in 2019, we surveyed 266 people living in regional and rural areas, demographically representative of the population of country Australia.

Just 14% indicated willingness to pay for news online, with 49% saying they would not (and 37% unsure).

The News and Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra has found similar reluctance to pay. The results of its Digital News Report Australia 2019 show just 12% of regional news consumers had paid for online news, compared with 16% of urban news consumers. More detailed research produced for our report shows the difference is starkest for subscriptions.

Poorest communities hurt the most

That unwillingness to pay for online content may change if it’s the only way to get local news. Attitudes to online subscriptions are shifting, and people do value local news.Mulch barriers, such as landscaping films, are commonly placed underneath the mulch used in landscaping around shrubs, trees, and decorative plants. The mulch barrier reduces weed growth and extends the life of the mulch by keeping it away from the soil. A non-porous plastic sheet, such as black plastic, provides excellent mulch life and weed control. However, a plastic sheet excludes water and air from the earth beneath it, often resulting in the death of, or damage to, the plants around which it is placed.
By perforating the plastic sheet, air and water can pass through the plastic sheet to the soil. However, mulch lying on top of the holes tends to block them, resulting in the problems mentioned above. Placing a greater number of holes in the sheet


tends to alleviate the problem of blocked holes, but reduces the ability of the barrier to provide weed control.
Using a fabric material as a mulch barrier allows water and air to reach the soil, and provides limited control of the weeds which emerge from the earth. However, the weeds which start in the mulch tend to send their roots down through the fabric into the ground, where they thrive in the moist environment which the fabric preserves. The roots of the weeds become so enentangled in the fabric that they typically cannot be removed without pulling up or tearing the fabric.
What is needed, therefore, is landscaping film which allows an adequate amount of water and air to reach the soil, but is effective in reducing weed root penetration.184 F.3d 59 (1st Cir. 1999)
CHARLES VIEUX, Petitioner, Appellant,v.PETER A. PEPE, JR., ET AL., Respondents, Appellees.
No. 98-1864.
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Argued May 4, 1999.Decided July 19, 1999.

APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS[Copyrighted Material Omitted]
Peter M. Onek, by Appointment of the Court, for appellant.
Cathryn A. Neaves, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General, was on brief for appellees.
Before Lynch, Circuit Judge, Coffin and Cyr, Senior Circuit Judges.
COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.

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Charles Vieux was charged in a Massachusetts state proceeding with rape and indecent assault and battery stemming from an encounter with Marie Dorcely. After the incident Marquise Dorcely, Marie's younger sister, eavesdropped on a telephone conversation Vieux had with Marie's mother. Over Vieux's objection on hearsay grounds,


the court admitted Marquise's testimony regarding a comment Vieux had made. On appeal Vieux claimed ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to object on other grounds. After the Massachusetts Appeals Court disagreed and affirmed his conviction, he filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in federal court. The district court also rebuffed his entreaty, and he has now appealed to us. We agree that his argument lacks merit, and address once again the difficult issue of ascertaining the precise contours of federal court appraisal of habeas petitions filed by state prisoners.

I. FACTUAL BACKGROUND

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Vieux was a close friend of the Dorcely family. On June 19, 1994, after spending the day at a beach with some friends, Vieux took them to the Dorcelys' house for something to drink. Whilehis friends waited in the car, Vieux went inside and called out to see if anyone was present. Alone in the house, Marie allowed him upstairs, and, after he inspected some recent carpentry work, they both went to the kitchen to get him some ice water.

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At this point their accounts of the events differ. She claims that he pinned her against the refrigerator, fondled her breasts and inserted his finger into her vagina. She says that he then dragged her a couple feet to the living room where he pushed her forward over the back of a couch, lifted up her dress and had intercourse with her from behind. She asserts that throughout the episode she attempted to get him to stop and he told her not to


make him exert himself too much. His version of events has her being the sexual aggressor, kissing him and leading him to the couch where they had brief consensual intercourse.

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Afterwards, he brought drinks out to his friends in the car. When they all eventually left, Marie called Dina Casimir and told Casimir she had been raped. Casimir immediately called an ambulance, and Marie was taken to the hospital. The hospital staff discovered semen but noted that Marie appeared to have no bruising or lacerations.

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That night, Marie's mother, Degrace Dorcely, called Vieux to discuss the incident. He admitted that he and Marie had engaged in intercourse, but claimed it was consensual. They spoke a couple of times over the next few days, repeating the basic elements of that conversation.On one call Vieux turned on the speaker phone so other mechanics at the shop where Vieux worked could listen to the conversation. Vieux testified that the other mechanics listened and laughed.

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Also during one of the calls, unbeknownst to either Degrace or Vieux, Marquise eavesdropped from a telephone extension because she "wanted to know what was going on." After the end of the conversation, Degrace hung up, but Marquise stayed on the line and heard Vieux telling the other mechanics that Degrace should allow him to marry Marie, and explaining that he just "got a little pussy." Vieux denies ever making such a vulgar comment.

II. PROCEDURAL HISTORY

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Vieux was charged with rape and indecent assault and battery. The central issue at trial involved whether Marie had consented to the


intercourse. Both Marie and Vieux took the stand, and because they were the only witnesses to the encounter and had conflicting accounts, the jury was forced to weigh their credibility. Believing that the comment Marquise allegedly overheard would tarnish Vieux's image in the minds of the jury, Vieux's lawyer unsuccessfully attempted to suppress this evidence by objecting on hearsay grounds.

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After deliberating for approximately six hours, the jury reported that it was deadlocked. The court then issued a supplemental charge, and the jury deliberated for another several hours before finding Vieux guilty of rape and not guilty of indecent assault and battery.

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On appeal, Vieux claimed that he received ineffective assistance of counsel. Vieux argued that the federal wiretapping statute (outlawing "any electronic . . . device" used to intercepta telephone conversation and the evidence therefrom) prohibits the introduction of the statement Marquise claims to have overheard while eavesdropping. Vieux asserted that his lawyer should have objected on that basis, and the failure to do so constituted ineffective assistance of counsel. The Massachusetts Appeals Court found that an objection based on the federal wiretapping statute would have been futile because the evidence fell into the statute's "ordinary course of business" exception (exempting from the definition of an "electronic . . . device" a telephone "being used . . . in the ordinary course of . . . business"). Consequently, the court concluded that counsel was not ineffective, and affirmed Vieux's conviction. He unsuccessfully sought review before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the United States Supreme Court,


Welcome to the second bonus episode from the history podcast that never was, Chris and Forest talk Japanese history (often while drinking beer). Because the original concept was to create a seperate podcast, it should be stated that opinions expressed are their own, and do not reflect the views of anyone not present for this podcast.

And with that - Regardless of whether you think of Oda Nobunaga as a hero or villain, it can't be disputed that he was a brutal tyrant responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of men, women, and children on his quest to unify Japan under his control. Was Nobunaga simply a product of his era, or was there something more to the man who built a path towards national unification with"Contribution to the Question of Pneumotyphus": a discussion of the original article by J. Ritter in 1880.
In 1880, Dr. J. Ritter wrote a classic infectious disease article (originally in German) on psittacosis entitled, "Contribution to the Question of Pneumotyphus." In this article, Ritter meticulously describes a mini-epidemic--in which three individuals died--of seven cases of psittacosis caused by parrots and finches caged in the study of his brother's house in Uster, Switzerland. Ritter accurately identified the study as the site of the source of infection, considered the birds as vectors, and determined both the incubation period and the nontransmissability of the disease from human to human. His main differential diagnosis was a choice between typhoid and typhus; with pneumonitis being the main pathologic finding, he coined the term pneumotyphus.


Led Zeppelin Have Ladder Named After Them

As if Led Zeppelin needed anything else to bolster their legacy, the rock titans can now lay claim to the ultimate tribute: Having a ladder named after you.

A 20-year old design student at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design named Arthur Analts has designed a new ladder made specifically to be sturdier in corners, and has dubbed the ladder "Led Zeppelin."

The product description on Analts' official website reads:

"Using usual ladders, there are dificulties to put them in the room corners, because there is a great possibility to fall down, however, Led Zeppelin ladder can be placed in 3 different positions in the room. It can be leaned straight against the wall or placed 45* against the room corner or 25*Witnesses described Kate screaming as Gerry (pictured) sobbed on a friend's shoulder on the night she disappeared

Holidaymakers describing the night Madeleine McCann disappeared today revealed how they saw her distraught mother screaming 'the f***ing b******s have taken her'.

Speaking for the first time since she went missing ten years ago, Paul and Susan Moyes revealed what they saw from the apartment two floors above the McCanns'.

Mr Moyes, 68, said: 'The McCanns were in bits, he was crying on the shoulder of a friend. She was screaming "the f***ing b******s have taken her".'

Speaking to The Sun, he added: 'There was no doubt about the emotion that night.'

The couple, from Middlwich, Cheshire, claim they saw the McCann parents and their friends - known as the Tapas Nine - from their balcony


before going to bed.

They were then reportedly woken by a friend of the McCanns banging on their door around an hour and a half later, at around 11.30pm on May 3 2007.

Another resident has also revealed key information on the night three-year-old Madeleine disappeared from her bed in the resort in Praia da Luz in the Algarve.

Jenny Murat, who lives 100 yards from the Ocean Club complex where the McCanns were staying, saw a car driving towards their apartment.

Speaking about the sighting for the first time, Mrs Murat told BBC Breakfast it was driving the wrong way down a one-way street.

'It was one of the small cars, like the rental cars – the normal, everyday sort of rental cars,' she said.

Speaking for the first time since she wentmissing ten years ago, Paul and Susan Moyes revealed what they saw from their balcony (top) two floors above the McCanns' (bottom)

Also talking for the first time was Jenny Murat (pictured), who lives 100 yards from the Ocean Club complex. She said saw a car driving towards their apartmen

'I saw the driver, I was beside the driver. Both of us looked at each other. I think he had a very British look about him.'

Mrs Murat also described seeing a woman standing outside the family's apartment on the night Madeleine went missing.

'I noticed her there and she kind of looked as if she was trying to hide from me. I do remember she was wearing a plum-coloured top,' she said.

Mrs Murat's son Robert, a translator, was the first person


to be made an arguido – a named suspect – in the case.

He told the BBC he still cannot face reading about the case on the internet, despite being cleared of any involvement.

'The internet is full of theories – I want to know the truth, not theories,' he said.

'I just want to know why that was the case. It didn't only lead to me being destroyed, it led to my whole family being destroyed, affected by those allegations. It was completely untrue.'

A tribute to Madeleine McCann is left outside the Church of Nossa Senhora da Luz in Praia Da Luz, Portugal (Steve Parsons/PA)

A special church service will be held at the Church of Nossa Senhora da Luz for all missing people, including Madeleine, at 9pm on Wednesday.

A candlebearing Madeleine's name and a card with her picture on have been placed outside the church in Luz where the service will later take place.

The card, reading 'Maddie with love' features a photograph of the little girl surrounded by diamante stickers, with a butterfly, yellow bow and flower.

Yellow ribbons, to signify hope, were placed around the village at the time of Madeleine's disappearance.

The news comes after new information about the investigation was revealed this week by a Home Office report into the case.

As devout Catholics Kate and Gerry remember their daughter at the large imposing 14th century church, 1,617 miles away in the pretty seaside resort of Luz locals will be praying too

A detective tipped to head up the Madeleine McCann probe was warned he would be ordered


the narrow focus of both Portuguese and British police.

He added: 'If you are conducting a re-investigation you start at the very beginning. Look at all the accounts all the evidence all the initial statements and go through them and make sure they stack up and they compare.'

The documentary revealed details from a Home Office report on the case, ordered by then Labour minister Alan Johnson before the 2010 election, seen by Sky News' Martin Brunt.

The report shows that Gerry and Kate McCann's relationship with Portuguese police after they closed the investigation into her disappearance.

The Met took the unusual step of getting involved in the case in 2010 after the report was compiled, and recommends police collaborate with private investigators hired by the McCanns because of the 'unique natureof the case'.

However, it also reveals that much of the information gathered by investigators had not been shared with police investigating the case so far.

Revealed: Madeleine McCann's parents fell out with both the Portuguese and British police investigating her disappearance and their 'turbulent relationship' led to a breakdown in trust

Highlighting the 'turbulent relationship' between the parents and detectives, it describes how the McCann's felt badly treated by the Portuguese authorities.

They were called in to speak to officers then asked to wait for hours, only for a detective never to appear, in treatment they described as 'inhumane'.

The relationship broke down entirely when Portuguese police closed the investgation in to Madeleine's disappearance in in Praia de Luz.

Around 30 British detectives were working on the UK side of the investigation into


the disappearance of Madeleine (pictured)

When the Met Police came in, they also fell out with local police. The Met would later fall out with the McCanns too, the report revealed.

Mr Johnson wanted to find out if the Met should intervene further in the case so the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre investigated.

It was commissioned in late 2009, completed by March 2010 and published in May 2010, MailOnline understands.

In May 2011 the Home Office launched the Scotland Yard review of the case. The Met's investigation has cost £11million so far.

The report said: 'It is clear that from the beginning the McCanns felt there was a lack of clarity and communication on the part of the Portuguese police.

'Despite the involvement of British consular staff, they were, by their ownaccounts, left for long periods without any updates or communication with the investigators.

'They state they were taken to the police station on more than one occasion and then left for hours waiting to speak to someone who never materialised.

'They describe this situation as inhumane, with no real consideration for their emotional and physical wellbeing.'

The report also reveals tensions between the Portuguese and British police, with the Met accused of acting 'like a colonial power'.

Gerry and Kate, carrying Madeleine's favourite Cuddle Cat in her hand, were faced with the sudden shock of their daughter disappearing in 2007 and then felt police meant to be hunting for her treated them badly

The report says: 'Clearly, the McCanns have had a turbulent relationship with both Portuguese and UK law enforcement. They now


openly acknowledge that there is a distinct lack of trust between all parties.'

The police in Britain and Portugal say they are working together to find Madeleine, who vanished on May 3 2007.

The documentary was aired just hours after it emerged the former Portuguese detective Goncalo Amaral claimed Madeleine's body was cremated in a TV interview.

The detective, one of the leading investigators early in the case, made the wild statement hours after her parents vowed to take him back to court over other claims.

Amaral made his latest statement on a TV documentary to be aired on the 10th anniversary of her disappearance from the Praia da Luz resort in Portugal.The most important prototype of Motorola's new Moto Z smartphone wasn't a phone at all. It was just a wafer-thin slab of machined purple-pink aluminum. Codename: Ice. As Paul Fordham snatches Ice off his desk and holds it up in front of his face, he squints at it, like he still can't believe they made something this thin. Fordham, Motorola's lead mechanical architect and one of the four original engineers working on Motorola's modular phone program, built Ice to show the rest of the company how truly cool this thing was going to be. He holds a battery case to the back of the "phone" and it jumps into place with a satisfying magnetic click.

The Z team always demo'd the Ice prototype the same way. They'd go into


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A goal from former Spurs striker Dimitar Berbatov in the second half was the difference between the sides as the hosts saw their push for Champions League football take a blow.

Bale saw a headed effort cleared off the line in the opening stages, but despite the early chance, Fulham managed to keep the Welsh international at bay and Jol was understandably pleased with his team's performance.

"I think we kept it simple today with Bale and [Mousa] Dembele, it was probably the quietest game for Bale," Jol told reporters.

"They are strong and with Bale, we showed all the videos and in the end I left maybe 90 per cent out because it was almost like a trauma at the end for my boys.

"I think the first half we triedplayer.

"The only thing he wants is a day off if he scores. So I promise him a day off and he scores. Remarkable boy."

The win marks Fulham's first victory at White Hart Lane since 2003. The former Tottenham manager denied that there was any personal satisfaction in beating his old team, instead focusing on the three points which takes his side nine clear of the relegation zone.

He added: "It's only about the three points, and it's nice that it is here because White Hart Lane is so difficult to go to and get a result."


Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersSenate Republicans signal openness to working with Biden Hillicon Valley: DOJ indicts Chinese, Malaysian hackers accused of targeting over 100 organizations | GOP senators raise concerns over Oracle-TikTok deal | QAnon awareness jumps in new poll Schumer, Sanders call for Senate panel to address election security MORE (I-Vt.) won the California primary on Tuesday night, earning the top spot in the state with the largest number of delegates up for grabs.

The Associated Press called the race for the Vermont senator shortly after polls closed at 11 p.m. ET. Sanders was largely expected to finish first in the Golden State, with a wide lead in most polls leading up to Super Tuesday.

Though the victory is undoubtedly a big win for Sanders, who is set totake at least a plurality of California’s 415 pledged delegates, it is still unclear how those delegates will be divided among the other contenders.

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Sanders’s victory in California followed wins in Colorado, Utah and Vermont, while he was also competing with former Vice


Canada, the United States and all Latin American markets. Bartsch, 56, according to the automaker is leaving to pursue other interests – he was recruited by de Nysschen from Porsche back in 2013 after he headed the German carmaker’s US market as chief operating officer.

Infiniti has had trouble increasing its market share in the United States while all other luxury brands saw buoyant sales – with mass-market parent Nissan also pressing for a larger corporate market share in the region. While luxury sales across the segments soared 6 percent last year in the United States, the world’s largest premium market, Nissan only managed a 1% increase to 117,330 units in 2014. The brand is now forecasting a stronger demand growth as it gets ready to unveil a stringHere they lived and died

An accidental find turns out to be an exciting and importantarchaeological discovery. Could a grave of stone age people,literally stumbled upon in the arid area of Pallemalala, atHambantota reveal that vital missing link between the mid-stone era and the iron age? Tharuka Dissanaike reports

Several thousand years ago, a group of pre- historic people set up camp at a dried-up lagoon bed in Hambantota. Here, they lived, hunted and fished for food and upon death they were buried under the very same ground. They hunted sambhur, deer and wildboar with crude stone implements and sharpened bone tools. The meat was roasted over an open hearth -fish and reptilian meat added to their plate. The bones were ground on a large flat stone and the marrow


extracted. The skins perhaps were dried and made into rough clothing.
They also enjoyed a hearty meal of shell fish found aplenty in the area, judging by the millions of shells now found deposited here.

Presently, known as Pallemalala, the area is arid, with non cultivated land used for cattle grazing and shell mining. In fact it was a shell miner who first stumbled upon the grave of these stone age people. Of course, never did he imagine the importance of the well preserved skeletons that he was unearthing, and the first evidence was smashed under his hatchet. Later on a schoolboy who noticed the skeletons reported it to his teacher, who informed authorities in Colombo.

Archaeologists were thrilled with the find. Already at the site they have unearthed eleven skeletonswho lived elsewhere in the world. According to experts there are striking similarities in the stone tools found anywhere in the world belonging to the same age. Burial practices too appear to have some resemblance. The skeletal bodies found in Pallemalala have been buried in a curious folded position where the knees and elbows had been folded towards the body in burial. Similar burials in 'folded' position have been unearthed from sites elsewhere in the world as well. "There has been frequent migration between the land mass that was Sri Lanka at the time and the Indian continent, across the Palk Strait," Wijepala said.

Excavations have divided the deposit into several layers. At the very bottom, some two metres below the surface there is the lagoon bed of putrefying


organic matter. On this the midden is built. Shells in their thousands have been deposited over centuries to cover a large area.

In the lower shell layer called the habitation floor, the 11 bodies were found. In the upper area Archaeologists have also uncovered a large grinding stone and evidence of a fireplace. A large number of stone tools and animal bones have been found. Experts say that the animal bones look like they have been discarded after consumption of the marrow. Tools carved out of animal bone were also found here.

The first excavation was done by the Post Graduate Institute of Archaeology in late September. They conducted what they called "rescue excavation" when they first heard of the shell mine and were able to retrieve four separate skeletonssmashed up by the miner and seven others intact. All had their wisdom teeth- they were over 29 years. One female skeleton was retrieved in a position not keeping with the rest of the burials, and Raj Somadeva who is co-heading the investigations feels she would have died of starvation or disease later when the surviving group had migrated elsewhere. In a curious ritual like manner a human skull and a wild boar head had been buried together in one place. These have been unearthed in the very position they lay for further studies.

The Department of Archaeology moved in later and set up a permanent camp near the site. When The Sunday Times visited the site, Department staff were busy at their tedious task. With sharp, tiny tools


Holden has yet to ignite any fires under the Democratic faithful and McCaskill is seen as a real threat to his nomination for re-election.

Meanwhile, Secretary of State Matt Blunt will also top the $1 million mark in campaign funds and he too has yet to officially declare as a candidate. But a potential Blunt-McCaskill race is becoming a greater reality daily. But don't discount Holden. Holden takes to the limelight like a moth to a flame. He will use every aspect of his office to distance himself from McCaskill. But that bloody primary might also open the door wider for Blunt. And Matt Blunt is no newcomer to the political arena either.

Holden - in my opinion - has been a terrible governor. He has made more than hisThe history of the Philadelphia
Police Department traces its origin to Hans Block who, in 1663, established the first system of patrol in the city's Swedish
settlement. By the year 1700, Philadelphia had increased its population to 4,400.
As a result of this growth, the citizenry established a method of citizen participation known as "Town Watch." This system
remained the basic form of police protection until 1751.

Today, Philadelphia,
with approximately 6,900 uniformed police, has the fourth largest police department in the country. Philadelphia is also the
fourth largest per capita among the twenty largest cities in America. Department sizes among major cities vary greatly, from
Indianapolis with 1,030 to New York City with 36,800. Philadelphia’s own department has fluctuated in size over the
years, from a peak of 8,500 in 1979 to just over 6,000 in


the early 1990s.

The Police Department
of Philadelphia, as in other cities, is a military-like organization in which each sworn officer holds a rank. Ranks begin
with patrol officer and end with police commissioner. The job of managing and directing the department rests in the hands
of the Commissioner, who reports directly to the city’s Managing Director and ultimately to the Mayor. The Commissioner
is appointed by the Managing Director with approval by the Mayor, and has no fixed term of office (Charter Section 3-206).
The Charter allows for two Deputy Police Commissioners to be appointed by the Commissioner, as well as an executive secretary.
In recent years several Deputy Managing Directors have been appointed to assist the Commissioner as well. The 1998 fiscal
year budget for the Philadelphia Police Department is $352 million, 14% ofdifferent bureaus of the operations and administration of the department. Each bureau is commanded
by a chief inspector, and most officers are within the patrol bureaus, which are further subdivided into six geographical
patrol divisions and twenty-three patrol districts to encompass the entire city. Patrol divisions are commanded by an inspector,
and patrol districts are commanded by a captain. A patrol district is staffed by four platoons, each consisting of a lieutenant,
two sergeants, and approximately forty officers.

Major "off-street" functions
of the Police Department include the training bureau which operates the Police Academy; the communications bureau which manages
radio and 911 operations; the staff services bureau which coordinates such functions as laboratory work, evidence tracking,
and the maintenance of criminal records; the internal investigations bureau which is charged with ensuring the integrity of
the police force;


to acquire Compressed SENSE for two additional MRI scanners.

“After seeing the improvements that Compressed SENSE brought for Ingenia 1.5T, we decided to also acquire Compressed SENSE for two additional MRI scanners”

Takashi Koyama, MD, PhD Diagnostic radiologist and Director of the Department of Radiology Center and Diagnostic Radiology at Kurashiki Central Hospital. His focus is on diagnostic imaging in general radiology, especially genitourinary MRI.

Masayuki Kumashiro, PhD Radiological technologist and Director of Radiological Technology Kurashiki Central Hospital. He is Vice President of Japan Association of Radiological Technologists. He was member of the Ministry of Health Committee of State Examination for Radiological Technologists in 2008-2016. His specialties include cardiovascular and neurovascular MRI and IVR.

Koshi Miyake, MD Cardiologist and Chief Physician in Department of Cardiology at Kurashiki Central Hospital. He is aCARY, N.C. (WTVD) -- Cary leaders are set to talk about the future of the struggling Cary Towne Center.Council members are expected to take up a proposal Thursday night that would rezone the mall for 450 hotel rooms, office space and commercial use space.In 2019, Cary Towne Center has seen JCPenney close its doors and Dillard's announce plans to close permanently. In 2018, IKEA nixed plans to open a store in the mall, and Top Golf decided against bringing a location to the area.The mall was also recently sold to investment groups based in New York and Dallas.Thursday night, Cary Town Council's rezoning discussion will begin around 6:30.


New Delhi, March 05 (ANI): Justin Bieber has become the second celebrity to reach 50 million Twitter followers. The young pop star has hit 50 million followers on twitter, the second largest after Katy Perry. The 'Baby' singer took to twitter where he gave a shout-out to his followers and said that he loves his 'beliebers'.Mar 5, 2014

It was the second and last night of the Rio Carnival, which ended Tuesday morning at dawn. Vila Isabel, last year's champion, was one of the competing samba schools dancing on Monday night. Duration: 01:03Mar 4, 2014

To mark the occasion of Carrera's golden jubilee, Tag Heuer has come out with a beautiful collection of Carrera Gold watches, which were unveiled by Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan in Mumbai on 3 March.Mar4, 2014

"The Voice USA" 2014 blind auditions have become so much fun to watch, with judges continuing to exchange banter into the second week, and more such acts are expected on Tuesday's episode as well. Day four of the blind auditions will begin on Tuesday at 8:00 pm EST on NBC Television.Mar 4, 2014

ABC announced the cast of the latest season of "Dancing with the Stars" on "Good Morning America" on Monday, and as previously reported, several former television actors made the cut. The 18th season of "Dancing with the Stars," ABC's dancing reality show, will premiere on 17 March. It has been revealed that Candace Cameron, Sean Avery, Andy Purdy, Danica McKellar and several others have made it through.Mar 4, 2014


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Two years after stunning the world in his maiden Ashes Test, Ashton Agar returns to international cricket today in his ODI debut against England at Old Trafford.

Agar becomes Australia's 208th one-day international player, the second debutant this tour after Queensland's Joe Burns won his first 50-over cap against Ireland in Belfast.

Quick Single: Live coverage of the third ODI

The 21-year-old comes in to the side for the injured Shane Watson after the allrounder was ruled out of the series with a strained calf muscle.

Agar was the star spinner in Australia A's one-day tri-series in India last month, taking 12 wickets in four matches at a superb average of 12, including 5-39 against India A.

The left-arm orthodox tweaker was the fourth-highest wicket-taker in the Sheffield Shield


last summer with 31 scalps in nine matches and chipped in with 270 runs and two half-centuries.

While he's been selected as Australia's premier spinner, it was with the bat on his Test debut where Agar's name was forever etched into Ashes folklore.

The languid left-hander made a brilliant 98 batting at No.11 on Test debut, combining with Phillip Hughes for the highest 10th wicket partnership at the time.

Captain Steve Smith has likened Agar's aggressive, carefree batting technique to that of an Australian legend.

"He has bowled really well in India, I've heard, and in the back end of the Shield season he bowled really well," Smith said.

"I certainly think there's a lot of potential there with the bat. He's got a pretty unique style.

"He has got quite a high gripcame into force in 1950, Part II of the Constitution dealing with citizenship was not made applicable to Jammu and Kashmir and parliament had no power to make laws for the state on citizenship. The people of Kashmir continued to remain state subjects and not citizens of India.

In his book “The Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir”, Justice A S Anand, former Chief Justice of Supreme Court, writes there were historical and political reasons which necessitate such constitutional safeguards for the state. “Firstly, the Government of India did not want to exercise too much of authority over Kashmir since it had committed itself to giving an opportunity to the people of Kashmir to finalise their future affiliations”.

It was this very reason that Article 370 which gives special status to


the state was also kept temporary. The autonomy resolution passed by the J&K assembly in 2000, which asks for restoration of the 1953 position, also recommends that the word “temporary” be omitted so Article 370 becomes a permanent feature of the Constitution of India.

It was after the constituent assembly of Kashmir ratified the state’s accession to the Union of India in 1954 that the issue of citizenship was discussed. After deliberations between the representatives of the state and the union, it was agreed that state subjects of J&K will also have citizenship of India. Following this agreement, the term “state subject” was replaced by “Permanent Residents”, and the President of India in consultation with the state government issued the constitution order of 1954 and Article 35A was incorporated.

ThoseProsecutors in Florida have filed hate crime charges against a white man who was captured on a cell phone video holding a handgun and yelling racial epithets at a group of African-American youths at an anti-violence protest on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle announced the felony charges Tuesday against Mark Bartlett under a hate crimes enhancement provision after investigators completed interviews last week. Police had arrested Bartlett shortly after the incident for carrying a concealed firearm without a permit, Fernandez Rundle said.

"The witnesses and victims in this case were the ones who identified that he had actually pointed the gun at them, each one of them at different points," she said, referring to three victims.

Bartlett told police, "I did pull out my


gun but I never pointed it at them," according to an arrest affidavit.

An enhancement provision in state law allows for stiffer penalties for convictions when offenses are motivated by prejudice.

Bartlett, 51, now faces three counts of aggravated assault with prejudice, a second-degree felony under the hate crimes provision, and one count of improper exhibition of a firearm, enhanced to a third-degree felony, according to Fernandez Rundle.

He was also charged with one count of carrying a concealed firearm, a third-degree felony, Fernandez Rundle said.

He is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday. He was released on $5,000 bond related to the concealed firearm charge, according to court records and one of his attorneys, Jayne Weintraub.

Videos detail confrontations on Miami streets

The youths were participating in an annual anti-violence ride-out, called "Bikes Up,Guns Down," said civil rights attorney Lee Merritt, who represents six plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Bartlett and Dana Scalione. Scalione is Bartlett's girlfriend, said Weintraub, who is defending both against the civil complaint.

The youths were also demonstrating in support of affordable housing, according to the suit, filed nine days after the incident.

Several motorists called police on the King holiday, January 21, to report incidents at three locations in downtown Miami, Fernandez Rundle said. One caller also identified a man with a firearm and gave authorities a vehicle description, she said.

Three videos -- which show portions of the encounter and were posted on social media by a community advocacy group -- show a white woman engaging with a group of older youths, some carrying signs, on bicycles.

Some youths


are blocking an intersection and disrupting traffic, and at least one of their bikes is on the ground, blocking traffic, the footage shows.

In the first video, the woman, identified by her lawyer as Scalione, says her vehicle is stuck in gridlock caused by the protest. She is seen pleading with the minors to move.

"You'll end up in jail. Good life, guys. Good job," she says, clapping her hands.

"OK, leave us alone, please," someone else is heard saying.

"This is not saving your cause," Scalione says. "Please move your bike. I have kids I need to pick up. Please, sir."

Several protesters, some who appear to be teens, can be seen surrounding her. One laughs and points his finger in her face.

A second video shows a man, whom police have identifiedvideos, which run 78, 60 and 60 seconds, respectively, were posted at the Twitter account of Dream Defenders Action Fund , a nonprofit community organizing and civil rights advocacy group.

Bartlett was protecting his girlfriend, attorneys say

After Bartlett headed back toward his vehicle, "the juveniles began to flee with the driver in pursuit," a witness told police, according to an affidavit that covers Bartlett's January 21 arrest.

When officers pulled him over, Bartlett acknowledged he had a firearm but no concealed carry permit, the document states.

While in custody, the affidavit notes, Bartlett "spontaneously stated, Why am I being arrested, when those kids are free to ride around. I did pull out my gun but I never pointed it at them."

Bartlett's attorneys said his actions don't constitute a hate crime.

"Mark went


WMNF-FM 88.5 has hired longtime television producer Rick Fernandes as its next general manager.

Fernandes, a New York native, got his start in TV working at Sesame Street, and for years was an executive for Turner Broadcasting in Southeast Asia, overseeing the development of original programming for TruTV, MondoTV, Cartoon Network Asia and other networks.

Most recently, Fernandes was director of the nonprofit Fred Rogers Center at Saint Vincent College in Pennsylvania. The center is home to the Fred Rogers Archive, as in children’s television host Mister Rogers, and focuses on “helping the helpers as they care for, educate, and raise children.”

In a written statement, WMNF board president David Harbeitner said that Fernandes’ experience in both profit and nonprofit media means he “understands both the front line needs to berequired in producing quality content while recognizing the need to fit the greater goals of the station."

“Fewer and fewer resources are available to focus on and highlight things in our local community,” Harbeitner added. "WMNF is in a unique position to leverage our long history in the community while growing to serve more of it.”

Fernandes will take over for interim GM Cindy Reichert at the 40-year-old, volunteer-driven, listener-supported community radio station on Nov. 11. Fernandes, who currently lives in Pittsburgh, will move to the Tampa Bay area in the coming weeks.

WMNF’s last GM, Craig Kopp, resigned from the station in April, after a failed attempt to fire station co-founder and news director Rob Lorei. Lorei was reinstated by the board of directors in February, after impassioned Lorei supporters


I'm a full professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury where my courses include Investigative Reporting. My website is at www.karlgrossman.com. For over 20 years I've hosted the nationally-aired TV program Enviro Close-Up and have written and presented TV documentaries for EnviroVideo (www.envirovideo.com). I'm the chief investigative reporter for WVVH-TV (www.wvvh.com}. I'm the author of six books including "Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power;" "Power Crazy;" and "The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear Threat to Our Planet." Honors I've received for journalism include the George Polk, Generoso Pope, James Aronson and John Peter Zenger Awards. My weekly column runs in newspapers of the Press Newspaper Group and other papers. I have given presentations in theLocal Challenger team will play in Little League World Series

Kayla Graziano sits patiently in the grass, proudly wearing her bright orange baseball shirt, while her mother Deborah straps on her leg brace.

As a player in her fourth year in the Challenger Little League Division -- a league for kids with special needs, mental or physical -- she has been given the chance to play baseball, a chance local leagues couldn't offer.

"The only thing we could really find in town was some place where they played baseball, but it was more like practice," said Deborah Graziano of Crystal Lake.

Kayla, 10, wanted to play in real games, and this year she'll be playing in one heck of a game: She is one of 15 suburban players randomly selected from Illinois'


District 13 Challenger League who will play an exhibition game Aug. 24 at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. Only two leagues out of 900 worldwide are afforded such an opportunity.

"The kids will play in what they call Championship Saturday … in the big stadium in front of thousands of people," said Mark Johnson of West Dundee, one of the coaches who applied for the team to play. "This is their Little League World Series."

Out of about 45 applicants, the team was chosen because of recent expansions and their support of the mission of the Challenger Division, said Sam Ranck. director of the Little League Challenger Division.

"It was clear how hard the volunteers worked to offer every kid the chance to play real ball," he said,citing the creation of a league for Carpentersville, East Dundee and West Dundee in 2009 and a Woodstock league last year, prompting almost 100 more kids to sign up.

Their annual Challenger Jamboree was also a plus, Ranck said. The Sept. 7 celebration provides a day of food, games and, of course, baseball, for players and their families,

The District 13 Challenger Division sports players ages 4 to 22, if still in high school. Started in 1994 in Bartlett, the program has grown to 16 teams and about 165 players. In recent months, they added the Libertyville League. Coaches accept all kids, giving each player the chance to play in a game: every kid hits, every kid catches, every kid gets on base.

"It's not about what they can't do, it's


about what they can do," Johnson said.

Matthew Williams, 11, of Schaumburg, whose father Paul runs the Bartlett Challenger League, cited several reasons for his excitement over next month's road game. "Being on TV ... getting to play in Williamsport in the World Series and meeting a lot of new people."

It means a lot to the parents, too.

"I don't know that I could have put Jonathan in a regular Little League program," said Gigi Fuhry of Cary, of her 6-year-old son.

"He has delays in social skills, and this is one of those things where it helped him to develop those skills in a safe environment," she says, describing how her once-shy son has flourished after two years.

Jean Boston of South Elgin, whose 13-year-old son Jeffrey plays, echoes the benefitsMotor Racing: Hamilton May Be in Hot Water for Part in Red Bull Crash

Motor Racing: Hamilton May Be in Hot Water for Part in Red Bull Crash

Article excerpt

Byline: NICK BRIGGS

LEWIS Hamilton learns tomorrow if his bid to win the world championship will suffer a serious blow after it was confirmed the McLaren driver is under investigation for his role in the crash that forced Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel out of the Japanese Grand Prix, writes NICK BRIGGS.

Third-placed Vettel drove his Toro Rosso into the back of Webber's Red Bull, which was running second behind Hamilton, on lap 45 of last weekend's 67-lap race when the field was lined up behind a safety car deployed due to Fernando Alonso's crash three laps earlier.

Although the incident was missed by


the television cameras, it is believed new evidence, thought to be footage on YouTube filmed from the grandstand at the Fuji Speedway, shows Hamilton pulling over to the right-hand side of the track and decelerating considerably prior to the collision, in turn forcing Webber to slow down and thus catching Vettel una wares.

If found guilty, Hamilton could lose the 10 championship points he earned for his victory in Japan, which would reduce his lead over nearest rival Alonso to just two points with two races to go. But given the fact Vettel was handed a 10-place grid penalty for this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix for his part in the incident, a similar punishment would seem more likely for the Brit.

An FIA official said: "We understand the stewards ofThe San Francisco 49ers wrapped up their fourth day of practice, and the players will have Monday off. I've posted links to all the available practice reports, and will add more as they are published.

Free safety

Several players reportedly stood out today, with Eric Reid getting a lot of praise, in part because he grabbed his first interception of training camp. Reid teamed with Craig Dahl on the second-team defense, with C.J. Spillman rotating into the starting free safety role for the day. There has been plenty of discussion here about Eric Reid potentially getting some work at strong safety. He has gotten work at both safety positions since being drafted, but I have to think that this year will see him starting at free safety. The 49ers could


SAN FRANCISCO —Samsung yesterday closed out its fourth annual developer conference. Coders and other attendees packed up their gear and left the City by the Bay with few doubts about the company's priorities moving forward; the clear focus during the two-day event was not surprisingly on Galaxy smartphones, virtual reality (VR), smart home and Internet of Things (IoT).

However, if you paid close attention, Samsung also sent some less-obvious, yet just as important, messages. I attended both of Samsung's flashy keynote addresses, sat quietly in the back of a handful of workshops and dutifully toured the product pavilion, in search of the "stories behind the story" at Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) 2016. Here are four things you might not haven't heard about the event.

1. Very little love for wearablesThe dollar fell on the news, reaching a further low point for the kiwi after it fell to a one-year low this morning.

At its peak in July it was trading at US88.36 cents.

Last week, Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler talked down the kiwi, saying the currency's level was unjustified and unsustainable.

Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler. Photo: RNZ

Mr Wheeler said although global dairy prices had fallen 45 percent since February, last month the kiwi was still 1 percent higher than it was when dairy prices began to fall.

At the time, Westpac chief economist Dominick Stephens said the governor could be wanting to explain his actions ahead of the figures released today.

A stronger greenback and falling dairy prices have also contributed to the weakening kiwi.

In April last year the Reserve


went out,
and they went to the tomb.
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and came to the tomb first.
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yet he did not enter in.
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and entered into the tomb.
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and the cloth that had been on his head,
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but rolled up in a place by itself.
Then the other disciple
who came first to the tomb also entered in,
and he saw and believed.A CHARITY has taken a parting swipe at Hammersmith and Fulham Council after being forced to shut down its borough base.

The Bosnia and Herzegovina Community and Advice Centre, in Dalling Road, packed up and left its Hammersmith home since 2007 last week citing a lack of funding.

The voluntary centre, who are the only group in London providing advice and support for Balkan War victims, help people cope with post-traumatic stress disorders and elderly people struggling to cope after being forced from their homeland.

It saw an application for £63,000 over two years turned down by the council in 2009 and, with its current funding from the BIG Lottery ending later this year, it has been forced to move to scale down and move to neighbouring Brent.

Sadida Trozic, project manager,


MetroPCS will do nothing to help it expand its coverage in suburban and rural areas, but that acquisition should help T-Mobile increase capacity in metro markets where it already operates.

T-Mobile is targeting an important segment of the market. For the past couple of years, the prepaid wireless market has been growing, while growth in the traditional postpaid contract segment has slowed. In fact, last year was the first year in which wireless operators in aggregate saw postpaid contract plans decline, while prepaid plans increased. Now prepaid wireless service makes up about 25 percent of the market. But the prepaid market has been stifled by a lack of access to new devices. Many of these services, which lease capacity from larger carriers, also don't offer the fastest 4G speeds.

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UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,v.Peter MATUSEWITCH, Appellant.
No. 959, Docket 72-2438.
United States Court of Appeals,Second Circuit.
Argued June 8, 1973.Decided June 22, 1973.Certiorari Denied Oct. 23, 1973.See 94 S.Ct. 297.

Alfred Lawrence Toombs, New York City, for appellant.
George E. Wilson, New York City (Peter L. Truebner, Asst. U. S. Atty., Whitney North Seymour, Jr., U. S. Atty., on the brief), for appellee.
Before HAYS, MANSFIELD and MULLIGAN, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:

1
This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction entered in the United States District Court for the Southern District after a non-jury trial.  Appellant Matusewitch was found guilty of failing to register with the Selective Service System in violation of 50 U.S.C. App. Sec. 462 (a).  He was sentenced to a term of 3 years in prison but


the judge suspended the execution of that sentence and placed the appellant on probation for 5 years upon condition that he register with the Selective Service within 30 days and perform service in the national interest during the probationary period.  The sentence was stayed pending this appeal and the appellant was released on his own recognizance.  We affirm the judgment of the district court but remand for reconsideration of the sentence imposed upon the appellant.

2
Appellant appeared at his Selective Service local board on his eighteenth birthday with a letter (which he submitted to the Selective Service clerk) stating that he did not intend to register.  He was accompanied by a group of people who supported his decision not to register.  It was clear fromhis actions, his statements and his letter that he would not register for the draft nor answer the questions on the registration form.

3
Matusewitch claims that he should have been registered involuntarily and that he should have been warned of the penal consequences of his non-registration.  However the local board was not required to assume the task of eliciting the required information from a subject who refused to cooperate.  Matusewitch had been a draft counselor at a local college and his letter to the local board indicates that he was fully aware of the consequences of his actions.

4
We also reject the appellant's contention that he was denied a fair trial by the conduct of the trial judge.  While the judge took a very active part in


Fear Alone

The two doctors stood side by side in the tiny room, facing the locked door on the other side of the one they had just entered through. The elder of the two quietly flipped through a number of pages in a leather-bound journal, while the younger anxiously adjusted and readjusted and made sure not to lock his knees. The light here seemed brighter, the younger might have noted, the air thick with something foreboding, had his mind not been racing through the millions of scenarios that might await him on the other side of the door. He had tried at conversation with the elder doctor earlier, but his nervousness had broken through and his voice had cracked, and the other man had raised an eyebrow and returnedto his notes.

It was as if an eternity had passed before they finally heard a voice crackle over the speakers in the room. Dr. Vandivier, the elder, raised an eyebrow yet again as Dr. Montgomery, the younger, jumped at the sound.

"Please state your name as it appears in the Foundation personnel database, and submit your Level 4 Foundation identification number and passcode." The voice spoke clearly, its tone indicating a lifetime of repetition.

Dr. Vandivier coughed slightly, and spoke. "Dr. Gregory Arnold Vandivier. Identification number 4511-12894-19-055. Passcode, 18840-12884-19078-00004."

There was the slightest of hesitations before the voice cut through again, asking the same of Montgomery. The elder doctor looked over to him, something akin to sympathy momentarily crossing his eyes. "Relax," he spoke softly. "Just recite the number."

Montgomery swallowed, took


a deep breath, and recited his own information. "Dr. Anderson Dean Montgomery. Identification number 9280-27112-17-054. Passcode-" A brief instance of doubt struck him, but passed when he saw Dr. Vandivier's reassuring nod. "16738-17489-13782-00004."

Both men stood silently again, the last of Montgomery's words hanging in the air. Another brief pause, another eternity, and then the door in front of them clicked.

"Enter, Dr. Vandivier and Dr. Montgomery."

The sliding panel moved quietly into the wall, and a dull wave of stale, recycled air passed over them. Montgomery was reminded of his time practicing within a prison, where every breath of the men in isolation hung around them like a shroud. The memory caused him to falter briefly, while Dr. Vandivier moved through the entrance.

"Come along, now," he said over his shoulder."We've not much further to go."

The two walked in silence down the long, white hallway. There were cameras every 50 feet, or so Montgomery had been told. The floor below them was tile, and every step echoed off of the walls around them, announcing their arrival like an army of tiny drummers. As the temperature dropped slightly, Montgomery could feel beads of sweat forming on the back of his neck, persistent in nature despite the chill.

Ahead of them was a set of double doors. To the side of the doors was a brass information plaque, like the dozens of others across the site. As they approached it, the etching on the plaque became visible, causing Montgomery's throat to catch.

Item #: SCP-231-7 Object Class: Keter

Vandivier was unfazed, and quickly


pushed through to the other side. Montgomery gave a moment of pause to take a deep breath, and then did the same. The scene on the other side of the door was fairly quiet, with a number of doctors standing around various displays looking at readouts and information that was being processed on the machines behind them. There was an air of solemnity about all of them, and the gravity of the room struck Montgomery like a ton of bricks. A clock on the wall read 19:45 in bright red numerals, and another to the side was counting down to zero.

A tall man in a white jacket noticed the two men, and strode quickly across to greet them. He shook Vandivier's hand first and exchanged some hushed words,He peered at the screens, observed the information about heart rate and EEG readouts, and for a moment felt comfortable. This was his element, his wheelhouse.

But then his eyes flicked to a screen containing a live ultrasound feed, and his own heart rate began to accelerate. He turned quickly to avoid letting his nerves show. "This looks just fine. What else am I going to be required to do?"

Dr. Targus smiled briefly, and then led him over to a large observation window. The window sat above a white room, the same room from the video feed, he imagined. A single door was on the side of the room to his right. He looked across the way, and saw other doctors and researchers standing on the other side of


"Relax, doctor. I think you'll find this assignment isn't so bad." With that, the tanned doctor walked off to a station across the command room. Montgomery paused for a moment more to look down into the observation room, where a group of nurses in white scrubs were rolling a small bed through the now-open door.

After a few seconds, he moved quickly to his station. Taking his seat, his eyes moved immediately to the video screen, and he watched the nurses setting up the rest of the room. A rug had been moved into the room, as well as a small table next to the bed, a lamp, and some bedding. Montgomery felt his stomach drop slightly, and then looked again towards the clock above the observation window. Itread 19:59, and the one next to it 00:24. It was almost time.

The screens in front of him hummed softly, and the information contained within pushed on tirelessly. He made a few notes and opened a booklet of information he had brought with him, and then heard the last tone.

"All staff personnel: Procedure 110-Montauk has begun."

He turned to look at the clock again, and noticed that large metal plates had slid down over the observation windows, obscuring the room from view. Looking back to his video feed, he saw that the lights within the room had dimmed, and the only illumination that remained was the lamp on the table. The door on the wall slid open again, and two more nurses walked out. A small girl was between


them.

She was no older than 8, Montgomery thought, and did not look exactly like he had thought she might. Her hair was cut very short, barely a highlight against her olive skin. She moved awkwardly, and it was then he noticed her stomach. It bulged against the surgical gown she wore, and turned her steps into an awkward, plodding gait. The nurses guided her towards the bed, and helped her up into it. One of them adjusted her pillow, and the other tucked in the blankets. Finished, one of the nurses leaned down and said something to the little girl, and then joined the other before exiting the room. Montgomery thought this peculiar, and wondered if anybody else in the room had noticed it.

He looked up as anothervoice crackled across the intercom. He recognized it as Dr. Targus, and saw him standing towards the center of the room, watching a series of screens before him. "SCP-231-7 is in place. Is the D-Class personnel ready?" There was a silence, and then, "Ok. Open the door, release the subject."

Turning back to his feed, Montgomery watched as a dark-skinned man in a standard Foundation grey jumpsuit walked slowly through the open doorway. As the door slid shut behind him, the man turned slightly and Montgomery saw that he had something in his hand. He squinted, trying to get a better look at it, but it was obscured when the man turned back towards the little girl in the bed. With every step he took towards the center of


the observation room, the hairs on the back of Montgomery's neck grew ever higher, and he could feel his blood pounding through his veins, screaming against them for release.

"D-55318," he heard Dr. Targus say, distantly. "You may begin."

Montgomery could not look away. His eyes would not allow it, although his mind clawed desperately towards something, anything else. The D-Class moved next to the bedside, and the small girl with the swollen belly looked up at him, naive to her impending fate, and smiled. Montgomery choked back a cry, but stopped suddenly when he saw the D-Class move a stool that had been hidden behind the little table up to the bedside. The man sat down, and through the mics within the observation room, he heard the man speak.

"Helloagain, Katherine," he said, his voice soft. "I brought you a new one tonight, it's called Goodnight Moon. Is that ok?"

The little girl nodded vigorously, and clutched a stuffed rabbit up next to her. The D-Class opened the book he had been holding, and began to read.

Montgomery could not move. He could not breathe. His eyes darted wildly around the room, trying to find another person as incredulous as he. He found none, as no one else had turned from their monitors at all. Everybody else in the room was going about their business as usual, making notes, speaking softly into their headsets. Even Dr. Targus had not budged, and if anything Montgomery might have said he looked bored.

He turned back towards his displays, and tried to make


notes about variations in her pulse, blood pressure, skin temperature, but couldn't pull his eyes away from the video feed. The D-Class continued to read through the book, bringing his voice up only slightly to emphasize certain passages.

This continued on for ten minutes, though to Montgomery it might as well have been a lifetime. He listened to every word, his mind racing. This is not what it was supposed to be. What's happening? What is this? He called back to when he first heard that he was being assigned to SCP-231. He remembered how his coworkers at Site-81 had talked, and tried to console him, told him that it wouldn't be too bad after the post-assignment amnestic treatment. He had heard the things that they said about 231,about the convicted sex-offenders required for the containment protocols, about what they did to the little girl…

That was not happening. The man looked hard, yes, and Montgomery could believe he was a felon. But he spoke easily, and had not once touched 231-7. He simply continued to read, all the while looking up occasionally at the little girl. She was moments from sleep, and before the D-Class had finished the book, she had passed out completely. The man laid the book down, stood up, rubbed the sleeping child's head slightly, and then walked out of the room. The lamp within the observation chamber dimmed, and the lights in the command room came back up. There was a buzz of approval around him, and when Montgomery finally managed to


pull his eyes away from the screen, he saw that the other staff members were finishing up procedure reports, signing the necessary documents, typing away at their computers, and otherwise not panicking. Montgomery spun quickly as he felt somebody come up behind him, and sighed when he realized it was just Dr. Targus.

The old man smiled again. "How are you, doctor? Did you notice any abnormalities with the subject?"

Montgomery grabbed his notebook and began flipping through it. "Uh, I- no. No abnormalities, nothing except, uh… except-" He trailed off.

"…Except that Procedure 110-Montauk was not what you were anticipating it to be."

The young doctor nodded. Targus pulled up a chair and sat down next to him. "Well, it's usually our policy to debrief new assignments, and if you hadn'tsat in silence as a number of other researchers filed past them into the hallway outside of the command room. Once most of them had passed, Montgomery spoke up.

"And the reading? The bedtime stories?"

Targus nodded. "Katherine cannot sleep without a bedtime story. How she manages to sleep at all is a wonder to me, but an act of some kind was required to convince the demon. In the eyes of the Scarlet King, Dr. Montgomery," he said, "reading those bedtime stories is the worst possible thing we could be doing to her."

Montgomery nodded, understanding dawning on him. He glanced back towards the steel plated observation room windows. "The steel plates, though? Not keeping staff members in the room?"

Targus opened his eyes. "The danger is still real, doctor. Loss


where the little girl was sleeping soundly in her bed, stuffed rabbit tucked between her arms. The young doctor felt the anxiety there, but beneath it was something else. The dread had vanished, but the fear remained, quiet and looming.

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A MAN who followed a woman and slapped her on her bottom "to get a thrill" and because "she had a nice bum" has been sentenced to eight months in jail.

Sean Cullen (23) followed the woman who was out walking on a summer's evening last July and when he caught up with her, he slapped her bottom.

He told gardai he was under the influence of drugs at the time and is deeply apologetic.

Cullen, of Ashton Avenue, Ashton Brock in Swords, pleaded guilty at Balbriggan District Court to sexual assault on July 26, 2011 at Drynam Road in Swords.

Garda Colum Donohoe gave evidence that the 27-year-old woman was out walking between 9pm and 9.30pm when she became aware of a male following her. She described him as putting hishead down each time she turned around.

“She began to walk faster and he sped up and when she slowed down, he slowed down,” said Gda Donohoe.

“She rang her boyfriend and while she was on the phone, the defendant came up behind her and slapped her on the bum. He then ran onto the road. The woman's boyfriend arrived quickly and confronted the man and called gardai,” added Gda Donohoe.

Cullen was arrested by gardai on December 12, 2011 and told gardai he “slapped her on the ass to get a thrill” and “she had a nice bum”.

Gda Donohoe told the court that Cullen, who has one previous conviction for theft, had spent ten to 15 minutes following the woman, who was in a terrified state.

Gda Donohoe agreed with defence


solicitor Fiona Darcy that Cullen was co-operative and apologetic when he was arrested.

Cullen, who is a currently unemployed window cleaner following an accident, was under the influence of drugs at the time which, said Ms Darcy, was the reason he committed the offence.

“He says it won't happen again,” said Ms Darcy. “He has learnt his lesson to stay away from drugs and he is worried sick as he did not think of the repercussions. He was so out of it and is deeply ashamed and apologetic.”

A letter of apology was handed into the court but Judge Dermot Dempsey remarked that Cullen “seems to have made very little effort as the letter is dated January 2013”.

Judge Dempsey said he could not see his way around a custodial sentence despiteAn Interview with Julia Ofman: The Complete Package (Center Worker)

JJulia Ofman, a Sophomore at Bates College, started working at the Package Center at the start of this semester. Not only does Julia find the job entertaining, but she also has garnered more organizational skills and conversation skills as well.

Last year, Julia noticed that her friend who worked in the package center was always having a good time, so she asked him to find out if there were any open positions. “I kept pestering him, and he pestered his boss, and at the end of short term Vinny, my current boss, and I met and had an interview.” The position requires an interview and a short application, and if you get the job, training began a few days before


Episode 11: Christmas Present

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Ray buys Debra an elaborate Christmas gift in the hopes that she will be so impressed, she will let himHaveri decked up for KJP's mega rally

Haveri, Dec 9, 2012 DHNS:

After severing his three-decade-long association with the BJP, former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa will don a new role, that of the head of a regional party, at a mega political convention in the north Karnataka town of Haveri on Sunday.

He will take over as the president of Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) from V Dhananjaya Kumar.

A large pandal has been erected on the Hallekeri Guddleppa college grounds here, where the former chief minister will formally launch his new political outfit in the presence of a huge crowd.

At least 200 chairs have been laid on the dais and, Yeddyurappa himself is not sure who and how many would eventually share the dais with him. Therefore, he has not got


sea of humanity. The administrative machinery has imposed traffic restrictions on all thoroughfares of the town.

Seating arrangement has been made for about one lakh people. The KJP has made arrangements to ferry people from various parts of the State to the rally. People are expected to arrive in Haveri in about 20,000 buses and private vehicles. Besides, a special train has been arranged from Mysore.

As people are expected to arrive since early in the morning, arrangements have been made for serving breakfast, “upma” and “sira” (kesaribath), for two lakh people at the venue. Vegetable “pulav” and “sira” would be served to about four lakh for the lunch. As many as 400 cooks in four teams have been put on the job. About nine lakh drinking water and three08/09 playoffs. Reid played for the DEG Metro Stars for three seasons becoming a fan favourite. He then returned to the Swiss club Rapperswil-Jona Lakers, signing in April 2010 and remaining until the end of the 2012 season.

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On Canada Day, in downtown Halifax, a small ceremony attended by perhaps 50 people was interrupted by five men wearing matching black polo-style shirts with yellow trim who identified themselves as members the "Proud Boys, Maritime Chapter."

The ceremony in question was held at the statue of Edward Cornwallis, the British general who founded Halifax in 1749 before quickly setting a bounty on the scalps of Mi'kmaqs, who happened to be living there and who he clearly preferred not be living at all.

The statue stands, along with the rest of Halifax, on traditional Mi'kmaq land, and that was largely the point of the quiet ceremony, which involved, in part, a woman named Chief Grizzly Mamma cutting off all her braided hair and laying it at the foot of thethink of the Proud Boys as a group of guys possessed of a seriously shaky grasp of history and a burning desire to wear the same shirt as the guy next to them, who want a white supremacist to tell them when they are allowed to masturbate.

It's not a fetish I've encountered before, but were the Proud Boys not also a far-right group of self-described "Western Chauvinists who will no longer apologize for creating the modern world," who are against "racial guilt" and who "venerate the housewife" and believe "that the last 50 years have been a disaster for women" (one doesn't have to be Alan Turing to break that code), I wouldn't kink-shame.

As it is, I have concerns.

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to Israel were posted.

In these videos, one of which was called "10 things I Hate About the Jews," Mr. McInnes variously put the word "Holocaust" in air quotes, complained that Jews, who he said "are ruining the world with their lies and their money and their hooked-nose, bagel-eating faces," have a "whiny paranoid fear of Nazis." He repeatedly spoke in a grotesque cartoon Jewish accent and said that people in Israel spit when they talk and that "Middle Easterners reek."

Ensconced in his hotel room in Israel, which he believes was likely paid for, along with the rest of his "propaganda tour," by private Israeli donors and the Israeli government, Mr. McInnes told viewers that while they "assume we're going to listen to all this shit we get fed"busy in the Proud Boy's founder's bizarre understanding of history. When not engineering the downfall of the Russian Czar, they were "disproportionately" influencing the Treaty of Versailles, forcing terribly unfair terms of surrender on Germany. The treaty "sucked and the Germans hated it" Mr. McInnes says, indicating that "Jewish intellectuals" were, at least in part, responsible for the Second World War, and the Holocaust, such as it was.

If this sounds extreme, anti-Semitic, or perhaps dangerous to you, it's okay: Mr. McInnes chortles when he says these things, allowing his fans to assure us that it's just harmless comedy.

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of Arpaio with cheers and applause. Arpaio is currently running for retiring Sen. Jeff Flake’s (R-AZ) seat in Congress.

Arpaio, who was pardoned by President Donald Trump in August and is currently facing a legal battle to get his record cleared, was convicted of contempt of court for violating court orders that barred his office from discriminatory policing practices.

The conviction came after Arpaio was sued for discriminatory practices, with the suit claiming that Arpaio’s department intentionally targeted and detained Latinos living in his county. His office was issued a court order to halt the racially discriminatory traffic stops, but he refused to change the department’s policing tactics.

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History

The circuit opened in 1974, named Autódromo Emilio Medici after the country's president at the time, and was built to provide a permanent home for motor racing in the relatively new city of Brasilia. Prior to this, races had been held on temporary street circuits in the city, although it was determined that a permanent circuit would be necessary to attract major events such as Formula One. Construction had begun in 1972 and took two years to complete, with the circuit being designed by engineer Samuel Dias.

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Contemporary Glass Enameling (book)

Contemporary Glass Enameling: Fusing with Powders, Paints, and Frit, released in March, is somewhat oddly named given the content. For example, it includes many techniques (e.g. pate de verre) which don't really qualify as "enameling". But title aside, Kay Bain Weiner covers lot of ground with the book. And though few techniques are covered in depth, the topics and photos are sure to get creative juices flowing.

The book is 169 pages and has over 200 color photos. Other topics covered include wet and dry enamels, paints, brushes, tools and more. Artists with work displayed in the book include Robert Leatherbarrow, Avery Anderson, Judith Conway, Dan Fenton, Steve Immerman, Peter McGrain, Kathleen Sheard and more.

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Asia
 March 1898 Japanese general election
 1898 Philippine Malolos Congress elections

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 1898 Danish Folketing election
 1898 Danish Landsting election
 1898 French legislative election
 1898 German federal election

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 1898 South Norfolk by-election

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Canada
 1898 British Columbia general election
 1898 Edmonton municipal election
 1898 Northwest Territories general election
 1898 Ontario general election

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 1898 New York state election
 1898 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election
 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1898
 1898 South Carolina gubernatorial election
 1898 United States House of Representatives elections
 1898 and 1899 United States Senate elections

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 1898 Argentine presidential election
 1898 Brazilian presidential election
 1898 Guatemalan presidential election

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New Zealand
 1898 City of Wellington


The LA area southward into Orange County was waist high with chest high sets at the best spots. Southward to San Diego waves were waist high. The North Shore of Oahu was flat. The South Shore was waist high. The East Shore was waist high.

The Gulf of Alaska is starting to stir with more on the charts. And the last real swell of the Summer Season is pushing it's way north towards Hawaii after making a good showing in Tahiti. This to result in good South Shore surf for Hawaii over the next few days and a combination of both North and South swells for California over the weekend. A bit of a break until early next week when a larger storm is forecast to push of thehere. A brisk north surface flow was blowing down the California coast at 25 kts centered off Pt Conception then turning west over the Hawaiian Islands in the 15-20 kt range. Short period windswell was the result. The first in a series of lows developed over the dateline on Sunday (10/2) with pressure 992 mbs and a tiny area of 40-45 kt winds aimed south just west of Hawaii but rapidly swinging into the south quadrant. The low pushed into the Gulf of Alaska on Monday (10/3) with winds confirmed at 35-40 kts and 19 ft seas aimed well at California and the Pacific Northwest. The low continued east on Tuesday, fading off the Central Canadian coast with winds 30 kts and seas barely up to 21 ft.


starts pushing south over the Aleutians and into the Gulf of Alaska with pressure 980 mbs. Winds forecast building to 45-50 kts centered at 50N 160W aimed right at North CA down the 308 degree path. Seas building to 30 ft pushing to within 1500 nmiles of the California coast and closer to the Pacific Northwest. This system to fade out on Thursday (10/6) as the low pushes into North Canada. Decent swell energy expected for the US West Coast late Saturday into Sunday (10/9) from North CA northward if this system develops as forecast. Only sideband energy pushing south into Hawaii with most energy passing east of the Islands.

California Offshore Forecast
On Tuesday (10/4) high pressure at 1024 mbs was tucked up against the California coast generating briskwith winds confirmed at 40-50 kts over a broad area roughly centered at 54S 160W aimed north and northeast towards Hawaii, Tahiti and California. Seas built to 30 ft centered near 48S 172W. No good Jason-1 satellite passes occurred to verify sea height info.

By Thursday AM (9/29) the system maxed out from a pressure perspective down to 936 mbs with some degree of 45-50 kt winds confirmed centered at 47S 168W aimed northeast with seas modeled at 32 ft centered at 47S 170W. These winds were aimed towards California up the problematic 205-209 degree path, and well up the 185-187 degree path to Hawaii. In the evening winds continued at 40-45 kts centered at 46S 168W. Seas mostly from previous days fetch were modeled at at 37 ft


centered at 46S 165W, again with the Society Islands providing shadowing problems for California.

A quick decay settled in Friday AM (9/30) as the storms core split in two with the southern core holding stationary while the northern core rotated around it tracking towards Antarctica. This directed the remaining wind energy towards Antarctica. Still some 40 kts winds persisted in the storms northwest quadrant aimed like before centered near 44S 156W but mostly out of the Hawaiian Swell window. Seas modeled at 35 ft centered at 43S 159W and fading fast. By the evening the systems is to rapidly decay with no additional fetch of seas being generated. Animation

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LizardStresser, a "DDoS" for hire botnet, has been given a new lease of life thanks to the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) and connected home devices, researchers say.

The distributed denial-of-service tool, created by the Lizard Squad group, has been used in attacks against targets ranging from online media publications to government agencies.

Botnets are systems based on controllers and compromised 'slave' systems which are commanded to flood online domains with traffic, most often used to disrupt these services in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

In 2015, the source code of the botnet was released to the public, leading to would-be cyberattackers alongside established threat actors seizing the opportunity to build their own botnets based on the LizardStresser framework.

Researchers from Arbor Networks' ASERT group have been monitoring activity concerning the botnetin particular. Believed to be the handiwork of a single group, their main focus is on Brazilian targets and gaming services.

The botnets launched attacks against multiple targets this year -- with one attack spiking at over 400Gbps from several thousand source addresses.

Two large Brazilian banks, two Brazilian telecommunications providers, two Brazilian government agencies and three large gaming companies in the United States have become the victims of DDoS attacks so far.

The traffic mainly came from Vietnam and Brazil, although other sources from compromised systems are scattered worldwide.

The team realized that almost 90 percent of the hosts involved in the slave network had an HTML title of "NETSurveillance WEB," which is generic code used by webcams with Internet access -- and not only are default credentials online, but telnet


Southern California -- this just in

150 firefighters called to battle UCLA lab blaze

A fire in a laboratory at the UCLA Center for Health Sciences was extinguished Monday after a 50-minute battle by nearly 150 firefighters, fire officials said.

The fire was located on the fifth floor of the center's building, in a lab with hazardous materials. No injuries were reported. Although the fire has been doused, eastbound traffic on LeConte Avenue remains diverted, UCLA said.

In 2008, a staff research assistant at the university was killed in a lab fire on campus.

Sheharbano "Sheri" Sangji, 23, was severely burned over nearly half her body when air-sensitive chemicals burst into flames, causing injuries that led to her death 18 days later.

The incident prompted the university to improve its safety procedures, including increasingin Christ Jesus.’ (Gal. 3, 28)

In the Catholic Church women, despite being equal to men by virtue of their Baptism, are excluded from all positions of decision making, and from ordained ministry. In 1994 Pope John Paul II declared that the exclusion of women from priesthood could not even be discussed in the Church. Pope Benedict reaffirmed, and even strengthened this teaching by insisting that it was definitive and that all Catholics were required to give assent to this view. Pope Francis has said that Pope John Paul II had reflected at length on this matter, had declared that women could never be priests and that, therefore, no further discussion on the ordination of women to ministry is possible. In reality, Pope John Paul II did not encourage


societies. It is also necessary to remember that women form the bulk of the congregation at Sunday Mass and have been more active in the life of the local churches than many men, mirroring the fidelity of the women who followed Jesus to the end, to his death on Calvary. The command of Jesus "Go, teach all nations" was addressed to all his followers, and by failing to accept the full equality of women, the church is not fulfilling this commission.

The strict prohibition on discussing the question has failed to silence the majority of the Catholic faithful. Survey after survey indicates that a great many people are in favour of full equality for women in the Church. But it has managed to silence priests and bishops, because thesanctions being imposed on those who dare to raise the question are swift and severe.

We believe that we can no longer remain silent because to do so colludes with the systemic oppression of women within the Catholic Church. So, in the spirit of Pope Francis constant encouragement of dialogue, we are calling for free and open discussion concerning the full equality of women in all facets of Church life, including all forms of ministry. If this were to happen, the credibility of the Catholic Church would gain strength, especially when it addresses women's issues

Pink Smoke Over the Vatican: Women Demand Greater Role in the Catholic Church (with Video)

DEMOCRACY NOW | A DAILY INDEPENDENT GLOBAL NEWS HOUR

with Amy Goodman & Juan González | March 14, 2013

While the world waited


for white smoke to flow from the Sistine Chapel chimney to indicate a new pope had been chosen, smoke of a different color began billowing into the sky over the Vatican. It was released by protesters demanding a greater role for women in the Catholic Church.

[includes rush transcript]

On Wednesday, Democracy Now! spoke with protest organizer Erin Saiz Hanna, executive director of the Women’s Ordination Conference, and with Janice Sevre-Duszynska, an excommunicated Catholic priest. "Jesus, I mean, he was certainly a feminist for his time," Sevre-Duszynska says. "He welcomed women, along with the rest of the marginalized and outcasts, at his table fellowship."

ERINSAIZHANNA: My name is Erin Saiz Hanna. I’m the executive director of the Women’s Ordination Conference. We are the oldest and largest national organization network for ordainedup, in the grassroots, from the bottom up, with the people of God, and that is with the ordination of women priests and inclusive liturgies and people giving homilies and a fruitful example of a great blessing in our tradition of our church.

Janice Sevre-Duszynska, an ordained Roman Catholic priest. She has been excommunicated, along with all of the world’s roughly 150 other female priests, because she is a woman. Sevre-Duszynska was detained by Italian police while protesting at the Vatican last week. Officers told theAFP they were questioning her "right to wear those vestments."

Pink Smoke Protest at the Vatican Calls for Women Priests

March 03.13 EuroNews: The smoke billowing into the Rome sky was neither white, nor black, but pink – to back the argument in favour of women


being able to be ordained as priests in the Catholic Church.

A group of several Catholic women – from Britain, America and Australia – gathered in Rome to protest against the continued exclusion of women from the priesthood.

The smoke they let off from small flares mimicked the puffs that will emerge from the Sistine Chapel chimney indicating whether cardinals have decided on a new pope.

“The Catholic church should be a healthy and vibrant place with equality, with both men and women called to the priesthood. Jesus did not exclude women. Jesus encouraged women and actively sought to include them,” said Miriam Duignan, Communications coordinator of the association ‘Women can be priests’. “So why do the cardinals who are supposed to represent Jesus, make a point of actively excluding women,of telling them to be quiet? And of criminalising anybody that speaks out in favour of women priests?”

The Women’s Ordination Conference has campaigned for female Catholic priests for over 30 years. But there is little sign among the frontrunners for pope that the issue will become a priority.

Women stage pink smoke protest in Rome as men-only conclave begins

BY CATHERINE HORNBY

ROMETue Mar 12, 2013 12:39pm EDT

(Reuters) - Protesters demanding a greater role for women in the Roman Catholic Church set off a pink smoke flare on a hill above the Vatican on Tuesday as the men-only conclave that will choose the next pope began.

Cardinals attend a mass in St. Peter's Basilica, in a picture released by Osservatore Romano at the Vatican March 12, 2013.

CREDIT: REUTERS/OSSERVATORE ROMANO

Mimicking traditional smoke signals


from the Sistine Chapel - white for a new pontiff and black for an inconclusive vote - the women also wore pink clothes and "Ordain Women" badges.

Some women argue that they already play an important role in the Church, teaching and caring for young Catholics and doing much of its missionary work, while others say exclusion from senior roles and the ban on women's ordination is out dated.

"The current old boys' club has left our Church reeling from scandal, abuse, sexism and oppression," said director of the Women's Ordination Conference, Erin Saiz Hanna, one of a small group assembled on the Janiculum hill overlooking St. Peter's.

"The people of the Church are desperate for a leader who will be open to dialogue and embrace the gifts of women's wisdomin every level of Church governance," she said.

The Vatican says women cannot be ordained priests because Jesus Christ willingly chose only men as his apostles. Advocates of a female priesthood say Jesus was merely conforming to the customs of his times.

Tuesday's protest in Rome followed a pink smoke rally in New Orleans over the weekend, with similar events planned in cities across the United States in coming days.

Last year, Pope Benedict restated the Church's ban on women priests and said he would not tolerate disobedience by clerics on fundamental teachings. Under his leadership, the Vatican cracked down on advocates of female ordination.

But some cardinals attending the conclave this week have spoken out about the need to review the role of women in the Church and the leadership positions


open to them.

Argentine Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, 69, told Reuters this month that women must have a much more important role in the life of the Church and be able to contribute in areas which are now only open to men.

UNDER-SECRETARIES

At present women, most of them nuns, can only reach the position of under-secretary in Vatican departments, the No. 3 post after president and secretary.

Currently only two women are under-secretaries: Sister Nicoletta Vittoria Spezzati and lay woman Flaminia Giovanelli.

Spezzati holds the post at the Vatican's department for religious orders, which is run by Brazilian Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz, who will vote in the conclave and is a potential compromise candidate for pope.

He has played a mediating role after the Vatican last year reprimanded American nuns for not doingenough to fight against abortion and gay marriage. He has also been credited with easing the heavy-handedness of his predecessor at the department who had complained about liberalizing trends in the Church.

Giovanelli works for the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace under Cardinal Peter Turkson from Ghana, the top African candidate for pope.

Some women who are tired of waiting for the rules to change have taken matters into their own hands. The Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests (ARCWP) say there are now more than 124 female priests and 10 bishops worldwide, though the Vatican considers them excommunicated.

Janice Sevre-Duszynska from the ARCWP, who attended the Rome protest in her white priestly robes, said if she met the next pope she would ask him for a follow-up to the