Comedy manga centers on 5 boys who enter all-girls high school

The wraparound jacket band on Akira Hiramoto's 14th Prison School manga volume is announcing on Wednesday that an anime adaptation has been green-lit. The announcement did not specify the type of anime.

Hiramoto launched the manga in Kodansha's Young Magazine in February 2011. The comedy manga takes place at a prestigious all-girls high school with a student body of 1,000. The school decides to allow boys to attend, and five boys enter the school dreaming of a harem life, but end up instead forced to live almost as prisoners within the school.

The manga won the Best General Manga award alongside Yūji Moritaka and Keiji Adachi's Gurazeni manga at Kodansha's 37th Annual Manga Awards in May. The same wraparound bandon the 14th volume also notes that the manga has more than 3.5 million copies in print.

Hiramoto's Ago Nashi Gen to Ore Monogatari manga received a mobile phone anime adaptation in 2010. Hiramoto's Yarisugi Companion to Atashi Monogatari manga inspired a live-action film in 2011.

Hiramoto also wrote the award-winning supernatural drama manga Me and the Devil Blues, which Del Rey published in North America.


home leg could be played, the Hungarian Revolution had collapsed back in Budapest and the Soviet Union had invaded. The players decided against going back to Hungary and arranged for the return game with Athletic to be played at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels. However, early in the game the Honvéd goalkeeper was injured and, with no substitutes permitted, Zoltán Czibor had to go into goal. Despite drawing 3–3 they went out 6–5 on aggregate.

Honvéd World Tour
Elimination from the 1956–57 European Cup left Honvéd in limbo. The players, declining to return to Hungary, summoned their families from Budapest and, despite opposition from FIFA and the then Soviet-controlled Hungarian Football Federation, Béla Guttmann organised a fundraising tour of Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Among the most notable matches were aalso been looking to broaden the electoral map. Her campaign said on Friday that she would campaign in Arizona next week."Today's release will likely improve the perception of economic conditions in the U.S. and slightly increase the odds of a Democratic president remaining in the White House," said Brian Schaitkin, senior economist at the Conference Board.

Clinton's camp said Friday's report showed "real progress" since Obama took office in 2009, when the country was struggling to emerge from economic recession."With more than 15 million jobs created since early 2010 and real median incomes growing more than 5 percent last year, it's clear we've made real progress coming back from the crisis," Clinton senior policy advisor Jacob Leibenluft said in a statement.But he added that there is still more that


can be done.Clinton was campaigning on Friday in Iowa, where polls show she and Trump running neck-and-neck, and in Michigan, a traditionally Democratic state hit hard by the movement offshore of many formerly well-paying American manufacturing jobs.Trump was holding rallies in Iowa as well as in another closely contested swing state, New Hampshire, and in Maine, where his campaign sees a chance to grab one of four electoral votes. (Additional reporting by Doina Chiacu and Patricia Zengerle in Washington; Writing by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Alistair Bell)

This story has not been edited by Firstpost staff and is generated by auto-feed.A young man decides that he wants to bring his fantasy of being dominated by two women to life and hires a couple of escorts to act it out. He gets more than he bargained for when two brash and arrogant ladies come into his home and take over. The girls strip, spank and use the man as their sex slave to bring themselves to orgasm before they finally take turns riding his cock and making him come.


beltline. I graduated from that urban High School on Peace Street and went to college out of state but ended back here for MBA school and to work. I have seen Raleigh grow for the good and the bad. I lived in 5-points for 8 years and then moved to ranch house near North Hills which is less than a mile from a Phase II TTA

I work at the largest IT company in the world in product/supplier/relationship management in RTP. I have been lucky to travel the world to some of the greatest cities through work and play (Shanghai, Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Paris, London, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Rome, Venice, Florence, Milan, Krakow, Budapest, etc.....)

Per the name, I am a subway fanatic and try to travelOur heritage and customs and the traditions expressing our Christian faith have the same Eastern Byzantine origins as do the Orthodox and hence, we express our faith in similar ways which are different from those of the Western tradition.

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference in its 2016 booklet titled “Eastern Churches in Australia” clarifies which Eastern traditions are Catholic.

“At present, there are twenty-three groups of Eastern Christians who, with the Latin Church, form the Catholic Church governed by the successor of Peter and bishops in communion with him.”

Byzantine Rite Eastern Ukrainian Catholics are one of the twenty-three.

The following is an outline of the Western (left) and Eastern (right) emphases in expressing the same Catholic Faith and has, with permission, been taken from material published by the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky


grasped, once

its common symbols are learned.

Emphasis: There are things about

God’s love which we have all experienced

and understand together.

When thinking of major Catholic doctrines

The Oneness of God, who is also three Persons. Trinity: God as three Persons, who are also One.

The Humanity of Christ invites us, but He is also Divine. Christ: The Divinity of Christ inspires us, but he is also human.

The Pope is the guarantor of unity. Dioceses are directly under his jurisdiction. Church: Bishops in synods (in communion) with the Pope guarantee the unity of the Church.

Mary as Virgin and Mother. We relate to her sharing in the earthly life of Jesus. Mary: Mary as Theotokos (God-Bearer) or Mother of God since Christ is God. She stands at the head of all of God’s creation.

Model: Lord’sSouth Sudan rebel Machar declines to renounce violence -mediator

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Exiled South Sudanese opposition figure Riek Machar declined to renounce violence or declare a unilateral ceasefire and instead demanded new peace talks outside the war-torn country, an international mediator told the United Nations on Thursday.

South Sudan descended into civil war in 2013 after President Salva Kiir fired Machar as his deputy, unleashing a conflict that has spawned armed factions often following ethnic lines.

Former Botswana President Festus Mogae told the U.N. Security Council that he visited Machar, who fled to Democratic Republic of Congo a year ago after fierce fighting in South Sudan. He is now being held in South Africa to stop him stirring up trouble, diplomatic and political sources told Reuters in December.

Mogae chairs the


blame for famine in parts of the country, yet Kiir is still boosting his forces using millions of dollars from oil sales.

In December, the Security Council failed to adopt a U.S.-drafted resolution to impose an arms embargo and further sanctions on South Sudan despite warnings by U.N. officials of a possible genocide. The 15-member council remains split on how to try to bring an end to the conflict in South Sudan.

“I appeal to (East Africa regional bloc) IGAD, the African Union, the United Nations and our international partners to adopt one voice in our engagement with the leaders of South Sudan,” Mogae said.

He added that there was a “need for the regional leaders to align their messages and actions to prevent the situation in South Sudan from furtherin common with paranoid '60s pictures like Mickey One than with the other movies on this list: The story hinges on an internal conflict within an anonymous corporation, not a broader plot against the public good. But it appeared as the Watergate scandal was cresting, and suddenly everything in the film seemed to take on a more directly political meaning.

4. Three Days of the Condor (1975)

To see how much the movie industry changed in the '70s, consider this: A decade earlier, the people behind the James Bond movies had been so wary of politics that they routinely replaced the Bond novels' Soviet villains with an apolitical terror network called SPECTRE. Now a studio considered it commercially savvy to add controversial politics to a picture: Three Days of the


release: Alarmed by early negative reviews, United Artists pulled it from theaters after less than a week. When some more positive press appeared, the studio reconsidered its plan and sent the movie over to its art-house division, which re-released it to considerable acclaim. The experience prompted an appropriately paranoid response from director Ivan Passer: "You can assassinate movies as you can assassinate people. I think UA murdered the film. Or at least they tried to murder it."

Jesse Walker is books editor of Reason and author of The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory.play and turned it into a modern movie but the dialogue was just...76.- Then she found me (US 2007) cute, very much like any other Helen Hunt movie.77.- Scent of a Woman (US 1992) Pacino was great as he was nominated to an Oscar for this role, think he won actually. But this movie was too darn long, it was like a soap opera.78.- Law Abiding Citizen (2009) SO good, not predictable at all. Jamie Fox and Gerard Butler were perfect together. 79.- The conspirator (US 2010) I wasn't familiar with the story behind it yet I liked it.80.- The life of David Gale (2003) Up until the very end of the movie I was convinced this was based on a real person . Kevin Spacey was great,


Dad|South Park humor so this movie was right up my alley.. Highly recommend
148. Magic Mike (2012) - this movie was amazing. I love, love LOVED it and not for the pervy reasons. I was kinda under the impression that it was a comedy movie but actually it was serious drama with some really cool funny characters/moments. Highly RecommendPosted via Mobile Device

1: The Help (2011)
2: Shutter Island (2010)
3: Bill Cunningham New York (2010)
4: The Artist (2011)
5: Moneyball (2011)
6: We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
7: Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011)8: The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
9: Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire (2009)
10: Super 8 (2011)
11: Midnight in Paris (2011)
12: Bad Teacher (2011)
13: Sleeping With the Enemy (1991) 14: Hud (1963)15: Lemon Tree (2008)
16: Friends With Benefits (2011)
17:50/50 (2011)
18: Step Brothers (2008)
19: Hideous Kinky (1999) 20: The Hunger Games (2012)
21: Unzipped (1995)
22: Dial M for Murder (1954)
23: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
24: The Seven Year Itch (1955) 25: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (2010)
26: Young Adult (2011)
27: Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
28: Horrible Bosses (2011)
29: True Grit (2010)
30: Malena (2000)
31: Caramel (2007)
32: Diner (1982)
33: The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
34: The Edge of Heaven (2007)
35: Irreversible (2002) 36: The Son (2002)
37: The Queen (2006)
38: Marie Antoinette (2006)
39: Wanderlust (2012)
40: Sense and Sensibility (1995)
41: Bonnie & Clyde (1967) 42: The Descendants (2011) - basically what I expected. I was really impressed with Shailene Woodley's performance. She made her character much more real and likable than she was in the book. But having listened to the book on tape I


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the assault.

Her husband, Jean-Marie, issued a statement via his office, praising his wife’s “courage and determination” in fighting off the mugger.

Investigators from the Versailles police station have taken charge of apprehending the culprits.

Jean-Marie has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2004 and he served as President of the National Front from 1972 to 2011.

He was expelled from the party in 2015 by his estranged daughter, Marine Le Pen, after making controversial remarks about the Holocaust.

Marine, who is the current President of the National Rally party, has not made any public statement regarding the mugging.

Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!In the early 2010s, Powell learned that Top Shelf would be publishing March, an autobiographical graphic novel trilogy about the life of civil rights leader and United States Congressman John Lewis, which had already been written by Lewis and his colleague, Andrew Aydin. A few weeks later, Powell was contacted by Chris Staros, who suggested he try out for the assignment. Although he already had other projects lined up, Powell sent some demo pages to Lewis and Aydin, and over the course of their subsequent correspondence, realized that Powell would be well-suited for the job. Although Powell had illustrated stories that were "true to life", such as the 2012 graphic Silence of our Friends, this would be the first time he would depict real-life historical figures, 300 of


which Powell estimates are rendered in total in the trilogy. The scene in which Lewis meets Martin Luther King, Jr. for the first time, was the first page Powell drew for March, and although he found approaching that page difficult, says it made subsequent depictions of real-life people easier. Powell's approach was to develop a visual shorthand for each real person he had to draw, in the form of a "master drawing" to act as a reference template for that person's features, one that emphasized the person's skull structure, in lieu of referring constantly to photo reference in the course of the project, so that the characters would not look "too stale or photo-derived". He employed lifestyle and illustration books from the 1950s and 1960s, as well asGoogle searches, to depict fashion and automobiles of given time periods accurately. Lewis says he found Powell's renditions of scenes from his early life "very moving".[2] Top Shelf published March Book One in November 2013.

On May 15, 2014, Powell was present at that year's commencement ceremony for his alma mater, the School of Visual Arts, when the school presented an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts to Powell's March collaborator, John Lewis. The second volume of March is scheduled for January 2015 release.[4]


By MICHAEL BALSAMO, Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For 37 years, Ronnie Fematt had been living with a burning question: Who killed his newlywed wife and their unborn child in 1980 and left her nude body on a Los Angeles County beach?

Once considered a possible suspect in the case, Fematt stood shoulder-to-shoulder Friday with Los Angeles sheriff's investigators, who announced they had finally made an arrest.

It was March of 1980 when Fematt had an argument with his newlywed wife, Teresa Broudreaux — then 20 years old and five months pregnant with their unborn child — and she left to go to her sister's house nearby, investigators said. After she left her sister's home later that evening, Broudreaux was never seen alive again.

Her nude, lifeless body was found earlyin the morning on March 4, 1980, along the shoreline of Malaga Cove Beach in Palos Verdes Estates. Broudreaux had been beaten over the head and killed.

Detectives tried to track down any leads they could. But there were no witnesses, and for years the case had gone cold — the records later filed away in the homicide bureau's library.

"Years later, a series of coincidences and new DNA technology produced an unexpected break in the case," Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell said.

The case was reviewed by a specialized squad that reviews unsolved cases and in 2013, investigators uncovered DNA from evidence that had been collected at the crime scene, but they wouldn't provide many details. They ran the DNA sample through a database and got "quite the hit,"


sheriff's Det. Ralph Hernandez said.

The DNA alone, though, wasn't enough for detectives to prove their case.

After years of additional interviews and a review of a possible suspect's criminal record, detectives believed they could finally make a case that could stick.

Robert Yniguez, 65, was arrested on suspicion of murder outside of his home in San Pedro on Thursday.

Yniguez's DNA had been on file for a prior sex offense, Hernandez said. He had been arrested in 1981 and suspected of sexually assaulting a young woman, the detective said at a news conference Friday. But the charges were dropped when the woman stopped cooperating.

Yniguez was arrested again the next year and served eight years in prison after being convicted of rape, Hernandez said. Since his release, Yniguez has gotten married andhas been employed as a construction worker, detectives said.

Yniguez had been questioned about Broudreaux's killing several times since his 2013, but when detectives came knocking on his door Thursday night, he was still surprised, Hernandez said. It wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney who could comment on the allegations.

The arrest was welcome news for Fematt, who said he's never given up hope that one day detectives would find his wife's killer. The two had met while she was working at a fast-food restaurant and were dating for a few years before they were expecting a little girl and were married. Five months later, his wife was killed.

"There was nobody to hear her cry, nobody to hear her screams, nobody to help her," Fematt said, his voice


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The goal of burn surgical therapy is to minimize mortality and to return survivors to their preinjury state. Prompt removal of the burn eschar, early durable coverage, and late corrections of functional deformities are the basic surgical principles. The operative burden, while presumed to be substantial and significant, is neither well described nor quantified. The burn registry at the U.S. Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center was queried from March 2003 to August 2011 for all active duty burn admissions; active duty subjects were chosen to eliminate subject follow-up as a significant variable. Subject demographics including age, sex, branch of service, injury type, injury severity score, transfusion, allograft use, length of stay, mechanism of injury, and survival were tabulated as were their percentage15 employees currently make up the entirety of Atari's workforce; most of the group works in the company's New York headquarters, and there's a small administrative team in Paris. It's a lean team that's appropriate to the scale of Atari's new business strategy. In a phone interview with Polygon, Shallbetter explained the reasons behind the shift.

"This is an ever-changing marketplace in the video game business," he said. "I think that the traditional publishing model is very, very difficult to succeed in, as we've seen many of our peers like THQ and others just ... It's a fight that just is very difficult to win right now." In particular, Shallbetter cited the challenges of the retail environment, including the costs associated with producing and distributing physical goods, as well


for PC such as Minimum, which Atari acquired in TimeGate Studios' bankruptcy and gave to Human Head Studios to develop as a MOBA; it was released on Steam Early Access last month. For its mobile slate, Atari has been reaching back into its history for RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile and a reimagined Haunted House on iOS. The publisher is also resurrecting legacy brands for single-player PC games: RollerCoaster Tycoon is coming back to the platform this holiday season in a new full game.

All this is possible because Atari was able to survive bankruptcy with its back catalog relatively intact. The company did lose a few titles, such as Total Annihilation and Master of Orion to Wargaming. But according to Shallbetter, Atari retained a library of more than 220properties running the gamut from arcade classics (Asteroids, Centipede, Combat, Pong) to more modern fare (Alone in the Dark, RollerCoaster Tycoon). Atari hopes to wring new life out of those franchises in licensing, the second arm of its new plan.

"The fun part is, being Atari and who we are, with this great catalog, we're very frequently approached by our friends in the space — be it studios or other publishers — who are very interested in working with us or for us in bringing some of these old reimagined titles to market," said Shallbetter.

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Part of Atari's licensing strategy comes in new markets that the company moved into earlier this year: real-money gambling with Pariplay


they can play; where they can connect with friends and enjoy themselves; and enjoy these old, traditional, beloved brands in a new format."

Atari is looking to still other markets, seeking potentially untapped audiences. The company is exploring a presence in the online video space, with potential plans for ventures that may take the names "Atari TV" or "Atari Channel." Asked for details, Shallbetter said the ideas are "in the nascent stages," although the company is already involved in The Real Pelé, a video series following the soccer legend's World Cup experience.

Other licensing ideas include wearable devices along the lines of Fitbit. Shallbetter said that Atari has been approached by certain hardware manufacturers with licensing requests, and the company is figuring out how it wants to go about enteringFour immigrants who allegedly stormed a ship and smeared faeces on its windows as they attempted to enter Britain faced court today.

The men tried to take control of the 77-ft Grande Tema cargo vessel, which was coming to the UK from Nigeria, magistrates heard.

Crew members had fed and clothed the stowaways after discovering the men aboard.

But the men are said to have demanded that the ship be moved closer to shore so they could swim to England.

SBS agents seized the ship (pictured) after it was allegedly stormed by four men who reportedly wanted to be brought closer to the UK shore

Four men appeared in court this morning after being accused of affray after the ship was seized and docked in Tilbury (pictured, officers at the scene) following the


the bar fitted across the window was bent down allowing one of them to escape through the window and remove the bars across the door.'

The crew managed to maintain control of the ship and called police who contacted the SBS who quickly detained the men.

Defence Mitchell Cohen argued the case should not be delayed as the men were being held without further charge it was 'anathema to English justice' to slow proceedings.

Chair of the bench Dr James Bettley disagreed and the four men will appear at Southend Magistrates Court on January 18th.into two groups. Half of the patients were asked to take all their medication at bedtime while the other half were asked to take it upon waking.

Crucially, said Hermida, fixed times were not given so that participants took their medication at the same point in the daily routine.

The patients were then followed for between four and eight years, with blood pressure measured over a 48-hour period at the outset and at least once a year during the study. In total 1,752 cardiovascular events such as heart attack, stroke, death from cardiovascular disease and heart failure were recorded during the study.

While the impact on daytime blood pressure was similar, those taking their medication at bedtime had a small but significantly greater reduction in blood pressure during sleep compared with


of growth, not the slender foot-long scape of orange-red flowers. Though long
considered members of the lily family, modern taxonomic treatment has assigned the
300 species of aloe, all of which are native to Africa, to the asphodel family.

Pepe Aloe was developed by John Bleck, then working as the plant science greenhouse
manager for the University of California at Santa Barbara. Bleck received a small
grant from a University endowment fund to cross various species of Aloes with the
aim of producing small, compact windowsill or tabletop specimens for the horticultural
trade. His hybridization work was mostly conducted between 1979 and 1982, and for
Pepe involved crossing two species native to Madagascar, A.descoingsii x A. haworthioides. 'Magoo', 'Cha Cha', 'Firefly', 'Lizard Lips' and 'Blimey Limey' are some of the
other dozen or so dwarf hybrids heHenry M. Paulson Jr., treasury secretary from 2006 to 2009, is chairman of the Paulson Institute and author of "Dealing With China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower."

Many have crowned Chinese President Xi Jinping the most powerful man in the world following the 19th Chinese National Congress of the Communist Party. And, indeed, Xi is a dynamic leader who is transforming China. He has swiftly consolidated his authority to drive an ambitious domestic and international effort to establish China as a modern superpower.

Our preoccupation with Xi's grand ambitions, however, has led us to neglect the scope of the challenges he and his country face. Simply put, ambition and power are not a substitute for deep and enduring reform, and a leader is only as powerful as the


country he leads. As Xi knows all too well, China has serious and growing vulnerabilities. When President Trump visits China next this week, he may well find he can leverage these emerging dynamics to advance U.S. interests.

In recent years, Xi has moved to address these challenges with a bold strategy aimed at consolidating the tools he needs to govern. Although he has crafted ambitious economic reform policies, he could not assure that they were implemented on a consistent basis in the provinces. And some of his most important and difficult goals have not been attempted.

During his first term, Xi tightened and made sweeping reforms to the Chinese legal system; took control of, cleaned out and started professionalizing the military; and restructured, centralized and, through an anti-corruption campaign, movedto uphold its pledge to lift restrictions blocking foreign competition. And he drags his feet at his own peril because the United States and others are reexamining their open-door policies and demanding greater reciprocity in China. This new attitude will put pressure on China just as Xi most needs the world's export and investment markets. But competition from the private sector is ultimately the best way for him to address the inefficiencies with China's state-owned enterprises and its massive overcapacity in steel, which, when exported, will increasingly lead to trade disputes.

Xi, however, seems undaunted and remains confident he can manage all the challenges in front of him. Trump and Xi have developed a good personal relationship. Xi's new consolidation of power — and ability to use it now


movies. This has the potential to benefit both countries, particularly in the financial services, where China's underdeveloped financial markets would clearly benefit from some world-class participants.

The United States should also focus on expanding our economic relationship with China to include direct investment, which creates U.S. jobs and ties our economies together in enduring and positive ways. Without increased market access, the path we are on could lead to important parts of the global economy being walled off from competition and trade. This risks hurting both the United States and China, which are the biggest beneficiaries of a rules-based economic order.

Xi's new platform presents risks for the United States in an era in which there will be increasing security and economic competition. But it also has the potential forMilo was born November 19, 1937, in Breckenridge, TX. He grew up on his family’s ranch outside of Clarendon, Hedley, then Wichita Falls. He received his pastoral license from the United Methodist Church at the age of 17. Milo received his B.A. in Religion from Texas Wesleyan University in 1959, his Master’s of Sacred Theology from Perkins School of Theology at SMU in 1962, and his Doctorate of Sacred Theology from Boston University School of Theology in 1974.

Milo served as a United Methodist Missionary to Taiwan from 1965-1971. He was assigned to teach Church history at Taiwan Theological College and Seminary. He became involved in human rights efforts during the era of Chiang Kai Sheik’s White Terror (1949-1987). Milo worked with political dissidents, including work with Amnesty International,


the American Friends Service Committee, and most notably, included the planning and execution of the successful escape of former political prisoner and democracy activist, Dr. Peng Ming-Min. Milo and his family were deported back to the U.S. in 1971.Fireproof Moth: A Missionary in Taiwan’s White Terrorwas published by Sunbury Press in 2010. In 2016, he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from the Taiwan Theological College and Seminary.

From 1977-1992, Milo resided in Atlanta, GA, where he served as the Director of Alternatives, a non-profit organization that promoted simple living, and later taught at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.

In 1992, Milo was appointed to Juneau, AK, as pastor to Aldersgate United Methodist Church; in 1996, First United Methodist Church, Fairbanks, AK. He was appointed to FirstUnited Methodist Church in Bend, from 2001 until 2005, when he retired.

In retirement, he helped found High Desert Village in 2009. He wrote and blogged about current political and theological matters, began an unpublished novel, – Not Yet What We Shall Be in 2005. He also came out of retirement in 2007, for a temporary appointment to Chugiak United Methodist Church in Alaska.

Fishing was his favorite pastime. Travel, writing, wood working, photography were his hobbies, and the kinds of music that were his favorite were hymns, country, and opera. Never being one to take himself too seriously, he was quick with a joke, but he would start laughing toward the end of telling, everyone else as well, then the punchline. Milo was a kind and loving man for


be purchased from the author, online through Sunbury Press or through major online/ traditional bookstores.

(from The Public Opinion July 21, 2016: http://www.publicopiniononline.com/story/life/2016/07/21/former-english-teacher-librarian-releases-second-book-kids/87420566/)

Gratz, PA (July 7, 2016) — Former major league baseball player Carl Scheib, the subject of the recent biography Wonder Boy: The Story of Carl Scheib — The Youngest Player in American League History, traveled to his hometown of Gratz, Pennsylvania from his residence in San Antonio, Texas for a presentation and book signing on Thursday July 7th, 2016, held at the Gratz Community Center. The event was organized by the Gratz Historical Society. ABC27 from Harrisburg and The Citizen Standard covered the event, which was well-attended–over 120 people were present.

Following is a transcript of the remarks made by Lawrence Knorr, the author or Wonder Boy:

Welcome everyone!What a turnout! Thank you so much for coming out this evening to support Carl Scheib. Carl, Sunbury Press, and the Gratz Historical Society all thank you for doing so.

My name is Lawrence Knorr. I am the author of Wonder Boy: The Story of Carl Scheib — The Youngest Player in American League History. My ancestors are from the nearby Mahantongo Valley, near the village of Rough and Ready and Salem Church, just a few miles from here. I’ll never forget the first time I saw the valley, crossing over Mahantongo Moutain. At the peak, I looked out and saw the beautiful Mahantongo Valley before me with the Salem Church nestled below. It was a sight to see. I have collaborated in several books about the area, and


memorabilia and photographs and interviewing him about his life and his days in baseball. We also attended a couple Texas League games at the Missions ballpark. It was a lot of fun to watch a few games with Carl and talk about baseball.

The book took two years to write — part time — and was released by Sunbury Press last month. It relates the interesting story of Carl’s rise from high school ball to the major leagues at the age of 16, and recounts every major league appearance he made.

The story of Carl’s discovery, due to the actions of a local grocery clerk, Hannah Clark, and a traveling salesman, Al Grossman is somewhat apocryphal. The story was repeated again in a recent news article in the Harrisburg paper.a major league team? I can only imagine the conversation they had. I am sure Gummy hoped he’d get a tryout too, but that didn’t happen.

Carl had been a high school star in 9th, 10th, and 11th grades. Gratz won the baseball championship in 1941, and in 1942 with Carl as their ace pitcher. Carl was also invited to pitch for Dalmatia in the West Branch League … a town league of adult men who admitted teenage players during the war years.

Carl went to his tryout at Shibe Park in Philadelphia. It was raining that morning, and the game had been canceled. At first Carl thought the tryout was canceled too! But, after he found his way into the Athletics’ ballpark, he received his tryout in front of


Connie Mack and others in the A’s brass. Connie told him to hurry back next year, after school was out.

Author Lawrence Knorr

Carl went home and did just that. The following spring, in 1943, after school was out, he quit high school and headed to Philadelphia. He initially was a batting practice pitcher, and then began taking trips on the train with the team. By September, he was ready to go, and signed a contract. At this point, his father came from Gratz to co-sign, since he was underage. Carl then entered his first game that day — against the New York Yankees!

When he walked onto the field, Carl was the youngest player in modern major league history. There had been some younger players back in the 1800s, butno one as young as Carl, at 16 years, had played major league baseball since. He was used sparingly in relief the rest of the way and had respectable numbers. The next year, a 15 year old named Joe Nuxhall threw less than an inning of crappy ball giving up five runs on five walks and two hits. Nuxhall then went to the minors and did not return for seven years! Carl stuck in the big leagues and got better and better. Personally, I think there should be an asterisk next to Nuxhall’s appearance, but it is, what it is. Carl is still the youngest player to have ever appeared in the American League.

Carl was with the A’s the whole season in 1944, and then when he turned


18, in 1945, he was drafted into the Army early that season. Fortunately, the war was ending when Carl went off to Germany as one of the occupation troops. He was stationed at Nuremburg during the trials. He participated on two different teams in the Army, and won nearly all of his games, including the GI championship in Germany.

Upon his return in 1947, Carl was back with the A’s and continued what many would say was just an “average” major league career. But I disagree. Carl played 11 seasons at the highest level of his sport. Not many players do that. He had not played in the minor leagues before coming to the majors, and had performed very well at a very young age. Anyone who makes amajor league is one of the top players in the sport, and Carl played at that level for over a decade. So no, Carl was not a hall-of-famer, or a World Series winner, or an All-Star, but he was a solid performer for many years, who did some remarkable things, some of which I will talk about in a few minutes.

Connie Mack — Connie Mack was involved with the Philadelphia A’s from their beginning, and spent over 50 years in baseball from the late 1800s into the 1950s. His teams in the early 20th century were the “Yankees” before the Yankees became good. Carl was signed and managed by Connie Mack, one of the all-time greats. So, Carl’s career, thanks to Mack, bridges all the way back to


the early days of major league baseball, and carries into the golden era.

World War II — Many players got their opportunities to play thanks to a lot of the players entering the service. Carl was someone who benefited from this situation. This is an interesting era in baseball history, which has been studied quite a bit. Quite a few of these players were older and were called up from the minors to play. Many of their careers ended when the boys came home. Carl was not one of them. He stuck — and got better when the best players were back.

A’s last pennant race — The A’s were in Philadelphia until the late 1950s, when they moved to Kansas City and then onto Oakland. We now know themas the Oakland A’s and many can remember the great teams of the 1970s. But the Kansas City A’s never were in the pennant race, so it was the 1948 A’s of Philadelphia, who last challenged for the lead. This team was in first place as late as August, with Carl as one of their star pitchers having his best season. Even after the A’s faded, Carl continued to pitch well as the Indians, Red Sox, and Yankees battled for the championship. The last week of the season, Carl beat the Yankees, denying them the pennant, allowing the Indians to win. Under pressure, Carl was brilliant, and was somewhat of a Yankee-killer at that time.

Integration — Carl played through the era when baseball became integrated — when Jackie


Robinson entered the National League, and Larry Doby entered the American League. Carl faced Doby on a number of occasions, and usually didn’t do too well against him. The A’s hired a heckler to harass Doby when he was in Philadelphia. Some of it was good-natured, but a lot of it was shameful and mean. In fact, Carl related in the book that the other players were hard on the African-American players, treating them very badly. Carl felt sorry for them.

All-Time Greats — Carl got to meet some of the all-time great ballplayers. He was coached by Chief Bender, and Al Simmons. He also met Babe Ruth during Connie Mack’s celebration of 50 years in baseball. So, Carl interacted with some of the greatest old-time ballplayers.

Opponents — Carlplayed against some of the greatest players of all time during baseball’s golden era, and often got the better of them. He faced Ted Williams, Joe Dimaggio, Yogi Berra, Larry Doby, Mickey Mantle, and many more. On the mound, his opponents were Satchel Paige, Bob Feller, Bob Lemon, Hal Newhouser, and others.

Did Great Things — Carl threw complete game shutouts, hit a grand slam against the White Sox, hit four other major league homeruns, had many clutch wins and saves, and even clutch hits as a batter.

Good hitter — Carl was a good-hitting pitcher. He could have been an outfielder, and played in the outfield in a couple games. He was also a key pinch hitter. One year he hit .396 — in over 50 at bats —


has the walk-off hit to end the game. It certainly hasn’t happened in quite awhile, if at all. Admittedly, I didn’t look too hard, but it is remarkable nonetheless. In another game, in the minor leagues, near the end of his career, the manager was thrown out of the game for some reason, and Carl being one of the older players on the team, was asked to manage the rest of the way. Along comes the bottom of the 9th, and the game is tied. There are a couple of men on. Guess who Carl, the manager, inserts as a pinch-hitter? Himself! And, guess what he did? He got a hit – a walk-off hit to win the game.

So, in summary, Carl was simply a great country ballplayer.On better teams, or with better management, or modern technology, I am sure he would have had an even better, and perhaps longer career. Carl truly was and is the “Wonder Boy” from Gratz!

Thank you ….

“Hass” Hassenger then spoke for a few minutes. He is the only other surviving member from the Gratz HS championship teams. He reminisced about the old days when they were boys playing ball in the valley.

Carl Scheib then answered questions and told jokes and stories for about 45 minutes.

(The entire program was recorded on video by The Gratz Historical Society and is available on DVD from them.)

Copies of the book Wonder Boy, and all other Sunbury Press books can be purchased wherever books are sold. A few signed copies will be offered by


The Gratz Historical Society while supplies last. The book can also be purchased directly from Sunbury Press at:

Sunbury Press: In September 2014, you came to Sunbury Press bookstore to celebrate the completion of the filming of The Cursed Man and Sunbury Press’ 10th anniversary. Can you tell us what that day was like?

Brahm Gallagher: It was an absolute honor to be a part of the 10th Anniversary as well as be able to support Keith at the book signing. Plus the chance to meet the man who wrote The Cursed Man was not an opportunity to be missed! I’m very thankful to Keith for writing a character that spoke to me and who, although was very troubled on the page, is at his heart someone who is tryingto do good in the only way that he sees how at this point. It was also amazing to meet the fans who were fans already and hopefully some more that very soon will be.

SP: Alister, the lead character in The Cursed Man is a complex character. Can you tell readers how you prepared for such a complex role and managed to capture the essence of the character?

BG: I relied heavily on the book and in turn the script which was basically at its core a transcription of the written novel. I referred to the script countless times, over and over, and looked at hours of footage and interviews with incarcerated killers, both at the time of their arrests and subsequent interviews years later after spending time incarcerated;


– Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA. Halloween Night October 31, 2016 – 7pm to 11pm – Party before and after. This may be the greatest movie premiere on Halloween Night in the History of the Alex Theatre. For more information about the venue, please see: http://www.alextheatre.org/

About the Book:
Alister Kunkle believes death is in love with him. A simple smile from friend or stranger is all it takes to encourage death to kill.

With his family deceased and a path of destruction behind him, Alister sits inside a mental institution, sworn to silence and separated from the rest of the world, haunted by his inability to escape death’s preferential treatment.

But when a beautiful psychologist arrives at the institution and starts offering him care, Alister braces himself for more killings. Whennone follow, he tries to figure out whether he truly is insane or if death has finally come to him in the form of a woman.

About the Author:
Keith Rommel is an award-winning author of ten novels and is an award-winning screenwriter. His writing has been called, “Horror for the curious mind.” His first two novels, The Cursed Man and The Lurking Man are at various stages of production to become motion pictures. 2016.

Gratz, PA — Former major league pitcher Carl Scheib, who is the youngest player in American League history, having taken the mound for Connie Mack’s Philadelphia A’s in 1943 at the age of 16, will be at the Gratz Community Center July 7th, 2016 at 7 PM. Carl’s biographer, Lawrence Knorr, will present his latest book


Wonder Boy – The Story of Carl Scheib: The Youngest Player in American League History. Lawrence and Carl will then answer questions and sign copies of the book which will be for sale through the Gratz Historical Society. Carl will then donate some of his memorabilia to the Gratz Historical Society Museum.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Carl Scheib, from Gratz, PA, was a young farm boy of 16 who was signed to a major league contract by Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics. Carl enjoyed 11 years in the major leagues, interrupted by his service in World War II. When he made his first appearance in 1943, he was the youngest player in modern major league history. The following season, Joe Nuxhall of the National League’s Cincinnati Reds, pitched 2/3 ofan inning at age 15, breaking Carl’s major league record, but Carl retained his American League record.

Known as a good-hitting pitcher, Carl hit .396 in 1951 and .298 in 1948. He hit five home runs in his career, including a grand slam.

As a pitcher, Carl was a key hurler on the 1948 Philadelphia Athletics, going 14-8 during a tight pennant race. He also went 11-7 in 1952, and saved 11 games in 1951. Behind his “pitch- to-contact” approach, the A’s set the all-time record for double plays in a season with 217 in 1949, a record that still stands.

Wonder Boy chronicles the rapid rise of Carl Scheib from his high school days at Gratz and his contributions to Dalmatia in the West Branch League, to his subsequent major


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About the Premiere:
World Premiere of THE CURSED MAN movie – Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA. Halloween Night October 31, 2016 – 7pm to 11pm – Party before and after. This may be the greatest movie premiere on Halloween Night in the History of the Alex Theatre. For more information about the venue, please see: http://www.alextheatre.org/

About the Book:
Alister Kunkle believes death is in love with him. A simple smile from friend or stranger is all it takes to encourage death to kill.

With his family deceased and a path of destruction behind him, Alister sits inside a mental institution, sworn to silence and separated from the rest of the world, haunted by his inability to escape death’s preferential treatment.

But whena beautiful psychologist arrives at the institution and starts offering him care, Alister braces himself for more killings. When none follow, he tries to figure out whether he truly is insane or if death has finally come to him in the form of a woman.

About the Author:
Keith Rommel is an award-winning author of ten novels and is an award-winning screenwriter. His writing has been called, “Horror for the curious mind.” His first two novels, The Cursed Man and The Lurking Man are at various stages of production to become motion pictures. 2016.

Sunbury Press and M. A. Richards, author of the Nathan Monsarrat series of espionage thrillers, are pleased to announces the summer tour for CHOICE OF ENEMIES (January 2016, Sunbury Press).

Mr. Richards will host author events in Florida,


Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York. He will discuss both CHOICE OF ENEMIES and A THOUSAND ENEMIES, the second Nathan Monsarrat espionage thriller, to be published by Sunbury Press in October 2016. A full schedule follows.

Mr. Richards will also serve as a panelist at Killer Nashville from August 18-21, 2016 and as a presenter at the annual Florida Writers Association Conference from October 20-23, 2016.

CHOICE OF ENEMIES: A NATHAN MONSARRAT THRILLER

Light sweet crude is the mother’s milk of the Niger Delta.

As the price for each barrel of oil rises on the international markets and the stakes for securing the black gold increase, a consortium of American oil companies and the Central Intelligence Agency plot to secure the flow of the crude.

In Africa, though, plans unravel as quicklyas cheap socks, and promises between partners have the lifespan of a mayfly.

Nathan, a retired Central Intelligence Agency deep cover operative, now a Dean at a small college in Massachusetts, is visited by his former mentor at the Agency, who offers him a blunt choice: either travel to the Dark Continent to lay the groundwork for the coup d’état, or condemn the woman who saved his life to a brutal execution.

Out of options, he returns to Africa, where he discovers that the Agency plans to reward his services with an oil soaked grave.

Assisted by a coterie of new and old allies, including a beautiful vor with a thirst for power and a yeshiva bocher with a fondness for Armani suits, as well as his own sharp intelligence, considerable


wit, and substantial charm, Nathan parries the Agency, circumvents the consortium, and exacts his own vengeance.

In doing so, he learns that his choice of friends is as important as his choice of enemies.

M. A. RICHARDS

Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, M. A. Richards received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater Studies from Connecticut College and his Master of Arts degree in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. During a career as a Cultural Attaché in the Department of State that spanned more than two decades, he served in Baghdad, Jerusalem, Lagos, Moscow, Seoul, Tel Aviv, and Washington, D.C. He also served at U.S. Pacific Command in Honolulu as the Special Advisor to the Commander. He speaks Arabic, Hebrew, Korean, and Russian. M. A. divides his time betweenDave Johnson

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Renew California.

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storm inspired
the song, "Stars Fell on Alabama." Storms skipped 1899
and 1932, then roared back in 1966 with an incredible storm that
peaked at 150,000 meteors an hour.

"These things can surprise you," Cooke said.

Partly because of the 1966 showing, a few experts in 1998
issued dire warnings that satellites would be sandblasted.

Nothing happened.

"This year there is concern but
much less panic," Cooke said. "There is a degree of
concern because this is the first meteor storm of the modern
space age." Only a few dozen satellites were operating in
1966. Today, several hundred are in orbit, and much of Earth's
communications network is tied through them.

Left: Target, Earth. Well, not quite. The Leonids are
more like a spiral of material left behind by comet Tempel-Tuttle,
and Earth just sails through part of the stream once a year.
For 1999,this would be the view for particles unfortunate enough
to have our planet in their way. It also shows why the Middle
East and Eastern Europe would be the best place to observe. Links
to 704x704-pixel, 106KB
JPG. Credit: NASA/Marshall.

Yet Cooke has reason to be calm about the potential for harm.
He went back to the historical record. During the Apollo lunar
landing program, NASA wanted to know the meteor hazard to the
Apollo manned spacecraft.

NASA/Marshall outfitted the upper stages of three Saturn I
rockets (the two-stage predecessors of the massive Saturn V)
as Pegasus satellites with immense wings that spread in orbit.
The wings were equipped with thin metal plates to act as discharging
capacitors when struck by a meteoroid to record impacts. Both
Pegasus 2 and 3 were still operating during the 1965 and 1966
Leonids.

In 1965, they recorded


two impacts, and in 1966, one impact.

"But not a single impact occurred when the satellites
were exposed to the radiant," the direction of the Leonids,
Cooke said. They all happened when the spacecraft were on the
other side of the world and thus shielded by the Earth.

Right: An artist's concept of a Pegasus satellite
in orbit in the 1960s. Links to 640x480-pixel,
398KB JPG. Credit: NASA/Marshall.

"One impact when you're seeing 150,000 an hour gives
you an idea of the relative threat," Cooke said. "That
is, there's not much of a threat at all." Cooke estimates
that the chances of any one satellite getting hit range from
1 in 1 million to 1 in 10,000.

Still, as any statistician or
gambler will tell you, long odds don't translate into an absolute
zero chance. In August 1993, during the Perseids, an Olympus
communicationsNew York (CNN Business) The internet would be a very different place if Mark Zuckerberg had taken his father's offer to forgo college.

Before Zuckerberg started at Harvard University, where he famously launchedin his dorm room 15 years ago, his father gave him and his three sisters an alternative to school: open up a McDonald's franchise.

"My dad, funny enough, right before each of us went to college offered us the options of going to college or like investing in a franchise and running it," his sister Randi Zuckerberg said in a recent interview with CNN Business' Laurie Segall.

Featured in CNN's forthcoming documentary "Facebook at 15: It's Complicated" airing February 10, Randi Zuckerberg discussed what it was like for the siblings growing up in Dobbs Ferry, New York, about 22


platform, is now the CEO of Zuckerberg Media, her own production company. Its portfolio includes a TV show for children about a tech-savvy girl named Dot, a pop-up experience for kids called Sue's Tech Kitchen and a Sirius XM Business Radio show about the latest technology trends.

But before starting her own company, she left a job at a major advertising agency to join Facebook. She recalled flying to California for the first time ever to meet with the small Facebook team working out of a house in the suburbs and advising them on a new logo.

Facebook Live, a feature that launched worldwide in 2016 and allows anyone to post a live video from their phone, has had its share of unexpected issues, too. In addition to livestreaming concertshave chosen his words differently," but she applauded him for "navigating this incredibly difficult new world where the notion of free speech is constantly changing."

The two siblings support each other in other ways, too. Mark Zuckerberg once cut out of a meeting with President Obama early to see his sister's debut on Broadway.

But it's been years since the two snuck into each other's rooms at night to play Mario Kart on Super Nintendo and schemed up family pranks. Randi Zuckerberg's favorite: cutting the circuit breaker at midnight on New Year's Eve in 1999. Their mother, who was nervous about Y2K -- a bug that threatened to shut down computers worldwide once it became the year 2000 -- began screaming, "Y2K is happening!"

"[It was] so mean, but so awesome,"


a call-center. We were running into financial trouble every day and I was hardly able to manage because she had very high expenses. In the meantime, she had found two boys who became our friends and promised to help us financially telling that they were rich.

They took us to Allahabad and made me work in an electrical shop as a servant. I worked in the shop for three days and earned Rs. 170 a day. Out of that money, I had to buy food for four of us from a nearby hotel. It was not easy you know. Those guys didn’t leave and hence all of us lived in a rented room. On the fourth day, all three of them woke up early in the morning and leftDallas Cowboys Welcome the Red Hot Green Bay Packers

PHILADELPHIA, PA - JANUARY 01: Dak Prescott #4 of the Dallas Cowboys calls a play against the Philadelphia Eagles during the first quarter at Lincoln Financial Field on January 1, 2017 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Eagles won 27-13. (Photo by Corey Perrine/Getty Images)

The Green Bay Packers are on fire and have rolled through their opponents with no hesitation lately. Aaron Rodgers has returned to his MVP form and is leading this team through the playoffs. The Packers have lost Jordy Nelson due to fractured ribs, but Rodgers has an arsenal of receivers to throw to. The Dallas Cowboys are set to face one of their strongest opponents yet.

Dallas Cowboys Welcome the Red Hot Green Bay Packers

The Packers started off the


season very poorly, even leading to questions about Mike McCarthy’s job security. McCarthy never lost faith, however, and now his team is in the playoffs heading to Dallas. After blowing away the New York Giants by a score of 38-13, it is very clear that this Packers team is not the same that it was in the first weeks of the season. Seeing Rodgers return to his old ways and the young receiving corps shine cannot be good news for the Dallas defense. The game will definitely be a shootout.

Are the Cowboys Ready for Green Bay?

The Dallas Cowboys head into the Divisional Round not having played a game since January 1st. The big three of Dak Prescott, Ezekiel Elliott, and Dez Bryant have not played together since DecemberMissionaries

Elder Joey Bernard has been called to serve in the Ohio Cincinnati Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He will speak in the Huntington Fifth Ward, 115 South 400 East, on Aug. 21 at 11 a.m....


Ling, Lee pardoned in North Korea, reports say

New York, August 4, 2009--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes media reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has pardoned and ordered the release of imprisoned journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee after former U.S. President Bill Clinton arrived in Pyongyang today.

"Kim Jong-il issued an order ... granting a special pardon
to the two American journalists who had been sentenced to hard labor," the BBC and other
news outlets quoted the official Korean Central News Agency as saying. On June
8, a court sentenced the Current TV journalists to 12 years' labor for
illegally entering North Korea
and committing unspecified "hostile acts" while reporting near the border with China.

"We
welcome the news that Euna Lee and Laura Ling will be pardoned and released
after more than four monthsin detention," said CPJ Deputy Director Robert
Mahoney. "This has been a long and complex process given the situation on the
Korean peninsula. We thank former President Clinton for his intervention and we
are grateful that the North Korean authorities have responded to appeals for
clemency. We know that the families of these two reporters will be relieved to
have their loved ones back home."

North Korean media announced Clinton's surprise arrival in the capital early
this morning, according to international news reports. He met with North Korean
leader Kim Jong-il for dinner, the reports said. White House spokesman Robert
Gibbs characterized the trip as a private effort on behalf of Ling and Lee, and
not an official diplomatic mission, according to the reports.

North Korean border guards arrested Ling and Lee more
than four months ago while they were


stylings and psychedelic explorations. Juxtapositions of darkness and light, those staple texture-makers, are incorporated holistically into the album.

Although the band know how to hone their aggression to deal some grievous wounds, the music is altogether more complicated and rich than a simple blastfest. The songs have a lot of nuance and intricacies. This is a widely shaded and refined work, featuring subtle musical enhancements that accentuate and underscore the complexities of the rest of the music. I initially thought this was the work of keyboards, but apparently they’re all created by guitar.

The album comes replete with darkened auras, occult moods and haunting melodies that manage to be both effective and esoteric in delivery. The atmospheres contained here reveal a band that are not content to produce mediocre music,self-indulgent or immoral.

# **decant**

_(dih-KANT)_

VERB: To pour wine or another liquid from one container to another in order to avoid disturbing sediment.

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

—ANTON CHEKHOV

# **delectable**

_(de-LEK-tuh-bull)_

ADJECTIVE: Extremely enjoyable or delightful, the word is often used in reference to food.

_After the DELECTABLE meal Roger feasted on, he could not resist disregarding proper table manners and licking each of his fat fingers._

# **deluge**

_(DELL-yoodje)_

NOUN: Often used in reference to a flood, _deluge_ can be used in reference to anything of which there is an overwhelming amount.

# **deluxe**

_(duh-LUX)_

ADJECTIVE: Luxurious or sumptuous.

# **demand**

_(duh-MAND)_

VERB: To request something in a firm or urgent manner.

# **desirous**

_(dih-ZAHYR-uhs)_

ADJECTIVE: To desire or wish for something.

# **dessert**

_(dez-ERT)_

NOUN: A sweet course eaten at the end of


up with a plan to persuade Chelsea Pitch Owners to sell them the freehold after the supporter-led company rejected last month's offer.

Commenting on the latest development, the group said: "Given that Battersea Power Station falls within the three mile radius as originally set out in the recent proposal put by Chelsea FC to Chelsea Pitch Owners, Say No CPO welcome the club's potential interest in purchasing the site, as well as their continued efforts to explore options regarding expansion of Stamford Bridge.

"We are, however, disappointed that the club did not take the opportunity of the EGM on October 27 to make their intentions clearer with regard to any potential relocation sites."

The club is still hoping to persuade the owners of Earls Court to give them permission to buildthere but the prospects look slim.

There could also be complications with the Battersea Power Station site whose owners have been trying for a year to find an equity investor to fund a proposed £5.5bn redevelopment.

Energy stopped being generated at the station in 1983, but the site is still used for hosting events - one of the latest being the ATP World Tour Finals Gala.

Because it is a Grade II listed building it would have to be preserved within any development.


SYDNEY — Australia's decision to re-establish diplomatic ties with Fiji's military government has been criticized by human rights campaigners. They argue Australia and New Zealand are acting prematurely to restore links to Fiji's army rulers, who seized power in a bloodless coup in the South Pacific island nation in 2006.

Fiji has had a fractious relationship with its South Pacific neighbors since the military overthrew an elected government almost six years ago.

The army-led government expelled Australia's high commissioner - its most senior diplomat - in 2009, a move reciprocated by Canberra and Wellington.

However, formal ties now are to be re-established and travel restrictions on Fijian government members eased.

Thawing relations

The thawing of relations follows Fiji’s commitment to hold elections in 2014 and promises of a new constitution, which have convincedAustralia and New Zealand that real steps towards restoring democracy are being taken after so many difficult years.

But critics insist Fijian authorities continue to muzzle the press and stifle freedom of speech and assembly, while locking up dissidents.

Professor Brij Lal, the director of the Australian National University's Center for the Contemporary Pacific, believes Canberra should have demanded the military ease its grip on society before restoring diplomatic ties.

“It would have been prudent on the part of Australia to see some of the fruits of those initiatives before going as far as it has done. Once Australia has embraced the Fijian regime, it will be very difficult for it to disengage and to take a more objective stance,” said Lal.

The Pacific island nation's last democratically elected prime minister, Laisenia


Bryan is a fourth grader in a regular public school. According to his teachers, he is bright and easily understands the material. He tends to squirm incessantly and has a very short attention span. He rushes through assignments and class work without double-checking, ignoring the insistence of his teachers and parents. He wishes that he was as fast at schoolwork as the rest of his peers, but he usually ‘runs out of gas’. More often than not, he is impulsive and as a result, is frequently involved in fights. Ryan has been diagnosed with ADHD since Kindergarten. ADHD – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a psychiatric disorder involving problems with attention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. This disorder is commonly diagnosed in children but can continue to adulthood.

One way toSynopsis

This Academy Award-nominated documentary presents key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning with the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, the production follows King through major steps in his struggle to promote racial equality. Including footage of King's stirring speeches, the documentary is a fitting tribute to his legacy, and features clips narrated by numerous celebrities such as Harry Belafonte, Paul Newman and James Earl Jones.

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Primary school children from the age of five are to be taught about gay and transgender relationships as part of compulsory lessons.

Guidance about the new lessons, which will be rolled out nationally next year, will be published tomorrow.

It will also outline plans to withdraw parents' rights to remove their children from sex education aged 15 from 2020.

Primary school children are to be taught about gay and transgender relationships as part of compulsory lessons. Stock picture of a classroom

New curriculum will bring an end of parents’ right to opt their children out of sex and relationships education classes in secondary school .

Children are guaranteed to receive at least a term of lessons by the time they are 16, as part if the new curriculum which is being brought inby education secretary Damian Hinds.

When the new lessons are rolled out next year, headteachers will be forced to bring them in, The Sunday Times reported.

As part of the changes, secondary school children will receive at least one compulsory term of sex ed lessons by age 16, including lessons on the damage caused by female genital mutilation .

Sexting, online grooming, domestic violence and forced marriage will also be put under the spotlight.

The announcement comes after more than 300 parents and children gathered outside of a primary school yesterday to protest against lessons on homosexuality and gender.

Some Muslim demonstrators said they would rather leave the UK than allow their children to continue attending Parkfield Community School in Birmingham. Parkfield Community School has said it wants pupils to be 'accepting and


to welcome anybody'

Muslim demonstrators said they would rather leave the UK than allow their children to continue attending Parkfield Community School in Birmingham, West Midlands.

Parents' anger is aimed at the school's assistant head Andrew Moffat, who is behind the 'No Outsiders' lessons. He created the scheme to teach children about the Equality Act and British values.

Pupils at the school have five of these lessons a year, covering areas outlined in the Act: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

However, the school is expected to be backed by Ofsted this week when the school is again handed its highest rating.

Tomorrow a petition signed by more than 100,000 people objecting to the sex and relationships curriculum will bedebated in parliament.

Parents' anger is aimed at the school's assistant head Andrew Moffat, who is behind the 'No Outsiders' lessons. He created the scheme to teach children about the Equality Act and British values.

Pupils at the school – rated outstanding by Ofsted – have five of these lessons a year, covering areas outlined in the Act: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.


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On a recent Friday afternoon in a sleepy suburb just west of Chicago, 5-year-old Zeke Banks faces several teenagers seated at a table.

Attentive but unperturbed, with big eyes and curly blonde hair, he peers up at them, answering questions about how and why his older brother, Ollie, 7, had knocked him off a ball he was sitting on several days ago.

The older students form the schools Judicial Committee, or the JC as they call it here at the Tallgrass Sudbury School in Riverside, Illinois. There is one adult in the room, but she doesnt speak at all. The


JCs job is to enforce the school rules and to keep peace in the community.

The ball incident had left Zeke sobbing, feeling small and violated, but he perked right up when someone reminded him he could call Ollie up before the JC later that week.

After listening to both sides, the committee issues a simple warning to Ollie. If it becomes a pattern, the committee will take a harder look. Zeke is satisfied. The JC committee has done its job.

Welcome to Tallgrass Sudbury, part of a radical experiment in American education unlike just about any other. Here, kids of all ages dont just enforce the rules. They also make them. They vote on budgets and hire and fire staff. Each child and each of the two full-time and threeof testing backlash.

Anti-testing opt out movements are making headlines in Colorado, Florida and New York. Over 100,000 kids reportedly opted out of tests in New York this year. Meanwhile, homeschooling continues to grow. The U.S. Department of Education estimates that by 2013 1.8 million students were homeschooled, up from 850,000 in 1999.

In the midst of the furor for tighter standards, schools like Sudbury are part of the "democratic" or "free schools" movement. Along with their "unschooled" cousins, estimated at about 10 percent of homeschoolers, these alternative approaches to education are responding not with less testing or structure, but with none.

They propose that kids learn best when left to pursue their own interests, surrounded by stimulating peers of all ages and supportive adults. Sudbury is not a retreat to


No one is forced to do math or read, and many dont read until they are eight years old or later.

The school occupies several rooms on the upper story of a graceful Methodist church built of grey stone. Its situated five blocks from the picturesque Des Plaines River, across the bridge from acres of fields and forests surrounding the renowned Brookfield Zoo.

It's a cloudy, cold day and a 16-year-old girl wears bedroom slippers and carries a comforter around with her. At 11 a.m., she chairs the school meeting, where students discuss updating the cleaning assignments, whether to promote the school in a social media contest, and whether to invite a volunteer adult to come work at the school.

After lunch, a mixed-age group gets ready to go play atis the leap of faith, the swan dive off the mountain into thin air. You don't."

But Haskins, who has a masters degree in training and development from University of Wisconsin-Madison and teaches at Sanford Brown College in Chicago, decided the experiment was worth the risk.

Before she came to Tallgrass, Haskins daughter, Chloe, was a first-grader and a fierce conscientious objector against public schools. If a teacher told her to pay attention, she would face the other way. If a teacher said good work, Chloe, keep going, she would put her pencil down.

A girl who built an intricate alternate universe with paper cutouts at home and learned German online for fun had simply checked out at school. The teacher called in her mom, Heather Haskins, and told her she


perfect kid for this environment, Haskins said, gesturing to the Tallgrass commons room where students of all ages were clustered in groups, playing games and conversing.

And so, the girl who once built alternate universes now goes to school in one.

No drugs, please

Zeke and Ollie Banks, the two older brothers of Zeke Bank, have a similar public school experience, says their mother, Jeni Banks.

A very quick learner, Ike was easily bored by the rigidity of public school. In first grade, they began getting signals from the school that Ike might need ADHD treatment, a notion they strongly resisted.

Ollie, also struggled, but differently. Very bright, rule conscious and introverted, Ollie was stifled by the rigidity of public school but paradoxically overwhelmed by the chaos.

He would come home literally shaking, hismother said, upset by the chaos on the playground, classroom and lunchroom, where a well-meaning lunch lady would fiercely bellow at the crowd to control the chaos.

Ollie, who had taught himself to read at the age of 4, also chafed at petty rules that prevented him from checking books out of the library as a kindergartener, or reading the older kid books across the classroom.

Ollie, too, could well have ended up on ADHD or anxiety medication, Banks said. She visibly shudders at the thought.

Age mixing

Kids at Tallgrass dont have to focus, because there is no homework and their school day is up to them. Throughout the day, kids of all ages mingle, with older ones serving as informal mentors.

Older students at Tallgrass seem genuinely interested in and concerned


whose two kids graduated from the school and who is now a staff member at Tallgrass, also swears by the age mixing.

Some older students can bring their own problems to the school if they are not accustomed to freedom at a Sudbury, Bradford said, but typically they provide great role models for problem-solving and compassion.

Bradford is one of the key founders of Tallgrass, which launched in 2008. She was an eight-grade public school science teacher before her own children were born. She had begun researching alternatives, feeling constrained by conventional education.

Shaping paths

I had always dismissed Sudbury as a hippy school, Bradford said. But on a whim, in 1996, while ordering other books, she picked up a copy of Free at Last, by Sudbury Valley School founder Daniel Freeberg.

Igraduates. One thing Gray did not find among the alumni was many middle managers. Sudbury grads are doing what they want to do, he said, and many of them go into careers that for them are play.

Gray found Sudbury graduates across all career types, including chiropractors and physical therapists, an oboe player for a symphony, a nurse, a silversmith, engineers, professors, waiters, bartenders, and a number of small business owners both anecdotally and statistically pretty much the gamut of careers one would expect from an average high school.

Following on Grays study, Sudburys founder, Daniel Greenberg, the SVS founder, co-authored two detailed studies of Sudbury alumni, the most recent published in 2004. In the The Pursuit of Happiness, outside researchers surveyed and analyzed the responses of 119 alumni, finding


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Animal Deities and Symbols in Africa

Chapurkha M. Kusimba

Curator, Department of Anthropology

Field Museum of Natural History

Frank J. Yurco

Research Associate

Field Museum of Natural History

Interaction between humankind and animals in Africa has profoundly affected Africa's cultural and ecological landscape. This interaction has be captured in the archaeological record, in ancient rock art, in more recent wood carving, and in oral traditions. Chroniclers, storytellers, and artists have passed on knowledge and ethnic experiences in the form of proverbs, legends, epics, and myths.

Many mythological and popular stories in African prominently feature animals (e.g. Beier 1966; Bleek and Lloyd 1911; Hambly 1949). Some were hunted for food, clothing, and shelter. Some were respected for the might, wit, and cunning. The belief that spirituality is deeply rooted in most aspects of African life may explainwhy man animals or composite animals forms were adopted as totems and as deities of particular groups and societies (Mbiti 1970; Hornung 1983). For example, the ancient Egyptians revered Sobek, the crocodile deity, and Sekhmet, the lioness, and some of the snake deities such as Edjo, the cobra, for their dangerous qualities. Seth, whom the Egyptians considered a trickster (Evans-Pritchard 1967; Hambly 1949; Te Velde 1977), was manifested as a hippopotamus, pig, or donkey. As a trickster, Seth was very much in African mold. Characteristic of frogs, lizards and insects were used to express aspects of deities. Composite animals forms in Egypt included Taweret, part female hippopotamus, part crocodile, and part lioness, and Bes, the bandy legged household deity, benign, but with a leonine face. Composite animal forms


sometimes constitute the imagery of sub-Saharan masks. Other ancient Egyptians deities, like Hathor and Isis, both having cow aspects, were beneficent (Goedicke 1970). That both Egyptians and Kushites worshipped rams as deities, especially Amon of Karnak, underscores the cultural interaction between Egypt and the Nubian cultures of Kush (Kendall 1982). Rams have also had a spiritual significance among the Yoruba, Edo, and other West African peoples. Moreover, most of the animals of special importance in ancient Egypt have ritual and social significance in sub-Saharan Africa.

Thus, Egyptian religious culture depicted in engravings and in art and sculpture points to the common African substratum of Egypt's culture (Frankfort 1948). What have been interpreted as masked priests portraying animals deities in Egyptian ceremonies depicted in murals are reminiscent of common Africanrituals. The proliferation of animal representation in rock art in Africa probably illustrates the practical, emotional, and spiritual ties between Africans and animals. For example, depictions of people wearing animals masks and animals with discs, aureoles, and rods on their heads, often found together in southern Oran and Oued Djerat in Algeria, suggest people praying in front of animals (Ki-Zerbo 1981;670).

A myth of the San of Southern Africa, which tells of the sun growing tired of being carried on a zebra's back and taking refuge between the horns of a bull (Bleek and Lloyd 1911), is very similar to depictions showing an oxen bedecked with the solar disc in Egypt, southern Oran, and the Sahara. The origins of the cow-goddess Hathor may be rooted in a pan-Africanist myth


are symbols of wealth and serve to define as well as distinguish status. Old Kingdom tombs depict cattle as large parts of a noble's holdings. Cattle provided the means for forging new relations of cooperation and interdependence. Cattle were valued for milk and cheese, but were occasionally slaughtered for religious offerings (Beidelman 1960; Bloch 1971; Rigby 1969). In common with other African pastoralists, the Egyptians practiced horn deformation on special cattle. Egyptians worshipped cattle as beneficent deities. Deities with bovine aspects echoed the importance of cattl in Egyptian society. Apis, the bull deity of Memphis, was a national deity. A bull with special markings and color was sought and, once located, was enshrined at Memphis with great honor. When the Apis died, he was embalmed with solemn ceremonyand buried in the vast catacombs at Saqqara, called the Serapaeum. It should be noted that some ox masks of the Bidjogo peoples of West Africa and Apis bulls have a triangular forehead design. Besides Hathor and Isis, Neith and a lesser-known deity, Bat, occasionally were depicted in bovine form. Cow deities provided milk and nourishment for the pharaoh.

Egyptian myths and stories feature cattle. In the Story of the Two Brothers (Lichtheim 1976:203-210), a pair of brothers are grazing animals, and one brother takes on the appearance of a bull. Cattle formed an important part of the booty in Egyptian and other African military raids on neighboring peoples. The Maasai, for example, believe that God gave them al the cattle in the world. They thus feel that they


have strong kinship ties with cattle (Rigby 1992). This culture is well myth of many African societies, in the archaeological record, and in modern African religious and cultural practices. Animal deities and animals, then and now, continue to play a central role in everyday spiritual, cultural, and economic life of African people.

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Kendall, Timothy, 1982. Kush: Lost Kingdom of the Nile. Brockton: Brockton Art Museum.

Ki-Zerbo, J. 1981. African Prehistoric Art, In General Prehistory of Africa I: Methodolgy and African Prehistory. J. Ki-Zerbo, ed. pp. 656-686. Paris UNESCO

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Rigby, Peter, 1969. Cattle and Kinship Among the Gogo. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.

_________, 1992. Cattle, Capitalism, and Class: Ilparakuyo Maasai Transformations, Phaladelphia: