under constant pressure, some members imprisoned, others forced to leave the country. In the elections of 1947 the Smallholders polled 14%, the Social Democrats 15%, and the Communists 21%. In the next two years the same tactics of disgrace and arrest were used against the Social Democrats. By 1949 the Communists were firmly in command. Matyas Rakosi, secretary of the Worker's Party, described how the Communists had entered into coalitions in order to dispose of their partners. In a speech made on 29 February 1952, he called the technique of slicing off the other political parties one by one "salami tactics." The text of the propaganda bank note is as follows: Remember this 'Money!'

This was left behind by Horthy fascism. In 1946:1 month salary = 200 dkg pengothe MDP, the leaders of the people's movement! Some comments on the names and abbreviations used on the note: Admiral Miklos Horthy (1868-1946) was the wartime Regent of Hungary from 1920 to 1944. The initials "MDP" represent the Hungarian Workers' Party (Magyar Dolgozók Pártja), the name of their Communist party between 1948 and 1956. "BSzKRT" was the Budapest Street Car Corporation. This company had been privately owned before the war. It was nationalized by the government after the war and this leaflet is obviously meant to convey to the workers the great strides in salary and benefits that the Communist Party can provide for them. IRAN The revolutionary propaganda notes of Iran are both political and religious. In October 1952, Iranian Prime Minister Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh declared that


Britain was "an enemy," and cut all diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom. In November and December 1952, British intelligence officials suggested to American intelligence that the prime minister should be ousted. The United States agreed. The United States and Great Britain wanted to replace him with someone seen as more strongly anti-Communist and a leader that would not nationalize the Iranian oil industry. They overthrew Mossadegh in 1953 as part of "Operation Ajax." Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran was put back in power and remained loyal to the West until his overthrow in 1979. Although the Shah was good for the West, his own people never forgave the United States or the Shah for overthrowing the legally elected Prime Minister. The results of that actare still seen today. During the Shah's reign, Iranian currency bore his picture. However, the new Supreme Leader of Iran after the fall of the Shah was the religious leader Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini. He enforced a more Muslim concept and portraits of the Shah on banknotes were forbidden. As a result, all the portraits of the Shah on Iranian banknotes were obliterated. There are hundreds of such obliterations ranging from a simple ink blot to very fancy designs. The Standard Catalogue of Iranian Banknotes depicts 93 such notes, and there certainly are many more. I have 16 in my collection and they are just representative of the various types of overprint. At first, the moderate right wing parties replaced the Shah's watermark with that of a


are two such unofficial Iranian revolutionary currency-like propaganda notes, a brownish-purple 5000 rials, and a multicolored 10,000 rials. Both depict Khomeini on front and are entitled "Bank Markazi Iran" on back. Supplies of the notes were allegedly destroyed as the new Islamic Republic currency appeared.

Another interesting political note for Iran was produced by monarchists who desired the end of the revolution and the return of the royal family. This note is a 500 rials parody of the 200 rials and 500 rials Kingdom of Iran Bank Markazi Iran notes of 1974-1979, with the bust of Crown Prince Reza II replacing that of the Shah on the front. The designs of the front and back are basically that of the 500 rials note. However, the back has the stylizedview of the Maidane Shahyad monument. Below the monument on the back is the English-language text "Supporters of the Continuation of Constitutional Monarchy for Iran." The parody is green on white paper. Two versions are known. The first is as discussed above. A second exists with "Brighton U.K." added as a third line of English-language text, and the text and image of Reza Pahlavi shown fuller and with better shading of the face. IRAQ The United States has produced more propaganda banknotes for Iraq than anywhere else in history. During Operation Desert Storm in 1990-1991, 16 different propaganda dinar notes were dropped on the enemy. During Operation Iraqi Freedom There were no propaganda banknotes, but there was a leaflet coded CPA G0075 that depicted all the new Iraqi


Nations and Peoples Organization since 1993; other members include Kurdistan, Tibet, Taiwan, and Nagaland. To publicize their demand for independence, Dal Khalsa (Sikh Empire - named after the Sikh army that operated in 17th and 18th-century Punjab), a fringe movement of the Akali Dal, printed propaganda banknotes in 1980 for the Republic of Khalistan advocating the formation of an independent Sikh state in the Indian Punjab. Akali Dal, a collection of disparate Sikh factions desiring more autonomy for Sikhs in India, does not generally support the separatist Khalistan movement. Dal Khalsa has active branches in the West. Their constitution states in part that Dal Khalsa is a social-religious-political organization of the Sikh nation. The primary goal of the Dal Khalsa is the establishment of self-rule for Sikhs. The5 dollar Bank of Khalistan note depicts Jagjit Singh Chauhan, Dal Khalsa leader living in Britain on the front and the Golden Temple at Amritsar, spiritual center for the Sikhs on the back. The note was issued as a donation receipt by a group of Sikhs living in British Columbia, Canada. The 10 dollar Bank of Khalistan depicts a vignette of the Amritsar Golden Temple on front and Baba Banda Singh Bahadur on the back. The Amritsar Temple made headlines all over the world in June 1984 when Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered her armed forces to attack the temple under "Operation Blue Star" to drive out Sikh militants. The attack was a success, but a political disaster for Gandhi. It caused an uproar among Sikhs all


over the world. The Sikhs were among the most loyal members of the Indian Army and Gandhi used them as her personal bodyguard. After the desecration of the shrine her Sikhs took the ultimate revenge, assassinating the prime minister. The note was issued as a donation receipt by a group of Sikhs living in British Columbia, Canada. There is also a 50 dollar Bank of Khalistan red note, depicting Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale on front. The back features the Sri Takhat Sahib (Throne of the Immortal) at left and General Shubeg Singe on back right (he trained Sikh militants and was killed in Operation Blue Star). This seems to be the rarest of all the issues, only one known at present. It was apparently printed much later thanthe first two notes, and probably not in Canada.

A Green Khalistan $100 dollar note appeared on the market in 2008. It is believed to have been printed in Germany. The front left depicts the Akal Takht (The Seat of the Timeless One) in the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, Punjab. The front right depicts Sant Jarnail Singh Ji Khalsa Bhindranwale. He supported the proposed Sikhism-based theocratic state of Khalistan. Along with a group of activists he occupied the Akal Takht complex in the Golden Temple of Amritsar and was martyred by the Indian Army during their counter attack (Operation Blue Star) on 6 June 1984. Text at the lower center of the note is: Chairman, Dal Khalsa International Republic of Khalistan The back of the note depicts a


Sikh symbol at the left. The back right depicts Sirdar Kapur Singh (1909-1986), a Former Member of the Indian Parliament, intellectual and author of articles on the religious-cultural historical aspects of Sikh culture. The text at the bottom of the note is Bank of Khalistan The owner of one such note told me that several years ago a number of Sikhs appeared in Lahore, Pakistan at a time that the Khalistan movement was in the news. They distributed the banknotes in the markets and public places more as a political leaflet than a banknote or receipt for donation. Most were thrown away by the local people but a few were saved by collectors. Most of the text on the first series of notes printed in Canada is inEnglish, with some parallel notations in French and Hindi. The French notations were removed in the later notes. Data on the 50 dollar banknote is courtesy of Anil R. Bohora, "Banknotes of Khalistan - Scrip of the Indian Punjab Independence Movement," IBNS Journal, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2011.

KOSOVO In 1989, a nationalist leader by the name of Slobodan Milosevic took power in the Serbian Republic. He had previously served as the leader of Belgrade Communist Party and the Serbian Communist Party. He decided upon the ethnic cleansing of his country and the creation of a Greater Serbia. He abolished Kosovo's autonomy. There were daily news reports of murders, rapes, mass killings and other atrocities carried out by the Serbs as Milosevic drove the minorities from their lands and


homes, "purifying" Serbia. Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence from the Yugoslav Federated Republic. In Croatia, ethnic Serbs and Croats begin a long, bloody conflict. The West recognized Bosnia-Herzegovina as an independent state. The UN imposed sanctions on Yugoslavia. There were new reports of "ethnic cleansing," a policy of slaughtering Muslim inhabitants of towns or driving them away in order to create an ethnically pure region. There were reports of concentration camps and mass rapes. Milosevic's actions forced the United Nations to deploy peacekeeping forces and begin humanitarian relief operations. Operation Provide Promise began on 2 July 1992. Twenty-one nations formed a coalition to supply war-torn Sarajevo with food and medicine. The U.N. established "no-fly" zones over Bosnia. The United States mediated an agreement between the Bosnians, theBosnian Croats, and the Government of Croatia to form a federation of Bosnians and Croats. This temporarily ended the fighting. In early 1999, the Serbs again seemed intent on purifying their lands of all foreign ethnic groups. Television reports told of thousands of ethnic Albanians persecuted, raped, or murdered. This time the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) took action. NATO demanded full compliance with UN Resolution 1199 of 23 September 1998. The resolution called for all parties to cease hostilities. At a meeting held 15 March 1999, the Kosovar separatists agreed to a cease-fire, but the government of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic refused. NATO warned that refusal to cease hostilities against the Kosovar civilians would lead directly to military force. After a week of Serbian refusals, the 19-member


organization unanimously agreed to initiate air strikes. The first occurred at 1400 on 24 March 1999. NATO aircraft pounded military and political targets within Serbia as part of "Operation Allied Force." Fighter aircraft later attacked Serb military forces in Kosovo. The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) overprinted National Bank of Macedonia notes of 1992. The overprints are in black. On the front, at left top is "Pristina, 1 April 1999"; at left center is the two-headed eagle of the Kosovo coat of arms; at right top is "The Provisional Bank of the Republic of Kosovo"; and at right bottom is the denomination and "DINARË." The banknotes were prepared by the KLA as propaganda for Kosovo's independence. The notes exist in six denominations; 10,25, 50, 100, 500 and 100 dinare.At the end of the war a great number of Serbian military leaders escaped punishment. The United States wanted to place them on trial for their actions and thus produced a number of reward leaflets in the form of banknotes. The first is in United States reward leaflet for Radovan Karadzic, in the form of a parody of the Bosnia 50 Federal Convertible Maraka note of 1998. The front of the note is replaced by the reward notice, which shows a photograph of Radovan Karadzic at left, along with Bosnian text that says in part: Program Rewards for Justice offers up to $5,000,000. Program Rewards for Justice offers up to five million dollars for any information leading to the arrest and conviction of persons who have been accused


by the International Tribunal for War Crimes in The Hague for violation of international law, including Radovan Karadzic. If you possess any information, we ask that you please call Rewards for Justice on the telephone numbers or on the email address shown below. All your connections will be treated as confidential... / CALL NOW! The text is printed on a black background in orange and white. The email address is in English. The back of the leaflet is a faithful reproduction of the back of the genuine Bosnian note. Karadzic was indicted for genocide during the siege of Sarajevo and the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. The United States also produced a series of wanted leaflets in the form of an enlarged replica of a $50 United States Federal ReserveNote, Series 1996 with the right half overlain with a poster. Back has the address of "REWARDS FOR JUSTICE" in English, and at lower right a seal of the Department of State Diplomatic Security Service. The text offers up to $5 million for information leading to the apprehension of the individuals. The leaflets are designed so that, when folded twice vertically, the front and back of the packet show the left half of the enlarged $50 note. The above reward for Balkan war criminals Slobodan Milosevic, Radovan Karadzic, and Ratko Mladic was printed in three languages; English, Serbo-Croatian and Cyrillic. Other banknote leaflets in the same $50 format offer rewards for; Abdelmajid Dahoumane, an Algerian national indicted for international terrorism and placing a bomb near a terminal in


the state of Washington in December 1999, Lya Jamel, indicted for bombing ALAS Chiricanas flight 901 on 19 July 1994, and a reward for terrorists who committed or aided in the attack on the USS Cole in the harbor of Aden on 12 October 2000. There is one more banknote leaflet that probably should be depicted in this section that mentions Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia. Because of the ethnic hatred among the various people of the old Yugoslavia, free trade and commerce became a problem that economically hurt everyone. As a result, the United States Army produced a propaganda leaflet for Bosnia, modeled on the Yugoslavia 20 Novih Dinara note of 1994, showing the poet Djuro Jaksic (1832-1878) at left on the front. In the leaflet, there isCold War category. Yet, it was a national movement to overthrow the Communist rule of Poland so I think we can make a case for the addition. Between 1981 and 1989, the Polish Solidarity Union issued numerous fund-raising stamp-like labels and leaflets in the form of Polish or foreign banknotes. The leaflets were meant to be sold as donations to the Solidarity underground movement, mostly to finance underground printers. These leaflets were illegal in Poland during the communist regime. In June 1989, in the first legal election in Poland in modern times, Solidarity came to power. Anatol Kobylinski describes the movement in Six Years of the Underground Post in Poland: Martial law was declared in Poland on 13 December 1981. A direct consequence was the de-legalization by the


authorities of the independent self-governing Trade Union Solidarnosc. However, contrary to the government's intentions, this mass movement which had been born during the heroic strike in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk in 1980, was not crushed. In fact, this declaration of war by a military junta against the people only forced Solidarnosc, in common with other opposition groups, to work underground. New structures were rapidly set up and returned to visibility through a network of clandestine publications, both books and periodicals. The biggest problem facing the author is what to depict. I have eight computer pages single-spaced of Solidarity banknotes, the total number being 69 items. Some Polish literature states that there could be as many as 100 of the banknotes. In addition, Solidarity propaganda overprints were placedon at least 43 genuine banknotes. Lech Walesa was the spokesman for Solidarity and appeared on many of the leaflet banknotes. In the Solidarity 200 zlotych Narodowy Bank Polski Propaganda Banknote he is depicted in place of Polish revolutionary, nationalist, and General, Jarosław Dabrowski. Some of the propaganda slogans on the genuine banknotes are; "Boycott is victory," "Strength by unity," "Overcome your fear, do not vote," and "Solidarity lives."

SOMALIA In 1960, the Somali Democratic Republic was formed through merger of the British colony of British Somaliland and the Italian-administered UN trust territory of Italian Somaliland. The republic's seat of government is its principal city, Mogadishu, which lies on the coast in the southern part of the country. From the start, the new country was plagued by regional clan-based


rivalries. As early as 1961, citizens of northern Somalia were in revolt against the newly formed republic, and were seeking an end to southern domination of the north. In 1969 Major General Mohamed Siad Barre took control in a bloodless coup and declared a Marxist state with close ties to the USSR. With some 45 competing clan-based groups, Somalia's political situation became extremely fluid and complex. The Somali National Movement (SNM), the most influential of many factional groups, was based in London for several years, and then relocated to Ethiopia in 1982. In 1988 the SNM captured and held several cities in the northwest. In 1990, a peaceful anti-government movement begun by the United Somali Congress erupted into a bloody civil war that resulted in the ouster ofPresident Barre in early 1991. During the 1990's, six major factions, sometimes in fluid and temporary alliances, controlled most of Somalia: The SNM, the Somali Salvation Democratic Front, the Aideed faction of the United Somali Congress (leader until his death in August 1996: General Mohammed Farah Aideed), the Ali Mahdi faction of the United Somali Congress (later the Somali Salvation Alliance; leader, Ali Mahdi Muhammad), the Somali National Front, and the Somali Patriotic Movement. Following the United Nations withdrawal, in June 1995, Aideed, who controlled the southern half of Mogadishu, declared himself president of Somalia. The Mahdi faction produced their own banknotes that appear quite similar to those of the official Central Bank of Somalia shilin currency, but are denominated in "N-shilin" (North shillings). Naturally enough, Aideed did


not recognize these notes. The notes are multicolored, and bear the notation "Muqdisho 1991" at the bottom front. Two banknotes are known from the Mahdi faction, a N20 shilin with the front showing a man leading a camel and the back showing a harvest scene with five female workers and a N50 shilin note with the front showing a boy at a loom and the back depicting banana trees and a young person leading a donkey bearing three children. In the south of Somalia the Republic of Somaliland produced its own Baanka Somaliland currency banknotes. They were printed in Britain for the Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal faction, politically close to the United Somali Congress and warlord Mohammed Farah Aideed. All are denominated in Somaliland shillings, and are knownwill translate some selected text that gives a general impression of the content of the messages.

From the 100 Ruble note entitled "To the citizens of the Land," we translate the first paragraph: There was never a single revolution in the world that promised so much and gave so little to the people as the October Revolution. Forty years of one's lifetime is a long enough period. During this period we were able to learn a lot about the workings of the Communist Regime, allowing for mistakes ascribed to lack of experience and postwar destructions. The Party leaders refer to the present day living as the highest form of democracy. But we the people have our own views about the October Revolution. For forty years rivers of blood were


flowing, millions of lives torn away and destroyed. The Kronstat uprising, the opposition of the Kolchoz idea, the uprising in the camps Varkutee, Norelska, Karagandee in 1953-55, the opposition of our intelligentsia to the political idea of suppression, the deep dissatisfaction of workers of low income, the dissatisfaction of the youth, all of this sufficiently proves the lack of trust that exists in all categories of society toward Communism.

It is interesting that although the note has "1954" written on it by the NTS agent who distributed it, the mention of "forty years" and the fact that the revolt in Karagandee occurred as late as 1955 indicates that this note was probably produced about 1957. The message on the note entitled "Comrade" is interesting because it allows us toThe leaflet "Friends! Sailors!" uses the term "36 years" in two paragraphs so it was probably also produced in 1953. Were there any other NTS propaganda currency leaflets? None have ever come to light or been offered at auction, but there are literary accounts of an additional piece in the Eastern European numismatic press. In the 1981 Yearbook of the Paper Money and Securities Study Circle, there is an article entitled "Paper Money as a Paper Weapon of the Counter-Revolution." This article, written in the German Democratic Republic by Dr. Julius Mader, mentions an alleged NTS production of a Russian 10 Ruble propaganda note. Dr. Mader says that a balloon with a defective release mechanism actually floated all the way to the outskirts of Moscow. This balloon is


said to have been loaded with 300 Kilograms of 10 Ruble notes. However, Mader does not mention the NTS 100 Ruble propaganda banknote in any of his further comments. How did the Communists react to all of the NTS propaganda? They were not happy about it. In Louis Hagen's The Secret War For Europe, Stein and Day, NY, 1969, some of the Russian reactions are detailed: In April 1954 the Berlin NTS leader Dr. Alexander Trushnovich was kidnapped. Nine days later an attempt was made to assassinate another NTS leader Georgi Okolovich. On June 20th of the same year, Valeri Tremmel, an Austrian NTS leader was drugged and kidnapped. The book goes on to mention dozens of such cases. Open season was declared on the entire hierarchy ofUNITED STATES OF AMERICA There have been numerous propaganda banknotes attacking the United States from Soviet-bloc nations, Independent communist nations and Third World Countries. I will just depict a few of the more interesting ones in this section. The Chinese Communists prepared a banknote for use against the United States. It is a propaganda parody of United States $50 Federal Reserve Note of 1963, with overprints in Chinese on front and back. The text on the front is: The great inflationary American dollar The message on the back is: Support the Black American's struggle. Support the people of Vietnam against the Americans in their struggle to free their country. Crush the American Imperialists in their exploitation of Hong Kong as a center for their espionage operation. Crush the


American Empire and its principles. Long live our great leader Mao Tse-tung.

I am going to be honest here and admit that the above note is not really propaganda in the true sense of the word. However, the atomic bomb was the most powerful weapon ever conceived by man in the late 1940s and America was willing to remind the world that it was the only nation with that bomb. It was the "Big Stick" and America was willing to wave it. The United States did countless tests of its super weapon, and in one operation the units involved prepared souvenir currency to commemorate their effort. Between 1946 and 1958, twenty-three nuclear devices were detonated at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The March 1954detonation was the first test of the hydrogen bomb. The program was named Operation Crossroads. The support fleet consisted of more than 150 ships that supported the 42,000 men of Joint Task Force One. Several different souvenir "short snorters" were printed in conjunction with Operation Crossroads. The note above has different symbols and numbers that all represent part of Operation Crossroads. For instance, the atomic bomb blast is depicted in the center, while "Joint Task Force One" is at the top. At the left are "58" and "509." The 58th Wing Photo Unit supported all organizations during the tests. The 509th Composite Group dropped the bomb on the ships moored in Bikini Atoll. The back of the note has "Task Group One.Five," the Army Air Group that comprised


of all Army Air Force Units assigned to the Crossroads mission. The back depicts a B-29 and the name of the islands "Bikini" and "Kwajalein." A second note from this series depicts a ship on the front and the back and the text "USA and USN Atomic Short Snorter." Normally, a short snorter is a banknote that had been autographed, and as the service member moved to a new location he attached more banknotes that were also signed by his new unit members. Sometimes a short snorter roll can be several feet long. It was originally thought that these Bikini banknotes were just souvenirs of the operation, but one naval veteran has stated that the short snorter notes were good for any drink in local bars whenever youcould get someone to sign his name on it.

HONG KONG Although its ownership has now reverted to the People's Republic of China, during the Cold War years the city of Hong Kong was a British Crown Colony. As might be expecte


Bilderberg Conspiracy

What is the Bilderberg Group?

Headquartered and organized from a tiny office in the Dutch university of Leiden, the Bilderberg Group, Bilderberg conference, Bilderberg meetings, or Bilderberg Club is an annual private conference of 120 to 150 people. The attendees include the European and North American political elite, as well as people influential in industry, finance, academia, and the media.

The meetings are held under the Chatham House Rule, which, according to the official website, means “participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s) nor of any other participant may be revealed. Thanks to the private nature of the conference, the participants are not bound by the conventions of their office or by pre-agreed positions. As such, they canThe world's longest chain of continental volcanoes has been discovered stretching for more than 2,000 kilometres along eastern Australia.

The ancient volcanic chain, reported in the journal Nature, runs from Cape Hillsborough on the central Queensland coast, south-west through central New South Wales to Cosgrove in Victoria.

"This volcanic chain was created over the past 33 million years, as Australia moved north-northeast over a mantle plume hotspot which we believe is now located in Bass Strait," said the study's lead author, Dr Rhodri Davies of the Australian National University.

"This track, which we've named the Cosgrove hotspot track [after an extinct Victorian volcano in the chain], is nearly three times as long as the famous Yellowstone hotspot tracks on the North American continent."

This kind of volcanic activity is surprising because it


the south, and so too did those in New South Wales and Victoria," Dr Davies said.

The researchers looked at the movement of the Australian tectonic plate.

"Australia is actually the fastest moving continent on Earth, moving towards Indonesia at around seven centimetres per year," Dr Davies said.

The researchers found the chain of now-extinct volcanoes in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria had all passed over the same fixed mantle plume hotspot as the Australian continental plate tracked north-northeast.

"We showed that these volcanoes are surface manifestations of the same mantle plume," Dr Davies said.

"However, the two groups of volcanoes were geochemically very distinct from each other and were separated by a gap of 700 kilometres, so no-one ever put these two volcanic chains together."

Chain helps give better understanding of volcanism

DrDavies and colleagues used seismology to map the thickness of Earth's crust and mantle — known as the lithosphere — that lies under eastern Australia.

They found volcanoes in central Queensland erupted through lithospheres about 80 kilometres thick while those in New South Wales and Victoria had melted through lithospheres about 100 kilometres thick.

But the gap between the Queensland volcanoes and those in New South Wales and Victoria occurred because the lithosphere in this region was at least 150 kilometres thick.

"So the mantle plume can't melt through in those regions, so there's no volcanoes on the surface," Dr Davies said.

The thickness of the lithosphere also explained differences in the chemical composition of the volcanic rocks at different locations.

"If you take a mantle plume of a specific temperature and raise


cucumbers, as many as will fit comfortably, and then fill the rest of the jar with water, leaving a little room at the top. Cover and set on the counter for 5 to 8 days. Taste to see when they’re done—crispy and flavorful—and then stick the jars in the fridge, which stops the fermentation process.

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The Advent of Internet Censorship in America

Question: What does it take to get bitter rivals, Google and Facebook – the two most popular and powerful entities on the planet, to put aside their differences and join forces for a common cause?

Answer: Internet censorship in America, or the threat thereof.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past month or so, you’ve no doubt been hearing on TV news, and reading in newspapers and on blogs about a controversial new bill called SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act).

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R.3261, was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011 by Representative Lamar Smith [R-TX] and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors. The aim of the


Life on a Human-Dominated Earth: The Challenges Ahead

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Sometime in the last century, the world entered a new era. It occurred with no fanfare. It happened gradually in terms of human perception, but was an amazingly rapid event if placed in the perspective of the 4000 years of recorded human history, or the millions of years of life on earth. The world entered an era of human domination of global ecosystems. This era poses some of the greatest challenges humanity has faced. These challenges span areas ranging from environmental management to agriculture, economics, law, philosophy and ethics. What does human domination of global ecosystems mean? For first time in history of the globe, there are so many people, doing so much, that humans have become the major moversZubrus_Hindash.jpg

Dainius Zubrus will miss his second game with an upper body injury.

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Rookie Stefan Matteau's big break to remain with the Devils may have been triggered by the uncertain status of veteran forward Dainius Zubrus.

Zubrus, who will miss his second straight game today and will not play in Pittsburgh tomorrow night, is suffering from an upper body injury that has club officials concerned for the long term. Although team officials will not comment on the problem, Zubrus is being treated with medication.

While the first-line left winger is considered day-to-day, he may seek an outside opinion to find out whether a different approach, such as surgery, might be necessary. Zubrus is in the final year of his contract and it could be detrimental for him financially


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As one of the world's finest and most famous climbing areas, Eldorado Canyon needs little introduction. It consists of steep, beautiful conglomerate sandstone walls of up to 700 feet high, in brilliant shades of gold and red. The rock quality is reminiscent of granite rather than the soft sandstone found throughout much of Utah and Arizona.

The largest cliff, Redgarden Wall , is a few thousand feet wide; it boasts several spectacular summits and an incredible collection of classic climbs. Many of the classic routes were put up in the 1960s by Layton Kor, along with climbers such as Pat Ament and Larry Dalke. The 1970s were primarily a time of first free ascents, spearheaded by climbers such as Steve Wunsch, Roger Briggs, Jim Erickson, and Duncan Ferguson. Newout of the road and offers very steep climbing. The The Wind Tower is the place to go for great beginner climbs as well as scary 5.10 routes, and the The West Ridge/Rincon offers the best concentration of one pitch routes of all grades -- usually very aesthetic crack and corner climbs. Obscure outlying areas such as Cadillac Crag, Shirt Tail Peak, and the Peanuts Walls have excellent climbing, but also involve longer approaches.

Eldo can be a very confusing place and it is helpful to at least look at a guidebook, such as Steve Levin's newest guidebook, Eldorado Canyon, A Climber's Guidebook, or Richard Rossiter's out of print, comprehensive Rock Climbing Eldorado Canyon. Fred Knapp's Classic Boulder Climbs is about a third the cost, and still has most


State Park. The ACE Board of Directors is comprised of representatives from the Access Fund, the American Alpine Club, the American Mountain Guides Association, and the Colorado Mountain Club, as well as unaffiliated members drawn from the climbing community. ACE has raised over $200,000 for the Park, and has organized and promoted thousands of hours of volunteer time creating and maintaining trails, planting trees, and assisting the Park in numerous other ways. Proceeds donated to ACE are used for the Eldorado Canyon Trails Project, fixed hardware, and supporting climbers in Eldorado Canyon.

To donate or learn more information about ACE please visit: aceeldo.org

Fixed Hardware Replacement Program

ACE, BCC (Boulder Climbing Community), and Eldorado State Park are working together to replace old fixed hardware in Eldorado Canyon. A 'like for like'descriptions, most of which are accompanied by high-definition color photo route overlays, but also offering a wealth of information on the history of climbing in the canyon, including details on the first ascents of many of the routes in the book. The book is simply phenomenal.

While climbing Ruper today I left my pack and jacket at the bottom of the lower ramp. When I returned, they were nowhere to be found. If anyone finds them, I would love to get them back. It would definitely be worth some beers or something. The pack is a black and blue Jansport with a lot of marmot chew, a broken buckle, and a busted zipper on top. The Jacket is a sky blue soft shell. My email is aweaver@mymail.mines.edu. Thanks!

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and numerology. – Masons, Rosicrucians, OTO, Order of the Garter, Knights of Malta, Knights of Columbus, Jesuits. – Globalist Groups – Bilderbergers, Council On Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Tavistock Institute. Many of which stem from the ancient mystery cults. – Conspiracies, PSYOPS, propaganda, disinformation, illegal wars, assassinations, media manipulation.

2b. LIGHT UNVEILINGS

– The universe is magickal and mysterious. – The consensus 3D world is only one representation of reality, nested in numerous enfolded realms. – Actual human history is radically different and far more dynamic than we were led to believe. – Consciousness creates reality. It is the primary shaping force of the quantum field (the ultra soup). – There is no separation between any energetic entities.

3. EXPANSION

– Work on yourself: clean and re-wire the inner system. – Meditation,easy, and did I mention CHEAP.

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We also had a great dinner of chicken tacos. Hubby was not too thrilled though, he was NOT loving the chicken meat and only had one, he only likes tacos with meat. He can be quite set in his ways.

Dinosaur loved being able to make his own taco. He climbed up on the step stool and chose his ingredients. He carefully carried it back to the table and enjoyed every bite. He ate 2 1/2 tacos, which made me happy. He was messy, but full.

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Karen is married to a big kid and mom to a wild dinosaur. She is happy with her family of three, along with a dog and fish. Karen


Late last month the NBA announced it would no longer use the term "owner" to describe individuals who own teams in the League. Instead, they will be called "governors." From TMZ:

NBA commissioner Adam Silver says moving away from the term "owner" makes sense -- telling TMZ Sports, "We moved away from that term years ago."

We broke the story ... multiple NBA teams (including the Clippers and 76ers) have stopped using the title owner because they feel it's racially insensitive in a league where the majority of the players are black.

When we saw Silver out in NYC, we asked if he supported the decision and how the league office is handling the issue.

During his show earlier this week, ESPN radio host Stephen A. Smith addressed the issue and didwork together once he steps into his role as House Armed Services chairman, despite their differences.

As Democrats take control of the House chamber next month, those kinds of discrimination and equality topics are expected to be at the forefront of a host of chamber work, beyond the armed services committee.

But Senate leadership — which remains in Republican hands — thus far have expressed no interest in defying the president on the transgender issue.

Outside rights groups have estimated that as many as 15,000 transgender individuals are already serving in the ranks, but critics have questioned the validity of that number.


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representation, the prospective reader is told that "Members of this Lust Club Had a Different Woman Every Night!" At the bottom of the cover it is stated that "This is an Original Nightstand Book." The back cover relates in more detail the book's contents:
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edge of Ostend, south of the centre. The children's farm aims to introduce children and young people to all aspects of farm life, so that they may rediscover the connection with nature and the biotope of farm animals. Much attention is paid to cognitive, emotional and social learning processes.

The Royal Galleries were finished in 1905. They are approximately 400 m long and served to protect the middle classes from sun and rain during their walks. They connected the Royal Pavilion with the Wellington racing track. In the beginning of the thirties, the Thermae Palace was built next to it. These days it is a four-star hotel still breathing the Belle Époque atmosphere.

In 1900, Belgian King Leopold II commissioned architect Henri Maquet to design the first royal gallery: anconnecting needle at the puncture site.
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On the morning of May 25, 1979, Etan left his SoHo apartment at 113 Prince Street by himself for the first time, planning to walk two blocks to board a school bus at West Broadway and Prince Street. Photo Credit: Screenshot (YouTube)

By: David Ben Hooren

Forty years after their 6-year-old son Etan Patz disappeared on a Soho street and made headlines and changed forever the way missing children’s cases are handled by officials, Julie and Stan Patz have moved out of NYC, the NY Post reported.

Etan was six years old on May 25, 1979, when he disappeared on his way to his school bus stop in the SoHo neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. His disappearance helped launch the missing children movement, which included new legislation and new methods for trackingdown missing children. Several years after he disappeared, Patz was one of the first children to be profiled on the “photo on a milk carton” campaigns of the early 1980s.

In 1983, President Ronald Reagan designated May 25—the anniversary of Etan’s disappearance—as National Missing Children’s Day in the United States.

The couple quietly sold their Prince Street loft this summer and relocated to Hawaii in recent weeks, The Post reported.

“They are moving on to a beautiful place to share whatever time they have left with their child and their grandchildren,” longtime neighbor Susan Meisel told The Post.

On the morning of May 25, 1979, Etan left his SoHo apartment at 113 Prince Street by himself for the first time, planning to walk two blocks to board a school bus at West


Broadway and Prince Street. He was wearing a black “Future Flight Captain” pilot cap, a blue corduroy jacket, blue jeans and blue sneakers with fluorescent stripes. He never got on the bus, archieved articles from the NY Times reported initially in 1979.

On May 24, 2012, New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced that a man was in custody who had implicated himself in Etan’s disappearance. According to The New York Times, a law enforcement official identified the man as 51-year-old Pedro Hernandez of Maple Shade, New Jersey, and said that he had confessed to strangling the child. He stated in his written confession to police, “I’m sorry, I shoke [sic] him.” According to a 2009 book about the case, After Etan, Etan had a dollar and had told"You two are rangers, huh?" "Don't Washington know marines guard embassies, not rangers?" "As if my Iife wasn't complicated enough already." " Do you know why you're here?" " We were told you would brief us." "Yeah." "There are 20 marines stationed on the island as embassy guards." "We dress as little like marines as possible." "Left-wing elements stir up trouble against us." "Four of my men have disappeared, two on a fishing trip, two in town." "A marine said one minute he was talking to them, the next they were gone." "Sounds crazy, but there's a kid that hangs round the barracks who said he saw two giants dressed in strange black suits taking the men away in a motor launch." "We thought they'd been kidnapped, but


the island." "We got some business to finish." "Now, look, I want you to call that American ambassador, and you tell him to get some Ieashes on his men, or he's gonna find himself in the middle of world War III." "(Armstrong) So what about the Lion?" "One of the most powerful drug dealers in the world." " Everybody knows it." " And your father?" "My mother died of cancer, and my father's a scientist." "After she died, he clung to this dream." "He was going to find a cure for cancer." "He sold everything, bought the island and set up a research laboratory." "He worked hard." "The British and American governments invested money." "Everything was going so well." "Dad was on the verge of a big breakthroughacid moieties from the polymeric chains. However, when the exposed photoresist material is thereafter heated, the initially released acid moieties then attack and destroy adjacent polymeric chains and catalyze the release of hundreds or thousands of other acid moieties from adjoining polymeric molecules of the photoresist material. These released acid moieties attack and effectively destroy the polymer chains of the photoresist material in a thorough and complete manner. The broken polymeric chains make the photoresist material soluble so that the open areas can be exposed. The catalyzing effect of the acid moieties accounts for the increased sensitivity and resolution available from modern photoresist material. To preserve the increased sensitivity, it is necessary to assure an effective catalytic response from the acid moieties after the initial light exposure.
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one interconnect level from the next interconnect layer, so that the chemistry of one layer does not interact with the chemistry of another layer and create unacceptable changes in chemical or electrical properties of the interconnect layers. A typical metal layer uses titanium nitride, tungsten nitride or some other metal nitride as an anti-reflectant and as a barrier. Titanium nitride is generated by sputtering titanium into an atomic fog in the presence of ammonia gas. The titanium reacts with the ammonia, stripping the hydrogen ions off the nitrogen and depositing a thin film of titanium nitride. The deposited titanium nitride film is somewhat porous and entraps and contains within it significant amounts of the ammonia from the environment which generated the titanium nitride.
It has been discovered that whenthe IC structure is heated to catalyze the acid moieties in photoresist material which has been deposited on the titanium nitride, the entrained ammonia is released. The released ammonia enters the layer of photoresist material applied on top of the metal interconnect structure and neutralizes the acid moieties in the photoresist. Neutralizing the acid moieties destroys the ability of the acid moieties to catalyze and decompose the polymers of the photoresist, thereby decreasing the sensitivity of the photoresist and marring the precision of resolution which would otherwise be available from unaffected photoresist material.
The photoresist loses its sensitivity at the location where the ammonia gas has entered the photoresist material and neutralize the acid moieties, which is typically at the interface of the photoresist material to the underlying metal


of the interconnect structure layer. Instead of creating a precise photoresist feature, an abnormally shaped or ragged edge structure called a xe2x80x9cfootxe2x80x9d is created. The photoresist at the foot cannot be catalyzed by the acid moieties since those acid moieties at the foot have been chemically neutralized by the diffusing ammonia. The foot becomes an area of insoluble photoresist which inhibits etching of the underlying metal. Since most etching steps are timed to an end point where the desired degree of etching is calculated to have occurred, the reduced etching at the location of the foot creates uneven and ragged structures in the metal structure. For example, when etching a space between adjacent conductors in an interconnect layer, the etch begins in the middle of the space andbarrier material is applied in a thin film on the surface of the underlying IC structure which emits the chemically-basic contaminants. The photoresist material is thereafter coated on top of the thin film of the barrier material. The chemically-basic contaminants emitted from the underlying structure are physically and chemically blocked and inhibited by the barrier material. The contaminants that pass into the barrier layer interact with the acid moieties of the barrier material where the contaminants are neutralized. The photoresist material on top of the barrier material remains unaffected, so that exposure to light and heat during development causes the acid moieties to catalyze and destroy the polymer chains as intended to obtain greater precision and resolution in the developed photoresist material. More precise and resolved IC structures


of the contaminants with the photoresist. Preferably, the contaminants are inhibited from reaching the photoresist because the barrier layer physically inhibits the movement of the contaminants into contact with the photoresist, or the barrier material contains acid moieties which chemically neutralize the chemically-basic contaminants before they contact the photoresist. In addition, the barrier layer material preferably reacts with the developer which develops the photoresist at approximately the same rate that the developer reacts with the exposed photoresist, to remove the barrier layer from open areas of the developed photoresist at the same time that the photoresist is removed. Further still, the barrier materials are preferably selected to have characteristics which are substantially insoluble in the solvents which are typically present in the photoresist.
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Self-assessment of the performance of the project

under the following headings (inspired by the Three Communities section of the Development Process):

Performance as an Eclipse open source project

After the "project reboot" in Q1/08, MTJ was mainly driven by Motorola, and the principal developer behind EclipseME, Craig Setera.
With the support and engagement of Craig, we have created a very open and thriving Eclipse project.

Since then we have received positive feedback and involvement from other Eclipse developers and have attracted more contributors from Sybase.

Openness

TmL is open to external observers and participants.

The TmL project leadership and engineering teams participate in bi-weekly conference calls.


Further reduction in lead exposure in women in general populations in Japan in the 1990s, and comparison with levels in east and south-east Asia.
The objective of the study was to elucidate the current level of environmental lead (Pb) exposure of women in general population in Japan, where the use of organic Pb in automobile gasoline was phased out from 1973 to reach a zero level early in the 1980s. A survey was conducted in 27 sites throughout Japan from 1991 to 1997. Five hundred and eighty-eight non-smoking women from the sites offered 24-h food duplicate, peripheral blood, and spot urine samples. Pb in food duplicates (Pb-F), blood (Pb-B), and urine (Pb-U) were analyzed by inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The results of Pb-F and Pb-B were compared with observationsEXCLUSIVE: Netflix has given a six-episode order to The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show, a half-hour sketch comedy series from comedian Iliza Shlesinger. It will shoot in New York this fall for a 2020 launch.

Here is how the series, produced by Avalon Television (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Catastrophe), is described: From the mind of Iliza Shlesinger comes a secret world filled with absurd characters, insight into the female experience and irreverent yet poignant social commentary.

Shlesinger is starring and serving as an executive producer alongside Kim Gamble, Kara Baker, David Martin, Richard Allen-Turner and Jon Thoday. Laura Murphy (Girl Code; Adam Ruins Everything) is set to direct.

Following some early sketch-comedy entries such as W/ Bob and David and Netflix Presents: The Characters, the streamer recently ramped up its


original sketch efforts following the breakout success of I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, which launched in April to strong reviews and was renewed for a second season. Since then, Netflix has greenlighted Astronomy Club, a sketch-comedy series starring the eponymous New York-based improv and sketch troupe and produced by Kenya Barris, and now The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show.

This year, Shlesinger will be launching her fifth Netflix stand-up special, following Elder Millennial, Confirmed Kills, Freezing Hot and War Paint. This past summer she released Over & Over, a documentary that gives fans a behind-the-scenes look into the making of Elder Millennial.

In addition to her stand-up, Shlesinger recently was seen co-starring opposite Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne in the Paramount movie Instant Family. She’ll next be seenas a full carriage procession and military rehearsal got underway in Windsor, England, where Markle, 36, will marry Harry, 33, at St. George's Chapel.

Her mother, Doria Ragland, is still due to attend and meet her soon-to-be in-laws before the ceremony.

The American TV audience for the royal wedding is expected to exceed the 23 million Americans who tuned in for Prince William's wedding to Kate Middleton in 2011.

However, some 17 percent of Brits want to get rid of their monarchy, according to a poll.


are walking now steadfast to become bourgeois". Philosopher Leszek Kołakowski would write of the Marx family's time in London, "[Karl] Marx was notoriously incapable of keeping accounts, and Jenny was a regular customer of the London pawnbrokers."

Death

In later years Jenny Marx suffered from internal pains, diagnosed as liver cancer. Following a family visit to France, she died in London at the age of 67 on 2 December 1881. She was buried in Highgate Cemetery, London, as was Karl Marx. In 1954, her remains were transferred, along with those of her husband and other family members, to a new grave, over which a memorial was constructed.

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The European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, asked Poland in April to explain its decision and threatened legal action if it received no satisfactory reply within a month.

According to Greenpeace, loggers have now moved into the oldest parts of the forest and the logging has entered a “decisive phase”.

A spokesman at the environment ministry said the logging in Bialowieza Forest was designed to protect local species of wildlife and was in line with EU law.

Poland will reply to the Commission “in accordance with any procedures and laws”, the spokesman added.

Environment Minister Jan Szyszko last ran into conflict with Greenpeace a decade ago when he was also minister and promoted the construction of a motorway in the Rospuda Valley, a nesting


location for rare birds in the north-east of Poland.

Campaigners set up camp then in the valley in the middle of a freezing winter, chaining themselves to trees in what became a symbol of the reawakening of civil disobedience in Poland after the collapse of communism. The Rospuda project was eventually abandoned.Dutch rider Adelinde Cornelissen quits Rio 2016 mid-Games to protect her horse Dutch dressage rider Adelinde Cornelissen has pulled out of the Olympics to protect her horse, after 19-year-old Parzival fell ill […]

Dutch dressage rider Adelinde Cornelissen has pulled out of the Olympics to protect her horse, after 19-year-old Parzival fell ill mid-way through the games.

Following an individual silver and team bronze win at London 2012, Cornelissen and Parzival were in Rio to compete in Wednesday’s dressage event – the Individual Grand Prix – but after heading out to the stables on Tuesday morning, Cornelissen found her horse in a state of distress.

“Saying good morning to Parzival, I saw the right side of his head was swollen, he had been kicking the walls. I took his temperature: he


such as “soring” – covering the horses legs with chemicals to encourage a high stepping gait – have been widely derided by animal welfare organisations.

This week, concerns for animal welfare were reignited once more after bullets were found near the Olympic stables. In a press conference discussing the security of Rio 2016, General Luiz Eduardo Ramos, commander of the First Division of the Brazilian Army, stated that “nobody can guarantee 100% safety” of the horses, some of the most expensive steeds in the world.Two Fridays ago BioWare turned Mr. Tramps, a local Austin hangout, into a cantina straight off Alderaan. The Alpha Strike Force (ASF) guild of the Jedi Covenant couldn’t pass on a chance like that and sent one of its finest officers to investigate and record his impressions!

The backroom of the cantina had three wall-sized screens continuously playing all of the SWTOR videos. To see the arrival of the Sith at Korriban, the battle of Alderaan and the fall of the Jedi Temple on the huge screens was a sight to behold. The videos really set the mood for the night.

Approximately eighty players and upwards of twenty designers filled the cantina sharing beers and stories, each in great spirits. Upon arrival, BioWare gave each player a Tauntaun Fawn pet


Image caption Emilia Clarke as Daenerys (centre), with fan Roxanna Meta in character and a Lego Daenerys

The third series of American TV show Game of Thrones is hotly anticipated. But the behaviour of fans is almost as intriguing as the action on screen.

A lot of British people may still not have heard of it, but Game of Thrones has quite a cult following.

The lumbering giant of a show - which sees seven families competing for an iron throne in a world of wolves and dragons, sword fights and Shakespearian feuds - is in some ways an unconventional hit.

It has hundreds of characters and a sprawling back story. Its heroes are an illegitimate son, a dwarf and a tomboy.

Most of the cast is British - many speak with regionalaccents - and it is filmed mainly in Northern Ireland.

Yet it has been a huge hit in the US. About four million Americans tuned in for the last series' opening on US network HBO but even more downloaded at least one episode last year, making it the most pirated TV show of 2012.

The third series, which starts on 31 March in the US, and 1 April in the UK, is eagerly awaited on both sides of the Atlantic.

But the size of the audience - legal or otherwise - does not tell the full story.

Image caption Game of Thrones fans at a Spanish convention

The passion and the extreme devotion of fans has created a phenomenon unlike anything attached to rivals such as 1960s advertising drama Mad Men, or even


the hugely popular Sopranos and Lost, which both attracted more than 10 million viewers.

A Song of Ice and Fire Game of Thrones is based on A Song of Ice and Fire, a planned seven-book sequence by former screenwriter George RR Martin (pictured), of which five have been published. The action centres on the mythical continent of Westeros, and the power struggle by rival dynasties such as the Starks, the Lannisters and the Targaryens to control the Iron Throne. The main characters also have to fend off threats from dragons, pirates, sorcerers and zombie-like creatures. More than 15 million books have been sold, reaching an audience who wouldn't normally read fantasy. In the words of a Guardian reviewer: "I read A Game Of Thrones with genuine pleasure... archaic absurditybarbecue serving goat and "obscure animal parts" last year.

And there is a small but growing number of people travelling to the outdoor locations where the series - which is adapted from the books of American author George RR Martin - is filmed.

Game of Thrones fan Alex Chen, a business school graduate in New York City, recreates scenes from the show on his website via the medium of Lego.

"I wanted to go through the entire series - the most striking scenes, the different characters and the world it creates," he says.

It's not an ironic undertaking but an attempt to convey the story's power.

"I definitely think it's expressive. I'm trying to get the same feeling that you get through watching the show or reading the books."

Image caption The attempted murder


show," he says.

At Belfast's comics convention, Titan Con, fans dressed up in costume, there were talks about the show, and a coach tour visiting key locations.

There are no statistics on tourist numbers. But anecdotally they are coming under their own steam to locations such as the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and the volcanic landscape around Lake Myvatn in northern Iceland.

"The people who come here at the moment are super fans who research everything themselves," says Gudrun Birna of Promote Iceland.

There have always been epics - Star Wars perhaps being the most famous - that create a mass fan movement. But why certain shows resonate more than others is not an exact science.

Image caption Northern Irish locations for Game of Thrones

Chelsea Monroe-Cassel, who co-authored a cookbook based onthe show, thinks it's the rich detail that creates the fan's devotion.

"In the descriptions of heraldry, castles, clothes and jewellery, and certainly the food, he [Martin] draws us closer to that world," she says.

Some key characters There are more than 1,000 named characters in the books. Some of the most important are: Tyrion Lannister (pictured, played by Peter Dinklage): dwarf son unloved by his regal family, thrives by his considerable wit and charm

(pictured, played by Peter Dinklage): dwarf son unloved by his regal family, thrives by his considerable wit and charm Daenerys Targaryen: married off to a barbarian warlord, she becomes a warrior queen in her own right

married off to a barbarian warlord, she becomes a warrior queen in her own right Jon Snow: nobleman's illegitimate son, who


joins the Watch, patrolling the enormous wall which guards Westeros from the "Others"

For many critics, Martin has updated Tolkien with a more morally ambiguous world drawn from the best bits of history - the Wars of the Roses, Ancient Greece, the Crusades.

And then there's the sex. The term "sexposition" - where onscreen nudity is used to distract viewers during the wordier scenes - was coined by a TV critic specifically about Game of Thrones. An actress walked off set in the second season in protest at what she said was gratuitous nudity.

Most fantasy is "inherently uncool", says Harriet Walker, a fashion journalist who admits to being obsessed with the show. But Game of Thrones bucks the fantasy cliche, she argues.

"It's so slick and well done, in a wayThese are the new Sunwolves kits 2016, new Japan based Super Rugby franchise the Sunwolves’ home and away/alternate jersey for the 2016 Super Rugby season. 2016 will be Sunwolves’ maiden SR season and they will be coached by former Hurricanes gaffer Mark Hammett. Made by Canterbury, the new Sunwolves 2016 jersey was officially unveiled on 21 December, 2015.

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After taking a break for a season, Antonio Conte came back and took over at Inter. From the first impressions, his team is firing from all cylinders. So, let’s dive into it and check out how Conte set up his team in the first match of the season.

Inter lined up in expected 3-5-2 formation. Asamoah as the left wing-back and Candreva as the right. The basic idea was to overcrowd the middle and open up space on the flanks for (mostly) Asamoah to attack. This was made possible by couple of factors; quick changing of the sides by Brozovic, good movement to drop back when needed by Candreva who also sent out bunch of excellent diagonals towards his partner in crime on the left, Asamoah, and most importantly,On the 20th of April, the students, faculty and administration of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) woke to strange scenes. Outside the university’s main dining hall, a large group of janitorial staff had gathered, sitting cross legged on the floor. They did not say anything, they had no banners and no plan – they simply sat there in silence, awaiting the attention they were so nervously trying to draw towards themselves. With the campus winding down from the regular semester and preparing to go into summer hibernation, one imagines it must have taken time before someone actually noticed there were enough of these workers gathered for it to mean something. The realisation that the janitorial staff of what is supposed to be an aggressively liberal university


had collectivised and were staging a sit-in on campus in plain sight broke the lazy Saturday stupor of late April. Faculty from the law and humanities department were soon on the scene, and student activists rushed to take stock of the situation.

The demand of the protest was simple enough, the next day was Easter, and the majority Christian workers had been promised an advance on their salaries so they could celebrate their festivals. With no advances in sight, the haggard, oft-hounded staff gathered in their desperation. As students and faculty joined the protestors, notice was brought to the university management, who graciously arrived on the spot, only to inform the workers they could do nothing. Why? Because the protestors were not employees of LUMS, but had instead beenthe tale of a company called MBM. How it operates by joining hands with large corporations and institutes, and in the name of sub-contracting, releases them of their responsibilities towards their lower staff, all the while making money by skimping off these rights. It will be a lesson in mismanagement and the perils of unchecked middle management. It will relate the unfortunate reality of how these companies use the ignorance, helplessness and desperation of lower staff workers to blatantly disregard the decisions of the Supreme Court on the issue of subcontracting. Our character list includes an evasive CEO, an ageing leftist lawyer that thought he had put an end to subcontracting, a corrupt company supervisor making his fortune on the back of a Faustian deal, a hard nosed


Colonel, a student activist, and most importantly, the workers. With the cast and setting in place, let’s start.

An unholy alliance

“Our society is primarily either feudal or capitalist, so that is the framework in which the law operates. It is also the system under which labour laws work” says Abid Hassan Minto. Sitting in his quaint office with pastel walls and warm lighting, he is a wizened old figure. The ageing lawyer has spent a lifetime fighting the good fight, taking up workers’ cases and putting in a prolific lifetime in the field of labour law. Old as he is, Minto is still not a figure to be trifled with. His movements may be slower, but his mind is as sharp as a tack – sitting in his officehe animatedly lays out strategies for what his Awami Workers Party (AWP) should be doing to enter the mainstream of national politics. At an age where most men retire disillusioned, Minto still dreams of bringing a red revolution.

Even now, when he speaks to Profit on the issue of subcontracting, his deep voice finds the old strength of the lawyer still in him, as he explains to us the economic history of subcontracting. “Industry-relation laws in civilised societies codified the relationship between employer and employee, established what the rights of the employee are, especially their right to unionise. To save themselves from these new found expectations of the law, corporations and large employers began subcontracting – meaning they would not directly higher workers.”

The concept is simple enough. Instead of


the middle of a domesticated Model Town street, deep in B block. Inside what looks like any other house, a handful of supervisors in crisp white shirts and tailored black pants walk around making calls and keeping things in order. The CEO of MBM, Ishtiaq Bukhari, is not a man that likes to be seen. On our first meeting, he is standing at the gate, when we ask him we are here to see Mr Bukhari, he directs us towards the reception. By the time the reception tells us Mr Bukhari was the unassuming man at the gate, he has slipped into one of the cars parked in the garage and sped away down the quiet Model Town streets. It takes messages, phone calls and getting blocked onand MBM, not given their benefits, and had their guaranteed Rs 15000 arbitrarily cut without the slightest provocation. Despite making these cuts, MBM would get paid in full by the LUMS administration at the end of the month, pocketing all the cuts they made as profit. This, of course, also gave rise to a deadly empowered and corrupt middle management crop of supervisors. Of the few janitors Profit was able to contact at Packages before they were shooed away by death stares from their managers for interacting with customers at the mall, the same kind of stories emerged – arbitrary cuts and a hostile work environment where the contracting client and MBM joined hands to enforce vicious regimens on the workers and maximise their profits. For the organisations


indiscretions of MBM and often actively participate and even encourage such behaviour – or at least this was part of the reason that LUMS became such a breaking point.

What’s all this about LUMS?

The story of MBM at LUMS is nothing short of a saga. At the university, MBM stationed one of its oldest hands, Shehbaz, now a notorious figure on campus who some claim still controls the happenings at LUMS with an iron fist, despite having been moved out from there. His ally in chief was one Colonel (r) Amer Khan Durrani, the head of the General Administration and Security at LUMS. Together, the two men exercised a reign of terror over the 150 staff of the MBM.

Shehbaz, as Ishtiaq Bukhari explained, was one of the workers. Heas per some accounts loves to play long rounds of tennis at the campus, did not seem to find enough time to respond to any of Profit’s multiple attempts to reach out for comment. The Vice Chancellor of the University, Dr Arshad Ahmed, also seemed uninterested, perhaps too busy playing tennis with the colonel, as he is often seen doing on campus when he isn’t taking leisurely strolls.

What does the law say?

“LUMS is a perfect example of how subcontracting is used as a device to exploit workers” says Usama Khawar, a labour lawyer with a close history to the subcontracting issue. Back when he was a law student at LUMS, he had been front and center in the then actions taken against LUMS’ former services provider, Brooms. Now,


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Thunderball results

The numbers for tonight’s Thunderball draw are as follows: 1, 10, 25, 29, 38 and the Thunderball is 14

In July 2011, Colin and Chris Weir became the biggest lottery winners in the UK - and across Europe - when they scooped more than £161 million.

Adrian and Gillian Bayford, from Suffolk, took home more than £148 million in August 2012, while the biggest prize awarded in the country in 2018 was £121 million, handed to an anonymous winner in April.

And last November, builder Andrew Clark, 51, from Boston, Lincolnshire, discovered he had won £76 million - six weeks after the draw.

He said he stockpiled tickets in his van, only checking them every threeMicrobiota of the dorsum of the tongue after plaque accumulation: an experimental study in humans.
The purpose of the present investigation was to determine the effect of the absence of tongue hygiene on the microbiota of the dorsum of the tongue. Ten volunteers (aged 19 to 22 years) entered the study at baseline and were instructed to abstain from tongue cleaning for 7 days, followed by a period of 3 days without any kind of oral hygiene. Subsequently, a period of 21 days of washout was employed, and this protocol was repeated three times. Microbiological samples were obtained from the dorsum of the tongue at baseline and at the end of the period of coating accumulation and analyzed using the checkerboard DNA-DNA hybridization technique. The species found in highest


When ʻOno Hawaiian Foods, the iconic restaurant on Kapahulu Avenue closed this past August, loyal customers grieved. Now, those customers have a chance to walk down memory lane.

Vivian Lee who was the head chef for 25 of the 57 years that the restaurant was in business, is coming out of retirement, for a day. She will be a guest chef for a one-night only and one-seating only pop-up dinner on November 29 at Lēʻahi Concept Kitchen at the Waikīkī Parc Hotel.

To accentuate this experience, Aunty Vivian, as she is affectionately called, will collaborate with visiting Executive Chef Hitoshi Sugiura of Patinastella, in Tokyo to share their knowledge, experience and recipes with culinary students of Kapiʻolani Community College. Chef Sugiura is making a special trip to Honolulu to meet50 years until the restaurant closed. Lee largely credits the late Sueko Oh Young, ʻOno Hawaiian Foods matriarch and founder, and the “Number one sweetest lady you could ever meet and who was like a mother to me,” for her years of service and dedication. Now in her seventies, Lee says to remain energetic, “stay moving.”

More about Chef Hitoshi Sugiura

Hitoshi Sugiura has been an executive chef of the Patina Restaurant Group since 2013. His accolades include 5 certifications—master of sake, cheese sommelier, fugu (blowfish) processing specialist license, sushi master license and spice advisor.

In 2012, Chef Sugiura was recognized with a Top 5 Chef Award in an All Japan Culinary Arts Competition (2,500 people participating), and in 2013, he was again recognized with a Top 50 Chef Award in


Our China during an assessment visit to a Uyghur home in 2017. The image was posted by the Xinjiang Communist Youth League on WeChat.

Often, the big brothers and sisters arrived dressed in hiking gear. They appeared in the villages in groups, their backpacks bulging, their luggage crammed with electric water-kettles, rice-cookers, and other useful gifts for their hosts. They were far from home and plainly a bit uncomfortable, reluctant to “rough it” such a long way from the comforts of the city. But these “relatives,” as they had been told to call themselves, were on a mission, so they held their heads high when they entered the Uyghur houses and announced they had come to stay.

The village children spotted the outsiders quickly. They heard their attempted greetings indescribes such efforts as a response to terrorism. Indeed, these camps can be seen as a logical, if grotesque, extension of the government’s decades-long endeavor to eradicate the perceived “terrorism, ethnic separatism, and religious extremism” of its ethnic minority Muslim population in the Uyghur homeland. This region, which the state refers to as its “new frontier” (Xinjiang), and the country, have certainly experienced spasms of unplanned violence as well as cases of premeditated violence born of Uyghur desperation over decades of dispossession and discrimination.

When the state began to encourage Han settler migration in the Uyghur and Kazakh homelands through a series of “Open Up the West” and “New Silk Road” development initiatives, many people native to the region saw their lands and societies being partitioned by new zoning


and interviewed Han civilian state workers in predominantly Uyghur urban districts and towns across Southern Xinjiang. Over my time there and in conversations online, both before and after my visit, I spoke to around a dozen people about the experiences of “big sisters and brothers” in Uyghur and Kazakh homes. They ranged from civilian surveillance workers who performed these visits themselves, to friends and family members of these surveillance workers.

Some of these people were Han friends that I first built relationships with in 2011 when I began my fieldwork in Ürümchi. Others, primarily friends and family members of those directly involved in the program, were acquaintances I made outside of China. Still others were people I met in Ürümchi and Kashgar in 2018.5

I wanted to understand how differenttheir families. One of the relatives who was sent in the first wave of long-term relatives, and was tasked with living full time in Muslim villages for a year or more, said he was only permitted a 10-day leave every 90 days.

They told me, repeatedly, that they felt they were being asked to sacrifice significant portions of their lives to this effort. They wanted to get back to their work as managers in state-owned enterprises and government bureaus, or their work as doctors and editors in state-run institutions. They missed their homes and families in the city. Two of those I interviewed told me that they, or their friends who had been asked to go down to the villages, would have lost their jobs if they had refused


to participate in the monitoring program, but they also said that by participating they had been guaranteed promotions upon the completion of their tour of duty.

* * *

Beginning in September 2017, I exchanged online messages with the daughter of a mid-level manager of a state-owned enterprise in Urumchi who was one of the 110,000 civilians sent to live in “sensitive” villages on a long-term basis in 2016. She had recently visited her father and observed the work he was doing in the villages. She was eager to describe what she had seen and what she thought of the process. She said that as an “Old Xinjiang” person, her father had no long-standing grievances with Uyghurs, though they did have friends who had been injured during the Uyghur-rights protestsand violence of 2009. His daughter said he had slept on average no longer than six hours each night during his 90-day stays in a Uyghur village with a team of eight to 10 people made up of both Han and Uyghur civilians. He was required to work so hard assessing his host families, inputting assessment data and attending meetings that he had little time to sleep.

The daughter, a woman in her late 20s who loves cats and Lady Gaga and now lives in the U.S., explained that her father had been “forced into this assignment” and that, while the government had pushed all the teams of “relatives” really hard to be harsh, her father had “fought back” and had tried to make the rules a bit more


classroom. Image posted by Xinjiang Normal University.

In many of the ongoing human engineering projects in the Uyghur homeland, it appears that the state is attempting to separate Uyghur children from their parents and from Uyghur language education by radically increasing the number of Chinese-speaking teachers, and using the system of penal centers to reduce the influence of Uyghur cultural values and norms in the lives of children.16 In schools across the region, Mandarin is the only language of instruction, a policy that is now strictly enforced by the detention of minority instructors who are accused of being “two-faced” in their approach to national policy.17

One Uyghur young man I’ll call Alim, whose older brother was taken in January 2018, was terrified of what would happen to his nieces andnephew if his sister-in-law was also taken. The young man, a fluent Chinese speaker who wore skinny jeans and an Apple watch, said his older brother had visited Turkey as a tourist. He thought it likely this was the reason he had been taken away. He said his sister-in-law “still acts a little bit defiant when the state workers come to her home, so I worry that they will decide she needs to be reeducated too. If that happens, her children will become wards of the state.” Indeed, news reports and government construction tenders posted online suggest a surge in orphanage construction in Xinjiang. Alim told me of course he and his parents would be happy to care for his nieces and nephew, but he said that he


the villagers who they were hoping to teach Han secular values.

In their stories about what they had done, visiting civil servants often did not note that the security institutions that they supported were one of the primary causes of Uyghur poverty.

One Han woman I spoke with who grew up in Urumchi but had not been sent down herself noted that the team she was familiar with was puzzled by the way that Uyghur families simply placed the gifts the “relatives” gave them in the corner of their house. They said that when they came back weeks later, it appeared as though the gifts had not been used. They did not understand why their gifts were rejected.

Two of the workers I interviewed said that they hoped that their interactionsdid not seem to have thought about the horror they were enacting. No free press was available to them. The majority of the people I interviewed simply did not know or believe that the reeducation camps function as a Chinese-specific form of concentration camps where beatings and psychological torture are common, or that Uyghurs and other minorities viewed their being sent to the camps as a form of punishment.25 Only one of the 10 Han people from Xinjiang I interviewed believed that the camps were functioning as prisons for people who were guilty of simply being in the wrong religious and ethnic categories. It is also important to remember when writing about Han civilian participation in the mass detention of Muslim minorities, as David Brophy and others have


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sgunhouse writes to mention Wired's Threat Level has a piece on a recently-declassified document detailing the history of TEMPEST. "It was 1943, and an engineer with Bell Telephone was working on one of the U.S. government's most sensitive and important pieces of wartime machinery, a Bell Telephone model 131-B2. It was a top secret encrypted teletype terminal used by the Army and Navy to transmit wartime communications that could defy German and Japanese cryptanalysis. Then he noticed something odd. Far across the lab, a freestanding oscilloscope had developed a habit of spiking every time the teletype encrypted a letter. Upon closer inspection, the spikes could actually be translated into the plain message the machine was processing. Though he likely didn't


that were basically very fuzzy antialiased fonts.

The other thing is that LCDs don't emit RF harmonics to nearly such an extent. The days of Tempest and Van Eck phreaking are pretty much gone.

Back in the mid-90s, I was visiting my parents who had one of those "television" things occupying space in their living room, and I noticed that the display from my laptop computer showed up on the screen. It wasn't really in sync, had about three copies of the text slowly scrolling by, but you could tell it was readable text. I don't remember what year it was, so the laptop may have been a 486 or a Pentium 75, or something around that range, and the screen might have been 800x600 but was probably 640x480 (becauseMusic!! Fr

I was a radioman in the Coast Guard, we had to go through regular checks to make sure all our equipment was TEMPEST approved. Every 18 months ships go through 'Refresher Training' - all manner of drills and combat readiness training including radio and electronics. A favorite story about ensuring that things were TEMPEST approved was a navy ship that was tracked for days because of the microwave in the chief's mess, every time they popped up some corn the microwave was sending off spurrious emissions. The s

Though he likely didn't know it at the time, the engineer had just discovered that all information processing machines send their secrets into the electromagnetic ether."

Does that include my Dick Tracy secret decoder ring?

We've all heard stories of programming music


on a radio from a Commodore PET, or reading the data by converting the flashes from a modem's transmit and receive LEDs, but I'm sure at the start of the electronics era (and especially in a crypto lab during a war) that the concept of being

The book Spycatcher details how shortly after WWII the British tapped the powerline feeding the coding machine in the French embassy in London. Electrical noise on the line could be correlated with different keys typed on the machine. When this book came out it was banned in Britain.

I got involved in this area when we wanted to use cheap PCs (actually Apple II's) back in the early 80's at a Fort Bragg command for classified processing and communications. (Instead of the multi-gazillion decades-oldQPR will reveal plans for a new 35,000-seater stadium within weeks, Press Association Sport understands.

The Hoops' Loftus Road home is the smallest ground in the top flight with a capacity of just 18,439 and the club have been vocal in their attempts to find a plot of land for a new stadium.

QPR chairman Tony Fernandes revealed this week the club are evaluating three potential sites and on Friday posted via his Twitter account the club have made a "great first step" in its attempts for a new stadium.

Press Association Sport understands that drawings are at an advanced stages and the Rs will make a stadium announcement before the start of the new season.

The plans are likely to be unveiled after QPR return from their pre-season tour in Asia


rather than at a press conference on Monday, which many had expected.

The club has invited the national and international media to the event in central London, where they plan to make a major announcement they believe could help turn the club into a "global" brand.

There had been suggestions QPR would reveal a new stadium, although it is instead understood that Manchester United's Park Ji-sung will be unveiled.BJD moves president over delay in cyclone assistance

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Bhubaneswar, Nov 6 (IANS) The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha Wednesday sought the intervention of President Pranab Mukherjee over delay in getting financial assistance from the central government for the Cyclone Phailin-ravaged state.

A delegation of the party, comprising several ministers and legislators, met state Governor S.C. Jamir at Raj Bhavan in state capital Bhubaneswar, and submitted a memorandum to the president through him.

"While the state government, on its part, has done its best to protect the life and properties of the people from this natural calamity, the central government has not provided any assistance, though duty-bound in our federal system," the party stated in the memorandum.

Soon after Cyclone Phailin struck the


state Oct 12, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik requested the prime minister to sanction at least Rs.1,000 crore advance, out of the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF). Not a rupee has yet been sanctioned, the party alleged.

The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government is forgetting that Odisha is a state within the union of India. The government of India is constitutionally duty-bound to come to the rescue of the people, the BJD delegation said.

Unless the central assistance is immediately sanctioned, the state will not be able to take up reconstruction and restoration of the damage caused by the cyclone, and subsequent floods, the party said.

In its memorandum, the party requested the president to intervene and direct the central government to immediately sanction the required amount.

The severe tropical Cyclone Phailin inthe Bay of Bengal, which made landfall Oct 12 night near Gopalpur in state's Ganjam district, killed at least 50 and left behind a trail of destruction in several districts of Odisha, bringing heavy rain and causing floods.

The party said the cyclone and floods have affected more than two crore people in the state. It said the state government has been requesting the central government to sanction about Rs.5,800 crore, but has not received any response.


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district court and remand for further proceedings.

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Marine Corps on June 2, 1982. He served two successive enlistments

and received an honorable discharge on July 1, 1988.                    Sykes then

                              enlists in the Armed Forces of the United States (other than
     in a Reserve component) shall be entitled upon release from
     service under honorable conditions to all of the reemployment
     rights and other benefits provided for by this chapter in the
     case of persons inducted under the provisions of the Military
     Selective Service Act (or prior or subsequent legislation
     providing for the involuntary induction of persons into the
     Armed Forces), if the total of such person's service performed
     between June 24, 1948, and August 1, 1961, did not exceed four
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of the VRRA to confer quite broad reemployment rights to veterans

of the United States armed services subject only to a limited

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to   address        employers'      concerns        about   reemployment        rights   of

indefinite duration and not to penalize veterans on the basis of

their pre-employment service, we find no articulable basis for

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duty ... typically is 4observed the "manifest

injustice" that would result from deeming the limitation period to

include pre-employment military service:

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        enlisted in the Armed Forces for four years, was discharged
        from the Armed Forces, then found his first job, and

    3
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first conferred by statute in 1940, there was no prescribed
limitation period.    In 1948 a three-year limitation period was
imposed, Selective Service Act of 1948, 62 Stat. 604, 614-18,
followed by the current, four-year period in 1951, Act of June 19,
1951, 65 Stat. 75, 86-87.


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Postal   Service   and   the   EEOC Sussex head coach Davis believes coaching team have what it takes to bring County success

Bruce Talbot

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Sussex head coach Mark Davis believes he has a team in place off the field which can drive the county to success on it this season.

Jon Lewis has been assistant coach, concentrating on the development of their seam bowlers, for the last two years and has worked hard with George Garton, Jofra Archer and Stuart Whittingham, who all got first-team exposure last season and proved worthy of their place.

Murray Goodwin did a short stint at the start of 2016 as batting coach, but now the role has been filled on a full-time basis by one of Goodwin’s former team-mates Mike Yardy.

Since retiring in 2015, Yardy has been working


Md. dig seeks proof of 1st free Black community

Tracy Jenkins, a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Maryland, displays artifacts found during excavation efforts in Easton, Md., as classmate Sabrina Shirazi, right, sifts through soil in hopes of finding evidence that might prove the state was home to the first free African-American community in the nation. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

EASTON, Md. (AP) — Archaeology students have been sifting through a little patch of ground on Maryland’s Eastern Shore this summer, seeking evidence that it was home to the nation’s first free African-American community.

Historians say hundreds of free Blacks once lived in the area, while plantations flourished with hundreds of Black slaves not far away.

The students from the University of Maryland, College Park, and Morgan State University, anHBCU, have been digging behind what is now the Women’s Club of Talbot County. The building, part of which dates to at least 1793, was home to three free non-White residents, according to the 1800 Census.

Audrey Schaefer, an undergraduate student studying anthropology at the University of Maryland, excavates beneath a series of tree roots in Easton, Md., as she and classmates hope to find evidence that might prove the state was home to the first free African-American community in the nation. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

“We also know that by around 1790 there were a few free African Americans who were actually purchasing property in this neighborhood,” said Stefan Woehlke, a doctoral student at the University of Maryland who has been working at the site. “And so we’re excavating here,