beyond breakfast cereal into higher-growth categories, including snacks, sports nutrition, supplements, and weight loss. The company's recent feeding frenzy of food companies included the $2.45 billion acquisition of Michael Foods, its largest-ever, which gave it the Simply Potatoes, All Whites, and Crystal Farms brands. The acquisitions demonstrate its willingness to adapt to shifts in consumer tastes, such as capitalizing on the popularity of high-protein products and away-from-home snacks.

Post made a major move into the UK with the purchase of British breakfast food firm Weetabix in 2017. As well as its famous eponymous wheat bricks, Weetabix owns Alpen, Weetos, and Oatibix.

In 2018 the company announced the creation of a new entity for its private brands, 8th Avenue Food & Provisions, which will be partially owned by private equity firmThomas H. Lee Partners. The deal allows Post to monetize its investment in the private brands business while still benefiting from any future growth of 8th Avenue.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Post has made a ton of acquisitions in recent years. In 2017 it acquired UK cereal maker Weetabix in a $1.76 billion deal. The acquisition, which includes the Weetabix, Alpen, Barbara's Puffins, and other cereal brands, expands Post's international market presence and bolsters Weetabix's brand presence in the US. Also that year the company agreed to purchase Bob Evans Farms, which makes refrigerated potato and veggie side dishes and convenience food items, as well as pork sausage. The deal will expand Post's refrigerated offerings portfolio, strengthen its presence in commercial foodservice, and move it into breakfast sausage.

In 2016 it acquired


National Pasteurized Eggs, an Illinois-based egg producer, and in 2015 another egg producer, Willamette Egg Farms. Also in 2015 it acquired MOM Brands, a market leader in the ready-to-eat value cereal segment.

Company Background

Prior to the spinoff, Post represented Ralcorp's branded cereal segment, which was in decline. (Ralcorp acquired Post from Kraft Foods in 2008 for about $2.7 billion, but its success with the brand was sporadic.) In the end, Ralcorp decided to launch Post on its own to focus on its own burgeoning private-label food business.
The acquisition in 2014 of Michael Foods transformed the business, more than doubling its revenue. It followed Michael Foods up with two other major purchases, MOM Brands in 2015 and Weetabix in 2017.Missing Ambassadors of Africa | ASP

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The Senate is set to vote on the confirmation of two ambassadors today, Eunice Reddick as Ambassador to Niger and Michael Lawson as Ambassador to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). While this is welcome progress, it is not enough. The alarming number of vacant ambassadorial positions as a result of holds on nominations by the Senate is coming under increasing scrutiny. As Secretary Kerry argued in his Politco op-ed last week and has been stated repeatedly by others including recent ASP posts, diplomacy is a cornerstone of the smart power approach the United States needs to be effective in the 21st century. Without ambassadors on the ground, who serve as chiefs of missions, the US’s ability to lead and respond


enact popular immigration reforms to curb large-scale migration.

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Each year, the federal government invites roughly 3 million legal migrants and guest-workers to compete for jobs against the 4 million Americans who enter the workforce. They’re being invited into the United States by Obama, with the fervent support of the business interests that fund the Democratic and Republican political machines.

For months, migration has been at the forefront of the nation’s attention: reports documenting the compression of the middle class during the forty-year green card wave, the discovery that all net employment gains among women since the recession went to foreign workers, the unveiling of a nation-wide illegal migrant crime wave, the murder of Kate Steinle and the Senate Judiciary Commitee’s hearing on illegal migrant crime, the “Summer of Trump” whosefrom accusations of phone theft at the festival, but no one has been charged with actually stealing any property at the event.

Other reports from the festival said that a ring of thieves was placing stolen phones in their crotch areas. At least one suspected thief then claimed that private security guards had touched them inappropriately while searching for a stolen device. Companions of the alleged thief recorded the purported “abuse” on their phones as part of the ruse.

Word of widespread phone thefts began to emerge while the festival was still underway. One Lakeview resident told a neighborhood chat group that he stopped into a local phone store and saw several people getting new phones after theirs were stolen at Pride Fest.


culture (really, don't baby boomers discover everything?) where the subject of "Mean Girls" has recently been the focus of lengthy articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the stuff of tabloid talk shows.

It comes down to this, a disillusioned Chesler seems to lament: In spire of all the wonderful, generous goodness which "should" inherently be found in the Sisterhood--as opposed to the brutish "brotherhood of man"--the fact is women can be real bitches.

Chesler worked on the book for decades. It shows. The too-long tome is full of angst-ridden anecdotes, stories, and all kinds of case histories of the little-defined group that Chesler interviewed for the book, women generally bemoaning how other women have betrayed them.

Chesler herself says she's been the victim of such treachery manytimes. She describes students who have been ungrateful, feminist compatriots who've stolen her ideas, and most of all her mother. Talk about too much information. Ouch. (Chesler's view seems to be that all mother/daughter and biological sister relationships are doomed from the start.) One can't help feeling that the book may have been written to settle more than a few old scores.

Chesler looks at everything from ancient mythology to today's middle school, from the animal kingdom to the modern workplace, and finds that women tend to resemble Cinderella's stepsisters a lot mote than they do Cinderella.

One woman named Elsa recounts, "My best friend was a divorced woman who could nor have children. I refused to discriminate against her because she was a divorced woman. In retrospect, I should


have shunned her the way the other married women did. My friend not only made off with my husband. What was worse was her systematic campaign to become my son's mother."

Another woman has a similar tale. "I became friendly with a woman in our new neighborhood.... I confided in her and considered her a best friend. Guess what? About a year into our friendship she had begun having an affair with my husband."

FORTUNATELY FOR us, women's betrayal isn't always so complete. Still, Chesler writes that even young girls "learn that a safe way to attack someone else is behind her back, so that she will not know who is responsible. This tracks girls and women into lives of chronic gossip and rumor mongering.... Girls may use social manipulationbrunt of the scorned wife's wrath.

The Ow in my case has made having long term affairs with married men her life's hobby....she's been at this behavior for over 30 years...what drives a married woman to continue to pursue other women's husbands..rather than divorcing..and pursuing available men...the chase? the competetion? the jealousy? the need for attention and feeling special that she had won him away from someone? I will try to get the book. Thanks.

my stbx ow had a converstion with me.He cheated with her whilst i was pregnant.He wasnt sleeping with me aparently.Hey witch how the hell do you think it got there.there is no star above my house.Then she said the only hold i had was the kids and she would be prgnant sooon and she didnt


Lee White Art Prints

The first expressions of artistic creativity of Lee White (1948-2004) were recognized when he was eight years old by his grandmother, Lizzy, who would set aside time for him to practice. By age 12, White received the Mayor's Trophy for Artists sponsored by the Miami Herald. He later studied at the California College of Commercial Design at the City College of Los Angeles and subsequently received a degree in free art from the California Institute of Arts. During the 1970s and '80s, he shifted his focus to serigraphy and worked under master printmaker Warren Woodward.
Soon after, White relocated to the Southeast, where he continued to work with leading attics and printmakers. His experiences in Florida, California, the Caribbean and the Southeast offered White many diverseDescription:

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Hendrix grew up on a small colony planet at the edge of a backwater galaxy. Despite a loving and stable upbringing he fell in with a group of terrorists operating under the guise of changing the universe for the better. They practice this by terrorizing large totalitarian groups and those who followed them. Regardless of whether these followers truly understood what they were participating in or had just been sucked in by the rhetoric. During a raid on the massive and mysterious group known as The Inquisition Hendrix was captured and believed dead. The truth of this next part could be called into question. The story goes Hendrix was able to free himself from an Inquisition prison ship destroying the ship in the process. He returned to his


old organization expecting a heroes welcome. He initially resumed working for them but his time in prison and his daring escape had opened his eyes and he was no longer blind to the damage this group really inflicted on the universe. This realization nearly killed him and he spent the next years in the slums of the Metropolis worlds. The Dude recently met with Hendrix and offered him an opportunity to atone for his past life by working for The Dude’s organization.First Time With Mother-in-law

She has changed her attire. That was really a sexy see through sari and whole of the body, her huge breasts, her large ass her curvaceous waist her lovely hips, all could be seen through this lovely transparent sari. Her blouse is very low and the cleavage that is shown is enormous and the shiny skin is enthralling. My nerves felt strange and my bossy heat up like hell.

I stood up. I felt my eyes coming out and my tongue obviously oozing saliva out like a hungry dog.

"Vow, You are a goddess”

I almost shouted. She handed me the diamond necklace I got her. She turned her back towards me. I wore it on her neck and slightly kissed her back. She moaned ‘Oh. ‘

I started


licking her bare back. Her blouse is very much low and showing the entire back without bra. I licked cleanly her entire back and enormous shoulders she is showing. I kissed her ears and licked them too.

She got entirely heated up. She turned from me and she sat sexily in the sofa again and crossed her legs.

I sat crushing her very closely. The scent was so seducing. I kissed her very close to her lips. And hugged her and kissed her again on her neck. Her breath became hot instantly.

I held her hips and caressed it. Then slowly I raised my hands to her boobs. I felt like this is the loveliest thing I have ever touched. Her sari pall u fell out of its place by now.contained smooth hair. I kissed her cunt immediately and started licking it and while licking I started to finger it like anything. I wildly finger fucked and sucked deep inside her cunt.

"Fucker. Lick and suck oomph.” (Suck, she said in a vulgar language) This made me mad and wild. I inserted my fingers and tongue deep and she moaned and shouted like anything...

Then she suddenly shuddered and shouted "Ha" I felt that she have reached an orgasm. After a few seconds rest she turned her back. Then I licked cleaned her back and slowly came to her ass. I kissed her ass cheeks and open them with my hands and licked deep in side her asshole. I licked it for a long time when she shouted. "Ha." “


Even
though the shipyards and docks of South Tyneside played a huge part in the lives
of so many local people, sadly, there isn't a museum dedicated to their history.
The town of St. Ives in Cornwall has a very good Maritime Museum and they have a
whole room dedicated to their local hero, Edward Hain and his shipping company.
Many of his ships were built at Readheads and as a result there is more
information about Readheads on display in St. Ives than in South Shields. Maybe
it is time South Tyneside Council did something about this absence of local
maritime history before it is too late ..... John
Bage - webmaster

The
St. Ives Museum is located in the harbour area and the address is Wheal Dream,
St. Ives,Cornwall, England.TR26 1PR
Telephone +44 01736 796005

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Supercoach - live scores, statistics, news, blogs and podcasts

What is Supercoach?

Supercoach is the official fantasy football competition of News Limited newspapers. It is a competition played between people like you, just for fun. The game allows you to try your hand at making the decisions of a real life Aussie Rules football coach, and compete with your friends, family or workmates at the same time.

In short, the idea is to select a group of real players from the Australian Football League (AFL) to "play" for your fictional team, and then for the real-life statistics of those players to determine which team in your fantasy league wins your competition over the course of a real AFL season. The overall objective of the game is to see who amongst yourscoring pages including Supercoach scores at the end of each quarter. In addition, there are live news updates on which players are injured, reported, running hot, gone cold, taken a knock, shown some heart, or anything else that happens on the field during the game. Live scoring pages also have a rollicking chat section where you can joke around with fellow fantasy coaches who are also watching the live scores trickle through, and barrack for your favourite players.

Guru score predictions: FanFooty now publishes a set of projected Supercoach scores each week based on historical data. The projections are a combination of recent scores by each player in their last three games, against the opponent, at the ground and at the time of day, with modifications made for health


your opponents stack up with the Guru projections.

Regular blog posts: The Supercoach category on the FanFooty blog is well worth watching during the week in football season, with regular fantasy-specific articles giving you information and statistical analysis that you won't get anywhere else. In particular, each week you'll see articles on the previous round (Talking Points), rookies to pick up (Boys on the Bubble), who is at the top or bottom of their price fluctuations (Rollercoaster), as well as weekly teamsheets and Friday teams when they appear.

Weekly podcasts: For those of you who like to get your fantasy football fix on the go, download the weekly podcasts from the Coaches Box every week. This is the only Supercoach audio podcast in the world, where for an hour orin India, mosquito nets were an essential part of life. I slept under them as a child in Bangalore, with their ropes tied to bedposts, doors, closets, window grills—anything that would offer support at the right height. It was like pitching a tent every night, and the occasional dramatic collapse would result in much helpless laughter. Later, going to college on the banks of the slow-flowing Koovam river in Madras (now Chennai), I tucked myself under a net in my dormitory at about 6 p.m. to avoid the twilight assault of mosquitos from the water. In fact, particularly after a bad attack of malaria when I was a child, a lot of my life was lived perforce under a mosquito net, until electric repellent gadgets reached the market


Seattle mayor Ed Murray on Tuesday dropped his re-election bid for a second term after four men claimed he sexually abused them when they were teenagers, claims vehemently denied by Murray as an anti-gay political conspiracy aimed at derailing his campaign.

Murray said for weeks after the allegations emerged that he would press on in his campaign for a second term but told reporters that he decided it was best for Seattle to end his campaign and not seek another term. He said he will serve out his term through the end of this year.

“It tears me to pieces to step away but I believe it’s in the best interest of this city that I love,” Murray said.

The 62-year-old Murray was elected in 2013 and successfully pushed to raiseone of the state’s most prominent political figures.

As a young man he considered joining the priesthood and spent a year at a seminary in 1976 before studying sociology at the University of Portland, a private Catholic institution.

Murray ended up working as a paralegal with public defender lawyers in Portland before returning to Seattle and joining the vanguard of the gay rights movement in the 1980s, serving as campaign manager for Cal Anderson, a Seattle state senator who was the legislature’s first openly gay member.

Anderson, Murray’s mentor, died in 1995. Murray failed in his bid to win Anderson’s seat, but he was appointed to fill the legislative seat of the state representative who won the state senate campaign.


time when anticorporate sentiments began agglomerating—a confidential memo he wrote that went public the year before began serving indicates as much. “The time has come,” he wrote to the director of the Chamber of Commerce, “for the wisdom, ingenuity and resources of American business to be marshaled against those who would destroy it.” Suffice it to say Powell sided with the drug store in 1975, and many other businesses during his 15-year tenure.

(In order to make sure that the data wasn’t being warped by the fact that the Supreme Court is highly selective in the cases it takes on, Coates also examined data from appeals courts. He found that the number of cases citing Central Hudson, a 1979 case that formed an important basis for corporate speech, hasIraq Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi says there is no ‘magic solution’ to problems, makes reform pledges.

The death toll from days of violent demonstrations across Iraq surged to 44 on Friday, most of them killed in the last 24 hours, as unrest rapidly accelerated across the country despite a plea from the prime minister for calm.

In an overnight TV address, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said he understood the frustration of the public but there was no “magic solution” to Iraq’s problems. He made reform pledges, but these drew a scornful response from demonstrators.

The violent demonstrations have escalated by the day since they first erupted on Tuesday, sweeping across the country spontaneously, without public backing from any organised political group.

Security forces have fired live ammunition at crowds of


as having a feeling of being from outside of the Hebrew language. The emphasis is also on righteousness and unrighteousness in Abraham’s plea for mercy for Sodom and Gomorrah. And, finally, it is at the moment of grossly wicked intent that the “guests” pull Lot back into his own house and blind those outside of the house and set in motion the already existing plan to destroy Sodom, Gomorrah and the cities of the plain/Siddim.

It is entirely a stretch to equate inhospitality with wickedness. If one is a subset of the other, then inhospitality is a subset of wickedness, not the other way around.

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Back to work…heh.

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It is, not only amazing, but also horrifying, sad, and blasphemous to preach2/4/2018 12:30 PM PST

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Kylie Jenner and Travis Scottare parents after she gave birth Thursday to a "beautiful and healthy" baby girl ... according to Kylie herself.

Kylie made the announcement Sunday. She delivered her firstborn at Cedars-Sinai in L.A., the same hospital where sisters Kim and Kourtney delivered their broods. Rob's daughter, Dream, was also born there. Kylie's kid came out at 4:43 PM weighing 8lbs and 9 ounces.

TMZ broke the story in September that Kylie was pregnant with Travis' kid, but she's kept the pregnancy top secret. KJ never confirmed, and totally went underground ... staying out of the spotlight for the last 5 months.

We finally got a shot of her a week ago, but even then she was wearing a baggy black sweatshirt. Now the question


rigid and consistent schedule for his visits.

A source close to the former couple claims Aryn is making up lies because she's obsessed with being seen as a victim, and she can't do that if people see Jesse as the fun, caring, good person he is.

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The Balls were all over the place in Lithuania on Tuesday ... with LaMelo and LiAngelo combining for a whoppin' 80 POINTS in LaVar's pro coaching debut.

BC Vytautas announced Papa Ball would join it's coaching staff for the 4th game of the Big Baller Brand Challenge against Alytaus Dzūkija ... and the strategy worked, 'cause he helped coach the team to a 147-142 win.

Not only did Melo drop 43 points (including 5 straight 3 pointers in the 3rd quarter andTag Archives: Jimmy Monroe

April 7th, 2015 would mark the 100th birthday, of the legendary Billie Holiday! Born on April 7th, 1915 in Philadelphia, her innovative vocal style has influenced a multitude of singers around the world, over the past century.


David Beckham’s plan to bring a 25,000-seat stadium to the Port of Miami as the home for his new Major League Soccer franchise looks to be heading in a different direction with a key ally in the project effectively telling the former England captain to look elsewhere.

The proposal to build the stadium on vacant land in the southwest corner of the giant port has run into choppy waters in recent weeks with a vocal alliance including cruise ship operators Royal Caribbean, maritime workers and a number of prominent Miami politicians expressing their opposition publicly.

Now Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, who stood alongside Beckham and MLS commissioner Don Gerber in February as the retired star made his long expected formal announcement that he was exercising his right to buy astart-up MLS franchise, has joined those keen to steer him away from the previously preferred seaport site.

In a letter to Beckham’s New York-based real estate adviser John Alschuler, Gimenez urges the investment partnership known as Miami Beckham United to consider building instead on another downtown waterfront parcel a little further north.

“I am asking you to undertake a thorough analysis of the area located immediately north of the American Airlines Arena and immediately south of Museum Park, including the area known as the FEC slip,” he wrote.

The mayor said he envisions: “the creation of a grand waterfront park” close to the Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center with an “unparalleled experience of sports, recreation, arts and culture.” The site, Gimenez said, would give Beckham’s group the nine-acre stadium “footprint” it


Thursday, September 08, 2011

GOP Debate: Ron Paul and Rick Perry do battle, with Paul besting the field

...With a quadruple hit on issues of mandatory inoculations, dictatorial-style executive orders, support for Al Gore, and support for Hillarycare, Ron Paul may have been the only candidate to strike political blood in the quick and seamless political ascendancy of Perry's short presidential campaign.

Moreover, Paul is becoming central to the GOP primary race. Paul, who is polling in the 9-13 percent range in national polls (and stronger in early primary states), generally places third in polls after Perry and Romney. But his ideas continue to exert a gravitational pull on the race. During the same debate Newt Gingrich called for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to be fired, and Rick Perry usedHad some Young's Double Chocolate Stout this weekend. Not a fan of malt but this chocolate malt mixed with rich dark ale got better and smoother as it warmed up.

"Cocaine is a hell of a drug" - Originated from a famous skit in Dave Chappelle's "Chappelle's Show". The skit would portray Rick James, usually high on cocaine, preforming doing crazy and stupid things, such as smacking Charlie Murphy in the face. Rick James would frequently explain away his actions by saying "Cocaine is a hell of a drug".

Enjoyed a 22 oz bottle of Stone RuinTen DIPA over the weekend. It was one of the more enjoyable DIPA's I've had in awhile, very hoppy, and I thought it had more of a tropical fruit smell/taste to it with a


Pumpkin Ales.

This is bad because it's still the beginning of August, but this is good because we are entering the best time of year for seasonals and limited offerings.

What I've had so far in Oktoberfests:

Sam Adams: Much more flavorful than last year.Yuengling: Surprisingly good, as in it almost tastes like a real German Brew.

Pumpkin Ales:Shipyard Pumpkinhead -- As good as ever. Equally balanced pumpkin with cinnamon and nutmeg. Very good on the nose, tongue and pallet. Great aftertaste.

Southern Tier Pumking: Very similar to the Shipyard on the tongue but a little richer. It smells WONDERFUL. I also aged two bottles from last year's batch and they aged beautifully. The aged Pumking is not as sweet, but it's fuller bodied and smoother on the tongue.

Great Lakes Oktoberfest: Have notIn the last two years, many cities in the seven sister states have become part of the vast Indian Railways with new line and conversion of meter gauge lines to broad gauge ones.

The Indian Railways laid around 4,800 km of broad gauge track in these two years, including commissioning of 900 km of broad gauge lines in the northeast alone.

Around 1,200 km of new lines were laid, 1,900 km of gauge conversion was done and 1,700 km of doubling (parallel tracks) were completed in these years. This push brought Agartala, the capital city of Tripura, and other cities in Meghalaya, Mizoram and Manipur on the railway map of the country.

The first broad gauge train to Agartala on its maiden journey. YouTube

All this while the Indian Railways maintained a


track laying speed.

Now they plan to increase the rate of track laying speed by more than double to 19 km per day by 2018-19.

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A senior Railway official said that the speed of track laying will be raised to 13 km per day in 2017.

A station in Assam. Around 900 km of meter gauge lines have been converted to broad gauge in the northeast alone. IndianRailinfo

As of now, the Indian Railways is set to commission a further 2,800 km broad gauge track at the current rate.

It will be investing Rs.80,000 crore in improving the infrastructure while focusing on innovative construction methods to help save money. The official said that the Northern Railways saved Rs.700 crore through these innovations.using the communal areas so they don't have to see each other. It's terribly tragic."

Denise Cedar, a psychologist and life coach, said she had also been inundated with clients since the new year. "I can honestly say that I have never in my career of 25 years been so busy," she said. "There is huge social change going on in Britain. People seem to be waking up and initiating the sort of lifestyle change that they had never considered before." She added: "I've had so many couples where the husband has been made redundant and suddenly the wife realises the only reason she was hanging on to the marriage was because of the lifestyle."

Lawyers in Scotland say they are seeing a surge in "divorce tourism" where wealthy men


spoils system definition

The practice of appointing applicants to public offices as a reward for their loyalty to the political party in power. The term comes from a statement by a senator in the 1830s: “To the victor belong the spoils.” Reform of the system commenced in the 1880s with the introduction of merit as the basis of appointment to office. (See James A. Garfield, machine politics, andpatronage.)100,000 workers—about five times higher than the national average. According to the report, that’s one of the highest fatality rates ever reported in any state.

The rise in fatality rates coincides with the state’s oil and gas boom: In 2007, before the boom was really underway, the rate was 7 deaths per 100,000 workers, still on the high end but not exceptional. The chart below shows how that rate began to skyrocket in 2010-11, just as oil production began to surge as well.

Of the 65 people killed on the job in North Dakota in 2012, 15 worked in the mining and oil and gas industry. Another 25 worked in construction. Some jobs that are classified as construction are in fact linked directly to oil and gas operations, like the


Simple take on the wide world of sports.

May 26, 2015May 26, 2015

Rockets take Game 4 with 45 points from James Harden.

The Rockets jumped out quick. They came like they actually wanted to play tonight. They started off the game with an 18-3 lead. The Warriors were fighting to catch up the rest of the game. Steph Curry got back into the game after falling over Trevor Ariza following a faked shot attempt.

The fall Curry sustained looked a little worse than what it was. The NBA is more on top of concussions and testing players before re-entering games. So Curry returned to the game after trainers had looked him over.

The return of Curry wasn’t enough to help the Warriors beat the Rockets. The Rockets take the win 128-115. Threeprefer sap flows on trees, fermenting fruit, and bird droppings; visiting flowers only when these are not available. Then they will nectar at common milkweed, red clover, aster, and alfalfa, among others.

Habitat: Moist woods, yards, parks, marshes, seeps, moist fields. During migrations, the Red Admiral is found in almost any habitat from tundra to subtropics.

Range: Guatemala north through Mexico and the United States to northern Canada; Hawaii, some Caribbean Islands, New Zealand, Europe, Northern Africa, Asia. Cannot survive coldest winters; most of North America must be recolonized each spring by southern migrants.

Conservation: Not required.

NCGR: G5 - Demonstrably secure globally, though it may be quite rare in parts of its range, especially at the periphery.

Management Needs: None reported.

Taxonomy Notes:

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workshop consensus was that health professionals’ training typically does not equip them to meet these challenges.

To help remedy this situation, the workshop participants suggested that NIH could facilitate improved pain education by supporting what they called Pain Champions—individuals at various teaching institutions who see the need for and are willing to take the necessary steps to establish new courses in pain management. Accordingly, in late 2011, the Consortium released a request to medical, dental, nursing, and pharmacy schools across the Nation for proposals to become Centers of Excellence. There was a huge response: NIH received 56 applications, representing 197 institutions, and selected 12 schools:

Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston

Johns Hopkins University

Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine, Philadelphia

University of Alabama at Birmingham

University of California, San Francisco

Universityof Maryland, Baltimore

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia

University of Pittsburgh

University of Rochester, New York

University of Washington, Seattle

This year and next, these Centers will work with staff across NIH to develop curricula on pain that will be used in their courses. After testing and refining, they will disseminate the materials to other academic institutions and make these tools available on the Consortium’s Web site.

I head the NIH team overseeing this project, and other NIDA staff play key roles:

Dr. Richard Denisco of the Division of Epidemiology, Services, and Prevention Research serves as the topic expert on pain and pain treatment.

Ms. Carol Krause, Chief of the Public Information and Liaison Branch, serves as the topic expert on education.

Dr. Redonna Chandler, Chief of the Services Research


Flexible open-loop anterior chamber intraocular lens implants.
To determine the efficacy of flexible open-loop anterior chamber intraocular lens (AC IOL) implants in cataract surgery complicated by vitreous loss and in secondary implantation. Results were reviewed in 18 eyes in the former group and in 43 eyes in the latter group that were operated on by the author over an 8-year period. Of 18 eyes in the former group, 13 (72%) had a final visual acuity of 20/40 or better. Cystoid macular edema was the most common cause of the decrease in visual acuity. Of 43 eyes in the latter group, 37 (86%) had a final vision equal to the best-corrected preoperative vision. A retinal complication developed in 6 of 18 eyes that received a primary AC IOL with vitreous2004, India was ranked 96th of 119 on IFPRI’s Global Hunger Index. In 2012, India ranked 65th of 79 countries trailing Niger, Rwanda, Sudan and Pakistan. That Malawi and Burkina Faso, ranked 94th and 97 on the Hunger Index in 2004, are ranked 45th and 46th says it all.

What about malnutrition? What about infant mortality? In 2004, India was ranked 53rd from the bottom in the State of the World’s Children Report of UNICEF of 193 countries. In 2013, India has moved lower to 46th among 195, trailing Myanmar, Ghana, Gabon and Senegal. Life expectancy at birth has ‘improved’ from 64 years in 2004 to 65 years in 2012. Indeed, life expectancy is better for children born in Guatemala and war-torn Iraq. In India, 43.5 per cent of


children under five are underweight. India ranks worse than sub-Saharan Africa below Ethiopia, Niger, Nepal and Bangladesh on underweight children and only Timor-Leste has a higher rate of underweight children.

Much is made of the alphabet soup of schemes that characterise the education system. Fact is Kenya, Kyrgyzstan and Lesotho boast of a higher adult literacy than India. For all the acronyms, the mean years of schooling in India is barely 4.4 years compared to, say, 7.5 in China. All of this is best reflected in the human development indicators. In 2004, when the Congress-led UPA powered by the slogan of aam aadmi came to power, India was ranked 127th of 177 countries on the United Nations Human Development Indicators Index. In 2012, India was ranked 136th, behind EquatorialGuinea, Ghana, Timor-Leste and Guatemala. It trails every peer in the BRICS group, and even Sri Lanka which is ranked 92th.

For the record, between the Centre and the states, governments in India spend over $100 billion a year on social sector programmes. One reason for the pathetic state of human development indicators, despite over 200 Centrally sponsored schemes, is corruption. In 2004, India was ranked 90th of 146 on the Corruption Perception Index by Transparency International. In 2012, India was ranked 94th of 176 countries, in the company of Senegal, Mongolia, Djibouti and Moldova, scoring barely 36 on a scale where 100 is the aspiration score.

Congressmen will also wax eloquent about growth. The campaign will claim that under the UPA, for five years, economic growth was 8-plus per


cent. India did grow but so did the world economy. Besides that, growth was spurred by private investment, private productivity on farms and factories, and by private consumption. Between 2007 and 2012, the 11th Five Year Plan, the government underperformed on every index of infrastructure. Look at roads: they were supposed to build 48,000 km of roads but delivered only 17,000 km. They planned for 78,000 MW of generating capacity and built 55,000 MW, of which nearly 30,000 MW is lying idle without fuel despite a January 2012 commitment by the Prime Minister’s Office. India is at the bottom of the pile in global rankings on ease of doing business, ranked 132th of 186 and way below its BRICS peers. Not surprisingly, it underperforms on per capita incomegrowth in the last decade in comparison.

Politics is at the core. For every challenge facing the nation, it has found a helicopter solution. The distress in the rural economy cries for creation of factory jobs. The UPA created a dole called MGNREGS that now threatens farmer incomes. India must invest in agriculture to make it economically viable. The UPA opted for electoral viability and dumped a loan-waiver on banks. The problem of quantity and quality in education was offshored on a shackled and poorly regulated private sector through a Right to Education. Manufacturing revival called for reforms in process and taxation, the UPA dished out a realty racket called SEZs. Persistent inflation that hurts the economy is located in the food economy. India needs a new Amul to


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Democratic Party of Albania, and another paper concerning his

father’s political affiliation. Although the record is not entirely clear, Rexha may also have brought

a document issued in 1991 describing the medical treatment that he had received for wounds

allegedly sustained as a result of police beatings. The government declined to grant Rexha asylum,

in part due to his use of a visa that the government believed, and Rexha later admitted, was not

legally issued.

       Rexha requested asylum during the removal proceeding that was initiated against him in

April of 1998. His claim of past persecution rests primarily on his membership in the Democratic

Party of Albania and in the “Cham” minority, a group whose ancestors moved to Albania after being

expelled from Greece in the late 1940s.

      In March of 2003, Rexha was the sole witness at the merits hearing on his asylum claim

before an immigration court. Rexha described how his father and grandfather had been viewed as
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enemies of the state due to their anticommunist ideals and their Greek ancestry. He also testified

about several incidents of violence allegedly perpetrated against him by the Albanian government.

In 1990, he was allegedly jailed for two weeks and beaten by the communist police for tearing down

a portrait of Enver Hoxha, the former leader of Albania, that hung in Rexha’s classroom at school.

His involvement in anticommunist demonstrations and his induction as an official member of the

Democratic Party of Albania in 1996 also placed him at risk, according to his testimony.


    In addition, Rexha recounted the treatment of his family in 1996 and 1997, a period of great

unrest in Albania. He alleged that he was beaten by the secret police for reading a democratic

newspaper; that a bomb was thrown into his family home, which resulted in injury to his mother’s

leg; and that his sister was raped five days later, when five armed men forced their way into his

home and assaulted several of his family members. Finally, Rexha testified to the incident that

allegedly precipitated his departure from Albania, in which he was kidnapped and held hostage by

the secret police at an undisclosed location. Rexha claims to have heard agents in another room

telephone his father and threaten to kill Rexha if his father refused to carry outrelied to an even

greater extent upon the government’s Exhibit A, a report of a Department of State investigation into

three of the documents that Rexha submitted in support of his claim.

       According to Exhibit A, which was completed with the assistance of a consular investigator

working for the Department of State in Albania, three of the documents submitted by Rexha—two

medical certificates from 1991 and 1996 and a 1997 police report— were forgeries. The report

states that the consular investigator met with Sherbet Saraci, the head nurse of the Tirana Medical

Emergency Facility. Mr. Saraci told the investigator that the medical certificate from 1991 was

invalid because the stamp placed on the certificate was not in use until 1993. In addition, Mr. Saraci

declared the 1996 medical certificate a


fabrication because the signature was forged and the form

was filled out inaccurately. Finally, Exhibit A states that a consular officer requested verification

that the police report regarding the bombing of Rexha’s home, allegedly issued on April 14, 1997,

was valid. The Tirana police replied that the police report submitted by Rexha is a forgery because

the actual report was never given to Rexha and the stamp on the certificate was forged.

       After Exhibit A was submitted, Rexha claimed that the primary consular investigator, a man

named Artan Ceci, was a former communist party member who was not impartial. Rexha was then

given two years to rebut the questioning of his documents. As rebuttal evidence, he submitted letters

that purport to be from “Doctor Saraci,” which assert that RexhaOur Location

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a “traditional” career path, where she would hit a pattern of thinking she had “found her thing,” but then grow uninterested in it, and change direction.
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Western politicians in particular have cried foul. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe called Quebec's allotment "problematic" in an interview with The Globe and Mail. Alberta's finance minister, Joe Ceci, said it was proof the equalization program "doesn't work."

The equalization numbers, which were released Sunday, compounded existing ire in the West over comments Quebec Premier François Legault made last week.

First, he extinguished the flicker of hope that a defunct cross-Canada pipeline project, Energy East, could be revived. Then, he boasted Quebec's hydroelectricity was "clean energy" compared Alberta's "dirty oil."

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, who is heading into an election amid tumbling oil prices, did not appreciate


across the country — including Quebec taxpayers.

And provinces receive money under the program when their fiscal capacity, a measure of their potential revenue base, drops below the national average.

In other words, it is money handed out by the federal government to ensure provinces with smaller economies are able to offer the same level of services as those with access to more tax revenues.

It is up to the provinces, though, to decide how much they want to tax that revenue base.

"Quebec is often accused of stealing the money of Albertan taxpayers. But that's not how the program works," Daniel Béland, a fiscal policy expert at the University of Saskatchewan, told Radio-Canada this week.

Quebec's higher tax rate, by and large, funds its more general social programs — an option politicianstokuladiespodcast's podcast

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Shafayat Mohamed thrown off local boards for anti-gay speech; says homosexual sex causes natural disasters.

The Democratic Party promotes itself as an advocacy group for all matters concerning homosexuals and labels politicians, who take stances opposite theirs on politically charged issues such as same-sex marriage, as bigots. Yet, the party keeps on inviting an imam, who has a long record of hostility toward homosexuals, to participate at its annual functions. This blatant hypocrisy shows the political bankruptcy of their leadership’s claims to be pro-gay and anti-bigotry and reveals their intention to pander to those in the Muslim community who spew intolerance and would wish others harm.

On Saturday, October 7, 2017, the Palm Beach Democratic Party held its 2017 Truman Kennedy Johnson (TKJ) Dinner at the West Palm Beach MarriottHotel, in West Palm Beach, Florida. The Keynote Speaker at the event was Governor of Virginia Terry McAuliffe. Other speakers included: United States Representative Alcee Hastings; then-Florida Democratic Party Chairman Stephen Bittel, who resigned in November over allegations of sexually inappropriate behavior; and then-Palm Beach County Party Chairwoman Terrie Rizzo, who was elected in December to take over for Bittel as Chair of the Florida Democratic Party.

Prior to the speakers, there was a joint invocation performed by a rabbi, two pastors and an imam. The imam, Maulana Shafayat Mohamed, is notorious for his unapologetic vilification of homosexuals.

Shafayat Mohamed is the imam of the Darul Uloom Institute, located in Pembroke Pines, Florida. The mosque has been a haven for terror-related individuals and activity. “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla was a


many, including giving the invocations at the Florida Democratic Party’s annual Leadership Blue Gala in 2014 (featuring Bill Clinton), 2015 and 2016. And given that this author has written about this before, the October event will probably not be the last occasion that he is embraced by the Democratic Party.

Shafayat Mohamed is not the only Muslim extremist that has participated in the Democratic Party’s TKJ Dinner. In October 2015, the dinner invocation was performed by Wilfredo Amr Ruiz, the legal adviser of the American Muslim Association of North America (AMANA), a group that actively promotes former KKK leader and white supremacist David Duke. Ruiz, as well, founded AMANA’s Connecticut and Puerto Rico chapters.

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Regarding the Relationship Between Hierarchical and Charismatic Gifts

in the Life and the Mission of the Church Introduction The gifts of the Holy Spirit in the Church in mission 1. The Church rejuvenates in the power of the Gospel and the Spirit continually renews her, builds her up, and guides her “with hierarchical and charismatic gifts”.[1] The Second Vatican Council has repeatedly highlighted the marvelous work of the Holy Spirit that sanctifies the People of God, guides it, adorns it with virtue, and enrichens it with special graces for her edification. As the Fathers love to show, the action


existence in order to strengthen their life of faith, hope, and charity, expresses well the ecclesial dynamic as the mystery of communion for the sake of mission, and manifests itself as a sign of the unity of the Church in Christ. In such a sense, these ecclesial groups arising from a shared charism tend to have as their goal “the broad apostolic purpose of the Church”.[7] In this perspective, groups of the faithful, ecclesial movements, and new communities propose renewed forms of following Christ in which the communio cum Deo and the communio fidelium are deepened. Thus the attractiveness of the encounter with the Lord Jesus and the beauty of Christian existence lived in its integrity is brought to new social contexts. A particular form of mission andto further additions. The Church, in fact, always grows over time thanks to the vivifying action of the Spirit. The proper exercise of the charisms in the ecclesial community 7. From the above observations, it emerges that the Scriptural texts do not present an opposition between the diverse charisms; rather they see a harmonic connection and complimentarity between them. The antithesis between an institutional Church of the Judeo-Christian type and a charismatic Church of the Pauline type, affirmed by certain reductive ecclesial interpretations, in reality lacks a foundation in the texts of the New Testament. Far from situating the charisms on one side and the institutional entity on the other, opposing a Church “of charity” and a Church “of the institution,” Paul gathers in one list the recipients


other charisms, in such a manner that all contribute to the good of the Church and to its evangelizing mission, knowing well that the Holy Spirit distributes the charismatic gifts to whomever he desires (cf. 1 Cor 12:11). The same Spirit gives to the hierarchy of the Church the capacity to discern the authenticity of the charisms, to welcome them with joy and gratitude, to promote them generously, and to accompany them with vigilant paternity. History itself testifies to the multiform action of the Spirit, through which the Church, “built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the capstone” (Eph 2:20), lives her mission in the world. II. The Relationship between the Hierarchical And the Charismatic Gifts in the Recent Magisterium TheChurch”.[24] Analogous reflections are also found in the conciliar Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity.[25] This same document affirms that such gifts are not to be considered optional in the life of the Church; rather “from the acceptance of these charisms, including those which are more elementary, there arises for each believer the right and duty to use them in the Church and in the world for the good of men and the building up of the Church, in the freedom of the Holy Spirit”.[26] The authentic charisms, therefore, come to be considered as gifts of indispensable importance for the life and mission of the Church. Finally, conciliar teaching constantly recognizes the essential role of pastors in the discernment of the charisms and their ordered exercise within


11. In order to grasp the profound reasons of the relationship between the hierarchical and charismatic gifts, it is opportune to recall their theological foundation. In fact, the necessity of overcoming every sterile contraposition or extrinsic juxtaposition between the hierarchical and charismatic gifts is required by the economy of salvation itself, which embraces the intrinsic relation between the missions of the Word incarnate and of the Holy Spirit. In reality, every gift of the Father implies the reference to the joint and differentiated actions of the divine missions: every gift comes from the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit. The gift of the Spirit in the Church is bound to the mission of the Son, accomplished definitively in his Paschal Mystery. Jesus Himself connects the fulfilmentorigin between the hierarchal gifts, conferred with the sacramental grace of Orders, and the charismatic gifts, freely distributed by the Holy Spirit, has its deepest roots, therefore, in the relationship between the divine incarnate Logos and the Holy Spirit, who is always the Spirit of the Father and of the Son. Precisely to avoid equivocal theological visions that would posit a “Church of the Spirit”, distinct and separate from the hierarchical-institutional Church, it must be repeated that the two divine missions mutually imply each other in every gift bestowed freely upon the Church. In reality, the mission of Jesus Christ already implies within itself the action of the Spirit. John Paul II, in his encyclical on the Holy Spirit, Dominum et Vivificantem, had shown the decisive importance of


the gift of his life in the Paschal Mystery to the gift of the Spirit to his own (cf. Jn 16:7). Once risen, bearing in his flesh the signs of the passion, He can pour out the Spirit upon them (cf. Jn 20:22), making them sharers in his own mission (cf. Jn 20:21). The Spirit would then teach the disciples all things and bring to their remembrance all that Christ had said (cf. Jn 14:26), since it falls to Him, as the Spirit of truth (cf. Jn 15:26), to guide the disciples into all truth (cf. Jn 16:13). In the account in Acts, the Spirit descends on the Apostles gathered in prayer with Mary on the day of Pentecost (cf. 2:1-4) and stirs them to undertake the missionleading them anew to a more profound sacramental life, above all in the Eucharist. In such a manner, the free action of the Holy Spirit in history reaches believers with the gift of salvation and at the same time animates them so they may respond freely and fully with the commitment of their lives. IV The Relationship between hierarchical and charismatic gifts in the life and mission of the Church. In the Church as mystery of communion 13. The Church presents herself as “a people made one with the unity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit”,[43] in which the relationship between hierarchical and charismatic gifts emerges as directed to the full participation of the faithful in her communion and evangelizing mission. We have been gratuitously


a sign and instrument both of a very closely-knit union with God and of the unity of the whole human race”.[47] From this, one can see that the Church as a mystery of communion has a sacramental root: “Fundamentally this means communion with God through Jesus Christ, in the Holy Spirit. This communion is effected in the Word of God and in the sacraments. Baptism” –in close union with Confirmation– “is the entrance to and foundation of the communion of the Church. The Eucharist is the source and summit of the whole Christian life”.[48] These sacraments of initiation are constitutive of Christian life, and the hierarchical and charismatic gifts rest upon them. The life of ecclesial communion, in this way internally ordered, is lived in a continual religiousattentiveness to the Word of God and is nourished by the sacraments. The Word of God presents itself to us as profoundly linked to the sacraments, in particular the Eucharist,[49] within the one sacramental horizon of Revelation. The Eastern tradition looks upon the Church, the body of Christ “animated” by the Holy Spirit and sees her as an ordered unity, which expresses itself also at the level of her gifts. The efficacious presence of the Spirit in the hearts of believers (cf. Rm 5:5) is the root cause of this unity even in its charismatic manifestations.[50] The charismatic gifts given to individuals actually belong to the Church herself and are ordered towards a more intense ecclesial life. This perspective is present also in the writings of Blessed John


of Orders, given at Episcopal consecration. This “together with the office of sanctifying, also confers the office of teaching and of governing, which, however, of its very nature, can be exercised only in hierarchical communion with the head and the members of the college”.[55] For this reason: “In the bishops, therefore, for whom priests are assistants, Our Lord Jesus Christ […] is present in the midst of those who believe […] through their excellent service He is preaching the Word of God to all nations, and constantly administering the sacraments of faith to those who believe, by their paternal functioning (cf. 1 Cor 4:15). He incorporates new members into His Body by a heavenly regeneration, and finally by their wisdom and prudence He directs and guides the Peopleand who “sanctify and govern under the bishop's authority, that part of the Lord's flock entrusted to them”. In their turn they must become “a pattern to the flock”, so they may “lead and serve their local community”.[58] In the sacrament of Orders bishops and priests, by the priestly anointing, “are conformed to Christ the Priest in such a way that they can act in the person of Christ the Head”.[59] One must add to these gifts those given to deacons “upon whom hands are imposed ‘not unto the priesthood, but unto a ministry of service’” and who “strengthened by sacramental grace, in communion with the bishop and his group of priests they serve in the diaconate of the liturgy, of the word, and of charity to the


not only because of their specific character, but also on account of their diffusion within the ecclesial communion. The charismatic gifts “are given to individual persons, and can even be shared by others in such ways as to continue in time a precious and effective heritage, serving as a source of a particular spiritual affinity among persons”.[63] The relationship between the personal character of the charism and the possibility of sharing it expresses a decisive element in its dynamic, insofar as it touches upon the relationship that, in the ecclesial communion, always links person and community.[64] The charismatic gifts, when exercised, can generate affinities, closeness, and spiritual relationships. Through these the charismatic patrimony, originating in the person of the founder, is shared in and deepened, thereby giving lifePope, in total adherence to the belief that he is the perpetual and visible center of unity of the universal Church, and with the local bishop, ‘the visible principle and foundation of unity’ in the particular Church”.[73] This implies a “loyal readiness to embrace the[ir] doctrinal teachings and pastoral initiatives”,[74] as well as “a readiness to participate in programs and Church activities at the local, national and international levels; a commitment to catechesis and a capacity for teaching and forming Christians”.[75] e) Recognition of and esteem for the reciprocal complementarity of other charismatic elements in the Church. From this arises a readiness for reciprocal cooperation.[76] Truly: “A sure sign of the authenticity of a charism is its ecclesial character, its ability to be integrated harmoniously into the life


entrusted with hierarchical gifts, carrying out the discernment and accompaniment of the charisms, must cordially receive that which the Spirit inspires within the ecclesial communion, being mindful thereof in pastoral activities and esteeming their contribution as an authentic resource for the good of all. The charismatic gifts in the universal and particular Church 21. Related to the diffusion and the particularity of charismatic entities one must also consider the constitutive and essential relation between the universal Church and the particular Churches. It is necessary for this reason to clarify that the Church of Christ, as we profess in the Apostolic creed, “is the universal Church, that is, the worldwide community of the disciples of the Lord, which is present and active amid the particular characteristics and the diversityboth the bishops and of the faithful. The individual bishops, however, are the visible principle and foundation of unity in their particular Churches, fashioned after the model of the universal Church, in and from which Churches, comes into being the one and only Catholic Church”.[89] This implies that in every particular Church “the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church of Christ is truly present and operative”.[90] Reference to the authority of the Successor of Peter –communion cum Petro et sub Petro– is, therefore, constitutive of every local Church.[91] In this way, the foundation is laid for the relationship between hierarchical and charismatic gifts within the relationship between the universal Church and the particular Churches. On the one hand, the charismatic gifts are given to the whole Church; on


Spirit, the first disciples were assiduous and united in prayer with Mary, the mother of Jesus (cf. Acts 1:14). She had perfectly accepted and made fruitful the singular grace with which she had been superabundantly enriched by the most Holy Trinity: most importantly, the grace of being the Mother of God. All of the Church’s children can admire her complete docility to the action of the Holy Spirit: faultless docility in faith and transparent humility. Mary, therefore, testifies fully to the obedient and faithful reception of every gift of the Holy Spirit. Moreover, as the Second Vatican Council teaches, the Virgin Mary, by her maternal charity, “cares for the brethren of her Son, who still journey on earth surrounded by dangers and cares, until they are led intothe happiness of their true home”.[117] Since she “let herself be guided by the Holy Spirit on a journey of faith towards a destiny of service and fruitfulness, today we look to her and ask her to help us proclaim the message of salvation to all and to enable new disciples to become evangelizers in turn”.[118] For this reason, Mary is recognized as the Mother of the Church and we, full of confidence, have recourse to her so that, through her efficacious help and powerful intercession, the charisms, abundantly bestowed by the Holy Spirit among the faithful, may be received with docility and bear fruit for the life and mission of the Church and for the good of the world. The Sovereign Pontiff Francis, in the Audience granted


Tim Sweeney created Epic Games (then known as Potomac Computer Systems) while he was a mechanical engineering student at the University of Maryland, commuting between his dorm in College Park and his parents home in Potomac.

Sweeney was born and raised in Potomac, graduating from Winston Churchill High School in 1988. His first game, ZZT, was made on his computer at his parents home in Potomac, when he’d commute home on the weekends from College Park. It’s considered responsible for the early growth of the company when it was made in 1991.

In 1992, the company name was changed to Epic MegaGames and Sweeney worked hard to grow from a one-person operation to a company with 50 employees by 1997. In 1999, they dropped the “Mega” and Epic Games relocatedMonday was a bad day for media, with newspaper company Tronc laying off about half of the employees at the New York Daily News, including the entire social media staff. Not ready to go without a fight, a newly laid-off social media staffer went rogue, firing off a few tweets into the void.

Things started off with a Confused John Travolta meme:

Then confusion gave way to chaos, with another context-free GIF:

Finally, just before management regained control of the account and deleted the other tweets, the rogue tweeter taunted their efforts:

Saving this Daily News tweet always and forever. pic.twitter.com/ELDmMuTkd0 — Jack Sterne (@JRSterne) July 23, 2018

Stay strong, former New York Daily News social media editor.


per centfrom 2001 to 2030. New South Wales' Goulburn, which is Australia's oldestinland city, has limited household water consumption to 150 litres perperson a day.

In Sydney, residents can only water their gardens at specific times onWednesdays and Sundays.

Using hoses to wash cars was banned in 2003, angering some who saidwashing cars using buckets wasted more water.

Authorities in the capital of Canberra have ruled that cars can only becleaned at commercial car washes that recycle their water.

The use of sprinklers for water lawns has been banned in Adelaide,Brisbane and Perth, while officials have been seen patrolling the suburbsof Melbourne, issuing fines to people who waste water.

Even Australia's national Parliament has implemented severalwater-conserving measures, such as setting the air-conditioners to atemperature 2°C higher.

Despite the inconveniences for households, the water restrictionsYoung Muslims face questions, some prejudice

By Staff Writer

Bilal Yousufzai has been answering a lot of questions.

In the wake of terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, the Lakeside High School freshman has been fielding questions from curious classmates about his religion, he said. Bilal, a 14-year-old Muslim of Indian descent, said that most people have been supportive when they talk to him.

"I heard one stray comment I think was directed at me," he said. "But people don't associate me with the people who did this."

Instead, they're asking him questions about Islam and whether the religion condones actions such as the terrorists', who flew three planes into the buildings on Sept. 11, killing as many as 6,000 people. Osama bin Laden,


a Muslim extremist whose al-Quaida organization is present in more than 35 countries worldwide, has been linked to the attacks.

BECAUSE OF THE FOCUS on a Muslim Arab, Muslim Americans and Americans of Middle Eastern descent have encountered harassment and violence since the Sept. 11 attacks. A mosque in Texas was firebombed and a Sikh man, who wore a turban and a beard, was shot to death in Arizona by a man who protested that he was a patriot as police led him away. Some universities warned Muslim students to stay home from classes in the days after the attacks, particularly women who wear the hijab, the traditional head-covering.

In Augusta, vandals spray-painted rude language and the word "coward" on the brick sign in front of the Islamic Society's mosque.Some Muslims have been threatened, said Kent Spruill, chairman of Richmond County's human relations commission.

A Westminster High School student was red-carded and fined at a recent soccer game after calling a Middle Eastern student on the opposing team, Augusta Preparatory School, "Osama." The offender is supposed to apologize to the entire Augusta Prep student body, said Xtreme teen board member William Palmer, 17, a senior at Augusta Prep.

SANGINI PATEL, 17, has experienced the vandalism and ugly words, she said.

"Up until the events of (Sept. 11), I wasn't treated any differently," the Lincoln County High School senior said. "Since then, some students think I'm from Pakistan or Afghanistan and have made ugly comments to me. There have also been people in the community who must think that as well


across the Ponte de Santa Clara, and a beer-soaked parade called the Cortejo dos Grelados from the university down to Largo da Portagem.

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A 14th-century chapel turned intimate cocktail lounge, this place hosts nightly performances by the city's most renowned fado musicians. Shows cater directly to a tourist crowd, but the music is excellent and the intimate setting creates a wonderful atmosphere, abetted by heart-rendingly good acoustics.

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At the bottom of the old town, this friendly cultural centre isas long as 10,000 years. In fact, some of the last traces of their existence were found in Iberia.

Neanderthals were only the first of a long line of inhabitants to appear (and later disappear) from the Iberian stage. In the 1st millennium BC Celtic people started trickling into the peninsula, settling northern and western Portugal around 700 BC. Dozens of _citânias_ (fortified villages) popped up, such as the formidable Citânia de Briteiros. Further south, Phoenician traders, followed by Greeks and Carthaginians, founded coastal stations and mined metals inland.

The Mystery of the Neanderthals

Scientists have never come to an agreement about the fate of the Neanderthals – stout and robust beings who used stone tools and fire, buried their dead and had brains larger than those of modern humans. The


of government, often resulting from military intervention. Another coup in 1926 brought forth new names and faces, most significantly António de Oliveira Salazar, a finance minister who would rise through the ranks to become prime minister in 1932 – a post he would hold for the next 36 years.

Salazar hastily enforced his 'New State' – a corporatist republic that was nationalistic, Catholic, authoritarian and essentially repressive. All political parties were banned except for the loyalist National Union, which ran the show, and the National Assembly. Strikes were forbidden and propaganda, censorship and brute force kept society in order. The sinister new Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado (PIDE) secret police inspired terror and suppressed opposition using imprisonment and torture. Various attempted coups during Salazar's rule came tonacional_ (national school) took religious subjects and grounded them against contemporary backgrounds. In Gonçalves' most famous painting, the panels of Santo Antonio (in Lisbon's Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga), he includes a full milieu of Portuguese society – nobles, Jews, fisherfolk, sailors, knights, priests, monks and beggars.

Some of Portugal's finest early paintings emerged from the 16th-century Manueline school. These artists, influenced by Flemish painters, developed a style known for its incredible delicacy, realism and luminous colours. The most celebrated painter of his time was Vasco Fernandes, known as Grão Vasco (1480–1543). His richly hued paintings (still striking five centuries later) hang in a museum in Viseu dedicated to his work – as well as that of his Manueline school colleague Gaspar Vaz. Meanwhile, sculptors, including Diogo de Boitaca,


simply drive through and pay an attendant. Most car-rental agencies hire out the small electronic devices (for around €6 per week, less on subsequent weeks), and it's worth asking if one is available before renting a car.

**Via Verde** ( %707 500 900; www.viaverde.pt) has information on toll roads and details on where you can hire electronic tag devices throughout the country (useful if your car hire doesn't have them or you're driving your own vehicle).

#### Hire

oTo rent a car in Portugal you should be at least 25 years old and have held your driving licence for more than a year (some companies allow younger drivers at higher rates). The widest choice of car-hire companies is at Lisbon, Porto and Faro airports. Competition has driven Algarve rates lower thanfew models using FRAM, and some ultra-low-cost parts still use OTP or Mask-ROM.

See also

 List of common microcontrollers
 List of Wi-Fi microcontrollers
 List of open-source hardware projects
 Microbotics
 Programmable logic controller
 Single-board microcontroller

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have their own understandings about race, but I applied from the United States to a job located in the United States,” Park tweeted last week. “With that context, I think it’s reasonable to expect not to be labeled Yellow, Colored, Mulatto, etc.”

Yellow is an ethnic slur that has been applied to people of Asian descent since the 1700s. Terms like “yellow peril” were used to stoke fears about East Asian immigrants coming to the United States in the late 1800s.

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Mulatto is a Spanish term that was used to describe people of mixed European and African heritage. Though considered offensive in the United States, it is still used in Latin America, but not widely, according to Pew Research Center.

“Coloured” was originally a social term used to refer to mixed-raceI have always had an entrepreneurial drive, I started my first venture as a 200 level undergraduate; Klassique magazine, a youth-impact publication. I co-founded and co-designed a program which received endorsement from the Federal Ministry of Information and Communication and the Re-branding Nigeria Initiative for the reality TV show, 9jas Got Potential; a show for the re-branding Nigeria campaign. I led the alliance of Klassique and another youth-impact organization Ibreathe to successfully organize the first entrepreneurship conference for NYSC Adamawa State and have had successive conferences since then. Started Orion express; a logistics firm in 2013


know,” he said.

Josh Welch is adamant that he didn’t say “bang, bang.” He does admit pointing his breakfast pastry sculpture at the ceiling.

This incident is the latest in a growing line of extraordinarily strong reactions by school officials to things students have brought to school — or talked about bringing to school, or eaten at school — that are not anything like real guns.

At Poston Butte High School in Arizona, a high school freshman was suspended for setting a picture of a gun as the desktop background on his school-issued computer. (RELATED: Freshman suspended for picture of gun)

At D. Newlin Fell School in Philadelphia, school officials reportedly yelled at a student and then searched her in front of her class after she was found with a paper gunCardinal Archbishop Antonio Rouco Varela used an open-air gathering in Madrid's Plaza Colón on Friday to attack the policies of the previous Socialist Party government, calling for a repeal of legislation that provides for abortion on demand, as well as same-sex marriage.

"Life is a sacred right that humans have been given by God," Rouco told the faithful gathered in bright winter sunshine from a stage dominated by a 68-meter-long altar and backed by a 12-meter-high cross.

Rouco railed against the current situation in Spain and Europe, declaring that Christ had lived in times of historic blindness, and that we were now in one of those times.

"The family is under attack in Spain," said the archbishop, who is also the chairman of the Spanish Bishops Conference, insisting that abortion and


euthanasia in Europe was a deeper crisis than the economy or politics.

Also present at the Mass, the first major open-air event staged by the Roman Catholic Church in Spain since the Popular Party (PP) government took office last week, were some 30 bishops from around the country. Pope Benedict XVI, in a message from Rome, said the Christian family must be a "refuge for loyalty, respect and understanding."

"Whoever refuses to defend a conceived but unborn person is committing a serious violation of moral order. The death of an innocent can never be legitimized. To do so is to undermine the basis of society," said the pontiff.

The gathering in Madrid under the motto "Christian Family: the hope of Europe" was organized by the Bishops Conference and Catholic organizations.

Organizers hadexpected up to 500,000 worshippers, but police said the figure was much lower.

The Spanish Catholic Church is also concerned about homosexuality. During his Boxing Day sermon, the Bishop of Córdoba, Demetrio Fernández, said there was a conspiracy by the United Nations. "The Minister for Family of the Papal Government, Cardinal Antonelli, told me a few days ago in Zaragoza that UNESCO has a program for the next 20 years to make half the world population homosexual. To do this they have distinct programs, and will continue to implant the ideology that is already present in our schools."

Spain brought its abortion laws in line with most other European countries in 2010, allowing abortion on demand up to 14 weeks of pregnancy and up to 22 weeks if there is


fetal malformation or threat to the health of the mother.

Before its introduction abortions were offered under restricted circumstances and rarely in a public hospital. Terminations were allowed only until the 12th week of pregnancy in cases of rape or until the 24th week if a woman's mental or physical health was in danger.

The legislation saw a series of huge demonstrations by pro-lifers across Spain, supported by the Catholic Church and the PP.

Pope Benedict XVI launched an implicit attack on the reforms when he visited Barcelona's Sagrada Familia in November 2010, warning of a "strong and aggressive secularism" that was undermining traditional family values.

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said he will repeal some aspects of the legislation, but has yet to clarify what exact measures he will take. "WeMonika Zgustová

Monika Zgustová was born in Prague and lives in Barcelona. She has published seven books, including novels, short stories, a play, and a biography. Her novel The Silent Woman (2005) was one of two runners-up for the National Award for the Novel, given by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Zgustová has also received the Giutat de Barcelona and the Mercè Rodoreda awards in Spain, and the Gratias Agist Prize given by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague. She has translated more than fifty books of Russian and Czech fiction and poetry, including the works of Milan Kundera and Vaclav Havel, into both Spanish and Catalan.


[Developments in neurophysiology in the 19th century].
The rise of neurophysiology in the 19th century was kindled by Luigi Aloysius Galvani's revolutionary claim for animal electricity at the end of the preceding century. He was first challenged by Allessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta who showed that the muscle twitch in Galvani's experiment was the result of electric stimulation rather than of an enabled biological current. The controversy between Galvani and Volta became a predominant and stimulating issue among the scientists of the early century and found its ultimate elucidation only 40 years later by the pioneering work of Carlo Matteucci of Pisa and Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond of Berlin, who both deserve the reknown as founders of modern neurophysiology. As the first influential promoter and mastermind of the experimentalphysiology, François Magendie of Paris primarily investigated the nervous system and inaugurated the lesion experiments to clarify specific functions of neural structures. Johannes Müller founded the German school of physiology with its eminent neurophysiological offspring: Du Bois-Reymond, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, and Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger. It was Helmholtz's merit to have for the first time precisely assessed the motor conduction velocity by measuring the time interval between two different stimulation sites of the sciatic nerve of the frog. In their brilliant work published in 1870 Gustav Theodor Fritsch and Eduard Hitzig demonstrated that appropriately located focal electrical stimulation of the exposed cortex of dogs induces movement of the contralateral limbs and unequivocally disproved the then prevailing dogma of holistic capacity of the hemispheres, which denied localised


and Jong Chul Lee for useful discussion. HSH acknowledges the Smithsonian Institution for the support of his post-doctoral fellowship. The Smithsonian Institution also supports the research of MJG, MJK and DGF. IPD is supported by NSF-AST grant AST-0708433. Observations reported here were obtained at the MMT Observatory, a joint facility of the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Arizona. This research has made use of the NASA/ IPAC Infrared Science Archive, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This publication makes use of data products from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, funded by theThe home of a Massachusetts rabbi – which doubles as a Jewish community center – has been the target of two suspicious fires in less than a week.

Authorities said a fire broke out around 9 p.m. Thursday at the home of Rabbi Avi Burkiet home in Arlington. The light flames burned shingles on one side of the home, officials said.

A police officer patrolling the neighborhood quickly responded to the house, which doubles as the Chabad Center for Jewish Life of Arlington, and used a handheld extinguisher to put out the small blaze, Arlington police said.

The suspicious fire follows another one reported at the home just days ago.

CONNECTICUT MOSQUE BLAZE BEING INVESTIGATED AS ARSON, FIRE CHIEF SAYS

Last Saturday night – at around 11 p.m. – firefighters and police reported


to the Rabbi’s home after the fire alarm had gone off.

Burkiet told police that he, his wife and three children exited the home after they heard the alarm go off and smelled smoke.

Firefighters found a small fire burning on the wood shingles on one side of the home. It was quickly extinguished and declared suspicious.

Authorities released a video of a person captured on camera walking away from the home Saturday night.

Neither fire caused damage to the inside of the home and no one was injured. Both blazes are considered suspicious.

PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC POWER LINES CAUSED CALIFORNIA'S 'DEADLIEST AND MOST DESTRUCTIVE WILDFIRE': OFFICIALS

Acting Arlington Chief of Police Julie Flaherty said a police officer will now be detailed to the neighborhood full time.

"Out of respect for the privacy ofShen, Yinmo, born in Zhejian, China, was a renowned poet and calligrapher at the beginning of Republic of China. Shen was a central figure of New Cultural Movement initiated in 1910s (a movement supported democracy as well as science and was opposed against Confucianism). He established a deep friendship with other movement supporters like Duxiu Chen (1879-1942, a distinguished scholar and anti-imperial activist). Shen became interested in theories of calligraphy in his late life. To promote calligraphy, he founded the first calligraphy organization in Shanghai, China in 1961.

This Shen’s calligraphic project is collected by Mianzhong Yang. Shen extracted Yu Lu’s (Wuguan Lu, 1125-1210) work, “Little Garden”, a set of four seven-character poems. The work is very rare and valuable because it was completed and preserved during Chongqing anti-Japanese