Arizona Sundogs Add Three To Their Line-up

Arizona Sundogs Sign Three

Prescott Valley, AZ — The Arizona Sundogs add young talent to their line-up, adding two defensemen and a forward to their upcoming 2012-13 Central Hockey League (CHL) season.

Joe Tolles 25, begins his fourth pro season in Arizona after playing 118 games and collecting four goals and 17 assists for 21 points, from 2010-13. Last season he skated in 33 games for the Fort Worth Brahmas of the CHL, before finishing his season with the Wheeling Nailers of the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL). The 6-foot, Toledo Ohio defenseman also played for the Florida Everblades, Kalamazoo Wings, San Francisco Bulls, Cincinnati Cyclones all of the ECHL and from 2010-11 for the Augusta RiverHawks of the Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL).Prior to turning pro Tolles spent three years playing for the Omaha Lancers and Brock University posting six goals and 23 assists for 29 points.

Arizona Sundogs, Head Coach Kevin Colley commented saying “Joe will solidify our back end and is still young enough to have a prolific playing career and it helps that he has been playing pro for a few seasons.”

Mike Kavanagh 25, played his first pro season last year with the Fayetteville FireAntz of the SPHL where he tallied four goals and 27 assists for 31 points in 53 games. The Little Neck, New York native also played in two games for the Orlando Solar Bears and the Cincinnati Cyclones, both of the ECHL. The 6-foot-2, 215-lb defenseman split his collegiate career between Curry College from


2010-12, posting seven goals and 15 assists for 22 points in 44 games and SUNY-Plattsburgh from 2008-11 and put up nine goals and 13 assists for 22 points in 43 games. Kavanagh also spent one season playing junior hockey for the New York Apple Core of the Eastern Junior Hockey League where he tallied 10 goals and 32 assists for 42 points in 43 games.

“Kavanagh is hungry to win and having experience playing in the ECHL will help him be a solid defenseman for us”, said Coach Colley.

Dion Campbell 26, joins the Sundogs for his rookie campaign after playing five seasons with the University of New Brunswick. The 5-foot-10, Saskatchewan native played in 108 games and had 25 goals and 31 assists for 56 points. Campbell also talliedfor the crime, though he’d already left the rally by the time the bomb was thrown. Lucy kept up the fight for the rest of her life, working with anarchists, socialists, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist Party for the cause. Women like Lucy Parsons were at the heart of the struggle for the shorter work week, an integral part of the labor movement until the end of the Depression, which saw the forty-hour week enshrined in law after the defeat of Hugo Black’s thirty-hour-week bill. As Kathi Weeks writes in “ ‘Hours for What We Will’: Work, Family and the Movement for Shorter Hours” in Feminist Studies 35 , after World War II, the demand for shorter hours was increasingly associated with women workers,


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New society promotes Welsh for nurses.
Nurses in Wales have formed a new society to promote the Welsh language in their work. The chair of the new society, Eira Rowley, professional adviser to the Welsh National Board for Nursing, said with up to 80 per cent of patients in some areas speaking Welsh as their first language, it is important to speak Welsh wherever possible. Ms Rowley said some patients were penalised because they were not so familiar with English as their mother tongue.produced from pure strain varieties of the Barbadense species or any hybrid of the species, or other similar types of extra long staple cotton, designated by the Secretary, having characteristics needed for various end uses for which United States upland cotton is not suitable and grown in irrigated cotton-growing regions of the United States designated by the Secretary or other areas designated by the Secretary as suitable for the production of the varieties or types; and

(B)

is ginned on a roller-type gin or, if authorized by the Secretary, ginned on another type gin for experimental purposes.

(7)

Farm base acres

The term farm base acres means the sum of the base acreage for all covered commodities and cotton on a farm in effect as of September 30, 2013, and subject to any


crop of the covered commodity on the farm for the 2008 through 2012 crop years, as determined by the Secretary, excluding any crop year in which the acreage planted to the crop of the covered commodity was zero.

(4)

Use of county average yield

If the yield per planted acre for a crop of the covered commodity for a farm for any of the 2008 through 2012 crop years was less than 75 percent of the average of the 2008 through 2012 county yield for that commodity, the Secretary shall assign a yield for that crop year equal to 75 percent of the average of the 2008 through 2012 county yield for the purposes of determining the average yield under paragraph (3).

(5)

Effect of lack of payment yield

(A)

Establishment by secretary

For purposes ofthe actual county revenue for a crop year of a covered commodity shall be equal to the product obtained by multiplying—

(A)

the actual county yield, as determined by the Secretary, for each planted acre for the crop year for the covered commodity; and

(B)

the higher of—

(i)

the midseason price; or

(ii)

the national average loan rate for a marketing assistance loan for the covered commodity in effect for crop years 2014 through 2018 under subtitle B.

(5)

County revenue loss coverage trigger

(A)

In general

The county revenue loss coverage trigger for a crop year for a covered commodity on a farm shall equal 85 percent of the benchmark county revenue.

(B)

Benchmark county revenue

(i)

In general

The benchmark county revenue shall be the product obtained by multiplying—

(I)

subject to clause (ii), the average historical county yield as determined by the Secretary for


the lowest-priced United States growth, as quoted for Middling (M) 13/32-inch cotton, delivered to a definable and significant international market, as determined by the Secretary, exceeds the prevailing world market price, there shall immediately be in effect a special import quota.

(3)

Quantity

The quota shall be equal to the consumption during a 1-week period of cotton by domestic mills at the seasonally adjusted average rate of the most recent 3 months for which official data of the Department of Agriculture are available or, in the absence of sufficient data, as estimated by the Secretary.

(4)

Application

The quota shall apply to upland cotton purchased not later than 90 days after the date of the Secretary’s announcement under paragraph (2) and entered into the United States not later than 180 days after that date.

(5)

Overlap

A3 months for which official data of the Department of Agriculture are available or, in the absence of sufficient data, as estimated by the Secretary.

(B)

Quantity if prior quota

If a quota has been established under this subsection during the preceding 12 months, the quantity of the quota next established under this subsection shall be the smaller of 21 days of domestic mill consumption calculated under subparagraph (A) or the quantity required to increase the supply to 130 percent of the demand.

(C)

Preferential tariff treatment

The quantity under a limited global import quota shall be considered to be an in-quota quantity for purposes of—

When a quota is established under this subsection, cotton may be entered under the quota during the 90-day period beginning on the date the quota is established by the


program

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, during the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act through July 31, 2019, the Secretary shall carry out a program—

(1)

to maintain and expand the domestic use of extra long staple cotton produced in the United States;

(2)

to increase exports of extra long staple cotton produced in the United States; and

(3)

to ensure that extra long staple cotton produced in the United States remains competitive in world markets.

(b)

Payments under program; trigger

Under the program, the Secretary shall make payments available under this section whenever—

(1)

for a consecutive 4-week period, the world market price for the lowest priced competing growth of extra long staple cotton (adjusted to United States quality and location and for other factors affecting the competitiveness of such cotton), as determined bythe Secretary, is below the prevailing United States price for a competing growth of extra long staple cotton; and

(2)

the lowest priced competing growth of extra long staple cotton (adjusted to United States quality and location and for other factors affecting the competitiveness of such cotton), as determined by the Secretary, is less than 134 percent of the loan rate for extra long staple cotton.

(c)

Eligible recipients

The Secretary shall make payments available under this section to domestic users of extra long staple cotton produced in the United States and exporters of extra long staple cotton produced in the United States that enter into an agreement with the Commodity Credit Corporation to participate in the program under this section.

(d)

Payment amount

Payments under this section shall be based on the amount of the


subtitle A or the actual yield on a field, as determined by the Secretary, that is similar to the field from which the corn or grain sorghum was obtained.

(b)

Recourse loans available for seed cotton

For each of the 2014 through 2018 crops of upland cotton and extra long staple cotton, the Secretary shall make available recourse seed cotton loans, as determined by the Secretary, on any production.

(c)

Repayment rates

Repayment of a recourse loan made under this section shall be at the loan rate established for the commodity by the Secretary, plus interest (determined in accordance with section 163 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7283)).

1210.

Adjustments of loans

(a)

Adjustment authority

Subject to subsection (e), the Secretary may make appropriate adjustments in the loan rates for any loanprogram means the dairy market stabilization program required by subpart B for all participating dairy producers.

(12)

Stabilization program base

The term stabilization program base, with respect to a participating dairy producer, means the stabilization program base calculated for the producer under section 1431(b).

(13)

United States

The term United States, in a geographical sense, means the 50 States, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States, and any other territory or possession of the United States.

1402.

Calculation of average feed cost and actual dairy producer margins

(a)

Calculation of average feed cost

The Secretary shall calculate the national average feed cost for each month using the following data:

(1)

The price of corn for a month shall be the price received


during that month by farmers in the United States for corn, as reported in the monthly Agricultural Prices report by the Secretary.

(2)

The price of soybean meal for a month shall be the central Illinois price for soybean meal, as reported in the Market News-Monthly Soybean Meal Price Report by the Secretary.

(3)

The price of alfalfa hay for a month shall be the price received during that month by farmers in the United States for alfalfa hay, as reported in the monthly Agricultural Prices report by the Secretary.

(b)

Calculation of actual dairy producer margins

(1)

Margin protection program

For use in the margin protection program under subpart A, the Secretary shall calculate the actual dairy producer margin for each consecutive two-month period by subtracting—

(A)

the average feed cost for that consecutive two-month period, determined ina participating dairy producer for basic margin protection is equal to the highest annual milk marketings of the dairy producer during any one of the three calendar years immediately preceding the calendar year in which the dairy producer first signed up to participate in the margin protection program.

(3)

Election by new producers

If a participating dairy producer has been in operation for less than a year, the dairy producer shall elect one of the following methods for the Secretary to determine the basic production history of the dairy producer:

(A)

The volume of the actual milk marketings for the months the dairy producer has been in operation extrapolated to a yearly amount.

(B)

An estimate of the actual milk marketings of the dairy producer based on the herd size of the producer relative to


Secretary shall keep an accurate account of all monies obligated under paragraph (1).

(d)

Annual Report

Not later than December 31 of each year that the stabilization program is in effect, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report that provides an accurate accounting of—

(1)

the monies received by the Secretary during the preceding fiscal year under subsection (a); and

(2)

all expenditures made by the Secretary under subsection (b) during the preceding fiscal year.

(e)

Enforcement

If a participating dairy producer or handler fails to remit or collect the amounts by which payments to participating dairy producers are reduced under section 1434, the producer or handler responsible for the failure shall be liable to the Secretary fornot later than 30 days after the date of the issuance of the order. A finding of the Secretary in the order shall be set aside only if the finding is not supported by substantial evidence.

(d)

Noncompliance with order

If a person subject to this subpart fails to obey an order issued under subsection (b) after the order has become final and unappealable, or after the appropriate United States district court has entered a final judgment in favor of the Secretary, the United States may apply to the appropriate United States district court for enforcement of the order. If the court determines that the order was lawfully made and duly served and that the person violated the order, the court shall enforce the order.

1438.

Audit requirements

(a)

Audits of producer and handler compliance

(1)

Audits


shall be made unless the change is requested by the appropriate State and county Farm Service Agency committees.

(ii)

Drought intensity

(I)

D2

An eligible livestock producer that owns or leases grazing land or pastureland that is physically located in a county that is rated by the U.S. Drought Monitor as having a D2 (severe drought) intensity in any area of the county for at least 8 consecutive weeks during the normal grazing period for the county, as determined by the Secretary, shall be eligible to receive assistance under this paragraph in an amount equal to 1 monthly payment using the monthly payment rate determined under subparagraph (B).

(II)

D3

An eligible livestock producer that owns or leases grazing land or pastureland that is physically located in a county that is rated by the U.S. DroughtMonitor as having at least a D3 (extreme drought) intensity in any area of the county at any time during the normal grazing period for the county, as determined by the Secretary, shall be eligible to receive assistance under this paragraph—

(aa)

in an amount equal to 3 monthly payments using the monthly payment rate determined under subparagraph (B);

(bb)

if the county is rated as having a D3 (extreme drought) intensity in any area of the county for at least 4 weeks during the normal grazing period for the county, or is rated as having a D4 (exceptional drought) intensity in any area of the county at any time during the normal grazing period, in an amount equal to 4 monthly payments using the monthly payment rate determined under subparagraph (B);


making any adjustment under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate a report describing the determination made under that paragraph and the extent of the adjustment to be made.

1602.

Suspension of permanent price support authority

(a)

Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938

The following provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 shall not be applicable to the 2014 through 2018 crops of covered commodities (as defined in section 1104), cotton, and sugar and shall not be applicable to milk during the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act through December 31, 2018:

The following provisions of the Agricultural Act of 1949 shall not be applicable to the 2013 through 2018by striking 2012 and inserting 2018.

1606.

Personal liability of producers for deficiencies

Section 164 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 (7 U.S.C. 7284) is amended by striking and title I of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 each place it appears and inserting title I of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 8702 et seq.), and title I of the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013.

At least twice each year, the Secretary shall reconcile social security numbers of all individuals who receive payments under this title, whether directly or indirectly, with the Commissioner of Social Security to determined if the individuals are alive.

(b)

Preclusion

The Secretary shall preclude the issuance of payments to, and on behalf of, deceased individuals


trees under the conservation reserve program, except in cases where the Secretary determines it would further the purposes of the program; and

(ii)

farmed wetlands or converted wetlands where the conversion was not commenced prior to December 23, 1985.

(B)

Changes in ownership

No wetland easement shall be created on land that has changed ownership during the preceding 24-month period unless—

(i)

the new ownership was acquired by will or succession as a result of the death of the previous owner;

(ii)(I)

the ownership change occurred because of foreclosure on the land; and

(II)

immediately before the foreclosure, the owner of the land exercises a right of redemption from the mortgage holder in accordance with State law; or

(iii)

the Secretary determines that the land was acquired under circumstances that give adequate assurances that such land was not acquired for theChina in Focus #7: Remembering the Beijing Olympics

With the Olympics approaching I thought it would be a good time to look back at U.S. views of China during the Obama era. The 2008 summer games in Beijing took place in the context of the successful political campaign that carried Barack Obama into the White House. While China did not figure prominently in the campaign, it is worth remembering that Obama’s democratic opponent, now his Secretary of State, called on President George W. Bush to boycott the opening ceremony. Candidate Obama presaged his administration’s China policy by saying he was “of two minds” on the boycott, preferring to be polite while making it clear he would take a tougher line on China than his predecessors.

U.S. opponents of the Beijing


Olympics, like the late Democratic congressman Tom Lantos, who compared China’s bid to the “Nazi Olympics” of 1936, argued U.S. participation “permits an authoritarian regime to exploit the Games to prop up its faltering legitimacy.” The same argument is now being used to justify efforts by Congressman Frank Wolf to forbid NASA from talking to the Chinese about cooperation in space. Wolf, a long-serving Republican representative from Virginia, picked up the anti-China mantle from Tom Lantos after his colleague across the aisle passed away in 2008.

The opening ceremonies of the Beijing Games celebrated traditional Chinese history and culture—not communism, the party or the state. And when it came to the contentious contemporary problems of environmental sustainability and climate change, Zhang Yimou, the Chinese director of the event—whose filmstowards China shot up dramatically the following year, suggesting a majority of Americans saw it differently.

Obama said little positive about China after getting elected but maintained a cordial tone with its leaders. The President trumpeted an aggressive approach to China on trade in his most recent State of the Union address and used a new set of trade complaints on autos to bolster his credentials with blue collar workers in a recent campaign swing through Pennsylvania and Ohio. His most significant contribution to U.S. defense and security policy was to “pivot” away from the Middle East toward East Asia, explicitly focusing current U.S. military assets, as well as future procurements, on the prospective military challenges of a modernizing China.

Hillary Clinton greeted the Chinese with cynicism. In 2009 Clinton


image of our own European aristocrat. He has also evidently already mastered the look of pure shock necessary for the final scene of the movie - in which the Leave campaign is victorious.

Arron Banks: Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais not only resembles Ukip donor Arron Banks, but has a signature shifty face perfect for the scene where the other Brexiteers ask him what is the actual plan.

Gerry Gunster: Anthony Lapaglia

The Bad Boys of Brexit will reportedly be told from the perspective of the US strategist turned Brexit referendum expert Gerry Gunster. Thanks to recurring roles in both the comedy stalwart Frasier, and the US crime drama Without a Trace, Anthony Lapaglia is versatile enough to do funny as well as serious, a perfect mix for a story that lurches fromtragedy to farce. Also, they have the same cunning eyes.

Douglas Carswell: Mark Gatiss

The resemblance is uncanny.

David Cameron: Andrew Scott

Andrew Scott is widely known for his portrayal of Moriarty in Sherlock, where he indulges in elaborate, but nationally destructive strategy games. The actor also excels in a look of misplaced confidence that David Cameron wore all the way up to the referendum. Not to mention, his forehead is just as shiny. He'll have to drink a lot of Bollinger to gain that Cameron-esque puppy fat though.

Kate Hoey: Judi Dench

Although this casting would ruin the image of the much beloved national treasure that is Judi Dench, if anyone can pull off being the face of Labour Leave, the incredible actress can.


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According to police, officers responded to Bueno Mir's home after receiving one of his 911 calls. He appeared intoxicated and told the officers his wife had "thrown out his beer," police said.

The officers told Bueno Mir his situation wasn't an emergency and told him not to call 911 unless he had an emergency. But Bueno Mir continued to call 911, and began yelling that someone had broken two of his beers during one of the calls, police said.The most detailed seafloor mapping of a coastal region off New Zealand has been completed in Marlborough.

It's produced navigational charts that haven't been updated since the 1940s, and has even found previously undiscovered boats and shipwrecks.

NIWA's Ikatere was one of two vessels that spent 280 days out on the water of Queen Charlotte Sound and the Tory Channel to create what's being called the best view of any seabed in New Zealand.

Helen Neil, NIWA's general manager of operations, said it combines the safety of navigation with habitat mapping - down to 400 metres at its deepest point.

"We've found sediment waves, which has sand dunes the size you see in the Sahara, just sitting under the water in Cook Strait - metres high and hundreds of metres apart," she


and expected growth in the use of the area.

Minister for Land Information, Eugenie Sage, said the Queen Charlotte Sound is a priority area for marine farming, cruise ships and ferries.

"It's really popular with recreational boaties, and a really significant marine environment," she said.

The mapping can also see damage caused by scallop dredging, and scars on the seabed from ships dropping anchor.

One scientist described the exercise as "pulling back the aquatic veil". It's hoped the information will set a benchmark for the restoration and protection of the area.

The next joint project for mapping is Fiordland.

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she witnesses an attack on her best friend. She calls an ambulance and forces herself to flee Hampton, fearing for her own safety. DCI Helen Lavery leads the investigation into the murder. With no leads, no further witnesses, and no sign of forced entry, the murder enquiry begins. Slowly the pieces of the puzzle start to come together. But as Helen inches towards solving the case, her past becomes caught up in her present.


— specifically Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who arrived in India before 2014. Protesters say that by granting citizenship to these communities but discriminating against Muslims, Modi’s Hindu nationalist government is undermining India’s secular constitution.

In response, tens of thousands of Indians have taken to the streets of Indian cities, in what marks the first serious opposition to the Modi administration since he took office in 2014. The protests grew after Dec. 15, when Delhi Police stormed into one of India’s oldest Muslim-majority universities — Jamia Millia Islamia — to curb student protests. A few hours later, police in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, cracked down on the Aligarh Muslim University, another Muslim majority university. After images of the crackdown on students at Jamia and Aligarhestimated 19 people have died. The northern state is home to more than 200 million people, 19% of whom are Muslims. In cities across the state — from Lucknow to Meerut to Kanpur to Bijnor to Varanasi — there has been a constant stream of videos and reports of illegal detention, arrests on false charges, open firing on peaceful protesters, arson and looting by the police.

The state is ruled by Hindu monk Yogi Adityanath from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Appointed the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in 2017, the 47-year-old — in his saffron robe, shaved head, and crimson mark on his forehead — unapologetically represents the interests of a Hindu state. In 2002, he founded a Hindu youth militia, headquartered in his constituency. The group, which


the BJP formed the government in Uttar Pradesh in 2017, 63 people died in alleged extrajudicial killings by state police between March 2017 and August 2018. In January 2019, United Nations human rights experts sent detailed information to the Indian Government on 15 of the cases, 13 of whom were Muslims.

A sense of fear has pervaded the atmosphere in Uttar Pradesh. On Dec. 23, at the Civil Court in Lucknow, a group of parents were trying to blend in with the lawyers in their black and white clothes. Their children had been picked up by the police on Dec 19. The crowd included the father of a young mechanic, who was passing the protest site to deliver a scooter to a client. A day earlier, the parents wereNORTHERN GATEWAY: The battle is only begining

Enbridge has worked for years. The opposition has vowed that it will never give up. Ottawa is ready to weigh in. Kelly Cryderman and Brent Jang report on a $7.9-billion pipeline fight that isn’t likely to end any time soon

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There’s only one way in and out of a small Wet’suwet’en camp located in a remote part of British Columbia’s Interior – a logging road and a single lane bridge.

Right now, though, a truck is parked in front of the bridge, blocking access to the rugged territory. The move is meant to keep out a host of unwanted visitors – including anyone who works for Enbridge Inc.

Natural gas or oil pipelines built in the area would


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Prior to working with the men's basketball team at Miami, Richardson worked for six seasons as the head strength and conditioning coach at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
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11 on appellants. We assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts, the

procedural history of the case, and the issues on appeal.

       This case addresses the ownership of Ice Storm, a painting by the American artist

Andrew Wyeth. In June 1989, Galin purchased a one-third interest in the painting from David

Ramus—a close friend and art dealer—with the understanding that Galin would receive a share

of the profits from the painting’s subsequent sale. Later that year, Ramus sold the painting to Coe

Kerr Gallery (“Coe Kerr”) but failed to notify Galin or remit his share of the proceeds. Ramus

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Boy #2, entered his first pussy and repeated the action of #1. He noticed that she was still tight, even after having been recently judged. Each boy proceeded in order to each girl.
None of the boys thought to think that each girl would seem tight to them because the boys were lined up in order of increasing width. None of the girls thought that their fucks were anything but great since each dick was larger then the last.
Except for Beth and Mika. Never in their wildest fantasies did either imagine that their first


ever sex would be in public, in class with their girlfriends, with four different, very well hung boys. With a male and female teacher directing the event. By the time the boys got to them, they were as nervous as they had ever been, and as hotter than either could remember. Both had lost their maidenheads, at least partially, to sports.
Both girls were thinking about girlfriends back home telling about their “first times”. What would the girls at home think of this! Mika and Beth knew that their stories would be told and their friends would be amazed. And both girls knew that the stories would be told over and aver. Girlfriends eventually tell girlfriends everything.
Beth felt Boy #1 grip her hips, and felt him touch her pussylips. She was on the verge of a very public explosion. Soon #1 pushed in slowly, marveling at the tightness. He suspected that this was a rare-to-the-College virgin. His “inner gentleman” insisted that he make it as great as possible for her. #1 took extra time, stroking her pussy more than he did the other girls. The effort was not entirely needed. Beth was so primed that she had her very own dick-induced orgasm in seconds. Her moan was quite loud. Beth did not know whether to be embarrassed or thrilled. She did not know how her knees would hold her up if this happened while the other three boys make their judgments!
When Boy #! turned the corner and touched Mika, he hardly expected to repeat the previous


experience. Mika, meanwhile had been watching Beth with wide-open eyes. She could not believe how wet her vagina was. OMG, Mika almost was coming in anticipation.
Boy #1 started to push into her pussy and she felt herself stretch to accommodate her first penis. There was a slight twinge as the last vestige of her hymen gave way to the welcomed invader. That sensation merely heightened and completed the sensation of her first fuck. The combination of the wait and the actuality caused Mika to come continually all through Boy #1’s strokes. Mika wondered how she had even lasted this long. Mama must have lied about chastity. She thought about all the wasted time!
Beth, getting her second fuck, had a massive orgasm watching her friend get her first boy.College life was going to be legendary!!
Boy #1 realized that she was the second virgin in this group and could not believe his luck. It was all he could do not to come on the spot! But duty calls and he had move on. It’s a tough life.
By this point in the judging process, all the girls had at least one orgasm by the time Boy #3 fucked them. Most had had several. Most of the boys had come, too. But, true to the teacher’s claim, they had the stamina to continue. The girls stopped seeing this as some impartial comparison and saw it as sanctioned orgy. The reality of College life, the purpose of the Code of Conduct notwithstanding, made the girls surprised yet not too shocked


made the Dean think of him as one of the finest of the Dress Code enforcers. Even the most nonchalant girls remembered their consensual rapes at the end of his tool.
Megan hardly noticed when Eddie put his hands on her hips. She did notice when he started to push into her. Old memories flooded back as she stood there and let Eddie have his way with her. Then she remembered that because of her position on staff, the consensual rape rule did not apply to her. But as the monster orgasm that had been building became very close, Megan decided simply to go with the moment. Not likely that the students would even see, they were too caught up in their own fucks or hanging their heads downattempting to recover their balance. Eddie, experienced ex-inspector that he was, kept up through his orgasm and through quite a few of hers. Nostalgia felt good today.
By now, all had finished the judging section of the class and the boys went over to the bleachers to enter their opinions and to tabulate the result. They discussed it for 30 minutes, but could not agree. The four boys went back to Ms Martin and Mr. Wilson, admitting to arriving as a hung jury. What to do?
Eddie and Megan needed to come up with an alternative method of insuring that the Kegel tug ’o war was fair to all the girls. One look at the hot sweaty mass of flesh calling itself ten separate girls told them that the students


Monday, March 24, 2008

I know the posts have been a little light lately, but I'm hoping to start posting more frequently. To start off I thought I'd show some photos from the Anasazi flute class I gave earlier this month for the Inland Empire Flute Circle. All the photos were taken by Barbara Garliner, the IEFC's de facto official photographer.

The class met in the future home of the Dorthy Ramon Learning Center, a non profit group that is dedicated to saving and sharing all Southern California’s American Indian cultures, languages, history, music, and other traditional arts.

The class was made up of about eight very brave people as the Anasazi flute takes a strong will to learn to play for most people. We've looked at this flute in greatAnasazi flute we had a professional maker of Native American style flutes, Rich Halliburton of Querencia Woodwinds. Rich and I are good friends but I don't know what other "woodwinds" he makes besides flutes. His NAF's however are very nice and one of his flutes won top prize at last years Oklahoma Flute Festival. John Stillwell was also at the circle meeting as was Steve Meier a budding flute maker who was there to debut some of his flutes.

Here is a photo of Michelle. She is in the military and if I remember correctly was a captain in the navy. Not many women can play the Anasazi flute due to the long length of the bore. In the photo she is playing an Ab (G#) and if she


started franchising, I didn't even quite realize there was a franchising community." He soaked up a lot of knowledge from the more experienced franchisors at those meetings, and he says, in general, he and his franchise system were welcomed and accepted by the franchise community. He learned that the objectives of the bigger franchisors were very different from those of the smaller ones-and Subway was definitely one of the smaller ones at the time.

In the early days, for example, DeLuca remembers how much time and money went into creating franchise disclosure documents for each state. So DeLuca wanted to discuss with his fellow franchisors the possibility of creating a uniform disclosure document for all the states. When he went to the meeting, the others were less than enthusiastic.a new policy and send that policy out across the system-that was pretty much the way franchisors did things," says DeLuca. "Over the course of time, many companies have involved the franchisees in the decision-making process."

Subway certainly has: It has meetings every four months with the system advisory council. The council encompasses the franchisee advertising group, the purchasing co-op, the development agents, the international franchisee group and the North American Association of Subway Franchisees. "That's very helpful, especially when you have a large organization that's geographically spread out with a lot of different people with different points of view," DeLuca says.

He often points to Subway franchisees as a main source of the company's success. "The important thing for me and for anybody in this business is to appreciate


NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 9: Hundreds of protestors rally against Donald Trump outside of Trump Tower, November 9, 2016 in New York City. Republican candidate Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election in the early hours of the morning in a widely unforeseen upset. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)Share this...

Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt was interviewed by Switzerland-based Basler Zeitung concerning Germany’s ‘Energiewende’ (transition to renewable energies), and energy issues in Switzerland, on February 18, 2017.

Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt. Image credit: GWPF

Vahrenholt was once the head of RWE’s renewable energy arm, Innogy, and responsible for the installation of offshore wind parks. However, after years of poor performance, discovering that the climate science was unclean, and learning of the harm wind parks pose to the environment, Vahrenholt has since been calling for a fundamental energy policy course correction in Germany.

Vahrenholt has called the German Energiewende “a disaster” so far, foremost because the supply of wind and sun is far too unstable and that everyone knows by now that it cannot work.

He also thinks Germany is making a huge mistake in


under attack from the old status quo, the remnants of the communist regime in the structures of power and those who illegally enriched themselves during the period of transition. The aim of this united front is not just to destabilise Bulgaria and to halt GERB's efforts for a fairer society, but to discredit our country in the eyes of our European partners. I repeat: what is happening here this evening is pitiful and disgraceful.
This clearly smacks of the envy of those circles, both political and economic, with the government's success in its uncompromising war against criminality and corruption, and with its honest and open way of conducting policy. In recent days, fellow Members of the Bulgarian opposition have presented the situation in Bulgaria in the darkest possible terms.as well as internal discussions during opposition parties' meetings or private meetings in courtrooms. The fundamental right to the protection of privacy is being systematically and repeatedly violated. Illegal phone tapping has become prosecutors' investigation method of choice. The secret services permanently monitor the telephone conversations of the current government's political opponents. This is a very serious situation and I call on the European Commission to intervene urgently to uphold the rule of law and democracy in both Member States.
Vladimir Urutchev
(BG) Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to repeat the European Commission's assessment that the present government of Bulgaria is showing a real ambition to crack down on organised crime. Hardly anybody will deny that for the first time, our country has made real progress on


parties jumped on this bandwagon, hoping to reap dividends in the coming election campaign.
May we ask my fellow Members whether they are aware of whose hands they are playing into by their present actions?
Ivailo Kalfin
(BG) Mr President, I would like to turn to Commissioner Piebalgs, because a great deal of propaganda has been coming from Bulgaria's ruling party today. The Parliamentary Commission, headed by the ruling party's coalition partner, the nationalists of Ataka, presented the Bulgarian parliament with a report saying that the government is filtering information acquired from wiretaps before passing it on to the courts.
The report states that the government does not protect confidential personal information, which is published in the media. The report also says - and, I repeat, the report was prepared by theLindsay Lohan to return to jail

LINDSAY Lohan has been sentenced to 300 days in jail - but will only serve 30 days behind bars.

The 25-year-old actress must surrender to the county jail by November 9 after admitting she had violated the terms of her probation in relation to a 2007 DUI (driving under the influence) case, by failing to show up at community service appointments at a women's shelter in Los Angeles.

Superior Court Judge Stephanie Saunter told Lindsay - who attended the Los Angeles Superior Court Airport branch in a navy polka dot dress and Giuseppe Zanotti high heels -she will now have to perform all of her community service at a morgue and complete 19 psycho-therapy sessions by March 29, 2012.


Videos Show Floor Collapsing Under A Lively Off-Campus University Of North Texas Homecoming Party At A Denton Apartment Complex.

Last night at an apartment complex in Denton, an off-campus party celebrating University of North Texas’ homecoming turned ugly as the floor collapsed and party-goers fell into the apartment below.

Six people were injured in the floor collapse and some 50 residents at the apartment complex known as The Ridge have been displaced, according to a FOX 4 report. No one was taken to the hospital.

A video of the incident that surfaced early this morning shows a lively party going on when, suddenly, the floor beneath the partying crowd caves in on itself:

Additional videos show the moments in the immediate aftermath of the collapse, as the people who fell through toshares. The sole asset of OSCM is its 80% ownership in a company called "CCM Computer Associates" ("CCM"), along with its option to purchase the remaining 20% of CCM shares. OSCM's shares are not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and carry restrictions on their sale.
In August 1999, Defendants Rosenfeld and Adler, who were officers of Activinet, Ltd., transferred Activinet Ltd.'s OSCM stock (Activinet, Ltd.'s only significant asset) to Defendant Activinet, S.A., a party that is identified in the complaint only as "a corporation formed and existing under the laws of a foreign nation which is owned *576 by Mr. Rosenfeld and/or Mr. Adler." According to the Plaintiffs, the transfer of Activinet Ltd.'s shares in OSCM to Activinet, S.A. was made without adequate consideration, and without Letzter's


knowledge or consent, and without an Activinet, Ltd. shareholder's vote.
At some point in or about October 1999, Defendants Rosenfeld, Adler, and Conca, all directors of OSCM, entered into an agreement with Defendant AMCI International ("AMCI") and its directors Defendants Brown and Merrell, to sell OSCM's ownership in CCM  OSCM's only significant asset  to AMCI in exchange for 60% of AMCI's stock and $ 5,000,000 in cash. The Plaintiffs contend that OSCM's sale of its CCM stock to AMCI was done without notice to OSCM's shareholders, and that it served no business purpose other than to deliberately "remove OSCM's assets from any influence, oversight, or control by Letzter." The Plaintiffs sought a preliminary injunction before this Court to prevent the sale of OSCM's assets to AMCI, butlater withdrew that request after stipulating that the sale was consummated in October 1999.
In November 1999, Letzter sought to remove the restrictions on the sale of his OSCM stock and to put the shares up for sale. OSCM's directors, Defendants Rosenfeld, Adler, and Conca, refused to waive the restrictions on the sale of the OSCM shares held by Letzter. According to the Plaintiffs, OSCM's directors had no legal justification to refuse Letzter's request, and their motivation was actually to manipulate OSCM's stock price and to "ensure that Mr. Letzter's proposed sales of his stock not adversely affect its market price."
The Plaintiffs then commenced this lawsuit, setting forth five causes of action. The first cause of action alleges breach of fiduciary duty against Defendants OSCM, Adler, and Rosenfeld, relating


men because a lot of ancient cultures already revered their women and they were spiritual teachers and priests. I won't go into a lot of history here, I suggest the Metu Neter for further reading and better understanding, but in ancient African and even Sub Saharan Indian cultures the female was empowered and played major roles in the history and cultures of these ancient civilizations of course until Christianity came along. Even when love actually entered the picture, and I will go back as far as King Arthur and Sir Lancelot, there was cheating as Lancelot had an affair with Queen Guinevere.

As animal lust evolved into love women's roles were no longer just to serve the man in fact it was now the man's role to serve thewoman he wanted to have or "loved". However, for centuries men were still considered owners of their wives. Even when the first settlers came to America -when polygamy, having multiple wives was still an accepted practice- the husbands ownership was recognized by a legal doctrine called coverture absorbing the wives identity into his. That is the reason women give up their last names until today. Now part of that is tradition but until women were given the right to vote back in the 1920's they were still not considered citizens, they were just one rung up the ladder from black people. After women gained rights marriage changed dramatically, now the union was between two equal citizens. So the whole concept of a private relationship for the fulfillment of


India's capital city has always had a cosmopolitan culture and it is imperative to hold on to it, says renowned writer-scholar Rana Safvi, whose latest book, "The Forgotten Cities of Delhi", provides an in-depth tour of Delhi's archaeological history.

But her book comes at a time when the demonisation of the Mughals, and perhaps of all histories associated with Muslim rulers, has become fashionable. Legislators holding significant portfolios have spewed venom time and again; roads and railway stations are being renamed in a brazen attempt at "re-writing Indian history".

"If one goes by the fact that the first war of Indian independence was fought under the banner of the Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, it is very clear that religious divides had not taken root in India.

"In fact, Rani LaxmibaiHow a Side Project Reignited Michele Ouellet's Modeling Career

In our long-running series, "How I'm Making It," we talk to people making a living in the fashion industry about how they broke in and found success.

Even if you don't know Michele Ouellet by name, you almost certainly know her face. In the last few years, Ouellet has carved out a niche for herself in the wide and often tumultuous world of modeling as one of J.Crew and, more prominently, Madewell's go-to faces for catalog and e-commerce shoots. (In the first week of December, those visiting Madewell's site would find her dead center on the homepage, looking lightly amused at the three plaid scarves wrapped around her neck.) Beyond her commercial visibility, Ouellet also has the particular distinction of operating


a wine brand specializing in rosé with her mother — a job that only helped with booking modeling gigs thanks to the press it attracted when the two released their first vintage. As Ouellet points out, journalists find the mother-daughter business to be a pretty cute story. I certainly did.

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I caught up with Ouellet to walk through her career thus far, from booking her own shoots when she went agency-free for a time (she's now with Elite) to building steady relationships with big-name brands.

When and how did you get scouted? What sort of work were you doing in your first few years as a model?

I first got scouted when I was 15 and in high school. I went to Paris a fewfamilies, but we’re not a rescue organization,” Shinevar said.

The key to addressing the feral population is to spay females who normally begin reproducing as young as three months and also neuter the males. CPAW-NJ also educates caretakers to be responsible feeders and has discussed the issue with Essex County Freeholders. Approximately 500 street cats throughout Essex County, including around 100 in Montclair have gone through the trap, neuter, vaccinate, release through CPAW-NJ and their partnerships, Shinevar noted.

“The left ear tip is the universal symbol of a cat that has gone through TNR,” Shinevar said.A retired attorney who grew up on a farm before moving to Montclair in 2011, Shinevar volunteered at the Montclair Animal Shelter for three years. She has four cats and dedicates her time to saving


bus from the train station to Seatran bus station

Seatrean Ferry Bus Station and Ferry Timetable

Seatran Ferry Bus from their bus station in Surat Thani to the Donsak Pier

Moving pictures on the bus to the pier

Inside the Seatran bus from Surat Thani to Donsak Pier

Seatran Ferry from Donsak Pier in Surat Thani to Koh Samui

Seatran Ferry takes cars and motirbikes as well as passengers

Inside the Seatran Ferry

Seatran Ferry provides a foot massage service

Seatran Ferry also has a very cheap cafe selling everything you could imagine

Moving pictures on the ferry to Koh Samui

Andrew on the ferry over to Koh Samui

Tanya on the ferry over to Koh Samui

Clean and expansive deck to sit on

First views of Koh Samui

Catching this songteaw was our tenth leg of transport from Langkawi to Koh Samui

Posttwice beat on a girlfriend’s head and body, was followed by his release on a $7,500 bond required by court commissioner James Karaczynski, who ordered that Dickens have no contact with the woman and not return to her address as a condition of his pretrial release.

Last Monday morning, charging papers allege, Dickens was back at the woman’s home, where cut her friend and daughter with a knife and was attacking the woman again in a bedroom when St. Mary’s sheriff’s Cpl. John Kirkner shot and wounded Dickens.

Dickens was flown to a hospital for treatment of his injuries, sheriff’s detectives report, before he was released from the hospital and arrested again Tuesday on new charges from the previous day’s incident, including three offenses of first-degree assault.

Court commissioner Roy Wetzel


A vehicle can be provided with an ultrasound sensor for detecting an obstacle around the vehicle. For example, as disclosed in JP-2004-264264A, a bumper of the vehicle is provided with a hole, through which the head portion of the ultrasound sensor is exposed to the exterior in such a manner that the outer surface of the head portion is arranged at the same surface with the outer surface of the bumper. In this case, the appearance of the vehicle is impaired because the head portion of the ultrasound sensor is exposed to the exterior of the vehicle.
In order to solve this problem, as disclosed in JP-10-123236A, a concave portion is arranged at the back side (inner side) of the bumper of the vehicle. A sensor of an ultrasoundShould federal lands be turned over to the states? The Montezuma County Commission says yes

by Gaily Binkly and David Grant Long | April 30, 2015 2:10 pm

Illustration by Travis Kelly

At the end of the day on March 16, the Montezuma County commissioners took a quick vote on a proposed expenditure.

The amount of money was relatively small – $1,000 – and the topic wasn’t even listed on the agenda.

But the 2-0 vote by commissioners James Lambert and Larry Don Suckla (Keenan Ertel was absent) made a clear and significant statement: Montezuma County is in favor of turning federal public lands over to the states.

In voting to pay dues to the American Lands Council, the county has aligned itself with a movement that appears to be gaining steam.

In 2012, Utah


Lake Tribune has raised the issue of whether Ivory, in pushing this single issue, is acting as a lobbyist and whether that poses an ethical conflict with his work as a state legislator.

The American Lands Council pulls in at least $219,000 a year from its county memberships, according to a list posted online by the Center for Western Priorities, a nonpartisan nonprofit. There are also municipal, business, and individual memberships.

At least 20 of Utah’s 29 counties have joined the council. In Colorado, Montrose and Mesa counties had joined prior to Montezuma, according to the list. However, Garfield County decided against it. The Grand Junction Sentinel reported that one Garfield commissioner voiced concern that transferring federal lands to the state could mean voters could then decide their management throughat McPhee Reservoir, currently managed by the Forest Service. The county originally sought control of the main boat ramp, the House Creek site and an area called Sage Hen, but has since decided it doesn’t want the main boat ramp.

The county has been frustrated by the glacial pace of Forest Service-managed efforts to get a breakwater built at the reservoir and find a new operator to develop a marina after one burned in 2002.

The commissioners believe McPhee is an example of the inefficiencies of federal management and are certain the county could do a much better job developing recreation at the lake.

Analyses vary over whether the states would prove better managers than the federal government. Back in 1997, an analysis done for the Cato Institute, a libertarian think


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As the Royal Canadian Navy undergoes its most extensive peacetime modernization in history, Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), announced September 19 the upcoming retirement of four ships that have reached the end of their operational lives.

The ships are Her Majesty’s Canadian Ships (HMCS) Protecteur and Preserver, two Protecteur-class auxiliary oil replenishment ships; and HMC Ships Iroquois and Algonquin, two Iroquois-class guided missile destroyers.

The retirement of these vessels has been anticipated for some time and is a step towards the introduction of new ships and capabilities set to be delivered through the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS), as well as recognition of the RCN’s commitment to the responsiblehas a plan in place to address the many challenges of transition, including the need to maintain excellence in operations, to deliver the future fleet and to prepare the RCN for the new capabilities and technologies that will be delivered through the NSPS over the next decade and beyond.

Quick facts

HMCS Iroquois

HMCS Iroquois is a guided missile destroyer and the lead ship of the Iroquois Class, which comprises HMCS Athabaskan on the East Coast, and HMCS Algonquin on the West Coast.

HMCS Iroquois has been scheduled for divestment since November 2011.

HMCS Iroquois will prepare for its official paying off ceremony in January 2015 in Halifax.

HMCS Algonquin

HMCS Algonquin is a guided missile destroyer, the fourth ship of the Iroquois Class.

On August 30, 2013, HMCS Algonquin was involved in a collision at


make recommendations as to how to prevent a similar event from occurring in the future.

HMCS Protecteur

HMCS Protecteur is an auxiliary oil replenishment ship based in Esquimalt, B.C., and the lead ship of the Protecteur Class. Its sister ship, HMCS Preserver, is based in Halifax.

HMCS Protecteur was designed to carry a large amount of supplies, including fuel, dry cargo and ammunition, which could be transferred to other ships through hook-up lines and re-fuelling hoses in a manoeuvre known as a replenishment at sea.

HMCS Protecteur will be officially retired after sustaining serious damage in a fire in February 2014. An extensive assessment of HMCS Protecteur has concluded that the ship was damaged beyond economical repair.

Considering the relatively short service life remaining for HMCS Protecteur, which was scheduled to be retiredin 2017, and its current state of repair, the cost to reinstate the ship to full operational capability would not represent a responsible use of public funds. As a result, the ship will remain alongside and be prepared for disposal as early as is practically feasible.

A BOI has been convened to investigate the cause of the fire on board HMCS Protecteur and the circumstances surrounding it. The BOI, which is still ongoing, will make recommendations as to how to prevent a similar event from occurring in the future, and its results will be made public when available.

HMCS Preserver

HMCS Preserver is rapidly approaching the end of its operational life, which was planned for 2016.

Engineering surveys conducted in recent months identified levels of corrosion in HMCS Preserver that have degraded


sporadically, drought scorched crops, grasshopper plagues devastated what did grow and dust storms carried off topsoil. Few had the means or equipment to irrigate, in Nebraska.

In the midst of the Dust Bowl, who could imagine the vast quantity of water that would soon come their way, in Nebraska’s deadliest flood? Who could anticipate the devastation such an ordinarily peaceful river, the Republican, could bring?

The Republican River near Franklin, NE, 2014

And who could warn them? Public communication was limited in little river towns in the 1930s. While radio programming was a big deal in the cities, radios and telephones were considered luxuries, even a waste of money, for many rural Nebraskans. Many country homes weren’t yet tied to electrical service and relied on generators and battery power for lights,radios and telephones, if they had them. “Waste not, want not” applied to treasured electricity, as it did to other commodities and daily goods, during the Depression. Leaving a radio on to hear breaking news would have been almost unheard-of. Trains brought in newspapers for national news, and local presses did their best to keep up with world news.

Nebraska’s small communities came together, though, in ways we’ve almost forgotten. News could travel fast over back fences and on Main Streets. Church and social gatherings pulled people together, and gossip was a means of sharing and rehashing not only scandal, but also politics, national and international news. Newspapers ruled the information domain, in the 1930s. Rural customers with telephones usually had party lines, where the customer would listen for


his or her number of rings, to answer . . . or to listen in on the other customers’ calls. In emergencies, the operator could ring through to these fortunate few, and telephone switchboard operators proved themselves heroes in Nebraska, 1935, warning many of the oncoming disaster.

Yet, weather information was scarce, and forecasting still in its infancy. The Weather Bureau in the early 1930s began to replace its weather-tracking kites with airplanes, to gather weather data, particularly in tracking cold- and warm-air masses. For the average person on the Great Plains, the impending weather was rarely forecast with any real accuracy. What was known or could be guessed at from widely-spaced weather stations and basic weather maps, was only sporadically communicated to the average citizen. While today wecan track oncoming weather with radar, tune in to special weather television broadcasts, receive alerts on our mobile phones, and even send instant messages to those in the weather’s way, in 1935, most people were at the mercy of the elements.

May of 1935 was a wet month along the Front Range in Colorado. Over that Memorial Day, then commonly known as Decoration Day and celebrated on Thursday, May 30, the rainfall increased dramatically. What became Colorado Spring’s catastrophe, its own Memorial Day Flood, seems now to have been not only a tragedy there, but also a herald of an unfolding disaster on the Great Plains. Those heavy thunderstorm systems moved east across the high desert, down into Nebraska and Kansas. (You may read a brief intro to that


Colorado Springs flood here.)

Kansas Department of Agriculture Republican flood basin map

The Republican River tributaries and river basin span parts of eastern Colorado, southern Nebraska and northern Kansas. The catastrophic storm that moved east on Decoration Day, 1935, dumped 24 inches of rain in one day and followed a nearly-perfect course for disaster, flooding those tributaries—the Arikaree, Frenchman, Blackwood, Beaver, Buffalo, Red Willow and Sappa Creeks, to name several. As the water gushed into the North and South Forks of the Republican, it created a wave of destruction that spanned three states and took weeks to ebb, defying prediction or belief. Given the forecasting and communication limitations of the day, and no flood control established along the river course, tragedy ensued.

For a back-in-the-day newspaper account of the concurrent floodand tornado events, you may find it interesting to read this special edition published by the Omaha World-Herald in June, 1935, scanned and offered online, courtesy of the NOAA. The photos are fascinating.

A glimpse of the Omaha World Herald souvenir Flood Edition, from weather.gov

It was eighty years ago, this week, that the skies ripped open and the Republican River broke free of its banks, as the Pawnee had tried to warn the early settlers it had previously done. In their oral history, they recalled that tame-looking water source to have risen so high, it spread from bluff to bluff. They camped on high ground and warned the first settlers away from the river bottom, but the water seemed so peaceful, and the soil so fertile there . .


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History, as it proves it will, repeated itself. In the last days of May and into June, 1935, the Republican raged, cresting twice in a few days. It took 113 human lives, killed tens of thousands of cattle and other livestock, destroyed homes, farms, businesses and crops, and coiled railroad iron like barbed wire. It washed out over 300 miles of roads and over 300 bridges, effectively isolating whole towns from the outside world for weeks, even months. The river in some places spread between one and two miles wide.

The Republican River Valley flood of 1935 precipitates a crisis in my novels-in-process. I’ve heavily researched the flood, delving into personal accounts, newspapers, local histories and weather analyses. I’ve driven and walked along much of the river’s course, fromwhat was then a thriving main street with two grocery stores, a Ben Franklin five and dime, two drug stores, clothing stores, a drive-in burger joint and several cafes . . . Franklin gave me a great taste of small town life in Nebraska, particularly in the 1960s and 1970s. It connected me to Nebraska history and geography in an intimate way. Playing in a creekside pasture will do that, I guess.

These childhood and family memories form the backdrop and my inspiration to research and write about Nebraska history, especially events that unfolded near the Republican River. Some of that local history infuses The Darkwater Liar’s Account, while more details move to the forefront in the novels I’m currently writing.

That little farm east of Franklin was the fulfillment


of my grandfather’s life dream. There was another man who inquired to purchase a farm south of Franklin, back in March of 1882, decades before my grandfather settled there. He penned a letter under the name of Thomas Howard, but his real name was Jesse James, and he answered this ad, seeking “a good farm for stock & grain.”

Historians suspect Jesse, a hunted man, intended to leave his criminal life and settle down, but couldn’t quite afford it. After visiting the Nebraska farm, he made the fateful decision to round up a gang and rob the Platte City Bank to finance his retirement. One member of that last gang was Robert Ford, the man rumored to have shot Jesse in the back of the head while Jesse straighteneda picture on the wall. Ford may have gotten his $10,000 reward, but Jesse never fulfilled his dream, and Franklin never had its notorious outlaw farmer.

Would Jesse have made a good farmer? Maybe not. He might have grown restless after a season or two, called out of the furrows and barn, back to his old ways, by wail of a train whistle or the clank of a bank vault door. We’ll never know, but I like to think he might have become a good neighbor.

(History buffs may read the entire text of Jesse’s letter to Franklin, Nebraska, in Outlaws of the Border: A Complete and Authentic History of the Lives of Frank and Jesse James, written by Jay Donald and published in 1883. Thanks to the NEGenWeb site


this were integral to Pawnee medicine ceremonies. Only a woman could possess a bundle, which usually hung on the west wall of a home or above an altar, while only men could utilize it in ceremonies.

A sign near this bundle reports that it originated near Loup, Nebraska. A young Pawnee girl named Sadie carried it away on horseback from the famous battle at Massacre Canyon near Trenton, Nebraska, in 1873. On that day, a thousand Sioux surprised 350 Pawnee men, women and children on their summer buffalo hunt, and approximately seventy Pawnee were killed. This is recorded as the last major battle between two Indian tribes in U.S. history. Sadie’s father entrusted the bundle to her at the battle, binding it to her back. He died that day,River.

In my novel-in-process, one main character is a Kitkehahki (Republican) band Pawnee runaway from a White-run Indian Boarding School in 1914. Instead of returning to the Pawnee reservation in Oklahoma, he sets out on a quest to the Republican River Valley. For Kuruk, whose name means Bear, that river and surrounding plains are the backdrop of his grandfather’s legends, a residual ancestral memory and a spiritual destination.

On the first of my two research road trips through the Republican River Valley this summer, I visited the Pawnee Indian Museum State Historic Site near Republic, Kansas. The day I arrived, an archaeological team was solemnly reclosing the ground, after completing excavation of an earth lodge site, one of many there. I had an opportunity to discuss 1800s Pawnee history and


culture with Kansas State University archaeologist Donna Roper, who has dedicated her career to the preservation of Pawnee ethnohistory. She brought history alive for me, and I thank her.

The lodges on this Kansas stretch of the Republican date to around 1820, and the largest one has been covered with a roof to preserve it for educational purposes. Its most striking features were the holes in the hard clay floor, some of which once anchored roof-support timbers. Others were deeper, for off-season food storage. A fire pit centered the communal living space. Many other unexcavated lodges surround that one, and resemble large buffalo wallows, as shown in my photo, above.

As I write about Nebraska and the Republican River Valley, Pawnee history is a key element of that place. Asreal as the fragrance of the ground that rises with the snowmelt in spring, Native American history infuses Great Plains reality. It invites us to dig deeper, remember with reverence, and search for meaning.

Readers lost a great novelist, and Great Plains and Western writers like myself lost a mentor, on Sunday.

Colorado should be proud of, and surely grieves for, Kent Haruf, a resident of Salida, Colorado, who wrote about a fictional Colorado Eastern plains community in Plain Song, Eventide and Benediction. Just prior to his death, he finished the copy edits for his upcoming novel, scheduled for release next year.

His fiction resounds with thoughtful observations of ordinary people, the bonds and limitations of community life and a special appreciation for the sugar beet farming country of eastern Colorado.


builders on this site. A local historian, also a Wurth relative, told us that in the early Twentieth Century, a one-room country school stood on this very corner. Constructed on every southeast square-mile corner down this main road, Amherst Township country schools, like most, had to be accessible for walking children.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and I’m thankful for many things. One of them is that education has always been one of the first priorities for settlers on the Great Plains and the West, a legacy of which I am a happy beneficiary. In most homesteading communities, once shelter was erected for people and animals and crops were planted, even far-flung neighbors gathered to discuss their children’s education. Even before it was compulsory, education was a dream American settlers claimedKim Green

Close-cropped beard, pen behind his ear, Furbish is an artist-turned-teacher from a military family — creative and disciplined. He started his Nashville, Tenn., bike-building workshop as a summer experiment. He thought, "What if I take donated bike parts and teach kids to put them together?"


A telling transition: new graduate nursing in the oncology and bone marrow transplantation setting.
The University of Colorado Hospital's Post-Baccalaureate Nurse Residency Program is a Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education-accredited program structured to provide critical elements important for a successful transition into professional nursing practice. As part of the program, graduate nurse residents receive a year of education that includes 12-24 weeks of precepted orientation on the clinical unit, paid specialty courses, and monthly seminars that provide additional curriculum and mentoring support. At the completion of the program, the residents complete an evidence-based practice project and a clinical narrative summarizing their residency experience. The following is an example of one resident's exemplar.may be pocket change for the company, but it marks the largest fine to be dished out to a company for GDPR to date. Eyes will now be on Facebook, which has also had similar fines levied against it by privacy activists. So far, Facebook has been issued a higher fine by the U.K. regulator ICO for its part in the Cambridge Analytica data breach, but the timing of the fine meant it fell under the old data protection law and was, therefore, a smaller fine, albeit to the tune of £500,000 ($661,000).

Typically, data protection authorities take the lead on companies which have their headquarters within the same country. Google’s European headquarters is in Ireland, which makes the Irish DPA Google’s lead GDPR investigator. However, CNIL maintained it


A well-known sex hotspot for men – the Lake Monger toilet block – is set to be demolished by the Town of Cambridge because of ongoing concerns about anti-social behaviour and "beat activity".

The Dodd Street toilets have been the subject of anti-social behaviour for years, but a number of strategies - including closing them, putting locks on the toilets and cutting back nearby shrubbery - had all failed.

The notorious toilet block at Lake Monger is set to be bulldozed. Credit:Eleri Teesalu

Cambridge council even spent $60,000 on lights at the toilet block in May last year in an attempt to try and deter anti-social behaviour and "inappropriate sexual activities".

Now the town has had enough and a committee meeting this week voted to have the dunnies bulldozed and a newThe Cancer Registry was started on 1 January 2000 and so this study includes women who were diagnosed with breast cancer between 1 January 2000 and 31 Dec. 2005. During that period, of the 6253 patients diagnosed with ten most common cancers in the area, 1192 were registered as having female breast cancer. Thirty women were excluded due to previous breast cancer (23), ductal carcinoma in situ (2), and other previous cancers (5). In addition, 14 women with bilateral tumours were excluded due to the small numbers. Thus, the study population comprised 1148 women who were diagnosed with a first primary invasive breast malignancy and who underwent breast surgery including axillary dissection.

All patients were followed-up at regular three month intervals for the first year following diagnosis and had


WASHINGTON, DC—Citing a desire to more closely monitor the growth of U.S. nieces and nephews, the National Coalition of Aunts denounced the severe under-photographing of the nation's precious toddlers Tuesday.

"These little treasures grow up so fast," said Linda Mirrin, chairwoman of the NCA and aunt to three adorable boys. "We aunts have a simple and reasonable request: Take more photos and send them to us, so that we can see how big those little darlings are getting."

Mirrin then dug into her wallet and pulled out photographs of her nephews to show to the assembled crowd of reporters and fellow aunts.

"This is Troy, this one is Michael, and this is David," said Mirrin, who lives three states away from her sister, Maggie Genz. "Aren't they just perfect?"

According to Mirrin,of their little ones."

The NCA hopes early intervention will prevent future photographic oversights.

"It's time to take a stand, before we aunts are denied photos of our nieces' and nephews' pre-teen and teen years," Mirrin said. "We implore all parents to redouble their efforts, because the sad fact remains that 80 percent of family photos taken never make it beyond the nuclear family's photo album."

The League of American Parents responded to the NCA's claims with a strongly worded message.

"We are sympathetic to the nation's aunts," said George Jarvis, spokesman for the LAP. "No one should be deprived of adorable pictures of toddlers dressing the dog in a funny Halloween costume, or simply falling asleep on the living-room floor. However, our official statement on this matter is and always has


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Why wasn't Chekov among the Star Trek: The Animated Series crew?

As far as I know, Star Trek: The Animated Series was supposed to be (chronologically) between ST: TOS and Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
If that's the case, why wasn't Pavel Chekov among the TAS crew, despite the fact that he was on the crew of Enterprise in the movie and therefore didn't get kicked off Enterprise?

A:

In-universe, according to StarTrek.com:

Ensign Pavel Chekov transferred to a new assignment during the final year of the U.S.S. Enterprise's historic five-year mission (2269-70), replaced by his own navigation instructor at Starfleet Academy, Lt. Arex. By stardate 7410.2 (2271), Chekov had received a promotion to the rank of lieutenant, and had rejoined the Enterprise's crew, then under the command of Captain Willard Decker.


By stardate 8130.3 (2285), Chekov had risen to the rank of full commander and served aboard the U.S.S. Reliant under the command of Captain Clark Terrell, until the escape of Khan Noonien Singh from Ceti Alpha V (2285) brought Chekov back to Kirk's crew, of which Chekov remained a key part until approximately 9524.0 (2293).

Out of universe, according to the Memory Alpha wiki:

Chekov was absent to cut down on costs of hiring the voice actors, although Walter Koenig penned an episode of the series,"The Infinite Vulcan".

A:

From Curt Danhauser's Guide to Animated Star Trek:

The reason Chekov wasn't on the Animated series was money.
[...] At first,
  Filmation planned on not having George Takei and Nichelle Nichols come
  back to do their roles again. But when Leonard Nimoyis already here -- some stretches might need some extending and re-connecting, but the basic web of pathways is in place, like desire lines criss-crossing through the neighborhood.The Alley District draws upon elements of some of our favorite urban places around the globe, but is uniquely, utterly Detroit.How so? Well, alleys are home to garages -- a humble building type we don't normally think of as "iconic" architecturally-speaking, but in fact has played a pivotal role in our city's history. From garage tinkerers like Henry Ford (who built his first Quadricycle in a shed behind his house ), to garage recording studios like Motown's "Studio A" (affectionately called the "snake pit"), to garage rockers like Iggy Pop and Jack White, some of our greatest Detroit inventions and exports


This fictional Alley District is a largely car-free zone. Residents can opt-in to a collective parking situation nearby, freeing up the alleys to become walkways instead of driveways. Bikes and scooters and carts will move goods within the district, with cars staying outside, on the perimeter.Radical for Detroit? Yeah, that's the point.No doubt, some might regard this as an inconvenience at first, but over time, it would become a point of pride for area residents. "I live in the Alley District" would be like saying "I choose to live a motor 'lite' life in the Motor City." Many local residents already do this, so defining the district would simply formalize a lifestyle already being lived here.Which brings us to another consideration -- striking that delicate balance between communitySpread the love

North Charleston, SC– Dashcam footage was released on Monday of the officer charged with murder for killing Walter Scott. The video shows Michael Slager tasering someone during a traffic stop in August of last year.

The man being tased, 35-year-old Julius Garnett Wilson, has since filed a lawsuit against Slager and the North Charleston Police Department. Garnett states that his civil rights were violated and is urging any others who may have had a similar experience to come forward and do the same.

Wilson had been stopped simply because it was a “high crime area” and was asked to step out of the vehicle when the officers believed that he had a suspended license. He initially refused to comply, as he reportedly had a valid Georgia license. At


anyone from that night. No one from the neighborhood.”

The department has a long record of abuse lawsuits itself. In one particularly bad incident, Sheldon Williams claims that he was asleep at a motel when officers burst through the door. After handcuffing him, the officers allegedly began taking turns stomping on his face, causing injuries so severe that the jail officials had to turn him away to be seen by a doctor. He was left with a fractured cheekbone, a depressed fracture to the left orbital floor of his face, and a fracture on his left sinus wall.

The hospital provided law enforcement with instructions to have him see a surgeon within a week, but the instructions were ignored, and Williams was never treated. He now has trouble sleeping andNepalese people and people from North India, forcing Bengalis to quit West Bengal for South Indian states, these people dont speak Bengali language as a result Bengalis are becoming minority day by day in their own state.

Ethnically, khambus were the real Gurkhas who then raise the military of, kIrat, Magars and Gurungs to unite Nepal against the British invasions. But these days Gurkhas mostly belong to the, Magar, Rai, Limbu, Gurung, Tamang.
All Gurkhas, regardless of ethnic origin, speak Nepali in addition to their group language, also known as Khas Kura or Khas Bhasa, an Nepal's national language. They are also famous for their large knife called the kukri, which is featured in a curved configuration on their emblem.

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Gurkha is word that was used to refer British-Indian


in the Army were called Gorkhas.

All Nepali people are not Gorkha.

The Gorkhaland movement is also claiming Dooars.

However, the Dooars belonged to the Koch Kingdom.

It is the land of numerous tribes, including the Bodos, the Rabhas, the Mechs, the Totos, the Koch Rajbongshis. There are also the Nepali people, mostly in the tea estates.

The Oraons, Mundas, Kharia, Mahali, Lohara and Chik Baraik who were imported from the Chotanagpur areas as labour for the tea gardens are also in large numbers.

This area is a real pot-pourri of movements. and the region has suffered from ethnic strife. The Bodoland agitation in Assam for a separate state for the Bodo people and the Kamtapur or Greater Cooch Behar movement for a Kamtapur state in northern Bengal for the Rajbongshis are the twomost vociferous ones.The Adivasi (Tribal) of Dooars are demanding autonomy under the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution. The Nepalis have also demanded that the area be included in their territory.

It must be understood that the Lepchas, who are the actual inhabitants of the Darjeeling and Kalimpong Hills, though are clubbed as Nepali by the Gurkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) are really not Nepali.

Therefore, this area is full of contradictions and different aspirations.

Mamata Bannerjee has taken up the cause of the Lepchas very astutely in a political sense, and has diffused the growing ascendancy of the GJM.

Nepalese migration to India. It is mainly happening in West Bengal's Darjeeling district and Dooars area of Jalpaiguri district. A surprising fact is when we meet Nepalese they refer them as Nepalese but


when they go to Political sector then they refer themselves as Gurkha. These people came from Nepal and have vast difference with Bengalis in culture, Bengalis are generally a bit conservative, less wild in culture when these immigrants are wild in culture.

And this migration's result in demand in Gorkhaland, Gorkhaland is supposed to be state of people who are living in West Bengali's hill areas and have Gurkha ethnicity in addition these immigrants are taking job from Bengalis, many jobs such as security guard, Nurse etc are full with Nepalese people and people from North India, forcing Bengalis to quit West Bengal for South Indian states, these people dont speak Bengali language as a result Bengalis are becoming minority day by day in their own state.

Gurkha is wordbut when they go to Political sector then they refer themselves as Gurkha. These people came from Nepal and have vast difference with Bengalis in culture, Bengalis are generally a bit conservative, less wild in culture when these immigrants are wild in culture.

And this migration's result in demand in Gorkhaland, Gorkhaland is supposed to be state of people who are living in West Bengali's hill areas and have Gurkha ethnicity in addition these immigrants are taking job from Bengalis, many jobs such as security guard, Nurse etc are full with Nepalese people and people from North India, forcing Bengalis to quit West Bengal for South Indian states, these people dont speak Bengali language as a result Bengalis are becoming minority day by day in their own state.

Gurkha is


arrive at all.

In this small land mass called Bengal there are the Koch in the North in Cooch Behar, Rajbonhsi in the North, Nepali (some hold dual passports i.e. Indian as also Nepalese) in the Darjeeling and Dooar belt and Santhal down South.Post navigation

Social Play in the Domestic Cat

This article, Social Play in the Domestic Cat is based upon a research paper of the same title dated 1974 and prepared at the Department of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14850. The author was Meredith West. It was published on the Internet by Oxford Journals under the heading, Integrative and Comparative Biology. It is a purchased article.

The purpose of the study was to “examine social activity in the domestic cat and to explore its usefulness as an explanatory concept”. Meredith concludes, in outline, that social play in the domestic cat is for the purpose of:

developing and maintaining friendly relations and the benefits that flow from that;

physical exercise and;

sheer enjoyment. Play is a pleasurable pastime for kittens of a certain age.

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