remaining human. (Reinhartz, 2009). These Christ figures appear not only in Western culture but also in the East as is demonstrated in Hayao Miyazaki’s 1997 animated film, Princess Mononoke.

After being cursed while killing a demon that was attacking his tribe, Ashitaka is forced to cut his hair, leave his people and journey far to the West in order to meet his fate. He arrives in a land caught in a struggle between the humans of Irontown and the gods of the forest. As he is able to move between the warring sides, he befriends both San, the ‘daughter’ of the wolf god Moro, and Lady Eboshi, the mistress of Irontown. Ashitaka possesses many Christ-like qualities. He is set apart from other characters by his unusual ways and hisextraordinary strength and he is driven by a commitment to justice for which he eventually sacrifices himself and is resurrected.

Throughout the film, Ashitaka ‘otherness’ is emphasised. His unusual origins and extraordinary strengths distinguish him from other characters. Often referred to as ‘stranger’ or ‘outsider’ (Miyazaki, 1997), it is clear that the other characters do not see him as one of them. Ashitaka comes from the marginalised Emishi tribe that was believed to have been eradicated hundreds of years earlier. Separated from the culture that was advancing towards a technological future, the Emishi people are portrayed as the ‘guardians of ancient wisdoms of the forest’ (Bigelow, 2009). Unlike the other humans in the film, Ashitaka grew up with a strong connection with and respect for the natural world. We


divinity of his own that saves him but his pure heart. It is the forest spirit who, deeming Ashitaka worthy of resurrecting, saves him thus ensuring Ashitaka remains fully human.

In the stunning climax to the film, Ashitaka sacrifices himself to atone for humanity’s wrongdoings. Eboshi and the other humans have shot off and taken the forest spirit’s head. The ghostly shell of its body spews out deadly black liquid and long arms which search for its head. Ashitaka catches the carriers of the head and demand they give it to him to return before everything is destroyed. ‘Human hands must return it!’ (Miyazaki, 1997) He shouts. Humanity as a whole has sinned, they have turned their back on nature and committed the ultimate atrocity; killing the ‘very heartideas may possibly stem from ideologies surrounding the bible, in particular with Jesus. This is arguably seen in the film, The Matrix (1999). The main protagonist Neo is an ordinary man who gets plunged into a computational world were machines rule and the previous known reality is rather a stimulation called the matrix. Neo can be viewed as a popular messiah figure because of his status of being “The One” in relation to his similarity to Jesus Christ. This is portrayed through his divine extraordinary powers, his representation as a saviour to his people embodying the American Monomyth superhero figure and lastly his purification through his death and resurrection.

The American Monomyth, as discussed by Jewett and Lawrence (2002), is a popular theme in thousands of movies; it frequently


a hero is needed. Arguably Neo can be seen as an example of this in The Matrix films as he is represented as a sacred and powerful man who is the only person capable of destroying the Matrix, giving him the status of being “The One”.

Neo

Parallelism between Jewett and Lawrence’s (2002) characteristics of the American Monomythic hero having “extraordinary powers” is represented through Neo’s character. In the beginning of the film Neo is presented as a common human, going by the name Thomas Anderson who is plunged into a world of dystopia. He is taken outside of the Matrix reality aided by his mentor Morpheus, where he is rebirthed into “the real world” and is renamed Neo. Significantly Neo is an anagram for one, a clever play onhailed as a popular messiah figure.

Special powers and miracles

Neo’s portrayal as a messianic figure can also be exhibited through his representation as a self-sacrificing saviour – another criteria of the American Monomyth according to Jewett and Lawrence. In one scene, Neo meets with the Oracle, a wise woman whom the characters confide in to learn more about their future. The Oracle tells Neo that he is not “The One” and that a time will come when he will have to choose between saving his own life or the life of Morpheus. Later on in the film, Morpheus is captured by Agent Smith and is held hostage. Neo makes the brave decision to give his own life to save Morpheus, thus exhibiting his first sign of self-sacrifice and leadership.


for others”. Thus again, Neo can be viewed as a popular messiah figure because of this quality; his selflessness defines him as a saviour.

Morpheus

Neo’s sacrificial role in the film is enhanced through his death and resurrection, which ultimately represents a form of purification and enlightenment for his character. In the film, after rescuing Morpheus, Neo is still trapped in the matrix, left alone to fight Agent Smith. However as Neo is just about to escape, he is shot multiple times and dies. Back in the real world, Trinity declares her love for Neo and kisses his body, representing the kiss of life. Neo then takes a breath and wakes up, symbolising his acceptance of his status as “The One”. He is then able to see the Matrix andits manipulations and has the ability to control it, becoming all-powerful. He becomes purified through his strength and power and destroys Agent Smith. Rising from the dead and fulfilling his destiny and fate to help others ultimately reinforces Neo’s messianic status. His death and resurrection can be compared to that of Jesus’, as both died trying to save others – Neo for Morpheus and Jesus for the sins of humanity. Furthermore a similarity is seen between Neo and Jesus in terms of how both of them first encounter women when they are resurrected from the dead (Milford 2010). Neo first sees Trinity watching over him and Jesus meets Mary Magdalene according to the Gospel’s of Mark 16:9 and John 20:14. These similarities aim to reinforce the resemblance of


a book by its cover” (O’Brien and Sharman 1995) is one of Frank n Furter’s entry lines onto screen. The absurdity of the whole film and the fantastical escape the audience is taken on is mostly directed by Frank n Furter himself, being the king, or perhaps God, of his respective castle. Fans herald him as their savior from normalcy and the judgments of life. This liberation and acceptance also includes social justice, and a commitment to justice is one characteristic of a modern messiah figure (Reinhartz 2011, p.431).

Laverne Cox in the new TRHPS

TRHPS was released in 1975, and pushed the boundaries of its time with its sexual freedom and gender fluid identities. The cult classic became especially popular within the LBGTQA+ community. Laverne Cox who played thein trapping Samson as revenge for his rejection. Once Delilah has cut off his hair she offers another motive for her betrayal – jealousy. Referring to the virtuous Mirjam who loves Samson and convinces him to leave Delilah to save his parents, Delilah remarks: “I could have loved you with a fire to make all others seem like ice…but one call from the milk-faced Danite and you run whining at her heels.” This is very much portraying Delilah as the femme fatale, a seductress who causes the downfall of a helpless man her for her own gratification. Her near hatred for Samson after his rejection also adds to this image, which is vastly different to the monetary reward which seems to motivate Delilah in the bible.

Hedy Lamarr and


Victor Mature, Samson and Delilah (Paramount 1949)

The society surrounding DeMille influenced him in making his Delilah a “scheming little dame,” taking from popular perceptions of Delilah in the 1940s and views on women more generally (Kozlovic 2010, 8). Delilah’s portrayal as a femme fatale fits very much within view of Delilah in the 1940s, that she was a temptress and therefore her whole character was bad. This is in line with the conservative view that promiscuous women were dangerous and immoral that existed during the period – though promiscuous men were not subjected to the same harsh judgement. Samson is portrayed as an Israelite hero for murdering Philistines in revenge for his broken engagement to Delilah’s sister, but Delilah is seen as a vindictive temptress for doing whatwas in the best interests of her people. By portraying Delilah as, in DeMille’s words, “quite the bitch” but Samson as above reproach is a reflection of the world behind the text of 1940s society in America where men were seen as the superior sex (ibid., 12). Further, DeMille is enforcing the stereotype of Delilah as a dangerous woman, determined to bring down Samson for initially rejecting her love. More recent interpretations consider that perhaps Delilah was only betraying Samson for her own survival, knowing that it was dangerous to disobey the Philistine elders (ibid., 10). No consideration is given to her situation, a single woman in a world very much dominated by men, and that maybe her motivations lay only in survival (Zwick 2014, 219).

Delilah makes the


fatal cut (Paramount 1949)

Rembrandt portrays Delilah as unremorseful for her betrayal of Samson, instead relishing in his pain to add to her image as an evil, vindictive woman. Judges 16 offers no insight into how Delilah felt about her actions, so he has filled this gap in a way that enforces the stereotype of her as an evil femme fatale. The world in the text of The Blinding of Samson shows Delilah as being both repulsed by the gouging of Samson’s eyes but also has a look of fascination and almost satisfaction as she looks on at the struggling Samson (Georgievska-Shine 2007, 249). Further, she is seen to be mocking Samson by clutching his hair in her hand and “flaunting it” in front of him (ibid). He isfor Samson and Delilah is the artist himself and his wife Saskia, with Rembrandt having only painted Samson during their marriage (ibid., 252). His own feelings about relationships between man and woman and the dangers that they contained were expressed through The Blinding of Samson. Rembrandt saw from his marriage that women could be unremorseful femme fatales, and used his deepest fear of going blind as a way to show the betrayal which can occur in relationships (ibid.). Further influencing his depiction of Delilah were those around him. There was a strong theme in Dutch art and literature at the time warning of the dangers of relations between man and woman (ibid.). This would have caused him to take a more moralistic approach to Delilah, portraying her as


Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in Classics and a minor in Ancient History. She loves art and history and in her spare time, enjoys painting. Unsurprisingly, her primarily subject matter in her art relates to religion and mythology. She also loves watching films, particularly musicals (which can probably be deducted from her essay topic!).

Flo chose a controversial biblical character to focus on in her essay – Judas – considering his (equally controversial) afterlife in the movie Jesus Christ Superstar. It’s a great essay, so read on, and enjoy.

Heaven on Their Minds: Judas in the Bible and Popular Culture

By

Flo Cardon

The name ‘Judas’ has become synonymous with ideas of betrayal, disloyalty and treachery. It is commonly known that in the Bible, Jesus Christ was betrayed by the onlyJesus and his movement, and he died as a result.[1] Judas in Norman Jewison’s musical film compared to the Bible provides us with insight into the complexity of his character and differing nature of interpretations of it. Judas is clearly the villain in the Bible because of his betrayal of Jesus, but Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) presents us with a Judas with a much more composite, and therefore human, nature.

The Judas kiss

An important aspect of the change in Judas between the Bible and Norman Jewison’s Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) is Judas’ race. It is known that Judas was a Palestinian Jew born in Jericho and one of the most well-educated among the Apostles. However, in the film, Judas is played by Carl Anderson, a black man, which caused


century as a result of extreme racial oppression and tension in the United States. This blurred the line between the actor and his role, as Judas knew of the violence and oppression that was being carried out by the Romans like no one else did (Hebron 2016, 159), which is a parallel to the racial suppression of black people that was still being carried out when the film was released, and still continues to this day, with the numerous racist responses to the Black Lives Matter movement. Judas understood violence and oppression like no one else did, yet no one listened to him. This afterlife of Judas is vastly different to that of the original biblical Judas, which can be seen in these varying responses to the choiceboth the 1973 film and the gospels. But whereas in the Bible Judas’ feelings and thoughts are ambiguous, the film allows us a look into Judas as the main character and as someone who changes and learns (Miller 2011). The fact that the film is from Judas’ point of view means that the audience is being shown the story of Jesus through the eyes of someone who is critiquing him. Judas is allowed to critique Jesus here, as the audience goes into the narrative knowing the famous story of Judas’ betrayal, and knows that he is seen by many as the ‘villain’ of the musical. Judas’ critique of Jesus shows us mainly that he sees Jesus as not the son of God but a human man who put


reminiscent of the Greek myth of Cassandra, who was a prophet that no one listened to before she was killed; She is known as a central figure of epic tragedy, which shows how clearly Judas’ portrayal in Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) is one of the most tragic nature, emphasising how the complexity of this version of Judas is a stark contrast to the two dimensionality of Biblical Judas.

Today’s advent student offering is a marvellous essay written by THEOREL 101 student Wen-Juenn Lee. Wen–Juenn is a third year student majoring in English Literature and Media Studies. She tells me that she likes to read, write and discuss everything related to Harry Styles being a contemporary messiah. But, for her Bible and Pop Culture essay, she tore herself away fromHarry and wrote this excellent piece on that most enigmatic biblical figure – Salome. Read on, and enjoy.

The Dance of Seduction: the Power of Popular Culture on Shaping the Portrayal of Mark’s Dancing Daughter in the Bible

by

Wen-Juenn Lee

Although religion and popular culture are often perceived as two distinct categories, the relationship between the Bible and popular culture has often been dynamic. This is seen in the biblical portrayal of Herodias’ dancing daughter in Mark, and her subsequent afterlives in film, literature and art. As society alters and gives meaning to biblical characters in a way they can understand, we see the dialectic process in which popular culture, societal attitudes and religion shape one another in an ongoing evolution.

In Mark 6:21-29, Herodias’ daughter danced before King Herod and his


In Memory of Vladimir Fabry – Slovak Political Refugee and United Nations Lawyer – Who Died September 17-18, 1961, with Dag Hammarskjöld.

Periodic Reports of Vlado: 1953 and 1955

Time for a performance review! A couple of United Nations periodic reports for Vlado that I found, which give a little more detail into the work he was doing from the period of September 1951 to 15 June 1953, and from the period of June 1953 to April 1955. This first document quotes the Secretary of the Committee on Restrictive Business Practices: “His competence, accuracy and industry in the production of legal research was outstanding. He put in a backbreaking amount of overtime, and displayed good judgement, understanding and tact on all his assignments.”

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This second document, dated 12-4-55,Charter” in this document still doesn’t confirm if my belief is correct, it does seems to point in that direction – that he was involved in another important event in the history of the United Nations.

“During the period in question Mr. Fabry has performed his duties in a most satisfactory manner, and has continued to justify the favourable comments made in his previous periodic report.

His work during this period has extended to a wide variety of questions covering such areas as technical assistance, restrictive business practices, UNWRA problems and financial questions. He has also dealt competently with a number of difficult problems of international law. In addition to handling current legal questions in the above named fields, he has prepared or assisted in the preparation of several comprehensive


legal studies, as for example, in respect of the Jordan Valley Project, the organization of the proposed atomic energy agency, analysis of South African law, and the application of Article 98 of the Charter.

In all of his assignments Mr. Fabry’s work has been thorough and reliable, revealing mature judgement and a well-considered approach to both the legal and policy issues. The legal experience which he has acquired in the last three years as well as his previous work with the Indonesian Mission have enabled him to assume assignments of increasing difficulty and responsibility, and he can now be regarded as one of the most useful legal officers in the Division.

His attitude and conduct have been above reproach, and his relations with others both within the Department and outsideon 23 April 1892, serving as such until 1903. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899 he volunteered for active service, and was commissioned a lieutenant-colonel in command of the 11th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry on 20 January 1900. He left Liverpool on the SS Cymric in March 1900 as senior officer on the ship, which took 1,200 officers and men and 450 horses to South Africa. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for his service in the war.
After his return to the United Kingdom, he was appointed one of His Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms on 1 December 1900, and served as such until 1940.

Mitford was a Justice of the peace (JP) and a Deputy


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First Canadian Team Will Begin Play in League’s Sixth Season; Executive Team Led by Boynton, Tumminia and Murphy

Roster Building Begins with Five Players Connected to Toronto: Kristen Barbara, Elaine Chuli, Shiann Darkangelo, Emma Greco and Taylor Woods

After consecutive seasons of substantial growth while proving the value of women’s professional hockey and the skilled, inspiring athletes who play the game, the National Women’s Hockey League is coming to Canada. When the league opens its sixth season, an expansion team will debut in Toronto.

“Toronto is without question the sports capital of Canada,” said Toronto Mayor John Tory. “The addition of a Toronto team for the National Women’s Hockey League is most welcome by our city and one that I know many Torontonians will embrace asthey have with all of our other sports teams. Our city has a rich history with professional women’s hockey and we are excited to begin this next chapter with the NWHL. I hope that this team achieves success and longevity in our city and that this team will serve as an inspiration for young girls to pursue careers in professional sports.”

The ownership team is led by Johanna Neilson Boynton, who played four years at Harvard, serving as captain for two seasons, and is the CEO and co-Founder of Boynton Brennan Builders. Sports team owner and executive Tyler Tumminia, who in recent years was named one of the Top 25 Female Executives by Bleacher Report and received the Game Changer award from Sports Business Journal, will serve as the


played three seasons in the CWHL after an impressive collegiate career at York University in Toronto.

Elaine Chuli: The 25-year-old goaltender from Waterford, Ontario played in the CWHL for the Toronto Furies and Vanke Rays. The No. 1 goaltender at the University of Connecticut for all of her four years at college, Chuli was a member of gold medal-winning Team Canada at the U-18 World Championships in 2012.

Shiann Darkangelo: As a member of the U.S. National Team, Darkangelo won a gold medal in 2016 at the IIHF World Championship and competed in two Four Nations Cups. Before playing in the CWHL for Toronto and Kunlun, the 26-year-old forward from Michigan was a popular player in the NWHL with Buffalo and Connecticut. Darkangelo played collegiately at Syracuse and Quinnipiac andwon gold with the U.S. National Team at the U-18 World Championships in 2011.

Emma Greco: The 25-year-old defender from Burlington, Ontario played for the Toronto Furies in the CWHL’s final season. After her college career at Quinnipiac, Greco played in the 2017-18 NWHL season with the Connecticut Whale. She is regarded as a very reliable stay-athome defender capable of playing in all key situations.

Taylor Woods: After an outstanding four years at Cornell – serving as an alternate captain in her senior season – Woods was a mainstay in the lineup of the Markham/Brampton Thunder of the CWHL starting in 2016. The 25-year-old versatile forward from Morden, Manitoba won the Clarkson Cup with Markham in 2018. Woods was also a member of gold medal-winning Team Canada at the U-18


World Championships in 2012.

“We welcome Kristen, Elaine, Shiann, Emma and Taylor – five talented and highly driven players who will help our team contend for the Isobel Cup while advancing women’s professional hockey in the inclusive and incredible city of Toronto,” said Murphy. “I’m very proud that these five outstanding leaders, who all are connected to the Toronto community, have joined our roster.”

As the NWHL enters its sixth season, the addition of Toronto brings the league to six teams. The Minnesota Whitecaps joined the NWHL in 2018 after the league was launched in 2015 with four teams: Boston Pride, Buffalo Beauts, Connecticut Whale, and Metropolitan (NY-NJ) Riveters. The 2020-21 regular season is scheduled to start in mid-November, with each team playing 20 games. The Isobel Cup Playoffs beginadditional staff and other news for Toronto’s NWHL team will be announced in the weeks and months ahead. Beginning today, fans can go to http://toronto.nwhl.zone/name-your-team to submit their ideas for the name, color and designs for Toronto’s team.

Toronto’s players under contract for 2020-21 will join the pool of NWHL players receiving 50 percent of revenue from all league-level, Canadian and U.S. national sponsorship and media deals. Last season, the NWHL and NWHL Players’ Association announced an agreement on a 50-50 split of revenue for players on the five teams from league-wide sponsorship and media deals. The league ended up having its best year in partnership marketing in its history.

Since its founding in 2015, the NWHL has created a platform for women’s professional ice hockey, continuing the important work


The United States would pay a diplomatic price for withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on climate change, a leading Chinese expert has warned.

Dr Chai Qimin, a director at the National Centre for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, which is funded by the Chinese government, told the Climate Home website that doing so would affect talks at the G7 and G20 groups of wealthy nations.

In the past there have been suggestions that the rest of the world should impose a ‘carbon tax’ or other form of tariff on products made by countries which refuse to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

While Dr Chai did not go this far, he said: “Definitely it will impact on other diplomatic arenas, already on G7 and G20, the Major Economies Forum as well,.

“President Xi[Jinping] and our ambassador to the United Nations have said several times that withdrawing from the Paris Agreement is irresponsible, which will harm the mutual trust in the multilateral mechanism.”

Donald Trump is currently considering whether to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement with the President having said in the past that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by China.

However several leading figures in his administration, including his daughter Ivanka, are believe to be in favour of staying a signatory.

Ethiopian diplomat Gebru Jember Endalew, head of the 48 least-developed countries negotiating group taking part in a United Nations’ climate summit in Bonn, Germany, told Climate Home that if the US left the Paris Agreement it would be “a betrayal”.

“At this stage when most of the political leaders are


other speakers before her, Scifo said she has seen inmates trade sex for a bar of soap, inmates living among roaches and ants, and guards or supervisors not caring about their welfare. She said that if they or their family members complain they're sent to confinement.

Another former inmate, Nicole Speer, told the more than 70 people gathered that being in solitary confinement was peaceful as she would not have to deal with the constant problems at the dorms. She said she was physically abused for speaking out and vowed not to be silent anymore.

The lawmakers, all Democrats, have been touring Florida prisons. Before showing up at the forum, they visited Lowell for three hours.

Eskamani said the issues she hears are "personal to us" and urged those in attendancetrafficking.

This past week, a former trainee was sentenced to two years for sexual misconduct. Also, a food service coordinator was arrested on suspicion of grabbing an inmate's buttocks.

Last month there was the alleged brutal beating of inmate Cheryl Weimar, who because of her injuries is a quadriplegic at Ocala Regional Medical Center.

There have been at least two protests at Lowell in recent weeks, and a third is scheduled for Oct. 19. By then, former inmate Debra Bennett, one of the women fighting for change at Lowell, is confident something will be done about Weimar's case.


halls of Casa Loma…

I made my way towards the sound and ended up at the edge of the balcony that overlooked the main hall. There, at another, smaller balcony, not 15 feet from me, was the source of the music – a young woman – delivering an unaccompanied live performance for the visitors to the castle.

It was incredible. Despite the acoustics of the hall (most decidedly NOT designed for opera) she did a great job with several famous arias. To hear that almost-private performance in the home of an industrialist robber baron made me feel like I should be wearing an ivory linen suit in the style of the Great Gatsby.

Finally she concluded with a rendition of Ave Maria, curtsied, waved, and then disappeared from her balcony.

Afterwards, asin terms of place and social class. For example, speech habits vary from Upper to Lower Nubia, and so on, but normal and customary in the middle classes is as follows: the girl chooses the man that you want to link to, but not most girls prefer to speak to her the man himself and asked the sermon. She prefers to go to her guardian. Advance man for the girl’s guardian (her father or her brother often) and prefers to be with him one of his relatives. Then comes the step of taking the opinion of the bride (the girl). And agreed, Father begins to question the young man to make sure the health of its intention and morals and good walking and behavior. As if she refused,


not entitled to Guardian force them according to all the heavenly religions and human rights, but there are still families, especially in Upper Egypt and the Egyptian countryside using coercion and force to influence the girl. Often have a family engagement ceremony, which offers network (engagement ring, chain, earring, bracelet). The ring engagement is usually a two rings of gold made one for the bride to wear on her right hand and wears is the other in his right hand also moves each episode to the left hand after marriage, often a period of courtship short not favor that goes on for years, after which the marriage.

Religious customs:Engagement in Islam:
Engagement in the language is asked to marry the woman’s family. Engagement broken Allha are at stake here, Yousubsequent post entitled Campbell’s Rules of Comprehension in which he analyzed a random comics page from near a hand —in this case from Bryan Talbot’s GRANDVILLE, and noted how it stacked up against his own storytelling rules for civilian comprehension:

Occasionally I see a well-regarded comic wander across the view of a regular person. It happened on my travels recently when I was a houseguest of a friend, a 70-year-old lady who makes her living as an artist. While I was there she was working on some etchings to go into a limited edition anthology of poetry on the subject of war. I mention this simply to show that this person understands pictures. The mail arrived and among it there was a volume of Bryan Talbot’s Grandville, which her


Tour also provide unique looks back in time. On the former, hear comical ghost stories or shocking tales of historic criminals as you follow your costumed guide through back alleyways; on the Speakeasy Tour, learn about the underground liquor trade as you stop for a drink at places like the Prohibition-style River City Saloon and the Delta King, which was home to jazz bands and gamblers when the 18th Amendment was the law of the land. Hysterical Walks and Rides: $15-$20. Fridays and Saturdays. J & 2nd streets. 441-2527. hystericalwalks.com. Speakeasy Tour: $10. July 19, Aug. 16 and Sept. 20. 5:30-8 p.m. 916 2nd Street. 442-8575. downtownsac.org

Old City Cemetery Tours
Dying to know where some of Sacramento’s most famous historical residents reside? The City Cemetery, established in 1849, isbut you can see the original stone entrance from this 900-square-foot museum next door. In addition to a room devoted to Man in Black memorabilia, the museum showcases items dating from the beginning of the prison’s construction in 1878. See old ropes used to hang prisoners, hand-cranked Gatling guns used to defend the prison’s granite walls during their 38-year period of construction, and an inmate-created, eight-foot motorized replica of a Ferris Wheel constructed in the 1930s out of more than 250,000 toothpicks. $2 (cash only). 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily. 312 3rd St. Represa. 985-2561 ext. 4589. folsomprisonmuseum.org

Gekkeikan Sake Tour
Founded in 1637 in Japan, this 14th-generation, family-owned sake company has its American brewery headquarters in Folsom. On weekdays and second Saturdays, take a free self-guided tour of the production


Whitehouse Elementary Teacher of the Week

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A fourth-grade teacher at Whitehouse Elementary School has been teaching for 27 years.

She's our Teacher of the Week.

Linda McCann has been teaching a long time and it shows. Her fourth-grade students are learning a lot and love her.

"Mrs. McCann I would have to say is the best teacher I have ever had," said fourth-grader Lexi Rutherford.

Lexi's mom nominated McCann because she said McCann goes above and beyond with her class and she takes the time to sit and work with each student.

"It's just my style of teaching. There's a lot of teachers out there like me. If a child needs help, you help them," said McCann.

She may feel she's just doing her job, but to her students and their parents,Ukraine film director Sentsov in 'terror' trial in Russia Published duration 21 July 2015 Related Topics Ukraine conflict

image copyright AFP image caption Oleg Sentsov has been described by the United States as a hostage

Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov has gone on trial in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don accused of plotting terrorist acts in Crimea.

He was arrested weeks after the Ukrainian peninsula was annexed by Russia in 2014.

Mr Sentsov denies the charges against him and his cause has been taken up by other directors, including Mike Leigh, Stephen Daldry and Pedro Almodovar.

If found guilty, he could be jailed for up to 20 years.

The Ukrainian government says Mr Sentsov, best known for his 2011 film Gamer, is a political prisoner.

He has also attracted support from celebrated Russian film


director Nikita Mikhalkov, who has close ties to President Vladimir Putin and has openly backed Russia's annexation of Crimea.

Mr Sentsov, 39, is one of a number of a Ukrainian figures held by Russia. Military pilot Nadiya Savchenko is also facing trial in southern Russia accused of killing two people.

Both have been described by the US as Ukrainian hostages held by Russia

Ms Savchenko says she was abducted by pro-Russian rebels on Ukrainian territory and handed to the Russian authorities.

Her lawyer said she had been moved to the Rostov region pending her trial.

image copyright EPA image caption Nadiya Savchenko was captured in June last year and has become a cause celebre in Kiev

Arson attacks

Oleg Sentsov went on trial on Tuesday alongside Ukrainian activist Alexander Kolchenko at the North Caucasus militarycourt in Rostov-on-Don.

"I don't consider this court a court at all, so you can consider whatever you want," he told the court, according to the AFP news agency.

Mr Sentsov is accused of organising a terrorist group and planning terrorist attacks in Crimea. Prosecutors say he was involved in two attempted arson attacks in the city of Simferopol, ordered by extremist Ukrainian group Right Sector.

image caption Oleg Sentsov's 2011 film Gamer, about a teenage computer enthusiast, was shown at the Rotterdam film festival

The case against Mr Sentsov is primarily based on evidence given by two men who have already been convicted and given seven year jail terms.

Mr Sentsov insists the trial is politically motivated, arguing that he was beaten in jail for 24 hours in an attempt to force


including Rev.C.I. Abraham and Mr.A. Cherian (who later became a judge). A High School was opened and classes began on 1 June 1931. Here teachers worked on fellowship basis, on the pattern of the Union Christian College, Aluva and of Madras Christian College, Chennai. A group of dedicated teachers under the leadership of Rev. C T Mathew, the headmaster, became the nucleus of an Ashram. The school was known as the Ashram High School. The teachers shared everything in common and lived a life of fellowship as the first century Christians, devoting all their time to the welfare of the students. The boarding home and the school became highly reputed across the state.

Ordination
Soon after opening the school at Keezhillam, he was ordained as a Semmasan (deacon) by Abrahamsettlers in Chittar, Seethathodu, Angamoozhy and other places which were very difficult to reach in those days.

Outside Kerala
When the Evangelistic work of the Church expanded he was the first Missionary Bishop of the Church, travelling all over India, visiting the scattered congregations and encouraging the Ashrams. He was present in many international Evangelistic conferences in Tokyo and other places.

Other developments
He opened dispensaries and clinics and schools while also caring for their spiritual needs. The Olivet Aramana at Chengannur, the Retreat Centre at Maramon and the Kalalayam at Ayroor came into being as a result of his enterprising spirit. It was owing to his farsight that the Charal Mount which has since become a favourite camp sight was bought and made available for the church.

Last days
Even though suffering from


By PTI

SANDESHKHALI: At least four persons were allegedly killed and three others severely injured in clashes that broke out between the TMC and the BJP in Nazat area in North 24 Parganas district on Saturday night, sources in both the parties claimed.

Although police declined to comment on the deaths, they said a huge contingent has been rushed to the spot to control the situation.

Sources in the TMC and the BJP claimed that the clashes broke out over removing flags of the saffron party in the area.

State BJP general secretary Sayantan Basu said three of his party workers -- Sukanta Mondal, Pradip Mondal and Shankar Mondal -- were shot dead when they stopped TMC supporters from "throwing away" their party flags.

"We have received bodies of three of our workers.We have heard that two more have also died but are yet to receive the bodies. They tried to throw away our party flags and posters and when we protested, our workers were shot from point blank range," Basu said.

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Senior BJP leader Mukul Roy said the party would apprise Union Home Minister Amit Shah about the incident, as the TMC is "solely responsible for unleashing violence against BJP activists in Bengal".

The TMC also claimed that one of its supporters was killed.

The party's North 24 Parganas district president and senior state minister Jyotipriyo Mullick said party supporter Kayum Mollah was "hacked and shot dead by BJP workers".

"When Kayum was on his way to attend


a party meeting, he was hacked at first. When he managed to free himself, he was shot dead. The BJP is trying to vitiate the atmosphere and disturb peace in the district," Mullick said.initially designed questions. Some questionnaires were pretested on few cocoa farmers in selected villages before they were administered to intended respondents. The purpose of pretesting was to validate the questions and detect any form of ambiguity.

The respondents were sampled using a multi-stage sampling procedure. The first stage involved random selection of villages from the list provided by the coordinating agricultural extension officers who acted as local guides. Thereafter, households were randomly sampled based on population proportional to size. The total number of respondents from Fako division was 402 from 27 villages, while 265 cocoa farming households from 22 villages were sampled from the Department of Mefou and Akono. Questionnaires for farmers in Department of Mefou and Akonowere written in French, while those for farmers from Fako division were


affected, while downstream residents along the water course may ignorantly drink polluted and contaminated water. Also, some cocoa farmers were merely pouring leftovers of agrochemicals anywhere on their farms. This can constitute environmental and health risks if erosion carries the agrochemical residues into nearby streams or rivers.

Moreover, the results indicated lesser involvement in the behaviour of reusing agrochemical containers by farmers from the South West region. Also, farmers from the South West region were more compliant with PPE usage than their counterparts in the Centre region. The South West region is the highest producer of cocoa in Cameroon. Also, there is concentration of interventions for promoting sustainable cocoa production in this region with significant awareness on proper ways of spraying agrochemicals. High usage of PPE could be ahome in New York City. His first novel—WHERE DO I START?—was recently published by Kensington Books.
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"David Fisher's book 'The War Magician' tells the true story of British magician Jasper Maskelyne, who adapted the core principles of stage magic to warfare in ways that defied the imagination: among his achievements, Maskelyne hid the port of Alexandria Harbor, made the Suez Canal disappear and tricked Germany's Gen. Erwin Rommel with a phantom army that didn't exist, a ruse that ultimately led to Rommel's defeat and became a turning point of WWII. Many of Maskelyne's inventions are still being utilized in warfare."

The heaps of sheerStar Kiefer Sutherland, joined by fellow EPs and co-star Mary Lynn Rajskub, tells reporters where May's 12-episode event finds Jack Bauer and insists it is separate from other plans for the franchise.

Live Another Day, Fox's mini-revival of 24, has yet to start filming -- but Fox announced Monday that it will premiere May 5.

And as the return approaches, the network also trotted out stars Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub alongside the series' executive producers at the Television Critics Association winter press tour, where they spoke about the future of the series, how the format will shift with fewer episodes and if they're taking any cues from Homeland.

"If this ends up rebooting the show or causing a film to be made, so be it, but we're very happy


never see the other side of the stories."

They have had time. Fox first announced the revival in May 2013, and while the London-based shoot hasn't begun, the writers have completed roughly half of the mini-season.

"The show still does take place over a 24-hour day even though it is 12 episodes," said EP Manny Coto, who added that certain hours of the day just won't be shown onscreen. "The show will be progressing in the same way it always did, and it will add up to 24."

Story-wise, the group did reveal several details about where the new run finds Sutherland's Jack Bauer. "If you remember at the end of season eight, Jack was basically left a fugitive," said Coto. "When we pick up four years later, he is stilla fugitive. He's hunted."

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He's being hunted by a CIA agent played by Yvonne Strahovski, whose casting broke earlier in the day. "The show will open with that dynamic," added Coto, "A CIA agent hunting Jack. He's not exactly Osama bin Laden, but he's a fugitive of high order."

Those hoping -- or fearing -- parallels to Carrie and Brody on Gordon's Homeland needn't worry. The producers shot down comparisons to TV's other fugitive-agent duo.

"The dynamic here resembles Carrie and Brody in no way at all," said Coto. "It wasn't that situation. When the show airs, you'll see the dynamic between the CIA and Jack. … He's more of a fugitive than anything else."

Rajskub's Chloe O'Brian is also not in the U.S. government's good


In a Fox News exclusive interview Friday, lawyer Norm Pattis says client Fotis Dulos is "emotional, tired, distraught" over the "exhausting ordeal" and disappearance of his estranged wife, Jennifer.

Pattis says Jennifer was "deeply troubled" and "had a troubled past," describing her as a writer who "wrote a manuscript similar to 'Gone Girl.'"

The defense attorney says his client received a $14,000 medical bill in April for blood work Jennifer had completed, although he doesn't know what the testing is for or what ailment his ex-wife may have been suffering from.

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"I think she had serious health issues," Pattis said.

Jennifer Dulos was reported missing on May 24 and was last seen driving a black Chevy Suburban asshe dropped off her children at their private school in New Canaan.

The couple was in the midst of a bitter custody battle over their five children. Pattis said Jennifer "seemed intent" on moving the children to New York, where her mother lives, against the joint custody agreement.

Court documents paint a different tale, one where Jennifer was "terrified for [her] family's safety." She alleged that her husband, a custom home builder who was born and raised in Greece but went to college at Brown University in the U.S., "has a history of controlling, volatile and delusional behavior."

"In the past, my husband has made references to disappearing to a ski resort, 'where everyone wears masks every day and are indistinguishable from one another,'" Jennifer Dulos claimed in court filings.

Still, Pattis


alleges that in the days leading up to her disappearance, Jennifer may have been the one trying to create "a center of gravity in New York" to relocate the children, too, even identifying potential doctors and dentists for her kids.

"She was not settled happily in New Cannan, intending to live there happily ever after," Pattis said.

Fotis Dulos and his live-in girlfriend Michelle Troconis both pleaded not guilty to charges of evidence tampering and hindering prosecution last week.

Fotis Dulos' DNA was found mixed with his wife's blood on a kitchen faucet in her New Canaan home she lived in with her children after the couple split, according to State's Attorney Richard Colangelo. Police say the house also had evidence of blood spatter and cleanup attempts, according to the arrestreport.

"There is such a phenomenon as transfer DNA and I think that's what we're looking at here," Pattis said, relaying that Fotis Dulos had been at Jennifer's house two days prior to her disappearance for dinner and the "speck" of blood found on the faucet could have come from that encounter.

Pattis says he remains skeptical of the state's evidence against his client, which also includes surveillance footage of a man resembling Fotis Dulos and Troconis making 30 stops in a vehicle and dumping clothing, sponges and other items which have tested positive for the missing mom's DNA at at least two of those stops.

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Remarkably, and despite nationalist opposition at home and Russian interference, both governments stuck to the deal, systematically taking each step to make it a reality. On February 12, when Macedonia’s name change to North Macedonia came into force, the NATO flag was raised in front of the government building in Skopje. The NATO accession protocol, signed in Brussels on February 6, must be ratified by all 29 members of the alliance. The process will likely take several months or a year, during which time Russia is expected to continue attempts at destabilizing the country.

Indeed, Russian officials were quick to claim that by becoming a NATO member, North Macedonia will lose its ability to pursue its own foreign policy. Russianto the destructive role of NATO as a remnant of the Cold War,” Kosachev told the centrist Nova Makedonija newspaper.

BELGIUM — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, 3rd right, and Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov, 3rd left, pose for photographers together with NATO permanent representatives after they signed the “accession protocol” in a ceremony at NATO

Damir Marusic, the executive editor of The American Interest magazine, told Polygraph.info: “I expect the [Russian] assault to continue. Any hiccups in the implementation of Prespa, or in NATO accession, allows Russia to portray the alliance, and the West in general, as a paper tiger. There is no reason to become less vigilant and active in fighting Russian efforts now just because Prespa is coming into force. On the contrary, the game is just starting.”

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and media outlets, social media influencers, and even the Orthodox Church, to cast a wide net of subversion and disinformation over Macedonian society. Furthermore, the intelligence reports point to a campaign run from the Russian embassy in Skopje, but coordinated by the Russian foreign intelligence service (SVR) center in Belgrade and the Russian military intelligence service (GRU) center in Sofia—an extensive institutional structure for merely aiming to “create trouble” for NATO.

A Decade of Subversion and Disinformation

Kremlin propaganda directed against NATO expansion is nothing new for Skopje and Athens. According to intelligence reports obtained by investigative journalists in Skopje in 2017, Macedonia had been “undergoing strong subversive, propaganda and intelligence activity implemented through the Embassy of the RF [Russian Federation].” This policy has been in line with Moscow’s strategyoutlets such as Sputnik and Russia Today, social media agitation and trolling, Russian businessmen financing various groups to incite violent protests against the name deal, and intense interference in internal affairs by Russian diplomats.

In June 2018, Athens expelled two Russian diplomats for their attempts to undermine the agreement with Skopje, while Macedonian Prime Minister Zaev disclosed an elaborate scheme financed by Russian businessmen to disrupt the September referendum on changing the country’s name.

The Investigative Reporting Lab Macedonia reported that Greek-Russian billionaire Ivan Savvidis, a former deputy in Russia’s State Duma from the United Russia party who resides in Greece, has given at least 300,000 euros ($347,000) to Macedonian anti-NATO and anti-name change activists. The recipients include Macedonian politicians, newly established radical nationalist organizations and soccer hooligans from the


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Although they didn't reach a goal of two million riders, thousands of bikers rolled through the Washington, D.C. area to mark the 12th anniversary of 9/11 on Wednesday.

The bikers -- riding with the group "Two Million Bikers to D.C." -- snarled traffic on the Beltway with a ride honoring the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the members of the military called to serve after the attacks.

Many participating riders were veterans who said they rode to protect Americans' freedom in the midst of tumultuous times.

"The enemy has a say when the war is over," said rider Pete Raymond. "I believe they're saying it's not, so we're here."

On their Facebook page, in all caps, the group said they will stand by the Constitution and Bill ofRights, adding that they're "against any fundamental transformation of America."

The ride began at Harley Davidson of Washington in Fort Washington, Md., at 11 a.m. Many drivers pulled over along the side of the highway to wave and take pictures.

Santana Sensenna was one of them.

"I could stay here for half an hour; I don't care; this is America," he said while stuck in the traffic.

The bikes rolled in a steady stream for 50 straight minutes before heading to the Beltway. But the ride wasn't smooth for everyone. At one point, a motorcycle went down on the Outer Loop in the Bethesda area, causing traffic to back up for miles.

At the National Mall, another motorcyclist ran his bike into the back of a pedicab.

"I think the heat got to me


and I kind of blacked out a little bit," said the rider, Bill Eisenheart. "You know, I didn't see him."

Another group of participants made their way up Interstate 95 in Stafford around 9 a.m. and reached D.C. about two hours later. The northbound lanes of I-95 at exit 143 in Stafford County were closed for about 15 minutes as motorcyclists began their trip.

But the traffic concerns didn't overwhelm the riders. The overarching theme of the day was remembering what happened 12 years earlier.

"9/11 happened then, but it's still happening," said rider Ken Mortello.

Mortello, a Desert Storm veteran and full-time firefighter, came down from New Jersey to be a part of the ride. He remembers vividly what the day was like for one of his friends in New YorkCity who rushed into the World Trade Center to help.

"He had a woman with third-degree burns. As he came through a tunnel, one tower collapsed. The tunnel that he was in collapsed -- missed him by about two feet. Buried everybody else that was with him," Mortello said.

He says some friends have still not gotten over that day, and that's why he was riding Wednesday.

The group apologized on their Facebook page in advance of the event for the gridlock they expected to cause.

Organizers had tried to get a last-minute permit to close some intersections near monuments and on Capitol Hill, but the National Park Service denied that request.

According to U.S. News and World Report, park service spokesperson Carol Johnson said that allowing the road closures "would cause a


Music Cities Gig Guide

16 Apr 2018

Off the back of the fantastic Melbourne Live Music Census 2017 results released last week, we have another huge week in Melbourne music coming up. The Music Cities Convention is happening this week and there will be hundreds of international delegates converging in Melbourne to discuss what makes a music city. To help them maximise their fun in Melbourne, we've compiled a gig guide of the best shows happening in town this week from Tuesday through to Saturday.in the process of trying to get George Lucas to make a feature length Star Wars film centered around everyone's favorite bounty hunter Boba Fett. Though his appearances in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi are brief, the character has become one of the most recognizable and loved characters in the Star Wars universe and has since enjoyed plenty of attention in various books, comics and video games taking place in Lucas' galaxy far, far away. However, this is the first time that a film based around the infamous character has been discussed by higher powers in the industry. When asked if he would direct the film, Johnston said, "I would like to, it would be a lot of fun.”

Aside from another film taking place


in the Star Wars universe being big news on its own, an even bigger deal would be someone outside of George Lucas being at the helm of the film. Yes, Irvin Kirshner directed The Empire Strikes Back and Richard Marquand was behind the camera for Return of the Jedi, but with all the prequels, Lucas took it upon himself to sit in the director's chair. Of course, considering his work on the prequel trilogy, another director venturing into the Star Wars universe might be just what the doctor ordered for a franchise that has started to become a tired franchise.

Honestly, if there's any character who deserves his own film that would excite Star Wars fans, it's a film about Boba Fett. Though a weaksauce version of his originmade it on screen in Attack of the Clones, there's plenty of time between that film and his appearance in The Empire Strikes Back to make for a great story somewhere in there. I could easily envision a mesh of classic sci-fi with a story along the lines of the Jason Bourne films, and I think Johnston has the right blend of contemporary action experience with the feel for classic heroes and villains to pull off something like this.

In addition, this would be the first film that doesn't necessarily encompass an over-arcing story inthat has to fit into some sort of puzzle. The possibilities are endless. And while this would be even further down the road, this could open the doors for film adaptations of properties like Death


Britain decided to join the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on "flawed intelligence" which was not challenged and should have been, a long-awaited report has found.

John Chilcot, the chairman of the Iraq Inquiry and a retired civil servant, said on Wednesday that the invasion went "badly wrong".

"Military action in Iraq might have been necessary at some point, but in March 2003, there was no immediate threat from [then Iraq President] Saddam Hussein," he said, speaking 30 minutes before the report's offical publication.

The 2.6 million-word Iraq Inquiry, which took seven years to prepare, can be accessed in full online.

It said former prime minister Tony Blair committed to war before peaceful options had been exhausted and that the legality of his case was questionable.

READ MORE: Iraq report brings little solaceto war-torn country

Blair "set the UK on a path leading to diplomatic activity in the UN and the possibility of participation in military action in a way that would make it very difficult for the UK subsequently to withdraw its support for the US," the report concluded.

Al Jazeera's Neave Barker, reporting from London, said: "[Chilcot's remarks were] about as damning as you can possibility get without explicitly saying that war in Iraq was illegal."

Responding to the report, Blair, the UK prime minister from 1997 to 2007, said his decision to join the invasion was taken "in good faith and in what I believed to be the best interests of the country".

In a news conference, Blair he said "accept[ed] full responsibility without exception and without excuse", but insisted that


the world "is in a better place without Saddam Hussein".

He said he made the decision to go to war because "it was the right thing to do based on the information I had", adding that his mistake was in the "planning and process" following the invasion.

'Blair lied on every level'

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and at least 179 British soldiers were killed during the eight-year conflict.

Investigators also found the planning and preparations for Iraq after Hussein was overthrown were wholly inadequate, said Chilcot, who had not been asked to rule on the legality of the invasion.

"The people of Iraq have suffered greatly," Chilcot said.

Speaking from Baghdad, Iraqi political analyst Ahmed Rushdi accused Blair of lying "to the British people" and the "international community".

"He lied on every level," Rushdisaid. "In the end, what happened in 2003, [put] us in a position that Iraqis must take the blame of what happened in 2003."

Rushdi said that it was the responsibility of the "invaders" to consider the consequences of war.

"It's only go to Iraq, invade Iraq, destroy the infrastructure, destroy the nationality of all the Iraqis," without a clear post-war plan, he said.

As Chilcot addressed media at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in west London, anti-war protesters gathered outside.

Before Britain entered the war 13 years ago, at least one million people had marched in the capital against a military invasion.

Current Prime Minister David Cameron, of the ruling Conservative Party, said the government needed to learn the lessons from what went wrong in the build-up to Britain's joining the invasion


government's role in Iraq invasion

The sister of one killed serviceman, Sarah O'Connor, said the report confirmed there was one "terrorist" that the world needed to know about, "and that is Tony Blair".

The military families have long pushed for the inquiry and for those responsible for Britain's involvement to be held accountable.

The Iraq Inquiry had previously faced repeatedly delays, in part by wrangling over the inclusion of classified material, including conversations between Blair and former US President George W Bush. Some of Blair's pre-war letters to the US president are published in Chilcot's report, but not Bush's replies.

The report was released as Iraq reeled from the deadliest attack since the 2003 invasion.

Early on Sunday, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged lorry in Baghdad's Karada district as it teemed withshoppers before the holiday marking the end of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, sparking infernos in nearby buildings.

At least 250 people died in the blast, including many children and women.

The bombing was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS).


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Aldi supermarket tycoons top German rich list

Germany's super-rich are wealthier than ever, led by the founders of discount supermarket chain Aldi, according to a ranking by the country's Manager magazine published on Monday.

"Never before were Germany's super-rich richer than today, never before have there been so many billionaires," who numbered a record 135, said the magazine's annual top-500 rich list for Europe's biggest economy.

The combined wealth of Germany's top 100 billionaires rose by 5.2 per cent in the past 12 months to 336.6 billion euros ($485.3 billion) - topping the previous record of 324.6 billion euros from 2008, as the world economic crisis started to hit.

At the top of the list were the founders of discount supermarket chains that rely on the thriftiness of many of theircompatriots.

Aldi co-founder Karl Albrecht, who is 93 and lives out of the public eye, had an estimated fortune of 17.8 billion euros, making him "the longest reigning richest person of any country", said the magazine.

Forbes magazine's rich list puts him at number 18 worldwide.

At second place on the Manager magazine list with 16 billion euros were the families of Theo Albrecht Jnr and his late brother Berthold, co-owners of the separate company Aldi Nord, which also owns Trader Joe's in the United States.

Placed third with 13 billion euros was Dieter Schwarz, the owner of Aldi's national and international rival chain Lidl as well as the Kaufland chain.

Other names in the top 500 included the founder of software giant SAP, Hasso Plattner, with 6.2 billion euros, the head of


History

Until the end of the XIX century, Serbia had no special institution for education of the Ministry of Intеrior’s staff. The first Gendarmerie school was founded in 1899 on Dorćol and has worked only for a year, and the famous Gendarmerie School for Non-commissioned officers in Sremska Kamenica was founded after the First World War, on February 1st 1920.

In the same year, the book “A contribution toward the reorganization of the police” was published, written by Dr. Rоdolphe Archibald Reiss, leading criminalistic expert and founder of the Institute of Police Science and Criminology in Lausanne. The Ministry of Interior hired Reiss to refine and reform the police, and his Contribution predicted establishing police schools in Belgrade and other towns in Serbia. Thanks to his effort, in the periodbetween the two World Wars, Belgrade police gained professional staff and modern organization.

After the Second World War, the problem of leading staff education occurred again, and the School for Non-commissioned Officers of the Peoples Militia began working in 1947, in Vrbas. During that period, the School for Peoples Town Militia in Pančevo and the School for Station Commanders of Peoples Militia in Zemun were founded. By the decision of the Assembly of the Socialistic Republic of Serbia, the Police High School “Pane Đukić” in Sremska Kamenica began working on 1st September 1967, and became a main centre for education and training of staff for the purpose of public security.

In the year 1972, the Law on the Advanced School of Internal Affairs in Zemun was enacted, and the School


began working the same year. First generation of students consisted of 160 regular and 207 irregular students. Studies lasted four semesters, and since 1977 five semesters; finished students gained the title legist. Two decades later, on 30th June 1993, with the enactment of the Law on the Police Academy, the first educational-scientific higher education institution for police profession was established. In that way, the idea of creating a higher education institution that would complete the system of police education was finally accomplished, and the Police Academy soon came in rang with some of the Europe and world’s institutions of higher education with longer traditions.

In accordance with contemporary demands and needs of the profession, the Academy of Criminalistic and Police Studies was established on 27th July 2006, by thedecision of the Government of the Republic of Serbia. It is an independent higher education institution that provides academic and professional study programmes of all levels for the purpose of police education, and police and security affairs. The Academy of Criminalistic and Police Studies (ACPS) became by merging of the Advanced School of Internal Affairs and the Police Academy – the two most important institutions specialized for conducting educational and scientific activities for the purpose of police education, and the Academy of Criminalistic and Police Studies is their legal successor.

The Academy educates, specializes and qualifies employees for the highest directing jobs in the police. The curriculum for the basic studies represents the result of entire reforms of police schooling. The accent is on those teaching subjects which are


Tension as DRC amasses its Troops on Ugandan border

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is pouring thousands
of new troops in Beni and other areas of North Kivu near the Ugandan border in
what a commander said was the beginning of a “protracted offensive” against ISIS-linked
Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels.

The deployment comes just a week after Major-General Marcel
Mbangu Mashita, the commander of the Operation Sokola 1, which has been
battling ADF rebels for the last four years, was replaced with Brigadier General
Jacques Nduru.

The commander of the third defense zone, General-Major
Sikabwe Fall on Thursday said the arrival of new soldiers was aimed at giving
the operation more momentum.

“We are here to fight and stabilize this area. More troops
are coming here soon to restore security in this area,” said Sikabwe.

He spoke to soldiers andcommunity leaders at the
headquarters of the army at OZACAF, in Bungulu commune, Beni.

Chief of General Staff of the FARDC, Lieutenant-General Célestin
Mbala graced the ceremony.

The move by President Felix Tshisekedi is a leap forward in
returning sanity to North Kivu which remains a hub of terrorism in the region.

The United States Special Envoy for Africa’s Great Lakes Region (GLR) Dr. Peter Pham recently urged Ugandan armed forces to work with its regional partners to counter the threat posed by the terrorist group.

The rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which recently joined forces with the international terror group, ISIS, has since stepped up attacks in DRC near the Ugandan border.

This has displaced thousands of families to Uganda and sowed
fear in communities the operational areas of the militants.

The opening of several fronts by


growth.

Islamic State (ISIS), the world’s most feared terrorist and jihadist group, which wreaked havoc in Libya, Iraq, and Syria, has since recognized ties with ADF.

Lukwago Joseph grew up in a newspaper family, and rumor has it that instead of playing the guitar in his infancy, his parents put a reporter’s notebook and a pen next to him shortly after he turned born eight years.
Before becoming editor of UGANDANZ, Lukwago was a parliament news editor for WBS TV. He joined UGANDANZ in July 2018, A few months after the company launched.
Lukwago also spent five years as a freelance reporter, where he covered reporting for the highest bidder, intelligence, foreign policy, and Ugandan police.
Lukwago graduated from Makerere University in 2008 with a B.A. in Journalism and worked on his collegeprison

Geingob calls for removal of U.S. trade embargo on Cuba June 6, 2017 Albertina Nakale Windhoek-President Hage Geingob says there is much ground to cover to ensure the complete lifting of the United States of America’s long running economic and trade blockade against Cuba. Geingob made the remarks yesterday during the commencement of the 5th […] Continue reading →

Cuba Must End “Apartheid Against Its Citizens” / Oscar Arias, Laura Chinchilla The undersigned, Latin Americans and diverse in our allegiances, professions and interests, but united by a common aspiration for freedom, democracy, equality and well-being throughout the hemisphere, address our fellow citizens and governments, especially those in Cuba, to express the following: We celebrate […] Continue reading →

Old Havana reflects a new era in Cuba By Paul Guzzo |


Tribune Staff Published: November 21, 2015 | Updated: November 21, 2015 at 09:02 AM HAVANA — Imagine block after block of buildings as grand and historic as the Cuban Club in Ybor City, except the verandas, balustrades and high-arched windows are crumbling and […] Continue reading →

Monetary Unification in Cuba, an Unresolved Issue / Jeovany Jimenez Vega Posted on October 29, 2015 Jeovany Jimenez Vega, 26 October 2015 — Without a doubt the most complex challenge Raúl Castro’s regime has in the short-term is monetary unification. The use in the country of two national currencies for the last two and a […] Continue reading →

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Advancing human rights in Cuba The pope might start with embracing Cuba’s true heroes By George Phillips – – Thursday, September 10, 2015 In the 1980s when Lech Walesa boldly stood up to his oppressive Communist government in Poland, he was embraced by Pope John Paul II, the news media and opponents of communism everywhere. […] Continue reading →

Easterners in Havana: An Exodus Hushed Up by the Cuban Regime / Ivan Garcia Posted on June 15, 2015 Ivan Garcia, 30 May 2015 — One hot and boring night, drinking a tear-inducing moonshine, Yosvany and


a group of friends in a remote sugar-workers’ town in Yateras, Guantanamo province, more than a 600 miles east […] Continue reading →

Cuba: Racial Prejudice Begins in Childhood / Ivan Garcia Posted on April 28, 2015 Iván García, 29 April 2015 — The first time that Yumilka, a teacher, felt discriminated against because of the color of her skin she was only four years old. “It was in the daycare center. I remember coming home crying. A […] Continue reading →

WHEN WILL CUBA END ITS ‘INTERNAL EMBARGO’? by SPYRIDON MITSOTAKIS 13 Apr 2015 When I travelled for two weeks in working class areas of Cuba last year, a Cuban worker explained to me that while they hear endlessly from the government about the “American embargo against Cuba,” thethe most (in)famous U.S. fugitives in Cuba As relations with Cuba normalize, here’s a look at the most well-known fugitives in the island nation — past and present. By Tina Griego December 24 Guillermo Morales, a fugitive from U.S. law enforcement, was convicted of firearms possession and other charges in New York City […] Continue reading →

OLPL Speaks at Johns Hopkins / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo Posted on May 17, 2014 Speech by OLPL in Kenney Auditorium, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Washington DC, 16 May 2014. Dear friends: As a Cuban from the Island —and all Cubans are, no matter how far and how much time has […] Continue reading →

A Miami Congressman Adamantly Defends Isolating Cuba By DAMIEN CAVEMARCH 4, 2014 Representative Mario


Díaz-Balart, the Republican congressman from Miami, has been a leader among the pro-embargo constituency for years, serving in Congress since 2003. His aunt, Mirta, was Fidel Castro’s first wife, leading many to argue that the divide between Cuba and the United […] Continue reading →

The Silent Successes of the Cuban Dissidence / Ivan Garcia Posted on February 7, 2014 Before the olive-green autocracy designed economic reforms, the peaceful, illegal opposition was demanding opportunities in small businesses and in the agricultural sector as well as repeal of the absurd apartheid in the tourist, information and technology spheres that turned the […] Continue reading →

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South Africa and Cuba: A Similar Struggle, A Drastically Different Response By Rudy MayorPublished July 03, 2013Fox News Latino The sudden decline in health of former South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela has prompted many around the world to reminisce on his legacy and the historical significance of his movement. While serving harsh […] Continue reading →

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will visit Addis Ababa next week for talks with his Ethiopian counterpart, a foreign ministry spokesman said, in a bid to end a standoff over a multi-billion dollar dam project on the Nile river.

Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri speaks to media after the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt meeting to discuss their dispute with Qatar, in Manama, Bahrain July 30, 2017. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed

The dispute, which also involves Sudan, centers on control of a share of the waters of the Nile that stretches 6,695 km (4,184 miles) from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean and is the economic lifeblood of all three countries.

Cairo says the dam would threaten water supplies that have fed Egypt’spotential cardiac disorder in the absence of a clear clinical phenotype, our results suggest that it is not indicated in the routine evaluation of asymptomatic athletes with TWI in the absence of a family history of an inherited cardiac condition.

Acknowledgments
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The authors acknowledge the support of the British Heart Foundation, Aspetar, and Cardiac Risk in the Young.

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Drs Sheikh and Sharma received a research project grant (grant PG/11/122/29310) from the British Heart Foundation to evaluate repolarization changes in athletes and from Aspetar (Doha, Qatar) for genetic testing in athletes with repolarization changes. Drs Sheikh and Malhotra were funded by research grants from the charitable organization CRY for screening and clinical evaluation of athletes.

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Dr Monserrat is the chief executive officer and a stakeholder of Health in Code SL. The


Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Staunton,
November 12 – Russians beyond the ring road see the negative impact of
sanctions on Muscovites and Petersburgers as simple justice because they think
that people in the two capitals have lived too well for too long, according to
Maria Matskevich, a researcher at the Academy of Sciences Institute of
Sociology.

She
told a roundtable organized by Rosbalt.ru that many Russians “are ready to
suffer a worsening of their position because the rich are bearing the main
economic losses – not the oligarchs but the residents of Moscow and Petersburg
who, in the opinion of Russians have lived too richly.In their misfortunes, they see justice” (rosbalt.ru/piter/2014/11/11/1336458.html).

At
the same time, she said, Russians are not prepared to sacrifice everything in
order to live in “a great country.” Moreover, even though four out of five
Russians believe that theirFor all the excitement surrounding rookie quarterback EJ Manuel, these eyes are looking at the defensive line, particularly on the interior.

Kyle Williams is one of the best interior defenders in pro football, but he's rehabbing after having bone spurs removed from his right foot. He's supposed to be back for training camp. Marcell Dareus missed the first round of OTAs, but unlike Williams, he is healthy. Dareus was back on the practice field last week. Then there's Alan Branch, another defensive tackle who skipped some OTA time. If these three play up to their potential, it should be VERY difficult to run the football in Buffalo this year. That's huge, because it's already tough throwing it there in December, and it gives guys like Mario Williams more third-and-long


Grimes was becoming one of the best cornerbacks in the NFC. Last year, he tore his Achilles in the opener at Kansas City and watched from injured reserve as his Falcons made it all the way to the NFC Championship Game. Had Grimes been healthy, Atlanta might have gone to the Super Bowl. He's a quality corner in a league devoid of them.

What are New England's plans for Tim Tebow? OK, although we'll know more by training camp, it appears Tebow will not be playing tight end in New England. Even with the concerns surrounding Rob Gronkowski's ailing back, keep in mind that you can't just ask a 25-year-old quarterback to become an NFL-level tight end in a matter of weeks. Right?

Well, I guess it wouldn't be asubplot of Geno Smith, an unclear situation at running back and much more. But I'm going to the other side of the ball, specifically looking at outside linebacker.

Can Coples, the club's top pick in 2012, turn it on? Rex Ryan's defense will be far better suited to keeping this team in games if he can. Last year, Coples played admirably for a rookie, but that was as a defensive end. This year, Coples is being asked to play OLB. That means covering running backs and tight ends, in addition to rushing the quarterback. He will still line up on the line in obvious passing scenarios, but he also will be covering little fast guys at 285 pounds. Yes, the second-year man out of North Carolina faces a difficult


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The 1/4-scale Premium Format General Grievous Figure was meticulously sculpted to capture every detail of Grievous' techno-organic body,Tyquan Lewis of Tarboro (NC) came up to Columbus in June to make his non-committable offer a committable one and accomplished his mission with an outstanding camp performance.

A little over a month later, the 6-4/227 hybrid linebacker-defensive end made a return trip to Ohio State, this time for Friday Night Lights, bringing his mother up to show her what he loved so much about the university and football program.

After much deliberation between the two, it looks like Urban Meyer passed the test with mom, as Lewis has given a verbal pledge to Meyer and his staff, making him the seventeenth commitment overall and first linebacker in Ohio State's recruiting class of 2013.

While he excels as a defensive end for three-time state champion Tarboro, Tyquan is expected to move


to linebacker and play the Viper position (linebacker who plays at the line of scrimmage).

He chose the Buckeyes over other finalists including UNC, LSU, Ole Miss, Missouri, and Vanderbilt, and also held offers from Clemson, Duke, South Carolina, NC State, ECU, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, and Auburn.

The pick up of Lewis is a big one for Ohio State, as he becomes the first in a linebacker class that has been up and down throughout this recruiting period. With Lewis now in the fold, the Buckeyes can move on to pursue Mike Mitchell as the second linebacker for 2013, as well as fill other positions of need and focus on closing out the remaining (and limited) spots in the class.

For more on the Lewis commitment and other newsHARRISON, Arkansas — A Branson camper wielding a BB gun pistol was shot dead by one of two park rangers who encountered the man at Spring Creek Campground on Aug. 20, according to the National Park Service.

According to the Park Service, at 1:34 a.m. that day, two National Park Service law enforcement rangers were conducting a routine patrol of the Spring Creek Campground, in the Lower District of the Buffalo National River.

In a news release, the Park Service said preliminary results of an investigation found that "as the rangers entered the campground, they were immediately confronted by a white man, later identified as Jonathan Bolger, 34, of Branson, Missouri."

According to the Park Service, the rangers identified themselves as law enforcement officers and illuminated Bolger with flashlights. Bolger was


pointing an object directly at the rangers, which they believed was a semi-automatic handgun.

The rangers ordered Bolger to drop the handgun and he refused, according to the Park Service. He continued verbally challenging them and was then shot by one of the rangers.

The rangers provided immediate life-saving efforts to Bolger, the release said, but they were unable to revive him. He was pronounced dead by Regional Medical Center ambulance personnel when they arrived.

According to the preliminary investigation, Bolger was armed with a Umarex XCP air pistol, which resembles a two-toned semi-automatic handgun and does not have an orange tip to identify it as an air pistol.

Both rangers involved in the incident were placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, as is the normal protocol ofSaturday, June 21, 2008

JSIFS: Day Two (Florence, KY to Atlanta, GA)

Day Two: Florence KY to Atlanta GAMiles Covered: Non-stop travel from 8:22 a.m. to 6:38 p.m., followed by dinner at Tony Carino's in College Park.Weather Outside of Van: Fair to moderate; heavy traffic congestion in some parts of 75. Brief patch of stormy weather.Weather Inside of Van: Amazingly temperate. Thank God.

(Pictured, top row L2R: Pat Gohn, Heidi Saxton, Kate Wicker, Sarah Reinhard, Stan Williams. Bottom row L2R: Tracy "Sister Spitfire", Baby Wicker, Lisa Hendey, Sweetie Wicker, and Mary Kochan. Not pictured: Two little girls who shall remain nameless, and who were singlehandedly attempting to level the place after ten hours in the car. Also the very tall Italian Margarita I was sipping all night to fortify me for


party or [are considered] just as another resource that should be kept in the family,” says Claudiu Tufis, professor at the School of Political Science, Bucharest.

There have been two major scandals from among the MEPs who were elected in 2009.

George Becali, now ex-MEP, the financier of the Steaua Bucharest football club who made millions in shady deals with government entities, represented the extremist Greater Romania Party as an MEP, with the hope that this would shield him from ongoing criminal investigations.

He later switched parties to join the more influential National Liberal Party, winning a seat in the Romanian Parliament at the end of 2012.

During this time he was indicted for offering huge bribes, using fake documents and ordering his bodyguards to kidnap thieves who had stolen his limousine.

Becaliis now spending three-and-a-half years in jail.

Meanwhile, Social Democrat MEP Adrian Severin was caught on camera by a Sunday Times journalist accepting cash for influence in 2011. Although he resigned from his party, he continues to work as a MEP. At the end of last year he was indicted by the Romanian National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) and his case is pending in court.

Another MEP who was also exposed by the British newspaper for accepting cash was Slovenian Zoran Thaler. He resigned and last month he was sentenced to over two years in prison in his home country.

The difference in behaviour between Slovenia and Romania is a “telling indicator” of the interest in such issues at a national and European community level, says Tufis.

“For the Slovenians and their political


class it was a stain and they pushed to solve it,” he says. “Not for Romanians, where [members of] Severin’s PSD party actually defended him.”

Severin’s retention of his MEP seat shows the extent to which Romanian society and its political class tolerates corruption.

Romania’s political class has been hit by a wave of corruption indictments, trials and convictions in the lead-up to this year's European elections in May and the election of a new President in November.

More high profile politicians are being imprisoned for corruption.

In January former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, who was previously convicted of corruption, was found guilty of blackmail and of taking bribes. He was sentenced to four years in jail.

Although locking up politicians may appease a European Commission hungry to see Romania’s high level corruptionon a party list is a sure way to an MEP seat.

“Limited participation gives an advantage to large parties who have a higher capacity to mobilise their base,” says Remus Stefureac, director of polling company INSCOP.

Far-right's 'traditional issues' dealt with by mainstream parties

Romania’s leading coalition has split in the run-up to the European elections.

In February, the Government’s junior partner, the National Liberal Party (PNL), withdrew its ministers from the cabinet in a bust-up between the Social Democrat Prime Minister Ponta and PNL president Crin Antonescu.

The Social Democrats have chosen to run candidates in the European elections, not with the PNL, but instead in coalition with a leftist and a tiny conservative party, under the banner of the Social Democratic Union (USD). The Conservative Party is seen as accepted


Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), the nodal agency for the R46,000-crore Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway, is talking to lenders, including State Bank of India (SBI) and IDBI Bank for funds, senior bankers and government officials told FE. They added that a couple of sovereign wealth funds have also been approached.

Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), the nodal agency for the R46,000-crore Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway, is talking to lenders, including State Bank of India (SBI) and IDBI Bank for funds, senior bankers and government officials told FE. They added that a couple of sovereign wealth funds have also been approached.

Confirming the development, Radheshyam Mopalwar, V-C and managing director, MSRDC, said SBI Capital Markets would arrange the loans roping in seven-eight banks. “As soon as we get an approval from the stateWhy has the quest to hack old Apple II software become the best hope we have of preserving a part of our cultural history? How do these floppy discs – still turning up in their box-loads – shine a light on the educational philosophies of the 80s? And do a new generation of gamers risk losing whole days of their lives by playing these compelling retro games in their browsers?

Jason Scott of the Internet Archive and cracker 4am tell Leigh about the huge success of their call out for vintage software.


faced its death throes as a free nation amidst mostly embarrassed silence. In fact, some of the media did speak in England under the influence of Philby-esque Marxism, and condemned their heroic resistance as they thought Soviet rule would be better for Poland and the entire world. George Orwell, almost a lone voice, defended the Poles.

The rest is history as we know—the Soviets waited for the resistance army to be decimated and for survivors to be taken to German work camps (as was my 16-year-old father) and then marched in with chants of “liberation” to a destroyed Warsaw.

From these dark days arose Karol Wojtyla, now Saint John Paul II, who saw the destruction of his country—and many of its artists, musicians, writers and politicians. He insisted that thefinal freedom of a human person—spiritual freedom—cannot be destroyed and roused the Poles from the ashes of bitter defeat in spiritual and cultural solidarity against the oppressors.

And here 73 years later, stood an American president, paying tribute to that fight against overwhelming oppression. He said all those things that Poles had hoped would be said in the public realm decades ago—not only in some history books. He captured the apocalyptic sense of the battle. He recalled one of its darkest moments—when the young fighters realized that neither the Red Army nor the West would come to their help. They were on their own.

But then Trump did something even more dramatic in his speech. He linked this battle to the current battle for Western civilization itself. Guardian journalist David


markets to emphasize the rule of law, free speech, religious tolerance, and a wide range of cultural achievements.

Thus Trump was not only heralding long-term military and political support from NATO, but broadened his theme, speaking of the West as a community of nations, into which central Europe clearly fits, whose cultural center is its Judeo-Christian roots. Trump recalled the visit of the newly elected Pope John Paul II to Poland in 1979 before a crowd of 5 million, focusing on that moment when the Pope asked what the Poles wanted—they did not want money or privilege but they chanted as one “We want God.” It is surely unique that a political leader recalled this moment as a pivotal one in the nation’s recent history. It was certainly oneInsane Video Shows A Pro Biker Pulling Stunts On A Ridge In Scotland

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Professional street trials bike rider Danny MacAskill just released a video of his exploits on a mountain bike in Scotland, and it’s nothing short of incredible.

The new film, called “The Ridge,” shows MacAskill returning to his home of the Isle of Skye in Scotland, where he heads up, and then eventually down, the treacherous landscape known as the Cuillin Ridgeline.

He loads up his bike in a rowboat to get there in the beginning of the video, which highlights the gorgeous scenery.

Professional street trials bike rider Danny MacAskill just released a video of his exploits on a mountain bike in Scotland, and it’s nothing short of incredible.

The new film, called “The Ridge,” shows MacAskill


returning to his home of the Isle of Skye in Scotland, where he heads up, and then eventually down, the treacherous landscape known as the Cuillin Ridgeline.

He loads up his bike in a rowboat to get there in the beginning of the video, which highlights the gorgeous scenery.

MacAskill, 28, became an overnight phenomenon of sorts in 2009 after he posted a homemade clip to YouTube of himself doing tricks on a bike in Edinburgh. At the time, he was an unknown bike mechanic, according to Outside Magazine.

Now he’s sponsored by Inspired Bicycles Ltd., and in 2013 the magazine referred to him as “the most famous stunt rider on the Internet.” They’ve got a point.

He climbs up to the top of this ridge for an incredible shot above theHa Noi City Full Day

Trip overview

Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is known for its centuries-old architecture and a rich culture with Southeast Asian, Chinese and French influences. At its heart is the chaotic Old Quarter, where the narrow streets are roughly arranged by trade. There are many little temples, including Bach Ma, honoring a legendary horse, plus Dong Xuan market, selling household goods and street food.

Trip Inclusion

Shuttle bus during the trip pick up & drop off at hotel in Old-Quarter (Group bus for group tour, private car for private tour)

1 bottle of water/ person

Entrance tickets

English speaking guide

Vietnamese lunch at local restaurant

Trip Exclusions

Drinks

Tip for tourguide & driver

Government tax

Personal expenses or any thing not mentioned above

Peak Season surcharge (New year, Lunar New Year, Christmas)

Thing To Carry

Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum is


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Can you find out what happened to the new series on A&E, The Devil Next Door? It was supposed to premier [Nov. 27], but the network aired The First 48 and had no explanation on either Facebook or their website. MANY people are really pissed off! —Scott

The network pulled the show off its schedule shortly after the show was accused—and this may sound familiar—of paying cast members, though the network says those things are unrelated.

According to A&E, the six-episode series The Devil Next Door was supposed to:

“…provide a voice to the former members of the deeply secretive North Carolina-based Word of Faith Fellowship Church as they open up about the shocking abuse they alleged to have endured at the hands of the Church. In addition, the newresponse from the church. A new airdate has not been set.”

Episode one is titled “Get the Devils Out” and its listing information said this:

“Shared custody between spouses proves difficult for Sarah and her cousin Chad, who have both left the church, but whose spouses remain in the church. Things get more complicated when Chad learns his daughter might be in danger.”

Episode two, “Something Wicked in Spindale,” which was originally scheduled to air tonight, was going to pick up that storyline:

“Chad has successfully helped ex-wife Lauren leave the Church, but he worries she could go back at any moment and take their daughter with her. Jamey, a former Church member, is working with a confidential source to gather information against leader Jane Whaley. John Huddle, another former Church member,


Busch Gardens Food & Wine Festival headliners announced

The two-month string of shows is packed with internationally known stars of pop, soft rock, Latin, country, and classic music.

Anyone interested in being the first to taste what the festival is all about can attend the preview day on Friday, March 2. The Florida Orchestra, featuring the Mambo Kings, will perform and Pass Members will get a commemorative stemless wine cup.Championing Equality
Through creative exhibits and programs, Alfred University's Drawn to Diversity program aims to “teach history, inspire artists, cultivate dialogue, and fight ignorance using popular art and media forms.”

Promoting Partnerships
In 2006, Marvel Comics and MTV provided support for AU students to explore diversity issues through comic books. The yearlong program culminated with a colorful stage show featuring students dressed in superhero costumes and detailing the history of civil rights.

In 2008, diversity jumps off the comic book pages and into the supermarket aisles as it explores the history of advertising icons such as Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima, Chiquita Banana and a dozen other famous advertising creations.

Drawn to Diversity, an Alfred University educational program, has announced plans to use advertising campaigns from various consumer products to teach history and promote


equality. Wegmans Food Markets Inc. has agreed to partner with the University by allowing educational displays to be launched in its Hornell, NY market.

Overcoming Ignorance
Throughout 2007, Alfred University students presented their educational workshops to numerous elementary schools, high schools, and professional audiences.

For the first time, Drawn to Diversity will also be an academic course taught by Alfred University Director of Student Activities Dan Napolitano.("Weeks") in an action brought against Independent School District No. 89 ("School District"). Prior to trial, the district court entered an order disqualifying Barringer from further participation in the litigation because of improper ex parte communications. Weeks, with new counsel, subsequently prevailed on some of his claims. After the judgment, the district court granted a motion by the School District to reduce Weeks' award of costs to exclude costs for depositions connected with Barringer's ethical violations. The district court then awarded attorney fees to Weeks, but for an amount less than he had originally requested. Barringer appeals the disqualification ruling, the reduction in costs, and the amount of attorney fees the court awarded Weeks. We affirm the disqualification ruling, and we hold that Barringer lacks standing to appeal


the reduction in costs and the amount of attorney fees.

I. BACKGROUND
A. Disqualification

2
Barringer represented Weeks, a former bus driver of the Oklahoma City Public Schools, in his claims against the School District under  1983, the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"), Title VII, and the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"). During pretrial discovery, a dispute arose between the parties over the availability and relevance of certain information requested by Weeks relating to his FLSA claims for failure to pay him proper overtime compensation. The existence and relevance of the information was raised during Barringer's deposition of Marilyn Midgett ("Midgett"), an operations supervisor for the School District. On behalf of Weeks, Barringer subsequently filed a motion to compel discovery of certain documents, including documents referred to during Midgett's deposition. Theboth Midgett and Hix were employees with whom communications were prohibited under Rule 4.2. Although Hix no longer worked for the School District when the motion for a protective order was filed, he had been employed with the School District at the time of the alleged ex parte communications.3 The School District asked that the court prohibit Barringer from contacting any of its present or former supervisory personnel, specifically Midgett and Hix, exclude any evidence obtained from Midgett and Hix, and strike Midgett and Hix as witnesses.

4
In response to the School District's motion, Barringer did not dispute that she engaged in ex parte communications with Midgett and Hix after they were identified as witnesses by the School District; rather, she contended that because both Midgett and Hix were