the early scenes after his girlfriend leaves him, Dodge visits a friend who spends most of the time berating his wife. At a party later, the same husband helps his 6 year old daughter down an adult beverage, telling her “ride through the burn, honey, ride through the burn.”

Keira Knightley is the narcoleptic (hyper-somniac), pot smoking hipster Penny, who suddenly realizes that all of her meaningless short-term relationships have led her to New York, an ocean away from her family back in England. She still has “meaningless, end-of-the-world” sex with Dodge.

If the first twenty minutes wasn’t mind-numbing enough, toward the end of the film Dodge shows up on the front step of his estranged father’s (Martin Sheen) house. The ensuing awkward and cliche “I’m sorry I wasn’t thereThe games in the series are collections of very short and simple games, called "microgames" or "minigames," presented in quick succession. The plot centers around Wario founding the video game studio WarioWare, Inc. and hiring numerous friends of his to develop the microgames for him. The WarioWare games often make use of the new technological innovations of the console for which they are released.

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WarioWare is a collection of short, simple games, called "microgames" or "minigames," presented in quick succession. Each of the microgames lasts about three to five seconds and failing to complete it costs the player a life. The games may seem simple; for instance, a microgame may require the player to pop a balloon, pick a nose, zap a spaceship, or make Wario collect coins in


a maze styled after those in Pac-Man. The numerous microgames are linked together randomly and steadily increase in speed and difficulty as the player progresses. On each level, players are allowed four losses only. Also frequently appearing are boss games, which are considerably longer and more complex than the other stages; upon completing these, the player can regain a lost life (with a maximum of four). In addition to the microgame stages, WarioWare games also feature unlockable extra modes and "full" minigames.

The plots of these games center on Wario, his company WarioWare, Inc., and his friends in Diamond City who develop microgames for his company. Because of his greed, Wario usually refuses to pay his friends, despite the high success of the games. Most games in the seriesinclude short stories in the form of cutscenes dedicated to each of the developers, telling about their adventures or everyday lives. These cutscenes are split into two parts, the first one shown before the developer's respective microgame stage, and the latter part appearing after the player beats the stage.

The Nintendo 64DD title Mario Artist: Polygon Studio featured a side mode called "Sound Bomber" which challenged the player to survive a rapid succession of very short minigames that increased in speed and difficulty as the player progressed. According to Goro Abe of Nintendo R&D1's WarioWare All-Star Team, the first WarioWare came about when the team decided to make a full game around the concept.[1].

"Sound Bomber" was created by Kōichi Kawamoto as his first assignment at Nintendo,[2] though Kawamoto himself


was uninvolved in the WarioWare games proper outside of credits for his work on Polygon Studio. Teammate Yoshio Sakamoto continued, "To add on that, we got the idea of using Wario and the other characters because we couldn't think of anyone else who would be best for the role. Wario is always doing stupid things and is really idiotic, so we thought him and the rest of the characters would be best for the game."

The original WarioWare was developed by a team of newer Nintendo staff members, some of whom had previously worked on Wario Land 4. Both games shared the same director: R&D1 veteran Hirofumi Matsuoka, who would leave Nintendo following the game's completion. Abe, who programmed and designed the original game, directed all later entries exceptfor Snapped!. Sakamoto, a longtime member and manager on the R&D1 team, was involved in development of all but the first installment and WarioWare Gold, and took on the role of producer starting with Twisted! Artist Ko Takeuchi designed Wario's "biker" outfit and created the original characters that appear in the series.[3]. Other major figures in the development of the series include Intelligent Systems employees Taku Sugioka and Naoko Mori who acted as sub-directors and designers for most of the games.

Since WarioWare launched on Game Boy Advance, every Nintendo system from the sixth generation onwards has contributed an entry of its own to the series, with each new installment often making use of the new technological innovations of the console or handheld for which the game is released.

WarioWare,


Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, known as Made in Wario in Japan and WarioWare, Inc.: Minigame Mania in Europe, was the first installment in the series, and the first full-fledged game release to focus on a series of brief games presented in a hectic format. Its success led Nintendo to commission a port for the Nintendo GameCube, called WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Game$!, which was released in 2004 and features multiplayer support.

WarioWare: Twisted!, known as Turning Made in Wario in Japan, has its microgames take advantage of the Game Boy Advance's rotation sensor and rumble feature. Its plot centers around Wario and one of his friends inventing a GBA-like handheld system that only reacts when tilted around. It was the first game in the series to organize microgames around thecontrol scheme rather than around specific aesthetic styles. This game was not released in Europe because the gyro sensor was erroneously believed to contain mercury.[4]

WarioWare: Touched!, known as Touching Made in Wario in Japan, was the first game in the series to be developed by Intelligent Systems. Its microgames generally make use of the Nintendo DS's stylus, touch screen controls, and microphone function. The game also features smaller, mostly non-competitive "toys," unlocked after completing a number of microgames, which too require the use of the touch screen for their tasks to be achieved.

WarioWare: Smooth Moves, known in Japan as Dancing Made in Wario, features microgames that rely on the Wii's motion controls. Gameplay requires the player to hold the Wii Remote (referred to in-game as the "Form Baton")


in different positions. After the player completes all of the single-player stages, the game unlocks a multiplayer mode, in which only one Wii Remote is used, with up to 12 players sharing and taking turns with it after each microgame is completed.

WarioWare: Snapped!, known as Projection Made in Wario in Japan, uses the Nintendo DSi's camera to control the minigames. Set in a theme park, this is the first time that Wario was featured for a console launch instead of Mario. The player uses a built-in camera to stand-in for a character in-game, with various objectives including mimicking movements to grab objects, opening a mouth, or catching objects with the head.

WarioWare: D.I.Y., known in Japan as Made in Me, allows players to create their own microgames as wellas play some premade microgames with the Super MakerMatic 21, a machine that can also make music records and 4-page black-and-white comics. When Wario is amazed by this invention and its potential to make huge fortunes, he restarts his company, but many of his employees have quit, so he decides to have the player make the games for him.

The minigames made in the DS game can be uploaded to WarioWare: D.I.Y. Showcase (in Japan, Play Made by Me), a game available through the WiiWare service. D.I.Y. Showcase features downloadable post-release updates and an unlockable versus mode where minigames are played in a shuffled format.

Game & Wario, described as a "spiritual successor" to the WarioWare series,[5] features various games utilizing the Wii U GamePad, including its touch screen, motion


controls, and camera. Instead of the typical microgames, this particular entry features a set of sixteen more elaborate minigames (12 single-player titles and 4 multiplayer ones), as well as a capsule machine called the "Cluck-a-Pop" which can be used to unlock additional content. Game & Wario also introduces a new artistic direction, under which most characters are slightly redesigned.

WarioWare Gold, named Made in Wario Gorgeous in Japan, was the first entry in the series to see its first release in a Western territory, in its case in Europe. It features a total of over 300 microgames (the most featured in any series entry to date), consisting of microgames returning from each of the previous games in the series in addition to new ones. The games involve multiple functions:from pressing buttons to tilting the system, from touching the touch screen to blowing on the microphone. Gold also features full voice acting, the first WarioWare game to do so, with an additional feature allowing players to overdub their own voice over the game's cutscenes.

This game is also notable for having a more unique plot compared to other WarioWare games. It begins with Wario stealing a golden pot from the village of "Luxeville." Realizing that he is completely broke, he views a TV report on the success of a new video game, then capitalizes on this by hosting a video game tournament with a huge reward to the victor. Unbeknownst to him, a small girl named Lulu is pursuing him in an attempt to retrieve the pot he


had stolen, which at the end of the game is revealed to be nothing more than a toilet.

This DSiWare game is a remake of the minigame "Pyoro" that appears in Mega Microgame$! In the game, the bird Pyoro uses his long tongue to eat beans which can destroy parts of the ground, while also trying to avoid getting hit by them. This game also remakes the original minigame's sequel, in which Pyoro spits seeds at the beans instead.

Paper Airplane Chase is DSiWare game that is a remake of the minigame Paper Plane from WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!. There are three modes unlike in the original minigame: Endless Mode (similar to the original), Time Attack, and Race Mode. In Endless Mode, the paper plane avoids obstacles and gains points.In Time Attack, the paper plane needs to finish the course as quickly as it can. Finally, in Race Mode, two players attempt to race their paper planes.

Wario is the CEO of the company. Not content with only the riches he gained over the course of the five previous Wario Land adventures, at the start of the series he views a TV report on video game sales going up, and sees that industry as a potential gold mine for him. So he establishes his gaming enterprise, with the decision to create short microgames as opposed to full-fledged games, for the sole purpose of making a profit for himself. Many of Wario's microgames feature him in some way, often as a player-character or a screen prop.

Wario undergoes various transformations


throughout the series, such as "Wario-Man," a mock superhero with the ability to fly; the Tiny Wario transformation, carried over from the earlier Wario Land games, which here also multiplies him; Captain Wario, where compared to that form's previous appearance in Wario: Master of Disguise, Wario wears a different color scheme and a full pirate outfit as opposed to just a hat; and in Gold, "Wario Deluxe," a form that has him wear the pot he stole from Luxeville as a crown, giving him red eyes, a gold colored suit, and a deeper voice.

Jimmy T. (the "T." standing for "Thang") is a tall, afro-wearing man who is a disco dancing fanatic to the point that he will sometimes dance involuntarily. He is always seen frequenting various hot nightspots within Diamond City, such as Club Sugar. At one point, he even had a girlfriend dump him because of his obsession with dancing, claiming that "the rhythm made [him] do it." As the series progressed, Jimmy was given a family, including his parents (Papa T. and Mama T.) and siblings (his brother James and sister Jamie), who also share his love of dancing; and a doppelganger called Jimmy P., whose color scheme is different from his.

In Mega Microgame$!, Jimmy's microgames were all based around various sports; in Mega Party Games!, his multiplayer minigame "Survival Fever" instead involved his favorite activity, dancing. Later entries in the series until D.I.Y. gave him and the other developers microgames involving a particular style of gameplay and not a specific visual theme.


Additionally, Jimmy and his folks often host levels remixing the games from previous stages.

Mona is a high school student who works a number of part-time jobs, which vary from game to game. She is quite adventurous and culturally savvy, and on the negative side, she always seems to be late to wherever she is going. To make up for lost time, Mona often speeds on her scooter and uses the assistance of her animal companions to stop anyone trying to slow her down. Her occupations have included working at a gelato shop, restaurant waitress, pizza delivery girl at the joint called Mona Pizza, bassist, football cheerleader, temple explorer, and photojournalist. The only game not to give her a job is Gold, which instead casts her as a clothingstore patron. She is also revealed to have a crush on Wario, and to like money. A business dog called Joe serves as Mona's boss throughout her various jobs.

Many of Mona's microgames involve bizarre twists on everyday activities such as tooth brushing, sawing, and nose picking; in Mega Microgame$! and D.I.Y., these are labeled as "strange" games.

Dribble and Spitz are two anthropomorphic animal characters ― the former a bulldog, and the latter a yellow cat ― who work as cabbies. They speak with Bronx accents (Kansai in the original Japanese). The cab they drive was constructed at the Crygor lab, and has the ability to go anywhere, even into outer space. Dribble, despite his burly size, gruff appearance, and being a speed demon, is actually quite calm and


friendly. Spitz, though smaller than Dribble, is actually his superior, and is more adept at driving than he. The duo's levels generally involve picking up a passenger that seems supernatural and forgetting to collect the customer's fare.

Many of their microgames involve science fiction-based or futuristic themes.

9-Volt is an elementary school-age Nintendo fanatic, who owns everything ever made by the company. His microgames are all based on Nintendo products, including not only classic hardware and software, but even games and toys that it manufactured before it went into the video game business. In recent entries, he ventured into the 21st century, covering newer products in addition to older ones. So addicted is he to his games that he often stays up to play past bedtime. He also enjoys skateboardingand, to a very trivial extent, baseball.

Orbulon is an intelligent alien of unknown origin who has difficulty with human language, as evidenced by his frequently replacing common words and terms with more complicated descriptions. He has an IQ of 300, and is 2018 years old. Orbulon first intended to conquer the Earth, but after his spaceship crash-landed onto the planet, he settled into life in Diamond City and ended his mission of conquest.

Orbulon's microgames often last longer and require more thinking than those of other developers. Many involve counting and finding objects on screen.

Dr. Crygor is a quirky scientist who performs wacky and mostly harmless experiments on his private island laboratory in Diamond City. He is 103 years old, and is a cyborg, having various robotic components, though


more headstrong and dominant, while Ana is timid. Residing in an old-fashioned Japanese-style house in a forest, the two are descended from the Iga ninja clan, and attend Mystical Ninja Elementary as well as Diamond City's own kindergarten. Their names are derived from different portions of the word "Katana," a type of Japanese samurai sword, which is also one of their catchphrases. Kat and Ana adore nature, especially animals and plants, and as such have four pets: Don the Sparrow, Shadow the Dog, Shuriken the Falcon, and Numchuck the Monkey.

Because of their aforementioned love of nature, Kat and Ana feature animals, plants, and animals' environments in many of their microgames. They also showcase games that involve drawing objects or lines.

18-Volt is 9-Volt's best friend, who is also afan of video games. He is an elementary school student like 9-Volt is, despite being considerably larger in size than he. His other defining trait is the boom box he always carries; his loud music gets him into trouble on his first day of school, although he soon finds an admirer in 9-Volt.

Ashley is a young witch-in-training who owns her own mansion, is very emotionless, and hardly ever shows positive facial expressions if at all. She often takes trips to places where she can train in the magic arts. Red is her little demon friend, who acts as her loyal assistant and is capable of shape-shifting. Ashley is largely uninterested in activities unrelated to improving her witchcraft; such tasks/interests are typically relegated to Red, who is her polar


opposite and a lot more outgoing and cheerful than she is. Despite Ashley's penchant for dark spells and her huge ego, she is shy and lonely and secretly wants more friends.

Nearly none of Ashley's microgames reflect her best interest; many of them tend to have bright and cheery motifs or settings.

Mike is a karaoke robot made by Dr. Crygor, named for the pair of microphones attached to the stand on his head (and the primary method of control in his initial set of microgames). Despite being a robot built for karaoke, the slightly mad doctor programs him to be a cleaning robot. Eventually, his programming goes haywire when he blows on a pile of dust. His karaoke programming overrides his systems, compelling him to host a party ona faraway planet and hold a karaoke tournament. Mike is critical of his creator's singing talent, dismissing his voice as ninety-nine percent awful.

Young Cricket is a serious martial artist who trains through tough conditions as he travels all over, and Master Mantis is his sensei who accompanies him on his journeys. As revealed in their debut game Smooth Moves and in Game & Wario, the duo love dumplings.

Penny is the granddaughter of Dr. Crygor, who admires him and wants to grow up to become a great scientist herself. Penny also has a hidden desire to become a famous singer. She sees her grandfather as an excellent scientist, despite also recognizing his eccentric nature.

Pyoro is a bird character who appears in almost every game in the series. His name


and design are a parody of a mascot used by a Japanese brand of chocolate. Pyoro has his own minigames which can be unlocked by playing every microgame at least once. Pyoro is red and uses his stretchy tongue to dispose of fruits and fend off evil insects that try to destroy his flowers, home, etc., except in Pyoro 2 in the first entry, where he is yellow and spits seeds at the fruits. A fictional video game starring him, when reported about on TV, is Wario's inspiration to found WarioWare, Inc.

The Fronks are a strange, yellow, blocky species of creatures that appear constantly throughout the series, in both microgames and cutscenes. 9-Volt apparently even keeps one of them as a pet, calling it "Shag." These creatures comein several rarely-seen alternate forms in addition to their standard design, sometimes being red or blue or having different faces from normal.

Manager Joe is a dog businessman and a recurring character in the series who is often featured in Mona's subplots, usually as her superior. His debut was in Mega Microgame$! as the owner of Mona's gelato shop, the "Gelateria." In Twisted!, he is the owner of Mona Pizza. In Smooth Moves, he appears both as a sports announcer during Mona's story and alongside Mona and her friends as the staff of a dumpling stand in Young Cricket and Master Mantis' story. In D.I.Y., Joe runs Diamond Software, the company to which many of Wario's employees (including Mona) defect. Game & Wario features Joe as the editor of


the newspaper Mona works for, and Gold casts him as the manager of a clothing store which she patronizes.

5-Volt, known as "5-Watt" in Japan, is 9-Volt's mother, who appears occasionally within the series. In Twisted!, she (being shown only from behind and from the knees down) shouts at 9-Volt to go to bed after he wastes the whole day playing with 18-Volt; then she reappears in silhouette form in the doorway of her son's room, catching him furtively playing with his Game Boy Advance SP under the bedspread. In Touched!, she cameos in silhouette form in the Game Over screen of 9-Volt and 18-Volt's stage. She next reappears in Game & Wario, this time given her name and full appearance; there, she is the hazard the player (controlling9-Volt) must avoid in the "Gamer" minigame. By Gold, she becomes a major character with microgames of her own that are based on Nintendo games, like those of 9-Volt and 18-Volt.

Ken the Reporter is frequently seen on TV shows in WarioWare games. He announces the success of the Pyoro video game in the first installment, inspiring Wario to open his own company, and later comments on the success of WarioWare, Inc. as well. He returns in Touched! as the host of Ear Candy. A lookalike, Rocky the Reporter, also appears in Twisted!.

^ "In Polygon Studio you could create 3D models and animate them in the game, but there was also a side game included inside. In this game you would have to play short games that came one


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Leo was only nine-years of age, yet was at that point in affection with the little girl of the Rosario market chain proprietors. The people who know him review that he would compose letters as a child, expressing that one day Antonella would be his sweetheart. The people who know him review that he would compose letters as a child, expressing that one day Antonella would be his sweetheart. It was not until he had turned 21-years of age that the relationship got to be distinctly known all around.

The time was of Jan 2009 the programme was “Hat Trick Barca” Channel TV3, They asked him “Do you have a girlfriend?” and Leo Messi replied “Yes, I have a girlfriend. She is in Argentina. The truth is thatI am well and I am relaxed.”

From that minute, Antonella Roccuzzo, who dependably had a cozy association with Leo, was connected to the life of Messi.

Antonella, learned at the Latin American Education Centre, took an alternate way to Leo when the Barça star left to go to the Catalan capital. While Messi began on his street to turning into the best player on the planet, Antonella was involved with another Rosario neighbour, one that endured three years. The passing of a companion of Antonella’s in an accident prompted to the restored meeting of Antonella and Leo. Messi heard about the disaster happened and immediately ventured out to Argentina to be next to her. It was then that their relationship advanced, however they kept it private.

Antonella’s companions say that


she uncovered her love with Messi to them on July 20, 2007. In spite of this, the relationship was built up and happened before the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Roccuzzo went surprisingly to Barcelona and moved in with Leo Messi. On June 2, 2012, in a festival after an goal against Ecuador in the Monumental stadium, an open mystery was affirmed: Antonella was pregnant with Thiago, the couple’s first kid, conceived on November 2, 2012. Later, in the 2014/15 season, Messi confirmed via web-based networking media that Antonella was expecting their second kid, Mateo, conceived on September 11, 2015. It is obvious that the lives of Leo Messi and Antonella Roccuzzo were bound to be one awesome romantic tale.

He generally realized that he cherished her, andThe Associated Press named Georgia Bulldogs junior linebacker Jarvis Jones SEC Defensive Player of the Year Monday, two days after the Bulldogs lost to Alabama in a thrilling SEC Championship Game.

Jones had six tackles and two sacks against Alabama, and he has compiled 22.5 tackles for loss, 12.5 sacks, 19 quarterback hurries, seven forced fumbles and 77 tackles in 11 games this year for the Bulldogs (11-2, 7-1 SEC). Jones's best performance came in Georgia's 17-9 victory over Florida. Against the Gators, he totaled 4.5 tackles for loss, three sacks and 13 tackles.

In addition to Jones, Georgia running back Todd Gurley was named to the All-SEC first team by the AP. Linebacker Alec Ogletree, defensive tackle John Jenkins and safety Bacarri Rambo were named to the second team.


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HMS Alceste was built at Rochefort in 1804 for the French Navy as Minerve, an Armide-class frigate. In the spring of 1806, prior to her capture, she engaged HMS Pallas, then under Lord Cochrane. During the duel she ran aground but Cochrane had to abort his attack when French reinforcements appeared.

The British seized her in an action on 25 September 1806, and the Royal Navy took Minerve into service as Alceste in March 1807; Alceste then continued to serve throughout the Napoleonic Wars. On 29 November 1811, Alceste led a British squadron that captured a French military convoy carrying more than 200 cannon to Trieste in the Balkans. After this loss, Napoleon changed the direction of his planned eastward expansion in 1812 from the Balkans to


the brig-corvettes Lynx and Sylphe—under Eléon-Jean-Nicolas Soleil. The squadron left Rochefort on 24 September 1806, bound for the West Indies. At 01:00 on 25 September Soleil's squadron were spotted near the Chassiron lighthouse by a powerful British force under Samuel Hood, comprising five 74-gun ships (, , , , and ), the 98-gun , and the 16-gun brig . The French sought to avoid engagement, turning to the south-south-west with the British in general pursuit. After three hours the fastest British ship, Monarch, was within range of Armide. The next nearest British ship was Centaur, over eight miles further back; seeing an opportunity, four of the French frigates fled. Infatigable, set off north but was pursued and later caught by Mars; Thémis and the two brigs headed southsquad of armed citizen-soldiers in an emergency.

Lackomar is a team leader in the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia (SMVM), the largest and most visible of this state’s many small private armies. He is a husband, a father and a musician. But his favorite picture on his Facebook page shows him standing in front of a snowmobile trailer packed with rifles, clips and ammunition boxes, a picture he laughingly admits looks “like an evidence photo from the 6 O’clock News.”

The SMVM is one of 200 armed militias in the United States, a number that has quadrupled since 2008, according to the Anti-Defamation League, a civil rights watchdog, which says they may have 6,000 members and many other adherents.

MILITIAS: HARMLESS UNTIL THEY ARE NOT

The United States is one of the few


of anti-government extremist group called the Hutaree, whose website says its name means “Christian Warrior.” They were charged with planning a cop-killing spree intended to spark a broad insurrection.

And in February, a computer engineer angry with the government crashed a small aircraft into an office building in Austin, Texas, housing the federal Internal Revenue Service. In a rambling six-page statement, the man said he hoped his act would help make “American zombies wake up and revolt.”

Until their arrest, the Hutaree were considered brothers-in-arms by other Michigan militia groups, including the SMVM. At least two of the men indicted by the government in the case briefly trained with Lackomar’s group.

Before the group hatched its plot, the only rap against it in militia circles was that its training practices --the Tea Party movement.

They also see the possession of firearms as not only a right protected by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution but a patriotic duty, a symbol of the citizen’s equal standing with the government.

At the heart of the movement is a fierce allegiance to the U.S. Constitution and a belief that its rights and freedoms are threatened by the government.

One leading light is Robert Schulz, founder and chairman of We The People Foundation, a non-profit that organized two national gatherings last year. The meetings popularized a check list of alleged constitutional violations cited by elements of the conservative Tea Party movement and militias, according to “Midwifing the Militias”, a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit which tracks hate groups.

Such violations included


of the danger posed by so-called lone wolves: individuals fired-up by the movement’s rhetoric -- and trained in militia warcraft -- who go on to stage attacks without the wider group’s blessing.

Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted of the bombing, briefly associated with militia in Michigan in the 1990s before breaking away. When he resurfaced, in 1995, he murdered 168 people.

Private armies have a long history in America. In the 1850s, in the run-up to the American Civil War, anti-slavery and pro-slavery militias clashed in Kansas and Missouri, for example.

The modern militia movement was stirred into action in large part by George H.W. Bush’s “New World Order” speech in 1990. The president’s rhetoric fed into longstanding fears among far right groups like the John Birch Society about internationalism andhappened.”

The central Texas group has over 30 members, he said, but none among law enforcement yet.

LONE WOLF

Few people have spent as much time tracking militia groups and domestic terrorism as James Cavanaugh, who spent 36 years as a lead investigator with the U.S. bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Cavanaugh was a senior commander on investigations into the “Unabomber” case, the bombing by Eric Rudolph of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, the 2002 Washington, D.C. sniper case and a rash of racially-motivated church fires in Alabama.

To cap it all, he led negotiations during the 1993 Waco siege at which around 80 people died. He talked by telephone with Branch Davidian leader David Koresh throughout the group’s gun battle with federal agents in an attempt to secure the release


militia groups operate within the law, law enforcement is watching. Quietly.

Lackomar says that on the eve of the 2008 presidential election, four SMVM leaders were simultaneously visited by the FBI agents, who wanted to know if the group had heard any chatter about possible violence if Obama was elected.

And the swiftness with which the Hutaree were infiltrated and brought down shows the Feds are not asleep at the wheel.

That is in part because digital tools work both ways, allowing authorities to infiltrate the groups more easily.

IT’S A FAMILY AFFAIR

Back at the Michigan picnic near Detroit, Lee Miracle would do anything for a taste of baklava.

To the extent that the SMVM has a leader, it is Miracle, a 43-year-old, pony-tailed postal worker who has been a member of themovement for two decades.

For Miracle, as for a handful of other SMVM members, the militia is a family affair and all eight of his children, who are aged 6 to 18, have either trained with it or received weapons instruction. At the picnic in early April, Miracle’s wife Katrina, a gracious Greek-American, came too, bearing not a weapon, but an enormous tray of baklava.

One of the group’s more ominous looking pamphlets features Lee Miracle on the cover, standing on the front steps of a house, decked out in camouflage battle gear with a machine pistol resting on his hip. In the bottom left, a small child looks up at the armed, defiant figure in awe. “Defending your home is homeland defense,” it reads.

In person, Miracle turns out to


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Notwithstanding, the existence of wound currents has been recognized for more than 200 years. In early experiments, about 1 μA of current was found to leave a wound in human skin immersed in saline (Barker 1982, Jaffe 1984). In 1980, Illingworth and Barker measured currents with densities of from 10-30 μA/cm2 leaving the stump surface of children's fingers whose tips had been accidentally amputated. This outflowing of current has also been called the “Current of Injury”. It is generally recognized that the electromotive force (EMF) driving currents from wounds made in skin is a direct result of disruptionhealing time, with low bacterial counts (less than 102 to 103) promoting healing. While there are scores of antibacterial and antifungal agents, the efficacy of silver is of particular interest herein. The antimicrobial and antifungal properties of silver and silver compounds are well known. Topical preparations that contain silver or silver compounds-silver nitrate solution, silver sulfadiazine cream, colloidal silver compositions, silver-protein compounds such as Argyrol, and so forth, have been and some are widely used in medicine. The useful effects of these compositions are due to the small amounts of free silver ions produced by dissociation of the silver moiety from the compound to form ionic silver.
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The report said that climate change had made the record-breaking heatwave at least five times more likely

Man-made climate change probably made last month's European heatwave, in which southern France experienced a national record 45.9 degrees Celsius, 4C (7F) hotter than it would otherwise have been, scientists said on Tuesday.

"Climate change is no longer an abstract increase in global mean temperature, but a difference you can feel when you step outside in a heatwave," said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Senior Researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and one of the paper's authors.

"The observations show ... similarly frequent heat waves would have likely been about 4C cooler a century ago," said the report by the World Weather Attribution group of scientists.

It also said that climate change had made therecord-breaking heatwave at least five times more likely.

"We experienced a heatwave whose intensity could become the norm in the middle of the century," said Robert Vautard, senior scientist at France's CNRS institute.

Climate scientists have long said that a warming of the earth's surface caused mainly by industrial-era emissions of carbon-dioxide from fossil fuels will make weather events more extreme, and make those extremes - such as storms, drought and flooding - more frequent.

The World Weather Attribution group used computer models over three days from June 26-28 to calculate the temperatures they would otherwise have expected.

France's new record modern-day temperature, registered in Gallargues-le-Montueux, in the southerly Provence region, was nearly two degrees above the previous high recorded in August 2003.

Meteorologists say a weakening of the high-level jet stream over


Europe is increasingly causing weather systems to stall and leading summer temperatures to soar.

The World Meteorological Organization said on Friday that 2019 was on track to be among the world's hottest years, and that 2015-2019 would then be the hottest five-year period on record.

It said the European heatwave was "absolutely consistent" with extremes linked to the impact of greenhouse gas emissions.serve up – in parks, on street corners, in courtyards, or in their kitchens. The foodfest takes place roughly every three months.

This spring, the organisers were recognized for their commitment to combining cuisine and culture by Denmark, who declared the event the year’s best food event. It was the first time the event received such an honour outside of Finland.

The first Restaurant Day took place back in May 2011, when around 40 pop-up restaurateurs participated. By the time the second occasion rolled around, its popularity had already spread overseas and today the event has been observed in more than 40 countries.

More information about the grassroots culinary festival is available from the event’s Facebook page. Or you can browse the organisers' interactive map to find a restaurant near you.


Chilling tradition of the town where every girl is born to be a sex slave

In a fetid shack swarming with flies, an old woman with a ravaged face is weeping so uncontrollably she struggles to speak.

When she does form words they are jerky and awkward, a string of incomprehensible denials. No, she does not remember. It was a long time ago. She does not understand how it happened.

Eventually, distraught, she wanders out into the filthy yard where chickens peck fruitlessly at the dry earth.

Emotional journey: Actor Anil Kapoor (seated right) talks to the mother of a woman (seated, left) who was sold into sex slavery as a young girl by her own family Time warp: The woman said she could not remember how her daughter had come tobe a sex slave and became increasingly distraught

It is deeply uncomfortable viewing. This old lady, so reduced by age and experience, has just been confronted with the hideous tradition at the heart of her community.

Her daughter - like virtually every other woman in this small Indian town - is a prostitute, sold into the sex trade when she was little more than a girl.

Twenty years on, she is the sole provider for her decimated family, including the mewling baby lying in a wooden crib.

The child belongs to her dead brother. It is a terrible irony that he was the man who sold her into sexual slavery and destroyed her life.

The footage is part of a new CNN documentary Trapped By Tradition focusing on the town of Bharatpur, in


the ancient state of Rajasthan.

It is fronted by the actor Anil Kapoor, best known in the West for his role as the quiz master in Slumdog Millionaire, and one of the most famous men in India.

Obligation: Her daughter (left, face obscured) is still working as a prostitute and is using every penny to support her family Dependent: She is now supporting the child of her dead brother, the man who originally sold her into sexual slavery

Several months after his visit, he is still deeply disturbed by his encounter with the family.

'I didn't expect it,' he says. 'The condition of the house and the way they were living...'

For a second words fail him. Then he continues: 'The mother came and sat down and I started to speak with her.I asked her was she aware of what had happened, that her daughter was trafficked.

'You could see that she knew. She doesn't want to remember. She is completely not functioning. She is in a kind of time warp. She can't forgive herself.'

The film is part of CNN's Freedom Project, a year-long initiative which aims to expose the horrors of slavery in the 21st century.

And though the subject is heartrending, Kapoor's rapport with the community makes it deeply moving.

Welcoming committee: The town turns out to meet Kapoor as he visits Bharatpur for CNN Traditional: The community has had a longstanding tradition of women going to work in the sex industry (there is no implication that any of the women pictured here are prostitutes)

Opportunity: Charity Plan India is working to


change the traditions of the town by educating children

'I am very well-known in India,' he says, explaining the ease with which he persuaded people, including vulnerable women on the periphery of society, to talk. 'They know who I am and they've watched my films. I suppose I'm like a brother or a friend so they trust me. 'That is why they open up to me.'

It was not the 51-year-old actor's first visit to Bharatpur. He travelled there two years ago as part of his work for the charity Plan India, which protects children against abuse and exploitation.

The initial experience was so shattering, he describes himself as 'completely shocked.'

'It's a kind of tradition,' he explains. 'The society and the family do not see anything wrong. It is an obligation.'

Twoand the police.

'There are some who are very responsible and are ashamed of what has happened,' he says.

'But there is a certain section of the town who still want to keep this tradition as if there was nothing wrong. It is these people who have to be punished.'

If the story of Bharatpur is heartbreaking, it is also one of hope.

Kapoor, who has starred in more than 150 films, highlights a young girl who tells him she is hoping to train as an actress.

She is the sister of the woman trafficked by her own brother so many years ago.

Trapped by Tradition airs Saturday September 24 at 8pm, Sunday September 25 at 12pm and Tuesday September 27 at 10.30am and 6.30pm on CNN International.


the structure of stacked body of the cells 1.
The cell 1 has a MEA5, on both sides of which a first separator 6 and a second separator 7 are disposed, respectively. A conduit member 8 has a tube portion 8b which penetrates through a hole of the pressure plate 4, and has a flange 8a on the side of the pressure plate 4 that faces the stacked body. The flange 8a is housed in a housing portion of the terminal 2 and the insulator 3, and is connected via an end-face seal 9 to the stacked body of the cells 1 as a passage.It is contended the information fails to state a public offense for the reason that it is not specifically alleged that the defendant knew his machine had struck the deceased; that the court erred in giving and refusing to give instructions to the jury, and that there is a fatal variance between the allegations of the information and the proof which was adduced.
 The evidence shows that the defendant and his older son jointly owned the automobile which was involved in the accident. At 8:30 o'clock in the evening of November 8, 1936, the defendant was riding in the rear seat of his machine, which was then being operated by his younger sixteen year old son, who was not the joint owner of the vehicle. The operation of


the machine was under the control and direction of the defendant. Another young man by the name of Bradford, who was a friend of the family, was sitting on the front seat by the side of the driver. It was dark. While they were driving along the highway, which was called Shaffer Road, near Atwater, a man by the name of Sylvester Apadoca suddenly appeared on the highway and was struck by the machine. A few moments later he was found dead by a traffic officer at that point on the highway. The defendant knew his machine had struck the pedestrian and he failed to stop to render assistance to the injured man. On the contrary, he deliberately drove on his way and failed to report the accident.The Stambaugh case, supra, declares that it is not necessary to repeat the word "wilfully" in connection with every averment of a pleading, when it is reasonably implied with reference to succeeding clauses. In the present case it is clearly inferred that the defendant was accused of "wilfully" or knowingly failing to stop his car to render aid, when he knew his machine had struck and injured or killed another person. The defendant could not possibly have been misled by that language. He must have known the nature of the offense with which he was charged.
 [3] There is no merit in the appellant's contention that the information is defective in merely alleging that the accused person failed to immediately stop his machine when the accident occurred, leaving


Atwater. Q. Was it on the Shaffer Road? A. The First Street is all I know." It is immaterial whether the accident occurred on a street in Atwater or on an extension of that street outside of the city limits, termed Shaffer Road. It was called both a highway and a street. Section 81 of the Vehicle Code defines a highway as follows:
 "'Street' or 'highway' is a way or place of whatever nature open to the use of the public as a matter of right for purposes of vehicular travel."
 There can be no doubt the accident occurred on a roadway open to the public for the purpose of vehicular travel. There appears to be no variance in that regard.
 The judgment and the orders are affirmed.
33 years ago, one of the most famous and dangerous long range attack mission in Israeli Air Force history.

Israeli Air Force’s interest in the Lockheed Martin F-16 was born after the Yom Kippur War when the IAF realized that, alongside the F-15 Eagle, they needed a new, advanced, relatively cheap, multirole jet.

The negotiations with the U.S. to acquire the F-16 started in 1975 and after some years of delay, caused by the Middle East tensions, the Fighting Falcon sale was finalised in 1979 as result of the Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.

The first F-16s were delivered to the IAF in 1980 and the following year, before all the Netz (as the F-16A is called by IAF) were handed over, the new Vipers took part in


one of the most famous mission in Israeli Air Force history, the Operation Opera.

The operation was aimed at destroying the Iraqi Osirak nuclear plant, also called Tamuz 1, at Al Tuwaitha, 12 miles southeast of Baghdad.

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As explained by Bill Norton in his book Air War on the Edge, A History of the Israel Air Force and its aircraft since 1947, the IAF conducted this attack following Saddam Hussein’s bellicose claims which led to the Israeli fear that the French-built facility could have the capabilities to produce weapons-grade fissionable material.

The training was conducted in the Negev where a mock-up of the nuclear plant was built: against this facility at least two attacks were simulatedin August and September 1980. After the training missions, four dates were set and after three of them were cancelled, on Sunday May 10, 1981 pilots were already aboard their aircraft when the operation was cancelled once again because of the risk some French employees could be inside the Osirak plant at the time of the attack.

But finally on Jun. 7, 1981 at 15:55LT Operation Opera was launched.

Eight F-16s, belonging to both 117 and 110 Squadrons both based at Ramat David, took off from Etzion, the best placed base for the attack, escorted by six F-15s while an E-2C Hawkeye provided airborne early warning and control and several CH-53s for SAR duties were deployed near the Iraqi border.

Two more Fighting Falcons were kept as a reserve.

The F-16s were


armed with two 2,000 pounds Mk. 84, two AIM-9J Sidewinders, two 370 gal. external tanks under the wings and one 300 gall tank under the belly.

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As told by Norton, the Israeli jets flew more than 600 miles in the skies of three supposedly enemy nations: to reach the target, the first country that the aircraft overflew was northern Saudi Arabia and its deserts.

The route over Iraq was planned not only to avoid the radar coverage but also the airfields; inbound to the target the F-16s flew at an altitude between 150 and 300 ft.

At 17:35 with the sun at their back complicating any intercept attempt, the aircraft arrived over the target: before(CNN) Catastrophic wildfires continue to ravage California, as one blaze nearly doubled in size over the last three days, making it the largest in the state's history.

No one has been injured in the Mendocino Complex Fire, which consists of two fires -- the Ranch Fire and the River Fire -- burning around Clear Lake, in several counties in Northern California.

Combined, they form the biggest blaze that California firefighters are currently battling. Altogether, the Mendocino Complex Fire has burned 283,800 acres -- growing about 80% since Friday night. As of Monday evening, it was 30% contained and had destroyed 75 residences.

The Mendocino Complex Fire has now surpassed last year's Thomas Fire, which burned 281,893 acres in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, as the largest fire in Cal Fire history.

Exhausted


firefighters across the state are trying to contain 16 major fires that are burning in hot, dry and windy conditions.

On Monday, another fast-moving fire ignited in the state -- this time in Orange County, where firefighters battled the Holy Fire that expanded to more than 4,000 acres. That fire started in the Cleveland National Forest and evacuations in the nearby areas have been ordered, according to the Orange County Fire Authority.

Trump blames California's 'bad environmental laws'

In Northern California's Shasta County, the devastating Carr Fire claimed its seventh victim Saturday when a Pacific Gas & Electric worker died while working with a crew to restore power, utility spokesman J.D. Guidi said.

Over the weekend, the White House approved a disaster declaration for Shasta County, allowing affected residents from the CarrFire to apply for federal disaster assistance such as temporary housing, home repairs and other programs.

At the same time, President Donald Trump blamed the state's environmental laws for the wildfires.

"California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren't allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilized," he tweeted Sunday. "It is being diverted into the Pacific Ocean. Must also tree clear to stop fire spreading!"

It wasn't immediately clear what California laws Trump was referring to. Henri Grissino-Mayer, a geography professor at the University of Tennessee, said he had "no clue" what Trump was referring to in his tweet.

"California does NOT divert water to the ocean," he told CNN in an email. "Ridiculous. It's true that water is


diverted to the coastal cities for a constant water supply but all such water is used by the coastal communities."

More than 14,000 firefighters are battling the wildfires across California.

"Battling these relentless fires requires a Herculean effort," California Gov. Jerry Brown had written in his request to Trump for a presidential major disaster declaration.

Fire crews from Australia and New Zealand arrived in California to help. They came to Redding, on Monday, according to the US Forest Service-Pacific Southwest Region.

Parts of Redding were damaged by the Carr Fire, which has burned more than 164,413 acres. The fire was 47% contained as of late Monday, according to Cal Fire.

The Carr Fire, now in its third week, is the sixth most destructive in the state's history, having destroyed more than 1,600 structures,according to Cal Fire.

Parts of Yosemite National Park closed indefinitely

Another major fire also burning in Northern California, the Ferguson Fire, extended into its third week.

This fire has killed two people and injured 11 others. And it prompted the indefinite closure of some of the most popular parts of Yosemite National Park, officials announced on Sunday.

"Over the past 48 hours, fire has impacted all of the roads used to access Yosemite Valley, burning dead and downed trees that can become very explosive and fall without warning," according to the National Park Service.

Yosemite Valley is home to some of the most famous destinations of the park.

"There are also significant terrain hazards for firefighters. These hazards, along with extreme fire behavior and frequent weather changes, have made this an extremely difficult


east coast regional headquarters in Arlington and does most of its local business from that location, but also has on-site offices and personnel at law firms and other organizations in the District of Columbia. Blake was interviewed and hired by defendant-appellee Sarah K. Boswell, a resident of the District of Columbia and Director of Operations for PTC's Arlington office at the time.
Blake alleges that in June 1998, Phyllis Reagan, a corporate Vice-President of PTC at the Arlington office, made sexual advances toward her at a bar in Virginia while in the company of other PTC employees. On succeeding occasions, Blake rejected further overtures from Reagan and received assurances from her that she would not be fired for doing so. Beginning in July 1998, according to the complaint, Boswellthen engaged in a pattern of unwanted sexual advances and contact with Blake. Boswell initially scheduled an appointment with Blake, who was a registered massage therapist, for a massage at Boswell's home in the District of Columbia. After the massage the pair had lunch at a restaurant before returning to Boswell's home, where Boswell began fondling Blake's breasts and genitals. The two ultimately engaged in various sexual acts. On succeeding days Blake told Boswell that she did not want a sexual relationship with her, and Boswell responded by harassing and humiliating her in front of other PTC employees.
During the course of the next year, Boswell made numerous demands that Blake accompany her on lunch dates and other social events, including camping and ski trips. Blake acquiesced in these


demands because Boswell had told her "explicitly and implicitly" that she "needed to do so to keep [her] job at PTC." In February 1999, Boswell invited Blake to a bar and restaurant in the District to discuss management-level positions that Blake had applied for at PTC, including one as on-site travel manager at two District law firms. Boswell then invited Blake to her home where she forced herself upon Blake sexually, causing Blake to have to push her way past Boswell and leave the house. Blake was ultimately denied the promotions she was seeking.
Blake further alleges that from July 1998 through June 1999 Boswell "continuously and repeatedly" telephoned her from Boswell's home in the District. In these calls, which often occurred five to seven times a week, Boswelldemanded that Blake engage in sexual acts with her and accompany her socially to various locations. In one such conversation, Boswell stated that "as long as there's an us, you'll have a job at PTC," and in other conversations threatened changes in Blake's work schedule if she did not acquiesce in the sexual demands. In several phone conversations before Boswell rejected Blake for the on-site manager positions, Boswell told her that she was not "cooperating," and Blake replied that "[Boswell's] idea of cooperation included acts of sex and social companionship[,] which . . . were unwanted and unwelcome."[2]
During the same one-year period, Blake accompanied Boswell to a variety of locations in the District where Boswell demanded sexual relations and engaged in unwanted touching of Blake's person.[3]*571 Meanwhile, the


telephone calls from Boswell's home continued, showing a "marked increase" in June 1999 when Boswell demanded that Blake accompany her on a camping trip and other activities, which Blake refused. Finally, in June, Blake demanded that Boswell "should forever and finally cease from pressuring [her] for sexual favors."
On or about June 30, 1999, at a meeting attended by Blake, Boswell and Lynnette Heiges, the Human Resources Representative for PTC in Arlington, Boswell handed Blake a termination letter which she had written. The letter stated that Blake had been on probation since May 19, 1999, because of her inability to effectively service the account of The Federation of State Board Physical Therapy, a PTC client for which Blake was the primary designated travel agent. The letter purported to baseBlake's termination on PTC's loss of this account in June 1999, and indicated that Blake's performance since May 19, 1999, was the reason the account had been lost. When Heiges mentioned that there was no probation letter in Blake's personnel file, Reagan became involved in the situation. She called corporate headquarters in Colorado and was informed that there was not a probation letter in Blake's file. Nevertheless, about a week later, Reagan left a voice message on Blake's home answering machine stating that she was going to abide by Boswell's decision to terminate Blake.
On the basis of these allegations, Blake sued PTC and Boswell in the Superior Court for sexual harassment, creation of a hostile workplace, and retaliation under the District of Columbia Human Rights Act, D.C.Code §§


Encyclopedia of Spiritual — Letter W - WITCHES IN POPULAR CULTURE

Hollywood has had a long history of using the figure of the witch to entertain. In the past this figure has largely been one of strangeness, suspicion, and fear. The stereotypical image of the Wicked Witch of the West from the film version of The Wizard of Oz has shaped popular notions of the witch in children's fantasy and Halloween revelry. Many people continue to think of a witch as a negative, scary character who corrupts innocent youth. In North American popular culture an interesting trend, however, has developed over the past 10 years or so that has drastically reshaped the image of the witch. Where once witches were stereotypically evil, ugly old women with warts and aSustainable Development at the University of Surrey and author of "Prosperity Without Growth - Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow" (Routledge, 2017). He is the Director of CUSP.

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Israel’s occupation has a profound impact on Palestinian children’s psychological development. Issam Rimawi APA images

Palestine is a nation shaped by its arid scenery and history as the holy land. However, since 1948, it has also been defined by the scar of occupation.

A separation wall, ugly and gray, now blights the land which many believe Jesus walked on. It is perhaps one of the most sacrilegious and grotesque structures existing today.

This wall is the very embodiment of the illegal occupation of the West Bank. It serves as a reminder every day, in every place, that Palestinians are not yet free, despite the promises made at Oslo in the mid ’90s and then later at Camp David.

Within the parameters of the wall, however, exists a more subtle (and perhaps moredamaging) form of occupation.

The West Bank city of Nablus rests between two hills. The city center is perennially busy, with people going about their daily business, running mundane errands.

At first glance, there is nothing unusual about Nablus. In many ways it’s a great tourist destination; it has a bustling old city, friendly people and beautiful surroundings. It is easy to forget, or even to remain oblivious of, the fact that Nablus is occupied.

Constantly observed

In reality, occupation surrounds the city. On one side there is a settlement, inhabited by radical Zionists. On the other, there’s an Israeli military base, silently watching over the city. Nablus is constantly being observed.

While the impact of the occupation on the landscape is relatively subtle, its psychological impact on the residents of Nablus is


soldiers let her through, the baby had died. He told the story in a tone of complete hopelessness.

He finished off by saying that nobody cared because his family were Palestinians.

In 2011, Médecins Sans Frontières and Palestinian mental health groups reported that in Nablus in particular, high levels of anxiety disorders among children are being attributed to chronic settler harrassment and Israeli military incursions. And elsewhere across the West Bank, children are “overwhelmingly” suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, the groups stated.

Standing in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle necessitates more than going on a demonstration after Israel launches air strikes on Gaza, or attacks a refugee camp in the West Bank. There remains a need to draw attention to the structural violence of the Israeli occupation — it is indeeda form of violence, as morally reprehensible as the bombing of a civilian population.

We must not focus our fight solely on the physical salvaging of Palestine. This is not simply a battle for land, it is a battle against the oppression of the mind as well as the body.

Alia Al Ghussain is an Anglo-Arab who was born and raised in Dubai. She is pursuing a masters degree in human rights at the University of Sussex.


Akosua Adomako Ampofo is a Professor of African and Gender Studies, and Director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon. She received her PhD from Vanderbilt University, and holds an MSc in Development Planning from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, a Post-graduate Diploma in Spatial Planning from the University of Dortmund, and a BSc in Architectural Design, also from KNUST.

She is co-editor of Ghana Studies (University of Wisconsin Press) with Stephan Miescher (UC Santa Barbara).

Adomako Ampofo is a member of diverse professional and civil society organisations including the African Studies Association, the Ghana Studies Association and the International Sociological Association (of which she is co-president of the Research Committee on Women and Society with Josephine Beoku-Betts, Florida AtlanticUniversity). She is an Advisory/Steering Committee Board Member of the African Humanities Fellowship Program, the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Fellowship Program, the Centre for African Studies at the University of the Free State, South Africa, the African Heritage Initiative at the University of Michigan, the Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race. Adomako Ampofo has been a Board Member of the Ghana AIDS Commission, Co-convenor of the Women’s Caucus of the ASA and has done work with organizations such as the Ministry of Health (Ghana), the Association of African Universities, CODESRIA, the National Research Foundation (South Africa, with Carnegie Corporation), and a variety of UN agencies. She has received awards from the Rockefeller foundation, the Population Council, the Spencer Foundation, UNFPA, WHO, and has been a Rockefeller


Bellagio Centre Resident, a Fulbright Junior scholar as well as a Fulbright New Century Scholar. In 2010 she was awarded the Sociologists for Women in Society Feminist Activism award. Adomako Ampofo is the 2014 AW Mellon Research Fellow at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town.By Thomas Edgington

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Only one in three young people are putting funds into a pension Half of UK adults aged between 20 and 60 are not putting aside any funds into a pension, a survey commissioned by the BBC suggests. The survey of 1,358 people by Gfk NOP indicated the situation was worst among under-30s, with only about one in three or 36% putting anything into a scheme. Affordability is the main barrier for young people, with many saying they are instead having to pay off debts. Among 41 to 60-year-olds, 45% are not currently paying into a pension fund. The report suggested a number of reasons for this, ranging from people who had been made redundant to women who had never joined a pension scheme because of


In April, a St Louis area single mom lost her day job when her employer discovered her out-of-hours work: blogging about her polyamorous escapades. The woman – whose blog is called 'The Beautiful Kind' (or TBK) – was unmasked thanks to cached copy available on Twitter search engine Topsy: her full name (which she'd entered, then deleted) was still listed next to her nickname in the search engine.

Thanks to TBK's story, Topsy no longer displays a user's full name next to his or her Twitter nickname, even if the user has associated the two. "We may add [full names] back in the future, after we can fill in the gaps in the existing system," Topsy spokesman Brian Merritt tells Inc.com. "The story of the blogger and our disappointmentdealing with the effects of being a pariah. I don't even fit in with the sex bloggers!" She's just finished an e-book for women that will be available in early July, she's "pouring [her] heart and soul" into the website, and she hasn't given up hope on a steady job with benefits.

In the meantime, she says she's "living the authentic life. I truly hope it pays off!"


No parole for former dairy princess in 1989 love triangle killing

WAUSAU — Parole has not been granted to a former dairy princess convicted of killing her ex-boyfriend’s fiancee 27 years ago.

The state Parole Commission held a hearing Wednesday for Lori Esker and deferred her parole eligibility until next August. Another parole hearing is expected in June.

Esker, now 48, was convicted in 1990 of first-degree intentional homicide in the death of Lisa Cihaski. The 21-year-old woman was strangled with a belt by Esker in a car in a Rib Mountain motel parking lot. Cihaski was engaged to Esker’s former boyfriend.

Witnesses testified the Marathon County dairy princess was obsessive and still wanted a relationship with the man.

The case was featured in the TV movie “Beauty’s Revenge,” which was seen onHospital: Deaths 'appear to be unpredictable and unpreventable'

South Shore Hospital has launched an internal review and has notified the state after two women died from complications during childbirth at the hospital in one month, a hospital spokeswoman said Sunday.

Christie Billodeau Fazio, 30, of Marshfield, who worked as a nurse at South Shore Hospital, died Dec. 14 at the hospital while giving birth to a healthy 8-pound, 10-ounce son named Jonathan Lee Fazio.

"South Shore Hospital extends our deepest condolences to the families of our patients, and our focus is on supporting them at this difficult time, as well as supporting our colleagues who are devastated by these losses," the medical center said in a statement.

"Our teams responded to both cases swiftly and aggressively – they did everything possible. It


is too early to know the exact nature of the underlying factors that led to these tragic outcomes. All signs suggest that the two situations were unrelated, unanticipated, and unpreventable," the statement continued.

The Enterprise reported that maternal deaths during pregnancy and childbirth are strikingly unusual in the United States. In Massachusetts, on average, five women have died each year during the past 10 years as a result of childbirth-related circumstances, according to statistics from two state agencies.

There were three such deaths in 2011 and three in 2012, according to statistics kept by the state Board of Registration in Medicine.

Nationwide, there are about 650 maternal deaths each year during pregnancy and delivery, according to the federal government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That number has been creeping up yearafter year, and now is double what it was 25 years ago. Better reporting of maternal deaths and environmental factors have been cited as reason for that upward drift.

The maternity staff at the South Shore Hospital in Weymouth hospital, which sees an average of 3,500 births each year, “has been understandably devastated,” Darcy said of the deaths of the two mothers there.

Celia’s father, Raymond Romero of Easton, said his daughter went to South Shore Hospital on Wednesday for a planned Caesarean-section delivery, and died from complications during the procedure.

The C-section, which was Celia’s first after having delivered her first three children vaginally, was planned because doctors had deemed her latest pregnancy to be high-risk, he said.

Doctors told Celia’s family that she had an amniotic fluid embolism, but the


family is awaiting autopsy results for the exact cause of death, Romero said.

An embolish is a blockage in the bloodstream. An amniotic fluid embolism is a rare but serious condition that occurs when amniotic fluid – the fluid that surrounds a baby in the uterus during pregnancy – or fetal material, such as hair, enters the maternal bloodstream, according to the Mayo Clinic website.

Such an embolism is most likely to occur during childbirth or immediately afterward.

Celia is survived by her husband, Paul, and her three other children, ages 14, 9 and 6.

Celia’s family and friends gathered for a memorial service in New Hope Christian Chapel in Easton on Saturday afternoon.

Celia is being remembered as a vibrant young mother who lived for her children, her father said. She lovedENTIRE YEAR. NEW AT 6:00 TONIGHT WE ARE LEARNING MORE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO BOTH MOTHERS. GET TO KIMBERLY BOOKMAN LIVE IN WEYMOUTH RIGHT NOW. KIMBERLY? I TALKED TO THE HUSBANDS AND THEY ARE STILL IN DISBELIEF TONIGHT. THEY LEFT THE HOSPITALS WITH BABIES BUT NOT THEIR WIVES. TWO WOMEN WORE BEAUTIFUL WHITE WEDDING DRESSES, STARTING THEIR HAPPILY IN EVER AFTERS. ON THE WAY TO LIVING OUT THEIR FAIRY TALES EACH BECAME PREGNANT AND DIED IN CHILD BIRTH. AND DECEMBER 14, A HEALTHY 30-YEAR-OLD HAD A C-SECTION AT SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL, THE VERY PLACE WHERE SHE WORKED AT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL. SHE DELIVERED A BABY BOY THAT SHE WOULDN'T LIVE TO SEE GROW UP. A MONTH LATER ON JANUARY 15, 32 COLLEEN OF MIDDLEBOROUGH WENT TO SOUTH SHORE


Mikhail Anshakov, earlier said the demonstration was designed to allow "working people" the chance to show their support for the almost 30 people detained in the year since the May 6, 2012 protest.

Anti-Putin figures say the clashes between police and protesters at last year's rally were provoked by the authorities to allow them to clamp down on dissent.

The Kremlin's human rights council has also said the police initiated the violence.

Leftist activist Konstantin Lebedev was jailed last month for 2.5 years after admitting to having organised the May 6 "mass unrest" with Left Front head Sergei Udaltsov, Left Front activist Leonid Razvozzhayev and Georgian politician Givi Targamadze.

Investigators say Targamadze funded the unrest as part of a plot to topple Putin.

Udaltsov has been under house arrest since February and Razvozzhayevthus the numbering skipped from 1 to 13. In September 2014, it was announced on the GNU emacs-devel mailing list that GNU Emacs would adopt a rapid release strategy and version numbers would increment more quickly in the future.

GNU Emacs was later ported to Unix. It offered more features than Gosling Emacs, in particular a full-featured Lisp as its extension language, and soon replaced Gosling Emacs as the de facto Unix Emacs editor. Markus Hess exploited a security flaw in GNU Emacs' email subsystem in his 1986 cracking spree in which he gained superuser access to Unix computers.

Most of GNU Emacs functionality is implemented through a scripting language called Emacs Lisp. Because about 70% of GNU Emacs is written in the Elisp extension language, one only needs to


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Almost all of the functionality in Emacs, including basic editing operations such as the insertion of characters into a document, is achieved through functions written in a dialect of the Lisp programming language. The dialect used in GNU Emacs is known as Emacs Lisp (ELisp). The ELisp layer sits atop a stable core of basic services and platform abstraction written in the C programming language. In this Lisp environment, variables and functions can be modified with no need to recompile or restart Emacs.

Emacs operates on data structures called buffers containing text with additional attributes; every buffer maintains its own point (cursor location) and mark (another location, delimiting the selected region together with the point), the name of the file it is visiting (if applicable) and the setof Saudi officials removing the sign of the office of pilgrims affairs in Mecca belonging to Iran, and some Iranian social media users began to call for a boycott of the hajj, which will take place in September.

Iranian member of parliament Mohammad Ali Esfanani, spokesman for the parliament’s Judicial and Legal Committee, said the termination of diplomatic relations means that the hajj should also be suspended.

The hajj pilgrimage is mandatory for Muslims who are able to afford it. Umrah pilgrimage, which is not mandatory and can be undertaken at any time of the year, was suspended in April after two Iranian boys were sexually assaulted by Saudi security at Jeddah airport.

Esfanani said that while the hajj is mandatory, it can be excused when there are difficult circumstances. He


rejected the idea of having another country handle visa issues for the hajj.

This is not the first time there have been calls for suspending Iranian participation in the hajj. Esfanani said that Iran should have first cut diplomatic ties in September after a stampede in the Saudi city of Mina killed 461 Iranian pilgrims. According to Saudi officials, only 769 people total were killed, but according to The Associated Press, over 2,400 people died. Ohadi said that after the stampede, 79 Iranians were buried in Mecca, but that the families of 37 of those buried there requested that their bodies be returned to Iran. So far, Saudi Arabia has returned 10 of the bodies.

Saudi Arabia’s decision to cut ties with its regional rival Iran came after protesters stormedorganization office.

The year 2015 was a tragic year for Iranian pilgrims. In addition to the Jeddah airport attack and the Mina stampede, on Sept. 14 a crane crash killed over 100 people, eight of them Iranian, including a top scientist.

The last time Iran and Saudi Arabia suspended diplomatic ties was in 1987, when Iranian protesters on the hajj clashed with Saudi security. Saudi Arabia drastically reduced the number of permitted pilgrims, causing Iran to suspend hajj travel for three years. It was not until 1991 that relations were resumed and Iranian pilgrims were allowed to return in their previous numbers.

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The US has signed a $45bn (£28bn) export deal with China, according to a Washington official.

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studying Asian religions, and Japanese religions in particular?

Levi McLaughlin: I received my Ph.D. in religion from Princeton University in 2009, but this came about after a circuitous route through other educational experiences. When I was a teenager in Toronto in the 1980s, I trained intensely in classical music, spending upwards of four or five hours a day practicing violin and piano. At the age of eighteen, just as I entered undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto in the early ’90s, I decided somewhat abruptly to switch away from professional training in music toward the academic study of Japan. Music remained an integral part of my life, particularly the violin, but I majored in Japanese Studies at U of T, and I was lucky enough to spend mythird year in Japan as an exchange student at Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya, a school I’m delighted to learn also enjoys an exchange relationship with NC State. I completed a Master’s of Arts in East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto right after my B.A., and I also took classes in religious studies, and then I returned to Japan for another year, this time to teach English at a middle school in Osaka.

Levi McLaughlin. Photo courtesy of Levi McLaughlin.

This disconnect drew my interest. As a foreigner newly arrived in Japan, I was in a paradoxically advantageous position to learn about the elephant in the room, this contemporary “religion” taboo I was told was difficult or impossible to research by people with deep-rooted Japanese social ties. The


remains woefully under-researched.

So I decided to spend years researching the organization.

In 2000, I was fortunate to receive a fellowship from the Japanese government that allowed me to begin study as a graduate student at the University of Tokyo, where I worked under Shimazono Susumu, Japan’s pre-eminent scholar of modern and contemporary religion. I began ethnographic fieldwork with grassroots-level members of Soka Gakkai.

When you do fieldwork, you have to begin by using whatever tools are available to you. My background in music allowed me to join a Soka Gakkai symphony orchestra in Tokyo – one of several that the organization maintained, just in the Tokyo region – as I began learning about the lives of Gakkai adherents and the organization’s history, doctrine, practice, social life, and other dimensions. FromI’ve been able to continue expanding the scope of my research, geographically and disciplinarily.

Before I came to NC State in the fall of 2012, I taught religion at Wofford College in South Carolina and anthropology at the University of Iowa as a postdoctoral researcher in Asian and Pacific studies. A couple of years ago I began researching and publishing on religious responses to the compound earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters of March 2011 in northeastern Japan, and I have released a number of articles on this issue, some in collaboration with scholars and practitioners working in development, relief work, and Southeast Asian studies.

In 2011, I was also a visiting researcher at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, where I was able to carry out concentrated work


on a comparatively new interest of mine – the connection between religion and politics in contemporary Asia.

TA: When and why did you decide to focus on the intersection of religion and politics in Japan?

McLaughlin: One of the most significant aspects of Soka Gakkai, and one of the reasons it numbers among Japan’s most controversial religious groups, is its presence in electoral politics. Soka Gakkai began fielding independent candidates in Japanese elections from 1955, and it founded Komeito in 1964, at that time with the express purpose of realizing Buddhist doctrinal objectives. Komeito and Soka Gakkai separated officially in 1970, and both the religion and the political party have abandoned political aspirations driven by these foundational Buddhist mandates. But generations of Gakkai adherents have continued to mobilize for Komeitopolitics – how parties work, how they select candidates, how they formulate policy, and how they operate in opposition and in coalition.

From 2009, I began conversations with an exciting group of political scientists who came together from across the United States, Germany, and Japan to pursue their interest in researching Komeito. In the same way that Soka Gakkai has eluded sustained research in religious studies, so too has Komeito remained under-studied in political science, despite its longevity and influence on Japanese politics. This Komeito-focused group has come to include eight political scientists and one religious studies scholar – myself. Between 2010 and the present, we have collaborated in Japan on fieldwork observations of Komeito elections, archival study of the party, and data analysis in order to understand how


the party functions.

Our work promises to be relevant to anyone who is interested in the intersection of religion and politics in democracy, particularly those who are looking for examples beyond the Christian and Muslim case studies that tend to dominate the field. And because we are non-member researchers who have spent extended periods of time carrying out ethnography, interviewing influential Komeito politicians, and analyzing heretofore unexamined data, our studies comprise exciting additions to impartial inquiry into contemporary politics/religion issues.

McLaughlin:Komeito: Politics and Religion in Japan was just released by the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley in November 2014. I co-edited the volume with George Ehrhardt (Appalachian State University), Axel Klein (Duisburg-Essen, Germany) and Steven R. Reed (Chuo University, Japan), and our authors include theeditors along with scholars based at Harvard University, the University of Vermont, and other schools.

The relevance of our research has been proven by the Dec. 14, 2014 general election in Japan. The Liberal Democratic Party has just swept into a super-majority in the Japanese parliament along with its coalition partner Komeito. It is evident that this crushing victory can be credited in no small part to Komeito and its Soka Gakkai member voters.

To understand this most recent electoral success, and to understand other pivotal moments in Japanese democracy since the 1950s, readers should consult our book. Komeito: Politics and Religion in Japantraces Komeito’s origins in Soka Gakkai and its development into a normal political party – that is, a conventional operator in the Japanese parliamentary system, only one


in Kuala Lumpur, and detained for three days without charge. He was later charged in relation to nine political images he had posted online, with a potential penalty of up to 43 years in prison. Five of his books were also been banned on the grounds that their contents were “detrimental to public order”.

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At least that's the impression from a mandatory forum for incoming freshmen, where free speech was actually allowed.

"I think it's really important to keep in mind that a respectful campus climate is not achieved by policing what people think or say," Elisa Glick, an associate professor of women's studies and English, said at the event, a recording of which was provided to the College Fix.

Glick explained that she had been disowned by her family after coming out as a lesbian, but ultimately led to her ability to cope with intolerance.

"You can't control the … circumstances that you find yourself in …


just what occurred at the Mizzou protests last fall. "At the time, black students were requesting safe spaces from their white allies, a street preacher was punched in the mouth for criticizing the Ferguson protests, and campus police encouraged students to report their classmates for 'hurtful speech.'"

This latest development is welcome — and necessary, as Mizzou's coddling of campus snowflakes last fall led to a significant drop in admissions and a loss of millions of dollars.

Ashe Schow is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.football team which earned UPI honors as national champion, also 7-year NFL career as a linebacker
 Steven W. Lindsey, class of 1978, is a United States Air Force Colonel and NASA astronaut
 Jimmy Conrad, class of 1994, made the U.S. roster for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, defender for the Kansas City Wizards
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longer talk,” he said, and it was a tough decision for him to make.

With Republicans on the lam, Gov. Kate Brown and House Speaker Tina Kotek, of Portland, threatened to withhold special appropriations from Republican senators’ districts. Those are usually included in an appropriations measure known as the “Christmas tree bill,” passed at the end of the session. Baertschiger said Brown personally called leaders in Republicans’ districts to voice that threat.

In contrast, Baertschiger said, “I had no threats from the Senate President."

The Senate Republican leader said he returned to Oregon on Wednesday and met with Brown and Courtney. That was a day after Courtney announced on the Senate floor, apparently without forewarning fellow Democratic lawmakers and the governor, that there were not enough Democratic votes in the senateeven travelled so far as the Arctic Circle, in far northern Russia, to reach a crossing into Norway. Now, up to 20 Syrians a month are crossing into the tiny Norwegian town of Kirkenes in search of asylum. That’s about 2,500 miles north of Damascus.

Despite the colossal and growing numbers, the human catastrophe has gone largely unreported and unnoticed. The crisis has only recently returned to the public conciousness following the capsizing of 5 migrant boats during April of 2015, carrying an estimated 2000 individuals in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Greece. Like the boats off the coast of Libya, the death toll is unacceptably high, placed at more than 1,200 individuals. Travelling over land can be no safer, requiring complicated smuggling routes over difficult terrain


in the hands of shady underworld figures. Last August, the discovery of a truck parked on a motorway in Austria exposed the dark reality of these attempts when it was discovered that 71 refugees had suffocated inside due to bad ventilation.

Greece has borne the brunt of the human cost in recent years, surpassing Italy as the number one European recipient of mainly Syrian and Afghan refugees according to a UNHCR report. Its geographic proximity to Turkey has made it a key destination for human cargo brought by the people smugglers. From there, they begin the long journey to what they see as the prosperous Western Europe.

A Frontex Officer watches the border for refugees.

The economic turmoil facing Greece has distracted it from instigating an effective response to the endlessthe Schengen agreement and its constituents.

This freedom of movement has previously come under pressure. In 2011, the then President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, called for Schengen’s reform following domestic pressure from the right-wing to curb large-scale immigration from North Africa.

The reforms did not come to pass however and Germany has since taken 40% of Syrians who have reached Europe. It is expected that by the end of 2015, Germany will have received 800,000 Syrian applicants seeking asylum, four times the amount processed in 2014.

Desperate people attempt to scale the border fences in Algeria in their attempt to enter Western Europe

On the 24th of August 2015, the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees issued internal instructions suspending the Dublin protocol in


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Previous to passing away, Taiwanese billionaire set up trusts in the United States, one of which was in Washington D.C., apparently in order to reduce the share of his estate that would go to his surviving wife. The representative for the surviving wife sued the D.C. trust after the billionaire passed away.

The district court dismissed based on lack of subject matter diversity, as there was no complete diversity. The district court held that citizenship of a trust is to be determined by referring to the citizenship of the trust's beneficiaries. The district court found that, because the trust's beneficiaries included non-U.S. citizen aliens, no complete diversity existed as both the plaintiff and the defendant were aliens.

The D.C. Circuit reversed on this issue, holding that aWriting Mary Sue

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6. Leaves of Silver; Leaves of Gold

The Elvenking's mounted train had passed out of the Forest Gate on the western edge of the wood, and Sigrid beheld for the first time the tall chain of mountains the Elves called the Hithlaeglir. Although a wide plain and a river stretched in between, it seemed to her that she might reach out and touch them. The warm weather of spring had melted the snow in the forest, yet the eastern slopes of the mountains were still covered in white, their tall peaks shrouded in a mist of clouds.

"It is said that they were taller still, before an ancient war broke the land," said Thranduil. "Some of the elves of the Great Journey found the sight of them too


south to Ithilien, where Sigrid would finally meet her Lord's son, and the prospect of being seen and judged by this mysterious Prince Legolas filled her with trepidation.

Sigrid rode her own horse now, at Thranduil's side. Riding was but one of the new skills she had mastered in the last ten years in Thranduil's court. She could read now, and write, and she spoke the tongue of the Elves so well that she sometimes thought in it rather than the language of her birth. When she looked into her mirror now, she saw a lady, although she still felt like the same humble forest girl playing a part in a mummery.

What the elves of her Lord's realm saw when she rode at his side or sat beside himat dinner, she could not have said. Always, she felt the weight of eyes upon her, eyes of shades in blue and grey, filled with curiosity and something else. Did they see a lady? Did they see a concubine? Did some, perhaps, see a friend?

She rarely left Thranduil's side when he was at his leisure, but even she had been forced to find a way of filling up those hours when his duties took him from her. Back in her days with Asa, she had begun to learn to spin and weave, and she had pestered Thranduil to show her the halls where his folk produced the dyed silk that he traded with the Men of Rhûn and sent to the lands of the south.

She had laughed outright