Carnarvon. At Carnarvon the yearly race-meeting was in full swing. Every house, every bed, every chair was occupied. Crowds of drunken, swearing men, and no place for a lone woman. Henrietta was in a blissful state of continuous intoxication. Nothing on earth, or from heaven, would move him till the end of the races. He drank and slept and drank again, and Mrs. Bates had to live how and where she could, sometimes on a table for the night,


when she was lucky. And when at last the hated races were over and Henrietta sober enough to sail The Shark, they had the worst crossing on record. Thirty-six hours of being tossed and buffeted and buffeted and tossed on a small boat, and wet through all the time, p110and very sea-sick. This undeserved suffering was put down, not quite logically, to Brown’s account. It must have been galling, also, to find us so comfortably established and happy in our work. There followed an ever-widening estrangement.[67]

While Brown and Grant Watson worked among the male patients on Bernier Island, Bates spent more time with the women confined on Dorre Island. She also worked to refine and reorganise her manuscript of The Native Tribes of Western Australia. Perhaps surprisingly, shewas still receptive to having Radcliffe-Brown edit and criticise her work. Disagreements aside, she recognised his ability to help her toward a leaner, more academic publication. Brown, for his part, saw great value in the work but did not quite know where to begin. His comments—pleas for reorganisation for the most part—often overflowed the margins and overran the text. There is no doubt that he confided his frustration to Grant Watson, who wrote:

The trouble was that Mrs. Bates’s knowledge, collected through many years of close contact with the natives, was not in a condition that Brown considered easily available for the ends of science. Indeed, he found it to be in a most hopeless tangle. The contents of her mind, in his estimation, were somewhat similar to the


contents of a well-stored sewing-basket, after half a dozen kittens had been playing there undisturbed for a few days. At first he optimistically thought he might disentangle some of that rich medley, but in this he proved mistaken.[68]

Although Bates and Brown were still working with Aboriginal patients on the islands in February 1911, their collaboration in the field was effectively over. By different routes, they arrived back in Perth in the second week of April. That both were interviewed by The West Australian on the same day was probably due to the newspaper’s assumption that their partnership was alive and well. Indeed, in their respective statements, there was no hint of disharmony. Radcliffe-Brown indicated that he would soon go north again for six months of work in theAshburton district.[69] Mrs Bates declared herself “fit as a fiddle” and eager to resume the work disrupted by the Darlot killings. She would travel alone to Meekatharra.

The newspaper described Mrs Bates as “brimming over with enthusiasm over what had already been accomplished.”[70] She was very happy with the work she and Brown had done, and also impressed by the humanitarian work being done on the islands. She was particularly struck by the affection that had grown between the natives and their nurses.

Men and women alike revere their nurses, and I am convinced that when the time comes for the natives to return to their tribes this affection will be found to be a happy means of inducing other affected men and women to go to the hospitals before


they become very bad. p111The nurses, too, although they lead a lonely life, seem to be throwing themselves heart and soul into the work, and their attention and devotion to the sick natives is every bit as marked as the attitude of the natives towards them. Nothing more could, I am sure, be done for the natives than is now being done there.[71]

Radcliffe-Brown told the press that upon the advice of the Cambridge University committee overseeing his work, Mrs Bates’s services would be retained for the duration of the expedition. And in a sense they were: when Brown with new assistants left for the north, he took with him Mrs Bates’s 800-page manuscript. That he continued to edit the manuscript is certain. Its influence on his work, however,to the black women she had cared for—was remembered with great affection.[73]

Having accepted the high cost of cabin accommodation, the Colonial Secretary’s Office was determined to extract full value from its investment. If possible, the families and friends of those released would hear of their homecomings in advance. Before the repatriation, message sticks from the islands would be carried across to Carnarvon and sent north with the government-owned ketch Namban. There was no doubt that a lasting impression would be made upon those who came into town for Koombana’s arrival. The long-missed would arrive home in new clothes, looking well, and considerably fatter than when they left. Moreover, they would step ashore in the white way, down the gangway, from a ship that few imagined they would ever


breath from optimistic moments, so few and so widely spaced. To focus upon the present was to guard hope and guard it jealously, against overwhelming odds.

At Cossack, Hedland, Broome, Derby and Wyndham, Harriet Lenihan saw two years of difficult humanitarian work come to modest fruition. From Koombana’s rail she shared her girls’ delight as down the gangway they tramped, overweight and over-pleased, with a government blanket under one arm and waving wildly with the other. And below, on the jetties of the Nor’-West, black faces responded with joy and wide-eyed fascination as their abducted kin crossed from the white world back into their own.

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Sunday, October 29, 2006

Holy Ghosts

Because Halloween is near, I thought I'd post a ghost story. And ghost stories don't get any better than the ones told by my dad. For Church of Christ folks, we were pretty tuned into the paranormal back in the day. Anyway, here's my dad's story about a church we used to attend:

"This story would not have frightened the living daylights out of me had it been untrue or had it been presented as a fictional narrative. But the story is true and remains to me as great a mystery now as when it transpired more than thirty-three years ago.

Lovington, New Mexico, was a peaceful community with a population of 9,000, including women and children. The Church of Christ was located on the corner


of 3rd Street at Central Avenue. Their first building was constructed during the 1930s. Some years later, they added another building alongside that first one. Then in the 1960s, they constructed a new auditorium (sanctuary) alongside the second building. The three buildings were connected by a hallway running along the backside of the complex.

Across the street from these buildings was an old funeral home the church purchased to serve as additional classroom space. This was called the Brown Building. Why? Because it was brown. Next door to the Brown Building was a little white house that was called the White House. Why? Oh never mind. The White House was the home of J. D. and Roma Smith. J. D. was one of our elders. Also he was theMexico: During the late '70s/early '80s, we lived in this little southeast N.M. town. Wasn't much there. When I was in 6th grade, we got a Dairy Queen, and you would have thought the Pope had moved to town. Anyway, on the way out of town towards Hobbs, on the left side of the highway, between the vet and the farm and ranch supply place, was the Pioneer Steakhouse. Because my parents ate there the night before I was born, the Pioneer and I go way back. I didn't love the Pioneer for the steaks (a vegetarian in the making even then,) it was the salad bar that kept me coming back. On the salad bar was a huge hunk of cheese with one of those cheese knives


think there's one little red sticker in the entire store. Oh, well. Like all things worth waiting for, it'll happen in its own good time.

And why stop at two Target trips in one week? Tuesday Julia was out of school for teacher conference day. So we took Jenna to her school and headed to West LR for a Target shopping spree. Julia needed some clothes for cooler weather and I had some gift cards that were burning a hole in my purse. Julia was so excited because we never get to shop without Jenna anymore. She tried on clothes and we settled on ...

...this shirt,

...this shirt,

...these jeans,

...and these pants (except in blue):

Yes, Julia's on a blue kick right now. She says it brings out her blue eyes. She'sChurch in Albany, GA. I understand all the actors are members of that church who volunteered their efforts for the movie. I'm guessing that's why the acting is really, really, really bad. I felt like I was watching a high school play.

Anyway, the movie is about a burned-out high-school football coach who is on the verge of losing his job because of his losing football team. And his wife can't get pregnant. Oh, and his car barely runs. (Oddly enough, the guy only makes $24,000 a year and his house is nicer than anything we have ever dreamed of living in. I made just under that while Chad was in grad school and our house looked nothing -- NOTHING -- like this guy's does.)

Anyway, on the brink of


quite taken off in the way that it would a few years later. I went the last night it was open and watched Jack, the tall-drink-of-water waiter who muttered sarcastically under his breath about everything and everyone, ferry the last order out of the kitchen. Walking out of the place that night, I felt a new grief: My entire personal and professional life in New York so far had happened in the booths of that restaurant. Many nights — most? — ended with me, and whomever I was with, drinking in a booth long after the other patrons had left and Danny the owner had locked the door. All that was over now. My 20s were over. Drinking and ordering drugs after dinner in the bathroom were overUnion Square Cafe or Wallsé (the places I'd go with clients and friends from time to time), so I didn't have to confront the appalled confusion that greeted me the first night at L'Acajou when I turned away a drink. Josie, the prickly Parisian septuagenarian waitress, just frowned and brought me a glass of tap water. Once the place closed, I didn't have to worry about any more frowns, but how I would negotiate the remaining evening terrain — cocktail parties, dinners, benefits — was still unknown.

The first dinner party I went to after I got sober was at my friend's place on the East River. It was a seated dinner for 30 or so people and was in honor of a visiting foreign politician. I'd taken the


I turned to introduce myself to my dinner companion. I soon discovered that the woman had been sober for more than 20 years, and we talked a blue streak through the night.

Other sober angels surfaced — and continue to — in hotel rooftop clubs, benefits, and launch parties at places as varied as Hiro Ballroom, the Museum of Modern Art, Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, Capitale, and even the whale room at the Museum of Natural History. Instead of wings, these angels tended to materialize in catering uniforms. Many, many people in recovery are cater waiters. There has barely been one function — a large benefit or small private party — where someone who I've met hasn't appeared at my side with a sparkling water on a tray. Andeven several times in bars and clubs (where I go only if there is a professional obligation and usually make a quick 20-minute appearance and leave) in my brief turn around the room, I've looked up to see someone I sat across a diner booth from slinging drinks from behind a crowded bar.

There is a parallel universe happening right now in New York and pretty much everywhere else: throngs of people — tattooed, suited, done up, and carefully undone — streaming from their office jobs, photo shoots, classrooms, and gyms into church basements and school cafeterias where they get and stay sober. They duck in, they duck out, and they speckle the rooms of the city and, whether they know it or not, serve as beacons to the


wiry guy in dark pants and a white shirt approached. I recognized him right away. He was someone I met in one of those big groups that descend on coffee shops after meetings like pigeons in Washington Square Park. We played tennis once, and at least two times he took my call after midnight and listened to me worry and whine about a future without alcohol or drugs. I didn't know what he did for a living and didn't know his name. Still, he approached as if he'd known me all his life and, bottle of sparkling water in hand, without a word, without being asked, topped off my drink. Just like old times.

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“I condemn this gang rape of this young nun in the strongest possible terms. This is gang rape is physical and emotional terrorism against our woman” Card. Oswald Gracias, president of the Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) tells AsiaNews reacting to the attack on a nun in Orissa. The religious of the Franciscan Missionaries of St. Joseph, lived in Chennai (Tamil Nadu) to continue her studies. “This violation of our young woman religious – said the cardinal – is evil act inflicted on this woman religious who has consecrated her life to God Rape is an abhorrent crime and an abominable transgression against the honour of women and reflects abysmal state of women in our society, community and nation”. Considering the dynamics of the attack, the cardinal stressed


a woman about two weeks ago, who reported that her mother was very sick. On 5 July, she took a train to Bamunigam, where two cousins and some friends were waiting to take her home. However, rather than take her to the village of Minapanka, the men led her to a still unidentified place. Here the sister was gang raped for a week. On 11 July, the attackers left the sister at Berhampur train station, threatening her not to tell anyone about what had happened. The victim managed to reach her village where on 13 July she filed an official complaint.

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The sanctions were imposed after Russia annexed the Crimea region of Ukraine in 2014. Among other things, U.S. companies were prohibited from transferring advanced technology used to drill offshore and in shale formations. Exxon was ordered to stop drilling in the Kara Sea off Russia’s northern coast. The head of Exxon’s Russian partner, Rosneft, was personally blacklisted.

As Exxon CEO, Tillerson opposed the sanctions, telling shareholders in 2014 that sanctions were usually ineffective and caused “very broad collateral damage.”

Tillerson and Exxon agreed to the venture with Rosneft in 2011. The Russia sanctions have cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars. Exxon reported in 2015 that its potential losses related to the Rosneft venture could run to $1 billion.

If the


Four men have appeared in court charged with assault and false imprisonment of Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney.

The men were brought before Virginia District Court this morning after being arrested by gardaí last week.

Darren Redmond, 25, with an address at Calendon Road, East Wall, Dublin 3, Alan O'Brien, 38, of Shelmalier Road, East Wall and Luke O'Reilly, 66, from Mullahoran Lower, Kilcogy, Co Cavan are all charged with assault causing harm and false imprisonment.

A fourth man faces the same charges, but cannot be named for legal reasons.

Judge Denis McLoughlin put in place a temporary order restricting the media from naming him.

Bail applications were made in the cases of Mr Redmond and Mr O'Brien. The court heard gardaí were objecting to bail, due to the seriousness of thecharges.

Judge McLoughlin refused bail and remanded the men to Castlerea Prison. They are due back before Virginia District Court on 3 December.

Mr O'Reilly made no application for bail and was remanded in custody to Castlerea Prison.

He is also due back in court next week.

Mr Lunney was attacked on 17 September as he made his way home from work.

The 50-year-old father-of-six was found bleeding on a remote roadside in Co Cavan after being abducted outside his home in Derrylin, Co Fermanagh.


BJP makes inroads into Telangana: Did overconfident TRS drop the ball?

One of the biggest upsets for the TRS includes the seat of Nizamabad that was held by Kavitha Kalvakuntla, sitting MP and daughter of Telangana CM.

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In what was one of the biggest surprises this Lok Sabha Election and a sign that the TRS may be losing its iron grip over Telangana, the BJP made inroads into Telangana, taking their tally of MPs from just one to four — in Adilabad, Karimnagar, Nizamabad and Secunderabad constituencies.

Soyam Bapu Rao from Adilabad, D Arvind from Nizamabad, G Kishan Reddy from Secunderabad and Bandi Sanjay Kumar from Karimnagar all won margins of over 50,000 votes.

Nizamabad is one of the TRS’ biggest upsets, as the seat was held by ChiefMinister and TRS leader K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter Kavitha Kalvakuntla. It was also a location the BJP had focussed on, as BJP president Amit Shah had held a public meeting in the constituency, and was scheduled to hold one in Karimnagar, which he then dropped out of. Secunderabad was the only constituency held by the BJP in 2014, and the party will retain it.

Who are BJP MPs from Telangana?

Soyam Bapu Rao, Adilabad: A former MLA from Boath, Bapu Rao had been elected in 2004 on a TDP ticket. The president of Thudum Debba, an organization working for Adivasi rights, he won by 58,650 votes in Adilabad constituency. He had unsuccessfully contested as the Congress candidate in the Telangana Assembly polls in 2018. After the Congress refused him the


MP ticket, Bapu Rao joined the BJP in March and was offered the MP ticket to contest from Adilabad.

Bapu Rao led the Adivasi agitation in 2018, demanding the government to decategorize the Lambadas from Scheduled Tribes list. Being at the forefront of the agitation helped him cultivate an image as a mass leader, and Adivasis have also led various struggles under his guidance.

D Arvind, Nizamabad: Entrepreneur and son of TRS Rajya Sabha MP D Srinivas, D Arvind joined the BJP in 2017, but his father continues to be with the TRS. In a surprise upset, Arvind won by 70,857 votes over incumbent Kavitha Kalvakuntla.

D Arvind joining the BJP had caused a flutter, and TRS MPs and MLAs led by Nizamabad MP K Kavitha even wrote a letter toTRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao to take disciplinary action against Srinivas. TRS MLAs and MPs have in the past accused Srinivas, a former Congress leader, of creating several factions in Nizamabad and sabotaging the party from within. Calling him an ‘opportunist’ for inducting Arvind into the BJP, they accused him of sabotaging the party to ensure his son’s elevation.

Another point of contention is the Nizam Sugar Factory, which is shut. Demanding that the factory be reopened, Arvind also took out a 120-km padayatra in 2018 from Jagtial to Bodhan.

G Kishan Reddy, Secunderabad: Former BJP state President G Kishan Reddy contested in the only seat the party held in the state, held formerly by former Union Minister of State Bandaru Dattatreya. Secunderabad, a seat which the TRS has never


won, saw Kishan Reddy, a long-time party worker of the BJP, secured 62,114 votes over TRS candidate Talasani Srinivas Yadav, the son of a minister.

Bandi Sanjay Kumar, Karimnagar: A member of the RSS, Sanjay was a president of the ABVP and an executive member. He further rose to the ranks of the BJP, and worked as Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha town secretary. Later, he went on to become a state spokesperson of the BJP. He even contested in the recently-held Assembly elections from Karimnagar, and lost. Sanjay won from leading in Karimnagar by a margin of 89,508 votes defeating Vinod Kumar, who is a close aide of KCR.

How did the BJP up its tally?

Political analyst Palwai Raghavendra Reddy said that one shouldn’t compare results of the Lok Sabhabeen changed for the Lok Sabha Elections.

“After Odisha and Karnataka, party president Amit Shah has been focussing entirely on Telangana. We couldn’t, unfortunately, make it for the Assembly Elections but the present mandate shows that in the future we would be the alternative for TRS in Telangana,” he said.

The Anti-Razakar movement is also something that the BJP has stressed on. Each year, the BJP celebrates September 17, the day that Hyderabad became a part of the Indian Union.

After Independence, the Nizam had decided not to immediately join the Indian Union. The Centre hit back with military force. The Nizam’s Army, along with his private militia known as the 'Razakars', had borne the brunt of five days of military conflict.

While it was this very battle that led to Hyderabad


Necla Demir, the owner of online newspaper Gazete Karınca, will be tried on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda in stories published by the news outlet on Turkish military operations in the city of Afrin in northern Syria.

An indictment demanding up to 13 years in prison for Demir has been accepted by the Istanbul 33rd High Criminal Court, Gazete Karınca reported on Friday.

The investigation was launched after a complaint to the Prime Ministry Communications Center (BİMER) claiming that the newspaper was spreading terrorist propaganda for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Democratic Union Party (PYD).

A majority of the allegations were based on stories critical of Turkey’s military’s offensive in Afrin starting from January 2018.

In reaction to the indictment, Demir said the stories published in Gazete Karınca were anfeatured

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Nicole is the funny and quirky Cosmopolitan + Seventeen Magazine Accessories Editor. You might have also caught her on the new hit reality show, So Cosmo (E! 9pm EST). Nicole grew up as an only child, and she admits that shaped her into the person she is today. However, Nicole was far from the spoiled only child you might envision. She spent her days reading magazines and imagining herself chasing her dreams in New York. After college at the University of Florida, Nicole left her small town in South Florida and headed to NYC, alone with no job! She freelanced, interned, hustled, and worked at a restaurant to pay her bills, until she found a position in the PR Department at Tommy Hilfiger


and then Cosmo Magazine. Nicole started from the very bottom, working in the fashion closet as a freelance assistant, but was eager and determined to get her foot in the door and show she was cut out for Cosmo. Nicole has managed to stay in the tumultuous magazine world for 6 years and worked her way up! Now, she is the Accessories Editor of both Cosmo and Seventeen Magazines, plus as of 2017, she is also a contributor to the new Women's Group of Hearst Magazines that include Good Housekeeping, Women's Day, and Redbook.

Nicole attributes her success to taking a risk and doing anything and everything she could to turn it into a success. Nothing was handed to her. Every door she opened for herself. Once ‘in theexperience his first negatively rated event until the Berlin Major. Frozen is an unreal talent in his own right, but playing with karrigan gives him limitless potential.

Why?

Frozen looked solid throughout a majority of the year, and when mouz went on their successful run to close the year, he looked even better. Frozen’s performance increased when they faced fellow top-five opponents Astralis, fnatic, Liquid and EG. His rating against top-five teams jumps to 1.19, which is fifth-best in the world. His uncanny ability to elevate his game against the best players makes him one of the best players.

Prediction

Frozen has an unbelievably bright future ahead of him. He already steps up for mousesports against the world-beaters and he is only seventeen. By this time next year he will be miles


has shown glimpses of even better. His numbers also increase when mouz is playing top teams, and that is doubly impactful for woxic because he uses the AWP. Finishing top-five in AWP frags per round proves his value as a primary AWPer, but what makes him intimidating is his ability to impose his will on his opponents early in the round whole AWPing. His 60% opening duel success places him top five, which is a necessary trait for a world-class AWPer.

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There is absolutely no telling where woxic could stop in terms of his progression. He has no ceiling. If mouz retain their form into 2020, then they will certainly lift more trophies. If they win more tournaments, then woxic could be anywhere on this list. Without a doubt,to drink. Most mamak stalls also serve several varieties of rice, such as nasi lemak and nasi goreng, as well as noodle dishes such as mee goreng (fried noodles). Some stalls also offer satay and Western dishes.

A typical Mamak stall will offer the following dishes, though this differs from stall to stall:

Recently, in order to attract more customers, some Mamak restaurants have added an extra stall in their restaurant. The stall, which is operated individually by either an ethnic Malay from the North East Peninsular Malaysia or an ethnic Malay from Southern Thailand, is known as Malay tom yam stall. This provides customers with more food options, such as:

Tom yam stalls first appeared in Peninsular Malaysia circa late 1970s and early 1980s. Unlike local Malay food, the food


is basically Thai based and somewhat similar to the cuisine in the state of Kelantan. The tom yam dishes have a mix of typically sweet, hot, and sour flavours. As the dishes are cooked immediately upon the customer's order, tom yam stalls are the Malay equivalent of fast food outlets albeit with Thai based cuisine.

Tom yam stalls can also be found by the street or at designated areas such as car parks at night. These stalls tend to be popular. Many tom yam stalls are built illegally, usually on land reserved for public roads. Attempts to remove these illegal stalls have been fairly successful[citation needed] but such attempts can have a political price. One local politician who was a town councillor was put to shame when illegal tradersHe retired from Congress in 1781 and lived with his two sons for the rest of his life. He died on Dec. 31, 1802 at the age of 89...quite a long life!

According to Wikipedia his son Morgan Lewis served in the army during the Revolutionary War and later held many offices in New York State, including Governor. Francis Lewis's great-grandson, Manning Livingston, died at the Battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War. He also has many relatives stretching all the way to Idaho.

Wonder what happened to his daughter who married the British naval officer.

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"Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it."~Harry S.


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Three children were born to Elizabeth Lewis and her husband: Francis, the eldest son, was married to the daughter of a Tory named Ludlow, whose family strenuously objected to the young man, "because his father would certainly be hung." Col. Morgan Lewis, the second son, married Gertrude, the daughter of Robert Livingston and Margaret Beekman, his wife. She was a sister of Chancellor Livingston and of Edward, "The Jurist." Ann Lewis, the only daughter of Elizabeth and Francis Lewis, fell in love with a post-captain in the British navy, named Robertson. Her father refused to consent to their marriage and a clandestine wedding ensued. Had she remained in America, it is probable that reconciliation would have been effected, but as Captain Robertson and his bride soon after sailedfor England all intercourse ceased. Robertson was a brave, reckless sort of man, it is said, not given to taking much thought of the morrow. When in years afterward Mrs. Robertson was left a widow in straitened circumstances a small sum of money was sent her every year anonymously and it was not until the death of Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, that the identity of the donor was made known. The Queen was reported to have said that the wife of a gallant sailor like Captain Robertson ought not to suffer penury. One of Mrs. Robertson's daughters married Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury, another married Wilson, Archbishop of Calcutta, and a third became the wife of Sir James Moncrief, Lord Advocate of Scotland.

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John Phillip Law was born on September 7, 1937 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Barbarella (1968), Space Mutiny (1988) and Danger: Diabolik (1968). He was married to Shawn Ryan. He died on May 13, 2008 in Los Angeles.Virgin beech forest in Biogradska Gora, Montenegro. Credit, Snežana Trifunović.Whenever I think of old-growth forests, I envision the redwoods of Northern California or the Amazon region of South America - not the continent of Europe where forest destruction and intensive management have been widespread for millennia. However, in parts of Europe, areas of virgin forest still exist - mostly in Russia, but also in other countries, as well.

A new study in the journal Biodiversity and Conservation reflects a growing effort to identify and protect these remnant old-growth forests. Peter Veen and fellow researchers conducted an inventory of virgin forests in the countries of Romania and Bulgaria.

The extent and exact location of old-growth forest in Romania, Bulgaria and other countries of Europe have been unknown. The results from the


Mike Lonergan has coached the George Washington men’s basketball team the past five seasons. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)

In early April, shortly after his team celebrated a postseason championship, a George Washington men’s basketball player visited a campus Title IX coordinator to log complaints about Coach Mike Lonergan. Lonergan, the player believed, had created an offensive, intolerable environment, evidenced in his mind — and in the minds of many of his teammates — by the spate of transfers during the coach’s five-year tenure.

When the player shared the complaints, which included Lonergan denigrating players and making repeated graphic remarks about the school’s athletic director, Title IX coordinator Rory Muhammad’s response surprised him. The player was told, he later recalled, that the school had looked into Lonergan’s behavior previously and thatto judgment in advance of the facts.”

[The school issued a statement Thursday night saying it was bringing in “outside” counsel to assist in the investigation of the allegations against Lonergan, in reaction to this article, which was posted on the Post’s website earlier in the day. The university said that it “will not tolerate retaliation” against players who have expressed objections to the coach.]

The Post granted anonymity to current and former George Washington players and staffers because they feared reprisals that could affect the future of their careers.

After Lonergan was made aware that players had spoken to The Post on the condition of anonymity, players said, he called his players in an effort to determine the identities of those who had shared their experiences. He later emailed current


players to warn them of the publication of this story, calling the allegations against him “lies,” two people who saw the email said.

The three most recent departures this offseason leave only one player remaining from the five-member class recruited just two years ago. The transfer rate across college basketball has skyrocketed in recent seasons, more than doubling in the past five years to more than 700 players, according to research by ESPN. But players said the rash of departures at GW stems from a factor other than desire for more playing time or a better chance at success: Lonergan.

“A lot of kids transfer because they have delusions of grandeur,” said one former member of the GW men’s basketball staff. “Nobody transferred from GW with delusions of grandeur. Theyjust transferred because they hated him. They couldn’t stand another second of him.”

[GW to bring in ‘outside counsel’ to assist in probe of Mike Lonergan allegations]

Mike Lonergan has enjoyed competitive success at George Washington, while players continue to transfer out. (Mary Altaffer/Associated Press)

An untenable situation

The Colonials have experienced success under Lonergan, a respected strategist and tireless recruiter. They received a bid to the 2014 NCAA tournament, have won at least 22 games the past three seasons and this year redeemed a disappointing conference season by winning the National Invitation Tournament. In 2014, GW rewarded Lonergan by extending his contract through 2021.

Beneath the surface, the accomplishments have been accompanied by tumult and turnover. According to multiple players, Lonergan’s critiques crossed the line from constructive to mean-spirited. He told one


player his son would always be on food stamps. He told another, in front of the team, he should transfer to a “transgender league,” multiple players said.

One person close to a former GW player said he “went through hell” playing for Lonergan because of constant personal comments and critiques. One former player said he attended therapy and considered quitting basketball because of Lonergan’s language and actions toward him.

The school’s actions following the 2014-15 season suggest an awareness of some problem. University administration met with Lonergan to address the language he used, a school official said. Athletic department officials requested practice tapes to review Lonergan’s behavior, people within the program said. Senior associate athletics director Ed Scott traveled with the team this season and attended practices, people within theat almost the same time, Lonergan after a stint as Vermont’s head coach and Nero after serving as the commissioner of the America East conference, of which Vermont is a member. Nero advocated for Lonergan’s hiring, according to a former school official, but their relationship soured over several years and deteriorated after the 2014-15 season.

Players said Lonergan shared his distaste for Nero in a manner both inappropriate and outlandish. Five current and former players said Lonergan made explicit remarks about Nero, among them telling them to avoid Nero because he was obsessed with them.

Five current and former players said Lonergan told players Nero requested the practice tapes so he could masturbate while viewing them in his office. The players said Lonergan also told them Nero had engaged in


if it could be proved Lonergan smeared Nero in retaliation.

“They have an obligation to make sure the school is operating an environment where there is no sexual harassment,” lawyer Nancy Hogshead-Makar, a Title IX expert and a former Olympic gold medal swimmer, said when apprised of the players’ complaints. “He is sexually harassing both the athletic director and the athletes.”

Lonergan, 50, grew up in Bowie and attended Archbishop Carroll High in Northeast Washington, where he played point guard before playing at Catholic University. He gained local renown for leading Division III Catholic to prominence over 12 seasons as head coach, winning a national championship in 2001. He served for one season as an assistant on Gary Williams’s staff at Maryland and took his first Division I head coachingEllen Andersen

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As Nancy Polikoff has noted, Maine recorded a number of "firsts" today. It became the first state to pass marriage equality without first trying a quasi-parallel status such as civil unions. And Maine's Gov. Baldacci


Snowballs… at the SNOW BOWL?! Take that, Santa.

At some point during the game on Sunday, presumably before the Lions took a shit on the frozen tundra of the Linc, Jonte Green and Bill Bentley celebrated with Jeremy Ross, who returned two kicks for touchdowns, and yelled “Merry Christmas” in the general direction of the crowd.

Unfortunately for the Lions, it would not be a Merry Christmas… and they got a couple of snowballs hurled in their direction just to drive the point home.

Video here.Hosea Gear evades the tackle of England's Henry Slade to score his second try and seal victory for the Barbarians. Photograph: Tom Dwyer/Seconds Left/Rex

The Barbarians resorted to heavy hitters rather than heavy drinkers after the excesses of last year, which culminated in an embarrassingly heavy defeat by the Lions in Hong Kong one week after they had been humbled by England’s reserves, but even with nearly 50 caps to every one of their opponents they took a long while to subdue inexperienced but resourceful opponents.

English rugby is in buoyant mood in the run-up to next year’s World Cup, less than three years after the national side returned from the tournament in New Zealand under a long dark cloud that set off a series of storms. The sky now


is bluer and, even though England fielded virtually an E side, with 31 players in New Zealand and more than 20 others either packing bags before joining them or recovering from injuries, it was only when Hosea Gear scored his second try four minutes from time that the Barbarians secured victory.

The experience of Gear, the New Zealand wing who will be returning home next year after sojourns in Europe and Japan to contest for a World Cup place, Joe Rokocoko and Juan Martín Hernández, combined with the midfield thrust provided by Rene Ranger, gave the Barbarians finishing power but England were at least as creative with three of their backs, Henry Slade, Elliot Daly (who played on the opposite side in this match a year ago) and OllieDevoto all showing that they can disturb the thoughts of the senior management for next year’s World Cup, never mind 2019.

Slade spent nine minutes off the field having as many stitches inserted into a wound above his left eye, a result of Ranger’s knee hitting his face as he tackled the centre, but on his return he never shirked a challenge. None of the No10s jockeying to be Owen Farrell’s understudy is renowned for his defence and, even though Mamuka Gorgodze drove through the fly-half’s challenge five minutes into the second period to put the Barbarians ahead for the first time, Slade kept coming back for more.

The left-footed kicker said afterwards that his boyhood hero had been Jonny Wilkinson, and while he has some of the characteristics of


You’re never too old, bro.

This is the extended and enhanced version of FROSTY MAN AND THE BMX KID which was written and directed by Tim McLachlan – one of the five finalists in the international YOUR BIG BREAK film-making competition run by Tourism New Zealand in conjunction with Barrie Osborne (The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings) and Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings, King Kong). …

Nice, well-executed work. I like it. The characters seem pretty comfortable in their own skin.Posts Tagged poets

My guest this week is a cellist and chamber musician who has just published her first poetry collection with Vine Leaves Press. She says music inspires her to write and to strive to express meaning in the cadence and feeling of words. Her soundtrack includes the classical standards you might expect, but also Evanescence and Josh Groban – and a moment when she saw the solo violinist Joshua Bell posing as a street musician. She is Christine Tsen and she’s on the Red Blog with her Undercover Soundtrack.

My guest this week is best known for his poetry collections, but has had a weakness for crime fiction ever since he was a 10-year-old, smuggling a radio to bed to catch Mystery Theater. Music – and a few


conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute.

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Aguilera was a confidential informant to the Texas Department of Public Safety.  He was ultimately paid $800 for his information in this case.  Aguilera had previously advised Officer Jorge Aguilar of the vehicle's contents, location and destination.  Aguilar established surveillance of the vehicle at Garcia's apartment complex.  The Bronco was not moved once parked in the complex, and remained in the lot for several days.

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Aguilar contacted Eduardo Ruiz, an investigator for the Laredo district attorney's office.  Garcia worked for Ruiz at Ruiz's Texaco station.  When informed that Garcia was under investigation, Ruiz and a Texas Ranger picked up Garcia in an official vehicle and took him to DPS headquarters.  He was questioned for several hoursby Aguilar in Ruiz's presence.  According to Aguilar, Garcia stated he was aware that marijuana was in the Bronco.  Ruiz stated that Garcia never admitted such knowledge.  Based on the information of the informant Aguilera and the statement he asserts Garcia made, Aguilar secured a search warrant for the Bronco.  It contained over 200 pounds of marijuana in several duffel bags.

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The district court suppressed Garcia's statement as the product of an illegal arrest.  Garcia attempted to plead guilty when offered a favorable plea bargain, which depended on his later testimony.  The court rejected this plea upon learning it was against the advice of Garcia's counsel, to whom Garcia had steadfastly maintained his innocence.

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During trial to the bench, Garcia disavowed knowledge of the


marijuana in the Bronco.  He did not have the keys to the Bronco, and the government produced neither evidence nor testimony that Garcia was ever in or near the vehicle.  The Bronco had dark-tinted windows, so he could not see into it.  Garcia testified that he believed the vehicle contained electronic merchandise which Pacheco intended to smuggle into Mexico for sale.  Pacheco had done this in the past, and Garcia believed the Bronco was part of one of these deals.  While Garcia admits that Pacheco told him there was "a package there with something," Garcia testified "I was curious.  But I never thought it would be marijuana."    While he thought it "strange" for Pacheco to give him so muchany, filed against him in this transaction were abstruse.  The court also asked, "Have you been convicted of anything before?"    Aguilera responded, "No, sir, I haven't."    This answer walks on the technical edge of the truth.  As Garcia's counsel discovered after trial, Aguilera had been put on probation for assault for one year by a Texas court pursuant to a "deferred adjudication" procedure provided by Texas law.  Because he met the terms of his probation, no final adjudication of guilt was made.

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A question was raised as to the nature of the confidential relationship.  The government put Officer Aguilar back on the stand.  He had testified previously about the surveillance and investigation leading to the prosecution at hand.


or control over the Bronco in which it was concealed or the lot on which the Bronco was parked.  Pacheco did not leave him the keys to the vehicle.  Government surveillance did not establish that Garcia was ever in or around the Bronco.  Once parked in the apartment lot, which did not belong to Garcia, it was never moved prior to its seizure by authorities.  These facts present no substantial evidence of possession, actual or constructive.

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However, Garcia's conviction on the substantive possession offense must be viewed in light of his participation in the conspiracy.  "[E]ach conspirator may be held criminally culpable for substantive offenses committed by the conspiracy of which he is a member while he is a member."    Unitedinvestigating authorities before and after his arrest.  He allowed the search of his home.  He gave information on the extent of his knowledge about Pacheco.  Apparently he was willing to plead guilty before trial.  The plea was rejected because it was against Garcia's counsel's advice.  Garcia continued to maintain to counsel that he was innocent and lacked any knowledge of the marijuana transaction.

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At sentencing, the district court expressed reservations about acceptance of responsibility.  When the court denied this reduction, the following exchange between the court and Garcia's counsel occurred:

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COUNSEL:  If he were ... if Defendant was to accept responsibility and say yes, he knew, would the Court allow him the two points for acceptance o[f] responsibility, and then for him to


the author Lee Israel, broke and unable to find work, began to forge and sell literary letters to make money. The scheme not only pays Lee’s bills, but gives her a sense of artistic satisfaction as she perfects this new deceptive art form. What starts as a thrilling enterprise quickly devolves into darker territory as the buyers realize they have fake letters and the FBI gets involved.

Marielle Heller, the director of Can You Ever Forgive Me?, first broke onto the independent film scene in 2015 with the masterful Diary of a Teenage Girl. Diary, an adaptation of a graphic novel of the same name by Phoebe Gloeckner, is the intense story a teenage girl exploring her sexuality.

Finding the connection between her debut film and Can You Ever ForgiveMe? seemed to be unlikely. After such a bold debut with a unique voice, her second feature film came as a surprise. The movie, a mostly gray-tinted acting showcase made to win Golden Globes is a far cry from the candy-colored, tumultuous Diary. The style of the two movies do have something in common though: both styles are influenced directly by their stars, with Heller truly disappearing behind the camera. In Diary, the film sees the world through Minnie’s eyes. It shows her body the way she sees it, it shows her family the way she sees them, and it even visualizes her art the way she does. Can You Ever Forgive Me? employs this same technique through Lee’s eyes.

A misanthrope that could give some Charlie Kaufman characters


a run-for-their-money, Lee views the world through her lens of caustic wit. The writing often makes other characters out to be dumb or at least culturally ignorant. The drab coloring of the film reflects Lee’s inner life — as she corrodes, lively colors around her strip down to a base neutral beige or gray. This is not to say that the movie is lifeless. As a true character study, when Lee excels in her deception and enjoys her new art-form, the movie briefly becomes bouncier and brighter only to then be weighed back down by paranoia.

While the style is effective, it is ultimately oppressive and unsatisfying. The truly rich aspects of Lee Israel’s story, though, are in the performances. McCarthy, obviously known for her comedy, delivers an unassailableXXI Army Corps (Wehrmacht)

Not to be confused with the Wehrmacht's 21st Army or XXI Mountain Corps.

The XXI Army Corps, also at times designated Group Falkenhorst and Group XXI, was a corps of the German Heer during World War II. It was first deployed on 10 August 1939 in Wehrkreis I in East Prussia. It participated in Operation Weserübung in early 1940. Later that year, it became Armeegruppe XXI ('Army Group 21'). In 1941, the XXI Army Corps was restructured to an army-level unit, Armee Norwegen. In 1943, another corps-level unit carrying the ordinal number 21 was created, the XXI Mountain Corps.

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The Generalkommando XXI. Armeekorps was first deployed on 10 August 1939 in the Allenstein sub-district within Military District (Wehrkreis) I in East Prussia.On 26 August, Nikolaus


Bent to Fly

"Bent to Fly" is a song by American hard rock guitarist Slash, featuring vocalist Myles Kennedy and backing band The Conspirators. Written by Slash and Kennedy, it was released as the second single from the guitarist's third solo album (the second with Kennedy and The Conspirators), World on Fire. The song was used as the theme song for the 2014 National Rugby League Finals series, and Slash performed the song live at ANZ Stadium as pre-show entertainment for the league's grand final that year.

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This Department is responsible for the dissemination of public information to the various news media and the general public. The BGIS was established in 1958 in response to the need to inform and educate the public regarding government and its activities.


8 May at 13:15 (TBC), Executive Secretary Espinosa will be giving an opening press conference during which she will also make a special announcement on gender.

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On 10 May, a Research Dialogue will take place that will focus on regional climate information and gaps, as well as on science to take stock of and assess progress on mitigation. The dialogue is important, including in light of the 2018 initial stock-take that will focus on the pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development.

The 10th of May will also see the launch of the Global Youth Video Competition on Climate Change. The objective of the competition is to highlight climate action being taken by youth through videos. The competition provides them with a platform to identify their successespassages from his childhood, student years in Ankara, Vienna and Chicago, his recent reflections on near history events and  anecdotes from the years he when he worked as a travel guide all over Turkey.

Academic career
Ortaylı started elementary school at St. George's Austrian High School in İstanbul and later transferred to Ankara Atatürk High School. He studied Public policy at Ankara University Mekteb-i Mülkiye (School of Political Science) and later left for Vienna to attend University of Vienna where he studied both Slawistik and Orientalistik while working with Andreas Tietze.  He received his master's degree under the supervision of professor Halil İnalcık at the University of Chicago and obtained his doctorate at Ankara University in the School of Political Sciences. His doctoral thesis was Local Administration


A solar battery is known as a simple and clean energy source without emitting toxic substances. Exposed to sunlight, it operates as a DC power supply and outputs DC power. A power conditioner for photovoltaic power generation system serves to convert DC power generated by a solar battery into AC power to supply the power to a general AC load or to an existing commercial power system. Since the solar battery is installed at a location receiving sunlight, such as on a roof of a house, the power conditioner for photovoltaic power generation system is also installed outdoors in many cases.
To protect such an outdoor-installed power conditioner from external factors such as rainwater, dust or impact, an enclosure is used to house the outdoor-installed power conditioner. FIG. 22electronics provided in the enclosure from external factors such as rainwater or dust. Furthermore, since the fan taking in outside air is driven by a motor and is a consumable, it is to be replaced at the end of its life. Thus, maintenance of the fan should be performed easily.
However, in conventional outdoor-installed power conditioner 301, the direction in which the air blown out by fan 316 flows is relatively perpendicular to the direction in which the air exhausted from exhaust vent 306 flows, and thus the air taken in by fan 316 is not efficiently exhausted to the outside of outer case 302. Further, also within mounting plate 303, the air first strikes against mounting plate 303, and thus is not efficiently exhausted from slit portion 307


the enclosure, which forms a gap between the exhaust vent and the outer wall surface to prevent the exhaust vent from being blocked by the outer wall.
In the above power conditioner, the cooling wind is exhausted from the exhaust vent provided in the rear face of the enclosure. Since the periphery of the exhaust vent is open to the outside, rainwater may easily infiltrate from the exhaust vent into the enclosure. Further, when trash such as fallen leaves accumulates between the rear face of the enclosure and the outer wall surface, the exhaust vent may be clogged by the trash.other nuisance problems in pushing for the alcohol ban. In recent years, increased enforcement efforts had failed to alleviate those problems.

Nevitt’s idea for zero tolerance for alcohol at the park initially was met with a furor from many park users. They argued that lax enforcement was the issue, since visitors who caused problems often were consuming more potent liquor that already was outlawed on all park property.

But Nevitt told The Post that discussions between organized park users and park neighbors have been constructive since a public meeting on the issue earlier this month. He said he was heartened that people from both groups have pledged to help remind users of the rules, both at the park and via a social media campaign.

Hancock joined the fray, agreeing to a


March 6, 2019 — We talked about Green Lent and Vegan Lent this week. These issues are far from being pure abstractions, nor even liturgical coquetry: in the Amazon region and even more so in Brazil, it is a matter of life and death, in view of the repeated attacks on the tropical forest - the lungs of the planet - and the (indigenous) peoples who inhabit it, by mining, gas and forestry companies, as well as by the livestock farmers' lobby.

During his official visit to Chile and Peru last year, Pope Francis defended the indigenous peoples of the Amazon, threatened on all sides by "the strong pressure of major economic interests that covet oil, gas, timber, gold and agro-industrial monocultures". Hence the idea of dedicating the nextSynod to this region, which is vital for the future of Catholicism but also and above all for the planet. Several prelates from this region - including Cardinal Pedro Barreto Jimeno, SJ, Archbishop of Huancayo (Jesuit) in the Peruvian Amazon - have championed the rights of indigenous peoples and the protection of the environment.

Since then, the Brazilians have brought the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro to power. Nostalgic for the era of the military junta, Bolsonaro was elected by the lobby of large landowners and cattle breeders, who covet the lands of the Amazon. Shortly after his election, he promised to hand over vast areas of the Amazonian forest, including the territories of indigenous peoples, to herders and logging companies.

A frontal collision therefore seems to be emerging between the


Catholic Church and the Brazilian State. President Bolsonaro is already waging war in advance of the Synod on the Amazon, accusing the Catholic Church of putting forward a "leftist agenda".

May 23, 2019 — “The Jesuits first had to learn to say: “We are responsible,” then “We are sorry,” and finally, “We need your help.” This is how Fr. Peter Bisson, SJ, summarizes the evolving relations between the Jesuits and indigenous peoples.

May 23, 2019 — Humility, communion, and renunciation are three "essential elements" for the Church to go forward, Pope Francis sayd in his homily during Mass with representatives of Caritas Internationalis.

Father Jean-Marie Rocheleau died on May 20, 2019, in the infirmary of Richelieu. He was in his 101st year and in religious life for 84 years. He isonce there is an update of your order status.

The Somali Postal Service (Somali Post) is the national postal service of Somalia. It is part of the Federal Government of Somalia's Ministry of Information, Posts and Telecommunications. The postal authority historically sent mail to and received parcels from various domestic and international destinations, but shut down operations in 1991. Somali Post later officially relaunched on 1 November 2013, following a Memorandum of Understanding signed with Emirates Post in April of the year. In December 2012, the Minister of Information, Posts and Telecommunications, Abdullahi Elmoge Hersi, announced that Somalia's new federal government planned to officially relaunch the Somali Postal Service in 2013. On 1 November 2013, international postal services for Somalia officially resumed. The UPU is now assisting the Somali


Dickov to Manchester City. Midfielders Rémi Garde and Patrick Vieira were purchased from RC Strasbourg and Milan respectively. John Hartson moved to West Ham United in January 1997; he was replaced in the squad by teenager Nicolas Anelka, who joined Arsenal a month later from Paris Saint-Germain.

A strong start to their league campaign, with one defeat in their first 12 matches saw Arsenal begin November in first spot. Although the club were winless during the Christmas period, their chances of winning the title remained intact. A run of two draws and losses in February was more severe, as it moved Arsenal down to fourth spot. Draws in April prompted Wenger to rule his team out of the title race and make priority to second spot, which came withAffinity Sutton, one of the largest housing associations in England, is backing our campaign.

With over 57,000 homes and a 100-year history, the charitable organisation is working in partnership with Fixers to help support young people across the country to address the issues they want to fix.

November 2015

We launched our Fixers film at the Organ Hall Community Centre to an audience of young people. Among those attending was Corina Best from 21st Century Female who was amazed with how effective the film is. You can read some of the other comments we received below:


the Bundesliga enjoys a full month off every season, breaking in the second week of December, and returning in the second week of January, which goes some way to justifying Klopp’s incredulity at the non-stop football in England. Spain, winners in 2010, have an 18 day break across the festive period, while Serie A in Italy enjoys 16 football-free days. France has the second longest break in the top five leagues, with a 24 day period across December and January. Notably, in the last five World Cups, each of these countries has lifted the trophy once, with Brazil’s victory in 2002 the only outlier – it appears England has been left behind on the international scene, despite boasting one of Europe’s best leagues. For balance it should also2006 was entirely comprised of players based in Serie A, and France in 1998 only had three Premier League based players, so the argument crumbles under scrutiny.

Introducing a two week break from football in England does of course present the slight problem of how to fit in all the, well, football. The FA, of course, have got that covered. They’re going to further diminish a competition that was once the jewel in their crown, simultaneously shafting lower league teams while they’re at it, all in the vain hope that Gareth Southgate can lead our rag-tag bunch of mediocre footballers to European Championship glory. Hooray for priorities! In its infinite wisdom, the FA have decided to scrap replays in the FA Cup Fifth Round and, in a rare example


was introduced – and enhanced each time a new TV deal is agreed – those in charge of running football clubs encouraged their teams to take an eye off distractions such as cup competitions. That inevitably led to managers naming weaker teams, particularly in the early rounds, though Manchester United’s line up for the 2009 semi-final against Everton is seen as a watershed moment with regards to managers prioritising over the FA Cup. Sir Alex Ferguson rested Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney ahead of the crucial Champions League semi-final with Arsenal, and United were beaten on penalties. Famously, of course, Manchester United hammered the first nail in the coffin of the FA Cup in 2000 when, having won the treble the year before, pulled out of the competitionas holders in order to compete in the first Club World Championship in Brazil. It later transpired that Tony Banks, Minister for Sport in Tony Blair’s cabinet, and the FA had encouraged United to pull out of the cup in order to take part in the FIFA organised competition, in the hopes it would boost England’s chances of winning the right to host the 2006 World Cup. In the event the whole episode was an unmitigated disaster – United crashed out of the tournament in the first phase, Germany were awarded the World Cup, and the FA Cup has been diminished ever since.

The blame shouldn’t be placed entirely at the feet of Manchester United, however, with the FA itself having to shoulder much of the blame for the


downfall of its major cup competition. Firstly, having found itself struggling to compete with the financial reward on offer from the Premier League, the FA leased the cup out for sponsorship for the first time in 1994,with Littlewoods taking the option. Since then, the competition has found itself passed around from AXA to E.ON to Budweiser, and now bears the official name The Emirates FA Cup. Stanley Matthews will be turning in his grave, before cutting inside at the byline. Soon enough, pressure was put on the FA to decrease the amount of matches played in the competition and, while scrapping replays for the final made a great deal of sense, getting rid of semi-final replays seemed a tad unnecessary. That decision was taken to assist English clubsides in European competition, as the Champions League became a misnomer and began to dole out qualification spots right and left. Fittingly, the last FA Cup semi-final replay to take place has gone down as one of the great matches of the 90s, thanks in part to Ryan Giggs’ chest wig. Soon enough it was decided that quarter-finals didn’t really need replays either, and with the winter break putting paid to fifth round replays, its surely only a matter of time before the whole notion of a second bite of the cherry in the cup is put to bed completely. Alongside the sponsorship rights and scrapping of replays, the FA has also courted controversy by moving the semi-finals to Wembley – a necessity due to the cost of


League clubs, particularly in these times of top six dominance, the League Cup represents the one real opportunity to win a trophy and qualify for Europe. More often than not, the ‘bigger’ sides in the Premier League treat the League Cup as an inconvenience, fielding reserves and youth players until the latter stages, but even then, one of them usually wins in. In the past ten years, the only sides to have won the League Cup and not finish in the top six are Swansea City and Birmingham City. Clearly, competing on four fronts is a strain on resources – so what about making the League Cup a competition for those sides not in Europe? Clearly this diminishes the competition, just as Manchester United’s absence from the 2000smallest league in Europe’s top five, with 18 teams playing four fewer games a season that their English, Spanish, Italian and French competitors. Perhaps truncating the league –and in this of all seasons, where so many teams are struggling towards the bottom – makes sense. The Premier League would become more competitive, and players would get an extra two weeks off. There is of course the green elephant in the room – fewer games equals less revenue, and while that might be a sacrifice the big teams are willing to make when it comes to the coffers of the lower leagues, they’re certainly not in a hurry to give up their own earnings.

Whether the introduction of a winter break can help England get over that tricky quarter-final hurdle


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices rose nearly 2 percent and hit a one-week high on Tuesday, boosted by a weaker dollar, short covering and expectations that crude inventories in the United States may decline for a third consecutive week.

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It was the fourth straight session of gains for oil, which also got some support after the chief executive of U.S. shale oil producer Pioneer Natural Resources Co PXD.N said Saudi Arabia likely will move to boost oil prices to prop up its finances. Prices pared gains after hours when an industry group's reported an unexpected rise in U.S. crude inventories.

With the end of the quarter approaching, brokers said investors were covering short positions.

Brent crude futures LCOc1, the international benchmark for oil prices, gained 82This Sunday The Independent is giving away Luis Bunuel's classic film Viridiana, winner of the prestigious Palme dOr.

Perhaps the crowning achievement of Bu?'s career, the film centres on an idealistic young nun named Viridiana (Silvia Pinal). Before she is allowed to take her final vows, the Mother Superior requests that she visit her uncle Don Jaime (Fernando Rey), who has selflessly provided for the girl over the years. Having always considered him an unspeakable beast, she is surprised when he graciously welcomes her into his home. Just as graciously, he sets about corrupting Viridiana beyond redemption - all because she resembles his wife who died on their wedding day.

This is the first film I've seen on RottenTomatoes.com to have scored 100% fresh


Las Vegas, Nevada – Tourists fled Bellagio hotel and casino after a masked gunman opened fire during an armed robbery.

According to witnesses, at least 3 people entered a high end store; one suspect was photographed holding a gun while wearing a pig mask. Photos suggest the suspects attempted to rob the Rolex store inside of the Bellagio. One suspect is in custody.

According to Daily Mail:

Guests and tourists had to flee the hotel and head out to the strip amid report of the armed robbery.

Panicked people have tweeted their shock, with one woman saying she had to hide under a table.

TRENDING: RUTH BADER GINSBURG DEAD! Supreme Court Justice Dies at Home Surrounded by Family

No one was injured, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department later confirmed. Parts of the casino propertyFlores and Anthony Schwocher, were in their squad car, which was located a few cars behind Ochana's car. The light at the intersection changed, but Ochana's car did not respond, and people started honking their horns. Someone coming from the opposite direction on Kostner told the officers that there was a car blocking traffic, and that the driver was either asleep at the wheel or passed out.

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The officers activated their emergency equipment and pulled up in their squad car next to Ochana's car. Schwocher went over to Ochana's car and observed that Ochana was asleep behind the wheel with his head down. The gear of Ochana's car was in "drive," and his foot was on the brake. Ochana's window was open, and Schwocher attempted to wake him by


calling to him, but Ochana did not respond. Schwocher reached in through the open window of Ochana's car, shifted the gear into "park," and then attempted to wake him by shaking him. Even then, Ochana did not wake up entirely; instead, he kept waking up and then nodding off to sleep again. It was not until the officers knocked on the door of his car that Ochana woke up fully, startled. Ochana thought that he had dozed off only for a few minutes. He did not recall that cars behind him were honking, that cars were passing in the opposite lane of traffic, that the officers had reached in and shifted the gear into "park," or that they had tried to wake him.

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The officers ordered Ochana to getout of his car. From that point onward, most of the facts are disputed. According to the officers, they physically had to help carry Ochana out of the car; according to Ochana, he was able to get out of the car by himself. The officers escorted Ochana to the rear of the vehicles and asked to see his driver's license. The officers testified that Ochana was still groggy and incoherent, but Ochana maintains that he was alert and awake. Ochana, however, testified that he did not remember whether he pulled out his driver's license. Schwocher testified that because Ochana was not responding to his request for the driver's license, he had to reach into Ochana's pocket and pull it out himself. The officers asked Ochana why he was


American Journal of Physiology

The American Journal of Physiology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal on physiology published by the American Physiological Society.

Vols. for 1898–1941 and 1948-56 include the Society's proceedings, including abstracts of papers presented at the 10th-53rd annual meetings, and the 1948-56 fall meetings.

Subjournals
The American Journal of Physiology has seven subjournals; according to the 2013 Journal Citation Reports their impact factors vary from 3.300 to 4.088:

 AJP - Cell Physiology
 AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism
 AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology
 AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
 AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
 AJP - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology
 AJP - Renal Physiology

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Category:Physiology journalsKiev, Ukraine (CNN) Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has told CNN that he had no knowledge about his prosecutor-general's offer to help US President Donald Trump investigate the son of former Vice President Joe Biden , a leading candidate to face him in the 2020 presidential election.

In a brief exchange in the capital Kiev on Wednesday, Poroshenko said he had no information and did not send one of his general prosecutors, Yuriy Lutsenko , to meet with Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.

Giuliani says he twice met with Lutsenko -- in New York in January 2019, then in Warsaw in February.

Giuliani previously told CNN that Lutsenko, who was prosecutor under Poroshenko and his successor Volodymyr Zelensky until August, shared information with him related to allegations that Biden thwarted an


said: "I knew nothing about it."

The former mayor of New York City has also repeatedly pushed a theory that the origins of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election can be traced back to Democrats' dealings in Ukraine. Giuliani told CNN he learned more about the Russian interference, as well as the Biden allegations, from Lutsenko.

But Lutsenko, whose hold on power was precarious following Ukraine's April presidential election, ultimately backed off some of his claims that Giuliani worked to amplify, including that his office was reopening its investigation into Burisma and Biden.

According to the whistleblower's complaint, Giuliani's interactions with Ukrainian officials prompted concern among US officials about the "circumvention of national security decision-making processes."

Giuliani told CNN he never heard about any of those concerns. "If theyINDIANAPOLIS — Back in Week 5, Indianapolis Colts head coach Frank Reich announced that seven — yes, seven — players were ruled out prior to the team's game that week against the New England Patriots; another two players were downgraded to out prior to kickoff.

Eight weeks later, that "out" list has shrunken down to just two players.

Reich announced today that tight end Mo Alie-Cox and center Ryan Kelly are the only players that will be ruled out of Sunday's Week 13 matchup against the Jacksonville Jaguars at TIAA Bank Field.

Just one other player, running back Marlon Mack, is awaiting final clearance from an independent neurologist so that he can play in Sunday's key AFC South Divisional matchup, Reich said.

» Alie-Cox suffered a calf injury in practice last Thursday


and has not been on the field since, missing last Sunday's Week 12 victory over the Miami Dolphins. The first-year tight end had really been taking off in recent weeks, catching his first two-career touchdowns Weeks 8 and 10. On the season, Alie-Cox — a college basketball player at VCU who prior to last year hadn't played organized football since his freshman year in high school — has six receptions for 112 yards and two scores.

» Kelly, meanwhile, suffered a knee injury in the fourth quarter of the Colts' Week 11 victory over the Tennessee Titans, and hasn't been able to return to the game or practice field since, also missing the Dolphins game. Reich has indicated the team is taking more of a day-to-day approach with Kelly'sSBX 28 (Sher), related to expedited siting, passed out of both houses
today and was sent to Governor Davis.  The bill was amended to remove
the unemployment provisions which the Chamber and Manufacturers objected
to.  Some of the key provisions of the bill are as follows:

Expedites various CEC procedures for siting power plants;

Limits to 45 days and 100 days, until January 1, 2004, a local
jurisdiction's time for initial review and final review, respectively,
of an application submitted to the CEC;

Requires CEC to certify repowering projects within 180 days;

Extends from August 1, 2001 to December 31, 2002, the date by which
temporary "peaker" power plants must be in
service so as to qualify for the four-month siting process.

Requires ARB to develop expedited programs for retrofitting and
identifying and banking of emission credits;

Requires air districts


and leukopenia had emerged in local hospitals in Henan Province, especially around Xinyang City. A patient's family member reported the disease to the Henan Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The center, then, conducted a special epidemiological investigation. Based on the investigation, the relatively specific disease was found to be caused by a novel bunyavirus, which was later identified as SFTSV (Xu et al. [@CR52]; Liu et al. [@CR30]). Since then, many epidemiological investigations were conducted in China resulting in obtaining various epidemiological findings. In this article, epidemiology of SFTS in China is described in detail by description to assess distributions over time, place, and person, based on these epidemiological investigations.

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In China, a national system of infectious disease surveillance has been established since 1959.Every year, Oak Bay’s Doug Funk packs his things and heads for Africa. But he doesn't go empty handed. Since 2009, he has also taken books, and not just a few – tens of thousands. And hes about to do it again. He’s in the process of filling a 12-metre container with about 60,000 titles for shipment in about eight weeks.

Funk is the executive director of the Solon Foundation, a non-sectarian charitable foundation based in Lucerne, Switzerland. For about four months of every year, Funk lives and works in village districts of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi, where he oversees a number of projects, including a literacy program that distributes books to about 139,000 children in 328 schools. Some of the books will once again be used in a


Worldwide, he said, anti-Semitism is as rife today as at any time since World War II. An Anti-Defamation League survey last year of attitudes in 102 countries found that one in four people held classic stereotypes, believing Jews control finance and media and were more loyal to Israel than to their home countries. In many Middle Eastern and North African nations, the proportion of such attitudes was over 80 percent. Half of the 53,100 adults surveyed had never heard of the Holocaust. And since 2000, he said there had been an increase in violence against Jews, noting that in recent weeks a Jewish teenager with a skullcap was beaten in France.

“I did not think in my lifetime, the Jewish communities of Europe would struggle with the question ofHorses sacrificed by fierce nomads living in Central Asia more than 2,000 years ago have provided new insights into how people tamed the wild animals and bred them to their needs.

The Scythians roamed over a vast swath of this region, from Siberia to the Black Sea, for about 800 years beginning about the ninth century B.C. They were known for their equestrian battle skills, including the ability to shoot arrows while riding, and for the brutal treatment of those they defeated. Herodotus, an ancient Greek historian, wrote that the Scythians blinded their slaves, and the warriors drank the blood of the first enemy they killed in battle.

In a study published Thursday by the journal Science, an international team of researchers deployed the latest genetic tools with 13 stallions