with the natural world and its cycles.

Here is the most important learning. Nature can do without us; we cannot do without nature.

February was the end of the Roman year and the name of the month comes from the latin februa.* The ides of a Roman month, either the 13th or the 15th were sacred to Jupiter. On the ides of the last month of the year Roman tradition involved ceremonies and rituals related to cleansing and purification. (see definitional material below) Presumably this allowed them to enter the new year in March clean of impurities from the old year.

Lupercalia, a celebration which has convoluted possible relations with Valentine’s Day, came to be dominant in Roman times during the ides. Certain ancients related this celebration to the Lykaen regionof Greece where King Lycaon affronted Zeus and brought about his transformation into a wolf. Lycaos, the mountain after which the region got its name, was sacred to Pan.

Thus, Lupercalia was thought by early Romans to be a wolf festival, partly for Pan and the wolf-like nature of the Lykaen kingdom, but also, and later more often, association with the she-wolf who suckled the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. Her cave was near the Palantine Hill and has recently, 2007, been provisionally located. It was called the Lupercal and was, like Lycaos, sacred to Pan.

The Lupercalia festivities were held near the cave.

February was the shortest month and had an even number of days because, according to Roman belief, odd numbers had favor with the gods. (Vergil: God


rejoices in the odd number.” Until the 19th century the Germans called the month Hornung, or ‘the bastard gotten in the corner.’ The Scots Gaeli name, an Gerran, means the gelding. Poor February. It also had, in Europe at least, the reputation of having the worst weather of the year.

Much of the above information gleaned from The Oxford Companion to the Year, a 1999 imprint of Oxford University Press.

N.B. Both of the Poussin paintings here: Bacchanal Before a Statue of Pan (above) and The Triumph of Pan (below) have been associated with Lupercalia.

februa , ōrum, n., the Roman festival of purification and expiation, celebrated on the 15th of the month hence called February (v. Februarius); whence, Februālis , Febrūlis , and Februāta ,surnames of Juno, who was worshippedat this festival;Februātus , the festival itself; and Februus , a surname of Lupercus, who presided over this festival

If Candlemas be fair and bright,
Winter has another flight.
If Candlemas brings clouds and rain,
Winter will not come again. an English Poem

Ground Hog Day. Candlemas. The Meeting of the Lord. (Serbian, on Feb. 15, same as Feb. 2 in the Julian calendar) An ancient European tradition proposed either a badger (German) or a bear (Serbian), who would come out of hibernation, see bright sun and go back to sleep or see a cloudy day and wake up for the year. The bright sun presaged six more weeks of cold weather.(Hans Holbein. Presentation of Jesus, Candlemas)

Linked with Candlemas–the Feast Day of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple–on February 2nd, this ancient


pagan tradition came to be observed on this Roman Catholic holy day created to displace Imbolc. The Meeting of the Lord, the Serbian feast day of the Presentation, posits that if a bear come awake on that day and see the sun, then six more weeks of winter would follow. (see Groundhog Day, wikipedia)

The groundhog got connected to this legend in the Pennsylvania German community. The formal wear at the Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania event gives the whole tradition a satirical nudge that makes it delightful. At least to me.

Bride put her finger in the river on the Feast Day of Bride and away went the hatching mother of the cold. Carmina Gadelic

Today is the official opening of this new website, ancientrailsgreatwheel, or, simply, Great Wheel.

It comes onto the webhonoring Brigid, the triple goddess of the old faery faith–the Celtic understanding of how to honor the relationship with the natural and supernatural worlds.

Imbolc is her feast day, her market week actually, since all of these holidays coincided with markets, making them special points in the year when transactions of all kinds took place.

Imbolc itself means in-the-belly and signifies the time when, in preparation for lambing, ewes began to freshen and milk came back into the diet after the long winter. Freshening, usually six weeks or so before the birth of the lambs around the spring equinox, signaled the emergence of new life, both animal and vegetable.

There was an ancient belief that the sun began to dominate on Imbolc and though this was a truer reference to the


Winter Solstice, it did reflect the evident increase in daylight that had accumulated since the Solstice and, in combination with the freshening of the ewes, promised another growing season was not far off.

(Brigid as Lady Green)

This was important because in Scotland and in other Celtic lands, February came at a dismal time, bleak and cold with last fall’s stores dwindling. The Scots called the time around Imbolc the wolf-month and others called it the Dead Month.

Brigid, the triple goddess of smithy, inspiration and hearth was at the core of ancient Celtic domestic life, poetry and iron working. She was also a goddess of healing, regeneration and abundance, and closely connected with cattle and other domesticated livestock.

She was the central deity of the ancient Celtic pantheon in many waysand honored by many sacred wells and sites of worship, among them the eternal flame at Kildare, a place of high importance on Imbolc since it is a fire holiday. In later years, after the Roman Catholics absorbed Brigid as a saint, Saint Brigid, there was a double monastery at Kildare, both men and women in residence and 19 nuns kept the flame alive, tending it at night one at a time, with the 20th night left to the Saint herself. It burned from the 6th century to the 16th, or so the old books say.

Brigid is also associated with the Bride who appears first on Imbolc. One account says that Old Woman of Winter, the Cailleach or the Crone, goes off to a sacred well and drinks


on my local news:rain from wednesday until next monday.in LOS ANGELES!!!!this isnt good for us.the city of la is currently demolishing the 405 freeway,cutting into mountains and they have not built the retaining walls yet. it is possible that we may have an enourmous landslide blocking the entire freeway, near westwood, where traffic is normally insanely crowded and slow. the alternate roads along this freeway are at the bottom of unsecured mountains, also subject to landslides and massive flooding.this could get messy...

on my local news:rain from wednesday until next monday.in LOS ANGELES!!!!this isnt good for us.the city of la is currently demolishing the 405 freeway,cutting into mountains and they have not built the retaining walls yet. it is possible that we may have an enourmous landslide blocking theand rectify it to 1500-volt direct current for the overhead traction lines. The substations are located at Wellington, Kaiwharawhara, Glenside, Paremata, Mana, Pukerua Bay, Paekakariki, Raumati, Lindale and Waikanae. Also along the line are two "cross-tie" substations at Ngauranga and Tawa, which provide a switching function but don't have transformers or rectifiers.

Public road-rail crossings have warning lights and barriers, and some are now fitted with automatically locking pedestrian gates to prevent use while alarms are operating.

The future

Proposals for new stations at Raumati, between MacKays Crossing and Paraparaumu, and Lindale, north of Paraparaumu near Otaihanga, were on hold, to be reconsidered after 2010, as it was claimed that there were problems affecting a station at Raumati (the provision of access to SH 1 and park-and-ride facilities) and an


May 8th, the second anniversary of his first day in office, he gave a progress update.

He has set himself a difficult task. The number of people sleeping rough in England has jumped by 165% since 2010. One night last autumn, 4,677 people slept on the streets. Manchester has seen even more rapid change. In 2010, seven people slept rough on a typical autumn night; last year it was 123. Some do not last the night. In 2017, 21 homeless people died in the city.

Mr Burnham’s approach is hardly radical. Rather than opening homeless shelters only when the temperature plummets, the city offers every homeless person emergency shelter every night and then helps them find stable accommodation. Permanent homes are funded by a government grant of £8m ($10.2m) andBroken jaw will sideline Clemson safety

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney said after practice Wednesday that reserve safety Carlton Lewis had suffered a broken jaw in practice on Tuesday and had surgery on Wednesday. He will miss at least the Boston College and NC State games. Lewis played 13 snaps as a reserve in Clemson’s win over Georgia Tech.

Defensive tackle Miguel Chavis has a sprained foot and is probable for the Boston College game. Byron Maxwell is continuing to improve from his turf toe injury and will make the trip to Boston.

The Tigers practiced for two hours today, the last 15 minutes in a steady rain storm.

Redskins sign James Davis

Former Clemson running back James Davis, who was released by the Cleveland Browns earlier in the week, has been signed


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Black Star Co-op is the worldâs first cooperatively-owned and worker self-managed brewpub. We are owned by a community of more than 3,000 individuals and organizations, and democratically managed by our Workers' Assembly. Black Star serves English inspired pub fare and has constantly rotating house beers as well as offer 20 commercial beer taps.From the castle, we walked down the hill to the old St James’ Church known as “Dover’s tidy ruin” which stands at the end of St James’ Street, at the foot of Castle Hill. It did not exist at the Conquest, but evidence shows it was built before 1291 so may be ascribed to the Norman period, which is the style of its architecture. Some restoration work is documented to have been carried out in 1869. This ancient house of religion was destroyed during World War II and is now a memorial to the people of Dover “who suffered between 1939 and 1945”.

We stopped in at The White Horse Inn to quench our thirsts. The inn dates from 1365, making it one of Dover’s oldest residences. It was


built during the reign of Edward III as a dwelling for the Churchwarden of St James Church, the ruins of which are over the road. With the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, the church gave up the house. In 1574 it became home to Dover’s “ale taster” and for the next 55 years was the home of successive post holders whose duties included checking on the quality of ale and on unlawful measures.

The “ale taster” also had the responsibility of reporting anyone who kept a disorderly house. In 1635 a Nicholas Ramsey was granted permission to call the premises City of Edinburgh, after an American ship that sank in the Dover Straits. In 1652 he was granted a licence to sell ales and cider from premises adjoiningSt James Church. Old papers show a line of successive owners and in the 18th century the City of Edinburgh became the meeting place of actors and players of the Dover Theatre. Alterations to the pub in 1952 uncovered a Dover Theatre programme dated 1809 advertising Harlequin and Mother Goose; this programme is still displayed in the pub today.

In 1818 the name of the inn was changed to The White Horse and it was about this time that inquests were held there, mainly on bodies washed up from the sea. These are said to have been stored in what is now the dining area to the rear of the property. From 1890, until the early part of the twentieth century, coaches ran from St Margaret’s -at -Cliffe to


the White Horse every day except Sunday. It was also in 1890, until well into the twentieth century, that the inn opened at 5am for Dockers and others working different shifts.

The White Horse is still a well frequented pub dispensing various beverages. It also records on its walls, ceiling and doors details of many Channel Swimmers from all over the world.

From the Inn, we made our way through Dover, to the station.

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is an Anglican church, in Dover, situated in the town centre. There was a church on this site in Saxon times, but it was largely rebuilt in the 19th century. The church stands on the site of Roman baths. Three churches in Dover are mentioned in the Domesday Book, andit has been supposed that these are St Mary’s, St James’ and St Peter’s.

The oldest parts of the existing building are the tower and

three bays of the arcades, which are Norman architecture

of the early 12th century. The church was closed in 1537,

at the Dissolution of the Monasteries, but opened in 1544

as a parish church, after a petition by the towns people.

Damaged during the Second World War, although there

was no direct hit, many of the stained glass windows were

destroyed. The church houses the main memorial to the

victims of the MS Herald of Free Enterprise, which capsized

outside Zeebrugge in Belgium on its way to Dover on

6 March 1987.

The Zeebrugge Bell on Dover Town Hall, which was presented to the town of Dover by the King of Belgium, to commemorate the


Zeebrugge Raid of 1918. The St George’s Day Service is held annually in Dover to commemorate the raid on a canal and dry-dock at the enemy occupied Belgian port of Zeebrugge during WW1. The bell is rung on the same day every year, eight times to signal the start of the tribute to the bravery of the naval seamen who took part in the action at Zeebrugge. For many years, St George’s day was known as Zeebrugge Day.

Dover is a lovely little town, with many historical buildings and some magnificent homes. A return visit is a must!

The Dover Town Hall (Maison Dieu) Was founded in 1203 as a religious house, providing a hostel for pilgrims en-route to Thomas Becket’s shrine at Canterbury. Following the dissolution from 1544, itfamiliar. I mean, when have we ever seen a

king riding on a donkey's colt, meek and lowly, with people throwing

tree branches and old clothes in his path?

There seems to be something missing, especially when you compare

it with the coronations of the world. Europe, for example, which sort

of sets the pace for the western world in its understanding of

coronations, has given us a long history of the pomp and the glory and

the splendor and the majesty and the wealth of those events in which a

king is inaugurated into his royal and regal status. Sometimes he was

raised on a shield, sometimes he was made to stand on a sacred stone,

sometimes he was presented with a spear or with a sword or with a

scepter, or given a crown or given a


come to Bethphage unto the Mount of Olives..."

well stop there. As we begin to see the unfolding of this marvelous

coronation, I want you to notice, first of all, the end of the

pilgrimage. We'll call point one the end of the pilgrimage. It is

the end.

Jerusalem was to be the end. He never ever leaves the vicinity of

Jerusalem. This is it. He dies in the city. This is the end of 33

years. Thirty years of obscurity, three-plus years of ministry, it

all ends here. This is the end of the pilgrimage. The goal of the

Lord's life and ministry is about to be reached.

Now I'm not going to go back and try to sum up all that's

gone before we've traced it all the way through the first 20 chapters

of Matthew, but justto bring you right into this scene, the Lord a

few weeks before had left Galilee. He had ministered throughout

Galilee. He had ministered some in Judea where Jerusalem was the

major city, of course. But He had yet really touched Peraea which was

the region called "the beyond" which was east of Jordan. So in

leaving Galilee this time, He went east of the Jordan and through the

area known as Peraea. And He did what He did everywhere: He preached,

He taught, He healed and He presented to them His credentials as King.

And as He came to the south, moving through Peraea, He was moving

directly toward Jerusalem at the same time, knowing it was Passover

time, knowing it was time to come to the end of His pilgrimage,

knowing it was time to get ready


to die. And as He moved, He moved

among pilgrims who also were going. And so a crowd collected as He

came to the south. And finally He crossed the Jordan, back over to

Judea. And He crossed at Jericho, went through the city of Jericho.

There He embraced in His salvation a small man by the name of

Zacchaeus, healed two blind men--one of whose name was Bartimaeus.

And not only those three, perhaps, but even more than that collected

with Him and together they moved up to Jerusalem.

So, it's been a few weeks since He left Galilee. Ministered in

Peraea. Came through Jericho and now He ascends to Jerusalem. And

it's only about 17 miles, but it's 3,000 feet in elevation. And so,

when it says "He went up to Jerusalem," or when anyone went upcity.

And Jesus was taking the primary moment in the history of Israel's

calendar year for this great event, when the city was swelled to its

greatest population. And it says in verse 1, "When they drew near to

Jerusalem." Before He went into the city, He came to a place called

Bethphage. Now we don't know anything about this place. We don't

know anything at all about it. We can't find any archaeological

evidence of its existence. It was some kind of a hamlet somewhere

near Bethany because in verse 2 it says He sent two disciples saying,

"Go into the village opposite you." And when He sent them, He was in

Bethany. So it's somewhere near Bethany. Bethany is two miles east

of Jerusalem, just on the other side of the valley Kedron, the Mount

of Olives, on


goes into the city He stops. And

He goes to Bethany because that was where His friends lived, Mary,

Martha and Lazarus. Dear friends, I suppose from an earthly

standpoint with the exceptions of the apostles themselves, these were

the three dearest people in Jesus' life.

And as He approaches the inevitable week of pain and death, He

seeks out the comfort and the compassion and the care of His beloved

friends. And Bethany becomes for Him, for these six days, a resting

place. He spends the time with His dear beloved friends. But even

there, the stabs of hell are present because one of the disciples,

Judas Iscariot who was to betray Him, said, "Why was not this ointment

sold for 300 denarii and given to the poor? And this he said not

because he cared for the poorbut because he was a thief and he had

the bag." And so, even there He was stabbed with the stabs of hell.

The hate for Jesus was relentless.

Six days before the Passover...I believe that's Saturday...six

days before the Passover, and there was a supper in His honor and He

was anointed and He was loved by everybody but one. And it must have

been a warm and wonderful time. Six days before the lamb of God, the

Passover lamb, the true sacrifice, the lamb slain from the foundation

of the world is to be offered...six days from the nails, six days from

the thorns, the spit, the cursings, the spear, the crown, the hatred,

the bitterness, the sin bearing, the loneliness of being God-forsaken,

six days--that's all.

Well, the next day...the next day, John tells us in verses


how it all

starts.

Now, let's go back to Matthew 21. The first day He arrives there,

He has supper, He's anointed. The next day, a multitude gathers to

Him. And probably on the next day, which most likely was Monday,

Jesus sent two disciples--it says in verse 1--and Jesus here

initiates, He initiates His own coronation. He sets it in motion.

They don't come and get Him and haul Him off. Those critics of

Scripture who say that Jesus got carried away in the enthusiasm of the

mob, that Jesus was pushed into something He never intended to happen,

that Jesus was happy to be a moral teacher, just moving around doing

nice things for nice folks, all of a sudden started to get caught up

in the energy of His own disciples' enthusiasm and they pushed Him

into somethingthat ultimately got Him killed, they're liars who say

that because that's not true. He initiated everything. He controlled

every element of His own ministry, every turn, every action was

sovereignly His to initiate. So He dispatched two disciples.

It doesn't tell us which two. On another occasion in Matthew...in

Luke 22:8 when He sent out two, it was Peter and John. It may have

been Peter and John here, we don't know. And He said, "Go to the

village," verse 2, "opposite you," which would be Bethphage, "and

immediately you'll find an ass tied and a colt with her, loose them

and bring them unto Me." He was about ready to go into the city. He

was controlling everything, let me tell you why:

He wanted to demonstrate to the world that He was no victim, that

He was


not caught up in some euphoric Messianic movement, but that it

was all under His total control and it was all within His own power.

Every detail was worked out accurately. And He wanted to create a

mass demonstration, that's right. He wanted the people to cry

"Hosanna to the Son of David, Blessed is the one who comes in the name

of the Lord, hosanna in the highest." He wanted them to cry out that

He was the Messiah because He wanted it in their very mouths that He

had indeed proved Himself to be who He was. He wanted them to bespeak

the fact that there was no doubt about the credentials of Jesus

Christ. He wanted that whole mob, that whole national multitude to be

crying out that this was the Messiah so that foreverconqueror of the world, the great

military genius of Alexander with all of his entourage had come to the

rescue of Israel. But there is coming another king, "He is righteous

and He has salvation." And then this seemingly inconceivable and

contradictory statement, "Lowly and riding on an ass and upon the colt

a foal of an ass."

Somebody says, "What in the world is that? Nobody rides a donkey

at a coronation." Donkeys used to have a place in the world until

Solomon came along in the land of Palestine and Solomon made the horse

the animal of dignity and honor and war. And donkeys became nothing

but stupid beasts of burden. And nobody rode a donkey, certainly not

at a coronation. But, says the prophet, your king will ride one.

Now go back to Matthew chapter 21. And


is seen as the offspring of its

locality. Zion is another name for the city, for the area, because

Zion is the highest point. It's higher than Mount Moriah. It's a

little south of Mount Moriah but it's the highest point. The city

became known by its highest promontory, Zion. Tell, it says, the

daughter of Zion. That is the people who are the offspring of its

locality, or its region. "Tell the population of Jerusalem, Behold,

thy King comes unto thee."

Oh, that sounds great. And then the same line, "Meek and riding

on an ass and a colt, the foal of an ass." So incongruous that the

King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the long-promised Messiah of Israel,

the conqueror of the world ultimately, God's Son under whose feet all

enemies will ultimately be subject should comeapplied to register the mark MINERS for use in connection with printed materials and “professional baseball imprinted clothing.” However, the mark was already registered and used by the University of Texas at El Paso for printed programs and college imprinted clothing. After evaluating the oppositions, and despite the University of Texas’s lack of a baseball team, the Board concluded that the minor league team’s use of the mark MINERS would likely be confused with the registered mark MINERS owned by the University of Texas. .

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My wife, Myrtle Blair, who has died aged 90, was an African-American artist and community advocate living in Hertford in the UK. Her floral sketches and waterside scenes display her unique experience and reflect the town’s growing confidence as a cultural centre.

In her most productive years, from 1980 to 1995, she gained awards and patrons for her paintings of the town’s hidden gardens. Myrtle’s cheery children’s book illustrations and Christmas cards show her caring spirit.

The first of 11 children, Myrtle was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, to a long-established New England family. Her father, Stanley Desmond, was a factory machinist; her mother, Ethel (nee Ward), was a homemaker.

Myrtle Blair eventually settled in Hertford, in the UK, with her husband and four daughters

At the Classical high school, Springfield, Massachusetts, Myrtledisplayed her artistic talent. She went on to the Massachusetts School of Art and then won a place at the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. We met in 1950 at a students’ party in the city, and married in 1953. Myrtle entered the Art Students’ League in vibrant 50s New York. She sketched life on the city streets, tutored by the artist Reginald Marsh.

Then followed a period in which we travelled and taught. Myrtle lectured at Ahmadu Bello University in northern Nigeria, then, in postcolonial Algeria, designed development posters for government agencies. “One such [poster] depicted the liberated population, young and old, marching joyfully towards a new age of literacy for all,” wrote Eve Sangster in her oral history book West Street, Hertford, the First Two


Thousand Years, describing Myrtle’s contribution to art and design in postcolonial Africa.

In the 60s era of black power, Myrtle cut a striking figure – close-cropped hair, simple smocks, proud and Afrocentric. However, this urban American perspective ended when Myrtle settled in the UK with me and our four daughters. I had a post in London as a sociology lecturer and town planner, and a colleague had suggested Hertford as a pleasant historic town within easy commuting reach.

Ever mindful of her children’s future, Myrtle quickly gained a network of friendships with residents and schools. Myrtle’s art embodies the Hertford sentiment that “to live elsewhere would be to settle for less”. In the mid-70s she exhibited at Hertford museum with fellow watercolourists Trevor Chamberlain and Julie Harrison.

As a leading memberof the local residents’ association and of the Hertford Civic Society, Myrtle helped neighbours safeguard West Street, the old Roman road on which we lived. Our co-written booklet Hertford Sketches (2016) is in the town library, tourist office, and Hertford museum.

Myrtle is survived by me; our daughters, Lucille, Katharine, Gage and Ellen; our grandchildren, Liam, Sam, Indigo, Lottie and Max; two great-grandchildren; four sisters, Sheila, Joan, Diane and Jacqueline; and a brother, William.


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The official site for HeartGold and SoulSilver has revealed the dub title for the next season of the Pokémon anime. The season title has been dubbed as Pokémon: Black & White!, keeping the name similar to the upcoming Generation V games, Black and White instead of using the original Japanese name Pokémon: Best Wishes!. Pokémon Black & White follows the successful Diamond & Pearl series, which has only three more episodes to air before it concludes in the U.S.

In related news, more information about an upcoming distribution has been uncovered. Bulbanews reported in December that players of Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold and SoulSilver, would be able to download an in-game version ofbest and most experienced playmakers are probably on the defensive side of the ball.

As shocking as it sounds, Boise State can be better than a year ago and an undefeated season is a strong possibility. It opens the year against Washington and former coach Chris Petersen, which is a winnable statement game at home. Outside of BYU the following weekend, there are few challenges on what appears to be a pretty favorable schedule. Look for the Broncos to once against represent the Group of Five in a New Year’s Eve bowl.

Player to watch: Tanner Vallejo, LB

Vallejo had a historic season last year. He had 100 tackles and 16.5 tackles for loss, which was a Boise State FBS record. He was named the MVP of the Mountain West Championship


game and the Fiesta Bowl. And he did all of this while playing outside his natural position.

Vallejo spent the bulk of last season at nickel (strongside linebacker) because iof injuries to other players, but this year he moves back to middle linebacker, his favored spot. That puts him closer to the football and poised for an even bigger season.

Vallejo is one of 10 returning starters on a defense that is loaded with talent. If there was one problem with Vallejo playing out of position, it was the propensity to give up the big play. But he should have more help on the outside this season with players returning from injury.

Breakout player: Ryan Finley, QB

Finley, a redshirt sophomore, is the only quarterback on the Boise State roster with experienceand while he hasn’t officially been named the starter, he’s the favorite to win the job. He had limited experience in five games last year, mostly in a loss against Air Force after Hedrick was pulled following four picks in the first half. For the season, Finley completed 12 of 27 passes for 161 yards with two touchdowns and one interception.

Don’t expect the Boise State offense to change too much with Finely under center. It was pretty balanced a year ago and, with Jeremy McNichols likely filling the running back role, should be again. Eliah Drinkwitz is the program's fifth offensive coordinator in six years, but he did lead Harsin's Arkansas State offense in 2013.

The biggest obstacle for Finley this fall camp is gaining the trust of his


blood feuds and personal vendettas among the powerful threaten to destabilize this rich and still-peaceful country, which may not be able to present a united front as it is slowly maneuvered into a vulnerable position, open to attack by its scheming neighbors. Kay moves us steadily through the gathering storm, gradually revealing the personal secrets and aspirations of his characters and showing how their personal journeys are often openly exploited for gain in court intrigue, where hereditary power means that nothing is personal. In stark contrast to many novels set in a quasi-medieval European environment, A Song for Arbonne is packed with interesting women playing the game of power (and succeeding). It is their choices, ultimately, that decide the fate of Arbonne.

The Lions of Al-Rassan

Al-Rassan, a somewhat optimisticto the Division with his or her application:

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(4) Has not been held civilly or criminally liable for malpractice in the District of Columbia or any state or territory of the United States;

(b) A complete set of fingerprints and written permission authorizing the Division to forward the fingerprints to the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History for


Columbia or any state or territory of the United States; and

(b) Is an active member of, or the spouse of an active member of, the Armed Forces of the United States, a veteran or the surviving spouse of a veteran.

2. An applicant for a certificate by endorsement pursuant to this section must submit to the Division with his or her application:

(a) Proof satisfactory to the Division that the applicant:

(1) Satisfies the requirements of subsection 1;

(2) Is a citizen of the United States or otherwise has the legal right to work in the United States;

(3) Has not been disciplined or investigated by the corresponding regulatory authority of the District of Columbia or the state or territory in which the applicant holds a certificate as a detoxification technician; and

(4) HasA list of crimes, if any, that would disqualify a person from obtaining a certification from the Division.

8. The Division may request the criminal history record of a person who petitions the Division for a determination pursuant to subsection 1. To the extent consistent with federal law, if the Division makes such a request of a person, the Division shall require the person to submit his or her criminal history record which includes a report from:

(a) The Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History; and

(b) The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

9. A person who petitions the Division for a determination pursuant to subsection 1 shall not submit false or misleading information to the Division.

10. The Division shall, on or before the 20th day of January, April, July and


to NRS by 1963, 834; A 1973, 1400; 1975, 261; 2001, 422; 2005, 22nd Special Session, 61; 2011, 2854; 2013, 3064)

NRS 458.104 Temporary advance from State General Fund.

1. If the Administrator determines that current claims exceed the amount of money available to the Division because of a delay in the receipt of money from federal grants, the Administrator may request from the Director of the Office of Finance a temporary advance from the State General Fund for the payment of authorized expenses.

2. The Director of the Office of Finance shall notify the State Controller and the Fiscal Analysis Division of the Legislative Counsel Bureau of the approval of a request made pursuant to subsection 1. The State Controller shall draw his or her warrant upon receipt of therental space for expansion.

3. The Division shall establish such requirements for the requests for proposals as it determines necessary.

4. The Division shall hire, to the extent of legislative authorization, such staff as it determines necessary to carry out the provisions of this section and NRS 458.131.

(Added to NRS by 1999, 1873; A 2001, 423; 2005, 22nd Special Session, 62; 2015, 747)

NRS 458.131 Biennial report of Division. The Division shall, on or before September 1 of each odd-numbered year, submit to the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services a report covering the biennium ending on June 30 of that year. The report must include:

1. The name of each treatment provider that received money pursuant to NRS 458.125 during the biennium, and the amount of money that


shall, to the extent practicable, arrange for the person to be assigned to a program with a treatment provider that receives a sufficient amount of federal or state funding to offset the remainder of the costs; and

(b) The court may order the person to perform supervised community service in lieu of paying the remainder of the costs relating to the treatment and supervision of the person. The community service must be performed for and under the supervising authority of a county, city, town or other political subdivision or agency of the State of Nevada or a charitable organization that renders service to the community or its residents. The court may require the person to deposit with the court a reasonable sum of money to pay for the costDonald Trump Says China ‘Broke’ Deal; Beijing Vows Retaliation

Washington, May 9: US President Donald Trump has accused China of "breaking" the deal in trade talks and is likely to increase tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods on Friday, prompting Beijing to vow to hit back with "necessary countermeasures". The last-minute sparring came as China's Vice Premier and top trade official, Liu He, was expected to arrive in Washington later on Thursday for two days of talks with US trade negotiator Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to save the bulk of the months-long negotiations from collapsing, CNN reported.

However, with Trump doubling-down on his threat to boost tariffs from 10 per cent to 25 per cent on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods, and Beijing vowing


Israel issues coin featuring Trump

Jerusalem: An Israeli organization has issued a coin featuring the image of United States President Donald Trump in order to honour his unilateral declaration of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital.

The Mikdash Educational Center on Wednesday said that the “Temple Coin” features Trump alongside King of Persia, Cyrus. Below them is the inscription, “Cyrus – Balfour – Trump – Declaration 2018.”

Cyrus permitted the Jews to return to the Land of Israel following their captivity in Babylon, and facilitated construction of the Second Temple, the local media reported.

According to the report, the Hamikdah Betzion (The Temple in Zion) organisation opines that Trump’s December 6 declaration recognising Israel’s sovereignty in Jerusalem set him on a similar path.

1,000 biblical half-shekel coins have been minted which reportedly cannot beMerkel’s transatlantic coordinator said in front of Funke Mediengruppe newspapers – “There are great concerns in the alliance about what agreements Trump and Putin could reach.” Other German officials are worried that Trump may refuse to sign a communique at the upcoming NATO meeting in Brussels, similar to what he did at the G7 summit.

France has taken a somewhat neutral standing, Macron seeks to raise France’s international standing and pursues to engage with world leaders, regardless of whether their decisions are controversial. The French president met with Putin on the day of the World Cup Finals, a day prior to the summit, seeking to not only enjoy the game, but to also raise questions regarding Ukraine, Syria among other things, no official information of the meeting has been


on kidjo.com, “the river of Africa flows through it all.” This is, perhaps, the most important message Kidjo offers in the wake of her Grammy Award-nominated trilogy of albums, including Oremi, Black Ivory Soul, and Oyaya: that the voices emerging in today’s Africa are not simply manifestations of oppression, but rather, powerful agents of change.

Kidjo herself began her cultivation of musical meeting points at the age of six in the port village of Cotonou. From there she went on to storm Paris and New York with her unique blend of Eastern and Western influences. It is the heart or the resounding beat of Africa that nevertheless provides the foundation for Kidjo’s music: underneath the layers of familiar pop melodies, the peculiar percussion of Benin persists. Kidjo claims thatshe wanted to “come home” on Djin Djin, while also articulating the inevitable conjunction of musical styles in a world gone global. Literally translated as “seize the day”, Djin Djin does exactly that. Kidjo’s latest can only be described as the performance of a “global moment”—a turning or meeting point that calls attention to gargantuan forces that affect any and all locations.

Kidjo takes her moment seriously: she has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since July of 2002 and she posits a direct relationship between her creative efforts and her determination to end the suffering of children in countries such as Finland, Tanzania, South Africa, Brazil, and her native Benin. (Indeed, she has embarked on UNICEF missions in these places.) Additionally, she remarked during an interview published on www.unicef.org,


Benin, the African continent, and the rest of the world. As with the personality behind the song, Kidjo herself is the witness to these events, and it is through her that listeners are invited to share the things that have made her what she is today.

The album appropriately opens with a story of loss, in this case the story of African youth, who, seduced by the prospect of economic prosperity in the West, flee to America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. Unfortunately, their travels do not always end in economic prosperity, and, in this, her eighth studio album, Kidjo asks if there are not other alternatives. In its occupation of a space in between Africa and the West, the song itself makes the possibility of change probable—even tangible. Thepeculiarly African beat at the heart of “Ae Ae”, “Salala”, and other songs leaps from the stereo to the center of the listener. It’s a beat that works inside the body of those receptive to Kidjo’s sentiments, joining one heartbeat, one culture, one individual to another. If this sounds too poetic, too clichéd, one might consider Kidjo’s own poetic sensibility—her knack for conjoining the popular and the philosophical, the personal and the political in imaginative ways. It is her belief that the power of music lies in its emotional affect, and that the pathos of music helps to forge community. In an interview on August 3, 2007 published on Echoes of the Land, Kidjo explained that “Music is a universal language [...] That’s one of the first things


Ziggy Marley, who, according to Kidjo, understands well the relationship between African musical traditions and the sounds of the Caribbean, shifts Djin Djin into an altogether different realm—one where the crossroads takes on a peculiarly Caribbean flavour. Between Benin and Jamaica lies the Middle Passage, and it is toward this that Kidjo frequently sings; that is, she sings toward the histories that continue to impact communities in Africa and the larger diaspora. With Keys and company, she emphasizes the importance of individual and collective responsibility in the face of poverty, global conflict, and neocolonialism.

The third leg of Kidjo’s journey on Djin Djin builds on the first two, articulating the ways in which personal histories come into dialogue with public memory, the enduring significance of names, and, with thegovernment’s reprisals — to the mid-1990s, by when the explosion of clan-linked violence had dwindled considerably.

In the northwest and northeast, the mid-to-late 1990s marked a turning point, with political entities emerging — Somaliland and Puntland — that have continued since then to consolidate and deepen their political institutions. Even in southern and central Somalia, the period from the mid-1990s until about 2004/05 — our second “˜decade’ — saw fairly stable control established by various militia groups in different parts of the country. Not uncontested, not without violence, but certainly of a lower order than the violent convulsions of the preceding decade.

However, from 2005, violent conflict escalated dramatically again in southern and central Somalia, as the government created by the 2004 Transitional Federal Charter attempted to establish itself in


Mogadishu — amid an escalating conflict between warlords and Islamists for control. The emergence of the Islamic Courts Union administration in the capital led to the forceful intervention of Ethiopia to remove it and ensconce the Transitional Federal Government — triggering the insurgency of al-Shabaab, a radical militia within the Islamic Courts fold which chose not to flee the Ethiopian offensive. With violence continuing into the present, this period has been our third “˜decade’.

When the mandate of the TFG was brought to close in August 2012, amid intense regional and international pressure, many perceived a potential shift in the country’s fortunes — both inside and outside Somalia. The heady optimism of the initial “˜Somalia rising’ moment was fairly swiftly re-injected with weight and challenges of political reality. Nevertheless,there remained, and still remains, a sense that for southern and central Somalia, a different trajectory is possible.

Because of this sense of prospective opportunity, it is all the more important to move away from a view of Somalia as emerging from “˜two decades of conflict,’ and instead to put in the context of a longer view of Somali history the choices facing the authorities in Mogadishu and the range of sub-state political entities in the rest of Somalia — from the various clan militia, nascent local administrations, and emerging and aspirant regional states, to the established governments in Puntland and (even) Somaliland. Even the administration of al-Shabaab is ultimately a part of the political calculus.

And the question at the root of the Somali political project is now the


the first Somali Federal Government — under recently ejected Prime Minister Farah Abdi Shirdon — that neither term is consistently defined.

In large part, this is because the current political dispensation in Mogadishu is not the result of a natural process, but rather of a chaotic and sometimes half-hearted attempt by the international community to fix Somalia through support of transitional governments from the year 2000. The basis for Somalia’s problems was recognised as clans’ competition for political power; therefore starting in the year 2000, the basis for the Somali parliament and the cabinet became clan formations: 4 parts for the 4 large clan families and a half share for all the minority clans – this became known as the 4.5 formula.

It is worth noting that the Somali provisionalprocess for selecting a parliament, which in early January selected a new president for the state.

Constitutional quandaries

However, returning to the federal level — at this stage, with the new government of Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed having held its first cabinet meeting in late January, it is hoped that the federal government will now begin to make forward progress on its mandate for finalising the constitution and making the preparations necessary for general elections in 2016.

Even if expectations that direct elections will be feasible by then are low, the first 18 months of the four year parliamentary and presidential term have seen little progress on the general process of finalising the constitution, and putting it to a national referendum.

It is worth drawing attention to a range of constitutional


issues facing politicians in Mogadishu and nationally, which are related to the relationship between Mogadishu and Somalia’s 18 regions and federal states. The constitution as currently understood creates a contradictory framework which has stymied, and could continue to undermine, progress on the national political project.

Problems with parliamentary structure

The Somali Federal Parliament is divided into two: the Upper House of Parliament, and the House of The People of the Federal Parliament. Currently, only the latter one exists; it is highly unlikely that the former will come into existence in the foreseeable future due to the current political climate.

This is because the members of the Upper House are supposed to be elected from the 18 regions of Somalia, and from the Federal Member States – whose formation is ongoing. Tomay voluntarily merge to form a Federal Member State.

In effect, it is saying two things: the first is that it is the federal government that has the power to draw the boundaries of federal member states; and secondly, that any two regions can unite and form a state.

This lack of clarity in who can form a state has contributed to a rush to create federal member states by politicians in southern Somalia.

In mid-2013, representatives from the three Jubba river valley regions (Lower and Middle Jubba, and Gedo) met in Kismayo and declared a Jubbaland state. They met with strong opposition from the federal government and some clan elders, Jubbaland reached a compromise deal with the federal government.

In Baidoa, there are currently two competing camps trying to create a


South Western Somalia state. One camp wants to create a more technically feasible state comprised of Bay, Bakool, and Lower Shabelle regions; the other camp wants to add Gedo, Middle Jubba, and Lower Jubba and make SWS a 6-region state.

While this confusion is rooted in local politicians’ desire for power, the constitutional ambiguity and the federal government’s mild participation in federal state building has exacerbated the problem.

Sharing of natural resources

The only currently existing state that mostly fulfils the constitutional requirements for statehood is Puntland. While Puntland played a major role in the constitutional consultative process, its relations with the federal government worsened significantly since the adoption of the constitution.

The Puntland administration has signed contracts with foreign oil companies, and believes that it has a right to do so;Bengaluru/New Delhi: Recalling the advertising blitz triggered by Narendra Modi before the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was sworn in as prime minister two years ago, the front pages of major newspapers in New Delhi were plastered with full-page ads on Wednesday, announcing the swearing-in of Pinarayi Vijayan as Kerala’s new chief minister.

Vijayan saying hello to Delhi was perhaps not an accident. It is almost like the entire political spectrum in India is now bookended by these two very similar characters, one on the right side of the spectrum and the other on the left.

First of all, who is Vijayan?

Only three out of the 14 children of Koran and Kalyani, a couple from Pinarayi village in north Kerala, survived—the high mortality rate was not unusual in an era


when healthcare was out of the reach of most poor families and when the state was yet to attain the high scores on development indices it eventually got.

The youngest child was taken ill in the days immediately after birth, to the worry of his mother. However, the komarams (oracles) who frequented the house, adorned in red shawls and carrying heavy hooked swords, told the mother she shouldn’t worry too much.

The son, Pinarayi Vijayan, born in a family that eked out a living by tapping toddy from coconut trees, turned 72 on 24 May and became the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led (CPM) coalition’s chief minister of Kerala a day later.

Like Modi, who belongs to an OBC (other backward class) community called Modh Ghanchi, Vijayan comes from a disadvantagedThiyya caste, pretty low down the social hierarchy.

The family was so poor that Vijayan only wore white “simply because there was no other colour I could have chosen in my school days in order to mask the fact that I didn’t have another shirt", he recalled in a television interview.

Vijayan worked as a textile worker for a year after finishing school to earn enough to attend Brennen College in Thalassery in Kannur district. It was in college that he became a political activist as a member of the Kerala Students’ Federation (KSF), a youth wing of India’s undivided Communist Party.

In some ways, it seems Modi, who sold tea in his early years for a living, and Vijayan were destined to join the parties they became part of.

Vijayan was


born in the same village (Pinarayi) where Kerala’s Communist Party was born at a 30 December midnight meeting, 77 years ago.

And he also rose through the ranks of the party at a speed unmatched by his peers.

In 1968, at just 23, Vijayan was appointed a district committee member of CPM’s Kannur wing. The party also gave him a ticket to contest the 1970 assembly election from Koothuparamba constituency in Kannur—a seat CPM had not won until then.

The 1970 election is unforgettable in the history of the CPM in Kerala, but for all the wrong reasons.

Although the CPM managed to keep a decent profile in every election, 1970 was one election where it was reduced to its lowest tally (28 seats) in the assembly, mainly because every other majorparty, including its allies, such as the Communist Party of India (CPI), formed a rainbow coalition to corner the CPM in the state. Many stalwarts of the party, including T.K. Ramakrishnan and E.K. Imbichi Bava, lost that election. But the 26-year-old Vijayan, who in those days sported a pencil-thin moustache and neatly parted hair, won from Koothuparamba in 1970 and walked into the assembly as Kerala’s youngest legislator, a record that is still unbroken.

As with many other politicians of that time, the revolt against the suspension of basic rights during the Emergency of 1975 was a turning point in Vijayan’s life.

In a well-known incident, he went to the first post-Emergency assembly of 1979 wearing a bloodstained shirt, roaring at the powerful Congress leader and chief minister K. Karunakaran.


“The police put aside my identity card as an MLA and beat me to pulp. Is this politics? Is this democracy?"

Vijayan was appointed as the minister for power (his only two- and-a-half years of prior experience in governance in a five-decade-old career) in the 1996 E.K.Nayanar government.

Bureaucrats who worked with him then recall him as an able administrator.

“His motto was to get things done, within strict deadlines, even if that meant going a bit tough on the officials," recalls a senior bureaucrat in that government, who didn’t want to be named.

However, the party asked him to take over as the state secretary, the highest position in the party at the state level, after the sudden demise of Chadayan Govindan in 1998.

It was during his 17-year term as secretary(the party’s longest-serving secretary in Kerala) that Vijayan acquired the image of a stone-faced dictator who almost always never smiles.

“He took over when the party was facing a severe crisis. M.V. Raghavan (an influential Communist leader who walked out of the CPM and formed his own party in a watershed moment in 1986) was still a threat. There were serious ideological and personal differences within the party," says a CPM leader who contested the 2016 election and lost.

Pinarayi also became the most hated figure for right-wing activists in the state during this time, according to a leader of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

“It was a tough time for RSS after he became CPM secretary. He played a major role in resisting RSS violence against his cadres and was also


quick to react against the attacks on his cadres," said the RSS leader, on the condition of anonymity.

While Vijayan emerged as the most powerful force in CPM’s Kerala unit, this period also saw both him and his supporters being accused by political opponents within the party—mainly by a faction led by CPM’s one-term chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan—for “deviant tendencies", such as their alleged support to Fourth World theorists and their affluent lifestyle.

The Fourth World theory is an alternative to Marxism, and propounds class cooperation as opposed to class conflict.

Vijayan’s image was further dented when he was booked by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) “for political corruption" during his term as minister. The charge was that he managed to secure funding for a cancer hospital in north Keralawhile awarding a power contract to Canadian company SNC-Lavalin, which CBI said amounted to political gains.

A CBI court acquitted him of the charges 2013, which set the ball rolling for his comeback to electoral politics.

The path followed by Modi and Pinarayi to reach the apex of an elected government is marked by similar events, although on a vastly different scale.

In Modi’s case, the 2002 Gujarat riots when he was the chief minister of the state continues to cloud his image. In Vijayan’s case, the brutal 2012 murder of T. P. Chandrasekharan, a former colleague-turned-rival party politician, had people wondering how such an event could have taken place without the knowledge of senior party leaders.

Both Modi and Vijayan hired public relations (PR) agencies that came up with slogans to


at reality from different vantage points," says J. Prabhash, professor of political science at the University of Kerala.

For Vijayan, success lies in carrying the opposition along, said Prabhash.

All that aside, the political dynamics that Vijayan will face will be completely different from what Modi faced when the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) took the helm two years ago, said analysts.

The CPM has lost ground in its one-time bastion West Bengal and has been limited to Tripura and Kerala. With the party considerably weakened in West Bengal, which it ruled for more than three decades until 2011, its governance in Kerala will decide the survival of the largest remaining communist movement in the democratic world, say analysts.

“The party has never been in such a weak position in their electoralClinton, Bush/Cheney, and Obama regimes for killing, maiming, orphaning, widowing, and dislocating millions of peoples in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and Syria?”

On Trump’s third day Trump is one up on the Establishment. Can this last?

I am not a Trump booster. I am a scorekeeper.

On the third day of his presidency Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the Trans-Pacificic Partnership (TPP). Based on this we must assume he will also deep-six the Trans-Atlantic Partnership.

Trump and his advisors regard the Pacific and Atlantic partnerships as trade deals like NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement that sent American jobs to Mexico at the expense of Americans.

However, the most strategic part of these agreements is that they make global corporations immune from the laws


power from America labor receiving the bulk of the productivity gains.

What jobs offshoring did was to transfer the income gains from productivity to corporate profits by underpaying Asian labor.

It was easy to pay Asian labor less than labor’s contribution to profit, because of the immense excess supply of Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, and other labor. When labor is plentiful and jobs are scarce, labor goes begging.

Even today the Chinese and Indian labor forces are under-employed. The only way American labor can compete is to accept a wage below the US standard of living.

Trump understands this, just as did Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan.

Ross Perot was a billionaire; yet he stood up for ordinary working Americans. Yet, the left says all billionaires are evil.

Pat Buchanan was royalty in the Republicanis more likely to be led by Donald Trump than by the left.

Washington, D.C. – The much maligned Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a darling of the neoliberal establishment on both the left and the right, is dead in the water after President Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the US from the controversial free-trade pact.

The TPP was the largest global trade agreement since NAFTA, and would have included the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. Essentially the TPP was a policy move by the U.S. meant to create a trade bloc as a means of countering rising Chinese economic might — under the guise of an “Asian pivot” – but that was seen by many Americans as a give away


to large multinational corporations.

Here is a short primer on the TPP and its partner legislation the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which reveal exactly how these deals were meant to operate:

Much of what the public knows about this secretive trade pact comes from leaks provided by the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks. If not for the information Wikileaks has provided, the public would be even more in the dark than they currently are, as to the details included within these trade deals.

Hillary Clinton was a supporter of the TPP, before later claiming to be against it, while her rival in the for the Democratic presidential nomination, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, railed against the trade pact on a regular basis as something that would hurt American workers.

Opposing the TPP wasone of the central tenets of the Trump presidential campaign, as Trump attempted to tap into the angst of the blue collar working class that Senator Sanders had so effectively coalesced in his failed primary run. The new administration called the trade pact a “potential disaster” for the United States, and said they would instead prefer to engage in bilateral deals with the individual states involved in the trade deal.

Critics of the TPP argue that it gives unfair competitive advantages to large multinational corporations. They also say that it takes away sovereignty from countries and gives it to small decision-making bodies that are not beholden to the public – thus further helping the rich get richer on the backs of the poor.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation laid out a


(ISDS) courts that would further jeopardize user protections in domestic laws.

Negotiations for the European-focused parallel trade deal, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), also have come to a sudden end.

Additionally, it appears the Trump administration has it sights set on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which eliminated commercial barriers between the US, Canada and Mexico during the Clinton administration.

READ MORE:For the First Time in Recorded History, High School Kids Choosing Pot Over Tobacco

“We are going to start renegotiating on NAFTA, on immigration and on security at the border,” Trump said on Sunday, after the swearing-in ceremony for senior White House staff.

It appears that this decision is one that many Americans, who aren’t part of the establishment-elite, were rooting for since long before Trump came ontoTimothy Egan on American politics and life, as seen from the West.

Jim Wilson/The New York Times

LATHROP, Calif. — Drive along foreclosure alley, through new planned communities that look like tile-roofed versions of a 21st century ghost town, and you see what happens when people gamble with houses instead of casino chips.

Dirty flags advertise rock-bottom discounts on empty starter mansions. On the ground, foreclosure signs are tagged with gang graffiti. Empty lots are untended, cratered with mud puddles from the winter storms that have hammered California’s San Joaquin Valley.

Nobody is home in the cities of the future.

In a decade, they saw real property defy reality in real time in these insta-neighborhoods that sprouted in what had been some of the world’s most productive farmland.

In places like Lathrop, Manteca and


Understand it better, love it even more

Braavos

Braavos is located on the continent of Easteros and is thought to be the most powerful and prosperous of the Free Cities of Easteros. Not just one landmass, Braavos is composed of hundreds of islands that connect with each other by stone bridges. The islands of Braavos sit within a lagoon and there are hundreds of canals that run throughout the city. Braavos derives the majority of its power and influence from the sea and is ruled independently by a Sealord — a position that is chosen, unlike the more common hereditary rulers of Westeros.

Braavos, located within a lagoon which is protected by the Titan of Braavos

Braavos was founded 500 years prior to Aegon’s Landing, making it approximately 800 years old. However,Braavos did not reveal itself to the rest of the world until approximately 400 years ago. Prior to this, Braavos existed as a secret city that few outside of it knew existed. Because of its secrecy, Braavos was never taken as a part of the Valyrian Freehold and has been a free city since its founding. Braavos was founded by Valyrian refugees that had fled their homes to escape the expansion of the Valyrian Freehold. After discovering and founding the land of Braavos, it was successfully concealed from the outside world for approximately 400 years, until the Doom of Valyria, at which point Braavos revealed itself to the rest of the world.

Because it remained secret for so many years, Braavos was isolated from all outside influences and developed


a wheel in the sunshine. Bond had to step aside. The knife pierced the mud where Bond had been standing and stood upright. Scaramanga gave a harsh laugh. The laugh turned into a cough. The gaunt face contorted painfully. Too painfully? Scaramanga spat red, but not all that red. There could be only slight haemorrhage. Perhaps a broken rib or two. Scaramanga could be out of hospital in a couple of weeks. Scaramanga put down his piece of snake and did exactly as Bond had told him, all the while watching Bond's face with his usual cold, arrogant stare. He finished and picked up the piece of snake and began gnawing it. He looked up. "Satisfied?"

"Sufficiently." Bond squatted down on his heels. He held his gun loosely, aimingknowing of it, omitted it. (source)

How do those who hold to the literal, historical truth of the account – that a man named Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha, was physically raised from the dead by Jesus – explain why the other Gospel writers failed to mention it?  What is an overview of their arguments?

A:

Commentators give a number of explanations for the silence of the Synoptists on the raising of Lazarus:

To protect Lazarus from persecution
Differing source material
Distinct criteria for what to include

The Synoptics narrate other miracles, and saw no need to include this one as well
The geographical and narrative focus of the Synoptics differs from that of John

Protection from persecution
Perhaps the oldest and most common explanation (particularly prior to the 20th century) is that recording the


Leon Morris explains:

There is nothing in [the Gospel of Mark] against the view that Peter remained behind (in Galilee?) when the others went up to Jerusalem, and that he came up to the capital city only for the week prior to Passover.  If so, the reason he said nothing about the raising of Lazarus was that he did not see it.  It did not belong to his personal reminiscences.

Distinct criteria
Many commentators, particularly more recent ones, argue that the various Gospel writers had unique criteria for what would be included in their respective works.  Coffman presents a general argument:

The inspired writers were not governed by ordinary rules and were unaffected by considerations which uninspired men would have honored; and this is nowhere more evident, than inthe selection of materials for their writings. It is a marvel that the inspired men would have recorded the martyrdom of the apostle James with only seven words (in the Greek) and devoted nine verses to the undisturbed grave-clothes. The Gospels defy the arrogance of men who seek to understand them apart from their inspired origin.

The following are some of the significant attempts to identify these criteria.
Other miracles related instead
Though the raising of Lazarus is not mentioned in the Synoptics, other significant miracles are, including raisings from the dead.  Leon Morris writes:

It must be borne in mind that the Synoptists do speak of Jesus as claiming to raise the dead (Matt. 11:5; Luke 7:22), and they give two specific examples, the daughter of Jairus (Matt. 9:18ff.; Mark


Defying Trump, Athletes Intensify Debate on Race and Protest

It began as a crowd-pleasing tirade from President Trump to an overwhelmingly white, conservative crowd in Alabama. But even before dozens of N.F.L. players knelt in silent protest on Sunday, Mr. Trump’s remarks had spiraled into a national uproar over race, patriotism and free speech, with an unpredictable political trajectory.

It is not yet clear whether most Americans are likely to sympathize with Mr. Trump, and his caustic scolding of the athletes, overwhelmingly black, who engage in certain forms of dissent, or with players who have pushed back against Mr. Trump and called his criticism inappropriate and demeaning.

But by savaging individual athletes — including Colin Kaepernick, the former quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, and Stephen Curry of the Golden StateWarriors — and calling for the firing of those who bring protest onto the field, Mr. Trump created a larger moment of choosing sides that brought sports uncomfortably and unavoidably into the nation’s political divide.

Little more than a month after the furor around Mr. Trump’s reaction to a white supremacist march in Virginia, the president has set off, deliberately or not, a new debate on race and protest, one far blunter and less sanitized than the earnest conversations sometimes moderated by television hosts, or the unity-exalting speeches favored by mainstream politicians.

Instead, the clash that erupted over the weekend took the form of unfiltered indignation from a largely black community of players, tortured expressions of discomfort from white franchise owners — and an ongoing stream of anger from the


president and his supporters, venting on social media or in the stands.

By Sunday, the sports-watching world was confronted with a display of politics in the athletic arena with no recent precedent in the United States — from images of two football squads declining to take the field in Nashville; to a New York Giants star, Odell Beckham Jr., celebrating a touchdown by raising his fist to the air; to a procession of football executives, including some personal friends of Mr. Trump, expressing unease with his remarks.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson said Mr. Trump had effectively challenged athletes of all races to rise against him, by using language Mr. Jackson described as displaying a “slave-master-servant mentality.” Mr. Jackson said it was incumbent on athletes, irrespective of their race, tonews media.

With the advent of Twitter and other social media, admired athletes like Mr. Curry and LeBron James — who chastised Mr. Trump on Saturday — have vast personal followings with whom they can communicate directly, bypassing owners and the news media, unlike sports heroes of the past.

Former Senator Bill Bradley, a Democrat and retired New York Knicks star, urged athletes to do just that on Sunday, calling in a statement for “everyone who has ever been a fan or a player, as a kid or as an adult” to reject Mr. Trump’s comments.

Perhaps the most significant warning sign for Mr. Trump was the sometimes-strained criticism from football team owners, a largely white and Republican-leaning group that includes several personal associates of the president. Mr. Trump collected support


‘Close liaison between private sector and aviation industry will go a long way in strengthening the defence of Pakistan’

ISLAMABAD: Former chief of the air staff Sohail Aman has urged the business community to fully capitalise on the investment opportunities offered by the aviation industry.

Addressing the business community at Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ICCI) on Friday, the former air chief said that the aviation industry needed parts, wings and many other products to manufacture aeroplanes and other defence equipment. He invited the private sector to come forward and invest in the aviation industry so as to help strengthen this important industry of the country.

Sohail Aman stressed the need for linking the downstream industry with the aviation industry, as it would not only create new business opportunities forthe private sector but would also promote exports of the aviation industry.

“Close liaison between the private sector and the aviation industry will go a long way in strengthening the defence of Pakistan,” he remarked.

The former air chief said Pakistan has started working on 5th generation aircraft, which was a landmark development in the aviation industry.

Being the patron of Friends Hospital, he also briefed the business community about the health services being provided by the hospital to the poor people, urging the business community to cooperate in further expansion of the hospital.

Speaking on the occasion, ICCI Acting President Iftikhar Anwar Sethi paid rich tributes to the services of Sohail Aman as the chief of air staff.

He reaffirmed that the business community would always be ready to cooperate with the


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care for the taste of goat meat, which is more flavorful than
most, and they don't eat much of it, they said.

The Andersons began with goats five years
ago, when Steve's daughter, Nichole, gave them several goats.
Steve said he was excited to have more animals on the farm.

"The young goats are hand raised to tame
them," Barb Anderson said.

She laughs when she remembers one bunch of
kids that came earlier than expected, and were moved into the
house for protection.

The 23 goat kids were fed, two at a time,
until it warmed enough outdoors to put them in the barn. Barb
said the noise before feeding time was indescribable "if
you have never heard 23 hungry kids inside a house."

In addition to the goats, the Andersonsin bipartisanship" given the Republican leadership was "surprised" by the deal. He added that the agreement made is "basically devastating to national defense". "It is not conscionable to tell young people who came here as children that they have to go back to a country they don't know - 900 of these "dreamers" are serving in uniform in the United States military", McCain said.

A red-faced Vijayvargiya was later forced to delete the posts. The Congress, however, said that the JNU result will have no bearing on the upcoming Delhi University elections. "After the Kanhaiya Kumar episode and Ramjas controversy, there has been polarisation and the anti-ABVP space was completely acquired by the united Left", she said.

North Korea alarmed the region with its most powerful nuclear test to date


on Sunday , detonating what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb that could be mounted on a long-range missile. "It doesn't seem much time is left before North Korea achieves its complete nuclear armament", Lee told a meeting of defense ministers Thursday in Seoul .

The exact cause of the crash was not immediately known. Vehicles driven by a sheriff's deputy and a correctional officer crashed into each other Sunday morning, killing both in Hardee County, southeast of Tampa. She was leaving a hurricane shelter where she was assigned, and the Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the crash, the newspaper reported . She is survived by her husband and young son, according to her Facebook page .band’s commercial breakthrough. While their debut, 2004’s Bamnan and Slivercork, had drawn acclaim alongside comparisons to Grandaddy and Radiohead, Midlake looked further afield and deeper within for the follow-up. Suffused with a romantic yearning for the simpler life, this was a record pitched between 1871, 1971 and somewhere out of time: between Henry David Thoreau and Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush, between 1970s Laurel Canyon thinking and a longing for something more mysterious. Rich reserves of wistful melody, dreamy horns, rolling guitars and plaintive pianos reflect its elusive, idiosyncratic narratives: a couple long to be robbed by bandits so they can start anew, an outcast scientist ponders his pariah status, a woman chases a frisky deer, a river leads who knows where yet leaves you little choice


but to follow…

Famous admirers included Thom Yorke, Beck, The Flaming Lips, Paul Weller, James Dean Bradfield, St Vincent, actor/skateboarder Jason Lee and The Chemical Brothers, and the album went on to secure high placings in the end-of-year polls. Since then, their influence has perhaps been felt in the breakthrough of many a band or singer at one with the stuff of beards, bucolic yearning and blissful West Coast harmonies, from Fleet Foxes to Band of Horses, The Low Anthem, Jonathan Wilson, Matthew E White and beyond.

Not that Midlake stood still to lap up the praise: a band acutely attuned to nature’s shifts, they embraced change. In 2010 they ventured into darker psych-folk thickets for The Courage of Others and backed John Grant on his celebrated breakthrough album, Queenof Denmark. When Tim Smith subsequently departed, guitarist/singer Eric Pulido stepped up to the lead vocal role for 2013’s freshly exploratory Antiphon. Since then, Pulido and various Midlake members have embarked on a new musical project with a cast of all-stars including members of Grandaddy, Franz Ferdinand, Band of Horses and Travis, for an album due for release next year. All of this serves to reminds us what fertile seeds were sown with The Trials of Van Occupanther: a modern classic, made of vintage craft and timeless magic.

The Trials of Van Occupanther (10th Anniversary Deluxe Reissue) will be released 28th October via Bella Union.


George W. Bush Presidential Center on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, November 16, 2010. REUTERS/Mike Stone

In the newly relaunched Baffler, now edited by John Summers, essayist Tom Frank expands on an argument that has obsessed your columnist for decades: that success in the punditocracy is inversely related to good judgment. Indeed, one can even find an almost perfectly proportional relationship between wrongness and success. Nobody was consistently more wrong about pretty much everything related to George W. Bush than William Kristol; and yet, following the Iraq folly, Kristol was rewarded with the single most prestigious perch in daily print journalism: his own corner of the New York Times op-ed page—which he immediately screwed up and lost, having little familiarity with actual journalism. Kristol isit was Sargent's duty as a deputy customs inspector, to curb any violations of the narcotic laws of the United States which might come under his observation.

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At this time, a motor vehicle approached the well lighted inspection station. It first appeared to slow down; then as it came closer to the station, its speed increased to thirty-five to forty miles per hour and it proceeded through the checkpoint. The vehicle was identified by Sargent as a brown pickup truck with a camper.

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After the truck had been driven through the checkpoint, Sargent and his partner, Howard Dobbs, who at this point had been sitting in the "chase vehicle," pursued the fleeing truck. The two officers followed the vehicle for approximately four miles. Both vehicles went off the road and


came to a stop. During the chase, the driver of the truck took evasive action by repeatedly swerving from one lane to the other, and also ignored the flashing red light and blaring siren of the pursuing vehicle.

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When the camper had been driven through the checkpoint, Sargent was able to observe the driver and a passenger. The lighting at the checkpoint was such that Sargent was able to see the driver clearly. According to the testimony of the border patrolman, the driver had long hair, a full beard, a ring on his left finger, and wore a brown knitted watch cap and a blue-gray jacket. Sargent was unable to see the passenger with any clarity.

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Immediately after the two vehicles came to a stop, the driver left the truck,ignored the officers' orders to halt, and fled into the night. When the driver escaped, he crossed directly into the lights of the chase vehicle. Sargent testified that he wore white pants and a bluishgray jacket. The officer testified the driver was approximately six feet tall and weighed 170 to 180 pounds.

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As the passenger alighted from the camper, she kicked a grocery bag to the ground. As a result of the kick, "a clear plastic bag * * * and a partially used brick of marijuana" fell out of the bag. The passenger later identified as Cheryl Fleming, the appellant's co-defendant, was placed under arrest and put in the patrol car. The officers then returned to the fallen packages and searched the vehicle where they discovered an additional


fifteen packages of marijuana.

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At about noon, the same day, Sargent was notified that the Elsinore Police Department was holding a suspect who fit the description of the driver who had driven through his checkpoint that morning. Sargent identified the suspect, now the appellant, as the driver of the camper, and he was delivered to the Federal authorities.

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The Federal Grand Jury for the Southern District of California returned a one-count indictment charging the appellant and Cheryl Fleming with intent to defraud the United States by knowingly concealing and facilitating the concealment of forty-six pounds of marijuana which the defendants knew had been imported into the United States contrary to law.

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The defendants were jointly tried by jury. Fleming's motion for a directed verdict of acquittal was granted. Duprez was convictedWorld Heritage Site located in southern Florida (Dade, Broward, Monroe, and Collier counties) in the USA. The park, which is one of the largest national parks (area: 6,110 square kilometres) in the US, protects Everglades, the largest subtropical wetlands in the country. Everglades National Park is among the only three locations in the world that has also been declared an International Biosphere Reserve and a Wetland of International Importance besides a World Heritage Site. The park was set up in 1947. Nearest city is Florida City.
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PA GOP STATEMENT: Wolf maximizes voter confusion in aligning special election with General Election

Harrisburg, Pa. — Wednesday morning, Gov. Tom Wolf announced he will be maximizing voter confusion by calling a special election in the old 7th Congressional District on the same day voters elect a new Congressman in different districts.

He said he will be handling any potential upcoming Congressional retirements in the same manner unless they occur within 60 days of the General Election.

In response, Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Val DiGiorgio made the following statement:

“Having seen fit to sow the seeds of voter confusion by pushing for an unconstitutional process that prematurely developed a new Congressional map, Gov. Wolf now seeks to fertilize that same ground by holding this special election at the most confusing time possiblewere made aware of the restriction before they purchased the property.4 The Selfs

3       The 1946 grant deed sets forth the legal description of the retained portion as
follows: "Beginning at the most Northerly corner of Lot 4, being also the Southerly line
of Pepita Way: thence South 41° 19' West along the Northerly line of Lot 4, a distance of
60 feet to the Northwest corner of Lot 4; thence South 38° 32' East along the Westerly
line of Lot 4 to the most Westerly prolongation of a line that would be the Southerly line
of Lot 7; thence Easterly to the Easterly line of Lot 4 and also the most Southwesterly
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     In January 2011, the Selfs filed a verified first amended complaint against the

Sharafis for quiet title and declaratory relief, seeking an adjudication that they held title

to their Lot 4 property free of the building restriction contained in the 1946 grant deed

and that the building restriction is invalid and unenforceable. In March 2011, the

Sharafis filed a cross-complaint for declaratory relief, seeking an adjudication that the

building restriction is "binding, valid and enforceable against the Self's [sic] as the

owners of the Restricted Property and as against all subsequent owners of the Restricted

Property."

       The Selfs and the Sharafis both filed motions for summary judgment. The Selfs

argued in their motion that, as a matter of law, the building restriction is not enforceable

asWarming winters have allowed mountain pine beetle outbreaks in the coldest areas of the western United States, but milder winters can't be blamed for the full extent of recent outbreaks in the region, a Dartmouth ...

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From a meteorological perspective, winter is the season with the shortest days and the lowest average temperatures. It has colder weather and, especially in the higher latitudes or altitudes, snow and ice. The coldest average temperatures of the season are typically experienced in January in the Northern Hemisphere and in June or July in the Southern Hemisphere.Those were the words from Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to former Bingham High tight end Dalton Schultz that changed his life Saturday. Dallas used the 147th overall pick in the fourth round of the 2018 NFL draft to take Schultz, who left Stanford after his junior year to pursue a career in the pros.

The Cowboys shared audio on their website of the conversation between Schultz and team personnel to congratulation him on the selection, and when he was handed over to head coach Jason Garrett, Schultz’s response summed up his mood.

“I’m good. I’m good now,” he said.

The 6-foot-6, 244-pounder posted similar receiving numbers each of the past two years at Stanford, including 22 receptions for 212 yards and three touchdowns in 2017, when Schultz earned All-Pac-12 first-team honors.


He finished his college career with 55 receptions for 555 yards and five touchdowns.

Schultz enters a Dallas tight-end situation that appears to be in flux.

Reports circulated Friday that 15-year veteran Cowboys tight end Jason Witten, a certain Hall of Famer, will retire and join ESPN’s Monday Night Football broadcast team. The news was first reported by ESPN’s Chris Mortensen.

That would leave an opening for someone to step into a starting role for the Cowboys at tight end. Dallas already has three young tight ends on its roster in Rico Gathers, Blake Jarwin and Geoff Swaim. Another tight end, James Hanna, was placed on the reserve/retired list last week.

Schultz is the sixth Stanford tight end taken in the NFL draft since 2010, a group that includes Zach Ertz, CobyIziko Rust en Vreugd

Rust en Vreugd was built as a home around 1777 – 1778. It showcases a selection of William Fehr’s drawings, watercolours and print art works.

This house museum is furnished as a home for a well-to-do Cape family during the late 18th Century. It houses some of the best pieces of Cape furniture and silver in the country, in addition to a priceless collection of ceramics. A household such as this would only have been able to function with its share of servants and slaves, and recent research has brought to light the names and professions of some who lived in the house at the time, as well as the kinds of activities they would have pursued.

The house opened its doors as a museum in 1914,


after the deaths of its last private owners, Marie Koopmans-de Wet and her sister Margaritha. It is the oldest house museum in the country. Marie Koopmans-de Wet, after whom the Museum is named, was well known during the South African War for her help to the orphans and widows of the Boer republics.realistic film.

"My next Hindi film would be a more light-hearted one. I wanted to do a light-hearted one for now because when you do a serious role, you need to come out of it. I want to give as much time as I can to Hindi," he said.

Siddharth made his debut in Bollywood with Rang De Basanti in 2006. He took a four-year break before his second release Striker but now plans to do more Hindi films.

"At this time, I am shooting for two Telugu films simultaneously so that I can have a year to do Hindi films," said the 30-year-old. The actor is currently busy with a Rs.300 million fantasy adventure film in Telugu and a village comedy. He also has his plans set for launching his


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October 31st was a Friday and despite the fact there was already plenty of reason to celebrate because it was Halloween and the end of my work week, it was also the opening day of Ohio’s Comic-Con as a part of the Wizard Con circuit. I clocked out of work, threw on some jeans and my Attack on Titan Survey Corps shirt and headed straight for the convention, since there were precious hours left for the day. Once I made it down there, grabbed my press pass (weoutchea) and made it to the floor, it was as I expected: steeped in glorious geekery. As Leslie had written about so eloquently before, not everyone can make it to New York or San Diego for the mother andfight to get us the right to vote was headquartered in the first place," Sharpton said. "Birmingham is where Dr. King and others led the fight that led into Selma that led into the Voting Rights Act."

Sharpton began his day with a breakfast meeting with area leaders at 16th Street Baptist Church and will conclude his stay in the city with a 7 p.m. mass meeting at the historic church, which was home to numerous rallies during Birmingham's society changing civil rights movement.

Sharpton said challenges of today are "more institutional, more subtle so it is harder for people to identify," he said. "It is hidden in the laws rather on the signs in front of the water fountains and the signs in front of hotels. So you have


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A Gift from Moog

Moog Music Inc. has presented UNC Asheville with a gift of a Moog Model 15 modular synthesizer – a re-creation of the original 1973 synthesizer and one of a limited number of historic synthesizers hand-built by Moog Music using original documentation.

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The Danish Girl to Screen Feb. 19; Author David Ebershoff to Read on Feb. 21

David Ebershoff, author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife will read and discuss his works on Feb. 21 in the Sherrill Center; the film version of The Danish Girl screens in Highsmith Union on Feb. 19.Gujarat govt conveys inability to grant quota to Patels

Ahmedabad: Gujarat Health Minister Nitin Patel, who heads the seven-member committee of ministers, told Patel community leaders Sunday that the Gujarat government has “limitations” in granting reservation quota to the community.

Gujarat Health Minister Nitin Patel

Ahead of the mass gathering of the Patel community at GMDC ground on Tuesday to press for their reservation under OBC quota demand, the Gujarat government invited Patel community leader Hardik Patel to hold talks with the government today.

Hardik is convener of umbrella organisation Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti which has been spearheading the agitation demanding quota for the Patel community.

However, Hardik skipped the meeting and sent three other senior Patel leaders to hold talks with the government committee today.

After the meeting, Nitin Patel stated that the


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Chinese telecommunications group Huawei Technologies will spend $400 million over the next five years to help drive local research and development and support the construction of a cloud data centre.

Economic Development Minister Simon Bridges and Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Paul Goldsmith today announced the investments as the Chinese firm becomes firmly entrenched as a major telecommunications equipment vendor in New Zealand. Some $250 million of the funds is being earmarked for procurement in local companies, with the rest going into a cloud data centre to be built with New Zealand firms, the opening of an Innovation Lab at Victoria University in Wellington, building an Innovation Lab in Christchurch and expanding the Seeds for the Future University Student Programme to a further 100 ICT students.

"The depth ofthe investment will touch many areas of the economy and open up global opportunities for New Zealand," Bridges said in a statement. "The initiatives that Huawei is committing to will also help strengthen our research and development activity and capability building in the digital and technological world."

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei met Prime Minister Bill English to discuss the investments ahead of a major Chinese delegation led by Premier Li Keqiang including senior ministers, government officials and business people. English yesterday said he plans to use the meeting to build on the existing free trade agreement.

Ren visited New Zealand in 2013 when he was still chief executive of Huawei, meeting with various politicians to allay concerns that the world's biggest maker of telecommunications equipment posed no threat to cyber-security.


At the time, Huawei was accused of being a risk to US security in a Congress intelligence report and had stopped supplying equipment to American carriers.

He also used the 2013 visit to hold his first ever press conference, where he announced plans to set up a joint innovation centre with Telecom, now Spark New Zealand, where local experts would look at the needs of the market and Huawei's specialists figure out what technology could address them.

Huawei won a contract to build Lincoln University's telecommunications network last year and has been involved in a number of major projects including building mobile carrier Two Degrees Mobile's network and Spark's 4G mobile network.

The local Huawei holding company posted a profit of $3.1 million in calendar 2015 on sales of $186.2 million,Vinyl windows are typically fully assembled at the manufacturers before being shipped to a site for installation. This saves construction time, and relieves the developer from having to know how to assemble various types and brands of vinyl windows.
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This June marks two important political anniversaries. In 1987, Margaret Thatcher won her third straight election, brushing aside a divided opposition and cementing her status as the Iron Lady. In 2007, Gordon Brown entered Downing Street unelected – succeeding a charismatic but ultimately derided Prime Minister.

In much of the public’s mind, in the nine months since she became PM Theresa May has been seen more like Thatcher than Brown. We have regularly polled the public on who they think would make the best Prime Minister: Theresa May or Jeremy Corbyn. Each poll has seen May beating the Labour leader by a wide margin – occasionally as much as a three


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Considering the above, the Hon Member for Kabwe Central wrote a letter of apology to the Party over his conduct. A meeting was convened, and his apology was accepted by the Party. We therefore look forward to a new beginning with Hon Ngulube, putting all actions of the past in the past. We are a listening Party and always ready to nurture leadership as it emerges. In the spirit of building Hon Ngulube and the Party in Kabwe, we have resolved to lift the sanctions imposed on him by the Provincial leadership with immediate effect.

Let me make it very clear that the Party leadership supported the decision that had been taken by the Provincial leadership and would have called for stiffer sanctions. We lookand the courts of law.

He does not follow the history of nationalisation and its negative impact on the economy from 1968 to 1991.The first MMD government must be commended because what is going on now is due to the measure it took.They risked popularity but went ahead for the sake of poor Zambians.It is being unappreciative by making such a statement!!

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