In a dramatic new development, over one-hundred thousand Palestinians burst through Egyptian security forces into Sinai. An estimated one and half million Palestinians are closed-off in the Gaza Strip by Israel in the north and Egypt to the south. Ruled by the fanatical Hamas Islamists, they refuse to accept Israel's right to exist and continually rocket the nearby Israeli town of Sderot. In response, Israel has closed off its border and reduced its supplies of power and fuel. The situation in Gaza has turned from bad to worse while Israeli and Palestinian negotiators from the West Bank try to make progress in their peace contacts. In an interview with IsraCast, Israeli geographer Prof. Yehoshua Ben-Arieh presents a land exchange plan between Israel, the Palestinians and Egypt that hebelieves could lead to a breakthrough.

The Israeli-Palestinian confrontation took a new twist after tens of thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip broke through Egyptian security forces and headed into Sinai to buy ought shops in the nearby town of Raf. The Palestinian 'invasion' came in response to the Israeli closure of Gaza terminals to Israel and the reduced Israeli supplies of power and fuel-part of an Israeli reaction to the more than 4,000 Qassam rockets and mortars that have turned the Israeli town of Sderot into a ghost town. Israeli geographer Prof. Yehoshua Ben - Arieh warns that the Palestinian break- out into Sinai again proves the need to find a territorial solution to the problem of the one and a half million Palestinians living inside the


'cage' of Gaza. In his view, the Gaza Strip is now the main obstacle to resolving the conflict.

Ben-Arieh proposes that Israel give a small piece of land from its southern Negev in the area of Wadi Paran on the border of Egyptian Sinai which would become Egyptian territory. Egypt could then build a land bridge to Jordan that could also transfer Egyptian - owned oil, gas and water pipelines. In return for this land, Egypt would transfer an area similar in size ( around 600 square kilometers) located to the south of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. The coastline would extend 20 kilometers towards El-Arish from the present Israeli - Egyptian border and the area would extend inland into Sinai from the coast. In lieu of the territorythat the Palestinian Authority would receive from Egypt, the PA would agree to transfer to Israel a similar area in size to Israel - exactly the same area that it will get from Egypt south of Rafah. This would involve West Bank land around the Israeli towns of Maale-Adumim, Jerusalem and Ariel.

He envisages the possibility of building a Palestinian sea and air port in the new area and economic development to raise the poor standard of living of Gaza residents. The Egyptians would also gain an important economic asset by being able to build the land bridge leading to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Arab world. All three sides, the Palestinians, Egypt and Israel would benefit from such a territorial swap - neither side would


'At last, the disengagement is beginning to work'. Obviously, a broken border between Egypt and Gaza is a major security problem for Israel. But war matériel and money for Hamas crossed the border anyway. An open border effectively absolves Israel of responsibility for the well-being of Gaza's population, and may prompt Israel to sever its remaining infrastructure and supply links to Gaza. A large part of the responsibility for Gaza would be shifted from Israel to Egypt, which might explain the satisfied murmurings in Jerusalem.

But the implications of the big breach go further. Given that Gaza and the West Bank are unlikely to be reunited, the question of Gaza's own viability as a separate entity is bound to resurface. In the 1990's, economists talked about Gaza's viability asgas line). Cohen also believed that Israeli settlements at Gush Katif 'in the long run should be removed.' The long run didn't take all that long.

The Oslo accords eclipsed the idea of a Gaza mini-state.Gaza was supposed to find its outlet in the West Bank, through a safe-passage corridor. The idea of an expanded Gaza was revived shortly before Israel’s unilateral withdrawal, by an Israeli geographer (and former rector of Hebrew University), Yehoshua Ben-Arieh. He proceeded from this assumption: a corridor to the West Bank would not suffice to relieve the pressure building up in Gaza. Gaza could only be viable if it became a crossroads or gateway, which would require a deep-water port, an airport, and a new city. Ben-Arieh proposed a three-way swap. The Palestinian Authority


Bill Gates is putting pressure on the Obama administration to prevent major US energy companies from neutering legislation aimed at stamping out corruption in developing countries.

The billionaire philanthropist has published a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the US financial watchdog, expressing concern at attempts to water down a new law designed to increase transparency in deals involving extractive industries. The former Microsoft chief said it was important that the US was the standard bearer in the fight against corruption, adding: "I feel it is critical to ensure the final rules for this provision are strong and robust and in keeping with the intentions of Congress."

Sources close to Gates said it was unusual for him to make direct appeals, but there was concern about a lobbying campaignin Washington that would provide the big energy companies with loopholes that would allow them to continue operating in their current fashion.

Gates said Africa's natural resources were worth $246bn in exports in 2009, six times greater than the money it received in aid. "Little of this value remained in Africa. Transparency of financial flows is critical to ensuring these valuable resources are transformed into public benefits."

He added that Congress had made clear its intention to make transactions by big American mining and energy companies in developing countries more transparent, adding that the SEC had a "mandate to implement final rules reflecting the clear intent and reporting requirements established by Congress".

Jamie Drummond, the executive director of ONE, the development campaign group, said: "Some of the biggest and richest oil,


DARTMOUTH, Nova Scotia -- The last time Sidney Crosby played a big game, it ended with him hoisting the Stanley Cup after his Pittsburgh Penguins' Game 6 win over the San Jose Sharks. And the next time he steps onto the ice in uniform, he will represent Team Canada in the World Cup of Hockey, which begins Sept. 17 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.

Winning the Stanley Cup means you play later into the year, and Crosby told media assembled for his hometown Cup celebration that he understands it will be a challenge this summer to balance rest and preparation during a short offseason. Still, he's ready to once again represent his country.

Crosby, 28, already has an impressive international résumé, including a world junior championship (2005), twoOlympic gold medals (2010 and 2014) and a world championship (2015). Team Canada's World Cup roster will have a combined 22 Olympic gold medals, including 16 from the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. So, it's safe to say there's still a passion for winning among this group of talented, world-class players.

Sidney Crosby isn't resting on his laurels. Graig Abel/NHL/Getty Images

"I would think," Crosby said with a smile. "That passion is usually something that just comes along with wearing the Team Canada jerseys, regardless of when or where, that's something that's a given. Yeah, absolutely, I think that will be the case."

Crosby is not ready to compare the upcoming World Cup roster with the one that won in Sochi, but there are similarities.

"The biggest thing in Russia is


we got better as the tournament went along, and in a short-term event like that, that's really important," Crosby said. "We'll have to see. We'll have to find our own identity pretty quickly, but I would think any team that's going to have success over that month or so is going to have to get better and improve. It's only a one-game scenario, so you need to execute pretty well."

Coach Mike Babcock's roster will have some different elements to it from the 2014 Olympic team, including the addition of the Boston Bruins' Brad Marchand, who won gold medals for Team Canada at the world junior championship in 2007 and 2008. He also participated in the world championship in the spring. This time around, he'll get to play withCrosby on an international stage.

One possible combination for Crosby's line could be Marchand and Bruins linemate Patrice Bergeron, who normally plays with Crosby in international competitions. Babcock had a tough time finding linemates for Crosby at the 2010 and 2014 Olympics, so perhaps it makes sense to just start off with Bergeron -- usually a center -- and Marchand on the wings.

When it comes to Team Canada and its lineup, the team often goes through different line changes during such a tournament.

Crosby is also interested to watch Team North America, the star-studded under-24 team that includes phenom Connor McDavid of the Edmonton Oilers, Jack Eichel of the Buffalo Sabres and Auston Matthews of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

"They look really good," Crosby said. "They've got a ton of speed,


Greece #1 Holiday Destination for Austrians in 2017

Austrians chose Greece as their number one place for holidays for medium distance destinations in 2017, while bookings for trips abroad increased by 30%, according to TUI.

Austria‘s biggest tour operator announced figures for the summer of 2017 in a press conference in Vienna. According to TUI CEO Lisa Wedding, Greece is the top choice for Austrians, as reservations show. Spain and Italy follow, with Croatia and Egypt completing the first five destinations. Greece was also the number one destination for Austrians in 2016.

Wedding said that Austrians generally prefer Crete, Corfu and Rhodes. However, Kos may have already doubled the total bookings over last year. Last week, flight bookings for the four islands increased by 15%, while hotel bookings for Crete, Rhodesand Kos went up 40%.

Also, Wedding noted, there is a new trend for smaller islands like Karpathos, Zakynthos, Lefkada and Kefalonia.

New charter flights have been added for Greece as well. Specifically, a new route to Chania is added from the Linz airport, while the Salzburg airport will introduce new flights to Zakynthos and Thessaloniki. Klagenfurt airport will offer flights to Lefkada and Thessaloniki as well.


on the basis that Syria has a mutual assistance treaty with Iran and despite the current domestic problems Syria is experience. The resulting conflict could have a devastating effect both on the region and around the world. As well as bringing death and destruction to countless Iranians, Palestinians, Lebanese and Syrians, many Israelis may also die as Iran launches missiles in a counter attack against Israel, a move that could escalate rapidly if Israel decided to its use nuclear weapons against Iran in retaliation to an Iranian counter attack.

The economic consequences for the rest of the world could also be catastrophic. Oil prices, already at record levels due to the uncertainties prevailing in the region, would play havoc with economies world wide.

Then there are the unknowns. How, forIn the 1960s, when India’s aerospace programme was just taking off, a beach just outside Thiruvananthapuram served as the lab for several experiments in aeronautics. Scientists, including Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, converted an out-of-use church near the beach into their office.

In a recent book, Ramabhadran Aravamudan, a former director of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota and of the ISRO Satellite Centre, Bengaluru, writes about this place and that time in India’s space odyssey:

WHEN: 1960s

WHERE: Thumba, northern suburb of Thiruvanathapuram

“Since there were very few concrete buildings, the church of Mary Magdalene around which all our initial activity was centred continued to be a focal point. This church had an interesting history. Like many other ancient churches in this part of the world, this one too could trace


its roots back the sixteenth century when St Francis Xavier came to Kerala. St Francis was a zealous missionary who was responsible for converting to Christianity many of the fishing communities living along the coast. Legend has it that he built the first structure – a prayer hall with mud walls and a roof made of coconut frond thatch. This structure apparently lasted nearly a hundred years until the Jesuits replaced it with a church dedicated to St Bartholomew.

The present church came into existence at the turn of the twentieth century. In its new avatar it became the church of Mary Magdalene when the fishermen who were building the structure found a beautiful sandalwood statue of the saint lying on the beach. This statue was consecrated and placedon the altar of the new church. An unusually long log of wood that had drifted in from the sea was erected as the flag post and the church became functional.

When we took it over, the church building, as we called it, was one of the few brick and mortar structures in the area. Although it was a modest-sized church, it had a special aura. It had ceased to be a place of worship, but for us pioneers at ISRO it was a very special hub where some of our most exciting projects were conceived.

Its high-raftered roof was a sanctuary to swarms of pigeons. The altar in front of the statue of Mary Magdalene was left untouched as we had promised the fisherfolk that this sacred area would


be preserved as it was. And many of the early rockets, including the very first Nike-Apache, were assembled in front of the altar. The central portion of the church became a bustling office space. Later, assemblies took place in the newly built rocket assembly hall. Once that move occurred, the various wings of the church were used to provide temporary accommodation to the scientists and the support staff.

By the mid-sixties, plans were afoot to start a space science and technology centre in the picturesque Veli Hills close by. A couple of scientists working in foreign universities and laboratories had already been recruited so that they could start planning the future programmes. Many of them had PhDs from prestigious foreign universities and they arrived in Trivandrum bag and baggage,church had become our home and the pigeons our family.

As the years rolled by and more structures came up, the church building served as a general-purpose covered space that could be used as a stop-gap area. Finally, this iconic building was converted into a modern space museum with audiovisual presentations and models. Today, it attracts hordes of school children and many visitors who love the special conducted tours of the museum.

We also had a number of old but usable brick structures scattered across the range. For a long time these served as office spaces for various sections such as the construction division, the security division and the canteen. The bishop’s residence adjoining the church was the office of the test director of TERLS and some senior engineers until


the control centre was built. A small primary school building close to the launch pad temporarily served as a launch office and was subsequently converted into a technical library.

All the buildings were hardly a few metres away from the seashore which was dotted with hundreds of coconut trees. I could walk out of my office right on to the beach for some fresh air whenever I wanted. The fishermen continued to claim the beach as their natural fishing zone and their nets lay on the sands. They would fish and move across the beach, clearing the area just a few hours before a launch.”

Extracted with permission from ISRO: A Personal History by R. Aravamudan, Gita Aravamudan (Harper Collins India)An international health story from Case Western Reserve University.
This article describes the experience at Case Western Reserve University's Center for International Health during the first 7 years of its existence. The Center helped to stimulate substantial international health activity, including a major research collaboration in Uganda, an annual 4-week course in international health, a volunteer outreach to the University of Health Science in Laos, and medical student training electives in Zimbabwe, Thailand, China, and India. The Center remains a small under-funded catalyst organization that facilitates the substantial activities of more than 60 faculty members from many disciplines who held secondary appointments in the Center.


defendant asking him to contact defendant, who was in jail. Judge Richardson went to the parish prison and talked to defendant. He then took defendant to the Bogalusa Community Medical Center emergency room to be examined by Dr. Gilbert E. Caillouet because he was concerned with defendant's emotional and mental condition. After the exam was completed, Judge Richardson instructed the jailers to release defendant on his own recognizance and took defendant back to the motel (Sportsman's Inn) where he was staying.
The following day at City Hall, Judge Richardson was involved in conversation with Captain Dorman Pritchard of the Bogalusa Police Department. Judge Richardson advised Captain Pritchard that defendant told him he was using drugs and had drugs in his motel room at the Sportsman's Inn and that Dr.clinic. An altercation occurred and defendant was taken back to the mental health clinic under restraint. Dr. Devillier conducted a second examination on defendant and ordered him hospitalized at Mandeville.
Later that same day, Judge Richardson spoke with Detective Mike Edwards of the Bogalusa Police Department Narcotics Division. Detective Edwards had participated in the search of defendant's motel room earlier that day and he mentioned this to Judge Richardson. Judge Richardson then told Detective Edwards that "if they didn't find it [drugs] in the motel room, they would find it in the car, because he had his stuff in both the car and the motel room."
Based on this information from Judge Richardson, Detective Edwards executed an affidavit upon which a second district judge issued a search warrant for defendant's


reliable, and are upstanding citizens in the community.
The affidavit for the search warrant issued for defendant's automobile (blue 1981 Toyota with license # 161L645) by Detective Mike Edwards contained the following information:
On this date, Det. Mike Edwards received information from City Judge Jim Richardson that Michael Richmond made the statement to him that he had a quantity of Marijuana and cocaine in the vehicle that belonged to Michael Richmond. The Blue Toyota. This informant is well known by Det. Mike Edwards and is known to be very reliable and upstanding citizen of the community.
The issue at a suppression hearing is whether the affiant was truthful, not whether the informant was truthful, because if the informant lied, but the officer reasonably believed him, it cannot be said that theSo.2d 1355 (La.1984). The two affidavits must be examined in accordance with these legal precepts.
At the hearing on the motion to suppress, Dr. Gilbert E. Caillouet testified the defendant made certain statements concerning drugs while he was examining defendant. In particular, the defendant told Dr. Caillouet he had marijuana and very good cocaine that night, but was out of cocaine. However, Dr. Caillouet never spoke to either Captain Pritchard or Detective Edwards concerning defendant's statements. Judge Richardson was present for portions of the examination.
Judge Richardson testified the defendant made statements concerning drugs directly to him and to Dr. Caillouet which he overheard. From these conversations, Judge Richardson was under the impression and thought the defendant said he had marijuana and cocaine in his motel room and car. He


specifically recalled the defendant saying he had "good high grade cocaine and marijuana at his hotelat his motel room." Everything he reported to the police was derived from defendant's actual words, from being with defendant and from his *434 impressions of defendant. Further, Judge Richardson testified the statements attributed to him and contained in the affidavits were correct recitations of what he told Captain Pritchard and Detective Edwards.
Defendant testified and specifically denied talking to Dr. Caillouet or Judge Richardson about his use or possession of marijuana or cocaine.
Captain Pritchard and Detective Edwards testified the statements attributable to Judge Richardson contained in the affidavits were correct recitations of what was told them by Judge Richardson.
At the conclusion of the hearing on the motion to suppress, the trial judge excisedKansas City Chiefs safety Eric Berry has been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma, the team announced on Monday.

Berry was diagnosed by doctors at Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute in Atlanta. A mass was discovered on the right side of his chest last month, and Kansas City placed Berry on the non-football injury/illness list and sent him to see a lymphoma specialist.

"This is a diagnosis that is very treatable and potentially curable with standard chemotherapy approaches," said Christopher R. Flowers, the director of the lymphoma program at Emory. "The goal of Mr. Berry’s treatment is to cure his lymphoma and we are beginning that treatment now."

Berry released a statement through the Chiefs on Monday:

"My family and I are very grateful for the amount of support we have received over the


Berry's number and the phrase "Vol for Life."

The 25-year-old Berry has made the Pro Bowl three times since the Chiefs selected him with the No. 5 pick in the 2010 NFL draft. He was named first team All-Pro last season.

- Molly GearyCHICAGO – The Chicago Red Stars announced today an update on the status of defender Arin Gilliland.

During the Red Stars home game on Saturday, July 14, Arin Gilliland left the match in the 38th minute and was immediately transferred by ambulance to the local hospital for evaluation of a cervical spine injury. Following the tests, all x-rays came back normal.

At this time, she is currently resting and will be reevaluated by a team doctor.

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EVERY YEAR, particularly around the fall season, the number of fashion events descending upon this city becomes more and more head-spinning. Between slick, high-budget operations and more low-key, casual affairs, it's become nearly impossible to keep track of all the shows happening—much less attend them all. While the quality varies greatly from show to show, and many prove to lack staying power, the ones that gain the most popularity tend to tap into Portland's desire for unconventionality and unfettered creative expression. This explains why Content—which has designers take over rooms at the Ace Hotel for one night to create personalized installations that reflect their brands—has become one of the most well-attended and highly regarded events of the year.

Since it was first launched in2009, Content has evolved considerably, and designers have increasingly tapped into the possibilities that the unique format presents. As jewelry designer and perfumer Julia Barbee explains: "Last year's Content included multiple rooms that involved more than one sensory experience. Installations that have scented, edible, and auditory elements help to expand the idea of what fashion, or wearable work, really is." Designer Lindsey Reif, who's known for her line Reif (and super-popular turban headbands), adds that, "The first year none of us really knew what to expect. Over the past few years I've seen some amazingly creative installations that make me really proud to be a part of the event."

Part of what makes Content so compelling for designers and viewers alike is that it takes the presentation of design


one roof."

Designers also appreciate the sense of community that Content fosters both within the industry and between creators and customers. As Reif explains, "It's an opportunity to mingle, make connections, and talk with people about my brand. I think people like being able to put a face to a name, and when I'm doing fashion shows I'm stuck behind the scenes, so there's not really much interaction with the people watching the show." She adds, "It's about creative play, and the buzz, inspiration, and synergy that comes from a community of artists.

Naturally, designers involved in this year's production are staying pretty tight-lipped about what to expect. A big part of the impact, after all, does come from the element of surprise. But with a diverse and hugely talentedAlvarez blamed contaminated meat for his positive drug tests (Picture: Getty)

Tom Loeffler claims Voluntary Anti-Doping Association took the unprecedented move to cancel a scheduled drug test after Canelo Alvarez’s rematch with Gennady Golovkin.

Alvarez won a close points decision over Golovkin in their second encounter in September, a year after the middleweights had fought to a draw in their first fight.

The rematch had to be postponed when Alvarez tested positive for a banned substance and was subsequently banned for six months.

Jake, Vada scheduled a random test for GGG a week after the fight. I made sure that Canelo was also going to be tested. Next day the random test was cancelled. Strange that it was scheduled then cancelled, maybe Canelo was already in MX eating steaks celebrating his “decision”


her home, and ...

Orr couldn't hold it in. The tears flowed. She pointed to the auction brochure at a home that didn't have a picture. "That's my house," she said.

Within moments, the four-bedroom, two-bath home in Pottsboro, Texas, went up for sale. People up front began casting their bids. The home that Orr purchased in September 2004 was slipping away.

She stood and moved toward the crowd. Behind her, Mock got into the action.

"She didn't know I was doing it," Mock says. "I just kept asking her if [her home] was worth it, and she just kept crying. She probably thought I was crazy, 'Why does this woman keep asking me that?' "

Mock says she bought the home for about $30,000. That's when Mock did what most bidders atEminem daughter dating

a social media site including, Instagram and Twitter. The site provides no info about this alleged boyfriend, except that hes reportedly African-American. Caption: Eminem and his daughters: Whitney Scott Mathers and Hailie. Youtube: Five facts about Eminems daughter, Whitney Scott Mathers Whitney Scott Mathers career Whitney Scott Mathers is still young enough to pursue her career. But they reconciled for a few months until Kim ultimately filed for divorce in 2001. Along with Hailie, Whitney Scott Mathers has another sister too; her name is Amanda Scott who is also known as Alaina. Eminem and Kim split up briefly in 1996 and Kim took Hailie to live with her in a one-bedroom apartment.

She has been dating Evan McClintock for more than two years.The Daily Mail reported McClintock


was a fan of his girlfriends famous father and Eminem appeared to approve of his daughters relationship.Nicki Minaj Most Read.Hailie Scott Mathers, the daughter of Eminem, reportedly has a new African-American boyfriend.Eminem added that while Hailie has repeatedly claimed Justin is a good guy who treats her well, he seriously doubts anyone who likes the song Kill You, where he brutally describes killing a woman and hiding her in a closet, could ever be a decent.

Lets get along with the life of Whitney Scott Mathers; we will let you know about Whitney Scott Mathers dating life, boyfriend, family, parents, wiki-bio, career, and her net worth. In the 2004 song Mockingbird, he sexdate in Lippstadt raps about the time that he lost his job at the restaurant just beforefavour of a north-south separation, can now be considered valid once the they are counted.

The predominantly animist and Christian southerners have long blamed the mostly Arab and Muslim north of exploiting the South's oil without investing revenue in its development.

Southerners were also angered by the north's attempts to impose Islamic law across the country.

The votes for independence will not be finalised until July ,and Sudan has much to figure out in the meantime.

Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir has said he would let the South secede peacefully, but the split of Africa's largest country would deprive the north of most of its oil fields, which means north-South oil rights will have to be renegotiated.

Other issues include water rights to the White Nile, border demarcation and the status of Abyei, a


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PUBLISHED Sun, May 28, 2017 - 11:20am EDT

Credit: The Clarion-Ledger/Therese Apel

A man went on a shooting spree after a domestic incident in Lincoln County in Mississippi, killing eight people at three different locations, local officials say. A sheriff's deputy is among those killed in the shootings. (more)

The incident began on early Sunday morning when a deputy responded to a home on Lee Drive in the small community of Bogue Chitto, where a resident called police for someone who was refusing to leave the property.

After a deputy arrived at the home, the suspect opened fire, killing the deputy and three others before fleeing the scene. A second shooting occurred on Coopertown Road in the city of Brookhaven, where two people were


killed. Two other people were killed in a third shooting elsewhere in Brookhaven.

The shooting spree ended when a local resident shot the suspect on East Lincoln Road, near the scene of the third shooting, according to the Clarion-Ledger newspaper. A 16-year-old boy who was taken hostage at some point was released or freed without injuries.

The suspect, who has been identified as 35-year-old Willie "Cory" Godbolt, was taken into custody and treated for a gunshot wound. He was not seriously injured and confessed to the shootings in an interview with Clarion-Ledger reporter Therese Apel, saying he didn't intend to kill the deputy.

"We was talking about me taking my children and [unintelligible] I was having a conversation with her step-daddy and her momma, and her, my wife, about me takingmy children home," he said. "Somebody called the officer, people that didn't even live at the house. But that's what they do, they intervene. That cost him his life, I'm sorry."

Godbolt added that it was his intention to be shot and killed by police, but said he ran out of bullets. "I ain't fit to live. Not after what I've done," he told the newspaper while in handcuffs on the side of a road.

The deputy who was killed in the shooting has been identified as 36-year-old William Durr. There was no immediate word on the identities of the other victims, though one relative said they include a husband and wife.

"I ask all Mississippians to join Deborah and me in praying for those lost in Lincoln County," Governor Phil


Q:

Why is Terminator able to destroy himself in Rise of the Machines but not in Judgment Day?

Near the end of Judgment Day movie the T-800 Terminator is to be melted and he says he can't destroy himself and so asks John and Sarah to press the button.
Near the end of Rise of the Machines T-850 Terminator is fighting T-X at the bunker entrance and he extracts his "power cell" and inserts it into T-X's mouth knowing that the "power cell" will shortly explode and destroy both him and T-X.
In both cases he has to destroy himself to get his mission accomplished for which he has been programmed.
Yet in the former case he refuses to destroy himself on his own and asks for assistance.
Why the difference? Do they justalbum belonging to their father. They corner Oskar at night at the local swimming pool and attempt to drown him. However, Eli rescues Oskar and decapitates the two brothers; together they flee the city with Eli's money and possessions.

Characters

 Oskar, the male protagonist, a bullied twelve-year-old
 Eli, a centuries-old vampire who physically resembles a twelve-year-old
 Håkan, a middle-aged man who helps Eli by procuring blood
 Tommy, a rebellious teenager, neighbour and friend of Oskar
 Lacke, a local alcoholic
 Virginia, a divorced woman who has a difficult relationship with Lacke
 Yvonne, Tommy's mother
 Staffan, a policeman and Yvonne's new boyfriend
 Jonny, a bully in Oskar's class
 Jimmy, Jonny's older, sadistic brother
 Morgan, Jocke, Larry and Gösta, Lacke's friends

Title

The title refers to the Morrissey song "Let the Right One Slip


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Category:Vampire novels3 days." "The mortality rate is 100%." "Jesus." "Could an infected person have gotten out of the village?" "If he did, he'd be dead or dying in the jungle." "It's 50 miles to the next village." "First case?" "Patient zero?" "A young man called Murazo." "Worked with a white man to build a road into Kinshasa." " When he returned he was sick." " I see." "And he drank from this well." "From there, it spreads to the entire village." "Did you identify the carrier?" "The host?" "No, when we arrived, he was incoherent." "He died two hours later." "He couldn't tell us how he got it." "He's not sick." "He's a local ju-ju man." "Witch doctor." "He stayed in his cave all week." "I'd like to talk


will he ever vote. He knows nothing of the way the country is run, he doesn't care what laws are passed, whether our guns are banned. The only thing he is concerned with AT ALL is sports. he is a complete moron.

My father, who used to gripe constantly about not getting to see his grandkids when we lived 450 miles away wouldn't get off his butt to go see my daughters band competition last weekend when it was 17 miles from his house. His excuse was, it's too far to drive. It is in a town he regularly drives through for his part time job.

I've had it. We've been here for just 5 months. i am already looking for a job back in Tennessee and if I getTN_Mike

My father, who used to gripe constantly about not getting to see his grandkids when we lived 450 miles away wouldn't get off his butt to go see my daughters band competition last weekend when it was 17 miles from his house. His excuse was, it's too far to drive. It is in a town he regularly drives through for his part time job.

^^^^I know what you mean, in some respects.^^^^^^^^^

Depending on how old your dad is, and your family's overall relationship is with him.

My father was 79 when he passed in January, and up until he was around 67 or so, he had about as much motivation as your father when it came to these matters.
They lived 2.5 hrs. away from us, and in his last 4-5


your family's life in search of a another job is worth it in the long run. Clearly no answers here, just some questions you have to answer for yourself.

Keep your chin up, brother. Look past the disappointments in the old family and think about whether the current situation is right on all accounts.

"He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the Steppes. He had learned a good deal . . . and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life. The cause of this apparently was that at the bottom of his heart he knew all the time (or thought hePuckett and the Hall -- Yes, Again

Jesse over at TwinkieTown published an essay over the holiday weekend which was the result of a bit of soul-searching over Kirby Puckett and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Jesse's point seems to be that, when comparing Puckett to the other centerfielders in the Hall of Fame, Puckett may be far below the best, but he's certainly not the worst and he's also not unworthy of being in the Hall. I may need to turn in my contrarian bona-fides for this, but I find myself largely agreeing with Jesse. I continue to assert that Puckett is the least-impressive centerfielder, and possibly the least-impressive player, ever sent to the Hall by the Baseball Writers Association of America, but that doesn't mean Puckett is


if not impossible to do. Of course, Combs was put into the Hall by the Veterans Committee nearly 35 years after his last big-league game, while Puckett was elected by the BBWAA on his first ballot. Another good comparison is Larry Doby, whose career in the majors was nearly the same length as Puckett's and who finished less than 3 WAR ahead of Puckett on Jesse's list. Doby played in the '50s (and late '40s), mostly for the Cleveland Indians, twice led the AL in home runs, and finished a close second for the 1954 MVP behind Yogi Berra in a year when three other Indians, including two pitchers, got lots of MVP consideration. More significantly, Doby was the first black player in the AL, and was alreadya star in the Negro Leagues when he was signed by the Indians in 1947 at the age of 23 -- a couple of extra years of production probably wouldn't have made a huge difference, but Doby's existing production, plus his status, made him a worthy pick. Again, to argue that Puckett doesn't belong would require someone to argue that Doby is far more qualified than Puckett, which I don't see. But again, Doby was elected by the Veterans Committee in 1998, nearly 40 years after his final big-league game. Puckett went in first-ballot.

That's really my bone of contention for Puckett as a Hall of Famer. It was pretty clear that Puckett would eventually get into the Hall, but putting him in first-ballot makes a statement about Puckett


the Hall of Fame. Morris is, if anything, the stereotypical Veterans Committee selection -- the guy who didn't necessarily have the numbers, but who had the reputation and the recognition of his peers as a competitor and outstanding player. That Bert Blyleven got elected by the BBWAA and Morris might not doesn't mean that they weren't both outstanding pitchers, and doesn't make one more deserving than the other, just as Puckett's election doesn't make him more deserving than Doby or Combs or any of the other Hall of Fame centerfielders enshrined by the Veterans Committee. Except Hack Wilson, of course. I mean, what's up with that? * - Cobb wasn't just elected on his own first ballot, but was elected on the first-ever Hall of Fame ballot inthe check (optional).

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If Ezren is attempting to defeat a monster that requires two checks to defeat, and he casts an Arcane spell in each check, when does he get to examine the top card of his deck, when does he attempt to recharge the spells, and how many times does he get to examine his deck?

After he attempts the first check, he gets to examine his deck. Then, he attempts to recharge the spell he played on the first check. Then, he attempts the second check required by the monster, and examines his deck again. Finally, he attempts to recharge the spell he played on the


is a moving video of an 11-year-old girl addressing an Idle No More rally in Courtenay, British Columbia. — Faye Brown & Jay Walljasper

Supporters of Idle No More do a round dance in front of city hall in Kingston, Ontario, one of many actions across North America in support of indigenous rights and environmental protection. (Photo by Jonathon Reed under a Creative Commons license from flickr.com.)

The Idle No More movement is part of a larger Indigenous movement that has been in the making for several years now. Indigenous activists all over Canada have been monitoring the political and legal scene at both the federal and provincial levels to make a concerted effort to help inform First Nation community members and leaders about potential threats. We noted a clearCorn export shipments rebound, soybean shipments decline

Shipments were at their highest level since the government furlough and ended a two-week decline. Shipments last week achieved the second highest one-week total, with the highest point counting the entire month of October when government reports were delayed. Weekly shipment totals were led by Mexico, receiving 289,800 metric tons. Other high totals include Japan (235,400 MT), China (204,600 MT), South Korea (122,200 MT), and Egypt (118,700 MT).


Johann August, Freiherr von Starck (1741-1816)

[This is a draft of an article in The Dictionary of Eighteenth Century German Philosophers, 3 vols., edited by Manfred Kuehn and Heiner Klemme (London/New York: Continuum, 2010).]

Johann August Starck (also: ‘Stark’) was born in Schwerin (Mecklenburg) on 28 October 1741, the son of a Lutheran pastor. He died in Darmstadt on 3 March 1816. Starck was a prolific author and controversial Königsberg theologian, as well as a widely-read political writer now best remembered for arguing that an Illuminati-led conspiracy brought about the French revolution. Immanuel Kant and J. G. Hamann were among his acquaintances in Königsberg. His prose, both written and from the pulpit, was described as plodding and humorless, yet he possessed a remarkable ability to make and keep friends inhigh places, gaining the confidence of many aristocrats.

Starck began his studies in theology and oriental languages at Göttingen in 1761 under J. D. Michaelis (1717-91) [bio], with whom he later broke. In that same year he was initiated into a French freemasonry lodge at Göttingen and soon became an enthusiastic and evangelizing convert. He also made the acquaintance — either at Göttingen or later at St. Petersburg — of A. F. Büsching (1724-93) [bio], who would play a continuing and important role in Starck's career. Büsching taught at the university in Göttingen but left for St. Petersburg in 1761 to pastor the Lutheran congregation there and to direct the famous Petrina Academy, and in 1763 he offered Starck a post teaching Roman antiquity and Near Eastern (‘oriental’) languages.


Starck filled this post for the next two years, all the while furthering his contacts in the world of freemasonry, and then traveled to Paris in 1765 and obtained a position at the royal library working with ancient Near Eastern manuscripts. It was claimed that he secretly joined the Catholic church during this trip to Paris, although he disputed this claim to the end (and in any event he was buried as a Protestant). Starck was awarded his magister degree from Göttingen in absentia (28 August 1766), but his father’s illness soon brought him back to Germany, where he assumed a position as assistant rector at the gymnasium in Wismar (1766-8). Starck returned to St. Petersburg in 1768, presumably on freemasonry business, before arriving in Königsberg (28 September1769) where he lived next door to Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) [bio] — both were renting rooms from the book dealer Kanter, although Starck appears to have enjoyed free lodging. Starck began teaching in the philosophy faculty as an associate professor of Near Eastern languages with the summer semester of 1770, the same semester Kant began his tenure as full professor of logic and metaphysics [timeline of the faculty at Königsberg]. Starck was also appointed as second court chaplain at this time. In 1773 he received a doctorate in theology from Königsberg, legitimizing his appointment as 4th full professor of theology in 1772 (university records show him offering theology courses since the summer semester of 1771). He gave up his philosophy appointment in the fall of 1773, and the


in Latin and thus with considerably less reach into the general public. His broadly deistic approach emphasized natural religion and smoothed over doctrinal differences among the various faiths, such as in his anonymous Defense of Freemasonry (1770), that argued the wisdom found in the Eleusinian mystery religion, freemasonry, and Christianity were essentially all of a piece.

Personal disagreements and conflict with the local consistory, as well as overwork, eventually led Starck to resign his various positions in March 1777, leaving Prussia to teach philosophy at the gymnasium at Mitau (the capital of Courland and a center of freemasonry at the time). During this time he published a three-volume History of the Christian Church (1779-80) as well as an anonymous Honest Thoughts about Christianity (1780) that marked a conservative turnin his theology.

Starck’s views and personality soon made him unwelcome in Mitau, and in 1781 he secured an appointment at Darmstadt as the court chaplain and general superintendant of schools for Gießen and Darmstadt, where he finished out his career. In 1811 he was raised to the nobility by the Großherzog of Hessen.

Starck’s troubles and fortunes can scarcely be understood apart from his aspirations in the world of freemasonry. In the 1750s, Karl Gotthelf von Hund (1722-76) had developed a new order of freemasonry, the so-called ‘Strict Observance’, that claimed direct descent from the Templar Knights, whose last Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, had been executed by the French monarchy in 1314. A 1764 meeting of Templarists consolidated Hund’s control, but at this very time Starck was developing


a competing form of Templarism known as the Klerikat. While teaching in St. Petersburg, Starck had met a Greek by the name of Count Peter Melesino (or ‘Melissino’; 1726-97), a lieutenant-general in the Russian Imperial Army, and whose order of freemasonry claimed the clerics of the Templar Knights as its ancestors, and through whom the secret wisdom of the ancient Egyptians and Jews was claimed to have been preserved. Starck promoted this clerical brand of Templarism and in 1768 joined it to Hund’s movement, a union formalized in 1772. During this time he helped found a Strict Observance lodge at Wismar (February 1767) while teaching at the local gymnasium, and after moving to Königsberg he founded a second Clerical chapter (1770). Relations with Hund soured, however, and theunion was dissolved in 1778, also bringing to an end Starck’s official involvement in freemasonry — although in this same year he organized a secret group of ‘seven allies’, all various German princes, one of whom later secured for him his post at Darmstadt. The Prussian Crown Prince (as of 1786: Friedrich Wilhelm II) was traveling through Courland at this time and a meeting with Starck appears to have caused the prince to leave the Strict Observance order. Starck’s break with Templarist forms of freemasonry continued with his anonymous publications in 1781 of The Purpose and Uses of Freemasonry and in 1785 of St. Nicaise, a novel highly critical of Hund and his order, and which is widely viewed as Starck’s decisive break (although he consistently denied authorship


trees shade the graves at their feet in musty reddish-green and cool dappled gold. Other than the soft chirping of crickets in the grass and the gentle rustle of the wind, drowsy in the late afternoon sun, it is still and silent, creating the impression that this is a place separate from the world.

Most of the graves are plain white headstones engraved with the names of those who lie buried there. Some are polished granite or marble markers, the letters carved in them as sharp as if chiseled yesterday, while others are softer limestone, their inscriptions weathered and dimmed by time. Among the headstones is the occasional tall white mausoleum; some are freestanding, their sides clad in ivy, while others are built into hillsides. Some of the olderthat, on some distant planet beneath bright alien skies, an atom that once was part of me will take part in a series of chemical reactions that may ultimately lead to new life – life that will in time leave the sea that gave it birth, crawl up onto the beach, and look up into the cosmos and wonder where it came from.


Perez, 21, was stung at the Amarillo airport and was later hospitalized for five days in September. Her head swelled to twice its normal size and she needed a skin graft to rebuild the ear that had rotted from necrosis.

The Daily Mail sounded an alarm about a University of Kansas study by graduate student Erin Saupe, saying the "deadly" spider was "spreading ... to a town near you."

The spider's habitat is limited to the Southeast and Midwest, stretching from Kansas east to the Appalachian states.

But Saupe of the university's Geology and Biodiversity
Institute used computer modeling to predict how it's habitat might move north to states such as Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and even New York, dependent on climatic suitability for the species.

But Rick Vetter, the nation's foremost expert onthe brown recluse spider -- loxosceles reclusa -- said such media reports use "scare tactics," and 90 percent of the time a bite causes nothing more than a red mark on the skin.

"These are distorted reports ... hyperbolic media crap," said Vetter, a research associate in the department of entomology at the University of California-Riverside.

A Kansas home, for instance, was infested with 2,055 brown recluse spiders for a period of 17 years and "not one" in the family of four was bitten, according to one of his studies, published in the Journal of Medical Entomology.

He said gnarly photos of Perez's injuries looked authentic and he had known a 9-year-old who had lost an ear from necrosis. But such cases are rare.

The spider's venom -- sphingomyelinase D -- induces


can be life-threatening in 10 percent of the cases, but Vetter estimates there are only one or two deaths a year, typically in small children.

Brown Recluse Spiders Could Head North

Vetter worked with Saupe on her master's project, in which she tracked the spiders' predicted migration through "ecological niche modeling."

She used two models to predict the spider's range in 2020, 2050 and 2080, given the effects of global warming, concluding they might move north but those left behind would die off.

Kansas is a "hotbed" for these spiders, said Saupe, who has predicted that they might become extinct in the southern portions of their range by 2080 as the climate in their natural habitats becomes to warm and their mobility is restricted.

Most are reclusive, as their name suggests, and goSelden, said the species was "the commonest spider in my house" in Lawrence, where the paleontologist and arachnologist teaches at the University
of Kansas Paleontological Institute.

"They are in the bathroom under my sink in the cupboard," said Selden, a professor of invertebrate paleontology, or fossil spiders. "The problem is you leave a towel on the floor and it will scurry under there. In the morning, you pick up the towel and it may be on it."

At first, her parents thought a red, quarter-sized lesion on her thigh was a boil, but when red lines began to crawl up her leg, they knew it was more serious.

"I remember getting injections into the site and I still ended up losing quite a bit of flesh," she said. "I still have a


assembly which includes a hub slidably positioned within a cylindrical cover adapted to receive a syringe barrel, and a needle mounted on the hub. A spring biases the hub into a position in which the needle is contained within the tubular cover. When the spring is compressed, the hub may slide into a position which exposes the needle. The hub includes a pin which slidably engages a longitudinal groove in the tubular cover. The groove includes a transverse leg adapted to receive the pin. When the pin is positioned in the transverse leg, the hub is releasably locked into a position which exposes the needle. The hub has a threaded female joint which may be screwed onto a syringe barrel having a corresponded threaded male joint. Different sizeCambridge Five spy ring members 'hopeless drunks' Published duration 7 July 2014

image copyright Getty Images image caption Guy Burgess and Donald Duart Maclean were constantly drunk, the files say

Members of the "Cambridge Five" spy ring were seen by their Soviet handlers as hopeless drunks incapable of keeping secrets, newly-released files suggest.

Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, "Kim" Philby and Anthony Blunt were recruited as Soviet spies while at Cambridge University in the 1930s.

There may have been a fifth spy in the ring, possibly John Cairncross.

Documents from the Mitrokhin Archive have been made publicly available for the first time.

The FBI described them as the most complete intelligence ever received.

Major Vasili Mitrokhin smuggled the information out of Soviet archives during 12 years working for the KGB.

He defected to Britain in 1992.

Among the


thousands of pages of documents are profiles outlining the characteristics of Britons who spied for the Soviet Union.

They include references to Donald Duart Maclean and Guy Burgess, two of the five men recruited while studying at the University of Cambridge during the 1930s.

A short passage describes Burgess as a man "constantly under the influence of alcohol".

Written in Russian, it goes on to recount one occasion when Burgess drunkenly risked exposing his double identity.

"Once on his way out of a pub, he managed to drop one of the files of documents he had taken from the Foreign Office on the pavement," translator Svetlana Lokhova explained.

Moving on to Maclean, the note describes him as "not very good at keeping secrets".

It adds he was "constantly drunk" and binged on alcohol.

It wasbelieved he had told one of his lovers and his brother about his work as a Soviet agent while he was the worse for wear, the file adds.

The notes also provide an insight into the extent of the group's activity as they helped the KGB penetrate the UK's intelligence network at the highest level.

They describe how Burgess alone handed over 389 top secret documents to the KGB in the first six months of 1945 along with a further 168 in December 1949.

image copyright Getty Images and VT Freezeframe image caption Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and a man believed to be John Cairncross were also in the Cambridge spy ring

image caption The men had been graduates of Trinity College, Cambridge

Along with Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and a fifth man,


thought by many to have been John Cairncross, the Cambridge Five passed information about the UK to the Soviet Union throughout World War Two and into at least the 1950s.

After being recruited during their studies, the group went on to occupy positions within the Foreign Office, MI5 and the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS).

Shortly before the end of the war, Philby was promoted to head of the SIS's anti-Soviet section - meaning he was in charge of running operations against the Soviets while operating as a KGB agent.

Defection 'major coup'

Mitrokhin was a senior archivist in the KGB's foreign intelligence HQ and had unlimited access to thousands of files from a global network of spies and intelligence-gathering operations.

He became disillusioned with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and beganhandwriting notes from the files which he believed would be of use to foreign intelligence.

media caption Cambridge University’s Christopher Andrew and historian Svetlana Lokhova discuss the “distrust” the KGB felt towards the Cambridge Five.

His defection was regarded as a major coup and provided an insight into the extent of Soviet intelligence operations throughout the Cold War.

Throughout his life he made it clear he wanted his files opened to the public and following his death in 2004, his family worked with the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge to realise this wish.

His handwritten notes made in school notebooks remain classified and some information has been redacted.

But 19 out of 33 box files containing typewritten versions of his notes, all in Russian, can be viewed by visitors to the archive centre.

Cairncross,


tolerant generation.

About Dawn Carroll

Dawn Carroll, Executive Director of Over My Shoulder FoundationThe Over My Shoulder Foundation started with a song called “Over My Shoulder,” with lyrics written by Dawn as a duet to be performed by legendary Patti Austin and one of her mentees, Lianna Guiterrrez. Dawn’s vision was to musically weave together her message: that without support and emotional sustenance we can become lost, disconnected, and unstable—as individuals and as a society. As the Executive Director of OMSF, Dawn has inspired programs like the MIDDIES, which ask people to stop and pay tribute to those who helped navigate them to success. As Dawn states, “The dream behind the OMSF is to celebrate, nominate, and reward mentors and mentees: a new cadre of creative talent which will haveUkrainian People's Republic of Soviets

The Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets (1917–1918) was a short-lived Soviet republic of the Russian SFSR that was created by the declaration of the Kharkiv All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets "About the self-determination of Ukraine" on  in the Noble Assembly building in Kharkiv. The republic was later united into the Ukrainian Soviet Republic and, eventually, liquidated, because of a cessation of support from the government of the Russian SFSR when the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed.

History

Preparation of the All-Ukrainian congress of Soviets in Kiev
The idea to call for an All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets was put forward by the Bolshevik faction within the executive committee of the Kiev Council of workers' deputies during the united session of the executive committees of the councils (soviets) of


Lydia has been doing hair for 35 years. She attended the World Congress of Hair in France. Specializong in color, she uses Redkin, Framesi, and Loreal' Innoa. Her passion for hair inspired her to continue her education , taking her from Chicago to Florida, New York to LA.the hands of operating receivers pending foreclosure of the mortgage securing its bonded indebtedness.

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The Des Moines Railway Company, until receivers were appointed, maintained and operated the street transportation system in the City of Des Moines, Iowa, under a franchise ordinance enacted in 1940. In January, 1952, the Company abandoned or curtailed service on certain lines which were being operated at a loss. The City brought suit in the District Court of Iowa in and for Polk County against the Company to compel it to restore this service and for a declaration that the City, at its election, might forfeit the franchise. The State District Court, on July 9, 1952, determined that the Company had no right to abandon or curtail service. That court also determined that the City


was not entitled to the declaration it asked for. The Company was ordered, by a decree of the State court, to restore the service abandoned or curtailed on or before August 11, 1952.

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The Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and E. B. Stofft, Trustees for the bondholders of the Railway Company, on August 4, 1952, brought an action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa against the Railway Company for a foreclosure of the mortgage securing its bonds and for the appointment of a receiver to conserve and operate its property pending foreclosure. Jurisdiction was based on diversity of citizenship and amount in controversy.

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The Trustees in their complaint asserted, among other things, that the Railway Company had advised the Cityand the Trustees that it was financially unable to comply with the terms of the decree of the State District Court relative to the restoration of service. The Trustees further alleged that the Company's failure in that regard was ground for forfeiture of its franchise and that such a forfeiture would adversely affect the rights of bondholders and their trustees. By answer the Railway Company, on the same day the complaint was filed, admitted that it was financially unable to restore the service as required by the State court decree, and admitted that it was necessary for the Trustees, in the interests of bondholders, to institute the proceeding for the foreclosure of the mortgage and for a receivership.

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The federal District Court on August 4, 1952, upon the complaint


of the Trustees and the answer of the Railway Company, appointed receivers to take possession of, conserve and operate the property of the Railway Company. The court's order appointing the receivers and supplemental order of August 5, 1952, contained the usual broad restraint against interference with the receivers in the discharge of their functions and duties.

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On September 2, 1952, the receivers applied to the federal District Court for instructions relative to the decree of the State District Court requiring the restoration of service by the Railway Company on or before August 11, 1952. The receivers asserted in their application that the restoration of service as required by the decree would entail an operating loss in excess of one hundred thousand dollars annually, and that "the restoration would quicklyleave your receivers without funds to continue operation of even the remaining lines presently being operated." They also stated that the franchise ordinance under which operations were being conducted "empowers and authorizes an increase of fares with the consent of a majority of the members of the City Council."

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The receivers, so far as the record shows, gave to the City no notice of their application for instructions, and apparently the City was afforded no opportunity to present its views relative to the effect of the decree of the State court upon the receivers. The federal District Court on September 2, 1952, the day the application was filed, entered an order which authorized the receivers to restore the service as required by the State court "as and when the


franchise shall stand forfeited, terminated and all of the rights and privileges of the Des Moines Railway Company and its receivers to maintain and operate its street railway system on any of the streets, or public ways of the City of Des Moines under said franchise shall be forfeited and at an end, all in accordance with the provisions of said franchise, and particularly Section [X]XXVI (36) thereof."

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On November 22, 1952, the Trustees filed a complaint in the federal District Court to enjoin the City and the members of the City Council from declaring, accomplishing or enforcing any forfeiture or purported forfeiture of the franchise. The Trustees asked for a preliminary injunction. The court ordered the City and its Council to show cause why the application for awhich it found was brought without the Company's connivance, precluded the City from declaring a forfeiture of the franchise until the termination of the litigation or the further order of the court. The court also concluded that the issuance of a preliminary injunction was necessary to prevent irreparable damage to the Trustees, the bondholders, and the property in the custody of the court.

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The preliminary injunction, issued by the court on December 1, 1952, restrained the City and its Council from declaring, accomplishing or enforcing a forfeiture or attempted forfeiture of the franchise in suit, pending the final determination of the litigation or the further order of the court.

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The granting of a preliminary injunction to protect and preserve an existing state of things from a seriously detrimental change, pending


That is the doubtful question which the District Court reserved for trial on the merits. The case, as we see it, does not turn upon legislative or governmental action by the City, but upon the construction of the franchise contract which the City entered into with the Railway Company, and by the terms of which the bondholders of the Company appear to have rights which the City may not ignore.

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Our conclusion is that the District Court was well within the bounds of its discretion in issuing a preliminary injunction to prevent the threatened forfeiture of the franchise pendente lite.

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The order appealed from is affirmed.

Notes:

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"Section XXXVI
"Forfeiture and Noncompliance.
"The Company by the acceptance of this ordinance expressly agrees with the City and obligates itself to comply with all ofit from the City, then and in each and every case, the City by its City Council shall be entitled to declare this ordinance and all the rights and privileges of the Company to maintain and operate its street railway system on any of the streets or public ways of the City to be forfeited and at an end; provided, however, that as to bonds heretofore issued by the Company and secured by a lien or liens on its street railway system, or should the Company to fund or refund its present indebtedness or to refund any bonds issued for such purposes, issue bonds secured by a lien or liens on its street railway system and property, including the rights and privileges granted in this ordinance, such forfeiture


well as the effective products that companies make for commercialization, which are outputs of the system. It results in a directed network between companies in a closed system, as a macroscopic emerging pattern from bottom-up interactions between companies.

The model includes five distinct processes. Two of them affect the setup of the system: (i) the process governing the geographical positioning of companies, and (ii) a spatial process affecting the position of the input Gaussian of companies along the by-products axis based on the position of the output Gaussian of other nearby companies (in other words, a spatial correlation between the positions of the input and output Gaussians of different companies along the by-products axis). The other three processes affect the growth of the network of symbiotic relationships: (iii) theBoonton, built high into the ledge that overlooks precipitous Rockaway Gorge, has the alert look of a New England commercial center. Gray factory yards at the town's outskirts recede before the steep hill on which is the business district; Main Street thrives. If cities can be placed in time, Boonton fits most perfectly into the bustling, driving years of the 1880s. An early iron works was established here and for about 50 years in the middle of the 19th century, when iron rails were demolishing the West's frontiers, the town was one of the largest iron centers in the country. Today its industrial plants comprise two nationally known hosiery mills, gunpowder, dynamite, and torpedo plants, a radio factory, several garment concerns, and two bakelite plants. Bakelite was first


manufactured and commercialized in Boonton; a local man, Richard W. Seabury, opened an old rubber works to manufacture the new phenol product after large rubber companies had rejected the idea.

Boonton's steep, winding streets seem to have been hewn hurriedly out of the rock to keep step with industry's swift progress. Main Street itself, at a right angle to US 202 as it enters the city, winds up around the rim of the gorge's knife edge. From a wooden pavilion next to the bank building is a view over the precipice into the Rockaway cut; below, the twisting river sluices its way through the sharp rocks and on the far bank the Lackawanna tracks gleam in the sun. Sheer crags rise above Rockaway Falls. One summit, is known asThe Torn, from the Dutch word toren, or tower. Beyond the gorge is the blue face of Parsippany Reservoir. Once it was the good, dry community of Old Boone Town, busy with forges and iron works; in 1902 the town was flooded to provide a water supply for Jersey City. An underwater dram was enacted at the dam in 1904. When one of the pipe-line valves failed to close, Bill Hoar, a diver, went 90 feet below the surface to block the intake with a large wooden ball, weighted with lead. Hoar was trying to remove an obstruction when the torrent of water pouring through the open line snapped the 2-ton sphere forward, shattering the diver's leg and pinning him against the pipe. During the 4 days that


Hoar was trapped, newspaper extras detailed the progress of rescue attempts. Finally two other divers succeeded in partially closing the valve, but when Bill Hoar was hoisted to the surface, he was dead.

Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of New Jersey, New Jersey: A Guide to Its Present and Past, American Guide Series, The Viking Press, 1939, New YorkGoogle Forgot to Google Before Naming Programming Language

It would seem Google failed to effectively use its flagship service before rolling out its much-ballyhooed new programming language "Go:" Another language already had that name, and a significant profile on Google's own servers.

"Go!" creator Frank McCabe is up in arms over Google's "Go"; he's demanded the company change the name of its language so he doesn't have to chage the name of his own programming language, which "I have been working on... for the last 10 years. There have been papers published on this and I have a book."

Not only that, but a journal article on McCabe's creation is still in the top 20 hits for a Google search on "Go programming language" even days after the new language has


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rum shaken with ice, fresh mint and lavender seeds

Kraken Flip (a twist on a Brandy Flip): Egg yolk, lemon, rum, sugar syrup & vanilla, garnished with nutmeg

Wake The Kraken Punch: rum, passionfruit juice, caramel, smoked paprika & chili garnished with orange peel dusted with paprika.

These felt like lucky drinks to me.

This is certainly the best method to experience the kraken, rather than in the flesh – simply looking upon the kraken can drive the viewer insane, a trait shared by many of the Great Old Ones and Outer Gods.

Below the thunders of the upper deep;

Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,

His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep

The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee

About his shadowy sides; above him swell

Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;

And far away into the sickly light,

FromThursday, April 26, 2018

Lady is working on a book so she hires "S" from Craiglist to take care of her young son as a live-in nanny. S is a woman trying to explore herself and relationship with her mother through art - that art takes her to an ugly place with Seth - Lady's eldest son who is an elective mute.The story is told from alternating first person POVs of Lady and S. Both have terrible relationships with their mothers and secrets and lies which are tearing Lady's life apart.Very introspective, often in a darkly funny way - not to mention quite a bit of irony.I didn't LIKE either woman but the tale was fascinating and thought provoking and really raw.Terri

Friday, April 20, 2018

I always love cozies set


in libraries and this is no exception. Tend to like a bit of woo-woo too - so ghosts are fine and this one is rather grandmotherly.Carrie has been staying in Clover Ridge with her Aunt and Uncle. Rather than moving on as she has most of her life, she decides to stay and she gets a job as the programming and events director at the town library. For her first event though, the guest speaker is murdered during his presentation. He was a former detective and he was talking about an unsolved murder. Carrie feels a sense of responsibility and tries to solve the murder with the victim's son Jared.I really enjoyed the story and characters. I had a couple suspension of disbelief moments - like a detectiveTagged with:

A Career on the Wild Side

August 11, 2007

It was a chance encounter with a pileated woodpecker that sparked Linda Castaneda’s fascination with wildlife.

On her way to class as an undergraduate at Lewis & Clark, she looked up and was captivated by the great bird’s beauty. But she also felt a sense of sadness, since such diverse wildlife was never part of her inner-city home in Lynwood, California, near Los Angeles.

“I envisioned a future in which nobody got to experience wild creatures,” she says, “and I knew that, one day, I would work with wild animals.”

Castaneda went on to do field research on the nesting success of songbirds in Eastern Oregon with the U.S. Forest Service and to spend six months with the Center for Tropical Research in


the jungles of Cameroon, crouched under trees and tiny leaf huts observing the feeding habits of hornbills and monkeys.

After returning to the States, Castaneda ended up back in Los Angeles, where she taught high school biology. One day, while surfing the Web, she came across the Exotic Animal Training and Management Program. This two-year associate program at Moorpark College in California is considered the Harvard for exotic-animal trainers.

Because hundreds of people apply for 50 spots each year, entrance to the program is based on a lottery system at the state-run school. Castaneda hit the jackpot with her second application and started the program in 2005.

“There’s a lot of grunt work during your first year,” she says.

Four days a week, rain or shine, she and other new students cleanedanimal cages from 6 to 8 a.m, attended classes, and often participated in fund-raising shows. Near the end of their first year, students pick which animals they want to work with. Assignments are based on grades and attendance, and those who work the hardest receive first choice.

Castaneda’s charges included a capuchin monkey named Scooter, a highly intelligent raven known as Ebony, and an array of cats including cougars, a bobcat, and a tiger.

She found it bittersweet at graduation to turn over her animals to new handlers. But on the flip side, she quickly found work in her field, first at the Cincinnati Zoo and later at the Lincoln Park Zoo in the heart of Chicago.

Working in Lincoln Park’s education department, she helped create programs for all ages and


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Talented sprinter Howmuchdoyouloveme is set to return to the races in the 2014 Canterbury Classic (1100m) after being included in the nominations for the Listed event that will be held at Canterbury on Friday. Howmuchdoyouloveme missed the 2013 Spring Racing Carnival and has not been seen at the races since he finished fifth behind veteran gelding…OTTAWA — Stephen Harper channelled Axl Rose for his musical encore at the annual Conservative Christmas party on Tuesday night.

Harper was on keyboards and lead vocals with his new band the Van Cats (as in 24 in French, 24 Sussex), and played the Guns N' Roses tune "Sweet Child O' Mine" to round out the night.

Members of Parliament, party members from the region, and political staffers took phone photos and danced in front of the stage where Harper played several numbers.

Wearing black from head to toe, he spanned the musical decades with songs by Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Johnny Cash, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, and the French version of "Silent Night."

Harper also sang John Denver's "Country Roads," changing some of the lyrics to refer to Alberta instead


to have himself Posted from the same embassy back to his research laboratory.

The alternate universe understanding does come later:

The problem is this: the Poster links two congruent spaces, but it searches many universes to find the best match. When all factors are accounted for, including a person's state of mind and the state of the machine itself, the best match is more likely to be found in a machine from another universe. This is how a Dr. Landini arrived that is a man descended from baboons but speaking English and coming from a world with almost exactly the same history as the one on which he arrived. Although evolution took a different track on his world, the outcome was almost exactly the same as on the world whereEnglish and onlookers thought they were either lost or knew someone working at the club.

However the wife confirmed they had purchased the tickets online in advance and enjoyed visiting nightclubs in their home country.

The pair proved popular with other ravers and were spotted enjoying the techno and trance on the ground floor of the club.

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At the end of the night the couple took up Husley’s offer to pay for their taxi home instead of waiting for a tube.

Husley continued:


The same can be said for England, where players in small amateur clubs outside of the professional league system will pay small fees in the neighborhood of $8/week, which covers basic fees including kits, referees, and other necessities, but not coaching. The coaching there is for the love of the game. Going to a higher level in the community, but still outside of the professional academy system, this is where the English Football Foundation, funded by the FA, Premier League, and English government, has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into subsidizing costs for clubs. This keeps player registration fees nearly non-existent while bringing paid coaches into the fold with part time wages and allowing the players greater access to development and education within the game.

In Mexico, accordingplay with one of the elite academies, such as Breidablik. This club, with one of the best development systems in Iceland, produced (or helped to produce) four players on the team that just qualified for the World Cup, including Gylfi Sigurdsson and Alfred Finnbogason, and five more who have been used this year (and sidenote for trivia buffs, Aron Johannsson for a short spell). This figure changes by age as well, so that the youngest players in the academy only pay about $140 per year. These small fees help to cover some very basic necessities such as maintenance and transportation costs, but the low prices are helped by the close involvement of clubs’ professional players having active involvement in youth coaching. For many of the younger players on


community programs, let alone from the more difficult to navigate academy programs. Regardless of the difficulty of access though, there are still plenty of talented players whose parents can afford to pay the registration fees required to get their kids into programs. The United States has an estimated 30-million soccer players at all levels, and over 4-million of them are registered youth players. The mounting problem that these players then face is in the developmental side, and that is where so much is lacking, and where the evidence mounts up against the highest paid youth coaching industry in the world.

Not only are entire communities being deprived of the opportunity to play in “scouted” leagues, but those who do have access are finding it more and more difficult towould “monitor the situation and provide timely information to the travel and tourism sector as well as to travellers”. The first closed-door session of the task force took place on August 13, the WHO told AFP. On August 8, the WHO declared a global public health emergency over the outbreak of Ebola, a deadly and highly contagious virus which has spread since the beginning of the year from Guinea to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. View gallery Workers unload medical supplies from a plane on August 11, 2014 at the Robertsfield international ai Concerns over air travel were heightened because the outbreak in Nigeria was traced back to an ill traveller who flew from Liberia and infected contacts in Lagos. In Monday’s statement, the WHO reiterated that it


of the subject differs in the deceptive and non-deceptive cases is due to factors external to the subject. This conclusion must also be resisted. Instead, in McDowell's view the facts themselves are not bluntly external to subjectivity and that is why McDowell's view is in reality a form of internalism. This aspect of McDowell's position is brought out in sharp relief in Duncan Pritchard's contribution in PAK. The paper entitled 'McDowell's Neo-Mooreanism' offers an interpretation of McDowell's disjunctivism as a form of Neo-Moorean response to scepticism about the external world. Pritchard's careful analysis of McDowell position shows how McDowell can consistently hold that epistemic support for one's claims is provided by one's reasons, and accept the internalist constraint that one's reasons must be reflectively accessible to the subject,to PAK that offers the best and most patient discussion of the complex relations of McDowell's epistemological disjunctivism to its experiential cousin. Unfortunately, this matter was quite unclear for sometime. The confusion was in part due to McDowell's mention of the argument from illusion in his initial presentation of disjunctivism about perceptual knowledge. It should be noted, however, that the converse entailment holds. Hence, disjunctivists about experience must also subscribe to disjunctivism about perceptual knowledge. The section about epistemology in PAK also includes two contributions one by McDowell and one by Crispin Wright about the relation between disjunctivism and scepticism about the external world. In his paper Wright ar8 Alessandra Tanesini gues that disjunctivism is dialectically ineffectual in silencing the sceptic; McDowell, instead, defends the view that this


weekend.

His team found that about 70 percent of the black carbon in the Arctic currently comes from fossil fuel burning in Northern countries. They tracked changes in black carbon levels in the atmosphere through the seasons over five years and used chemical analyses to determine the pollution's origins.

During winters, they found that emissions from fossil fuel burning made up the majority of black carbon accumulations.

During the summer, when overall black carbon concentrations are lower, emissions from wildfires and agricultural burning were bigger sources.

Two Ways Black Carbon Fuels Climate Change

The Arctic region is warming between two and three times faster than the world as a whole. Changes there, from the loss of sea ice to the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet and mountain glaciers, can affect the entirerainstorms.

Once it falls, black carbon darkens the surface of the ice and snow, where it absorbs energy from sunlight. That can cause melting on the surface while also reducing how well the ice reflects solar radiation back into space.

The authors of the new study determined that most of the black carbon that reached the Arctic came from the Arctic countries and parts of Europe and northern China above about 42 degrees north latitude, a line that passes along the southern edges of the U.S. states of Oregon, Michigan and New York.

Previous estimates of black carbon sources were generally based on models or on spot readings from single locations, and the results varied widely, Winiger said. The new study includes observations year-around from 2011 to 2016 in multiple locations


Margaret Luby (left) and Caroline Magee, (left to right back) John Heaney, William Lynch, and Kenny McLaughlin arrive for the opening session of the independent Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry at Banbridge Court, Northern Ireland.

Margaret McGuckin and Kate Walmsey arrive at the inquiry in Banbridge on Monday

Public hearings into allegations of historical child abuse in church and state-run homes in Northern Ireland begin. Pictured John Heaney (centre). Pic Jonathan Porter

Nuns used to batter boys stupid during daily abuse at a children's home in Londonderry, one victim has claimed.

John Heaney, 55, was caned on the feet by members of the order of the Sisters of Nazareth at St Joseph's in Termonbacca and said he suffered sexual abuse from older boys.

"Nuns were very good at raising their hands. All thealleged abuse of young children first emerged decades ago.

Systemic failings

The aim of the investigation is to establish if there were "systemic failings by institutions or the state in their duties towards those children in their care".

It was created in response to a campaign for justice by victims, which became increasingly urgent in 2009 following the findings of a similar investigation in the Republic of Ireland which uncovered evidence of endemic abuse.

Most complaints relate to Catholic homes for children looked after between the end of the Second World War and the end of the 1970s. They were commonly orphans, others came from families deemed unfit to care for them.

Ms Smith said many victims had waited years for the start of the inquiry, for the opportunity to give their accounts


St Joseph's Home in Termonbacca.

It will consider abuse at Rubane House run in Kircubbin, Co Down, by the De La Salle Brothers order and will later look at the plight of 61 children allegedly abused before they were sent to Australia.

They were known as child migrants, transported during the 1940s and 50s and in some cases abused further after they arrived.

The fourth section of the inquiry will look at Nazareth House in Belfast, where convicted paedophile priest Fr Brendan Smyth's role will be examined.

Kincora and Barnardo's

Later sessions will consider abuse at Kincora and at Barnardo's homes near the city.

Ms Smith said some institutions have made admissions, but the inquiry will focus on areas where the evidence is disputed.

She expected that criminal proceedings would follow in some cases; wherebe a progressive".

So what is a progressive?

Politicians, activists and others disagree about what the word means. Historians concede that there's no precise definition. Still they say that in general a progressive fits certain criteria.

A progressive is someone who wants to see more economic and social equality - and hopes to see more gains in feminism and gay rights. They're also supportive of social programmes directed by the state - and they'd like social movements have more power in the US.

Within the realm of progressive, however, there are different, warring factions, explains David Greenberg, the author of a book called Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency.

One group is dominated by activists from social movements such as Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, he says,


Update: 87-year-old caught with cocaine: Latest in long line of drug busts on Ann Arbor area highways

Update: 87-year-old tells judge he was forced 'at gunpoint' to deliver 228 pounds of cocaine

Michigan State Police troopers arrested a man Friday after investigators said they seized 104 bricks of cocaine from a pickup truck during a traffic stop on I-94 near Chelsea.

Leo Earl Sharp, 87, was charged Sunday in a federal criminal complaint with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine.

Leo Sharp AP photo

He is scheduled to appear in federal court in Detroit at 1 p.m. today for a detention hearing in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge, said, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Detroit. Balaya said she did not know where Sharp lives.

According to an affidavit byDEA Special Agent Justin Holton, a state trooper pulled Sharp over at 5:25 p.m. Friday on eastbound I-94, roughly a mile west of Chelsea. Sharp was stopped for improper lane use and following too closely, the affidavit says.

The trooper asked to search the truck, but Sharp declined the request, the affidavit says. A police dog was brought to the scene and "alerted on the rear of the vehicle for the presence of narcotics."

Investigators searched the bed of the truck and found four black bags containing 25 brick-shaped objects each and a small gray and blue bag containing four brick-shaped objects.

According to the affidavit, the objects were turned over to the DEA and field-tested positive for cocaine. The weight and estimated street value of the cocaine is not specified


Robin Reiter named interim CEO

Nero stepped down Friday. He served as president and CEO for nearly 17 years.

"I've enjoyed my tenure here. We've had a lot of success," Nero said. "After close to 17 years at The Beacon Council, clearly it is time to do other things. The growth of Miami-Dade County as an international business center has been gratifying. I would like to continue to be part of that effort in some manner. I will be announcing my plans in the near future."

"Through Frank's leadership, The Beacon Council has become a premier economic development organization," said Joseph Pallot, Chairman of The Beacon Council and General Counsel for Heico Corp. "We will build on that success continuing the mission of assisting local businesses and attracting new investments andjobs to Miami-Dade County."

"I want to thank Frank Nero for his many years of service to The Beacon Council," said Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez. "While there is a change of leadership at The Beacon Council, their mission of working with the County and the private sector to bring new businesses and new jobs to our community - as well as retain existing ones - remains the same. I look forward to working with the interim leadership to maximize the potential of The Beacon Council and encourage forward-thinking economic growth in Miami-Dade County."

Robin Reiter was named interim CEO.

The Beacon Council is Miami-Dade County's official economic development partner.

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By Kim Rendfeld

Offa of Mercia from Matthew Paris's tract on St. Alban,

13th century (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

13th century image of Beorhtric

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Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer

(public domain,

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A woman who was once a murderous queen of the West Saxons winds up begging in the streets of Lombardy. Lovely poetic justice, if only it were true.Eadburh, daughter of Mercian King Offa and Queen Cynethryth, was a real person. She did marry a king and was widowed. And she might have ended her days in Lombardy, but not begging and for much more mundane reasons than those ina story written by an author currying favor with a political enemy.Offa (d. 796) was known for his ruthlessness and for the dike bearing his name. Like most aristocrats, he and his wife arranged for their children to marry for political advantage. In 789, Eadburh wed Beorhtric, king of Wessex.The alliance had a mutual benefit. Beorhtric might have come to power as an outsider taking advantage of a power vacuum when his predecessor died. Marriage to the daughter of a powerful Mercian king solidified his claim. In his part of the bargain, Beorhtric teamed up with Offa to drive rival Ecgberht out of England. Beorhtric also had the dubious honor of having Vikings land on his shore and kill his reeve.Apparently, Eadburh did wield power and influence. She


another time-honored technique to discredit women, Asser says that Eadburh was caught fornicating with one of her countrymen and expelled from the convent on Charlemagne’s order. Somehow she made her way to Pavia with a slave and ended her days in shame and misery as a beggar.She might have spent the rest of her days in Lombardy but not as a punishment or in poverty. A confraternity book written between 825 and 850 shows an “Eadburg” as an abbess of a large Lombard convent. If this Eadburg is the former queen of Wessex, she would be in her 50s to her 70s.It was common for a widowed queen to retire to a convent, and if the emperor thought her a reliable ally, he might appoint her as theabbess. An abbess was a leader, controlling land and the convent’s other assets, and she usually did not live an ascetic lifestyle.The real Charlemagne very much believed in the power of prayer, and that extended to winning wars. If he trusted Eadburh to lead her sisters in prayer, it is possible he or his successor, Louis the Pious, might have bestowed the abbey upon her."Eadburh" by Janet L. Nelson,“Beorhtric” by Heather Edwards,by John Asser, d. 909, edited by William Henry Stevenson A handsome, but wretched head. ” by Lisa Graves, Eadburh, Queen of the West Saxons ” by Susan Abernethy,~~~~~~~~~~has written two novels set in 8th century Europe, and her third novel,, will be published August 7. The ebook about how Queen Fastrada must stop a conspiracy before


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About Meryl Alcabes

Twenty-five years ago, Meryl Alcabes launched Also Furniture with her husband Carlos. They were new to retail and new to the furniture industry, so the first few years of business were a challenge. However, with her art school background and gregarious personality, Meryl loved the combination of meeting new people and helping them design their living spaces by focusing on appropriate colors and styles for each situation.

When Meryl and Carlos were first married and found their dream apartment in San Francisco, they could only afford one new furniture item a month. The very first thing they purchased was a sleeper sofa, which they used as a bed at night and for seating during the day. After a few years in the furniture business, MerylMartin

ON THE EDGE

The State and Fate of the World’s Tropical Rainforests

Club of Rome, 2015

Claude Martin, an eminent scientist and conservationist, integrates information from remote imaging, ecology, and economics to explain deforestation and forest health throughout the world. He explains how urbanization, an increasingly global economy, and demand for biofuels put new pressure on rainforest land. He examines the policies and market forces that have successfully preserved forests in some areas and discusses the economic benefits of protected areas. Using evidence from ice core records and past forest-cover patterns, he predicts the most likely effects of climate change.

Antony Alumkal

PARANOID SCIENCE

The Christian Right’s War on Reality

New York University Pres, 2017

Christian Right leaders see conspiracies within the scientific establishment, with scientists not only peddling fraudulent information, but actively concealing their true


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Mr. Dean is absolutely right. Democrats want people to believe that companies and individuals in the so-called 1 percent only support the Republican Party. The reality is Democrats have always had their own big benefactors, particularly from big labor. Nothing demonstrates that better than looking at campaign spending from 1989 through the 2014 cycle. The roll call, available at OpenSecrets.org, is dominated by Democrat-friendly labor unions such as the Service Employees International Union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers and others. The so-called greedy, evil Koch brothers come in 59th, behind a host of labor organizations.

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Everyone from children and conservationists to the governor of Michigan gathered under a tent on Detroit’s waterfront Wednesday to hear details of a $100 million plan to redevelop much of the downtown waterfront into a public oasis that will connect to hiking trails across the state.

The Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation today celebrated what would have been the 100th birthday of its founder by donating $100 million to redevelop Detroit’s West Riverfront Park, a 22-acre site located west of Joe Louis arena at the intersection of Mexicantown, Corktown and Southwest Detroit.

Wilson, a businessman and venture capitalist who grew up in the Grosse Pointe area, grew to prominence in Buffalo, NY where he was the founding owner of the Buffalo Bills pro football team.

The foundation also is donating $100thought.

At Cambridge University, an elite institution whose student body has a much lower proportion of black and working-class people than the rest of British society, Mpanga studied politics, psychology and sociology, and ran in elections to become the president of his college’s student union. He said that throughout his time at Cambridge, he came to feel increasingly isolated in a very white, patrician space and that he grew disillusioned with the idea of a career in Parliament, which had seemed like a logical step. But he also discovered an affinity for spoken-word poetry.

A friend was putting on a music event, he recalled, and asked Mpanga to perform. But he didn’t want to rap: There were “annoying” and “irresponsible” stereotypes that he, as one of the few black men