DC in 1861 to accept a position in the Treasury Department. By early April 1862 it was generally believed that President Lincoln would sign the bill to emancipate the slaves living in the District. Already freedom seekers from Virginia and Maryland were arriving in large numbers in the hope of obtaining freedom and seeking work in the military units occupying the city. In late March/early April Hannibal Hamlin served as chairman of a committee to discuss the formation of the National Freedman’s Relief Association (NFRA) of D.C. whose mission was to provide food and clothing to the refugees and prepare them for freedom. The group met on April 9th to formalize the organization and Hamlin was elected their President. He worked tirelessly, soliciting contributions from his Boston andpermit the emission of radiation by the seed. In a fifth embodiment, a radiopaque shape memory alloy coil element is provided over an elongate element having an isotope deposited on a portion thereof. The rings of the coil are in a naturally compressed state over the portion of the elongate element on which an isotope is provided to prevent transmission of radiation through the rings of the coil and out of the outer capsule. The coil is trained to expand when heated and expose the portion of the elongate element provided with the isotope. In a sixth embodiment, a plurality of radiopaque shape memory alloy elements are provided, with each element having a portion on which an isotope is deposited. The portions provided with the isotope are initially


Development of the Rural Active Living Perceived Environmental Support Scale (RALPESS).
Evidence supports the role of physical and social environments in active living, including perception of environment. However, measurement of perceived environments in rural settings is lacking. This study describes the development of the Rural Active Living Perceived Environmental Support Scale (RALPESS). Premised on social ecological and cognitive perspectives, 85 initial items were generated through a literature review and a mixed-methods investigation of "activity-friendly" environments. Items were organized by resource areas--town center, indoor and outdoor physical activity areas, schools, churches, and areas around the home/neighborhood--and submitted for expert panel review. In 2009, a revised questionnaire was disseminated to adolescents, parents, public school staff, and older adults in 2 rural southeastern United States counties. Principal component analysis with varimax rotationNazi Pea Plot

Throughout World War II, the Republic of Ireland officially remained neutral. Despite many Irish citizens joining up to fight for the Allies, the Germans occasionally sought to exploit the UK's neighbour as part of their war effort.

"Plan Kathleen"

In early 1940, IRA¹ officer Steven Held travelled to Germany to propose an invasion of Ireland. He met the Nazispy Hermann Görtz in Frankfurt. He painted a picture of the IRA as a large, well-disciplined militia, ready to assist Nazi Germany provided munitions could be provided. The IRA's interest seems to have been the unification of the divided island or at least disrupting British control of Northern Ireland; and a huge boost to their power and prestige. Nazi ideology and Irish republicanism had precious little in common. The Germans


were naturally interested, and poured over Held's "Plan Kathleen"² - an IRA-assisted German invasion of Ireland.

The Germans' first step was to verify Held's information. In May 1940, Görtz was parachuted into Ireland to seek out the IRA leadership. He was to collaborate with them in working out the tricky details of Plan Kathleen. He found the organisation was small, disorganised and incapable of carrying out any part of the plan. The plot was discovered by the Irish authorities later that month, Held was arrested and the plans were seized. They also informed MI5 at once- remarkable, given their supposed neutrality.

The Germans came away from the endeavor with their confidence in the IRA badly shaken, but willing to use their new contacts for a smaller-scale operation.

On coming ashore, theywith British intelligence at high levels throughout the war.

The "OfficialIrish Republican Army" a militia who had ceased activities by the early 1970s, and had been marginalised during the foundation of the new Irish armed forces in 1922; not the well-known "Provisional IRA" which appears to have ceased activities during 2006.

Plan Kathleen is not related to Unternehmen Grün (Operation Green), Germany's own home-grown plan to occupy Ireland, North and South.

Sources:
The various news sources listed below are ultimately based on a number of MI5 and Irish security services documents released by the UK National Archive in 2003. The papers are now on display at the Public Record Office.
National Archives (with pictures and maps):


without the object being present in the space and without stimulation--and navigated to the place they recalled to be the object's location. Jacobs' team then calculated how far off the remembered locations were from actual locations.

In the previous study, the objects remained visible in the virtual space during the recall test, potentially skewing results in the positive direction for participants lucky enough to spot the object while navigating the space.

Such confounders often occur in early studies of new techniques, say Jacobs. Follow-on studies are important because they improve methods. "Theirs was a first study of its kind," says Jacobs. "It's important to improve the protocol in a way that quantifies spatial memory more precisely."An Abridged History of New York City’s Most Popular Bridges

According to the Department of Transportation (DOT), Manhattan boasts about 20 bridges that connect the Big Apple to neighboring areas—many of which have various degrees of landmark status, including the Brooklyn Bridge, the George Washington Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge, the High Bridge, the University Heights Bridge and the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge. We often use these marvels without giving them much thought beyond the grandiose size and maybe their engineering, so to give you a little trivia to impress your friends with the next time you cross one these storied bridges, we’re offering up a handy primer on seven of the city’s most famous.

HIGH BRIDGE

For bridge buffs, King’s Bridge, which was built in 1693, was our very first spanner


and connected Spuyten Duyvil Creek (close to what is now Broadway near 230th Street) to the Bronx. Given that it was leveled in 1917, the aforementioned High Bridge is now the oldest still standing bridge. That one was completed in 1848 and traversed the Harlem River between Manhattan and the Bronx.

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BROOKLYN BRIDGE

Costing $155 million to get the job done, the Brooklyn Bridge was designed by John A. Roebling. However, his son Washington took charge in 1869 after John sustained a fatal bridge-related accident early in the game. Ironically, Washington was seriously injured in 1870 while trying to put out a fire in one of the pneumatic caissons—and his wife Emily then stepped in to dispatch guidance and instructions from her housebound spouse toon-site engineers for the next 11 years. Never one to take any task lightly, Emily began studying higher mathematics, catenary curve calculations, material strengths, bridge specifications, and the intricacies of cable construction.

On opening day, Emily was the first to cross over the bridge — ahead of 1,800 cars and 150,300 people. Unfortunately, word soon spread that the bridge was about to collapse, and that resulted in a stampede that killed a dozen people. To quell doubts of the bridge’s stability a year later, circus maestro Phineas T. Barnum had Jumbo, one of the most heralded elephants in modern history, led a parade over the bridge. Interestingly enough, the bridge acquired more than a few names, including the East River Bridge in its early years, but it was officially


between the Brooklyn and Williamburg Bridges, the Manhattan Bridge connects Lower Manhattan to Brooklyn’s Flatbush Avenue Extension near DUMBO. Designed by Leon Moisseiff, who later designed the Tacoma Narrows Bridge that collapsed in 1940, this crossing opened in 1909 with its main span reaching 1,470 feet. A year later, architects Carrère and Hastings drew up plans to add an elaborate and now landmarked grand arch and colonnade to the Manhattan side’s entry as part of the 1890 to 1910 City Beautiful Movement. The entrance details include pylons sculpted by Carl Augustus Heber and a Charles Cary Rumsey frieze called “Buffalo Hunt.”

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GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE

Opened in 1931 as a suspension bridge, the George Washington Bridge connects Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan to the Palisades area inNJ. Designed by Cass Gilbert (among his most famous structures is the US Supreme Court in Washington D.C.) and Othmar Ammann (he also designed the Verrazano-Narrow, Throgs Neck, the Bronx-Whitestone and Triborough bridges) at an estimated cost of $75 million and was named in honor of George Washington because of its close proximity to fortified positions used by Washington and his troops in his unsuccessful attempt to hold off the British occupation of New York City during the American Revolutionary War in 1776. With an original total length of 3,500 feet, it was, at the time, the longest main bridge span in the world—and held the title until San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge opened in May 1937.

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TRIBOROUGH BRIDGE

The Triborough Bridge, renamed the Robert F.


Kennedy Bridge in 2008, is a complex of three separate bridges spanning the Harlem River, the Bronx Kill River and East River, and connecting the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx by way of Randall’s and Wards Islands.

Though plans were officially announced in 1916—funding only became available in 1925. Unfortunately, construction actually began on Black Tuesday in October 1929 when the stock market lurched America into the Great Depression. Worried about the bridge’s ultimate success, the structure was quickly redesigned so as to cut costs by more than $10 million. That, combined with New Deal money, the project (now known as one of the largest public works projects of the Great Depression) was once again under construction by the early 1930’s and completed in July 1936 atFREE eBOOK

Astrophotography

Sky at a Glance | October 7th, 2011

Supernova 2011fe, which erupted in the galaxy M101 on August 24th, peaked at magnitude 9.9 in early to mid-September and was down to about magnitude 11.3 as of October 6th. It has also been turning ever deeper orange-red. Catch it right after dusk before it moves lower in the northwestern sky. For charts and other information see our article The M101 Supernova Shines On.

Friday, Oct. 7

Look high in the east this evening, far left of the Moon, for the Great Square of Pegasus, a signature star-sign of autumn. It's balancing on one corner. Your fist at arm's length probably just fits inside it.

Use this chart to locate Mira well to Jupiter's lower right.

S&T Illustration

Later in the evening, once Jupiter is


twilight and blazes brightly in the east to southeast all evening. Look above it for the stars of Aries and closer below it for the head of Cetus, rather dim. (And don't miss Mira, now unusually bright and plain to the naked eye, to the right of the head of Cetus. See our article Observe Mira, the Amazing Star.)

Jupiter shines highest in the south after midnight, making this the best time to examine it with a telescope. It's a big 49 arcseconds wide, essentially as big now as it will appear at its October 28th opposition. See our guide to observing Jupiter with a telescope.

Saturn is out of sight in conjunction behind the Sun.

Uranus (magnitude 5.7, in Pisces) and Neptune (magnitude 7.8, in Aquarius) are well placed inAbout Shoreline Area News

We are Shoreline residents who strive to provide you with news and information about the area in which we live and work. We cover Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, and some events and destinations in surrounding areas.

Friday, August 19, 2016

The Planning Commission held a public hearing in the 145th Street Station Subarea Plan Package and Station Areas Development Regulations on Thursday, August 18 as part of their regular meeting. (see previous article)

The Commission took public comments as part of the hearing, from people who were present and from people who sent in written comments.

They began deliberations on the plan but did not finish that evening. Their deliberations have been continued to Monday, August 22 at 7:00pm in the Shoreline Council Chamber.

They will not be accepting any


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Updated: Apr 05, 2020 12:08 IST

The Empowered Group number 6, chaired by NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant and formed by the government of India, held a series of meetings on the prevailing coronavirus crisis with international organisations, development partners, civil society organisations and industry associations.

As per a government release issued on Sunday, the committee held six meetings between March 30 and April 3 with all above-mentioned stakeholders.

The Empowered Group held detailed meetings with UN Resident Coordinator for India and country heads of WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNDP, ILO, UN Women, UN-Habitat, FAO, World Bank, and Asian Development Bank.

“The UN in India has built a Joint Programme Response Plan and submitted it to NITI Aayog, defining their clear activities and deliverables in different sectors and States, where they are partneringGST, import duties on components, issues of procurement, training, post lockdown operating procedures, etc,” the release read.

Industry representatives and the Group deliberated in detail and resolved several challenges on critical issues of health-care intervention, pertaining to ramping up production and procurement of ventilators, PPEs, testing kits apart from the ways to step up the relief and rehabilitation and information dissemination.

Last month, the government formed 10 Empowered Groups and a strategic task force comprising senior civil servants to deal with the Covid-19 outbreak.

The setting up of the groups and the task force, which together have 68 bureaucrats, is an attempt to forge a planning and implementation machinery that acts in concert to minimise the impact of the disease the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global pandemic.

Prime Minister


A Tribute to Ken Moore (2)

Badgley, Eugene

Remembering an Encourager

I count it a privilege and an honor to forward a brief word of tribute concerning our departed brother Ken Moore. He was indeed “a beloved brother, faithful minister, and fellow servant in the Lord” (Colossians 4:7). He was unique in ways that endeared him to the Lord’s people. Who can forget Ken’s winsome smile, his positive outlook on life with Christ, his cheerful countenance, and yes, his hearty laugh? Ken lived in the joy of his salvation and Savior.

He was saved at 33 years of age and soon took a deep interest in the gospel. He not only enjoyed preaching it, but also enjoyed being with those who preached with him. He had a way of giving words ofencouragement and timely advice. He loved children and young people, and many whose lives he touched have honored the Lord in their spiritual progress.

Sometime after 1970, I met Ken, and from that time a bond of friendship and fellowship was formed. In 1976, when he learned that I had been commended to the Lord’s work, he corresponded to encourage us in the gospel work; this carried on through the years.

I had the joy of laboring with him in several gospel series. Our first series together was in 1986 at the Lakeview Gospel Hall. It was a small assembly, but whether 10 or 50 were in fellowship made no difference to him. In 1992 he came to Picton to join me in tent meetings. I remember his being so


excited when an amazing number of unsaved young people attended those meetings.

Through the years together we had cause to thank God for some precious souls that came to Christ and were added to the assembly. Never once did I hear a complaining word from him or hear him speak ill of others. He was marked by humility, never seeking glory from man, but seeking, rather, to glorify the Man Who died for him.

He loved to speak on Revelation 3:20, the verse that God used in his salvation. On February 28, 1960, he received the Savior, and what a wonderful change took place!

On June 1st, his Savior received him into His presence and Ken could well have heard the words, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant … enterarmies since it took less training to use and could have greater penetrating power, in the right hands the longbow could achieve a faster shooting rate for devastating effect, as the battles of Crecy in 1346 and Agincourt in 1415 revealed. After millennia of use, the advent of firearms eventually made the arrow obsolete in war.

The Horse

Medieval European knight in the castle. (Image credit: © Dtopal | Dreamstime.com)

More than once, horses changed the face of world history. The strong backs of horses helped carry medieval knights in heavy armor, and their swift legs helped Alexander the Great to conquer most of the world as he knew it and the Mongols to forge the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world. Their extraordinary capabilities of cavalry led


to the evolution of long spears that could ward them off, such as the sarissa of the Macedonians or the pikes of the Swiss and the Scots.

The Sail

An ancient Greek sailboat on the seas. (Image credit: © Paul Moore | Dreamstime.com)

In myth, the sail is what really launched a thousand ships of Greeks to fight against Troy. In addition to bringing soldiers to distant shores for war, battles and disasters at sea have been pivotal in the course of world events, such as the Battle of Salamis, where the Greeks defeated a much larger invading Persian fleet, and the failed invasions of Japan by two Mongol fleets, which storms dubbed kamikaze or "divine wind" destroyed. The Age of Sail saw bitter conflict between rising empires as well aspirates hunting for profits. The history of naval warfare continues today with warships and submarines.

Armor

(Image credit: Copyright © 2006 by Paramount Pictures, IndianaJones.com)

At the Battle of Thermopylae, heavy armor helped the greatly outnumbered Greek phalanxes to hold off the lightly armed Persian infantry over three days of battle. The evolution of war has often been driven by the contest between arms and armor, leading to extraordinary developments such as the full plate steel armor of Europe. Nowadays personal armor can help stop bullets, and future advances in nanotechnology could lead to armor that absorbs energy from blast waves, deforming in a way similar to crumple zones in cars.

Engineers

Old castle with fortress (Image credit: Stock.xchng)

In myth, the city of Troy was renowned for its impenetrable walls, and the castles,


moats, drawbridges, porticullises and other fortifications that defended settlements and camps in ancient times — as well as the catapults, tunnels and other means used to overcome them — relied on military engineers. The military engineers of the ancient Romans — perhaps the world's first dedicated force of these specialists — created many roads that have survived to the modern day, and the Great Wall of China, built to help protect the empire's northern border, has stood for centuries. Nowadays, military engineers also set up and clear minefields and construct and destroy bridges.

Gunpowder

Revolutionary War reenactment. (Image credit: © Sergey Rogovets | Dreamstime.com)

Gunpowder changed the rules of war. Cannons and explosives were far more effective than prior weapons of siege, blowing away many traditional fortifications. Firearms rendered old suitsof armor obsolete. Artillery helped Napoleon conquer most of Europe and changed the face of naval warfare. Machine guns enabled devastatingly high rates of fire, smashing massed infantry. In antiquity, the Chinese used gunpowder in "fire arrows" against Mongol hordes in what may be the earliest known use of rockets in battle. Even now, increasingly deadlier firearms are under development.

The Engine

NASCAR Engineers Help Design New Combat Vehicl

The engine has transformed the face of warfare, from the early days of steam locomotive troop transports to future electric or hybrid engines lofting up stealthy airborne robots. It has allowed the creation of tanks, subs, planes, warships, copters and robots, drastically changing military tactics and strategy, and led to trucks, jeeps, humvees and armored personnel carriers to transport infantry, supplies and


equipment, greatly increasing their mobility. The invention of the airplane also enabled the development of airborne forces that can be deployed behind enemy lines, for critical effect during the Allied invasion of Normandy and for the modern covert insertion of special operations forces.

Radio

Satellite dish on the roof of a TV studio. (Image credit: Stock.xchng)

The radio has completely revolutionized warfare, helping control large numbers of personnel, vehicles — and nowadays, missiles and robots — over great distances. Radio helped soldiers — and later satellites and robots — report back observations of the enemy. It allowed the broadcast of propaganda to help drive support for war efforts, and once Allied forces cracked the Enigma code system, radio enabled them to eavesdrop on Nazi military communications. Radio also led to radar,which helped detect remote opponents and targets and is often credited with helping Royal Air Force win the Battle of Britain against the much larger German air force during World War II. In turn, this the power of radar has driven advances in stealth aircraft and electronic warfare.

Nuclear Weapons

The Stokes atmospheric nuclear test was conducted at the Nevada Test Site on August 7, 1957. The tests was conducted as part the operation 'Plumbbob' testing events. Stokes produced 9 kilotons and was exploded from a balloon. (Image credit: Nevada Division of Environmental Protection)

After the first atom bomb in history, dubbed "the gadget," was detonated in 1945 at the Trinity Site near Alamogordo, N.M., physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer thought of a line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita: "I


am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Nuclear weapons later ended World War II. Although they have only had a little more than a half-century of impact on history, the fear of nuclear annihilation has permanently transformed the face of warfare.Helen Steel, with fellow activist David Morris, in London in 1990 during the McLibel trial. During their brief conversation at the airport, Dines apologised "unreservedly" for the way he had treated her. But it was not enough to mollify his former partner. "He talked to me about how, when he had been sent in to infiltrate groups in north London, it was to look out for what they call extremists," said Steel. "It's a vague term, never properly defined, that seems to include anyone who challenges people in positions of power." Lured into relationships with undercover police officers I first met Helen Steel 20 years ago, when she was a defendant in what became known as the McLibel case. She and fellow members of London Greenpeace had distributed


leaflets accusing McDonald's of, among other things, contributing to heart disease, cruelty to animals and destruction of rainforest. When libel writs were served on the campaigners, Steel and fellow activist David Morris elected to tough it out in court in what would become the longest running civil case in the history of British justice and a PR disaster for the burger chain. Steel was 26 then, an elfin figure with a curtain of dark hair and the stubbornness of a truthful child. In our interview I asked what drove her to take on a global corporation and its $8000-a-day legal team.

"Anger," she said, "I was angry." Love hurts: Mark Kennedy, known as Mark Stone to “Lisa” during their six-year relationship. I recently asked Steel how she felt whenshe discovered John Dines' true identity. "I still had this idea that maybe his love had been genuine," she says. What if the man you loved, who had shared your life and your bed for years, turned out not to exist? What if everything you thought you knew about him was a lie and the charismatic man you fell for, who shared your political ideals, was someone else entirely? A man with a different name and a wife and children waiting at home for him, a spy paid for every hour he spent with you and your friends and your family, whose employers monitored your most intimate texts and conversations and who, one day, vanished without trace? Helen Steel wasn't the only woman who found herself in this


happened to you." 'He did this thing called mirroring' I am in the upstairs cafe of a converted waterfront warehouse looking for a woman in her early 40s with red hair. Lisa Jones is not her real name - she asks me to simply call her Lisa and not to identify the city. She moved here to start a new life after her partner of almost seven years, the man she knew as Mark Stone, was exposed as Mark Kennedy, a police spy. She says the experience turned her life upside down and she is only now ready to tell her story. Lisa has been involved in the environmental movement for most of her adult life. In 2003, when she met Stone, she was active in the anti-capitalistmovement and in campaigns on climate change. He expressed interest in the causes she cared about and was soon part of her group of activist friends, attending meetings and giving people lifts in his car. Was she attracted to him? She nods. "A bit. He had a disarming manner and he was very good at making friends. When you talked to him, he made you feel you were the only person in the world at that moment.

"He did this thing called mirroring: if you said you were into a particular band, for example, he would say he liked them, too, and would know something about them. He got involved with my social group and started coming on climbing holidays with us." They began a relationship. "Six months in,


it became serious," says Lisa. "We were very openly a couple. We went on demonstrations, shared a tent and were arrested together in Germany. "He met my family and supported me through my father's illness." When her father died, Stone travelled in the mourners' car with Lisa. "That night he held me while I cried. He was the closest person in the world to me and I thought I knew him better than anyone." Stone never introduced her to his own friends or family, "but he always had a good story for why. The one person he did talk about was a brother living in America who I spoke to a few times when he phoned." Lisa later learnt the man was Kennedy's real brother. (Officers were advisedto pick a few things about their lives that were true and could be authenticated without putting them at risk.) From the beginning Stone had told everyone that he worked all over the country as an industrial climber, which explained why he always had money. His cover story also accounted for his frequent absences. "I overlooked his erratic schedule … not there when I needed him, turning up when I didn't expect him, jobs booked or cancelled at the last minute," says Lisa.

Six years into their relationship, in October 2009, Stone told Lisa that he needed to get away. He said his house had been raided by police after a demonstration and he was spooked. "He was not himself," she says. "It really felt to me that I


was seeing him through some sort of breakdown. He leant on me very heavily." 'It sounds ludicrous but I wanted to believe him' Stone said he was going to stay with his brother in America. He had sold his car, apparently quit his job and cleared out his house. It looked very much as if he wouldn't be coming back. But three months later he reappeared. "He was different, quite jumpy, but I was so happy to see him," says Lisa. In July 2010, the couple took their van to the Italian Alps for a climbing holiday. One morning while Stone was out cycling, Lisa found a passport in the glove box. It was in the name of Mark Kennedy and included a child's details. Rooting around somemore, she found a mobile phone containing emails from two children addressed to "Dad". What happened when Stone returned? "I didn't say anything," she says. "I felt sick and didn't sleep for three days, trying to work up the courage to ask him about it. I was scared of what I might find out."

When she did challenge him, he broke down. "He cried and cried. He'd always said that he had a dodgy past in the drugs trade and that was why he'd wanted to start a new life with people like us who cared about the world. He told me that one day a drug deal had gone wrong, his partner had been shot dead and he'd taken that guy's kids under his wing, bringing them up


as his own children and taking their mum's name." She looks at me, lifts a hand and lets it drop. "I know it sounds ludicrous but the way he told it, I wanted to believe him." That same summer they went climbing again. "We did an amazing trip in the Dolomites, in Italy. It felt totally blissful and we were on such a high. I'd convinced myself everything was fine but when we got back home and he went to work I got a bit of perspective." She asked a friend who was into genealogy to do a search for the name on the passport. "In a short space of time we had a marriage certificate and children's birth certificates, both listing his occupation as a police officer."Mark Kennedy, they soon discovered, had a home and a family in Ireland. Lisa rang him and asked him to come home to answer some questions. He arrived in the early hours of the following morning and sat on sofas with Lisa and four of their close friends. "We genuinely wanted to give him a chance to explain himself," she says. At first he prevaricated but they pressed him gently, saying, "Tell us who you are." He eventually admitted he had joined the police 20 years earlier and had worked undercover in the drugs trade before being recruited to a secret unit which sent officers to infiltrate groups of political dissidents. He was not the only one living a double life. "There are lots of us," he told


them.

Fake relationships gave acceptance by association Lisa's brother had become friendly with Kennedy during the years the couple were together and a few days after the policeman's admissions to Lisa and her friends, he called her. "What's wrong with Mark?" he asked. "I can't hear what he's saying through all the sobbing. He's threatening to kill himself." Months later, Lisa agreed to meet her ex-partner. "I wanted to tell him what I thought of him," she says. "I had questions – what did it mean when this happened or that happened? But he was a mess and I realised I would never be able to trust his answers." It turned out that when her partner had exhibited signs of a breakdown and disappeared to America, it was becausecried and told me lies. I think I was saved by those lies." Subsequently, in January 2011, Mark Kennedy sold his story to a tabloid newspaper in which he said he had loved the red-haired Welsh woman he'd spent six years of his life with and regretted hurting her. "He said he would never have informed on me," she says. "The main thing he got from me – the point of all these fake relationships – is acceptance by association." She gave him legitimacy among her fellow activists? "Exactly," says Lisa.

Undercover for years at a time Soon after Kennedy was unmasked, Lisa received a letter from a woman who said something similar had happened to her. It was Helen Steel. "When you're ready I'd like to talk," she


wrote. Lisa had not made a complaint or revealed her identity but connections were being made through the activist community. One by one, other women came forward to share their suspicions about men they had had relationships with, men who had inexplicably disappeared. They learnt more about the intrusive surveillance habits of the special demonstration squad. Officers posing as social rebels, nicknamed "the hairies" by colleagues, went undercover for years at a time, joining campaigners at meetings and demonstrations and feeding information back to their unit. At least six were known to have had long-term, intimate relationships with female activists. Dates and places, real names and false identities were established. Within a year, in December 2011, eight of the women initiated legal action against the Met for violationfriends they had come to respect and like and even loved: it all took a toll. Two officers suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, sued their former employers and were eventually paid compensation. One of them told Evans and Lewis that of the 10 covert officers he had served alongside, six had experienced psychological problems. Mark Kennedy left the police and told the tabloid newspaper that he had had no support from his employers. His only friends were activists and he had suicidal thoughts. The police apology to the women for the actions of these officers runs to a fulsome and contrite two pages but nowhere does it admit that the officers had been authorised to form sexual relationships with their targets. It simply says that oversight was lacking. "This


and trusted." How long were they together? "Six years, but I had a series of miscarriages." That's very hard on a relationship, I say. She nods and stares ahead; her eyes fill with tears.

Lisa, too, lost the chance to have children. She and Kennedy were together for most of her 30s and so, I suggest to her, he effectively stole her childbearing years. "Yes, and I feel very angry," she says. "Who knows who I might have met, what decisions I might have made, but those choices were taken from me by the state." She hasn't met anyone else and says it is hard to think about a new relationship. "The whole world is doing internet dating and there's no way I'd contemplate that. The next man inRural origin and rural medical exposure: their impact on the rural and remote medical workforce in Australia.
Australia, like many countries, finds it difficult to recruit enough medical practitioners to live and work in rural and remote communities. Over the last decade the Australian Commonwealth Government has invested in a national strategy to train its medical workforce to encourage recruits to rural and remote general practice. This strategy is based on overseas experience that rural origin students, and those experiencing early and repeated rural exposure during training, are more likely to practise in a rural location. The importance of rural origin as a predictor of rural practice is well documented in the literature. More recent studies have tended to focus on rural exposure during both undergraduate and early postgraduate


acknowledgments that Parliament has erred, and demand that it do better.

It would be a strong move from a branch of government long seen as a weaker younger sibling to our overbearing Parliament - and a huge win for Arthur Taylor.

At the same time as he was pursuing Taylor v Attorney-General, Taylor was taking a vastly different approach in the second case he is involved in - Ngaronoa v Attorney-General.

Instead of criticising the substance of the law banning prisoners from voting, Ngaronoa v Attorney-General attacks the method by which the law was passed.

In essence, Taylor is asking the Supreme Court to strike down a law passed by Parliament, with the justification that it is upholding the will of Parliament. Smart.

New Zealand has no ‘supreme’ law (a law with whichHit-and-run driver: I was texting at the time

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Dec 28, 2007 at 12:01 AMDec 28, 2007 at 9:06 PM

The man charged with the hit-and-run death of a 13-year-old Friedman Middle School student told police he was texting on his cell phone when he lost control of his vehicle on Poole Street shortly after midnight Thursday, Dec. 27, Assistant District Attorney Aaron Strojny said.

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The man charged with the hit-and-run death of a 13-year-old Friedman Middle School student told police he was texting on his cell phone when he lost control of his vehicle on Poole Street shortly after midnight Thursday, Dec. 27, Assistant District Attorney Aaron Strojny said.

The suspect, Craig Bigos Jr., 31, of New Bedford, told police he left the scene because he thought he hit a mailbox,


from the side of the road when Bigos allegedly struck him with his 1995 red Ford Explorer. The victim, who suffered severe head trauma, was thrown about 66 feet. He was pronounced dead at Morton Hospital and Medical Center about an hour after the accident.

Bigos turned himself in Thursday afternoon. He told police he realized what had happened the next day when he heard news reports about the accident.

He called Taunton police at about noon and told them they could find the Ford Explorer at his girlfriend’s house at 137 1/2 Williams St., about a mile from the crash scene, Strojny said. The vehicle had damage consistent with the accident, he said.
Bigos told police he was on his way from his mother’s house in New Bedford to hisHernandez's short stories have also appeared in the popular and long-running Man-Kzin Wars series created by Larry Niven published by Baen Books. Others of his stories have been published at Baen.com, The Colored Lens, and Interstellar Fiction.

Hernandez is a third cousin of Orlando Ortega-Medina, the author of Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions.

Novels

Tooth and Talon (2017)

Short stories

"Bound for the Promised Land," published in Man-Kzin Wars XIII, Baen Books, 2012.
"At the Gates," published in Man-Kzin Wars XIII, Baen Books, 2012.
"Beasts on the Shore of Light," The Colored Lens, Issue #3, 2012.
"Murder of Crows," Baen.com, 2012.
"Tread Lightly," Interstellar Fiction, 2013.
"Lions on the Beach," published in Man-Kzin Wars XIV, Baen Books, 2013.
"A Thing of Soft Bonds," published in Near Kin: A Collection of Words and Art


List of rulers of Auvergne

This is a list of the various rulers of Auvergne.

History

In the 7th century Auvergne was disputed between the Franks and Aquitanians. It was later conquered by the Carolingians, and was integrated for a time into the kingdom of Aquitaine. The counts of Auvergne slowly became autonomous.

In the 10th century Auvergne became a disputed territory between the Count of Poitiers and the Counts of Toulouse.

In the Middle Ages Auvergne was broken into four feudal domains:

 the county of Auvergne (created around 980)
 the bishopric of Clermont or ecclesiastical county of Clermont (created around 980 as a sort of counter-power)
 the dauphinate of Auvergne or the worldly county of Clermont (formed around 1155 after a coup but not formally created until 1302)
 the duchy of AuvergnePremier Ultimate League: 2019 Season Primer

Entering a new chapter.

The Premier Ultimate League, announced this winter, is set to for its opening, ahem, pull this weekend as the Nashville Nightshade take on the Columbus Pride on Saturday, April 20th, at 7:30 PM Eastern. An hour later, the Atlanta Soul will face off against Medellín Revolution in a showcase game at Torneo Eterna Primavera in Colombia.

We get you ready for the season below in our PUL Primer!

Nuts and Bolts

The regular season runs from April 20th to June 14th. Here is the full game schedule.

Each team plays five regular season games. Every team plays 2-3 home games with the exception of Revolution, who only plays one.

The top four teams advance to the Championship Weekend, set for Atlanta on June 28-29. The


very much Medellín’s to lose.

Playing The Odds In A Muddy Middle

There are four spots at the PUL’s Championship Weekend. One of those spots is already taken…and not by Revolution! The Atlanta Soul, playing host to Championship Weekend, are guaranteed a spot so as to encourage ticket sales. They will also, the PUL announced in their podcast, not have to face Revolution in semis, regardless of the outcome of the regular season.2

Given that Revolution is a lock to claim the second spot, which two other teams are going to make it to the postseason?

Good luck figuring it out. Raleigh, New York, and Austin are all talented enough to pull it off: even deciding where those teams should slot in the preseason Power Rankings is tricky. Raleigh lands at #2need to keep an eye on the clock during the first part of the game. It will behoove a team to hold the disc for the last possession. In other timed games, scoring with a few seconds left on the clock is okay, because it leaves precious little time for the other team to score. However, under this set of rules, a team receiving a pull with just one second left on the clock can still take their time trying to score before the quarter is over. As the clock winds down in the first three quarters, look for teams to switch to a more conservative, possession-based offense.

As in the AUDL, during a time out, teams can substitute any number of players on the field and reset the


positioning fouls are ruled as stated in WFDF rules. WFDF rules generally allow less contact than most PUL players are used to from USAU competition. In WFDF, “All players must attempt to avoid contact with other players, and there is no situation where a player may justify initiating contact. ‘Making a play for the disc’ is not a valid excuse for initiating contact with other players.” Furthermore, the league is taking a hard line on player safety, specifically noting, “Any player who commits a dangerous play will be ejected from the game.”

Because these rules are self-officiated, PUL games between American teams will likely look very similar to high level USAU club series games. Games between Medellin Revolution and American teams could see a clash of cultures, though Revolutionto the changes quicker will have a leg up early in the season as the rest of the league catches up to their innovation.

Which Players Will Define This PUL Season?

Yina Cartegena (Medellín Revolution)

While the Cardenas twins are undoubtedly the most famous players on Revolution, they have yet to dethrone Cartegena as the best player on the squad. Since WUGC 2016, Cartegena’s ability has been on full display in the international ultimate community.

Her inexhaustible offensive prowess has been the difference maker for Colombia in the past and her time in the PUL should only serve to solidify her legacy. Cartegena’s full range of talent harkens back to old sports games where you could max out every possible stat for a playable character. You want an explosive first step? Check.


Continent

A continent (from the Latin"continere" for "to hold together") is a large continuous mass of land in the planetEarth.

There is no single standard for what defines a continent, and therefore various cultures and sciences have different lists of what are considered to be continents. In general, a continent must be large in area, consist of non-submerged land, and have geologically significant borders. While some consider that there are as few as four or five continents, the most commonly used counts are six or seven.

Two of the largest disagreements in listing continents are whether Europe and Asia should be considered separately or combined into Eurasia, and whether North America and South America should be considered separately or combined into America. A few geographers have also suggested grouping Europe, Asia,and Africa into a continent of Eurafrasia (see Africa-Eurasia).

The seven continent model is taught in parts of Western Europe and North America, while the six continent (combined Eurasia) model is also taught in North America and is the primary continent model used in scientific contexts. The six continent (combined Americas) model is commonly taught in Europe and South America. The five continent model is normally taught in the United Kingdom. The continents of the "five continents" model (as shown by the five Olympic Games flag rings) are speculated to be the five permamently populated continents (viewing Antarctica as only temporarily populated, and all the Americas as one).

Continents are sometimes conceptually combined to make "supercontinents" or subdivided to make "subcontinents". These terms are even less precisely defined than "continent"


(3) of the National Labor Relations Act1 because of his union activities.

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The company is a manufacturer of rubber covering and lining for pipes, tanks and fittings. Anderson became its employee in March, 1960, and remained with the company until his discharge on July 13, 1965.

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The company had encountered union activities beginning in 1960. Anderson was active at that time in organizing a local of the Teamsters Union as the certified bargaining representative of the employees in the plant and was a member of the union's negotiating team. Initial negotiations with the company broke down, and an unsuccessful strike ensued. After a few months, in May, 1961, the employees asked to be reinstated and the union's representation was terminated. In 1963 the company's plant manager learned that the TeamstersUnion was seeking to rekindle interest among the employees when he saw a copy of a letter which the union had sent to the employees. The president of the company called Anderson to his office and warned him that if he had anything to do with this, he was "on his way out". Again, in the latter part of 1964, Anderson was active in an organizing campaign among the production and maintenance employees of the company on behalf of the Molders Union. Another labor organization, the International Rubber Union, contested the Molders Union's petition for certification and defeated it in an election conducted by the Board on April 21, 1965, and was certified as the representative of those employees. During this campaign Anderson was called to the company


office and told that he was "on his way out" if the company found that he had anything to do with it.

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During the negotiations which ensued between the International Rubber Union and the company, the union called a meeting in May, 1965, at which the employees unanimously authorized the bargaining committee to call a strike if it wished. By the end of June, Anderson, who had joined the union and had participated in the strike vote, became critical because the negotiations were slow and protracted. The company received reports of Anderson's attitude and that he was advocating a strike. At the final negotiating sessions in the beginning of July, 1965, the plant manager and the president of the company remarked that Anderson was a troublemaker, had caused troubleyear after year, and inquired what the union's reaction would be if he he was discharged. On July 9, 1965, the day the negotiating parties reached agreement on a collective bargaining contract the company decided to discharge Anderson. This decision was carried into effect on July 13. The plant manager in discharging Anderson told him that it was because he did not get along with the men, had refused to talk with the company, had falsified his 1960 employment application and had a poor work record.

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At the hearing before the trial examiner the company claimed that Anderson was discharged because he had been derelict in his work, had misstated his income on a loan application, and because it had learned, two years earlier, that he had misstated his


the trial examiner's finding that Anderson was discharged because of his "union activities, both past and present * * *." The evidence fully supports this finding that one of the company's motives for discharging Anderson was his union activity prior to the most recent strike event. Twice because of such activities, first in 1961 as a result of his efforts to organize a local of the Teamsters Union, and again in 1964-65 when he was active on behalf of the Molders Union, Anderson was told by the company that he would be dismissed if he persisted in his activity. The animus against Anderson because of his union activity was openly expressed as an intention to dismiss him if he persisted in what was protected activity. Perhaps even moreA young actress, Kat Dennings currently stars on the CBS series 2 Broke Girls. She plays the lead role of Max Black. Her next project is the 2012 drama film Renee, in which she plays the title character of Renee Yohe.

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The Democratic-controlled House fell short on Tuesday in its effort to override US President Donald Trump‘s first veto, handing him a victory in his effort to spend billions more for constructing barriers along the Southwest border than Congress has approved.

The chamber voted 248-181 in favour of overriding Trump’s veto. That fell 38 votes short of the 286, or two-thirds, votes needed for Democrats and their handful of Republican allies to prevail.

The outcome, not a surprise, enabled Trump to move forward on an issue that was a hallmark of his 2016 presidential campaign and of his presidency.

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A new genetic study sheds light on the origin of red squirrels in Jersey, an island that is located off the coast of Normandy, France.

The study, carried out by the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent, U.K., has found that red squirrels in the east of the island are of French descent and those in the west have English origins. The squirrels living in the center of the island have a mixed origin of South England and France, reports Jersey Isle News.

Researchers wanted to find out if the squirrels have started to inbreed and noticed that the squirrels do not inbreed severely.

Red squirrels were introduced to the island in 1885. Red squirrels are endangered in the U.K., where they face competition with greylinked to Prigozhin, a Russian catering magnate often described as “Putin’s chef.” Prigozhin was also indicted by Mueller for funding the IRA. Widely perceived as a Kremlin operative, he has been connected to a shadowy mercenary outfit known as the Wagner Group, whose guns-for-hire are reported to have been involved in Russian military operations in Syria and Eastern Ukraine, according to U.S. military officials.

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Story highlights The former Fox anchor reached a $20 million settlement last year after suing for harassment and retaliation

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Hernani Perpetuo has been a hot prospect for quite a while now. Making his debut back in 2005, he went 9-3 on his way to winning the Shooto Brazil welterweight title in 2010 and then rattled off another eight wins on his way to the Shooto world title in in August of this year. Training out of Nova Uniao and still only 28 years of age Perpetuo has everything necessary to make a big impact in the UFC. Combate reports his signing.

At 6' 0" he's got great size for welterweight and carries a nice mix of skills with seven wins by KO/TKO, four by submission, and five by decision. He has wins over some decent competition in Tommy Depret, Andre Santos, Edilberto de Oliveira, and Daniel Acacio. Watchinghim fight, he's sort of a mashup of the best and worst of Brazilian strikers. He pops in and out of range with a strong jab and leg kicking game, but seems more likely to brawl than throw actual combinations. He strikes well out of either stance (still something of a rarity in MMA) and while his footwork isn't always on point he moves well in the ring. He also has a nice arsenal of spinning kicks that he deploys liberally in his fights. In some ways he reminds me a bit of Carlos Condit, although perhaps less crisp with his hands. It's hard to get a good bead on his ground game as he prefers to strike, but from what I've seen he tends to stall off


his back rather than improve position. It's hard to know how much that's changed over time.

Fight Sport Asia reports that he will be joined in the welterweight division by submission specialist and Heat MMA champion Kiichi Kunimoto. Kunimoto is a Pancrase vet sporting a 15-5-2 (1 NC) record. He'll be entering the UFC on a four fight win streak, his most recent being over UFC vet Edward Faaloloto. At 5' 10" he's a tiny bit undersized for welterweight, so he may not have a long term home in the division, but at 32 years of age, he may be a bit too established in his weight class to want to make the cut. He trains out of the Cobra Kai Dojo, responsible for producing another recent UFC fighter,Now tonight we want to show you a videotape which addresses the big question. Did the syrian government use chemical agents of any kind against their own people? Veteran repoel from our partners at the bbc traveled to the syrian town on this tape and takes us through it. Reporter: On the 29th of april, saraqeb came under attack from government military positions about five miles in that direction. Using eyewitness testimony and video taken on the day, we've tried to piece together what happened. The filming started right here from this vantage point as the artillery shells landed just on the other side of the building. A local activist gave us this footage. He says it was taken as the shells landed. We can't verify these images,


but all the videos you're going to see were apparently taken on the same day by different people we met. A helicopter is spotted high above the town. Eyewitnesses allege at least two canisters were dropped from it. They say it was shortly after they landed that the casualties started to arrive at saraqeb hospital. Eight people were admitted, apparently with similar symptoms. They appear to be vomiting with breathing problems. The worst affected was maryam khatib. Relatives claim a device had landed in her garden. Doctors who treated her claim she had exposure to chemical agents. The mother of eight died later that day. Mohammed is the eldest son. He says he tried to help his mother, but she collapsed in his arms. It was a horrible,year ago. The measurements made in Berlin were then analysed in Bonn, and this analysis of the data has produced the proof of the vortices. "We haven't yet succeeded in reading the direction of rotation of the magnetic vortex," the physicist adds. One of the next steps for him and his team is to find out how to write information reliably. They are also looking for other material that may prove suitable for future mass storage media.

However, Fiebig and his team certainly won't be building the hard-disk drives of the future as he himself makes clear: "Our primary interest centres on the principles at work behind this phenomenon and what they reveal about the nature of magnetism. But if this research does result one day in a technological


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LEBANON•Two people are reported dead and 45 wounded in clashes between Sunni Muslim and Alawite neighbourhoods in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli.LIBYA•Libya will put the son of deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi on trial, defying a demand by the international criminal court, AP reports citing the Libyan representative to the court in The Hague. Ahmed al-Jehani said the trial of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi will begin next month. One possible venue is Zintan, a town in the western mountains, where he is being held.

Being willing to discuss the issue is a big step from willing to step down but judge for yourself the significance of the comments AFP quotes Jamil as saying:

As far as his resignation goes, making the resignation itself a condition for holding dialogue means that you willIn addition, the changing nature of the conflict, problems accessing supplies, and the difficulties faced by the wounded in reaching the hospital are all threatening the continuation of activities.

1.10pm BST

Summary of the latest developments

Syria•President Obama has warned the Syrian government not to cross a "red line" by using chemical or biological weapons or moving them in a threatening fashion – implying that such action would prompt the US to consider a military response.

•Activists say government forces have stormed the rebel-held town of Mouadamiyeh, outside the Syrian capital, Damascus, after days of fierce fighting, killing at least 23 fighters.

•Syrian authorities are reported to be issuing arrest warrants for various Lebanese politicians on charges of "backing and financing armed groups". The move is seen as retaliation for the arrest of


former Lebanese information minister Michel Samaha – a prominent Assad supporter – on suspicion of plotting to assassinate political and religious figures in Lebanon.

•More than 1.5 million people in Syria have been driven from their homes by conflict and are in dire need of humanitarian assistance, humanitarian organisations have warned in a letter to the UN and the Arab League.•Mika Yamamoto, a veteran war correspondent with The Japan Press, was killed on Monday in the city of Aleppo while covering the conflict there, the Japanese government confirmed today.

Lebanon•Two people are reported dead and 45 wounded in clashes between Sunni Muslim and Alawite neighbourhoods in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli.Libya•Libya will put the son of deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi on trial, defying a demand by the international criminal court,buildings used by gunmen and "retaliated swiftly against sources of gunfire". It said five soldiers were wounded on Monday evening and another five, including an officer, were hurt on Tuesday by a hand grenade lobbed at an army base.

Aside from the army casualties, some 40 people were wounded in the two districts, residents and medics said.

Chronic Sunni-Alawite tensions in Tripoli have been heightened by the 17-month-old, mainly Sunni, uprising in Syria against President Bashar al-Assad, an Alawite. Clashes in the city killed 15 people in early June.

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'Bodies found in Damascus suburbs'

Susan Ahmad, a Damascus suburbs-based activist told the Guardian via Skype that two sets of bodies have been found in areas close to the capital today.

We discovered today two massacres, one massacre in al-Tal where we found


Islamist and intent to build an ideological government even more hostile to the West than Assad's. Their breaking relations with Tehran will be balanced by their helping to forward the barbaric force of Islamism's Sunni forces ...

He concludes that staying out of the Syrian conflict will be "a smart move".

Updated at 12.02pm BST

11.42am BST

Syria-Lebanon machinations

The Syrian authorities are reported to be issuing arrest warrants for various Lebanese politicians on charges of "backing and financing armed groups". Those affected are said to include former prime minister Saad Hariri and, possibly, Progressive Socialist party leader Walid Jumblatt and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea.The move is seen as a retaliation for the arrest of former Lebanese information minister Michel Samaha – a prominent Assad supporter – on suspicion of plotting toassassinate political and religious figures in Lebanon.

Ya Libnan website quotes Ahmad Fatfat, a member of Lebanese Future Movement as saying: "The judicial system in Syria is not credible since it is controlled by the Syrian regime and is issuing the warrants in response to the charges."

On Saturday the Lebanese president, Michel Sleiman, took the unusual step of posting a series of tweets in English that appeared to be directed at Assad and expressing the hope that Syria was not officially involved in the alleged plots in Lebanon.

Michel Sleiman (@SleimanMichel)

"I have seen the explosives and I hope no official Syrian entity was behind it. I expect a call from Pr. Assad but he hasn't called yet"

Chulov on situation in Aleppo

Guardian journalist Martin Chulov has now emerged from Aleppo after


five days without phone or internet connection. He will be filing a report for us shortly. In the meantime he has been talking to Mark Colvin of ABC radio in Australia.

Here is part of the interview:

Chulov: The grinding misery just seems to pile on. The artillery barrage, the air strikes - especially in the south-west of the city - are particularly intense. So is the fighting there. We did see yesterday, for the first time in this 18-month conflict that I've seen it, a number of foreign jihadis had arrived in Aleppo at the frontlines. They were standing nearby ready to enter, they were very well armed, they didn't want to know us. The only questions that we got in replies to greetings to them were, "Are youat dawn today and troops were searching homes looking for rebels. The rebel spokesman asked to be identified by his first name only, Ahmed. The report could not be independently verified.

Updated at 10.47am BST

10.05am BST

Red lines and green lights

In his latest blog post, exiled Syrian activist Ammar Abdulhamid takes issue with President Obama's "coldly articulated red line regarding the use of chemical weapons" which he says "might just translate into a green light for more frenzied killing sprees by Assad and his militias".

In his recent White House press briefing, President Obama said that he had not "ordered military engagement" in Syria, but noted that he might change his "calculus" should "we see a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around, or being utilised," by the Assad regime, as


this development, for him, as he pointed out, would constitute a "red line."By framing things this way at a time when Assad's MiGs, helicopter gunships, missiles and heavy artillery are pounding residential neighbourhoods and civilian installations, including schools and hospitals, in villages, towns and cities all across Syria claiming hundreds of lives every day, President Obama's red line will most likely be taken by Assad as green light for sticking to his bloody tactics to the bitter end. After all, he was just told by the most powerful man in the world that he has no plans to stop him.

Russia warns west

Obama warned of "enormous consequences" if Assad failed to safeguard his weapons of mass destruction. From Reuters:

Russia and China base their diplomatic cooperation on "the need tostability.

The minister also praised the general directorate of traffic for their efforts to "ensure traffic safety for citizens and residents, round the clock".

Updated at 10.05am BST

9.06am BST

Latest from Aleppo

A series of tweets from the Guardian's Martin Chulov on the situation in Aleppo:

'They started random shooting'

Reuters has some more detail on the killing of Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto in Aleppo:

In a telephone interview with a Japanese TV news programme, fellow Japan Press reporter Kazutaka Sato, who was travelling with Yamamoto, said it appeared she was shot by government forces.

"We saw a group of people in camouflage fatigues coming toward us. They appeared to be government soldiers. They started random shooting. They were just 20, 30 metres away or even closer," said Sato.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the


clash occurred in the Suleimaniya district of Aleppo, the scene of heavy fighting between government and rebel forces.

Meanwhile , there is concern about two journalists working for Alhurra, a broadcaster financed by the US government. A statement from the Broadcasting Board of Governors says:

Alhurra correspondent Bashar Fahmi and his cameraman, Cuneyt Unal, were reporting from Aleppo when they went missing. A video posted on YouTube by the Free Syrian Army announced that the journalists were detained by Syrian authorities.

It was reported that Fahmi and Unal were travelling with Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto of Japan Press.

Updated at 8.55am BST

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Message to Israel?

An article in the New York Times suggests Obama's remarks about possible US intervention over Syrian chemical weapons were intended to discourage Israel from taking unilateral action:

His commentsstrongest language to date on the issue.•Mika Yamamoto, a veteran war correspondent with The Japan Press, was killed on Monday in the city of Aleppo while covering the conflict there, Tokyo confirmed today.

Masaru Sato, a spokesman for the foreign ministry, said the 45-year-old journalist was hit by gunfire while she and a colleague were travelling with the Free Syrian Army.•The EU is investigating whether the sale of cigarettes to a company linked to President Assad's cousins has violated sanctions, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Syrian dissidents said this sale and a larger one involving millions of cartons to the Syrian state tobacco company provided the regime with a cash infusion at a time of growing economic isolation, because the cigarettes could be resold for much more than they cost.The


dissidents added that the Assad government uses cigarettes as a form of payment for the irregular military forces and militias, known as the shabiha.

Lebanon•Sixteen people were wounded in overnight clashes between Sunni Muslim and Alawite neighbourhoods in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli, Reuters reports, citing local security and medical sources.

Gunmen in the two districts exchanged gunfire and launched rocket-propelled grenades, residents said, in fighting which continued sporadically through the night despite the deployment of troops.Libya•Libya will put the son of deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi on trial, defying a demand by the international criminal court, AP reports citing the Libyan representative to court in The Hague.

Ahmed al-Jehani said the trial of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi will begin next month. One possible venue is Zintan, a town in the western mountains,was a student, he began coding from his room at SIUE’s Prairie Hall so he could afford to live in a single room without a roommate.

During his tenure at SIUE, Palmer earned a bachelor’s and a master’s in history. He also obtained teaching certifications in English and history.

His SIUE mentors included Drs. Jason Stacy and Eric Ruckh, associate professors of historical studies through the College of Arts and Sciences, and Dr David DeWeese, emeritus associate professor in the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction.

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North-African Arab origin, 18 were of North/Western European descent, 37 were of Jewish origin, mostly from Eastern Europe, one was from Japan, one from Turkey and two were of mixed origins. We found the G2019S mutation on three different haplotypes. Network analyses of the three carrier haplotypes showed that G2019S arose independently at least twice in humans. In addition, the population distribution of the intra-allelic diversity of the most widespread carrier haplotype, together with estimations of the age of G2019S determined by two different methods, suggests that one of the founding G2019S mutational events occurred in the Near East at least 4000 years ago.Henry Whitney, b. at Derby, Conn., 30 July 1772; bap. in the Congregational Church at Derby, 2 Aug. 1772; a merchant in New York City; was married on Saturday evening, 30 July 1808, by Rev. Dr. Abeel, Dutch Reformed, to Mary Suydam, dau. of Hendrick and Phoebe (Skidmore) Suydam, of Hallett's Cove, L. I., where she was born 15 Sept. 1780. They dwelt, in 1809 and 1810, at 3 Stone Street, New York, directly opposite the house of his brother, Stephen Whitney; in 1811, at 75 Broadway, where he died, at 6 o'clock, on Saturday morning, 12 March 1812, of a malignant croup, which attacked him on the previous Thursday. He is buried in the Whitney Mortuary Chapel, Greenwood Cemetery.

He was a member of the honorable and highly


respected film of Lawrence and Whitney, shippers, of New York City. They were, as we learn from the City Directory, at 12 Burling Slip, in 1793; cor. of Front Street and Burling Slip, 1794; 176 Front Street 1795; 181 Front Street 1796; 180 Front Street, 1797; 178 Front Street, 1798-1800; 182 Front Street 1801-1803; 167 Front Street, 1804; 85 South Street, 1805-1806; 185 Front Street, 1808-1812; and at 91 South Street in 1813-1814.

The general estimate of his character may be inferred from the following obituary notice, which appeared in The Evening Post: "In the lamented death of this worthy and excellent man, society has sustained no common loss. He was endowed with a penetrating and judicious mind, and his heart was the abode of every amiable and socialvirtue. To an invincible integrity, and elevated sense of honor, that rendered him one of the brightest ornaments of the mercantile profession, he united a philanthropy or disposition, and suavity of manners, which justly acquired him the affectionate esteem of all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. To his chosen friends, he was peculiarly dear; he gave them his whole heart, and received their unlimited affection in return. Perhaps a more pure and ingenuous spirit never animated the human form. In the fortieth year of his age; in the meridian of usefulness, and vigor of health, he was suddenly arrested by a most formidable disease which baffled the efforts of medical skill, and in ahout 36 hours, terminated his life. The excrucating agonies of his disorder he


endured with the magnanimity of a man, and submitted to his fate with the meekness and resignation of a Christian. He has left behind him 'a sadly pleasing name, a name ever to be remembered with a sigh.' To a fond wife, the loss is irreparable; the hearts of an affectionate sister and brothers must long smart under the bereavement, and our city will deeply sympathize with them in this afflictive dispensation.

He had two children, the first of whom died at birth. The second, born in Ap. 1812, three weeks after the father's death, lived only seven hours, dying, apparently, from the same disease of the throat which proved fatal to him.

His widow was married (2d), on Thursday evening, 1 Feb 1821, in her mother's house at Hallett'sCove, by Rev. John Goldsmith, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Newtown, L. I., to Adrian Van Sinderen, a retired merchant, of Newtown. She died at No. 109 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., 5 Aug. 1867; and was buried at Newtown.

Mr. Van Sinderen was born at Flatlands, L.I., in 1772 and died 20 Aug. 1843. He was son of Ulpian and Magdalen (Bancker) Van Sinderen; g. son of Rev. Ulpian Van Sinderen, pastor of Flatbush, who came from Holland in 1747, and his wife, Cornelia Schenck; and g. g. son of Rev. Hotso Van Sinderen, who lived and died in Holland. His first wife, whom he married in 1797, at Newtown, was Mary Lawrence, dau. of Capt Thomas and Elizabeth (Fish) Lawrence, g. dau. of John and Patience (Sackett}


Christoph Wilhelm Friedrich Hufeland (1762-1836)

[This is a draft of an article in The Dictionary of Eighteenth Century German Philosophers, 3 vols., edited by Manfred Kuehn and Heiner Klemme (London/New York: Continuum, 2010).]

Christoph Wilhelm Friedrich Hufeland was born 12 August 1762 in Langensalza into a medical family, both his father and grandfather having served as personal physician at the Weimar court. His father, Johann Friedrich Hufeland (1730-87), was called to Weimar when Christoph was only three, and so he was raised in a culturally rich environment, inspired by Herder’s sermons and, as an adult, attending Goethe’s weekly “Friday Society” gatherings. His childhood playmates included the future playwright August von Kotzebue (1761-1819). After studies at Jena and Göttingen, Hufeland kept a private practice in Weimar for ten years (1783-93) beforebeginning a long teaching career at Jena (1793-1801) and Berlin (1801-36). Despite a deepening blindness in old age, Hufeland remained active to the end, sending his Enchiridion medicum (1836) to the printer just days before his death at the age of seventy-four on 25 August 1836.

He was a gifted medical popularizer best known for his widely-translated book on prolonging one’s life (Makrobiotik, 1797); but he is also remembered for his pioneering work on pediatrics and child-rearing, public health, therapeutics, and medical education, and his discussion (in Makrobiotik) of the twenty-four hour cycle as a basic unit of biological chronometry, establishing him as an early founder of chronobiology. In contrast to many of his peers, Hufeland’s deeply practical intuitions left him a confirmed eclectic and suspicious of all system-building.


In character, he was deeply pious, and was committed to his medical profession, setting up funds for needy physicians and their widows.

Hufeland had four sisters and one brother. His older sister married a theology professor at Jena, and his younger brother, Friedrich Gottlob (1774-1839), studied medicine at Jena and later taught there and at Berlin. A cousin, Gottlieb Hufeland [bio] (1760-1817), was professor of law at Jena and co-editor of the influential Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung.

Hufeland began his university studies at nearby Jena in the summer of 1780 (studying anatomy under Justus Christian Loder, 1753-1832), but after a year of what he felt was a mediocre program and a philandering student body, he left for Göttingen, spending two years with a medical faculty consisting of August Gottlieb Richter (1742-1812, surgeryand ophthalmology), Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (1738-1804, clinical medicine), Johann Andreas Murray (1740-91, botany), Heinrich August Wrisberg (1739-1808, anatomy), Friedrich Gmelin (1748-1804, medicine and chemistry), and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach [bio] (1752-1840, medicine), but also attending physics lectures in the philosophy faculty under Georg Christoph Lichtenberg [bio] (1742-99), to whom he dedicated his medical bestseller, Makrobiotik.

Hufeland received his doctorate on 24 July 1783, but rather than embarking on a customary academic tour of Europe, he returned instead to Weimar in order to assume his ailing father’s medical practice. Shortly after his arrival Hufeland was called to care for the local duke’s five-year old daughter, who unfortunately died soon afterward, and when the duke’s mother later fell ill, Hufeland was replaced by a professor of medicine from Jena, after which the


and in the summer of 1793 began a highly successful eight year teaching career there, drawing large numbers of students (he reports 500 for his macrobiotic lectures, which would have been exceptional given Jena’s average enrollment of less than 900 students).

While at Jena, Hufeland turned down offers from Kiel, Leipzig, Padua, and St. Petersburg (here to serve as a personal physician to the Russian court), but in 1801 he accepted a similar call to Berlin as King Friedrich Wilhelm III’s personal physician, where he would also direct the College of Medicine and Surgery and act as supervising physician of the Charité, the largest hospital in Berlin and perhaps the leading teaching hospital in all Europe. Overwork and lack of research time eventually led Hufeland to accept a teachingsociety, the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, and into the Prussian Academy of Sciences at Berlin on 23 December 1800. In 1809 he was raised to the nobility, and was made a Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle, 3rd Class.

Hufeland’s literary ambitions began with a long essay (published in 1784) criticizing Franz Anton Mesmer’s belief in animal magnetism and magnetic healing. This essay’s positive reception encouraged Hufeland to pursue what was to become a highly successful writing career, authoring over 400 publications. His doctoral work (1783) on the effect of electrical stimulation on dead and near-dead animals — a continuation of Lichtenberg’s work with electricity at Göttingen — combined several themes of popular interest in his day: electricity, its role and effects on living beings,


and pharmacology, and during this time founded his highly successful journal on medical therapy (Journal der practischen Arzneykunde und Wundarzneykunst, 1795-1836, 1843).

Hufeland’s Makrobiotik, his masterpiece on preventive medicine, was first published in 1797, with a second edition appearing that same year, and eight official editions (as well as various pirated editions) appearing during his lifetime, along with several translations. The organizing principle in Makrobiotik for understanding human life and health is no longer irritability, but rather life force (Lebenskraft), a term borrowed from Blumenbach. This life force, according to Hufeland, is present in everything, although it is most easily detected in organic beings, where it is manifested as the ability to respond to external stimuli. This force can be weakened or destroyed, as well as strengthened, through externalit gives you a flavour." ""The King to all the citizens of Canterbury and the men" ""of Middleton and all the knights and free tenants of the whole of Kent."" "So it is a big letter." ""Greetings, hello..."" "So it was a really quite threatening letter addressed to all the men of Kent, and the focus is on the big picture there." "It's menacing behaviour." "And not only that, John upset the wealthy, demanding money with a new 13th century style mansion tax." "The rebels hoped to curb that with Magna Carta, in June 1215." "Extraordinarily, an English king agreed to limit some of his." "God-given powers, but it wasn't long before he broke its terms." "Civil war followed, the rebels declared the King deposed and invited Prince


are powerful."" "You can just imagine the troops scurrying around there, poking their heads from around the battlements and loosing off the arrows at an attacking army." "The prospect of taking this place must have been really intimidating." "But King John wasn't intimidated." "His campaign was going well, he's on a roll." "From October onwards, he's just redistributing the lands of those who have rebelled against him, redistributing them to his supporters." "He's very much trying to break them on that wheel of poverty." "And he's here at Roger Bigod's castle of Framlingham, because Roger Bigod is one of the guarantors of Magna Carta, one of the enforcers of Magna Carta, and he wants to break Roger Bigod on that wheel of poverty, too." "And yet there wassuch a rich holding, that he wants to hold it in his own hands." "Every day for a year," "John the tyrant was taking land from the rebels." "He was 49, fearless and at the top of his game." "No-one could have predicted what was going to happen next." "He'd brought the north of England under control, and now the east was being brought to heel." "Only London was holding out against him." "A commentator looking at the scene then would think this was a king who was about to crush the rebels." "But that was about to change." "From Framlingham, in Suffolk, we travel north-east to the coastal port of King's Lynn, in Norfolk, to see how fortune begins to turn against John." "The critical point came


in the spring of 1216, when Prince Louis of France actually arrived in the country to claim the throne." "On October 9th, John comes to King's Lynn, where he still has support." "Little does he know it, but his final journey has begun." "He's about to fall sick and has just ten days to live." "Ten days to save his dynasty from oblivion." "By now, the country was a mess." "King John and his entourage came to King's Lynn, where the people welcomed him with open arms, and this is because, a few years before, he'd given the town a great gift, a charter." "It gave the townspeople economic, commercial and legal freedoms." "It allowed trade to thrive." "John left his mark on the town." "You can seeforever." "It also grants them a merchant guild as well." "That's up here." "Oh, yes." "Yes." "This is really the beginning of the borough council, isn't it?" " This is townspeople governing themselves." " Yeah." "From the 12th century, Lynn was a thriving town." "After London and Southampton," "King's Lynn and Boston were the two main ports." "So this area was extremely wealthy, and this was what was needed to give them those rights." "It's what set off the town upon another 100 years of thriving, commercial success." "And it was still being referred to in the 19th century, when people were given freedom of the borough." "They're still referring to the charter of King John." "Intriguingly to me, you've also got items here which are said to


will to be drill down and collect soil samples." "'We are continuing our journey north through the Fens." "'Even though it's eight centuries since the King 'and his men passed this way, his last great journey is alive 'in local folklore and marked in the landscape." "'It's said that he stayed here at King John's Farm." "'He certainly travels from Wisbech across the Fens." "'By October 12th, he reaches Swineshead, in Lincolnshire, 'where he stays with the monks at the local abbey." "'Now the village is surrounded by farmland, 'but here, too, lidar images reveal how this was a tiny island 'in the middle of a huge marsh in John's time." "'The yellow areas are the higher ground, 'and you can just see the site of the abbeyand a medieval castle." "'On the ground, traces of those ancient buildings 'and sites have almost disappeared.'" "You can see it's actually..." "Circular bank runs here." "And there where it's clear of weeds and nettles." "So it's a little motte and bailey castle, the central mound, and it would have buildings in it." "Little memorial castle." "This would have been in King John's landscape." "This would have been a feature that he and his entourage would have seen." "And very close to the abbey grounds over there." "Yes, Swineshead's over there." "Day three of King John's final journey." "Things are not going well." "It's here at Swineshead that the King gets the news that his baggage train has been lost, and by now he is very sick." "It's


friendly hands, somewhere he knows he can go." "It belongs to the Bishop of Lincoln but it's in John's own hands at this particular stage." "The constable is John's man, so he knows it's going to be a safe location." "So this is the object of his..." "This is where he is destined to go." "Here too, in the town where he died," "King John is still remembered by the locals, but it's not a fond memory." "What do Newark people know about the story of King John?" "Well, the main history is that we know that the actual castle was owned by one of the chief clergymen, or the Bishop of Lincoln, and Prince John used to come here as a drop-off spot wherever he travelled." "Dofollowers, it's panic stations." "A few days earlier, the King had been in good health." "There's been no time to make a plan." "The north of England is held by the rebels." "So are London and Westminster." "Prince Louis of France has laid siege to Dover Castle, gateway to the kingdom." "On the night of October 18th, John lays in his bed dying." "It must have looked, certainly to those who gave it any thought at all, as though the regime was going to come to an end." "As though the dynasty was going to come to an end." "And on the 18th of October, there is a great flurry of official letters that are being sent out, all of which are related to the needs of the


King John asked to be buried at Worcester." " Yes, he did." "But why Worcester in particular?" "Well, I think there are two very clear reasons." "There's the sound practical reason that the kingdom is in chaos - there's a civil war, there's a foreign prince stalking the land, much of the kingdom is just not accessible to the King, so, from a practical point of view, where is he going to be buried?" "And then there's a good spiritual reason why he's being buried here." "The most recent saint for this community is St Wulfstan, who was made a saint by the Pope in 1204, and it's very clear that John played a really important role in getting Wulfstan recognised by the papacy as a saint." "Inreturn for that, presumably, one of the things that he hopes is that the saint is going to look after John's immortal soul." " So, Worcester was able to look after his body and his soul?" " Very much so." "And, in particular, look after his soul." "They promised to sing masses on a daily basis, which they then continued to do throughout the rest of the Middle Ages down to the Reformation." "They promised to sing the coronation song over his body which, again, they continued to do for the rest of the Middle Ages, and what they are attempting to do is to massage his soul through Purgatory on into the everlasting joys" "of the kingdom of heaven." "Finally, the moment has come to meet the


can see, the stonemason has deliberately shown the sword being bent." "The sword is the symbol of the King's power, the King's office." "This is the thing that's really important because what it's showing is the King dealing with a world that's in rebellion." "This wasn't just a moment in time straight after his burial." "This is a lasting legacy that descends through generations." "John's association with this place brought such riches that the monks were able to undertake a 50-year rebuilding programme." "It turned Worcester into the magnificent Gothic cathedral we have now." "I've been struck by how King John's story is still talked about today." "He'll be forever remembered as a true tyrant, our most disastrous king, who taxed his people heavily and lost the royaltreasure." "But we've got something to thank him for." "Even though it would have been the last thing he intended," "Magna Carta went on to inspire the democracy we enjoy today." "At Worcester, we see a king respected and revered in his own time because, despite the rebellion and his sudden death, John's efforts to secure the throne for his son were successful - the dynasty was saved." "800 years on, he still holds pride of place in the cathedral, where visitors flock to see the final resting place of John, the Magna Carta King." "Subtitles by Red Bee Media"


Artz, Ashley Henderson, Jana Sperling and Toni Nelson (collectively, "Plaintiffs") filed this purported class action against Defendants asserting claims under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act ("FDCPA") and RICO, among other claims. According to Plaintiffs, NCG is a private debt-collection company that specializes in collecting dishonored checks on behalf of retail-merchant payees. NCG conducts this activity under the guise of being an official "district attorney bad check restitution program." (First Amended Complaint ("FAC"), ¶ 2.) Until April 2009, the company was known as American Corrective Counseling Services ("ACCS"), but was reorganized as NCG through bankruptcy. (Id.)
ACCS, and now NCG, has agreements with over two dozen California district attorneys to administer a bad check diversion program. The exemplar agreement attached to the FAC provides that the District Attorney ofa political value. Shane responded he'd agree if the RIPE NCC would bear the cost of clean-up. Daniel commented that he thought the people doing this clean-up are part of the community, and it is the same community that has an interest in cleaning this up. Shane disagreed. Olaf agreed with Daniel. The industry has a joint responsibility to keep our act together. Olaf was unsure if the RIPE NCC should bear those costs. Shane understood the desire to keep house in order, but thought the community had not fully considered the cost/benefit analysus. Shane thought the benefit very low. In his opinion there were better ways for everyone to spend their time and effort than looking at DNS lameness.

Peter said that most of the suggestions Shane made


TLDs, He agreed with Olaf that the scary part of a signed root is increase in size of responses and the potential number of TCP queries. He said he only expects hundreds, not millions of net gTLDs in the first round, due to the complex process and effort involved.

An audience speaker asked if ICANN and IANA are going to review every signature once you have a newly KSK. Joe answered no.

Peter Koch asked if the assessment of the shape of the curve (how many gTLDs, where will it end, etc) was part of the study.

Lyman answered the study deliberately did not take into account contractual and administrative sources of friction in the system, like the fact that it takes ICANN between 6 and 12 months to complete contractaction, King was taking

heroin, and Gildersleeve’s “drug of choice” was opiates.      In trying to conquer their

addictions, they have participated in treatment programs, and have been able to

maintain sobriety for periods of time. For example, King was once able to stay sober for

18 months until he was involved in an automobile accident and began to take painkillers

for his injuries. As a direct consequence of his drug problem, King was unable to

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the proceedings regarding K.B. went forward, King and Gildersleeve

moved to Stark County, Ohio. There, on October 5, 2008, the couple had their second

child, S.K. Since Gildersleeve tested positive for illegal drugs at the time of the birth,

S.K. was immediately taken into custody by the county authorities. Fifteen months later,

the Stark County family court held that S.K. was an abandoned child, and that she could

not be placed with either parent within a reasonable time. Hence, the court terminated

King’s and Gildersleeve's parental rights over S.K.

       {¶9}   At some point, King and Gildersleeve decided to move back to Ashtabula

County. On June 9, 2010, the couple had their third child, C.K. During the first 23

months of her life, C.K. remained in King’s or Gildersleeve’scustody. During this same

time frame, the maternal grandmother, Sherri Smith, continued to have custody of C.B.

       {¶10} Early in 2012, Gildersleeve was incarcerated in the county jail on her theft

conviction. Consequently, King had sole custody of C.K. On the afternoon of March 29,

2012, two officers with the Ashtabula City Police Department received a reliable tip from

an undercover policeman that a suspect was seen driving a motor vehicle after he had

“shot up” heroin. Based upon the tip, the two officers spotted the vehicle parked at a

local gas station. After initiating a traffic stop, the officers identified King as the suspect

who had driven the vehicle to its present location. In response to one officer’s question,

King admitted that there was a “needle” inside the vehicle.


Posted by John, November 13th, 2009 - under Learning, Sesame Street, Teachers, Teaching.

Nicole Colson in the US magazine Socialist Worker looks at the 40-year legacy of the children’s show Sesame Street, and the way it revolutionized television.

THIS MONTH marks the 40th anniversary of the television show that may have had a greater impact on the lives of multiple generations of people around the globe than any other.

I’m talking, of course, about Sesame Street.

Currently on the air in some 125 countries, Sesame Street is the longest-running children’s TV program in U.S. history. It has become a staple of American life, with one 1996 survey finding that 95 percent of American preschoolers had watched the show by the time they were age three.

Sesame Street has become such an important partof life for millions of kids in the U.S. that, when the transition to digital television was scheduled earlier this year, it was delayed for several months in part due to fears that low-income families would find themselves suddenly without the show.

The show began as an experiment in a seemingly simple, yet revolutionary, idea: that TV could be used to help teach very young children.

Although there were kids’ shows like Captain Kangaroo and Howdy Doody, Sesame Street was the first show to consciously explore the potential of TV to teach kids basics like numbers and letters, and how to navigate emotions and social interaction.

The idea for what would become Sesame Street grew out of a dinner party thrown in 1966 by public TV producer Joan Ganz Cooney. The