in Asia and Australia. Dr. Piers Kelly is a linguistic anthropologist at the School of Language Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra.

Busting Myths About Human Nature

Agustín Fuentes, trained in Zoology and Anthropology, is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. His research delves into the how and why of being human. Ranging from chasing monkeys in the jungles and cities of Asia, to exploring the lives of our evolutionary ancestors, to examining what people actually do across the globe, Professor Fuentes is interested in both the big questions and the small details of what makes humans and our closest relatives tick.

CaMP Anthropology–Communication, Media, Performance

CaMP Anthropology feature posts, discussions, and links at the intersections of communication, media, and performance. Based in the Indiana University’s Anthropology Department,Arab Studies at the Faculty of Religious Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen.

Connected in Cairo

Growing up Cosmopolitan in the Middle East. Featuring news and information about globalization and the modern Middle East, based on the ideas and concepts in the book Connected in Cairo. Mark Allen Peterson’s research interests are ethnography of communication, mass media, information technologies, nationalism, transnationalism and globalization, semiotics, drama and spectacle.

Context and Variation

Dr. Kate Clancy is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois. She studies the evolutionary medicine of women’s reproductive physiology, and blogs about her field, the evolution of human behavior and issues for women in science.

Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative

Hosted by the Department of Anthropology, The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative is a platform for interdisciplinary scholarly collaboration at Michigan State University. Strives


to equip students with the practical and analytical skills necessary to creatively apply information and communication technologies to cultural heritage materials.

Culture and Capitalism – A Sussex Anthropology Blog

This blog was created by students and faculty of the MA in the Social Anthropology of the Global Economy (SAGE) at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK.

Culture, Medicine, & Psychiatry

Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry is an international and interdisciplinary forum for the publication of work in three interrelated fields: medical and psychiatric anthropology, cross-cultural psychiatry, and related cross-societal and clinical epidemiological studies.

CultureBy – Grant McCracken

At the intersection of Anthropology and Economics. Trained as an anthropologist, Grant has studied American culture and business for 25 years. He has taught anthropology at the University of Cambridge, ethnography at MIT, and marketing at theThe Anthropologist in the Stacks

Donna Lanclos is an anthropologist and a folklorist who has been working in academic libraries starting in 2009. She thinks, writes, and talks about the nature of information, digital and physical places, and higher education generally.

Doug’s Archaeology: Investigating the Profession & Research

Doug Rocks-Macqueen: This is my blog were I focus mainly on the Profession of Archaeology e.g. pay, working conditions, career prospects, etc. Though I do on occasion throw in some other topics and some bits on Open Access.

Dylan Kerrigan OpEds

Dylan Kerrigan is a lecturer and researcher in Cultural Anthropology, Political Sociology, and Criminology at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus. His teaching and research looks at the world from a Caribbean centre because the way power is structured in the


modern world most people do not have a good grasp of the importance of the Caribbean, both in the history and future of the world.

Elfshot – Sticks & Stones, Understanding the archaeological record

Tim Rast is a Canadian archaeologist and a flintknapper who specializes in artifact reproductions and knapped jewelry based on artifacts found across the Arctic and Subarctic, with an emphasis on Newfoundland and Labrador.

Engagement – Blog of the Anthropology & Environment Society

Engagement features first-hand accounts by anthropologists and other social scientists broadly concerned with the cause of social and ecological justice. The blog aims to bring an anthropological approach to understanding the pressing environmental issues of our time, targeting a broad audience of scholars, educators, artists, and advocates.

Entomophagy Anthropology – Julie Lesnik

Julie Lesnik received her PhD studyinghave extended the scope and reach of the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s (SCA) publishing program.

Filterrauschen

A blog about music and anthropology, at the moment mainly in German, with translation in process. How to do music, mediumship, infogenetic linkages, digitalization, constructivism music.

Financial Times – Gillian Tett

Gillian Tett is markets and finance commentator and an assistant editor of the Financial Times. Tett earned a PhD in social anthropology at Clare College, Cambridge based on field research in Tajikistan in the former Soviet Union.

Focaal Blog: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology

FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do, and to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available.

Fongoli Savanna Chimpanzee Project

Jill D. Pruetz


is the principal investigator of the Fongoli Savanna Chimpanzee Project, the longest-running research study of its kind in Senegal, West Africa.

Food Anthropology

Blog of The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN), formerly known as the Council on Nutritional Anthropology (CNA), organized in 1974 in response to the increased interest in the interface between social sciences and human nutrition.

The Geek Anthropologist

The Geek Anthropologist is a blog where geek culture and all things geek are analysed through the perspective of socio-cultural anthropology. We write about the intersections between social science, cultural analysis and practice of anthropology with geek culture, whether they be embodied, literary, cinematic or cybernetic.

German Dziebel, Anthropogenesis

A Uniquely Anthropological Approach to Human Origins and Dispersals. German Dziebel is an anthropologist trained in the Russian and Americanschools.

Gina Athena Ulysse on the Huffington Post

Gina Athena Ulysse is an anthropologist, a poet, performance artist and multi-media artist. She is a professor of anthropology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. Born in Haiti, she has lived in the northeast of United States since her family migrated eons ago.

The Global Social Media Impact Study Blog

The Global Social Media Impact Study had nine anthropologists inserted into fieldsites around the world conducting long-term ethnographic fieldwork on how social media is affecting the lives of ordinary people. The blog was for researchers to share some of the exciting experiences of anthropological fieldwork with a wider audience. The final post was in 2017.

Glossographia – Anthropology, linguistics, & prehistory

Dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of language from a social scientific perspective. Stephen Chrisomalis is


a linguistic anthropologist and cognitive anthropologist working at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. At the intersection of linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, cognitive science, and evolution, with particular foci on epigraphy, literacy studies, writing systems, numeration, and the history of science and mathematics.

Greg Laden’s Blog, Culture as Science – Science as Culture

Greg Laden is a Biological Anthropologist who studies Human Behavioral Biology and Human Environment Interaction using, among other things, Archaeology as a tool, but with a strong background in North American Historical Archaeology, North American Prehistoric Archaeology in the Glaciated Zone, and an Africanist.

Guava Anthropology – Taiwanese Anthropologists

GUAVA anthropology covers things that are Grotesque, Unabashed, Apostate, Virid, and Auspicious about anthropology!

HawgBlawg – Broadcasts from NW Arkansas: Razorback Country

Ted Swedenburg is Professor of Anthropology, University of Arkansas. Author ofMemories of Revolt: The 1936-39 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past. Co-editor of Palestine, Israel and the Politics of Popular Culture and of Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity.

How to be an Anthropologist

Being an anthropologist today is not what you might expect. Building on a legacy of reflection and critical thought, we thrive in the complex and the particular. As an anthropologist, I aim to align myself with web developers to flesh out our common interests and anxieties to enrich both anthropological and technical knowledge.

The Human Economy Blog – Bringing people back into economics

The Human Economy Program was created in 2011 and is located at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. It is designed to bring back human concerns into economic studies and brings together researchers from around


the world with experience in diverse disciplines.

The Human Evolution Blog

Professor Nathan H. Lents and his students discuss human origins. Lents is a Professor of Molecular Biology at John Jay College of The City University of New York and author of Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes.

The Human Family – Kinship, social organization, & the study thereof

In exchange for your patience in letting me learn how to blog I will teach you something about kinship (and social organization, too!)

International Cognition and Culture Institute

The website of the International Cognition & Culture Institute has, as permanent features, a blog section meant to stimulate and a news section meant to inform. We also organize online workshops, book-clubs, and other events.

ISS Archaeology: Boldly Going Where NoArchaeologists Have Gone Before

Our project is the first archaeological study of a space habitat–in this case, the International Space Station (ISS). We seek to understand evolving cultural, social, and material structures in the ISS’s unique context.

John Hawks Weblog – Paleoanthropology, genetics & evolution

Tracking research into human origins, from the field to the laboratory.

Kate’s Portal – Archaeology, Technology & Interloping Cats

An archaeologist with skills in public outreach, museum work, archaeological mapping, and databases. Currently working on a PhD in anthropological archaeology at Binghamton University, studying the social network of community-based archaeologists.

The personal blog of P. Kerim Friedman 傅可恩

P. Kerim Friedman lives and teaches in Taiwan where he is an associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures (within the College of Indigenous Studies), at National Dong Hwa


people of the African Diaspora in the United States.

Language Log

Language Log was started in the summer of 2003 by Mark Liberman and Geoffrey Pullum.

Lawn Chair Anthropology – Biological anthropology, paeleontology, evolution and development

Zachary Cofran is a biological anthropologist studying human evolution, growth and development in the Anthropology Department at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Learning versus Schooling: Susan D. Blum

Who doesn’t think there is something wrong with education? Anthropology has a lot to offer when we think about how to raise up our young–in often unexpected ways! Join me as my thinking about higher education unfolds.

Leiden Anthropology Blog

The Leiden Anthropology Blog is written by scholars at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. They write anthropology blogs about their research, teaching in the Bachelor andcollection of stories, photos, videos and audio. Anthropology Blogs in New Zealand.

Mammals Suck… Milk! – by Dr. Katie Hind

This blog showcases and synthesizes (pun intended!) the MANY awesome advances currently occurring in milk research from the molecule to the organism to the population to the taxon, with implications for nutrition, medicine, psychology, and evolutionary biology.

Material World – A Global Hub for Thinking About Things

Material World is an interactive, online hub for contemporary debates, discussion, thinking and research centred on material and visual culture. It is the brainchild of scholars working in the anthropology departments of University College London and New York University, but aims to create a new international community of academics, students, curators, artists and anyone else with particular interests in material and visual culture.

media/anthropology

The aim of


this blog is to put out in the public domain materials already part of research activity under the broad theme of media anthropology. John Postill is an anthropologist specialising in the study of digital media.

Medizinethnologie – Körper, Gesundheit und Heilung in einer globalisierten Welt

The blog is run by the Work Group Medical Anthropology in the German Anthropological Association. It publishes texts (in German) on the anthropology of transnational health interventions; migration, mobility and health; and the encounters between different medical ideas and practices in an interconnected world.

The Memory Bank – A New Commonwealth Ver 5.0

The two great memory banks are language and money. Exchange of meanings through language and of objects through money are now converging in a single network of communication, the internet. We must learn howat starting discussions about the everyday social issues that continue to plague us.

Most Holy Death

Exploring the fastest growing popular faith in the Americas: La Santa Muerte. Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut, Bishop Walter Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, in collaboration with David Metcalfe, and Liminal Analytics, presents a multi-faceted exploration of the sanctification of death in the popular faith traditions of the Americas.

MSU Campus Archaeology Program Blog

MSU Campus Archaeology is a program that works to mitigate and protect the archaeological resources on Michigan State University’s beautiful and historic campus.

Museum Fatigue – in a Society of the Spectacle

I’m hoping this blog might be part of the cure for museum fatigue. David Davies is associate professor of anthropology and director of East Asian Studies at Hamline University.

N=1


| Opening black boxes, one at a time…

An anthropology blog by Matthew Wolf-Meyer, associate professor of anthropology at Binghamton University and author of The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life.

The Naked Anthropologist

Dr. Laura Agustín on Migration, Trafficking and the Rescue Industry. Author of Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry.

The Narcissistic Anthropologist – Someone has to notice

We are all observers of our world to some degree or another. We all have an inner anthropologist looking around and learning and reacting to the curious bits of human culture.

Northwest Coast Archaeology – Quentin Mackie

To encourage public knowledge about, and appreciation of, Northwest Coast Archaeology through examples of interesting finds and sites, or through commentaries on archaeology in the news or otherwise in the publicdomain.

Notes from the Ethnoground – Glenn H. Shepard

As an ethnobotanist and field anthropologist living in the Brazilian Amazon, I often travel in what Wade Davis calls “the ethnosphere.” I use this log for reflecting on journeys and explorations both outward and inward, recent and past.

NPR 13.7: Cosmos and Culture

Group blog set at the intersection of science and culture, where Barbara J. King blogged from 2011-2018 (NPR closed this blog in April 2018). Barbara J. King is an anthropology professor emerita at the College of William and Mary. She writes about the cognition, emotion and welfare of animals and about biological anthropology, human evolution and gender issues.

Old Bones – Rebecca Dean

I’m a zooarchaeologist at the University of Minnesota Morris, with an interest in the historical ecology of early agricultural


societies of the US Southwest and the Mediterranean region. This blog chronicles my successes and failures in research and teaching, and my constant search for family/work balance.

On the Brink – Andi Simon

Andi Simon is a Corporate Anthropologist & the author of the leadership book On The Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights.

Open Anthropology Cooperative

The Open Anthropology Cooperative (OAC) was an initiative open to all with an interest in anthropology. Forum archives are still available and there is some discussion, but phased out in 2018.

Paul Stoller on the Huffington Post

Paul Stoller is Professor of Anthropology at West Chester University. He is the author of 14 books (memoirs, novels and ethnographies) and has conducted research among the Songhay people in West Africa (Niger) and amongWest African immigrants in New York City. In 2013 King Karl XVI Gustav of Sweden awarded him the Anders Retzius Gold Medal in recognition of his scientific contributions to Anthropology.

Pedal Powered Anthropology

Pedal Powered Anthropology is a multimedia-based educational project dedicated to making science and academia more accessible while bringing profound travel experiences to a local level.

Pedes in terra ad sidera visus (Los pies en la tierra y la mirada en el cielo)

Pedro Maya Álvarez: Antropólogo, empresario y observador del impacto de las nuevas tecnologías en la vida y las relaciones sociales.

Peregrination: The Ethnography of Shaligram Shila

This blog is comprised of thoughts and commentary regarding the interpretive and ritual practices of the sacred stones called Shaligram.

[Per]Suit of Anthropology

Dedicated to the exploration of modern business trends and perspectives from the


change in humans over the past two million years, with an emphasis on the early evolution and dispersal of our genus, Homo. Work spans comparative anatomy, genetics and demography.

PopAnth – Hot Buttered Humanity – Popular Anthropology

Popular anthropology for everyone. Exploring the familiar and the strange, demystifying and myth busting human culture, biology and behaviour in all times and places. Myths, music, art, archaeology, language, food, festivals, fun. Welcome to the Anthropocene!

Powered by Osteons

Kristina Kilgrove is a bioarchaeologist at the University of West Florida. This is her personal blog about archaeology, bioanthropology, and the classical world. See also Kristina Kilgrove at Forbes.

Practicing Anthropology

Blog of NAPA, the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology.

Processing Culture – Notes on fieldwork & other sundries

A cultural anthropologist who researches feminist, LGBT, and leftistof homo ludens and his progress.

Raving Anthropology

Stories and highlights from ethnographic field work and interviews on the subject of drug use, drug policy, harm reduction and dance music culture in Toronto and Vancouver.

Reading Notes in the Anthropology of Christianity

Ingie Hovland is a social/cultural anthropologist who writes on Christianity. She is the author of Mission Station Christianity: Norwegian Missionaries in Colonial Natal and Zululand, Southern Africa 1850-1890.

relevANTH – Seeing the relevance of anthropology in everyday life

Dr. Carie Little Hersh is an American cultural anthropologist, former attorney, and teaching professor in Anthropology at Northeastern University. This is her personal blog about anthropology and its relevance to everyday life.

The Rockstar Anthropologist – Where anthropology comes to chat

Myeashea Alexander is a physical anthropology grad student and science and art enthusiast. This blog


of Studies of Archaeological Information Systems, and Lecturer in Cultural Heritage Management in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York (UK).

Sarah Kendzior – Digital Media and Politics

I am a writer. I am best known for my critical take on the “prestige economy”, my reporting on St. Louis, my coverage of the 2016 election and the Trump administration, and my academic research on authoritarian states in Central Asia. My best-selling essay collection, The View From Flyover Country, is newly updated for 2018 and available as a paperback.

Shreds and Patches – Jason Baird Jackson

I am an ethnographer and ethnologist whose work is centered in the fields of folklore studies and cultural anthropology. I have collaborated with Native American communities in Oklahoma since 1993, when I began a lifelongpersonal and research relationship with the Euchee/Yuchi people. Since 2013, I have served as Director of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures at Indiana University, where I am also a Professor of Folklore and Anthropology.

Sindre Bangstad – A Social Anthropologist In Search of Parrhesia

Sindre Bangstad is a social anthropologist currently affiliated with the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo in Norway. This site features posts related to areas of research such as secularism, Islam and Islamophobia, hate speech as well as religion and the public sphere.

The Smell of Evolution

Kara C. Hoover is a bioanthropologist interested in human adaptation. The blog particularly focuses on the human sense of smell–its evolutionary biology and genetics within the ecological and cultural context.

Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA)

We promote study of visual


representation and media. Works in film, video, photography, and computer-based multimedia explore signification, perception, and communication-in-context, as well as a multitude of other anthropological and ethnographic themes.

Somatosphere – Science, Medicine, & Anthropology

A collaborative website covering the intersections of medical anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural psychiatry, psychology and bioethics. Founded in 2008 by a small group of medical anthropologists, Somatosphere has grown to become a key online forum for debate and discussion in medical anthropology, as well as in the humanities and social sciences of health and medicine more broadly.

Sound Ethnography Project

The Sound Ethnography Project is an experiment in engaging with sound to produce novel ethnographic methods and forms. The project began out of the University of California, Irvine through the collaborative initiative of graduate students in anthropology.

Space+ Anthropology

tech | culture | space | anthropology | sci-fi | art

Spider Monkey Tales – Michelle Rodrigues

Michelle Rodrigues is a primatologist/biological anthropologist who studies comparative social behavior and endocrinology.

stadtgeselle – Urban Anthropology & New Identities Meet Politics of Culture

Michael Anranter, Political scientist and cultural-social anthropologist in Vienna. Stadtgeselle may best translate as “urban apprentice.” Connects personal experiences, anthropological and political knowledge with the objective of exploring relations of identity and space. Weekly in German or English.

Standplaats Wereld – Nederland en de Wereld in Antropologisch Perspectief

A platform for informative, provocative, or surprising opinions about topical issues in the Netherlands and the rest of the world, viewed from an anthropological perspective. Contributions come from students and staff of the department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at VU University Amsterdam.

Struggle Forever!


blog de antropología

Noemí. Educadora social y antropóloga social y cultural.

Urban Fieldnotes

Urban Fieldnotes was a street style blog documenting fashion, style, and dress on the streets of Philadelphia and beyond, from 2012-2017. Brent Luvaas’s current project, Street Anthropology is on Instagram.

Violent Metaphors – Thoughts from the intersection of science, pseudoscience, & conflict

Jennifer Raff is assistant professor at the University of Kansas, in the department of Anthropology. Studies the genomes of contemporary and ancient peoples in order to uncover details of human prehistory.

Visual Anthropology of Japan

In the spirit of open-text, collaboration, communication and good anthropology… Visual Anthropology of Japan explores Japanese culture through photography, film and other visual methods.

The Wenner Gren Blog

The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. is a private operating foundation dedicated to the advancement of anthropology throughoutin American academia.”

There is a legal effort underway to bring Salaita to that moment. In August, an amended complaint was filed against the school by lawyers from the law firm Loevy & Loevy and the Center for Constitutional Rights, a legal advocacy group focused on civil liberties and human rights. The complaint amends a lawsuit first filed in January 2015 on Salaita’s behalf seeking his reinstatement plus financial damages. In the new complaint, Salaita’s lawyers argue that school administrators hid or deleted emails that constituted evidence related to his termination. The lawyers are also anticipating the disclosure of more information about the impact of donor pressure on his termination during the forthcoming discovery phase of the case.

In the meantime, Salaita has returned to academia after nearly a year


out of work, accepting this past July a visiting position as the Edward W. Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut for the 2015-2016 academic year. This month, he also released a new book, Uncivil Rites: Palestine and Limits of Academic Freedom, which attempts to contextualize his own case within the broader struggle for academic freedom of speech in the United States.

Despite these positive developments, Salaita is still shaken by his ordeal with the University of Illinois. In August 2014, just weeks before he was scheduled to begin a tenured role as associate professor of American Indian Studies, Salaita received a letter stating that his appointment was being terminated. Salaita, who had already resigned from his job at Virginia Tech to take the professorship,UK Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that he is drawing up plans to help France tackle a spike in attempts by migrants to enter Britain illegally via the Channel Tunnel.

"The situation is not acceptable. Starting with helping the French on their side of the border, we're going to put in more fencing, more resources, more sniffer dog teams, more assistance in any way we can," Cameron said on Friday following a meeting with Britain's emergency response committee 'Cobra'.

Cameron is under pressure to deter the migrants, many of whom have travelled from Africa and the Middle East, after disruption to cross-Channel passenger and freight traffic.

"This is going to be a difficult issue right across the summer."

Britain has pledged $34m so far towards improving security at the French end


of the tunnel that connects both the countries.

French police have in recent days prevented thousands of desperate attempts to scale fences around the tunnel terminal in Coquelles near Calais, although many migrants have successfully made it across.

France sent 120 additional officers to the site this week.

Cameron was expected to speak to French President Francois Hollande later on Friday to discuss the issue.

Political headache

Re-elected in May, Cameron has promised to cut net annual migration to Britain to the tens of thousands, a pledge he failed to keep during his 2010-15 term in office when it hit a near record high of over 300,000 people.

The issue is a sensitive one as it plays into Britain's debate about Europe ahead of an EU membership referendum Cameron has promised by the endof 2017.

Migrants have long gathered in Calais to try to get into Britain. But Eurotunnel, the firm that runs freight and passenger shuttles via the Channel Tunnel, said the numbers have swelled to around 5,000 people from about 600 and that it is struggling to cope.

It said migrants have also become better organised, mounting nightly attempts in large groups to storm the facilities.

Eurotunnel has sometimes been forced to suspend its services, causing disruption at what is one of the busiest times of the year for British holidaymakers.

The situation has caught the imagination of Britain's tabloid newspapers, becoming a political headache for Cameron.

He is under pressure to get tough on the migrants from many lawmakers in his ruling Conservatives. But he also has to contend with political rivals unhappy


with the debate's tone.

The opposition Labour Party has criticised Cameron for referring to the migrants as a "swarm", saying the term was dehumanising and stirred public hostility against people sometimes fleeing poverty and conflict.distorted in its political coverage of your favorite President (me). They are all bad. Winner to receive the FAKE NEWS TROPHY! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2017

The tweet comes after Trump, who spent Thanksgiving at his private Palm Beach club Mar-a-Lago, claimed he turned down an offer to be named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" and appeared to weigh in on the Department of Justice blocking a merger between AT&T and CNN parent company Time Warner. His posts also come amid news coverage of his support of Alabama Republican senate candidate Roy Moore. Though Trump has not officially sided with Moore, he discounted the claims — saying Moore denied the accusations of sexual misconduct against teens — and told voters not to support his "liberal"


rival.

Earlier on Twitter, Trump railed against Americans hearing only about Russia since he took office, "the phony Democrat excuse for losing the election." Now back in Washington, D.C., Trump said the upcoming week is a big one for tax cuts, adding, "The Tax Cut Bill is coming along very well, great support. With just a few changes, some mathematical, the middle class and job producers can get even more in actual dollars and savings and the pass through provision becomes simpler and really works well!"

Trump also specifically took a swipe at MSNBC's Morning Joe. Responding to a Breitbart News story about co-host Joe Scarborough, Trump said, "The good news is that their ratings are terrible, nobody cares!"as president of Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth and was named executive vice president of the health system in 2005. In 2007, he became senior executive vice president of system alignment and performance. He was named chief operating officer in 2012.

Berdan joined the Harris Methodist Health System as the vice president/administrator of Harris Methodist Southwest in 1986.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in biology from TCU and his MBA from the University of Chicago, specializing in hospital administration.

In announcing his retirement, Hawthorne said that he and his wife wanted to spend more time with their children and grandchildren and that he planned to continue being involved in the community.

Hawthorne has been CEO since Texas Health Resources was created through the merger of Presbyterian Healthcare Resources in Dallas,


then Mahony’s point person for dealing with suspected priests, wrote in 1993.

In another case, Mahony resisted turning over a list of altar boys to police who were investigating claims against a visiting Mexican priest who was later determined to have molested 26 boys during a 10-month stint in Los Angeles. “We cannot give such a list for no cause whatsoever,” he wrote on a January 1988 memo.

Mahony, who retired in 2011 after more than a quarter-century at the helm of the archdiocese, has publicly apologized for mistakes he made in dealing with priests who molested children. He has survived three grand jury investigations and several depositions by civil attorneys representing alleged abuse victims.

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On May 14, 1796, an English country doctor named Edward Jenner launched a new era in medicine. In front of a crowd of curious onlookers, Jenner inoculated eight-year-old James Phipps with pus taken from the sores of a local milkmaid who was afflicted with cowpox, a relatively mild disease. Six weeks later, he challenged the boy with material from a case of the far more serious disease, smallpox. Fortunately for both Phipps and Jenner, the boy did not develop smallpox. Jenner soon inoculated additional subjects, including his own children, with similar results. Vaccination was born.

In the late 18th century, milkmaids often contracted cowpox from their cows, and astute observers noted that milkmaids who recovered from cowpox did not develop smallpox. Although Jenner was not the


first to infect people with cowpox in an attempt to ward off smallpox, he conducted the first systematic experiments proving that prior inoculation with cowpox prevented the more serious disease. This was an early example of the scientific method: Jenner formulated his hypothesis and subjected it to rigorous experimental tests. Vaccination proved a safe and effective method to prevent smallpox, but the medical establishment was not immediately impressed. Jenner's historic study was rejected for publication by the Royal Society and found its way into print as a self-published monograph with a formidable if not particularly informative title, "An Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae: A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England, Particularly, Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of theCow Pox" \[[@ppat.1005320.ref001]\]. Eventually, Jenner was elected to the Royal Society---not for inventing smallpox vaccination, but in recognition of his observations on the nesting habits of cuckoos. We are fortunate that Jenner's interests in birds and poxviruses did not lure him into a career studying chicken pox, which was known at the time but has nothing to do with either chickens or poxviruses.

Smallpox was perhaps the greatest killer of all time, one that changed the course of history. Hernando Cortes landed in the Yucatan in 1519 with 500 conquistadors, a few horses, and an invisible army of smallpox viruses that leapt across the front lines and attacked the native population. The Spaniards, who had coexisted with smallpox for centuries in Europe, possessed a measure of protective immunity, but


smallpox raged through the immunologically naïve indigenous people and felled them in horrific numbers (up to 90% by some estimates) \[[@ppat.1005320.ref002]\]. The resulting widespread depopulation allowed the rapid European conquest of the Americas. And smallpox continued to rage. In the 20th century alone, smallpox claimed an estimated 300 million lives---many times more than the civilian and military deaths in World War I and World War II combined \[[@ppat.1005320.ref002]\].

Despite its status as arguably the most lethal and feared disease in history, smallpox is also the only human disease ever to be eradicated, a triumph that was made possible by the effectiveness of vaccination and the lack of an animal reservoir. In the 1960s, the World Health Organization mounted a global smallpox vaccination and eradication campaign, which was assisted bythe competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to eliminate smallpox from their spheres of influence during the Cold War \[[@ppat.1005320.ref003]\]. This decades-long effort involved sending teams of vaccinators to the most remote regions of the globe and tracking down every case of smallpox on earth. In 1980, the world was declared free of smallpox \[[@ppat.1005320.ref004]\].

The monumental effort to deliver the smallpox vaccine worldwide during the eradication campaign recalled some of the barriers to distributing live cowpox vaccine during the earliest days of vaccination. A major challenge was the transatlantic transport of live vaccine, but the orphans on the docks of Europe provided safe passage. The boys were rounded up and herded on board, and before weighing anchor, one was inoculated with cowpox. When the boy


virtually always fatal in humans. In 1885, a dog afflicted with "le hydrophobie" severely mauled a boy, Joseph Meister, who was then brought to Pasteur in Paris. Even though he had tested the vaccine in only a few dogs, Pasteur reluctantly agreed to vaccinate the boy. Meister did not develop rabies, recovered from his injuries, and lived for another 55 years until he took his own life in the face of the Nazi occupation of Paris \[[@ppat.1005320.ref006]\].

We now know that time is an ally in rabies vaccination. After an attack by a rabid animal, the rabies virus must make the long journey up the axons of the peripheral nerves into the central nervous system. During this time, the virus is susceptible to immune attack, so vaccination can preventWASHINGTON — Sixty-six percent of states that elect prosecutors have no blacks in those offices, a new study has found, highlighting the lack of diversity in the ranks of those entrusted to bring criminal charges and negotiate prison sentences.

About 95 percent of the 2,437 elected state and local prosecutors across the country in 2014 were white, and 79 percent were white men, according to the study, which was to be released on Tuesday by the San-Francisco-based Women Donors Network. By comparison, white men make up 31 percent of the population of the United States.

The numbers are being released as debate continues about racial imbalances in the criminal justice system in the wake of police-related deaths in Ferguson, Mo.; Staten Island; and Baltimore.

While the racial makeup of police forces


The General Court of the European Union has made a small reduction in the fine that Microsoft has to pay for its abuse of its dominant market position and refusal to provide interoperability documentation. The 1998 case, brought by the Free Software Foundation Europe and the Samba Team and assisted by SIIA, ECIS, IBM, Red Hat and Oracle, was being appealed by Microsoft, which wanted a 2008 ruling and fine to be annulled and to have its costs paid by the Commission and others.

Instead, it has been ordered to pay 95% of the commission's costs and 80% of the FSFE, Samba Team and the other intervenor's costs. The Associated Press reports that the penalty for non-compliance with a 2004 order has been trimmed by €39 million to €860million. Microsoft was initially fined €497 million in 2004, then penalised €280 million in 2006 for non-compliance and again, another €899 million in 2008.

The FSFE's President, Karsten Gerloff, said "The European Commission was right in being tough on Microsoft. We have worked hard to support the Commission in this case, and are extremely proud of the victory we've achieved." The Commission's Joaquin Almunia said the Commission felt the decision "fully vindicates" its action against Microsoft and that, thanks to that action, "a range of innovative products that would otherwise not have seen the light of day were introduced on the market".

Microsoft said it was "disappointed with the Court's ruling," though it had already made provision for the fines and now has no outstanding issues with the EU Commission.


Video report by ITV News Health Correspondent Emily Morgan

An A&E doctor has told of "carnage and chaos" in the UK's hospitals amid the coronavirus outbreak.

In a letter read out at the Health Select Committee, the London medic wrote they were "in shock" about the situation and they felt "like we're being thrown to the wolves", cautioning: "Some of us are going to die."

Also at the Committee, the Government's Chief Scientific advisor warned that keeping the Covid-19 death toll to 20,000 or less would be a "good outcome".

On Tuesday, the number of people confirmed to have died in the UK after contracting Covid-19 rose to 71.

Those who died were aged between 45 and 93 - the youngest death to date - and had underlying health conditions.

It was also announcedThe dark money nonprofit launched by Hillary Clinton following her defeat against Donald Trump relied heavily on just six donors and an $800,000 money transfer from her former presidential campaign committee during its first year, according to tax forms provided to the Washington Free Beacon.

Clinton's nonprofit, the New York-based Onward Together, was incorporated on April 24, 2017, by Marc Elias, a prominent Democratic lawyer and partner at the Washington, D.C.-based Perkins Coie law firm, filings show. Elias served as Clinton's top campaign lawyer.

Clinton launched Onward Together to allow her to be a part of the resistance against Trump and to encourage "people to organize, get involved, and run for office." The group would additionally send money to already established liberal groups who could provide direct action against Trump


usher in a wave of Democratic wins across the country last November."

Onward together provides financial support to a number of organizations who are involved in the resistance and handed out $1.1 million in contributions to left-wing organizations throughout its first year.

The donations ranged between $30,000 and $100,000 and went to the Color of Change PAC, Emerge America, Emily's List, Swing Left, Run for Something, National Redistricting Foundation, Latino Victory Project, IVote, Alliance for Youth Action, the Arena, Collective Future, Ultraviolet, and Voto Latino.

Minyon Moore, Onward Together's president who is a principal at the D.C.-based Dewey Square Group, did not collect a salary from the group. Charles Baker, the director and treasurer of Onward Together who is the president and founder of the Dewey Square Group, also did notcollect a salary.

Dennis Cheng, Onward Together's finance director who previously was the chief development officer at the Clinton Foundation from 2011 to 2015 and the national finance chair for Clinton's 2016 campaign, was paid a $60,000 salary for 30 hours of work per week.

Kelly Mehlenbacher, the group's chief operating officer, was paid $35,000 for 20 hours of work per week while Huma Abedin, the longtime Clinton aide who is listed as an officer of the group, collected $45,000 for a reported 15 hours of work per week.


During 2017, 9 % of EU enterprises recruited or tried to recruit ICT specialists and 5 % reported having hard-to-fill vacancies for jobs requiring relevant ICT skills. In other words, over half (53%) of all enterprises that recruited or tried to recruit ICT specialists had difficulties in filling these vacancies.

In the EU Member States, the highest proportions of businesses finding it difficult to recruit ICT specialists in 2017 were in Czechia (79 %) and Austria (78 %). In contrast, the proportion was below 40 % in Poland (37 %), Portugal (35 %) and Spain (25 %).

The source data are here.

ICT training for personnel

During 2017, 10 % of EU enterprises provided professional training to their ICT specialists, and twice as many (20 %) provided ICT training for their other          61

        V.--PHARAOH ARRIVES TOO LATE                         76

       VI.--CRETE AND THE CRETANS                            98

      VII.--CHRYSEIS PREFERS HANNO TO A KING                112

     VIII.--AN AFFAIR WITH THE PHOCIANS


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  I said; "not a word to Bodmilcar. More than
ever it makes me resolve to have both eunuch and slave on board my
own galley; otherwise I foresee there will be no end of mischief.
Neither you nor Himilco must breathe a syllable until we have seen
our unwelcome passengers securely landed at their destination."

Each promised faithfully to preserve the strictest reticence: Hanno,
for his part, vehemently asseverating that if a word upon the matter
should escape him, he would forthwith cut off his tongue, and devote
himself to Horus, the Egyptian god of silence.

As we now reached our lodging, the conversation dropped, and for the
next few days we were far too much engaged in active duties to think
any further of what had transpired.

I gave my own personal superintendence to the weaving of all the
sails,


of his
respect, and promised to give his sovereign an immediate notice of my
arrival.

When we had completed our repast, I began to prepare my presents
for King David. First of all I chose a hyacinth- under
tunic, made of the finest Egyptian linen, and a purple upper tunic
embroidered round the neck and sleeves with flowers, and bordered
with silver fringe; to these I added a girdle wrought in gold and
silver, with a lion's head in gold for a clasp, the eyes being of
bright enamel. This girdle was a most elaborate specimen of Egyptian
workmanship, being one of four that I had purchased of a native
artist, intending them for presents to any monarchs to whose presence
I might be admitted in the course of my progress. Another gift that
I selected was a drinking-cup of silverof us, accompanied by a number of little boats.
At the same moment I espied a troop of horsemen galloping along the
shore; and raising my eyes to the causeway on the top of the <DW18>,
I observed a cloud of dust, from the midst of which broke ever and
again the gleam of a row of bronze and gilded chariots. There was no
room for doubt; evidently the King himself was approaching with the
intention of being a witness of our capture.

But the mighty Pharaoh had come too late!

Out of forty or fifty fire-ships which we had set afloat, two at last
had run foul of one of the galleys, which was now in flames, and the
terrified crew were fain to resort to the usual naval manœuvre
of the Egyptians, and run their ship aground.


her land. I heard
her name Achilles, and Ajax, and a certain king called Agamemnon; and
I understood her to relate that two kings in her country, named Jason
and Ulysses, were renowned for the voyages they had made.

"Voyages!" cried Himilco, scornfully; "I can guess what their voyages
were: creeping along and hugging the shore; making perhaps a stadium
a day; never looking at a star. And then, what ships they had! I am
glad I haven't to trust myself in one of them from Sidon to Chittim."

Chryseis owned that, as to ships, she had never seen anything in her
own country that could be compared to the ships of the Phœnicians,
adding that she thought that the mariners of Phœnicia must be true
sea-gods.

"And you must be their goddess," said Hanno, with enthusiasm.

"Ah, young man," yawnedthe position
of the Cabiri, and have no conception of guiding their course in
sailing by the seventh Cabiros or Pole-star: to say the truth, they
are very cowardly sailors, rarely venturing to lose sight of the
shore. Their boats are large but very badly built, having no decks,
ill-contrived rigging, and very defective arrangements for ballast;
consequently they are equally unsteady whether they are impelled by
oars or worked by sails. The people have little idea of distance;
they are profoundly ignorant of the shape of the country, and are at
once deterred from a voyage by the least stress of weather, or by the
most insignificant current.

The towns are built in places that are difficult of access, and are
rudely fortified with piles of uncemented stones. The houses are
made either of rough stone, or of bricks that


had sustained some serious injury. I then
made the _Dagon_ sheer off about two stadia out to sea, ordering
her to make her way back to the _Ashtoreth_ by short tacks, as if
she were coming to her assistance. Meanwhile I gave my ship the
appearance of being a disabled merchantman; I lowered my sail, made
my rowers struggle with their oars without propelling the vessel, and
told all my soldiers to slip their shields, and to lie down flat upon
the deck so as not to be seen.

"What's up now, Captain?" said Chamai raising his head, with a merry
grin.

I told him that I was giving a sprat to catch a mackerel; and that if
he would have patience I hoped he would be satisfied with the haul.

It was a very short time now before thetroop, charged right and left.

But Gisgo was beforehand with any of us. Before the chief could
regain his feet, the pilot rushed at him, and with the help of
Himilco (who drew his sword, and hurried to his assistance) he had
split open the chief's skull, and laid two of his staff-bearers dead,
or as good as dead, by his side.

My fighting-men meanwhile succeeded in driving back the foremost
Siculians half a stadium from the water's edge, and as soon as our
boats were loaded and ready to start, I sounded the signal for
retreat. Finding themselves no longer pursued, the Siculians faced
about and followed us back at a safe distance, trying to harass us
by stones and javelins; but I made my people embark a few at a time,
and when there were only about fifteen


of us remaining, just enough
for one boat's load, I was congratulating myself that we had been
so little molested; but at that very instant a large party of the
Siculians made a dash towards us, and if it had not been that the
_Cabiros_ skilfully protected us by her engines, we must inevitably
have fallen into their hands. As it was, we all managed to embark;
and although they pursued us with hideous yells as far as they
could into the water, we got right away, the _Cabiros_ slipping her
moorings and following us without sustaining any injury.

One of our Phocians had been killed, and another seriously
wounded, and eight of our own people had received slight cuts and
contusions; but we had obtained fifteen hundred shekels of coral,
mother-of-pearl, and sulphur, so that on the whole Isoon consoled themselves with the reflection
that as the gods are everywhere, they might fairly hope to find a
Hestia in their new country.

The Phocians had carried off the body of their comrade who had been
killed by the Siculians and had conveyed it on board. I promised
to try and procure them a piece of ground where they might bury
him according to their own rites; and so gratified were they by my
endeavour to meet their wishes in this respect, that they declared
they would encounter any perils by sea now that they found it did not
deprive them of their rites of sepulture. Another circumstance which
had some little effect of reconciling them to their position was that
Himilco, although he had great difficulty in bringing them to believe
what he said, explained to them that


have to go down towards the
trade-harbour, through the square where the rich merchant Hamoun
resides; and at the corner of the street which leads to the temple of
Moloch they would find a dealer who had a whole cargo to dispose of.

"You will have a choice there," he said; "there are apes of all
sorts, all sizes, and all colours. You may have them brown, or red,
or grey, or black, or green; with tails or without tails; with long
hair, short hair, or no hair; wild or tame; only ask for what you
want, and you will be sure to get it."

On our way down towards the trade-harbour we met Aminocles, quite
drunk. He was being dragged along by a couple of sailors, singing at
the top of their voices. He had learnt only toobuilt of brick.

"Not particularly lively here," said Hanno; "the getting of silver
seems rather a more dreary business than the spending of it."

Hannibal remarked that all the villages seemed to occupy positions
that were naturally very strong, observing that the Bœtis itself
formed a good line of defence, and that there might be a great deal
of hard fighting in such a country.

"I can answer for that," said Himilco; "I know that these Tarshish
barbarians would sooner pluck out a man's eye than give him a cup of
wine. Here come some of the rascals. Look at them."

Every one looked where Himilco was pointing, and there, walking,
or rather shambling, along the bank were rather more than a score
of savage-looking creatures evidently watching our ships. They
were almost naked, their only covering being a strip of


was evidently affected by the
intelligence we gave him about Hanno, he endeavoured to disguise his
feelings by saying that we must all submit to the chances of war.

"But what's to be done next?" he added, quickly.

I told him that I was determined at all hazards to go in pursuit of
Bodmilcar, who must not be suffered to escape.

"Easier said than done," replied Hannibal. "Bodmilcar not only had
a large force of Phœnician criminals and deserters, but when he
attacked us he had a regular swarm of savages, all armed either with
clubs or javelins. At any rate, he can keep his distance. I know not
whether he is alive or dead; but I know this, that the fellows have
found out that it is not to their advantage to tackle us in close
quarters. However, webut the
_Dagon_, it was only too evident, was in a very critical position.
I ordered all my men to abandon the ships and make for land. Some
of them hung back, unwilling to leave me; Chamai being so reluctant
to go that he had to be sent ashore by main force, and Hamilcar,
Hasdrubal, Gisgo, and Himilco all pleading so earnestly to remain
with me that I was forced to consent. My own resolution, of course,
was to abide, while the planks held together, with the ship that had
carried us so far in safety.

As the day advanced the swell gradually abated, and the pale-blue
sky was broken by fleecy clouds; not far away we could see the green
shore, where our people were standing on the water's edge waving
signs of encouragement, and very soon Bichri and


going by land or by water, we arrived at
some forests consisting of black firs, and some other trees that
were remarkable for their slimness and scanty grey foliage. The soil
everywhere was marshy, and often broken by large pools. Although we
did not come across a human being, we observed many vestiges which
showed that the place was by no means untrodden by the foot of man.
In four places we passed some ruined reed-huts, surrounded by piles
of ashes, numbers of shells, and some gnawed bones that bore the
marks of fire. But if men were wanting, animals abounded. At every
turn we noticed prints, large and small, of cloven hoofs, betokening
that we were traversing the haunt both of bullocks and deer, some of
the impressions being obviously those of very enormous creatures.
Bichri, who followed oneone of them
finding a fire still burning, and in several of the others a variety
of arms and implements, consisting of weapons made of polished stone,
hatchets, and some copper caldrons. Examining them with greater
minuteness, we ascertained that the huts had been abandoned in great
haste; not only were there fragments of partially-consumed meat and
fish, but one of the litters of reeds covered with moss was still
warm from being lately occupied. I felt convinced that the natives
must have evacuated their tenements in alarm at our approach, and
suspecting that they were still lurking about, I ordered some red
cloth, some beads, some bracelets and necklaces, and other things
which I thought might attract their interest, to be displayed in one
of the most spacious of the huts. I next made my people retire about
three hundred


another word until I give you leave."

For a moment Jonah's dignity seemed somewhat wounded, and he
hesitated about complying; but upon my promising him a good skin of
wine, he returned to his shrine without further murmuring. Hanno
re-arranged the trumpery jewellery with which the god was bedecked,
and Bichri whistled the monkey back to his own shoulder.

"Here's a messenger," said Hanno, "that I think will answer my
purpose very well."

And turning to the creature, who was making the oddest grimaces, he
said:

"Now, Gebal, take this to Hamilcar, quick; and you shall have some
cake."

The monkey appeared perfectly to comprehend what was wanted, snatched
the piece of skin that was held out to it, gnashed its teeth, and
on three legs hopped rapidly out of the temple. A buzz of mingled
surprise and fright made us aware thatexample. Bichri pronounced it very acid;
Chamai declared it was detestably bitter; the sailor and I both
recognised it as very like what we had tasted elsewhere.

"Not good for much!" said Hannibal, after he had taken a good
draught; "is it intoxicating?"

"Most assuredly it is," replied Hanno.

"The most villainous stuff I ever tasted," said Himilco, the last to
pass an opinion. "However, I think I will have a little more."

And he drained another horn.

"Disgusting!" he sputtered out; but he seemed so thoroughly to have
reconciled himself to the flavour of what he abused, that I was only
fearful that he would take more than was good for him.

By the time we had finished our refreshment, day was beginning to
dawn, and Hanno was summoned outside; he returned almost immediately,
ordered Jonah to sound his trumpet, and


and could hardly
find words strong enough to express their contempt of a cowardice
that had shirked a fair fight. Hanno, with his bow still in his hand,
avowed that nothing else than the gathering gloom of night had saved
Bodmilcar; if he could have recognised him, he would have been a dead
man.

"When I was attacked in the boat," said Himilco, "I recognised the
villain who took my eye out of my head; and if there had not been
some thousand of them peppering away at us all at once----"

"How many, do you say?" asked Hannibal, with a smile.

"Well, then, I am sure there were six or eight; but never mind, many
or few, there was one man I knew only too well, and while I was down
there looking after that leak, no one knowswere sumptuous tents of every hue pitched amongst the rare and
graceful trees, to the boughs of which monkeys were attached by
golden chains; Indian birds with gayest plumage fluttered overhead;
and peacocks, displaying their gorgeous tails, were strutting along
the avenues. Every thing we saw seemed worthy of the stateliest
empire in the world.

We prostrated ourselves before the Queen, who at once bade us rise.
She was young and very fascinating; and although she was surrounded
by ladies in waiting and maids of honour, she was conspicuous among
them all for grace and beauty. Her attire, redolent of perfume, was
alike sumptuous and elegant; in her hair and round her neck were
jewels valuable enough not only to equip a fleet, but to maintain
it as well; a long robe, embroidered in gold with figures of men,
beasts, and


Algeria which is
    suggested by the text. I cannot, however, say so much for the
    existence of Atlantis, but while speaking of the migrations of
    the Libyans, it seemed consistent to mention all the ancient
    traditions that relate to them.--_Page 203._

CHAPTER XVI.

    _Ar-Mor._--I entertain considerable doubt whether at the period
    of which I write the Celts had penetrated so far as the west
    coast of France; but at any rate they were already in the
    east, and upon the Rhone. I have ascertained the existence of
    anterior races, such as the Mongoloids and Australoids, and
    both here andThirty-three Alamo Wing members participated in Exercise Swift Response 2019, a six-week long event across Europe, which concluded in June.

The Army-led exercise is a coalition, joint, total-force training event with service members and support from the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom.

The team from Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland consisted of Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 433rd Contingency Response Flight, the 433rd Logistics Readiness Squadron, as well as the 26th and 74th Aerial Port Squadrons.


addiction or mental health counseling practice. Since then, other companies have joined the marketplace to provide lpc continuing education including quantumunitsed, ce4less, Aspira aspirace, tzkseminars, i-counseling, accessceu, CEUbynet, pdresources. AllCEUs pioneered the model of offering unlimited CEU packages for a flat rate. We also were the first to offer live webinars each week for $5 per counseling webinar. We pride ourselves on having the largest catalog, with well over 200 multimedia, online counseling CEU courses. AllCEUs is an approved continuing education provider by the Connecticut Certification Board, The Florida Certification Board, FCB, The Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling Board of Georgia, ADACB-GA, NAADAC, the association for addiction professionals, the Texas Board of Social Work, The Texas Board of Professional Counseling, The Texas Board of Marriage and Family Therapy,What Berendt
recognized was the fire was a story, an intriguing story, and it just might be
the prism through which to tell the larger story of Venice. And so he stayed
on, rented a room, and began to talk with people.

The City of Falling Angels was first published in 2005, the year after the rebuilt opera house was opened. And the story Berendt tells, a story of Venice, is a fascinating one.

The opera house
fire becomes a framework to write the story of Venice – its history, its
politics, its maze of bureaucratic rules, its first families (how many doges do
you have in your family line?), the expats who live and have lived there
(especially Americans), the rivalries of the charitable organizations set up to
save and restore city buildings, artwork, and icons. But


it’s not only a story
of rich people; Venice is also the story of artists and bakers, gondola drivers
and electricians, and the crazy time that is Carnival.

City authorities
initially investigated the fire as one of negligence, and there was plenty of
ongoing negligence to go around before the fire – cans of solvents left open,
blow torches left burning, improper ventilation. And then, in the way that
really good stories do, the investigations focuses on arson.

John Berendt

With the story
of the La Fenice fire comes the stories of a family of glassblowers, what
happened to the papers of poet Ezra Pound, a wealthy American family that has
lived in self-enforced exile since the late 19th century, and the
battle of Save Venice vs. Venetian Heritage (the rich can be just as petty as
the rest us, and perhapsmore so). It’s an entertaining mix of fact and myth,
perception and reality.

Berendt, a
native of New York State, received his B.A. degree in English from Harvard
University. He’s worked in publishing, writing for television talk show hosts
(David Frost and Dick Cavett), and worked at New York Magazine and Esquire.
His story of murder in Savannah, Midnight
in the Garden of Good and Evil, was virtually an overnight sensation when
it was published in 1994.

Top photograph: La Fenice Opera House in
Venice, after its restoration from the fire. Image via Wikipedia.

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from the European Union and the Eurozone.

Fourth, the imposition of a national domestic currency.

Fifth, the nationalization of the Bank of Greece, the country’s central bank.

Sixth, the imposition of capital controls in order to prevent money from leaving the country.

Seventh, the liquidation of Greece’s four major banks while they remain in operation.

Eighth, enacting measures to ensure that transactions are able to take place smoothly during the period of transition to the new currency.

Ninth, ensuring the adequate supply of goods in the marketplace.

Tenth, protecting consumers and vigorously policing the marketplace and the prices of goods.

Finally, the implementation of “seisachtheia,” an ancient Greek precedent that refers to the forgiveness of the debts of households, as well as small- and medium-sized businesses.

MPN: How has Greece’s membership in the European Union since 1981pounds and the increase in average weekly wages for British workers by 2.8 percent on a year-to-year basis.

MPN: The new president of the United States, Donald Trump, seems to have taken a position in favor of Brexit and against the Eurozone, stating a preference for reaching bilateral trade agreements with individual countries, rather than large-scale trade deals with the Eurozone as a whole. On a domestic basis, Trump has promised the return of domestic jobs, factories, corporations and businesses that have left the country. How do you view the economic policies and promises of the Trump administration and what would they mean for the European and global economies?

DKThe turn inward being undertaken by the United States will gradually lead to the repatriation of U.S. dollars. As a result,


least make a statement in a male dominant society and this is helping over all the general welfare of the world. Women have been able to get services at home like cooking classes, exercise training and educational benefits.

This is especially useful for women in rural areas as they get all the knowledge and wisdom fairly easily but where it plays a game changer is inspiring women to be more liberal, logical and outspoken by looking at women from across the world.

Women have been greatly helped by the new generation but it is also their responsibility to take this as a chance, an opportunity to firm their standings in the world for times to come and not only enjoy the luxury that could end with a regretful failurebeen strong."

"Poverty has also been falling, albeit from a high level," the report said.

The IDI is based on 12 performance indicators, and evaluation is based on three key parameters of Growth and Development, Inclusion and Intergenerational Equity, and Sustainability.

While India is placed at the 60th spot, among its neighbours China is ranked 15th, Nepal is 27th, Bangladesh is ranked 36th and Pakistan is closest ahead of India at 52nd.

Lithuania tops the list of 79 developing economies that also features Azerbaijan and Hungary at second and third positions, respectively.

Others countries in the top ten are Poland (fourth), Romania (fifth), Uruguay (sixth), Latvia (seventh), Panama (eighth), Costa Rica (ninth) and Chile (10th).

The report also noted that India's debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio is high, raising some questions about the sustainability


of government spending.

Meanwhile, the International Monetary Fund has cut India's growth forecast for the current fiscal by as much as one percentage point due mainly to the disruptions caused by demonetisation of 500 and 1,000 rupee currency notes.

The IMF had earlier predicted a 7.6 per cent growth for the Indian economy during the current fiscal ending March 31.

"In India, the growth forecast for the current (2016-17) and next fiscal year were trimmed by one percentage point and 0.4 percentage point, respectively, primarily due to the temporary negative consumption shock induced by cash shortages and payment disruptions associated with the recent currency note withdrawal and exchange initiative," the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) update released in Washington on on Monday.

In its firstTakeshi Matsu Archives - Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources

Next fall, Fantagraphics will publish Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It, featuring stories by an array of well known Japanese manga creators, many of whom have never been published in English before.

Massive was originally slated to be published by PictureBox, but the company closed its doors at the end of 2013 and Fantagraphics acquired the book as part of its queer comics line. Translators Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins and designer Chip Kidd will remain on the book at its new home; the three also worked on The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame, a collection of gay manga that PictureBox published last year to great acclaim.

The creators whose work is represented in the book are Gengoroh


inspired piece, the outside is created from layers of aluminium tape, with DecoArt liquid glass dots as rivets. After many layers of alcohol inks, paints and patina finishes, the end result is a superb take on a steampunk submarine!Through the porthole, you can glimpse an undersea world, created with fusible film and lots of MDF embellishments. As space was limited in the magazine, we couldn't really explore that world... until now!The box slowly opens...

More detail is revealed....

The intricate, layered, fabulously coloured world can be seen!

Swirling waves, and undersea plant life....

Louise says:"The inside of the box was painted blue before building up layers of fusible film and fibres. I used a gel medium to hold the film, then heated with a heat gun until it melted and holes appeared."Cold Gettin' Dumb" remains one of the most exhilarating tracks from an era when hip-hop was inventing itself day by day. Mantronik's production was so ahead of it's time, and when coupled with Just Ice the combination was pure fire. This song still to this day might be one of the hardest beats ever made in Hip Hop. 10 years after it's release Redman tried to recreate the beat for his single "It's Like That (My Big Brother) but the fact that Mantronik had programmed and sequenced "Cold Gettin' Dumb" live you can hear the difference which makes the original beat unmatched.


currently at the last year of computer science degree at the university =)

Also I play World of Warcraft and still have a life ( )

I hope I have a nice time here =)

Oh and look up here, it's tiji ^^ It's thanks to him that I started the development on my current project (which is kinda the same as his - a IWBTG Fangame) Hi guys ^^Well, first, I'm sorry for posting before introducing myselfMy name is Felipe, I'm the main developer of Wolfpac GamingStudio, a indie gaming studio that started around 8 years ago with RPG Maker 2k games...I'm currently at the last year of computer science degree at the university =)Also I play World of Warcraft and still have a life (I hope I have aand explore the town, you still have healthy options for places to eat.

Always remembering that food is the information you give to yourself.

Natalia Lanchi, Master Chef: Natalia is a young woman native of Sacapo, San Pedro de Vilcabamba. She and her family live in a traditional way, growing their food on the mountain and raising their animals. She has worked with us for many years and is already part of our family. With infinite patience and great sweetness, she prepares the food for Casa del Sol.

If you have any questions or special request about food, please don't hesitate to contact us.


‘Boycott Sri Lanka’ campaign continues in UK

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 11 January 2011, 11:21 GMT]A public awareness campaign asking shoppers in Britain to boycott products made in Sri Lanka and sold in popular stores like Marks & Spencer continued last week with several members of the Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO) handing out leaflets and talking to shoppers on Oxford Street Saturday. Similar TYO events took place over the Christmas period in shopping centres in London’s suburbs, mirroring Tamil activists’ campaigns in other parts of the world, and those of other UK-based organisations like ‘Act Now’. In the midst of the January sales, central London retailers are in their busiest times of the year.

Despite the cold weather Saturday, groups of activists at different locations on UK’s premier shopping street spent severalParma is in North Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region, halfway between Bologna and Milan: a strategic position that makes it possible to quickly reach financial and tourist destinations such as Venice, Ferrara, Verona, and Turin, and resorts along the Ligurian coast and the Romagnola Riviera on the Adriatic Coast.

BY TRAIN

Fresh from a complete makeover (reopened in May 2014), Parma’s railway station, close to the historic city centre, provides links to Italy’s main cities and the top European capitals. Almost all the trains on the Milan-Bologna line stop at least once an hour, and there are fairly frequent connections on the Turin-Bologna and Genoa-Bologna lines, as well as trains that reach the Ligurian and Adriatic coasts. Rome and Florence can be reached directly by Intercity and Eurostar. When required,


there is also a pre-bookable shuttle service linking Parma with the Mediopadana High Speed Railway Station in Reggio Emilia. This service, for a minimum of two persons, uses a seven-seater minibus. The fares cost: €25 single, €45 return. There are supplements for services booked at the last minute, up to one hour before departure (€5) and for transport from the Province of Parma. It is possible to book the shuttle for private use: €75. A 10-journey pass costs €500.
For information and bookings: Tel. 39 393.919.8855.

BY PLAIN

Parma has an airport: called “Giuseppe Verdi” five kilometres from the city centre. It is easily reached from the city centre by taxi, or number 6 bus. RyanAir provides flights to London (on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday), to Cagliari (on Monday, Wednesday and(Tangenziale) which, by describing an ideal ring around the city, offers a short-cut from Parma to the main roads and motorway entrances and exits.

BY COACH OR TOURIST BUS

Parma has coach links to numerous Italian and European cities provided by the Beltatour, Sena and Eurolines companies. On the website italybus.it it is possible to search by entering departure and destination points: the system then shows the times, the frequency, and the company providing the service, with helpful contacts to ask for further information or to make a booking.

As far as tourist buses are concerned, drivers should let their passengers off at the bus shelter in Viale Toschi, the road that runs along the river, facing the railway station, near Palazzo della Pilotta. Various free parking options are available:

the parking


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Detailed examination of samples of ancient DNA has revealed the genetic makeup of humans living circa 40,000 years ago in an area near what is now Beijing in China.An international team of researchers including Svante Pääbo and Qiaomei Fu of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have sequenced nuclear and mitochondrial DNA extracted from the leg of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave near Beijing.Analyses of DNA recovered from the leg bones showed that the Tianyuan human shared a common origin with present-day Asians and Native Americans. In addition, the researchers found the proportion of Neanderthal and Denisovan-DNA in this early modern human is no higher than in current populations living in this region today....Mitt Romney won Tuesday's Illinois primary, providing Romney much-needed ammunition in his battle for the Republican presidential nomination. With 94 percent of precincts reporting, Romney had 46.77 percent of the vote, while Rick Santorum had 35 percent of the vote. Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich each received less than 10 percent of the vote.

Romney was expected to win the Illinois primary following polling that indicated he held a significant lead over his closest competitor, Rick Santorum, in the state. Additionally, Romney and his supporters organized an expensive advertising blitz in Illinois in the days leading up to the primary.

"What a night. Thank you, Illinois, what a night," Romney said in his victory speech in Schamburg, Illinois. Romney went on the offensive against President Barack Obama--pointing out that he


was speaking in the president's home state. "This president doesn't understand the genius of America's economy or the secret of the American economic success story. The American economy is fueled by freedom," Romney said. "I offer a choice, and a new beginning."

ABC News analysis of the preliminary exit polls conducted by Edison Research found that six in 10 Illinois voters viewed Romney as the candidate most capable of beating Barack Obama. Perhaps more telling, Romney was also identified as the candidate who "best understands the problems of average Americans."

In a sign that even Santorum believed a Romney win was in the works, the former Pennsylvania senator chose to spend Tuesday outside of Illinois. He campaigned in his home state of Pennsylvania, where voters head to the polls April24.

Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul, neither of whom spent Tuesday in the state, are not expected to garner much of the vote.

In Illinois, Romney branded Santorum an "economic lightweight" and highlighted Santorum's decision to endorse him in 2008, forcing Santorum to explain his change of heart. Santorum said he turned on the former Massachusetts governor because he failed to uphold conservative values by standing by his Massachusetts health care law and by back the Wall Street bailouts.

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Romney also entered Tuesday's race with a technical advantage. Santorum failed to file slates of delegates in four congressional districts in Illinois and was therefore ineligible to win the 10 delegates apportioned by those districts. A total of 54 delegates were up for grabs in Illinois Tuesday. (The state has a


The greatness of a nation

This frightened little stranded seal was soon to be rescued. Santa Cruz, CA, June 2003

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals.” — Mahatma Gandhi

While Matt was at Ride a Wave in Santa Cruz, a fascinating drama was unfolding on the beach nearby, where a stranded seal pup was being rescued. I watched as workers carefully manipulated the net around the baby, who was clearly terrified. Though it had been mostly silent, when the net approached it lifted its head up and bellowed a heartrending cry. As I snapped the photo shown above, I felt almost unbearably sorry for the little one, and took great comfort in the manifest expertise of the handlersLOS ANGELES November 7th, 2016 - Professional photographer Ulla Jensen of Denmark was presented with the 11th Annual Black and White Spider Awards Nominee title in the category of Children of the World at a prestigious Nomination & Winners PhotoShow webcast Saturday, November 5, 2016.

The live online gala was attended by over 10,500 photography fans around the globe who logged on to watch the climax of the industry's most important event for black and white photography.

"It is an incredible achievement to be selected among the best from the 7,556 entries we received this year," said Basil O'Brien, the awards Creative Director. "Ulla Jensen's "Out of its Waters" an exceptional image entered in the Children of the World category, represents black and white photography at its finest, and we're


pleased to present her with the title of Nominee." Jury member Paola Anselmi, interdisciplinary curator and arts writer in Australia added, "As always it was a real treat to be part of the program. Congratulations to all involved and to all the remarkable photographers who gift us new insights into the world and ourselves." "A truly amazing set of entries, so many deserving winners," added Marcel Wijnen, Creative Director at Anthem Worldwide.

BLACK AND WHITE SPIDER AWARDS is the leading international award honoring excellence in black and white photography. This celebrated event shines a spotlight on the best professional and amateur photographers worldwide and honors the finest images with the highest achievements in black and white photography. www.thespiderawards.comand was connected with a most incompetent person named Mark (Claims dept) who abruptly connected me back to John Edwards. He would not call back at the time he stated and when I called, I was put on hold for 20-30mins. He bothered to call me that day atleast with a promise to call by noon on the 21st. Not hearing back on the 21st (surprise, surprise), I called numerous times to speak with anyone about my issue and the operators (who were super nasty) kept putting me off saying that Mark was busy and would call me when he had time. And, that there was no other person to deal with.
By evening, I am panicking and had to arrange for something else (which cost me MUCH MUCH


and, surprise surprise, she plays a quicky, cute, likeable, girl-next-door. The show is about her character (Jess) as she moves in with three male roommates after she catches her boyfriend cheating on her within the first few minutes of the first episode.

Deschanel is funny and good in this role (of course, she's been playing this role for the past decade or so in movies) but the show would get stale and boring if it solely focused around her character. The reason the show works so well is because of her three roommates (well, really mainly two). Her roommates are Nick (Jake Johnson), Schmidt (Max Greenfield) and Winston (Lamorne Morris).

In the pilot episode, the black roommate was played by Damon Wayans Jr. who didn't continue with the show becausewould be better. Like what NBC did with Parks and Recreation. Parks and Rec's first season was so terrible I stopped watching, but then NBC retooled it and DME still for some reason kept watching and convinced me to do the same. Now the show is one of the best comedies on television right now.

But now back to Whitney. The best part of this entire series is Whitney's boyfriend Alex. D'Elia is funny and good in this role and plays well off of Whitney's character. The best episode by far of this short series was episode three- which focused a lot on Alex and less on Whitney. (Plus this episode was not written by Cummings).

The four other friends are tired, stale, two-dimensional characters that I don't care about


government are the people who evict you from your home. If Measure Z passes, Humboldt County's low-income residents will begin paying their landlords' tax bills. Measure Z is a cynical ploy to take advantage of the county's most vulnerable. Please, vote no on Measure Z.

John Hardin, Redway

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As part of a volunteer organization in Eureka, I've worked with both Natalie Arroyo and Kim Bergel and know them to be smart, energetic, and hardworking. Both have made contributions to improve our city; Kim, as chair of Eureka's Transportation Safety Commission along with other volunteer commitments, and Natalie through her work at Redwood Community Action Agency and her service in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. What impresses me about them is their solutions for an improved Eureka. Please go to theirTower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman accused of 'illegal practices' Published duration 2 February 2015

media caption Four local people are claiming postal ballot forms were rigged and voters bullied at polling stations

The mayor of an east London borough has been accused of "corrupt and illegal practices", at a special court hearing.

At the Election Court - part of the High Court - in London, four voters alleged mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman had committed electoral fraud.

Independent Mr Rahman was elected for a second term in May 2014. His lawyer said the claims were a "mixture of unfounded and false allegations".

The group of voters wants the poll declared void and rerun.

'Serious questions'

Evidence is to be outlined to Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey - a senior lawyer sitting as a judge -


over a number of weeks.

The group of voters mounted the challenge under the provisions of the 1983 Representation Of The People Act.

Andy Erlam, who stood as a councillor on an anti-corruption ticket and is heading the group, said there were "serious questions" which "need answers".

Francis Hoar, representing the group of four, told Mr Mawrey his clients were accusing Mr Rahman of election fraud.

He said there had been "personation" - where people pretend to be someone else to cast a vote - in postal voting and at polling stations.

image caption Independent Lutfur Rahman was elected for a second term in May 2014

He added people had registered themselves or others to vote at addresses at which they did not live and there had been tampering with ballot papers.

Mr Hoar alsoalleged Mr Rahman had used "undue influence through intimidation at polling stations" and "interference with voters" - including in polling booths.

The court heard one presiding officer reported there was a "constant battle" to stop men entering polling booths with women and telling them how to vote.

'Threats of violence'

He said there had been "bribery" through "unlawfully diverting public funds to organisations in order corruptly to procure their political support".

Mr Hoar told Mr Mawrey that his clients aimed to call almost 100 witnesses who "know about corruption" and "know about Lutfur Rahman".

Mr Mawrey told the court that, if he found allegations had been proved, he could declare the election "void" and rule that Mr Rahman had not been declared mayor.

Allegations against returning officer John Williams have been withdrawn by lawyers


for the group, the court was told.

image copyright Reuters image caption A group of voters has mounted a legal challenge and claim the poll is void

Timothy Straker QC, for Mr Williams, said it had been accepted his client had "acted properly throughout the election".

Mr Williams said, outside court, in a statement: "This was a hotly contested election run in challenging circumstances.

"As returning officer I am politically neutral and my only concern is to run an efficient, free and fair election."

'Unfounded allegations'

Duncan Penny QC, for Mr Rahman, described the petition as "a rich and elaborate mixture of unfounded and false allegations" and its one aim was to unseat a directly elected mayor.

He told the court: "There is little, if any evidence, of personal wrongdoing by Lutfur Rahman" and describedthe group's claims as "invention" and "exaggeration".

He said Mr Rahman did not want to be elected as a result of fraudulent activity and had been anxious that electoral law was observed.

Mr Penny said: "He has consistently called for anyone with suspicion of malpractice to report them and has been a public proponent of reforms to the postal voting system."


Oklahoma City's Chris Paul (3) laughs during the NBA basketball game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Atlanta Hawks at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City,Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. [Sarah Phipps/The Oklahoman]

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Joe Mussatto joined The Oklahoman in August 2018 to cover OU football, men’s basketball and softball. He previously covered University of Kentucky football and basketball for SEC Country.
Mussatto is from Oklahoma City and lives in Norman.
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Provo sits on the banks of Utah Lake, surrounded by the stunning Wasatch Mountain range. The city is only 45 miles south of Salt Lake City and offers visitors the most stunning Utah attractions.Guests can start exploring the surrounding area by visitingProvoCanyon, famous for rock climbing and hiking. Here, you will find the 600-foot-tall Bridal Veil Falls, located in the southern end of the canyon. Families will enjoy the Provo Beach, a park with an indoor wave machine, to make visitors feel like they are really riding the waves. Those looking to discover Utah’s art and heritage have manythings to do in Provoas well. The Brigham Young University houses many museums and galleries, including the Museum of Peoples and Culture with anthropological,


Atkinson, Henry W. and Henry G. Lehman recover the title to and possession of all the lots above described except Lot 60 which was not claimed by appellees in their answer filed in this cause, and as to which no question is presented by this appeal.
Appellant pleaded both the ten and twenty-five year statutes of limitations. Arts. 5510 and 5519, Vernon's Ann.Civ.St., respectively. Appellees pleaded the five year statute of limitations, Art. 5509, V.A.C.S., and the ten and twenty-five year statutes.
Appellant offered no proof of a record title. He did offer proof in support of his plea of ten years adverse possession. It is our opinion that this evidence, at most, presented a question of fact which has been determined against him.
In 1946 and 1947 appellant purchased otheron them. Appellant testified that one reason for purchasing the lands that he bought was that he was aware of the opportunity to claim by adverse possession the lots in suit which were enclosed in the large pasture. He testified that he claimed such lots adversely from the time of his purchase of the other lands, but that he told no one, except his lawyer, that he was making such claim. Since appellant was not in personal possession of the property, he attempted to establish possession through the possession of Manuel or M. S. Munoz and his brother Guadalupe Munoz as his tenants.
Appellant testified that he "leased" the property to Manuel Lopez in 1946. He also testified that he had a "lease contract" with Guadalupe Munoz. Appellant placed


in evidence written leases between himself and Guadalupe Munoz for the year 1954 and several subsequent years, the land being described as 2000 acres "more or less, comprising all of the La Guna pasture, north of Highway No. 83, located in porcion No. 75, Camargo Jurisdiction, Starr County, Texas."
Appellant testified that the land in suit was located in the eastern part of porcion 76 and the western part of porcion 77. These leases, then, did not cover the lots in suit.
There is in evidence a written lease from Reverend J. E. Atkinson, under whom appellees claim title, to M. S. Munoz covering Lots 49, 50 and 54, dated November, 1948, and being for one year. There is also shown a written one year lease from Reverend Atkinson toof establishing title to the lands sued for under the ten year statute of limitations.
In order for appellant to prevail it was necessary that he establish that the Munoz brothers were his tenants of the land in suit. Their possession had to be his possession, or he had no possession. This question was certainly an issuable fact question. The tenants were deceased. The only written lease which either was shown to have executed did not cover these lands. Appellant testified that he rented these lands to the Munoz brothers. He was a highly interested witness, and the Court had the privilege of not believing him. That he did just this, is obvious from his findings and judgment. The other evidence on this point came from the son and


Maharashtra Education Minister Vinod Tawde today said that schools not following the provisions of the Right to Education Act could lose their registration. He was responding to a calling attention motion raised in the Assembly by the Leader of Opposition Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil and other legislators. Vikhe Patil alleged that several schools were violating the RTE Act by not admitting students from the economically weaker sections of society.

"If a school does not admit a student, then it will lose its registration. Under any circumstance, a school cannot deny admission to a needy stduent," Tawde said. Vikhe Patil also wanted to know if schools, which were following the RTE Act, had been given mandatory funds by the state government. The Congress leader claimed that several schools, which had notbeen provided these funds, were planning to not admit students from the next academic year. Replying to it, Tawde said, "The state government has already made available Rs 154.20 crore to pay these schools.

The remaining Rs 148 crore will be allocated in the current Budget session." The minister, taunting the opposition, said that the previous Congress-NCP government had not paid these schools for three years and it was the BJP government which, after coming to power in November 2014, settled the dues by December that year. "You should know your history," Tawde told the opposition. Tawde added that some schools had a few seats vacant as parents were not keen to admit their children in these schools despite the children being eligible for admission there under the RTE


Last Saturday, a destructive earthquake struck China's Sichuan province, near the epicenter of the devastating 2008 earthquake, damaging thousands of structures and triggering landslides in the mountainous region. As of yesterday, the death toll stood at more than 200, with nearly 12,000 injured, 23 still missing, and tens of thousands made homeless. The quake was measured at magnitude 7.0 by China's earthquake administration and magnitude of 6.6 by the U.S. Geological Survey. Rescue teams and government aid personnel have struggled to reach the affected area, as many roads were damaged.On a wing & a prayer

Silver Hawks' Swoop and bride exchange vows at Coveleski Stadium

Silver Hawks' Swoop and bride exchange vows at Coveleski Stadium

August 20, 2006|ED RONCO Tribune Staff Writer

SOUTH BEND -- She's a Catholic girl from Lakeville who played saxophone in the school band and loves go-karts. He's a Jewish boy from South Bend who played the drums at Clay High School and likes to make people laugh. Oh yeah, and when the weather gets warm, he periodically dresses up like a gigantic bird. Alan Rubin, the alter-ego of South Bend Silver Hawks mascot Swoop, married Melissa Wolfe, his girlfriend of four years, in an interfaith ceremony Saturday over home plate at Coveleski Stadium.

Don't worry, he wore a tux.

The couple met at the ballpark. Melissa runs Karts


Are Us, the store in Niles that donated a four-wheeler Swoop used for his entrances onto the field the last few seasons.

The grand entrance doesn't exist anymore -- Swoop now just runs onto the field when announced -- but the relationship stuck.

Alan and Melissa saw each other frequently, especially before games.

"I'd go back there and see what she was doing," Alan said. "She'd come back there and watch me go around when I was in my costume, also."

So on Saturday, as Melissa readied herself in the Umpire's room and Alan made sure the right music would play through the stadium's speakers, family and close friends filed onto the field while other guests took seats in the stands.

They've been planning it this way since they got engaged on July23, 2005.

The aisle was lined with baseballs, a last minute substitution after the runner started to blow away.

The bridesmaids and groomsmen -- a full team of nine on each side -- lined up along the first and third baselines, and when the wedding was over, the groomsmen formed a tunnel with raised baseball bats.

But for all the baseballthemed details, this was really just an old fashioned love story, complete with nerves, tears and happy endings. "I have this big lump in my throat," Alan's mother, Carol Rubin, said before the ceremony.

Melissa smiled, so did Alan, and some people dabbed at their eyes with tissues.

Silver Hawks owner and former Indiana Gov. Joe Kernan smiled and held hands with his wife, Maggie, from seats E1 and E2 in Section 108.


"He's terrific," Kernan said of Alan. "He's been the mascot for six years, and he's as good as we've ever seen."

Melissa said it's a lot of fun being "Mrs. Swoop," watching Alan play with children during the games and work the crowd. "People are like, Â?Does he act like that outside the suit?' " Melissa said. "Yes, he does."

As it turns out, underneath the gray feathers and behind the big yellow beak, there's a really nice guy who just loves to make the people around him happy.With 13 games of the Premier League season to go, United are fifth in the table and six points behind neighbours Manchester City in fourth place.

When asked whether failure to qualify for the Champions League, which United exited at the group stage this season, would affect his future, Van Gaal told reporters: "It's not a question for me, it's a question for the board of Manchester United, you have to put it to them.

"I have a contract for three years and you know that."

The club have a chance to close the gap on those above them this weekend as they travel to 19th-placed Sunderland before the top four play each other on Sunday - Arsenal (3rd) vs. Leicester City (1st) and Man City (4th) vs. Tottenham Hotspur (2nd).

"We


don't have to look to our competitors, you have to win your own matches first, and that's also why we were so frustrated that we lost two points against at Chelsea," added Van Gaal.

United can also qualify for the Champions League if they win the Europa League, with the first leg of their last-32 tie against Danish side FC Midtjylland on Thursday.

If Van Gaal is removed from his post, then former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho is widely expected to replace him at the helm. When asked about reports that United and Mourinho have already held talks, Van Gaal said that he did not believe the rumours.offseason, had just four catches for 21 yards, limited by a high ankle sprain in the first month of the season. He caught a 2-yard touchdown pass against Seattle on a "jump pass" by rookie running back Mike James to give the Bucs a 21-0 lead, though they eventually lost in overtime.

Wright has emerged as the Bucs' top receiving threat at tight end, getting 34 catches for 366 yards and two scores as he has built a strong connection with fellow rookie Mike Glennon. Crabtree is the 13th player placed on injured reserve by the Bucs this season.

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