direction his career is headed right at this moment. We have very high expectations that he will make much better decisions going forward.

"He's making some pretty ordinary decisions and getting himself into trouble and he's bringing the game and his team-mates and the team down. That's not going to be tolerated any much longer."

"David Warner has done a despicable thing but I also hold the team to account here. There were other people there with him and those that were there need to take responsibility for that, but so does the team as a whole and the team management group as well."

Australia skipper Michael Clarke insists his men are fully focused on the challenges ahead of them and he believes the Warner affair will not affect their preparationsRCTs included a total of 1803 participants who ranged in age from 18 to 45 years, the majority of whom were of white ethnicity (non-Hispanic Caucasian). A small proportion of African Americans and people of other ethnicities were also included in these studies. All of the selected RCTs reported the resolution of overall IBS symptoms at the end of the treatment and follow-up periods, and one of these studies also reported the relief of abdominal distention at the end of the treatment and follow-up periods.^[@R25]^ Methods of double blinding and randomization were adequately described in all of the selected RCTs, and allocation concealment was described adequately in 2 of these studies.^[@R24],[@R27]^ Three of the selected RCTs reported adverse events, including abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and headache.^[@R24],[@R26],[@R27]^

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Digging for the Red Roots by Mahir Abdal-Razzaaq El M y name is Mahir Abdal-Razzaaq El and I am a Cherokee Blackfoot American Indian who is Muslim. I am known as Eagle Sun Walker. I serve as a Pipe Carrier Warrior for the Northeastern Band of Cherokee Indians in New York City. There are other Muslims in our group. For the most part, not many people are aware of the Native American contact with Islam that began over one thousand years ago by some of the early Muslim travelers who visited us. Some of these Muslim travelers ended up living among our people. For most Muslims and non-Muslims of today, this type of information is unknown and has never been mentioned in any of the history books. Thereare many documents, treaties, legislation and resolutions that were passed between 1600s and 1800s that show that Muslims were in fact here and were very active in the comunities in which they lived. Treaties such as Peace and Friendship that was signed on the Delaware River in the year 1787 bear the signatures of Abdel-Khak and Muhammad Ibn Abdullah. This treaty details our continued right to exist as a community in the areas of commerce, maritime shipping, current form of government at that time which was in accordance with Islam. According to a federal court case from the Continental Congress, we help put the breath of life in to the newly framed constitution. All of the documents are presently in the National Archives as well as the Library


of Congress. If you have access to records in the state of South Carolina, read the Moors Sundry Act of 1790. In a future article, Inshallah, I will go in to more details about the various tribes, their languages; in which some are influenced by Arabic, Persian, Hebrew words. Almost all of the tribes vocabulary include the word Allah. The traditional dress code for Indian women includes the kimah and long dresses. For men, standard fare is turbans and long tops that come down to the knees. If you were to look at any of the old books on Cherokee clothing up until the time of 1832, you will see the men wearing turbans and the women wearing long head coverings. The last Cherokee chief who had aMuslim name was Ramadhan Ibn Wati of the Cherokees in 1866. Cities across the United States and Canada bear names that are of Indian and Islamic derivation. Have you ever wondered what the name Tallahassee means? It means that He Allah will deliver you sometime in the future. Article Taken from: The MESSAGE, July 1996 (Copyright: The Message Magazine as long as proper acknowledgement has been stated, and a link to the site is retained, it can be reproduced)


Soyuz launch will be delayed

Docking unit

28 September 2004

Russia will launch a three-man crew to the International Space Station on 11 October 2004, two days later than initially scheduled due to problems with the docking system, Vaicheslav Davidenko, FSA spokesman reported on 22 September 2004. A few days later the same source reported more troubles encountered during the fuelling operations of the Soyuz-TMA at Baikonur, due to which the launch will be further delayed.

Russia's space agency announced the delay has not yet given a new launch date.

Earlier reports from RSC Energia said that the decision had been taken to replace the whole docking unit between the two separating compartments of the Soyuz-TMA spaceship.

Initial reports from Russia's Federal Space Agency in Moscow referred to a potential Soyuz launch delay dueGennady Padalka and Michael Fink, who have been working at the International Space Station (ISS) since last April, will also be postponed.

Soyuz spaceship

“The reason for a postponement of the Soyuz launch was the sudden plop (small-size explosion) of one of the fuse bolt. "It takes a lot of work to reach it," Vladimir Syromyatnikov, head of the department of electromechanics and large-size space structures of the Energia rocket and space corporation, explained, referring to the significant disassembly that must be done to reach the bolt, inspect the area for damage, and replace it. Such bolts generally are self-contained and do not inflict damage on surrounding structure.

The explosion of a fuse took place in the assembly and test facility in Baikonur during a repeated test of the power-supply system


return to Earth, initially scheduled for 17 October.

Failures of such explosive bolts are rare but not unprecedented. In 1969, the failure of the separation system on the Soyuz 5 spacecraft led to it entering Earth's atmosphere with the crew-carrying command module still loosely attached to the equipment-carrying service module. Off balance, the spacecraft turned its unprotected side into the super-hot plasma and began burning, but the G-force stresses soon tore the two sections apart, and the capsule aligned right itself barely in time.

Delaying the launch would also delay the landing of the current station crew, and this would lead to mounting safety issues. The Soyuz spacecraft has a certified lifetime of about six and a half months in space, and beyond that point, high-energy chemicals in its propulsionsystem threaten to become unstable. Other mechanical systems gradually lose reliability as well, but these concerns would take weeks to become significant.

The Soyuz spaceship will take to ISS the tenth expedition – Salidzhan Sharipov from Russia and NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao. Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Shargin of the Russian Space Forces will go to ISS with them with a ten-day visiting mission.

The Soyuz-TMA spaceship that is to fly in October will be the one to be used by the ISS crew to return to the Earth in April 2005. Among the members of that crew there will be the ESA astronaut of the Italian nationality.


What is Red Ribbon Week? The Origin of Red Ribbon Week began in the 1980s and today Red Ribbon Week is a United States initiative for the education and prevention of drugs, tobacco and alcohol abuse. During the week between October 23 – 31 each year, elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools, community groups and organizations focus their attention on the celebration of a drug-free life.

How All Began

Red Ribbon Week began after the kidnapping, torture and murder of a DEA agent (Enrique “Kiki” Camarena) in 1985. For over four years he had been in Guadalajara, Mexico working undercover, with those efforts leading to the discovery of a multi-million dollar narcotics manufacturing operation in Chihuahua, Mexico.

His efforts not only led to the eradication of this and other drugproduction operations/facilities by the authorities, but also greatly angered several drug cartel leaders hellbent on revenge. They murdered key informants and hunted their “enemies.” Then on February 7, 1985 they kidnapped Camarena and his pilot, Captain Alfredo Zavala-Avelar (taken separately on the same day).

A tip was sent to the DEA by representatives of the Mexican Federal Judicial Police (MFJP), who claimed full knowledge of what had happened. According to them,Camarena had been mistakenly kidnapped by a man and his three sons. They invited the DEA to a raid of the man’s ranch in Angostura that they said would take place the following morning.

However, by the time the DEA agents arrived — at the scheduled time — the MFJP had already raided the ranch and killed five individuals. Not


red ribbons in his honor. The red ribbon became their symbolic statement for prevention awareness — through Red Ribbon Week information and activities — in order to reduce the demand for illegal drugs.

David Lozano — Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of USA Freedom Corps in 2007-2008 — in his younger years was a high-school friend of the slain DEA agent [Enrique “Kiki” Camarena]. So along with the Californian’s for Drug Free Youth Board of Directors, he created the first Statewide Red Ribbon Campaign in memory of his High School friend in 1985.

With the support of Congressman Duncan Hunter and City Councilman David Dhillon, Lozano helped to promote “Camarena Clubs” in Imperial Valley, California. They were created in high schools, and club members then presented a proclamationto (then) First Lady Nancy Reagan, who had initiated nationwide anti-drug programs.

The following year, parent teacher organizations in California, Illinois and Virginia wore the red ribbons in late October and November. The first National Red Ribbon Week was organized in 1988 by the National Family Partnership (NFP) , proclaimed by the U.S. Congress and chaired by Nancy Reagan. During the administration of President Bill Clinton Red Ribbon Week information and activities grew into a nationwide service effort.

According to the DEA and the National Family Partnership, approximately 80 million people participate in Red Ribbon events and activities every year.

Join the movement and get some Red Ribbon Week banners, and other Red Ribbon Week products and supplies for elementary schools from our store.


start to finish on how to butcher a chicken at home.

We ate one of the chickens that night for dinner. It was pretty cool to know it came from our farm.

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Latest Article in the Atlantic

Ramesh Ponnuru and I have a new article in the Atlantic where we argue concerns about the fiscal cliff are exaggerated if the Fed continues to stabilize nominal spending. We note two experiences that support this notion:

The Bank of England vividly demonstrated the power of central banks
to offset fiscal policy at the dawn of the Thatcher era. In 1981 her
government introduced a budget that would sharply reduce the deficit in
the midst of a recession. Most economists opposed it on Keynesian
grounds, with 364 of them signing a now-famous letter arguing there was
"no basis in economic theory or supporting evidence" for it. Yet the
Thatcher government implemented its plan and by late 1981 the economy
was recovering. The Bank of England at the same time


more time working than time in school.

“My senior year, I thought of dropping out because I had so much stress from working too much. I was losing a lot of weight,” she said. “I wanted to take a semester off.”

Perez said the dean of Brevard College spoke to the president of financial aid to inform them about her situation. They granted her an additional scholarship and said her last semester would be paid for.

After graduating from Brevard College in the spring of 2014 with a degree in English, Perez had graduate school in mind, because a year before graduating she had obtained the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals permit.

This permit allows Perez to have a license and Social Security number. According to the Department of Homeland Security, DACAMedia playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Lehman Brothers: Failed bank or malt whisky?

It's the bottle where everybody knows its name, and that is both its biggest asset and its biggest problem. Lehman Brothers is no longer just the bank that defined the global financial crisis of a decade ago, it's now also a range of whiskies.

A London entrepreneur decided that the whole world should be able to taste one of the most profound company collapses in modern times. On 15 September nine years ago 25,000 people lost their jobs when the bank went bankrupt.

James Green says he was inspired to keep the bank's name alive by the significance of those events.

"After living through the economic disaster of 2008, it really resounded with me. I personally


related to it, there were people in my neighbourhood, my family that were personally affected by the crash," he says.

He says his three different whiskies, one of which is named Ashes of Disaster, have been specially crafted to capture the flavour of the once mighty bank's fall from grace.

Image caption James Green says the whiskies aim to capture the flavour of Lehman Brothers' fall from grace

Getting the right to make them hasn't been a straightforward process.

Barclays Bank fought Mr Green's efforts to register a trademark for the whisky at New York State's Division of Corporations.

It unsuccessfully argued that it controls the Lehman Brothers name as part of the deal it struck to buy many of the bank's assets just after it went into meltdown and that the publicStore Image caption Galen Lehman's eponymous family hardware store was founded in 1955

But for some firms, sharing a name with the collapsed Wall Street firm, has been more of a burden than a benefit.

Since 1955 Galen Lehman's eponymous family hardware store in the US state of Ohio has been selling everything from butter churns to oil lamps and handmade soap.

One of the company's wood stoves even featured in the film Back to the Future III.

But 20 years ago they nearly got burnt by Lehman Brothers, the bank. It tried to stop the hardware store's efforts to become one of the first online retailers, when they registered the website lehmans.com.

Mr Lehman recalls that one of their lawyers called and said: "you can't use that name, that's us", to which


he replied: "that's ironic it's me too". Mr Lehman also remembers a similar call in the 1980s.

Despite the problems, some 40% of his business is now done online and over the ensuing years Mr Lehman says name confusion has probably helped send additional customers his way.

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Lehman Brothers collapsed nine years ago on 15 September 2008

However it has also been a source of irritation and unwanted information, mainly thanks to the bank's own staff who sometimes confused the two companies domain names. The bank's was www.lehman.com, while the shop's is www.lehmans.com.

"We started getting all these emails between employees of Lehman brothers in New York and in London", says Mr Lehman.

The messages gave him a front row seat into some of the worst excessesof the financial crisis. Mr Lehman warned the bank and they eventually found a way to stop his inbox being inundated by emails that had "information about financial transactions, bank account numbers, all kinds of clearly confidential information".

However, Mr Lehman says it gave him a unique insight into the "play hard, work hard" culture of the bank.

"It seemed like as soon as people were outside of work they'd head straight to the corner pub. And in one of the emails I remember in particular, one employee of Lehman Brothers was boasting to another employee of Lehman Brothers how he threw some bloke through a pub window the night before".

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Actively choosing to copy another firm's name is "audacious", says Anthony Shore

Of course, that


kind of staff behaviour can be damaging to a company's reputation, something which goes hand in hand with a firm's name according to Anthony Shore.

Mr Shore runs Operative Words and is one of the world's most sought after people when it comes to naming new businesses and products, something which he can charge tens of thousands of dollars for.

While unintentional name coincidences are difficult to avoid, actively choosing to copy another firm's name is "audacious", says Mr Shore.

"It's hard to replicate the decades and decades of equity that are accrued when a company has been in business" for as long as the bank had, he says.

"The name becomes the crystallisation of everything that there is about the company, their reputation, their products their services for good or forA 30-year-old woman died after she was set on fire allegedly by her husband’s relative for resisting rape in Korba district, police said today. The incident occurred last morning in Urga police station area, around 15 kms away from here, when Ramesh Patel (25), a cousin of the victim’s husband, tried to force himself upon her when nobody was present at home, said the Urga police station SHO MM Minj. However, as the woman fought back, Patel thrashed her before dousing her in kerosene and setting her ablaze.

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On hearing her screams, the neighbours rushed to her house and admitted her in a local hospital with around 70% burns.

“We managed to record her statement before she succumbed last evening,” the SHO said. The officer


Rapper also reveals new tracklisting for the album, which is to be premiered tonight in New York

Kanye West has revealed the latest title for his new album – and this one might just stick, given that the album is set to receive its world premiere on Thursday night at Madison Square Garden in New York, before being released to the world.

On Wednesday night, West tweeted what he described as the “final track list for The Life of Pablo”. It comprises 10 tracks:

Ultra Light Beams Father Stretch My Hands Pt 1 and Pt 2 Freestyle 4 Famous High Lights Feed Back Fade FML Real Friends Wolves

The album has previously been called So Help Me God, Swish and Waves (see what we said about that in January), the last ofthose titles provoking a Twitter beef with Wiz Khalifa. When the album was still called Swish, West had shared a proposed tracklist, from which only Father Stretch My Hands, High Lights, Fade, FML, Real Friends and Wolves remain. Removed from that tracklisting is No More Parties in LA, the track featuring Kendrick Lamar that West released via Soundcloud in January.

KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) Final track list for The Life Of Pablo pic.twitter.com/PMH94MAAeJ

One person, at least, was grateful for the change to the album tracklisting. Travis Scott tweeted in response to West his thanks for “putting feed back back on the album”, implying that he appears on the track.

TRAVIS SCOTT (@trvisXX) @kanyewest thank u for putting feed back back on the album. !!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Pablo of the album’s title may be


serious story sound like it was put together by the Mall of America Promotional Kiosk Video Team with lead weights in their saddlebags. This might properly be termed the Lesley Stahl Effect. Stahl's had one prominent spot or other at the Tiffany Network for thirty years now, and if you can name something memorable she's done kindly leave it in comments and include at least two citations. She came along just as the brass at CBS News was doing a lot of soul-searching over complaints from the Right about Liberal bias. I kid, I kid. They were worried about the rags-to-riches ratings-grabbers at ABC, whose Atlas-Rocket-esque rise had been fueled in equal measure by Ur-FAUX News reportage and hiring a Million-Dollar Anchor who spoke like she had ait all out on DVD.

Anyway, CBS' 48 Hourscovered the 1969 murder of Jane Mixer. (It was a repeat of a show first aired in November 2005.) Mixer was a first-year law student at Michigan who was headed home to Muskegon for Spring Break. Instead she was found the next morning shot twice in the head and left in a remote cemetery. She'd apparently scored a ride via a campus ride board, but the young man, who was appearing in a play that night, didn't know anything about it or her. I say "apparently" because this is one of those areas where either CBS wasn't interested in the whole story or I fell back asleep for a minute because a piece of evidence--perhaps the only non-DNA evidence--which ultimately helped


convict someone just sorta got left out of the story.

At the time Jane Mixer's murder got lumped in with the murders of several other young women, two in the two years previous, four more in the next four months, which came to be known in TIME-ese as "The Rainy Day Murders". A suspect was caught and convicted of the seventh. The murders stopped. So did the active investigation of the other six.

Jump forward to the Oughts, and someone--CBS "apparently" credits Detective Eric Schroeder--starts looking into the case again. Mixer's murder did not really fit the MO of the later crimes. They send out for testing non-specific DNA from her pantyhose, a towel that had been placed under her head, and a stocking that had been knotted around herneck. They also have a blood sample taken from the back of her hand. When the results came back they were in for a shock, and we'll have that story right after these messages.

Sorry. The non-specific DNA matches a 62-year-old former nurse and Navy vet named Gary Leiterman. Leiterman was in the system because he'd been caught forging a prescription for painkillers he'd gotten hooked on when he had kidney stones. Leiterman had a wife and family, and had never been in trouble otherwise. In 1969 he'd been living about twenty miles from Ann Arbor. He said he never knew Jane Mixer and didn't kill her. He was charged with first-degree murder.

The blood was another story. It came back as a match for a convicted murderer named John


forth the facts as adduced on the trial.
The defendant and Wanda Jean Rowden were married on October 16, 1957 and of such union four children were born, Robert Allen Rowden, Loretta Jean Rowden, Janet Lanall Rowden and Terry Wayne Rowden.
It further appears that the defendant and Wanda Jean Rowden lived together during the months of December, 1962 and January, 1963 and were thereafter separated during the remainder of 1963 except for three days in August.
The evidence further establishes that from and after June 15, 1963, until the time of the trial, the defendant was employed by Co-op Grain Elevator, Perry, Oklahoma, Donald Brown and C. Ray Smith.
Wanda Jean Rowden testified that between the period of June 15, 1963 and until the time of trial the defendant had notcontributed to the support of his minor children except for one occasion when he brought groceries to her home on Hester Street in the city of Stillwater, Oklahoma, and that the value of said groceries was probably $3.00 and in no event would exceed $6.00. She further testified that during this period of time she purchased from the defendant an old model car for which she gave the sum of $40.00 from her welfare check.
The defendant testifying in his own behalf testified he was employed at various jobs from June 15 until October 9, 1963 and estimated his earnings during that period of time at approximately $250.00. He further testified that on a number of occasions he had taken groceries to his children and that he had given


evidence was introduced that during the months of January and until the time of trial, the defendant co-habitated at some sundry places with one Dorothy Renfroe who in August, 1963 bore his illegitimate child. The bulk of the testimony relating to this relationship was admitted by the trial court without objections being interposed thereto.
On his direct examination and on cross examination the defendant admitted the following convictions: Petty Larceny, June, 1951; Robbery, January, 1954; Bogus Check, November, 1960; Bogus Check, September, 1961; Removing Mortgaged Property, January, 1962; Bogus Check, July, 1959; Escape from County Jail, October, 1959; Bogus Check, October, 1962.
In support of his contention that the evidence as above set forth is insufficient to support a conviction under the provisions of Title 21 O.S. § 853 thedesk saying, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me," and writing down the number "1" on a pad. Then I'd say it again and write down the number "2."

I continued until I had 100 numbers written on a pad. Try this. It's a long process, but it's definitely worth the time and effort. It worked for me then and it has worked many times since then.

Philippians 4:13 is my favorite verse of Scripture. Whenever I'm faced with severe problems, I inevitably turn to it and other passages of Scripture pertaining to the strength of the Lord. It always refreshes me to meditate on the fact that God's strength is available to me whenever my human ability is insufficient. (Chapter 12 of this book explains this


crossing the Red Sea. We should be able to actually imagine ourselves being there when the waters of the Red Sea parted. We should try to understand how Moses and the Israelites felt.

We also could imagine ourselves with Joshua and his followers marching around the walls of Jericho. Some of these people must have had doubts as they marched around the walls of Jericho saying absolutely nothing for six days. However, God had given them instructions and they obeyed Him.

On the seventh day, God told the Israelites to march around the walls and to shout. Once again, they did exactly what they were told to do even though this might have seemed silly to them. God honored their faith. "Because of faith the walls of Jericho fell downincludes me. Our heavenly Father will bless every one of His children who reverently fears Him and lives according to the instructions in His Word.

Great blessings are available to the children of God who believe He'll do what His Word says He'll do and then step out in faith upon this. The Word of God tells us again and again the blessings our Father has for His children who do what His Word says. "...Blessed (happy and to be envied) rather are those who hear the Word of God and obey and practice it!" (Luke 11:28).

Anyone reading the Scripture references in this chapter can see without the slightest doubt that our Father will bless us if we stand in faith on His Word. However, this often is easier


are] in the flesh..." (Philippians 3:3).

Strong faith in the Lord must be based upon a sincere recognition and admission of our human weakness. "...My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness. Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weaknesses and infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ (the Messiah) may rest (yes, may pitch a tent over and dwell) upon me!" (II Corinthians 12:9).

If we want the strength and power of Jesus Christ to be made perfect in our lives, we'll actually glory in our human weakness and inadequacy! We should be pleased when we're faced with problems that are too difficult for us to handle. "So for the sake of Christ, I amPresence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!" (Ephesians 3:17-19).

Do you believe Jesus Christ actually lives inside of you? This is His permanent home here on earth. He lives in our hearts. If we really believe this and if we sincerely believe He loves us much more than we can comprehend, we have a wonderful foundation for our faith.

The roots of our faith are very deep when they're rooted in the love Jesus Christ has for us. This love is wider, longer, higher and deeper than we can possibly comprehend. It far surpasses mere human knowledge. We can't understand this supernatural love with our minds. We can only understand it through a close personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

If we put quiet time


its carnal thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot" (Romans 8:7).

Unsaved people can't submit to God's ways because they're not members of His family. Christians are members of the family of God. We're not hostile to our heavenly Father. We can submit ourselves completely to His ways. Are we willing?

Some people become Christians and still think very much the way the world thinks. They don't grow spiritually. They refuse to pay the price of renewing their minds daily and meditating day and night upon the Word of God. Paul warned the Ephesians "...you must no longer live as the heathen (the Gentiles) do in their perverseness [in the folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls andcontinually in our hearts.

Seeds have great multiplying power. A small seed is able to duplicate itself many times over to produce a substantial harvest. If we willingly pay the price of meditating day and night on the Word of God, the roots of our faith will grow deep and we'll be able to withstand severe problems.

Satan can do everything he can to knock us off our feet, but he can't win if our faith is deeply rooted. We'll be able to take everything Satan gives us and refuse to give in. "Withstand him; be firm in faith [against his onset – rooted, established, strong, immovable, and determined]..." (I Peter 5:9).

In order to resist the attacks of Satan, our faith must be deeply rooted, established, strong, immovable and determined.


and expectation are in You" (Psalm 39:7). When everything around us is falling apart and the situation looks hopeless, we can share the hopes of the psalmist who said "...You are my hope; O Lord God, You are my trust from my youth and the source of my confidence" (Psalm 71:5).

Our Father has given us the precious gift of hope. We didn't earn hope. We don't deserve it. Our Father gave it to us through His grace. "...God our Father, Who loved us and gave us everlasting consolation and encouragement and well-founded hope through [His] grace (unmerited favor)..." (II Thessalonians 2:16).

Our Father loves us so much that He has provided everything we'll ever need. He has given us consolation and encouragement that will last forever. No matter howHim and require Him by right of necessity and on the authority of God's word]" (Lamentations 3:22-25).

This passage of Scripture is loaded with encouraging words! We're told that the Lord's mercy, love and kindness won't allow us to be consumed. He won't fail us. He'll bring us through our problems one day at a time. This is why He gives us a fresh portion of mercy, love, kindness and compassion each morning.

He wants us to keep our hopes up. He wants us to wait expectantly for Him. He is good to His children who hopefully and expectantly wait for Him and seek Him continually. He wants us to require Him. He wants to be our only hope. No matter how difficult the problems in our lives might seem


be a "bad" fight of faith. Some Christians aren't bringing the victory of Jesus Christ into manifestation in their lives because they aren't fighting the good fight of faith.

This is exactly what Satan wants us to do. He's completely defeated. He can't win spiritual warfare against a Christian unless he's able to deceive us so we won't fight the good fight of faith. He tries in every way he can to get us to focus continually on the problems and frustrations in our lives. He does everything possible to stop us from paying the price of daily study and meditation on the Word of God. Satan knows he can't win the fight of faith if we have plenty of spiritual ammunition and know how to use it.

I believe"The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy..." (John 10:10). We must not allow Satan to destroy us. If we do this, we waste the magnificent victory of Jesus Christ. John 10:10 goes on to say, "...I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows)."

We fight the good fight against Satan by knowing we have the victory! We bring this magnificent victory into manifestation by knowing the promises our Father has given us and daring to stand in faith on them when everything in our lives seems to be going wrong.

The good fight of faith is fought with minds and hearts that are filled to overflowing with the supernatural power of the Word


If we give liberally to others, He'll give liberally to us. "...he who sows sparingly and grudgingly will also reap sparingly and grudgingly, and he who sows generously [that blessings may come to someone] will also reap generously and with blessings" (II Corinthians 9:6).

Nothing we do on earth is more important than reaching out to others. Every parent knows the great reward that comes from giving to our children. This same principle also applies to giving of ourselves, our God-given talent and the money the Lord has given to us.

I like to write motivational Christian books. I usually spend between 700 and 1,000 hours on each book I write. I spend endless hours on study and research. This isn't easy. Sometimes, writing a book can be very tedious.

Nevertheless,his [own] country and among [his] relatives and in his [own] house" (Mark 6:4).

Immediately after this, Jesus spoke words I've thought about time and time again. The following words are very important to every Christian. "And He was not able to do even one work of power there, except that He laid His hands on a few sickly people [and] cured them. And He marveled because of their unbelief (their lack of faith in Him)..." (Mark 6:5-6).

The words that amaze me are "was not able to do." Jesus performed tremendous miracles throughout His earthly ministry, but there were no miracles in His home town. This doesn't say Jesus didn't perform miracles. It says He wasn't able to perform them!

The people of Nazareth blocked Jesus from performing miracles because


price. I've done some of the preliminary work for you. I've looked up hundreds of Scripture references and categorized them. The outline is here for you to follow.

Are you willing to pay the price and put in many long, hard hours building your faith? As we all know, it's easy to make resolutions, but it's usually difficult to carry them out. We must have a strong awareness of the absolute necessity to develop deep faith in the Lord. We must sense the urgency of doing this now.

This is a book to be studied. Please take the following quiz to see how much you've learned. I believe most readers will be surprised at how much they still have to learn. I pray this will cause you to go backmentioned in the Bible. Where do you think your faith is at this time?

46. Why did Jesus use the mustard seed as a comparison to faith in God? How does the mustard seed compare with the measure of faith all Christians are given before they before they are saved?

47. Does every word in the Bible come from God?

48. How can we be certain the promises in the Bible are true and dependable?

49. If we're faced with problems so severe that our hearts are overwhelmed, where does the Bible tell us to turn?

50. How can we be certain the Bible is the Word of God and not just the word of men?

51. The apostle Paul wrote a large portion of the New Testament. What did Paul say about the


example apply to severe problems the world will experience in the last days before Jesus returns?

73. When the Bible speaks of our hearts, it doesn't refer to the physical organ that pumps blood through our body. What does it refer to?

74. Why is it vitally important for Christians to work diligently and constantly on what they believe in their hearts?

75. Our Father has created a home for His Word here on earth. Where is this home located?

76. On the final night before He was betrayed, what did Jesus say about the troubles of life, fear, agitation and intimidation?

77. Jesus said, "...ask whatsoever you will and it shall be done for you." There are two conditions for this promise. What are they?

78. The Word of God tells us howbe guided by divine wisdom. All of us would like to prosper in every area of our lives. What does the Word of God tell us to do to receive wisdom and prosperity?

102. What human condition is required for the strength and power of the Lord to be perfected in our lives?

103. What does the Word of God say about the reliance Jesus Christ placed upon His own strength and ability during His earthly ministry?

104. What two words are used to describe the relationship we should have with Jesus in order to appropriate His power?

105. What does the Bible say will happen to human beings who rely on human ability?

106. Should human beings with a great deal of natural ability who are at the prime of their lives


Word of God" (I Peter 1:23).

God wants us to come to Him as little children. He doesn't reveal Himself to us through our intellects. He reveals Himself through our hearts. We may be adults in the natural world, but we need to start all over again in the spiritual realm. We must have childlike faith. "...unless you repent (change, turn about) and become like little children [trusting, lowly, loving, forgiving], you can never enter the kingdom of heaven [at all]" (Matthew 18:3).

The following prayer will result in your spiritual rebirth if you truly believe these truths in your heart and also tell others what you believe:

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At a hearing in Palermo, Italy, Joseph Mifsud was described as “a ghost.”

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PALERMO, Italy — Joseph Mifsud, the mysterious professor at the center of the Trump-Russia probe, was due in court in Italy on Wednesday. But he didn't turn up, and neither did his lawyers.

During the hearing in Palermo, Sicily, the prosecutor described Mifsud as a “peculiar subject,” and said that all attempts to reach and notify the Maltese professor had been unsuccessful. The prosecutor also noted that since the investigation had begun, Mifsud had become a character in Robert Mueller’s inquiry into the election of US president Donald Trump in 2016, but stressed that the Russia probe had no link whatsoever to the case in Sicily.

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The journalist who did the La Repubblica interview has previously told BuzzFeed News that it had taken place the previous day, on October 31.

The professor has since gone underground. In March, BuzzFeed News revealed that he'd cut off all contact with his girlfriend in Ukraine after an on-and-off relationship lasting more than three years. The 31-year-old woman, who claims Mifsud is the father of her newborn child, said during an interview in Kiev that she hasn’t heard from him since he became the focus of world media attention as the professor who allegedly delivered word of Hillary Clinton’s stolen emails to Trump's campaign. Mifsud, whose current whereabouts are unknown, has not responded to repeated


requests for comment.

According to court documents, the academic allegedly told former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos that the Russians had thousands of emails from the Democrats in April 2016, two months before the Democrats themselves were aware that their computer system had been hacked. Mifsud is alleged to have told Papadopoulos he’d learned of the emails during a trip to Russia. Papadopoulos is reported to have later shared the information with the Australian high commissioner to the UK, whose government passed the information to US authorities after WikiLeaks began publishing the emails in July 2016. That information prompted the FBI to launch the investigation that Mueller now leads.between stupid decisions and prosecutable crimes. One recent example is the essentially self-inflicted firestorm surrounding actor Liam Neeson.

In what many have said was a profoundly unnecessary and ill-advised admission, Neeson shared a personal story of rage, regret and dangerous ideas, all with an obvious racial component. According to Neeson, years ago, a friend was raped by black person. When that friend shared her pain and trauma with Neeson, he said he felt rage, and that this rage caused him to, temporarily, consider committing violence against black men as an act of revenge.

The story had real consequences for Neeson and no amount of context or explanation was going to blunt the ensuing barrage of negative responses, both from traditional news outlets and online. A planned red carpet event for


Here they are! Below are the semifinalists for the 2017 Restaurant and Chef Awards. Read on for semifinalists in all categories, from Outstanding Restaurant to Rising Star Chef of the Year. We'll announce the final Restaurant and Chef Award nominees, as well as the nominations for our Book, Journalism, Broadcast Media, and Restaurant Design Awards, in Los Angeles on Wednesday, March 15. We'll reveal the nominees in real time on Facebook Live and Twitter.

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A couple of volunteer firefighters place flowers at a makeshift memorial at a sign for the Sandy Hook Elementary school, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2012 in Sandy Hook village of Newtown, Conn. The massacre of 26 children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary school elicited horror and soul-searching around the world even as it raised more basic questions about why the gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, would have been driven to such a crime and how he chose his victims. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - May 3, 2013 --

Newtown officials are meeting to debate what to do with the Sandy Hook Elementary School building, where 20 first-graders and six educators were gunned down in a


December massacre.

The Sandy Hook School Building Task Force, which meets Friday night, has narrowed the options down to two: renovating or rebuilding on the existing school site, or constructing a new school on nearby property. Whatever choice is made, a new or renovated school won't be ready by the start of the next school year.

The task force, which includes 28 local elected officials, may vote on a recommendation to the local school board or postpone a decision to another meeting on May 10.

Sandy Hook Elementary School hasn't housed students since the Dec. 14 killings. The 430 surviving students have been attending a renovated school in the neighboring town of Monroe that has been renamed Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Town residents have expressed mixed opinions on what should happen tothe school building.

"I wouldn't want to have to send my kids back to that school," said Susan Gibney, who has three children in high school who didn't attend the Sandy Hook school and believes the school should be torn down. "I just don't see how the kids could get over what happened there."

Fran Bresson, a retired police officer who attended Sandy Hook Elementary School in the 1950s, wanted the school to reopen, but he thought the hallways and classrooms where staff and students were killed should be demolished.

Residents of towns where other mass shootings occurred have grappled with the same dilemma. Some have renovated, some have demolished.

Columbine High School in Colorado, where two student gunmen killed 12 schoolmates and a teacher in 1999, reopened several months afterward. Crews


removed the library, where most of the victims died, and replaced it with an atrium.

Virginia Tech converted a classroom building where a student gunman killed 30 people in 2007 into a peace studies and violence prevention center. And an Amish community in Pennsylvania tore down the West Nickel Mines Amish School and built a new school a few hundred yards away after a gunman killed five girls there in 2006.

On the morning of Dec. 14, Adam Lanza, 20, opened fire with an assault rifle at Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 20 children and six adults. He earlier had fatally shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, at their Newtown home, and he killed himself as police arrived at the school.

Police have not disclosed possible motives for the killings. Law enforcementLibrary Open Repository

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Carlos Reygadas’ debut film follows a nameless man who leaves Mexico City to travel to a more rural setting. He makes no secret of the fact that his is a one way journey, that he intends to kill himself. He eventually ends up staying with an old Indian widow in her ramshackle home overlooking a desolate canyon. Her lust for life and undiminishing humanity appear to reawaken something in the man.

The only other Reygadas film I’ve seen is Silent Light (2007) and the two share similar themes and look. Faith and spirituality rear their heads at various points, especially in the discussions between the presumably ‘godless’ man and his evangelically Christian landlord. The film also possesses the same slow rhythm and long, melancholic sequences that made Silent Lightto provide customers with a wide breadth and depth of selection as well as the most complete and satisfying service available for their category. Homelegance distribution centers are conveniently located throughout the United States and Canada.

The only negative thing i would say about this bed is that there is very little room in the bottom bunk. For my 2 year old it's ok but as he gets bigger there may be some clastrophobia and some bumping of the head on the top bunk.Otherwise, it is beautiful and very sturdy.

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Love’s Labour’s Lost

With Only One Day and One Performance

Bootleg Shakespeare Gets It So Right

Taffety Punk Theatre Company's Bootleg Shakespeare, Folger Theatre, Washington, D.C.

Monday, August 5, 2013, E-2&4 (center stalls)

Directed by Lise Bruneau

The cast meets for the first time in the morning. They've memorized their lines, but they have never worked through the play together before. They spend the day doing just that, learning their blocking and completing their first and only walk-through of the entire play before they open the production to a public audience. They perform the play just one time. Opening night is closing night by intent.

Tonya Beckman as the Princess of France in the Taffety Punk's Bootleg Shakespeare production of Love's Labour's Lost performed at the Folger Theatre. Photo by Marcus Kyd (who played theForester), Taffety Punk Tonya Beckman as the Princess of France in the Taffety Punk's Bootleg Shakespeare production of Love's Labour's Lost performed at the Folger Theatre. Photo by Marcus Kyd (who played the Forester), Taffety Punk

This is the premise of Taffety Punk Theatre Company's annual Bootleg Shakespeare, which this year presented William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. If you're expecting a riotous time watching actors publicly humiliate themselves by presenting a production at its rawest, you wouldn't be much disappointed. There were a few "line" calls, one fumbled dialogue, one mistimed music cue, and one way-too-early entrance. Watching the actors handle these missteps, working them into the play, is part of the adventure.

Yet, Shakespeare at his rawest is sometimes Shakespeare at his best, and this Love's Labour's Lost was


a performance of richly textured hilarity owing more to the script—and the actors' expertise with it—than the production's circumstances.

This is the seventh year Taffety Punk has undertaken such an audacious assignment (previous Bootleg performances featured the bad quarto version of Hamlet, King John, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Troilus and Cressida, and Henry VIII—yeah, crazy, I know). What started as a dare to produce Cymbeline in one day in 2007 has become one of the year's most anticipated events on the Washington, D.C., theater calendar. This year, with the Folger serving as host, the free tickets were snapped up in 30 minutes, and the line for returns was three dozen deep 90 minutes before curtain. Inside, the pre-show buzz was louder than feedback at a Pearl Jam concert.

The castwas an All-Star team of talent drawn from across the city and affiliated with other companies to supplement the Taffety Punk core. Players ranged from Victoria Reinsel, cofounder of the fledgling Brave Spirits Theatre, playing a Daisy Duked, hip-thrusted Jaquenetta, to the 78-year-old eminent thespian and Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) staple Ted van Griethuysen playing a solemnly dignified Mercade. Though he spoke only three lines near the play's end, just his being there inspired applause.

The cast had several weeks to memorize their parts and come to grips with their characters, but they were forbidden from contacting each other about their performances. They also dressed themselves: Scott Hammar gets credit not as designer but "costume direction." His direction was for modern dress, with the ladies in formal gowns and


of the performance coupled with the actors' individual skills and verse-speaking expertise get much credit for the production's high-quality Shakespeare, superb ensemble work was responsible for the night's highlight: the Muscovite scene.

The King and the three lords visiting the French ladies while disguised as Cossacks is one of my favorite scenes in the whole canon, specifically because the first time I saw it in a 1979 Royal Shakespeare Company production in London, Richard Griffiths as Navarre, Michael Pennington as Berowne, Ian Charleson as Longaville, and Paul Whitworth as Dumaine played the scene as slapstick farce. I can still see them tumbling down the theater aisle and Griffiths' subtle ridiculousness in his furry hat. As with the rude mechanicals' performance of Pyramus and Thisbe in A Midsummer Night's Dream,Shakespeare leaves so much of this scene's execution in the hands of the players and their director, so its comic potential is bound only by their imaginations. And when those imaginations run wild, it can leave an audience laughing to tears. Many productions of Love's Labour's Lost I've seen since that first one squeezed this scene into the play's otherwise lyrical tone and verse formality, leaving us merely amused.

This production's Muscovites were so wildly imaginative they made even Rosaline (Taffety Punk's Esther Williamson) give in to fits of laughter. These were not ubiquitous Russians but, specifically, a Russian Bear, a leather-jacketed Moscow mobster, Vladimir Putin, and Sputnik—I think (an aluminum foil helmet with antenna type rods sticking up from the shoulders). The four lords were definitely getting in


off the trick that good sports mascots do so well: though their heads have only one expression, mascots can emote so many different emotions just in the way they stop and stare. An expressionless Putin fixing Rosaline in his gaze just in itself inspired laughter even as Navarre the bear uncomfortably gestured with his paws.

Another master of the stare is Hissom. His fantastical reading of Don Armado captured the part's outlandish comedy so perfectly, but the few times a Shakespearean line didn't land with laughter, Hissom would follow with a pause, staring off into his outer sanctum, and that alone brought the house down.

High-handed hamming this may be, but this gathering, for the most part, knew their characters so well and spoke the play's obtuse verses so expertlythat they not only drew out the comedy of such set pieces as the reading of Armado's two letters—the first by Crane's Navarre, the second by Jamie Beaman's Boyet—they revealed the true heart of Shakespeare's creations. Fagan approached the "Have at you then, affection's men at arms" speech as a lawyer rising to the challenge of presenting a closing argument in a trial. Beckman spoke the Princess's assurance to Navarre that "So much I hate a breaking cause to be of heavenly oaths, vow'd with integrity" with such multi-layered irony that we could see through the comment to the verbal trap she's about to spring on Navarre several lines hence. Hissom turned Armado's soliloquy railing at Cupid, "his disgrace is to be called boy," into something approaching a


Verdi aria. Fagan's Berowne soon followed with his own soliloquy on Cupid, "this whimpled, shining, purblind, wayward boy," which he delivered in a self-deprecating fit mirroring Armado's speech—it's a funhouse mirror, perhaps, but this production cleverly connected the two soliloquys as Shakespeare probably intended.

Fagan's Berowne also delivered the night's funniest line: as the country folk approach to present their play of the Nine Worthies to the two courts, Navarre protested that "they will shame us: let them not approach." Fagan paused for just a sitcom beat before replying, "We are shame-proof, my lord," a delivery so honest not only for Berowne and his fellow lords who had presented themselves to their love objects as a satellite, a bear, a Moscow mobster, and Putin, but for Fagan and hisUrban Fantasy

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continued, “the whole story of Holy Bull, Mrs. Carpenter and Jimmy Croll, jockey Mike Smith. . . it was just a sensational ride. No doubt, at the time, Holy Bull was an icon for our family farm."

Throughout the final eighth of the Woodward Stakes, regular NYRA race caller Tom Durkin’s tone of disbelief of what he was witnessing summed up the emotion all who watched the big gray, as he blared out, "Holy Bull winning like a champion...with devastating ease! Holy Bull toying with the best horses in training.” At the end of the year, Holy Bull was assigned 130 pounds on the Daily Racing Form Free Handicap, the highest for a three-year-old in 15 years, and a front page headline of “Bullmania Sweeps the Nation."

Holy Bull’s originalowner, Rachel Carpenter, bequeathed all of her horses to Jimmy Croll who was the owner of record for Holy Bull’s first start in 1993. He won all four races as a two-year-old, including the G1 Futurity Stakes at Belmont Park over eventual Champion two-year-old Dehere. At three, he won five G1 events – the Travers Stakes, Woodward Stakes, Met Mile, Haskell Invitational and Florida Derby – and was voted the best three-year-old of that year and was also named Horse of the Year. In his eight wins during that 3YO season, Holy Bull's average Beyer figure was over 115. He retired with an overall record of 13 wins from 16 starts and earnings of $2,481,760 and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2001.

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By Sarah Elliott, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and Wisconsin state lead for the National Farm to School Network

On January 30, students across the Holmen School District in northwestern Wisconsin had a special farm to school lunch, aptly named “Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner.” Over the past year, students in Roger King’s Future Farmers of America (FFA) classes raised over 450 meat chickens to be served to more than 3,000 Holmen students during this special lunch. The fantastic partnership between the FFA program; the Holmen’s nutrition services director, Mike Gasper; and the Coulee Regional Farm to School Program, made this extraordinarily unique project a farm to school success!

Last month I interviewed Holmen Mike Gasper, to learn more about this project andother farm to school activities in the district.

What prompted you to undertake this chicken project?

About a year ago, 25 of our FFA students came to me to ask if we would be interested in serving chickens they raised. We said yes, and so began the adventure that culminated in our Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner event.

The school helped pay for the equipment that was needed—feeders, waterers and chicken feed, and in May, the students got their first chicks. When they reached maturity, the birds were processed at a USDA licensed facility and then picked up by our distributor partner, Reinhardt Foods, who froze the chickens and stored them until enough birds had been raised to feed the whole district. The last batch of chickens went to the processor in


NATO would station 4,000 troops in Poland and the Baltic States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The United States is likely to provide two battalions, Germany and Britain one each.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work, visiting Brussels, confirmed the overall size of the force and said the buildup was a response to more Russian activity around the Baltics where tensions have been rising.

"The Russians have been doing a lot of snap exercises right up against the borders, with a lot of troops," Work said in an interview. "From our perspective, we could argue this is extraordinarily provocative behavior."

Russian officials have repeatedly said their own buildup and exercises are a response to NATO's troop buildup and aggressive posture to Moscow.

NATO defense ministers in February approved inand NATO officials have said that to make sure the force was a real deterrent to Russian aggression they would like it to operate under the alliance's flag as well as command and control system.

The alliance is still determined to follow the conditions of the 1997 NATO-Russian Founding Act, which prohibits permanently stationed troops in large numbers along the Russian border. While the Founding Act does not specify an exact number of troops, NATO officials believe four battalions are within the limits of the agreement.

Andres Sang, spokesman for the Estonian Defense Ministry, told Postimees that was still too early to say at this point how many extra soldiers would be stationed in the region, and in which country.


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Les Misérables star Hugh Jackman has said that his character is "vulnerable in every way" in new movie The Wolverine.

The 44-year-old actor reprises his role as the superhero for the upcoming X-Men spin-off and said that it involves a much deeper exploration of his character than in the previous movies.

Speaking to SFX magazine, Jackman said: ''In this story, he becomes literally vulnerable in every way. Not just emotionally, but physically vulnerable, and those implications were fun to play.''

The Wolverine takes place after the events of 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand and sees Jackman's character isolate himself in Japan as he grieves the death of close friends and his love interest, Jean Grey (Famke Janssen).

Jackman added: ''You see Logan [Wolverine] at his lowest pointQ:

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be managed and what criteria to use for structures," he said.

Hampering the research effort is the fact that two of the major buoys used for these studies, which are some distance off the Pacific Northwest coast and measure waves in deep water, were only installed in the 1970s. Even at that they provide two of the longest high-quality wave height records in the world. OSU researchers are studying historical records through climate data, old newspaper records and other information to try to recreate what wave heights and storm events were like going further back in time.

The largest wave height increases, scientists say, have occurred off the Washington coast and northern Oregon, with less increase in southern Oregon and nothing of significance south of central California. The study alsonoted that similar increases in wave heights have occurred in the North Atlantic Ocean, as well as the seasonal total power generated by hurricanes.

These issues do not consider the potential drop in land level that is expected to occur in this region with a subduction zone earthquake at some point in the future. Ruggiero noted that he did some research in Sumatra following the huge 2004 earthquake there - an area with geology very similar to that of the Pacific Northwest - and some of the shoreline had dropped from 1.5 to five feet. If and when that occurs, the impacts on shorelines could be enormous.

This research was supported by the Sectoral Application Research Program, a part of the Climate Program Office at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric


(NaturalNews) A recent article published in the Melbourne, Australia paper Herald Sun has drawn attention to the ongoing psychiatric practice of using electroshock therapy on children as young as four years of age.

Electroshock therapy, also known as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), is the practice of applying electric shocks to the brain in order to induce seizures and modify behavior by damaging "problematic" portions of the brain.

"After a few sessions of ECT, the symptoms are those of moderate cerebral contusions," said neurologist Sidney Sament. "The patient 'forgets' his symptoms because the brain damage destroys memory traces in the brain, and the patient has to pay for this by a reduction in mental capacity of varying degree."

In the United States, most states allow the use of ECT on young children. Althoughindependence from Russia in 1991. Soros also admitted to financing the 2013-2014 Maidan Square protests that brought the current government into power.

Soros’ foundations were also deeply involved in the 2004 Orange Revolution that brought the corrupt but pro-NATO Viktor Yushchenko into power with his American wife who had been in the US State Department. In 2004 just weeks after Soros’ International Renaissance Foundation had succeeded in getting Viktor Yushchenko as President of Ukraine, Michael McFaul wrote an OpEd for the Washington Post.”

McFaul, former US Ambassador to Russia, detailed some of the buzzwords and organizations utilized to intervene in the domestic politics of a country in the name of “democracy” in his op-ed for the Post:

“Did Americans meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine? Yes. The American agents of


influence would prefer different language to describe their activities — democratic assistance, democracy promotion, civil society support, etc.— but their work, however labeled, seeks to influence political change in Ukraine. The U.S. Agency for International Development, the National Endowment for Democracy and a few other foundations sponsored certain U.S. organizations, including Freedom House, the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute, the Solidarity Center, the Eurasia Foundation, Internews and several others to provide small grants and technical assistance to Ukrainian civil society. The European Union, individual European countries and the Soros-funded International Renaissance Foundation did the same.”

It’s important to remember that if these tactics can be successfully employed abroad, they can just as easily be implemented domestically in the United States, under similar auspices.SciFi Weekend: Sam Tyler’s Search For His Present, And For Life on Mars

April 5, 2009 — Ron Chusid

While for most television viewers last week marked the finale of ER after fifteen seasons, for science fiction viewers the week was also significant for the series finale of the American version of Life on Mars after only seventeen episodes. (Note there are major spoilers if anyone interested has not yet watched.) During its run some were undecided whether to classify it as a police or science fiction series. The finale made this clear.

The series began with Sam Tyler losing consciousness in 2008 and awaking as a police officer in a similar position in 1973. (Video of the pilot previously posted here). It was never clear if he had really traveled


back in time, with many clues suggesting he was really unconscious, or perhaps in a thought-control experiment, still in 2008. In the end it turned out that neither the events in 2008-9 or 1973 were real.

Sam awoke at the end of the episode on a space ship which was actually traveling to Mars in 2035 and we found that everything was simulation played in Sam’s brain to keep it occupied while in hibernation for the trip. Something went wrong with the simulation of Sam as a police officer in 2008, causing him to think he had moved further back to 1973.

Reading the reviews around the blogsophere I think that viewers are undecided as to whether to feel cheated. On the one hand it turned out that nothing was“real” and we had no real way to figure out the ending. On the other hand they managed to insert so many items from the show into the mars mission that in retrospect everything made sense. It also seems easier to accept such an unexpected ending after watching for seventeen episodes. Reactions might have been different after a seven year run unless there was more to lead into it.

The show was really about a search for life on Mars. Sam really was a spaceman, as he was called many times during the series. The machines Sam often saw were replicas of his space ship. Windy was the computer voice. Windy often called Sam 2B after his apartment number, and he awoke in an animation unit labeled 2B. The


ship was Hyde-1-2-5 and run was a part of the Aires Project, bringing in both the references to Hyde and Aires in the imaginary 1973. Frank Morgan turned out to be at mission control, really knowing what was going on as Sam suspected in the previous episode.

The show included many references to The Wizard of Oz, including the character Frank Morgan who shared the name of the actor who played the Wizard. Like The Wizard of Oz, the characters in the imaginary land were based upon real characters. Some of the key characters were fellow astronauts.

At times Gene Hunt seemed to play a fatherly role towards Sam, and it turned out that he was a fellow astronaut as well as Sam’s father. I wonder if the writers consideredAfter Scandals, Pentagon Orders Review Of Senior Officer Ethics

WASHINGTON, DC — In the wake of the most recent scandal to ensnare current and former top military officers, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta ordered the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to begin a review of ethics rules, the Pentagon announced Thursday.

“Over the past several months, the Secretary has spoken with the service secretaries, service chiefs, and combatant commanders about those instances when senior officers have not lived up to the standards expected of them,” Pentagon press secretary George Little said in a statement.

“This week, the Secretary directed General Dempsey to work with the other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to review how to better foster a culture of stewardship among our most senior military officers,”


Over the last four decades, the density of integrated circuits has increased by a relation known as Moore's law. Stated simply, Moore's law says that the number of transistors on integrated circuits (ICs) doubles approximately every 18 months. Thus, as long as the semiconductor industry can continue to uphold this simple “law,” ICs double in speed and power approximately every 18 months. In large part, this remarkable increase in the speed and power of ICs has ushered in the dawn of today's information age.
Unlike laws of nature, which hold true regardless of mankind's activities, Moore's law only holds true only so long as innovators overcome the technological challenges associated with it. One of the advances that innovators have made in recent decades is to use chemical mechanical polishingbreaks, in pubs, over garden fences, Town fans preview their prospects.

They'd read the reports that Rochdale's ex-Grimsby keeper Harry Moody had made several fine saves to deny Bradford last Saturday. Could Carmichael find a way past him? And they'd study the league table showing Rochdale's ten goals from four away games. Could the Grimsby defence keep them at bay? This is not yet a game to draw in the whole community, but no football fan wants to miss the visit of the league leaders.

The day comes round and the gate is 11,602, the highest of the season so far and almost 5,000 more than for the last home game. The new stand, the whole ground, is full, expectant. The Mariners will live up to the occasion.

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Jacobson kick and tackle almost faultlessly. The half-backs are sound, with Pugsley "outstanding as a breaker of combination and a supporter of attack". But it is the "thrustful" Grimsby attack and especially the inside forwards – Joe Cooper, Frank McKenna and Jimmy Carmichael – who make the difference between the two teams.

A couple of years before, it had been said of Frank McKenna – still only a teenager at the time – that he was a player in the making, but that his advance was being marred by selfishness. In 1925, he still had an eye for goal and a splendid shot to go with it: he'd score 14 times over the season. But McKenna now also had a "fine judgement in opening out the game with well-conceivedpasses". Half an hour had gone when he played a forward pass along the ground. It found Carmichael, running between the Rochdale backs. He had only Moody to beat, but the goalkeeper had made a headlong dash from goal to close him down.

Carmichael dominates the team photograph for that season. At 5 foot 10, he was taller than most, but far from the tallest in the team. Broad-shouldered and muscular, he looks strong. But it is not his physique that draws the eye. It is the rolled-up sleeves over folded arms, like a man who means business. It is his direct stare at the camera: neck straight, head erect. The look in his eye is not without humour and intelligence, but it is not without belligerence either.

The picture


suggests the qualities Carmichael needed to thrive as a centre-forward. The strength to win a ball with a centre-half pushing at him insistently. The skill to bring it under control, and the footballing nous to use it well. Then he had to be able to finish, with ice or with fire.

Faced now with the onrushing Rochdale keeper, Carmichael kept his cool. With perfect judgement, he lifted the ball over Moody’s head and into the net.

First the cheers. Any goal would have been good enough to cheer as it put the Mariners in front. But then for minutes after the excited buzz, as the fans replay McKenna's pass and Carmichael's chip, compare notes, impressions, superlatives. And then a new note of anticipation. It's been a good game so far:what is going to happen next?

The crowd didn't have to wait long to find out. Ten minutes later, Carmichael scored again, this time with power. He met a cross from the right, swivelling on one leg to slam it past Moody, "a magnificent example of judgment and timing".

The third goal, early in the second half, was even better than the first two. It came from Joe Cooper.

Wage strains

Cooper was a teacher. He had been willing to sign for Town in 1924 in part because, unlike one of his former clubs, they were willing for him to carry on teaching during the week. He was not the only player in the squad with a profession. Goalkeeper John Atter was an analytical chemist at a Derbyshire coal mine. Amateur Harry


Kitching could only promise to play when his studies at Leeds University allowed it.

Being a full-time professional footballer in Division Three (North) was no fantasy. The league had been formed during a trade depression and times of industrial unrest, straining the finances of clubs trying to develop their grounds to meet Football League standards. The footballers' maximum wage was above the average for manual workers, but few northern section players were on the maximum, and close-season wages were a rarity.

The variation in budgets across the third division must have made it more like the present-day Conference than the Football League. Grimsby were one of the better-established clubs, but even so, there had been frequent rumours that Carmichael would be sold to clear debts which now totalled £4,938. Theyouth-only policy was at least in part a matter of finance. That was the environment – cash-strapped and insecure – in which a third division player lived. No wonder that those with another profession were keen to keep it up.

There must have been times when Cooper thought about giving up football. It was no childhood dream. But perhaps many a teacher daydreams about facing his class when on the Saturday he has put his side on top of the league

Then there was the risk of injury. Cooper, like Carmichael, is in the front row of the team photograph. He is taller than Carmichael, but – slightly stooped, reticent in the shadows of his neighbours – you wouldn't know it. A delicate, ball-playing inside-forward in the rough and tumble


of the third flight, Cooper inevitably picked up more than his share of knocks.

Rather than wonder why he didn't give up teaching, there must have been bad times when Cooper thought about giving up football. It was no childhood dream that he was living.

But perhaps many a teacher daydreams about being able to face a class on a Monday morning when on the Saturday he had put his side on top of the league with a score like this.

"The third goal showed Cooper as a craftsman, for when Hopkins failed to check Marshall and the wingman centred, Cooper feinted to shoot in one direction but lifted the ball gently into the other corner of the goal, with Moody completely nonplussed."(Athletic News, 12 October 1925)

Grimsby's 3-0 win took themOur adventure continues!

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Green has been one of the most outspoken proponents of impeachment and has cited Trump's racially offensive remarks as reason for taking such a step. The Texas congressman unsuccessfully brought an impeachment resolution to the House floor in July after Trump told a group of minority congresswomen to "go back" to their countries.

At the time, Green argued that Trump was "unfit to defend the ideals that have made America great" and "unfit to ensure domestic tranquillity."6 reasons why Bill Nye's new Netflix show will be awesome for science

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Bill Nye is slated to return to television in a new series on Netflix in spring 2017.
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Bill Nye the Science Guy is back and coming to Netflix.

The streaming network made the surprise announcement in late August, marking a triumphant return of everyone's favorite science personality back to the small screen. The new series, called "Bill Nye Saves the World," will offer a scientific voice of reason in a world filled with misinformation on everything from climate change to GMOs, vaccines to renewable energy, and much more.

"With the right science and good writing, we’ll do our best to


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In many ways, this new show is an extension of the countless interviews and debates that Nye had thrown himself into over the years in an attempt to give science a voice amidst countless myths and phony arguments. With Netflix handing him a giant microphone to reach its 83 million worldwide subscribers, his clarion call to place science back into the driver's seat will reach and inspire a whole new generation.

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In a 2014 debate with creationist Ken Ham, Nye respectfully deconstructed arguments presented by the creationism movement for why the Earth is older than 6,000 years old. The discussion between the two lastedadvanced, his mind instantly went to all possible obstacles in connection with it, but he met his match and learned a lesson which helped to change his negative attitude. It came about in the following manner.

The directors of his firm had a project under consideration which involved considerable expense and some definite hazards as well as success possibilities. In the discussions regarding this venture the obstacle man would invariably say, and always with a scholarly air (invariably this type acts wise, probably a cover-up for inner doubt feelings), “Now just a moment. Let’s consider the obstacles involved.”

Another man, who said very little but who was respected by his associates for his ability and achievements and for a certain indomitable quality which characterized him, presently spoke up and asked,


the strength you think they have.

A friend in England sent me a book by Winston Churchill entitled Maxims and Reflections. In this book Churchill tells of the British General Tudor, who commanded a division of the British Fifth Army which faced the great German assault in March 1918. The odds were heavily against him, but General Tudor knew how to meet an apparently immovable and un-defeatable obstacle. His method was simple. He merely stood and let the obstacle break on him and he, in turn, broke the obstacle.

Use that formula which the businessman suggested and you will develop this brand of powerful faith in God and in yourself. You will learn to know yourself, your own ability, your power to do things. To the degree to which yourapproach). It was developed in the early part of the 20th Century and has been continuously refined through the present day. The Wyckoff Method is a vital, classic approach to trading which reads the market through price bars and volume. Although technical indicators may be used, they are unnecessary under the Wyckoff Method.

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Among these groups, you might expect the statesMinnesota in October 1993 as a sales clerk, earning minimum wages.  Ek was 19 years old.  Throughout Ek's employment at West End, Lola Aune was the manager.  In early January 1995, Ek was selected to be promoted to assistant manager and began training for the paperwork duties she would have as an assistant manager.  Aune told Ek that Ek would have a good chance of becoming the manager of West End because at some time Aune would probably move to a new store on Central Avenue.  On January 12, 1995 Ek received an excellent review for her job performance and was given a $.30 per hour raise, which became effective January 29, 1995.  Ek learned she was pregnant a few days after


she received this review.  Ek told Aune she was pregnant one or two days after she learned of her pregnancy.

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Ek had an excellent working relationship with Aune until she told Aune about her pregnancy in mid-January 1995.  They socialized outside of the workplace on at least four occasions between October 1993 and January 1995.  However, their relationship changed after Ek informed Aune of her pregnancy.  During their first conversation about the pregnancy, Aune told Ek to get an abortion.  Aune said Ek was "stupid," that the father would never "stick around" and that Ek would end up on welfare.  Aune offered to take Ek to the Twin Cities to get an abortion and also offered to pay for an abortion.  Ekrefused to have an abortion.  Lynette Lone, a sales clerk at West End, witnessed the negative change in Aune's behavior toward Ek after Aune learned of Ek's pregnancy.  Lone heard Aune tell Ek to get an abortion on more than six different occasions.  Aune did not deny that she discussed the issue of abortion with Ek.  Aune testified that rather than telling Ek to get an abortion, she told Ek if she were in Ek's situation she might have an abortionOn one occasion Aune called Ek's home and talked to Ek for a long period of time trying to persuade her to get an abortion.  During this phone conversation, Aune again offered to pay for an abortion and provide transportation to the Twin


doctor's order restricting her activities, but Ek believed lifting such heavy items would harm her pregnancy.  On one occasion Ek brought in a doctor's order requesting that Ek not work that evening.  When Aune received the order she said if Ek's pregnancy was going to cause any restrictions on her work, Aune would reevaluate Ek's position.

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On March 10, 1995, Ek ended her employment at West End.  Aune was not present in the store that day.  Denise Bond, Aune's aunt, was working at the store on March 10, 1995.  Bond was an assistant manager with whom Ek did not have a good working relationship.  Bond ordered Ek (who was an assistant manager in training) to stock the pop cooler.  Following a discussionbetween Ek and Bond regarding Bond's order, Ek called Aune to settle the dispute.  Ek was upset at the manner in which Bond ordered her to stock the pop cooler and also told Aune she was concerned that carrying the heavy pop crates would harm her pregnancy.  Aune told Ek she would be okay because she was not that far along in her pregnancy and told her to just put up with Bond and go stock the cooler.  Aune refused to allow Ek to speak with Curt Solomon who was in the same store where Aune was working that day.  Ek ended her employment at West End immediately after the conversation with Aune.

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Ek left a message for Chris McKinney, a part-owner of Little Stores,


to call her on the day she quit.  A few days later, when Chris McKinney called her back, Ek informed him of the reasons she quit at West End including her concerns about her pregnancy and the way Aune had been treating her.  Thereafter Ek spoke with Mike McKinney, another part-owner of Little Stores, who informed Ek that two other Little Stores had openings for assistant managers and that Ek could choose between them.  Ek chose the Spirit Valley Little Store ("Spirit Valley"), which was only four blocks from Ek's home.  When Ek arrived at Spirit Valley to begin her employment, she was informed that she was only scheduled for 20 hours per week.  At West End, Ek had been working 40 toSee Manning, 127 F.3d at 689.   Carol Ranua was a sales clerk at West End from August 1991 to June 1992.  Ranua was terminated two or three days after informing Aune she was pregnant.  Aune asked Ranua whether she was sure she should have a baby.  Aune required Ranua to lift heavy items and was hostile to her after learning of Ranua's pregnancy.  On one occasion, Solomon (Aune's supervisor) and Aune mocked Ranua for refusing to carry a heavy box of canned goods up a ladder, despite knowing Ranua was pregnant.  Ranua had been written up on approximately four different occasions prior to being fired, which Little Stores asserts was the reason for her termination.  Ranua informed Mike McKinney of


her belief that she thought Aune fired her because of her pregnancy.  Following an investigation, Mike McKinney concluded sufficient grounds existed for Ranua's termination.  Aune was not subjected to any type of disciplinary action in relation to Ranua's termination.

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Jennifer Carr/Norman worked at West End from September 1991 to January 1992.  After Carr told Aune she was pregnant, Aune was hostile to Carr, called Carr names such as "bitch" and "whore," and made Carr lift heavy items and shovel snow more often than she made Carr do prior to learning Carr was pregnant.  Aune approached the father of Carr's baby while he was a customer at West End and told him he was "stupid," he was messing up Carr's and his lives and asked himwhether he had heard about condoms.  After Carr quit, she talked to Mike McKinney but could not remember whether she told him why she thought Aune was treating her badly.  Carr wrote a lengthy letter to Mike McKinney explaining Aune's actions, but did not explicitly state she thought Aune was treating her badly because of her pregnancy.  Mike McKinney warned Aune not to repeat the rude comments she made to Carr's boyfriend and not to discuss the pregnancy on work premises.  Mike McKinney offered to transfer Carr to the Spirit Mountain Little Store.  Carr worked at Spirit Mountain for one day and quit because her hours were cut and no one would talk to her or tell her what to do.

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As noted above,


Ek was not constructively discharged based on its finding that Little Stores was not given a reasonable opportunity to work out the problem.  When Ek left her shift at West End before it was over on March 10, 1995, she immediately called the owners of Little Stores to inform them of Aune's discriminatory conduct.  A few days later Mike McKinney offered Ek a position as an assistant manager at two different stores.  Ek accepted this offer and chose Spirit Valley.  However, upon Ek's arrival at Spirit Valley she was only scheduled for 20 hours per week and assigned the duties of a sales clerk.  Although Ek did not again call Mike McKinney, she attempted to resolve the issue of the reduction in herTHE final frontier could be conquered as early as next June, when Rocket Lab expects to begin launching test rockets into space from its Mahia Peninsula site.

For Rocket Lab founder and chief executive Peter Beck, launching his first 16m Electron rocket into space from what will be the world’s first commercial orbital launch site is a life-long dream.

On Saturday the remote site on Onenui Station was blessed and the lease agreement signed between Rocket Lab and the landowners — representatives of Tawapata South Incorporation.

Mr Beck gave a small perspex box to the spokesman for Tawapatu, George Mackey. He invited him to place things that are special to them in it, to be sent into orbit with the first launch next June. Some Onenui soil went into the box


and, as part of a deal with Nasa, had options to use the US space agency’s launch sites in other countries.

Meeting a logistical challengeMr Beck said the Mahia farmland site was a logistical challenge as the rockets could not be manufactured at a centre nearby, but would be taken there almost complete from Auckland in a container.

Staff are being recruited for site works including a concrete pad, a launch tower for the carbon composite rockets, a hangar and a 4km access road. Satellite dishes and other communication equipment will also be installed.

The company has started recruiting people, including a project manager, to oversee construction of the site.

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket is about a third the size of the rockets it will compete against to take satellites into space,Rocket Lab launch site. Wairoa Star Picture

Breaking the ground to mark the launch of the Rocket Lab satellite project. On Saturday key stakeholders gathered at Onenui Station on the Mahia Peninsula to sign up for the project and bless the site. Pictured are: Tawapata South Incorporation’s Ben, George and Daniel Mackey, Wairoa Mayor Craig Little and Rocket Lab’s Shaun D’ Mello, Peter Beck and Shane Flemming at the site before work begins this week. Wairoa Star picture

Excited Mackey whanau with the box given by Rocket Lab's Peter Beck, which will be space-bound in the first launch containing something of significance. Wairoa Star picture

Tawapata South Incorporation spokesperson George Mackey and Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck are excited at what lies ahead for their 'celestial waka' launch next