and dishonor are both the intent and result of rape and acid attacks. It is a literal loss of face. Symbolically, mutilation is the archetypal sign of dishonor. From a strategic perspective a mutilated victim is forever stigmatized, a living personification of shame, a visible sign of dishonor and a political advertisement for Sharia law.

Muslim women who choose to wear hijab have internalized their own oppression. Western non-Muslim women who wear hijab have been indoctrinated into social justice myths of Islamophobia. World Hijab Day, founded by a Muslim activist/operative, is part of the stealth jihad strategy to slowly introduce Sharia law into Western culture. The president of the New York Chapter of the National Organization for Women thinks women should wear hijab as part of the resistance againstSan Francisco, Krusty stops by and tells the crowd they will no longer be making the Ribwich and he tosses them the last one. Homer catches it, and offers are made to him for the last one. He realizes that he’s forsaken his daughter’s big day for a sandwich and he trades it for a car, which he drives off to Lisa’s big event. At the Spellympics, Homer arrives just in time for Lisa to do her final word. With her dad present, she blows the lid off of the rigged contest, but then misspells her word in the process. She loses the contest, but back home in Springfield she is celebrated as “the biggest winner this town has ever had.” They even have her likeness carved into


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report. Yahoo publishes a transparency report.

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Fight for users privacy in courts. Yahoo has a record of repeatedly challenging government requests for user data. In 2007, Yahoo fought back against an order to produce user data under the Protect America Act, challenging the legality of the order in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the secret court that grants government applications for surveillance. And when the order was upheld by the FISC, Yahoo appealed the decision to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, a three-judge appellate court established to review decisions of the FISC.

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Jointly organized by the Embassy of Israel and Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) to appreciate Laxman and his special friendship to Israel and care for Israeli tourists, a special message from Shuka Ravek, the lead in the documentary film and a close friend of late Laxman was shown before the screening.

According to a press release issued by Israeli Embassy, Israeli Ambassador to Nepal Yaron Mayer also expressed his personal gratitude to late Laxman Ghimire.

The documentary film directed by Israeli film maker Barak Tal tells an adventure story of a failed attempt by a


group of Israelis to cross the highest mountain pass in the Himalayas that had never been crossed before.

On a deeper level, it is a film about the reality in Israel, that its plot takes place in a different part of the world. Led by an octogenarian, who frequently leads people to mountain expeditions, the documentary tells story of a journey towards fulfillment, reality, passion and difficulties of life and failure, depicted in a simple yet enthralling way.

The documentary film was selected to be screened during the Kathmandu Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF) during 10-16 December 2015. Director Tal, who came to represent Israel with his film in the festival, also conducted a lecture for the students of Oscar International College, the only college in South Asia that provides aRail Pass holder you can make seat reservations free of charge before your journey but it is not manatory. Seat reservations are advised in periods of high demand such as cherry blossom, (late March - early April), Golden Week (late April - early May), Obon (mid-August) and New Year.

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Most of my life has been spent in the radio field, working at radio stations in New York, Pennsiylvania, Maryland, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Wyoming and most recently in Arkansas. Actually my longest stay was here in the Northwest corner of Arkansas - the Rogers/ Bentonville area.

I came to this area near the end of 1981 as news director of KAMO, a position I had for seven years until the station was sold and the news department was closed. Shortly thereafter I


Fort Leonard Wood, MO. I held that position for 20 years, retiring in 2010.

Also, during my 35 plus years in Northwest Arkansas, I have filled in for vacationing pastors, and held special services in Arkansas and several surrounding states; including nine years as part-time Minister of Music and Associate Pastor at our own home church in Bentonville.

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During the 1990's, I put together a series of short five minute radio programs dealing with the subject of "Creation vs. Evolution." Those programs were combined into my first book published in 2007. It is currently in its fourth printing. I also wrote a book titled "Finding Jesus in the Old Testament - the Jewish Scriptures." Shortly thereafter, I noticed that verse-by-verse studies I was doing in Matthew's Gospel, really looked liketo take care of His mother after His crucifixion. This was the disciple who became the beloved Pastor of the Church at Ephesus (according to church history). This is the disciple who was banished to the Island of Pamos (a prison camp) by the Roman Emperor because of his faith. Yet, he was not good enough to stand in the presence of the Glorified Messiah before the Throne of God" (Romans 3:23). Notice, "...ALL have sinned..." To "sin," means "to miss the mark" of "the standard" that God has set. The standard is "complete holiness." It seems strange that we would have to add the word "complete" to holiness, because "Holy" by itself is "complete." However, in our western society, at least in our minds, we have downgraded


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entries were both released this year, with Christmas by Michael Bublé returning after making the top ten before.

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Forty-six artists achieved their first top 10 album in 2013 as a lead artist.

The following table (collapsed on desktop site) does not include acts who had previously charted as part of a group and secured their first top 10 solo album, or featured appearances on compilations or other artists recordings.

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Johnny Marr had great success as a member of The Smiths, including four albums which reached the top two. He scored a top 10 hit with his debut solo album The Messenger in 2013. After three previous attempts, will.i.am achieved a first top 10 peaking album outside The Black Eyed Peas, as #willpower landed at number 3.

Agnetha Fältskog securedat number 8 on 29 June 2013 (week ending) for 3 weeks and at number 4 on 7 December 2013 (week ending) for 5 weeks.
 Unapologetic re-entered the top 10 at number 10 on 13 April 2013 (week ending).
 Unorthodox Jukebox re-entered the top 10 at number 7 on 23 February 2013 (week ending) for 12 weeks, at number 7 on 8 June 2013 (week ending) and at number 9 on 6 July 2013 (week ending) for 4 weeks.
 Take Me Home re-entered the top 10 at number 8 on 2 February 2013 (week ending).
 Nothing but the Beat originally peaked at number 2 on its initial release in 2011.
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beat Djurgårdens IF 1–0 in the last matchday of 2006 Allsvenskan and become champions for the first time since 1961.
 9 December 2006: The Swedish Football Association decides to increase the number of teams in Allsvenskan from 14 to 16—effective from the 2008 season—meaning that the 2007 season will see only one team being relegated from Allsvenskan while three teams will be automatically promoted from Superettan.

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Category:Seasons in Swedish footballA WOMAN thug has avoided jail after breaking a baby's arm in a fit of rage following a tiff with her boyfriend.

Lucy Howarth, 20, took out her anger on a three-month-old tot she was looking after and told her mum she was going to kill herself.

4 Lucy Howarth, was found guilty of child cruelty but avoided jail Credit: Cavendish Press

4 A judge slammed the 20-year-old from Oldham as "selfish" Credit: Cavendish Press

The part-time student from Oldham, slammed as "selfish" by a judge, fractured the baby's arm by twisting it violently and then failed to report his injuries.

It took two days for the boy, who cannot be named, to receive treatment for the break.

A doctor said he would have been "a great deal of pain", prosecutors told Minshull Street


wrongdoing.

She maintained that the carer who took the tot to hospital must have injured the baby.

Her defence said that she was "emotionally unstable" at the time of the attack in October 2015, when she was 17.

Howarth's lawyer, Michael Johnson, said: "She can be a pleasant young lady with an engaging personality."

4 Howarth denied harming the baby boy who was left in her care Credit: Cavendish Press

4 Howarth's acts were described by a judge as being born out of "extreme immaturity" Credit: Cavendish Press

But prosecutor Jonathan Savage, said she "failed to seek prompt medical treatment and during the course of her interviews she sought to blame others."

Agreeing, Judge Bernadette Baxter, said: "She was selfish and self indulgent and I dare say this incident was born out of extreme immaturity.

"She'sinclined to hire an evangelical or conservative colleague than one more conventionally liberal.

Political uniformity is certainly in vogue. A remarkable 96 percent of presidential campaign donations from the nation’s Ivy League faculty and staff in 2012 went to Obama, a margin more reminiscent of Soviet Russia than a properly functioning pluralistic academy.

Sadly, this orthodoxy in the academy is duplicated throughout much of the media. Certain right-wing and skeptical perspectives fare better in the media than at the universities, due to both the media and the support of such media by wealthy conservatives. But many Americans know bias when they see it; overall, reports Pew, the percentage who think news is tilted to one side has grown dramatically, from 53 percent in 1985 to 77 percent in 2011.

There remain


Former longtime ABC13 weatherman Ed Brandon has passed away

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Houston television icon and longtime member of the ABC13 family Ed Brandon died peacefully last night in Houston.Ed came to Houston in 1972 to become the weathercaster for 13 Eyewitness News. KTRK's station management gave him the title of "Texas' Most Experienced Weathercaster."Ed played a prominent role on Live at Five, and Eyewitness News at 6 and 10pm, alongside anchors Dave Ward, Shara Fryer, Gina Gaston, Melanie Lawson, Art Rascon, Sports Director Bob Allen and Action 13's Marvin Zindler.ABC13 General Manager Henry Florsheim said, "Ed was part of the Eyewitness team that formed the foundation for ABC13 today. Ed presented weather with a smile and made it understandable for all."A native Texan, Ed was born inTexarkana, Texas in 1942 and attended Austin's McCallum High School and the University of Texas at Austin. He started his broadcast career as a disc jockey at radio stations in Texarkana and Longview. After a stint as an announcer at an Austin radio station, he moved into television as a talk show host and weather reporter at KHFI-TV in Austin.In May 1972, Ed left Austin to accept the weather position with KTRK-TV. He retired from ABC13 in May 2007 after 35 years with the company.Ed's brother Burt Branstetter tells us, "Ed was the sweetest guy I ever knew and loved his Channel 13 family."Ed served for many years on the Advisory Board of the Houston Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. He hosted an annual golf tournament benefiting


Warren J. Ziegler, 83, Area Historian And Genealogist

April 03, 1993|The Morning Call

Warren J. Ziegler, 83, an area historian and genealogist, died Thursday in his home in the Trexler Park Apartments, 419 Benner Ave., Allentown. The Lehigh County Coroner's office attributed the death to a gunshot wound to the head and ruled it a suicide.

Ziegler, formerly of Milford., N.J., was the husband of Eleanor E. (Fetherolf) Ziegler. They were married 55 years last May.

He was a self-employed interior and exterior window decorator in Milford for 30 years before retiring in 1985.

Born in Allentown, he was a son of the late Jacob and Sallie (Lutz) Ziegler.

He was a member of First Presbyterian Church, Allentown.

Ziegler was a genealogist and researcher for most of his life and the author of 40 bookson area churches and family histories.

He was a chief coordinator and sponsor for the placement and dedication of the Lutz Memorial Monument in Jacobs Union Church Cemetery, dedicated Oct. 12, 1991.

He was active in the Berks County Historical Society and the Palatinates To America Society, Columbus, Ohio, from which he was expected to receive an award for his work in research and genealogy.

Ziegler was captain of the Garden City (N.J.) Fire Company, 1943-51, and a founder of the Sergeantsville (N.J.) Fire Company.


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The Russian band POLSKA RADIO ONE was formed in 2012, and from what I can understand, consists of four young musicians, ones that appear to be enthusiastic about their music. Less than three years into their career they have already released two full-length albums as well as a number of singles and EPs. "Cosmos Inside" is an extended version of their debut album "Polska Radio One" from 2013, and was released through the US label Trail Records at the start of 2014.

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Those who have followed the psychedelic rock music scene will most likely have encountered the label Trail Records at some point the last few years. They release a few albums each year, mostly by artists either overlooked when at their most active, artists partially forgotten about orby completely unknown bands, many of which are of Russian or Eastern European origins. Polska Radio One is, obviously, among the latter category of artists. While this is a young band, they have opted to explore music that has much more of a vintage character to it. This is a production that stands firmly in the traditions of the late 60s and early 70s, music of the kind that comes with instant associations to recreational drugs and chants of make love, not war. Psychedelic music of the kind that was made before the hippie movement lost its final traces of naivety, one might say. Vintage organ textures are used liberally throughout, as one would expect, and of course, there's a sitar present too, even if only on two


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While conventional polymer-coated agricultural chemicals permit a controlled release of the material upon application, the release typically begins atJesse 'LJ' Matthew, the man charged with the abduction of missing UVA student Hannah Graham, was accused of rape when he studied at Liberty University, MailOnline can exclusively reveal.

Matthew was expelled from the Christian university founded by Jerry Falwell in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 2002, following the alleged sex attack on a female student but was not charged with any crime, former teammates said.

Police announced last night that Matthew was arrested in Galveston, Texas, after going on the run. He appeared in court there this morning charged with Hannah's abduction 'with intent to defile' and is awaiting extradition to Virginia.

As a gifted football player, 'LJ' - as he likes to be known - won a sports scholarship to Liberty University after he was named Charlottesville's 'Athlete of the Year'


in 1999.

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Rough: Teammates claimed that the girl was taken to hospital after he was 'aggressive' with her at party. Matthew pictured left in 2002 Liberty University team and right, before he grew his dreadlocks

Caught: Matthew was the last known person to see Hannah Graham before she disappeared on September 12. He was arrested in Texas (mugshot above) on charges of Hannah's abduction with intent to defile after going on the lam

In chains: Matthew appears in court in Galveston as preparations are made to extradite him to Virginia

Desperate: Hannah was drunk when she was seen wandering around Charlottesville in the early hours of the morning. Her distraught parents have said that they fear she may have been a victim of 'foul play'

But Matthew, now 32, wasforced to leave before he graduated following the allegation that he raped a female student on the university campus in October 2002.

Lynchburg City Police investigated the rape allegation and Matthew was named as a suspect, MailOnline has been told. But the student was not arrested or charged, due to lack of evidence.

However his scholarship was withdrawn and he was thrown out of the university, his teammates told MailOnline.

Former Liberty Flames Football captain William Haith said: 'LJ was on the football team. He was a defensive end. He won a sports scholarship for football.

'But he left in 2002. He got into some trouble over sex with a girl. She made a complaint against him. He was put out of the football team because of the complaint. He was kicked


out of the university as well.

'The allegation was that he forced himself upon a girl at a party and had sex with her. The girl said he was aggressive towards her and she filed a complaint against him. He was put off the football team and he was put out of school. Liberty is a very disciplined school with strong religious beliefs.'

Another former teammate, Milton Johnson, claimed: 'LJ was accused of sexual assaulting a girl when he was at Liberty. She was a student at Liberty. He got kicked off the football team and kicked out of the university. He was real rough with her and she ended up in hospital.'

Mr Milton added: 'LJ was awkward around people. He was kind of weird.'

A third former teammate, Andre Jerry,told MailOnline: 'I know LJ. He played on the defensive line – we were a pretty tight crew. I remember a girl did make an allegation against him but I don't know the details. She was a student at Liberty. But LJ was never charged with anything.'

Jesse Matthew, 32, pictured in handcuffs, was arrested on Wednesday afternoon on a Texas beach and escorted by sheriff deputies into Galveston County jail (left). He was caught on surveillance video earlier at a gas station in Galveston, right

Job-hopping: After his fall from grace at Liberty, Matthew worked various jobs including driving a taxi until he ended up working as a hospital porter at UVA

A spokesman for Lynchburg City Police did not confirm the claim, citing procedure, but told MailOnline: 'It was


an allegation of rape. A suspect was identified. But there was not enough evidence to move forward against that person.'

He added: 'We are co-operating with the Charlottesville Police Department. They have contacted us and we are assisting them as best we can with any questions they have.'

Captain Gary Pleasants, a lead investigator in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, told MailOnline: 'We are looking into a number of historical allegations against Matthew.'

Liberty is America's largest private non-profit university and is also the largest Evangelical Christian university in the world with almost 14,000 residential students and over 100,000 online students.

He was real rough with her and she ended up in hospital. LJ was awkward around people. He was kind of weird - Former teammate Milton Johnson

Founded as Lynchburg Baptist Collegein 1971, Liberty describes itself as a Christian academic community. It is as renowned for its high academic and sporting ability as its strong moral and spiritual beliefs. Students are held to a strict code of conduct, known as The Liberty Way.

Liberty's athletic teams compete in Division 1 NCAA sports and are collectively known as the Liberty Flames.

'LJ was kicked out of Liberty after he was accused of sexual assault,' a source with knowledge of Matthew's background told MailOnline. 'He won a football scholarship to go there. He was real good at football.

'He played for Liberty as a defensive lineman. But he left under a cloud. He has always been resentful of that.'

Liberty University has confirmed Matthew studied there but declined to give further details.

A spokeswoman told MailOnline:


'Liberty University had a student by the name of Jesse Leroy Matthew enrolled from 2000 to 2002. This student was on the football team roster during the 2000, 2001 and 2002 seasons. Federal student record privacy laws (FERPA) prevent Liberty University from providing further responses to your inquiries.'

Angered: A source told MailOnline: 'He played for Liberty as a defensive lineman. But he left under a cloud. He has always been resentful of that'

Talented: Matthew was described as a talented football player at Liberty University before he was expelled under a cloud. He won a scholarship there after being named Charlottesville's 'Athlete of the Year' in 1999

Mystery man: Police released this footage in their search for a man in dreadlocks. He was revealed to be Jesse 'LJ' Matthew, anursing assistant at UVA Hospital by MailOnline on Saturday

Confusion: This map shows Hannah Graham's movements on the night of Friday 12 and Saturday 13. At 11.50pm she was seen at a party by friends with another male friend. She then seemed to head westward toward the Charlottesville downtown mall

Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo has said he believes Matthew was the 'last person to see Hannah Graham before she vanished off the face of the face of the earth'.

On Monday night the 32-year-old from Charlottesville was charged with 'abduction with intent to defile' 18-year-old student Hannah Graham from Alexandria. After a hunt involving the FBI, he was arrested on a beach in Galveston, Texas, on Wednesday and will be brought back to Virginia.

He was also wanted on two counts


of reckless driving after he presented himself to police on Saturday, but then he sped off.

It also emerged today that in 2009 Matthew was charged with a felony for attempted grand larceny, misdemeanor assault and trespassing, after he was accused of assaulting someone while trying to steal a cell phone. The charges were eventually dropped. He also has a long list of minor driving offenses to his name.

Matthew grew up in Charlottesville living with his mother and younger sister Nicky. He was often looked after by his grandmother Christine Carr, while his mother Debra worked.

He attended the Red Hill Elementary School just outside the city in Albemarle County. Later he studied at Monticello High School and graduated in his senior year when he was 18.

After his dreams ofbecoming a professional football player were left in tatters he has had a number of different jobs.

In 2007 he started working for the Yellow Cab taxi company based in Charlottesville.

No comment: Charlottesville Police Capt Gary Pleasants refused to comment on the importance of the clothing recovered in the second search. Investigators seen above entering the house on Monday

Hunt: A deputy sheriff sits outside the home of Matthew's mother. Police had been hunting him since Saturday

Later he got a job working in the Transportation Department of UVA Hospital. In recent months he assumed the role of hospital porter, taking patients into the operations room.

However Matthew has continued to be involved in sport.

He is an assistant coach for the Covenant School varsity football team, a private Christian school in Charlottesville.

Matthew


is understood have directed a game from the side line on Friday September 12, the night Hannah Graham went missing.

Matthew was seen leaving the Tempo bar close to Charlottesville's Downtown Mall with Hannah Graham at about 1.20am last Saturday morning.

He has been identified as the dreadlocked man seen following The 18-year-old on video footage released by investigators.

On Tuesday, authorities announced that they had taken clothing in another search of the 32-year-old nursing-assistant's home.

However, Charlottesville Police Captain Gary Pleasants declined to comment on the importance of the clothing items or give any further details on what prompted the second search. Police have not yet revealed what prompted the charges being brought on Tuesday, a week after they first searched his apartment and let him go.

According to Charlottesville Police ChiefTimothy Longo, Matthew walked into the police station with two relatives on Saturday but quickly left the station after asking to speak to a lawyer.

Chief Longo says the FBI and Virginia State Police are helping Charlottesville Police in the hunt for Matthew, who is 6'2' and 270lb.

Hannah's parents, John and Sue, spoke publicly on Sunday for the first time since their 18-year-old daughter's disappearance last week.

Heartbreak: John and Sue Graham address the press on Sunday for the first time. They set out how precious Hannah was to all her family and pleaded for anyone with information to come forward

Fugitive: Police issued a new wanted poster for Jesse Matthew on Tuesday night after charges were filed

Speaking in a British accent Mr Graham said: 'As this nightmare for Hannah, for


“We are incredibly frustrated that the annual consultation for refugee admissions, which is required by law, was finalized just one day in advance,” Sens. Grassley (left) and Feinstein said. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Grassley, Feinstein slam Trump administration for not consulting Congress on refugees

The leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee blasted the Trump administration on Wednesday for insufficiently consulting with Congress before deciding the number of refugees that will be admitted into the United States next year.

The unusually harsh joint condemnation of the State Department from Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the committee’s chairman, and top Democrat Dianne Feinstein of California came as the administration slashed the number of refugees the country will take in during fiscal 2018 to 45,000 people. President Barack Obama had aimed to admit 110,000but was obtained by POLITICO — also outlines a new potential hurdle for those seeking admission as a refugee into the United States.

While generally refugees have only needed to show a fear of persecution, the Trump administration's report says the government may now also consider how well the refugee would integrate into the United States.

According to the 70-page report, the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security will "work closely" with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to "ensure that, in addition, to referrals of refugees with compelling protection needs, referrals may also take into account certain criteria that enhance a refugee’s likelihood of successful assimilation and contribution in the United States.

The State Department on Wednesday night referred questions about the policy to its Bureau of Population,


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On this day in 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signs a brief document officially promoting then-Major General Ulysses S. Grant to the rank of lieutenant general of the U.S. Army, tasking the future president with the job of leading all Union troops against the Confederate Army.

The rank of lieutenant general had not officially been used since 1798; at that time, President John Adams assigned the post to former President George Washington, in anticipation of a possible French invasion of the United States. One of Grant’s predecessors in the Civil War, Winfield Scott, had briefly earned the rank, but the appointment was only temporary—really, use of the rank had been suspended after George Washington’s death in 1799.

In 1862, Lincoln asked Congress to revive the rankof lieutenant general in order to distinguish between the general in charge of all Union forces and other generals of equal rank who served under him in the field. Congress also wanted to reinstate the rank of lieutenant general, but only if Lincoln gave the rank to Grant. Lincoln had other ideas.

Lincoln preferred to promote then-Commanding General Henry Wagner Halleck to lead the Union Army, which had been plagued by a string of ineffective leaders and terrible losses in battle. He was reluctant to promote Grant and risk boosting the general’s popularity; at the time Washington was abuzz with rumors that many northern senators were considering nominating Grant instead of Lincoln at the 1864 Republican National Convention. After Grant publicly dismissed the idea of running for the presidency,


Lincoln submitted to Congress’ choice and agreed to give Grant the revived rank. As lieutenant general of the U.S. Army, Grant was answerable only to Lincoln. Well-respected by troops and civilians, Grant earned Lincoln’s trust and went on to force the South’s surrender in 1865.

Although Grant enjoyed a distinguished career in the military, he later wrote that he never consciously chose the life of a soldier. As a student at West Point, he never expected to graduate, let alone lead the entire U.S. Army in a desperate but ultimately successful struggle to preserve the Union.

In 1869, Grant became the 18th president of the United States.

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On this day in 1865, Confederate General William Henry Chase Whiting dies in prison from wounds suffered during the fall of Fort Fisher, North Carolina.
Born in 1824 in Biloxi, Mississippi, Whiting was educated in Boston and at Georgetown College (now University) in Washington, D.C., where he graduated first in his...

The communist-controlled government of Czechoslovakia reports that Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk has committed suicide. The story of the noncommunist Masaryk’s death was greeted with skepticism in the West.
Masaryk was born in 1886, the son of Czechoslovakia’s first president. After World War I, he served as foreign minister in the new...

Dr. David Gunn is shot and killed during an anti-abortion protest at the Pensacola Women’sEdinburgh, Scotland,...

On March 10, 1945, 300 American bombers continue to drop almost 2,000 tons of incendiaries on Tokyo, Japan, in a mission that had begun the previous day. The attack destroyed large portions of the Japanese capital and killed 100,000 civilians.
In the closing months of the war, the United States had...

James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the assassination of African American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and is sentenced to 99 years in prison.On April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, King was fatally wounded by a sniper’s bullet while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at...

On this day in 1997, the fledgling Warner Brothers (WB) television network airs the inaugural episode of what will become its first bona-fide hit show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Buffy‘s


creator, Joss Whedon, developed the series from an original script he had written for the big screen a number of years...

Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman, the first Book-of-the-Month Club selection, is published by Viking Press.
The book was written by English novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner, who had intended to become a musicologist, not a writer. To that end, she edited a 10-volume work called Tudor Church Music. Warner claimed she...

With his knee-buckling good looks and his brothers' songwriting talents backing him up, 19-year-old Andy Gibb staged an unprecedented display of youthful pop mastery in the 12 months following his American debut in the spring of 1977. And his star may have risen even higher were it not for the...

Local hell-raiser Jack Slade is hanged in one of themore troubling incidents of frontier vigilantism.
Slade stood out even among the many rabble-rousers who inhabited the wild frontier-mining town of Virginia City, Montana. When he was sober, townspeople liked and respected Slade, though there were unconfirmed rumors he had once...

On March 10, 2006, the Cuban national baseball team plays Puerto Rico in the first round of the inaugural World Baseball Classic. While the Puerto Rican team was made up of major league All-Stars, the Cuban team was largely unknown to the world. Puerto Rico beat Cuba 12-2 that day,...

The U.S. Army accuses Capt. Ernest Medina and four other soldiers of committing crimes at My Lai in March 1968. The charges ranged from premeditated murder to rape and the “maiming” of a suspect under interrogation. Medina was the company


commander of Lt. William Calley and other soldiers charged with...

The North Vietnamese surround and attack the city of Ban Me Thuot, as heavy fighting erupts in the Central Highlands. This action, initiated in late January 1975, just two years after a cease-fire was established by the Paris Peace Accords, was part of what the North Vietnamese called Campaign 275....

Less than two weeks after their victorious recapture of the strategically placed city of Kut-al-Amara on the Tigris River in Mesopotamia, British troops under the regional command of Sir Frederick Stanley Maude bear down on Baghdad, causing their Turkish opponents to begin a full-scale evacuation of the city on the...

On this day, U.S. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, after a meeting with Adolf Hitler in Berlin, visits London to discussuniverse) for many years to come.

My friend was very well informed about science. He was the son of a NASA rocket scientist. He and his brothers built their own home computer and designed their own video games. Again, this was back in the late 70’s, before Apple and the home computing revolution had even taken it’s first baby step. He later graduated from Harvard and is currently a brain research scientist. In other words, he knew his science stuff pretty darn well.

I mention all this, because even though I never pursued the sciences with anything more than a half-baked approach, I still felt that my Biblical knowledge trumped any evidence he might present, because…well…the Bible told me so. As I got older, and the challenge to my claims


us last week for our Smart Justice event. Our speakers have shared their presentations and they are included on the links below. Also, please share with your friends and family about the launch of the ACLU Smart Justice campaign, on May 11th, the...

On Wednesday, May 1 PWA will host an event dedicated to Criminal Justice Reform in Michigan. The focus will be the ACLU's Smart Justice Campaign which aims to combat systemic racism in our criminal justice system and reduce the jail and prison population by 50%. Befo...

On February 20, 2019 Progressive Women's Alliance hosted over 60 people at the YWCA in Grand Rapids to hear from State Representative Jon Hoadley, a third term legislator from Kalamazoo. After a rousing introduction by our special guest, State Senator WinnieCape Town - The Stormers will never win Super Rugby until they have the best halfback combination in the tournament and a functioning lineout. It is worth repeating that the only thing man learns from history is that man does not learn.

And the Stormers coaching staff, over two decades, still haven't learned.

If we look at the history of Super Rugby, every single successful campaign is consistent in the quality of who has been playing at No 9 or No 10, and the most dominant title winners have had a combination of a 9 and 10 that in the year of success were the Test team combination and rated either the best in the world or in the top two international combinations.

The Auckland Blues of 1996 and 1997 were


blessed with an All Blacks pack and Carlos Spencer at flyhalf. The Crusaders, who took over the mantle from the Blues in the late 1990s and early 2000s had Justin Marshall (at scrumhalf) and Andrew Mehrtens (at flyhalf). The Brumbies title winners had George Gregan and Stephen Larkham as their halfbacks. The Crusaders, post Marshall and Mehrtens, had the game’s best ever No 10 in Dan Carter, with 2011 World Cup-winning scrumhalf Andy Ellis on his inside at No 9.

The Reds, in their solitary success in 2011, had Wallabies Will Genia and Quade Cooper as their halfbacks. The Chiefs, in winning back to back titles, were inspired by the All Blacks flyhalf Aaron Cruden.

The Bulls had the world’s best scrumhalf Fourie du Preez partnered by the Springbok flyhalfMorne Steyn during their three title successes and they also had the most dominant lineout locking duo (of that era and possibly ever) in Victor Matfield and Bakkies Botha.

The Highlanders had Aaron Smith at No 9 and an All Blacks flyhalf at No 10, the Hurricanes had the world’s player of the year Beauden Barrett at flyhalf and on his inside a current All Black at No 9 and, in the year that the Waratahs won for the first time, the incumbent Wallabies halfbacks of Nick Phipps and Bernard Foley were at the heart of their success.

In 2017, the Crusaders made history in being the first overseas team to travel to South Africa and win the final when they beat the Lions at Ellis Park. The victory was


based on the forward effort led by All Blacks lineout specialist Sam Whitelock and Kieran Read and the impressive Richie Mo’unga, who would be picked for the All Blacks because of his form in the 2017 title championship campaign.

There is an undoubted trend as to the most vital cogs of a championship-winning squad, and until the Stormers invest in a world class 9 or 10, or a proven Test halfback combination, they will win nothing.

Damian Willemse is going to be a special player but the jury is still out as to whether 10 or 15 is his best position. He is also still 19 years-old and if he is to be influential for any Stormers championship hopes in the future then he has to have the proven trackrecord of a world class No 9 on his inside.

Of the South African contenders, the Lions have the closest to Super Rugby's historical title-winning halfback formula in Elton Jantjes and Ross Cronje. They also have the kind of pack strength associated with title winners.

I do fear 2017 was their biggest chance to win the title for the first time. They had the near perfect draw, a pack that was as good as any in the competition’s history and they were playing at home, with momentum and with Jantjies in the form of his life.

Then they lost Kwagga Smith to a red card before halftime and the rest, as they say, is history.

The Lions have started brilliantly this season, with the pack powerful and Janjties again potent in his


presence. But for me they have to host a final to win it because of the quality of the No 10s and lineout of New Zealand’s strongest challengers the Crusaders, Hurricanes and Highlanders.

The Sharks and Bulls have good possibilities at flyhalf in Robert du Preez and Handre Pollard, but currently they're not more than possibilities and there is nothing probable about their influence on a winning championship. Also, neither is playing in a team at the moment remotely good enough to win the title.

The Sharks and Bulls will do well to win 50 percent of their matches this year, the Lions remain South Africa's only realistic option for the title and you can write off the Stormers.

I thought the Sharks would be South Africa's best team, but thisHoly Land, Israel, however on the 9th of Av, we cried that we wanted to go back to being slaves in Egypt because our own spies reported that Israel was uninhabitable. That was back in 1313 BCE. Both the First and Second Temples were destroyed on the same day, the 9th of Av, in 587 BCE and in 70 CE. The Roman massacre of over 100,000 Jews at Betar also occured on the 9th of Av back in 132 CE. The Jewish People were expelled from England on the 9th of Av, 1290 CE, from France in 1306, and from Spain in 1492. The three weeks leading up to 9 B'Av are weeks of mourning and we also commemorate the loss of 6 million Jewish People who were


murdered by the Nazis during World War II which, came to be after The Final Solution was approved, during the mourning period of Av, in 1941.

Today, is a National Jewish day of mourning and fasting and prayer.

Today, the People of Israel, the Jewish People, are experiencing a modern day awakening of what our ancestors in the desert, our ancestors in England, France, and Spain, and let's face it, all of Europe, most certainly realized. The world is not a welcoming place for a Jew. What is the difference today? The Jewish State of Israel and the IDF. What's the same? Everything else and God.

I know that there is one place, on the entire earth, where I belong, in a total area of 8,630 square miles, 290 miles inlength and about 85 miles across at the widest point. Surrounded by Lebanon to the
north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the
southwest and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, my only home, so small it could comfortably rest inside of Lake Michigan and is often compared to the state of New Jersey. I'm not here to discuss politics and I leave the judgments up to God. I
embrace my smallness, as a grain of sand, on God's vast and wonderful
beach. I know of good and I know of evil. I know of love and faith and
happiness and.... I know of pain and suffering and sadness. I know of
war and I know of peace. I know where I'm wanted and where I'm not. I pray for


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Whitney Webb is a MintPress News journalist based in Chile. She has contributed to several independent media outlets including Global Research, EcoWatch, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.culture that American popular discourse, in its radically truncated capacity, automatically links fascism to Nazism. There have been many different versions of fascistic politics throughout Western history outside of the most extreme example of Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Third Reich. In other words, fascism is hardly an exotic concept; it’s been building in America for decades via the rise of rightwing indoctrination and extremism. In the United States, rising fascism has become intertwined with neoliberal politics via overlapping assaults on the rule of law and against disadvantaged peoples, and in the enrichment of corporate interests and the American plutocracy. Ultimately, neoliberal fascism is about imposing a political-economic agenda that serves the rich, while strengthening a governing system working against the masses. This system seeks to discipline the


words, principled anti-authoritarianism was a much stronger predictor of opinions toward Trump than were authoritarian or fascist attitudes, which speaks to the galvanization of intense opposition to the president throughout his first term, and to the polarization of the mass public on the problem of creeping fascism.

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the Trump campaign in intelligence reports. The House Intelligence Committee has so far identified Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice, Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power, and former CIA Director John Brennan, as having filed such requests.

3. Undercover Informant: The FBI used Stefan Halper, an undercover agent, to infiltrate the Trump campaign. He contacted Trump campaign associates Carter Page and George Papadopoulos. Halper has ties to the CIA, as well as MI6.

4. National Security Letters: The use of national security letters to target the Trump campaign was first revealed by officials to The New York Times in a May 16, 2018, article. National security letters allow the FBI to secretly subpoena customer records from banks, phone companies, internet service providers, and others.

5. Foreign Intelligence: British intelligence agency GCHQA news site about animals

Most people attend the zoo in the daytime, but at night, a whole new slew of animals are awake and active, like this animal: the slender loris, a nocturnal prosimian from India. The team at the London Zoo has set up night vision camera in their slender loris exhibit to capture the nighttime activities of their mother and baby pair.


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The subject of this case report, a 64-year-old white female, was treated for osteoporosis with oestrogens. She developed unequivocal systemic lupus erythematosus, from which she had suffered as a young woman and which had remitted with her menopause at 38. The close relationship of the relapses and remissions of her disease with her hormonal status underlines the importance of endocrine factors in the clinical expression of systemic lupus erythematosus.


They have become extinct, rendered irrelevant with the passage of time, and it was inevitable

The balloon-seller was a fixture each evening. He peddled his wares at the park and stopped by at houses. He walked around with a vertical prop, the tops of which bulged with balloons of all shapes, sizes and colours. The young ones hung around and followed him as if he were the Pied Piper! Such was his pull. Occasionally, parents yielded to a child’s whim and bought, maybe, one balloon. Mostly they took a different route out of the park so the balloon-seller wouldn’t tempt a child and cause tantrums.

It was not only balloons he sold. He carried bows and arrows gilded in gold, even a miniature ‘television set’. The TV had a littlenever got a full candy-floss ball. The man was a sculptor with magic in his fingers. He would pull out an umbrella mould and press the cotton-candy against it. What came out was a cotton-candy umbrella. He added a crown, a stick to prop up the umbrella, and with a flourish he handed it over to the child. If you paid a rupee more, he made a cotton-candy bird, complete with beak and crown, feathers and tail.

His creations were limited: it was either the umbrella or the bird. For a child, it meant the world as it dug into the cotton-candy with relish and had the entire face, cheeks, jaws and even ears, smeared a deep pink.

The quiet of lazy, summer afternoons was broken with a twang. The


sound was unmistakable. It went twang-twang-twang continuously. Part the curtains and you saw a strange man carrying a weapon that looked like an oversized AK-47. The rest of the afternoon had a familiar ring. Out of every home emerged old bedding rolls that had become limp and thin since the cotton wasn’t fluffy anymore. The AK-47 fluffed up the cotton and gave the bedding rolls a new lease of life! But the whole neighbourhood was filled with a haze, wisps of cotton flying all over, an odious smell with it.

Entertainment was often on the footpath. It came looking for you when you lost interest in life. One afternoon the magician took over the entire footpath. It was not the good old Indian rope trick, but something similar. Hefour points of north (N), east (E), south (S), and west (W). A hidden circular platform (10 cm in a diameter) submerged 1.5 cm beneath the surface of the water was located in the center of the southeast quadrant. Various locations provided visual cues around the maze. Escape latency and traveled distance were measured for a tracking system. The OLETF and LETO rats performed four trials per day for five consecutive days on the platform located in the same position. Randomly, we assigned the starting points each day. We terminated trials either when OLETF rats and LETO rats climbed onto the platform or when time of 60 s had elapsed. After climbing onto the platform, the OLETF rats and LETO rats were allowed to remain on the platform


LONDON -- A British judge has blocked a bid by Liverpool's former American owners to be able to sue in the United States over the enforced sale of the club.

Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr. have claimed that an "epic swindle" by Liverpool directors and the club's lenders led to a cut-price $476 million sale to the Boston Red Sox ownership group in October.

The ousted owners wanted an order preventing them from pursuing damages outside Britain or the European Union to be lifted by London's High Court.

But Liverpool says in a statement that Justice Christopher Floyd ruled Thursday that "the anti-suit injunction prohibiting the former owners from commencing legal actions ... outside the EU has been upheld and clarified."

Copyright 2011 by The Associated PressVandals are not giving congressional candidate Justin Fareed a break.

Sheriff’s deputies are investigating vandalized campaign signs for Fareed where the first “e” in his last name was changed to a “t” to spell out “Justin farted,” WTOC reported.

The altered signs were found in an avocado grove in Carpinteria and Summerland, California, the Santa Barbara Independent reported.

The campaign notified the authorities once they saw the changes in the signs.

If caught, the vandals could face charges of vandalism and trespassing.

Fareed has campaigned for congress two years before against congressional incumbent Lois Capps.

Two years ago, he released a 30-second video ad that features the ex-UCLA running back running with a football in his arm through a rural town with farms and small business owners with the voice over saying that Justin


Outside the park, guests passed picketers from the Caribbean, protesting the film's portrayal of their people as cannibals. "I love that," an unfazed Bruckheimer said. "But the movie's make-believe." Star Johnny Depp made hundreds of fans happy by signing autographs for almost three hours. He then dashed down the carpet, waved to fans and boarded a pirate ship with his co-stars. The ship cruised around Tom Sawyer Island, stopping in front of a giant screen, where the film played until midnight and was followed by a fireworks display.

Screenwriter Terry Rossio revealed the likely title of the third Pirates film, due Memorial Day: At World's End, which ties to the film's cliffhanger ending. "It's the pirates' last stand; the end of an era," Rossio said of the third, whichVariation of phytoplankton functional groups modulated by hydraulic controls in Hongze Lake, China.
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with a number of other people, was watching four men play cards. The defendant was standing behind Jerry Thrasher, one of the card players. Believing that the defendant was watching his hand of cards in order to signal one of the other players, Jerry Thrasher repeatedly asked the defendant to move away from him. When the defendant cursed Thrasher and refused to move, Thrasher turned around and hit the defendant in the head with his fist. The defendant staggered and fell to the ground. The defendant then left the group, went to a *588 nearby van, and within seconds returned with a handgun. Jerry Thrasher and other eyewitnesses testified that the defendant pointed the gun at Thrasher and tapped him on the shoulder. When Thrasher turned around andthrew up his arms in a defensive move, the defendant fired. The bullet entered the left side of Jerry Thrasher's face, exited, and struck Terry Delamar in the left cheek. The bullet then exited through Delamar's right cheek, destroying several teeth.
Jerry Thrasher testified that after the defendant shot him, he grabbed the defendant's wrist with one hand and the barrel of the gun with his other hand. Thrasher testified that the defendant fired the gun a second time. This shot struck and killed Thrasher's brother, Roger Thrasher. Several men then disarmed the defendant who fled.
The defendant testified that he feared Jerry Thrasher because of a recent disagreement. He further testified that Jerry Thrasher struck him with a bottle, or some other object, and not his fist. He then


justification. Head v. State, 262 Ga. 795, 800 (426 SE2d 547) (1993).
The defendant testified at trial that he did not intend to shoot "anyone," and that "it was an accident." There is nothing in the record to indicate that the defense of accident applied solely to a charge of which the defendant was acquitted.
The defendant testified that he feared members of the group other than the victims, and that he got a gun from the van to defend *589 himself against them. The record shows that after Jerry Thrasher struck the defendant, the defendant stated, "I'm through with it," and walked to the van. There is no evidence to show that anyone threatened or followed the defendant as he walked away. The defendant testified that the only threatmade to him was when Jerry Thrasher struck him following Thrasher's accusation of cheating. The defendant returned from the van with a gun and shot Jerry Thrasher. Jerry Thrasher testified that he placed one hand on the barrel of the gun and the other on the defendant's wrist to stop the defendant from firing again. The gun discharged a second time. With regard to this incident the defendant testified only that "it was an accident." We conclude that the record supports the trial court's determination that there was no evidence to authorize a charge on justification. Therefore, the trial court did not err in failing to give the requests to charge at issue.
3. The defendant had previously pled guilty under the First Offender Act to the misdemeanor offense


Games of chance upon which wagering may occur are a popular form of entertainment throughout the world. Games of chance are offered and players may wager upon the outcome of the game of chance in the hopes of winning an award. Numerous different types of games of chance are offered to appeal to different people and their changing interests.
Two popular games of chance are keno and bingo. These games are widely offered for play and are common within gaming establishments. Although these games are similar, each game has its own rules and style of play. While bingo and keno are traditional, well known, games of chance, these games may lack excitement offered by a new game of chance. Further, these games do not offer multiple win opportunities andPlot: This epic story of the rise of three of the most successful boxers of our time challenges the perception of the American Dream through the intimately personal life trajectories of Evander Holyfield, Bernard Hopkins and Mike Tyson. Much like modern day gladiators, our protagonists come from the bottom rungs of society, choosing the path of boxing or "the poor man's sport," as a last resort, and an alternative to much bleaker options such as prison or, worse yet, death. Following these fighters' paths from success to self-discovery, they recount their battles while illuminating our country's most critical social issues, including the struggle with poverty, racial inequality, broken homes, drug and alcohol abuse, violence and the failures of our educational and prison systems. CHAMPS unearths the unique resilience


An exceptionally rare early 11th century charter has been secured for the nation, thanks to a £114,500 grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF). It has been purchased by Canterbury Cathedral Archives and it will now return home to Canterbury where it was written almost 1,000 years ago.

Created between 1013 and 1020 and written in Old English, ‘The Godwine Charter’ provides a rare insight into ordinary Anglo-Saxon daily business and life. It is almost certainly the last complete text in Old English to come up for sale on the open market and it provides highly important evidence of the language used for official purposes at this time.

Consisting of five lines written in brown ink on vellum, it records the sale of land by a certain Godwine toConquest of 1066. These Anglo-Saxon charters are the oldest part of the written heritage of the Cathedral and the city.

The charter will be cared for at the Cathedral Archives and made available for study and display. It will be displayed initially at the Beaney art gallery and museum in Canterbury from mid-June 2013. Canterbury Cathedral will be holding a public lecture on its Anglo-Saxon charters later in 2013, as well as a family activity day, when we will relate the charter to archaeological finds from the Anglo-Saxon period.

I am very pleased to hear that the Godwine Charter has been brought back to Canterbury. This is a thoroughly local charter from Canterbury, and it would have the power to inspire those who see it to take further interest in


to take a convincing 64-56 lead into the half. Houston Rockets assignee Isaiah Hartenstein was on fire from beyond the arc, hitting five 3’s on his way to 18 points, six rebounds at the half. Three Rio Grande players tallied 12 points in the first half, Dakarai Tucker, Johnson, and Gary Payton ll.

Pinson tallied 12 points before heading to the break for Long Island. The other two-way for Long Island, Alan Williams closely trailed Pinson with 11 points of his own. Long Island shot 46.7 percent from the field in the half.

After three, more of the same continued for Hartenstein as he grew his points total to 27 and locked in the double-double with his 12 rebounds so far. Tucker was generous on offense as he dished outfour assists for the Vipers and totaled 15 points.

Bert Ogden Arena has always been a nightmare to play in for visiting teams and the same continued tonight as an electric crowd cheered the Vipers on to their final home victory of the 2018-19 season and saw them force a Game 3 in the NBA G League Finals.

The Vipers outlasted the Nets 127-116 on a 47 percent shooting night from beyond the arc, eight of those coming from the hot hand of Hartenstein as he closed out with 33 points, 13 rebounds, two assists and two blocks. The other big man on offense for the Vipers was Tucker as he tallied 23 points, five assists. Johnson had himself another good night as he totaled 18 points, and nine assists


to lead the whole squad in that category. Houston Rockets assignee, Michael Frazier II contributed 19 points while Payton ll did his part as well with 18 points of his own.

Long Island was led all night by Pinson in scoring with his 32 points and 11 rebounds. Nets assignee, Dzanan Musa ended his night with 13 points, six rebounds. Thomas Wimbush was the second leading scorer for the Nets, dropping 21 points on the Vipers.Auburn alum reflects on leading the development of the Hubble Space Telescope

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NASA has called it the "most significant advance in astronomy since Galileo's telescope." It has been orbiting 340 miles above the Earth's surface since its launch from Space Shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. Since then, scientists have used its unobstructed view of the universe to make more than one million observations about planets, stars, black holes and galaxies.

It is the Hubble Space Telescope—an instrument only intended to endure 10 years in space—that continues to broaden our understanding of the universe as it circles the globe. Auburn University alumnus Jim Odom led its development and helped make this exceptional view of space possible.

Growing up in the little town of McKenzie, Alabama, Odom's father was a farmer


who owned a car mechanics garage. From an early age, Odom knew he wanted to be an engineer, which led him to Auburn to study mechanical engineering.

"I married my high school sweetheart, June Peevy, my senior year, and I worked in the Student Union building," said Odom, who now lives in Decatur, Alabama. "After graduation in 1955 I interviewed with several people. I particularly liked a company out of Decatur called Chemstrand Corporation, and I began my career there."

In the spring of 1956, Odom was drafted by the Army and sent to basic training in Jackson, South Carolina. When he arrived back home in north Alabama, his engineering background made him a candidate for a much different role within the Army.

"My next-door neighbor was a personnel director inone of the laboratories for the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, where Dr. Wernher von Braun and Maj. Gen. John Medaris were leading the Army's rocket research and development team," Odom said. "There was a program that took engineers, scientists and mathematicians that were in the Army, and could place them into their professions. Dr. von Braun and Maj. Gen. Medaris could call anybody in the Army that had degrees that they wanted to utilize. I happened to fit, and they picked me to join their team."

Odom began working in the Army Ballistic Missile Agency's Launching and Handling Laboratory at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville in 1956.

"At the time, we were finishing up the Redstone rocket program and starting the Jupiter program, which was a 1,500-mile-range missile," Odom said. "I


got to work on both Redstone and Jupiter, and helped with the deployment of the Jupiter in Turkey. In 1959, we began moving the personnel over to NASA and our group became NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center."

Odom's first assignment with newly established NASA was working on the development and launches of the nation's first communication satellites, which included weather satellites, lunar rovers, unmanned space probes and telescopes. Next came the Apollo program, which Odom joined in 1963 as chief of the Engineering and Test Operations Branch for the second stage of the Saturn V launch vehicle.

"I worked on that until we landed on the moon," Odom said. "Then in 1972 we began the Space Shuttle Program."

Odom was chosen to serve as the first external tank project manager forthe Space Shuttle, an assignment he worked on for 11 years and six flights. In September 1981, Odom was honored by President Ronald Reagan with the Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive for his technical and managerial accomplishments for the shuttle's external tank. He also received NASA's Distinguished Service Medal for his outstanding contributions to the development of the Space Shuttle and its successful first orbital flight test.

In 1983, after a year of serving as deputy manager for production and logistics in the Shuttle Projects Office, Odom was asked to take over the Hubble Space Telescope Project, which at the time was behind schedule and over budget. His task was to get the mission back on track, lead it through its final design, assembly and testing phases and have


could depart. After it went into orbit in 1990, Odom was recognized for the project's significant advances made under his leadership with a second Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive from President George H.W. Bush.

For the next two years, Odom served as director of science and engineering at Marshall Space Flight Center, leading a group of 2,500 people. Then, in 1988, he was relocated to NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., to develop and direct the $24 billion International Space Station Freedom Program—the largest space station program in history.

"It was a distinct opportunity to be associated with the Space Station Program near the very beginning," Odom said.

After retiring from NASA in 1990, Odom was appointed president and CEO of Huntsville engineering firm Applied Research Inc., and then in 1994 beganat the thought. "Stop before you make my brain puke. You're Melanie's little brother."

Hank laughed, unfazed. "Fine. I'll clean your horse trailer, or wash your pickup. There must be something..."

She started to shake her head, but then she thought about how they'd all come to the team roping to cheer her and Mariah on. How every one of them had made a point of wandering by to say, "Good job" or "Nice roping" afterward, while she was putting up her horse. Would it kill her to show a little hospitality in return?

"Okay, fine. Tuesday's an off day. If everybody chips in a few bucks for groceries, I'll make a big ol' batch of Texas red." She could grab a bushel of that excellent corn at the farm stand


cured?"

"Yep. The chances of another bout of Hodgkin's are pretty slim."

"But?"

She drew a breath so deep he felt her rib cage expand. "My grandfather died of pancreatic cancer. My great-grandmother died of breast cancer, and my grandmother had a double mastectomy after finding a malignant lump when she was in her forties. And that's just my immediate family. One uncle is currently in treatment for prostate cancer, another has had polyps removed from his colon, and I won't even get started on my aunts and cousins. When you add in my personal history, the doctors give me a sixty to eighty percent chance of getting it again. Somewhere."

Her voice was matter-of-fact, but with their bodies all but plastered together, she couldn't hide the tension that rippled through herdo with Cole, either. So Brady's touch didn't strike the old sparks. He'd caught her by surprise, that's all. And besides, she didn't like to repeat herself.

The moment they cleared the crowd, he dropped her hand, but kept moving toward the picnic tables scattered across the lawn for those who ordered up the barbecued chicken with mac and cheese and potato salad also served at the beer garden. The kitchen had closed for the night, so only a few of the tables were occupied. Brady chose one in the shadow of a massive pecan tree. He made no move to touch her, circling around to sit facing her instead.

"So you're the new Jacobs Livestock pickup girl." He cocked his head, curious. "Do you like it?"

She gave a reluctant


had the support of all state governments, all territory governments, the Commonwealth and the federal parliamentary opposition. That broad support proceeded right through that review, which was submitted to the Prime Minister and State Premiers in September 2008.

But the path of turning those recommendations into policy was enormously complicated by the political eruption within the opposition. The eruption against action on climate change took what otherwise would have been a denial at the margins into the centre of political life. It legitimised anti-scientific views, and that hugely disrupted the national conversation over the next few years.

When the Federal Parliament and Government asked me to provide an update to my review in 2010 – that work the second time round was controversial, even though it followed many of thethat my previous decade of work on the Australian economy had suggested were necessary - getting rid of most Australian protection, floating the currency, removing exchange controls, and establishing a framework for much closer and more productive relations with the rapidly growing Asian economies were highlights at that time. That was continued in a particular direction as Ambassador to China.

My time in China was especially stimulating because of where China was at the time, with its leaders thinking about reform, and wanting to discuss the sorts of things I was in a position to contribute to.

Some of the things I did led directly to very positive results, universally acclaimed. In retrospect that is said about the opening up of the Australian economy - but at the time not


Kenya eyes bilateral deals with China

Nairobi: Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has left for Beijing to attend a key China-Africa forum where he is also expected to sign bilateral initiatives that will enhance relations between China and Kenya.

A statement from the Prime Minister`s office said Odinga will be in China for a week to attend the Fifth Ministerial conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and sign a number of agreements with Chinese leadership, reported Xinhua.

The Prime Minister is scheduled to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao.

Odinga will leave for Nanchang, Jiangxi province, Saturday where he will meet the governor and sign a memorandum of understanding between the Kenya and China Jiangxi Corporation for International Economic and Technical Co-operation.

"The MoU is for the development of solar/dieselseries of coughs.

In the new study, published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center in Oakland analyzed data from 277 children who tested positive for pertussis between 2006 and 2011, and compared them with over 3,000 children who tested negative, as well as an additional 6,000 matched controls.

Compared with the controls, the researchers found that children who had pertussis had received their fifth dose earlier. And the group concluded that for every year that goes by after the fifth dose, the vaccine becomes 42% less effective.

This means if the vaccine is 95% effective to begin with -- the group’s most optimistic estimate -- that effectiveness drops to 79% after five years. The federal Centers for Disease Control and


level of life-support treatment to Charlie at his home in Bedfont, west London, arguing a ventilator would not fit through the front door. But the 11-month-old's parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, say he should spend his final days there and to deny the family this option is "upsetting". The court hearing is due to resume at 14:00 BST.

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US House backs Russia sanctions

The US has moved a step closer to imposing fresh sanctions on Russia, after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly backed a bill proposing this action. Under the plan, senior officials would be targeted in retaliation for alleged Russian interference in last year's US presidential election. But President Donald Trump objects to the legislation, which still hasto get through the Senate. It's unclear whether he would veto sanctions.

Suspected acid attack in London

Two men have been taken to hospital in east London after they were targeted in a suspected acid attack. Liquid was thrown in their faces in Roman Road, in Bethnal Green on Tuesday night. The condition of the men, believed to be in their late teens, is not yet known.

Analysis: Will Syria's war criminals be let off the hook?

By Imogen Foulkes, in Geneva

The idea that achieving peace, or at least an absence of war, should take priority over justice is often advanced during tricky diplomatic negotiations. Some also suggest that war crimes tribunals can sow the seeds of future discord, particularly if victims are from one ethnic group and perpetrators from another.

Read the


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Why freed Boko Haram 'wives' go back

Today's lookahead

09:30 The first official estimate of UK economic growth for the second quarter of this year is published.

13:45 The funeral for eight-year-old Saffie Roussos - the youngest victim of the Manchester terror attack - takes place at Manchester Cathedral.

On this day

1952 Eva Duarte de Peron, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer, aged 33.

From elsewhere

The great explosives heist that has Europe on edge (Daily Beast)

How my son picked out my new 'best friend' (New York Times)

Family visits same beach every summer for 60 years (Daily Mail)

Ben Affleck's Batman is the key to DC's movie future (Guardian)13 Apr 10 Exams and technology_What do students think

ValueNotes recently completed a study (in association with EDGE Forum) focusing on trends in adoption of exam technology by Indian exam authorities. As part of this initiative by MeritTrac, ValueNotes interviewed 75 key decision makers, including vice chancellors, controllers of exam, registrars and exam board directors. The study also comprised a nationwide survey of another key stakeholder in the education system – the student. This was primarily because the exercise of taking exams online will yield many benefits to the student population.

Vice chancellors we spoke to mentioned that there was a certain amount of reservation expressed by students and therefore adoption was slow. To bridge the perception gap of these university officials and students, we spoke with 400 students from


the Spirit of the Season event to more than 600 U Prep students and families during the holiday season every year. Since 2009, our employees have decided to forgo a company holiday party and give back to the community. During the event, our employees deliver warm meals, wrapped gifts, arts and crafts, games and a special visit from Santa. Watch this video of our 2013 Spirit of the Season event .

Denver Art Museum

Through our 10-year commitment with the Denver Art Museum (DAM), we are enhancing the arts experience for thousands of children and families in the community. The current TeleTech-sponsored Just for Fun center at the DAM provides children with a dedicated space to enjoy hands-on art activities. Building with blocks, creating pieces of art based on famousarchitect sketches and dressing up in ancient Egyptian costumes are just a few of the many activities that can be found at the center. By providing engaging experiences for children and families, the center aligns directly with TTCF’s mission of education innovation.

Denver School of Technology and Science

The Denver School of Technology and Science (DSST) is a network of six high performing middle and high school charter schools in the Denver Public School (DPS) district. The schools currently serve more than 2,700 students with plans to expand to over 6,000 students by 2020. In the past three years, DSST has been recognized for operating the highest performing middle schools and high schools in DPS. It also has four out of the top five secondary schools in Denver in combined


growth and proficiency.

In addition to financial support, we have provided significant expertise in human capital and information technology consulting, enabling DSST to successfully plan for its expansion over the next few years. By partnering with DSST, TTCF is advancing the schools’ mission of preparing underserved students in the Denver community for college.

STRIVE Preparatory

Founded in 2006 as West Denver Prep, STRIVE Preparatory (STRIVE Prep) is a Denver-based network of tuition-free, college preparatory charter schools. STRIVE Prep, which is part of DPS, serves 2,300 students from sixth to tenth grade across eight schools, with approximately 90 percent of its students identifying as students of color and 90 percent of them qualifying for reduced or free lunches. In 2013, STRIVE Prep ranked among the top schools in Denver with three ofFreddy Fender

Freddy Fender was one of the few Hispanic stars in country music, a singer and songwriter whose work was defined largely by its strong Latin sensibility. Born Baldemar Huerta to a family of migrant laborers in San Benito, TX, on June 4, 1937, Fender began playing guitar early in his childhood. After dropping out of school at the age of 16 to join the Marine Corps, he released his first Spanish-language recordings under his given name in 1958.

While his initial sides were successful with listeners in Texas and Mexico, in 1959 he decided to adopt his stage name, along with a stronger rockabilly feel, in order to attract "gringo" audiences. The following year, he released the self-penned "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights," his most successful single yet.


But in May of 1960, Fender was convicted of marijuana possession, and was sentenced to five years in Louisiana's notorious Angola State Prison (the same correctional facility which once held blues legend Leadbelly). After serving three years, he was paroled thanks to the efforts of Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis, on the condition that upon Fender's release he stay away from the corruptive influences of the music scene. After his parole ended, Fender tried to re-ignite his career, but with the exception of a few scattered nightclub gigs in the New Orleans area, he found little success, and ultimately returned to San Benito.

In Texas, he spent several years working as an auto mechanic, and even returned to school to pursue a degree in sociology. In 1974, he met HueyP. Meaux, the owner of the Houston-based Crazy Cajun label; after agreeing on a recording deal, it was Meaux who convinced Fender to steer in the direction of country & western while maintaining his music's Hispanic roots. After Fender's first Meaux-produced single, "Before the Next Teardrop Falls," failed to attract the attention of a major label, it was released on Crazy Cajun; in the first weeks of 1975, the song hit the top of both the country and pop charts, and Fender became an overnight star. For the follow-up, he re-recorded his early single, "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights," and notched his second straight number one country hit. Before the year ended, he had released yet another chart-topper in "Secret Love," and also issued two LPs, Since I


Met You Baby and a self-titled effort.

Throughout the remainder of the '70s, Fender's success continued, most notably with the number two single "Living It Down" in 1976. That same year, he released two more albums, Your Cheatin' Heart and Rock 'N' Country. In 1977, he also issued a holiday record, Merry Christmas/Feliz Navidad. As the 1980s dawned, however, his popularity began slipping; after his final chart hit, 1983's "Chokin' Kind," he focused on an acting career, highlighted by an appearance in the 1988 Robert Redford film The Milagro Beanfield War. He remained largely silent as a musician until 1990, when he formed the Tex-Mex supergroup Texas Tornados with Doug Sahm, Flaco Jimenez, and Augie Meyers. After three albums, the group disbanded, and Fender again resumed his solo career.a communication to parents," he said.

Note home to parents says 2016 fundraiser will be focused on enhancing "educational and cultural activities, educational material, and furniture for students (desks and chairs.) (Mathieu Larocque)

Beaulieu said school communities have to explain why the shortfall for these basic items exists, and he added that appropriate funds should be made available.

Decisions over school fundraising campaigns at École de l'Odyssée are made by a governing body consisting of parents and school staff.

Martin LaHaie was a member of that governing body last year and told CBC News he's surprised the school board is expressing those concerns.

Similar fundraising in recent years

Last year, the pamphlet sent home to parents may have been less explicit, but parents and their children knowingly raised money that went to purchasing new


chairs, said LaHaie.

According to the fundraising note from last year provided to CBC, students were asked to fundraise $6,000 for 170 chairs.

LaHaie said many of the chairs at the school had long been in disrepair, with some dating to the opening day of the school decades earlier.

The money also went toward buying textbooks, including math texts that were falling apart, said LaHaie.

'Incredibly sad'

And the 2014-15 academic year wasn't the first year students were asked to buy basic items for classrooms, said LaHaie. During a meeting last spring with the school board — one that included parents from other governing boards — participants raised serious concerns about the lack of funding of such essentials, he added.

That reality is "incredibly sad," said Claude Tardif, head of Syndicat de l'enseignement del'Outaouais, the union representing the school board's teachers.

Desks and math books are not extras, he said.

"This is where the government cutbacks have left us," said Tardif.

As for Larocque, he said he doesn't blame the school for the request his daughter Emma received — he blames the provincial government instead.

"What I blame is just the state of funding of the school system in my province," he said.


Stephanie Ochoa said.

Ryder was released on $20,000 bail Wednesday night shortly before midnight, Ochoa said.

The alleged shoplifting took place at the Saks Fifth Avenue store on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills in the heart of one of the most expensive shopping districts in the nation.

Police said they received a call around 7 p.m. from security personnel at the store who told them that they had detained Ryder for shoplifting "numerous items of clothing", Ochoa said.

In 1995 Ryder was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress for her work in "Little Women". In 1994 she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for "The Age of Innocence".

Ryder's publicist said she had no comment, and a spokesman for Saks also declined to comment on the arrest.

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This is one ofmany stories about so called "stars" that think that they are all that and a bag of chips, and can get away with murder. Hmm, on second thought there have been a few that have tried to get away with that also. :D

Jordan Knight from NKOTB when he was doing an in-store signing at the Camelot I worked at. He and the "boys" were about 45 minutes late and totally disinterested in signing autographs for (what was left of) their fans. He got up and started trying to shop... so I yelled at him. I wasn't very nice about it, either. Needless to say... their careers were soon over.

talk about being at the right place at the right time. I've lived in the L.a/Pasadena, Hollywwod area most of


former coach Eduardo Gallardo, have also won against those rivals, with the following results: Paraguay 28-26, vs. Uruguay 25-31, vs. Chile 30-17.

The Brazilian squad can rely on the experience of World class players of the likes of Eduarda Amorim, Bárbara Arenhart and Deonise Fachinello, while Argentina also has a big number of players who are currently having their European experience, mainly in Spain. Their last encounter was on last year’s Pan American Championship in Buenos Aires, when the 2013 World Champions stormed the host team with an impressive 38-20. It was one of the most uneven results in the past few years, given that Argentina had achieved a number of results that had shown a clear improvement. The ‘albicelestes’ had even obtained an impressive tie 23-23 during theSouth American Games in Santiago de Chile, only moths after Brazil’s historic World Championship title.

While this is the first edition of the South and Central American Championship, it would be Brazil’s 11th continental title, while for Argentina, it’s all about dethroning all-time rival and obtaining their second continental title. Their only victory against the ‘verdeamarelas’ was un Chile 2009, where they won the final by 26-25.

The South and Central American Championship is one of the two tournaments that qualify for Kumamoto 2019 in America. The continent used to be represented in the IHF by the Pan American Federation (PHF), but it was recently divided into two federations; one being the South and Central America Handball Confederation (SCAHC) and the other North America and the Caribbean Handball Confederation (NACHC).


Trump strategist Steve Bannon has resurfaced in an unlikely place: the tech conference circuit. He is currently scheduled as the keynote speaker at the 15th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (or ACE2018), to be hosted at the University of Montana in December. The conference is co-located with the Fourth International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots, although Bannon does not have any apparent connection to that gathering.

The broader scientific community is already pushing back against the invitation. A number of associated academics have pulled out of the conference in the wake of the keynote, as reported by Motherboard. Springer, a leading scientific publisher, has declined to publish the technical proceedings, citing the low quantity of submissions.

“I have a big problem with foreign nationals comingWednesday, August 4, 2010

John Tran and Bank Fraud

"A former San Jose bank manager is expected to spend six years in state prison after pleading guilty to embezzling more than $550,000, primarily from elderly clients, police said.

John Tran, 37, entered guilty pleas Friday to theft from an elder, fraud and forgery, drawing to a close an investigation by the financial crimes division of the San Jose Police Department........

Investigators believe Tran victimized customers of the Wells Fargo Bank on Lincoln Avenue in San Jose, where he used to be a manager.

The thefts continued even after Tran left the bank in February 2009, police said. He would visit people at their homes, talk them into making investments and then steer their cashier checks his way, investigators said.

The case began in January,


after a customer and her daughter visited the branch. The daughter wanted to know why her mother was being visited by a bank employee and why her investments weren't showing up in her account.

When there was no satisfactory answer from bank officials, the daughter called the police.

The investigation was led by Detective Leonard Lim, who used search warrants to track the path of cashier checks and suspicious withdrawals.........."insane precondition to place on backing a region so devotedly pro-American. Yet the fear is that win or lose, Trump and all he represents may leave a dangerous aftertaste long after the ballots have been counted.

"We have been a neighbor of Russia not for 100 years but 1,000 years," said Marju Lauristin, Estonia's member of the European Parliament and a quarter-century ago one of those who helped free her nation from the Soviet Union. "But Russia is looking only at Americans. So we are following very closely the debate in America to see what is happening in our part of the world."

Until the present political campaign, the United States had given few suggestions of anything but a total commitment to the three free states of the Baltics. Indeed,


throughout World War II and Russian occupation, the Baltic nations' flags were present in the Hall of Flags at the entrance to the State Department in Washington.

This is only right; it is imperative that America sees the defense of these democratic nations as a pillar of its international posture going forward. In practical terms, this could mean returning American missiles to the region, and extending the US presence beyond the "tripwire" troops that now rotate through , and that the Baltics must settle for. After all, these three nations are likely Putin's next target. But whatever happens, we cannot allow a repeat of what happened from the mid-1940s to 1953, when Lithuanian partisans fought a desperate rear-guard action in the forests and swamps of their nation, hoping desperatelyfor the arrival of American troops to join them, as US broadcasts had pledged.

Unfortunately, Russia has made significant moves of it own, with the arrival in Kaliningrad of a battery of intermediate-range Iskander-M missiles , with a range of more than 300 miles and the capacity of carrying nuclear warheads across the Baltics and into Poland -- itself an apparent violation of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty. The Russian Baltic fleet is also a regular presence, its most advanced fighter jets buzzing American ships and reportedly violating Estonian and Finnish airspace.

Meanwhile, Poland, another NATO member, is still awaiting deployment of a missile shield -- a promise by George W. Bush that was scrapped by President Barack Obama when a thaw with Russia was still an American goal.


Now, Poland wants to revive such a project on its own dime (actually about 50 billion dimes) by installing eight Patriot missile defense systems , provided Washington approves. It must do so.

NATO's countermoves are portrayed by Western diplomats as significant: a force of 800 British troops with drones and some Challenger tanks into Estonia next spring , a rotating company of American troops (about 300 soldiers) in Lithuania.

But Russia's moves into this region are far more robust and deeper, in military and propaganda terms. Significant Russian minorities in all three countries are hardly immune. "The budget of Russia Today [TV] is 40 times that of VOA," said Zygimantas Pavilionis, longtime Lithuanian ambassador to the United States and now shadow foreign minister in the new Lithuanian parliament, who triedto help former House Speaker John Boehner understand the challenge. "When you live 100% immersed in propaganda, the majority start to believe it is true."

At dinner one evening in the Dominic restaurant in Tallinn, two Russian-speaking Estonians at the next table, a cancer surgeon and a businessman, explained why they admired Vladimir Putin. "He is strong, and he never tells us anything but the truth."

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But at the Riga Conference in Latvia a short time later, Andrei Sannikov, a Belarusian dissident now living in exile in Poland, had a different take on the threat. He was talking about the Russian