at Brunanburh,
of which the site is unknown. His victory was celebrated in a splendid
war-song.

13. =Eadmund (940-946) and Eadred (946-955).=--AEthelstan died in
=940=. He was succeeded by his young brother, Eadmund, who had fought
bravely at Brunanburh. Eadmund had to meet a general rising of the
Danes of Mercia as well as of those of the north. After he had
suppressed the rising he showed himself to be a great statesman as
well as a great warrior. The relations between the king of the English
and the king of the Scots had for some time been very uncertain.
Little is definitely known about them but it looks as if they joined
the English whenever they were afraid of the Danes, and joined the
Danes whenever they were afraid of the English. Eadmund took an
opportunity of making it tohad not only a better armed force,
but a more flexible one. He had to attack, and, versed as he was in
all the operations of war, he could move his men from place to place
and make use of each opportunity as it arrived. The English were brave
enough, but William was a more intelligent leader than Harold, and his
men were better under control. Twice after the battle had begun the
Norman horsemen charged up the hill only to be driven back. The wily
William, finding that the hill was not to be stormed by a direct
attack, met the difficulty by galling the English with a shower of
arrows and ordering his left wing to turn and fly. The stratagem was
successful. Some of the English rushed down the hill in pursuit. The
fugitives faced round


or thegns serving
in some way under him. Members of the Great Council attended because
they held land in chief from the king. The difference, however, was
greater in appearance than in reality. No doubt men who held very
small estates in chief might, if they pleased, come to the Great
Council, and if they had done so the Great Council would have been
much more numerously attended than the Witenagemot had been. The
poorer tenants-in-chief, however, found that it was not only too
troublesome and expensive to make the journey at a time when all long
journeys had to be made on horseback, but that when they arrived their
wishes were disregarded. They therefore stayed at home, so that the
Great Council was regularly attended only by the bishops, the abbots
of the larger abbeys, and certain great landownersonce marched against him, and took from him the
new castle which he had built in =1080=, and which has ever since been
known as Newcastle-on-Tyne. Robert held out long in his stronger
fortress of Bamborough, which was only taken at last by fraud. He was
condemned to a lifelong imprisonment, and it is even said that the
Pope, seeing his case hopeless, allowed his wife to marry again as
though her husband had been dead. Mowbray's rebellion, like the
conspiracy of the Earls against the Conqueror, shows how eagerly the
Norman barons longed to shake off the yoke of the king, and how
readily Englishmen and the less powerful Normans supported even a
tyrannical king rather than allow the barons to have their way.

10. =The First Crusade. 1095--1099.=--These petty wars were
interrupted by a call to arms from


of his court to go on circuit
into distant parts of the kingdom. These itinerant Justices
(_Justitiarii errantes_) brought the royal power into connection with
the local courts. Their business was of a very miscellaneous
character. They not only heard the cases in which the king was
concerned--the pleas of the crown, as they were called--but they made
assessments for purposes of taxation, listened to complaints, and
conveyed the king's wishes to his people.

[Illustration: Monument of Roger, Bishop of Salisbury (died 1139), in
his cathedral church.]

7. =Growth of Trade.=--Though Henry's severe discipline was not liked,
yet the law and order which he maintained told on the prosperity of
the country, and the trade of London flourished so much as to attract
citizens from Normandy to settle in it. Flemings too, trained in
habits of industry, came in crowds, and withbarons rose against him, but their
insurrection was soon repressed. More formidable was the hostility of
David, king of the Scots. David was closely connected with the family
of Henry I., his sister having been Henry's wife, the Empress Matilda
being consequently his niece. He also held in right of his own wife
the earldom of Huntingdon. Under the pretext of taking up Matilda's
cause he broke into the north of England. Though he himself carried on
the work of introducing English civilisation into Scotland, his Celtic
followers were still savage, and massacred women and infants. In
=1137= Stephen drove David back. In =1138= David reappeared, and this
time the aged Thurstan, Archbishop of York, sent the levies of the
North against him. In the midst of the English army was a cart bearing
a standard, at the top of


   1164
  Murder of Archbishop Thomas                                     1172
  The Assize of Arms                                              1181
  Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem                        of the north and centre rose in insurrection, and
William the Lion, king of the Scots, joined them. De Lucy, the
Justiciar, stood up for Henry; but, though he gained ground, the war
was still raging in the following year, =1174=. In the spring of that
year the rebels were gaining the upper hand, and the younger Henry was
preparing to come to their help. In July the elder Henry landed in
England. For the first and only time in his life he brought to England
the mercenaries who were paid with the scutage money. At Canterbury he
visited the tomb of Thomas, now acknowledged as a martyr, spent the
whole night in prayer and tears, and on the next morning was, at his
own request, scourged by the monks as a token of his penitence. That
night he


Oxford. 1258.=--The crisis in England came in
=1258=, whilst Richard was still abroad. Though thousands were dying
of starvation in consequence of a bad harvest, Henry demanded for the
Pope the monstrous sum of one-third of the revenue of all England.
Then the storm burst. At a Parliament at Westminster the barons
appeared in arms and demanded, first, the expulsion of all foreigners,
and, secondly, the appointment of a committee of twenty-four--twelve
from the king's party and twelve from that of the barons--to reform
the realm. The king unwillingly consented, and the committee was
appointed. Later in the year Parliament met again at Oxford to receive
the report of the new committee. The Mad Parliament, as it was
afterwards called in derision, was resolved to make good its claims.
The scheme of reinforcing Parliament by the election of knights ofMaterially, both
England and Scotland suffered grievously from the result of the battle
of Bannockburn. English invasions of southern Scotland and Scottish
invasions of northern England spread desolation far and wide, stifling
the germs of nascent civilisation. Morally, both nations were in the
end the gainers. The hardihood and self-reliance of the Scottish
character is distinctly to be traced to those years of struggle
against a powerful neighbour. England, too, was the better for being
balked of its prey. No nation can suppress the liberty of another
without endangering its own.

[Illustration: Lincoln Cathedral--the central tower; built about
1310.]

23. =Lancaster's Government. 1314--1322.=--Edward was thrown by his
defeat entirely under the power of Lancaster, who took the whole
authority into his hands and placed and displaced ministers at his
pleasure. Lancaster, however, was a selfish and incompetent ruler. He
allowed the Scots to ravage


but it was not immediately successful,
and had to be re-enacted in later years. In =1353= a Statute of
_Praemunire_[21] was passed, in which, though the Pope's name was not
mentioned, an attempt was made to stop suits being carried before
foreign courts--in other words before the Papal court at Avignon.
Another claim of the Popes was to the 1,000 marks payable annually as
a symbol of John's vassalage, a claim most distasteful to Englishmen
as a sign of national humiliation. Since =1333=, the year in which
Edward took the government into his own hands, the payment had not
been made, and in =1366= Parliament utterly rejected a claim made by
the Pope for its revival.

    [Footnote 20: Provisors are the persons provided or appointed to a
    benefice.]

    [Footnotenot leap on your legs; for there is a peck of
them lying in the dust under the rushes.... Hi! the fleas bite me so,
and do me great harm, for I have scratched my shoulders till the blood
flows."

14. =Alehouses.=--By the roadside were alehouses for temporary
refreshment, known by a bunch of twigs at the end of a pole, from
which arose the saying that "Good wine needs no bush." The ale of the
day was made without hops, which were still unknown in England, and
ale would therefore only keep good for about five days.

15. =Wanderers.=--Besides the better class of travellers the roads
were frequented by wanderers of all kinds, quack doctors, minstrels,
jugglers, beggars, and such like. Life in the country was dull, and
even great lords took pleasure in amusements which are now only


the manufacturing towns
of Flanders to him, and the example of his government in Flanders won
him favour in Paris and other French towns, especially in the north of
France. He was, however, personally brutal and unscrupulous, and
having entered into a competition for power with the Duke of Orleans,
he had him murdered in =1407= in the streets of Paris. At once a civil
war broke out between the Burgundian party, supported by the towns,
and the Orleans party, which rested on the feudal nobility, and was
now termed the party of the Armagnacs, from the Count of Armagnac, its
chief leader after the murder of the Duke of Orleans. Henry had no
longer to fear invasion from France. In =1408= he was freed from yet
another enemy. The old Earl of Northumberland, who had wandered from
Scotland toprisoner. Even the
French clergy detested the Maid as having appealed to supernatural
voices which had not been recognised by the Church; and in spite of an
intelligent and noble defence she was condemned to be burnt. At the
stake she behaved with heroic simplicity. When the flames curled round
her she called upon the saints who had befriended her. Her last
utterance was a cry of "Jesus!" An Englishman who had come to triumph
hung his head for shame. "We are lost," he said; "we have burnt a
saint!"

9. =The Last Years of the Duke of Bedford. 1431--1435.=--The English
gained nothing by their unworthy vengeance. Though the personal
presence of the Maid was no longer there to encourage her countrymen,
they had learnt from her to cherish that 'pity for the realm of
France' which had glowed so brightly


                1485

1. =Edward IV. and the House of Commons. 1461.=--On June 29, =1461=,
Edward IV. was crowned, and created his two brothers, George and
Richard, Dukes of Clarence and Gloucester. His first Parliament
declared the three Lancastrian kings to have been usurpers, and Henry
VI., his wife, his son, and his chief supporters, to be traitors. At
the end of the session Edward thanked the Commons for their support,
and assured them of his resolution to protect them at the hazard of
his own life. It was the first time that a king had addressed the
Commons, and his doing so was a sign that a new era had begun, in
which the wishes of the middle class in town and country    beheaded 1538                        Cardinal and Archbishop
                                          of Canterbury, died 1558]

6. =The Court of Star Chamber. 1487.=--Nothing could serve Henry
better than this abortive rising. At Bosworth he had been the leader
of one party against the other. At Stoke he was the leader of the
nation against Irishmen and Germans. He felt himself strong enough in
his second Parliament to secure the passing of an


married
Juana, the eldest daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, whilst his
sister was sent to Spain to be married to their only son, Juan. In
=1497= the death of the young prince led to consequences unexpected
when the two marriages were arranged. Philip, who held Franche Comte
and the Netherlands, and who was through his father Maximilian heir to
the German dominions of the House of Austria, would now, that his wife
had become the heiress of Spain, be able to transmit to his
descendants the whole of the Spanish monarchy as well. That monarchy
was no longer confined to Europe. Portugal at the end of the
fourteenth century had led the way in maritime adventure, and
Portuguese navigators discovered a way to India round the Cape of Good
Hope. Spain was anxious to do as much, and in =1492=Crusade, 157.

  Constance of Brittany marries Geoffrey, 155.

  Constantine takes an army from Britain, 25.

  Constantine, king of the Scots, allies himself with Eadward, 63.

  Constantine the Great becomes sole Emperor, 22;
    acknowledges Christianity as the religion of the Empire, 23.

  Constantius, the Emperor, 22.

  Constitutions of Clarendon, 144;
    renounced by Henry II., 153.

  Convocations of the clergy vote money, 219.

  Conway, Edward I. builds a castle at, 210.

  Corinium (Cirencester), West Saxon conquest of, 35.

  Cornish, the, derivation of the old language of, 7;
    submit to Ecgberht, 55.

  Cotentin, the, sold to Henry, 119.

  County courts derived from the shire-moots, 141.

  Courtenay, Bishop of London,


Castle, 4.

  Maine conquered by William I., 91;
    failures of William II. in, 121;
    conquered by Philip II., 176;
    surrendered to Rene by Henry VI., 317;
    the English driven out of, 319.

  Maintenance and livery, Statute against, 281;
    increase of, 321;
    measures of Henry VII. against, 345.

  Malcolm, king of the Scots, his alliance with Eadmund, 64.

  Malcolm III., Canmore, ravages England, 103;
    submits to William I., 104;
    death of, 119.

  Malcolm IV. loses North-humberland and Cumberland, 140.

  Man, Isle of, subdued by Eadwine, 43.

  Manfred, king of Sicily and Naples, 195, 197.

  Manor courts, 141.

proposal to establish, 195.

  Mirebeau, Eleanor besieged in, 174.

  Mise of Amiens, the, 200.

  Mohammedanism, origin and spread of, 54.

  Molynes, Lord, ill-treats John Paston, 321.

  Mona (Anglesey) conquered by Suetonius, 14.

  Monasticism, character of early, 39;
    converts made in England by, 40;
    character of Irish, 47;
    Benedictine, 128.

  Monks contrasted with Friars, 191.

  Montague, Lord, made Earl of North-humberland, 331;
    is deprived of the earldom, 333;
    turns against Edward IV., and is killed at Barnet, 332.

  Montfort, de, _see_ Simon de Montfort.

  Morkere, becomes Earl of North-humberland, 90;
    is present at Eadgar's election, 98;
    submits to


The View hosts took aim at Julián Castro after he attacked Joe Biden's age during the third Democratic presidential debate.

"Put a fork in it, the campaign is over," host Meghan McCain said Friday on the show, calling Castro's attack on Biden a "Trump tactic."

Joy Behar, who is the same age as Biden at 76, said she and people her age could turn on Castro over his ageism. "I have to question Castro's intelligence," Behar said.

"I personally found it cringeworthy," Abby Huntsman said. "I would say that was probably the nail in the coffin for Castro. I think this is one of the last times you're going to see him on a debate stage."

Host Sunny Hostin called the comment "very, very tone-deaf."

Castro, 44, attacked Biden on the debate stageof physics at UC Davis and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and recent UC Davis doctoral graduate Alexander Gray, together with colleagues at LBNL and in Germany and Japan.

The research represents the first major application of the HARPES technique, which was first described in a proof-of-principle paper by Gray, Fadley and colleagues last year.

The latest work was published Oct. 14 in the journal Nature Materials.

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy uses Einstein's famous photoelectric effect to study materials. If you bombard atoms with light particles – photons – you knock out electrons, known as photoelectrons, which fly out at precise angles, energies and spins depending on the structure of the material.

For many years researchers have used "soft" or low-energy X-rays as the photon source, but the technique can look only at


microemulsion when contacted with refinery sludge containing oil, water and solids breaks the sludge and sheds water leaving a residue of oily solids. Likewise, a surfactant blend which forms a lower phase microemulsion causes oil to be shed from refinery sludge leaving a residue of solids with much reduced oil content. The oil which is shed from the sludge remains dispersed in the aqueous phase as a water-continuous microemulsion and/or forms a separate oil phase floating on top. Surfactant blends forming middle phase microemulsions cause both oil and water to be shed from refinery sludge.
In an alternate embodiment of the invention of using microemulsion phase behavior to formulate surfactants for breaking refinery sludge, unsaturated water-continuous microemulsions extract water causing oil and solids to separate from the sludge. WithAmerican Spitfire Pilot

This is probably one of the best WWII film clips out there. Stored for 61 years in two suitcases of 16mm home movies that were inherited by filmaker Willliam Lorton from his great uncle who served as a Flight Surgeon. Those suitcases contained 3 hours of war footage that included a compelling crash landing of a Spitfire in 1944.

Filmed in a 2005 interview with the now 83 year old pilot and seeing the expression on his face when he realizes it is him in the cockpit, is something you somehow won't soon

forget. At 18 years old, he was all alone, behind enemy lines, with no guns, no escort, and he gladly did it.

They just don't make them like that anymore. It was truly the greatest generation


ages to the cheering crowd.

He continued on and then, a few minutes later, paused his speech to jokingly scream at the boys to stop hitting one another, drawing laughter from the crowd.

The students seemed delighted to have Ferrell as their speaker, screaming 'Frank the Tank' as he took the podium, a reference to his character in the classic college comedy 'Old School.'

'I would like to say thank you, graduates for that warm welcome,' said Ferrell at the start of his speech.

'I would also like to apologize to all the parents who are sitting there saying, "Will Ferrell? Why Will Ferrell? I hate Will Ferrell. I hate him. I hate his movies. He’s gross. Although he’s much better-looking in person. Has he lost weight?"'

Drama: Ferrell also told the crowd,which included Helen Mirren, he lost the role of Queen Elizabeth in 'The Queen' to the British dame, who won an Oscar (Mirren and Ferrel above)

Distinguished doctor: The 49-year-old was awarded a doctorate in humane letters 27 years after he got his undergraduate degree in sports information from USC

Ferrell revealed that even now he still does not get every role he auditions for, recalling one incident that happened over a decade ago.

'My most painful example was losing the role of Queen Elizabeth in the film "The Queen,"' said Ferrell.

'Apparently it came down to two actors, myself and Helen Mirren. The rest is history.'

Ferrell then turned around and looked at Mirren, who was in attendance also received a doctorate in humane letters, screaming at the esteemed thespian: 'Dame Helen


Arab women is at more advanced stages and earlier ages. However, in spite this increase in the incidence of breast cancer among Arab women, although Saudi Arabia provides free health services, participation rates in screening activities in Saudi Arabia remain low.\[[@ref7][@ref8]\]

Investigating levels of breast cancer screening uptake in four Gulf Cooperation Council States, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates (UAE) reviled low uptake. The percentages of women aged 40--75 years who had a mammogram were 4.9% in Saudi Arabia, 8.9% in Oman, 13.9% in the UAE, and 14.6% in Kuwait. Marital status, wealth, education, nationality, and place of residence are associated with screening uptake, with the lower educated, poor, and unmarried having the lowest percentages of uptake.\[[@ref9]\]

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among females inin the kingdom of God.

Kevin Spivey, minister of assimilation at Houston’s First, explains the original plans for the trip.

“My wife, Marlen, and I were to lead the trip to Costa Rica with a team of 26 people.” Spivey says. “We were partnering with Tamarindo Church, an English- speaking church geared toward local business owners, and tourists, pastored by Lyle and Stacey Watson.”

The Watsons (first picture in gallery below) and the Tamarindo Church family have been ministering to Evelyn (second picture in gallery below), a local Costa Rican from the town of Los Pochotes who sells coconuts outside of the church on Sundays. Evelyn brought the light of Jesus into her community where there was once a lot of darkness. Evelyn even shared a video of a person preaching


Banksters must be drowning in champagne right now!

With Trump administration taken over by Goldman Sachs , nothing can surprise us, anymore. The fairy tale of the 'anti-establishment' Trump who would supposedly fight for the interests of the forgotten - by the system - Americans, was collapsed even before Trump election.

What's quite surprising, is how fast the new US president - buddy of the plutocrats, is offering 'earth and water' to the top 1% of the American society, as if they had not already enough at the expense of the 99%. His recent 'achievement', was to sign for more deregulation in favor of the banking mafia that ruined the economy in 2008, destroyed millions of working class Americans and sent waves of financial destruction all over the world. Europeto the establishment.

Take a good look at the picture. Focus on the man who stands at the right (as we see the picture) of Trump to understand who is the real boss. The one who passes him the papers to sign. Observe the joy and satisfaction on his face. The only good thing is that, at least Trump is not pretending that he is the one who governs America:

And take a good taste of Gary Cohn: recently on Fox News , he argued fanatically in favor of deregulation, using the common neoliberal narratives propagated by the system. That is, he pretended that he cares about small and medium businesses, saying that the banks should make capital available for them. And guess what's the problem: taxes and regulation. Once


Sunday, 15 July 2012

Pictures of the Clapham Library

If you haven't yet been to the new Clapham Library, it's worth a visit. The building has been inspired by the Guggenheim, and inside a central atrium has a children's library as it's central focal point, with rows of books running around the walls accessible via a spiral ramp. Off the main walkway are small rooms for quiet reading, studying or using a computer.

The building was funded through a private-public partnership, with new homes built above the library. A smart way to fund public services at a time when money is tight.

Sadly, the miserly Lib Dems have attacked the new library, calling it a 'flop'. Wouldn't it have been nicer if they could have welcomed it?

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Utilization of the Company’s jackup rig fleet was 90 percent in the fourth quarter compared to 91 percent in the third quarter. Lower operating days on the Noble Mick O’Brien, following the completion of a contract in the Middle East, were substantially offset by a full quarter of operations on theYellow vest protest in Paris sees police detain hundreds Published duration 8 December 2018 Related Topics France yellow vest protests

media caption Protesters surged forward before tear gas was fired

Police in Paris have fired rubber bullets and tear gas as a fourth weekend of anti-government protests across France turned violent.

Almost 1,000 people have been taken into custody nationwide.

Parisian hospital authorities said 126 people had been injured in the city, but none seriously. At least three police officers were also hurt.

The "yellow vest" movement opposed fuel tax rises but ministers say it has been hijacked by "ultra-violent" protesters.

An estimated 125,000 demonstrators gathered across the country during the day, with 10,000 of them in the capital, where the scenes were the most destructive.

Looters have been seen smashing shop fronts, and cars


have been set on fire.

In a television address on Saturday evening, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the "casseurs" (troublemakers) were still at work.

He called for more communication between the government and protesters to resolve the conflict. "The dialogue has begun," he said. "It is now necessary to rebuild the national unity."

What is happening this weekend?

Apart from Paris, there were demonstrations in several other cities on Saturday including Lyon, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Marseille and Grenoble.

Some places also had separate climate change marches taking place.

There have been a number of confrontations in the capital.

Video footage showed one demonstrator being hit in the torso with a rubber bullet while standing in front of a line of police with his hands up. At least three members of the press were also hit.

Water cannonwere deployed on a street east of the city centre.

As night fell, protesters converged on Place de la République, and a heavy police presence remained on the Champs-Elysées.

Nearly 90,000 officers were deployed countrywide in anticipation of clashes, including 8,000 in Paris where 12 armoured vehicles were also utilised.

Last week, hundreds of people were arrested and 162 were injured in violence in Paris - some of the worst street clashes in the French capital for decades.

This weekend, six matches in the top tier of France's football league were postponed. The Louvre, Musée d'Orsay and other sites were also closed all day in Paris.

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What next for Macron?

By Hugh Schofield, BBC News, Paris

The French government is relieved that its worst forebodings about the protests did not come to pass.

There


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Coderre said the city still needs to nail down how exactly the pedestrian streets will work.

A lingering question is whether they will be seasonal or year-round. T

he success of the project could depend on it. St. Catherine street east of Berri is a seasonal pedestrian-only street, and its success has led some to want to extend the walking street farther downtown.

Prince-Arthur, on the other hand, is a year-round pedestrian street that was once a vibrant restaurant district that now has several closed storefronts.

The city plans to launch the project in the summertime.Hereditary essential myoclonus in a large Norwegian family.
We examined 56 members of a large Norwegian family with hereditary essential myoclonus, affecting mainly the neck and upper parts of the body, and inherited in an autosomal-dominant pattern. We observed definite myoclonus in nine individuals, probable myoclonus in one, and possible myoclonus in one. There were two other living members who had a history compatible with myoclonus but who had developed a permanent remission, so we did not observe the movements, and two who had involuntary movements only with stress. Writing usually increased the myoclonus in the neck and trunk, but did not produce myoclonus in the arm used for writing. Having a conversation with an individual who was aware of being watched would also usually increase the myoclonus. Alcohol


ameliorated the myoclonus in many, but not all, affected members. Activities such as walking and concentrating during reading would usually reduce the myoclonus. Three living members with definite myoclonus also had features of mild focal dystonia, either spasmodic torticollis or blepharospasm, indicating that focal dystonia may exist as part of the clinical spectrum in hereditary essential myoclonus. In addition to examining the members of the family, we videotaped them and obtained blood samples for molecular genetic analysis.Manchester City fans have been banned from wearing belts to Napoli's Stadio San Paolo on Wednesday night.

Staff and media are also prohibited from taking the garments into the ground for the Champions League fixture. It is unclear whether the ban extends to Pep Guardiola and his City players.

The move comes after Napoli fans wielding belts 'ambushed’ City fans ahead of the sides' meeting at the Etihad Stadium on October 17.

At least three people were injured and one Napoli fan was sent to prison for five months, but general secretary of the Manchester City Supporters Club Kevin Parker has branded the move to ban belts for the Group F fixture "ridiculous".

"It's absolutely crazy," he told the Daily Mail. "I know they have had issues with Napoli fans using belts


The screeching brouhaha over President Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement could, at first glance, be called a global episode of Trump Derangement Syndrome. But with the intensity of the rage, it seems to be more than that. Former United Nations has-been and ex-president of Ireland Mary Robinson called the U.S. a " rogue state ." France's President Emmanuel Macron offered " refuge " to America's climate scientists, as if these people were actually in danger of losing tenure or maybe a grant, not to mention an imaginary knock on the door at midnight. Former Obama "mind meld" Ben Rhodes calls it "moral wreckage," adding: "The rest of the world will watch in horror." Billionaire greenie Tom Steyer calls Trump's act " a traitorousact of war ."

Obama's legacy is at stake, for one. The concept of Euro-centric one-world governance is on the line, too. The promise of enforced socialism through greenie virtue-signaling has got to be smarting as well.

But I sense that the howls coming out may be premised on the fear of a mass pullout from the Paris Climate Accord now that President Trump has kicked the first brick out of the wall. The U.S. pullout may make the whole structure come tumbling down, and take with it Europe's claimed right to act as the world's global governing body.

It's probably painful, given that President Trump has upbraided them on their deadbeat defense contributions to NATO, and the European Union itself has suffered a blow to prestige because so few of


its members bother to observe their monetary quotas.

There are already signs it's happening. Japan has declined to sign on to a group statement condemning President Trump, perhaps figuring that securing its own security against the monsters threatening it from North Korea might be more important than joining Europe's middle finger to President Trump.

A Japanese government official says Japan has decided not to join Germany, France and Italy in expressing regret over the decision by President Donald Trump's to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord. The official, who declined to be identified by name or affiliation and requested anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly about the decision, said that Japan chose to issue its own statement, not as part of the group. He declined toand to continue learning about the opportunities and the challenges facing Israel and the Middle East,” he said shortly before departing for Tel Aviv.

Hoyer did not mention how he had managed to pull together such a large group of co-conspirators in spite of critical issues that need to be confronted at home during recess in town hall meetings, which, due to the trip, will operate on a short schedule if at all. As Majority Leader, he is reported to be skilled at strong-arming new colleagues to compel them to make the trip to demonstrate the loyalty of the U.S. Congress and the Democratic Party to the Jewish state, which is his top priority. According to The Intercept, “Hoyer…uses his power over the House floor agenda to coerce participation.


long been dominated by Jews from Baltimore and Montgomery County and Hoyer has successfully cultivated Jewish congressmen to advance his career. He has benefited directly from $320,025 pro-Israel PAC donations to fund his reelection campaigns and has undoubtedly also received generous donations from individual Jews and from organizations not organized as PACs.

Steny Hoyer’s foreign policy votes in Congress have not surprisingly mirrored positions taken by the Israeli government. He supported the attack on Iraq and was in fact very possibly the most prominent promoter of the war among Democrats. When the war became a foreign policy disaster, he muted his approval of it but has continued to vote for funding of U.S. military involvement in both Iraq and neighboring Syria.

Hoyer’s support of Israel is unshakable and he hasNorth Dakota State’s Easton Stick was always about the team even as he became the winningest quarterback in FCS history.

Two weeks ago, he capped his stellar career with a second straight national title and a 49-3 record as a starter at FCS titan North Dakota State.

But it’s back to being in an individual fight for Stick and hundreds of other prospects who are making their way toward the NFL draft. This week, two of the three biggest major college all-star games are big steps.

Stick will be under the microscope at the 94th East-West Shrine Game, part of a contingent of FCS players that includes Athlon All-Americans B.J. Blunt (McNeese linebacker), Jimmy Moreland (James Madison cornerback) and Derick Roberson (Sam Houston State defensive end).

Fellow All-Americans Isaiah Mack (Chattanooga defensive


1922, from dialectal Chinese (Shanghai) ma chiang, name of the game, literally "sparrows," from ma "hemp" + chiang "little birds." The game so called from the design of the pieces. It had a vogue in Europe and the U.S. in the 1920s and for a time threatened to supplant bridge in popularity.As the article points out, Pakistan may be feeling increased pressure to intensify its war on terrorism in light of the U.S. led killing of Osama bin Laden in May. Indeed, Pakistan states that the shellings are a necessary component of their fight against home grown Taliban insurgents.

Still, others see the border violence quite differently. The United Nations estimates that around 12,000 civilians have fled border villages since mid-June. “Afghans are fleeing village by village. The shelling started in January, picked up in the spring and intensified in June with entire towns destroyed,” stated the head of the office for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Afghan border provinces of Kunar and Nangahar.

For their part, Afghan officials claim that 800 rockets have been launched across the


border in the past month. More personal accounts are provided by villagers themselves, such as Khan Wali from Kunar province. “The shelling started in the morning, killing two children in our village and forcing the rest of us to flee….Our village is deserted since 20 days ago…”

Sadly, collateral damage involving civilians is a standard feature of major wars such as the war in Afghanistan. In seeking their broader objectives, world powers often inadvertently inflict a great deal of damage upon the nation in which a war is being waged. Not only does this collateral damage manifest itself in the form of death, but also in terms of physical and psychological injury as well as demolished homes, schools and hospitals for those who survive.

Despite their broader role in theCriminal Interdiction Unit

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K-9 Bishop died on August 5, 2005 and will always be missed by those who knew him and remembered for his duty and service to the citizens of the State of Florida.


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McLAUGHLIN, David – The death has taken place April 22nd 2017 at Letterkenny University Hospital of David McLaughlin, 7 Hollybush Park, Porthall, Lifford. Much loved brother of Jack, Ethna, Anne and the late Connie, Josie and Geordie. Reposing at his home on Sunday (April 23rd) from 6 pm. Funeral leaving his home on Tuesday (April 25th) at 9.15 am for Requiem Mass in St. Patrick’s Church, Murlog at 10 am. Interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery.

Deeply regretted by his sorrowing brother, sisters, nephews, nieces and family circle.

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How Indian women contributed to the suffrage movement

Indian suffragettes in the Women's Coronation Procession, London, on June 17, 1911 [Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images]

100 years ago, British women won the right to vote, after decades of resistance.

The Representation of the People Act 1918 granted women older than 30 and with property the right to cast the ballot.

But as Emmeline Pankhurst and Millicent Fawcett were lionised as leaders, the contribution of working-class women and women of colour was barely acknowledged.

South Asian women, for instance, played a seminal role.

Al Jazeera spoke to Sumita Mukherjee, an historian of the British Empire and Indian subcontinent, on the contribution of women of Indian descent to British women's suffrage movement.

The Representation of the People Act 1918 finally granted British women over 30 with propertythe right to cast the ballot [Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images]

Al Jazeera: How important was the role of Sophia Duleep Singh?

Mukherjee: She was the most prominent woman of Indian heritage in the British suffragette movement.

She was the daughter of an exiled Indian Prince, Maharaja Duleep Singh, who was a favourite of Queen Victoria. She herself was the goddaughter of Queen Victoria.

Sophia became involved in the women's Tax Resistance League, an association that refused to pay their taxes, arguing as women didn't have the vote, they shouldn't have to pay their taxes. Their rallying cry was: "No taxation without representation."

In Sophia's case, bailiffs came on a number of occasions to her property and impounded her goods, which they would then sell off at auction.

The women's Tax Resistance League members


would go to those auctions and buy back her property, which gave publicity to their campaign slogans and the general campaign for women's votes.

Sophia also led one of the big suffrage demonstrations in 1910, known as Black Friday, with Emmeline Pankhurst, along with some other demonstrations.

Her older sister, Catherine, also had suffragette sympathies. She was involved with the peaceful suffrage campaigners, but she lived in Germany so she was not as heavily involved.

Al Jazeera: Did she face any barriers?

Mukherjee: Sophia was an exception in a lot of ways. Because of her aristocratic, royal background, she was very privileged. She was wealthy, so she was able to refuse to pay taxes.

Because of her royal background, we know she was treated quite well by the police and other authorities, whichthink about Indian women involved in the British suffragette movement.

Sophia Duleep Singh was someone who had a voice. But the other Indian women who were involved, they did not have a voice.

In June 1911, for example, there was a suffrage coronation procession through London where some Indian women were invited to take part, and encouraged to wear their national dress, saris.

These women were objectified by British women who wanted to throw in a bit of colour to the campaign and draw attention to tokenistic attempts of being diverse.

Al Jazeera: How would you describe the portrayal of women of colour associated with the movement, according to evidence?

This relates to a lot of work by the historian Antoinette Burton, who looked at British suffrage newspapers and periodicals.

[When] Indian women are


discussed, the narrative is usually centred on depicting them as victims in need of reform.

Rather than giving any agency or a voice to Indian women, it was very much about British imperial intervention into Indian women's lives.

The issue with race was that British women, up until 1918 and even beyond, were campaigning for a vote in an imperial parliament that would give them a say over what happened in the Empire.

They argued that by securing the domestic vote, women would have an influence on issues like education, healthcare and women's issues, and that's why that "feminine voice" was required in politics.

Rather than giving any agency or a voice to Indian women, it was very much about British imperial intervention into Indian women's lives.

India was, after all, the crowningat the same time, were also caught in the unrest around the nationalist struggle for emancipation from imperial powers.

Indian women were campaigning for the vote from 1917 onwards, because they fundamentally disagreed that women should be excluded from the limited democratic right to vote, that was given to some Indian men under colonial rule.

Sarojini Naidu's legacy, alongside that of other, Indian women, are a powerful corrective to the idea that the fight for female suffrage was a purely Western phenomenon.

Sarojini Naidu, a prominent Indian poet, female activist and close political ally of Mahatma Ghandi, campaigned for women's rights and engaged in anticolonial struggles.

She was arrested a number of times for her role in nationalist activities, and was at the forefront of the suffrage movement in India, petitioning the


Indian government, meeting with politicians and demanding that women get the vote.

Her legacy, alongside that of other Indian women, are a powerful corrective to the idea that the fight for female suffrage was a purely Western phenomenon.

Why not draw inspiration from women in India campaigning for the right to vote? From women in South Africa? We don't necessarily have to always be Anglocentric. Whatever our backgrounds are, we can find role models and inspiring figures in other parts of the world.

Sophia Duleep Singh, too, visited India on a number of occasions, lending her support to the anticolonial struggle and the Indian women's suffrage movement.

Sophia identified as British, but she also identified with her Indian heritage, especially because of the royal links her family had on her father's side.

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A 95-year-old woman has died at the Sydney aged care home where a worker tested positive this week to coronavirus. She died in hospital. NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said authorities did not know whether her death had been connected to the virus, but she and another resident at the home had had respiratory symptoms. The worker, now in hospital, had worked for more than two decade at Dorothy Henderson Lodge, run by Baptist Care. She had become sick about February 24 but had not travelled overseas and had no known connection with coronavirus cases. Eleven residents at the home had now been isolated. The aged care home is one of two Sydney flashpoints in the coronavirus crisis. Work is


"In isolated communities this infection could have pretty devastating consequences," he said. More advanced protection was likely in those areas, especially for fly-in fly-out workers, who presented a particular risk to the communities and who were likely to face screening and changed staffing arrangements. A plan would be in place in the next fortnight, he said. Professor Murphy revealed that Australia doesn't have sufficient personal protective equipment - masks and other equipment - for a worst-case coronavirus outbreak, but he said authorities were working to buy more and explore whether equipment could be manufactured in Australia. And he criticised as "unhelpful" the modelling of the Australian National University's Warwick McKibbin, showing the potential for 96,000 Australian deaths in a worst-case pandemic, with 15 million deaths globally in theAmid increased backlash to the business of Afropunk, a host of collectives, festivals and artists of color have continued the punk resistance elsewhere

'We still need to be seen': behind the rise of black punk culture

'We still need to be seen': behind the rise of black punk culture

In the summer of 2001, a young first-time film-maker traveled across the US, shooting a documentary about an overlooked subject: black people inside the predominately white punk rock counterculture. Even with the established, historical contributions of African Americans to rock music and outsider culture – from Jimi Hendrix to Funkadelic – black people in punk rock was, at the turn of the 21st century, still an unfamiliar and unaddressed topic.

Having himself grown up as a black person in the punk scene, James


Brooklyn – spread out over four days in early July, with performances from black punk bands, film screenings, and an impromptu picnic at Fort Greene Park. The festival has since grown at an exponential rate, with annual festivals not only in Brooklyn, but also Atlanta, London, Paris, and Johannesburg, drawing tens of thousands of attendees.

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Though it could be viewed as a successful model of a global black-owned and black-centered music festival, Afropunk has faced criticisms from the grassroots POC punk community, particularly for its sponsorships from companies like Red Bull and Coors Light; and for promoting fewer punk rock headliners in favor of popular R&B or hip hop acts like Lauryn Hill, Lenny Kravitz, Ice Cube, and Tyler, theown festival, in order to raise money for grassroots organizations or bail support?’” Etrella Negra tells me. “We wanted to keep a radical practice in our organizing, and we wanted the idea to spread to other QTIPOC spaces.”

Estrella Negra and Oxun started the Black and Brown Punk Show Collective in 2010 and organized the first festival that August, with bands, DJs, artists, and activists of color.

Shawna Shawnté, a DJ and multimedia artist, was inspired by what she’d seen in Chicago. She returned home to Oakland, California, and, together with the multidisciplinary artist Jade Ariana Fair, organized The Universe is Lit, a three-day festival in August 2017, with music, art, and film, centered on the local QTIPOC community. The festival was rebranded as The Multivrs is Illuminated for its


UEFA president Lennart Johansson fears trouble caused by England supporters could have repercussions not only on the country's Euro 2004 hopes but also the 2006 World Cup campaign.

European football's governing body have already warned that England risk expulsion from the European Championships if there is a repeat of the problems which marred the game against Turkey in Sunderland.

And Johansson said: "We hope nothing will happen, but if there are problems then the matter will be discussed at the organising committee of the World Cup and of course for 2004."consulting to many Japanese companies.

His diverse experience includes work on designs in a wide range of fields, from precision electronics to home appliances and interior design. He has won numerous awards from around the world, including the IDEA (Gold winner) from the USA, the iF Design Award (Gold Award) from Germany, the Good Design Gold Award from Japan, the D & AD Gold Award from the UK, the Red Dot Design Award from Germany, and the Mainichi Design Award.


What resonates is that a top, top, elite player, that the manager wants, is going to be a star for Manchester United.” said Woodward speaking in 2014 about potential acquisitions.

And true to his word, Woodward and co. have brought in the elite of the elite. The United board and The Special One have brought back a special buzz and atmosphere to the red-half of Manchester and a special feeling of genuine optimism that has been missing for so long.

United’s purchasing-power now packs a powerful punch. A future team of Galácticos lead by Paul Pogba is not an unthinkable thought.NCCESA.
We are also looking forward to our 35th annual state meeting to be held in Wilmington, September 18 and 19th.

Karen Wicker (NCEAFCS) – NCEAFCS Mid Year Board Federation Report
There are approximately 121 paid members in NCEAFCS.
NCEAFCS has been in discussion with the NC 4-H Agents Association about possibly combining efforts for hosting State Annual Meetings. This will take some time and planning to come together. Advantages would be travel and registration costs could be lowered, as well as being able to secure better speakers and exhibitors.
The NCEAFCS is also putting a proposal to their membership about how to align with the new administrative districts.
A delegation of NCEAFCS will be attending the National Galaxy conference in Minnesota this fall.
Plans are being made toward developing a NCEAFCS special project to


Cooperative Extension Administrative Professionals Association; the NC Association of Extension Program Assistants, Associates and Technicians; and the NC Xi Chapter – Epsilon Sigma Phi.

An umbrella organization of Cooperative Extension professional associations, the Federation was formed in 1974 to foster professional development, to build consensus among member organizations, and to dialogue with Extension Administration.

NC State University and N.C. A&T State University work in tandem, along with federal, state and local governments, to form a strategic partnership called N.C. Cooperative Extension, which staffs local offices in all 100 counties and with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

NC State University and N.C. A&T State University are collectively committed to positive action to secure equal opportunity and prohibit discrimination and harassment regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, political beliefs, family andSix police officers in Detroit are being accused of acting like they were straight out of “Super Bad.”

Cops who thought three teens were interfering with a prostitution sting posted a picture of one of the handcuffed boys online, drove them in unmarked cars at “reckless speeds” on residential streets and dumped them off in an unsafe area before ordering them to walk home, a lawsuit claims.

The suit, filed on Nov. 18 in federal court in Detroit, alleges a “blatant abuse of authority” on behalf of the officers on Aug. 26, when Hassan Abdallah and Ibrahim Bazzi, both 17, picked up their friend Ali Chami, 18, after his shift at the Coney Island restaurant in Detroit. As the three were about to leave, Hassan spotted a relative pull into


broken down into two parts. First, does Sheriff Darnell make policy for the County of Lafayette. Second, if he does, was it a policy of the sheriff's office that led to the constitutional deprivation claimed by Mr. Overbay.
Lafayette County argues that under Missouri law it is not responsible for the personnel in the sheriff's office. In other words, it has not created any policy concerning personnel of the sheriff's office. It is true as the defendant County points out, that in Missouri sheriffs are elected by the people of the county and not selected by the county court, Mo.Rev.Stat. § 57.010, and that deputies are selected and salaries set by agreement between the sheriff and the circuit court of the county, Mo.Rev.Stat. § 57.220.[4] The County, as anand decisions must necessarily be considered those of one "whose edicts or acts may fairly be said to represent official policy" for which the county may be held responsible under Section 1983. Familias Unidas v. Briscoe, 619 F.2d at 404.
The sheriff in Missouri enjoys much of the same autonomy as does elected county officials in Texas. As the plaintiff stated, the sheriff is only responsible to the voters. Yet, it is the sheriff who sets the rules and regulations  the policy  for the sheriff's office. As chief law enforcement officer of the county those policies become the policies of the county.
Having answered the first question, the question remains whether a policy of the sheriff's office was the cause of the alleged deprivation. The plaintiff does not


Cold War Air Defense Relied on Widespread Dispersal of Nuclear Weapons, Documents Show

Deployments Had Dangerous Potential Because of Predelegation Arrangements

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 332

Posted - November 16, 2010

For more information contact:

Christopher Bright

CBright@christopherjohnbright.com

www.ChristopherJohnBright.com

"Miss BOMARC," a contestant in a 1958 hair styling competition held in Salt Lake City. The contestant’s attire was said to be "inspired by the supersonic bomarc missile" because it mimicked the coloring and markings of the U.S. Air Force's nuclear antiaircraft weapon during its development, as demonstrated by the adjacent reduced-size model. Miss Bomarc's supporters pointed out her hairstyle suggested the missile's "nuclear payload" had gone "into super action." [Official U.S. Air Force photograph courtesy of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.] Four of 56 U.S. Air Force BOMARC IM-99A nuclearantiaircraft missiles emplaced at a site about twenty miles southeast of Trenton, New Jersey near McGuire Air Force Base. Missiles remained horizontal in the shelters shown except when preparing to launch or the erection equipment was being tested. Each missile carried a W-40 nuclear warhead which yielded about 6.5 kilotons. Thirteen months before this photograph was taken in October 1960, McGuire became the first BOMARC site to be declared operational. It also was the location of a June 1960 accident in which fire destroyed a warhead. [Official U.S. Air Force photograph courtesy of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.] The U.S. Air Force’s Falcon (GAR-11) guided nuclear antiaircraft missile with an interceptor in the background. The nuclear Falcon entered the inventory in 1961 as the result


Air Defense Command who arranged for the volunteers to participate as part of the Air Force’s effort to get the deployment of the nuclear weapon “out in the open.” [Still image taken from official U.S. Air Force movie “Project Genie” in the collection of National Archives and Records Administration.] Members of Battery A, 2nd Missile Battalion of the U.S. Army’s 57th Artillery scramble during an alert drill at the Montrose-Belmont Nike-Hercules nuclear antiaircraft missile site on the lakefront in Chicago, Illinois on September 30, 1959. The Nike-Hercules carried the W-31 nuclear warhead which could yield either two or twenty-two kilotons. In June 1958, the Montrose location became the first of about 123 operational Nike-Hercules sites built around 26 cities and 10 Air Force bases in 25 states. [OfficialU.S. Army photograph by MSgt Joseph S. Moroz, Jr. Reproduced courtesy of Command Historian, US Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama.]

Washington, D.C., November 16, 2010 - To counter a Soviet bomber attack, U.S. war plans contemplated widespread use of thousands of air defense weapons during the middle years of the Cold War according to declassified documents posted today at the National Security Archive's Nuclear Vault and cited by a recently published book, Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War (Palgrave Macmillan) by historian Christopher J. Bright. The U.S. government publicly acknowledged the facts of the deployments in the 1950s, yet they garnered surprisingly little public opposition, Bright concludes, in disclosing for the first time that air defense weapons comprised


as much as one-fifth of the US nuclear arsenal in 1961. Still, nearly 25 years after the United States retired the last of them in 1986, their exact number remains secret.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the most perilous crisis of the Cold War, Bright shows that top Defense officials wanted to limit a response to a bomber attack to conventional weapons, not realizing how much plans and deployments rested solely on nuclear weapons. Bright's work also raises the possibility that air defense weapons may have been among the most dangerous nuclear arms because of their widespread deployment and the predelegated use arrangements that could have led to inadvertent nuclear use during a crisis.

Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era is a reminder of the extent to which nuclear weaponswere integral to Cold War American military strategy. It comes at a time when U.S. policy makers are giving renewed attention to nuclear arms, occasioned in part by President Barack Obama's support for their ultimate abolition, and the suggestion by others that existing U.S. nuclear warheads should be replaced or refurbished, along with continuing political disagreement about the necessity and adequacy of a New START arms control treaty with Russia.

Bright's book recounts many other formerly secret details about the thousands of Army and nuclear air defense weapons built during the Cold War, the plans and procedures for their use, and their eventual withdrawal. Drawing upon declassified documents held by the National Security Archive (including material in ninety boxes of files donated in 2003 upon the death of nuclear


researcher Chuck Hansen) and other once-secret information originating at the White House, Pentagon, Atomic Energy Commission and elsewhere, Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era discusses the development and deployment of:

3155 Genie air-to-air rockets (with two kiloton nuclear warheads) estimated to have armed scores of Air Force interceptor aircraft at 31 bases in 20 states starting in 1957

1900 Falcon guided air-to-air missiles (with a half kiloton warhead) which later also equipped some of these and other airplanes

2500 Army Nike-Hercules surface-to-air missiles (carrying two or 22 kiloton warheads) that the Army positioned at 123 launch sites around 26 cities and 10 Air Force bases in 25 states

409 Air Force BOMARC long range surface-to-air missiles (each with six and one-half kiloton warheads) located at eight launch sites in seven eastern andnortheastern states (in addition to two locations in Canada)

Before the advent of intercontinental ballistic missiles, the fear of a surprise mass Soviet bomber attack spurred defense planners and government scientists to compensate for technological limitations of antiaircraft arms of the era. Recognizing the difficulty of targeting relatively high-flying, fast-moving airplanes, proponents of nuclear air defense believed that relatively small defensive nuclear warheads compensated for inaccuracy by producing comparatively large lethal blast zones. They further argued that nuclear warheads would assuredly destroy attacking planes and the bombs they carried, while posing minimal risk to those on the ground. Policy makers, including President Dwight Eisenhower, military service leaders, and members of Congress, agreed. Defense officials announced the deployments to the public; arms manufacturers and the news media also publicized them.


There was little public dissent. Even members of the nascent anti-nuclear movement at the time devoted almost no attention to these arms. While this does not indicate their assent to the weapons, it suggests that they did not see nuclear air defense weapons as especially worrisome.

Among the related topics addressed in Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era:

Eisenhower authorized in advance (or "predelegated") the use of these arms in the event that an aerial attack upon the US was known to be underway but the president could not be contacted. Although intended to be secret, a senior U.S. Air Force officer, General Earle Partridge, disclosed this publicly in 1957 and 1958.

In February 1958, an Air Force publicist revealed the cost of the Genie's W-25 nuclear charge, one of onlytwo occasions in which the expense of a U.S. nuclear warhead has been revealed.

The Genie rocket was test-fired from an Air Force plane over Nevada in July 1957. Five officer volunteers stood below in an attempt to demonstrate that the weapon could be utilized without endangering those on the ground.

In July 1958, extensive preparations had been made to test-fire additional Genies as well as Nike-Hercules missiles over the Gulf of Mexico. Days before the operation was scheduled to be conducted, Eisenhower canceled the test, in an Oval Office meeting with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and others.

The Soviet Union was interested in the details of American nuclear antiaircraft arms. In 1958, the USSR's military intelligence agency apparently recruited an Army lieutenant colonel (one of the highest-ranking US


officials suspected of having engaged in espionage on behalf of a foreign power) to provide classified information about the Nike-Hercules. This alleged activity was not uncovered until several years later when Soviet colonel Oleg Penkovskiy, an American agent, reported that the Army missile information was in the USSR's possession.

Despite the ubiquity and visibility of air defense nuclear weapons to Americans a generation ago and the importance of many of these and other related issues, Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era marks the first book-length scholarly examination on the topic. Coinciding with the publication, the National Security Archive is posting thirteen documents which highlight many of these and other important topics covered in the book.

Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era is based upon a dissertation written at The GeorgeWashington University under the direction of Leo P. Ribuffo, the Society of the Cincinnati George Washington Distinguished Professor of History. Further guidance was provided by GW historians James G. Hershberg and William Becker; the National Defense University's David Alan Rosenberg; and William Burr, a senior analyst and director of the nuclear history documentation project at the National Security Archive.

Further details about Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era are available at www.ChristopherJohnBright.com.

Read the Documents

Documents 1A and B: Nuclear Air Defense and the Killian Report

Document 1A: "Meeting the Threat of Surprise Attack; Technological Capabilities Panel of the Science Advisory Committee," vol. II, February 14, 1955, pp. 75-76. Formerly classified TOP SECRET.

Source: Declassified Documents Reference System no. CK3100218088.

Document 1B: Meeting the Threat of Surprise Attack; Technological Capabilities Panel of the Science


Advisory Committee," vol. II, February 14, 1955, pp. 105-108. Formerly classified TOP SECRET.

Source: Box 21, Folder 1, Chuck Hansen Collection.

In August 1954 President Eisenhower appointed Massachusetts Institute of Technology President James R. Killian, Jr. to lead a group of scientists and engineers to examine technological applications that could improve the nation's offensive forces, intelligence collection, and continental defense efforts. Between then and February 1955, forty-two outside experts on the Technological Capabilities Panel met 307 times for meetings, briefings, and field trips, aided by a small staff. In addition to Killian, the group's steering committee included Polaroid camera inventor Edwin H. Land, Williams College president James Phinney Baxter III, and retired General James H. Doolittle, the World War II hero who held an MIT aeronautical engineering doctorate.

The panelists presentedthe highlights of their two-volume 190-page assessment, entitled "Meeting the Threat of Surprise Attack," to the National Security Council in a four-hour meeting on March 17, 1955. The danger posed by a thermonuclear-equipped adversary and the consequent requirement for effective air defenses was a significant theme of the Killian study.(Note 1) The report recommended that nuclear warheads become "the major armament" for American air defense arms. Maintaining that attackers should be engaged by defense forces as soon as warning systems identified bombers and the latter were at a great distance from their targets, the panel also called for granting the military "advance authority for the instant use of atomic warheads." Additionally, the committee recommended that one "high altitude" nuclear shot in a forthcoming test series be promoted by


Nike-Hercules, which was also scheduled to be introduced in the next year. A news release was desirable, Loper wrote, because "widespread deployment" of these weapons "in close proximity to the civil populace" makes "public knowledge and understanding" a "matter of major importance." He argued that the arms "should have a positive effect on national morale" because they "provide a more effective defense against enemy nuclear attack and can be safely deployed on a nation-wide scale."

Document 4: Weapon Costs Revealed

"Address by Colonel Barney Oldfield, Director, Information Services, North American Air Defense Command, Before the Clinton Junior Chamber of Commerce Annual ‘Bosses Night,'" Clinton, Iowa, February 19, 1958." Not Classified.

Source: Oldfield Papers, Series 6, Box 31, Folder 5, in collection of Nebraska State Historical Society.

The volunteers participated in Shot Johnbecause of the intercession of Air Force Colonel Arthur B. "Barney" Oldfield, the public information officer for the Continental Air Defense Command, who had been instructed to consider ways to trumpet the Genie's introduction. "[E]ven though high classification" meant there was "limited room for sensible discussion" and "public reassurance" about Genie, recalled Oldfield, General Earle E. Partridge "wanted the weapons ‘out in the open'."(Note 2) In an address in Clinton, Iowa in February 1958, Oldfield declared that, although the Genie's rocket vehicle was worth seven thousand dollars, once the "atomic load" was inserted, the price reached "a quarter of a million dollars." The next year, he noted the Genie's cost in a press release issued in conjunction with a Las Vegas air fair. After the announcement garnered a


front-page article in the Washington Post and Times-Herald, the Air Force investigated.(Note 3) The cost of nuclear weapons was an important secret because defense officials believed that an adversary could estimate the size of the U.S. arsenal based on the total AEC budget. As a result, the Air Force "administratively reprimanded" Oldfield. Years later, he wrote, "there are times when breaking classification solves more than hardened artery adherence to it."(Note 4) Nonetheless, Oldfield's statement about the Genie cost was the first time an official acknowledged the figures for a specific American nuclear weapon. During the entire Cold War and ensuing years, the cost of only one or two other warhead types may have been officially confirmed.(Note 5)

Documents 5A and B: Controversial Testing Proposal

Document 5A: "Memorandum of Conference withthe President, June 27, 1958—11:05 AM" June 30, 1958, Folder "Atomic Weapons, Correspondence and Background for Presidential Approval and Instructions for Use of [1953–1960] (2)." Formerly classified TOP SECRET. (Note 7)

Source: Folder "Atomic Weapons, Correspondence and Background for Presidential Approval and Instructions for Use of [1953–1960] (2)," Box 1, in NSC Series, Subject Subseries, White House Office, Office of Special Assistant for National Security Affairs, Records, 1952–61, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library.

Document 5B: "Memorandum of Conference with the President, July 24, 1958, following NSC," July 24, 1958. Formerly classified SECRET.(Note 8)

Source: Folder "Staff Memos July 1958 (11)," Box 35, Dwight D. Eisenhower Diary Series, Dwight D. Eisenhower Papers as President, 1953–61, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library.

The Pentagon scheduled a Nike-Hercules operational exercise and a second full-fledged Genie test to take


airspace "25 nautical miles horizontal distance from the nearest populated area" which had been a military training area for years and was routinely used to test Air Force weapons (albeit never nuclear arms).(Note 10) The U.S. Public Health Service also made arrangements to collect air, rainwater, milk, crop, and seafood samples in cooperation with health departments in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. "In all cases we were received most cordially and promised full cooperation," a senior USPHS official reported.(Note 11)

On June 27, 1958, Lewis Strauss, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and others discussed the Eglin operation with President Eisenhower. Strauss emphasized his belief that what he considered unnecessary tests of production nuclear arms might imperil future test activities he thought which were central to the AEC's mission.Dulles and his deputy, Christian Herter, expressed concern that neighboring nations might react poorly to the operation. Eisenhower decided that if the governments of Cuba or Mexico objected, "the matter would have to be reconsidered." A month later, as test preparations proceeded, another White House meeting was convened. Dulles reported to Eisenhower that "consultations" with Cuba and Mexico led him "to recommend strongly" that the nuclear operation be moved to the Pacific. The president then "approved transfer or cancellation" of the operation but requested "some study of some combination of activities to accomplish the same objectives." While the military moved to continue the operation in Florida with conventional rounds, Public Health Service officials contacted their state-level counterparts, informed them of the nuclear test halt, expressed appreciation for "complete


cooperation," and asked them to "forget our activities in the area."(Note 12) The request was heeded. There is no evidence that the 1958 test arrangements became known at the time.

Document 6: Revelation of Predelegation

Donald A. Quarles [Deputy Secretary of Defense] memorandum for the president (with attachments), October 13, 1958. Formerly classified CONFIDENTIAL.

Source: Folder "Department of Defense, Vol. III (3) [October–December 1958]," Box 1, Subject Series, Department of Defense Subseries, White House Office, Office of Staff Secretary, Records, 1952–61, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library.

Before the advent of nuclear antiaircraft weapons, any expenditure of atomic arms required explicit presidential permission. However, the Killian committee asserted in February 1955 that the brief and hectic period following the detection of a bomber attack made it difficult if not impossible to secure the necessarya hostile aircraft in the system." "You don't have to wire Washington?" the magazine asked in clarification. "No," Partridge replied. But he also explained, "[w]e probably would be on the phone talking to people when the thing went off."(Note 14)

This story produced little public or official reaction until New York Times reporter Jack Raymond cited the Partridge interview in an October 1958 story. Raymond caused a stir when he reported that the North American Air Defense Command was "authorized to fire a nuclear weapon in combat without the specific approval of President Eisenhower."(Note 15) Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles asked for an explanation. He was told that the Pentagon had previously approved the U.S. News article and that CONAD had used it on other prior occasions as a


basis for other briefings to journalists. Quarles countered that CONAD had received a broadly worded message a month before "countermanding" the prior permission to discuss the topic. Partridge responded that he disregarded this instruction because the communication was worded in a way which left it unclear if it was applicable to CONAD. Reporting this exchange to President Eisenhower, Quarles relayed Partridge's contrition, and also expressed sympathy for the general's confusion about the prevailing policy. In addition, Quarles reported to the president that the Pentagon was distributing more precise regulations to clarify the prohibition on public comment.

Document 7: Development of Small, Light-weight Nuclear Weapons

Paul Ager memorandum to Alfred D. Starbird, November 24, 1958. Formerly classified SECRET.

Source: Chuck Hansen Collection, box 28, Folder 3.

The Falcon air-to-air missile, developed by HughesAircraft, was designed originally to carry a conventional warhead. It was six and one-half feet long, had a small diameter, and tipped the scale at less than one hundred and fifty pounds. It was carried by the Air Force's F-102 interceptor. When the F-102 was slated to remain in service longer than intended, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay sought to field a nuclear version of the Falcon. However, the size and relatively weight of the Falcon airframe posed significant challenges for designers of the nuclear warhead destined for it, because Air Force wanted a warhead mated to the Falcon which required only modest missile modifications or performance inhibitions. When members of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy visited the AEC's Los Alamos laboratory and the


Sandia Corporation in November 1958, they heard apparently futile complaints that the precise dimensional limits imposed on the nuclear components threatened to greatly increase the warhead's development costs.

The W-54 warhead which was ultimately developed in 1959 for the Falcon was fifteen inches long, nearly eleven inches in diameter, and weighed only fifty pounds. When the Genie's 220-pound W-25 warhead was approved in 1956, it was state of the art. The fact that three years later a nuclear device could be produced that was a fraction of the W-25's size and weight demonstrates the trajectory and speed of the American nuclear weapon design effort in the period.

Document 8A and B: Accidents Happen

Document 8A: Memorandum, "Report of Special Weapons Incident [deleted], Bomarc Site, McGuire AFB, New Jersey," June 13, 1960.Formerly classified SECRET.

Source: Box 30, Folder 5, Chuck Hansen Collection.

Document 8B: "Airmunitions Letter," September 8, 1960. Formerly classified SECRET.

Source: Box 31, Folder 1, Chuck Hansen Collection.

On June 3, 1960, the BOMARC missile installation near McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey passed an inspection that evaluated the unit's nuclear warhead handling, safety, and security procedures. Nevertheless, four days later, a highly pressurized helium used in the BOMARC fueling process burst with explosive force in one of the missile launch shelters. This sparked an enormous fire. Airmen trained hoses on the conflagration, which kept the flames from spreading beyond the affected building, but the intense heat and flame enveloped one missile. As the fire was brought under control in the following hours, a specially trained seven-person nuclear-response team arrived


from a New York Air Force base. Spot checks across sixty-six square miles outside the facility's boundaries found no trace of radiation. Nonetheless, it was, according to an Air Defense Command history, "perhaps the worst" event involving any of the ADC's nuclear weapons. (Note 16)

Document 9A and B: The Cuban Missile Crisis

Document 9A: Cable from CINCNORAD, General John Gerhart to Joint Chiefs of Staff, CINCNORAD message 262345Z, October 27, 1962. Formerly classified TOP SECRET.(Note 17)

Source: Chief of Naval Operations Cuba history files, Boxes 58–72, Operational Archives, U.S. Naval Historical Center.

Document 9B: Joint Chiefs of Staff, War Room Journal, October 31, 1962. Formerly classified SECRET.

Source: National Security Archive Cuban Missile Crisis document collection, document no. CC01773, item 29.

The Eisenhower administration's air defense arrangements did not contemplate the possibility ofa bomber attack from the south, but the Cuban Missile Crisis raised fears about an strike on the southeastern United States by Soviet IL-28 bombers based in Cuba. With no antiaircraft missiles deployed in Florida or the adjacent areas in 1962, on October 24, NORAD commander John Gerhart ordered a mobile Nike-Hercules battalion to move by train from Fort Bliss, Texas, to the Miami area.

In a message to the Joint Chiefs, Gerhart worried about the adequacy of the Commander-in-Chief Atlantic's (CINCLANT) "operational plan" (or "OPLAN") that would go into effect if war broke out. "Rules of engagement for the Florida area prescribe the use of high explosive weapons only," but Gerhart believed that if Soviet bombers entered U.S. air space from Cuba it was "imperative to use weapons


a "pattern of actions elsewhere."(Note 18) The next day, Lieutenant General Theodore W. Parker, the Army's deputy chief of staff, then posted at the JCS war room, asked subordinates to determine if it was "a fact" that the Nike-Hercules sites across the nation had few nonnuclear warheads. The situation room log shows the reply: "For the most part this is true. There are two HE warheads in each of 34 sites." Parker also confirmed that the Nike-Hercules unit being shipped to Florida also had only high-explosive warheads on all seventy-two missiles it carried. Parker's inquiries and the JCS's stipulations makes clear that the latter had prohibited the use of nuclear antiaircraft weapons around Florida during the Missile Crisis, despite longstanding policies intended to facilitate the use of sucharms.

Notes

1. The Killian Commission is treated in Valerie L. Adams, Eisenhower's Fine Group of Fellows: Crafting a National Security Policy to Uphold the Great Equation (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2006), pp. 115–116; James R. Killian, Jr., Sputnik, Scientists, and Eisenhower: A Memoir of the First Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1977), p. 68; David L. Snead, The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999), pp. 35–40; McGeorge Bundy, Danger and Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years (New York: Random House, 1988), pp. 325–328; and Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954–1974 (Washington: Central Intelligence Agency, 1988).

2. "Memo from the Office of the Commander-in-Chief CON[tinental]A[ir]D[efense


decades ago. However, at least two scholars have misunderstood its significance since then, probably because other information was not available to place it in the proper context of antiaircraft weapons. Robert Divine suggested the subject was "an astonishing Pentagon proposal—to conduct tests of the experimental anti-missile missile, complete with an atomic warhead, over the Gulf of Mexico." (See Robert A. Divine, Blowing in the Wind: The Nuclear Test Ban Debate, 1954–1960 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978), p. 220.) Similarly, Stephen Ambrose characterized the discussions as related to "the ABM." (See Stephen E. Ambrose, Eisenhower: The President (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984), p. 477.)

9. Minutes of AEC-MLC conference attached to W.B. McCool memorandum for the Atomic Energy Commission, July 23, 1958; and SWPWT telex to CDR APOGImage copyright Thinkstock

Paint on playground equipment has been found to contain high amounts of the toxin lead - up to 40 times recommended levels, research suggests.

The study - published in the journal Science of the Total Environment - said the levels may pose a significant risk to young children.

Scientists from Plymouth University tested the content of paints on play equipment at 50 parks in England.

Expert Dr Andrew Turner said the levels were "completely avoidable".

Lead is listed among the top 10 "chemicals of major public health concern", by the World Health Organization (WHO).

'More dangerous'

European rules drawn up in 1977 suggest paint for playgrounds should contain no more than 0.25% lead.

But in one park in Plymouth, which was built in 2009, playground equipment recorded a 10% presence of the chemical


enforcement has become about this sort of thing. A helpful tipster sent me the Shelby County Sheriff's return of service and log of service attempts. The log generally supports the assertion (admitted by Shuler) that Shuler was evading service of process, which is part of the pattern of nutty pro se conduct that contributed to his trouble. But it also contains this entry describing the eventual traffic stop:

CONDUCTED A PRETEXT TRAFFIC STOP ON SHULER'S BLUE NISSAN AFTER OBSERVING IT ROLL THRU STOP SIGN AT MAC lAN/ KEITH DR; STOP WAS AT NORTH SHELBY LIBRARY; WARNING ISSUED FOR TRAFFIC VIOLATION AND BOTH PARTIES WERE SERVED WITH PAPERS, WHICH THEY DISCARDED IN THE PARKING LOT AS THEY LEFT.

Thanks to the United States Supreme Court, law enforcement can feel free toGoogle is bringing a second app to China as it looks to grow its presence in a huge market where most of its services are blocked.

The company said in a blog post Thursday that it has launched its file management tool, Files Go, in four Chinese app stores. The app was released in the United States in December.

Many of Google's (GOOGL) best-known services -- such as search, Gmail, YouTube and Maps -- are banned or widely inaccessible in China, the world's largest smartphone market. But Files Go is unlikely to upset the country's censors -- it suggests files to delete, organizes images, videos and documents, and lets users share files offline.

Related: Google is opening an artificial intelligence center in China

Google effectively left China in 2010, but the country's


hundreds of millions of internet users make it too large a market to ignore. The company has been hunting for ways to expand there in recent years.

It released its language translation app in China a year ago. The company said the number of users of Google Translate in China grew 400% in the first five months. It declined to give the current number of users.

Related: Google's man-versus-machine showdown blocked in China

Google faces challenges getting more services into the country, including stricter censorship regulations and increased scrutiny of foreign tech companies.

The company's own app store, Google Play, remains blocked in China, which means that for Android phone users, Files Go and Google Translate are only available on third-party app stores, like the ones run by Chinese smartphone makers Huaweimaintained in the active condition to another condition indicating that the differential amplifier circuit should be brought into the inactive condition.
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Abbot, Costello and Napoleon life has been cut short.

As young kits a man found the three babies in his barn. His daughter-in-law decided she wanted to try to raise them because they were cute. We’ll never know if mom was nearby or not. She could have just stepped out to forage and come back, frantic to discover her babies were missing. This woman illegally kept the three babies for three or four days before finding out who to send them to in order to have them cared for properly. It is illegal in the state of Maine to attempt to raise any wild animal without proper licensing. These laws are in place to protect the people as well as the animals, and the fines can be up tovector species, but are not the only animals that can contract rabies.

The rehabber assured her that for a few weeks they would be in quarantine, which is required for any rabies vector species that comes into the rescue, and if they showed signs of the virus she would be informed immediately. A rehabber was assigned to raise these babies. She began waking up every few hours throughout the night to feed them, burp them and care for them. Time, energy and money were spent with the hopes of releasing these babies back into the wild where they belong.

Two weeks after handing the babies over to Misfits Rehab a relative of the woman who “rescued” the little ones found a dead female lactating raccoon on the property. He called


would leave her alone the mom will return" people didn't believe her. Unfortunately that mother deer probably returned from foraging and was devastated because her baby wasn't where she left her.

About Me

Katrina Ray-Saulis is a writer living on the Maine coast. She has a BFA in Creative Writing from the New Hampshire Institute of Art. Katrina lives with her wife, fellow writer and artist Trisha Ray-Saulis, in an apartment much smaller than their book collection. She thrives off of coffee and literature and uses sitcoms to quiet her overactive mind.Interior Minister Eli Yishai on Wednesday apologized to the families of the Israel Defense Forces soldiers killed during the Second Lebanon War, a day after he declared that Israel had failed in the Second Lebanon War because the troops did not "raise their eyes to God" and pray.

"The bereaved families and the fallen soldiers are holy to the people of Israel," said Yishai, adding that the remarks attributed to him were taken out of context, despite have been recorded.

Open gallery view Interior Minister Eli Yishai. Credit: Moti Milrod

"The quotes attributed to me were taken with intentional bias, and are not correct. When people believe, it is clear to us that the victories in the wars of Israel are dependent on faith in the creator of the world."

An aide


to the interior minister said that the recording had boiled Yishai's 15-minute speech into just one moment, leading to a misunderstanding of his remarks. "Everyone who was at this event know that it was not what the minister said," according to the aide.

"When people believe, it is clear to us that everything is dependent on his faith, and we are still allowed to be religious in this country.

When asked why Yishai had apologized if he had not said the words attributed to him, members of his close circle explained that the minister had taken into account "the families affected" but the remarks.

At a celebration on Tuesday, Yishai took to the podium and compared the 2006 Second Lebanon War to the successes of the 1967 Six Day War, when"all Arab states fought against Israel."

"There were at least one hundred soldiers against every Jewish soldier, if not thousands," Yishai said, "against every tank, hundreds of tanks; against every plane, hundreds of plane."

The interior minister was quoted as saying that the IDF achieved more in 1967 because the soldiers put their faith in God, whereas during the Second Lebanon War, the IDF soldiers invested trust only in their own abilities.

"In the Six Day War, every Jew, and every Jew that went to battle, raised their eyes to the creator," the Interior Minister said. But in the Second Lebanon War, Yishai was quoted as saying, the IDF relied only on its own strength.

"This is a great lesson," Yishai said. "When all Arab states are against the Jewish people, what


History at the table: conflict in planning in a community in the rural American South.
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Venice, California-based visual effects house Kevin, founded by Tim Davies, Sue Troyan and Darcy Parsons, has beefed up its team even further with the hiring of head of CG Mike Dalzell, VFX supervisor Theo Maniatis and head of technology Carl Loeffler. This three-month-old studio has already worked on spots for Jaguar, Land Rover, Target and Old Spice, and is currently working on a series of commercials for the Super Bowl.

Dalzell brings years of experience as a CG supervisor and lead artist — he started as a 3D generalist before focusing on look development and lighting — at top creative studios including Digital Domain, MPC and Psyop, The Mill, Sony Imageworks and Method. He was instrumental in look development for VFX Gold Clio


Millions of people have fallen silent to remember the nation's war dead, as the UK marks Armistice Day.

Among those paying tribute at the National Memorial Arboretum was 99-year-old World War Two veteran Les Cherrington.

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Now he was seated at the circular kitchen table with Julian and Whimsy along with the two werewolves, Eli Hammond


a couple of people, and he was accustomed to being in a quiet house with just Grandpa, as it had been for years before Grandpa died.

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He sat quietly and sipped his iced tea, listening to the others laughing and chatting. Questions filled his brain, but he wasn’t sure where to begin, and he didn’t want to interrupt. They seemed relaxed and comfortable withRSS would not have been there if Patel had become the Prime Minister in place of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru," Singh told reporters at the Raja Bhoj airport here last night after Modi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took potshots at each other's parties in Ahmedabad over the legacy of Patel, the country's first home minister.

"Modi must keep in mind that it was he (Patel) who had banned the RSS for inciting communal violence," he said.


In the following essay, Jennifer Evans examines the development and portrayal of female characters in Ngugi's Petals of Blood. Evans discusses how the African woman, so often sketched as a passive image, is in Ngugi's writing both repository of traditional values and active on the forefront of change; thus Ngugi's female characters act as the thread of historical continuity in his work.

"The story of this heroic resistance: who will sing it ? Their struggles to defend their land, their wealth: who'll tell of it?" asks the narrator in Ngugi's Petals of Blood. Ngugi himself, as poet-historian, has taken up the challenge to tell the people's history. In his novels he presents the lives of ordinary Kenyan men and women, seen in the context of the vital continuity ofafter attending the prestigious Oscar awards, where the movie swept the ceremony bagging eight awards. They were taken to Universal Studios and Disneyland where they are said to have had a whale of a time. After a fun afternoon, the children came back to the hotel only to jump into the pool “fully clothed.”

The youngsters were welcomed by all celebrities on the red carpet. While the younger ones were busy clicking pictures and giving interviews, Madhur Mittal, who played Dev Patel’s brother in the movie, was approached by Will Smith himself. Needless to say, Mittal was star struck.

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sweeten the pot, the Sounders Women have called a press conference for Tuesday with co-owner Lane Smith “to answer questions regarding women’s professional soccer in the United States, the Sounders Women stance and situation within that process, and organizational developments within the Sounders Women.”

The Sounders Women did not respond to a Friday night email inquiring about the situation, though Tuesday could provide some answers. Predmore and Carnell could not discuss any developments of the new league (nor can anyone other than Gulati at this point, frankly).

Things are getting interesting in Seattle, which is undoubtedly a critical piece of the puzzle in the women’s professional soccer landscape due to its leadership in developing American soccer culture.Sino-Indian border standoff

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India that the Chinese look down on their military power," the editorial said.The almost three-week-long stand-off between India and China was sparked by Beijing starting to build a road in the Donglang area of the Sikkim sector, in violation of a 2012 agreement with India."We firmly believe that the face-off in the Donglang area will end up with the Indian troops in retreat. The Indian military can choose to return to its territory with dignity, or be kicked out of the area by Chinese soldiers," the editorial said."This time, we must teach New Delhi a bitter lesson," it added.particular disclosed embodiment of the foregoing scheme, the first carrier for the frequency-converted chrominance component has its phase unchanged throughout the recording of the video signals in a respective track, while the second carrier for the chrominance component recorded in the next adjacent track has its phase inverted or changed by 180.degree. for successive line intervals in the case of recording NTSC color video signals, or after every two line intervals in the case of recording PAL color video signals. When a head scans a particular track for reproducing the video signals recorded therein, the chrominance component of cross-talk signals from the tracks next adjacent to the scanned track can be conveniently suppressed or eliminated, for example, with the aide of a simple comb filter, by reason of


Veterans are lashing out at Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America over comments the president made in response to their criticism that Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson would not be included in Wednesday's candidate forum.

The backlash has caused at least one donor, Duke Cannon Supply Co. (a men's grooming supply company that markets to and is well respected by veterans), to pull its partnership from the IAVA.

On Tuesday, IAVA had publicly thanked Duke for its partnership. Shortly after, Duke publicly announced that it was "NO LONGER proud to count the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America among our roster of philanthropic partners." Duke thanked the "Veteran community for keeping us informed of right and wrong #NotForClowns."

So what happened? Well, IAVA is hosting a Commander in Chief forum Wednesdaynight, but the only two candidates invited were Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. This angered many, many veterans who support Johnson, and they voiced their criticism to IAVA.

"If you don't let Johnson debate, you can't claim to be a group that speaks for veterans in any way," wrote one person.

"It's shameful for a veterans group to not invite the candidate most popular with veterans," wrote another.

Marine blogger Aaron Ferencik has been one of the most vocal critics of Reickhoff, accusing him on his blog, The Burn Pit, of being partisan and perhaps exaggerating his military service.

Meanwhile, Nicholas Sarwark, chair of the Libertarian National Committee, has threatened legal action against IAVA over its refusal to invite Johnson.

Many angry veterans contacted Duke and other sponsors. On a Facebook page about