self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom.
London: John Murray, 1876.

The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species.
London: John Murray, 1877.

The power of movement in plants.
London: John Murray, 1880.

Charles Darwin, The formation of vegetable mould : through the action of worms, with observations on their habits.
London: John Murray, 1881.

Darwin's last book was a reworking of one of his earliest publications, a report to the Geological Society in 1838 following up a hint from a Wedgewood uncle about the way the layer of lime placed on farmland appears in later years as a distinct stratum inches below the soil surface. Often dismissed as a minor Darwin book, it was surprisingly popular with general readers. The chapter displayed here shows a sly sense of humour, in describing how thehumble earthworm will over time appear to bury the ruins of Romano-British basicicas, the natural processes of the animal world conquering delapidated traditional religious structures.

Charles Darwin as Victorian sage

This fine engraving of Darwin in later life, from the Irvin Collection, was originally purchased in Paris in 1908 by Andrew Charles Moore (1866-1928), professor of biology, dean and twice acting president at South Carolina. Darwin first grew the familiar white beard in 1866.

Darwin had seldom been well physically since he returned from the voyage with the Beagle. He died on April 19th, 1882, aged only 73, and perhaps surprisingly was buried in Westminster Abbey. This official biography, edited by Darwin's son soon after his death, relies heavily on Darwin's own letters. This copy came from the library of the


ally and many of the exercises are meant to strengthen diplomatic relations.

The United States has held mock exercises with allies for over 30 years and they have been stepped up since 9/11.

I was told that this is nothing unusual for Colorado.

Delving deeper because people told me I was wrong and it is happening, I spoke with the Public Affairs Office at Fort Carson today and was told that 20 Russian special service officers and 10 U.S. special service officers will engage in training for a week, training which simulates terrorist attacks. It is the first time such an exercise has been conducted on U.S. soil but it is being done because of the location.

Let me explain. Russia is planning to join us in the Afghanistan mission, Enduring Freedom,its founders and teachers and to determine whether the defendants have departed from those tenets. They asserted that the first amendment to the constitution of the United States forbids the court "to determine the matters called for in the complaint."
The court's finding of fact is not attacked. The organization, known as Plymouth Brethren, was founded in England in 1826 by J. N. Darby who was followed, in turn, by successive leaders, including James Taylor, Jr., who became leader in 1953. The Manchester "assembly," as the local organizations of the brethren are called, was formed in the late 1800s. In 1962, a nonstock corporation was formed under the name of The Manchester Meeting Hall, Incorporated. Among the original incorporators were the defendants Donald Wilson and Robert Beattie and the


plaintiffs Sherwood Clough and George Forbes, Jr. The stated purpose of the corporation was "to provide a suitable building for worship, prayer, reading of the Holy Scriptures, and preaching the Word of God according to injunction contained in the Holy Scriptures. These purposes and activities are to be carried out without monetary profit to anyone." The certificate of incorporation provided that "any person accepted by the Board of Trustees shall become a member of the corporation," that the affairs of the corporation shall be governed by a board of trustees which board shall be composed of the officers of the corporation which officers "shall be elected by majority vote at the annual meeting," that the trustees may *551 take, hold and convey real estate and exercise any authoritywhich may be necessary in order to carry out and administer the purposes for which the corporation was formed. It also provided that if in the opinion of a majority of the board of trustees it is in the best interests of the corporation to dissolve, the dissolution shall be carried out "in accordance with the laws governing the procedures for dissolution" and that any excess of assets remaining in the hands of the corporation after the payment of debts "shall be distributed only for religious purposes for the benefit of Christians designated by the U.S. Government as `Plymouth Brethren No. 4.'" No bylaws were adopted for the corporation and this certificate of incorporation is the only document governing the corporation. Land was acquired and a meeting house


erected. Since 1969, a national and worldwide schism has developed over the acceptance of the ministry of James Taylor, Jr., and, upon his death in 1970, that of his alleged successor, James Symington. There presently exist approximately six factions or groups. Defendants Homer Bidwell, Donald Wilson and Robert Beattie rejected the ministry of James Taylor, Jr., because, they believed, his teachings and tenets departed from those of the founder, Darby, and his immediate successor, James Taylor, Sr. Because of the schism, the plaintiffs Clough and Forbes resigned as trustees of The Manchester Meeting Hall, Incorporated, and will not worship with the defendants. Of the approximate thirty-seven members at the time of the schism, approximately twenty members remained a part of the plaintiffs' group while seventeen members compose theNew England Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman suffered a broken foot in Sunday's win over the New York Giants, according to Mike Garafolo of FOX Sports.

Edelman will undergo surgery on Monday but there is some hope he will be able to return at some point this season, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.

The injury is to his fifth metatarsal and is likely a Jones fracture, Garafolo reports.

Edelman was seen using crutches and in a walking boot following the game. He was carted to the team bus, according to Doug Kyed of NESN.

Edelman was unable to return to the game after leaving in the second quarter.

It's likely that Edelman will undergo further tests on Monday to determine the exact nature of his injury. If he misses any time the


Fourth Circuit, and LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge.
BAZELON, Chief Judge:

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In this suit against the District of Columbia, the Firemens' Fund Insurance Co. successfully challenged the validity of two insurance regulations adopted by the District of Columbia Council.

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During 1969 and 1970, the Government Operations Committee of the Council conducted hearings on insurance problems in the District and uncovered what it termed an "insurance crisis."  The hearings disclosed a widespread practice of refusing to underwrite basic property insurance in the inner-city solely on the basis of the environmental hazards presented by the geographic location of the property.  The committee found the resultant unavailability of insurance to inner-city businesses and homeowners inhibited economic development and contributed to the deterioration of physical structures in urban core areas.  The committee took noteSign up to FREE email alerts from Football London - Spurs Subscribe Thank you for subscribing See our privacy notice Invalid Email

The return of injured stars Danny Rose and Erik Lamela in new Tottenham Hotspur Nike shirts has gone down very well with the fans.

Left-back Rose has been out injured since January with a knee problem picked up away at Sunderland that saw the 27-year-old miss the rest of the season and require surgery.

Midfielder Lamela has been out even longer, having played his last game in the EFL Cup defeat at Anfield on October 25 last year. Treatment failed to help the 25-year-old with his injury woes and he needed to have operations on both of his hips towards the end of the season.

Both players are now back


in rehabilitation at Tottenham's Hotspur Way training ground and are expected to be back in the early months of the season, Rose reportedly sooner than Lamela.

They both gave Spurs fans a lift when they appeared in the videos for the club's green screen shoots on Wednesday, which will be used for various footage including the pre-match visuals before Premier League games.

Rose even came back with a new Wilfried Bony-esque hairstyle for the shoot.

Here they both are, captured on screen in the video.

(Image: Courtesy of Tottenham Hotspur)

And here are some of the fans' reactions.

When do you think we will see the two players back in action? Let us know in our comments section below.(on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.8:1. Schools in the district (with 2017-18 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are
Grant Elementary School (192 students; grades K-6),
Lincoln Elementary School (313; K-6),
Roosevelt Elementary School (318; K-6) and
Ridgefield Park High School (1,232; 7-12).

Students from Little Ferry attend the high school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Little Ferry Public Schools that has been in place since 1953.

The district is one of the small number in the state with schools recognized by the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program in consecutive years, with Grant Elementary School earning the designation in 2010 and Lincoln Elementary School being honored in 2011.

Public school students from the borough, and all of Bergen County, are


around with the idea of her coming, talked about what she would have to do to get ready, what parts she would need for her bike. She was getting excited and part of me thought it would be fun too. That part of our relationship, as well as all that we shared in common, would be enjoyable on such a trip. On the other hand, I didn't want to deal with the competition we sometimes got into, and I didn't want to share the glory. Not this time. I wanted to go off on my own, make my own way, with no connections to my family. My selfishness surprised me and I felt guilty for those unloving, unsisterly feelings. We decided to think about it overnight and talkthe ultimate wall, El Capitan. I've led the successful traverse of the Rock Band on Everest's North Face, rescued fellow climbers trapped in ice crevasses, and taken several near-fatal falls myself. It's a world filled with lofty blizzard-swept peaks that no one has ever seen before, let alone attempted to climb until I did. So I listened and watched Tim closely, feeling his energy, his thrill in planning his next climb. I went with him as he described past ascents.

Carol and I went to dinner at the Tofu Shop where we savored soybean chili, homemade cornbread, salad with sesame dressing, and date bars. Such a treat after the meager diet of soft carrots and limp red cabbage in Northern Arizona! We felt right at home in the little


bodies over one hill that hot afternoon, we were hailed by two bike tourists standing on the far side of the road. Had we heard of "Lazy Louie"? the woman wanted to know. We hadn't. We found out Lazy Louie runs a "bike camp" for bike tourists which offers a shed with cots and stove, a shower, refrigerator full of beer and spring water, and home-style entertainment. We decided to stop by.

Louie was a paunchy, middle-aged man, full of beer, energy, guitar-singing and talk. He seemed lonely, and it obviously gave him pleasure to provide a "home" for cyclists on their various cross-country journeys. That particular day, his continual chatter and our moods fit together like a pickle with ice cream, so we stayed just long enough forThat’s not what the Iranian leaders said at first. They claimed it was due to a mechanical malfunction. Then they refused to give up the black box. Clearly they were trying to hide a terrible mistake, but the scientific evidence was too overwhelming for them to perpetuate such a lie for very long.

The lie outraged the people of Tehran, sparking mass protests. Living under the harsh tyranny of an authoritarian theocracy has to be maddening for a people yearning for freedom, but the Iranians themselves will have to take out the mullahs on their own. The United States should stay out of it except for offering words of encouragement such as the ones President Trump tweeted.

The backward theocratic radicals running Iran have killed thousands of their own citizens.


Architecture in Helsinki Drop New Single, Title Album

Get remixed by Radioclit, play festivals

Crafted in their studio in Melbourne-- where they're currently working up their fourth LP, entitled Vision Revision-- "That Beep" is the latest single from Aussie popsters Architecture in Helsinki.

The track will hit the Australian iTunes store November 22 and the rest of the world early on in 2009-- though if you head on over to thatbeep.com presently, you can hear a stream of the tune and watch the video. And, if you'll leave your email address after the beep, your inbox will be greeted by a "French Mix" of the track from Radioclit that features additional vocals from Marina Ribatski, late of Bonde do Rolê.

As for Vision Revision, the band notes "it will be yours ascombine. The chassis has a fore end, an aft end and first and second lateral ends. One or more endless belts carried by the chassis rotate from the fore end to the aft end of the chassis and includes a plurality of fingers that lift the cut crop from the mat or windrow and delivers it to an auger or other conveyor that in turn delivers the crop to a feederhouse opening in a rear wall of the windrow pickup header. Upon passing through the feederhouse opening the crop enters the combine where it undergoes further processing.
The windrow pickup header also includes a windrow hold down device for applying downward force on the cut crop as it is lifted and moved by the belt fingers. The windrow hold


so far entirely abandoned a trio of Republican districts in Southern California considered toss-ups: the seats of Reps. Steve Knight and Dana Rohrabacher, as well as the seat of retiring Rep. Edward R. Royce.

Instead, the super PAC is the only one playing defense against a trio of Democratic candidates who are swamping the Republican candidates in fundraising.Matt D'Agostini

Matthew Vincent D'Agostini (born October 23, 1986) is a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who is currently playing for HC Ambrì-Piotta of the National League (NL). He was drafted in the sixth round, 190th overall, by the Montreal Canadiens at the 2005 NHL Entry Draft.

Playing career
D'Agostini began his Midget age career with the Root River Rangers, a midget AA team from Sault Ste. Marie. After one season with the Rangers, he played one year Midget AAA for the Soo North Stars. The following year he was selected as a walk-on player by the Guelph Storm.

On April 2, 2008, Montreal recalled D'Agostini from the Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League (AHL). He played his first NHL game on April 3, 2008 against the Buffalo Sabres. He


court, to allow the people present to see everything in detail. These hearings, due to their heavy sexual content and voyeur tendencies, draw massive audiences, and equally massive controversy. Because of all this, people who are brought to trial here often see their lives changed forever.

Now, the story of Audrey Saunders.

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Audrey was way past the point where she wondered why this was happening to her. All she could think of now was what kind of ordeal she was going to have to go through. Though the trials were broadcast live on television, she had never watched one, thinking it lacked decency. So she didn't really know what to be expecting. Her attorney had told her she would probably be put through humiliating situations to prove her innocence, butshe didn't know how far it was going to go. Audrey was a 26 years old teacher who taught french at South Lake, and was standing in court accused of having had illicit sexual relations with one of her students. This student, Bud Chadwick, was standing as the plaintiff, claiming she had threatened to give him bad grades if he didn't respond positively to her attempts at seducing him. In reality, his bad grades were fully deserved, and the whole accusation was a perverse game of his, with the objective of abusing his attractive teacher, and humiliating her. This wasn't very rare in these trials, but few knew about it because usually no one besides the defendant cared to look into the matter and expose the fallacy of


the accusations.

She was sitting next to her attorney, on the left half of the hemisphere that formed the courtroom. On her right were Chadwick and his attorney. Behind and around them, there was an audience of approximately 200 people. Facing everyone, two meters higher, there was Judge McKinley. Below him, two strong men were standing still, facing the audience. In the middle of the room, between the judge's desk and the attorneys and their clients, was an empty space of roughly ten meters. There were two giant monitors in the room. One was on the wall behind the judge, facing the audience, and the other one was behind the audience, facing the judge and the two men. Right now, the camera was filming the judge as he bentthe center of the room."

Her heart missed a beat as she realized what was going to happen. Audrey always displayed dignity, and was used to dressing in a rather strict manner at school. Everyone found her attractive, but her general behavior and the way she dressed were always modest, self-respecting and never provocative. She also wasn't one to sleep with any man, and few were the men who had ever seen her naked. The thought that everyone in the room and all the TV viewers would soon see her without clothes was terrifying. She quickly realized that her colleagues and friends were following the trial from home, as well as her family. She briefly thought about her younger brother who had always tried to catch glimpses of her


naked when she got out of the shower or changed her clothes at her parent's house. Up to now she had escaped his prying eyes. Then she thought about all her students. Knowing how they were, and how attractive they found her, she had little doubt that all of them were home with their eyes glued to the screen right now. She blushed at the thought of all her students seeing her naked. It was only now that she was confronted with humiliation that she realized how many people were watching the hearing. She tried to find a way to avoid what was coming. She swallowed her pride, then stood up and said to the judge :

"Your honor, there is no need to verify this information. I confessthat my sex is shaven."

"Miss Saunders, we are here to verify affirmations with facts, not the other way round. Now, please move to the center of the room."

Resigned, Audrey did as she was told. As she arrived at the designated place, one of the two men made a small gesture to tell her to turn and face the audience. She saw the judge's face on the giant monitor, and his words clattered like a death sentence :

"Now, miss Saunders, please remove all your clothes."

The picture on the screen now displayed her own face, and it was clearly visible how frightened and embarrassed she was. People who knew her had never seen her like that. She was always proud and confident, without being haughty. At school, she was seen


as a figure of authority. And now she felt so small and vulnerable. Everyone in the room was staring at her. She imagined how many more people were looking at her through the camera. Bud had a vicious look in his eyes that had little consistency with his accusations ; he was clearly not a victim here. But, as he knew, no one was looking at him right now. Seeing that she was not moving, the judge called to the two men who were standing below him, on both sides of his high desk :

"Since miss Saunders isn't cooperative, gentlemen, please help her remove her clothes."

The two men approached her from both sides. Within seconds the first one was unzipping her grey skirt, while the other unmade thebuttons of her white blouse. Audrey didn't resist, partly because she couldn't stop them if she wanted to, and partly because she was too petrified to move at all. One of the men was now pulling down her skirt, and the second one removing her blouse. They weren't brutal but moved with confidence, without eagerness. They had obviously done that many times before. The crowd watched, enthralled, as her clothes were swiftly pulled from her. Audrey passively lifted one foot after the other to help remove her skirt, and was now standing in her underwear. She blushed and twitched as she felt the cold fingers of the men on her back and her hips. One was unclasping her bra while the other slid his indexes on the sides


of her panties.

Bud had his teacher exactly where he wanted her. So far everything had played out as planned. He thought : "isn't she so cute in her pink little bras and panties!" Audrey was 5.5ft tall, and blessed with a slender body that was drawing away the breath of the entire audience. Her long brown hair outlined her equally beautiful face, though at that moment her expression wasn't exactly winsome. Through the thin glasses she was wearing, she was looking at the floor, trying to avoid the lustful stares of all the men around her. The women were looking, too, some of them jealous of her assets. Almost drooling, Bud was thinking : "Come on, show everyone your cute tits and your little pussy!" He had notrouble concealing the painful bulge in his pants, as all the seats in the room were purposely designed to hide the lower body of their occupants.

She closed her eyes for a second as her bra went loose and fell before her, revealing her breasts to the crowd. At the same time, she felt the cold fingers on her hips sliding along her shapely legs, bringing with them her panties, removing what was left of her dignity. She stood there naked in front of thousands of people washing away with their shameless stares her last bits of intimacy. The giant screens were showing her body in all its nakedness. After a while, the picture zoomed in on her sex. As bud had said, it was shaven. Audrey thought briefly


I can tell you that miss Saunders is a squirter."

"Can you clarify for the rest of the audience?"

Bud's attorney answered like a schoolboy reciting his lesson :

"A "squirter," to use my client's words, is a woman that squirts transparent and odorless liquid in variable quantity during intercourse, usually when she reaches orgasm. This is also called female ejaculation."

Bud added :

"She squirts when she reaches orgasm. A lot."

The words resounding in Audrey's head shook the very foundation of her sanity. She couldn't believe the words that had just come out of Bud's mouth. She felt she was about to faint right in the middle of the courtroom. At the same time, she was shocked to hear that said so openly and publicly about her, and by the fact thatwas boiling with excitement. "So far, so good," he thought. He had spent a week going to his teacher's house every night and spying on her, trying to catch her in an intimate moment. He knew any information he would give at a trial would be taken as evidence, because no one would try to find another explanation. After seven nights looking discreetly through her window, he had finally gotten what he wanted. On the first day, he already knew she liked to sleep in the buff. In fact, she seemed to always sleep naked, and, in the heat of summer, without anything to cover herself. He'd thought : "Little bitch, you like pretending you're all prudish when we're around!" He had thoroughly enjoyed looking at her body,


watching her breasts move ever so slightly as she breathed deeply, and even when he knew he wouldn't get anything new, he just stayed at her window, admiring the perfection of her figure, often silently masturbating at his sleeping teacher. Of course, in the morning no one would notice the drops of sperm on the ground beneath her window. Finally, after seven days of spying on her, he finally saw something he could use in court : she had just gotten out of the shower, and had let her towel drop to the floor. She had then grabbed a dildo from her cupboard and masturbated with it. What he saw when she came was what he had just said to the judge.

After a while, Audrey finally managed toarticulate :

"I... will... I'll masturbate."

So many thoughts were rushing through her mind right now, she couldn't make out anything clear. Several men brought in a heavy chair and placed it in the middle of the room. It looked like an obstetric table, with legrests and armrests. They were all padded in black leather. One of the two men who had undressed her took her by the hand and led her to the chair. She followed without saying anything, and sat. He lowered the backrest to about 30 degrees. Then the man removed the shoes Audrey was still wearing, leaving her with only her glasses, and placed her feet in the footrests. Doing this spread her legs, and she started blushing again when she felt the cold air of


the courtroom brushing against her feminity. Once she was in place, he raised the footrests. She felt like she was back at the gyn, about to be examined. Except there were about two hundred people in the room, and right now most of them had their eyes on her sex. When he raised the footrests, Audrey had had to bend her legs and pull up her knees back to her chest. In this humiliating position, her vulva was wide open for everyone to see, her labia spread, showing her clitoris and the entrance of her vagina. She could hear faint voices from the audience. They all stopped when the judge spoke.

"You are now in position. You can start masturbating. And remember, don't stop until you reach orgasm."

Though JudgeMcKinley was behind her, she could see him talking through the huge monitor that was right in front of her. A second after he finished speaking, the view on the screen shifted to her. She realized how exposed she was. The camera zoomed in to bring a closer view of her opened womanhood. The detailed close-up left very little to imagination. Aware of what was expected of her now, Audrey slowly brought her right hand to her sex. She closed her eyes when she saw her own hand on the monitor. She was all dry because she wasn't the slightest bit excited. But she thought there was no way of reaching climax if she wasn't. So she tried to block out everything around her, and imagined she was


alone, at home. With her fingers, she slowly caressed her inner thighs a few times, all the way from her knees to her pelvis. It felt nice and helped her get started. After about twenty seconds, she felt the first signs of arousal. As she continued caressing her thigh with her left hand, she rested the palm of her right hand on all the length of her awakening womanhood, and started a slow, circular motion.

She could feel her clitoris slowly growing under her hand. She continued this motion for a while, and began to feel some wetness inside her. Her hand still resting on her crotch, she reached with her middle finger and her ring finger for the opening between her labia, and in a single motion, coatedthem in the hot juice that had begun lubricating her. She then parted her middle finger and her ring finger, and applied her natural lubricant on both sides of her still growing clitoris. She moved her hand up and down, the two fingers gliding around her clitoris. It was finally fully erect. Audrey reached the inside of her vagina with her middle finger, once again coating it with her juices, which she then used to lubricate her clitoris. It was now very sensitive, and glistening with the juice of her arousal. She started rubbing it in a circular motion, slowly at first, but increasingly fast after a few seconds. Her breath was becoming heavier.

The two giant monitors were displaying her intimate performance in full detail. By now, many


men in the audience were discreetly touching themselves, though it was hard to tell which ones. Bud was among them. He just couldn't help it. He had waited for this. He had dreamed about it. His hand had slipped inside his jeans and he was gently rubbing the tip of his penis, which was all wet with precum. His mind was full of dirty thoughts. "That's it, miss Saunders! Show us how you fuck yourself! I want to hear you scream in the sweet agony of your pleasure!" Thousands of people were watching her from their homes. As Audrey had suspected earlier, her younger brother, Kevin, was among them. Alone in his room, he was bent forward, to get as close to the screen as possible. This wasway more than he had ever seen before. His sister had thought she had never been caught naked, but she didn't know of the times he had left a small camera in the bathroom or in her bedroom. He had masturbated many times to these videos of his beautiful sister showering or undressing, and had even shared them with some friends, and she never knew. But this was different. She was now actively pleasuring herself. His pants at his knees, he grabbed his erect member and started stroking it fast. That's when he heard her : her eyes closed, her cheeks red and her head turned to the side, her slightly opened mouth let out a soft moan. Her fingers were now moving towards her inner labia. She


delicately parted them, and then eagerly buried her fingers inside her craving womanhood.

In the living room, Audrey's father, John, was also watching. She hadn't suspected this, or at least hoped he wouldn't watch. But there he was. His wife, Audrey's mother, would have probably killed him right there and then if she had seen him, but she was on a trip to Europe. John felt incredibly guilty about this, but he couldn't help it. For years, he had had incestuous thoughts about his daughter, but had always managed to seal them off. But this was too much, she was practically being offered to him. His hand was no longer his to control when it slipped inside his pants and grabbed his fully erect penis, before pulling it out,freeing it from its restraints. He started stroking it at the same rhythm as his daughter was fingering herself. With her left hand, she was now actively groping her left breast. Now and then, one could hear a soft moan escaping her lips.

While deep inside her she felt the utmost humiliation, she tried to block everything out. What she didn't realize was that most people weren't seeing her as degraded. On the contrary, they were subjugated by the glory of her exposed feminity, and in their excitement, were all praying they could touch her, if only with the tip of their fingers. In his room, Kevin was now on his knees right in front of his television, his right hand stroking furiously his penis while his left caressed


the picture of his sister's open vagina on his screen. Back in the courtroom, Audrey reached for her sex with her left hand and coated her fingers with her juice, and gently applied it on both her erect nipples with circular motions. She did this a few times, each time broadening the area she was covering with her hot fluid. After a while, her left hand went down to stimulate her clitoris, while she kept fingering herself with her right hand. She felt a familiar tingling sensation when she touched her clitoris. She could feel an orgasm was beginning to build inside her. She began to accelerate her movement, letting out several small moans in the process. Everyone watched intensely as she began moving her pelvis faster andfaster. Her breasts, still glistening with her love fluid, began bouncing on her chest rapidly, and her hands were now moving very fast. With each pelvic thrust her back seemed to arch a bit more. Audrey let out a long moan that emptied her lungs. As she inhaled, her left hand went back to her chest to resume groping her left breast, this time with much more intensity. Her right hand was now moving in and out of her vagina so fast the move was hard to follow, bringing her ever closer to the edge. Finally she felt her body explode, ecstasy filling her being. One last long moan escaped her lips, louder this time, as her orgasm invaded her, soon followed by screams of pleasure. In his


room, Kevin could not hold it any longer, and ejaculated on the carpet as he watched his sister riding the waves of her intense pleasure. In the living room, his father was still masturbating furiously, hypnotized by the glorious beauty of his magnificent daughter as she let go of all her inhibitions in a moment of absolute bliss.

Sun Moon Lake: Nature’s Gift to Taiwan

Nestled among mountains, an idyllic refuge lies at the center of the island nation of Taiwan. Like a classical Chinese landscape painting, Sun Moon Lake emanates a tranquil beauty, with its clear waters set against a backdrop of emerald peaks.

Sun Moon Lake’s name comes from its unique shape: The eastern part resembles a round sun, while the western part looks like a crescent moon.

Besides its natural beauty, Sun Moon Lake is also a thriving center of aboriginal life in Taiwan. In the middle of the lake sits Lalu Island, an ancient settlement of the Thao tribe, one of Taiwan’s many ethnic minorities.

According to legend, the ancestors of the Thao people first discovered Sun Moon Lake while chasing a rare white deer through


the surrounding mountains. Finding the lake was not only beautiful but also filled with fish, the Thao people resettled their tribe there. A marble statue now sits on Lalu Island, immortalizing the white deer of the story.

The Thao people now mainly live in Ita Thao, a village next to Sun Moon Lake dotted with shops selling local handicrafts, as well as eateries offering local foods. There’s a system of cable cars that carry visitors over mountain tops to the Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village, which showcases the cultural heritage of Taiwan’s indigenous peoples.

The area around Sun Moon Lake also features traditional Chinese architecture, including several temples built in the styles of different Chinese dynasties. Among them is Xuanguang Temple, which enshrines the renowned Buddhist monk Xuanzang, who lived duringthe Tang Dynasty in the 7th century. His pilgrimage to India in search of sacred Buddhist texts inspired the classic Chinese story “Journey to the West.”

Right outside Xuanguang Temple is Jin Men Grandma’s Tea Eggs, the famous street stall selling braised tea eggs. Its owner, who has been selling them for 50 years, once said in an interview that she can sell up to 4,000 eggs a day. She meticulously cracks the boiled eggs and braises them in Assam tea, mushrooms, and herbs before putting them in the fridge to soak in the delicious flavors. This humble vendor is just one of the area’s many street stalls offering mouthwatering treats, often with some distinctive local flare.

Sun Moon Lake, once a quiet refuge, now frequently bustles with activity as


locals and foreigners alike come to the lake to boat, bike, or hike while relishing in the picturesque scenery and the area’s rich cultural heritage.

Wenwu Temple

Wenwu Temple. (Jedsada Kiatpornmongkol/Shutterstock)

Perhaps the most well-known temple next to Sun Moon Lake, the imposing structure of Wenwu Temple sits on the northern side of the lake, guarded by two vermillion stone lions. The front hall of the temple venerates the Civil God of Wealth and the God of Literature; the central hall enshrines the God of War and the celebrated Chinese warrior Yue Fei; and the rear hall—known as the Hall of Great Achievements—is devoted to the wise sage Confucius.

Visitors can climb the 366 steps—symbolizing the days in a year (including the extra day in leap years)—to the top of the templefor toddlers between ages 2 and 6.

Antique Assam Tea Farm

Assam black tea was first brought to Taiwan from India in the 1920s during the Japanese colonial era, and the locals soon found that the area’s mild climate was perfect for cultivating Assam black tea. The Antique Assam Tea Farm was once a factory with over 200 workers. Now, it’s been transformed into a historical and cultural site that invites visitors to sample teas and explore the art of tea-making.

Ci En Pagoda

The Ci En Pagoda.(Shutterstock)

The most visible monument at Sun Moon Lake is the towering Ci En Pagoda, built by Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek in honor of his mother. Sitting on the Shabalan Mountain, its upper tip is 3,281 feet above sea level (exactly 1,000 meters). After mounting the


This species was previously within the genus Hyla but has recently been moved to the resurrected genus Hypsiboas (Faivovich, et al., 2005). Hypsiboas boans from the Venezuelan Gran Sabana are smaller than those in the lowlands and do not construct basin-like nests; instead, they breed in small, permanent streams. Their discs more closely resemble those of Hypsiboas wavrini, and the tadpoles are also different. Duellman (1997) concluded that they might be specifically distinct from the widespread Hypsiboas boans in the lowlands.

This species is widely distributed in the Amazon basin, the upper Orinoco river, the delta of the Orinoco river, Trinidad island (not present on Tobago) Trinidad and Tobago, the Guianas, Peru, lowland tropical Bolivia, the Amazonian basin of Brazil, the Pacific lowlands of Colombia, Esmeraldas department, Ecuador andthe central and eastern lowlands of Panama. In Venezuela, it has been recorded in the states of Amazonas, Bolívar and Delta Amacuro, as well as from the Andean foothills of Barinas and Táchira. It has been recorded between 0 and 1,000m asl.

It is a nocturnal species found in tropical rainforest, where it is found on trees up to a height of 5m. It is also found on bushes and trees in gallery forests, and it may use exposed bedrocks. The eggs are laid in mud basins, which are built by the males at the edge of watercourses or ponds (Duellman, 1997). The tadpoles are then washed into the river. During the dry season, they are active at night on sandy or muddy edges of slow-moving streams (Rodríguez and


council of religion opens today, according to Bill Truitt, president of the council, Announced also was the first meeting of the council. Thursday at 2:15. 318 Student Union.
On the agenda of the student
The anticipated drop of 1000 students for the spring semester enrollment proved erroneous as late j • ft . registrants crowded the main gym-
nasium Friday and Saturday. Total enrollment should be about the same as last semester, Howard W. Patmore, registrar, said yesterday. REGISTRATION CONTINUES At the end of the regular regis-Spring membership drive for the tration period 15,500 students iad
completed registration for day classes at SC. Registration will continue this week with an expected 500 or more enrolling.
All students enrolling this week must report to 112 Physical Education building for medical examination clearance.
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reasons, arrived at what is believed , sociology, economics, political sci-; to be an absolutely impartial de- j ence, law, international relations,
cision which sent 10 of the contestants into the final round.
DINNER PARTY
A dinner party at the Sig Ep house on Wednesday night will be the scene of the finals when the fortunate 10 face the acid tests in beauty, charm, and personality.
Women selected for competition in the final contest were Pat Page, Mary Lou Harris. Anita Woolert, Paddy Murphy, Joyce Alcorn. Joan Updike, Mary Martinez, Cathy Daggett. Nancy Wiser, and Anita Brewel.
MYSTERIOUS AIR
In keeping with the air of mys-• tery surrounding the entire affair,
Free X-ray service for all SC students who wish to take advantage of it was announced yesterday by Dr. Paul O. Greeley, director


in San Francisco but was diverted from there by the disastrous fire. Mr. Murman then settled in Los Angeles.
Por 34 years he was custom designer of interiors and his work is featured in many movie colony homes.
He retired in 1940 to devote all his time to the preparation of hand-colored transparencies.
Wamp Pin-Up Excites Cops
The police department has announced that its vice squad has been doubled for next Monday, in anticipation of the Wampus Pin-Up calendar. Several law enforcement agencies are cooperating in keeping j Wampus from appearing, but the SC publication will be on the stands according to the editors, who are now in hiding.
Besides the vice-squad, the Children's Aid Society, Legion of De- I cency, and the Mothers of the Russian Revolution, have voiced protests.
The United Statesbefore fee reading. Verification to the university chest drive as its will take place in Owens hall an-part in the community chest pro- nex.
gram. Fee reading will be carried out
April will be used to bring all in Building 20. 841 West 36th place, shades of opinion of secularism to NON-VETS PAY, TOO
the attention of SC students in con- Fe*s will be paid by non-veterans junction with the annual Religious1 in the business office in Owens Emphasis week. hall; veterans fees are payable in
A study of the problem of racial j the veterans credit office, second discrimination will end the council's1 floor, Owens hall annex, program in May. Latest changes in schedule re-
Mr. Robert Tapp, a graduate stu- *eased by Dean Raubenheimer s of-dent in the School of Religion,


fall
semester.
Religion Group Begins Spring Member Drive
student council of religion opens today, according to Bill Truitt, president of the council, Announced also was the first meeting of the council. Thursday at 2:15. 318 Student Union.
On the agenda of the student
The anticipated drop of 1000 students for the spring semester enrollment proved erroneous as late j • ft . registrants crowded the main gym-
nasium Friday and Saturday. Total enrollment should be about the same as last semester, Howard W. Patmore, registrar, said yesterday. REGISTRATION CONTINUES At the end of the regular regis-Spring membership drive for the tration period 15,500 students iad
completed registration for day classes at SC. Registration will continue this week with an expected 500 or more enrolling.
All students enrolling this week must report to 112 Physical Education buildingof President Truman.
In March the activities of the
reasons, arrived at what is believed , sociology, economics, political sci-; to be an absolutely impartial de- j ence, law, international relations,
cision which sent 10 of the contestants into the final round.
DINNER PARTY
A dinner party at the Sig Ep house on Wednesday night will be the scene of the finals when the fortunate 10 face the acid tests in beauty, charm, and personality.
Women selected for competition in the final contest were Pat Page, Mary Lou Harris. Anita Woolert, Paddy Murphy, Joyce Alcorn. Joan Updike, Mary Martinez, Cathy Daggett. Nancy Wiser, and Anita Brewel.
MYSTERIOUS AIR
In keeping with the air of mys-• tery surrounding the entire affair,
Free X-ray service for all SC students who wish to take advantage of it was announced yesterday


the United States intending to settle in San Francisco but was diverted from there by the disastrous fire. Mr. Murman then settled in Los Angeles.
Por 34 years he was custom designer of interiors and his work is featured in many movie colony homes.
He retired in 1940 to devote all his time to the preparation of hand-colored transparencies.
Wamp Pin-Up Excites Cops
The police department has announced that its vice squad has been doubled for next Monday, in anticipation of the Wampus Pin-Up calendar. Several law enforcement agencies are cooperating in keeping j Wampus from appearing, but the SC publication will be on the stands according to the editors, who are now in hiding.
Besides the vice-squad, the Children's Aid Society, Legion of De- I cency, and the Mothers of the RussianA man accused of stealing electronics and stuffing them into his kilt was arrested Thursday by Wilsonville Police.

Clackamas County Sheriff's Sgt. Dan Kraus said employees of Fry's Electronics first spotted Daniel Ducret, 37, on Wednesday as he slid items into the front pouch of the kilt. Ducret made off with several small electronics including a toy helicopter, Kraus said.

The next day, store staff again spotted Ducret in the kilt and observed him putting items in the pouch. Staff detained the man and called the Wilsonville Police Department.

Ducret, of Portland, was charged with one count of second-degree theft and was taken to the Clackamas County Jail.

Kraus said it appeared the man had modified a front pouch on the kilt to fit shoplifted items.

-- Michael Bamesberger


its sea legs until 2006, when a memorandum of understanding was signed by then-city CAO Bruce Perlman and various department heads that designated Dinelli as its director.

At that time, Dinelli was a deputy city attorney.

Later, in 2008, he became the city’s chief public safety officer. He continued to oversee the strike force, but he said the police chief never reported to him and that he had no power to discipline police officers who were part of the Criminal Nuisance Abatement Unit.

A city organizational chart dated May 2009, however, shows the police chief under Dinelli’s chain of command.

Perry points to a 2009 letter Dinelli wrote to a constituent that says Dinelli had “overseen and supervised the Safe City Strike Force since its inception” as proof that the activity shownand copies of it were distributed at a Christmas party, likely in 2008. It includes photographs and video footage of officers and civilian employees conducting drug raids, condemning properties and posing for cameras taken between 2007 and late 2008.

He said the video came to his attention while he was the city attorney. In that role, Perry and the city inherited a class-action lawsuit that was filed against the city for enforcement actions taken by the Safe City Strike Force .

The existence of the video, Perry said, was among the contributing factors that led the city to settle the case for $1.7 million after a federal judge granted partial summary judgement in favor of the plaintiffs and set a trial date to determine damages.

“That video would have had the


winner Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Sharp), 2012 Tour winner Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky) and Italy's Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) at this year's corsa rosa, which begins in Naples on May 4.

"I'm going to ride the Giro. And I want to make it clear, I won’t be riding it for training but to get back to my best level," Evans told Gazzetta dello Sport during an interview at his home in Stabbio, in the Italian speaking part of southern Switzerland.

"BMC suggested doing it. My 2012 season ended with the disappointment of seventh in the Tour de France. The idea was to add an important race like the Giro to my programme. I thought about it and said yes. Getting some extra race days in my legs won't do me an harm atall."

Evans confirmed that he will ride the Giro and the Tour this season, riding the Giro del Trentino and Liège-Bastogne-Liège along the way.

"I'll do the Giro and the Tour. I'm going to do a training camp now, then I'll ride the Giro del Trentino, probably Liège-Bastogne-Liège and hope to be ready for the start (of the Giro) in Naples," he said.

Maglia Rosa memories

Evans last rode the Giro d'Italia in 2010, finishing fifth behind Ivan Basso, his ride affected by illness picked up during several rain-soaked stages. He won the now-legendary stage on the Tuscan dirt road to Montalcino in the rain and wore the pink jersey for a day in the first week.

He also wore the iconic jersey for a day back in 2002, early in his road


disposed on the buried oxide layer 302, and a source region 303, a drain region 304, a channel region 305, and a gate electrode 306 are formed in or on the crystalline semiconductor layer. A broken line 307 denotes a depletion layer that is formed when the drain voltage Vd is small.
Normally, the current flowing through the channel region 305 is controlled only by the gate voltage Vg. In this case, the portion of the depletion layer (indicated by the broken line 307) in the vicinity of the channel region 305 is substantially parallel with the channel, to allow formation of a uniform electric field.
However, as the drain voltage Vd is increased, the depletion layer in the vicinity of the drain region 304 extends toward the channel regionpreset by the combustion exhaust gases, the quilting seams are destroyed, whereby deformation energy stored in the crimped yarn is being released as the tensile stress of the thermally stable threads is being relieved. The liberated deformation energy is substantial and permits a considerable increase in the volume of the flat structure. The sealing power of the bearing mat installed between the catalyst housing and the exhaust gas catalyst is accordingly high as soon as the quilting seams have been destroyed when the bearing mat is heated to the operating temperature for the first time. The increase in volume of the bearing mat as defined by the invention, which starts with the dissolution of the quilting seams, is not dependent upon the temperature.
Therefore, the bearing mat as defined


For a moment, it seemed like the battle over Jefferson Parkway was entering a kumbaya era. Late last year, Golden, Boulder and Boulder County all announced they were considering deals to lift their longstanding opposition to the toll road in exchange for certain payoffs from Jefferson County.

The proposed road — through a ten-mile stretch of open land between state highways 128 and 93 — would complete the final segment of the metro-area beltway. If not for a trick of topography that puts Golden directly at the nine o'clock mark on the beltway circle, the project might have been completed years ago. Instead, Golden officials have watched with growing anxiety as construction of the beltway has ticked counterclockwise in various segments: First came C-470 in 1985, then the E-470tollway in the '90s, and, finally, the Northwest Parkway in Broomfield, which opened in 2003 but was later leased to a private operator.

Over the past fourteen years, Golden has spent $3.3 million on lawyers and lobbyists fighting the project, armed with traffic studies detailing the thousands of additional vehicles the beltway would funnel through the city every day via 93 and U.S. Highway 6. Boulder and Boulder County have also opposed the beltway because of the development it would spur in the area.

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But development — and the increased tax base and employment it would bring — is also one of the reasons why Jefferson County and the City of Arvada have been determined to make the road a reality. In 2007, the two governments partnered with


order to make the project more appealing for investors, Jefferson County began talking with the groups that oppose the road in mid-2010.

For Boulder, the carrot being offered is Section 16, a 640-acre property at the southwestern corner of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge that Jefferson County has traditionally eyed for future commercial development. Under the agreement, Jeffco would put up half of the $10 million needed to purchase the parcel from the Colorado Land Board, the trustee of certain state-owned properties. Boulder and Boulder County would each pitch in $2 million, and help Jeffco raise the last $1 million; ultimately the land would be established as open space. In return, both Boulder's city and county governments would agree to take a neutral position on the construction ofthe toll road.

Meanwhile, Jefferson County officials attempted to woo Golden away from its anti-parkway stance by proposing to pay the design and engineering costs for some of the many road-improvement projects the city has been seeking. Mayor Jacob Smith still considers the Jefferson Parkway a "stupid" project that would trigger unwanted development and increase traffic in Golden, but a decision early last year by the Denver Regional Council of Governments to add the parkway to its regional transportation plan has limited Golden's options for blocking the project.

"While we have some leverage to potentially delay or kill the Jefferson Parkway (and we've been effective so far), that leverage isn't unlimited," Smith wrote in a December 10 letter to Golden residents detailing the proposed compromise. "And no one has to


Kevin McCasky sent his own missive to Salazar, noting that the Boulder effort to "thwart the transfer of the transportation right of way not only delays progress on the Jefferson Parkway, but also prevents completion of the agreement and acquisition of Section 16."

McCasky, the driving force behind the Jefferson Parkway project, was elected Jefferson County commissioner in 2004 and re-elected in 2008. But he recently resigned his commissioner seat to take a job as head of the Jefferson Economic Council, a business group deeply involved in local politics and development that has commissioned several studies advocating completion of the beltway.

A February 16 article in the Columbine Courier reported that McCasky had encouraged his fellow county commissioners to increase JEC funding from $380,000 to $400,000 even while he wasConstitution” and position themselves against political forces bent upon decimating the “idea of India”.

Junaid, who was on his way home after Eid shopping in Old Delhi, died on 22 June after being beaten and stabbed by a mob that hurled communal slurs at him following an altercation over seats. Dewan reacted to the crime on 24 June. Four days later, citizens were out in strength in 26 cities. The spontaneous mobilisation demonstrated the positive potential of social media, which otherwise has today been appropriated by an army of abusive Hindutva trolls and hate-mongers.

A part of Dewan’s long and impassioned FB post read: “Shouldn’t there be protests against the lynchings, especially after the killing yesterday in Delhi-NCR of a 16-year-old Muslim boy? Why wait for political formations to organize


free magnetic region, a pinned magnetic region and a tunneling barrier interposed between the free magnetic region and the pinned magnetic region. The magnetic moments of the free magnetic region and the pinned magnetic region that are adjacent to the tunneling barrier are oriented to provide a first magnetization state when: a first magnetic field with a first field magnitude is produced in proximity to the magnetoelectronics information device at a first time, a second magnetic field with a second field magnitude is produced in proximity to the magnetoelectronics information device at a second time, the first magnetic field is adjusted to provide a third field magnitude that is less than the first field magnitude and greater than zero at a third time, and the second magnetic fieldis produced at a second time (t2) 176 with an introduction of an electrical current in the word line. After the word magnetic field having the first word magnitude (|HW1|) 174 is produced at the second time (t2) 176, the current in the bit line current is adjusted to reduce the bit magnetic field to a second bit magnitude (|HB2|) 178 at a third time (t3) 180. The second bit magnitude (|HB2|) 178 is preferably less than the first bit magnitude (|HB1|) 170 and greater than zero. More preferably the second bit magnitude (|HB2|) 178 is preferably less than about seventy-five percent (75%) of the first bit magnitude (|HB1|) 170 and greater than about twenty five percent of the (25%) of the first bit magnitude (|HB1|) 170, and


at a second time (t2) 196. After the bit magnetic field having the first bit magnitude (|HB1|) 194 is produced at the second time (t2) 196, the current in the word line is adjusted to reduce the word magnetic field to a second word magnitude (|HW2|) 198 at a third time (t3) 200. The second word magnitude (|HW2|) 198 is preferably less than about fifty percent (50%) of the first word magnitude (|HW1|) 190, more preferably less than about twenty-five percent (25%) of the first word magnitude (|HW1|) 190, and even more preferably less than about five percent (5%) of the first word magnitude (|HW1|) 190.

Once the word magnetic field is reduced to the second word magnitude (|HW2|) 198, the current in the bit line is adjusted tosequence is conducted as previously described with reference to FIG. 4. A bit magnetic field having a first bit magnitude (|HB1|) 210 is produced at a first time (t1) 212 with the introduction of a current in the bit line and a word magnetic field having a first word magnitude (|HW1|) 214 is produced at a second time (t2) 216. After the word magnetic field having the first word magnitude (|HW1|) 214 is produced at the second time (t2) 216, the current in the bit line current is adjusted to reduce the bit magnetic field to a second bit magnitude (|HB2|) 218 at a third time (t3) 220. The second bit magnitude (|HB2|) 218 is preferably less than about fifty percent (50%) of the first bit magnitude (|HB1|)


210, more preferably less than about twenty-five percent (25%) of the first bit magnitude (|HB1|) 210, and even more preferably less than about five percent (5%) of the first bit magnitude (|HB1|) 210. Once the bit magnetic field is reduced to the second word bit (|HB2|) 218, the current in the word line is adjusted to reduce the word magnetic field to a second word magnitude (|HW2|) 222 at a fourth time (t4) 224. The second word magnitude (|HW2|) 222 is preferably less than about fifty percent (50%) of the first word magnitude (|HW1|) 214, more preferably less than about twenty-five percent (25%) of the first word magnitude (|HW1|) 214, and even more preferably less than about five percent (5%) of the first word magnitude (|HW1|) 214, andA Comparative Study of Activity-Based Costing vs. Current Pricing System for Pathology Examinations at Okmeydani Training and Research Hospital, Turkey.
To provide real cost data for pathology examinations by using activity-based costing method, in order to provide means to departments, health administrators and the social security institution to achieve improvements in financial planning, quality and cost control. The cost of the histopathological examinations, which were accepted by the Department of Pathology at Okmeydanı Training and Research Hospital during August 2014, was calculated using the activity-based costing method. The costs were compared with the amounts specified in the Healthcare Implementation Notification Tariff and the conventional volume-based costing. Most pathology examinations listed within a given band in the Healthcare Implementation Notification Tariff show variations in unit costs. The study found that


the costs of 77.4% of the examinations were higher than the prices listed in the Healthcare Implementation Notification Tariff. The pathology examination tariffs specified in the Healthcare Implementation Notification do not reflect the real costs of the examinations. The costs that are calculated using the activity-based costing system may vary according to the service types and levels of health care institutions. However, the main parameters of the method used in the study reflect the necessity of a more accurate banding of pathology examinations. The banding specified by the Healthcare Implementation Notification Tariff needs to be revised to reflect the real costs in Turkey.be moved outdoors, weather permitting.

The next Spring Festival will be held May 16-17-18, 2019.

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The Jacob's Ladder Winter Festival begins Friday afternoon and lasts til Saturday afternoon. The festival features concerts, sing-along, dance workshops, music workshops, jam sessions, juggling, handicrafts for kids and adults, book swap, and other activities in the Jacob’s Ladder spirit make this a perfect weekend for singles, families, teens and seniors. Invite your friends and enjoy it together!


Saddharma Pundarika or the Lotus Sutra is a Buddhist scripture, first written in 300 AD. According to Paul Williams, “For many East Asian Buddhists since early times the Lotus Sutra contains the final teaching of the Buddha, complete and sufficient for salvation.”

Most historians believe the sutra was written in the 1st or 2nd century CE, probably by more than one writer. A translation was made from Sanskrit to Chinese in 255 CE, and this is the earliest historical documentation of its existence.

As with so many of the Mahayana sutras, the original text of the Lotus Sutra is lost. The several early Chinese translations are the oldest versions of the sutra that remain to us. In particular, a translation into Chinese by the monk Kamarajiva in 406 CE isbelieved to be the most faithful to the original text.

A Goryeo (a Korean dynasty) illustrated manuscript of the Lotus Sūtra, c.1340

Arrival of alien being

In the Lotus Sutra – literally The White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma – we read of the arrival of a sort of Alien named Gadgadasvara (Wonderful Voice) on a spaceship.

It was through deep meditation that Gadgadasvara was able to appear psychically on our planet, in front of the Buddha and his students. One of Buddha’s bodhisattva, Manjusri, asked about him. The Buddha replied that the visitor was a sage coming from another world.

Buddhist cosmology is surprisingly modern. Buddhism recognizes the existence of millions of other worlds and casually asserts that they are inhabited. Indeed, each inhabited world is stated to have a Buddha of


The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of ArabiaLawrence James

This biography penetrates and overturns the mythology which surrounds T.E. Lawrence but is dispassionate and generous in spirit throughout. It has reopened debate and interest in one of the most remarkable men of the century. James reconstructs Lawrence's wartime career and analyzes how it was translated into a legend in the 1920s and 1930s. He traces how Lawrence used and contributed to this legend and how the myth of the so-called betrayal of the Arabs by the British has coloured the subsequent history of the Middle East.

Book Details:

Lawrence James was a founder member of York University and then took a research degree at Merton College, Oxford. After a distinguished teaching career he became a full-time writer in1985 and has emerged as one of the outstanding narrative historians of his generation. His books include Crimea: The War with Russia in Contemporary Photographs, The Savage Wars: British Campaigns in Africa 1870-1920, Mutiny: Mutinies in British and Commonwealth Forces 1797-1956 and Imperial Rearguard: The Last Wars of Empire.Lawrence James edited the Daily Telegraph British Empire supplement (1997) and was th...More about Lawrence James

Book Reviews

"An excellent, strong, and balanced biography...this is surely the definitive assembly of the facts: from now on, it will all be assessment, interpretation and art."Jan Morris, The Spectator

"The best study of Lawrence of Arabia."Andrew Wheatcroft, Sunday Times

"The most accomplished life of Lawrence yet written."Observer

"Excellent new biography."Daily Mail

"The author of this admirable new biography rightly concerns himself as much with the legend of TE Lawrence


Grant Ellis, and takes Susanne to the Lone Gunmen's suite.

Timmy prepares to gun down Langly and Frohike, but is injected with the mind control drug by Byers. As it takes hold of him and he collapses, and the Lone Gunmen successfully mind-control him into turning himself in. Byers explains to Susanne Modeski that, for all intents and purposes, she is deceased and that she has a new identity. She asks Byers to go with her to start a new life, but he explains he has to keep up the fight. She kisses him goodbye and hands over a wedding ring meant for Grant Ellis.

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Background and writing
"Three of a Kind" functions as a sequel of sorts to the fifth season episode "Unusual Suspects", concluding a minor story-arc featuring Theepisode a moderately positive review and awarded it two-and-a-half stars out of four. Vitaris noted that the episode did "an adequate job, but all in all, this is a filler episode, more substitutes than the real thing".

Tom Kessenich, in his book Examination: An Unauthorized Look at Seasons 6–9 of the X-Files wrote that, "'Three of a Kind' took the premise [of the Lone Gunmen] and ran with it, offering up a quasi-entertaining effort that indulges [the trio]'s paranoia, banishes Mulder from sight and offers up a very flirtatious Dana Scully. It was all cute and harmless. Kinda like The Lone Gunmen themselves." Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club awarded the episode a "B+" and called it "the second part of a story which didn’t really need one" but


Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency is Gina Haspel. The D/CIA serves as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency and reports to the Director of National Intelligence. The D/CIA is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The Director manages the operations, personnel, and budget of the CIA and acts as the National Human Source Intelligence (HUMINT) Manager.

Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

The Deputy Directory of the Central Intelligence Agency is Vaughn F. Bishop. The DD/CIA assists the Director in her duties as head of the CIA and exercises the powers of the Director when the Director’s position is vacant or in the Director’s absence.

Chief Operating Officer of the Central Intelligence Agency

The Chief Operating Officer of the CentralIntelligence Agency is Andrew (Andy) Makridis. The COO is responsible for managing the CIA on a day-to-day basis; the position was previously known as the Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency / the Associate Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Deputy Director of CIA for Analysis

The Directorate of Analysis, the analytical branch of the CIA, is responsible for the production and dissemination of all-source intelligence analysis on key foreign issues.

Deputy Director of CIA for Operations

The Directorate of Operations is responsible for the clandestine collection of foreign intelligence.

Deputy Director of CIA for Science & Technology

The Directorate of Science and Technology creates and applies innovative technology in support of the intelligence collection mission.

Deputy Director of CIA for Support

The Directorate of Support provides the mission critical elements of the Agency's


support foundation: people, security, information, property, and financial operations.

Deputy Director of CIA for Digital Innovation

The Directorate of Digital Innovation is the Agency’s newest Directorate focused on accelerating innovation across the Agency’s mission activities with cutting-edge digital and cyber tradecraft and IT infrastructure.

Associate Director of CIA for Talent

The Talent Center of Excellence leads the recruitment, management, training, and development of CIA’s diverse, skilled, and integrated workforce of intelligence professionals.

Director of the Center for the Study of Intelligence

The Center for the Study of Intelligence maintains the Agency's historical materials and promotes the study of intelligence as a legitimate and serious discipline.

Director of Public Affairs

The Office of Public Affairs advises the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency on all media, public policy, and employee communications issues relating to her role asCIA director and is the CIA’s principal communications focal point for the media, the general public, and Agency employees. The current Director of Public Affairs is Brittany Bramell.

General Counsel

The Office of General Counsel advises the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency on all legal matters relating to her role as CIA director and is the principal source of legal counsel for the CIA. The current General Counsel is Courtney Simmons Elwood.

Inspector General

The Office of Inspector General is an independent office in the CIA that is headed by the Inspector General and promotes economy, efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability in the management of CIA activities by performing independent audits, inspections, investigations, and reviews of CIA programs and operations.


A classified ad with Skipper's photo ran every day in The Pantagraph, while social media was buzzing with updates and people wondering if they'd found their dog.

The Zschaus also urged people to look for the pit bull they believed could be traveling with Skipper.

"I went to Animal Control every day for the first six weeks. I got 200 flyers printed at a time to post and hand out," said Dava Zschau, whose search also was part of a Pantagraph story in June about how to prevent pets from becoming lost.

About two weeks ago, an anonymous caller contacted the couple with another story: that Skipper was not missing, that he was killed by the pit bull that was later put down by its owner. Both dogs were buried nearAn FBI chart has surfaced depicting connections between the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the chart shows CAIR falling under the umbrella of the jihadi outfit.

This FBI chart details the Hamas-related groups, which included CAIR, that were created to ultimately support the Palestinian terrorist organization. It also established Nabil Sadoun’s (former CAIR national board of directors member and vice chairman) connections to Hamas.

The IPT also obtained groundbreaking new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documents that trail CAIR back to its roots as a subversive Hamas-related group.

In 2007, CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial, a Hamas financing case


executive director, was previously an official at PALCOM.

The FBI declaration submitted in connection with removal proceedings for Nabil Sadoun (a former top CAIR official) said PALCOM members used coded language to discuss the “true nature” of their clandestine operations in support of Hamas. During a Philadelphia conference, which was being wiretapped by the FBI, they “referred to Hamas as ‘Samah’–Hamas spelled backwards–or simply as ‘the Movement,’” the FBI declaration said.

IPT FOIA

“It is clear that the true nature of the PALCOM meeting was to discuss the means to support Hamas’ goal to undermine the peace process (between Israel and the Palestinians) and to thwart law enforcement in the United States,” the FBI declaration read.

According to the FBI declaration, attendees of the Philly meeting “discussed how ‘Samah’ would one daybe labeled as a terrorist organization by the US government,” the document said, adding they “discussed the need to create a new, uncompromised front group in the United States under the veil of some cover palatable to the American public.”

CAIR was “subsequently founded” after the Philly Conference, where attendees discussed the “need to create a new front organization” for Hamas, the FBI declaration said, with PALCOM tasking Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad to chair the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). A third founder, Nabil Sadoun, would join shortly thereafter as Vice-Chairman of CAIR. According to the FBI, Sadoun was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and “was affiliated with Hamas.” Sadoun was also involved with other organizations that solicited funding for Hamas. At one point, he brought Hamas


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McLibel

The McLibel Trial is the infamous British court case between McDonald's and a former postman & a gardener from London (Helen Steel and Dave Morris). It ran for two and a half years and became the longest ever English trial. The defendants were denied legal aid and their right to a jury, so the whole trial was heard by a single Judge, Mr Justice Bell. He delivered his verdict in June 1997.

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McLibelThe McLibel Trial is the infamous British court case between McDonald's and a former postman & a gardener from London (Helen Ste...

Small, Furry MammalsThe McLibel media strategy arose from a simple premise: this story has to be told. Most people have been affected by McDonald's ...We have already conducted three months of training in tailoring and a second phase of training on agriculture and livestock has recently been started. This program not only provides technical knowledge but also provides enough motivational classes, business classes, counseling service as well as micro finance support so the participants can implement their knowledge and skills into their everyday lives.”

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Up to now, a total of 108 single women from Ghachowk, Lahachowk and Machapuchhre villages and other parts of Nepal have gotten training in tailoring and Agriculture and Livestock taining.

Three times refreshment training was done to enhence the skills of the women after the training . In which 69 women participated in refreshmet traning (20 agriculture and livestock training and 49 sewing and tailoring training).

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BOSTON — A wealthy California couple pleaded guilty to charges Wednesday morning in Boston federal court for allegedly paying more than $600,000 in bribes to get their daughters accepted into college.

Bruce and Davina Isackson, of Hillsborough, California, became the first parents in the nation's college admissions cheating scandal to plead guilty in court. A dozen additional parents, including actress Felicity Huffman, have signed plea agreements with the Justice Department but await court dates later this month before their guilty pleas are official.

Federal prosecutors say the Isacksons paid Rick Singer, the admitted mastermind of the cheating scheme, through stock transfers between 2015 and February 2019 to get their older daughter into the University of California at Los Angeles and their younger daughter into the University of Southern California.

The coupleconspiracy to defraud the U.S. for deducting the payments from their taxes as charitable contributions.

In exchange for reduced sentences and no additional criminal charges, the Isacksons have also agreed to cooperate with prosecutors to provide "substantial assistance" in the investigation or prosecution of another person who has committed a potential crime.

The couple faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for the mail fraud charges, and Bruce Isackson faces an additional maximum of 20 years for money laundering and five years for tax fraud. But the prosecution has recommended the "low end" of sentencing guidelines, which prosecutors said would mean between 37 and 46 months of prison time for Bruce Isackson and between 27 and 33 months for Davina Isackson.

Their sentencing date is July 31. As the


couple exited the courthouse to their car, they and their attorneys declined to comment.

The government also recommended that Bruce Isackson receive a $150,000 fine, 12 months of supervised release, and pay a restitution to the Internal Revenue Service totaling $139,509, as well as an unspecified forfeiture amount. Prosecutors have suggested similar penalties for Davina Isackson.

More:Former Texas tennis coach pleads guilty in court in college admissions scandal

Although Saris accepted the plea agreements, the judge said she's "not sure about every theory" laid out by the government as it relates to each of the counts. She seemed to question the U.S. attorney's rationale in charging the couple with the mail fraud charges, in particular, but ultimately decided there's "sufficient evidence" to accept the agreement.

Still, she said a further review ofsoccer team.

Although the daughter – who has been identified as Lauren Isackson – played soccer, Wright said she lacked the skill of a "recruitable player."

The Isacksons had originally pursued a similar arrangement to get the same daughter into USC as a soccer recruit, prosecutors say. But she was diverted into the regular admissions process at USC because of a "clerical error." Prosecutors say that after this happened, former USC head women's soccer coach Ali Khosroshahin – at Singer's request – forwarded the student's fake soccer profile, transcript and test scores to Salcedo at UCLA.

Singer's nonprofit gave Khosroshahin, who last coached at USC in 2013, a check totaling $25,000 for his role, prosecutors say. Salcedo and Khosroshahin have both pleaded not guilty to racketeering charges.

Davina Isackson thanked Singer in


an email the day after the daughter was admitted as a student-athlete into UCLA, according to the Justice Department.

"I know it has been a rough ride but I thank you from the bottom of my heart and soul for your persistence, creativity and commitment towards helping our (daughter)," she allegedly wrote to Singer on June 29, 2016.

More:Two more defendants agree to plead guilty in college admissions bribery case

Two years later, prosecutors say that the Isacksons paid Singer's Key Worldwide Foundation an additional $250,000 in April 2018 for working to get their younger daughter admitted to USC as a rowing student even though she was not competitive in rowing.

The scheme for the younger daughter began in January 2017, according to prosecutors, when the Isacksons got approval by the ACTfor her daughter to take the test with extended time and over successive days.

Prosecutors say Mark Riddell – a former private school counselor from Florida who has already pleaded guilty in the scandal – flew to Los Angeles on June 9, 2017, and corrected the daughter's answers on the ACT test. The daughter would score a 31 out of 36.

Prosecutors say Singer later sent the fraudulently obtained test score and transcript to Donna Heinel, a senior associate athletic director at USC with the message, "Another crew girl." They say Singer also directed Laura Janke, a former women's soccer assistant coach, to create a fake athletics profile for the daughter. The profile listed a number of falsified crew honors.

Riddell pleaded guilty last month to mail fraud and money laundering.


In the version that is shown on YTV in Canada, the story begins mid-way through the Dragon Ball Z series. Raditz, Goku's brother has traveled to Earth to find out why Goku has not yet destroyed the planet as he was supposed to do. But while as a baby, Goku was dropped (down a huge cliff) and forgot his real mission. Kakarot, Goku's real name battles his brother Raditzs along with former enemy Piccolo and friend Krillin. Meanwhile, Gohan; Goku's son reveals his hidden powers against Raditz and nearly kills Raditz. However Goku is killed in the end, but Raditz is eventually defeated by Piccolo. Before he dies, he tells them that two evil Saiyans even more powerful then he is, are on route to Earth. The remainingfighters, Krillin, Yamcha, Tien, and Chiaotzu begin their training to battle the evil Saiyans, while Piccolo takes off with Gohan to train him in using his new found power. Meanwhile, Goku has to make his way back on Snake Way to King Kai's where he trains himself in the secret ... Written by dreamian


A local pastor is caught on police video hurling racist and bigoted words at police and his own parishioners.

In the Highland Park Police video, obtained from an anonymous source, Rev. David Bullock is in the back seat of a police car on the day in June when he was arrested for allegedly interfering with a police investigation.

And it's clear Bullock feels wronged by the arresting officer who is white.

While handcuffed in the back of the police car, Bullock is talking to some of his parishioners outside his church. "Y'all just gonna let this c****** do this (expletive)? Really?" Bullock said.

The incident started after church as the officer was trying to talk to a woman whose daughter had just been assaulted by someone with mental health issues who hadOriental Science Fiction Valley Theme Park is a massive virtual reality theme park coming to one of China's poorest areas. The creators hope the economy will greatly benefit from this new attraction. However, some residents are worried about the consequences this major construction could bring.
This is Oriental Science Fiction Valley. It will be China's first virtual reality theme park. Located outside Guiyang, the capital of one of China's poorest provinces.
The park is decorated with giant robots and futuristic castles. It'll have 35 different VR attractions, including virtual roller coasters and a futuristic space battle. There are also experiential tours. Visitors will be able to bungee jump from the giant robot.
The park is expected to bring economic growth to the area. But, local farmers are worried about pollution from


GUEN, Central African Republic – There are no headstones to mark these graves, no loving words, nothing to tell the world who lies in these two giant pits full of bodies, or why. Yet a handful of village elders are determined that nobody will be forgotten.

These old men, their eyes clouded by cataracts and their ears hacked by machete blades, sit on dirty straw mats at a church and gather the names of the dead from broken survivors. They write each name carefully in Arabic with faded blue ink on lined paper, neatly folded and stored in the pocket of one man’s tattered kaftan. The list is four pages long.

At least 5,186 people have died in Central African Republic since fighting between Muslims and Christians started in December,according to an Associated Press tally gleaned from more than 50 of the hardest-hit communities and the capital, Bangui. That’s well more than double the death toll of about 2,000 cited by the United Nations back in April, when it approved a peacekeeping mission. The deaths have mounted steadily since, with no official record.

As the U.N. prepares to go into the Central African Republic next week, the death toll underscores how the aid is coming too late for thousands of victims. The about 2,000 extra troops to boost African forces fall short of the almost 7,000 authorized in April, with the rest expected by early 2015. Yet the conflict has turned out to be far more deadly than it was then, and warnings of potential mass carnage from


of vehicles woke up 13-year-old Maximin Lassananyant in the dead of night in early February. Soon the gunshots rang out. The Seleka had come.

The rebels set ablaze more than two dozen houses. Then they went door-to-door, killing villagers and stealing everything they hadn’t destroyed.

Maximin stumbled out of the hut where he slept with his mother and two siblings into the darkness, with only the moon to light his path. He hid for two days in the bush, petrified. He prayed that his family was just hiding someplace else.

Then the other survivors from the village found him. They told him it was time to come home and bury his family. The stones of his home still reeked of blood, caked on the ground and the walls inside.

Now it isonly Maximin and his father, a traumatized man of few words, who remain, along with another brother who was away that fateful night. The boy’s hands shake as he tries to write down the names of his family. He cannot bring himself to say them aloud.

A village chief has hand-printed the names of 22 buried victims on a weathered piece of paper from a classroom notebook. Maximin’s mother, Rachel, is No. 11 on the list of females, and his 5-year-old sister Fani is No. 13. His 7-year-old brother Boris is on the list of males. A separate list details the homes destroyed, the people missing.

The sound of an unknown vehicle passing in Nzakoun still sends families fleeing back into the forest.

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It was only a matter of time —


they screamed at the Muslims.

Within hours, 23 people were dead.

Several days later, the Christian fighters stormed a house in town where dozens of Muslim men and boys had sought refuge. A few escaped. The rest were herded at gunpoint to a shady lawn beneath two large mango trees, recalls a survivor.

Here the terrified victims were ordered to lie on their stomachs. Then the militia leader, armed with a Kalashnikov rifle, began shooting them, one by one. He ordered his fighters to finish off the wounded with machete blows to the head.

In the end, 43 people were slain under the mango trees, including two 11-year-old boys.

A 10-year-old and a 13-year-old survived only by lying still amid the bloody corpses until darkness fell. Then they ran for their lives toJune and July alone, according to witnesses, including about 17 Christians sheltering at a Catholic church compound. And in the Mbres area in the north, Muslim rebels left at least 34 people dead in August.

About 20,000 Muslims are trapped in isolated communities across the nation, despite a mass exodus earlier this year, according to a U.N. report in August. Among them is Saidou Bouba, who waits outside the mayor’s office in the town of Boda.

Bouba had spent his entire life in this diamond town south of the capital. But when the Christian militia fighters burned his house down in early February, the 46-year-old herder knew it was time to leave.

So he and his family joined a group of 34 Muslim refugees heading for Cameroon. They took with them


with machetes.

Only Bouba and one other man survived. They sat among the 32 bodies for an entire day in shock before making their way back to town.

“I put everything now in the hands of God,” he says softly, his face and head still scarred by machete wounds from that awful day. “He gave my family to me and then he took them away.”

There are grieving fathers everywhere in this tiny enclave: Abakar Hissein has lost two sons, both shot to death, Ahmat earlier this year in Bangui and Ali on Aug. 20 in Boda. Hissein carried Ali’s body back in his own arms. His wife has been missing for five months — he thinks she has made it to neighbouring Chad — and does not know yet anotherson is dead.

Even in death, there is no peace for the victims.

Earlier this summer, a Muslim man was buried at a cemetery in Boda, just a mile away from the zone where Muslims are barricaded.

Later that evening, after the sun set, his body was dug up from the ground and set on fire.

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Associated Press writer Steve Niko in Boda, Central African Republic and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.

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FORMER X-Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos has been found guilty of assaulting a blogger at the V Festival in Chelmsford.

The singer hit blogger Savvas Morgan during an altercation at the festival at Hylands Park last August.

Contostavlos, 26, was ordered to pay a total of £3,020 following the verdict, which consisted of a £2,700 contribution towards the cost of the prosecution, a £200 fine, £100 compensation to Mr Morgan and a £20 victim surcharge.

She appeared to mutter "this is bulls***" as she walked out of the courtroom.

Contostavlos, who wore a blue suit, white shirt and nude stilettos, shook her head and smiled in disbelief as the guilty verdict was read out. She said she will appeal the decision.

Reading a statement outside Stratford Magistrates' Court in east London, Contostavlos said: "ThereMr Morgan in the face during an argument and that that blow caused minor bruising and swelling."

Earlier last week, a trial against Contostavlos was halted at Southwark Crown Court after the judge said there were "strong grounds to believe" that undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood - known as the "fake sheikh" - had "lied" at an earlier hearing.

Contostavlos had vehemently denied brokering a drugs deal, which had been reported in The Sun on Sunday last year.

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first Google result for "two robots who lived on a planet made up of junk".

A:

It sounds vaguely like Little Robots.

The show is centered on eleven Little Robots, each with his own distinct looks and personality. They were abandoned on a scrap heap in a junkyard until Tiny, the central figure of the story, fixed them. The robots set to build a world of their own, using junk to build their houses, gadgets, plants and flowers, and even their own sun and moon.
The centre of their world is the Nut And Bolt Tree, a big, metallic structure that serves as a home to Tiny. Other important features of their world are the Day-Night lever, which causes the sky to rotate 180 degrees, switching from night to day; andIslamabad: Farahnaz Ispahani, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari`s media adviser and wife of former envoy to US Husain Haqqani, on Monday rejected a media report that she has fled the country.

Ispahani shot down the report attributed to her that said she had fled to Washington fearing abduction by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

She added that she respected the ISI and the Army, Geo News reported.

"I came here (Washington) to meet my children and going home soon," she was quoted as saying.

Christina Lamb had written in the Sunday Times that the memogate scandal involving Haqqani was "trumped up".

The article said that Haqqani`s life was in danger and Ispahani has fled to Washington over fears that "ISI might kidnap her to force her husband to sign a confession and implicate the


President".

"What we`re seeing is the systematic killing or silencing of anyone who stands up to the institutionalisation of a militarised Islamist state, who advocates positive relations with the West or stands up for tolerance," Ispahani was quoted as telling The Sunday Times.

"I`m scared, even the government can`t protect itself," she added.

Pakistan witnessed considerable tension after it emerged that a secret memo was sent to Washington that said Zardari feared a military take-over following the killing of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden by US Marines in his hideout in Abbottbad near Islamabad on May 02 last year. The memo was forwarded by Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz.

Husain Haqqani stepped down as the envoy to US and former minister Sherry Rehman was appointed in his place.expressed his wishes to his doctor and initiated the process to undergo physician-assisted death. The couple qualified due to their failing health.

On the morning of March 27, they died peacefully, holding each other’s hands, at their Eagle Lake home. They were surrounded by family. Bob was 85 years old and Noreen was 86.

According to Chris, they were the first couple in Ontario to die at home together by way of medically-assisted death and the second couple in Canada.

In June 2016, the federal government passed Bill C-14 to make it legal for Canadians with a “grievous and

irremediable medical condition” to access the service.

The family was very happy with the process and the fact that Bob and Noreen’s wishes were respected.

Bob and Noreen were married for 65 years. They first


met as young children in school. In Haliburton, Bob started his career in real estate and insurance with Mack Irwin Insurance. He bought the business with two partners in 1955. A few years later, he started R.J. Bishop and Son Real Estate.

“He developed and sold over 400 lakefront and chalet lots in Haliburton, and was involved in the construction of 65 homes, cottages and buildings,” said Chris.

In 1963, Bob established Haliburton CATV Cable with Murray Austin. They ran 3,000 feet of wire from Riverside Drive to Skyline Park to improve the quality of cable TV for residents in Minden and Haliburton. Two years later, he purchased the 1,800-acre Sir Sam’s Inn property. It was the former summer estate of Sam Hughes, MP for the area between 1892 andRounding the bend to the final straightaway of the 1964 Compton Relays, Jim Ryun’s arms pumped. He felt no pain as he kicked the home straight. When Ryun crossed the finish line in eighth place, the 17-year-old from Wichita, Kansas, became the first high school boy to run a sub-four-minute mile.

“Coach Timmons and I wrote the goal down. We planned and prayed, and it turned out that I ran 3:59 that day,” Ryun said. “It was the beginning of a new future.”

For nearly a decade, the world record in the mile was stopped at four minutes. When Roger Bannister broke the barrier May 6, 1954, he accomplished the impossible. Ten years later, Ryun raised the benchmark for high school boys. Since then, progress has stopped. High school boys


mile was to the people of Des Moines."

Track fans used to fill stadiums and were knowledgeable of the sport, but today even championship events have empty seats. The 2013 U.S. Outdoor Championships at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa, sold 6,500 to 10,000 tickets each day in a stadium that seats more than 14,000.

So when and why did the mile die? You can start by blaming Congress. In 1975, it passed the Metric Conversion Act, which established a United States Metric Board to coordinate the conversion from the imperial system to the metric system. Even though the country never made the switch, most tracks were converted to the metric system in the late 1970s and 1980s when they were upgraded to all-weather polyurethane surfaces. The new metric tracksthe iconic distance is also the most difficult. In its fourth year, the organization hopes to eliminate 1,600-meter and 3,200-meter races from high school competition. While the National Federation of State High School Associations, the leadership organization for high school sports, can make recommendations to the states, each is ultimately independent and free to make its own rules.

There really isn’t a resistance to the movement, but lack of action from state track and field directors. (Oregon, Vermont, and New York girls run the Olympic standard 1,500 and 3,000 meters.) Massachusetts and the New Balance Nationals run the mile, while the rest of the states seem to shrug their shoulders. Maybe all they need is a little push from Bring Back the Mile.

When Roger Bannister broke the four-minute barrier


of a career transition and the start of my side business.

The Transition

In September of 2008, I quit my job as a claims adjuster. This was a job that I held for three years out of college, and it was a good job for the time while my wife was getting through her master’s program as a physician assistant, but it wasn’t what I wanted to do long-term. We moved that same month to Orlando, Florida and I remained unemployed for 10 weeks. During that time, I blogged for money, I did odd jobs, and whatever I could find to make some extra money while my wife worked her butt off. Then in January, I started with a temp agency working at a financial services company doing the mostServices

Teenager Shane Maughan denies series of motoring charges

AN 18-YEAR-old man has denied eight traffic offence charges including driving without insurance and failure to stop after an accident.

Shane Christopher Maughan, 18, from Elm Road in Wigan is accused of driving a Mitsubishi pickup truck on Borron Road, Newton on December 7. It is alleged that the uninsured truck was in collision with two vehicles.

He also denies driving an uninsured green Volvo dangerously on Bentley Street, Clock Face on December 16, also causing damage to a Ford Mondeo.

Maughan was remanded on conditional bail for two separate court appearances.

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whether this Court's decision in Putney v Haskins, 414 Mich 181; 324 NW2d 729 (1982), interpreting the name and retain provision of the dramshop act, is to be given retroactive application.
In Burns, plaintiff filed her complaint on February 26, 1981, alleging that plaintiff's decedent died as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile collision with Richard Piornack, II. Plaintiff also alleged that appellees Vincent Carver and Brian Chase, owners of Jock's Pub, were liable for serving intoxicating beverages to Piornack in violation of the dramshop act, MCL 436.22; MSA 18.993. On May 21, 1982, plaintiff executed a "Release and Settlement of Claim" with Piornack. The agreement provided that in exchange for $20,000 Piornack was to be "retained" in the action, but released from all liability. Following thisCourt's decision in Putney, appellees moved for and were granted summary judgment. On February 18, 1983, we granted plaintiff's application for leave to appeal prior to decision by the Court of Appeals. 417 Mich 887 (1983).
In Tebo, plaintiff filed her complaint on January 17, 1977. She alleged that she suffered injuries as a result of a collision with an automobile driven by Edward Havlik. An amended complaint was filed, naming as defendants Steven Brimmer and Gerald Forbes, owners of the Long Branch Bar, and Fred Denter, owner of the Oakley Liquor Bar, predicating their liability on the provisions of the dramshop act. On August 4, 1977, plaintiff and Havlik entered into a "Covenant Not to Levy Execution on Judgment in Pending Action", under which Havlik was released of


Image copyright EPA Image caption Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been erupting continuously for decades but a newly opened vent has threatened homes

Authorities on Hawaii's Big Island have declared a state of emergency as lava from the Kilauea volcano threatens residential communities and roads. Is there any way to stop a lava flow and save the homes in its path?

The Sicilians have always been threatened by Mount Etna, the volcano mountain in the north-eastern part of the island. In 1669, resourceful residents of the village of Catania fought back against the all-destructive force of molten lava.

"Armed with shovels and pickaxes and protecting themselves against heat with wet sheep-skins", according to one academic account, the Catanians opened an artificial breach, cutting off the lava's path.

The residents of nearby Paterno werenot pleased. They believed the diversion pointed the lava directly at their own community and decided to stop Catania's attempts. The breach sealed up and the lava continued flowing toward Catania, destroying a large portion of the town.

It was the modern start to what Dr Shannon Nawotniak, a professor of geology at Idaho State University, calls a "spectacularly poor success rate" of stopping lava.

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mount Etna is the second-most active volcano in the world

At temperatures of about 1,000C (1,832F), lava destroys whatever it touches. Its path is notoriously hard to predict.

The ability to impede or redirect lava largely depends on location, resources and luck. Here are four strategies:

Bomb it

Before he was a general in World War Two, George S Patton designed a different