realised that the original LNER artwork had been hanging behind me in recent years without me knowing!

Next stop was Appleby – a most pleasant town and easy to photograph. The local tourist information centre appears in the carriage print on the left hand side and the staff there were genuinely interested in the image. After that came Ribblehead Viaduct which involved a long drive down a potholed track (which didn’t do the underneath of the car much good!). Leaving the car under the viaduct, the next obstacle was a trek towards the farm and the climbing of a barbed wire stone wall. The infamous ‘bog’ now became apparent and some time was spent leaping over waterlogged ground and working my way round the mire. The weather was greatover four days. He said both asked him to return to the region in the next few weeks to finish work on a formula to restart peace talks, which have been stalled since 2010.

Despite Kerry's optimism, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat told a news conference Sunday after Kerry's third and final meeting with Abbas, "it was a positive and profound meeting with President Abbas, but there has been no breakthrough so far and there is still a gap between the Palestinian and Israeli positions."

Kerry has revealed few details of his strategy to bring the two sides together and would not discuss Sunday the substance of the discussions or what sticking points remained.

But Israeli settlement building on land the Palestinians hope will be part of their future state remains


a stumbling block. Abbas has demanded that Netanyahu halt settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in the 1967 war, as a precondition for beginning talks. The Palestinians also want Israel to accept the pre-1967 boundaries as a basis for a final Palestinian state.

On Saturday Netanyahu told his cabinet, "Israel is prepared to enter into negotiations without delay, without preconditions, and we are not placing any barriers on the resumption of final-status talks on a permanent peace agreement between the Palestinians and us."

Kerry left Israel for Brunei, where he was to meet with Asian leaders and hold talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about the crisis in Syria. He said he was leaving some of his staff behind to continue workingAhok, a Christian of Chinese descent, has angered Indonesia’s religious conservatives by referencing a verse from the Islamic holy book on the campaign trail

What is happening?

Jakarta’s governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, better known by his nickname Ahok, will face the first day of his trial on charges of blasphemy on Tuesday.

Ahok, a Christian of Chinese descent, angered religious conservatives after he referenced a verse from the Islamic holy book, Al-Maidah 51 of the Qur’an, on the campaign trail in September. Ahok rather boldly told voters they should not be duped by religious leaders using the verse to justify the claim that Muslims should not be led by non-Muslims.

Jakarta's violent identity crisis: behind the vilification of Chinese-Indonesians Read more

An edited version of that speech was later posted online with several


In the run-up to the Jakarta governor election in February there has been intense pressure from religious conservatives and hardliners, who have staged three colossal rallies since October calling for Ahok to be jailed for insulting Islam.

The rallies have put pressure on President Joko Widodo, leading the government to declare the case would be dealt with swiftly and would go to trial. The president has also publicly deplored “political actors” who he said have exploited the rallies for political gain.

Who is benefiting?

In short, Ahok’s rivals in the gubernatorial election. Before the blasphemy storm hit, Ahok and his running mate Djarot Saiful Hidayat were ahead in the polls, but that lead has since been eroded.

Running against Ahok are two pairs of candidates: one headed by Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, theson of the previous president, and the other by Anies Baswedan, who was axed as education minister in July. Three polls from November show Agus Yudhoyono now has a slight lead.

Does the Ahok blasphemy case mean Indonesia is becoming more radical?

Several indicators over recent years point to rising religious intolerance in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, including growing discrimination and attacks against religious minorities, and a recent wave of vitriol against the LGBT community.

Rising religious intolerance was a criticism aimed at the former Yudhoyono administration, which oversaw a period when the hardline antics of Islamic thug groups such as the Islamic Defender’s Front (FPI) were largely tolerated.

The anti-Ahok rallies – the latest which saw an estimated 500,000 people take to the streets – was organised by a newly


formed coalition of Islamist groups called the National Movement to Guard the MUI Fatwa (GNPF-MUI). The coalition also includes well-known members of the FPI.

While religious intolerance is a factor in Indonesian society, analysts have been reluctant to say the recent rallies are a sign the country embracing a more radical version of Islam – in part because there is a strong political dimension to the rallies.

The 2 December gathering was the biggest protest the country has witnessed in years but despite the huge turnout, in comparison to the more than 200 million Muslims in the country, it is still a small minority. Indonesia’s largest Islamic group, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), also urged its members not to take part.

However, there has been a new validation of hardline voices. The president’sHome » News » Official death toll is at least 11 in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

Official death toll is at least 11 in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

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At least 11 adults were killed in the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, officials said Saturday afternoon. In addition, six were injured, including four police officers.

Officials said the suspect, Robert Bowers, was shot multiple times before being taken into custody. He was taken to Allegheny General Hospital for treatment. Bowers could be charged for the shooting as early as Saturday night, a federal prosecutor said.


263 F.3d 18 (2nd Cir. 2001)
DOUGLAS REGA, PETITIONER-APPELLEEv.UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, RESPONDENT-APPELLANT
Docket No. 00-2287
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
Argued: May 11, 2001Decided: August 27, 2001

Appeal from an order in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Louis L. Stanton, Judge) vacating petitioner's convictions and sentence, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255. The district court held that petitioner's counsel had prevented appellant from testifying in his defense and that there was a reasonable probability that the deficient representation affected the outcome of appellant's trial. We conclude that appellant's failure to testify was not prejudicial. We therefore reverse.
Daniel S. Ruzumna, Assistant United States Attorney (Mary Jo White, United States Attorney, and James J. Benjamin, Jr. and Gary Stein, Assistant United States Attorneys,of Rega's proposed testimony relied upon by the district court in concluding that there was a reasonable probability that such testimony would have led to an acquittal.

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At trial, the government produced ample evidence of Rega's involvement in duplicating pornographic films, storing them in his mother's house, and then distributing them to the DeMeo Crew. Todaro operated a film laboratory out of a building that he originally owned. Rega had worked for, or with, Todaro for many years, and Todaro was also involved in pornographic film trafficking. The evidence was somewhat unclear as to whether Rega's similar activities were in conjunction with Todaro, an independent venture, or a combination thereof.

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The government offered extensive evidence of a dispute between Rega and Todaro over control of the building. There was testimony


that Todaro had transferred title to the business and the building to Rega, or to some entity or person under Rega's control, in order to hide assets temporarily during Todaro's divorce proceedings. After Todaro's divorce, however, Rega refused to return the building and business to Todaro because Rega had come upon a profitable opportunity to convert the building into apartments. Todaro brought a lawsuit contesting rights of possession (claiming to be a tenant) of the building and of the film equipment in it. The lawsuit, which ended after Todaro disappeared as a result of his murder, was portrayed by the government as threatening Rega's plans.

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There was much evidence that Rega's dispute with Todaro was not limited to the mounting of legal claims and defenses. At one point, Rega,who was shown to have been involved in violent acts and to have carried firearms, told Todaro's son that if his father continued to seek control of the building, the father would get hurt. Witnesses also testified that Rega sought out Todaro at Rega's aunt's house and beat Todaro while attempting to kidnap him. There was further evidence, including post-arrest statements by Rega himself, that Rega paid the DeMeo Crew $10,000 to murder Todaro.

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Rega's submissions in response to the court's invitation to provide more detail cover some 159 pages. In his proposed testimony, he denied any involvement in the pornographic film business, while conceding that Todaro might have been so involved without Rega's knowledge.

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He described his relationship with Todaro as friendly, albeit at times difficult because of Todaro's


serious personal and financial difficulties, as to which Rega offered advice and aid. He also described his differences with his uncle solely as the result of Todaro's lack of management skills and growing irrationality. Rega stated that the notion that the lawsuit was regarded by him as threatening was "ludicrous." In fact, Rega "saw [the lawsuit] as an opportunity to clear up this chapter of the family disputes." He denied beating and trying to kidnap Todaro. As he explained, the public altercation with Todaro occurred when he went to his Aunt Josephine's house to inquire about a Halloween egg-throwing prank and was irrationally and unexpectedly pushed by Todaro. Rega's only act was described as a defensive push back. He flatly denied ever threatening or harming Todaro, or hiringwas right. If Rega had taken the stand, the probability of a conviction would have increased because his testimony would have been severely undermined by impeachment evidence. Rega's proposed testimony pointedly denied any involvement in pornography, although conceding that Todaro might have been so involved without Rega's knowledge. However, witnesses provided evidence of Rega's involvement in pornographic films at the duplication site in the disputed building, the storage site in his mother's home, and in delivering the product to the DeMeo Crew.

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Worse, Rega's denial of such involvement would have opened the door to introduction of the state court conviction involving pornographic films. To be sure, much of the potential sting of that conviction would be lessened by the fact that the jury already knew of the arrest underlying


admission, the jury would have heard evidence from several different witnesses as to Rega's involvement in violence and the possession of firearms, the litigation between Todaro and Rega, threats by Rega to Todaro, Rega's physical assaulting and attempted kidnapping of Todaro, Rega's payment of $10,000 to the DeMeo Crew to murder Todaro, Todaro's resultant murder, and a post-arrest admission of the $10,000 payment by Rega. We know from the outcome of the trial that the jury credited this evidence. Had Rega testified, he would have described a friendly relationship with Todaro, given his view of the litigation between them as "an opportunity," denied the threats, offered a favorable version of the physical altercation between them, and denied any involvement in Todaro's murder.

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Faced with a head-on conflict between thegovernment's witnesses and Rega's testimony, the jury would then have heard the audiotapes, conceded to be between Rega and his mother, of tirades by Rega concerning both Todaro -- his mother's brother -- and Rega's own brother. In these extensive tirades, Rega, inter alia, laments that he has been "working very hard to create a situation for my family... for the scumbag [Todaro]... who turned around and stabbed me in the back." Rega suggests that Todaro and Rega's brother "could share the same box" and that he, Rega, will "break both their heads with a baseball bat." After noting that "it's getting to the point that I can't restrain myself," Rega goes on to state that he will "straighten them both out. They could, they could stay... in


UCT elects chancellor

Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe has been elected as the next chancellor of UCT, a position that she will take up from January 1next year. She takes the reins from Graca Machel, who was first elected in 1999. Ms Machel’s second term will finish at the end of 2019. UCT’s chair of council, Sipho Pityana, said the university was privileged to have Dr Moloi-Motsepe serve as the chancellor. “On behalf of UCT, I would like to thank the outgoing chancellor, Ms Machel for serving the university with remarkable distinction and great commitment for two 10-year terms, which spanned complex moments and incredible milestones.” Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng said she looked forward to working with her in moving the university to the next level in achieving excellence in transformation,All 34 Chilean bishops who attended a crisis meeting this week with Pope Francis about the cover-up of sexual abuse in their country have offered to resign, it has emerged.

The bishops also apologised to Chile, the victims of abuse and the pope for the scandal as they released an extraordinary joint statement.

It was not immediately clear if the pope, who slammed had accepted their resignation.

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Pope Francis on Thursday ended his emergency summit with Chile's bishops by thanking them for their 'full willingness' to do whatever it takes to recover from a sex abuse and cover-up scandal that has discredited the church

The bishops (pictured with the Pope at the Vatican) also apologised to Chile, the victims of abuse and the pope for the scandal as they


released an extraordinary joint statement

The bishops announced at the end of an emergency summit with Pope Francis that all 31 active bishops and three retired ones in Rome had signed a document offering to resign and putting their fate in the hands of the pope.

Francis can accept the resignations one by one, reject them or delay a decision.

It marked the first known time in history that an entire national bishops conference had offered to resign en masse over scandal, and laid bare the devastation that the abuse crisis has caused the Catholic Church in Chile and beyond.

Calls had mounted for the resignations after details emerged of the contents of a 2,300-page Vatican report into the Chilean scandal leaked early Friday.

Francis had accused the bishops of destroying evidence ofsex crimes, pressuring investigators to minimize abuse accusations and showing 'grave negligence' in protecting children from paedophile priests.

In one of the most damning documents from the Vatican on the issue, Francis said the entire Chilean church hierarchy was collectively responsible for 'grave defects' in handling cases and the resulting loss of credibility that the Catholic Church has suffered.

'No one can exempt himself and place the problem on the shoulders of the others,' Francis wrote in the document, which was published by Chilean T13 television and confirmed as accurate Friday by the Vatican.

Members of Chile's bishops conference Luis Fernando Ramos Perez (right) and Juan Ignacio Gonzalez, meet reporters at the Vatican today

In a statement in response, the Chilean bishops said the contents of the document were 'absolutely deplorable' and


the absolute gravity of their criminal acts, attributing to them mere weakness or moral lapses,' Francis wrote.

But those same people 'were then welcomed into other dioceses, in an obviously imprudent way, and given diocesan or parish jobs that gave them daily contact with minors,' he said.

A spokesperson for Chile's bishops, Juan Ignacio Gonzalez, meets reporters at the Vatican on Friday

Such behavior has been the hallmark of the clerical sex abuse crisis worldwide, with bishops and religious superiors shuttling abusers from parish to parish or dioceses rather than reporting them to police or launching canonical investigations and removing them from ministry.

Francis said he was also 'perplexed and ashamed' by the report's evidence that there were 'pressures exercised' on church officials tasked with investigating sex crimes 'including the destruction ofFrancis' footnotes, the Vatican investigation compiled by the Catholic Church's top abuse prosecutor, Archbishop Charles Scicluna and his aide, Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, gave full credibility to the victims.

Francis, though, has also been implicated in the scandal, and in his document saying all Chilean bishops bore blame he added 'and me first of all.'

Francis first drew scorn from victims, ordinary Chileans and even members of his sex abuse advisory board by appointing Barros bishop of Osorno, Chile, in 2015.

The Associated Press reported earlier this year that Francis did so over the objections of other Chilean bishops who knew Barros' past was problematic and had recommended he and other Karadima-trained bishops resign and take a sabbatical.

The AP subsequently reported that Francis had received a letter in 2015 from one of


Karadima's most vocal accusers, Juan Carlos Cruz, detailing Barros' misdeeds. That letter undercut Francis' claim to have never heard from victims about Barros.

Francis further enraged Chileans and drew sharp rebuke from his top abuse adviser when, during a January trip to Chile, he said the accusations against Barros were 'calumny' and said he was 'certain' he was innocent.

After receiving the Scicluna-Bertomeu report, though, Francis did an about-face. Blaming a 'lack of truthful and balanced information' about the case for his missteps, Francis invited the three main whistleblowers to the Vatican hotel he calls home so he could apologize in person.Flybe will operate new flights to Dubrovnik for this summer season. The British carrier has announced that from the 16th of May this year they will introduce flights, on a twice weekly basis, from London Southend Airport to Dubrovnik.

These new flights are already available for sale on the company’s website and will operate until the 30th of September. These will be the first ever flights to Dubrovnik from Southend Airport.

The airline has also introduced new flights to Zadar from Southend Airport, also on a twice weekly basis, for this summer season.


OKCPS Considers School Calendar Change

Monday, November 7th 2016, 10:37 pm

By: News 9

Board members with Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS) are considering a change in the district's calendar.

According to a special committee, since the current calendar was implemented five years ago, achievement has gone down in some areas.

For the last few months, they've been studying the possible impacts of other calendar options.

Right now, OKCPS is on what's called a "Continuous Learning Calendar" or CLC.

It has an earlier start date, a shorter summer break and extended breaks in fall and spring.

The traditional calendar has a later start date, longer summer break and fewer breaks throughout the year.

And the hybrid is a combination of the two.

Surveys sent to parents, showed the majority of moms and dads like the way things are.SAN FRANCISCO — Life at OracleWorld returned to normal Thursday following a Wednesday afternoon bomb scare that shut down the conference for several hours.

Conference delegates were well into the third day of the four-day event when they were asked to evacuate the Moscone Convention Center

around 3:00 p.m. PST Wednesday.

“”We received a call about a potential bomb threat,”” a San Francisco Police Department officer told ITBusiness.ca. “”The conference will be shut down for the rest of the day.””

Police estimated that approximately 11,000 people were inside the North and South halls of the Moscone Center at the time of the evacuation. Throngs of attendees could be seen standing around the nearby W Hotel and Marriott waiting for an all-clear to retrieve personal belongings left inside the building. Another 3,000 people


had been inside the West hall of the convention center attending the 2003 Seybold technology conference.

Oracle vice-president of international communications Dave Samson said convention centre security had received the bomb threat at approximately 1:30 p.m. PST and informed Oracle executive vice-president Chuck Phillips, who had been holding a press conference, about an hour later. Within the next 60 seconds the decision was made to empty the building, Samson said.

“”He wanted to err on the side of caution and act in everybody’s best interest,”” he said.

Police allowed attendees back into the Moscone Center to retrieve their belongings around 5:00 p.m. PST Wednesday when no bomb was found. The event re-opened Thursday morning with Oracle vice-president Ken Jacob’s rescheduled keynote.

The bomb scare came one day before the two-year anniversary ofterrorist attacks on the United States which took place on Sept. 11, 2001. The attacks on the New York World Trade Center and Pentagon that day shut down the Networld + Interop show in Atlanta and temporarily stranded a number of Canadians who were unable to fly home.


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With a 2:25 personal best, Lisa Stublic has quietly become one of the fastest ever U.S.-born marathoners. In Episode 20, we hear the story of the Columbia grad’s move to Croatia, her breakthrough performances, her scientific approach to training, and her plans for 2014. Elsewhere in the episode, Gregg reads from a book of essays on running at night, and Brenn pines for Rupp versus Willis at their best.

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Categories: Podcastlower-left edge of the field of view. LASCO gives the standard 5 images per hour. UVCS instrument on SOHO has the ability to point itself at a the track of the comet and get some observations. According to calculations derived from a Minor Planet (MPC) Circular, Comet Lovejoy should enter the LASCO C3 field of view early on December 14 (look for it here), entering from the south.

Plot shows the expected trajectory of the comet close to the Sun. It passes behind the Sun as seen from Earth. (Source: SOHO)

SDO spacecraft observed a comet evaporating in the solar corona in July: the first ever observations of its kind. The comet will reach perihelion behind the Sun as seen from SDO. So SDO will only have a relatively brief


coronavirus outbreak

Many major sporting events and other large gatherings have been canceled, but health officials have urged more drastic action to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Ohio, Illinois and Massachusetts have either issued orders or asked that bars and restaurants be closed. California Gov. Gavin Newsom asked nightclubs, wineries and brewpubs to close their doors.

The CDC's guidance, the strongest recommendation yet for a nationwide moratorium on even relatively small gatherings, would bring the U.S. closer to the kinds of widespread actions seen in parts of Europe that have been particularly hard hit, including Spain and France.Arva M. (Kaiser) DuJardin

June 19, 1918 - July 1, 2012

Obituary Notice

Arva M. DuJardin, 94, of Coldwater, passed away Sunday, July 1, 2012 at the Laurels of Coldwater. She was born June 19, 1918 in Coldwater to Henry S. and Effie I. (Harbaugh) Kaiser. She graduated from Coldwater High School and lived in Bethel Township for most of her life. She married August DuJardin on June 7, 1937 in Detroit. He preceded her in death. Arva worked at Federal Mogul for 25 years, RB & W Powdered Metals for 5 years. She was devoted to grand and great grandchildren and liked word search puzzles. Arva is survived by her son; Michael (Linda) DuJardin of Coldwater, granddaughters; Kristina (Craig) Crabill of Sturgis, Angela (Gardner) Miller of Haslett, TX, Jenifer (Reed)


Daniels of Jackson, great grandchildren; Carson Crabill, Cleanna Crabill, Graeme Miller, Cynthia Miller, several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband; August, brother; Howard Kaiser, 6 step siblings and several nephews. Cremation has taken place according to Arva's wishes and a private memorial service will take place at a later date. Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of donor's choice. You may leave an online tribute by visiting www.putnamfuneralhome.comEvolution of asthma through childhood.
The greatest incidence of childhood asthma is among males under 5 years, with decreasing numbers of new cases with age. Many young children wheeze, but remission is common especially in non-atopic children without a family history of allergy or asthma, whose wheezing relates more to infections and environmental tobacco smoke exposure. The prognosis of childhood asthma is best established from population studies, in which some two-thirds of wheezy children become symptom-free as adults, whereas follow-up studies of wheezing children seen in office or specialty clinic practice, who generally have more severe asthma, show a much greater likelihood (60-80%) of persistence of asthma into adulthood. Factors predisposing to persistence of childhood asthma include a positive family history, development of atopy, environmental exposures to allergens and


five-year threshold does not withstand scrutiny," Wagner said.

"There is little to justify the choice of five years as a threshold, or to show how it is tailored to respond to a specific problem."

The five-year limit was part of the Canada Election Act for decades, but it wasn’t until former prime minister Stephen Harper took office that the government began actively enforcing the provision.

International voters are sent a special ballot voting kit once the writ is dropped. Most ballots are mailed in ahead of election day.

The deadline for expats to submit applications to Elections Canada is Oct. 15. Mailed ballots must reach Elections Canada in Ottawa by election day on Oct. 21.

With files from The Canadian PressOskar Laffont’s idiosyncratic drawings show London at a time when Mankind no longer exists, and the city has been reclaimed by nature. It is both beautiful and menacing.

Animals are everywhere, and they have taken control. They mimic our own behavioural traits. Laffont says that we have a need to give meaning to the behaviour of animals by making reference to our own.

Graphic novels are important to this series. But they are also inspired by the work of Hogarth and Goya. It is, he says, an ode to London, and a warning that our highly valued culture is doomed. Contemporary society and its history, and the problems we have with it, are meaningless when met with a greater force.

Oskar Laffont is a Mexican artist and filmmaker. He graduated with


a Masters from the London Film School. He is the Writer/Director of the forthcoming feature film, "Heaven Come Dawn/Ciela Abajo", which stars Brendan Gleeson, Carmen Salinas and Manuel Ojeda. He was the youngest director to be introduced to the Guild of Great Britain (2009). He was the Co-founder and Director of Khoda 11:11 Productions A.C. in Mexico (2013).

He lives and works in London.

The drawings in the exhibition were produced in the summer of 2012 by Oskar Laffont, as Artist in Residence at the Ten Bells of Spitalfields.agreement. The city denied a request to release a copy of the agreement because it references Gauntner's medical records, Euclid Law Director Kelley Sweeney said last month.

Gauntner was not using his service weapon when he fired shots into Lake Erie on Thanksgiving, Brickman said last month.

Witnesses reported hearing about a dozen shots fired at Sims Park just after 2 a.m. on Nov. 26. Officers arrived at the park's pier and found Gauntner and a woman, according to a police report.

Gauntner was holding two guns and said he fired shots at the water. Gauntner told an officer he'd been drinking, the report says.

The woman told officers that Gauntner was "blowing off steam" by shooting at the water. Gauntner never threatened her, the woman said.

Officers took Gauntner to the Euclid


Police Department, where he refused a breath test. He was then taken to Euclid Hospital for an evaluation.

Gauntner said at the time that he was dealing with the recent death of a family member. He is also a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan, Phillips said last month.

Gauntner has been with the Euclid Police Department for two years and has no previous disciplinary issues, Brickman said. Documents included in Gauntner's personnel file show he has been commended for his role in several arrests over the past two years.Shocking new details were revealed during the sentencing of a former teacher and mother of five who pleaded guilty to having sex with a male high school student in Illinois.

Sarah L. Myers, 41, of Garden Prairie, Ill., who was a special education teacher at a high school in Poplar Grove, Ill., was sentenced last week to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to two sex acts in Boone County.

But now she is alleged to have had a third sex act in another county, Champaign County, where she faces pending charges, according to prosecutors.

The teen at the center of the cases was not a special education student, the Boone County Sheriff’s Department said, according to the Rockford Register Star.

According to the Star, county prosecutors said the boy reported


in April that he had been having sex with Myers since November 2016.

Poplar Grove is in Boone County, about 78 miles west of Chicago.

Myers received credit for 261 days spent in jail and will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of her life, First Assistant State’s Attorney Lise Lombardo said, adding that the former teacher will have to serve 85 percent of her sentence.

The case was originally set for early January but the two sides decided to set the plea and sentencing for Friday, Boone County court records show.Stena Line has suspended sick pay during the coronavirus crisis in a move slammed by a workers' union.

North Wales Live was told the ferry giant has removed its normal 'generous' sick pay rules - which entitles workers to full pay when they are off - leaving them only entitled to the statutory minimum of £94.25 per week.

The RMT has slammed the move and one worker said it risked staff going to work even if they are feeling ill - potentially increasing the risk of spreading the coronavirus.

The move impacts staff at ports like Holyhead and Liverpool in the UK, Dublin in Ireland and crew on vessels.

A source close to the company said the move was needed to protect the firm's future during the coronavirus crisis.

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down for dinner. By the time we reached the bottom sands, the path was dry and the morning snows were once again gone. The sky was still clearing and maybe . . . a good climbing day was to follow.

So close and yet so far - 6000 meter Tocollaraju

We arrived back at camp and noticed that one of the chickens was not longer strutting about the camp. Of course, I inquired of her location and Elias responded that she had made her own ascent that afternoon, to chicken heaven. Needless to say, chicken was on the dinner menu board. Elias was steady at it in the preparation of the meal and now that I’m back in the states, I must admit that I learned a thing or twocomplete my early morning attire. Peru is a bit more formal place than the States, I knew that, but I was not about to get fully dressed to tell Joaquin to lay in for an extra two hours. So I went as I was and was greeted with the laughter of Elias and Joaquin immediately upon sight. They however got two more hours of sleep out of the deal and no some raw material to fuel a future campfire story about yet another insane gringo.

Our depart time for Urus was 4 a.m. since the start of the climb is all of 5 minutes from the tent. The peak rises from the edge of the base camp and the trail leaves from the Refugio. Eventhough we got a late


finished off the last of the barbecued chicken, french fries and a hearty bowl of squash sopa. Desert was chocolate pudding and a toast to the conclusion of the climbs with a few shots of the ever-challenging pisco. A bit later the arrieros arrived, father, mother, son and daughter and the second dinner seating began.

Before we went to the tents; however, we had to go over and talk to the fellow who had just walked into camp from the trail leading down from Tocollaraju. I had seen a solitary light moving up the trail to the 6000 meter peak at about midnight the evening before when I had been taking one of my many moonlight wiz trips. It looked like a solo act heading up very early. Later,in the valley for 8 days or so waiting for a weather window as his original climbing partners packed up and moved on. As Matt was outbound the following day a well, we invited him to join us for dinner the following evening to hear more of his adventure.


that's when it hit home that this was pretty serious.

that I didn't really know, I just thought I'd have an operation and it would be taken care of. Then, sitting down and talking about it, I realised how serious it was, and I was pretty lucky to get through it."

The 24-year-old, who has had a decent run since making his debut against India in the ongoing ODI tri-series,

recalled the time he battled the disease and how he chose cricket over Australian Rules Football.

"For

a couple of years I really just sat back and enjoyed the little things. I wasn't as driven for a period," Wade said.

He began a plumbing apprenticeship, and kept playing both sports -- VFL for Tasmania and first-grade cricket in Hobart --

without thinking he would reachof containers.
The present invention further relates to a work space. The work space includes a mounting structure and a track system adapted for attachment to the mounting structure. A plurality of display panels is coupled to the track system for movement along the track system. A docking area is positioned along the track system configured to at least partially conceal at least one of the display panels.
The present invention further relates to a workstation defining a work area. The work area includes at least one utility threshold adapted for movement along a predefined path about the work area to selectively deliver utilities to at least one portion of the work area.
The present invention further relates to a fixed floor space work environment adapted to support a group of


CAMPAIGN AD WATCH: Ohio Republican Party's 'Big Spenders' commercial

Where to see it: Statewide television and on the Internet at www.youtube.com/

watch?v=t1Ezj22ncVM

Video: The 30-second spot opens with a black-and-white photograph of a scowling President Barack Obama next to the U.S. Capitol. A black-and-white picture of David Pepper, the Democratic candidate for state auditor, is shown, and then newspaper help-wanted ads fill the screen. In the next shot, Pepper's face is shown again, next to a stack of money and the caption, "Pepper raised taxes." The money is replaced with pictures of office furniture and then a boat.

A photograph of Democrat Maryellen O'Shaughnessy is shown as the ad switches its focus to the Democratic candidate for secretary of state. Next to her picture is the caption, "Career Politician" and "Ran fora homeland-security grant obtained last year by the county sheriff to buy an all-weather watercraft for law enforcement to use in the Ohio River. According to T he Cincinnati Enquirer, Hamilton County Sheriff Simon Leis, a Republican, was so ticked by the ad's assertion that he fired off a complaint to the state GOP.

Pepper did, however, spend tax dollars on furniture after he was elected, but he says it wasn't to replace anything; he says his office had no furniture.

As for O'Shaughnessy, she has run for office several times in the past decade-plus, but so has her opponent, Jon Husted, a 10-year state legislator.

The pay-increase claim is either blatantly false or wildly misleading. She got pay increases while on Columbus City Council, but they were nowhere near 100percent.


Professor Chris Rumford

Professor Chris Rumford, 1958-2016

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Professor Chris Rumford who passed away suddenly last Friday.

Chris played a central role in rejuvenating the Global Studies Association, becoming its Chair in 2011. He ensured that the GSA stayed active throughout his time as Chair promoting new initiatives and avenues for collaboration including the coordination of many successful conferences and smaller events.

Chris similarly played a vital role in the development of the Department of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway (University of London) upon its founding in 2004, establishing the Centre for Global and Transnational Politics alongside Professor Sandra Halperin.

He was blessed with remarkable intellectual energy and a curiosity that made for fun and original conversations but also affirmed hisdistinct contribution. In his work he advanced our understanding through the study of borders, cosmopolitanism, Europeanisation and hospitality thereby progressing Global Studies as a viable field for research.

He also had a great commitment and dedication to his students that stretched beyond the formal bounds of academic work. Chris was first and foremost a good man and his generosity of spirit towards other academics has made him an important figure in the academic and personal lives of many.

Our love and thoughts are with his wife and daughter.

Alongside the department of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, the GSA will be considering ways to commemorate Chris’ life and work, as well as his contribution to the GSA.


It's the person as judged by themselves, the choosers.

BEZOS: The choice architect tries to get themselves into the shoes of the choosee or chooser.

THALER: Yes. When you said last night at dinner that you like going to a restaurant where they have a set menu, it's because you are happy to have the chef act as your choice architect.

BEZOS: The chef is putting himself in my shoes, not himself.

THALER: Right. Otherwise he goes out of business pretty quickly.

BEZOS: Right. Although I find Hollywood directors when they follow that model they make bad films. When they try to make films that they love for themselves, they make better films.

THALER: Right. It's very easy to make that mistake.

BEZOS: It's one of the failure modes of a certain kind of paternalism,Mackay's street of horrors after dark

A MAN staggers up the street letting loose random outbursts of foul language and abuse. He can't keep his balance and doesn't seem to know which way is which. Who knows what potent combination of alcohol or dangerous drugs is coursing through his bloodstream.

His presence and behaviour, caught on video, is a confronting sight you would not expect in a suburban street, but it's one the residents of James St on the fringe of Mackay's CBD don't find unusual. For the umpteenth time, they go through the routine of reaching for the phone, dialling 000.

In the light of day, James St appears quiet and friendly, but if you look a little closer, the glass shattered on the roadway and the chains and locks


man involved in a stabbing nearby jumped their fence and ran through their yard while fleeing police.

Or the time an aggressive man confronted Cody in the driveway for no reason other than to scream racial abuse inches from his face and tell him he was going to 'kill his missus', who he'd just had a huge fight with up the street.

Skye and Cody say they moved into their James St home unaware of the issues, but soon found out about its sordid reputation, attributed to the clientele of a nearby hostel.

"We have been here since April last year... We were young so just moved in where we could. It went downhill from there. The cops come through almost every night picking people up off the street, sometimes untiland the center of the highway is marked with a white line. At the time weather conditions were good and it was daylight. As Miss Stimac proceeded along the highway, she started upgrade and approached an "S" curve at a speed of 35 to 40 miles per hour; as she proceeded into the curve to her left, she observed approaching from the opposite direction an empty flatbed tractor-trailer owned by Harry D. Stewart and operated by Russell L. Barkey. Miss Stimac then entered the curve to her right and, as she was leaving the second curve, a collision occurred between her automobile and the tractor-trailer. The left front portion of the Stimac automobile came in contact with the first of the two rear tires and wheels on the


left side of the trailer. As a result of the collision, Miss Stimac was seriously injured and the automobile damaged.
An action in trespass was instituted by Miss Stimac and her mother, Mary Stimac, against Barkey and Stewart in the Court of Common Pleas of Beaver County. After a trial before Judge MORGAN H. SOHN and a jury, the jury returned a verdict of $750 in favor of Mary Stimac for the damage to the automobile and a verdict of $7,000 in favor of Mary Anne Stimac for her personal injuries and expenses. The court below entered judgment on the verdicts and these appeals then were taken.
In considering these appeals we view the testimony in the light most favorable to the verdict winners, resolve all conflicts in the testimonythe left front fender of the Stimac automobile was a foot or a foot and a half to the right of the center line and the Stimac automobile was then in its proper eastbound lane. As the vehicles approached each other, Miss Stimac turned her wheels further to the right and had passed successfully the cab of the tractor when the collision took place. Miss Stimac knew that a collision took place but did not know where she collided with the trailer. After the collision the Stimac automobile was partly in the eastbound lane and partly on the berm of the east lane, headed in a southerly direction. Stewart's tractor-trailer was in the west lane and jack-knifed so that the front of the tractor was in the eastbound


Neighborly

Dear Diary:

I ran into a neighbor on my way out for another blind date. I was new to the building, so I was glad when she beckoned me into the elevator. I introduced myself as Kate, the name my recently deceased grandmother had called me.

I learned that she was Hungarian and that she had lived in New York for several decades. She described how she and her sister had helped their mother with her vineyard in Hungary, walking several miles every morning to get there.

I told her I had spent time living near the border between Slovakia and Hungary, and my mind wandered back to that place. I could smell the way the air felt my first summer there: the grassy, muddy scent of the Danube mixed withA Calgary mother and father whose toddler died of a staph infection because they refused to take him to a doctor until it was too late have each been sentenced to 32 months in prison — with the judge saying incarceration was needed to deter other parents who might not seek timely medical treatment for their children.

Jennifer and Jeromie Clark were found guilty of criminal negligence causing death and failing to provide the necessaries of life to their 14-month-old son John, who died in 2013.

Although unusual in everyday parlance, the word "necessaries" — not "necessities" — is the term the legal system uses.

John Clark was brought to hospital with a blistering rash covering most of his body.

Medical witnesses testified that if the boy had seen doctors earlier, he


almost certainly would have survived.

A forensic pathologist's report said he was malnourished and died from a staph infection.

The trial jury was also shown screenshots of online searches for natural remedies for gangrene, such as cabbage leaves and cayenne.

Prosecutors argued the Clarks waited too long to take the seriously ill boy to hospital and their sentence should send a message of denunciation and deterrence.

During sentencing submissions last week, prosecutor Jennifer Crews said it was clear that the Clarks loved their son very much.

But she argued the parents were responsible for the helpless child, and their failure to seek medical care as he grew sicker over a period of weeks was not a momentary lapse in judgment.

The couple's lawyers suggested at trial that doctors at the Alberta Children's Hospital wereto blame because they raised the boy's sodium and fluid levels too aggressively.

David Chow, Jeromie Clark's lawyer, described the Clarks as "loving parents that were misguided" and questioned what putting them behind bars would accomplish.

John Phillips, Jennifer Clark's lawyer, told court: "This is not a case of a child being starved or abused."

The parents had hoped to serve their sentences in the community rather than behind bars.

In handing down the sentence Wednesday, Justice Paul Jeffrey said the couple displayed regret and genuine remorse over John's death.

"In most every respect the offenders are described as model citizens, compassionate of others, amazing parents," he said.

But Jeffrey said they must be imprisoned to deter other parents who may "similarly recklessly forgo proper and timely medical care for their child."

The Crown had


"Silver Gem" was the second Freeman 30 to be built, it
is believed it was built alongside the first one in the workshop. It was
supplied new in 1966 to Mr and Mrs Free and initially called Ivory Gem. Mr and
Mrs Free were close friends of Mr Freeman, who incidentally had boat number
one for himself. Number 3 went to his brother Bert Freeman.

Soon after purchasing the boat, Mrs Free took a photo of
Mr Free enjoying their new boat on the river and when it was showed to Mr
Freeman he asked if it would be possible to use the photo on some publicity
material. It then featured on the front cover of the second printing of the
Freeman 30 brochure. An interior shot of Ivory Gem was used on the first
edition.

When the Free'sbought a larger Freeman a few years
later, they renamed the boat Silver Gem and retained the name Ivory Gem for
their new Freeman 32.

She was moored on the lower Thames for many years but
has had owners on the Gt. Ouse (Incidentally at the same St Neots boat club as
I am now a member!!) she moved to the RIver Severn for a number of years
before returning to the Thames where we purchased her in 2009 and had her
returned to St Neots.

She has a number of interesting features not seen on
later Freeman 30's. A folding windscreen, the same as fitted to the Freeman
26's, possibly all that was available at the time. A wooden veneered cockpit,
all later ones had black vinyl. She has a pilot berth or settee in the main
cabin, later


needs to address the question of the current lack of proper
enforcement of the law with regards to effectively prosecuting blatant criminal
activity inside tourism establishments themselves, with the consequent negative
impact on revenue and future investor interest.

The Seychelles
Tourism Trade urges the Government to create a climate conducive to restoring
direct flights to its core European markets for reasons of diversification of
risk and restoration of tourism numbers from those markets.

Government
should also adopt the visionary approach and create the level playing field
necessary to attract and keep the interest of new airlines who show potential
in opening up Seychelles to the world.

The trade urges
all Government bodies and relevant agencies to buy into Seychelles’ tourism
industry, assume their responsibilities for ensuring the furtherance of its
aims, strategies and objectives in an integrated fashion to mitigate the
negative effects impactingcritical in solving the complex issues confronting the Pioneer Park neighborhood including: increasing public safety, reducing crime, and decreasing street-level homelessness.

The Pioneer Park Coalition is a consortium of public, private, faith-based and non-profit sector stakeholders who want to improve the quality of life in the Pioneer Park neighborhood by developing sustainable solutions.


For nearly three hours, Brett Williams' 24 teen-age rocket-designers faced one tough question after another from some of NASA's most experienced aerospace engineers.

But the outcome was no smackdown of Generation Y.

The polite juniors and seniors from Fredericksburg High didn't falter before their interrogators and methodically detailed their plans to build and launch a Red Bird rocket this spring.

At the end of the design review session, the graying space agency engineers, some with experience dating back to the Apollo era, praised the poise and talent of the youths — a few of whom may find a career at the space agency in the years ahead.

"I'd have given my right arm to be in a class like this," said Lee Graham, a 25-year veteran of NASA's Johnson Space Center wholeads the planning for a moon lander. "This is exactly what we need to inspire the next generations of engineers and scientists."

Williams, their 50-year-old teacher, is recognized as a trailblazer today. But 15 years ago, he left his job as a marine researcher in Galveston and became a teacher in the Hill Country tourist town of 10,000. One of the reasons for the career change, he said, was that he had grown frustrated over the lack of initiative shown by young engineers who had just graduated from college.

"I was amazed," Williams recalled. "Even after college, they behaved like they were in high school, where they expect everything to be laid out for them, follow it and get paid."

At Fredericksburg High, Williams became the driving force behind a curriculum


that offers juniors and seniors the opportunity to design, build and launch rockets under the supervision of a teacher who guides but doesn't issue orders.

Most of the youths grew up in the state's most picturesque region, the children of ranchers and of shopkeepers who depend on the tourism industry.

For some of them, the 12-year-old program has become a stepping stone to college, a degree and a job in some field of engineering. Others choose law or medicine. Still others attend trade schools.

Twenty-three Texas high schools, five of them from the Houston area, now offer to about 1,000 students Williams' state-approved SystemsGo curriculum, administered by a nonprofit organization called Ignite Education. Four other states have expressed an interest in adapting the rocket-science course that shuns lectures and other traditionalclassroom techniques.

Williams supervises but otherwise expects the students to find and apply the fundamentals of spaceflight to their own designs. The youths gain hands-on experience as they turn from weeks of research and design to the fabrication and assembly of an unmanned spacecraft.

The program lasts the entire school year, and students who enter the course as juniors can return in their final high school year and advance to more sophisticated projects. Each spring, the payoff comes when they gather south of Fredericksburg to launch their creations.

They face tough scrutiny

Fifteen students under Le's supervision are working on the program's entry-level goal, a rocket that can soar to an altitude of one mile with a 1-pound payload.

Under the SystemsGo initiative, the students start with one of three performance goals. The


own experts undergo when they design a spacecraft.

The focus was on an equation-filled computer model for the Red Bird 12, a rocket the Fredericksburg students hope to build and launch from New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range next spring.

"There is so much riding on these numbers," said Greg Netherland, a senior who parked himself behind a laptop computer to do most of the speaking for his fellow students.

The session grew stressful, he later acknowledged, when the pros found problems with the students' calculations for aerodynamic drag, for the spacecraft's mass and for other issues.

As Netherland ran and re-ran the flight simulations on his laptop, the Red Bird 12's maximum altitude dropped from 100,000 feet to 80,000, and at one point to a mere 20,000 feet.

NASA helps 'get itstraight'

In the end, the questions enabled the students to iron out all of the equations, and the craft's predicted performance returned to 100,000 feet.

"It's tough to see the numbers go up and down the way they did," said Netherland, who has already been accepted to Texas A&M University — Williams' alma mater — where he plans to study mechanical engineering.

Joanna Folse, a Fredericksburg senior and one of six women in the class, has also earned acceptance to Texas A&M, where she intends to study chemical engineering.

"I've never done anything so hands-on," Folse said of the session with the NASA engineers. "We had a general idea of what we wanted to do. They helped us get it straight."

Williams was silent for most of the session, insisting his students work


among themselves to resolve the questions and respond directly to the engineers.

At Fredericksburg, he encourages students with vocational as well as wide-ranging academic interests to participate in the class.

"This is not a rocket club. It's not buying rockets from the hobby shop and launching them," said Carl Kotila, a 30-year NASA veteran now in his third year working with Williams' students.

"Some have no interest whatsoever in the math that makes a rocket work," he said. "But they love the plumbing, they like the electronics. Others are computer whizzes.

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They want to take you to a 'Gay Bar'! Formerly known as The Wildbunch, Electric 6's change of name certainly seems to have paid dividends after they sold out their first major UK tour on the back of one single (Danger High Voltage). With musical influences ranging from new romantic to nu-metal with some disco thrown in for good measure, Electric 6 are one of the best live acts you'll see this year.

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Vancouver is becoming an "apartheid city" in terms of the divide between rich and poor, said Miloon Kothari, the former UN special rapporteur for housing.

Kothari, who visited Vancouver a decade ago in that role, has returned to give several talks and spent Monday visiting the Downtown Eastside, Balmoral Hotel and the "Ten Year Tent City," which stood in the same place in 2007.

"I'm very disturbed to see that not much has changed. In fact, the situation has become worse," said Kothari.

He was referring to the steep increase in homelessness in the city and region, alongside "unbridled speculation" of land and property. Kothari said it was "shocking" that welfare rates haven't changed over the 10 years.

"It's sheer neglect," said Kothari, who lives in New Delhi.

"When you look at Vancouver... it seems to me very quickly becoming sort of an apartheid city, where it is not only off-limits ... to low income people and they're concentrated in one neighbourhood and a little bit across the city, but it's also increasingly out-of-limits for middle-class residents."

National housing strategy coming

Kothari said the housing problem requires co-ordination between municipalities, the province and Ottawa.

"I don't see steps being taken to control speculation," he said and was critical of the province's foreign buyers tax noting much speculation comes from Canadian buyers.

He is heartened the federal government has promised a national housing strategy and new money for housing.

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, when asked about Kothari's comments, agreed that all levels of government need to work together, and called on the next provincial government to


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A:

The built-in functions are here; There are two methods var_pop and var_samp in the pyspark.sql.functions module calculating population variance and sample variance respectively, what you need is the var_pop function:
import pyspark.sql.functions as F

(df.groupBy("a").agg(
    F.round(F.var_pop("b"), 2).alias("var_pop_b"),
    F.round(F.var_samp("b"), 2).alias("var_samp_b")
)).show()
+---+---------+----------+
|  a|var_pop_b|var_samp_b|
+---+---------+----------+
|  x|      1.0|       2.0|
|  z|     3.69|      4.92|
|  y|  the real meaning of the historical events of this kind. In their interpretation Russian history is the history of statesmen and military men, not citizens,” Kolesnikov said.

The events have also been tainted by conspiracy theory, he said. A television documentary in 2015 called Warsaw Pact: Declassified Pages was so aggressive in justifying the intervention that it provoked a démarche from the Czech foreign ministry. Unverified reports about secret arms caches were repeated in the documentary.

In the poll, 21% of respondents blamed a Western plot and 23% blamed a coup attempt by anti-Soviet leaders in Czechoslovakia for the events of 1968. An estimated 18% of Russians called it a “rebellion against a regime installed by the Soviet Union” – down from 31% in 2008.


Thomas Brown named Herd running backs coach

New Marshall assistant Thomas Brown rushed for 2,646 yards in his career at Georgia.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Nine years after rushing for 81 hard-earned against Marshall, Thomas Brown comes to Huntington to multiply that number exponentially as a Thundering Herd coach.

Brown, the former Georgia star runner who had a brief NFL career, was named Thursday as Marshall's new running backs coach under Doc Holliday. Brown comes to MU from Georgia State, where he was hired after spending the 2012 season at Tennessee-Chattanooga.

As the "silly season" finally subsides - we think - and MU's spring season begins Tuesday, the staff is finally filled. In the process, Holliday picks up another young coach with deep recruiting roots in Georgia.

"Thomas is an excellent addition to ourstaff," Holliday said. "He has competed at the highest level of our sport and has a tremendous reputation in Atlanta with players and coaches alike. We are pleased to welcome Thomas and his family to our program."

Brown was recruited at Georgia out of that state's Tucker High School in 2004, and played as a freshman in the Bulldogs' 13-3 win over the Herd. He rushed for 81 yards on 18 carries on an afternoon in which yards didn't come cheaply.

Marshall entered the game as a 19-point underdog. "It was a lot closer game than I thought it would be, coming into it," Brown said. "They played us tough."

Brown went on to rush for 2,646 yards, and his 3,750 all-purpose yards ranks fourth on Georgia's all-time list. He was


drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in 2008 and ended up with the Cleveland Browns in 2009, appearing in just one regular-season game with no rushes.

Once he decided to end his playing career, he contacted Georgia coach Mark Richt and joined the strength and conditioning staff in 2010. He then went to Chattanooga to coach his natural position for the first time, helping the Mocs rush for 2,198 yards in a 6-5 season.

In January, he accepted a job with Georgia State and the new staff of coach Trent Miles. Much like the Herd lost the freshly hired Anthony Midget to Penn State, GSU lost Brown to Marshall after roughly two months.

"I was blessed to have the opportunity," he said. "I knew a little bit about Marshall and the traditiondrinks and celebrations.

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Sirajuddin Ajmal, All India United Democratic Front
 2014 (by elections): Abdur Rahim Ajmal, All India United Democratic Front
 2016: Abdur Rahim Ajmal, All India United Democratic Front

Election results

2016 results

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2011 results

See also
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References

Category:Assembly constituencies of Assam
Category:Hojai districtParkhead on a dismal day that was mild but wet. It didn't take long in the poor conditions for Celtic to threaten. 2 minutes in saw Edouard lay a pass to Christie who unleashed a dangerous shot. Celtic again were looking threatening down the left hand side with lots of great play from Tierney, Rogic, Forrest and Sinclair combining beautifully at times. Christie once again came close as a ball broke to him from around 6 yards but his shot passed across the goal without making the breakthrough.

In a repeat of almost every game we have played this year, Hearts played to try and contain the champions. Some neat footwork from Edouard to take the ball from left to right, ended with him crashing a shot off the


getting a goal, that it seemed only a matter of time before it came. He really enjoyed the experience and was clearly delighted to open his account for the hoops.

Coming up to the half hour mark Sinclair came close with a shot that was deflected narrowly wide and Kieran Tierney continued to torment the Hearts rearguard. Good interplay saw McGregor play in KT whose pinpoint cross was met in front of the Hearts goal by Edouard. The keeper tried to block but the proximity of the French attacker and the pace on the ball stopped him being an effective blocker and the ball nestled in the net, for Edouard's second and the Bhoys third.

On the stroke of halftime Christie had an effort after some typically tantalising footwork fromRogic.

Half time - Celtic 3 Hearts 0

The second half started with a whimper and Hearts even had a corner. For some reason the defence seemed to switch off for a bit, or maybe Hearts pressed a little better, but it looked like a defensive error might lead to something for the visitors as slackness crept in at the back. It even looked as if Gordon was going to be caught out by a slack pass back. The Hearts striker came rushing towards him, and as the home support held its collective breath in apprehension, the big keeper pulled a deft chip and laid the ball beautifully into the midfield and into the path of the ever lively Callum McGregor.

The little midfielder has been a revelation in the role


in front of the defence and never more so than when he took that ball from Gordon. He turned quickly and ran at the Hearts midfield. He sliced through their defences like a hot knife through butter with a magnificent run that was only thwarted by a great save from Zlamal. This action seemed to spur the Hoops out of their post break stupor and the started putting on the style.

Celtic attacked down the left to no avail, but quickly switched play out to the right to a waiting Edouard on the righ touch line. The big Frenchman played a neat ball into Forrest in the box, expecting a one - two, but the little winger turned inside and sept the ball into the far corner of theRussian State Project "5-100-2020"

The program is designed to ensure that at least five Russian higher education establishments will be among the top one hundred universities in the world by 2020, according to QS World University Rankings.

Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University is one of the 15 Russian higher education establishments that, as a result of a competition, were granted the right to receive a subsidy from the Ministry of Education and Science in order to work towards increasing their competitiveness among the world leading scientific and educational institutions. The competition was one of the measures taken in order to implement the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation "On implementation of the state policy in the sphere of education and science".

In correspondance with the Decree of the


Government of the Russian Federation No 211 dated March 16th, 2013, an international Council for increasing competitiveness of the leading Russian universities was established headed by D.V. Livanov, the Minister of Education and Science.

The programs aimed at boosting competitiveness of higher education establishments are supposed to ensure:

building a university excecutives talent pool and encouraging individuals having experience of working for leading foreign and Russian universities, as well as research organisations, to occupy high-ranking positions;

encouraging young scientists having experience of working for leading foreign and Russian universities, as well as research organisations, to build a career at higher education establishments;

intensifying the international and domestic academic mobility of the academic staff;

improving postgraduate training programs;

introducing educational programs implemented in partnership with the leading foreign and Russian universities;

encouraging students of the leadingforeign unversities to study in Russian higher education establishments, for instance, by means of implementing partnership educational programs together with foreign universities and university associations;

carrying out research projects whithin the framework of fundamental research programs of the Russian Federation, which also means encouraging the leading foreign and Russian scientists to run such projects;

carrying out applied research and experimental engineering projects in partnership with Russian and international high technology companies, as well as establishing special divisions at higher education establishments, if necessary.

The roadmap of program 5-100-2020 was designed with respect to the long history of the university development, the continuity of traditions and generations, the current results and achievements in research, education and innovation; it takes into account the key world trends concerning the sphere of research and development,


technology and education.

The strategic goal of the SPbPU program is modernizing and developing the Polytechnic University as a competitive global research and education centre integrating top class multidisciplinary scientific research and technology and occupying a position among the leading universities in the world. It is supposed that by 2020 Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University will have been included in the TOP-100 ranking of the QS World University Rankings.STAVANGER, Norway – A Norwegian court has found a hairdresser guilty of discrimination for refusing to serve a Muslim woman wearing a hijab.

The Jaeren District Court on Monday fined Merete Hodne 10,000 kroner ($1,200) and ordered her to pay 5,000 kroner in court costs. The 47-year-old hairdresser's lawyer, Linda Ellefsen Eide, said they will appeal.

Court papers state that Hodne told Malika Bayan during an October visit to the salon near the city of Stavanger she would not serve "people like her, go and find somewhere else." Bayan was accompanied by a friend, and both women wore hijabs.

The court found that Hodne "had intentionally discriminated against Bayan and shooed her away from the salon because (she) was a Muslim." It said the hairdresser previously was involved in several organizations


'Room' Helmer Lenny Abrahamson to Direct Adaptation of 'The Grand Escape' (Exclusive)

The Neal Bascomb book follows three pilots who lead a WWI POW prison escape.

Film4 and Element Pictures have optioned Neal Bascomb's upcoming book The Grand Escape, with Room helmer Lenny Abrahamson attached to direct.

Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe's Element Pictures, the production banner that's worked with Abrahamson on his last few pictures including Room, and Film4 teamed to acquire the rights in a competitive situation. A writer to adapt Bascomb's book has not yet been attached.

Grand Escape is the true story of three daredevil World War I pilots being held in Germany's most infamous POW prison. The story chronicles WWI's greatest mass prison escape, and the pilots' subsequent flight to freedom.

Bascomb, whose next book The Winter Fortresscomes out in May, is currently working on Grand Escape, which will publish via Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Abrahamson was nominated for an Oscar this year for helming Room, which starred Brie Larson as a woman who was abducted and raised a child while being held in a small one-room shed for seven years. Larson won the best actress Oscar for the role.

Abrahamson's other films include Frank, starring Michael Fassbender, and What Richard Did. He is attached to direct and co-write with Jon Raymond A Man's World, the story of boxer Emile Griffith. Abrahamson is repped by WME and the Casarotto Ramsay Agency in the U.K.

WME also repped the film rights.


dictated the duration of popular music long after that constraint was surpassed.4 In fact, this average duration persists in popular music as the modus operandi today. This, in turn, influenced the way music of longer duration was heard. The implicit effect on the classical music industry was disastrous. To put it bluntly, the subjective perception of the length of time withered the collective attention span for listening to music.5

The Royal Automobile Club deemed Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyrie the most dangerous music to listen to while driving.

Neuroscience gives us insights into how music creates an alternate temporal universe. During periods of intense perceptual engagement, such as being enraptured by music, activity in the prefrontal cortex, which generally focuses on introspection, shuts down. The sensory cortex becomes the focalparticular composers, including Anton Bruckner, famous for his hour-plus symphonies, and Olivier Messiaen, took the warping of subjective time to extremes. Anton Webern even fooled himself, grossly overestimating the duration of his own 7-minute-long Variations for Orchestra as lasting 20 minutes!

But it is Schubert, more than any other composer, who succeeded in radically commandeering temporal perception. Nowhere is this powerful control of time perception more forceful than in the String Quintet. Schubert composed the four-movement work in 1828, during the feverish last two months of his life. (He died at age 31.) In the work, he turns contrasting distortions of perceptual time into musical structure. Following the opening melody in the first Allegro ma non troppo movement, the second Adagio movement seems to move slowly and be far


third degree of E major, becomes A flat, the third degree of the distantly related key, F minor.

This change triggers a shift of mode and a new thrust of forward motion, set by activation in the accompaniment. Time hastens with a forward thrust, created by literally reversing the two characteristic attributes of the opening pattern. Instead of the opening long-short-long, the pattern is now short-long-short, and the change of pitch that was attempting, almost in vain, to break free at the end of the pattern, is now front-ended, and catapults the melody into motion while the repeated note, before a stutter, no longer resists motion but rather adds to the forward thrust. If time was gasping for life, it is now suddenly, breathlessly energetic.

The new melody in themiddle section aggressively probes the future. Yet while its energetic accompaniment seems faster and shorter than the opening, it is, in fact exactly equal in duration: the same number of measures, same number of beats, even the same rate of harmonic change. The section grinds to a halt, introducing the recapitulation of the opening, this time adding a more ornamented line and counterpoint that seems, with only limited success, to keep the music from returning to temporal stasis.

Schubert effectively tricks us into perceiving a timespan far more expansive than registered by a stopwatch.8 Within this illusion of stretched time, he embeds another illusion, of a considerably faster and shorter section sandwiched between slow and virtually motionless music, when, in fact, by the metronome and the clock, all three


sections are of equal length.

The third movement, Scherzo, which follows the slow Adagio, stands in temporal and rhythmic opposition to its predecessor. Here again, there are three sections. A fast opening,

followed by a middle section in stark contrast to the opening, and the recapitulation of the opening.

In opposition to the subjective long-short-long sections of the Adagio, the perceived timespans here are fast-slow-fast (or short-long-short). The energetic outer sections grind to a near halt with the middle section. Here again, not only is perceptual time manipulated, but the temporal warping is the very underpinning of the overall musical structure. Just as the perceived distorted time of the Adagio was a reflection of the long-short-long surface rhythm of the Adagio, so the short-long-short surface rhythm of the Scherzo mirrors theRepublicans huddled Wednesday morning in the basement of the Capitol, their first meeting following a two-week recess, and emerged with mixed messages about a provision in the latest version of their Obamacare repeal bill that could exempt members of Congress and their staffers from some of the most radical changes to the law.

Those changes—drafted in hopes of bringing the American Health Care Act back from the political grave—include the ability for states to waive certain regulations, allowing insurers to charge older and sicker patients much more for coverage, and allowing states to require insurance plans cover fewer essential health benefits.

The text of a new amendment released Tuesday night includes a carve-out for members of Congress, allowing them to retain all of the essential health benefits and cost protections


US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison on Tuesday announced her transportation-centered plan to unseat Texas Governor Rick Perry in the race to win the Republican nomination for governor in March. Hutchison's announcement focused on Perry's support for the unpopular Trans-Texas Corridor toll road project and the failures of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), which lawmakers last year labeled "out of control" for its single-minded focus on tolling.

"Texans are tired of the traffic and congestion in our cities," Hutchison said. "They are frustrated with the arrogance and inefficiencies of the leadership at the Texas Department of Transportation that have failed to produce results. One of my top priorities as governor will be to clean up TxDOT and solve the transportation problems that have plagued Texas for the last decade."

SummarizingPerry's plan as "just trying to fix potholes and add major toll roads," Hutchison highlighted TxDOT's pursuit of a tax on drivers for every mile traveled, which would require the installation of a GPS tracking device on every vehicle. The senator also hit Perry for creating a "loophole" known as pass-through toll financing to ram through private toll road deals without the legislature's authorization.

Hutchison proposed specific legislative actions, including killing the Trans-Texas Corridor and prohibiting toll road non-compete agreements that include secret provisions that lower the speed limit on free roads (view TheNewspaper's October 2007 report on this issue). No existing freeway would be tolled except for new capacity added. To reform TxDOT, Hutchison's plan called for a shakeup of the agency's management structure. To provide more funding


Measles re-emerges and recommendation of vaccination.
Measles is a highly infectious viral illnesses and is one of the world most contagious diseases that can affect in all people if they have not been vaccinated or have not had it before. Before measles vaccine become available in 1963, major epidemic occurred approximately every 2-3 years and thus 99% of the people were thought to have been infected naturally with measles virus and immune for life. In 2000, measles was declared eliminated from the United States, and yet 1215 cases have been reported from 30 states as of August 22, 2019. Currently there are several large measles outbreaks universally and some people who were not immune and they need to get their measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine in order to preventPages

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Comics Rant: Daredevil #171

Written and Art by: Frank Miller

Inks by: Klaus Janson

The Kingpin of crime is back in town, but he's not here for the reasons you think. He's not here to revamp underground crime. He's not here to reclaim his throne on the top of the secret world of organized crime. No, he's here to retrieve his wife Vanessa, who's been kidnapped. And for the first time within these pages, our horned hero will face one of his greatest foes for the very first time.

This issue opens up exactly where the last one left off, when Bulseye kicked Daredevil out of a window and he barely survives by landing in the back of a garbage truck. We see him waking up and smelling a


bunch of scents that don't normally go together. Things like orange rinds, coffee grounds and rotten fruit. He finally fully wakes up and realizes he's in the back of a garbage truck and waste no time hopping out and getting back on the move. Meanwhile on another side of the city, a low level thug is in a phone booth making a call to his bosses, reporting that The Kingpin has NOT been killed. If you'll remember from last issue, someone snitched and a plan was set up to blow up the airplane that was supposed to be carrying The Kingpin upon his return to the united states. However, the first plane to arrive was a decoy and that was the one that blew up. Needless to say,Fisk handled everything once his actual plane landed shortly after.

We're then brought to an office building the following day. In a conference room, a couple men discuss their options and routes to take on how to bring down the Kingpin. They still have Vanessa in their grasp so they definitely have the leverage. One man in the dark sends Bullseye to deliver a message to the men of the Kingpin however he sees fit, which upsets Bullseye. He's one of the best mercs out there and he's being paid not for his talents but to be an errand boy. We'll see how that effects the story a little later maybe now or in the next couple issues. That night, Matt decides to go out into the city and


rough up some thugs for some answers, but he can't just go around as Daredevil this time, no one would talk. He needs to take a different approach, an approach that looks more...normal. He dresses up in street clothes and heads to his first stop, a run down dive bar which has been the home to multiple fights recently. All he does is ask the bartender if she has any information about a woman named Vanessa and from there, its game over. The entire bar quiets down, some thugs try to scare Matt with threats and tough talk. This means nothing to the man without fear though...probably...well...because he's the man without fear. Its in the nickname, he's not afraid of some thugs...he has no fear! Alright, you getit, moving on. The fight is narrowed down to two guys, and Matt finally tells them that he wants to talk to The Kingpin himself. They agree and take him with them to where The Kingpin has been hiding while back in New York.

The men meet face to face, and Fisk asks the simple questions. Why, who, yada yada. Just as Fisk is putting the order to kill Murdock, he shows off some of his skills by throwing a pen into the barrel of the handgun behind him. He's hired on the spot. Just then a man walks in and he seems to be dying. He's a guard of Fisk's and he brought with him a message, Kingpin to meet some men at a construction site and more


importantly, ALONE, and he'll get Vanessa back. He just has to bring the files he has that contain all the dirt on local crime lords. Kingpin and his men leave the basement fortress, leaving Matt locked inside a vault. It takes everything t Matt has to get that door open and he finally does, so now he's on the hunt for those files. Eventually Fisk finds him and when confronted, Matt is gone. He remerges donning his Daredevil suit and the fight begins between Daredevil and Fisk, the first of many. Its here where we learn that The Kingpin isn't just a big ol fat guy, he's actually hiding a ridiculous amount of muscle under his flub and fancy suits. It only takes one good clean hit inthe face to Daredevil and he's knocked out cold.

With the red threat out of the way for now, Fisk grabs his files and heads to the construction site alone. There, we find some men waiting and Vanessa tied up to a nearby beam. Fisk hands over the briefcase and awaits the men to inspect it. As they open the case, it lets out a massive screeching noise. Anyone within earshot except Fisk, since he's wearing a convenient device in his ear just for loud screeching noises, is knocked out. All except one thug, and as Fisk makes his way to Vanessa, the thug manages to ignore the pain in his head and reach a mortar and fires a missile toward Fisk. It misses, but it hits the beam


Drake High School Daraja Club's Fundraiser:

Daraja Bay to Breakers

THE STORY:

The Drake Daraja Club is a group of students at Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo that founded the club to raise awareness for the need of more and better education for girls globally. Specifically, we support the Daraja Academy in Kenya. Daraja is a secondary school for promising young girls, providing the rare, excellent education they need for a better future. We are participating in San Francisco's Bay to Breakers Race to raise money for things like the girl's tuition, board, supplies, and healthcare. This has been our most successful fundraiser in the past, and by far the most fun.

The Drake Daraja Club sponsors an awesome girl named Fatuma, who is now in her 3rd yearSouthwest reveals details on international flights out of Hobby Airport

A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 lands at Hobby Airport in March 2015. A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 lands at Hobby Airport in March 2015. Photo: Bill Montgomery Photo: Bill Montgomery Image 1 of / 102 Caption Close Southwest reveals details on international flights out of Hobby Airport 1 / 102 Back to Gallery

Southwest Airlines will offer nonstop flights to Costa Rica, Belize and Jamaica from Hobby Airport's international terminal that opens this fall, Southwest CEO Gary Kelly said Wednesday.

Kelly, at a press conference today, added Liberia, Costa Rica, to the list of previously announced international destinations that Southwest will serve from Houston. He also, for the first time, revealed when flights would begin at the five-gate terminakl.

Flights to Mexico


City, Puerto Vallarta, Los Cabos, Cancún in Mexico as well as San Jose, Costa Rica and Belize City, Belize start Oct. 15. A flight to Montego Bay, Jamaica and the Liberia flight will begin Nov. 1. Service to Aruba from Hobby began earlier this year.

Kelly said four of the eight new flights have no competition in Houston currently.

"These flights will provide much needed competition," Kelly said. "There will be much needed relief from some of the highest international fares in the country."

Mayor Annise Parker joined Kelly at the announcement, which was held in front of Houston City Hall and was decorated with a beach theme, including bongo players, grass-covered tents and beach balls. Screens behind Kelly and Parker showed scenes from the Latin American destinations Southwest plans toCommission has been examining the case of Mrs Joan Isaacs who was sexually abused from age 14 by the chaplain of her Brisbane convent school in the late 1960s. Her treatment when she approached the church for an apology, counselling and compensation in 1999 was dictated by lawyers and insurers and was akin to reabuse, the Commission has heard. She received a reparations payment of $30,000.

Archbishop Coleridge said the handling of her case was “totally unacceptable”. He said powerful cultural factors had converged to create a “perfect storm” around child sex abuse in the church. One factor was the “absurd” lack of training in the past for would-be priests about human and sexual relationships: “We have reaped the harvest of horror of that”. The Brisbane archdiocese has had


Paul and other prophets foretold. Rome will rule the world to the consummation of life; her pope will accept the proposition Jesus declined (Matthew 4:8-9).

Ernst Zündel: Unbowed

August 8, 2017 — A personal Telling Films tribute by Lady Michèle Renouf to German-Canadian artist, publisher and dedicated campaigner for historical truth Ernst Zündel, born 23rd April 1939, died 5th August 2017, the 72nd anniversary of the real holocaust of Hiroshima, at his ancestral home in southern Germany. Uniquely interviewed as he was released from Mannheim Prison in 2010 and during his journey back to his childhood home in the Black Forest, and updated in this unexpurgated version after Ernst Zündel's death, this film documents his decades of legal struggle for source-critical justice in Canada and Germany, literally illustrated by Ernst'sUS Department of State has budgeted at least US$49 million . . . to support right-wing opposition forces in Venezuela who are now in their seventh week of violent protests to oust democratically-elected President Nicolas Maduro . . . According to a 2007 US strategic document leaked by former CIA-whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013, Venezuela was seen as the main adversary of the United States in the Western Hemisphere. The country was listed as one of the top six "enduring targets for the NSA," along with China, North Korea, Iraq, Iran and Russia. Full story: telesurtv.net

Comment: Rather the USA is the main adversary of Venezuela, China, North Korea, Iraq, Iran and Russia and other "enduring targets".

Trump Intel Chief: North Korea learned from Libya War 'never' give up Nukes

July


In one of his last reports, before being killed by Washington's terrorists, Alkhateb reported that the Coalition was attacking civilians, hospitals, schools, and food production in the Homs region . . ."

The "Coalition" and its mercenary proxies have been doing this for almost seven years now. Embassies need to be opened in Syria and beyond, the truth needs to be widely accepted, not ignored, and the carnage must stop . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca

Imagine what would happen if China decided to impose Economic Sanctions on the USA?

August 3, 2017 — In June, Washington threatened Beijing with a sanctions regime, in response to China's increased bilateral commodity trade with North Korea. Initially, the US sanctions were not intended to be against the Chinese government: selected Chinese banks andof jubilant, chanting Palestinians surrounded the Israelis removing the final security obstacles in the early hours of July 27 . . . Western media has given scant coverage to this important struggle, nor to the increasing repression which ignited it. Corporate media reporting on Palestine, when it does happen, often obscures the issues. For instance, recent reporting in the New York Times and other outlets gives the impression that Israel has some claims at al-Aqsa. The reality is that Israel's presence there violates international law . . . Full story: globalresearch.ca

Comment: Millions will invade and occupy when an earthquake demolishes es Sakhra, the Dome of the Rock as prophesied by Zechariah and Jesus.

A Picture paints a Thousand Words

August 4, 2017 — The Dow Jones hits a record high.


The New York Stock Exchange margin debt reaches a record high. Complacency, as measured by VIX, the fear index, is at an all-time low. Don't people realise that when anything market-related is prefaced with 'record' or 'all-time' it's closer to the end, and NOT the beginning, of a trend? . . . Haven't US investors seen the chart? Or heard the saying 'a picture paints a thousand words'?

Apparently not . . . Extrapolation—projecting the past into the future—is one of the biggest mistakes investors make . . . Full story: Vern Gowdie

Comment: The red dotted line on this graph is actually how the Dow Jones Industrial Average has performed in 2017. Look at what's ahead. When the US share market falls hard from its historic high, shockwaves willthat takes command over one's mortal spirit and corruptible flesh, bringing them subject to the measure of the stature of the fullness of the anointed Word that is the Husband of our soul shining His glory in the darkness of this world.

Our New Testament was written in Greek and later translated into our English Bibles. The Greek language has many words with subtle distinctions in the expression of thought which are sometimes translated as one English word. This lack of biblical precision in our English Bibles has contributed greatly to the confusion regarding the nature and timing of Christ's Coming and the events that will occur in conjunction with that Coming.

Take for instance Jesus' cry in John 19:30: "It is finished" (Gk.) 'tetelestai' which means to bring to


a close, complete, fulfil a commission and pay sin's price. The Messianic prophecy is accomplished; redemption is completed; "He has finished the transgression, made reconciliation for iniquity and brought in everlasting righteousness" for the Old Testament saints and those who have received the Pentecostal blessing (Daniel 9:24).

What makes Jesus' exclamation truly unique but is lost in translation is the Greek tense. He spoke in the Perfect tense, which has no English equivalent, and is a combination of the Present tense and the Aorist tense that is punctiliar: meaning something that happens at a specific point in time. The Present tense is linear: meaning something that continues on into the future and has ongoing results and implications. So what Jesus means is "It is finished and will continue tobe finished to the end of the age".

The first element of the perfect tense: the Aorist, punctiliar, points to that exact moment in which the counsels of the Father concerning His sufferings were fulfilled, and all types and prophecies of the Old Testament pointing to the sufferings of Messiah, were accomplished. The shadow of the Law is abolished and the substance is come as in I Corinthians 13:10, "When that which is perfect [or complete—the fullness of the Word] is come (Revelation 10:1-7)], that which was in part [PART-Word and Christ's Mediation for ignorance of the fullness], will be done away," as it has been, because the work of man's redemption is complete and redemption is over (Hebrews 4:1-11).

The second element of Jesus' statement is the Present, ongoing,


came to pay the wages of sin for all whose names are written in the Book of Life. Sin is unbelief in the revealed Word of God, the wages of sin is death, and the Book of Life is the genealogy of the first Adam. So long as the names of Adam's children are in that Book they are "saved" and will be granted into eternal Life at the White Throne Judgment. Those whose names are removed are lost. "As it was in the days of Noah" most are not in Adam's race owing to the original sin (Matthew 24:36; Genesis 6:1-4) and without redemption as our KINSMAN Redeemer is not the last Cain.

Christ's first Coming was a (Gk.) 'erchomai' or physical Coming to meet sin's price andis looking for believers in "the present truth." As the Israelites rejected John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ's first Coming, and clung to their animal sacrifice and Babylonian theology, the Gentiles have rejected the forerunner to His second Coming and cling to their substitute Babylonian creeds and barren traditions, "crucifying to themselves the Son of God afresh" (Hebrews 6:6).

Having recognized the "shout" of I Thessalonians 4:16 the only way one can "see" Christ's second or 'parousia' Coming is through the eyes of Melchisedec and the "Voice of Christ the Archangel" whispering His amours to their heart.

After He takes us Home for the Wedding Supper in the Sky, He will gather the elect Israelites to the Land of the Covenant where they will receive the revelation of the


guesswork and the traditions of ministers who have rejected the Elijah of Malachi 4:5-6 will be slain in God's wrath (Revelation 13:15-18; 19:20) as the denominational Israelites who rejected the Elijah of Malachi 3 were slaughtered by His servant General Titus. The Israelites were looking for Messiah's first Coming according to the prophecy pertaining to His third Coming as a General to defeat and expel the Romans and restore the Kingdom to Israel. Today's denominations are looking for the second Coming according to the prophecy of His third physical or 'erchomai' Coming that cannot take place until after the consummation of life.

I suspect the difficulty some find in understanding the distinction between Christ's 'parousia' and 'erchomai' comings stems from the absence of a clear revelation of the trueOneness of the godhead. God is omniscient, knowing all things, past, present and future, and being all-mighty He is omnipotent. He is not, however, omnipresent. God is one Spirit Being, not two spirits, Father and Holy Ghost, and one Man, but as Jesus explained to the elect Samaritan woman at the well, God is One Spirit Being. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are three offices or dispensation claims of the One Person of God who cannot be in two places at the same time anymore than you or me, but as He is omniscient and omnipotent He has the authority and ability of one who is omnipresent.

Were God omnipresent Cain could not have departed from His Presence, and both Cain and the Devil would be full of the


which means manifested to reveal in one's true character, and 'Pareimi' which means to be physically near, at hand, or present.

The emphasis of today's teaching will be on the word 'parousia'.

Matthew 24:1-3, "As Jesus was leaving the Temple precinct, His disciples came forward to point out the buildings of the Temple. But He said to them, Do you see all these buildings and their massive and durable appearance? I assure you, not one stone will be left here on another, that will not be thrown down. And as He sat on the Mount of Olives [overlooking the Temple], Peter, James, John and Andrew asked Him three questions privately:

"Tell us, when will the Temple be thrown down"

Jesus answered this question in Matthew 24:15-21, "When you see the abomination ofworld and is restored in the evening time of the Gospel" (Zechariah 14:7; Malachi 4:5, 6b; Matthew 17:11; Revelation 10:7).

"Immediately after the tribulation of those days [of oppression by Jewry and the Judaeo-Roman Catholic church throughout the Gentile dispensation (I Thessalonians 2:14-16; Luke 11:52; Revelation 20:4)] the sun will be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light; the stars will fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens will be shaken" in the manifestation of the Sixth Seal and Seventh Trumpet and the outpouring of the Seventh Vial that ends the Gentile dispensation.

The Sign of Christ's parousia Coming to Israel is in verse 30: "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the


leading to the 'hot stage' of World War III, the utter defeat of the modern State of faux Israel, and the mass exodus of non-Semitic, anti-Semitic Israeli self-styled Jews, enabling the Israelites to safely return.

"And [what will be the sign] of the end of the age?

Matthew's Gospel is addressed to Israelites; the Sixth Seal is manifesting, the Seventh Trumpet has sounded and the Seventh Vial has been poured out. An earthquake has divided the Mount of Olives, demolishing es Sakhra, the Dome of the Rock, and the twenty-first century 'Moses' and 'Elijah' have been commissioned to gather the 144,000 elect Israelites to the Land of their Covenant. These signs confirm the end of Man's day and the beginning of the Day of the Lord as in Revelation 1:10with a loud voice, How long, O Lord, holy and true, will you refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth? And they were assured of salvation at the White Throne Judgment and told that they should rest a little longer until their 144,000 elect brethren should also be martyred [in the second half of Daniel's Seventieth Week]."

Revelation 10:5-6, "And the Angel [Christ] which I saw place judgment upon Rome, the beast from the sea and upon her (once) Protestant image, the united States, the beast from the earth lifted up His hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are,


and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be (Gk.) 'chronos' time no longer".

"Time is no more" for Christ's end-time Bride and the 144,000 Israelites; we are predestinated to receive the fullness of the Word by revelation of the Seven Seals or Seven Trumpet mysteries and were fully redeemed in Christ on Calvary. Since Revelation 4 and 5 were fulfilled in 1963 there has been neither sacrifice or blood on the altar, so when Christ took His Title Deed to redemption the martyrs under the Fifth Seal recognized Him as their kinsman Redeemer and demanded vengeance. His descent on Mount Sunset with the little Book open confirmed the Church Ages, His mediation and redemption are over. Israel will fulfil the sixfold purpose of Daniel'sSeventieth Week as martyrs and appear with the Church in the vision of Christ's parousia Coming in judgment when Armageddon ends "the world that now is" (Revelation 19:1-21).

Revelation 12:12, "Rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea [apostate Christendom, Rome and her (once) Protestant US image); the Third Woe will commence with the 'hot stage' of World War III and end after Armageddon with earth's cleansing by nuclear fire]! For the Devil is come down to you [incarnate in Rome's pope], having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time [namely seven years]".

Revelation 15:8, "And the [heavenly] temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from His power; and no man was able