and prompted an angry response from the Liverpool player.

Rodgers felt Costa could have avoided treading on his player.

"He could easily hurdle over the young player and he directs his studs right on to his ankle, which could've been nasty," said the Reds boss.

"Again, the one with Martin Skrtel, there's no need to do it. That's the sad thing. He's a top-class player and he's clever enough that the officials don't see it."

Chelsea reached the final thanks to Branislav Ivanovic's goal, although they would have progressed on away goals having drawn 1-1 at Anfield in the first leg.

But most of the post-match talk centred on Costa.

Mourinho feels the Brazil-born Spain international is being targeted unfairly, with one unnamed television pundit in particular leading the way.

"There is a campaign onthe television with a certain pundit that is saying Diego Costa 'crimes'," said Mourinho. "This guy must be nuts.

"Great campaign. We know how much that pundit loves Chelsea and particularly loves me."

Mourinho declined to identify the pundit, adding: "I don't know his name, because when I see him I switch off the television."

Diego Costa also appeared to stamp on Emre Can

Costa was involved in three of the game's main talking points - he also had a penalty appeal turned down when tripped by Skrtel - and could face retrospective punishment from the FA for the two alleged stamps.

If he is banned, Costa would miss Saturday's Premier League clash with second-placed Manchester City at Stamford Bridge.

In a fiery second half at Stamford Bridge, Mourinho appeared to row on the


touchline with Liverpool counterpart Rodgers.

The Portuguese described himself and Rodgers as "very different people", referencing the time they worked together at Chelsea.

"I don't know if he learned something with me or not," said Mourinho. "Maybe he did, maybe he didn't."

Chelsea wanted a penalty for Martin Skrtel's tackle on Diego Costa in the box

He went on to criticise Rodgers for failing to praise Reds goalkeeper Simon Mignolet in his post-match television interviews.

"He speaks about [Chelsea keeper Thibaut] Courtois, he forgets Mignolet," said Mourinho. "I speak about Courtois and Mignolet.

"He forgets his goalkeeper. I don't forget my goalkeeper, because my goalkeeper helped me to be in the final.

"He is what he is. He is a fantastic manager, but we are different people."

Rodgers played down talk of an issue between theMiho no Matsubara

is a scenic area on the Miho Peninsula in Shimizu Ward of Shizuoka City, Japan.  Its seven-kilometre seashore is lined with pine trees.  It is the location of the legend upon which the Noh drama Hagoromo is based; on the second Saturday and Sunday of October, the city of Shizuoka holds a Hagoromo Festival and a performance of the Noh drama takes place near the pine tree of the legend.

It was designated as a National Places of Scenic Beauty of Japan  in 1922. In 2013 the pine groves were added to the World Heritage List as part of the Fujisan Cultural Site.

Overview
Miho no Matsubara is renowned as a seashore with green pine trees and sand spanning over seven kilometers. It has a great


the park.

On the second Saturday and Sunday of October, the city of Shizuoka holds a Hagoromo Festival near the site of the old pine tree.  The Noh play Hagoromo is performed by firelight (Takigi Noh) and also creative dances in honor of the French ballet dancer Hélène Giuglaris are performed. Giuglaris (1916–1951) loved the story of Hagoromo very much but never saw the Noh performance, nor did she visit Miho during her lifetime. Nonetheless, her dying wish was, "Bury my hair near the Hagoromo pine tree at Mihonomatsubara beach".  Above the Mihonomatsubara beach, overlooking the pine tree and the sea, is a monument to Giuglaris, and a lock of her hair lies beneath it.  The monument shows Giuglaris holding a Noh mask, and below herCraig Muder: Maddux, Rivera making their pitch for Cooperstown

Craig Muder

Tuesday

Apr 29, 2008 at 12:01 AM

One month into the baseball season, and …

One month into the baseball season, and …

Greg Maddux continues to pitch like its 1995. The Padres’ ageless right-hander is 2-1 with a 3.66 ERA in his first five starts and is one win away from No. 350. With 15 more victories, Maddux will pass Warren Spahn as the all-time wins leader among live-ball era pitchers.

Never spectacular, but mind-numbingly consistent. A fitting successor to Spahn atop the modern wins list.

With apologies to new Hall of Famer Goose Gossage, the greatest closer in history is the Yankees’ Mariano Rivera. A la former NFL star Jerry Rice, Rivera has set the bar so high at his position that no


one is ever likely to lay claim to the top spot again. The 38-year-old Sandman has barely been scratched this season and continues to carry the Yankees on his shoulders.

If Rivera can remain healthy, he’ll pass Lee Smith for the No. 2 spot on the saves list this season and close in on leader Trevor Hoffman in 2010. Hoffman, the Padres closer, may end up like Smith: a pitcher with a lot of saves who does not receive recognition in Cooperstown.

But Rivera is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. More than anyone else – even Derek Jeter – he defines this Yankee era.

Check the National League leaders: Larry Wayne Jones, at 36 years old, is hitting over .400. The Braves’ quiet slugger has spent the last few years playingFind talented individuals represented by bloc new york city.

William Rhem Jr.

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William was born in Frankfurt, Germany and raised in the Gullah Islands Of Beaufort, South Carolina. Coming from a city of authentic African heritage and culture, stepping and dancing became a part of him at an early age! Growing up, William found love in music, allowing him to discover dance through being a Drum Major of his high school band and a member of the step teams from elementary to high school! His 10-year commitment to music eventually lead him to receive a music scholarship to one of the top historically black colleges and universities music programs at Bethune-Cookman University. During his college career, William joined a south Florida style hip-hop group called "What's Next?" who were


featured in BET’s Spring Bling 2009! Directly after graduation, William began his graduate career at Florida A&M University studying Community Counseling. In 2013, William moved to Atlanta, GA and began training with the Atlanta Dance Connection under the direction of Leyvon Campbell & Allyne Gartrell and as a scholarship student at Gotta Dance Atlanta! With such a natural talent, William was able to hone in on his technical abilities and grow rapidly. After his first year of classical training, he was rewarded full scholarships to the Dallas Black Dance Theatre Summer Intensive, Bates Dance Festival, Debbie Allen Dance Academy and Joffrey Ballet. William took full advantage of the opportunities presented to him, leading him to study with amazing choreographers and companies such as Jennifer Archibald's ARCHCORE40 NYC, AnthonyBurrell's: Breaking Barriers Elite, Grounded Aerial Dance Theatre & Philadanco! The Philadelphia Dance Company. He has performed in productions such as Dance Africa, "Straight Outta Philly", Bravo's: Married to Medicine, America's Got Talent, American Idol Season 12 Winner: Candice Glover: Music Speaks Tour, 2018 ASC New York Fashion Week and Mido Swiss Watches. William has toured, taught and performed all around the U.S. as well as internationally in countries such as France, and Spain! He is also an aerialist and certified bungee instructor!


Padres beat Giants 5-3 on safety squeeze in 13th

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Will Venable made an incredible catch to save San Diego, pinch-hitting pitcher Andrew Cashner drove in the go-ahead run with a perfectly executed safety squeeze in the 13th inning, and the Padres extended their season-best winning streak to seven games with a 5-3 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Monday night.

Venable's diving grab on the center-field warning track with his back to home plate ended the 12th and stole a game-winning hit from Juan Perez.

Moments later, Alexi Amarista started the winning rally with a single and went to third on Chris Denorfia's single. Cashner came up to face Jose Mijares (0-1) and dropped down a bunt single between the mound and third base for hisApril 8.

Forsythe had his first three-hit game this year for San Diego, swept in San Francisco's waterfront ballpark April 19-21.

Joaquin Arias hit a sacrifice fly, Brandon Belt and Hector Sanchez each had an RBI single and Perez added two hits and a defensive gem on a night when the road-weary, injury-plagued Giants sent out a lineup largely of backups.

They landed in San Francisco about 3 a.m. Monday after a night game in Atlanta, showed up late to the ballpark and didn't take batting practice before the game. San Francisco just completed a grueling stretch with 14 of 18 games away from AT&T Park.

Zito struck out a season-high eight and got back on track at home where he pitches so well, but had nothing to show for it as


the Padres rallied against the bullpen. The lefty walked off to a standing ovation from the sellout crowd with two outs in the sixth and runners on first and third.

Machi relieved and threw a wild pitch that allowed a run to score, then retired pinch-hitter Nick Hundley on a groundout. Machi has allowed a run in six straight outings and 10 of his last 11.

Zito had his most strikeouts since getting 10 against Atlanta on Aug. 6, 2010.

Padres starter Edinson Volquez struck out six in five innings. He doubled leading off the third and scored on Denorfia's double for San Diego's first run.

San Francisco shortstop Brandon Crawford went 1 for 6 while batting third for the first time this season.

Manager Bruce Bochy was asked before the game whyhe used Crawford there.

"Crawford asked me the same thing," Bochy said. "I just said, 'Maybe I got into the wine too much last night.'"

NOTES: San Diego is still waiting to determine whether SS Everth Cabrera and OF Carlos Quentin will need a stint on the disabled list. Cabrera came out of Sunday's game after the eighth inning with a left hamstring injury. Quentin missed his third straight game Monday because of left shoulder soreness. ... Giants 3B Pablo Sandoval (strained left foot) and CF Angel Pagan (strained left hamstring) are expected to be activated for the start of a series at Dodger Stadium beginning next Monday. Sandoval played catch and hit in the cage without a walking boot Monday. He is tentatively slated to begin a rehab assignment


of the push for Section 230 came in response to a horrible court case, Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy , in which an internet bulletin board commenter attacked financial firm Stratton Oakmont, and its president, for apparently being involved in criminal and fraudulent activity. Stratton Oakmont -- now perhaps well known as the firm portrayed as doing all sorts of criminal and fraudulent things in the movie The Wolf of Wall Street -- sued Prodigy for the comment. The liability from such a ruling scared numerous online platforms, in particular because a key part of the ruling was that because Prodigy posted "guidelines" and removed posts with offensive language, it suddenly became a "publisher" of the content, and was liable for that content.A key, and often overlooked, part ofWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller told President Donald Trump's attorneys last month he was continuing to investigate the president but did not consider him a criminal target in the Russia probe "at this point," the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

Mueller, in private negotiations in early March about a possible presidential interview, described Trump as a subject of his investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, said the Post, which cited three unnamed people familiar with the discussions.

Trump attorney Jay Sekulow and his former attorney John Dowd did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The Post said Mueller also told Trump's lawyers that he was preparing a report about the Republican president’s actions while in office and potential obstruction of justice.

"Mueller reiterated


light at the end of the tunnel? It’s an awful existence, really.”

A boatman legging through Dudley tunnel in the West Midlands. Credit: Michael Freeman/Alamy

Although ”wing” boards, which hooked directly on to a boat to provide added stability, soon came onto the scene and made legging slightly safer, the profession was thankfully short-lived. Steam and electric tugboats eventually replaced horses and in the 1920s motorized boats appeared, making legging almost obsolete.

Many of the U.K.’s most famous legging tunnels remain today, including Blisworth Tunnel, which features the Canal Museum of Stoke Bruerne—with a gift shop full of canal-themed maps and literature—at its southern end, and two-mile-long Dudley Tunnel. Because of its poor ventilation, the latter still requires either an electric pull tug or a team of leggers for boats thatYoung people in Northern Ireland have grown up with a unique ability to identity as British, Irish, or both, thanks to the peace agreement that ended decades of conflict.

But after Brexit, some people think the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland could once more become a scene of violence, and there is uncertainty about what rights Irish and British passport holders will have.

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Of the numerous eyewitness reports on the concentration camps and alleged extermination sites of the Third Reich, one often finds reports by former inmates describing atrocities committed by SS personnel while these witnesses were hospitalised in the camp's hospitals due to a severe typhus infection. The best known example may be that of Jacob Freimark who, while recuperating from typhus in the hospital of the concentration camp of Auschwitz,[1] claimed to have seen numerous murders committed by an SS man. It ought to be uncontested that typhus epidemics occurred frequently in many camps of the Third Reich, the Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz camps probably being the best known examples. Thousands of inmates and also members of the camp personnel became ill, and many of them eventually succumbed to thedisease.

The reason for the horror in the German camps at the end of World War II can hardly be better explained than by this photo of the British guard post at the entrance to the liberated, yet still contained Bergen-Belsen camp.[2]

As a physician experienced in the diagnosis and therapy of this ailment, I noticed the time correlation between severe outbreaks of this disease and the alleged experiences of such fantastic atrocities of the SS, so that I will be more explicit on the symptoms of the disease in this report.

Until the last century, typhus (also known as war fever, tabardillo, European typhus, jail fever) and dysentery killed more people during any war than did wounds inflicted by armed conflict. After 1914, typhus could basically be controlled through annual


vaccinations in the German army.

A typical symptom of European typhus is the patient's marked psychosis at the peak of the illness, a state of incessant state of delirium.[3] Typhus comes from the Greek "t uj o s " meaning stupor, referring to the frenzy developed by the sick.

As a specialist for internal medicine, I encountered only a few cases of typhus, which were all mild due to vaccination, while serving at the military hospital (no. 2/529) in Russia. Dialogue cured the convalescents from their illusions. After the war, I often treated cases of typhus, albeit antibiotics existed at this time, which curbed the development of the disease so that the once common state of stupor did not occur.

I do not know whether inmates of concentration camps were immunizedviolently, and defends himself so that two other orderlies have to help us contain that insane man. We finally manage to lay the poor, totally disoriented chap down and to cover him with a blanket. An orderly remains at his side.

Mass grave of typhus victims at Belsen; right: British liberators deliberately exposed SS women to contagious diseases.[5]

Beside him lies another soldier with wet compresses on his forehead. A nurse says he has a severe headache. His face is also red and swollen. He suffers from a severe form of conjunctivitis, a typical symptom of typhus in the early stages. This emaciated man is not at ease in his bed. He is befallen with a curious tremor of his hands and arms, single muscles keep twitching and he makes


founded – here two pictures from Markus Tiedemann's "In Auschwitz wurde niemand vergast" (Nobody was gassed in Auschwitz, Verlag an der Ruhr, p. 131f.) with similar misleading subtitles. Cause of these deaths was malnourishment and lack of medical supplies toward the end of the war, when the infrastructure of the Third Reich collapsed. Numerous such human mounds were scattered all over Germany, because millions lay on the battle fields, in the bombed cities, were frozen, slain, or died due to starvation along the escape routes for the 15 million east and ethnic Germans. "Photo document of May 1, 1945: A Polish Jew in a satellite camp of Kaufering by Landsberg in front of the corpses of murdered co-inmates"

As a matter of fact: the emaciated, dehydrated corpses prove thattyphus leads to a threefold assessment of the stories told by typhus survivors of the German concentration camps:

The state of hallucinations of the diseased can be partially responsible for claims bordering at the absurd and unreal, i.e. assertions which are scientifically and technically impossible. For instance, what could a typhus patient do, when in his stupor he saw SS men throw children into open flames or inmates of the special commandos pour human fat onto the burning corpses of their slain comrades? Nobody would have cared for these sick inmates in order to cure them from their hallucinations. The stories of these typhus patients probably made their rounds amongst the inmates who on their part generated rumor and atrocity stories. The numerously documented incidents of extremely emaciated human


beings in the concentration camps of the Third Reich (so-called 'muselman'), especially at times of typhus epidemics, are to be explained as unavoidable symptoms of typhus and not as proof of deliberate malnutrition of the interned. Medicine in the late thirties and early forties of the last century was not capable of describing all indications of typhus and had no means of a proper treatment. It was a time of learning (circumstantial symptoms). The high mortality rates of inmates in the camps of the Third Reich were not due to lack of proper care. It has been proven, especially at Auschwitz, that enormous efforts were made to fight and cure the disease. Thus, legal responsibility lies not in the circumstances leading to the death of so many inmates,but rather in the reasons for the internment of those inmates, many of which were incarcerated without due process.

In the past, a multitude of attempts to explain the occurrence of apparently false or exaggerated eyewitness reports, especially of the alleged annihilation of the Jews in the Third Reich, have been made, leaving intentional falsehood aside. One of the first attempts was made by Samuel Gringauz.[6] He describes the literature of Jewish Holocaust survivors as judeo-, loco-, and egocentric, where survivors attempted to make their mark in their Jewish and non-Jewish vicinity:

"Most of the memoirs and reports [of Holocaust survivors] are full of preposterous verbosity, graphomanic exaggeration, dramatic effects, overestimated self-inflation, dilettante philosophizing, would-be lyricism, unchecked rumors, bias, partisan attacks and apologies."

For many years now, the special socio-psychological effect,


Political clubs were a new form of political activity in response to the new freedom of public expression. They started in France in 1789. Clubs as such were not new. The latter half of the eighteenth century had seen the spread of a wide range of informal groups in a movement of what historians call ‘Enlightenment Sociability’. They included salons or private discussion groups, more formal intellectual associations, masonic lodges, all devoted to socialising and talking and reading about the latest ideas. But mostly they avoided politics as a forbidden topic. When the old political authorities disappeared with the Revolution, however, the club model was adopted as an obvious and familiar way of discussing issues of the day and mobilising opinion behind the new order of things.

Clubs’ Emergence

Francebefore 1789 was an absolute monarchy with few and limited representative institutions, where nobody had the right to resist the authority of the king. Politics was seen as the private business of the monarch, and all publications were subject to government censorship. But military overstretch over the century led by the 1780s to a financial crisis which the king felt unable to resolve without consulting representatives of the taxpayers. They resisted his plans, driving the monarchy into bankruptcy in the summer of 1788. Royal authority collapsed as Louis XVI gave in to demands for the election of the Estates-General, a national representative body which had not met since 1614. In June 1789 the Estates transformed themselves into the National Assembly and declared that the Nation, not the king,


was now the sovereign authority in France. The storming of the Bastille in Paris on 14 July prevented the king from crushing this defiance, and the National Assembly began the massive work of reforming French institutions and society from top to bottom and giving the country a written constitution. No longer subject to censorship, political clubs began to form all over the country to support this work of reform.

The Storming of the Bastille by Jean-Pierre Houël (Wikipedia.org)

Mostly they followed the lead of a group of members of the Assembly who in the autumn began to discuss their political plans in a club called the Society of the Friends of the Constitution. They met in a former convent of Dominican friars called the Jacobins. The idea of a politicalclub originated with deputies from Brittany who had begun to meet informally to concert action earlier in the summer in the so-called ‘Breton Club’. Soon non-deputies were applying to join the society, and provincial counterparts were being established in major cities to discuss current affairs, read the newspapers, correspond with each other, and petition the authorities. They applied to the ‘mother society’ for affiliation, and by the middle of 1790, there was a Jacobin club network of well over a hundred affiliated clubs. By July 1791 the number was approaching a thousand. They saw their role as mobilising public support for the reforms of the Revolution.

Jacobins

Admission to Jacobin Clubs was originally confined to ‘active’ citizens, defined as electors paying a minimum level of direct taxes. This ensured that


only men of comfortable means enjoying political rights could get in. But as the Revolution became more radical in the course of 1791-2, most Jacobin Clubs opened their doors to all male citizens, although members still had to be proposed and elected. At the same time, clubs began to exclude or expel people with questionable political views or records. They also began to rename themselves Societies of the Friends of Liberty and Equality rather than Friends of the Constitution. Always bastions of current political orthodoxy, they became more extreme and radical along with the governing assemblies. By 1793 they were playing a leading role in revolutionary government and were an important instrument of the Terror. Their members were forever associated with Terror after it ended in 1794, andthe clubs were closed down.

Feuillants

After Louis XVI tried to flee Paris in June 1791 there was a surge of republicanism. The Paris Jacobins lent their support to a petition to dethrone the king, but most of the club’s members disapproved and seceded to form a monarchical club meeting at another former convent, that of the Cistercian Feuillants. They tried to capture the Jacobins’ network of provincial affiliates, but most refused to join them. Meanwhile, the rump of the Jacobins was kept alive, though for the moment renouncing republicanism, by the efforts of Robespierre.
The Feuillants were committed to making the constitution work and supporting the king, but their moderation and exclusivism kept them far less popular than the reviving Jacobins, membership rapidly declined, and with the fall of the


monarchy in August 1792 they disappeared.

Cordeliers

The Cordeliers (named after yet another former convent where they met on the left bank of the Seine) were founded in the spring of 1790 as the Society of the Friends of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. From the start they were always more radical than the Jacobins, being open to all comers, including women, and pressing for a more democratic franchise. It was here that Danton first made his name. The Cordeliers were responsible for the republican petition which split the Jacobins in June 1791, and many of their members were casualties when the National Guard fired on the petitioners in the July ‘Massacre of the Champ de Mars’. After a period of persecution after that, the Club revived asa centre of democratic radicalism and support in 1793-4 for the Terror, but suffered when in the spring of 1794 its leaders were arrested and executed for criticising the rule of the Convention. After the Terror ended the club suffered the same, ultimately terminal, persecution as the Jacobins.

Girondins

The Girondins in the La Force Prison after their arrest. Woodcut from 1845. (Wikipedia.org)

The Girondins were not a club at all. They were a group of vocal deputies in the Legislative Assembly and then the Convention who were named after spokesmen who represented the Gironde department, though most did not come from there. All were members of the Jacobin Club until they began to be expelled in the autumn of 1792. They did not form any sort of rival club, nor


were they a political party, but they were bound together by hostility to the power of Paris over the national Convention. Eventually, the radicals of the capital successfully called for the expulsion of 29 deputies identified as Girondins in June 1793. In response several provincial centres exploded into the so-called ‘Federalist Revolt’, but this only sealed the fate of the expelled deputies, who went to the guillotine in October 1793, protesting their continued commitment to the libertarian ideals of the Revolution. Their memory was only slowly rehabilitated after the end of the Terror.

Aftermath of the Revolution

Strictly speaking, there were no political parties as we understand them in revolutionary France. Contemporaries did not distinguish parties from selfish factions, more interested in private agendas rather than the public good. Butthe Jacobin network of clubs always strove to propagate something like a party line, and by the time of the Convention in 1793-4 they took their lead from the deputies of Paris and their allies who were known, from where they sat on the high seats of the assembly, as the Montagnards or Mountain Men. They included Robespierre, Marat, and Danton. They stood for republicanism and egalitarianism, an economy controlled in popular interests, a centralised power structure, and hostility to established religion. They specialised in democratic style and rhetoric, although while they were in power they ruled through Terror. This bequeathed a problem to subsequent French history and its interpretation: could you have a democratic republic without Terror? Not until the Third Republic was established, and survived, after


1870, was it clear that you could. But when that republic stabilised it adopted many of the slogans and causes first espoused by the Jacobins in 1793-4. Thus, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity as the national motto, free state education and a measure of social welfare, and laîcité – a state without religious affiliations. These are part of France’s ideology today, with all its fateful consequences for relations with Islam.

The Revolution also created powerful enemies. Counter-revolutionaries outraged by its attacks on church and king constituted a sort of party. Much of the nineteenth-century French politics was a conflict between republicans and conservatives who wanted to ditch revolutionary legacies and bring back monarchy underpinned by religion – and in fact, the country was a monarchy of one sort or another formost of the time from 1804 down to 1870. Only defeat in the Franco-Prussian war of that year, and the refusal of monarchists to accept revolutionary legacies like the tricolour flag, opened the way for secularising republicanism to triumph.

The Modern View

Historian Paul Gregory on Stalin's "limity", death sentences, and the academic research with great political importance

For much of the twentieth century the history of the Revolution was dominated by left wingers inspired by the Russian Revolution of 1917. They were broadly sympathetic to the radical Jacobinism of 1793-4, even if ambivalent about the Terror. But when Marxism and the Soviet Union collapsed historians turned back to deploring the Terror and arguing that it was inevitable. Only in the last few years have some non-Marxists begun to look on


Jacobinism with more sympathy and to highlight its concern for democracy, equality, and social welfare. One or two are now even prepared to risk defending the necessity of Terror. The enigmatic figure of Robespierre continues to attract fresh and often quite sympathetic biographers. Others, however, still deplore the brutality and arbitrariness of the Terror, impugn the sincerity of Jacobin rule, and emphasise the idealism of the Girondins as the true custodians of the values of 1789.

Controversial Questions

Because there were no parties as we know them, there were simply shades of opinion about where the Revolution was going and where it should stop. Three great issues polarised participants in the French Revolution and tore it apart: religion, monarchy, and war. In religion the question for revolutionaries was should therebe a state church, or no church? For counter-revolutionaries the only acceptable solution was the restoration of the church as it had been before 1789. As regards monarchy, once again counter-revolutionaries favoured a return to the absolute authority of pre-revolutionary times. And if they were not outright republicans, revolutionaries had to decide why a constitutional king was necessary, and if he was, how much power he should have. As to war, it was launched in 1792 as much for domestic as international reasons. The ostensible aim was to destroy counter-revolution. But should it be a limited war, or an open-ended conflict with the whole European old regime? And should it be a war of liberation, or of conquest?
There are no great unresearched issues in all this, but aspects


Denis Arndt

Wednesday

Aug 6, 2014 at 2:00 AM

Actor Denis Arndt is currently starring as Prospero in "The Tempest" and playing three supporting roles in "The Great Society" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Arndt has had a long and prosperous stage, film and television career. We visited over a scrumptious brunch at the Greenleaf Restaurant in Ashland. This is the first of a two-part Backstage column.

Evalyn Hansen

Actor Denis Arndt is currently starring as Prospero in "The Tempest" and playing three supporting roles in "The Great Society" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Arndt has had a long and prosperous stage, film and television career. We visited over a scrumptious brunch at the Greenleaf Restaurant in Ashland. This is the first of a two-part Backstage column.

DA: I think that almost all theaterdiscipline. It's the depth of the literature, the human depth of the story.

"The Great Society" plays through Nov. 1 and "The Tempest" through Nov. 2 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. For tickets and information, go to www.osfashland.org or call 800-219-8161.

Evalyn Hansen is a writer and director living in Ashland. She trained as an actor at the American Conservatory Theatre and is a founding member of San Francisco's Magic Theatre. Reach her at evalyn_robinson@yahoo.com.

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emoticonics was bright and fluffy, and the percieved benefits of this new field had every faceless entity in the world, nay, the universe, excited to the point of excessive (possibly even unhealthy) jubilation.

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The Glorious Advances of Emoticonics!

Unfortunately, emoticonics failed miserably. With only rocks to carve their ideas into, early scientists had no method with which to display the extremely nuanced concepts of emoticonics. Compounding this problem, the extreme complexity of emoticonics scared away even the most intelligent and homely of scientists, and on the fateful day of February 32nd, 1901, emoticonics died of loneliness.

The Wonderous Rebirth of Emoticonics!

But, like a big sciencey phoenix rising from its own scienceless ashes, emoticonics saw a massive revival with the advent of "The Internet".
In 1982, early second wave emoticonic pioneers made somestartling breakthroughs in the field. With the aid of "computars" and the afformentioned "The Internet", a group of utter geniuses came up with the First Imperative Maxim of Emoticonics. The formula for this new theory was startlingly simple. It was as follows: :). Despite the initial problem that displaying this formula after an actual colon gave the appearance of a four eyed monster, and the other inconvenience that displaying a period after this formula made it look like it had a mole on its chin, emoticonics was off to a splendid start. Besides, with the proliferation of emoticonics most people would no longer even need make use of the cumbersome rules of grammar that their forefathers so rabidly followed, all but irradicating "proper" use of colons and periods.

The


Fantastic Modern Emoticonics!

Today, emoticonics is a science reserved only for the most wise and learned. Requiring decades of experience and practice, the methods of emoticonics are as complex as they are magnificient. Skilled users need not even make use of any formal language, instead opting to communicate entirely in the language of emoticonics.
It is predicted that, with the future proliferation of emoticonics through advances in keyboard technology, the english language will one day be rendered obsolete by the majestic iron fist of emoticonics.

Some Stupendous Emoticonics Formulae!

:) The first ever emoticon discovered through emoticonics, this emoticonicular formula for displaying the unnerving grin of all consuming insanity is oft misused. The common misunderstanding is that it is designed to convey happiness, which is a fallacy. A proper example of itsdeeply misunderstood. The oddly mishapen left eye of this formula, commonly believed to be winking, is in fact a brutal black eye acquired in a bar fight after a month and a half long bender upon the emoticon's discovery that, now that he has been laid off from his $5.00/hour job shovelling rendered fat onto a conveyor belt at the pork processing plant, his little emoticon wife has been cheating on him and he has nothing left to live for but alcohol and pain... deep, horrible, soul crushing pain the likes of which most emoticons never face and only dream of in their worst nightmares. As such, this grinning, depraved, bruised and battered shell of a former emoticon displays the hopeless, masochistic grin of total existential abandon. Do


John Mccain

John McCain was an American politician who served as a Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican Party’s presidential nominee in the 2008 presidential elections. Born into a military family, he followed his family tradition and joined the U.S Naval Academy, eventually becoming a naval aviator. He took part in the Vietnam War and was almost killed, on a bombing mission over Hanoi, when his plane was shot down and he was taken a prisoner. John McCain's near-death experience in the Vietnam War didn’t deter him from returning back to resume duty. After retiring from the navy, he joined politics. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives twice and to the U.S Senate four times. He has earned a reputation of a "maverick" politician forhis open disagreement with his party on certain issues. He played a key role in restoring diplomatic relations with Vietnam in the 1990s. He was a US Senator from Arizona from 1987 to 2018. He also contested for presidential nomination in 2000 against Texas Governor George W. Bush, and ran for the US presidential elections in 2008 opposite Democratic candidate Barack Obama but lost.


Parnell Bill Defeated

Last evening (24th November) the South Australian Parliament's upper house debated the latest euthanasia bill from Greens MLC, Mark Parnell. At the State Election in March of this year changes in personnel in the upper house appeared to have turned that chamber decidedly pro-euthanasia. However, last night common sense prevailed yet again as the bill was defeated at the second reading 'on the voices'.Mr. Parnell did not call for a recording of the votes. However, from the speeches given, it was clear that the chamber was split 12 to 9 against the bill or possibly 13 to 8 at best.

Numerous are the interventions that take place during the intense lobbying period in the lead up to any vote. It's not always clear what particular intervention hadan amicable resolution of this matter. Consequently, plaintiffs filed this action on March 19, 1984.
Since the entry of the Consent Judgment between defendant and the United States on May 12, 1981, both EPA and DEP have monitored the discharge of pollutants at defendant's Delair plant. At various times between May 12, 1981 and March 19, 1984, EPA has issued reports concerning defendant's compliance with its NPDES permit. In addition, Georgia-Pacific officials have met and corresponded with federal and state environmental regulators on various occasions during this period. Between December, 1981 and the fall of 1983, DEP monitored defendant's Delair operations and had numerous contacts with defendant's legal staff regarding development of a state water pollution discharge permit. Defendant's Reply Brief in Support of Motion to Dismiss, Exhibits B,


known. For example, a very common amplifier comprises a bipolar transistor, a large DC biasing resistor connected between the base of the transistor and the power supply, an emitter resistor connected between the emitter of the transistor and ground, and a collector resistor connected between the collector of the transistor and the power supply. Such an amplifier is useful for moderate speeds. However, the transistor in the amplifier inherently includes a parasitic capacitance at the base, and this capacitor is located in parallel with the base resistor. Consequently, the amplifier has a substantial RC time constant at its input, which time constant reduces the speed and band width of the amplifier. Differential amplifiers were also known for increased sensitivity.
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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Linnell, Elizabeth
Sent:	Tuesday, November 20, 2001 11:29 AM
To:	Hughes, James A.
Cc:	Shapiro, Richard
Subject:	FW: Global Regulatory Affairs

Jim - Here's the list of names for Gov't Affairs South America (exclusive of Elektro):

Sergio Assad
Gisele Braz
Fred Sampaio
Jose Lucio Reis
Debora Klinger
Luiz Baccaro
Anderson Bastos

Regards,
Elizabeth Linnell

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Shapiro, Richard
Sent:	Monday, November 19, 2001 7:17 PM
To:	Linnell, Elizabeth
Subject:	FW: Global Regulatory Affairs

Please forward names to Jim Hughes. Thanks.
 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Fallon, Jim
Sent:	Monday, November 19, 2001 7:07 PM
To:	Shapiro, Richard
Subject:	FW: Global Regulatory Affairs

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Hughes, James A.
Sent:	Monday, November 19, 2001 11:33 AM
To:	Fallon, Jim
Subject:	RE: Global Regulatory Affairs

I need the names of the South American folks in order to respond.

Jim

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Fallon, Jim
Sent:	Sunday, November 18, 2001 12:11 PM
To:	Hirl, Joseph; Scrimshaw, Matthew; Hughes, James A.
Subject:	Global Regulatory Affairs

I am trying to understand


defendants in No. 39701.
Stephen B. Potter, Wilmington, Del., for defendants in No. 39916.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
WOOD, District Judge.
The plaintiff, Joseph M. Houghton, brought suit under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983. The defendants include Delaware State police officers and their superiors. Jurisdiction lies in the court under 28 U.S. C.A. § 1343.
Houghton alleges in his complaint that he was illegally stopped while proceeding along a highway in the State of Delaware, was taken to the troop barracks and compelled to submit to extensive questioning by Lieutenant Buckmaster. He was then formally arrested for violation of the local Criminal Registration Act. He was denied the right to obtain counsel or to contact his family.
At some point either before he was taken to the barracks or thereafter, his car was searched and certainregistration, inspection and enforcement -- something he had studiously avoided mentioning throughout his 2015 campaign for re-election.

Once the council meeting began, shepherds in far-off Patagonia felt the seismic shock when Pat Harrison, inveterate opponent of such intrusive measures, not only endorsed the rental property ordinance and appealed to the many rental owners in the room to unite around it, but refrained from using the word "Gestapo" for the first time in living memory.

The rental owners responded by gazing upon the figure of Harrison much in the fashion of Trump rally attendees when the lone minority protester dares speak apostasy aloud, and set about angrily voicing their perennial objections to being compelled to follow the same general regulations as the remainder of the city's business community.

An hour and a


half later, after a brief diversion to New Albany's never-ending stormwater drainage problems (also never mentioned during last year's campaign), it came time for the mayor to speak.

Of course, such was the epochal importance of the occasion -- Gahan referred to the rental ordinance as a "must" -- that the mayor yet again failed to attend, thus missing the chance to confront dissenting property owners face to face, and sending customary surrogate Mike Hall in his stead. Hall read the mayor's statement, which he likely wrote in the first place. Proponents surely felt deflated. If not now, when?

The council's own discussion began, with Dan Coffey predictably tossing red meat to the crowd, Scott Blair making gurgling sounds about spread sheets, and Greg Phipps defending his (read: the mayor's)this rump was approved unanimously for the first two readings. Inspection and enforcement sections now will return to committee, where the teeth will be vigorously filed down to mimic gently sloping, loosely fitted dentures.

That even this much was approved probably owes to the many rental property owners conceding openly to living elsewhere, from Scott County, Indiana to Shepherdsville, Kentucky.

After all, foreigners don't vote.

In the end, Monday night represented much ado about precious little. However, something a bit different has been born. In 2015, Gahan lost 13 points off his mayoral margin, and when Coffey went rogue, the council dynamic shifted. Will the mayor accede to Coffey's terms and grease him back inside the tent, where he can resume pissing out of it from the inside? Will he bite


All but one member of the Standing Committee were able to attend this year’s meeting. Only Bishop James Tengatenga was unable to travel to London because of visa issues.

Much of the first day was taken up with business matters. The Anglican Consultative Council’s (ACC) legal advisor Canon John Rees began with a brief orientation for the Standing Committee members. The committee then moved on to discussions about membership. With the elevation of Sarah Macneil (Australia) to Bishop the committee needs to appoint a replacement.

Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi (Burundi) was re-elected as the member of the Crown Nominations Commission and Archbishop Thabo Makgoba (Southern Africa) was re-elected as the alternate. Archbishop Emmanuel Egbunu (a diocesan bishop in Nigeria) was also re-elected the Anglican Communion’s ‘constant member’ of the group that[Decorative forms of hamsters Phodopus (Mammalia, Cricetinae): an analysis of genetic lines distribution and peculiarities of hair changes].
Three species of dwarf hamsters (genus Phodopus, family Cricetidae) inhabit some regions of Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China, each having quite extensive range. In recent decades, the dwarf hamsters became widely spread all over the world, initially as laboratory animals and later as popular pets. By now, there is lot of decorative breed lines and colored forms of these animals. Comparison of mtDNA nucleotide sequences of dwarf hamsters acquired in pet shops of some countries in Europe, South-East Asia and North America with distribution of mtDNA haplotypes within natural ranges showed the limitation of decorative line founders' points of origin by one region for each of the species. All haplotypes found


in decorative Dzungarian hamsters (Ph. sungorus) purchased ounside Russia coincide with or are significantly close to haplotypes spread in the southern part of West Siberia (Russia) and adjacent regions of Kazakhstan; haplotypes of decorative Campbell's hamster (Ph. campbelli) belong to haplogroup of this species natural populations inhabiting South Tyva (Russia); and all studied decorative Desert hamsters (Ph. roborovskii) had one hapotype specific for South-Eastern Kazakhstan. The review of the history of researches on dwarf hamsters biology allows to determine delivery of hamsters from mentioned regions to scientific laboratories and zoos by certain expeditions and/or researchers. Unlike hamsters with natural hair color, the colored hamsters have no normal hair. Their hair is dull and straggly. The hair differentiation (presence of different hair types and their size characteristics) gets brokenlocated. Via the support's greater contact line with the ring bag and by the centrifuge also being equipped with an opening and closing inner lid, which in the closed position clamps the ring bag's inner edge securely along and between the guide holes we have, in an effective way, been able to determine the ring bag's position in the centrifuge rotor and limit the stresses on the ring bag's inner edge. Consequently, the clamping function limits, through its greater contact area, the load on the ring bag's inner edge and prevents it from slipping over or, in some other way, being released from the supports while the centrifuging is activated. Apart from that, in the inner lid, one or several photocells are advantageously arranged which after centrifuging are


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Inspired by an encounter with Mother Teresa, Val Halamandaris founded the Caring Institute in 1985. Mother Teresa spoke about the poverty of the spirit in the United States and developed countries and the need to harnessDemocrat Katie Hobbs declared victory in the race for Arizona Secretary of State Friday night, 10 days after the Associated Press initially called the race for her opponent, Republican Steve Gaynor.

On Friday, Hobbs led the race with more than 15,000 votes. Arizona still had about 67,000 ballots to process.

In a statement, Hobbs thanked her supporters, volunteers, staff, and voters. "As Secretary of State, I will work to ensure that every eligible voter – Republican, Democrat, Independent, Green, Libertarian – can cast your ballot with the confidence that your vote counts and your voice matters, and do so in a way that is meaningful and convenient for you."

Governor Doug Ducey had called Hobbs to congratulate her Friday afternoon, before Hobbs declared victory. Shortly after Hobbs declared victory Friday night,


Gaynor conceded the race.

Tonight I called @KatieHobbs to congratulate her on winning the race for AZ Secretary of State. It was an honor to be the Republican nominee. Many thanks to everyone who supported my campaign. Best of luck to Katie. — Steve Gaynor (@realSteveGaynor) November 17, 2018

"We have said all along that this race was the most competitive statewide," Hobbs said presciently, the day before Election Day, in an interview with Phoenix New Times.

At 10:19 p.m. local time on Tuesday, November 6 — election night — the AP called the race for Gaynor. With 29 percent of precincts reporting, Gaynor had won 51.2 percent of the vote, to Hobbs' 48.8 percent, leading by tens of thousands of votes. By midnight, about 810,000 ballots still remained uncounted statewide.

Hobbsvotes, the AP retracted its call. "No new call will be made until the results of the election are certified by Arizona officials," it said. "Arizona typically counts its votes slowly."

Steve Gaynor. Courtesy of Arizona PBS

Lauren Easton, a spokesperson for the AP, did not respond to questions seeking specific numbers or details on how the AP called the race for Gaynor, and instead referred to a generic explanation on the AP's website.

The AP says it was 99.9 percent accurate in calling races in the 2012 elections.

"On election night, race callers in each state are armed with a wealth of additional detailed information from our election research team, including demographics, the number of absentee ballots, and political issues that may affect the outcome of races they must call," the


AP states on its website.

Hobbs and Gaynor campaigned on starkly different platforms, and their resumes had clear contrasts as well.

Hobbs, the Senate minority leader, is a social worker. She was first elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in 2010 and state senate in 2012. Her campaign for secretary of state was supported by the Democratic Party, and the voting-rights group iVote said it invested $3.3 million in supporting her. Hobbs ran on a platform of enhancing voter access through more voter outreach and education and for minorities, tribal communities and rehabilitated felons.

Gaynor, a wealthy businessman, had never before run for public office. He poured $2.35 million of his own money into his campaign, in which he promised to limit access to the ballot box, in part throughstricter voter identification. He called for overturning the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, which aimed at streamlining voter registration.

In winning this race, Hobbs will be yet another Democrat who won a tightly contested, drawn-out statewide race in historically red Arizona.

On Monday, Republican Martha McSally conceded the race for U.S. senator to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema. The night before, Democrat Kathy Hoffman declared victory over Republican Frank Riggs in the race for Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction.

In an interview the day before Election Day, Hobbs said that she ran for secretary of state because she was concerned about mismanagement and incompetence there. She became involved in elections during her career as a social worker, including 12 years working at a domestic violence center, formerly known as the Sojourner Center. As


GMO corn: nutritionally void

GMO corn contains alarming glyphosate levels

The formaldehyde level of GMO corn is unspeakable

March against GMOs

(NaturalNews) As Monsanto parades their genetically modified seed, throwing it out like candy into the fields, future generations are being subjected to nutritionally void, disease-causing food. As the government protects the GMO industry, with its recent signing of the "Monsanto Protection Act", the republic's health interests are being discarded.A 2012 study, called the Corn Comparison Report, was recently released by Profit Pro and published on the website for- a group dedicated to raising awareness about the dangers of genetically modified organisms.The Corn Comparison Report detailed the nutritional deficiencies of GMO corn compared to regular organic corn. The report reveals the stunning levels of glyphosate in GMO corn and the amount ofCLE ELUM, Wash. (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire in central Washington has burned at least 60 homes and forced hundreds of people to flee — one of several blazes scorching the West on Tuesday, threatening communities, sending up thick plumes of smoke and disrupting activity in national parks.

Fire commanders estimate the Washington blaze has burned at least 24,000 acres — about 38 square miles — since it started Monday afternoon east of the small town of Cle Elum.

No injuries have been reported, but more than 400 people have been evacuated, said Department of Natural Resources Fire Incident Commander Rex Reed. The fire crept within six miles of Ellensburg, about 75 miles east of Seattle.

The blaze, which began at a bridge construction site, is not contained. And authorities worried


about wind and heat, saying the fire danger was extreme.

"We've had a long prolonged dry period — three weeks with no precipitation at all," Reed said.

Joe Seemiller, a captain in Kittitas County Fire and Rescue, said gusty winds were hampering Washington firefighters.

"Unless Mother Nature helps us out here, we're going to be fighting this awhile," Seemiller said.

In Idaho, a firefighter was killed by a falling tree Sunday. Anne Veseth, a 20-year-old who was in her second season as a firefighter, died as she worked a fire near Orofino, the U.S. Forest Service said. Her older brother also is a wild-land firefighter in Idaho, where 12 blazes are burning.

A crew in central Washington state barely outran flames Monday at the wind-driven fire in Kittitas County. The firefighters managed todrive to safety as they got ahead of the Taylor Bridge fire, said Richelle Risdon, a county fire spokeswoman.

Near Cle Elum, Wash., some property at a chimpanzee sanctuary burned. The seven chimps at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest are fine, but they seemed bewildered by the smoke and the changes in their routine brought by the blaze that burned within a couple hundred feet of their building, a spokeswoman said.

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In Utah, a lightning-sparked fire consumed about 34 square miles, threatened a herd of wild horses and shut down the historic Pony Express Road in the state's western desert.

In Northern California, crews made progress against an aggressive blaze in Lake County that grew to more than 9 square miles and destroyed three buildings. Officials lifted evacuation orders for the residents


of nearly 500 homes late Monday, said Daniel Berlant, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

"The fire is still actively burning, but burning in a remote area," Berlant said. "It's burning in brush that's tinder dry and hasn't seen a fire in decades."

A separate wildfire to the north was threatening about 600 homes, prompting some evacuation orders in the Seneca and Rush Creek communities in Plumas National Forest. The fire burned about 55 square miles, officials said.

Fires across California have affected some national parks, including Lassen Volcanic National Park and Joshua Tree National Park.

A handful of other fires in hot and dry Southern California were sparked by lightning. Four in northeastern San Diego County covered more than 2,300 acres, threatening to leave several communitiesCorolla

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Stay with us on this, because the scene above is one big misunderstanding. It's a little hard to make out in the YouTube video below , but Norman Nowling is backing his Ford Econoline monster van over the top of a Toyota Camry When he finished his brutal work, theCamry wouldn't be going anywhere that didn't involve the words "flatbed" and "chains." So imagine the shock when the Toyota's 16-year-old owner returned to it in the wee hours, noticeably flatter than we she left it.The incident happened at the Redneck Yacht Club , a mudding and swamp trails park in Punta Gorda, Florida. The teen attended a concert at the park during "Swamp Cabbage Weekend" and apparently left her car parked near "the mud hole," a park location


that obviously attracts monster trucks . She went mudding elsewhere in the park, didn't return to her car right after the concert, and at some point the assembled group of monster truckers decided they were going to run over it.Nowling's taken the heat because it's him on the video, but he's not the bad guy everyone's made him out to be. See, Nowling was the last guy to the mud hole party, and before he got there at least two other trucks had tried to run over the Corolla and failed. Folks cheered Norman on to do the honors, but before he did he repeatedly asked security if it was all right, and according to his police statement, security told him it was fine, that the Toyota wasabandoned. Also, according to Nowling, the fire department and the police were there as he was doing it. And as you can see in the video, Norman didn't act alone: Another truck holds theCamry in place while Nowling prepares to back over it.Nowling was eventually arrested for felony Criminal Mischief and released on bond. Then he held a press conference to tell his side of what happened, and during the conference handed the teen's stepfather a check for $6,500 to replace her car. Why? "I have a daughter, and it is the right thing to do," he said. "I need to go to sleep every night with a clear conscience." He's apparently been banned from the RYC, but he's hoping the other truck owners involved will also come


Google's DoubleClick advertising network is the lifeblood of many websites driven by ad revenue—and it's also a potential path of attack for criminals trying to spread extortionware and other malware. Some Huffington Post readers fell victim to malicious advertisements spread through Google's DoubleClick network early this week, but another simultaneous attack may have reached an even bigger audience.

Two ad network merchants became an unwitting accomplice to attackers with similar Flash-based ads, displaying them on multiple legitimate sites. The Huffington Post advertisement—a fraudulent Hugo Boss ad which also appeared on other major legitimate sites (including the real estate site Zillow.com)—was spread through DoubleClick via the ad network AdButler, according to Malwarebytes, which tracked the attack. That attack attempted to download Cryptowall ransomware to victims' PCs.

The second attack came toJudge allows Smollett to travel to meet with attorneys A Chicago judge says "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett can travel out-of-state to meet his lawyers while he's free on bond on charges he falsely reported being attacked by two masked men

CHICAGO -- A Chicago judge says "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett can travel out-of-state to meet his lawyers while he's free on bond on charges he falsely reported being attacked by two masked men.

Anne Kavanagh is a spokeswoman for Smollett's attorneys, who say he's innocent.

Kavanagh says attorney Mark Geragos, who's based in Los Angeles, is Smollett's lead attorney. She says a defense lawyer asked Monday that Smollett be allowed to travel to California and New York for meetings with his legal team.

Chicago police charged Smollett with disorderly conduct. Chicago Police


Superintendent Eddie Johnson says Smollett, who is black and gay, staged a racist and homophobic attack , then told police his attackers yelled racial and anti-gay slurs and referenced President Donald Trump's campaign slogan.

He was released last week after posting $10,000 cash. He was ordered to surrender his passport.

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Check out the AP's complete coverage of the Jussie Smollett case.The 20th Century Fox film is a theatrical adaptation of the History Channel's hit miniseries The Bible, which was produced by Burnett and Downey.

Diogo Morgado stars as Jesus in the film. Downey and Burnett recently explained a decision to cut the scenes that featured Satan being portrayed by actor Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni after his likeness was the subject of controversy last year.

"For our movie, Son of God, I wanted all of the focus to be on Jesus," Downey told The Hollywood Reporter. "I want his name to be on the lips of everyone who sees this movie, so we cast Satan out. It gives me great pleasure to tell you that the devil is on the cutting-room floor."

The film hits theaters Feb. 28, when the only other new


Sony Pictures Entertainment and Marvel Studios announced today that Sony is bringing Marvel into the amazing world of Spider-Man.

Under the deal, the new Spider-Man will first appear in a Marvel film from Marvel’s Cinematic Universe (MCU). Sony Pictures will thereafter release the next installment of its $4 billion Spider-Man franchise, on July 28, 2017, in a film that will be co-produced by Kevin Feige and his expert team at Marvel and Amy Pascal, who oversaw the franchise launch for the studio 13 years ago. Together, they will collaborate on a new creative direction for the web slinger. Sony Pictures will continue to finance, distribute, own and have final creative control of the Spider-Man films.

well this doesn’t look terrible, but we all saw how Season One of Agents ofThe man accused of perpetrating the deadly car attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, last summer was indicted on Wednesday on 30 counts, including hate crimes resulting in death and bodily injury.

In August 2017, James Fields Jr. allegedly drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters during the Unite the Right rally, which brought white supremacists, members of the alt-right, and their supporters to Charlottesville. The attack left one counterprotester, Heather Heyer, dead and many others injured.

In the indictment released Wednesday, federal prosecutors wrote that Fields “slowly reversed his vehicle to the top of the hill” while a “racially and ethnically diverse crowd of individuals” gathered at the bottom of the hill. He “then rapidly accelerated, ran through a stop sign and across a raised pedestrian mall, and drove directly


of the lifter which is stopped in the rotation is moved by the slanting surface of the saw tooth of the operating body. As a result, the lifter protrudes from the base plate.
On the other hand, the apparatus which is disclosed on Japanese Laid Open Patent 11-86066 is a smaller coin dispensing apparatus and includes a rotating disk for dispensing the coins one by one, a rotating shaft for rotating the rotating disk, a planetary gear train where the center axis is located on the center axis of the rotating shaft, a rotating shaft of a motor where the center axis is located on the center axis of the planetary gear train. Also, it includes a spacer for adjusting the position of the disk to the thickness ofthe coin.
In the apparatus, for adjusting the thickness of the coin, a spacer is added around the rotating shaft, and the gear section of the rotating shaft is inserted into the penetrating hole of the base plate. The gear section is inserted into the cylinder section of a carrying plate of the planetary gear train. When the thickness of the coin is thin, the spacer is removed, and the gear section of the rotating shaft is inserted into the cylinder section which passes through the penetrating hole of the base plate.
Therefore this apparatus can be adapted to the thickness of the coin by the spacer in as the same as the Japanese Laid Open Patent 11-96426 which adjusts the distance between the base plate and the rotating disk.
Also,


While he was still alive, and I say this with respect - Micheal Jackson reluctantly admitted to being deeply involved in the occult. Known as the “king of pop,” Michael was believed by some to be carrying “the most powerful Nephilim the music industry has ever seen.” Aleister Crowley in the book “777 and other Qabalistic writings of Aleister Crowley” talked about having a room of mirrors and wrote that if one looked into a mirror, there were ways to channel spirits of those gone before him/her. Michael Jackson had his own special room with all the walls full of mirrors. He claimed that he was in communication with the flamboyant gay pianist Lee Liberace who died in 1987. In his own words, Jackson said, “I have myto similar things such as "selling their soul's to the devil"

I was a huge MJ fan from the time I was a child up untill I recently when i started to put put two and two together. Even after his death I though he was innocent. He was good at much more than music and performing on stage , I'll give him that. I don't consider myself very naive but it's still hard to see how blatant it was , he had me in denial because of my love and him as a person. His words seemed powerful and when he wanted he was able to say some very uplifting things about subjects that are usually ignored. Which made it more likeley to me that so many people


Last updated on .From the section Premier League

Hackett: "It is the level of performance on the field of play I am complaining about and I see standards falling"

Former referees' boss Keith Hackett claims officiating standards in the Premier League over Christmas were "bordering on appalling".

Hackett, 70, has named five current top-flight referees who should be demoted at the end of the season.

In addition, he believes successor Mike Riley should step down.

Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) has rejected Hackett's claims, stating standards have risen since Riley replaced Hackett in 2010.

Former Fifa referee Hackett claims he counted "over 20 major errors" during the Christmas period.

He cited Wayne Routledge's red card during Swansea's game at QPR on 1 January, which was later overturned, as being of particular concern.

"I see standardsYou Are The Ref, external-link Hackett also targeted Mike Jones, Lee Mason, Chris Foy and last season's FA Cup final referee Lee Probert.

"You can't live on your reputation," Hackett said. "At the moment, these guys are performing well below the level."

Kevin Kilbane, Radio 5 live pundit "Some of the decisions made in and around Christmas and over this last week or so have looked ridiculous. Some of the decisions are beyond belief at times. A lot of the decisions early on in the season have been quite good. But when you get some howling errors they seem to escalate."

Hackett, who refereed at the European Championship and the Olympic Games in 1988 and who led PGMOL for almost six years after replacing Philip Don in March 2004, feels Riley


than "Gone with the Wind"....

I read "The Orthodox Church" (original 65 version) as well as the new one. Both are very good overall introductions, but some of hte info in the original is quite dated as much has changed in the past 40 odd years.

Way of the Pilgrim is also good but one should be careful as it can lead to a great fervor that dies quickly.

The Law of God by Fr. Seraphim Slobodsky (available from SJKP.org at a rather steep 50 american) is worth every penny. Its written on a 5th grade reading level but its simplistic terms and expressions do nothing to mask the infinite greatness of the Orthodox tradition. It is the premeire Catechism of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia and is also beingInternational Law on the Bombing of Civilians

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Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague II) July 29, 1899

Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague IV) October 18, 1907

Draft Rules of Aerial Warfare, The Hague, February 1923

Protection of Civilian Populations Against Bombing from the Air in Case of War, League of


Nations, September 30, 1938

Appeal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 1, 1939

Nuremberg Principles, August 8, 1945

Geneva Convention IV, August 12, 1949

Resolution on Nuclear Weapons, United Nations, November 24, 1961

Resolution on Human Rights, United Nations, December 19, 1968

On the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, International Court of Justice, July 8, 1996

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CONVENTION WITH RESPECT TO THE LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF WAR ON LAND

The Hague, July 29, 1899

[Ratified by the U.S. Senate on March 14, 1902]

[excerpts]

ARTICLE XXII

The right of belligerents to adopt means of injuring the enemy is not unlimited.

ARTICLE XXIII

Besides the prohibitions provided by special Conventions, it is especially prohibited:

a. To employ poison or poisoned arms;

b. To kill or wound treacherously individualsof perfidy. The marks used as aforesaid shall be in the case of buildings protected under the Geneva Convention the red cross on a white background, and in the case of other protected buildings a large rectangular panel divided diagonally into two pointed triangular portions, one black and the other white.

A belligerent who desires to secure by night the protection for the hospitals and other privileged buildings above mentioned must take the necessary measures to render the special signs referred to sufficiently visible.

PROTECTION OF CIVILIAN POPULATIONS AGAINST BOMBING FROM THE AIR IN CASE OF WAR

Unanimous resolution of the League of Nations Assembly,

September 30, 1938.

The Assembly,

Considering that on numerous occasions public opinion has expressed through the most authoritative channels its horror of the bombing of civilian populations;

Considering that this


undertaking the necessary work under conditions most likely to lead to as general an agreement as possible:

I. Recognizes the following principles as a necessary basis for any subsequent regulations:

1) The intentional bombing of civilian populations is illegal;

2) Objectives aimed at from the air must be legitimate military objectives and must be identifiable;

3) Any attack on legitimate military objectives must be carried out in such a way that civilian populations in the neighbourhood are not bombed through negligence;

The President of the United States to the Governments of France, Germany, Italy, Poland and His Britannic Majesty, September 1, 1939

The ruthless bombing from the air of civilians in unfortified centers of population during the course of the hostilities which have raged in various quarters of the earth during the past fewin conflict, without any adverse distinction based, in particular, on race, nationality, religion or political opinion, and are intended to alleviate the sufferings caused by war...

ARTICLE XVI

The wounded and sick, as well as the infirm, and expectant mothers, shall be the object of particular protection and respect...

ARTICLE XVIII

Civilian hospitals organized to give care to the wounded and sick, the infirm and maternity cases, may in no circumstances be the object of attack, but shall at all times be respected and protected by the Parties to the conflict...

RESOLUTION ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS

United Nations, November 24, 1961

General Assembly Resolution 1653

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

Mindful of its responsibility under the Charter of the United Nations in the maintenance of international peace and security, as well as in the consideration of principles governing disarmament,

Gravely concerned


that, while negotiations on disarmament have not so far achieved satisfactory results, the armaments race, particularly in the nuclear and thermo-nuclear fields, has reached a dangerous stage requiring all possible precautionary measures to protect humanity and civilization from the hazard of nuclear and thermo-nuclear catastrophe,

Recalling that the use of weapons of mass destruction, causing unnecessary human suffering, was in the past prohibited, as being contrary to the laws of humanity and to the principles of international law, by international declarations and binding agreements, such as the Declaration of St. Petersburg of 1868, the Declaration of the Brussels Conference of 1874, the Conventions of the Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907, and the Geneva Protocol of 1925, to which the majority of nations are still parties,

Considering that theuse of nuclear and thermo-nuclear weapons would bring about indiscriminate suffering and destruction to mankind and civilization to an even greater extent than the use of those weapons declared by the aforementioned international declarations and agreements to be contrary to the laws of humanity and a crime under international law,

Believing that the use of weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear and thermo-nuclear weapons, is a direct negation of the high ideals and objectives which the United Nations has been established to achieve through the protection of succeeding generations from the scourge of war and through the preservation and promotion of their cultures,

I. Declares that:

(a) The use of nuclear and thermo-nuclear weapons is contrary to the spirit, letter and aims of the United Nations and, as such, a


as committing a crime against mankind and civilization;

2. Requests the Secretary-General to consult with the Governments of Member States to ascertain their views on the possibility of convening a special conference for signing a convention on the prohibition of the use of nuclear and thermo-nuclear weapons for war purposes and to report on the results of such consultation to the General Assembly at its seventeenth session.

RESOLUTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

United Nations, December 19, 1968

General Assembly Resolution 2444

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

Recognizing the necessity of applying basic humanitarian principles in all armed conflicts,

Taking note of resolution XXIII on human rights in armed conflicts, adopted on 12 May 1968 by the International Conference on Human Rights,

Affirming that the provisions of that resolution need to be implemented effectively as soon as possible,

1. Affirms resolutionto the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, the Geneva Protocol of 1925 and the Geneva Conventions of 1949.

On the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons

International Court of Justice

The Hague, 8 July 1996

The opinion of the International Court of Justice (“World Court”) came in response to a request from the United Nations General Assembly. The Court found that the threat or use of nuclear weapons “would generally be contrary to the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict.” However, the Court was unable to make a determination “in an extreme circumstance of self-defence, in which the very survival of a State would be at stake.”

In general, the Court based its ruling on the body of international law protecting civilian populations. Its analysis cited specifically


effective international control.

Done in English and French, the English text being authoritative, at the Peace Palace, the Hague, this eighth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and ninety six, in two copies, one of which will be placed in the archives of the Court and the other transmitted to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

United Nations General Assembly

adopted July 7, 2017

[excerpts]

The States Parties to this Treaty,

Determined to contribute to the realization of the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,

Deeply concerned about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences that would result from any use of nuclear weapons, and recognizing the consequent need to completely eliminate such weapons, which remains the only way to guarantee that nuclear weapons are never usedagain under any circumstances,

...

Basing themselves on the principles and rules of international humanitarian law, in particular the principle that the right of parties to an armed conflict to choose methods or means of warfare is not unlimited...

Considering that any use of nuclear weapons would be contrary to the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict, in particular the principles and rules of international humanitarian law,

Reaffirming that any use of nuclear weapons would also be abhorrent to the principles of humanity and the dictates of public conscience,

Recalling that, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, States must refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State...

...

Article 1

Prohibitions

1. Each State Party undertakes never under


any circumstances to:

(a) Develop, test, produce, manufacture, otherwise acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices...

...

The full text of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is available on the United Nations website.

Two good sources about the laws of war, which contain many of these documents, are:

Leon Friedman (Ed.), The Law of War: A Documentary History (New York: Random House, 1972).

Adam Roberts and Richard Guelff (Eds.), Documents on the Laws of War, Third Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).Cherokee Genealogist: Elizabeth Warren's Claims of Indian Ancestry are "Ludicrous"

Fauxcahantas.

A Cherokee genealogist on Wednesday dismissed Sen. Elizabeth Warren's claims of Indian ancestry as "ludicrous," arguing that the Massachusetts Democrat "has no respect for true Native Americans."

Twila Barnes, who has done extensive research into Ms. Warren�s family tree, added that the high-profile progressive leader has angered some Native Americans by appearing to leverage her dubious heritage to advance her career.

...

The Berkshire (Mass.) Eagle, which endorsed her in 2012, called on her last week to take a DNA test to resolve the issue once and for all, while independent candidate Shiva Ayyadurai has sent her two DNA kits, both of which were returned.

Previously, Elizabeth Warren refused to say she would take a DNA test, claiming that she knew in her


by telling the story of her parents, who she said met as teenagers in Oklahoma. Her father's family, Warren said, was opposed to his marrying Warren's mother because she was part Native American, and the couple went on to make it through "hard times" and raise her and her three brothers. "I know who I am because of what my mother and my father told me, what my grandmother and my grandfather told me, what all my aunts and uncles told me and my brothers. It's a part of who I am, and no one's ever going to take that away," Warren said.

This just in: The alleged Party of Science reject science, says "lore" and "feelings" trump facts.

By this illogic, isn't Warren saying that Danny Williams is inPolyps of the large intestine in Northern Norway.
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the notion of writing and written text in Islam. It is noteworthy, for instance, that the Prophet Muhammad is related to have said: "The first thing God created was the pen."

Islamic calligraphy developed from two major styles: Kufic and Naskh. There are several variations of each, as well as regionally specific styles. Islamic calligraphy has also been incorporated into modern art beginning with the post-colonial period in the Middle East, as well as the more recent style of calligraffiti.

Instruments and media

The traditional instrument of the Islamic calligrapher is the qalam, a pen normally made of dried reed or bamboo. The ink is often in color and chosen so that its intensity can vary greatly, creating dynamism and movement in the letter forms. Some styles are often written usinga metallic-tip pen.

Islamic calligraphy can be applied to a wide range of decorative mediums other than paper, such as tiles, vessels, carpets, and stone.Before the advent of paper, papyrus and parchment were used for writing. During the 9th century, an influx of paper from China revolutionized calligraphy. While monasteries in Europe treasured a few dozen volumes, libraries in the Muslim world regularly contained hundreds and even thousands of books.

For centuries, the art of writing has fulfilled a central iconographic function in Islamic art. Although the academic tradition of Islamic calligraphy began in Baghdad, the center of the Islamic empire during much of its early history, it eventually spread as far as India and Spain.

Coins were another support for calligraphy. Beginning in 692, the Islamic caliphate reformed the coinage


of the Near East by replacing Byzantine Christian imagery with Islamic phrases inscribed in Arabic. This was especially true for dinars, or gold coins of high value. Generally, the coins were inscribed with quotes from the Qur'an.

By the tenth century, the Persians, who had converted to Islam, began weaving inscriptions onto elaborately patterned silks. So precious were textiles featuring Arabic text that Crusaders brought them to Europe as prized possessions. A notable example is the Suaire de Saint-Josse, used to wrap the bones of St. Josse in the Abbey of St. Josse-sur-Mer, near Caen in northwestern France.

As Islamic calligraphy is highly venerated, most works follow examples set by well-established calligraphers, with the exception of secular or contemporary works. In the Islamic tradition, calligraphers underwent extensive training in threestages, including the study of their teacher's models, in order to be granted certification.

Styles

Kufic

Kufic is the oldest form of the Arabic script. The style emphasizes rigid and angular strokes, which appears as a modified form of the old Nabataean script. The Archaic Kufi consisted of about 17 letters without diacritic dots or accents. Diacritical markings were added during the 7th century to help readers with pronunciation of the Qur'an and other important documents, increasing the number of Arabic letters to 28. Although some scholars dispute this, Kufic script was supposedly developed around the end of the 7th century in Kufa, Iraq, from which it takes its name. The style later developed into several varieties, including floral, foliated, plaited or interlaced, bordered, and square kufic. Due to its straight


and orderly style of lettering, Kufic was frequently used in ornamental stone carving as well as on coins. It was the main script used to copy Qur'ans from the 8th to 10th century and went out of general use in the 12th century when the flowing naskh style become more practical. However, it continued to be used as a decorative element to contrast superseding styles.

There was no set rules of using the Kufic script; the only common feature is the angular, linear shapes of the characters. Due to the lack of standardization of early Kufic, the script differs widely between regions, ranging from very square and rigid forms to flowery and decorative ones.

Common varieties include square Kufic, a technique known as banna'i. Contemporary calligraphy using this style isalso popular in modern decorations.

Decorative Kufic inscriptions are often imitated into pseudo-kufics in Middle age and Renaissance Europe. Pseudo-kufics is especially common in Renaissance depictions of people from the Holy Land. The exact reason for the incorporation of pseudo-Kufic is unclear. It seems that Westerners mistakenly associated 13th-14th century Middle Eastern scripts with systems of writing used during the time of Jesus, and thus found it natural to represent early Christians in association with them.

Gallery - Kufic Calligraphy

A Kufic Calligraphy in Chota Imambara A Kufic Calligraphy in Chota Imambara

Under-glaze Terracotta Bowl from the 11th Century Nishapur Under-glaze Terracotta Bowl from the 11th Century Nishapur

Square Kufic Tilework in Yazd, Iran Square Kufic Tilework in Yazd, Iran

Gold Dinar from 10th Century Syria Gold Dinar from 10th Century Syria

Maghribi Kufic Script


in a 13th-Century Qur'an Maghribi Kufic Script in a 13th-Century Qur'an

Kufic Script in an 11th-Century Qur'an Kufic Script in an 11th-Century Qur'an

Naskh

The use of cursive scripts coexisted with Kufic, and historically cursive was commonly used for informal purposes. With the rise of Islam, a new script was needed to fit the pace of conversions, and a well-defined cursive called naskh first appeared in the 10th century. Naskh translates to "copying," as it became the standard for transcribing books and manuscripts. The script is the most ubiquitous among other styles, used in Qur'ans, official decrees, and private correspondence. It became the basis of modern Arabic print.

Standardization of the style was pioneered by Ibn Muqla (886 – 940 A.D.) and later expanded by Abu Hayan at-Tawhidi (died 1009 A.D.). Ibnand thuluth, first appeared in the 10th century. The shape is simple with short strokes and small flourishes.

3. Muhaqqaq is a majestic style used by accomplished calligraphers. It was considered one of the most beautiful scripts, as well as one of the most difficult to execute. Muhaqqaq was commonly used during the Mamluk era, but its use became largely restricted to short phrases, such as the basmallah, from the 18th century onward.

Gallery - Naskh Calligraphy

Calligraphy of Ali Decorating Hagia Sophia. Calligraphy of Ali Decorating Hagia Sophia.

Thuluth Script Tile in Samarkand. Thuluth Script Tile in Samarkand.

Diploma of Competency in Calligraphy, Written with Thuluth and Naskh Script. Diploma of Competency in Calligraphy, Written with Thuluth and Naskh Script.

Naskh Script in an Early 16th-Century Ottoman Manuscript Dedicated to Selim I. Naskh


Script in an Early 16th-Century Ottoman Manuscript Dedicated to Selim I.

Muhaqqaq Script in a 13th-Century Qur'an. Muhaqqaq Script in a 13th-Century Qur'an.

Muhaqqaq Script in a 15th-Century Qur'an from Turkey. Muhaqqaq Script in a 15th-Century Qur'an from Turkey.

Reginal styles

With the spread of Islam, the Arabic script was established in a vast geographic area with many regions developing their own unique style. From the 14th century onward, other cursive styles began to develop in Turkey, Persia, and China.

1. Nasta'liq is a cursive style originally devised to write the Persian language for literary and non-Qur'anic works. Nasta'liq is thought to be a later development of the naskh and the earlier ta'liq script used in Iran. The name ta'liq means "hanging," and refers to the slightly sloped quality of lines of textin this script. Letters have short vertical strokes with broad and sweeping horizontal strokes. The shapes are deep, hook-like, and have high contrast. A variant called Shikasteh is used in more informal contexts.

2. Diwani is a cursive style of Arabic calligraphy developed during the reign of the early Ottoman Turks in the 16th and early 17th centuries. It was invented by Housam Roumi, and reached its height of popularity under Süleyman I the Magnificent (1520–1566). Spaces between letters are often narrow, and lines ascend upwards from right to left. Larger variations called djali are filled with dense decorations of dots and diacritical marks in the space between, giving it a compact appearance. Diwani is difficult to read and write due to its heavy stylization and became the ideal


script for writing court documents as it ensured confidentiality and prevented forgery.

3. Sini is a style developed in China. The shape is greatly influenced by Chinese calligraphy, using a horsehair brush instead of the standard reed pen. A famous modern calligrapher in this tradition is Hajji Noor Deen Mi Guangjiang.

Gallery - Reginal styles Calligraphy

Nasta'liq Script in an Ottoman Manuscript. Nasta'liq Script in an Ottoman Manuscript.

Nasta'liq Script. Nasta'liq Script.

Proportions of the Nasta'liq Script. Proportions of the Nasta'liq Script.

Sini Script in an 11th-Century Qur'an Sini Script in an 11th-Century Qur'an

Chinese Qur'an Written in Sini with Chinese Translation. Chinese Qur'an Written in Sini with Chinese Translation.

The Word "Allah" Written in the Form of Pigeon in Chota Imambara The Word "Allah" Written in the Form of Pigeon in Chota Imambara

Modern styles

In thepost-colonial era, artists working in North Africa and the Middle East transformed Arabic calligraphy into a modern art movement, known as the Hurufiyya movement. Artists working in this style use calligraphy as a graphic element within contemporary artwork.

The term, hurifiyya is derived from the Arabic term, harf for letter. Traditionally, the term was charged with Sufi intellectual and esoteric meaning. It is an explicit reference to a Medieval system of teaching involving political theology and lettrism. In this theology, letters were seen as primordial signifiers and manipulators of the cosmos.

Hurufiyya artists blended Western art concepts with an artistic identity and sensibility drawn from their own culture and heritage. These artists integrated Islamic visual traditions, especially calligraphy, and elements of modern art into syncretic contemporary compositions. Although hurufiyyah artists


struggled to find their own individual dialogue within the context of nationalism, they also worked towards an aesthetic that transcended national boundaries and represented a broader affiliation with an Islamic identity.

The hurufiyya artistic style as a movement most likely began in North Africa around 1955 with the work of Ibrahim el-Salahi. However, the use of calligraphy in modern artworks appears to have emerged independently in various Islamic states. Artists working in this were often unaware of other hurufiyya artists's works, allowing for different manifestations of the style to emerge in different regions. In Sudan, for instance, artworks include both Islamic calligraphy and West African motifs.

The hurufiyya art movement was not confined to painters and included artists working in a variety of media. One example is the Jordanian ceramicist,Mahmoud Taha who combined the traditional aesthetics of calligraphy with skilled craftsmanship. Although not affiliated with the hurufiyya movement, the contemporary artist Shirin Neshat integrates Arabic text into her black-and-white photography, creating contrast and duality. In Iraq, the movement was known as Al Bu'd al Wahad (or the One Dimension Group)", and in Iran, it was known as the Saqqa-Khaneh movement.

Western art has influenced Arabic calligraphy in other ways, with forms such as calligraffiti, which is the use of calligraphy in public art to make politico-social messages or to ornament public buildings and spaces. Notable Islamic calligraffiti artists include: Yazan Halwani active in Lebanon[36], el Seed working in France and Tunisia, and Caiand A1one in Tehran.

Gallery - Modern styles Calligraphy

Flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan 2001. Flag


of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan 2001.

Muhammad Calligraphy Muhammad Calligraphy

Bismallah Calligraphy. Bismallah Calligraphy.

An Example of Zoomorphic Calligraphy. An Example of Zoomorphic Calligraphy.

Flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan 2001. Flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan 2001.

Animation Showing the Calligraphic Composition of the Al Jazeera Logo. Animation Showing the Calligraphic Composition of the Al Jazeera Logo.

The Emirates Logo is Written in Traditional Arabic Calligraphy. The Emirates Logo is Written in Traditional Arabic Calligraphy.

The Instruments and Work of a Student Calligrapher. The Instruments and Work of a Student Calligrapher.

Islamic Calligraphy Performed by a Malay Muslim in Malaysia. Calligrapher is Making a Rough Draft. Islamic Calligraphy Performed by a Malay Muslim in Malaysia. Calligrapher is Making a Rough Draft.

How to

Arabic Calligraphy Tutorial - Lesson 1 Credit: Alhamdulillah Arts

Arabic Calligraphy Tutoriala NBA team owner wants or thinks he knows about the spirit of BBall. They take the game way too serious and made it more of a biz then an actual sport. They’re sucking the fun and life out of the game with all this biz crapola. When you see owners, coaches, officials, getting as much or more primetime then the players….(imho) I see that as the game dying slowly.

No one, not a single person ever thought the NBA would ever take over the ABA, but it did, the ABA was considered the most exciting incredible league known to man in terms of style and grace, and the NBA slowly took the ABA's stars away and eliminated their fan base

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started the D.League, after they sabotage the old CBA league

This is why the NBA started the D.League, after they sabotage the old CBA league

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that is not why they started the D-league at all

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The 26-year-old native of Prior Lake, Minnesota has registered 17 goals and 23 assists for 40 points with 10 penalty minutes and a +9 plus/minus rating in 144 career NHL games with the Wild and Vancouver Canucks since making his NHL debut in 2012-13. Last season, he tallied 6-7-13 and was +5 in 37 games with Minnesota, setting career highs in goals, assists, points and games played. He added 6-12-18 and 12


Startup boot camp Y Combinator illustrates dearth of women in tech - ssclafani
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Statistically founding a tech startup is at the intersection of two things
which are primarily male-dominated at the moment: founding companies and IT.
It's really only when they're multiplied together that it becomes so starkly
biased towards males.

My long standing theory on the tech front has been that the hook in the 80s
and early 90s for kids getting into technology was computer games, which were
largely marketed to boys.

My little sister, however, was born in 1988, and by the time she was using a
computer the primary hook was the internet, which (as I recall) young girls
spend _more_ time on than young boys.

Like I had, she learned to program at a young age, knew HTML when she was 11,
Java when shewas 14, and so on. However, also like me, she had a lot of
aptitude for music.

I was _fiercely_ discouraged from music. My parents saw it as a waste of time.
Becoming a software engineer was respectable. Heck, I started college in 1997
when it seemed like about the best thing in the universe that a kid could go
into.

Now, my sister was encouraged in music. My mom moved 90 miles away so that she
could go to a magnet high school for performing arts, my parents bought her a
$3000 flute and drove her around the country to top conservatories for
auditions when the time came. But even up to her senior year in high school
she was considering a double major in physics and music, but the interest in
physics was largely downplayed by my