Margery Kempe was a self-proclaimed holy woman, visionary, mystic and medieval pilgrim. She is also unique because although she was not proficient at reading and writing, she was determined to record her visions, journeys and spiritual experiences. She dictated her book to a scribe of which only one copy survives, now housed in the British Library. Nearly everything we know about her comes from her book.

She was born Margery Brunham or Burnham in Bishop’s Lynn (now King’s Lynn) in Norfolk c. 1373. She was the daughter of John Brunham, a merchant who served as mayor of Lynn five times and was MP for Lynn six times between 1364 and 1391. Margery had no formal education but most likely learned household management and polite behavior. Her autobiography starts atabout the age of twenty when she was married to John Kempe, a burgess of Lynn who owned a house in town.

The Kempes had an affectionate marriage and satisfactory love life. Margery soon became pregnant with the first of her fourteen children. The pregnancy and birth were very hard. After the child was born, she suffered a postpartum depression and mental breakdown that lasted eight months. She acted frighteningly strange and tried to commit suicide. After having a vision of Christ, she recovered dramatically and her position as mistress of the house was restored.

Margery was vain and dressed sumptuously, eventually deciding she needed to start a business to afford her nice clothes. She formed a brewery business which was successful for about four years. When this business dropped


off, she started a business as a miller but this failed almost as soon as it was started.

She struggled with some secret sin she felt she had committed when she was young and it bothered her conscience. She felt the failures of the businesses were a punishment. She asked her husband if she could take a vow of chastity. He demurred and they continued to have sex. But she started to seek permission to receive communion every Sunday and other religious favors from the church. She visited an anchorite in Lynn who assured her that her visions were real and told her to report them and gave her his blessing.

She went to Norwich to visit the vicar of St. Stephens. He gave her a good reception. While there,she most likely visited Dame Julian of Norwich, an anchoress and mystic who also had visions. They visited for many days and their conversations were fruitful. She returned home with her church endorsements, hoping they would shield her from complaints from the townspeople who didn’t agree with her visions, her noisy weeping and fits, and her preaching. Although she created controversy everywhere she went, Margery always had supporters among the clergy.

At Easter 1413, she was at worship in her parish church when a stone fell from the ceiling and hit her. Remarkably, she was unhurt. It was after this incident she decided she wanted to go on pilgrimage. She and John traveled the countryside in the summer of 1413, visiting shrines, chapels and cathedrals. During these visits she


attracted attention to herself. She would fall down in fits and burst into tears, sometimes offending, sometimes impressing and sometimes boring onlookers.

Margery had decided she wanted to go the Jerusalem. While they were on their English pilgrimage, Margery and John came to an understanding. He asked that they sleep in the same bed; she could go to Jerusalem on pilgrimage if she paid his debts and she must give up fasting on Fridays. After careful consideration and prayer, Margery countered. She would pay his bills before she left if he promised to sleep in a separate bed. She would give up her fasting on Fridays if he took a vow of chastity with her. He agreed.

Seeking even more protection she and John travelled to London to visit theArchbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace where she spoke with him for a long time. He evidently was impressed with her and she received his endorsement. She returned to Lynn and began her preparations for the journey to the Holy Land.

It was customary for pilgrims to travel in groups. The first part of the trip was to sail to Venice and await the galleys to the Jerusalem. Margery’s tears and sermons were annoying to her travelling companions, especially at meals but for the most part, they tolerated her as best they could for the three month stay in Venice. The galleys arrived and took the pilgrims to the Holy Land. When they arrived on the shore, donkeys were hired to carry them and their baggage thirty-nine miles into


Jerusalem.

Once in the holy city, they visited many shrines and holy places such as the Mount of Olives, the garden of Gethsemane, the Virgin’s tomb, the Mount where the Sermon was delivered and places where the Virgin had stood or sat. She spent an all-night vigil in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Next they visited Bethlehem and then ventured on to Jordan. They visited more holy places and she purchased or was given many relics.

Margery and her traveling companions now made their way back to Venice. Margery had decided to continue her pilgrimage in Rome. She made arrangements to join another party who travelled to Assisi. Margery then joined the party of an agreeable noblewoman, Dame Margaret Florentine and they arrived in Rome in late August orearly September 1414.

In Rome she stayed at the hospital of Saint Thomas of Canterbury. While there she alienated her traveling companions and they evicted her. She found new lodgings and a priest and confessor who would minister to her. She spent her days in prayer or visiting shrines and she continued to have many visions.

By Christmas 1414, Margery’s funds were very low. She had no job and may have been reduced to begging for food and money. Eventually, with her extraordinary luck, she encountered her old travelling companion Dame Margaret Florentine. The Dame invited Margery to dine with her every Sunday. She gave her enough food for several days and sometimes some money. When her old companions found out who her illustrious friend was, they apologized for evicting


her from the hostel and asked her to return. She said she had no money and they offered to let her stay for free.

A new party from England arrived at the hostel and among them was a young priest who began to admire Margery and became her follower. He gave her enough money to return home. She stayed to experience Easter in Rome in 1415 and left for England shortly thereafter.

She returned to Lynn and life with her husband John. Shortly after her return she fell ill and all feared she would die. But she had made a vow to travel to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela. She survived the illness but she had no money and was in debt. Her friends, wishing her to pray forthem at the Shrine, raised enough funds for her trip and she departed in May of 1417. She made it to the shrine and returned to England.

Throughout her life and adventures, she was constantly in trouble for her behavior, being accused of being a heretic. She was imprisoned by the church and on trial many times but always managed to extricate herself from her troubles. After a few more incidences of getting in trouble, she retired to Lynn. During this time, she had some illnesses and her visions continued. She enjoyed going to hear sermons. She lived with John Kempe for some time but then left the marital home and was always chronically short of funds. Her husband fell and hurt his head becoming an invalid. Margery looked


after him.

One of her sons came to visit her with his wife. While in England, the son died and then John Kempe died. The daughter-in-law needed to return to her child in Germany and Margery agreed to accompany her on the journey. She was about sixty and lame but she loved travel. They sailed Easter week, c. 1433. She returned her daughter-in-law to her home in Danzig and had many adventures in Northern Europe visiting shrines and holy relics. Her strength was greatly diminished and she began her trip home. She made her way to London via Calais and then returned to Lynn.

She lived the rest of her life as a holy woman. It was customary at the time for saints, hermits and recluses to write books abouttheir spiritual adventures. She had been considering writing her own book for some time. It is not certain when she began her dictation but the book is written in two parts, each of which was dictated to two different scribes. The first scribe died when the book was two-thirds done. The last event in the first part is John Kempe’s death. The second scribe began work on the book most likely after 1436, when Margery had returned from Danzig. This scribe took about two years to finish the book and then make a fair copy. The date of Margery’s death is unknown but is thought to be in 1438 or thereafter.

The book may have been somewhat popular and copied. In the sixteenth century, excerpts were printed as pamphlets.


Betting on a brighter future

Betting on a brighter future

A man slams down a hand of cards on the riverside in response to news the police may be on their way.

ALONG Phnom Penh's riverside, Burth Sarom was playing cards with other taxi drivers. The 33-year-old was adamant the fifty-cent wagers injected excitement into the game but did not constitute gambling, as winnings and losses came out in the wash and games ended in laughs, he said.

The dozen or so cabbies there said they played only to kill time while waiting for customers and had never engaged in formal betting.

"We support the government in closing gambling places because people often lose money doing it," chimed in 49-year-old Kong Kompheak. "Gambling leads to robbery and violence."

Last week, the prime minister abruptlyordered the closure of all sports-betting outlets and slot-machine parlours across the country, claiming they had been responsible for moral decline in the Kingdom. The opposition Sam Rainsy Party said the move was long overdue.

While police have made no quantitative link between gambling and moral decay in Cambodia, the government has insisted upon the connection to justify the ban, and many Phnom Penh residents agree.

After City Hall on Monday released a report on crime numbers in the capital in 2008, Mayor Kep Chuktema singled out gambling parlours as a principal source of crime along with drug use, and said the vices needed to be stamped out if Phnom Penh was to become a safer place.

Nuon Samet, chief of the Municipal Cabinet, said authorities had previously "lacked control" of


slot parlours and football betting, which he said were a "significant cause" of robberies. In 2009, City Hall planned to close karaoke bars and video sex cafes close to schools, in addition to gambling centres, he added.

Mok Chito, head of the Interior Ministry's Crime Department, said gambling clubs were the "root of crime". "This move [to close gambling establishments] has been welcomed by the population."

Pou Tley, 21, is a tuk-tuk driver based outside the shuttered Cambo Six shop on Street 63.

Photo by:
HENG CHIVOAN

A security guard stands outside a Cambo Six betting shop last week before police moved to shut the venues down.

He missed the concentrated business he used to get from the gambling centre - "especially the winners would pay well" - but said the neighbourhood was betteroff without it. Cambo Six, most of whose business came from sports betting, was the largest establishment to be closed, employing 3,000 people.

"You would see people who needed money quickly and they would steal," he said. "They would steal wallets, cellphones and maybe even a motorbike to get some cash."

Applause for the closure came from as far away as Amsterdam. In a letter to the Post, Meas Bunly, a Cambodian in the Dutch capital, said any financial losses from gambling tax revenues would be more than overshadowed by reduced crime and school dropout rates - both of which he insisted were consequences of gambling.

Saved from himself

Nan Lavy said the ban was a blessing. The 11th-grader at Sisowath High School in downtown Phnom Penh, would pawn valuables given to


him by his parents to pay off debts owed to Cambo Six.

"I would bet on soccer, lose lots of money and then sell my cellphone or anything else I had to get some quick cash."

The problem escalated, he said, when he was forced to borrow from friends and even mortgage his motorbike when he fell deep in the hole.

"I was happy to see Cambo Six close. It removed a temptation." He insisted his punting days were over.

Tang Koeung, the owner of a car-repair shop in Phnom Penh's Daun Penh district, said he had discovered some of his staff would often nab spare parts to sell off in order to recoup betting losses. He fired them.

"It was a bad influence. We are better off not having to worry aboutHe did not specify a sanctioned penalty for these offences.

He said the ban removed a poisonous addiction for workers and students who should be attending to their vocations, and recommended former punters immerse themselves in "wholesome Khmer pastimes, like dancing and sport", to fill the void.

Phnom Penh's most posh gambling venue, Naga Casino, where Cambodians cannot play, has remained untouched, but Touch Naruth said the government would consider closing if it was discovered Cambodians were gambling there.

Despite expressions by the government and residents to the contrary, Nancy Chau, the head manager of Cambo Six who is originally from Hong Kong, saw no connection between vice and gambling at sanctioned establishments like hers. "Look at Las Vegas, Macau, Hong Kong. It hasn't led to crime there," she said.

"People should


both published by Coteau Books. As well, his fiction was awarded a CBC Literary Competition Prize in 1991.

He grew up on a farm near Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, a place he describes beautifully in Lake of the Prairies. He has worked as a construction labourer, a technical writer and a political advisor. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Toronto and now teaches Aboriginal Literature at the University of Manitoba. He is currently working on a novel entitled Exhaust. Cariou is married to the poet and literature professor Alison Calder. Cariou is also the director of the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture  and is also an activist for the Protection of Indigenous Oralities.

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Earlier this year, while visiting Howard Stern's SiriusXM radio show, The Late Late Show host told the story of how Carpool Karaoke came to be. It was inspired in part by an old Comic Relief skit he did with George Michael.

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The clip aired in 2011 on the BBC in the UK and it will now serve to forever


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The problems posed by the relatively weak sewn seams in each end of an elongated geotextile container, have


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Image caption Ms Cafferkey will face a disciplinary hearing in Edinburgh next month

Scottish nurse Pauline Cafferkey faces disciplinary action over claims she concealed her temperature at an Ebola screening on her return to the UK.

The 40-year-old was infected with the virus while at a treatment centre in Sierra Leone in 2014.

She is alleged to have given dishonest answers to medical staff when she returned to Heathrow airport.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has been investigating Ms Cafferkey's conduct.

The charges against her had never been made public but were accidentally uploaded to the NMC website.

Ms Cafferkey said the NMC has since apologised.

The council alleges that she "allowed an incorrect temperature to be recorded" on 29 December 2014 and intended to conceal from Public Health England staff that she hada temperature higher than 38C.

Image copyright Scotsman Image caption Ms Cafferkey contracted Ebola while working at a treatment centre in Sierra Leone two years ago

Registered NHS nurse Ms Cafferkey travelled to the West African country at the height of the Ebola crisis to help the sick.

She returned to London and then travelled on to Scotland before being diagnosed, and spent almost a month being treated in an isolation unit at London's Royal Free Hospital.

Ms Cafferkey recovered but was readmitted to hospital on two separate occasions after suffering complications linked to the disease, and at one stage fell critically ill.

'Normal life'

But she returned to work as a nurse at the Blantyre Health Centre in South Lanarkshire, where she had been employed before volunteering to go to Sierra Leone with


the Save the Children charity.

She described at the time how she was "very happy to be alive" and was looking forward to returning to a "normal life".

However, in the months that followed her health suffered as she had issues with her thyroid, her hair fell out and she had headaches and pains in her joints.

But Ms Cafferkey stressed that she felt lucky because she had not lost her sight as others had done.

Image copyright Andrew Milligan Image caption The nurse was flown from Glasgow Airport to London for treatment in an isolation unit.

In March of last year the NMC began investigating her conduct and she was summoned for a preliminary hearing in Edinburgh.

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The NMC has now released the full charges, which allege Ms Cafferkey did not tell Public Health England screening staff who took her temperature at the airport that she had recently taken paracetamol.

She is also said to have left the area without reporting her true temperature.

'Public interest'

A hearing on Ms Cafferkey's fitness to practise is set to take place in Edinburgh next month. The NMC has the power to strike workers off the professional register.

A spokesman for the NMC said it had been working closely with Ms Cafferkey and her representatives to reach an outcome "that is fair and meets the public interest".

He added: "Since the NMC's case examiners considered the allegations


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and a single bed. Spacious living area with French doors opening onto a large patio. 2 luxurious bathrooms Fully fitted, brand new kitchen diner with all modern appliances. Central heating throughout. Solid redwood flooring throughout. Private parking space Tv and dvd Wifi internet Pets and children welcome Cot and high chairs available upon request

THE LOCAL AREA
Falmouth’s natural harbour is the third deepest in the world and provides a picturesque background to the resort, a focal point for many water sports and the National Maritime Museum. Many of the harbour side shops, cafes and restaurants have unsurpassed views across the water to Flushing , Falmouth Bay and beyond. Falmouth’s main street has a charming mix of shops for gifts, clothes and antiques just head down the road and swinga right into town.

RESTAURANTS/PUBS IN FALMOUTH

Falmouth has a wide selection of world cuisine many serving the very best in local seafood and produce. Our current favourites are :

HARVEY'S WHARF - Discovery Quay 01326 314351
A wonderful fusion of chic and style. The food is prepared in the open kitchen by a wonderful team of Chefs all being specialists in their own fields. (Amazing steaks!) This together with the wonderful location on the Marina side means its just a perfect place to sit and enjoy all Harveys has to offer.

STAR & GARTER - High Street, 01326 318313
With FANTASTIC 180 DEGREE VIEWS over the harbour, the Star & Garter is Falmouth's premier gastro-pub. A traditional Cornish freehouse, but with a twist !

RICK STEIN'S RESTAURANT & TAKEAWAY Discovery Quay 01841 532 700
Following


on from his sucess in Padstow, Rick Stein has recently opened in Falmouth, Get some takeaway fish and chips and sit on the harbour, taking in the views.

THE BOATHOUSE PUB, Beacon Street 01326 315425
Literally opposite Estuary View, the pub with the views, Great local food, Cosy relaxed atmosphere, board games, Kids and dogs welcome and the best bit only yards from your door.

OLIVERS, High Street 01326 218138
Many of our guests have recommended this one for some 'posh nosh' just down the road

BEACHES

GYLLYNGVASE Cliff Road, This is the main town beach and a beautiful, long sandy stretch. Calm waters most of the time, excellent facilities for kids and a very cool café.

CASTLE BEACH also on Cliff Road, this smaller beach is not as busy, has excellent rock pools anda good but basic café.

Walking or driving along the coast (beautiful walk) from the above beaches will lead you to SWANPOOL and MAENPORTH beaches. These are both lovely sandy with cafes and stunning views over to the headlands. Swanpool also has a nature reserve with a lake for boats and swans.

BEACH BARS

Gylly Beach - 5 mins away, on Gyllngvase Beach, locally sourced food in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere, over looked by Pendennis castle with fantastic views of the lizard peninsula.

Wonderful welcoming flat, ideal for family and easy access. Incredible views and location. Owners really helpful and very quick to respond to queries.

Charles

Family from Falmouth, United Kingdom
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March 2019

Great communication from the owner, really helpful. Lovely flat, warm and cosy.

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Family from Heanor, United Kingdom
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pleasant stay with a lovely view of the harbour.

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Friends from Caerwent, United Kingdom
Feb 2017
February 2017

I stayed at this property for three nights with my two children, and a friend. Although only two bedrooms it worked perfectly - me and the kids in one room, which had a double bed and a single, and my friend in the 2nd room, which had a huge king size bed.

The property has amazing views across the harbour and is ideally located for the town. It is just a couple of minutes walk and you're right in the centre. The house is well furnished, and during our visit we didn't feel anything was missing. The only thing to watch out for is parking - there is one space, but if you arrive inbut the officers could not complete their
investigation at that time because their craft developed
engine trouble.

Later in the morning, Piazza sent a fax to Boynes stating
that the Coast Guard was investigating a pollution incident
involving the Mona Queen, and the fax included a federal
letter of interest. The fax instructed Boynes to bring the
Mona Queen to the Marine Safety Detachment Office in St.
Thomas at 1:00 p.m. that day. Three hours before the
scheduled inspection, Janssen and Piazza encountered the
Mona Queen at the Red Hook ferry dock and approached
Boynes, who acknowledged receiving the fax. The officers
requested permission from Boynes to board the Mona
Queen and inspect the engine room, and Boynes consented.
While inspecting the engine room, Janssen and Piazza
found approximately fifty gallons of oil on thefloor in the
front of the engine room measuring seven


in the British
Virgin Islands. Boynes, however, was not at the appointed
meeting-place, nor was a representative of Interisland. The
officers boarded the Mona Queen and proceeded to gather
evidence from the vessel. They did not have a search
warrant. Scruggs videotaped and Piazza photographed the
interior and exterior of the Mona Queen including the bilge
system, and they tried to simulate a passenger accidentally
flipping the bilge control switch as Boynes had described.
The officers also observed oil around the starboard
discharge hose, and they gathered a sample of the oily
residue in the bilge.

Boynes and Interisland were indicted in the District
Court for the District of the Virgin Islands for knowingly
discharging oil into U.S. waters in violation of 33 U.S.C.
SS 1319(c)(2)(A), 1321(b)(3) (1994). Theyfiled a joint motion
to suppress Boynes's statements at the Marine Safety
Detachment Office and the evidencePHILADELPHIA, PA - SEPTEMBER 19: Former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb looks on from the field prior to the game between the Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs at Lincoln Financial Field on September 19, 2013 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. McNabb will have his jersey retired at halftime of the game. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — It looks like the Eagles are following the exact blue print they followed in 1999, which led to a decade of sustained success.

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All around the group that had witnessed the walking corpse's first attempt to enter the city agreed upon one thing, he would fail; either by giving up from trying to erradicate such a terrible beast, or from it destroying him in many various -maybe too imaginative ways. Drowning, burning, crushing, devouring... The possibilities were limitless to the guards that were tasked to watch over the gates, and the gamblers took their opportunity to make a profit from the impossible task that had been appointed to this affront of life that so boldly thought to visit their fair city and carry his filth with him.

Laughable, to even think that one measly, emaciated creature could think to slay what had devoured their war boats, tens of hundreds of able sailorsdragged to a watery grave in Cuachtk'oatl's steely grip.

The odds were stacked against the beast-skulled lich 1000:1, and the bet makers were eager to collect their profits from the learned method of his demise.

At least, until evening began to set in, and the dense night-time mist began to settle upon the mountside...

THOOM! THOOM! THOOM!

The thunder of massive scaly feet had returned to the city's towering gates intsead of the clatter of heavy hooves, an array of supernatural lights glowing through the fog like a line of lanterns as the beast's risen carcass snaked its way up the slope. Thick claws dug into the earth and carved out chunks of packed dirt and stone with every step forward. A few meters away from the gates, the monstrosity looked up


through their thoughts than any rumble of their hissing dialect. At once one of them approached the edge of the wall, the butt of his spear clapping loudly upon the stone floor as he leaned forward and sneered down at the sea-dragon's carcass. His scales were a vibrant orange, the hue seeming to glow in the light of the massive bonfires that lined the wall in equally wide, circular stone sconces.

"And what if we decline, lich? Your kind do not belong in our city, or any of your dark magic for that matter!" The word was hissed through his teeth like an insult, the word stabbing the air like a blade's point. Behind him a number of the lizard-guards muttered in approval, some squinting down at the affrontthe best choice in hauling its sclay hide up the mountainside. In the low light, a few of the guards swore they saw something red glowing dully in the depths of those empty pits.

He gestured to the carcass with an oustretched palm. "I have killed your sssea-dragon and brought back a trophy for you to appraissse. Bringing back the whole animal mussst be worthy of sssome reward, asss isss ridding your watersss of a looming threat." The undead called up to the senior captain.

Behind him, the rest of the guardsmen muttered mong each other, some grumbling and exchanging wages that had been lost to a bet that turned belly-up in the wake of the undead's return. Jhklar himself stared down at both beast and rider, his scaly lips


pulled tight in a scowl. He did not like the idea of letting one of the undead into his city that he so devotedly protected... But he was also a man of honor, and this Mortis had managed to do the work that entire fleets had failed to accomplish.

...And then some, as he regarded the complete carcass that had been returned to the city gates.

"You shall be rewarded, Mortis-From-The-North." He decreed. It was, after all, not the first time he allowed a stranger into the city. Though it was the first time he let in a stranger that was so strange in a highly unsettling way, a threatening way.

He turned to the men that were grouped together at his back, glaring as he witnessed the group milling aboutranks.

"And you!"

They immediately straightened, pivoting on their heels to face their captain at rigid attention.

"You will join me in escorting our visitor and his trophy to the city." He commanded, before leading them off to the stables to acquire their mounts.

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The sea-dragon had been carried aloft upon what looked like a sea of glittering carapaces, each of them as large as Samhain and skittering across the ground on many plated legs. The undead tapped a talon to his chin as he passed by them, his horse dutifully following the group as they formed a line to enter the city.

It was a glittering sight to behold, even in the darkness of night. Great pyres light the stone towers of the city, and burning lanterns provided light upon the paved


roads. Evidently it had been something of a massive undertaking, to bring down the great Cuachtk'oatl, and in less than a day... Or so he gathered from the muttering of clicking teeth and hissing tongues of the guards as they passed through each gate in succession. Talk of a ceremony reached his senses, a great feast upon the carcass of the sea-dragon.

Inwardly Mortis was grateful that he had taken the pictures he did back on the shore before he brought the sea-dragon to the city. Although he certainly was going to speak of the feast to Livewire, his brother, and Kev once he got the chance. Documenting it in a photo came to mind, but ultimately the undead decided it best not to tempt anymore breaking of taboosby risking the possibility of a "soul-stealing-device" scare. He could describe the food and cultural practices in loving detail with words just as effectively, he decided. Years of writing reports both from walking a beat and within a chem-lab when he still was alive and thoroughly fleshy toned his descriptive skills to a tee and his penmanship to a crisp, swift clarity that only a seasoned Dark Judge could produce.

Admittedly, the undead had expected the party to have occurred the next day, when the city was fresh and new after a long slumber. Yet, as he passed through the way to the city, looking around at the lavish decorations that adorned the walls of the scared passage, he swore he could hear a great clamor of activity past


the final series of stone gates. Laughter, jovial conversation, music... That sounded a lot like a--!

The gates swung open, the undead was greeted with the sight of a celebration in progress. Butchers and carvers awaited the sea-dragon's carcass to divide and distribute among the populace, the rancid meat that had been rotted by the undead's powers tossed aside, and the infected blood drained and put away to be later used as poison. Cooking fires were lit, and a square in the city had been decorated for the feast, complete with decorated, lavish mats of woven fiber, plates and utensils forged from fine metals sitting within their centers and surrounded by sitting blankets decorated in vibrant patterns of blues, oranges, greens, and reds.

Mortis watched as the lizard-folk milled about,and subconciously wrapped his jacket a little tighter around his middle as he rode Samhain to where the procession ended. The city seemed to be in a frenzy regarding the feast, in one moment the sea-dragon had been behind him, and the next it had been stripped of its skin, carved, and rendered a bloody skeleton save for its head.

That had been dragged off to the center of the square, where a group fof five able-bodied lizard-men peirced it upon a thick pike and righted it to be shown for all the city to see. It's infected blood dripped down the wooden peg and pooled at its base, a morbid if not grand display of power. All the more reason, he deduced, that it was wise to keep


in place of the speech that the lizards used. When the meals were prepared and it came time to share the bounty of the great sea monster, the undead expressely desired a plate full of the sweet smelling fruit, much to the citizen's surprise and befuddlement as they presented him with a platter piled with ripe tropical fruit. Regardless, they were pleased that their visitor was sated, as he plucked fruit after fruit off the plate and swallowed them whole.

Little did they know that the whole fruit was making a drop fall right into Woolie's awaiting mouth, nibbling happily upon her part of the city's spoils and staining her mouth with the ripe, sweet-smelling juices. Maybe even a little overripe, Mortis considered. With every new fruit that shefinished off, the ewe's mind drifted into a sort of hazy, intoxicated contentment. No wonder they all smelled so nice! He realized, the fruit had been aged into a state of fermentation. She was literally getting drunk off of her dinner.

Water and alcohol was passed around in large jugs, and the undead gladly accepted a cup of the former while he watched the festivities from his mat, keeping it close to his belly and coaxing the lamb to sip from it to ease the effects of the fermented fruit. Throughout the night, not a soul realized the superfiend had a second mouth growing out of his middle. They were all too focused on drinking, supping, and dancing to music played on bone pipes and drums made of wood


and cured leather. He watched as the scaly creatures pranced about, the firelight playing odd shapes upon their vibrant scales and drawing out hues of purples, oranges and reds from their bodies with every flicker and twisting step from the traipsing natives.

However, it was when the festival began to draw to a close that the superfiend was content, as he sought an inn to seculde himself away within. A few bright blue credits were deposited to the keeper, and he was shown a comfortable room to stay in during his visitation. The entire building was situated within the mountainside, with multiple floors carved into the stone face. Worn stone stairs lead him up to his quarters, that was closed away from the stone hallway with a long wovencurtain that served as a doorway. Within the room was furnished with mats covering the way to its entry, two sitting opposite of each other on either side of a wide, stone slab that served as a table. At the far end was a bed, carved from stone and covered with an especially dense woven bed mat and a warm blanket over the top.

Once the undead was left be, he released the ewe from the confines of his host, and carried her sleepy form over to the bed. Immediately she curled up on it and shut her eyes, drifting swiftly into slumber after an eventful evening. Though not without some encouragement from her Ma, who gave her a few soothing strokes between her ears, before leaving her be


to slumber and dream.

He, on the other hand, had midnight oil to burn, as he retrieved his stationary and set to recounting the day's events to his brother's family. In the morning he would soak the scales and pick two that would likely please the little girl the most.and instead be released the band's second album, 1985's Freaky Styley. The cover of the Jimi Hendrix classic, "Fire" would go on to be a live staple in the band's setlists on almost every tour and would eventually be recorded in 1985 and first released on the 1987 "Fight Like A Brave" single along with a remixed version that appeared on The Abbey Road E.P. and Mother's Milk. "Dum Chuck a Willie" was released on a CD which Hillel Slovak's brother James Slovak gave away with purchases from his now defunct website CrushGroove. This version was a demo from his own copy of the band's demo tape.

This tour marked the last time "Dum Chuck a Willie" and "Flea Fly" were performed live, although the band would spontaneously


six of the birds to be transported in economy class, with prices ranging from £90 to £500 per bird depending on the destination.

While the desert provides the perfect race track for the obligatory supercars, rich Saudi Arabians also like to accessories their luxury vehicles with a weapon such as an assault rifle.

An exotic pet such as a cheetah is the ultimate status symbol for the moneyed elite of Saudi Arabia

A rare snap of a very glamorous Saudi woman being chauffeur driven in the country where women are not allowed to get behind the wheel

Best of friends? A man bravely rests his head on the back leg of a large adult tiger

A Reddit user shared an image of 80 birds of prey being flown on a passenger jet bya Saudi Prince

Forget about the designer shopping: A collection of weapons seems to be a much more valued symbol of wealth

While big cats are popular pets, this rich kid opted for something a little different in the form of a baby chimp

The moneyed elite of Saudi Arabia have been flaunting their wealth via the Rich Kids of Saudi Instagram account

Adventure Saudi style: The desert makes the perfect racing track for your collection of supercars

Some people like a chihuahua they can dress in pink and pop in a handbag, but this individual opted for a cheetah cub

Protection! A man in a balaclava poses in front of a luxury vehicle brandishing a handgun, with a baseball bat propped up nearby

Luxury lifestyle: Friends take in the scenery as they have a


his wife, defendant Gloria Steele, sustained serious personal injuries when the automobile ran off the highway and struck a house. She brought action to recover for her injuries against the Steeles and also against defendants W.E. Neill Associates, the alleged employer or master of Walter Steele, Samuel Thompson, the operator of another automobile involved in the collision, and Colonial Pipeline Co. Bernadine's husband, Allen Boyd, joined as a party plaintiff in that action seeking to recover damages *408 representing expenses incurred in caring for his wife and for loss of her services and consortium.
Since the vehicle in which the Steeles were riding was uninsured, defense on their behalf was undertaken through the Fund. W.E. Neill Associates was defended by attorneys for their insurance carrier.
During the course of theThe Copa Libertadores final between Boca Juniors and River Plate will be played at Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu.

The second leg of South America’s biggest club fixture was scheduled to take place on Saturday but was postponed after the River team bus was attacked by River fans en route to Estadio Monumental, injuring several players.

The match was rearranged for Sunday only for the region’s governing body CONMEBOL to postpone the match again at the request of Boca just three hours from kick-off.

With concerns over security given the weekend’s events, talks between CONMEBOL and the respective club presidents this were held to discuss an alternative venue.

On Tuesday, Conmebol confirmed that they would look to move the fixture, South America's equivalent of the Champions League final, outside of Argentina, in order


Let's specifically discuss Paul Pogba's hair, hairstyles and haircuts in this thread. Feel free to post more pictures of his hair in this thread or discuss anything related to his fashion sense or look.
Paul Pogba is a football player playing for Juventus in Italy. Pogba's hair is kinky curly & he is known for doing bizarre and extreme haircuts just like fellow Italian player Stephan El Shaarawy. In Europe, more & more young football players are getting extreme haircuts & styles, especially in Italy, Spain and England.

Pictures of Paul Pogba's hair and hairstyles
Pogba's most preferred haircuts are the mohawk & the undercut/high and tight. He also likes to shave part in lines and other creative hair designs. Lastly, he likes to bleach his hair especially with the mohawk.

Mohawk
PaulPogba usually does his mohawk without straightening his kinky curly hair - this type of mohawk for black men with kinky curly hair is known as a frohawk. He will also dye the hair blond & other colours depending on his mood for the day

Undercut
The undercut as a haircut doesn't have to be clipped horizontally & can instead be done creatively. In the case of Pogba's undercut style he clips the hair to a 0 & leaves sharp edges which usually looks bad with kinky hair. But seeing the hairstyles he chooses, I don't think he really cares how bad a haircut can look on him

High and tight Recon
The high & tight Recon is a marine haircut that is known for its short length & the landing stripe


on the top of the head. In the picture of Paul Pogba's hair below, his hair is in a pseudo recon haircut. He wore this cut for a while & I believe this was the cut he had right before growing the mohawk and getting it clipped.

Side square
The side square is a haircut which we gave its english name here in this forum. This haircut is becoming trendy in Spain & Italy where many informal names exist for this cut, so we decided to call it the side square as the hair that is mainly clipped is the hair on the sides of the head below the temples. Another example of the side square is that of Sergio Ramos haircut last week where he surprised everyone by turningFreedom of Information

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What would it cost to meet Arizona teachers' demands?

Noah Karvelis and Dylan Wegela, both teachers and leaders in Arizona Educators United, list their demands during a #RedForEd rally at the Arizona state Capitol. David Wallace/azcentral.com

Rebecca Garelli, a seventh grade science teacher at Sevilla West School in Phoenix, speaks during a #RedForEd rally at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix on March 28, 2018.(Photo: David Wallace/The Republic)

Organizers with Arizona Educators United, the grassroots group that started the state's #RedForEd movement, announced a list of demands of Gov. Doug Ducey and the Legislature before thousands of educators and supporters at a rally Wednesday at the Capitol.

The top demand: 20 percent raises for the state's teachers.

But there are also demands for more money for students.

What would it take for Arizona torally at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix on Wednesday, March 28, 2018. David Wallace/The Republic

Rebecca Garelli, a seventh grade science teacher at Sevilla West School in Phoenix, speaks during a #RedForEd rally at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix on March 28, 2018. David Wallace/The Republic

Thomas Webb-Sandoval, an eighth grade math teacher, and Crystal Carrera, a third grade teacher, both with Tres Rios Service Academy in Tolleson, attend a #RedForEd rally at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix on March 28, 2018. Carrera made the t-shirts and said she could probably make more selling these T-shirts than she does teaching. David Wallace/The Republic

Organizers of Arizona Educators United group announced their demands of Gov. Doug Ducey and the Legislature for education funding during a rally at the Arizona


state Capitol on March 28, 2018. Nick Oza/The Republic

Organizers of Arizona Educators United group announced their demands of Gov. Doug Ducey and the Legislature for education funding during a rally at the Arizona state Capitol on March 28, 2018. Nick Oza/The Republic

Organizers of Arizona Educators United group announced their demands of Gov. Doug Ducey and the Legislature for education funding during a rally at the Arizona state Capitol on March 28, 2018. Nick Oza/The Republic

Organizers of Arizona Educators United group announced their demands of Gov. Doug Ducey and the Legislature for education funding during a rally at the Arizona state Capitol on March 28, 2018. Nick Oza/The Republic

Organizers of Arizona Educators United group announced their demands of Gov. Doug Ducey and the Legislature for education funding during arally at the Arizona state Capitol on March 28, 2018. Nick Oza/The Republic

Organizers of Arizona Educators United group announced their demands of Gov. Doug Ducey and the Legislature for education funding during a rally at the Arizona state Capitol on March 28, 2018. Nick Oza/The Republic

Organizers of Arizona Educators United group announced their demands of Gov. Doug Ducey and the Legislature for education funding during a rally at the Arizona state Capitol on March 28, 2018. Nick Oza/The Republic

Organizers of Arizona Educators United group announced their demands of Gov. Doug Ducey and the Legislature for education funding during a rally at the Arizona state Capitol on March 28, 2018. Nick Oza/The Republic

Organizers of Arizona Educators United group announced their demands of Gov. Doug Ducey and the Legislature for


education funding during a rally at the Arizona state Capitol on March 28, 2018. Nick Oza/The Republic

Lindsay Breon, a physical education teacher at Washington Elementary School in Phoenix, shouts into a megaphone while rallying to support teachers during a #RedForEd rally at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix on March 28, 2018. David Wallace/The Republic

Alyce Robinson of Goodyear, and her children (from left) Camry, Owen and Blair rally to support teachers during a #RedForEd rally at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix on March 28, 2018. David Wallace/The Republic

Lindsay Breon, a physical education teacher at Washington Elementary School in Phoenix, shouts into a megaphone while rallying to support teachers during a #RedForEd rally at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix on March 28, 2018. David Wallace/The Republic

Lindsay Breon,a physical education teacher at Washington Elementary School in Phoenix, shouts into a megaphone while rallying to support teachers during a #RedForEd rally at the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix on March 28, 2018. David Wallace/The Republic

Chandra Goff, a supporter of increased teacher pay, makes a sign at the State Capitol in Phoenix on March 28, 2018, as part of the Arizona Day of Action event. Hundreds of teachers and their supporters gathered to push for better pay for teachers in Arizona. Tom Tingle/The Republic

Brent Whiting, a supporter of increased teacher pay, makes a sign at the State Capitol in Phoenix on March 28, 2018, as part of the Arizona Day of Action event. Hundreds of teachers and their supporters gathered to push for better pay for teachers


in Arizona. Tom Tingle/The Republic

Karin Cather, a supporter of increased teacher pay, makes a sign at the State Capitol in Phoenix on March 28, 2018, as part of the Arizona Day of Action event. Hundreds of teachers and their supporters gathered to push for better pay for teachers in Arizona. Tom Tingle/The Republic

J.R. Krumland, a special education teacher at Deer Valley High School holds his sign at the State Capitol in Phoenix on March 28, 2018, as part of the Arizona Day of Action event. Hundreds of teachers and their supporters gathered to push for better pay for teachers in Arizona. Tom Tingle/The Republic

Support professionals

Teachers are also demanding competitive pay for all education support professionals, such as teachers' aides and paraprofessionals, though they did not specify dollar figuresWednesday.

CLOSE

Lindsay Breon, a physical-education teacher at Washington Elementary School in Phoenix, shares her feelings at the #RedForEd rally at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on March 28, 2018. David Wallace/azcentral.com

Permanent salary structure

Another ask from teachers is a "permanent" step-and-lane salary structure in which teachers are guaranteed annual raises and steady advancement in wages.

Organizers did not offer details of this, so the cost to the state is unclear.

The governor's budget proposal also includes $100 million for capital costs. About 30 percent of the $400 million figure is funding for inflation and growth that the state is required to fund.

CLOSE

The Day of Action for Education took place at the State Capitol in Phoenix on March 28, 2018. Hundreds of teachers, their family members and supporters gathered to encourage lawmakers to


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Looking Ahead

Looking Ahead: 91 days to go

During the off-season, Looking Ahead gives a snapshot of where drivers finished in 2012 and what’s ahead for them in 2013. We will look at drivers who scored at least 250 points in the Cup Series and those who earned at least 200 points in the Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series.

With 91 days to go until the 2013 season-opening Daytona 500, here are some driver recaps followed by a tentative list of 2013 Sprint Cup Driver/Team lineups.

Sprint Cup:Brian Vickers finished 35th in the standings and earned 250 points.2012: Drove the No. 55 Toyota for Michael Waltrip Racing. In eight starts, he had three top five and five top ten finishes; led 158 laps, had an average start of 16.0 andSeries:Travis Pastrana finished 33rd in the standings and earned 204 points.2012: Drove the No. 99 Toyota for Robby Benton Racing in eight races and one race in the No. 60 Ford for Roush Fenway Racing. In the nine races, he led six laps, had an average start of 22.1 and a 21.4 average finish. He also made one start in the Camping Truck Series driving ThorSport’s No. 98 Toyota Tundra (finished 15th).Best NNS start: 5 - Richmond 09/07/2012Best NNS finish: 13 - Indianapolis 07/28/2012Last NNS Win: None so far.2013: Pastrana is tentatively working out a deal to drive full-time in the Nationwide Series for Roush Fenway Racing. No details available at this time.

Trevor Bayne finished 32nd in the standings and earned 208 points.2012: Drove the No. 60 Ford


Kentucky 06/28/2012 and Dover 06/01/2012Last CWTS Win: None so far.2013: No plans in place at this time.

During the off-season, Looking Ahead gives a snapshot of where drivers finished in 2012 and what’s ahead for them in 2013. We will look at drivers who scored at least 250 points in the Cup Series and those who earned at least 200 points in the Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series.

With 91 days to go until the 2013 season-opening Daytona 500, here are some driver recaps followed by a tentative list of 2013 Sprint Cup Driver/Team lineups.

Sprint Cup:Brian Vickers finished 35th in the standings and earned 250 points.2012: Drove the No. 55 Toyota for Michael Waltrip Racing. In eight starts, he had three top five and five top ten finishes; ledChicago 07/10/20102013: No plans in place at this time.

Nationwide Series:Travis Pastrana finished 33rd in the standings and earned 204 points.2012: Drove the No. 99 Toyota for Robby Benton Racing in eight races and one race in the No. 60 Ford for Roush Fenway Racing. In the nine races, he led six laps, had an average start of 22.1 and a 21.4 average finish. He also made one start in the Camping Truck Series driving ThorSport’s No. 98 Toyota Tundra (finished 15th).Best NNS start: 5 - Richmond 09/07/2012Best NNS finish: 13 - Indianapolis 07/28/2012Last NNS Win: None so far.2013: Pastrana is tentatively working out a deal to drive full-time in the Nationwide Series for Roush Fenway Racing. No details available at this time.

Trevor Bayne finished 32nd in the standings


The Islamic State terrorists who attacked the Bataclan theater in Paris last November not only killed scores of innocents — they also gouged out the eyes and sliced up the genitals of some of the victims, according to testimony in a disturbing French report.

Some victims’ bodies from the second floor of the theater had been beheaded, eviscerated and otherwise mutilated, according to two secondhand accounts reported to a parliamentary commission set up to investigate the attack.

The investigation’s chair, conservative lawmaker Georges Fenech, complained to the commission that details of the mutilations have been kept from families and the press, according to an online transcript.

He also said he had heard of one especially grievous account: The father of one victim had told him that his son had been disemboweledand castrated, with his testicles found in his mouth.

“They had cut off his testicles,” Fenech said during testimony.

French law-enforcement officials who also testified for investigators insisted, meanwhile, that there was no evidence that victim injuries were caused by anything other than gunfire and shrapnel.

One official, Michel Cadot, the prefect of police in Paris, stressed that no knives were recovered from the scene.

“Some of the bodies found at the Bataclan were extremely mutilated by the explosions and weapons, to the point that it was sometimes difficult to reconstruct the dismembered bodies,” said investigator Christian Saint.

But Fenech stood by his account. “Someone put his testicles in his mouth,” he said.

The torture allegations surfaced in March during some 200 hours of testimony before an investigative committee of the French National Assembly.

The


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The Environmental Change Institute (ECI) in the University of Oxford is seeking to appoint a part-time Research Assistant and a full-time Postdoctoral Research Assistant to join the existing research team on the two EU funded research projects OPENNESS and IMPRESSIONS. The IMPRESSIONS project focuses on developing modelling capability to explore the cross-sectoral and cross-scale impacts and vulnerabilities associated with high-end scenarios of climate change. The closing date for applications is 12:00 noon on Wednesday 18 December 2013.

The OpenNESS case study - Cairngorm National Park, Scotland - was launched as a UK Long-term Social-Ecological Research (LTSER) Platform on Thursday 14 November 2013. OpenNESS features as a ground breaking project which encompasses many of the ideals of an LTSER Platform. Jan Dick, the case study leader of theambulance service. Jen's sailing career took her to Florida and the Bahamas before becoming captain of Figaro IV, a classic ocean racing yacht, here on the Maine coast. Jen is a nationally certified Wilderness First Responder.
Jen and Barry met as students with the Audubon Society's Expedition Institute while earning master degrees in experiential environmental education. This program gave them in-depth experience in a diversity of human and natural communities ranging from a sub-artic fishing village in Labrador to the native American desert southwest. Barry and Jen were married aboard Mary Day and live year round in Maine with their children Sawyer and Courtney. Combining their enthusiasm for people, wilderness, and beautiful traditional sailing vessels, Barry, Jen, Sawyer and Courtney are living the dream. When not sailing they live


is a given, the way we deal with it is not. That's where "Vulnerability to Adaptation" comes into play, by providing a broad outline that can be used by policymakers on both sides of the border. Fittingly, it was created as a cooperative effort by researchers from both the United States and Mexico. They include Anne Browning-Aiken and Robert Varady of Tucson's Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, Margaret Wilder and Gregg Garfin at the UA, and academics from the Colegio de Sonora in Hermosillo, Son. Funding came from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Wilder and Varady were co-leads on the study, which took shape in close in cooperation with emergency planners, water managers and other officials in both countries. And the final product did not shrinkbe lower than in November, but the actual number was much lower than expected.

According to the research of the ADP experts, which takes into account private American companies, the number of unemployed people rose by 153,000 in December. Analysts had expected the number to go up by 170,000. The intention of the traders to buy the US dollar considerably weakened at the early Thursday session, as market participants studied the content of the minutes of the FOMC meeting. Analyzing the documents, they noticed that some of the US central bank officials are concerned about the uncertainties in policy of Donald Trump's administration. Thus, the same person caused the recent surge and the current depreciation of the US dollar.


first DAO that came to life is known as The DAO.

The DAO

The DAO was created by the team behind the German startup Slock.it, which is a platform that allowed people to share their property. It is more like a decentralized Airbnb. It was built on the Ethereum blockchain and deployed in May 2016. The DAO was funded by a token sale which raised over $116M (in ETH) as shown below:

In June 2016, an antipattern in Solidity (the programming language of Ethereum) that could lead to attacks on smart contracts was discovered. This imperfection allowed large withdrawals from The DAO. On June 17, 2016, an anonymous hacker (or group of hackers) withdrew funds from The DAO into a childDAO.

3.5 million ETH (which is about $50 million then) was stolen.marks a turnaround from the coalition strategy when operations began in October to retake the largest city held by IS in Iraq.

MOSUL, Iraq — Iraqi joint forces launched an operation to liberate the last Islamic State (IS) pockets of resistance in the Old City of Mosul on May 27. After roughly two months of scant movement on the southern front lines of west Mosul, a push from the northwestern axis in early May had steadily gained ground against the remaining IS-held areas, paving the way for the latest moves.

Many civilians were seen streaming out of the recently retaken areas during Al-Monitor’s visit to the July 17 district in late May.

Dozens of women mostly dressed in black had flipped the face-covering part of their niqabs on top of their


heads, revealing pasty white faces that had long not seen the sun and were now burned red in an hour of walking. Their exposed faces served at least partially as a precaution against security forces mistaking them for being in an alliance with IS.

A few still wore their niqabs and turned their faces when photographers tried to take pictures of them. Some small boys were seen carrying makeshift white flags.

Many infants born in a city that had been entirely besieged for months were seen in tired women’s arms, the tiny bodies listless under the hot sun, red-faced and barely moving.

Wheelbarrows and half-broken wheelchairs were being used to transport the injured and the elderly.

At a field hospital in the July 17 district, Maj. Mohammad, the commander of the medicalsection of the Iraqi army’s Ninth Division, told Al-Monitor that the vast majority of those leaving the recently liberated areas were suffering from hypotension and dehydration.

He cited “sniper wounds, mortar wounds and many dehydrated babies” when asked what he had seen the most of in previous days.

Soldiers carried in a disheveled man with a bushy black beard and a metal brace on one leg. He said his leg had been broken a month ago by a mortar and he had been treated within IS territory. He pulled up his shirt to reveal several other wounds, including a ragged line of black stitches.

Muthana Salah Ali, who said he was 31 and had seven children and two wives, denied strenuously that he had been treated by “IS medical facilities,” stressing


that the hospital in the besieged area had been run entirely by civilians. The concern was presumably that the soldiers might think he had had anything to do with the transnational terrorist group under which the city had been living since June 2014.

Mohammad then pulled Al-Monitor away and said that he did not know whether the man was telling the truth, but that he would be treated and then have his identity ascertained.

“This girl, instead, is someone you should talk to,” he said. Nada, 21, had just had her laptop searched by the medical coordinator. “She has only good things on it, like songs,” such as the “Titanic” theme song, he said.

The girl was carrying an English textbook and several photos of her fiance, who she said wasmajor Western economy to experience a reversal of prior growth in prosperity per capita was Japan, whose deterioration began in 1997. This was followed by downturns in France (from 2000), the United Kingdom (2003), the United States (2005) and, finally, Germany, with the deterioration in the latter deferred to 2018, largely reflecting the benefits that Germany has derived from her membership of the Euro Area.

Fig. 2

Less complex emerging economies have greater ECoE tolerance, and are able to continue to deliver growth, albeit at diminishing rates, until ECoEs are between 8% and 10%. These latter levels are now being reached, which is why prosperity deterioration now looms for these economies as well.

As fig. 3 illustrates, two major emerging economies, Mexico and Brazil, have already experienced downturns, commencing in 2008


A man who walked his heart donor's daughter down the aisle describes his feelings about taking part in the wedding.

Jeni Stepien asked Arthur Thomas, who received her father's heart 10 years ago, to give her away.

"It allowed me, in a very small way, to give back to the people who made it possible for me to be alive," Mr Thomas tells Today programme presenter Sarah Montague.her neck. He throws her up against the wall and they go at it, in one of the hottest hate-sex scenes ever.

TNT

But the real jaw-dropper here is that, after Javier spins her around so her back is to his body, he unzips her dress and removes her undergarments. He then proceeds to lick his right index and middle fingers, and reaches down the front of her dress (which is just bunched around her hips at this point), much to her enjoyment.

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As the scene goes on, it’s out of frame, but he uses his free hand to pull down his pants, and holy moly they totally do it up against the wall. And it’s not just super hot (but it is super hot). This is a major moment and


of the broil element rating.
During normal operation the temperature in the oven is maintained within acceptable limits by cycling the relay switches. For example, energization of the broil element in the bake operating mode is typically cycled to operate at one-quarter power when the bake element is operated at full power, and in the broil mode, the bake element is switched to its open state and the broil element is operated at full power or duty cycled depending on the broil mode selected. Consequently under normal operating conditions, the maximum total power is applied in the broil mode and the oven is designed to keep the surface temperature of the oven cabinet within acceptable temperature limits under such conditions. However, an abnormal operating condition could arise in whichin the open field. Harbaugh has proven that he will put his stud RB on the bench in favor of an up and comer.

Re: Ray Rice has been quiet

I thought Rice was a little off this year compared to previous years in the manner in which he carried himself. It was very subtle, but he exhibited a bit more bravado and swagger, and for him, I am not sure it is a good thing.

After the epic 4th and 29 conversion it ramped up, subtly again, but just a bit more. Then after the two fumbles in the 1st playoff game he did not seem as relaxed on the field, because usually he just flows and goes. He seemed tight to me.

Maybe I am reading too much into it


game such as Sproles in NO.

See Ozzie thread on Pierce. He wants to draft RB depth because Pierce was injured too much during practices
and games.

As people keep forgetting, some of Rice's poor stats occurred in the playoffs because all the defenses were
stopping Rice up the middle which opened up the great plays to Boldin on the outside.

The 3rd and inches from Joe to Boldin was on the outside lane made possible by teams shutting down Rice.

They can't stop everyone which is why we won the SB - geesh!

Same thing happened to the great Jim Brown in the 64 championship game. Colts threw everything at him to
stop him and they did but that opened up the outside lane to former Terp Gary Collins who scored 3 TDs from
Frank Ryan.

Re:is referred as embedding words from the foreign language into the native language due to the absence of those words in the vocabulary of the native language [@Myers_1992_Comparing]. Pidgin is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups that do not have a language in common. After independence, though the Indian constitution declared Hindi as the primary official language, the usage of English was still continued as secondary language for its dominance in administration, education and law [@dey2014hindi; @malhotra1980hindi]. Thereby, creating a trend among the urban population to communicate in English for economic and social purposes. Over the years, substantial code-switching to English while speaking Hindi as well as other dominant Indian languages has become a common feature. Despite extensive code-switching, the speakers and the


A screenshot of Enche' Besar Hajjah Khalsom Abdullah (left) who died in London last night. ― Picture via Instagram/tunku_idris

KUALA LUMPUR, June 2 — The Sultan of Johor’s mother, Enche' Besar Hajah Khalsom Abdullah, 83, died in London yesterday.

Johor Council of the Royal Court president Datuk Abdul Rahim Ramli said Hajah Khalsom breathed her last at 7.55 pm at the King Edward VII Hospital.

“It is with great sadness that Enche' Besar Hajah Khalsom Abdullah, the mother of Sultan of Johor Sultan Ibrahim Ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar, has departed this world and entered the Hereafter at 7.55 pm on Friday, June 1 or 16 Ramadan 1439 Hijrah at the King Edward VII Hospital in London,” he said when announcing the news at the Sultan Ibrahim Building in Bukit Timbalan heretoday.

Also present was Johor state secretary Datuk Azmi Rohani.

Abdul Rahim said the remains of the Hajah Khalsom would be placed at Bilik Singgahsana in Istana Besar here, where members of the public could pay their last respects according to the rules and time which would be announced later.

He also said the remains of Hajah Khalsom would be laid to rest at the Mahmoodiah Royal Mausoleum in Bukit Mahmoodiah here on the date and time which would be announced later.

According to Abdul Rahim, the funeral ceremony would be a semi-state funeral.

The remains of Hajah Khalsom would be taken to the royal mausoleum from Istana Besar on a carriage and wheeled out by a 40-man troop from the Royal Johor Military Force, he said.

Abdul Rahim said the Sultan of Johor


The crime came to light when one of the girls disclosed it to her family, police said (Representational)

A 48-year-old government school teacher was arrested for allegedly molesting girl students, police said on Tuesday.

"The teacher was arrested on Monday soon after the complaint against him was lodged at the Farukhnagar police station," said Gurgaon police PRO Subhash Bokan.

The accused was arrested from his residence in Gurgaon, he added.

"The crime came to light when one of the victims disclosed it to her family. The victim's family later approached the local police," he added.

"The accused teacher confessed to his crime and said he had been molesting girls whenever he found them alone in school. He was produced in a local and remanded to judicial custody," the PRO said.pms and responding to my posts? That makes no sense.

One little episode in Fr. Seraphim's biography contains such a person locating a spot for them (St. Hermans) to drill their well . . . when the drilling team shows up they had to drill a lot farther than expected.

"Walking unannounced through the monastery gate with two long metal "antennae" sticking out of him, the dowser presented quite a strange spectacle."

"The dowser, Fr. Seraphim recorded, "turned out to be a religious man, who regards his work not as 'witching', but simply as a natural talent given by God, and he said a prayer before beginning work."

Nowadays there is ground penetrating radar and other scientific ways of finding water which should negate the need for such silliness.

Well what if one


from the first underground run of ZEPLINII.

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ZEPLINII consists of 31kg of liquid xenon contained in a 50cm diameter copper vessel (Figure \[z2pic\]). The target volume is viewed from above by 7 ETL D742QKFLB 130mm photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) in a close-packed hexagonal pattern. Two steel grids and a mesh act as electrodes which define the electric field in the detector. Two of the grids are positioned above and below the liquid surface; these are the top and bottom grids which define the electroluminescence and charge extraction fields. The wire mesh is located at the bottom of the target defining the drift field in the active volume of the target. PTFE lining the inside of the copper vessel acts both as a support structure for the high voltage grids andme, the hardest thing right now.

Dr. Barbara Haas, a trauma surgeon and critical-care doctor at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, with her 20-month-old son. (SUPPLIED PHOTO)

Dr. Barbara Haas is a trauma surgeon and ICU doctor at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre who is also a single mom to a 20-month-old boy. She just finished a week at the hospital and isn’t back on the schedule until the end of April but knows she will likely be called back to work much sooner.

A couple of weeks ago, watching the news, it was clear that this was coming for us in Canada. I just finished a week in the intensive-care unit and from day one, it really hit me — the way that we’re doing business is going to be very different


US policy-makers ignored Iraqi input

US-led occupiers paid little attention to Iraqi opinion when drafting future policies for the country, a study by a US-based human rights group shows.

19 May 2004 22:04 GMT

Iraqis wonder where the democracy they were promised has gone

"The first thing the report brings out is the importance of consulting with Iraqis," Hanny Megally, of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) said.

The survey of Iraqi attitudes towards transitional justice, released on Wednesday, indicates these have often been out of step with policies pursued by US administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer.

The survey examined the attitudes of 395 people, drawn from a broad spectrum of the Iraqi population, through interviews and focus groups in July and August last year.

"The big problem we have seen in the lastyear has been the United States going it alone, consulting with a limited number of Iraqis, mostly their friends and advisers, many of whom came from outside," Megally said, referring to former Iraqi exiles.

Loss of credibility?

He said the planned formal handover of sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government on 30 June offered the chance to change course without loss of credibility for Washington and London.

"We are seeing the June deadline as a good opportunity to learn the lessons of the past and focus on putting together mechanisms and processes of consulting Iraqis," Megally explained.

The United States had hitherto made assumptions about what Iraqis wanted, he said, citing the sweeping measures Bremer took upon his arrival in Baghdad a year ago. The first misstep was to uproot Saddam's Baath


party and bar many of its members from public sector jobs.

However, the ICTJ survey

finds that Iraqis make a clear distinction between "Saddamists" "with blood on their hands" and people who joined the Baath party for practical reasons.

Old friends

Nearly a year after dissolving the Baath party and Iraq's armed forces, Bremer said last month his "de-Baathification" policy had been unfairly implemented and promised adjustments.

US depended on limited number of its old friends in Iraq

The ICTJ report, titled Iraqi Voices, suggests other reasons for Iraqi hostility to the US-led occupation.

"Comments indicated distrust of the United States because of the historical support provided to Saddam Hussein and the disorder, lack of security and looting that followed the end of his regime," it says.

The study, produced with the Human Rights Center atthe University of California, Berkeley, also reveals Iraqi anger at the United Nations for the years of sanctions.

Megally said the Iraq Special Tribunal, set up in December to try Saddam and top Baathists, appeared to be Iraqi-led in name only, with the United States calling the shots.

He said the US approach to mass graves had been to treat them as a source of evidence for prosecuting Saddam, which, however worthwhile, did little to meet the needs of relatives desperate to learn the fate of their missing loved ones.

"The big problem we have seen in the last year has been the United States going it alone"

Hanny Megally, of the ICTJ

Megally said Iraqis were keen to see how the United States dealt with American soldiers involved in abusing Iraqi detainees


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London student admitted she still suffers from "nightmares" as she relieves her atrocious experience in Tehran's Evin Prison after she was arrested on claims of espionage. The Iranian-born student, who moved to Finland aged four before moving to the UK and holds a double Iranian-Finnish passport, was stopped when she landed in Tehran when she was 21 and asked to turn in her laptop and computer. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) went on to put the girl under surveillance after findingsurveillance for over a year before she was taken to court to face the 52 charges the Iranian Government moved against her – three of which would have resulted in the death penalty. After the cleric charged with her case went on a tirade because of Ana providing her answers in English – as the London student admitted she cannot write in Persian – she was brought to the infamous Evin Prison in Tehran where double national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is currently being held. READ MORE: Iran threat: Boris Johnson needs alliance in Strait but not with Trump, says ex-diplomat

Iran prison: Ana was suspected of being a spy due to photos of Johnson and Cameron on her phone

Iran news: Ana admitted she was subjected to psychological torture while in


execute her and she was returned to Evin Prison. Her grandfather, an eminent cleric in Iran, succeeded in posting bail and had the girl taken to hospital, where she was diagnosed with a stress-induced heart condition. Following her release, Ana hired a lawyer to have her charges overturned from the death penalty to a 10-year prison sentence. However, she persisted in declaring her innocence and sought the help of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. She continued: "I put on a chador, made a to-do list – basically of all the big political figures in Iran who had influence – but the first thing I did was go to the Supreme Leader’s office. "I walked in, I was the only woman in the whole place and I said Iwanted to see someone." She ultimately managed to find one employee who believed her and helped her return home: "The reason why he connected with me and he was interested in helping me was because his own son was studying at a quite renowned British institution.

Iran news: Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held in Evin since 2016


3 killed at Cracker Barrel restaurant in Ohio

Published: April 13, 2012 9:20AM

BROOKLYN, Ohio (AP) -- Police shot and killed an armed man at a crowded Cracker Barrel restaurant where a woman and a girl had been killed and another person was wounded, sending customers fleeing out the back door.

The restaurant said the violence appeared to be the result of a domestic dispute between two customers. Authorities said a woman called 911 from the restaurant Thursday night, saying her husband was upset because she told him she was leaving him. He left the restaurant and was circling the parking lot, the woman told police.

Officers heard gunshots when they arrived and saw an armed man leaving the restaurant, which is located in a busy commercial corridor near Interstate 480 justsouth of Cleveland.

Police Chief Scott Mielke said officers shot him when he refused to surrender. The wounded person was taken to MetroHealth Medical Center but no condition was available.

Investigators remained at the scene until dawn Friday.

Police couldn't immediately say Friday whether the other victims were shot or describe any relationship between the victims and armed man. The names weren't released.

An eyewitness inside the restaurant, Robert Lovelace, told WKYC-TV that the shooting scene was chaotic.

"We all ran," Lovelace said. He said people in the restaurant didn't know what was happening. "We just told them, 'Look, let's get out of here,'" he said.

The manager helped move people to safety through a rear door, the company said.

The restaurant will remain closed until the investigation is completed, Cracker Barrel spokeswoman Julie K.


After the firing of Art Briles, the 2017 recruiting class exploded (in a bad way), leaving only one commitment for Baylor (Jalen Pitre <333)

However, the 2016 class had already signed, and many in that class have requested transfer to a different school and in some cases, some of the players have asked that Baylor allow them out of their letter of intent (LOI). This article will outline who has requested transfer, who is signing elsewhere, who is staying, etc...

Offense:

Zach Smith, QB: Enrolled at Baylor. No indication from him as to him leaving.

Kam Martin, RB: Has not enrolled and is reportedly weighing his options.

UPDATE: Kam will enroll at Auburn. Big surprise there, most people had him going to UT

Jared Atkinson, WR: Plans to enroll in July, is waiting forRoma forward Francesco Totti will not be joining American side New York Cosmos at the end of season, according to Dee Kundra, director of marketing and communications at the club.

Totti’s contract expires at the end of the season and, after enduring a falling out with coach Luciano Spalletti, the Giallorossi veteran has been linked with a move abroad to the second division American club.

“Totti is a great player,” said Kundra to VoceGiallorossa.

“However, at the moment he will not join New York Cosmos.”

Whilst Kundra’s words pour cold water on talk of a move to the Big Apple, Totti is continued to be linked with an array of clubs, even with a possible move to Sampdoria being reported, as suggestions of the Lupi legend leaving his life long team show


she had little cult prior to the conquest of Sargon of Akkad. During the post-Sargonic era, she became one of the most widely venerated deities in the Sumerian pantheon, with temples across Mesopotamia. The cult of Inanna-Ishtar, which may have been associated with a variety of sexual rites, was continued by the East Semitic-speaking people (Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians) who succeeded and absorbed the Sumerians in the region. She was especially beloved by the Assyrians, who elevated her to become the highest deity in their pantheon, ranking above their own national god Ashur. Inanna-Ishtar is alluded to in the Hebrew Bible and she greatly influenced the Phoenician goddess Astoreth, who later influenced the development of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. Her cult continued to flourish until its gradual declineof both cities, appears to Enmerkar at the beginning of the poem and tells him that she favors Uruk over Aratta. She instructs Enmerkar to send a messenger to the lord of Aratta to ask for the resources Uruk needs. The majority of the epic revolves around a great contest between the two kings over Inanna's favor. Inanna reappears at the end of the poem to resolve the conflict by telling Enmerkar to establish trade between his city and Aratta.

Justice myths

Inanna and her brother Utu were regarded as the dispensers of divine justice, a role which Inanna exemplifies in several of her myths. Inanna and Ebih (ETCSL 1.3.2), otherwise known as Goddess of the Fearsome Divine Powers, is a 184-line poem written by the Akkadian poet Enheduanna


if a person wishes to decorate or disguise their face, and yet avoid the messiness of applying paints and pigments directly to their face. Masks have the unfortunate difficulty of oftentimes being cumbersome and difficult to manage, especially for the younger child. The mask frequently interferes with the wearer""s vision, usually because of the distance the mask must be offset from the wearer""s face creating a tunnel vision effect. Another difficulty encountered, particularly with a full face mask, is interference with breathing, either from obstruction or, more subtly, from poor air exchange by inadvertently trapping air behind the mask and forcing the wearer to frequently rebreathe their exhaled breath. Depending on the size of the mask, the mask might interfere with motion of the head or become uncomfortablefood, or even living foods which failed to attract – notably worm-like foods. But frozen mysis shrimp was tried and the “horses” really went for it, even prepared to snatch the shrimps up from the substrate. By supplementing this convenient food with live treats it has become possible to keep and breed the larger sea horses in captive conditions. It is also possible to dose the fish with supplements mixed in with the thawed-out mysis.

Similar in general appearance to the Yellow Seahorse, the Prickly Seahorse (Hippocampus hystrix) is another fairly frequent sighting. The fish pictured was found in The Lembeh Straits, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is also found in the Red Sea and further west in the Indian Ocean. As the name implies, this species has quite extended


ocean.

The Pygmy Seahorse is an endearing, tiny, creature. It is VERY difficult to see with the naked eye when it is hitched into a gorgonian coral of the same colour and with the same nodules. The nose of this species (Hippocampus bargibanti) is quite snubbed compared to its larger cousins, but it has to have a comparatively long tail in order that it may hitch up securely to its gorgonian host. This species is found in localised sites within Oceana. The fish pictured was found in The Lembeh Straits close to where the S. hystrix was seen, although there are several known sites where the fish is found elsewhere in The Straits.

The exoskeleton common to most of the species discussed here provides a good degree of protection fromSnegurochka

Synopsis

Kiev 1992. Rachel, a troubled young English mother, joins her journalist husband on his first foreign posting in the city. Terrified of the apartment’s balcony, she develops obsessive rituals to keep their baby safe. Her difficulties expose her to a disturbing endgame between the elderly caretaker and a local racketeer who sends a gift that surely comes with a price. Rachel is isolated yet culpable with her secrets and estrangements. As consequences bear down she seeks out Zoya, her husband’s fixer, and the boy from upstairs who watches them all.

Home is uncertain, betrayal is everywhere, but in the end there are many ways to be a mother.

Praise for this Book

‘An unforgettable story. The claustrophobia is palpable, and the characters are utterly convincing in this beautifully observed novel. Outstanding.’


—Claire Fuller

Reviews of this Book

‘This is a fascinating portrayal of Kiev and its people, written with skill, depth and sympathy but never shying away from darker facets. At its heart is the story of a marriage, of motherhood, and of a place contaminated by its terrible history. It is an alluring and gratifying read.’ —Jackie Law, neverimitate

‘This was a complex and compelling story and there is a sense of unease throughout, as we see a contrast between the mundane aspects of daily life and survival, and the threats that arise from a country’s recent troubles. And at the heart of it all there is a story of a marriage, and of motherhood, as Rachel is forced to confront her fears, both real and imagined, as she adapts tobe
smooth. When my fingers caress her cheek, and stroke her swan-like neck, I want
the cool flesh of my doll to be as freshly spun silk.

I artfully
made up her face. Dramatic eyes, like a movie star. I injected super glue into
the eyeballs themselves, at the corners. It keeps the eyes from decomposing,
and gives their eyes that glow that seems to gaze at me with longing.

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U.S. To Test The Waters With Iran's New President Rohani

When Barack Obama became president and offered his hand to Iran, that country's elites reacted skeptically. Many said he was a new face, but still represented Iran's great enemy. Now, Iran will have a new face, winner of last week's presidential election, Hassan Rohani. He says he wants better relations with the outside world, so it's America's turn to wonder just how much Rohani could really change in Iran's confrontation with the U.S. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports on the evidence so far.

MICHELE KELEMEN, BYLINE: Hassan Rohani is fairly well known in the West as a foreign policy advisor to past Iranian presidents, says Martin Indyk of the Brookings Institution.

MARTIN INDYK: And he was the nuclear negotiator. He's been dubbedhoris sapit: No man in the world is wise at al houres. It is only belonging to God and properly due unto him never to commit follie. There is, I say, no man, but otherwiles doteth, but is deceived, but plaieth the foole, though he seme never so wise. Whan I say man, I except not the woman.

PROPER NAME PROVERBS: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Lydus in meridie (English: A Lydian at noon; from Adagia 2.6.94 ... An allusion to the supposedly oversexed inhabitants of ancient Lydians, so eager in their pursuit of sexual pleasures that they would even indulge in such pursuits in the heat of midday).

GREEK PROVERBS: Today's proverb is Ἅμαξα τὸν βουν ἕλκει (English: The wagon is pulling the ox... which is the


Greek equivalent of putting the cart before the horse).

AUDIO PROVERBS: Today's audio Latin proverb is Maximae divitiae non desiderare divitias (English: The greatest wealth is not to desire wealth). To read a brief essay about this proverb and to listen to the audio, visit the Latin Via Proverbs blog.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS: Today's proverb from Publilius Syrus is: Sero in periclis est consilium quaerere. It is too late to seek advice in the midst of dangers (English: It is too late to seek advice in the midst of dangers).

ERASMUS' ANIMALS: Today's animal proverb from Erasmus is Midas auriculas asini (English: Midas has the ears of a donkey; from Adagia 1.3.67... alluding to the story of Midas and his barber).

PROPER NAME PROVERBS: Today's proper name proverb from Erasmus is Glaucus potosigns that economic growth is slowly returning to Canada and a laundry list of legislative achievements in 2009, Harper has argued3 that prorogation is a “routine constitutional matter” which will give his government “time to recalibrate the government’s agenda both on the economy and on some other matters.” Critics of the government, however, smell another motive. Allegations emerged last year that Canadian forces in Afghanistan had been transferring detained Afghan nationals to the Afghan National Army with full knowledge that they would likely be tortured in custody. The government had rejected calls for a full inquiry into the scandal and had downplayed suggestions of official complicity in the matter before the decision to prorogue was made. The decision to prorogue, which halts the work of Parliamentary oversight committees,


it was when, in the fall of 2008, Harper won his last minority government. Meanwhile, detainee scandals notwithstanding, Canadian Forces in Afghanistan are embroiled in the heaviest fighting they’ve seen since World War II. It hardly seems like an opportune moment for the government to put its feet up for a three-month break.

To Harper’s many critics, this prorogation is just one more in a long list of transgressions over four years in office. Harper’s support for the petroleum industry based in Alberta, the cowboy and oil-rig province he hails from, and his reluctance to commit to curtailing greenhouse gas emissions have rankled many environmentalists. More controversial have been accusations of secretive decision-making by the government and an unprecedented centralization of power in the office of the prime minister.should help Canada lead by example on these issues by putting his best democratic foot forward, not his worst.

Erika Klein is an author and freelance writer who spent many years serving the community through volunteer work, board of directorships and performing media work and public education. Self-taught and a survivor of Canada's child welfare system, she spends most of her time championing and furthering the human rights for those who are vulnerable and at risk. She's also the proud mother of a lovely daughter.

Patrick Nolan Guyer is a statistician with the American Human Development Project at the Social Science Research Council in Brooklyn, NY. Patrick holds a BA in Political Science from McGill University and an MA in International Affairs from the New School. He has researched and