An independent panel created by the Myanmar government has concluded that government security forces committed war crimes against Rohingya Muslims but that they did not commit genocide against the ethnic minority.

The findings were included in a report released Monday by the Independent Commission of Inquiry.

The commission, established by the government in July 2018, says it was “tasked to investigate allegations of human rights violations and related issues” after terrorist attacks in 2017 by a Rohingya insurgent group in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.

The Myanmar government responded to the attacks with a military-led crackdown against the insurgent group, known as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army.

More than 730,000 Rohingya fled Rakhine state to neighboring Bangladesh during the weekslong crackdown that was widely condemned internationally.

FILE - Rohingya refugees are seen gathered for aAugust 31, 2010

The launching of the 2010-2011 school year provides educators with new opportunities to present, encourage, and successfully teach character education. This pursuit often dovetails with students' literacy development, thereby linking the development of desirable behavioral aspirations with measurable academic achievement. One need for instructional staff and administrators is to identify materials that address these important teaching and learning goals.

Enslow Publishers' character education series -- "Character Education with Super Ben and Molly the Great" -- is designed for teachers and students in grades K-3. The Guided Reading Levels for the books in the series (Level E or F, depending on the title) make them useful supplemental reading tools for on-level second grade students, first graders ready for a more advanced reading challenge, and third graders who require


his mom was a Holocaust survivor and had been in a concentration camp during World War II? Did you know that Gene was born in Israel, and moved to the United States when he was eight?

Aileen Weintraub has written a middle school biography on this famous rock group. Read about the band members and how they formed KISS, the ups and downs of some of the members, how they became a marketing machine, and where they are today.

Paula Danziger is one of the most popular authors for teens today. Connecting with teenagers by capturing her own experiences at that same age, Danziger often dealt with tough issues and adolescent angst through humor. From the titles of her books, like The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, Make Like a Treeand Leave, Can I Sue My Parents for Malpractice?, to her amusing and real-to-life characters, Danziger’s work always causes people to stop, ponder, and smile.

Now that Pluto has been reclassified as a dwarf planet, Enslow's new series on the solar system (Far-Out Guide to the Solar System) will interest students with facts and little-known information. In the Far-Out Guide to the Icy Dwarf Planets, three other dwarf planets are described, giving specific information about each, including their size, their distance from the sun, their discovery date, and their namesake.

All of the titles in this series (and there are 12 of them) are available in both library-bound and paperback versions.

August 17, 2010

Latina actress America Ferrera, the subject of an Enslow Publishers biography by Sheila Anderson, was recently awarded an


"Imagen Award" for her portrayal of the lead character in the Ugly Betty television series.

The award, presented by the Imagen Foundation, is given to actors and actresses who encourage the positive portrayals of Latinos and Latinas in the entertainment industry.

This is Ferrera's fourth Imagen Award. As Anderson's biography notes, the 26-year-old Ferrera's career includes winning a Golden Globe award, a Primetime Emmy, and a Screen Actors Guild award for her acting performances.

Enslow Publishers' biography (Guided Reading Level "S"; Accelerated Reader 6.3) provides readers with fascinating details on Ferrera's career and inspiring life story. The 48-page title, best suited for students in grades five through nine, is available in paperback as well as in a library-bound edition.

America Ferrera is among the nine books that comprise Enslow's "Hot Celebrity Biography"series. Each book in the series focues on prominent, young entertainers or sports figures and is especially useful for reluctant reader classroom and library media center collections.

August 16, 2010

Did you know that the blue whale, which is the largest animal to ever live on this planet, can grow to eighty feet long! This giant creature can weigh 240,000 pounds and its heart can be as big as a small car!

Perfect for your elementary student who is interested in animals, the other 5 books in the Biggest vs. Smallest Animals series include amazing mammals; creepy, crawly creatures; incredible insects; slimy, scaly creatures; and things with wings.

At the peak of the disco era, a rebellious dancer arrived in New York with 35 dollars and big dreams. This girl was Michigan-born


Madonna Ciccone, but she would become known to the world as Madonna. Read how this musical icon caught the world’s attention with her trend-setting style and rebellious performances that sent the '80s music scene spinning and changed pop music forever.

August 14, 2010

"Being thought of as 'a beautiful woman' has spared me nothing in life," says Halle Berry. With her extraordinary beauty, wealth, and an Academy Award for Best Actress, it seems as if Berry has it all. Yet her life has been anything but a fairytale. From the pain of an abusive father to the sting of racism from her peers, Berry emerged as a high achiever, beauty queen, and model. As an actor, her beauty often kept her from being considered for meaningful roles, and it tooka while for her to achieve the success she deserved. In 2002, Berry’s Academy Award–winning performance in the small-budget art film Monster's Ball made history, stirred controversy, and launched her into superstardom.

August 12, 2010

Are your students looking for books about banned books? Enslow has five books in its Authors of Banned Books series. Featuring J.K. Rowling, John Steinbeck, Madeleine L'Engle, Mark Twain, and Robert Cormier, these titles inform students about free press issues and provides arguments for and against the books.

August 10, 2010

We're approaching the final laps of the 2010 NASCAR season, and an exciting race for overall points leader has developed between Kevin Harvick and Jeff Gordon. Many young NASCAR followers, who enjoy NASCAR amazing machines and the sport's competitive nature, will watch some upcoming key races,


such as the event in Bristol, Tennessee on August 21st.

High-profile races such as Bristol often stimulate young fans to learn more about NASCAR, its hot racing cars, and its dynamic drivers. To answer that library collection need, start your engines now and acquire Enslow Publishers' Hottest NASCAR Machines. Author K.S. Kelley's 48-page title, part of Enslow's six-book "Wild Wheels" series, uses age-appropriate language, colorful photographs, and engaging design to encourage readers to discover the background and exciting detail of one of America's leading spectator sports.

The book is available in convenient paperback form as well as a library-bound, hardcover edition.

Puts your young patrons in the driver's seat for reading with Enslow's "Wild Wheels" series!

August 08, 2010

Amazing Arctic Explorer Matthew Henson explores the life of the man who went withRobert Peary to the North Pole. Because he was African American, his contributions to the North Pole expeditions were largely ignored for a number of years. Young readers will be interested in this amazing American.

"Paintings are too hard. Machines have less problems…" In the 1960s, Andy Warhol became the most famous creator of a new style of art called pop art, which transformed mass-produced items of popular culture into fine works of art. From Campbell's Soup cans to photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Warhol's willingness to use anything and everything from the mass media in his work expanded the range of subject matter available to artists. His avant-garde films, artistic usage of American icons, and unconventional social life made him a controversial figure, both greatly admired and deeply reviled.


A trendsetter rather than a trend-follower, a dispassionate observer of both the seamy and celebrity sides of life, Warhol was a true American rebel.

August 04, 2010

Michael Phelps, 14-time gold medalist, will be competing in this week's US Championships in Irvine, California, with a transition in swim suits! The Summer Olympics will be held in London in 2012. Click here for more information on the change, that Phelps is embracing.

One of the greatest trumpet-playing, jazz musicians ever, Louis Armstrong's trademark "scat" singing and natural showmanship dazzled audiences for over fifty years. Patricia and Fredrick McKissack have authored an elementary biography about Louis Armstrong while Michael A. Schuman's biography is for the middle school reader.

August 03, 2010

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The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra's new release presents the beautiful and wondrous music of Lars Petter Hagen. After premiering the Artist's Despair Before the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins in 2010, the OPO was so intrigued by Hagen's project that they readily agreed to record his complete orchestral music. With conductor Rolf Gupta, the orchestra gives voice to a composer that draws influence from the classical tradition, concept art, pop and folk music.

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release presents the beautiful and wondrous music of Lars Petter Hagen. After premiering the Artist's Despair Before the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins in 2010, the OPO was so intrigued by Hagen's project that they readily agreed to record his complete orchestral music. With conductor Rolf Gupta, the orchestra gives voice to a composer that draws influence from the classical tradition, concept art, pop and folk music.Duke Law celebrates Goodson Law Library and Star Commons

November 20, 2008Duke Law News

Nov. 20, 2008 — Speaking at the Law School’s building dedication ceremony Nov. 8, Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy called the synergy between the J. Michael Goodson Law Library and adjacent Star Commons a fitting metaphor for the evolution of important ideas, from their isolated inception to their public presentation and discussion.

“[Students] go to the library and they begin to study and we hope they encounter what Holmes called ‘the secret joy of isolated thought,’” Kennedy said. “In the commons, the students discuss the ideas of the law, the concept of justice, the meaning of freedom, with students from other disciplines, other backgrounds, from other countries. And so it goes — from library to


commons.

“The law… begins with intangibles, abstractions, philosophical concepts, so it is always a pleasure to participate in the dedication of a building, something that’s real and tangible and palpable,” Kennedy told a capacity gathering of almost 400 students, alumni, faculty, and friends of the Law School.

A week of community celebration
Kennedy’s remarks capped a week of lectures, panel discussions, and celebratory gatherings in the new spaces that brought the extended Duke Law community together and honored those who contributed to their development.

The new Star Commons was the site of a lunchtime series of lectures and panel discussions on such topical issues as the election of Barack Obama as president and international electoral systems, Duke scholars’ initiatives in matters relating to intellectual property and innovation, and the current financial crisis,Richard Danner was joined by the heads of the Yale and Harvard law libraries for a discussion on the function and future of the modern law library, followed by a ceremony and reception.

Celebrating two remarkable spaces
Attendees explored the renovated Law Library, named in honor of J. Michael Goodson '66, which includes a new façade, larger windows in the reading room and mezzanine, and seating arrangements that take advantage of the two-story glass window walls that bathe the space in natural light. They also took note of the easy access to library, computing, web, and media services in the main “reading room.”

“The Goodson library celebrates and supports the life of the mind, the hard work of scholarship and rational inquiry,” Dean David Levi said during the dedication ceremony. “It


Luke Rockhold vs. Robert Whittaker was one of the most compelling matchups put together in the history of the UFC middleweight division. Sadly, we once again found ourselves in the situation where a great fighter’s career was thrown into jeopardy not by the men throwing strikes at his head, but by bacteria in the gunk down the cracks in the mats. Robert Whittaker was forced to withdraw from the fight with a staph infection in his stomach and Luke Rockhold was left without an opponent. Thankfully, Yoel Romerohas stepped in and created a matchup that has many more excited than the original title fight.

Romero has not fought since Whittaker took him to school while fighting on one leg back in July, but aside from that one misstep Romeroamid bickering with the UFC, dating Demi Lovato, and teasing a fight with Fabricio Werdum which this writer would still gladly watch. His greatest mistake was not filming a web documentary in the style of Alistair Overeem’s The Reem during this period. When Rockhold returned to the cage, Dave Branch came out and surprised those who bought into the fluke by promptly putting Rockhold on wobbly legs again.

Open Guard vs. Closed Guard

At one point, a year or so back, over half of the middleweight top ten was made up of southpaws. Between old names like Lyoto Machida and Vitor Belfort, and new talents like Rockhold, Romero, Derek Brunson and Kelvin Gastelum, there are a fair few lefties around at 185 pounds. Luke Rockhold fought Vitor Belfort way back


the lead leg and you need to bring that rear leg up under you or step through to get close to the same range.

But as the old saying goes, when God closes the side, he opens up the knee. When kicking the body and head it is always best to go into the open side—where there are the least obstructions—but when kicking the lead leg, particularly in the long-stance world of MMA, it is best to try to pound it inwards from the outside. Rockhold showed some biting low kicks against Dave Branch, switching stances to do so, and against Chris Weidman in the moments that Weidman switched to southpaw. A commitment to low kicks against Romero—especially below the knee—would be a great look.

Yoel Romero showed himself tocaught kick, coming up on top of a sprawl and locking in a reverse triangle. But when Weidman caught Rockhold’s kicks, Rockhold used the guillotine and a shin to keep turning Weidman to the mat.

Despite only picking up one submission by guillotine choke, Rockhold’s guillotine has proven to be a huge part of his game. While he was getting out hustled by Weidman along the fence and being turned every time he tried to pin Weidman there, Rockhold made Weidman back out of clinches by snapping him down and threatening the choke. When Weidman took Rockhold down in the first round and passed his guard, Rockhold maintained the guillotine grip, hooked the "empty half guard" over Weidman’s trailing right leg, and the two stayed there until Herb Dean


shattering strides in the last few months—is getting into boxing exchanges with Romero. Not that Romero is a tremendous boxer in combination, but he countered well against Machida in exchanging range and Rockhold simply leaves himself so exposed whenever he does almost anything with his hands except his check hook. Hands by his hips, chin up in the air, Rockhold begs to be countered and Weidman and Bisping had a field day when he led with his hands.

Even on Rockhold’s tremendous check hook, he throws so much of his body into it that if he misses or his opponent makes it through, he is a sitting duck. Against Weidman he turned himself all the way around and gave up his back.

And Dave Branch gave Rockhold fits simply byNathan Horton of Blue Jackets can make NHL history by not playing vs. Stars

Nathan Horton has a shot at becoming the answer to a vexing trivia question. (Kirk Irwin/Getty Images)

By Allan Muir

Word out of Columbus suggests that Nathan Horton will be out of the lineup for the Blue Jackets' game against the Stars on Wednesday. In and of itself, that's hardly news. The big winger has been hampered with injuries all season. He's missed 40 games so far, four of them as a result of a lower-body issue that currently has him on the sidelines.

But here's the thing: Wednesday's game in Dallas is something out of the ordinary. It's the game that had to be suspended and rescheduled after the heart scare suffered by Rich Peverley of the


Maison du Sport International

The Maison du Sport International (International House of Sport) is an office complex opened in 2006 in Lausanne, Switzerland, via a joint venture between the City of Lausanne, the Canton of Vaud and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was created to entice all the World's sports governing bodies (also known as International Federations or IF's) to bring their headquarters to Lausanne, in order to improve their proximity to the headquarters of the IOC, and thus improve communications between these bodies.

However, many international federations have their offices elsewhere, often in a country where the specific sport traditionally has a regular following. With modern communications, the need for physical presence is also not as important anymore.

International federations at Maison du Sport International
Currently the tenants of thethose articles relating to stroke were: 105 in the Irish Times, 223 in the Daily Telegraph, 22 in The Observer, and 149 in The Guardian. The number of articles relating to heart disease was: 443 in the Irish Times, 653 in the Daily Telegraph, 81 in The Observer, and 688 in The Guardian. Newspaper coverage of stroke is underreported when compared with heart disease, despite the clinical and financial burden of this condition. Professional and advocacy organizations for those with stroke need to develop strategies to increase the profile of stroke in the public domain.


Awarded by: H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of the Dubai International Marine Club in the presence of HE Mattar Al Tayer, Vice-Chairman of the Dubai Sports Council

After a stellar season with Olympique Lyonnais, which has 4 prizes on the trophy shelf for 2019 – French Championship, French Cup, Trophée des Championnes (France) and UEFA Women’s Champions League (Europe) – Bronze enters the history of Globe Soccer as the first holder of the prize dedicated to women in football.

Already awarded by UEFA as Women’s Player of the Year, the Globe Soccer jury has also decided to reward her for her great strength and technique on the field, a symbol of the revenge of women’s football, and inspiration for all the girls who dream oflivesin God's namewho will be left to bear his cross?Perhaps the Second Coming that the Christians await with bated breath(as smart phones offer updates about their team)will be another Incarnation,a child born in the midst of blood and turmoil and rage.Maybe the Second Comingwill bea child born of love spilling overbetween a child of Israel and a child of PalestineMaybe, instead of a crossthere will be a standsilent and gentle and unwaveringPalestinian hand in Israeli handthe fruit of their living bodiesGod's own child, swelling the mother's belly:an invitation to end life no more.What will it take for the beloved children of Godto perceive that the people they murder are the beloved children of Godto understand that the people they hateare their sisters and brothers and fathers and mothersand


Image copyright Aryana Sayeed/Facebook Image caption "Be a girl with a mind, a woman with attitude and a lady with class," Aryana Sayeed on Facebook

Afghan singer, songwriter and TV personality Aryana Sayeed will perform at a concert celebrating Afghan Independence Day on 19 August, but not everyone is happy.

As a traditionally conservative society, women in Afghanistan are restricted in what they can wear or do. Western clothing and not covering the head is considered by many to be against the national norm.

So when Ms Sayeed, known for promoting empowerment among women, posted an eight-minute-long Facebook Live video, the comments were divided.

With her high number of followers - almost 1.9 million - the clip was viewed over 119,000 times in its first day.

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Some praised the singerthe concert would go ahead

There had been some speculation whether the concert would be cancelled, but Ms Sayeed was quick to reject the rumours on Facebook on Monday. The singer expressed her patriotism and enthusiasm for unity in Afghanistan, adding profits from the concert would be used to help those affected by war.

It's not her first time to court controversy. In May, she burned a skin-coloured dress she had worn at a concert, after religious figures and members of the public branded the controversial tight outfit against Afghan culture and non-Islamic.

Ms Sayeed, who has lived in Pakistan, Switzerland and now England, is known for her liberal views, western clothes and has 257,000 followers on Instagram, where she posts many photos of her clothing and make-up.

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Tibet Trek & Tour

Tibet is indeed a very rich and beautiful land, located on the highest plateau on Earth at an average altitude over 4000 meter. It is nowadays the South west frontier of China. Within its borders there are more than fifteen peaks above 7000 m. among which eleven are over 8000m. It borders with Sichuan, Yunnan, Qinghai and Xinjiang; in the North, Nepal, India, Sikkim, Bhutan Burma and Kashmir form its Southern borders. The Tibet Autonomous Region with a population of over two million covers an area of 1.2 million sq. km.

Tibet has a long and complex history, written records have survived from the 7th Century A.D. however it is known that nomadic tribes populated Tibet as early as the 2nd Century B.C. and discoveries suggesta much longer history of human kind...More recent times have seen the invasion of China in 1959 and the inevitable dilution of Tibetan culture. Tibet however has proved over the years since, that its way of life has been able to withstand this influence. Power of thought and life itself overcoming the modern ravages of politics.

The journey to unlock the complexities posed by this arid mass of discovery (almost the size of Europe) begins with probably the most dramatic flight in the world. From Kathmandu, you journey the huge backbone of the High Himalayas to land deep in the heart of the Tibetan plateau. A further two hours drive by road through barren wilderness Lhasa, the capital and home to the famous Potala Palace unfolds. Lhasa remains the


major focus of Buddhist worship anywhere in the world, a place for the traveler to cast away any preconceptions he or she may have and join in Tibet's journey of discovery along the way... at least for a while.Shenzhen (China) (AFP) - Thousands of Chinese military personnel waving red flags paraded at a sports stadium in a city across the border from Hong Kong on Thursday, an AFP reporter witnessed.

Armoured vehicles were also seen inside the stadium in Shenzhen, with the event taking place as concerns build that China may intervene to end 10 weeks of unrest in Hong Kong.

State-run media reported this week that the elements of the People's Armed Police (PAP), which is under the command of the Central Military Commission, were assembling in Shenzhen.

Some of the personnel inside the stadium on Thursday had armed police insignias on their camouflage fatigues, according to the AFP reporter.

The security forces could be seen moving in formation inside the stadium, and occasionally running, while others rode around


any time," Hu wrote.

US President Donald Trump also said Tuesday American intelligence had confirmed Chinese troop movements toward the Hong Kong border.

"I hope it works out for everybody including China. I hope it works out peacefully, nobody gets hurt, nobody gets killed," Trump said.

- 'Public order' -

Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous Chinese city, have staged 10 weeks of relentless protests to demand greater rights and liberties.

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The Asian financial hub has been governed under a "one country, two systems" legal framework since its handover to China from Britain in 1997.

Hong Kong allows far greater civil liberties than those on the mainland, but the protesters say those freedoms are eroding as mainland Chinese interference grows.

The protests, which have become increasingly violent and led to Hong Kong's airportbeing paralysed for two days this week, have become the biggest threat to China's rule since the handover.

The Chinese military has not interfered in Hong Kong since the handover but it can should it be called on by the city's government to maintain "public order".

James Char, a military expert at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, said the deployment to Shenzhen was both to project an image of domestic strength as well as "a carefully calculated message to the protesters to think twice about growing or continuing with their recent intensified demonstrations".

"We can be certain the regime understands that sending in troops to Hong Kong will inflame the protests and the protesters' anti-China grievances," he said.

The PAP are in charge of "handling riots, turmoil, seriously violent, criminal activities, terrorist attacks


The Okhta Tower's designers describe it as 'twisting glass needle' The UN's cultural watchdog has called on Russia to stop a 400m (1,312 ft) skyscraper being built in historic St Petersburg's city centre. Unesco said the planned $2.4bn (£1.5bn) Okhta business centre tower would "damage the image of Russia". Local authorities this week approved construction of the building, which will house offices of the state-controlled energy giant Gazprom. St Petersburg's city centre is listed by Unesco as a world heritage site. Unesco has warned the building of the skyscraper, which would tower over the city's Neva river and surrounding low-level buildings, could mean St Petersburg is added to the agency's list of endangered world heritage sites. "We're hoping the (federal) decision to build it won't be taken," saidGrigory Ordzhonikidze, the secretary-general of Unesco's Russian commission. Twisting glass needle The building's British designers describe the planned five-sided structure as a "396m-high twisting glass needle which echoes the spires across the city of St Petersburg". St Petersburg usually has planning restrictions for buildings which are over 100m tall. Announcing a relaxing of these rules for the skyscraper, Saint Petersburg Mayor Valentina Matviyenko said the Okhta project would bring more jobs and building projects to the city. Visitors are impressed by the historic splendour of St Petersburg's buildings Gazprom, a key export earner for Russia, sees construction of the business centre and skyscraper as a prestige project that would boost the international image of Russia's second city, which was founded by Peter the Great in 1703. But conservationists


say the glass and metal structure - which would be three times as tall as St Petersburg's current tallest building, the St Peter and Paul Cathedral - would ruin the city's ambience. Opponents have taken legal action to block the project and clashed with police at consultation sessions held by city authorities. It remains unclear whether Moscow's central government could intervene to veto the skyscraper, which would take several years to build. St Petersburg is the home city of President Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev, but has lagged behind Moscow in capitalising from the country's post-Soviet economic transformation. Reflections and refraction British architectural company RMJM, which was appointed to design the building in December 2006, welcomed St Petersburg's decision to relax its building height limitations for theproject, which it called "a major step forward for the city". RMJM says the tower's design was inspired by the concept of energy in water, "with the form of the building deriving its shape from the changing nature of water, ever-changing light, reflections and refraction". Unesco's national commissions are set up by member states to co-ordinate the organisation's work with national governments and NGOs. Russia's Hermitage Museum and the St Petersburg Union of Architects had previously voiced opposition to Gazprom's plan.

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A Hannibal man was left with minor injuries following a one-vehicle accident Wednesday afternoon in Ozark County.According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol the mishap happened at 3:10 p.m. on Missouri 181 10 miles south of Dora.A 2005 Yamaha motorcycle was being driven south by Robert W. Scott, 72, of Hannibal. The vehicle started skidding, left the roadway and overturned in a ditch.Scott refused treatment at the scene.

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Digital access or digital and print delivery.violated the plant rule against gambling and as a result had been convicted of a crime. Nevertheless, and despite the absence of evidence indicating any other reason for the discharge, the arbitrator concluded that the employee had been discharged without just cause. As he saw it, the employee's misconduct called for disciplinary action, but discharge was too harsh a penalty in view of the hardship inflicted on the employee's wife and four children, his seniority, good record, punishment by the authorities, and the lack of any disciplinary action against four other employees whom the arbitrator, but not the authorities, felt were guilty of the same offense. Accordingly, he directed the company to reinstate the employee without back pay from the date of discharge.
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near Rafah, Egyptian
security forces said that unknown assailants killed five jihadists and injured
two while they were traveling in a pickup truck, the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry
Al-Youm reported on Monday.

The bodies of the killed and wounded have not
been found and are believed to have been transported to an unknown
location.

Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood, which was designated a
terrorist organization in Egypt, has relocated a main headquarters to an
apartment in a north London suburb, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph
on Sunday.

As the organization faces a massive crackdown in Egypt, with
many of its leaders behind bars, those that escaped Egypt have chosen London as
a place to regroup.

The apartment is located in the suburb of
Cricklewood, and operations are run by relatives of two of Morsi’s arrested
aides.

One of the relatives told the Daily Telegraphmingling with the crowd, sharing hilarious stories, etc. One time she even stuck around and performed some karaoke... turns out she has a great voice. The country singing world's loss was our gain.

Lance "B-Rich" Richards:
Richards came out to an open mic at a library all the way in Rockford that took place during the library's regular hours. He didn't complain about the distance he had to drive to perform in such a non-traditional scenario, instead he just got on the mic and killed. Two other producers were at that mic and all three of us booked him for several more shows, all of which were paid. Lance has delivered each and every time. Lance's consistency, work ethic, and overall positivity have made him a name that draws audiences.

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leaves Robyn Denholm, a former chief financial and operations officer at Juniper Networks, as the only Tesla director without ties to SolarCity, CtW Executive Director Dieter Waizenegger noted in a letter to the Tesla board.

Pfund and another SolarCity director – money manager Donald Kendall Jr. – were named this week as the two members of a SolarCity board committee evaluating the Tesla bid.

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David Robinson– David Robinson is the deputy business editor for The News, where has worked since graduating from Syracuse University in 1985. A New Hampshire native, he started out in the News' Tonawanda bureau and moved into the business news department in October 1987, exactly a week after the stock market crash.an eclectic mix of local and regional artists who work

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:
Just a quick reminder this week for everyone about next week’s Wine Tasting & Appetizer Fundraiser for Hospice of Yuma. The event will be on Thursday, April 19th from 5:30 to 7:30PM at the Yuma City Hall building here in Historic

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:
It’s hard to believe, but this Wednesday, April 4th marks the three year anniversary of Wine, Women & Networking at the Old Town Wine Cellar. Each of these first-Wednesday-of-the-month gatherings at the Cellar is hosted by a local businesswoman as a

Greetings from the Wine Cellar:
For the last several years, the Wine Cellar has participated in a Wine Tasting & Appetizer event at the Yuma City Hall here in Historic Downtown, sponsored


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Megadeth

Megadeth is an American speed/heavy/thrash metal band led by Dave Mustaine. The group was formed in 1983, disbanded in 2002, and reformed in 2004. Megadeth is often mentioned as one of the "Big Four" of thrash metal, along with Metallica, Anthrax, and Slayer.

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Shortly after lead guitarist Dave Mustaine was fired from Metallica due to alcohol problems, drug abuse and personality conflicts, Mustaine, guitarist Greg Handevidt and bassist David Ellefson formed Megadeth. As Mustaine himself says, "I could only focus on one thing after being kicked out of Metallica: I wanted blood... theirs." After searching for a vocalist and not finding what he wanted, Mustaine became the band's singer and primary lyricist, as well as the main songwriter and rhythm guitarist. Handevidt left theband in late 1983 to form Kublai Khan. The band soon added jazz fusion drummer Gar Samuelson and guitarist Kerry King (of Slayer fame). King was only a temporary member, covering a handful of live dates while a replacement for Handevidt was sou...


says, as she begins the alphabetical roster. "We've got 'Hamlet' in Albanian, Arabic, Belorussian, Bengali . . . " It turns out Hamlet speaks Icelandic, Latvian, Maltese, Old Turkish, Persian, Tamil and Welsh, too. And that's not to mention the "Hamlets" in even more esoteric idioms, like Esperanto.

The Klingon Language Institute's director, Lawrence M. Schoen, a science-fiction writer who works as chief compliance officer for a medical center in the Philadelphia area, had applied once upon a time to the Folger for a fellowship to aid in the effort to translate Shakespeare into Klingon. Although he was turned down, the group, whose members are a small global band of Klingon speakers, independently had set about the task. The effort was inspired by a line from "Star Trek VI,"operated on a round-the-clock basis, with every measurement and reading recorded and catalogued by those on board.

Another element of the research is to provide samples of deep sea sponge for scientific purposes.

These are analysed for antibacterial compounds that could be used in the development of new pharmaceuticals.

Academics in the United States, Ireland, France and Germany will study various aspects of the wide-ranging survey that was carried out over a two-week period.


The Lies That Form Our Consciousness And False Historical Awareness

My generation associated dystopias, such as George Orwell’s 1984, with the Soviet Union, a country in which explanations were controlled and criticism of Stalin would land a person in the Gulag.

We thought of the United States and our life here much differently.

But with the passage of time the difference between life in the Soviet Union in the 20th century and life in the Western world today is disappearing.

Today, the journalist Julian Assange is undergoing the same kind of state terror and torture as any Soviet dissident, if not worse.

The Western media is as controlled as the Soviet media, with print, TV, and public radio serving as a propaganda ministry for government and the interest groups that control government.

Social media,called at the time the Great War or the World War, was Harry Elmer Barnes. Barnes was Professor of Historical Sociology at Smith College and the William Bayard Cutting Fellow in History at Columbia University.

His book, The Genesis of the World War, was published in 1926 by Alfred A. Knopf in New York.

Instead of covering up, as expected, the allied crimes and treachery against Germany, Barnes told the truth.

The German Kaiser, a relative of the British and Russian royal families, was known throughout the world as a peacemaker, praised by the New York Times for that role.

It is a known and indisputable fact that the German government acted for peace until Germany, the last power to mobilize, had to mobilize or be overrun by Russia and France, who


were allied with the British against Germany.

Never before in history has the very last power to mobilize been blamed for starting a war. But facts never get in the way of court historians.

The genesis of the war was the desire on the part of two of the Russian Tsar’s ministers for Constantinople and the French president for territory, Alsace-Lorraine, lost to Germany in the 1870 Franco-Prussian war.

These schemers used Austria’s response to the assassination of the Austrian archduke in Serbia, which they likely orchestrated, to declare war as Germany was the protector of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.

American president Woodrow Wilson secured an armistice to the World War, which had senselessly destroyed millions of lives, by promising Germany that if she agreed to an armistice, there would be no territoriallosses for Germany and no reparations.

When Germany agreed to the armistice, it was Germany that occupied territories of the opposing camp. There were no foreign troops on German territory.

As soon as Germany disengaged, the British put into effect a food blockade that forced starving Germans to submit to the exploitative Versailles Treaty that violated every promise that President Wilson had made.

Some intelligent people, including the most famous economist of the 20th century, John Maynard Keynes, said that the Versailles Treaty, an exercise in coverup for who caused the war, guaranteed a future war. And they, not the grasping corrupt establishment, were right.

For his truth-telling efforts, Harry Elmer Barnes was declared by the court historians to be a German agent paid to write a false history.

As Barnes’ voice was


greatly outnumbered, the history of the Great War remained, for most, falsified throughout the 20th century.

Barnes was vindicated in 2014 when Christopher Clark at Cambridge University published The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914. Clark added to Barnes’ evidence that the Great War resulted from a plot by two Russian government ministers and the president of France to steal coveted territory from Germany and Turkey.

But one hundred years after the war who is around to care? All the people who died in the war as well as their bereaved families who suffered from the plot of three evil men are dead and gone.

The consciousness of the world has already been distorted by a century of false history, a false history that set up Germany for blameWith great parental encouragement, David was driving karts by the age of eight and was such a natural that it was inevitable that he would go racing. His breakthrough came in 1989, with his move into junior Formula Ford 1600. He dominated both championships, and joined Paul Stewart Racing in 1990 to contest the British Vauxhall Lotus Challenge and GM Lotus Euroseries. He could possibly have won the former, but a broken leg sustained in an accident at Spa stymied the young Scot's chances, and he ended up a disappointed fourth overall.

Staying with PSR in 1991, Coulthard moved up to Formula 3, and waged a season-long battle with Rubens Barrichello. Despite winning five rounds (one more than the Brazilian), he had to be content with the runner-up spot.


There was, however, the satisfaction of winning the prestigious European Marlboro Masters of Formula 3 race at Zandvoort and he followed this up with a stunning drive to win the end-of-season race at Macau - proof indeed that David was truly a star in the making.

Perhaps expectations were too high as he took the step up to F3000 for 1992 and for a while the Scot struggled to find his feet, but by the end of the year he was on the podium and looking a good bet for honours in 1993 with a switch to the Pacific team. A first win was duly delivered at Enna, but his season tailed off somewhat thereafter. By this time David had had a number of outings as a test driverfor the Williams-Renault team and he quickly impressed all at Didcot with his positive feedback.

He was appointed the team's official test driver for 1994 and was contemplating a third year in F3000 at the season-opener at Silverstone when the dreadful news of Senna's death came from Imola. David overcame his shock to take second place in that race before stepping into the Grand Prix arena and, in the inevitable turmoil that followed, displayed remarkable maturity for one so inexperienced.

Relaxed and easy off track, he showed tremendous poise behind the wheel. Always aware of the need for him to back Damon Hill's title bid, David was the perfect team-mate and, given his performances, must have been disappointed to have to surrender his seat to Nigel Mansell for the last


three races of the year. The uncertainty regarding his immediate future was clearly unsettling for Coulthard, who hedged his bets and signed a contract with McLaren for 1995. In the event a tribunal confirmed that he would remain at Williams but his early-season form was decidedly patchy. He was constantly troubled by tonsillitis and it was only after his tonsils were removed that his real ability became apparent. David would have won the British Grand Prix but for a stop-go penalty incurred through no fault of his own, but his dream of a Grand Prix win was finally realised with a truly dominant performance at Estoril. On the debit side, though, he tended to make a number of elementary mistakes which cost him dear, culminating in the embarrassmentof sliding into the wall on the pit lane entry in Adelaide.

David was free to move to McLaren for 1996, but all his innate self-assurance was needed during a difficult first full season with the team. Uncomfortable with the handling of the car, he was often a tad slower than team-mate Mika H?kkinen and, apart from being unlucky not to win in Monaco, generally delivered less than he promised.

The 1997 season began in the best possible fashion with a win in Australia which signified that McLaren were back after three lean years, and it was generally a much more convincing campaign for the Scot, who was evenly matched with H?kkinen and, having scored another victory at Monza, stepped aside to allow his team-mate to win the season's finale


at Jerez.

He did the same in the 1998 Australian Grand Prix after a pre-race agreement and in some ways it proved to be his undoing. H?kkinen upped his game as the season progressed to mount his successful championship bid and David was left to play the subordinate role in the team. This pattern was to continue in 1999, with the often unlucky Coulthard too rarely making the absolute most of his equipment. On his day he had the legs of everybody, and no one could catch him at Spa, Magny Cours or Sepang, but only the first of these races brought him the win he deserved.

For David, the reality appears to be that he is not quite on the same level as H?kkinen or Michael Schumacher, but thereOver 60 species of Polygonatum grow in the wild in North America, Europe, Asia, Japan and Siberia. Polygonatum is in the lily family, Liliaceae. Some members of this genus have long generation times. For example, Polygonatum cirrhifolium Royle may take 3-5 years to go from seed to seed in the wild.
Polygonatum cirrhifolium Royle is an important medicinal plant of temperate Himalayas (Wealth of India Raw materials, 1976, 9, 365, CSIR, New Delhi). Its rhizomes constitute an important ingredient of Astavarga, a group of eight drugs used extensively in Indian system of medicine mainly as tonics and aphrodisiacs (Misra, B. and Vaishya, R. 1972, Bhavaprakasha Nighantu, pt.1, Chowkhamba Sanskrit Santhan, Sloka 120-122). These attributes arise from the presence of steroidal saponins and polysaccharides in the rhizomatous root-stock of the


KING KONG VS. GODZILLA: THOUGHTS, INTERPRETATIONS, AND THE GREATER SHOWA TOHOVERSE CHRONOLOGY
by Gordon Long

More time has passed now since King Kong vs. Godzilla was made than from when the original King Kong was made until KKvG. Despite the passage of more than forty-five years, KKvG is still a remarkable film. I enjoyed it tremendously during my recent, first time viewing of it. It combines a very interesting remake of the 1933 classic film, King Kong, with remakes of Godzilla, King of the Monsters and Godzilla Raids Again.

Many iconic moments from the original Kong film have been recreated:

1. Shots of the island from the sea show forbidding mountains.

2. The tribe have a dance ritual to summon and/or appease their living monster-god, Kong.

3. The village is primitive, but has astrong fence keeping Kong out of the village under ordinary circumstances.

4. Kong has a fight with a local oversized animal, which he wins.

5. Kong winds up unconscious.

6. Kong is taken via sea to a big city.

7. Kong is 'owned' by someone who uses him for publicity.

8. Kong gets loose.

9. Kong trashes the city.

10. Kong 'plays' with a train.

11. Kong finds a pretty girl and kidnaps her.

12. Kong climbs a tall building.

13. After setting the girl down on top of the building, he has an ignominious fall to the ground.

At that point, the similarities to King Kong end.

But there are many similarities to the original 1954 Godzilla film as well:

1. A vessel at sea is lost.

2. Godzilla heads toward an island.

3. Godzilla goes towards Tokyo.

4. Godzilla encounters a train.

5.


Many people are chased by Godzilla.

6. The military prepares an electric fence to thwart Godzilla.

7. Godzilla uses his atomic breath.

8. A heroic triumvirate of two men and a woman are the human focus of the film.

9. There is a moment with a mother and a child.

10. The military is helpless against Godzilla.

11. Many buildings are destroyed.

12. Godzilla winds up in the sea, vanquished.

The film also has a few similarities to Godzilla Raids Again:

1. Godzilla and another monster meet in or near a large city.

2. Godzilla and another monster have a big fight.

3. Godzilla appears to win the fight.

4. Later, Godzilla appears to be vanquished by the end of the film because of what the humans did.

There is also one interesting difference: unlike the original films, someone herein alreadyknows of the monsters, other than island natives who worshipped the creatures. A Godzilla monster attacked Tokyo; Kong's island had recently been visited and a handful of people knew of his existence.

This actually parallels something from the 1933/2005 King Kong and the 1976 Dino de Laurentiis remake: in the first case, they have a map showing the location of the island; and in the second case, they have satellite photos showing a mysterious fog bank or bank of clouds.

Unlike the serious Godzilla and GRA, this film aims for humor and family entertainment. The humor does not spoil the film, but actually enhances it. This film foreshadows the changes in the Godzilla series: humor, less serious, family entertainment, less cityscapes and more countryside, and big monster brawling.

The antics of


the boss of Pacific Pharmaceuticals actually continue the anti-extreme capitalist message of the previous film, Mothra (1961). Interestingly, there is also an anti-capitalist message in the 1976 Kong movie, as well as a pro-environmental theme. The Showa series would encounter its own environmentally themed film in Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster.

One thing dates the film: In an attempt to curry favor with the natives of Farou Island, the hero gives the king a transistor radio and gives everyone cigarettes. Almost all the natives begin smoking right away, comically. As this takes place two years before the famed Surgeon General's report linking smoking to cancer, they can perhaps be forgiven for doing this. However, this does have ominous overtones if viewed as an attempt to 'ply the natives withliquor'--or worse, give them smallpox blankets. This links the company with those who attempted to do harm to the North American Indians; perhaps it is a subtle dig at America, just as Godzilla had echoes of America in him in the first film. Of course, it was probably only intended as a humorous scene. But future generations can always find something different than what was intended with their own hindsight.

As our esteemed host Chris N. pointed out in a recent email conversation with me, it was the first time Godzilla took on an American rival. And it was the only time, until Zilla (the official name of the monster from the 1998 Tri-Star release) was thrashed in Godzilla: Final Wars. Chris also told me that this was the


public domain, so they did not have to pay an American filmmaker. Sometimes I think that they spent so much to get Kong, that they could not afford to make him a good costume.

One of my favorite scenes was when they decided to evacuate the city. The heroine's neighbor and her son are ready to evacuate, but he wants to go see Godzilla. That is actually a great metaphor for the future of the series: The older generation fears the big Kaiju King, but he will become adored and treasured as a lovable, heroic figure by the next generation.

Another great scene was at the end, when they are fighting at Otami Castle and fall into the sea. The historic castle is destroyed, but down below, the tourist communityfull of hotels: the next generation, as it were, only gets splashed a bit by the water displaced by fall of the monsters into the sea. Delicious irony! Again a foreshadowing of the changes to come in the Godzilla series: serious historic monsters are changed into fun moneymaking monsters.

Kong is the hero of this film, even if he is a slapstick version of the character. He has a personality somewhat reminiscent of the original Kong, which makes it easier to root for him. You are happy for him, as he seems to have won the final battle…

The framing sequences for the American audience--the UN reporter--has been properly castigated for its problems. But being attuned to tech stuff, I was greatly interested in the foreshadowing it did of the


instantaneous satellite communications between different points around the world. It is like when The Today Show has an interview with someone live in Los Angeles, while they also do a live link with someone in Europe during the same broadcast. More interesting for my interest in Showa space technology, they used a BIG communications satellite owned by the U.N. The satellite was not some tiny Telstar model; it clearly was a huge space station of the kind seen in the other Toho productions [it even rotated to provide artificial gravity, something that space stations in the 'real' universe don't do as of the time this article was written, January of 2009-CN]. While it was not a toroidal shape, it had a rotating disc, and they would cut offa fair size to it. A large number of people are standing around in the control room and it is not crowded like a typical submarine of the era. There are a number of civilian scientists on board who are from different countries of the world. Conversely, the entire crew appears to be North American, but that could simply be because the U.S. had the largest submarine force at the time of the Mysterian invasion and contributed the most personnel to the U.N. sub crew. This is a new submarine. I think it pays homage to the Seaview from the 1961 film, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. (The television series came later.) It was intended to be a civilian research vessel, although it had been created


sea monster(s).

4. The crew would later encounter people living on the ocean floor.

Unfortunately, as usual, nobody comes to help the Japanese out. They get no support from the United States, the United Nations, or anyone else onscreen. That happens a lot throughout all of the film series. The American version of Godzilla vs. Mothra, which came out two years after King Kong vs. Godzilla, did have an added scene where the U.S. Navy fires Frontier missiles at Godzilla. But that was just an Americanizing factor, and as Chris states in his chronology, it is not certain if that really happened or not. I first realized this lack of help from reading the film's review in David Kalat's excellent resource book, A CRITICAL HISTORY AND FILMOGRAPHY OF TOHO'S GODZILLASERIES (more on this book in a future review). The Japanese Self-Defense Force is all that stands in the way of Godzilla…usually futilely. The Japanese government has to run its own evacuation, refugee, and recovery programs alone as well. If anybody does help them, it is entirely off-screen.

However, there was a powerful Chilean earthquake just before the film and a massive relief airlift from the US to Chile was underway. The U.N. reporter talks with a correspondent in Santiago, Chile, before the rest of the action of the film begins. To be fair, a lot of the military air assets probably were disbanded in the wake of the Mysterian invasion. Cargo and personnel planes were most likely reassigned to the Chilean relief effort. But why the US Pacific


Fleet was not bombarding King Kong or Godzilla is strange. There are more than a few inconsistencies here, but again, these are fantasy films, not realistic recreations of horrific events after the first few films from Toho.

In real life, the massive earthquake that struck Chile on May 22, 1960--the most powerful one on record--affected more than 150,000 square miles, and killed thousands of people between the quake and the resulting tsunamis, and set off a volcano. With that much devastation, I could see the world trying to help Chile, and abandoning Japan to Godzilla and Kong. I do not think we have to shift the date of King Kong vs. Godzilla in the Showa Chronology. It is likely that the big Chilean quake was offset because of theMysterian invasions and kaiju attacks disrupted the planetary field--especially when Mothra went to Japan, and then to New York, to bring the Shobijin back.

The whole film takes place only over a few short days, so it is possible that there were no naval assets in the area, which could assist Japan. Because of the kaiju incidents, I suspect that Japan's Self-Defense Force was greatly expanded and that the Americans pulled out of their bases in Japan because
1) they did not feel Japan was going to be a military threat anymore, and
2) that it was more important to be concerned about alien threats.

America was also undergoing attacks by kaiju at this time, if we bring in such films as The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms and It Came From Beneath


the Sea from Ray Harryhausen, plus other films such as Them!, Tarantula, and The Deadly Mantis [not to mention the original version of Earth vs. the Spider and The Giant Behemoth-CN]. Since America had its own problems, and a history of isolationism in regards to international issues
1. Washington's desire to be free of entangling alliances stated when he retired in 1797 to Mount Vernon
2. a corollary to The Monroe Doctrine, about not getting involved in European events
3. reaction to World War One
it would be quite likely that they abandoned Japan. Europe was also starting to get hit with kaiju attacks-Gorgo, Konga, and Reptilicus being the most noteworthy. So there was a combination of fending for oneself against kaiju attacks, as well as preparing to cooperate against alien invasions.

Ibelieve that major national military assets were largely dropped after the Mysterian invasion, but groups like the U.S. National Guard and the JSDF were still active in case of natural disaster or kaiju attack. There was more emphasis on international military aerospace forces to prevent alien invasion, but less ground troops. That made it easier to shift funding into research (hence the maser cannons or advanced space tech), and perhaps allowed a greater proportion of national resources to be used for recovery after kaiju attacks. Incorporating elements of the Harryhausen film catalog---specifically, the Rhedosaurus' attack on New York and the Pentapus attack on San Francisco---wouldn't alter that, as those two cities suffered relatively little damage and both attacks took place before the Mysterian invasion. But they still would


(i.e., include Daiei, Harryhausen, Korean, European, American, and other kaiju incidents), I think we will see clearly that cities are sometimes rebuilt in a year's time. That represents a lot of economic effort, which would lead to a big trickle-up effect, allowing a city to be rebuilt a few times over the 1960s. Indeed, as seen in several films, relocation seems to be relatively common--during kaiju attacks, people evacuate in a panicked yet seemingly ordered manner. In King Kong vs. Godzilla, many people get evacuated by buses and whatever other vehicles are available, including the backs of trucks, including the people on the train. (Which is another point: when Godzilla was coming, why didn't the engineer back the train up to another station where the passengers could beit is (or was) his home, and these pesky little insect-humans have changed it. The paleontologist expert actually states that Godzilla has stopped because he seems confused by the changes to his home. (Of course, this expert said that Godzilla had been in the iceberg for millions of years, when he had only been there since 1955, and used a children's picture book to explain things to the home audience…) I do think my previous hypothesis, that these irradiated monsters are drawn to radiation sources such as Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and power plants might need further exploration in light of this. However, there are times when Godzilla or other monsters (in Showa or Heisei continuity for certain) are coming to soak up radiation. In King Kong vs. Godzilla he


is coming home to Japan. But he is confused by the rapid changes to Japan in the seven years since he was in the iceberg. He is then attracted to the radiation, and moves south towards the main Japanese island of Honshu. Then he 'detects' another monster…Kong, in this case.

Finally, I would like to note how the kaiju have become deities. In all the tellings of the King Kong story (1933/2005, here in 1962, and in 1976), Kong is worshipped as a monster god. In the 1954 Godzilla flick, the name of Godzilla was adapted from that of a powerful deity of the Odo Island natives. Mothra herself is a deity to those she protects. (Other, later films emphasize and expand Mothra's mystic connections to the Earth.) MandaCAPTURED IN THE WOODS: Two ravishing Blondes Brutally plowed in the slutty! Penny Pax and Anikka Albright are hiking through the northern California forest to escape from their everyday city lives and have fun swimming at the falls. Deep in the Woods, far away from civilization, their weekend adventure takes an unexpected turn. They neglect to take some friendly advise from a stranger and end up trapped and in the hands of a reclusive sexual deviant (played by James Deen). Penny and Anikka's darkest sexual fantasies come to life as they endure bondage, domination and rough anal sex! And, of course, it all ends in the sloppiest cum-facial!


Dale Chihuly: Chihuly

Chihuly’s sheer brilliance and inventiveness in working with glass shine through in the magical creations on show here

Groninger Museum, Groningen, the Netherlands

8 December 2018 – 5 May 2019

by VERONICA SIMPSON

Over the past five decades, the restless creativity and ambition of Dale Chihuly (b1941, Tacoma, Washington) have pushed glass as a sculptural art form to new heights. He has won commissions from the world’s leading cultural institutions to place his cascading, kaleidoscopic or spikily fragile sculptures centre stage, emitting their colour-drenched radiance across all manner of buildings, from ancient to modern, in landscapes both urban and rural.

Dale Chihuly. Venetians, 1988-2006. Installation view, Groninger Museum. Photo: Veronica Simpson.

For his biggest European show in 20 years, Chihuly and the Groninger Museum in the north of the Netherlands have selectedwork that goes broad and deep, making the most of the quirky spaces inside this wonky postmodern structure by Coop Himmelb(l)au. From its watery setting in the middle of a canal, we can see one of Chihuly’s eye-popping neons – a sculptural medium he began experimenting with in the 1960s – reflected in the ceramic tiles near the entrance, while a line of vivid red reeds undulates outside an upstairs window.

Dale Chihuly. Persians, 2018, installation view, Groninger Museum. Photo: Veronica Simpson.

Inside, a newly commissioned cluster of Persians (2018) – a series he started in 1986 - in orange and yellow, pulsate on the white walls of the three-storey atrium, contrasting with the cave-like entrance to the show, illuminated by a shimmering nest of milky-white or inky-black Niijima Floats


(1992-2018). One of the most technically complex pieces to create – blown-glass orbs at this scale are near impossible – these floats were inspired by Chihuly’s discovery of Japanese fishing floats washed up on the shores of the Puget Sound, near his childhood home, and also a subsequent visit to Niijima Island.

Dale Chihuly. Sea forms, 1980-88. Installation view, Groninger Museum. Photo: Veronica Simpson.

However, over the three floors and half-a-dozen rooms filled with his assorted explorations, for me, the most affecting works remain his Seaforms, devised from his 80s experiments with cast-iron moulds, which allowed him to construct the thinnest sheets of glass with a fascinating, ridged texture. The resulting vessels are impossibly fine, seeming to billow and weave as if, indeed, moved by some underwater current. Beautifully lit– as is every item in this impressive show - the delicacy and glow of these forms casts a spell, with a quiet beauty more seductive (to my eye) than his more solid, painterly vessels nearby.

Dale Chihuly. Fire Orange Baskets, 2002-13. Installation view, Groninger Museum. Photo: Veronica Simpson.

It is no surprise to learn that Chihuly’s first degree was in interior design and architecture (at the University of Washington), and his scene-setting sensibilities are at full throttle in the sensorially rich choreography of this show.

The pallid Seaforms are accompanied in the Early Works room by Baskets, Soft cylinders, Macchia and drawings (1980-82). The mood of this gallery of mostly pale, pink, sunshine yellow and silvery forms is a total contrast to the Venetian room that follows. The Venetians (1988-2006)


features descendants of the vivid art deco-inspired sculptures Chihuly created in the late 80s in conjunction with Murano glass maestro Lino Tagliapietra. The inky background, exuberant colour combinations, high shelf-placement and stark spotlighting work to intensify the vivid, living presence of these sculptures, like totems in a temple – and Chihuly’s vigorous, charcoal sketches for these works have a presence almost as strong as the sculptures themselves.

Dale Chihuly. Venetians, 1988-2006. Installation view, Groninger Museum. Photo: Veronica Simpson.

The doorway out of this gallery frames a wall of richly coloured textiles, Native American blankets from a collection Chihuly began as a student, the patterns and palettes of which have long been an inspiration. While the Cylinder works that accompany the blankets date from 2006, Chihuly began this series in 1975,and to his team, especially given the artist’s struggles with mental illness (he is openly bipolar) and injury (he lost the sight in one eye in a car crash and a surfing injury dislocated his shoulder).

As his success and ambition grew, so did his team of apprentices and skilled glass artists. He now has around 100 employed at his 34,000-sq-ft (3,159-sq-metre) riverside studio in Seattle, and many more at Chihuly Garden and Glass, the museum he opened in the city in 2012. Perhaps mindful of a recent lawsuit, in which a former worker claimed he was not properly credited for his work, Chihuly makes the collaborative nature of his creations crystal clear in this show, with a biographical timeline at the end, which names the lead artists and


As former Lakers forward Mychal Thompson was preparing Wednesday for his radio sports-talk program, he received word the Dodgers had traded for his son.

Outfielder Trayce Thompson, the 24-year-old brother of NBA All-Star Klay Thompson, was one of the three prospects the Dodgers acquired from the Chicago White Sox in a three-way trade involving the Cincinnati Reds. The Dodgers sent infielder Jose Peraza and two prospects to the Cincinnati Reds, who moved All-Star third baseman Todd Frazier to the White Sox.

The elder Thompson could only think of one drawback about the move.

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“I have DirecTV,” he said with a laugh. “You know what that means.”

It means Thompson belongs to the part of the local market that can’t watch SportsNet LA, the Dodgers-ownedcable channel.

If his son reaches the major leagues, there’s something else that could prevent the retired basketball player from watching his son on a nightly basis: the possibility of the Dodgers flipping him to another team.

With Zack Greinke moving to the Arizona Diamondbacks and a proposed contract with free-agent Hisashi Iwakuma still not final, the Dodgers remain in search of pitching.

The last of the four frontline starters on the free-agent market found a team this week when Johnny Cueto agreed to a six-year deal with the San Francisco Giants. The Dodgers will pay a refundable $20-million posting fee to negotiate with Japanese right-hander Kenta Maeda, but have offered no indication of how aggressively they intend to pursue him.

This could lead to the Dodgers shifting their focus to trading


World War II training camp. It is an informal community of squatters, snowbirds, homeless residents, veterans, and artists like Austin, all making their homes in this unhomely desert environment wedged between an active gunnery range and the Imperial Valley’s industrial agriculture.

Leftover from the military camp, the basic elements of a town are here: roads, reservoirs, sewers, slabs, and foundations. After the camp was disbanded in 1946, the eponymous concrete slabs were left behind when the wooden buildings moved to Niland, the nearest town, four miles away. The slabs that remain today are cracked and partially covered with sand, and the camp’s original roads are pocked with holes and rutted with tank tracks. The million-gallon cisterns are empty; manholes have been filled in and their covers salvaged long ago.architecture would sift the wall of dust, or even if its architect was still there.

Wearing sandals made from two-by-four blocks of wood, Austin first approached us with a clipboard to ask if we’d like to see the three-level A-frame he was building. He walked us through the ground level where couches and chairs filled a shady living area on the ground. Further up, he had a workshop dedicated to hacking the proprietary charging systems of cordless tools. Magazines of AAA batteries sprayed out of the opened handles of drills and saws, waiting for their solar panel charge. Up above, a communal sleeping loft looked out through pallet frames toward the Algodones Dunes and the invisible Mexican border to the south, and westward toward Salvation Mountain and the Salton


of a wider community founded on an ethic of reuse. Residency on the slabs can be as fleeting and vulnerable as the materials at hand: cardboard, palm fronds, shade cloth, and pallets are themselves transient. And when I returned less than five months later to visit Austin, his original pallet structure was gone, and another had risen across the road.

If the previous project was the house of an idealist, a DIY hacker, an improviser, then this new one was the refuge of an ascetic, a hermit, a master geometer. If the first had been an exercise in communal living cast within a builder’s yard and its organized riot of materials, this second structure was a remote outpost, its peaked arch of pallets recalling the praying hands of Jerome,out of office, they proceeded to install an American diplomat as one of the new Ukrainian government’s leaders. Like, an actual U.S. citizen fresh out of Hillary Clinton‘s state department.

“(The 2014) coup was not only supported by the United States and European Union governments – much of it was actually planned by them,” former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul wrote at the time.

Indeed it was. And Russia responded to this aggression in its sphere of influence as expected – by asserting its authority over the Russian-dominated Crimean peninsula (which oh by the way has since voted to join the Russian Federation).

In 2015, the administration of Barack Obama further escalated tensions in the region by sending three hundred paratroopers to Lviv, Ukraine – ostensibly to “train (Ukrainian) forces fighting pro-Russian


evolution in Trump’s foreign policy – and a stunningly ignorant one at that. If Haley was freelancing and espousing her own views on the situation, then they are every bit as stunningly ignorant – and grounds for her termination from this position.The CIA, America’s intelligence agency, and Israel’s Mossad are behind the Islamist militant groups Boko Haram and ISIS, claims Sudanese President Omar al- Bashir.

He also warned against taking violent measures to fight militants, saying that doing so could lead to an even more severe extremist response.

Bashir made the statements during an interview on global terror as the U.S. Congress considered whether to use force against ISIS.

The Independent reports: Omar al-Bashir used an interview with Euronews to claim there was a connection between the American and Israeli intelligence organisations and both extremist groups.

He spoke after Isis released a video purporting to show the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians in Libya, an act that prompted Egypt to respond with air strikes avenging the massacre.

Al-Bashir told the broadcaster: “I said CIA


the only woman on set and that women regularly have fewer lines than men, even when they're the lead actor.

And she says women often have to arrive for hair and make-up hours before most of their male co-stars.

The British actress, who made her name as Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones, has defended the show in the past from claims that it's sexist and misogynistic.

The 30-year-old says she should be able to do nude scenes and still stand up for women's rights.

"It doesn't stop me from being a feminist," she says. "Like, guess what? Yes, I've got mascara on, and I also have a high IQ, so those two things can be one and the same."

Emilia Clarke's father died last year just before the Brexit vote and thestart of filming for the seventh series of Game of Thrones.

She says all of that made her think how she felt and acted as a woman.

"It was in that re-evaluation that I was like, 'I'm a woman, and there aren't very many of us performing in the environment that I'm performing in. I need to be incredibly sure of the ground on which I'm standing, and I need to take ownership of the choices I'm making.'"

During her "downtime" from filming Game of Thrones, Emilia Clarke has appeared in films like Terminator Genisys and Spike Island.

At the moment she's shooting for the Star Wars spin-off Han Solo movie and says her character is "awesome".

But she says her long-term goal is to start a company which empowers women.

"I would love


the over-75s are considered most at risk from the high temperatures.

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Mike Flanagan, a professor of wildland fires at the University of Alberta, says the fire's proximity to the city, as well as data that shows there were no lightning strikes in the area, lead him to believe the cause of the fire was likely human.

"And in spring it's heavily loaded on the side of people-caused fires," Flanagan said.

An average of 1,200 wildfires are reported in Alberta each year, and half of those fires are caused by humans, according to the National Fire Database. Lightning is the second-leading cause with 47 per cent.

Officials were still investigating the cause of


the latest fire, which remained out of control on Wednesday as it raged around Fort McMurray, a city of about 80,000 people located 435 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.

However, Flanagan said weather conditions in Western Canada have been perfect for wildfires as the warm, dry winter has led to an abundance of dead, dry leaves and wood ready to light up.

"It's really extreme conditions," he said, adding that the low humidity and lack of green vegetation combined with windy conditions contributed to the incredibly intense fire in the northern Alberta city.

"Spring fires are common after the snow melts and before things green up and get lush," Flanagan said.

"There is a two- or three-week window where they occur."

He said the biggest variable at this point is the wind, which gustedTwo months after SM Entertainment became the largest shareholder of the company, FNC Add Culture has officially changed its name to SM Life Design Group.

Earlier this year, it was announced that SM Entertainment had acquired a 30.51 percent stake in FNC Add Culture, making FNC Entertainment the second largest shareholder at 18 percent. On May 18, Korean news outlets reported that FNC Add Culture had since changed its name to SM Life Design Group.

According to news reports, SM Entertainment and FNC Entertainment plan to form a strategic alliance based on their mutual interest in SM Life Design Group. As part of their newfound partnership, Ahn Suk Joon, the co-CEO of FNC Entertainment, will be serving as a management consultant for the newly renamed company.

FNC Entertainment will also be


Sustainability – Missing Points in the Development Dialogue A conference from the WEA24th September to 21st October, 2012

Background to the conference

Introduction.

The idea lying behind this conference was bring together research papers and comments on the many facets of ecology and sustainability from experts and other actors in many countries and continents as well as from a plurality of perspectives. The aim was to identify missing points in the sustainability discourse by bringing a variety of voices to the debate and to work out a constructive way of dealing with the inherent multiplicity of perspectives.

Background

All over the world sustainable development is a hot issue. Serious problems are reported from many parts of society and sectors of the economy, be they local, national, regional or global. In the social sphere[Association between Vibrio cholerae and zooplankton of estuaries of São Marcos Bay/São Luis - MA, Brazil].
This study was carried from October 1997 to October 1998 with the purpose of investigating the link between the species Vibrio cholerae and zooplankton in the estuaries of rivers Anil and Bacanga in São Luis, Maranhão. Research of viable but non culturable forms of Vibrio cholerae O1, and analyze the correlation between pH values, salinity and water temperature with the presence of bacteria in zooplankton samples. The traditional method of cultivation and fluorescent antibody technique were applied to detect the bacteria. A total of 52 samples of zooplankton were collected. There was a predominance of Copepoda. The culture enabled 55 isolates of Vibrio cholerae non-O1. The serogroups O1 and O139 were identified in


The United States and Canada have swung sharply towards a diplomatic and trade crisis as top White House advisers lashed out at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a day after US President Donald Trump called him "very dishonest and weak".

Key points: Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he was backing out of the joint communique

Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he was backing out of the joint communique Mr Trump said he might double down on import tariffs by hitting the sensitive auto industry

Mr Trump said he might double down on import tariffs by hitting the sensitive auto industry Larry Kudlow accused Justin Trudeau of betraying Mr Trump with "polarising" statements on trade policy

The spat drew in Germany and France, who sharply criticised Mr Trump's decision to abruptlywithdraw his support for a Group of Seven communique hammered out at a Canadian summit on Saturday (local time), accusing him of destroying trust and acting inconsistently.

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Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland responded to the White House assault by saying ad hominem attacks were not helpful, that Canada would retaliate to US tariffs in a measured and reciprocal way and that Canada would always be willing to talk.

"Canada does not conduct its diplomacy through ad hominem attacks … and we refrain particularly from ad hominem attacks when it comes from a close ally," Ms Freeland told reporters in Quebec City.

Mr Trump's looming summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un heightened tension, and White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow accused Mr Trudeau of betraying Mr Trump with "polarising" statements on


trade policy that risked making the US leader look weak on the eve of the historic North Korea summit.

Hours after Mr Trump withdrew his support for the joint statement and attacked Mr Trudeau, Mr Kudlow and trade adviser Peter Navarro drove the message home on Sunday morning news shows in an extraordinary assault on a close US ally and neighbour.

"[Mr Trudeau] really kind of stabbed us in the back," Mr Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council who had accompanied Mr Trump to the summit of wealthy nations on Saturday, said on CNN's State of the Union.

Mr Navarro told Fox News: "There is a special place in hell for any leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with President Donald J Trump and then tries to stabhim in the back on the way out the door and that's what bad-faith Justin Trudeau did with that stunt press conference, that's what weak, dishonest Justin Trudeau did."

Donald Trump repeated a list of grievances about US trade. ( Reuters: Leah Millis )

Mr Trump continued the feud on Monday, taking to Twitter say: "Fair Trade is now to be called Fool Trade if it is not Reciprocal.

"Why should I, as President of the United States, allow countries to continue to make Massive Trade Surpluses, as they have for decades, while our Farmers, Workers & Taxpayers have such a big and unfair price to pay? Not fair to the PEOPLE of America!"

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He also linked the issue to what he views as the United States' disproportionate financial contribution to international


before.

G7 allies seemed as perplexed as Canada at the sudden diplomatic row, and Germany and France accused Mr Trump of destroying trust and acting inconsistently.

Having left the G7 summit in Canada early, Mr Trump's announcement on Twitter that he was backing out of the joint communique torpedoed what appeared to be a fragile consensus on a trade dispute between Washington and its top allies.

Mr Trump also said he might double down on import tariffs by hitting the sensitive auto industry, throwing the G7's efforts to show a united front into disarray.

"In a matter of seconds, you can destroy trust with 280 Twitter characters," German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said when asked about Mr Trump's U-turn, adding it would take much longer to rebuild lost trust.

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France is also standing by the G7 communique, a French presidency official said, adding anyone departing from the commitments made at the summit would be showing their "incoherence and inconsistency".

"International cooperation cannot depend on being angry and on sound bites. Let's be serious," the French official, speaking on condition of anonymity, added.

Mr Trump has infuriated the European Union, Canada and Mexico by imposing tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.

Europe's answer must be to stick even closer together, defend its interests and strengthen alliances with countries such as Japan and Canada, Mr Maas said.

In his news conference, Mr Trudeau had spoken of retaliatory measures that Canada would take next month in response to Mr Trump's decision to slap tariffs on


The poll found Brits want a referendum on further integration. On the day of the Daily Politics' Europe special broadcast live from Brussels, an exclusive poll for the programme found a majority would like Britain to leave the European Union. When asked in the poll if Britain should leave the EU but maintain close trading links, 55% agreed with 41% disagreeing. Despite the strength of the Euro against the pound there was little appetite for Britain joining the single currency. When asked if the current economic crisis has made people more likely to join the Euro, only 31% agreed with 64% disagreeing. On the question of whether Britain benefits overall from membership of the European Union in terms of jobs and trade only 44% agreed with 51% disagreeing.I was gang-raped at the University of Virginia. I was gang raped at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house.

We are all left with questions and opinions in the exhausting wake of the now-infamous Rolling Stone article about campus sexual assault, and how victims are treated at the University of Virginia.

This is my story.

In August 1984, I arrived at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, eager to jump into college life. As a sheltered, shy, but ambitious child growing up in suburban Westchester County, New York, my choice struck some as very far away, very “Southern.” Most of my contemporaries from my all-girls high school in Rye, New York, were headed north to Boston or other parts of New England, to so many of the liberal arts colleges in


much colder climes. My parents were thrilled with my choice, even though I had never even paid the campus a visit during the application process. I knew I wanted to go to UVA for one major reason: It had the country’s most highly ranked English department, my major of choice.

I had graduated as valedictorian, and as I packed my belongings for the trip the Charlottesville, I was prepared to make my mark at the wonderful institution founded by Thomas Jefferson. But, those hopes were to be dashed about five weeks into my college career. I was 17 years old.

A dorm friend, Jim*, who desperately wanting to join a fraternity, begged me to accompany him as his date to a rush party at the Phi Kappa Psi house onOct. 5, 1984. We lived in a coed dorm, with the first and third floors housing the young men, and the second floor housing the girls. Jim had to cajole me, as it was already late, and I was lounging around in sweats, book in hand. Reluctantly but with good humor, I changed into a Guess denim miniskirt, a colorful sweater, navy leather flats, earrings, and, yes, a string of pearls. A quick check of hair and makeup, and we were out the door, accompanied by about five other dorm friends—some rushing the fraternity, some as dates.

We arrived to the din of a party in full swing: a band, multiple kegs of beer, dancing, foosball, and mantle diving. There was nothing out of the ordinary, but for the


of the Interfraternity Council. He was a fourth year, from Atlanta, and very kind to me. But he couldn’t do anything for me.

I made as much noise as I could have, but no one heard me. Until 2005.

That young man in the glasses had a name: William Beebe. I knew because I rifled through his mail that terrible October morning. In September 2005, Beebe wrote a letter to my home to apologize. It became a firestorm of inexplicable proportions.

From September through November 2005, I corresponded with him via email to find out what had happened to me that night. How many attackers? He wrote that he was the only one. What was in my drink? He didn’t know. Why did he rape me? He thought it was ato section 35031, at least 45 days before the expiration of the term of her three-year employment contract. We affirm the superior court's order denying the writ.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
District has had a long history of financial problems. In 1997, after it overstated its projected revenues by approximately $670,000, the Sonoma County Office of Education enlisted, the services of the fiscal crisis management and assistance team (FCMAT) to prepare a multi-year projection of the 1997-1998 budget and to review the budgeting process, staffing and business practices. Among other things, FCMAT recommended that District make a business official part of the administrative or management team "to ensure all decisions involving budget occur with the knowledge of the business office."
In May 2001, District again enlisted FCMAT's assistance in developing the


2001-2002 budget and in reviewing the progress made by District on the 1998 recommendations. FCMAT's report concluded, "[T]he district finds itself in a precarious fiscal position and continues to rely on unstable, one-time reserves rather than making the appropriate reductions to programs, services and personnel. Additional changes will need to be implemented by the district to resolve deficit spending and depletion of the general fund reserves. FCMAT believes that with the filling of the Business Manager position and other organizational changes, the district is making a positive commitment to maintain its financial solvency."
District solicited applications for a business manager position. According to the job announcement description, the business manager "Designs and maintains all aspects of the fiscal operations of the district including budget development, income projections, payroll, purchasing,contracts and bids, and other operations related to the fiscal policies of the schools, central administration, and Board of Trustees." Gately was hired as the business manager under an employment agreement approved by District's board of trustees (Board). The term of the agreement ran from July 1, 2001 to June 30, 2004, at an annual salary of $69,000, and provided, "Subsequent to a satisfactory, evaluation of the Business Manager's performance and before March 1 of each year of the Agreement, the Board may extend the term of the Agreement. The Agreement may be extended only by Board action." Board did not pass a resolution designating the business manager as a senior management employee.
District continued to have serious fiscal problems. Jim Maxwell, who had been part of the FCMAT


Gately received a favorable job evaluation from John Wight, who was then the superintendent. Claudia Rosatti replaced Wight as superintendent during the 2002-2003 school year. Rosatti believed there were problems with Gately's accuracy and timeliness, and she did not feel confident she could rely on Gately's calculations and projections. Barbara Tatman had expressed concerns about whether Gately could do all the jobs she was assigned to do, as well as the accuracy of her multi-year budget projections.
Rosatti discussed some of these concerns with Gately on November 9, 2004. Gately indicated at that meeting that she had not come to Rosatti due to her own stress about the situation, but that she wanted to make things work. Although she did not intend to terminate Gately's employment at that time,Rosatti suggested that Gately consider looking for another position, and Gately agreed. Gately told Rosatti she would be submitting her resignation, but she never did so. On December 15, 2004, Gately took a medical leave from which she did not return.[2]
On February 28, 2005, Board voted to terminate Gately's employment agreement (which had expired on June 30, 2004), effective June 30, 2005. Meanwhile, the District contacted FCMAT again for assistance with its budget and the identification of necessary cuts. The pattern of deficit spending had continued and it was estimated that if changes were not made, the reserve would be zero by June 2007. On June 15, 2005, Board adopted resolution No. 205-19, which eliminated several positions, including that of business manager, based on a lack of funds


and a lack of work. Rosatti notified Gately by letter that she was laid off effective July 31, 2005, and would be afforded reemployment rights as provided under the Education Code.
At the same time that it eliminated the business manager position, District created the new position of chief financial operations officer (CFO) to oversee all matters affecting District's finances. This position was significantly different than that of business manager. The business manager had no supervisory authority over programs or staff, and was not responsible for formulating policy relating to fiscal matters. On the other hand, the CFO would be charged with supervising, directing and coordinating all of District's business support activities, building District's budget, analyzing revenues and preparing state mandated budget documents and reports. The CFO position, thoughmore highly compensated than the business manager position had been, was integral to the restructuring of District's financial operations. District did not notify Gately of this opening.
Krista Eisbrenner, who had worked as a business manager for another school district, was hired as the CFO at a salary that exceeded Gately's former salary as *380 business manager by more than ten percent. District created another new position, that of fiscal specialist, which was filled by Rosatti's secretary, at a salary that was lower than Gately's former salary. According to Rosatti, Gately would not have been qualified for the CFO position because it required skills she did not possess. District could not afford to compensate both a business manager and a CFO.
Gately filed a petition for writ of mandate seeking


reinstatement and back pay. The petition alleged that Gately had been a senior management employee under section 45108.5, subdivision (a)(2), and as such, her three-year employment contract had been automatically renewed when she was not notified of its termination 45 days before it expired on June 30, 2004. The petition also alleged that the layoff based on lack of work and lack of funds was pretextual, and that she had actually been terminated for disciplinary reasons without receiving notice and an opportunity to be heard. The trial court denied the petition and issued a statement of decision that concluded Gately was not a senior management employee, because she had not been designated as such by Board. The statement of decision did not address the legality of the layoff.the senior management employee "shall be deemed reelected for a term of the same length as the one completed, and under the same terms and conditions and with the same compensation." (§ 35031.)
The parties dispute the vehicle by which a classified employee becomes a senior management employee. Section 45100.5 provides in relevant part, "(a) The governing board of a school district may adopt a resolution designating certain positions as senior management of the classified service .... [¶] (b) Employees whose positions are designated as senior management of the classified service shall be a part of the classified service and shall be afforded all rights, benefits, and burdens *381 of other classified employees, except that they shall be exempt from all provisions relating to obtaining permanent status in a


manager by the school board. Gately was never designated a senior manager, and she was not entitled to an automatic renewal of her contract based on District's failure to provide notice of termination at least 45 days before the expiration of her three-year term of employment.

Propriety of the Layoff
Gately claims District acted improperly when it purported to terminate *383 her based on the expiration of her contract and then advised her that she was being laid off for "lack of work/lack of funds." We disagree.[3]
We note at the outset that the trial court did not address the legality of the layoff in its written statement of decision, though the issue was raised in the petition for writ of mandate. (Code Civ. Proc., § 632.) Because Gately failed toshe was actually given notice of her termination; she was initially advised that her termination was based on the expiration of her contract and only later was she told she was being laid off for lack of work or funds; and she had been told there was cause to terminate her, even though the District had elected not to pursue a termination for cause. Gately notes that after her position was eliminated and she was advised of the layoff, the District created the position of CFO, which included *384 her duties as business manager and paid a higher salary.
Accepting these facts as true, other evidence supported an inference that the layoff was made for legitimate fiscal and organizational reasons. The record contains evidence that District's finances were in


dire straits and that significant reorganization was necessary. Part of the recovery plan included consolidating under a CFO all operations affecting revenues and expenditures. The CFO was the highest ranking executive after the superintendent, and the position required skills that Gately lacked. Although the CFO was compensated more generously than Gately had been as business manager, this disparity reflected the CFO's more demanding duties, and the District could not afford to fund both positions. Other employees were laid off at the same time as Gately. Although Gately did not receive notice when the CFO position became available, this job was not within the same classification as her former position as business manager, and she was not entitled to "reemployment" in that capacity. (See § 45298.) She was entitledthere now.

Hyphae photo by Bob Blaylock

Roads and streets, like fungal hyphae penetrate the nourishing tissues of the ecosystem to derive nutrition. Enzymes (tools) are put to use upon the substrate to mine, pump, grow and cut resources from the area. These hyphae are analogous to roads in a technological civilization. When growth is no longer possible and nutrition cannot be transported to depleted areas, then technological life will cease to exist in those areas.

NASA – London from space.

A typical concentrated area of growth, the City of London, sends mycelia deep into the countryside for its nourishment in support of its complexity. As older areas are depleted of resources, new areas of growth must compensate to send energy into the city. When growth falters and net energy declines, the


Chandra Janway Johnson is NASCAR Jimmie Johnson’s Wife

Chandra Johnson

Jimmie Johnson just won the Dayton 500, he will celebrating his win with his team and special celebration with his beautiful family wife Chandra Janway Johnson and their gorgeous children.

We already know plenty about Jimmie Johnson, this time we are here to fill you up about his lovely wife Chandra Johnson.

34-year-old Chandra Lynn Janway Johnson was born on June July 16th, 1978 in Muskogee, Oklahoma to Lynn and Jack Janway, Chandra graduated in 2000 with a major in business communication from the University of Oklahoma.

Chandra who her husband affectionately calls Chani, was introduced to Jimmy by Jeff Gordon in 2002 by this time she was a model with Wilhelmina Models, she began modeling as a teenager.

Chandra said as soon asshe met Jimmie she knew he was special, they started dating right away..

“Immediately, I realized Jimmie was a nice guy, different from anyone I had met before,” “He was just so nice and so genuine. Everything about him you just love.”.

Chandra and Johnson got engaged during a ski trip to Colorado in 2003, getting married less than a year later.

Chandra became Mrs. Jimmie Johnson on December 11th, 2004, and more than 6 years later in January 2010 Chandra and Jimmy announced they were expecting their first child together, Baby girl Genevieve Marie Johnson was born on July 7, 2010.

Chandra Johnson is a loving wife, caring mother and takes care of her and her husband’s foundation the “Jimmie Johnson Foundation”.

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How about some up close pics of Jimmie Johnson’s daughter?