Book of the Dead, they repeated some chapters and skipped others. Eventually, several versions, called the Theban Recension, included more than 200 spells. Not every version contained every spell, but each copy had the most important spells. Copies of the Book of the Dead written later, after the Saite period (664–525 b.c.), are called the Saite Recension.

thebeS (waset) (modern Luxor) Symbolized by the was scepter, Thebes, as the Greeks called it, was the religious capital and principal city of Upper Egypt.

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The city of Thebes sprawled across the east bank of the Nile; on the west bank was a city of the dead, the site of mortuary temples and tombs of the pharaohs and their families and officials. Thebes was a city of great prosperity during the EighteenthThoth is the left eye of god or the heavens, and the sun is the right eye. The left eye, represented by the waxing and waning of the moon, is called the healthy or sound eye. In one version of the myth of the Contendings of Horus and Set, Thoth heals the damaged Eye of Horus. Thoth accompanies Re in his solar barque as a protector, but mythology tells us that he rendered a far greater service to the sun god when he recovered the Eye of Re from Nubia after it had escaped in the form of Tefnut. In gratitude, Re created the moon as a reward for Thoth, and he made Thoth his representative in the night sky. Because of the waxing and waning of the


and literary. He was the patron of the per ankh, “the house of life,” where the sacred papyri were kept. Books of Divine Words or the Book of Thoth are mentioned in ancient inscriptions, and it is believed that they are a collection of “sacred spells” compiled by Thoth. The most important cult center for Thoth was in Hermopolis, although he was worshipped throughout Egypt and in Nubia.

thoth, the book of The Greeks attributed a group of 42 papyri to the Egyptian god of writing, Thoth. According to Clement of Alexandria, a Greek theologian (a.d. 150–215), the Book of Thoth included:
Two papyri with hymn to Thoth, Four papyri on astrology and astronomy,

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Ten religious papyri that include rituals and festivals, Ten papyri concerning the priesthood and the administration ofthe temples, Ten papyri concerning philosophy and general knowledge, and Six papyri devoted to medicine The Greeks identified Thoth with their god Hermes, and the books became known as the Hermetic Texts. While there are ancient references to the Book of Thoth, the manuscript has never been discovered and may have existed only as a myth.

tomb A place of burial. Because the Egyptians believed in resurrection, it was necessary to preserve the body of the deceased by mummification and to place the mummy in a tomb until it would resurrect in the next world. Sometimes called the “mansion of the ka” or the “eternal house,” the tomb was also home to the ka, or double of the deceased. It was believed that as long as the mummy remained


in the tomb the ka would remain there too, although it

was free to move in and out of the tomb. Egyptian tombs started out as simple pit burials in the sand and evolved into mastabas and then tombs within pyramids for the king’s burial. Pyramids proved costly to build and were obvious targets for tomb robbers, so eventually the pharaohs were buried in rock-cut tombs in secluded or hidden spots (see Valley of the Kings). The tomb of King Tutankhamen was the first intact royal burial to be discovered, and it was filled with all the objects the king would need in the next world: guardian statues, magical objects, ushabtis, a small golden shrine, furniture, jewelry, clothing, cosmetic boxes, games, musical instruments, writing materials, keepsakes from his family,chariots, weapons, fans, beds, headrests, chairs, thrones, boxes, lamps, tools, vessels, faience, wine, baskets, and food.

treeS, SAcreD See sacred trees. triADS See families of gods.

Wealthy Egyptians often painted the gods on walls of their tombs for protection. In this painting from the tomb of Senedjem, the deceased and his wife pray before a row of seated gods. (Photo by Pat Remler)

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When Tutankhamen’s tomb was opened in 1922, it was the only undisturbed tomb of a pharaoh ever found in the Valley of the Kings.

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(1334–1325 b.c.) Although a relatively minor king of the Eighteenth Dynasty, Tutankhamnen is perhaps the most famous. His intact tomb was discovered in the Valley of the Kings by Howard Carter in 1922. The opening of his tomb gave the world a glimpse of


the treasure buried with Egyptian kings, and sparked a world-wide interest in the boy king. Tutankhamen is believed to be the son of Akhenaten the “heretic king” and a minor wife, Kiya. When Akhenaten died, the nine-year-old “Tutankhaten” was crowned king and married to his young sister “Ankesenpaten,” the last remaining royal princess. The royal court was moved back to Thebes, the religion reverted to the worship of Amun, and the royal names were changed to Tutankhamen and Ankhesenamen. The contents of the the young king’s tomb give us insights into the pharoah's relationship with the gods of Egypt. Four wooden shrines, nested one inside the other, surrounded the sarcophagus, each inscribed with magical and mythological texts. On the inside surface of the largest (outermost) shrine were spellsNephthys, Selket, Neith, and Anubis. The Four Sons of Horus adorn the sides of the shrine along with a group of gods including Geb and Hapi, all protecting the mummy of Tutankhamen. Inside

the shrine, for additional protection, the walls are inscribed with spells from the Book of the Dead. The sarcophagus is carved with figures of Isis, Nephthys, Selket, and Neith at the four corners. Tutankhamen’s mummy was wrapped with 150 items of jewelry, most with magical significance to give added protection to the mummy. Of all the things included in the tomb, perhaps most surprising is what was not there. There was no papyrus version of the Book of the Dead—the text on the four shrines was intended to take its place. Also missing were the royal


crowns. The pharaoh had a crown for Upper Egypt and for Lower Egypt, a double crown, an atef crown, and a blue “war” crown, as well as a nemes headdress, and none were found in the tomb. Scholars have suggested that the crowns were believed to have magical properties and only one of each type existed at any time. When a pharaoh died, he did not take his crowns to the next world. They were inherited.

tutu An Egyptian protector god, Tutu is a late form of the god Shu. He is often shown as a man wearing the tall atef crown with a uraeus and sun disks, and he sometimes holds his finger to his mouth, similar to Harpocrates, Horus the child. He is also shown in thethe shape of a papyrus stalk surmounted by two feathers. The exact meaning of the uch is not known.

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unAS The last king of the Fifth Dynasty (2375– 2345 b.c.), Unas was the first king to have inscriptions carved on the walls of the chambers inside his pyramid at Saqqara. These magical inscriptions, called the Pyramid Texts, were also written in the burial chambers of the Sixth Dynasty pharaohs Teti, Pepi I, Mernere, and Pepi II and their queens. The original 228 texts inscribed in Unas’s pyramid were copied, with a few changes in the Sixth Dynasty Pyramid Texts. The texts in Unas’s pyramid are prayers, spells, and incantations to help the deceased king ascend to his place among the gods in the sky and


of the southern king, King Narmer, over Lower Egypt and subsequent unification of the two lands. The crown of Upper Egypt is the tall conical white crown, its flower is the lotus, and its protective goddess is Nekhbet.

urAeuS (plural: uraei ) A Greek word meaning “serpent,” the uraeus is a symbol of kingship in ancient Egypt, and it signifies the power and protection of the pharaoh. It is also a symbol of the cobra goddess Wadjet, a fierce protector of the king. The uraeus takes the form of a rearing cobra with its hood extended. The origin of the uraeus is Egypt’s Predynastic period, where images of a serpent were carved in stone and ivory. Images of the cobra goddess Wadjet appear throughout Egypt’s history and into Romantimes. A small ivory plaque in the British Museum is the first-known example of a king depicted under the protection of the cobra goddess. King Den of Dynasty I (2915–2865 b.c.) wears a rearing cobra on his forehead as he smites an enemy of Egypt.

upper egypt The southern portion of Egypt is called Upper Egypt because the Nile flows from south to north. The “upper” part of the Nile is in the south, and the lower part of the Nile is in the north.

The cobra was the protector of the pharaoh and appears on the royal crown. (Drawing by Mary Jordan)

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The uraeus appears in different contexts over ancient Egypt’s long history. In the Predynastic period, it is shown with other animals or with a sun disk (the symbol


tomb walls and coffins tell us that she, like many Egyptian goddesses, had a dual personality—both sweet and fierce. A gentle prayer to waken the goddess each morning is found on the wall of the Fifth Dynasty Pyramid of Unas (2375–2345 b.c.):
Awake in peace! Great Queen, awake in peace; Thine awakening is peaceful. Awake in peace! Snake that is on the brow of [the king] awake in peace; thine awakening is peaceful. Awake in peace! Upper Egyptian snake, awake in peace; thine awakening is peaceful . . .

The ushabti, or servant statue, was supposed to magically come to life and serve the deceased in the next world. (Photo by Einsamer Schütze/Used
under a Creative Commons license)

Two kinds of cobras are indigenous to Egypt: the Egyptian cobra and the Egyptiandesert cobra. They thrive mostly in the arid desert areas but are often still found in temples and tombs. When frightened or angry, cobras rear up and expand their hoods. Ancient Egyptian craftsmen were careful observers of nature, and they accurately recorded the look and aggressive character of the cobra, often giving their work the character of the serpent. The serpent or snake plays a major part in much of the world’s ancient mythology and religion. In the Bible, Moses’s staff becomes a serpent, and there was a serpent in the Garden of Eden. The Greek caduceus, a rod with two intertwined snakes—originally the magic wand of the Greek god Hermes (Roman/Mercury)—is today a symbol for medical organizations.

Because the daily life of ancient Egyptians centered on agriculture, they


365. The figures varied considerably in size and material. The least expensive were made of terra cotta, only two inches tall, and were massproduced in molds with no inscriptions. More elaborate terra cotta ushabtis were up to nine inches tall and were painted with facial details, wigs, and inscriptions. These usually had the name of the deceased painted on the front as well. One of the most commonly used materials was faience, and these ushabtis varied considerably in size and quality. The color ranged from green to turquoise to blue. Some of the larger faience ushabtis are exquisite works of art with beautiful detailing. The most elaborate ushabtis were carved from wood or stone (limestone or serpentine). These were reserved for royalty and high-ranking nobility. Each was anmeant to be read aloud or chanted by chorus. From paintings and inscriptions on tomb walls it appears that Egyptians recited or chanted most utterances and spells in the belief that it made the magic all the more powerful.

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of the kingS The cemetery for pharaohs of the New Kingdom (1550–1069 b.c.), the Valley of the Kings is located on the west bank of the Nile across from modern Luxor. For a period of almost 500 years, the most talented artists and craftsmen worked on the tombs of the pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings, decorating the walls of the royal tombs with elaborate scenes from Egypt’s religion and mythology. The Valley of the Kings has an eastern and western spur, and of the 62 tombs discovered


thus far, only four are in the more remote Western Valley. The following chart identifies the tombs as KV for King’s Valley and WV for the Western Valley. Each is numbered in the order in which it was discovered. Two tombs in the Western Valley have been identified, the tomb of Amenhotep III, the grandfather of Tutankhamen (WV 22), and the tomb of Aye, vizier and possible murderer of Tutankhamen (WV 23). There are two unfinished tombs with no inscriptions (WV 24 and 25). Unfinished tombs in the Eastern Valley are not listed. On February 6, 2006, the discovery of a new tomb in the Valley of the Kings was announced by the Supreme Council of Antiquities. Designated KV 63, the tomb is located near that of Tutankhamen62 Tutankhamen WV 22 Amenhotep III WV 23 Aye Undecorated Book of Gates Book of Gates, Amduat Amduat Amduat pharaoh and was often of royal or noble birth and picked by the pharaoh. He was the chief administrator of the land in charge of Egypt’s legal, economic, and foreign policy. If the pharaoh was a child, as sometimes happened, the vizier ruled in his name until the young king came of age. A record of a vizier appears in the Second Dynasty (2890–2686 b.c.), although Egyptologists now believe a figure on the Narmer Palette is an earlier figure. The duties of the vizier are recorded on the walls of the tomb chapel of Rekhmire on the west bank of the Nile. The vizier is shown administering the land


and presiding over meetings with foreign ambassadors.

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of the queenS The Valley of the Queens, a necropolis for the royal wives and their children, mainly from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties, is located on the west bank of the Nile across from modern Luxor. Most of the 75 or so rock-cut tombs have an antechamber, a corridor, and a burial chamber. Many are decorated with scenes from the Book of the Dead and the Book of Gates. The most beautiful tomb in the Valley of the Queens is that of Queen Nefertari, wife of Ramses II. The tomb is brilliantly painted with scenes of Nefertari in the company of the gods, and the queen is also shown relaxing with a board game. Two of the sons of Ramses III,Amen-her-Khepshef and Khaemwaset, are buried in the Valley of the Queens.

vizier A position of authority similar to a prime minister, the vizier was second in command to the

vulture Sacred to Nekhbet and Mut, the vulture appears in many forms, often with outstretched wings in a gesture of protection. As a decorative motif the vulture appears on the ceilings of temples and in royal jewelry design. The uraeus on Tutankhamen’s golden mask has Nekhbet, the vulture goddess of Upper Egypt, and Wadjet, the cobra goddess of Lower Egypt, as the royal insignia.

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The cobra goddess of Lower Egypt (north), Wadjet protected the Delta and was the patron goddess of the town of Buto, which also was the mythological location where Isis gave birth to her son, Horus. Mythology tells


us that Wadjet wove stalks of papyrus into a screen in order to hide Isis and her child from the evil god Set. In the Book of the Dead, Wadjet protects the souls of the deceased by destroying their enemies in the Underworld. Nekhbet, the vulture goddess, was Wadjet’s twin sister and guardian of Upper Egypt in the south.

wADjet (buto, edjo, udjat, wadjyt)

the art of weaving. Another myth says that Neith, the goddess of war, was the inventor of weaving and that she oversaw the preparation of mummy bandages made from strips of linen. Tayet, the goddess of weaving, was also associated with funerary rites and mummy bandages.

wadj wer An Egyptian phrase meaning “the great green,” the wadj wer refers to the abundance or fecundity of the Nilegod Hapi. The wadj wer is the mythological site, mentioned in the papyrus Ramesseum VI, as an area to be crossed on foot rather than by boat. It is perhaps a reference to the swampy marshland of the Delta. The Mediterranean Sea was also called the wadj wer. wAr goDS See Anhur, Baal, Montu, and Reshef. was Scepter A sign of authority, the was scepter had a long wooden shaft with the head of a canine animal said to represent Set. The scepter is most often associated with Ptah but frequently is an emblem of the gods in funerary scenes where it symbolized the well-being of the mummy. During the Middle Kingdom, a was scepter was sometimes placed next to the mummy in the tomb. The was scepter


was also an emblem for the city of Thebes (Waset). wAterS, primorDiAl (waret) primeval mound.
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of the heArt ceremony Chapter 125 in the Book of the Dead describes one of the most dramatic encounters for the deceased on his or her quest to enter the Netherworld. The Weighing of the Heart Ceremony is a second judging that occurs after the deceased has passed through the Hall of Double Truth. Illustrations show a balance scale with one side holding the heart of the deceased and the other side holding maat, the “feather of truth.” Thoth presides over the ceremony, and Anubis, the jackal-headed god, acts as the “guardian of the scale”: He steadies the side holding the heart while he watches the plumb bob to make sure itprocession before the king. A stele in the Sinai (eastern desert) calls Wepwawet the “Opener of the Way for King Sekhemkhet’s Victory,” and the Pyramid Texts say he is as “Re who has gone up from the horizon” as the opener of the sky. Wepwawet is shown in the temple of Seti I at Abydos, where he is often confused with Anubis. In a funerary context, Wepwawet assists at the Opening of the Mouth Ceremony, and he helps guide the deceased into the Netherworld. The Pyramid Texts say Wepwawet was born in the pernu, a shrine of the northern goddess Wadjet. Another myth says he sprang from a tamarisk bush, and yet a third tradition calls him the son of Isis.

of the four Each of the four winds


was viewed as a minor god, although Shu was the god of air “who saved all things” in his “form as the pleasant north wind.” The Coffin Texts mention Shu and his power over the four winds of heaven. The north wind was called Qebui and was shown either as a ram or a man with four rams’ heads and two pairs of wings. When shown as a man, Qebui held an ankh in each hand and had a four-feather crown on his rams’ horns. When he was shown as a ram, he had a single feather on his rams’ horns. The south wind was Shehbui, who had the body of a man with the head of a lion. He held an ankh in each hand and hadtwo sets of wings. On his head was a crown of rams’ horns and four feathers. The east wind was Henkhisesui and had either the body of a scarab beetle with one set of wings or the body of a man with two sets of wings. When he was shown with the body of a man, he held an ankh in each hand. When Henkhisesui had the head of a ram, a single feather sat on his rams’ horns, or he had four feathers if he was shown with the body of a man. The west wind, called Hutchaiui, was shown with the body of a man and the head of a serpent.

weres The magical headrest amulet, the weres represents the pillow or headrest placed under the head


carried away from thee . . .

The gods of the four winds are relatively minor gods, but they play an important part in Middle Kingdom Coffin Texts. (Courtesy of Bob Brier)

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He had two pairs of wings and he held an ankh in each hand.

wine In ancient Egypt, wine was reserved for the king’s court and the wealthy. Because it was so costly, jars of wine were a worthy offering to the gods. The goddess Hathor was known for her love of wine, and on her festival days everyone who could drank wine. The Pyramid Texts of Unas tell us that Shesmu, god of the wine press, gave Unas a vat of grape juice with which to make wine in the next world. The Book of the Divineto extract the juice. A large beam placed across the top of the vat was fitted with several ropes hanging down. Up to six men could work in the vat, hanging onto the ropes so they would not slip and fall into the crushed grapes. Children often encouraged the workers by singing and drumming a rhythm with sticks. As the juice began to flow, it ran out of a spout at the bottom of the vat and into a large container. Since grapes have a natural yeast on their skin, it was easy to ferment the juice by pouring it into clay wine jars about two feet tall and leaving them in the warm sun. When fermentation was complete, the jars were covered with a plug made from


and he was worshipped as the god of war, the father of games, the god of agriculture, and the protector of the country. Unlike Amun-Re, who could appear as a ram, Zeus was always shown as a man, sometimes with an eagle next to him.

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Renpet, the goddess of the New Year, was associated with spring, the season that Egyptians called emergence. Her attribute was a long palm frond curving over her head. She was venerated in the city of Crocodilopolis, where she was also worshipped as an aspect of the goddess Isis.

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zeuS-Amun When Alexander the Great was told by the oracle at Siwa Oasis that he was the son of the Egyptian god Amun, the symbolic father of Egypt’s kings, the Greeks translated thename Amun as Zeus. Before Alexander’s visit to Siwa Oasis, the oracle, or god in residence who answered important questions, was called Amun-Re. After Alexander’s visit, Amun along with many other Egyptian gods, became associated with Greek gods, and they were known by both Egyptian and Greek names. The association of Zeus and Amun was an important one, for it assured the Egyptian people that Alexander would honor their gods as well as his own. For his part, Alexander paid special homage to the god that legitimized his claim to the Egyptian throne, and in times of crisis he made special offerings to ZeusAmun. In Roman mythology Zeus was known as Jupiter, and during the Roman period, the oracle was known as Jupiter-Amun.
zoDiAc, SignS of Although the signs


of the zodiac did not originate in Egypt, the Egyptians were well acquainted with the constellations. Around 2000 b.c., dedicated Babylonian priests studying the night sky recorded the movement of the heavenly bodies. The signs of the zodiac form an imaginary belt in the sky, which was believed to be the path of the sun, moon, and planets as they moved through the sky. In ancient times the Earth was thought to be stationary. By studying the position of the sun, moon, and planets at a specific time, especially at the exact time of a person’s birth, a map or horoscope could be drawn that would give clues to the newborn’s personality.

yuni One of the most ancient sanctuaries in ancient Egypt, Yuni was the early cult center forthe worship of the sun god at Heliopolis (suburb of modern Cairo). It was here that the Heliopolis creation myth began. zeuS
A sky god identified with Amun, Zeus was the principal god in the Greek pantheon. He had power over the weather and controlled the wind, rain, thunder, lightning, and clouds. Like Amun-Re, his

The Twins The Crab The Lion The Virgin The Balance The Scorpion The Archer The Goat The Water Bearer The Fishes

The signs of the zodiac form an imaginary line in the sky that the ancients believed was the path of the sun. (Courtesy of Bob Brier) Each of the 12 aspects of the zodiac occupied and ruled a portion of the imaginary belt, and these were known as houses or signs of the zodiac. Each


of the signs had specific mythological characteristics, and it was believed that an astrologer, by studying the position of the planets and their relationship to the signs of the zodiac, could predict events in the future. The belief that the Babylonians could predict the future was a very valuable asset, and word of the zodiac traveled fast in the ancient world. It seems to have arrived in Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty by way of the Greek settlers who learned about the zodiac from the Babylonians.

the twelve signs of the Zodiac in Egypt
Aries Taurus The Ram The Bull

In the private tomb of Senenmut, the powerful adviser to Queen Hatshepsut, the signs of the zodiac were sketched on the ceiling but never completed. This celestial diagram painted on theceiling of the first chamber in the tomb is the oldest large astronomical diagram in the world. Today visitors can see the Nineteenth Dynasty zodiac ceiling in the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings. The large vaulted ceiling is painted blue, the color of the night sky, and decorated with all the constellations, the stars that form the zodiac, including the North Star and the Big Dipper. The Dendera Zodiac is the best known of the Egyptian zodiac ceilings. Dendera is a late Ptolemaic temple near the modern town of Qena, and it had an impressive round zodiac ceiling in the Osiris Chapel on the roof of the temple. In the center of the zodiac one can see the front leg of a bull,


which represents the constellation Ursa Major, and a hippopotamus, which represents Draco. Forming a circle around them are the constellations Aquarius, Pisces, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpio, and Libra. Virgo, a woman holding a shaft of wheat, is across from Pisces and next to Leo and Cancer (the Egyptian scarab beetle). Gemini is represented as a man and woman holding hands and is followed by Taurus, Aries, and many other constellations that are not part of the zodiac. Isis and Horus form the outermost circle and support the constellations with their upraised arms. Bands of hieroglyphs separate the figures and complete the circle. In 1820, Jean-Baptiste Lelorrain, a Frenchman touring Egypt, was so impressed with this zodiac that he decided to remove the ceiling and ship the large blocks toFrance. The zodiac ceiling was in the center of three small rooms of a chapel, on the roof of Dendera Temple. Removing the ceiling was a difficult task, for it was carved on two huge blocks, and each one was three feet thick. The local workmen Lelorrain hired had only chisels and saws, and the work progressed

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The Egyptians sometimes decorated the ceilings of their temples and tombs with the 12 signs of the zodiac arranged in a circle. One of the most complete zodiac ceilings was found in one of the rooms on the roof of Dendera Temple. (Courtesy of Bob Brier)

very slowly. Lelorrain decided to blast holes in the stone with gunpowder so the workmen could insert their tools in the holes left after


each blast. Luckily the entire ceiling did not fall to the floor. Still, it was tedious work and took three weeks to remove the blocks that were then placed on rollers and dragged four miles to the river. A boat was moored on the Nile awaiting its precious cargo. At the river bank the heavy blocks slipped off the rollers and the zodiac slipped into the mud. It was only by the heroic efforts of the workmen that the stone slabs were recovered

and placed on the boat. By that time the boat was leaking badly and had to be caulked to prevent it from sinking. At last the boat was seaworthy, and Lelorrain was anxious to be underway. Sensing his advantage, the captain refused to cast off untilhe had been paid a large bribe. Once the money was paid, the boat set sail downstream for Cairo, only to be set upon by the British, who wanted to take the valuable cargo for England. Lelorrain boldly stood up to his challengers and kept the zodiac ceiling. The treasure eventually arrived in Paris, where it was sold to King Louis XVIII

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for 150,000 francs. The Dendera Zodiac ceiling was moved to the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1919, and a plaster copy of the ceiling has been installed in the ceiling of the chapel at Dendera Temple.

zoolAtry The worship of animals. In ancient Egypt, some animals were revered because of their power, like the bull or crocodile. Other animals were thought to be sacred to a particular


god, like the cat to the goddess Bastet or the ibis to the god Thoth. When the Egyptians wished to honor the god, they would bring a mummified cat or ibis to the temple as an offering. During the Late period (747–332 b.c.), Egypt had a religious revival and the people wanted to go back to the old way of doing things. Not fully understanding the relationship of animals and religion during the Old Kingdom, the later Egyptians followed their idea of the religion. They held all kinds of animals sacred—beetles, birds, bulls, cats, crocodiles, rams, snakes, and more—and they performed ceremonies, rituals, and mummification for thousands of animals. When the Greek rulers, the Ptolemies, came to power, they glorified the Egyptian animal cults and fused Egyptian godswith their own Greek gods. The Apis bull became associated with the new Ptolemaic god, Serapis, and they continued to mummify animals by the thousands. When the Romans ruled Egypt, they carried on the tradition and combined the Egyptian gods with their own. Some Romans misunderstood animal worship in Egyptian religion and viewed the practice with disdain, as is described in the fifteenth satire of the Roman writer Juvenal (c. a.d. 65–128), On the Atrocities of Egypt.
The second king of Dynasty III, Zoser is best known for his funerary monument, the Step Pyramid at Saqqara. Zoser was considered a living god and was worshipped as the incarnation of Horus the sun god. Stonemasons mastered the art of quarrying and moving stone by trial and error but soon had


the technology to build a grand funerary monument worthy of their king. Zoser’s Step Pyramid was the first large stone building in the world and the prototype for all other pyramids. Beneath the

The Step Pyramid was designed for use as Zoser’s funerary monument. This statue of Zoser was discovered in the small room on the north side of the pyramid. (Photograph by Pat Remler)

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pyramid are a maze of shafts and tunnels that lead to the burial chamber, but Zoser’s mummy was never found. On the north side of the Step Pyramid is a serdab (Arabic for cellar), a small room that contains a statue of Zoser. The inlaid eyes, now missing, were made from rock crystal, alabaster, and obsidian and gave the statue a surprisingly lifelike appearance.Two small holes are carved in the north wall to allow the statue to gaze out on his pyramid complex for all eternity. The original statue of Zoser can be seen at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and a replica statue is now in the Serdab. Zoser extended Egypt’s southern border to Aswan and east into the Sinai Peninsula in the search for turquoise, a semiprecious stone highly prized in the Old Kingdom. Turquoise was popular throughout Egypt’s history, but the only examples we have today are the Old Kingdom butterfly bracelets from Queen Hetepheres’s tomb, now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. An inscription at Sehel Island (south of Aswan) from the Ptolemaic period, carved by priests of Khnum, claims that Zoser gave them land south of


than 130 countries have already recognized a Palestinian state on 1967 borders" the Palestinian Authority president said. "This number has the potential to reach 140 or 150" he continued.Abbas said that Western European countries, such as Britain and France, were also likely to accept the establishment of a Palestinian state.Abbas is scheduled to visit France on Wednesday for talks with President Nicolas Sarkozy on the Palestinian state issue.Abbas is hoping to convince Sarkozy to support the PA’s intention to ask the United Nations Security Council in September to recognize a Palestinian state on the 1967 lines, with east Jerusalem as its capital.Abbas is expected to meet next month with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to try to convince her too to recognize the Palestinian state. PA negotiator Nabil Sha’athoffered her a screen test. The test was boffo, and the studio offered her a contract on the spot. Judy changed her name to Lana and, after making a movie or two, she was Lana Turner, one of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

The myth is not entirely false. Her name was Judy, she was 16, and she was discovered in January 1937 at a soda fountain while ditching school — a typing class at Hollywood High School. But the fountain was not at Schwab’s. It was two miles east at the Top Hat Cafe, 6750 Sunset Blvd., at McCadden Place, which was, crucially, one block east of Hollywood High.

The gentleman who discovered there was not Mervyn Le Roy, it was Billy Wilkerson, publisher of the Hollywood Reporter, which


sitting when she was discovered. Tourists came in droves, and he was able to retire early, in 1940. According to Wilkerson, Leon Schwab was aware of how the legend helped business at the Top Hat and simply appropriated it for his store when the Top Hat closed.

Lana Turner suggested that Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky, who had an office in the Schwab’s building, may have helped move the myth along. Wilkerson quoted Turner as saying Skolsky was having lunch at the counter when “a busty blond came up and asked which stool was Lana Turner’s. Skolsky simply picked one and pointed it out.”

For years, tourists, especially teen-aged girls, a few in tight sweaters, flocked to the Schwab’s, hoping to be discovered, or at least to see a famous starMilwaukee Bucks owner Herb Kohl acknowledges the applause of fans during the first half of a game in April at the Bradley Center. Credit: Mark Hoffman

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It was a surprise that left employees of the Milwaukee Bucks' arena stunned and some in tears.

Outgoing owner Herb Kohl sent BMO Harris Bradley Center employees a letter of appreciation as he leaves the team. And inside every note of gratitude was a check for $500.

Bradley Center usher Izeal Atkins says he's not quick to shed a tear. But when he opened his letter, he couldn't help but cry. Atkins says "nobody just walks up and gives you $500."

Security guard Markeish Stringer tells WISN-TV he was surprised and very happy when he opened his letter from Kohl. Stringer says "you just don't hear


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In the summer of 1995, the Gateshead born Geordie had enjoyed three years playing for top Italian side Lazio.

It was no secret that although he enjoyed immense success on the pitch he found the Italian language a little tricky.

Many football punters tipped him to return to England and maybe re-sign for Spurs or even Manchester United or his home team Newcastle United.

So his transfer to Glasgow Rangers for £4.3 million that summer shocked everyone.

On the July day his transfer was to be formally announced, I had been tasked by my newsdesk to attend a Rangers training session and then a press conference at Ibrox to try and grab a word with the great player.

So I spent an hour with my photographer watching a lithe, tanned and fitGazza train with his team-mates before making our way to Glasgow G51.

The stadium was mobbed by Rangers fans daubed in blue and white, hoping to get a glimpse of their new hero.

I picked my way through the crowd, past a cordon of police officers and showed my press pass at the players’ entrance.

Once inside, the assembled press pack was treated to prawn sandwiches, croissants and coffee before being ushered into a bustling meeting room.

Rangers’ manager Walter Smith and club chairman David Murray sat at the top table next to their new superstar.

The formal press conference lasted about 35 minutes before we were led out pitch side for a photo opportunity.

Gazza was beaming and in a playful mood with the press photographers.

I had not yet managed to ask him


New Albany from German Village, the Short North, central areas of Columbus and from some suburban communities, which is why the Easton transit center is included to pick up suburban workers.

An added benefit is the reverse route that would "increase opportunities for mass transit for people who live in this area and commute to downtown," she said.

"The increased service will also mean additional true 'express' routes from New Albany to downtown Columbus at peak business hours," her report to City Council said.

Meanwhile, PSI will operate shuttle service continuously during peak hours on east and west routes from the COTA park-and-ride to and from businesses in the parks.

There will be 15 shuttle stops along routes that will be identified with signs similar to those the city has used forMake and mow Land Art Competition

Last June I took part in a land art competition called Make and Mow. It took place in Bristol (UK) as part of the Earthed Weekender held during the Big Green Week. The aim of the Green Week was to promote environmental awareness as well as to promote Bristol as European Green Capital for 2015.

Earthed is an imaginative land art and theatre project that drew out the stories, ecology, memories, geology, history and archaeology of a green site – including the myths and folklore of the landscape on which the city is built – to inspire a giant piece of storytelling, designed to be experienced in green spaces, that encourages a sense of curiosity, adventure and connection to the earth beneath our feet.


The land art project was located in Ashton Meadows, a green area just across the Create Centre and next to the Brunel Way in the southwest of the city. Members of the public were encouraged to create a stunning new design for a large-scale piece of land art. The winning design was mown into a grass circle at the end of the Green Week, making it visible for all the people who visit the area as well as thousands of drivers who pass over on Brunel Way each day. Many designs were submitted but only three of them reached the final.

I had a wonderful surprise when I received a call from the Making and mow team saying that my design had been selected to be mown in thecircle. According to land art artist Mick Petts, member of the jury, my design had been chosen because of “the strength and clarity of the design and the combination of geometric and flowing lines.” The concept of the design was the joining together of nature and mankind. The land art piece was located in an area where the floating harbour and the natural river come together, a place full of man created structures such us motorways, roads and bridges, but surrounded by meadows and forests at the same time. On Sunday 22nd June 2014, a team from Earthed spent the afternoon mowing the winning Make and Mow design into the long grass at Ashton Meadows. I attended the mowing and had the opportunity to help to mark the


the transition from being a Nepali medium school to an English medium school. This represents a major step-up for Kitini.

The most recent project has been the retrofitting of the school to make it resistant to future earthquakes. Three-quarters of the £68k project has been funded through us by our UK partner Foundations while the remainder has been donated by a grant from the local municipality. The building works began in February and should be completed by the end of next month. There has been a slight delay due to the water supply drying up – a sign of the times, sadly, as in the recent past this part of the valley provided water to the rest of Kathmandu.

The Headteacher, Mr Saroj KC, pictured above with Bhaskar Karki andShailaja CM of ChoraChori-Nepal, was beaming with delight. These works have meant so much to him not only for professional reasons but for very personal ones. For he told us today that he is a former pupil of the school and his father was once the Vice-Principal. This sense of ownership explains why he is so passionate about taking the school forward.

There was one other marker of success apart from the tangible ones that we saw today. Somewhat surprisingly, when we started working at the school we found that 70% of the pupils were girls. This is because parents were sending their sons to private schools so that they could have a better education. In the space of three years that percentage has dropped to 60% although the


numbers of students at the school have increased substantially. Essentially, our enhancements are levelling the playing field and boys are now being transferred from nearby private schools to Kitini. Mr KC is confident that the proportion will be 50:50 very soon.

Our next major project at the school will be to establish a bursary scheme to begin at the start of the next academic year in April 2020. This will benefit children from the poorest families, irrespective of gender.

ChoraChori and its partners have provided funds for a new major capital project at Kitini College.

In 2015 Kitini College suffered some structural damage when two earthquakes struck Nepal in April and May. It could have been much worse; a neighbouring private school collapsed causing fatalities.

This government school is important within LalitpurDistrict as it serves a huge catchment area that extends into the adjacent Kavre and Kathmandu Districts. Many of the students come from low caste families and include the children of the desperately poor peripatetic population that provides seasonal labour in nearby brick kilns. And the children at the ChoraChori Children’s Refuge and Rehabilitation Centre also attend the school, part of their return to normality after the trauma they have endured. Therefore it has been important for us to reinforce the school, literally, by a major project that will make it resistant to future earthquakes.

Working alongside our new project partner, Gandys Foundation, we have been successful in securing all the funds necessary from major donors and two other grant-making Trusts for this four month long project. The local


shack (see feature image) and their stepmother had thrown them out. At Shailaja’s request we took the two girls into our care and paid for their education at the nearby Kitini School, one of the best state schools in Nepal. The cost of this was subsequently picked up by our friends at The Soroptimist International on Devon – Taranaki Club in New Zealand.

The elder of the two sisters, Rina (name changed), has just achieved a remarkable success in the Secondary Education Examination (SEE), the Grade 10 examination that up until recently was known as the School Leaving Certificate (SLC). Her “A” grade means that she has scored between 80% and 90% – which is interpreted as “Excellent” – putting Rina within the top third of students who satrebuilt primary schools that were destroyed in the 2015 earthquakes and supported Kitini College, one of the best state secondary schools in Nepal. This year we plan capital projects at Shree Buddha and Shree Ganesh Secondary Schools in Kathmandu valley and at Indreni Secondary School which lies in Panchthar District, east Nepal.

Shree Buddha Secondary School has an attendance of 350 pupils and lies in a rural village in Lele, Lalitpur District, close to Kathmandu. The village has no piped water supply and the villagers and students rely on river water. Recently this water has turned muddy because of contamination from nearby brick kiln factories. To make matters worse there are no toilets in the school and children use the bank of the river for open defecation. Bodies are


even cremated on the opposite river bank. With Kathmandu valley already prone to cholera outbreaks (as a result of faecal contamination of water supplies) this is a disaster waiting to happen. Also, the lack of toilets is given as a major reason for girls dropping out of school after they reach puberty or for non-attendance during menstruation. Accordingly, the Principal of the school has asked if we can help with the construction of boys’ and girls’ toilets, the installation of water tanks and a water purifier. See the film above to find out more.

Shree Ganesh secondary school is attended by 147 pupils and also lies in an outlying village in Kathmandu valley. Most of the students come from the highly marginalised Danuwar community. The majority of the students"If I had to do that all again," "I'd do it exactly the same way and that wouldn't happen." "Mum has a few words with him, even angry words, maybe especially angry words, so he was a few minutes late getting to my school, he lives." "He lets me get changed at school, so we arrive at the pool five minutes later, he lives." "That plan was good." "It was the facts on the ground that didn't compute." "I'd say Mum would love to have him back and we'd turn the car around and go and find her and he says sorry for every fucking thing he's ever done, he lives." "Who could legislate for that?" "For an off-duty cop just to pop up there and then?" "Who


was this girl he used to talk about." "Nicole." "Yeah, Nicole used to come to the catch-up class." "She was a volunteer reader, she..." "She was 19 and looked younger, I was 17 and looked older." "Look, the way I was brought up," "I was chasing after me parents." "I was grabbing onto their shadows bloody night and day." "I didn't have any time for friends." "I didn't trust people." "Probably Whitmore's the only one I ever did trust." "But when I did..." "Me and her had this back and forth going on cos she was a uni girl, I took the piss that she was... "Hoity-toity", that was the expression she used." "That made me laugh." "Oh, my Lord, the way she said that," ""hoity-toity", it wasswings." "And then, all his crackhead, junkie mates started crowding round and laughing at him and I just lost it and went up and started shouting at them all just to fuck off home." "There was this one kid, Florian." "He was bigger than all the others." "I thought he was probably about me own age, but turns out he was younger." "He stood up, smacked me with the swing." "With the wooden seat of the swing on its chains, right round the back of me head." "And I just went down." "When I got up - he was swinging it at me again, he broke me cheekbone, and two teeth, and I just lost it." "He was, like, pegging it across the field, like, in the dark,


know." "I said, "You built me up for that." ""You said you'd find out." "You promised."" "She said she was sorry, she'd done her best, she had work to catch up on, she had to go in." "She touched my face." ""Look after yourself."" "She had to go in." ""One of them killed your dad," she said." ""And one of them's dead because of it."" "I should've known." "As soon as she got off that bus and looked at me and Mossy," "I should've known, but I didn't have anyone to teach me that stuff." "All she wanted was Woolaton Park or Goose Fair, that's the real Nottingham." "That's all she meant." "Just something I knew and she didn't - and we both would've felt good." "It was‘Amnesty India mishandled harassment complaint, forced me to go to cops’: Former employee

The survivor, a Dalit woman, had complained to the organisation about sexual harassment by her manager. And the way Amnesty India responded was disappointing, she says.

news Sexual Harassment

Until recently, Anu* was an employee of Amnesty India. And while she worked there, she faced sexual harassment from one of her managers. However, when Anu approached the Internal Complaints Committee of the human rights organisation and filed a complaint against him, the ordeal she faced was disappointing, she says. “They finally fired him, but he tried to trouble me in several ways,” Anu tells TNM, forcing her to approach the police. Anu alleges that her harasser tried putting pressure on her family through others to withdraw her complaint,


and had also instigated other colleagues at Amnesty to complain against her to the organisation while she was working there. She recently gave her statement to a magistrate to this effect.

Anu is a Dalit woman, and her alleged abuser is a Dalit man – an activist. In a complaint filed with the Indiranagar police station, Anu said that the man had been sending inappropriate messages to her. Speaking to TNM, Anu said that she faced repeated workplace harassment at his hands, including in the form of emails, and objectionable or suggestive messages on WhatsApp. But before she could file a complaint against him, he had filed a complaint against her to the programs director, stating that she was rude and difficult, and this was the reason why thetrebling such damages. We will affirm the judgment of the trial court.

II. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
This suit involves a project for the construction of the Rattan Creek Lift Station, a waste-water lift station. Underground Utilities was the general contractor for the project; Dippel Ulmann was the engineer; Smith Pump was a subcontractor; and Great American was the construction surety, furnishing both performance and maintenance bonds on behalf of Underground Utilities, its principal, and in favor of MUD, its obligee.
The lift station at issue in the present case consisted of a wet well/dry well configuration. Under this system, both the wet well and dry well are buried in the ground. The wet well is fabricated out of poured concrete and serves as a collection tank for waste water delivered


by local gravity pipe lines. The dry well consists of a prefabricated metal container and houses the pumping equipment used to pump the water from the wet well into a force main pipe system.
Before advertising for bids on the project, MUD requested Dippel Ulmann (then known as Carlson & Dippel, Inc.), which was under contract to provide engineering services for MUD, to assess the feasibility of refurbishing and relocating an existing dry well owned by MUD that was scheduled to be taken out of service. After receipt of Dippel Ulmann's initial research, MUD authorized Dippel Ulmann to proceed. Dippel Ulmann then drafted plans and specifications for the construction project. The plans did not indicate any specific requirement for the thickness of the sides for the dry well. Inaddition, the specifications merely required that the thickness of the sides be sufficient "for the depth of burial."
MUD advertised for bids and requested that bidders provide alternative bids: one for a newly constructed dry well and the other for the refurbishment and relocation of the existing dry well. The bid package included the plans and specifications prepared by Dippel Ulmann. There was no indication in the bid package that the plans and specifications would be varied if the bid were awarded based on the refurbishment alternative. In August 1987, Underground Utilities was awarded the contract on the basis of its bid of approximately $360,000 for the refurbishment and relocation of the existing lift station. Great American then issued a performance bond on behalf of Underground Utilities and in


favor of MUD.
Underground Utilities hired Smith Pump as a subcontractor to refurbish the existing dry well. Smith Pump submitted shop drawings to Dippel Ulmann, the engineer, indicating the manner in which it proposed to refurbish the existing lift station. The shop drawings did not indicate that Smith Pump would thicken the sides of the dry well. Dippel Ulmann approved the drawings and Smith Pump performed the work in conformity with the drawings. The refurbished dry well was then delivered to Underground Utilities. The project was completed, and the lift station was activated in April 1988. MUD accepted the project as substantially complete in December 1988.
The contract between MUD and Underground Utilities provided for a one-year correction period after MUD's acceptance *288 of the project. This provision required UndergroundUtilities to correct or replace any defective work. In connection with Underground Utilities' obligation under this provision, Great American as surety issued a one-year maintenance bond in favor of MUD.
On March 10, 1989, MUD discovered a structural deformity in the "shell" of the dry well: one of the sides was beginning to collapse. Based on an investigation by a structural engineer, MUD concluded that the collapse was occurring because the sides of the dry well were not of sufficient thickness for the depth of burial. MUD requested Underground Utilities to make repairs pursuant to the correction-period provision of the contract. Underground Utilities refused to make any repairs, claiming that (1) it had performed all work in accordance with the plans and specifications; (2) Dippel Ulmann had approved the


State Senator-elect Annette Taddeo became the first Latina woman elected to the Florida State Senate on Tuesday in a special election. Defeating Republican Rep. Jose Felix Diaz in the Miami-area swing area, Taddeo’s win flipped the seat from Republican to Democratically held. The Colombia-born Democrat, who has never held public office, defeated former state Rep. Jose Felix Diaz, a Republican who stepped down from his House seat to run for the Senate.

Taddeo’s victory in Senate District 40 is certain to bolster the hopes of Democrats, who have been outnumbered by a 24-15 margin in the state Senate, as they combat Republicans in local and statewide races next year.

State Senator-elect Annette Taddeo became the first Latina woman elected to the Florida State Senate on Tuesday in a special election.Defeating Republican Rep. Jose Felix Diaz in the Miami-area swing area, Taddeo’s win flipped the seat from Republican to Democratically held. The Colombia-born Democrat, who has never held public office, defeated former state Rep. Jose Felix Diaz, a Republican who stepped down from his House seat to run for the Senate.

Taddeo’s victory in Senate District 40 is certain to bolster the hopes of Democrats, who have been outnumbered by a 24-15 margin in the state Senate, as they combat Republicans in local and statewide races next year.


A leading business man and engineer that founded a Brighouse company and create it into a global forces has died at the age 90.

Edward Singleton created the company that is now known as KOSO Kent Introl based on Birds Royd Lane.

Mr Singleton stepped down from the position of Managing Director of Kent Introl in 1990, but has acted in a consultancy capacity for the company until March 2015.

He was born in Brighouse in 1925, where he lived his entire life. His father was a professional musician and teacher, being organist at St Martin’s Parish Church for 49 years.

After his education at St Chads School, Hove Edge and Hipperholme Grammar School, he joined the company of J Blakeborough & Sons when he was 16-years-old, a large valve manufacturing companysituated in the Birds Royd area of Brighouse, as an apprentice.

He received excellent training and was released two days a week to study for an external London University engineering degree at Bradford College of Advanced Technology, now Bradford University.

In 1948 after completing his degree, he was delegated by Blakeborough’s to receive training in control valve technology at the Hammel-Dahl Company in the USA.

In 1949, he was invited by the company to start and develop a Control Valve Division, an agreement having been signed with Hamel Dahl, to manufacture under licence their range of control valves.

A new purpose built factory was built on the Blakeborough’s Brighouse site on the opposite site of the River Calder to the main factory and was appointed General Manager of the Control Valve Division


and in 1960 was invited to join the board of directors.

In 1967, Mr Singleton announced his intention to leave Blakeborough’s after concluding that he was not going to be able to develop the Control Valve Division and realise the opportunities he envisaged.

He assembled a team individuals with expertise in different areas of the business, from the Blakeborough control valve division and Hopkinson’s and formed the Introl Company with himself as MD.

A chartered engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers he continued to work for Introl in a consultancy capacity until he was 90

Mr Singleton also published the book ‘A specifier’s guide to control valves’, a culmination of his lifetime work.

His other great passion was classical music and was involved with the choir and organ concertsat Brighouse Parish Church.

He attended Brighouse Parish Church all his life, being a member of the church choir for over 80 years.

In recent years Mr Singleton organised a number of celebrity organ recitals where the use of the Grand and Gallery organs with their contrasting styles has been interesting and effective.

The organists he attracted to Brighouse, to name a few included John Scott from New York, Thomas Trotter, Roger Fisher and Simon Johnson of St Pauls Cathedral, all organists with international reputations. Another fine success was the concert he organised to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the church in 1981 when he arranged for the all professional orchestra of Opera North to come and play a programme of classical music including a new commissioned work by his friend


is placed on the booklet rest table 102, in an auxiliary scanning direction A2, and a print head 105 which is located above the booklet rest table 102 and is guided with guide shafts 104 to be movable in a main scanning direction A1. And, the print head 105 is positioned at a print start-up position and is moved in the main scanning direction A1 to implement printing at a first line. Upon completion of the printing at the first line, the print head 105 is moved in the auxiliary scanning line by a given amount to perform printing at a second line, with such printing operations being repeatedly carried out in a sequence for thereby performing printing operation on the both sheets 101a, 101a of the pagesto be printed.
By the way, with such a booklet 101 having the plurality of sheets bound at the bound portion 101b, when the bound portion 101b is centrally unfolded in both sides at a boundary between the both sheet of the pages to be printed, right and left volumes in thickness differ from one another depending on the number of sheets which are divided in right and left areas, with a resultant variation in height position of the pages to be printed.
On one hand, the print head 105 encounters a difficulty in implementing favorable printing unless the print head 105 is located in a given positional relationship with respect to the sheet 101a of the page to be printed regardless of the print head 105 being composed of


and inserted through the sheet insertion passage, respectively, for performing a double-sided printing operation; and the print page positioning unit includes a pair of sheet pressing members which are movable in an interlocking relationship with the pair of print heads movable in an auxiliary scanning direction, and which serve to pinch the sheet at areas upstream of the auxiliary scanning direction of the print heads during printing operation.
With such a printing machine for booklet-like medium, in addition to the function of the first aspect of the present invention, the sheet is pressed and retained with the pair of sheet pressing members at an area close proximity to a print position where printing is performed with the print head and at the area upstream of the auxiliary scanning directionduring the printing operation.
A fourth aspect of the present invention relates to the printing machine for booklet-like medium according to the first aspect of the present invention and features that the print head section includes a print head located at one side of the sheet, of the page to be printed and inserted through the sheet insertion passage, for performing a single-sided printing operation, and the print page positioning unit includes a sheet pressing member which is movable in an interlocking relationship with the print head movable in an auxiliary scanning direction, and a press force rest sheet located at the other side of the sheet, the sheet pressing member serving to press the press force rest sheet at an area upstream of an auxiliary scanning direction of


the print head during printing operation.
With such a printing machine for booklet-like medium, in addition to the function of the first aspect of the present invention, the sheet is pressed and retained with the pair of sheet pressing members at an area close proximity to a print position where printing is performed with the print head and at the area upstream of the auxiliary scanning direction during the printing operation.
A fifth aspect of the present invention relates to the printing machine for booklet-like medium according to the third aspect of the present invention and features that the print heads of the print head section are movable in a direction parallel to and perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the bound portion of the booklet-like medium, respectively.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

TLI – Tech Expo Draws Educators Looking for Inspiration and New Ideas

Approximately 300 people attended the LHRIC's annual Tech Expo April 5, an event that attracted teachers and administrators from dozens of local school districts as well as vendors from 21 educational technology companies.

Dr. Yong Zhao speaks at Tech Expo 2013.

Dr. Yong Zhao, an internationally known scholar, author and speaker kicked off the day-long event with an entertaining talk on creativity in education, or more importantly, the lack of it.

In his presentation titled, "Global, Creative and Entrepreneurial: Defining and Delivering High Quality Education with Technology," he questioned the idea of creativity and if indeed it applied to today's education


different talents, skills and affinities. "Traditionally, we did not need people to express their individual talents," said Dr. Zhao. "But in a new age, we have to because special talents can be very powerful and useful."

The spotlight speakers included Travis Allen, founder of the iSchool Initiative, a student-led, non-profit organization dedicated to revolutionizing the education system through innovative technologies.

In his presentation, "Becoming a Mobile Learner," Allen described his journey into the world of digital technology, from playing video games as a child to quickly adapting to social media after acquiring his first smart phone at age 16. Allen recalled "doing everything" with his phone, quickly realizing there was a "huge gap between education and real world experience."

At the time, there were no cell phones allowed in Allen's Georgiahigh school, and Allen still believes this is true today. "They are bound to four walls and a desk and they are killing creativity," he said. "The current education system is built on an outdated and antiquated model that fails to account for the different learning styles of today's digital natives."

While still a high school student, Allen spent four months making a YouTube video about his beliefs, talking about where he felt education could go if mobile learning was allowed to take hold in America's classrooms. The video went viral and Allen created the iSchool Initiative as a result of it.

"The power of an idea can lead to so much," noted Allen, who has since presented in over 26 states and three continents. "With technology today, our youth


has more power than ever before."

The day's other speakers included Karl Fisch, the director of technology at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Co., and the original creator of the "Did You Know?" (Shift Happens) series of videos, in addition to representatives of local school districts and vendors attending the event.

They covered topics such as flipped learning, cloud networking, engaging students with language through technology, iPads in education, the use of Google Plus, blended learning and the Common Core, and the uses of SuccessMaker to support data-driven instruction, among other interesting discussions.study of mental illness (Synaptic, with EPFL and Unil), in study of life path (with Unil). UNIGE also carries research in international studies since the creation in 2013 of the Global Studies Institute, in finance with the Geneva Finance Research Institute, and in environmental studies, with the creation in 2009 of the Institut des sciences de l'environnement.

Famous discoveries have been made by researcher working at UNIGE including the discoveries of extrasolar planets by Michel Mayor, and of quantum teleportation by Nicolas Gisin.

Rankings

The University of Geneva is consistently ranked one of the top universities in the world.

Global rankings
In 2016, the University of Geneva is ranked 53rd overall in the world according to the Shanghai Ranking. In 2012, it was ranked 69th overall in the world according to the Shanghai


own lives.

Estival contacted Pari Solidaire, which introduced her to Claire Garnett, a 25-year-old British woman. Garnett had recently moved to France from Cardiff, Wales, where she worked in the hotel industry. Unhappy with her job, she decided to leave everything behind to study French abroad.

Despite the language barrier and the 31-year age difference, the two women felt an immediate affinity for each other.

“My first impression of her was that she was someone who smiles a lot. For me, Claire is all smiles and fits of laughter,” Estival said.

A week after their first meeting, Garnett moved into Estival’s spare room on April 1. Under the terms of their homesharing agreement, Garnett pays a reduced rent of €240 per month, plus €10 for the WiFi they had installed after herduring the day, he often returns home to find Lebon watching television. He said they usually eat dinner together, during which they’ll talk about her family, French culture and history, and the garden. At around midnight, the young man goes down to lock up the house. He also sleeps with his door open to make sure he hears any unusual sounds.

Having Dupont at the house has been a huge relief for Lebon’s family, who wanted her to live at home for as long as possible. On at least one occasion his presence prevented a possible tragedy.

“My mother had been vaccinated against the flu, but she got sick anyway. She had a high fever and became delirious. Nicolas noticed, and called the woman who cares for her during the


citizenship

Four hundred and fifty-four Utah Residents from 83 different countries became U.S. Citizens at Abravanel Hall today and for many, taking the Oath of Citizenship was a profound experience.

The candidates stood and raised their right hand as Julie Wierschem the Deputy Clerk of the U.S. District Court led the oath. The ceremony featured Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams as Guest Speaker. He asked the new citizens to exercise their voting rights and share ideas and cultural contributions with the community. He says their voices are important to him as a public servant.Ligamentotaxis for Barton's and paediatric distal radial fractures.
To establish a consensus regarding immobilisation of the wrist following reduction of Barton's and paediatric distal radial fractures. Questionnaires were distributed to orthopaedic surgeons at the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology meeting in Lisbon in 2005. Questions included the surgeon's country of practice, hospital, professional grade, years of experience, sub-specialty, and preferred position of wrist immobilisation after (1) a volar Barton's fracture, (2) a dorsal Barton's fracture, (3) a paediatric Salter-Harris type-II injury to the distal radius with volar displacement, and (4) the same injury but with dorsal displacement. Of 148 questionnaires distributed, 118 were returned. The specialist-to-trainee ratio was 45:73. In volar Barton's fractures, only 20% (29% specialists and 15% trainees) would immobilize the wrist in


subsequent to Yuan Ye's death, the former Empress Erzhu became a concubine of Gao Huan, who became the paramount general of Northern Wei (and its branch state Eastern Wei after Northern Wei's division into Eastern Wei and Western Wei in 534). She bore him one son, Gao Jie (高湝), later created the Prince of Rencheng during Northern Qi. Soon after giving birth, however, she had an affair with Gao Huan's brother Gao Chen (高琛) the Duke of Zhao Commandery.  After the affair was discovered, Gao Huan killed Gao Chen by caning, and while he did not kill Lady Erzhu, he had her relocated to Ling Province (靈州, roughly modern Yinchuan, Ningxia). At some point, probably after Gao Huan's death, she was allowed to marry Lu Jingzhang (盧景璋),prime minister and should continue to give the mandate to him as Sabah and Sarawak are still in need of more federal assistance to develop their infrastructure facilities,” he is quoted as saying.

MASwings officially began operations on Oct 1, 2007.

Initially started to serve the rural areas of East Malaysia, the airline recently introduced regional services with flights to international destinations such as Brunei and Indonesia.

The airline apparently also plans to fly to Asian cities such as Hong Kong, Bangkok and Seoul in the next phase of its regional expansion.

Great stuff. It is a fantastic development to ensure better connectivity for all East Malaysians and will also have a positive effect on our economy not just in terms of tourism but also for regional investors to come to both


announcement is welcome news for the state’s tourism industry, which depends on good air links to bring in visitors. The Federal Government recently agreed to both state governments’ proposal for MASwings to be a regional airline instead of only operating rural air services in Sarawak and Sabah.

MASwings has since introduced new destinations in Brunei and Kalimantan and plans to fly to Asian cities like Hong Kong, Bangkok and Seoul in its next phase of regional expansion.Random Thoughts!

Spiritual

Several years ago, the Creative Center for Leadership, were resource trainers for the United Nations University / International Leadership Academy’s extended Leadership program. Before the end of their session, the Vice Rector of the University who was acting as the Director of the Academy in Jordan called for an appraisal of the trainers. The students condemned in totally the style, depth and materials of the Center, when asked, mine was at variance. I opined that we experience the British / Oxford Templeton College Team before crucifying the Americans, thanks to my Nigerian British style education and the Sheraton American Style trainings. The class judged better when the two were compared.

Nigeria’s Masses cried during Late Yaradua’s time and Kerosine and Petrol were pegged to N50 and N65 per


such religious leaders and the Traditional Houses in the city and the environ.

Bishop Oyedepo – who mentioned the need to defend yourself against any provocation by any group, is not unfamiliar with the antiques of persons using religion, tribe or regions to foment trouble. His Ministry was started in Kaduna and he has a very large followership in Kaduna and the North. Some of his places of worship suffered bombings like the one in Bauchi, North East.

Apostle Johnson Suleman – Who re echoed the defend yourselves song and was termed provocation. He became a target when he warned El-Rufai of the Preaching License, he wanted to enforce in kaduna State. His trouble increased when the DSS was barred from arresting him by the Governor of Ekiti and EminentChristian Leaders Escorted him to Abuja. Getting to discredit his ministry and calling came as an aftermath.

The Emir of Zaria, who mentioned a political variance in favour of a crowned title holder (the former Governor). Demolition inside the city was to spite the Emir; Zaria and Kaduna Traditional Houses started seeing the unseen, including locking of a traditional ruler for weeks in prison custody.

While Kebbi is working with Lagos, the Central Bank and Bank of Industries amongst others to further Agricultural synergy, Zamfara is stigmatizing the people with curse instead of vaccinating and treating them against deadly diseases in the state.

I reside in a state where you hear men saying, marrying one wife is like being single. A gardener was added N5000.00 to his salary, to my surprise


he added a wife, I asked why and how will he maintain them, in a chorus, i was told God will feed all who He gave mouths to. Cases abound of parents who do not know where their children sleep, eat or play and are not disturbed about that. They end up as political thugs, so the learned politicians are not bothered because their children are learning abroad and will hope the children of these masses serve their children like the parent did the fathers.

Boko Haram has not finished, it was started by politicians, Cattle rustlings is yet to be stopped, villages being ravaged and so many innocent blood lettings still abound. From the Zamfara axis to the Ile –Ife and the East every case shows an unbalanceunder the purview of the Emir of Zaria, who is the Traditional head of the State Traditional houses. The Government invited the Emir of Kano without the presence of any Traditional Ruler from Kaduna. The Sultan was invited, he stands as a Islamic Religious Leader and their was no thought of inviting a Christian Leader to also be in attendance. Am sure the likes of Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, who is the present Bishop of Sokoto would have been a good accompaniment of the Sultan (they have severally), Kukah is from Kaduna State El-Rufai was not ready for what the Bishop would have mentioned maybe.

So for many silenced mouths, in and out of prisons for saying what some politicians do not want to hear, the Emir of Kano


Nigerian.

Africans must like in Britain be able to stand and tell their leaders, we do not want this or that. And when the issues are decided, any person should be able to challenge the actions or inactions of their leaders.

The Nigerian scenario is confusing. A country of divers national ethnicities, brought together by the needs of the colonial lords of ages gone. Pathetic is it when your Nigerian Child, tells you he is first American before a Nigerian. Then another tells you his/her loyalty is first to Rome, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran or India before loyalty to Nigeria. Nigerians sing their National Anthem and Pledge with heart and mind, but the actual soul is tied to somewhere else before Nigeria. I still see the Independence and Christmas/End ofit was conjectured that extremely small ants were immune to phorid attacks. At 1-3 mm length, known phorid parasitoids were physically too large to develop inside the cranium of a minute ant. This new species, smaller than any known gnat, mosquito or midge, changed all that. If dwarfism in ants was a defence strategy, then it has been out-smalled and defeated by these diminutive attackers.

E nanaknihali was discovered in Thailand during an intensive insect collecting project, and described and named by Dr Brian V Brown of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Like the only other species of the genus, the fly is small with smoky grey wings and a pointed ovipositor. No males of either species have been seen. The type species of the genus,


E eidmanni, lives in the nests of the ant Crematogaster impressa on Bioko island, Equatorial Guinea. Although the life history of the new species is not yet known, it is reasonable to infer that it has similar habits. E nanaknihali is only about a third the size of its sister species and differs also by a longer costal vein along the front edge of the wing and the absence of a visible scutellum, a trianglular-shaped sclerite on its back. The fly was found in a malaise trap in the Kaeng Krachan national park.

E nanaknihali is known only from a single slide-mounted specimen, expertly illustrated by Inna Strazhnik. Brown refers to the fly as the latest addition to the entomological "nanosphere", a world of ultra-small insects dominated by trichogrammatidThis archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.

SALT LAKE CITY — A new essay published Tuesday by the LDS Church on its website says scholarly or critical efforts to determine Joseph Smith's ability to translate papyri are "likely futile."

The essay, titled "Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham," is about the origins of a single book in the canon of Mormon scripture.

"The veracity and value of the book of Abraham cannot be settled by scholarly debate concerning the book’s translation and historicity," the essay concludes. "The book’s status as scripture lies in the eternal


truths it teaches and the powerful spirit it conveys. The book of Abraham imparts profound truths about the nature of God, his relationship to us as his children and the purpose of this mortal life. The truth of the book of Abraham is ultimately found through careful study of its teachings, sincere prayer and the confirmation of the Spirit."

Critics and some scholars have questioned the origins of the book because the only fragments of the papyri that still exist include nothing related to Abraham. The essay addresses the criticism in some detail and includes links to additional responses.

"This Gospel Topic page is important because many people have had questions about the origin of the book of Abraham but have had a difficult time knowing where they can findgood answers," said Kerry Muhlestein, director of BYU's Egypt Excavation Project and associate chairman of the Department of Ancient Scripture, in an email.

"The Book of Abraham Gospel Topic page clearly outlines the things we know, and, more importantly, the things we don’t know about the Book of Abraham," Muhlestein added. "It also fits it into the important context of Joseph Smith as a translator and the doctrinal contributions of this valuable book of scripture."

The LDS Church published the five chapters of the Book of Abraham in 1842. It entered the Latter-day Saint canon in 1880 as part of the Pearl of Great Price.

This Gospel Topic page is important because many people have had questions about the origin of the book of Abraham but have had a difficult time


knowing where they can find good answers. –Kerry Muhlestein

A group of Latter-day Saints obtained four mummies and several papyrus scrolls excavated from a tomb near Thebes in 1835, when an entrepreneur brought them to LDS Church headquarters in Kirtland, Ohio.

The Mormon faith's founder, Joseph Smith, wrote in his history that after he began to translate some of the characters on the papyri, “much to our joy (we) found that one of the rolls contained the writings of Abraham.”

That book was the final set of scriptures translated by Joseph Smith. Most famously, he previously had translated the Book of Mormon. He also produced a translation of the Bible. The Pearl of Great Price is chiefly comprised of revelations he received between the founding of the church in 1830 andhis death in 1844.

He didn't claim to be an expert in languages. He and the church considered the translations to be inspired, and he used multiple methods, including revelation.

For example, the Book of Moses, also included in the Pearl of Great Price, came via revelation as he studied the Bible. The essay says that the Book of Abraham also could have come that same way as Joseph Smith studied the papyri.

The papyri moved with the church from Kirtland to Nauvoo, Illinois, but after Joseph Smith's death they remained behind with the Smith family when the Mormons moved west to Utah beginning in 1847. The essay says the family sold the papyri and mummies in 1856. Most of the artifacts vanished in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

Efforts to


discredit Joseph Smith's translation begin with a facsimile, a type of drawing, included in the book. Some Egyptologists, according to the essay, said his "explanations of the various elements of these facsimiles did not match their own interpretations of these drawings."

So often critics of the church have been the ones to articulate the church's 'position' regarding the translation of the Book of Abraham, and rarely have they been accurate in their representations. This will no longer be the case, we can now see what the church itself has to say about the source of the Book of Abraham and Joseph Smith's abilities to translate. –Kerry Muhlestein

In 1967, a fraction of the papyri was discovered in a museum and returned to the church. None of the characters on therecovered papyri mentioned Abraham or any of the text in the Book of Abraham, but the papyri are incomplete and the essay said it is likely that much of what was available to Joseph Smith is not among these fragments.

"The Gospel Topic page addresses all of these difficult issues head-on, with clarity and full forthrightness," said Muhlestein, whose own work appears in the essay's footnotes three times.

"It is likely futile to assess Joseph’s ability to translate papyri when we now have only a fraction of the papyri he had in his possession," the essay says. "The loss of a significant portion of the papyri means the relationship of the papyri to the published text cannot be settled conclusively by reference to the papyri."

The publication of the essay continues


an effort begun late last year by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to provide more information about the faith's history and doctrine through its Gospel Topics section on LDS.org.

The essay focuses on how the Book of Abraham "supports, expands and clarifies" biblical accounts, how the church obtained the papyri, what is known about how Joseph Smith translated them and the role of faith in understanding scripture.

The essay is divided into seven sections covering 2,900 words. There are 46 footnotes. Three-fourths of those are scholarly references, while a quarter are scriptural.

"So often critics of the church have been the ones to articulate the church’s 'position' regarding the translation of the Book of Abraham, and rarely have they been accurate in their representations," Muhlestein said. "This willno longer be the case, we can now see what the church itself has to say about the source of the Book of Abraham and Joseph Smith’s abilities to translate."

Other Gospel Topics pages enhanced or added at LDS.org since early December include "Race and the Priesthood," Becoming like God," "First Vision Accounts," "Plural Marriage and Families in Early Utah," "Book of Mormon and DNA Studies" and "Book of Mormon Translation."

The new or enhanced Gospel Topics pages are approved by the senior leadership of the church, the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and are intended to help church members and others learn and understand more about the faith's history and doctrine.

Scholars say the new pages represent an effort by the church to bring more transparency to


 FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

       On July 24, 2012, the Agency petitioned on behalf of five-month-old D.D., alleging

Cameron and Diana used marijuana to excess. Cameron admitted smoking it every day and that

he and Diana had used methamphetamine together; Diana, who had an extensive drug use history

and had her parental rights to her three older children terminated because of her inability to

address her substance abuse issues, acknowledged using marijuana with Cameron. The petition

also alleged Diana and Cameron had been arguing and hitting each other while holding D.D.

       Diana was pregnant at the time of the petition. She and Cameron had lived with the

paternal grandmother, Beverly J., for three months, but Beverly had asked them to leave because

ofyears. She had been in two substance abuse treatment

programs, but resumed drug use after completing them. Diana began voluntary services, but her

visits with D.D. were inconsistent and she lost touch with her therapist.

       At the jurisdictional/dispositional hearing on September 20, 2012, the court found the

allegations of the petition to be true, declared D.D. a dependent child of the court, placed him in

relative care and ordered services for both parents. D.D. was placed with Beverly. Diana's

participation in reunification services was minimal. Her doctor ordered her to bed rest in

November 2012 during the last weeks of her pregnancy. The Agency was prepared to take

reunification services to her, but Diana did not inform the Agency of her whereabouts. In January

2013, she gave birth to twins.


They remained in her care and she was offered voluntary services

for them.

       At the six-month review hearing on March 20, 2013, the court continued D.D. in relative

care and continued Diana's services, but terminated services for Cameron.

       On May 17, 2013, the Agency petitioned under section 388, requesting the court terminate

Diana's services and set a section 366.26 hearing. It argued Diana had made no effort to

participate in services since the six-month review hearing, had not maintained contact with the

Agency and had no visits with D.D.

       On May 24, 2013, Diana contacted the Agency and reported she had been having problems

with her phone and she and the twins were living with aher if D.D. were taken away from them. The Agency

temporarily removed D.D. until Beverly moved to a confidential address and obtained a

restraining order against Cameron. The social worker reported the parents' supervised visits with

D.D. were affectionate, but visits were inconsistent, and Diana did not visit him for two months

after she gave birth to the twins. In September and October 2013, D.D. had supervised visits at

Diana's home. In October 2013, Diana tested positive for methamphetamine and the twins were

taken into protective custody and placed with Beverly.

       The social worker assessed D.D. as highly adoptable. He had thrived in Beverly's home

and she was committed to adopting him. The social worker recommended terminating parental

rights so D.D. could be adopted.


the twins to be dependents and to order reunification

services. Circumstances had not changed for the better for Diana, but for the worse. Court-

ordered services constituted a more formalized arrangement, and Diana was given a specific

timeframe to successfully participate in services or face the possibility of termination of her

parental rights to the twins.

       Further, Diana did not show that placement with her or a continuance of the proceedings

would be in D.D.'s best interests. She has a long history of parental neglect and not placing her

children's needs as her top priority. At the time of the hearing, D.D. needed permanence and

stability, which he would gain by being adopted by Beverly. He had thrived in Beverly's home.
        or her. (In re Zeth S. (2003) 31 Cal.4th 396, 406.)

It is not required that the report describe with certainty the child's future medical condition. (In re

Helen W. (2007) 150 Cal.App.4th 71, 79.)

       The assessment report adequately described D.D.'s age and physical and emotional

condition. At the time of the report, he was 21 months old and had been placed with Beverly for

14 months. The social worker reported D.D. was healthy and had no behavioral or emotional

problems, but a developmental screening in May 2013 had shown some concerns with

communication and motor skills, and he would undergo a complete developmental evaluation as a

part of the adoption process. Beverly said she had no concerns about his development and he

appeared developmentally on track. The report adequately


first three months of D.D.'s life. He said D.D. and

Beverly had a close relationship and she was committed to adopting him. He had lived with her
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throughout the dependency case except for a short time after Cameron threatened her and there

were concerns for her safety. Cameron has not shown a deficiency in the assessment report.

       As for Cameron's argument the Agency did not provide him with an adequate opportunity

to visit D.D. during his incarceration, Cameron visitedonly sporadically during the time he was

out of custody when his custody status was not an impediment to visitation. In March 2013,

when Cameron's reunification services were terminated because of his lack of participation in

services, the social worker reported he had not heard from him since October 2012. Cameron had

been visiting at the visitation facility, but on January 31, 2013, the facility vacated his time slot

because of his many absences. When the social worker spoke with Cameron at the jail in

November 2013, Cameron requested visits, and his first visit at the jail was in December.

Cameron was represented by counsel during his incarceration. It was his obligation to contact his

attorney or the social worker and request visits at the jail if he desired them. (In re Christina L.

(1992) 3 Cal.App.4th


he struggled with injuries during the 2016 season. The 30-year-old wide receiver was banged up for most of the year and only played in a total of three games with the Jets before being placed on injured reserve in October.

Over the past nine months, Decker has undergone surgery on both his hip and his shoulder. If he's healthy, Decker should be able to contribute right away in Tennessee's offense.

Eric Decker is headed for Tennessee.
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The one thing the Titans have been missing recently is an established veteran receiver, and Decker would fill that role perfectly. The Titans already have a strong rushing attack (with DeMarco Murray and Derek Henry), along with one of the best tight ends in the game in Delanie Walker. Now, Marcus Mariota is going tosome breathing room in case either rookie has some trouble adjusting to the NFL.

Decker's signing comes less than one week after he was cut by the Jets. In New York, Decker was cut three years into a five-year, $36 million deal that he signed in March 2014. After only catching nine passes for the Jets last season, Decker and his $7.25 million base salary for 2017 became expendable in New York.

Before signing with the Jets prior the 2014 season, Decker spent the first four years of his career in Denver.

John Breech has been at CBS Sports since July 2011 and currently spends most of his time writing about the NFL. He's believed to be one of only three people in the world who thinks that Andy Dalton will...
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December 21, 2007

The Pogues' Shane MacGowan at 50: "Fairytale of New York"

After so many lessons, it's time for a carol.Happy birthday to Irish singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan, born December 25, 1957, who will turn 50 on Christmas Day. He is currently touring Ireland with his reunited Pogues. Kirsty MacColl, who sings the duet with MacGowan on "Fairytale of New York" from 1987, died in a boat wreck off the coast of Cozumel in 2000. The song has legions of fans, with many claiming it as the best Christmas song ever written.

See a story about hard-drinking MacGowan's miraculous approach to 50 in The Guardian.

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This is the main board on The Outhouse, where Outhousers talk about everything. No topics are off limits, and it doesn't have to be about comics. All the topics from the other boards also show up in The Asylum, so you never have to leave1

master ra's al ghul wrote:we sacked rome, loaded trade ships with plague rats, burned london to the ground. every time a civilization reaches the pinnacle of its decadence, we return to restore the balance.

Dragavon was one of the reasons why I started posting more last year. He was one of the posters who made me feel welcome on this board. He was nothing but nice to me and had a great sense of humor. I haven't been around nearly as long as some ofanything…almost. Hadley desperately wants a marriage and kids with him, the two things Finn infamously dreads.
Finn pressures Hadley into moving in with him, but being traditional, she wants to be married first and she wants to stick to her beliefs, just as he clings to his own. On the other hand, Finn has tolerated Hadley’s stubbornness long enough and he’s reaching his breaking point.
Fearing at 33 that she will soon be too old to have kids, Hadley wants Finn to change his mind and marry her, yet her insecurities about his public life and from his constant rebuffs have her questioning her aspirations. With conflicting advice from her friends, Hadley concludes she should take things into her own hands.
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a grunge chick or resembling an old man on a golf course everyday, I probably would.
18. I am VERY camera shy. You won’t find me in many pictures.
19. Each person I’ve dedicated my books to (two so far) have made it into my story as a character. Which ones are they? Hmm…
20. I have one tattoo. A skeleton key with an “R” at the top.

Ren Alexander was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, but grew up in a nearby tiny, historical, college town in the Northern Panhandle of the state. She graduated from West Liberty University, where she received a B.S. in criminal justice. Although interested in that field, her true passion was reading and writing.

She currently lives in Detroit, Michigan with her husband, two daughters and two cats.
"ChasingConservatives gathered Monday night to mourn the passing of a key architect in their rise to power — and to brace for the toughest test Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government has faced since taking office on a promise to clean up politics in the national capital.

A who's-who of Tories had few words for the handful of assembled journalists at Ottawa's National Arts Centre, where a memorial service was being held for Conservative senator and party stalwart Doug Finley, who died earlier this month.

Solemn-looking cabinet ministers, senators, aides and strategists declined to speak to reporters about a burgeoning Senate scandal which is likely to receive continued attention this week.

Harper will address the Conservative caucus and the media Tuesday morning, before departing to South America for trade talks.

The prime minister


a secret cash payment to a politician is wrong, and whether the prime minister knew, at what point he knew. He must have known something," Angus said.

"Because if it happened under his watch and he did nothing about it, that would be absolutely shocking."

At least one Tory MP was trying to put a decidedly optimistic face on a week that saw Harper lose two Conservative senators and his top aide.

Conservative MP Joan Crockett took to Twitter on Monday to trump her party's commitment to ethics.

"Our govt has the highest ethical standards demonstrated by 3 resignations: 2 from Senate caucus & the PM chief of staff," Crockett wrote.

"Those whose actions don't stand up to scrutiny, resign. Unlike the opposition. It's a clear demo of accountability folks from some otherStatement on Proposed 2014 Budget and Strategic Plan

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Lewis H. Ferguson, Board Member

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I support the Board's Budget for 2014 and the accompanying Strategic Plan for 2013-2017. In 2013, the Board focused on a careful oversight of its budgetary resources to manage the reduced spending mandated by the sequester order. We tried to do this without sacrificing achievement of the goals and priorities set out in the 2013 Budget and the prior strategic plan.

The Office of General Counsel at the PCAOB has worked tirelessly to advise the Board about the legal requirements of the sequester and the budget staff has advised us on alternatives for achieving our goals in the face of the reductions in spending. Thanks in large part to their


2014. The PCAOB is also making progress in its outreach to, and interaction with, audit committees. In 2013, we have begun to reach out to this constituency in new ways to help audit committees understand our work, and how our work can inform their work in dealing with the auditors they oversee.

The 2014 budget provides for a new Center for Economic Analysis. I support the development of this new Center, as it offers the Board the opportunity to attract top flight thinkers to the PCAOB. Our hope and expectation is that they will assist the PCAOB in looking creatively at, among other things, the operation of PCAOB programs, the role and effectiveness of auditors in a rapidly evolving business environment, and the effects of audit regulation in increasingAffairs has led that effort, but we expect to draw on resources in 2014 from the Office of Research and Analysis, the Division of Registration and Inspections, and the Division of Enforcement and Investigations. Audit quality is a global issue, and many of the public issuers audited by firms registered with the PCAOB are multinational companies, listed on several exchanges, and audited by global network firms employing member firms in many different countries. For this reason, global improvements in audit quality directly benefit stakeholders in the United States. Indeed, many of the priorities of IFIAR echo the near term priorities of the Board, particularly the priority to improve the communication of the regulators' findings to stakeholders.

IFIAR's work contributes to global audit quality in many ways, including by assisting


Long Beach Fatal Hit-and-Run Accident on Pacific Avenue, July 27

Pedestrian Hit and Killed by Vehicle on Pacific Avenue

LONG BEACH (July 28, 2018) – On July 27, Friday, a pedestrian was allegedly intentionally hit by a vehicle on Pacific Avenue.

According to the Press Telegram, an unidentified person was walking near the 1400 block of Pacific Avenue when he was struck by a vehicle at about 9:40 p.m.

Deadly Pedestrian Hit-and-Run Accident in Long Beach

First responders reportedly rushed the victim to a local hospital, where he was sadly pronounced deceased. At this time, the name of the fatality remained undisclosed pending notification of next of kin.

Primary reports indicated the driver involved fled the scene before police arrived. As per the article, homicide detectives are investigating the crash as an intentional actinterview with founder, Ted Fleming please contact:

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