and was in military service (from April 16, 1952). They were divorced, after eleven years, by decree dated December 6, 1965. Slightly less than seven years thereafter, on September 1, 1972, the defendant retired from military service. Service in the military by defendant was continuous, being slightly in excess of twenty years.
The parties resided in Arizona until 1959; from 1959 to 1963 defendant was stationed in Alaska; and from the latter part of July in 1963 to time of the 1965 divorce he was stationed in Texas. The parties' separation took place the latter part of 1964; it was approximately one year thereafter they were divorced. A judgment of divorce was granted upon petition of the husband in a suit wherein the wife, though served with citation, whollywere residents in Texas for only the last two years of those during the parties' coverture, having resided in Arizona and Alaska before the last two years.
By this a question is created as result of residence in different states, during the entire period of which we must consider that the right of the defendant to military retirement benefits was accruing.
Was the trial court correct in dealing with the retirement benefits as though all rights thereto accumulated by the parties had been because they were Texas residents (whereby the entire amount as of the date of the divorce, should be treated as ruled by the laws of Texas), or, should the trial court have considered the amounts accrued while the parties resided in Arizona and Alaska (so that as


Much has been written about whether Congressional candidate Bill Lynch will benefit from his brother Patrick's decision to drop out of the Democratic gubernatorial primary. But Patrick's decision could have far broader impacts on the political landscape.

To wit: without an expensive, highly contested Democratic primary for governor, candidates for Congress and statewide office have a much better chance of poking through the election-year chatter to reach voters.

Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch, candidate for governor, scored a key labor endorsement a couple of weeks ago from the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 328. But Lynch, who has been courting labor and other progressives as he mounts a run to the left of Democratic rival Frank Caprio, has a labor problem.

He recently announced opposition to a bill thatwould allow Deepwater Wind to circumvent the state's Public Utilities Commission in building a small wind farm, precursor to a much larger project.

The pronouncements of political scientists don't always square with reality. But one oft-repeated bit of punditry in the run-up to the gubernatorial race is proving quite prescient: it's hard to run for governor from the attorney general's chair. Criminal probes often attract unwanted controversy. And that's certainly in evidence with this morning's exhaustive piece in the ProJo about Attorney General Patrick Lynch's friendship with Central Falls Mayor Charles M.

As reported here last week, Governor Carcieri was part of a group of 20 governors who penned a letter voicing opposition to the EPA's planned regulation of greenhouse gases. Attorney General Patrick Lynch is now blasting the governor


on the inside pages today on Frank Caprio's gubernatorial campaign releasing results on a single question from a campaign poll: Caprio, according to the campaign, has a 17-point lead on his Democratic rival, Patrick Lynch, among likely Democratic primary voters.

The topline figures in last week's WPRI-TV poll were not great news for Attorney General Patrick Lynch, as he tries to outmanuever Treasurer Frank Caprio for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. The poll gave Caprio higher job performance ratings and had him virtually tied with independent Lincoln Chafee in a general election matchup.

Patrick Lynch's campaign issued a press release this morning titled "Caprio to Run as a Republican?," which cites a radio interview with John Dodenhoff, former campaign manager for Steve Laffey, suggesting that a Frank Caprio campaign representative approachedhim about running as a Republican.

The press release goes on to suggest that Caprio is too conservative for the Democratic Party.

Before Democratic gubernatorial candidates Frank Caprio and Patrick Lynch filed their quarterly campaign finance reports yesterday, we knew the broad outlines: Lynch, who has trailed Caprio by a wide margin in fundraising to date, was finally raising money at roughly the same pace as his rival.

Patrick Lynch has been, by far, the most aggressive voice in the nascent gubernatorial campaign. Today he takes a swipe at Governor Carcieri and his "trickle-down economics" in anticipation of the governor's State of the State address - a red-meat attack for the hardcore Democrats Lynch is trying to court in the primary - and touts anew a plan to overhaul the state's


for wearing apparel and entertainment. He seeks to recover damages. The case was tried to a jury resulting in a verdict for the plaintiff in the amount of $7,500. The defendant filed a motion for a new trial and an amended motion for a new trial which were overruled. From this order, the defendant appeals to this court.
For convenience we will refer to the parties as they were designated in the district court.
The plaintiff was born in Poland, and came to the United States when he was a little over 17 years of age. At the time of trial he was 57 years of age, and engaged in the occupation of a blacksmith, employed by the Union Pacific Railroad Company in Omaha, which employment he obtained after arrivingfrom Jamaica, New *268 York, after Labor Day in 1946. He was married to his first wife in New York, on June 30, 1918. She died on March 22, 1941. His family consists of three sons and a daughter. In 1937, he was employed in a ship yard in Jersey City, as a blacksmith. This employment continued until he quit and came to Nebraska.
The defendant was from the same town in Poland as the plaintiff's first wife. She met the plaintiff and his wife in New York in 1919, and visited them on occasions. Shortly after the death of the plaintiff's wife in 1941, while visiting with his cousin in Jamaica, New York, the plaintiff again met the defendant. He and his cousin called at her home. During


this visit the defendant told the plaintiff that she was sorry for him, that he had a good wife, and for him not to cry, he was still young and could find another woman to marry him as he had a good trade with good wages. She also told the plaintiff that there was a play at the Polish Home that evening, and induced him to meet her there. At this function there was music and dancing. He took no part in the festivities. She asked him to take her home, which he did not do. Thereafter, either on April or May 27, 1941, he received a letter from the defendant, apparently in response to one he had written, to the effect that she would meet him underthe clock at the railroad station in order to save him a trip. He did meet her as suggested in the letter. There were several letters written by the defendant in evidence that pertain to the parties meeting each other, and disclosing some affection and endearing terms.
The plaintiff further testified that the defendant had asked him to marry her, and later in 1941, he asked her to marry him. Each thought it would be best to wait for a year after the death of the plaintiff's wife. On several occasions when the question arose, the defendant requested the plaintiff to wait until such time as their children required no further parental care. The plaintiff had two sons in military service and the defendant had one son in the


service in the Second World War. During this period of time the defendant requested the plaintiff to leave with her certain sums of money for safekeeping, for the purpose of procuring a home after the marriage, and to live in some degree of comfort. The plaintiff kept an account of this money. It appears from his testimony that in 1941, he gave the defendant $1,800, in 1942, $650, and in 1943, a total of $500. In addition thereto, he expended on the defendant for entertainment, clothes, and other items approximately $1,320 over a period of 5½ years.
Plaintiff further testified that the defendant promised to marry him in 1945 and in 1946. Before she married him, she desired to dispose of her home and a grocery business which shehad operated from the time of her husband's death. He advised her it would be all right to negotiate the sale.
The defendant made a trip to Omaha to visit her uncle, and at that time wrote a postal card to the plaintiff. Thereafter she informed the plaintiff that they would be married in Omaha, and have a small wedding. The plaintiff had the defendant's address in Omaha. He quit his employment and went to Omaha where the defendant was to meet him at the railroad station. She failed to do so. He took a taxicab to the address that had been given him. When he arrived there, a Mr. Mishak came to the door. The plaintiff inquired if the defendant lived there, and Mr. Mishak told him that


he did not know any such person. The defendant then came out on the porch. Mr. Mishak went back into the house, and defendant closed the door. She told the plaintiff that she was married, and asked him not to destroy her happiness. She told him that she would pay him $3,500. He told her he had spent three times that amount, and if she would pay that, he would walk out. He testified that was the last conversation he had with the defendant.
With reference to the letters in evidence, written by the defendant to the plaintiff, it is apparent that all of these letters were written in 1941 and 1942, prior to the time the plaintiff moved to Jamaica, New York. The plaintiff testified that the defendant*269 wanted him to live closer to her. The plaintiff asked her on many occasions to marry him. She always wanted to wait. He believed and relied upon her promises to marry him, which she failed and refused to perform.
The defendant testified that she was 55 years of age; that her family consisted of three sons and a daughter; that she first met the plaintiff in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on the street with his wife; that she moved to Jamaica, New York, where she and her husband engaged in the grocery business for 19 years; and that after the death of her husband in 1937, she operated the store, with the help of her children, for 6 years. When the plaintiff called at her house in 1941, he


displayed an interest in her. At that time she thought nothing of it, and finally decided to go out with him to ascertain whether or not it would be to her best interest to marry him. She concluded that it would not be to her best interest to marry him. She did go with him for approximately 2 years and 2 months. She sold her business and home in 1943. She told him she was not ready to marry, that she was not going to marry him or any one else, and wished that he would go and get himself some one else. That was before she sold the store. She told him the same thing afterward, and did not encourage him to marry her, but told himto leave her alone, to forget about her. Subsequent to selling her store, she did housework for wages. On many occasions the plaintiff came to her home and ate Sunday dinner with her. She denied that plaintiff ever gave her any money to keep for him, that she owed him anything, that he bought her anything such as clothes or shoes, and that she ever promised to repay him $3,500 or any other amount. She also denied his testimony that she returned $120 to him when his daughter was ill, but stated that on occasions she had loaned him money which he paid back. She further testified that she was self-supporting, and that she did not marry Stanley Mishak until September 26, 1946.
Robert Czyz testified that he was


the son of the defendant, lived with her in Omaha, and that he was engaged as a florist at Brandeis store. He testified that he had known the plaintiff and saw him around the store in Jamaica, New York, and that the plaintiff came to his mother's house a great many times, even after they had moved from the grocery store. He would come to dinner on Sunday. The plaintiff would happen to drop in, and when the mother of this witness came from church, they would eat dinner. He further testified that nobody would talk to the plaintiff, and many times when he came they would not answer the door, and endeavored to have nothing to do with him nor to answer his telephone calls. On occasionsTags

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Red Dead Redemption 2 is an videogame that introduced a new feature allowing players to pet all dogs in the screen, which was a huge success, making players spend hours trying to pet every single animal in the game. Abandoned Pet Redemption is be an update to the game that will help abandoned animals by turning virtual petting into real life adoptions.
The update will replace all the animals in the game for avatars of real cats and dogs abandoned in shelters near the player. Whenever a player finishes the game, he will receive an email with the photo of the dog he petted most in the game, with a summary of the time spend playing with it and a link to adopt it in real life.

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and rear corner outside isle positions, (alternating left-right to the opposite side each week). An improvement would be an additional member in place as or near a greeter at the door, and another enhancement would be a member in a car in the parking lot, able to watch the mannerisms and “tells” of folks coming in cars and or walking towards the church. Consider that a mega-church would of course require a far larger staff. By the way, the Colorado Springs Church CO mega-church in 2007 had a successful stop-the-killing response from one, (of several), volunteer armed church guards. Jeanne Assam stopped a rifleman bearing multiple firearms and carrying hundreds of rounds who had already murdered that day.

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A member of the congregation willand when he usually had his lunch (he was not there then). What we can learn from this is that with a very determined active killer, a uniformed guard could be the very first victim of RMM. Therefore, a “Plainclothes Surprise” is recommended.

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About the author: Ron Borsch is a staff instructor for the Kent Martial Arts Club and a Viet Nam veteran, (1965-66 U.S. Army 101st Airborne Paratrooper). Ron’s 30 year law enforcement career included 20 years as Rangemaster, Pistol Team Captain and 17 years as a SWAT operator and trainer. Concluding his law enforcement career and retaining a police commission, he semi-retired as an agency consultant. Along with support from the 7 SEALE Chiefs of Police from 1998 to 2015, Ron initiated, managed and


NEW YORK — Nickelodeon is ending its relationship with longtime producer Dan Schneider, who has been with the network since 1993. The power player is one of the most prolific creators of children's television, and masterminded some of Nickelodeon's top shows, including "Henry Danger" and "iCarly."

Schneider has worked with the children's television network since 1993. Some of his other hits include "Drake & Josh," "Victorious" and "Kenan & Kel." He is credited with discovering talent like Ariana Grande, Amanda Bynes, Jami Lynn Spears and Victoria Justice.

In a joint statement, Nickelodeon, Schneider and his production company, Schneider's Bakery, agreed it "is a natural time" to pursue other opportunities and projects because several Schneider's Bakery projects are wrapping up.

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The decision followed conversations "about nextand where it can take us," says Disney historian Mindy Johnson.

"We as adults need to return to that sometimes and this is a constant reminder of that -- to regain our sense of wonder, magic and imagination," she told AFP at the Disney lot in Burbank, California.

Barrie, a Scottish writer, created Pan in stories that he told the sons of his friend Sylvia Llewelyn-Davies, naming the character for the youngest of the boys and the Greek god of the woodlands.

His 1904 play and 1911 novel follow the Darling children -- Wendy, John and Michael -- as the mischievous Peter and his fairy friend Tinker Bell whisk them off to the magical island of Never Land.

They visit Peter's secret hideout with the Lost Boys and leap into high-flying battles


with the infamous villain Captain Hook, who has his own problems as the quarry of Tick-Tock the Croc.

"Here is a story, it seemed to me, which had never been quite fulfilled, despite its wonderful career on the living stage, a story which deserved the added dimension of animation on the screen," Walt Disney said.

A million drawings The impresario deployed his elite animation team -- known affectionately as the "Nine Old Men" -- and they completed around a million drawings, taking around a week each to come up with five seconds of footage.

Kathryn Beaumont was 12 when she was chosen to voice Wendy, and to double as a model that the animators could attach to high-wire rigging whenever they needed reminding of what children look like flying.

She had alreadyvoiced the titular character in "Alice In Wonderland" (1951) and is the only actress in the world who can boast of spending time in both Wonderland and Never Land.

Beaumont, who spent most of her working life as a teacher but still lives near the Disney studio lot, remembers Walt inviting her to visit the various departments making the movie, from animation to ink and paint.

"It was a learning experience but I was so fascinated, and the fact that he allowed me to go freely through these places to learn about all that was just wonderful," the 79-year-old told AFP.

"So I had a lovely few years working with Walt Disney and getting to know him as a person."

While 2018 is a significant milestone, it also marks a darker aspect


of the production -- the 50th anniversary of the death of Bobby Driscoll, the child star who voiced Peter.

After filming ended, Disney told Driscoll he would be better suited to "young bully" roles and then canceled his contract altogether, blaming the sudden onset of severe acne.

'Delightful' Driscoll, a Hollywood outcast by his late teens, started using heroin and divorce, jail time and unemployment followed. He was found dead, alone and in penury, in an abandoned building a few days after turning 31.

Beaumont shared the stage for the live-action aspect of her role with another actor but remembers her voice work with Driscoll as a "lovely experience."

The movie became one of Disney's biggest hits, contributing to the struggling studio's economic recovery that had begun a few years earlier with"Cinderella" (1950).

The delightfully impish Tink went on to embody the magic of Disney, hosting a TV series and appearing at theme parks, as well as starring in her own spin-off movies.

More recently, there was the smash-hit spin-off, "Hook" (1991), a moderately successful sequel -- "Return to Neverland" (2002) -- a 2003 live-action remake and an ill-advised 2015 prequel called "Pan."

"Tink," a live-action film with Reese Witherspoon in the title role, is in the works and the 1953 movie gets a new release jam-packed with extras on Blu-ray on Tuesday to mark the anniversary.

The New York Daily News declared on February 12, 1953 that "Peter Pan" was one of Disney's best productions and closer to Barrie's conception than any other adaptation.

"So many writers, artists, directors, decorators and colors stylists


Trump reiterates 'America first' policy

U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated the need to push his 'America first' agenda and his aggressive stance on the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in his weekly address. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).Cheryl HENG and WhooKiat HENG (Japan)

Cheryl, currently based in Tokyo, is a closet-architect/dancer/2-days-&-counting-experimental horsefiddle (morin khuur) player. A trained architect, she is presently doing research in the area of scenography under a Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry scholarship. Her most recent agenda dabbles with non-vision artspace.

Kiat, currently based in Singapore, is an experimental architect/designer. Trained as an architect, shackled by a 8-year contract, he holds a full time job in the area of arts & heritage development. A founding member of Po.D architecture (www.podarchitecture.com), his design research with Po.D has traveled to major European museums and events such as the Vitra Museum , Museu de Les Arts Decoratives of Barcelona and Archilab. Latest projects include the website thinktankthinktank (www.thinktankthinktank.com).

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Time of Legends: Joan of Arc is a narrative miniatures board game that plunges you into the heart of the Hundred Years’ War. In this dark, medieval universe, kings plot for the throne of France, and on the battlefield their heroic knights clash with foes both real and legendary.
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“I will be engaging more fully in discussion with the commission in light of the failings in its report and particularly in its press release.”

The Electoral Commission is making three main recommendations to tighten up the electoral system – sustained action to tackle the risk of electoral fraud, restricting the involvement of campaigners in absent vote administration processes by the 2015 elections, and introducing a requirement for voters to produce ID at polling stations, to be implemented after the 2015 elections.

Regarding the first recommendation, the commission said that, before the May elections this year, action must be taken to protect


of the atomic hydrogen. This contributed to the dissociation of hydrogen and methane, increasing the concentration of hydrogen and methyl radicals, which are required for the successful growth of diamonds. The diamond films grown at a different power of the heating activator, different flow rates of methane and hydrogen, and the different duration of the synthesis have been investigated by SEM, Raman scattering, XPS, and NEXAFS spectroscopies. It was shown that the diamond micro-crystals of 30 μm in size were grown on the Mo substrates when the power of heating was 1700--1800 W, which corresponded to the temperature of the tungsten heater of ca. 2700 K. While spherical microparticles with a large fraction of oxygenated graphitic-like carbon were grown at the low heating power of 900 W (2400My wife’s 83-year-old grandmother, a teetotalling Buddhist, has had enough of the coronavirus lockdown and has taken to the drink.

She lived through a Japanese invasion, a world war, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, but being confined to her home for weeks on end has changed the active octogenarian’s lifelong habit and sent her scurrying to the back of dusty cabinets to fish out some weary plonk left over from a long-forgotten family gathering.

My mother-in-law and the grandmother called us before noon the other day, the pair of them half cut, to toast our toddler daughter Cara and wish her a happy and healthy life.

Cara, not yet two years old, has had her fill of the current situation too. Since the new year she has rarely


no longer be ignored. At that point the party takes out its dog-eared formula: local (party) officials are nailed to the hammer and sickle; mass mobilisation efforts inspire awe and garner domestic and worldwide plaudits; the party, as the saviour, takes a deep bow. And on it goes.

After the death of the whistleblowing doctor Li Wenliang in early February, struck down by the same virus he tried to warn his friends and family about, literally billions of messages expressing outrage appeared online – his plight somehow crystallising the collective anger of a nation at its system.

A memorial for Dr Li Wenliang, the whistleblowing doctor who died from the coronavirus in Wuhan, China, outside the UCLA campus in Westwood, California. Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images

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60 and 80 building sites – even village officials aren’t sure how many – finally will have new houses on them, and Franklin’s 1,677-acres will be declared full. The lion’s share of this project is being done by Andrew Milia, 35, who bought his first Franklin lot when he was 27 and has developed 65 lots in the town so far-which probably makes him Franklin’s biggest developer. Milia was a young man at a commercial real estate firm when he bought a house for himself in Franklin.

He liked the area and started buying single, empty lots around his own subdivision as a private investment. In 1988, when the new sewer began to look inevitable, he bought blocks of land – mostly in the clay fields south of 1315 houses on 18-acres, also on the south end of town, in a subdivision they call Stonegate. VILLAGE REQUIRES REVIEWS Building in Franklin takes a very long time, and Milia and Gerry Brody have been willing to spend it. Other communities have a two-step process. In Franklin, Milia said, the review has seven steps.

“In the last two years, I’ve been at the village council meeting 22 out of the 24 months.” What does Franklin want? It wants few buildings breaking up the natural features for which it is famous – including the Rouge River and some stunning rocky ravines. “The topography is outstanding here,” said Sue Davis who chairs the village planning commission. “Everything from the hills to the ravines, the wetlands, the trees, the vegetation, the river,


at Google what you're
saying is they're selecting for young people, rich people, male people - ie,
all the people that can afford to be spending their spare time on interview
preparation as well as holding down a day job. Go explain to a mother of 2
that the reason she can't get a job at Google is because she can't spend her
evenings and weekends on hacker rank despite a job at Google never really
requiring work at evenings and weekends.

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What you say may be true, but there's a loophole for women that Google does
specifically: at least in the Zurich office interns are 90% female. Also
Google made a new category, called step interns (interns who are in the first
years in university). They generally just need to be young, have good reviews,
and this way
169 So.2d 69 (1964)
246 La. 976
Wilbur Joseph CORMIER
v.
TRADERS & GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY et al.
Nos. 47161, 47162.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
November 13, 1964.
Rehearing Denied December 15, 1964.
Hall, Raggio & Farrar, R. W. Farrar, Jr., Lake Charles, for defendants-relators (No. 47,161) and respondent (No. 47,162).
Francis E. Mire, Lake Charles, for plaintiff-respondent (Nos. 47,161, 47,162).
Plauche & Stockwell, Fred H. Sievert, Jr., Lake Charles, for respondent (No. 47,161) and applicant (No. 47,162).
FOURNET, Chief Justice.
In granting these writs of certiorari on the application of the relators Joseph P. Constance, Traders & General Insurance Company, his collision insurer, and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, a third party defendant and insurer of the vehicle in which Mrs. Lee Ann Fontenot, a guest passenger, was injured as a result of its collision with the Constance vehicle


Following her release from the hospital she was confined to bed for one week, then used a wheel chair for approximately three weeks, and thereafter she used crutches until January, 1963, which was approximately eight months after the date of the accident. It has not been necessary for her to use crutches since that time. At the time of the trial she walked with a limp, there was some swelling in her leg when she had been on it, and full strength had not yet returned to her left hand. Her treating physician testified, however, that the limp was a natural reaction to the long period of time in which her leg was in a cast, that the swelling would gradually subside, and that she would regain strength'I feel like my life is starting over again': Grandmother freed by Trump after Kim Kardashian West's appeal reunites with family outside of prison Alice Marie Johnson's life sentence drew notice from Kim Kardashian West.

Alice Johnson, a 63-year-old grandmother serving a life sentence on drug charges, had an emotional reunion with her family Wednesday after her sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump.

The cause to release Johnson was championed by reality TV star Kim Kardashian West, a White House official told ABC News.

Kardashian West was the one who broke the news to Johnson that she was going to be released, Johnson told reporters outside of the prison in Aliceville, Alabama, where she was being held.

Johnson said she heard her name called over the intercom for her to report


to her case manager when she heard Kardashian West's voice.

"I was free," Johnson said Kardashian West told her. "I was going to rejoin my family."

Johnson said she wanted to thank the president for giving her "another chance" at life.

"I feel like my life is starting over again," she said. "It's a miracle day."

When asked what it was like to see her family for the first time since she was freed, Johnson rejoiced that she wasn't wearing handcuffs.

"I'm free to hug my family," she said. "I'm free to live life. I'm free to start over. This is the greatest day of my life. My heart is just bursting with gratitude."

Kardashian West shared Johnson's enthusiasm.

"Best News Ever!!" Kardashian tweeted of the news and later added additional thanks to the administrationwill always be very tough on crime, it believes that those who have paid their debt to society and worked hard to better themselves while in prison deserve a second chance," the White House said in a statement.

Kardashian West personally advocated for a presidential pardon who, as a first-time offender, was given a mandatory life sentence plus 25 years in 1997 for her role in a cocaine distribution ring.

In a tweet last week, the president said he and Kardashian West talked about "prison reform and sentencing" during their recent visit in the Oval Office of the White House. Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and advisor also met with West to discuss his efforts on prison reform.

Kardashian West, in an interview with Mic following that visit last week, said she


Kardashian West took an interest in her mother's case.

“She could have just saw the video or read an article or whatever and just said oh that's a shame or whatever and went on with her life, but she didn't, she chose to get involved in a major way,” Johnson said of Kardashian.

The Johnson gathered letters of recommendations from her warden and members of Congress in their initial effort to seek clemency from President Barack Obama.

Trump is currently considering nearly a dozen appeals for clemency on top of the five formal pardons he has issued so far, White House officials tell ABC News.

Administration officials say the president is not only contemplating possible pardons – which wipes out a conviction – but also commutations, which leave the conviction intact andExplore This Park

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A Centuries-Old Forest

Sailors Haven is home to one of the best known areas of Fire Island National Seashore—the Sunken Forest. It is located near the center of the island, across the Great South Bay from Sayville, New York. It is accessible by Sayville Ferry, private boat, and foot only.

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Join a ranger-guided tour of or walk through the globally-rare Sunken Forest, fish in the Great South Bay, swim at a lifeguarded beach in summer, or comb the beach for sea shells. Don't forget to stop by the National Park Service Visitor Center to explore the touch table and fish tanks and grab your passport stamp, or a souvenir at the gift shop.

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Sally Livingstone is known to hang around Confederation Park on Laurier Avenue, as well as Ottawa City Hall.

UPDATE, November 26: Police have located Sally Livingstone safe and sound.

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The Ottawa Police Service is asking for the public's help in finding Sally Livingstone, who was last seen on O'Connor Street, downtown.

Police say there are concerns for her safety, as the 38-year-old hasn't been seen since November 15.

Livingstone frequents Confederation Park on Laurier Avenue, as well as Ottawa City Hall.

She is described as:

White

5' 7'' (170 cm)

Slim build

Short, dyed blond hair

Piercing in her ears and eyebrow

Possibly travelling on a red mountain bike

Anyone with information on Livingstone is asked to call the OPS Missing Persons Unit 613-236-1222 x 2355, Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Anonymous tips can be submitted by callingState charges of armed robbery which Potter asserts are pending against him, and the withdrawal of a detainer which was placed with the Attorney General of the United States. Potter's application was based upon the claim that he was being deprived, by the State, of the right to a speedy trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and by the State Constitution as well.

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The only substantial distinction between Potter's case and the case of McWhorter v. Kennedy, United States Attorney General, 8 Cir., 324 F.2d 793, opinion filed December 6, 1963, is that McWhorter, also a federal prisoner under sentence for armed bank robbery, claimed that the Attorney General was under the duty to see that the State of Ohio did not


Democratic, the odds of a tax credit reinstatement are higher. The winning arguments may revolve around climate change issues and supporting new technologies.

For 2019, however, the No. 1 automotive/climate change discussion revolves around how much control California and a dozen other states have in setting their own pollution rules. For decades, California, because of its unique pollution issues especially in the Los Angeles basin, has had the choice of following federal air pollution regulations or setting its own. Thirteen other states have chosen to use California’s emissions rules: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

In July, four automakers cut a deal with California to adopt even tougher tailpipe emission rules. That effectively snubbed President Trump’s goal offourth. Thursday is an off day, with the medal round starting on Friday.

The 1-4 game will be played at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, and 2-3 will be at 6 p.m. that night. The losers of those two games will play for the bronze medal starting at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, and the two winners of those semifinals will meet at 6 p.m. to decide who gets the gold and who gets the silver. It’s all getting much clearer now.

Win or lose, the United States has three games left: tomorrow against Japan, the first elimination game against Cuba or South Korea, and the medal round game. On the bright side, they will have San Diego State’s Stephen Strasburg, who allowed one hit in seven innings in his only appearance


Monmouth Park, Oceanport, New Jersey

New York
 Batavia Downs, Batavia
 Buffalo Raceway, Hamburg
 Historic Track, Goshen
 Monticello Raceway, Sullivan County
 Saratoga Raceway, Saratoga Springs
 Tioga Downs, Nichols
 Vernon Downs, Vernon
 Yonkers Raceway, Yonkers

Ohio
 MGM Northfield Park, Northfield
 Hollywood Gaming at Dayton Raceway, Dayton
 Miami Valley Gaming, Lebanon
 Scioto Downs Racino, Columbus
 Delaware county fairgrounds, Delaware

Pennsylvania
 Harrah's Philadelphia, Chester
 The Meadows Racetrack and Casino, North Strabane Township
 Mohegan Sun Pocono, Wilkes-Barre

Uruguay
 Hipodromo Municipal de Las Piedras, Las Piedras
 Hipodromo Nacional de Maroñas, Montevideo

Venezuela
 Hipodromo de Santa Rita, Santa Rita, Zulia (near Maracaibo)
 Hipodromo de Valencia, Valencia, Carabobo
 Hipodromo La Rinconada, Caracas
 Hipodromo Rancho Alegre, Ciudad Bolívar, Bolívar

Vietnam
 Phú Thọ Hippodrome, Ho Chi Minh city

Zimbabwe
 Borrowdale Park, Harare

See also
List of horse racing venues by capacity

External links
Hundreds more Australian racetracks –Q:

What was located at the site of Madison Square Garden in 1850?

What was located at the site of Madison Square Garden in New York City in the year 1850?
The location is between 7th and 8th avenues and between 32nd and 33rd streets.  I have found an old map with some drawings of what look like buildings at that location, but I can't tell what they are.  On the map, it appears that an Institute for the Blind was kitty corner to the current site of Madison Square Garden in 1850.
The reason I am asking is that I am writing a book which has a scene at this location in 1850 and I'd like it to be accurate if possible

A:

Looks like there was


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Appellees had been assigned by Vernon Buchman, one of the individual Blue Mountain

successors. At the time Blue Mountain filed this action, the Carter lease was abandoned and not

at issue, though the Callicutt leases remained in effect.

        Per the Contract and Lease, as amended by the Amendment to Contract and Lease,

Appellees mined clay from the Plant Site, the Adjacent Parcels, and other nearby property,

processed the clay into various products at the Plant Site, and paid the Paragraph Seven Royalty

to Blue Mountain until 2001. During this time, all of the clay on the Plant Site and the Adjacent

Parcels was depleted. As of this case’s filing, Appellees used the Plant toeven though Major was able to rely on the support of serial Maastricht rebels like Bill Cash, Bernard Jenkin, John Redwood and Iain Duncan Smith – all now thorns in May’s side. But to Major’s great credit, at least he had the guts to go through with that vote, knowing that the central plank of his government’s 1994 budget faced defeat, and that his loss would mean a massive victory for the New Labour leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

And equally, to his own credit, Kenneth Clarke – then the chancellor – did not say he would go and have a think about the result. He did not say it was his budget or no budget at all. He did not rush around Britain’s energy companies the


have discovered something rare for Orange County: History has value.

Consider:

• One of the county’s most successful new retail ventures is the Anaheim Packing District, a cluster of eateries and shops that incorporates Anaheim’s history as a center of citrus.

• In San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano, city planners have codified the idea that older homes, and architecture, preserve value for newer tracts as well.

• In Irvine, neighborhoods built near the Great Park are being marketed with historic themes and imagery.

Retailers and others are “realizing there’s a draw” to historic places, says Phil Chinn, a member of the Orange County Heritage Commission.

Economic studies back that up, suggesting that in addition to boosting arts and culture, historic preservation can lead to higher property values and taxes.

The county Board of Supervisorseven seemed to acknowledge as much when it created a group that helped get more than 100 properties and several districts on the National Register of Historic Places.

Of course, there’s plenty of evidence that shows the opposite also can be true. New developments often thrive because they make more money than whatever it is they displace.

“Battles are happening all the time,” Chinn said.

How those battles play out can vary depending on the players, the community and the attitudes of everybody involved.

JAPANESE HISTORY IN SURF CITY

In Huntington Beach, a collection of six late-1800s and early-1900s buildings on more than four acres steeped in the history of Japanese pioneers is on the clock and could face demolition.

Last year, Historic Wintersburg, on Warner Avenue near Beach Boulevard, was listed as one


of the 11 most endangered sites in the United States by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The structures include the city’s last pioneer barn, an early Japanese Presbyterian church and property that survived the Alien Land Law of 1913 that banned Asians from owning property.

The property is owned by Rainbow Environmental Services, which also owns a waste transfer and recycling facility across the street from Wintersburg. In 2004, when Rainbow (since acquired by Republic Services of Arizona) bought the property, the idea was that it would provide a buffer between the dump and the neighborhood just to the east.

Now, the company might try something else.

Though the city initially approved a plan to demolish the buildings that has since been rescinded, Rainbow is allowing preservationists and experts from theto be the person who would preserve the beauty of what Ole Hanson had in mind,” Ammirato added.

“I’m not angry. (Preservationists) want to preserve the house. I want that too.”

LANDMARK SCHOOL

The Killefer School in Orange has a special place in history.

In 1944, three years before a court decision forced the integration of California schools, Killefer voluntarily desegregated; white and Latino students would be taught together at Killefer, then a rarity in Orange County and elsewhere.

The school, built in 1931, closed in the mid-1990s. It’s been vacant since, its history seemingly ignored by the community.

Last year, the Orange Unified School District sold the 1.7-acre property on the 500 block of North Lemon to The Olson Co. The new owner planned to build 30 townhouses on the property.

But that plan


discharged tomorrow morning, only four days after his operation.We've been doing orientation stuff with the new residents (Dave and Stella), which is mostly training and workshops and stuff to help prepare them for the year. On Thursday we did training for responding to heroin overdoses, and the next day (Australia Day) we responded to the first overdose of the year, and people started turning up for a barbeque I'd organised, while the paramedics were trying to get this guy to take narcan!We had my 'travelling Nana' (last year she went to Borneo, this year she's going to Vietnam and Cambodia) over for dinner.Last night I went with Bevan to see this band Maverick play at The Stork, in Elizabeth Street. Then this afternoon I was walking through Chinatownunexpected birthdays in the last year, but this is the day that I was actually born on.)Nathan gave me this:(Explanation: Tomsy wanted me to get a mullet for his wedding, and so a heap of people were trying to get me to get a mullet, before I got it cut for the G20.)

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

On Friday afternoon me and Boonie caught the 5:30 bus to Deniliquin. We stopped in Heathcote, where I was pleased to find there were shoes on the powerlines:Took these between Heathcote and Echuca-Moama:We met Ray and Ben in Deniliquin at about 10pm, and they gave us a lift to the Confest site, which was at a river near Moulamein. Our camp was on the other side of the river from the car park,


 Imam Muhammad Chirri of Lebanon was invited to lead the newly-formed Islamic Center Foundation Society, which would later turn into the Islamic Center of Detroit, and later the Islamic Center of America.  The center first opened its doors at a location in Detroit on September 20, 1963 with financial support from the local community who pledged their homes as collateral along with a gift from Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. The property for the construction of the Joy Road Mosque was purchased from the Ford Motor Company.  Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini led the center in 1997, several years after Imam Chirri's passing, and assumed the role of religious leader for 18 years. The Islamic Center of America outgrew its original Detroit location and in 2005 movedcould be built.

In the ’70s, the government abandoned redlining in an attempt to level the playing field for everyone. This was seen as an improvement on overtly racist policies, but in reality the new practices reinforced the very problems they hoped to solve.

A 2019 book by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a professor of African American studies at Princeton, called Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership is the best attempt yet to unpack this history and lay out the consequences. On May 4, 2020, it was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history. (The Pulitzer went to Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America by W. Caleb McDaniel.)

Taylor argues that the abolition of redlining led to


Abstract The contribution of visual information about a pitched ball to the accuracy of baseball-bat contact may vary depending on the part of trajectory seen. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between hitting accuracy and the segment of the trajectory of the flying ball that can be seen by the batter. Ten college baseball field players participated in the study. The systematic error and standardized variability of ball-bat contact on the bat coordinate system and pitcher-to-catcher direction when hitting a ball launched from a pitching machine were measured with or without visual occlusion and analyzed using analysis of variance. The visual occlusion timing included occlusion from 150 milliseconds (ms) after the ball release (R+150), occlusion from 150 ms before the expected arrival ofUCF's grasp, the school is exploring a 45,000- to 50,000-seat stadium at less than half the original estimated cost. The project in 2002 carried a $107 million price tag.

The stadium would be funded by donors, ticket sales and concession sales. Using state money for athletics facilities is prohibited. Any decision about whether to build would have to be approved by the UCF Athletics Association board of directors and by UCF trustees. The project is supported by board of trustees chairman Dick Nunis.

At Hitt's request, Athletic Director Steve Orsini is collecting information about how the school could move games out of the Citrus Bowl, the football team's home for 26 seasons.

Three weeks ago, UCF halted construction of a softball stadium on the east end of campus, Orsini said. That


Breaking News

NFL running back Pierre Thomas says he'll be forever scarred after watching his close friend, Will Smith, get shot to death in New Orleans ... saying, "These images that I have in my head will never leave me."

Thomas was at the scene when Smith got into it with Cardell Hayes -- and says the whole thing erupted after a "f**king fender bender" ... not a revenge plot as some speculated.

Here's Pierre's post in its entirety:

"The last few days has been a whirlwind and I am still trying to wrap my head around this whole thing. I flew out of New Orleans last night and back to Chicago because I couldn't think straight... I witnessed a close friend, teammate and a man that I thought of as oneA wave of Asian-inspired food offerings including a Korean fried chicken restaurant and an expansion of the popular Japanese ramen spot, Katsu Ramen, are coming to the Birchtree Center in Aurora this summer.

The Angry Chicken, a new, rice-battered fried chicken restaurant and bar concept, and Dae Gee, a Korean barbecue franchise with three locations in the metro area, are both under construction now the at shopping center on the southeast corner of East Jewell Avenue and South Havana Street.

John Kim and Hyun Kim are preparing to debut The Angry Chicken, their first restaurant, at the beginning of June once renovations to their new space are complete.

The two are gutting the former Whispers Bar & Grill location at 1930 S. Havana St. and adding 1,000 square feet of extra


The Donna Reed Show. The parents were competent, the kids affable, the real world a safe distance away. Apart from the presence of one foreign relation (more on her later), The Patty Duke Show focused on the same traditional nuclear unit that comprised most of the families in family comedies: father, mother, and two kids.

Consciously or unconsciously, The Patty Duke Show sought to minimize its Brooklyn roots, even as it revealed a Manhattan skyline in the background any time someone in the Lane household opened the front door. Whether due to budgetary limitations or ideology, The Patty Duke Show scrupulously avoided images of the city itself. In the eighteen episodes I screened, the show’s characters stepped outdoors only once, in a brief scene in “How to Be Popular.”

Thoughthey lived in urban setting, the problems of the Lane family were essentially suburban. And although The Patty Duke Show debuted during the twilight of Camelot (in September 1963), most of the early plotlines could have been lifted from any domestic comedy of the fifties. Dopey dad thinks the fishing license Patty obtains for him is actually her own marriage certificate (“The Elopement”). Little brother Ross goes reluctantly on a first date (“The Birds and the Bees Bit”). Eccentric Aunt Pauline comes for a visit. And so on.

It’s no surprise, then, that the creators of The Patty Duke Show were veterans of classic Hollywood comedy. William Asher, the original producer and director, had been the primary director of I Love Lucy. Sidney Sheldon was a screenwriter of MGM


Bewitched and Jeannie, both played recurring dual roles on their shows.)

The Patty Duke Show never tried to explain the biological unlikelihood of identical cousins, although the title song’s irreverent lyrics did an adequate job of encouraging the audience to accept rather than question the premise. I wonder if Sheldon made the Lane girls cousins rather than twins just to put a little distance between The Patty Duke Show and The Parent Trap, the popular 1961 Disney film from which its premise seems to have been lifted.

Like many successful TV series, The Patty Duke Show underwent a great deal of turmoil before finding the right mix of on- and off-camera talent towards the middle of its first season. The series’ pilot was re-shot, with William Schallert replacing Mark Millerin the role of Patty Lane’s father, and most of the original footage was recycled into an “origins” story that became the final episode of the first season, “The Cousins.” The most obvious alteration in the reshoots was Duke’s hairdo, which was changed from a frumpy bob (similar to Hayley Mills’s in The Parent Trap) in the pilot to the lighter, longer wig she wore for the rest of the series. The Patty Duke Show was produced by United Artists, a “mini-major” film studio which never produced much television. Its other big show of 1963 was East Side / West Side, which presented UA with the same problem: a pilot that varied so greatly from the rest of the series that it couldn’t be dropped seamlessly amid the


points out that she enjoyed making the show so that she could bask in the illusion of a standard-issue family that Sheldon had created for her.

That brings us around to my original entry point into The Patty Duke Show, the seemingly anomalous decision to shoot the series in New York City. I had guessed that perhaps Duke has some theater commitment or family roots that led United Artists to bring the show to her, rather than Duke to Los Angeles. It turns out that the motive was more sinister. As William Schallert reveals in his interview for the DVD, New York was chosen solely because it allowed the producers to circumvent California’s stricter child labor laws. Duke would have been restricted to a five-hour workday in Los Angeles– difficult for any teen with a regular part in a TV series, but impossible for one cast in a dual starring role. In New York, she could work a full twelve-hour day. Paul O’Keefe, who played Ross Lane, had an even more herculean workload; he shot his scenes while appearing in the title role in Oliver!, eight times a week, during part of its 1963-1964 Broadway run. Neither of them spent much, if any, time with an on-set teacher. The Patty Duke Show was a far distance from the suburbs, all right.

August 20, 2009

Prolific television writer and producer Philip Saltzman died on August 14 at the age of 80. Saltzman, who had been hospitalized at the Motion Picture Home, suffered from an advanced form of dementia.

Saltzman began


short-lived shows for Martin. An expert, by then, on the possibilities of crime-fighting by senior citizens, Saltzman wrapped his career by producing several of the revived Perry Mason and Columbo television movies in the late eighties.

I know little about Saltzman’s background, although one source states that he was born in Mexico; if that’s accurate, he may have been a child of Jews who fled the pogroms of Eastern Europe. Saltzman’s widow is Caroline Veiller, daughter of the screenwriter Anthony Veiller (The Killers, Moulin Rouge, The Night of the Iguana).

I never met Saltzman myself, but I am relieved that another TV historian, Jonathan Etter, interviewed Saltzman at length for both his 2003 biography of Quinn Martin and a subsequent Filmfax piece.taxi industry in December 2016, following sweeping changes in state law designed to level the playing field between taxis and app-based ride-sharing providers like Uber.

Late last year, the airport had 20 taxi operators registered to pick up passengers, up from five operators three years ago.

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The sheer volume of operators led to complaints from passengers about inconsistent fees, dirty cabs and unreliable vehicles. Some cab operators were bypassing a system that charges a $3 origination fee to cabs that enter the terminal lane, Foley said.

"This is something that we all have been hearing a lot of complaints about," said board


the US) and struck a deal with Russia. A democratic coup toppled Yanukovych, and there are reasons to suspect that Europe and/or the US may have help facilitate the political uprising. Among the first acts, the new government abolished Russian as the second official language.

There was a realistic fear (on the part of Russia) that the new government would more to retract the 2010 agreement that arguably was struck under duress, to renew and extend the Russia's lease on the Sevastopol naval base. The lease, first struck by Yeltsin was to expire in 2017. Fisticuffs broke out in the Ukrainian parliament over the issue that eventually led to a 25-year extension of the lease.

The annexation of Crimea will make this issue moot, though at a cost. Prior toWTI fell below $10 a barrel).

With the exception of Singapore and Hungary, Russia has the highest amount of foreign currency debt at about 12% of GDP. Ruble depreciation boosts the cost of servicing the debt, some of which is in corporate, not government hands. The dollar rose 8.25% against the from rouble the start of the year through early February. It has gained another 7% since then. It is the second worse performing currency against the dollar this year, behind the Argentine peso.

The currency depreciation, in the context of political and economic uncertainty, has seen Russian yields soar. The rouble denominated 10-year yield has risen more than 100 bp, thus far this year, to 8.85%, eclipsing the yield of South Africa. The dollar denominated bond yield has risen


halved to $33 bln.

Putin, who claims to be a student of history, may be repeating some of the same mistakes of the Soviet Union with an apparent disregard of market forces; poor domestic investment opportunities, high inflation and high cost of capital weigh on growth. Last year, Russia recorded growth of a 1.3%, the lowest since 2009 and well below the government's target of 5%.

Russia has accumulated a stockpile of foreign currency reserves. However, after peaking in 2011, near $544 bln, they have been trending lower, especially since the end of 2012. They stood just below $495 bln at the end of February. Reports of recent intervention warn of a further drawdown in reserves. At the same time, its current account surplus is trending lower, with last year'sMithali Raj has written to the BCCI over the controversy that has broken out after she was rested in the crucial game against England in the 2018 ICC Women's World T20 World Cup. Jhulan Goswami Speaks on Mithali Raj's Exclusion, Says She Felt Bad for the Senior Cricketer.

Mithali Raj in her scathing email to the BCCI has accused head coach Ramesh Powar of discriminating against her and added that she has been humiliated by Powar. Sourav Ganguly Reacts To Mithali Raj's Exclusion, Says 'Welcome to the Group'.

On Monday, there were reports that Mithali Raj, who was dropped from the semi-final match between India and England during the ICC T20 Women’s World Cup 2018, was considering retirement. The decision to drop Mithali Raj came in as a surprise for


the fans particularly because Mithali had won a couple of Player of the Match awards during the mega-event with half-centuries. But the team for the semi-finals wanted to retain the winning combination. Mithali Raj Considering Retirement After Being Dropped From Semi Finals of the ICC T20 Women’s World Cup 2018?

The Indian women's T20 captain Harmanpreet Kaur and ODI skipper Mithali Raj met top BCCI officials on Monday to air their views on the selection call that has triggered a storm after the team's World T20 semi-final loss to England.

Mithali was left out of the team despite being fit and Kaur had gone on to justify the call even after the humiliating eight-wicket loss on Sunday. Both the senior players along with manager Trupti Bhattacharya met BCCI CEO RahulHeberildo

Heberildo, 56, is a taxi driver by profession and his wife, Leonida, is a merchant. The couple has two teenage daughters who are students. His wife sells footwear in the center of the city and Heberildo has had a taxi stand for more than four years.

Heberildo and his wife always have made the effort to give their daughters everything they can because they want them to be professional people who help others.

He's requesting the loan to repair his taxi because it's his means of work and he wants to be able to give his customers good service.

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The California Department of Education released results from the 2013 California High School Exit Exam, called "CAHSEE," on Aug. 29, 2013. Students must pass this exam to earn a diploma. They take it for the first time as sophomores. Those results are listed below.

The California Department of Education released 2013 Academic Performance Index, or API scores, on Aug. 29, 2013. These scores rate the overall success of a school based on a collection of test scores. Schools are scored on a scale of 200 to 1,000, with a goal of 800. Most Coachella Valley schools donít meet thatgoal.

For the first time ever, the U.S. Department of Education has collected teacher absenteeism rates for schools around the country. Absenteeism rates are measured by calculating the percentage of teachers who missed more than 10 days of class during the 2009-2010 school year.

The Palm Springs Walk of Stars features more than 350 stars in the city's downtown area.
Choose "See All" or a last name from the dropdown menus below to find the location(s) of the Palm Springs stars of your choice.

The pensions of about 200 teachers and administrators who retired from Coachella Valley schools may be reviewed by the California State Teachersí Retirement System under new policies designed to prevent inflated benefits.

The four tribes local to the Coachella Valley area have contributed significant amounts of money to political


candidates and initiatives.
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The Boy Scouts of America on Oct. 18 released files that reveal accusations made against scout officials since the 1960s. The Texas-based organization did so after the Oregon Supreme Court forced the files' release to the public. Visit our interactive database to learn more about where and when accusations were made.

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The Coachella Valley's retail vacancy rate was 18.2% in late June 2012, according to commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap. That rate is higher than anywhere else in Southern California, which is closer to an overall 10 percent figure.

Riverside County, like all Coachella Valley cities, contracts with the California Public Employees' Retirement System to provide its former workers with pension benefits. Using multiple records provided by the statewide agency and the county, The Desert Sun has compiled a database of every county retiree who received a pension check in 2006 through 2011.


the caucus that left the state in February to protest and delay the GOP's budget repair bill, which included a provision stripping public employees of their collective bargaining rights. So far, the state Republican Party has not filed any recall petitions, although they are reportedly planning to file two -- against state Sens. Dave Hansen and Jim Holperin -- on Thursday. A bartender at John's Main Event in Burlington was audio-recorded offering shots for signatures, and an update passes on a screen shot supplied by a HuffPost reader in Burlington of Scott the bartender's Facebook page, where he makes fun of protesters who challenged his petition-gathering.

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Yarra River community visions

Whole of river vision

Our Yarra River, Birrarung, is recognised around the world as an iconic example of a nurturing relationship between a river and its community.

Flowing from source to sea, it is the resilient lifeblood of past, present and future generations of Victorians. It connects and enriches our flourishing city, suburbs, regions and beyond.

Our Yarra River, Birrarung, its essential role in our lives and its rich history, are respected, understood and protected. It has cared for us for thousands of years and will for thousands to come.

The vital and continued role of Traditional Owners as custodians of the River, and its role in their culture, is recognised and celebrated.

Our Yarra River, Birrarung and its diverse surrounding landscapes provide a place of refuge,


habitat for all.

Suburban reach vision

A covenant of custodianship is adopted by private landowners along the reach, embedding a culture of respect and responsibility for river values.

The river corridor provides a healthy natural environment, enabling swimming, relaxation and other recreational activities. Importantly, it also supports a flourishing natural ecosystem, including networks of billabongs and wetlands, for indigenous plants and animals to thrive.

This is a valued place of connection to Wurundjeri culture and community, with a network of hubs of learning, play and celebration. It benefits from a united and integrated approach to governance and land management, guided by the wisdom and practices of Traditional Owners, keeping culture not just in the past but alive into the future.

Lower rural reach vision

From Healesville to Warrandyte, our Yarra River, Birrarung and itssurrounding environment is embraced and cared for through a deep understanding and sense of custodianship, the way the Wurundjeri have always done.

It is embraced by a wide, mature cloak of indigenous vegetation through the flats, filled with the sights and sounds of native animals and birds.

Our Yarra River, Birrarung is home to happy farmers, making a living and caring for the river and its lands.

People visit the river in key locations to meet and play in, on and beside the water whilst learning about its rich history, its Wurundjeri carers and incredible environmental values.

From Yering Gorge, our Yarra River, Birrarung is continuously replenished by plants and animals from Kinglake and beyond, joining the river on its journey to the city.

Upper rural reach vision

Goodness flows from the top down.

Careful


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The Suns own four picks in the upcoming draft, three of which are in the first round.

Love scored 26.1 points per game to go along with 12.5 rebounds and 4.4 assists last season. Dragic scored 20.3 points per game to go along with 5.9 assists and 3.2 rebounds while Bledsoe averaged 17.7 points, 5.5 assists and 4.76 rebounds in his first season in the desert.

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School: University of Akron, University of Arizona
When you started with Bonneville Phoenix: Sept., 2013
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Most crushing sports moment: Santonio Holmes' go-ahead touchdownBSF personnel guard the International Border at Attari near Amritsar. (Source: PTI) BSF personnel guard the International Border at Attari near Amritsar. (Source: PTI)

At 11.40 am on December 31, 2014, BSF constable Ram Gowria, who was patrolling the zero line along the International Border (IB) in Jammu with seven colleagues was shot dead in what has been described as a sniper attack from across the border. Gowria was shot twice — on his temple and abdomen. He collapsed immediately. This was followed by week-long tension at the IB, with more than 10,000 people forced to flee their homes and take refuge in temporary shelter homes. What started as local tension snowballed into an international issue, with the BSF seeking an apology from their counterparts — the Pakistan Rangers.

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toilet remains at room temperature since the compost chamber sits inside the pedestal within a bathroom. However, a split-system toilet with a pedestal in the bathroom and compost chamber outside is exposed to the elements and can experience slow composting during colder periods.

I remember as a kid one of my best friends at school lived on some property that grew pineapples and pawpaws. I often used to spend weekends at their house and we would explore all around the property, finding all sorts of interesting things to do and creating boy mischief along the way.

One of the strongest memories from their house was the outhouse – a separate building that housed their toilet. As I kid I remember thinking this was different, strange and interesting all at theThe(Nintendo 64 マウス) was an a accessory released for the Nintendo 64DD in Japan . It came bundled with the Nintendo 64DD video game. The user could not buy one separately. It was released alongside the game on December 11, 1999 . The mouse was gray and had the Nintendo 64 logo on it. The player used the mouse in a similar fashion to the SNES Mouse infor the Super Nintendo Entertainment System . The mouse has two buttons.


she and Julan returned inside to the dark bar. All the other customers had long gone to bed. As the next morning dawned, Fen dressed in one of her nicer robes, navy silk with gold embroidery around the sleeves. She knocked on Julan’s door, checking to make sure her hair was in place and her shoes weren’t scuffed. Then the door swung open and Julan appeared, wearing the stained shirt and pants he had been on the day they met with his dented silver boots.

“Ready!” he said brightly.

“No, you’re not,” Fen replied, taking his arm and going back to her room. She swung the door shut behind him and started to dig through her bag, finally managing to pull out a wrinkled satin blouse and a pair brocadedwas cavernous, so enormous that the other side of the room was almost hard to see. The walls had a greenish cast about them, and they were ribboned with the bones of the great crab, stretching far across the ceiling. Some of the bones had been drilled with holes and had lanterns strung through them, hanging from loops of rope and giving a few hazy orbs of light up near the ceiling. A network of wooden bridges and platforms crisscrossed the shell, stretching from the platform Fen and Julan stood on to all the far reaches of the hall, which had small oval-shaped doors placed along it at regular intervals. Each door had a small platform before it and an enormous banner hanging over it, brandishing the family


name in brightly-painted Daedric letters. A set of rickety-looking wooden stairs led down to the floor of the shell, where there seemed to be a few shops set into the walls here. The walkways were crowded with people – guards in bonemold armor patrolling the bridges, well-dressed pages for councilors hurrying back and forth running errands, lowly retainers clustered around the doors to the Council Manor, and so many nobles Fen felt dizzy looking at all the silk and brocade. At least two thirds of the Dunmer in this hall had to be related to a councilor somehow – for they all walked with an air that was familiar to Fen, having grown up in the palace, a sort of jaunty strut that showed they could order anyof the people around them to hang themselves and they would do it.

“Get out of the way!” someone said sharply from behind, and Fen and Julan stepped aside as a commonly-dressed Dunmer man stumbled through the door, his arms full of bales of silk, and went down the rickety steps, disappearing into the crowd below. The man brought Fen back to her senses, and she grabbed Julan’s arm and waded into the masses, stepping sideways and around people and feeling nervous on the rope bridges, which she decided couldn’t possibly hold as much weight as they were. After stepping on someone’s foot twice, bumping a page that dropped his papers over the edge of the bridge, and stumbling into a guard that glared darkly at them, they finally


made it across Ald Skar to the three oval-shaped doors leading to the council manor. The retainers scampered out of their way, and Fen pushed open one of the doors and ducked inside.

Thankfully, the atrium of the Redoran Council Manor was much tamer than the interior of Ald Skar. The ceiling was at a normal height and there was a round planter in the center of the room encircled by finely carved benches. Pages and retainers taking a break from their duties clustered there, while others stood in groups around the room and still others were carrying armfuls of papers down a wide hallway that turned off to the right. As they started to cross the atrium, one of the oval doors opened and all the pages andretainers in the room fell quiet and stood respectfully for the woman who had just entered.

She was beautiful, a fine-boned Dunmer woman with high cheekbones and dark, plump lips. Her sleek black hair was twisted artfully over her head, and her heavily lidded eyes gazed ahead, not taking any notice of the silent people standing in her honor all around her as she crossed the room quickly and smoothly. The two guards on either side of her went with her down the wide hallway, where her satin skirt whipped out of sight. The pages and retainers resumed their chatter, and Fen and Julan exchanged a glance.

“Who was that?” Julan murmured.

“I have a feeling she’s important,” Fen guessed, approaching a wide desk where a young Redguard woman sat stamping


stairs led straight down into a long, pillared room with an intricate mosaic ceiling. The pillars, too, it appeared, were covered in painted tiles, making a dizzying swirl of elaborate designs. The floor was smooth stone, and the room was lined with shelves that were filled with all manner of expensive and fragile-looking ornaments.

“Gods!” Julan muttered as they went down the stairs. “Would you look at all this? Why are the Redoran so materialistic?” At the bottom of the stairs, they saw a weary-looking Dunmer man in a lush red robe, standing over a table to sign a paper while an impatient page bobbed beside him. The man finished and handed the paper to the page, who quickly shoved it into the rest of the documents in hisand guarding various doors and hallways as pages hurried past them. Fen kept to the edges of the hall so as to not bump into anyone and found the door to the right wing. Unfortunately, no one seemed to be going through the right wing, and she was forced to wait ten minutes until the guards changed shifts and one of them pushed open the door to the right wing. Fen slipped past him and down the stairs into an equally large room, though this one was laid with training mats.

Fen hovered around the edges of the hall, studying it carefully. She noticed a sheaf of paper with a key resting atop it on a bench and crept over to read it, avoiding the stocky Dunmer woman in


New York Yankees: Masahiro Tanaka should start the A.L. Wild Card game

Masahiro Tanaka time and time again has proven why he is the bonafide ace of this New York Yankees’ staff.

It was a cold Fall night in the Bronx when the Astros came to town in a Wild Card showdown in the Bronx three years ago.

It was Oct. 6, 2015, and Masahiro Tanaka was coming off a year where he went 12-7 with the Yankees owning a 3.51 ERA. The buzz in the stadium was as anticipated, and it would soon become the first start for Tanaka in a playoff game.

He went on that to throw five innings of two-run ball striking out only three in the process that night. The Yankees offense did nothing in part tohas provided the reasons why he should be on the mound in the top of the first come three weeks from Wednesday.

The second half ineffectiveness from Severino will also play in part as to why Tanaka will be your Wild Card starter as well. A “night and day” image would be an understatement at this point because Sevy has taken himself from league-wide pitching royalty to just another right-handed flamethrower with an above average, inconsistently located slider.

In the second half alone, Masahiro has become stronger with his 2.30 ERA compared to that of 4.54 in the first half of the season. His WHIP has come down from 1.12 to 1.04 and he continues his strong K/9 with 9.4 in the second half.

In regards to the Yankees potential opponent,


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election cycle.

Texas Congressman Will Hurd received $9,900 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

New York Congressman John Katko received $9,900 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul received $9,900 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Maine Congressman Bruce Poliquin received $9,900 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Ohio Senator Rob Portman received $9,900 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio received $9,900 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

New York Congressman Lee Zeldin received $9,900 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

North Dakota Senator John Hoeven received $8,450 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Iowa Congressman Rod Blum received $7,450 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Virginia Congressman Bob Goodlatte received $7,450 fromthe NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson received $7,450 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Alaska Congressman Don Young received $6,950 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Arizona Congresswoman Martha McSally received $6,500 from the NRA during the last election cycle.

Arkansas Senator John Boozman received $5,950 from the NRA during the last election cycle.

Texas Congressman John Culberson received $5,950 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

New York Congressman John Faso received $5,950 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Wisconsin Congressman and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan received $5,950 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Pennsylvania Congressman Bill Shuster received $5,950 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Pennsylvania Congressman Lloyd Smucker received $5,950 from the NRA during the 2016


election cycle.

New York Congresswoman Claudia Tenney received $5,950 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Oklahoma Congressman Tom Cole received $5,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Oklahoma Senator James Lankford received $5,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

South Dakota Senator John Thune received $5,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Nebraska Congressman Don Bacon received $4,950 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Michigan Congressman Jack Bergman received $4,950 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

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Idaho Senator Mike Crapo received $4,950 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Wisconsin Congressman Mike Gallagher received $4,950 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

North Carolina Congressman Richard Hudson received $4,950 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Louisiana$4,500 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

South Carolina Senator Tim Scott received $4,500 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Pennsylvania Congressman Charlie Dent received $4,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Georgia Congressman Barry Loudermilk received $4,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry received $4,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Michigan Congressman Tim Walberg received $4,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Alabama Congressman Robert Aderholt received $3,500 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson received $3,500 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Ohio Congressman Dave Joyce received $3,500 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Minnesota Congressman Jason Lewis received $3,500 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

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Congressman Michael McCaul received $3,500 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Virginia Congressman Scott Taylor received $3,500 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Colorado Congressman Scott Tipton received $3,500 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

California Congressman David Valadao received $3,500 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

North Carolina Congressman Ted Budd received $3,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Ohio Congressman Steve Chabot received $3,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

California Congressman Paul Cook received $3,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar received $3,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

South Carolina Congressman Jeff Duncan received $3,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Georgia Congressman Drew Ferguson received $3,000 from the NRA duringthe 2016 election cycle.

Georgia Congressman Tom Graves received $3,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

California Congressman Duncan Hunter recycled the well-wishes of Speaker Paul Ryan, and received $3,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

West Virginia Congressman Evan Jenkins received $3,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Ohio Congressman Bill Johnson received $3,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

California Congressman Steve Knight received $3,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Illinois Congressman Darin LaHood received $3,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Ohio Congressman Bob Latta received $3,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Utah Congresswoman Mia Love received $3,000 from the NRA during the 2016 election cycle.

Washington Congressman Dan Newhouse received $3,000 from the NRA during the 2016


Adventures in Fiction: Manly Wade Wellman By Michael Curtis At Goodman Games we recognize the importance of Appendix N in the history of D&D and DCC. May 21 marks the anniversary of the birth of Manly Wade Wellman, a unique contributor to Appendix N. Here is some more information on this important writer. Manly Wade Wellman arrived in this world on May 21st, 1903, born literally an ocean away from the place he’d be forever associated with in his later life. Young Manly’s playground was the land of Portuguese West Africa (now Angola), where his father was stationed as a medical officer. It was undoubtedly here, in a land far removed from the staid world of 20th century America, that the seeds of Manly’s imagination found their firstraise a glass of good ol’...

Adventures in Fiction: Gardner Fox By Jeff Goad Today is the birthday of Gardner F. Fox. Most people know him as the legendary and prolific writer for DC Comics who created the Justice Society of America as well as many of the most iconic DC Comics characters including Doctor Fate, the Flash, Hawkman, and Sandman. He also wrote many of the earliest Batman stories and was the first to introduce the Batarang. His contribution to the world of comics is well documented and uncontested. But when people see his name on the list of Appendix N authors, there’s often no recognition of his name as a writer of fantasy. He has passed into relative obscurity for contemporary fans of the genre. It is


iconic DC Comics characters including Doctor Fate, the Flash, Hawkman, and Sandman. He also wrote many of the earliest Batman stories and was the first to introduce the Batarang. His contribution to...

Adventures in Fiction: Fred Saberhagen By Jim Wampler At Goodman Games we recognize the importance of Appendix N in the history of D&D and DCC. May 18 was the anniversary of the birth of Fred Saberhagen, a key contributor to Appendix N. Goodman Games has partnered with Saberhagen’s estate to produce DCC: Empire of the East, releasing in late 2019. Here is some more information on this important writer. Science fiction and...

Adventures in Fiction: Roger Zelazny and the Chronicles of Amber By Steve Bean Our Adventures in Fiction series is meant to take a look at thewriters and creators behind the genre(s) that helped to forge not only our favorite hobby, but our lives. The idea of space gods seems somewhat common place today, but Roger Zelazny is the reason that most of us are familiar with them. By virtue of his unusual last name, Roger...

Adventures in Fiction: Jack Williamson By Ngo Vinh-Hoi In the storied list of Appendix N authors, there is one name that encapsulates nearly the entire course of modern American science fiction and fantasy: Jack Williamson. John Stewart Williamson was born on April 29th, 1908 in an adobe hut in what was then still the Arizona Territory. Seeking to better themselves, the Williamson family travelled by horse-drawn covered wagon to New...

Adventures in Fiction: Fletcher Pratt By Jeff Goad The Appendix


the name H.P. Lovecraft, but do you know August Derleth? Bradley K. McDevitt reminds you that you have a good reason...

Adventures in Fiction: Andre Norton by Jim Wampler Famed fantasy and science fiction author Andre Norton was born on February 17, 1912. Join us, as we celebrate her birthday by taking a look at her works and their influences on both adventure gaming and genre fiction. Born as Alice Mary Norton in 1912, Norton started writing while she was still in high school in Cleveland, Ohio. In fact, she completed her first novel while still...

Adventures in Fiction: Margaret St. Clair by Michael Curtis Margaret St. Clair was born on February 17, 1911. Her work appears in Gary Gygax’s Appendix N, and is important for lending a crucial conceptof 132 participants, age 20--67, were randomized equally into the stretching or aerobic conditions. Randomization was stratified by age and sex. Ninety-four of the 132 participants completed the full 6-month intervention. After randomization and the baseline assessment, 12 of the 132 participants did not begin the intervention. All people noted as dropped in the CONSORT diagram did not receive evaluations subsequent to dropping. The stretching condition contained 50 participants (34 women and 16 men) and the aerobic condition contained 44 participants (32 women and 12 men). Of these people, five participants (three in the AE and two in the stretching condition) completed all 96 sessions; 44% of the AE and 43% of the stretching condition completed more than 80% of the sessions. No adverse events occurred during exercise.

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(File photo) People queue outside the Social welfare offices in Thomas Street Dublin in 2009

(File photo) People queue outside the Social welfare offices in Thomas Street Dublin in 2009

IRELAND HAS THE highest rate of young people receiving unemployment and disability benefits across the 35 countries of the OECD.

The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) is an intergovernmental organisation set up to stimulate world trade and economic growth across its members states.

A recent report compared and measured the experience of youth across OECD member states.

The report, entitled Society at a Glance 2016 and published today, found that over a quarter of people in Ireland aged between 16 and 29 years old were in receipt of either disability or unemployment benefit in 2014.

Next to Ireland were Finland and Austriaone of the largest gaps in the OECD.

Other notable stats from the report:

Disinterest in politics in Ireland is high, with around one quarter of the total population, and over one third of 15-29 year olds, expressing no interest at all in politics, around 40% higher than the OECD average.

Poverty rates are highest among youths (at 16%) and lowest among the elderly (at 7%).

83% of adults report good health (compared to a 69% OECD average).

Ireland is one of the few countries in which youth born outside the country do not have higher NEET rates than Irish born youth.

Ireland has one of the most comparable NEET rates between women and men. Across the OECD NEET rates for women are 38% higher than for men – in Ireland this gap was


were unanimously rejected by the Legislature's Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, which effectively killed the bills.

Maine Attorney General Schneider explained Maine's current medicinal marijuana law as being "layered on top of Maine's criminal statutes (possession, furnishing, trafficking and cultivation) and on top that, federal law (which bans all marijuana use)," he said. The bottom line, he said, is that "federal law is always enforceable in Maine."

Police Chief Jack Peck said marijuana enforcement in Farmington isn't "a great priority." Last year, the 22 pot possession cases were either dismissed or resolved with a fine of a couple of hundred dollars. "There were no convictions in last five years for pot cultivation.

The new expanded medicinal marijuana dispensary law "is a little confusing for us," Peck admitted, adding he'shasn't yet excluded all its ribosomes from its nuclear compartment; and it has not yet 'invented ' sex.

Or perhaps — chance in a million — it will succeed, and seed a second coming of eukaryotes on earth. Only time, and trawling, will tell.

About the author: Dr Nick Lane is an evolutionary biochemist at University College London, where he leads the Origins of Life Programme. This is an edited extract from his latest book, The Vital Question: Why is Life the way it is, published by Profile Books. His previous books include the award-winning Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution.

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idiotic action.”

Critics warn the decision, which is likely to be announced by the State Department as soon as Monday, could open U.S. military and intelligence officials to similar actions by unfriendly governments around the world.

According to Reuters, IRGC commander Mohammad Ali Jafari warned in 2017 that if Trump went ahead with the move, “then the Revolutionary Guards will consider the American army to be like Islamic State all around the world.”

RUSSIA PUPPET RUMORS, DUBIOUS DONORS PLAGUE GERMAN FAR-RIGHT

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has advocated the change in U.S. policy as part of the Trump administration’s tough posture toward Tehran, according to Reuters.

Set up after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the IRGC is Iran’s most powerful security organization and numbers up to 125,000 fighters. It controls portions of theKendrick Lamar and the politics of Japanese PR

The news of Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar returning to Fuji Rock, one of Japan’s most celebrated music festivals, was met with excitement from hip-hop fans here as soon as it was announced in February. To leverage the hype ahead of the festival, Universal Music Japan launched a politically tinged campaign earlier this month that has inspired mixed responses.

On July 13, posters of redacted documents from the Moritomo Gakuen scandal with the words #KendrickRainichi (#KendrickComesToJapan) were put up all over Kokkai-gijido-mae Station, home of the National Diet Building, and Kasumigaseki Station, where many of the Cabinet ministry offices are. The blacked out sections of the document are inscribed with the words “DAMN.,” the title of Lamar’s award-winning 2017 album, and the


World Hijab Day, Macy's and betrayal.

February 1st was the fifth World Hijab Day. Hijab is the Muslim headscarf that the media continually mischaracterize as merely a symbol of modesty in Islam. World Hijab Day was founded by New York activist Nazma Khanin in 2013 and is now celebrated in 140 countries. The stated goal is to foster religious tolerance and understanding by encouraging women of all religions to wear and experience hijab for one day. Put on a pretty head scarf and you too can enter a popular victim class. If you are really lucky you may be harassed and enjoy the full discrimination experience. Ironically, many of the same feminists who wore pussy hats at the Women’s March put on head scarves to stand in solidarity withtheir Muslim sisters. One month these feminist fashionistas are dressing up like giant vaginas and the next month celebrating their modesty. It would be much less confusing if these women would stop using headwear to symbolize their political positions. It makes you worry what else is in their clothes closet.

A few days later Macy’s announced a new clothing line for Muslim women making them the first major department store in the U.S. to sell hijabs. This is part of a new trend called Haute Hijab to glamorize and normalize the covering of women. In an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, Sonia Ossorio, President of the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women, said that hijab was a symbol of empowerment and resistance against Donald


is not simply protecting modesty, it also protects purity and family honor. Hijab needs to be understood in the context of honor shame cultures in which any violation brings dishonor to the family. Uncovered women signify immodesty or unfaithfulness which forfeits a woman’s honor and shames the men in the family. Breaking tradition has serious consequences and family members are obligated to restore honor and cleanse the family of the shame. Consequently, not wearing hijab has resulted in “honor violence.” Both Muslim and Western women have been the victims of beatings, rape, torture, disfigurement and death for not wearing hijab in Western and Middle East Countries. This violence is considered a justifiable method to punish and restore honor to the family who could not control their women.

In October2017, a 35-year-old man was charged with assault, assault with a weapon, and uttering death threats in Gatineau city, Quebec for beating his teenage daughter for over a year for refusing to wear hijab. In November 2016 in Vienna, Austria, a 17-year-old girl was savagely beaten at a shopping center by a group of teenage girls and a boy who were part of a Sharia patrol. They shouted, “She has pulled the headscarf down, demolish her!” and then beat her until her jaw was broken in two places. On December 10, 2007, 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez was strangled to death by her brother in their Mississauga, Ontario, Canada home after she refused to wear the hijab. Her father and brother were sentenced to life in prison.

Women who do not


wear hijab are perceived as responsible for their own beatings, rapes and deaths. One of the most disturbing examples of a gang rape occurred on February 11, 2011 detailed in my article The Semiotics of Honor Killing & Ritual Murder. When Egyptians were celebrating the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak the blonde haired blue-eyed TV journalist Lara Logan who was reporting for CBS News was not wearing a headscarf. Being uncovered it was obvious that she was not an Egyptian Muslim woman, hence she was an open target. Logan was beaten, and gang raped by a crowd of three hundred men. YouTube and some Arab websites reported that at least six men raped her vaginally, and several men raped her anally. She was also masturbated and urinatedon. There were reports that her left breast was bitten and that the entire left nipple was bitten off. In her one and only interview discussing the attack on 60 minutes Logan did not provide details of the sexual aspect of the assault but described how her clothes were ripped off, she was beaten with flagpoles and sticks, how the men tried to tear off chunks of her scalp and literally tried to tear the limbs from her body. From a Western perspective this was a crazed mob out of control. For a shame culture this was an acceptable punishment for a woman who was not properly covered. They pulled her blonde hair out and more than likely kept it as souvenirs.

Women who don’t wear hijab are not