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Electoral milestones for Indigenous Australians

Aboriginal society was governed by customary laws handed down by the creative ancestral beings

1770

Captain Cook claimed the eastern half of the Australian continent for Great Britain.

1788

European settlement of Australia commenced. When colonising Australia, the British Government used the term Terra Nullius (meaning land of no-one) to justify the dispossession of Indigenous people. Traditional Aboriginal systems of tribal land ownership were neither recognised nor acknowledged. Colonial and later national development was based exclusively on the English legal system

1829

British sovereignty extended to cover the whole of Australia – everyone born in Australia, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, became a British subject by birth

1843

First parliamentary elections in Australia (for New South Wales Legislative Council) were held. The right to vote was limited to men witha freehold valued at £200 or a householder paying rent of £20 per year

1850 +

The Australian colonies become self governing – all adult (21 years) male British subjects were entitled to vote in South Australia from 1856, in Victoria from 1857, New South Wales from 1858, and Tasmania from 1896. This included Indigenous people but they were not encouraged to enrol. Queensland gained self-government in 1859 and Western Australia in 1890, but these colonies denied Indigenous people the vote

1885

Queensland Elections Act excluded all Indigenous people from voting

1893

Western Australian law denied the vote to Indigenous people

1895

All adult women in South Australia, including Indigenous women, won the right to vote

1901

Commonwealth Constitution became operative – Section 41 was interpreted to deny the vote to all Indigenous people, except those on state


rolls

1902

The first Commonwealth Parliament passed the Commonwealth Franchise Act of 1902, which was progressive for its time in granting the vote to both men and women. It did however; specifically exclude 'any aboriginal native of Australia, Asia, Africa or the Islands of the Pacific, except New Zealand' from Commonwealth franchise unless already enrolled in a state. The Aboriginal franchise was further reduced in practice by admitting only those Aboriginal people already enrolled in a state in 1902.

1915

Queensland introduced compulsory voting. This was later introduced in all other jurisdictions

1920

Commonwealth Nationality Act denied the vote to people of South Sea Island origin despite being British Subjects

1922

Regulations in the Northern Territory excluded Indigenous people from voting. Officials had the power to decide who was Indigenous

1925

Natives of British India gained the votein Australian federal elections

1940s +

Professor AP Elkin, the Aborigines Friends Association, and others agitated for better conditions for Indigenous people and their right to vote

1948

Nationality and Citizenship Act established that all Australian born people are citizens of Australia rather than British subjects

1949

The right to vote in federal elections was extended to Indigenous people who had served in the armed forces, or were enrolled to vote in state elections. Indigenous people in Queensland, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory still could not vote in their own state/territory elections

1957

Under the Northern Territory Welfare Ordinance, almost all Indigenous people in the Northern Territory were declared to be "wards of the state" and denied the vote

1962

Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal


elections, including Northern Territory elections, but enrolment was not compulsory. Despite this amendment, it was illegal under Commonwealth legislation to encourage Indigenous Australians to enrol to vote. Western Australia extended the State vote to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Voter education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people began in the Northern Territory. 1 338 Indigenous Australians enrolled to vote in Northern Territory elections

1965

Queensland allowed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to vote in State elections. Queensland was the last State to grant this right

1967

A Referendum approved Commonwealth Constitutional change. Section 127 of the Constitution was struck out in its entirety. This amendment allowed Indigenous Australians to be counted in the Commonwealth Census. Section 51 of the Constitution was amended to allow the Commonwealth to make speciallaws for Indigenous people. Both Houses of the Parliament passed the proposed Act unanimously; consequently a 'No' case was not submitted. More than 90% of Australians registered a YES vote with all six states voting in favour

1971

Neville Bonner AO (1922–1999) was the first Indigenous Australian to be appointed to Federal Parliament in Australia. Neville Bonner was born on Ukerbagh Island in the Tweed River in New South Wales. After many years of itinerant work, he stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the half Senate election in 1970. In 1971 Neville Bonner was appointed by the Queensland Parliament to replace the Queensland Liberal Senator, Dame Annabel Rankin, who had retired from Federal Parliament. At the 1972 election he was returned as a Liberal Senator for Queensland. Senator Bonner continued


to represent Queensland as a Liberal Senator until 1983. At the 1983 election he stood as an Independent candidate but was not re-elected

1973

First national elections for Indigenous people to elect 41 members of the National Aboriginal Consultative committee. More than 27 000 Indigenous people voted. Minimum voting age lowered from 21 to 18

1974

Hyacinth Tungutalum (Country Liberal Party), from Bathurst Island was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Arafura. Eric Deeral (National Party), became the first Indigenous Australian to be elected to the Queensland Parliament representing the electorate of Cook

1977

Neville Perkins (Australian Labor Party) was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. He became the first Indigenous Australian to hold a shadow portfolio, and was appointed deputy leader of the Northern Territory Australian LaborParty

1979

Australian Electoral Commission began the Aboriginal Electoral Education Program. Cyril Kennedy (Australian Liberal Party) was the first Indigenous Australian to be elected to the Victorian Legislative Council, representing the electorate of Waverley.

1980

Ernie Bridge (Australian Labor Party) became the first Indigenous member of the Parliament of Western Australian when he won the seat of Kimberley. He later became the first Indigenous Australian to hold a Ministerial office. Mobile polling first used in remote Northern Territory and Western Australia for state/territory election

1983

Wesley Lanhupuy (Australian Labor Party), from central coastal Arnhem land was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Arnhem

1984

Mobile polling first used in remote Northern Territory and Western Australia for Commonwealth elections. Enrolment and voting in Commonwealth elections made compulsory for Indigenous Australians

1987

Stanley Tipiloura (Australian


Labor Party), from Bathurst Island, was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Arafura

1990

ATSIC (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission) created – elected regional councils and a board of commissioners made decisions on policy and funding. ATSIC elections were conducted by the Australian Electoral Commission

1992

Maurice Rioli (Australian Labor Party), from Melville Island was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Arafura

John Ah Kit (Australian Labor Party), from Darwin was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Arnhem

1996

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Electoral Information Service was abolished due to withdrawal of Commonwealth funds. Paul Harriss (Independent) elected to the Legislative Council in Tasmania for the electorate for Huon

1998

Aden Ridgeway was the second Indigenous Australian elected to theAustralian Federal Parliament. He was born in 1962 at Macksville, New South Wales. Aden Ridgeway took his seat in the Senate as an Australian Democrat for New South Wales on 1 July 1999 following his election at the October 3, 1998 federal election. His term expired on 30 June 2005

2001

Carol Martin (Australian Labor Party), became the first Indigenous Woman to be elected to a State Parliament when she won the seat of Kimberley in the Parliament of Western Australia. Matthew Bonson (Darwin), Elliot McAdam (Tennant Creek) and Marion Scrymgour (Melville Island), were elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorates of Millner, Barkly and Arafura respectively. They join John Ah Kit as members of the first Labor Government in the Northern Territory

2002

Kathryn Hay (Australian Labor Party),


elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly representing the electorate of Bass. Marion Scrymgour (Australian Labor Party) in the Northern Territory Assembly became the first female Indigenous minister in any government in the history of Australia.

2003

Linda Burney (Australian Labor Party) is the first Indigenous Australian elected to the New South Wales Parliament. She represents the electorate of Canterbury

2005

Following the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly election, Barbara McCarthy (Territory Labor) was elected to represent the electorate of Arnhem, and Alison Anderson (Territory Labor) was elected to represent the electorate of Macdonnell. They join Matthew Bonson, Elliot McAdam and Marion Scrymgour in the Northern Territory Government. One fifth of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly electorates are represented by Indigenous Australians. Legislation was enacted to dissolve the Aboriginal and Torres Strait IslanderCommission and Regional Councils at the end of the 2005 financial year

2006

Ben Wyatt (Australian Labor Party) elected in a by-election to the Western Australian parliament for the electorate of Victoria Park. He was re-elected in 2008.

2008

Marion Scrymgour (Australian Labor Party) in the Northern Territory Assembly became the first female Indigenous deputy chief minister. Adam Giles (Country Liberal Party) was elected to represent the electorate of Braitling in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly.

2010

Ken Wyatt (Liberal Party of Australia) was elected as the first Indigenous member of the House of Representatives, representing the electorate of Hasluck in Western Australia.

2011

Chris Bourke (ACT Labor) was the first Indigenous Australian elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly, representing the seat of Ginninderra in Australian Capital Territory

2012

Bess Price (Country Liberal Party) was elected to the


Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, representing the seat of Stuart. Francis Kurrupuwu (Country Liberal Party) was also elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, representing the seat of Arafura. Larisa Lee (Country Liberal Party) was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, representing the seat of Arnhem. Ken Vowles (Territory Labor) was elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, representing the seat of Johnston

2013

Adam Giles (Country Liberal Party) was appointed the Northern Territory's Chief Minister in March 2013 becoming Australia's first Indigenous head of government. Nova Peris (Australian Labor Party) became the first Indigenous Woman elected to the Australian Parliament and was sworn in as a Senator representing the Northern Territory on 12 November 2013. Josephine (Josie) Farrer (Australian Labor Party) was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly,representing the seat of Kimberley in Western Australia. Jacqui Lambie (Palmer United Party) was elected Senator for Tasmania

2015

Ken Wyatt (Liberal Party Australia) was appointed the Assistant Health Minister in September 2015 to become the first Indigenous Member of Parliament to reach the frontbench. Joanna Lindgren (Liberal National Party) was appointed a Senator by the Parliament of Queensland to fill the casual vacancy caused by Queensland senator Brett Mason's resignation. Leeanne Enoch (Australian Labor Party) was the first Indigenous Women elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly, representing the seat of Algester in Queensland. Leeanne has since been appointed the Minister for Housing and Public Works and Minister for Science and Innovation in Queensland. William (Billy) Gordon (Australian Labor Party) was also elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly, representing the


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Forty years ago, Neal Adams belonged to a poor man's gym: a Coney Island moving company. This was years before he reinvented Batman and X-Men, almost single-handedly reviving the wheezing comic book industry. He had talent and drive, but the comics business was tough to crack into, so he did whatever it took to make ends meet. These days, the 59-year-old artist pays to do his lifting twice a week at the Chelsea Piers Sports Center, a beautiful-people jockopolis on Manhattan's West Side. Today, with Ethan Hawke shooting baskets a few yards away, Adams is working his chest.

Except that he's doing more talking than lifting. At the bench press, with 360 pounds resting 2 feet over his head, he's holding forth about a radical scientific


more could you ask from an aging comics genius?

At the bench press, Adams finally stops talking and gets ready to lift. As I stand above him, looking doubtful, he hoists the bar off its notches. Quickly, he brings it down near his chest and thrusts it up again. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

Two reps shy of a set, he sits up, beaming. Not bad, his face seems to say, for an old fart.

The decor in the 45th Street offices of Adams' Continuity Studios is right out of 1975, complete with a mix of paneling, red carpeting, and once-mod mirrors that now seem dreary. Many of the employees are family members, which makes the place homey, though it's also a bit stifling. Especially considering that Adams' currentwife, Marilyn, runs the place and his ex-wife, Cory, answers the phones. But this family-saturation approach makes Adams comfortable, and at Continuity that's job one.

Although Adams hasn't published any comics for years, the fame he earned in the late '60s and early '70s is still paying dividends. He draws occasional prints for Warner Bros. stores, and he has designed a few theme park rides, including Universal Studios' T2. Ten years ago, Continuity opened a beachhead office in Burbank, California, to do illustration work for Hollywood, and Adams has plans to break into movies once Two Guys is behind him. Until then there are bills to pay, mostly by way of low-res animation for ad agencies. But that's only when he's not promoting or explaining the book, which he


does with unique gusto.

In a typical sprint - a nine-hour lecture he delivered to me one sunny day in November - Adams' stream of often-profane verbiage is interrupted only by swills of Diet Coke and a few bathroom breaks. Sometimes he grows angry at one foe or another ("People are assholes, that pretty much explains everything") or becomes incredulous at the very notion that science is complicated: "I could teach you all you'll ever need to know about physics in a term!" He doesn't stop to eat. He doesn't even wait for questions - he asks and answers everything himself.

His interest in geology dates back to the early '70s, a few years after researchers accepted the notion that the continents rest on tectonic plates that drift slowly aroundI've ever showed this to has said, 'How could it be any other way?'"

As a child, Adams was drawn to both art and science. He dreamed of a scientific education, but there was no money for college - his dad skipped out when he was 13 - so in the early '50s he enrolled at a vocational high school for aspiring artists, the School of Industrial Arts (now the High School of Art and Design) in Manhattan, intending to study comic book illustration.

This was a turbulent era in comicdom. Thanks in part to a sensationalist book called Seduction of the Innocent, which linked juvenile delinquency to comic books, the industry had instituted the Comics Code, a now infamous form of self-censorship. "It was a strange time," Adams says.


"People were looking for spooks under every bed. And there were some pretty disgusting comic books back then. So by 1954, that was it."

At DC and Marvel, Adams was a great craftsman, a crusader, and a colossal ego - fearless, hard-nosed, but no hero.

The school had stopped teaching comic book art, but Adams and a few classmates convinced one teacher to offer a course. When Adams graduated, he thought his portfolio would get him a job. It didn't. An assistant at DC Comics told him his stuff was good, but he was wasting his time: The industry was dying. He got a little work at Archie Comics, and then bounced around, doing some advertising stuff and a comic strip called Ben Casey.

With a more developed portfolio, Adams triedDC again in 1959, and got a warmer reception; he began working on War Stories and Deadman. Then he told the editor, Julius Schwartz, that he'd like to take a shot at improving Batman, which, in the mid- to late '60s, was like the TV show - it featured what Adams calls "men running around in gray underwear."

Schwartz said no, but Adams had better luck with the editor of The Brave and the Bold, which in each issue paired Batman with a different DC character - Aquaman, the Flash, and so on. He quickly shook things up. "When the scripts came in with Batman entering a room, I wouldn't have him walk through the door," Adams says. "I'd have him come through the window or step out of


the shadows. I found ways of altering him without offending the writer - making him more mysterious, dark, dangerous."

Readers responded with a slew of letters arguing that The Brave and the Bold's Batman was the real Batman. This convinced Schwartz to put Adams on Batman in 1969, teaming him with writer Denny O'Neil. Although Adams' work on the Caped Crusader shaped our modern image of the characters - inspiring Frank Miller's Dark Knight series in the '80s and Tim Burton's Batman movies - his tenure was brief. After two years, he took on another assignment: Green Lantern. Working with O'Neil again, Adams partnered Green Lantern with Green Arrow and sent the superheroes out to tangle with issues like overpopulation, the court system, even Richard Nixon's White House. Itwas the first in a wave of socially relevant comic books, and the beginning of the end of the Comics Code.

One in the series - Green Lantern/Green Arrow #85 - is among the most famous comic books of all time. Its cover featured Speedy, Green Arrow's ward, shooting up heroin. At first DC refused to publish it. But Adams says that DC decided to go ahead with #85 after its main rival, Marvel Comics, ignored the code and published an issue of Spider-Man in which a character "popped a few pills and walked off a roof." Soon thereafter, the Comics Code was relaxed; today it's all but ignored.

Even while he was working for DC, Adams was intrigued by the work coming out of arch-rival Marvel Comics. He approached


Stan Lee about taking over X-Men in 1969. By then, most of the characters, including Professor Charles Xavier, had been killed off, and the series was about to be canceled. But over the course of nine issues, starting with Uncanny X-Men #56 in May 1969, Adams and chief writer Roy Thomas reconstructed what would become the best-selling comic book series of all time, playing out an elaborate scheme to bring the dead characters back to life. The most important task was to revive Professor X: Adams and Thomas decided that he had faked his death so he could retreat into a period of mental training that would allow him to link minds with all the Earth's benevolent forces and thwart a coming mutant invasion. "By the time Igenerally retain ownership of original art, and many comics cognoscenti look up to Adams as both a craftsman and a crusader. "Neal Adams is regarded as one of the top five comic book artists of all time," says Jon Cooke, editor of Comic Book Artist. "He introduced a realistic dynamic to comic book art. But he also demanded change. There's almost a serf mentality in comics, toeing the company line. Neal is fearless. He's hard-nosed on his principles. Some people wish he'd just shut up and draw."

Adams is trying to shake up the scientific world, but he's hardly the first layman to arrive on the scene with earth-shattering theories. Publishers, universities, and academic scientists receive countless manuscripts written by lone-wolf visionaries who howl that the establishment is deluded


about evolution or cold fusion or the nature of gravitation. Looking for guidance, I set up a meeting with Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education in El Cerrito, California, and a fellow with the Committee for the Scientific Investigations of Claims of the Paranormal. She evaluates fantastic claims all the time, and I want to ask her where Adams fits on the continuum.

For Scott, the primary indicator of weird science is a reference to conspiracy. "Real scientists don't convince you by telling you that others are lying," she says. By that measure, Adams is definitely out there. He claims the scientific community speaks a language of exclusion in order to lock out the layperson - and that it discourages alternative thought with ridicule.theoreticians, many of whom live in or near Australia. The Australia cluster may owe a lot to the influence of S. Warren Carey, the godfather of the theory and founder of the geology department at the University of Tasmania.

As a scientist, researchers say, Adams draws really great comics. His secret weapon: massive amounts of enthusiasm and verbiage.

I talk to James Maxlow, one of Carey's disciples and a PhD candidate at Western Australia's Curtin University. Maxlow is finishing up a dissertation called "Global Expansion Tectonics," and when I tell him about Two Guys, he gets very excited by the prospect that the book might draw attention to the cause. Maxlow says he's not qualified to comment on Adams' physics, but he thinks Adams has a lot of the geology


right. He's even thinking about jettisoning the word "expansion" in favor of "growth" - because growth has a better ring to it.

All of which is good for the Adams cause. Unfortunately, though, Maxlow sometimes reaches into the conspiracy grab-bag himself when he's making a case. "A lot of funding for research is going into plate tectonics," he says, "so scientists are reluctant to have me stir the pot."

As it turns out, that's about it for supportive colleagues. By and large, the university researchers I speak to say that as a scientist, Adams draws really great comics. At UC Berkeley I visit a geophysics professor named Mark Bukowinski whose reaction to Two Guys leaves little room for interpretation: "We do all kinds of measurements," he says. "The Earth isthe Ranking Document available here .

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Kissing is an act of compassion that is carried out by people who love each other. There is nothing quite as distinct as kissing someone you love and someone you love kissing you. Kissing is one of the major ways of showing love and affection to people that you love.

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had any meaningful Black friends they could consult, but then according to the
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was questioning the Term of God. Israel’s story is 1 of enticement to other gods, by which that country fell into the palms of the empires of their day.

Jesus was surrounded by people who challenged His truths.

And following His return to Heaven, the assaults ongoing.
The apostle John was now responding to groups of philosophers and even meant
believers who have been having it mistaken about who Jesus is.
See the use of the phrase “know” in his epistles. The know-how supplied by God is juxtaposed in his
intellect to the so-known as figuring out of the Gnostics.

Quite a few phony prophets and antichrists had gone out into John’s globe.
And soon after the days of John. The church fathers slowly and gradually
took into their


fellowships and minds the teachings of
guys unworthy the title of Jesus. As they do to this day.

ARIUS

And decades just before one particular Arius of Libya,
a presbyter in the Egyptian Church, would intensify the attack on the
human being of Jesus in the early 4th century, the awful idea experienced been floated
and discussed and argued, namely, that Jesus is not really God soon after all.

Paul of Samasota would say in the third century that Jesus was born a mere male,
and “turned” (a) God afterwards. Lucian of Antioch, mentor of
Arius, would espouse identical notions.

The remaining development of that doctrine, intensified and passed on by Arius,
although condemned soundly by the church of that working
day, was that Jesus was no additional than a
generation of the Father, as a result unique from the Father,
thereforeof the honest endeavor he
experienced built to established dates for the coming of Jesus, that
is, Jesus’ “arrival.” The Millerites ended up the founding department
of this pretty sizeable Adventist motion, the key branch for some time.
Involving 50,000 and one hundred,0000 people bought
at the rear of William Miller and his predictions. As with lots of groups that commenced
in that era, the Adventists differed on a large amount of
lesser challenges, but arrived with each other on some of the
basic principles of the religion. They genuinely considered
the Scriptures to be practically the Word of God.
But their emphasis, their rationale to be, was the coming yet
again of Jesus to the Earth, and being aware of the specific date thereof.

The Adventists, by the way, have survived to the current
time, with the largest group becoming


formally
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So what do we have so much? An Arian Adventist is now all set to press his possess version of both equally of these
teachings onto the American phase, and the stage of the world.
But very first, a person unfamiliar to most moderns gets to be the enabler, unwittingly supporting to start this established of
lies.

There had been “giants” in the land in the 19th century. Fantastic fellas and undesirable men, from a
Christian point of view. Amongst the former we
could consist of Moody and Sankey, Spurgeon, Hudson Taylor,
Fanny Crosby, David Livingstone. Aimee Semple McPherson started in those days as well.
The whole holiness movement was released, some of whose fruit
was great and remains. The 2nd Excellent Awakening tried
to phone The unitedstates to God at the time additional.
Booth and his Salvation Military simply cannot be disregarded.

On the other side was Christian Science, Mormonism, and the catalyst of
the upcoming View Tower, Adventism.

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Of training course, the history of the Jehovah’s Witness lies need to commence in the mind of the Enemy of our soul.
From working day just one in the Back garden, he was questioning the
Word of God. Israel’s tale is one particular of enticement to
other gods, by which that country fell into the arms of
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Jesus was surrounded by individuals who challenged His
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and even meant believers who were finding it completely wrong about
who Jesus is. See the


use of the term “know” in his epistles.
The information provided by God is juxtaposed in his brain to the so-known as
understanding of the Gnostics.

A lot of untrue prophets and antichrists had long gone out into
John’s globe. And immediately after the days of John. The church fathers gradually
took into their fellowships and minds the teachings of guys unworthy the identify of Jesus.
As they do to this day.

ARIUS

And many years ahead of just one Arius of Libya, a presbyter in the Egyptian Church, would intensify the attack on the man or woman of Jesus in the early 4th century,
the terrible concept had been floated and reviewed and argued, specifically,
that Jesus is not genuinely God following all.

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Iverstine Family Farms, Uprooted

by Sydney BlanchardEach month, our Uprooted series will highlight local chefs, restaurants, organizations, and farmers who are spearheading the farm-to-table and local foodways movements in South Louisiana.

Galen Iverstine (right) and his wife Angela (left) at Iverstine Family Farms in Kentwood, La.

When Galen Iverstine was nearing graduation, he said he found himself faced with the age-old question all liberal arts majors ask themselves: "What the hell do I do now?"

Following graduating from LSU, the political science major considered a number of options including the military or law school.

But a school project on food policy and environmental impacts of food systemsfisheries sector and a prominent
voice for human rights in Sri Lanka;

·
Rev. J. Herbert Nelson, II,
the director the Office of Public Witness (OPW) for the Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.) in Washington, DC;

·
Shaya Gregory Poku, an advocate for reconciliation and staff member of the Center for
Spirituality, Dialogue and Service at Northeastern University, where she
directs the Social Justice Resource Center to train the next generation in
critical thinking, interfaith cooperation, global awareness and self-knowledge

·
Linda Eastwood, a
Presbyterian teaching elder who has recently spent several years coordinating
the Colombia Accompaniment Program, a partnership between the Presbyterian
Peace Fellowship, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Presbyterian Church
of Colombia (IPC, Iglesia Presbiteriana de Colombia.)

On
February 7, President Obama signed into law the newest Farm Bill.
Unfortunately, the best I can say about the
overall bill is that it could have been worse.The PC(USA)


to health coverage due to important changes
in the health care law. And now, in the final months of the first open
enrollment session of the new exchanges, even more people will see better – and
hopefully less expensive – access to coverage.

Why does the Church
care about Obamacare?

For more than 60 years, Presbyterian General Assemblies have
been calling for reform of the U.S. health system, urging the establishment of
a national medical plan that will ensure universal health coverage for all persons
residing in the United States. In 1988, the Assembly wrote, “Jesus’ command to love our neighbor
requires persons with plentiful health resources both to comprehend the
condition of those persons without basic health care and to share the means to
health.” In other words, it is our collective responsibility as a community, and
as a nation,cum laude, from Yale Divinity School and a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and French, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Randolph-Macon College. Leslie is the proud mother of two little boys – Daniel and Joshua.

Sabrina Slater currently serves as an intern for the
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Public Witness. Currently pursuing
a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary, Sabrina is
interning while spending a semester in DC with the National Capital Semester
for Seminarians program hosted at Wesley Theological Seminary. Her
advocacy focus includes domestic poverty, the relationship between poverty and
violence, human trafficking, women and relationship violence. Having
enjoyed a career in higher education prior to beginning the ordination process
Sabrina is committed to honest dialogue and hearing peoples' voices and
stories. Sabrina holds a Master's in Education with focus


on general and
special education from Wagner College and a Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive
Science and Health & Human Development from Lehigh University.

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The Presbyterian Office of Public Witness is the public policy information and advocacy office of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Its task is to advocate, and help the church to advocate, the social witness perspectives and policies of the Presbyterian General Assembly. The church has a long history of applying these biblically and theologically-based insights to issues that affect the public — maintaining a public policy ministry in the nation's capital since 1946.
Reformed theology teaches that because a sovereign God is at work in all the world, the church and Christian citizens should be concerned about public policy. In addition, Presbyterian forefather Johnby defendant, a penitentiary inmate, when he forcibly took a revolver from a guard at the beginning of a riot in which defendant and other inmates of the same institution participated.
Defendant was indicted on September 1, 1953, at No. 162, May Sessions, 1953, in the Court of Quarter Sessions of Centre County, on the charge of robbery. On the same day this defendant was also charged at No. 161, May Sessions, 1953, with the crime of riot. True bills were returned by the grand jury in both cases. The bill of indictment charging defendant with riot set forth that the offense occurred on January 19, 1953, and thereafter. The riot charge grew out of a general disturbance by the inmates of Rockview Prison Farm, Western State Penitentiary, Centre


15, 1953, defendant was first called for trial on the indictment charging riot (No. 161, May Sessions, 1953), together with fourteen other co-defendants. The trial for riot continued from Tuesday, September 15th, to Saturday, September 19th, at which time the court ordered an adjournment so that one of the jurors could attend the funeral of a relative in another state. The jurors who had been impaneled to try the fifteen defendants for riot were given the usual admonition and were directed to return on Tuesday, September 22d, to hear the charge of the court, and thereupon deliberate upon their verdicts. Meanwhile, on Monday, September 21st, the defendant was called for trial on the indictment charging robbery. He entered a plea of not guilty, was tried before a judgeTeen Goes Bald For Bucks

PVCS Eighth-Grader Helps Raise Awareness For Genetic Disorder

April 21, 2013

SOUTH DAYTON - It may be typical that a 13-year-old boy would shave his head, but it's more unusual when a 13-year-old girl shaves hers.

Samantha Rettig, an eighth-grader at Pine Valley Central School, shaved her head recently to raise awareness of a genetic disorder found in her family. Rettig, participated in Bald for Bucks after she had known for about a month prior that she wanted to shave her head.

"I wanted to (shave my head) before, but I just didn't know how to do it or where to go. I just thought it was really good to do it there," Samantha said with a smile. "I really thought it was a great cause. My hair


is not my life. I just thought why not."

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Pine Valley student Samantha Rettig, center, recently shaved her head during Bald for Bucks at the school. Rettig, along with her mother, Jennifer Astry, left, and aunt, Aimee Bender, all suffer from a genetic disorder that affects their hearts.Photo by Samantha McDonnel

Samantha suffers from a rare genetic disorder and was diagnosed when she was 3 months old with Long QT Syndrome. This genetic disorder creates an electrical disturbance in the heart. She was diagnosed following an EKG and has to take medication daily. To be diagnosed, her mother, Jennifer Astry, said in the past a bell curve was used to see if the heart's electrical patterns were abnormal. She said there was no definitive answer.

With Samantha's younger sister, Kaylee,the gene mutation was found for the family so now future generations will have a definitive answer if they have Long QT Syndrome.

Samantha along with her mother and aunt, Aimee Bender all suffer from the condition in the family which also affects other members in the family. Samantha's uncle Chad died from the disease when he was Rettig's age.

"It's a genetic disorder. There's no cure for it. There's really nothing that can be done. Medicine helps regulate it and then with a modified lifestyle (it can be controlled)," Astry said.

Bender said the disease is usually found in a family after a younger member unfortunately dies from the condition.

"That's how it is found in a family, is someone dies from it. It is usually a child," Bender added. "The


to carry a defibrillator for her own safety. If the electrical problem starts to go awry, there is not much that can be done and symptoms include dizziness and even collapsing.

"Normal 13-year-olds have cellphones, chapstick, eyeliner in their purses, and Sam's got a defibrillator," Astry said.

Samantha has been carrying an external defibrillator since elementary school and carries it around in her purse. She said her friends at school are understanding about her condition, sometimes even joking about the weight of her purse. Samantha said being a student in a smaller school is helpful, since most students know about her condition.

"The thing about Sam is she just puts it in her purse and goes on with her life. It doesn't define her as a person. It's just a partof her life that she has to deal with. I admire her for that, she does live her life and it's not the focus of it everyday," Bender said.

Samantha is not eligible for an internal defibrillator until she is older once her body has stopped growing. Both Astry and Bender have internal defibrillators. Samantha said the worse part of her condition are the restrictions.

"I really like sports. I like softball, soccer and basketball. I went to do my first year of basketball and I couldn't because of my heart. That was kind of tough for me to go through," she said.

While Samantha cannot play most sports, she recently was cleared to play softball which she is excited about.

Prior to shaving her head, Samantha was inducted to the National


Honor Society in the morning. She was grateful the induction ceremony was before the Bald for Bucks event. Astry said the whole day was an "emotional roller coaster."

"With everything that she goes through, she keeps her grades up. That was an emotional roller coaster to go back to the school and to see the confidence that she has and to see how poised (she is.)," Astry said. "I wish I, at her age, was as confident as she is. She doesn't let peer pressure or anything bother her. She's definitely a leader."

Bender was also proud of her niece who was taking a stand for others.

"Dealing with the Long QT is a big deal," Bender said. "Carrying around a defibrillator and being different already, and at that age ...Rubio was involved in drafting the current bill, said Kyl, but decided not to sign on until he had consulted with a wider range of groups.

Rubio, who is widely seen as having presidential ambitions, could be an important player in negotiating a possible comprehensive immigration reform bill next year.

Walking back to his office in the halls of the Capitol, Kyl acknowledged that there is more enthusiasm for passing new immigration laws than there has been in the last two years.


its water from Indian River, with a pipeline crossing two claims to get to this claim. At Indian River, the reservoir and pump are located on a Tony Beets claim, and required the Hoffman Crew to put up a bond to use, to cover contingencies such as oil spill cleanup. They had permission for the pipeline to cross the other remaining claim.

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Season 5

Todd Hoffman agrees to a contract to pay Tolman's company 100oz-minimum regardless of how much they mine, and a rate of 20% of their gold, for season 5. The claim owner allows the Hoffman Crew to use the loaders and the mining camp that were abandoned on the claim, but not the washplant. Todd Hoffman retrieves the 400 Excavator the Hoffman Crew used in seasonyet. Mining out one side of the haul road, they decide not to tear up the haul road, and instead continue on the other side of the haul road. It was too muddy to strip the alternate side haul road cut extension.

Instead they return to the mined out higher cut, where the higher cut extension was partially stripped to allow to thaw. They continue to strip the overburden from the haul road cut. After mining out the paydirt in the higher cut. They mine out the other side of the haul road, but with disappointing returns, so they go back to the higher cut, for the final bits of thawed ground.

At the end of the season, they breach their 1000-oz goal. However, claimowner Tollman says that it is


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The fire was reportedly centred on Camden Canal Market, to the east of Chalk Farm Road.

Police closed off several roads and the Hawley Arms pub, near the source of the fire, suffered severe damage.

London Fire Brigade has said the blaze is being brought under control and there are no reports of casualties.

LFB station manager Guy Foster said the fire was centred around Camden Canal Market, where a number of market stalls had caught fire.

He said the train line between Camden Road and Kentish Town West had been shut down.

Residents have also been evacuated from some houses and flats.

Firefighters were alerted at about 7.20pm on Saturday to the blaze which has reportedly consumed part of the Hawley Arms, a popular


Camden pub which is frequented by celebrities including singer Amy Winehouse.

There were unconfirmed reports that some people were trapped, but London Fire Brigade spokesman Nick Comery said he had heard nothing to support that.

He told BBC News 24: "It's an ongoing job and we are doing our best to bring it under control and to stop it spreading.

"It involves currently some market storage properties, shops and dwellings.

"It is a large area that is involved. It is a severe fire, there is a lot of smoke going up into the sky."

BBC News reporter James Cooke said the fire appeared to have broken out in a row of shops.

Revellers from local pubs and bars were moved away from the danger area, where flames were leaping up to 30ft in theair.

Conservative mayoral candidate Boris Johnson said: "This will come as a terrible blow to their livelihoods and the area generally. My thoughts are with the traders, local residents and the emergency services who are, as usual, performing brilliantly under pressure."

London Ambulance Service said it has ambulances and a hazardous response team at the scene.

Seth Owuadey, 48, who lives in Kentish Town, was in a bar opposite the Hawley Arms and saw the first flames as they grew stronger.

Firefighters concentrated much of their effort on the Hawley Arms pub

"A fire engine arrived but it took about 40 minutes for more to come, even though by then the flames were the height of a house.

"We thought it started in the Hawley Arms, but it started in an alleyway behind there."

Moira


Smith, 46, also of Kentish Town, saw the flames out of the window of her home "and the next minute, it was on the news".

Sitting on a bar stool in the middle of the road at the edge of the cordon in Chalk Farm Road, she said: "You could tell it was serious. The smoke was black.

"I'm just shocked by it all. Please God, there'll be no casualties."

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Their teeth also help with guessing the age. An elephant has 5 sets of new teeth in their lifetime because they grind them down from chewing. “Teeth come in the mouth like a conveyor belt, one after the other.”And this continues until around 50 years old. After that, the elephant dies when the last set of teeth is gone because it cannot eat without teeth. “Elephants eat and poop their entire waking hours.”

One at a time, Doug invited us to greet Jabu and to touch his skin. He told us to only


showed us some of his hat snatching tricks. It was such a cute trick. So, everyone was offered the opportunity to do the trick with Jabu.

By now, I was beginning to believe I could trust Jabu as Doug had showed us how to interact with him. I offered so Jabu took off my safari hat with his trunk, put it on his head and then put it back on my head. His trunk was heavy as it bore down to put my hat back on my head!

Marula was next to show her stuff while Jabu ate in the bush. Marula and a male elephant were owned by a Botswana couple who got them from culling operations during the 1980s Zimbabwe drought. Meant to be pets to the couple,the male killed a man so he was sold to a park in South Africa. The Park owners decided the only solution was to destroy him after he killed 7 white rhino and flipped over a vehicle. Marula was not implicated in the rhinocide but she wasn’t happy and became antisocial. Doug took Marula in 1994, baggage, bad behaviors and all, and trained her and gave her a good life. She showed us some of her features like Jabu did. Doug said Marula is his Princess.

Marula was taken to a small tree to eat. Elephants can eat everything on a tree—the bark, the limbs, the leaves-all of it. We watched them chew up entire large limbs like they were candy, and eat huge sections of grass like it


was nothing. They can each drink up to 200 liters of water per day.

Thembi was next and is the youngest of his 3 elephants. Orphaned in Krueger National Park in South Africa, Thembi is short for Thembigela, Zulu for “trust”. She is a sweetheart, and even though she is the smallest, she loves attention, loves to be with the other 2, and gets nervous when she is not. Thembi considers herself the protector of the herd. When he got her, she was lonely and not adjusted. She would tear up trees to take out her frustrations. Now with Doug, she has self respect, feels she belongs and is very sensitive.

So Thembi had to show us how she sleeps each night and how she gets down and up. Firstit was the back legs that bent and it looked like she was sitting on her knees. Then it was the front legs that bent and she was down on the ground. The head and truck followed and she was totally laid out on the ground. Elephants sleep about 5 hours each day and his 3 stay in an enclosure by his house there in Botswana.

With Thembi totally laid out on the ground, he showed us her feet. It was our first time to actually see the bottom of a wild elephant’s foot and their toenails. Doug invited us to touch and inspect her foot. It was not smooth and kind of looked like cracked and dried mud caked on some parts and nothing on other parts. I


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FROM BASEBALL DREAMS TO TV

Bill Green graduated from Bangor High School nearly 50 years ago with no real thought to the future, other than his dream of being the left-fielder for the Boston Red Sox. But even that plan had problems, since Green played third base in high school, on a Bangor team that won the 1971 state championship. He had never considered a career in TV or journalism. But then one day he saw an ad in the newspaper for minimum-wage job


operating a camera at WLBZ, Channel 2, in Bangor. He started in March of 1972. He says it mostly consisted of zooming in and zooming out.

He took the job and worked days while taking classes at the University of Maine at night, until he earned his degree in 1976. He said he learned how creatively a story could be told on television by working with Eddie Driscoll, a Bangor TV pioneer with the spirit of a Vaudevillian. He also worked with longtime Bangor outdoor writer and TV host Bud Leavitt, whose success lay in his authenticity.

“Bud never tried to be something he wasn’t. I never liked broadcasters with affectations, and neither did he,” Green said.

By 1975, he was on the air at WLBZ, doing sports reports and oftenmanning the camera himself. In 1981, he moved to WLBZ’s sister station WCSH in Portland, now known as News Center Maine. There, he anchored the weekend sports reports and did sports feature stories during the week. He co-hosted a call-in show called “Sports Overtime.” When Goldberg was a student at Deering High School in the mid-1980s, he and his soccer teammates used to get together to watch Green and co-host Bruce Glasier. Goldberg said, until he saw that show, he had no idea that someone from Maine – like him or like Green – could grow up to be a sports reporter on TV. Goldberg became a sports anchor on WCSH less than a decade later.

Having grown up in Maine watching Green, Goldberg and Gagne both said they


were a little in awe when they started working with him. But both also said that Green went out of his way to help them get their bearings at the station. He shared an office with Gagne, who started in 2014, and often looked over her writing for her and made suggestions. The two became friends, and when Gagne got married this year, she asked Green to officiate. He went through the process of becoming a Maine Notary Public so he could make the union legal.

“It was rough at times, trying to break into sports reporting as a woman, but Bill never doubted me and really became my No. 1 fan,” said Gagne, who grew up in Biddeford. “Working with him has meant so much to me, notMonster SunJapan, on Dec 15, 2003

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HUNDREDS of jobs are at risk after the group, which operates Eisenegger clothing stores, was placed in administration.

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Among Blackpool-based Basebuy's branches are ones in Manchester's Arndale Centre and the Trafford Centre.

In addition to the Eisenegger brand, Basebuy owns the Foxhole label. The group's annual turnover is é55m and, until 2004, it was making profits of é500,000 a year.

But trading has become difficult because of intense competition from other discount retailers such as Primark, Matalan and supermarket chains.

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project promises to transform the city's riverfront, create jobs, spur new investment and turn an eyesore into a four-star hotel with 160 rooms. It would be one of the largest private economic development projects in the history of downtown. But Morrissey said that the project would require contributions from the city to become a reality.

Aldermen could consider an amended development agreement on Tuesday during a special Planning & Development Committee meeting before a regular Rockford City Council meeting. If the agreement is approved, and remaining financing issues are settled, the facility could open in spring 2019.

A written amendment to the redevelopment agreement is still being worked on, Morrissey said.

The project is expected to create 123 permanent hotel and conference center jobs and 553 construction jobs over a two-yearto the development agreement:

— Gorman would own and operate the $64 million Hilton Embassy Suites. The hotel would overlook the Rock River and include a rooftop lounge, first-floor restaurant, bar with outdoor patio, swimming pool, fitness center, business center and other amenities.

— The city would not build a parking deck as had been called for in two previous versions of the development agreement dating back to 2014.

— Rockford would sell bonds to pay for construction of the estimated $13.1 million conference center. The conference center would feature a 7,500-square-foot banquet hall, a full-service kitchen and meeting rooms. The city would own the conference center and lease it to Gorman. The developer would operate the conference center and assume the risk of any operational losses.

— The city would repay


going to compete with us."

Rockford developer Sunil Puri, owner of the Radisson Hotel & Conference Center, declined to comment about the Gorman proposal.

In October, the City Council agreed to send $768,846 in TIF funds toward redeveloping the former Millennium Center into a boutique hotel. The hotel, 220 S. Madison St., is being developed by Madison Street Properties LLC, which is led by SupplyCore CEO Peter Provenzano.

"We have been supportive of the Amerock project and continue to be," Provenzano said. "I haven't looked into (financial) details of the project, but on the surface it looks like a good project for the city."

Rockford Area Convention & Visitors Bureau President and CEO John Groh said that although the downtown conference center could compete for some business, it would also grow theincluding Groh, Morrissey and Gorman point out that other cities have completed similar deals — and that aldermen have previously voted to support the deal. Whether the city pays for a parking deck or a conference center, the end result is the same.

Alderman Tom McNamara, D-3, who is running for mayor, said he had been frustrated by how the latest proposed amendment was rolled out. Although Gorman met with most of the aldermen individually to discuss the proposal, McNamara said community groups, labor representatives and the Rockford Register Star Editorial Board were given more information about it before a formal presentation to elected leaders.

McNamara said he needs more information in writing before he can say whether he supports the amendment.

"It's disappointing how a project so many people who


KYODO NEWS - Nov 27, 2019 - 01:14 | All, World, Japan

Pope Francis returned to Rome on Tuesday after a four-day trip to Japan, including visits to Nagasaki and Hiroshima where he delivered powerful anti-nuclear appeals and urged efforts for peace.

During the first papal visit to Japan in 38 years, the pope called for the elimination of nuclear weapons in addresses in the two atomic-bombed cities, and held meetings with Emperor Naruhito and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo.

On Tuesday morning, the pope gave thanks to "the entire Japanese people for the kind reception and welcome" during his "short and very intense" stay in the country, delivering his speech to some 700 people at Sophia University in Tokyo.

"Despite the fact that Christians are a minority (in Japan), theirpresence is felt," the pope said. "I myself have witnessed the general esteem in which the Catholic Church is held, and I hope that this mutual respect may increase in the future."

He also held some private meetings with Jesuits at the university, a Jesuit school.

After arriving in Rome, the pope also tweeted in Japanese, "I express deep gratitude to all the people of Japan."

On Sunday, the 82-year-old Argentine pope gave speeches in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, stressing a world without nuclear weapons is "possible and necessary," and saying the use of such weapons is a "crime" against humanity and nature.

On Monday in Tokyo, the pope met with victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami as well as the Fukushima nuclear crisis caused by the natural disaster, and held


a mass at Tokyo Dome attended by about 50,000 Catholic adherents.

Elected as Roman Catholic pontiff in 2013, Francis is the first Jesuit to become pope. Saint Francis Xavier, a Jesuit missionary, first introduced Christianity to Japan in 1549.

The papal visit came roughly five years after Abe asked the pope to visit Japan during a 2014 meeting in Vatican City.

John Paul II, who in February 1981 made the first papal trip to Japan, pushed for the elimination of nuclear weapons during a visit to Hiroshima and Nagasaki amid heightened tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union over the deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles.FBS

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College football: 9 of the biggest upsets from the 2015 season

There were plenty of surprises in college football this season. Winning streaks were broken, games ended on crazy plays and FCS teams picked up wins over FBS programs.

Here are some of the biggest upsets in college football this year, ranked in chronological order:

Aug. 29: Montana 38, No. 1 North Dakota St. 35

Opening the season against the four-time champs isn't an easy task. It can be tougher to actually defeat them. But that's exactly what the Montana Grizzlies did with their upset over top-ranked North Dakota St. in the FCS season opener. Montana rallied in the final 1:39 on a 16-play, 80-yard drive as Joey Counts capped off the comeback with a


since 1941 to Temple, which was the fourth longest streak in college football history.

Sept. 5: Portland St. 24, Washington St. 17

Portland State had one of its most successful seasons and it all started with the upset win over Washington State. The Vikings scored 24 points in the second half to record the upset. It was the program's first win over a Pac-12 school in 16 attempts and just its third win overall against a FBS opponent. But the Cougars certainly weren't the last FBS opponent defeated by the Vikings in 2015. Portland State crushed North Texas 66-7 for one of the largest margins ever in a FCS win over a FBS school.

Oct. 10: Texas 24, No. 10 Oklahoma 17

Even if the season isn’t going according to plan, aLynch, who completed 39 of his 53 pass attempts for 383 yards and three touchdowns. Memphis earned its first win over a ranked opponent in 19 years and were the first nonconference opponent to defeat the Rebels since 1978.

Oct. 24: Georgia Tech 22, No. 9 Florida St. 16

The Seminoles hadn't lost a conference game since Oct. 6, 2012. The Yellow Jackets were suffering a five-game skid after starting the season 2-0. Florida State had one of the best kickers in NCAA history with Robert Aguayo. None of that mattered when Patrick Gamble blocked a 56-yard attempt and Lance Austin scooped it up and ran it back 78 yards for game-winning touchdown. Georgia Tech finished the season with only three wins but nothing compared to "the Miracle on Techwood


Drive" which became one of the top plays of the college football season.

Nov. 21: The Citadel 23, South Carolina 22

The Citadel ended the regular season in style with its upset on the road against SEC opponent South Carolina. After a 95-yard touchdown pass was called back on a false start penalty, the Citadel forced South Carolina to turn it over on downs to seal the win. The Bulldogs picked up their first win over an FBS opponent since a 15-14 defeat over Army in 1992 and first win over South Carolina since 1990. The Gamecocks hadn't lost a home game to a nonconference opponent since Nov. 24, 2007. The win for the Citadel helped its case for an at-large bid in the FCS playoffs too.

Nov. 21: No. 9Michigan St. 17, No. 3 Ohio St. 14

The Buckeyes had already set a NCAA record with their 30 straight Big Ten conference wins heading into their game against Michigan State. But that didn't affect Michael Geiger as he drilled a 41-yard field goal attempt in the final seconds to give the Spartans the victory. The win propelled the Spartans to the Big Ten title game and the College Football Playoff semifinals against Alabama. Michigan State is a top-quality opponent so its win wasn't too much of a surprise. But anytime a team knocks off the defending champions, it deserves a spot on the biggest upset list.


                              BACKGROUND

        Plaintiff Nasser Beydoun is a United States citizen and resident of Dearborn, Michigan.
According to his complaint, every time Beydoun attempts to board an airplane, he is subjected to
“excessive delays, secondary screening, being singled out at check points, and being singled out
for additional screening at the gate.” As a result, Beydoun “has missed countless flights.” He
also claims that he has been humiliated and that his business ventures have suffered because he is
subjected to extra security measures.

        Plaintiff Maan Bazzi, who is also a Unitedand only acted as a mass between two panels, then it was considered as inactive.

Four main scenarios were considered for different numbers of activated solenoids. The first scenario was the reference, when all solenoids were inactive and the core was able to move inside the coil, as an electromotive force was not induced. In the second scenario, one solenoid (numbered 3, the central one) was activated. In the third scenario, four solenoids (located near the panel's corners, numbered as 1, 2, 4, and 5) were activated. In the fourth scenario, all solenoids were activated.

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The Prince of Wales has been asked to give a witness statement to a public inquiry about a paedophile bishop convicted and jailed for abusing young men.

Prince Charles has been approached by lawyers acting for the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse which is investigating the disgraced bishop Peter Ball.

The former bishop of Lewes and of Gloucester was sent to prison for 32 months in 2015 after he admitted abusing 18 teenagers and young men between the 1970s and 1990s.

His abuse was first reported to the police in 1992 but charges were not brought and instead Ball accepted a caution and resigned.

The Prince of Wales had exchanged letters with Ball. A separate independent inquiry found last year that Ball had exploited his contact with members of the RoyalHosted UC Player Alteva Acquired For $17 Million

WVT plans to combine Alteva's operations into its competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) business, the service provider said.

The deal, announced late last week, is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2011. According to WVT, which covers southern Orange County, New York and other locations in New York and New Jersey, the acquisition of Alteva will bolster its revenues by about 30 percent on an annual basis.

Duane W. Albro, WVT's president and CEO, described Alteva as "a fast growing UC service provider which has a complementary business, a well regarded brand, and shared values that will both benefit from and contribute to WVT's future success."

"In completing the acquisition of Alteva, we will execute on the implementation of three key


Juvenile rapist in 2012 New Delhi assault now paints and cooks at correction home

NEW DELHI — Twenty months ago, a teenager and five adult men fatally gang-raped a young student in a moving bus in New Delhi, a horrific incident that stunned Indians, sparked unprecedented national anger and dramatically changed the public debate on women’s safety in India.

Now, the teenager spends quiet hours painting in his room in the New Delhi correctional facility where a juvenile justice court sentenced him to three years.

His most recent painting shows a crowned young woman in a flowing, regal yellow and blue robe, looking into an ornate mirror on the wall. The painting is called “The Princess.”

In another painting, the teenager depicts a group of village women wearing saris and dancing togetherin a pastoral setting. Others include renderings of camels, bird-nests and parks. The paintings now hang in his art classroom.

“This month, his paintings won a prize at a competition in the city,” said Rajiv Lakra, superintendent at the juvenile correction home. “He was quite anxious but also hopeful the day he went to receive the prize. If he changes, the world is ready to accept him. We are working toward that goal.”

The painting, called “The Princess,” shows a crowned young woman in a flowing yellow and blue royal robe, looking into an ornate mirror on the wall. (Rama Lakshmi/The Washington Post)

The art is part of a slow and quiet rehabilitation the juvenile offender is undergoing, away from public glare. He also attends cooking, sewing, basic arithmetic and etiquette


classes, and plays volleyball.

There is “no trace of anger” in him, says psychologist Shuchi Goel, who works with him and has conducted an art-based therapy session. “He is certainly putting an extra effort to become acceptable to others,”she said. “He takes a lot of pride in his paintings.”

More juveniles being accused

But outside the correction home, the teenager is arguably the most reviled of the group of men who brutally assaulted the woman on Dec. 16, 2012. Indians protested on the streets and demanded that he not be treated leniently because of his age.

Under Indian law, the maximum sentence for juvenile offenders 18 or younger is three years in a correctional facility. The teenager was just six months shy of 18 when the rape occurred. Five days after thecrime, he was arrested at a bus terminal while trying to flee the city. He was tried separately from the other men.

His case led India’s new government to introduce a bill in Parliament in August that seeks to try juveniles charged with violent crimes such as rape and murder as adults.

Last year, juveniles were accused in 1,884 rapes, up from 1,175 in 2012, according to the government. In New Delhi, the number increased from 63 to 163 during the same period.

Growing up

Initially, the teen was isolated from other inmates who might have targeted him because of the nature and the brutality of his crime, an official said in an interview last year. After several months, he began to mingle with other prisoners. But the teen is still housed


his head, not heart.”

The teenager has received opportunities inside the juvenile facility that he never got on the outside, officials say. He dropped out of his village school in northern India and left his impoverished family eight years ago with a relative who promised him work as a child laborer in New Delhi. He worked at a street-side eatery and did odd jobs cleaning buses and lived mostly by himself. For a short time, he sent money back home to his family. But when he stopped, his family assumed he had died.

The night of the rape, the teenager joined five older men for a drunken joy-ride, police said. He even enticed the victim to board the bus in a sing-song voice.

In the city, “he got exposed to anadult world quite early,” Goel said.

The six men beat the young woman mercilessly and took turns raping her. She died of internal injuries from being assaulted with a metal rod. When the attackers were done, they dumped her on the road in the wintry night and left her to die.

‘He never accepted his guilt’

Despite his apparent progress toward rehabilitation, the teen has never admitted to the rape.

“He avoids talking about the incident. Maybe he is still in denial mode,” Goel said. “He never accepted his guilt during the sessions. So he has not expressed remorse either.”

His mother visited him twice at the facility, but he discourages her. The bus driver who was one of the rapists hanged himself in prison. The others have been sentenced to death by


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His comments come as spy chiefs warn British political party leaders about the threat of Russian hacking at the next general election.

A senior Government source has confirmed to Sky News a cyber security summit will be held to discuss fears of interference from Moscow.

Officials at GCHQ, the UK's eavesdropping agency, fear Russian hackers could steal and leak internal emails or publish private databases of voters' political views, according to the Sunday Times.

The National Cyber Security Centre, which is part of GCHQ, offered in the letter to party leaders to help strengthen the parties' security systems, the newspaper said.

Image: The GCHQ listening post in Cheltenham

"You will be aware


of the coverage of events in the United States, Germany and elsewhere reminding us of the potential for hostile action against the UK political system," the letter from chief executive Ciaran Martin reportedly stated.

"This is not just about the network security of political parties' own systems.

"Attacks against our democratic processes go beyond this and can include attacks on parliament, constituency offices, think tanks and pressure groups and individuals' email accounts."

Fears over potential Russian interference have heightened in recent months, amid allegations of meddling in the electoral processes of a number of countries.

US spy chiefs have accused Moscow of trying to influence November's presidential election.

4 March: Johnson to visit Moscow

In December, Germany's domestic intelligence agency claimed Russia was trying to destabilise the country with propaganda and cyber attacks aheadof its general election later this year.

And an aide to French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron recently told Sky News the candidate is being targeted by Moscow in a parallel campaign of hacking and fake news.

Mr Johnson, who was speaking in an interview with ITV's Peston On Sunday, said: "Bringing down French TV stations, you've seen what happened in the United States where there is no question at all that they were involved in the hacking of the Democratic National Convention.

"You've seen what happened in Montenegro where there was an attempted coup in a European state and possibly even an attempted assassination of the leader of that state.

"There is very little doubt that the Russians are behind these things."

9 March: Russia in charm offensive ahead of World Cup

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switching off their tracking systems, which allow anyone to monitor their movements via the Internet, due to the violence in the country.

The source said war risk insurance premiums to Yemeni ports such as Hodaida in the north, already amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars of cover for every vessel.

A U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer was targeted on Sunday in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, a U.S. military spokesman said, although the ship was not hit.

The Houthi movement on Monday denied its forces had carried out a missile attack on a U.S. warship.

The attempted strike on the USS Mason came just a week after a United Arab Emirates vessel was attacked by Houthis and suggests growing risks to the U.S.(1,181 mile) coastline that also juts into the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea – a vast area to police given international navies are already stretched combating Somali piracy in the region, which had been contained in recent years.

The U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence said in a report last week commercial ships in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab and Gulf of Aden areas should operate “under a heightened state of alert as increasing tensions in the region escalate the potential for direct or collateral damage to vessels transiting the region”.

Riyadh is leading a coalition of Arab states which began launching air strikes against the Houthis in Yemen 18 months ago to restore to power ousted President Abd Rabbu Mansour al-Hadi.

The war has killed at least 10,000 people and


WASHINGTON -- A New York Times report confirms that the U.S. government knew that an Iraqi facility now controlled by the Islamic State militant organization likely contained deadly chemical weapons -- a finding reported by The Huffington Post on Monday.

The Huffington Post's report suggesting that ISIS may have gained control of chemical weapons in Iraq was based on a report released Sunday by the Global Research in International Affairs Center at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. The center's analysis suggested that ISIS had used the weapons on Kurdish soldiers in the embattled Syrian region of Kobani over the summer, after capturing the massive former chemical weapons facility of Muthanna in Iraq in June.

The U.S. State Department said at the time of Muthanna's fall that the long-shuttered facilitycontained chemical weapons residue that ISIS would be unable to transport, much less use. A State Department spokesperson said Tuesday that the government was investigating claims that ISIS had used chemical weapons.

The analysis from The Times draws on interviews with American soldiers and previously unreleased government documents to show that the U.S. government has been aware that chemical weapons, intact or partially damaged and then repurposed, have been circulating in Iraq -- and harming soldiers -- since 2003. The newspaper confirmed U.S. soldiers had come across mustard shells at Muthanna in 2008, and said three Times journalists saw old chemical stocks there in 2013.

Six Marines were exposed to mustard at Muthanna on July 11, 2008, The Times reports. The Marines' exposure, as well as most other incidents of


chemical agent exposure, were kept secret by the government throughout the Iraq war, according to the Times. Mustard is the agent the Global Research in International Affairs Center suggests ISIS used on Kurdish soldiers over the summer.

The Iraqi government meant to destroy chemical munitions remaining after the U.S. invasion, which the Times notes, originate not from the period when President George W. Bush claimed Iraq was producing weapons of mass destruction, but from earlier. The newspaper obtained a document showing that Iraq had plans to entomb the chemical residue in Muthanna in concrete.

But once Muthanna fell to ISIS in June, Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations submitted a letter telling the U.N. secretary general that efforts to deal with the remaining chemical materials there would have to bemake non-vegan choices. For instance, when shopping for sports equipment for my kids, I'm constantly confronted with leather. Should I not let them play? That choice seems ridiculous. Should I just search higher and lower for the elusive non-leather baseball and soccer stuff? I've tried the latter and had mixed results, both in terms of quality of items and in terms of ease of finding them. One kid ended up with leather shoes because, after going to four stores, nobody had a non-leather baseball shoe in his size. Maybe there's actually a hidden group of vegan parents of baseball players buying out all the shoes for 10-year-old boys. I dunno. I certainly haven't met them. I suspect there's just a lot of 10-year-old boys playing baseball. :)

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'Nobody Has Endless Strength' Ai Weiwei's New Life in Europe

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was finally given his passport back and immediately left the country to join his family in Germany. But he is unsettled by his newfound freedom and he is searching for a new role. SPIEGEL caught up with him in Munich.More women are running in the 29 November election than in any other state or territory election in Australian history

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Not only are there a record number of candidates registered for the Victorian state election, there are also more women running than in any other state or territory election in Australian history.

There are a record 896 candidates this year, compared with 711 in 2010, with 127 female candidates between Liberal, Labor and the Greens.

Labor outperforms the other parties with their representation of women, largely thanks to a rule implemented in 2012 which requires pre-selections result in at least 40% of Labor seats being held by women.

There are 54 Labor women running, representing 43% of the