Intersectional Analysis of Bend It Like Beckham

For this assignment, to make an intersectional analysis I decided to watch a movie. After searching and thinking for a while I picked the movie Bend it Like Beckham, since a lot of elements in this movie are applicable on my own life and I really could relate to one of the characters in the movie. As the title of the movie already implies, it is about football and takes place in England. Jesminder is a Sikh, Indian girl from a very traditional Indian family. She is not interested in fashion, boys and her looks; the only thing she is interested in is football.

One time when she is playing in the park with her friends, who are all boys, Jules sees Jesminderplay. Jules is an English, white girl who plays football. Jules askes if Jesminder wants to join the team, but Jesminder’s parents do not agree. She joins the team anyways and this causes a lot of friction in her own family. Parminder Nagra, who is in her real life also a member of the Sikh religion, plays Jesminder. She grew up in England and from an early age on she wanted to become an actress. Her parents wanted her to finish her education first before she was allowed to start acting.

Bend it Like Beckham was her breakthrough film and got her a role in the popular TV-show ER. Keira Knightley is the actress who plays Jules in the movie. She is a white woman, born and raised in


England. She started acting at a very young age. Bend it Like Beckham was also her breakthrough movie and she has played in countless of popular movies since, for example Pirates of the Caribbean, Love Actually, Pride and Prejudice. The director of the movie, Gurinder Chadha, is a woman from Indian decent, who is also a member of the Sikh religion, was born in Kenya but grew up in London.

She studied journalism and ended up working as a reporter for the BBC and quickly realized she wanted to direct movies and documentaries. Most of her films focus on the differences between Indian and English families and the inequality between them, mostly in a negative way for the Indians. Bend it Like Beckham is one of her most famousso weird! ’ And without their knowledge of my sexuality, quite often people assumed I was a lesbian because I played football. Without knowing any axes of my life, I was automatically put in a lower position, just because I am a girl who played football. This also is seen in the movie. Jules has short hair, wears baggy clothes and plays football, and her mother overhears a conversation between Jules and Jess about love, but she misinterprets it and thinks Jules is gay.

The mother is very upset about her daughter being gay and when Jules tells she is not gay, the mother is very relieved and then says there is nothing wrong with being gay. Even though she says that, she is still happy her own daughter


is in fact not a lesbian. This shows certain stereotypes towards girls that play football, have short hair and wear baggy clothes. Football is such a gendered sport that it automatically leads to sexism, thinking girls who play football must be lesbian because they play a men’s sport.

Lesbianism is also seen as something less good than being straight, seeing the mother is relieved her daughter is not a lesbian. The coach of the team, a young, straight white man is ashamed to be the coach of a girl’s team. He had to stop playing football due to an injury, and he wanted to do something with football. He ended up coaching the girls team, but he has never told this to his father because he is afraid hisfather will get angry because ‘they’re just girls’. This also shows the gender-based thinking towards girls, but intersectionality becomes even clearer when race gets involved. When Jesminder first joins the team, the eaction of the coach is that he has never seen an Indian girl play football, and he is angry with Jules for bringing her to the team because he expects her to not be able to play football, because she is an Indian girl. He says this without even seeing her play. She turns out to be the best of the team. Without knowing anything about her he places her in a lower social position than white girls, just because of her race, and he already places himself above girls. During a match a girl from


of them, at least they parents did, belonged to the lower class, while the white girls in my team, including myself, were from a higher class than they are. There is one point in the movie where the lower position of the male is seen. Her best friend, a boy named Tony, confesses to her he is gay, but she must promise him she will not tell anyone about this. In the Indian religion it is not acceptable to be gay, that is his reason not to tell anyone. But if he would be openly gay, his position on the social ladder would get lower, because he would be gay, Indian man. If Jesminder would be from a different ethnicity I do not think it would have madeany changes for the movie. The main point is that a white skin colour in the western world means a higher place in society than any other skin colour. If Jesminder had been a lesbian it would have placed her even lower on the social ladder. This also applies for Jules, she is a white, straight female, so she is quite privileged in general, but I think if the director had made her a lesbian, the stereotypes towards girls that play football would be even clearer and also show more struggles of women in a society.

Sexuality does play a part in the movie, since Jules’ mother thinks she is a lesbian, but yet she turns out to be straight. I think this movie really shows the importance of


82-year-old woman attacked by grandson's pit bulls

An 82-year-old* Satsop-area woman was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center on Monday night after she was attacked by her grandson's two pit bulls in her own home, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News has learned.

The Grays Harbor Sheriff's office said Gloria Boswell's grandson, Ed Groce, who owns the dogs, was away at the store when the two animals attacked Boswell. She was bitten in her face, arms, leg, and back in what Chief Deputy Dave Pimentel called "the most severe dog attack I have ever seen."

After the attack, Groce shot and killed one of the animals with a .22 caliber rifle. He told KIRO 7 his grandmother had just fed the dogs and walked in front of them, and it wasn't the first time                   Appeal from the United States District Court
                         for the Southern District of Florida

                                   (December 6, 1999)

Before COX, Circuit Judge, KRAVITCH, Senior Circuit Judge, and PROPST*,
Senior District Judge.
___________________
*Honorable Robert B. Propst, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama,
sitting by designation.
PER CURIAM

CERTIFICATION FROM THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR
THE


$4.5 million and

received RTC’s said judgment and assignment. In March 1995, Fremont agreed

with its insured to pay any judgment which might be obtained against its insured

by Interdevco Co. in the state court action. Fremont was unsuccessful in collateral

litigation in which it attempted to establish that it had authority to direct Interdevco

Co. to dismiss the state court action against its insured. On February 14, 1997,

Fremont filed the instant action against Carey, Dwyer and Spring.

      The underlying litigation which Carey, Dwyer was retained by Fremont to

defend was still pending as of September 27, 1999, but at oral argument before the

Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals on September 30, 1999, Fremont announced

that the case had been settled by its paying an additional amount.

    WRECK OF THE TAYMOUTH CASTLE AND LOSS OF ALL HANDS

Messrs Thomas Skinner & Co, 12, Gordon Street, Glasgow received a letter on Wednesday morning from the officer of the Coastguard Station at Cushendall stating that he had found a vessel wrecked at Torr Point near the Station and that the only thing that indicated her name was a life-buoy marked Taymouth Castle.

As the letter is dated Monday Morning it is supposed that she must have got in the neighbourhood of Tor Cor Point which is situated on the coast of County Antrim on Saturday evening and that she had been wrecked in the same hurricane which was so fatal to the Falcon and other vessels.

Ship was 626 tons register and was on her voyage to Singapore, Her cargo


was a valuable general one. She was owned by Messrs Skinner & Co., and commanded by Capt. Robert M. Miller. She had a crew of 19 or 20 and 1 passenger. The owners have not abandoned the hope that some of the crew have got ashore. 0n the list of those on board and supposed to be lost is Alexander Thom, apprentice, Aberdeen. The others belong chiefly to Glasgow and other places In the West of Scotland.The Dallas Cowboys are known for a lot of things: eight Super Bowl appearances, the hottest cheerleaders in sports, the grandiosity that comes with being held out as "America's Team." But no Dallas welcome would be complete without a map that guides Super Bowl fans to some of the locales that commemorate the off-field antics of players who thought they could get away with just about anything. And some of them just about did.

Who can forget Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson taking a 17-year-old paraplegic and her 15-year-old friend hostage at gunpoint and sexually assaulting them while hopped up on crack? Yet virtue has its own reward: After doing his time and turning clean and sober, he won $28 million in the Texas lottery. He also became a motivational speaker.

Defensive


213 pounds of pot during a routine traffic stop in Louisiana, Nate Newton, the six-time Pro Bowl guard, was arrested by the feds with another 175 pounds on I-45 in Ellis County. He pleaded guilty to both charges, served 32 months behind bars and was fined $25,000. After prison, the gregarious Newton charmed his way back into the hearts of fans, became a sports radio host, gave up pot and lost 175 pounds after his munchie cravings finally subsided. He also became a motivational speaker.

2. Bob Hayes

Former Cowboys wide receiver "Bullet" Bob Hayes sold cocaine and Quaaludes to police officers during an undercover sting in 1978. He admitted to snorting coke during his playing days, pleaded guilty to three drug charges and served 10 months in prison. Hiscocaine use had nothing to do with him being "the world's fastest human" and everything to do with his arrest record. He was the only athlete ever to win an Olympic gold medal and a Super Bowl ring. He made amends with the football world, which inducted him into the Hall of Fame—but only posthumously in 2009.

3. Barry Switzer

Headed back to the team's Austin training facilities in August 1997, then-Cowboys head coach Barry Switzer was going through security at D/FW International Airport when an X-ray machine found a loaded Smith and Wesson .38-caliber revolver in his duffel bag. He claimed he simply forgot to remove it, but Switzer pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one year probation, 80 hours of community service and a $3,500 fine. Switzer may


have done the community a service when he resigned at the end of the season after the Cowboys went 6–10, which was the same record they had this year.

4. Rafael Septien

In December 1986, in Coppell, near the Cowboys practice facility, kicker Raphael Septien, whose nine-year career with the Cowboys included an appearance in Super Bowl XIII, sexually assaulted his neighbor's 10-year-old daughter. He pleaded guilty to the lesser offense of indecency with a child and received 10 years probation, which seemed an uncharacteristically light punishment. The Cowboys released Septien the day after his plea, and he currently resides in Cancún, Mexico. For years, he sold hotel timeshares, which may be its own form of enhanced punishment.

5. Michael Irvin

Three-time Super Bowl winner Michael Irvin has a long rap sheet,but no arrest tops his 30th birthday celebration in 1996, when cops raided a hotel room at the Residence Inn in Las Colinas and found Irvin with a boatload of cocaine and marijuana, and two hookers who identified themselves as "self-employed models." Irvin seemed to be flaunting due process when he appeared before the grand jury dressed in a full-length mink coat and dark sunglasses. He later pleaded no contest to the possession charges and received four years probation. Then he apologized, got religion and got TV and radio sports talk gigs. He also gets $25,000 a pop as a motivational speaker.

6. Harvey Martin

Perennial nice guy Harvey Martin went from beating up quarterbacks as the co-MVP of Super Bowl XII to beating up his live-in girlfriend (a lot)


in 1996. Officers called to the scene were met with resistance and a bunch of cocaine. Less than five months later, Martin kicked his girlfriend's ass again. He was sentenced to eight months in a treatment center. Following treatment, he remained clean and sober, making amends for years of drinking and drugging, claiming the old Harvey was buried "beneath the wreckage of my past." Before his death from pancreatic cancer in 2001, he also did some motivational speaking.

7. Terry Glenn

Former Cowboys receiver Terry Glenn has been busy of late, getting busted a few weeks ago in Denton County for DWI and pot possession. That comes only a year after being charged with auto theft, which his attorney labeled a "crock of garbage." But the garbage keeps mounting forGlenn, who only one year earlier, on January 25, 2009, was arrested for public intoxication and possession of marijuana. Police records have him running around the halls of the Extended Stay Deluxe Hotel in Irving, allegedly naked and drunk, alerting cops to the weed in his room.

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8. Adam "Pac-Man" Jones

The Dallas Cowboys knew Adam "Pac-Man" Jones might be trouble, but owner Jerry Jones decided to take the chance on the talented cornerback with a penchant for assault, booze, drugs and patronizing a Las Vegas strip club when a lot of gunplay was going on. Jerry's trust in Pac-Man waned in 2008, his first and only season here. He got into an altercation inside the bathroom of


the Joule hotel downtown, punching a man in the face that October. No charges were filed. Oh, and the man happened to be the bodyguard who the Cowboys hired to keep tabs on Pac-Man in the first place.

9. The White House

It was known as the "White House," a two-story brick residence in Irving where big-time Cowboys like Irvin and Newton allegedly came to play. Rather than risk being identified at a hotel, the White House became a place where sex, drugs and rock and roll could proceed in anonymity. But in the aftermath of Irvin's 1996 bust, the house got outed by a not-so-confidential informant who sold secretly recorded footage to the media. Despite books detailing rampant drug use and group sex, somehow the cops never found timeto stop by.

10. Erik Williams

Former offensive tackle and three-time Super Bowler Erik Williams almost lost his career and his life on October 24, 1994, when he crashed into a guardrail while speeding in his Mercedes 600SL. He was charged with DWI and sentenced to two years probation. In the next two years, Williams would be cleared of rape allegations twice: The first involved the alleged sexual assault of 17-year-old girl at his home; the second, in 1996, involved a 23-year-old woman who accused Williams of rape, while Michael Irvin allegedly held a gun to her head. The woman later recanted and was charged with perjury.

11. Lance Rentzel

After former Cowboys wide receiver Lance Rentzel was busted in 1966 for exposing himself to a young girl at a playground in


Minnesota, the Vikings traded him to Dallas. No matter that Rentzel was married to Joey Heatherton, one of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood; four years later, he exposed himself to a 10-year-old girl in University Park. He was then traded to the Los Angeles Rams where he would (post divorce) date Victoria Principal, who would become Pamela Barnes Ewing in the hit TV series Dallas.

12. Dwayne Goodrich

While driving down I-35 at Walnut Hill Lane in his BMW 745i after stopping by two strip clubs (The Lodge and Silver City Cabaret), former Dallas cornerback Dwayne Goodrich struck three Good Samaritans. He killed two and severely injured another. Charged with two counts of manslaughter, a jury found him guilty in August 2003 of the lesser offense of criminally negligentDefense Drops Two

In defense drops two, the offensive team has a numerical advantage because the defense must drop two players off of the field.

Set Up

Set up a field with two mini goals on either side. Split players into two even teams. This works well with team sizes as small as four and as large as eight.

How It Works

The two teams play against each other, however, whichever team is on defense must drop two players off the field over their own end line. This is to give the offensive teams a numerical advantage so that they can work on keeping possession of the ball with slightly less pressure. The offense must complete six passes in a row before they can score.

Coaching Points

Because the offensive team alway has a numerical


another renowned sufi of his time, Haşim Baba of Üsküdar.

Aside from his poetry in the Sufi tradition with a strong lyric touch, an important part of his verses were also intended to mark the foundation dates and other information related to public works (such as schools, fountains, other buildings) following the traditional method of ebced (abjad), a system of enumeration by letters of the Arabic script. His verses composed to correspond with significations according to the ebced system give valuable information on the Turkish society in Crete.

Poetry

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 Poetry by Salacıoğlu by the Turkish Ministry of Culture in English, in French, in German

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Category:Cretan Turksin the state of drops 106 into a combustion furnace 105 from a tip 103a of the feed nozzle 103.
The combustion furnace 105 is constructed so that a plurality of alumina balls 109 in a reactor 107 and a pipe 108 are heated by a heater 110, and the interior of the combustion furnace 105 is held at approximately 850° C. Accordingly, the drops 106 dropped into the interior of the pipe 108 of the combustion furnace 105 are reliably combusted, and a component such as carbon dioxide contained in the drops 106 is extracted in a gaseous state.
In the meantime, air (hereinafter referred to as “carrier air”) is introduced into the combustion furnace 105 from an air feed pipe 113 via an air introducing pipe 114, and


this carrier air is fed to the interior of the combustion furnace 105 from a tip 114a of the air introducing pipe 114 as indicated by arrows.
This carrier air has the purpose of transporting gases generated by the combustion of the drops 106 to the exterior of the combustion furnace 105 via a gas introducing pipe 115 as indicated by an arrow, and further has the purpose of feeding air for combustion.
The gases introduced into the gas introducing pipe 115 by this carrier air accompany the carrier gas and are introduced into an analyzer such as an infrared analyzer (not shown). In the analyzer, the concentration of a target gas contained in the gases is measured, and the measured result is outputted as a signal.Connect with Us

Mine spill 'unlikely' to harm spawning Fraser sockeye

A aerial view shows the damage caused by a tailings pond breach near the town of Likely, B.C. Tuesday, August, 5, 2014. The minister responsible for British Columbia's mines says residents living along waterways affected by a mining-waste spill could catch a lucky break because the waste may not be poisonous.

The Mount Polley mine tailings pond spill is "unlikely" to significantly harm Fraser River sockeye now returning to spawn in fouled Quesnel Lake, according to the Pacific Salmon Commission.

The agency managing salmon fisheries said it doesn't expect the peak of the sockeye migration to reach Quesnel Lake until the first week of September, giving about 20 days for river and lake conditions there to improve.

But the commission cautioned there


are also juvenile sockeye currently rearing in the lake and it's too soon to tell whether they will be severely affected.

"The spill could impact their survival and food supply," it said.

Great concern persists among First Nations and other salmon users over the potential for contamination and long-lasting damage to the fishery as a result of the mine disaster.

Between 845,000 and 2.95 million sockeye are forecast to spawn in the Quesnel system this year – about a quarter of the summer run and seven per cent of all Fraser sockeye stocks combined.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has not directly commented on the threat to salmon, saying Environment Canada is the lead federal agency.

"Fisheries and Oceans Canada will be closely monitoring the salmon run as it approaches the Quesnelweeks.

"We're expecting regular week-day openings from now until September."

Limited recreational fisheries for sockeye opened on the Fraser River last week, which catch limits of four per day below the Mission bridge and two per day upstream. Aboriginal ceremonial and food sockeye fishing started two weeks ago.

Unionized commercial fishermen, meanwhile, have denounced the lack of government oversight of the Mount Polley mine.

"We have fleets of boats with observers or cameras watching our every move to fish sustainably, and nobody is watching these folks as they destroy our ecosystem," said said Kim Olsen, president of the Unifor local representing fishermen and allied workers.

"Where has the BC Ministry of Environment been? Where has Environment Canada been? The oversight is pathetic."

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Restaurant Review: Bistro Rigoletto, Sweden

Bistro Rigoletto gives you a classical French cooking with a typical bistro in terms of service and interior
design. The restaurant is located on one of Sweden's most busy streets;
Kungsgatan, in Stockholm. They
have followed the French way of forming a classical theatre bistro
next to an old cinema and the interior gives you an classical atmosphere of French art deco. I enjoyed the location and the classical design, however the staff is a bit slow when it comes to order and very fast
when it comes to the payment. It is almost as if the staff wanted us to leave
as soon as possible for the next customer, which I did not appreciate. When
it comes to theRidge Racer (1993 video game)

is a 1993 racing video game developed and published by Namco. It was initially released on the Namco System 22 arcade system board, and later ported to the PlayStation console in 1994. It is the first title in the Ridge Racer series released for arcades and home consoles. The objective is to finish in first place in a series of races. The PlayStation version supports Namco's NeGcon controller.

Development took eight months, and the game is based on a trend among Japanese car enthusiasts. The first home version was released in Japan in 1994 as a launch title for the PlayStation; the versions for North America and Europe were released in 1995, with it also being a launch title for both regions. It was re-released


racing game called Sim Drive for the Namco System 22 arcade system board. It was a sequel to Eunos Roadster Driving Simulator, a Mazda MX-5 driving simulation arcade game that Namco developed with Mazda and released in 1990. Its 3D polygon graphics stood out for its use of Gouraud shading and texture mapping. After a location test at the show, where it was previewed by the November 1992 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, Sim Drive had a limited Japanese release in December 1992, but did not get a mass-market release. It served as a prototype for Ridge Racer.

Ridge Racer had a development cycle of eight months. The development team was under pressure to complete it before their rivals, and designer Fumihiro Tanaka commented that "the other company" wasAn 18-year-old has died after being in a medically induced coma following a Friday crash in West Point. Alegent Creighton Health Creighton University Medical Center confirmed Monday afternoon, Hope Walker died. The teenager was placed in a medically induced coma after she rolled her truck."All around her is just broken. They took all the skull they could to relieve pressure off her brain,” said Charity Walker, Hope's mother.--Read: Neb. family deals with triple tragedyWhile in the hospital, a fire destroyed the Walker's house in West Point, and Hope’s father lost his job just days before the crash.There is a fund set up for the family at Wells Fargo Bank called Hope for Hope.

An 18-year-old has died after being in a medically induced coma following a Friday crash in


West Point.

Alegent Creighton Health Creighton University Medical Center confirmed Monday afternoon, Hope Walker died.

The teenager was placed in a medically induced coma after she rolled her truck.

"All around her is just broken. They took all the skull they could to relieve pressure off her brain,” said Charity Walker, Hope's mother.

--Read: Neb. family deals with triple tragedy

While in the hospital, a fire destroyed the Walker's house in West Point, and Hope’s father lost his job just days before the crash.

There is a fund set up for the family at Wells Fargo Bank called Hope for Hope.Of 163 companies surveyed, 107 showed limited or no evidence of ethics and anti-corruption programmes

By Stella Dawson

WASHINGTON, April 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two thirds of the world's major defence companies get a "fail grade" for combating corruption in their business operations, despite improvements in industry practices in the past three years, an anti-corruption group said on Monday.

In its survey of 163 companies, Transparency International UK found that 107 showed limited, or no evidence of ethics and anti-corruption programmes.

However, 33 percent of corporations surveyed worldwide have improved significantly since the Defence Companies Anti-Corruption Index was first published in 2012, rising several notches on the six-point TI UK scale.

The improvements were seen across the globe in companies from Brazil to South Africa and South Korea, suggesting there is a


was the French corporation Dassault Aviation which announced this month it is finalising a contract for 36 aircraft for India, a country with significant corruption problems.

She also pointed to General Atomics, maker of drones, which scored 7 out of 100 for its ethics and anti-corruption programmes.

Neither Dassault nor General Atomics responded to requests for comment.

However General Atomics' sister company General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc, which makes the drones, said as an affiliate it had not participated in the survey, but that it vets sales and checks intermediaries in strick adherance with anti-bribery laws.

"Our company is committed to upholding the highest standards of corporate ethics and anti-corruption measures," its CEO Linden Blue told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by email.

Lockheed Martin, which moved up from "C" in the previous survey,The assertion of many researchers chronicling the growing influence of Islam in the West that there are "no-go zones" across Europe where Islamic law holds sway and local police stay away is controversial.

But there can be no doubt that entire Western nations now are sacrificing their liberties to protect Muslim communities, including the passage of new laws that curb free speech.

A man in Sweden has been fined $1,265 for a "crime of opinion," reports Sputnik News International.

The 55-year-old man from Jönköping was convicted of writing on Facebook that Sunni Muslims account for a lot of the gang-related crimes and rapes committed in Sweden.

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The man stated: "Somalis are Sunni Muslim, they have the same


overrepresentation in sexual assaults, with men of foreign descent allegedly committing over 90 percent of rapes."

The 80-page investigation looked at 4,000 rulings from 80 Swedish courts in recent years.

It was during that time frame that more than 200,000 individuals "from predominantly Muslim countries" moved to Sweden, which until a few years ago had a state church, the Lutheran Church, with some 6.2 million members.

But Islam has become the second biggest religious group in Sweden, with about 5 percent of the population.

It was reported in 2014 that Sweden had changed its laws to make prosecution of people expressing controversial opinions about immigration easier to track down and prosecute.

One person, it was reported, was even punished for buying a newspaper ad and using it to publish four Bible verses criticalof homosexual behavior.

JihadWatch reported last month that a 71-year-old man was being prosecuted for criticizing Islam. Swedish-language sources said that when the man called Islam a "fascist ideology," he faced charges for hate speech.

"Now he’s being interrogated by the Swedish police and has to answer general questions regarding his stance towards Muslims. In the end, he will potentially be sentenced to up to two years of prison time," the report said.

Last year, Newsline reported a man was prosecuted after being accused of eating bacon in front of veiled Muslim women.

The Swedish government, ironically, has legalized the act of flying the flag of ISIS, the Muslim terrorist movement that has slaughtered thousands of Christians and other religious minorities across the Middle East.


Zinke Announces Largest Oil and Gas Lease Sale in US History

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced that the Department is proposing the largest oil and gas lease sale ever held in the United States –76,967,935 acres in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico, offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. The proposed region-wide lease sale, offering an area about the size of New Mexico, is scheduled for March 2018 and includes all available unleased areas on the Gulf’s Outer Continental Shelf, surpassing last year’s region-wide lease sale by about one million acres.

“In today’s low-price energy environment, providing the offshore industry access to the maximum amount of opportunities possible is part of our strategy to spur local and regional economic dynamism and job creation and aEpisode 13 | Andy Borowitz

Scott and Andy Borowitz take a ride through his varied career, from being President of the Harvard Lampoon, creating the hit TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, stand-up and lecturing, to having his homegrown humor email list become so popular it was subsumed by The New Yorker.


For the past two days, more than 30 people from the Central Highlands Action Group and local Toolangi and Healesville residents have been occupying a large logging coupe on Yellowdindi rd in Toolangi state forest.

Two 30m tree sits, which are suspended by ropes attached to two log-harvesters and two ‘bunnies’ with their arms locked through the tracks of a third machine have ensured that no clear-felling took place in the coupe on Monday January 16.

Much of the Toolangi forests were burnt in the fires of 2009. One Toolangi local said that “residents are concerned that following the Black Saturday fires in 2009 that clear-fell logging in the area will increase the risk of mega-fires due to the large amount of wood waste which is left behind in coupes.Allensworth, now just a windswept ghost town, sits in the San Joaquin Valley, halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. One thing separates the town’s history from that of other California ghost towns, however, which is that it was established and governed solely by African Americans at a time when black people had few rights or opportunities in the United States.

A tiny farming community, Allensworth represented a much more significant achievement than its modest size and looks suggest. In 1908, African-American army veteran Colonel Allen Allensworth banded together with a number of other black intellectuals and leaders to found their own town, where black people could achieve the “American Dream” and build a life for themselves that wasn’t possible elsewhere due to discrimination and institutional racism. Black farmers,


ranchers, craftsmen and business owners from around the country moved to the town.

The goal of the town’s namesake, Colonel Allensworth, had been to create the Californian equivalent of Tuskegee, Alabama, which was a haven of black culture and a thriving society surrounding the Tuskegee Institute. For a time, the town of Allensworth truly was the “Tuskegee of the West.”

Sadly, after the death of Colonel Allensworth and increasing problems with the local water supply, the town began its decline, losing most of its residents by the middle of the century. In 1974, the abandoned town was designated Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park, and today only one of the buildings is original to the settlement. The rest were demolished prior to being granted historic status in 1966, due to highlevels of arsenic in the soil. Reconstruction is an ongoing effort ever since cleanup was finished, so repeat visits are worth the trip, as are the frequent demonstrations by the Buffalo Soldiers Re-Enactors Association. Many visitors have been pleasantly surprised that the last man born in the town has made frequent trips to the park, and has been more than happy to share his personal stories of growing up there.


win, the Bulls have lost by an average of 23.3 ppg and all
three losses came by double digits.

Of course, the Bulls are decimated by injuries. Derrick Rose hasn't played
since he tore his ACL in the first playoff game last season. Luol Deng and
Kirk Hinrich have both missed this entire series.

"They're in a tough situation," said LeBron James, the reigning MVP. "They've
had some injuries and illnesses and whatever's going on. They don't have their
full roster. But that's not for us to worry about. They beat a very good
Brooklyn team without their full roster."

Some of the Bulls pointed to that Brooklyn series. The Nets were down 3-1 to
Chicago, but forced a Game 7.

"It's disappointing. But there is still basketball left," said Joakim Noah,
who was named to the All-Defensive First Teamon Monday. "It's not the end.
It's do or die. We've got to go to Miami and get a win and go to Game 6."

Carlos Boozer led the Bulls in Game 4 with 14 points and 12 rebounds. Jimmy
Butler, Gibson and Rip Hamilton, who hadn't played all series long, all scored
in double figures.

James paced the Heat with 27 points, eight assists and seven rebounds, which
were all team-highs. Chris Bosh netted 14 and blocked four shots.

Nine other Miami players scored on Monday night, although Mike Miller and Joel
Anthony were the only Heat players who didn't score on Monday. Both played
less than three minutes.

Dwyane Wade has been noticeably absent from the scoring column. He's only
averaged 11.2 ppg during this series and only managed six points in Game 4.

Wade has been plagued


by knee troubles and the extra rest he's been getting
hasn't helped. He missed a good portion of the end of the regular season, sat
out Game 4 of the Heat's first-round series with the Milwaukee Bucks, and had
a week off before the Bulls' series began.

"Sometimes it feels good, sometimes it doesn't," Wade told the Palm Beach
Post. "Just try to go out there and continue to do what I can."

The Bulls did win Game 1 in Miami and took one of the regular-season meetings
at American Airlines Arena.

If Chicago wins on Wednesday, Game 6 will be Friday night in the Windy City.Night 2 includes Omaha hold 'em as well.

The four additional characters in addition to the player are Sam from the Sam & Max franchise (voiced by David Nowlin), who is assisted by Max (voiced by David Boat), Brock Samson from The Venture Bros. (voiced by Patrick Warburton), Ash Williams from The Evil Dead franchise (voiced by Danny Webber), and Claptrap from the Borderlands series (voiced by David Eddings). GLaDOS (voiced by Ellen McLain) from the Portal series takes a supporting role as the dealer. During the hands, these characters provide humorous chatter between each other and towards the player. Reginald Van Winslow (voiced by Roger L. Jackson) from Tales of Monkey Island reprises his role as the host. Additional brief cameos include Steve the Bandit and Mad Moxxi


dealt with the interface between vaudeville and film comedy. So much remains constant over decades of practice in this space, so much here speaks to the core theories of comedy which we teach in literature or film courses on the genre. So I figured this might be useful or interesting to many of you.

andres lombana

The Bastard Son of Comedy

I arrived at the Gamble Mansion at 5 Commonwealth Avenue at 6:00 p.m. I entered using the main door, registered myself in the front desk and got into an opulent Louis XV style room in the first floor. The room was illuminated by many candelabra lamps attached to the walls and one big chandelier that was hanging from the center of a very high ceiling. The room had a marblefire place framed by two white columns and a gigantic mirror over it. The wooden floor was shining and contrasted with seven empty metallic chairs that were arranged in a semicircle. A buffoon and a drummer harlequin were entertaining a young lady; they were the motif of the wallpaper that covered the entire room.

Dana Jay Bein was there, standing up behind an amplifier and a microphone, drinking a medium size Starbucks coffee and typing something in his cellphone. We had an appointment to talk about comedy and I did not expect to have such a luxury setting for our interview. But it happened that the Boston Center for Adult Education, where Dana teaches a stand-up comedy class, is located in this historic building.

"Comedy comes from the darkest moments


in his teaching, and he is also developing a strong network of comedians in New England and on the internet (he has a myspace page). Even if he considers himself an amateur because he is not touring the country and he can not subsist from comedy alone (as the people from Comedy Central), he seemed to me very professional and very committed with his cause. His vernacular comedy theory was articulate and appealing. I especially liked something that he said right before I left the Louis XV room in Gamble Mansion: "comedy is a start to make the world ok."

Andres Alberto Lombana graduated in 2003 with a double BA in political science and literature from Colombia's Universidad de los Andes. His interests are emphatically cross-media, and he hassome significant experience with educational media applications. From 2001 to 2005, Andres worked for the Fundacion Universitaria Iberoamericana (FUNIBER), a Spanish electronic learning company active in Latin America. There, he administered and edited e-learning objects that were both adaptive and migratory, and worked to develop learning communities. He was awarded a fellowship to spend 8 months at FUNIBER's Barcelona headquarters where he worked on digital layout and publishing processes. Outside of the work environment, Andres has been active in small-scale cross-media creative activities including movies, music, still images, and text. In 2001, he co-founded Elektrodomestika, a cross-media laboratory which explores and experiments with the use of new technologies in art creation. His latest project, Cotidianity, is a computer operetta that explores digital storytelling. His digital video The Duel


(stop motion animation) was selected as part of the first Latin American and Caribbean Video Art Competition, and shown in the International Development Bank's art gallery in Washington and the Ethnologischen Museum of Berlin. Interactive media production, creative educational strategies, and the discourse of globalization combine to form the core of what Lombana would like to pursue at CMS. Lombana has been an active contributor to the documentary projects being developed by Project nml, being the lead producer for a segment on dj culture and now at work on a segment focused on animation.Frederick Walter Birt was a Suffolk man who worked as an agricultural labourer before joing the Royal Navy in 1893. After leaving the service he married in Suffolk in 1907, going to have two sons by 1911 when he was a lamplighter. His wife died that year and in 1920 he and his sons moved to Chelmsford where he found a job at Hoffmann's bearings factory. He married again the following year and by 1925 was living in West Avenue, his home until his death in October 1942 when he was fatally injured during an air raid on Hoffmann's.

Frederick was born in Martlesham, Suffolk on 4th April 1878, the son of Henry Birt and Sarah Ann Birt (nee Stevenson).

In 1881 the census found Frederick, aged 3, living with


his parents and two older siblings in Marlesham where his father was an agricultural labourer. Ten years later Frederick was recorded by the next census still in the village, living with his parents and edler brother. Frederick was an agricultural labourer, as was his father and brother. In 1893 Frederick joined the Royal Navy, but had left by 1901 when the census described him as a ‘navy pensioner’, living in Martlesham, with his widowed father.

In 1906 Frederick’s father died, and the following year Frederick married Elizabeth Buttery in Suffolk. Elizabeth already had a son Alfred Arthur Buttery. Frederick and Elizabeth went on to have two sons, both born in Woodbridge, Suffolk: Walter George Birt (born on 25th April 1908) and Wilfred Harry Birt (born in 1911).

The 1911 censuslisted 32 year-old Frederick living with his wife, two sons and a boarder at 20 Bredfield Street in Woodbridge. Frederick was a lamplighter. Frederick’s wife died later that year.

Frederick moved to Chelmsford around 1920. In 1921 he married Annie Maria Bailey in Essex and by February 1925 they were living at 13 West Avenue in Chelmsford, with Frederick working as a machinist at Hoffmann’s ball-bearings factory in the town.

In 1941 Frederick's younger son Wilfred was captured in Crete by the Germans while serving as a Corporal with the Royal Army Service Corps.

Hoffmann’s was a target for the German air force throughout the war. At 10.59 a.m. on 19th October 1942 a lone German Dornier Do 217E aircraft approached Chelmsford from the east at an altitude of around a


thousand feet. Taking advantage of low cloud and poor visibility, typical of a misty autumn morning, the aircraft dropped to around a 150 feet to make a bombing run on Hoffmann’s approximately along the line of one of the factory’s railway sidings.

Almost immediately Hoffmann’s light machine defences opened up on the raider, but other army posts were unable to fire their Bofors guns at the aircraft because of its extremely low altitude - the gunners would have been firing in the direction of nearby buildings and people. The Dornier was able to release two 500 Kg SC high explosive bombs on the works, with delayed actions of about twenty seconds, and machine gun the ground. With its bombs released the aircraft turned north-eastwards, circled to the north ofChelmsford and made off due east towards the coast, apparently unscathed.

Those on the ground were not so fortunate. One of the bombs scored a direct hit on the factory. It penetrated the roof and exploded in the recently completed Cage & Assembly Shop, (part of Hoffmann’s ‘C factory’, to the north of Rectory Lane). The other bomb deflected off the factory’s roof and exploded amongst houses in neighbouring Henry Road.

Four people died as a result of the bomb at Hoffmann’s, including 64 year-old Frederick, and another five were killed at Henry Road which lay at the western edge of the factory.

As well as the four fatalities the Hoffmann’s bomb resulted in six seriously injured, and 43 men and 16 women slightly hurt. Casualties would have been far higher


but for the excellent civil defence arrangements at the factory which meant that many of the factory workers were inside air raid shelters when the bomb struck.

Frederick is thought to have been caught in the open by the blast, and to have been buried under rubble. He died two days later at the Chelmsford & Essex Hospital. His home was still at 13 West Avenue.

Frederick’s funeral service was held at All Saints’ Church in King’s Road, Chelmsford on 27th October with burial afterwards at Chelmsford Borough Cemetery (grave: A7387).

A local newspaper reported:

"THE LATE MR F. W. BIRT. The interment took place on Tuesday of Mr Frederick Walter Birt, of 13 West Avenue, the victim of enemy action. Aged 64, he was native of Martlehsam (Suffolk), but had livedin Chelmsford fer 22 years, being empfoyed at the Hoffmann Works. He leaves a widow and two sons, one of whom. Cpj. W. H. Birt, a priioncr of war in Germany: Service at All Saints', Boarded Barns, the interment at Writtle Road Cemetery."

Frederick's widow died in 1970.

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Match Reports

Maori All Blacks too good for young Harlequins

A first half blitz helped the Maori All Blacks to a 10-26 win over a young Harlequins side in a historic 150th anniversary match at The Stoop.

Tim Swiel opened the scoring for the home side but the New Zealanders struck back with four first half tries and a 3-26 lead at the break.

A Harlequins side, bereft of 26 players due to injury or unavailability, fought back well in the second spell and scored the only points of the half thanks to a converted Dan Murphy try, but it wasn’t enough as they fell 10-26.

Earlier in the evening 12,100 supporters had turned up to see Harlequins play the Maori All Blacks for the first time in over 90 years. The specialoccasion a major part of Harlequins’ 150th anniversary season celebrations.

The home side got off to a solid start in the encounter and were rewarded with three points after Tim Swiel comfortably knocked over a 45 metre penalty in the eighth minute.

With many senior players missing on international duty, or unavailable ahead of their crucial Aviva Premiership match against Leicester Tigers this Sunday, the young Quins were soon found wanting.

The clinical New Zealanders striking four times in quick succession to help them to 26 points in as many minutes.

The first two tries to impressive outside back James Lowe who scored a brace, his fourth and fifth scores of this three match Northern Tour.

With Shane Christie and Sean Wainui’s tries deflating the crowd it would require a big effort in


the second half. Before then however the crowd were treated to a stunning performance by a traditional Maori cultural group.

The Maori All Blacks had chances in the second spell to extend their lead but some strong defence and a string of big scrums kept the home side in it.

In the 52nd minute they were finally rewarded as Dan Murphy scored from the base of a maul after a succession of penalties went Quins way.

Try as they might Harlequins couldn’t get a second try to bring them back into the encounter even though the second half provided some bright moments from both sides. Man of the Match Akira Ioane terrorising the Quins defence, but equally the bright sparks in the Harlequins backline testing their opposing numbers.

The Londoners would haveone final crack at the line in the dying minutes but they would fall short as Referee Andrew Brace blew his whistle on proceedings. The final score 10-26 in favour of the Maori All Blacks as they bounced back from their loss away to Munster on Friday.

For Harlequins it can be counted as great experience for many of their youngsters as well as a once in a lifetime experience for the veteran players, Club and its supporters.

They now prepare for a short turn around before their match against Leicester Tigers at Welford Road on Sunday (kick-off 15:15).


Refugee whistleblower will tell Canberra rally he saw a child bashed on Nauru

A whistleblower will give a harrowing account of seeing a toddler bashed at the Nauru detention camp, when he speaks to a rally on Sunday.Tobias Gunn is opening up on his work with Save the Children Australia, when he was trying to help asylum seekers at the notorious camp.Despite reporting the abuse to authorities, the alleged perpetrator was not charged, he said.He is now extremely concerned the opening up of the camp means women and children who have been abused will come face-to-face in the small community with the alleged perpetrators.Along with other speakers at Sunday’s rally in Canberra, Mr Gunn will urge Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to abandon mandatory detention of asylum seekers who arrivethe risk is much greater that we will be enticed by the false traditions of the world to make poor choices.

I would like to share an experience that illustrates the effort required to endure physically and then compare it to the effort required to endure spiritually. Upon returning from my mission, I had the opportunity to play basketball for a well-respected coach and author at a college in California. This coach was very serious about his players being in shape before the start of the basketball season. One of his training prerequisites before any of us could touch a basketball on the practice court was to run a cross-country course in the hills near the school in a specific and very aggressive time. I remember my very first


Maynes was born in 1856 in Hull, Yorkshire, England. His family joined the Church in England and then made their way to Salt Lake City. He married Emily Keep in 1883, and they became the parents of eight children. Joseph was called to serve a full-time mission in June of 1910, when he was 53 years old. With the support of his wife and eight children, he returned to his native England to serve his mission.

After serving faithfully for approximately two years, he was riding his bicycle along with his companion to Sunday School services in Gloucester, England, when his tire burst. He got off his bicycle to assess the damage. When he saw that it was serious and would take a while to fix, he told hiscompanion to go ahead and begin the Sunday service and he would be there shortly. Just as he finished saying this, he collapsed to the ground. He had died suddenly of a heart attack.

Joseph Watson Maynes never saw his wife and eight children again in this life. They were able to transport his body back to Salt Lake City and have his funeral service at the old Waterloo Assembly Hall. A statement made at his funeral service by Elder Anthony W. Ivins of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles teaches us an important lesson about life, death, and endurance: “This is what the gospel gives us—not immunity from death, but victory over it through the hope we have in a glorious resurrection. … It applies to [Joseph Maynes].


Osama al-Nujaifi. State of Law's always a little slower on the pick up than any other political coalition in Iraq. A little slower, a little more dense. Thursday, Osama announced he would not be seeking a second term as Speaker of Parliament. He repeated this on Friday. NINA notes US Ambassador to Iraq Stephen Beecroft and UK Ambassador to Iraq Simon Collis "have praised the brave stance" Osama al-Nujaifi has taken.

This includes failing with regards to security. With cities falling to rebels, violence soaring, it can be argued that Iraq's currently at its most unstable since 2003. Mu Xuequan (Xinhua) reports:

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the man purported to be the top
leader of the self-claimed "Islamic State, " made his first public
appearance at a mosque in Iraq's northern city ofMosul, according to a
video clip posted on the Internet on Saturday.The video appearance came a few days after the Islamic State in Iraq
and Levant (ISIL), an al-Qaida breakaway group, proclaimed the
establishment of a "caliphate" straddling Syria and Iraq, crowned its
leader Baghdadi as the "caliph," and changed its name into the "Islamic
State(IS)."

Reuters also reports on the video and notes that "the Iraqi government denied the authenticity of the 21-minute video, which carried Friday's date." Khalid Al-Ansary and Caroline Alexander (Bloomberg News) observe:There were conflicting reports about the identity of the
man in the video. An appearance by Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi
with a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, would signal a brazen
challenge to Iraq's government as it intensifies its offensive
against the Islamic State, the militant group formerly known


as
the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL.

As cities began falling to rebels in Iraq, there were a group of foreign nurses trapped in the country.

Alsumaria reports over 40 boarded a plane to India. Belfast Telegraph adds, "The 46 nurses had been holed up for more than a week in Tikrit, where fighters of the Islamic State group have taken over." Indian Express notes, "Nearly 600 more Indian nationals will return home from the conflict-hit
Iraq over the next two days, the Ministry of External Affairs said on
Saturday. It said 200 of them will return by an Iraqi Airways special
chartered flight from Najaf to Delhi late Saturday night itself." They also note "there are about 7,500 Indians in non-conflict zones left" in Iraq. The Times of Indiawhere Indian embassy officials took care of us,"
she said.

Along with failing to provide security, Nouri's also launched repeated attacks on Iraqis. Nouri continues bombing residential areas in Falluja (legally defined as a War Crime). Alsumaria reports Falluja General Hospital received five men and four women who were injured in one of Nouri's bombings. NINA notes a second Falluja bombing left 6 civilians dead and seven more injured.

The Kurdistan Regional Government is comprised of northern provinces in Iraq. The KRG is semi-autonomous. Since the US invasion of Iraq, the Kurds have often been termed "king makers." Why? Because when the US needs them, the Kurds usually go along with whatever the US government wants at that moment.

In other news, the White House is objecting to the Kurds exercising their


fraud, then
an economic saviour. And, perhaps more remarkably, he was groomed by
Washington, lured by Iran, and is now being courted by both as a man who
could rescue Iraq.The
mercurial career of Ahmad Chalabi has been central to much of the
turmoil that Iraq has gone through in the past 20 years. From guerrilla
leader in exile in the Kurdish north to the pinup boy of the Pentagon's
war plans, Chalabi was more responsible than any other Iraqi for the
ousting of Saddam Hussein more than a decade ago.

An e-mail asks what I think about Chalabi?

His failings are well known. I'm not particularly fond of the fact that Iraqi exiles keep getting named prime minister but I'm not an Iraqi. It's their country. Their MPs should be representing them.

I doubt anyone could be worseby the Human Rights Council in 2008.

Mass water cutoffs have been accelerating in Detroit. The Water
Department has hired special contractors, under the direction of
Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, as part of restructuring the city in the
ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. Up to 3,000 families a week are being
denied water for failure to pay their water bills. These bills are often
only $125 dollars behind.

Many victims of the shutoffs are already in an agreed-upon payment
plan schedule. It is believed that the aim is to make the Water
Department more attractive as an investment for privatization. This was
confirmed by Bill Nowling, Orr spokesperson, when he stated that “the
shutoff policy is a necessary part of Detroit’s restructuring.” (Detroit
Free Press, June 27)

Detroit’s City Council added to the crisis by approving an 8 percent
increase to water and sewerage


rates in mid-June. Protesters have
gathered outside the Water Board Building in downtown Detroit every
Friday for the past two months. Billed as “Freedom Fridays,”
demonstrators have marched throughout the downtown district after
picketing the Water Board.

Protesters occupied the Bank of America office on June 13, demanding
that the corporations and banks stop their attacks on poor and working
people of Detroit.

On June 27, Freedom Friday 8 ended with a rally and speak-out. Those
protesting water shutoffs joined with retired city of Detroit workers
facing huge pension cuts in the Detroit restructuring and others
concerned with the future of the people of Detroit.

Especially galling to many are reports that huge corporate and
institutional water bills are delinquent, but services of those
institutions are not being shut off. Palmer Park Golf Club and the
Veterans Administration hospital are said to oweoutside of the United States
on the Fourth of July? There are many wonderful and beautiful things
in the United States, including my family and friends, including
thousands of truly dedicated peace activists, including people bravely
going to prison to protest the murders by drone of others they've never
met in distant lands whose loved ones will probably never hear about the
sacrifices protesters are making. (Did you know the commander of a
military base in New York State has court orders of protection to keep
specific nonviolent peace activists away from his base to ensure his
physical safety -- or is it his peace of mind?) And, of course,
millions of Americans who tolerate or celebrate wars or climate
destruction are wonderful and even heroic in their families and
neighborhoods and towns -- and that's valuable too.

I've been cheering


war builds national
character. Now war has to be sold as necessary and humanitarian because
nobody believes it's fun or good for you anymore. Polls in the United
States put support for possible new wars below 20 percent and sometimes
below 10 percent. After the House of Commons over here said No to
missile strikes on Syria, Congress listened to an enormous public uproar
in the U.S. and said No as well. In February, public pressure led to
Congress backing off a new sanctions bill on Iran that became widely
understood as a step toward war rather than away from it. A new war on
Iraq is having to be sold and developed slowly in the face of huge
public resistance that has even resulted in some prominent advocates of
war in 2003 recently recanting.

This shift in attitude towardUniversal Declaration of Human
Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights
movements in the South, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational
organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force
for social change.

Friday, July 04, 2014

CBS and AP report thug Nouri al-Malik is portraying himself as the one who can defeat the 'terrorists' and this implies "he won't step down despite pressure for him to do so." All Iraq News reports that Nouri has issued a statement today announcing he remains determined to seek a third term as prime minister. Mark Landler, Michael R. Gordon and Mark Mazzetti (New York Times) observe, "Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is still insisting on a third term,
but Kurdish, Sunni and even some Shiite politicians say a new prime
minister


must be selected, which also portends more wrangling."

Al Jazeera adds:Sistani on Friday reiterated his call for the new government to have
"broad national acceptance", a formulation many officials have
interpreted as a signal Maliki should step aside.Also on Friday, Osama al-Nujaifi, former Iraqi parliament speaker
and a major political foe of Maliki, said he would not nominate himself
for another term to make it easier for the Shia political parties to
replace the prime minister.

Tuesday, Iraq's Parliament met for the first time since the April 30th election and they were unable to name a Speaker of Parliament. NINA reports
today that Osama al-Nujaifi (who became Speaker in November 2010) has
announced he is withdrawing his name for that post. Along with the
Speaker of Parliament, the President of Iraq and Prime Minister of Iraq
are the poststo be decided by Parliament.

All Iraq News notes Osama made his statement on TV Thursday and that he issued a statement today repeating that he was not seeking the post of Speaker of Parliament.

Within a short span, Maliki’s police state effectively purged
most of them from politics, parking American-supplied M1A1 tanks
outside the Sunni leaders’ homes before arresting them. Within hours of
the withdrawal of U.S. forces in December 2011, Maliki sought the arrest
of his longtime rival Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, eventually
sentencing him to death in absentia. The purge of Finance Minister Rafea
al-Essawi followed a year later.

Iraq's suffered so much. Nouri's desire for a third term is not helping anyone but Nouri.

Can someone please tell the White House spokesperson to not take a position on Kurdish issues at a time when


East crisis

For the region’s Kurdish minority, both sides of the current upheaval stand in the way of liberation, writes Ron Margulies

Kurdistan Workers' Party soldiers (Pic: Flickr/James Gordon)

The Kurdish people have a lot to lose
from the crisis in the Middle East. The emergence of the Islamic State
of Iraq and Syria (Isis) is a direct threat to the Kurds, against which
all Kurdish forces have mobilised.
But there is also a recurring threat that the major states will use
the chaotic circumstances to deal with the Kurds, as they often have in
the past.

The Kurds live in a well?defined area, where they are the
overwhelming majority. But this is divided between four countries—the
south-eastern corner of Turkey, and the adjacent parts of Syria, Iraq
and Iran.
The fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East, after Arabs,
Persians andTurks, and numbering 30-40 million, the Kurds have never
had a state of their own.

Their history in each of the countries where they live has been one
of oppression, sometimes more brutal, sometimes less, and revolts,
always put down bloodily.
In modern Turkey, for example, their very existence was officially
denied. They were claimed to be “mountain Turks”, and their language to
be a dialect of Turkish. But Kurdish is an Indo-European language while
Turkish is Altaic, with its roots in central Asia.

There were a number of Kurdish uprisings in the 1920s and 1930s, put
down with extreme violence. In the 1980s, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party
(PFF) launched a guerrilla struggle. After 30 years and more than 40,000
dead, it has finally forced the Turkish state to the negotiating table.

Today, Turkey’s rulers have two main aims in the


region.

One is to talk about an imaginary golden age under the Ottoman
Empire, and become the main force in the Middle East. The other is to
stop anything that could lead to Turkey’s Kurdish minority breaking
away.
Turkey is a majority Sunni country and its government likes to play
the Sunni card. It both sympathises with Sunnis in Syria and Iraq, and
would like to use them for its own purposes.

It is thought likely that the government secretly supported Isis, at
least at the beginning. If they did, they bitterly regret it now, as
Isis attacked the Turkish consulate in Mosul and is keeping dozens of
diplomats and staff hostage.

In Iraq and Iran, Kurdish history was similarly bloody, with
genocidal campaigns against them both by the Shah of Iran and Saddam
Hussein.

However, in Iraq, an uprising against Hussein in1991 and the First
Gulf War saw guerrilla forces drive the Iraqi army out of the Kurdish
northern parts of the country.

A period of self-rule was followed in 2005 by the recognition of
Iraqi Kurdistan—or South Kurdistan, as Kurds prefer to call it—as a
federal part of Iraq. The region is now effectively an independent
state.
The US-led occupation forces and the government it set up preferred
to accept the Kurds’ autonomy rather than risk generalised resistance
from across Iraqi society.

Similarly, the chaos in Syria has also allowed the Kurds there to
create an autonomous region as Bashar al Assad’s regime focused on
putting down the broader uprising. But these bastions of Kurdish rule are precarious in the shifting political sands of the Middle East.

Kurdish successes have alarmed Iran and Turkey, while the Syrian and Iraqi governments are


in no state even to be alarmed. No ruler feels in control, and the gains made by the Kurds in the past decade or so are under threat.

A
total of 110,000 Ukrainians who have left for Russia in an attempt to
save their lives probably just want to visit their relatives and then
travel back, State Department
spokeswoman Marie Harf said at a briefing, thus calling into question
the tremendous number of people reported to be now seeking asylum in
Russia. The United States generally doubts the UN figures on Ukraine
refugees, endorsing Petr Poroshenko's decision to
resume the punitive operation in Ukraine's southeast. Meanwhile, the
so-called ceasefire is something that never happened, stresses VR's
expert Francis Boyle, a professor at the University of Illinois College
of Law.

"There
was not much about a ceasefire to talk about, Poroshenko's hostilities
continued, therewas firing across the border with Russia."

The
declared ceasefire served as an opportunity, a pretext taken up by
Poroshenko to step up the sweeping military campaign and "bring up
major military forces that we're now seeing unleashed on the Russian
speakers in Donbass."

Mr.
Boyle comprehends these outrageous acts as war crimes, openly calling
these crimes against humanity "verging on genocide." The order
clearly arrived from the US, as despite the preceding four-way talks
between the European foreign chiefs and the agreement President Putin
clinched with his European counterparts, Poroshenko still chose to
persist on with his military campaign.

'We could see the whole thing quite quickly collapsing into outright genocide against cities and people there.'

"It's
clear that he's been ordered to do this by the United States government
just before ending of the so-called ceasefire. President
Putin spoke with France's Hollande and


Merkel of Germany and thought
he'd reached an agreement to deescalate the conflict, but apparently the
Americans ordered Poroshenko to go forward with his offensive."

Poroshenko
seems to have been pushed into turning a deaf ear to anything that
Russia's Lavrov has previously worked out with his EU colleagues,
and it's clearly not the decision that Poroshenko took himself. A most
biased approach is all there, the expert concludes, adding the coming
days may see "total hell breaking loose" in the region.

WASHINGTON, D.C.— After
the White House announced plans to nominate Robert McDonald for
secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Chairman Jeff Miller
released the following statement:

“If confirmed by the Senate, Robert McDonald will inherit a
Department of Veterans Affairs under a specter of corruption that may
very well surpass anything in the history of American government. In
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social circuit.

"Last month, Ivana Trump, perhaps the single greatest creation of the idiot culture, a tabloid artifact if ever there was one, appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair," complained Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein about Trump's first wife. "On the cover, that is, of Condé Nast's flagship magazine, the same Condé Nast/Newhouse/Random House whose executives will yield to nobody in their solemnity about their profession, who will tell you long into the night how seriously in touch with American culture they are, how serious they are about the truth."

Like their billionaire owner, a collector of modern art, Si Newhouse's hip slick magazines celebrated the acquisitiveness of the 1980s—a gilded time when America pulsed to the rhythms of Michael Jackson, junk-bond kings, and Ronald Reagan. And like its owner,longtime publisher, Little, Brown, and Company, and signed a four-book contract with Random House for more than four million over the next nine years. His first book for Random, Tough Guys Don't Dance, was excerpted in Newhouse's newly unveiled Vanity Fair magazine.

None of the Newhouse editors, however, were aware of Si's guiding hand or the help of Roy Cohn in securing Mailer's services.

"Upon reading the manuscript, it was my idea, purely my idea, to buy it for Vanity Fair," insisted Leo Lerman, then Vanity Fair's editor, who said he ran a Tough Guys excerpt after talking with Mailer's Random House editor, Jason Epstein. Mailer found comfort in Newhouse's fortune. "I sensed that what Norman really wanted was to clear the decks and have nothing to worry about financially


883 So.2d 836 (2004)
Gardiner S. SOMERVELL, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 5D03-1751.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
July 30, 2004.
Rehearing Denied October 12, 2004.
*837 James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Marvin F. Clegg, Assistant Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for Appellant.
Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Timothy D. Wilson, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.
MONACO, J.
The appellant, Gardiner S. Somervell, appeals the judgment and sentence arising from his conviction of attempted lewd and lascivious conduct with an 8-year old male. Mr. Somervell argues that he is entitled to a new trial because he believes that his Sixth Amendment right to confront the witnesses against him was violated. We affirm.
In Crawford v. Washington, ___ U.S. ___, 124 S.Ct. 1354, 158 L.Ed.2d 177 (2004), the United States Supremecan have their say in how the game is governed in Australia, putting further pressure on A-League representatives to fast track the move to independence.

Independence would mean the A-League would be in control of its own destiny but still be a member of the FIFA family.

A source close to the A-League clubs confirmed the wheels are in motion for the A-League to become a member of the World Leagues Forum.

The World League Forum (Association of Professional Football Leagues) is chaired by Richard Scudamore, who is also the executive chairman of the English premier league.

He is joined on the management group by Christian Seifert, chief executive of German’s Bundesliga and Enrique Bonilla, executive chairman of Mexico’s Liga MX.

The organisation which was started in 2016 represents professional football leagues in


the international governance of the game and like FIFA is under Swiss Law with its headquarters in Zurich.

It’s key objectives include improving the global governance of football, represent national leagues in international political and sporting arenas and to have co-operation between members and to boost development.

Currently 34 member leagues represent about 1100 clubs.

FFA has been contacted for comment.be "dire". "They are considering dumping Hockey post-Canning and believe that will get them to Christmas," the minister said, with any move dependent on the result.

A second cabinet minister said Mr Abbott was under "enormous pressure" and it was possible Mr Hockey would be "thrown to the wolves" to protect the prime minister's leadership. Two weeks ago, Nervous Liberal MPs told Fairfax Media that if the Coalition lost the Canning byelection it would be "all over" for Mr Abbott. The move on Mr Hockey would be designed to reset the Abbott government's economic messaging, direction and strategy, shore up the prime minister's hold on the leadership just seven months after an extraordinary spill motion and see the government through until Christmas. Under the plan, parliament would then not


return in February and instead a double dissolution election would be held in March. A third cabinet minister approached by Fairfax Media about the prospect of Mr Hockey being dumped and a March poll being called said they "wouldn't write that off as a theory".

That minister said a swing of less than six per cent against the Abbott government in Canning would be a good result. And a fourth minister said "if Canning goes badly, he [Mr Abbott] will have to do something dramatic, quickly" but played down the likelihood of Mr Hockey being dumped for Mr Morrison. That minister said a March poll was "absolutely on the cards" and that Mr Abbott was expected to reshuffle his front bench by the end of the year. This isnot the first time there have been internal discussions about Mr Hockey's future, with Mr Abbott promising in May that the Treasurer would stay in his job until the next election no matter how his second budget was received. A decision to dump Mr Hockey would be politically risky as, despite having endured a difficult 15 months since handing down his first budget, the Treasurer has a loyal band of supporters in the party room.

It would be welcomed, however, by some in Coalition ranks who in part blame the Treasurer for the government's current woes, including the fact that it has trailed in the polls since the May 2014 budget. The leaking of confidential talks about the future of Mr Hockey and a possible early election could also


stay the Prime Minister's hand and ensure the Treasurer remains. Last week, Mr Hockey was again criticised by colleagues for being distracted from his day job after signing up to co-chair a parliamentary friendship group for an Australian Republic and for a speech that again flagged personal income tax which was short on detail. The Abbott government has been hit by a rolling series of crises and missteps including most recently the resignation of former Speaker Bronwyn Bishop and questions over the future of trade union Royal Commissioner Dyson Heydon. A spokesman for Mr Abbott said he had full confidence in his Treasurer and "the Prime Minister is on the record as saying he expects the Government to run a full term".Prom. Photo: Courtesy of Twitter/SeanSimmers

A teenage girl from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, who was barred from entering her high school’s prom because she was wearing a suit earlier in the month, was able to attend a different one nearby this weekend.

Aniya Wolf’s mother bought her the new suit early in May, but said that a day-of email informed parents and students that dresses were required for girls attending the prom at her Catholic high school. So when Aniya showed up to the prom in her suit, she was kept from entering by police at Bishop McDevitt High School, where she is a junior.

This past Saturday, Wolf was invited to attend the prom at William Penn Senior High School, and she happily accepted.

“This is Aniya,” Carolyn Wolf told WHTM. “This is


The Archdiocese of New York released a list of 120 priests credibly accused of sexual impropriety, including several with local connections. Two priests and a deacon served at Holy Name of Mary Church in Croton-on-Hudson.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. – One hundred and twenty names of Catholic clergy members accused of child abuse or possession of child pornography were released Friday by the Archdiocese of New York.

The list includes 53 men who have been deemed by the archdiocese "credibly accused," an additional eight are awaiting a final determination from the church, and 58 men on the list had accusations that didn't meet the archdiocese's "credibly accused" criteria but their victims were considered eligible for compensation, according to the archdiocese website.

None is in active ministry. Some were defrocked, and others havedied.

Among them are clergy who served in the Lower Hudson Valley, including priests Gennaro Gentile and Kenneth Jesselli as well as deacon Albert Mazza, all who served in Holy Name of Mary in Croton-on-Hudson, former president of Archbishop Stepinac High School John O'Keefe and Ralph LaBelle, who served as a priest in the Sacred Heart in Patterson.

Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal: More Americans than ever are leaving the Catholic Church after the sex abuse scandal. Here's why.

Louisiana diocese releases list: Joining growing national trend, Louisiana diocese releases names of accused clergy

The Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program was created in 2016 to determine compensation for victims of Catholic priest abuse. More than 350 individuals have been received compensation through the program.

The release, from the nation’s second-largest Roman Catholic archdiocese,


Transplant Guidelines Too Late for Md. Rabies Victim

KARANGASEM, BALI, INDONESIA - DECEMBER 02: One of BAWA team prepares the next vaccination injection during an outbreak of rabies on December 2, 2010 in District Karangasem, Bali, Indonesia. The Balinese government, through the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) and the Bali Animal Welfare Association (BAWA), has begun a mass vaccination program to inoculate 350,000 of the island's dog population to put an end to the rabies outbreak that has caused the deaths of over 90 people since 2008. In September 2010, after a pilot program conducted by the WSPA and BAWA to show that inoculating the dogs is more effective at curbing the disease than culling, the Balinese government signed an agreement to stop killing the island'sU.S. case of rabies transmission through a transplant occurred in 2004 in Texas. Four organ recipients died, and the case helped stir the creation of a UNOS committee dedicated to reducing disease transmission through transplants. The Disease Transmission Advisory Committee was formed in 2006 as part of a government agreement with the private group, based in Richmond, Va.

The committee says it took so long to publish the encephalitis guidelines partly because it had to gather and analyze enough data about rare transmission events to provide a solid basis for its recommendations.

The committee also decided to address more common diseases first.

In 2010, it issued guidance on influenza, suggesting that lungs and intestines from donors infected with the H1N1 virus not be recovered for transplant. In 2011, the panel published


guidance on the cancer-causing HTLV-1 virus, and last November, recommendations on tuberculosis. The group now is working on guidance for West Nile virus.

The encephalitis document urges organ banks and transplant surgeons to be cautious in considering organs from donors whose symptoms suggest a central nervous system infection, such as rabies. It urges “extreme caution” when the encephalitis appears to be from a virus. The document lists the rabies virus as one possible cause of encephalitis.

When the donor — 20-year-old William Edward Small — died in September 2011, doctors at Sacred Hearth Heath System in Pensacola, Fla., thought his symptoms were caused by a food-borne toxin, ciguatera, carried in saltwater fish, said Kathy Giery, director of LifeQuest Organ Recovery Services, which approved his organs for transplant.

She said nobody suspectedTemporal bone histopathology 14 years after cytomegalic inclusion disease: a case study.
Temporal bones were examined from a 14-year-old male who died of sequelae of congenital cytomegalic inclusion disease (CID). Cytomegalovirus (CMV) was not isolated from inner ear fluid or multiple systemic tissues at the time of death. Examination of temporal bones revealed chronic pathology of both cochlear and vestibular sensory and nonsensory tissues. Endolymphatic hydrops was observed in the basal turn of the cochlear duct, while Reissner's membrane was collapsed in the more apical turns. Strial atrophy and a loss of cochlear hair cells were observed along the entire length of the basilar membrane. Vestibular neuroepithelial regions were degenerated and fibrosis was seen within the vestibular perilymphatic tissue spaces, suggesting prior labyrinthitis within the perilymph compartment in addition


Kafri, the Ziggurat team uses B4UB – a sophisticated and user-friendly three-dimensional technology, which aims to reduce the inefficiency and dangers in the development of construction projects.

Using technological means, the project is set up on a computer screen before its construction begins.

Ziggurat, which has a development center in Kibbutz Shefayim, recently signed a cooperation agreement with two leading entrepreneurship companies in New York City, Plaza and Leonardo, which specialize in building luxury apartments in the city.

As part of the agreement, Ziggurat will locate construction faults in two luxury projects in New York.AAP MLA Dinesh Mohaniya has kicked the hornet's nest yet again. Mohaniya has been accused of slapping a 60-year-old man for allegedly failing to recognize him. The incident took place in Tughlakabad locality where Mohaniya had gone for a visit on Friday. A team from Delhi police detained Mohaniya from his residence on Saturday morning.

Locals told the police that other workers from the party who had accompanied Mohaniya also attacked the old man identified as Rakesh. The workers also misbehaved with women who were present at the spot.

Mohaniya who visited Tughlakabad was met by locals who were distressed over the water supply issue in the area. Locals complained that they did not have access to adequate water supply.

SENIOR CITIZEN MOCKED MOHANIYA

Sources said that AAP workers were prompting locals


to voice their concerns before the MLA. The 60-year-old man was approached by the workers while he was passing by the gathering. They told him that MLA Mohaniya was in the locality and asked him to share if he had any complaints.

Rakesh reportedly told the workers that he did not recognize Mohaniya and jeered at him saying that water crisis is the biggest problem under his rule. Outraged over the old man's statement, Mohaniya slapped him and was later joined by AAP workers who beat him up.

Immediately after the incident one of the locals informed the police who rushed to the spot. Rakesh was rushed to a local hospital for medical examination. Based on the victims and witnesses statement the police filed an FIR against Mohaniya under sectionsWestern Australia's iconic Carnaby's cockatoo could be lost from the Perth metropolitan area if pine plantation clearing in the city's north is not halted, WWF Australia has warned.

There has been a 53 per cent decline since 2010 in the northern population, which feeds and roosts in the Gnangara-Yanchep-Pinjar pine plantation, according to figures from Birdlife Australia.

Carnaby's cockatoos adapted to pine as a food source after the decline of the now-endangered Banksia woodlands.

WWF Australia species conservation manager Merril Halley said the WA Government's decision to stop replanting the 23,000 hectare pine plantation in the early 2000s was now posing a threat to the species.

"Since 2004, there's been no real replanting occurring, and [the area] is down to about 8,500 hectares of the pine plantation remaining," she said.

"That is a


significant loss of that food source for the birds when they first come back to the coastal plane."

Google Earth image shows clearing in the Gnangara pines between 2002 and 2016. ( Supplied: Google Maps )

Ms Halley said government projections predicted a further halving of the bird's remaining population should the pine plantation be completely harvested.

"The modelling shows there will be a loss of 50 per cent of the birds over a number of years," she said.

"That's on top of the decline we're already seeing."

We are tackling decline: Minister

The State Government acknowledged the decline of the cockatoo population, and said it was working on a strategy to aid numbers while fulfilling contractual obligations and preparing for a bigger human population.

"The draft Strategic Assessment of the Perth and Peel regionsthe impact of implementing that plan will be huge loss and potentially the loss of the Carnaby's cockatoos from the Swan Coastal Plain."

Pine harvest must be stopped: WWF

Ms Halley said the clearing of the pine plantations needed to be halted until the habitat loss had been addressed, and urged Federal Environment Minister Josh Frydenburg to intervene.

"The continuing harvest of the pines must be stopped until there is agreement on how to properly address habitat loss for Carnaby's cockatoos," she said.

In 2002, the state entered a contract with Wesbeam for the supply of timber from softwood plantations around the Gnangara Mound, in an effort to protect the valuable underground water supply.

The Gnangara Mound — which is located under the plantations — provides approximately 30 per cent of Perth's drinking


wrongly, sometimes rightly, always with one secret aim: give me my self-respect. Mandates will always be fractured until every politician listens to the elf of Self Respect.

In the 1980s, the Congress commanded near total loyalty. It had its mammoth organisation, its busybody managers, its royal family and its supreme leader. But in Indira Gandhi’s time, as autocratic rule began, as the party retreated into drawing rooms, as leaders began to speak a language that was condescending and disrespectful, the elf began to slowly withdraw his support. When Rajiv Gandhi, then an MP, reportedly insulted Andhra Chief Minister T. Anjaiah who had been waiting for him at the airport, this insult became an opportunity for one of the greatest self-respect movements ever. N.T. Rama Rao seized the moment toan air taxi business from his home from 1969 to 1975. Customarily, he would taxi his floatplane down the Chena River, under the University Avenue bridge, and then take off. The point at which he became airborne varied with his load. One day in the fall of 1975, Classen was taking off, unaware of the construction of the new Parks Highway bridge. With a moderately heavy load, he narrowly missed a steel casing extending thirty feet into the air. Classen has not used that stretch of the river for takeoff since.[1] Instead, he relocated his business to the float pond at Fairbanks International Airport, a move which has substantially increased his operating costs.
On November 18, 1975, Classen filed an inverse condemnation action against the state. The case was


Science and culture around the Montessori's first "Children's Houses" in Rome (1907-1915).
Between 1907 and 1908, Maria Montessori's (1870-1952) educational method was elaborated at the Children's Houses of the San Lorenzo district in Rome. This pioneering experience was the basis for the international fame that came to Montessori after the publication of her 1909 volume dedicated to her "Method." The "Montessori Method" was considered by some to be scientific, liberal, and revolutionary. The present article focuses upon the complex contexts of the method's elaboration. It shows how the Children's Houses developed in relation to a particular scientific and cultural eclecticism. It describes the factors that both favored and hindered the method's elaboration, by paying attention to the complex network of social, institutional, and scientific relationships revolving around the figureof Maria Montessori. A number of "contradictory" dimensions of Montessori's experience are also examined with a view to helping to revise her myth and offering the image of a scholar who was a real early-twentieth-century prototype of a "multiple" behavioral scientist.


U.S. President Donald Trump leaves the room after meeting with the Houston Astros, the 2017 World Series Champions, in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 12, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on March 20 at the White House, Trump press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Monday.

The crown prince planned to travel to Washington, New York and Boston for a short visit from March 19 to 22, a Saudi government source told Reuters last month.unconsciousness on Tim Drake with a touch, releasing balls of fire "within the folds of her cloak" (as in The New Teen Titans Annual #4 (1988), or hurling electric blasts strong enough to take down all her brothers and all of the adult Titans. She was seen to completely annihilate the demon army of Rankor numbering more than three thousand individuals and which contained powerful individual demons that had taken the Titans down in ambushes previously.

Like her brothers, Raven can induce and amplify one of the seven deadly sins (in her case, pride) in any living being, however doing so will cause her to suffer spells of nausea and vomiting for several days afterward as side effects.

Raven also has limited precognition, which allows her to predict future events


to her demon/human status. In Year Five, Superman visits Raven to rejoin the Regime. She rejoins in Chapter 34 by using her dark magic to blackout Earth's power and Insurgency's plan to expose Superman's crimes. She and Cyborg capture Deathstroke at S.T.A.R labs.
 In the DC Bombshells universe, Raven's mother was from Germany and fell in love with the beastly mountainous spirit, Das Trigon. Despite the hate she received from the other villagers from bearing Trigon's daughter, Azaria still raised Raven with care while teaching her some magic. After their village and townsfolk were killed by the Germans and Killer Frost, the Joker's Daughter took Raven in and forced her to use her magic to benefit the Third Reich. She initially appears when John Constantine and Zatanna (alsoDespite greater LV EF in VFD subjects, LV stroke volume (SV) was equivalent in the two groups, suggesting that reduced LV cardiac dimension required a greater LV EF to maintain equivalent LV SV in VFD. An additional finding in VFD-reared females was a reduced arterial pulse pressure in comparison to non-VFD. The reduced pulse pressure was directly correlated with LV cardiac dimension, and arose from numerically lower systolic BP and numerically higher diastolic BP, suggesting the LV of VFD was performing less cardiac "work". Effects were controlled for age, body mass, crown-rump length and when appropriate, sex. Thus, despite LV hypotrophy, basal SV was maintained in VFD, presumably via a compensatory increase in LV EF. It is conceivable therefore that LV function would be compromised upon exertion due


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Pope Saint Sylvester I did not abide heresy. He did not enable it in the slightest. He confronted it as he sought the conversion of all non-Catholics to the true Faith. His firm defense of the Holy Faith as Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's Vicar on earth must inspire us in our day to seek his intercession for the needs of the Church Militant on earth as she suffers in the catacombs as pretenders to the papal throne make their open accommodations to propositions that have been anathematized time and time again in the past by true popes and/or dogmatic councils. The Church arose from the catacombs during the pontificate of Pope Saint Sylvester I. May his intercession for us now help to bring aboutfidelity to His teaching and our sorrow for our sins as members of His true Church.

It had been my hope to have another original article posted by today. That will have to wait until tomorrow, the Feast of the Circumsion of Our Lord. Tomorrow's article will be a commentary on Jorge's Ship of Fools, men who are concerned about "climate change" and not about the gravity of Mortal Sin and the harm that it does to souls and to the good order of men and their nations. Work on the next article has been delayed by the completion of the text for my forthcoming book on the theological closeness of the two men who are wearing white cassocks inside the walls of the Occupied Vatican on the West


Bank of the Tiber River at this time. All that remains now is to design a cover and then finalize the front pages and table of contents before uploading it for publication.

The Herods of Modernity, men and women who moralize in behalf of statism as they celebrate sin in the name of "diversity" and "toleration," and the Herods of Modernism in the counterfeit church, men who moralize in behalf of heresy as they celebrate sin in the name of a false "mercy," seek to "purify" the world of "outdated" ideas and practices. Each set of Herods has its own set of prescriptions to "remedy" the "illnesses" of those who cling to a "past," of those who are said to be "cold" and "unfeeling. Each set of Herods iscomposed of tyrants who speak of "democracy" while seeking to demonize anyone and everyone who opposes them.

It is with this in mind, of course, that Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is playing his own very important role as the synthesis of all Modernists, a man who is never at ease unless he is scolding believing Catholics, who are already under siege by the lords of the world.

Today, the Fourth Day within the Octave of Christmas, is the Feast the Holy Innocents, the children who were put to death at the orders of the jealous titular King of Judea who had been installed by the Roman occupiers to pacify resistance to their unjust occupation of the Holy Land. King Herod the Great, whose sons Herod and Philip were no less corrupt


and violent than he was, wanted to kill the Baby King Whom he thought to be a threat to his own political suzerainty, such as it was as a puppet ruler under the Roman occupiers. It meant nothing to him to wipe out so many innocent children in his quest to kill the Baby King, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Who was born in Bethlehem to save, his, Herod the Great's, own immortal soul by the shedding of every single drop of His Most Precious Blood on the wood of the Holy Cross.

There have been imitators of Herod the Great throughout history who have sought to put to death the followers of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in an insane effort to wipe theFaith off of the face of this earth. The names of these imitators are legion. Their likes are to be found in our own midst today as politicians of both major organized crime families of naturalism in the United States of America, the Democrat Party and the Republican Party, believe that a just social order can be established and maintained while innocent preborn human beings are slaughtered under cover of law and while the Sovereignty of Christ the King is denied in favor of the sovereignty of men and their false, naturalistic, semi-Pelagian and anti-Incarnational ideas.

That having been noted, however, it is important to point out that the Holy Innocents are honored as saints because they died in the place of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ


as a political potentate drunk with his own self-importance sought to kill the Newborn Baby King with a furious rage. The slaughter of the innocent preborn today, as horrible as it is and as deserving of our attention especially by means of praying Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary and by means of sidewalk counseling, is different in that the children being killed today are not being targeted specifically in the place of Our Lord.

Unlike the speculative conclusions offered by the "International Theological Commission" of the counterfeit church of conciliarism in 2007, the Catholic Church has never held out "hope" that the souls of unbaptized infants go to Heaven, which is why the crime of the killing of the preborn is so monstrous as it kills the souls oftrue religion: it is a proven truth, a historical fact. (Pope Saint Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910.)

Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ must reign as King of men and nations, my friends. Accept no naturalistic substitutes from the "Herods" of this world and their enablers in the counterfeit church of conciliarism who reject the Social Reign of the Newborn King, Our Divine Redeemer Whom Herod the Great sought to kill.

Saint John the Evangelist, a son of Zebedee, was the youngest of the twelve Apostles. He was a virgin, a man who offered to His Divine Master, Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, pure love in a heart that was not sullied by the world, the flesh and the devil. This youngest Apostle with


the purest heart was permitted to lean on Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ's chest, wherein beat His Most Sacred Heart, at the Last Supper. And it was this purity of heart possessed by Saint John the Evangelist that led him to be present at the foot of the Holy Cross and to be given the singular privilege by Our Divine Redeemer of caring for His own Most Blessed Mother until the time of her death and bodily Assumption into Heaven.

Despite what the now retired Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI contended blasphemously in his Jesus of Nazareth book concerning the "disputed" nature of the human authorship of the Fourth Gospel, Saint John the Evangelist is indeed the human author of the Fourth Gospel and of his epistles and theand our birth unto eternal life at the moment of our deaths if we persist to the very end in states of Sanctifying Grace. The path to our salvation runs directly through the Holy Cross and it requires us to be willing to sacrifice riches and honors and pleasures and human respect and even our very lives to bear witness to Christ the King a He has revealed Himself to men exclusively through the Catholic Church that He founded upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope.

Saint Stephen the Protomartyr was willing to lay down his life as he preached the Gospel of the Divine Redeemer in an attempt to convert the Jews who were listening to him and engaging him in disputation. He exhibited the Virtue of Fortitude