(c) Jacob Paul, Baron Gundling, who was laden with titles in
ridicule by Frederick William I. of Prussia.

(d) Seigni Jean (Old John), so called to distinguish him from
Johan “fol de Madame,” of whom Marot speaks in his epitaphs. Seigni
Jean lived about a century before Caillette.

(e) Richard Tarlton, a famous clown in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth. He died 1588.

(f) Caillette “flourished” about 1494. In the frontispiece of
the “Ship of Fools,” printed 1497, there is a picture both of Seigni
Jean and also of Caillette.

Feast of Fools.

A kind of Saturnalia popular in the Middle Ages. Its chief object
was to honour the ass on which our Lord made His triumphant entry into
Jerusalem. This ridiculous mummery was held on the day of circumcision
(January 1). The office of the day was first chanted in travesty;Unlike the vast majority of reproductions, these limited edition, hand pulled lithographs represent the finest examples of the printmaker's art. Each of many colors is pressed separately in an intricate, time-consuming process. The final product is a rare artwork - a delight in itself - regardless of the original image.

The Pablo Picasso pieces are hand-pulled stone lithographs, editions of 500 each, on heavy,100% acid free archival arches stock, and are from original works in the artist's estate. They are the only reproductions authorized of these works. They were commissioned by his heir and daughter, and are numbered and hand signed "Collection of Marina Picasso" on the front and accompanied by a certification of authenticity from the estate of the artist on the reverse.

The Renoir pieces are limited edition


hand-pulled lithographs, 950 or 1000 each, and were commissioned from original works by the artist by his grandson and sole heir, Paul Renoir. They were produced at the Maison Mourlot, Paris, one of the world's premier print makers, on 250-gram, 100% acid free archival arches. Each is hand signed and numbered by Paul Renoir, and bears the cachet d'atelier Renoir on the lower right corner and the cachet "Mourlot Paris" on the lower left.Chinese internet TV provider LeTV - said it was on course to deliver its first production vehicle in two years' time.

Its research chief Nick Sampson - who was formerly an engineer at rival electric car-maker Tesla - suggested his firm was able to move faster than others thanks to its adoption of "variable production architecture".

He explained this meant it would use the same basic underlying structure on all its vehicles, adapting it to include anywhere from one to four motors, battery packs of various sizes, different types of wheelbases and other optional parts.

image copyright Faraday Future image caption The firm says the underlying structure of the vehicle can accept different battery and motor configurations

This, he said, meant different models could be rolled out in a relatively short space


copyright Faraday Future image caption The firm said the use of "aero tunnels" would force air to pass through the car helping cool its batteries

But its chief designer, Richard Kim, said its edged side - which he described as a "UFO line" - would feature in all Faraday Future vehicles to mark them out.

In time, the firm said it intended to build self-drive vehicles and would not only sell its cars but also provide "connected mobility" to the wider population.

"Electric mobility has been hampered by a lack of charging stations so Faraday Future has invested in a car sharing company," explained Alexander Renz from the consultancy Clareo.

"It is serious about going beyond car ownership.

"And the partnership with LeTV, which is the Netflix of China, is about seeing theto normalise white supremacy in the US Members of the ShieldWall Network hold up balloons decorated as the face of Adolf Hitler and give a white-power hand signal as they celebrate the German fascist's birthday outside Atkins, Arkansas REUTERS The far-right plot to normalise white supremacy in the US Billy Roper of the ShieldWall Network attends a party at a home outside Atkins. The group primarily operates in Arkansas and includes three other members who were recently charged with assault in connection with the beating of a gay man, according to police reports REUTERS The far-right plot to normalise white supremacy in the US Members of the ShieldWall Network march to a rally opposing legal abortion and supporting gun rights at the state capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas


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supremacy in the US A figurine of a black man being lynched inside the home of Chris Barker of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Yanceyville REUTERS The far-right plot to normalise white supremacy in the US John Carollo, a member of the ShieldWall Network, holds up a photo montage of (clockwise from top left) Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, Adolf Hitler, founder of the American Nazi Party George Lincoln Rockwell, Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof and Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess, while attending a party at a home outside Atkins REUTERS The far-right plot to normalise white supremacy in the US Symbols of white nationalism are displayed on the jacket of a member of the National Socialist Movement as they gather in a parkinglot before attending a rally at the state capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas REUTERS The far-right plot to normalise white supremacy in the US Members of the ShieldWall Network prepare a swastika for burning to celebrate Adolf Hitler's birthday outside Atkins REUTERS The far-right plot to normalise white supremacy in the US A new member of the ShieldWall Network, Nicholas Holloway, and other members of the white nationalist group go boating to celebrate Adolf Hitler's birthday outside Russellville, Arkansas REUTERS The far-right plot to normalise white supremacy in the US Courtney Calfy, wife of Julian Calfy, helps to prepare a meal as members of the ShieldWall Network gather to celebrate Adolf Hitler's birthday outside Atkins, Arkansas REUTERS The far-right plot to normalise white supremacy in the US John


Carollo, a member of the ShieldWall Network, on the phone during a celebration of Adolf Hitler's birthday outside Atkins, Arkansas REUTERS The far-right plot to normalise white supremacy in the US A plaque on top of a flagpole with the number 1488 is carried by members of the National Socialist Movement as they attend a rally at the state capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas, November 10, 2018 REUTERS The far-right plot to normalise white supremacy in the US Members of the ShieldWall Network John Carollo, Julian Calfy and Nicholas Holloway gather at a member's home before departing to disrupt a Jewish Holocaust memorial event in Russellville, Arkansas REUTERS The far-right plot to normalise white supremacy in the US Members of the ShieldWall Network burn a swastika to celebrateAdolf Hitler's birthday outside Atkins, Arkansas REUTERS The far-right plot to normalise white supremacy in the US Chris Barker of the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is seen inside what the group calls its church, next to his home in Yanceyville REUTERS The far-right plot to normalise white supremacy in the US Members of the ShieldWall Network go boating to celebrate Adolf Hitler's birthday outside Russellville, Arkansas REUTERS The far-right plot to normalise white supremacy in the US Members of the ShieldWall Network, a white nationalist group, prepare to burn a swastika and cross during a party at a home outside Atkins, Arkansas REUTERS

As Mr Trump’s bid for re-election shifts into higher gear, his campaign hopes to recapture voters who drifted away from the party


than the Trumpstock crowd reflected, and he attracts some independents and Democrats as well. The festival itself was relatively small, drawing about 100 people, though significant enough to attract the likes of Mr Gosar.

But events like it, as well as speaking engagements featuring far-right supporters of the president, have become part of the political landscape during the Trump era. Islamophobic taunts can be heard at his rallies. Hate speech and conspiracy theories are staples of some far-right websites. If Trumpstock was modest in size, it stood out as a sign of extremist public support for a sitting president.

Allegations of racism and hate-mongering often follow Mr Trump's rallies (Getty)

And these supporters have electoral muscle in key areas: Mr Trump outperformed Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee, in rural partsus”.

Some Trump supporters in the state have drifted away from the president's rhetoric (AFP)

Grassroots gatherings play a critical role in the modern culture of political organising, firing up ardent supporters and cementing new ones. Small circles of Trump-supporting conservatives, often organised online and outside the traditional Republican Party apparatus, engage in more decentralized – and explicit – versions of the chest-beating that happens at Trump’s closely watched political rallies.

In interviews, people in the crowd described a white America under threat as racial minorities typified by Mr Obama, the country’s first black president, gain political power. They described Mr Trump as an inspirational figure who is undoing Mr Obama’s legacy and beating back the perceived threat of Muslim and Latino immigrants, whom they denounced in prejudiced terms.

“I don’t have


and the National Socialists,” said Evan Sayet, a conservative writer who spoke at the event, referring to Nazi Germany. Democrats, he said, “are the heirs to Adolf Hitler”.

A Party Cast in Trump’s Image

Speakers at Trumpstock said their cultural fears had been exacerbated by their state’s own changing nature: Arizona is on the front lines of unauthorised border crossings from Mexico, and racial minorities are expected to outnumber white people in the state in the next decade.

Arizona Democrats made political gains in 2018, and the national party is riding high after it won governor’s races this year in Kentucky and Louisiana. But Republicans remain bullish. They argue that a slice of their electoral base will vote only when the president is on the ballot, and point to regions likeKelli Ward, the state’s Republican Party chair. They appeared alongside more fringe figures: Sharon Slater of Family Watch International, which has promoted figures associated with anti-LGBT+ conversion therapy, and Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and Arizona native who was banned by Twitter and some other platforms after making anti-Muslim comments.

This blend of insider and outsider, of mainstream and conspiracy, is a feature of how Mr Trump has reshaped the Republican Party in his image, and the core of his presidential origin story. Before Mr Trump announced any firm plans to seek office, he was the national face of the “birther” conspiracy, which thrived in the Tea Party movement and had a significant amount of support from the Republican base, polls showed.

Mr Trump put excessive emphasis on the 'Birther'


have perpetuated them. He pardoned Joseph M Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, a hero of Arizona’s right wing and a leader of the “birther” movement, who was convicted of criminal contempt related to his aggressive efforts to detain immigrants in the country illegally.

Believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory claim that democrats are devil worshippers (Getty)

On Mr Trump’s Twitter account, very likely the most watched in the world, he has promoted white nationalists, anti-Muslim bigots, and believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims that top Democrats are worshipping the devil and engaging in child sex trafficking.

Even mainstream conservative media figures have embraced QAnon as a way to dismiss Mr Trump’s political enemies. Fox News host Jesse Watters, during a recent segment dedicated to the conspiracy, linkedsupport for Mr Trump (AFP via Getty Images)

Long shot congressional candidates with an “America First” agenda came from places like Iowa and Maryland. Leaders of fledgling political groups with names like JEXIT: Jews Exit the Democratic Party, Latinos for Trump and Deplorable Pride, a right-wing LGBT+ organisation, told the overwhelmingly white audience they were not antisemitic, anti-immigrant, homophobic or racist. In fact, the speakers insisted, people who used those terms were more guilty of bigotry than the people they accused.

To applause, the co-founder of Latinos for Trump, Marco Gutierrez, read the pledge he took when he became a naturalised citizen and renounced his Mexican homeland. Nitemare, a pro-Trump rapper who refused to give his legal name, invoked QAnon and called Mr Obama a racist slur in his set.

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A raid by the Income Tax department on Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Kartar Singh Tanwar has reportedly yielded Rs. 130 crore in unaccounted cash and investments. He has been questioned by IT authorities twice, and has previously been raided by IT authorities.

Tanwar is the party's MLA from Chhatarpur.

Imaandar sarkar, badlegi haal!!

Jab hoga 5 saal kejriwal!!#AapKaKartar pic.twitter.com/EUblMSloqU — Kartar Singh Tanwar (@AAPKartar) January 19, 2015

Previous raids have revealed unaccounted cash and jewellery of nearly Rs 1 crore from Tanwar and his brother, News18 reported. Tanwar has reacted with the classic AAP response - that it is an attack by the BJP led Central government. Tanwar is a former BJP leader, before he switched sides in 2014.

IT sources said that Tanwar and his business associates had bought houses inChattarpur and Ghitorni in cash, and they had not paid stamp duty and registration fee on huge land transactions.

He is also accused of allegedly showing money from land deal as loans and advances in companies controlled by him - he reportedly has 30 to 35 companies he uses to conduct these transaction. Documents found show unaccounted and benami properties - a total valuation of his illegitimate assets is being undertaken, along with unexplained and unaccounted expenses on construction of a mall, residential houses, marriage expenses and farm houses.


answer lies in the frightening
institutional bias against the presumption of innocence once the charge of
terrorism is laid. Rafiq Shah and Hussain
Fazli were arrested in Srinagar three weeks after the explosions in Delhi.
Fazli was a shawl vendor and Shah was a student in Kashmir University. Their
due process rights were violated from the very beginning. They were detained in
a Special Task Force camp and not produced before a magistrate. They were not
provided legal counsel till some months later.

The charge against
Fazli was one of conspiracy that rested entirely on the allegation that he had
made incriminating phone calls. It turned out that the SIM card allegedly used
for these calls had only been used for two innocuous calls, one of which was a
recharge request. There was literally no evidence against him apart fromthis.

The charge against
Rafiq Shah was more elaborate and serious: he was charged with planting a bomb
in a bus that subsequently exploded, injuring many and blinding the brave
driver who flung it out of the bus. This charge rested on the testimony of
Prosecution Witness 14 (PW14: these witnesses can't be named because they
testified under a witness protection programme) who claimed to have been a
fellow passenger with Rafiq Shah on the bus where the bomb was found. He
supplied a detailed description of Shah: a light skinned man, over six feet
tall, with a 'French' beard, wearing a striped white shirt, grey trousers and a
cap.

The problem with this
description was that it was completely at odds with the one supplied by
Prosecution Witness 19 (PW19). This witness had been interviewed earlier by the
first police responder


to the Kalkaji blast, a sub-inspector from the Kalkaji
police post. PW19 had alerted the driver to the passenger who had left his
bundle at the back of the bus. He described this man to the sub-inspector,
Attri, as 5' 10" tall, sallow, clean-shaven and bare-headed, wearing a
shirt the colour of Coca Cola and white trousers. The special cell, to which
the investigation was transferred two days after the blast, seemed unaware of
this contradictory testimony when it presented its charge sheet to the court

Besides the problem
that two prosecution witnesses had supplied descriptions that contradicted each
other's in virtually every detail, Shah insisted from the beginning that he had
a cast-iron alibi: he had been attending classes and doing examinations in the
Islamic Studies department of Kashmir University on the day the explosions were
set off inDelhi. He claimed that both the attendance record and the professors
who took those classes would bear him out.

This is the point at
which the kafkaesque cruelty of the system becomes apparent. The investigators,
in their charge sheet filed in early 2006, enclosed a letter requesting Kashmir
University to send them the relevant attendance record. They also declared that
they hadn't received a response because of the winter break. This winter break
never ended. At no point between the filing of the charge sheet in 2006 and the
judgment 11 years later do the prosecutors acknowledge receipt of the relevant
attendance record from Kashmir University. It's almost as if an intervening ice
age prevented Shah's prosecutors from getting the relevant documents from his
university. Four professors who had taught Shah submitted an affidavit in 2006,
declaring that he had


was
sealed. This deference to the gravity of the crime, to public opinion and
prosecutorial pressure, made sure that the multiple bail applications moved by
defence counsel in subsequent years were turned down. Sixty people had died,
justice had to be done and if the special cell claimed that it had likely
perpetrators, it deserved its day in court, even if that meant years in jail
for two innocent men framed on flimsy charges.

It's worth mentioning
here that PW14, the principal eye-witness for the prosecution, was, according
to Shah's recorded testimony, repeatedly brought to his jail cell where he
examined Shah carefully and even took photographs of him with his phone. Shah
described PW14 accurately: a stout man wearing thick, bottle-glass spectacles.
Shah refused to submit himself to a TIP (Test Identification Parade) because he
was convinced he was beingset up by the special cell to be identified by a
false witness who had examined him at leisure. Shah testified that he was made
to grow a beard in custody which was shaped into a French beard by the jail
barber, the better to match PW14's description of him. (I won't even begin to
detail the other things that, on Shah's written testimony, were done to him in
custody, the torture, the abuse.)

The interminable
nine-year process between the start of the trial in 2008 and its end last week
is mainly the story of a judicial system in which the prosecution is given wide
latitude and near unlimited time in which to present its witnesses. In this
case the prosecution took eight years to present 187 witnesses, 110 of whom
were formal witnesses, victims of the explosions,


not material witnesses who
actually advanced the prosecution's case. The prosecution took five years
examining these formal witnesses even though none of them were cross-examined
by the defence. PW14 and PW19 were amongst the last of the material witnesses
to be examined. Their contradictory testimonies which helped sink the
prosecution case (as the prosecution probably knew they would) were saved till
the end.

It was the defence,
which got its turn to summon its witnesses at the end of these eight leisured
years, that produced the professors who testified to teaching or invigilating
Shah on the day of the explosions. It was the defence that produced the
attendance record that the prosecution should have retrieved 11 years ago in
2006 before the charge sheet was framed. The defence, which at no time asked
for an adjournment, examined its witnesses in aof a major US research firm, the IITs are one of its most important sources of research talent, both in the US and Asia.

What makes them what they are "IITians", the name itself evokes some prototypes. They have the required skill, experience, imagination and enthusiasm to make it to the top. "Being from an IIT background has contributed to a great extent", says Rahul Pandey, an IIT Roorkee product, who is currently employed with HPCL. The training at IIT is very vigorous, and so is the selection process.

"The JEE is the toughest undergraduate entrance exam of its kind in the world, and it acts as a guillotine at the IITs' entrance," says Sandipan Deb, author of "The IITians" while speaking to The Wall Street Journal .

Finally, the experience


of staying on campus is also crucial in building interpersonal skills and in providing students with leadership qualities. The missing link Even as IIT and other engineering schools enjoy global attention, students hold a different point of view. Few students prefer to pursue US degree as the course curriculum is wider and not limited to just engineering. Despite this, an IIT degree is a ticket to being a part of the high profile tech brigade which has already made a mark on the world tech map.

R. Gopalakrishnan, executive director of Tata Sons, a diversified group of companies in India, and an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, who has studied the "IIT brand," told the Wall Street Journal that, even engineers from other Indian universities now do their master's degreesthe shoes he wore, but she is still
in shock about what happened to her. She was glad he has been arrested,” he
said.

A police
source said the suspect went into hiding after recognising that he had been
recognised, adding that he was eventually apprehended at Akpabuyo.

The police
said the suspect was a popular petroleum dealer in the area with a wife who
recently put to bed.

When
contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, Irene Ugbo, confirmed the
incident, adding that the suspect had been arrested and was already in the
police custody.

She said,
“It is true. We have arrested the suspect and he has been identified by his
victim as the person who broke into his house that fateful night.”

Also, the
PRO in charge of the state NYSC, Abdullahi Yuguda, said, “We applaud the role
played by security agencies in Bakassi,


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3/27/14

By UW-Manitowoc

As part of its Regional Writers Series, the University of Wisconsin-Manitowoc invites the public to attend a presentation by award-winning travel writer Michael Joseph Oswald on Wednesday, April 2 at 4:00 p.m. The free program will take place in the campus library located on the second floor of Founders Hall.

Oswald’s work has garnered considerable praise. OnWisconsin Magazine said “Your Guide to the National Parks: The complete Guide to All 58 National Parks is quite frankly, amazing.” It received the National Outdoor Book Award (NOBA) for the best Adventure Guidebook, the Ben Franklin Award, the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award, and was runner-up for the Bill Fisher Award.

The book provides step-by-step itineraries; kid-friendly activities; all of the most


popular ranger programs; and thousands of hotels, restaurants, and attractions beyond the parks. Exhaustive activity information, including hiking tables, easy-to-find trailhead markers, outfitter details, and backpacking essentials are also included.

A Manitowoc native, Oswald began his college career at UW-Manitowoc and went on to graduate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2003 with degrees in electrical engineering and chemistry. When he started exploring parks, his primary goal was to commune with nature. During that process, he soon realized most visitors only went as far as their cars and there wasn’t a comprehensive guidebook on the market to tell them otherwise. He hopes his guide will help people appreciate the true magnificence of the parks.

“Your Guide to the National Parks” is published by Oswald’s own publishing company, Stone Road PressIncreasingly frequent calving events

Evidence of accelerated melting of Antarctic glaciers

The large cracks running along the edge of the Pine Island Glacier are the result of the gradual rise in temperatures. These cracks weaken glaciers, resulting in more frequent glacier calving. Credits: ESA

As global temperatures rise due to global warming, the Antarctic ice is becoming brittle and undergoing accelerated melting in recent years. And recently, one of the largest glaciers in Antarctica, the Pine Island Glacier, was an example: a piece the size of Malta (or twice that of Washington DC) has come off in the sea. The other giant glacier nearby, that of Thwaites, could soon suffer the same fate.The Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest melting glaciers in Antarctica, has just lost another huge chunk of


ice in the sea, continuing a trend of rapid melting that has become an almost annual occurrence over the past decade. Scientists at Copernicus, the European Union's Earth observation program, have been closely monitoring the glacier since large cracks appeared near its edge in October 2019.Yesterday, these cracks finally cut a piece of the glacier (a process called calving glacier), releasing giant pieces of fresh icebergs into the nearby Amundsen Sea. In total, the largest piece is approximately twice the size of Washington (DC) in surface area (over 350 square kilometers), which is equivalent to the area of Malta.The recent calving alone is not so surprising or particularly threatening to the global sea level; calving is a normal part of the life of ice formations with sections floatingon the water. Because the ice at the edge of the glacier was already floating, this ice does not directly contribute to the rise in sea level when it inevitably melts.However, over the past two decades, calving events have occurred much more frequently at the Pine Island Glacier and the nearby Thwaites Glacier (also known as the “Doomsday Glacier”) as the surrounding ocean warms. due to global warming.While large calving events occurred at the Pine Island Glacier every four to six years, they have now become near-annual events, according to NASA.Over the past decade, huge chunks of the glacier have come off in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018 and now in 2020. As a result, the ice shelves of Pine Island and Thwaites are retreating inside. land faster


than new ice can form.Scientists fear that this persistent retreat is a sign that an accelerated melting cycle is underway: as relatively warm seawater flows over the newly exposed edges of an ice shelf, the melt accelerates, the ice shelf stretches and thins, and calving becomes more and more likely.According to NASA, the region around the two glaciers contains enough vulnerable ice to raise the ocean by 1.2 meters. The new Pine Island icebergs calved just days after scientists reported the hottest temperature on record in Antarctica. On Thursday, February 6, temperatures near a research base on the northern edge of the continent reached 18.3 ° C, reported the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The previous record was 17.5 ° C, established in March 2015.The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a request from the Washington Redskins to hear its case against the federal government's decision to cancel the NFL team's trademark because it was offensive.

The Court's decision was expected because the U.S. Court of Appeals hasn't yet had a chance to rule on a lower court decision that upheld the government's decision to cancel the trademark.

However, the Court did take up a separate case that could determine the fate of the Redskins' trademark. That case is Lee v Tam, and involves an Asian-American rock band called "The Slants" that is seeking a trademark for its name. That trademark has also been rejected by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which decided it was offensive.

Both the Redskins and the band have suggested


that a federal law barring trademarks on racial slurs violate the First Amendment.

A victory for the band before the Court would likely mean a victory for the Redskins. But a loss by the band would not necessarily end the Redskins' chances of prevailing in keeping its trademark.

No date has been set yet for oral arguments in the band's case.Parasitic copepods on immigrant and native clupeid fishes caught in Egyptian coastal waters off Alexandria.
Three species of parasitic copepods, one each from the siphonostomatoid families Lernanthropidae and Lernaeopodidae and one from the cyclopoid family Bomolochidae, are redescribed based on material collected from the gills of four fish species belonging to the family Clupeidae caught from coastal waters off Alexandria, Egypt. The recorded parasites are: Mitrapus oblongus (Pillai, 1964), found on Etrumeus teres (Dekay), an immigrant species from the Red Sea, and on Sardinella aurita Valenciennes, a native Mediterranean species; Clavellisa ilishae Pillai, 1962 found only on S. aurita; and Nothobomolochus fradei Marques, 1965 found on Herklotsichthys punctatus (Rüppell), an immigrant species from the Red Sea, and on Sardina pilchardus (Walbaum), a native Mediterranean species. The first two of


these copepods have been reported before on clupeid hosts from the Indian Ocean. The third was known from the eastern South Atlantic and the Arabian Gulf. None of the copepods has previously been recorded in the Mediterranean. All of the parasites reported here constitute new records for these hosts. Two of the hosts are Erythrean (=Lessepsian) immigrants and were caught in Mediterranean waters off the Egyptian coast. The original description of N. fradei (Marques, 1965) is inadequate by modern standards. This species is fully described here for the first time. The male of M. oblongus was briefly described by Pillai (1964), but its mouthparts are described in detail here for the first time.in the 2014-15 fiscal year and climb to a surplus of $6.4 billion the next year.

The Conservative government expects to post a small deficit in the current fiscal year and is projecting surpluses after that, Harper said.

One-time factors played a significant role in the improvement, he added, but didn’t offer details.

The timing is hardly a happy coincidence for the Conservatives, who find themselves well on their way to reaping a surplus just in time for a federal election, scheduled to take place in October 2015.

Harper said the Tories do intend “to move quickly to implement promises that we made to Canadians in the last election.”

One of those planks — an expansion of income splitting for couples with children — was announced during the 2011 campaign, but was contingent


Cops Cuff Grant In Baked-Bean Brouhaha

Hugh Grant has been arrested for allegedly throwing a container of baked beans at a photographer, London police said.

The Metropolitan Police don't identify suspects who haven't been charged, but said a 46-year-old man was arrested Wednesday night on suspicion of assault and released on bail. No charges have been filed, police said.

Grant's lawyers weren't immediately available for comment.

Photographer Ian Whittaker told the Daily Star tabloid that Grant had kicked him and shouted abuse before hurling the beans at him Tuesday morning.

The newspaper ran photos Wednesday showing the actor holding a plastic tub over his head.

"He lost his temper with the paparazzi who was waiting outside his house," Grant's publicist, Robert Garlock, told The ShowBuzz Thursday.

Garlock said charges are pending. "Basically he was broughtin for questioning and the charges are pending, it's now the court's decision. He's back home, he's fine. He confirmed to me that the event happened," Garlock said.

Grant's screen credits include "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Notting Hill" and "About a Boy."

The British actor appeared in a segment of FOX's reality show "American Idol" on Wednesday in which he lip-synched to a Bee Gee's song.


US behind Mideast crackdowns

Tehran's interim Friday Prayer Leader, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, has said that the popular movements in the region demand the administration of justice and the sacred religion of Islam, while strongly condemning the massacre of Muslims, especially the Muslim people of Bahrain by the corrupt rulers and Saudi troops.

Ayatollah Jannati further pointed out that the US is partner in

He noted that the carnage of Bahraini people is a bitter incident, while adding that the people of Bahrain, the majority of which are Shiites, have taken to streets, because their rights have been trampled upon by the Bahraini regime in the previous years.

On the reason behind the Saudi and UAE military interference in Bahrain for suppression of the revolutionaries, Ayatollah Jannati said: "When the Bahraini regime wason the verge of getting defeated by the Bahraini people, it called on Riyadh and Abu Dhabi to deploy forces to Bahrain."

Tehran's interim Friday Prayer leader also called on all Muslims, Islamic Ulema, the Organization of Islamic Conference, and the officials of Islamic countries to assist the people of Bahrain in attainment of their rights.

Ayatollah Jannati further referred to popular movement in Libya and said ratification of a resolution against this country cannot prevent the massacre of Libyan people in the hands of the mercenaries of Gaddafi's dictatorial regime.

He also considered Japan's earthquake as destructive and called on everyone to assist Japanese government in helping the quake-hit people.

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Â crimes committed in the region and is responsible for regional bloodshed.

He noted that the carnage of Bahraini people is a


bitter incident, while adding that the people of Bahrain, the majority of which are Shiites, have taken to streets, because their rights have been trampled upon by the Bahraini regime in the previous years.

On the reason behind the Saudi and UAE military interference in Bahrain for suppression of the revolutionaries, Ayatollah Jannati said: "When the Bahraini regime was on the verge of getting defeated by the Bahraini people, it called on Riyadh and Abu Dhabi to deploy forces to Bahrain."

Tehran's interim Friday Prayer leader also called on all Muslims, Islamic Ulema, the Organization of Islamic Conference, and the officials of Islamic countries to assist the people of Bahrain in attainment of their rights.

Ayatollah Jannati further referred to popular movement in Libya and said ratification of a resolution againstthis country cannot prevent the massacre of Libyan people in the hands of the mercenaries of Gaddafi's dictatorial regime.

He also considered Japan's earthquake as destructive and called on everyone to assist Japanese government in helping the quake-hit people.


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Jake Livermore has made 20 Premier League appearances for West Brom this season

West Ham are investigating the reason behind West Brom's Jake Livermore confrontation with a fan at the London Stadium amid suspicions it may relate to the death of the midfielder's son.

The England midfielder became involved in an angry exchange with a fan after he was substituted in the second half of his side's 2-1 defeat.

Livermore and his partner lost their newborn son Jake Junior in May 2014.

Neither club has commented about the precise reasons behind the incident.

West Ham are leading the investigation and said they have identified the supporter involved in the confrontation with Livermore. The man was spoken to by stadium staff on Tuesday evening and removed fromto ban him because of "the unique nature of circumstances" involved.

In August 2016 he told BBC Sport: "It was a young human being who got lost in circumstances and didn't know how to react."


ill and was placed in a nursing home in
Ohio, near where she lived. In late 1999 or early 2000, Eileen told David that Wilma
would be coming to live with her and she needed David’s help to care for Wilma. Eileen
told David that he needed to sell his house. At that time, David, Wilma and Eileen orally
agreed that David would sell the Fifth Street house, move back to Ohio, and the proceeds
of sale could be used for Wilma’s care and the remainder would be held by Eileen for
David’s use in buying a new home in Santa Monica at a later date. David sold the Fifth
Street house based upon this agreement, and in August 2000 moved back to Ohio to care
for Wilma until her death on October 13, 2001.
 taxes, the balance
remaining in the interest-bearing bank account in December 2002 was $109,305.82.
         4.    Purchase of the Condo
         In January 2003, pursuant to the parties’ agreement, David used the funds on
deposit in Eileen’s account from the sale of the Fifth Street house to buy a condo in Santa
Monica for $286,000. David made a down payment of over $100,000. Due to David’s
disability and other financial problems, Eileen obtained a loan for the remaining amount
of the purchase price. Eileen told third parties that it was her intent that David live in the
condo for the rest of his life. Title was taken in Eileen’s name with the belief that she
would outlive David,


life estate in the condo. The executrix denied the claim on May 13, 2008.
       On May 30, 2008, David filed a petition to confirm interest in real property,
asserting that pursuant to the resulting trust doctrine, the executrix of Eileen’s estate was
required to convey a life estate in the condo to him. On July 24, 2008, the executrix
objected to the petition, alleging the facts did not support a resulting trust. The objection
did not raise the statute of limitations as a defense.
       7.     Motion to Amend Pleadings
       On September 19, 2011, the executrix moved to amend her objection to David’s
petition to assert a statute of limitations defense undercondo. Although these proceeds
could not be definitively traced to the sale of the Fifth Street house, the court found the

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timing of the deposits and withdrawals supported the conclusion the funds were held for
David.
         The court concluded that: (1) there was an agreement between David and Eileen
formed in 2000 that David would sell the Fifth Street house and move back to Ohio to
help Eileen care for Wilma, and the proceeds of the sale of the


Fifth Street house would
be used to buy another residence for David in Santa Monica; (2) David and Eileen
performed their promises under this agreement, and purchased the condo in 2003;
(3) David contributed a minimum of $30,000 to the condo purchase; and (4) Eileen’s
intention at the time of the purchase of the condo was that David reside in it for the rest
of his life. Therefore, the court held there was a resulting trust to provide David a life
estate in the condo.
         The court ordered the executrix to take the necessary steps to provide David with a
life estate in the condo, and upon David’s death, transfer the remainder interest to the
Foundation.
            in an account for David in consideration of his return to Ohio to care for
Wilma, and upon her death, a home in California would be purchased for David using
those funds. The nearly simultaneous placement of those funds into a segregated account
and their withdrawal at the time of the purchase of the condo is sufficient evidence of

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tracing that establishes the condo was purchased with David’s monies, although title was
held by Eileen, and Eileen intended that David was the true owner of the condo.
III.


area is unsafe to enter, and Hacker is waiting for an insurance company to bring in heavy equipment to dig out the structure before an investigation can take place.

The building has been called a “total loss,” after firefighters worked nearly nine hours maintaining the fire to one building on South Main Street. Around 50 firefighters from 12-13 area fire departments were dispatched to the scene around 2 a.m. Woolley confirmed no foul play is suspected. He explained Hacker was called to the scene based on the size of the fire and amount of damage it caused.

The Princeton Fire Department was called back to the shambled structure three times throughout the day on Wednesday to maintain rekindling spots within the building. Woolley said in a case where the roofof warranty because defendant gave plaintiff's engineer a written acceptance for the machinery in which defendant's president states that the machinery was operating in a satisfactory manner.

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Plaintiff moved for summary judgment on the first cause of action on the basis of the pleadings and an affidavit of plaintiff's engineer which reiterated the allegations in plaintiff's reply with respect to defendant's written acceptance.  Defendant presented to the district court a counter-affidavit sworn to by its president, one Hayes, which states that during the test runs the engine threw large quantities of unused oil into the atmosphere through its exhaust.  Hayes' explanation of the written acceptance is that plaintiff's engineer had represented to him that the purpose of the receipt or acceptance was merely to show that the


representation.'  1 Williston, Sales, § 194 (rev. ed.)
There is no reason why given descriptive words might not conform to the definitions in both Sec. 12 and Sec. 14 of the Uniform Sales Act.  This is one of those situations in which a page from history is of more value than a whole volume of apparently logical reasoning.  Section 14 of the Uniform Sales Act is almost identical with Section 13 of the English Sale of Goods Act.  This corresponding section of the English statute was limited, at least at the time of its enactment, to situations in which the identification of the goods that are the subject matter of the sale depended upon the description.  Section 12 was apparently included in the AmericanAtletico Madrid Heartbreak will see striker return with bit between his teeth

Having been beaten in two major finals so far in 2016, Antoine Griezmann has revealed which defeat hurt him the most.

The Atletico Madrid forward missed a penalty in the Champions League final as his side were narrowly beaten by Real Madrid on penalties before further heartbreak came his way in July when he lost the Euro 2016 showpiece against Portugal.

In discussion with La Gazzetta dello Sport, Griezmann also refuses to give up hope of winning the Ballon d'Or this year, despite acknowledging that he has a battle on his hands against Cristiano Ronaldo.

Of the two finals you've lost recently, which one hurt the most?

"I want to begin by saying that it was a very good year for


in a well loved area of Swansea at the beginning of the Gower Peninsula’s coastline. There are plenty of things to do in Mumbles, including visiting the Lighthouse which was built in 1974 and a Victorian pier. Oystermouth Castle is also well worth a visit, sitting on a hilltop with fabulous views overlooking the sea. Mumbles also has range of high end shops, independent boutiques and quirky galleries so you can shop until you drop.

Edinburgh & The Lothians is a region of iconic landmarks, world-famous festivals and exciting possibilities. Find excellent attractions, activities and entertainment in Scotland’s capital, Edinburgh, and beautiful, peaceful countryside in the Lothians. They bring together the best of both worlds with the peace and quiet of The Lothians and the excitement of the livelyand wealthy businessman, or were merely the stuff of dreams. A few examples from the top of my head:

A car: whether you own one (or two, or three), or can rent one a few days a year to travel on vacation, with a car we can travel faster than was possible till the 19th century even for for the wealthiest who owned many horses, and easily remain comfortable and dry while travelling in rain and ice; many cars also have the luxury of air-conditioning.

Spacious houses with central heating: the majority of us in the west can heat our houses or apartments to a level of comfort that in prior centuries only the wealthy could afford (in those regions where central heating was a thing at all — elsewhere


further sin"), not bear grave guilt in the violation of the "rule" that puts them in an "irregular" situation.
In this hypothetical, Amoris Laetitia is envisioning somewhat who is caught between two (perceived) obligations: the obligation of the rule in question, and the obligation of another rule that applies in this particular circumstance. For example, some one who married for a few years, without children, was divorced by the first spouse, has civilly remarried in ignorance of the fact that divorce cannot dissolve a valid marriage, been living in this civil marriage for many years and had children with the second partner, may come to learn of the indissolubility of marriage and the consequent obligation of fidelity to the first spouse, yet at the same time believe themselves boundof St. Thomas Aquinas is taught by the Catechism of the Catholic Church: "A human being must always obey the certain judgment of his conscience. If he were deliberately to act against it, he would condemn himself." (CCC 1790)

One could say that the theologians' claim is technically correct, since, if a person's conscience tells him that he is obliged to do something incompatible with obeying a certain divine law, though he will sin if he disobeys his conscience and obeys that divine law, it would not be by choosing to obey that law that he sins, but by disobeying the law that his conscience puts forth as the reason why he is obliged to do something else. But, if our concern is with what Amoris Laetitia intends to


was invalid, but who, on account of external circumstances, cannot celebrate a second church marriage, because they have no access to a church tribunal (or even to a Church). This inability to present their case to a church tribunal possibly is based on the fact that they live in a country in which the Church doesn't exist or is severely persecuted, or on an island, on which there is no Church or priests, etc.

The impossibility of having recourse to a church tribunal can also arise among the extremely poor, who cannot afford the costs of a long trip for a hearing before a church court or of a ecclesial annulment process, who however are honestly and for the strongest reasons convinced of the invalidity of their first marriage,a marriage. This applies all the more to the sacrament of marriage.

4. Marriage between two baptized persons is a sacrament. The reception of a sacrament is a religious, and never merely a private act. It is therefore the Church's task to judge the validity of the sacraments, according to objective criteria.

5. Moreover, leaving this question to the individual's conscience can easily lead to injustices. Consider a man who is tempted to commit adultery. He could easily, in a personal investigation, which is possibly based on an erring conscience, decided that his first marriage was invalid and that he is free to divorce and to marry a second woman.

6. Also individual priests cannot shed light on the truth of a marriage without carrying out a conscientious examination, for which


this difficult situation puts the brakes on the Pope's desire for reform, doesn't it?

Schönborn: I believe that already much has happened. Pope Francis relies on processes. Things are started up, and things get moving. He did that for two years with the synod on the family. It is a journey, and a lot has to be discussed. Change doesn't happen at the end, but on the way. A simple example: in the 2014 synod the talks were incredibly abstract. A year later people spoke suddenly of reality, even bishops told of their situation with families. And, lo and behold, they didn't simply theorize abstractly. In a certain sense the journal is the destination, because it moves towards a goal.
…

Many persons interpret the couples, who materially are living ingrave sin, but who now by AL shall be welcomed at the Lord’s table, in a form completely opposite to the first answer: “All divorced and remarried persons, adulterers, lesbians and homosexuals, bisexuals and other couples should be admitted to the sacraments without any restrictions.” Fr. Antonio Spadaro SJ, the Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines through its president, and many German bishops, but also US bishops such as the Archbishop of Chicago, Blasé Cupich, have interpreted AL in the same sense. The same applies to Cardinal Schönborn, who in an interview went so far as to say that Pope Francis, at least as regards the reception of the sacraments, had eliminated every distinction between regular and irregular couples. (cf. Schönborn, July 6, 2016)

This interpretation of the couples, who


the text of AL, but is rather a judgment about the character and style, as well as the value, rank and impact of AL. Thus Cardinal Burke in not unclear words said that, in his opinion, AL is not to be reckoned among the papal magisterial documents, but is merely an expression, in writing, of the post-synodal personal reflections of the pope.
Cardinal Burke, Livio Melina, Cardinal Mueller and other interpreters have added that a mere stroke of the pen in a single footnote (351) is incapable, on account of its lacking the appropriate form, to change the sacramental discipline and a 2000-year-old tradition of the Catholic Church, as well as the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Codex Iuris Canonici. These texts clearly and unmistakably formulate thewithout receiving communion, listening to the word of God, Eucharistic adoration, prayer, participation in the life of the community, honest dialogue with a priest or spiritual director, dedication to the life of charity, works of penance, and commitment to the education of their children”.

The cardinals Willem Jacobus Eijk, Carlo Caffarra, and others say substantially the same thing, with many arguments and penetrating explanations. These cardinals are without doubt right, that the sacramental discipline and teaching of the Church valid for 2000 years and rooted in the bible, including the prohibition of receiving the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist and sacramental absolution without repenting of one’s way of life, cannot have been effectively changed by a couple of passing remarks in AL.

So, indeed, for a variety of reasons nothing


of the sacramental discipline of the Church has been changed by AL. This applies above all and unconditionally in the case when the teaching on the sacraments and the sacramental disciplinary order of the Church derives from the Word of God and the unchangeable teaching and interpretation of that same teaching by the Church. As a judgment about the actual effect of AL (or the absence of such an effect) cardinal Burke, Chaput, and Caffarra are without doubt correct. The sacramental discipline of the Church did not change, since it has been repeatedly presented by the magisterium as part and consequence of the unchangeable truth of revelation, and, moreover, even if it were changeable, could no more than the Catechism and the CIC be changed by a strokeFrancis, it is shown that it also contradicts the teaching and tradition of the Church, as well as rational principles of justice, so that finally, only the first answer remains, which holds that Pope Francis has changed nothing regarding the sacramental discipline and can, for various reasons, effectively change nothing regarding it.

The third part addresses a series of statements that a least upon a first reading seem false, indeed heretical, and that would demonstrate the radical break affirmed by Spaemann of AL with teaching and tradition: a break with the teaching of the Gospel and the Church on the moral order, on per se evil and disordered actions, on the commandments of God and our ability to fulfill them with the help of grace, on the indissolubility of


marriage and the holiness of the sacraments of the Eucharist and marriage, on the sacramental discipline and pastoral action of the Church that arise from the Word of God and the 2000 year-old tradition of the Church, on the necessity of faith in Christ for eternal salvation and the danger of eternal damnation (hell).

Since the statements concerned bear upon fundamental elements of Church teaching, a clarification and retraction of the false sense (for the most part immediately understood as the sense of the passages) is requested.

The fourth part shows, through various examples from Church history, that criticism, also by laity, of non-infallible statements of the Pope, is completely compatible with Catholic tradition and teacher: beginning from St. Paul, Emperor Constantine, and Athanasius through St. Catharine till the presentand the pope for all men in whatever situation they are in: in economic or moral poverty, in material and spiritual wealth, in sin or in virtue. The text contains treasures of truth. Above all, Amoris Laetitia – like Jesus, who in his words, the words of the God-man himself, in his conversation with Nicodemus graced us with a summary of the Gospel – places at the center of Christ’s message the love and the boundless mercy with which God loved and redeemed us through the incarnation, the passion, the death and the resurrection of his only beloved Son Jesus Christ. I share with the entire Catholic world joy about these aspects and about other precious parts of the teaching of AL on marriage, the gift of life


are just as urgently in need of correction.

By the publication of these critical thoughts I follow the example of St. Paul, who publicly criticized the first Pope, Peter, who was established by Jesus himself, an example that St. Thomas presents to us all as a model of our action under certain circumstances and as an extremely serious duty, even then, when such public criticism will offend some persons or bishops. Here, the truth has primacy.

The passages that in my opinion urgently require clarifications or corrections are sometimes hidden in few lines and in footnotes in the eighth chapter.

Some formulations in AL that seem dangerously ambiguous, cry out for clarification. Others – and in this I go further than Bishop Athanasius Schneider in his magnificent public letter to thereducing illegal migration to Europe,' Kurz told reporters at a convivial news conference with Seehofer, in marked contrast with the far more formal exchange he had with Merkel late Tuesday.

'We believe an axis of the willing is needed to fight illegal migration.'

The use of the phrase raised eyebrows on social media for its echoes of the World War II alliance of fascist powers, as well as the deep divisions in Europe left by the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 backed by a 'coalition of the willing'.

Merkel, widely seen as Europe's most prominent proponent of a generous refugee policy, has firmly rejected a plan put forward by Seehofer to turn back at German borders any asylum seeker already registered in another EU country.

She argues that her country should


not go it alone while Europe searches for a common policy.

Asked whether she supported the new 'axis' on migration, Merkel said only that she backed 'a shared European answer to the questions of illegal migration but also forms of legal migration'.

The so-called 'axis of the willing' comprises interior ministers from Austria, Germany and Italy

Angela Merkel's ruling CDU party was re-elected for a fourth term in September but the Chancellor saw her majority eaten into by far-right voters

Seehofer has won support from Salvini, who on Monday flatly refused to allow a rescue vessel carrying hundreds of migrants to dock.

The move was sharply criticised by France, touching off a spiralling dispute between the European heavyweights ahead of a crunch EU summit later this month.

Despite the gulf between them, Seehofer insistedEU presidency from countries such as the Netherlands and Denmark.

Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have also consistently either refused outright or resisted taking in refugees under a contested EU quota system.

Merkel leads a coalition in Berlin of her Christian Democrats, their Bavarian allies CSU to which Seehofer belongs, and the Social Democrats (SPD).

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas of the SPD threw his weight behind Merkel in the migration spat Wednesday in a far-reaching speech on Europe.

Saying that Europe must do 'everything in its power to keep migration from becoming poison for EU cohesion', Maas warned member states to 'stop using the migration issue as domestic propaganda against the EU'.

He joined Merkel's call for tackling the root causes such as war and poverty leading people to flee their


(Juan Soler), a wealthy mobster,
sends his men to kill Nicolás, who beat him at poker.

Nicolás wakes up from his coma,
but finds out he’ll have to go to jail because ofEstefanía
Pérez Hidalgo’s manipulations. She was an actress who participated in erotic
movies and inherited a fortune. Obsessed with Nicolás, she makes him believe it
was Reina who set him up. Meanwhile, Reina is left alone and pregnant, thinking
that Nicolás is dead.

Víctor de Rosas is obsessed
with Reina and after 8 years manages go convince her to marry him. He doesn’t
know that Reina only pretends she loves him, but her real intention is to seek
revenge and destroy the man that supposedly killed the love of her life. She discovers
the world of poker, where she is now called Reina de Corazones (Queen of
Hearts).

Nicolás becomesa secret agent
and changes his name to Javier Bolívar. On their way out of the church on her
wedding day with Victor, Reina notices Javier and runs after him. But she is
hit by a car. When she wakes up, she has amnesia and can’t remember 8 years of
her life.


Ohio Board of Nursing believes 25 nurses violated law by failing to question the medication orders of ex-Mount Carmel physician Dr. William Husel

The Ohio Board of Nursing sent notices on Thursday telling 25 Mount Carmel Health System nurses that they could lose their licenses for their roles in the care of critically ill patients who died after receiving inappropriate doses of pain medications.

Also Thursday, a 25th wrongful-death lawsuit naming Mount Carmel and Dr. William Husel was filed in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. It says that 37-year-old Brandy McDonald of London, Ohio, died at Mount Carmel West on Jan. 14, 2018, after receiving a lethal dose of fentanyl ordered by Husel.

The state nursing board said the nurses receiving notices were involved in administering drugs ordered by Husel, whowriter has met. He seems never to have met the atheists that I know. By far most of them live meaningful, ethical, loving lives. In a previous post (“Atheism born in tragedy and in thought,” July 26, 2013) I pointed out that a person can be an atheist for reasons as superficial as the reasons given by some for being Christian. In that post, I was pretty rough on such atheists and frankly have little truck with them. Just that sort of unthinking atheist would fit the writer’s stereotype of the empty-headed unbeliever, vulnerable to the sophomoric arguments advanced by the writer.

I remember such ridiculous accounts presented by leaders in the church of my childhood as they tried to demonstrate the supposed validity of some point. I’m embarrassed


groupthink, social pressure, intimidation, and punishment (happily, less of the latter than in previous times), rather like shouting makes one’s point more effectively. But sadly often their “proofs” fall back on such shallow, frivolous, and—ultimately—unethical arguments as those that stimulated this post.

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About John Bruce Carver

I am a U. S. citizen living in Atlanta, Georgia, having grown up in Chattanooga, Tennessee, graduating from Chattanooga High School. I served in the Electronic Security Command of the U. S. Air Force before receiving a B.S. degree in business/economics and an M.Ed. in educational psychology, both at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. I then completed a Ph.D. in clinical (and research) psychology at Emory University. I have two daughters and three granddaughters. An ardent international traveller, I have been inFrom centre stage in Davos, Switzerland, last year, U.S. President Donald Trump told the world’s corporate bosses that the United States is a great place to invest. It hasn’t quite turned out that way.

Foreign direct investment to the United States fell in 2018, and companies gathered at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps this year say they are worried Mr. Trump’s trade war with China will dampen the global economy and business investments even further.

One key complaint here this week: Companies increasingly reliant on consumers in China have had to lower their earnings outlooks as the world’s second-largest economy cools.

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And while the Trump administration has cut taxes and regulations to attract new investment, a wave of caution is rippling through many industries in


the United States.

“The trade war has been very damaging for the U.S. agricultural economy,” said David MacLennan, chief executive of U.S. food and agricultural giant Cargill Inc., which announced worse-than-expected results out of China earlier in January.

“The longer this goes on, the worse it is,” he said.

Foreign investment in the United States, which includes cross-border mergers and acquisitions and intracompany loans, fell about 18 per cent in 2018 from the prior year, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

That is close to the 19-per-cent year-on-year drop in foreign investment globally. But it is notable given the deregulation and tax cuts that might have otherwise fed into inward investment. In January of last year, at Davos, many executives said they planned to spend money inthe United States in 2018.

While the UN trade agency attributed the global and U.S. declines to the tariffs the United States and China have imposed on each other’s imports since mid-2018, foreign investment in China actually rose 3 per cent last year over the previous year. Foreign investment to India rose 7 per cent.

Alan Jope, chief executive of consumer-goods company Unilever NV, said the United States remains a good market for its products, which include Dove deodorant, Magnum ice cream and Lipton tea.

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But it is China, where Unilever last year joined forces with e-commerce giant JD.com Inc. to move its products around the country, that has become the more resilient market.

Mr. Jope said China was “one of our most reliable sources of


growth. China provides the new stability in consumer consumption.”

RIPPLE EFFECTS

The U.S.-China trade war has hit industries around the world over the past few months.

Big Chinese companies such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. have shrunk their plans to invest in the United States. Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group has scaled back its plans for a Wisconsin factory, and Chinese automaker GAC Group has also delayed a move into the U.S. market.

In September, Austria’s fibre producer Lenzing AG halted a planned U.S. expansion, blaming rising tariffs between the United States and China.

Chinese textile exports to the United States are among the goods facing tariffs. Lenzing mothballed a US$322-million project in Alabama to focus on setting up a new production facility in Thailand.

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To be sure, foreign companies are stillPricewaterhouseCoopers LLP research showed 27 per cent of executives from outside the United States see the United States as the No. 1 place with the most potential for growth, down from 46 per cent in 2018.

It’s not only economics that is clouding the skies. Foreign companies, mainly Chinese, also face tighter scrutiny when they bring deals to the United States, after the Trump administration last year strengthened the powers of the interagency committee on foreign investment (CFIUS), said Stuart Eizenstat, former U.S. ambassador to the European Union and now head of law firm Covington & Burlington LLP’s international practice.

CFIUS is an intra-agency panel that reviews acquisitions on national-security grounds.

Chinese state-owned Sinochem Corp., which has been in merger talks with China National Chemical Corp., commonly known as ChemChina, to


the earth”. Salt is all about preservation, healing, and peace.

The Church has a special prayer for the blessing of salt. After the blessing, the salt is often placed in Holy Water, or sometimes used by itself. This prayer, from the Roman Ritual says,

Almighty God, we ask you to bless this salt, as once you blessed the salt scattered over the water by the prophet Elisha. Wherever this salt (and water) is sprinkled, drive away the power of evil, and protect us always by the presence of your Holy Spirit. Grant this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Salt is also seen as a means of driving away evil or preserving one from evil corruption.

Salt is found naturally in the sea, in our tears, and in our sweat. All three ofillustration of repetition.  Matthew has Jesus saying that the birds of the air rest "in its branches," but Mark has them resting "under its shade."  Jesus probably told the parable in both ways. Jesus Crisis (370)

Inherent to the independent view is the idea that no one gospel records everything Jesus said on a particular occasions.  In fact there may have been multiple occasions where the same subject came up again and it only appears that it was one occasion.  For example: the sermon on the plain may have been a repeat of the sermon on the mount, with some minor differences.
The authors of the Jesus Crisis state that this method of harmonization is called the "additive-harmonization approach" by those who are critical of this


Migrant crisis: Angela Merkel's deadpan mask slips By Jenny Hill

Berlin correspondent Published duration 8 October 2015 Related Topics Europe migrant crisis

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German chancellor Angela Merkel has made a rare appearance on a German television talk show, to defend her refugee policy. She is famed for her deadpan delivery. Yet, as she was repeatedly questioned over her open-door refugee policy, the mask slipped.

The German online newspaper Spiegel described it as "the most honest government statement", because Mrs Merkel's frustration was obvious.

"We are in an extraordinary situation," she said.

The chancellor has been under pressure for weeks after her decision to temporarily suspend the Dublin protocol to allow thousands of migrants to travel from Budapest into Germany.

Since then a record number of people have arrived here; government figures reveal atkeep chipping away at reluctant EU member states to create longer-term solutions.

She's taken flak for her willingness to work with Turkey. "It's my damned duty," she snapped in response.

But while it's tempting to see the chancellor as an isolated figure, hell-bent on an unpopular policy which will bring down her chancellorship, it's worth noting that (perhaps now with the exception of Mr de Maiziere), her cabinet is solidly behind her.


Peel Regional Police say they found no weapon, and no victims after a report of someone possibly in possession of a gun near Williams Parkway Elementary School Thursday afternoon (June 14).

Police were called after a passerby reported seeing several youth fighting near the school, and seeing what the witness thought might be a gun.

After a search of the area, police report no weapon was found, and no more information was uncovered. No one was reported injured.

Williams Parkway and next door Judith Nyman Secondary School were put into lockdown around 1:45 p.m. as police arrived to investigate. It was later lifted, along with hold and secure orders that were placed on other schools in the area including Hilldale Elementary School, Chinguacousy Secondary School, Jefferson Elementary School and St. Jeanthat they are poor," said Eric Balaban, senior staff attorney with the ACLU National Prison Project.

The ACLU report, "In for a Penny: The Rise of America's New Debtors' Prisons," and the Brennan Center report, "The Hidden Cost of Criminal Justice Debt," show how the resurgent phenomenon of imprisoning people who are unable to pay fines and court fees is in fact counterproductive. States and counties, hard pressed to find revenue to shore up failing budgets, see a ready source of funds in defendants who can be assessed financial penalties above and beyond their criminal sentences that must be repaid upon pain of imprisonment.

"We are undermining the integrity of our criminal justice system and creating a two-tiered system of justice in which the poorest among us are punished more


harshly than those with means, at a great cost to taxpayers," said Vanita Gupta, Deputy Legal Director for the ACLU. "The rise of these debtors' prisons also has a disproportionate impact on people of color, who are overrepresented in the criminal justice system."

Kawana Young, a 25-year-old single mother of two in Michigan, accumulated a few minor traffic infractions for which she was given fines that she could not afford to pay. She attempted to pay off her debt by doing community service, was told after the fact that her service at an elderly living center would not count because the center was not a non-profit and, as a result, has been jailed five times for failing to pay her debt.

"I just need a chance to do right," Youngbetween Zika and microcephaly, a neurological condition in which infants are born with abnormally small heads and brains. Microcephaly can lead to developmental delays, as well as vision, hearing, and mobility problems.

Twenty-three babies have been born with Zika-related birth defects in the United States. According to the CDC, as of October 20, "laboratory evidence of possible Zika virus infection" has been found in 953 pregnant women in the States, and in 2,027 pregnant women in U.S. territories.

Several countries affected by the Zika outbreak have reported an increased incidence of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a rare disorder in which the immune system attacks the nervous system, causing weakness or even paralysis.

The WHO has taken the position that "there is scientific consensus that the Zika virus is a cause of microcephaly


declaratory decree as to the tract.  The district court found the United States to be the owner and holder of the fee simple title to the land, subject to certain easements and conditions.1  We affirm.

History

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The United States first obtained this land by various conveyances executed between 1828 and 1832.  In 1869, all records of these conveyances were destroyed in a court house fire.  State taxes were assessed on the reservation in 1870, 1871 and 1872.  As a result of nonpayment of these taxes, tax deeds were executed by the State of Florida to certain private individuals.2  Taxes continued to be assessed on portions of this land until 1932, when the Governor of Florida, pursuant to his statutory authority, executed a document whichceded to the United States all the land in question.  Between 1932 and 1947, the United States granted various permits and licenses concerning the use of this land.3

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The United States, in 1947, conveyed all of this land back to the State of Florida by a quit claim deed.  Part of this conveyance specifically provided:

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(1) That said property shall be used exclusively for public park purposes.

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(2) That upon breach of the aforesaid restriction by the part [sic] of the second part or any subsequent transferee whether caused by the legal inability of said party of the second part or subsequent transferee or otherwise, all right, title and interest in and to the property herein transferred shall, at the option of the party of the first part, revert


to the party of the first part upon demand made in writing by the War Assets Administration, or its successor government agency, . . .

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Immediately after the State of Florida received this land from the United States it brought action to quiet title against the successors in title of the private individuals who purchased the tax deeds for 1870, 1871 and 1872, hereafter referred to as Group A. After lengthy litigation, the Supreme Court of the State of Florida found that the state lost its claim to the land.  Daniell v. Sherrill, 48 So.2d 736 (1950).  Pursuant to the Court's opinion, the private individuals, Group A, were found to be owners of the property in question, subject to the terms of the 1947 conveyance from theUnited States to the State of Florida.  On February 25, 1970, the United States gave notice of its intention to exercise the reverter of the 1947 conveyance and demanded revesting of the title to the land.  This right of reentry and reverter was grounded on that portion of the 1947 conveyance which provided that the land should be used "exclusively for public park purposes."

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The United States then instituted this action to quiet title and for declaratory judgment in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Florida on January 29, 1971.  After a non-jury trial, the district court found that the property had not been used exclusively for public park purposes and ordered the title vested in the United States.  The district court


of the variety of interpretations which can be placed on these terms.  They, however, also are equally without merit.

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Appellants urge that the United States, as to this property, is acting in a proprietory function rather than a governmental one.  This court finds that the ceding of land by the United States government to the State of Florida for public park purposes is a governmental function, the action itself being for the benefit of the public.

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Whether the defense of estoppel may be asserted against the United States in actions instituted by it depends upon whether such actions arise out of transactions entered into in its proprietory capacity or contract relationships, or whether the actions arise out of the exercise of its powers of government.  The Unitedgovernment action.  The terms of the 1947 deed are clear in their meaning and in no way conflict with regulation.  The regulation itself provides:
(2) Transfers of property hereunder shall be subject to the following terms, conditions, reservations, and restrictions:
(i) the property shall be used and maintained for the purpose for which it is conveyed for a period of not less than twenty (20) years: Provided, That in the event such property ceases to be used or maintained for such twenty (20) year period, the property shall in its then existing condition, at the option of the War Assets Administration, or successor agency, revert to the United States.
(ii) Such other additional terms, reservations, restrictions, and conditions as may be included by the War Assets Administration.  (emphasis


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BRIDGEWATER, NJ – One dozen local Somerset Patriots players and a few who'd like to join the team gathered at TD Bank Ballpark onWhere campus concealed carry stands in Colorado

Citing the challenges of implementing state law that regulates handgun permits, the Colorado General Assembly passed the Concealed Carry Act (CC) in 2003 to alleviate widespread inconsistencies within the state.

CC provides that law-abiding citizens are authorized to carry a concealed handgun for self-defense in all areas with specific exclusion for public elementary, middle, junior or high schools, or other public building or venues restricted by federal law. There is no exception for college campuses.

Prior to CCs enactment however, the University of Colorado Board of Regents formulated a weapons control policy in 1994 that prohibits anyone from carrying handguns on campus with the exception of law enforcement officials and students caught carrying one, face a minimum penalty of expulsion..

In 2008 when three students


in El Paso County with CC permits sought to travel to, from and through the University of Colorado campus with a handgun for self-defense, the university denied their request to carry, and the students filed a complaint with their jurisdictional trial court.

The trial court dismissed their action against the university, but the Colorado court of appeals reversed that decision, and the students won the war in a long battle on March 5, 2012 when Colorado’s highest court unanimously affirmed the judgment of the appellate division deciding that the weapons control policy of the University of Colorado violates the Concealed Carry Act of 2003. Now, permit carrying students in the state of Colorado are free to carry a concealed handgun on college campuses.

In its decision, the court indicates thatas billionaires Michael Bloomberg and George Soros, who would wake up smiling to a United States taken over by a world wide governing institution that replaces the Constitution. Not happening. Not now. Not ever. Not if we expect to survive as a Constitutional Republic.

The University of Colorado has some nerve thinking they can make up their own rules, force those rules on us, ignore the General Assembly, by pass state laws, turn their backs on the constitution, and believe they can get away with it; they really, really are one group of arrogant gun haters. They must be part of the same crew as the Brady Campaign, who act defiantly and covertly to take away Second Amendment rights at every devious turn.


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Belgrade by Austrian gunboats on the Danube on the night of 29 July. The attack was a pinprick; Kalimegdan, the Turkish fortress crowning the Belgrade heights at the junction of the Danube and the Sava, is impervious to anything but the heaviest artillery and remains unscarred to this day. On the wider front, Russia's security was not threatened by the Austrian mobilisation. Indeed, Austria's war with Serbia precluded its fighting a larger war elsewhere. Small as Serbia's army was, its size, to say nothing of its proven fighting ability, required, even by Vienna's calculation, the commitment against it of over half the Austrian force available. The "minimal" and "swing" groupings totalled twenty-eight of Austria's divisions, and the twenty remaining were too few to launch an offensive into RussianSouthampton have agreed a deal with Vitesse Arnhem to sign the defender Alexander Buttner. The 23-year-old has been regularly linked with a move away from the Eredivisie club this summer, with Fulham, QPR and Werder Bremen among those reportedly interested. However, Buttner expressed his desire to join the Premier League club this week and Vitesse have announced that a deal has been agreed.

Buttner, who will now have a medical, can also operate at right-back. He came through the youth system at Vitesse and made 107 appearances after making his debut during the 2007-08 season, scoring 10 goals.

Buttner particularly impressed last season and was named in Holland's provisional 36-man squad for Euro 2012. The defender did not make the final cut but will be buoyed by the fact he


Jobs. Local jobs. Local jobs with minimal college debt. Some of us keep repeating the mantra over and over, but it often seems to fall on deaf ears. With all the talk of burdensome student debt, free college, minimum wages and even a proposed (ugh!) Universal Basic Income, the fact is that right here in the Hudson Valley are opportunities for young people (and their parents!) to alter their expectations and take advantage of the demand for moderately-skilled, technically savvy workers at factories, on farms, and in the trades.

Did you know that tech giant GLOBALFOUNDRIES, now in East Fishkill as well as upstate Malta, NY and Burlington, VT, is hiring? Much news has been made of the jobs that were lost as the company restructured after the IBMThe first track revives the objections to removal jurisdiction articulated in their original motions to remand filed in March and April of 2000, and vigorously disputes the grounds for removal jurisdiction asserted by General Electric and ACF Industries in their notices of removal. The second track acknowledges the court's subject matter jurisdiction over plaintiffs' claims during the pendency of their CERCLA causes of action, but looks to the origin of most of the state law claims in a removed case in arguing that after dismissal of all federal claims and federal defendants, 28 U.S.C. ง 1447(c)[19] requires the remand of all of those remaining claims to state court, notwithstanding the existence of supplemental jurisdiction described in 28 U.S.C. ง 1367.
Lack of Removal Jurisdiction Over Plaintiffs' State Law Claims
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for the use and benefit of others. That question has been addressed at some length in the continuing Pretrial Conference in this case, and has been the subject of a series of motions for summary judgment. This court has ruled on those motions, at least in part, and has made a preliminary determination of the extent of the State's compensable interest in a groundwater resource damaged by chemical contaminants ostensibly released by some or all of the remaining defendants.
This court explored this issue in detail in considering the Renewed Motion for Remand, and more recently at the pretrial conference, when plaintiffs requested that a question be certified to the New Mexico Supreme Court concerning the appropriate measure of damages for injury to the State's interest in the groundwaterlies beyond the text of ง 1447(c).
Counsel for the State of New Mexico argues vociferously and at length that both General Electric and ACF Industries failed to meet their burden to establish removal jurisdiction on at least one of the grounds asserted in their notices, that consolidation of the State's CERCLA action with the removed action by itself does not extend this court's supplemental jurisdiction over plaintiffs' state law claims, and that nothwithstanding the procedural history of this case from May 4, 2000 through November 14, 2002, the State of New Mexico cannot be held to have affirmatively invoked the jurisdiction of this court over the state law claims โ at least one of which was pleaded for the first time before this court. Counsel suggests that the


for the State of New Mexico and New Mexico's Attorney General, from and after May 4, 2000, including but not limited to the amendment and expansion of their pleaded state law claims, the prosecution of those claims through discovery and extensive pretrial preparation, the dismissal of several parties on the merits at the instance of the plaintiffs, and the affirmative rejoinder of at least one defendant, already once dismissed.
At every stage of this proceeding, the State of New Mexico has invoked the jurisdiction of this court in aid of the pursuit of its claims, retreating only very recently in the face of adverse rulings limiting its theories of compensatory and punitive damages, and made in the context of the continuing Pretrial Conference. The court is satisfied that theState of New Mexico, at minimum, has invoked the supplemental jurisdiction of this court over the state law claims alleged in the Consolidated Complaint โ claims that the State itself has characterized as pendent claims โ and that this court's supplemental jurisdiction was not abruptly divested by the State's voluntary *1184 dismissal of its CERCLA claims, CERCLA claims that were undoubtedly within the court's original jurisdiction from the beginning.[33]
As a matter within this court's discretion, the Renewed Motion for Remand is denied in furtherance of the continuing exercise of federal supplemental jurisdiction over the State of New Mexico's remaining claims. Though these claims raise questions of state law, they necessarily raise questions of federal law as well, and may appropriately be decided in a federal forum. Factors of


Syria and Turkey is way more complex. Syrian Kurds have been enjoying a much larger degree of autonomy after a deal with Damascus – although they have refrained, for the moment, from demanding an independent state in Syria. Iraqi Kurds are busy helping them – from experience – in their autonomous ways.

The Kurdish question has become increasingly explosive as the Empire of Chaos preferred Divide and Rule strategy of pitting Sunnis against Shi’ites has metamorphosed into the ISIS blitzkrieg. Disaffected young Kurds in Turkey – incited by Saudi religious rhetoric, weaponizing and cash – have been particularly attracted to the Syrian jihad. Funerals in predominant Kurdish areas across Anatolia for ISIS jihadis always draw large crowds – and are the perfect recruiting opportunity for ISIS operatives.This is onlyKurdish people. It’s hardcore business. And yet another Divide and Rule power play. Expect plenty of hardcore moves ahead.Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times/Hong Kong, an analyst for RT and TomDispatch, and a frequent contributor to websites and radio shows ranging from the US to East Asia. Born in Brazil, he's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, and has lived in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, Bangkok and Hong Kong.


Garth Brooks Brings Lee Brice Up for ‘More Than a Memory’ at Stagecoach [Watch]

Garth Brooks headlined the final night of the 2018 Stagecoach Festival on Sunday (April 29), playing to a record setting crowd. But he wanted to share the love.

Brooks brought Lee Brice onstage to duet on "More Than a Memory," a song Brice co-wrote with Billy Montana and Kyle Jacobs. Brooks released it as a single in 2007, and it became the first song to debut at No. 1 in the history of the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

"I'm nervous as hell standing here, so why don't you start?" Brooks told Brice — a lie that allowed his friend to take the spotlight. He even let Brice take the lead on the first verse, standing offto the side of the stage, smiling.

When the second verse rolled in, Brooks stepped up to the plate to put the finishing touches on an epic performance by two of the genre's top vocalists.

On Monday, during Brooks' weekly Facebook Live chat with fans, Inside Studio G, he reminisced about Sunday night's show, saying: "I had the best time last night."

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He praised his duet partner for being "one of the coolest dudes on the planet," adding, "Lee was singing his butt off. It was awesome."

The crowd wasn't so bad either.

"Those people did it right. The only thing was the wind, but you didn't notice the way people were singing. It was like being welcomed into love. It was a good, good night,"


Brooks says. "It was neat to get to play country music and get that response, hear those people singing and see that they were singing music with you as far back as you could see, that was cool."

The three-day Stagecoach Festival, set at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, Calif., included some of the country genre's biggest acts as well as several surprise guests throughout the weekend, including the now-famous yodeling Walmart Boy, Mason Ramsey. He guest-starred during Florida Georgia Line's headlining set on Friday night (April 27).A "moron" fired up to eight bullets into the CFMEU's Melbourne headquarters, shattering the glass front door and piercing upper level windows.

A car pulled up outside the Swanston Street offices in Carlton just after 3am on Wednesday and witnesses saw a man get out, fire a gun and drive away.

Police marked shell casings on the tram tracks outside the office and bullet holes were visible in the ground floor walls and upper level windows.

CFMEU state secretary John Setka admitted the list of people who had a beef with the union was "long and distinguished".

"We all have our disputes, we all have our squabbles here and there, but you don't resolve it using guns, I mean, we never have," he said.

Staff preparing for their annual Christmas party on Wednesday


Fundamental investing 'out the window'

Quantitative investment strategies based on 'momentum' now dominate investment markets – but that's actually good news if you are a fundamental investor, says Avoca Investment Management.

Speaking in Sydney, Avoca Investment Management's managing director, John Campbell, said the heightened "cross sectional volatility" among Australian stocks is down to the dominance of quantitative ('quant') investment strategies.

"When I first started out in investment markets, most of the big investors in Australia – such as AMP and National Mutual – were fundamental investors," Mr Campbell said.

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"They looked at stocks and tried to work out what the growth potential was. Then, they applied an appropriate multiple and decided whether they would buy it or sell it."

Today, that style of investment is "completely out of the window", he said –with fundamental managers like Avoca "few and far between".

As a result of the dominant quant approach to investing, some of the "meteorically priced" defensive growth stocks on the ASX200 were de-rated during the recent reporting season, Mr Campbell said.

"You can survive on momentum for so long, but eventually every asset in the world has to come back to its fundamental value," he said.

Secondly, momentum-based investment strategies have created cross-sectional volatility in the Australian stock market, Mr Campbell said.

"With momentum being a very dominant style, as long as a stock keeps delivering, quants keeps buying. But the minute a stock stops delivering – and it might only be for one reporting period – the quant signal is sell, exit, get out," he said.

"Because quant is a very dominant money


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In Israel and Palestine, more than an entire generation has been raised knowing nothing else but a perpetual state of war with the other. The conflict contains two completely different narratives, narratives of victimization, oppression and hate. Each side can understand itself to be the victim of history, and exactly those zero-sum notions of victimhood are the critical part of the intractability problem within the conflict (see for instance Cohen 2005: 343 ff.). Due to its importance for Middle-East peace and stability in the region, there is the need to further investigate the miscellaneous causes of this intractability. Concerning this matter, the challenges faced by media in covering the Israeli-Palestinian story were recently examined at the annual United Nations International Seminar on Peace in the Middle East heldYOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE {{item.title}}

Cape Town - SA's Whale Watching season is approaching, and nature lovers and travellers are brimming with excitement to see these creatures of the deep surface with their young in the quiet bay of Hermanus along the last stretch of the Atlantic coast.

Hermanus has been recognized by the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) as one of the 12 best whale-watching destinations in the world, and the best time to enjoy whale watching is between July and November when the whale families come together in this area before they head South to their icier home.

The whale viewing during the months of July and August vary from year to year with regards to how many whales are present in Walker Bay and along the coast; however you


I will go out on a limb and say that my son probably had equal or greater exposure to art and music with his regular classroom teacher in the half day program as my daughter did with the special teachers in full day. They both had the same exceptional Kindergarten teacher, but when full day began, she was handed a thick binder of additional curriculum to get through by May, which her students were tested on, and upon which her job, and the school’s funding, relied! Despite having more time with her students, she now had more than twice as much material to cover, and less time to pull out the rhythm sticks or paint brushes! Whereas she would have music time two or three times a weekQ:

Why is it a custom in Baptist Churches to vote on new congregation members?

My friend recently became a member of the local Baptist church. When she and her mother wanted to join, they went to the preacher and he told them there would be a vote among the congregation members to determine whether they would be accepted into the church. She and her mother had to stand before all the members, and with a show of hands, the congregation agreed to their joining the church.
It struck me as odd because it never occurred to me that there was an acceptance process for the Baptist church. Is this true of all Baptist churches? And what is the scriptural basis for this process?

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