settlement.67

Second, as Gilbert Achcar describes in Arabs and the Holocaust, different political traditions responded in different ways to the Second World War.68 Some opposed alignment with rival imperialisms; some saw Germany as a potential “friend” against British or French imperialism; some took a neutral position. The same divisions can be seen in anti-colonial movements generally, as in the case of Subhas Chandra Bose, former president of the Indian National Congress, and the Irish nationalist movement.

Zionists devote a vast amount of space to the role of Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem from 1921. According to historian Peter Novick, the article on the Mufti in the Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, “is more than twice as long as the articles on Goebbels and Göring, longer than theapproach is required, not least because opposition to antisemitism among Muslim activists and the Muslim population as a whole is evident for any who care to look. This doesn’t mean antisemitism should ever be tolerated. Yet in challenging confused attitudes, the emphasis should be based, where possible, on highlighting how a struggle against the common foe requires dispensing with prejudice and division.

Here, for example, the role of the Anti Nazi League and Unite Against Fascism in building unity against racism, fascism and Holocaust denial has been critical to the demise of successive Nazi groups such as the National Front, the British National Party and the English Defence League. Holocaust survivors such as Leon Greenman and Esther Brunstein (who passed away this January) and veterans of the anti-fascist protests


at Cable Street in 1936 have been central in helping to mobilise mass opposition, complemented by educational visits to Auschwitz. Lord Alf Dubs, himself a Kindertransport refugee, has spoken on Stand Up to Racism platforms in support of refugees fleeing conflict in the Middle East.

Anti-Muslim racism compounds the difficulty. France gives us a negative example to contrast with that of Britain. France has a history of anti-Muslim racism rooted in its colonisation of the Maghreb, the fascist Action Française in the 1920s and 1930s, the Vichy regime and the French-Algerian war. In 1961, 100 to 300 Algerians were killed on a demonstration in Paris in support of Algerian independence on the orders of the chief of police, Maurice Papon. Papon was subsequently convicted for his role in deportingFrench Jews to the death camps.

Paul Silverstein argues that the “war on terror” in France began in the mid-1990s and has shaped the experience of French Muslim youth:

When Franco-Maghrebis…witness the events of 9/11, the American occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, or the ongoing violence in Israel-Palestine, they increasingly witness a reflection of the struggles they are undergoing in their daily lives…young French Muslims make the implicit analogy between the American army, the Israeli IDF and the French riot police. They reinterpret, in other words, their battles with French forces of law and order as an intifada of their own, as a resistance to the forces of imperialism.

This reaction to the French state, Silverstein argues, can thus take on the form of “a generalised anti-Zionism and an occasional antisemitism”.73

It


2016, p11; Department for Communities and Local Government, 2016, p4.

64 There is a wide corpus of writing on this subject, one classic text being Rodinson, 1973. For an excellent analysis of the Labour Party record see John Newsinger’s article in the previous issue of this journal—Newsinger, 2017.

80 It is important to note that Jews were not perceived as the primary victims at the end of the war. Until the 1960s the Holocaust received scant attention even in the West. The Soviet bloc regimes avoided reference to the “Final Solution” and counted Jewish deaths as nationals or “other oppressed peoples”.

81 See Harman, 2006, which critically reviews an article by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt in The London Review of Books later turned into a bestseller, “The Israel Lobby andUS Foreign Policy”.

85 Board of Deputies of British Jews, 2016. The signatories included fervent Zionists and several prominent figures in the witch-hunt against Corbyn and the left. My point is that, notwithstanding this, the letter points to fractures beginning to open up, particularly among young Jews. The left, therefore, cannot only address the question of antisemitism through the lens of the Zionism vs anti-Zionism debate.

Kwiatkowska, Hanna, 2014, “Old and New Fora for Antisemitic Discourse: Reflections on Poland Since the 1990s”, in François Guesnet, and Gwen Jones (eds), Antisemitism in an Era of Transition: Continuities and Impact in Post-Communist Poland and Hungary (Peter Lang).

Laqueur, Walter, 2006, The Changing Face of Antisemitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day (Oxford University Press).


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Everyone knows I�m not a Trump supporter.

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He has embarrassed the country.

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women, a diagnosis was made by a physician during the 8-year period. Two women in the latter group had an OGTT in the follow-up study. There were eight women taking oral hypoglycaemic agents and five women on insulin therapy. At follow-up, 119 women were diagnosed with IGT, 41 women with IFG and 20 women with IFG+IGT. The groups developing IFG and IFG+IGT were combined for statistical analysis. The controls were pair matched to cases by random selection of 240 individuals from the group of 2863 women with NGT at baseline and at follow-up, within FHD and age. Anthropomorphic measurements were not matched in order to determine the impact of these variables. There was a history of gestational diabetes mellitus in 6.7% of cases and 2.9% of controls. Asuser do not require a high gloss finish but may only require a finish sufficiently good to protect the vehicle's surface from the elements. Recognizing the intricacies of an automobile body and the various requirements for the finished coat at different locations on the automobile body, the industry has developed certain nomenclature and standards which are used when referring to the finished coat of an automobile. For example, the industry has employed the phrase "Class A surfaces" which refers to those surfaces of the automobile body which are readily visible to an individual inspecting the automobile under normal conditions. These surfaces include the outer door panels, the fenders, the exterior hood, the exterior trunk and the top of the vehicle. Excluded from Class A surfaces are such surfaces


or "color coat". Historically, the color coat was a solvent based coating. After the color coat was applied, the automobile body was taken to a flash-off area where the color coat was allowed to set momentarily. After the color coat had partially set, the vehicle was then subjected to a clear coat which was often applied while the color coat was still wet. With the color coat and clear coat applied, the automobile body was admitted to an oven for a period of time to initially set the clear coat. This would commonly last about eight minutes. After leaving the oven, the vehicle was admitted to a hot air convection oven for a more extended period of time to cure the clear and color coats. Not uncommonly, theDJ Drama). Mac Miller, who debuted at #1 independently with his freshman effort Blue Slide Park, seems to be targeting a different kind of audience with his sound on Watching Movies With The Sound Off. Mac Miller is also taking a different approach to the June 18th release date than J. Cole. Mac admitted he was scared of dropping the same day as Mr. West, and he seems to have accepted the fact that he will not sell as many records as Yeezus. Jermaine, though, is in full-out competition mode for the June 18th date, and he hasn't been shy about announcing it. At this point, all three albums have sprung a leak, so fans will already know whether or not they're feeling any LP enough to break


BBC2 has commissioned Britain’s first transgender sitcom after picking up a script which was discovered through a nationwide talent search.

Boy Meets Girl is a romantic comedy which follows the developing relationship between Leo, a 26 year-old man and Judy, a 40 year-old woman.

However Judy is transgender and is played by Rebecca Root, a transgender actor, in the pilot episode.

Created by Elliott Kerrigan, the script was discovered through the Trans Comedy Award - a 2013 BBC talent search which offered comedy writers up to £5,000 for the best script that promoted a positive portrayal of transgender characters.

Described as “funny, sensitive and progressive,” the BBC hopes that Boy Meets Girl will become a mainstream comedy success in the style of Gavin & Stacey.

Casting has still to be confirmed for thelatter was Speaker in the mid 1990s).

If Paul and Romney — two of the best funded candidates in the Iowa field — are both going full bore at Gingrich on television in the final three weeks of the race, it will make it far more difficult for the former House Speaker to maintain his current elevated standing in the Hawkeye State.

But it’s not just in helping drag Gingrich’s numbers down in Iowa where Paul can help Romney.

Paul is widely regarded as the best organized candidate in the state. He also has the most ardent supporters. Those two factors have convinced many seasoned Republican operatives that the Iowa race is really a two-person race not between Gingrich and Romney but between Gingrich and Paul.

A Paul victory in Iowa would


to exceed 12,000 of its Participating Preferred shares, at par, for cash, lawful money of the United States, for the uses and purposes recited in its application, subject to an aggregate selling expense of not to exceed 20% of the amount received in cash on account of the selling price thereof, payable in cash (or partly in stock as provided by paragraph 3 hereof), including commissions payable only to duly licensed brokers or agents.
"3. Whenever and as often as 4 shares of Participating Preferred stock may be sold and issued under paragraph 2 hereof, and a liability to pay such 20% selling commission has been incurred, to sell and issue 1 of its Common shares in cancellation of one-fourth of such liability so incurred, not to exceed anany consideration therefor, until the written consent of said Commissioner shall have been obtained so to do." (Italics added.)
Between October 30, 1950, and November 14, 1950, Eastman issued 85,820 shares of common stock to decedent, in the form of a series of certificates, all of which were deposited in escrow. One certificate, No. 34, was for 11,000 shares.
QCA sold the 12,000 shares of Eastman participating preferred stock authorized by the October 3, 1950, permit and received the authorized commission, one-fourth in the form of 3,000 shares of common stock and the remainder in cash.
November 20, 1950, decedent wrote a letter to QCA, providing in part: "The Eastman Pacific Company has been incorporated. I have assigned to the company all of my various enterprises and received in return 30,000


receive the stock dividend, or their successors in interest, are the individual defendants herein.
Decedent died August 13, 1962, almost 12 years after he sent QCA his letter of November 12, 1950, and over 10 1/2 years after QCA declared the stock dividend of the 11,000 shares of Eastman stock represented by certificate No. 34. During all that time, certificate No. 34 remained in escrow in decedent's name.
April 15, 1963, defendant Quincy Cass and his associate, defendant Frank Foellmer, were elected president and secretary, respectively, of Eastman, and Foellmer was elected to Eastman's board of directors. *672 Quincy Cass and another associate, defendant Ned Leavitt, were already members of the board.
Before he died, decedent had been searching for a buyer for Eastman and had contacted Anchor Coupling Company. Followingshort period of time, in order that the liquidating dividend could be distributed.
September 20, 1963, Quincy Cass and Frank Foellmer, acting as officers of Eastman, caused certificate No. 34, representing 11,000 shares, to be cancelled; and, in its place, without obtaining the consent of the Commissioner of Corporations or an assignment from plaintiff, they caused to be issued to the shareholders of QCA certificates Nos. 109 through 114, representing 11,000 shares.
By October 4, 1963, Eastman's creditors and the holders of its preferred stock had been paid off, and 25,000 shares of Anchor Coupling had been issued to Eastman. At that time, Eastman was holding as assets only Anchor Coupling shares and cash. The liquidating dividend for the 11,000 shares represented by certificates Nos. 109 through 114 consisted of


in that (1) the purported transfer of the 11,000 shares of Eastman's stock represented by certificate No. 34 was made while the certificate was held in escrow, and no order of the Commissioner of Corporations was obtained permitting the transfer, (2) the consideration for the purported transfer passed without an order of the commissioner, and (3) the consideration therefor constituted a selling commission in excess of that allowed by the permit. As a result, the trial court found that the letter agreement did not effect a transfer of the 11,000 shares, that the purported transfer of the shares by QCA as a stock dividend to its shareholders January 14, 1952, created no interest in any of the defendants or their predecessors in interest, and that the issuance ofSen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, continued to assail the NBA and China on Monday, tweeting his support of "South Park," which was banned from China after a recent episode critical of the Communist government, and at the same time criticizing the league for its perceived capitulation to Beijing.

The most recent episode of "South Park," titled, "Band in China," was scrubbed from China's highly-regulated Internet after it criticized Hollywood for going out of its way to avoid offending the one-party state, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In the episode, the character of Randy got arrested for selling marijuana in China and was sent to a work camp similar to those where as many as a million Chinese Muslims have been imprisoned.

At the camp, Randy ran into Winnie the Pooh --


which also has been banned in China because of the character's comparisons to Chinese President Xi Jinping.

In his tweet, Cruz encouraged his followers to watch the episode.

"Annoy a communist. Watch South Park. (Note to @NBA: this is how it’s done.)," he posted.

HOUSTON ROCKETS' JAMES HARDEN APOLOGIZES TO CHINA AMID ROW OVER TWEET: 'WE LOVE CHINA'

The censorship came after Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey tweeted in support of Hong Kong protestors over the weekend.

Team owner Tilman Fertitta distanced himself and the organization from Morey's remarks. NBA officials said they were "extremely disappointed" by Morey’s "inappropriate" tweet about Hong Kong, which "severely hurt the feelings of Chinese fans."

Since the now-deleted tweet, sportswear brand Li-Ning and Rockets sponsor Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (SPD Bank) Credit Card Center have cut tireswith the team.

Protesters in Hong Kong have clashed with police after months of demonstrations against Chinese-backed authorities. Beijing has been seen as trying to exercise more control over the semi-autonomous territory.

The NBA has been heavily invested in China with its 1.4 billion potential fans. The Rockets have had a deep following there because of its connection to the country's most famous player, Yao Ming, who was drafted in 2002 and embarked on a Hall of Fame career.

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone issued a statement about the episode while mocking China and the NBA.

"Like the NBA, we welcome the Chinese censors into our homes and into our hearts," the statement read. "We too love money more than freedom and democracy. Xi doesn't look like Winnie the


Key U.S. Accomplishments at the UN Human Rights Council

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Washington, DC

March 30, 2011

This September will mark the two-year anniversary of U.S. membership on the United Nations Human Rights Council. U.S. engagement at the Council has led to a number of new mechanisms to spotlight and address serious human rights concerns and focused international attention to some of the world’s most egregious human rights abusers. Much work remains before the Council can fully realize its mandate as the international community’s focal point for the protection and promotion of human rights. The United States will continue to work hard to diminish the Council’s biased disproportionate focus on Israel. The United States maintains a vocal, principled stand against this focus, and will continue its robust efforts to end it.

Key accomplishments overserve as the elected head of state.

Libya: The United States played a pivotal role in convening the Council’s Special Session in February 2011 during which the Council condemned the recent human rights violations and other acts of violence committed by the Government of Libya, created an independent Commission of Inquiry to investigate those violations, and recommended to the UN General Assembly that it suspend Libya’s membership rights on the Council. The UN General Assembly acted on that recommendation several days later.

Kyrgyzstan: The United States worked with Kyrgyzstan to draft and galvanize support for the first-ever resolution to address human rights violations there in the wake of the killings and abuses that took place in June 2010. It called for a credible investigation by the Government and international assistance


for victims and requested the High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide follow-up reporting. The resolution paved the way for a Commission of Inquiry to investigate these events.

Guinea: The United States led the Council to adopt several resolutions on Guinea. The Council condemned the September 2009 violence, welcomed the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ decision to open a country office, and requested technical assistance from the international community for the transition to democracy, which produced concrete results on the ground.

Tunisia: The United States worked with the EU and the interim government of Tunisia to adopt a resolution that welcomed the process of political transition that has started in Tunisia, invited the UN to provide technical assistance to the transitional process in Tunisia, and encouraged the government of Tunisiato implement recommendations of the High Commissioner from its report on its mission earlier this year.

Burma: The United States has worked to ensure the continuation of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burma. The Special Rapporteur plays a critical role in reporting on the ongoing human rights abuses in Burma, including calling for a commission of inquiry into the situation.

North Korea: The United States has worked to ensure the continuation of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea. While the government of North Korea strongly opposes this mandate, the number of votes in favor of the resolution increased this year, demonstrating the level of international concern with the situation there.

Sudan: The United States led efforts to renew the mandate


of the Independent Expert tasked with monitoring human rights throughout Sudan, including Darfur, over the Sudanese government’s strong opposition.

INITIATING CONCRETE ACTION TO DRIVE HUMAN RIGHTS PRIORITIES

Protecting Freedom of Assembly and Association: The U.S. Government co-sponsored a resolution to create the first-ever Special Rapporteur to protect Freedom of Assembly and Association, to monitor crackdowns on civil society groups and advance protection of the right to free assembly and association through its vigilant exposure of state conduct.

Combating Discrimination Against Women: The United States championed the establishment of a Working Group of Independent Experts to prevent Discrimination Against Women; the five independent experts will address discrimination against women in law and practice. One of the experts is the first Israeli citizen to be appointed by the Human Rights Council President toIt is well known in the treatment of effluent, and more particularly of sewage, to carry out an oxidization reaction using ozone, the ozone being dissolved in the effluent to be oxidized or in some of the sludge from the biological reactor or coming from the clarifier, using an ozonization reactor often called an ozonization contactor. Sewage treatment plants are also known which comprise at least one biological reactor, at least one clarifier and at least one ozonization reactor, in this order or in another. The present invention applies more particularly to this type of plant. It should be recalled that if the ozonization reactor treats water coming from the clarifier, it is sometimes necessary to include an additional treatment step of filtration (over sand) between the said


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"The highest number of participants are from China followed by Bangladesh, United Kingdom, Singapore, Taiwan, India, Iran and Indonesia," Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen said in reply to a question by Senator Sharifah Azizah Datuk Syed Zain in Dewan Negara here today.

Ng said MM2H was recognised by International Leaving magazine in its Annual Global Retirement Index 2009 Survey where Malaysia was placed first country of choice in Asia and 16th worldwide by senior citizens.

From 2004 until Nov this year, 811 houses costing RM846.79 million were bought by participants with most choosing


Fan Mimes Blowjob Behind Home Plate (On Camera) At Wrigley Field

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Sep 18, 2012 7:20PM

This guy found his way behind home plate in the ninth inning of last night's game at Wrigley Field to pantomime blowjobs for the camera for nearly all of the ninth inning. Deadspin reports the man even made it into Comcast SportsNet Chicago's slow-motion replays.

Last night's game was delayed for three hours and 37 minutes, and the Cubs lost to the Pirates 3-0. Unsurprisingly, there were few people left in the stadium, and it took nearly a whole inning before security noticed and escorted him from the stadium. Watch the video below, and on Deadspin.Uganda's president says he loves President Donald Trump and that he should be praised for not mincing words.

"I love Trump because he tells Africans frankly," President Yoweri Museveni said Tuesday, shortly after the U.S. ambassador apologized for Trump's recent reference to African nations as "shithole countries."

"I don't know whether he was misquoted or whatever. But he talks to Africans frankly," Museveni said. "In the world, you cannot survive if you are weak."

The Ugandan leader was addressing members of the regional East African Legislative Assembly.

Several African nations have expressed shock and condemnation at Trump's remark. He has denied using that language while others present says he did.

Museveni, one of Africa's longest-serving leaders, also called Trump an honest man during his State of the Nation address on Jan 1.

Earlier on


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Located on the road of the Sanguinaires Islands, a few kilometers from Ajaccio, the Dolce Vita welcomes you at the edge of one of the most beautiful gulfs of Corsica. This completely renovated 4-star hotel has gained in cachet: the moucharabiehs of the entrance windows and the pink walls give it a little Moorish air. Inside, the objects chosen and the chic and discreet atmosphere are appreciated by tourists as well as regulars who come to seek this "family home" spirit. The 32 sober and elegant rooms are turned towards the sea. Their large bay windows open onto a balcony or terrace and offer a magnificent view of the sea and the Sanguinaires Islands. Below, the private beach and swimming pool inviteIn his three seasons at Alabama, running back Bo Scarbrough never topped the Crimson Tide's annual rushing chart.

Scarbrough played only four games in 2015 because of a knee injury, but Alabama had Derrick Henry, Kenyan Drake and Damien Harris to handle the ball-carrying. In 2016, Scarbrough ran for 812 yards, but Harris and quarterback Jalen Hurts had more, and the same two players had more rushing yards than Scarbrough's 596 rushing yards in 2017.

But that didn't keep Scarbrough from becoming the eighth Alabama running back chosen in the past eight NFL drafts. The Dallas Cowboys used their seventh-round selection on Scarbrough, and it wasn't hard to figure out why when they called the running back to let him know he was on the team.

Team owner and general manager


Jerry Jones, after informing Scarbrough that the Cowboys had picked him, said, "Our head coach just got off the phone with Nick (Saban), and he said, 'Take him.'"

Jones passed the phone to Dallas coach Jason Garrett, who told Scarbrough: "I've known coach Saban for a long time, and he couldn't say enough good things about you."

When Garrett handed the phone to Scott Linehan, the Cowboys offensive coordinator said: "I know coach Saban well, and you come highly rated from maybe the best coach ever. And our scouts and coaches love you, and so do I. Coach Garrett's excited. Let's go to work."

Garrett served as the Miami Dolphins' quarterbacks coach in 2005 and 2006, when Saban was the NFL team's head coach. Linehan was Miami's offensive coordinator in 2005'Dracula's Castle' Is for Sale, but Will Buyers Bite?

BUCHAREST, Romania, July 2 -- An heir of Romania's former royal family put "Dracula's Castle" in Transylvania up for sale on Monday, hoping to secure a buyer who will respect "the property and its history," a U.S.-based investment company said.

The Bran Castle, perched on a cliff near Brasov in mountainous central Romania, is a top tourist attraction because of its ties to Prince Vlad the Impaler, the warlord whose cruelty inspired Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, "Dracula."

Legend has it that Vlad, who earned his nickname because of the way he tortured his enemies, spent one night in the 1400s at the castle.

Bran Castle was built in the 14th century as a fortress to protect against the invading Ottoman Turks. The royal


family moved into the castle in the 1920s, living there until the communist regime confiscated it from Princess Ileana in 1948.

After being restored in the late 1980s and following the end of communist rule in Romania, it gained popularity as a tourist attraction known as "Dracula's Castle."

In May 2006, the castle was returned to Princess Ileana's son, Archduke Dominic Habsburg.

Habsburg, a 69-year-old New York architect, pledged to keep it open as a museum until 2009 and offered to sell the castle last year to local authorities for $80 million, but the offer was rejected.

On Monday, he put the castle up for sale "to the right purchaser under the right circumstances," said Michael Gardner, chief executive of Baytree Capital, the company representing Habsburg. "The Habsburgs are not in thebusiness of managing a museum," he added.

No price was announced, though Gardner predicted the castle would sell for more than $135 million. He added that Habsburg will sell it only to a buyer "who will treat the property and its history with appropriate respect."

According to a contract signed when the castle was returned to the archduke, the government pays rent to Habsburg to run the castle as a museum for three years, charging admission. After 2009, Habsburg will have full control of the building, Gardner said.

The government has priority as a buyer if it can match the best offer for the castle, he said.

In recent years, the castle -- complete with occasional glimpses of bats flying around its ramparts at twilight -- has attracted filmmakers looking for a


42 U.S. Code § 1974e - “Officer of election” defined

As used in this subchapter, the term “officer of election” means any person who, under color of any Federal, State, Commonwealth, or local law, statute, ordinance, regulation, authority, custom, or usage, performs or is authorized to perform any function, duty, or task in connection with any application, registration, payment of poll tax, or other act requisite to voting in any general, special, or primary election at which votes are cast for candidates for the office of President, Vice President, presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, or Resident Commissioner from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.Solskjaer: Unfair to call out footballers, says Man Utd boss

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer thinks it unjust to use footballers as an "easy target" for criticism during the coronavirus crisis.

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says it is unfair to call out footballers during the global crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

Last week, United Kingdom health secretary Matt Hancock called on Premier League footballers to "take a pay cut and play their part" amid suggestions elite and well-paid players were not offering enough support to ease the financial problems caused by the outbreak.

Hancock's comments came amid growing criticism of clubs such as Tottenham, Newcastle United and Liverpool, who put staff on the government's furlough scheme despite boasting healthy financial positions compared to many other businesses. Liverpool later changed course and


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  ADAM LINDSAY GORDON (1833-1870).
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stemmed the dashing wave;
      Her men are staunch
      To their fav’rite launch,
  And when the foe shall meet our fire,
  Sooner than strike, we’ll all expire
      On board of the _Arethusa_.

  ’Twas with the spring fleet she went out
  The English Channel to cruise about,
  When four French sail, in show so stout
      Bore down on the _Arethusa_.
  The famed _Belle Poule_ straight ahead did lie,
  The _Arethusa_ seemed to fly,
      Not a sheet, or a tack,
      Or a brace, did she slack;
  Though the Frenchmen laughed and thought ithive, the Queen was alive,
      And buz was the word in the island.

  Those proud puff’d-up cakes thought to make ducks and drakes
    Of our wealth; but they hardly could spy land,
  When our Drake had the luck to make their pride duck
    And stoop to the lads of the island.
      Huzza for the lads of the island!
      The good wooden walls of the island;
      Devil or Don, let ’em come on;
      But how would they come _off_ at the island?

  Since Freedom and Neptune have hitherto kept tune,
    In each


of majestic works,
    From her isle-altar gazing down,
  Who, God-like, grasps the triple forks,
    And, King-like, wears the crown:

  Her open eyes desire the truth.
    The wisdom of a thousand years
  Is in them. May perpetual youth
    Keep dry their light from tears;

  That her fair form may stand and shine,
    Make bright our days and light our dreams,
  Turning to scorn with lips divine
    The falsehood of extremes!

                    _Tennyson._

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BATTLE SONG

  Thy voice is heard thro’ rolling drums,
    That beat to battlewhere he stands;
  Thy face across his fancy comes,
    And gives the battle to his hands:
  A moment, while the trumpets blow,
    He sees his brood about thy knee;
  The next, like fire he meets the foe,
    And strikes him dead for thine and thee.

                    _Tennyson._

LXIII

VICTORIA’S REIGN

  Her court was pure; her life serene;
      God gave her peace; her land reposed;
      A thousand claims to reverence closed
  In her as Mother, Wife, and Queen;

  And statesmen at her council met


    To all our statesmen so they be
        True leaders of the land’s desire!
      To both our Houses, may they see
        Beyond the borough and the shire!
      We sail’d wherever ship could sail,
        We founded many a mighty state;
      Pray God our greatness may not fail
        Thro’ craven fears of being great.
                    Hands all round!
        God She who sits high o’er Kaisers and o’er Kings,
  Gives with her royal hand--th’ Imperial hand
    Whose grasp the earth enrings--

  Her Cross of Valour to the worthiest;
    No golden toy with milky pearl besprent,
  But simple bronze, and for a warrior’s breast
    A fair, fit ornament.

  And richer than red gold that dull bronze seems,
    Since it was bought with lavish waste and worth
  Whereto the wealth of earth’s gold-sanded streams
    Were but a lack, and dearth.

  Muscovite metal makes this English Cross,
    Won in a rain of blood and wreath of flame;
  The guns that thundered for their brave lives’


 Yet, though treason and fierce unreason should league and lie and
            defame and smite,
  We that know thee, how far below thee the hatred burns of the
            sons of night,
  We that love thee, behold above thee the witness written of
            life in light.

  Life that shines from thee shows forth signs that none may read not
            but eyeless foes:
  Hate, born blind, in his abject mind grows hopeful now but as
       his guilt,
  And earth’s good warmth about him where he lies
  Beyond the burden of all battle-cries,
  And made half-English by his resting-place:--
  God give him grace!

  We love the sea,--the loud, the leaping sea,--
  The rush and roar of waters--the thick foam,--
  The sea-bird’s sudden cry,--
  The gale that bends the lithe and towering masts
  Of good ships bounding home,
  That spread to the great sky
  Exultant flags unmatched in their degree!
  And ’tis a joy that lasts,
  A joy that thrills the Briton to the soul
  Who knows the nearest goal
  To all he asks of fortune and of fame,
  From dusk to dawn and dawn to sunset-flame.
  He


  They mock the air with idle state.
  Helm, nor hauberk’s twisted mail,
  Nor e’en thy virtues, Tyrant, shall avail
    To save thy secret soul from nightly fears,
    From Cambria’s curse, from Cambria’s tears.’
  Such were the sounds that o’er the crested pride
    Of the first Edward scattered wild dismay,
  As down the steep of Snowdon’s shaggy side
    He wound with toilsome march his long array:
  Stout Glo’ster stood aghast in speechless trance;
  ‘To arms!’ cried Mortimer, and couched his quivering lance.

    On a rock, whose haughty brow
  Frowns o’er old Conway’s foaming flood,
    Robed in the sable garb of woe,
  Navies are stranded:
  Faster come, faster come,
    Faster and faster,
  Chief, vassal, page and groom,
    Tenant and master.

  Fast they come, fast they come;
    See how they gather!
  Wide waves the eagle plume
    Blended with heather.
  Cast your plaids, draw your blades,
    Forward each man set!
  Pibroch of Donuil Dhu,
    Knell for the onset!

                    _Sir Walter Scott._

CXXXVIII

OVER THE BORDER

  March, march, Ettrick and Teviotdale,
    Why the deil dinna ye march forward in order?
  March, march, Eskdale and Liddesdale,


bore us,
  Her green flag glitters o’er us,
      The friends we’ve tried
      Are by our side
  And the foe we hate before us.

  Farewell, Erin,--farewell, all,
  Who live to weep our fall!

                    _Thomas Moore._

CLXVII

A SONG OF TRUE LOVE

  She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps,
    And lovers are round her, sighing:
  But coldly she turns from their gaze and weeps,
    For her heart in the grave is lying.

  She sings the wild song of her dear native plains,
    Everythereof
  Love the gentle plant I love.

  Soft it clothes the ruined floor,
  Of many an abbey, grey and hoar,
  And the still home of the dead
  With its green is carpeted.

  Roses for an hour of love,
  With the joy and pain thereof;
  Stand my lilies white to see
  All for prayer and purity.

  These are white as the harvest moon,
  Roses flush like the heart of June;
  But my shamrock brave and gay,
  Glads the tired eyes every day.

  O the red rose shineth rare,
  And the lily saintly fair;
  But my shamrock, one in three,
  Takes the inmost heart of me!


breast.

  And some at home.--Her mother love
    Keeps crooning wind-songs o’er their graves,
  Where Arthur’s castle looms above,
    Or Strathy storms or Solway raves.

  Or Lomond unto Nevis bends
    In olden love of clouds and dew;
  Where Trossach unto Stirling sends
    Greetings that build the years anew.

  Out where her miles of heather sweep,
    Her dust of legend in his breast,
  ’Neath agèd Dryburgh’s aisle and keep,
    Her Wizard Walter takes his rest.

  And her loved ploughman, he of Ayr,
    More loved than any singer loved
  By heart of man amidst those rare,
    High souls theo’er thy waters frown,
  As if their moody spirit’s sway
  Could hush their wild and boist’rous play!

  Unconscious roll the surges down,
      But not unconscious thou,
  Dread Spirit of the rolling flood,
  For ages worshipped as a God,
      And worshipped even now,
  Worshipped, and not by serf or clown,
  For sages of the mightiest fame
  Have paid their homage to thy name.

  Canst thou forget the glorious past,
      When mighty as a God,
  With hands and heart unfettered yet,
  And eyes with slavish tears unwet,
      Each sable warrior trod
  Thy sacred shore, before the blast


the author.

XCI

_The Bab Ballads, with which are included Songs of a Savoyard_ (George
Routledge & Sons, 1897). By permission of the author. This is one of
the songs in the comic opera _Utopia, Limited_.

XCII-XCIII

Both from _A Jubilee Greeting at Spithead_ (John Lane, 1897). By
permission of the author.

XCIV-XCVII

The first three numbers are from _Poems and Ballads_, 3rd series
(Chatto & Windus, 1889). The first is part viii. section ii. of _The
Armada_.

As to the second, Drumossie Muir (l. 16), in Inverness-shire, was the
scene of the battle of Culloden (1746).

    l. 17. _ayont._ Beyond.

       25. _mool._ Mould.
           _laps._ Wraps.

       40. _wotsna._ Knows not.

              215

  Fair stood the wind for France                                     5

  Fareweel to Lochaber, fareweel to my Jean                        177

  Far up among the forest-belted mountains                         285

  Fierce on this bastion beats the noon-day sun


                   258

  Half a league, half a league                                      87

  Harp of the mountain-land! sound forth again                     166

  Have done with care, my hearts! aboard amain                       4

  HeardFires in the Lassen Foothills

Deer Creek, and the Ishi Wilderness in particular are real wildfire country, with a history of frequent large fires. I wrote a wildfire management plan for Deer Creek Watershed Conservancy in 1999, and then did another project for the Nature Conservancy in 2003 where we helped them to lay out burn units and establish some objectives for using fire to manage their rangelands.

Looking NE up Deer Creek, over the Ishi Caves area. Top end of Cohasset Ridge is on the center-right. Beaver Creek Pinery is in center of upper-left 1/4.

Here is a fire history map showing large fires from the 1980s and 90s
The Campbell Fire (1990, at bottom) is in Red, the Barkley Fire (1994, overlapping Campbell) is Yellow, Gun 2 Fire (1999, center)


is Blue.

An aerial panorama we shot of the same area in 2008.

View over Mill Creek, Boat Gunwale Creek, Lassen Trail, and Big Dry Creek, Ishi Wilderness, Tehama County, California. Deer Creek Canyon is at the far-right, just under the wing-strut of the plane.

Click on the image and hit the ‘F’ key to view this panorama in fullscreen mode.

These canyons in the Lassen Foothill funnel East winds, and fires often make their biggest runs downslope runs at night when the air sinks down off of the high country around Mount Lassen. The roads up into the foothills from the Valley are studded with babyhead-sized volcanic rocks – making ‘3 miles per hour’ a good pace. As an old fire captain friend put it ‘You bounce up and down throughDefense attorneys and prosecutors sparred in court over what could have a major impact in the murder trial of an unarmed black teenager who was shot in the face by a white suburban homeowner last year.

What remains unresolved in the pretrial motions are requests to bring the victim’s lifestyle into play in the case of 19-year-old Renisha McBride, who was fatally shot by 55-year-old Theodore Wafer after she showed up at the front porch of his home in suburban Detroit on Nov. 2.

Close video Attorneys launch aggressive defense in porch shooting Defense attorneys representing Ted Wafer in the shooting of Renisha McBride launched an aggressive defense in pretrial hearings Friday, trying to have the judge dismissed over the appearance of impropriety and seeking to have evidence relating to


the third one scored against the perennial champions this season.

Lyon’s 42 points are five clear of Paris Saint-Germain. Montpellier are 12 points off the pace in third with a match in hand on the league leaders. Brian has not played since September 19.

Elli Reed joins staff at University of Portland

Elli Reed, left, has joined the staff at the University of Portland after five seasons with the Reign. (Photo Courtesy FC Kansas City)

Former Reign FC defender Elli Reed has joined the staff at her alma mater, the University of Portland. The 28-year old will be the Director of Operations for the women’s soccer team at Portland.

“I am thrilled to work with (head coach) Michelle French and the rest of the staff,” said Reed. “Michelle is an incredible coach andI am excited to see her work with the girls. This will be a great opportunity to work with Michelle and learn all that I can from her.”

Reed retired following the 2017 NWSL season after being used sparingly. She was a regular on Reign teams that won the NWSL Shield in 2014 and 2015. She played at Portland from 2007-2010.


The village of Buscalan is home to Whang Od Oggay, a centenarian tattoo artist (mambabatok) and last of the traditional Kalinga tattooists, as well as a major cause for tourism in the area. First brought to international attention in 2009 after anthropologist Lars Krutek’s 2007 journey to Buscalan was aired on Discovery Channel’s Tattoo Hunter, Whang Od’s popularity has grown rapidly over the last decade, thanks to news coverage, blog posts, and countless travel vlogs.

Kalinga Tattoo: Ancient & Modern Expressions of the Tribal (German Edition) (German) 1st Edition by Lars Krutak

Whang Od recalls the days when Kalinga tattoo culture revolved around two things: enhancing the beauty of its women and showcasing the proud and dark personal histories of its male warriors. To understand the amazing cultural and historicalinvolvement in Filipino history began in 1521, when Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan landed on the shores of an island in Eastern Samar. After being led to meet Rajah Humabon, the king of what would later become modern-day Cebu. Humabon himself was explicitly tattooed, and early contact with Filipinos led the Spanish to initially name the locals of the Visayas, where they arrived, as the Pintados, or ‘painted ones’. Shortly after establishing a reportedly amiable relationship with the Rajah, Magellan found himself opposed by a nearby Datu, or chieftain, who disobeyed his order to pledge fealty to the foreign crown of Spain.

After a failed attempt at diplomacy, Magellan engaged the Datu, named Lapu-Lapu, and died on the shores of the island of Mactan, while the surviving Spanish were driven


out of the Philippines after Humabon allegedly betrayed them and poisoned their remaining leadership. The event led to repeated attempts over the next four decades to expand Spanish control over the region, eventually leading to the colonialization of the Philippines under Spanish rule, which would last over three centuries. After Spanish rule, the Philippines were subjugated once more under the Americans, who later helped them fend off an invasion by the Japanese during the Second World War.

Yet throughout those centuries, several regions in the Philippines provided the Spanish and other would-be colonists with significant and lasting resistance, especially far in the North, among the mountainous regions of the Cordilleras, and in the South, among the Moro people of Mindanao. The Cordillera region included the ethnolinguistic cultures of theland of his kin, the more elaborate the tattoos become. These tattoos marked the Kalinga as both fearsome and reputable, and many knew well to stay away from them.

Among their tattoos, the Kalinga share many other traditions, including the use of their enemies’ jaw bones as handles for traditional gongs. Vengeance was a way of life, with disputes often being settled through mortal combat. While women received tattoos as a rite of passage and a mark of beauty, men engaged in blood feuds. Though these have waned over the years, they haven’t disappeared. Firearms replace swords, and God has replaced the spirits of the dead for some, yet the practice has survived into relative modernity – when Lars Krutek first met tattooist Whang Od in 2007, he was


present and filming while she tattooed a local warrior for the vengeful killing of three men during a land dispute.

With the fading of blood feuds and the influence of modernization on the indigenous people of the region, the practice of tattooing warriors for their kills has all but disappeared. Yet Whang Od keeps the tradition of Kalinga art alive, albeit in a more modern fashion.

Who is Whang Od?

Born sometime early in the 20th century, Whang Od is a world-renowned Kalinga tattoo artist of the Butbut people, living in Buscalan, a small and isolated village in the Cordillera mountains. Known as Apo (elder) Whang Od, she is the last practicing traditional mambabatok among the Kalinga people, and she learned the craft from at least four male predecessors, who startedteaching her at the age of 15. She had an innate talent for the art and carried on tattooing warriors and women for decades to come.

The traditional mambabatok art can only be passed on through blood. So says Whang Od, who states that it would otherwise be rendered impure. She has two apprentices, both of them close relatives, although she has no children of her own. While Lars Krutek had to be closely scrutinized and vetted by her when he first arrived to document the lives of the Kalinga and receive a sacred tattoo, countless tourists have since come and gone, and Buscalan has turned into a relatively popular tourist destination ever since.

In recognition for a lifetime of dedication to the Kalinga art of tattooing, Whang Od was


awarded by the Dangal ng Haraya award by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, one of its highest honors. She is alive and quite well for a woman her age, living in Buscalan, and occasionally traveling the country to visit others or receive honors. While she has been seen tattooing visitors as recently as mid-2019, her vision seems to be fading, and she has stated that she will retire once she cannot see clearly enough to tattoo. Her grandniece Grace Palicas, who has been learning from her for well over a decade, often takes on requests to tattoo traditional Kalinga symbols onto visitors, though Whang Od still bestows those who visit with her three-dot signature.

Whang Od’s tattoos are made with simple tools: a small wooden mallet,as various geometric shapes. The mark of a warrior, no longer tattooed by her, is a stretch of several long lines across the chest and shoulders, with further details and intricacies the more prestigious a warrior became. Many of the last men who bore (and continue to bear) these designs were warriors who fought under U.S. command in guerilla battles against the Japanese.

CRITICAL: Nearly 10 years have passed since Buscalan has first become a tourist destination, after a long history of countless generations surviving off the incredibly fertile mountain land, which produces a plentiful annual rice harvest, and other vegetables. With Whang Od’s popularity and the near-daily influx of foreign visitors, many in the village have turned to homesteading and souvenirs as a way to make a living.


directly to it.

Tattooing in ancient and contemporary Filipino lives

The practice of tattooing was well-documented and widespread according to surviving European accounts of early contact with the natives of the Visayas. Tattoos were more elaborate the higher one’s status was in society, with nobles often featuring the most extensive and complex works of art. Similarly, the Kalinga were not the only tribe to tattoo themselves, as it was a practice among the Bontok and Ifugao as well.

However, among many cultures in the Philippines, the art of the tattoo has largely fallen into obscurity or has been aggressively persecuted during the centuries of Spanish control, wherein the Philippines was almost wholly converted to Catholicism.

The Moro of Mindanao did not historically have tattoos, mostly because of the centuries-old tradition of Islamin the region. They have fought for autonomy for roughly four centuries, and recent diplomatic attempts to define an autonomous region via democratic vote have failed, due to their status as minorities in many regions of Mindanao after centuries of settlement by other ethnicities and cultures. The region is mired with ongoing tensions, although more recent conflicts have ended.

Today, roughly 80 percent of the population is Catholic, with an additional chunk belonging to various denominations of Christianity. The conversion to Christianity was, among other reasons, one of the reasons why Visayan tattoo art faded. However, there have been several calls for the commemoration and reignition of Filipino tattoo art, especially among the descendants of the Filipino diaspora, and different cultural festivals still celebrate the art.

The art of tattooing


the lamb hours before the first guests arrived, he spoke wistfully of the summers they spent in Sweden with Silka’s Swedish relatives. Having been to Sweden myself with Tom’s family, I could well understand his longing.

Jake Levin, co-founder of the Berkshire Food Guild during the farm tour of Mill River Farm in New Marlborough, MA.

When Jamie sent me the menu prior to the event, I knew the Berkshire Food Guild meant business – the menu was daring, unusual and ambitious. I was so pleased to hear on our arrival that the event was a sell-out, and that people in the local area were hungry for this kind of brave cooking. Around 6 o’clock guests began to arrive on the farm and it was a happy sight to seewith lemon thyme and the result was one of the greatest drinks we have ever tasted. There were also sulfate-free, organic, biodynamic wines from two small producers in France, sourced by Berkshire Food Guild member Brian Heck, who also happens to be a coffee roaster at Barrington Coffee. Needless to say, the coffee accompanying the dessert (Midsummer spruce bavarian with strawberries, petit fours) was divine.

Rhubarb cooler, a delicious and refreshing non-alcoholic drink, went down very easily.

Berkshire Food Guild member Brian Heck readies a bottle of natural, sulfate-free, wine he sourced from small producers in France.

A crowd gathered with anticipation as Jazu broke down the cooked lamb, removing the blue spruce from the cavity, and pointing out which part was the tenderloin, which part the lamb breast, to curious


attendees. At his side, Jamie worked with colorful and perfectly cooked local vegetables – butter-poached white and deep pink baby turnips, a medley of green peas (snap, shelling and snow), deep red beet carpaccio with buttermilk and dill – as she did her final plating before all the food was served family style on the long farm table. It truly was a celebration of seasonal living. Silka and I stood back and marveled at the sight, it was thrilling to see the mission of the Berkshire Food Guild achieved so successfully.

Perhaps the best moment was one the guests did not see, a short and sweet toast from Jake behind the scenes at the very end of the night thanking everyone who helped for all the hard work inExclusive Interview With Michael Rooker About Guardians of the Galaxy

In an exclusive interview withChimichanga Talk, Michael Rooker spoke at length about his role as Yondu in the forthcoming film: Guardians of the Galaxy. The interview was scheduled to last only fifteen minutes, yet he kindly spoke to us for close to an hour.

The following is a transcript of the exclusive content he shared with us about Guardians of the Galaxy:

Michael Rooker talking about the research he did for his role as Yondu and the advice that James Gunn gave him:

You know what? I started reading the comics and stuff and he’s a very interesting character. Gunn told me not to read too much as it deviates from the comic stuff and I knew that of course. I read


College basketball has a royal class, an exclusive fraternity of elite programs. These are the schools whose tradition and recruiting pull are so powerful, their continued success is virtually inevitable.

Duke, of course, sits at the head of the table. Kansas and Kentucky are full-fledged members too. The question before the sport now, though, is whether another school is on the verge of joining them.

The...Argo, Lincoln and the politics of Hollywood

David Horsey

The Oscar for best picture was won by "Argo," the true tale of a secret rescue mission in Iran during the Carter administration. It beat out "Lincoln," the story of how black Americans were rescued from slavery. Does this mean Jimmy Carter's stock is on the rise? Nope, but Ben Affleck has certainly become a blue chip player in Hollywood.

Politics -- not the Hollywood kind, but the Washington kind -- played a significant role in public perceptions of both films, as well as of a third that was nominated for best picture. "Lincoln" is seen in some quarters as a subtle pro-Obama movie with its emphasis on a crafty progressive president promoting a radical, big government policy through political guile and


force of arms. "Argo" is a foreign affairs thriller that portrays the sacrifices of state department officers and the heroism of the CIA. And the third film, "Zero Dark Thirty," stirred up controversy because it shows a crucial lead in the hunt for Osama bin Laden being uncovered through the CIA's torture of terror suspects.

Fans of former Vice President Dick Cheney are happy to see their man's support of torture vindicated by "Zero Dark Thirty," and others on the right are pleasantly surprised that the movie did not turn out to be a puff piece for President Obama. Liberals, meanwhile, see "Lincoln" as a reminder of how the conservatives of 150 years ago were so utterly wrong about the greatest moral issue of the 19th century.

"Zero Dark Thirty"Photo

In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 photo, a deserted train station is covered by snow in an area devastated by the March 11 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture. Japan's progress in rebuilding from the tsunami that thundered over coastal sea walls, sweeping entire communities away, is mainly measured in barren foundations and empty spaces. Clearing of forests on higher ground due to be leveled to make space for relocating survivors has barely begun. Japan will next week observ
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Reviewed byKerry Bennett

Director Michael Bay has tried to do it all---a romance for the girls with not one but two gorgeous heroes, and enough body-throwing, ship-sinking explosions to keep any guy glued to his seat--all this in only three hours.

Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) and his best friend Danny Walker (Josh Hartnett) are swept up in the frenzy that precedes WWII. As ace pilots, they are invaluable American assets and of particular interest to navy nurse, Evelyn Johnson (Kate Beckinsale). But three's a crowd when it comes to love and that causes some not-so-friendly fire between the childhood buddies. Fortunately Evelyn's dilemma (and the love story) is postponed while the US Navy deals with a surprise Japanese attackon Pearl Harbor. For a good forty minutes, air bombers, shellfire and torpedo assaults wreak havoc on the Hawaiian paradise and send military personnel scrambling to contain the damage.

While the intense war violence includes spurting blood, burned bodies and drowning soldiers, Bay keeps a relative check on the gory details. But he gives us plenty of implied sexual encounters between the soldiers and nurses, and one carefully draped scene on the floor of the parachute hanger. Meanwhile, the film also promotes the notion that love comes only to the beautiful, and despite the unquestionable men to women ration favoring the nurses; only Evelyn wins at the game of undying romance. With an added heavy shot of profanity, this movie has a PG-13 rating that parents should heed.

To lend


depth and reality to the film, the director includes portrayals of real life war heroes, Doris "Dorie" Miller--the first Black American to receive the Navy Cross, and Lt. Col James Doolittle who led the retaliatory attack on Tokyo, as well as showing viewers some little known facts about the raid and it's aftermath.

But that doesn't make it a reliable study guide for your next history test. Rather, Pearl Harbor is an ambitious attempt to honor the young men and women who heroically fought a battle they didn't start and to give us a feel for the events of December 7, 1941.

Discussion Ideas After The Movie

Teaching ideas and topics to discuss about Pearl Harbor.

During a night on the town, one soldier abstains from engaging in the passionate encounters ofirreconcilable differences; they had been separated since May of 1970.
Just prior to their divorce, Judith and Leroy entered into a property and custody settlement agreement which placed the custody of Jill with Leroy, with visitation rights in Judith. The agreement also provided that Judith could have the agreement reopened and reviewed at a later date for possible alteration of custody. On November 28, 1972, Judith petitioned to amend the judgment and decree of divorce so as to regain custody of Jill. A hearing on that petition was held on December 15, 1972, and the district judge ordered that an investigation be made of all the parties involved and their families. The attorneys for both Judith and Leroy had previously stipulated that such an investigation could be made and


the results used as an aid by the district court in determining custody of Jill.
As previously stated, Judith and Leroy separated in May of 1970. Judith left Leroy and moved to Fargo with Jill to seek employment. Two weeks later Judith returned to her parents' farm and left Jill there while she looked for work. About a week later Leroy took Jill from Judith's parents' farm to his parents' farm, where he also resided.
Judith worked in Fargo for six months and then returned to her parents' farm for five months before enrolling in a secretarial course at the Wahpeton State School of Science for one semester. During this time Jill was with Judith only for some visits; the remainder of Jill's time was spent with Leroy at hisparents' farm.
Judith remarried on August 18, 1972, and Leroy remarried on November 8, 1972. The Fargo Area Social Service Center, which conducted an investigation of the parties and their homes, reported that Judith and Leroy, and their respective new *363 spouses, would be adequate parents. The Social Service Center also reported that Jill had lived with her father, Leroy, for most of her life and had developed a strong relationship with her paternal grandparents during the time she lived in their home with Leroy. For these reasons, the Social Service Center representative expressed the belief that a change in custody would detrimentally affect Jill in these relationships.
On March 16, 1973, the district court held that Jill should remain in the custody of Leroy, with visitation rights in Judith.


The district court stated the reasons for its decision to be that Leroy took the initiative and took Jill into his home, that Jill had lived almost continuously with Leroy, that Judith took quite a while to petition for the custody of Jill, that Jill had a close relationship with her paternal grandparents, and that removal from the home of Leroy would not be in the best interests of Jill and would probably disrupt her life.
Judith is appealing this judgment and claims the district court erred in not awarding her custody under § 30-10-06 of the North Dakota Century Code, which provides:
"Rules for appointing.In appointing a general guardian or in awarding the custody of a minor, the court is to be guided by the following considerations:
"1. By whatcourt. In so stating these actions of Leroy in its decision, the district court made it evident that it thought all other things were not equal: the fact that Leroy took the initiative in taking Jill into his home, that Jill was with Leroy and her paternal grandparents for some time and formed a strong relationship with them, and that Judith waited for some time to try and gain custody of Jillall point to the fact that all other things were not equal.
In addition, the district court had at its disposal the report of the Fargo Area Social Service Center which stated that a change in Jill's custody might have a disrupting effect on her life. As stated in the record, this was also the belief of the


key political actors including the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Memorial, and U.N. as supporters of this designation, Wilson argued that the situation is dire, despite an international response he deemed “very slow.”

Cresa Pugh, a Harvard scholar who recently conducted fieldwork in Rakhine state, told The Globe Post that it is necessary to understand the context of the campaigns, cautioning the international community and the media from responding to the humanitarian concerns in a vacuum.

Pugh said that “violence against Muslims in Myanmar dates back to the colonial period when Muslim immigrant laborers and merchants from what was then British India faced significant discrimination and hostility due to mounting economic competition.”

Citing four large military campaigns against the Rohingya, she expressed how “the most recent iteration of violencePlan was 69 percent funded, garnering $655 million of the $950 million requested, so full funding for 2019 remains a challenge.

Pugh said, “the international community – including nearby countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand – as well as European and North American countries – must step up their commitment to providing asylum and supporting relocation efforts for refugees.”

She emphasized the significant responsiveness by the the government of Bangladesh over the last 18 months, but that the international community cannot rely on them solely for the full scope of needs due to their limited resources.

And with a decision this week by The Government of Bangladesh to move forward on a plan to relocate up to 100,000 Rohingya to a remote island next month off the Bay of Bengal,


'Hollywood Ending' is happy

The biggest surprise in this year's Oscar show wasn't a winner's name tucked in an envelope. It was the onstage appearance of Woody Allen, who's famous for avoiding celebrity events like this.

What brought him out of his shell? Was it the social importance of his segment, which celebrated his beloved New York with a montage of film clips?

Could be. But that doesn't explain why he's agreed to open the Cannes Film Festival this month, traipsing up the red carpet for the European première of his new picture, "Hollywood Ending," which debuts in US theaters today.

Allen's reclusive image had a certain mystique when he was making artistically ambitious pictures such as "Zelig" and "Crimes and Misdemeanors" years ago.

But from the director of recent throwaways like "Theit's about a director making a movie.

Not just any director, either. He's a once-lauded auteur whose reputation has declined, making him long for a mainstream hit to reestablish his importance and turn attention to his artistry rather than his up-and-down love life.

Could the once-lauded auteur of "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan," lately known for personal peccadilloes and forgettable films like "Celebrity," be trying to tell us something?

For the first few scenes, "Hollywood Ending" seems like a standard satire. We watch Allen's character, Val Waxman, accept a prime-grade project even though it's bankrolled by the man his ex-wife dumped him for.

We meet his money-minded agent, his untalented girlfriend, and a set designer who wants to rebuild the Empire State Building for the film.

Then things get interesting. Val is so consumed


with anxiety over the movie that his subconscious mind goes haywire.

He loses his eyesight, and if anyone finds out he'll be fired. So he has to fool everyone in sight, pretending he really knows what's in front of the camera. This is a wild comedy idea, but it's not completely disconnected from reality. Allen himself is known as an anxious artist with a streak of hypochondria.

He's made some of the same decisions for his actual productions that Val makes here, like insisting on a foreign cameraman for a New York movie.

Allen is also noted for keeping the complete script away from his actors, asking them to take it on trust that the movie will make sense  rather like the "Hollywood Ending" characters who can't figure out whatthey're doing, but assume Val's talent will pull things together for the final cut.

Val manages to finish the movie, and  guess what?  it turns out to be a confused mess. He regains his sight, though, and then his discombobulated drama strikes French critics as an intellectual feast.

He becomes the new Jerry Lewis, scorned by smart Americans but acclaimed by European snobs.

"Hollywood Ending" has a happy ending after all. The movie is Allen's most successful in years, even if you don't see it as a self-made commentary on his own career.

Credit goes less to the comic dialogue than to the razor-sharp performances of an excellent cast including Téa Leoni as Val's ex-wife, Mark Rydell as his agent, George Hamilton and Treat Williams as studio execs, and Allen


HFF Obtains Financing for Chicago’s 401 North Michigan Ave. on Behalf of Zeller Realty Group

HFF recently announced that it has secured a five-year, floating-rate loan for 401 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

HFF recently announced that it has secured a five-year, floating-rate loan for 401 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago. The property consists of a 35-story, 758,131-square-foot Class A office tower built in 1965 by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. According to a news release, the loan was obtained by HFF on behalf of Zeller Realty Group, Inc. through Blackstone Mortgage Trust. The HFF team representing the borrower included managing directors Mike Kavanau, Dave Keller and Christopher Carroll.

“It is exciting and rewarding to be once again entrusted with the assignment to recapitalize 401 North Michigan, an asset that HFF financedwith Zeller Realty Group’s acquisition in 2001,” Keller says.

Located at the gateway to Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, the former Equitable building is adjacent to the Chicago Tribune Tower and the Wrigley Building. The building is currently 81 percent leased, with tenants including MTV, the University of Chicago and Kraft. 401 North Michigan Ave. is conveniently situated within a unique environment consisting of office, entertainment, hospitality, retail and residential destinations. Additionally, the building was awarded LEED Gold Certification in 2011.

“With the renovation of Wrigley, expansion of Northbridge, new addition of luxury hotels, and filling in of the ‘missing link’ of Michigan Avenue south of the River, 401 North Michigan Avenue is effectively the new nexus of the city,” Carroll says.

The loan secured by HFF will be used to enhance the


Streeterville property over the next three years. Improvements will include a new lobby, a new ground level restaurant, a fitness center, and a complete revamping of the 19th floor. Current amenities include indoor valet parking facility, full-service food court and café, shuttle and taxi service to nearby stations, barber shop, nail salon, concierge, and building conference facilities.time, standing completely still and wearing a pair of sunglasses. This "worker" stays in that same spot, hour after hour, day or night. Could it be a well-paid (and strangely still) security guard? A worker inexplicably shunned by their Mars 2020 rover teammates?

Andrew Good from NASA JPL's media relations team cleared up this clean room mystery.

It turns out that the silent "stand-in" is local JPL celebrity "High Bay Bob," a bunny suit-clad mannequin, Good confirmed. The extra addition to the clean room was present for a few days keeping the hardworking crew company.

High Bay Bob is gone now, his departure just as mysterious as his arrival, but you can still watch the Mars 2020 rover come together. To see live views of Mars 2020 as engineers build the


rover, visit JPL's "Watch Mars 2020 Come Together" page here!

The Mars 2020 rover, which will soon be renamed, is scheduled to launch toward Mars on July 17.

In this image taken Dec. 24, 2019, NASA's Mars 2020 rover is near ready for shipping to Kennedy Space Center. The rover's launch window is from July 17 to Aug. 5, 2020. (Image credit: YouTube/NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Leonard David is author of the recently released book, "Moon Rush: The New Space Race" published by National Geographic in May 2019. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.he had shot his father in the head, was holding his mother and sister at gunpoint, had doused the house with gasoline, and was contemplating setting the building ablaze.

The telecommunicator dispatched a police response to the address provided by the caller. When police arrived, a 27-year-old man answered the door, and immediately was told to raise his hands and walk toward the officers. Regrettably, he lowered his hands to his waist, and an officer found the action threatening enough to fire a single shot at the man, killing him.

When one stops to mull this for a moment, especially considering the type of response that is dispatched to such incidents, it seems amazing that a swatting death has not happened before.

As if this event wasn’t tragic enough, the man


seal is then formed around the circumference of the laryngeal opening by the inflation of a ring-like structure located toward the front of the mask (patient end). Inflation of the ring exerts pressure against the front, sides, and rear portions of the oropharynx, securing the device in place such that the laryngeal opening is positioned in alignment with a recessed cavity in the mask face. Alternatively, the structure of the shield may be formed as a large semi-rigid plastic construct which generally serves to seal by contouring to the shape of the throat and imparting pressure on the throat by its own size and shape effectively filing available space.
Extending from a point external to the oral cavity, the flexible breathing tube terminates within the recessed cavity, aligned axiallyThen, through pair-matching, randomly assigned half of the study communities to receive a participatory intervention in the form of women’s groups focused on infant and maternal survival. In each community, a group was formed under the guidance of a trained facilitator which then held a cycle of meetings to discuss issues around child birth and care behaviors.

Apparently, a key aspect of these group meetings was the active roles played by the constituent members where problems and roadblocks to effective maternal health were identified and discussed. The groups proposed solutions, such as community generated funds for maternal care or the local production and distribution of clean delivery kits, which were then put into practice. Interestingly, not everybody participated in these groups – only 8% of women of reproductive age


Born: July 29, 1900 | Died: December 30, 1964

Don Redman is considered the first jazz composer/arranger by many. He was also the first musician with both the inspiration and academic knowledge for this style of music. In short, he invented jazz writing for the big band, not only writing separate parts for reed and brass choirs, leaving room for hot solos, but putting sections in opposition which solved the problems of the new style, thus showing everyone else how to do it.

His brother led a band in Cumberland, Maryland and his father was a noted music teacher and had performed in a brass band. His mother was a singer. Don began playing the trumpet at the age of three, joined his first band at 6 and by theage of 12 was proficient on all wind instruments including the oboe....
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Don Redman is considered the first jazz composer/arranger by many. He was also the first musician with both the inspiration and academic knowledge for this style of music. In short, he invented jazz writing for the big band, not only writing separate parts for reed and brass choirs, leaving room for hot solos, but putting sections in opposition which solved the problems of the new style, thus showing everyone else how to do it.

His brother led a band in Cumberland, Maryland and his father was a noted music teacher and had performed in a brass band. His mother was a singer. Don began playing the trumpet at the age of three, joined his first band at


6 and by the age of 12 was proficient on all wind instruments including the oboe.

Don studied music at Storer's College in Harper's Ferry and conservatories in Boston & Chicago. He joined Billy Paige's Broadway Syncopators and traveled to New York with them in 1923. Redman's first recording sessions were in 1923, with Fletcher Henderson, he joined Henderson's band in 1924, as a reed player and staff arranger and stayed with the unit until 1927. During the early twenties Redman also recorded with many other jazz and blues greats including Clarence Williams and Bessie Smith.

In 1927, Don joined McKinney's Cotton Pickers in Detroit as the leader and musical director, remaining in that position for four years. This band at one point included such jazz legends as Coleman Hawkins,Benny Carter and Fats Waller. Always in demand as an arranger, Redman recorded some sessions with Louis Armstrong in 1928.

Hoagy Carmichael was an admirer of the young Don Redman and legend has it that Redman gave Hoagy musical advice and may have written the introduction to Stardust. Don was one of the first to record it as an instrumental, the words to that classic weren't added by Mitchell Parrish until a few years later.

In 1931, Don formed his own band from the nucleus of the Cotton Pickers and musicians from Horace Henderson's band. They stayed together for nine years, performing regularly at Connie's Inn in Harlem. The band made numerable radio broadcasts and was the first to play a sponsored radio series for CHIPSO in 1932 as well


as a film short in 1935. During this time Redman also arranged music during the Thirties for Paul Whiteman, Isham Jones, Ben Pollack and Bing Crosby.

Redman is credited with inventing the swing choir in which the band sang a paraphrase of the words to a counter melody. This was used in '37 in “Exactly Like You” and “Sunny Side of the Street.”

In 1940 after the band broke up, he did some free-lance arrangements, then reformed the band for a short time at the end of the year. The following year, he toured briefly with the Snookum Russell Band, then returned to New York City for more free-lance arranging including Jimmy Dorsey's “Deep Purple.” He put together another band in 1943 for residency at The Zanzibar in New Yorkand soon after resumed full-time arranging for Count Basie, Harry James and NBC studio bands. In 1946, Redman put together another band for a European tour; the band broke after a couple of months though Redman stayed overseas until August of 1947.

Don Redman had a TV series for CBS in 1949. From 1951 he worked as the musical director for Pearl Bailey, though rarely played any instruments publicly. He had a small acting role as a policeman on Broadway in 54-55 with Pearl in House of Flowers. He recorded on alto, soprano and piano in 1958-59. He played piano for the Georgia Minstrels concert in June of '62 and soprano sax for the Sissle-Blake Grass Roots concert in September 1964. During his final years he worked on several


In yet another sign of what Russia expert Stephen Cohen has described as the escalating New Cold War, non-NATO aligned Sweden is initiating detailed plans to ready itself for total societal mobilization in response to military attack from a major external power. As Aaron Mehta points out in his exclusive for Defense News entitled Fortress Sweden: Inside the plan to mobilize Swedish society against Russia, that major external power is none other than Russia, whose heavily militarized port of Kaliningrad lies a little over 220 miles across the ocean from Sweden.

During past Cold War decades, Sweden (along with other non-NATO Nordic country Finland) was known for keeping painstakingly detailed survival readiness plans in case of a great power invasion, down to "how parking garages were designed so youof Europe, any allied ground forces would actually come to Sweden's aid.

Though there's been a series of recent bilateral agreements with some European nations, and crucially including the U.S., a long tradition of Swedish neutrality has left the Scandinavian country without any definitive treaties wherein allies would be obliged to act.

Meanwhile, Sweden last year reintroduced military conscription for all Swedes born in or after 1999 (the prior conscription policy was abolished in 2010) in response to perceived as heightened Russian aggression in the region, and a build-up of forces in and along the Baltic Sea.


the wrongful death of appellant's husband, Lester Bohnsack.  After the judgment against Duvall remained unpaid for more than 30 days, appellant filed suit against Wausau in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.  The district court, in an unpublished opinion and order dated June 30, 1982, denied recovery on the basis of its conclusion that there was no "occurrence," as that term is defined in the insurance contract, that would give rise to liability under the contract.  We affirm.

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Background.

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On March 11, 1977, Duvall and Lester Bohnsack were involved in an altercation which culminated in Duvall's striking Bohnsack on the side of the head with a two-by-four piece of lumber.  Mr. Bohnsack later died as a result of the blow toIn comments overheard on an open microphone between morning television interviews, including one with Fox, the top U.S. diplomat said: "My Fox guys, I love every single one of them."
But Rice told an aide that when she was next in Iraq she would like to do a "one-on-one" interview with CBS "The Early Show" anchor Harry Smith.

"He's a decent guy. I know they are, like, 55 in the ratings, but I like him," Rice said in comments monitored by Reuters on a television feed.


The Kerala Legislative Assembly is the Supreme law making body of the state. In
1956 when the Kerala State was formed, it was under the presidential
administration and there was no legislative assembly in the newly formed state.
Following the general election of 1957 the First Legislative assembly came into
existence on 6th March 1957. The legislative assembly of Kerala is constituted
with 141 members of whom 140 members are elected by the people on the basis of
adult franchise as per the people’s Representation Act of India and the
remaining one is nominated by the Governor as obliged by the constitution of
India from among the Anglo-Indian community. The electorate is divided into 140
assembly constituencies according to the number of votes and the election is
ordinarily held once in five years or on the termination ofan ongoing
Assembly. A parliamentary democratic system is followed for the election and
the function of the assembly and the party who gets the majority will form the
government. An elected speaker or a deputy speaker in his absence will preside
over the meetings and control the law proceedings of the assembly.

The assembly is divided into two sections viz. the ruling party (Treasury
bench) and the opposition party (opposition bench) .The leader of the majority
party will be the Chief Minister. The council of ministers headed by the Chief
Minister is called the ministry or cabinet. The executive authority of the
government is vested with them and they are responsible to the Assembly.
Various sub committees of the Assembly will look into the legislative
obligations and proprieties.

The meeting of the Assembly will be convened thrice in a year.


the Kerala
Assembly in addition to the subject committees originated in 1980.

The adoption of the Annual Budget and Finance bill is one of the primary
responsibilities of the Assembly. It is the constitutional duty of the assembly
to open a debate on the budget as soon as it is presented in the Assembly by
the Finance Minister. It may accord its approval to the statement of income and
expenditure for the concerned financial year and to the accompanying financial
bill. The Assembly is also empowered to sanction supplementary grants whenever
necessary. The Assembly is empowered to discuss any matter of importance to the
State and adopt resolutions. It can vote for the election of the President of
India and elect the Rajya Sabha members.

The First Kerala Legislative Assembly :

On 16th March 1957 the first Kerala legislative assemblywith 128 members was
sworn in and a Communist ministry under the leadership of E.M.S. Nampoothiripad
came into power. It was the first communist ministry in the world which came to
power through ballot. Objections to the policies and programmes of the new
government was flaring up among a large section of the population. At last all
the opposition parties joined together and conducted a ‘Vimochana Samaram’
(Liberation struggle) to throw out the government. On 31st July 1959 the E.M.S.
ministry was dismissed. The state again returned to the presidential rule.The
first Kerala legislative assembly in its period of Twenty- eight months sat for
175 days. R. Sanakaranarayanan Thampi was the Speaker. The joint assembly
enacted 97 bills. The education bill and the agrarian relations bill produced
many uproars. The verbal combats among prominent leaders like E.M.S.
Nampoothiripad, C. Achuthamenon,


T.V. Thomas, K.R. Gowri, V.R. Krishna Iyer and
the like on one side and the stalwarts like Pattom Thanupillai and P.T. Chacko
etc. on the other side enlivened the assembly. Besides, the fact that the
ruling party had only a majority of the two members compelled both treasury
bench and the opposition parties to attend the assembly proceeding promptly.

The Second Kerala Legislative Assembly :

After the dismissal of the Assembly, an interim election was conducted in
February 1960. On 9th February the second Kerala Assembly was formed. A
coalition ministry under Congress and Praja Socialist party with Pattom
Thanupillai as the leader came in to power. Seethi Sahib of Muslim League was
elected as the Speaker. Following his sudden demise C.H. Mohammed Koya became
the Speaker. After a period of six months he also vacated the post. Alexander
Parambitharaof Congress adorned the seat of the Speaker. The ministry was in
power for 31 months. With the appointment of Pattom Thanupillai as the governor
of Punjab, the ministry resigned. Then the Congress formed a ministry under the
leadership of R. Shankar who was the Deputy Chief Minister under Pattom
Thanupillai. The Shankar ministry took up the reins of government on 26th
September 1962. But this ministry could not complete the term. On 9th September
1964 the second Kerala Assembly was dissolved and the state was again put under
the presidential administration. The Second Assembly of Kerala sat for 296 days
and created 162 acts. The land reforms bill, Panchayat bill and municipalities
bill are important among them. After six month’s President rule, elections were
held on 4th March 1965 in which no single party got majority. The


presidential
administration had to be continued in such circumstances. This was a rare
occasion in the political history of Kerala.

The Third Kerala Legislative Assembly :

The united front under the leadership of Indian Communist Party (Marxist) could
get a landslide majority in the elections of 1967. The front had 116 members in
an Assembly which had a total strength of 133 members. CPI (M), CPI, RSP, IUML,
KSP and Karshaka Thozhilali party were parties in the front. On 6th March 1967
a ministry under E.M.S. Namboothiripad came in to power. D. Damodaran Potti of
Indian Socialist Party was elected as the speaker. On 24th October 1969 E.M.S.
submitted his resignation. A new government was sworn in with C. Achutha Menon
as the Chief Minister. In the eight- member ministry parties such as CPI,
Muslim League, Indian Socialist Party andKerala Congress participated. The
Congress and RSP supported it from outside. But when it was seen that certain
undesirable tendencies were adversely affecting the smooth running of the
government, the Chief Minister advised the governor to dissolve the assembly.
On 25th June 1970 the Governor dissolved the third assembly.The third assembly
met for 211 days and including the amendments created 101 laws. They included
the official language act and Calicut and Kerala Universities acts.

The Fourth Kerala Legislative Assembly :

On 4th October 1970 the fourth legislative assembly of Kerala came into
existence. Achutha Menon who was sworn in as Chief Minister in 1970 served in
that position till the 25th of March 1977. K. Moideenkutty Haji, a member from
the Muslim League was elected as the speaker. He vacated the post on 8th May
1975 due to differences of


opinion with the ruling coalition. The deputy
speaker discharged the duties of the speaker till February 16th 1976. Later S.
John of Kerala Congress was elected as the speaker. This was not only the first
ministry of Kerala which was able to complete its term of office but also the
one that got extension for three times. It had to continue in office for about
six and half years. This was a unique event in the political history of Kerala.
The cabinet was expanded in 1971 and in 1975. The fourth assembly of Kerala met
for 322 days and passed 224 bills. The land reforms bill, the landed labour
abolition bill, the agricultural workers bill and the Guruvayoor devaswom bill
were some of them.

The Fifth Kerala Legislative Assembly :

Chakkiri Ahmmed Kutty of Muslim League was the speakerof the fifth Kerala
legislative assembly which was formed on 22nd March 1977. He continued till the
end of the term of Assembly. If stability of the Government was the fair
display during the tenure of the fourth assembly the fifth assembly was
functioning in an atmosphere of uncertainty. K. Karunakaran who accepted the
Chief Ministership on 25th March 1977 had to resign from the post following a
court verdict in connection with the ‘Rajan Case’. On 27th April A.K. Antony
formed a coalition ministry under the stewardship of Congress. But this
ministry had only a short life. Due to certain political reasons Antony
resigned in October 1978. P.K. Vasudevan Nair, leader of CPI formed another
coalition ministry. On 7th October 1979 the third ministry also gave up the
administration. Eventhough the Muslim League leader C.H. Muhammed Koya provided
leadership


to form another ministry and took up authority on 12th October, it
lasted only a few weeks. On November 13th the Governor dissolved the assembly
in order to seek a new verdict from the people.The 5th Kerala legislative
assembly with thirty ministers under four chief ministers ruled the state for
thirty two months, met for 143 days and enacted 87 laws.

The Sixth Kerala Legislative Assembly :

In the interim election held on 21st January 1980, the political front of seven
parties (Left Democratic Front) under the leadership of CPI (M) got 93 assembly
seats. On 25th January 1980 a 17 member ministery took up the reins of power
under the leadership of E.K. Nayanar. Besides CPM, the representatives of CPI,
INC (U), RSP, Kerala Congress (M), All India Muslim League and KC (P) were also
included in theministry. The assembly elected A.P. Kurian as its speaker.
After twenty- two months of governance, Nayanar relinquished authority on the
withdrawal of support by the Kerala Congress (M) and the Indian National
Congress (U). A new ministry under the leadership of K. Karunakaran came into
power on 28th December 1981. On March 1st A.P. Kurien relinquished the post of
speaker and A.C. Jose was elected as the new Speaker. There were seventy
members each on the Treasury Bench and on the opposition front and due to this
contingency the ministry depended on the casting vote of the speaker for
survival.The Karunakaran ministry, after a short period of two and half months,
ended its administration on the withdrawal of support of one person from the
ruling front. On 17th March 1982, the sixth Assembly was wound up and the
presidential


rule was imposed in the state for the seventh time. The sixth
assembly convened its meetings for only 112 days. Most of the laws exacted were
other amendments or budgetary demands. A remarkable development witnessed
during the time of the sixth legislative assembly was the appearance of a new
type of legislative sub committee called subject committee in the world of
parliamentary practice.

The Seventh Kerala State Legislative Assembly :

The presidential rule lasted for only 2 months. On 19th May 1982, an election
was held and in this election the political front under the leadership of
Congress (United Democatic Front) obtained majority. A ministry under K.
Karunakaran was sworn in on 24th May. The seventh Kerala legislative Assembly
was an assembly with more than twenty parties which were either small or even
small among small parties that arrayed inthe ruling front to opposition front
in accordance with their affiliations. On 24th June 1982 Vakkom Purushothaman
was elected as the speaker. On being elected to the Lok Sabha in 1984 he
resigned the post and following this, V.M. Sudheeran became the Speaker on 6th
March 1985. In 1982 Kerala Assembly celebrated the silver jubilee. Gyani Zail
Singh, the then President of India who delivered the inaugural speech during
that occasion recollected many memorable events of the chequered history of the
assembly. During the period of the 7th assembly two more revenue districts
namely Pathanamthitta and Kasargod, came into existence on 24th May 1984. An
important political event that had taken place during the time was the
unification of Congress (I) and Congress (A) on 20th November 1982. The 7th
Assembly also saw many turbulant events of which the


Vishwanatha Menon, A.C. Shanmugha Das and K. Sanakara Narayana
Pillai. Even though the Former Speaker V.M. Sudheeran introduced a
no-confidence motion against the government, it failed. An important event took
place as soon as the LDF took over authority.The panchayat and Municipal
elections were held on 23rd January, 1988. The centenary of the Assembly
commenced with the beginning of Srimoolam Assembly (1888) on 30th March 1988. A
remarkable reform was the changing of 8 Districts and 17 Taluks into Malayalam
names in February 1990. In November 1989 the Kerala Congress (J) deserted the
UDF and entered the fold of LDF following which the membership of R.
Balakrishnapillai was invalidated because of his refusal to go with his party.
The government brought Higher Secondary Education to schools in 1990 contrary
to the declared policy of the ruling front. The declarationof coconut as an
oil seed and Trivandrum airport as an International Air Port by Central
government was the achievement of the eighth assembly.Another remarkable
administrative reform of this period was the formation of District Councils for
the decentralisation of power and the first election was held on 29th January
1991. It was also during this time that Kerala was declared as a total literary
state in April 1991.

The Ninth Kerala Legislative Assembly :

In 1991 the eighth assembly had one or more year before its expiry.The left
democratic front which was ruling then took a decision to dissolve the assembly
and conduct fresh elections anticipating favourable results. On 12th June 1991
the assembly elections were also held along with the Loksabha elections. But
contrary to the expectations, the United Democratic Front under the leadership
of K. Karunakaran came back


to power. On 24th June 1991 the representatives of
five constituent parties were sworn in as ministers. Karunakaran was the Chief
Minister. Because of the internal squabbles the swearing of other members of
the proposed cabinet was postponed. Later thirteen more members took the solemn
oath in two stages and the 19 member ministry came to power. This ministry
implemented an industrial policy conducive to the growth of all types of
industry and beneficial to the entrepreneurs. It also made the education up to
the level of Pre-degree/Higher Secondary free vis-à-vis taking steps to
implement U.G.C. norms for university education. On the formation of the
ministry the quarrels that were going on inside the front were exposed, and
these became a threat to the very existence of the government. In the meantime
the Chief Minister met with a carsubsequently elected to the
Rajyasabha on his resignation of the membership of the assembly.

The Tenth Kerala Legislative Assembly :

In 1996 a change of government took place in Kerala. After the general
elections, a ministry under the leadership of E.K. Nayanar came to power. The
rift in Congress and the allegations of corruption against Karunakaran
government were the main reasons for the U.D.F. set back. Because of the anti-
arrack campaigning and prohibition laws, the Antony leadership could gain huge
popularity among voters. But this trend did not help the UDF to perform
hopefully well in the elections. The Kannur University was started during the
time of Tenth Assembly even though much spadework had been done during the time
of the previous assembly. In 1997 K.R. Narayanan was elected as the President
of India and this Assembly did much