of reading The Shade's Dickens-style dialogue written in Robinson's poetic style.)

Robinson re-introduced The Shade as a cultured, refined, yet amoral citizen of Opal City, Starman's hometown. While he won't commit theft in Opal, he has no qualms over murdering those who threaten "his Opal". Abroad, he is a villain, black and deep. His public battles with the Flashes were often distractions to cover his true crimes. Sometimes, they were just for fun. The Shade has acquired a fortune through his long life of crimes committed both for himself and others willing to pay his fees.

And yet, much about The Shade is shrouded in mystery. His origin has never been revealed. A few clues have been dropped, such as how a hundred and four souls were involved in thecreation of The Shade's power, that another man named Culp gained similar powers that night, and the scene was so fearful, it played upon the mind of its only witness: Charles Dickens, The Shade's friend.

Within the context of the 'Starman' series, The Shade plays two unique roles. One is the connection to the past. The Shade has kept a journal of his adventures since his "creation" in 1832. The "Times Past" stories of the series are introduced, often narrated, by excerpts from The Shade's Journal. He is the living link between the events of the past that still play a role in the present. As the series progresses, we see him as the only link to this present after our world and culture is gone and forgotten.

The second


role The Shade plays is Jack Knight's dark counterpart. Like Jack, The Shade reluctantly becomes a hero. Or rather, becomes less of a villain. His motivations shift from personal gain, to civic pride, to survival, and finally a concern for innocent strangers. Over the course of the series, while Jack Knight changes from apathetic to noble, The Shade changes from villainous to heroic.

Looking back at the entire series, I wonder if The Shade might have been the second main character of the series. Certain events in The Shade's life had enormous impact upon the lives of Jack Knight, Opal City, and the rest of the series. Regrettably, many of these events were not told in 'Starman'. Instead they appeared in 'Showcase' and the 'Shade' mini-series. These books areis 'The Shade' mini-series that no Starman fan can live without. 'The Shade' mini-series was launched in January of 1997, during the "Starman Month" promotional event. (That month also saw the release of Starman #29, a self-contained, ad-free, new reader-friendly comic, a Starman t-shirt, watch, tin badge, and the "Night & Day" TPB. A good month, to be sure.)

'The Shade' chronicles our dark villain's life-long rivalry with a family called Ludlows. The Ludlows had found The Shade, weakened and without memory shortly after his "creation" in 1832. (After he gained his power, he ceased being a mortal man, and became, simply, The Shade.) The events of that night led to every Ludlow ever born to swear vengeance upon The Shade for nearly two centuries.

After The Shade gains his


dark powers, he his without memory of his self and his past. Our weakened friend is found by and taken to the home of Piers Ludlow. After several days convalescing, Piers and his family take The Shade to what they claim to be his home.

Upon entering the palatial mansion, we find Piers eldest son standing over the body of the home true owner. It turns out, Piers increases his wealth by forming partnerships, killing his partners, framing some derelict, and acquiring the deceased's fortune. The Shade was to be framed for this latest "acquisition”.

That's when The Shade discovers his power. The Ludlows are torn to shreds. Only the youngest children, twins, boy and girl, are left alive having been fortunate to be left at home. Over their family'sgrave, the twins swear revenge upon The Shade, and to pass that hatred down through the generations of Ludlows to follow.

We jump ahead to 1865, where the surviving Ludlow son attacks and badly wounds The Shade. He tells The Shade about the many children he and his sister have sired, and how they've all pledged to kill him. That proves to be more difficult than he realized.

There follows several pages of The Shade's cursive handwriting alongside pictures from various "encounters" with Ludlows. Among them, the Western lawman Scalphunter killing a Ludlow to repay a favor to The Shade; A betrayal by Marcus Ludlow who hid his true identity as he and The Shade searched for a lost city; The tale of Sanderson Ludlow, who came to know The


Shade as such a good friend, that he killed himself rather than try to kill The Shade.

And then there was Marguerite. The Shade loved her in Paris, in 1931, and she loved him too. But her family hatred was so strong she tried to kill him, and knew she'd try again.

In 1951, Jay Garrick, the Golden Age Flash, announces his retirement as Keystone city's champion. He names as his successor the Spider, an arrow-casting hero from St. Louis. The Shade, intrigued by the opportunity for "new jousts", engages the Spider in several light-hearted battles. When not fighting the Spider, The Shade investigates him, uncovering his criminal past. What he doesn't learn is the Spider's lineage. He is a Ludlow, but he plans to destroy The Shade, not justkill him.

In the final chapter, we see the letter that first sent The Shade on this trip down memory lane. The wife of Craig Ludlow, the last surviving Ludlow, has written, asking for The Shade's help. Her husband had no intention of hurting The Shade, until his brother returned. The brother has been fanning the flames of the old Ludlow hatred, and she fears they'll consume the man she married. She wants The Shade to try and talk them out of whatever they're planning.

The Shade agrees to see her, not knowing how many he'll kill this time.

Gene Ha penciled, inked, and colored the first chapter of this story. And I must say that it is gorgeous! I pity those who haven't seen Gene's work outside of 'Top Ten'.


ran for less than a year, the lead character, one Cameron Chase, continues to make her presence known in the DC universe, most recently in the 'Our World's at War Secret Files' special.

Reading issue #3 again, I am struck by the visual contrast between the Flash and The Shade. The Flash is bright and muscular, a broad red chest that tapers down and divides into two blue legs. He stands straight and true, fists clenched and jaw set; the very image of a hero. The Shade is a thin, lanky black shadow, all sharp angles leaning heavily on a cane. A good stiff wind might knock him over, if he's even there at all. I think the best hero/villain relationships are based on the fundamentally opposite natures ofthe combatants. But the visual contrast, (Batman's black to Joker's bright purple, Spider-Man's red and blue to Venom's solid black), may also be a key element in the antagonism between enemies.

There are two pages in this comic where the Spider speaks with a reporter named Linda Dalt. The consequences of these two pages, two pages, will not be seen until, that's right, "Grand Guignol".

The series includes a 2-page text story at the end of each issue. These text pieces, called "From the Shade's Journal", tell other tales about The Shade and the Ludlows. Issues 1 and 2 relate The Shade's battle with a Ludlow on a train. Issues 3 and 4 tell of The Shade attending a friend's wedding when a Ludlow violently interrupts. The ensuing chase brings


The Shade close to death, and a meeting with the Devil.

The story, as a whole, shows how hatred can destroy a person and his family. The criminal acts of the Ludlows in 1832 led to their deaths at The Shade's hands. Their children, rather than risk exposing their family's crimes, spend their lives pursuing the destruction of one who is immortal and almost invincible. They infected their children with a malice that was passed down for generations. This theme of children fighting their parents' battles, of families and the past holding sway over the present, is key to the entire 'Starman' story. Just as Jack Knight feels obligated to continue the family tradition of being a super-hero, and Nash becomes the new Mist to avenge her father, TheShade found himself trapped in the legacy of a family. Worse still, it wasn't his family.

The mini-series shows The Shade change over time. He revels in his new dark powers, becomes melancholy over his immortal state, finds joy in learning there are others like him, (the superheroes and villains), and learns the value of mercy in time to meet Craig Ludlow.

By you may be thinking, "Do I really need to read these books?" I answer with the following quote from 'Showcase '96' #4: "The occurrences of that day resonate still in recent events. And I fear that they may be of even more concern in events yet to transpire." While these books contain short stories and small moments, it is these moments that lead to the largest and


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As on the Hot 100, "Road" rules the Streaming Songs chart for a seventh week, with 103.1 million U.S. streams (down 1%) in the week ending May 16, according to Nielsen Music. The song set the


weekly streaming record following the April 5 arrival of its remix with Cyrus, and now claims six of the eight biggest streaming weeks ever: Total weekly U.S. streams, Title, Artist, Chart date

143 million, "Old Town Road," Lil Nas X feat. Billy Ray Cyrus, April 20, 2019

125.2 million, "Old Town Road," April 27, 2019

116.2 million, "In My Feelings," Drake, July 28, 2018

114.4 million, "Old Town Road," May 4, 2019

106.2 million, "In My Feelings," Aug. 4, 2018

104.1 million, "Old Town Road," May 18, 2019

104 million, "Old Town Road," May 11, 2019

103.1 million, "Old Town Road," May 25, 2019

Volume for "Road" should surge on next week's charts (dated June 1) following the Friday (May 17) premiere of its official video. The track dips to No. 2 on the Digital Song Salestop 10s on the tally.

Most No. 2 debuts: Bieber extends his mark for the most No. 2 entrances on the Hot 100 to four. He previously opened at the runner-up spot with "Boyfriend" (April 14, 2012), "Sorry" (Nov. 14, 2015) and "Cold Water" (Aug. 13, 2016). Of those songs, "Sorry" went on to hit No. 1 (for three weeks). "Care" is the 28th single to debut at No. 2 on the Hot 100. Mariah Carey made the first such arrival with "Always Be My Baby" (April 6, 1996), which subsequently reigned for two weeks. More Max Martin: Sheeran and Bieber co-wrote "Care" with Max Martin, among the song's six authors. Martin boasts 22 Hot 100 No. 1s and nine hits that have hit No. 2 (including "Care"). He


The curtain is set to come down on a theatre-turned-bookstore in Toronto's Bloor West village.

The lease for the Chapters store operating in a renovated 80-year-old theatre at Bloor and Runnymede won't be renewed, a store spokesman told CBC.

In the early 1990s, many residents were opposed to the idea of the large book retailer setting up a shop in the much-loved former vaudeville theatre.

Former Mayor David Miller, who represented the ward at the time, said many residents didn't want changes made to the theatre which is a centrepiece of the Bloor West retail strip.

"People didn't want the theatre to go but if it had to go, they really wanted the heritage to be preserved," Miller recalled.

Since then however, the store has won over many of its opponents, largely becausethe store was able to renovate while preserving the theatre's heritage character.

Longtime resident Gwen O'Connell said the store's departure is bad news for the neighbourhood.

"I was devastated," she told CBC News. "I was thinking this community can change but we shouldn't forget about the community."

She says the bookstore has become a hub where high school choirs perform, mothers and children gather for reading groups and the community raises money for schools.

Some people in the community say they will fight to keep the bookstore open but that may be a losing cause. Chapters says when it moves out of the building, Shoppers Drug mart is moving in.

That means more change though the building's exterior is protected by historical designation.


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"The original Team 7 series is a book I have fond memories of. It's probably not quite as good as I remember it, but it was a cool little series that explored the nasty roots of the Wildstorm Universe. It showed that everything was connected and that many of the characters had darker, more violent pasts than we had previously imagined. The new Team 7 book is nothing like that. It's generic, sluggish, and boring. It really shares only one thing with the original book and that's the title." -Benjamindrifters after the 4 periods of horizontal oscillation. The east-west oscillation of the eddy field leads horizontal mixing of the flow. The resulting sCSC dendrogram is shown in panel (D), with every position occupied by all 3000 drifters plotted in black dots in the corresponding inset branch plot (note that drifter positions often appear as continuous black patches due to the high density of overlapping positions occupied by the drifters.) The width of each branch is proportional to the fraction of the states that it contains. The corresponding binary code of each branch is labeled in black text, and the number of trajectories associated with each node is labeled in red text. The dendrogram is plotted to the seventh eigenvector, although labels below the fourth eigenvector are omitted


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Loyalists 'avoiding prison in gun cases'

The Government's chief law officers have received a formal complaint about loyalists avoiding jail in cases where they were arrested with illegal guns.

SDLP Assembly member John Dallat complained to the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, and Lord Chief Justice Sir Brian Kerr, and sent them dossiers of cases where "shockingly light sentences" were applied.

The Northern Ireland Office and the Irish government also received the party's dossier arguing that loyalists are routinely "getting away with it".

The complaint came after three men who confronted police with a deactivated AK-47 escaped jail at Belfast Crown Court last week.

The trio - brothers John and Gary McDonald and a friend, Stephen Maternaghan, all with addresses in Innishrush Road, Portglenone - had tried to stop a van before


picnic itself: as Nan Wallace had said, she would not have been likely to enjoy herself if she had gone among a crowd of girls many of whom looked down on her and ignored her. But to be left out when every other girl in the school was invited! Florrie's lip quivered as she thought of it."I'll get Father to let me to go to the public school after vacation," she murmured. "I hate going to Miss Braxton's."Florrie was a newcomer in Winboro. Her father had recently come to take a position in the largest factory of the small town. For this reason Florrie was slighted at school by some of the ruder girls and severely left alone by most of the others. Some, it is true, triedat the start to be friends, but Florrie, too keenly sensitive to the atmosphere around her to respond, was believed to be decidedly dull and mopy. She retreated further and further into herself and was almost as solitary at Miss Braxton's as if she had been on a desert island."They don't like me because I am plainly dressed and because my father is not a wealthy man," thought Florrie bitterly. And there was enough truth in this in regard to many of Miss Braxton's girls to make a very uncomfortable state of affairs."Here's a letter for you, Flo," said her brother Jack at noon. "Got it at the office on my way home. Who is your swell correspondent?"Florrie opened the dainty, perfumed note and read it with a


Florrie, with a smile. "I recognized them as soon as I came into the room. They are the same kind of roses as those which grow about Grandmother Hamilton's house in England. I used to love them so.""In England! Were you ever in England?""Oh, yes," laughed Florrie. "And I've been in pretty nearly every other country upon earth—every one that a ship could get to, at least.""Why, Florrie Hamilton! Are you in earnest?""Indeed, yes. Perhaps you don't know that our 'now-mother,' as Jack says sometimes, is Father's second wife. My own mother died when I was a baby, and my aunt, who had no children of her own, took me to bring up. Her husband was a sea-captain, and she always went on his sea-voyages with him. Sowithdrawals by private and public grantees have left states including Maine, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Washington with no Title X providers.

Trump administration officials and anti-abortion groups portray the new rules as a de facto defunding of Planned Parenthood because the organization received up to $60 million per year from the Title X program. The organization was already barred from using that federal funding to provide abortions, but the new rule would require financial and physical separation of their abortion providers and other health care services funded by Title X. Critics of the women's health group say the policy change prevents federal funding from being used to subsidize abortion services.

Planned Parenthood, the American Medical Association and nearly two dozen states are fighting the new rules in a case that


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accusations against Roylott and also to show how he placed himself above others and to show his importance. In the Red Headed League, the main suspect is John Clay; he works hard only for half-pay. This is similar to The Speckled Band because both crimes are money related.

This also shows the class structure in the Victorian era and the social attitudes at the time. Jabez Wilson is described as 'obese, pompous and slow'. Holmes is shown to think of himself very highly and superior to others in The Red-Headed League; ''It saved me from ennui,'' he answered

What made this more popular was that Holmes was not a policeman, he solved the crimes despite the police not because of them usinghis deductive reasoning and astute observation skills to solve even the most difficult cases. The Sherlock Holmes stories have become celebrated as the starting point of fictional detective stories and turned into films and television series.

In "The Red Headed League" Sherlock Holmes solves a very unusual crime. A man named Jabez Wilson who is the owner of a small "pawnbroker's business" tells Sherlock Holmes of an incident that happened to him, which had something to do with a bank robbery that was about to take place.

had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my friend's singular character". Holmes, however, subsequently denies or justifies any such vices. He is sometimes prone to temper, such as in the same part of The Copper Beeches, when he lectures


This game begins like pretty much any other game, with a manly scream and a dead body. The members of the town ran outside their houses to see a bunch of super cool people standing around a super cool corpse. The body of Super Macho Man lay on the ground in front of the town's war memorial.

Super Macho Man has died! He had the power to flex his muscles and kill everyone or something. He is too cool to be revived.generations. The concept of the TV remained the same for several decades of its existence, going from monochrome to colour, and then becoming slimmer, lighter and now even curved, with matching improvements in picture quality. They went from boxes to flat screen TVs, plasmas, LCDs and OLED displays. Today's 'smart' TVs offer high-definition 1080p or 4K (aka UHD) picture quality and provide access to the internet, apps and online streaming video. The big four television makers are Sony, Samsung, LG and Panasonic and with high-end sets now offering excellent colour and contrast ratios, UHD resolutions and HDR support, they still remain the entertainment hub of many a household.


PV MagazineThe largest wind and solar developer continues to grow, with more solar projects paired with storage as it reaches 5.3 GW of contracted solar projects. And it’s making good money at the same time.

Posted by Betsy Lillian, North American Windpower

Texas, Iowa and Minnesota are the top three states for overall distributed wind capacity, and Iowa, Nevada and Alaska are the top three states for small wind capacity, although there were no new documented projects in Iowa or Nevada in 2018. Rhode Island, Ohio and Nebraska led the U.S. in new distributed wind power capacity in 2018 with large-scale turbine projects. Now in its seventh year, the Distributed Wind Market Report was funded by the DOE’s Wind Energy Technologies Office. More on the report can be found here.raod safety and security enforcement, the Police boss, Lt. Gen. Kale Kayihura, has launched an action plan to curb the increasing road carnage and security challenges in the country.

Kayihura said though statistics show a slight decrease in the total number of accidents by 9.5% from 18,528 in 2011 to 16,765 in 2012, the number of traffic accidents and deaths is unacceptably high.

He launched the plan at the Police headquarters in Kampala on Tuesday.

Kayihura said they had strengthened deployment of integrated highway Police (traffic highway patrols, criminal investigation officers and the community liaison officers) working closely with the local communities along all highways and Kampala Metropolitan policing area to curb the problem during the festive season.

"More overt and armed covert Police officers have been deployed to escort buses to


A Florida police sergeant was fired for allegedly bringing Trayvon Martin shooting targets he purchased on the Internet to a firearms training session.

Sgt. Ron King, who had been with the Cape Canaveral Port Authority since January 2011, was fired Thursday, authorities said.

On April 4, when two fellow cops discovered King intended to use the Trayvon Martin shooting targets in their weapons exercise, they told him "they didn't think it was appropriate," said John Walsh, CEO of the Cape Canaveral Port Authority. The next day, he said the officers informed the Port Authority Police Chief, who called in internal affairs.

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Authorities declined to say whether any of the targets were used.

"We want to apologize to the community and the family of Trayvon Martinand don't feel that this is tolerable or acceptable in any level. It's something that we'd never want the Port Authority to be involved in and we truly apologize to the families for the pain that they even had to hear about something like this and had to relive their son's death again," Walsh said.

ABC News' attempts to reach King for comment were unsuccessful.

The incident comes two months before the scheduled start of the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who told police he followed Martin because the teen was acting suspiciously. Zimmerman later told police he shot Martin in self-defense after the 17-year-old punched him in the face, knocked him down and began slamming his head into the pavement. Martin was unarmed.

ABC News'


Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America calls on Dallas District Attorney and lawmakers to respond after another case of horrific gun violence

Last month in Dallas, Texas, a stranger shot an 8-year-old boy in the face while he was playing tag outside his home. Once again, an innocent child was a victim of our nation’s gun violence epidemic. Moms are outraged by this continued violence, and by our elected officials, who sit idly by, kowtowing to a vengeful gun lobby.

Local police arrested Brian Cloninger, 46, for the shooting of Donald Maiden, Jr. on Sept. 3 and charged him with injury to a child. While no clear motive for the shooting has been determined – the only witness is 8-year-old Donald, whose mouth is wired shut as heUpdate: The Steam page for XYK's Team Fortress 2008 mod has been pulled. As reported by Eurogamer, a screenshot from the project's Discord (also now shuttered) suggests Valve could not be convinced at this stage that the TF-2008 team has created a mod for the original game, and is "not just repurposing leaked code".

As also reported by EG, it appears creator XYK left the project's Discord server with a distasteful parting comment.

Our original story follows.

Original story:

Turn back time with XYK's Team Fortress 2008—a TF2 throwback mod that "reverts the game back to its 2008 version".

Due on Steam on January 11, 2019, its creator says the SourceMod is an alternative to Valve's esteemed Team Fortress 2 and is designed for "those who prefer the game before most of the


The Los Angeles Clippers announced today that they have waived guard Maalik Wayns.

Wayns, 22, did not appear in a game for the Clippers in 2013-14 after missing the first 33 games of the season due to a torn left meniscus.

The former Villanova stand-out appeared in six games with the Clippers last season and averaged 3.3 points and 1.2 assists. Overall, Wayns has played in 27 career NBA games with the Clippers and Philadelphia 76ers.N. Korea agrees to disable nuclear reactor by October

TINI TRAN, Associated Press

Published 5:30 am, Saturday, July 12, 2008

BEIJING — North Korea agreed to disable its main reactor by the end of October and allow international inspections to verify its nuclear disarmament in a deal reached Saturday at the end of six-nation talks.

In exchange, the United States, China, and three other countries promised to complete deliveries of fuel oil and other economic aid to Pyongyang.

The agreement, reached after three days of talks, opens the final phase of long and tortuous efforts to rid North Korea of its nuclear weapons.

"The parties reach an important consensus," said China's envoy, Wu Dawei, as he read out the group's press communique at the end of the meeting.

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The envoys from the six nations — which also included South Korea, Japan, and Russia — agreed that a verification procedure would include a team of experts who will visit North Korean nuclear facilities, review documents and interview technical experts.

Technical details of the verification process still need to be hashed out by a working group, but the six nations hope to agree on specific steps by early September, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said.

"We would like the protocol to be reached within 45 daysand, secondly, to begin verification within 45 days. We're anticipating that, and we don't see any obstacles," Hill told reporters after the talks.

The envoys will be gathering later in the month for a regional security forum in Singapore and may hold informal talks there, he said.

The agreement, though not yet complete, signals the start of the final phase of years of on-again, off-again negotiations to get North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program.

Beyond the October deadline for disabling North Korea's main nuclear facility at Yongbyon, the agreement did not set a timetable for full disarmament. But President Bush is believed to be eager to see North Korea disarmed before he leaves office in January.

Kim Sook, Seoul's top nuclear envoy, said afterward that "a very difficult task" lies


ahead in implementing verification, though he did not elaborate. He added that there should be "unlimited" access to the North's facilities during the verification process.

Questions remain about how much of its nuclear programs North Korea disclosed in a declaration last month. The North, which exploded a nuclear device in 2006, is believed by experts to have produced enough weapons-grade plutonium to make as many as 10 nuclear bombs, and the U.S. has accused Pyongyang of running a second weapons program based on uranium.

Before the latest talks, poor and energy-starved North Korea complained that other parties had only provided 40 percent of the fuel aid — the equivalent of 1 million tons of oil — promised under a February 2007 disarmament deal.

Saturday's agreement outlined specific steps to meet thosepromises. The United States and Russia pledged to provide the outstanding amount of heavy fuel by the end of October, while China and South Korea would work to sign agreements with North Korea on other assistance, the statement said.

Japan — which has opted out of contributing because of lingering friction with North Korea over abductions of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and '80s — agreed to pitch in too "as soon as possible when the environment is in place."

Earlier Saturday, the U.S. envoy said negotiators wanted verification measures like those used in other countries.

"We're not asking for anything unusual. We're asking for things that are done all over the world. We want a basically standard kind of package on how you verify this type of nuclear program," Hill


said.

In response to North Korea's nuclear declaration, the United States announced it would remove the country from a list of state sponsors of terrorism and relax some economic sanctions against it. Normally reclusive North Korea recently blew up the cooling tower at Yongbyon and allowed TV broadcasts of the event.

The steps paved the way for the resumption of the six-nation meetings in Beijing. Those talks had been on hold since last October.

The nuclear standoff began in late 2002 when the U.S. accused North Korea of seeking to secretly enrich uranium in violation of a 1994 disarmament deal.UFO-Blogger.com Reader UFO Sighting Reports:

Washington DC, USA

I saw 3 bright orange orbs in a triangle position about 12:10am new years in Washington DC.

Houston, TX, USA

We had a party of five out on our patio when an object started spinning and zipping around in Houston, TX within 20 minutes of midnight 2012. It had about 6 lights in the shape of a large circle. The lights were changing colors from blue, green, gold, white, red. It also had a spotlight that had a cone of light shooting out from it about 20 feet. It was staying in one place and spinning around left to right and then would spin up and down and every which way. I thought it was something remote controlled but it went up to the


8 then 4 more a few minutes after midnight.

Chicago, USA

Saw orange orb in Chicago last night at approximately 12:10am, just like videos

North Carolina, USA

I saw the same thing about 12:30am... I live in north Carolina... I saw three different aircraft's... They looked as if they were coming up from the ground into the sky... Looked as if they was a triangle shape... Each one had three orange orb looking lights around it... each one came up slowly turned in the sky and kinda did this hover thing and it looked as if they faded away into the sky... I know wt i saw and it was simply amazing...

Salem Oregon, USA

My friends and I saw 5 objects in the sky in Salem Oregon on Jan 1 2012 at aboutconvincing thing as to a UFO I have ever seen. Salt Lake City, Utah

Northern Nevada, USA

We saw the same orange/red orbs last night around 8:30pm here in Northern Nevada. At one point there were five in the sky at the same time and then they kept coming up big and fast from the same spot on the southeastern horizon and headed east til they disappeared. Went on for at least an hour.

Cleveland Ohio, USA

I saw one in the SW sky over Cleveland Ohio area all evening after the new year began. I wasn't paying much attention to the sky before then, but I was at work and watched it very slowly move away. This happened in 2010 over Lake Erie. The lights were here for 9 straight days.


in a line South to North, in 2 sets of 2. The first 2 simply vanished together. Then the 3rd. And then the 4th faded out slowly. Low heavy cloud cover so they couldn't have been at high altitude and perhaps disappeared into them. No noise. Single non-flashing lights, so not small planes.

McHenry, Mississippi, USA

I was at my cousin house shooting fireworks in mchenry Mississippi and at the stoke of midnight in the far north east sky there where 3 strange orange orbs traveling in the sky in a triangle form one looked like it vanished in the distance then the other two lined up and disappeared in the same place as the first one i am glad to see i am not the only one who sawNortheast and appeared to get smaller and smaller as it moved away from us until it disappeared in the distance.

North of Portland, USA

My daughter, my friend and I saw the exact same thing as the Florida video about 20 miles north of Portland OR in Washington state at about 9:40 pm on New Year's Eve. The pair appeared to be hovering and were very bright & amber colored. They began to drift apart and fade the one on the left disappeared first. Maybe by gaining altitude as they seemed to travel away. The entire experience was about 30-40 seconds.

I saw 3 bright orange orbs in a triangle position about 12:10am new years in Washington DC.We had a party of five out on our patio when an object started


spinning and zipping around in Houston, TX within 20 minutes of midnight 2012. It had about 6 lights in the shape of a large circle. The lights were changing colors from blue, green, gold, white, red. It also had a spotlight that had a cone of light shooting out from it about 20 feet. It was staying in one place and spinning around left to right and then would spin up and down and every which way. I thought it was something remote controlled but it went up to the clouds and hovered there as well and back down and would go back and forth from one area to another in the distance very fast. I've been living here with this view for almost 3 years and nevera plane , not fireworks, not a helicopter but it was followed by one.Holy Shit we just saw what looked like 5 of these at midnight in Beaverton Or! Happy New Year!In Georgia we saw 6 of the orange-red orbs spaced out from 8 to midnight, going up all in the same direction. Two at first around 8 then 4 more a few minutes after midnight.Saw orange orb in Chicago last night at approximately 12:10am, just like videosI saw the same thing about 12:30am... I live in north Carolina... I saw three different aircraft's... They looked as if they were coming up from the ground into the sky... Looked as if they was a triangle shape... Each one had three orange orb looking lights around it... each one


stopped slightly north of where we were standing. We just stood there in awe wondering what the hell it was then it started moving north (slowly), then upwardly at a much higher speed till it vanished. Have no explanation for what it was but it was the most convincing thing as to a UFO I have ever seen. Salt Lake City, UtahWe saw the same orange/red orbs last night around 8:30pm here in Northern Nevada. At one point there were five in the sky at the same time and then they kept coming up big and fast from the same spot on the southeastern horizon and headed east til they disappeared. Went on for at least an hour.I saw one in the SW sky over Cleveland Ohio areato the Southeast of our location. When first seeing it I thought it was a military flare that float slowly to the groung, but this object moved in straight line across the sky like an aircraft. It moved slowly across the sky to the Northeast and appeared to get smaller and smaller as it moved away from us until it disappeared in the distance.My daughter, my friend and I saw the exact same thing as the Florida video about 20 miles north of Portland OR in Washington state at about 9:40 pm on New Year's Eve. The pair appeared to be hovering and were very bright & amber colored. They began to drift apart and fade the one on the left disappeared first. Maybe by gaining altitude as


October 31, 2008

When last I wrote about Bill Sali (R-ID 01), he was making bunny ears at his opponent's staff while they were being interviewed. The time before that, he was claiming that "Forty percent of the mass of every tree in the forest is crude oil." In devastating news for humorists everywhere, it looks like he might finally be getting into electoral trouble:

"CQ Politics, which takes past voting behavior and demographics into account in handicapping elections, has held the Idaho 1 race at a very tenuous Leans Republican rating, meaning Sali had an edge but an upset by Minnick was a plausible scenario. But the growing financial disparity between the parties in this contest — and the fact that Minnick had a 51 percent to 45 percentexclusive. Syria Comment has been writing since August 2008 that Petraeus tried to go to Damascus in the fall of 2007, but was refused permission by the Vice President. It wasn’t the president.

As Daniel Levy mentioned recently, Petraeus and Pentagon leadership have been pleased with recent overtures from the Syrians, and cautiously optimistic about the potential to build on that cooperation:

The Pentagon sees Syrian efforts to seal the border with Iraq as having been a mixed bag, and they would certainly want further improvements. General Petraeus has acknowledged these improvements and carries with him a PowerPoint presentation that includes a box entitled "Improved Relations and Coordination with Syria".

But then, despite this progress and the continuation of peace talks between Israel and Syria, the Bush administration went ahead with


administration that Clinton had overreached at the end of his second term, bending too much toward Yasser Arafat -- who then broke off productive Camp David negotiations at the final moment -- and that "We're going to tilt back ward Israel." Powell, a chair away in the Situation Room that day, said such a move would reverse thirty years of U.S. policy, and that it could unleash the new prime minister, Ariel Sharon, and the Israeli army in ways that could be dire for the Palestinians. Bush's response: "Sometimes a show of force by one side can really clarify things." [emphasis mine]

Sometimes it does, but as Sharon learned, as we learned in Iraq, and the Israelis relearned in Lebanon in 2006, the clarification that follows a show ofbe reviewing it next month–stay tuned.) Rashid Khalidi is an American academic of extraordinary ability and sharp insights. He is also deeply committed to stemming violence in the Middle East, promoting a culture that embraces human rights as a fundamental notion, and building democratic societies. In a sense, Khalidi’s formula for solving the Middle East crisis has not been radically different from George W. Bush’s: both believe in American values and approaches. However, whereas Bush believes these values can be introduced in the wake of bombs and at the barrel of a gun, Khalidi disagrees. He sees education and civic activism as the path to success, and he argues that pervasive military interventionism has historically undermined the Middle East and will continue to do so. Khalidi has also


New York and educated at Yale and Oxford, who now teaches at Columbia University. He directed the Middle East Center at the University of Chicago for some time, and he and his family came to know the Obamas at that time. Knowing someone and agreeing with him on everything are not the same thing. Scott Horton has a fine, informed and intelligent discussion of the issue.

McCain's and Palin's attacks on Khalidi are frankly racist. He is a distinguished scholar, and the only objectionable thing about him from a rightwing point of view is that he is a Palestinian. There are about 9 million Palestinians in the world (a million or so are Israeli citizens; 3.7 million are stateless and without rights under Israeli control in the West Bankand Gaza; and 4 million are refugees or exiled in the diaspora; there are about 200,000 Palestinian-Americans, and several million Arab-Americans, many living in swing vote states). Khalidi was not, as the schlock rightwing press charges, a spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization. He was an adviser at the Madrid peace talks, but would that not have been, like, a good thing?

Much of the assault on Khalidi comes from the American loony Zionist Right, which quietly supports illegal Zionist colonies in the West Bank and the ethnic cleansing of the remaining Palestinians. They have been tireless advocates of miring the US in wars in Iraq and Iran to ensure that their dreams of ethnic cleansing are unopposed. They are a tiny, cranky but well-funded group that has actively


harassed anyone who disagrees with them (at one point, cued by Daniel Pipes, they cyberstalked Khalidi and clogged his email mailbox with spam for weeks at a time). All opinion polling shows that most American Jews are politically liberal, overwhelmingly vote Democrat, and support trading land for peace to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Khalidi is their political ally in any serious peace process, which many have recognized.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has repudiated the "Greater Israel" fantasy that drives the Middle East Forum, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Commentary, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, the Hudson Institute, the American Enterprise Institute and other well-funded sites of far-right thinking on Israel-Palestine that have become, with the rise of the Neoconservatives, highly influential with the56 million video streams via Internet during the Beijing Olympics boosted rather than diminished viewing of the games on traditional TV, said Perkins Miller, NBC senior vice president of digital media. "The biggest lesson we learned is that the notion of competition between digital and broadcast is a myth," he said in an interview.
. . .

"There was no evidence of cannibalization of broadcast ... I hope that what this shows is the great demand for content to be delivered on multiple devices[.]"

There's a huge debate raging right now at the FCC about whether to open the so-called "white spaces" (unused portions of spectrum licensed to broadcasters) for new uses and technologies. In most areas (particularly rural areas), large amounts of "beachfront" spectrum reserved for broadcasters sits idle and


proceeding Bennett on advice of counsel filed an affidavit that he was not on duty or in course of employment when injured.  The city thereupon sought termination of the award to him and refund of sums paid him, but the Commission found there was insufficient evidence of fraud or mistake to justify vacating the award.  On appeal Bennett urged that this finding was binding on the Court.  It was decided to the contrary, however, because there was no conflict in the evidence, whose sufficiency therefore became a question of law, as to which the Commission's findings are not binding.
2.  In considering whether an award has been obtained by fraud or mistake the rules as to burden of proof and character of evidence required thatapply in a court of equity apply to proceedings before the Commission.  The party alleging such grounds for rescission of an award must prove them by clear and convincing evidence.
3.  The city failed to bear this burden of proof.  Bennett was, under the facts disclosed by the record, on duty at the time of his injury.  This being so, he could not be guilty of fraudulently concealing the fact that he was off duty, nor could the city have been mistaken in its belief that he was on duty.
4.  Bennett's affidavit in the unsuccessful action against Griffin that he was off duty was not directed to the Commission but to the court and no impropriety was practiced upon the Commission.  Bennett's actions


in this regard could therefore have no effect upon the awards.
Appeal from an award of the Industrial Commission of Virginia. The opinion states the case.
Howard I. Legum (Fine, Fine, Legum, Schwan & Fine,    on brief), for the appellee.
CARRICO
CARRICO, J., delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal from a final order of the Industrial Commission denying the application of the city of Norfolk to cancel and terminate compensation awarded to Earl Allen Bennett.
Bennett, a police officer of the city, was, on the 7th day of November, 1962, assigned to motorcycle duty on the 3:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. shift.  He requested and was granted permission, by his superior officer, to go off duty at 10:00 p.m. on that date.  He was onhis way to headquarters to "check off" when he was hailed by a fellow officer, with whom he spent some time discussing police matters.  Noting that time had "just slipped away," he told the other officer "I'm supposed to be off" and again started toward headquarters.  His motorcycle was, at 10:54 p.m., involved in a collision with a fire engine owned by the city and operated by Clyde William Griffin, a city fireman.  The engine was responding to an alarm of a fire at the Golden Triangle Hotel in Norfolk.
Bennett was seriously injured as a result of the collision.  The city accepted the case as compensable and on November 29, 1962, entered into an agreement with Bennett providing for the payment of his full


salary during his incapacity.  The agreement was submitted to and approved by the Commission.
Bennett returned to duty on April 10, 1963, and his disability compensation was then terminated.  However, approximately two months later, he again became incapacitated from his injuries and *879 on July 2, 1963, entered into a supplemental agreement with the city providing for further compensation.  The new agreement was approved by the Commission on July 10, 1963, and the award entered pursuant thereto was outstanding at the time the city filed the application which is the basis of this controversy.
In its application, the city prayed that the award of compensation to Bennett be cancelled and terminated and that he be directed to "pay back to the City of Norfolk all sums thatit has expended on his behalf."  This relief was sought, the application stated, because Bennett had instituted a civil action against Griffin, the operator of the fire vehicle, in the Court of Law and Chancery of the City of Norfolk, and in that action had filed an affidavit stating that he (Bennett) "was not on duty at the time and place of the accident in controversy, nor did it arise out of or in the course of the plaintiff's employment."
On September 17, 1963, a hearing was conducted on the city's application by Deputy Commissioner Harwood.  In a written opinion, he ruled that there was insufficient evidence of fraud, mistake or duress to justify vacating the awards previously entered.  At the city's request, the full Commission


reviewed the case and, on March 26, 1964, affirmed the ruling of the Deputy Commissioner.
In the hearing before the Deputy Commissioner, Bennett testified as to his activities immediately preceding the accident.  He stated that he executed the affidavit which was filed in his action against Griffin, that he had done so on the advice of counsel, and that he was told that there was "a question of law . . . as to whether [he was] in the employ of the City" at the time of the accident.
The record shows that Louis B. Fine was counsel for Bennett in the action brought against Griffin.  It also discloses that it was Fine who filed the affidavit in question.  The affidavit was filed in response to aspecial plea filed by Griffin that Bennett's exclusive remedy was under the Workmen's Compensation Act and a plea of estoppel based upon Bennett's representations, in securing the awards from the Commission, that his injuries arose out of and in the course of his employment.
The Court of Law and Chancery of the City of Norfolk, on October 22, 1963, sustained Griffin's pleas and entered summary judgment in his favor.  Bennett sought but was refused a writ of error to that judgment, as disclosed by our records, of which we take judicial notice.
  The city's sole contention is that the Commission erred in *880 holding that there was not sufficient evidence of fraud or mistake to justify vacating the awards previously entered.
Bennett contends that the Commission's decision is


I'm concerned, I was off at ten P.M.  . . . the Sergeant gave me off at ten o'clock . . . I was off.  I couldn't have been on."  The city then argues that because Bennett failed to disclose that he was off duty at the time of the accident, he is subject to the rule that "fraud is the concealment of the truth, just as much as it is the utterance of a falsehood."     Frazier     Brewer,    52 W.Va. 306, 43 S.E. 110, 111. Alternatively, the city argues that because it had no knowledge that Bennett was not on duty, "the agreement to pay compensation resulted from an honest mistake on the partof" the city.
But Bennett could not be found guilty of fraudulently concealing the information that he was not on duty at the time of the accident if he was, in fact, then on duty.  And if he was then on duty, the city could not have labored under a mistake with respect to that fact when it agreed to the payment of compensation.  This holds true regardless of what Bennett may have later said, or what was then his motive for saying it, in the hearing before the Deputy Commissioner, where he was faced with the dilemma of trying to protect his pending action against Griffin and, at the same time, to save his compensation awards.
The crucial question then becomes, was Bennett on duty when the


accident occurred?  We are of opinion that the evidence clearly answers that question in the affirmative.
At the time of the accident, Bennett was wearing a police uniform and riding a police motorcycle with its radio in operation.  Although he had been granted permission to leave work early, he had not availed himself thereof and was still within the hours of his normal tour of duty.  He was en route to his headquarters to perform an official function, that is, to "check off" by turning in the summonses he had issued and preparing a report of his activities for the day, matters essential to his being relieved of duty.
All of this shows that Bennett was on duty at the time of the accident and that hisawards, but to the Court of Law and Chancery in an effort to induce it to accept a case over which it had no jurisdiction.  Whatever impropriety there may have been in Bennett's actions, it was practiced upon the court and not upon the Commission and can have no effect upon the awards.
Moreover, it will be remembered that Bennett explained that he executed the affidavit on the advice of his counsel that there was a question of law as to whether he was in the employ of the city at the time the accident occurred.
This explanation may suffice to lessen the impact of Bennett's actions with respect to his law action against Griffin, but it serves little in the way of providing an understanding as to why


PLO flag raised over Sebastia National Park

Locals blast security officials for abandonment of national park and archeological site to Arab vandals.

Ido Ben Porat, 04/09/16 09:50

PLO flag waving at Sebastia National Park

Shomron Regional Council spokesperson

On Sunday morning a Palestine Liberation Organization flag was found to have been raised over the Sebastia National Park in Samaria, flying above the ruins of an ancient Israelite palace.

The Sebastia National Park, administered by Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority, encompasses the ancient city of Samaria – later renamed Sebastia by the Romans – and features archaeological finds from the First Temple period, including the remains of the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel.

This marks the third time the PLO flag has been discovered flying over the national park in the past month.

While Sebastiatheir power beyond their own borders. With the price of oil falling as it is, their economic warfare option
appear to be dwindling as well. They are a small dog, tied to a tree, yapping furiously from across the street. A minor annoyance, but certainly
nothing to be concerned about......yet.

I'm also sure that the Iranian ship has zero weapons on board. The Israelis would love nothing more to capture such a ship in their territorial
waters, and expose it's deadly cargo to the world media, while simultaneously castigating the Iranian government for supporting international
terrorism. The Iranians may be irrational fanatics, but they are not that dumb. They would rather play the role of innocent guy being roughed up by
the neighborhood bully.

But this threat from Iran is pretty laughable. What are they


wouldn’t want to? It is a really interesting sight,” says Baugher.

During World War II, the U.S. Army took over a stretch of land in St. Charles County and used the site to produce ammunition. Later, the Atomic Energy Commission acquired the property and built the Weldon Spring Uranium Feed Materials Plant, also known as the Weldon Spring Chemical Plant. A quarry nearby, originally mined for limestone, became a site for dumping nuclear waste. Both sites have gone through remediation efforts and are designated Superfund sites. Now, an Interpretive Center exists on the property as a well as a 75-foot limestone disposal cell. Visitors can walk to the top of it. Read more about this history of the site here, from the Department of Energy.

“You get less radiation therebecause it neither leads to St. Charles nor is it made of rock,” he said. “In fact, it used to lead to St. Charles and it was made of rock. It is probably the oldest road in St. Louis County and was originally laid out by the Spanish. It predates the United States, being laid out in 1772.”

Later, in 1921, it would become the first paved road in St. Louis County.

“It was probably originally worn there initially by travelers wearing a path between the two cities [St. Charles and St. Louis],” Baugher said. “The traffic problems on the Rock Road do predate its existence, as most North Countians probably already expected.”

Is another book in the works for Baugher? It is a little too soon to tell, he said.

“There


Sen. Jeff Flake's son lost a civil lawsuit on Thursday against former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in which he claimed Arpaio maliciously prosecuted him and his then-wife over the heat-related deaths of 21 dogs in their care.

An Arizona jury refused to award damages to Austin Flake and ex-wife Logan Brown over Arpaio's criminal investigation into the demise of the animals in 2014 at a kennel operated by Flake's in-laws, according to the Associated Press.

The couple alleged that Arpaio brought the case against them to generate publicity for himself and to politically damage the Republican Senator from Arizona.

The retiring junior senator and Arpaio, a fellow Republican, reportedly clashed over immigration policy and its enforcement, as well as the movement that questioned the legitimacy of former President Barack Obama'sbirth certificate.

Arpaio's probe into the pair, who were looking after the canines while Brown's parents were out of town, was later dismissed at the request of prosecutors.

The owners of the kennel eventually pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges after an expert determined that the facility's air conditioning system failed because it wasn't properly maintained.

The prosecutor who handled the original criminal matter said she had not been pressured by Arpaio's office to file charges.

The federal judge presiding over the civil suit said he would not enter a final judgment until lawyers for Arpaio and Maricopa County explained why they had been unable to provide some documents pertinent to the case.


being especially contingent on the domains of family support, god love, and virtue. After controlling for the facets of Agreeableness, only virtue remained significantly correlated with the Light Triad. The Dark Triad was also positively associated with global self-esteem, but was more contingent on competition, appearance, and god love. The Dark Triad showed a negative correlation with virtue and family support. After controlling for the facets of Agreeableness, the Dark Triad was no longer correlated with family support, but was still positively correlated with global self-Esteem and the contingencies of competition, appearance, god love, and negatively correlated with the contingency of virtue.

In terms of sense of self, the Light Triad was negatively correlated with a weak sense of self, but this correlation was no longer significant after controllingfor the facets of Agreeableness. The Dark Triad was uncorrelated with a weak sense of self. However, after controlling for the facets of Agreeableness, the Dark Triad was negatively correlated with a weak sense of self.

In terms of authenticity, the Light Triad was positively correlated with authentic living, self-awareness, unbiased processing, authentic behavior, and relational authenticity, and was negatively correlated with self-alienation. The positive correlation between the Light Triad and authentic living, authentic behavior, and relational authenticity remained even after controlling for the facets of Agreeableness. In contrast, the Dark Triad was negatively correlated with authentic living and accepting external influence and was uncorrelated with the rest of the measures of authenticity. After controlling for the facets of Agreeableness, the Dark Triad was no longer correlated with authentic


Triad was positively correlated with having had a spiritual experience once we controlled for the facets of Agreeableness and Honesty-Humility.

The Light Triad was positively correlated with Oneness Experiences and God Experiences, and these correlations remained significant even after controlling for the facets of Agreeableness and Honesty-Humility. The Dark Triad was also positively correlated with Oneness Experiences, and this correlation remained significant even after controlling for the facets of Agreeableness and Honesty-Humility. The Dark Triad was uncorrelated with God Experiences.

In terms of death transcendence, the Light Triad was positively correlated with nature and biosocial forms of death transcendence. After controlling for the facets of Agreeableness, the Light Triad was correlated with nature but was no longer correlated with the biosocial route to death transcendence. In contrast, the Dark Triad12 action is headlined by a clash between first and second, with Macleod making the trip to War Memorial Park to take on Greensborough.

The Roos take a 10-game winning streak into the game and will all but lock away the minor premiership with another win, given they take a three-game and percentage advantage into the contest.

The ladder-leader did what was required last weekend against Hurstbridge, winning by 31 points at De Winton Park. The result was set-up in the third term, when the Roos piled on five unanswered goals to stretch a half time lead of 12 points to an unassailable 47 at the last break.

It continued an outstanding trend for Garry Ramsay’s side, who have not conceded a goal in the third quarter for three consecutive matches.


into quarter time after keeping the Eagles scoreless.

Greensborough was quick to respond to the slow start and piled on six goals in the second term to take a 17-point lead into half time. The Boro continued to control the game after half time and booted eight goals to four after the main break.

After impressing with four goals in his club debut in Round 10, Billy Murphy was again outstanding in his second game and finished with six majors. Lachlan McQuilken added two of his own in a strong showing, while Jacob Ireland continued his career-best season.

This weekend’s game is vital for Greensborough as they look to secure a fifth-consecutive finals appearance. A win would put the Boro in an excellent position to secure a double-chance, with a hostkicked 13 goals to two after the main break to ensure they gave their percentage a healthy injection, going from 98.17 to 109.51. Given how tight the battle for a top-five place has become, the Bulls were in no mood to let-up in the last term.

Todd Hughes produced his best game for the club with six majors, all of which came in the opening three quarters. He had plenty of assistance, with Daniel Guccione (four goals), Brent Marshall, Kain Proctor and Dale Marshall all in fine form to help their side to its fourth-consecutive victory.

West Preston-Lakeside went down by nine points to North Heidelberg in a see-sawing battle. The result continued a string of close home defeats for the Roosters, who have lost four of five games at


J.E. Moore Park this year – by a cumulative total of 34 points.

Kicking with the aid of a strong wind in the first term, the Roosters made a fast start against the Bulldogs to lead by 29 points at quarter time. However, they could only manage a further four goals after the first break to slip to their third loss in four matches and fall to third place.

Down by 15 early in the last term, the Roosters rallied to close the margin back to two points approaching time-on, however a late Shane Harvey proved to be the sealer for the visiting side.

Garrett McDonagh produced his best game of the season to try to will West Preston-Lakeside across the line, while Luke Lirosi (two goals), Michael Ercolano and JoshNovelli also toiled hard.

North Heidelberg and Montmorency play off in a game that could have massive ramifications for both side’s finals hopes. Montmorency was seven goals too good back in Round 2, however the Bulldogs take far better form into this encounter at Shelley Reserve.

Spearheaded by seven goals from Shane Harvey, North moved a step closer to an historic finals berth last weekend. The Bulldogs have won five of their past six games, with the only defeat coming at the hands of all-conquering Macleod.

Having beaten top-five sides in each of the past two weeks, the Bulldogs face sides placed 7-10 over the next month. Their finals destiny is well and truly in their own hands.

Michael Florance was outstanding last week and was the dominant big man on the


are to drag their side out of its current losing streak.

Northcote Park and Whittlesea meet at Bill Lawry Oval, with both sides sitting in the bottom-half of the table after 11 rounds.

Northcote Park took on Bundoora with a line-up featuring a dozen players aged 21 and under and were taught a football lesson by the reigning premier. After a tough start, the Cougars managed to win the second term – however they were unable to show any resistance after half time.

Luke Svarc was his side’s best player for the second-consecutive week and provided a strong example for his younger teammates to follow. Nick Carter and defender Cameron Simpson also toiled hard on a forgettable day for their club.

Having lost their past two games on the road, the Cougarsover Heidelberg at Warringal Park earlier this year, and also took the points when the sides met at Ben Frilay Oval last year.

Heidelberg put a poor fortnight behind it by claiming its first win at Montmorency Park since 2012. The 15-point triumph elevated the Tigers to seventh place and within percentage of a finals spot.

The final tally of 13.17 (95) was Heidelberg’s highest score of the season. The Tigers booted eight majors in the opening half to lead by 23 points at the main break, before holding off all Montmorency challenges in the second half.

Josh Gribben made an immediate impact in his return from injury and was among the most influential players on the ground. Gribben has featured among the Tigers’ best players in six of his nine


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largest for Christmas week in the company's 126-year history. Workers from as far away as Georgia and North Carolina are en route to Flint, Mich., which was hit hardest by the storm. To date, 17 people in the United States have died as a result of the storm, with an additional 10 in Canada.

According to the Flint Journal, some families spent Christmas morning in area hotels. Jill Ghantous and her young children moved from their Swartz Creek, Mich., home to a Wingate by Wyndham hotel late Tuesday. Along with purchasing a small tree for the room, the family hung a sign on the window to let Santa know they relocated, and they hung their stockings on the dresser.

“I guess we can kind of pull Christmas out of nothing.following this collision, the car in which plaintiff was riding continued *77 down the highway a distance of thirty or forty feet and stopped on the westerly side of the highway. It was dark and raining and the pavement was wet and slippery.
 Immediately following the collision plaintiff and Georgia Moore got out of the automobile in which they were riding for the purpose of investigating the damage done to it, and had some conversation at that time with Mr. Franchetti. Upon examination it was found that the automobile in which plaintiff and her sister were riding had been somewhat damaged, the extent thereof not being ascertained at that time, and, in order to make a further examination as to the mechanical operation, Georgia Moore reentered the automobile


which she had been driving and attempted to start the motor. At that time the plaintiff was standing "half on and half off" the highway, along the westerly side of the automobile, with the right door thereof standing open; her position was near the front of the automobile, where she was waiting to see if the motor would start. Between three and five minutes following the collision with the Franchetti automobile, and while the automobile in which plaintiff had been riding was still in the position in which it had stopped following the first collision, a Ford automobile driven by the appellant, Bruno Luchi, approached from the north at a speed of approximately thirty miles per hour and collided with the Moore car, resulting in the striking ofthe 12th floor and has vitrified flooring. It is an east facing property an...

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good deal higher from her husband's primary supporters – 74 percent – than from Hillary Clinton's, 51 percent.

VOTE – Again, views of the candidates' spouses do not significantly influence vote choices. In a regression analysis – a way of sorting out the independent influence of various factors – support for Barack Obama is predicted by partisanship, preference for him over John McCain on personal attributes, preference for Barack Obama to handle top issues and favorable views of him – but not by favorable views of his wife. The same holds true for Cindy McCain in predicting support for her husband's candidacy.

A result from an ABC/Post poll in December pointed the same way: Sixteen percent said that in deciding their vote they give a "great amount" of weight toField of the Invention
The present invention relates to a sheet member supply device and an image forming apparatus, such as a copying machine, that includes the sheet member supply device.
Description of the Related Art
In an image forming apparatus such as a copying machine, a printer or a facsimile, a supply device of a sheet member such as a sheet is provided. In the sheet member supply device, sheet members stacked on a storage portion are often separated and supplied one by one from the uppermost layer. Conventional technologies related to such a sheet member supply device are disclosed in patent documents 1 to 3.
In each of the sheet member supply devices disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication Nos. 2007-269462, 2010-105768 and 5-58480, the downstream side in a


sheet member supply direction of a sheet member stacking plate in which sheet members are stacked on the upper surface is displaced upward, and thus the uppermost layer of the sheet members makes contact with, from below, a pickup roller for feeding out the sheet member. In these sheet member supply devices, a technology for preventing the sheet member stacking plate from being unintentionally ally displaced downward is proposed.
The sheet member supply device in an image forming apparatus disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2007-269462 includes a one-way crutch for regulating the unintentional downward displacement of the sheet member stacking plate. In this way, it is possible to apply a force acting upward to the sheet member stacking plate by constantly providing an appropriate force.
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 Bishop Hendricken High School, Warwick
 La Salle Academy, Providence
 Mount Saint Charles Academy, Woonsocket
 Portsmouth Abbey School, Portsmouth
 Prout School, South Kingstown
 St. Mary Academy – Bay View, East Providence
 St. Patrick Academy, Providence
 St. Raphael Academy, Pawtucket

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Our Lady of Victory (Ashaway)
Holy Angels (Barrington)
St. Luke (Barrington)
St. Andrew (Block Island)
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (Bristol)
St. Elizabeth (Bristol)
St. Mary (Bristol)
Our Lady of Good Help (Burrillville)
St. Joseph (Burrillville)
St. Patrick (Burrillville)
St. Theresa of the Child Jesus (Burrillville)
St. Mary (and St. James Chapel) (Carolina)
Holy Spirit Catholic Community (Central Falls)
St. Joseph (Central Falls)
St. Lawrence (Centredale)
St. Eugene's Church (Chepachet)
Our Lady of Czenstochowa (Coventry)
SS. John and Paul (Coventry)
St. Vincent de Paul (Coventry)
Holy Apostles (Cranston)
Immaculate Conception


Bartholomew (Providence)
St. Casimir (Providence)
St. Charles Borromeo (Providence)
St. Edward (Providence)
St. Joseph (Providence)
St. Mary (Providence)
St. Michael the Archangel (Providence)
St. Patrick (Providence)
St. Pius V (Providence)
St. Raymond (Providence)
St. Sebastian (Providence)
St. Teresa of Avila (Providence)
St. Thomas (Providence)
St. Brendan's Church (Riverside)
St. Margaret (Rumford)
St. Joseph (Scituate)
St. Michael (Smithfield)
St. Philip (Smithfield)
Christ the King (South Kingstown)
St. Francis of Assisi (South Kingstown)
Holy Ghost (Tiverton)
St. Christopher (Tiverton)
St. Madeleine Sophie (Tiverton)
St. Theresa (Tiverton)
Saint Mary of the Bay (Warren)
St. Alexander (Warren)
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St. Jean Baptiste (Warren)
St. Thomas the Apostle (Warren)
SS Rose and Clement Parish (Warwick)
St. Benedict (Warwick)
St. Catherine (Warwick)
St. Francis of Assisi (Warwick)
St. Gregory the Great (Warwick)
St. Kevin (Warwick)
St. Peter (Warwick)
St. Rita (Warwick)
St. Timothy (Warwick)
Christ the King (West Warwick)
Our Lady of Good Counsel (West Warwick)
Sacred Heart (West Warwick)
SS. John & James (West Warwick)
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Brantley goes way back with Toronto manager Gibbons

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5/9/14: Michael Brantley's hitting streak reaches nine as he belts a solo home run to right-center field, tying the game at 2

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TORONTO -- Michael Brantley always enjoys the chance to catch up with Blue Jays manager John Gibbons. When Brantley was just a boy, Gibbons gave him a taste of what it was like to be a professional ballplayer.

Brantley's dad, Mickey, was the hitting coach for Gibbons in 1996, when the Toronto skipper was the manager of the Class A St. Lucie Mets. Michael, who was around nine years old at the time, was allowed to take the field with the team during workouts in the summer.

"Gibby's the man," Brantley said. "He was


great for me. As a kid, he allowed me to come on the field and work out with the team. It was almost like I was a player. I'd go hit in the cages and just be one of the guys. He allowed me to do that. He was the manager, so it's his team. For him to allow me to be a part of that environment, it meant a lot to me and my development."

Gibbons, who also had Mickey Brantley (a member of the Mariners during his playing career) on his coaching staff with the Blue Jays for parts of the 2005-07 seasons, smiled when asked about Cleveland's left fielder.

"He's just such a fluid, natural athlete," Gibbons said. "His dad was a really good hitter, so youknow he's getting some good teaching. He's a first-class kid. Very professional. It really doesn't surprise me some of the things he's done."

Entering Wednesday's game, the 26-year-old Brantley was batting .278 with a team-leading seven home runs and 30 RBIs through 38 games. Brantley also had eight doubles, 13 walks and 20 runs scored for Cleveland, which signed him to a four-year extension worth $25 million in February.

"You know what he does? He does it when it matters -- at least against us he does," Gibbons said with a chuckle. "When you need something good done, he's usually right in the middle of it. And lefties, righties, it doesn't matter. He's not known as a power hitter, but he can bring you deep, too, man."

Brantley said he will


New York teacher who says she was fired 'lost everything' over topless selfie originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

The New York teacher who says she was fired after a topless selfie from 2016 circulated around the school where she taught can't believe she lost everything she "worked so hard for over a selfie," she told ABC News in her first sit-down interview since the incident.

Lauren Miranda, 25, a former math teacher at Bellport Middle School on Long Island, said she took the "old" photo one morning when she was getting ready in her bedroom and sent it "to the person she was seeing at the time." She never expected it to go public, she said.

"I think when anybody sends a picture they only expect it to be received by theperson that they sent it to and nobody else," Miranda said.

(MORE: New York teacher allegedly fired over topless selfie threatens to sue school)

The photo then resurfaced three years later, she said, adding that she found out from a colleague who texted her on Jan. 11, saying, "The kids...are saying they have a naked photo of you."

The Monday after that, she was placed on home assignment without the opportunity to prepare her students for their quarterly exams.

"I literally was told to stay home, to lay low, to not talk to anybody — anyone at the school obviously," she said.

Miranda has no idea how the students got a hold of the photo, she said.

"How it got out is still the million-dollar question," Miranda said.

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after ex-girlfriend accuses him of attacking her, attorney says)

After an internal investigation, the school informed Miranda that they have "enough proof" to say that she "did nothing wrong or illegal," she said. It is legal in the state of New York to appear topless in public.

But on March 27, Miranda received a message from a union representative telling her that the school board had voted to terminate her, she said. She was in her fourth year working there.

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PHOTO: Lauren Miranda, 25, was fired from her teaching job after a topless selfie of herself went public by accident. (WABC)

In a press conference on Tuesday, her attorney, John Ray, said the school district fired her because she could no longer act as a role model to her students.

A representativeher routines and whatever."

ABC News could not request comment from the man who Miranda was seeing at the time since she did not provide his name. However, she says he also works at the school and that he was the only person to whom she sent the photo.

Miranda is planning to sue the school district for $3 million for gender discrimination if it does not re-hire her. A review Miranda provided to ABC New York station WABC from last year states that she is a "highly effective teacher."

"Ms. Miranda demonstrated in this lesson to be an outstanding Math instructor, knowledgeable of her content area, but most of all genuinely dedicated to the academic progress of her students," the review stated, according to WABC.

Miranda would have been eligible for


Word about the taverns is that there's to be a fairly high stakes Kruth game in Red's. The game is Merchant's Haul and more details can be found out IC.

The rules:

Kruth: Merchant's HaulMerchant's Haul is a variant of Suits, most common in Allanak. It is reputed to have been derived as the result of a Falish noble's quest for new card games. It is best played with an independent dealer or at least a dealer that can be trusted to deal straight onto the table and features "common" cards that are used by all of the players.

Play: Each player pays an ante into the pot then each player is dealt two cards, called their Stash. These two cards are the start of their five card hand and mustbe used. Based on the strength of their Stash, players may choose to bet, check, call, raise, etc... starting with a player dubbed First. Once the first betting round is complete, the dealer gathers up the pot and deals out the first three (of five) common cards onto the playing surface. These three cards are called "the Market". Another round of betting proceeds, starting with the same player as before.After the second betting round is complete, the dealer gathers up the pot and deals out the fourth (of five) common cards, called the "the Street". Another round of betting proceeds, starting with the same player as before.Again, after betting, the dealer gathers up the pot, and deals the last common card, "the Gate". After the Gate card is


revealed, there is a final round of betting and players reveal their stash to determine who can make the highest scoring hand out of the their two-card Stash, plus three of the common cards. Each player may only use three of the common cards from the table.

Scoring: Point totals only count for the highest points of the matching suit in hand. For example: If the common cards revealed: the Wind of Kings, Wind of Fate, Stone of Fate, Water of Life and Water of Truth. The table would have (9) points in Wind, (0) points in Sun, (4) points in Stone, and (5) points in Water.If a player has a stash consisting of Wind of Deceit and the Stone of Life, they would have (1) point in Windthe required base period to establish eligibility for unemployment benefits. The Center, a special education facility for developmentally disabled children and young adults, was founded in 1947, and is owned and operated by the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi. It is a nonprofit, charitable corporation, incorporated under G.L.c. 180 separately from the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston, who is a corporation sole. The purposes of the Center, as stated in the corporation's articles of organization, are "to promote the religious, spiritual, social and physical welfare of mentally retarded children, and in furtherance thereof, to establish and maintain a home and school for the care and training of such children."
*733 The Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi delegate responsibility for the operation of the Center to a board


of directors composed of both religious and lay people. Under Catholic canon law the Center is under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Boston, as the ordinary of the Archdiocese of Boston, who has the authority to operate the Center if he chooses to do so. The Archbishop delegates an auxiliary bishop in the diocese to represent him on the Center's board of directors. The Center's primary source of financial support is tuition charged to the city, town, or State agency with responsibility for the student. There are also private sources of funding for the school. The Center is exempt from Federal taxes under I.R.C. § 501(c)(3) (1982), under a ruling issued to the National Catholic Welfare Conference, which includes the Center in its directory of organizations.
The programsbecause its purpose, the rehabilitation of the mentally handicapped, is religiously motivated and the Center is subject to control by the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi and, under canon law, by the Archbishop of Boston.
The claimant argues that the evidence does not support the board's finding that the Center "is operated primarily for religious purposes." Specifically the claimant points to these facts as proof of her contention: (1) the Center's articles of organization *734 list the promotion of the religious welfare of mentally retarded children as only one among several corporate purposes; (2) the Center is open to developmentally disabled youth regardless of their religion; and (3) religious classes are not a required part of the school's curriculum. The claimant contends that in these respects the Center


mentally handicapped persons. The fact that the Center is open to handicapped children on a nondenominational basis is entirely consistent with the accomplishment of this stated purpose. Similarly, other corporate objectives listed in the Center's *735 articles of organization  promotion of the "spiritual, social and physical welfare of mentally retarded children"  do not detract from but are essential to the success of the order's mission.
To ensure that the Center is operated in accordance with church principles, the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi appoint members of the board of directors, send a representative to all board meetings, and approve the corporate by-laws. Classes in religious education are available at the Center and Saturday mass is held for the school's resident students. A three-member on-site evaluation teamclaimant contends the evidence does not support this determination. Contrary to the claimant's arguments, the fact that the Center is primarily financed by government funds is not decisive in determining the Center's eligibility for exemption. Principal support by a church is only one of four alternative statutory requirements. Similarly, the claimant's emphasis on the Center's separate incorporation does not negate the existence of church control. Ursuline Academy, Inc. v. Director of the Div. of Employment Sec., 383 Mass. 882 (1981).
The Center is subject to church control through the authority exercised by the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi and the Archbishop of Boston. According to the Center's by-laws, the corporate membership is limited to "canonically elected administrators of the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi." Members of the


corporation approve the appointment of directors, all amendments to the by-laws and articles of incorporation, and all major decisions affecting the purposes and operation of the Center. Appointment of the superintendent, the board's direct executive representative in the management of the school, is subject to the approval of the members. In addition, if the corporation is dissolved, an action requiring a two-thirds vote by the membership, the assets revert to the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi.
*737 As a religious institute in the Archdiocese of Boston, the Center is subject to supervision and direction by the Archbishop of Boston in accordance with the code of canon law. The fact that the Center is separately incorporated does not affect the responsibilities and rights granted to the Archbishop. As notedSaturday, March 13, 2010

Since Alice in Wonderland is in the news right now, I'm putting up 2 history posts in one day.

The Mad Hatter is well known in English literature. He was created by Lewis Carroll (real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) for the story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. An interesting side note is that the character was most likely based on a furniture dealer, and not a hatter.

The phrase "mad as a hatter" actually predated the story, and has an interesting neurological history.

Mercury is a metal with multiple human toxicities. It can affect many organ systems, and in sufficient amounts can cause brain damage. When this occurs common symptoms are memory loss, confusion, and behavioral changes.

Mercury poisoning is uncommon in modern medicine, but before it had been identified


of them… even ones they haven’t seen before…

The Heavyweights

Football (Soccer)

Football is the most popular sport in the world and a crowd-pleaser in Belize.

All villages have pitches and most towns have stadia—of sorts—where local and regional matches are played.

Football, as with all sports in Belize, is an amateur sport where the players’ reward is honor for their town and for themselves. However, some players in the national league do get a small compensation for participating. Most players with international skills sign with foreign clubs in the region or in the States.

What Belizean teams lack due to their small population and chronic funding shortages they make up for in enthusiasm and team spirit.

Check out the matches in your town during the season for a fun way to meet the localsthere were roads in Belize, the ancient Maya used its rivers and streams as highways.

Commerce, trade, communication, and exploration was all done on dugout canoes; from small, dory-like ones up to the huge, crew-driven, dugout pitpan type.

As crowded as in Pre-Columbian times…

Today, people still commonly use dories along with canoes and modern powered boats on Belize’s waterways…

No surprise, then, that the country is the proud host of the longest inland canoe race in Central America, the Ruta Maya. This four-day staged race attracts dozens of local and international teams, and features several categories if you want to join in (canoes have three paddlers).

Following this race has become a huge mobile party, with spectators traveling to the daily finish points to camp with the competitors and party all night


of the ball and score points.

That innocent-looking ball weighs more than a big cantaloupeand hits like a train…

Teams from Maya villages in the North of Belize have had spectacular success in recent years, winning international championships and beating their much more populated neighbors of Mexico and Guatemala.

The increased interest in the game locally is part of a rising interest among indigenous people, now wanting to learn more about their heritage and taking pride in the culture and traditions that were nearly lost in recent decades.

Horse Racing

A total riot… barefoot drunk jockeys, no helmets, no back guards, roaring spectators, festival atmosphere… while the Kentucky Derby or the Grand National it is not, Belize loves a little bit of horse racing.

With racetracks all around the country—in Burrel Boom, Crooked Tree,Santa Elena, Orange Walk, Corozal, and more—you should definitely go to a race meet at least once.

Easter and Christmas are usually the busiest times for horse racing but there are meets many times over the year.

Tailgate parties, barbecues, Belikin tents, and full-on party music and atmosphere… what racing in Belize lacks in aplomb or snootiness it makes up for in fun and antics.

My last race meet at Crooked Tree was hilarious: Jockeys falling off the backs of motionless horses due to too much Dutch courage, food stalls and vendors galore, a full street-party atmosphere, and a village policeman who got so toasted he had to be arrested by the local villagers to stop things getting out of hand.

Fishing

With big fishing competitions starting from San Pedro and Placencia every


Pemphigus foliaceus in a cat.
The author's cat started to develop the signs of pemphigus foliaceus one month after he returned home after six months absence. The initial signs included dry coughing and difficulty with purring and swallowing, followed by typical changes of the skin. The cat was treated by a combination of chrysotherapy and systemic glucocorticoid injections, and remained free of clinical signs for one and a half years. The cat then relapsed and showed the initial signs except that coughing was not observed. It was treated as before but after a second relapse and the same treatment it slowly developed a general weakness and was euthanased.WASHINGTON – While Democrats stepped up calls for impeachment, President Donald Trump directly acknowledged Sunday that he spoke with the president of Ukraine about an investigation into political opponent Joe Biden, but called the talk appropriate.

Speaking with reporters en route to a trip to Texas and Ohio, Trump said: "The conversation I had was largely congratulatory, was largely corruption – all of the corruption taking place – it was largely the fact that we don't want our people like Vice President Biden and his son" contributing to the corruption already in the Ukraine.

In statements and tweets in recent days, Trump has implied that Biden was a subject of the call with the Ukraine leader; Sunday was his first direct acknowledgement, as pointed out by a number of lawmakers.

"FYI


corruption, strengthen the rule of law, and foster an economic environment that promotes competition and investment."

On Saturday, Prystaiko told a Ukrainian news outlet that Trump did not pressure the country’s president. “I know what the conversation was about, and I think there was no pressure,” he told Hromadske.

The Ukraine dispute revolves in part around Biden's work for President Barack Obama.

Acting in his role as vice president, Biden urged Ukraine's then-government to fire its chief prosecutor, tying the decision to U.S. aid. Other world leaders endorsed the move, describing the prosecutor's office as hopelessly corrupt.

Trump, Giuliani, and other critics said the former prosecutor was investigating a company of which Hunter Biden was a board member.

Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., speaking on Fox News Sunday, said Biden's actions were known andsupported at the time, and there is no evidence of impropriety. Cardin said Trump's accusations against the Biden family are an attempt to distract voters from his own problems.

Biden has said he has never spoken with his son about the latter's business dealings in Ukraine.

Trump challenged that statement, telling reporters: "Give me a break."

House Democrats are already investigating Trump on claims he tried to obstruct justice during special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian attempts to influence the 2016 election.

Trump has denied collusion with Russians in 2016 or obstruction of justice in the years thereafter. He has described the various investigations as "witch hunts,' and said that now includes the whistleblower's claims about his Ukraine call.

"They keep wasting time in Congress over nothing," Trump said Sunday. "They are


studying nothing."

Trump spoke during travel to Texas and Ohio in the company of foreign leaders.

First came a visit to Houston for an event with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the city's pro football stadium.

Trump then traveled to Wapakoneta, Ohio, to visit a new Australian-owned manufacturing plant, along with that nation's prime minister, Scott Morrison.

Trump then heads to New York, where he will attend United Nations meetings over the next three days – including a meeting with Zelensky, the Ukraine president.

Contributing: Deirdre ShesgreenOn July 1, Jamie xx will release a video for "Gosh," from last year's excellent In Colour. His label, Young Turks, has shared a teaser trailer for the clip, which you can watch below. Directed by Romain Gavras (who did the clips for M.I.A.'s "Born Free" and "Bad Girls"), it features some youths dressed in white driving through a decrepit city.

Read our feature on Jamie xx.

Watch Jamie xx play Idris Muhammad's "Could Heaven Ever Be Like This" (sampled on "Loud Places") at Pitchfork Music Festival 2015:


bells about worldwide anti-Semitism should be sounding loud and clear.

It's time to put these events in some coherent perspective. Far from isolated examples of extremism, the rise
of anti-Semitism in Europe is part of the same problem as the nonstop incitement against Jews in the Arab
world. Just as Nazi propaganda led to the violence of the Holocaust, the current wave of anti-Jewish violence
is direct result of incitement that has spread from Arab countries to European capitals. The delegitimization
of Israel has spread from the back allies of Cairo to the boulevards of Paris and Brussels. And the result is a
rise in attacks on anything that bears the label "Jew."

There are those who prefer to believe that the calumnies against Jews and the State of Israel are merely the
byproduct of incorrectwe currently have a government that is, in
contrast to our "allies" in Europe, not interested in appeasing an ideology of hate. Perhaps that is because
this time, the enemy didn't wait to attack America until after the process of trying to eliminate the Jews had
begun. This time, Pearl Harbor preceded Kristallnacht.

The result is an America led by a a president who seems to be willing to take on not only the terrorists and
those who aid them, but also the ideology that props up their war against Israel and the United States.

That's why Bush's speech earlier this month directly challenging the Arab world to embrace democracy was
so important. The administration appears to understand, as should we, that the path to winning the war
against terror lies not in altering America's policies,