kinda creepy. Anyway, Toulon thinks one of the girls on the crew looks like his long lost love, and he wants her and him to be reincarnated into the bodies of large, human-sized dolls. She's not so amenable to the idea, and hopefully, for her sake, her beau will rescue her in time.

I enjoyed this one more than the first. It had a better puppet quotient, their time was spread out throughout the film, and we had fewer gaps between puppet kills. I liked that they added tangential characters that could be killed earlier on, so we didn't have that huge chunk of nothing we had in the first one. The addition of Toulon wrapped in bandages created an extra layer of tension and suspense without breaking thewhat was added to the home over a century-plus. Walls were built or moved; a portion of a wrap-around porch was enclosed; plumbing was added. Ortego said the two-story home — eventually it included three apartments — was built without indoor plumbing but with electricity, which was available in Lafayette at the time of its construction.

The rehab work is painstaking, intended to meet the U.S. Interior Department standards for historic homes and the guidelines of the state Historic Preservation Office. The home is located in the Sterling Grove National Historic District. Although the burglary occurred last weekend, it was not known until midweek that the pieces were pilfered.

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This is an elegy. The aroma of deep sadness arises from its pages. As a football-loving sentimentalist, at first I inhaled it deeply.

The game of the title was played at Anfield on 26 May 1989. Cowley makes a convincing case for it being pivotal in cultural and sporting terms. Liverpool had won the FA Cup six days previously and now had the league title sewn up. Almost. To pinch the title, Arsenal had to win by two clear goals. Which they did, against all expectation, when Michael Thomas scored in the last minute of the game, of the season.

It was an enthralling game, overcast by grief. Six weeks earlier, 96 Liverpool supporters had died in the Hillsborough catastrophe. Cowley's thesis is that the Liverpool-Arsenal match was the endof an era. "The Taylor Report [on Hillsborough], with its recommendation for all-seater stadiums and its enlightened liberalism, changed English football for ever"; it marked "a moment of profound and irreversible cultural shift".

Cowley's exploration of these cultural and historical matters is fine, discursive journalism. But his writing finds fresh legs in the book's other dimension. The Last Game is also a memoir centring on the relationship between Cowley and his complex and charismatic father.

Tony Cowley was an east Londoner from Upton Park who prospered in "the rag trade". After marrying, he moved to Harlow, paradoxically an urban utopia without a football team. Or roots. This is the core of the book, whose underlying subject is the severance of connection between people and place, fans and team. Tony -


"TC" - acquired the trappings, and the insecurities, of the postwar upwardly mobile man. He compensated for the latter with an unswerving loyalty to West Ham (his son, in an Oedipal gesture, supported Arsenal). There's a poignant, revelatory moment in the book when Cowley finds his father studying photographs of the Blitz through a magnifying glass. "Sometimes," TC says, "I wonder if I'll see someone I knew. Sometimes I wonder even if I might see myself." A couple of days later, he died of a stroke at a working-men's club. He was 56.

The Last Game ends in a rancorous lament for the lost "people's game". The usual grotesques of the modern game are duly excoriated: dodgy foreign oligarchs; mad transfer fees and prohibitive ticket prices; arrogant, bling-encrusted playersoften paid more than an incompetent banker's pension; the deleterious effect on the national side of too many foreign players in the top echelons, and so on. Well, yes, maybe. We fans are notoriously nostalgic; who could deny that it was a better world when Stanley Matthews was earning 10 bob a week? But this is a political book. Cowley is the editor of the New Statesman, and right in front of goal he gets nutmegged by his own ideology. His key events occurred in the Thatcher years, and she bulks large in the background. Cowley is almost comically lenient with her. She "had been, I think, too neglectful of those who depended on the state for welfare support". She "won" the "bitter little wars with the miners


and the print unions". After 10 years of Thatcher, England was "a more confident and more racially tolerant country ... generally more at ease".

That's not how I remember it. (But then, unlike Cowley, I wasn't going to ecstasy-fuelled raves.) He writes of the raging violence attendant upon football in the 80s, but declines the obvious connection with Tory policy: that supporters were often the very people whose industries and communities were its victims. And the truly pivotal event that turned the game into one "defined by egoism, rapacity and greed" was not Hillsborough; it was the purchase, in effect, of the new Premiership by Sky, owned by Thatcher's good friend Rupert Murdoch.

Cowley is, I think, uneasily aware of all this. At one point he speaks, almost regretfully, ofGanguly's photography book brought him in contact of J. F. Madan, who agreed to invest in his films.[1] Ganguly and Madan Theatres' manager Nitish Lahiri formed the Indo British Film Co, the first film production company owned by Bengalis, in 1918.[2]Bilat Ferat (1921) (The England Returned), a silent comedy film directed by Nitish Lahiri, was the first production from this company.[1] They released another two movies in 1922: Yashoda Nandan and Sadhu Aur Shaitan.[2]

Ganguly founded Lotus Film Company in Hyderabad and also established a film studio and two cinema houses with the help of Nizam. In 1924, he was a distributor of Razia Begum, a film made in Bombay. This film portrayed a Muslim princess who fell in love of a Hindu. This enraged Nizam and he ordered


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10th Infantry, chapter 18 from E.B. Quiner's Military History of Wisconsin (Chicago, 1866)

10th Infantry, chapter 18 from E.B. Quiner's Military History of Wisconsin (Chicago, 1866)

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10th Infantry, chapter 18 from E.B. Quiner's Military History of Wisconsin (Chicago, 1866)

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10th Infantry

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Quiner, E. B. (Edwin Bentley), d. 1868.

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This is an excerpt from E.B. Quiner's thousand-page volume, The Military History of Wisconsin: a record of the civil and military patriotism of the state, in the war for the union, with a history of the campaigns in which Wisconsin soldiers haveSaracens celebrate after beating Bath in last season's Aviva Premiership final

Aviva Premiership champions Saracens will open the defence of their title at home to the Sale Sharks on October 17 while newly-promoted Worcester host Northampton.

The season starts six weeks later than normal because of the Rugby World Cup being hosted in England, with the first round of fixtures coming the same weekend as that tournament's quarter-final stage.

That also means the removal of the recent tradition of the London Double Header on the opening weekend, with those fixtures having been pushed back to November 28, when Saracens host Worcester and London Irish take on Wasps in back-to-back fixtures at Twickenham.

But there will be a London derby to kick off the season, with Harlequins facing Wasps at the Twickenham Stoop


on Friday, October 16.

Worcester's return to the top division also takes place on the Friday night at Sixways Stadium and a third October 16 fixture sees Newcastle host Gloucester at Kingston Park.

As well as the Saracens game, which takes place at Allianz Park, Saturday also includes a mouth-watering West Country derby between Bath and the Exeter Chiefs at The Rec.

The opening round of fixtures concludes on Sunday October 18 when London Irish play host to Leicester at the Madejski Stadium.

Mark McCall expects a tough start to season with international stars absent

Saracens rugby director Mark McCall said: "Sale Sharks at home is a very difficult start.

"We know how strong a team they are after we faced the Sharks in both the Premiership and the European Champions Cup last season.

"Theonce implied) has been sufficiently disproved.

Meanwhile, ISIS is threatening to execute another American aid worker if the U.S. doesn’t capitulate to their demands:

A third American hostage held by ISIS has been identified as a 26-year-old American woman who was kidnapped a year ago while doing humanitarian relief work in Syria. The terror group is demanding $6.6 million and the release of U.S. prisoners for the life of the young woman, who the family requested not be identified.

She is the third of at least four Americans who were known to be held by ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. American journalist James Foley was executed by the group in a video that appeared online last week. Another writer, Steven Sotloff, was seen alive but under duress in


and; c) Education. Each track begins with a mandatory core of (4) courses, followed by track specific courses.

The Administration, Planning and Policy track provides all of its courses from within our department, through distance education. These courses focus on the skills and knowledge necessary to exercise leadership within the EHS field. Elective courses are available from the departments of Policy Sciences, Sociology, and Nursing, but are not available online.

The Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology track is designed for those interested in the public health side of emergency health services, including such areas of work as injury prevention, health policy, and disaster and refugee health services.

The Education track is designed for clinicians who want to learn modern principles behind education, including curriculum design and validation, instructional system design, and educationin paleontology (all expenses paid). The other as been proclaimed one of the top ten up and coming chefs by Zagat. Then there is that elementary school that became one of San Francisco's best when Arlene became president of the PTA. She had made so many contributions and set so many memories that the Masons (a male organization) held a funeral reception for her. Then there was me. What an unbelievable life, unbelievable dream we shared together. There was the teenage love, the dances, the discoveries, the adventures, the shows, the outings, the moments made and on and on. So many, many people saw Arlene off. I miss Arlene. But how can anyone, including me, be sad about such a wonderful life? One Arlene is gone. But, here


since March of 2009, but a few months ago I made the decision to become much more active there (you see, there was a dearth of cat pictures on Twitter, and I felt it my duty to help do something about it). My first thought was to tweet the link to a Google Form I created for the petition. I did so at 7:20 a.m. Pacific Time on 15 October:

Since I wanted to gauge whether there was interest beyond just LITA members, I also posted about the petition on the ALA Think Tank Facebook group at 7:50 a.m. on the 15th.

By the following morning, I had 13 responses: 7 from LITA members, and 6 from non-LITA members. An interest group petition requires 10 signatures from LITA members, soSOFIA - Bulgaria's nationalist scene has long been a byword for racism, anti-Semitism and homophobia. But now with their entry into government, they appear to have softened their tone -- and are even pro-EU.

In elections in March, the United Patriots (UP) alliance -- made up of three parties, the VMRO, NFSB and Ataka -- emerged as the third-biggest force with 27 lawmakers in Bulgaria's 240-seat parliament.

Now, these nationalists have formed a coalition under Boyko Borisov with the centre-right GERB party that was due to take office on Thursday.

This could ruffle some feathers in Europe, particularly within the European People's Party (EPP), the biggest group in the European Parliament and which counts GERB among its members, said BBSS Gallup analyst Parvan Simeonov.

"Most probably this will sound alarm bells ringing,"


Simeonov told AFP. In the first half of 2018, Bulgaria holds the rotating presidency of the European Union.

Holocaust a 'lie'

The most extreme party within the UP alliance is Ataka ("Attack"), created in 2005 by Volen Siderov, a firebrand who has called the Holocaust a "lie" and has been convicted multiple times of inciting racial hatred and hooliganism.

"Homosexuality is a disease... There is a fine line between homosexuality and paedophilia and it is easily crossed," Siderov said in 2006, the same year he made it into the second round of the presidential election.

He has railed against Bulgaria's leaning towards western Europe and away from Russia. In 2014, he burned the EU flag and in 2015 visited Russian-annexed Crimea.

The other party within the UP, the National Front for the Salvationof Bulgaria (NFSB), has focused its vitriol more on Bulgaria's impoverished and marginalised Roma minority, who number around 700,000.

Party leader Valery Simeonov told parliament last year that the Roma were scrounging "ferocious humanoids" whose children "play with pigs in the street" and whose women "have the instincts of street dogs".

The Bulgarian National Movement (VMRO) meanwhile is led by Krasimir Karakachanov. Last year, running for president, he called for migrants to be stopped at the borders with "batons, tear gas and water cannons".

The VMRO also sees Macedonians as Bulgarians. All three parties have their own television channels, broadcasting a mix of Kremlin propaganda, reportages about thieving Roma and folk music and traditions.

Before the elections, members of the NFSB and the VMRO blockaded Bulgaria's border with Turkey to stop "agents"


At the march on Washington in August 1963, where Martin Luther King made his "I have a dream" speech, the United States Information Agency, the nation's propaganda wing devoted to "public diplomacy", made a documentary. It wanted to make sure that the largest demonstration in the history of the US capital, demanding jobs and freedom and denouncing racism, was not misconstrued by the nation's enemies or potential allies. Their aim was to show the newly independent former colonies that the US embraced peaceful protest. "Smile," they called to demonstrators as the camera rolled. "This is going to Africa."

"So it happened," Michael Thelwell, a grassroots activist, told the author Charles Euchner, "that Negro students from the south, some of whom still had unhealed bruises from the electric cattle prods60th anniversary of Brown v Board of Education, the landmark supreme court verdict that made official, codified racial segregation illegal. In July it will be 50 years since the signing of the Civil Rights Act by President Lyndon Johnson – legislation that lent muscle and democratic endorsement to the aforementioned court ruling – and the Mississippi Freedom Summer, when idealistic youngsters from the north joined African-American activists in the south to fight for justice.

On these occasions Barack Obama stands as both willing embodiment and passive exemplar: without these changes, he says, his presidency could never have happened and, insist others, if he can do it then anybody can.

"I have lived out the promise of LBJ's efforts," Obama told an event marking the passing of the act at Johnson's


firmly closed – providing two main lessons that challenge the mainstream framing of this era's legacy.

First, racial integration sits quite easily alongside inequality and discrimination. The legal right of people to mix does not inevitably change the power relationship between them. The former confederacy was, in many ways, the most racially integrated part of the US. There were high rates of miscegenation (forced and voluntary); slaves and servants raised white children and often lived in close quarters with their owners. Strom Thurmond, who ran for the presidency in 1948 as a segregationist, fathered a black daughter by a maid in 1924. The issue was never whether people mixed but on what basis and to what end.

"The issue for black people was never integration or segregation but white supremacy,"of one now. The legal framework provided by Brown, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, passed in 1965, is being steadily gutted, with predictable consequences. Across the country, schools are resegregating.

According to research recently conducted by ProPublica, "black children across the south now attend majority-black schools at levels not seen in four decades." These racial inequalities have been compounded by class entrenchment. In many areas – income, wealth, incarceration, employment – the gaps between black and white are the same as 50 years ago or worse. In a 2012 report, UCLA's Civil Rights Project noted: "Nationwide, the typical black student is now in a school where almost two out of every three classmates (64%) are low income."

These trends were anticipated even as the ink was


drying on the laws many hoped would bring them to an end. As early asIn 1965, the civil rights leader Bayard Rustin pointed out: "The Negro today finds himself stymied by obstacles of far greater magnitude than the legal barriers he was attacking before – automation, urban decay, de facto school segregation. These are problems which, while conditioned by Jim Crow, do not vanish upon its demise. They are more deeply rooted in our socioeconomic order; they are the result of the total society's failure to meet not only the Negro's needs, but human needs generally."

At a time of growing economic inequality and legislative mendacity against the poor, those human needs are still far from met. "You know, Bayard," Martin Luther King told Rustin after the 1965 WattsThe Jesus and Mary Chain returning to U.S. for new concerts in June, September

The Jesus and Mary Chain’s brief three-show run through Texas last month appears to be the beginning of an active 2012: In addition to today’s announcement of the band’s first-ever concert in China, the brothers Reid also will come back to the U.S. for a string of newly revealed dates in both June and September.

While the Mary Chain has yet to formally announce the U.S. concerts outside of a New Orleans make-up date in September, a search of venue and ticketing websites shows the band will play at least four concerts in June, hitting San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and San Diego.

Then, following that New Orleans concert, JAMC will co-headline the Hopscotch Music Festival


protagonist of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun (played by Hanna Schygulla) has a love life that’s nothing if not unlucky. In 1943, she marries a German soldier named Hermann (Klaus Löwitsch); after an extremely brief honeymoon, he leaves for the front and apparently dies in battle. Two years later, Maria starts up a relationship with an American named Bill (George Byrd); unfortunately, Hermann returns while the two of them are making love in her apartment. A few unexpected plot turns later, Bill is dead, and Hermann is in prison – leaving Maria with a burning desire to get ahead, make money, and ensure that Hermann can live comfortably post-release.

At its core, Marriage is about a woman who won’t let other men tell her what shesee – in one telling scene, a speech about disarmament plays as Maria moves out of her family’s home to join a business – help convey Fassbinder’s ideas regarding masculinity and German history. The overall film might occasionally feel a bit staged. But as with just about everything that Fassbinder made, it remains a provocative work with a message that resonates.

Where to Watch: Kanopy, Amazon, iTunes

Amarcord (1973)

Image courtesy of Janus Films.

13 years after portraying modern-day spiritual decadence in La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini took a more autobiographical turn in 1973’s Amarcord. Set in a village that resembles the place where Fellini grew up, the film depicts a year in the life of the village’s inhabitants, concentrating in particular on the exploits of a mischievous teenager named Titta (Bruno


Zanin).

Seen from today, Amarcord still stands out for its vividness, warmth, and generosity of spirit. With a characteristic mix of carnivalesque fantasy and documentary realism, Fellini creates a hilariously caricatural panoply of characters – pedantic teachers, prudish priests, hot-headed fathers, and more – who imbue the narrative with an aching sense of nostalgia. In keeping with this reflective atmosphere, moreover, the movie’s vignette structure leaves you feeling as though you were leafing through a scrapbook of old memories.

Even as he indulges in fuzzy recollections of his childhood, however, Fellini also offers darker insights into Italian history and society. The narrative unfolds against a backdrop of bare, colorless landscapes that speak to the characters’ miserable economic prospects. And the film is rife with oblique references to Italian fascism, illustratingShe joins CEOWORLD magazine from a leading executive research firm, where she was a senior consultant and economist. There, her assignments spanned the U.S., Asia, Europe, and Latin America. She has advised CEOs, investors, boards, and high-profile industry leaders on a wide range of issues impacting the global business landscape. She can be reached on email alexandra@ceoworld.biz

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Colorado School District Censors ‘Inappropriate’ Literature to Be Placed by Atheists

DELTA, Co. — A professing atheist group is expressing disappointment as officials with a Colorado school district have deemed some of its literature “inappropriate” that was to be placed in area middle schools.

As previously reported, the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF), Western Colorado Atheists and Freethinkers and the Satanic Temple applied to place atheist and satanic-themed materials in Delta County schools after officials declined to stop Gideon International from making Bibles available for students.

With permission, Gideons had placed Bibles in December, prompting a student to complain, and FFRF to seek to put an end to the distribution. But when the district would not budge, FFRF applied to place their own materials.

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3 And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

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A COUNTY Limerickman renowned for his translation of Sikh scripture and history into English is set to be commemorated in his native West Limerick this year.

The work of Michael Macauliffe has influenced the growth of a religion that has an estimated 27 million followers but his prolific achievements are relatively unknown in his native county.

Also known as Max Arthur Macauliffe, he was born in Newcastle West in September 1841, the eldest of seven sisters and four brothers. His parents, John and Julia Macauliffe, moved their family to the national school in Templeglantine when he was eight as his father took up the post as master of the school.

After completing his college education at Queen’s College in Galway, Macauliffe was selected in 1862 for Indian Civil Service with assignmentto the State of Punjab in 1864.

He was promoted to deputy commissioner of the district of Ferozpur in 1882 and became a divisional judge two years later.

He then retired from the Indian Civil Service in 1893 to undertake writing on Sikhism.

Max Macauliffe went on to complete the classic translation into English of major parts of the Granth, the holy book of the Sikhs. In 1909 Oxford University Press published the first edition of his celebrated masterpiece, ‘The Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors’, in six volumes and running to almost 2,500 pages.

It has never since been out of print.

His deep understanding and sympathy for the people of Punjab and their religious traditions made him a popular civil servant with the people of Punjab, but it also


brought him into conflict with the English community in India.

He converted to Sikhism in the 1860s and died in his London home on March 15, 1913.

Councillors in Newcastle West Municipal District, last week heard plans to commemorate Macauliffe in his native West Limerick.

Anne Rizzo of the Council’s Social Development Directorate spoke of plans to install a commemorative plaque on the grounds of Templeglantine National School where Macauliffe spent his formative years.

Other plans to honour this County Limerickman include a one-day seminar on his life and works and an exhibition of Sikhism will also be included in the celebrations.

Local representatives were also informed of the launch of a book by Professor Tadhg Foley on the life of Max Arthur Macauliffe.

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It claimed that it also arrested 42 others in connection to the alleged spy network, the website of Iran's state-owned Press TV website reported.

According to a statement by the Intelligence Ministry published on the website of the semi-official Mehr news agency (link in Persian), the network was run by CIA agents via U.S. embassies in the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Malaysia.

Rapper Cassidy has cleared up the rumors surrounding the warrants out for his arrest.

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With world-class vineyards, fertile waters and an abundance of fresh local produce, the Fleurieu Peninsula has become one of South Australia’s great regional dining destinations. Thanks to its mild climate and generous rainfall, the region has become one of South Australia’s great regional dining destinations. As one of the most geographically ...USSR and later, after gaining credibility, began disseminating disinformation about the regime, portraying Stalin as tough but honest, pro-Western and strictly Russia-oriented.

After World War II, the Soviets shifted their focus to the United States. Two years after the surrender of Nazi Germany, in 1947, Soviet leadership created the Committee of Information to run undercover operations to influence public opinion. In the 1950s, a specialized intelligence unit was established specifically to disseminate disinformation. In the 1970s, as disinformation became a larger part of the Soviet strategy, the unit was upgraded to a full service and placed under the command of a KGB general.

The Soviets created several avenues for disseminating disinformation. Moscow covertly funded communist newspapers and radio stations around the world, particularly in Africa and Latin America, where they


especially hoped to exert influence. They also funded communist parties in Western countries, and established fronts—such as the World Peace Council, World Federation of Free Trade Unions, and the World Federation of Democratic Youth—to spread communist ideology.

One of the most popular methods of disseminating disinformation targeted legitimate news outlets. By anonymously sending forged documents—such as embassy communications or military memoranda—to credible publications, the Soviets attempted to create well-timed fake news stories that the public accepted as true. Once the stories caught on, they were reprinted extensively in Soviet-controlled papers in the hopes that the story would be picked up by more mainstream sources—and would gain credibility in the process.

Disinformation often highlighted unattractive aspects of American culture, exaggerating real problems and imagining non-existent ones. A particular object of disinformationcampaigns was the very real systemic racism and discrimination in the United States. When the truth had the potential to be damaging enough on its own, the Soviets simply aimed to direct attention to the story. The arrest and trial of the African-American communist academic Angela Davis, for example, was widely publicized by Soviet outlets, particularly in Africa. Davis was accused of providing a handgun to militants, who then used the weapon in a courtroom shooting. The propaganda pieces about her trial described the proceedings as racially and ideologically driven, and they predicted an unjust outcome. Soviet efforts, at least in this instance, were ultimately undermined when Davis was acquitted by an all-white jury.

Stories from the emerging civil rights movement were distorted to create an exaggerated picture of


the racial divide in the United States. Many Soviet citizens believed that lynchings were commonplace and legal, that broad swaths of American society accepted the KKK, and that most schools were segregated. More often, however, disinformation stories were simply pure fabrications. Following President Jimmy Carter’s boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics in 1980, the KGB forged letters from the Ku Klux Klan that threatened athletes from African countries and mailed them from Washington, D.C., to the countries’ Olympic committees. Although none of the countries succumbed to this intimidation, the attorney general and FBI Director were forced to deny U.S. involvement and point the finger at Moscow.

Though “fake news” was a popular tool during the Cold War, it was much more effective in developing countries where journalistic standards werelower. In Latin America and Africa, forged documents tended not to be investigated thoroughly prior to publication, and, as a result, Soviet disinformation campaigns successfully soured public opinion of the United States. In the West, success was more elusive. Journalists were more careful; they were more likely to follow up on suspicious allegations and less likely to publish a story with a single, anonymous source of evidence.

A better-known disinformation campaign, the ominously named Operation INFEKTION, sought to exploit international fears of U.S. military expansion by sowing the narrative that AIDS had been created as the result of American biological weapons experimentation. The story, based on an anonymous letter from an “American scientist,” was initially published in a communist Indian newspaper, but at the time it was largely ignored.


It was revived three years later, however—this time, in an East German paper and with the additional backing of a pseudoscientific report published in East Berlin. The story spread quickly, primarily through publication in Soviet and other communist or leftist papers around the globe, and entered the public discourse to the point that U.S. officials were forced to repeatedly address and refute the story. It only disappeared from headlines after the United States threatened to cut off scientific cooperation with the USSR in the field of AIDS research.

Other forgeries also tried to paint an unflattering picture of the United States, depicting a government eager to use assassination, coups, and election manipulation to achieve its ideological goals. A forged telegram attempted to link the killing of Afghan leader HafizullahAmin to a CIA plot. A separate forged letter appeared to show American support for the conservatives in the 1981 Greek elections and plans for a coup if Socialist leader Andreas Papandreou won. Fake documents in 1983 seemed to show plans to overthrow the Ghanaian regime. A forged Presidential memorandum to the Departments of State and Defense and the CIA appeared to order those agencies to establish a U.S. military force called the “Permanent Peace Forces” that would be used to intervene in Latin America—thus inflaming nationalist and anti-American sentiment in the region.

The disinformation campaigns also attempted to portray the United States as an untrustworthy ally, though these campaigns were largely unsuccessful. A forged letter published in a left wing Belgian newspaper, for example, appeared to show retired


NATO Commander Alexander Haig and NATO Secretary General Joseph Luns discussing a nuclear first strike and planning a sensitive operation to “jolt the faint hearted in Europe.” A separate forged letter from President Ronald Reagan to Spanish King Juan Carlos appeared to show the United States putting pressure on Spain to join NATO, while a forged speech purportedly for U.N. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick appeared to show U.S. support for the balkanization of India.

These campaigns also, somewhat ironically, attempted to demonstrate that the United States was engaging in disinformation campaigns of its own. Fake telegrams from the American Embassy in Rome purportedly showed plans to blame the 1981 attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II on the Soviets. Another attempt used a forged letter from a United States Informationis pursuing long-standing foreign policy goals while adapting to changing technology. The political ads appeared to address both sides of the U.S. political divide, reaching millions of Americans. The goal of these ads appears to be the widening of domestic divisions and amplification of existing fears. Some Facebook ads, for example, supported the Black Lives Matter movement, while others aimed to paint the organization as a danger to society. Some ads appeared to highlight support for then-candidate Hillary Clinton, while others attempted to alarm potential voters by showing her popularity with Muslim women. In a number of cases, the ads were targeted directly at key demographics in Wisconsin and Michigan.

Russia still uses its own overt propaganda machine to spread disinformation, particularly through the television station Russia Today and


the news agency Sputnik. These outlets disseminate misleading and fabricated information about the United States and NATO members, often relating to those actors’ foreign policy objectives and military operations. Sputnik and Russia Today, for example, reported on a fire at a NATO base in Izmir, Turkey, alleging that the fire was the result of intentional sabotage after the failed Turkish coup. Although there had been a fire, it was blazing some distance away in a nearby forest and did not appear to have been the result of arson. Stories like these are often not intended to influence American voters, but instead to affect Russian citizens and sympathetic foreign nationals by fostering the perception of the United States as a war mongering, expansionist nation.

U.S. Counter-Propaganda Efforts

During the Cold War,the United States utilized a range of strategies to push back against Soviet active measures. These can be categorized in three groups: First, the United States centralized its response and coordinated a strategy in order to utilize the power of its example; second, it responded directly to Soviet efforts, cultivating thought leaders around the world and spreading American narratives globally over a variety of mediums; and third, the United States acted to inform the public and embarrass Soviet officials by calling out Soviet propaganda while strengthening allies, media outlets and public officials in a position to prevent the spread communist propaganda.

Efforts like the Marshall Plan, the space race, the civil rights movement, and international development efforts all can be viewed as attempts to respond through the power of


example. The United States also responded directly to Soviet efforts, empowering the CIA to cultivate and develop foreign thought leaders while creating the United States Information Agency (USIA) and authorizing it to push an American narrative to the world. Later, after these efforts dwindled, the Reagan administration would create the Active Measures Working Group (AMWG)—perhaps the most successful counter-propaganda effort of the entire Cold War.

Sensing that it was losing the battle for the European intelligentsia, in 1953, President Eisenhower established the United States Information Agency (USIA), which became the chosen instrument for ideological operations during the Cold War. At its height, the USIA had the most extensive overseas presence of any Washington agency. USIA’s activities included publishing magazines, pamphlets, leaflets and establishing a global library network. In theSoviet Union, the U.S. Embassy distributed copies of magazines and books to officials and other prominent people. One such official was none other than a young party-secretary named Mikhail Gorbachev.

Perhaps most importantly, USIA producedVoice of America—a network broadcast heard by over 100 million people and in over forty languages during the Cold War. It is hard to judge how effective programs like Voice of America were in changing public opinion, but Soviet officials disliked them enough to invest significant resources into building a vast network of jammers that emitted noise on frequencies used by Western broadcasters. The jamming program was massive, and its total power was estimated to be three times that of all Western radios combined. In the face of such resistance, however, Western programmers simply targeted


smaller cities and rural areas where jammers were less concentrated. Through underground networks, Soviet dissidents made copies of broadcasts, distributing them throughout the country.

USIA programs were only one part of official efforts to influence the rest of the world, however. Other federal bureaucracies—in particular the Department of Defense and the CIA—matched, and often surpassed, the USIA’s operations.

In Europe, military intelligence planners stockpiled large polyethylene balloons full of propaganda notes. The balloons would then rise 30,000-40,000 feet, follow the prevailing wind, and break open at predetermined coordinates, scattering leaflets across the land below. This operation lasted from October 1951 until November 1956, and for its duration, the skies of Central Europe were littered with more than 350,000 balloons carrying over 300,000,000 leaflets, posters, books and other printed matter.

Beginning in1950, the CIA covertly established and funded the Congress for Cultural Freedom. At its peak, the Congress had offices in 35 countries, employed dozens of personnel, published over twenty prestige magazines, held art exhibitions, owned a news and features service, organized high-profile international conferences, and rewarded musicians and artists with prizes and public performances. Its mission was to nudge the intelligentsia of Western Europe away from its lingering fascination with Marxism and communism towards a view more accommodating of the American way.

The United States engaged in less idealistic measures as well. The Operations Coordinating Board, an “ideological warfare” planning team within the National Security Council, was tasked with creating integrated country plans to manage communism. These plans generally followed the standard lines of containment: for example, plotting and


executing an intervention in Philippine elections to ensure a pro-Western result and facilitating anti-communist activity by trade unions in order to destabilize the government of Arbenz Guzman in Guatemala. The CIA also used U.S. corporations to funnel money to non-communist political parties and trade unions. Private publications, such as The International Herald-Tribune received money to reprint pro-U.S. news.

The Active Measures Working Group

U.S. attempts to counter Soviet disinformation eventually fell out of favor in Washington and had virtually disappeared by the late 1970s. Yet in 1981, with the election of Ronald Reagan, the United States re-energized its efforts, creating the Active Measures Working Group (AMWG). AMWG was an interagency committee chaired by the Department of State and included representatives of the CIA, USIA, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmamenttoday.

Ashley Deeks is a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School. She joined the Virginia faculty in 2012 after two years as an academic fellow at Columbia Law School. She served for ten years in the Legal Adviser's Office at the State Department, most recently as the Assistant Legal Adviser for Political-Military Affairs. In 2007-08 she held an International Affairs Fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations. After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, she clerked for Judge Edward Becker on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Sabrina McCubbin graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was the student editor-in-chief of the Journal of National Security Law and Policy. She has worked at the Center for Strategic and


International Studies and the Center on Privacy and Technology. She earned her B.A. from McGill University in 2012.

Cody Poplin is a student at Yale Law School. Prior to law school, Cody worked at the Brookings Institution and served as an editor of Lawfare. He graduated from the UNC-Chapel Hill in 2012 with degrees in Political Science & Peace, War, and Defense.EAST Fremantle and Wilston Grange have progressed to grand finals in the WAWFL and QWAFL competitions.

The Sharks' opponent for the WAWFL Grand Final on August 26 at Claremont Oval will be decided in a preliminary final between Peel and Subiaco on Sunday.

In the QWAFL, Coorparoo and the University of Queensland will meet at Giffin Park in Coorparoo on Saturday for the right to take on Wilston Grange in the Grand Final, also on August 26, at Leyshon Park in Yeronga.

We're down to the last few rounds in home and away competitions in other state leagues. Here's a look at how some of the AFLW-listed players at your club performed last weekend.

Adelaide

Angela Foley played a telling role in the Northern Territory Thunder's 10-point VFLW win against Collingwood at Victoria


Park. The classy defender and Crows premiership player booted two goals and notched 29 touches in a best-on-ground performance.

Jenna McCormick was another ball-magnet for the Thunder with 31 disposals, while Ebony Marinoff's 28 possessions and eight tackles highlighted the Thunder's midfield dominance.

Sarah Perkins kicked three goals for Hawthorn's VFLW side in a 55-point win against the Western Bulldogs at Box Hill City Oval on Sunday.

Brisbane

Sharni Webb was instrumental for the University of Queensland Red Lions in their 26-point semi-final win against Coolangatta at Griffith University in the QWAFL. Webb's intercept marking in defence helped generate run from half-back, and she also drifted into the midfield for parts of the match.

Defender Kate Lutkins held the QWAFL's leading goalkicker Jenae Govan to just one goal as Wilston Grange edged Coorparooby 10 points in a QWAFL semi-final at Wilston.

Jess Wuetschner kicked a goal and rotated through the middle at stages during Coorparoo's loss.

Carlton

A number of Carlton's AFLW-listed players enjoyed the weekend off, with the Blues having the bye in the VFLW.

Georgia Gee was a standout for the Blues in their last VFLW match against the Demons at Casey Fields, racking up 15 disposals as well as eight tackles.

The Blues will be hoping to end the season with wins against the Western Bulldogs and Essendon, despite being out of finals contention.

Collingwood

Defender Iilish Ross laid a team-high 11 tackles as the Pies went down by 10 points to the Northern Territory Thunder in VFLW action at Victoria Park.

Holly Whitford was ferocious in defence, with the midfielder applying eight tackles in


a 13-disposal performance against the Thunder.

Stacey Livingstone and Ruby Schleicher each kicked a goal for the Pies in their top-of-the-table clash against the Thunder.

Fremantle

Gabby O'Sullivan kicked a goal for East Fremantle as it held Peel to just three goals in a 62-point semi-final win at East Fremantle Oval in the WAWFL.

The Sharks led at every change, with former Docker and 2019 rookie-list hopeful Jade de Melo kicking a game-high four goals.

Ashley Sharp was part of a Swan Districts side that fell by four goals in a WAWFL semi-final at Steel Blue Oval.

Geelong

Danielle Orr kicked two goals and had 15 touches in a 45-point win for the Cats against Essendon in the VFLW at GMHBA Stadium.

Richelle Cranston showed her versatility for the Cats in the VFLW, notching up agame-high 24 touches.

Anna Teague was tremendous in defence for the Cats, who held the Bombers to just two goals for the match.

Phoebe McWilliams booted two goals for Hawthorn as it cemented a top-four spot with a 55-point win against the Western Bulldogs in the VFLW at Box Hill City Oval.

Greater Western Sydney

Rebecca Beeson racked up 25 disposals, including 21 kicks and one goal from four shots, in a win for the Hawks against the Bulldogs in the VFLW at Box Hill City Oval.

Phoebe Monahan's 25 touches and seven tackles weren't enough to get Richmond over the line against Williamstown in the VFLW at the Swinburne Centre, with the Tigers losing by one point.

Ruck Erin McKinnon was dominant in Sydney University's 57-point win against the Southern Power at Waratah


in the Women's Premier Division in the Sydney AFL competition. It was a crucial win for the Bombers, who trail the Power by four points with one round of the home-and-away season to play.

Melbourne

Lauren Pearce was one of Darebin's best as it defeated the Southern Saints by four points in the VFLW at Bill Lawry Oval in Northcote. Her ability to get the Falcons first use in the second half was critical, as they booted three goals to two.

Speedy goalsneak Catherine Phillips was a rare bright spot for Casey as it managed only one goal in a 53-point loss to Melbourne University in the VFLW at Casey Fields.

ACT-product Maddie Shevlin is hopeful of another chance on Melbourne's rookie list for the 2019 AFLW season, and put in anotherstrong showing, booting Casey's only goal.

North Melbourne

Madison Prespakis once again stamped her credentials as a potential No. 1 draft pick, amassing 28 disposals and a goal in Melbourne University's VFLW win at Casey.

Sophie Abbatangelo was one of three players to kick two goals for Melbourne University's VFLW team in its 53-point win against Casey.

Forward Jasmine Garner was pivotal up forward for Williamstown, as she booted two goals in its one-point win against Richmond in the VFLW at the Swinburne Centre at Punt Road.

Western Bulldogs

Forward Kirsten McLeod kicked a goal and laid two tackles in the Dogs' 55-point loss to Hawthorn in the VFLW at Box Hill.

AFLW premiership player Bonnie Toogood made her VFLW debut at the weekend, collecting 12 disposals and laying six tackles in a losing effort


against the Hawks.

Belinda Smith kicked two goals for East Fremantle in its WAWFL semi-final win against Peel at East Fremantle Oval, backing up her five-goal haul against South Fremantle.

Other notable names

Former Carlton vice-captain and midfielder Madeline Keryk had 16 disposals in a losing effort for Casey in the VFLW at Casey Fields.

Delisted Magpie Meg Hutchins had 18 disposals and five marks as the Hawks trounced the Bulldogs by 55 points at Box Hill City Oval in the VFLW.

Ex-Giant and Blue Rebecca Privitelli kicked five goals for the UNSW Eastern Suburbs Bulldogs in their 43-point win against the Auburn-Penrith Giants at Village Green in the Sydney AFL competition.A performance improvement programme at a public hospital in Sri Lanka: an introduction.
Five-S, a simple tool was utilized as the initial step towards total quality management activities at a public hospital in Sri Lanka. This paper introduces the system improvement activities at the hospital which won several awards for quality of service at national level. Though there are multiple reasons for the significant improvement of performance at the hospital, the study team observes that Five-S has contributed heavily towards the success. The unique feature observed was that Five-S activity reorganizes the system radically compared to most of the continuous quality improvement (CQI) approaches which depend on problem solving. In the hospitals of developing countries, in which even the basic processes are unsatisfactory, Five-S approach may be suited for


victim was poaching in the game park when he was attacked and killed by lions. They ate his body, nearly all of it, and just left his head and some remains.”

The Department of Home Affairs has also been asked in to assist in identifying the man.

It’s unclear whether the man was in the Ingwelala Private Game Reserve to specifically poach lions. Although lion poaching has been on the increase in recent years, the region has historically seen higher levels of rhino poaching, which is a more lucrative animal to kill illegally.

In parts of Asia, the horn is in high demand, where it's used as an ineffective form of alternative medicine or carved into works of art.

A year ago a man was mauled and killed by white lions inThe health minister could not be heard, so the Speaker of the House of Commons was compelled to intervene.

"Please unclick your mute," Anthony Rota begged — a phrase that surely never crossed the lips of any of the other 36 occupants of the chair over the first 152 years of the House's existence.

Here was history being made — the moment when the Parliament of Canada truly and fully entered the virtual era. With those immortal words committed to the official and permanent record (and after Health Minister Patty Hajdu successfully unmuted herself) the House proceeded with its first mass gathering via video conference.

It was, in a word, glitchy.

But that's life in a pandemic for you: almost nothing is working perfectly right now.

Watch: Virtual Parliament in session, technical difficulties


included:

The first virtual sessions of question period took place over Zoom this week with a variety of technical difficulties and the occasional MP on mute. 1:55

However flawed, it was a serviceable meeting of nearly 300 MPs and a testament to the institution's utility. In various ways, the virtual meeting on Tuesday afternoon may have even been an improvement on the real thing.

An MP's pandemic must-have: loaded bookshelves

For one thing, the cameras offered glimpses of our elected representatives' personal taste in living spaces, and showed us which MPs know their way around a camera.

Bill Morneau's house looks just as nice as you'd imagine. Conservative MP Shannon Stubbs has a lovely kitchen. Maryam Monsef might want to hang a few more pictures on her walls. NDP MP Daniel Blaikie posedmysteriously in front of a white sheet.

Many MPs positioned themselves in front of Canadian flags; two of the Bloc Quebecois MPs opted for the blue and white of Quebec's flag. Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains stood before a colourful image of turbans. Conservative MP Michelle Rempel sat near a handsome stone fireplace.

Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota speaks during a virtual session of Parliament on Tuesday, April 28, 2020, in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

If you enjoy home improvement and real estate shows for the chance to see how other people live, you might now find yourself newly intrigued by official business of parliamentary democracy.

The two most familiar with the art of broadcasting — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative MP Peter Kent, a former TV journalist


— smartly framed themselves in front of large bookshelves. Conservative Brad Vis had a bookshelf behind him, but it was sadly bereft of books.

Watch: Trudeau struggles with a technical glitch:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined other MPs for the first virtual sitting of the House of Commons 1:29

Audio awkwardness

Hajdu left her laptop on her desk, forcing her to look down on everyone as she spoke. Conservative health critic Matt Jeneroux apparently realized that he should elevate his screen — but then looked off-camera to his right to read his speech.

Most of the problems that emerged had to do with the audio. This was a Canadian political proceeding so it needed three separate audio feeds: one English, one French, one bilingual. Toggling between those channels seemed to cause some MPsto lose audio altogether.

The video images seemed mostly to come through in decent shape, although Natural Resources Minister Seamus O'Regan was rather pixelated.

The bugs might be worked out in the days and weeks ahead — but it will be more interesting to see whether Wednesday's generally restrained tone holds up or deteriorates as MPs get more comfortable with the new arrangement.

A shift in tone

Elsewhere, for instance, some prominent Conservatives have been rather vociferous lately in their criticism of the Liberal government. Words like "failure" and "idiotic" have been thrown around.

But, on Tuesday, Conservative MPs mostly stuck to asking questions. No one yelled or even raised their voice.

WATCH |

Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer questioned the Prime Minister for the allotted five minutes during the first virtual House of Commons. 5:31

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Russia, France Agree To Cooperate In The Fight Against ISIS : The Two-WayIn the last leg of his tour to win support for a coordinated effort against ISIS, French President Francois Hollande on Thursday secured a pledge of cooperation from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russia, France Agree To Cooperate In The Fight Against ISIS

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In the last leg of his diplomatic tour to win support for a coordinated effort against ISIS, French President Francois Hollande on Thursday secured a pledge of cooperation from Russian PresidentVladimir Putin.

NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports for our Newscast unit:

"With both countries still reeling from ISIS-claimed attacks that killed hundreds of their citizens, Hollande traveled to Russia to ask President Vladimir Putin to focus his offensive against ISIS, and not other opposition groups to President Bashar al Assad.

"The two leaders agreed on three major points: to share intelligence, intensify and coordinate strikes and not to strike any group fighting ISIS. Obtaining the last point is seen as a victory for Hollande."

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Between France And Russia, Presidents Seek Common Ground In Syria

Between France And Russia, Presidents Seek Common Ground In Syria

In the wake of the Nov. 13 terror attacks on Paris, which killed 130 people and injured hundreds of others, Hollande met separately with President Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and


approach toward Assad. Hollande said the Syrian leader "does not have his place in Syria's future." Putin stressed that "the Syrian president's fate should be entirely in the hands of the Syrian people."

Tensions in the region increased even more on Tuesday, when Turkey downed a Russian military jet near the Syrian border. Turkey says audio from the cockpit supports its position that Turkish pilots repeatedly warned a Russian military plane that it was violating Turkish airspace before shooting it down.

Russia says it's preparing economic sanctions against Turkey. "Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said the measures would be drafted within days, and could hit joint investment plans," the BBC reports.was a hoax to get Americans to support tougher gun-control laws.

However, Jones has apologized for promoting one recent conspiracy theory: Jones said a Washington pizza restaurant was the site of a sex-abuse ring operated by Hillary Clinton and her campaign adviser John Podesta that was dubbed “Pizzagate.”

Apparently believing the rumors, Edgar Maddison Welch drove from North Carolina and walked into Comet Ping Pong in Northwest Washington with a rifle and a handgun to investigate the claims. He reportedly fired the rifle several times inside the restaurant. Last month, Welch pleaded guilty to federal and local charges. He will be sentenced June 22.

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When the first revolt of the Keshian Confederacy occurred, Kesh stripped all her garrisons north of the Jal-Pur, leaving the colonists in Bosania to fend for themselves. The Free Cities are a people who feel betrayed by their historic rulers. They were farmers and tavern keepers, left to defend themselves in a terribly harsh land, inhabited by Goblins, Trolls, and the Moredhels.

The relationship between the Free Cities and the Kingdom is at times tense as the inhabitants are Keshian by ancestry and remember well the conquest by Duke Nicholas conDoin, Duke Borric conDoin's grandfather. The Free Cities also have somewhat strained relations with Kesh as there is a persistent feeling of abandonment by the Empire.

The region is famous for the Natalese Rangers, descendants of the legendary Imperial KeshianGuards and counted among the best horse soldiers and trackers in the west. Nominally independent, the rangers are free to enforce the rule of law and dispense justice in the region, primarily in dealing with outlaws, brigands, and renegades.


Millions of people heard Christine Blasey Ford tell the Senate Judiciary Committee about a long-ago gathering where she said Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed, pushed his body against hers, tried to remove her clothes and held his hand over her mouth as she tried to scream for help.

The story was difficult to take in, and that’s especially true for victims of sexual assault.

If Ford’s testimony stirred up painful or traumatic memories, there are places you can turn for help, including:

• RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) staffs a National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline that connects callers with trained specialists in their area. The toll-free number is 800-656-HOPE (4673). Live chats are also available.

• Loveisrespect, formerly the National Dating Abuse Helpline, fieldsthe most memorable cars in automotive history. In this scene we see both 289 and 427 Cobras, the Mustang GT-350 and also waiting for delivery are a few GT-350H for Hertz. The LAX facility closed in November 1967 when the production of the Shelby Mustang was moved to Michigan.

Reproduced from the original painting by automotive artist David Snyder, each of the 950 prints are signed and numbered. The 95 artist proofs are signed and numbered and co-signed by Carroll Shelby.

The image measures 15" x 34" and is printed on high quality acid free stock trimmed to 20" x 34".


a adult child with a diagnosed mental illness. As a child this boy was medicated but as an adult he refuses to take his medication and his parents can't force him. He even got a job at a local school, the school lets him work alone with children. His parents are very concerned but are told they can't do anything since their son has never committed a crime.

I was just reading about that story on CNN. Absolutely tragic. Those victims are being treated at the hospital I was born in! I grew up in that area until I was 10. Then I moved to Fort Hood, TX and that place has been all over the news this week too. Both my home cities are breaking my heart lately.

Itspostmenopausal women (age 50-79 years at the start) participating in the Women's Health Initiative study that tracked health outcomes for an average of 11.9 years after they enrolled between 1993 and 1998.

At the end of three years, the women were asked to report on their consumption of diet drinks, low calorie, artificially sweetened colas, fruit drinks, sodas etc. over the previous three months.

The risks are higher for women with no history of heart disease.

The authors stressed that the study found a link but could not prove that diet drinks cause stroke and heart problems.

"This is another confirmatory study showing a relationship between artificially sweetened beverages and vascular risks", said Dr Ralph Sacco, president of the American Academy of Neurology.

The study found the women also had an increased risk


180 So.2d 246 (1965)
Ex parte PERRY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION et al.
2 Div. 480.
Supreme Court of Alabama.
November 18, 1965.
*247 Goodwyn & Smith, Montgomery, for petitioner.
Pitts & Pitts, Selma, for respondent.
HARWOOD, Justice.
Prior to 1965, the Perry County Board of Education had operated all of the schools in Perry County.
In January 1965, the City of Marion, in Perry County, established its own educational system, appointed a City Board of Education and by resolution of the City Council transferred to the jurisdiction of the Board of Education of the City of Marion the public schools within the City of Marion. This action was pursuant to the provisions of Title 52, Section 148 et seq., as amended. Thereafter the State Department of Education transferred the schools' plants and properties in the Cityof Marion to the jurisdiction of the Marion City Board of Education.
During the summer of 1965, the complainants who are parents of children living in northwest Perry County began contacting the Perry County Board of Education as to what arrangements were to be made for transporting children living in the northwest area of the county to schools, the children having theretofore attended the schools in the City of Marion. Finally on 27 August 1965, some three days before the opening day of the schools on 31 August 1965, the Perry County Board of Education notified the parents of the children living in the above mentioned area of Perry County that the County Board would not transport children on county busses to the schools in the City of Marion


which was then under the jurisdiction of the City of Marion Board of Education.
On 12 September 1965, the complainants, who are parents of children who previously had attended schools in Marion, and who lived in northwest Perry County, filed a bill against the Perry County Board of Education and the County Superintendent of Education, and the Board of Education of the City of Marion, and the Superintendent of Schools for the City of Marion. The bill sought an injunction, a temporary injunction, and a declaratory judgment to order the Perry County Board of Education to provide transportation to schools in the City of Marion for children living in northwest Perry County who had attended schools in the City of Marion in the school year 1964-1965.
The bill, after settingforth certain facts in detail avers that the "arrangement of transportation worked out by the Perry County Board of Education is unreasonable, unjust, unfair, and discriminatory as it pertains to the children who reside in said area and places an undue burden upon said children and their parents." We note that the transportation arrangement complained of provides for transportation of children living outside in City of Marion to schools operated by the County Board of Education only.
After a hearing the lower court issued a temporary injunction by the terms of which the Perry County Board of Education and the Perry County Superintendent of Education were separately and severally enjoined:
"1. To transport in school busses the Complainants' children and the children of members of the class similarly situated with


the Complainants to and from schools in the City of Marion to and from places in Perry County outside the corporate limits of the City of Marion.
"2. Not to transport or require the transportation of said children from the area in which they live and in which the Complainants reside to Suttle, Alabama and/or Heiberger, Alabama.

*248 "3. To map out and prescribe a route or routes for school busses and a schedule therefor wherein and whereby the children of the Complainants and the children of members of a class of persons similarly situated and residing in Perry County can be transported to and from schools in the City of Marion from points and places outside of the corporate limits of the City of Marion, which said schedule orroutes shall not be unreasonable in time or places of departure or arrival so that it would make it impracticable for the children of the Complainants or persons similarly situated to attend the schools in the City of Marion.
"4. Said injunction shall include all students residing in the Sections of Perry County, Ala. from which said School Board transported children to the School in the City of Marion during the preceding school year.
This temporary injunction shall become effective at 12:01 A.M. Monday September 13, 1965."
On 13 September 1965 the Perry County Board of Education and the Perry County Superintendent of Education petitioned this court for a writ of Prohibition and that a rule nisi be issued to Hon. L. S. Moore, Judge of the Circuit Court of Perry


the Complainants had attempted during the entire Summer to ascertain from the Perry County Board of Education whether or not school busses would transport their said children to the schools located in the City of Marion and on more than one occasion the Complainants and other parents situated in North Perry County, where schools had been demolished by the Perry County School Board and children only recently assigned to schools within the corporate limits of the City of Marion, had sought to obtain from the Perry County Board of Education a definite statement as to whether or not their children would be transported on school busses to schools in the City of Marion; that in fact L. G. Walker, Superintendent of Education of Perry County, Alabama, had attendeda community meeting in North Perry and this question had been propounded to the said L. G. Walker and he would not *249 give to said parents a definite answer and stated to them he would see what could be done about the situation; that said parents were constantly inquiring of the Perry County Board of Education during the Summer of 1965 as to whether or not their children would be transported in school busses to schools in the City of Marion; that it was not until on, to-wit: Friday, August 27, 1965, that the Perry County Board of Education definitely advised the Complainants that their children would not be transported on school busses to the City of Marion and that the children of high school age would


the Perry County Board of Education and the Board of Education of the City of Marion, the County Board was without authority to furnish transportation. Clearly no agreement existed between the two boards, and it was clearly within their sole province to enter into such an agreement. Each board had an option and discretion in the matter. No basis for a conclusion of the existence of bad faith or abuse of discretion can arise from the non-exercise of an option.
While the lower court apparently gave weight to the fact that there was no firm evidence that the mimeographed announcement concerning school transportation was ever delivered to the parents of the children affected, his further findings as to the efforts of the parents through the summer to obtain information,along with the tugboat Co from Tucker-Roy Marine Towing and Salvage Inc. of New Bedford. Efforts to pull the vessel off the rocks were unsuccessful.

Coast Guard senior chief Jason Olsen of station Menemsha confirmed that the vessel had a gash in its hull and was taking on water.

A Coast Guard command center was set up in Woods Hole Wednesday afternoon to monitor the salvage effort and Air Station Cape Cod launched an MH-60J Jayhawk helicopter to assess the environmental impact and check for leaking fuel. None was found.

The vessel had two tanks on board, carrying some 800 gallons of fuel. Although no fuel spillage was reported by the helicopter crew, Lieut. Bryan Swintex said the Coast Guard’s primary concern had shifted to removing the fuel from the vessel.

“The


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BRACE YOURSELF FOR THE SECOND WAVE -- the wave of sovereign defaults that typically occurs a few years after a financial meltdown.

The first sign of what's headed our way may have arrived last week, when pressure on the Greek debt markets was intense enough for the European Union to publicly promise to support the profligate spender. Concern about Dubai's ability to pay its debts re-emerged as well, despite earlier financial support from Abu Dhabi that calmed the market for a short time. Worries about the ability of Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Italy to fund their deficits are also dogging investors.

And before Americans start to feel smug, our own domestic tests are coming from states like California, Illinois and New York, which are facing large deficits. California's 10-yearST KILDA has had little luck with father-son prospects throughout its history, drafting only three players under the rule.

In some ways, that could change this year. However in other cases, the same story will be told again.

The Saints will have access to Tyson Milne (son of former small forward Stephen) and Jackson Voss (son of former defender Brett) under the NAB AFL Draft rules this year, with both players on Sandringham's under-18 list.

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Milne is taller than his father, having grown 7cm since the end of last season, but plays in attack like Stephen, who kicked 574 goals for the Saints.

Voss, a midfielder and half-back who has shown a dynamic side, is also on St Kilda's radar.

But the Saints won't have


father Chris played only one game for St Kilda. But he’s another family link for the club.

The Saints' crop of eligible and ineligible father-sons are among a large pool of players in this year's draft who will carry recognisable names.

Port Adelaide could be set for its first father-son pick since it recruited Brett Ebert in 2002, with premiership player Peter Burgoyne's son Trent and foundation Power member Darren Mead's son Jackson both up for grabs.

Mead is a big-bodied midfielder who could project as a possible top-30 pick with a strong season, while Burgoyne is an outside midfielder who has had some injury concerns.

Exciting prospect Kysaiah Pickett – known as 'Kossie' – also has links to Port Adelaide, as the nephew of the Power's only Norm Smith medallist ByronPickett.

Hawthorn has access to Scott Maginness' son Finn, Carlton the same for Matthew Hogg's son Mackenzie, Richmond could add another Naish to its list with Chris' son Xavier able to join brother Patrick at the Tigers, and Brisbane triple-premiership star Chris Johnson's son Lachlan can join the Lions.

Finn Maginness is eligible to become a Hawk. Picture: AFL Photos

Lachlan played for the Calder Cannons last year but has switched to the Oakleigh Chargers this season, however a battle looms for the talented youngster, given he also qualifies for Essendon's Next Generation Academy. Essendon has also had Tom Hird, son of champion Bomber James, train at the club in recent weeks. He is eligible this year although he's come from a soccer background.

Oliver Liberatore, a midfielder from the Cannons, could


also join his brother Tom at the Western Bulldogs, where their father Tony won a Brownlow Medal.

There is also a group of father-son prospects who were overlooked for the draft last season but are returning to the under-18 competition as over-agers.

Mason Fletcher (son of Essendon's Dustin), Tom Graham (son of Hawthorn's Mark), Zac Hart (son of Adelaide's Ben), Daniel Romero (son of Bulldog Jose) and Kyle Dunkley (son of Sydney's Andrew and brother of Bulldogs midfielder Josh) will all come back to the under-18 competition looking to impress.

Mason Fletcher has spent time training with the Bombers. Picture: AFL Photos

After finishing school in Melbourne and playing for the Oakleigh Chargers last season, Dunkley will play for the Gippsland Power this season.

Cats great Garry Hocking’s son will join the GeelongFalcons program next week after living in South Australia and will be under the eye of Geelong recruiters. He is another over-ager who was eligible at last year’s draft.

Like every year, there are many near misses – players whose fathers' reached the top level but didn't play 100 games at a club to make their son qualify for the rule.

Simon Minton-Connell didn't play enough games at any of Carlton, Sydney, Hawthorn or the Bulldogs for his son Harrison to be eligible. Terry De Koning's 31 games at Footscray wasn't enough for his son Sam to qualify there, meaning he will need to go through the national draft like his brother, Carlton's Tom.

Eastern Ranges pair Josh Matthews (the son of former Blue and Fitzroy player Ashley) and Billy McCormack


(son of former Lion Brendan), along with Gippsland's Fraser Phillips (son of former Cat Garry) are others whose fathers didn't reach the 100-game mark.

West Coast has ties to two West Australian prospects, although the Eagles will not get first call on either.

Deven Robertson, considered one of the leading players in his state in 2019, is the nephew of former Eagles skipper Darren Glass, while former Bomber and Eagle Michael Prior's son Jackson, a medium defender, can be drafted this season.

Will the Eagles get a chance to swoop on Deven Robertson? Picture: AFL Photos

Prior didn't play enough games for either club during his career for his son to qualify as a father-son.

The same applies for Subiaco's Mitch Georgiades, whose father John played 15 games for Footscray, including a memorableeight-goal debut.

There is a smattering of prospects whose brothers have also made it to the AFL.

Thomson Dow, younger brother of Carlton's Paddy, is considered one to watch for Bendigo this year and premiership Tiger Jason Castagna's brother Aaron will play for the Northern Knights.

Sheldon Ham, the younger brother of first-year Bomber Brayden, is at the Falcons, Zac Skinner, whose brother Sam is on Brisbane's list, will line up for Gippsland, and Todd Garner, the younger brother of Port Adelaide's Joel, will play for the Eastern Ranges.

Garner is eligible to join Hawthorn as a Next Generation Academy player given his indigenous background.

The Eastern Ranges are full of strong football bloodlines. Jarrod Gilbee is the nephew of ex-Western Bulldog kicker Lindsay, while former Richmond rover Dale Weightman has two nephews


at the club – Connor Weightman and Will Parker.

Parker is also the nephew of Geoff Parker, who played at Essendon and is now Port Adelaide's recruiting manager, and a cousin of ex-Cats and North star Leigh Colbert.

Isaac Grant, from the Greater Western Victoria Rebels, is the nephew of Western Bulldogs great Chris, and son of Jamie Grant who played five games for the Dogs.

The family trees of this year's draft pool extend a couple of generations down the line. Tom Green, who is eligible to join Greater Western Sydney as an Academy player, is the grandson of Richmond team of the century member and triple-premiership player Michael Green.

Jake Van Der Pligt, a prospect for the Gippsland Power, is the grandson of Des Meagher, a star of Hawthorn's 1971In a hundred-year-old warehouse in central Baltimore, master woodworker Dale German is hard at work. Bent over an electric lathe and surrounded by an aromatic mound of wood chips, he chisels a block of mahogany into a rounded handle of an oyster knife. Next he carefully adds a heated knife blade, emblazoned with letters.

The knife, one of only 500, is part of a project commissioned by the Oyster Recovery Project and Pride of Baltimore, Inc. in an effort to raise funds to support Chesapeake Bay restoration and preserve its rich maritime history.

Each knife handle is carved from tropical hardwood that was left over after the construction of Pride II in 1988. The knives are being crafted in an extremely small quantity over a limited timeframe.

The knives can be


The Guardian: Interview with a Bookstore: Oxford Exchange in Florida

September 14, 2016

Photograph: Literary Hub

Found in Tampa, Oxford Exchange is simultaneously a bookstore, restaurant and workspace. Its booksellers share how they organise the books thematically, rather than by genre, and what they’d add if they had infinite space

Blake Casper and Allison Casper Adams opened the Oxford Exchange in 2012 to create a space where conversation and connection happen. With its aesthetic taking inspiration from old English shops and clubs, Oxford Exchange is a bookstore, restaurant, workspace, and retail shop in Tampa, FL; hand built using materials from over a dozen countries. The result is a visually distinctive and unique experience, but its spirit is familiar to anyone who’s spent time in a great bookstore— Oxford Exchange is a placeScottish Parliament chiefs are facing accusations of spending £6.5 million of
taxpayers’ money to turn the building into ‘Fortress Holyrood’.

They announced they are spending the money on a new security extension, bringing the total cost of the controversial legislature to more than £420 million.

Security advisers have told parliament chiefs they fear the existing public entrance at the front of the building is too close to the main debating chamber and areas “heavily populated by members of the public and school groups”.

Their solution is to create a new security screening area that visitors would have to pass through first that is closer to Arthur’s seat, which overlooks the building.

The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, which includes an MSP from each of the four main parties and the presiding officer, Holyrood’s version


Days after India conducted the submarine launch of the nuclear-capable ballistic missile (SLBM) K-4, the United States expressed concern citing risks to nuclear security and regional stability. The ballistic missile launch was reportedly conducted in the Bay of Bengal March 7.

U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner raised the concern Wednesday while responding to a question by Pakistan's ARY News TV on whether US was concerned about India's "nuclearization" of the Indian Ocean.

"We're concerned by any nuclear and missile developments that could potentially increase the risk to nuclear security or lower the threshold for nuclear use. And so we continue to urge all states with nuclear weapons to exercise restraint regarding their missile and nuclear capabilities," Toner said.

The U.S. State Department also shared concerns over the missile launch withMain menu

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Ayers Rock (Uluru) is Australia's most recognisable natural icon and is of significant cultural importance for the traditional Aboriginal owners, the Anangu people. Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is located 440 kilometres by road south-west of Alice Springs and encompasses both Uluru and the 36 domes of Kata Tjuta. When exploring the base of Uluru, there are a number of excellent walks, including the Uluru Base Walk and the Kuniya Walk. The Valley of the Winds Walk winds through the domes of Kata Tjuta and includes spectacular lookout points. Do not miss watching the sun rise or set over one of the world's most famous landscapes, truly spine tingling.

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To really grasp the sheer size and stature of Uluru there is only one way to


cup of tea or Coffee as the morning sun slowly changes the colour of Uluru.

Travel to the Uluru sunset viewing area. Enjoy nibbles and a glass of wine as the sun sets over the western horizon and the evening sky brings out the many shades of colour for which Uluru is famous. Don't forget your camera!

Climate: Ayers Rock has a desert climate where Autumn and Spring give sunny days with blue, cloudless skies and cooler crisp evenings. Between the months of December and February temperatures are at their hottest and reach an average of 39ºC.

Getting There: Ayers Rock Airport is located 6km from Ayers Rock Resort, with free transfers included for stays at Ayers Rock Resort Hotels.

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Many of the flights and flight-inclusive holidays on this website areOther mistake: In this episode, Patricia Richardson guest stars as Helen Potts. She played Tim Allen's wife on Home Improvement, and there are plenty of inside jokes to reference Home Improvement. Then, at the end, Jonathan Taylor Thomas appears as Helen's son, Randy and another joke ensues about how he looks familiar. He should, Jonathan Taylor Thomas has already appeared several times in the show, playing John Baker, who Mike already knows.

Vanessa's tattoo artist has a "Binford" tattoo on her right shoulder. Binford was the tool company and sponsor of Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor's home improvement show from the TV series "Home Improvement."


A man searched for decades to find the newborn girl he rescued from likely death. Now, the mystery is finally solved. After nearly 60 years, the two reunited Sunday.

Dave Hickman says it was by the grace of God that he heard a noise in the woods while he was hunting in southern Indiana at age 14. What he found there would change his life forever.

Hickman recalled, "September 22, 1955, I'd been hunting with my grandfather. And I kept hearing a very odd sound. It wasn't the sound of a baby crying, it was more of a soft cooing sound. I said, 'I have to find out what this is.' So I started walking up the fence."

"I got on top of the fence, I looked down, and there wasa little baby. She was soaking wet. Her lips were blue. She was just wrapped in a towel. My grandfather said, 'We have to do something real quick, we have to get help for the baby'."

Hickman and his grandfather called the authorities, who brought the newborn to a hospital where she was treated and given a name -- Roseann Wayne. A few months later, Hickman was given a moment to say goodbye.

"They handed her to me and they said, 'She's being adopted next week.' They had her wrapped in a blanket. She was sound asleep. So I got to say goodbye to her."

But Hickman could never forget that little girl, and he spent the next 58 years trying to track her down.

In December of 2013, he decided to


make one final attempt to find her.

Retired Wayne County Sheriff John Catey said, "I got contacted by Mr. Hickman, wanting to know if I could figure out how find the girl that he had found in the woods."

In less than two weeks, Catey called back with news.

"(Catey) said, 'Dave write down this name and this phone number - Mary Ellen Suey and her phone number.' I said, 'OK John, I said who's that?' (He said) 'That's your little girl'," Hickman said.

Mary Ellen Suey was re-named by her adoptive parents. And despite a lifetime of happy memories, she always wanted to learn the identity of the teenage boy who saved her life. Then last December her phone rang. It was Hickman.

"I call him my hero here on Earth becausenever determined who dumped Suey alongside the road. But amazingly, she says she's not angry at her biological parents for abandoning her. She instead chooses to focus on the wonderful life she's been able to live because of Hickman's actions on that day in 1955.


Boy Loses Girl (in the Beer Tent)

A Comic Opera in One Act

TIME AND PLACE:

Oktoberfest – Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Oktoberfest is the world’s largest Volksfest. More than 6 million people from around the world attend the event every year. There are many, many beer tents filled with many, many revelers.

SYNOPSIS:

The men wear lederhosen, the women wear dirndls and everyone drinks warm beer. It’s Oktoberfest and Munich is now teeming with German folk bands in beer tents. Our hapless hero’s romantic rendezvous is doomed before it starts. When the time comes for our HERZBUB (loverboy) to reunite with his lovely HERZMADL, the only sign of her is a distant yodel. His heart sinks. Each tent he navigates, desperately seeking his liebling, the revelers interrupt him to sing traditional German drinkingGrand Central Terminal glows in Seahawks colors

The Helmsley Building, part of the Grand Central Terminal complex, is shown illuminated in Seattle Seahawks colors in New York City on Wednesday, January 29, 2014. (Photo by Chris Preovolos, seattlepi.com)

On day two of The Empire State Building being illuminated with Seattle Seahawks colors by the 12th Man via social media, another Manhattan landmark was tonight decked out in Seahawks blue and green. The Helmsley Building, part of the Grand Central Terminal complex, alternated between Seahawks colors and Denver Broncos orange.

The building, which towers over Park Avenue, is one of a number of structures now illuminated with Hawks colors here in Manhattan.

On Tuesday night, The Empire State Building was again illuminated by blue and green. The colors were awarded to fans as


Building is illuminated with Seahawks colors on Monday, January, 27, 2014. (Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com)

The iconic Empire State Building is illuminated with Seahawks colors on Monday, January, 27, 2014. (Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com)

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The iconic Empire State Building is illuminated with Seahawks colors on Monday, January, 27, 2014. (Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com)

The iconic Empire State Building is illuminated with Seahawks colors on Monday, January, 27, 2014. (Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com)

Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO / SEATTLEPI.COM

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The iconic Empire State Building is illuminated with Seahawks colors on Monday, January, 27, 2014, as seen from Rockefeller Center. (Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com)

The iconic Empire State Building is illuminated with Seahawks colors on Monday, January, 27, 2014, as seen from Rockefeller Center. (Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com)

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The iconic Empire State Building is illuminated with Seahawks colors on Monday, January, 27, 2014. (Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com)

The iconic Empire State Building is illuminated with Seahawks colors on Monday, January, 27, 2014. (Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com)

Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO / SEATTLEPI.COM

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The iconic Empire State Building is illuminated with Seahawks colors on Monday, January, 27, 2014. (Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com)

The iconic Empire State Building is illuminated with Seahawks colors on Monday, January, 27, 2014. (Joshua Trujillo, seattlepi.com)


Mexico City: Mexican security forces hunted early Monday for drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman as authorities investigated whether he had inside help to escape prison through a tunnel under his cell`s shower.

It was the second time in 14 years that Guzman, the head of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, managed to flee a maximum-security prison, dealing an embarrassing setback to President Enrique Pena Nieto.

Troops and police were deployed to find Guzman after he vanished late Saturday from the Altiplano prison, some 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of Mexico City, after just 17 months behind bars.

Prosecutors questioned some 30 prison employees of various ranks, including the warden, the attorney general`s office said, signaling suspicions of a possible inside job.

On a state visit to Paris, Pena Nieto said Guzman`sescape was "an affront to the state" and demanded an investigation into whether prison guards helped him.

Guzman was able to slip out even though surveillance cameras were trained on his cell. After he never returned from the shower, guards found a hole 10 meters (33 feet) deep with a ladder in it, officials said.

The gap led to a 1.5-kilometer long tunnel with a ventilation and light system that was apparently dug with the help of a motorcycle mounted on a rail to transport tools and remove earth.

The tunnel led to a gray brick building on a hill surrounded by pastures in central Mexico State.

Prosecutors released a video showing the hole inside the building`s dirt-covered floor. A bed and kitchen were in the facility, indicating that people may have


in that country that Guzman was first arrested in 1993.

Guzman`s first escape was in 2001, when he slipped past authorities by hiding in a laundry cart in western Jalisco state.

Marines had recaptured him in February 2014 in a pre-dawn raid in a condo in Mazatlan, a Pacific resort in Sinaloa state, with the DEA`s help.

He was then jailed at Altiplano, which houses several other infamous drug capos captured during Pena Nieto`s administration."El Chapo surely planned this from the time he was jailed and had very large internal and external support to escape," said Raul Benitez Manaut, security expert at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

"There certainly was corruption inside and outside the prison," he told AFP.

Authorities had already investigated a strange prison visit to Guzman in March, whena woman managed to see him by using a fake ID to enter the jail.

His second escape was a major setback for Pena Nieto, overshadowing his visit to France.

Pena Nieto`s government has won praise for capturing a slew of kingpins, and Guzman, a diminutive but feared man whose nickname means "Shorty," was his biggest trophy.

US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said she shared Mexico`s "concern" about Guzman`s escape and offered help for his "swift recapture."

Some US prosecutors wanted to ask for his extradition following last year`s arrest, but Mexican officials insisted on trying him first.The United States had offered a $5 million bounty prior to his last arrest, while Chicago, a popular destination for Sinaloa narcotics, declared him "Public Enemy Number One."

The rich kingpin -- he was once on


Forbes magazine`s billionaire list -- married an 18-year-old beauty queen, Emma Coronel, in 2007 and is believed to have 10 children with various women.

Coronel was with him when he was arrested last year. His capture sparked small protests by supporters in Culiacan, Sinaloa`s capital, where Guzman nurtured a Robin Hood image.

In Culiacan, authorities found a home with a bathtub that rose up electronically to open a secret tunnel that he used to escape the authorities last year.The Cosmopolitan Twarda in Warsaw Does Not Stick Out

The Cosmopolitan Twarda by JAHN architecture firm blends in well with the surrounding cityscape, which is quite the feat considering it's so modern.

The building is now seen as a landmark, and consists of mostly apartments with a few shopping facilities at the bottom. Those living in the structure will be privileged with expansive views of the area, since the firm organized the facade with floor-to-ceiling windows in each unit. This way no view is obstructed, apart from those on the lower floors with buildings on either side.

When viewed from afar, it's clear that the building does not stand out like many modern pieces of architecture. Careful steps were taken to ensure it looks similar to pre-existing buildings in the area,


Former Cardinals Kyle Lohse to sign with Brewers

CBSSports.com's Jon Heyman reports that free-agent right-hander Kyle Lohse has agreed to a deal with the Brewers, pending a physical. Heyman adds that Lohse is right now en route to Brewers camp for his pre-signing examination.

The 34-year-old Lohse remains available despite a 2012 season in which he posted a 2.86 ERA, 1.09 WHIP and 3.76 K/BB ratio across 211 innings for the Cadinals and finished seventh in the NL Cy Young balloting. The 2012 campaign was easily Lohse's best ever, and the question moving forward is whether he can approximate that performance again in 2013 and beyond. For his career, the 12-year veteran has a record of 118-109 and an ERA+ of 97.

Lohse figures to slot in behind ace Yovani Gallardoupon him of
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the lowest savage has within him a Principle
of Power sufficient to master all that he
fears; and if he learns this and becomes self-active,
he becomes as one of the gods.
The awakening of the Principle of Power in
man is the real conversion; the passing from
death to life. It is when the dead hear the
voice of the Son of Man and come forth and
live. It is the resurrection and the life.
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Nothing was ever in any man that is not in
you; no man ever had more spiritual or mental
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