to be educated, a notion considered “degenerate” in a society that believed women being out in the world went against their feminine "nature"). The author describes how Adele inspired the portrait and how Klimt made more than a hundred sketches of her - simple pencil drawings on thin manila paper.

And O'Connor writes of Klimt himself, son of a failed gold engraver, shunned by arts bureaucrats, called an artistic heretic in his time, a genius in ours. She writes of the Nazis confiscating the portrait of Adele from the Bloch-Bauers' grand palais; of the Austrian government putting the painting on display, stripping Adele's Jewish surname from it so that no clues to her identity (nor any hint of her Jewish origins) would be revealed. Nazi officials called the painting,"The Lady in Gold" and proudly exhibited it in Vienna's Baroque Belvedere Palace, consecrated in the 1930s as a Nazi institution.

The author writes of the painting, inspired by the Byzantine mosaics Klimt had studied in Italy, with their exotic symbols and swirls, the subject an idol in a golden shrine. We see how, 60 years after it was stolen by the Nazis, the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer became the subject of a decade-long litigation between the Austrian government and the Bloch-Bauer heirs, how and why the U.S. Supreme Court became involved in the case, and how the Court's decision had profound ramifications in the art world.

In this book listeners will find riveting social history; an illuminating and haunting look at turn-of-the-century Vienna; a brilliant portrait of the evolution


by the title of this book, I enjoyed reading about Klimt and his contemporaries, and the struggles of the Bloch-Bauer relatives who never gave up to uphold their rights. It's a sad story about injustices in the world, set against the amazing artwork of Klimt.

This is a true-life story about the Austrian collusion in Nazi theft of art during WWII, and of its eventual restitution after a heroic battle, some 60+ years later. It is a compelling human drama and an important work. The narrative suffers slightly from distracting side-tales, and the writing is not seamless. I found the reading to be too rushed, as if the reader was trying to get through the story as rapidly as possible.

The narrator's voice is like fingernails on a blackboard toThe FBI re-opened the investigation about the hidden mails..

When I open ZET , it always gives me the birthdays of the day, and the following day. So it is a COINCIDENCE ?????????? or NOT??? that the birthday of the Internet popped out now, and I made a chart for it and Hillary. It is amazing what I have found! WHile their Sun are only 4 degrees apart, in Scorpio, in the synastry chart, I's Sun is in the 5th house of entertainment, while for H' is the 12 house of hidden issues.

Next, asteroids " Damocles" and Arabic Part " Point of Danger" in the I's chart is in the 7th house of "known enemies/ partners, they both fall in the 3rd house of Hillary, house of communication... You


see a Head and Shoulder pattern..Don't you ??

Orange has turned..

Netflix: Alert from Oct 3: and outcome:

Goldman Sachs: weekly graph... is in a correction phase..

Another aspect in the sky, under which all the underground dirt is washed to the surface, is the Jupiter-Neptune 150°. Jupiter, in the sign of Libra, (law), Neptune in Pisces, where all the issues are under shu- shu... Pisces, I think is worse than Scorpio, first, because it is on the top of the water signs pyramid, second, because, as I wrote before hundreds of times, it attacks you silently, and by the time you acknowledge its presence is faaaaar toooo late...

Here are the charts for the day of the elections for HC and DT:

One of the most important points to check is the midpointFixed star to this point is Alzirr ;the books say:" Hunting, besieging towns, the revenge of princes, trouble, disgrace, sickness, loss of fortune, affliction, danger to knees".

The Sun trines the midpoint, the NNode sextiles, and Pluto is in opposition. All these mean a major shift in his career.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Back to business: I just ran TS for a local share: Modiin. Here is the outcome: it should rally till Oct 11 th at least! It's about OIL> The lines only show DIRECTION! and not price levels...

A pleasant surprise, and honor... I just received this : My Blog included in the TOP 100 in the world..

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October 18, 2016 TuesdayI sat all day yesterday by the computer, reading all the news, answering questions, meeting new people, learning new things... It is incredible,


are long above. SSEA: Long above 3052. HSCE: Stop was 9750 - lower it to 9600 Check out the rest of the alerts in the app.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~More and more posts and tweets are pouring in, about Julian Assange... He is in life danger.

Julian Assange: more and more news are coming in about the treat on him... Looking at his chart: inner wheel natal, second: Directed, 3rd, transit.Second map: tertiary and secondary progression. His hour of birth, was 15:00, from his book, so this hour puts Jupiter+neptune on his Ascendant.- A " don QuicHotte of modern times. But on all levels, we can see Saturn (gvmn) and Uranus sudden, unforeseen events, triggering his Sun and Jup+Neptune. Also, SN, in the 9th, exile, is triggered by Mars+pluto in Cap.His natal28 Virgo, an important point to watch for transits.he is in his 9th year, of endings and new beginnings. His natal Mars squares the point of age! and his Mars, is on the galactic Center, telling the world, that he is here to change the world. His life has a purpose and a mission. Mars in Sag.- huge plans and missions, and not on the peaceful side. He was born after a Solar Annular eclipse, at 27° Leo, and before a Lunar total eclipse at 9° Leo. So these degrees also tell us that he has a major ( Leo-king) role in this world. Lilly tells us about the SUn at 27° " it is in the decanate of Mars, it presages Captivity, besieging of towns, Plunderings, profanation


of Holy places, a scarcity of horses, or a destructive Murrain amongst them". I wrote many times about him, and his life events. He has a Libra stellium, and a Pluto-SN. conjunction in Leo, on the critical 19°. These squared by Jupiter..The question is, will he go to war this year, a new war... for the ones he is in, the world lives with it.. I see, that in his directed progressed chart, Mars just entered Pisces. This can mean two things, either his warsome appetite is lessened ( fire in water), or he turns against religion. Another kind of progression shows a restraint, for the time being, but 2018-19 will be an important turning point in his life. ~~~~~Hurricane Matthew is still alive and kicking!

Mercury just ingressedcoupling partner that is arranged with a positional tolerance. In this way, a lateral offset of the coupling partner can be compensated by the lateral displaceability of the inner holding part in the outer holding part, and an angular offset of the coupling partner can be compensated by the rotatability of the inner holding part in the outer holding part.
Due to the inherent high precision of the coupling system, as a rule it is sufficient to provide a relatively small rotatability, of a maximum of a few degrees, and a relatively small lateral displaceability, of a maximum of one millimeter.
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       On or about February 12, 2009, plaintiff visited her physician, who
recommended that plaintiff remain on a disability leave until February 19, 2009. A
doctor’s note was allegedly faxed to defendant. Plaintiff returned to work on or about
February 19, 2009, and was informed that she had been discharged because she did not
return to work on February 12, 2009. Defendant claimed it did not receive the second
doctor’s note, which extended plaintiff’s leave of absence until February 19, 2009.
Plaintiff contends that defendant received the second doctor’s note but claimed not to
have received it as a pretext to terminate her employment because of her disability.
       On February 13, 2010, plaintiffclaims. (See Code Civ. Proc., §§ 10, 12, 12a.) Instead,
she filed her superior court lawsuit on February 14, 2011, the last possible day.
        The parties agree that plaintiff’s two common law claims were subject to a two-
year statute of limitations. (See § 339, subd. 1.) Those claims accrued on February 19,
2009—the day plaintiff was told she had been discharged. Thus, she had until
February 19, 2011, to file a demand to arbitrate the common law claims. Instead, as
noted, she filed her superior court lawsuit on February 14, 2011—five days before the
statute of limitations had run.
        Because plaintiff initially filed her civil lawsuit instead of a demand to arbitrate
with the AAA, and because the Agreement provided


Tinea capitis among primary school children in some parts of central Nigeria.
Tinea capitis is the most common superficial mycosis in children of school age. Although it is of public health importance, it is not a reportable or notifiable disease; therefore, actual prevalence figures are unknown in many endemic areas. The aim of this work was to determine the prevalence of tinea capitis among primary school children in two states in central Nigeria, highlighting the main aetiological agents of the infection and possible predisposing factors. A total of 28 505 primary school children aged between 3 and 16 years were recruited for the study, from 12 primary schools in two local government areas of Benue and Plateau States of Nigeria. Of them, 796 had lesions, which were clinically suggestivewas in line with UN security council resolutions. He said he hoped a fresh ceasefire resolution would soon emerge, and that the delay was caused by the complexity of the political crisis.

Thousands have been killed in the 18-month war in Yemen, and famine has spread across the country, partly due to aid agencies not getting full access to the port of Aden.

But in a fresh sign that the Foreign Office is more willing, under Johnson’s leadership, to challenge aspects of foreign policy in the Gulf, Ellwood revealed he had formally urged all six Gulf states to sign up to the international convention banning the use of cluster munitions.

He said Britain condemned the weapons’ use and that he had personally told the six Gulf foreign ministers at the weekend


Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, he appeared more equivocal. “The UK takes the view that cluster munitions are not prima facie illegal and can be used in compliance with international law by states that are not party to to the convention providing they are used in a manner compatible with international humanitarian law including distinction, proportionality and the obligations to take precautions.”

The UK is a longstanding signatory to the treaty.

Johnson himself is likely to appear in the Commons on Tuesday morning after the Speaker granted the former Tory cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell two hours for an emergency debate on the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo.

Pleading for MPs to discuss the crisis, Mitchell cited reports that sarin and chlorine gas have been used in the city, which would constituteSo much for that: Donnell Bardon, better known as the alleged Ice Pick Stabber of Prospect Park, is apparently a free man once more, having successfully posted his bail on Thursday, a victim who testified against him tells us.

Donnell Bardon, 42, was arrested on Monday on charges of aggravated animal cruelty, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon. Park-goers have long feared Bardon, after tales of him and his large, aggressive pit bull began to surface, with several people reporting stories in which their dogs were attacked by his dog—with Bardon allegedly jumping into the fray and stabbing the opposing dogs with a blade or ice pick on occasion.

Janice Brown, a Park Slope resident whose Doberman Pinscher, Brandon, was allegedly attacked by Bardon's dog last Friday, was called


to testify before a grand jury on Thursday. After the arresting officers failed to show up, the proceedings were postponed until Monday. According to Brown, Bardon posted his bail and was free to walk. She's disappointed the police couldn't find the time to testify in the case.

"I’d think it would be major thing," she said, referring to Bardon's already lengthy criminal record, which includes firing a gun in the direction of a cop and tying up a former boss. "These guys could have been heroes if they'd showed up and taken this guy off the streets."

David Cobell, another park-goer and the one responsible for taking the photos of Bardon for a flyer distributed around the park, was similarly disgusted by what he sees as the lack of effortRIDE THE GOOD TIME // ALTO EBRO

Three day break midweek to drive around the north Spain rediscovering the Alto EBRO with photographer DANIEL ALEA, that I meet at the beginning of the trip.

We ride about 1100 Km. Secondary roads about Castilla Leon, Basque Country and La Rioja. From Soria to Medina de Pomar, through Natural Parks, mountain passes, canyons caused by Ebro river erosion Romanesque villages. Stoping to skate concrete bowl of Miranda de Ebro and the new skatepark in suburban Burgos.

Many thanks to Fernando Alea for bed, food, chat and sharing your art.

The best moments, the special smell of mountain pine, lights and feelings Harley riding in Summer by this environment not have been materialised on the contrary well enjoyed.


Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay:

Black Box Warnings Removed From Chantix and Zyban

The anti-smoking drug Chantix no longer has to carry a bold-letter warning about possible psychiatric side effects, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says.

The black box warning about the risks of side effects such as suicidal tendencies, hostility and depression was introduced in 2009, the Associated Press reported.

But the FDA announced Friday that the Pfizer drug no longer had to carry the agency's most serious warning label. The decision was based on an 8,000-patient study of smokers that found no increased risk of psychiatric problems among Chantix users who had no previous history of mental illness.

Based on the same data, European regulators previously removed acream puffs by North Carolina-based Poppies International Inc.

The custard powder used in the products may contain salmonella from milk ingredients from a supplier called Valley Milk Products LLC, according to the company.

No salmonella has been found in any of the mini eclairs or cream puffs and no illnesses linked to the products have been reported, Poppies said.

For more information, consumers can contact the company at 252-442-4016 or go to its website.

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Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor Dies

Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor died Sunday in Los Angeles.

The Hungarian-born star, believed to be 99, died of heart failure, according to her publicist Edward Lozzi, The New York Times reported.

She had been in and out of hospital for year and was the last surviving Gabor sister, outliving Eva and Magda.

Zsa Zsa appeared in more


than 60 feature films and television movies, as well as numerous television programs, The Times reported.

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Dr. Henry Heimlich, Inventor of 'Heimlich Maneuver', Dies at 96

The Heimlich maneuver has been credited with saving an estimated 100,000 lives, and on Saturday the procedure's inventor, Dr. Henry Heimlich, died at the age of 96, his family announced.

Heimlich had suffered a heart attack last Monday, and died at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, according to The New York Times.

Heimlich was born in 1920 in Wilmington, Del., and received his medical degree from Cornell Medical College in New York City in 1943. He developed the Heimlich maneuver -- reaching around a choking victim from the back and thrusting up on the person's abdomen to dislodge a throat obstruction -- in the 1970s.

At the time,choking on food or foreign objects such as toys killed 4,000 people annually, the Times noted. The Heimlich maneuver was initially greeted with skepticism, but Heimlich reasoned that pushing upwards on the abdomen would force a reserve of air in the lungs to rush up through the windpipe and force any obstruction to pop out.

Heimlich himself did not use his namesake maneuver to save a life until just this year, the Times reported. On May 23, he noticed an 87-year-old woman, Patty Ris, choking on a piece of food at the table she happened to be sharing with Heimlich at Duepree House, the senior residence where they both lived in Cincinnati.

"I could not breathe I was choking so hard," Ris told the Times.

Heimlich rushed to act, performing the


maneuver. "A piece of meat with a little bone attached flew out of her mouth," he said.

Heimlich was professor of clinical sciences at Xavier University in Cincinnati and also president of the Heimlich Institute, which he set up to promote his ideas. According to the Times, he developed and held patents on many other medical devices and innovations, including methods of helping stroke victims re-learn to swallow, and mechanical devices used for chest surgery.among countries, and countries which have different levels of economic development,” Vitorino, a former European Commissioner, told reporters after his election.

Isaacs said he had congratulated Vitorino and it had been an honor to run as the U.S. candidate. He declined to comment on why he lost the secret ballot of IOM member states.

A U.S. State Department official said all three candidates were highly qualified.

“IOM is an important partner for the United States around the globe, and we are committed to working with IOM to address root causes of migration and to promote safe and legal migration,” the official said.

The leadership race came at a crucial time for global migration politics, as Trump attracts criticism for his “zero tolerance” policy on the Mexican border and the European Union struggles


Alexander Lukashenko Receives Credentials from Ambassadors of Algeria, Moldova, Nepal (press release by press service of the President)

On June 18, President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko received credentials from ambassadors of some foreign countries.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (non-resident) Amar Abba presented his credentials to the Head of the State. During the solemn ceremony, the Belarusian leader pointed out that Algeria is a convenient state in terms of trade with our country. Trade turnover between our countries is growing rather dynamically.

President of Belarus confirmed his intention to visit Algeria following the invitation which had repeatedly been given by the Head of that state. In view of Alexander Lukashenko, such a visit will help finalize the legal framework of bilateral mutualrelations.

There exist close political and trade-economic bonds between Belarus and Moldova. The statement to this effect was made by the Head of the State, when he was receiving credentials from Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Moldova in Belarus Ilie Vancia. We are interested in supplies of clean products from Moldova to our country, especially to Chernobyl affected areas, pointed out Alexander Lukashenko.

Our state will be continuing to cooperate with Moldova, creating joint ventures and integrating its economy with the Moldavian economy.

Ilie Vancia, being the head of the diplomatic mission, sees his major task in achieving a higher level of mutual relationship between the two friendly states on the basis of mutual benefit and mutual understanding.

The same day, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of


Nepal (non-resident) in our country Lila Prasad Sharma presented his credentials to the Head of the State.

During the solemn presentation ceremony, the President noted that our country has definite interest in cooperation with Nepal in the trade and economic field, and in the field of education, science and technology, environmental research. There is a need to identify, in the near future, two-three new areas for the expansion of trade, underscored Alexander Lukashenko.

The head of Nepal's diplomatic mission noted on his part, that he considers it a high honour to represent his country in Belarus, which is highly placed in the foreign policy of the state he represents.4: Angiosperm- perfect flower | 4) | conditions: grow in moist and well drained soil, high drought tolerance, exposed in full sun/part shade. origin: United States (Wisconsin) | common name: Knock Out; Purple Meidiland scientific name: Rosa 'Radrazz' | Knock Out Rose. In Choate USA. Retrieved October 18, 2011. From http://www.choateusa.com/RoseKnockOut.aspx. | This flower has both a stamen and pistil so is considered a perfect flower.

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complete flower.

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20: Parasitic Plant | 20) | common name: Douglas- Fir Dwarf Mistletoe scientific name: Arceuthobium douglasii | origin: found in many western states | conditions: grow on stems and branches of living conifers, restricted to the southern interior (not found west of Cascades, Washington, or Oregon) | This plant is a parasite because it weakens conifers making them more susceptible to attack by micro-organisms and insects. The conifers do not benefit whatsoever while the mistletoe gains nutrients and support. | Afarensis. In Science Blogs. Received October 23, 2011. From http://scienceblogs.com/afarensis/2006/12/04/defending_christmas_dwarf_mist/.

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24: common name: Felt Fern scientific name: Pyrrosia Stgmosa | origin:well. Mobile handling, first-aid as well as customer communication will also be included under the program.

Ola has already stated its considerations towards investing Rs 100 crore under the partnership with NSDC. The investment will assist NSDC with the needed capital to train 100,000 drivers, nurturing micro-entrepreneurship. An official from the cab operator further added,

We have also launched India’s first state-of-the-art dedicated training centre for drivers, in partnership with Rise India and NSDC, at Chapra, Bihar; and plan to launch more such training centres in other parts of the country as well.

While Ola is mulling a 100 crore investment, Uber categorized the initiative under its UberSHAAN program. The program was launched last September only in hand with the partnership with several entities including NSDC. It aims to create more


Every dog has its day and Montana resident and Redditor handfulofgirl—née Jasmyn—shared a gallery with Reddit’s Aww community showing off a few pups looking their best (…and sometimes worst).

Jasmyn demonstrated both her photography skills and her pup groomin’ skills, snapping pictures of her canine clients during and after their grooming sessions, truly capturing the tumultuous emotional experience that is a dog bath.

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A New Species of Ascarophis (Nematoda: Cystidicolidae) Parasitizing Clinocottus analis (Pisces: Cottidae) from Baja California, Mexico.
A new species of nematode, Ascarophis morronei n. sp. (Cystidicolidae), is described from the stomach wall of the woolly sculpin Clinocottus analis (Cottidae) collected in the rocky intertidal from northwestern Baja California, Mexico. Collected nematodes were studied using both light and scanning electron microscopy. Sequence fragments for 18S rDNA molecular markers were obtained from the new nematode species, in order to test its position within the family Cystidicolidae under a phylogenetic context. Main characters distinguishing this new species include the reduced labia and the morphology of the eggs, distances of nerve ring and excretory pore from the anterior end, and left spicule of males. The new species described here is the second forcountries. It has been consistent ranks among the top destination for the international students pursue their higher studies Overseas.

Chinmoy's first step in his career journey took him from his home country of Bangladesh to the United States, where he studied fisheries and aquaculture at Auburn University in Alabama. He came to Canada hoping to work in that industry, but soon found that there weren't many jobs available.

When you enter the world of work you begin to hear many expressions hitherto unknown as organizational learning, empowerment and others. Universal and bring you the 6 expressions most used by the Human Resources area.

With a view to acquiring a discipline as well as an accurate job profile, the agencies are an indispensable part. In this era of cutthroat competition, it is


room in the home owned by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Clay for the past year and a half. She is an outpatient at a local psychiatric hospital and is psychologically unable to live alone. Her landlord has no obligation to support her and is neither financially able or willing to support her.
Susan Deurloo had been renting a room in a mobile home which she shared with a woman friend who had primary responsibilities under a lease agreement for rental of the mobile home. When the Department of Social Services terminated her shelter allowance, she was forced to leave and has been residing with her brother and sister-in-law. Her brother is similarly unable and unwilling to continue to provide housing for her. Both women requested hearings on termination offor by the person in whose household they live. While this factual presumption conceivably may be true for some or even many of the 20,000 general assistance recipients placed within this classification by the department, it is not true for the plaintiffs in this lawsuit. Consequently, the policy is overinclusive.
The State of Michigan is confronted with a serious financial crisis brought on by an increasing downturn in the economy. The economy of the state is directly related to the general health of the automobile industry. The state has suffered substantial losses of revenue as a result of high unemployment, primarily in the automobile and related industries. At the same time, high unemployment has generated a substantial increase in the number of general assistance cases within the past ten


months. In October of 1979, at the beginning of the state's fiscal year, it was projected that the Department of Social Services would have 50,000 general assistance cases within fiscal 1980 and appropriations were made based on that projection. The present caseload includes 85,000 to 87,000 cases. Supplemental appropriations have been passed to make up the shortfall in the department's budget and substantial program reductions have been implemented within the department.
The interests of the state in maintaining fiscal responsibility in its expenditures and in effecting reductions where actual revenues fall short of the demands for funding programs at existing levels is a serious and important governmental interest. There is no question that fiscal integrity compels reduction of expenditures under the circumstances facing the State of Michigan. The difficultlandlords will be forced to evict these people and secure other renters to enable them to meet their primary financial obligations. Ms. Deurloo has already been evicted from her home. Ms. Hoag and Mr. Soave have remained in their homes at the sufferance of their landlord pending resolution of this matter. The fact that a general assistance recipient is sharing living space with a person who owns or leases the house or apartment in which they live seems to have no rational relationship to the actual need of the recipient.
Presumably some of the 20,000 persons in this class affected by this policy are living with family members, either adult children living with their parents, or parents living with their adult children. It might well be rational for the


which made the entire household ineligible for food stamps if it included a member who was 18 years or older and had been claimed as a dependent for federal income tax purposes by a taxpayer not in the household. The statutory provision was enacted to prevent fraudulent claims by non-needy households for participation in the food stamp program. The Court found that the section offended due process because it created a conclusive presumption that the household was not needy and in fact had access to adequate nutrition. The factual circumstances of the plaintiffs demonstrated to the Court that the presence of a claimed tax dependent in the household did not in fact operate as an accurate or rational measure of the actual need of the dependent himself orgeneral assistance, that is neither rational nor feasible for some of the plaintiffs. Both Mr. Soave and Ms. Hoag have testified that they need to live with other persons because of medical conditions  Mr. Soave because he is subject to epileptic seizures and Ms. Hoag because her psychological instability has led her to attempt suicide on a number of occasions. It is her doctor's advice that living in a household will prevent those occasions from arising.
The issuance of this preliminary injunction restraining the Department from implementing the "living within a household of another" exception to the general assistance shelter allowance policy clearly frustrates the efforts of the Department in reducing their general assistance expenditures. The Department, the Governor and the legislature, however, are not deterred by this


and the policy of the Department of Social Services adopted and implemented pursuant to that order.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the defendants William G. Milliken, Governor of the State of Michigan, and John T. Dempsey, Director of the Michigan Department of Social Services, and all persons employed by the Michigan Department of Social Services, are hereby enjoined from implementing the provisions of Executive Order 1980-3, which affects the expenditures and policy of the Department of Social Services general assistance grant program and terminates the payment of general assistance shelter allowance to recipients "living in the household of another person". The defendants are enjoined from implementing any Department of Social Services policy for the purpose of terminating general assistance shelter benefits, which incorporates the same presumption which the courtnot live in a special living arrangement.
`Living in the home of another person' situations are common. They include all instances where the client lives with the owner of the dwelling unit. The following are examples of persons living in the home of another person: an adult child living with his parents in their home; an aged parent living with her adult children in their home; two friends living in the same home, which is owned by one of them.
Allowable Needs Items (Living in the Home of Another Person)
The only need items that may be included in the budget of a client who is living in the home of another person are personal needs and special needs (work requirements allowances and medical transportation).
Shelter, heat, and utility allowances are NEVER


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FICTION

Mink River

by Brian Doyle

Mink River is Pacific Northwest fiction at its finest. Doyle plunges us head first into the lives of the residents of a soggy, fictional Oregon coast town, Neawanaka. Rich with both Native American and Irish storytelling, Mink River lets us inside the raw, honest lives of ordinary people and makes us see the extraordinary in them. Long after you have read this novel, you will find yourself wondering what the characters are doing now and hoping that all is well in the fictional little town you've come to love.

–Koa by Brian DoyleMink River is Pacific Northwest fiction at its finest. Doyle plunges us head first into the lives of the residents of a soggy, fictional Oregon coast town, Neawanaka. Rich with both Nativethe local area.

–Adrienne by Chelsea CainHeartsick is a riveting, intense thriller with amazing characters — Detective Archie Sheridan; Gretchen Lowell, the beautiful yet evil serial killer; and Susan Ward, the newspaper reporter who follows the story. I love that this novel is set in Portland with the sights of the local area.–Adrienne

Trout Fishing in America

by Richard Brautigan

In this slim little cult classic, published in 1967, Brautigan takes us on a wild ride all over the Pacific Northwest (and on down to San Francisco). Overflowing with energy, humor, and insight, Trout Fishing in America is a pastiche of stories and fragmented reflections. If you haven't read this book, pick it up now; this is indeed required reading for anyone with an open mind and a love for literature.

–Tate by


Richard BrautiganIn this slim little cult classic, published in 1967, Brautigan takes us on a wild ride all over the Pacific Northwest (and on down to San Francisco). Overflowing with energy, humor, and insight, Trout Fishing in America is a pastiche of stories and fragmented reflections. If you haven't read this book, pick it up now; this is indeed required reading for anyone with an open mind and a love for literature.–Tate

East of the Mountains

by David Guterson

Best known for another great Northwest novel, Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson's East of the Mountains is equally beautiful and poignant. It's the deceptively simple story of a terminally ill man's last journey into the Eastern Washington he loves.

–Peter N. by David GutersonBest known for another great Northwest novel, Snow Fallingthe greatest novels published in the '60s, it's a shame this gritty, heartbreaking story about a teenaged orphan set loose on the streets of Portland is so little known. Time does have a way of sorting the wheat from the chaff, though. Here's betting Mr. Carpenter's masterpiece will outlast the vast majority of its more popular peers.

–Martin by Don CarpenterOne of the greatest novels published in the '60s, it's a shame this gritty, heartbreaking story about a teenaged orphan set loose on the streets of Portland is so little known. Time does have a way of sorting the wheat from the chaff, though. Here's betting Mr. Carpenter's masterpiece will outlast the vast majority of its more popular peers.–Martin

My Abandonment

by Peter Rock

Based on a true story, My Abandonment is


the tale of a Portland father and his teenage daughter who actually lived for several years in a cave in Forest Park. No one knew they were there, but when their story came to light, there was an outcry among the city's residents on behalf of the family. Peter Rock, a writing professor at Portland's Reed College, tells their story in prose at once spare and graceful, and manages to twist the story in a totally different direction than I had anticipated. I did not foresee the surprise at the end; I actually gasped out loud! This beautifully written little gem is absolutely perfect!

–Dianah by Peter RockBased on a true story, My Abandonment is the tale of a Portland father and his teenage daughter who actually lived forseveral years in a cave in Forest Park. No one knew they were there, but when their story came to light, there was an outcry among the city's residents on behalf of the family. Peter Rock, a writing professor at Portland's Reed College, tells their story in prose at once spare and graceful, and manages to twist the story in a totally different direction than I had anticipated. I did not foresee the surprise at the end; I actually gasped out loud! This beautifully written little gem is absolutely perfect!–Dianah

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

by Sherman Alexie

This collection of interconnected stories explore the dreams, passions, contradictions, and heartbreak of being Indian in contemporary America. Bittersweet, poignantly ironic, and at times profoundly humorous, Alexie's writing is passionate


and vivid. This is the work of a tremendous literary talent expertly telling the stories of a Northwest too many people refuse to acknowledge. Essential reading.

–Brian S. by Sherman AlexieThis collection of interconnected stories explore the dreams, passions, contradictions, and heartbreak of being Indian in contemporary America. Bittersweet, poignantly ironic, and at times profoundly humorous, Alexie's writing is passionate and vivid. This is the work of a tremendous literary talent expertly telling the stories of a Northwest too many people refuse to acknowledge. Essential reading.–Brian S.

Last Go Round: A Real Western

by Ken Kesey

Last Go Round is a tall tale set around the real-life events of the original 1911 Pendleton Round-Up, a controversy that still raises hackles to this day. It showcases a love of a good yarn andthis graphic novel is the tale of a mysterious plague that has descended on the area's teenagers. Burns has a distinctive style, particularly suited to the disturbing stories he tells. While I love all his books, Black Hole is his masterpiece.–Adam P.

Sometimes a Great Notion

by Ken Kesey

One family of hardheaded loggers goes against the entire town, but there's so much packed into the emotional lives of each character that any plot summary falls far short. Let's just call it a masterpiece, a whirling conflagration of desires, expectations, disappointments, and family, all colliding in the Oregon rain. You've got to stay on the bounce — and give Kesey's greatest novel (yeah, I said it) a read!

–Benjamin H. by Ken KeseyOne family of hardheaded loggers goes against the entire town,


James DuncanWhat can you say? This book is loved by so many readers for a reason. It does what all great fiction does: it gets in your bones and rattles the cage a bit. It also displays some of the most beautiful writing I've encountered about the art of fly fishing, giving even A River Runs through It a run for its money (though The River Why is much funnier).–Beverly

Boneshaker

by Cherie Priest

Boneshaker is set in an alternate-history Seattle with deadly zombie gas! Cherie Priest may have returned to the South, but she's certainly left her mark on the Pacific Northwest. I love all of the Clockwork Century books, but Boneshaker is known and loved for a reason.

–Shannon B. by Cherie PriestBoneshaker is set in an alternate-history Seattle withrepeat while watching old Chris Farley clips. In one word, perfection.

–Nathaniel S. by Miranda JulyJuly's short stories perfectly embody the wonder that is Portland, that is the Pacific Northwest. At once humorous as well as speculative, in this all-too-short collection, July is a roller coaster of emotions. Reading it is like listening to the saddest Morrissey song on repeat while watching old Chris Farley clips. In one word, perfection.–Nathaniel S.

vN: The First Machine Dynasty

by Madeline Ashby

Religion turns to science to provide for those left behind in the coming end times, resulting in self-replicating humanoids for humanity's use. Set in a near-future Pacific Northwest sparsely populated after an enormous earthquake, this robot family drama follows the growing pains of Amy and her psychotic clade-type of Stepford wives. Artificial Intelligence


and its evolution — and mankind's relationship to it — is explored in this fast-paced adventure. A visit to the Virtual Reality Museum of Seattle's Pike Place Market is one of the more interesting stops during Amy's escape from bounty hunters and the government.

–Brian W. by Madeline AshbyReligion turns to science to provide for those left behind in the coming end times, resulting in self-replicating humanoids for humanity's use. Set in a near-future Pacific Northwest sparsely populated after an enormous earthquake, this robot family drama follows the growing pains of Amy and her psychotic clade-type of Stepford wives. Artificial Intelligence and its evolution — and mankind's relationship to it — is explored in this fast-paced adventure. A visit to the Virtual Reality Museum of Seattle's Pike Place Marketis one of the more interesting stops during Amy's escape from bounty hunters and the government.–Brian W.

Ricochet River

by Robin Cody

I'm usually not drawn to "coming-of-age stories," but this one stuck with me. Set in the 1960s in the fictional Oregon town of Calamus, it follows three high school kids as they struggle with small-town life. I grew up in a small, rural logging town, and Cody nailed the type of people and places with which I was raised. The whole novel resonated with and reflected my own adolescent experiences.

–Shauna by Robin CodyI'm usually not drawn to "coming-of-age stories," but this one stuck with me. Set in the 1960s in the fictional Oregon town of Calamus, it follows three high school kids as they struggle with small-town life. I


on to friends.

–Tracy H. by Sherman AlexieThe engaging story and believable characters can pull in reluctant readers, but this novel has appeal for all ages. Alexie has a talent for expressing emotional truths without coming across as sentimental. This is the kind of book you want to keep handy so that you can pass it on to friends.–Tracy H.

Witchling

by Yasmine Galenorn

Half-human, half-Faerie, three sisters are torn between two worlds. A shape-shifter, a vampire, and a witch, the D'Artigo sisters are fighting to save Seattle from being taken over by Shadow Wing. Each book in the series rotates through the sisters' points of view while they continue to fight evil, create a makeshift family, and fall in love.

–Kim W. by Yasmine GalenornHalf-human, half-Faerie, three sisters are torn between twoworlds. A shape-shifter, a vampire, and a witch, the D'Artigo sisters are fighting to save Seattle from being taken over by Shadow Wing. Each book in the series rotates through the sisters' points of view while they continue to fight evil, create a makeshift family, and fall in love.–Kim W.

The Jump-Off Creek

by Molly Gloss

Set in the brutal Oregon high country in the 1890s, The Jump-Off Creek tells the story of the widow Lydia Sanderson and her struggles to settle in an unforgiving land. Gloss did her research, drawing on pioneer journals and hand-me-down stories, and she writes with a quiet restraint that respects the characters and their vast surroundings. Anyone interested in what life was actually like for Oregon's pioneers will love this book. It's the real deal.

–Abby


by Molly GlossSet in the brutal Oregon high country in the 1890s, The Jump-Off Creek tells the story of the widow Lydia Sanderson and her struggles to settle in an unforgiving land. Gloss did her research, drawing on pioneer journals and hand-me-down stories, and she writes with a quiet restraint that respects the characters and their vast surroundings. Anyone interested in what life was actually like for Oregon's pioneers will love this book. It's the real deal.–Abby

Ten

by Gretchen McNeil

Looking for a good fright? This book has all the hallmarks of a horror film, and a great twist at the end. McNeil gets all the details of the Puget Sound spot on, making it spooky in how familiar it feels.

–Erin D. by Gretchen McNeilLooking for a good fright? Thisare the ones commissioned by the Mughal nobility in an effort to imitate the aesthetic inclinations of the imperial family. Popular paintings were intended for the provincial wealthy and non-Muslims, and were further removed from the fusion Mughal style given the bright colours employed and the erosion of naturalism. Finally, bazaar paintings were the mass-produced counterparts of the aforementioned, relatively elite levels that were sold in markets in Agra and Delhi. It is from the third and bottom rung that the paintings in this section have been included.

Hunting is a universally imperial pastime, to the delights of which the Mughal monarchs were not immune. When the first-generation Mughal rulers had invaded India and discovered the bounty offered by the evergreen forests of North India, they quickly took to


a top-three offensive team that is a little more than a point per 100 possessions worse on defense than it was last season. Meanwhile, the Blazers are much improved on defense — 104.7 DefRtg last season, 98.8 this season.

Depth and defense: two problems the Blazers had last season that the Clippers inadvertently helped them solve.

Wild Are the Wizards

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Claire Lobenfeld: Last night’s game at the United Center was Washington’s to win, once Joakim Noah was assisted off the court with a sprained ankle at the end of the first half. This was a fairly crucial game for both teams, as the victor would take sole control of second place in the Eastern Conference. Despite Pau Gasol having gone completely ham in the Bulls’ past twoshowings — including a career high of 46 points against the Bucks — the team needed Noah to control the tempo through the end of the game. Once the third quarter hit, John Wall and the Paul Pierce Plague put a pox on Chicago.

The Noah injury is representative of what is perhaps the biggest problem for the 26-14 Bulls. All the minor to not-so-minor injuries that pile up prevent Derrick Rose from defining who he is as a moderately healthy player this season, with the optimal group of talent surrounding him.

Speaking of Rose: Damn, what a first quarter. If there was anyone creating an edge for that team at the start of the game, it was him. He was taking jump shots! There was a buoyant layup where


basketball powerhouse that is Marshall University. After putting up solid, if unspectacular numbers during his lone season with the Thundering Herd, Whiteside declared for the NBA draft. That decision triggered one of the most surreal journeys you could imagine.

Whiteside was drafted in the second round in 2010 by the Kings, but spent most of his time either recovering from a knee injury or in the D-League. From there, things get weird. Whiteside spent 2012 and 2013 moving around from Sioux Falls to the Rio Grande Valley to Lebanon (yes, Lebanon) to China, back to Lebanon, and then back to China, after leaving his Lebanese team for safety reasons.

This past fall, he signed with the Memphis Grizzlies (twice) and was waived (twice) before landing with the Iowa Energy. HeSummary:Most video games require players to focus their attention on a screen. Now Nintendo brings the action into the living room with Wii Party, a game that changes the way people interact with other players. Featuring 13 different party game modes and 70+ minigames, Wii Party can be enjoyed byMost video games require players to focus their attention on a screen. Now Nintendo brings the action into the living room with Wii Party, a game that changes the way people interact with other players. Featuring 13 different party game modes and 70+ minigames, Wii Party can be enjoyed by everyone in the family, regardless of age.…Expand

Party games lovers should absolutely buy Wii Party. The number of minigames is just impressive and they are also very ingenious. Of course,


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I love this game! This is one of the best party games on the wii by far and it has plenty of brilliant game modes. Its also very simple toI love this game! This is one of the best party games on the wii by far and it has plenty of brilliant game modes. Its also very simple to play so your nan,mam,littlegame, a riot with friends, but the fun wears off quickly.…Expand

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Rebus, Ian Rankin's creation, feels that that is what he does in his murder investigations - he names the dead, excavates their lives, and makes sure they are not forgotten.

The Naming of the Dead is the penultimate tale in Inspector Rebus' saga. Soon he will be forced to retire and give up the job which is the only life he has. It won't be a minute too soon for his superiors at Lothian and Borders Police.

In July 2005, Edinburgh was a buzz of activity as it readied itself for the G8 conference to be held there. The most powerful people in the world would be meeting to decide the fate of much of the world for the foreseeable future. Police officers from all over the country had beenin order, through this one, Rankin still has the capacity to surprise me.

What will happen to Rebus when he is finally forced to leave his job, the job for which he has sacrificed all of his personal life? Who will "name" him when he loses the only life he has? It will be interesting to see how Rankin handles this. Perhaps he will surprise me once again.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Remember the shock, anger, and revulsion that we felt when the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and several of her constituents, including a child, took place in January? The shooter used a Glock semi-automatic with which he was able to get off 31 shots in seconds before bystanders could subdue him.

You might think that that event in Tucson would


affair with the even more unsavory Bernard Kerik, she was instructed by one of the executives of Harper's parent company, News Corporation, to lie to investigators who were vetting Kerik for a possible appointment as Homeland Security Secretary in the Bush administration. The NewsCorp executive who encouraged her to lie? Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News Network. Why am I not surprised?

3. My favorite story and the happiest story that I've read this week has to do with baseball. Spring training has started and in a few short weeks, the best game ever invented involving a ball and humans will begin its long season, and for six months every day will bring the satisfaction of a day graced by a baseball game somewhere. Baseball is a gamea holiday in his honor. There quite simply would not have been a United States of America without Washington, and there would not be a 50-state union today had not Lincoln refused to yield and held it together through the sheer force of his determination to see that this experiment of "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" did not fail.

Somewhere along the way, though, the decision-makers determined that two presidential holidays in one short month were just too many and so they compromised on a date and combined the two into one. To add insult to injury, they called the holiday Presidents' Day and made it an amalgamation of honor for all presidents.

And yet there are some presidents - several, in fact -


from the course that was leading it to civil war. In the end, he may not have been able to change the course of history and save the country from that wasteful and terrible war, but it seems that he scarcely tried.

Bush, of course, as we remember only too well, is the president who waged two long and bloody wars simultaneously, one of them totally unnecessary. He wrecked the economy with his disastrous tax cuts for the wealthy and his refusal to ensure adequate oversight of the financial institutions of the country. He did his damnedest to destroy the social safety net and let a major American city drown on his watch. His policies finally led us into the deepest recession since the Great Depression and, at thetradition of allowing public sector workers to have a voice on the job has worked for the state since the 1930s. It has created greater consistency in the relationship between labor and management and a shared approach to public work.

These public workers are Wisconsin's champions every single day and we urge the Governor and the State Legislature to not take away their rights.

Monday, February 14, 2011

For many birders in Canada and the United States, this is the week we have been anticipating for months now. In just a few days, we will begin one of our favorite citizen science projects, the Great Backyard Bird Count.

Every year on Presidents' Day weekend, thousands of birders across the continent, and across the ocean in Hawaii, take part in this four-day-long census


of birds. It is a survey to find out just where the birds are at mid-winter and how they are faring. By this time, the migrants have settled in their winter homes but have not yet started their spring flight north, so this count can give a very good idea of numbers as well as the health of the bird population before it disperses to its breeding grounds.

This will be the thirteenth year that the count has taken place. It has grown substantially in the number of participants each year and ranks with the Christmas Bird Count in its popularity and importance in the birding community. The GBBC is a joint project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Audubon Society, and Bird Studies of Canada.

The great thingmanage 1% of the vote at this lily-white gathering, I think his presidential campaign is probably over before it has begun.

Actually, the same could probably be said for the rest of these "candidates."

Saturday, February 12, 2011

You have to hand it to former New York representative Chris Lee. The timing of his sex scandal was impeccable, although I don't suppose he actually planned it that way. It happened at a time when everyone's eyes and ears were focused on events in Egypt. (Those few who weren't focused on Egypt were probably focused on the CPAC convention, but that's a blog post for another day!)

Gawker.com broke the story on Wednesday under the headline "Married GOP Congressman Sent Sexy Pictures to Craigslist Babe." He had represented himself to this "Craigslist Babe"


as a divorced lobbyist when in fact he was a married congressman with children, and, most incriminatingly, he had sent her a picture of himself, topless, flexing his muscles. And really that seems to be all that happened. The two people had some flirtatious emails back and forth and he sent her the picture to prove that he wasn't "a toad" but this so-called sex scandal doesn't even seem to have involved any actual sex. On the scale of Washington sex scandals, it hardly even nudges the needle. Nevertheless, hours after the story broke, Congressman Lee resigned. It tends to make the cynics among us just the teeniest, tiniest bit suspicious that maybe there were other stories that hadn't yet broken that he was trying to forestall. Butmany countries, the idea that the military would be in charge of the government would be a thing to be feared, but in Egypt, apparently, the military is loved and trusted by the people, and those who had taken to the streets are ecstatic at this outcome. Thus ends phase one of their revolution.

It's only the beginning, of course. In order for the people to get the democracy they so ardently desire, the government and the country must be totally transformed and that will take time. I heard a commentator on NPR today saying that it took 500 years from the signing of the Magna Carta for England to have something approaching a democracy and it took more than 200 years for the United States to go from


read several fictional accounts of the Tudor era, including Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and the Tudor mystery series by C.J. Sansom, I thought it might be interesting to get an actual historian's take on the period. Alison Weir is an actual British historian who has had an almost life-long fascination with that era and has written widely about it. This book, The Lady in the Tower, concerns the last four months of the life of the second of Henry VIII's six wives and Elizabeth I's mother, Anne Boleyn.

Anne Boleyn has, of course, been an iconic figure of great interest for historians, poets, playwrights, novelists, and, indeed, for ordinary people, virtually since her death by beheading in May, 1536. She was accused and adjudged guilty of treason against herking - specifically of having committed adultery with at least five men, one of whom was her own brother and of having conspired with them to kill the king. All five men were also judged guilty and beheaded. The truth of Anne's and the men's guilt has long been in question and has been debated endlessly over the last nearly five hundred years.

Weir explores and lays out the available evidence on the subject in her copiously footnoted and referenced work. Indeed, the first part of the book seems a rather dry recitation of the known facts about the events. She makes extensive use of the contemporary accounts and sources that are still available and she seems to scrupulously try to avoid leading or misleading the reader to one


opinion or another.

In the end though, Weir makes clear that Henry, who was still married to Catherine of Aragon, had wooed Anne for six years while wrestling with the Church over trying to clear the way to marry her and who had now been married to her for three years, had by 1536 grown tired of her and was ready to put her aside. This could have had much to do with the fact that he had fallen in love - or perhaps in lust - with one of Anne's handmaidens, Jane Seymour, and now wanted to marry her. It also probably had much to do with the fact that Anne had failed to produce a male heir to the throne. A few months after their marriage, theirdaughter, Elizabeth, was born, and since that time, Anne had had three other pregnancies (four in all in three years) but all three had ended in miscarriages. At least two of the miscarriages and possibly the third as well had been male fetuses. Henry had become convinced that he would never have a son with her and he was ready to move on to someone with whom he might.

Henry's Master Secretary at this time, the man charged with making things happen for his king, was Thomas Cromwell, of whom Mantel's Wolf Hall was a sympathetic portrayal. Weir's examination of the evidence has led her to the conclusion that Cromwell, seeing what his king wanted, conjured a way to bring it to pass and, at the same time, to


remove the influence of the powerful Boleyn family. Cromwell, once a Boleyn ally, had fallen out with the queen, and, in 1536, he himself was not in favor with the king. Perhaps he saw the gambit of removing Anne Boleyn as a way of killing two birds with one stone, so to speak - he would do away with a personal enemy as well as again ingratiating himself with the king by removing the impediment to the king's desired marriage. Weir makes a strong case that the evidence against Anne may well have been trumped up by Cromwell to achieve his aim.

We can never know the truth with 100% certainty, but we do know that Anne Boleyn, an unpopular queen in her lifetime, accepted her fate and wentto the scaffold bravely, always denying that she had ever been false "in her body" to her king.

In a way though, Anne had the last laugh. Public opinion which had been against her began to turn, especially when the populace saw their king marry Jane Seymour within ten days of Anne's death. But the lady in the tower's ultimate victory was achieved through her daughter. In Elizabeth I, perhaps England's greatest queen, a Boleyn sat on the throne of the country that had seen the first Boleyn executed.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Honestly, I do not sift through the news each day looking for stories that will outrage me. Nevertheless, as I do my morning reading, they just jump right out at me and tend to spoil the rest of


my day. Often, all I can do is shake my head at the utter and complete stupidity of some people. Like some of the parents of children in the Mansfield school district in Texas.

The Mansfield Independent School District had been offering classes in Arabic in a program funded by a federal Foreign Language Assistance Program grant. The classes covered not just the language but Arabic culture as well. This would seem to be a good use of the Foreign Language Assistance Program funds since federal agencies, including the military services, always have a shortage of Arabic speakers.

But then some 200 parents showed up at a meeting about the new curriculum and some of them were irate at the idea that their children might actually learn something about Islam.source, an adult male Purple Martin. The Purple Martin Conservation Association maintains a website page for observers to report their first sighting and that page shows reports coming in, not just from Texas, but from all across the southern tier of states. The birds are coming in spite of the cold weather that still prevails in much of the area. These birds, who make their living catching flying insects on the wing, may find slim pickings as that cold weather keeps the insect population down, but somewhere in Brazil in January their biological clocks told them it was time to fly north and so they have come. Purple Martins are among the most popular backyard birds in the country. Today's Americans continue the tradition started long ago by


series at the moment, and it does just happen to be historical, is C.J.Sansom's Tudor mysteries featuring the hunchback lawyer/detective Matthew Shardlake. Part way through the series Shardlake was joined by an assistant, Jack Barak. The two of them together make a very effective team, a team which exhibits a humanistic philosophy in what is, in many ways, the very inhumane society that was Henry XIII's England of the mid-1500s. Heartstone is the fifth book in the series and is one of the best. Of course, I think I say that about them all.

In this entry, we are nearing the end of Henry's reign. He is conducting a war of choice against France, a war that has financially devastated his country and caused the devaluation of the currency.It has also devastated the population with thousands of unnecessary deaths and disabling injuries. Still, Henry continues to draft more men into his army and navy, even hiring mercenaries from other countries to help fight his ill-conceived war. Much of this seems very relevant to our own recent history.

Henry's current wife is Catherine Parr who has been a friend to Shardlake, and he to her in the past. Now she sends for him and asks him to pursue a court case that had been initiated by a tutor against a former employer who he believed was mistreating and robbing his two rich wards. The tutor, who subsequently committed suicide under mysterious circumstances, was the much-loved son of a former servant of Catherine Parr. She and her former servant


seek justice for the young man.

(As an aside, when Shardlake goes to meet with the queen, he meets the king's daughter, Elizabeth, who impresses him greatly. Foreshadowing, perhaps?)

Accepting the assignment will take Shardlake and Barak into the very teeth of what appears to be a planned French invasion of England at Portsmouth. They must travel some tortuous roads which are already clogged with military personnel and supplies also trying to get to Portsmouth. Along the way, Shardlake sees the misery and hardships of the recently conscripted soldiers and he sees the struggles and heartaches of the citizens whose labors are financing a foolish king's prideful venture.

While in the area, Shardlake plans to investigate another case, that of Ellen Fettiplace, a woman inmate of Bedlam whom he has befriended.Something happened to her nineteen years before that unhinged her mind and left her unable to face the world. Shardlake, that inveterate righter of wrongs, wants to find out what it was and free Ellen from the fear which has entrapped her.

Meantime, all Barak wants is to avoid being conscripted into the army and to get home as soon as possible to his beloved Tamasin who is expecting their child.

The plot with all its intermingled mysteries is too richly drawn to do any real justice to it in a brief review. Sansom, who is a lawyer with a Ph.D. in history, knows this period. The book is rigorously researched and the real-life characters that appear in it stay true to their historical facts of life. It is a


gathering to feed together at the end of the day, but this was a bigger number than I generally see - maybe twenty or more.

Congress first established February as National Bird-Feeding Month back in 1994 on a resolution introduced by Congressman John Porter (R-IL). The first sentence of Porter's resolution proclaimed that this is "one of the most difficult months in the United States for wild birds." The reason for this difficulty will be clear to anyone who stops to think about it.

Birds typically enter fall and winter with an abundance of wild food provided by Nature, but as the weeks and months roll by, that supply of food is depleted. Finally, by the end of January and beginning of February, most of the food is gone justhistory of the culture, the time of the pharoahs, right up through Cleopatra. Indeed, one of the books currently on my "to be read" shelf is Stacy Schiff's Pulitizer Prize-winning biograghy, Cleopatra: A Life.

The modern history of Egypt has, of course, been problematic on many levels and yet it retains its status as one of, if not the oldest continuous human societies on earth with all the gravitas and dignity that that conveys.

With all that long history to consider, when I read the news accounts or watch television or listen to radio accounts and analyses, I am struck by the fact that so many of the reporters and the analysts in American media make the story not about Egypt and Egyptians but about us. About America and Americans.


Image caption The site is defined by a massive bank and ditch that encircles what was once a drumlin island

There are plenty of drumlins in County Down - but have you heard of the Mound of Down?

If not, that is probably because it has been hidden from public view by trees and gorse for decades.

But work is now under way to expose this fortification which could be about 1,000 years old.

Tim Campbell, director of the St Patrick Centre in Downpatrick, said it was one of the largest megalithic hill forts in western Europe.

"We have forgotten about it as it been overgrown with trees," he said.

"It was the seat of the high kings when they moved from the Navan area of Armagh eastwards.

"It is a very important site andperhaps in the very reason Down is called Down, Down from Dun - the big fort."

Downpatrick was long on the map before other seats of government were in place on this island Margaret Ritchie, MP, South Down

The enclosure is defined by a massive bank and ditch that encircles what was once a drumlin island in the Quoile Marshes.

Although the site has yet to undergo archaeological excavation, it is thought that the large earthwork on the mound is a pre-Norman fortification.

It is most likely to be a royal stronghold of the Dál Fiatach, the ruling dynasty of this part of County Down in the first millennium AD.

Ken Neill, an archaeologist for the Environment Agency which is working to control the vegetation at the site, said it dated back to


terribly aware of the historical significance of the Mound of Down or even have the ability to get to it.

"The major sleeping giant of the area is tourism. It is our gateway to jobs and a stimulus to the local economy. We must develop that."

"I made representations to my party colleague, the Minister for the Environment Alex Attwood. I invited him out to the Mound of Down, we walked it and saw the commanding views of Down Cathedral, of Inch Abbey and other areas associated with the Patrician legacy.

"This is a place rich in history.

"Downpatrick was long on the map before other seats of government were in place on this island."

Bob Bleakley from the Environment Agency is overseeing the work at the site which will take six weeks.

"Byis an MP from Karnataka and understands the facts in the issue,” said Kumar.

Meanwhile, in Gadag, BJP state president BS Yeddyurappa also maintained that he and and the Karnataka unit of the party will ensure that the show will be retained in the city.

“It is true that UP has applied for the show to be moved to Lucknow. However, the state BJP and our MPs will impress upon the centre to retain it in Bengaluru,” he said.

Meanwhile, the ruling coalition continued to maintain pressure on the centre with chief minister H D Kumaraswamy having written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to retain the Aero Show in Bengaluru.

In his letter, Kumaraswamy has said that the city has become synonymous with Asia’s premier air show, “Aero India” and


losses but did not have a fixed interest amount.

Haneef Afsar Azeezi is the Imam of Beyopari Mosque in Bengaluru.

On Tuesday the SIT served a notice to suspended Congress leader Roshan Baig shortly after the legislator resigned from the Karnataka assembly.

The Karnataka BJP has demanded an investigation by the Central Bureau of investigation (CBI), alleging that state police's actions could be hampered by the fact several other Congress leaders, apart from Roshan Baig, knew Mansoor Khan.

A delegation of BJP lawmakers met Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman last month to raise the issue.

Prior to the arrest of Haneef Afsar Azeezi, the SIT arrested five others, including BM Vijay Shankar, the deputy commissioner of Bengaluru (urban district), and LC Nagaraj, assistant commissioner of Bengaluru North sub-division.

Vijay Shankar got Rs 1.5 crore and,REYHANLI, Turkey—Syrian government forces have nearly encircled Aleppo, preparing a siege to wrest control of the city from rebels in what would be the biggest blow yet to the three-year uprising.

The fall of Aleppo, Syria's largest city and economic hub before the fighting, could also bolster the ranks of Islamic State militants who continue to make gains across the country, as defeated members of the Western-backed Free Syrian Army switch to their side.

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On Saturday 13 August 2016, six bodyguards from the protection detail of the Gambia’s president, Yahya Jammeh, squeezed into a rental car and drove to the sprawling coastal town of Serekunda. They stopped in Senegambia, the capital’s famous party street, where music blares from bars and white tourists walk around in flip-flops hand-in-hand with young lovers. The men drank some juice and nibbled at some food as they awaited nightfall.

At 1am, when they considered it was safe to move, they got back in the car and drove towards the headquarters of Jammeh’s ruling party, the Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC). They stopped a little distance from the building and peered through the darkness. The building seemed empty. After circling it twice they parked the car 300metres away. There was only one guard, in a small shed close to the entrance.

The guard, taken by surprise, was tied up and gagged, and four men kept watch while two entered the building. They knew what they were looking for, but they overturned shelves and tables and threw items around the room to make their visit look like a random act of vandalism.

In another room, they piled chairs and computers in the middle of the floor, with folders, binders and papers. On top of the pile, they placed what they had come for: three cardboard boxes containing ID cards for citizens registered to vote. The guards had intelligence that fake IDs would be given to foreigners paid to vote for the ruling party. Rather than dislodge the


president by force, the guards would try to stop him rigging the election. One of them poured petrol on the pile, the other took out his lighter and set the heap ablaze.

It was one of several small steps that would culminate in the toppling of one of Africa’s strangest and most enduring dictators. During his 22-year rule, Jammeh treated this impoverished, elongated west African country as his personal fiefdom. He liked to drive at speed across the country in his motorcade, throwing biscuits and money to the crowds from the sunroof of his Hummer limousine – a stunt that killed and injured several of his citizens. He had sworn to rule “for a billion years”, and had held elections every few years to give his dictatorship a glossof legitimacy, after suppressing any opposition. His intelligence service infiltrated every layer of society, and his personal militia, the Jungulars, made critics, journalists and political opponents disappear.

The regime had made clear its willingness to shut down public demonstrations of dissent with lethal violence. In 2000, when hundreds of students from the national university marched through the streets of Banjul to protest the alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl by a policeman, Jammeh’s security forces opened fire. Fourteen students and one journalist were killed, and the crackdown sent a clear message to the Gambian people: anyone who challenged the regime would be punished.

Robbed of freedom and opportunities, many young Gambians preferred to face the dangerous Mediterranean crossing rather than stay put in the police state that the Gambia had


the Gambia was long years in the making, but the final push took just five months. A few of the protagonists lost their lives in the process, but some survived to tell their story.

When Jammeh first took power more than two decades earlier, he didn’t represent any party or ideology. Then only 29, he had been in charge of the bodyguards protecting the country’s first and only president, Dawda Jawara, who had ruled since the Gambia gained its independence from the United Kingdom.

Samba Faal, who was then the vice-mayor of the capital of Banjul, still remembers the hot summer day in July 1994 when he watched a company of armed soldiers, led by Jammeh, marching toward the presidential palace. Taking advantage of the president’s absence on a tripabroad, Jammeh and his comrades seized power in a bloodless coup.

Jammeh’s timing was good. Jawara had held the presidency since 1970, and Gambians had grown weary of his rule. Corruption was endemic, and the president’s friends had grown rich. “Jammeh was a simple opportunist with a plan,” Faal said. Jammeh criticised the president’s foreign backing – Jawara had studied in the UK, and retained close ties with the west – and portrayed himself as a poor man from rural Gambia, a man of the people.

Observers disagree about how politically astute Jammeh actually was. Today many Gambians refer to him as an imbecile, who was destroyed by hubris. But among people who worked closely with the dictator, there is a sort of respect for his abilities. “He had a


good tactical understanding,” says a senior western diplomat. He might not have possessed an ideological compass or a plan for how to govern, the diplomat implied, but he took power with perfect timing and he knew how to hold on to it.

Shortly after he took control, Jammeh ordered the executions of about a dozen high-ranking soldiers whom he considered threats. He was aware that the first period of a dictator’s rule is the most uncertain. According to The Dictator’s Handbook, by political scientists Alastair Smith and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita of New York University, a dictator has a 50-50 chance of surviving the first six months in power. For Jammeh, those odds looked pretty good. As the son of a semi-professional wrestler and a street vendor, few peoplewould have put money on his ascent to the presidency.

Yahya Jammeh at a rally in Banjul, the Gambia, in 2016. Photograph: Thierry Gouegnon/Reuters

Jammeh was not always regarded with suspicion and fear. But throughout his reign, he became increasingly eccentric and high-handed, and his citizens began to believe he had lost the plot. Fatou Jatta, who encountered Jammeh for the first time in 2007, was one of the first Gambians to publicly disclose that she was HIV positive, had been instructed to come to the presidential residence in Banjul. She and a group of eight other HIV-positive men and women were to begin a course of treatment devised by the president. He wore a flowing white gown, and asked politely for her to take off her clothes and lie


grow an economy: it requires skill, luck and the right circumstances,” Alastair Smith says. “It is, however, easy to cannibalise by extracting rent wherever it is possible.”

The Gambia never achieved viable exports under Jammeh; instead, the country was used as an export corridor for illegal goods. The Gambia’s rocks are barren of diamonds, yet by 1998 the country had become one of the world’s biggest diamond exporters, and diamonds made up 62% of all of Gambian exports. At this time, in nearby Sierra Leone a civil war was raging, and diamonds from the country were declared “conflict diamonds”, which were not allowed to be sold on the international market. When a peace deal was struck in Sierra Leone in 2001, Gambian diamonds fell to below 1% of thefather, Solo, was an unlikely hero. A dreamer, a good listener and a family man, he was judicious and plain-speaking, the kind of man people came to with their problems and quarrels.

Shortly before sunrise on 14 April 2016, he gathered his wife, Nyami, and a couple of their oldest children, for a morning prayer. It was unusual for them to pray together. Thinking back, Solo’s oldest daughter, Fatima, saw something tense in her father that early morning. “When we had finished our prayer he pulled me aside and asked me to watch over the family, no matter what happened,” she said.

In the Sandeng house in Banjul, there is a box of old photographs. In photos with his nine children, Solo is smiling. Alone, he looks serious and deep


in thought, even when he’s staring into the lens. That was the face Nyami fell in love with when she saw Solo the first time outside the mosque, three decades earlier. She saw the serious face, the bushy eyebrows, and “those eyes”, Nyami said, smiling. Her description continued, but her daughter stopped translating and rolled her eyes.

In 1996 Sandeng joined the United Democratic party (UDP) – the first political party formed in opposition to Jammeh. He was among the first party members, but he kept away from the grand stage. Instead, he became a mobiliser, a job that included trying to attract new UDP members and stir up opposition to the president. Sandeng’s role was to talk politics in a country where talking politics was highly dangerous.

Sandeng startedlimited to, beatings, electric shocks, strangulation, fire, simulated drowning, rape and burying people alive.

Nogoi Njie and Fatoumatta Jawara, two female protesters who were captured with Sandeng, later testified about what they had seen. “The torturers wore black hoodies and gloves and the only identifiable features were their eyes,” said Njie. Three teams of four to five men took turns beating her, while hosing her with cold water. Afterwards she was put in a dark room with a heavy stench of urine. Five minutes later, Sandeng was thrown into the same room. His body was swollen and he was bleeding from the face. Njie massaged him and he fell asleep.

But his rest was cut short as someone started shouting his name from the hallway. Sandeng rose, and was taken


out of the cell. Before long, Njie heard him screaming. He was never seen alive again.

Almost a year later, Solo Sandeng’s body was found buried in the bush on the outskirts of a fishing village 30km along the coast from Banjul. But even before his fate was known, Sandeng’s disappearance ignited the opposition. A few days after his detention, a group of opposition leaders and activists marched through the streets of Serekunda to demand information about Sandeng’s whereabouts. Jammeh responded swiftly by jailing the UDP leader Ousaino Darboe, his main rival, and 18 other protesters.

But it turned out that removal of Darboe gave a new lease of life to the anti-Jammeh movement. Among the experienced campaigners was Fatoumata Tambajang – a well-respected older woman with a career inthe UN behind her and a clear plan on how to unite the opposition. For seven years she had chaired meetings with Darboe and other leaders in an attempt to get them to rally behind a single banner. But on every occasion they would reach a stalemate: “They couldn’t understand that it was impossible for everyone to become president. Actually the imprisonments gave us an opportunity,” says Tambajang, who is now vice-president.

For the first time ever a coalition was in the making. But they were in need of a candidate.

Meanwhile, the president was facing growing discontent within his own ranks. He felt it necessary to fire several high-ranking members of his cabinet. And even his own bodyguards were tiring of him. Seoul Badjie (not his real name) had


been a bodyguard in the unit in charge of Jammeh’s safety since 2011. He would open the door for the president whenever he wanted to enter or exit his office, and sit next to him in the Hummer limousine.

Yahya Jammeh campaigning in Farafenni, near the border with Senegal, May 2016. Photograph: Bangaly Toure/Alamy

“The closer we came to Jammeh, the more dissatisfied we became,” Badjie told us while sipping a Malta soda at a cafe on the outskirts of Serekunda. Whenever the president was in a foul mood, Badjie recalled, he would yell at his guards, hit them, or lock them in a dark room for days. Badjie developed a friendship with five other guards, who shared his dissatisfaction. During the summer of 2016, their late-night chats reached aregistration cards and escape the country before they could be apprehended.

After the fire was lit, the flames quickly caught. The men took different routes out of the building, ran back to the car and drove out of the city. The plan had gone perfectly. The fire destroyed two offices, but not the whole building. No one had been hurt and the saboteurs evaded capture. The registration cards were turned to ashes and it was too close to the election to have new ones printed.

After the attack, the six bodyguards fled south to the border, and ran through the bush in pairs until they crossed into Senegal. They managed to get to Dakar, where they would wait. Here, they found other Gambians who were also working to bring down


Jammeh, one text message at a time.

Jammeh’s excesses had inspired no fewer than five failed attempts to oust him. Senegal, which surrounds the Gambia almost entirely apart from its 80km coastline, had become home to many Gambian exiles fleeing arrest or violence. A radio station based there was broadcasting anti-Jammeh propaganda back into the Gambia via the internet. And in the months leading up to the fire at the ruling party HQ, dissidents in exile had been finding their voice.

One of the loudest and most influential dissident voices at that time was that of the rapper Ali Cham, AKA Killa Ace. He had grown up in the Bronx, New York, and started rapping at the age of 12. By the time he was 15, in 1999, his parentsfeared he would become involved in gang violence and decided to send him to the Gambia, where they had both been born, and where Ace would stay with relatives. Once he got to west Africa, his lyrics continued to reflect preoccupations of life in the Bronx – getting rich and dating “fly females”. But in the Gambia, he quickly realised it was trivial to rap about women and cars when people were being tortured for voicing their opinion. His lyrics gradually changed as Killa Ace started rapping about politics, police brutality and inequality, although he still cloaked his message in metaphors.

“You knew what he said was critical, but you needed a dictionary to figure out what he meant,” Lamin Sey, Cham’s manager, said. But then in 2015, during


a tour in neighbouring Senegal, Cham decided that he needed to speak out about what he really thought of his president.

“The essence of being a rapper is to represent the people in my environment. I’m the biggest rapper in the Gambia, and if I didn’t speak up, I might as well have quit,” he said. He put out a song called Ku Boka C Geta G (roughly translated: “if you’re part of the herd, you’re entitled to drink the milk”), on Facebook, criticising the president by name, accusing him of taking money from the people and spending it abroad, on his celebrity friends.

Explicitly naming Jammeh in a song for the first time was a life-changing decision for Cham. Soon after, he became a hunted man. When he returnedfrom his tour, the NIA were looking for him, and he went into hiding. Every day, unknown numbers called his mobile phone. At the same time, his mother called from New York trying to persuade her son to leave the Gambia.

“She told me that what we had done with Ku Boka C Geta G was brave, but if I wanted to spread the message I could do it better from Dakar,” he said. The following night, Cham fled with his wife and daughter to the Senegalese capital. The city was full of Gambian exiles and some were putting together plans to bring down the government. One of them was an IT company director, Abdurahman Touray, who had fallen out of favour after the president made him a takeover


offer that he refused. Touray had fled to Dakar in 2010, and quickly became part of a group he referred to as the Resistance. “I am a freedom fighter,” he told us, without smiling, when we met him in his office outside Banjul last year. (Sadly, Touray did not live to see his free country take shape: he died after an illness in March this year.)

From a house on the outskirts of Dakar, Touray coordinated the fight against Jammeh. The self-styled Resistance put together a document detailing, step by step, how to bring down the dictator, titled Blueprint for a New Gambia. It was inspired by the Serbian activist Srđa Popović, who helped bring down Slobodan Milošević in 2000 and subsequently wrote a book called Blueprint for Revolution.he yelled from the podium, adding for good measure that the opposition would be buried nine feet deep.

With just a month to go before the election, the opposition found their candidate: the UDP treasurer, Adama Barrow, an unassuming figure who had for a time worked as a security guard in London.

On 1 December 2016, election day, a little more than half a million people – or 60% of registered voters – turned out. As the votes were counted, it dawned on Jammeh and the population that his plan to rule for a billion years might prove exaggerated. Gambian journalists didn’t know what to report. They rarely published stories that didn’t fit the narrative of the regime, and if they did, repercussions were severe. To find answers, reporters gathered


in front of the offices of the Independent Electoral Commission.

Adama Barrow greeting supporters in Talinding, the Gambia, November 2016. Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images

In his office, the commission’s 82-year-old chairman, Alieu Njai, sat and worried. As chairman, he was in charge of the final count. On his table, a fax machine was churning out fresh results from the districts. Njai would gather five or six pages, walk down the stairs, and announce the results to the waiting press.

As regional results accumulated, he realised that the president might lose. And so did the president’s office. An official called him and told him to stop making any further announcements of results as they came in. By way of a response, Njai went out and parked his car just outside the commission’smain gate, ready for a quick getaway. Then he went back up to gather more results from the fax machine.

“Jammeh thought he could trust me 100%. But I had 0% trust in him,” Njai recalled. At the next announcement, journalists from the state-owned TV-station asked him to stop. Njai continued defying orders. In a last, desperate move, Jammeh cut off the country’s connection to the internet and international phone network to keep the Gambian people from learning the result, but the results were shared by word of mouth.

In Serekunda, cars with blaring horns were racing through the streets; yellow flags, Barrow’s colour, fluttered in the night sky. In Senegal, Badjie and his group of former bodyguards, Cham the rap star, and Abdurahman Touray prepared to return home. The


dictator had fallen.

Jammeh conceded to the opposition leader, Adama Barrow, but two weeks later he was still in place, and showed no signs of vacating the presidential palace. His party was attempting to force a rerun of the election. In the days that followed, the Gambia felt as if it could be on the brink of civil war. The streets were empty except for soldiers behind sandbags at the major intersections. Fearing that the army would crack down on the people or that different army factions would turn on each other, more than 45,000 Gambians fled to Senegal.

Late one night in mid-December, Killa Ace’s manager, Lamin Sey, spray-painted a message on a wall in downtown Serekunda: #GAMBIA HAS DECIDED.

Five days earlier – two weeks after the vote hadgone against him – Jammeh had declared the election invalid. In the village of Basse, in eastern Gambia, an error had occurred in the vote count: a column shift in Excel had misallocated the candidates’ votes. The entire election would have to be rerun, Jammeh argued, and instructed the supreme court to arrange it. But he had fired several of the judges a few months earlier, and it would be months before new ones could be flown in from Nigeria and sworn in. Jammeh had decided to stay in power until then.

#JAMMEH MUST GO, Sey wrote, on another stretch of wall. As he closed the circle of the last O, a beacon of light hit him from behind. He spun around and stood face to face with a


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the first truly global climate accord, committing both rich and poor nations to reining in the rise in greenhouse gas emissions blamed for warming the planet.

Trump has been criticized for offering far fewer specific policy proposals than Clinton, his likely rival for the Nov. 8 presidential election.

The New York billionaire said he planned to release a detailed policy platform in two weeks that would propose dismantling nearly all of Dodd-Frank, a package of financial reforms put in place after the 2007-2009 financial crisis.

“Dodd-Frank is a very negative force, which has developed a very bad name,” he said.

Trump took a dim view of Clinton’s stated desire to put her husband, former President Bill Clinton, in charge of building up the U.S. economy.

How can Crooked Hillary put her husband incharge of the economy when he was responsible for NAFTA, the worst economic deal in U.S. history?

“On the U.S. Federal Reserve, Trump said that while he eventually wants a Republican to head it, he is “not an enemy” of current chair Janet Yellen, who was appointed by Obama.”

and

“The real estate mogul said he would maintain the current level of benefits for Social Security recipients, a position championed by former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. Trump said he would not raise the retirement age or impose a sliding scale of benefits depending on income levels.”


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The tenant, called the “victim lady”, in the Bombay High Court case that she initiated alleges that her landlord has vexed her with many frivolous lawsuits and harassed her in various and sundry ways:

It is alleged that the Respondent, on the pretext of reading books and doing meditation, continues to sit near the window of the victim lady reading law books and passing unwanted remarks stating that he will become a better lawyer by reading law books and will teach the victim lady a lesson. The Respondent is also alleged to have killed the kitten to whom the victim


lady regularly used to feed. He is also alleged to have called three men to remove coconuts from the coconut tree and in the process broke number of flower pots belonging to the victim lady and destroyed the garden maintained by her.

In addition, and the judges of the High Court find this especially distasteful, the landlord “has also cast aspersions on the judiciary by making certain statements” about the “inefficiency of the judicial system”. Indeed, in his affidavit-in-reply, the respondent doubled down arguing:

…”the judiciary is perceived as inefficient by most citizens of India” as a justification for what he had stated.

Where could the respondent have gotten such absurd ideas? How dare he claim to know what most citizens think!

The Respondent may be free to express his views aboutPORTLAND, Ore. --- The Portland Pilots men's and women's track and field teams will conclude their regular outdoor season competition this Saturday at the Portland Twilight at Lewis and Clark College. This meet will mark the final opportunity for student-athletes to post West Regional Qualifying times.

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