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Houston, TX (SportsNetwork.com) - The Houston Texans acquired quarterback Ryan Mallett from the New England Patriots in exchange for a conditional 2016 seventh-round draft pick on Sunday, according to multiple media outlets.

Mallett, who was drafted in the third round out of Arkansas in 2011, has spent each of his three seasons as a backup to Tom Brady. He has seen action in just four games, completing just one pass for 17 yards with an interception.

Houston waived quarterback Case Keenum after a disappointing offseason to make room for Mallett on the 53-man roster.

Keenum started eight games last season, completing 54.2 percent of his passes for 1,760 yards with nine passing touchdowns, one rushingRace relations in this country show how religious practice and doctrine can change when public attitudes and the law change. Before the Civil War, many Mormons and Southern Protestants maintained that the Bible supported slavery for persons of African descent; when slavery ended, the same denominations read Scripture to require segregation of the races and to bar interracial relationships. Apartheid was the legal regime codifying those religious and social attitudes.

As American public opinion and constitutional law moved away from such overt discrimination in the 20th century, so did American religion. Southern Presbyterians and Methodists renounced their racist readings of the Bible in the middle of the last century, while most Southern Baptists did so after landmark civil rights legislation in the 1960s. The Mormons abandoned formal racial segregation


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Cell Phones Boost Pakistan's Literacy, Economy

A pilot program in Pakistan has demonstrated the effectiveness of pushing mass literacy through the use of cell phone text messaging capability. The five-month experiment, initiated by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), targeted 250 females aged 15 to 24 years old in three districts of Pakistan'sadults in the world, after India, China and Bangladesh, according to a recently released UNESCO report. India and Pakistan also have the worst gender gaps in literacy rates, exceeding 22%.

The Daily Galaxy website has reported that a project, called Celedu, is starting its work in some rural villages in India, but hopes to expand far beyond that. Its initial offerings include cellphone-based games and quizzes that can teach basic literacy skills. For example, a child in India can play a game of Snakes and Ladders on the phone by answering multiple-choice questions about which words begin with a particular letter in the Hindi alphabet. Each correct answer allows the child's marker to advance through the game board, providing a fun and competitive approach to learning the written language.

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biggest disease in India is illiteracy," which affects 400 million people there, says team member Rafael de Cardenas of Sloan. A PC-based version of the program, called Tele Akshar, "has already taught 54,000 women in 300 villages," he says, and the cellphone version should be able to reach far more people, according to Daily Galaxy.

In addition to education and healthcare, access to financial services has been fairly limited in Pakistan, particularly for the rural poor. The total banking sector serves around 6 million borrowers and 25 million depositors, implying a penetration rate of 3.6 percent and 15 percent respectively. In terms of access to microfinance, which means the availability of small loans, micro deposits and micro-insurance services to low income households, the current penetration rate is only 10percent. In other words, 85 percent of Pakistan's population does not have access to any financial services at all, which inherently creates an uneven and an inequitable economic world, where the majority of people are financially marginalized. This situation drives the poor to rely on informal sources of funding like the unscrupulous moneylender, where the calculus of the relationship works to the detriment of the borrower. Well regulated banking and microfinance sectors are, therefore, absolutely necessary to give hope to the poor in breaking the vicious cycle of dependence and poverty.

Now, a number of telecom operators have now joined hands with financial institutions to extend the reach of financial services to the previously un-served masses, according to Babar Bhatti who operates "State of Telecom Industry" website. A successful


example is Easypaisa, a telenor and Tameer Microfinance Bank joint offering that offers quick and easy remittance capability for the migrant workers wanting to send money to their loved ones.

The dramatic growth of cell phone usage in the developing world has created tremendous opportunities to deliver some of the basic ingredients of human development to the people, including education and health care. It has spawned a whole new field of research called "Information and Communication Technologies For Development" abbreviated as ICT4D. The UNESCO female literacy pilot helps establish some credibility for the advocates of ICT4D.

At MIT's Legatum Center, whose director Iqbal Quadir was the founder of Bangladesh's GrameenPhone, improving the delivery of health care in rural areas has been one major focus of their research efforts. Patients inall physicians are in urban areas," while most of the people live in the countryside, according to Moca team member Richard Lu, an MIT graduate student in biomedical informatics.

A GSM Association study conducted by Deloitte and Touche in 2007 estimated that the mobile industry created 220,000 high-paying jobs in Pakistan and accounted for 5% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and approximately 6% of the total taxes collected by the Central Board of Revenue. The study also found that Pakistan’s economy and society is benefiting from rising mobile phone usage and low tariffs, which lowers the cost of doing business and improves productivity, while helping families and friends to connect to each other at home and abroad.

Several studies by ICT4D researchers in Pakistan and other developing nations have


in Pakistan as just a waste of time and money. Based on the efforts of ICT4D believers, however, it is becoming increasingly clear that the mobile phone in developing world could prove to be a an extremely useful tool providing a huge boost for human development, productivity and prosperity of the people at the bottom of the pyramid.

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In a recently published book "Superfreakonomics", the authors cite two American economists' finding that cable TV in 2700 households empowered Indian women to be more autonomous. Cable TV households had lower birthrates, less domestic abuse and kept daughter in school. Here are some more highlight from the book about India:

1. If women could choose their birthplace, India might not a wise choice to be born.

2. In spite of recent economic successwomen. NGOs programs, smaller condoms, other projects have had limited success.

15. People had little interest in State TV due to poor reception or boring programs. But cable television has helped women, as 150 million people between 2001-2006 got cable TV which gave exposure to world.

16. American economists found that the effect of TV in 2700 households empowered women to be more autonomous. Cable TV households had lower birthrates, less domestic abuse and kept daughter in school.

Pakistan could replace India as the biggest recipient of British bilateral aid, according to the Guardian newspaper:

Britain is to stop sending direct aid to Burundi and Niger, two of the world's poorest countries, the government announced as it unveiled plans to rebalance the £8.4bn international development budget.

The two African nations, which are ranked


second and fourth respectively in a World Bank list of the world's poorest states, are among 16 countries that will no longer receive bilateral aid from Britain by 2016. Direct aid will also be halted to Lesotho which is ranked 28th on the World Bank list.

Burundi, a landlocked country in the unstable Great Lakes region of Africa, is still suffering from the consequences of the Hutu-Tutsi massacres in the 1990s when 200,000 of its citizens died. Niger, a landlocked country in west Africa, depends on foreign aid for half of the government's budget.

The cuts were outlined to MPs by Andrew Mitchell, the international development secretary, as he unveiled the conclusions of two reviews into Britain's bilateral and multilateral aid programmes. Cutting aid to the 16 countries would allowBritain to concentrate its resources on 27 countries which include Afghanistan, Pakistan and South Africa.---------Ethiopia will become the biggest recipient of bilateral aid over the next two years. Pakistan could become the biggest recipient of British aid within three years, with a major focus on education, British officials in Islamabad said, but only if the government reduces chronic corruption.

Just 56% of Pakistani children between five and nine years' old attend primary school, a rate that British officials want to boost to the world average of 87%. But the school system is chronically dysfunctional due to political interference, "ghost schools" and unqualified teachers. "It's an education emergency," said one official.

As well as reducing graft, British officials want to see Pakistan increase its tax collection, currrently at a disastrously low


rate of nine per cent of GDP with many parliamentarians paying little tax. The Pakistani government has vowed to improve education spending from two per cent GDP to seven per cent.

British officials said they recognised that British aid was a "drop in the bucket" in a country of 180 million people, but hoped that a targeted aid programme could "catalyse change" in critical areas like education.

Direct financial transfers to the Pakistani exchequer, which amounted to £120 million over four years under the last aid programme, are likely to be scrapped, officials said.

UN World Food Program's initiative to provide free food and cooking oil to school children is persuading poor families to send their daughters to school in Pakistan, according to a news report:

The program has already noted successsuch hard times is a bonus."

Fareeda's daughter Shama receives the oil at her school in Dera Ghazi Khan District in Pakistan's Punjab Province every month as part of a UN World Food Programme (WFP) operation run in conjunction with the government.

"The incentive is mainly to increase enrolment and keep the girls in school. The assistance is only given in girls' primary schools in Punjab. However, in NWFP [North West Frontier Province], Balochistan and Sindh, we have included boys as well," said Amjad Jamal, a WFP spokesman.

The programme had increased girls' enrolment by 25% and attendance by 62%since 1998, said Marcelo Spinahering of WFP Pakistan. "Children are given high energy biscuits for onsite feeding in certain parts of the country. For the most part they receive take-home rations of


husband says we spend too much on uniforms and books." The oil bonus helps 'balance' this, and she hopes to double the gains in a few years time when her two-year-old daughter is enrolled.

Fozia Hina, deputy district officer for Dera Ghazi Khan sub-district, said: "In areas such as ours, which is largely underdeveloped, parents do not like sending girls out of the house, even to school. Traditionally girls do not leave the home of their parents or husbands. Since the [cooking] oil incentive began several years ago more parents are eager to enrol kids. Mothers are keen to enrol even four-year-old girls."...

The team in Pakistan is asking all sorts of interesting questions as part of their work. How can the potential impact of each message be maximized, especiallysecondary schools, where very large percentages of parents and school committee members have access to phones. This project starts to put in place some of the architecture to help support interactive targeted communication with the real beneficiaries."

Based on early returns from the pilot, the Provincial Education Department of the Government of the Punjab is showing active interest in exploring these sorts of activities further, and the project principals are already planning to expand the scope of their activities. Why not try sending SMSs to parents, they ask, challenging them to pose a question to their children, based on something that was meant to be on the curriculum for that week? This would, in a very small, modest way, alert parents to what students are supposed to be learning.


If students don't know the answer, this may trigger parents to push their kids more, and/or to question whether the school is doing a good job in this area (including whether or not the official curriculum is being followed at all!).

The project, the fruit of a partnership between UNESCO, Mobilink Pakistan and Pakistani NGO, the BUNYAD Foundation of Lahore, was launched last year.

The five-month pilot project involved 250 adolescent female learners who were given mobile phones and who received interesting and informative daily text messages in Urdu which they were expected to respond to. The programme was conducted with the help of 10 teachers enlisted by the NGO.

Participants were subsequently evaluated to assess gains in knowledge and learning. At the start of the programme, 57per cent of thegirls were graded C and only 28 per cent of the girls managed to score an A. Near the end of the pilot the situation had reversed with more than 60 per cent of girls awarded an A and C grades dropping to 11 per cent.

UNESCO and partners have expanded the programme to include another 1,250 girls in rural areas of four districts of Punjab.

Warren Mellor, Country Director UNESCO said that modern technology could help achieve the goal of universal literacy. He said Pakistan was a signatory to the Dakar Framework of Action for EFA in April, 2000 and has committed to achieving an 86 per cent literacy rate by 2015.

Mr Rashid Khan, President and CEO of Mobilink, said those taking part had shown a marked improvement in


use of mobile technology toreduce maternal and neonatal mortality• LHWs have a positive impact upon theeconomic stability and well-being of thecommunity that she serves.• Mobile communications improve thestatus, mobility and equality of women– as a Lady Health Worker and as aVillage Phone operator.• LHW, through the Mobilink PCO earnan additional source of income resultingin women empowerment, and increasein social status.• LHW act as a role model for other womenin their community.

In the small village of Hafizibad in Pakistan’s Punjab province, a young girl is using her mobile phone to send an SMS message in Urdu to her teacher. After sending, she receives messages from her teacher in response, which she diligently copies by hand in her notebook to practice her writing skills. She does this from the safetyof her home, and with her parents’ permission, during the school break, which is significant due to the insecurity of the rural region in which she lives. The girl is part of a Mobilink-UNESCO program to increase literacy skills among girls in Pakistan. Initial outcomes look positive; after four months, the percentage of girls who achieved an A level on literacy examinations increased from 27 percent to 54 percent. Likewise, the percentage of girls who achieved a C level on examinations decreased from 52 percent to 15 percent. The power of mobile phone technology, which is fairly widespread in Pakistan, appears in this case to help hurdle several education barriers by finding new ways to support learning for rural girls in insecure areas—girls who usually have limited opportunities


to attend school and who frequently do not receive individual attention when they do. Often they live in households with very few books or other materials to help them retain over summer vacation what they learned during the school year.

Here's an excerpt from Express Tribune on rapid growth of mobile banking in Pakistan:

Sharing statistics of SBP, Anwar said value of branchless banking transactions reached Rs79,410 million during the last quarter. Total number of branchless banking accounts have increased to 929,184, he said, while branchless banking deposits have grown to Rs503 million.

SBP introduced branchless banking regulations in 2008. He further said around 80 million branchless banking transactions of Rs300 billion have been executed in Pakistan. “I am expecting a surge in the number of access points to over 50,000studies on how mobile banking has succeeded in other emerging as well as developed markets.

Mobile banking is the only way forward, said Mathew Talbot, Senior Vice President, Mobile Commerce Sybase 365 – which was recently acquired by SAP. Pakistan is one of the fastest developing markets for branchless banking in the world, he said, which is why Sybase is here.

Sybase provides technologies to banks, which enable the latter to have full control of their bank accounts and make transactions through mobile device regardless of their location. It creates opportunities for bringing the unbanked and under-banked segments of the society into the financial network.

Bajaur, one of the seven administrative units in Pakistan's federally administered tribal area (Fata), on the border with Afghanistan, has experienced a marked rise in school


enrolment since the beginning of the year. "Enrolment has increased and this year we enrolled 39,000 new students," says Muhammad Gul, an education officer in Bajaur. "Yet 80,000 remain out of school."

Gul believes poverty and illiteracy can be a potent combination in fuelling extremism. "If these kids don't have a pen in their hands, they will grow up and take up the Kalashnikov," he says.

Part of the reason for the increased level of enrolment in the area is the return of families displaced by conflict in 2008-09. Around 250,000 people were still displaced from Bajaur at the end of 2009, according to the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs. But for many the incentive is the ration of four litres of cooking oil (worth around £3,or just under $5) distributed every second month by the World Food Programme's (WFP) Back to School, Stay in School programme. To obtain the oil ration, students – who also receive locally manufactured high-energy biscuits daily from the WFP – must attend school 22 days each month.

The scheme was launched in January 2011 in Fata and all four provinces of Pakistan, but funding problems mean it is now limited to government-run schools in Fata (excluding North Waziristan, where the WFP is not working due to conflict). WFP spokesman Amjad Jamal says the programme has a two-pronged strategy: to address short-term hunger and nutritional deficiencies, and increase enrolment and retain those already in school. The WFP has been engaged in school feeding in Pakistan since 1968. Gul says that,


of Bajaur's 616 schools, 435 (of which 135 are girls' schools) receive WFP help, benefiting 60,000 children. "Some areas are difficult to reach still and thus left out from the loop," he admits.

"We are seeking to make life easier for returnees by helping to ensure the provision of health and education," says Jamal. The NGO is supporting more than 990 schools, and 130,000 children take home the ration. The current programme ends in December, but will be renewed until 2015.

According to the International Crisis Group (pdf), there were around 4,660 primary schools, including 2,000 girls' schools, in Fata at the end of 2008. However, literacy remains low, and more than half of children who enrol in primary schools drop out before completing class five due to "poor qualityof instruction, corporal punishment, teacher absenteeism, inaccessible locations and poorly maintained facilities, including shortages of furniture, clean drinking water and lavatories".

According to last year's national nutrition survey (pdf), 43.6% of Pakistani children under the age of five are stunted, 15.1% wasted, and 31.5% underweight. Approximately 32% are suffering from severe malnutrition, and 62.5% are anaemic.

Data collected by the directorate of education in Fata shows that, as of the end of March, 417 schools – including 133 for girls – had been blown up. Militants are still targeting educational institutions in the region, which is why parents are fearful of sending their children to school. However, Gul insists "poverty is a much bigger issue".

"Investing in the longer-term opportunities provided by education is not a consideration," Jamal says. And in


tribal areas in particular, female education is seen as a wasted investment both economically and culturally...

PITTSBURGH-A silly telephone game that became a viral phenomenon in Pakistan has demonstrated some serious potential for teaching poorly educated people about automated voice services and provided a new tool for them to learn about jobs, say researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Pakistan's Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).

The game, called Polly, is simplicity itself: a caller records a message and Polly adds funny sound effects, such as changing a male's voice to a female voice (or vice versa), or making the caller sound like a drunk chipmunk. The caller can then forward the message to one or more friends, who in turn can forward it along or reply to it.

Polly mayfixed duration also fuel interest, she added.Mobilink Corporate Communications Head Omar Manzur said the programme has also won the GSMA’s Global Mobile Award in the “Connected Life Awards” category and was acknowledged as the “Best Mobile Education or Learning Product or Service” in February this year.

Here's an Express Tribune story on Nawaz Sharif's launch of literacy movement in Pakistan:

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday unveiled plans to launch a countrywide literacy movement to ensure the enrollment of every child in school, with aims to allocate four per cent of GDP on education by 2018.“Our effort is to achieve the targets, set by Education for All (EFA) and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) within the coming three years.”Among the targets set by UNESCO is to increase resources for the education


sector to reach four per cent of GDP by the year 2018, Nawaz said as he inaugurated the international conference on ‘Unfinished Agenda in Education: the Way Forward’.----The prime minister said the government’s objective was to develop an education system which is compatible with the requirements of a knowledge-based economy.Nawaz stressed that focus is needed on science and technology and developing modern skills in the education system, besides calling for prioritisation of female education in education policy, effective participation of women in the decision-making process and to protect their respect and dignity.“For Pakistan, education was not merely a matter of priority, but it is the future of Pakistan, which lies in its educated youth.“It has, in fact, become a national emergency. More than half of the country’s populationis below 25 years of age. With proper education and training, this huge reservoir of human capital can offer us an edge in the race for growth and prosperity in the age of globalisation. Without education, this resource can turn into a burden,” the prime minister said.With low budget allocations for education a primary concern, along with a very high number of out of school children, high drop-out rates, gender disparity, low literacy rate, realising the MDGs and EFA targets was a priority.Not forgetting the 18th amendment, Nawaz said that despite education being a provincial subject, there was national consensus on the need for reform and modernisation of the country’s educational system to bring it at par with the national priorities and international standards.“I believe that education is


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San Francisco based Cloudcade has announced it will invest $6 million to set up a game development studio in Lahore, Pakistan, according to Venturebeat.

The Lahore studio will be led by Ammar Zaeem, cofounder of Pakistan’s mobile game studio Caramel Tech which already has a team of 50 engineers.
The move is a big investment into Pakistan as a tech hub, and it shows how the game business is expanding around the globe.

Cloudcade:

Founded by Di Huang in 2013, Cloudcade is known for its popular multiplayer game "Shop Heroes" that pits players against each other in a competition to create the best shop they can. If a player can make a better store and perform more tasks than his or her rivals, he or she wins.

The game is available onRob Goldstone, whom he met during the 2013 Miss Universe pageant the Trumps held in Moscow. Goldstone told the AP on Monday that he tapped Trump Jr. for the meet with Veselnitskaya at the behest of his client, Russian singer Emin Agalarov. Agalarov’s father Aras is an oligarch whom the Washington Post reported last year “served as a liaison between Trump and the Russian leader” Vladimir Putin for the pageant, which the elder Agalarov and a group of investors underwrote.

During the 2013 beauty pageant, Emin Agalarov got Trump to make a cameo appearance in a pageant-themed music video.

The day that Trump Jr., Kushner, and Manafort met with Veselnitskaya, Trump tweeted a reference to Clinton’s 33,000 missing emails, which the following month he would publicly implore Russia “to find


the 30,000 emails that are missing.”

Meanwhile, the House is not the only venue trying to learn what happened at the June 9 parley.

“We’re trying to be able to get further details” on the meeting, Oklahoma Republican James Lankford, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating the Trump-Russia question, told NPR on Monday. His GOP colleague on the panel, Susan Collins of Maine, said she wants all three Trump-campaign attendees queried about it.

Lankford added that Kushner disclosed the meeting with Veselnitskaya in his security clearance form, but Warner declined to say whether the committee knew the meeting took place before it was publicly reported. The vice chairman also declined to say whether the committee had already reached out to Trump Jr., or if the committee was aware ofset a precedent, she said.

Mr O'Keefe urged the judiciary to "draw a line in the sand" around the harm caused by alcohol.

In a rousing, and at times, teary speech, he said in his 40 years as a social worker he picked up the pieces of alcohol-related harm on a daily basis, urging authority chair Judge Kevin Kelly to be "courageous" in his decision-making.

Takitimu District Māori Council chair and Flaxmere kaumatua Des Ratima said it was morally and ethically wrong to have three bottle stores in such a small community.

Their presence "normalised" alcohol for young people, he said.

Mr Ratima almost didn't get a chance to speak at all.

Before the hearing began, the lawyer for the owners of Flaxmere Liquor, Previnder Kaur argued Mr Ratima didn't qualify to give evidence


Sri Lanka A 288/3: Century by Kaushal Silva

Sep 11, 2010 3:44:41 PM - yahoo.com

An unbeaten century by former Thomian opener Kaushal Silva helped Sri Lanka A to make 288 for 3 at close in a rain curtailed third day of their first unofficial Test against Pakistan A continued at Galle International Stadium today.Towards the end of a 107-102 Celtics win over the Clippers, fans spent the most of the second half chanting for Pierce to come back in the game. With 19.8 seconds left, Clippers head coach Doc Rivers finally reinserted Pierce -- who had been on the bench since the first quarter -- and TD Garden went nuts.

With the game out of reach, the Celtics legend took a deep 3-pointer in front of Isaiah Thomas, and drained it.

The Garden erupted.

A fitting moment by Pierce, knocking down the final shot of the game, just like he's done dozens of times throughout his 15 years with the Celtics.

"It was tough, man," Pierce said on having to sit throughout most of the game. "The fans are awesome. These are the best fans


shot."

During the game, the home team gave their fans plenty to cheer about. Behind Thomas' 13 first-quarter points, the Celtics leaped out to a quick start by grabbing a 15-point lead.

Blake Griffin and Jamal Crawford both led their team with 23 points, Raymond Felton added 16 off the bench and DeAndre Jordan grabbed a game-high 16 boards.

The Clippers found their offensive momentum in the second quarter by cutting their deficit to two points before the Celtics went on an 11-2 run in less than two minutes. Horford, Crowder and Thomas all drained three consecutive 3-pointers and Smart followed that up with a put-back layup to push their lead to 11.

Throughout the second half, the C's kept their opponent at bay -- grasping a double-digit lead through most ofthe final frame.

After the game, Celtics fans stuck around and doused Pierce with another standing ovation as the former Celtics captain waved one last final time before he walked towards center court and kissed the logo.

It was Pierce's way of saying goodbye on last time.

"That was kind of pre-planned, I know I wanted to give Lucky one last kiss," Pierce said. "Lucky's been through it all with me, the ups and downs, even helped me out on a couple occasions. It was the last time I'm gonna touch this floor as a player. I'm sure I'll be back as a fan but as a player that was my last time so I kissed the floor goodbye."

Game Notes:
With the win, the C's stretch their winning streak to seven games


before heading on the road to face the Kings in Sacramento on Wednesday night. Celtics remain 2.5 games ahead of the Wizards and Raptors for second place and only two game behind of the first-place Cavaliers. Sunday was Paul Pierce's last game in Boston which happened to be on the same day he played his first as a Celtic 18-years ago [Febuary 5, 1999].which promises of “exquisite product, women empowerment, poverty alleviation and sustainability.”

Women Weave today empowers hundreds of women weavers and plays a pivotal role in preserving the quintessential Indian style of weaving cloth. There are various projects under Women Weave, including The Handloom School which provides non-traditional education for students who have traditional weaving skills but no access to a conventional academic education. Sally aims to provide cutting edge training to students of her school so that they sustain the art of handloom weaving and rekindle the dying Indian tradition.

Sally graduated in political science from Stanford University before moving to India from the US in 1966 after she married Richard Holkar, the son of the erstwhile Holkar Maharaja of Indore.

Sally began really small by supporting women weavers when she


such talented and hardworking individuals but also illiterate and a prey to child marriage and domestic abuse. Weave women has kept the fuel lighting in so many houses and is weaving the dreams of the all these mothers who only wish to give their kids a better life and the best opportunities. As the co-founder of Rehwa Society in 1978 and then Women Weave in 2003, Sally has brought smiles to hundreds of women in the marginalized sections of Maheshwar, to begin with, and other parts of the country through partner NGOs.

She also successfully runs The Handloom School, where young people are taught about the intricacies of handloom industry.

Fashion Industry changes so rapidly that it becomes very difficult to crack a successful pattern for success and keep onHeathrow Airport security USB on Queen found on street

AUSB stick containing confidential details about Heathrow security— including the route the Queen takes when flying — has been found in a London street. Britain’s biggest airport has launched an investigation into the leak amid fears data on the device could have been shared on the dark web, reports The Sun.

The shocking leak was revealed by the Sunday Mirror, which reports that the memory stick contained maps, videos and documents at a time when the UK terror threat is at severe.

Files are said to have revealed the route the queen takes when using the airport, as well as the extra security put in place to keep her safe, timetables of guards’ patrols and the ID needed to access restricted areas.


led to concurrent long-term sentences on the drug charges, the longest being a custodial period of 240 months, with a consecutive mandatory term of 60 months to follow on the firearm counts.  Lewis' objections on appeal are limited to his three claims that certain evidence should not have been admitted at trial (claims that he had advanced in two pretrial motions to suppress and in a motion in limine filed on the day of trial):

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1. evidence obtained from the search of the car driven by Davis, in which Lewis was a passenger at the time of their arrest,

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2.  Lewis' statements made during an interview by a law enforcement officer on the day after his arrest and

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A group of nationalist activists has succeeded in infiltrating radical leftist groups, and exposed how extreme leftist activist Ezra Nawi passes information on Palestinian Arabs interested in selling land to Jews and has them executed by the Palestinian Authority (PA).

The PA has long outlawed the sale of land to Jews in Judea and Samaria, and has made no secret of its position of executing Arab sellers. Nawi admitted he knew that by passing the Arabs' names to the PA he was handing them a death sentence.

The expose regarding Nawi's role in it all was revealed by Channel 2 on Thursday, and is to be aired


as an investigative piece in full on Friday in the channel's TV show "Uvda."

Nawi, who is mostly active in the southern Har Hevron region of Judea, was born in Jerusalem to Jewish immigrants from Iraq, and is a fluent Arabic speaker.

He was arrested several times in the past, including for assaulting police officers, and also served half a year in jail for statutory rape over his sexual relations with a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in the early 1990s. He has also been revealed to be a supporter of Hamas.

In recent months intrepid right-wing activists managed to have planted agents infiltrate the radical leftist circles and follow Nawi's activities on the ground, without him being aware. One of the agents was even able to get very close to Nawi.

The plantedagent managed to record Nawi giving testimony as to how he takes the names of Palestinians who want to sell land to Jews and hands them over to the PA Security Forces, fully aware of the bitter fate in store for them.

"I give them directly to the Palestinian security services," Nawi was caught on camera saying.

When asked what the PA Security Forces do with the Arab sellers, he responded, "they catch them, and kill them."

In response to the report, Nawi said in a statement, "the broadcast of this piece is part of the effort to harm my activities and the activities of my friends by the side of the Palestinian population in southern Har Hevron. It isn't I who set a trap for the land seller. The opposite


St. George team competes in world championship robotics competition

In this file photo, robotics team the PrestidigiTaters compete in the Utah State FIRST Tech Challenge Championship, date not specified. | Photo courtesy of Dixie State University, St. George News

ST. GEORGE — A team composed of six teens from St. George high schools competed successfully in a world championship robotics competition over the weekend.

The PrestidigiTaters’ robot is prepared for action, date and location not specified. | Photo courtesy of the PrestidigiTaters, St. George News

The team, known as the PrestidigiTaters, competed in Houston, Texas, Friday and Saturday in the “FIRST Tech Challenge,” a league in the “First” program developed by famed engineer Dean Kamen to inspire young people’s interest and participation in science and technology.

“We finished 17th out of 64 teamsin our division,” Jay Sneddon, the team’s assistant coach, said. “Teams from all over the world were here, so we’re pretty proud of what our kids got done.”

The team’s name, the PrestidigiTaters, is a play on the word prestidigitation, meaning finger magic, and potatoes, the team members’ favorite food. They dressed the part as magicians with top hats and capes and all sorts of spud-inspired paraphernalia.

The PrestidigiTaters joined another team from Park City as first-time contestants from Utah for their division.

The team has achieved many victories since competition season began in January, including becoming Utah State Champions before taking sixth place out of 73 teams at the West Super Regionals in Tacoma, Washington, which included competitors from 14 western states.

Members of the PrestidigiTaters meet with other teams at


In 1971, artist Chris Burden got a friend to shoot him in the
arm with a rifle. The filming of this action made it known he would put himself
in danger to prove his artistic dedication. Later he was recorded lying face
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enough to be photographed with motor revved, then shoved back inside the
garage.(http://www.theartstory.org/artist-burden-chris.htm)Dramatic CCTV footage has emerged of one of a series of arrests across London, in which counter-terror police are seen tackling a suspect on the upmarket Westbourne Grove in west London.The black-and-white footage, captured by the 65 & King bar and obtained by ITV News, shows a number of officers wrestle to the ground the 28-year-old British man, of Azerbaijani origin, outside the Planet Organic store around 7pm last night.Once they've got him down, four cars swoop in.It formed part of an operation to simultaneously detain a group of suspected Islamist terrorists amid fears an attack similar to the Kenyan mall atrocity had been planned on British soil.At the same time as the Westbourne Grove seige, armed police fired special ammunition - designed to breach doors or burst


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maybe Cactus
Country). Another western is due out from there, Deadly Duel, but don’t know if
it’s available yet. Sidewinder
series, entitled Nest of Vipers.

Phil Dunlap

AmazonEncore just published the fifth book in the Marshal
Piedmont Kelly series, Apache Lawman. It continues the series started by Avalon
Books. It is available in Trade paper and ebook formats from Amazon only. My
next in the Cotton Burke series is Cotton's Devil from Berkley. It debuts
January 1.

And of
course, my story in Six Guns and Slay Bells, and my part in Wolf Creek

Keith Souter

Medical Meddlers, Mediums and Magicians - the Victorian age
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area
of the settlement known as Wolf Creek, weren't any different from the ones he
had visited elsewhere, with one or two exceptions.

The
place he was in at the moment, Asa's Saloon, was one of those exceptions. It
was owned by a black man, something you didn't see every day. Many of the
clientele were black as well, but not all—there were a handful of Mexicans and
a few white men who looked down on their luck. Not the sort of place Laird
would normally choose to drink in, but he wasn’t really there to drink. He was
there to do a little business with Asa Pepper. That business wasn't concluded
yet, but Laird thought he had made a good start on it.

Without
saying good night to anyone – there wasn't anyone in here that he would wantto
strike up a social conversation with, as Asa’s customers tended to be the dregs
of the town – Laird left the saloon. He paused on the boardwalk just outside to
take a deep breath of the night air and clear some of the saloon fumes from his
lungs. He was about to head toward the Imperial Hotel, ready to turn in for the
night, when an overpowering urge struck him. He turned the other way, toward
the nearby alley, and started fumbling with the buttons of his fly.

Damn,
he told himself, he wasn't old enough to be plagued like this. He ought to have
a few years left, at least, before he started having to hurry these things or
else he'd piss his britches.

The
darkness of the alley folded around him. He got himself set, ready to


of orange flame, there and then gone,
and as it lit up the alley something smashed into Laird's back, a hammer-blow
almost perfectly centered between his shoulder blades. It drove him forward off
his feet. His face smashed into the hard-packed dirt of the alley floor. A
fierce pain expanded through him, followed by an even more terrifying numbness.
In that brief moment while Laird's muscles still worked, he managed to roll
onto his back. Dying in an alley behind a saloon was bad enough. Dying with his
face in the dirt and shit and trash of that alley was worse.

Laird tried and failed to draw air into his
lungs. Everything was slipping away from him, and he wished he could breathe in
that heady saloon fragrance once again, just one more time, just . . .

Hereand scope of his employment because of the "exclusive remedy" provisions of A.R.S. §§ 23-1022 and 906(A).
This case arises out of an industrial injury sustained by Harold Henry on December 21, 1982. Mr. Henry filed a claim for worker's compensation benefits through his employer, Mardian Construction Company, which was accepted and compensation paid.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry brought suit against Western Electric Company, the owner of the job site where the injury occurred, as an alleged third party tortfeasor. Subsequently, on December 24, 1984, Henry's wife, the petitioner herein, filed suit against Mardian for loss of her husband's consortium and mental anguish caused by Mardian's alleged negligence in failing to provide a safe work place for her husband. Mardian filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings, pursuant to


P.2d 412 (1976) the court was faced with an action by parents for the wrongful death of their son against the alleged negligent employer. While specifically noting that the action for wrongful death was "an original and distinct claim for damages" personal to the parents, the court nevertheless held that this separate cause of action was precluded by reasons of the exclusivity language of A.R.S. § 23-906; a unanimous Supreme Court stated:
In the instant case, decedent did not reject the provisions of Arizona's Workmen's Compensation Law. He thereby elected to settle for compensation, giving up the right to sue his employer. The parents' rights to sue were determined by the decedent's decision to accept the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act. [citation omitted].
See also Hills v. Salt RiverPages

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

It's my burtday!!

Bernadette might be the sweetest sight to see today as we celebrate 2 years of her life.
When Mike walked into her room this morning, she was just sitting up in her crib announcing, "It's my burtday!!" I am thoroughly impressed with the fact that she always remembers how old she is turning when you ask her. Naomi still has to check with me sometimes when people ask her.

The highlight of the day was the cake that I managed to mash together. Every time I asked her what she wanted for her birthday for the past few weeks, the response was universally "my cake". So here it is, in the poorly-made flesh. It's a castle cake in case you were still sitting and wondering.

She


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11, August 2017: Manipal Hospitals, Bengaluru made its way into the record books as it organized a Facebook Live Video Discussion with the most number of doctors covering the most of the health topics in the least amount of time, on July 20, 2017. The event was held with an intention to create awareness about the symptoms related to various chronic diseases plaguing our society, such as Heart Disease, Diabetes, Cancer, and other ailments related to kidney disorders, depression, blood related disorders, etc. The event got its mention in the prestigious Asia Book of Records for being the lengthiest Facebook Live Chat by most number of doctors ever, covering the most number of health topics in a record time. Dr. Ajay Bakshi, MD, and CEO, ManipalUpdated 1:45 p.m. Eastern with comment from the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration.

WASHINGTON — NASA announced Oct. 16 that it has hired Doug Loverro, a former Defense Department official responsible for space policy, to lead its human spaceflight programs.

NASA said that it selected Loverro to be the next associate administrator for human exploration and operations, more than three months after the agency reassigned Bill Gerstenmaier to a senior advisor position. Ken Bowersox, who had been acting associate administrator since that reassignment, will return to his prior position as deputy associate administrator.

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and bugfixes. Bugs were fixed in kernel mode drivers, and a better USB driver was added. Registry support has been greatly improved by a library (cmlib) shared by the boot loader and the kernel to handle binary registry hives. More fixes in the Win32 subsystem and user mode DLLs. A boot video driver and a splash screen were added.

Release Notes: This release's main feature is the networking
ability. It's the first release where it is
possible to browse the Web or share files via
Samba-TNG. The kernel, drivers, applications,
control panel applets, Win32 subsystem, and boot
loader were changed, improved, and fixed.wrongdoing.

1MDB, founded by Najib in 2009, is being investigated by at least six countries for money laundering and corruption.

The multibillion-dollar fraud at the fund led to Najib’s shocking electoral defeat last May and ushered in the country’s first change of power since independence from Britain in 1957.

Within two months of the vote, the deposed leader was barred from leaving Malaysia and arrested.

On Wednesday, Najib faced the first of several trials over the alleged looting of 1MDB.

The 65-year-old pleaded not guilty to the three counts each of criminal breach of trust and money laundering, and one count of abuse of power. They relate to suspected transfers totalling 42 million ringgit ($10.3m) to his bank account from SRC International, a former 1MDB unit.


ball.

Generously dust a cotton towel with flour and wheat bran. Gently flip the dough onto towel so it's resting seam side down and generously dust dough ball with flour and bran. Cover with a second towel and let dough rise for about 2 hours.

15 or 20 minutes before the dough is ready, preheat oven to 450 degrees and put a heavy lidded pot, such as a cast iron dutch oven, into the oven as it heats.

When ready, carefully turn the dough out of the towel into the heated pot, seam side up. Cover the pot with lid and bake 30 minutes, then remove lid and bake until loaf browns, approximately 15 or 25 minutes more.

How much do you find the flavor of the beer comes through in thewhose an Arcane Warrior/Shapechanger (though shapechanger has been a complete waste, wish I'd held out till I found Spirit Healer) mage with near complete Primal magic (missing only Petrify and the last Fire spell).

When the fight started, I switched off tactics and had all my character hold position, then immediately dropped a blizard and a tempest ontop of the brood mother, then had Morrigan Vulnerability hex it. Alistar ran around 'tanking' tentacles and hurlocs. Leilana shot at the Brood Mother, and MOrrigana and I DPS'd on her as well. Alistar mostly chugged potions to stay up, as I had a large excess of Greater Healing at this point (around 30, I got craft happy). I regularly chunked fireballs ontop of the brood mother anytime her tentacles were near


Passiflora is a genus of beautiful plants commonly known as the passion flowers or passion vines. The most famous representative of this group is the passion fruit, favorite to many. Passiflora contains around 530 species with native ranges throughout the southern United States and Mexico as well as Central and South America. In addition, there are 24 species of Passiflora endemic to the Old World. In China, the native Passiflora exhibit high levels of endemism, seldomly display overlapping distributions, and are in general extremely rare. A new study published in the open access journal Phytokeys provides a morphological revision of the beautiful Chinese species Passiflora kwangtungensis and raises concerns towards its current conservation status.

Passiflora kwangtungensis is a critically endangered Chinese species known from the Guangxi, Guangdong, and JiangxiQ:

Why did Hitler attack the Soviet Union when he was still busy fighting the United Kingdom?

During World War 2, Hitler was fighting a war with Great Britain, but while fighting that war, he attacked the Soviet Union. Everyone knows that having to fight on two opposite fronts at once is bad... and it's also a well known fact that every European country which tried to invade Russia has always been thoroughly beaten.
So apart from the standard "he was a crazy guy bent on taking over the world" answer, what was the rationale behind launching a full-scale attack on the Soviet Union while still actively fighting the British Empire?

A:

I'm not sure there is any direct evidence that it was strategically a bad idea. Strategically it made sense to attack


the Soviet Union while they were weak and unprepared for war. Hitler knew that as he made progress on the Western front that Stalin grew more and more nervous every day about the growing power of Nazi Germany.
What must be remembered is that Hitler almost won the war with the Soviet Union.  Hitler felt the army was not moving fast enough towards Moscow. If Hitler's commanders had done what Hitler had wanted, which was rush as fast to Moscow as possible, then it is possible the Soviet Union would have fallen without time to prepare a massive infantry army. Germany's army was also not prepared for fighting in cold weather. It was not expected that the Soviet Union was even close to capable of fighting back. TheSoviet Union's army was in shambles throughout the entire war. It was ill-equipped and all it had to offer was quantity over quality.
The combination of the cold, unexpected resistance and the amount of time it was taking to get to Moscow because of cold weather and resistance was setting back Germany. The whole strategy was to get in and occupy Moscow and take the leadership. It took about six months for the Germans to get nearly to the gates of Moscow, when the tide finally started to turn at Stalingrad. Hitler most importantly underestimated the sheer will of the the country to defend itself no matter how much the cost in blood. The Soviet Union lost a whopping 13.5% of its population to the war.
So in short, strategically


a lot of it made sense at the time. The operation was blundered because the blitzkrieg was not fast enough, the underestimation of the kind of force the Soviet Union could pull together and an underestimation of the cold winter. The plan was also delayed because of setbacks in the Balkans and helping the Italians out where they had failed.
It's hard to find actual strategic proof of what was going on through Hitler's mind and his advisors to take on this risky operation. We do know however that these had been a part of Hitler's plans for years. In my opinion, it was probably thought at the time the odds were in Nazi Germany's favor. In all reality, the Germans had a pretty good chance of winning thethe Hitler - Mannerheim Conversation
In this translation Hitler describes his absolute disbelief of how well armed the Soviet Union was at the beginning of the war.  Hitler describes how German tanks were not well equipped for winter fighting.  He also describes what he calls the weakness of Italy, where the Germans helped them in North Africa and in Greece and Albania.
Directly quoting Hitler on his fear of an early war with Russia and the loss of valuable petroleum wells in Romania.

This all naturally was inevitable, you see. I had a conversation with
  Molotov [Soviet Minister] at that time, and it was absolutely certain
  that Molotov departed with the decision to begin a war, and I
  dismissed the decision to begin a war, and


to attack the Soviet Union include:

Because having a massive military power right next door when you're fighting a war a thousand kilometers away made Germany nervous.
To exterminate Communism
Capture oil fields and other strategic resources.
Lebensraum, or "living space", a core ideology of the Nazis.

A:

Germany always wanted to attack and defeat Soviet Russia. There is an ideological battle between fascism and communism. Germany really thought that Russia was the enemy of the world. Some Germans believed, such was the evil of communism, that when they started the eastern front, the English would come over to their side to fight communism rather than continue fighting.
The western front was secure. Invasion of England was off the cards, but equally a counter invasion by England was thought unlikely, and at that time itwas not possible for England to counter-attack in Europe. There was some expectation that the English would make a deal for the status quo in the west and not fight on further.
Russia was getting stronger. Every month delayed saw Russia prepare better, building more tanks, more airplanes and stockpiling arms. Any delay would have made the war in the east more difficult. Russia knew a major war was coming, either with Germany or Japan, and it had been working as fast as it could to rebuild its armies.
Germany expected the war in the East to be quick and decisive, just as the wars in central Europe and the West had been. They did not expect to be pulled deep into Russia and into the winter of Russia. They


coolers in Beresford before they left for the fifth stop in Lennox. Unfortunately, they never made it there.
[¶ 7] As they and three other motorcyclists raced north on Highway 17 at speeds estimated between 75 and 100 miles per hour, Jonathan Wildeboer was traveling south on the same highway, preparing to make a left turn onto Lincoln County Road # 128. He turned his pickup in front of the Borgheiinck motorcycle. The subsequent crash and explosion of the pickup's gas tank claimed the lives of Borgheiinck and Kiousis. Wildeboer suffered severe and disfiguring second and third degree burns over his entire body.
[¶ 8] Jonathan Wildeboer's parents sued the SDJCC and the five bars (Bars) for negligence in organizing, sponsoring, and promoting the poker run.[3] They did not sueYiliang "Doublelift" Peng has briefly returned from his competitive hiatus to join his fellow NA LCS players at All-Stars Barcelona 2016 — but China's Wei "We1less" Zhen gave him a cold reception, knocking the fan-favorite AD carry out of the 1v1 tournament in the first round.

Speaking to theScore esports' Lisa Doan on the event's second day, Doublelift talked about playing alongside some of NA's best players and described how We1less got in his head by making fun of his Twitch pick just prior to their match.

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Dr. McFadden, world renowned archeologist and professor of archeology at Harvard University, has been reported missing.

KEEEPER INFORMATION
Dr. McFadden is in fact the serpent man SsRuahh, who has adopted this form to research and locate the Nameless City of legend. However, his investigations into the mysterious and occult have attracted the attention of several government agencies; Majestic-12 NRO Delta agents, who have been overtly tailing him for weeks, hoping to scare him into changing his line of work, and Delta Green A-cell, who have been discretely monitoring his progress and assessing his potential use within the agency.
Dr. McFadden is sure that the government agents following him are on to his secret identity and has decided that the time has come to move on. He has fled to Oman, tolocate the Nameless City. His plan is to resurrect the hibernating Reptile Men high priests, the foundation of his reptilian army.

A-Cell Information
Intelligence reports that Dr. McFadden purchased a one way ticket for Oman via Expedia.com. He left Logan International, to Muscat, Oman. Also purchased are a rental car from Muscat to Salalah and a guided day tour to Ubar from Salalah via LOST CITY TOURS.

Tracking the Doctor
Landing in Muscat, the agents can ask the car rental desk clerk in the airport for information regarding Dr McFadden. Successful fast talk rolls will reveal that the doctor rented a small sedan to be dropped off at the car rental office in Salalah.
Salalah is about 8 hours drive south west from Muscat. Flights from Muscat to Salalah take about 2 hours


and are available via Oman Airlines, leaving every 5 hours.
The car rental clerk at the Salalah airport will report with a successful fast talk roll that Dr. McFadden dropped off the car and was picked up by a LOST CITY TOURS 4 wheel drive bus along with 3 other men.
The tour guide used is difficult to locate in this crowded desert town; the streets are small, crowded with crazy taxi cabs, merchants and winding, unnamed roads. Once located (a successful Party LUCK roll), the tour company will report, if shown a photo of the Doctor, that the tour bus was stolen by the doctor and 3 unknown men during the tour of the Lost City. While the group was taking the foot tour of Ubar, Dr. McFadden andbest option. After three hours of flying, the agents are able to spot the stolen bus with a party LUCK roll each subsequent 30 minutes of searching. Abandoned and stuck in the sand, the bus sits 100 miles north of Ubar and about 20 miles south of the Saudi border. Spot Hidden rolls will find the men walking through the sand somewhere near the Saudi Arabian border. The 3 Arabic men with the doctor will open fire on the agents and the airplane on sight, the Doctor will flee into the desert night and hide.
Providing the agents survive the plane crash (they were flying very low) and the subsequent gunfight, the Doctor will come out of hiding and frantically plead with them to spare his life. Once the


will come across the ruins of an ancient village. The doctor will be ecstatic, exclaiming that he has found it at last, the Nameless City of legend!
The doctor will begin frantically scouring the ruins searching for the entrance to the temple cavern.

RAISING THE DEAD
Once Dr. McFadden / SsRuahh locates the temple entrance, he will disappear into the cave. Following him down into the steeply winding, descending cave, flashlights or torches reveal intricate murals on the walls. The paintings depict the rise and fall of some kind of degenerate race of crocodile men.
Deeper still the group will come to the hall of the high priests. The walls are lined with 23 polished wooden coffins with glass lids. Inside each is the hibernating / mummified body of a reptile man2                                  A-0409-15T1
The Division of Child Protection and Permanency (Division) first

became involved with the couple in March 2012, when it received a

referral that Upton arrived at school with facial injuries.                The

Division's investigation determined that the allegations of abuse

or neglect were unfounded because Upton fell off his bike.

     In October 2012, the Division received another referral that

Upton arrived at school with two scratches on his cheek.


      The

Division's investigation disclosed that the scratches were the

result of Upton running away from Susan.         A short time later, the

police were able to locate Upton and he was returned to Susan's

care.   The Division determined that the allegation of physical

abuse was unfounded.

     A third referral was made in November 2012, when the school

nurse reported concerns about the type of supervision that Upton

received   at   home    because   he   arrived   at   school   with    facial

scratches.      The    Division's   investigation     disclosed  that     the

injuries occurred when Upton, while accompanied by Susan, hit the

side of his face when jumping on stairs.          Of more concern to the

Division was finding that Upton had a habit of leaving home without

with the family and the incidents thereafter, which gave rise to
this appeal.     A few months prior to the Division's initial
involvement, Harry was partially paralyzed and substantially
disabled due to a stroke and heart attack, respectively. He passed
away in March 2014.


       An anonymous person

informed the Division that Upton was roaming the neighborhood

streets alone at night, most often past midnight, and stealing

mail from mailboxes and spraying an unknown solvent on cars.

Jersey City police made another referral that Upton ran away from

home and returned, and that he has a history of running away.

During the Division's subsequent investigation, Susan acknowledged

that she could not sleep or go to the bathroom without Upton

                                       4               in an escalation

of his highly harmful behavior.            Upton continued to run away from

home and interact with strangers, he was aggressive towards others,

broke his leg from a car accident, was allegedly sexually abused,

and threatened suicide.          Judge DeCastro furthered noted that Susan

ignored the substantial risk of leaving Upton with her husband,

who       could   not   supervise   the   child   because   he   was   primarily

bedridden, amounted to "wanton and reckless" conduct because Susan

was aware of Upton's dangerous conduct, thereby breaching her

"minimum duty of care."


that Dr. Maddux did

not conclude she was the cause of Upton's behavioral issues, and

her rejection of Dr. Maddux's parenting strategy for her own

methods, is a clear indication that she was not grossly negligent.

She contends that leaving Upton in Harry's care for two hours

while she sought urgent medical care for her arm does not establish

that she was grossly negligent or reckless, or placed him in

imminent and substantial danger.           She further argues that her

decision not to seek emergency attention concerning Upton's threat

to kill himself, did not create a substantial risk of harm because

she reasonably perceived that the threat was not legitimate.

     Here, the record amply supports Judge DeCastro's findings.

She found that despite Susan's admission of beingWednesday, January 27, 2010

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has suggested cutting adult education (among a ton of other things) in Arizona. This means adult literacy programs and funding for GEDs. In case you don't know, a GED is the degree you are able to get if you were unable to complete a traditional high school diploma for whatever reason (pregnancy, abuse, financial hardship, family problems, etc.)

According to the Arizona Association for Lifelong Learning, "18% of all high school diplomas issued in Arizona in 2008 were GED diplomas. There are currently 795,970 adults in Arizona without a high school credential, which makes it nearly impossible to get a job or go to further training."

They also stress that "individuals with a high school diploma earn on mean $8,000 more per year


It’s been a big few weeks for the 13 cyclists making up the Great Britain Transplant Cycling team. We are off to Durban, South Africa on 26th July as part of the larger UK team to compete in the 19th World Transplant Games , an event described as the Olympics for athletes who have had a life supporting organ transplant. The cycling team consists of six women and seven men between the ages of 17 and 62 and comprises a smorgasbord of transplants, namely 1 heart, 1 bone marrow, 4 livers and 7 kidneys. Frankly, without a transplant and immunosuppressant therapy to stop us from rejecting, none of us would be alive, let alone able to race bikes. This year, the team is being sponsored and supported bygive care and support to 7,000 members of the community and their families. They provide services to: Older people People with mental health needs Holocaust survivors People with dementia People who care for others who have…

The Muslim Community Helpline is a national organisation for women, men, youth and children which was launched in 2007. We began our work as the nationwide Muslim Women’s Helpline (1987) but changed status to reflect the growing number of calls from all members of the community. We are here to help and support, whatever your…

Pecan is a Christian organisation started by local churches in Peckham. They help people who face seemingly impassable barriers to find a way through, to re-write their futures, to flourish. They work with the most vulnerable people in the


Jaina ran through endless red-lit corridors, despair flashing through the force. She could feel the pain of hundreds of
life forms being murdered; her heart ached because she knew she would never make it in time.

Finally she burst through the doors to the bridge of the Ralroost. She froze in shock at the sight of officers hanging dead
over their panels, some with blasters in their hands, but the lakes of blood around them left no doubt they were dead.

Before she could overbear the trauma of the massacre, a strong hand grabbed her chin hard, lifted her up and pressed her against
a wall of the bridge.

She could hardly breathe and started to panic.

The person holding her was a Vong, his scarred face smiling evil.
“Welcome little Jeedai. We knew you wouldher and before she could react, the Vong stepped on her lightsaber hand.

A cruel smile creped across his face as he pushed his amphistaff deep into her body.

Jaina screamed but no words escaped her throat and she fell back, deeper and deeper.

Lights exploded in front of her eyes as she felt herself slipping away.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Jaina woke up with a cry and sat straight in her bed, sweating and shaking heavily. Still sobbing, she tried to steady her
breath.

Calm down, Jaina, don’t cry. It was just a dream.
She slung her arms tight around herself and just wished she could push the memory of her vision away.
But she could still see the dead bodies, laying over consoles and Admiral Kre’fey’s lifeless eyes, looking up
at her.
She had failed them all.

Calm down, just don’t


wake Anni up. It was just a dream, just a dream.

She covered her eyes with her hands and fell back on her bed, tears streaming down her face and through her hands.

Just a dream, a dream…
But she knew it was a lie.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Jaina stood in front of her family’s quarters. She was allowed to have meal there if she wanted. Her brothers even lived
there with her parents, but Jaina preferred her room with Anni. Although it was small, it had become home to her during the
long and cruel weeks of war. At least more home than Coruscant had ever been.

Anakin opened the door. “Hi Jaina! Nice to see you again!”
But he couldn’t shut himself off the force soon enough for her not to feel his shock.

Jaina’s brown eyes werered-rendered, with big shadows underneath them and she was terribly pale.
She barely managed a nod and entered before Anakin had the chance to ask her about her appearance.

She made her way to the kitchen but stopped immediately at the sight of Jacen, her twin. He looked as pale as her, like he
also hadn’t slept at all.

Please, don’t tell me he knows about it. She thought scared. She knew he had felt all her mood swifts through
their twinbond the past month but hoped her hadn’t seen what she had this night.
But Jacen just looked at her, his softly eyes saying: I’m sorry. Whatever it is, I really wish you didn’t have
to go through it.

Jaina stared back and hoped she could do anything for him. She reached with the force


United in driving seat, but still hope for City

Either Manchester United have virtually wrapped the Premier League title or Manchester City have them exactly where they want them after a weekend that saw the gap grow to nine points.

Champions City's draws with Queens Park Rangers and Liverpool in a week in which United ground out narrow wins against Southampton and Fulham left Alex Ferguson's side in the clear with 13 matches remaining.

City manager Roberto Mancini said the race is far from over after his side's 2-2 draw with Liverpool and while straws are possibly being clutched by the Italian there is plenty of recent evidence backing up his optimism.

Last year City were in even worse shape, trailing by eight points with six games remaining, only for an uncharacteristicUnited wobble to allow their neighbours to snatch the title with almost the final kick of the season.

The bitter memory of that gripping finale, in which United thought they had won the title only for City's Sergio Aguero to score deep into stoppage time at home to Queens Park Rangers, means United will be taking nothing for granted.

They will also be acutely aware that one bad result can lead to two, or three, as happened last season.

A 1-0 defeat in April last year, was followed by a 4-4 draw at home to Everton, having led 4-2, and a 1-0 defeat at City which effectively took matters out of their hands.

United face Everton at home again this weekend before, then an FA Cup tie against Reading before a run


of three comfortable looking league fixtures leading up to a potentially decisive home clash with City on April 6.

Wedged into that schedule are home and away battles matches with Real Madrid in the Champions League last 16, whereas City are now free of European distractions.

Mancini will hope his side have made inroads into the deficit before they face United at Old Trafford.

"There have been plenty of times in the past when gaps like this have been made up," a defiant Mancini said.

"There is still a long way to go and there is Champions League and FA Cup to take into account plus 13 games so a lot can happen during that time.

"Our target is to get into the Manchester derby in April just two or three points behind."

FuellingCity's hopes will be some spectacular Premier League blow-outs.

Manchester United were 12 points clear in March 1998 but were overhauled by Arsenal and that situation was reversed in 2003 when Arsenal frittered away an eight-point lead in March.

Liverpool were eight points clear of United in January 2009 but by the time the two sides met in mid-March they had slipped seven points behind.

City won their last six matches to win the title last season and there are still plenty of points to play for but keeper Joe Hart knows they have left themselves little margin for error.

"Unfortunately it's a big gap and it's getting too big for our liking but we've got to move forward," he told radio station Talk Sport on Monday.

"We've put ourselves in a worse


became the story of two young rookie reporters who exposed and took down a President.

Try to think of another major story in your lifetime wherein the reporters themselves took center stage and, in the process, nearly eclipsed their own work.

One of them, Bob Woodward, expanded his fame. The powers that be permitted him to go on and, with extraordinary access, write books criticizing future Presidents. Woodward became the in-house attack dog. Mr. Limited Hangout.

The other reporter, Carl Bernstein, faded into relative obscurity. Well, he began connecting journalists to the CIA. That wasn’t a smart career move. That was, perhaps, a case of biting the hand that had fed him.

To learn why Richard Nixon was really blown out of the White House, you could begin with the infamous Nazirubber, oil, dyes, pharmaceuticals.

Farben saw itself as a modern version of the old alchemists, transforming one substance into another. It came to believe that, with enough time, it would be able to make anything from anything. It envisioned labs in which basic chemical facts would be changed so that, in practice, elements and compounds would be virtually interchangeable.

This was in line with the Nazi obsession to discover the lost secrets of the mythical Aryan race and then reconstitute it with selective breeding, genetic engineering and, of course, the mass murder of “lesser peoples.”

On one level was the idea of chemical transformations, and on another level was the transformation of the human species.

It was really all one piece. The Nazi ideology was the glue.

It was the picture of scientism,


the philosophy that asserts science should absolutely rule all facets of life. Nazi Germany showed the world what that philosophy looks like in practice. Farben had prisoners shipped from Auschwitz to its nearby facility, where horrendous medical/pharmaceutical experiments were carried out on them.

At the end of World War II, the Farben executives were put on trial and, despite the efforts of Telford Taylor, the chief U.S. prosecutor, the sentences handed out were light.

There was a reason for this. A new world was coming into being, and mega-corporations and cartels were at the heart of it. They would be the engines driving the global economy and pillaging the natural resources of the planet. It was colonialism with a different face, the East India Company running on technology and industrymeans has continued after 1945. And the fronts of devastation have spread.

On the mega-corporate front, the plan for world control remains the Rockefeller template: “free trade.” This plan was advanced, ceaselessly, for 40 years until, on Jan. 1, 1995, the World Trade Organization was fully formed and took charge of the criminal rules of global commerce: the crowning moment.

However, back in the early 1970s, the whole operation had almost been derailed. One man, a crook, a President, a liar, an insecure parody of a head of state, Richard Nixon, went off script. He really went off script.

In an effort to bolster U.S. companies and protect them from foreign competition inside the United States, Nixon began erecting tariffs on a range of goods imported into the United States.

If this


Nixon economic plan spread to other countries, the entire global program to install “free trade” and mega-corporate emperors on their thrones for a thousand years could crash and burn.

Nixon was a Rockefeller man. He was owned by them. He’d been rescued from financial ruin by The Family, and now he was in the White House undermining their greatest dream. You can’t overstate the degree of the betrayal from the Rockefeller point of view. You simply can’t.

Something had to be done. The President had to go. This was the real motivation behind Watergate. This was the real op. Yes, there were sub-motives and smaller contexts, as in any major op, but the prime mover was: Get free trade back on track, and get suitable revenge on the puppet inthe White House who went off the script.

Any historian who overlooks this is an outright fool or a deceiver.

Whether the Watergate break-in was planned to serve the higher goal or was pounced upon, after the fact, as the grand opportunity, is beside the point. It was there, and it was used. It became the starting point for the Washington Post, its publisher, veteran editor and two cub reporters to break Nixon into pieces.

And if the Rockefeller people needed an inside man to report on the deteriorating mental state of the President as he heated up in the pressure cooker, they had Henry Kissinger, who was another Rockefeller operative.

The Washington Post was owned by Katharine Graham, who was herself a very close friend of the Rockefeller family. Years later,


she would be awarded a medal of honor by the University of Chicago, an institution founded by John D. Rockefeller. On her death, a paid heartfelt obituary was inserted in The New York Times by the trustees, faculty and staff of Rockefeller University, where she had served on the University Council.

And she and Nixon already hated each other by the early 1970s.

The managing editor of The Washington Post, Ben Bradlee, was an old hand at writing promotional material, having worked in Europe crafting releases for a CIA front group. A former naval intelligence man, he liked one of his cub reporters, Woodward, who had also worked for the Navy in intelligence.

When Woodward came to Bradlee with a story about a man in a parking garage who was passingThroat was merely a contrivance to allow the story to expand and grow by steps, and to permit Woodward and Bernstein to believe they were peeling layers from an onion.

The man behind the curtain was David Rockefeller.

After the whole scandal had been exposed and Nixon had flown away, in disgrace, from the White House for the last time, Rockefeller addressed a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the European Community (October 1975). He was there to allay their fears about Nixon’s betrayal of the new economic world order. There was really very little he needed to say. Rockefeller had already created (1973) the free-trade Trilateral Commission. A new puppet, Gerald Ford, was in the White House; and Ford had appointed David’s brother, Nelson Rockefeller, as his Vice


President.

David told the European attendees, “Fortunately, there are no signs that these anti-[free] trade measures [of Nixon] are supported by the [Ford] Administration.”

And that was that. The global mega-corporate colossus was back on track.

The temporary rip in the Matrix had been repaired.

On a far lower level of power politics, everyone and his brother was consumed with the contrails of the scandal that had driven away Nixon and his colleagues. People were congratulating each other on the expunging of a corrupt conspiracy from public life.

The real players, of course, were still in place, more powerful than ever. David Rockefeller and his aides were preparing for an even greater coup. They had chosen an obscure man with zero name recognition to be the next President of the United States: Jimmywet behind the ears, eager for advancement, will magically learn of his missteps and demolish him.

–Jon Rappoport

Jon Rappoport The author of an explosive collection, “The Matrix Revealed,” Jon Rappoport was a candidate for a U.S. Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern and other newspapers and magazines in the United States and Europe. Rappoport has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic and creative power to audiences around the world. His blog, No More Fake News, can be read here.

Below is a “Letter to the Editor”

that makes some important observations on what we have become!

This


country is and has been ruled by a shadow government since the beginning!

Below are some examples and explanations!

CLick on each image to enlarge it for reading!

Some further insight into

The Council On Foreign Relations and David Rockefeller –

Information on the Bilderberg Group is below

from the founder, Prince Bernhard

These are only a few of the front groups for the people who rule, known by various names, such as the elite, the illuminati, the shadow government to name a few and their goal is a new world order . A world with no borders, a much smaller total population, one that is easily controlled and ruled by them!

And some final words from one of the descendants of the 13 bloodlines that rule –

and those are facts not bragging points!

Do your ownJerry Boykin is the kind of man you’d want teaching your sons — a good and decent man, an honorable man — a Christian man.

For the past nine years the retired lieutenant general has taught leadership and ethics at Hampden-Sydney College, a highly regarded, all-male school based in Virginia. By many accounts — he is beloved and deeply respected by students.

But Gen. Boykin will not be returning to the classroom this fall. That’s because he tells me he’s been fired.

The man who was one of the original members of Delta Force and once commanded all of the U.S. Army’s Green Berets — the man who served his nation with honor and distinction for more than 36 years — was ousted because of political correctness.

In March, Gen. Boykin delivered


Friday, June 22, 2012

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

My new series of artistic photography features a group of florals I'm working on called Love Letters. The inspiration began with my neighbor's gorgeous garden and the beautiful flowers within. To further inspire me, however, is the story of this delightful couple who lives next door to me.

Earl and June have been married over 60 years now. Their son told me their story. It began when they were very, very young. Earl was 16 and June just 14. Both still in school, but they had fallen in love. They decided they wanted to get married -- but they didn't want to tell their parents just yet. So they eloped for the day. To their parents, they were just having a normal "date".When in reality, they ran off to find a justice of the peace who would marry them. They had their ceremony, and came home, marriage certificate in hand. They each went to their respective houses and continued on with their lives, as if nothing had changed. But they knew in their hearts, their commitment had been sealed.

It wasn't long after, June's mother discovered the truth. If I remember correctly, she found the marriage license June had hidden in her room. Her mother and father had a sit down with June in the living room, and told her quite frankly, "You're a married woman now, you must go live with your husband and be a wife." So Earl and June moved in together and began living as husband and


wife.

Fast forward 60+ years. They're still together. Two children later, grown grandchildren, the passage of long careers for both of them, and they're retired now. They still act like teenagers sometimes. They always speak to everyone with respect and kindness, and they still speak to each other that way too. June's passion is her flowers and her beautiful garden. Earl loves to work in the yard and he also makes the most beautiful hand carved wooden canes in his shop behind his home. It's a joy to watch the two of them, and even more precious is the love, dedication, and commitment this couple has for one another.

This series "Love Letters" features my artistic photographs of June's beautiful blooms. And it features the handwritten text of antique lovetaken at the lake at Cypress Park here in Jackson, TN:

Not. Very. Exciting. While it's a beautiful place to go, the water was extremely muddy (due to flooding not long before I visited), and the water also took on the green of the trees, making everything way to green for my liking in this landscape. I prefer warm, rich oranges, reds, and golden yellows in landscape paintings. Light. I like light...especially the glow of the sun. While it was sunny on this day at the park, my camera was just so overwhelmed with the greens and brown in the water, it didn't pick up the sunny warmth I wanted.

So I went to work and created the work of art below. I call it a "paintograph" - combination of


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— The General Assembly has until Sept. 1 to redraw unconstitutional legislative districts, but no special election in the new districts will be held before next year's spring legislative session, a panel of three federal judges ruled Monday.

Democrats who fought the district lines successfully all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court had hoped to see an election before 2018, but they were pleased that the court set a tight timeline for the new maps. Republican lawmakers had proposed finishing the maps by mid-November.

"Clearly, the courts are frustrated with the General Assembly that they have not redrawn these districts," Gov. Roy Cooper said Tuesday. "They have given them a tight timeline to redraw. People deserve to know what district they're going to be in so they can decideown plans for the court to review. The court has the power to reject the maps and could end up drawing its own.

The legislature, the judges said, has the "right to draw the new districts in the first instance, if it will do so in a timely fashion."

This panel found 19 House and nine Senate districts unconstitutional last year, saying leaders relied too heavily on voters' race to set district lines in 2011. The resulting maps helped the GOP keep its veto-proof advantage in the House and the Senate, a grip Democrats hope to loosen with new maps in place.

Republicans delayed drawing new maps by taking their appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed with the three-judge panel in June that the districts were unconstitutional. The high


Born in Africa to French wildlife photographer parents, Tippi Degr had a most unusual childhood. The young girl grew up in the African desert and developed an uncommon bond with many untamed animals including a 28-year old African elephant named Abu, lion cubs, giraffes, an Ostrich, a mongoose, crocodiles, a baby zebra, a cheetah, giant bullfrogs, and even a snake. Africa was her home for many years and Tippi became friends with the ferocious animals and tribespeople of Namibia. As a young child, the French girl said, “I don't have friends here. Because I never see children. So the animals are my friends.”

Parents Alain Degr and Sylvie Robert documented Tippi's life and relationships with the African wildlife and transformed those moments into captivating books and movies. Tippi ofAfrica, published in 1998, told Tippi's story of she and her parents, and Tippi's close bonds with wild animals made her quite famous. Her mother said, “She was in the mindset of these animals. She believed the animals were her size and her friends. She was using her imagination to live in these different conditions.”

Looking past some fairly obvious and natural parental worries, Tippi had the most amazing upbringing. Not many of us can say that we lived a real life adventure where we rode ostriches in our free time or that our best friend growing up was an African elephant, one of the largest animals to walk the earth! You can see a video of Tippi, below, with some of the animals as well as a trailer


Last month, the Chicago Cubs welcomed back longtime fan favorite and Hall of Fame second baseman, Ryne Sandberg. Sandberg was not only an all-star for the Cubs but was also a very successful minor league manager.

A lot of people thought he was a leading candidate to take over for the Chicago Cubs as their manager when Dale Sveum was fired.

Ultimately the Cubs went in a different direction and thus spelled the end of Sandberg’s stay with the Chicago Cubs and brought him back to his first major league team, the Philadelphia Phillies as their skipper.

The reunion is a special one, not just for Sandberg, but for a lot of a long time faithful Cubs fans (including this one). With this recent return, it makes one think about whatthe field that lead to their ugly exit from the Chicago Cubs.

No one can take away Sosa’s success on the field and the number of highlights and memorable moments he gave all Chicago Cubs fans all around the world. Unfortunately, it is the last moments of his Cubs career that still linger in the minds of most.

Whether it was the corked bat, the steroid allegations, or his unwillingness to play in the final game of the 2004 season and not staying around to thank the Wrigley faithful, all are moments that Sosa is just as known for as he is for all the home runs he hit – if not more so.

As for “Big Z”, the talent was always there – as was the temper. But it was


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It seems like a lifetime ago when the Detroit Lions were 0-16 and the laughing stock of the NFL. Enter Matthew Stafford and Calvin Johnson and a playoff berth in 2011.

However, the last we saw of this Lions team, Drew Brees was slicing them up for 466 yards and three touchdowns for an easy first-round Saints playoff win. Of course, a week before, little used Matt Flynn of the Packers torched the Lions for six touchdown passes in the season finale.

Yes, the 2011 Lions had a lot to be happy about. They finished 10-6 and made the playoffs as a Wild Card team. But a closer look exposed their weakness in the secondary.

Detroit ranked 22nd in the NFL in passing yards per


game and 23rd in points allowed in the passing game. In short, its secondary was a huge weakness.

Many Lions fans were waiting for their team to address secondary needs immediately in the first round of the draft. Instead, Detroit selected OT Riley Reiff as a first-rounder, and in the second round, took WR Oklahoma's Ryan Broyles.

Fear not. The Lions woke up. In rounds three through six, GM Martin Mayhew finally addressed the team's biggest weakness, the secondary. So, should the Lions worry about their secondary in 2012?

Check out our video. Me and lead NFL writer Josh Zerkle a address Detroit's biggest weakness going into 2012. As always, we'd love to hear from you. Are the Lions this year's dark horse candidate to win the Super Bowl? Can theyconcerns over Doris' absence from the August 27 hearing. In light of the concerns, my clients would consider a re-hearing on the guardianship issue." On November 26, 2002, Elizabeth Onstad filed a motion seeking vacation of the order appointing John and Mary Onstad as Doris' guardians and conservators and an order re-opening the proceeding alleging in essence a violation of due process, and asserting she "has priority superior to all other persons to be appointed guardian of her mother," requesting that she be appointed as the guardian for Doris Onstad, and requesting that Northern Capital Trust be appointed as the conservator of the estate of Doris Onstad. On that same day, Elizabeth also filed a petition for removal of John and Mary Onstad as the guardians and conservators,


appointment of herself as guardian, and appointment of Northern Capital Trust as conservator of the estate of Doris Onstad. Elizabeth supported her motion and petition with affidavits of herself and several other individuals. In his response to the motion for reconsideration, counsel for John and Mary Onstad asserted that the issues raised in the motion should have been raised in an appeal.
[¶5] At the outset of a December 19, 2002, hearing on the motion and petition, Judge Dawson stated "it probably would have been better . . . to have had an opportunity to explore more fully both sides of the issue" and that she appreciated the "opportunity to hear more fully both sides." Judge Dawson said she was adhering to her "decision that it wasn't in theMike Eruzione visits Bedford Veterans

Wednesday

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Residents of the Eidth Nourse Rogers Memorial Veteran's Hospital in Bedford were given the gold standard on Tuesday, June 20, when Mike Eruzione, the captain of the United States 1980 Olympic Hockey team, visited the veterans.

"It's an honor to get to meet these folks who defended our country, anything we can do for them is great," Eruzione said.

Eruzione spent the early afternoon walking around the campus of the hospital and meeting with veterans who both lived at the VA as well as veterans who were staying at the VA temporarily. John Oatley, 86, who played hockey at Somerville High School before graduating in 1948, was thrilled to meet Eruzione.

"I've never met him before,


but I sure remember him," Oatley said. "He was a great hockey player and I remember in the Olympics they were positively fantastic. At the time the Russians were considered the best team in the world, but it turned out they were the second best when they played the USA."

Eruzione grew up and still lives in Winthrop and attended Boston University where he was a star hockey player. In 1980 Eruzione was the captain of the men's Olympic hockey team who defeated the heavily-favored Soviet Union team in the semi-finals of the tournament in route to defeating Finland for the gold medal. Eruzione scored the decisive goal in the U.S.'s 4-3 victory over the Soviets, which was dubbed "The Miracle on Ice."

Eruzione currently works for Boston University asa community ambassador. Eruzione mentioned that the military is a big part of his family.

"My father was in the marines and my nephew just finished a tour with the service," Eruzione said. "I also have uncles and other members of my family who served in different branches of the military, it has always been a part of my family."

Guy Spiri, a Framingham resident who spent four years in the United States Air Force, found Eruzione to be very friendly.

"I love hockey, and it was great to meet him because I've seen a lot of his career. It was very fun and he was very enjoyable."

Perhaps no one was more excited to meet Eruzione than Worcester native and Vietnam War veteran Normand Dube. Dube had brought in a framed


photograph of the 1980 U.S. Olympic team that Eruzione signed.

"I wasn't a big hockey fan until the 1960s when Bobby Orr began playing for the Bruins," Dube said. "I remember everything that happened in 1980. I had just gotten home from work and the U.S. was playing Sweden and they tied the game late so I decided to follow the rest of the tournament. Then they played the Soviets and the entire thing blew up. What those guys did was unbelievable."

Dube got to tell his story to Eruzione and the two shook hands while Eruzione signed the framed photo as well as a book Dube had brought that told the story of the Olympic team.

Acting Director of the Bedford VA Ed Koetting released a statement that was thankfulU.S. activist says Egypt police assaulted her

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by USA TODAY

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CAIRO (AP) - The co-founder of U.S.-based anti-war group Code Pink says Egyptian police detained her at the airport when she tried to enter the country and assaulted her, fracturing her shoulder, as they handcuffed her before deporting her.

An Egyptian airport official denied any assault, speaking anonymously because he wasn't authorized to brief reporters.

Medea Benjamin says she was detained for hours at the airport upon arrival on route to Gaza as part of an international women's delegation. She says that when she refused to be deported without first meeting U.S. Embassy officials, police forced her into handcuffs, fracturing her shoulder. She was then put on a plane to Turkey.

She spoke from Istanbul, where she said she