Go Inside The "Haunted Mansion" In California That Took 40 Years To Build

Brilliance | Dec. 19, 2017

When the wealthy twenty-something Sarah Lockwood Pardee married William Wirt Winchester—heir to the company that made the famous Winchester repeating rifle—in 1862, her future looked bright. But in 1866, the couple's infant daughter Annie died of a mysterious disease. Sarah was still in a deep depression from the tragedy when her husband died of tuberculosis 15 years later. Distraught, she sought help from a medium, who told her she was being haunted by spirits that could only be appeased if she moved out west and built them a great house. With a heavy heart, $20 million, and all the time in the world, Sarah Winchester moved to San Jose, California and beganconstruction on what would come to be known as the Winchester Mystery House.

Mrs. Winchester is said to have held a nightly séance to help her with building plans, which she would sketch and hand to John Hansen, her foreman. Nightly is no exaggeration: for the 38 years Mrs. Winchester lived there, construction never ceased, with new additions being built and existing ones being remodeled daily. One craftsman worked for 33 years on nothing but the ornate parquet floors, which he built, installed, and tore up, just to begin again. Miles of twisting hallways, trap doors, and windows that opened into other rooms helped the lady of the house outrun evil spirits, while "switchback" staircases made of dozens of 2-inch steps had the practical purpose of letting her access


Theresa May is set to enrage her critics within the Conservative party after setting herself up to stay on as prime minister until the winter while presiding over a long delay to Brexit.

She told MPs just weeks ago that she was “not prepared to delay Brexit any further than 30 June” as prime minister and said she would resign once this stage of talks was complete – prompting her rivals to gear up for a summer leadership contest.

But as EU leaders met on Wednesday night to decide on another lengthy Article 50 extension, a Conservative source said the prime minister’s promised departure was tied to passing the withdrawal agreement rather than a specific date.

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Victor David Bernal, 23, initially avoided being identified by old friends at the El Ranchero Taco Shop by wearing a ski mask during the first robbery on Nov. 23, 2013. He further disguised himself by wearing camouflage fatigues and a tactical vest.

But employees noticed the robber knew the secret location where they kept some cash in the restaurant at 1324 Third Ave. in Chula Vista.

Bernal was charged with robbing the restaurant three times, twice at midnight and once at 5 a.m.

He was also charged with holding up a 7-Eleven at 1482 Hilltop Drive on Oct. 28, 2013. Two


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We have fallen below the United States, Trinidad and Tobago, Lao, Bulgaria, Ecuador, Colombia, Poland, Argentina, Costa Rica, Portugal, Cuba, Lithuania, Estonia, Mozambique, and Latvia. We are way behind all the Nordic countries, and an embarrassing 37 countries below New Zealand, which sits at number nine.

Our ranking for women's economic participation and opportunity has dropped behind another 30 countries to 42. And we rank 61 in the world for political participation! All this from a country that still ranks number one for education. A country in which women are


more educated than men, and have been for 20 years. Australian Universities have been graduating more females than males since 1995.

Our ranking for women's economic participation and opportunity has dropped behind another 30 countries to 42.

So why? In one of the richest and most privileged countries on earth, with the most equitable access to education on the planet, why are women in Australia falling behind? Before we look closer at the Australian scorecard, consider these global statistics.

Currently among the 193 member states of the United Nations, just 17 have a woman Head of State and/or Head of Government. That's up from eight back in 2005 when the IPU (Interparliamentary Union) first began counting. By my calculations, assuming that pace of growth continues, we might reach a 50/50 genderroyal plane landed at Canberra airport. Our Head of State, Queen Elizabeth slowly clipped down the stairs. On the tarmac she was met by Australia's Governor General, the Prime Minister, and the ACT Chief Minister.

Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard greets Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the tarmac of Canberra Airport during her 2011 royal visit, while former Governor-General Quentin Bryce and former ACT Chief Minister Katy Gallagher look on.

All four women shook hands and smiled for the cameras. It was an historic moment all right. I can't help but wonder if such a scene will ever be played out in my lifetime again. Already three of those four positions have been replaced by men.


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that every time that something is sent to the past in the movies, a new timeline is created, distinct from the original one. While I'm personally not very fond of multiple-timelines theories in movies and TV series involving time travel (because it waters down the original motives for the time traveling), in this particular case it actually fits extremely well.

By this theory Kyle Reese was not the original father of John Connor. Instead, in the original timeline John Connor's father was someone else. When the T-800 and Reese are sent to 1984, the timeline is split and a new alternate timeline is created, and in this new timeline Reese becomes John Connor's father. (Even though now John Connor's history is quite different, he still ends up becoming theleader of the resistance because of ontological intertia.)

Also Skynet was created by regular means in the original timeline, rather than being inspired by the reverse-engineered Terminator CPU.

We never get to know who John's father was in the original timeline because the first Terminator movie happens completely in this alternate timeline. In this timeline it's just some guy somewhere who never even meets Sarah Connor.

This new timeline is different from the original one. Kyle Reese has a different father (and was very probably born on a different day, probably earlier), and the development of skynet changes. However, on the grand scale this timeline is very similar to the original one.

Details about all the timelines are given in the main timelines graph page. I recommend having that graph in another


tab or window for reference, while reading the questions and answers below.

From here forward I will use the following terms:

Original timeline The very first timeline, which we have never seen in the movies (except for the "flashforwards" in the first movie). We don't know who John Connor's father is in this timeline. Judgment Day happens in 1997, and Skynet sends a T-800 back in time from 2029 to 1984. 1984-timeline This timeline was created by the original timeline being split by the Skynet in that timeline sending a T-800 back to 1984. In this new timeline Kyle Reese is John Connor's father, Judgment day still happens in 1997, even though Skynet is created in a different way than originally. 1995-timeline The 1984-timeline was split in 1995, by thewith respect to the Sun or galaxy, or something like that. Whatever the reason, the amount of possible destination times for time travel is very limited, either because of some property of physics or because of some limitation of the technology involved.

1984 might have been the earliest possible time window that Skynet's time-travel technology allowed to reach, from 2029 in the original timeline, and it was a one-time shot to that window (because as the Skynet's own time advances forward, 1984 gets farther and farther away to the past, too far to be reached again). It also explains why Skynet didn't send a Terminator even further back in time, to kill Connor's grandfather or whoever.

It's possible that the Skynet in the original timeline also sent a T-1000 to


With the determination of Thomas' Legion, Union forces never controlled
Western North Carolina, and the command captured the Union occupied city White Sulphur
Springs, North Carolina, and was perhaps the only unit to have captured an enemy occupied city in order to
negotiate its own surrender. In 2003 the Last Surviving Union Widow died, and her late husband had fought against Thomas' Legion
some 140 years earlier.

The command initially totaled 1,125 men, contained an infantry regiment, a cavalry battalion,
and its artillery battery, John
T. Levi's Light Artillery Battery (aka Louisiana Tigers), formerly served in the Virginia State Line Artillery and was added to the legion on April 1, 1863. During
the war, the unit mustered more than 2,500 officers and men, including 400 Cherokee Indians, known as Cherokee Battalion. The size of this organizationvaried as its companies were transferred to meet the exigencies of war, and Companies
A and L of the 16th North Carolina Infantry reorganized into Thomas' Legion. Unlike a regiment with approximately 1100
soldiers, the legion, which on a few occasions fielded some 2,500 strong, was a much larger and more comprehensive fighting
force and resembled a brigade. The command was never officially designated the 69th North Carolina Regiment, but there are 75 references
to Thomas' Legion in the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. (Hereinafter cited as O.R.)

As an independent
command it initially reported directly to Brigadier General Henry Heth and provided invaluable
service in the defense of vital and strategic railroads. The legion would spend a significant part of the war defending the sole railroad in East Tennessee, a rather
thankless


and monotonous task, and one that would never grace the headlines. To the contrary, when the Union army downed a
bridge or tore up much track in the Volunteer State, it was front page news.

In May 1864 the regiment of the legion relocated to Virginia and participated in General Jubal Early's Shenandoah Valley Campaigns before returning to North Carolina. It fought skirmishes and battles in East Tennessee, North Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia, and
as far north as Maryland, and would surrender at Waynesville, North Carolina, on May 9, 1865. Legions were rare and few rose
to prominence, such as Phillip's Georgia Legion, Wade Hampton's Legion of South Carolina, and William Thomas' Legion of the
Old North State.

The infantry regiment was commanded by Colonel William Holland
Thomas, Lieutenant Colonel James R. Love II, andMajor (Lieutenant Colonel from October 1864)
William Stringfield, and its cavalry battalion was under
the command of Lieutenant Colonels James A. McKamy (captured by General George Custer in the Third Battle of Winchester) and William
C. Walker. During the conflict, the unit would serve with numerous corps, division, and brigade
generals.

Colonel William H. Thomas was the son of an Overmountain man who had fought the British at Kings Mountain, and on his mother's side, he was
cousin to President Zachary Taylor. During the war, he recruited both the Cherokee Battalion and Life
Guard (Bodyguard) and was also present at the Last Shot in Waynesville. Thomas served as Cherokee chief and Confederate
colonel for the duration of the conflict, and would die at the age of 88 in 1893. He remains the only white man to
have


ever served as a Cherokee chief.

Lt. Col. William C. Walker initially served in the 29th North Carolina Infantry before
joining the ranks of the Thomas Legion. While at home recovering in January 1864, he would be awakened and murdered by
outlaws.

Lt. Col. William W. Stringfield initially served as a private in the 1st (Carter's) Tennessee Cavalry
Regiment before becoming Captain of Company E, 39th (William M. Bradford's) Tenn. Regiment (aka 31st Tennessee
Infantry). He was elected as a member of the North Carolina Legislature in 1882-1883 and to the North Carolina Senate
in 1901 and 1905. Stringfield married Thomas's sister-in-law, Maria Love, and would live five years after the
First World War ended before dying of natural causes on March 6, 1923.

Lt. Col. James Robert Love
IIinitially served as a Captain
in the 16th North CarolinaRegiment and fought bravely in the battles of Seven Pines, Antietam, Seven Days Battles around Richmond, and Second Bull Run. He was wounded at Seven Pines and saw the Elephant in Virginia while serving under generals "Stonewall" Jackson and Robert E. Lee. Love was first cousin to Sallie Love, Thomas's wife, and was a graduate of Emory and Henry College, studied
law in Asheville, and served as a member of the North Carolina Legislature. After the
war, the former Confederate served as a member of the North Carolina Constitutional Convention in 1868 and
later in the state senate. Waynesville, a town that Love would often defend during the war, was founded by his
grandfather Robert Love. He would then move to Tennessee and increase his landholdings, and
while serving as a statesman, Love,


aged 54, would die on November 10, 1885.

The Beginning

"A great majority of the people were poor and had no interest in slavery, present or prospective. But most of them had little mountain homes and, be it ever so humble, there is no place like home
-- but when the Federal army occupied East Tennessee and threatened North Carolina..." Lt. Col. William
W. Stringfield: Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-'65, Vol., 3,
p. 734.

The
namesake Thomas' Legion was in honor of Cherokee chief, senator, and lawyer, William Thomas, who was 57 years
old when the unit officially organized. From the beginning of the Civil War, Thomas entreated
North Carolina Governors Henry Toole Clark and Zebulon Vance, even with President Jefferson Davis,
and various commanding generals that themountaineers would be most effective as a locally employed guerrilla unit. These
highlanders were a unique blend of individuals possessing in-depth knowledge and understanding of their region. Because of
the lack of defenses, guerrillas reigned and unleashed terror on mountain communities for most
of the war with impunity. Eventually, Vance, Davis, Generals Martin, Bragg, Buckner, conceded that a force
such as the Thomas Legion would have been sufficient for defense of the region.

Its command was comprised of a diverse group of men
and although most had never served a single day in the military prior to the conflict, they brought a variety of skills and
leadership into the fray. The unit was formed of politicians, doctors, lawyers, scholars, students, Indians, farmers,
miners, merchants, laborers, hunters and trappers. They were local mountain men and Cherokee Indians


and few were slave owners
or from renowned families, and in O.R., Series 1, 53, p. 314, Thomas said that the Cherokee didn't own any slaves. Though most of its members lacked financial status,
the legion would on a few occasions field some 2,500 soldiers, allowing a wide
range of skills and abilities to draw from. Some were descendants
of the famous Overmountain Men of the American Revolution, others being expert trappers and hunters, made fine scouts,
sharpshooters, geographers and topographers, and as politicians, lawyers, and scholars, there were strategists,
organizers and leaders, as miners, they became sappers, as Cherokee, they were loyal men and survivors of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and infamous Trail of Tears. Chief Yonaguska's warriors were well-known as prolific hunters, and according to John R.
Finger, The Eastern Band1, 51, 2, p. 304) but, believing
that the disease infested swamps would spell certain death of Indians who had never ventured beyond the scope of the mountains,
Thomas presented a more practical strategy to which Davis would agree. The
coastal area would also be the first of the state's three regions to capitulate, which allowed longer imprisonment and
greater exposure to the numerous diseases at the POW Camps. The greatest threat to the Cherokee, nonetheless, would have been
immediate exposure to the infested swamps.

Thomas,
who was in his mid-50s, had amassed a lifetime of experiences prior to the
war, and he demonstrated a rare ability by earning the respect and loyalty of both Cherokee and Western North Carolinian. As
a boy, Thomas was adopted by the Cherokee, and he later defended their rightful claims as


an Indian agent before
becoming Chief of the Eastern Band. He also acquired the trust and confidence of his fellow mountaineers by
serving in the North Carolina Senate, and as a self-taught
lawyer, he was able to persuade Washington to exempt some 1000 Cherokee from the Trail of Tears.

Thomas was in Washington during the Treaty of New Echota negotiations and had successfully lobbied for the right for a number of Indians to remain in North Carolina. These
Indians are the present-day Eastern Band, and they were also referred to as Oconaluftee, Lufty and Qualla Indians. In the late winter of 1839, while Thomas was in
Washington, Chief Yonaguska died. Thomas learned about it in April. Before his death, however, the old chief had summoned
the men in his band to form a circle aroundhis pallet in the Soco Council House. They accepted his recommendation that "Little
Will" be allowed to succeed him. Yonaguska then advised them to abstain from drinking liquor and to never move west.
Thomas had become Chief of the Oconaluftee and he was the only white man to hold
that office. (See also Cherokee War Rituals, Culture, Festivals, Government, and Beliefs.)

The Western North Carolinians had fought the Cherokee for decades, so if they decide to fight
in the American Civil War will they join the North? Will they remain neutral? On the other hand, the Cherokee
had entered into six separate treaties with the United States between 1777 and 1835. In each case, federal authorities had
sought to extend the frontiers of white settlement by extinguishing Indian title to land.

The
U.S. had broken several
promises, including
President


Andrew Jackson's unconscionable betrayal of Chief Junaluska and his Cherokee. The great warrior and chief had saved General Jackson's life
at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, but when "Old Hickory" was elected the 7th President, he would eagerly force
the Cherokee from their homeland. By the 1860s, however, the highlanders and Cherokee were neighbors and friends, and intermarriage
with neighboring whites was common. Prior to his death, Yonaguska had commanded his people to obey Thomas as his successor
as newly appointed chief. In 1883, Ziegler recorded that "before Yonaguska died he assembled his people and publicly willed
the chieftainship to his clerk, friend and adopted son, W. H. Thomas, who he commended as worthy of respect and whom he adjured
them to obey as they had obeyed him. He was going to the homeprovided for him by the Great Spirit; he would always keep watch
over his people and would be grieved to see any of them disobey the new chief he had chosen to rule over them."

Enforcing
Jackson's Indian removal policy, General Winfield Scott moved the Cherokee during the Trail of Tears, which resulted
in 4,000 dead Indians. The Cherokee still refer to the Trail of Tears asNunahi-Duna-Dlo-Hilu-I
or Trail Where They Cried. It was on this perilous trail that Principal Chief
of the Cherokee Nation,John Ross, had lost his wife Quatie. (See also Cherokee Declaration and the American Civil War and American Indians in the Civil War.) Scott was a veteran of the War of 1812, hero of the Mexican-American War, former presidential candidate, and when in hostilities began in 1861, the aged hero


was appointed General-in-Chief
of the Union Army. He was credited with Anaconda Plan, a strategy designed to quickly end the conflict. Other notable soldiers
of the Mexican War included Robert E. Lee, Braxton Bragg, U.S. Grant, "Stonewall" Jackson, Zachary Taylor, and Jefferson Davis.

On
September 15, 1861, two Cherokee companies, 200 soldiers, answered the call to arms. These 200 Indians were originally
known as the Junaluska Zouaves -- in
honor of Chief Junaluska -- and Thomas also referred to them as the North Carolina Cherokee Battalion. (Cherokee
Battalion, O.R., Series 1, 51, II, p. 304, and O.R., 1, 49, Part 2, p. 754). By the end of the war, muster records
contained the names of almost every able-bodied Cherokee, about 400 soldiers, from North Carolina who
had served in the Confederate Army. Their loyalty was to ChiefThomas and then to the Confederacy. And according to
O.R., 1, 53, p. 314 and census records of the time, slavery wasn't an issue for Cherokee
serving in the army.

According to Neely, North Carolina's Eastern Band
of Cherokees, p. 162, "Some Cherokees desired neutrality while as many as 30 joined the Union Army," but oral history states that many of the disloyal Indians were
later murdered by their relatives because they had betrayed Thomas. The Cherokee who had joined the Union Army not only fought against their brothers,
but after the War were credited for returning to the mountains with the dreaded smallpox. Captured Confederate Cherokee, however, had been held in Federal prison
camps, and after the conflict, the paroled Indians returned to the mountains and possibly as carriers of smallpox. The highly lethal


disease is presently
considered biological warfare and even a Weapon of Mass Destruction. But it was mumps and measles that were
responsible for most of the Cherokee fatalities during the war, and subsequently smallpox killed
more than one hundred of the Indians. (See Thomas's letter concerning smallpox.)

"North Carolina cannot remain much longer stationary; she must write her destiny either under
the flag of Mr. Lincoln and aid to coerce the south or unite with the south to resist and defend their rights." William Holland Thomas to his wife, January 1, 1861. John
C. Inscoe, The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil
War.

Jefferson Davis, future President of the Confederacy, had married the young Sarah Knox Taylor,
the daughter of President Zachary Taylor and cousin to William Thomas, but although she would passaway just three months
later from malaria, it would serve to establish a bond between Davis and Thomas, one that would benefit the colonel during
the war. When Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, commander
of the Departments of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina, for instance, opposed allowing the aged colonel
the latitude of operating his legion as an independent command early in the Civil War, Thomas merely consulted with President
Davis, who then countermanded Smith's order. During the 1840s, Thomas would often visit then Congressman Davis during
his many visits to Washington while lobbying for the Eastern Cherokee and their right to remain in their ancestral
land.

1860 US Census for North Carolina Counties

1860 US Census for North Carolina

The Thomas Legion

(Historical Marker)

Thomas's American Civil War Strategy

Thomas believed in defensive guerrilla warfare and, since the Union army


typically outnumbered the Confederate army by more than two-to-one, he
wisely opposed the traditional Napoleonic Tactics. The commander
was not a Fire-Eater, he initially opposed secession, and during the war a $5,000 bounty was offered to "anyone that would assassinate the Confederate Chief."

For most of
the Civil War, the Confederate Eastern Cherokee were equipped with the .69 caliber musket, which could only kill at a short
distance (50-100 yards) compared to the Union soldier’s Enfield (200-300 yards). It was obvious, the Union soldier had
a superior advantage, unless the Cherokee, without being detected, could shorten the distance. And guerrilla warfare allowed
the Cherokee to meet this objective. (See: Civil War Small Arms, Cherokee Indians: Weapons and Warfare, and The American Civil War and Guerrilla Warfare.)

"Many of them [Thomas' Legion] joined with the promise thatthey were not to be taken
out of the State except in the North Carolina mountain of defense." Captain Robert A. Akin, Company H, Walker's Battalion,
Thomas' Legion

The mountaineers,
like their Overmountain forefathers of the Revolution, believed in a defensive yet guerrilla strategy.
Their mountain ancestors had proved their defensive strategy by surprising and destroying the British Army at Kings Mountain and
Cowpens. Who knew the Western North Carolina terrain better
than the indigenous Cherokee and Mountaineer? As the nation was entering into war, Thomas petitioned Richmond
to authorize the recruitment of "additional Indians and such whites as I may select." His primary goal was to recruit
a full battalion and ultimately a mounted regiment to operate as an independent guerrilla unit for the "local defense
of the

in pro-Unionist East Tennessee and Western North Carolina." According to


army which Napoleon led to Moscow."

Roman Emperor Hadrian and the world’s greatest military power
were dealt crippling blows by guerrilla bands in the early second century. Because of Rome’s losses to guerrilla raids from the north, it succumbed to a stalemate
and constructed a massive wall, known as Hadrian's
Wall, to separate the Roman Empire from northern Britain -- presently referred to as the Scottish Highlands. The Roman footprint never
stepped beyond northern Britain, and Hadrian's Wall was
a great guerrilla victory. Applying their familiar terrain and home field advantage,
King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans, with Greek allies, defended the Pass of Thermopylae and inflicted as many as 20,000
casualties on the invading Persian Army. Prior to surrendering the Army of Northern
Virginia, Gen. Lee seriously contemplated disbanding the army, creating a massive guerrilla force,and relocating it
to the mountains. And in more recent history, the Vietnamese excelled in guerrilla warfare and proved to be a formidable
foe.

Thomas had earlier petitioned North Carolina Governors Clark and Vance, Davis, and Bragg to employ the Thomas Legion "to defend
the passes of the Smokies," and in February 1864, he reminded South Carolina officials that in the beginning of the war he
had urged the Carolinas to make preparations to defend the passes in the Smoky Mountains for their common protection, and
by authority of President Davis, he had raised a legion of Indians and highlanders. (O.R., Series 1, 53, p. 313.) Although Richmond honored the request by sending Thomas and his Cherokee Battalion to the Smokies, in May 1864 it pushed the infantry regiment of the legion into
the Shenandoah


Valley. On May 2, 1864, in a letter to
Headquarters
Armies Confederate States, a concerned Bragg said that "General Longstreet’s army having left East Tennessee opened
all of Western North Carolina, Northeastern Georgia, Northwestern South Carolina, to incursions of the enemy." On the
same date, Colonel Black, First South Carolina
Cavalry, stated that although Thomas and the Cherokee were assigned to the mountains, a wide gap remains an open invitation for
the enemy. (O.R. Series 1, 53, p. 333.)

Both Bragg
and Black had voiced the region's deplorable state during the month that the regiment, Thomas' Legion, was
ordered to the Shenandoah Valley. But exigencies of war had moved most of the Department of East Tennessee
and the Western District of North Carolina into the valley and attached it to the newly formed Army of the Valley under
thecommand of Gen. Jubal Early in an attempt to draw as much of Grant's army away from Lee in Virginia. Remaining in the
mountains was a skeleton force that would in no wise be capable of defending such a large parcel of real estate. Bushwhackers
were now lords of the land and they plundered East Tennessee and
Western North Carolina with little to no resistance. One incident, the Shelton Laurel Massacre, cast a dark shadow over the region, and such lawlessness and mountain madness contributed to the desertions of the
Thomas Legion, as well as other units, as men returned home in hopes of protecting their families. There are many references
to the area's deplorable conditions during this time. See O.R. Series IV, 2, 732, O.R., 53, 324, O.R., Series 1, Vol. 32,


pt. II, pp. 610-611, O.R., 1, 53, pp. 331-335, and Jefferson Davis's Letter of Confidence in Thomas' Legion - January
4, 1865.

While Thomas and the Cherokee Battalion were assigned to Western North Carolina, the
diplomatic colonel persuaded and recruited dozens of Confederate deserters to the Thomas Legion and together they
fought the enemy, but his actions resulted in a court-martial, yet similar to other court-martials that the former senator
received, Davis merely overturned it.

Thomas, who would be 60 years young in 1865, was
an experienced leader, hands on manager, capable planner, and skillful organizer, but many of his proposals to Richmond
fell upon apathetic ears. He voiced his opposition to the Confederate draft, known as the Conscription Act of April
1862, and stated that it would "force the pro-Unionist, tory, and abolitionist
to flee," meaning itwould cause desertion on a broad scale -- and it did. Thomas presented an alternative that would allow
the citizens to be used as Home Guard and in non-combatant roles such as sappers, laborers, and miners. The Cherokee
chief requested that all slaves should be emancipated
and employed as engineers and laborers -- but of course the idea was rejected. He desired to allocate the highlanders strictly as
a local defense force, since they were the most familiar with the area, but another rejection was in order. Southern Appalachia would become host to bushwhackers, bands of deserters, and escaped Union prisoners that would collectively
unleash and create a swath of carnage as saboteurs and insurgents of the 19th century.

In 1864, Thomas proposed a blanket amnesty bill to Headquarters of the Confederate States
in a


broad attempt to bring calm to an already ravaged region by pardoning all deserters, abolitionists, outliers, and pro-Unionists in hopes that a good portion of these fighters would then be employed as Home Guard in
the North Carolina mountains that they had recently swept with terror. His amnesty solution, like the greater majority of all
his requests to Richmond, failed to materialize, so war crimes would continue until the war ended. In May 1865, one month after Lee had surrendered to Grant, Thomas was in White Sulphur Springs (present-day Waynesville), and without interference from headquarters on this occasion, he
would surrender on his own terms, and it would include deception in textbook fashion that would have made Sun Tzu proud in
The Art of War, when he said that "all warfare isbased on deception." The Rebel chief would first utilize every available
Cherokee to commit bluffs of epic proportion, meaning psychological operations
and warfare,
before he brilliantly captured the Southern city that
had only recently surrendered to the Union force now occupying it. See also Cherokee War Rituals.

Map of Civil War railroads

Thomas' Legion spent much of the war defending the sole railroad in East Tennessee

Guns and Gear

The
Thomas Legion's soldiers were initially armed with outdated "dusty flintlocks" and "bored-out squirrel rifles." Later, its
soldiers were equipped with captured modern Enfield Rifles.

"The
mountains are pouring forth their brave sons in great numbers." Raleigh Register, July 9, 1861

In September 1862, Thomas
was appointed Colonel of the Legion, and the unit would soon field some 2,500 officers and men, formed in infantry,
cavalry, and a light artillery battery. The organization was


a Roman Legion styled unit operating under one command.
Though originally formed to protect the Cumberland Gap and Western North Carolina landscape, the unit was involved in
many battles throughout the South. The legion defended the vital and strategic Saltworks and railroads (O.R., Ser. 1, Vol. 16, pt. II, p. 716) and was instrumental in constructing and maintaining the Cumberland Gap supply lines, and in 1864 a fragment of the unit moved into the Shenandoah Valley where it engaged the likes of Sheridan
and Custer. The Confederate supply routes were constructed by the legion in the Great Smoky Mountains during the harsh
winter of 1862, with the main objective to connect with the Confederate forces in East Tennessee. The force also guarded the
Cumberland Gap, fought the Union army, practiced countless hours ofdrills, and

fought

bands
of outlaws, deserters, and bushwhackers -- which generally operated as saboteurs. Engaging and fighting bushwhackers
was contrary to fighting an organized army in lines of battle, where Union and Confederate armies applied Napoleonic
Tactics and marched into battle, squared the opponent, and attrition generally determined the victor. But bushwhackers
were masters of the ambush with deception and swift attacks applied to their advantage. The ambush tactics of the
many elusive units hiding behind trees and in ravines, enabled them to inflict costly losses on an enemy and then
vacate the brush quickly.

Asheville News, February
27, 1862

"I have it from the lips of
some Union leaders that the Federal forces intend to sack Asheville, as soon as they can possibly get there. They actually
hate Asheville with a perfect hatred." Lt. W. F. Parker while stationed


encircled by the Blue Ridge and Cumberland mountains and their outside slopes we have the heart of the south, which
commands the surrounding Plains. The loss of this country larger than England or France is the loss of the Southern Confederacy
and we sink under a despotism. W. H. Thomas. (Christopher M. Watford, The Civil War in North Carolina: Soldiers' and Civilians'
Letters and Diaries, 1861-1865. Volume 2: The Mountains, 79.)

The enforcement of the Conscript law in East Tennessee
has filled the mountains with disaffected desperadoes of the worst character, who joining with the deserters from our Army
form very formidable bands of outlaws, who hide in the fastness, waylay the passes, rob, steal, and destroy as pleased.The evil has become so great that travel has almost been suspended through the mountains.
(John C.Inscoe, The Heart of Confederate Appalachia, Western North Carolina in the Civil War, 114.)

Recommended Reading:Storm in the Mountains: Thomas' Confederate
Legion of Cherokee Indians and Mountaineers (Thomas' Legion: The Sixty-ninth North Carolina Regiment). Description:
Vernon H. Crow, Storm in the Mountains, dedicated an unprecedented 10
years of his life to this first yet detailed history of the Thomas Legion. But it must be said that this priceless addition has
placed into our hands the rich story of an otherwise forgotten era of the Eastern Cherokee Indians and the mountain men of
both East Tennessee and western North Carolina who would fill the ranks of the Thomas Legion during the four year Civil
War. Crow sought
out every available primary and secondary source by traveling to several states and visiting from ancestors of the
Thomas Legion to


special collections, libraries, universities, museums, including the Museum of the Cherokee, to
various state archives and a host of other locales for any material on the unit in order to preserve and present
the most accurate and thorough record of the legion. Crow, during his exhaustive fact-finding, was granted access
to rare manuscripts, special collections, privately held diaries, and never before seen nor published photos and
facts of this only legion from North Carolina. Crow remains absent from the text as he gives a readable account
of each unit within the legion's organization, and he includes a full-length roster detailing each of the men who served in
its ranks, including dates of service to some interesting lesser known facts.

Storm in the Mountains, Thomas' Confederate Legion of Cherokee Indians and
Mountaineers is presented in a readablemanner that is attractive to any student and reader of American history, Civil
War, North Carolina studies, Cherokee Indians, ideologies and sectionalism, and I would be remiss without including the
lay and professional genealogist since the work contains facts from ancestors, including grandchildren, some of which
Crow spent days and overnights with, that further complement the legion's roster with the many names,
dates, commendations, transfers, battle reports, with those wounded, captured, and killed, to lesser yet
interesting facts for some of the men. Crow was motivated with the desire to preserve
history that had long since been overlooked and forgotten and by each passing decade it only sank deeper into the annals
of obscurity. Crow had spent and dedicated a 10 year span of his life to
full-time research of the Thomas Legion, and this fine


work discusses much more than the unit's formation, its
Cherokee Indians, fighting history, and staff member narratives, including the legion's commander, Cherokee chief and
Confederate colonel, William Holland Thomas. Numerous maps and
photos also allow the reader to better understand and relate to the subjects. Storm in the Mountains, Thomas' Confederate Legion of Cherokee Indians and Mountaineersis
highly commended, absolutely recommended, and to think that over the span of a decade Crow, for us, would meticulously
research the unit and present the most factual and precise story of the men, the soldiers who formed, served, and died
in the famed Thomas Legion.

North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster (Volume XVI: Thomas's
Legion) (Hardcover, 537 pages), North Carolina Office of Archives and History (June 26, 2008). Description: The volume
begins with an authoritative 246-page history of Thomas's Legion.The history, including Civil War battles and campaigns, is
followed by a complete roster and service records of the field officers, staff, and troops that served in the legion. A thorough
index completes the volume. Continued below.

Volume XVI
of North Carolina Troops: A Roster contains the history and roster of the most unusual North Carolina Confederate Civil
War unit, significant because of the large number of Cherokee Indians who served in its ranks. Thomas's Legion was the creation
of William Holland Thomas, an influential businessman, state legislator, and Cherokee chief. He initially raised a small
battalion of Cherokees in April 1862, and gradually expanded his command with companies of white soldiers raised in western
North Carolina,
eastern Tennessee, and Virginia.
By the end of 1862, Thomas's Legion comprised an infantry regiment and a battalion of infantry and


cavalry. An artillery battery
was added in April 1863. Furthermore, in General Early's Army of the Valley, the Thomas Legion was well-known for its fighting
prowess. It is also known for its pivotal role in the last Civil War battle east of the Mississippi
River. The Thomas Legion mustered more than 2,500 soldiers and it closely resembled a brigade. With troop roster, muster records, and Compiled Military Service Records (CMSR) this volume
is also a must have for anyone interested in genealogy and researching Civil War ancestors. Simply stated, it is an outstanding
source for genealogists.While the book is absolutely a must-read, I'd recommend not reading it over your morning coffee. With a dark and twisted ending, Beautiful Darkness might want to make you scrub your soul a little bit after reading.

Black Widow: The Finely Woven Thread by Nathan Edmonson and Phil Noto (published by Marvel Comics in 2014)

Black Widow was one of the first "All-New Marvel NOW!" comics to be released in 2014, and was probably one of the best examples of Marvel's 2014 publishing strategy of character focused solo series with stylized artwork. While I remember reading the first issue of the series last year, I fell off the series during my great cull of superhero titles. However, I remember thinking that the comic had very nice artwork for a superhero


comic and that Edmonson, a writer known for his military and spy comics, was probably a good choice for the book.

Like other Black Widow solo series, this volume focuses on the character's spy work separate from the Avengers. A major theme of this comics is atonement, which serves as Black Widow's motivation for accepting various assassination and mercenary jobs. Not only is Black Widow trying to rid the world of bad guys, she's also using the proceeds to fund several trusts that presumably provide for the families of targets during her days working for Soviet Russia.

While Edmonson certainly tries to depict Black Widow as a "good" character trying to find righteous spy missions, I think he largely misses the mark. Too often does Black Widow readily resort tolethal means, presumably leaving more people missing family members. I think that Edmonson tried to explain this away by saying that Widow's lawyer has been vetting her missions, but twice in the first three chapters of the graphic novel is her intel outdated or straight up wrong. I also thought that Edmonson's internal dialogue was stiff and boring most of the time, but I think the stiffness was deliberate.

Noto's artwork is very nice to look at, but a bit stiff at times. However, I maintain he's a great choice for this comic, and the book stays away from the crappy cheesecake styles that other Black Widow comics have resorted to. Of the 144 pages in the collection, there's only one "sexy" depiction of Black Widow, and that's a


Milo Manara variant cover displayed at the rear of the book. Otherwise, Noto portrays Black Widow as a no-nonsense spy with realistic proportions and very sad eyes.

I did really like the subplot involving Black Widow trying hard not to adopt a stray cat. Edmonson and Noto's Black Widow certainly seems like the type of person to get suckered by a cute little feline.

I Was the Cat by Paul Tobin and Benjamin Dewey (published by Oni Press in 2014)

A fantasy/historical graphic novel by Paul Tobin and Benjamin Dewey, I Was the Cat is a surprisingly straightforward graphic novel about a cat who tries to take over the world. The full length graphic novel focuses on Burma, a longhaired cat who has used up 8 of his lives trying totake over the world. Manipulating the likes of Napoleon, Teddy Roosevelt and the historical inspiration for the Sherlock Holmes villain Moriarty, Burma decides to recount his exploits to an up and coming journalist while enacting his final attempt at world domination.

While you'd expect a megalomaniacal cat comic to be a bit farcical in nature, especially when written by the writer of the Eisner winning Bandette series, it's really not at all, which I thought was simultaneously impressive and disappointing. The book's a bit plodding in nature, but is still a pretty pleasant read. Burma is a surprisingly sympathetic and morally gray character, and the journalist Allison Breaking serves as a decently naive but reasonable reader stand-in. My biggest complaint was that I Was the Cat didn't give Benjamin


a sentient virus, and William, a British soldier recovering from WWI in the 1920s. The two are thrust together due to the effects of Trillium, a plant found both deep in the Amazon and on a distant planet on a far off solar system. By keeping focus on the two characters' discovery of one another and subsequent attempts to reunite, Lemire neatly dodges trying to explain the time travel and other bizarre elements of his book. Trillium certainly hints that there is a good explanation for all the loopy stuff that goes on in the comic, but it's never outright stated and I liked that.

The boldest aspect of Trillium is Lemire's use of inverted and upside down panels throughout the comic to help cleverly demonstrate the separation theof being able to connect with people.

One venerable English teacher, Carl G. Wonnberger, nicknamed “the Bat” for his diminished eyesight, was known to walk into the trophy case and apologize, step into wastepaper baskets and stare blindly as students slipped out the back of the room to smoke by the open windows. Once, several students remembered the time pranksters propped up the back axle of Wonnberger’s Volkswagen Beetle with two-by-fours and watched, laughing from the windows, as the unwitting teacher slammed the gas pedal with his wheels spinning in the air.

As an underclassman, Romney accompanied Wonnberger and Pierce Getsinger, another student, from the second floor of the main academic building to the library to retrieve a book the two boys needed. According to Getsinger, Romney opened a first


France's National Front reported to EU fraud squad Published duration 10 March 2015

image copyright AFP image caption Marine Le Pen says France's PM is "mobilising his Socialist friends against the National Front"

The European Parliament has called in the EU's anti-fraud squad to investigate possible financial irregularities involving Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front (FN).

It says the allegations relate to 20 people being paid from the EU budget as assistants to the French party's MEPs.

There are doubts whether they do work directly connected to the parliament.

The party leader said she would file a complaint against the parliament's president over the "false accusations".

Ms Le Pen also said French Prime Minister Manuel Valls was "mobilising his socialist friends against the National Front".

Mr Valls has said he fears for his country overthe rise of the Front, which is leading in some French opinion polls.

He warned that the FN could win the next presidential election in 2017, saying its policies were a "disaster" for France.

'Political manipulation'

In a statement, the European Parliament said its president, Martin Schulz, had alerted the EU anti-fraud agency Olaf about information noted in February relating to the salaries of FN staff members.

image copyright EPA image caption Martin Schulz, a German socialist, informed Olaf of possible financial irregularities

It said many of the assistants had listed their working address as the National Front's headquarters in Nanterre, in the western suburbs of Paris, while some had different job descriptions on their EU contracts compared with FN documents.

It added that party paperwork also showed certain assistants did not work for


an angle between a projection of a first edge line and a projection of a second edge line; changing the depth of the region of interest; and changing the top width and the angle of the region of interest graphic as a function of the change in depth while maintaining the height and the bottom width of the region of interest graphic substantially unchanged.
Other principle features vantages of the present invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon review of the following drawings, the detailed description, and the appended claims.matter, which then in its report had placed blame on Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Tariq Fatemi and Principal Information Officer at the Press Information Department Rao Tehsin, sources had earlier told Geo News.

PM Office order

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif approved on Saturday the recommendations of the Dawn leaks Inquiry committee, withdrawing the portfolio of Foreign Affairs from his Special Assistant Tariq Fatemi, according to an order of PM Office.

Read more: PM withdraws Tariq Fatemi’s portfolio, notification issued

The executive said that Rao Tehsin Ali, the principal information officer at the Information Ministry, would also be sanctioned, adding the editor of Dawn Newspaper, Zaffar Abbas, and reporter Cyril Almeida will be referred to the All Pakistan Newspaper Association (APNS) “for necessary disciplinary action.”

In response to this,


the Dawn Leaks saga.

"As a fellow member of the Foreign Service family, I reject recent allegations, insinuations and innuendos. Such suggestions are particularly hurtful to someone who has served Pakistan for nearly five decades with honour and integrity," wrote the senior diplomat in the letter addressed to all officers of the Foreign Affairs Ministry at headquarters and Pakistan Missions abroad.

Read more: Dawn Leaks: Fatemi rejects allegations in letter to colleagues

PM meets with COAS: sources

On May 6, Nawaz Sharif met with Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa and both discussed issues pertaining to Dawn Leaks, security and border situation..

Read more: PM Nawaz meets COAS, Dawn Leaks among other issues discussed: sources

PM Nawaz and COAS agreed that the issues surrounding Dawn Leaks would be dealt with amicably.

Sources furtherSearch

Infinite Crisis ended with the recreated pre-Crisis Multiverse once again merging into a single universe (allegedly), but not the same universe that had existed prior to Infinite Crisis. This was New Earth.

Following Infinite Crisis, all DC titles jumped a year ahead in time, and then also launched a series called 52, which was a weekly year long title (thus 52 weeks, 52 issues), that told the story of what was happening during that missing year.

Let’s first talk 52.

At the end of Infinite Crisis, Superman had lost his powers, Batman was taking a sabbatical,Wonder Woman was an outlaw, and the Justice League of America had disbanded.

So what goes on in the DCU when the big three are gone and the greatest team of iconic heroes is inactive?

52 directly spun-off


was timed to coincide with the Supreme Court hearing arguments this week in cases challenging California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage, and the federal Defense of Marriage Act.

Like any virus, as the logo has spread, it's evolved, as artist, activists, and even giant corporations have given it their own spin.

Former "Star Trek" star George Takei, who has a huge Facebook following and has been in a same-sex marriage since 2008, has posted different takes: Yoda, vampire fangs, Edward James Olmos from "Battlestar Galactica" beneath the motto "So Say We All," and Paula Deen astride two sticks of butter.

And then their were more organic versions, like a Passover-friendly one sporting two pieces of matzo, one featuring Grumpy Cat, one inspired by the work of Mark Rothko, a twistpolicies Uber offers drivers through the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed (IPSE). While the government committee is looking at the gig economy as a whole, news of in-testing safety measures could have a direct impact on Uber's current issues with Transport for London (TfL), which recently decided not to renew the ride-hailing company's private hire licence in the capital.

In the shock announcement, TfL noted several safety concerns among a broader criticism of Uber's business practices. The service is still allowed to operate beyond the expiry of its current licence while it exhausts the appeals process, expected to take several months at least. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has already flown over to meet with TfL, and it's likely a strict limit on driver hours will form


Gideon Litchfield, editor in chief of MIT Technology Review, recounts how the other day, they got an angry message from some guy about how they'd used his photo to illustrate an article about research at Brandeis that tried to explain "the hipster effect" - how non-conformists often wind up looking the same.

The man declared the use of his image was slander and he never would have given his permission to have his visage used that way.

Turns out, though, the magazine licensed a stock photo of a young bearded guy in a knit cap and sort of plaid shirt. An editor checked with the photo company, which supplied the subject's name and it wasn't the guy who complained.

QED, Litchfield concludes:

All of which just proves the story we ran: Hipsterswas up to the police of those times to enforce those laws, just like the police of today enforce the drug laws and execute the “war on crime”. Maryland Segregation Policy, 1619–black social exclusion, recommended, Maryland’s Exclusion Law,1638–exclusion of blacks from all people activity, except sports and entertainment, Virginia Fugitive Law, 1642–“R” branded on face of runaways, Maryland Marriage Law, 1664–first anti-interracial marriage statute, Slavery Law, 1665– exclusion of blacks from benefits afforded whites, British Plantation Act, 1667–code of conduct for slaves, slaveholders, Carolina Trade Law, 1686–barred blacks from all trades, Virginia Marriage Law, 1691–prohibited white women from marrying black men, Massachusetts Anti-Miscegenation Law, 1705–criminalization of interracial marriages, New York Runaway Law, 1705–execution for recaptured runaway slaves- on and on, up through today, where President Obama cut the


the exception clause found therein. The police are the primary enforcers of the exception in the 13th Amendment. That is their primary jobs.

The people that the 13th Amendment was intended for were African people in America. That is why it is called a Reconstructive Amendment, to repair, or reconstruct the lives damaged by the inhumanity of slavery. The exception was placed into the 13th Amendment for the intention to specifically re-enslave those freed Africans. It was intended specifically for African people, and it has impacted mainly African people. Africans in America have been criminalized ever since their enslavement, to justify the inhumanity of slavery, and criminalized after their emancipation to re-enslave them through Black Code legislation. LEGISLATION. That is where our persecution is coming from, from the APPROPRIATEhad been drinking and

there were beer bottles everywhere. After the women left, Ms. Nielsen began cleaning up the

mess. When Mr. Coffman came into the room, he asked Ms. Nielsen what her problem was and

she replied that they would never be able to sell the house if he kept it in that state. After the two

separated, Ms. Nielsen called her friend Tony Petito. She asked Mr. Petito to come over because

she was concerned about her brother. A little while later, Mr. Coffman announced that he was


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leaving and asked Ms. Nielsen for beer money.           Ms. Nielsen testified that, when she told Mr.

Coffman that he was too drunk to use their mother’s car, he punched her in the head with a

closed fist, causing her to fall to the floor. He then straddled her and continued punching her

until she lost consciousness. When Ms. Nielsen came to, she headed down to the basement

where there was a bedroom that she sometimes used. As she reached the bottom of the staircase

or just before, Mr. Coffman came up behind her and struck her with a baseball bat. He began

hitting her again but was interrupted by pounding on a basement window. According to Ms.

Nielsen, althoughon the day of the alleged attack, he drove Ms.

Nielsen to the bar where she worked. He returned later to drive her home, but Ms. Nielsen

wanted to stay at the bar. Sometime later, a car arrived at the house, and two women helped Ms.

Nielsen down to her room.       A little while later, Mr. Petito arrived and immediately went

downstairs. After Mr. Coffman heard arguing, he went downstairs and saw his sister sitting on

her bed crying. She had a cut on her face and her hair looked like it had been pulled. Mr. Petito

told him to go away and, when Mr. Coffman hesitated, punched him in the face. Mr. Coffman

ran upstairs and tried to use his phone, but Mr. Petito grabbed it from him


a clump of her hair, so he grabbed Mr. Coffman and slammed him against a wall, then

dragged him outside and threw him off the porch. He went back inside to attend to Ms. Nielsen

and ask her what had happened. As she described for him what had occurred, she also indicated

that she could not find her cell phone. It appears that Mr. Petito got the impression from her

statements that Mr. Coffman may have taken it, so he left Ms. Nielsen and went to find Mr.

Coffman to get the phone back. Once outside, Mr. Petito headed toward the main road because

he assumed that was the direction Mr. Coffman would have headed. When he reached the road,
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he saw that there was a police cruiser in the parking lot of a gas station. The officer was not in

the cruiser, so he went inside and spotted the officer getting some coffee. He told the officer

what had happened to Ms. Nielsen, and the officer told him that he would follow Mr. Petito back

to the house after he paid. Mr. Petito testified that, while he was waiting outside for the officer,

he saw Mr. Coffman in the parking lot, so he grabbed him and told him to go over to the police

cruiser, to which the


available. Customers who want to-go condiments, cup lids, cutlery or straws will have to ask for them, as well.

The ordinance encourages food providers to credit customers 25 cents for bringing their own reusable to-go containers and charge a takeout fee up to 10 cents to defray the costs associated with cups, lids, straws or utensils.

The ordinance also governs packaging for prepared foods. Blown polystyrene egg cartons and food and meat trays are exempt.

The Sebastopol City Council adopted the model ordinance in March but delayed its enforcement to allow restaurants and vendors to use up any remaining foam stock they might have on hand and to give the rest of Sonoma County time to catch up.

But Vice Mayor Patrick Slayter, a member of Sebastopol's recently created zero waste subcommittee,county's nine cities as part of a movement intended to reduce waste by more than 90 percent.

It also reflects a larger effort to eliminate single-use plastics in the waste stream in Europe and the United States due to expanding awareness of the pervasiveness of plastic waste in every corner of the planet and its ingestion by every type of animal life-form.

Two states, Maryland and Maine, recently passed laws banning the use of expanded polystyrene foam food containers.

A similar effort in California failed to muster sufficient votes last year.

Supporters doubled down this year, however, with a broader approach aimed at phasing out nonreusable, nonrecyclable, noncompostable packaging of all kinds and requiring the top 10 most littered single-use plastic products be reusable, recyclable or compostable after 2030.

Matching bills, Senate Bill


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In the 1930s, a century after the fur trade nearly wiped out California's iconic sea otters, a few dozen stragglers were discovered swimming below the rugged crags of Big Sur, south of Monterey Bay. So it was fitting that on Thanksgiving Day in 2008, biologist Tim Tinker rappelled down one of Big Sur's steep cliffs and kicked a boogie board into the harrowing surf to try and unravel the mystery behind the newest threat to these marine mammals.

Tinker was there to retrieve the carcass of a dead otter, which he hauled up to the mainland in a dank backpack. An investigation would later reveal that the otter, like hundreds before and hundreds more since, had been the victim of a surprise predator—a young great white shark.

What stumped scientiststhen still does: Great whites don't feed on the furry mammals.

"As far as we can tell, a white shark has never eaten a sea otter," says Tinker, a wildlife ecologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Western Ecological Research Center, with a joint appointment at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "We always get the whole animal back."

Eight years later, scientists still can't explain why so many otters are bitten and discarded by another protected marine species. But the number of such incidents has exploded. White sharks now kill so many otters that it threatens to hamper their recovery.

"Throughout the otter's range, shark-bitten animals now account for more than half of the carcasses we find," Tinker says. "It exceeds all other sources of death combined. And in the last


hypothesis. Instead of being bitten by babies, the otters could be munched on by slightly older sharks, who are more experienced but not yet adults.

"They might bite it, find it's a big hair ball, and then decide it's not worth eating,” Lowe says.

More confusing still is why the number of incidents has increased so dramatically. (Learn about great white sharks invading the waters of one town.)

While no one knows precisely how many white sharks swim off California waters, there’s evidence that suggests shark numbers have grown. After years of young whites being accidentally caught in nets by people trying to gather sea bass and halibut, California voters banned gillnetting close to shore in the mid-1980s. Starting around 2002, fishers using gillnets far offshore began catching far more sharks,Risk factors for renal disease and urinary abnormalities in men and women: data from the World Kidney Day in the province of Ferrara, Italy.
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       Shortly before 5:00 p.m. on June 9, 2014, Officer Cory Arrington, of the Chesterfield

County Police Department, was on patrol in a high crime area. Arrington was a member of a

special team within the department that focused on “the worst areas of Chesterfield, dealing with

drugs, guns, [and] prostitution.” While on patrol, Arrington saw a sport utility vehicle (SUV)

being driven erratically, intermittently changing speed and weaving from lane to lane without

signaling. Additionally, Officer Arrington could see that the SUV’s front windshield had two

large cracks in it. As the


officer followed, the driver of the SUV switched lanes and turned

“abruptly” into a parking lot without signaling.

       Officer Arrington initiated a traffic stop of the SUV in the parking lot. He interacted with

the appellant, the vehicle’s only occupant, through the driver’s side window, identifying himself

and telling the appellant that he had stopped him for multiple traffic violations. Arrington asked

the appellant for his driver’s license and vehicle registration, which the appellant provided. The

officer then walked around to the front of the SUV to inspect the cracked windshield and check

for a valid inspection sticker. According to Arrington, he was investigating the appellant for

traffic offenses at that time. After inspecting the windshield, the officer went to the open

passenger side window of the vehicle to explaindenying his motion to suppress the evidence because during the

course of the traffic stop, the officer asked about the contents of a plastic bag that was in a cup

holder and “demanded” that the appellant show him the bag, inappropriately extending the stop

beyond its permissible scope. The appellant suggests that because the officer could see only the top

of the bag and not its contents, he could not inquire further because the bag was not related to the

traffic offenses the officer was investigating. He maintains that the search of the vehicle was

improper based on the prolonged stop.

        The appellant’s argument regarding suppression is both factually and legally flawed.

Initially, it neither views the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth nor credits

the


walked to the passenger side

window than proceeding with a lawful traffic stop based on witnessed traffic offenses and a cracked

front windshield. The officer’s examination of the cracks in the windshield and the vehicle

inspection sticker were wholly consistent with efforts to ensure vehicle safety and check for an

equipment violation, permissible during a stop for traffic offenses. See Caballes, 543 U.S. at

407-08; Prouse, 440 U.S. at 658-59. The evidence, viewed objectively, establishes that when the

officer saw the top of the cellophane bag in plain view, he was legitimately in a place where he was

able to converse with the driver before he went back to his vehicle to process the traffic summons.

       Regarding the second point, the appellant’s argument is refuted by application of the

relevantPristina moves against Skopje incentives

Kosovo has lodged a complaint with the European Commission and will take legal action over subsidies the Macedonian government is providing to low cost airlines at Skopje Alexander the Great Airport. The Kosovo Civil Aviation Authority says the incentives have created unfair competition in the region. The aviation regulator is convinced it will receive a favourable outcome. The Authority is basing its complaint on the Common Aviation Area Agreement, which the European Union has signed with countries in the Western Balkans. According to the Agreement, “This aviation area implies the adoption of the part of the Acquis containing the European aviation rules … The processes of market opening and regulatory convergence take place in parallel in order to promote fair competition and the implementation


want you to win the free Nanterre RS show.Another thread you wrote 'glowing reports'what if the reporter is not actually making descriptions of the band,rather the experience left the ticket holder glowing?

Is it just me, or has Ronnie gone from the other guy to maybe the greatest guy in rock? He is always working, he seems incredibly personable, he has been a huge part of so many great pieces of rock n' roll. Sure, Ronnie is well known, but he still seems underrated. I become more impressed with Mr. Wood by the day...esp. in the offseason, when he's the only one still working. I haven't even touched on his painting.

I used to think (when I was a teenager) Ronnie was a goof who could hold his own. Nowthan if you have no ties or no understanding of each other."

Dr. Lenz has more than 30 years of experience in clinical medicine and medical education. Before coming to ACOM in September 2010, Dr. Lenz was Senior Associate Academic Dean/Associate Dean for Clinical Sciences at Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, where he was one of two founding deans of the college.

The Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine is the first osteopathic college to open in Alabama. It is a comprehensive, four-year osteopathic medical college affiliated with Southeast Alabama Medical Center in Dothan, a 420-bed regional medical center.

Dr. Craig J. Lenz, dean and senior vice president of the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine, delivers the keynote address to Troy University graduates during the fall commencement ceremony for the


On Thursday, the United States expelled the ambassador from Ecuador, in retaliation for Wednesday's expulsion of the US ambassador from Ecuador. This now leaves the United States without ambassadorial relations in three South American countries – Bolivia and Venezuela being the other two – thus surpassing the Bush administration in its diplomatic problems in the region.

US Ambassador Heather Hodges was declared "persona non grata" and asked to leave Ecuador "as soon as possible", after a diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks showed her saying some disparaging things about Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa. In the cable, she alleges that President Correa had knowledge of corruption by a former head of the national police.

Although the Bush administration intervened in the internal affairs of countries such as Bolivia and even Brazil, itwas somewhat better at keeping its "eyes on the prize" and avoiding fights that would distract from its main goal. The prize, of course, is Venezuela – home to the largest oil reserves in the world, estimated by the US Geological Survey at 500bn barrels. Washington's goal there for the last decade has been regime change. The Bush team understood that the more they fought with other countries in the region, the less credible would be their public relations story that Venezuela was the problem.

It's nothing personal, really – Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez could have chosen to be the perfect diplomat and he would still be treated in much the same manner by the US government. And it's not the oil itself, since Venezuela still sells the US


have a head start on this project since the 2,000km border between the two countries has been plagued by paramilitary and guerrilla violence for decades. Conflict between Venezuela and Colombia is also important to Washington's electoral strategy in Venezuela. When there is trouble between the two countries, as in 2009, when Venezuela cut off bilateral trade in response to the US effort to expand its military presence in Colombia, it has a negative impact on a lot of Venezuelans in border states. This helps garner some anti-Chávez votes in border states, as in last year's congressional election in Venezuela. And accusations of Venezuelan support for the Farc guerrillas in Colombia – despite Washington's failure to offer any evidence – are a key element of bringing its anti-Venezuela effortsunder the "war on terror" umbrella.

Although Colombia's previous president, Álvaro Uribe, was – in recent years – very much allied with the United States' strategy toward Venezuela, Santos immediately rejected it and decided to make peace with Chávez. This turned out to be quite easy to do, despite their past fights when Santos was Uribe's defence minister. As anyone who follows Venezuela knows, Chávez is friendly to any head of state or government that is friendly to Venezuela.

Santos's U-turn towards Venezuela is very interesting for several reasons. First, it shows how important regional economic integration is as a force for peace and stability in the area. The attempt by Washington and Santos's predecessor to expand the US military presence in Colombia led to a cutoff of $2.3bn of


Colombia's exports to what had recently become their second most important trading partner, Venezuela. This was more than 11% of Colombia's exports, and the bulk of it was in livestock and textile products for which replacement markets were not so readily available. Venezuela also has very close relations with Brazil and most of the rest of South America, and they all felt the same way about Colombia's foreign policy. They were especially concerned about the US military expansion in Colombia – and even more opposed after US Air Force documents made it clear that this expansion was for "mobility operations … on the South American continent" and against the "constant threat" from "anti-US governments".

Santos was basically faced with a choice of continuing to do Washington's bidding or beingpart of South America. He chose South America. The key role of commerce here, as South America continues to integrate economically, illustrates some of the most important "gains from trade". These are far greater than the neoclassical "efficiency gains", often exaggerated by advocates of "free trade" agreements.

Also, Santos's choice to rejoin South America shows how geopolitical changes led by the left governments of the region have now encompassed even rightwing governments. This is a result of changes in institutions (foreign ministries, multilateral organisations such as Unasur, the Rio Group), ideas, and norms that have taken place over the last decade.

Now comes Washington, demanding that Colombia extradite one Walid Makled, an accused Venezuelan narco-trafficker arrested in Colombia, to the United States. No, thank you, says President Santos – this


– is fighting a losing battle. President Obama's recent trip to Latin America was hardly more successful than those of Bush. He gets better press – no riots in the streets or Mayan leaders cleansing the site after his visit. But every president and foreign minister there can see that US policies haven't changed one bit.Dustin Nguyen was the first Asian American actor I saw on prime time without an accent. I watched him every week without fail on “21 Jump Street” and he was so cool. And hot. His character, Harry Truman Ioki, was an undercover detective, rode a motorcycle, had long mullet hair, multiple piercings, and wore leather motorcycle jackets. Oof.

Even as a child, I knew he was important. Nguyen played cool and badass when Asian American men on the screen were always weak, nerdy and sexually neutered. Not only that, his character was a detective instead of some stereotypical accountant or computer programmer. Nguyen embodied all the possibilities I didn’t know were allowed to us as Asian Americans and it was exhilarating.

Except Hollywood wasn’t ready for him.

In the Beginning

Born in


1962 to an actress/dancer and an actor/comedian/writer/producer in Saigon, South Vietnam, Nguyen and his family left Vietnam in April 1975 and relocated to a refugee camp in Guam. They moved to another camp in Arkansas before settling in a small suburb near St. Louis, Mo., where Nguyen and his younger brother were the only Vietnamese students.

When Nguyen was 18, his family moved to Orange County, Calif. He graduated from high school and attended Orange Coast College as a communications major, but dropped out in his second year to pursue acting. Despite his father, Xuan Phat, being in the entertainment industry for 30 years in Vietnam, he was firmly opposed to Nguyen becoming an actor. He really wanted Nguyen to get a degree.

Instead, Nguyen pursued acting. He told meSF 2016” cast member and you can find her work on various sites like Romper, Mom.com, and Diverging Magazine. She’s the Entertainment Section Editor and a Staff Writer at Mochi magazine and the Living Justice Section Editor at Diverging Magazine. She chronicles her mishaps at https://mandarinmama.com.


There's nothing worse than butt dialing the wrong person at the wrong time, and even in those instances there's probably few things worse than butt dialing 911 while talking about selling drugs.

Matthew Dollarhide, 19 of Orange City, Florida, was driving a tow truck with two passengers when all three begin to discuss selling drugs. Unfortunately for him, Dollarhide had a cellphone in his pocket and apparently accidentally dialed 911.

The dispatcher listened in and heard the three discussing drugs during the call on Tuesday night. The dispatcher also concluded from the conversation that they were in a tow truck and heard the name "Harry" several times, according to The Daytona Beach News Journal.

After being notified by the dispatcher, local Deputies traced the are where the signal was coming fromand soon found a tow truck with the name "Harry's Towing" on it.

Dollarhide and his passengers were caught off guard when pulled over and asked why they were discussing drug sales. No one had a good explanation.

Deputies searched the car and found a crack pipe. Dollarhide said that the pipe belonged to his father, but that he had taken it and put it in his pocket because he didn't want the family's landlord to discover his father used drugs.

Deputies weren't buying it. Dollarhide was arrested and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.

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was secured to the second door by a plurality of horizontal interior throw bolts with the second door being secured to the frame of the safe vault or bunker body by a plurality of vertical throw bolts which were releasable only after the horizontal throw bolts of the first door were released and the door opened. Therefore, the opening of a double door, double hinged entry way required a two step process.
Applicant by incorporating modular elements as here after set forth in Applicant's prior applications can construct a double security door of desired height, and width, for varying sized security safes, vaults or bunkers. The security and locking mechanism can be dimensioned for such size door and the components installed in situ in a modular fashion using threadedSenior Web Developer – Princeton University – Princeton, NJ

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– Ability toand was chosen as the study site due to its accessibility from University of Malaya (convenient for samples transportation) and high population of inmates. The prison management is very supportive of measures to further improve the wellbeing of their inmates. In general, the inmates at Kajang Prison encompass a majority of Malaysian citizens with a small composition of immigrants (i.e. Burmese and Indonesian).

The prison was divided into four divisions namely male division (also known as the main division), female division, treatment and drug rehabilitation division as well as the pre-free inmates division. At the time of samples collection, the male division accommodated an estimation of 3400 inmates, with approximately 5 % were infected with HIV. It can be further categorized into adults (21-years-old and above) and juveniles (below 21-years-old).


Personal injury lawyers are not very well liked in general, but Kenneth Krause managed to make himself the most hated man in America after he wrote a Wisconsin news anchor to complain that she's far too overweight to set a good example for young viewers, "girls in particular."

Despite the backlash against his letter brought on by Jennifer Livingston's four-minute on-air response, Krause, who is clearly into his looks (see photo above), has released a statement doubling down on his comments:

Given this country's present epidemic of obesity and the many truly horrible diseases related thereto, and considering Jennifer Livingston's fortuitous position in the community, I hope she will finally take advantage of a rare and golden opportunity to influence the health and psychological well-being of Coulee Region children by- A COUPLE GUYS LAYING ON THE FLOOR. A COUPLE GUYS RUNNING AROUND WITH FIRE EXTINGUISHERS, TRYING TO GET THE GAS LINES SHUT OFF. MARK BAILEY/ FOUNDRY WORKER - I HEARD A THUMP AND A VIBRATION. YOU COULD HEAR THE VIBRATION. AND I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG. I JUST RAN UP THE STAIRS FROM MY MACHINE AND I LOOKED IN THE FOUNDRY AND ALL YOU COULD SEE WAS SMOKE AND FLAMES. WITNESSES SAY IT APPEARS TWO SUPERVISORS STANDING ON TOP OF A LARGE PIECE OF MACHINERY GOT THE WORST OF IT. MARK EDBAUER'S SON WAS ALSO BURNED IN THE EXPLOSION: MARK EDBAUER - HE WAS IN THERE WHEN WHATEVER BLEW APART. HAD SOME MOLTEN METAL WENT DOWN HIS BACK. HE'S GOT JUST MINOR INJURIES. STEVEN CHRZANOWSKI/ - THERE


WAS A FEW PEOPLE THAT, THEY ARE LITERALLY NOT WEARING UNIFORMS THAT WERE WEARING UNIFORMS AT THE TIME. CHRZANOWSKI'S WIFE RUSHED TO THE FOUNDRY: ASHLEY CHRZANOWSKI - I THANK THE GOOD LORD. I THANK THE GOOD LORD THAT HE'S OKAY. I WORRY ABOUT HIM WORKING IN A FOUNDRY EVERY DAY FOR SURE. I ASKED A WORKER IF HE THOUGHT THE FOUNDRY WAS OPERATED SAFELY AND HE SAID YES, CITING SAFETY MEETINGS, AND DISCUSSIONS ABOUT MAKING SURE EQUIPMENT AND PROCEDURES ARE UP TO DATE. HE CALLED THE ACCIDENT A FLUKE. THE STATE FIRE MARSHALL IS INVESTIGATING THE CAUSE.Director
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References

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National Medical Research Council Singapore (NMRC/CIRG/1438/2015) and the Singapore Ministry of Education AcRF-Tier2 (2015-T2-1-023). This research was further supported by the National Institute for Health Research networks (mental health, dementias, and neurology) and participating NHS trusts. We thank our NHS network of sites that helped to identify participants.

LonDownS Consortium principal investigators: Andre Strydom (chief investigator), Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK, and Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK; Elizabeth Fisher, Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK; Dean Nizetic, Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK, and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; John Hardy, Reta Lila Weston Institute,Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK, and UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, London, UK; Victor Tybulewicz, Francis Crick Institute, London, UK, and Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK; and Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Birkbeck University of London, London, UK, deceased). Other members of The LonDownS Consortium who contributed to data collection are Sarah Hamburg and Rosalyn Hithersay (both Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK, and Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK).

Funding

This work was funded by a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award (grant number 098330/Z/12/Z) conferred upon The London Down Syndrome (LonDownS) Consortium (Chief Investigator, Andre Strydom). The funder had no role in study design; the collection, analysis, or interpretation of the data; the


faith. Both Mr. Ambati
and his wife come from Christian farming
families who still reside in villages in
India. They have two children--a son born
in India and a daughter born in the
United States. Although Mr. Ambati
resides with his son in the United
States, his wife and daughter reside in
India. Mr. Ambati's parents and all six
of his brothers and sisters live in India
in close proximity to one another. Mr.
Ambati supports his parents and siblings
from his earnings in the United States.

A. Mr. Ambati's Testimony before the
Immigration Judge

Mr. Ambati completed both high school
and college in India. He first arrived in
the United States on a nonimmigrant
student visa in 1974. He received a
master's degree from Oklahoma State
University and, in 1977, he returned to
India.

Mr. Ambati remained in India until 1991.
He lived and worked in Nagpur, a city
located 200miles from his native village
where his parents still reside and
operate a family farm. While in Nagpur,
Mr. Ambati worked as an environmental
scientist for the Indian government from
1977 to 1991. During this period, he
experienced no difficulties in Nagpur as
a result of being Christian and was able
to attend church without "physical
handling" by those "hostile" to
Christians. R.114. However, he was afraid
of physical harm during his monthly
visits to his parents in their village.

Although Mr. Ambati confirmed that his
parents still regularly attended church
in their village, he stated that his
family had been subject to "religious
attacks" for the last ten years. R.115.
Mr. Ambati explained that, as Christians,
his family was neither liked nor accepted
by their neighbors. In fact, on several
unspecified occasions, his father and his
brothers were attacked and beaten at
night while returning from the fields. In
addition, Hindu


farm workers would steal
from Mr. Ambati's father's farm and would
prevent other Hindus from working there.

In 1991, Mr. Ambati again entered the
United States on a nonimmigrant student
visa, this time to pursue a doctorate
degree at the Illinois Institute of
Technology in Chicago. He explained that
becoming a student was the only
opportunity for him to leave a country he
"very much wanted to . . . leave." R.120.
Soon after he arrived in Chicago, he
experienced serious financial
difficulties that caused him to leave
school and eventually move with his wife
and two children to New York City to
work. Shortly after arriving in New York
in 1992, he, his wife, and his son
applied for asylum/1 because they were
alarmed by news from Mr. Ambati's parents
that they were having difficulty with
their crops and that Mr. Ambati's father
had been attacked and beaten onenight
while returning home from the fields.

B. Administrative Proceedings
1.

With the help of an attorney, Mr. Ambati
filed a request for asylum in September
1992 and included his wife and
Pranaykumar in his application. He
alleged that, as Christians, he and his
family had suffered persecution by
Hindus. Responding to an order to show
cause, Mr. Ambati appeared at a
deportation hearing in October 1996
without an attorney. The Immigration
Judge explained in detail the purpose of
the hearing as well as Mr. Ambati's
rights in the proceedings. The IJ then
asked if the Ambatis planned to retain
counsel to represent them. When Mr.
Ambati replied that they did, the IJ
continued the hearing until May 19, 1997.
The IJ warned Mr. Ambati, however, that
he would grant no further continuances
and urged Mr. Ambati to tell his counsel
that his hearing date would not be
extended.

Mr. Ambati retained counsel two