for that kind of work. And in New York, the audience just came out of the woodwork" – and it was in New York that music finally took centre stage. Formed in 1977 with the avowed aim to "change the concept of rock", Theoretical Girls chose their name after a conversation with the artist Dan Graham about the growing wave of female conceptual artists at the time, such as Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, and Cindy Sherman. They were a punk band, Branca explains, "but not in any conventional sense of the word punk," seeking to fuse the murderous confrontational energy of early '70s Aerosmith and Alice Cooper with the more experimental rock of Roxy Music and Henry Cow.

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Reflecting on the no wave scenein New York at the time, he says, "it was really meant to kick people in the ass, basically. In the case of a band like The Contortions, for instance, James [Chance] actually went into the audience and did get into fights with people. I was never into that kind of confrontation. I wanted to make the art itself, make the statement, strong enough that it wasn't necessary to literally punch someone in the mouth."

It was one of James Chance's legendary punch-ups (with none other than Robert Christgau, music editor of the Village Voice), that caught the attention of a gob-smacked Brian Eno. In town to finish work on the mastering of the second Talking Heads album, the ex-Roxy Music keyboardist happened to be standing in the crowd


when The Contortions took part in a no wave festival at the Artists Space in Tribeca, alongside DNA, Mars, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, and Theoretical Girls. But when Eno unveiled plans for his compilation album No New York, intended to document the movement, Branca's group were conspicuous by their absence.

In the end, no wave's most enduring document would prove to be its undoing. As Branca recalls, "it split the scene. It made people start thinking about being commercial and ruined this whole idea of music that was not about making money. It was not about being famous. It was just about, you know, making music and making a statement."

Worst of all, Eno's one-size-fits-all production style had homogenised the groups he did include. "Eno attempted to make alla performance at Paris's Cité de la Musique of one of his most recent albums, The Ascension: The Sequel.

Back in 1981, the original Ascension, one of the definitive statements of Branca's then-new guitar orchestra aesthetic, had been intended as a "continuation" of similarly-titled works by Messiaen and John Coltrane. The idea of a sequel arose in the context of a commission from the Barbican for Steve Reich's 70th birthday celebrations. "Because, in the old days, a friend of mine knew Steve Reich," Branca explains, "and had given him a copy of The Ascension. And he had commented on it, oh, that's Phil – meaning Phil Glass. So when I got this commission to write a piece for him, I thought, well, I'll write one for Steve now."

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his back to the seated audience, Branca conducted what he calls his "rock band", The Glenn Branca Ensemble, in a manner recalling not so much Leopold Stokowski as James Brown, wriggling his hips and shaking his head with arm gestures like a stage magician. Consisting of four guitarists, plus a bassist and a drummer, the band played mighty peals of shuddering, minimalist noise. "Is it loud enough?" he asked the audience after the first track, with a mischievous twinkle in his eye.

"I use this trick with the audience," he admits to me later, sniggering at the memory of this small victory (they did indeed seem to turn it up afterwards). "I mean, I consider volume to be one of the compositional elements in my work." Since his firstChromium picolinate increases membrane fluidity and rate of insulin internalization.
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Starbucks hopped on the unicorn-food theme earlier this week with its limited-edition Unicorn Frappuccino, and not everyone is happy about it.

On Wednesday, a man who said he is Starbucks barista, posted a video on Twitter where he begged the masses to stop ordering the drink. Braden Burson said the drink, which "tastes like a Sweet Tart," is ruining the lives of Starbucks baristas everywhere.

"I need to rant just a little bit," Burson said in the video before launching into a full-on tirade against the pink and blue swirled treat.

Burson said Starbucks aficionados began itching to try the drink weeks ago when photos were shared on social media.

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Daniel Flannery is an American artist and storyteller, conceptualist, producer, theatre director, scenographer, film/television director, director of photography and lighting designer. Flannery has created award-winning visual, aural, theatrical and media productions around the world. He is regarded as a Visual Maestro and recognized for being a visionary and pioneer of emerging entertainment technologies.

Born and raised in New York, Flannery began his career in theatre and television at a very young age. His education and training in New York City was key to his successful career path. Today Flannery is actively engaged in creating and developing original content for live productions, new media, film and television.

Theatrical Productions

The Illusion Show was a grand opera scale live production show in Changzhou, China. Flannery was commissioned to create this show incorporating 3D


stereoscopic scenography as a featured element of the show. The stage and house was wrapped with LED walls upon which 3D stereoscopicCGIcompletedthe scenography. The audience wore active 3D glasses and the effect was true immersion. The production featured an international cast of 100performers.

Flannery brought his core creative team to Budapest and directed Xayron, a science fiction production show, with a fire breathing dragon, robotic warriors, flying creatures, spiders, illusions and water onstage.

Overseas Chinese Town Limited engaged Flannery to create a western style production show. The show was “E” Elements Show. The production featured a variety of dancers, acrobats, synchronized swimmers, singers, musicians, magicians, and puppets. The show ran for five years at the Huaxia Art Centre in Shenzhen, China.

Flannery collaborated with Oscar Winner, Production Designer Eugenio Zanetti. Togetherthey created Movistar Magica which toured throughout Colombia. The tour kicked off with a live broadcast on network television from Bogotá, Columbia. The show was presented in parks and stadiums, featuring 500 performers on a stage that filled a football field.

Maryland celebrated the anniversary of their statehood with VOYAGE 350. The Department of Tourism for the City of Baltimore commissioned Flannery to collaborate with them to create a theatrical experience on Rash Field at the Inner Harbor for this celebration. Flannery and his team conceived and designed a food and beverage area that consisted of facades based on Maryland’s early architecture. The main attraction was a 1200 seat theatre, inspired by tall ships, presenting an original stage production. The show was directed by Flannery and written by Cindy


Flannery. The show featured actors portraying the ship’s crew with historical paintings and photographs from the Peale Museum projected onto the sails and theatricalillusions.

3D Stereoscopic Dome Films

Majid and the Secret of Life is a 3D stereoscopic film presented several times a day in the Dana Dome, a purpose-built theatre at Kahramaa Awareness Centre (a edutainment centre on sustainability in Doha Qatar). Conceived, cowritten and directed by Flannery the film, created in 3D CGI, explores the origins of water on our planet through a young boy’s dreamjourney.

SYMPHANTASY®

In 1977 Flannery was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic to create the original Star Wars Concert at the Hollywood Bowl. Flannery designed and directed the concert incorporating theatrical lighting, lasers, pyrotechnics and special effects. The concert was a landmark world event andFlannery was thrust into the spotlight and began his journey of pioneering a new concert genre, SYMPHANTASY®. Flannery collaborated for decades with Maestro Erich Kunzel. Their first endeavor was The Symphonic Visual Fantasyin 1978 with the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Music Centre. Flannery’s SYMPHANTASY® was presented as an annual event at the Riverbend Music Center with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Erich Kunzel.

Flannery is the only scenographer to ever appear at Carnegie Hall in New York as a “Guest Artist”. It was 1988, in concert with conductor Maestro Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.

World Expos

Flannery is a pioneer in the creation of water based attractions. He created Water Fantasium, the main attraction in the Dairinkai Pavilion for the Osaka 1990 World Expo


(the international Garden and Greenery Exposition). It was voted by the Japanese media as the Fair’s leading attraction.

For the Taejon, South KoreaWorld Expo 93 Flannery createdFantastic Odyssey.After the Expo closedthe attraction was relocated to a permanent location at Lotte World in Seoul.

For theBrisbane Australia World Expo 88, Flannery served as associate to Artistic Director John Truscott and as principal site lighting designer.

The1984 Louisiana World Expositionpresented an ‘Aquacade‘ in the tradition of Billy Rose’s Aquacade. Flannery designed the lighting for this attraction.

Themed Entertainment

WED (now Walt Disney Imagineering contracted Flannery as a scenographic and lighting design consultant on EPCOT for American Adventure, Journey Into the Imagination and Kitchen Kabaret.

For Universal Studios Hollywood, Flannery served as lighting designer, conceptualist and scenographer for on such attractions as E.T. Adventure, Kongfrontation, The Adventuresof Conan: A Sword and Sorcery Spectacular, and Back to the Future: The Ride. For Universal Studios Florida, he was scenographer and lighting designer on E.T. Adventure, King Kong, and Jaws. Flannery was the principal architectural sitelightingdesignerforUniversalStudios Florida and Islands of Adventure.

Cosmic Symphonywas an attraction Flannery created for Geopolis at the Tokyo Dome. The attraction ran from 1995 to 2007.

In 1996, he was principal designer for Adventure Slots in the Hollywood Casino which won the THEA Award forOutstanding Achievement in Themed Entertainment. The project was a huge profit centre for the casino and the conceit became a model for other casinos.

Television and Motion Pictures

In 1978, Flannery relocated to Los Angeles, California and joined the ABC Television Network as Lighting Director. While atABChereceivedhisfirstPrime-timeEmmyNominationforhislightingdirectionofGoldie Hawn &Liza Minnelli Together.

As the Director


of Photography for the popular television series, ‘Roseanne’, Flannery revolutionized sitcom lighting design and received four Prime-time Emmy nominations.

Olympic Ceremonies

The LAOOC contracted Flannery as a conceptualist working directly with David Wolper and Tommy Walker on the Closing Ceremonies of the Los Angeles 1984 Summer Olympics. Once the ceremonies were conceived the LAOOC contracted Flannery to direct and his firm to supervise the special effects and special lighting of the Closing Ceremonies. This included designing the infamous spaceship and alien.

In Universal Studios’ bid to produce the ceremonies for the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympic Games, Flannery served as conceptualist and Artistic Director.

Concerts

Flannery directed In the House of Ethel, in 2007 Winter Solstice feast of musiccelebration at the World Financial Center’s Winter Garden in New York City. The concertfeatured magicians Raja & Jarret and poet Harry Smith.

For The Sonny & Cher Concerttours, their final years together 1977-1979 he was scenographer and lighting designer. He continued to work with Cher on her shows including the Black Rosetour.

Also in 1980, he was the special effects consultant for Kenny Loggins’ Keep the Fire concert at the Universal Amphitheater.

His photos appear on the album ofNeil Diamond’s live concert Love at the Greek, recorded at the Greek Theater in 1977.

Events

In 1979 the New Orleans police went on-strike and Mardi Gras was cancelled. City officials worked with State Marshalls which had jurisdiction over the Superdome and working with presenter Blaine Kern and Flannery as director and designer, staged Bacchus Mardi Gras in the Superdome. He returned to the Superdome in 1986 with


his associate John Truscott to conceive the 1986 NFL Super Bowl XX Halftime Show.

Theater

In the early 1970s Flannery began his career as a lighting designer in New York City working on and off Broadway. Credits included Augusta and original plays presented by the Chelsea Theater Centre, Ice Age and The Family Parts 1-4. Flannery also freelanced with Jules Fisher & Assoc.

Theater Consultant

From 1980 to 1982 Flannery relocated to Australia to collaborate with two-time Oscar-winning production designer John Truscott as lighting design consultant for the design and building of the Victorian Arts Centre (now the Arts Centre Melbourne).

Academic Career

Flannery taught at the USC University of Southern California, UCLA University of California Los Angeles, Art Center College of Design, and State University of New York and the UCSB University ofCalifornia Santa Barbara.

Affiliations

As an active member of numerous guilds, unions and trade organizations, Flannery maintains membership with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Producers Guild, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, International Cinematographers Guild, InternationalEntertainmentBuyersAssociationandUnitedStatesInstituteofTheatre Technology. He served on the Executive Committee of the Motion Picture and Television Fund for the Golden Boot Awards from 2000 to 2007. He served as President of the Manhattan Chapter of Muscular Dystrophy Association from 1972 to 1976. Today he is a volunteer Creative Director with Teen Cancer America.

Education

While attending a New York high school Flannery began interning with Lighting Director, William Greenfield, at CBS Television on The Ed Sullivan Show from 1968 to 1970.

Flannery is a graduate of the prestigious designers’ program at Lester Polakov’s Studio and Forum of


Stage Design in New York City. He attended the Studio on a full scholarship. The school promoted the idea of conceptual-based designing. All the teachers in the school were working professionals and courses included scenic design, scene painting, still-life sketching, mask making, script analysis, costume design and lighting design.

In 1974, he continued his education at Columbia University in the Film Program. There he studied with filmmaker Scott Bartlett. He furthered his theatre studies at HB Studio with Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen.Category: News Archive Hits: 4244 Written by WorstUsernameEver on Tweet

Recently, the Torment: Tides of Numenera official Tumblr account has published a couple of posts that round up some interesting forum tidbits from the developers.

For example, Kevin Saunders, project director, gave an abridged explanation of the studio's writing process and standards for the project compared to Wasteland 2:

Nathan Long was the lead writer for Wasteland 2, which among other things meant that he wrote the majority of the conversations in the game. He's currently a writer on TTON. He owns one of the companions and is also writing some area conversations for a region that Adam designed (and thus owns). Nathan has a strong background in traditional fiction and also experience with writing screenplays and films. As such, Nathan


brings an interesting perspective to the team -- he is approaching Torment from a different perspective and has frequent insightful comments and questions that stem from his experience in story telling and his understanding of techniques used in cinema.

Nathan has little experience in writing for video games, and TTON has a very specific need there given the interactive nature of the dialogue. Wasteland 2 was his first video game writing experience, though he had veterans, such as inXile's president Matt Findley, to help him adapt to that part of the process.

Fortunately, we have that video game writing experience in spades. Both Colin McComb (our creative lead) and Adam Heine (our design lead) are not only accomplished fiction writers (see Adam's short story currently being digitally published by Paizo,exploring or because they left the game on for an hour while they went to eat dinner).

And envirnoment artist Jon Gwyn talked about the progress on his front:

On the Overall Art front, things are progressing nicely. We've recently bolstered our Effects team with an experienced artist who I know from my old days at Shiny as well as a young upstart who wowed the art director on a recent trip to Gnomon. Our newest Environment artist Paul is quickly making his mark with some nice Crystal environment work as well as helping me on some hidden Bloom rooms. Paul comes to us from our friends at Obsidian and was an artist on Pillars of Eternity so he knows his way around our process pretty well.

Cant wait for all


Spicewood FLL team wins Research Award at World Championship

The Immortals FIRST LEGO League (FLL) team from Spicewood Elementary School, an International Baccalaureate World School, won the first place research award at the organization’s World Championship competition in April.

The FLL World Championship, hosted in Houston, gathered 32,000 teams from 88 countries to compete in the event. The Immortals represented Central Texas at the World Championship.

The first place research award was earned for The Immortal’s awareness campaign to save the vanishing species of the “Golden-Cheeked Warbler,” a local endangered bird. The team consists of Spicewood fifth-grade students Siyona Agnihotri, Bela Jere, Aanchal Save and Eesha Siram and Tulsi Joglekar, an out-of-District student. The team won local qualifiers and the regional Championship Award to reach the World Championship.

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A prominent British lawmaker who quit the Labour Party to try to form a new pro-European political force has moved on again, this time joining the centrist Liberal Democrats.

Chuka Umunna's move is the latest sign of Brexit-driven cracks in Britain's established political order.

Umunna and 10 other lawmakers left Labour and the Conservatives in February to set up new party Change UK. It then split after poor results in European Parliament elections last month. The struggling new party also has to change its name after a legal challenge from petitions website Change.org.

The Lib Dems, who saw a big rise in their vote share in the European election, are urging pro-EU politicians to join them and fight for a new referendum on


Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a common condition affecting elderly men worldwide irrespective of their economic status. The prevalence of BPH increases with increasing age. With life expectancy increasing globally, the disease burden due to BPH is substantial. The emergence of medical management, primarily in the last two decades, has radically changed the entire understanding of this condition. BPH is a classic example of a disease condition where treatment has evolved from being purely surgical to effective and primarily medical management now.

Authored primarily by experts from Europe, this book lucidly covers all the aspects of BPH. The type-setting of the book and size (number of pages) is reader-friendly and not intimidating. The book is both easy to read and carry while travelling. With 14 chapters, this book coversthe topics in a systematic and logical fashion. Dedicated chapters on relatively newer concepts such as the role of prostatic inflammation in the aetiology of BPH and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTSs) are included. Similarly, the emerging understanding of metabolic syndrome and its role in BPH and LUTS has been covered in a separate chapter. Apart from urinary symptoms, elderly men also suffer from erectile dysfunction. Chapter 4 of the book explores in fair detail the close association between these two co-morbidities. Out of 14 chapters, five are dedicated to all the aspects of medical management. What is interesting is that the authors have dedicated 30 pages on phytotherapy. Phytotherapy has been traditionally neglected in Western literature. The chapters on medical management are fairly exhaustive and cover almost


me. He's making a case for the virtues of debt collection, and this is his most persuasive talking point: Those recovered billions increase the availability of credit to all consumers and help keep interest rates in check.

But the persistent phone calls and dunning letters that collection agencies deploy on debtors only pack so much punch. More and more, creditors are retaining the services of attorneys to file lawsuits on their behalf in civil court. At an FTC roundtable in 2009, Ira Leibsker, a Chicago collection attorney, estimated that there were "probably tens of millions of lawsuits" underway at that time. That same year, a single company, Encore Capital Group, filed 375,000 suits in the United States. According to "Debt Deception," a report published by the Legal Aid Societyknocks on the door and asks for So-and-So, and the person says, 'I never heard of that person.' And the processor just drops the paperwork on the porch and walks away."

In the early years of America, "debt was an inescapable fact of life," the historian Bruce H. Mann writes in Republic of Debtors, his 2002 account of how the new nation reconciled its ideals of "republican independence" with the pervasive indebtedness that plagued its citizens. Over time, he shows, insolvency shifted in meaning "from sin to risk, from moral failure to economic failure," and bankruptcy laws and the eventual abolition of debtor's prisons offered the insolvent a chance to free themselves from past failures and misfortunes.

While this shift in meaning applied more to commercial debts than personal ones,


four people around the country have actually been arrested and at least briefly detained for their failure to pay library fines. Debtors have also been arrested and jailed in Arkansas, Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Washington, Florida, and New Jersey.

While the official charge is contempt of court, judges sometimes set the bail to the exact amount the debtor owes. When he pays it, it can go straight to the creditor's coffers. At a time when the federal government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out big business, it's a travesty that state and local governments are using the full force of their power to shake down private citizens on behalf of debt collectors—especially when many of those debts have been acquired for less than it costsDocumentary tells beautiful story of Jewish immigrant’s commitment to help Black America

Who is Julius Rosenwald? To most, he was the son of a German Jewish immigrant and the CEO of Sears, Roebuck and Company. But, many African-Americans older than fifty years old know the billionaire philanthropist by the nickname, “Rosenwald Schools.”

Aviva Kempner wrote and directed Rosenwald, a film documenting Rosenwald’s investment in the education of Southern Blacks.

“(Rosenwald) had grown up with the Jewish perspective “tikkunolam,” which means ‘repairing the world.’ He wanted to make sure that African-Americans in the Jim Crow South were well-educated,” Kempner said.

Rosenwald, a high school drop-out, was modest about his philanthropy. Modesty notwithstanding, his contributions were incredibly significant. He worked alongside Booker T. Washington, president and founder of the Tuskegee Institute, to build primary


schools within the black communities of the Southern United States and provide trained educators.

Between 1911 and 1932, Rosenwald and the community built 5,357 schools across the country. To build the schools, Rosenwald embraced a very intentional belief regarding the source of the funding. A third of the funding would come from him, another third would come from the local legislative branch, and the last third, importantly, would come from the community served. The African-American community would come together to raise funds to match Rosenwald’s donation, provide land, building materials, and their own blood, sweat, and tears to build these school houses, which had their own unique names, but were nicknamed “Rosenwald Schools.”

“When you build it, I think you own it. And the communities had a lot of respectof his revolutionary schools. He also served on the school board of the Tuskegee Institute and provided funding for the college. He provided matching funds to build Y.M.C.A.s and Y.W.C.A.s for young blacks who were travelling during the Great Migration; when many African-Americans fled Jim Crow South to go north.

The Harlem Renaissance was also boosted by the Rosenwald Fund; an initiative he created to provide fellowships to many black artists and scholars to pursue their goals without worrying about financing. Among the African-Americans who benefited from this fund were Dr. Charles R. Drew, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B. Dubois, Katherine Dunham, James Baldwin, Marian Anderson, and Augusta Savage. These individuals and many more went on to make huge impacts on the black community and


broad bipartisan support, with 60 percent of Democrats and 65 percent of Republicans saying they have a favorable few of him. Most voters — 57 percent — also reported being satisfied with the state's economy.

However, Baker does face notable voter discontent on other issues, such as the cost of housing and health care. More than 60 percent of state voters reported being dissatisfied with those issues — 66 percent on health care costs and 61 percent on housing costs.

Tuesday's speech will be the governor's second State of the Commonwealth address. Last year, Baker touted his administration's efforts to get the MBTA's finances in order, fix the Health Connector, shorten wait times at the RMV and overhaul the troubled Department of Children and Families.

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Prince Edward Island National Park officials are pleased with the number of endangered piping plovers chicks hatched this year.

A new island and a good breeding season will provide a safe home for the birds in the next few years.

Fifteen chicks were able to survive in the park. That's about two babies per pair, which is double the normal number.

"The long stretch of warm weather that we've had here in P.E.I. has been really great for the piping plovers," said Jennifer Stewart, who works at the park. "And we do know that during periods of inclement weather the piping plovers chicks are stressed and they do


Clinton accepts modified form of line-item veto

November 17, 1992|By Karen Hosler | Karen Hosler,Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON -- President-elect Bill Clinton sidestepped yesterday what could have been an early and enervating clash with Congress by agreeing to compromise on new budget-cutting powers for the chief executive.

Mr. Clinton's comments at a press conference in Little Rock, Ark., signaled he would be willing to accept less than the "line-item veto" authority he called for during his election campaign.

But the broader message was that the president-elect has decided not to waste valuable time and political capital on a power struggle with Congress that can only hinder his ability to win support for his higher legislative priorities.

"I don't think he's necessarily given up on this, but he's made it clear that his first emphasisand external stakeholders, as project manager for the relocation of the Gynaecology Emergency Department (GED) to a larger area.

In 2015, the decision was made by Sharon, in conjunction with senior management, to train Emergency Nurse Practitioners (ENP) to provide additional, sustainable, clinical support within the GED. Sharon’s aim was to improve patient experience, by reducing waiting times, and to allow for an expansion of the nursing role.

She developed the “garden of hope and serenity”, a protected safe space outside the GED, to support patients and relatives through times of bereavement.

At the end of 2018, Sharon was a lead member of a multidisciplinary task and finish group, tasked with undertaking a pilot project to merge the Gynaecology Emergency Department and Maternity Assessment Unit at night. Sharon worked closely with


the maternity lead and consultants from both areas to set up the combined unit. She led by example, adapting her own working hours to support staff with the change in the working environment and shift patterns. It became apparent to Sharon during the pilot, that the combined unit was not suitable for all women experiencing early pregnancy loss in the department. Sharon’s clinical credibility and her courage to voice her concerns, allowed for the pilot to finish early while a full evaluation could take place. Despite this, Sharon was the first to promote the positive outcomes of the pilot: mutual learning and the development of a lasting, strong working relationship between the midwives and nurses.

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As frontman of The Black Keys, Dan Auerbach has spent the last couple decades glancing longingly backward for inspiration. The band's consistently Grammy-snagging sound has drawn largely from garage rock and the blues, but Auerbach's new solo album, Waiting On A Song, is a joyous reminder that there's more than one way to be retro. Rather than relying on the stomping beats and big riffs of The Black Keys, Waiting On A Song wallows in a laidback vibe that spotlights a quality always present, yet never dominant in


Auerbach's main project: his knack for crafting immaculate, indelible pop.

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Each track on Waiting On A Song sparkles like a long-lost gem of early-'70s AM radio. Taken together, they could be the soundtrack to a Guardians Of The Galaxy film. "Malibu Man" drifts along on swirls of strings and a gently funky shuffle; Auerbach's voice is a study in sun-kissed bliss and hazy-afternoon melancholy. That understated groove continues on "Undertow," a song split evenly between The Guess Who's 1968 hit "These Eyes" and the softly sophisticated balladry of classic Motown. Auerbach rubs the sleep from his eyes on "Cherrybomb" and "Stand By My Girl," back-to-back songs that stomp, sway, and whistle their way throughdreamy infatuation and swooning dedication. "Sweeter than an apple pie," he croons on the vaguely Tom Petty-like "Cherrybomb," and he aptly slathers on the sugar.

As befitting a record with such nostalgic overtones, Waiting On A Song boasts an impressive roster of veteran guest musicians. Guitar hero Duane Eddy lends his iconic twang to "Livin' in Sin" and "King Of A One Horse Town," the former an upbeat anthem that beautifully mixes the bookish hooks of Paul Simon with the glammed-up boogie of T. Rex, the latter a reverb-saturated ode to lonesomeness. Eddy has gone on record ranking Auerbach up there with George Jones and Ray Charles as a singer, and while he doesn't plumb that depth of heartbreak on Waiting On A Song, Auerbach flaunts his eerie ability


to launch his easygoing voice into a the upper atmosphere on "Shine On Me." Sporting a guest appearance by Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler, the track is a masterpiece of clap-along power-pop perfectly calibrated for cars with the windows rolled down.

Waiting On A Song's title track is a collaboration with decorated songwriters John Prine and Pat McLaughlin, although you'd never know three people had their hands on such a seamless, uncluttered composition. Like some long-lost Traveling Wilbury's outtake, it's an effortless slab of classic songcraft filled with playful twists of phrase and airy harmonies. Prine and McLaughlin even appear in the song's video, and Prine is sharing the bill with Auerbach on his upcoming fall tour, which begins in November. In the meantime, Waiting On A Song won't haveof "Personal Space" and in the case of Michelle Obama, not only did she invade the Queen's personal space, she invaded her "Intimate Space". She was a complete stranger to the Queen, she had never met her nor even spoken to her, yet she had the incredibly bad manners to put her arm around her, like she was a small child or best friend. How incredibly gauche and what an incredible breech of protocol!

What the h**l was she thinking? No, the Queen is not God, nor have we "made" her one by our own rules, but she is special and as such deserves to be treated with respect and Michelle Obama breeched both etiquette and protocol. The Queen, as is her habit, smoothed the situation by returning the


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One of the six private cottages where Tom and Suri Cruise reportedly called their home away from home the weekend of June 8 is Baltimore Row that was once a summer retreat for Robert E. Lee. Each comes with two, three and four bedrooms with private, living room with fireplace, dining room and porch.We, the Election Officers, hereby give notice of the results of the
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New isotopic analyses of the meteorite that provided hints of past life on Mars reveals a low-temperature origin, boosting the idea that features of the meteorite may have been formed by living organisms.

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MADISON - New isotopic analyses of the meteorite that provided hints of past life on Mars reveals a low-temperature origin, boosting the idea that features of the meteorite may have been formed by living organisms.

The study, published today (March 14) in the journal Science by a team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison geochemist John W. Valley, lends powerful new support to the notion that the carbonate globules found within the meteorite, dubbed ALH84001, were formed on theThere is a very intricate concentric mineral, chemical and isotopic zonation (within the globules)."

Valley's team measured the ratios of two different isotopic species of oxygen and two of carbon. They found that the carbon ratios in the meteorite are high, higher than in Earthbound rocks.

"This rules out the idea that these features formed while the meteorite was lodged in the Antarctic ice," said Valley. "Such ratios have never been measured in a terrestrial sample."

Oxygen isotope ratios are also high, Valley said, but he noted that the significant discovery is that the oxygen isotopes are not evenly distributed within the sample. "The ion microprobe allows us to determine which parts of the meteorite have more of a particular oxygen isotope."

The life on Mars hypothesis has been challenged on the


Three NYCFC players have received U.S Green Cards, freeing up three International Player spots for the 2017 MLS season.

Jack Harrison, Eirik Johansen and Ronald Matarrita have all been granted permanent resident status in the United States, effective immediately.

As residents, the three players will no longer occupy International Player slots on the roster, meaning NYCFC are now using nine International Player slots out of a possible ten.

International Players

Fred Brillant

Alexander Callens

Miguel Camargo

Maxime Chanot

Yangel Herrera

Maxi Moralez

Andrea Pirlo

Alex Ring

David Villa

Harrison becomes a resident of the United States following six years in the country.

Aged 14, Jack left the United Kingdom to attend Berkshire School in Sheffield, Massachusetts, before he joined NYCFC in the 2016 MLS SuperDraft after a year at Wake Forest University.

Johansen left Manchester City FC for NYCFC in March 2015 andmade his debut for the team in the US Open Cup match against New York Cosmos in June 2015, before making his MLS debut against Columbus Crew in October 2016.

Costa Rican international Matarrita signed to NYCFC from Alajuelense in January 2016 and has since made 25 Regular Season appearances, scoring two goals.

Each MLS team starts every year with eight roster slots for International Players.

NYCFC acquired one extra spot in 2016 and 2017 as part of the trade which took Patrick Mullins to DC United and the tenth spot for 2017 came from Colorado Rapids in a trade which took place on February 10, in exchange for $75k GAM (General Allocation Money).

Canadian-born Kwame Awuah is considered a domestic player as part of the Generation adidas Canada initiative – a


Criminal Lawyer – Northern Connecticut

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Class Halls

General and LocalDefense chat channels are now functioning properly in the Shaman Class Hall.

Dungeons and Raids

In Mythic Keystone dungeons, Shadow Priests who die due to Surrender to Madness expiring should no longer incur a 5 second time penalty.

Emerald Nightmare

Heart of Corruption

On Mythic difficulty, the Corruptor Tentacle that previously spawned at 225 seconds into the fight now spawns at 235 seconds, and the Deathglare Tentacle that previously spawned at 240 seconds into the fight now spawns at 250 seconds.

Items

Items rewarded from emissary bags now more closely match the quality of World Quest rewards.

The Spear of Rethu polearm now scales properly from character level 1 to 100, now properly appears in the heirloom list, and is now correctly a 2-handed weapon.

Quests

Oculeth no longer disappears


NASA Tests First Deep-Space Internet

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PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet.Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about more than 32 million kilometers (20 million miles) from Earth."This is the first step in creating a totally new space communications capability, an interplanetary Internet," said Adrian Hooke, team lead and manager of space-networking architecture, technology and standards at NASA Headquarters in Washington.NASA and Vint Cerf, a vice president at Google, Inc., in Mountainspacecraft as a Mars data-relay orbiter. Epoxi is on a mission to encounter Comet Hartley 2 in two years."There are 10 nodes on this early interplanetary network," said Scott Burleigh of JPL, lead software-engineer for the demonstrations. "One is the Epoxi spacecraft itself and the other nine, which are on the ground at JPL, simulate Mars landers, orbiters and ground mission-operations centers."This month-long experiment is the first in a series of planned demonstrations to qualify the technology for use on a variety of upcoming space missions, said Jay Wyatt, manager of the Space Networking and Mission Automation Program Office at JPL. In the next round of testing, a NASA-wide demonstration using new DTN software loaded on board the International Space Station is scheduled to begin next summer.In the


next few years, the Interplanetary Internet could enable many new types of space missions. Complex missions involving multiple landed, mobile and orbiting spacecraft will be far easier to support through the use of the Interplanetary Internet. It could also ensure reliable communications for astronauts on the surface of the moon.The Deep Impact Networking Experiment is sponsored by the Space Communications and Navigation Office in NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate in Washington. NASA's Science Mission Directorate and Discovery Program in Washington provided experimental access to the Epoxi spacecraft. The Epoxi mission team provided critical support throughout development and operations.JPL is managed for NASA by the California Institution of Technology in Pasadena.About 50 people recovering from opiate addictions in Adams and western York counties drove 45 minutes or more, every day, to receive methadone treatments last year, according to county statistics.

That's because the closest methadone clinic is in eastern York County. Steve Warren and other members of the York/Adams Drug and Alcohol Commission want to change that by opening another methadone clinic near Hanover.

The proposal is still in its early stages, said Warren, who serves as commission administrator. The commission hopes to have a provider for the clinic narrowed down by this fall, but because the group still has to find an acceptable location, no timeline exists yet for when the clinic might open.

When it does, though, area officials hope it will help combat the growing number of heroin


This is a request for funds to continue the yearly symposia on basic aspects of the biology of skin. These symposia, which originated in 1950 at Brown University, have continued at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center since 1964. The theme of the 25th Anniversary Symposium this year was "Perspectives and Retrospectives in Cutaneous Biology." The meeting was held at the Portland Hilton, August 21-24, 1975, with a record of 400 people attending from the United States and eight foreign countries. The Proceedings will be published in the July, 1976, issue of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology. The 1976 symposium will again be held at Salishan Lodge, Gleneden Beach, Oregon, October 6-10. The theme will be "The Cells of the Dermis." Drs. Marvin Karasec and Peter Bentley willUNPUBLISHED

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,

v.                                                                    No. 99-4552

MARK EDWARD FOGARTY,
Defendant-Appellant.

Appeal from the United States District Court
for the Western District of Virginia, at Big Stone Gap.
James P. Jones, District Judge.
(CR-99-46)

Submitted: April 27, 2000

Decided: May 4, 2000

Before NIEMEYER and MOTZ, Circuit Judges,
and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.

_________________________________________________________________

Affirmed in part and dismissed in part by unpublished per curiam
opinion.

_________________________________________________________________

COUNSEL

J. Daniel Kilgore,


also contends that the
district court erred in not departing downward based on his dimin-
ished capacity. See USSG § 5K2.13, p.s. We affirm in part and dis-
miss in part.

On August 18, 1998, Fogarty went into a pawn and gun shop and
told the manager that he had locked his car keys in his car and
urgently needed help in unlocking the car. The manager understood
that Fogarty had prescription medicine for his mother in the car which
he needed to deliver to her, although Fogarty later denied that he had
said this. The manager went out of the room to use the phone. A
security video showed that Fogarty immediately reached across the
counter and removed a Ruger .22 caliber revolver from a gun case.
He took off the price tag, concealed the gun in his pants,and walked
out of the store. Fogarty was arrested the same day by state authorities
and charged with grand larceny. The gun was not recovered, but
Fogarty had $100 in cash. After seeing the security video, Fogarty
admitted taking the gun, but said he had left it in the store. Federal
authorities became involved the next day. On August 24, 1998,
Fogarty returned the gun to the pawn and gun shop, and told his law-
yer that, on the day of the crime, he had been drinking beer with
friends, one of whom put a Xanax tablet in his beer. He said he did

                    2
not remember taking the gun. Fogarty was charged with federal fire-
arms offenses and


pled guilty.

At the guilty plea hearing, Fogarty continued to maintain that he
did not remember taking the gun and that he had done it without
knowing what he was doing. However, he insisted that he wished to
plead guilty. Fogarty had been psychologically evaluated and found
to be of limited intelligence, but not suffering from any mental illness.
The court found that Fogarty's plea was knowing and voluntary
despite his contention that he did not clearly remember committing
the offense. At sentencing, the government sought an adjustment for
obstruction of justice, alleging that Fogarty had perjured himself at
the guilty plea hearing. The government also asked that Fogarty be
denied a reduction for acceptance of responsibility.

Fogarty testified at some length, discussing among other things his
lack of memory, how a friend had put pills in his beer, and howhe
had paid $150 to get the gun back from the man who had it so he
could return it. He pointed out that the stolen gun was not particularly
valuable.

In its findings, the court noted that Fogarty's actions on the video
were "purposeful and coherent," that the psychological report
described Fogarty's memory impairment as apparently self-serving,
and that Fogarty's limited intelligence did not prevent him from testi-
fying capably, making arguments in his own behalf, and pointing out
weaknesses in the government's position. The court decided that
Fogarty had intentionally lied under oath at the guilty plea hearing
and at sentencing about a material matter--his knowledge that he
stole the gun and his condition at the time--and had thus committed
perjury. See United States v. Dunnigan, 507 U.S. 87, 94 (1993) (per-
jury is willful false testimony concerning a material


a screen lifted up at the back of the stage to reveal newest Price is Right model Helen Mirren showing off a beautiful lime green Kawasaki jet ski.

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"Why waste precious time thanking your mom when you could be taking her for the ride of her life on a brand new jet ski?"

Kimmel explained that this was not a joke and held up a stopwatch, explaining that the timer would start as soon as they were handed the Oscar.

"And in the unlikely event of a tie, I need to say the jet ski will be awarded to Christopher Plummer," he added.

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While Kimmel firmly encouraged nominees to go for the short speech to win that jet ski, he also gave a few options in case anyone wanted to goParis Hilton confesses to rigging polls for Congressman Ron Paul

Los Angeles — Stunning observers in the court room, Paris Hilton said that she is the one responsible for rigging several online polls in favor of Presidential candidate, Congressman Ron Paul.

“I am the Ron Paul supporter who voted several thousand times in favor of him after the Republican debate,” said Paris Hilton.

Hilton said that she did because she is very upset with the political system since being sentenced to jail. She also confessed to running every single pro Ron Paul internet site.

“Lew Rockwell is a fake person. It just one of my pseudonyms to create the illusion of a libertarian movement in the country. All of those articles and commentaries are all written by me,” admitted an embattled Paris


Smederevo Airport

Smederevo Airport ( / Aerodrom Smederevo)  is an airport in village Lipe, on the territory of the city of Smederevo, Serbia. The airport is located about 4.5 km southeast of the center of Smederevo, near the road 14 that connects Smederevo–Kovin. Activities include sport and training flights of aircraft, agricultural airplanes, helicopters, and  parachuting. Within the airport works and Aero Club Smederevo.

There is a concrete apron of 20x40 m.

See also
Airports in Serbia

Category:Airports in SerbiaLittle who is the pastor of the Church at Pierce Creek. On October 30, 1992, four days before the presidential election, BMI bought advertising space in two newspapers  The Washington Times and USA Today  to print an open letter. The letter, which was headed "Christian Beware," described then-Governor Clinton as supporting abortion on demand, homo-sexuality and the distribution of condoms to teenagers in the public schools. The letter cited various Biblical passages and concluded with the statement: "How then can we vote for Bill Clinton?" The letter concluded in fine print: "Tax-deductible contributions for this advertisement gladly accepted" and requested that donations be made to The Church at Pierce Creek.
On January 19, 1995, the IRS revoked BMI's tax exempt status under 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3), retroactive


Happiness is...a good book! (Summer Reading edition #26)

This is a simply lovely biography recounting the early life of Jane Goodall. Beginning with her love for a stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee, the two go on many adventures together. The text highlights her fascination with nature, her studiousness and curiosity and her dreams of one day visiting Africa and helping the animals there (and finishes with a brilliant spread showing the realization of those dreams.)

There is an author's note that shares additional information about Jane and her life's work with Louis Leakey at Gombe Stream Game Reserve (now National Park), her written research, conservation efforts, and formation of the Jane Goodall Institute, her Roots and Shoots program and more.There is also a personal message from Jane herself encouraging readers tototal government shutdown.

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This past weekend saw some major tournament action go down, as FV Cup X SEA Major 2019 took place in Kualua Lumpur, Malaysia. It was a big event for multiple games, as it served as the first Ranking event for the 2019 Capcom Pro Tour, with points on the line for Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition — as well as a stop on the NEO GEO World Tour 2 for The King Of Fighters XIV and The King of Fighters ’98. Tournaments were also held for Tekken 7, SoulCalibur VI, and Dragon Ball FighterZ.

Results

Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition

1. FUDOH|Fujimura (Ibuki) – 200 Points

2. ROHTO Z!|Tokido (Akuma) – 100 Points

3. Talon|HotDog29 (M. Bison) – 80 Points

4. RB.Hx|Bonchan (Sagat, Karin Kanzuki) – 20 Points

5. Victrix|Momochi (Zeku, Kolin) – 10 Points

5.Wall Street wowed by iPhone X performance, but cools off on expectations of an Apple 'supe...

Apple delivered record revenue in its holiday quarter, but went about it in a way different than investors expected, leaving analysts to rethink their so-called "super cycle" predictions for iPhone X unit sales growth. But with the average selling price of new iPhones soaring to unexpected highs, analysts remain bullish on the company's prospects in the months to come.

After-hours trading on shares of AAPL following the company's earnings call showed the mixed emotions investors were going through, as the stock went up and down by a few percentage points in a financial tug of war. Eventually, when markets opened on Friday, the stock was down slightly, and stayed off by a little more


he asked.

He believes AAPL stock is set up even better over the next one to two years, as analysts stop expecting a mythical one-year "super-cycle" and begin to see the iPhone X as a new high-end model introducing new technologies, such as an OLED display, Face ID camera, machine learning and more.

He expects iPhone units will grow 6 percent year over year in calendar 2018, followed by another 4 percent growth in 2019.

RBC Capital Markets

Heading into Thursday's earnings, a chief area of concern for investors was Apple's guidance for the next March quarter. Analyst Amit Daryanani said that while Apple guided below Wall Street expectations for the quarter, the iPhone unit guide came in better than had been feared.

That, coupled with stronger than expected demand for the iPhoneas many people who didn't think last year before anointing Q1 2017 as Apple's best results ever.

AppleInsider: "Apple's holiday 2016 quarter was the company's biggest ever, soaring to new heights on sales of 78.3 million iPhones following the launch of the blockbuster iPhone 7 series." "As usual, Apple's success was determined by the iPhone, which saw sales of 78.3 million units in the company's first quarter of fiscal 2017. That was an increase from the 74.8 million iPhones the company sold in the same quarter a year ago, holding the record until now." (No mention of the 14 week quarter in the article and It took 50 comments praising Apple's accomplishment before anyone pointed out the difference in weeks)

It royally sucks to be honest. Apple so far has


tried to convert it into an opportunity,” says Sharma, recounting the journey of ITV which started in 2007. Sharma’s initial goal was to launch a national channel. However, the economic downturn forced him to re-strategize. His new game plan was the regional news channel, India News. Sharma says, “This model worked out well for us and three years later, it evolved into a regional network.” Today, ITV operates five regional channels under the brand name India News across Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and Bihar and Jharkhand.

The next big challenge for ITV and the industry as a whole was digitization. Sharma believed this was the right time to enter the English news space. Subsequently, in 2012, ITV acquired NewsX (the channel’s third ownerand overlong , " wild things " is a confused mess , a movie that wants to have its cake and eat it too .
with its incalculable twists , turns , more twists and more turns , it soon becomes a tedious exercise in pointlessness .
in spite of game efforts by kevin bacon and matt dillon , who manage to sustain straight faces throughout the ordeal , " wild things " not once jells in its eroticism , unpredictability , character motivation , sense of the world , plot , etc . there's not one redeeming quality in the picture that is not technical .
directed by john mcnaughton ( " henry : portrait of a serial killer " ) , " wild things " follows


sam lombardo ( matt dillon ) , a hunkish , suburban florida high school teacher who's the dream of every spruced up female in the community .
particularly one .
kelly van ryan ( denise richards ) adores him to such extent that she offers to wash his jeep with a partner .
soon , her tiny shorts are soaked and tells the other girl to take a hike , enabling her to come into his house .
next thing , she cries rape .
and the so-called " roller-coaster ride " ensues .
a second accuser comes front , suzie toller ( neve campbell ) , a booze-drinkin' , tattooed piece of trailer trash that charges lombardo of sexually molesting her , virtually guaranteeing a trial wherepreposterous confessions , asinine occurrences and laughable courtroom procedures are bound to happen .
even bill murray gets into the act as lombardo's zany lawyer .
he wears a fake neck- brace , waves the finger at the other client and infuses the script with some billy murray .
you can tell mcnaughton knew he had nothing to lose assigning murray to this role .
as ridiculous as it sounds , he's the most sane character in the movie .
the community is astonished .
reporters flee to the scene .
there's an 8 . 5-million settlement for a libel suit against kelly's mother ( theresa russell ) .
there's the ambiguous cop ( kevin bacon , who also executive produced ) who sniffs something iffy in this


so as to allow for the elimination of the holes, horizontal supports and rear spraying, thus minimizing excavation required, and reducing labor and material costs, while improving quality.
Furthermore, in my prior invention, the upright supports comprised wooden stakes buried in the ground. This material was inexpensive and readily available. However, wood often is not durable, especially in the ground, and may quickly degrade due to weather, insects and other natural forces. As the wood degrades, wood looses supporting properties, eventually offering no support whatsoever to the sidewall. Moreover, decking or other heavy material placed about the perimeter of the completed pool required continued support throughout the life of the pool. In addition, the upright supports needed to be sprayed with fiberglass from the rear, creating the over-excavation problemMartin Fayulu, who came second in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's presidential election last month, has appealed to the country's Constitutional Court to cancel the provisional result.

"The request seeks the annulment of the result declaring Felix Tshisekedi president," his lawyer Feli Ekombe told reporters outside the court on Saturday.

Fayulu's camp has accused the declared winner, opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi, of making a secret deal with outgoing President Joseph Kabila.

"You can't manufacture results behind closed doors," Fayulu said in front of a crowd of his supporters.

"I am hoping that the constitutional court will call the electoral commission to recount the ballot papers. "They are false, fabricated, nothing to do with the truth. The truth has to come from the recount of the ballot paper."

Tshisekedi's victory shocked pollsters and


was immediately disputed by the opposition and Western powers.

The influential Catholic Church also rejected the official result, based on tallies by its 40,000-strong observer team.

"The results as published do not match the data collected by our own observation mission," Marcel Utembi, the head of the country's National Episcopal Conference of Congo (CENCO) said.

"We have a recommendation: To publish as quickly as possible all the records and minutes from the counties and the polling stations to allow candidates to compare".

'All eyes on the court'

The DRC has been tense in recent days with rising violence across the country raising fears of a breakdown of law and order, similar to the violence that broke out in the central African country after the 2006 and 2011 elections.

There have been isolated incidents ofa son.

"When I got pregnant for the sixth time, he insisted I should get an abortion if it's another girl child. I refused and we had a big row.

"He threw acid on me, aiming at my vagina and abdomen."

Reshma breaks down as she recalls the attack. She has recently undergone an operation to try to repair some of the damage. Her baby is still alive, but she is extremely frail.

Violence against women: The facts India: Rape within marriage is not considered a crime in India if the wife is over 15

Up to eight million female foetuses are thought have been aborted in India in the decade to 2011

In India, 22 women were killed each day in dowry-related murders in 2007 Sources: 2011 Census, National Crime Records Bureau, Amnesty


International Global: More than one-third of all murders of women around the world are committed by a current or former partner

As many as 1 in 4 women experience physical and/or sexual violence during pregnancy

Violence by an intimate partner is the most common type of abuse, affecting 30% of women Sources: World Health Organization, Women's Aid WHO: Female Genital Mutilation BBC: India's missing girls Amnesty: Violence against women UN Women

It took her four days to get medical help after the attack and that was only after her father arrived. She now lives with her poor parents in Kanpur, 500km (300 miles) outside Delhi.

They were aware of the terrible life that their daughter had with her husband, but were initially too afraid to think of police action against their ownson-in-law.

Eventually, Reshma says, they stood by her.

The acid attack was the culmination of 15 years of violence at the hands of her husband. As she recovered, 35-year-old Reshma decided she did not want to be another female footnote in the death columns of the newspapers.

She registered a police case against her husband on five different grounds of cruelty. Now he is in prison awaiting trial. He denies all the charges.

Changing society

The vicious assault on a young medical student on a Delhi bus last December sparked outrage across India and provoked national soul-searching about the extent of gender-based violence.

It also appears to have paved the way for more women to go to the police.

According to government statistics, 1,036 rapes were reported in Delhi in the year so far up


to 15 August. That compares with 433 reports during the same period in 2012.

The same seems to hold true for areas outside the capital: in the small state of Jharkand, in eastern India, the number of reported rape cases rose from 460 in the first half of 2012 to 818 in the first half of 2013.

Despite this, as in many other countries, the conviction rate for rape remains low. According to the National Crime Record Bureau it stood at 24.1% in 2012, lower than the previous year.

Police say they are trying to improve the situation, including putting 400 more police vans on the streets of the capital. There has also been a push to recruit female police officers.

Avatar Sing Rawat, a Delhi police officer, says the force isalso being trained in dealing with female victims. "The police are better sensitised now," he argues.

Ranjana Kumari, a well-known women's rights activist, says India has seen "structural changes" since the Delhi rape, but that streets can still be dangerous for women.

Image copyright AP Image caption People across India called for the death sentence for the men convicted in the Delhi rape case

"Women are continuing to live their lives, coming out, working despite all the dangers.

But the most frustrating thing is that the state has still not been able to fix the accountability clearly when a crime is committed against women," she says.

"Political parties have made women's safety part of their political manifesto. When I travel to smaller cities I realise more conversations are happening around women's safety, but


UM Students Lead ACT Prep Initiative in North Mississippi

Team 36 program assists more than 100 high school students

MARCH 10, 2016 | BY ANDREW MARK ABERNATHY

METP fellow Emily Reynolds (center) works with Team 36 students at Coffeeville High School.

Since January, University of Mississippi juniors Ben Logan and Emily Reynolds have traveled to Coffeeville High School once a week to dedicate a few midday hours to leading ACT workshops for nearly a dozen 11th- and 12th–graders at the small-town school.

Like thousands of high school students across the state, Coffeeville students spent January and February preparing for ACT examinations in March. However, this group is supported by Team 36, a new nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing college students to provide ACT test preparation for rural schools.

“A lot of the ACT is justplans.
This spring, the UM undergraduates are wrapping up a five-week course that focuses more on English, mathematics and other content areas. All lesson plans were designed by UM student volunteers.

The team leaders switch schools to work with different students each semester, allowing them to gain different experiences and a better sense of the “big picture” Team 36 is working to improve.

The educator, who holds a doctorate in philosophy from Cornell University and has spent the past two years as a UM visiting assistant professor of public policy leadership, has more than 10 years’ experience in higher education. She previously was head of studies at Amsterdam University College in the Netherlands.

Vigeant, who recruited the Team 36 members and secured the program’s initial funding, explained that the inspiration for the


Sook-Yin Lee

Sook-Yin Lee is a Canadian broadcaster, musician, filmmaker, and actress. She is a former MuchMusic VJ, and, since 2002, has been a host on CBC Radio.

In 1995, Lee became a VJ for MuchMusic, bringing her theatrical and musical background and her unique creative perspective to the channel. She was best known as the host of MuchMusic's alternative music show, The Wedge.

Lee is openly bisexual.[7] In 1995, on the day that sexual orientation was held to be protected under s. 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by the Supreme Court of Canada in the Egan v Canada case, Lee celebrated the decision by kissing a woman on the air.[9] She later appeared on the cover of Xtra! in 1997.

She left MuchMusic in 2001. During herlast appearance as a MuchMusic VJ, Lee and her co-host turned their backs to the camera, and mooned the audience on live television.[10]

The following year, she was named as the new host of CBC Radio One's Saturday afternoon pop culture magazine Definitely Not the Opera.

In the fall of 2004, she produced and hosted a documentary celebrating Terry Fox as part of the CBC Television series The Greatest Canadian. Fox finished second in the voting to Tommy Douglas, whose advocate was another ex-MuchMusic VJ, George Stroumboulopoulos.

DNTO completed its run in 2016. Lee immediately hosted the summer series Sleepover for CBC Radio,[11] and remains in talks to develop another permanent program for the network.


Barcelona's mercurial forward is now level with Zico on his country's all-time goal-scorers list

The forward took his international record to 48 goals in 72 games

Neymar's second-half goal gave Brazil a 2-1 victory over Colombia on Tuesday as the former world champions registered their second consecutive win to move into second place in the South America qualifying group for Russia 2018.

The home side got off to the perfect start after just 80 seconds when Miranda rose to head home a corner for his first goal in 33 appearances for the national side.

Brazil, playing just their second game under new coach Tite, dominated the first half with a high-pace pressing game but struggled to make clear cut chances and paid the price on 35 minutes when Colombia equalised against therun of play.

Neymar's second-half goal helped Brazil to a 2-1 World Cup qualifying win over Colombia

The Barcelona forward wheels away in celebration after scoring Brazil's crucial goal

Neymar is mobbed by his Brazilian team-mates after coming up with the winner

Barcelona's mercurial forward is now level with Zico on his country's all-time goal-scorers list

Neymar posted this celebratory shot of the Brazil team to Instagram at the end of the game

James Rodriguez floated in a free kick from 35 yards out and Brazilian defender Marquinhos headed the ball into his own net.

BRAZIL'S RECORD SCORERS 1. Pele: 77 2. Ronaldo: 62 3. Romario: 55 4. Zico, Neymar: 48 6. Bebeto: 39 7. Rivaldo: 35 8. Jairzinho, Ronaldinho: 33 9. Ademir, Tostao: 32 Advertisement

Neymar took a pass just inside the box with 73


minutes gone and his angled drive was well placed into the far corner to beat Colombian goalkeeper David Ospina.

It was his 48th goal in 72 international games and moves the Barcelona striker equal with Zico on Brazil's all-time goal-scoring list.

The result in the humid heat of Manaus lifts Brazil to 15 points, ahead of Argentina, who came from behind to draw 2-2 against bottom-placed team Venezuela, on goal difference.

Colombia sit two points behind them in fourth place in the 10-team South American group.

Chelsea midfielder Willian battles for the ball with James Rodriguez of Colombia

Colombia made it 1-1 when Rodriguez's free-kick ended in an own goal from Marquinhos

Colombia captain Rodriguez was in the thick of the action but couldn't prevent his team's loss

Uruguay, who beat Paraguay 4-0 earlier inIrving J. Stolberg

Irving J. Stolberg (1936–2009) was an academic and Democratic politician from Connecticut. He was the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1983–1984 and again in 1987–1988.

Early life and education
Irving J. Stolberg was born on September 24, 1936, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Ralph Stolberg and Lillian Blank Alpert. He grew up primarily in Los Angeles and earned a masters in International Relations from UCLA in 1958. He also earned a masters and completed study for a Ph.D in Geography and African Studies from Boston University.

Academic career
Stolberg taught Geography at Southern Connecticut State University and Quinnipiac University.

Stolberg contributed the "Connecticut" entry to the Encyclopædia Britannica.

Political career
Stolberg served in the Connecticut House of Representatives for 22 years.

In 1989, Stolberg attempted to run for


A fallacious "Gambler's Fallacy"? Commentary on Xu and Harvey (2014).
In their recent article in Cognition, Xu and Harvey (2014) suggested that people who placed wagers on an online gambling site demonstrated very different wagering preferences depending on whether they were on winning or losing streaks. Specifically, they reported that people on winning streaks were more likely to win their subsequent wagers because they chose increasingly "safer," higher-probability bets as the win streak continued. People on losing streaks were more likely to lose their subsequent wagers because they chose "riskier," lower-probability wagers as the losing streak progressed. The authors suggested that individuals on winning and losing streaks both fell prey to the Gambler's Fallacy. Specifically, individuals on winning streaks combatted their expectancy to lose soon by choosing higher-probability wagersHillary Clinton, and Trump Jr. said it had not. After the Times obtained an email chain showing an acquaintance, Rob Goldstone, offered Trump Jr. a meeting where he could obtain information as part of a Russian government effort to help his father's campaign, Trump Jr. posted the emails online.But shortly after that first report, it was shown the initial statement was misleading. The Times reported that Trump Jr. accepted the meeting in hopes that it would yield damaging information on Hillary Clinton, and Trump Jr. said it had not. After the Times obtained an email chain showing an acquaintance, Rob Goldstone, offered Trump Jr. a meeting where he could obtain information as part of a Russian government effort to help his father's campaign, Trump Jr. posted the emails


lived and died by election results.

It didn’t last that long. I shuddered at the 2002 mid-term results, backed Howard Dean with a vengeance in 2003, watched as he went down in flames in early 2004, got behind Kerry, wished fervently for him to defeat Bush, was crestfallen when he didn’t, rejoiced in the 2006 mid-terms, bounced around a bit in the 2008 Democratic primary, ultimately became sucked in by Obama’s candidacy, rejoiced when he was elected, and then quickly soured on the entire process as he pissed away the enthusiasm and support upon which he was swept into office and instead gave us little more than the third term of George W. Bush.

That’s the very brief and incomplete summary, and it’s one that I believe tracks with avoters—are ignorant and backward reactionaries, stuck in their outdated religious and cultural worldviews, completely devoid of empathy, violently against any social safety net and eager for those less worthy of them to die. They’re rural rubes and suburban hate-mongers who fetishistically cling to their guns, their religion, their hatreds and their fear and stand in the way of the glorious social and economic progress promised by Democrats. Democrats—not just the politicians, but Democratic voters—are elitist, urban intellectuals who hate religion and any sense of tradition. They despise American values, capitalism, democracy, rural folk, religious folk and entrepreneurs. They want to destroy rural communities and economies. They want to eliminate guns and the cultural traditions that come with them, destroy independence, enlarge government to the point that the entire


result in any substantive change. Simply put, there is no national political solution, there are only local solutions.

The lyrics to the song are well worth taking the time to read. The reference to Afghanistan was actually a reference to the Russians (it was written in 1983 after all):

Conquistador of Mexico, the Zulu and the Navaho
The Belgians in the Congo short memory
Plantation in Virginia, the Raj in British India
The deadline in South Africa short memory
The story of El Salvador, the silence of Hiroshima
Destruction of Cambodia short memory

Short memory, must have a, short memory

The sight of hotels by the Nile, the designated Hilton style
With running water specially bought short memory
A smallish man Afghanistan, a watch dog in a nervous land
They’re only there to lend a hand short memory
The friendly five

Two female chimps, Aimi and Annie, and one male, Commando, have been just rescued and evacuated from the war-torn Central African Republic, with the financial support of the Elephant Action League (EAL), in collaboration with Peace 4 Animals.

Earlier on in 2017, some 4 chimps were tried to be rescued from the southeastern corner of the Central African Republic.

They were all victim of wildlife crime and the illegal trade in apes.

Sadly right then, the places where they were kept, Zemio and Obo, were invaded and a serious civil unrest fell over the entire area, and people fled across the river into DRC for protection. All communications were broken and there was no way to stay in contact with them since all mobile towers were destroyed.

Annie Olivecrona, the woman behind


this rescue, thought all chimps were dead. Suddenly the missionaries managed to get contact again and started flying in under UN escort and found out that three of the chimps were still alive, so Ms. Olivecrona, with the help of Elephant Action League, started to plan how to get them out of this war-torn area and to join other 4 chimps waiting in Juba (South Sudan) and all of them to go to Chimfunshi in Zambia.

The rescue operation was carried out at the beginning of April. The Elephant Action League and its founder Andrea Crosta, entirely funded the operation, with the crucial support of Peace 4 Animals, and its founder Katie Cleary.

Logistical support was given by Kenya Airways.

Annie Olivecrona reports that: “All the chimps are happy and ateNEW YORK — North Korea has ramped up its rhetoric once again.

Yesterday, it promised a "physical response" if South Korea and the United States went ahead with planned military exercises this weekend. Today, North Korea went a step further, saying it would use "nuclear deterrent" and launch a "retaliatory sacred war" in response to the exercises in the Sea of Japan.

The exercises themselves are a reaction to the North's alleged sinking of the South Korean warship, the Cheonan, in March. The North vehemently denies the allegations and calls the military exercises "unpardonable" provocation for again being wrongly blamed.

Of course, North Korea routinely threatens war. This time may be no different.

But ever since stories of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s imminent demise after a stroke began circulating last


and Tumen rivers to China indicate that a network of gulags in the north of the country is going strong. Work almost certainly continues on the country’s plutonium and uranium based nuclear arsenal, and international aid agencies fear rural residents — thanks in part to the botched currency devaluation — may be nearing a level of destitution not seen since 1997, when famine killed up to 3 million people.

Now, however, it’s the events happening outside the North’s borders that have South Korean and American officials on edge. The attack on the Cheonan in March, coupled with the uncertain signals coming out of Pyongyang, may have been a game-changer. This week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Bill Gates both visited South Korea and reports suggest theFriday, 5 October 2012

Pelke's devotion to family, faith resonates decades after murder

by Sarah Tompkins

Ruth Pelke's family has fond memories of holidays in her Gary home, complete with crocheted gifts, colored cookies and "Nana salad," Pelke's macaroni salad mixed with watermelon pickles.
But in 1985 four teenage girls turned their stepgrandmother's dining room into a crime scene, leaving Pelke dead with more than 30 knife wounds piercing her 78-year-old frame.
"It went through her body, through the carpet, through the padding on the floor," said Pelke's stepdaughter, Ruth Weyhe, now 88. "There were marks in the floor."
In an infamous case that made national headlines, 15-year-old Paula Cooper, 16-year-old Karen Corder, 14-year-old Denise Thomas and 15-year-old April Beverly were arrested and charged as adults in relation to the murder.
"Christmas has never been


the same, that's for sure," said Pelke's now 64-year-old grandson, Bill Pelke.'I just loved her so, so much'

Ruth Pelke grew up and worked on a farm in Peru, Ind., doing manual labor as well as helping her neighbors with chores as the women recovered from childbirth, according to her family. She was a second or third cousin to Weyhe and Robert Pelke's mother, and they said the family would see her during trips to the countryside.
Robert, Pelke's stepson who is 92 and living in South Carolina, said he always would remember how much faith Pelke had in him. And how she once trusted him to drive a wagon full of hay as a teenager – which he accidentally flipped over after turning a corner too sharp.
"She didn't holdit against me," he said. "She treated me very good. It was just one of those things she took in stride. She was very cool. She took everything calmly."
Weyhe, who now lives in Porter County, said she recalled farm trips dating back to when she was 4 years old.
"I used to go with her out to the pasture and bring in the cows and stand there and watch her milk," Weyhe said. "I just followed her everywhere. I just loved her so, so much."
A year after her mother died from leukemia, she said her father and Pelke became an item. But before Pelke would marry Weyhe's father, Pelke said he had to first ask his children if they would be OK with it.
Weyhe said they were thrilled.
"I remember


her and granddad having a wonderful relationship," said Karen, Pelke's 47-year-old granddaughter. "They would joke around and he would tease her and smooch with her. He was always very loving and she was very loving back to him."
It was Pelke's first marriage, and she never had any biological children.
"She took on a whole family," said Pelke's 51-year-old grandson, Jon. "She was the only grandmother any of us had."

The family threw her a joint 70th birthday party and "Nana's Day" in May shortly after Mother's Day, donning Pelke with a queen's robe and crown. Bill said one of the reasons for celebrating her was because she didn't stand to be honored at a Mother's Day service.
"I guess because she didn't have any kids of her own, she didn't feellike she was a mother," Bill said. "And that bothered me."

Pelke opened her arms to her nonbiological family, as well as her church family. Her relatives said she was an active member of her Baptist church and volunteered as part of a child evangelism program in her neighborhood. For about an hour sometimes five days a week, she would meet with youths and share Bible stories ranging from David and Goliath to Noah's ark.
She was known for using vibrant flannel graphs to tell those stories, her family said, sticking figures made of flannel and paper against unique flannel backgrounds propped on an easel.
"She was just a loving, caring person and she spoke positively of people," said granddaughter Dottie McKay, 67, of South Carolina. "She loved the Lord."
McKay said


Pelke was killed shortly before McKay's daughter's high school graduation party, and they found the card she had prepared for her daughter after Pelke's death.
"If you had a perfect grandmother or mother, she would be the one," McKay said.

That day
Pelke had been living alone since her husband, Oscar, died in 1983, and her family members said they had been trying to get her to move as Gary's crime rate started to rise.
The day before her murder Robert had gone to visit Pelke to talk about getting the Adams Street home in Gary's Glen Park neighborhood fixed up and ready to sell. Weyhe, also a widow at the time, said she had been considering trying to buy a place with Pelke to help get her out of the area.
"Shewasn't afraid to stay where she was," Robert said. "She said she'd stay there until she went to heaven."
And on May 14 when Robert went to pick up Pelke for some errands, he found her body on a blood-soaked floor with a towel over her face.
"The first thing I did was lift up the towel and I saw she was dead," Robert said. "I grabbed the telephone, and it was jerked out of the wall, and then I had to run up and down the street. I couldn't find a neighbor home or nothing."
Bill said his father flagged down a car and asked to use their phone because his mother had been killed.
"I know he had never referred to her as his mother, and that was the first


this helpless woman?"
Bill said he remembers showing up to the house, seeing his father and another relative trying to scrub stains off the wall and carpet.
"(I) visioned her butchered on the dining room floor and it would just tear me apart," he said. "I couldn't stand to think about it.”

What's in a sentence?
Cooper was sentenced to death at age 15 for the murder of Pelke.
But through a series of events where Indiana law increased the age a child could be put to death to 16, the state Supreme Court ruled putting Cooper to death would be unconstitutional.
Her sentence was commuted to 60 years, and through credit for time served, a day off for each day of good behavior and credit for educational programming and certificates, she is scheduledto be released in 2013.
While Pelke's family members said they agree on the principals of mercy and forgiveness, they did not all have the same view of what justice is.
Bill, once a supporter of the death penalty, later became one of Cooper's biggest advocates. He said he forgave her and has seen how she's changed through their letter exchanges and visits over the past several decades.
"If she was somebody who was 30 or 40 years old, I might not have the same sentiment," Bill said about giving her a second chance because of her youth. "I figured it was up to the state of Indiana to decide when she would be eligible to get out ... so I had no problem that she would get 30 years."
Robert said


that while he was a supporter of the death penalty, he was not upset that Cooper's sentence had been commuted and that she would be released in a little less than a year.
"In other words, there was nothing I could do about it," he said. "She was gone, the people were found guilty and punished according to the law. I was satisfied and that's were I left it. … If you hang onto it, it tears your life apart."
Others said they did not think the punishment fit the crime.
"At 15, you know it's murder," Weyhe said. "And (Pelke) was murdered with such force."
Jon said he would want to ask Cooper why she had to stab Pelke so many times. When told his question, Cooper said she would wantto have that conversation with Jon, and that she was "very, very remorseful."
The disparity between the 60-year sentence and the less than 30 years of actual time served was frustrating for some family members, Karen said.
"You're gullible and think 60 years, she's got to be 75 when she gets out ... but that's not what they really mean," Karen said. "It's a sleight of hand in our justice system."
Randolph Stone, a clinical professor of law at the University of Chicago, said the state system does not make sentencing very clear, and that there is a movement to have more truth in sentencing where a year means a year — or at least more than six months.
"That's one of the things that needs to change about the system, is


eat your food. That's the most personal thing that they could do -- is taking something out your hand and believing you've done nothing to it.”
In 1985, Cooper was convicted of fatally stabbing an elderly Gary Bible school teacher 33 times with a butcher knife.
She was 15 years old.
The murder involved three other teenage co-defendants from Gary's Lew Wallace High School and left the region shaken.
Cooper was the only one sentenced to death -- a sentence eventually commuted after international attention and new state legal precedent.
Initially facing the electric chair, Cooper's sentence was commuted to life in prison.
Now, more than 25 years later, Cooper says she is a different person, tutoring inmates in the culinary arts while she is counting down the days to her 2013 release. Andalone in her Adams Street home in Gary's Glen Park neighborhood. Family members called her “Nana,” and she took interest in sharing Bible stories with children, including Beverly, in the Gary neighborhoods.
While accounts differ as to what exactly happened inside Pelke's house on May 14, 1985, Cooper describes the crime as a “robbery gone bad.”
“It was a murder,” Cooper said. “And it wasn't one that was planned or premeditated. It just happened.”
Cooper said the other burglaries were done at various vacant homes, and this one was different because, unbeknown to them, Pelke was there.
And she invited the girls into the house.
According to records, the teenagers pretended to be interested in taking part in Pelke's Bible classes. When Pelke let them in to write down the information, she was


from Pope John Paul II.
In 1989, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled it was unconstitutional to sentence someone younger than 16 to death, and the high court commuted Cooper's sentence to 60 years in prison. It was the second harshest sentence for murder at the time.
“This is a difficult conclusion to reach because of the gruesome nature of Cooper's acts,” wrote Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall Shepard in the court's opinion.
And with a day knocked off a state sentence for every day of good conduct, Cooper is scheduled to be released July 17, 2013.

The time
Cooper wears a maroon T-shirt over khaki-colored pants, her daily prison garb, with a yellow I.D. clipped below her left shoulder. She has short, black hair, wears white and brown eye shadow and is soft-spoken.people, and she was proud to be instructing fellow inmates on how to properly prepare meals.
“There's a lot of people in there that's never cooked before," Cooper said. “Ever.”
Her first job after arriving at Rockville was for Prison Enterprise Network, known as PEN Products, a division of Indiana's Department of Correction that manufactures various products for the state prisons and has some joint ventures with private companies as well.
Cooper said the woman in charge told her she originally never had any intention of hiring her. But after Cooper explained her past and shared her present, she was hired.
“That was my first chance, and I didn't want to let her down because I felt like she was the first person I encountered here at this facility, and if I


had've disappointed her, then I was never going to be able to redeem myself,” Cooper said.
Cooper said she ended up a valued employee, pressing more than twice the daily quota of metal parts used for doors and ice machines.
And while she said she's grateful to count her mother and sister among her supporters, she has found another source of strength in an unsuspecting place: Bill Pelke, the murder victim's grandson.
“He's my -- he's my biggest encouragement,” Cooper said.
Bill Pelke, who once agreed with the judge's death-penalty ruling, became one of Cooper's strongest advocates in having that sentence commuted. They have written each other almost weekly for decades, and have in-person visits when possible.
Pelke said he realized his grandmother would have wanted compassion for Paula, and that God madethere's somebody out there, even if it's just one kid, that will listen. And I'm hoping to get them.”

Bill Pelke

Bill Pelke, Anchorage AK -- Bill authored a book entitled Journey of Hope...From Violence to Healing, which details the May 14, 1985 murder of his grandmother Ruth Elizabeth Pelke, a Bible teacher, by four teenage girls. Paula Cooper who was deemed to be the ringleader was sentenced to die in the electric chair by the state of Indiana. She was fifteen-years-old at the time of the murder. Pelke originally support the sentence of death for Cooper, but went through a spiritual transformation in 1986 after praying for love and compassion for Paula Cooper and her family. He became successfully involved in an international crusade on Paula's behalf and in


1989 her sentenced was commuted to sixty years in prison. Over 2 million people from Europe, mostly Italy, signed petitions that Paula be removed from death row. Pope John Paul II’s request for mercy, Paula was taken off of death row and her sentence commuted to sixty years. Bill, a retired steelworker, has dedicated his life to working for abolition of the death penalty. He shares his story of forgiveness and compassion and the healing power of forgiveness. Pelke has traveled to over forty states and ten countries with the Journey of Hope and has told his story thousands of timesFactsPresident and Co-founder of Journey of Hope...From Violence to Healing; Chair - PresentBoard Member Journey of Hope…from Violence to Healing; 1997-PresentBoard: National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty;1996-Present Chair 2004-08 Founding Board Member of Murder Victims Families for Human Rights 2004Board Member MVFHR; 2004-PresentIncorporator of Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation;1993Board Member MVFR; 1991-1998Board Member; Alaskans Against the Death Penalty Cofounder Abolitionist Action Committee; 1993 Author: Journey of Hope…from Violence to HealingLinks to Bill's JourneyThe Hard Road to Forgiveness - Yes Magazine - Mary Sue PennMoving Towards Abolition - The Witness Some murder victims' kin reject capital punishment; others endorse the sanction - Richmond Times-DispatchIn Memory of James V. Allridge IIIBill Pelke's portrait at "Our friends in prison"The Optimism Club - Bill Pelke "Forgiveness vs revenge"Interview with Swiss organization "Lifespark"the greatest part of God’s love is the forgiveness that

George White

George White, ALOn February 27, 1985 in Enterprise, Alabama, George was living his little piece of the


American Dream. Husband of Charlene and father of Tom and Christie, he was a successful, business-degreed executive, Sunday school teacher, little league coach and PTA president -- a yuppie in southeast Alabama. That evening everything changed.When George, vice-president of Townsend Building Supply, Inc., and his wife, Char, stopped at his store after business hours, they thought they were doing a favor for a man who urgently needed an item for an emergency home repair. Instead, they experienced firsthand the insanity and horror of murder. A masked gunman entered the building and shot the pair repeatedly during an armed robbery. George suffered gunshot wounds to his left arm, thigh and abdomen during a struggle with the gunman. Following emergency surgery, George survived. His wife was not so lucky. Charwas pronounced dead at the hospital after sustaining two gunshot wounds to the head. Tom and Christie were only twelve and five at the time of their mother's death. The nightmare had only just begun.Sixteen months later George was charged with the murder of his wife. The State sought the death penalty, and, following a trial that was later characterized as a mockery and a sham, George was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Incarcerated for a total of two years, one hundred and three days, the conviction was overturned in 1989. George remained in legal limbo for nearly three more years. On April 10, 1992, the prosecution asked that the charge be forevermore dismissed when the proof of George's innocence finally surfaced. The trial court so


act ofviolence should not be memorialized with an act of vengeance." By Abe BonowitzFactsJourney of Hope Cofounder Journey of Hope Board Member 1997-2003; 2006-Journey Ambassador MVFR Board Member 1994-1998

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Bill Pelke

Bill Pelke, Anchorage AKBill authored a book entitled Journey of Hope...From Violence to Healing, which details the May 14, 1985 murder of his grandmother Ruth Elizabeth Pelke, a Bible teacher, by four teenage girls. Paula Cooper who was deemed to be the ringleader was sentenced to die in the electric chair by the state of Indiana. She was fifteen-years-old at the time of the murder. Pelke originally support the sentence of death for Cooper, but went through a spiritual transformation in 1986 after praying for love and compassion for PaulaCooper and her family. He became successfully involved in an international crusade on Paula's behalf and in 1989 her sentenced was commuted to sixty years in prison. Over 2 million people from Europe, mostly Italy, signed petitions that Paula be removed from death row. Pope John Paul II’s request for mercy, Paula was taken off of death row and her sentence commuted to sixty years. Bill, a retired steelworker, has dedicated his life to working for abolition of the death penalty. He shares his story of forgiveness and compassion and the healing power of forgiveness. Pelke has traveled to over forty states and ten countries with the Journey of Hope and has told his story thousands of timesFactsPresident and Co-founder of Journey of Hope...From Violence to Healing; Chair


- PresentBoard Member Journey of Hope…from Violence to Healing; 1997-PresentBoard: National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty; 1996-Present Chair 2004-08 Founding Board Member of Murder Victims Families for Human Rights 2004Board Member MVFHR; 2004-PresentIncorporator of Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation;1993Board Member MVFR; 1991-1998Board Member; Alaskans Against the Death Penalty Cofounder Abolitionist Action Committee; 1993 Author: Journey of Hope…from Violence to HealingLinks to Bill's JourneyThe Hard Road to Forgiveness - Yes Magazine - Mary Sue PennMoving Towards Abolition - The Witness Some murder victims' kin reject capital punishment; others endorse the sanction - Richmond Times-DispatchIn Memory of James V. Allridge IIIBill Pelke's portrait at "Our friends in prison"The Optimism Club - Bill Pelke "Forgiveness vs revenge"Interview with Swiss organization "Lifespark"the greatest part of God’s love is the forgiveness thatPlease, tell us he was joking.

Elyse chimed in: “Never read a book in our lives”.

We would now like to interrupt this story for an important public service announcement for all millennials following Josh and Elyse on social media. BOOKS ARE BETTER THAN INSTAGRAM.

PLEASE READ BOOKS! Thank you.

Jason and Sarah: Pretty impressed they managed a decent paint job this week. Photo: Channel Nine/The Block

Now back to the renovations – again. Sarah and Jason finally managed to finish a decent painting job this week but the judges agreed their room was too busy on the ceiling and too bland on the floor.

They also lost a point after being chosen by Ronnie and Georgia last week as the team to be penalised, so they ended up on 21 too.

Sticks and Wombat


Be Prepared for the Disturbing Lost 'Lion King' Song Which Has Been Turned Into a Creepy Animation

The Lion King contained everything we love in a Disney film, a pinch of romance, a dash of danger and some cute lovable animals thrown in for good measure. As I sit here listening to the soundtrack whilst writing this, the nostalgic memories are flooding back. Disney presented us with a whole series of catchy tunes in this movie. But have you heard about the lost 'Madness of King Scar' song? This song was due to be included in the movie, but was cut by Disney.

Animator Eduardo Quintana decided it was time for this lost song to be brought to life. It took this artist almost two years to complete and thevideo was made as a tribute for The Lion King 20th Anniversary. His animation skills are seriously out of this world!

But first, here is a little bit more on the background of the song for those who may not know

The reason this song was scrapped by Disney was because it contained many sexual harassment references. The Lion King got very dark throughout and I am thankful that we didn't have to cope with this added trauma as children. It's no wonder Scar is known as the villain.

Eduardo's animation begins with a boney treat

Then we see Scar's face light up in a totally creepy way as he spots Nala.

Before the song breaks out

Scar tells Nala very pervertedly, "Nala, my, my, how you have grown."

The lyrics and text are all