when she saw the huge piles of aged spiderweb waiting to be spun and learned the source of his silken thread.

"Hush, it is a great secret," he had told her, laughing himself. "There was a time when a Dwarf asked me if the great spiders of the Wood were tame or my pets, and he came closer than he knew. It was not so at the time, for they were all too numerous when the Shadow held sway over Mirkwood. We hunted them in those days to keep their numbers down, but since the fall of the Enemy and the burning in the Wood, we give them their own little sector and encourage them to breed. I find it a most ironic joke. Alas, they grow smaller witheach generation, and soon I shall be forced to find another way of making my money."

Sigrid had taken a hand at the weaving, and had become quite skilled at it, yet she took her greatest joy in the dying of the thread, using colors and compounds that the forest provided. Thranduil had been very pleased at the results of some of her experiments in mixing the dyes to create novel colors, and as she worked, she had developed friendships with some of the Elven artisans. Those, at any rate, respected her for more than the King's bed toy.

She wore cloth of her own design now, dressed Elven-fashion, as it pleased Thranduil to see her. Her riding habit now was a subtle grey-green of her own mixing, with a


split skirt over breeches that allowed her to sit astride. She looked over at Thranduil and smiled. His attire was the same green jacket he had worn when she first laid eyes on him. Elves did not seem to feel the need for change that Mortals did.

"I am just remembering when we first met. How happy I felt when I rode home behind you."

"It is a sweet memory for me too," he said. A wide grin split his face. "Galion, take Sigrid's reins and lead her horse. My love, come here. Ride pillion behind me, as you used to do." He held out his arms and drew her across to him. Sigrid settled herself on his horse's rump and put her arms around his waist. "Comfortable?"

"Very comfortable, Thranduil,"made good time. It took a fortnight down past the tip of the great wood, and yet another week until they reached the cyclopean statues on either side of the Great River, which marked the northern boundaries of Gondor. Beyond the Argonath, as Thranduil told her they were called, lay a wide lake, which they crossed by means of huge rafts. This lake reminded Sigrid of the Long Lake, but the falls at the southern end of it, split by a tall spur of rock, dwarfed the falls of the Celduin.

"It will be easier from here on," Thranduil said, as they and their horses carefully negotiated a steep and winding portage path on the western side of the falls. "The river becomes wide and deep enough for the


barges that will carry our horses, and indeed, the land turns marshy. The going is best by water."

As she watched the horses being led aboard and noted their discomfort at being upon the shifting decks, Sigrid asked, "Was there no other route we might have taken?"

Thranduil nodded, and his face was grave. "We might have veered to the east and bypassed the lowlands, and indeed, I have taken that route in days long past. But I have no wish to see those lands again."

"No, Sire, never again," Galion echoed, and his slate-dark eyes held a sadness that matched his King's.

On the leg of the journey from Cair Andros to Ithilien, Sigrid put her foot down and insisted upon riding her own horse. This was the land of KingElessar. Things were done differently than in the Wood, and as much as she enjoyed the physical closeness with Thranduil, she was not about to embarrass his son by riding in behind her lover's saddle like some prize of war. Even so, as the woods of Ithilien closed in about them, she almost wished she could cling to Thranduil for comfort, for she feared the journey's end.

"When first I saw these trees, over a hundred years ago, they were stunted, pitiful things," Thranduil said. "The creatures of the Enemy had laid their foul curse over all the land, and it was in agony. For an Elf, especially a Wood-elf, it was a hard thing to see. As much as the absence of my son grieves me, he has


worked miracles here. I am very proud of him."

"It would not come amiss for you to tell him that once in a while, Sire," Galion said.

Sigrid saw Thranduil look to his side, where his valet rode, almost even with the two of them. Dear, kind, Galion, she thought. With the three of them abreast, it made it seem as if she might be just another servant rather than a person of dubiously special status. "Oh, yes, Galion," he laughed, seeming not affronted by the impudence, "you may be sure that on this visit I will be telling him that at every opportunity."

The woods were beautiful indeed. Here in the south, the spring had further advanced. The woodland shrubs were in full bloom, with flowers of shades from whiteto dark crimson, and there were yet others with pale purple blooms filling the spring air with a sweet fragrance. The grass beneath the feet of their mounts grew a vibrant emerald. As they rode, Sigrid began to hear a faint singing coming from the treetops, growing louder as they progressed. Thranduil threw back his head and joined the song in his deep joyful baritone. "When blossom like a shining snow is on the orchard laid; when shower and Sun upon the Earth with fragrance fills the air . . ."

Sigrid began to hear a silvery tenor ringing out from among the other voices, louder than the rest. "I'll linger here and will not come because my land is fair . . ."

A turn in the path revealed


a clearing. She blinked. A palace stood there, so delicate in its lines that it seemed almost to be an illusion, as if it belonged to the forest itself, made of leaf and air, rather than stone. A young man with pale flaxen hair stood on a broad terrace in front of the door. Not a man; an elf.

Thranduil dismounted his horse and went to meet him, taking the steps at a bound. They stood staring for a moment and then embraced, the strange elf laying his cheek on Thranduil's shoulder.

"Ada."

"My son."

Sigrid watched, feeling her heart plummet. So this was Legolas. She could see Thranduil in him; there was no mistaking it, for the two of them together were like a sapling beside a mature tree. They wereof a height, although Legolas had the more slender build and his hair was two shades lighter than his sire's bright gold. But his delicate beauty caught at her heart. This came from his missing half; his mother. She must have been exquisite to have produced such a son. Sigrid felt tears prickling at the edges of her eyes.

She and Galion had dismounted and followed Thranduil. "It is good to see you once more, dear friend," Legolas said, breaking away from Thranduil and laying a hand on Galion's shoulder. He turned his mild gaze in her direction.

"This, Legolas, is Sigrid," said Thranduil softly, but there was no mistaking his tone. "She is dear to me, son."

If Legolas felt surprise, he showed not a hint of it. He took


her hand and inclined his head graciously. "Well met, Mistress Sigrid."

Oh yes, it was easy to see how a woman could lose her heart to him, Sigrid thought, looking into his pale blue eyes. Yet strangely, while she could appreciate his manly beauty, she felt not in the least moved by it. Her love and her passion were only for her Lord. She stammered out a greeting, unsure of exactly what she said. Legolas was his father's son, and above all she could sense his underlying kindness. She no longer feared him, and that was enough.

"You can let go of her hand now," Thranduil said gently. "Well, I like what you've done with the place. This terrace is new since last time, am I right?"

"Twenty years gives opportunitysame as last time."

The two men shut the door and proceeded on, leaving Sigrid alone in the chamber. She washed her hands and face and dried them on a soft towel. The room was on the third floor, and the single window looked out into the canopy of trees. The scent of the purple flowers blew in on the warm breeze. Sigrid looked out for a time, down onto a walled garden with espaliered fruit trees and other shrubs. Then she went and sat down on the bed. The narrow bed.

She sighed. Had she truly expected to be treated any differently than Galion or the other servants? At the very least, her stay in Ithilien would be restful, although Sigrid felt she would miss lying beside Thranduil. She


had grown accustomed to his comforting presence in the night, even though he tended to steal the covers and nick the backs of her ankles with his toenails. With a smile, she recalled Asa making the same complaint about Wulf years before. Truly, when it came to sleep, all men were alike; the similarities between Elf and Mortal exceeded the differences.

"Surprise!"

Sigrid looked up to see Thranduil in his shirtsleeves silhouetted in a connecting doorway, an impish grin upon his face.

"I must have raised my son right, for he and his butler are both thoughtful and discreet. I daresay no one will take any note of who sleeps where. We will use this room to store the clothing, for the bed in the next one is much more tomy liking." With that, he scooped her up and carried her into the adjoining chamber.

"You see? This bed is much better," he said, dropping her upon it.

It was a large bed, big enough for three men the size of Thranduil and covered in soft linen. The room was larger too, with two windows looking out over the trees.

"You are still in your riding clothes. Let me remedy that." Thranduil unfastened her skirt and unlaced her breeches, sliding them down her hips and pulling them off her feet. "I will be your lady's maid for now. There, is this not better?"

"Oh . . . yes," she said as his hand stroked up her bare thigh. Thranduil had not proved to be much of a lady's maid though, for he


had thrown her trousers into the corner. "Mmmm . . . my love, have a care. Galion may come in upon us."

"Galion knows better," he laughed. "Ears, flask, desk? Besides, you and I taught him his lesson the first time. He will knock and wait for an answer before entering." He began to undo the fastenings of her jacket and the thin shirt she wore beneath that.

"Thranduil, I will be cold," she said as he slid her shirt and jacket off her shoulders. Her upper garments quickly joined her riding breeches on the floor.

"Then my arms will be your blanket." He had stripped off his shirt, and his bare skin against her chest burned like a brand. "Warm enough now?"

"Mmmm. These walls seem thin. Someone may hear us."

"Thenbut she had declined, wishing to give father and son as much time alone on this visit as possible. And even had she not been so sensitive to the needs of her Lord, it was her moon time, those days when she wished for nothing more than to curl up with a pillow against her stomach and be left alone. Thranduil had learned early on to give her a wide berth at such times, and it was during these five to seven days each month that most of the Woodland Realm's work was conducted, with time left over for hunting and fishing.

Thranduil had said that his son had a secret bookish side to his nature, and Ithilien's library bore this out. The shelves held books for every taste,


and the rooms were divided into nooks and crannies where a person could take a volume aside for an hour or so of quiet relaxation.

Sigrid had come across a window seat, with soft cushions and heavy hangings. The book she had found was perhaps not the deepest in the collection, but she had found that she could read, and once she could read, her journey through the pages proved as joyous and free as that of a fish through water. She had put her feet up and lost herself in the tale when voices roused her.

"I tell you, Glavras, it is a scandal. Our King neglects his duties to dally with a Mortal leman, and it is the talk of the realm. You are well to be outlearn some wisdom. Thranduil is like his son. The days of those they love are finite. Would you begrudge either of them the precious time spent with those who are soon to be gone? Especially Thranduil who led us through the dark years with no respite and nary a protest?"

"I fail to see why he cannot ease himself with his valet like a respectable widower," Heledir grumbled. "And if that will not suffice, why a Mortal woman? This one is like unto Queen Lalaithiel as a shiny pebble is to a jewel! At home, it is whispered that he has gone mad to put her in the late queen's place, and bringing her here to inflict this disgrace upon his son merely confirms it."

Sigrid shut her eyes. Asa


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Insights into the Torah view on various issues.

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Rabbi Dr. Raymond Apple

Rabbi Dr Raymond Apple AO RFD is Emeritus Rabbi of the Great Synagogue, Sydney. He is now retired and lives in Jerusalem, where he publishes OzTorah, a weekly email list and website with Torah insights from an Australian perspective.

According to the Torah, everyone must have knowledge, but the Shema ordains that this is to be imparted by the father. If, however, a child had a father who was unable to teach him, or if he was an orphan, there had to be community provision for education.

Possibly the people of Israel were the first to institute compulsory education for all. The system is attributed to Yehoshua ben Gamla, kohen gadol just before


the revolt against the Romans. He is said to have prevented the Torah from being forgotten.

The Jerusalem Talmud on the other hand argues that Yehoshua was preceded by Shimon ben Shetach, who is said to have restored the Torah to its glory.

How can both men be credited with the same idea?

The answer could be that it began with Shimon ben Shetach and was consolidated by Yehoshua ben Gamla, who formulated a series of regulations governing teachers and pupils.

The subjects of study were both religious and secular – or rather, the overall theme was religious, which was a broad umbrella that covered all the things we today call secular like mathematics, anatomy, literature and language.

Religion was the overarching concern, since all wisdom and knowledge emanated from God and ledgeneral election until after a no-deal Brexit was ruled out.

That sets the stage for another battle: whether, and when, to hold a general election. The vote on the snap general election is expected to take place between 9 p.m. and the early hours of Tuesday morning.

The success of the no-deal legislation is due in no small part to the decision last week by 21 members of Mr. Johnson’s Conservative Party to defy him on the question of whether to leave without a deal. They were expelled from the party for their defiance.

The Tory revolt against Mr. Johnson, and his ruthless purging of the rebels, have reverberated through British politics, threatening his hold on power.

The prime minister and many of his allies say that Britain must preserve the possibility


break — or just getting it done,” the Irish prime minister, Leo Varadkar, said to Mr. Johnson, throwing his own words back at him.

On a chilly, gray day, with the Irish and British flags flapping behind them, Mr. Varadkar and Mr. Johnson both spoke of the need to find solutions. But the gulf between them seemed wide.

The Irish border remains the biggest barrier to a Brexit deal. All sides want to avoid the imposition of significant checks between Ireland, a member of the European Union, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. A hard border could renew sectarian tensions that raged for decades.

Mr. Johnson has rejected the so-called backstop agreement reached by his predecessor, Theresa May, which would all but keep Northern Ireland inside theincome for the year 1929 of the sum of $21,246.60, being the value of 20,830 "rights" to subscribe to stock in the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Fire Corporation, which were allotted him as a stockholder in the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company. The Board of Tax Appeals disallowed the assessment, and the Commissioner has filed this petition for review. The facts of the case were accurately and succinctly stated by the Board as follows:
"On January 15, 1929, the petitioner Bartlett owned 20,830 shares of common stock of the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co., hereinafter referred to as the Guaranty Co., a Maryland corporation engaged in the business of issuing fidelity and surety bonds and casualty insurance policies. Stock *599 of the Guaranty Co. was widely


25,000 by certain financial institutions and individuals who were to serve as directors of the new company. The plan agreed upon was carried out and on November 27, 1928, the United States Fidelity Fire Corporation, hereinafter referred to as the Fire Co., was chartered under the laws of Maryland.
"At a meeting of the board of directors of the Guaranty Co. on November 21, 1928, the following resolutions were adopted:
"Resolved, that the Company purchase fifty thousand (50,000) shares of the capital stock of the United States Fidelity Fire Corporation of the par value of ten dollars ($10.00) per share, at and for the price of forty dollars ($40.00) per share; and be it further
"Resolved, that there be offered to the stockholders of the company of record as of theGuaranty Co. on November 21, 1928, and explained that the rights must be exercised on or before February 15, 1929. On or before that date the Guaranty Co. received subscriptions and payment for stock of the Fire Co. in the total amount of 25,000 shares. On February 15, 1929, $1,000,000 was paid over to the Fire Co. by the Guaranty Co. and 25,000 shares of stock were issued by the Fire Co. directly to the subscribing stockholders. The Fire Co. received $4,000,000 for its 100,000 shares of capital stock and started business on March 1, 1929.
"No certificate or certificates were ever issued to the Guaranty Co. representing the 25,000 shares of stock of the Fire Co. which were purchased by the former's stockholders. Lists of such subscribers showing


which was offered to its stockholders, and the taxpayer had sold the rights to purchase allotted to him. The question was whether he was taxable on the amount received from the sale of the rights, in view of the fact that the stock without the rights was worth just that much less and that, if he had sold both at the prevailing price, he would have sustained a loss. The court held, and we think properly, that he was taxable on the amount received from the sale of the rights. Certainly if he was taxable upon the amount received from the sale of rights to purchase stock in the same company, as was held in Miles v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co., supra, he was taxable when theIn search of something real.

Howard and Polly held hands as they made their way through the pines and firs to the cliff edge where the strange lights had been seen for three weeks running. The crazy-looking science guy on the news had said that similar lights had been observed in more than 11,000 locations worldwide; even the Halley VI research station in Antarctica had reported sightings over the Weddell Sea. Credit: JACEY

The city's edgelands were eerily quiet; most people had gravitated towards the built-up centres where the gathered multitudes offered a comforting, if false, glimmer of security. Others just stayed at home with loved ones to wait and hope and maybe pray that what was coming wasn't really coming.

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the forest trail, Howard couldn't keep the thought out of his mind that he never again wanted to let go of this sweaty little hand. They were both out of breath when the track levelled off and gave way to a wide stretch of grass and then bare rock that led to the cliff's edge.

They stopped a few feet from the precipice. Howard kicked a small stone into the darkness but didn't hear it land. He could see across the ravine to the cliff on the opposite side. There were people there too, stick-like in the twilight distance. Maybe ten in all.

For weeks the talking heads on TV had been telling the world that no one knew what the cause of the increasingly strange phenomenon was, or whatpolicy in 2012 at Royal Lytham & St. Annes.

Now it has Wi-Fi networks, routers, live streaming, geofencing. Is there anything still ancient about the Royal & Ancient?

“Me,” Dawson said with a smile.

He retires next year after 16 years as chief executive, the last few years filled with technology changes he never imagined. He still likes the balance between old and new. The Open still is played on the same turf where Old Tom Morris and Willie Park Sr. vied for championships. The claret jug has been passed around for 86 years.

“But I think in the modern era,” Dawson said, “the way that people now embrace this technology is something that golf also has to embrace.”


[The Briochés: a family of marionette operators].
In the 17th and 18th centuries, empiries were travelling in Europe, coming, in majority from actual Italy. To attract the crowds, they put up boards on the street and play some pantomimes, parades or improvised scenes. In the 17th century this street show, little or none at all printed, was in a normal way in the day life. In the 18th century this street show is still alive and whole families as the Brioché, the Contugi, the Toscano, the Ricci, the Borsari have transmitted the art of the stage and the empiric practice. A few individuals of these families moved from empirics to be graduate dentists. In other families of dentists as the Talma or Fauchard it is the stage which broughtAll Eyes On: Lianne La Havas

The title of Lianne La Havas’ debut, Is Your Love Big Enough?, poses a juggernaut of a question. The answer is wholly dependent on who’s listening to the British newcomer’s delicate odes to flirtation, doubt, and requisite heartbreak.

Decades in the Making

Born right on the edge of the ’80s, La Havas grew up during the melody-heavy ’90s and then soaked up the independent-woman mantras of the early 2000s. The 23-year-old singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist wrote her first song at 11 years old, and broke into the music industry after dropping out of college and meeting singer Paloma Faith, for whom she eventually sang backup.

Under the Influence

Though La Havas’ parents separated when she was a very small child, her music is thankfully devoid of pitiful ditties about divorce.


NORWICH — Add King Arthur Flour to the growing list of Vermont locations where owners of electric vehicles can get a charge.

The Norwich campus where the iconic flour miller has its bakery, school, cafe and store now features a charging station to serve the growing number of electric cars in Vermont.

The charging station — built in cooperation with Green Mountain Power — is paired with a 10-kilowatt solar power array, meaning that cars charging at the station will be running on energy from the sun.

There were 282 electric vehicles registered in Vermont as of July 1, up from 88 a year earlier.Career

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out-of-town work-related training session when Mrs. Brown died in a one-vehicle automobile accident. Mrs. Brown's co-worker was the driver of the automobile. As a result of the accident, the appellant filed the lawsuit against Mrs. Brown's employer. The circuit court entered a summary judgment order finding the employer immune from liability.
As set forth below, we affirm the circuit court's order.

*200 I.
Leah Brown was employed by the appellee, the City of Wheeling ("the City"), as a 911 dispatcher. As part of an agreement between the City and the West Virginia State Police, all of the City's 911 dispatchers were required to receive bi-annual training and certification to use certain dispatching equipment.
On September 9, 1997, Mrs. Brown and a co-worker rode together in the co-worker's personal vehicle from Wheeling tothe Act. For instance, in Canoy v. State Compensation Comm'r, 113 W.Va. 914, 170 S.E. 184 (1933), we held that a coal miner, required by his employer to cross a public highway to reach his employer's job site, was in the course of his employment when he was fatally struck by a vehicle while crossing the highway. We stated in the Syllabus of Canoy that:
Injury or death of an employee of a subscriber to the Compensation Fund occurring upon a public highway and not on the premises of the employer, gives right to participate in the fund, when "the place of injury was brought within the scope of employment by an express or implied requirement of the contract of employment, of its use by the servant in going


the lives of high school athletes.

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Two high school seniors weaved their way at breakneck speed through a crowd of small children. Shawn scrambled to and fro, doing his best to escape from Alex. He wasn’t afraid. In fact, he laughed loudly and made the funniest taunting faces. He let his friend get close enough for a tag and then poured it on to pull away. They were playing a boyhood versionof cat and mouse. Except in this case, Shawn, the mouse, had the edge in size and body power. He towered over Alex by at least several inches. His torso appeared solid and muscular.

Alex might have been shorter and lighter, but he had all the requirements of a top-notch athlete, including muscles that rippled in all the right places. Unlike Shawn, who had a rough jock exterior, Alex had the façade of a rock star with his shaggy blond hair, baby blue eyes, and wide, gleaming smile.

As the cat closed in on his prey, Shawn pulled off a series of strategic maneuvers. He sidestepped to the left and then swerved to the right. Somewhere along the way, he tripped over an invisible root and lost his balance.

“Wha-wha…. Oh,


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Trent Hanson is a figure skating phenom adored by millions around the world. His whole life has been dedicated to the sport he loves even when the sport - and his own family - have turned against him. From the playground to the Olympics to his parent’s living room, Trent has fought against bullies and homophobes to be the out and proud gay man he is. But the constant fighting has left Trent tired, lonely, and skittish. All those fears will have to be shelved though when he’s hired to spend the summer working with the Harrisburg Railers ice hockey team. Who would have guessed that the man fate has decided to pair him off with is Dieter Lehmann, all-around sex…

TrentHanson is a figure skating phenom adored by millions around the world. His whole life has been dedicated to the sport he loves even when the sport - and his own family - have turned against him. From the playground to the Olympics to his parent’s living room, Trent has fought against bullies and homophobes to be the out and proud gay man he is. But the constant fighting has left Trent tired, lonely, and skittish. All those fears will have to be shelved though when he’s hired to spend the summer working with the Harrisburg Railers ice hockey team. Who would have guessed that the man fate has decided to pair him off with is Dieter Lehmann, all-around sex…


made 16 league and cup appearances, scoring three goals. But Polo has made less of an impact since then, making just 10 league and cup appearances and failing to find the back of the net.

He has previously been on the books of Colombian side Millonarios, Serie A's Inter Milan, and both Universitario and Universidad de San Martin.

Polo will be expected to provide more of a pure wide presence as he looks to augment the attacking play of Sebastian Blanco, Fanendo Adi, and reigning league MVP Diego Valeri.Excision repair of uracil-containing DNA in a mitochondrial extract of Xenopus oocytes.
A mitochondrial extract of Xenopus oocytes was prepared to characterize DNA repair reactions operating in mitochondria. We asked whether and how uracils, spontaneously formed in DNA as a result of cytosine deamination, would be repaired in the extract. When a 40-mer oligonucleotide duplex with a single deoxyuridine at position 21 was incubated in the extract, incision took place at the 5' side of the lesion, and the uracil-containing strand was mostly cleaved within 15 min. Subsequent repair DNA synthesis produced DNA fragments of various sizes. Analysis of these repair intermediates indicated that the 3' border of the repair patches was at position 22. Completion of the repair reaction however was rare in this system, due in part


change the open fire regulations immediately!” Regevwrote in a Facebook statement.

“Anyone who tries to harm Israeli civilians and soldiers needs to know his blood is in his head,” Regev continued, using a Hebrew expression to convey that the Palestinians who assaulted the soldier are fair game for shooting.

A spokesperson for the IDF said Friday that Palestinians were to blame for the incident: “A violent disturbance of the peace in Nabi Saleh, in which Palestinians threw stones at IDF forces that were in the place.” The spokesperson added that the soldier was attempting to detain 12-year old Mohammed Tamimi after he allegedly threw stones at the Israeli military.

For the Tamimi’s the brawl was a victory, and celebrated across the front pages of Palestinian newspapers on Saturday. The footage andstills show a soldier applying force against a Palestinian boy with a casted arm in an attempt to arrest him. Yet the arrest does not take place, as a half dozen female Palestinian, including young girls, slap, bite, bash and choke the soldier who calls for back-up, but ultimately abandons arresting the boy.

There is a bit of folklore around the Nabi Saleh protesters. The town’s children are known to chase down soldiers during protests, and punch, hit, and kick them. In 2012 Ahed Tamimi—the girl in the pink shirt and braids in the video above, then 12, was filmed throwing a right-hook at a soldier. She was later honored by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with an award in courage.

Regev is a former spokesperson for the Israeli army.


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There are at least five bands with the name Catwalk: 1. An indiepop band from Oxnard, California started by Nick Hessler in 2005. The group is currently recording an album to be released on Captured Tracks. 2. The jazz/funk quintet described below: 3. Finnish hard-rock band from 80's. 4. A British indie act fronted by ex Melody Maker journalist Chris Roberts. Released the single 'Damascus' which was also featured on Indie Top 20 Volume 14 in 1992. 5. A Mongolion dance/girlgroup.2015 It's friendship and challenges

Each year brings its own ups and downs and this one has certainly been an interesting one. From seeing a cow and calf moose on a regular basis when we went to
see George and Marlene and later in January, rain and water running over the roads (which turned to ice), to having an absolutely glorious fall with very little snow and temperatures above zero
most days IN EARLY DECEMBER it's been environmentally surprising. From a broke down truck at the start of the year to Marilyn's recent emergency appendectomy in December it has been a bit nerve
wracking. I have felt very pleased to very anxious, delighted to overwhelmed. I'm learning to observe my reactions to situations, not judge them, merely note that I am happy


to Fort Saskatchewan to visit the McLean's. We helped to celebrate Elissa's 5th birthday, complete with a unicorn birthday cake. On the way
home we also visited my great-nephew & his mom; Granny's first great-grandson was wide awake, played and let Granny feed him some lunch, much to her delight.

On the Equinox (Mar 21) the helpers from M's Ms, Two Bar C and Winning Ways had an opportunity to play road hockey at the "Winter Festival" in Dorintosh. That's
something most Europeans haven't done. Again the weather was mild at the end of the month and M's Ms crew were over to help move the yearling heifers, so of course we had to go for another Trail
Ride down to the Lake, this time over to the Old Highway and backand neither has anyone else. The ranchers were elated with this
situation but still rubbing their eyes like they couldn't believe what they were seeing.

Finally the cows started calving and the crew was busy checking and tagging newborns. The old barn, that the crew started demolition on in 2014, was steadily going
down. As usual we had a bottle calf (Bruce) to keep helpers amused and busy. There were two groups of school children who came for AAL or regular riding lessons and they provided
challenges and triumphs--temper tantrums and big smiles. The staff and volunteers that helped with these lessons always felt that they had contributed something to a child's life when the
lessons were over.

May Day, Vawn and her girls came for a long weekend break from the city and


had an opportunity to visit with family and friends. Our first lamb was a day late for
May Day, but he was sure cute! He was covered in glossy, curly black wool with a star and a tipped tail-- the crew settled on Haribo for a name. His mother, Fleckie, was not amused
when he tried to suckle and so we haltered her and distracted her with oats so he could drink. That process went on for several days until one morning the crew found Fleckie dead!
Possibly she choked on some oats. In any case, although Krafty had also had her little black lamb, Oden, a few days before, she was not feeding more than one, so we had a bottle lamb.
Haribo quickly became a yard pet and would runthe North Ranch and happy to relax. But ..... there were still lessons to teach and the trail course to be improved when the crew returned to the ranch yard. The next
day we helped out with the Prairie 'n' Forest Club's Open House at the Stampede Grounds in Meadow Lake. The town kids got to pet, brush and generally learn about the different equines that the
Club had on display. Of course we took Teddy and Flash, who love kids.

Winning Ways participated in the Meadow Lake Rodeo Parade with our decorated truck and three young riders. Although we were with the Prairie 'n' Forest Club
riders (who were mostly M's Ms and Winning Ways helpers) there were the students riding with Kelly. The English style tack and apparel very nearly


disguised me and several people
later asked who that English rider was.

Rodeo Week continued with the crew moving cows, going to the 4-H Show & Sale, tagging calves (even the hard to catch one), and having a Trail Ride at the North
Ranch. Nancy was involved with the set up for the Rodeo since she joined the Rodeo Committee. The Winning Ways Kids all got their participation goodie bags and our Youth riders won
some bling (shiny buckles) in the Extreme Trail Challenge Competition. The whole Winning Ways crew attended the first two nights of Rodeo (one of our crew even participated!) and I went back on
the last evening with my Prairie 'n' Forest presidential duty of presenting the beautifully stamped halter (done by our own Renee Marshall) to the MissCongeniality winner, Niceena Parsons.
The next day was Winning Ways Open House to celebrate National Horse Day. There were over a dozen 'new' kids out to have a ride, several of the regular students demonstrated their
ability to negotiate obstacles and the whole sheep family escaped just for fun! That evening we had supper on the lawn with cats, dogs and Haribo! There was a blog post about our fun,
please have a look.

Lessons continued through the rest of June. Cows continued to calve and tags got put in little ears. It finally rained--almost an inch--but the thirsty
ground soon soaked that away. In the middle of June Vawn and her girls visited us for a weekend. They rode and the grandgirls got to play with their friends, while Vawn enjoyed
teaching and


On the
last day of June the last calf of the 2015 season arrived and we were finished early morning maternity rounds. :>)

Canada Day saw the crew load up 4 horses and the decorator side boards for the truck and we headed over to Loon Lake for the Canada Day parade. Afterwards we went
down to Jumbo Beach with M's Ms crew and had a picnic lunch. Later that evening a group of us sat in the Lion's Park and watched the stage show and fireworks put on by the city of Meadow
Lake. I do feel blessed to live in Canada, where there is clean air and water, a fantastic amount of natural beauty and the folks are friendly.

The environment was very dry at the beginning of July and rainMy niece, Amanda, managed to step on a nail and I learned that I need to have a
backup plan in preparation for when a student might have to go to the emergency room. The nurse was kind and made sure Amanda got the required tetanus shot.

Winning Ways held a Summer School program for 8 students the last week of July. They had missed the earlier Stampeder's Camp so we had several little ones and
their older siblings riding in the mornings for another week. My niece returned to the ranch for the long August weekend and had more adventures (of the good kind) riding at the North Ranch
and Trail Riding. I took Marilyn on her favourite Trail Ride--The Blueberry Patch when the berries are ready! Cassidy competed in another


several helpers arrive about that time, so Winning Ways was a hive of activity, horses being washed, jumps being
constructed and painted, courses set up (both jumping and trail class), helping prepare the show grounds, haul the horses, set up trailers.....oh yes we were busy! This year the sun shone
on both days and the Show was very pleasant and comfortable. Winning Ways riders were in many classes and won many ribbons. I was very delighted with Flash, our star equine. In
the Costume Class, he was turned into a spider and never spooked when his long, black legs wobbled all around him. Then he went out in the Junior Trail Class and walked through the water
obstacle that spooked all but one other horse (that was in the Senior Class). Thejudge was ready to take him home but didn't think he had enough $$ to do so. ;>)

The last day of August, after the McLeans left to return to school in Fort Saskatchewan, a part of the Winning Ways crew headed up to the Provincial Park. We
rode with Howard at Tall Timber Trails for 3 hours past 4 lakes and ended up with a wiener roast at the cabin when we got back. I think the highlight of the day (or perhaps evening) was
when I sent a helper off to change the gates when we returned from the Park. It was dark, but there was moonlight and he was so proud that he got to go by himself out into the fields.
Several of the helpers had to leave


September 1, so over a couple days there was a huge reduction in the population at Winning Ways.

Over the summer Nancy found a property that she liked. It is on the east side of the Makwa River, beside Highway 55 just outside of Rapid View. She put
a bid in on it and bought it. That meant that at the beginning of September she could move into her own place. She fixed up the little house and moved her critters over there. (Except
her ducks, who still live in the barn at Winning Ways.) Not only did she find herself a new home but also a man. She lives at her little ranch with Grant, Zorro, Lotta, her cow (who's going
to have twins) and several other cattle. She still worksat Home Hardware, truck driving and helping customers in the yard, occasionally she gets an inside job.

The first weekend of September we organized a Trail Ride with 16 riders. Part of the ride went completely around Nesset Lake, through what is now known as
Mule Crossing from an earlier excursion with that equine. Previously, the mule thought she would never make it through the boggy spot and sorta laid down and gave up. Once upon a time
I was told that mules are sure-footed creatures, capable of traversing most anything. Well, my experience tells me that I'd rather trust a sure-footed old Appaloosa any day! Just sayin'!
The majority of the riders went around the south end of the lake and up the Memorial Trail, only they had to cross the


a
movie being filmed at a "western town" movie location and looked at the famed diner in High River where "Heartland" is filmed. We went shopping ..... we didn't sit still too often.

Fall Lesson Series had us busy with around 30 students coming for lessons every day but Friday and Sunday. The rest of September was busy too--I don't know
where we found time to do everything! The Prairie 'n' Forest Club held a Play Day with team games, even Marilyn and Kelly got to play. The Winning Ways crew went to M's Ms to help them
trail drive their cows back home. Later we went to the Two Bar C and helped with the round-up, sorting and their heifer pregnancy check. We moved the herd at the North Ranch downat M's Ms. In return we brought home a couple of loads of bales which were
a real boon later in the fall. Although October was not all that cold it was certainly fall-like and the riding students began to feel the chill in the evening. We finished the Fall
Lesson Series by the Thanksgiving long weekend. A day or so earlier Kelton arrived in Saskatoon where he visited with his cousins before catching a ride north with Tyson. He arrived
at Winning Ways about the same time on the Friday as his sister and her family. On Saturday we had a family trail ride, just my two children and I! I cannot remember the last time we
3 went riding together just to look at the lake and visit. We had


pieces that could be repurposed. There were also the shingles to be placed as "asphalt" around the watering bowl. The remaining part of the old
barn was used to store the wood that was to be recycled. Another group of helpers really worked on cleaning and organizing the recycle shed and that
project saw many bags of recycles head off to Meadow. The calves were trying our patience again with their fence crawling antics. The crew was again dispatched to tighten fence and put in more posts. I warned the calves their days were
numbered--sale day was fast approaching!

While Kelton was at the ranch he did many maintenance and repair jobs. He also brought home the water tanks from the old Rapid View hay paddocks, which was an
interesting sight to see!We went on a Trail Ride to Look-out Point at the north end of the lake where he had never been before. He helped when we sorted and loaded the -P cows to return
them to their home pasture. I believe this year he enjoyed riding at the ranch, maybe he likes my new horse, he rode her several times. When it was time for him to return to Saskatoon, I
took him down in the Jag (the story of which would fill several pages). While the car got a wheel alignment, we visited with Wendy and eventually she and I sent Kelton off at the airport.

My crew was instrumental in helping me and others accomplish their fall tasks. They helped at -P
with the sorting and pregnancy checking on several


with the light and noise, but it was effective on
many people.

A group of us--three helpers, Granny and myself--went to Edmonton at the time of the Farm Fair.
Two of the helpers were headed off on new adventures after they had a look at Farm Fair and one of the guys caught a ride back with M's Ms crew that also went to look at the Fair. Granny was happy to hang out with her Great-granddaughters and I got to spend part of two days wandering around the Northlands Exhibition complex. Friday I was entertained by the Ranch Rodeo. The next day Vawn, Caslyn and I watched the stockdog trials until
Caslyn got cold and we went off to see the numerous exhibits. On Sunday Granny & I went to picksouth side of the barn is complete.

The cows went on another cattle drive to -P Land & Cattle this fall. We had the cows sorted,
tagged and ready to go by lunch time. However, this time our cattle drive was not so
effortless. The cows balked at going down the trail to the lake and only Brandy's fleetness through the bush averted their efforts to resist the
riders pushing them to the east into the trees. Then on the far side of Hog Island, whether Louvic inadvertently chased the lead cow or she just took
a notion to go home, the whole herd turned west and headed UP the hill. Again Brandy plunged through the fallen trees, intent on turning the cows
back, when they did go back, she plunged down the hill


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Indian and Pakistani politicians frequently raise the spectre of a nuclear war whenever tension between the two arch-rivals escalates.Needless to say, very little thought is given to the great damage nuclear warheads are capable of wreaking when such statements are aired. The impact of such an exchange not just entails great loss of life but also disastrous consequences for the environment.Data Newsroom, an online interactive newsroom, has used eight nuclear bombs from the US, the USSR, North Korea, India and Pakistan and detonated them in two Indian and Pakistani cities each to gauge their impact.This is what they found:Type of bomb:Estimated fatalities:Type of bomb:Estimated fatalities:Type of bomb:Estimated fatalities:Type of bomb:Estimated fatalities:Type of bomb:Estimated fatalities:Type of bomb:Estimated fatalities:Type of bomb:Estimated fatalities:Type of bomb:Estimated fatalities:LAHOREType of bomb:– tiniest US Bombmuch more than I could have imagined. History at Ramjas was, in many ways, the star subject, and we had a star cast of teachers.

Sudhakar Singh taught us the history of the Far East, and I was fascinated by his telling of Japan’s Meiji Restoration and China’s Boxer Rebellion. In our second year, the aristocratic and elegant Saleem Kidwai taught us the Early Medieval India subject, bringing to life sultans, slaves and sufis.

Dilip Simeon, fire and brimstone, took us into Soviet history, and I could picture the tumult of the debates in the Petrograd Soviet, as much as the Kornstadt Rebellion. Mukul Mangalik, young and dashing, introduced the Renaissance to us in class and the Spanish Civil War outside. We were crestfallen when he left on a scholarship


plays. I was taking part in all kinds of demonstrations, morchas and demonstrations.

It was the late 1980s. Punjab was burning. Delhi had recently been through a horrific pogrom of the Sikhs, led and orchestrated by the Congress. The Bharatiya Janata Party, with help from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its front organisations, was gathering support on their claim that Ayodhya was home to Ram Janmabhoomi. Soon, the Mandal Commission came, recommending reservation for Other Backward Classes, and the university was under siege from upper caste groups. Then, in 1992, the Babri Masjid was felled and the country exploded with communal bloodletting. In less than a decade, India’s politics had transformed irrevocably. In the middle of this boiling cauldron of a time, my mentor and theatre activist Safdar Hashmiwas murdered while we were performing a play for workers on the outskirts of Delhi.

Taken to task

My second year brought the second violent incident. One day, we heard shouting outside our classroom I could make out Dilip Simeon’s distinctive voice. We rushed out, thinking Dilip, who taught at Ramjas then, may be in danger. After all, in the early 1980s, a year or two before I joined college, Dilip had been the target of a near-fatal attack, instigated, it was said, by the then principal. The historian, attacked while riding to college, escaped with his life only because he had clutched on to his helmet, which protected his head. All this was part of college lore and Dilip was something of a hero for us.

This time though, it


was the goon – again a hulk in a tracksuit – who was getting it from Dilip and was being dragged by the ear through the college corridor. Turned out he had tried to disrupt a BA Pass class that Dilip taught with as much passion, perhaps more, as the Honours class he took, which was quite unheard of in those days.

In the years after the attack on Dilip, Ramjas had seen the rise of an amazing Goodagardi Virodhi Abhiyaan, or anti-hooliganism campaign, in which teachers and students had come together to restore an academic ambiance in the college. There was an incredibly democratic culture, especially in history, where we had regular student-faculty meetings to discuss academic and other issues. Most teachers encouraged us to address them bytheir first names and were happy to spend time outside classes with us. It was thrilling and liberating.

Setting straight

Incident three: I was in final year. Consumed by my main subjects, I had not appeared for my subsidiary papers, which was not very smart of me. So here I was, one summer afternoon, writing a subsidiary exam, closeted in a room with commerce students, when I saw a massive man – again in a tracksuit – in the row next to mine, with an open book in his lap, brazenly copying from it.

The invigilator was a young teacher, probably an ad hoc appointee. That year, one of our history teachers, Mr Sachdeva, was the chief invigilator. The hapless ad hoc appointee somehow sent a message to him. In waddled


Sachdeva, who was short and of substantial girth. He marched up to the cheater and nonchalantly flung his book out of the window. The goon retaliated by getting up, slowly and deliberately, fishing a knife out of his pocket and plunging it into the desk.

There was pin-drop silence. I was terrified. Sachdeva looked down at the knife, then up at the goon, phlegmatic as ever. Ever so calmly, he handed the knife back to the goon with a line that could’ve been from a Salim-Javed movie: “Bete, yeh chaku hai. Haat kat sakta hai. Dhyan se.” This is a knife, son. You can cut yourself. Be careful.

The goon was stunned.

Before he could react, Sachdeva planted a tight slap on his face. The goon was aghast. Another slap. Andthen Sachdeva turned to the history students and said: “Dekh kya rahe ho? Meri madad karo!” (What are you staring at? Help me.)

A group of us descended on the goon and wrestled him to the ground. Crying and apologising, he was led out of the class by Sachdeva and straight to the principal’s office.

The struggle goes on

During my time at Ramjas, women were scared of joining the college because of its reputation of being rowdy. Today, Ramjas has some of the brightest women students in the University. It even has a girls’ hostel, which would have been unimaginable in my time. This was made possible in no small measure by of the role played by women teachers, especially in the English Department.

One of them is Vinita Chandra. I


was not taught by her, but have followed her work for over more than two decades. Vinita, along with other colleagues in her department brings to the class the same values of intellectual curiosity and fearlessness that I learnt in history.

It is hardly surprising, then, that it was the students and teachers of the English Department that had organised the two-day seminar on the culture of protest, which was attacked by goons from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad after they cancelled a talk by Jawaharlal Nehru University student Umar Khalid.

I was one of the speakers listed for the second day of the event, on Wednesday. That session never took place, because the ABVP hooligans ensured the seminar was called off and the campus placed under siege.

It is alsothat was once unthinkable -- shutting down portions of the city, officially abandoning them and cutting off police and fire service.

Temporary Mayor Michael Brown made the off-the-cuff suggestion Friday in response to a question at a Rotary Club of Flint luncheon about the thousands of empty houses in Flint.

City Council President Jim Ananich said the idea has been on his radar for years.

The city is getting smaller and should downsize its services accordingly by asking people to leave sparsely populated areas, he said.

"It's going to happen whether we like it or not," he said. "We'd have to be creative about it, but it's something worth looking into. We're not there yet, but it could definitely happen."

The concept of "shrinking cities" isn't new to urban areas similar to Flint.

Last


year, the city of Youngstown, Ohio, proposed incentives to encourage people to move out of nearly empty blocks and relocate to more populated areas closer to the heart of the city. Some people were offered upward of $50,000, according to news reports.

The idea was to shut down entire streets and bulldoze abandoned properties so the city could discontinue services such as police patrols and street lighting, according to a CNN report.

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To Scroll Thru My Recent Post ListDr. Ciro de Quadros, the Sabin Executive Vice-President, recently chaired the meeting of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Technical Advisory Group (TAG) meeting on vaccine-preventable diseases. The meeting focused on the progress made in combating vaccinte preventable diseases such as pneumococcal and rotavirus in the region of the Americas. It also examined the emerging threat faced by the H1N1 (swine flu) virus and other issues related to the control and eradication of vaccine preventable diseases.

Soon after Peter Jay Hotez read Microbe Hunters, he convinced his parents to give him a microscope. By 14, he refined his career choice of microbiology to a life-long special interest in tropical diseases. At age 51, that interest continues to be a “passion.” Moreover, he considers those neglected tropical diseases “just as


along the pathway of the TT distal to the insertion site, visualizing the TT course through the subcutaneous tissue passing the hyperechoic pleural line and entering the pleural space. Lastly, for confirmation, M-mode should be used to elicit the characteristic black-out sign. The linear transducer can also be placed parallel to the TT, evaluating it in its longitudinal orientation, and advanced to visualize the TT entering the pleural space. Therefore, the TT can be viewed in 2 different planes to assure its positioning within the pleural space.

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As the scope of practice widens and emergency physicians gain more confidence in the practice of US, the possibilities for US utilization grow.Top 10 fastest cars in the world

It might not be quite as famous as the Bugatti Veyron, but the SSC Ultimate Aero held the record for the fastest car in the world for a brief period, until the Veyron SuperSport swept in and stole its crown (twice, due to a technicality).


Decline of ethics in modern society essay

The moral challenge of modern science yuval levin a few years ago, in the course of a long speech about health policy, president george w bush spoke of the challenge confronting a society increasingly empowered by science he put his warning in these words: the powers of science are morally neutral — as easily. Mackie (1977), in particular, saw this decline as undermining the legitimacy of traditional morality this has stimulated the development of both error theory and meta-ethics as moves to either review or to strengthen the basis of our inherited value systems as a result, there is growing acceptance of the plausibility of making. It is widely believed that modern society is in sharp decline among the ills cited areskyrocketing rates of crime, divorce, teenage sex, teenage births and drug abuse war (especially in the 20th century) and a general decline in personal morality and religiosity there is also concern that modern science. N santosh hegde, the former lokayukta, said on saturday that decline in moral values was the reason for the increase in corruption, greed and lack of ethics in the country he was speaking at a sympo a disturbing aspect was that the society's attitude to corruption too was changing a few decades ago,. Humanity seems to be on the decline heading towards destruction with a real decline in values and ethics within the world today, morals and ethics arread the essay free on booksie the enforcement of morals and ethics within any society are


and their raging hormones overpower their ethics teenagers today lack moral values and self-discipline essay 644 words 3 pages teenagers today in the ways society view the police force the public would.

A case example is law society of new south wales v harvey [1976] 2 nswlr 15 in that case the defendant was a solicitor who was also a director and shareholder in three companies in the business of property investment over a period of years, clients of the defendant lent money to these companies at the suggestion of. 'when i was 14 years old, this guy beat me down in the streets and my stepfather took his life right in front of me and i felt good about it, really' tio, in the documentary, the interrupters (2011)equivalent as Nazism. I told the administration that SJP was creating an unsafe environment where students felt they were being threatened and targeted. The administration essentially told me that they were supportive of the Jewish community, but no concrete actions would be taken against SJP.”

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AND BARNARD COLLEGE 'HOTBED FOR HATE,' REPORT DOCUMENTING 'SYSTEMIC ANTI-SEMITISM' AT THE SCHOOLS SAYS

“The administration was very much aware of the situation on the ground where Jewish students felt unsafe,” she added.

Cojab said in April 2018, during an Israel celebration in Washington Square Park, “you had an NYU student light an Israeli flag on fire. He was arrested by NYPD.”

Later on, during the singing of Hatikvah, which is Israel’s national anthem, another student made his way toward the stage and grabbed the


Salobreña

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The town of Salobreña in the province of Granada lies at the foot of a Hispano-Muslim castle on the so-called Costa Tropical on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Its long beaches and pleasant temperatures make it an ideal all-year-round destination. The sugar cane and tropical fruits that grow here mix with fish and shellfish from the area to create mouthwatering recipes. From here, travellers can enjoy many coastal towns suitable for practising water sports and outdoor activities.

Salobreña's wonderful location has given it excellent beaches, where many tourist complexes are set. Its varied range of hotels and leisure is completed by an interesting historic quarter with whitewashed façades arranged around its Arab castle. Salobreña's origins go back to the Phoenician period. Founded as a trading colony, it wasalso settled by Romans and Arabs until it was reconquered by the Catholic Monarchs. Pirate attacks made the town build a wall and its inhabitants chose safer places in the mountains. Nowadays, its excellent tropical climate, with temperatures between 15 and 32 degrees, attracts visitors all year round. Old TownThe higher part of the town centre is dominated by a castle built on rocks. Walls of brick and masonry, large towers and the Keep form part of the silhouette that dominates the houses of Salobreña. Built by the Romans, it was the Arabs who extended this defensive construction. At the foot of the Gran Peñón, on which it stands, are the streets with whitewashed façades so much a part of the Muslim tradition. Another interesting building is the


parish church of Nuestra Señora del Rosario, built in the 16th century on the site of an old mosque. The different districts of this Granada town, like La Loma, La Fuente, El Brocal and el Albaycín, have medieval corners with openings for doors, arches and windows. A walk around the area gives travellers an idea of what this place was like in far-off times. The Promenade, between the orchards where many fruit trees grow and the coast, is another good option for getting a little closer to the culture of Granada. Meanwhile, on Salobreña's beaches, travellers can practise a wide variety of water sports and outdoor activities.CuisineShellfish and fish fill this town's table and to them are added products from the orchards and fields. Potatoes with shark, seafoodthroughout the snow season. Also awaiting you is the provincial capital, Granada. Its Arab flavour is palpable in the palaces and buildings of the Alhambra, the Generalife and the Albaicín district, all declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.


Florida boy gets trapped in cooler while playing, prompting safety recall Igloo issued a recall of four products on Friday in the wake of the incident.

A Florida boy found himself trapped in a cooler while playing hide and go seek, prompting multiple safety recalls.

The Wanes family, of Pompano Beach, Florida, broke into a panic earlier this month when they found their 5-year-old son locked inside a large cooler on the family's back deck.

"I wanted to, like, play hide-and-go-seek," Nicholas Wanes told ABC affiliate WPLG. "But I, like, found, like, a not-good hiding spot inside the cooler."

Surveillance video from the family's home showed the child crawling into the 72-quart cooler at around 5 p.m. Saturday, March 2.

He was inside for about two minutes playing, with the top slightly ajarand resting on the latch, but things took a turn fast.

The video appeared to show the boy pulling the latch and forcing it to close from the inside. He screamed for help when he realized that he couldn't get out.

Thankfully, his parents were nearby to rescue him.

"We just grabbed him for dear life," his mother, Maria Wanes, said. "We don't want another family to not hear their child and go through this."

His father Robert Wanes said he was upset with the cooler's manufacturer, Igloo, because there wasn't a way to open the container from the inside.

He blamed it on a design flaw and said it shouldn't be easy for a child to latch the cooler from the inside.

"I know we're all supposed to watch our kids and make


sure they don't crawl into a cooler, but as we know, it only takes a second to turn the other way," he told WPLG.

Igloo appeared to agree with the family. It issued a recall of four products on Friday in the wake of the incident.

"It has been brought to our attention that a child recently, inadvertently trapped himself inside one of our products," the company said in the statement. "We are very sorry for the scare this incident must have caused the child and his family, and very happy no one was injured."

It attributed the incident to a performance malfunction with the cooler's latch.

"We have immediately identified the product in question. Our engineering team has determined what could have been the cause of the incident – a performanceSuper Stardust Delta

Super Stardust Delta is a twin-stick shoot 'em up video game for the PlayStation Vita handheld console. It is part of the Stardust series of games developed by the Finnish company Housemarque.

The game was announced at Sony's E3 press conference in 2011 and a video trailer was released.

Gameplay
Using the PlayStation Vita's dual analog sticks, players control a starship orbiting a planet. The planet's orbit acts as the playfield, filled with asteroids and enemies for the player to destroy. In the main arcade mode there are 5 planets, consisting of 5 phases each. At the end of each planet the player encounters a boss.

The ship has several different weapons, smart bombs, a temporary shield, and a speed boost system. The ship has two projectile weapons of opposite


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        Baidas, a citizen of Jordan, was lawfully admitted to the United States in 1979 and became

a permanent resident in 1982. Analysis of his removability requires an examination of his criminal

history. Baidas was convicted on September 30, 1991 of two counts of non-sufficient check, and
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Baidas v. Jenifer

was sentenced to probation. The counts arose from acts committed against a bank on separate dates,

one in 1986 and one in 1987. On October 5, 1995, Baidas was convicted of attempted failure to

return rental property valued over $100, arisingout of a 1994 incident, and he was again sentenced

to probation. Also on October 5, 1995, Baidas was convicted of two counts of attempted third

degree criminal sexual misconduct, arising out of acts occurring in 1992, and he was sentenced to

two years of probation. On March 21, 1996, Baidas pled guilty to violation of his probation on the

failure to return rental property conviction, and he was sentenced to 365 days in jail, which,

according to documents provided by Baidas, was later reduced to 336 days in jail. At the same time

that Baidas pled guilty to violating his probation on the failure to return rental property conviction,

he also pled guilty to violating his probation on the criminal sexual conduct conviction, and on this

conviction he was also sentenced to 336 days in


denied. The district court granted several

requests by Baidas to extend the time for filing objections to the report, with the result that

objections were due on November 15, 2002. Baidas had been released from INS custody in

November of 2001, but apparently violated a condition of his release, and during the time for filing

objections to the Magistrate Judge’s report was returned to INS custody and was scheduled to be

removed to Jordan. On October 8, 2002, Baidas filed an emergency motion to stay removal,

indicating that his removal was imminent. On October 29, 2002, the district court issued an order

dismissing Baidas’s petition for writ of habeas corpus, stating that because Baidas’s removal was

                   plain suit, except for Fletcher," Isidore said. "I like the embroidery on your waistcoat. It marks you as a protégé of Villiers, which is important. No one could think that Villiers would sneak a woman into Strange's house in disguise. What coat will you wear?"

"Velvet," Harriet said, turning to the table where it was laid out. "Scarlet. I'm a scarlet woman, in every sense of the word."

"Lovely embroidery around the buttonholes," Isidore said. "I do wonder how I'd look as a man. You look utterly delicious, Harriet. I'm not at all surprised that Kitty is chasing you."

Harriet pulled on the scarlet coat and then glanced at herself. Even sore in every muscle, she looked—well—good.

Isidore appeared at her shoulder. "Please don't be insulted, but I think you make a


off her knee; Kitty pouted but didn't say anything, so Harriet looked straight ahead and pretended to be following the performance.

Venus was gone, replaced by two more shivering, wailing virgins...Who knew that Lord Strange's disreputable house parties were so tedious?

Isidore and Lord Strange left after ten minutes, but Harriet didn't think it had anything to do with the six mournful virgins. More likely, Isidore was bored.

She was bored.

"You'll have to forgive me," she whispered to Kitty, when the six virgins had been joined by six extremely scantily clad young men. Harriet fancied she could see their goose-bumps from her seat.

"I think there might be a more interesting part coming," Kitty whispered back. She hadn't taken her eyes off the stage since the male actors appeared.

"I'll see you tomorrow,"GETTY Thomas Tuchel is seeking a new club, with Arsenal and Chelsea both linked

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214 So.2d 420 (1968)
Lehman Silas ELLIOTT
v.
STATE of Alabama.
7 Div. 765.
Supreme Court of Alabama.
September 19, 1968.
*421 Lehman Silas Elliott, pro se.
MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Walter S. Turner, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
PER CURIAM.
Appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree by a grand jury impaneled in the circuit court of St. Clair County (Pell City Division). He was represented by three attorneys, residents of St. Clair County, who were appointed by the trial court, after it was ascertained that the defendant was an indigent and unable to employ counsel.
Defendant, on arraignment before the circuit court, entered pleas of "not guilty" and "not guilty by reason of insanity." Thereafter, he withdrew these pleas and entered a plea of guilty to second degree murder.
The jury heard some evidenceas to the circumstances and details of the homicide for which the defendant was indicted. They returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree and fixed defendant's punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of thirty years. This verdict was in harmony with the recommendation of the district attorney and approved by defendant's counsel.
There was no formal judgment of guilt or fixation of punishment entered on the minutes of the court, but the bench notes of the trial judge appear in the transcript before us. The verdict was returned in open court, in the presence of the defendant on December 14, 1965. The trial court, after first asking the defendant if he had anything to say why the sentence should not be pronounced,


of 1958.
Appellant contends pro se that he was not granted a speedy trial in compliance with Section 6 of the Constitution of Alabama, 1901, and with Amendment VI of the Constitution of the United States.
The transcript shows that an indictment against appellant for the crime here under consideration was returned by the grand jury of St. Slair County on March 9, 1965, and subsequently another indictment *423 by a like grand jury of said county for the same offense was returned on September 27, 1965. The transcript does not show what disposition was made of the first indictment, although motion was made to quash the same. Defendant entered his plea of guilty to murder in the second degree as was charged in the indictment. The transcript fails toA Tourist's Album of Japan

Katherine Wolcott and her uncle, Robert Hull Fleming, compiled this photo album on their visit to Japan in 1909.
Part of a larger Asian trip, the two stopped in Japan and collected photos, postcards, bookmarks, and other materials.
Fleming was a graduate of the University of Vermont, and in 1929 Katherine Wolcott helped to fund the construction of the Robert Hull
Fleming Museum in memory of her late uncle.
This album, a memento from their trip, was part of Wolcott’s own collection.

There are nearly 40 leaves of collected photographs and postcards, numbering two to three per album page.
The pictures range in content, some depicting staged photos of daily life while others portray landscapes and countryside.
The album itself measures approximately 11 x 14 x 4 inches and is currently


housed at the Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont.

Wolcott’s album captures a unique view of Japan at the brink of burgeoning Western influence.
After defeating the Russians in the Russo Japanese War (1904-05), Japan began to cement itself as a global power, and its efforts to modernize began to attract Westerners.
The images in this album depict a Japan with a strong national heritage and cultural appreciation as well as a newfound embrace of modernization and technology.

Most of the pictures in the album sold commercially as a form of postcard.
In the early 1900s, the Japanese populace began consuming millions of these types of commercially produced picture postcards.
Eventually, the medium became so popular that it started to replace the more traditional wood block print.
The citizenry sought pictures ofFeatures

Students climb 43 Adirondack High Peaks

By Alexandra Orlov '13

October 4, 2012

Rain check? Not for members of the Hamilton Outing Club, who braved chilly September drizzle during the club’s annual 46 Peaks Weekend. From Friday, September 28 through Sunday September 30, 125 students summited 43 of the 46 Adirondack High Peaks, most of which are over 4,000 feet. This year, 23 trips, with at least one leader each, attempted all 46 peaks. The number of peaks “bagged,” 43, ties the Outing Club’s previous record set in 2008. Participants and leaders alike enjoyed the wet adventures in the wilderness and viewed the weekend as a success.

This year, the HOC officers put in extraordinary effort to accommodate the unprecedented number of participants, who filled all of the trips within the first


Pizzo Cavregasco

Pizzo Cavregasco is a mountain of Lombardy, Italy. It has an elevation of 2,535 metres.

Category:Mountains of Lombardy
Category:Mountains of the AlpsTuesday, September 25, 2007

Ham Radio

My in-laws are ham radio enthusiasts. Last Sunday they hosted a bar-be-cue for their local ham radio club at their home. Doug is also a ham radio operator but he is not as qualified as his father is. He hasn't had much time lately to really pursue this interest.

The ham radio club members who were at the bar-be-cue were mostly older folks. There were only a handful of younger members. One of the younger guys who came wasn't a ham radio operator but he helps them put their antennas up on their roof tops. And this same guy entertained the folks at the bar-be-cue with his guitar playing and singing. He is in fact one of a trio called Still Evolving who performs at


of an exhibit that quoted from a Supreme Court case and one point of instructional error. Finding no error, we affirm the judgment.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Julie Mehrer was formerly employed by Diagnostic Imaging Center as a practice development manager. Her duties were primarily to solicit business from referring physicians. Mehrer was terminated in May 2002. She was advised that her termination was due to a restructuring of Diagnostic's marketing department, in which the two person/two-manager department was being reorganized into one with a single manager with two subordinates who would act as public relations representatives. In eliminating one of the two managerial positions, Diagnostic took the position that it elected to retain Mehrer's co-manager Barb King, based upon King's superior performance, tenure, and accountability, as compared to Mehrer.Diagnostic later added a third public relations representative position to the department.
Mehrer filed a claim alleging that her discharge was in retaliation for both reporting to her superiors a failure of the employer to report a suspected case of child abuse as required by Section 210.115, RSMo 2000, and her reporting of a breach of patient confidentiality by two other employees of Diagnostic. Both allegations arose out of a conversation involving Mehrer and two co-employees at a copy machine in January 2002.
Mehrer became involved in a conversation between Carol Winter, Diagnostic's quality assurance safety manager, and Kathi *318 Crouch, the director of clinical operations. For her part of the conversation, Mehrer was asked about child abuse reporting procedures at Children's Mercy Hospital ("CMH"), where she had previously worked


had called the child's primary care physician to discuss the x-ray and her suspicions. Kjar also testified that, following that conversation, she was instructed by Crouch to contact Diagnostic's corporate counsel, an associate attorney with the firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon.
Mehrer also testified that she reported to her direct supervisor, Michael Wright, Diagnostic's chief financial officer, the conversation between her, Winters, and Crouch and discussed her concerns about whether confidential patient information had been improperly disclosed to Winter in the course of that conversation. She also discussed with Dr. Angela Noto, Diagnostic's corporate compliance regulator, her suspicions regarding a possible breach of confidentiality and failure to report a child abuse incident. Mehrer believed that confidential patient information had been improperly shared with Winter. Dr. Noto directed herraises certain arguments in her point on appeal that allege the restrictions placed on her were improper because the information was not protected by the attorney-client privilege or work product doctrine. She fails to develop these arguments in her brief, however. We consider them to be abandoned. Faith Baptist Church of Berkeley, Inc. v. Heffner, 956 S.W.2d 425, 426 (Mo.App.1997).
Mehrer's first point on appeal is denied.

II. Subpoena to Diagnostic's Corporate Counsel
Mehrer's second point contends that the trial court improperly quashed a subpoena issued to Diagnostic's corporate counsel. Said counsel was a resident of Kansas and while her firm had offices in both Missouri and Kansas, her place of employment was in the Kansas office. Mehrer attempted to serve the subpoena to that attorney via facsimile. Diagnostic responds that


her discharge.
*324 Mehrer acknowledges the provisions of Rule 70.03: "No party may assign as error the giving or failure to give instructions unless that party objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter objected to and the grounds of objection." (italics added). The only verbalized objection to the verdict director during the instruction conference was to the phrase "made to the division of Family Services." Nor did Mehrer expand upon her objections in her motion for new trial. In recognition of the sparseness of the instruction conference record, Mehrer says that she stated her objections to the given verdict director by offering her own, different, instruction.
Although it would seem likely that there must have been other discussions about instructions in this non-MAIMartin and Osa Johnson's Simba(
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)13
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Records Martin and Osa Johnson's expedition to East Africa, 1923-1928, the chief purpose of which was to capture on film the
rapidly disappearing African wildlife as well as East African peoples and their customs. Includes footage of elephants, giraffes
and lions

Borneo(
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)13
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1982
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2015
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English
and held by
20 WorldCat member
libraries
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The last documentary by Martin and Osa Johnson, naturalists and explorers; features their last trip to Borneo, their exploration
of the land, and their encounters with the native population and wildlife

Jungle pets by Osa Johnson(
Book
)1
edition published
in
1932
in
English
and held by
15 WorldCat member
libraries
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Baboona(
Visual
)8
editions published
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1935
and
2015
in
English and No Linguistic content
and held by
13 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The Johnsons, naturalists and explorers, journey across Africa in two small airplanes, encountering and filming many forms
of native wildlife, especially a large population of baboons


A new census of the American nuclear arsenal shows that the Obama administration last year dismantled its smallest number of warheads since taking office.

The new figures, released by the Pentagon, also highlight a trend — that the current administration has reduced the nuclear stockpile less than any other post-Cold War presidency.

On Thursday, the Federation of American Scientists, a private group in Washington that strongly supports arms control, issued an analysis of the new figures on its Strategic Security blog. The annual Pentagon release did not appear to be linked to President Obama’s visit Friday to Hiroshima, Japan, which was destroyed by an American atomic bomb almost 71 years ago.

Still, the new figures and private analysis underscored the striking gap between Mr. Obama’s soaring vision of a world withoutDebbie was appointed as principal in Term 3, 2004. In 2013 Debbie is teaching is Room 2 and is our Reading Recovery teacher. She also mentors and supervises our Year 6 Family Group Leaders as they work with our younger children. She is also very involved with coaching of school sports teams.

Mrs Lesley Johnston - Room 1

Deputy Principal / New Entrant Teacher

Lesley particularly enjoys teaching new entrants. Her daily programme has the emphasis on literacy and numeracy. Because of our small class sizes the children receive individual attention daily.

Lesley leads the junior syndicate and also provides leadership in art, literacy and school-wide planning.

Mrs Sara Tunoka - Room 2

Year 2/3 teacher

Sara joined us in 2015 and teaches in Room 2. Sara is married and has a three year old


Santon Visits Easter Soccer School

Italian international Davide Santon has been casting an eye over Tyneside's young footballing talent as part of the Newcastle United Foundation's Holiday Soccer Schools.

The Newcastle United defender was at the Goals Newcastle site in Gosforth on Thursday afternoon, to meet youngsters and join in with their coaching session, which included fun games, skill challenges and small-sided matches.

As well as honing the skills of almost 350 children over Easter, the Soccer Schools - which take place every half term across the Tyneside, County Durham and Northumberland - also focus on the importance of respect, fair play, anti-bullying and discipline across all levels of the game, with sessions taken by qualified coaches.

"I remember how much I enjoyed playing football when I was growing up so it'sMarina Library History

Marina Branch Library was the 23rd branch established in the San Francisco Public Library system and originally opened to the public in 1954. It was designed by the architectural firm of Appleton and Wolfard at a cost of $156,742. Furnishings cost an additional $12,926. Recent renovations saw the branch closed for two years and reopened on August 4, 2007. In addition to aesthetic and technological enhancements including a small addition, the Marina Branch is now seismically safe and fully accessible. The project was designed by architectural firms Tom Elliot Fisch and Field Paoli. Project costs totaled $3.9 million.


any form is illegal. In fact, in 2008, the Ministry of Health of China listed poppy shells under the "List of Non-edible Substances and Food Additives that May Be Illegally Added in Foods (First Batch)". Adherence to this statement prohibits illegal additions of poppy shells to foods and strictly regulates their use. In China, the catering industry is quite prosperous. As hot pot is much loved by the Chinese people, it is served quite frequently on the streets of cities. It is impossible to perform routine urinalysis on the general population to determine whether poppy shells exists in the hot pot served across cities unless the patients receiving MMT treatment are followed up at the drug treatment clinic. Although prohibited by law, some people still prefer to takeAfter months spent on the campaign trail, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour today decidedagainst entering the 2012 presidential race despite a strong history of political fund-raising.

Barbour released a statement this afternoon, in which he explained his decision.

“This has been a difficult, personal decision, and I am very grateful to my family for their total support of my going forward, had that been what I decided,” he wrote. “A candidate for president today is embracing a 10-year commitment to an all-consuming effort, to the virtual exclusion of all else. His (or her) supporters expect and deserve no less than absolute fire in the belly from their candidate. I cannot offer that with certainty, and total certainty is required.”

As with other prospective Republican presidential candidates, Barbour has spent much of the


past year elevating his national profile and attempting to curry favor with potentially supportive politicians and political king-makers.

Barbour first visited Iowa in 2009 and maintained a regular presence in election-year battleground states and at numerous conservative political conferences. Along with potential candidates such as former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Barbour was a featured speaker at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference.

Since 2004, Barbour has served as governor of Mississippi. He began his latest term in 2008 and also heads the Republican Governor’s Association, through which his connections to the GOP’s base run strong. Prior to taking office, Barbour was a registered lobbyist at the forerunner of lobbying firm BGR Group and worked on the staffs of former presidents George H.W.is mentioned for documenting an important trend of our time: the rapid decrease of things we as humans do as a group. From sports teams, to choirs, to volunteer groups: all of these social activities have been in free fall for decades.

The example given is bowling in the United States—one of the most popular American leisure activities. People used to do this in organized leagues, as part of a team competing against other teams. Now people still bowl, but they do it alone, in their own lane. The collective structure has collapsed and the sense of community has mostly gone.

Later chapters deal with a plethora of other causes of depression. The loss of meaningful values; trauma; disconnection from nature; disconnection from a secure future; and the real role


the story of a Cambodian rice farmer whose leg was blown off by a land mine and who had been anxious and full of despair ever since. The local community decided he didn’t need antidepressants. Instead they bought him a cow. He was perfectly capable of being a dairy farmer, which would involve less painful walking on his false leg and fewer disturbing memories.

In the following years, his life changed and his depression went away. To the Cambodians, dealing with depression was not a matter of changing the chemistry of the brain. This seemed bizarre to their culture. Instead, the solution was about the community coming together and empowering the depressed person to change his life. It was not an individual solution, but a collective one.

Another example ofVarner: Fathers who step in

As my stepfather neared the end of his long battle with pancreatic cancer, his 10 children flocked to his side. As people expressed sympathy about our dying father, I always felt compelled to correct them: stepfather.

The biologically correct term didn’t matter in the end. He was the glue that held fast the fabric of our blended family. I remind myself as Father’s Day nears that when my stepfather died, my father died.

I’m in a group of the one-in-three Americans who are part of a stepfamily. Our familial union was like a real-life episode of “Modern Family,” with enough emotional baggage to weigh down an airplane.

Separately, my stepfather and mother were two people whose response to the twin burdens of poverty and early parenting was


a whirlwind life of partying and drinking. But something changed when they met each other. They got sober, bought a house and spent untold amounts of money and time on lawyers and courtrooms to collect the remains of their broods.

My stepfather worked for the federal government during the day and, to ease the financial pressures of his new family, worked the full-time overnight shift at a hospital lab. He arrived home from his first job at 5 in the evening, ate dinner and was asleep by 6:30 and back up and out by 9 p.m. Despite his tight schedule, he was known to my younger siblings as the chauffeur for school dances and the one to call in the middle of the night.

When we met, my stepfather understood'Lost' Photos from 'Across the Sea' Season 6, Episode 15

'Lost' Photos from 'Across the Sea' Season 6, Episode 15

ABC is trying to keep a tight lid on next week's episode of Lost. First we get a promo after The Candidate comprised entirely of old footage, now they've released officially photos from next week's episode, titled "Across the Sea." Two photos.

The episode, featuring Jacob and the Man in Black, is sure to be full of answers and will most likely be a companion episode to "Ab Aeterno," where almost the entire episode is set in long ago flashbacks on the Island.


order to boost their economy and also to fight climate change.

Stripping people of their citizenship. Calling the free press "the enemy." Lying so many times every week that fact checkers can barely keep up, promoting racism, violence and sexual assault... it's only getting worse, folks, and now that Brazil's joined the fascist club, it's only a matter of time before a new Axis of Evil arises and we're going to be at the heart of it. Last week, Trump announced that he wants to take away the identity of trans people, making people their "assigned gender" at birth. This week, he says he wants to strip babies born on U.S. soil of their citizenship.

Many places have apple picking as a traditional fall pasttime. It's on the bucket listobvious to escape comment. The "generic"ness of this
identifiably Jewish name indicates both the fragmentation and the
continuity in diasporic history, and speaks to how experience and history
are both fragmentary and also embedded the most banal syllables. The name,
which etymologically translates as something like "Grace Winemaker" or
"Winemerchant," is oddly appropriate for the visionary poet who used LSD
and other hallucinogens to assist her receptivity to transpersonal
experience. Further, as happens in the linguistic displacement that
accompanies continued diaspora, the pronunciation of "Weiner" in the United
States varies between "Wein" to rhyme with "Stein" or "Wein" to rhyme with
"mean," which latter suggests a homonym with another not uncommon Jewish
last name, Wiener, "from Vienna," a name which points up the history of
Jewish expulsion from one town after another in medieval and early modern
Europe (Jews expelled from


Join in the storytelling with Queerstories

The LGBTQI community has long been sharing stories, creating and writing their histories, disrupting and transforming conventional ideas about narrative, family and community.

Queerstories is a storytelling series at Giant Dwarf Theatre, featuring a diverse lineup of Australian LGBTQI icons and new faces. The show has sold out every month since it began in September 2016. Host Maeve Marsden is a writer, producer and theatre maker. She has written for a wide range of publications including Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian, and this year she edited the ABC’s Sydney Mardi Gras 40th Anniversary Magazine. As a child of same-sex parents, Maeve is an avid speaker and writer about the rights of diverse families.

The show won Best Spoken Word at Sydney Fringe in 2018Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Toward a New Nation

On April 15, 1840, the great Catholic leader in Ireland, Daniel O’Connell, announced his next political project. He would lead a great Irish movement to nullify the Act of Union of 1800 which made Ireland English. “I have the delight to feel that I shared in the struggle for the liberation of my country from the shackles of the penal enactments, but my heart never beat as warmly for Emancipation as it now does for Repeal.”

John Martin found the new Repeal Association growing when he returned from America. Despite his strong desire for Ireland to be free and independent, John did not hurry to join the O’Connell movement. There was much work to occupy his time. He was an active and generous


landlord, and a leader in his local Presbyterian Church. And he took on his first political assignment, one much closer to home.

The Poor Law which John so strongly opposed had established a new system of care for the poor peasants of Ireland. All help for the poor laborers of Ireland would be provided in prison-like Poor Houses. Funds to pay for care of each inmate were provided by a tax on the farmers of each Poor Law District. A Guardian was elected by the taxpayers to watch over the management of the Poor House and keep the taxes as low as possible. John had been elected Guardian for Ouley, the Poor Law district designated for Loughorne.

John hated everything about his job. He hated the idea of the lawwhich placed all the cost of maintaining the poor people of Ireland on the backs of the farmers of Ireland. People with businesses and family income paid nothing. He hated the sight of the huge Newry Poor House which hovered over Newry like a angel of death. In fact, many who entered died of rampant diseases. He hated that families were divided on entry through the tall walls that surrounded the new facility, wives from husbands, children from parents. But most every Saturday when the Guardians met at the administrative building to conduct of the supervision of the poor, John was there.

Not long after the Newry Poor House opened in December 1841, the first link in the chain of events that led John into national political leadership took


place in Dublin. One day in the summer of 1842 in Phoenix Park in Dublin, three friends, two Catholic, and one Protestant, sat in the shade of a large oak tree to discuss an idea new for Ireland. Charles Gavin Duffy, John Blake Dillon, and Thomas Osbourne Davis had met in the Repeal Association meetings. These men were a bit younger than John and full of energy and ideas. Each of them had previous experience in the newspaper business, and saw the need for a new kind of newspaper, devoted to Irish nationality. This paper would educate the Irish people about their heroic history and thereby promote a new pride in their country. Before the men left the park, they had agree to try this new venture.

Charles GavinDuffy would be the editor of this new paper, having already been the editor of a newspaper in Belfast. Thomas Davis was the visionary heart of this project. He believed that Irish, Protestants and Catholics alike, should unite for the good of their shared country, that it was a desire to be Irish that made each person Irish, not family history or time in country.

Thomas Osbourne Davis

Charles Gavin Duffy

John Blake Dillon

Newspapers were the best source of information sharing in Ireland. Each paper reached many people, as they were passed from the purchaser to many more friends and neighbors. Someone would bring his copy to the local pub and read the papers aloud to the many laborers in the area who were illiterate.

The first edition of each new newspaper


contained an early version of a mission statement. The Nation, as the editors chose to name their paper, had nationality as “their first object – a nationality which will not only raise our people from their poverty, by securing to them the blessings of a domestic legislature, but inflame them with a lofty and heroic love of country.”

Duffy, Dillon and Davis set up their new enterprise at 12 Trinity Street in the Temple Bar section of Dublin, almost within the shadow of the Castle, the seat of British power in Ireland. Daniel O'Connell liked the idea of a new weekly newspaper, as long as it was produced by some of his own young followers. In fact, John O’Connell, Daniel’s son and designated successor, was to be a contributor.

Thefirst edition of the paper was published on Saturday, October 15, 1842. As soon as enough papers had been cranked through the large presses, stacks of them were handed over to newsboys who raced to their favorite corners to begin hawking the new paper. The Nation proved easy to sell, not a single copy being left in Dublin by noon. More papers were printed and shipped by carriage to important towns around the country.

John’s childhood friend, John Mitchel and his family were at this time living in nearby Banbridge. After some indecision about a career. Mitchel had become a lawyer. His practice took him frequently to Dublin. On some of his trips, he visited the Repeal Association meetings, and had actually become acquainted with the new editors of