hands.

Allen had already begun to measure out his steps to save Miami's season.

"In that moment, in the last minute of the game, there were so many moving parts," he said. "You need luck when you win."

In two seconds, he calmly retreated all the way from the paint's restricted circle along the baseline -- six purposeful steps back -- before planting his size 14 Air Jordans just behind the 3-point arc. Bosh expertly pinpointed a pass directly to Allen. The smooth shot looked exactly like any other of his league record 2,973 threes, from his balance before the catch, to the elevation on his jump, and the height on his release.

"As that ball bounced, I went back to where I know I belong and what I do well," saidAllen. "The rest is history."

play 0:52 Ray Allen's clutch three for Heat in Game 6 On June 18, 2013, Ray Allen knocks down a corner 3-pointer to send the Heat to overtime against the Spurs in Game 6 of the NBA Finals. In OT, Chris Bosh blocks Danny Green's last-second shot attempt to send the series to a seventh game.

It was his only made 3-pointer of the game, and a shot that ranks at the very top of his career.

"Probably the most nerve-racking," said Allen. "You're so heavily scrutinized and under such criticism during that time of the year. Everything that doesn't go in your favor, you feel like the weight of the world is crashing down on you."

Remixing an icon

During the 2013 playoffs, Allen had a batch


of black Air Jordan XX8s accented with Heat red and yellow, but for Game 6 of the Finals, he switched to a white pair with red, gold and black accents.

"It felt super-exclusive," he said. "Nobody could get them."

This year's retro edition shifts back from the Game 6 white colorway to the more frequently worn black, with gold accents like several of the other shoes in the "Art of a Champion" collection.

On the underside of the shroud are a "9" and a "5," highlighting the 95 points that the Heat finished with in regulation of Game 6 after Allen's 3-pointer. Sixteen tally marks can be found along the insole, symbolizing the wins through four rounds required to earn a league championship.

Even in retirement, Allen appreciates being incorporated into thebrand's biggest campaigns, soaking in the glory from the 2013 Finals yet again.

Five years later, he still has the pair of Air Jordan XX8s from Game 6 archived in his massive personal storage space, where he houses hundreds of exclusive sneakers from each stop throughout his storied 18-year career.

"I'm just thankful that I was able to do what I did in those moments to come through down the stretch," he said. "Otherwise, they'd be having different conversations, and you don't want to be the guy that had to move out of the neighborhood because you cost your city a championship."


Former Lacey officer was devoted mother, respected cop

A devoted mother to her son and daughter. A terrific athlete and avid fitness buff who was the first and likely the only woman to become a member of the Lacey Police Department's tactical team. A "great patrol partner" who loved her job.

These were some of the descriptions of slain Lakewood police officer Tina Griswold, 40, from friends and colleagues who worked with her when she was starting out as a law enforcement officer in her hometown of Shelton, and later in Lacey.

Griswold’s mother, Geneva DeLong, also gave a brief statement Monday as she fought back tears during a phone interview from her home in Post Falls, Idaho. She said she wants people to pray for the families of all four40 stakeholders representing students, teachers and staff, parents, community members, and both site and district leadership. Representatives from the City of Paramount as well as local businesses and area colleges and universities also participated.

The Strategic Plan addresses four key Focus Areas:

- College and Career Ready Graduates- High Quality Teaching and Learning- Positive School Climate and Environments Conducive to Learning- Parent and Community Partnerships

The Strategic Plan is meant to build upon the great work that has taken place on behalf of the students in the Paramount Unified School District and raise achievement to new heights!

In the spring of 2016, the Paramount Unified School District launched an ambitious undertaking: to reimagine high school. The High School Promise Initiative sparked a district-wide renewed commitment to more equitably prepare students for the


demands and opportunities of college, career, and life in the 21st century. In concert with the district’s ambitious Strategic Plan, the High School Promise Initiative has been the catalyst for creating new opportunities for raising student achievement to new heights, including the launch of a new small high school.

As the result of how schools in California are funded, all districts must write a Local Control and Accountability (LCAP) Plan. The purpose of this plan is to outline how the district will use Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) funds to meet the needs of students. Plans must align with eight state priorities and be updated annually. Each year the LCAP Committee meets to review the purpose of the plan, analyze academic data, district and school needs and discuss howto address future needs. The Committee includes teachers, administrators, classified staff, parents, high school students, and a member of the Board of Education. PUSD’s Plan, which includes services and activities for 2017-2020, was approved by the Los Angeles County of Education in August, 2017.


Development of the NESTA website is supported through a grant (NSF 0742222) from the National Science Foundation's Geoscience Education Program.

Ancient Shallow Sea Floor

A photograph of the uplifted shallow sea bottom at Dinosaur Ridge, Colorado, taken on August 3, 2001, 5:25 pm. Dinosaur Ridge is a hogback, west of Denver, that includes many tracks from dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous. The ripples in this shallow sea bottom were formed 100 M yrs ago, and are part of the Dakota Group.Number and distribution of Australian veterinarians in 1981, 1991 and 2001.
To analyse the number and distribution of the Australian veterinary work-force, and to assess changes in it that have occurred since 1981. The postcode and gender of each veterinarian who was registered, resident and apparently working in each state and territory in 1981, 1991 and 2001 was obtained from veterinary board lists, entered on an Excel data base, and analysed using the statistical program SAS System 7 for Windows 95. The Official Australian Postcode Map was used to determine the location of postcode areas, and publications of the Australian Bureau of Statistics provided data on human populations. At the end of June 2001, 6358 veterinarians were registered, resident and apparently working in a state or territory of Australia.


This was 100% higher than in 1981. Over the intervening 20 years, the number had increased by 3181, 2001 of whom were female. Between 1981 and 1991 the increase in major cities was 898 and in rural areas 682, of whom 357 were male. Between 1991 and 2001 the increase in cities was 1139 and rural areas 462, of whom only 98 were male. The density of veterinarians in Australia - 330/million people - is higher than in the UK (213/million), USA (218/million) and Canada (250/million). The relative number of veterinarians in Australia is now higher than in the UK, USA and Canada, and is likely to continue to increase. There is evidence of maldistribution, with many rural practices facing shortages of veterinarians with the experience and inclinationThis Is What Happens When Historians Overuse the Idea of the Network

October 26, 2013

Sherlock Holmes, that most English of fictional characters, would not seem an obvious icon of globalization. Yet the novel in which he first appeared, A Study in Scarlet, begins with the exploits of Dr. Watson in Afghanistan. In the four novels that Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes, two of the plots hinge on Americans pursuing vendettas in Europe, and two on fortunes acquired (in one case stolen) in British overseas colonies. As for the fifty-six short stories, fully three-quarters of them have a significant foreign dimension, most often extending beyond the European continent. Holmes’s London is a predictably exotic metropolis bustling with Indians, European radical exiles, wealthy Americans, and sundry foreign aristocrats, sailors, and


West itself at the center of the story? Cautious of venturing into such minefields, many “global historians” now encase every hesitant assertion in a suffocating gauze of hedging and qualification. Meanwhile, the hope of taking part in a powerful and exciting intellectual trend (coupled, perhaps, with the prospect of winter research trips to Barbados or Goa) has drawn in many scholars with little concern for the original political stakes.

Still, the trend has only gained strength and breadth. What social history was to the 1960s and 1970s, and cultural history to the 1980s and 1990s, global history has become in the first decades of the new century. Forty years ago, a young historian interested in the era of the American Revolution might have undertaken a dissertation on how independencenew work opens up remarkable new perspectives on the past. It used to be possible for historians to devote entire careers to French Revolutionary studies (my own field) without paying the slightest attention to the fact that revolutionary France possessed Caribbean colonies. Yet the pre-revolutionary growth in the French economy was largely driven by the spectacular expansion of sugar production in these colonies. This production in turn depended upon massive numbers of slaves working under some of the most brutal conditions ever seen on the planet. In 1789, the three small French colonies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), with a combined surface area roughly equal to that of Massachusetts, held as many African slaves as the entire United States (roughly 700,000). Most of them had been


born in Africa, and they survived, on average, for little more than a decade after their arrival in the New World. In 1791, these slaves rose up in the largest slave rebellion ever seen in history. In 1794, revolutionary France became the first European empire to abolish slavery (although Napoleon later reestablished it). The “global turn” has very rightly insisted that histories of the French Revolution take these events fully into account. It has done similar things for many other subjects.

It has proved less successful, however, at providing new, overall narratives with which to make sense of past human experience. A classic of the genre such as C. A. Bayly’s The Birth of the Modern World, 1780–1914, which appeared in 2003, brilliantly drew connections and parallels between far-flungneglected. And despite the authors’ valiant efforts, the chapters show just how difficult it is to write in an engaging manner about such a vast and amorphous subject, and to develop convincing overall explanatory frameworks.

The volume breaks down the overall theme of “global connections” into five rough parts: cooperation, exchange, movement, coercion, and resistance. Rosenberg herself tackles the first of these, in a virtuoso chapter that surveys every conceivable variety of international conference and agreement: on the standardization of time zones, on sports, on film distribution, on war-making and the treatment of prisoners, on banking and currency and trade, on international telegraph and railroad lines, on artistic and scientific and professional exchanges, not to mention the League of Nations. She looks at failed attempts at internationalism such as


a part of the overall picture this image captures. Carefully distinguishing between different sorts of migrants—free migrants, labor migrants, indentured workers, refugees, displaced persons—he points to the vast flows of humanity that steamships and railroads made possible all across the globe. Indians moved out across the British empire, to Africa, and even to South America. Russians spread eastward into Siberia, Chinese downward into southeast Asia. Reverse flows sometimes mattered almost as much as the original ones. And in the story of migrations, international conflict had an increasing impact, with refugees taking up a larger and larger share of overall movement. Steven Topik and Allen Wells also stress discontinuity and unequal power relations in a more narrowly focused contribution on commodity flows. Industrial processes, they argue, may have madealso waxes lyrical on the ruthlessness with which expanding territorial states subjugated and incorporated peoples with more nomadic patterns of settlement and political organization, from the American Great Plains to Central Asia. Burton and Ballantyne, meanwhile, take on the formidable task of discussing both imperialism and anti-imperialism in just under 150 pages. Their chapter seeks, above all, to debunk the commonly held notion that decolonization movements only really reached critical mass with the disruptions of World War II. To the contrary, they argue that these movements took shape in tandem with imperialism itself—and, crucially, that they took shape between empires, not just within them. They hold up W. E. B. Du Bois, who called for the worldwide solidarity of African and Asian peoples, as a prime example of


industry were taking place simultaneously in Santiago and Beijing, London and New York. (Not for nothing did Lionel Abel famously call New York’s City College in the 1930s “the most interesting part of the Soviet Union ... the one part of that country in which the struggle between Stalin and Trotsky could be openly expressed.”) Yet Rosenberg’s chapter has barely four pages on the subject. The book as a whole mentions dozens of international organizations, including the International Council for Bird Preservation and the Inter-American Price Coffee Board, but it can spare exactly three sentences for the First and Second Socialist Internationals. It does not do a much better job with the transmission of religious ideas, and on the ways new forms of “global connection” sometimes built onolder ones developed by that most successful of international organizations, the Roman Catholic Church.

For all its copious statistics on commodity flows, the book also has surprisingly little to say about how commodities were actually used, and about daily life in general. One of the most striking features of the period between 1870 and 1914 was the emergence of closely related middle-class cultures throughout much of the West—and increasingly outside it as well. The emerging bourgeoisies of the day placed a huge premium on well-ordered, cultivated home lives, with “companionate,” but sharply restricted roles for women. It was, to a very large extent, the (male) products of these homes who created the international organizations discussed by Rosenberg; staffed the national and imperial bureaucracies charted by Maier, Burton, and Ballantyne;


The “Amritsar Massacre” of Indians by British troops in 1919, with a death toll of perhaps one thousand, appears three separate times in the book, but Stalingrad and the Somme, with their millions of dead, go unmentioned. Yes, Stalingrad was a “European” battle in one sense, but it represented the key moment in a struggle for the bulk of the Eurasian land mass across which Hoerder learnedly traces so many migrations. Stalingrad also brought in, on the Soviet side, combatants from all across Eurasia, while the Somme involved colonial soldiers from global empires. Also of note is that Winston Churchill, arguably a figure with more than a passing relevance to the theme of “global connections,” has precisely three references in the book—less than his compatriot David Livingstone (ofAnne Baxter (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 1985) was an American actress of stage and screen. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Sophie in the 1946 film The Razor's Edge, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the title role in the 1950 film All About Eve.


Signing the contract of equipment supply for fire-fighting, prevention and rescue police forces in Vietnam

On March 15, 2017, at Fire and Rescue Police Department – No.2A Dinh Le – Hoan Kiem District – Hanoi, Fire and Rescue Police Department – Ministry of Public Security – Vietnam and EVERDIGM Corp. from Korea jointly signed the contract of equipment supply for fire-fighting, prevention and rescue police forces in Vietnam, using the concessional loan from Economic Development Cooperation Fund of Korean Government.

This is the largest project of Fire and Rescue Police Department ever from now in the field of fire-fighting vehicle supply, and Informatics Commerce Technology and Consultancy Company (ICT Company) works as the Consultant for the project.

Participants of the signing ceremony include:

Lieutenant General Bui Van Thanh - Deputy Minister ofFormer Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin said on Saturday that a nuclear Iran would be more dangerous than carrying out a military strike on Iran.

Speaking from the crowd in respone to a panel discussion at the Washington Institute's 2012 Weinberg Founders Conference in Virginia, Yadlin said Iran has a "sophisticated" strategy to pursue nuclear weapons and added his assessment that this strategy is "unfortunately" working.

Open gallery view Former Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, June 2011. Credit: Moti Milrod

Yadlin said he favored exhausting all other options before striking Iran's nuclear facilities but stressed that a "nuclear Iran is more dangerous than attacking Iran."

"If they can't be contained when they don't have nuclear weapon, how can they be contained when they do?" Yadlin said.

"I


performed in a prone position (the position of the body lying face down), and ultrasound imaging is performed in a supine position (the position of the body lying face up). A doctor performs ultrasound imaging of the lesion after estimating the position of a lesion in the supine position from the position of the lesion obtained from an MRI image in the prone position while taking into account the deformation of the breast caused by the difference in the position of the body during the imaging.
However, the deformation of the breast caused by the difference in the position of the body during the imaging may be large so that the position of the lesion estimated by the doctor may be deviated from the actual location. Therefore, the extractionPUBG Mobile's growth and success in India is marred by ban requests and criticisms. While its players continue to applaud the game's unmatched graphics and intense gameplay, some are raising concerns over addiction to PUBG Mobile and a negative impact on students' grades in exams. But things might have just gotten worse as a Mumbai teen committed suicide after heated arguments with his family members over a new phone to play the game.

An 18-year-old teenage boy took his life by hanging himself after his family refused to buy him a new, high-end smartphone to play PUBG Mobile, Republic World reported. While the teen's family had agreed to buy him a phone under Rs 20,000, he had demanded a costlier smartphone that costs around Rs 37,000.

According to the report,


a case of accidental death has been registered and an investigation is underway.

PUBG Mobile is a free-to-play online battle royale game, where 100 players fight against one another to survive till the end. The winner or the last survivor gets rewarded with "Winner Winner Chicken Dinner" message on the smartphone. During the gameplay, players are allowed to use various weapons and strategize their moves as the circle closes in on all players, who must stay in the safe zone to survive.

While PlayerUnknown's Battleground (PUBG) has been around for a while on other platforms like PC and Xbox One, it only recently made its entry into mobile and PS4. But PUBG Mobile has been a bigger hit than any other version of the platform, largely contributing towards the company'srevenue.

But recent times have placed PUBG Mobile in a tough situation in India, where the game has been banned in some educational institutes, including Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) and primary schools in Gujarat. Recently, Jammu & Kashmir Students body and medical doctors association urged the governor to enforce a ban on the popular game.

Adding fuel to the fire, an 11-year-old's strong-worded four-page letter requesting a ban on the PUBG Mobile has gone viral. The "appeal" is addressed to seven ministers Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ministry of Electronics and IT, and Maharashtra's education minister Vinod Tawde among others. The game's popularity among young kids even raised a concern at the recent Pariksha Pe Charcha 2.0 meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and 2,000 students, teachers


and parents.

PM Modi's initial response to a concerned mother's query on PUBG's influence on her kid may have left the room full of students in splits, but the nation's leader addressed how important it is for parents to promote healthy technology talks with their kids.

Even while PUBG Mobile faces severe criticisms from all over the country, the game has been receiving regular updates to enhance the gameplay. The biggest update coming to the game is going to add a limited-period zombie mode in the game, which will add living dead creatures while players fight one another in the shrinking game zone. The Chinese developers of the game haven't commented on the reports of the game getting banned or its impact on mental health of its players.established. Here is her whimsical bio from the site:

New York Times Bestselling author Gail Carriger writes to cope with being raised in obscurity by an expatriate Brit and an incurable curmudgeon. She survived her early years by reading most of her local library and memorizing Greek battles. Eventually, she escaped small town life and inadvertently acquired several degrees in Higher Learning. In pursuit of further finishing, Ms. Carriger traveled the historic cities of Europe, subsisting entirely on biscuits secreted in her handbag. She now resides in the Colonies, surrounded by fantastic shoes, where she insists on tea imported from London.

This is a good example of a bio that has the same tone as the books the site promotes. Matching the style of your book (funny bio if your


promoting it so Dyer took matters into his own hands.

Dyer quit his teaching job and for six months drove his
station wagon across the United States. He went onto local radio and TV
stations and did interviews with local and regional newspapers. He took a load
of books with him and convinced book store owners to put it in their windows
ahead of his media appearances. When he ran out of books his wife shipped more
ahead to the next town.

It worked. The publisher realized that they were getting a
lot of orders for this book and decided to back it with publicity and promotion
as well.

The book has sold an estimated 35 million copies and is
still in print. It was on the New York Times best-seller list for 64 weeks and
paved the way forone geared to them.

September 13, 2012

I wrote here not long ago about Wattpad.com, a site where
authors can post their books chapter by chapter. The Bookseller reported
recently on one success story involving that site:

“Abigail Gibbs, 17, began publishing
her novel The Dark Heroine: Dinner with a Vampire when she was 15 on the
online writer’s platform, Wattpad.

Now HarperFiction commissioning
editor Amy McCulloch and Erika Tsang from HarperCollins in the US have
pre-empted world English language rights for the novel and its sequel. The
rights were acquired for a significant six-figure sum from Scott Mendel at
Mendel Media Group LLC.

On Wattpad, the novel has been read
more than 17 million times, as readers follow the story of 18-year-old Londoner
Violet Lee, who is kidnapped by the charismatic heir to the vampire throne,
Kaspar Varn.

It was released as an e-book


a look
back at some of these, including how the Pete the Cat series came to be born.
It’s in the news again because a company called Merrymakers is planning a
world-wide licensing program for a large range of Pete the Cat goods, including
shoes, toys, school supplies, etc. What I found particularly interesting is how
the character was born. This is the account written by Sally Lodge for PW:

“A chance encounter at an Atlanta stoplight led to the creation of Pete
the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, written by children's musician Eric Litwin
and illustrated by James Dean. Waiting for the light to turn, Litwin recognized
Dean, a local artist known for his paintings of a blue cat named Pete, in the
next car. Litwin told him he was a big fan of Pete andasked if he wanted to
collaborate on a book; thus a children's book protagonist was born.”

They self-published a book in 2008, and the way in which they marketed
it also stood out:

“The collaborators—Litwin on guitar and banjo and Dean with giant
easel—promoted their book at Atlanta-area bookstores, schools, libraries, and
festivals, and sold some 4,000 copies.”

A bookseller called the book to the attention of a sales rep for Harper
Collins. In 2010 the publisher released Pete the Cat and sent the two on a publicity
tour to five cities. The book made it onto the New York Times best-seller list
and as of early 2011 had sold 50,000 copies, with a follow up (Pete the Cat:
Rocking in My School Shoes) following with a first printing of 75,000 copies.

I share this story for several reasons. First,


within your community, then I think there is a time to stand up and say, 'Come on, let's get this right'," she told Australian Story.

"The law as it stands I think is silly and it's not fair. It's not equal, and that's all we want, to be recognised as equals."

The couple would like to have the marriage ceremony performed by O'Donovan's parents, both of whom are ministers in the Anglican Church.

Country music fans continue to embrace Cole and her relationship with Libby. ( Supplied: Beccy Cole )

O'Donovan's father, Reverend Bart O'Donovan, is in favour of changing the law to allow same-sex marriage.

But even if the law is changed, he would be unable to perform same-sex weddings until the Anglican Church changes its policy.

"Once the law allows the marriageof gay people, eventually the church will catch up," he said.

"If we were in America, Canada and other parts of the world, the Anglican Church has already done that."

'Big gay Brady Bunch' family

Cole and O'Donovan met at a gay pride event in Adelaide, just weeks after Cole revealed she was a lesbian on Australian Story in 2012.

Cole had been married to musician Mick Albeck but the marriage lasted only 18 months. They have a son, Ricky, who is now 17.

O'Donovan has a daughter from a previous gay relationship.

Within a year of meeting, they had set up a blended home together, likening themselves to a "big, gay Brady Bunch".

"When people asked what the family situation was, I'd just say 'we're living with mum's girlfriend and sometimes her little girl


want to get married in another country and then come here and not have the marriage recognised," she said.

When Cole came out in 2012, her biggest fear was that conservative elements of the country music audience would reject her because of her sexuality.

At the Gympie Muster that year — her first gig after the revelation — she was apprehensive about how the crowd would react, but instead she was met with a standing ovation.

In a sign of how much the country music community has accepted her sexuality, this year Cole was named as the ambassador for the Gympie Muster.

"She was full of trepidation about coming out, but the audience here and the country music community couldn't be more accepting of her," Muster organiser Jeff Chandler said.

"Her sexuality doesn'tEbook Details

Chris Rogers

Ebook Description

Most Australian Test players do things a certain way. Get into the Australian cricket pathway early. Go to the Academy. Win favour with senior players. Think long-term about your career at a young age. Think first of attack, and leave defence as a last resort. Do things the Australian way, never mind the Poms. Keep the game as simple as possible. Avoid tinkering too much with your technique. Chris 'Buck' Rogers did none of these things. Instead he forged a cricket life in his own distinctive style, learning from mistakes and imparting that wisdom on others. In many ways he is a player out of time, harking back to the days when cricketers spent as much time with their clubs, states or counties as they


did with the national side. In Bucking The Trend, Chris Rogers looks intimately at his time in the game and the game in his time, valuable as much for the years he spent as an Australian cricket outsider as it is for a cathartic Test recall in 2013. An emotional hundred at Durham that year heralded a wonderfully late blooming spell with Australia, proving him beyond doubt as a quality international batsman.Rogers' road to the top of the game was far from straightforward; there is rare richness in his cricketing tale.the district court, invoking jurisdiction under Rule 35, Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and alleging that his sentence, insofar as it required him to pay the costs of his supervised release, was in contravention of the terms of his plea agreement.   His plea agreement, which had been accepted by the district court, specifically recited that no fine would be imposed as part of the sentence.

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On December 18, 1990, the district court denied defendant's motion on the grounds that defendant knew restitution might be ordered as part of his sentence, that he understood a period of supervised release would follow his sentence, and that the court was required by U.S.S.G. § 5E1.2(i) to impose a fine to recover the costs of any supervised release ordered.


Sandra Brown – Words Of Silk

Words Of Silk was the 18th book by Sandra Brown and was initially published under the pen name Erin St. Claire.

This novel had a release date of May 28, 1984.

Words Of Silk book description

Laney McLeod’s life changes the minute she finds herself stuck in a high-rise elevator in Manhattan.

Fighting her rising panic, she relies on a handsome stranger to help overcome her claustrophobia. The man, Deke Sargent, is just as attracted to this beautiful and vulnerable woman as she is to him.

When the power comes back on, Deke and Laney find themselves in a passionate embrace that soon leads to a night of love in his apartment.

Shocked at her own brazenness, Laney disappears the next morning. Months later, she receives an even greatermy heart and head to tumble, stumble, bounce, and roll. I write to explore the magic of our world and the power of words. I write to expose the tragic truth of life as well as the authentic abundance and joy. The stories are meant to inspire all of us facing the challenge of knowing and honoring our authentic self in a world of commands and demands.” – Jessica Sabatini


in Distortion Studios, Ottawa between September and December 1990.

According to Morissette, people from MCA placed "hardcore" pressure on her to lose weight in time for the album's release, leading her to develop anorexia nervosa and bulimia. She subsequently began therapy, which she called "a long process to un-program [my brain]. I try to remember, whatever my body is, it's perfect the way it is." She also revealed she would often go straight from school to the studios where she would stay until 3 or 4 AM and write/record music, drink alcohol, smoke marijuana, and hang out with what she called "the older crowd".

Release and legacy
Alanis was released in April 1991 to mixed reviews, and the media drew comparisons between Morissette and other teen pop singers at theMinnesota United FC listened when some of its most loyal fans criticized some of the team’s strategies for growth.

After attendance increases in 2013 and 2014, the North American Soccer League club wanted to increase revenue by adding seatbacks and raising seat prices in the east bleachers at the National Sports Center in Blaine.

That move would displace the Dark Clouds, the club’s hundred-strong supporters group that chants, uncorks smoke bombs, waves flags and watches matches from some of the stadium’s best seats.

Because of the criticism, the United consulted with Dark Clouds members and met with season-ticket holders last month to discuss the proposed changes.

The United suggested the Dark Clouds move to behind the south goal, but Dark Clouds members were “pretty upset” at that idea, said member Jim Crist


in 5 minutes with 60 people. That was totally illegal. That was crazy. It was in the east village. I’ve done lots of other events and in other places too. I made a Night Heron Sao Paulo, Brazil, that was in a treehouse, instead of a water tower. It was great. It was in a giant, beautiful, Brazilian tree in the middle of the banks that was near this horribly polluted river, in the middle of an abandoned park, in the middle of Sao Paulo.

The first time I made an event in New York, I didn’t try to bite off everything. By the time I got to the water tower, I had done many events. I painted a 400 foot long mural in 5 minutes with 60 people.NASCAR at Infineon: Meet Your Road Course Ringers

Right turns are only relevant in NASCAR's premier Sprint Cup Series six days a year—two sets of race weekends in the summer months that take place at California's Infineon Raceway and New York's Watkins Glen International.

In these races, a handful of unfamiliar drivers are often tapped to drive some of the cars in the lower half of the field, especially with teams struggling to stay in the top 35 in owners points. Others, folks with long resumes in many disciplines of racing, still show up with their own part-time operations, simply looking to challenge for a win in yet another series. And for a handful of full-time Cup competitors who have made the transition full-time from other styles of racing, these


select events for Robby Gordon since 2009, usually including this race and Watkins Glen. Jones will drive in place of Kimi Raikkonen, the ex-Formula 1 champion who never got a deal together with Gordon.

P40. Brian Simo

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Casual race fans will recognize Simo best by identifying him with the No Fear clothing line that he helped create. But Simo's crowning achievements as a race car driver came in the SCCA Trans-Am Series, where he won the 2000 championship. In fact, the photo above, owing to few recent photos of Simo on this site, comes from the following season.

P41. Andy Lally

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Now a full-time NASCAR driver, Lally is best known for his three Rolex Sports Car Series championships and being the winningest driver in the GT class inseries history. He has also taken class podiums at Le Mans, Road Atlanta and Sebring in three of the top endurance races in the world.

P42. Chris Cook

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Best known as a road course driving coach who has worked with drivers like Tony Stewart, Joey Logano and Clint Bowyer, Cook has not competed in Sprint Cup since finishing 28th at Infineon six years ago. He has also competed in 12 Nationwide events, with a best finish of 20th at Mexico City in 2006.

P43. Andy Pilgrim

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When Dale Earnhardt and Dale Earnhardt Jr. attempted to win the 24 Hours of Daytona in 2001, Pilgrim was their co-driver. The British racer counts experience in endurance racing as well as the former SPEED World Challenge on his resume, having spent


without due process. The district court

denied plaintiff relief on this claim, concluding that plaintiff had no property

interest in his continued employment with the University beyond his initial

appointment.   1

      Finally, plaintiff asserted three state law claims. First, he asserted a breach

of contract claim against the Board of Regents for not reappointing him. Having

previously determined that plaintiff had no contract with the University beyond

his initial appointment, the court denied relief on this claim. Second, plaintiff

asserted a claim for wrongful discharge against the Board of Regents. He alleged

that the failure to reappoint him violated Oklahoma public policy because it was a

product of sexual harassment and retaliation against him. Again, having

previously determined that plaintiff failed to establish either a sexual harassment

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voters.

Get that shit stain on the soul of America in YOUR party in line or you guys are going to become a third world third party that USED to be important in the country.

McCain is a lying sack of shit. He knows EXACTLY what Rice knew, and he learned it at the exact same time that she did. Now he wants to blame her for reading the reports outloud that he doesn't like?

Fuck that. IF he cared a Bit about Glen and the guys he would be moving heaven and earth to work WITH the exec office to bring the people to justice that killed those americans.

The terrorists killed four americans. They did it during Bush's tenure, and it was peachy keen for the old shit condom then,shit stained fuck puss of a troll holds a press conference to complain about not getting info, and in doing so, skips the classified meeting in which he would GET all the answers he wants, it shows that this is NOT about the truth.

The truth is irelevant. All McGollum is doing is trying once again, to gain political points with the blood of america's fallen heroes.

That makes him SO fucking admirable, doesn't it.

He's a pathetic washed up husk that has spent the last five years ruining any chance he had at leaving the nation a legacy. He has become all that he once opposed. He embodies the corrupt use of power for personal political gain at the expense of the nation.

He is a scourge and history will not


steering group working for David Bernstein, the former chairman who viewed this as the biggest regret of his time in the role. He is confident that he has finally persuaded the football stakeholders to give up enough of their privileges to reach a compromise that has unanimous support from the FA board.making billions from a windfall of free pollution permits."

The steelmaker ArcelorMittal leads the list of companies in the report, with a current surplus valued at €1.7bn, followed by Lafarge, the cement group.

Tata Steel, in third place with a surplus valued at €393m, last month announced 1,500 job losses at its plants in Lincolnshire and Teesside, blaming emissions regulations as well as the economic downturn. Karl-Ulrich Köhler, chief executive of Tata Steel Europe, said at the time: "EU carbon legislation threatens to impose huge additional costs on the steel industry." Tata Steel declined to comment on the report.

The European Union emissions trading scheme (ETS) puts a cap on the carbon pollution emitted by energy and industrial companies. Those reducing their emissions can sell their spare permits to those who


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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Book Review: The Mist In The Mirror - Susan Hill

An inveterate traveller, Sir James Monmouth has spent most of his life abroad. He arrives in England on a dark and rainy night with the intention of discovering more, not only about himself but his obsession with Conrad Vane, an explorer. Warned against following his trail, Sir James experiences some extraordinary happenings - who is the mysterious, sad little boy, and the old woman behind the curtain? And why is it that only he hears the chilling scream and the desperate sobbing?

A recent discovery of mine, British author Susan Hill (THE WOMAN IN BLACK) almost immediately became a go-to, must-find-all-her-work person for me. In one of my many trips out to the bookstore I grabbed anotherAnsarullah revolutionary group denied reports on advanced agreement between Yemeni National delegation and Saudi-backed delegation at peace talks in Kuwaiti capital.

AhlulBayt News Agency - Ansarullah revolutionary group denied reports on advanced agreement between Yemeni National delegation and Saudi-backed delegation at peace talks in Kuwaiti capital.

"Reports on advanced agreement that any solution plan could be based upon are baseless," Ansarullah spokesman, Mohammad Abdul Salam, said on his Twitter account.

Earlier, UN envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed tweeted: "there is a wide common ground that can be built upon."

Yemen has been since March 26, 2015 under brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition.

Thousands have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.

Riyadh launched the attack on Yemen in a bid to restore power to fugitive Hadi


Hindu Sindhis are presently celebrating their New Year festivities called Cheti Chand. It would be pertinent to know about essential Sindhism – the Sindhi way of living. In fact, Sindhis are the Sindhi-speaking ethnic group originally native to the Sindh province of now Pakistan. It is said that in the olden times, Sindhis were free of any religious discrimination and followed the Sufi traditions of Shah Lateef, Jhoolay Lal, Sachal, Sami, Qalandar and others who had preached love for humanity.

After the partition of India, in 1947, most Hindu
and Sikh Sindhis migrated to India and a few to other parts of the
world. Currently, Hindu Sindhis, besides worshiping Hindu Gods and
Goddesses, also believe in tenets of Sikhism. Most Sindhi Sikhs
belong to Sahajdhari sect of Sikhism. As a result, Hindu Sindhiscan
be regarded as those who concurrently follow both Hinduism and
Sikhism.

In
Focus

Sindhis were greatly influenced by Guru Nanak's
teachings when he had passed through Sindh and expounded his simple
ritual-free philosophy of life without any discrimination against
women and those of lower socio-economic status.

Guru Nanak had
preached to Sindhis that God was formless, omnipresent, and
compassionate. And, God could be reached through prayer, humility,
service, meditation, and virtuous living. They were so impressed by
Sikhism that many Sindhis used to make their first son a Sikh.

Even today the Sindhis visit Gurudwaras and revere
Guru Nanak with the same fervour as Lord Krishna, Lord Rama,
Lord Shiva and Goddesses Durga, Laxmi and Saraswati. The Bhagawad
Gita and the Guru Granth Sahib both have an equally exalted status in
Sindhi homes.

In Sindh, Guru Nanak urged his followers to follow
three tenets, namely, ‘Naam Japo’


has been appealed by the Debtor. The appeal is currently pending before the Second District Court of Appeals of the State of Florida.
Since no stay pending the appeal was granted, Kolody proceeded to attempt to enforce and collect his judgment and instituted a supplementary proceeding pursuant to Fla.Stat. § 56.29. Kolody immediately initiated post-judgment discovery. Based on facts discovered, on January 7, 1991, he obtained an additional final judgment in the Circuit Court against the Debtor. This final judgment awarded him all the outstanding shares in Sunrise previously owned by the Debtor; determined the value of the stock in Sunrise transferred to Kolody; and credited the value of the stock transferred against previously entered money judgments in favor of Kolody and against the Debtor individually.
On November 30, 1990,he has no income, he is not engaged in any business, and he has no employees. According to his Schedules and also his Plan of Reorganization, the Debtor is solvent. The Plan of Reorganization filed by the Debtor indicates that his creditors would receive more in a Chapter 7 liquidation case than he is proposing to pay under the Plan. The entire Plan is based on the proposition that the Debtor will ultimately be the prevailing party in the lawsuits filed by him against Kolody in the State Court and in the adversary proceeding filed by the Debtor in this Court in which he attempts to recover the corporate stock which was awarded by the Circuit Court to Kolody, either as a voidable preference or as a voidable


Twitter COO Anthony Noto is leaving the company.

Noto will be CEO at SoFi, the online finance company said Tuesday, following reports this weekend that SoFi offered him the job.

Following the announcement, shares of Twitter fell more than 2.5 percent in early trading.

"Working at Twitter has been a once in a lifetime opportunity, and I am immensely proud of our team and the key milestones we achieved during my time at the company," Noto said in a statement.

CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted that he was sad to see Noto go.

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Noto, formerly a banker at Goldman Sachs, has long wanted to be a CEO, according to Recode.

He joined Twitter in 2014. According to Recode, Noto was behind the company's push into live video programming.

Interim SoFi CEO Tom Hutton will become15 September 2005, Grace Road, Leicester. Sri Lanka's Chilaw Marians CC meet a PCA Masters XI in the opening game of Group B in the inaugural (and as it turns out, final) International T20 Club Championship. Chris Gayle steps onto the field to play T20 cricket for the first time. He opens the bowling and concedes 16 runs from his only over. The game is abandoned due to rain and decided by a bowl-off at the indoor school. His second match, later the same day against South Africa's champion club Titans, is also decided by bowl-off. Two days later, Gayle bats in a T20 match for the first time. He makes 11 from ten deliveries, clean bowled by Samiullah Khan of Faisalabad Wolves. T20 cricket is so new,


there are no representatives from Australia, New Zealand or West Indies in the International T20 Club Championship because they don't yet have domestic competitions. Faisalabad Wolves win the tournament. They receive £25,000.

The totemic cricketer of the age makes what are probably his last appearances in England this month. He seems to be staggering towards the end now, the face-melting power intact and sharp but the body seizing up like scrap metal. He is unable to do anything other than trot between the wickets, run out in the T20I, juddering to a halt as the popping crease approached, and then picked up on the stump mike at the first ODI, complaining that he'd pulled a hamstring.

Gayle has been playing the shortest form in England since the summer it began.This last decade and a half has not quite enclosed his career - his international debut came in the final flickerings of the last millennia - but these years will be his legacy, the years in which cricket changed and he became a shaping force.

11 September 2007, the Wanderers, Johannesburg. West Indies play South Africa in the opening match of Group A of the first ICC World T20. As ESPNcricinfo's commentary says, "No one knows what to expect." South Africa win the toss and field first. Chris Gayle bats for 75 minutes, faces 57 deliveries, hitting ten of them for six, seven of them for four, and scores the first ever T20I century. West Indies make 205 for 6 and lose by eight wickets after Herschelle Gibbs gets


90 from 55 deliveries and Justin Kemp 46 from 22. Three days later, Gayle makes a three-ball duck against Bangladesh, and West Indies are eliminated from a tournament that will ignite the new format in its soon-to-be heartland of India. But its first day has its statement innings from its statement player. The tournament, and the format, appear blessed. When Gayle succeeds, so does T20.

The lineage of great West Indian batsmen is clear, a thread drawn through the Three Ws to Sobers, Richards and Lara. As a meaningful example of social change, as a symbol of hope and pride, Gayle's career could never have the same context as the ones of those who came before. Sobers' greatness sees him rated a dash below the Don on the all-timelists. Richards changed the methods of batting and flew at the tip of the arrow in the greatest teams ever assembled. Lara holds the really eye-catching batting records, compiled in an era of decline.

"In considering Gayle's legacy, rather than just his impact, 2016 is the year that will define what is said and written about him, whether he likes it or not"

Chris Gayle cannot be them, but he surely stands alongside. Not since Richards has such a sense of theatre accompanied a player as that which accompanies Gayle, in his gold helmet, with his gold bat, pounding the ball out of stadiums again and again, while half a billion people watch on television. As an avatar of cricket's new age, as the prime mover in its new currency


of sixes, he has matched anyone. He is a player for the digital era, a walking, talking highlights package. The purists may baulk, but he has created an accelerated game for this accelerated, time-poor culture. He has made the future.

20 February 2008, Mumbai. Over the course of seven hours, London auctioneer Richard Madley conducts six rounds of bidding for players in Lalit Modi's IPL franchises. Gayle is awakened by a phone call to hear that he has been sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for US$800,000. Among those going for more are Andrew Symonds at $1.35m, Ishant Sharma at $950,000, Brett Lee and Jacques Kallis at $900,000, and RP Singh at $875,000. Gayle says that he responded to the news with an incredulous "How much?"

It's apt that he hasarrived in England soon after the rights to an IPL franchise match sold for more than one featuring India's national team. If the game's administrators have been, as Mike Atherton said in the Times, "asleep at the wheel", Gayle seemed to grasp instinctively what was happening from the moment it began. Everyone wanted the money. This was the real conflict, the pragmatic future, and Gayle has epitomised it. His earning power as a freelance cricketer enabled him - in fact, it commanded him - to ignore his board in a way no player had before. And here is the disparity into which Gayle's career has fallen: the WICB receives around $15.8m per year for its TV rights. England's rights just sold for £1.1b (approximately $1.45b) for the four


years of 2020-24, India's IPL TV and title rights for about $2.9b, with the rights to Indian cricket to come next year. Such is the financial power of the IPL, the English summer must now yield to its window or risk its own players disappearing through it.

23 April 2013, M Chinnaswami stadium, Bangalore. RCB play Pune Warriors in the 31st match of the sixth IPL. A storm delays the RCB innings. Upon resumption, Gayle reaches the fastest century in any form of cricket by hitting a full toss onto the stadium roof, the 30th delivery he has faced. He bats through the innings for 175 not out, another record, as RCB make 263 for 5 from 20 overs. It's not just Gayle. AB de Villiers bats for 12minutes, faces eight balls, and scores 31.

The game takes place almost exactly ten years on from the very first T20 match, Hampshire Hawks v Sussex Sharks at the Rose Bowl in June 2003. Cricket has been through a paradigm shift. Gayle has set almost every T20 batting record. He has also, in that time, made two Test match triple-centuries (in 2005 and 2010) plus 11 of his 13 other Test tons. He has earned a million dollars for a single match playing for a disgraced billionaire. He will, within 18 months, score 215 in an ODI. He will score a 12-ball fifty in the Big Bash. He will become the first player to score 10,000 runs in T20 cricket. He will become the only cricketer to carry his


bat in both a Test match and a T20 international. He will have made the art and the life of the batsman something new.

So this most implacable and certain of players stands at the crossroads. The deal he made with the devil was for that gimlet eye and his thunderous power. There are signs that both have diminished. His last 12 months have been, by the standards of his prime years, thin, or at least less spectacular. Freddie Wilde, an analyst with Cricviz who has watched Gayle throughout the recently concluded CPL, says: "I've noticed a change in him. It's as if he's acknowledging his limitations. He has scored two unbeaten first-innings fifties this season: 66 from 55 deliveries against Guyana Amazon Warriors and 54 from 51 versusTrinbago Knight Riders, that have been in wins for his team. He's been batting differently.

"In a way this mature batting and pragmatism perhaps tells us more about him than the half-decade of domination that came before. He's a thinking player. Few understand the rhythms of T20 like him. In both those fifties, he seemed to suss the pitch and a par score perfectly when no one else could."

4 January 2016, Bellerive Oval, Hobart. During a BBL game between Melbourne Renegades and Hobart Hurricanes, Chris Gayle is interviewed by Channel Ten pitch- side reporter Mel McLaughlin. "To see your eyes for the first time is nice," he tells her. "Hopefully we can have a drink afterwards… Don't blush, baby." He is fined $10,000 and reprimanded. During an interview with


and inferences, was always a highwire act, vulnerable to the slightest misstep. He didn't really believe all of that Universe Boss stuff did he? Well, perhaps he did after all.

It has added to the complexity of his reputation. It's hard to know how such things impact on the judgement of him as a great player. Success often carries the power of forgetting. In purely cricketing terms he has been an extraordinary external force, a deus ex machina for his times. If these ODIs are his last bow on English soil, then he will go out as he came in, demanding to be watched, to be seen and not heard.In conditions of crowded air traffic and/or low visibility, it is necessary that the pilot of one aircraft be warned of the presence of a nearby aircraft so that he may maneuver his aircraft to avoid a disastrous collision. Systems known as TCAS (Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System) employ an interrogator mounted on a commercial jet aircraft and transponders carried by each aircraft it is likely to encounter. In this way, an interrogation is communicated by secondary radar between the aircraft carrying TCAS and other threat aircraft in the vicinity. This is done so that an enhanced radar signal is returned to the TCAS-equipped aircraft to enable its pilot to avoid a collision. The transponder also encodes the returned radar signal with information unique to the threat


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Presently, mostmore biodiversity - and there were significant drops in heart rates and significantly lower blood pressure.

"Most of the physiological changes happened within the first five minutes and then plateaued out, so it happened quite quickly and then stabilised. However, the psychological measures showed that the benefits continued over the entire exposure - people got happier and happier, basically."

In order to rule out the possibility that the participants were responding to the biodiversity in the tanks rather than the tranquil environment, the first set of data was gathered while the participants looked at an empty tank, which only contained rocks and lighting etc.

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season.

Ibe, 20, joined Liverpool from Wycombe Wanderers as a 16-year-old back in 2012, and he was regarded as one of English football's brightest young prospects.

After loan spells with Birmingham City and Derby County, Ibe has been trying to establish himself in the Liverpool side, and made a total of 41 appearances in all competitions.

However, Ibe's future has been brought into question as Liverpool are pursuing other attacking players, and 20-year-old Ibe will want to play first-team football.

It's believed that Liverpool still value Ibe at around £10m and could offer him in a deal for Southampton's Sadio Mane, meaning that West Brom's hopes of landing Ibe on loan could be hanging by a thread.

Would you like to see West Brom sign Ibe?

Olly Dawes

Olly is a Sports Management graduate andwas that several members of the same family participated in these ventures without any bright line being drawn as to where one man's interest left off and another's began. In this case if the money which was paid to the taxpayer from this source was a return by the Club to him of a loan he had previously made it, of course it was not income. The same is true if it was a loan to him from the Club. If it was profit from the business which he either owned or in which he had an interest, it was income. So, too, if the money was paid to him for services rendered. There was evidence on all this and it need hardly be said that the evidence


synonymously with Charlotte Mason.

Rather than answering stock comprehension questions or outlining wearisome lists of facts, the child considers and clarifies for himself what he read and tells it back in his own words in order to make that knowledge his own. This is called narration, and, as a major part of the child's work in his own learning, is key to making this kind of education successful.

Language arts is learned, not through isolated workbooks and practice sheets, but integrated with his reading through role modeling by studying and copying well-written passages from the school books being used in other subjects.

Science begins with an emphasis on first-hand experience with the wonders of God's world. This direct observation and sensory participation in nature continues even after more focused science isadded to the curriculum.

There is an emphasis on moral training, which includes putting oneself in someone else's shoes, and doing one's duty even when that's not the easiest or most convenient choice. Much of this is done through vicariously experiencing the consequences of right and wrong choices through classic books with substantial characters of depth rather than shallow, sentimental stories.

Students educated this way tend to be well prepared to pursue whatever path they choose, whether that be college, job, military or family. The AmblesideOnline homeschool community has many alumni who have graduated and gone on to successful adulthood. What makes a Charlotte Mason education distinct is that these students continue to pursue learning because their schooling has taught them that learning isn't a thing that ends with high


Last updated on .From the section Football

Porto beat Braga 1-0 in the final of last season's Europa League

Tottenham will play Hearts in the play-off round to reach the group stage of the Europa League.

Scottish champions Rangers face a two-leg tie against Slovenian side Maribor while Celtic have been drawn against Swiss side Sion.

Carling Cup winners Birmingham, who were relegated to the Championship, face Portuguese side Nacional and Fulham will play Dnipro of Ukraine.

Beaten FA Cup finalists Stoke City take on FC Thun of Switzerland.

Stoke advanced to the play-off round with a 2-0 aggregate victory over Croatian side Hajduk Spilt.

Fulham also beat a Croatian side 2-0 on aggregate, scoring both goals in Thursday's home leg against RNK Split.

The tie of the round from a British perspective will see Spurs,In all these scenarios, side-mount garage door openers may be the answer for you.

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He was so proud! While he was Postmaster, he worked hard with "the Politicians" to double the size of our post office and make it accessible to all.

He was a true Renaissance man, who could do darned near anything. He rode motorcycles, and could build houses, and fix cars, and garden, and started a radio station that is still running today. He loved to go camping!! He adored babies, they always made him tear up. He remembered who built the houses in town and who lived in them after the town burned to the ground in 1918. He picked out a "Charlie Brown" Christmas tree every year, and swore it was the best tree he ever saw. He had a great appetite and believed slathering anything in buttermade it twice as good. He went blind due to glaucoma when he was in his 80's, but continued to take care of himself until his death. He got books on tape and stayed current with what was happening in the world.

He was opinionated, informed, kind, loving, patient, devoted, loyal, faithful, funny, handy, a gentleman, and the kind of man you hope your daughter will find someday. We all loved him like crazy, and miss him even more.

The most important lesson I learned from my Grandpa is to treasure each and every day you have with your family and friends. He taught me that lesson by example.


Sri Lanka is absolutely safe. I can give you that guarantee: John Amaratunga

In an effort to restore the Sri Lankan tourism following the Easter attacks in April, the country's tourism minister John Amaratunga visited Mumbai to canvas his country as a safe destination.

Speaking on the sidelines of an event in Mumbai, Mr Amaratunga not only acknowledged Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to Sri Lanka but also said the visit has boosted the potential for the country's tourism sector to recover.

"That was a great deal of encouragement for Sri Lanka. It will particularly help us attract Indian tourists. He came and there was no risk in it. He also visited some of the churches that were damaged and it was very successful visit," Mr Amaratunga said.

Nine suicide bomberstourism and that's not a bad number," Kishu Gomes, chairman of Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Board told NDTV.

Following the Easter Sunday attacks there were attacks on Muslims in the country.

Weighing his response against the doubts in the minds of tourist's regarding visiting the Sri Lankan shores, Mr Amaratunga clarified that, "There are no problems in Sri Lanka. We have Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslims and they all live in close coordination. This attack was a singular group whose motives and activities can't be explained. Rest of the Muslims in Sri Lanka are living in close coordination with the rest of the country. There are no problems at all."

"The intelligence police and armed forces are confident that the situation in Sri Lanka is absolutely safe. There can be debates as


Question of the Day

Did illegal voters swing any congressional races?

Paul Simon, ever the perfectionist, never does anything in a rush.The "Bridge Over Troubled Water" album took 800 studio hours to complete. So if you leave out Mr. Simon's 1997 "Songs From the Capeman," which accompanied his Broadway show and a live album in 1991, 10 long years have passed since his last batch of original material, "The Rhythm of the Saints."Arriving this week, Mr. Simon's new project, "You're the One," is a return to the simpler days of "One Trick Pony" and "Hearts and Bones." His core fans no doubt will feel the wait was worth it.The first track, "That's Where I Belong," opens a laid-back collection of conversational songs driven mostly by the lyrics.From the opening verse— "Somewhere in a burst of glory, sound becomes a song/I'm bound to tell a story, that's where I belong" — Mr. Simon sets out to tell us a series of stories through his songs that are witty, optimistic and spiritual.Mr. Simon, who turns 59 next week, looks as if he finally is content. In "Old," he points out that age is merely relative. "God is old," he writes, "we're not old."The musical arrangements on "You're the One" are bare compared with his past experimentations with African music on "Graceland" and Brazilian drumming on "Rhythm of the Saints.""Senorita With a Necklace of Tears," which has the clever line, "If I could play all the memories in the neck of my guitar," is Mr. Simon at his best, reminiscent


of "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" from the "Graceland" album.Mr. Simon is breaking no new ground with his new songs, and there are no big tunes, but those who have followed his career since "Sounds of Silence" will not be disappointed. His lyrics are still clever, and his voice is hardly changed with age.

— John Haydon

MADONNA

Music (Maverick)

Icons usually don't need to be talented. It's all about the posing, the scandals, the sex.Madonna, 42, has those in spades. From "Like a Virgin" on, she has set trends in fashion and blazed trails in sexuality.But she also has talent — both a musical flair and a gift for knowing what will keep her icon status blazing. On her latest disc, she sticks with the techno trend, relying onproducer Mirwais Ahmadzai to take the genre to new levels. Another of the blond bombshell's gifts is her choice of producers, a group of cutting-edge musicians who know exactly how to complement her voice.The first single from the CD, "Music," already has zoomed to the top of the charts. It's an electronic ode to the art form that ostensibly has made Madonna famous. The grooves on this track, as on the rest, are strong. That an artist as mainstream as Madonna can lay down beats that rival any underground DJ's is hard to believe — and yet here they are, guided by Mr. Ahmadzai.The other songs are similarly impressive, from "Nobody's Perfect," in which Madonna's voice is hiply roboticized, to "Paradise (Not for Me)," where she murmurs in


French.Her lyrics are not especially deep — like her music and look, they are more about beauty than substance.But why argue with beauty? This disc transports the listener to Madonna-land, where the heels are always high, the hair color is always changing, and the party is always hot.— Julie Hyman

VARIOUS ARTISTS

"Almost Famous" soundtrack (DreamWorks)

In the film "Almost Famous," rock critic Lester Bangs tells the young protagonist, "Rock is dead."Judging from the movie's soundtrack, his pronouncement was a little premature. What seems to be dead now, in contrast to the early 1970s when these songs were written, is the art of storytelling through song.Simon and Garfunkel kick it off with "America," an achingly beautiful tale of a couple traveling across the United States by bus.There are stories of loveand loss in Todd Rundgren's "It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference" and Clarence Carter's "Slip Away," and a call for revolution in "Something in the Air" by Thunderclap Newman.The soundtrack does not rely on old favorites; there are lesser-known songs from better-known artists, such as "Feel Flows," a trippy Beach Boys tune, and "The Wind" by Cat Stevens.Like the movie, the CD tries to drum up nostalgia. Also like the movie, it carries it off pretty well, harking back to a time when "Oops … I Did It Again" would not have passed for a hit-song lyric.— Julie Hyman

BJORK

Selmasongs (Elektra Records)

The music world is divided into two groups — those who cherish the crisp, forceful sound of Icelandic singer Bjork and those who would rather undergo painful dental


surgery. With her latest album — the soundtrack to Lars von Trier's Bjork-driven film "Dancer in the Dark" — new listeners are unlikely to be won over, and old fans will only bemoan that "Selmasongs" features only seven tracks, lasting a mere half-hour.One need not see the film — starring Bjork as a factory worker who fantasizes her way out of life through musical numbers — to enjoy the album, though it certainly would help. The film's plot runs throughout the score, from the pounding machines that give way to a timid, soft-voiced Bjork in "Cvalda" to "In the Musicals," which uses a bouncing ball and squeaking shoes as percussion in a bizarre, yet brilliant form of syncopation.The highlight of the album is a subtle duet — "I'veSeen It All" — with Radiohead front man Thom Yorke. Neither singer is known for vocal restraint, and to hear both straining to be quieter than the other turns the song into a haunting duel of words.Besides its abrupt shortness, the album suffers too much from its magnificent orchestral accompaniment. What sounds majestic and soaring in the opening "Overture" only drowns out the vocals in the remaining tracks. "Selmasongs" should tide over Bjork's fans until her next album comes out, but the dentist's chair is waiting for her detractors.— Derek Simmonsen

YANNI

If I Could Tell You(Virgin Records)

Yanni, who has made new-age music fashionable, is back with a new album, "If I Could Tell You." The new CD is a mixture of his earlier sounds and his more experimental orchestral


sounds, such as on his previous album "Tribute," which was created at concerts at the Taj Mahal in India and Beijing's Forbidden City.The first track on the album, "On Sacred Ground," is rich in different orchestral tones that draw the listener into the music. The arrangement for "With an Orchid" is impressive because it begins simply enough and then grows with intensity as the song progresses. "In Your Eyes" is classic Yanni with its soft piano and keyboard arrangement, which is very soothing and romantic.The title track makes the listener understand why Yanni is so popular. "Reason for Rainbows" ends the 11-track CD on a bit of a slow note, but it does grow on you the more you listen to it.The one disappointment on the CD istrack six, "Wishing Well." Yanni experiments again with incorporating vocals into his music, which is something he has not done very often. Unfortunately, that shows on this track.Overall, this is a great CD. For Yanni's fans, it definitely is a must for their collections.— Amy Baskerville

VARIOUS ARTISTS

"Bait" soundtrack(RuffNation Records)

Although record companies are saving their hottest new releases for December, the "Bait" soundtrack delivers a fair amount of quality tracks. The cast is diverse — featuring Fat Joe, Mya, Trick Daddy and Donell Jones — which helps the album appeal to both hip-hop fans and those who love rhythm and blues.One of the deepest verses is titled "Took the Bait" and is provided by longtime rapper Scarface. The Southern rapper spits, "It's been many nights I sat on the


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                              I. FACTS & PROCEDURAL HISTORY

       Jeffrey Adams (“Father”) and Tammy Adams (“Mother”) married in 1990. Their daughter
Madison was born in 1996, and their son Connor was born in 2000. The parties were divorced on
November 22, 2004, and the agreed-upon parenting plan named Mother primary residential parent.
The parenting plan prohibited both parties from exposing the children to alcohol or drugs, and it
prohibited them from having any paramour spend the night in the presence of the children.

         On August 30, 2006, Father


filed a “Verified Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, for
Contempt, to Modify Permanent Parenting Plan and for Psychological Custodial Evaluation.” In his
motion, Father alleged that Mother had engaged in inappropriate behavior and failed to properly care
for the children. Specifically, Father alleged that on August 19, 2006, Mother, who was 36 years old,
had a party at her house while the children, ages ten and five, were present. Father claimed that
underage drinking and “dirty dancing” took place, in the presence of the children, until the early
hours of the morning. Father further alleged that Mother was romantically involved with a teenager
and allowing him to stay at her house while the children were present, and he claimed that Mother
had sent text messages containing adult subject matter to a minor. Father also claimed thatMother
had left Connor alone at her house, and the child called 911. Father alleged that Mother was
terminated from her job as a school nurse on August 28, 2006, and failed to take Connor to school
the next day. Father also claimed that Mother had accessed Father’s credit card records and
telephone records via the Internet without permission. In sum, Father contended that Mother’s
unusual and irresponsible behavior constituted a material change in circumstances and that it was
in the children’s best interest that he be designated primary residential parent. Father noted that he
had recently remarried, and he claimed that he and his new wife Jenifer (“Mrs. Adams”) could
provide a stable environment for the children.

        The trial court entered a temporary restraining order prohibiting Mother from


removing the
children from Father’s care. Mother was granted visitation with the children every other weekend
and on designated holidays, but it was to be supervised by Mother’s mother or another responsible
adult agreed upon by Father.

        Mother filed an answer and counter-petition for contempt, in which she sought the immediate
return of the children. She admitted that she had a “small gathering or what one might describe as
a party” at her house, but she denied that alcohol was “openly consumed” by people who were
underage. She also denied that any sexually inappropriate conduct occurred. Mother denied being
romantically involved with a teenager but admitted having nineteen and twenty-year-old friends.
Mother further denied that she was terminated from her job on August 28, and she claimed that she
didnot take Connor to school the next day due to his allergies. She admitted leaving Connor at
home alone on one occasion and that he called 911, but she claimed she left him alone “at his
request” and was only gone fifteen minutes. She also admitted accessing Father’s credit card and
telephone records online. Mother alleged that her difficulties with Father had arisen since he
remarried. She claimed that Father and his family made degrading comments about Mother in the
presence of the children. She also alleged that Father and Mrs. Adams lived together for three


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months prior to their marriage, and that Mrs. Adams was present overnight during the children’s
visitation with Father during that time. The parties consented to psychological custodial evaluations
of Mother, Father, Mrs. Adams, and the two children.

        On or around October 22, 2006, an altercation occurred between Mother and her parents
during supervised visitation at Mother’s parents’ house. Mother obtained an order of protection
against her father on or about November 14, 2006, and thereafter, Mother’s mother and sister refused
to supervise Mother’s visitation. As a result, Mother only had telephone contact with the children
for several weeks. In the meantime, Dr. Robert Kennon, a licensed psychologist, began interviewing
the parties for their custodial evaluations. He wrotethe children and others. Dr.
Kennon testified that “the greatest weakness [he] found” with Father, and “one of his only
weaknesses,” was that Father avoids interacting with Mother, leaving the responsibility to Mrs.
Adams. He also found that Father’s attitude toward Mother was negative and borderline judgmental.
Father admitted that he was hesitant to discipline the children because he felt sorry for them. Dr.
Kennon testified that he thought Father acted appropriately in filing the petition to modify due to the
problems that Mother was having.

       Dr. Kennon found that Mother had demonstrated “erratic changes in her behaviors,”
including her admitted involvement with a married man, her impulsive decision to have a party with
teenage males at her home, and her recent conflicts with her own family members. He found


she hardly knew they were
there. Mrs. Stafford testified that on Mother’s Day of 2006, Mother sat on the couch for several
hours sleeping with her head “dangling” while everyone else played outside with the children. She
said the children would go and try to wake Mother, but she wouldn’t respond. Mrs. Stafford testified
that late one night, Mr. Reams called her and said he feared that Mother had overdosed because he
had been unable to contact Mother for several hours. He asked Mr. and Mrs. Stafford to go to
Mother’s house and check on her, stating that he was unable to do so because he was at home with
his family. Mrs. Stafford recalled another night when Mother was supposed to come see the
children, but she did not arrive until 1:30 or 2:00 a.m.Mrs. Stafford testified that when Mother
finally arrived, the children’s babysitter, who was sixteen years old at the time of trial, was driving,
and Mother and Mr. Reams were in the back seat. Mrs. Stafford said that when Mother got out of
the car, she could hardly stand up, she was giggling, and “very much under the influence.”

         Mrs. Stafford testified about the difficulties she encountered when supervising Mother’s
visitation at her home. She said Mother was always at least forty-five minutes late. According to
Mrs. Stafford, when Mother did arrive, she would lie on the couch or talk on her cell phone. Mrs.
Stafford testified that on one occasion, Mother brought Mr. Reams with her to Mrs. Stafford’s home
for supervised visitation, and Mother’s father asked


Mr. Reams to leave. Mother reportedly became
very upset and said she would never be back. Mrs. Stafford testified about another occasion when
she asked Mother not to bring her dog with her to visitation because it had fleas, and Mother became
very upset. The next morning, Mrs. Stafford found Mother and the children sleeping outside in the
car. Mrs. Stafford testified that when it was time for her to take the children back to Father’s house,
Mother would intentionally make them late by going out on the four-wheeler with the kids and
refusing to come back. Mrs. Stafford said Mother would “drill” the children on how to show that
they wanted to live with Mother. Mrs. Stafford said Mother would tell the children to misspell their
spelling words and make bad grades, and she toldthem to go to the school counselor and say they
wanted their mother. Mother also allegedly showed disguises to the children and told them to look
for her walking around the school.

        Mrs. Stafford briefly described the altercation with Mother which led to the order of
protection.1 She said Mother woke the children at around 2:30 a.m., then started acting “very ugly”
to her and Mr. Stafford and screaming and cursing at them. She said Mother attacked her, and Mr.

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              M other had reported to Dr. Kennon that on the night of the altercation at her parents’ house, she was
frustrated and began “packing up


positive change in the children since they had been living with Father, and she thought
Father was doing “a fine job” with the children.

         Mother’s Father, Mr. Harrell Stafford, also testified that he began noticing changes in
Mother’s behavior soon after the divorce. He testified about Mother being slumped over on the
couch for hours at a time, and he said on one occasion, he found a water bottle full of alcohol where
Mother had been lying on the couch. Mr. Stafford also testified that in September of 2006, Mr.
Reams called and said he was concerned that Mother may have overdosed. Mr. Stafford said he and
his wife immediately went to Mother’s home and let themselves in, where they found Mother on the
couch “out ofit.” He said he went back to Mother’s house the next morning to check on her again,
and Mother acted as if she did not remember them being there the night before. Mr. Stafford
testified that Mother’s house was generally “a disaster” and scattered with dog feces. Mr. Stafford
also testified that he had heard Mother state that she could take the children and go somewhere
where she could not be found. Mr. Stafford said he had no problems with Father relating to custody
or visitation.

        Mr. Stafford testified that Mother was never on time for supervised visitation, and he said
on some days, she did not show up at all. Mr. Stafford said when Mother was there, she would talk
on her cell phone to her boyfriend.


He testified about asking Mr. Reams to leave when Mother
brought him with her. Mr. Stafford testified that on the night of the altercation with Mother, he had
already gone to bed, and Mrs. Stafford came and woke him up, stating that she feared Mother was
going to try to leave with the children. Mrs. Stafford told him that Mother had been loading things
into her car and she had gone to wake up the children. Mr. Stafford explained that he and his wife
went into the bedroom where Mother was waking the children, and Mrs. Stafford told Mother to go
to bed. He said Mother became irrational and “just went off” disrespecting Mrs. Stafford with bad
language. Mr. Stafford said he told Mother “that she wasn’t going to disrespect her mother in our
house,” andwhen Mother continued, he put his hand on her jaw and escorted her out of the house.

        Mother’s sister, Tonya Stafford, who had also supervised visitation for Mother, testified as
well. She could not recall a single occasion when Mother arrived to visitation on time. She said
when visitation was scheduled for a weekend, Mother might stop by sometime during the course of
the day on Saturday, but she did not take advantage of her time with the children. She said she had
heard Mother tell Madison that if she would “throw a big enough fit,” she could get what she wanted
from Father. Ms. Stafford said Mother had told Connor that he should do poorly in school so that
it would look like he was not


though, that she does not see Mother very often because she lives across the state.
Ms. Howard said she comes to visit West Tennessee “sporadically,” on holidays and special
occasions.

        A sixteen-year-old boy named Jeremy testified that he knew Mother from mowing her yard
and his previous visits to Mother’s house to see her babysitter, who was his girlfriend at the time.
He said Mother had shown him pictures on her cell phone of her nude breasts. He also said one
night when he was at Mother’s house and Mother was drinking, she pulled up her shirt and exposed
her breasts to him while wearing a see-through bra.

         Laina Street testified that she previously worked at the school whereMother worked as the
school nurse, and she considered herself a friend to Mother. She testified that once when she was
in the teacher’s lounge with Mother at school, Mother showed her a picture of herself, nude from the
waist up, on her cell phone. Ms. Street also said Mother had told her about stripping at a club on
amateur night, and Mother said it was addictive because she got a lot of money. Ms. Street said she
had seen a pornographic DVD case, with naked people on the cover, lying out in the open at
Mother’s house when children were present.

          Sharon Hooker testified that she also worked with Mother at the school. She said Mother
showed her and other employees at the school an


her
face and hands after being in Mother’s house.

      Beverly Summers, the school’s guidance counselor, testified about an experience she had
with Mother. She testified that after the temporary restraining order was entered against Mother

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requiring supervised visitation, the school’s attorney advised the staff that Mother could not visit the
children at school unless she had an approved adult with her. Ms. Summers said Mother arrived at
school one day unattended and went to the lunchroom to see Madison.Ms. Summers approached
Mother and told her that it was the staff’s understanding that Mother could not be visiting the
children at school without an approved adult. Ms. Summers said she asked Mother to please not
make a scene at the school, but Mother responded with a defiant attitude and simply said, “I’m going
back in there.” Mother went back in to where the children were, and Ms. Summers stayed to observe
until Mother left. On another day, Mother arrived at the school with her mother, Mrs. Stafford, but
then went out into the hallway with Madison alone and without supervision. Ms. Summers again
followed Mother to supervise.

         The Superintendent of the Bradford Special School District, Bobby Joe McCartney, also
testified at trial. He said that Mother had


worked as the school nurse for five years, but she “had to
resign” in August of 2006. He said during the previous school year, he received several complaints
about Mother having pornography on her cell phone. However, he did not take action because it was
near the end of the school year. At the beginning of the current school year, Mr. McCartney
informed all the employees that if anyone was reported for having pornography on their cell phone,
they would be immediately dismissed. Still, a few days later, it was again reported that Mother had
pornography on her cell phone.2 Mr. McCartney said he had also received complaints from the
principal that many of the high school students were spending too much time at the nurse’s station.
Mr. McCartney said that based on these complaints, healso stated that it was not
appropriate for Mother to inject any type of antibiotic at home, outside of a clinical setting. On
another occasion, Madison was brought into the clinic by her grandmother for an ingrown toenail.
Madison’s grandmother had a bag of medications that Mother had instructed her to give to Madison.
Ms. Harrison testified that she had never prescribed at least one of the medications in the bag for
Madison, as it was not approved for use in pediatric patients. She stated that the drug was indicated
for the treatment of pneumonia and sinusitis in adults.

        Mother’s babysitter, Harmony, was sixteen years old at the time of trial. She testified that
she attended school where Mother worked as a nurse, but she had been babysitting


19, 2006. However, Harmony said she had
to leave Mother’s house after about thirty minutes because her mother made her come home.
Harmony testified that she had never seen alcohol, drugs, or pornography at Mother’s house.

        A young man named Wade Mathis testified that he was at the party at Mother’s house the
previous summer. Mr. Mathis was twenty years old at the time of trial. He said he arrived with his
friend Jamie after midnight, and there were people there who were drinking alcohol underage. He
said Madison and Connor were awake and running around the house in the presence of the people
drinking. Mr. Mathis said there were six to seven males present, but Mother and Madison were the
only females. He said he saw “dirtydancing” that involved “touching on each other.” Mr. Mathis
said people were coming and going, and he left after about fifteen minutes.

         Justin Tanner testified that he was also at the party at Mother’s house. He was twenty years
old at the time of trial, but nineteen at the time of the party. Mr. Tanner testified that Mother’s
babysitter called him and invited him to the party, and he said that he stayed at Mother’s house from
11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. He said the babysitter was there when he arrived, and other male guests
came and went throughout the night. Mr. Tanner said he observed underage drinking in the presence
of the children, and some of the people at the party were under the age


of eighteen. He
acknowledged that he was drinking underage and said Mother bought the alcohol for him. He also
said he observed “the kind of dancing you’d probably see in a club.” Mr. Tanner testified that he
began a sexual relationship with Mother on the night of the party, and that he went over to Mother’s
house several more times in the next few weeks to have sex. He said sometimes the children were
present when he would go to Mother’s house to have sex. Mr. Tanner testified that Mother
sometimes appeared to be incoherent or “out of it,” and she admitted to “taking pills.” Mr. Tanner
testified that prior to his deposition, Mother asked him to lie for her and “make the story sound clean
on her side.”

       Brian Hutson, who was nineteen at the time of trial, testified that he was at the party at
Mother’s house, and he knew Mother from her job as the school nurse. He acknowledged seeing two
people drinking underage at Mother’s house. He said he saw dancing, but it was not sexual in
nature. Mr. Hutson said Mother and Madison were dancing together, and he and another gentleman
were dancing at the same time. Mr. Hutson was not aware of any sexual relationship between
Mother and Justin Tanner, and Mr. Hutson said he was the last one to leave at around 4:30 or 5:00
a.m. Mr. Hutson said he was invited to Mother’s house on another occasion, by Justin Tanner, to
shoot fireworks.

        Dwayne Reynolds, who is a sheriff’s


deputy, testified that he was at Mother’s party. He said
that he did not see anyone drinking, but he could not be sure that no one was drinking that night. He
said he was “in and out of the house a lot” because he was talking to people outside. He also said
Connor was playing outside. Mr. Reynolds first said the dancing he observed was not inappropriate,
but then he explained that it was inappropriate in the presence of children. Mr. Reynolds said he did
not observe anything sexual occurring between Mother and Justin Tanner, “other than the dancing,”
but Mr. Tanner was still there when he left.

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       Chris Johnstone, who is a state trooper, testified that he was also at Mother’s party. He said
he saw Justin Tanner drinking alcohol, and he saw the type of dancing that you would see at a
nightclub. He said the children were awake, playing and watching television.

        Father’s current wife, Mrs. Adams, testified about an altercation she had with Mother on
Christmas Day of 2005, when Mother was seven hours late picking up the children for her visitation.
She said they discussed an insulting card Mother had sent to her, then Mother started insulting Mrs.
Adams’s other


the children ready for school in the mornings because he is
already at work, and Mrs. Adams then takes the children to school because she teaches where the
children attend school. Father said he gets home from work at around 3:00 p.m. and is home when
Mrs. Adams and the children get home from school. He testified that his parents live next door to
him, but the children regularly visit both sets of their grandparents – both Mother’s parents and his
parents.

        Father acknowledged that he moved in with Mrs. Adams for a short time before they were
married, but he explained that his house was destroyed by a tornado, he was already engaged to Mrs.
Adams, and he had nowhere else to go. Father stated his opinionthat Mother was not providing a
stable environment for the children. He testified that he tries to foster a good relationship between
the children and Mother, but he said it was difficult because “she likes to agitate.” Father testified
that he had been going to counseling, and he said that if he was designated primary residential parent,
he would do everything he could to facilitate a good relationship between the children and Mother.

       Mr. Reams testified that he was currently in the process of a divorce, but he acknowledged
dating Mother from approximately March of 2005 through November of 2006. He testified that he
never saw Mother under the influence of any substance, and he denied that he was ever concerned
about her overdosing. Mr. Reams said he had


been to Mother’s house “a time or two” since they
broke up, but not in the past three months.

        Mother testified that she was thirty-seven years old at the time of trial. Mother claimed that
Mother’s mother, father, and sister all lied in their testimony. Mother denied making any threats
against Father or Mrs. Adams. She admitted being late to supervised visitation but said she was not
consistently late. She claimed that she only slept on the couch during supervised visitation at her
parents’ house on one occasion when she was tired from working. Mother said she dropped the
order of protection against her father and sent her family a letter, but they had not contacted her.

          get mixed up.” Mother testified that her 2007 nursing drug handbook
indicated that the drug she gave to Madison was appropriate to give to children weighing over 88
pounds. She admitted, though, that the drug had not been prescribed for Madison.

        Mother denied ever taking pictures of her breasts on her cell phone. She said the sixteen-
year-old who testified that Mother exposed her breasts to him and showed him nude pictures simply
lied. Mother also insisted that she was not asked to resign from her job as a school nurse, and she
said the school superintended who testified to the contrary “apparently lied.” Mother said Ms.
Hooker lied in her testimony as well, but she did not specify what she lied about. Mother said her
former co-worker,


Ms. Street, lied when she said Mother had stripped at a club on amateur night.

        Regarding the party at her house in August 2006, Mother testified that she did not invite the
people who were there. She said there was no alcohol in her house, and there was no dirty dancing.
Mother said she danced with Madison. She also said that the children were “where I could see them
pretty much the whole time.” Mother said the party was “a mistake and it was not intentional.”
Mother denied that she ever had a sexual relationship with Justin Tanner and said he lied during his
testimony. Mother also said Wade Mathis lied during his testimony. When asked whether Chris
Johnstone, the state trooper, also lied about the party,Mother said, “I’m not saying he lied. I’m
saying that I may not have seen everything he saw.”

        Mother admitted that she accessed Father’s credit card and telephone records online without
his permission, but she said she quit after being contacted by Father’s attorney. As for the altercation
with Mrs. Adams, Mother said she was simply talking to Father in his driveway when Mrs. Adams
came outside cursing at her and attempted to hit her. Mother said she just drove away. Mother
admitted leaving Connor at home alone on one occasion. She said Connor begged to stay home by
himself while she went to run an errand. Mother said she was only gone ten minutes, and when she
returned, the sheriff was there because Connor became afraid and