and business.

20 February 2016 (Trumps admiration for atrocity) Trump stated his admiration for an atrocity (perhaps mythical) attributed to US General Pershing in the colonized Philippines, I've read (though not in detail) that the US's suppression of the Philippines in 1900, when it had kicked out Spanish rule, was quite brutal.

20 February 2016 (Sanders leading over Clinton in National poll) Sanders now leads Clinton in a national poll. Clinton's strategy of trying to prevent voters from learning about Sanders, by having few debates and obscure ones, was cunning, and it almost worked. Maybe now it will fail.

20 February 2016 (The case against tipping) Some US states long ago banned paying low wages to employees and telling them to make it up with tips. It works fine. I tipbid if the seller is male. For a few products, the effect goes the other way. Sexism has been demonstrated in other areas; for instance, evaluation of the merit of scientific work is affected by sexism. My father's second wife was a painter. When she was young, she signed her paintings with a name that could be take for masculine, to avert sexism. Her paintings sold better that way.

20 February 2016 (CO2 makes coral vulnerable to viruses) Increased CO2 in the water may not directly wipe out coral, but makes coral deformed and more more vulnerable to viruses. Young coral organisms have special difficulty, so a reef might not recover after events that kill part of it.

(Uganda: opposition presidential candidate arrested) Uganda's main opposition presidential candidate has been


use, you're still in a perilous position.

19 February 2016 (American public schools) Americans rallied at 800 public schools to oppose school budget cuts, violation of local democratic control of schools, and imposed standardized tests.

19 February 2016 (Catholic hospitals in the US) Patients are suing a US Catholic organization for its broad interpretation of the policy of not doing abortions, which it imposes on Catholic hospitals in the US. The Catholic Church should remove itself from operating hospitals rather than impose its dogma on patients.

19 February 2016 (Spills of toxic chemicals) The EPA will start making rules to prevent spills of toxic chemicals.

19 February 2016 (Russian censorship of childrens' books) Russian censorship of childrens' books is so absurdly strict that it provides a wonderful tool for selective enforcement, andfor squeezing publishers.

19 February 2016 (Extended state of emergency) France has extended its state of emergency for another three months. The emergency powers don't seem to have done much good so far, except for the fossil fuel companies by crushing rallies during the Paris climate meeting.

19 February 2016 (Demolition by Israel) Israel's soldiers demolish Palestinians' houses, farms, even outhouses over and over. "Every single child of these families who experienced the arrival of the bulldozers and army jeep at dawn needs no social networks to hate and hate more."

19 February 2016 (Electromagnetic waves) People who report sensitivity to electromagnetic waves may really be suffering from something, but it isn't caused by electromagnetic waves.

19 February 2016 (Runaway inequality in the US) Runaway inequality in the US has extended from


wealth to life span.

19 February 2016 (Subsidizing fossil fuel) Venezuela has raised the price of gasoline — a very important measure. Subsidizing fossil fuel puts the whole world in danger.

19 February 2016 (NHS is degrading) The UK's local medical care directors say the NHS is degrading under the impact of Tory funding cuts. It has been clear for years that the Tories aimed to destroy the NHS but were unwilling to say so.

19 February 2016 (Hindu fanaticism) Kanhaiya Kumar, charged with "sedition" for criticizing India's trampling of human rights, was attacked in court by a Hindu-extremist fanatic. Hindu fanaticism has been a dangerous force in India since before India was founded. Shortly after that, a Hindu fanatic assassinated Gandhi. As for charges of "sedition", any state that chargesFebruary 2016 (Shot for choosing who to marry) Each year, a thousand other women in Pakistan are murdered by their families. Sharmeen Obaid was shot by her father for choosing who to marry. By a freak accident, she survived to tell the tale. The killer got off without punishment after she was pressured to "forgive" him. Until state punishes these killers, private revenge is justified. Feminists in Pakistan would be justified in organizing to kill these killers.

19 February 2016 (Monitor torture in Egypt) The Nadeem Centre for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence tries to monitor torture in Egypt. The government, finding this embarrassing, is shutting it down.

19 February 2016 (CIA false reports) John Kiriakou: The CIA officially tells agents to make false reports, which supposedly will be


house costs and rents have ballooned.

19 February 2016 (Missing indigenous women) Many indigenous women in Canada have been murdered or disappeared, but there are signs it could be 4000 rather than 1000.

19 February 2016 (Indonesia to attack human rights) Indonesia is planning to attack human rights, following the bad examples of Australia and Malaysia. People could be jailed for months on mere suspicion. One part of the proposal is legitimate: to make it a crime to plan a terrorist act.

19 February 2016 (Global heating threatens Australian wine) Global heating threatens Australian wine. Vineyards will have to move to Tasmania, to the land where the old growth forests are burning down.

18 February 2016 (Urgent: Non-corruption condition for aid) US citizens: call on Congress to restrain US support for thein the US too. Some twenty years ago, Massachusetts passed a law to boycott companies that did business in Burma. At the time, the US had not yet adopted strong trade sanctions against Burma. Other countries called this a "non-tariff barrier to trade" and said it violated the World Trade Organization rules. Congress passed, and President Clinton signed, a law that prohibited states from adopting such boycotts: a victory for plutocracy over democracy. This is one of the many plutocratist actions I condemn Bill Clinton for. Hillary Clinton appears to be basically the same in her support for plutocracy, which is why I will not vote for her for president.

17 February 2016 (Safe zone in Syria) Turkey proposes to establish a safe zone in Syria, near the Turkish


good because it reduces toxic pollution. Burning natural gas doesn't make much of that. However, natural gas implies methane leaks, so replacing coal with gas doesn't reduce global heating the way companies claim.

6 February 2016 (Coal mine in Australia) A proposed giant coal mine in Australia has been suspended because the export coal market has shrunk. That is good for the Great Barrier Reef, but burning Indian coal in India will pump almost as much CO2 as burning Australian coal in India.

6 February 2016 (Australia cutting jobs in climate research) Australia is cutting hundreds of jobs in climate research in order to make its research organization "collaborate better with industry". Apparently this refers to the global heating industry. "Mitigation and adaptation" is the last ditch excuse of thedepend on the state to keep businesses honest, and for many other things.

4 February 2016 (Ecological disruption) In England, flowers that normally bloom in May are blooming in January, due to El Nino on top of global heating. Since different species base their calendars on different cues, this will cause ecological disruption, which will wipe out some species. A cold snap in February could kill some organisms that have become active early.

04 February 2016 (Urgent: Congress' positions on TPP) US citizens: call on members of Congress to take a stand on the TPP now and pledge to stick with it after the election.

04 February 2016 (Music in Mali) Mali's Irrepressible Musical Spirit Resounds after Jihadi-Imposed Silence. Some Muslim fanatics have banned music since a thousand years ago.

04 February


2016 (NY Times covers campaign spending misleadingly) The New York Times found one small category of campaign spending in which Sanders gets more support than Clinton, and covered it misleadingly.

04 February 2016 (Surveillance of students) An extreme example of surveillance of students: asking them to wear a fitbit all the time. Just because most schools' surveillance does not go this far does not make it acceptable!

04 February 2016 (Marshall Island sues Britain, India and Pakistan) The Marshall Islands, a small country in the Pacific with painful experience with nuclear weapons, has sued Britain, India and Pakistan for not complying with treaty obligations to move towards nuclear disarmament.

04 February 2016 (Basic income for all) A basic income for all raises many questions about details. Will companies that sell torelations. I don't think the Tories care all that much; they are not so different from Putin, after all.

30 January 2016 (Suppressed US intel report on WMDs) A secret US intelligence report expressing ignorance on the subject of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was suppressed in 2002, and apparently not shown to Colin Powell before he argued for invading Iraq to destroy those unverified (and in fact nonexistent) weapons.

30 January 2016 (Ted Cruz puts church above country) Ted Cruz says he puts his church above the United States. That makes him totally unqualified to be president (or any sort of official). When John F. Kennedy ran for president, some Protestant Americans claimed that he would put his church above the United States and take orders from the


"A devoted servant of God, His Holiness Pope John Paul II
has championed the cause of the poor, the weak, the hungry,
and the outcast. He has defended the unique dignity of
every life, and the goodness of all life. Through his faith
and moral conviction, he has given courage to others to be
not afraid in overcoming injustice and oppression.

His principled stand for peace and freedom has inspired
millions and helped to topple communism and tyranny.

The United States honors this son of Poland who became
the Bishop of Rome and a hero of our time."

What a wonderful inspiration! What can WE do? - OURSELVES.
Yes, around us, there is plenty to do, in our Polish American
community. Please volunteer, join Polish American organization
of your choice.

Historical consultation by one of the best Polish historians
Marek Chodakiewicz. By his       JENNIFER LACOGNATA,
              Plaintiffs-Appellants,

                                v.

     DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
  SERVICES, KATHLEEN SEBELIUS, SECRETARY
   OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, UNITED
   STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION,
 MARGARET A. HAMBURG, M.D., COMMISSIONER
     OF FOOD AND DRUGS, FOOD AND DRUG
 ADMINISTRATION, UNITED STATES NATIONAL
   INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, AND DR. FRANCIS S.
  COLLINS, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS THE
 DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH,


Worst story I ever heard was supposedly told by one of the cops at the scene.

Cement truck driver had a liquid lunch (beer) and managed to tip his loaded with wet cement vehicle over and it landed on a little import car. No chance of the occupants surviving. A local guy stopped and was directing traffic around the accident scene, until the cops got there. He stuck around because he needed to make the same turn that the cement truck was now blocking.

The Jaws of Life showed up and the cement truck was picked up off the little import car. And then they moved the rather flat vehicle....as they did a handmade doll fell out of the smashed back window.

The guy who'd been helping direct traffic went berserkOn appeal, Jonnet contends chiefly that the district and bankruptcy courts lacked subject matter jurisdiction, that venue was improper, and that Jonnet was improperly denied a jury trial.  Finding no merit in any of Jonnet's contentions, we affirm.

I. BACKGROUND
A. The Lease and Lafayette's Bankruptcy

2
The matter arises out of a 1967 long-term lease (the "Lease") of a retail store owned by Jonnet and the subsequent treatment of the Lease in the lessee's chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding.  On March 21, 1967, Lafayette Radio Electronics Corporation of Monroeville, Pennsylvania ("Monroeville Lafayette"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lafayette, leased a retail store in Monroeville (the "Store") from Jonnet Enterprises, Inc., corporate predecessor of Jonnet.  The Lease was for a term of ten years and gave Monroeville Lafayette two options to


renew for additional terms of five years each.  Apparently, the first such renewal option was exercised in 1977.

3
On January 4, 1980, Lafayette and six of its subsidiaries, including Monroeville Lafayette, filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, 11 U.S.C. Secs. 1101-1146 (1982), in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York.  Pursuant to a plan of reorganization confirmed by the bankruptcy court in 1981, the six subsidiaries were merged into Lafayette, and Lafayette was then merged into Wards.

4
In the meantime, Lafayette had reached agreement for a 7-year sublease (the "Sublease") of the Store to Roamon's Stores of Pennsylvania, Inc.  ("Roamon's"), and in July 1980, Lafayette submitted an application to the bankruptcy court for (1) authorization toof fact and conclusions of law, enter final orders and judgments, and enforce such orders and judgments.  The district courts and the courts of appeals were allowed only to conduct appellate review of the bankruptcy court determinations and were constrained in their review of factual determinations by the "clearly erroneous" standard.  In light of the 1978 scheme's conferral on the bankruptcy courts of substantial powers over cases "related to" bankruptcy proceedings, the Supreme Court concluded that the scheme "vest[ed] all 'essential attributes' of the judicial power of the United States in the ... bankruptcy court."    458 U.S. at 84-85, 102 S.Ct. at 2878-2879.  The Court held that such judicial power could not constitutionally be exercised by a court whose judges lacked the


Percutaneous coronary intervention without on site surgical back-up; two-years registry of a large Dutch community hospital.
To assess safety and efficacy of off-site percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in The Dutch invasive cardiovascular system. Descriptive single centre registry of elective and emergency PCI. Setting is a Dutch community hospital, 40 km north of Amsterdam, with an adherent population of 400,000 people. A Clinical follow up of Major Adverse Cardiac and Cerebral Events (MACCE) at 30 days post PCI is performed. The total number of participants eligible for PCI was 781 of whom 545 were men and 236 women. During a two-year period 781 PCI's were performed of which 298 were emergency and 483 elective. Acute complications occurred in 2.1% of participants. MACCE-free was 86.9% in the group with AMI andthings, calling a former girlfriend and her mother on
multiple occasions and ignoring the direction of his probation
officer not to do so. Defendant contested the allegations and,
following a hearing, County Court determined that defendant had
                              -2-                106005

violated the terms of his probation. Defendant was thereafter
resentenced to two years in prison, to be followed by three years
of postrelease supervision, and he now appeals.

      The People bear the burden of proving a probation
violation by a preponderance of the evidence (see CPL 410.70


from Kunming to Vientiane, a strategic location along the East–West Corridor that connects Vietnam’s Danang with Phitsanulok in central Thailand and Mawlamyine in Myanmar. While the Kunming–Bangkok Expressway was completed in December 2013, construction of the disputed China–Lao Railway project, possibly causing severe environmental problems in northern Laos, only began in December 2015.

The Mohan–Boten Economic Cooperation Zone is not all that new. In 2007, a predecessor for the Mohan–Boren Economic Cooperation Zone — the Boten Special Economic Zone (BSEZ) — transformed Boten. The BSEZ was mostly funded by Chinese enterprises. Since the establishment of the BSEZ, fancy hotels, casinos, restaurants and shopping markets have appeared in the remote and undeveloped Boten.

Thanks to Laos’ free entry visa policy and the completion of the Kunming–Mohan Expressway — part of theKunming–Bangkok Expressway — in late 2006, Chinese tourists and gangsters have been inundating the BSEZ. Chinese citizens are the majority of Boten’s customers and many local people have since been relocated to a nearby village to continue their traditional farming lifestyles.

But the BSEZ was closed in 2009 due to escalating criminal activities in the area. A local small shop owner said in an interview with the author in September 2014 that ‘Boten was like a ghost town because all the fancy hotels, casinos, and restaurants were completely shut down, leaving only a few small shops to survive’.

Interestingly, the tri-lingual signs — in Chinese, English and Laotian — are still there. And, while business is low in Boten at the moment, this remote village can easily be revived once


the new Mohan–Boten Economic Cooperation Zone is opened.

Midway from Boten to Luang Prabang, Chinese influence is also very apparent in Muang Xay, the capital of the Oudomxay Province. Hotel Sheng Chang, established in early 2014, is the largest activity centre in Muang Xay and includes a big supermarket, a casino and a restaurant. When asked about the reason for such a large investment in a mountainous city with less than 150,000 residents, the hotel manager said that he sees it as a promising business venture. This is not only because of the Kunming–Mohan Expressway, but also due to rising Chinese economic activity in Laos.

The business district in Muang Xay is only a one-kilometre stretch along the main road, but Chinese shops and advertisements fully span both sides of— underwritten and enabled by the United States — is perpetuating terrorism. Research has shown that nothing recruits terrorists like corrupt security forces committing human rights abuses with impunity.

Kenya illustrates this dynamic well. After the horrific attack at the Westgate Mall in 2013, Kenya responded with aggressive policing tactics, arresting and mistreating thousands of Kenyan Somalis and Muslims. That brutal response, however, helped al-Shabaab by inciting anger across the country.

After last month’s attack in Paris, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle called for a more aggressive strategy to counter terrorism. Days later, the State Department finalized a $1.29 billion sale of targeted bombs to Saudi Arabia. It’s hard not to note the irony: How exactly would extending the coercive arm of oppressive states like Saudi Arabia improve


Mechanisms of copper tolerance by Armeria maritima in Dolfrwyong Bog, north Wales--initial studies.
Preliminary field studies were carried out at Dolfrwynog Bog in July 2000. Replicate samples of water, Armeria maritima plants and the soils adhering to its roots were collected and analysed for copper. Concentrations of up to 6486 mg kg-1 of copper in the soils were recorded. Accumulation of copper by the plant as expressed by concentration factors (CF) show that it is acting mainly as a copper excluder. Of the copper that is taken up, most of it is retained within the roots with very little being transported to the shoots of the plant. Moreover, a further possible mechanism of tolerance is exhibited by the excretion of copper through its decaying leaves. Towards the use of          the subject property since 1979 in connection with an
              adjacent movie theater and that short-term parking had been
              allowed on the property since 1982 because of an unofficial
              Allegheny County Port Authority Park and Ride, which was
              a preexisting nonconforming use. The park and ride portion
              of the parking lot was sold to


pictures and enjoying the warm breeze and scent of the roses.

Mr W quilted this little bear before heading outside.

Panto: Popcorn

The man gave Molly a bath, and then she did what we affectionally call 'dog rug'.

Right outside the studio

The hillside garden

The roses have just exploded with blooms!They smell heavenly.

Aren't these lovely?

These look pink in all the pictures, but they are red!I don't know why the camera sees them as pink...

Looking toward the road

The iris is going crazy, too. Lots more buds still to open!

The mountain view from the garden

The grass in the back yard is much plusher and green. The soil back here has been augmented by the gardener! The rock garden takes care of itself. Most of the plants wake up a bit later than the side garden.

Mrprevailing term for much of the modern territory of Ukraine controlled by the Russian Empire, as well as for its people and their language. This can be seen from its usage in numerous scholarly, literary and artistic works. Ukrainophile historians Mykhaylo Maksymovych, Nikolay Kostomarov, Dmytro Bahaliy, and Volodymyr Antonovych acknowledged the fact that during the Russo-Polish wars, Ukraine had only a geographical meaning, referring to the borderlands of both states, but Little Russia was the ethnonym of Little (Southern) Russian people. In his prominent work Two Russian nationalities, Kostomarov uses Southern Russia and Little Russia interchangeably. Mykhailo Drahomanov titled his first fundamental historic work Little Russia in its literature (1867–1870). Different prominent artists (e.g., Mykola Pymonenko, Kostyantyn Trutovsky, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sergeyev, photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, etc.), many of whom


Braving the storm: Odisha struggles to recover in the aftermath of Phailin

Seated on the verandah of his small mud house, 90-year-old Durba Chandra Behera heaved a sigh of relief when he learnt Cyclone Phailin that made a landfall the night before had blown over the coast of Odisha.

He was relieved that his village on the state's northern coast had escaped the fury, that there were few human casualties where Phailin had hit hard, that the fear of a 1999-like super cyclone wouldn't be repeated.

But that didn't stop him from reliving the memories of the storm that devastated him 14 years ago. Behera lost half of his family to the super cyclone that killed more than 10,000 people and decimated 2.75 lakh homes along a 200-km stretch of theOdisha coastline.

"No food was made available for about seven days," said Behera, his voice trembling. He recalled the miseries caused by government apathy, the absence of any concrete plan of rescue and rehabilitation, and the abject lack of communications with the mainland making him feel being left at the mercy of the nature's fury.

Then and now

Cut to 2013, a lot has changed. Most villages are connected with roads. Cyclone shelters or government buildings are within a one kilometer of a village. Installation of Doppler radars has meant the Indian Meteorological Department's Phailin warning reached the Naveen Patnaik government four days before the cyclone struck on October 12.

A deep penetration of communication tools -- television sets and mobile phones - earned Odisha government accolades for a time-bound evacuation of


900,000 people.

Then why are people like Behera assailed by doubts? Despite the state government's pro-active handling of the disaster and noteworthy centre-state coordination to bail minimise casualties, the doubt remains whether rehabilitation will be robust. Will the victims of the current disaster face the same problems that beset Behera in 1999?

The storm surged up to 15 feet in Behera's village in Balipatna, Jagatsinghpur district, 200 km north-east of Bhubaneswar. His mud home vanished and the family's only source of income -- a fertile paddy farm --turned into a waste-land. He with other villagers spent two nights on the rooftop of a school building flooded till the first floor.

"There was no television or mobile then," Behera recalled. A school teacher had rushed to the village hearing the cyclone warningon radio at Ersamma, about 20 km away. He took three hours on his bicycle to deliver the warning and by then the super-cyclone was about to hit.

Signs of trouble

The signs of government relief, despite the headway made, shows that little has changed since 1999. Post-Phailin, the relief has been slow and inadequate. Hindustan Times found that food supplies at majority of cyclone shelters in Ganjam was not adequate, leave alone in villages, even 48 hours after Phailin struck.

"We are going back to our village as there is not enough food for all of us here. Back home we can get some local fish," said 55-year-old Narayan Pradhan, while boarding a bus, he had himself arranged, at a make-shift shelter in a school at Ganjam's Barkul village.

Debashish Kar,


family," said Balaram Parida, while showing the half bag of fish he got after four hours of toil at Arjapalli village in Ganjam.

The scenario was totally different in Jagatsinghpur's Saili village where 64 people had died during 1999 super cyclone. The villagers on their own had stocked ration for 10 days including vegetables and chura (flattened) rice to feed around 500 people on the first floor of a cyclone shelter. Resources were pooled to buy utensils for community cooking.

A villager Vikram Kesari Bandoupadhyay knew from experience that the government help would come late. "The first government action in the 1999 super-cyclone was rice dropped from helicopters after seven days. We know the government never delivers what it promises," he said.

The promise to redeem farm soil had proved falseforcing the villagers such as Behera and Kesari to shun paddy cultivation and take up less remunerative betel (paan) leaf cultivation.

Some other villagers have turned to shrimp production by digging ponds in their erstwhile paddy fields. The concrete cyclone-proof home Behera got by way of a rehabilitation package, have become inhabitable and is now used to house cattle and wood.

Losing a way of life

The loss in agriculture income has caused distress migration. Behera's son takes up work in the industrial areas of northern India to ensure that his family gets to eat like about third of the male population from the 1999 cyclone-hit areas.

The same fate may be awaiting people of Ganjam and others areas where Phailin brought more than two lakh hectares of farm land under saline


water.

Salt slows down movement of water from soil into the roots leading to drying of plants. "Half of the rice production from coastal Odisa would be lost," said Surya Narayan Patra, Odisha's minister for disaster management.

The Odisha government clearly has its task cut out. Assistance to farmers to reduce soil salinity and alternate agriculture options should be priority.

Relocating villages close to the sea should be taken, said KM Singh, member, National Disaster Management Authority. The gram panchayats, the village power centre, should be roped in, in evacuation and relief. The victims of a disaster should be at the helm of a plan to help themselves.A woman has died and a man is seriously injured after a freak bungee jumping accident in northern France.

The 28-year-old died after leaping off the 200ft crane with the man, believed to be her boyfriend, before crashing to the ground due to a reported problem with the harness, local police in Audincthun told the Le Parisien newspaper.

Her boyfriend is currently hospital in the nearby city of Lille but the severity of his condition is currently unknown.

Police say the managers of the jump have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and the crane, which is a popular local tourist attraction, has been shut down while the incident is investigated, according to Sky News.

French prosecutor Sébastien Piève said: "Clearly there was a problem with the fixing of the couple to


the axis of rotation and longitudinally parallel to the axis of rotation. The cutting head is controlled by a computer having the proper dimensions stored therein, so that the cutter, mounted in the cutting head, engages one side of the block cutting a portion of one-half of the interior cavity therein as the block rotates. As the block continues to rotate, the cutter engages the opposed side of the block to cut a portion of the other half of the interior cavity therein, creating indentations in both opposed sides of the block. The cutter is then advanced longitudinally along the block so that it may cut portions of the cavity with each rotation until the total cavity is cut in the opposed sides of the block. The blockand jurisdictional evidence suggest Estrada was injured as a contemporaneous result of the
firefighter's descent down the fire pole, rather than by a condition of the premises, we hold Estrada has alleged an actionable
"negligent activity" claim under the TTCA.  Accordingly, we affirm. (1)
Background
 Estrada was invited to visit San Antonio Fire Station No. 10 by an off-duty San Antonio firefighter in the early morning
hours of October 29, 2004.  Estrada, along with several other women, allegedly consumed alcohol and socialized with both
on-duty and off-duty firefighters at the fire station.  The firefighters allowed Estrada to: try on their firefighting gear; sit on
the fire truck; and slide down the station's fire pole, which allowed Estrada to go from the station's second floor to its first
floor. (2)
 After Estrada had


successfully descended the fire pole several times, she attempted to descend the fire pole one last time.
On this descent, unlike her previous ones, Estrada attempted to descend the fire pole in tandem with one of the on-duty
firefighters from Fire Station No. 10, Miguel De Los Santos.  Estrada alleges De Los Santos allowed her to climb onto his
back/shoulders after he had positioned himself on the fire pole.  Once Estrada did, however, De Los Santos immediately
began to slide down the fire pole, causing Estrada to lose her grip on De Los Santos and the pole. Estrada fell approximately
10 to 12 feet to the ground below.
 Estrada subsequently filed suit against the City under the TTCA, seeking damages for her injuries.  See Tex. Civ.of Ireland was by a combination of Norman, Flemish and Welsh troops, at the invitation of the exiled King of Leinster. Henry landed a few years later, to the delight of the rest of Ireland, which was getting worried about the Normans doing to them what they did to England…

Also, Dave, the people who want the flag flown are Irish in every aspect that matters (including the aspect of not being Scottish). That most unionists decline the label “Irish” (for the sake of contrast with “British”) is a relatively recent phenomenon.* (Nor is it universal; if you ask Ian Paisley what he is, Irish is what he will answer.) The people who make up the bulk of the PUL population have been living in Northern Ireland longer than


when they play football and paint themselves as flags and beat up everybody painted differently.

It is not just Americans and Ghanaians that like flags. The Kyrgyz flag is everywhere in Bishkek including a giant flag in front of the National Museum across from Ala-Too that has two armed guards and a daily elaborate changing of the guard ceremony. In fact in every country in the world I have been outside Europe and Canada and even here there are exceptions like Estonia people take pride in their national flag.

As so often, Otto, Things Are Not That Simple. What the rioters are rioting over is a new arrangement under which the flag will be flown to the same extent it is flown in the rest of the UK. In other😈 Smiling Face With Horns, which itself has been changed from red to the more common purple colouring.

Next, the 👾 Alien Monster is no longer a more bulbous yellow version of 👽 Alien, but now shows the purple tentacle creature (though not pixeled in a Space Invaders fashion).

And, just as Samsung's dancing woman discovered the tango, 🕺 Man Dancing has now been standardised into showing off his Saturday Night Fever cosplay.

💅 Nail Polish has been reoriented for that upward-tilt sass.

While 👻 Ghost is now playful and cheeky.

Moving away from humans and humanoids, both the 🐉 Dragon and 🐲 Dragon Face are now both in-keeping with the traditional Chinese depictions of the fantasy creature, while the 🐍 Snake has gone from cute to realistic

Both the 🦊 Fox Face and


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Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo An April 10 landslide sent about 165 million tons of rock crashing down into the Bingha The slide hit Kennecott's open-pit copper mine about a week ago along the northeast wall. Photo courtesy of Rio Tinto-Kennecott Co Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune The landslide area at Kennecott is seen in this photo from Thursday, April 18, 2013. Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo An April 10 landslide sent about 165 million tons of rock crashing down into the Bingha Tribune file photo Since opening in 1992, the visitors center has hosted more than 3 million visitors. The fees collected, along wWASHINGTON -- NASA and the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum will host a news conference at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, July 22 to announce the selected landing site for the agency's latest Mars rover. NASA Television and the agency's website will provide live coverage of the event that will be held at the museum's Moving Beyond Earth Gallery. In addition, the event will be carried live on Ustream, with a live chat available, at http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl .

The Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity, will land on the surface of Mars in August 2012. Curiosity is being assembled and readied for a November launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Curiosity is about twice as long and more than five times as heavy as any previous Mars rover.

The rover


will study whether the landing region had environmental conditions favorable for supporting microbial life and for preserving clues about whether life existed.

July 22 is Mars Day at the National Air and Space Museum. The annual event marks the July 20, 1976 landing of Viking 1, the first spacecraft to operate on Mars. The day will feature displays, family activities and presentations by scientists from the museum's Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, the Museum of Natural History and NASA. Visitors will learn about the latest Mars research, missions and see a life-size model of Curiosity.Fun Facts:

-By the end of this Smith had nearly 40 wives, including girls as young as 14, women married to other men, a former sister in-law, and multiple sets of sisters -He altered the images on the Papyri to better match his "translation" -Mormonism had a sect of people who carried out violence to accomplish the churches ends, known as the danites -The Book of Mormon has been altered multiple times to fix mistakes -Visit mormonthink.org for more info


its not at all surprising that this thematic has made its way into the kitchen and bath. Its a measure of good design.

Its all about global style. From deep soaking tubs, exotic shower waterfalls
and sinks that sleekly exemplify the art of Zen.

As homeowners integrate Japanese koi ponds into estate home entryways and lanai water features (as in a tranquil Asian-style lushly landscaped courtyards), the Asian-motifs grace and beauty continues to be used for accessories, flooring and
furniture. In hardgoods, there are plenty of Asian-inspired looks, including:
faucets with a bamboo-like sculpted finishes, along with drawer pulls reminiscent of bamboo, wood cabinetry inspired by Asian aesthetics and a sink series with its square wooden basins modeled after a traditional Japanese
soaking tub.

Clean lines and simple forms specifically characterize vanity cabinets defined byExtension, shows High Wood, and if you know the story of the British attacks on the wood in the summer of 1916, you’ll understand why it was high on my list of places to visit. The photo above shows the site of the British front line in the village of La Boisselle at the start of the Battle of the Somme.

Also in La Boisselle, this shows one of the craters at the Glory Hole. Some of the earliest mining activities on the Western Front took place here in the winter of 1914.

The Accrington, Barnsley & Bradford Pals attacked up this slope from the wood on 1st July 1916 only to be slaughtered in their hundreds by the German machine gunners as they reached the crest of the rise.


The cemeteries tell the tale.

Looking towards the Hawthorn Ridge from the sunken lane made famous by Geoffrey Malins’ in his film of the Battle of the Somme. The trees on the skyline to the left grow on the site of the Hawthorn Crater, which Malins also filmed as it erupted beneath the German lines on the morning of 1st July 1916.

Pozieres British Cemetery. Nearly 3000 headstones, surrounded by panels bearing the names of more than 14,000 men who lost their lives during the fighting in the spring and summer of 1918 and who have no known grave.

The Leipzig Redoubt. Once a German strongpoint near Thiepval, this place demands great care even today.

This one’s for you, Sid. The Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux remembers all Australian soldiers who foughton the Western Front during the Great War; more than 10,000 Australians who were killed throughout France and Belgium and have no known grave are commemorated here by name.

Standing on the site of the German front line, Thiepval, 16th April 2015.


Nass doesn't particularly like Qui-Gon or Obi-Wan, at least at first, but it's out of a general xenophobia towards non-gungans, not a specific hatred of the Jedi.

Naboo has long history with the Sith, it belonged to the ancient Sith Empire

Nope, there were actually quite a few Sith Empires before the events of the main series, but Naboo belonged to none of them

The dark side is strong on Naboo, especially near plasma mines.

This is incorrect, but it's not as far from the truth as previous points. Naboo as a whole is never mentioned to be particularly strong in the Dark Side. However, canonically, Maul did apparently leave a Dark Side presence felt decades later, as shown in Princess Leia.

Additionally, in the Legends continuity, Darth Plagueis was deeply involved in[BN] the know

Celebrate cabaret

Andy Anselmo, the legendary voice coach who shaped the voices of Liza Minnelli, Tony Bennett and Mandy Patinkin, is the honoree in a tribute planned for Thursday in the Mary Seaton Room at Kleinhans Music Hall. Several of his students are flying into town to perform, giving Buffalo a rare chance for what promises to be a night of New York-style cabaret.The event is called “88 Keys” – Anselmo recently celebrated his 88th birthday. Proceeds benefit the Community Music School, which Anselmo attended as a boy.Caroline Jones, a singer/songwriter from Connecticut who has appeared as featured entertainer at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, will be singing originals and standards. She is Anselmo’s current chief protegee.Also performing will be Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano, “The New York


fed. The electric current fed through the wire will create a magnetic field. The sensors of the robotic lawn mower will notify a controller of the robotic law mower when the robotic lawn mower approaches a boundary wire, and at a predetermined position of the robotic mower vis-à-vis the boundary wire, the robotic mower will back away slightly perform a predetermined turn and continue in the forward direction away from the boundary wire.
In most robotic mowers, the turn is effected by rotating the drive wheels of the robotic mower in opposite directions such that the robotic mower turns around a vertical axis extending through the robotic mower between the drive wheels. The other wheel pair is usually hinged in order to allow for it to move in anyLindblom, RHP- So far, all the 2010 top prospects have regressed. Lindblom bounced between starter and reliever. Now he's strictly a reliever. Perhaps he can get back on track and be a serviceable guy out of the 'pen. He got rocked at Albuquerque.

5. Aaron Miller, LHP- Miller had a rough showing in Double-A, but was solid in High-A. The 2011 season will determine whether or not he returns to elite prospect status.

7. Ivan DeJesus, 2B- DeJesus played a full season at Triple-A after missing all but four games in 2009. He's the closest Dodger prospect to the majors, but still has question marks.

8. Nathan Eovaldi, RHP- Eovaldi couldn't stay healthy and has yet to develop a consistent third pitch. He looks like he's ticketed for bullpen duty, which


might not be a bad thing.

9. Allen Webster, RHP- Finally, the first prospect in my 2010 Top 10 who didn't regress or have a poor season. Webster should make it to Double-A before midseason, if not sooner.

10. Trayvon Robinson, OF- Robinson proved 2009 was no fluke. He didn't break double-digit home runs after 17 in '09, but he increased his walk rate to finish with a .400-plus on-base percentage. He's close to the majors.

13. Garrett Gould, RHP- His velocity alarmingly dropped. His future will be dependent on whether or not he gets back to the low-90s with his fastball.

14. Scott Elbert, LHP- Had a rough 2010 season, but a promising Arizona Fall League performance gives me hope for him as a power lefty out of the 'pen.

15. XavierPaul, OF- Paul has done all he can at Triple-A with the bat. His glove was supposed to be solid, but he struggled in a few games with the Dodgers in 2010. He might not even be in the organization come Opening Day 2011.

16. Blake Smith, OF- I rated Smith a little higher than most following his '09 performance. He hit for power in 2010 and some are coming around on him.

17. Scott Van Slyke, OF- I wasn't confident in him when I rated him this high last year when he had a .907 OPS at High-A. He regressed in 2010 (.768 OPS) and struggled a lot at Double-A (.650 OPS).

18. Timothy Sexton, RHP- Sexton always profiled better as a reliever in my eyes and after a decent


2009, he had a poor 2010.

19. Pedro Baez, 3B- His bat is nowhere near Major-League ready. He still has the best arm of any infielder in the organization. Could a conversion to pitcher be in his future?

21. J.T. Wise, C- Wise can hit low-level pitching, but he's not a legitimate prospect until he shows he can hit advanced pitchers.

22. Russ Mitchell, 3B/1B- Mitchell had a good season at Triple-A, but some of that was aided by the friendly confines of the Pacific Coast League. He even got a cup of coffee with the Dodgers, hitting two home runs... and not much else.

23. Javy Guerra, RHP- Control, control, control -- that's always been the issue with Guerra. He had a decent season, but nothing to move him up inmy 2011 rankings (or keep him in the top 30).

24. Justin Miller, RHP- Miller is a groundball pitcher and threw 77 good innings in 2010. He does need to cut down on the walks. He could get a look in the Dodger 'pen if there are injuries.

25. Austin Gallagher, 3B/1B- After a promising showing at High-A in 2008, Gallagher hasn't progressed and hasn't made it past High-A. His 2010 was better than his 2009, but still not promising overall.

26. Brett Wallach, RHP- He was traded along with Blake DeWitt to the Chicago Cubs for Ted Lilly and Ryan Theriot at the July 31 trade deadline. He threw much better at Great Lakes for the Dodgers than he did at Peoria for the Cubs.

27. Luke May, C- He was


traded with Elisaul Pimentel to the Kansas City Royals for Scott Podsednik. I never believed much in May, but he did make it to the majors after putting up an .831 OPS between Double-A and Triple-A, including an .878 mark with Omaha.

28. Kenley Jansen, RHP- Jansen has successfully made the transition to pitcher from catcher, to say the least. He was nasty at all levels in 2010, including the majors where he picked up four saves and posted a 13.7 K/9 rate.

29. Brent Leach, LHP- Leach was tried as a starter for part of the 2010 season with little success. He's headed to Japan to pitch.

30. Tae-Hyeok Nam, 1B- Nam is about as raw as they come. He played in the Arizona League (Rookie Ball) and put upLinked Data Explorer

Galileo's dream

In a tale that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the future colonization of the moons of Jupiter, a renegade colonist named Ganymede brings Galileo into the future to alter the history of the human race.

"In a tale that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the future colonization of the moons of Jupiter, a renegade colonist named Ganymede brings Galileo into the future to alter the history of the human race."

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"At the heart of a provocative narrative that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the moons of Jupiter is the father of modern science:


KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- South Carolina's A'ja Wilson is the Associated Press' Southeastern Conference women's basketball player of the year for a third consecutive season.

Mississippi State teammates Teaira McCowan and Victoria Vivians joined Wilson as unanimous first-team selections on the all-SEC team announced Tuesday. The other first-team picks were Missouri's Sophie Cunningham and Texas A&M's Chennedy Carter.

Carter, a freshman guard, also was a unanimous selection as SEC newcomer of the year.

Wilson led South Carolina to the 2017 national title and has followed that up with a sensational senior season. The 6-foot-5 forward has 22.9 points per game to lead the SEC and also averages 12 rebounds to rank third in the conference.

After being a unanimous pick as player of the year the past two seasons, Wilson got seven ofthe 11 votes this time. Three voters selected Vivians and one chose McCowan.

Wilson's status for this week's SEC tournament in Nashville, Tennessee, is uncertain after a case of vertigo prevented her from playing in the eight-ranked Gamecocks' regular-season finale at No. 12 Tennessee, a game South Carolina lost 65-46.

South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said after the Tennessee game that she'd be "on bended knee" hoping Wilson could return in time for the SEC tournament.

Mississippi State's Vic Schaefer is the coach of the year after leading the second-ranked Bulldogs to the first unbeaten regular season by an SEC team since Tennessee's 1997-98 national championship squad.

The Bulldogs haven't lost since falling to South Carolina in last year's NCAA championship game.

"We've had that target all year, starting with the first game


for what we did a year ago," Schaefer said Sunday after Mississippi State capped its perfect regular season with a victory over Kentucky. "As we started winning games and the streak has continued, now you've got two big targets. It's stopping the streak and it's the team that was in the national championship game a year ago, so these kids have taken everybody's best shot."

Second-team all-SEC picks include Tennessee teammates Jaime Nared and Mercedes Russell, South Carolina's Tyasha Harris, LSU's Chloe Jackson and Georgia's Caliya Robinson.

The all-SEC team was selected by a regional media panel.

FIRST TEAM (alphabetically)

Chennedy Carter, Texas A&M, G, 5-7, Mansfield, Texas

Sophie Cunningham, Missouri, G, 6-1, Jr., Columbia, Missouri

u-Teaira McCowan, Mississippi State, C, 6-7, Jr., Brenham, Texas

u-Victoria Vivians, Missssippi State, G, 6-1, Sr., Carthage, Mississippi

u-A'ja Wilson,out by American contractors.

The announcement from the Air Force follows the announcement of a "shift in focus" from the U.S.-led coalition earlier this month after the Iraqi government said the U.S. had begun to reduce the number of American forces in Iraq. The U.S. is reducing the number of its troops in Iraq, but Iraqi and coalition officials say an agreement on the size of the force that will remain in the country has not yet been reached.

The coalition will now focus on "policing, border control and military capacity building," Brig. Gen. Jonathan Braga said in a written statement last week.

"We will sustain the successful momentum and enhance the capacities of the Iraqi Security Forces in pursuing Daesh, now and in the future," he added, using an Arabic


acronym for IS.

Coalition airstrikes proved to be decisive early on in the fight against IS and fueled Iraqi military victories throughout the more than three-year-long-campaign.

Before the U.S. began a campaign of airstrikes against IS in August 2014, the extremists could easily travel across the vast swaths of territory — much of it open desert — under their control in Iraq and neighboring Syria. Just weeks after overrunning Mosul, IS fighters launched a push on the city of Irbil in Iraq's Kurdish region that was largely repelled by coalition air power.

In the months that followed, the extremists' territorial gains were largely halted and over the next three years Iraqi ground forces with close coalition air support pushed IS out of towns, villages and cities across the country. In December2017 Iraq's prime minister declared victory over the group.

Croft said a well trained and equipped Iraqi Air Force could have prevented the fall of Mosul.

"If Iraq had a couple of airplanes and a couple of controllers, that would never have happened," he said, referring to IS' blitz across Iraq in the summer of 2014.

However, maintaining a modern air force has been prohibitively expensive for Iraq. Last month, contracting firm Sallyport Global Holdings was awarded a $400 million contract for base operations and security for Iraq's F-16 program by the U.S. Air Force.

By training Iraqis to maintain and secure their own equipment, Iraqi air force commander Ameen said he hopes to bring down costs. "The big challenge for us right now is the budget," he said.

Iraq continues to struggle


from rocket and mortar attacks, more than one out of every four deaths occurred during these two operations, which were ostensibly designed to deter rocket attacks.

For the entire duration of the 2008 Hamas–Israel cease-fire—even after Israel had broken the cease-fire on Nov. 4—not a single person was killed by rocket or mortar fire into Israel. Yet approximately two hours after Israel’s commencement of Operation Cast Lead, one person in Israel was struck and killed by shrapnel from a Qassam rocket. Two days later, three more people were killed in Israel from Gaza rocket and mortar attacks.

And for an entire year before Operation Pillar of Cloud, not a single Israeli was killed by rocket or mortar. Yet approximately sixteen hours after Pillar of Cloud commenced, a rocket from Gazakilled by sniper fire in separate incidents in the Gaza Strip, and the capture of Gilad Shalit in a Hamas/PRC operation that left two other soldiers dead. However, there were only two people who were killed in Israel by rocket strikes. Another two, a Bedouin father and son, were killed while attempting to move an unexploded Qassam rocket for salvaging. Their deaths are not listed in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs page as deaths by Palestinian attacks. Nevertheless, I included them in my listing, making four deaths by rockets in 2006.

For 2006, it is unknown how the IDF transformed four rocket fatalities into nine.

2007

In 2007, two Qassam rockets killed two people in Sderot. There was one other incident in Israel that produced fatalities—a suicide bombing that killed


three people in a bakery in Eilat. Beyond that, four soldiers were killed by gunfire in the West Bank, one settler was gunned down in a drive-by, another settler was stabbed to death by unknown assailants, and three soldiers were killed in separate gunfights in the Gaza Strip. Altogether, sixteen were killed, only two of whom were by rockets—not ten, as asserted by the IDF. The IDF’s claim is also contradicted by Shin Bet (the Israeli Security Agency), which reported that in 2007, “rocket fire killed two Israeli civilians.”

For 2007, it is unknown how the IDF transformed two fatalities into ten.

2008

In 2008, eight people were killed by rockets and mortars from Gaza. Four were killed in the first half of the year prior to the “tahdiya” ceasefire. Assoon as Israel launched Operation Cast Lead, four more people were killed by Gaza rockets and mortars. Yet the IDF graphic claims 15 fatalities. Again, this claim is contradicted by the Shin Bet, which reported that in 2008,

8 people (4 during the final days of December) were killed by high-trajectory fire (rockets and mortars) from the Gaza Strip.

For 2008, it is unknown how the IDF transformed eight fatalities into fifteen.

2009

In 2009, there was one conflict-related civilian death in Israel by Palestinians: A Jewish Israeli taxi driver was strangled to death by three Palestinians as revenge for the IDF killing of a relative. Outside of that, a 16-year old boy in the Bat Ayin settlement was killed by a lone Palestinian with an axe, two police officers were shot


to death in the Jordan Valley, a settler near Nablus was shot in a drive-by, and a soldier was killed by an explosive detonation on the Gaza border. No one in Israel was killed by rocket or mortar from Gaza, even though the IDF claims two.

This is corroborated by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC), which stated that

In the two years since Operation Cast Lead there has been a significant decrease in the number of Israelis killed and wounded by terrorist organizations operating in the Gaza Strip. There have been five deaths, one civilian (a worker from Thailand) killed by a rocket attack [which was in 2010] and four IDF soldiers killed during counterterrorism activities.

At the start of 2009, during Cast Lead, nine IDF soldierswere killed in the Gaza Strip, four of which were by friendly fire. Of the remaining five, one was killed by a mortar round while the other was killed by an anti-tank missile.

For 2009, there were no deaths in Israel from Gaza rockets or mortars. The only way to claim two fatalities would be to include the deaths of two soldiers engaged in a military invasion inside the Gaza Strip, which would be misleading for the message being conveyed by the infographic.

2010

The IDF inexplicably attributes five deaths in 2010 to Hamas rockets and mortars. There were either nine or eleven Israeli fatalities relating to the Palestine/Israel conflict in that year, depending on the interpretation: the Shin Bet says there were nine fatalities relating to the conflict, while the


Ministry of Foreign Affairs records eleven. Of the eleven fatalities listed by the MFA, two were committed by a Palestinian criminal gang (one strangulation and one stabbing), one was a knifing of an IDF soldier in the West Bank, four settlers were killed by gunfire in their car on a segregated road near Hebron, two soldiers entered the Gaza Strip and were killed in a shootout with Palestinian gunmen, and one police officer was shot to death just south of Hebron. Only one fatality was due to a Qassam rocket.

For 2010, it is unknown how the IDF transformed one fatality into five.

2011

In 2011, there were only two rocket fatalities. The third fatality could be attributed to the April 7, 2011 killing of Daniel Vlific by an anti-tank missile.Affairs, which reproduces both the IDF bar chart and rocket numbers as reported by ITIC—contradictory information, presented together in a single page by the Israeli government, in order to explain “The Hamas Terror War Against Israel.”

And then consider a quote by the Israeli ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, in an interview conducted on November 14:

This government has exhibited superhuman restraint: 2,500 rockets since 2009. Last month, 800 rockets. In the last week, 300 rockets. What government in the world wouldn’t have responded with war a long time ago?

No other Israeli agency claims that 800 rockets were fired in October 2012. Shin Bet claims 171 rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza in October.

Conclusion

It can be argued that numbers ultimately don’t matter: One death is a death too


fully grasped, proved to be invaluable. He knew the route like the back of his own hand and also booked our stay in hotels in advance for us, so ultimately the hardest part turned out to be only going forwards.

The second day of walking was I think the most challenging one of the trek and coincidentally also the steepest. Halfway up a huge staircase I bumped into the guy from Thailand! I was speechless, I know it may not seem like much but when I think about it what are the chances? I mean numerically what are the chances that the one guy I speak to in Busy Bee I also happen to see on the very same trek as mine, and treks around Pokhara are in plentifulthe abundance of waterfalls that scattered themselves at random on the steep mountain faces surrounding us. You could see where the small streams of water had impressively drawn scars down some of the biggest mountains in the world, eroding through their hard exterior for century after century. As we reached the hotel I was not too pleased to be greeted with a very feeble looking bridge over a very angry looking river. Rossan suggested to take it slow and being the first to cross after him I decided to follow this advice keenly, but could still feel the thing bouncing under my weight. I watched through my fingers Margo practically running across and I thought for sure our number was about to drop by one but thankfully the


experience it from outside the walls of a cabin.

The French men walked with me once more for a time, but as I was far ahead of where I expected myself to be I decided to only travel half the distance of the day and spend the rest of the day enjoying the village Badaure. So I bid a fond au revoir to my French friends and settled myself into a guesthouse. As it happens there was a football tournament taking place in that very village, and all the neighbouring villages had come to compete. The pitch was quite a sorry state: a mixture of grass, sand and mud, but the football itself was pretty good. I sat and watched amongst the Nepali for a while until the winnerTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has led a government crackdown on people, including journalists, lawyers and teachers, who it suspects of belonging to "terror" groups

ANKARA (AFP) -

The Turkish government on Sunday ordered the sacking of more than 2,700 people working in public institutions over alleged links to "terror" groups, in the latest round of purges since last year's failed coup.

In a separate emergency decree, the country's defence procurement agency was ordered to answer to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan instead of the defence ministry, in a move widely viewed as a further expansion of his powers.

Turkey's intelligence service (MIT) also came under Erdogan's control in August.

A total of 2,756 people including academics, soldiers and military personal were removed from different bodies including the interior, foreign and defence ministries, according


to the Official Gazette.

All those dismissed were either members of "terror" organisations or had links to structures which were acting against national security, it said.

17 Turkish institutions were also ordered to close, including two newspapers and seven associations.

- 'Virus' of Gulen -

More than 140,000 people including judges, lawyers and academics have been sacked or suspended since a failed coup in July last year, while some 55,000 people have been arrested over suspected links to US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen and the coup attempt.

Turkey claims Gulen and his Hizmet (service) movement, which it calls the "Fethullah Terrorist Organisation", ordered and conducted the attempted coup.

Gulen, who's lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, denies any links to terrorism and the failed putsch.

Erdogan, who has also accused Gulen and hisAmanda Mashaw
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However, when fuel sits in the fuel tank, the upper space in the fuel tank becomes filled with fuel vapor. Accordingly, to reduce the amount of the fuel vapor produced in the fuel tank, it is becomes necessary to reduce the volume of the upper space in the fuel tank as much as possible. Known in the art is a fuel tank wherein, to reduce the volume of the upper space of the fuel tank, a separating film contacting the surface of the liquid fuel in the fuel tank and moving up and down with the surface of the liquid fuel is disposed in the fuel tank and a plate serving as a weight isongoing Presidential nomination fiasco.

Any slight nervousness that Fianna Fáil strategists might have felt about
the emergence of the so-called alternative coalition in the form of Fine
Gael, Labour and the Greens must be quieter now in the face of the
inspirational ability of the Opposition leaders to score own goals.

None of the three aligned opposition parties emerged unscathed from the
debacle that is likely to result in McAleese's unchallenged re-election but
it is undoubtedly the Labour Party that has suffered the most.

Pat Rabbitte's extended media honeymoon has come to an end, and not before
time. He has failed, and in a glaringly public manner, at the first serious
hurdle of his leadership. After repeatedly stating that he wanted to see a
Presidential election, even supporting the notion that the candidate would
be Michael D Higgins, he rowed


back at the last minute, betraying the Galway
West TD and splitting his parliamentary party.

And yet worse was to come. Labour's National Executive Council (NEC) is
becoming a centre of resistance to Rabbitte. Angered that they were not
consulted before Rabbitte signed the grandiose 'Mullingar Accord' and
including some opposed in principle to a pre-election pact with Fine Gael,
the NEC dissidents have been holding their fire and waiting for their chance.

The one vote margin defeating the Higgins nomination was a narrow escape for
Rabbitte, as the internal political consequences of the repudiation by the
NEC of the Labour parliamentary party would have been massive in their
implications. Such a split bears comparison with the infamous Labour
bloodbaths of the '80s.

Last weekend, Rabbitte, speaking at the Tom Johnson Summer School, stressed
his commitment to protecting the identity andLocal and European elections, Fine Gael
has fallen.

They are receiving plaudits for their inability to present a viable
alternative candidate, for their incapacity to run a Presidential election
campaign and their cowardice in not challenging a President still widely
perceived as a Fianna Fáil candidate despite her newly acquired Independent
tag. It is hardly the sign of the Blueshirt rejuvenation so loudly trumpeted
in June. What kind of opposition party leans heavily on its own councillors
to prevent Dana appearing on the ballot paper?

Meanwhile, the Greens have spent a week confirming their reputation for the
bungling amateurism that characterised their inept summer election campaign.
Barely had Eamon Ryan declared his candidacy on RTE Radio before a Green TD,
widely assumed to be John Gormley, was ringing Charlie Bird to disassociate
the party from the proposal.

Leading Green Party figures like


Deputy Leader Mary White and former MEP
Patricia McKenna, no doubt evening scores with Ryan, who was responsible for
the party's failed European campaign strategy, queued up to throw cold water
on the proposal. In the end, after leading the Green Party grassroots to the
very brink of madness, Ryan pulled back, withdrawing his name last Saturday.

But while the Green Party might have finished up looking a little
ridiculous, Ryan himself has boosted his media profile ahead of what
promises to be a tough fight to retain his Dublin South seat and he has
assured himself of a ministerial post if the alternative coalition wins at
the next election. And he has done so with the help of Labour, the very
people targeting his seat.

But the notion of the new Rainbow taking power at the next electionis
looking increasingly far-fetched. Between them, the three must gain 26
seats, not counting any seats they exchange between themselves and this in
the context of the gains even Sinn Féin's opponents have accepted as
inevitable for republicans. A political shift of such size has not been seen
since the foundation of the state.

The new Rainbow has now failed to present a united front in the summer
elections and has been exposed as being in complete disarray in its approach
to the Presidential election. The 'Mullingar Accord' clearly excluded the
Green Party from its dealings and there is as yet no sign of any coherent
platform emerging on which three disparate parties can unite. With the
Greens still seriously considering opposing the European Constitution, more
incoherency is on the horizon.

So, Fianna Fáil get their nominee returned without an election,


dispute that he violated the noncompetition covenant, but asserts equity should not give aid to remedy the breach because the terms of the restriction contradict the public policy of this state, and because respondent Long was himself in breach of the contract.
The appellant Huffman became acquainted with Long while still a senior medical student in 1972. He solicited employment with Long during the interim before internship. He worked for Long for eight weeks and then returned to Kansas City for further training. On July 28, 1972, the parties concluded a formal two-year employment contract to begin when Huffman completed internship. Huffman received $5000 as consideration for execution of the contract. The essential terms of the agreement provided that Huffman was to receive 40% and Long 60% of thestatus when he arrived at the clinic in July of 1973. Long testified that some months earlier he told Huffman of his plans to incorporate and directed financial adviser *914 Finke to discuss the matter with him. Huffman conceded that he made no objection to the incorporation and throughout the association with Long was paid by corporate check.
During the second year of association, Huffman informed Long he wished to exercise the contract option to purchase an equal ownership in the clinic. Formal discussions resulted in an offer of contract by Long which Huffman rejected. He objected because the proposal offered Huffman the purchase of only 249 of the 500 shares in the Long Associates corporation. The other impediment to consent, according to Long, was that Huffman refused any


before he left that practice. Long testified he always intended that Huffman have the option to purchase one-half of the clinic. They both agreed that Huffman never tendered money for the purchase.
At the completion of the two year employment term Huffman left the Long clinic and about a month later began his own practice in Butler. Huffman hired away from the Long clinic two employeesMargaret Sandeen and Gayle Cookto work in his new office. He acknowledged that during the first month of this practice he sent fifty requests for medical records to the Long clinic office. Of these, about eighty per cent were concerning former patients of Dr. Long.
A petition for injunction followed to restrain Huffman from violation of the restrictive covenant provision of the contract. Huffman counterclaimedNovember 12, 2014

There's a bumper sticker about being old and having seen all the cool bands. Maybe you've seen it. In our mind the saying applies more to the generations above our own; our aunt mentions having seen Janis Joplin, and that seems like, you know, something. But we guess we've seen some stuff, and we have very fond memories of seeing a few Dambuilders shows in the mid-'90s, circa the release of the band's triumphant major label debut Encendedor!. We recall in particular an amazing show with The Grifters in Bethlehem, PA; that act was touring its Crapping You Negative LP and Dambuilders violinist Joan Wasser jumped onstage with the (recently busy) lads from Memphis for at least one song and had electrifying chemistry up there with


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	Boerne Police Officers Moncada and Rutledge received information about a possible
female runaway at an apartment on South Plant Street in Boerne.  Officer Moncada
recognized the address because he had been sent there the week before on a domestic
violence call and had spoken to a man and a young girl named Erica.  The two officers went
to the apartment and knocked on the door.
	Heriberto Valtierra answered the door, and he and Officer Moncada talked in Spanish.
Officer Moncada's body microphone recorded the exchange, although several portions of the
recording are inaudible.  According to the transcript of the recording, Moncada asked if he
could come in, and Heriberto said, "Of course, but I was just heating tortillas."  Both officers
came


into the apartment, and Moncada told him their purpose: "It's because we are looking
for Erica. Where's Erica."   Heriberto replied, "Over there.  She's over there, inside," and he
waved toward the bathroom. (2)  Heriberto yelled out to her, "Erica, they're calling you."
Moncada then asked if he could talk to her, and Heriberto said, "Yes, she'll come out in a
minute."
	At this point, a second man came out of a bedroom and walked into the living room
where Officers Moncada and Rutledge were talking to Heriberto.  The officers were
surprised because they had thought that only Heriberto and Erica were in the apartment.  That
man said, "Let me close the door," but was told to sit on the couch. Moncada asked the
second man where Ericawas, and he also said, "She's inside, in the bathroom."  While they
were waiting, Moncada asked Heriberto how he knew Erica, and Heriberto said that she was
his niece.  Moncada expressed skepticism and said, "I am, I am thinking Erica is not, did not
give me her real name.  And you know it."
	At this point, portions of the recording became inaudible.  At the suppression hearing,
Moncada testified that, when the girl did not come out of the bathroom, he asked Heriberto
again where she was.  Heriberto told him that Erica was taking a shower.  Moncada was
suspicious because he didn't hear running water, so he asked Heriberto if he could go talk
with her.  Moncada testified that Heriberto said, "Yes," and, as he began walking toward the
bathroom-a distance


of approximately 20 feet, he saw two more men inside another
bedroom.  Moncada testified that when the men saw him, they immediately threw or
"stuffed" something under the bed.  Moncada called to Rutledge, and the two officers moved
the men out of the bedroom and into the living room.  One of those men was Eduardo
Valtierra.
	Moncada knocked several times on the bathroom door, and Erica finally came out.
Meanwhile, Officer Rutledge conducted a protective sweep of the bedroom.  Rutledge
testified that, after noticing drug paraphernalia in plain view during the protective sweep, he
called a sergeant.  When Eduardo, the lessee of the apartment, declined to sign a consent-to-search form, Officers Moncada and Rutledge contacted an investigator to apply for a search
warrant.  When the warrant arrived, the officersJimeno's "scope of consent" reasoning to the particular situation. (45)  The purpose
of Officers Moncada and Rutledge in going to the Valtierra brothers' apartment was to look
for Erica whom they thought was the runaway girl. Moncada told Heriberto that this was
their purpose.  Heriberto was friendly and fully cooperative.  He invited the officers in and
said that Erica was there.  He told Moncada that she was "over there" in the bathroom.  He
agreed that Moncada could talk to her, and he yelled out to Erica, "They're calling you."  The
hallway and bathroom door were visible from the living room where Moncada was standing.
Both Moncada and Heriberto testified that Moncada asked if he could go "over there" or
down to the bathroom door; they differ only on whether


Heriberto expressly said, "Yes." (46)
No one testified that Heriberto said, "No," or indicated in any manner that Moncada should
not walk down the hall to knock on the bathroom door.  Heriberto placed no limits or
conditions upon the officers' entry, nor did he attempt to confine their presence to any
particular area of the apartment. (47)  Officer Moncada simply walked down the open hallway
to the bathroom door, a path that was fully visible from his original location in the living
room.  It was only as he passed by the open bedroom door on his way to knock on the
bathroom door, that he saw Eduardo and another man making furtive gestures.
	Given the totality of these factual circumstances, (48) and viewing them in the light most
favorable to the trial judge'sNational Doodle Day, a fundraising event which supports the work of Epilepsy Action, is auctioning several doodles from Harry Potter actors to raise money for the charity. Sean Biggerstaff (Oliver Wood), Brendan Gleeson (Mad-Eye Moody), John Hurt (Ollivander), Adrian Rawlins (James Potter), Fiona Shaw (Mrs. Dursley), Mark Williams (Mr. Weasley), Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley), and composer Patrick Doyle (“Goblet of Fire” soundtrack) have each donated a doodle and you can see their doodles here.

National Doodle Day, which is supported by Dodo Pad, publishers of the original family ˜doodle’ diary, is now in its tenth year. It aims to get as many people doodling as possible to help support the 600,000 people across the UK with epilepsy. The celebrity doodle eBay auction will begin on National Doodle Day (8


Six men from Myanmar who claimed to be gravediggers were arrested at a Choa Chu Kang cemetery on Tuesday morning, said the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA).

The men, aged between 22 and 42, are suspected of committing immigration-related offences, including overstaying in Singapore, said ICA in a statement yesterday.

One of the men tried to run away when ICA officers approached the area at about 8.40am.

The officers gave chase and managed to nab him. He then led them to some makeshift housing within the cemetery, where the other five men were found.

Photographs provided by the ICA show a crude shelter made of tarp, and shelves with baskets and containers. Plastic stools, cleaning supplies and hanging towels can also be seen. One large container holds what appear to be emptybefore2015 we have stopped the OEM / ODM model, the transition to do their own brandover the past 10 years, most of the Chinese manufacturers are OEM / ODM model for other national brands do product design Production, but the drawbacks of this model is the production of manufacturers profit too little, the vicious commercial competition led to1, product homogeneity2, design and production only the pursuit of low-cost low prices, resulting in extremely poor product quality3, manufacturers away from the consumer , Because their customers are only OEM brands and sales channels rather than consumers, the channel is the first factor to consider the product profit margins / how much money rather than the product itselfWade: Currently there are only three products: xd win pocketWade: The future will


eMuhibah

Muhibah is the inflight magazine of Royal Brunei Airlines. Muhibah is a Malay word that means unity or harmony. The word aptly captures the essence of the magazine that provides modern travellers with reading material that is relevant, newsworthy and up-to-date. The magazine, apart from being available onboard, also made available at premium airline lounges, participating premium hotels in Brunei, all Brunei diplomatic missions around the world, Brunei government offices, selected Brunei and international travel agents and tourism bodies, RBA Recreation Club, RBA Sales Offices worldwide and selected businesses. PDF links of Muhibah. Click cover to downloadJ.R. Smith sets single-game NBA record for most three-point attempts in loss to Heat

Pro Basketball Talk | Apr 6

J.R. Smith set an NBA record during Sunday’s loss to the Heat, and it’s one that most casual observers may have been surprised to hear that he didn’t already hold.
Smith has been known as a shoot first, ask questions later type of player throughout his career, and shot himself into the record books by attempting 22 three-pointers, the most ever attempted in a single game in NBA history.
The previous record was held by Damon Stoudamire, who attempted 21 threes while with the Blazers back in 2005.
Smith wasn’t just chucking for the sake of it, however, at least before his last couple of record-breaking attempts. He set a team record by


Udon Thani launches ‘The Queen’s benevolence Project’

UDON THANI, 12 August 2014 -The National Council on Social Welfare of Thailand (NCSWT) with Udon Thani province as well as The Udon Thani Red Cross, are organizing social service activities in honor of HM Queen Sirikit’s birthday anniversary.

The 12th August is celebrated as the birthday of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit and the nation immerses itself in celebrations. As the Queen is regarded as mother of the nation by all Thai people, the day is also celebrated as ‘Mother’s Day.’ Since 1976 celebrations for Her Majesty the Queen and for mothers everywhere, have been held every year without fail. Thai people unanimously commemorate this day because of the queen’s benevolence towards the needy and the poor in the nation. The Queen hasThe functioning of randomly dumped tower packings in gas-liquid service is an art about which much has been written. For a detailed survey of this topic, presented all in one place, reference is, however, made to "Tower Packings and Packed Tower Design" (abbreviated and hereinafter referred to as TP and PTD), a book written by the inventor and published in 1953 by the United States Stoneware Company, then of Akron, Ohio.
One of the important aspects of the design and functioning of beds of randomly dumped packings involves proper design of the support plate that holds the packed bed in place in the tower. This topic has been dealt with in detail on pages 25 to 27 of TP and PTD. Suffice it, therefore, to say here that with


ordinary flat support plates, in which the openings serve both liquid flow downwardly as well as gas flow upwardly, the packing pieces on top of the flat support plates tend to block the openings, with the result that the gas-liquid carrying capacity of the packed bed is thereby greatly impaired.
Having recognized this shortcoming of ordinary flat perforated supports, the author has, therefore, proposed a then novel construction embodying the "gas-injection" principle, described in TP and PTD. The principle was then implemented by simply providing flat perforated supports with a multitude of risers carrying perforations through which only the gas was admitted, separately, into the packing, a few inches above the lower terminal end of the packed bed. The liquid, on the other hand, would flow past and betweenthe risers downwardly, and after having collected to become combined into relatively shallow liquid pools, only the liquid would discharge through the openings in the flat bottom portion of the device.
Having thus provided separate ports for gas and liquid passage, a significant improvement of the ordinary flat packing support plate had been achieved. However, since the original riser construction did not appear as economical for use in large diameter towers as was deemed necessary, the gas-injection support plates were modified by replacing the multitude of risers by longitudinal, perforated beams. This type of construction is shown in "Random Packings and Packed Towers", Design and Applications, by Ralph F. Strigle, Jr., pages 201 to 204, published in 1987 by Gulf Publishing Company.
Whereas, as already stated, the constructions embodying the


in fact that novel discovery led to the road of application of those antimicrobial compounds against the evil microorganisms. The secreted inhibitory substance "penicillin" was thus soon showcased in the market that saved many lives during 1941 in England \[[@B5]\]. The discovery of penicillin and its potential use for restricting many infections inspired many scientists to look for other natural compounds and the quest of that golden antibiotic discovery era from 1945 to 1980 led to the introduction of many successful antibiotics currently used in clinics. Remarkably, during this era, not only that numerous of new categories of antimicrobials were discovered, but they were also made available in the market for use against infections. From 1980s onward until recently 2000s, alongside discovering new antibiotics, emphasis was also madeworst track record with 333 laws. And even 1948’s notorious “do nothing” Congress, so called by President Harry S. Truman for its relative inaction, managed to push through 906 laws.

Congress followed up with a March reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which widened the law’s purview to include gay, immigrant and tribal victims of domestic violence. It also passed the Stolen Valor Act in June, criminalizing fraudulent claims about military service in pursuit of profit.

The bulk of the laws passed this year were low-profile or noncontroversial, such as the “Bonneville Unit Clean Hydropower Facilitation Act,” or granting the Northern Mariana Islands parity with Guam and American Samoa. And lawmakers managed to agree on pushing through a law to “specify the size of the precious-metal blanks that will


and that Western Star Chapter was numbered 35.] Judge Ebenzer Mix, of Batavia, a Mason of unquestioned reputation, wrote of this alleged Masonic membership: "There must have been a most reprehensible laxity among the Masons both of Rochester and Le Roy; for there was no evidence educed, then or afterwards, that he ever received any Masonic degree save the Royal Arch, on May 31, 1825, at Le Roy." At any rate, he visited Lodges, was willing to assist, made Masonic speeches, took part in degrees. When Companions of Batavia asked for a Royal Arch Chapter, he was among those who signed the petition. But suspicion of his regularity began to grow, and his name was omitted as a member when the Charter was granted. n2 Just how muchthis incident inspired the enmity he developed for the Fraternity is only a guess; doubtless it had much to do with it. Enemy he became, and it became known n9 that he had applied for a copyright on a book which was to "expose" Masonic ritual, secrets and procedure. n12 In spite of the deep resentment which this proposed exposé created, Morgan entered into a contract (March 13, 1826) with three men for the publication of this work. These were: David C. Miller, n5 an Entered Apprentice of twenty years standing, stopped from advancement for cause, who thus held a grudge against the Fraternity; John Davids, Morgans landlord; and Russel Dyer, of whom little is known. These three entered into a penal bond of half a million dollars


to pay Morgan one fourth of the profits of the book. n11 Morgan boasted in bars and on the street of his progress in writing this book. The more he bragged, the higher the feeling against him ran, and the greater the determination engendered that the exposé should never appear. Brethren were deeply angered. Fearful that were the "secrets" of Freemasonry "exposed", the Order would die out, feelings ran high. Matters came to a head in September, 1826. Morgan was arrested for the theft of a shirt and tie. Of this he was acquitted, but immediately rearrested for failure to pay a debt of $2.68, and jailed. After one day behind bars, someone paid the debt. When he was released he left in a coach with several men,too difficult to discover that Masons were concerned in Morgans hundred and twenty-five mile journey to Ft. Niagara. Three members of the Craft  Chesebro, Lawson and Sawyer  pleaded guilty to conspiracy to "seize and secrete" Morgan, and, together with Eli Bruce, Sheriff, and one John Whitney, all served terms in prison for the offense. n18 But murder could not be proved for no body was found. In October, 1827, a body was washed ashore forty miles below Ft. Niagara. Morgans widow "identified" the body, although it was dressed in other clothes than her husband had worn alive; was bearded, although Morgan was clean shaven; had a full head of hair, although Morgan was bald! Thurlow Weed [1797-1882], Rochester Telegraph Editor, was accused of having the corpse


shaved and of adding long white hairs to ears and nostrils, to simulate the appearance of Morgan. The first inquest decided that this was, indeed, the body of William Morgan. Three inquests were held in all. The third decided, on the unimpeachable evidence of Mrs. Sara Munro, who minutely described the body, its marks, and the clothes it wore, that the corpse was not William Morgan, but Timothy Munro [or Monroe cf. Cummings, p. 29.], of Clark, Canada, her husband. Commonplace and unexciting truth seldom catches up with scandalous, electrifying, remarkable falsehood! William Morgan had disappeared. Freemasons had been convicted of abducting him. A body had been found and identified as Morgan. That better evidence and a less excited jury had later reversed this identification was anti-climatic. Thestories of Morgans "murder" persisted. Thurlow Weed, whom history shows as an unscrupulous opportunist [4], no matter what the exact truth of his activities with the body may have been, added fuel to the flames. Weed died in 1882, On his death bed he stated that in 1860 (twenty-two years before) John Whitney, who had been convicted in the conspiracy charge, confessed to him the full details of the murder of Morgan. According to this alleged confession, Whitney and four others carried the abducted Morgan in a boat to the center of the river, bound him with chains, and dumped him overboard. Weed stated  and here his memory failed him  that Whitney had promised to dictate and sign this confession, but died before he could do


source (Masons? Governor Clinton?) Whitney was assured of any amount needed, up to a thousand dollars, which was a great sum in those days. In Batavia Whitney summoned Morgan to a conference in which the bribe was temptingly held forth. n15 On the one hand, the enmity of all, persecution, continual danger  it is not improbable that threats were mingled with the bribe! On the other hand, money, safety, freedom from a plan to publish which held much of danger. If Morgan would take five hundred dollars, go to Canada, "disappear", his family would be provided for, and later sent to him! Morgan agreed. He was to be arrested and "kidnapped", to make it easy to get away from Miller and his associates. Whitney feared that withoutsome such spectacular escape, Morgan might at the last moment decline to go through with the plan, fearing reprisals from his friends in the publishing venture. Whitney told Morris that two Canadian Masons received Morgan from the hands of his "kidnappers" at Ft. Niagara, traveled with him a day and a night to a place near Hamilton, Ontario, where they paid him the five hundred dollars, receiving his receipt and signed agreement never to return without permission of Colonel William King, Sheriff Bruce, or Whitney. n17 Later there were two other "confessions" of complicity in the "murder" of Morgan  neither consistent with the facts. Doubtless they were of the same hysterical origin which leads so many notoriety seekers to confess crimes which by no possibility they could


and passions this incident created. For the fame and infamy of the Morgan affair spread over an immense territory. It was the beginning of an anti-Masonic sentiment which grew and spread like wild fire. meetings were held, the Order was denounced by press and pulpit. An anti-Masonic paper was started  with Thurlow Weed as Editor  soon joined by the Anti-Masonic Review, in New York City. The many groups in Pennsylvania, already opposed to any oath bound society (Quakers, Lutherans, Mennonites, Dunkards, Moravians, Schwenkfelders, German Reformed Church) were aroused to a high pitch of feeling against the alleged "murderers" and "kidnappers"  the Freemasons. Cf. Cummings p. 40. The anti-Masonic excitement spread  and fast and far. Gould, in his History of Free-Masonry, thus epitomizes the spiritof that time: "This country has seen fierce and bitter political contests, but no other has approached the bitterness of this campaign against the Masons. No society, civil, military or religious, escaped its influence. No relation of family or friends was a barrier to it. The hatred of Masonry was carried everywhere, and there was no retreat so sacred that it did not enter. Not only were teachers and pastors driven from their stations, but the children of Masons were excluded from the schools, and members from their churches. The Sacrament was refused to Masons by formal vote of the Church, for no other offense than their Masonic connection. Families were divided. Brother was arrayed against brother, father against son, and even wives against their husbands. Desperate efforts


were made to take away chartered rights from Masonic Corporations and to pass laws that would prevent Masons from holding their meetings and performing their ceremonies." Reverend Brother John C. Palmer, Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, says in his little classic of the Craft, Morgan and anti-Masonry (Volume 7 of The Little Masonic Library, published by The Masonic Service Association in 1925): "The pressure was so strong that withdrawals by individuals and bodies were numerous. In 1827, two hundred and twenty-seven lodges were represented in the Grand Lodge of New York. In 1835, the number had dwindled to forty-one. Every Lodge in the State of Vermont surrendered its Charter or became dormant; and the Grand Lodge, for several years, ceased to holdabduction and alleged  never proved  murder of Morgan was the sole cause of this outburst, any more than was the assassination in 1914 the sole cause of the World War. Both were triggers which set off guns which, in turn, caused other explosions. Suffice it here that a wave of hysteria was seized upon by able politicians, fanned by demagogues, increased by the righteous indignation of good men and true who saw not beneath the surface, helped onward by press and pulpit with the best of intentions but little understanding, until the whole east flamed with passion and Freemasons were spit upon in the streets, lodges threw away their charters, and Freemasonry bowed its head to a storm as unjust and undeserved as all religious persecutions


have always been. Like any other hysteria, this passed. Passions wore themselves away. A few sturdy and brave men stood staunchly by a few Grand Lodges with high courage and the strength of the right never ceased to proclaim their allegiance to the principles of the Order. Little by little, Freemasonry raised its head; one by one, lodges took heart; brother by brother, Craftsmen returned to their Altars. After a period following almost twenty years of more or less complete eclipse, the sun of Freemasonry shone again, and the world was treated to a spectacle that has been a heartening lesson to millions and will be to counted millions yet to be born anew at the sacred Altar of Freemasonry  the strange sight of an Order manyforever, So mote it be ! Selected bibliography

1. History of Freemasonry,Robert Freke Gould. Vol IV. The John C. Yorston Publishing Co., Philadelphia: 1902. pp. 316-29.

2. The True History Regarding Alleged Connections of the Order of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons with the Abduction and Murder of William Morgan..., P. C Huntington. New York: 1886.

3. The Strange Disappearance of William Morgan,Thomas A. Knight. Published by the author at Brecksville, Ohio. The Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Company New York City: 1932.

4. William Morgan; Or political Anti-Masonry, Its Rise, Growth and Decadence,Rob Morris. New York: 1883. 398 pp.

5. Letters on Masonry and Anti-Masonry, Addressed to The Hon. John Quincy Adams,William L. Stone. New York: 1832.

6. "An American Masonic Crisis: The Morgan Incident of 1826 and Its Aftermath," J. Hugo Tatsch,


Day 22: Lie Ren (with bonus Nora)

I was complaining the other day that there wasn't enough cute Renora fanart in the world, and then I saw this prompt coming up and decided I would make some. Wake up and smell the ginger, Ren. She's waited long enough.

Trump on North Korea: 'I may sit down and make the greatest deal for the world'

President Donald Trump on Saturday said he was the only president who could broker a deal with North Korea, talking up his newly unveiled plan to meet with Kim Jong Un while slamming his predecessors' foreign policies.

"Who else could do it, I mean, honestly, when you think," Trump said at a rally in Pennsylvania, where he endorsed Republican Rick Saccone ahead of Tuesday's congressional special election. "They're not going to send missiles up, and I believe that, I really do. I think they want to do something. I think they want to make peace."

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Trump credited his own tough rhetoric — including labeling Kim as "Little Rocket Man" and threatening to rain


might need one. The reasons this woman decided to go on a nursing raid have not been explained, except to say that "alcohol was a factor in the incident." Okay, sure, but there are plenty of people who get drunk and don't go to the trouble to breastfeed a stranger's baby in the middle of the night, so there has to be more to this story. As for the mother, she's probably busy trying to secure every surface in her home—possibly including her child's mouth.The Tavistock Clinic Art Collection

The Tavistock Clinic was founded by a small group of military psychiatrists in the aftermath of World War One, in the hope of using some of the knowledge and expertise learned from the treatment of traumatised war veterans. In 1967 it moved into its own purpose-built premises. This was a utilitarian structure, inevitable in the austerity following the Second World War, a grey concrete slab of a building with metal frame windows and long linoleum corridors.

Yet within the last twenty years, this unpromising-looking building has been transformed by its exuberant and varied art collection.

This collection differs from those possessed by the great London hospitals and Institutions founded centuries ago, in that all of our works are modern. The oldest pieces date back only as


far as the 1960s.

Valery Koroshilov The Traveller

Since 1990, when the collection began, most of the works have been lent by artists, many of whom are local to the Centre's North London site. Some have been willing to let us hang some of their most engaging paintings, for example Jamie Boyd's mysterious Mediterranean landscapes. Perhaps some of these were offered because they are too large for private homes or even for galleries; some in gratitude because the artist or their families had been helped by the Clinic; and some because they supported vigorously the principle of good art in public buildings. One particularly rich haul of first-class work was made possible by the Connaught Brown Gallery's willingness to open up its warehouse, where many remarkable works were stored –all 7 1 /7 Women go on strike against Donald Trump Women go on strike against Donald Trump People rally as part of a nationwide protest against US President-elect Donald Trump outside of Trump Tower on December 12, 2016 in New York. Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images Women go on strike against Donald Trump Protestors march during a demonstration against U.S. President-elect Donald Trump near Trump Tower in the Manhattan borough of New York City, December 12, 2016. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters Women go on strike against Donald Trump Protestors march during a demonstration against U.S. President-elect Donald Trump near Trump Tower in the Manhattan borough of New York City, December 12, 2016. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters Women go on strike against Donald Trump People rally as part of a nationwide protest against


US President-elect Donald Trump outside of Trump Tower on December 12, 2016 in New York. Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images Women go on strike against Donald Trump People rally as part of a nationwide protest against US President-elect Donald Trump outside of Trump Tower on December 12, 2016 in New York. Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images Women go on strike against Donald Trump People rally as part of a nationwide protest against US President-elect Donald Trump outside of Trump Tower on December 12, 2016 in New York. Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images Women go on strike against Donald Trump People rally as part of a nationwide protest against US President-elect Donald Trump outside of Trump Tower on December 12, 2016 in New York. Timothy A Clary/AFP/Getty Images

For several months he saida byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites . . . ‘We want to cut this,’ is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.’

Then, as now, the election took place amidst an upheaval of social norms. Nixon was first elected after years of protests, riots, and legislative attacks on Jim Crow. The hope of the early 1960s — the March on Washington, the Civil Rights, and the Voting Rights Act — was doused by the Watts Riots (incited by alleged police brutality), the King riots (after his assassination), and the riot at the DNC in Chicago, which itself happened not long after the assassination of Robert Kennedy. The pendulum swung back, and