the occasion, the Yale band struck up the theme music from “Indiana Jones” as Spielberg walked to the podium. One of the foundations established by Spielberg following “Schindler’s List” is the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, which last week announced its California Challenge Campaign. The campaign seeks funds for cataloging the testimonies of some 3,900 Holocaust survivors who are now residents of California. The California State Library and University of Southern California will participate in he project. Since Spielberg created the Shoah Foundation in 1994, more than 50,000 Holocaust survivors and witnesses in 57 countries and 32 languages have given their testimonies.For most of Wes Craven's career, the beloved horror maestro was pretty vocally frustrated with the lousy business dealings that deprived him of control of, or significant royalties from, his most popular franchise. He was still a relatively new-to-the-mainstream filmmaker when he made the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, having made a handful of well-loved indies (Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, Deadly Blessing) and a couple TV movies, but lacking the clout to secure a really good deal with New Line. The film was a massive success, and the boatloads of money that New Line got from it elevated them from a minor start-up studio to a major Hollywood contender (studio head Robert Shaye always referred to the studio as "the house that


Freddy built"), but due to the restrictive terms of the contract he signed, Craven did not get very much of that money, and held no control over the future of the franchise - two facts that he was not shy about voicing his frustration over. That's why he only participated in one of the main-franchise sequels (unsurprisingly the best of the bunch, Dream Warriors), why the only other Freddy film he directed, New Nightmare, was a very personal postmodern satire about him being haunted and terrorized by the monster he created, and why the opening scene of Scream features Drew Barrymore talking about how all the Elm Street sequels sucked.

But now, 35 years after the original film's release and four years after Craven's death, the rights to theTwo of the industry's most promising RPG crafters are joining Microsoft Studios.

The first is inXile Entertainment, known recently for Torment: Tides of Numenera and Wasteland 2 on Xbox. The second is Obsidian Entertainment, recently renowned for Fallout New Vegas, South Park: The Stick of Truth, and the Pillars of Eternity series. The announcements were made today at X018, adding to Microsoft's growing list of first-party studios.

inXile Entertainment is currently working on Wasteland 3, and recently launched The Bard's Tale IV dungeon crawler on PC. Wasteland is perhaps the big story for Microsoft Studios here, an IP which went on to heavily inspire the Fallout franchise, which InXile founder Brian Fargo helped shape. Obsidian just shipped Pillars of Eternity II on PC, and is currently working on bringing the


the country’s leading choreographers and one of just three artists who have led the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater since its founding in 1958. Widely admired for his commitment to commissioning new work and spotting young talent, in 2012 Robert launched the New Directions Choreography Lab to develop the next generation of choreographers, a key component of his vision for Ailey’s future. Under Robert’s leadership, Ailey continues to perform and teach in numerous US cities and serve as one of the leading international ambassadors for American culture.

Robert began his career in dance at a high school arts magnet program in Miami. His exceptional talent earned him positions at the New World School for the Arts and subsequently the Juilliard School. He honed his dance technique while performing with theyoung curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she was a member of the curatorial team for the landmark 1993 biennial and organized exhibitions such as the groundbreaking Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art of 1994. Trailblazing has been Thelma’s signature ever since. Returning to the Studio Museum in 2000, she has continued to demand attention for emerging artists and provoke new thinking about contemporary culture. Under her leadership, the Studio Museum has secured its position as an internationally important catalyst in advancing the work of artists of African descent.

Thelma has curated more than 20 exhibitions at the Studio Museum and led an innovative curatorial team in organizing many more. Her exhibitions and initiatives bring new perspectives to the work of established


experience of Asians in the United States and exposing hidden dimensions of race, sexuality, and identity in contemporary life. Collaborating with diverse artists and producers, David has created works in repertory theater, opera, musical theater, film, and television and excelled as a writer, librettist, and producer while often crossing traditional lines of commercial and nonprofit work. His first play, FOB, was produced at the Public Theater and won an Obie Award in 1980. This launched his career and a robust partnership with Joseph Papp that extended to four other productions, including the Pulitzer Prize–nominated drama The Dance and the Railroad. In 1998, David’s play M. Butterfly won both the Tony Award for Best Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play.

David’s prolific output has won him numerousto produce outstanding new work based on the concerns of specific communities. Bill served artistic director there until 2006.

Mixing ultra-urban Los Angeles with very rural Oregon, Bill guest directed several plays at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), one of the largest nonprofit theaters in the country, while still leading Cornerstone. In 2007 he was invited to become artistic director of the OSF. Over the past eight years, he has led a process of re-envisioning the festival’s overall artistic program and its relationship to its communities and has directed four world premieres and 15 other productions. Among other initiatives, he launched American Revolutions: The US History Cycle to explore important moments in the evolution of American democracy and American identity. One of its commissions, All the Way, written by


he eventually had to leave the country. In 1988, Albie nearly lost his life when a bomb exploded under his car. Undaunted, he worked on writing South Africa’s democratic constitution and was appointed to the Constitutional Court by Nelson Mandela in 1994. His term on the court came to an end in 2009.

Winner of the Tang Prize for the Rule of Law in 2014, he is currently using a portion of the prize to tell the story of the making of South Africa’s democratic constitution and its Constitutional Court, which abolished capital punishment and ordered recognition of same-sex marriages. A prolific author, Albie is one of only two people to win the Alan Paton Award twice—in 1991 for his book The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter andShare this article on LinkedIn Email

Kris Meeke will keep his Citroen seat and lead the team for the next round of the World Rally Championship in Spain next month.

Meeke's team-mates for Rally Catalunya will be Stephane Lefebvre and Khalid Al Qassimi, leaving no space for Craig Breen.

Andreas Mikkelsen, who has contested three rallies for the manufacturer this season, will complete the campaign with rival manufacturer Hyundai.

Despite Meeke having a full-season contract with Citroen, his place in the team had not been confirmed for Cataluyna after he struggled for form on Rally Finland and then crashed on a Thursday night superspecial stage in Germany last month.

Citroen team principal Yves Matton is looking for Meeke to put his difficult run behind him and recapture the speed that took him to


a win in Mexico earlier this year.

"As a mixed surface event, Rally de Espana matches the qualities of the C3 WRC pretty closely and we hope we can be among the frontrunners again," said Matton.

"Quick on both gravel and Tarmac, Kris Meeke will hopefully be able to build on the confidence he acquired during the second leg in Germany and aim to secure a positive result."

While Breen misses out in Spain, he will be back in the factory Citroen for the last two rallies in Britain and Australia.

"Obviously, Craig Breen's fans will be disappointed that he is not competing in Spain, but I have to contend with budget restrictions that mean we can't enter any more cars," Matton added.

"At the start of the season, Craig's programme was plannedAre electric cars a niche item or are they becoming mainstream? The Renault-Nissan alliance today released a number indicating that electric cars have reached a threshold towards becoming mainstream. The two Alliance has, together, sold over 100,000 electric vehicles, worldwide, since the first Nissan Leaf was sold in December 2010. While that's a tiny percentage of overall car sales, it represents a huge growth rate in electric car sales.

The Nissan Leaf remains the best selling electric car in the world, by the reckoning of the alliance. Total sales, worldwide, are over 71,000. The split of sales by geographic region are, 31,000 in the United States, 28,000 in Japan, and 12,000 in Europe. In the United States, the LEAF is among the top 10 vehicles sold in San Francisco,


Seattle and Honolulu.

Thanks to significant incentives in Norway for electric vehicles in general, where electric cars are exempt from value added tax (VAT) and road tolls, and they have access to bus lanes and free parking, the Leaf is Nissan's best-selling model. Over 4,600 people have bought Leaf's in Norway since 2011.

Renault has sold over 30,000 electric vehicles beginning with the Kangoo Z.E. which went on sale in late 2011. In addition to the Kangoo Z.E., Renault sells the Fluence Z.E. electric sedan, the Twizy, a two-seat commuter vehicle, and the Renault ZOE, a subcompact based on the Clio. Renault leads the electric vehicle market in Europe with a 61% share, including Twizy. The Twizy is Renaults leading electric vehicle, selling 11,000 units since it went on salein early 2012.

The Fluence Z.E. was the car sold by Better Place for use in battery swapping stations.

The ZOE has a low base MSRP of around 20,000 euros, thanks in part to separating the battery pack purchase from the car purchase, and buyers lease the battery pack rather than purchase it outright. The ZOE went on sale in March and has already sold 5,000 units.

In the U.S. alone millions of cars are sold a year leading many to dismiss electric car sales as a paltry blip. Prior to the December 2010 launch of the Nissan Leaf, worldwide sales of electric cars was extremely tiny. The Tesla Roadster sold approximately 2500 units total, the Mitsubishi i-MiEV sold a few thousand units, and there were various other electric cars sold


at small volumes. The Leaf was the first mass-market electric car to go on sale, and it has been joined by a few other cars from other manufacturers, most notably the Tesla Model S, which is selling at a rate above 20,000 units a year.

Between all the manufacturers of all electric cars, worldwide sales is many times higher than it was in 2010 or earlier.Branko Črnac Tusta

Branko Črnac – Tusta (1955–2012) was a Yugoslav-born Istro-Romanian singer, frontman of the Croatian cult punk-band KUD Idijoti.

Biography
He was born on 6 October 1955 in Pula, in an Istro-Romanian family originating from an unspecified village on the Ćićarija hill.

He graduated from Pula Technical School, and from 1978 till death he worked at Uljanik Electric Machines and Equipment Factory (TESU), where he eventually became a head of a department; he was a trade-union representative for the Trade Unions of Istria, Kvarner and Dalmatia, and he actively organized and participated in workers’ protests.

He joined KUD Idijoti in 1985, four years after the band's formation, and due to his charisma, stage persona and sincere anti-fascist convictions he soon became one of the best known and most important punk singers


Saturday's announcement that FC Barcelona has agreed to sign Brazil star Neymar da Silva Santos Jr. has soccer fans salivating at the possibilities. By shelling out €28 million, Barcelona has added the coveted 21-year-old to a roster that includes Lionel Messi and eight members of the Spanish national team.

But the evidence suggests Neymar not be the world-beating superstar that fans expect. If the team's recent history of big-money overseas signings (shown below) is any judge, he's more likely to be a colossal waste of money.only one individual (20%) with schizophrenia had antipsychotics detected in their toxicology report. Individuals who died by probable suicide, most commonly died by hanging and drowning; with previous attempts of hanging particularly prevalent in the group who subsequently died by hanging. At the time of death, less than one-third of individuals according to toxicology reports were taking the medication that was last prescribed to them by the mental health services suggesting a high rate of treatment non-concordance in individuals who died by probable suicide.


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Programme of events

Blackheath Halls presents a diverse programme of concerts and events throughout the year, as well as being the principal rehearsal and performance venue for the Faculty of Music at Trinity Laban. The Halls also run a varied and well-respected community engagement programme.of airport operations from local governments. It looks to take what has been done here at PAE and re-create the model in parts of this country that have not seen commercial service.

A rendering of the commercial airport terminal at Paine Field in Everett. (Photo: Propeller Airports)

In its partnership with Snohomish County, the land is owned by the County and leased to Propeller. The company then designed and built the terminal for upwards of $50 million.

Not stopping there, Propeller will then bring its expertise to deal with the complexities of operating and running the commercial airport.

The Flight Operations

Initially Alaska airlines will start off with 18 daily nonstop flights to eight cities, including Los Angeles, Phoenix, Portland, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose and Las Vegas. United will


curb, you step into check-in counter area— large windows fill the check-in area with light, and will be perfect picture frames for the ever-changing Northwest storm clouds.

From security, you reach a very large waiting area with the two gates. The view from the waiting area will certainly tantalize the avgeeks among us.

An aircraft maintenance facility is within full view off to the side of the waiting area. From there, any avgeek will be able to see the shiny new jets being delivered to customers and all the other things Boeing is currently working on.

The operations at PAE are likely to have a positive impact the surrounding community, near and far from the flight path.

When I arrived at the terminal at 05:45 in the morning, there was quiet anticipationin the air as the press and staff anxiously waited for things to begin.

THE FIRST PASSENGER ARRIVES

I was off to one side when I noticed a gentleman walking in with a roller. I was surprised that no one else noticed him as he walked up to the check-in kiosk.

I watched him press his confirmation code onto the screen, and I realized that I was watching the first check-in at this facility. I asked him if I could interview him when he was finished—he looked a little puzzled but said yes.

His name was Richard and he lives in a suburb that is 10 miles due east of PAE. He is a business traveler, who typically flies 1 to 2 times a week.

It would normally take him 1 ½ to


the heck was going on and why so many people wanted to interview them. Most of the press there thought that they were the first pax at the terminal!

LOCAL IMPACT

The terminal’s impact is not only on travelers but also on the local economy. As I was taking pictures of the aircraft that was scheduled to leave for Portland, I noticed a young woman sweeping up and making sure things stayed tidy. She told me that she had been hired two weeks prior, and her previous fast food job had no medical benefits even after two years.

She now has a job that pays $14.50 an hour, and in a couple of more months, she will obtain medical, dental and vision benefits for herself and her two children.

This airport, likeothers, is critical to bringing long-term community development and economic stability to the region. The operations at SeaTac result in the direct employment of more than 150,000 people in the Puget Sound region, and another 50 to 60,000 indirectly.

Even a two-gate airport like the one at Paine Field, can bring in hundreds of stable, livable wage jobs. It really was great to see this kind of thing in action.

Paine Field is perfectly situated for explosive growth. The area north and east of the new airport is populated with high-tech employees and plenty of well-off retirees.

Once people from the North Sound region take advantage of this convenient facility, they will not want to go back to the hassle of making the long drive south to SeaTac airport.

The cities of


to get in line with 21st-Century democracy".

He also said Thailand "shouldn't be afraid of politics" and needed to "create a new generation of politicians".

Many students who have protested against Thailand's military leadership have been arrested or jailed in the past few years.Special arrangements have been made to make PM Modi's maiden poll rally in Haryana green. (File)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch an election campaign for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday in poll-bound Haryana with green mode.

He will address the public in Rohtak town, the only Lok Sabha seat in the state which was won by the Congress in the 2014 elections, on the conclusion of the state BJP's 'Jan Ashirwad Yatra'.

The Yatra was flagged off by Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh from Kalka town, some 20 km from Chandigarh, on August 18. It is culminating in Rohtak after passing through the state's 90 Assembly seats.

The BJP's state election-in-charge and Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and his Cabinet colleagues will


attend the Modi's maiden rally.

The district administration and the party have made special arrangements to make Modi's rally green.

For this, the administration has appealed to the public not to bring plastic mineral water bottles at the rally venue.

The administration is installing around 4,000 earthen pots.

Likewise, the BJP is installing welcome hoardings made from paper and cloth to minimize the impact of plastic.

The Election Commission is yet to announce the election dates, but the BJP has almost completed its first phase of campaigns in the state.

Party chief and Union Home Minister Amit Shah has already toured the state twice and addressed rallies.

Khattar has told the media that the elections in the state are likely to be held around October 15 and the code of conduct will come into forceanytime by September 15.

The ruling BJP in Haryana seems confident of winning the next Assembly elections on the basis of its performance and also because the most opposition parties in the state are in disarray.

While the main opposition -- the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) -- has been reduced to a minority as most of its legislators and leaders have joined the BJP, infighting continues to dog the Congress, which ruled the state for two consecutive terms till 2014.

The Congress this week appointed Kumari Selja as the new state unit chief replacing Ashok Tanwar, while making former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Chairman of the Election Committee.

Khattar's slogan 'Mission 75' has got louder after the party's stellar performance in the last Lok Sabha elections, where the BJP won


all the 10 seats -- a first in state's electoral history.

He is the first BJP Chief Minister of the state, which was formed on November 1, 1966, and aims at improving the party's tally in the Assembly from 48 legislators.Just two days after white supremacists rallied in Charlottesville, Va., in a violent clash that left a 32-year-old woman and two police officers dead, the Department of Justice announced they have completed the largest case targeting white supremacist gang members in the nation’s history.

During the more than two-year case, 91 members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas and Aryan Circle were arrested and charged with various drug crimes, of which 89 were ultimately convicted. The final defendant, 29-year-old Jeramy Weatherall of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced last Thursday to 20 years in prison for one count of possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.

DOJ officials announced in a statement:

The defendants were members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT), the Aryan Circle, the “Irish Mob,” the “Dirty White


RIP Dave Brubeck: "Take Five" Jazz Great Dies at 91

Dave Brubeck, the professorial jazz pianist and composer whose No. 2 album Time Out was a standard of the Mad Men era, has died at age 91, the Associated Press reported Wednesday morning. Brubeck's manager, Russell Gloyd, told the AP that Brubeck died of heart failure on his way to a cardiologist appointment near his home near Hartford, Conn. He would have been 92 on Thursday.

Brubeck was born on Dec. 6, 1920 in Concord, California, the son of a cattle rancher and mother who taught piano lessons. In college, where he intended to study veteranary science, the head of the zoology department told him, "Brubeck, your mind's across the lawn in the conservatory." His inability to read music causeda minor scandal at the school, now known as the University of the Pacific.

In WWII, Brubeck served in Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd Army, and escaped the Battle of the Bulge by volunteering to play at a Red Cross-organized show. The regular jazz group group he formed shortly thereafter, known as the "Wolfpack," was one of the first examples of racial integration in the U.S. military.

When he left the service, Brubeck studied at Oakland's Mills College with jazz-loving French composer Darius Milhaud. His albums from the 1950s, such as Jazz Goes to College, were enough to land him on the cover of Time in 1954, the second jazz musician to be so honored after Louis Armstrong. (Brubeck said he would have rather seen Duke Ellington on the cover.)


He also worked in A&R for Bay Area label Fantasy Records, which later released Creedence Clearwater Revival's albums, and helped discover artists such as Chet Baker.

Named for its unconventional time signatures, Time Out featured "Take Five" (written in 5/4 time, with a distinctive alto-sax riff played by Paul Desmond), which reached No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Adult Contemporary Top 10 in 1961. Its success led Brubeck's quartet to release several other albums that made use of irregular time, including 1966's Time In. "Take Five" became his best-known tune, although other Brubeck compositons such as "InYour Own Sweet Way" and "For All We Know" also became popular.

In 1959, the same year Time Out was released, Brubeck's quartet -- which at the time was the mostsuccessful jazz group in the U.S. -- performed with the New York Philharmonic, and he would glide easily between jazz and classical for the rest of his career. In the '80s, Brubeck began composing sacred music following his conversion to Catholicism, the subject of his final album, 2010's Sacred Choral Works. He was given a Kennedy Center award in 2009.

In December 2006, Brubeck, then 85, performed at Houston's Temple Beth Yeshurun with the Houston Chamber Choir.


you can still have a home -like experience after trying some of the Italian their inter-continental desserts.

The Italian cuisine has significant cultures that propagate family time and bonding. Most Italian dishes are composed of two major ingredients: cheese and wine and this are perfect for most Italian desserts. Dessert is usually served as the last meal course of the day and they are sweet and generally a mixture of sugary fruits and cheese. There are other desserts which are prepared in a liquid forms. Italians commonly refer to these as “digestivo” They are also are usually served as second dessert meal courses. Amongst this categories are coffee, sweets and cakes.

Pasta is one of the most widely consumed Italian desserts and is perhaps eaten almost on a daily basis.served with pie dough.

Zeppole – It is cooked dough gateaux coated with sugar. It is attractive and has an exceptional flavor.

The Italian cuisine is spectacular and Americans are directly involved with it, especially given the influx of Italians into America. Michael Chiarello, from Napa Valley the author of cookbook Bottega and the owner of Bottega defines the Italian cuisine as an authentic specimen of refined tastes and textures. Other American chefs like Lidia Bastianich, also compliments the amazing blend flavors and ingredients of the Italian cuisines to produce excellent recipes.

Italian cuisine is one of the most famous and most popular national cuisines in the world, a kitchen that on the map of the world gastronomy in gold letters print the names of the most favorite world dishes-pizza and


your team in the city.

In 1944 my granddad took me down to the Junction Oval to watch Richmond play Fitzroy in the Grand Final. All the finals were held there because of the war. The MCG was being used to house the American soldiers. Unfortunately Richmond lost. But at least Max Oppy played well!

I was playing in the juniors, for a team, The Church of Christ, but we never had enough players. We had to change our name because only about three kids went to church! (laughs) We called ourselves the Rovers. The Rovers Junior Football Club. After I left, the juniors had all grown up, and they formed a senior side, too, which is still going quite strongly now.

There were two divisions, the Maryborough/Castlemaine and there wasJack and Maurie came to see me, but they weren’t the only people. I also got invitations from Fitzroy, St Kilda, Geelong. At that time Geelong was another country side, and a very successful side. But at that particular time, as a rover, I’d be fighting for a spot against Peter Pianto and Neil Trezise. Why would I go there? Richmond needed another rover with Billy Wilson, and, of course, there was the pull of barracking for them.

Maurie Flemming was a big name down at Richmond. He was the Club Secretary and a great man, like Jack was a great man. He made the decision to go there an easy one.

The Punt Road Oval was a terrible ground, to be honest. It was fine in summer, but in


on the jumper, the yellow and black, from superstars to thirds players, is a part of what made us what we are. They deserve to be recognised.

To any player, going to Richmond was a success. When I went to Richmond I suppose I expected it, but it never happened.

To win three best and fairests for the club I loved was an honour. In ’62 I also got runner-up in the Brownlow. Tied for second with Kevin Murray and Ken Fraser.

Alistair Lord won that year but shouldn’t have. He was hot favourite, we were playing them. Alistair hit Roger Dean and when the umpire went to report him, his twin Stewart stepped in and has his number taken. He took the wrap for it. Got two weeks.

What was morebeen a good year for me – club best and fairest, Big V, 2nd in the Brownlow, but the money back then was pretty average. When I started a decade earlier it was 3 pound 10, towards the end it was 8 pound for my teammates, and 10 for me because I was captain. It was an honour to play VFL football, it was an honour to be captain. But then Myrtleford came and offered me 70 pound a week. (laughs) It was big money!

I’d just had a young bub, a son, and I missed the bush. I decided, being a young family, I wanted to bring my family up in the country not the city.

Richmond offered me money to not go. I wanted to stay one more


city in the east of the vast country to elude its control.

Haftar has spurned then internationally backed government in the capital Tripoli and casts himself as a bulwark against Islamist militancy, presenting the battles in Benghazi and Derna as anti-terrorism campaigns.

The LNA says the Derna Protection Force (DPF), the coalition that has held Derna until now and ousted Islamic State from the city in 2015, is fighting with extremists linked to al Qaeda, who have used car bombings and harbored foreign fighters.

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Haftar’s opponents in the city deny having associations with jihadists, saying they are fighting to preserve their independence and counter military rule.

LNA forces have been accused of repeated summary killings and other human rights abuses in previous campaigns, and concernsDavos: Six Indian cities have made it to the world’s 30 most dynamic places that have the ability to embrace technological change, absorb rapid population growth and strengthen global connectivity, with Bengaluru topping the chart.

Cities in India, China and Vietnam, along with several in the US, head the list of world’s fastest changing cities in JLL’s fourth annual City Momentum Index. Other Indian cities in the list are Hyderabad at the 5th position, Pune (13), Chennai (18), Delhi (23) and Mumbai (25).

Asia Pacific cities comprise half the top 30 fastest—changing cities.

“India has taken over from China as home to some of the world’s most dynamic cities. Six Indian cities feature in the CMI Global Top 30, with the country’s primary technology hub, Bangalore, moving into the top spot


The first ever Native American saint has been canonised by the Roman Catholic Church in a ceremony at the Vatican. Kateri Tekakwitha - sometimes known as Lily of the Mohawks - died more than 300 years ago, but is thought by some to have performed a miracle as recently as 2006.

"It's a third-class relic," says gift shop manager Joanne Wiesner, wide-eyed as she holds a small Kateri Tekakwitha prayer card in her hand.

Embedded within the card is a little piece of cloth which has touched a fragment of bone, a first-class relic, from the soon-to-be saint.

"I get goose bumps every time I think about it," says Wiesner.

The prayer cards are selling like hot cakes at the Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs in Auriesville, set amid the beautifulwooded hills of what was once Mohawk land.

It was in a village here, then called Ossernenon, that Kateri Tekakwitha - a Native American Mohawk woman - was born in 1656.

This was a time of huge upheaval, violence and disease, says Allan Greer, a professor at McGill University in Montreal who has written a history of her life, Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits.

Know your relics

First-class relic- a piece of bone, flesh or hair of a saint or venerated person

Second-class relic - an item of clothing or object used by them

Third-class relic - something that has touched a first or second class relic

There was fierce fighting between rival Native American communities - Kateri's mother was an Algonquin who had been captured in a raid by the Mohawks.

But Dutch,


English and French colonialists were also competing for control of the territory, bringing with them both guns and disease. When a smallpox epidemic struck, it killed her parents and younger brother. She survived, but the disease left her face scarred and her sight seriously impaired. The Mohawk word "Tekakwitha" roughly translates as "the one who walks groping her way".

Seeing so much death and disease in their midst, the Mohawks believed French Jesuit missionaries were responsible, and held them accountable.

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Just a few years before Kateri was born, three were caught, tortured and then brutally killed in her village (they were themselves later canonised).

But when Kateri was young, a peace deal was struck with the French, and part of the deal was that missionaries would be allowed to workwithin the communities.

By this point, Kateri was living over the river in a small village called Caughnawaga, which is the only Mohawk village anywhere to have been substantially excavated.

Set on a hill for protection, so that the Mohawks could see their enemies coming, coloured poles today mark the plots where they lived in traditional longhouses, with bunks to the side, and fires inside to cook and keep warm in the bitter winters.

"It's a place of peace and healing," says Friar Mark Steed, who is in charge of the site, known as the National Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine, in the village of Fonda.

"This is where she lived. It's the land where the Mohawk people lived. It's a sacred place," he says.

"Being on this land is like being in a church."

It


is a short walk through the woods to the echoey well and the water where Kateri Tekakwitha was baptised into the Catholic Church at the age of 20, on Easter Day 1676.

She is sometimes said to have been one of the only members of her community to convert to Catholicism, but up to half of her village may have converted, according to Allan Greer.

For some, it was as much a practical and strategic move, as a religious one, he says.

"The Mohawks were walking a delicate balance trying to align themselves with allies, without becoming dependent.

"It was a kind of diplomatic alliance in many ways."

But Kateri appears to have been penalised for converting. Her uncle, the chief of the village, is said to have been unhappy with her decision,and her refusal to marry a Mohawk man he had selected for her.

Kateri ended up travelling 200 miles (320 km) by foot and canoe to a Jesuit-run Native American missionary village near Montreal, called Kahnawake.

There she proved herself to be pious in the extreme.

She took a lifetime vow of chastity, and subjected herself to a harsh regime of self-punishment, which included walking barefoot in the ice and snow, placing hot coals from the fire between her toes until they cooled, and lying on a bed of thorns.

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Jesuit missionary Pierre Cholenec, who lived in the Kahnawake community at the time, wrote: "She tortured her body in every way she


could think of: by toil, by sleepless vigils, by fasting, by cold, by fire, by irons, by belts studded with sharp points, and by harsh disciplines with which she tore her shoulders open several times a week."

The Jesuits felt she was going too far, says Orenda Boucher a Mohawk academic and researcher from Kahnawake, which is still a Native American community today.

Mohawk men would conduct all sorts of tests of strength and willpower before going into battle, she says, and Kateri Tekakwitha was probably influenced by this, effectively fusing her native beliefs with her newfound faith - practising what Greer calls a kind of "intense indigenous Catholicism".

Kateri Tekakwitha died when she was just 24 years old - and it was upon her death that reports of miracles began.

Jesuitsat the scene said that the scars on her face vanished entirely, and soon after, a number of people reported seeing visions of her.

The Jesuits believed her to be a saint and catalogued all they could of her life, making her the most well-documented indigenous person in the history of the Americas, says Greer.

But some Mohawks in Kahnawake today are ambivalent about their ancestor, says Boucher. Many people don't identify with her story of life as a virgin - it's a culture where motherhood and caring for children is seen as central to a woman's role - and some associate her with the bitterness of colonisation, loss of land, and Mohawk tradition.

Many in the community there are in fact moving back towards their traditional beliefs, and away from


the Catholic Church, says Boucher.

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But there is a sizeable Native American Catholic contingent in the US - 680,000 according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, out of a total population of 2.5 million, and in some areas, the vast majority of Native Americans are Catholic.

And for decades, a dedicated group of Native American Catholics across the US have been praying - first for her beatification, which came in 1980, and since then for her canonisation.

"It meant a lot to learn about this young Mohawk woman. She is one of us," says Sister Kateri Mitchell of the Tekakwitha Conference, a body that represents Native American Catholics in the US.

"People have become very intriguedabout her life - how this young woman of the 17th Century has influenced the lives of so many in the 21st."

Sister Kateri visited the shrine many times with her parents as a child, and played a part in the recent reported miracle that secured Kateri Tekakwitha's canonisation.

This was in 2006, when Jake Finkbonner, a five-year-old half native Lummi boy from Washington state fell playing basketball and hit his lip against some metal, contracting a potentially deadly "flesh-eating" bacterial infection, necrotising fasciitis.

Sister Kateri Mitchell put the word out for people to pray to Kateri Tekakwitha for his recovery. She then went to his bedside in the hospital in Seattle with a piece of Kateri's wrist-bone - a first-class relic - which she placed against his body, and together


this announcement that she's going to be a saint, and the world explodes around you."

He says he wants to avoid a "circus" developing around the shrine, and to keep it as a simple place of prayer - one that is also true to the saint's Mohawk roots.

"As a child I remember just being in awe of that place. I've always had a spot in my heart for Native American history," says teacher and artist Bob Renaud, who lives just over 100 miles (160 km) north in Carthage, and who has painted images of Kateri Tekakwitha - one of which looks set to become part of the Vatican collection.

"There's a special feeling you get at that place. You can definitely feel the spirit.

"She stood up for what she believed1997 Project for a New American Century plan for regime change in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. They believed Hillary Clinton in 2012 when she said the Assad regime must go and that the international community stands with the Syrian people. In fact…the U.S. has given very little training, small weapons, and funds to very few rebel groups. Congress recently dropped $300 million for the Syrian rebels from the defense bill, almost completely cutting what the Syrian opposition already saw as paltry support from the U.S. On the other hand, the CIA has long had a working relationship with Assad, sending him numerous terrorist suspects to torture as part of their rendition program. Assad has provided Israel with a secure border.

In August, the United States assembled an international


technology an ally. The drones must therefore be understood in the context of a long-standing US desire to develop the technological means for achieving global Pax Americana. And for a century, airpower has been a key component of this vision.

The following article appeared on Al Jazeera. (in Spanish in Rebelión). You can hear my interview with PressTV here. Andrew Sullivan quotes me on his influential blog the Daily Dish and Natasha Lennard quotes me over at Salon.

Gravediggers of Afghanistan and Pakistan have been kept busy as the US drone war has expanded, but civilian deaths remain undercounted as mendacious officials build a myth of technological accuracy and violent ‘justice’ (REUTERS)

A gypsy named Melquiades who died many years ago in Singapore returned to live with the family of ColonelAureliano Buendia in Macondo, because he could no longer bear the tedium of death. These are the kinds of characters that populate Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s magnificent work One Hundred Years of Solitude. Today they also seem to occupy the tribal badlands of Pakistan’s north-western frontier.

On June 3, when Ilyas Kashmiri was killed in a US drone strike, he had already been dead for over a year. In September 2009, the CIA claimed that it killed Kashmiri along with two other senior Taliban leaders in North Waziristan. But the lure of the limelight was seemingly irresistible even in death, because on October 9, Kashmiri returned to give an interview to the late Syed Saleem Shahzad of Asia Times Online.

Baitullah Mehsud, the former commander of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also


rose from the dead many times. On at least 16 occasions, Mehsud was in the gun-sights when CIA drones loosed their Hellfire missiles. Yet, until August 2009, he proved unable to settle into the afterlife. Mullah Sangeen also experienced at least two resurrections.

Death is clearly not what it used to be.

Or perhaps the people who were killed in the other attacks were not Kashmiri, Sangeen or Mehsud. Indeed, the attack on a funeral procession on June 23, 2009, which killed Sangeen was supposedly aimed at the TTP chief. It killed 83 people who certainly were not who they were supposed to be.

These are not isolated events. At the end of 2009, the Pakistani daily Dawncalculated that, of the 708 people killed in 44 drone attacks that year, onlydays after Osama bin Laden was killed, an attack employing remote-control aerial drones killed fifteen people in Pakistan and wounded four.CNN reports that their Islamabad bureau has counted four drone strikes over the last month and a half since the March 17 drone attack which killed 44 people in Pakistan’s tribal region. This most recent suspected strike was the 21st this year. There were 111 strikes in 2010. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan estimated that 957 innocent civilians were killed in 2010.

I’m reminded of an encounter I had, in May, 2010 ,when a journalist and a social worker from North Waziristan met with a small Voices for Creative Nonviolence delegation in Pakistan and described, in gory and graphic detail, the scenes of drone attacks which they had


for procedural purposes. The principal reason stated by UNR for the filing of the bankruptcy petitions was their involvement as defendants in over 17,000 asbestos-related personal injury lawsuits pending in various state and federal courts, exposing them to potential liabilities, high damages, and substantial costs of legal services. Uncertainty as to the extent of these potential liabilities, exacerbated by the refusal of UNR's product liability insurance carriers to defend and indemnify UNR in the asbestos litigation, allegedly placed UNR in an untenable financial position with its institutional lenders. Thus, UNR sought the protection of Chapter 11.

A. Confirmation and Injunction
Much had transpired in the courts since July of 1982 in arriving at a viable plan of reorganization, but at last, on June 1, 1989, the bankruptcy court entered an25, 1989, just prior to entry of the Confirmation Order, the bankruptcy court granted application for the approval of the UNR Asbestos-Disease Claims Trust. The Workers' original appeal from that order was dismissed as premature because the Trustee nominees had refused to accept the Trust as approved and therefore the trust arrangement had to be modified and a new trust proposed. It was not until February 22, 1990, that the bankruptcy court entered two orders, one approving the Trust Agreement and Claims Resolution Procedures, and the other requiring claimants to follow the procedures established by the Trust for the resolution of claims prior to bringing any action in court to liquidate values of claims ("Trust Orders"). On February 23, 1990, the Trustees executed the Trust Agreement and assumed


New UNR and other parties. The Injunction Order prohibits the Workers from pursuing any claims against UNR and certain insurance companies other than through the Trust mechanism, which will assure them at best of only of partial recovery of their claims. The Workers undoubtedly possess a pecuniary interest in the resolution of such challenges sufficient to confer standing to raise them on appeal.
Specifically with respect to the Injunction's provisions concerning the Future Claimants, however, UNR contends that the Workers may not assert the rights and interests of the Future Claimants because the Workers' interest is opposed to that of the Future Claimants. But the Workers rely on precisely that point in arguing that their economic interest is directly affected by provisions in the Injunction concerning Future Claimants. The2 euro
coins (€2 or 2€) are made of two alloys: the inner part of nickel brass, the outer part of copper-nickel. All coins have a common reverse side and
country-specific national sides. The coin has been used since 2002,
with the present common side design dating from 2007.

The €2 euro coin is the coin subject to legal-tender[1]commemorative issues and hence
there is a large number of national sides, including two issues of
identical commemorative sides by all eurozone members.

Contents

History

The coin dates from 2002, when euro coins and banknotes were introduced in the 12
member eurozone and its related territories. The
common side was designed by Luc Luycx, a Belgian artist who won a Europe-wide
competition to design the new coins. The designs of the one and
two-euro coins were intended to show the European Union (EU)


as a whole with the
then 15 countries more closely joined together than on the 10 to
50-cent coins (the 1-cent to 5-cent coins showed the EU as one,
though intending to show its place in the world).

The national sides, then 15 (eurozone + Monaco, San Marino and the Vatican who could mint their own) were
each designed according to national competitions, though to
specifications which applied to all coins such as the requirement
of including twelve stars (see euro coins for more). National designs were
not allowed to change until the end of 2008, unless a monarch
(whose portrait usually appears on the coins) dies or abdicates.
This happened in Monaco and the Vatican City resulting in three new
designs in circulation (the Vatican had an interim design until the
new Pope was selected). National
designs have seen somechanges due to new rule stating that
national designs should include the name of the issuing country
(Finland and Belgium both do not show their name, and hence have
made minor changes).

In 2004 the commemorative coins were allowed to be minted in six
states (a short interim period was set aside so citizens could get
used to the new currency). By 2007 nearly all states had issued a
commemorative issue and the first eurozone-wide commemorative was
issued to celebrate the Treaty of Rome (see commemorative
issued below).

As the EU's membership has
since expanded in 2004 and
2007, with further expansions envisaged, the common face of all
euro coins from the value of 10 cent and above were redesigned in
2007 to show a new map. This map showed Europe, not just the EU, as
one continuous landmass, however Cyprus was moved


west as the map cut off after
the Bosphorus (which was
seen as excluding Turkey for
political reasons). The redesign in 2007, rather than in 2004, was
due to the fact that 2007 saw the first enlargement of the eurozone; the entry of Slovenia. Hence, the
Slovenian design was added to the designs in circulation.

Cyprus and Malta joined in 2008 and Slovakia in 2009 bringing three more designs.
Also in 2009, the second eurozone-wide issue of a 2-euro
commemorative coin was issued, celebrating ten years of the
euro.

Design

The coins are composed of two alloys. The inner circle is
composed of three layers (nickel brass, nickel, nickel brass) and
the outer ring of copper-nickel giving them a two colour (silver
outer and gold inner) appearance. The diameter of the coins are
25.75 mm, a 2.20 mm thickness and a mass ofwas chosen by a panel
of leading Belgian officials, artisans and experts in numismatics.
They chose an effigy of King
Albert II designed by Jan Alfons Keustermans, Director of the
Municipal Academy of Fine Arts of Turnhout. To the right hand side among the
stars was the kings monogram, a letter "A", underneath a crown.
The year was lower down, also among the stars. The 2008 redesign
included the letters BE (standing for Belgium) beneath the
monogram, which was moved out of the stars into the centre circle
but still to the right of the King's portrait. The date was also
moved out and placed beneath the effigy and included two symbols
either side (left: signature mark of the master of the mint, right:
mint mark).

1st Series (2002–2007)

2nd Series (2008–)

Cyprus:
The Cypriot design features the Idol of Pomos, a prehistoricsculpture dating


from the
30th century BC, as an example of the islands historic civilisation
and art. It was chosen in a public vote and the exact design was
created by Erik Maell and Tatiana Soteropoulos. It includes the
name of Cyprus in Greek and Turkish (ΚΥΠΡΟΣ and KIBRIS) each side
of the idol. It has been used since Cyprus adopted the euro in
2008.

Finland:
The Finnish design depicts fruit and
leaves of the cloudberry, with the date visible at the
bottom above the stars. It was designed by Raimo Heino. The first series included the
initial of the mint master of the Mint of Finland, Raimo Makkonen
(an M), to the bottom right. When the coins were redesign to meet
the new design requirements, the initial was replaced by the mint's
mint mark and moved the to the left, with the lettersFI (for
Finland) sitting in the bottom right.

1st Series (2002–2006)

2nd Series (2007–)

France:
The French
design by Joaquim Jimenez depicts a stylised tree (which
symbolises life, continuity and growth) upon a hexagon (l'hexagone is often used to
refer to France due to is broadly hexagonal shape). The letters RF,
standing for République française (French Republic), stand each
side of the trunk of the tree. Around the edge, but inside the
circle of stars, is the motto of France: “Liberté, égalité,
fraternité”. The stars themselves are stylised, linked together
by a pattern of lines. The date is located towards the bottom
between the stars and the mint marks are located at the top.

Germany:
The German
design depicts the German coat of arms (the German
eagle) which symbolises German sovereignty. The date appears at the
base of the eagle and the gold behind the stars is


etched to give
visual effect. It was designed by Heinz and Sneschana
Russewa-Hoyer.

Malta:
The Maltese design is dominated by the
Maltese Cross (the emblem of the Sovereign Order of Malta: 1520–1798, now a
national symbol), with the background of a darker hatched texture.
The word MALTA is shown with each letter appearing in a segment
across the top half of the coin to the edge of the inner circle.
The date is shown at the base of the inner circle. The cross was
most popular in a public vote and was designed by Noel Galea Bason,
the final design once more was most popular of all other proposals
and hence was used for the one euro coin. It has been used since
Malta switched to the euro in 2008.

Monaco:
The first Monegasque design contained an
effigy of Prince Rainier III with
the nameMONACO was written across the top of the coin's outer
circle and the year across the bottom of the outer circle with the
mint marks. Upon the death of Prince Rainier III in 2005, and the
accession of Prince Albert II Prince
Rainier's effigy was replaced with that of Prince Albert's and the
name Monaco and the year were brought within the inner circle.

1st Series (2002–2005)

2nd Series (206-)

Netherlands:
The Dutch
design displays a stylised profile of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
over the left half of the coin, with the right hand side containing
the words "Beatrix Koningin der Nederlanden" (“Beatrix Queen of The
Netherlands” in Dutch) written vertically on three lines and the
year written horizontally to the lower right. This design was taken
from the former Dutch guilder. The mint marks are located
on the bottom of the outer


ring and the twelve stars are compressed
onto the left side of the coin only, rather than forming a full
circle.

Portugal:
The Portuguese design shows the royal
seal of 1144 surrounded by the country's castles and five escutcheona with silver bezants set in relation to the
surrounding European stars which is supposed to symbolise dialogue,
exchange of values and dynamics in the building of Europe. Between
the castles is the numbers of the year towards the bottom and the
letters of the name Portugal between the upper icons. The stars are
inset on a ridge.

Slovakia:
The Slovak
design came into use in 2009, when Slovakia adopted the euro.
It features the Coat of arms of Slovakia, a
double cross on three hills extending across the lower three stars.
The background is a relief of rocks, representing the stability and
strength of Slovakia. "SLOVENSKO"(Slovakia) is written to the
right of the emblem and the date to the lower left. The design was
chosen by a public competition and vote in 2005, with Ivan Řehák
creating this winning design. His initials appear under the right
branch of the cross, and the mint mark under the left branch.

Slovenia:
The Slovenian design is a silhouette
of France
Prešeren, a Sloveneromantic poet from the
19th century who inspired much of Slovene literature that followed
him. Below his silhouette are the words, in stylised writing,
“Shivé naj vsi naródi” meaning "God’s blessing on all nations".
This is from the first line of the Slovenian national anthem, which
is the 7th stanza of Zdravljica, a poem by France Prešeren.
To the bottom left, tracing the curve of the outer circle is
Prešeren's name and similarly on the right hand side, divided


by a
star per letter, is the name SLOVENIJA (Slovenia). The year and
mint marks are also placed within the stars. The design came into
use in 2007 when Slovenia adopted the euro and it was designed by
Miljenko Licul, Maja Licul and Janez Boljka.

Spain:
The Spanish design has an effigy of King
Juan Carlos I designed by Luis José Díaz. To his left on a
curved raised area is the name "España" (Spain) and four stars on
the right hand size are on a raise area in the same manner. The
mint mark is located beneath España and the date on the lower
portion between the stars.

1st Series (1999–2009)

2nd Series (2010-)

Vatican
City:
The Vatican design has changed two
times. The first displayed an effigy of Pope John Paul
II. The name CITTA DEL VATICANO (Vatican City),
followed by the year and mintmark, was written in a break between
the stars below. Following the death of John Paul II in 2005, a new
coin was issued during the Sede vacante until a new Pope was chosen.
This contained the insignia of the Apostolic Chamber and the coat of arms
of the Cardinal
Chamberlain. When Pope Benedict XVI was elected, his
effigy appeared on the coins, with the name of the city now broken
to his top right with the year and mint mark in the middle to his
right.

1st Series (2002–2005)

2nd Series (2005–2006)

3rd Series (2006–)

Edges

The edges of the 2 euro coin vary according to the issuing
state;

Standard €2 edge inscriptions by
country

Country

Edge inscription

Description

Austria

The sequence "2 EURO ★★★" repeated four times alternately
upright and inverted.

Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Monaco, Spain

The sequence "2 ★ ★" repeated six times alternately upright and
inverted.

Planned
designs

Austria, Germany and


stars, the year and the issuing country. Not all states have
issued their own commemorative coins except for in 2007 and 2009
when every then-eurozone state issued a common coin (with only
different languages and country names used) to celebrate the 50th
anniversary of the Treaty of Rome (1957-2007) and the
10th anniversary of the euro (1999-2009). Eurozone-wide issues do
not count as a state's one-a-year issue. Germany has begin issuing
one coin a year for each of its states (the German Bundesländer series which
will take it up to 2021.

Similar
coins

The coins were minted in several of the participating countries,
many using blanks produced at Birmingham Mint, Birmingham, England. A problem has arisen in
differentiation of coins made using similar blanks and minting
techniques. The Turkish 1 Lira coin resembles very much
the €1 coin in both weight and size,Services sector optimism and profitability falls

Optimism across the services sector fell sharply in the three months to November, as business volumes and profitability both declined, according to the latest quarterly CBI Services Sector Survey.

Sentiment declined in both sub-sectors. In the business and professional services sector – which includes accountancy, legal and marketing firms – optimism about the business situation fell at the fastest pace since November 2016. Sentiment in the consumer services sector – which includes hotels, bars, restaurants, travel and leisure firms – also fell again, after improving in the quarter to August.

Trends in business volumes deteriorated in both sub-sectors. The business and professional services sector saw growth in business volumes stall, following a steady expansion earlier in 2018, with a slight decline expected in the three


that would harm jobs and living standards. Second, the agreement opens a route to a long-term trade deal, which must have ambitious access to the European marketplace for our world-beating services sector.”

Investment intentions for the year ahead are subdued in both sub-sectors, but more starkly so for consumer services. Expenditure on land and buildings is expected to be cut back at the fastest pace since August 2013, and spending on vehicles, plant and machinery cut at the fastest pace since August 2012. In both sub-sectors spending on IT is expected to continue growing in the year ahead, however.

Employment growth remained firm in consumer services and around the average in business and professional services, with growth in headcount in both sub-sectors expected to edge higher in the coming quarter.Coleman quits Wales for Sunderland

Coleman succeeded the late Gary Speed as Wales manager in 2012, and took his side all the way to the semi-finals of Euro 2016, where they lost to eventual champions Portugal.

Wales finished in third place in Europe's Group D in World Cup qualifying.

Fans always have something to say, especially on twitter, and the news that Chris Coleman was to take charge of struggling Sunderland was no different.

However, the inability to reach next summer's World Cup, and the FAW's failure to meet his demands have seen him leave to resume his club management career. We and Wales as a nation will be eternally grateful for the job he has done over six years. "Kit Symons has also resigned from his position as National Team Coach


and the FAW would like to put on record its gratitude for his commitment to the Wales National Team".

Cris 'Cyborg' Justino will battle Holly Holm in UFC 219
According to sources, in addition to a UFC 219 bout agreement, Justino also has agreed to a new contract with the UFC. Cris "Cyborg" Justino answers media questions at the UFC Gym in La Mirada, California on Thursday, July 27, 2017.

Mother of Texas toddler found dead now facing charges
There is now no evidence to corroborate Wesley Mathews statement that Sherin was still alive when her family returned home. Wesley Mathews, 37, remains in the Dallas County Jail on a charge of causing serious bodily injury to a child.

Robbie Stockdale, who was appointed caretaker manager after Simon Grayson's departure, remains in chargefor Sunderland's clash with Millwall later, however Coleman should be in the dugout for Tuesday's trip to Aston Villa.

After drawing with Panama in a friendly last week, Coleman said he was hoping for a quick resolution on his future with Wales and, at that point, had expected to stay on.

They have been without a manager since sacking Simon Grayson last month after one win in their opening 16 league matches left them bottom of the standings.

Chris Coleman has emerged as the favourite to take charge at Sunderland but having built such a good reputation with Wales, is it too big a risk?


ever-threatening danger of
Sabinus, or the exciting escape of Cicero, when the fort of Aduatuca
was endangered by a swoop of German marauders. Throughout the story
the natives, with their inferior civilization, their perfidies and
duplicities, are mere pigmies in the clutches of a giant. Like an
irresistible force of nature, the great Roman tramples down everything
in his path.

The same impassive restraint is shown in the “Civil War.” The work
contains fewer thrilling events; but dramatic movements like the
crossing of the Rubicon, grievances at the hands of his enemies, and
his frequent overtures for peace seldom fail to awaken the reader’s
sympathy. The word “commentaries,” applied to these books, signifies
merely “notes,” as the author himself regarded them; but in the
judgment of after ages they are model historical narratives.

From the “Commentaries,” too, we may form an estimateit centuries later the
scholars of the Renaissance first found the vitalizing spark of Greek
culture.

Of Cæsar’s immediate associates, Cassius, Brutus, and Antony are most
interesting, if only for their important rôles in Shakespeare’s “Julius
Cæsar.” Though showered with offices, Cassius, a malcontent, bore a
grudge against Cæsar for being his master, and began to plot against
him. He found many influential men, who, jealous of Cæsar’s power, were
themselves anxious to divide the spoils of government. To give the plot
an air of respectability, he won over Brutus, ostensibly a student and
man of letters, but at heart an unfeeling usurer. Appointed by Cæsar
governor of Cisalpine Gaul and prætor, Brutus became an assassin of his
benefactor.

Among the three near associates of Cæsar, Mark Antony was far the
ablest, and possessed the merit of remaining faithful till the death
of


British police have used facial recognition technology to arrest a suspect for the first time.

The South Wales Police identified the suspect using intelligent cameras that can match it footage against images stored in a database.

The man was arrested at the end of last month using the new tools it has emerged. The police confirmed the arrest but were unable to provide further details.

"It was a local man unconnected to the Champions League," a spokesman for the South Wales Police said.

It comes days after South Wales Police started trialling the technology at the Champions League final at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. The police had a database of 500,000 custody images that it was matching against images captured at the game.

If the months-long trial is successful the Welsh forceSerial killers and America’s worst rapists and murderers are discussed with retired FBI SSA Jim Clemente–who profiles Gary Heidnik, Ronald Dominique, Israel Keyes, Ronald Dominique, James Mitchell Debardeleben and Robert Spangler–with attention to their cases and the evidence that eventually landed them in jail. We also look at suspected rapist and murderer Jesse Matthew, and learn about the psychological patterns that can add up to violent psychopathy in this full length exploration of serial killers on Crime Time.

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Category:Rural localities in Vladimir Oblastonly way to kill our kind and that only those I allow to kill me can, and still he refused. For years, I begged him to kill me, knowing that if he didn't I would eventually kill him, but he never gave in.

Then, the day came when I could no longer control myself and I attacked him once again, this time with the intent to kill him.

He proved the better fighter and, following his instincts alone, he killed me. For years after he went crazy with grief. But eventually, he came to blame me. He started killing humans, thinking of them as food. He swore that he would never let my prophecy come to pass. He changed Aro and before long he found a mate.

Together they hunted humans,


my son always looking for the overpowering scent that would mark me, while Aro became more and more powerful.

Over the centuries I was reborn several times, never with the knowledge of my past lives but always with the knowledge of vampires. Many of those lives my son would find and kill me before I could become a vampire once more. In five of those lives, however, he did not. In those lives I died before he could find me but in each of those lives I was able to give birth to children, except for one.

In the first life, I gave birth to a son and when, at the age of 23, he was turned vampire I had a heart attack. In the second life, I gave birthto twins who were turned right in front of my eyes at the age of 15 and then I was killed by the Volturi. In the third life, I killed myself after I learned of my loved one's death in a war. The fourth life gave me another son who had died when he was seventeen because of an illness; and in the fifth, I had one more boy and died on a bear hunting trip when a bear surprised me. My son, a then twenty year old, had been badly mauled and had been found by a vampire who had him changed as quickly as possible.

All my other lives, my first son killed me before I could even have a real life. He failed in this life.


Old Chinese and Egyptian physicians used some chemical methods for the treatment of wounds and injuries. Although the beneficial effect of passing surgical instruments through flame was well known to ancient civilizations, the heat as a preservative method in medical industry, was first introduced in 1809 in France. Joseph Lister (1827--1912) believed that it was microbes carried in the air that caused diseases to be spread in wards. Sterile gowns and caps were used by Gustav Neuber. Surgical masks were applied in 1897 by Mikulicz, while rubber gloves were advised by William Halstead in 1890.

For the last two and half years, Syria has suffered from the worst kind of war. So far more than 125 thousand civilians are dead and more than four hundred thousand injured. A lotby

Public lands managed by the federal government loom large in western politics, a defining topic dictating the political debate. Corporate interests – logging, grazing, and mineral extraction most prominently – have often succeeded in dominating that debate through their good-old-boy network of legislators, county commissioners, lobby groups, and captive agencies. This powerful group largely controls the imaginary “custom and culture” of the West, a myth which reflects an attitude of dominion over nature, an anti-regulation mindset, and an obsession with economic profit regardless of social or ecological consequences. But in reality, westerners in large numbers don’t actually share these values. With the influx of tech companies and professional workers from other regions, this extraction-centric worldview is becoming a tinier and tinier minority viewpoint in a West that increasingly


don’t want to see species plummet to the level of ESA listing, the majority of westerners do want to see highly-imperiled species like sage-grouse gain federal protection under the law. A 2004 Central Colorado College survey found that on the conservative West Slope of Colorado, 68% thought the Gunnison sage grouse ought to be listed under the ESA. The Gunnison sage grouse was listed as a ‘threatened species’ in 2014, and a 2016 poll of West Slope voters found that 66% thought the bird should continue to be listed under the ESA until they are fully recovered. A 2014 poll commissioned by Defenders of Wildlife found that 67% of westerners supported listing the related greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act, including 57% in Wyoming, traditionally consideredA hairdresser refused to shave off a depressed teenager's hair and instead spent 13 hours fixing it for her instead.

Kayley Olsson, a student hairdresser in Waterloo, Iowa, recently shared a story on Facebook that has touched the hearts of millions about a depressed teenager who came to sit in her salon chair.

The 20-year-old explained the 16-year-old had been dealing with severe depression for years and felt so worthless that she couldn't even brush her own hair.

The unnamed teen asked Olsson to just shave her head in time for her school's picture day but the hairdresser refused and spent 13 hours fixing it for her.

Olsson shared the heart-warming story with her Facebook followers on Tuesday, as a reminder that mental illness affects people of all ages.

This unnamed depressed teenager


asked her hairdresser to shave off her matted hair on Monday in Waterloo, Iowa. The 16-year-old said she felt so worthless that she couldn't even bring herself to brush her hair

Instead, the girl's 20-year-old hairdresser spent 13 hours over two days fixing her hair so it would look good on picture day on Tuesday. Pictured: After shots of the teen's hair

The hairdresser, who attends cosmetology school at Capri Waterloo, has garnered more than 160,000 likes, 67,000 shares and more than 8,500 comments on the post.

Olsson began her story by saying it was one of the most challenging experiences that she ever had and said she chose to keep the teen anonymous.

She wrote: 'She got to the point where she felt so down and so worthless she couldn't evenbrush her hair, she told me she only got up to use the restroom.

'She starts back at school in a few weeks but she has her school pictures today. When she walked in she told us "just cut it all off I can't deal with the pain of combing it out", she called herself worthless for it.

'It honestly broke my heart and we tried everything we could to keep this child's hair for her! At the end of the day I want this to be a lesson to people.'

Kayley Olsson, a 20-year-old student hairdresser, shared the story with her Facebook followers as a reminder that mental health illness affects people of all ages

SIGNS THAT YOUR TEENAGER MAY HAVE DEPRESSION Although they may not describe feeling depressed, warning signs


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¡Madre de Dios! “Juanpool” launches on Indiegogo, fully funded on first day

The creators of the indie comedy comic Juanpool: Journey of the Juan have launched a crowdfunding campaign for the first two issues on Indiegogo. To put it plainly, the project is already making loco bucks, having achieved its full funding goal in the first 24 hours!

Juanpool is already a cult favorite with a dedicated group of snarky fans, and it was even nominated for indie comic of the year on Comix Central. Not too shabby for a book that was largely crafted while the creator lived in his car! (Holy shit, right?)

Speaking of the creator, Juanpool is the brainchild of Troy “Mistah Mahvel” Torres, who created the character as part of a challenge on Cap’n Cummings‘ YouTubeSearch

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Tinashe is an American actress, singer and dancer. Tinashe released two critically acclaimed mixtape “In Case We Die” (2012) and “Reverie” (2012). After the release of the mixtapes, Tinashe was noticed by label RCA Records, in which she signed a deal with them in 2012. She is currently working on her debut solo album, due for release in 2014. She has also released her 3rd and most recent mixtape “Black Water” on November 26, 2013. Apart from music, Tinashe is known for her acting.

Tinashe – Black Water (Mixtape)

The mixtape is the follow up to her two previously released, critically lauded 2012 mixtapes In Case We Die and Reverie.


Victim raped by accused after he threatened to show photos of her undressed to her family, trial is told

A blackmailer raped a woman and pocketed her life savings after threatening to publish lingerie photos of her, a court heard.

Daood Hussain, 28, demanded his victim
meet him for sex sessions or he claimed he would print X-rated pictures
advertising her as a prostitute, jurors were told.

The unemployed electrical engineer, of St Andrews Road, Bordesley Village, has denied 12 charges of rape and one of blackmail.

In
a police interview played at Birmingham Crown Court the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said Hussain had demanded she meet him during the summer of 2012.

It
is alleged he showed her a leaflet he had made which included pictures of her in lingerie, along withseized.

Officers
found £2,700 cash from the woman’s bank account in his room and the document he made up saved on his computer, the court heard.

Defending
Hussain, Farah Ramzan said the woman had consented to sex and had paid for some of the hotel rooms where the pair had met.

The jurors of five women and seven men were sent home on Tuesday after a day of deliberation, to continue on Wednesday.


particularly well, he will modify and adjust it and make it look like it was the plan all along. He encountered enormous pushback on what a total pullout would mean for the fight against Islamic State -- what you're seeing now is the response."

On Wednesday Trump insisted from the White House Diplomatic Reception Room that, "we're getting out ... Let someone else fight over this long-bloodstained sand." But his Republican critics, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, had been working hard behind the scenes to change the White House approach.

A day later, on Thursday, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham went to a meeting in the White House Situation Room with Trump, eight to ten other GOP senators, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and others.it's not clear how long. Though the strategy is being portrayed as a continued anti-ISIS mission, Amb. Jim Jeffrey, the US Envoy for Syria and the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, suggested damaging and long-lasting impact from the President's haphazard policy moves on Syria.

America's Kurdish allies, the Syrian Democratic Forces, have lost ground, suffered casualties, seen more than 170,000 people displaced and many say they've feel betrayed by the US.

Russia, Turkey, Iran and Syria have all gained an advantage with the US pullback. Hardened ISIS prisoners have escaped and the US is unable to track their whereabouts.

"The Turkish incursion into northeast Syria is a tragedy, it was long standing US government policy in two Administrations to keep that from happening and we were clearly not successful," Jeffrey told


Meisner was the first star to strut her stuff down the red carpet.

"I'm really excited to be here," giggled the 16-year old, pint-sized pro, who attended the event with her father. "I really want to meet Lance Armstrong."

Actress Carmen Electra also weighed in on the evening's event: "Everyone in Hollywood comes out for this, it's a big deal," she said.

Not far behind these lovely ladies was NBA forward Lebron James, looking dapper in a three piece navy ensemble that probably cost more than my college education. The superstar echoed similar sentiments of excitement.

"It doesn't get any better than this," he said. "All of these athletes in one room is pretty special."

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GUEST OP-ED: Outpouring of kindness at Dreamlift' is overwhelming

Some 25 years ago I was approached by dear friends of mine, Joe Lech and Dave Burns who were both involved with raising money for a local charity. Both Joe and Dave were law enforcement officers (ironically both their sons Joe and Dave are also and now I work with them) and asked for my help at a golf tournament.

I said sure and asked what charity is it and they said the Sunshine Foundation. They told me that the foundation was started by a Philadelphia police officer by the name of Bill Sample. Bill walked the beat at Childrens Hospital and made a promise that when he retired he would start a non-profit that would grant wishes and dreams toSam Sparks

He is a member of the Fire Rescue Squad. In High Anxiety, he and Hal help put the fire out at a skyscraper, and in Sibling Blowout, he and Hal E. Copter even helped put out the Class 5 oil well fire in Oklahoma.


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The Art of Noise's second album, 1986's In Visible Silence is reissued as an expanded 2LP edition in limited blue vinyl (only 1500 copies).

The original album is remastered and this reissue features 17 bonus tracks including non-album audio, previously unreleased material and two 12-inch mixes!

All tracks are taken from the original master tapes and the remastering sessions were overseen by Anne Dudley, JJ Jeczalik and Gary Langan.

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Hoops And Mallets Something Always Happens Why Me ? A Nation RegretsA Syrian refugee who came to Ireland in 2015 has launched a bakery business in Cork.

Mohamed Ghnaimi says he has been determined to work since he and his family arrived in the country from Lebanon under a resettlement programme.

"We fled the war in Syria with nothing. But when I arrived in Ireland I could not just sit at home, taking money from the authorities and doing nothing. I had to work to provide for my family," he said.

The Alsham bakery, located on a the Exchange Business Park in Cork, is producing Syrian flatbreads.

Machinery was imported from Egypt and the small Syrian community in the city has helped to get the business off the ground.

Initial customers have included halal shops and restaurants, although Mr Ghnaimi says his ambition is


Love Island castaway welcome on a beach nearer home

Margate Chairman Alistair Bayliss is rather irritated- but not, as some media reports might have you believe, with striker Michael Thalassitis. His irritation is instead saved for the authors of media reports suggesting that the club are somehow angry with the player for appearing on reality TV.

Bayliss insists that, contrary to the claims of some commentators, Thalassitis is still very much part of the plans at Hartsdown Park- and indeed that everyone at the club is supporting him as he returns to the reality TV show Love Island.

Thalassitis, who agreed a new one year deal at the end of last season, is due to return to the club ahead of the new campaign. Bayliss stated:

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Scott Kelly Reflects On His Year Off The Planet

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"I have taken a lot of pictures because I've been up here for a long time," NASA astronaut Scott Kelly said during a recent press conference from the International Space Station. "I've definitely taken some good ones and some memorable ones."

When he returns to Earth on Tuesday evening, Kelly will have spent 340 days aboard the ISS. While that's not quite a year, it's still a record for an American astronaut, and one of the longest-lasting spaceflights ever.

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Kelly is not the only member of his family to visit the station. His twin brother, Mark Kelly, was also an astronaut, and flew multiple shuttle missions to the orbiting outpost. The twins grew upin West Orange, N.J., as the sons of police officers. "We lived a pretty exciting and adventurous life," Scott says of his childhood.

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Scott Kelly takes his images through the windows of the Space Station's cupola module. It might give the impression that he lives and works with the Earth constantly in view, but that's not the case. Most of the space station's rooms are fluorescent-lit boxes. "You don't get real sunlight," he says.

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His photographs have captured some stunning views of Earth at all times of the day and night. The process of photography has changed his perspective on the planet. "The more I look at Earth, and certain parts of Earth, the more I


15 Nov 2012 - Noon briefing by Martin Nesirky, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. Guests: Chef de Cabinet, Susana Malcorra and the Head of the Secretary-General's Internal Review Panel on United Nations Action in Sri Lanka, Charles Petrie.Sun columnist Trevor Kavanagh has stepped down from his role as a board member at the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) after two years.

Kavanagh was forced to apologise to the board last year over a comment piece criticising Channel 4 News reader Fatima Manji at a time when she was pursuing a complaint against The Sun.

Later in the year he also apologised for using the term “The Muslim Problem” in an article about sex grooming gangs, but accused critics of a “concocted explosion of Labour and Islamic hysteria”.

IPSO chief executive Matt Tee said: “Trevor brought valuable knowledge of mass market newspapers in his two years on the Board. That insight is very important to IPSO’s work.”

Kavanagh was two years into a three-year contact when he stepped down at


both birth certificate and passports. But despite of this consciousness, people live there and focus on the good things. Though the old camp is located a long the main road into the old town of Dachau, it is well hidden by sports facilities, drive-in fast food places and supermarkets.

The strangeness of growing up in a place so closely associated with an often-repressed past is to some degree central to the German national identity. I see that there’s even a film about it.

Central Munich on the other hand has been washed completely clean of anything reminding people of the cruel past. Even though huge sections of the city were completely bombed out by the end of the war, the Muncheners have rebuilt all of it faithfully. It is hardto see that only a few of the central historical buildings in Munich are less than 60 years old.

The Odeonsplatz in central Munich was where Hitler’s 1923 coup was foiled. Hitler survived only because his bodyguard threw himself on top of him, taking 11 bullets from the 100 police officers barricaded by the square. When Hitler came into power in 1933, he erected a memorial on that site to honour the memory of the 15 nazis who died there that day. He also made it law that people passing by the memorial should salute it with the Hitler salute. There were police officers posted by the memorial at all times to enforce this.

Non-nazis often tried to avoid this by walking through the nearby alley Viscardigasse that took them


Dog's killing reopens old wounds for former Navy SEAL Survivor of war loses dog to random violence

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All it took was the gunshot fired outside his Walker County home to trigger training ingrained in former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell, the lone survivor of a dramatic battle in Afghanistan in 2005.

He did a sweep through the house. Checked on his mother. And bolted out the door, where he found dead his beloved Labrador retriever,was a non-executive director of Aegon, the Dutch-based insurance company. In 2003, he was appointed President of Boeing UK. In 2007, he joined the Board of Geopark, the Aim listed oil and gas company, as a non-executive Director, and in March 2008, Sir Michael became Chairman of Matra Petroleum plc.

Sir Michael held several senior positions at the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), and was Chairman of the Club from 2000–2001. He was also a Commissioner at the Royal Hospital Chelsea.

While serving a tour of duty in Moscow he researched a biography of Aleksey Arakcheyev which was published in 1969, and towards the end of his diplomatic career he wrote a memoir of his youth, A House in Flanders. He also edited a memoir by his aunt, the


Local Nashville politics and family political leanings

Seigenthaler discusses his awareness of Nashville politics as he grew up during the late 1920s and 1930s. In particular, Seigenthaler discusses the role of Edward Hull "Boss" Crump of Memphis in Nashville politics, focusing especially on his uncle's interactions with him. Seigenthaler offers several anecdotes regarding the political beliefs of his grandfather and his uncle, noting that his own parents tended to stay out of politics while simultaneously instilling in him progressive views.

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Oral History Interview with John Seigenthaler, December 24 and 26, 1974. Interview A-0330. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Well, my grandfather . . . andwe lived during one period with him, was
intimately involved with local politics, really up to his ass in it. But
. . . it was always local politics. I remember my grandmother‚Äîmy
mother's mother‚Äîsaying that on election night she used to worry about
him. He'd always put on his pistol and go out.

BILL FINGER:

Right here in Nashville?

JOHN SEIGENTHALER:

That's right. And he used to tell great stories about the old days in
politics. On my father's side, his brother, Louis, was the son-in-law of
Bill Jones, who was Nashville's agent of Boss Crump. So politics was
always there. Periodically, Uncle Louis' job with the state government
would come up for family discussion. Every election, Uncle Louis' job
was either in jeapordy or safe. He was either going to get promoted or
he was going to get fired, depending


on how Crump did. And in those
days, Crump always did very well. I always was aware of politics at the
very base level.

BILL FINGER:

Having a job and that kind of thing?

JOHN SEIGENTHALER:

That kind of thing. Or literally running the town for four years, which I
always thought Bill Jones did. I mean, he was literally Boss Crump's
boss in town.

BILL FINGER:

Crump controlled Nashville?

JOHN SEIGENTHALER:

Yes, Crump controlled much of Nashville politics through Bill Jones. And
usually, they won. Later on, Uncle Louis had a tough time with his job.
As a matter of fact, when I came here as editor in 1962, he was working
in our press room. As a boy he had started out in the press room, and
that's where he died. He came to see me and asked if he could comeback,
he still held his union card. Uncle Walter was circulation director and
he and I were both helpful to Uncle Louis, and he came back.

JIM TRAMEL:

So your sense of politics was more local than state?

JOHN SEIGENTHALER:

By far. Another thing that stands out in my mind going back: I remember
those conventions about Uncle Louis. I remember conversations with my
grandfather. My grandfather used to tell stories about how he was
helping some guy get elected county registrar or county trustee. He once
was helping a veterinarian named Boots Brown in a race for some office.
This was one of the great stories that he used to tell. He was helping
Boots. And they ran a man against Boots who didn't have any legs. He
told this story many times . . .
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contractor and he had a man
working for him named Gene Woodruff. And Gene Woodruff had a brother
named Horace Woodruff. I remember as a child, hearing around the
table that Horace was an animal. I didn't know what
that meant until suddenly, Horace killed a policeman named Mike
Mulvehill and was sentenced to go to the electric chair. I remember my
father and my grandfather and my Uncle Louis sitting down in the living
room, and I don't know where I was, but I was somewhere around there,
talking about arranging to go to see the governor to ask for Horace
Woodruff's life. They did do that and Horace Woodruff's life was spared.
Well, then a year or two later, he led a break in which three or four
people were killed. Another inmate, Lonnie Taylor had hisjournalist, there was
nothing in your family background that would . . . the period that we
are talking about is the time when Kefauver was challenging McKellar and
Crump.

JOHN SEIGENTHALER:

Right. Before that, even.

JIM TRAMEL:

But your family, if anything, was on the other side.

JOHN SEIGENTHALER:

That's right, at least on my father's side. My uncle Louis, I am sure,
would have been against Kefauver. Now my father was pretty independent
of my Uncle Louis. But I would suspect that Uncle Louis probably always
voted with Crump. Uncle Walter was, on the other hand, identified more
with the Tennessean, which was against Crump. He had
come up with the
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Tennessean and he would have identified with Luke Lea
and


later with Silliman Evans and the anti-Crump forces. His brother
would have been the son-in-law of Crump's agent in Nashville. But both
Uncle Walter and my father were almost apolitical. Uncle Walter
identified with Colonel Lee, who owned the newspaper before Silliman
Evans. He identified with Colonel Lee and against Jimmy Stahlman.
Really, the added split in Tennessee politics was inside the Democratic
party and was a prohibition versus anti-prohibition split. Colonel Lee
identified very strongly with the drys, although he was a wet. And his
editor, Edward Ward Carmack, a former United States Senator, was
murdered on the street in downtown Nashville. The wet forces identified
with Crump and the dry forces‚ÄîLea and Carmack‚Äîwere anti-Crump. Wet and
dry didn't mean a damn thing philosophically, or in any way except
politically. Well, my uncle Walter came up on the dryside, with the
anti-Crump forces. That's the uncle who was with the newspaper. The
other uncle, Louis, was the son-in-law of Crump's man in town, so there
was that dichotomy of interests within the family. And I suspect that my
father was probably caught in the middle. And he went about his
contracting business and didn't give a damn one way or the other.


did it. Not this year, though -- apparently, the old head chef of the resturuant has retired, and this year the new head chef (formerly the desert chef for Aquevit) was in charge of the whole board. She changed some things -- specifically, she went almost entirely to smaller portions, but more variety (except for the rollmops; a herring preparation that by necessity can't really be shrunk), which everyone really appreciated, and the much greater variety in foods on offer couldn't but be appreciated by the crowd. As it happens, when I asked about the changes, she was standing and looking at people taking from the buffet, so I went over and contratulated/praised her -- and later, she went over and greeted our table (and got praise andago, the game playing turned to disaster, as someone left an open container of punch on the table right next to a large, long, cardboard-chit filled, and expensive game--which I proceeded to knock over on my way back in onto the game midway through. Not an experience I wish to repeat (and which, combined with a play-through of the new Dominion expansion a few months later which also occasioned a spilled drink, made me much more willing to enforce a "no open containers of liquid near the games" rule in general when I play. I wasn't all that pleased by the apple honey tiramisu -- I added some cinnamon on top which I thought overpowered the more subtle apple and honey flavors, and it didn't really have enough


time before serving for the cookies to reach a proper moist consistency (I prepared it early afternoon, and hoped the two hours in the fridge after we arrived would be enough to put it over the edge)--plus I regretted not putting more of the homemade apple sauce (chopped, but not peeled gala apples, stewed for an hour or two while doing the other preparations, with just a touch of honey put into the mix, and then boiled almost to the point of the liquid boiling out, and slightly mashed after softening) into the dish rather than just using it as the dipping sauce for the lady fingers--but most of the tray was still gone by the time we left, so clearly not everyone agreed with me.

New Years day,we went (as we have for the last 2-3 years, I think) to the Neilsen Hayden's party--bringing a new apple tiramisu that repaired all the flaws I had with the first one (honey on top, not cinnamon, prepared the night before, the entire remainder of the apple sauce used to dip and flavor the ladyfingers and the remainder used as a layer on its own), as well as a more traditional tiramisu with kaluha, fresh coffee, and cocoa, which got praise from, of all people, Ellen Datlow. It was a lot of fun, with munches and conversations with both close friends and people in the publishing industry (and sometimes people who are both, like Moshe Feder).

It's hard for me to get enough of it -- although the variety


School daze: Carving out a career on the kids’ schedule

It's arguable who takes more delight in seeing this school year end: my son or me. As the summer drew closer, our school routine began to fall apart. Any imagination I once brought to lunches disappeared as the weather warmed. The same applied to my oversight of homework. I even forgot about an erratically placed early-closing day, prompting a call from school – not a proud moment for any parent. These issues disappear in summer with his longer camp hours.

So when a heated debate erupted last week in the media, prompted by Princeton University Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter's piece in The Atlantic, one line caught my attention: "Make school schedules match work schedules."

Prof. Slaughter explained in " Why Women StillCan't Have It All" that a career in academia, although demanding, afforded her the opportunity to set her own schedule. When she moved to her dream job as director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department, the first woman to hold that role, she experienced what many already know: being at the mercy of someone else's work schedule as a parent raises many hurdles.

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The overall tone of the article suggests that society needs to change to accommodate women's advancement, but to what degree does that include the education system? School schedules reflect an outdated agrarian society, the piece noted, or at least one in which stay-at home mothers were the norm. That model no longer exists, certainly not in downtown Toronto where I live.

The


discussion about extending school hours continues, with U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed the idea which will materialize this fall for many Chicago students. In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron launched a commission that will, in part, explore the idea of extending school hours.

For the many working parents I know, traditional school hours mean constructing a duct-taped solution of nannies, after-school programs and the support of friends and family. If one part of the child-care house of cards shifts, it can wreak havoc.

"I often feel that the school system still believes that every mother is a stay-at-home mom," said Cheryl Kim, an account director with Edelman Public Relations in Toronto and the mother of 10-year old twins.

"It shows in the short notice that we receive about special assemblies, thetime, which need not be focused on conventional instruction. I would even take delight in an additional half hour of recess to break up the day.

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Admittedly, finding school hours that sync with the modern work force will only become more challenging with many parents working a variety of shifts.

"The reality is that many parents do not work the traditional nine to five, and no matter the hours of school, arranging child care is a challenge," said Kelly Ann Heaney, an Ontario teacher and the mother of four boys.

Even if schools offered extended hours, there is a chance the approach could backfire, leading to further work-life balance issues. Julia Richardson, an associate professor of organizational behaviour at York University's School of Human Resource