crossing should be possible so there should still be a chance...

"S-Su..."

"B..."

They were stuck in position, they could do nothing else, they had already seen two people die in front of their eyes and they couldn't do anything about it. The beast saw that his prey was frozen in fear, it took advantage and approached them.

Beatrice reacted first and put up a barrier, Subaru couldn't do much so he just took Beatrice in his arms and put his back towards the beast, it crashed through the barrier, sending Subaru pummeling towards the wall.

"Su...baru..."

He was terribly injured but he forced himself up, Beatrice was relatively fine though, he couldn't bear the pain of hearing that ear-shattering scream again, the one from the last loop where they were assassinated. He startedrunning, most of the doors were opened so they couldn't use them for gate crossing and closing one would cost time which is something they don't have.

They weren't being chased but he ran nonetheless, he got tired and stopped for a while, he plopped Beatrice down, both panting harshly, the situation was dread and they felt something was coming.

Suddenly from in front of them, mabeast crashed into the room, there was also someone with them, "Yay, we found them!"

"My you are persistent... I will enjoy cutting you up..."

They looked back but saw that there were more mabeast blocking the way, they were surrounded, cornered, this was a dead end.

"Subaru... please..."

"Beako?"

"Please... hk- please..."

.

.

.

.

"PLEASE FORGIVE BETTY!"

It was yet, another ear-shattering cry, Subaru had to cover his ears due to the


NBA veteran Jamal Crawford is still going strong, even at age 39, and apparently he’s still looking to stay in the league.

According to a report, Crawford is drawing interest from multiple teams, including the Philadelphia 76ers, Oklahoma City Thunder, Brooklyn Nets, Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat.

.@JCrossover needs a team! I’ve heard Sixers, Thunder, Nets, Lakers, Heat have interest. — Brandon ‘Scoop B’ Robinson 📍 (@ScoopB) July 2, 2019

All of those teams could make use of an instant-offense bench presence, as well as a strong veteran voice in their locker rooms.

Crawford, a three-time Sixth Man of the Year award winner, has plenty of miles to his name. He is currently sixth among all active players in minutes played with a whopping 38,988 over his 19 seasons in theNBA.

Surprisingly enough, Crawford logged a career-high in games played at the lofty age of 36 in his final season with the Lob City LA Clippers — a season in which he put up 12.3 points per game off the bench with 36 percent shooting from deep.

Last season as a member of the Phoenix Suns, Crawford saw his numbers dip considerably to some of his lowest marks in points per game (7.9), usage rate (20.8%) and total minutes played (1,211) since his rookie season in Chicago.

Still though, the ageless wonder surely has some miles left on the tires, so he will definitely be a good pickup for one of those aforementioned contending teams.


A United Nations independent expert presented a searing indictment of the wealth gap in the United States, saying that "contrasts between private wealth and public squalor abound" and that the Republican tax plan "is essentially a bid to make the U.S. the world champion of extreme inequality."

The recent statement by Philip Alston, U.N. Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, follows his two-week visit to Alabama, California, Georgia, Puerto Rico, West Virginia, and Washington D.C.. Based on the fact-finding mission, he said, "The American Dream is rapidly becoming the American Illusion as the U.S. ... now has the lowest rate of social mobility of any of the rich countries."

Regarding the tax plan Congress is considering, Alston said, "The dramatic cuts in welfare, foreshadowed by the President andsanitation facilities to be their responsibility, I saw people who had lost all of their teeth because adult dental care is not covered by the vast majority of programs available to the very poor, I heard about soaring death rates and family and community destruction wrought by prescription and other drug addiction, and I met with people in the South of Puerto Rico living next to a mountain of completely unprotected coal ash which rains down upon them bringing illness, disability and death.

In a bulleted list of indications that outcomes in the U.S. are at odds with idea of "American exceptionalism," he noted, among other things, that

U.S. inequality levels are far higher than those in most European countries;

U.S. infant mortality rates in 2013 were the highest in the


developed world;

America has the highest incarceration rate in the world;

In terms of access to water and sanitation the US ranks 36th in the world.

The country, he said, is international outlier in that it insists human rights "do not include rights that guard against dying of hunger, dying from a lack of access to affordable healthcare, or growing up in a context of total deprivation."

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In addition to speaking with civil society groups, Alston spoke with politicians and political appointees. Some of them, he said, clung to "caricatured narratives" of who the wealthy and poor are—narratives that falsely portray the rich as industrious, and the poor as lazy people who merely need to pull themselvesup by the bootstraps in oder to make it.

"I wonder how many of these politicians have ever visited poor areas, let alone spoken to those who dwell there," he stated.

He highlighted the systemic obstacles to voting, whether through overt disenfranchisement, like barring felons from voting, or covert disenfranchisement, like gerrymandering and needless voter ID laws.

Citing Census Bureau data, he said that more than one in every eight Americans—40 million people—live in poverty. That's a population that has been demonized and "is becoming a more deprived and destitute class," he stated. And that high figure appears to be by design.

He added: "at the end of the day, particularly in a rich country like the USA, the persistence of extreme poverty is a political choice made by those in power.


142 P.3d 1010 (2006)
341 Or. 262
Phil DREYER, Frank Gearhart and Kafoury Bros. LLC, an Oregon limited liability corporation, and as potential class representatives, Plaintiffs-Adverse Parties,
v.
PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Defendant-Relator,
Patricia Morgan, an individual, and as representative of the class of similarly situated electric service customers of Portland General Electric Company between certain periods of time, Plaintiff-Adverse Party,
v.
Portland General Electric Company, Defendant-Relator.
(CC 03 C10639, 03 C10640; SC S52217, S52284).
Supreme Court of Oregon.
Argued and Submitted September 13, 2005.
Decided August 31, 2006.
Barbee B. Lyon, of Tonkin Torp LLP, Portland, argued the cause and filed the briefs for defendant-relator.
Daniel W. Meek and Linda K. Williams, Portland, argued the cause and filed the brief for plaintiffs-adverse parties. With them on the brief was Phil Goldsmith.
Mark McDougal, filed the brief for amicus curiae Utility Reform328 Or. 464, 987 P.2d 513 (1999). However, the court held the case in abeyance when certain events occurred that appeared to have some potential for resolving the controversy without the court's participation. First, the PUC sought express authorization from the legislature (in House Bill (HB) 3220 (1999)) to structure rates to allow utilities a return on investments in plants retired in the public interest. The bill passed in the legislature, but was referred to the people, who rejected it in the November 2000 election. Second (and before the fate of HB 3220 was decided in the election), PGE and CUB entered into a settlement agreement that purported to "put an end to the controversial `return on' Trojan by wiping the unrecovered Trojan balance off the books." The


bit odd. Whitney Smith, who began the race as the Republican nominee for the 18th District, has switched campaigns midstream to run for Franklin County Commissioner on a corruption and dog-centric platform. What do you make of this reversal and how does it change the dynamic of your race?

CGN: Wow! Yes, it was a very interesting turn of events. I have met Whitney, and I actually really liked her. She worked on Represent Columbus to try to open up City Council. It was interesting to see a Republican coming together with progressives to open up City Council in our one party city – the Democratic establishment here is corrupt, and they are not properly representing the people.

I did see Whitney Smith protest at the courthouse the other dayAt the time of their marriage, Stephen was living
at 10 Claremont Place and his father was noted as Stephen Munns, Labourer.
Grace was living at 106 Wincheap, and her father was noted as Thomas
Fullagar, Builder.

Early 1900's Stephen Munns has moved to Gillingham
(no. 65 Nelson Road), noted as photographer

The Fullagar family had a photography shop at
54 St. George's Street (E &
G. Fullagar) *J. Bateman had his shop here in 1889

If anyone has any information on the photo,
or the photogapher, the family would be very grateful


In June 2012, German authorities banned Millatu Ibrahim, following violent clashes between Salafists and police in Bonn that left two police officers seriously wounded. Hundreds of Salafists had gathered in the former West German capital to protest the display of caricatures of Muhammad by local “anti-Islam” activists. Shortly before the outbreak of rioting, Cuspert had led a public prayer for those in attendance.

Abu Talha was born Denis Cuspert in 1975 in Berlin. In late 2010, he would turn his back on his music career, soon thereafter publicly denouncing the rap lifestyle and reinventing himself as an Islamist preacher by the name of Abu Maleeq. By late 2011, he had hooked up with Mohamed Mahmoud, aka Abu Usama al-Gharib, an Austrian of Egyptian origin. Mahmoud is reputed to bethe founder of the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF), a jihadist propaganda platform. In 2008, an Austrian court sentenced Mahmoud to four years in prison for terrorism-related offenses . He reportedly left Austria for Berlin shortly after his release in September 2011. He and Cuspert would turn up later that year in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where they together founded the Salafist association Millatu Ibrahim.

Those who were quick to count out Abu Talha appear to have overlooked a caption in the Tauhid-Germany video. As if announcing an imminent resurrection, it reads, “Coming Soon: Cowardly Attack, Pointed Response: An Interview with Abu Talha al-Almani.”

The images of Abu Talha were originally posted in mid-November by the German Islamist website Tauhid-Germany. Emerging two months after Abu Talha was reportedly


wounded in an attack by the Syrian air force in rebel-controlled territory in northern Syria, the video quickly sparked reports in both the German and international media that the former rapper was dead. Video has surfaced in the meantime, however, indicating that he is still very much alive.

The video shows the apparently lifeless body of a man on a stretcher. His shirt is pulled up, and a rescuer pumps his chest as if the man’s heart has stopped. The shirt is soaked in blood. Additional footage reveals a deep wound to the top of the man’s head. His face is clearly visible and instantly recognizable — Abu Talha al-Almani , aka Deso Dogg, the much-celebrated German rapper-turned-jihadist. Almani turned up in Syria last summer as a sort ofpoet-mujahid, singing a cappella (in keeping with Sharia) the praises of jihad against President Bashar al-Assad in the land of al-Sham.

In a sign of things to come, Cuspert had by this time already adopted the nom de guerre Abu Talha al-Almani. He is believed to have left Germany around the time the order banning Millatu Ibrahim was issued.

Since Abu Talha's departure, much of the buzz surrounding him in Germany has concerned the possibility of his returning to carry out attacks at home or attacking German interests abroad. In his most recent videos, however, Abu Talha shows little interest in Germany. Indeed, since his arrival in Syria last summer, the focus of his proselytizing has been encouraging Muslims in Germany to perform hijra, that is, to leave it.

The interview


Proenza Schouler's Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez reprised their roles as designing-community's darlings at Monday night's Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Awards, receiving the prize for Womenswear Designer of the Year.

The duo adds this season's statue to their 2003 CFDA Swarovski Award for new talent, their 2007 CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year award and their 2009 CFDA Accessory Designer of the Year Award. Still, McCollough told The Huffington Post that their newest accolade came as "a surprise. It was so nerve-wracking, the whole build-up to it. It just gets more and more terrifying as each year passes. You think you'd kind of get a little more comfortable with it, but it's quite the opposite."

McCollough added: "It's just nice to be recognized by your peers andSo she's a real journalist. She's not just a fashion journalist, she's a journalist."

Other award recipients included: Michael Bastian, Menswear Designer of the Year; Prabal Gurung, Swarovski Award for Womenswear; Robert Geller, Swarovski Award for Menswear; Eddie Borgo, Swarovski Award for Accessory Design; Hal Rubenstein, The Founders Award; Arthur Elgort, Board of Directors' Special Tribute. Nadja Swarovski also received a statue to fete the tenth anniversary of Swarovski's support of the event.


Today the mayor of San Francisco is a dog.

The city championed animal rights with a Chihuahua-mix city official, Frida.

This is the first time San Francisco has had a dog mayor, said Deb Campbell, spokeswoman for the city animal shelter, the Department of Animal Care and Control.

The rescue dog, often photographed wearing a colorful sweater, will be saluted during a meeting of the Board of Supervisors, followed by a 4 p.m. gathering on the steps of City Hall that could draw hundreds of animal lovers.

So how did Frida land in the mayor’s chair? At the 25th anniversary gala fundraiser for the ACC, dog owners bid for the honor.

“It was popular and there was a fight for it,” said Campbell. The winner was Dean Clark, who made a “healthy donationa new permit. 40 C.F.R. § 122.6.
In April 1982, the EPA delegated responsibility to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Energy ("NJDEPE") for administering the NPDES program in New Jersey. 47 Fed.Reg. 17331 (April 13, 1982). On June 11, 1985, the NJDEPE issued NJPDES permit number NJ 0005134, effective August 1, 1985, to defendant. The 1985 permit likewise authorized Hercules to discharge limited quantities of pollutants into the Delaware River and Cronmell Creek (which flows into the Delaware River) from its Gibbstown facility through the two aforementioned discharge points, outfalls 001 and 002, in accordance with the conditions set forth therein.
The NJDEPE issued a permit modification to Hercules on October 9, 1987. That modification became retroactively effective on July 2, 1986. Under New Jersey law, the


of pollutants Hercules was authorized to discharge through outfalls 001 and 002), 328 monitoring violations, 58 reporting violations, and 228 recordkeeping violations.[4]
On May 5, 1989, after receipt of plaintiffs' sixty-day notice but before the actual filing of the Complaint, Hercules received a Notice of Civil Penalty Assessment from the NJDEPE. Hercules objected to this notice on May 24, 1989. The matter was then referred to the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law. Hercules and the DEP engaged in settlement negotiations, which culminated in the execution of an Administrative Consent Order ("ACO") in March, 1991.[5] Def.Ex. 18. Under the ACO, Hercules was required to pay the NJDEPE $600,000 as a penalty for 115 permit violations which occurred from March, 1985  August, 1990. In addition to this penalty, Herculesexpenditure of judicial resources than has been incurred to date in the case at bar. In Hallstrom, the plaintiffs/petitioners commenced their suit one year after sending defendant/respondent, in April 1981, written notice of their intent to sue. Plaintiffs had not, however, sent notice of their intent to sue to either Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality ("DEQ") or the EPA. On March 1, 1983, respondent moved for summary judgment on the ground that petitioners had failed to satisfy the statutory requirement of providing notice to the DEQ and the EPA. Plaintiffs notified the agencies of their suit one day later on March 2, 1983.

The district court denied respondent's motion, reasoning that the petitioners' March 2nd notice cured any defect in the statutorily required notice. The district court further noted


released a report from a 12-member scientific panel outlining the technological options for the search, aimed at detecting 90 percent of potentially hazardous objects (PHOs) between 140 meters and 1 kilometer across. Researchers suggest the search could be completed in seven to 20 years, and could be implemented using today's telescopes, cameras, and automation technologies.

Since researchers hope to wrap up current search efforts - aimed at 1 kilometer and larger hazards - by 2008, "now is the right time to begin looking at the next steps," says Richard Binzel, a planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.

While movies such as "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact" have spun cinematic yarns out of some of the biggest collisions one might imagine, researchers point to the smaller -Egyptians will head to the polls Monday in the first parliamentary elections since the uprising that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak in February.

The country's military rulers, who took over from Mr. Mubarak, are determined that voting will proceed on time despite increasing doubts about the election’s legitimacy and security after a week in which at least 40 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured by security forces as they protested for the end of military rule.

The surprising surge of protests has reenergized the liberal and leftist revolutionaries who had lost momentum as demonstrations floundered over the summer and the Muslim Brotherhood – Egypt's most organized group – prepared to dominate the polls.

Some of these groups are now calling for a boycott of the vote, saying that any


disenfranchised, but the elaborate voting process is leading to worries that confusion will be rampant.

Strong grassroots support

With an organizational network long in place, the Muslim Brotherhood jumped out of the starting gate and hit the streets campaigning.

They are already well-known to many voters because of the charitable work they do – such as providing medical care, often in places like Ezbet El Haggana, a Cairo slum where the party organized a march shortly before the protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square began.

Hundreds of party members linked arms and chanted slogans for the Brotherhood’s party as they marched through the slum's dirt alleyways, avoiding the mud where water ran through the middle of the street. Area residents stuck their heads out the windows of dilapidated buildings, staring in seeming shockSports Authority of India minced no words in stating that the duo could lose their salaries for the duration of the second edition of Hockey India League (HIL), commencing January 25 in Mohali, if they continued their association with the high-profile FIH-sanctioned event.

Written by Press Trust of India

Read Time: 2 mins

New Delhi:

Sports Authority of India (SAI) on Wednesday put itself on collision course with Hockey India after it issued a clear instruction to HI's high performance director Roelant Oltmans (in pic) and chief coach Terry Walsh to scrap their contracts with respective HIL franchises.

SAI minced no words in stating that the duo could lose their salaries for the duration of the second edition of Hockey India League (HIL), commencing January 25 in Mohali, if they continued their association


he could have spotted the feds coming for him, he could just have seen his daughter coming in late for a family dinner.

With Breaking Bad’s final episode looming, I find myself thinking about The Sopranos’ solution more and more and how much sense it made, as confused and annoyed as I was at the time.

Walter White is hands down a bigger monster than Tony Soprano could have ever been in his worst dreams. The mafia has a code of honour, twisted though it is. White is in the game for one person and one person alone, and that is himself. He has poisoned children, disposed of children’s bodies, watched people die, killed in cold blood and he blew up a motherf***ing old folks home and all just totoo late.

Then there’s Skylar. She paints herself as a victim and of course, to an extent she was. However, even before she was caught up in laundering Walt’s meth empire, she was quite happy to cook books for Ted. She too, had so many chances to just get out but was simply too afraid of strapping on a pair and facing the consequences.

Now, here’s the big one. Hank deserved to die. As much as I shouted at the TV screen when it happened and as much as I am still in denial about it, his death was on him. Why didn’t he have back up? Because he was too prideful. He was obsessed with being the one to take down his brother in law so he could at


was not a clear enough win. He called for a leadership race despite the vote and lost to Brian Mulroney.

Kinew, in a year-end interview with The Canadian Press, would not say what number he would consider a minimum to stay on, but he appeared fairly confident of his support.

"For me, this job is always about the people of Manitoba. And talking to people around the province, I think that they feel good about the campaign we ran. They feel good about the team we have now," Kinew said.

Royce Koop, head of political studies at the University of Manitoba, said he feels Kinew's job is secure, given that Kinew was only elected leader in 2017 and the party increased its seat total in last September's election to 18 ofThe Witcher - Races @ IGN

September 16th, 2007, 18:01

Ign gives us an in-depth look at some of the races in CD Projeckt's upcoming RPG The Witcher, including some nice screenshots and concept art. The usual races common to the fantasy genre are covered: humans, elves, dwarves and gnomes, but they also give a mention to some of the creatures unique to Sapkowski's tales:

Sapkowski's fantasy world is also inhabited by many other sentient or intelligent races - the red eyed vrana reptiles, the bobolaks, the goat-legged sylvans, and dragons, among others. Gossip also has it that the deeper lakes and seas have been made into the nests of the mysterious fish people, with whom no one has been able to make contact yet. One of the rarest of races


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A meeting of IPPOG, the International Particle Physics Outreach Group, was held at CERN on Friday and Saturday last week. Representatives from each of the CERN member states and CERN experiments discussed the...

In the early hours of Sunday 6 November 2011, the LHC provided the first lead ion collisions of the year. ALICE recorded several thousands of collision events – an accomplishment that required a full year of preparation...

The first time we met, Helena was being dragged around the port-a-cabin at the end of October’s Point 2 party. It was her first day and Carnita, one of our other tremendously helpful secretaries, was dutifully introducing...

On Monday November 14th the LHC begins heavy ion physics, the process of colliding lead ions. Amy Dusto, from the blogjump to the 1959 revolution, Guantanamo Bay or the US embargo. In antithesis, other peoples’ minds jump to cigars, rum, and the delicious Caribbean Sea lapping on the shores of perfectly white...

The data taking started on the night between November 5-6 when test beams were injected and brought to collisions. The number of events were few, around 10,000, but extremely useful for debugging the complicated...

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Frederick K. Brewington, ESQ

FREDERICK K. BREWINGTON, ESQ.Member of Board of Directors

Raised in Lakeview, Long Island, Fred Brewington is a respected lawyer and community advocate with a distinguished legal career. After working at a number of prestigious firms and law offices, including a clerkship at the Office of the Legal Counsel of the United States Senate, Fred Brewington began a private practice in New York City and Long Island. With his expertisein civil rights litigation, Fred has successfully challenged the 'at large' voting system in the Town of Hempstead and worked on preventing future unconstitutional and discriminatory purging of voters from the voting roll. Through litigation, writing and lecturing, Fred continues to challenge other discriminatory practices throughout Long Island and the New York area.

Fred, an adjunct Professor at JacobD. Fuchsberg Law Center, Touro College, currently serves on the Law School's Board of Governors; he served as President of the Alumni Association of SUNY, Albany and remains a member of the Council of Classes. Providing services pro bono, Mr. Brewington and his Associates serve as advisors to many community groups and organizations. He has also served as a Trustee and as Chairman of the Administrative Board of the Church of the Good Shepard United Methodist; is currently a Trustee for the United Methodist Church General Board of Church and Society; is a Certified Lay Speaker for the Long Island East District of the New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church and currently is an instructor for Local Lay Speakers. He is a Volunteer football coach


in the Malverne School District.

Fred Brewington graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany with a Bachelor of Arts degree and from Northeastern University School of law. A tireless advocate, Fred is the recipient of many honors and awards for his community and public services. He is a loyal and devoted husband to his lovely wife, Adrienne, a former attorney who is now a Pastor and was appointed by Bishop Jeremiah J. Park as the District Superintendent of the Long Island East District for the New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, where she continues to serve.Why Kids Love Dinosaurs!

By Christopher O’Brien

Dinosaurs, those exotic reptilian creatures that ruled the earth (and drive-in theaters) for 300 million years, continue to mesmerize generations of earthbound kids. And count me among them for I was hooked tooth and claw from the beginning. While in third-grade I remember reading Roy Chapman Andrews’ account of his harrowing fossil-hunting trip to the Flaming Cliffs of Mongolia in the 1920s, where he discovered protoceratops nests and the first unearthed dinosaur eggs. And I also remember watching Ray Harryhausen’s animated dino movies at the Saturday afternoon matinee, including: The Animal World, One Million Years B.C. and The Valley of Gwang. And later, I devoured Turok, Son of Stone comics featuring a Native-American duo wandering in a lost valley of dinosaurs and “demons.”


ascertained the most likely reason for their demise was the cataclysmic Chickxulub asteroid.

In 1980, Nobel-prize winner physicist Luis Alverez and his geologist son Walter devised a theory that has become widely accepted by mainstream academia: dinosaurs and most mege-fauna were rendered extinct by the Chickxulub asteroid impact in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 65.5 million years ago (+-30,000 years). We now know that a massive six-mile wide object slammed into the planet at this location and the resulting event created a dust and smoke cloud that suffocated the entire planet’s dry land eco-system and killed off most animal species. By analyzing geologic strata data, scientists have identified the thin layer of iridium that was deposited worldwide during this time-period. Iridiumis rare on earth but abundant in asteroids, and this evidence suggests that an asteroid impact created hellish conditions that circled around the surface of the planet for months—possibly years. Around 50% of all animal species on the planet — including all remaining species of dinosaurs, pterosaurs (flying species), large marine species like the plesiosaurs and most other small land and sea dwelling sauroid types quickly died out.

Evolutionary theory suggests that smaller proto-mammals were somehow able to fill the ecological niche and life continued. Bio-diversity again reigned supreme and the earth recovered from the catastrophic ending of the reigning Mesozoic era with mammals the predominate animal species. We know that mammals flourished after Chickxulub, but is it possible that some species of dinosaurs somehow managed to survive as


and like the Chinese dragons, they rule over bodies of water and often are said to live underground where they sometimes guard treasure. There are many other mythical reptilian forms found throughout Southeast Asia, but they are predominantly thought of in a positive light.

Head further west into the Mesopotamian cultures of the ancient world, and we find our first negative references of dragons in myths featuring heroic dragon slayers. There are several creation accounts that feature this type of conflict in the near east–the most famous being the war between Marduk and Tiamat. Rivaling any Egyptian soap-opera, this epic Babylonian story probably influenced many other subsequent ancient cultural versions…

Cut to the final act: After the murder of her husband by Marduk, Tiamat spawned an army of dragons, hornedserpents and chimaeric humans creatures and attacked Marduk, but for naught. After the conflict in which Tiamat was slain and mutilated, Marduk cut her body into pieces. (Kind of a reverse Isis and Osirus story, of sorts.) There are many other amazing myths and legends that hint at reptoidal creatures throughout the ancient world that are too numerous to mention in this article.

While we are on the subject of dragons, they are found in Greek mythology as well as in documented historical accounts from ancient to medieval times. In his memoirs, Alexander the Great mentioned a dragon over 100 feet long that his soldiers witnessed while campaigning in India. The hissing creature was described as living in a cave and was not friendly. Begged by nearby villagers not


to harm it, Alexander obliged. He also wrote that his soldiers, while on campaign, were so terrified of [all] the dragons encountered that they left them alone and didn’t attempt to arouse their anger.

In the book The Life Of Apollonius Of Tyana, written in the first century, Greek historian Flavius Philostratus also mentioned dragons living throughout India:

“The whole of India is girt with dragons of enormous size; for not only the marshes are full of them, but the mountains as well, and there is not a single ridge without one. Now the marsh kind are sluggish in their habits and are thirty cubits long, and they have no crest standing up on their heads, but in this respect resemble the she-dragons. Their backs however are very black, withfound much later in the famous medieval story of St. George slaying the Dragon. This allegedly occurred near the Libyan town Silene. George is said to have saved the princess daughter of Selinus, who was about to be offered as a sacrificial offering to a dragon that had become dissatisfied with sacrificial children offered by the townspeople. The epic battle has been immortalized down through the centuries and may be a more recent version of other ancient legends.

Throughout the ancient and medieval world there is tantalizing evidence of dragon and dinosaurian beasts influencing art and culture. Roman mosaics features dragon motifs, Viking ships were often adorned with dragon headed bows—said to scare away sea-monsters. Reptilian forms depicted in the art and myths of ancient peoples are found around


creature has appeared in such a rich variety of forms. It is as though there was once a whole family of different dragon species that really existed, before they mysteriously became extinct. Indeed, as recently as the seventeenth century, scholars wrote of dragons as though they were scientific fact, their anatomy and natural history being recorded in painstaking detail. The naturalist Edward Topsell, for instance, writing in 1608, considered them to be reptilian and closely related to serpents: “There are divers sorts of Dragons, distinguished partly by their Countries, partly by their quantity and magnitude, and partly by the different form of their external parties.” Unlike Shakespeare, who spoke of ‘the dragon more feared than seen,’ Topsell was convinced that [dragons] had been observed by many people.”

Myths, legendsthe British Army sent to survey and mark the border between Brazil and Peru, experienced a dino sighting. Famed explorer/adventurer Percy Fawcett, while a British Army engineer reported seeing a diplodocus in the Beni Swamp. Fawcett also investigated reports of dinosaur-like mega-fauna that had been reported in the Madidi River swamps and noted in his 1953 book Exploration Fawcett,

“[I]n the forests of the Madidi some mysterious and enormous beast has frequently been disturbed in the swamps–possibly a primeval monster like those reported in other parts of the continent. Certainly tracks have been found belonging to no known animal–huge tracks, far greater than could have been made by any species we know.”

Elsewhere, in Chile, crypto-dinos have also been reported through the intervening years including several reports as recently as


2004. In his excellent journal of the unexplained, Inexplicata, Scott Corrales reported that the Northern Chilean Iquique Star covered alleged sightings in their August 4, 2004 edition:

“Strange creatures described as ‘dinosaur-like’ and standing 2 meters (6 feet, 6 inches) tall have been seen in recent weeks in Pampa Acha, a small town 17 kilometers (10 miles) from the city of Arica in northern Chile… According to the driver’s description, the figures were grey and hairless. The second one, which crossed a few minutes later, was clearly seen by Riquelme, Hernan Cuevas and his 12-year-old daughter, Tania. They estimated the creatures’ height at 2 meters (6 feet, 6 inches)…The ‘two strange creatures, described as small dinosaurs and with a physical appearance similar to that of a kangaroo, were reportedChicago biologist, heard mokele-mbebe stories and was intrigued by a documented chain of claims that went back to French missionary accounts of finding “huge, plate-shaped tracks” in 1776. Mackal was impressed enough to mount two expeditions to the area in 1980 & 1981. A possible sighting event on a river occurred during the second expedition, as noted in Jerome Clark’s 1993 book, Unexplained and the two expeditions are described in Mackal’s 1987 book, A Living Dinosaur.

Predictably, Hollywood has also taken notice of mokele-mbembe and other fabled African crypto-dinos – referred to by various West-African tribes as: “Nsanga,” “Jago-nini,” “Amali,” “Coye ya menia,” and Emela-ntouka,” among others. Since 2006, National Geographic Channel has mounted two expeditions to the region; History Channel’s MonsterQuest and the Sy-Fy Channel show Destination Truth


head of something, shaped like a seal but flattened from above to below. It was about the size of a full-grown hippopotamus-this head, I mean.”

Up river from the site, Sanderson and his party later found huge unidentified tracks that could not have come from river-dwelling hippopotami the only animal large enough to create the tracks. According to local natives, hippos were no longer found in the area as they had been killed or forced out by the “m’kuoo m’bemboo[s],” (as phonetically spelled by Sanderson).

Interest in the Cameroon crypto-dinos has endured down through the decades: in 2009 the History Channel sent the crew of the popular TV program MonsterQuest to the Cameroon-Congo border area where recent sightings have been reported. They interviewed eye-witnesses who claimed encounters with real-life sauropod-likeits misery. We had not gone a hundred yards before Pfleng called to me and pointed to the right. Above the water an eighth of a mile away appeared the head and neck of the monster. It must have dived and gone right under us. After a few seconds’ gaze it began to swim toward us, and as our bullets seemed to have no effect we took flight in earnest. Losing sight of it behind an island, we did not pick it up again and were just as well pleased.”

The Dinosaurs of Dilio Island

West New Britain is an extremely remote, sparsely populated province of Papua New Guinea and stories have emerged from native populations that mention huge sauropods that live along the coastal areas of unpopulated Dililo Island.


In 2008 explorer Brian Irwin collected stories that mention sightings of this great creature had taken place in 2006 and his account was published in forteanzoology.blogspot. com.

“The creature was seen on the south, rocky side of Dililo Island from a distance of about 30 to 40 meters, moving in the water parallel to the coast along a reef. It was described as having a long neck and a long tail. It was around 20 meters long and about two meters around. The head was “like a dinosaur” with an “oval-like face” and the skin of the animal was “like a crocodile”, khaki green in color. Dermal frills (indicating the animal was a male) could be seen on the creature’s back, extending to the back of the head. NoNovember 9, 1978. Four days later, appellant voluntarily accompanied two officers to the Allentown Police Station for questioning. Since appellant was not yet 17 years of age, the police provided for the presence of his mother, who with appellant was apprised of the Miranda warnings. Appellant thereafter gave and subsequently wrote and signed a statement admitting his complicity in the killing of Stella A. Bremmer during the commission of the burglary of her home. The juvenile probation officer of appellant, as well as another juvenile officer, were present with appellant and his mother when appellant made his statement, and the mother herself signed as a witness to the execution of the statement by her son.[1]
The record reflects that appellant and co-defendant, Michael Reinhard, after consuming a quantity of


marijuana, *285 gained entry to the house of Mrs. Bremmer through an open rear window. Appellant and the co-defendant then searched the house and took a small amount of money. The co-defendant testified that while he was in the kitchen he heard "muffled sounds" from upstairs, as a result of which he ascended the stairs, and saw appellant standing with a pipe over the bloodied body of Stella Bremmer.
Appellant testified that in addition to smoking marijuana, he ingested LSD, two or three bottles of ale and a swallow of whiskey or wine. He further testified that he was not certain whether or not he hit the victim, but since his accomplice told him he struck Stella Bremmer, he therefore believed that he inflicted the blows. Appellant also indicated684 (1980)).
The suppression hearing record reflects that investigating officer Gerald Monahan, who was dressed in civilian clothing and accompanied by a juvenile officer, located appellant at his place of employment, identified himself and said: "I would like to talk to you. Would you mind coming down to the police headquarters with me?" Detective Monahan testified that he informed appellant that he was not under arrest stating: "You aren't getting blamed for a thing. I just want to talk to you." The detective further testified that he asked appellant "if his mother would come with *288 them", indicated that the conference would take about an hour, and offered to return appellant to his place of employment at the termination of the interview. The record clearly establishes that appellant was


aware that he was not told that he was under arrest, and that after locating Mrs. Romeri, appellant, of his own volition, accompanied the officers to the police headquarters. The record further reflects that before being questioned, appellant was apprised of the Miranda rights and of the right to a private conference with his mother and his probation officer, who was, at his request, made available to him for counseling. It was not until after appellant made his confession that he was told he was under arrest.
The determination of when an arrest occurs depends on an evaluation of all the surrounding circumstances. Commonwealth v. Crissy, supra, 304 Pa.Superior at 42, 450 A.2d at 91. An arrest may be constructive or actual, id., and is accomplished by "any acthowever, little information about the Nazi Aktion T-4 “euthanasia” program appeared in the American press until the early 1940s. This is partly because the program was not authorized by Hitler until 1939 and because most American journalists departed Germany shortly after the outbreak of war.

But the dearth of information is also due to the fact that Nazi officials went to great lengths to keep the disability killings secret. Unlike reports of the forced sterilization of Germany’s disabled population that could be verified against official government reports, information about the mass slaughter of the disabled was initially very difficult to confirm. Nevertheless, credible reports about the disability killings began to appear in the American press in the spring of 1941.

Among the first of these reports appeared in the New


doubtless four persons out of five who read it will reject it as merely a sample of an inevitable crop of atrocity tales,” the article began. “But the New Republic article is written by Michael Straight, formerly of the Department of State, who charges that last year the Gestapo quietly put to death 85,000 Germans who could make no contribution to the national war effort. These comprised the blind, the incurably sick, the mentally defective and the senile.”

Six weeks later, on June 20, 1941, William Shirer’s BERLIN DIARY: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent was published in the United States. A reporter for United International before moving to CBS, Shirer presented a first-hand account of the Nazis mass extermination of the disabled. In an entry labeled, BERLIN, Novemberexperimenting with new poison gases and death rays”; and that “they are simply the result of the extreme Nazis deciding to carry out their eugenic and sociological ideas.”

That same week, the New York Times Book Review featured an extensive review of Berlin Diary. Under the headline SIX FATEFUL YEARS IN GERMANY, George Shuster wrote:

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Mr. Shirer relates with unaffected and therefore genuine poignancy the experiences of men and women who had become mere moths cruising about an inexplicable flame. There are relatively pleasant details of Germans trying to joke their way in and out of shelters. There are gruesome anecdotes about battered towns in Flanders. And there are utterly horrible stories of mentally defective children, taken from sanatoria and put to death by the Blackshirts – mercy killings, so


A former university athletic director is suing her old employers over claims she was discriminated against as a gay female.

Jane Meyer was the associate athletic director at the University of Iowa, and is bringing the trial against the school after she was laid off last year.

Several coaches are expected to testify at the trial, which is scheduled to last for up to three weeks, with lawyers claiming a last minute settlement is unlikely.

Jurors will be asked to determine if Meyer suffered workplace discrimination due to her gender and sexual orientation, as well as if she was treated differently after complaining about bias against other females coaches.

The trial will also look at whether she was paid less than male coaches.

Regardless of the outcome academics have said the trial willAssociated Press, Barta said Meyer had opened chastised him in front of staff, as well as claiming to be unaware of her relationship.

It’s not the first time LGBT people in America have gone to court over discrimination claims.

Earlier this year a veteran journalist started legal action against Frontiers magazine after the publication fired her from her position as news editor.

Karen Ocamb was led to believe that she was fired for financial reasons within the company, however it soon came to light that the reason was based solely on her age.

Bobby Blair, the CEO of Multimedia Platforms Worldwide (the parent company of Frontiers) said: “Unfortunately, Karen fell where we realised we were moving toward a digital and Millennial audience, and we wanted to give the generation of Millennials a


Tran explores the flight deck of the Tarawa, above, now one of 30 ships in the mothball fleet at Pearl Harbor’s Waipio Peninsula.

After 31 years a South Vietnamese refugee was reunited yesterday with the Navy corpsman who attended her birth aboard a U.S. warship.

The two met again in a tearful reunion on the flight deck of the USS Tarawa, a deactivated amphibious assault ship moored in Pearl Harbor.

Richard Reed was a 24-year-old hospital corpsman who aided in the delivery of a baby girl on May 10, 1979, aboard the Tarawa during its first deployment.

The child, Grace Tarawa Tran, weighed 6 pounds, 11 ounces.

She is now a financial analyst in Philadelphia, where her family settled. She is a U.S. citizen by virtue of her birth aboard a U.S. ship;other family members have become citizens, too.

Several days before she was born, her pregnant mother and 441 other refugees had been rescued from their sinking boat in the Gulf of Thailand by the crew of the frigate USS Robert Perry.

Tran said her mother told her that before the Navy rescued them, their boat had been attacked by pirates 11 times, had broken down and was "just drifting in the ocean."

Reed, now 55 and a minister in Smithville, Ind., said his encounter with the refugees "had a profound change on my life."

"I never had to face the persecution that these families faced," he told a small group of veterans and friends who traveled to Hawaii to visit the Tarawa, now one of 30 ships in the "mothball fleet" off


the Waipio Peninsula.

That "profound experience was the calling that brought me to my ministry," he said For the past 10 years, he has been the pastor of New Horizon Church in southern Indiana.

Yesterday, Reed presented Tran with photos and newspaper clippings of her birth.

Tran told him that her family "was grateful for all that he had done."

They and other guests toured the 833-foot vessel, including the berthing area where Tran was born and the hospital bed she shared with her mother, Phung Kieu Huynh, for three days.

Reed said he tried to keep in touch with Tran's family but lost all contact with them and did not know they had moved to Philadelphia.

For her part, Tran had not seen any crew members of the Tarawa until last month.

"When Iwas called by a former crew member, I thought he was a telemarketer," said Tran, a 2002 Penn State graduate. That call was to invite her to a Tarawa reunion Oct. 21-23 in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Tran, her mother, two brothers and uncle -- who all are now U.S. citizens -- attended the reunion. Tran had hoped to meet with Reed, but the reunion committee could not locate him.

It also was attended by former members of Kaneohe Bay's 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment, which was the Marine detachment assigned to the Tarawa during the humanitarian mission.

The Navy continued efforts to reunite Tran and Reed. He was finally contacted last week and took out a $2,500 loan to buy a plane ticket to Hawaii to surprise Tran.

Yesterday's reunion also was attended by


the rest of the Democratic field.

During the 2016 election, Hewitt was a vocal critic of Trump, arguing that the Republican National Committee should change its rules to prevent him from winning the nomination. He quickly reversed his position, however, and eventually supported the president.

The March 3 Democratic primary in Virginia allows registered voters to pick between competitors in either primary without switching their party registration. Sanders is currently polling in second nationally behind former Vice President Joe Biden.

Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates with the championship trophy after beating Daniil Medvedev of Russia in the men’s singles final on day fourteen of the 2019 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Sept 8, 2019. Image: Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports

Rafael Nadal won his 19th Grand Slam title after holding off Russian Daniil Medvedev's exhilarating fightback in one of the greatest US Open finals.

Spain's Nadal, 33, won 7-5 6-3 5-7 4-6 6-4 against the fifth seed in New York.

Nadal, seeded second, was cruising at two sets and a break up, only for Medvedev to force a decider.

But Nadal stopped his momentum to clinch a thrilling win in four hours and 50 minutes - just four minutes shorter than the longest US Open


final.

Nadal's victory moves him within one of Swiss rival Roger Federer's all-time leading tally of men's Grand Slam victories.

"It has been one of the most emotional nights in my tennis career," Nadal said. "It has been an amazing final. It has been a crazy match."

After taking his third match point, Nadal collapsed to the court in celebration, covering his face as contemplated another famous victory which epitomised all of his fighting spirit.

Medvedev, 23, trudged around the net to warmly congratulate his opponent, who looked on the verge of tears as he hid behind his sweat-soaked vest while taking rapturous acclaim.

"I just want to congratulate Rafa, a 19th Grand Slam title is something unbelievable, outrageous," said Medvedev, who looked mesmerised as he watched a video montage of Nadal's achievements.

Thoselucky enough to be watching among a near 24,000 capacity crowd were regularly left open-mouthed at what they witnessed, with the majority jumping to their feet and celebrating wildly after every point, helping create an electric atmosphere on a noisy Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Rafael Nadal of Spain returns a shot against Daniil Medvedev of Russia in the men's singles final on day fourteen of the 2019 US Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 8, 2019. Image: Danielle Parhizkaran-USA TODAY Sports

Ultimately it was too late as he was unable to become the first man outside Nadal, Federer and Serbia's world number one Novak Djokovic to claim one of the sport's biggest prizes since Stan Wawrinka's victory here in 2016.

Nadal, Federer and Djokovic have


won the past 12 Grand Slams after the Spaniard lifted the trophy in New York for a fourth time.

Now Nadal has the chance to draw level with 38-year-old Federer, who was nine titles better off than his long-time rival in 2007, at the Australian Open in January.

Emotional Nadal outlasts latest young challenger

Despite Nadal, Federer and Djokovic being in their 30s, nobody has been able to break their stranglehold on the men's game and Medvedev was the latest to fall short after a heroic effort.

That has allowed the illustrious trio to pile on the Grand Slam victories over the past three years, livening up the race to be crowned the greatest of all time, which Federer once seemed certain to win.

Nadal, who also won his 12th French Open titleearlier this year, is now within one of Federer's tally for the first time.

The magnitude of his achievements - which were shown on the big screen inside Ashe - hit the emotional Spaniard, who broke into tears while he sat in his chair and watched them.

That was a release of all the expendable emotional energy built up over the final two sets of a match which, against a less inspired opponent, he may have wrapped up much earlier.

A couple of hours before, Nadal appeared to be heading to a dominant three-set win against Medvedev, who was the first Russian man to compete in a Grand Slam final since Marat Safin at the 2005 Australian Open.

A physical contest, where both men jousted for supremacy as they tried to outlast


each other in brutal rallies, seemed to be going to end in familiar fashion when Nadal broke for a 3-2 lead in the third set.

From somewhere, Medvedev summoned the strength to not only survive but threaten to produce one of the most memorable comebacks ever seen.

But Nadal's intensity allowed him to eventually outlast the wiry Russian who, despite struggling with a quad injury during the tournament, continued to hang in even as the clock approached five hours.

Nadal's mental resilience saw him through in the end, despite Medvedev producing another fightback from a double break down at 5-2 in the decider.

A fourth victory at Flushing Meadows seals another stellar year for Nadal, who reached three Grand Slam finals in the same year for the fourth time of his incredibleand 25 miles away from the Gaza Strip.

As for Hamas' actual capabilities, prior to the onset of the Israeli offensive in Gaza, Shin Bet Chief Yuval Diskin said that "Hamas' military wing is ready for a prolonged military conflict with Israel. It has improved it long-range fire capabilities, and may even reach Beersheba."

The extensive bombardment of the southern metropolitan has proven his prediction true.


I saw it once, when I was a kid. I and my friends were playing in the field, after the rain and saw it. We made an attempt to reach it edge, and walked forward to it about a mile or a bit more. But rainbow edge was always at the horizon Carefree childhood.

I saw it once, when I was a kid. I and my friends were playing in the field, after the rain and saw it. We made an attempt to reach it edge, and walked forward to it about a mile or a bit more. But rainbow edge was always at the horizon Carefree childhood.

wow, I bet as a child it was even more magical than for me as an adult. Thanks sir.

@brujo Ahhhh, my apologiescomplete absence of a shred of evidence to support the narrative.

“Electors around the country are being harassed with a barrage of emails, phone calls and letters — and even death threats — in an effort to block Donald Trump from being voted in as president by the Electoral College on Monday,” reports the NY Post today.

The NY Post also reports:

Reports of GOP electors being badgered have been reported in numerous states, including Georgia, Idaho, Tennessee, Arizona, Utah and Michigan.

For Michael Banerian, a senior at Oakland University in Michigan and a Republican elector, the harassment comes with a dark side.

He said he’s been getting death threats via email, snail mail, Twitter and Facebook.

“Somebody threatened to put a bullet in the back of my mouth,” Banerian, 22, told The Post


ripples in the water.

During the rest of the day the light is harsh and the buildings are against the sun or in the shade.

You’ll notice a church (Santa Maria della Pietà) on the edge of the wharf, directly on the sea. It’s typical of the islands of this area; churches are built overlooking directly the sea, to protect all fishermen and sailors. But there is another reason: the belfry and the massive buildings can be viewed from long distance and with rough sea and can be a guide for sailors in the storm.

From the church we can climb the hill of Terra Murata, the walled, medieval borough of the island and original urban centre of the island, where the locals used to live to find shelter against themy Intermediate classes.

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good movie is really hard to come by. Same with Derbez, who is considered in Mexico to be the funniest man in his country, but I just haven’t seen that in his American films. I’m hoping for something that isn’t terrible, but… no, I think it will be.

This is my honest opinion of: OVERBOARD

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Set in Oregon. Kate Sullivan (Anna Faris) is a struggling single mother of three daughters, working two jobs as a carpet cleaner and pizza delivery, while also studying to become a nurse. One day, as a carpet cleaner, she’s hired to clean the Birthday Present, a yacht belonging to a wealthy Mexican man named Leonardo Montenegro (Eugenio Derbez), a particularly entitled older man who is as childish as he is mean and insulting. After KateThe New Activism of Japan's Youth

By Coco Masters and Hannah BeechThursday, Aug. 20, 2009

Photograph for TIME by Andreas Seibert

A modest house in western Tokyo might not seem like the birthplace of a Japanese social movement. But in this warren of tatami mats, a cluster of earnest students are sitting with their laptops, sipping cold tea and, through their nationwide network of 5,000 volunteers, quietly making a difference. The mission of Katariba, meaning "a place of sharing," as the group is known, is to teach young Japanese that they have a place in society  and that they need to use their political voice. "It's only a small step," says Kumi Imamura, 29, who runs workshops at public high schools to introduce youth to role models, political and otherwise.


students land internships in the offices of Japanese politicians, "it feels like a real election."

The overriding challenge for the next government is nothing less than to reset the nation. Japan is the world's most rapidly aging country  from now until 2050, its population is expected to contract about 25% to 95 million people; of that number, nearly half will be more than 60 years old. Even more daunting, the young people who must now shoulder the responsibility for an elderly explosion already feel marginalized in society. No longer assured of the lifetime employment previous generations enjoyed, Japanese youth are the first to lose their jobs when companies cut back. They will also inherit a national debt that is spiraling close to 200% of GDP. No wonder manyPeacock (US - DVD R1)

We now have the full disc specs for this upcoming movie starring Ellen Page

Further Details:
Lionsgate Home Entertainment has officially announced Peacock for the 20th April. Retail will be around $26.98. The film itself will be presented in anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. Extras will include a "Welcome to Peacock. The Making of Peacock” featurette, deleted scenes, an alternate ending, Cillian Murphy rehearsal footage, and a downloadable script. We've attached the official package artwork below:

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"John Skillpa (Murphy), a quiet bank clerk with a secret alter ego as a woman (named Emma), finds his life in disarray when a train crashes into his backyard, revealing his secret to the public. He must then fool the town into


central place in the lives of older people (Dahlin-Ivanoff, Haak, Fänge, & Iwarsson, [@CIT0011]), and it provides a context for many valued roles and activities (Haak, Dahlin-Ivanoff, Fänge, Sixsmith, & Iwarsson, [@CIT0023]), as older people value a home that supports their doing and being (de Jonge, Jones, Phillips, & Chung, [@CIT0014]).

Russell ([@CIT0047]) stresses that home has a different meaning to older men and older women. Historically based gender roles for today\'s cohort of oldest old people were that the women stayed at home and men went out to work (Oswald & Wahl, [@CIT0042]). This is also the case for today\'s cohort of oldest old women in rural areas in Norway. The older women were raised with clear expectations of their gender-based roles as wives and mothers, and manythe oldest old women\'s satisfaction with their present life, despite losses, declining health, increasing age, and short remaining life span. So, despite a challenging everyday life, the women accept, appreciate, handle, and find meaning in their life as an oldest old woman.

*Accepting their present life situation means that oldest old women accept their current life situation* in aloneness with diseases and impairments. One of the consequences of being an oldest old woman is to experience losses, for example the loss of spouse, siblings, and friends, to death or disease such as dementia or stroke. The women have accepted and feel comfortable in their aloneness. Accepting their present life situation in aloneness also means accepting that relatives cannot come around so much because of their distance from the oldest


Oldest old women also find meaning and pleasure in leaning on their earlier memories (e.g., of their deceased spouse). God has also given rise to comfort and meaning when life has been challenging and demanding for the oldest old women, as everything happens for a reason.

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This theme reflects the oldest old women\'s thankfulness toward their present life as an oldest old woman and their gratitude toward home nursing care for received care.

*Gratitude toward life* means their thankfulness toward life for their perceived good health despite impairment, diseases, and chronic pain. The oldest old women are satisfied with their life from early childhood in spite of different adversities. Now, as oldest old women, they feel gratitude toward life for being able to stay in their homesby finding meaning in everyday life, with, for example, needlework and different chores. By finding meaning in their aloneness, the oldest old women manage to take pleasure in the present despite the restrictions that age, losses, diseases, and impairments represent. However, declining health and increasing age mean limited time left in their beloved homes, and this is considered a major challenge for the oldest old women, despite support from home nursing care. Being an oldest old woman means knowing time left in their homes is limited, so the present is considered valuable. Living in the intersection between embracing the present and fearing the future means living in a challenging emotional situation, being thankful and satisfied, feeling secure, and yet feeling vulnerable.

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Despite adversities and fears about the future


concurs with Dale et al. ([@CIT0012]), who found that older people living alone in rural areas in southern Norway were particularly concerned about the possibility of becoming cognitively impaired, and then losing the ability to remain in their own homes.

As the oldest old women knew they have limited time left, they felt vulnerable, as they were trying to live for the moment and not take sorrows in advance. Living for the moment and in the present is a coping strategy for preserving health and continuity in the lives of old women, and it is a strategy for overcoming the uncertainty of the future that is associated with aging (Hayes, [@CIT0025]). The oldest old persons in their eighth and ninth decades recognize and accept an uncertain future, as theya primary mode of human experience, and the virtues of solitude are "freedom, attunement to self, attunement to nature, and creativity" (Koch, [@CIT0031], p. 99).

Even if the oldest old women in our study did not become alone by choice, they remained alone by choice. Most women had been alone for many years, some since their forties. By being able to treasure and find meaning in their aloneness, they were able to find new ways of connecting. They connected to themselves by finding new meaning in their lives as the oldest old women in rural areas. They connected (e.g., to nature and memories) and found new meanings through solitude. Or, as Frankl ([@CIT0018]) emphasizes, they created a new world by connecting the past and the future and imbuing it


persons living alone can experience loneliness, but that is not the whole picture, as the present study shows that several oldest old women are satisfied with their lives in aloneness in rural areas. This means that nurses need to approach them on an individual basis, and also be aware of their own importance as a social contact, as they may be the only one visiting several oldest old homebound women on a regular basis.

Despite the limited number of participants in the present study, it revealed that oldest old women living alone in rural areas have several resources, such as, for example, inner strength. By recognizing and supporting their recourses, the home nurse can contribute to oldest old women remaining longer in their beloved homes.

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Fresh off the back of Spider-Man PS4, new rumours have begun circulating around another potential new superhero game to start getting excited about, this time set in the DC universe. Following the release of 2015's Batman: Arkham Knight, fans have been desperately wondering what developer Rocksteady has been up to in the meantime, with whispers of a Superman or even Harry Potter game potentially in the works at the London based studio.

Co-founder Sefton Hill even had to put out a statement during this year's E3 expo to temper any anticipation for new announcements, promising to share more about their "next project [...] as soon as it's ready." It turns out Rocksteady may not need to do any sharing after all, though, as an inside source has supposedly leakeda ton of new details about the studio's upcoming game across the internet, corroborated by certain job listings on the company's website.

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First appearing on 4Chan before making its way to Reddit, the leaks state that Rocksteady is making a next-gen Justice League game set in its Batman: Arkham universe, potentially called Justice League: Crisis. According to this source, the title is expected to release in 2020 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Scarlett, once those two latter consoles launch within the next two years.

The report calls Justice League: Crisis a single-player/co-op game, where players will be able to freely switch between a roster of characters, including Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Cyborg, and Aquaman, though there will also apparently


Justiceleaguecrisis.com has been curiously picked up by Warner Bros, who own both the DC license and Rocksteady Studios itself. Hmm... We've reached out to WBIE for comment, but the company has yet to offer an official response to these circulating reports.

Batman: Arkham Knight tops our list of the best superhero games of all time, and we're confident that Rocksteady could pull off a Justice League team up.Men, women, and children experience alopecia, the clinical term for hair loss. Androgenetic alopecia or pattern baldness, which is believed to result from a combination of genetic and hormonal causes, is by far the most common form of hair loss. It is the largest single type of recognizable alopecia to affect both men and women. The rate of hair shedding in androgenetic alopecia is affected by three forces: advancing age, an inherited tendency to bald early, and an over-abundance of the male hormone dihydrotestosterone (DHT) within the hair follicle. DHT is a highly active form of testosterone, which influences many aspects of behavior, from sex drive to aggression. The conversion from testosterone to DHT is driven by an enzyme called 5-alpha reductase, which is produced in the prostate,


on her back more often," "informing a subordinate that he thought she must be good in bed," "persistently pursuing subordinates for sex" and, among other things, "having or requesting sexual encounters with subordinates in hotels or at his home."

Smiley's initial complaint called the investigation "incomplete" and "trumped-up." PBS alleges that it was thorough — and that its third-party investigators' lack of interviews with current Smiley employees is due to the host refusing to waive their NDAs.

When originally confronted with the suit, PBS characterized it as "meritless" and an attempt to "distract the public from his pattern of sexual misconduct in the workplace."

For Smiley's part, the 53-year-old has moved on to religious platform The Word Network with his series The Upside With Tavis Smiley. A spokesperson for Smiley sentRepublican Rep. Kerry Bentivolio of Michigan officially has a primary on his hands.

Attorney David Trott announced Wednesday morning his primary challenge against Bentivolio, a freshman who won his first term amid the chaos created when former Republican Rep. Thaddeus McCotter abruptly resigned from Congress in 2012.

Trott's announcement came in the form of an email to supporters and made no mention of the 11th District's incumbent.

"It’s time we fix Washington and send a leader there who will bring the best people and the best ideas from our communities together to advance our freedom-loving agenda — A leader with a proven record of job creation and problem-solving abilities — A leader with the integrity and commitment to help the district and its residents," he wrote.

Bentivolio has gained attention on the


national scene in recent weeks after advocating for the impeachment of President Barack Obama. He is mostly known in Congress for his background in reindeer ranching.

"Those are the issues he ran on, and those are the issues he is working on. He will continue working hard for the good people of the 11th district," he added.

The Trott announcement comes as no surprise to political observers. Michigan Republicans mentioned Trott as a primary threat as early as last December, even before Bentivolio was sworn in.

Michigan and national Republicans say Trott has both the personal finances and political connections to mount a serious campaign. Bentivolio, despite his incumbent status, struggled over the past year to put together an organized re-election effort. He raised $65,000 in the most recent fundraising quarterback home and people like Paul Ryan."

National Democrats say they agree with Chisholm, at least when it comes to the primary. They are betting that Bentivolio will win the GOP nomination and are eager to face him in the fall. They point to the support of House GOP leadership as a sign of his primary strength.

"It is our expectation that even though he has a primary, it will be more of a distraction than any critical threat," a national Democratic operative said.

But state and national Republicans scoff at the notion that this is a competitive seat. Romney won the district in 2012 by five points but President Barack Obama narrowly carried it in 2008.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee must pick up 17 seats this cycle to win control


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New study reveals ancient Egyptians were mostly vegetarian

New research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science and reported in Live Science has shed light on the ancient Egyptian diet. By analysing the carbon atoms in mummies that had lived in Egypt between 3500 BC and 600 AD, the French research team were able to determine that ancient Egyptians were largely vegetarian.

The analysis was carried out on the remains of 45 ancient Egyptians that had been sent to two museums in Lyon, France during the 19 th century, and involved a cutting-edge technique involving the measurement of carbon ratios taken from bone, tooth enamel and hair.

We had an approach that was a little different," explained Alexandra Touzeau, who led the research team at the University of Lyon. "We


to have been little fish in their diet. Most people would probably expect the ancient Egyptians living along the Nile to have eaten a lot of fish, and archaeological excavations have found mummified fish in large quantities. However, at least in the 45 individuals studied, fish was not prominent in their diets.

"There is abundant evidence for fishing in Egyptian wall reliefs and models (both spear and net fishing), and fish shows up in offering lists. There is also a lot of archeological evidence for fish consumption from sites such as Gaza and Amama," said Kate Spence, an archaeologist and specialist in ancient Egypt at the University of Cambridge in England. "All this makes it a bit surprising that the isotopes should suggest that fish was not widely consumed."

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Greeter for a Day Maria del Carmen Arroyo explained to her visitors that contacting Big Apple Greeter was a really smart move, since “you’ll get to see the good stuff – the things real New Yorkers know about.” Arroyo, who represents the 17th district in the Bronx, brought the visitors to one of the borough’s most beloved treasures – Yankee Stadium. Read More

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On a crisp fall day, Council Member Garodnick and his Chief of Staff, Ilona Kramer, gave an inside view of City Hall to visitors from Germany.

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Councilman Dromm with visitors Esther and Mario Van Houton from The Netherlands. Photo by Karen Bell

Council Member Dromm shared Jackson Heights, Queens with visitors from The Netherlands.

He explained that Jackson Heights is a “small town in the big city,” and showed the visitors a cross-section of neighborhoods including Little India, Little Bangladesh, and the historic district. Read Moreirritated by Crystal Palace’s reticence in the summer and what was a perceived as a greater desire to look abroad. Everton may well do the same, and Ancelotti is also an option, although it has been suggested by those close to him that he would take a lot of convincing to get back into the game so soon having just been sacked by Bayern Munich. He has talked about how he would like to take a season out from the game. Former Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel may also be looked at, having left the German club in the summer, while David Moyes' name has been similarly mentioned, but the Independent has been told he is not currently considered a desired candidate.

At the very least, Unsworth will be


Locals queue up to get a pint in the newly reopened Packhorse Inn (SWNS.com)

A village pub dating back to the 15th century has been saved from the bulldozers by a £1 million campaign organised by locals.

The Grade II-listed Packhorse Inn was destined to be turned into flats until the residents of South Stoke, Somerset mobilised to raise the money to buy it back off developers.

They used the 2011 Localism Act to help turn the pub into a community asset, raising £1,025,000 through 470 investors – paying as little as £50 each.

View photos Villagers are celebrating are saving their local pub from developers (SWNS.com) More

And on Sunday, Brian Perkins, 87, who was born in the pub when it was owned owned by his family, poured the first pint inthe newly-reopened tavern.

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“It was an honour to be asked to pour the first pint – a last bit of fame in my old age,” he said.

“I was born in a room above the area where the bar is in 1930 and later had my wedding reception there.”

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The pub is surrounded by a mix of Georgian homes and thatched cottages, and would attract walkers rambling in the surrounding valleys.

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According to the carved stone above the door, the building was erected in 1674 – but historians say it dates


back to 1498.

In March 2012, it was put up for sale by then-owners Punch Taverns and it was sold to the highest bidder.

View photos James Dickson is pleased as punch that the Packhorse Inn in Somerset has been saved (SWNS) More

Plans were soon revealed to turn it into a residential property and the village formed a committee with the aim of buying the pub back.

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Volunteers spent about 1,000 hours clearing out the pub’s garden, and 25 skips of rubbish were removed from its interior.

Dom Moorhouse, part of the Save the Packhorse group, said it was the biggest community pub buyback project in British history.

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A "nationally significant" stash of Roman gold coins has been found by a man with a metal detector in Hertfordshire.

The discovery, on private land north of St Albans, is believed to be one of the largest Roman gold coin finds in the UK.

The identity of the man who found the coins is not being revealed.

Yvonne Hall reports.Education Ministry denies leak of Thanaweya Amma's chemistry exam

CAIRO - 28 June 2018: Head of the Public Education Sector Reda Hegazy on Thursday denied that Thanaweya Amma's (high school certificate) exam of chemistry was leaked.

In press statements, Hegazy said the ministry contacted officials at the sovereign body responsible for printing the exams, who described as baseless what was circulated on social media platforms about leaking questions of the chemistry subject.

The officials asserted that the questions posted on the internet are not at all part of the chemistry exam which students are taking today.

Nearly half a million students sit for the Thanaweya Amma exams nationwide every year.

Thanaweya Amma is series of standardized tests that lead to the General Secondary Education Certificate for public secondary schools and serves as the


Bullseye from NPR is your curated guide to culture. Jesse Thorn hosts in-depth interviews with brilliant creators, culture picks from our favorite critics and irreverent original comedy. Bullseye has been featured in Time, The New York Times, GQ and McSweeney's, which called it "the kind of show people listen to in a more perfect world." (Formerly known as The Sound of Young America.)

[r] This holiday season, listen back to Jesse’s interview with Ronnie Spector. As the lead singer of the Ronettes, she recorded some of the most iconic Christmas music ever made. Then later, hear Jesse’s interview with Fred Schneider. You know his voice. He sang for the B-52s. In 2010 Schneider recorded a Christmas album with his other band, the Superions. Bullseye’s resident hip hop expert Andrewdifferent. In 2014, Oregon thrived with that dictum in a notably underrated way. If you look at the players the Ducks were missing in the national title game against Ohio State, it was just short of miraculous they got there.

Yet this season when the first man -- or often men -- went down, conference teams often folded. Oregon, for example, was only good this season with a healthy Vernon Adams at QB. Take him away and the Ducks could be described as no better than mediocre. While one might add the concomitant loss of center Matt Hegarty and his ability to deliver a shotgun snap played as much a role in Oregon's self-immolation against the Horned Frogs, that still fits in with theme of "be healthy or crumble."

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titles since 2012! -- but you would reduce the media's SEC hyperventilating if you could get your teams to consistently beat the SEC in bowl games. You might recall that we were all too glad a year ago to write epic poems about the SEC's poor 2014 bowl season.

As for what ailed the Pac-12, which figures to finish the season with just three ranked teams unless Washington State grabs voters' fancies, there were injuries, coaching issues (USC) and talent gaps. Quarterback play wasn't up to its usual level, and it turned out the celebrated the loss of a Power 5-leading 25 selections in the first three rounds of the 2015 NFL draft probably hit harder than expected.

The "next man in" from 2014's attrition to 2015, as well theTwo Hawks receive All-American honors

Quincy University senior defender Allison Birke, left, keeps the ball from Rockhurst’s Cathy Rometti during a game in September at Legends Stadium. Birke, who helped QU go 17-4-1, was named a first-team All-American by the United Soccer Coaches. | H-W Photo/Jake Shane

"That's my favorite phone call as a coach, those two calls I got to make," Musso said. "To tell them they forever will be All-Americans, that's my favorite call to make."

Birke, who transferred to Quincy as a sophomore and became a three-year starter, anchored one of the best defenses in program history.

The Hawks went 17-4-1 and reached the Midwest Region championship game, setting a school record with seven consecutive shutouts during an 11-game unbeaten streak. They finished with 13 shutouts, the fourth most


in a single season.

Birke finished with two assists and played all but six minutes the entire season.

"She's about as steady a center back as there can be," Musso said. "I knew every day what I was going to get out of her."

The veteran coach came to expect the same thing from Rief.

Returning from a broken collarbone suffered during her junior season, Rief became a lethal scorer, finishing with 10 goals, three assists and eight game-winning goals. She tied for fourth nationally in game-winning goals.

"When you take a step back because of that injury and assess things, it really motivates you," Musso said. "She played with a purpose."

The reaction Musso got when he made the phone calls was priceless.

"There were 10 out of 10 happy," he said.

Birke and Riefbecame eligible for All-America consideration by being named first-team All-Midwest Region. They were among four Hawks to receive all-region honors.

Joining Birke and Rief on the first-team all-region were senior midfielder Katie Heiligenstein and senior defender Natalie Quisenberry. Heiligenstein had five goals and three game-winning goals, while Quisenberry had two goals and two assists and played a wing defensively.


recently. “But this is a big boat.”)

Some larger private boats have also avoided real impact. In Savannah, Ga., ferries that cross the Savannah River had to reduce capacity on paper but expect no real impact because they rarely are full. In New York, the World Yacht and Circle Line cruises, which depart from Piers 81 and 83 in Midtown Manhattan, deliberately operate at about 50 percent of capacity, about 300 people, to make for a roomier, more pleasant experience, said Jason Hackett, a spokesman.

The same has been true for the popular Argosy Cruises that operate in the many waterways around Seattle. Argosy had to reduce capacity on four of its boats, said Maureen Black, a spokeswoman for the company, but still had plenty of room to accommodate itsnot nearly as powerful as they once were, given the nature of active opposition to them by conservative business interests, (who would like to abolish unions, and perhaps return us to the era of slave labor)).

And to think, I voted for Clinton twice and volunteered for his campaign in 1992. I also spent countless hours defending him against the ludicrous impeachment charges by a witchhunting GOP; truth be told, by acting like an egotistical douchebag intoxicated by power, he handed ammunition to his political enemies, which then required a whole lot of effort and energy by progressives to rally to his defense.

I'm a member of the American Federation of Teachers, and a proud union member. I am done with Bill Clinton. I'll give no money to his foundations


Matt Carle?

According to Eliteprospects.com, Carle is a left-handed defenseman who most recently played for the Tampa Bay Lightning. He also had stints with the San Jose Sharks and the Philadelphia Flyers. Carle is currently 31 years old and was a second round draft pick in 2003. At this point in his career, Carle has played in 724 regular season NHL games and is credited with 282 total points. He ended up signing with the Predators after the Lightning bought out the remaining years on his contract that carried a 5.5 million dollar cap hit. Poile was able to sign Carle for one year at 700,000 dollars, a major decrease from his previous contract.

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Carle will slide in nicely on the left side of the Predators thirdAbstract
Slovenia has a rich tradition of associations and interest group activity dating back to the 19th century. To some extent, the development of the group system was stymied by the 60 years of authoritarian rule from the early 1930s to the late 1980s. However, the resilience of this tradition is evident in major developments in group activity since the return to democracy. In addition to influences from the past, including a neocorporatist tradition, is the impact of Slovenia's process of integration into the European Union. This article considers the extent to which the modern nature of the interest group system is both constrained by hangovers from the past but enhances by European integration, both of which have affected the development of Slovenia's majoritarian democracy.


Can Angelides Panel Bring Justice to Wall Street?

As he ushered in a new era in Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt's theme song was "Happy Days Are Here Again," but people tend to forget that along with sunny optimism FDR delivered a strong dose of justice. He left that job to Ferdinand Pecora, a fierce New York prosecutor whom Roosevelt urged to investigate Wall Street's perniciousness. Pecora delivered big time. He humiliated and forced the resignation of Charles Mitchell, the head of National City Bank (later Citibank), and oversaw a 12,000-page probe into the causes of the Great Depression that gave birth to a new regulatory framework, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (Pecora was later one of the first commissioners). Other Wall Streeters were prosecuted, convicted, and jailed.

Two yearsPecora's book next to his bed. Angelides is a crony of Nancy Pelosi and a California politician who, as state treasurer, was known as a mild reformer. While he enjoys subpoena power as Pecora did (and as the last famous Washington blue-ribbon panel, the 9/11 Commission, did not), Angelides says he's not eager to use it; he prefers "voluntary" cooperation. Beyond that, despite the presence of a few standouts like Brooksley Born, the derivatives whistle-blower from the '90s, the commission is manned with partisans of the left and right who could easily tie themselves—and the investigation—up in ideological knots.

Still, Angelides and his team may yet surprise us. It's happened before. The history of "blue ribbon" commissions like this one is rich and storied in Washington; one of them,


in 1942, was led by an obscure senator from Missouri who was also seen as a political hack at the time. His name was Harry Truman, and he turned his commission on defense malfeasance into a ticket into the White House and the history books.

It's also not necessarily a bad thing that Angelides is no "Ferd" Pecora. After World War II, some prominent economists found that some of the Pecora Commission's conclusions were too zealous. That was especially true of the charge that the stock market crash was caused by banks that had stuffed their customers' portfolios with securities underwritten by their investment-banking sides (leading to the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial and investment banks). We may need some restraint now along with righteous wrath.

In other words, we(CNN) Europe has told British Prime Minister Theresa May, again, that it will not reopen talks on the Brexit agreement as she arrived in Brussels to persuade EU leaders to agree to key changes as demanded by the UK Parliament.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Thursday the EU could only "add wording" to the Political Declaration about what they aim for in their future relationship.

President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker greets UK Prime Minister Theresa May in Brussels on Thursday.

May's meeting with EU leaders takes place amid a frosty atmosphere after European Council President Donald Tusk tweeted there was a "special place in Hell" for people who "promoted Brexit" without a plan to execute it. His words rattled politicians in the UK and drew sift condemnation from


Brexiteers.

I've been wondering what that special place in hell looks like, for those who promoted #Brexit, without even a sketch of a plan how to carry it out safely. — Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) February 6, 2019

After meeting Tusk on Thursday, May said the language he used in the tweet "was not helpful and caused widespread dismay in the United Kingdom."

British lawmakers voted last month to send May back to Brussels to renegotiate the terms of the Brexit deal, specifically over concerns regarding the Irish backstop. The backstop -- an insurance policy designed to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland, which remains part of the UK, and the Republic of Ireland, an EU member -- has been a particularly thorny issue in May's deal, with British politicians firmMid-Term Review high-level conference.

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A conservative aide has been fired after the US president found himself giving a speech in front of a doctored presidential seal.

Donald Trump seemed unaware of the hoax image - which included a Russian-inspired two-headed eagle holding golf clubs and cash in its talons.

By contrast, the official seal features an eagle holding arrows and an olive branch.

Image: How the seal is meant to look

Instead of the Latin "E pluribus unum" (from many one), the words were in Spanish and translated to "45 is a puppet", referring to Mr Trump being the 45th president of the United States.

The bird's chest also had hammer and sickle symbols on it. The double-headed eagle resembled the bird on the Russian coat of arms.

An audiovisual aide for the conservative student group Turning PointUSA was fired over the gaffe, which is being blamed on a Google Images search gone wrong.

A White House spokesman said: "We never saw the seal in question before it appeared in the video.

"The White House had no knowledge of it."

Image: Donald Trump seemed oblivious to the hoax seal behind him

Mr Trump had been greeted enthusiastically by the young audience before his 80-minute speech at the student summit on Tuesday.

However, they also seemed unaware of the mistake that had been made on the screen behind him.

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Turning Point USA, which hosted the event, is a political non-profit group which, among other activities, maintains a list of college professors it thinks are too liberal.