will, pre-emptively (with little or no reason), anyone, anywhere in the world, any time it chooses. In addition, apparently as we now see, the AUMF gives the Pentagon and its covetous corporate directors justification for the military takeover of America itself and the detention of its people. Thus, the AUMF is cited by the peddlers of Section 1021 of the NDAA 2012.

The modern military tribunal structure, which is a major piece of the detention/repression apparatus, came into formal existence as a consequence of the 2002 Department of Defense Military Commission Order No.1, issued on March 21, 2002 by former president (war criminal) George W. Bush.

http://www.defense.gov/news/Mar2002/d20020321ord.pdf

The entire military commission/tribunal structure is a work in progress, or more precisely, a dynamic and strategic power play on the part of thethat Americans be detained too!

At the time (2001), the National Legal Aid & Defender Association stated that the Bush promulgated military order violated the constitutional separation of powers:

"It has not been authorized by the Congress and is outside the President's constitutional powers ... the order strips away a variety of checks and balances on governmental power and the reliability and integrity of criminal judgments... undermines the rule of law worldwide, and invites reciprocal treatment of US nationals by hostile nations utilizing secret trials, a single entity as prosecutor, judge and jury, no judicial review and summary executions."

More recently, in October 2009, the U.S. Congress passed and Obama dutifully signed the Military Commissions Act of 2009 (2009 MCA), which remains in effect today, legalizing further, if you will, the


NDAA, named after militarisms best friend and sponsor of the iconic AUMF.

Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122), was signed by George Bush on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony. It allowed the President to declare a "public emergency" and subsequently station troops anywhere in America, seizing control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder." Well, fortunately, a massive protest ensued and the sections of the law that allowed for such were eventually repealed in the midst of which Senator Pat Leahy commented that, "we certainly do not need to make it easier for Presidents to declare martial law. Preparing to order the military onto theVideo was just released as part of a lawsuit. In the video, a Chicago police officer hits a handcuffed, kneeling woman in the head, while another shouted racially charged comments at her and threatened she’d be murdered during a raid of a West Side tanning salon.Video released publicly by Plaintiff and is a matter of public court records


Dems Lambast Issa for Releasing Libya Documents

Darrell Issa listens during a meeting of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee, which he chairs, on Thursday, April 14, 2011.National Journal

Democrats are accusing House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa of putting lives at risk for releasing 166 pages of State Department communications on Friday that contained the names of several Libyans working with the U.S. government.

As part of his committee's investigation into the terrorist attack that claimed the lives of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, Issa released "sensitive" communications, as first reported by Foreign Policy magazine. The documents were not classified, but Democrats have since reacted forcefully to the release, saying it was reckless.

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Camps cleared in Haiti as hurricane season starts

AP Photo - A municipal worker carries away a tent used by a family during an eviction at a camp for those displaced by the 2010 earthquake, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, May 25, 2011. City authorities are removing the camp in what they describe as an attempt to clean the area, without offering any resettlement options to residents, according to municipal authorities.

The mayor of a large city in the Haitian capital region has begun clearing out camps set up after last year's earthquake, evicting hundreds of people amid heavy rains and the start of the hurricane season on Wednesday.
Mayor Wilson Jeudy of Delmar city says the settlements - densely packed clusters of wooden shanties and tarps - have becomestaging areas for robberies, rapes and other crimes. But panicked residents say they have nowhere else to live or seek shelter. The area has seen weeks of punishing rain.
"We don't know where we're going to go," said Elise Antoine, a 27-year-old who has been living on the grounds of Ecole Foyer Saint Famille since shortly after the January 2010 earthquake.
Jeudy ordered police and security guards to clear at least three camps last week in this city at the edge of downtown Port-au-Prince. "We can't give people a public square as a gift to set up tents favorable to gang activity," he said in a radio interview.
The encampments cleared last week were in two public plazas and on the grounds of a Catholic school with several hundred families in


each. Guards sliced up tents and tarps and tossed people's belongings aside in early-morning raids, several witnesses told The Associated Press. A dozen people returned hours later to the school, saying they were simply hoping that the mayor wouldn't force them out again.
More evictions are expected.
A spokesman for the mayor, Saby Ketteny, said they will move 250 families from a soccer field and sports center in Delmas so that the public can use it once again.
The earthquake, which left much of the capital in ruins, left about 1.5 million people homeless and an estimated 680,000 are still living in the so-called temporary settlement camps, according to the Haitian government and the United Nations.
A draft of a recent study commissioned by the U.S. government said there are actually nomore than 375,000 still on the streets but the State Department said the report has "inconsistencies" and was not ready to be released.
No one disputes that there are tens of thousands of Haitians in need of shelter as the tropical storm season looms. Haiti is particularly vulnerable to flooding because much of the landscape has been stripped of trees and many people live in flood-prone areas. A direct hit by a hurricane on Port-au-Prince is rare because of the mountains that surround the capital but the outer bands of a storm, or even a heavy rain, can be dangerous, particularly with so many people still living under tarps and in simple wooden shanties.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami is predicting that the season that begins on Wednesday will


muddy scraps of cardboard under a blue tarp as the hurricane season begins.
"This is a situation that makes people cry," Sabida Dorce, a 32-year-old charcoal seller, said as she stood in the mud.Please use a JavaScript-enabled device to view this slideshow

Slideshow: A visual history of military camouflage

Modern military camouflage traces its origins to World War I, when the French army gathered a cadre of artists in three top-secret workshops near the western front. The blotchy smocks they created sparked the popular imagination. Camouflage was not issued widely, though, because of the high cost and low production capacity: every yard of camouflage was a hand-painted work of art.

U.S. marines in the Pacific wore industrially manufactured camouflage during World War II, but its use was limited in Europe because German paratroopers were known for their camouflage uniforms, and American officials didn’t want confusion to cause fratricide. Camo uniforms were more widely issued to U.S. troops in the early 1970s, when jungle prints


Description Set before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, this Native American Indian sat by the curbside on October 15, 1969 during the moratorium in protest to the war in Vietnam. Believed to be the largest demonstration in U.S. history, he was among the 250,000 demonstrators in Washington and among the estimated two million protesters nationwide. The acrylic painting on canvas was started in New York in 1970, when I was attending the School of Visual Arts. After encountering difficulties in the United States I brought this painting with me to Montreal. Because I was unable to provide enough signatures to show proof to Canadian officials that the painting was, in fact, owned and painted by me, I returned to the United States without it. Consequently, the paintingwas not completed until four years later after it was smuggled back into the United States by a dear Canadian friend, Monica Dorfman. With deep gratitude, I post the image of this painting as a testament of appreciation to all those who helped me survive this difficult period in American history. The painting was completed in 1974, when the last Americans evacuated Saigon.

I.M. Spadecaller, Tampa BayMember Since March 2010Artist Statement Matthew Schwartz (AKA Spadecaller) is a grateful survivor who conveys his deepest passions, convictions, and serenity through visual art, poetry, and video.

As a child, he was formally trained in traditional oil techniques and later attended The School of Visual Arts in New York City (1970-71). During the 70's up until the late 80's he exhibited acrylic and oils


Series: Documenting Hate Tracking Hate Crimes and Bias Incidents

On May 14, The Daily Caller, a popular conservative website, published a news story about recent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. Led by prominent white supremacists and anti-Semites, the protesters, some carrying the battle flag of the Confederacy, expressed their anger over the city’s plans to remove a large monument to Robert E. Lee.

The article noted that some 200 people had carried torches in a march to the monument, a procession it called “visually striking.” It also quoted a young black man speaking favorably about one of the protest’s organizers.

The story, it turned out, also carried some critical omissions: It didn’t disclose that its author, Jason Kessler, is supportive of white supremacist groups, and on the day of the march hadmonth, according to Quantcast — The Daily Caller was co-founded in 2010 by Tucker Carlson, who served as editor-in-chief until late last year when he took a prime-time job at Fox News. Carlson, who hosts a nightly show in the time slot that once belonged to Bill O’Reilly, remains co-owner of the site. Like Breitbart News, The Daily Caller has found an audience by posting a constant stream of punchy news stories, some of them imbued with racial overtones.

Within hours of being contacted by a ProPublica reporter, The Daily Caller appended an editor’s note to the article and severed its ties with Kessler. The editor’s note states, “The author notified The Daily Caller after publication that he spoke at a luncheon May 14 on behalf of an effort


bill that would preserve the monuments in that state spurred nearly 130,000 shares on Facebook, as well as a lengthy chain of comments, a large number of them lauding Alabama lawmakers for their stance.

The event in Charlottesville included an appearance by Richard Spencer, president of the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist organization. Kessler quoted Spencer in the article, which chiefly portrayed the protest as a pushback against “left-wing ideologues who want to tear down statues, change the names of buildings and rewrite history books to place white people in an unsympathetic and even hostile light.”

“We are here to say no; no more attacks on our heritage, on our identity; no more attacks on us as a people,” Kessler quoted Spencer as saying.

Kessler’s story made no mention ofhis own talk before the protesters. Speaking during an outdoor luncheon, Kessler praised groups such as the American Vanguard, an organization that espouses the eradication of the country’s democratic structure of governance. He hailed Matthew Heimbach, who views himself as a warrior against Jews and people of color, and Sam Dickson, a denier of the Nazi Holocaust who has been involved in racist activities since the 1970s.

In the interview, Kessler, accused ProPublica of trying to sabotage his journalism career. Kessler, 33, lives in Charlottesville, where he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge in April; in mid-May he was arrested again, this time for disorderly conduct stemming from a scuffle at an anti-racist rally in his hometown. Kessler is fighting the charges and is slated to go to


than 600 in terror attacks over the past quarter century, according to a recent ADL report.

In a March attack, a white supremacist and former U.S. Army soldier impaled an African-American man with a 26-inch sword near New York’s Times Square, killing the victim. In Portland, Oregon, another white supremacist, Jeremy Christian, allegedly stabbed two men to death on a commuter train on May 26 while shouting anti-Muslim statements. And earlier this month, law enforcement investigators found bomb materials at the Florida home of a 21-year-old member of the Atomwaffen Division, a neo-Nazi group, leading to federal charges.

“Kessler is representative of what hate looks like today, operating at the center of several movements that have arisen over the last few years,” said Oren Segal, Director of the ADL’s CenterA man clutching his bible plunged to his death after an hour-long standoff ended with him committing suicide by jumping off the fifth floor of a building in Joburg CBD.

Eye Witness News reports that the suicide took place on the corner of Bree and Simmonds streets in central Johannesburg late on Thursday.

Witnesses told EWN that the man climbed out the window shortly before 5pm before proceeding to read scriptures in front of a large group of onlookers.

The crowd on the street starting chanting “jump, jump, jump,” before the man jumped to his death.

A person inside the flats tried to grab the man but was unsuccessful.


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the South, years following the Civil War, to illustrate the South did not fight for such an institution, but for individual rights. The comparison of the South to our Founding Father’s similar fight during the American Revolution is a noteworthy example. Of course, over time this becomes even more deeply engrained, even making its way into the textbooks.

Why? Because who in the middle of the twentieth century wanted to admit great grandpa fought for something other than an honorable and admirable ideology. Ron Paul would be the product of this faulty narrative being taught in school and he would then go on to proliferate that same message. An individual who did not study the American Civil War in depth, would potentially take what a well thought of leaderPakistan's military, Washington was trying, clumsily, to strengthen Asif Ali Zardari's government. But it achieved the exact opposite. The president was accused of failing to defend the country's sovereignty, much as he has failed to halt escalating American cross-border air raids, and the occasional covert ground incursion, on targets inside Pakistan.

After hurried consultations in Washington, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistan's foreign minister, obtained an "explanatory document" from Congress this week that he said effectively waived some of the bill's more objectionable caveats. But this is unlikely to silence critics who draw on deep anti-American sentiment among the Pakistani public dating back to the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and the launch of George Bush's "global war on terror".

"Poll after poll shows Pakistanis increasingly do fear the threat posed by Islamic


extremists ... but they believe the US is an even bigger danger to their country," Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution was quoted as saying this week. Many Pakistanis rated the threat posed by the US to their independence and security above that from historical foe India, he said. "Any time you out-poll India as the bad guy in Pakistan you are in deep trouble."

Intense Obama administration pressure on Pakistan to root out the Tehrik-e-Taliban (Taliban Movement of Pakistan), close allies and collaborators of the Afghan Taliban, resulted in this spring's costly military offensive in Swat, in North West Frontier province, which displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Yet the Swat campaign is likely to be dwarfed by an imminent Pakistani army offensive in South Waziristan, in the ungovernedtribal areas adjacent to Afghanistan. Although senior Pakistani officials deny they are doing Washington's bidding, it's no secret that US commanders are increasingly focused on both sides of Afghanistan's eastern border with Pakistan, where Taliban militants and their foreign jihadi and al-Qaida allies have staked out common ground ignoring national boundaries.

Pakistan's Taliban leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, who replaced Baitullah Mehsud after the latter was killed in a US drone missile strike in August, said in a recent video that attacks such as today's in Lahore would quickly cease if the government stopped behaving like a US lackey and broke its American alliance. If that happened, Mehsud said he would turn his guns on India, presumably in Kashmir. To many Pakistanis, that may not sound such a bad idea.

The realisation


that Washington is stoking a conflict approaching all-out civil war is gradually dawning in the US. New York Post columnist Ralph Peters drew a comparison with post-invasion Iraq. "Civil war never quite happened [there]. Yet no one seems to notice that we're now caught up in two authentic civil wars – one in Afghanistan, the other in Pakistan," he said. By lumping the two together in one "Afpak" policy, the Obama administration had effectively made both problems worse.

Neither extra US troops, nor extra aid, nor more "hugs-not-slugs counterinsurgency nonsense" was the answer, Peters argued. "The only hope for either beleaguered territory (these really are territories, not authentic states) is a decision by its own population to fight and defeat the Taliban."

The impulse, fanned by this sort of imperialThe ANNEX

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If walls could talk.
No other group of buildings in FISD have as much history as those at 402 Laurel. Built as the first school in FISD, the “old building” once housed 1-12 grades, the principal and superintendent.
Today it is known as the former Friendswood Junior High. Instead of letting it echo old memories of 7 and 8 grades of students, FISD has repurposed the main building with several support departments with the new Special Education Transition Center in the round building.

FRIENDSWOOD ISD ADOPTED A TAX RATE THAT WILL RAISE MORE TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS THAN LAST YEAR'S TAX RATE. THE TAX RATE WILL EFFECTIVELY BE RAISED BY 3.82 PERCENT AND WILL RAISE TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS ON A $100,000 HOME BY


China insisted Tuesday it alone held the authority to rule on constitutional matters in Hong Kong, as it condemned a decision by the city’s high court to overturn a ban on face masks worn by pro-democracy protesters.

Photo: Holmes Chan/HKFP.

The statement could further fan the flames in Hong Kong after months of violent protests over concerns that Beijing is chipping away at the autonomy of the financial hub.

The ban on face-covering came into force in October, when the city’s unelected pro-Beijing leader invoked colonial-era legislation for the first time in more than 50 years.

The move was seen as a watershed legal moment for the city since its 1997 return by Britain to China — but has been largely symbolic.

The city’s high court ruled on Monday that the government banFive Arab nations – Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of supporting terrorism and interfering in its internal affairs.

The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said Riyadh severed its diplomatic ties to "protect national security from the dangers of terrorism and extremism".

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said that Qatar's policy "threatens Arab national security and sows the seeds of strife and division within Arab societies according to a deliberate plan aimed at the unity and interests of the Arab nation," Al Ahram news agency reported.

The five countries announced they would withdraw their diplomatic staff from Qatar, and also that they were closing their airspace and borders severing land, sea and air contact with Qatar within the next


24 hours.

The SPA quoted a Saudi official as saying that Qatari troops would be pulled from the ongoing war in Yemen due to Doha's "practices that strengthen terrorism" and its support to groups "including Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, as well as dealing with the rebel militias."

Bahrain said Qatar has interfered in its internal affairs, engaged in negative media coverage against it, and supported terrorist activities and armed groups, as well as financed Iranian-backed groups that are responsible of vandalism and violence in the country, reports Xinhua news agency.

The country has asked Qatari diplomats to leave within 48 hours.

The UAE has also accused Qatar of "supporting, funding and embracing terrorism, extremism and sectarian organisations", according to state news agency WAM.

The Yemen government also announced that it wassevering all ties with Qatar, and accused it of working with its enemies in the Iran-aligned Houthi movement, state news agency Saba reported.

"Qatar's practices of dealing with the (Houthi) coup militas and supporting extremist groups became clear," the government said in a statement.

It added that Yemen supported the decision of a Saudi-led coalition, fighting for more than two years to oust the Houthis from the Yemeni capital Sanaa, to remove Qatar from its ranks.

In response, Qatar's Foreign Ministry said it regretted the measures by the Arab nations, and called the decisions "unjustified".

"The measures are unjustified and are based on claims and allegations that have no basis in fact," Al Jazeera TV cited the statement, adding the decisions would "not affect the normal lives of citizens and residents".

Meanwhile, US


has been fighting Iran-backed rebels in Yemen separately announced that Qatar was no longer welcome in the alliance.

Monday's move comes after Qatar alleged that hackers last month took over the site of its state-run news agency and published what it called fake comments alleged to be from its ruling emir about Iran and Israel, Al Ahram reported.

Qatar's government categorically denied that the comments, in which the country's leader expressed support for Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah and Israel while suggesting that US President Donald Trump may not last in power, were ever made.

In March 2014, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain had recalled their ambassadors from Qatar for its alleged backing of then-Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood member.

However, eight months later they returned their ambassadors as Qatar forcedsome Brotherhood members to leave the country.

Libya, Maldives cut diplomatic ties with Qatar

Meanwhile, Libya has followed regional allies in cutting diplomatic ties with Qatar.

Foreign minister Mohamed Dayri said that that the government has decided cutting diplomatic relations with Qatar, after four Arab countries severed ties.

Dayri, however, gave no immediate explanation for the Libyan move.

Maldives has also announced it is severing diplomatic ties with Qatar over its alleged support for Islamist groups. It joined Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in cutting diplomatic ties with Qatar on Monday and began withdrawing its diplomatic staff.

The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Maldives has pursued a policy of promoting peace and stability in the Middle East, and the decision was made because of its firm opposition to


Author Kevin Brooks writes stories of the angst and isolation of adolescence, and Being is no different, except that the protagonist, Robert Smith, has to deal with the sudden realization that while he may look normal on the outside, on the inside there are: "Plastic casings. Silver filaments. Moving metal parts." He's decidedly not a normal teen. Reviewer Alana Hurley found the story a bit unsatisfying in the end, but not without its worthwhile moments. Think Borne Identity (2002) meets D.A.R.Y.L. (1985).

Orphaned teen Robert Smith goes in for a routine endoscopy and ends up sedated but conscious on a hospital gurney with his gut cut open after his endoscopy video reveals that he's not human. He gets away, but government spooks set him up as a murderer. Hecan't go home and nowhere is safe. With only a copy of his videotape and no answers, Robert sets off across London with men in suits close behind. He kidnaps Eddi, an acquaintance, who conveniently happens to be a competent identification forger, hacker, and thief. She furnishes him with a new identity and the two take off for Spain, but the men in suits won't give up until they find him.

Brooks meant Robert to be an Everyman, but he ends up as just a cipher. His complete lack of history (and personality) makes it hard for the reader to care. Robert's hostage and eventual lover Eddi turns out to be more interesting than the main character.

While Brooks' prose is at its strongest during his well-written action sequences and


unsatisfying and vaguely annoying. Robert's character remains undeveloped, and if he's still asking the same questions at the end of the book as he was in the beginning, Brooks' narrative hasn't actually gone anywhere, and Robert's final confrontation with his pursuers plunges into melodrama.

Still, Brooks is a clever writer and is especially skilled at crafting intense bursts of action, even if his narrative is hollow in between. As a meditation on what it means to be human, Being rings rather false, although it might resonate more with younger readers as a metaphor for the monstrousness of adolescence.

It might help if Brooks drops the pretensions of tackling huge, existential questions and focuses his considerable talents on developing more three-dimensional characters. While Being starts with a gripping introduction, its lackthe effects of the manufacturing processes on the measurements made by the pressure sensor.
A feature of the invention is the use of manufacturing techniques that eliminate sources of measurement error.
An advantage of the invention is that a reliable and extremely accurate yet cost-effective pressure sensor may be produced.
The invention provides a method of manufacturing an air pressure sensor. A plurality of sensor circuitry modules are formed on a first side of a first wafer. A plurality of cavities on a second side of the first wafer are formed. Each of the plurality of cavities is aligned with one of the plurality of sensor circuitry modules. A second wafer is attached to the second side of the first wafer. The first wafer and the second wafer are cut such


of Tencent Holdings.

Tencent's entry could help Ola counter the influence of its largest shareholder SoftBank. In November 2016, SoftBank had invested USD 250 million in Ola.

Investor interest in Ola has increased at a time when its rival Uber is facing internal challenges. Earlier this year, Uber exited direct operations in Russia. In 2016, it had sold its China-business to rival Didi Chuxing.The second way in which infidelity has an impact, is that judges may find in favor of the innocent party when thinking about what makes for an equitable division of marital property. The division of property is supposed to be equitable, not necessarily equal, which means ideally that it is based in a concept of fairness.

So if a marriage consists of a man and woman, with the man making more money, and the woman had an affair, the woman then is not allowed to receive any alimony or spousal support from the man. In this situation, if she had not had an affair, she may have been entitled to payments of alimony, so she could have lost out on a fair amount of money. Also, when a judge


SPRING, Texas (KTRK) -- Two suspects are in custody after a bicyclist was hit and killed at a Spring area park Friday morning.Authorities tweeted that around 9:30 a.m. that they were looking for a suspect who hit the bicyclist, crashed their vehicle and fled into the woods.A perimeter was set up around Pundt Park on 4129 Spring Creek.Officials say the scene is under control, but it will be closed off while they investigate.According to reports, the woman killed was in her 60s. Her name has not been released by authorities.Authorities say the two suspects arrested were in their 40s and 50s.Follow her on Facebook and Twitter for updates.SCHENECTADY — A Schenectady County jury on Thursday convicted an Albany man of numerous charges including murder during a drug deal last year.

Prosecutors said Carlson Nunes and his friends drove to Schenectady in February 2015 and looked for a place to ambush two men who were supposed to meet them with a bag of marijuana. Nunes, 24, brought a .380 semi-automatic handgun.

Dressed in dark clothing, Nunes and two other men hid in an alley off Paige Street. Two other men allegedly stayed in the car. Nunes and his friends had no money for the deal and the two men they were meeting didn't have any pot.

Carlos Figueroa, 26, and Justice Pulver walked up to the car, carrying a bag stuffed with other bags. Once they realized the men


in the car did not have money, they walked away.

Nunes ran from the alley and grabbed the bag. Discovering the contents were fake, Nunes smashed Figueroa in the face with his handgun. During the struggle, a single shot was fired and pierced Figueroa's neck. He collapsed and died.

On Thursday, a Schenectady County jury convicted Nunes of second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, robbery and weapons charges. He faces 25 years to life in prison on the murder count.

"The death of Mr. Figueroa shows the dangers inherent in engaging in the marketplace for marihuana – a drug now legal in some states," District Attorney Robert M. Carney said in a prepared statement. "Drug dealers are easy targets for robbery and in this case both sides were scamming the other, but onehome is located in the Capitol Hill Historic District, a designated historic district under the D.C. Historic Landmark and Historic District Protection Act, D.C. Law § 2-144. The permit applications were reviewed and approved by the HPO and DCRA. Plaintiffs planned to build a sloped roof over the middle and rear portions of the house, but the applicable historic preservation requirements prohibited a second story and neighbors complained about the construction. After the permits had been approved, some officials second-guessed the original approvals and sought to stop the project, asserting that Plaintiffs' construction was inconsistent with the historic character of the neighborhood.
DCRA issued various stop-work orders in 2002. Then, on March 10, 2003, the District sent Plaintiffs a letter requesting inspection of the property due to complaints of


or were told that no work was being performed, despite the presence of workmen, work vehicles, and construction supplies.
The affidavit concluded that the District had reason to believe that Plaintiffs were violating the Construction Codes and such violations posed an imminent threat to the health, safety, and welfare of the community. On March 26, 2003, a D.C. Superior Court judge approved the search warrant.
The warrant authorized a search of the property, but did not describe any items to be seized. The next day, the District executed the search warrant. The officials went throughout the home, opening drawers, observing, and taking photos. Officials seized documents, including a notebook belonging to Ms. Elkins that contained permit and construction records, checking statements, financial records, and construction loan documents. The seized documentsunassuming teenager packed up and moved across the country to make a new life for himself miles away from his country Victorian home of Seymour.

THE SPRINKLER & SHOPPING TROLLEY

In the Under-18 National Carnival in 2003, my brother and dad both spotted him as a good footballer before I had even heard of him.

Dave was representing Vic Country in a game against Vic Metro and a forward called Luke Herrington came into their match in pretty good form. Luke had kicked six goals the game before and played and looked like Gryan Miers for Geelong at the moment – dreadlocks, lots of tricks, pretty smart around goal.

Dave was a fair bit taller than him and pretty strongly built, too, but I don’t think he had played fullback in his


life. The coaches had asked him to sacrifice his game for the sake of the team. He kept Luke goalless and caught the eye of my family and clearly the Fremantle recruiters.

For Dave to do exactly what was asked of him by his coaches when we were all playing to try and get drafted says a lot about the character he was, even then at state level. Nothing much has changed in his time in the AFL, either.

We both got drafted to the Dockers around the same time. He was already at the club when I got taken in the Rookie Draft a couple of months after the National Draft and I think we were sort of naturally drawn to each other. We are very similar characters whois believed to have received serious head injuries in the attack, which was initially described as a burglary to the couple's home at 7 Proclamation Court. Bedford police have said they have not ruled out other explanations for the assaults. Hogan said he did not know the nature of Sonia's injuries. A 2-year-old child at the home was unharmed.

A year ago, police made an arrest on an assault charge at the Quesada home after responding to a domestic-related complaint, police have acknowledged. The charge was eventually dropped and the case annulled, which wiped any record of it from public files.

Meanwhile, the chief homicide prosecutor in New Hampshire, Jane Young, visited Bedford police Tuesday. Young and Lt. James Geraghty, commander of the Major Crimes Unit, left the Bedford Police


Department about 11 a.m. Young referred questions about the case to Hogan.

"Because this is New Hampshire," Young said when asked why she was in Bedford. The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office, which investigates homicides in New Hampshire, often makes appearances when police investigate life-threatening assault cases. However, state prosecutors don't take over an investigation unless the victim dies.

Police continued Tuesday to keep a presence at the Proclamation Court home. A Bedford police SUV was parked outside the driveway, and the state police crime-scene van was backed up close to the garage.

Deputy Gross mysteriously disappeared when he went to Barre to collect $250 from a man found liable in a civil matter. The next day the deputies car was found in a wooded area east of Barre. The man...to worldly logic.

Muhammed fled many times until he had the ability to fight those who were his enemies. Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum Smith both went out of life after having discharged their own guns at the mob coming to them.

Compare this to Jesus who told the Apostle Peter to put away his sword and allowed the guards of the Temple to arrest Him, the Romans to beat him and Crucify Him. Or look at the case of the Apostles and their disciples witnessed even to the point of their death the reality of Life after Death and the Resurrection of their Lord. This obviously flies in the face of how "The World" would respond to such violence against a person.

I still can't get the secular mundane


someone asks "what about the body? where's the body?" in response to that, well there are about a dozen other pretty sound and historical possibilities to that question. Bart Ehrman gives a good example that maybe some (say 2) family members of Jesus (who were not followers of his before the Cross) were in fact upset that members of the Sanhedrin had buried Jesus. (a rational concept that makes sense given that they might not have spent that much time with Jesus during His ministry but still loved Jesus and didn't want his body in the hands of the "enemies" who handed him over to Pilate to be put to death) And maybe these family members went to the tomb in the middle of the night, "stole" (rightfullythem. "Coming this summer: One man full of guilt- 'I tell you, I never knew him!' They've frightened his friends. They crucified his Lord. They've sealed away the body. Now, he's going to get Him back. Simon is... The Rock!" Cue clips of 300 style fight sequences, Ocean's 11 style heist scenes, and Brad Pitt in a robe. "Starring Brad Pitt, and real life brothers Owen and Luke Wilson as the Sons of Thunder!" Owen (as St James), lugging a shrouded object, to Luke (St John), who is shooting arrows at Roman centurions from inside a tomb-looking structure "Could you quit playing around and give me a hand here? This thing's heavier than you'd think!" Cue exterior shot of Herod's Temple exploding. "June 2010 be ready for The


Development of a variable stiffness external fixation system for stabilization of segmental defects of the tibia.
The mechanical properties of a variable stiffness external fixation system were explored. Initial testing of a unilateral fixator configuration demonstrated that system rigidity could be increased by maximizing pin separation distance in the fracture component and the number of pins used while minimizing pin separation distance across the fracture site and the sidebar offset distance from bone. A triangulated system composed of half pin frames mounted anteriorly and medially on the tibial aspects and linked by crossbars was devised. Progressive disassembly of the frame was shown to result in progressive decreases in fixator rigidity in all planes.An Australian woman who allegedly contaminated batches of strawberries with needles has been accused in court of acting out of spite.

The crime sparked panic across the country in September, causing one of Australia's biggest food scares and forcing distributors to issue devastating recalls.

Prosecutors are alleging that My Ut Trinh was "motivated by spite or revenge" and retaliated over a workplace grievance by placing needles in fruit.

The 50-year-old was working as a supervisor of fruit pickers at the Berrylicious strawberry farm near Caboolture, north of Brisbane, when she allegedly inserted needles into the fruit between 2 and 5 September, the Brisbane Magistrates Court was told.

Magistrate Christine Roney said that she would not consider granting Ms Trinh bail until the reasons for her actions became clearer.

Cheryl Tesch, a prosecutor, said


that it would be alleged in court that DNA matching Ms Trinh's was found on one of the needles discovered in a strawberry.

The crime did not cause any severe injuries but was investigated by authorities in all six of Australia's states and in neighbouring New Zealand.

Australia's multimillion-dollar strawberry industry suffered major losses as fruit was recalled from supermarkets and destroyed.

A reward of $100,000 (£56,000) was offered for information at the height of the crisis.

Overall 230 incidents were reported across the nation, affecting 68 strawberry brands, according to Jon Wackers, the State Crime Command Superintendent.

Australia's Queensland state was particularly badly hit with 77 reported incidents, out of which 15 were later reported to be hoaxes or false complaints.

Michael Cridland, Ms Trinh's lawyer, withdrew a bail application but said hisLONDON - Alastair Campbell, the Labour Party's former head of communications, has been booted out of the party after voting for the Liberal Democrats in last week's European Parliament elections.

Campbell, who was former prime minister Tony Blair's head of communications, said on Tuesday that he had been expelled by Labour Party authorities after backing the anti-Brexit Lib Dems on Thursday.Campbell is an ardent Remainer and advocates the People's Vote campaign for a new referendum.

In a thread of tweets, Campbell said he was "sad and disappointed" to be kicked out of the party.

Labour - which has promised to deliver Britain's departure from the European Union - lost swathes of voters to the anti-Brexit Lib Dems and Green Party in the European elections last week.

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SEMYON BYCHKOV

Semyon Bychkov was born in Soviet Russia to a Jewish family: his father was a scientist and his brother is Yakov Kreizberg, himself a conductor of great character. At the age of five Bychkov received his first piano lessons and within a year he was giving public performances. He entered the Glinka Choir School where choral singing and musical studies were combined with the usual academic disciplines. From the age of thirteen he also studied choral conducting (as well as being an enthusiastic volleyball player). His first experience of orchestral conducting came when he was seventeen, and of opera the following year, 1970, when he also entered the Leningrad Conservatory. As soon as he could he joined the conducting class of the legendary teacher Ilya Musin. Hegave his first orchestral performance, of Falla’s El sombrero de tres picos, at the Conservatory when nineteen; this was followed by twenty performances of Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin in the Conservatory’s theatre, for which he was paid two roubles fifty kopecks per performance.

Having won first prize in the Rachmaninov Conducting Competition in 1973, as Bychkov neared his graduation from the Leningrad Conservatory in 1974 he was invited to conduct the Leningrad Philharmonic, a rare honour for a student. However the date was first postponed and then cancelled as the Soviet authorities became aware that the young Jewish musician, while not an active dissident, was not acceptable politically. ‘It was clear that doors would be closed to me,’ Bychkov recalled. ‘I had to get out.’ Much to his surprise


he was granted an exit visa a month after his application and in 1975 he found himself in America, where he was to remain for the next fourteen years.

Bychkov enrolled as a conducting student at the Mannes College of Music in New York, where he was appointed chief conductor of the student orchestra after winning the Gino Marinuzzi Conducting Competition in Italy. In 1980 he was named chief conductor of the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, with whom he stayed for five years, before taking up the same post with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he stayed for four seasons, until 1989. While these appointments enabled him to develop steadily as a conductor, he was also thrust into the eye of the international musical public through a seriesof short-notice substitutions. In the autumn of 1984, following his formal European debut conducting at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, he took the place of Bernard Haitink with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, followed shortly afterwards by an appearance with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, substituting for Rafael Kubelík. At the start of the following year Bychkov made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, replacing Riccardo Muti at two days’ notice, conducting Prokofiev and Shostakovich: so successful were these performances that the orchestra immediately re-engaged him for future appearances. In addition he signed a contract with Philips and recorded the Symphony No. 5 of Shostakovich with the Berlin Philharmonic, a disc that received high critical praise. This was to be followed by further recordings.

In 1989 Bychkov left Buffalo to


become chief conductor of the Orchestre de Paris in succession to Daniel Barenboim. He remained in Paris until 1998, combining this post with appointments as principal guest conductor of the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (1990–1994), and of the Maggio Musicale in Florence (1992–1998), where he conducted productions of Schubert’s Fierrabras and Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, each of which was awarded the prestigious Italian Abbiati Prize. During the 1990s Bychkov was a frequent conductor of opera, appearing in Chicago, Paris, Hamburg, Munich, Milan and Vienna as well as at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. From the beginning of the 1997–1998 season he has worked in Cologne as chief conductor of the West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, with whom he has toured to the Far East as well as North andSouth America. Between 1999 and 2002 he also served as chief conductor at the Dresden State Opera, where he has led works by Wagner, Richard Strauss and Shostakovich.

Bychkov’s interpretative style is marked by a rich sense of lyrical line and an exuberant rhythmic pulse, which he combines with wide-ranging contrasts in dynamics and tone colour. He has perhaps yet to fulfil completely the promise of his earlier years as an international conductor, and after a number of excellent recordings he has been less active in the recording studio. Among his most notable recordings are works by Dutilleux, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Richard Strauss and Tchaikovsky. By temperament and training Bychkov is able to deliver excellent performances of the Russian repertoire, as well as dramatic realisations of opera. He has also


PRESS ADVISORY FOR: Tuesday, October 31, 2017

US Climate Action Network to Announce Plans for Climate Action at COP 23

NEW YORK – Leaders representing the US Climate Action Network (USCAN) will host a press call at 11am ET on October 31, 2017 to lay out their objectives at COP 23, the next round of UN climate negotiations taking place in Bonn, Germany from November 6-17. As the Trump administration signals America’s diminishing global leadership role on climate change, the intention to leave the Paris Agreement has inspired unprecedented action by leaders outside the federal government.

During the press call USCAN representatives will discuss how communities are organizing as climate change continues to hit many Americans where they live, from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria to California’s devastating wildfires. This yearalone, these disasters cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars. The panelists will also discuss how the United States can still meet key climate goals. Before the Clean Power Plan the country was already moving toward a cleaner energy economy. And last year solar jobs grew by 25 percent in 2016, wind employment jumped 32 percent. The call will include reporter Q&A.

WHEN: Tuesday, October 31, at 11 am ET

WHO:

Steve Herz, Senior International Policy Advisor, Sierra Club

Katherine Egland, Chair of the National Environmental and Climate Justice Committee, NAACP

Members of USCAN plan to send a strong signal to the international community that American citizens, grassroots organizations and local leaders will ensure climate justice despite nonaction from the federal government. USCAN builds provides alignment among its 161+ member organizations active


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Updated: Apr 18, 2019 12:20 IST

Google once again recognized the ongoing mega poll exercise in India with a doodle that featured an inked finger, which when clicked led users to a page explaining the voting procedure.

The search engine giant had taken note of the Lok Sabha election 2019 on April 11 also, the phase 1 of the seven-phase elections, with a similar doodle.

This doodle’s reach was only for India where the world’s largest democratic exercise in underway.

The interactive doodle page contained information to help the first-time voters in the country. It has topics such as how to vote, how to indetify a polling booth etc.

Voting for the 543 Lok Sabha seats is being held in seven phases: April 11, April 18, April 23, April 29, May 6, MayLarge boar found 'wandering' on A76 near Kirkconnel Published duration 5 November 2018

image copyright Janet Houston image caption The boar was put in a field after being spotted "wandering" at the weekend

Police have been called out to deal with a large boar "found wandering" on the A76 in southern Scotland.

The animal was spotted near Kirkconnel by a member of the public on Sunday.

Police in Dumfries and Galloway said it had been put in a field but they were keen to trace its owner due to its "skill for escape".

They said the boar had tags on its ear and appeared to be called Toby. It owner was tracked down by Monday afternoon.

image copyright Google image caption The animal was first seen on the A76 near Kirkconnel


is can active supporter of the sport of Muay Thai and Kickboxing for years through involvements with fighters, gyms, promotions, and tournaments.

Advisor Board Member of the Martial Arts History Museum (Photo with the Museum President, Thai Consulate General and Thai Dir. Of Commerce LA) - after Proposing and Curating the first Thai Martial Arts Exhibit – The Thai Martial Arts exhibit is now a dedicated exhibit.out,” said Natalia Abrams, 31, a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, and an organizer with Occupy Colleges, a national group coordinating college-based protesters.

Though only a handful of colleges have encampments, tents went up last week at Harvard in Cambridge, Mass., and here at the University of California, Berkeley. Additionally, protesters in California have vowed to occupy dozens of other campuses in the coming days.

Last Wednesday at Berkeley, about 3,000 people gathered on Sproul Plaza to protest tuition increases, and many then set up a camp. Demonstrators linked arms to protect their tents, but police officers broke through and took down more than a dozen tents, arresting about 40 protesters.

University officials said they had watched city governments struggle to deal with expanding campsites and decided to


Scott White of the Salt Lake City Police Department, before the officers moved in on Saturday night to remove those who remained. The police said that 19 people had been arrested.

The same night, protesters in Denver were forced out of their encampment, the second park they have had to leave since demonstrations began. Seventeen people were arrested, the police said.

A police crackdown at Kiener Plaza in St. Louis ended with 27 arrests on Friday night, the local police said, and The Associated Press reported that 24 people were arrested in Albany on Saturday for remaining in a state-owned park past an 11 p.m. curfew.

But protesters in Oakland, Calif., managed to outlast a threat of eviction on Saturday, defying the city’s second demand in two days that they clearout. Those calls began after a man was shot near the protest area on Thursday. On Sunday, demonstrators received a third notice from the city demanding they stop camping in city parks.

The mood in Oakland has been tense and angry since Scott Olsen, 24, an Iraq war veteran, was critically injured at a protest in October. Friends confirmed Sunday that Mr. Olsen was released from the hospital last week. Dottie Guy of Iraq Veterans Against the War told The A.P. that he can now read and write, but that he still has trouble talking.

Demonstrators in Portland, Ore., staved off eviction on Saturday with the help of hundreds of supporters who poured into two city parks near each other, Lownsdale Square and Chapman Square, and a nearby street as


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Once Upon a Time in Wonderland – New

In Victorian England, young and beautiful Alice (Sophie Lowe) tells an impossible tale of a strange new land that exists on the other side of a rabbit hole. An invisible cat, a hookah-smoking caterpillar and playing cards that can talk are just some of the fantastic things she’s seen during her adventure. Surely this troubled girl must be insane. Her doctors intend to cure her with a treatment that will make her forget—everything. Alice seems ready to put it all behind her, especially the painful memory of the genie she fell in love with and lost forever, the handsome and mysterious Cyrus (Peter Gadiot). But in her heart Alice knows this world is real, and just in thenick of time the sardonic Knave of Hearts (Michael Socha) and the irrepressible White Rabbit (John Lithgow) arrive to save her from her fate. Together the trio will take a tumble down the rabbit hole to a Wonderland where nothing is impossible.

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland stars Sophie Lowe (Beautiful Kate) as Alice, Michael Socha (This Is England) as The Knave of Hearts, Peter Gadiot (The Forbidden Girl) as Cyrus, Emma Rigby (Prisoners Wives) as The Red Queen, with Naveen Andrews (Lost) as Jafar and John Lithgow (3rd Rock from the Sun) as the voice of The White Rabbit.

The Vampire Diaries – Season 5

In the tumultuous fourth season of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, the world of Mystic Falls was turned upside down when the beautiful and compassionate Elena


cure is resolved in the heart-stopping season finale, along with moments of unexpected joy, unspeakable sorrow, and a confession of true love.

The series heads into its fifth season with some characters headed off to college, a newly cured vampire trying to survive as a human, and a shocking Salvatore secret. Based on the series of books by L. J. Smith, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Outerbanks Entertainment, Alloy Entertainment, Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios. The series was developed by Kevin Williamson (“The Following,” “Scream”) & Julie Plec (“Kyle XY,” “Wasteland”), who serve as executive producers along with Leslie Morgenstein (“Gossip Girl,” “Pretty Little Liars”) and Caroline Dries (“Melrose Place,” “Smallville”).

Reign – New

Hidden between the lines of the history books isthe story of Mary Stuart, the young woman the world would come to know as Mary, Queen of Scots. The teenage Mary is already a headstrong monarch ─ beautiful, passionate and poised at the very beginning of her tumultuous rise to power.

Arriving in France with four close friends as her ladies-in-waiting, Mary has been sent to secure Scotland’s strategic alliance by formalizing her arranged engagement to the French king’s dashing son, Prince Francis. But the match isn’t signed and sealed, it depends more on politics, religion and secret agendas than affairs of the heart. Prince Francis is intrigued by the fiery Scot, but like most young men, he resists the idea of settling down into marriage, especially when he has a history with a lady of the court


and his own point of view on the wisdom of an alliance with Scotland. Still, an attraction between Mary and Francis is ignited.

Further complicating things is Bash, Francis’ handsome, roguish half-brother, who has a history of his own ─ despite his illegitimate birth, Bash is his father’s favorite. Though he is all too aware that Francis is the heir to the throne and Mary’s intended, Bash soon develops his own feelings for Mary. None of the intrigue at Court is lost on Francis’ mother, Queen Catherine. The strong-willed Queen is aware of Mary’s inflammatory effect on her son and his half-brother, just as she is aware of the dalliances of her husband, King Henry, not only with his mistress, but with other ladies of the Court, as well.For guidance, Queen Catherine turns to her trusted advisor, the seer Nostradamus, who terrifies the Queen with his prophecy that marriage to Mary will cost Francis his life. Catherine is determined to save her son, no matter how many others have to pay with their lives.

As Mary learns for herself that fierce foes are conspiring to sabotage her marriage to Francis and even threaten her life, she becomes aware of other dark forces. There’s a mysterious presence in the castle; a shrouded figure who may become her unlikely ally. Villagers cope with the brutality of the times by trusting in magic and superstition. And in the dark woods surrounding the French Court lurk those who offer human sacrifice to a being who seems to require blood.
With danger and


sexual intrigue around every dark castle corner, Mary rallies her ladies-in-waiting – Greer, Kenna, Lola and Aylee – and steels herself, ready to rule the new land and balance the demands of her country and her heart.

Michael Regina has spent over a decade deep within the internet fanboy zeitgeist. Directors such as Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong) and Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labrynth, Hellboy) rely on him to reach out to their fan base and be their mouthpiece in order to relay news and quash rumors. The fans flock to his scoop filled websites (TheOneRing.net, KongisKing.net) for behind the scenes goodies and spoiler filled stories. Straddling the line between ultimate geek and Hollywood insider, Michael has effectively brought A-List access to everyone's computer---
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Plimpton 322 is the catalog name of an Old Babylonian (OB) clay tablet held at Columbia University. The tablet is named after New York publisher George A. Plimpton who purchased it from archaeology dealer Edgar J. Banks in the early nineteen twenties. In the mid thirties, the tablet, along with the rest of Mr. Plimpton collection, was donated to Columbia University. According to Banks, the tablet was found at Tell Senkereh, an archaeological site in southern Iraq corresponding to the ancient Mesopotamian city of Larsa \[@Robson3\].

The preserved portion of the tablet (shown in Figure \[Tablet\]) is approximately 13 cm wide, 9 cm high


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Laudes Regiae is a work that proposes transversal connections between historic heredity, spiritual journey and socio-political contemporaneity. Developed for the space of the ex Convent of Saints Cosma and Damian, XI century, it consists of 17 frosted blown glass helmets, inspired by a sallet from the XIV century, of images projected using various techniques of the Wolf of Passau, the effigy emblazoned on the swords produced in the Middle Ages and of the audio track of the so-called Laudes Regiae, the Chorus for the Crowning Mass, XI century. Laudes Regiae is the result of the combination of the bare, minimal context of the Hall of the Fireplace and the installative elements. The ambience is illuminated solely by natural light pouring in through the fourteen windows. The light isfiltered and diffused by the veils of white cloth, which render the whole exhibition space homogenous, enveloping and hieratic.

Andrea Morucchio’s stimulus and proposal for reflection, thus use a “high”, clean aesthetic, which is intensely evocative, in order to arrive at equally profound rational themes. The title of the installation project, Laudes Regiae, refers to the definition given to a particular genre of liturgical invocation which accompanied the crowning of sovereigns of antiquity and early Christian society. Starting from Christ Victor and King, they served to acclaim in Him his emperors, sovereigns, bishops and popes. In practice, through the repeated mantra, the prayer took on the function of affirming in the popular unconscious, the divine derivation of human power. In his book Laudes Regiae, a study of liturgical acclamations


and of the Cult of the Sovereign in the Middle Ages, Ernst Kantorowicz defines them as an acclamation, which sound as the direct affirmation of the power and the glory in which the figure of Christ is that of the militant conqueror.

Laudes Regiae is a work that proposes transversal connections between historic heredity, spiritual journey and socio-political contemporaneity. Developed for the space of the ex Convent of Saints Cosma and Damian, XI century, it consists of 17 frosted blown glass helmets, inspired by a sallet from the XIV century, of images projected using various techniques of the Wolf of Passau, the effigy emblazoned on the swords produced in the Middle Ages and of the audio track of the so-called Laudes Regiae, the Chorus for the Crowning Mass, XIcentury. Laudes Regiae is the result of the combination of the bare, minimal context of the Hall of the Fireplace and the installative elements. The ambience is illuminated solely by natural light pouring in through the fourteen windows. The light is filtered and diffused by the veils of white cloth, which render the whole exhibition space homogenous, enveloping and hieratic.

Andrea Morucchio’s stimulus and proposal for reflection, thus use a “high”, clean aesthetic, which is intensely evocative, in order to arrive at equally profound rational themes. The title of the installation project, Laudes Regiae, refers to the definition given to a particular genre of liturgical invocation which accompanied the crowning of sovereigns of antiquity and early Christian society. Starting from Christ Victor and King, they served to acclaim in


Him his emperors, sovereigns, bishops and popes. In practice, through the repeated mantra, the prayer took on the function of affirming in the popular unconscious, the divine derivation of human power. In his book Laudes Regiae, a study of liturgical acclamations and of the Cult of the Sovereign in the Middle Ages, Ernst Kantorowicz defines them as an acclamation, which sound as the direct affirmation of the power and the glory in which the figure of Christ is that of the militant conqueror.

Through an analysis of the socio-political-communicative valency of the Laudes Regiae, expressions of a kind of medieval - political theology -, surprising elements of continuity from certain aspects of the medieval world to our contemporaneity, become apparent. G. Agamben asserts that modern power is not onlysaid judge at the preliminary hearing on said charge and did give false and perjured testimony and in consequence thereof, the said judge held this plaintiff to answer said charge before the Grand Jury of said county."
The complaint further alleged that about December 16, 1952, the grand jury returned a not true bill upon the accusation contained in the complaint referred to, and all further prosecution of the charge has been abandoned by the district attorney of the county. There are appropriate allegations of injury and damage.
The transcript of testimony discloses the following facts: The plaintiff is a landscaper and stone mason, who had done work for the defendant on property owned by him on the south shore of Lake Oswego in Clackamas County. A dispute arose over


action against the defendant to collect the moneys owing to him, and, on the trial of that case at Oregon City in October 1952, the plaintiff, or one of his employees (it is not clear which), testified that he had taken the rock from the north side property, whereupon the defendant immediately telephoned this information to his son. The defendant knew that the John Doe warrant had been issued, and he mentioned it to his son in this telephone conversation, though he did not, according to his testimony or that of his son, urge the son to obtain a warrant for the plaintiff's arrest. The defendant testified concerning this telephone conversation as follows:
"Q Thank you. Now, Mr. Robinson, it was you, was it not, who informed your son,Hryciuk was the one who had taken the rock?
"A Mr. Robinson called me in Portland and told me to come out to Oregon City and he then told me then in the court house.
"Q Told you face to face?
"A Yes."
The defendant attended the preliminary hearing, and was called as a witness, not by the state, but by the attorney for the accused. He was not asked whether he had given the plaintiff permission to take rock *550 from the property, but was asked whether he had ever gone to the property with the plaintiff and denied that he had done so.
Two assignments of error raise closely related questions  one of pleading, the other of substantive law.
The defendant contends that the court erred in overruling a demurrer to


v. Nedry, supra. The defendant's knowledge of plaintiff's innocence; his concealment of the facts from his son and the police and magistrate; his threat to "fix" the plaintiff if the latter should sue him; and the urgency of the matter in his eyes, evident from the fact that he summoned his son to Oregon City, the county seat of Clackamas County in which the alleged crime was committed, and the place where the district attorney has his office; the fact that the son had not theretofore suspected the plaintiff of stealing the rock  all these are circumstances which the jury were entitled to weigh against the defendant's denial of the charge that he *563 procured the prosecution. The question was for the jury.
The defendant assigns as errordepended on the type of clergy, on clergy's education, on the region of residence, etc. For instance, the rules were different for a child of a "white" (nothing to do with race, just means "not a monk") orthodox priest and for a child of a rabbi.
Subject to some limitations, in the case of Russian orthodox priests and of Armenian, Muslim (in the Caucasus region) or Lutheran Protestant clergy (in the Baltic provinces) who were not of the "noble" origin, their children would acquire the status of a "Citizen of Honor" (Почётный гражданин). You can find more about this on this wikipedia page in French.
Edit. Here is a brief description of privileges that citizens of honor had in Tsarist Russia:

Freedom from conscription.
Freedom from the poll tax.
Freedom from


fund a rebuilding programme. The plan for an academy - an independently run state school - was proposed when
the school was in special measures and exam results were at rock bottom. However, the school has improved
dramatically since executive principal David Kershaw arrived in November and it was taken out of special measures
in April. Coun Hussein Suleman, Leicester City Council's education spokesman, put forward an expression of interest
in June last year to create the academy, sponsored by millionaire businessman David Samworth and the Church of
England. Today, he said the school's improvements meant he wanted to look at other avenues for investment within
the council's control and an academy was no longer on the cards. He said: "We now have the chance to explore more
options, and with more time to dothat we have the chance to consult everyone with an interest in it.
"The decision was made at a time when things were not looking good for the school, although a lot of people had
reservations about the city academy idea even then. "At the time, the city academy was the only game in town.
We had very little choice, but now the school has come out of special measures and we have a solid basis to build on."
He said the option of considering an academy would be still available to them if deemed necessary in the future.

Coun Peter Coley, whose two youngest children went to the school, said he hoped it would now become part of the
multi-million pound Building Schools for the Future programme. Coun Coley, a member of the


the right
circumstances."

This year, 26 per cent of students achieved five good GCSE passes compared with nine per cent last year.
Executive principal David Kershaw said: "I'm much more comfortable that the school will now remain part of the
education scene in Leicester, and the way everybody has responded in Leicester to support us fills me with optimism.
An academy is, legally, separate and we in no sense want to be separate from the community and instead of imposing
something on people, we can now talk to them and not act in isolation."

Church of England Academies

date missing

On Thought for the Day sometime last week the Bishop of Liverpool told us how lucky folks in Liverpool were
to be getting a spanking new school mainly constructed from and wholy run on public funds for whichhalf of
their children need not be religious. Here are the details:

Admission: In the case of over-subscription: After cared for, SEN, medical and socially needy children,
not less 50% of the remaining places will be allocated to baptised Catholic Children. The Catholic Church drove
a hard bargain.

Governing body:

five sponsor governors appointed by the Bishop of Liverpool;

five sponsor governors appointed by the Archbishop of Liverpool;

the school Principal;

two community governors appointed "from time to time" by the sponsor governors;

two elected staff governors;

two elected parent governors.

one person appointed by the LEA.

Just who is running the show, and for whose benefit?

Source: DFES
and from Companies House (you have to pay for the latter).

Allan Hayes

14 July 2004

GIVE PEOPLE CHOICE
Letter by Allan Hayes in Leicester Mercury, 14 July 2004

A few weeks ago, the city education scrutiny committee asked


the
cabinet to defer a decision on the Church of England Academy proposal until
the support of the community has been clearly established.

The cabinet noted this and agreed to make a final decision taking into
account the result of the sponsor's community consultation.

Assurance was given that the consultation would be independent and it
was expected that it would give people a real choice.

"We believe that the people of the Eyres Monsell and Saffron districts
deserve to have a high-quality educational facility in the very heart of the
community. What do you think?"

Important issues concerning alternative provisions, a possible
non-church school, adequate representation of community and council on the
governing body and so on don't get a look in.

True, it is now admitted that the church is contributing £250,000 from
diocesan funds towards the £16 million set-up cost,it is about forgiveness,
reconciliation and openness to people of all faiths and none.
For this reason, the City Academy will be an entirely
non-discriminating school, with admissions available, without
distinction, to all the children from the catchment area.

Thirdly, the school will not become the property of the Church
of England. The Church of England is to be a joint sponsor of
the school in partnership with Mr David Samworth, a leading
local industrialist.
It will seek to provide high-quality education with the best
educational values, open to all children in the neighbourhood.
Mr Hayes criticises St Mary's School, in Hamilton, and St
John's, in Clarendon Park, for an admissions policy which
reserves some places for the children of Church members. Yet,
the parents of children of other faiths are very keen to send
their children to these schools.

The Times Educational Supplement,


after the riots in northern
cities two years ago, reported that pupils from faith schools
were not involved in the community tensions precisely because
of the respect for differences which they had learned.

Mr Hayes criticises the Church for last year's "inadequate
consultations". Last year's consultations about the City
Academy was a fact-finding exercise giving the Church an
opportunity to meet parents and community members to talk
about their concerns.

Further consultations are now planned. It will, in the end, be
the views and the wishes of parents which the school seeks to
meet, parents who on the whole do not share Mr Hayes's
aggressive, secular stance.

The logical outcome of this kind of secularism is to be seen
in contemporary France, where Muslims are no longer allowed to
wear the hijab and where public signs of faith adherence are
outlawed. Is this whatwe want for the City of Leicester?

Is it to be a city from which faith is excluded? Would it be a
more peaceful city, a more coherent city, a more lively city
if the churches, mosques, temples and faith schools were all
removed from the landscape?

Mr Hayes and many other humanists and secularists are entitled
to their views, but they are not entitled to claim that faith
in this city has undermined social cohesion.
Wherever you look, the evidence points in the opposite
direction.

11 May 2004

First Person Column by Allan Hayes in Leicester Mercury 11 May 2004

THE CHURCH IS LEADING US AWAY FROM INTEGRATION

Humanist Allan Hayes is worried the Church of England's role in
a city academy is undermining community cohesion in Leicester

Consultations are taking place about a proposed City Academy for
the Saffron Lane and Eyres


Monsell area. Investment in education for this
area would be very welcome, but should the school be given to the Church of
England?

I think not, but let's look at this issue.

For contributing just £1 in each £80 of the set-up cost, the
Church is expecting to get a school that will, after set-up, be entirely
paid for out of taxes.

The staff would be selected to support the Church's religious
"ethos", and local children and their families would, like it or not, be
evangelised.

The strategy was emphasised last May by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, who urged Church schools to have a "core of Eucharistic worship"
which can prove a "powerful form of evangelism for half-committed or
uncommitted families".

This reinforced the recommendations of the Dearing report of
2001 about using schools to spread the faith and make up for small
congregations.

Thiseffects of that are still with us. We should not now let it
lead us away from a school system for living together in our present diverse
society.

The Church's consultations will last a further six months or so
and the proposals will then go to council, but the debate should start now
and in public.

5 July 2003

Statement from the Office of the Bishop of Leicester

Leicester Secular Society held a morning Conference on 5th July 2003 concerning the proposals for the two new "faith schools".
Speakers included Allan Hayes (BHA), Dr Mukadam (Islamic Academy) and Ross Willmott (Labour Councillor and former Council Leader).
No speaker on behalf of the Leicester diocese of the Church of England was able to attend, but Peter D. Taylor their Director of Education,
e-mailed: "... the Bishop asked if you would


be kind enough to make available the attached statement by having it read out and or available in printed form."
Accordingly we exhibited it as a poster in the hall and in our window display.

The Church of England has a strong track record in delivering high quality education in partnership with national and local government, Consequently in partnership with a consortium of local business under the leadership of John Bennett of Advantica we are offering to sponsor a new Academy in the City of Leicester.

The Sponsors would be seeking to provide the best possible teaching and learning strategies along with a broad and balanced curriculum. The Government's current initiatives in wanting to develop vocational and technical opportunities for young people, present the academy with an opportunity to be atthe forefront of such provision, creating an innovative curriculum to meet the diverse learning needs, life chances and ambitions of the of the local community.

Nationally and locally the church is committed to the principles laid down in Lord Dearing's report the "Way Ahead" whereby its schools must be inclusive and yet distinctive in their service to the community. Church school admissions policies are therefore inclusive. The Admissions Policy presented in the consultation papers for the new VA Primary School recently approved by the School Organisation Committee, highlighted the commitment of the Diocese to serving the local community with the majority of places being reserved for those who live within the catchment area. The admissions policy of a Church Academy would be equally focused on the local community and


catchment. The Bishop of Leicester has repeatedly maintained that the Academy is being promoted to serve the local community, he is on public record affirming that commitment and has stated that if the Academy does not serve the needs of the local community then the Church of England will not support the proposal.,

The Diocese and LEA already work in close partnership as identified in the LEA's OfSTED report. We have a proven track record of partnership and collaboration. A church/business sponsored Academy would need to work within the City's secondary transfer criteria to contribute to a cohesive education provision for the young people of the city. The recently published DfES guidelines on School Admissions require Academies to consult with and be part of the LEA's statutory co-ordinated admissionsand mutual learning take place.

Government guidelines for Academies identify Governing Bodies as having members from the following constituencies:- the sponsoring body, the local community, the LEA, the staff, and the parents. The Diocese, in partnership with the Local Business Consortium, would be committed to this principle and believes that the community need to have a significant stake in the project, both at the planning stage and in the governing structure in order to ensure its success.

In addition the Diocese has repeatedly stated its commitment to recognising Trade Unions and Professional Associations and has also stated publicly its commitment to working within the Teachers Pay and Conditions legislation.

1 July 2003

First Person Column by Allan Hayes in the Leicester Mercury of July 1 2003. The following is the text that


any religion.
It is important that we provide the latter with a basis to which they can relate, and here is where humanism can help.
The British Humanist Association (www.humanism.org.uk) is consulted by government and international bodies, is represented on the Leicestershire Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education, and would welcome an opportunity to contribute to the good work being done by the Leicester Council of Faiths.

The column concluded with a notice of the meeting at Secular Hall mentioned above.

2003
Alert: Two New Faith Schools Proposed for Leicester

by Allan Hayes [from LSS Newsletter, issue 4, (2003)]

Leicester City Council is considering proposals for an Islamic Academy and a Church of England City Academy.
These schools would be divisive and would limit the experience of children. If they are approved more such will surelyleaving to get food, the police see him and start approaching. He uses his phone to call Sam and warn him that the police are on to them.

Dean gets a call from Jerry Panowski asking for help. He tells him he was helped by him and his dad a couple years back when he had a Poltergeist. Later he calls Dean again to let him know about Chuck Lambert. As the boys are leaving he explains he got Dean's number from his dad's voicemail. Dean calls his dad's phone and they listen to the new message.

Dean calls Larry Pike and pretends to be Travis Weaver with Oklahoma Gas and Power to try to get him to leave his home. Larry realizes it's not Travis and asks who's calling,


so Dean hangs up.

Dean lies to Sam, saying he needs to go to the bathroom in order to try to call their dad again. He gets his voicemail and leaves him a message to call him back, because they're at their old house.

Deans phone starts ringing in the motel room and he has trouble locating it. When he finds it in the pile of clothes on the bed, it's a text message of coordinates from an unavailable number.

Dean discusses the events occurring in Burkittsville with Sam while driving the to the local community college.

When Dean can't stop Layla from going up on stage, he yells "fire" to clear the tent and calls Sam to tell him he stopped Roy.

Dean gets a call from Cassie while stopped at agas station and tells Sam they're heading to Missouri for a case.

Dean gets a call from Sam while researching with Cassie regarding the case.

Dean calls Sam for help to lose the ghost truck. Sam says he needs a minute and hangs up. Seconds later Sam calls back and gives Dean driving directions to a specific church.

Dean calls Sam, who's sitting outside Meg's place watching her, to give him the news that her background checks out after a little research. Then they discuss the case.

Dean takes a photo of his prank on Sam with his phone in 1.17 Hell House

Dean sticks a spoon in Sam's mouth, who is sleeping shotgun in the Impala at the time, and then pulls out his phone to photograph the prank while driving.

Dean is


at the hospital with Asher and his mom as he gets a call from Sam about leads on the case.

While settling into their motel room, Dean takes out his phone, dials a couple numbers, and holds it out to Sam telling him to, "Call her", meaning Sarah Blake at the auction house.

Dean gets a call from Sam after he and Sarah are locked into Evelyn's house. Sam tells Dean the ghost is actually Melanie Merchant and they quickly form a plan save him and Sarah. Dean waits on hold as Sam puts the phone down to search for iron and the ghost attacks. When Sam picks it back up, Dean asks if they are okay. Sarah tells Sam to explain to Dean about the antique dolls at theauction and Dean heads to the mausoleum.

Dean calls Sam back to make sure they are okay after visiting the mausoleum.

When the boys return to their motel room after saving the Holt family, Dean's tries to contact their dad, with no success. After talking to Sam, Dean tries him again, but Meg answers John's phone.

Season Two

Dean gets a call from Sam while working the carnival. They discuss the possibility that the spirit they're hunting may be attached to its remains instead of a cursed object. Dean tells Sam they should check it out and that he's on his way, then hangs up abruptly.

After Sam sees Andy drive by in the Impala, we cut to Dean who is on his phone with a frantic Sam. Dean lets Sam know Andy


is using some kind of mind control.

While the boys and Jo are settling into the apartment, Ellen calls Dean, because she doesn't believe Jo went to Vegas. Dean and Jo whisper an argument, and Dean caves, telling Ellen he hasn't seen Jo.

Right after Jo disappears, Ellen calls Dean saying she knows Jo is there because Ash told her everything. She demands to speak to Jo and Dean tries to lie and say she's busy. When that doesn't work, he tells Ellen he'll get her back, and Ellen says she'll be on the first flight out, and hangs up.

Shortly after arriving in River Grove, the boys decide to get help from Bobby or Ellen. Dean takes out his phone to call them, but realizes he has no service.

After heis shot at, Sam calls Dean for help after finding shell casings. Dean has been captured by Gordon, so Gordon holds the phone up for Dean to answer. Dean gives Sam the address and uses the code word "funky town" to let Sam know he's in trouble.

After Sam saves Dean and Gordon is arrested, Dean calls Ellen to confront her for telling him about Sam. Ellen denies letting word out about Sam and explains that any hunter passing through the roadhouse could have found out.

When Sam returns from interviewing the woman in a psychiatric facility, Dean is enjoying the Magic Fingers hooked up to his hotel bed and listening to Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" on his LG phone.

The episode opens with Dean alone, leaning on the Impala, talking to


Ellen. He asks her if she's seen Sam and explains he won't answer his phone and isn't responding to voicemails. Suddenly, he gets another call through call waiting. It's a frantic Sam asking Dean for help. Dean asks where he is and tell him he'll be right there. He hangs up on both Sam and Ellen and drives off.

Later, Jo calls Dean's cellphone in order to locate him. It keeps going to voicemail, because he is unconscious and unable to answer it. Luckily, she keeps redialing and she finds him by following the sound of his classic rock ringtone.

As he leaves the body shop, Dean calls Sam and hassles him for doing, well, exactly what he was doing. Dean says he has a lead on Kurt and thenasks Sam, "What's she wearing?" To which, Sam says, "Bye, Dean." and hangs up on him.

The episode opens with Dean driving the Impala at night. His phone rings; it's Sam. He informs Dean there is a police car outside their hotel room. Sam is unsure they're looking for them, but then it pulls away. They discuss the case. Dean tells Sam he's going to go check out a location he passed a couple miles back, but Sam tries to insist he come pick him up first. Dean disagrees and says it will be fine. They hang up.

Season Three

After leaving with Tamara and Isaac, Dean is seen on the phone in another room. After a minute, he comes into the room where Sam and Bobby are examining Tamara and


Isaac's hunting equipment. He finishes up, presumably, making a date with Jenny the coroner and then tells the group that the bodies they found were dehydrated and starved.

When the boys leave after confronting Grossman, Dean gets a call back from Bobby. He tells Dean that he's found a heavyweight cleansing ritual for the foot. Dean has to explain that Sam lost the foot and he and Bobby discuss Bela, as Sam loses his shoe in a storm drain while trying to remove gum from it. Bobby tells Dean to look after his brother, calling him an idjit, and then hangs up.

As the boys pull up to their motel, Dean is ending another call with Bobby, who this time has given them a location for Bela.

The day after theshooting in the bar, after Richie leaves with Casey, Dean is back at the bar with Sam trying to call Richie. His phone rings out without an answer.

Later, Dean is driving and calls to check Sam's progress on the case. Sam whispers to Dean that he can't talk right then and tells him to meet at the bar later, before hanging up on Dean.

Bela sells the location of the boys to Gordon in exchange for a century-old hex bag. She phones Dean, whom we don't see or hear, and says, "Hello Dean? Hey, where are you?"

After being attacked by Gordon, Sam and Dean realize Bela sold them out. Dean immediately gets out his phone and calls her to confront her about it. Bela plays it cool and uncaring


as usual, as Dean yells at her. He then threatens to kill her and hangs up.

While Sam and Dean are at their hotel room preparing to fight Gordon, Dean's phone rings. It's Bela, claiming she doesn't want a grudge against her. She tells Dean she'd rather he not kill her either, so she's calling to disclose Gordon's location, which she obtained by contacting a spirit. She directs them to a warehouse, tells them the warning message the spirit said to pass on, and hangs up.

After the boys wake Bobby and are driving to find Jeremy, Bobby calls Dean with an update. Dean answers while driving, very irritable from over-caffeination. With no good news to report, Dean yells and tells him he's going to go blow his brains out,then hangs up on Bobby.

Dean's phone says SHA33 when he gets mysterious calls from his father in 3.14 Long-Distance Call

Dean is sitting on a bench outside, talking on the phone through mouthfuls of food. As Sam approaches, he hangs up. A brief discussion between the boys regarding the current case (Dean's demon deal), reveals Dean was talking to Bobby. He tells Sam what Bobby said and to head out. They have a new case.

Dean calls Sam while he is walking back to the Impala. They discuss the case and hang up. Immediately Dean's phone rings again; he pulls a face when checking the caller ID. Expecting Sam, Dean is stunned to hear John's voice. We don't hear any of their conversation other than John saying Dean's name. Later


conversation, but the Crocotta must give Dean an address, as we next see him at someone's house, preparing for a demon.

While the boys are researching in their motel room, Dean's phone rings. It's Bobby calling with a lead on Bela. He tells them a has-been hunter named Rufus Turner called him, saying a woman with a British accent called Mina Chandler phoned him regarding items he has for sale. Dean recognizes the name she used and Bobby gives them Rufus' location. They hang up.

Dean calls Sam while driving back from trying to retrieve the Colt from Bela. They discuss Dean's demon deal and Sam tells him he has the book where Doc Benton kept all his notes on his research on immortally. As he explains it's not witchcraftand just really weird science, Sam is attacked and drops the phone. Dean calls out to him to no avail.

After burying Doc Benton the boys set up their motel room for Bela and leave town. Bela visits their room and finds the blow up dolls. The motel room phone rings; it's Dean calling from the Impala. He tells Bela he felt her steal his motel receipt and saw the Devil's Shoestring above her door at her motel room. He says he knows her demon deal has come due. Bela tells him she knows about his deal too. She explains Lilith holds all the contracts and they need to kill her. Dean refuses to help Bela, tells her, "I'll see you in Hell," and hangs up.

Season Four

As Dean and


Bobby are driving to a location to summon whatever pulled Dean from hell, Dean calls Sam, who left the motel while he was sleeping. He tells Sam off for taking the Impala and they both lie about what they are doing. Without much else to say, they hang up.

After finding Olivia Lowry dead, the boys and Bobby start calling other hunters to check in on them. We hear Dean leave a voicemail for Jed, whom we see is already dead.

Later, as Sam and Dean leave Jed's house, Dean is on the phone with Bobby. They both report all the hunters they've checked on are dead. Bobby tells the boys to meet him back at his place, and they hang up.

After Sam is attacked by Victor Henriksen at thegas station, Dean tries to call Bobby from the car while driving to Bobby's house. Bobby doesn't answer and has no voicemail.

After Castiel touches Dean's forehead, he wakes up on a bench. He pulls his phone out of his pocket and sees he has no signal. He holds it up in the air and moves it side to side before giving up and putting it away.

After sitting down in the diner shortly after, he asks a young John if he knows where he can get reception and shows him his phone. He tells Dean, "The USS Enterprise?"

Secluded to the motel room from fear, Dean is watching cartoons when his phone rings. He still has the same classic rock ring tone. It's Sam calling to tell him he and


Bobby have come up with a plan. Dean asks for more information, but Sam won't divulge and tells Dean to, "hang in there", before hanging up.

While stuffing his face with candy on a stakeout outside Luke Wallace's home, Dean's phone rings -- classic rock ringtone, still going strong. It's Sam, calling to check on how the stakeout is progressing. Dean complains nothing has happened, but then Tracy Davis shows up. Presumably they hang up, as next, Dean is back at the motel with Sam.

We don't see Dean make the call, but he tries to contact Sam when Sam is with Dr. Cara Roberts. Sam ignored his call.

Dean tries to call Sam again after leaving the strip club. Sam answers and Dean tells him off for not answering before.He explains to Sam about the flowers and they argue about whether Dr Cara could be the siren. After learning Sam slept with Dr Cara, Dean thinks Sam could be infected and refuses to meet up with him. He hangs up.

After hanging up on Sam, Dean tries to call Bobby. He leaves a voicemail, informing Bobby that Sam may be infected and requesting a call back.

When Bobby doesn't answer, Dean phones the other FBI agent, Nick Munroe, and asks for his help to locate some one.

Dean is in the Impala on his way to find Sam. He's already on the phone with Bobby who is telling him there is a lot of demon sign in a nearby town. They discuss Sam's condition and Bobby reminds Dean that he's


supposed to be getting Sam back, not driving him away. Dean hangs up.

Castiel tells Dean he won't get through to Sam on a cell phone again from the Angel's greenroom in 4.22 Lucifer Rising

After being transported to the Angels' Green Room and talking with Castiel and Zachariah, Dean decides to call Sam. He gets Sam's voicemail and leaves him a message to apologize. Just as he says sorry, the recording stops. Dean, frustrated, hangs up.

After Zachariah tells Dean the real plan and leaves, Dean tries to call Sam again. However, Castiel appears and tells him, "You can't reach him, Dean. You're outside your coverage zone." Dean hangs up.

Season Five

We don't see the call being made, but it appears that Castiel called Dean to talk about finding the Colt.begs him not to do it, but Dean's tells him bye and hangs up.

Once in 2014, Dean hot wires a car. While on the road he takes out his phone and checks for a signal. Finding none, he snaps it shut in frustration and puts it away.

After returning to 2009 and being rescued from Zachariah by Castiel, Dean takes out his phone to make a call. We don't hear any of it, but next we see him, he's meeting up with Sam.

Dean is at a bar while Sam is off researching. As he's hitting on the bartender, his phone rings. It's Sam with an update on the case. Sam gives him crap for being in a bar while he works his ass off, then explains the car is


not the real deal. The scene cuts.

Later, Sam walks in on Dean on his phone, mid-conversation. He's discussing the case with someone. Sam asks who it was and Dean replies Bobby. Sam feels betrayed and they have a small argument. Dean dodges Sam's questions and leaves, telling him they should get back on the case.

Sam and Dean are in the middle of a conversation to repair their relationship when Dean's phone rings. He doesn't say who it is, but he confirms some things and then hangs up. He tells Sam he was right: it's not ghosts and they aren't leaving after all.

As the boys are walking back to the Impala, packed up to leave, Dean is on his phone with Sheriff Rick Carnegie. He confirms the girl theykeeps calling out to him, but Dean doesn't respond. Instead he comes back downstairs, back to his normal age. Bobby calls him an idjit and hangs up.

After the boys think they've killed the trickster, Dean is transported back to the motel room. When he can't find Sam because he's been fused with the Impala, Dean gets out his phone and tries to call him. Sam's phone goes to voicemail and Dean leaves him a message asking for a call back, then hangs up.

Dean is on the phone to Castiel, who is spying on the demon Crowley. They found out that Bela may have sold the Colt to Crowley, and want to retrieve it. Dean and Castiel hang up, and Castiel continues spying on Crowley.

Later, Castiel calls Dean again