services.

But in one passage from his book Faith in the Public Square, obtained by the Observer, Dr Williams wrote: "Introduced in the run-up to the last election as a major political idea for the coming generation, [the Big Society] has suffered from a lack of definition about the means by which such ideals can be realised.

"Big Society rhetoric is all too often heard by many therefore as aspirational waffle designed to conceal a deeply damaging withdrawal of the state from its responsibilities to the most vulnerable."

He went on to say that if the Big Society is "anything better than a slogan looking increasingly threadbare as we look at our society reeling under the impact of public spending cuts, then discussion on this subject has got to take onboard some of those issues about what it is to be a citizen and where it is that we most deeply and helpfully acquire the resources of civic identity and dignity".

Dr Williams is stepping down as head of the Anglican Communion in December.

'Deep disagreements'

BBC religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott says Dr Williams has criticised the Big Society before, speaking of the suspicion that voluntary groups were being expected to pick up responsibilities shed by the government.

The inclusion of criticism of a policy closely associated with the prime minister in the archbishop's book highlights the deep disagreements between Church and state on a fundamental issue, our correspondent added.

During an interview on the Andrew Marr show, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell was asked, following Dr Williams's comments, if he thought


Angela Merkel 3 – Martin Schulz 0

Winning three regional elections in 2017, Angela Merkel can feel good about her chances ton win the Federal Election in September.

There have been three regional elections in Germany this year and the results don’t bode well for Martin Schulz, the former President of the European Parliament, and now the leader of the Social Democrats (SPD) ahead of September’s federal election. The latest two setbacks came just seven days apart, as Schulz’s party lost consecutive votes in the states of Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), despite leading the incumbent government. To make matters worse, the weeks leading up to the elections saw the Social Democrats quickly dropping in opinion polls in both states, with Schulz being almost invisible in both campaigns.readily appreciated.
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More particularly, such a box includes a pair of communicating chambers therein, one chamber having an inlet port thereto to which is connected said first length of forcing ducting and an outlet port therefrom for ventilating air, and the other chamber having an outlet port to the same side of the box as the


inlet port to the one chamber and to which is attached an exhaust fan, and an inlet port thereto through which dusty air from the face being mined can be drawn by said fan.
Each chamber has mounted therein a flap, said flaps being movable between first and second positions within their associated chambers. In their first positions, the flap in the one chamber seals off a communicating aperture between the two chambers while the flap in the other chamber is in an inoperative position, the arrangement being such that ventilating air can flow straight through the one chamber from the inlet port to the outlet port thereof, while exhaust air and dust can be drawn to flow straight through the other chamber from the inlet port to theoutlet port thereof, the two chambers being sealed off one from the other.
On movement of the flaps to their second positions, the inlet to the one chamber is interconnected with the inlet to the other chamber by way of the communicating aperture between the two chambers, the outlet port from the one chamber and the outlet port and exhaust fan from the other chamber being redundant, whereby the only air flow path through the box is from one inlet port to the other inlet port. Thus ventilation can be achieved by forcing air from the inlet port to the one chamber and out of the inlet port to the other chamber, although the facility for exhausting air from the ventilated area is eliminated.
Initially, the above described air box


is located adjacent a face being mined and the flaps are located in their first positions to enable ventilation and exhaust to be effected. As the face proceeds, spirally-reinforced or rigid ducting is attached to the inlet port to the other chamber to extend from the box to the face whereby dust can still be removed from the face while ventilating air continues to be emitted from the outlet port from the one chamber in sufficient quantity to effect ventilation at the face.
When the level of dust at a face is acceptable, such as when the machine is not cutting and during periods of inactivity at the face at weekends, the provision of exhaust facilities becomes unnecessary. Thus the flaps can be moved from their first positions toKarine Payette

Born in 1983, Karine Payette lives and works in Montreal. As a multidisciplinary artist, her work spans installation, photography, and video. She constructs playful, dreamlike large-scale works made from recycled and found objects. Fascinated by the instrinsic connections between identity and habitat, she reflects on the notions of comfort and conflict in our ever-changing world.
Payette’s work has been the focus of several solo exhibitions across Quebec. She has participated in more than twenty collectives in Canada and France. In 2016, her work was shown in a solo exhibition in Germany at Art Mûr Leipzig. Since 2015, Payette has directed three projects integrating art and architecture for Montreal schools. Her work is in several private collections, as well as the Musée d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul and the Loan


Silence by sanction

9 August 2018

Readings on legal hurdles to free speech across Southasia.

Illustration: Marcin Bondarowicz

Photojournalist and activist Shahidul Alam was picked up by the Bangladeshi law enforcement earlier this week over remarks made on Facebook about the government crackdown on protesting students in Dhaka. Alam continues to be in custody under Section 57 (2) of the controversial Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act, a legislation that has attracted widespread criticism over its draconian nature. The act has been used to detain over 20 journalists in the recent past for, among other things, social media posts and comments critical of the government. Over the years, similar laws have been enforced in other countries of Southasia, with authorities abusing the provisions of these often hurriedly and arbitrarily passed laws toVernon Rockville, CT

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Suspect at large after Frisch's shooting

One person sustained non-life threatening injuries during a shooting at the Frisch's Big Boy restaurant in Spring Grove Village on Friday, according to emergency communications.

Police responded to the Frisch's at 4645 Spring Grove Ave. for reports of a person shot at approximately 5:20 p.m., according to emergency communications. Emergency personnel were later requested after a second person was reported shot, officials said.

In fact, one person was shot in the leg. There were no additional injuries related to the shooting, police said at the scene.

The make and model of the possible shooting suspect's vehicle came into question during the police investigation. Police now have only a broad description of the car, which authorities say is blue or black car.

Previously, police reported specific details aboutGulfport native sets American long-jump record

United States' Brittney Reese makes an attempt in the Women's Long Jump final during the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Gulfport, Mississippi, native and former Ole Miss standout Brittney Reese set a long-jump world record, breaking Jackie Joyner-Kersee's 18-year-old American record by four inches.

ISTANBUL -- When
Aries Merritt shot out of the blocks to deny Liu Xiang victory in the
60-meter hurdles, he clinched more than just an unlikely victory.

The
American hurdler, who was thought to have little chance against the
Chinese great, won the title and cemented a record gold medal haul for
the U.S. team at the world indoor championships.

"We psyched up
everybody, including myself," said U.S. captain Bernard Lagat, who won
his own gold in the 3,000. "We came


together as a team."

It bodes well for a great show at the London Olympics. No other country had more than two golds.

Lagat
was a prime example. At 37, he had a devastating kick to shake off two
younger Kenyans over the final lap to defend his 3,000 title.

Starting
Friday morning, Ashton Eaton began building on his heptathlon world
record and shot putter Ryan Whiting clinched the first gold later that
day. The Americans were already on a roll.

"We always come to
these meets saying, 'USA is the best team in the world,'" said Christian
Taylor, who took silver behind teammate Will Claye in Sunday's triple
jump. "You just keep that mindset and you want to do your part also."

While Lagat won yet another gold in the twilight of his career, Claye is only 20 years old.

"It'sgoing to be tough to make the U.S. team" for the London Games, Claye said.

The
10 golds at the Atakoy Arena were two better than the previous record.
And several times, the toughest competition an American faced was
another American.

In the women's long jump, Brittney Reese, a Gulfport, Mississippi, native and former Ole Miss star,
jumped a championship record 23 feet, 8¾ inches on her last attempt to
push American teammate Janay Deloach to silver at 22-10¾ and become the
first back-to-back winner in the event.

Reese's jump broke Jackie Joyner-Kersee's 18-year-old American record by four inches.

"I am blessed to become the first woman to win back-to-back indoor
titles, plus the American and the Championships record," Reese told
reporters after her winning jump. "Istanbul will be a special place in
my career, and I will now go for


won his third title by breaking free with
100 meters to go to beat Kenyan rivals Augustine Choge and Edwin Soi. Mo
Farah was the favorite, but he finished fourth. The Briton beat Lagat
in a stirring 5,000 finish at the world outdoor championships in August.

Lagat
knew the Kenyans would set the pace, so he didn't fall back and risk
being surprised by a sudden breakaway. When the final surge came, he was
prepared.

Lagat said he thought to himself: "I am going to stay here because those guys are strong."

Merritt
set the pace in his final. Fastest out of the blocks, he even got the
better of Liu, the 2004 Olympic champion who was trying out a new start
with one step less to the first hurdle to keep the opposition at bay.

When Liu saw the blurof Merritt, it immediately unsettled him.

"I knew Aries Merritt is a fast starter," Liu said. "So I got out in a rush and was not able to control my technique."

The meet could have been even better for the Americans.

The
women's 4x400 relay produced the most exciting finish of the
championships when 400 champion Sanya Richards-Ross came back from
fourth place with 200 meters to go and missed gold by just .01 seconds
when Perri Shakes-Drayton of Britain threw herself across the line
first.

The men's 4x400 team crossed the line first, but the gold
was delayed for two hours after a British protest over a handover
technicality first led to disqualification before the gold was
reinstated on appeal.

On a big day for the Americans, Russia's
Yelena Isinbayeva also made a statement. She ended a three-year gold
medal drought by


winning the pole vault with just two jumps.

Isinbayeva
set a world record of 16 feet, 5¼ inches last month and failed to
improve that after clinching gold. It was Isinbayeva's fourth indoor
world title but her first in four years. Over the same period, she also
lost her world outdoor title.

"I was waiting for this victory like
a mother is waiting to give birth to her baby," Isinbayeva said. "The
last three years showed me how important it is for me to win."Fire and ice combined to be a part of the Chabad of Hewlett’s annual Hanukkah on Ice celebration at Grant Park, also in Hewlett, on Dec. 8, that included ice skating and menorah necklaces were distributed.
Two days after Chabad lit the community menorah at the Triangle in Hewlett, a menorah fashioned out of ice was also lit to commemorate the eight-day Festival of Lights that celebrates the ancient Hebrews Maccabee-led military victory over the Syrian-Greeks and the miracle of one day’s supply of oil lasting eight days for the rededication of the Second Holy Temple.


my last post discussing scientists and musicians, a friend of mine, whom I first met thanks to some help from random chance, has a great and unlikely artistic combination of her own to share with the world and the day for her to do that has finally arrived. There might not be one scientific formula to ensure a musician’s success but singer-songwriter, Julie Mar, has tapped into just the right blend of exceptional spirit, tight songwriting and genuine support to bring her to the newest echelon in her career with her debut album, “Theorem.”

The hometown New Yorker just busted out the new record on April 2nd and the official launch party will be held tonight, April 4th, at classic venue, The Bitter End, in Greenwich Village. Julie openedis a player who has the ability to significantly outperform their ADP. Last season, former New England running back LeGarrette Blount was being drafted at the end of the seventh round, with an ADP of 82. By the end of last season, Blount was the eighth best player in fantasy and seventh at the position of running back. Having taken him in a late round could have made your entire season.

Here is a look at the Oakland Raiders and provide a breakdown of who to target, avoid, and not sleep on. (Note: All ADPs are provided via Fantasy Pros.)


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**Paris, idis** _m._ Trojan prince, son of Priam, took Helen from her husband Menelaus and thus caused the Trojan War

**prō** before, for, on behalf of (+ _abl._ )

**rapiō, ere, uī, ptus** snatch (up), plunder

**repōnō, ere, posuī, pos(i)tus** put (back, away), store up

**saevus, a, um** cruel, stern, fierce

**spernō, ere, sprēvi, sprētus** despise, reject

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**24. prīma:** _(as) chief, leader, foremost,_ modifies **ea** (understood), which refers to Juno. The goddess had taken a leading part in assisting the Greeks against the Trojans. The reasons for her hatred of the Trojans are given in 27–28. **cārīs Argīs:** Argos, a noted center of the worship of Juno, stands here for all Greece and the Greeks.

**25. īrārum:** poetic plural; see note on **īrae** (), and cf. App. 243.

**26. (ex)* *

**cervīx, īcis** _f._ neck

**clipeus, ī** _m._ shield, buckler

**dēlūbrum, ī** _n._ shrine, temple

**dīvellō, ere, ī (** or **vulsī), vulsus** tear apart

**dracō, ōnis** _m._ dragon, serpent

**effugiō, ere, fūgī** flee, escape

**excutiō, ere, cussī, cussus** shake off

**horrendus, a, um** horrible, horrifying

**incertus, a, um** uncertain

**lāpsus, ūs** _m._ gliding, rolling, sinking

**mūgītus, ūs** _m._ bellow(ing), roar

**nōdus, ī** _m._ knot; fold, coil

**orbis, is** _m._ circle, fold, coil; earth

**perfundō, ere, fūdī, fūsus** soak, drench

**quālis, e** (such) as, of what sort

**saevus, a, um** fierce, cruel, stern

**saniēs, ēī** _f._ blood, gore

**saucius, a, um** wounded, stricken

**secūris, is** _f._ ax

**superō** (1) surmount, overcome, survive

**tegō, ere, tēxī, tēctus** cover, hide

**tergum, ī** _n._ back, body, rear ****

**taurus, ī** _m._ bull, bullock, ox

**Trītōnis, idis** _f._ Minerva, goddess of wisdom and the arts

**venēnum, ī** _n._ poison, venom, drug

**vitta, ae** _f._ fillet, garland, band

* *


Brockhampton Shares Album Art & Tracklist For "Saturation"

Check out the "Saturation" album art and tracklist.

After sharing the June 9th release date of their upcoming album Saturation, Brockhampton have unveiled the cover and tracklist of the project. The album has a lengthy seventeen tracks, all of which feature one word titles (with all but one containing four words). The artwork and font are reminiscent of old school Odd Future, which gives the project a bit of a cartoonish, comic-book aesthetic.

Check out the album artwork and tracklist below, as shared by Brockhampton's Twitter page.Born and raised in a Christian family, her faith commitment formed the solid foundation for her service to others. For Vermillion, nursing has been more than a job more than a career of service it has been her ministry. When in active service, she preferred to work in a holistic way, caring for the soul and emotional well-being of the patient and patient s family as well as providing health care for the physical body. Her experience has prompted her to define nursing essentially as a reciprocal relationship between the health care provider and the patient. In her work, she found that her patients gave her so much in return even as she gave what she could to them. For her, nursing amounts to a life s work


that helps bring joy, to both the patient and the nurse.

2 2 3 Born in 1939 in Illinois, she was the middle daughter of three children. Her parents, Paul and Frances Milhouse, both graduated of Indiana Central College. In fact, the church and college connections ran deep in the Milhouse family as her father, a minister in the Evangelical United Brethren and United Methodist Churches, went on to lengthy and distinguished service as a bishop. Vermillion proudly points to her parents as mentors. When she was eight years old, she decided that she wanted to be baptized as an outward symbol of her dedication to Christ. She remembers that she suggested this to Dad, and he arranged an interview for her in his study. She dutifully dressed upin nice clothes and went in for her appointment with her father, her minister. He discussed baptism with her and agreed that she was ready and, from that time forward, Pauline has lived an active Christian life. But her vocational calling had come even earlier than her baptism. When she was only four years old, she spent a lot of time with several members of the church who worked as nurses, including one lady who served a church camp nurse. Following the nurse about, the young girl was drawn to medicine and caring for others, soon affirming that she wanted to be a nurse herself. In her family, service to others was expected as a basic part of life, so Vermillion knew that she would eventually find her


calling to full-time Christian service of some kind. Her parents encouraged and supported her in her desire to be a nurse, and she viewed the profession as a way to express my faith. There was never any question in her household about where she would go to college. The Milhouse family, staunch members of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, sent nearly every member of three generations to Indiana Central College. Though her parents urged their children to attend the family alma mater, Vermillion considered other colleges as well since the family was living in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at the time she graduated from high school, and Vermillion felt unsure about attending college far away from home. But, in the end, ICC won out, since she was a Milhouse and,to them, Indiana Central was the ONLY college! So, she came to Indianapolis in 1957 to enroll in the nursing program. She remembers her time at Indiana Central fondly, especially the camaraderie with other students. It was different than today, she says, noting that that there was not as much transportation available, which meant that most students stayed on campus and there were lots of weekend activities. These offerings included involvement with the University Heights Church as well as on-campus activities. In addition to students, several faculty members stand out in her memory for their personal dedication to students as well as their academic talents, including Dr. Sybil Weaver in English, Dr. Robert McBride in Philosophy, and Dr. William P. Morgan in Biology. In her sophomore year, the


college set up a new two-year associate s degree program in nursing, and she switched into it, graduating as a member of the first class to complete that program. While the two-year nursing program would become quite popular later on, many at the time viewed the thoroughness with which it could prepare nurses skeptically, which made it rather difficult in her early career. Traditionally, nursing students served many long hours in hospitals, which utilized their services to supplement their staff. The two-year program concentrated on nursing education rather than internships, and some hospital administrators resented losing a pool of free laborers. After graduating from nursing school in 1961, she worked at St. Francis Hospital in Indianapolis until she passed the state board. She might have stayed in Indianaor gone back to Pennsylvania, but soon another opportunity arose. Dr. Roy Turley, an ICC graduate, had become the superintendent of the Espanola Hospital in New Mexico. Always keen to invite talented ICC students

3 4 5 and alums to share their talents in the mission hospital, he invited Vermillion to come there to work. No stranger to Espanola, she had visited when she was in the fifth grade and had interned there the summer of the sophomore year at ICC, loving the experience. She quickly accepted the offer and moved west. Vermillion remained in New Mexico for three years, working as the hospital s health extension nurse, which meant that she visited the mountain villages to provide in-home health care. The hospital served an impoverished, diverse community and,


Vermillion recalls that she learned so much. The experience immersed her in the kind of nursing she came to love throughout her career: a holistic, personal approach that involved developing a trusting relationship with patients and their families in hopes of providing spiritual and emotional support as well as medical care. The hospital also sent me to school one summer at Indiana University to learn about Public Health Nursing, a valuable part of her education that would continue to prove useful later in her career. In 1964, Vermillion returned to Indiana Central to join the faculty at the invitation of President Esch. She was responsible for maternity nursing education and worked closely with Kathleen Drake, another faculty member. In order to teach at the college, she was requiredto obtain a Master s degree, which she earned at Indiana University. Her return to Indianapolis also brought romance, as she soon met Art Vermillion, an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). They were married in May of 1966, just after they both completed their Master s degrees. About two years later, Art accepted an offer to serve as an Associate Pastor at a church in New Mexico, so Vermillion moved west again. When they started a family, she concentrated on raising children. Although she did not work full-time as a nurse, she engaged in lots of volunteer work, including clinical supervision. When her children reached school age, she volunteered as a school nurse one day a week for four years and taught a health


education programs for all grades. This volunteer work enabled her to remain professionally active as well as be involved with her children s education. After ten years of part-time, volunteer service, she went back to full-time nursing in 1980 at the University of New Mexico Hospital. She worked the night shift on a post-surgical unit so that she would be home when the children returned from school in the afternoons. In addition to working and keeping the household together, she was heavily involved in her children s school and 4-H activities, along with the family s work in the church. In 1983, she returned to school nursing, but she did not like the uncertainty of the situation, as it was never clear whether the budget would allow theschool to rehire her the next year. So, with her children now heading off to college, she made another move in 1984, this time to Public Health Nursing. For six years, she worked for the Public Health Department, making home visits, helping to set up a drug awareness program, and working in community clinics. After six years, the family moved to St. Louis, where she continued to work in public health. Two years later, in 1992, they moved back to Indianapolis to be close to her parents who had retired and were living in Franklin. She found a position as the community health nurse at the Robin Run Retirement Village. In these positions, she worked as the kind of nurse she had always hoped to be, developing relationships


with her patients and their families, reaching out to them on the emotional and spiritual levels as well as offering medical care. This kind of dedicated nursing meant that she would be available to them, since her presence sometimes was what they needed most. At other times, she joined them in prayer or offered words of encouragement, gently witnessing for Christ 3

4 in her work. She remembers her efforts in community and public health nursing as helping to bring joy, for herself as well as her patients. She says that it is incredible how much people give you, and she felt like she did the most good and brought the most joy when she was helping people get through a rough time. In particular, Vermillion has thrived onhelping others understand a given medical situation, providing essential information and support and assisting patients in asking the right questions, a necessary element in the medical treatment process. In those work situations in which people s needs weren t the ultimate focus, in which a particular hospital or program emphasized the budget and profits more than helping people, Vermillion felt disappointed most greatly. Fortunately, Vermillion observes that she fortunately found herself working in more positive situations most of the time. Still, her work life brought time of doubt. At age forty, she realized the disparity between her youthful dreams for her life and the practical realities of life as a wife, mother and nurse. Though she understood her quandary to be a common midlife experience, Vermillion worried whether


she had done the right things with her life. But she soon set her doubts aside, trusting in God, and knowing that you still have to be who you are, no matter what doubts you may entertain. For the most part, however, she has felt happy with her vocational choices, drawing strength from the joy of faith, family, and work. In a way, she finds that her service in community nursing has been just an extension of myself. As she affirms, I don t think I can do anything without giving. And since service is all about giving to others, she has found that her work genuinely embodies who she is, an essential ingredient to true happiness. In 1995, after three years serving at the retirement community, shemade another move, this time to a completely different field. She accepted a position as Coordinator for Christian Education at Speedway Christian Church, holding this job ever since. As a student at Indiana Central, the only other profession she had ever considered besides nursing was Christian education. Nearly forty years after her graduation from college, she finally has found an opportunity to do Christian education full time, commenting that now I ve had the opportunity to do both of my favorite things in my lifetime. While she had done some teaching in the nursing field, this new job required very different teaching skills from her earlier efforts. It grew out of her service in the church, where she had started a ministry for widows and widowers as well


as service activities like Parents Day Out, which offered daycare for mothers in the congregation who needed time to run errands or just relax. She also began a Worship & Wonder program for children in Sunday School. Starting such programs was nothing new for Vermillion, since she has always been aware of needs, using her skills as an organizer to provide what is necessary. Always active, she thrives on making ideas work in reality, traits that help greatly in her role as education coordinator at the church. While she had found teaching nursing a difficult task because she missed the oneon-one connection with patients, she has found Christian education a rewarding field of endeavor. She works with people who are excited about their faith and tries to buildon that to inspire a sense of worship and wonder. Clearly, her role as an educator is another ministry of joy. For Pauline Vermillion, her vocational work has been both the fulfillment of her Christian call to service and a part of her own identity as a person. She is proud of Indiana Central and excited about programs like the Parish Nursing Program, which seeks to train nurses to practice the kind of nursing that Vermillion herself practiced by treating the whole person, including the spiritual side. Called to her career as a young child, she has found in nursing a lifetime of work in which her personality, passion, and skills combined meaningfully to help others. She encourages today s students to be willing to be who you


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Relive Sam Hill’s phenomenal season in the 2017 Enduro World Series

The season which saw the racing go to the very last round at Finale where Hill made history.

Sam Hill may not have won the actual final round of the 2017 EWS at Finale but he finished 3rd. Adrien Dailly, his nearest – and indeed only – rival in the Overall finished 4th. Hill ended the season on 3,410 points, Dailly on 3,280 points and Greg Callaghan on 2,950 points.

It’s fair to say that Sam Hill has not faded away like veteran downhill racing superstars are supposed to do. Not only has he stayed around in competitive riding, far from embarrassing himself he’s actually somehow added to his status as a mountain bike legend.

With his clinching of the men’sLegislation Unanimously Passed
Louisiana Congressman Joseph Cao’s first piece of legislation, designating May 2, 2009 as “Vietnamese Refugees Day,” was passed unanimously by the U.S. House of Representatives with 67 co-sponsors. Senator Jim Webb was likewise successful in the U.S. Senate. In Richmond, the General Assembly passed a similar bill, introduced by Delegates Bob Hull and Adam Ebbin.
Since the Vietnam War ended in 1975, over 2,000,000 refugees and Boat People have left Vietnam. Around 1.5 million have resettled in the U.S., 72 percent of whom are now naturalized U.S. citizens, the highest rate among all Asian-American groups, according to Wikipedia.
During APA Heritage month, on May 2, the Asian Division of the Library of Congress (LOC), Boat People SOS, the National Congress of Vietnamese Americans, and the Voice of Vietnamese


her and her family to try to escape by boat in June 1978. They were arrested and put in jail. After their release, she and her husband were dismissed from their jobs and became street vendors.
Two years later, with four children aged 4 to 9, and five months pregnant, she fled again, this time by land, crossing Cambodia to reach Thailand on foot. Abandoned four times by their guides, they were robbed and arrested twice in the jungle by Cambodian police. They witnessed people being killed by land mines and by soldiers, and saw women gang raped, left to die.
During their traumatic escape, they used all kinds of transportation - bus, bicycle, motorcycle, train, and ox carts. At night, they kept moving, sometimes running for their lives inthey survived. It was ‘freedom or die’.”
When it was the turn of Minh Nguyen to tell his story, tears ran down his face. He had suffered the same fate as Kim Ha, but at the age of 9. He had to run for his life when his whole family was imprisoned while celebrating a memorial service commemorating the death anniversary of his great grandfather.
Minh walked to Cambodia, was deported back to Vietnam, then walked to Cambodia a second time. When he finally reached Thailand, he was put in jail in Bangkok. Deported back to Vietnam, he was sent to an “economic zone,” a wild, vast forest with nothing but trees and snakes.
Minh survived! By a miracle, he was able to go to the U.S. and ended up working


in a hotel in Washington, DC. Now in his thirties, his only wish is to become a citizen and start a family.
Thousands of similar stories could be recounted. Each refugee has his or her own tale of hardship and success.
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that over 250,000 Vietnamese Boat People died at sea as a result of storms, illness, and starvation as well as kidnappings and killings by pirates. The number of land refugees who perished is unknown.
Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Hong Kong were the first countries to open refugee camps for the 840,000 land and boat refugees who arrived from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam from the 1970s to the 1990s. The UNHCR sponsored these refugees in Asian camps for years beforethey were either resettled around the world or deported back to Vietnam when no country would accept them.
Achievements and Contributions
Cong. Cao wrote in his resolution, “They (the refugees) significantly contributed to the cultural and economic prosperity of the U.S. as artists, scientists, astronauts, restaurateurs, Olympians, professors and lawyers.” Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Bich, Dr. Nguyen Dinh Thang and Genie Ngoc Giao, who co-sponsored the symposium and selected the speakers, couldn’t agree more, “Besides their achievements, these former refugees gave back to the community much more than they had received.”
Sister Christine My Hanh, one of the refugees, devoted 13 years of her life to assisting other refugees. She left Vietnam with 167 handicapped children and found a new home for them with the Benedictine nuns at Mt Angel in Oregon.


sea, he and a friend co-founded the Boat People SOS Committee in 1980 in San Diego. They expedited the immigration of hundreds of boat refugees to the U.S. and also prevented thousands of children without guardians from being sent back to Vietnam.
After five years of hard work, they collaborated with Medecins du Monde of France, Cap Anamur from Germany, and philanthropist Andre Gille from Monaco to rescue thousands of boat refugees at sea, then helped resettle them in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia. Later, the Committee was transferred to Washington DC under the leadership of Dr. Nguyen Dinh Thang, who expanded their work with social and humanitarian services for thousands of Vietnamese immigrants.
Another humanitarian, Prof. Le Xuan Khoa, focused his work on advocacy at the South EastAsian Resource Action Center (SEARAC). His organization lobbied Congress to adopt the Indochinese Refugee Assistance and Protection Act of 1987. He organized a conference on the first asylum crisis in 1988 that laid the groundwork for the International Conference on Indochinese refugees in Geneva a year later.
SEARAC’s consultations with both U.S. and Vietnamese negotiators on the issue of Vietnamese political prisoners resulted in a US-Vietnam agreement in 1989 and the former prisoners’ resettlement in the U.S. The organization’s principal success was the training on leadership and capacity building that facilitated the formation of three national umbrellas for refugee organizations: Cambodian Network Council, Hmong National Development, and National Alliance of Vietnamese American Service Agencies.
Dr. Ta Van Tai, attorney and retired research fellow and lecturer at Harvard Law School, said


it best, “The saga of the Vietnamese refugees in the last half of the 20th century is not one of tragedy only, but of triumph also. They have gone through the brutalities and horrors of war, the harrowing misery of persecution and escape, but they have finally succeeded in recreating a new life for themselves.”
He continued, “Even the regime that in older days contemptuously and unfairly referred to them as the pimps, the prostitutes and the defeated soldiers of South Vietnam now call them the dear blood brothers and sisters thousands of miles away. They have met the challenge of their wretched condition as refugees and responded triumphantly, in accordance with the pattern of challenge and successful response described by the famous British historian Arnold Toynbee for theto prevent or manage complications are well known. All women need access to high standard of care in pregnancy, and during and after childbirth. Women's health and newborn health are closely integrated. It is particularly important that all births are attended by skilled health professionals, as timely management and treatment can make the difference between life and death for the mother as well as for the baby. Beside of this, because of these women stricken during their most productive years, their deaths have a profound impact on the society and on the economies of their nations at large. Most of maternal deaths in under developing countries including Ethiopia was due to adequate heath care system and family planning, and pregnant women have minimal access to skilled labor and


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him very much."

Simon joined CBS News in 1967 in New York, worked in its Tel Aviv bureau from 1977-81, and worked in Washington, D.C., before becoming the network's State Department correspondent. He received a Peabody Award in 2000 for "a body of work by an outstanding international journalist on a diverse set of critical global issues" and a Lifetime Achievement Emmy in 2003, according to the CBS News report.Toyota is a world renowned name, a brand dominating in the automotive industry, and multinational corporations based in Japan. The company was founded by Kiichiro Toyota at the end of the day in 1937 as a spin-off of his father’s company Toyota Industries to create automobiles. After some ups and downs Toyota started spreading its business around the world; especially when went to produce small size cars at early 70s. It became popular in USA as well as in Europe established its supremacy in automotive business as it offered car in reasonable price. In 1982, Toyota Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Sales in a single company are merged into Toyota Motor Corporation. According to the annual report 2010, with a severe business climate, vehicles are sold around 7,237,000


Q:

To understand the "The Bible is the Word of God"

According to the Trinity.
The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (from Latin trinitas "triad", from trinus "threefold")1 defines God as three consubstantial persons,2 expressions, or hypostases:[3] the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit; "one God in three persons". The three persons are distinct, yet are one "substance, essence or nature".[4] In this context, a "nature" is what one is, while a "person" is who one is.[5][6][7]
According to this central mystery of most Christian faiths,[8] there is only one God in three persons: while distinct from one another in their relations of origin (as the Fourth Lateran Council declared, "it is the Father who generates, the Son who is begotten, and the Holy Spirit who proceeds") and inmeans is that the words contained within the Bible are the inspired words of God.
So the re-frame your question, could we say that God exists as the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and the Word? That would be a misunderstanding as well:

John 1:1,2,14 ESV In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God ... And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Those that believe in the Trinitarian nature of God believe that Jesus, the son, is also the Word. So saying that the Trinity is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEBREVARD COLLEGE SPORTS INFORMATIONTuesday, November 6, 2012

ZAVETA AND GORRY NAMED OCTOBER SPORTS SPOT STUDENT-ATHLETES OF THE MONTH

Brevard, N.C.- Erica Zaveta of the women's cycling team and Cypress Gorry of the men's cycling team have been named the Sports Spot Student-Athlete of the Month for October. The award is presented by Sports Spot, in conjunction with the Brevard College Athletic Department.

Zaveta was voted the Female Student-Athlete of the Month by the BC Head Coaching staff over fellow nominees Kayla Hanus of volleyball and Hannah Cook of cross country.

Zaveta wins the honor after helping the Brevard College cycling team win its third Division II Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championship in the last four years. Zaveta earned 3rd place medals in the Women's Cross Country, Short Track, and Downhillevents. These performances earned her a 2nd place finish in the Women's Overall Individual Omnium.

Gorry was voted the Men's Student-Athlete of the Month by the BC Head Coaching staff over fellow nominees Patrick Helmick of cross country and Ty Jeter of football.

Gorry is named Athlete of the Month honors after helping the Brevard College cycling team win its third Division II Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championship in the last four years. Gorry captured individual National Championships in both the Men's Cross Country and Short Track events.

These two athletes will be presented with action shots recognizing their award, which will be displayed in the lobby of Boshamer Gymnasium for the entire school year. A total of eight female and male Sports Spot Athletes of the Month will be selected


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Three teenagers were wounded in the gunfire, the youngest being 16. It was one of six shootings during the holiday weekend that left 10 wounded and one dead in northern Brooklyn, where police have been wrestling to contain a steep rise in murders and shootings.

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BOSTON -- They wouldn't sit down.

Wrapped around the outfield, from the front row to the back, fans were on their feet at Fenway Park from the national anthem to the final out almost 3 1/2 hours later, as the Red Sox celebrated a 6-1 win in Game 6 of the World Series against the Cardinals on Wednesday night that clinched their third World Series title since 2004.

The fans wouldn't sit down because they couldn't believe it. Too much pain, new and old, had turned fans into creatures unwilling to love their team.


They had been hurt before, and they were still reluctant to open their hearts.

"You always go in with this element of doubt," said Chris O'Connor, a Hopkinton, Mass., resident who commutes to his job as chief operating officer of the Yale-New Haven Health System in Connecticut.

O'Connor began working in the Yale-New Haven Hospital at 7 a.m. ET on Wednesday morning. He worked for seven hours, running around as any hospital administrator would during a busy day. O'Connor took his spot at Fenway Park before the first pitch. He never sat down.

Matt Tolnick, a Newton native, drove six hours from South Jersey, working vigorously from his car as he made phone calls to run his beef jerky business, Lawless Jerky. He picked up his friend, Andrew Shadoff, from theto go, that thinks there's not a chance the Cardinals could come back."

In 1967, the "Impossible Dream" Red Sox erased losing seasons with an improbable run to an American League pennant. They won Games 5 and 6 to even the series at 3 and send it back to Fenway Park, where the Cards won in a 7-2 blowout.

In 1978, the Red Sox had a 2-0 lead on the Yankees in the AL tiebreaker game. Bucky Dent hit a three-run homer and the Sox lost, 5-4. The Yanks won the World Series.

In 1986, there was the Bill Buckner error. In 2003, there was the Aaron Boone home run.

The memories are getting old, some of which might have been erased by an improbable 2004 AL Chamionship Series comeback to go


with a World Series title, then another title in '07. But the pain isn't gone.

"It's slowly fading," said Tolnick.

John Lackey, Junichi Tazawa and Brandon Workman left Boston with a 6-1 lead heading into the ninth.

"Some of the nervousness remains, but it's not complete and utter pessimism now," Tolnick said.

The underbelly of Fenway Park was just about empty. Concession-stand employees glued their eyes to televisions. Two men sprinted from the bathroom behind center field to catch a glimpse of the action.

Mostly, it was silent.

On the field, there was an eruption of noise.

Koji Uehara entered. Three quick outs later and the Red Sox had won it all.

Happiness was one tangible emotion. Relief was the other.

"I still remember '86 as a kid, watching that on TV and not understanding how that19yo Artistic Gymnast Shawn Johnson competes in the Pan American Games. She won a gold medal in the 2008 Olympic Balance Beam, and she was a Floor Exercise silver medalist, in 2007 she was all around world champion. She also recently won the eighth seacon of Dancing with the Stars. Anyway, so you get the idea, she’s very talented, one of the best at what she does, but I’m sure your just after the opportunity to gaze at her in a leotard for a bit, so feel free to get started if you haven’t already 😉


Delhi is all set to ban e-cigarettes. Under provisions of law, sources in health ministry said, the government has already banned international expo on e-cigarettes in Delhi.

Recently, the government also denied permission to a huge consignment of e-cigarettes in Delhi. Its sale has already been banned in the six states because of its hazardous nature.

Therefore, the Delhi government is also working hard to stop the danger of tobacco use along with electronic nicotine device.

Dr SK Arora, director of Delhi State Tobacco Control Cell, told Mail Today, "Ecigarette is an addictive device and toxic in nature. Though, e-cigarette ban in Delhi is still under process, however, in the absence of legal provisions, we were able to close one of the Chinese stalls selling e-cigarettes at India International Trade Fair.

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This year (2005) marks a pivotal moment in the achievement of the so-called Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the United Nations. This article pays attention to 2 of the 8 MDGs, namely those pertaining to childhood and maternal mortality. A number of aspects are of crucial importance to the reduction of childhood and maternal mortality: reduction of the number of (unwanted) pregnancies, worldwide access for women to high-quality healthcare services including prenatal care, care during delivery and postnatal care, and improvement of the referral systems. The impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the outcome of pregnancy is discussed separately.


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In the next chapter, we will explore how to create and manage virtual machines in Microsoft Azure.

# Chapter 3. Managing Azure Virtual Machines with PowerShell

A **virtual machine** ( **VM** ) is an emulation of a computer system that allows an operating system to run virtually inside the operating system installed on a computer. Microsoft's implementation of virtual machine technologies is Hyper-V. Hyper-V is available as a standalone server product called Hyper-V Server, as an installable role in Windows 8 (64-bit) and newer client operating systems, and as an installable role in Windows Server 2008 and newer server operating systems.

Virtual machines are incredibly useful for maximizing the utilization of available computing power,make gasoline has left Venezuela’s four refineries producing around 15 percent of the fuel that the country currently needs. Right now, there is only one day’s worth of gasoline and oil in Venezuela to cover the demand for two days, Freites explained during the press conference.

Workers and technicians who see the problem happening up close have denounced President Nicolás Maduro and his regime, which has opted to purchase foreign gasoline amid financial problems that have left PDVSA unable to complete transactions with various trading partners.

Ships off of Curaçao, Portugal and several other destinations have reportedly been waiting for months to unload their fuel and receive payment. Meanwhile, lines in Venezuela stretch down the road from service stations in many big cities, as people wait hours to fill up


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Police were called after blood began seeping through the ceiling of an apartment on the floor below. When an officer entered the 14th-floor crime scene, he discovered four young men, a suite covered in blood, and the partially dismembered body of 23-year-old David Wong. Wong’s arms and one leg were discovered in garbage bags. He had been stabbed 158 times.

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Although most people now think of swimming as the indoor pool programme, competitive swimming has its roots very much in taking to the water outside.

Marathon swimming rose to significance after the International Olympic Committee listed a 10km race as one of the events for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Marathon races can take place in any large outdoor body of water: seas, lakes, rivers, canals, reservoirs. The distance of each event varies from 1km to 80km, but at major competitive level, the typical distances are 5km, 10km and 25km.

Swimming in outside has a long and colourful history dating back as far as 36BC, when the Japanese organised the first outdoor swimming races. The Romans held high-profile races in the Tiber, when thousands would


crowd along the banks to watch and cheer. The Knights in the middle ages reputedly had to swim in full armour as one of their seven required agilities.

Although marathon races had been held for over a hundred years it was not until 1986 that FINA, swimming’s world governing body, officially recognised the event again and added it to the international competition calendar

International Results

The first ever Olympic 10km marathon swimming race was included in Beijing 2008. Team GB clinched three medals in this event – half the medals on offer - with David Davies winning silver in the men's event, and Keri-anne Payne (silver) and Cassandra Patten (bronze) both making the women's podium.

Payne has continued to compete at the top level since Beijing, winning the World Aquatics Championship titlein both 2009 and 2011 then finishing fifth at the London 2012 Olympics in a thrilling race on the Serpentine, Hyde Park.

In men's marathon swimming, Jack Burnell became the first athlete to secure a named quota place for the Rio 2016 Olympics with his performance at the World Championships in Kazan.

Interestingly, world marathon swimming records are not kept by FINA simply because outdoor venues can be so different. This is not just in length but differences such as water conditions, water temperature and weather conditions.

Marathon Swimming Calendar

Check out the full calendar of events, competitions and camps that our marathon swimming athletes will attend throughout 2016.


Emily Lyons arrived at work early the morning of Jan. 30, 1998. A pretty woman with long, dark hair, Lyons, then 42, was the head nurse at the south Birmingham health clinic that opened at 8 a.m. The clinic's administrator, Michelle Farley, was feeling nauseous and running late.

Photo Gallery Inside the Abortion Clinic JFP photographer Trip Burns was given full access to the Women's Health Organization Clinic.

It was around 7:30 a.m. when Lyons went to say good morning to Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer who sometimes worked security at the clinic in addition to some of the local gay bars for extra money. Known to everyone as Sandy, he wasn't the clinic's regular guard. As he escorted Lyons to the building, she noticed an overturned flowerpot partiallyburied near the clinic's entrance.

Lyons would later recollect the fake plant "was not anything we would have ever had. So at that point, Sandy knew something was wrong."

Dead Silence

"Do you hear the sirens? They're coming for us. They've blown up the clinic."

Click. Dead silence.

Diane Derzis received the phone call at her home 600 miles away in Virginia, an hour after Sanderson leaned over to inspect the mysterious plant. She tried unsuccessfully to call the woman back. The caller was the Birmingham clinic's administrator, Farley. Unnerved by the message, Derzis turned on the television, and everything became clear.

A bomb packed with dynamite and 5.5 pounds of nails, locked in a toolbox and hidden under the plastic plant, exploded at 7:33 a.m. The blast killed Sanderson immediately and critically injured


Lyons. Derzis caught the first flight she could out of Charlottesville an hour or two later.

During a layover in Charlotte, she stared weepy-eyed at television monitors carrying news of the bombing in the airport terminal when a man approached her and asked if she was the owner of the New Woman All Women Health Center.

Derzis answered in the affirmative. The man identified himself as an agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms. The ATF agent was also headed to Birmingham—to investigate the bombing of the health clinic Derzis owns, one of two in the city that performs abortions.

A Valuable Prize

On a drizzly afternoon in July 2012, reporters at the federal courthouse in downtown Jackson encircled Derzis. She was dressed in her signature white with alinen jacket draped over her shoulders like a cape, a necklace of large amber-hued stones around her neck. Fifteen minutes earlier, Derzis' attorneys had argued to federal Judge Daniel P. Jordan to set aside a state law that put new restrictions, officially speaking, on ambulatory surgical facilities that perform abortions.

Known by capitol insiders by its official legislative designation that sounds like the name of an agent of biological warfare, HB 1390—or more simply, "1390"—makes it mandatory for doctors who perform abortions at freestanding clinics to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. Physicians who do fewer than 10 abortions per month in their private offices are exempt.

It took 44 days for the bill to slice through the state Legislature during the last session, from the day Republican Rep.


Sam Mims introduced HB 1390 in late February to the day that crimson-clad members of Mississippi's pro-life movement flanked Gov. Phil Bryant at an official signing ceremony April 16. It was one of the first bills the first-term Republican governor signed into law. And given his co-chairmanship of last fall's failed Personhood initiative that coincided with the governor's own campaign, it was perhaps a crowning achievement for conservatives in the state.

But, in reality, any additional restriction heaped onto abortion clinics, no matter how minute or innocuous, would apply to only one building in Mississippi: the Jackson Women's Health Organization off State Street in the heart of Fondren, the state's sole remaining abortion clinic.

Other than her anti-abortion opponents, her friends and reproductive-rights activists, the 58-year-old Derzis is relatively unknownto Mississippians. Even the roughly 2,000 women per year who get abortions at JWHO each year likely don't know who she is.

Despite her aura of mystique, Derzis is neither quiet nor shy. In fact, she exudes every iota of toughness one would expect out of a woman of someone who's spent three decades advocating for abortion rights in the South. Nor is she as circumspect about having been party to over 50,000 abortions in her career as a clinic director and owner. In addition to JWHO, she owns facilities in Columbus, Ga., Richmond, Va., and Birmingham.

Derzis is loud, flamboyant and can be brash, making her a perfect target for the forces that wish to end the practice of abortion in America. In that battle, Mississippi represents a beachhead.

With


Jordan, a George W. Bush appointee, ruling that the provisions of 1390 could go into effect and ordering Derzis' Jackson clinic to continue trying to comply with the admitting privileges law, the real possibility now exists that Mississippi could become the nation's first state without a single abortion clinic.

Based on experience, Derzis knows that the Jackson clinic is considered a valuable prize, one that abortion's enemies will stop at nothing to capture.

Safe, But Disrespected

Derzis was born and grew up in Elkton, Va., a town in the Shenandoah Valley nestled in the shadows of the Blue Ridge Mountains. When she was in high school, a scandal rocked the tiny town when police arrested a local doctor for performing abortions for young women who traveled from the other side ofthe mountain from Charlottesville, home of the University of Virginia. This was before abortion was legal. Derzis remembers stories about fetal skeletons excavated from the doctor's yard. At the time, she didn't understand what the word abortion meant. This, despite the fact that her mother, Lois Workman, was a feminist before anyone knew what a feminist was, much less the folks in Rockingham County, Va.

Diane's mother played college basketball and told her daughters to learn how to type; at that time it was a skill that would always guarantee women employment.

In 1973, Diane enrolled in college 18 miles from home at James Madison University. There, she met Nick Derzis, a vacuum-cleaner salesman whose family owned restaurants in Alabama. The couple married and moved to Birmingham. Diane Derzis enrolled


in classes, this time at the University of Montevallo in Alabama. Originally founded as a technical college for girls in 1896, it eventually became a state women's college and is now coed, although its student body remains overwhelmingly female.

A year after the Derzises married, she became pregnant. "It was just no question for me that that was a parasite," Derzis said about the pregnancy. "I did not want to be pregnant. I was in college at that time. I was also waitressing, and we were young, and it was just not an option."

Abortion was legal, but abortion clinics didn't exist, yet. She and her husband found a Birmingham doctor who would was willing to perform the procedure for $150. The people in the waiting room the day shehad her procedure represented a cross-section of society, but one couple especially looked out of place. "They must have been in their 50s or 60s. He had on overalls, and she had on a dress with those pantyhose that stopped at the knees. They were very working class; they looked like farmers," Derzis recalls.

When it was her turn to see the doctor, he told her, "You didn't have any problem spreading your legs before, so spread them now." The procedure was over in five minutes. She had mixed feelings about what she'd gone through. She was grateful that the procedure was safe, but felt disrespected.

Clinics slowly began sprouting up all over the country, including in the South. When Dr. Ralph Levinson, originally of Cumberland County, Ky., started Birmingham


Women's Health Clinic, Derzis begged him to hire her as a counselor for $5 an hour.

She spent five years working there when Bob Lipton, who owned several abortion clinics on the east coast and was starting a second one in Birmingham, invited Derzis, then 23, to run it. Between the clinics, Derzis sold Mercedes-Benzes. A Mercedes owner herself, she was a natural and broke sales records.

"I had a Mercedes so I knew how they drove," Derzis explains. "Again, it's something you believe in; you're lucky if you find something you believe in ... but that was really not my calling."

'Abortion Queen'

In 1969, 21-year-old Louisiana resident Norma McCorvey tried to get an abortion in Dallas. Texas did permit women to terminate their pregnancies back then, but only if theyconsent rules.

That's when she earned her nickname: the Abortion Queen.

"I embraced it. I don't feel any shame about what I do. It's not shame that's associated with what I do. It's pride of how many women I've been able to help, how many women I've seen where abortions made a difference in their lives," she said.

In 1996, she announced that she was leaving the clinic she estimates performed 45,000 abortions during her tenure—16.5 times as many people currently live in her tiny Virginia hometown.

"The anti-choice people would think of 45,000 babies. What I think of is 45,000 women. That's the black and white. Right there is the answer why there can be no compromise on this issue," she said.

She accepted that the "antis," as she calls people who


consider themselves pro-life, would chalk up her retirement in May 1996 as a victory, but she said she needed some serenity. A month and half later, the owner of Birmingham Women's Health, the clinic where she where she got her start as a teenaged counselor, sold the clinic to Derzis. By the time the clinic began operating under Derzis' ownership, the Summer Olympics were just getting under way in Atlanta.

The Army of God

Less than two years after she took over the Birmingham clinic, Derzis found herself on a plane talking to a federal law-enforcement officer about whether she had been worried about any of the protesters who were mainstays outside her clinic. It's located just a 30-minute walk from the 16th Street Baptist Church where, in 1963, abomb planted by racist extremists killed four young girls.

No one protester in particular came to mind as a possible culprit; any one of them could be capable of violence, she told the ATF agent. Witnesses to the bombing told investigators that while other people rushed toward the clinic, a man in a brown wig, strangely, darted away from the scene and hopped into a gray Nissan pickup truck.

Investigators said they wanted to talk to Eric Rudolph, a North Carolina resident who people considered a loner, because he might have information about the attack. Indeed, Rudolph knew a lot about bombs- he'd set off four of them, including one that exploded at Centennial Park and killed 44-year-old Alice Hawthorne at the 1996 Olympics, the last time the U.S. hosted


the Summer Games.

Two hours after Derzis' clinic was bombed, a Rudolph-affiliated group that called itself The Army of God sent letters to two Atlanta-area print-media outlets claiming responsibility for the attack. It vowed more violence against abortion clinics and, according to Rudolph's federal plea bargain, "anyone associated with the drug RU-486."

On the day of the bombing, the area around the clinic was cordoned off, making it impossible for Derzis to get close. Instead she went to directly to the hospital to see Lyons, who would eventually lose sight in one of her eyes. The only images Derzis saw of her clinic came from the television-news satellite feeds. The exterior walls of the white-brick structure were scorched, its windows obliterated. The burgundy awnings hung off the front of thebuilding, shredded and tattered like a battle-worn flag. The device exploded with such ferocity that forensic investigators found projectiles in the procedure room, located upstairs in the rear of the building.

Five years later, a police officer in Murphy, N.C., believed a burglary might be in progress when he noticed a man rummaging through the garbage behind a business. The officer arrested the suspect, who turned out to be Rudolph. He is serving four life sentences at a federal prison in Colorado alongside other convicted high-profile convicts, including 9-11 planner Zacarias Moussaoui, Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols, underwear bomber Umar Abdulmatallub, shoe bomber Richard Reid, white supremacist Matthew Hale and other terrorists.

Even though the clinic closed for repairs after the bombing, the phones still worked and patients were calling


wanting appointments. Receptionists warned callers about the large number of television media still camped outside. The day the remodeled clinic reopened, the protesters also returned. Derzis didn't lose any staff, but she heard rumors of doctors at other clinics calling it quits after the bombing.

In fact, violence against abortion providers had become commonplace. Since 1978, when an Ohio clinic became the site of the nation's first clinic bombing, more than 30 bomb attacks and around 200 arsons have occurred at U.S. abortion clinics, according to the National Abortion Federation. This total included the bombing of the Ladies Center and OB/GYN offices in Pensacola, Fla., on Christmas Day 1984. In the 1990s, attacks on property waned as abortion foes shifted their focus from the demand side of the equationand focused their attention on who they perceived to be the abortion suppliers—doctors and nurses, their associates and, in some cases, their families and children.

In March 1993, an abortion doctor named George Tiller was shot in both arms in Kansas. Also in 1993, David Gunn, an Alabama resident and friend of Derzis' was also shot to death in Pensacola. Gunn's was the first assassination of an abortion provider in the country. In 2004, Dr. John Britton, an abortion doctor who attended medical school at the University of Virginia, and his assistant, James Barnett, were murdered outside the Ladies Center, the same Pensacola clinic bombed in 1984 (it was also firebombed in 2012, but it remains open). In 2009, Tiller was murdered in Wichita.

Nancy Kohsin-Kintigh worked for the Feminist


Majority Foundation in the early 90s, a time when she said abortion clinics were under siege by pro-life groups. In response to the lack of police action against flash-mob-style demonstrations organized by anti-abortion groups such as Operation Rescue and Operation Save America that involved hundreds of protesters illegally blocking access to clinics, Kohsin-Kintigh's organized clandestine rendezvous to shuttle women to clinics.

In the lexicon of military operations, Kohsin-Kintigh was the pro-choice Special Forces. Figuratively speaking, she parachuted in ahead of massive anti-abortion protests with apocalyptic-sounding code names like "Storming the Gates of Hell" to train clinic defenders.

"You become accustomed to being threatened, harassed and yelled at that some point, it becomes part of your daily routine," Kohsin-Kintigh said, who now does social-justice advocacy around several issues in Jackson.

Ironically, Kohsin-Kintighwas attending a pro-choice conference in Chicago when she received the news that Michael Griffin had executed Dr. Gunn in Pensacola. Afterward, there was a heightened sense of danger at clinics around the country, she said. Kohsin-Kintigh, who eventually established a base in Pensacola, and the Feminist Majority Foundation, enlisted the expertise of international security experts to perform risk assessments and conduct security trainings with clinic personnel. A law enforcement organization donated bulletproof vests and helmets for doctors. Some clinics installed bulletproof glass, metal detectors and magnetic locks.

In the aftermath of the New Woman All Woman Birmingham attack, Kohsin-Kintigh helped procure replacement glass for the shattered windows and new secure locks for the doors.

"Extremists have dominated the language by using the term pro-life and using the Bible as


a prop. So at first glance you'd think they were peaceful and prayerful people, but some ugly things were coming out of their mouths, including threats," she said.

'You're not Christian'

In 2010, Derzis' friend Susan Hill, who founded the Jackson Womens Health Organization, died of cancer. Mississippi has some of the nation's toughest abortion laws, including mandatory counseling and a 24-hour waiting period. Jackson's other abortion clinic on Briarwood Drive closed in 2004.

"There's no way I'm doing Jackson," Derzis told people who believed she should take over Hill's clinic. "I knew what she had been through there."

But out of a sense of duty to Hill, Derzis agreed to visit JWHO and fell in love with the clinic, its staff and the city of Jackson.

"I feel good when I comenot Christian," Colon said.

Still, pro-choice advocates have had victories worth celebrating, such as last year's defeat of the Personhood Initiative, a proposed constitutional amendment to redefine life as beginning at conception, fertilization or the functional equivalent thereof.

"The whole world has the image of Mississippi that (because) it's in the Bible Belt there are no progressives here, and it's just not true," she said.

A Surprising Defeat

Last fall, opponents of the Personhood Initiative staged a late-morning demonstration on the steps of the Mississippi Capitol. It was early November, days before the statewide election. At the time, it was too close to tell whether Initiative 26—the Personhood Initiative—would be successful this time around. Personhood had already been defeated in other states, but in reliably conservative Mississippi, the purveyors of Personhood saw


their best prospects for success.

There was a special guest on the program whose identity remained withheld until it was her time to deliver the keynote pep speech.

Derzis wore a flowing white tunic, pendant necklace and a pink visor. The Personhood effort, which would have altered the definition of a human being to begin when sperm meets egg, would have functionally outlawed abortion in Mississippi and, by extension, put Derzis out of business in Jackson. It may also have forced women to travel to other states to get abortions.

Derzis said at the rally the push had been "engineered by do-gooding politicians, born-agains and outsiders—evil people who care more about the rights of a fertilized egg than the vessel containing it," she said.

And regardless of what happened on Election Day,Derzis vowed that the women of Mississippi would have access to abortions even if she had to hire limos and private planes to shuttle them out of state.

It never came to that. Sixty-eight percent of the state's voters rejected the initiative.

Following Personhood's surprising defeat, the conventional wisdom was that a conservative lawmaker would introduce a similar bill for consideration in the 2012 legislative session. After all, the new governor, Phil Bryant, had co-chaired the Personhood Initiative campaign, and the departing governor, Haley Barbour, made waves just before the election by saying the issue was best left up to the state Legislature, which Republicans controlled as of the last session.

There was no personhood bill but two other anti-abortion bills did survive. One controversial measure required doctors to check for


a fetal heartbeat, which would have required an invasive procedure called a transvaginal ultrasound in the early weeks of a pregnancy. The other was HB 1390, the admitting-privileges bill. During the debate in the House, Mims, who sponsored 1390, acknowledged that, if passed, the law would apply only to Jackson Women's Health, Derzis' clinic.

When pressed by the bill's Democratic opponents, Mims said he believes life starts at conception and that the bill "makes it a little step harder" to have an abortion, which, he argued, could save a life. However, the Democratic women of Hinds County's delegation were not interested in making things easy for Mims. Rep. Alyce Clarke, D-Jackson, requested that only individuals capable of having an abortion be allowed to vote on the bill.

Rep. Adrienne Wooten,D-Ridgeland, noted that women with the option to terminate an unwanted pregnancy were less likely to end up on state welfare rolls.

Rep. David Baria, a Democrat from Bay St. Louis, took a shot at Barbour, who stirred a maelstrom of controversy by granting more than 200 pardons before he left office. If HB 1390 passed, Baria asked, "What options are there for a woman who gets raped by one of these convicts Gov. Barbour just turned loose?"

A bizarre set of circumstances followed in the Senate. Tate Reeves, the new lieutenant governor and a rising star in the state's GOP, assigned HB 1390 to the Public Health and Welfare Committee, chaired by Dean Kirby, R-Pearl. Reeves placed other conservative showpieces—the heartbeat bill and a tough immigration reform bill—in the


tight end, on why he and other Democrats didn't raise any objections.

Jones promised they would fight it on the floor.

On April 16, Gov. Bryant signed HB 1390 into law. It would take effect on the first day of the new fiscal year, July 1.

Falling Apart

While facing the prospect of losing the Jackson clinic, Derzis' Birmingham clinic received an enormous blow. In May, Alabama state health officials forced New Woman All Women to close over regulatory violations. As Derzis explains it, the clinic's Atlanta-based medical director, who also performed abortions, quit shortly after the first of the year, and Derzis replaced him with two doctors from out of state.

Under Alabama law, the medical director is required to observe doctors performing abortions. "Well, clearly, I wasn't even thinking about thatat the time," Derzis said.

Then, on Jan. 21, Derzis said a new nurse overdosed two patients who had to be rushed to the hospital. Later that afternoon, a reporter called about reports of an ambulance in front of the clinic. "When the hell did you start calling about ambulances in front of clinics or doctors offices?" She snapped. By nightfall, the reporter broke a story with headlines referring to botched abortions at Derzis' clinic.

After a three-month-long probe into the incident, Derzis said the state health department made 5,800 copies of documents on the clinic's copier and, ultimately, issued 76 pages worth of deficiencies.

"The way they wrote it up made it sound like I picked up two guys off the street: My doctors didn't write legibly, my doctors didn't


initial things. I'm telling you, it was a witch hunt," Derzis said.

The health department's order revoking the clinic's license allows for a new operator to take over, so Derzis arranged to lease the business to an associate, Kelley Rain-Water.

The state rejected Rain-Water's application because of her ties to Derzis, who said they'll pursue the matter in circuit court if the state rejects Rain-Water's appeal. What infuriated Derzis most was the fact that anti-choice protesters distributed photographs of the two sick women and the emergency medical technicians who transported them to the hospital.

Terri Herring, a Mississippi pro-life lobbyist, supported the passage of the admitting privileges law. She believes the troubles at Derzis' Alabama clinic portend similar problems in Jackson. "She keeps saying no one has been injured in herwith dark red leather sofas and chairs. Copies of O Magazine, Essence, Glamour, Cigar Aficionado and tall, ceramic bowls filled with condoms adorn the coffee tables. After assuming ownership of the clinic, Derzis ordered extensive remodeling, covering up the beige walls with soft yellow and lavender paint.

Before Derzis took over, Brewer wasn't involved with the politics—Dr. Hill and her attorneys handled that—but Derzis inspired her to increase her activism around reproductive rights. A Jackson resident, Brewer started at the clinic part-time in 2001 while she studied business management at Virginia College, but says the clinic has afforded her different kind of education. Brewer prefers to not to engage directly with news media, but maintains extensive knowledge of health department regulations pertaining to abortion clinics, security and wrangling protestors.

Case


in point: A copy of the federal restraining order against anti-abortion activist Roy McMillan sits on Brewer's desk.

In 1995, a federal court ordered McMillan to stay 50 feet away from the clinic for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, enacted in 1994 after Dr. Gunn's murder in Pensacola. According to court records, on May 3, 1995, McMillan made his hand into the shape of a gun and told clinic employees: "Y'all look like a bunch of birds on a telephone wire waiting to be shot off by a man with a shotgun...Pow, pow, pow, pow."

McMillan pickets the clinic each day they see patients by displaying signs that carry pictures of fetuses and messages equating abortion to genocide. He and his wife, Beverly, an OB/GYN andformer abortion doctor, also oppose all hormonal birth control including the pill and the morning-after pill.

Brewer said the biggest scare they've had involved a large dark-colored duffel bag left at the clinic's back door in 2009. Police evacuated the area, and the bomb squad blew it up; later, Brewer said, they found that the bag belonged to a homeless man who didn't want to carry it across town to a doctor's appointment.

Derzis calls McMillan a "loose cannon" but isn't sure if he's violent.

After all, she notes, Eric Rudolph was not a regular protester at the Birmingham clinic. Derzis, who carries a .25-caliber pistol and several Tasers, maintains surprisingly good humored about the threats she and her staff face.

"There's really not any reason right now for them to kill


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Revolutionary Road: You're Only Kidding Yourself...

My 2011 reading trip round the decay of American family structures and consumer capitalism concluded with this book - Richard Yates' first novel from 1962. My appetite has obviously been whetted with John Cheever but as explained below although the subject matter is in the same ball park it's a slightly different game that Yates is playing.

One of the limited benefits of a movie being made from a novel is that it reinvigorates interest in the work. This was the case for this as Sam Mendes 2008 version led to a reprint and increase in sales of the work; Yates himself died in 1992. I've not seen the film as was


many modern developed captialist societies in 2012. But there is a distinction this couple : Frank and April see themselves as apart and removed from their literal lifestyle. More of the avant garde than the golf club/swimming pool set. When they meet 10 years before Frank fresh from the war lives in Greenwich Village and frequents jazz clubs. Even his job in a proto- computer company in the City (which he commutes to) is taken as a post-modern prank or so he would have people believe.

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Conservative blogger outs gay teacher in Chicago as porn star

A Chicago public school teacher is being investigated by the city's school district because of his history in gay porn. Bradley Balof, a sixth grade teacher at Joseph Stockton Elementary School, came under fire after a local right-wing blogger, Kevin DuJan, wrote an article critical of Balof’s history in erotica for Hill Buzz, his personal political website.

Throughout his 3,000-word, borderline insane rant, DuJan chides Balof for flaunting his sexuality in public, while still daring to be around children. Trying to make a difference in the lives of young people? The nerve. DuJan writes:

“Chicago Public School system currently employs a man who continues to moonlight in the adult entertainment industry; by day, he’s charged with taking care of classrooms fullof mostly minority children … but at night he bares his body in sweaty bars and upon public stages for the hungry eyes of other gay men.”

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Mystic Valley Charter School decided not to renew Kevin Hogan’s teaching contract because of his work in the industry, and all references to his name and person were quickly removed from the school’s website. Hogan had been working as a teacher in Massachusetts for 20 years.

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Q:

Short Story Anthology: stories that were made into movies

I used to have a book that was all short stories made into movies.  I know the story for Death Race 2000 and I think The Running Man were in there.  Does anyone remember what it was called.  I would like to get it again.

A:

I guess it's one of these anthologies containing Ib Melchior's story "The Racer" aka Death Race 2000. (That story is in a few other anthologies, but these are the ones on the made-into-movies theme.)
They Came from Outer Space: 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales That Became Major Motion Pictures (1981) edited by Jim Wynorski:

Reel Future:The Stories That Inspired 16 Classic Science Fiction Movies (1994) edited by Forrest J. Ackerman and Jean Stine:

Science-Fiction Classics: TheStories That Morphed into Movies (1999) edited by Forrest J. Ackerman:

A:

You're probably thinking of Reel Future
Reel Future is an anthology of stories on which films were made, including:

"The Racer" (Death Race 2000) by Ib Melchior
"Eight O'Clock in the Morning" (They Live!) by Ray Nelson
"Who Goes There?" (The Thing) by John W. Campbell, Jr.

And others. Each story had a little blurb about how it came to be made into a film, and I recall there were some black & white photos from the films as well.
The Running Man was based on a novella by Richard Bachman (a.k.a. Stephen King), which seems to have only been published with other books by "Bachman".