in the dugout. So it was very difficult, and I didn't know about it until November, just like you guys."

I happened to be one of those guys, and I knew about it long before November. I first heard players accuse the Astros of cheating in mid-2017. For the next year, I tried to find someone who would speak about it on the record. Nobody would. The code of silence in baseball buries countless secrets.

Then came the 2018 postseason. During the American League Division Series, a man named Kyle McLaughlin, whom Crane brought into the Astros organization, was caught pointing a cellphone toward the Cleveland Indians' dugout from an on-field camera well. He was removed from the area. The Indians warned the Astros' AL Championship Series opponent, the BostonRed Sox, about McLaughlin, and during Game 1 of the ALCS, he was again removed from a camera well next to the dugout.

I wrote a story about the McLaughlin incidents, and in it, I reported that the Oakland A's had accused the Astros of relaying pitch types to batters during an August series. Further, I reported, two major league players had said they witnessed the Astros hitting a trash can in the dugout as a way to alert hitters.

Again: This was in 2018, more than a year before Crane claims he learned of the issue. The day after the story was published, Crane told another reporter to leave McLaughlin's name out of his story. Clearly Crane knew that a story about McLaughlin had been written. Either he learned


been straightforward; the baby was healthy, and so was Anne. However, the baby was a girl, and not the predicted son and heir. So sure were Henry and Anne that the baby would be a prince that a celebratory tournament had been organised and a letter announcing the birth of a prince had been written. The joust was cancelled and the word “prince” had an “s” added in the birth announcement letter, but it is easy to read too much into the cancellation of the festivities. As Eric Ives points out, the celebratory jousts were cancelled in 1516 too, when Catherine of Aragon gave birth to Mary, and it was traditional for the celebrations of the birth of a princess to be low-key. Although the joust was cancelled,1540 book The Byrth of Mankynde, a translation of an earlier manual, recommended breastfeeding, but noblewomen ignored this advice and hired wet nurses because it was important for the new mothers to conceive again quickly. Wet nurses were chosen carefully because it was believed that the mother could pass on her characteristics via breast milk. In the early days, when feeding was frequent, babies would often live with the wet nurse to make things easier.

As a queen, Anne would have been expected to hand over Elizabeth to a wet nurse. The wet nurse would have been well vetted to make sure that she had the right temperament and plenty of milk for the royal princess. In her book on Elizabeth, historian Tracy Borman writes of how Anne wanted


the service to take place about a month after the birth, but records from a church in Lancashire show that women were churched anywhere from eight to forty-eight days after the baptism of the child.

Although churching is often seen as a purification ceremony, cleansing the woman after the unclean business of childbirth, it was more a celebration of her survival, a thanksgiving service, and a rite of passage marking her return to normal life after her confinement. It also marked the woman’s survival and her return to everyday life. It was celebrated with more drinking, feasting and gossiping, and the actual ritual involved the woman dressing in fresh, clean clothes, leaving her chamber and attending her local church. The priest would meet her at the church door, wherehe would sprinkle her with holy water. The woman would then enter the church, accompanied by two married female friends and wearing a white veil and carrying a candle. The priest would then recite psalms – such as Psalm 121, a psalm of thanksgiving for God’s protection – and talk about how the woman had been delivered from the dangers associated with childbirth. He would finish with the Lord’s Prayer and a prayer of thanks. As an offering, the woman would then give the church either the chrisom cloth which had been used for her baby’s christening, or a cash equivalent.

Anne and Elizabeth

Whatever the truth about Anne’s wish to suckle her own child, and go against the usual royal protocol and tradition, Anne was quite clearly pleased with


was able to spend with Elizabeth, but we know the following:

That Anne visited Elizabeth at Hatfield in Spring 1534 5

That Elizabeth was moved to Eltham, just 5 miles from Greenwich, at the end of March 1534 and that her parents visited her there a few weeks later 6

That she was at court with her parents for five weeks in the first quarter of 1535 7

That she was at court at Christmas 1535, and that she was still there at the end of January 1536 when news reached the court of Catherine of Aragon’s death. Henry paraded his daughter around in celebration. 8

That she was at court at the end of April 1536, shortly before Anne’s fall. Alexander Alesius described Anne holding Elizabeth in her arms while she appealedto her husband. 9 David Starkey discounts this report, saying that Elizabeth was most probably at Hunsdon at the time.

David Starkey discounts this report, saying that Elizabeth was most probably at Hunsdon at the time. That Anne kept in touch with Elizabeth’s nurse, Lady Bryan.

At the end of the day, Henry and his council had the last word regarding Elizabeth’s upbringing, but the stylish Anne Boleyn involved herself in buying items for her daughter’s chamber and for her clothing. The Account of materials furnished for the use of Anne Boleyn and Princess Elizabeth 1535-3610 by Anne’s mercer, William Loke, included the following items for Elizabeth:

White sarsenet to line an orange velvet gown

Black velvet for a partlet

Black satin for a partlet

Russet velvet

Black buckram

Crimson, purple, white, yellow sarsenet

Yellow velvet to


thirty-two year-old Matthew Parker. Parker recorded later that Anne had asked him to watch over her daughter, the two year-old Princess Elizabeth, if anything happened to her. In other words, Anne was entrusting him with her daughter’s spiritual care.13 Eric Ives writes that this was a request that Parker never forgot and something which stayed with him for ever.14 Parker obviously came to be important to Elizabeth, because in 1559 she made him her Archbishop of Canterbury. This was a post which, Parker admitted to Lord Burghley, he would not have accepted if he “had not been so much bound to the mother”.15

By getting Parker involved with Elizabeth’s upbringing and her future, Anne was putting her daughter into the hands of a man with important connections, connections witha set of men with humanist and Protestant ideals who would influence and help her daughter. This cohort included John Cheke, Roger Ascham, William Cecil, Anthony Cooke, William Grindal and John Dee. Three of these men – Grindal, Cheke and Ashcam – tutored Elizabeth, and Dee may even have spent time with the young Elizabeth. He certainly taught Edward VI and Robert Dudley. It is no coincidence that Elizabeth relied on these men when she became queen. Her mother had made sure that she was surrounded by men who could help her in the future.

Elizabeth’s Household of Boleyn Relatives

The young Elizabeth was also surrounded by Boleyn relatives:

Anne Boleyn’s uncle, Sir John Shelton, was comptroller of the joint household of Elizabeth and Mary, and was helped by his wife,


Coaxial cables are typically manufactured by forming, over a center wire, a molded dielectric, and forming a braided outer conductor over the dielectric. Alternatively it may be manufactured by inserting a center wire conductor within a hollow braided wire (or some other flexible metal tubing) with spacers. The dielectric spacers or shielding that run down the length of the cable prevents electrical contact of the center conductor to the outer conductor and holds a pre-defined distance between the center conductor and the outer conductor. The electrical terminals of the center conductor and the outer conductor are typically connected to a source generating microwave signals or power in order to transmit electrical signals or energy effectively through the cable.
In such cables the center conductor is usually a solid wire.food.

Chardonnay Grapes ripening on the vine

The 100% Chardonnay Blanc de Blancs complements Pongrácz’ range made in the traditional French method of allowing secondary fermentation to take place in the bottle.

The grapes were hand-selected from vineyards cooled by maritime breezes and selected for their overall quality and suitability.

Once the base wine was cold fermented and underwent malolactic fermentation, it was racked to clean stainless steel tanks and matured on the fine lees for four months. A small portion of the blend was barrel fermented to enhance the richness and flavour complexity of the final blend.

A slow secondary fermentation in the bottle delivers the delicate mousse, with fine bubbles that linger over a beautifully crisp acidity. During this 36 months maturation the dead yeast cells accumulates at the bottom of


the bottle and contribute to the distinctive brioche, creamy richness associated with an outstanding Méthode Cap Classique. The dead yeast cells (the lees) is then removed by the traditional methods of remuage and degorgement whereby the neck of the bottle is frozen in dry ice and the cells removed whilst still maintain the beautiful bubbles inside.

Desiderius Pongrácz, seldom seen without his dachshunds

Pongrácz is inspired by a nobleman and refugee from the Hungarian uprising, Desiderius Pongrácz, whose vision revitalised viticulture in the Cape. He quite literally wrote the book on viticulture and was the author of a number of books and produced numerous scientific publications.

He was a genius for seeing the new in the familiar, finding the unexpected in the traditional and his theories were fresh and provocative –not only on vines and wine, but also music, history and mankind. Pongrácz was witty and brilliant and his inspiration extended across classical music, anthropology and Dachshunds.

Today the range of Pongrácz Méthode Cap Classiques pays tribute to the innovation, sheer genius and life’s work of Desiderius Pongrácz.

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As a young aspiring chef, Michael laid a solid foundation for his career at the Cordon Bleu Cooking School in London. Over the next 30 years he had a series of high profile hospitality management posts, was the Public Relations Manager for Boschendal and ran three successful restaurants in the Cape, one of which, Parks, featured in the national top 10 restaurants.

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binding force," and said that "under no circumstances" would its territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests in the South China Sea be affected by the ruling.

China rejects Hague tribunal judgement: Xinhua

Taiwan, like China, denounced the ruling, which classified its own Taiping Island as a "rock," also without any rights to an exclusive economic zone.

Taiwan's Presidential Office said in a statement that, because Taipei received no invitation to take part in the hearing and was not consulted during the arbitration process, it found the ruling "unacceptable," and "not legally binding on Taiwan."

Also a claimant in the South China Sea disputes, Taiwan administers Taiping Island -- also known as Itu Aba -- and Ban Than Reef in the Spratly chain, as well as the Dongsha Island atoll, also knownto maintain peace, security and stability through the exercise of self-restraint in the conduct of activities that may further complicate disputes or escalate tension and avoid the threat or use of force in the South China Sea," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Indonesia, which is not involved in any land disputes in the South China Sea, but is at odds with some of China's claims of maritime rights and interests in the region, called for restraint by all parties in the wake of the ruling.

A statement from its Foreign Ministry stated that claimants should "not do anything that can increase tension" and should refrain from any "military activities that can threaten peace and stability" in the region.

"All parties in the South China Sea must act in


accordance with the principles that have been agreed upon together," it read.

Singapore, also not a claimant but a key power in the region, issued a statement via its Foreign Ministry in which it said it would not take sides in the case, and urged all parties to respect "legal and diplomatic processes."

Away from the immediate vicinity of the South China Sea, Japan and the United States also gave their reactions to the news, with the U.S. stating that it "expresses its hope and expectation that both parties will comply with their obligations (under the ruling)."

Japan's Foreign Minister echoed the sentiment, saying that "as the tribunal's award is final and legally binding...the parties to this case are required to comply."

==Kyodoa record-setting $25 billion from its New York IPO, is due to release its quarterly results on Thursday.

"Alibaba Group has long paid insufficient attention to the illegal business activities on Alibaba platforms," the SAIC report said. Alibaba "let that abscess fester until it became a danger", it added.

The report said Alibaba officials, for their part, pledged during the July meeting to take the necessary steps to rectify the problems. The SAIC has a broad supervisory role over online trading platforms and business in China.

Alibaba, which until a few years ago was on a U.S. list of "notorious markets" for intellectual property infringement, has fought hard to tackle counterfeit products to keep its reputation from being tarnished in the run-up to, and after, the IPO, the world's biggest ever


listing.

Earlier this month, it agreed with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to stop the sale of up to 15 illegal or dangerous toys in the United States. Online fakes, however, remain a big problem in China.

Joe Simone, director of Hong-Kong based intellectual property consultancy SIPS, said the regulator's comments about counterfeit goods were no surprise. "The frankness of the report and its condemning tone are unprecedented and speak volumes about what the SAIC found in its inspection," he added.

In the report, the regulator said Alibaba had misled consumers during sales events, including its popular Nov. 11 annual "Singles Day" shopping extravaganza.

At last year's event, Alibaba reported a surge in sales transactions to a record high of $9 billion, but merchants told Reuters in they felt pressure fromThere are about 1.8 lakh households across India still engaged in manual scavenging, according to the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011. Maharashtra has the highest number of manual scavengers at 63713.

The census defines manual scavenger as someone who cleans a dry latrine or carries human waste to dispose it off. This definition, like much of the discourse on manual scavenging in India, is centred upon dry latrine cleaning (Government of India 2014).

Even the Safai Karmachari Andolan (SKA), one of the largest organisations campaigning against manual scavenging in India, gives primacy to dry latrine prohibition followed by septic tank cleaning. Though the SKA has made important interventions and argued for a broader definition of manual scavenging in the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act


workers just hold a lighted matchstick at the mouth of the sewer to confirm the presence of combustible gases.

Toilet Cleaners

Toilet cleaners were the next category of workers amongst whom the survey found the highest incidence of manual scavenging. Apart from the 436 toilet cleaners working with the PMC on both permanent and contractual basis, 69 workers from Sulabh Shauchalayas across Pune and 95 workers from Sassoon General Hospital and College of Nursing, Pune were also interviewed. The workers from medical facilities were included because dealing with biomedical waste can be relatively more dangerous and required specialised training, procedure and equipment.

The survey asked similar questions to toilet cleaners and inspected their conditions of work. It was found that most of the toilet cleaners working with the PMC come incontact with manual waste. In a few cases they used specialised equipment provided to them by the municipal corporation.

Figure 1: Category-wise distribution of sewage workers in PMC.

Role of Caste

The toilet cleaners suffer humiliation not just at their place of work but also where they stayed. Rajesh Santu, 36-year-old man from the Valmiki caste lived in the Pashan Kothi area of Pune. He had been working as a toiler cleaner for the last 10 years and has been made the caretaker for the Sulabh Shouchalaya in his area. This meant that he had also received a house above the toilet complex.

He receives no salary or equipment for cleaning and is supposed to collect money from the residents of the slum. The slum dwellers think they are under no obligation


to pay Rajesh as he has been given a free house above the toilet. At times brawls among drunk men spill onto his house as they fail to make a distinction between the toilet and Rajesh’s house in an inebriated state. He himself is an alcoholic and blames the work for his addiction. The family is treated as untouchables, have no social life in the slum and verbal abuses are a regular affair.

People from the slum often defecate in front of his house. He thinks that could be because the people are trying to teach him a lesson but it’s also true that the slum is over populated. Most of the times water supply is erratic—the stench in the toilet as well as his house above it isunbearable. The only thing that motivates him to work every day he says is the future of his daughters.

Figure 2: Caste-wise distribution of sewage workers in PMC.

Involvement of Family

Most of the toilet cleaners and sewage workers employed with the municipal corporation were from the scheduled castes, predominantly Valmikis, Mehtars and Bhangis. This also led the government to employ people only from these castes for manual scavenging. The ones who had received jobs under the “open” (general) category were largely from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

Most of workers who were surveyed said that there were from a family that was traditionally involved in manual scavenging. This is almost institutonalised as a system called varsa hakka or hereditary right system which the class IV workers can avail. Under this system an


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In recognition of the 100anniversary of Bowling Green State University Football, the BGSU Department of Athletics will induct ten football players into the Cast of Honor, recognizing the "Best of the Best" by hanging their names and numbers in Doyt L. Perry Stadium.The criteria for selecting members to the Cast of Honor is extensive. The nominee must have received his or her undergraduate degree from BGSU or, in the event of early pursuit of a professional career, must have been a student in good academic standing and made significant progress towards a degree. The candidate must have been at least 10 years removed from graduation and be a member of the BGSU Athletics Hall of Fame, and must have exceptional athletic qualifications such as national awardrecognition, All-American status, and/or conference player of the year status. Finally, personal conduct, character, integrity, and community and University standing were considered.Today we look at Bernie Casey, '61 '66, who lettered at Bowling Green from 1958-60.One of BGSU's most accomplished and admirable alums, Bernie Casey was a College Division All-American selection in 1959. He was first team All-MAC and second team All-Ohio that same season after being the leading receiver for the 1959 National College Division Champions with an unblemished 9-0 record. Casey followed that up by being a 1960 College All-Star and team captain for a squad that went 8-1. He played in the 1960 East-West Shrine Classic and was selected ninth overall by the San Francisco 49ers in the 1961 NFL Draft, the highest selection ever


by a BGSU football player. Casey went on to play in the Pro Bowl and earn All-Pro status. He was inducted into the BGSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1966 and then again in 2013 when the 1959 national championship team was inducted.During pro football's offseason, he returned to campus to pursue a master's degree in fine arts to complement his bachelor's degree. He held 40 art exhibitions around the world to showcase his paintings, and exhibited work in many galleries including the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., and the John Bolles Gallery in San Francisco. His poetry and other writings were published by Doubleday & Co.Casey's acting debut came in the film "Guns of the Magnificent Seven," and he had roles in more than 55 films. Hestarred on television in "Bay City Blues" and "Harris & Company," and during his acting career he worked with Burt Reynolds, Eddie Murphy and John Travolta.Casey passed away in 2017."I was blessed by the grace of God to be a good athlete and to play (football) well," Casey said in 2003 in an interview with Todd Walker, the Voice of the Falcons. "I could not have gone to college without playing football and getting a scholarship. I could not have gone to graduate school without the money I garnered playing professionally. I had other goals and other pursuits and was able to bring them to fruition and have a varied and interesting life way beyond football."


U.N. bodies voted to adopt decisions which Israel said discriminated against it.

Palestinian Foreign Minister, Reyad Al-Maliki, said the UNESCO vote, at a meeting in Krakow, Poland, was proof of the "successful diplomatic battle Palestine has launched on all fronts in the face of Israeli and American pressure on (UNESCO) member countries."

Hebron is the largest Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank with a population of some 200,000. About 1,000 Israeli settlers live in the heart of the city and for years it has been a place of religious friction between Muslims and Jews.

Jews believe that the Cave of the Patriarchs is where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their wives, are buried. Muslims, who, like Christians, also revere Abraham, built the Ibrahimi mosque, also known as the Sanctuary ofAbraham, in the 14th century.

The religious significance of the city has made it a focal point for settlers, who are determined to expand the Jewish presence there. Living in the heart of the city, they require intense security, with some 800 Israeli troops protecting them.

Even before Netanyahu's budget announcement, Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan signaled Israel would seek to further make its mark at the Hebron shrine, tweeting: "UNESCO will continue to adopt delusional decisions but history cannot be erased ... we must continue to manifest our right by building immediately in the Cave of the Patriarchs."

(Additional reporting by Ali Sawafta in Ramallah and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)


infectious. Most of the infectious waste was treated in over 2400 incinerators throughout the country, until 1998 when the EPA began to enforce tough environmental emission laws that have reduced the number of incinerators to just over a hundred nationwide. Now much of the infectious waste is treated by alternative technologies such as autoclaves and chemical processors. There is very little choice for hospitals because of the upfront cost and large footprint of the processing equipment. Although many companies have offered different kinds of equipment, the prices vary from a few hundred thousand dollars for smaller units to a few million for large units. Because of the long cycling times to decontaminate the waste, the equipment typically is very large in order to provide acceptable throughput. There areCompany, at its South Carolina plant had been manufacturing cajun spices for one of Mr. Autin's corporations, Autin's Smoke Factory, Inc.[1] Ray Gibson, a Kroger employee of its manufacturing division, suggested to Autin's that Autin's develop a cajun mayonnaise and other mayonnaise based products to be manufactured by Kroger to Autin's specifications. Autin's submitted its recipe for the cajun mayonnaise to the research and development (or technical) department of Kroger manufacturing division. From this recipe Kroger was to develop a formula for the commercial production of the mayonnaise and a tartar sauce. It is uncontradicted that Autin's would not be charged for the refinement and development of the formula. Once the formula was finalized and perfected Autin's would purchase orders of the products from the plant for sale


in supermarkets, gourmet shops, etc., nationally and in Canada and Great Britain. Autin's also hoped to sell the products to the Kroger supermarket chain. Sample batches of the mayonnaise products were produced by Kroger for Autin's. Autin's understood the shelf life of the mayonnaise products to be 12 months. The first production run of the cajun mayonnaise occurred in August, 1988. Autin's ordered approximately 14,700 cases of the products. *540 Cases of the mayonnaise products were shipped to designated warehouses from the Kroger plant pursuant to Autin's instructions. Shortly thereafter, problems with the products began to appear. The product began to de-stabilize or separate, discolor and eventually become rancid. The mayonnaise products had to be recalled, the orders canceled and the product destroyed. Kroger requested that Autin's sharenot. Instead of viewing GDPR as cumbersome government legislation, why not think about the upsides of complying with it? What about viewing GDPR as a way of potentially differentiating a company from its competition? For instance, consider how Apple has effectively branded privacy as a feature?

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director of a philanthropy that gave tens of millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood and financed its advocacy of “unrestricted access to abortion” around the world. The charity also approved money to global abortion providers while he sat on its board.

In 2010, Jeb was named one of the founding directors of the Bloomberg Family Foundation, established as a tax-exempt foundation to advance the vision of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He resigned from the board at the end of 2014 to prepare his presidential campaign.

While a Bush spokesman has responded to concerns by saying that Bush would not have voted on every initiative of the foundation, a pro-life leader told LifeSiteNews it “stretches credibility” that Bush was unaware of the foundation’s pro-abortion work, given the centralityfocus on past events at Guantanamo, which he has promised to close.

The other Americans named in the accusation are William Haynes II, former general counsel for the Department of Defense; John Yoo, the former Justice Department lawyer who wrote secret legal opinions saying President George W. Bush had the authority to circumvent the Geneva Conventions; Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defence for policy; Jay Bybee, Yoo's former boss at the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel; and David Addington, chief of staff and legal adviser to ex-Vice President Dick Cheney.


up reasons to force me to have to come to his office, offered me rides home every day and (when I refused) followed me home in his car, driving slowly next to me while I walked, begging me to get in the whole time, and then parked across the street from my house for hours at a time, etc. was VERY friendly and gregarious in the office. He was a churchgoer with many framed Bible quotes in his office, he wore sweater-vests, he talked like Ned Flanders from the Simpsons. He often bought lunch for the whole office and brought baked goods from home. Nobody believed me about his weird behavior, they believed him when he said he was just concerned about my safety walking alone (in broadbat, where it is meant to hit the ball. The part of the barrel best for hitting the ball, according to construction and swinging style, is often called the "sweet spot". The end of the barrel is called the "top", "end" or "cap" of the bat. Opposite the cap, the barrel narrows until it meets the "handle". The handle is comparatively thin, so that batters can comfortably grip the bat in their hands. Sometimes, especially on metal bats, the handle is wrapped with a rubber or tape "grip". Finally, below the handle is the "knob" of the bat, a wider piece that keeps the bat from slipping from a batter's hands.

Once in a while, veteran managers revive it. The Giants took infield occasionally in 2008 and 2013 under


Bruce Bochy, and Jim Leyland instituted infield drills before batting practice late in his tenure in Detroit. Molitor, for one, misses it. He took infield even as a designated hitter late in his career because he hated sitting around for almost two hours waiting to play.

Next, third base fungo hits to left, who throw to second, SS cuts (make a few of these the "cut off a double on a ball hit into the corner" variety - timing becomes important here, as the other fungo needs to hit many fewer balls than the fungo hitting to left). First base fungo hits to right, who come home, first baseman is cutoff, 60' from home (about pitchers mound - this postitioning puts him out of harms way should the SSuntil it meets the "handle". The handle is comparatively thin, so that batters can comfortably grip the bat in their hands. Sometimes, especially on metal bats, the handle is wrapped with a rubber or tape "grip". Finally, below the handle is the "knob" of the bat, a wider piece that keeps the bat from slipping from a batter's hands.

In 1990, Bruce Leinert came up with the idea of putting an axe handle on a baseball bat. He filed a patent application for the 'Axe Bat' in 2007 and the bat started being used in the college and pro ranks over the following years. In 2012, the Marietta College Pioneers baseball team won the NCAA Division III World Series using axe handled bats.[2] Several Major League Baseball players have


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Two siblings, aged seven and four, died after a wall of an under-construction house collapsed in the Mundian area of Jamalpur in Ludhiana on Saturday.

The children had taken shelter there to take a cover from rain and dust-storm that hit the city in the evening.

The deceased were identified as Nitish Kumar and his younger sister Syali.

Their father Suresh Kumar runs a tea stall nearby. The family lives in the shop. The locals rushed to the spot and started the rescue operation.

The children, who were injured, were rushed to the hospital where doctors declared them dead on arrival.

After getting information, police reached the spot and started investigation. The bodies were sent to the civil hospital for postmortem.

Suresh Kumar said construction was underway on theHyundai Focusing on Fuel Efficiency in 2019 and Beyond

Hyundai is popular for its innovative technologies and inventions in the automobile industry. Over the years, the manufacturer has been struggling to achieve high fuel efficiency. Although the manufacturer's newest models feature a significant remodeling in its interior and exterior features, the focus has recently shifted to each model's fuel efficiency. In fact, the 2019 models are among the models that are likely to feature the most improvements in terms of the fuel efficiency that they will achieve. This approach is also likely to continue in all its future models.

Currently, the manufacturer has the bragging rights for having the most fuel-efficient car in the market. From the latest ratings by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the company has achieved the


in the manufacturer's latest brands. For instance, the new 2019 Ioniq Hybrid Blue is still the most fuel-efficient vehicle in the market today that does not feature a plugin despite having a 58 mpg combined EPA ratings. For any person looking for a vehicle that does not consume a lot of fuel, the new Ioniq Hybrid Blue should be a top option. This is because the manufacturer has ensured that one will find a plug-in and a full-electric model in the market. The manufacturer also offers the new 2019 Ioniq in three distinct fuel economy flavors: green, greener, and greenest.

The 2019 Blue achieved high ratings on fuel economy where it recorded a 9 out of 10 among the top hybrid vehicles. The manufacturer's hybrid of the model isEditorial: Struggling little Pasco school deserves a chance

Trying to maintain a struggling neighborhood school in an impoverished area is preferable to shutting it down or turning over management to a private vendor. That is particularly true in Lacoochee, a hamlet of 1,700 people in northeastern Pasco County, where the elementary school doubles as the central fabric of an economically disadvantaged community.

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Preserving the public school there is driving Pasco school superintendent Kurt Browning's decision to hire new faculty and administration at Lacoochee Elementary. It is the least intrusive alternative allowed under law when the state Department of Education says academic achievement at the D-rated school is not improving rapidly enough. But it understandably feels premature to teachers on the ground. A quarter of the faculty just started at


the school this year, and the decision to churn the staff came before students had completed the FCATs on which teachers will be judged. It also is indicative of the rigidity of a state scoring system that drops a school one full letter grade if the bottom 25 percent of the test-takers fail to improve their math and reading performances sufficiently — regardless of the challenges students face in and out of school.

A high turnover rate — 14 teachers and support staffers left in 2011-12 — is one of the contributing factors cited by district officials for the school's lagging academic performance. To improve stability, the district will offer teachers a back-end-loaded $15,000 three-year incentive. It likely will need tweaking, considering the first-year stipend of $2,500 could beconsumed by high commuting costs to Lacoochee from other points in Pasco and the region. Browning already assigned a principal coach to the school, and the district will add literacy, math and science coaches.

The increased attention is welcome in the school serving an area where half the adults lack a high school education and where the median income is 55 percent lower than the Pasco County average.

Lacoochee, once a thriving community on a major railroad line, has never recovered after the Cummer Cypress Co. sawmill closed in 1959. Its poverty and criminal activity gained notoriety and the attention of elected officials after the shooting death of a popular sheriff's lieutenant there 10 years ago. The public school is one of the keys to an ambitious long-term redevelopment plan


for the area that includes private-sector investment and state and federal money to build a $2 million community center adjacent to the county park across the street from the school.

Taking the public school from this depressed area would be an inappropriate surrender. Reinforcing the learning environment at Lacoochee Elementary will be a long-term benefit to the community and the entire county.The Mystery of Peru Nazca Lines Drawing

500 KM of Geoglyphs

Not far from the city of Nazca, in the desert pampas of Peru, are found gigantic lines drawing carved in the rocks. Only visible from the sky and dating back to Antiquity, the Nazca Geoglyphs (or Nazca Lines) stretch for nearly 500 kilometers and are with Machu Picchu and the legend of El Dorado one of South America's greatest attractions for mysteries and esotericism enthusiast. Attributed to an indigenous people prior to the Incas, the Nazca lines drawing would have been dug between the fifth century BC and the fifth century AD ; a spectacular construction lasting a millennium before ending towards the end of Antiquity.

It was only in 1927, however, that pilots furrowing the regions located between the


The emotions and the tensions that swirl around inside Novak Djokovic often appear to be on the brink of rising to the surface and they broke out twice at the O2 Arena in London as the Serb fought back to beat Dominic Thiem 6-7, 6-0, 6-2 in the opening match of his defence of his title at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.

For much of the last five months Djokovic has seen some of his most treasured tennis possessions slip from his grasp, from his Wimbledon and US Open titles to the world No 1 ranking, and his frustrations were evident at the end of a first set in which he had made too many unforced errors and had not struck the ball with his usual consistency.

Djokovic’s emotionsboiled over when he smashed a ball in anger in the general direction of his entourage. His actions earned a warning for unsportsmanlike conduct and could have had a much more serious consequence if the ball had hit anybody, but at least they seemed to focus his mind on the task in hand.

The former world No 1 was then in a tetchy mood when asked about the incident at his post-match press conference, saying it was “unbelievable” that reporters were “always picking these kind of things”.

When it was pointed out to him that he had been fortunate at the French Open earlier this year not to hit a line judge after throwing his racket in anger, Djokovic asked if he was the only player who ever showed his


the fifth year in a row, was immediately more focused from the start of the second set as Thiem faded fast on his maiden appearance in this tournament.

Djokovic fought back to win in three sets (Getty)

The 23-year-old Austrian’s performance was a reflection of his year. Only Djokovic and Andy Murray have won more matches in the course of the season than the youngest player in the London field, but competing in more tournaments (27) than any other player has appeared to take its toll of late. Thiem won the last of his four 2016 titles in June.

Djokovic’s year has followed a similar pattern, but the Serb has more to play for this week. If he wins every match to claim the title for a sixth time, which wouldequal Roger Federer’s record, Djokovic would take the world No 1 ranking back from Murray, who plays his opening match on Monday evening against Marin Cilic.

Djokvic and Thiem shake hands after the Serbian clinched victory (Getty)

The first set was tight, with only one break point apiece, but with Thiem finding a good rhythm on his potent single-handed backhand it was the Austrian who dominated the tie-break, even if he took his time clinching it. Serving at 6-3, Thiem hit two successive double faults. Four more set points came and went before he took the tie-break 12-10 with a big forehand winner.

However, no sooner had the door opened for Thiem, who had not won a set in his previous three meetings with Djokovic, than it was promptly shut in


Abramorama will commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ 1968 classic animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, with a theatrical release in July. Helpfully, the film will have the bouncing ball-style lyrics at the bottom of the screen for the first time, allowing audiences to sing along. Is it too much to imagine that most people would remember the lyrics to such Beatles classics featured in the movie from the title song to Eleanor Rigby, When I’m Sixty-Four, Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, and All You Need Is Love?

The hope is to make the tunes more accessible to a younger generation to discover the songs by Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Pic was directed by George Dunning, and written by Lee Minoff, Al Brodax,Jack Mendelsohn and Erich Segal. Yellow Submarine began its voyage to the screen when Brodax, who had previously produced nearly 40 episodes of ABC’s animated Beatles TV series, approached The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein with a unique vision for a full-length animated feature. Abramorama was retained by Apple Corps Ltd. and UMG to release the film after Abramorama released the terrific Grammy-winning Ron Howard-directed documentary The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years. The distributor has also released music projects involving Neil Young, Pearl Jam and Green Day.

Despite its colorful psychedelic ’60s backdrop, Yellow Submarine holds up well as a film. Robert Zemeckis attempted to remake the film as a 3D CGI effort while he was infatuated with animated, but eventually abandoned the idea, deciding some


From the eyes of the American the veil will be torn aside when it is too late, perhaps, and the object of his earthly pursuit will be made the instrument of his punishment, as he sees himself compelled to quit it all for the dark uncertainty of the grave; while the blusterer and the bottle-companion sinks into a forced and appalled repentance, as the animal that has hitherto upheld him loses its ascendency. "The impact of males in a community reaches beyond the roles of father and provider. – Cleopatra Caldwell

Youth violence shoots up when males are missing from the neighborhood, concluded researchers at the University of Michigan in a new study released last week.

The study centered on Flint, Mich., the former auto manufacturing center that is now one of the most impoverished and violent cities in the country. Researchers broke the city down by zip codes, comparing the number of males in the area to the number of assaults committed by young men.

The results were striking. Researchers found an enormous chunk of the difference between a neighborhood with lots of youth assaults and one with relatively fewer could be explained by “male scarcity.” While a difference of 3 to 5


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Current Motor Hires Mich. Fleet Manager for EV Cycle Sales

An eastern Michigan county fleet manager has left his position to join Current Motor Co., a nearby startup that produces electric motorcycles.

Bob Mossing, fleet manager for Washtenaw County and business manager for the sheriff's office, will resign Friday. He starts work as vice president of fleet sales with the Ann Arbor-based company on March 3.

Mossing has been in fleet management for 13 years — six years in corporate and seven in government. At Washtenaw County, Mossing saved $500,000 per year in employee and facility costs by eliminating maintenance operations and implementing a fleet management program similar to those used by corporate fleets.

He also recently put a Chevrolet Volt into the county police fleet to test the feasibility of


Jewish donors are trying to buy the midterm elections this November, just four days before a gunman opened fire at a Pittsburgh synagogue, leaving 11 people dead and six others injured. The suspect allegedly made anti-semitic remarks to police after his arrest.

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In a tweet posted last Tuesday, McCarthy wrote, "We cannot allow Soros, Steyer, and Bloomberg to BUY this election. Get out and vote Republican November 6th! #MAGA." The tweet accompanied a video of McCarthy making the same remarks.

McCarthy's tweet, which has since been deleted, referred to George Soros, Tom Steyer and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg — three billionaires who donate heavily to liberal causes and have Jewish family backgrounds. Soros is a Hungarian American Holocaust survivor; Steyer has a Jewish father; and Bloomberg is Jewishand was named the first recipient of the Genesis Prize, dubbed as "the Jewish Nobel Prize." The tweet was pinned to the top of McCarthy's Twitter profile until it was deleted on Wednesday. Soros and Steyer were among high-profile Democrats and critics of President Donald Trump who received packages containing explosive devices last week.

Several critics and political observers have expressed concern that McCarthy and his wife's comments are dog whistles for people like Cesar Sayoc, the Florida man who arrested in connection with the suspected bombings, and Robert Bowers, the suspect in the Pittsburgh shooting. Others have pointed out that McCarthy's tweet didn't mention top Democrat donor Fred Eychaner, who gave $68 million to Democrats this election cycle, because he's a Methodist.

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political violence," Steyer said. He also accused the Republican Party of creating a politically violent environment and blamed Trump of "routine, systematic, lawlessness." While Steyer said he did not blame Trump for the shooting, he said, "I'm absolutely associating and blaming him for creating the atmosphere that exists."

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Trump responded on Twitter, writing that he watched "Wacky Tom Steyer," who he said, "comes off as a crazed & stumbling lunatic who should be running out of money pretty soon."

On Monday, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway suggested Saturday's synagogue shooting was part of "the anti-religiosity in this country," which she said is demonstrated by late-night comedians who crack jokes about Christians. During an appearance on Fox & Friends, Conway said that the president "denounced anti-Semitism," before citing the racist massacrein a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, that left nine worshippers dead in 2015.

"These people were gunned down in their place of worship," she said of both the Charleston victims and those of Saturday's shooting. She concluded that the shootings are a sign that "this is no time to be driving God out of the public square." Conway conveniently forgot that Dylann Roof, the convicted Charleston church shooter, is a white supremacist who was motivated by racial hatred. Similar to the Pittsburgh shooter, Roof publicly broadcasted his racist beliefs and motivations for his attack. Sayoc, the suspected bomber, was also radicalized. Even Jeff Sessions, Trump's Attorney General, confirmed the suspected bomber is a "partisan" at a press conference Friday afternoon.

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"We will not tolerate such lawlessness, especially


to attend meetings or watch film, and declining to accept rehab help with the ankle and encouragement to stay active in the weight room.

"He's just sort of checked out,'' one person close to the situation tells me.

Irving is in the NFL's substance abuse program; sources tell me that during Cowboys training camp last summer he skipped at least one mandatory test ("failure to comply,'' the NFL calls it) and once the 2018 season began, he was hit with a four-game suspension. That marked the second consecutive season Irving was on the suspended list to start the year.

Earlier this year, Irving indicated that he was finding peace in all of this, saying, "I’ve been through a lot, (but) I’ve seen the light at the end of the tunnel.''

The realityRose to enter a suicide pact with him and kill herself first. Pinkie also tries to destroy the voice recording he made to avoid its becoming evidence after Rose's death, but only succeeds in scratching it. Dallow objects, saying Rose's death is unnecessary because Ida is about to leave Brighton, having been unable to find any convincing evidence against Pinkie. Colleoni has also paid off Pinkie and Dallow to leave town, and they go for a final drink with Rose before departing.

When Ida enters the bar, the paranoid Pinkie decides to carry out his plan for Rose's death, and takes her for a walk on the pier. Pinkie convinces Rose he will soon be hanged and the two of them should commit suicide in order to always


Since Sesame Street launched in 1969, it’s been steadily expanding its educational agenda. The earliest episodes were simple, with a focus on helping young viewers get an early start on learning letters, numbers, shapes, and basic vocabulary words. Over the past four decades plus, the team behind the show has progressively gotten more ambitious about addressing social issues as well, preparing kids to interact with one another on the playground and in school. Sesame Street’s latest initiative in that direction is a puppet character with autism: Julia, a 4-year-old girl first introduced in a Sesame Street picturebook, and now joining the cast of the show. Her inclusion on the television series is part of a program called See Amazing In All Children, which is aimed at helping parentskids might approach play or socialization.

Sesame Street doesn’t often introduce new characters — or eliminate old ones, though a few of them have drifted onto and off of the show, and the show made headlines in 2016 by letting go of three of its veteran human performers. Back in 2013, the show addressed the impact of incarceration on kids by introducing a new character whose father was in jail, and building skits around his feelings. In other countries where the show airs, the show has included characters relevant to local issues. Afghanistan got Zari, an ambitious young girl Muppet, to counteract prejudice against women getting educations. South Africa has Kami, an HIV-positive character. The Palestinian version of the show, now independently produced, has its own cast of characters


Last few months I have spent in Boston and recently had an opportunity to come to awesome Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara is a motherland not only of the longest (or one of the longest) an American television soap opera, which was very well known in Russia in 90s, but also University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB).Tap here to view theScore's NHL Offseason tracker, which includes the latest transactions and rumors.

Could the Toronto Maple Leafs unload Tyler Bozak in the desert?

TSN's Darren Dreger is reporting that the Arizona Coyotes have interest in Bozak, who is among the handful of players Brendan Shanahan and his three-pronged management team are actively shopping.

The middle-six center, whose game isn't completely unlike the Coyotes' recently offloaded Sam Gagner, is coming off a woeful sixth season with the Maple Leafs.

Bozak will cost $4.2 million against the cap for the next three seasons, and is owed $13.5 million in real money.


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The small Japanese contingent played a humanitarian support role in the drill after US and Filipino marines made an amphibious landing to retake Philippine territory from a “terrorist” group.

Fifty unarmed Japanese soldiers in camouflage marched behind their four armored vehicles and picked up Filipino and American troops playing the role of wounded combatants while moving inland over sand and sparse bushland.

The exercise, codenamed “Kamandag” (Venom), marked the first time Japanese armored military vehicles were used on foreign soil since the country adopted a pacifist constitution after its 1945 defeat, said Japan’s


News: 1st Cavalry celebrates Black History Month

Soldiers watch a slide show of significant events from Black history which date back to the 1500's, at the 1st Cavalry Division African American History Celebration hosted by the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, Feb. 26, at the Community Events Center, Fort Hood, Texas.

FORT HOOD, Texas – As a photo of President Barack Obama beamed across the screen at the Community Event Center, an overwhelming sense of pride was evident on the faces of those gathered as they celebrated Black History Month, Feb. 26.

The 1st Cavalry Division's Black History Celebration, presented by the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, was dedicated to the strides made by black Americans during the course of their history in the United States.

During the welcoming remarks, Staff Sgt. Sherlie Erilus,from Dorchester, Mass., Rear Detachment for 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cav. Div., said she hoped those in attendance would find the program educational and entertaining.

"This is a celebration of African-Americans throughout the country who have paved the way for all of us," Erilus said. "Their significant sacrifices and struggles to fight for freedoms and rights have made our lives greater."

Staff Sgt. Willette Blackman, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cav. Div., performed the national anthem and Staff Sgt. Catrina Dorsey, Headquarters Support Company, 615th Aviation Support Battalion followed her rendition of "Lift Every Voice and Sing."

Sonia Simmons of Johnson's School of Performing Arts, based in Killeen, Texas, read a poem titled "Killeen: The City Outside Fort Hood," first performed in 2007 during Killeen's


126th anniversary proceedings.

"Killeen was a city with a reputation and not a city to dwell for people of color," said Simmons. "When the Army came, they helped open a door that had been closed for so long and helped create services and provide education for everyone."

Simmons said schools in Killeen eventually became integrated and black communities expanded, with black children able to receive proper education and be allowed to thrive.

"Nothing is ever perfect, but we now have dignity and respect and we let our truths speak for themselves," Simmons said.

Col. Theresa Gonzalez, from Charleston, S.C., the commander of the 502nd Dental Company Area Support, gave the keynote speech.

"You may be wondering why a Southern, Jewish woman, who grew up in the segregated South is today's guest speaker," Gonzalezjoked. "I was reared by an African-American female and subsequently married a Hispanic catholic man, so I think that's a good background."

Gonzalez explained the importance of Black History Month and how racism played such an important part in the nation's history and should never be forgotten.

"We must continue to this day to challenge racism and welcome each other as people," Gonzalez said. "African-American history is America's opportunity and this Army's to say that racism has no place in our society."

Sgt. 1st Class Edmond Vallarde, from the Virgin Islands, an aviation maintenance platoon sergeant for Company D, 3rd Assault Helicopter Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st ACB, 1st Cav. Div., said the program meant a lot to him, especially coming from the Virgin Islands at the age of 15 to


rain abates as a strong northern wind brings rumors of cold from the north. Flash lights and the sounds of running footsteps nearby give notice prior to the arrival of several people close by. "Hey! They need help. Get over here!" is the first unfamiliar voice heard, but a call that is soon echoed in the night.

Ashlynn clearly shaken by the events offers profuse apology and wrestles with the near reality of disaster.

Ronith, seeing the situation is in hand, finds the thugs still on the adjacent rooftop. Cold martial skill... subdues them. Making his way back to the Haven dragging the two of them carelessly behind him. The community around them seems to have spring into action. About two dozen strangers have show up to help. A benefit""Let this be a lesson about the importance of care when handling explosives.""

Rae seems shaken when he first finds her. She is sitting, looking at her feet. At first she doesn't seem to hear but then as if suddenly coming back from a great distance she notices Sir Ronith is speaking to her. Jumping to her feet she listens to him. "You put yourself at risk, not for glory but to help another who was injured. This, more than any other, is the most important quality in a Knight. I am proud of you; well done." he says, walking away. He sees her face already going red by the time he turns away, a smile playing along her lips. She bows formally to him as he leaves.

Beltin whisks


cleared away however as they soon realize that a large number of other people are helping at the scene.

Sir Ronith wrote:"Let this be a lesson about the importance of care when handling explosives."

Ashlynn bows her head, thankful for the mercy, and embarrassed at her own impetuousness. "Yes, sir."

She moves to help Elizabeth find the remains of her wallet, and the card inside. The name catches her eye.

Elizabeth wrote:"I wonder if her family operates a vineyard. Names are curious things. But then again, maybe it's just an incidental homonym."

Ashlynn smiles. "A whyne yard?" She then thinks about the wines she's seen most recently. Betelman Merlot, Warig Sparkling White Wine, Renoit Ice Wine. They'd been arranged to spell out BeWaRe. She looks around to find Grant, Weiss, watcher and Yansoarrive, and feels a flush of guilt color her face at what she'd nearly allowed to happen to zac.

Beware. Wine.

Beware... Whyne?

"No." Her jaw drops open, and she snatches the card from Elizabeth. "Sir Ronith!" She shakes the card in his direction. "Grant!!!Beware Wine isn't Beware wine! It's Beware Whyne!!! She holds out the card. "Watcher! Grant!! The wines in McGrath's room. Betelman, Warig, Renoit... remember how they were arranged?" She waves the card at him. "Remember how the wines were arranged?"

She points at the last name on the card, Whyne, as she stresses the word 'wines'. Please don't make me say it out loud...

Grant looks at the sad state of the one woman who had planned to attack them. He casts his spells to keep her alive. I


both technological and magical assets, my first thought is that the Splugorth are involved. The remains of one of the power armors is going to be brought here in about 12 hours, 5000 credits will be due upon delivery."

Ashlynn wrote:"No." Her jaw drops open, and she snatches the card from Elizabeth. "Sir Ronith!" She shakes the card in his direction. "Grant!!!Beware Wine isn't Beware wine! It's Beware Whyne!!! She holds out the card. "Watcher! Grant!! The wines in McGrath's room. Betelman, Warig, Renoit... remember how they were arranged?" She waves the card at him. "Remember how the wines were arranged?"

She points at the last name on the card, Whyne, as she stresses the word 'wines'. Please don't make me say it out loud...

Hearing his name called, Grant turnsthe side. As before, we still have a mystery to unravel, but the attack suggests an unknown entity that we need to learn more about. Perhaps an object read or scrying will shed some light on that."

After communicating his intentions, Beltin will keep his radio on him, but return to the room to care for his wife.

The healer clears Marit. She accepts Beltin's prescription of rest after the health and safety of the others has been established. Marit comforts Ashlynn. "Gentle are most whales, but their wakes can overturn great ships. No one doubts your heart." She also rubs Rae's arm in passing, offering complimentary words at her performance. Though Marit is young herself, she has a maternal nature that reaches out to all. Normally one to not


be worried over, she is pleased at the personal attention from Beltin and drinks up his service. Her requests are small but numerous. A small but mischievous smile plays on her lips as she indulgently enjoys his ministrations.

"Watcher, can you detect any signals from that card Ashyln's holding?"

Assuming Watcher examines the card, the robot examines it thoroughly. Though the card no longer transmits a signal due to the damage, it determines that the damaged card is built like to the other complete card.

Grant's inquiry of Elizabeth has her pause for just a moment. "I'm not sure. Being the master's assistant I would assume she either lives on the campus or nearby. I don't know her well at all. It seemed she didn't care for my husband much norhe for her. The last time I visited my husband it was clear to me they seemed to be at odds, though he attributed it to his organizational habits or lack thereof. She gave me her card after I first came looking for my husband. To be honest I forgot I had that card."

Grant whistles a sigh of relief to hear the card is inactive. Upon Mrs. McGrath's mention of the master, Grants face has a confused look on his face for a moment. Master? Elizabeth's master? What? No, Alari's master. The campus! Grant looks down in his pouches with the dimensional pockets cast upon them. It should be safe inside the extra-dimensional space."Watcher, I am going to open one of my pouches and pull out a card


may try to bolt, I think we need to find her quickly. Do we want to contact the Guildmaster directly and ask her to detain her? Although, I am not sure we could do that discreetly."

When the opportunity occurs, Grant takes a moment to fall back to his room. He sits down heavily and pulls open a pair of pouches in the cross body satchel he's wearing and pulls out two glowing spheres. We, I need to be ready. He looks down at the rings on his hands that had so recently made the difference in saving his own life. He absorbs the energy of one of the spheres. He takes the time to recharge his ring of Fly Like an Eagle (3 charges), Invulnerability (1 charge), Powerclaimed the gear from the dead thugs, Weiss will start checking through that, separating it into still useful, completely screwed over and potential evidence. Any notes, communication devices, expensive and new equipment and business cards were placed in the evidence pile along with anything that seemed out of place. Weiss made sure to wear gloves and kept his gas mask on just in case there was anything that had been released by the firefight. Gang or unit markings he made a note of, so that somebody who knew the gangs could identify their affiliation. He knew some of the merc outfits insignia by sight and if it was one he didn’t know, probably somebody down at the Merc pub could ID it.

If these idiots got hired from one


storage Yanso gives a cursory inspection of the lumbering war machine, looking for any damage. Per Ronith's orders, Yanso once again attempts to collect data from the damaged enemy power armor once they have been delivered back to the Haven. The dents and other assorted damage his own chassis suffered during combat seems to slowly heal itself over time to anyone patient enough to stare that long.

After hearing of Ashlynn's role in the demolition of the Haven's west wing, Yanso makes a point to speak to her, knowing that she must be wracked with guilt. "Looks like you and I need to brush up on our explosives training," he says with a smile, reminding her of his own misadventures with explosives earlier.

Beltin blows lightly on the broth beforehis steady hand carefully ladles a spoonful of warm soup toward his wife's mouth. He gingerly catches the dribble off the sides of her lips with the spoon before he hears John's voice in his ear.

Weiss wrote:"Beltin, we have the remains of the power armour being delivered shortly. That should provide you with something to object read."

There is a pause while Beltin makes sure Marit has successfully swallowed before he sets the bowl down and depresses his throat-mic, responding in a hushed voice.

"I'm afraid I am currently occupied. I am confident that Grant or Barric can also assist in the object read if they have the time and energy."

As he picks up the soup once more, he is left to reflect on his words. Actually, Grant has performed


exceptionally ever since he joined the squad. He has grown in leaps and bounds. And continues to make himself essential to every encounter we have been faced with. He is extremely intelligent, strategic in his tactics and observant of the many details that matter. Should I ever retire... he would certainly do quite well supporting Sir Ronith as his second.

Beltin's gaze returns to Marit as he returns to his care for her. Compassion and love emanate from his being as he is swept up in how the trials and tribulations they have been through have brought them closer.

Having overcome a near-death experience, Beltin spends his free time with his wife. In addition to taking care of her, he also tries to take her mind off the current situationsees a vision of her. Clad in armor she sets a fire in a house and then runs to a hovercycle nearby and takes off. He watches her in transit for a moment. Though he doesn't know the exact street, it looks like she is in the Mystic Quarter.

Virtus wrote:Grants looks upon the face of the Ms Whyne and weaves his mystic energies. He sees a vision of her. Clad in armor she sets a fire in a house and then runs to a hovercycle nearby and takes off. He watches her in transit for a moment. Though he doesn't know the exact street, it looks like she is in the Mystic Quarter.

Grant's eyes are unfocused as he watches the scene unfold. The pupils dilate as he sees


the woman's actions. He says to his team, "I see her. She's involved, she just set fire to a house, probably her own. I can't see the address, but it's on the business card. She just jumped on a hover cycle and she's wearing body armor."

The spell ending, Grant's eyes dart to his team. We need Beltin."I can continue to watch her to see where she stops. It would be risky, but I could probably teleport us to her. Or like we did for Amie, Beltin could track her psychically. Someone should call the Defenders to have her stopped at the gates if she tries to leave the city and send a fire crew to her address."

Ronith wrote:Ronith frowns. "My apologies, Mr. Weiss. I was under the impressionmentioned the vehicles, “considering their penchant for explosives and vehicles, and the fact that they had access to the Haven whilst we could not see them, Watcher needs to check them for explosives!"

Beltin blows lightly on the broth before his steady hand carefully ladles a spoonful of warm soup toward his wife's mouth. He gingerly catches the dribble off the sides of her lips with the spoon before he hears John's voice in his ear.

Weiss wrote:"Beltin, we have the remains of the power armour being delivered shortly. That should provide you with something to object read."

There is a pause while Beltin makes sure Marit has successfully swallowed before he sets the bowl down and depresses his throat-mic, responding in a hushed voice.

"I'm afraid I am currently occupied. I


Despite the constant refrain that "we already knew" Ian Thorpe was gay, the only person who could know was him. And it was for him to decide when, how and if he wanted to define himself, writes Robert Simms.

Ian Thorpe's declaration that he's gay was met with a combination of celebration and mockery. While many praised the Olympian for speaking out, others joked that he was simply revealing what everybody already knew.

Finally! What took him so long?

But did we really already know and who determines when it's time to come out?

The obsession with Thorpe's sexuality began almost from the moment he exploded onto the national sporting scene 15 years ago. As he grew into adulthood, so too did the speculation, prompting Thorpe to remark in his autobiography:

I know(traditionally) heterosexual privilege. A man in sport who didn't quite act the way we thought he should? Of course, he must be gay.

Unfortunately, despite the positive shifts in attitudes towards homosexuality in recent years, Australia still has a culture of naming and shaming gay men. From the schoolyard to the sporting field, if you're not "man enough", you must be gay. And by extension, that's not a good thing for a man to be.

The quest to brand gay men is driven by two competing forces within our culture:

The first is a narrow conception of Australian masculinity that fails to recognise difference. "Real" Australian men are tough, strong and laconic and here sport is a powerful cultural symbol. The longer a man's sexuality remains ambiguous, the more threatening he


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Further, a girder mast tower of a wind energy plant comprising a temporarily fitted crane head has already been built. With this crane head and an obliquely running support cable, it was possible to hoist the nacelle to the tower top. The traction cable was deflected on the crane head and guided to a winch fastened to the ground. The crane head was dismounted when the nacelle had been attached. Subsequently, the lighter rotor blades were transported to the hub by using separately standing, mobile large-scale cranes.
In order to carry out any repair of large components in a short time, proposals have already been made to permanently install a crane on the tower top, with which the large components can be


prefer flat design because it allows interface designs to be more streamlined and efficient. It is easier to quickly convey information while still looking visually appealing and approachable.  Additionally, it makes it easier to design an interface that is responsive to changes in browser size across different devices. With minimal design elements, websites are able to load faster and resize easily, and still look sharp on high-definition screens. As a design approach, it is often contrasted to skeuomorphism and rich design, although flat design can use skeuomorphs just as much as a realistically designed UI.

History

Flat design is primarily influenced by the International Typographic Style (also known as Swiss Style), Text User Interface, Modernism, and the styles emerging from Bauhaus. The International Typographic style is often considered theand instructed to read it. Within these pages, I found a surprising story about the racial desegregation of the School of Theology in 1953. I learned that the process of change was instigated in part by the willingness of the Theology faculty to stand up to the university’s governing Trustees and ask for Christian action. When in June 1952 the university refused to desegregate the School of Theology, the Theology faculty published a letter asking the university to reconsider. The letter was not well received by the administration, and under duress from the Vice-Chancellor and the board, the faculty resigned, all leaving before actual desegregation took place in June 1953. This blip in my seminary orientation stuck with me. It seemed to be a story everyone knew, vaguely,


testament to the enormous sums of money she gave to Sewanee in the years after World War II. In fact, in 1954, a year after formally desegregating, the Board of Regents accepted a large financial gift from Mrs. duPont with the stipulation that the funds be used for “whites only.” Bishops of Sewanee are likewise commemorated around campus, nowhere more prominently than the gymnasium named for Frank Juhan, the legendary Sewanee athlete, Bishop of Florida, chancellor, and close friend of Mrs. duPont. But there are numerous others, including Carpenter Circle, the street named for Alabama Bishop Charles Carpenter, and St. Augustine’s Chapel, given in honor of Bishop Bland Mitchell of Arkansas. The reasoning goes that these were all loyal Sewanee bishops, some chancellors, and they deserve remembrance fortheir loyalty and contributions to the life of the university. A plaque for Bland Mitchell in All Saints’ refers to him as a “Loyal Son of Sewanee.” These bishops were on a spectrum in their stances towards desegregation, yet the fact remains that all opposed not only the desegregation of the seminary but the “methods” that the faculty employed to fight for desegregation.

The only marker reminding us of the events of this period and their larger meaning comes from a seminary student publication at the time called The Theo-Log. In the spring of 1953, the student editor James Fenhagen and his colleagues commissioned the well-known African American and Episcopal artist Allan Crite to create brush paintings for their issue. [3] They asked him to paint images of Jesus,


Segregation.” In declining, Johnson cited Sewanee’s slow progress towards integration in 1962 as the reason. Since leaving Sewanee, Johnson had spent two years traveling around the world visiting the countries of the Anglican Communion. In a letter addressed to Arthur Ben Chitty, Director of Public Relations and Alumni Secretary at Sewanee, Johnson said, “I trust you are aware that Sewanee is an embarrassment to the whole Anglican Communion. In the course of my two-year trip around the world, I, as an American Episcopalian, was asked anguished questions about Sewanee a thousand times — and the questions came from people who did not realize that I had once been a member of the University.” [6]Chitty’s wife, Elizabeth Nick, responded to Johnson by outlining the strides Sewanee had made towardsnotice or more discussion” than that over integrating the School of Theology, in Sewanee Sesquicentennial History: The Making of the University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn., 2008), 262; or former Professor of Church History Don Armentrout’s account in the Sewanee Theological Review entitled, “A Documentary History of the Integration Crisis at the School of Theology 1951-53.”

[5] There are two other traces of commemoration. Dean Brown, like all of the seminary deans, has a portrait hanging at Hamilton Hall. (Bob Grant was also an interim Dean, so he has a portrait as well.) Also, when Dean Brown died, two torches in the seminary chapel were dedicated to his memory by his former student Duncan Gray.

The faculty of Sewanee’s School of Theology in 1950; those who left in response to


the university Trustees’ rejection of desegregation in 1952 are marked with an asterisk. First row: Robert McNair*, F. Craighill Brown*, James Allen Reddick*, Bayard Hale Jones. Second row: Robert M. Grant*, R. Lansing Hicks*, and Howard A. Johnson. Three other faculty – Claude A. Guthrie, Frederick Q. Shafer, and Richard H. Wilmer – also resigned and are not pictured here.

By Hannah Pommersheim, T’19Research Assistant for the Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation, Summer 2018

Prologue

This summer I had the privilege of serving as a researcher for the Sewanee Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation. As I am a student at the School of Theology training for Episcopal priesthood, this internship was perhaps not the most obvious way to spend a summer. Yet it was my position as a seminarianintegration—just as happened on ‘the Mountain’ in 1952-1953.

The Right Rev. Duncan M. Gray, Jr. (1926-2016), Bishop of Mississippi and Chancellor of the University of the South [i]

The years 1952 and 1953 were some of the most turbulent in the history of the University of the South. At the end of the Easter (spring) term in 1953, all but one of the faculty of the School of Theology, the university’s chaplain, and the head of the Religion Department at the College resigned and left the Mountain because Sewanee’s Board of Trustees, fully supported by its administration, had voted not to admit African American men to its School of Theology. Shortly after the resignations, the Trustees reversed themselves, officially desegregating the School of Theology (although not the undergraduate College of


Arts and Sciences). The Trustees’ resolution from June 1953 stated that all applicants for the School of Theology would be considered “regardless of race.” That summer, John M. Moncrief, Jr., a priest in Orangeburg, S.C., became the first African American student at the University of the South when he enrolled in a summer program for clergy at the Graduate School of Theology.

Moncrief’s matriculation capped a year of fierce and destructive debate about the identity, vision, and purpose of the University of the South and its Episcopal seminary. But damage already had been done. Over sixty percent of its student body had transferred. [ii] In academic terms, the School of Theology had lost a roster of distinguished and accomplished theologians and now had to rebuild the faculty from theand early 1950s. At the national level, the Episcopal Church was debating how best to provide for the education of African American clergy in the South after the only all-black seminary, Bishop Payne Divinity School in Virginia, closed in 1949. Rather than opening a new all-black seminary, the Synod of the Fourth Province of the Episcopal Church (Province IV consists of the southern-most Episcopal districts, or “dioceses,” which own the university; sometimes it is called the “Sewanee Province”) passed a resolution in the fall of 1951 calling on Sewanee to desegregate to provide for training of black clergy. In June 1952, the Sewanee Trustees were responding to this resolution from Province IV. Before the vote, there was evidence that several prominent bishops from Province IV opposed desegregation, the


University in June 1953.

As Bishop Gray recalled, the response at Sewanee focused on the “methods” and “motivations” of the dissenting faculty instead of the larger issue of desegregation in light of Christian ethics and the church’s own resolutions. Critics made much of the fact that the protestors released their letter to the press instead of first sending it to the Trustees. In fact, they had sent the letter to the Chancellor, the Bishop of Arkansas Bland Mitchell, and Vice-Chancellor Edward McCrady, but the press received it at virtually the same time. Although the administration claimed they had been blindsided, the position of the theological faculty was well-known to the bishop Trustees. The Theological faculty had met with the bishops to discuss the “negro question” on June 7. Mattersan ultimatum.

Headline in The Living Church: “Dean Brown of Sewanee: An ultimatum on the subject of Negro seminarians,” June 22, 1952.

By contrast, outside of Sewanee, the press was widely supportive of the faculty. Hodding Carter, the well-known editor of the Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, Mississippi, wrote an editorial titled “Eight Courageous Men of God,” which was then reprinted in The Living Church. [xiii] Newspapers around the country, from The Atlanta Constitution and The Nashville Tennessean to The New York Times, published accounts of the faculty’s letter. Pressure from the Episcopal Church at large was an important factor in the entire episode. The church press all vocally supported the protesters. The deans of Episcopal seminaries wrote a supportive letter as did several Episcopal dioceses and local church vestries and


organizations. Other letters from around the country poured in to Vice-Chancellor McCrady’s office, offering opinions, advice, support, and admonishment.

A Tumultuous Time

At the end of July 1952, Chancellor Mitchell called a special session of the Board of Regents, during which he appointed a special committee to investigate admitting black students to the School of Theology. Bishop Edwin Penick of North Carolina, a known supporter of desegregation, chaired the committee. The Penick Committee, as it would be known, began their work immediately, but they did not submit a report until the following May of 1953. During this meeting, at the suggestion of Bishop Edmund Dandridge of Tennessee, the Regents met with the faculty and prayed together as a show of unity during a very tumultuous time. A statement released bythe Regents after this meeting added a note of optimism: “both groups [Regents and faculty] feel assured of the cooperation and harmonious operation of the School of Theology during the coming academic year.” [xiv] A truce of sorts had been agreed upon, but it did not hold for long.

Seminarians in 1952

When school began in the fall, the seminary students returned to a hostile environment left by the controversy over the summer. In response, on September 23, the School of Theology student body passed a series of resolutions in support of their faculty. Notably, one of the staunchest supporters of the faculty was student Duncan Gray Jr., president of School of Theology student body and future bishop. Gray found himself in a difficult position: His father was the Bishop


the Sewanee Purple, October 31, 1951: “Sewanee Urged to Admit Negroes to St. Luke’s” and “Dr. Wilmer Urges Cancel Color Line at St. Luke’s.”

Two important factors worked together to convince the faculty that their resignations needed to be submitted sooner than their original deadline of June 1953. First was the ousting of Professor Bob Grant. As one of the older and most distinguished faculty members, Grant had served as Interim Dean and had won a Guggenheim Fellowship. In September, Vice-Chancellor McCrady confronted Grant with the charge of public drunkenness. The incident in question had taken place six years earlier, and the segregationist Bishop Juhan was the chief accuser. [xvii] Grant did not dispute the charges and, rather than face his accusers, resigned. In addition to Grant, rumors ofdenied any such operation, but a letter from Jessie Ball duPont to Bishop Mitchell in August 1952 suggests otherwise. “The elimination process one by one,” she wrote, “sounds very wise. I trust it has already begun.” [xix]

Robert McNairRobert Grant

A second matter that disturbed the faculty involved Professor McNair. At the Trustees meeting in June 1952, they had voted to promote McNair to Full Professor, which carried with it tenure. After the faculty published their letter on June 9, the McCrady administration decided to withhold the promotion. When McNair learned of this in September, he filed a complaint with the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which investigated. The AAUP also was warned of the firing of Grant, but he did not wish to pursue the matter, so they


professors agreed to serve out the rest of the 1952-1953 school year, the School of Theology faced a potentially disastrous situation: It had only one professor returning for the following fall. The process of seeking a new School of Theology faculty as well as a new University Chaplain began. In February, the university announced it had assembled a new faculty with Bishop Dandridge of Tennessee as Dean. [xxi] With the question of desegregation as yet unresolved, the hiring of a new faculty was met with derision by some. In the Episcopal Churchnews, the Rev. John Krumm, Chaplain at Columbia University, referred to these newly hired faculty members as “scabs,” continuing the theme of labor language. [xxii]

At the School of Theology, the spring of 1953 was one of deepuncertainty. Concerned that there might not be a new faculty in place for the following year, some seminary professors who were leaving taught their senior level classes in the evenings for the current middlers (second year seminarians) so they would be prepared for their ordination exams.[xxiii]In the end, many bishops including Penick of North Carolina pulled their students from Sewanee: Of the 56 rising middlers and seniors, 35 transferred and 21 remained.

Desegregation at Last

In June 1953, the Trustees met again in a special session to consider desegregation. They had before them the Penick Committee Report, a relatively comprehensive document that included data about the number of African American students at other Episcopal seminaries (there were not many), opinions of faculty, staff, and students, legal matters, and discussions with


in his footsteps, breaking down the color line at Sewanee. The School of Theology, the university, the students, and the faculty involved were forever changed. Perhaps, we are only now beginning to learn the lessons we ought from this time, by moving beyond a narrative of institutional crisis and rediscovering the powerful Christian witnesses in our communal history.

About the author: Hannah Pommersheim is a third-year Masters of Divinity student at the School of Theology. She is a Candidate for Holy Orders from the Diocese of Texas. Originally from South Dakota and a graduate of Davidson College, Hannah lives in Sewanee with her husband.

Appendix: The full text of the faculty letter of June 9, 1952:

To the Chancellor and the Board of Trustees of the University of the South

Gentlemen:

We, theDean and Members of the Faculty of the School of Theology, the Chaplain of the University, and the Department of Religion of the College of Arts and Sciences, of the University of the South, are deeply disturbed by the statement in the public press reporting the negative action taken by the Board of Trustees on the resolution from the Synod of the Province of Sewanee, asking for the admission of Negro students to the School of Theology.

We therefore wish to put on record our convictions on this matter,

First, we deplore the Trustees’ failure to state any Christian principle involved, with the consequent reduction of the whole issue to the level of expediency only.

Second, the position taken seems to us untenable in the light of Christian ethics and of


L. Smith and Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., 487. Roberson is quoting a letter from the Selma Sewanee Alumni.

Across the United States today, many of the nation’s oldest universities and colleges have, for the first time, begun researching their historical ties to slavery and uncovering the ways their institutions relied on enslaved persons for the labor performed on their campuses or as the basis of fortunes they tapped for funding.

The University of the South is at the start of its own six-year investigation, led by its Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation. Today the Project shares part of the research it has amassed by introducing an interactive map feature entitled ‘Within the Pale of the Plantation States’: Slavery and the Governance of the University of the South in 1860.

Ouraim with the publication of this mapis to gain a better understanding of the significance of slavery in the campaign to establish the University of the South. The Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana, Leonidas Polk, launched that drive in July 1856, when he wrote a letter to nine of his fellow southern bishops, rallying them to join forces in founding a southern and Episcopal university. This great center of learning would be the equal of any other in the world and centrally located, he explained, “within the pale of the plantation states.”

With that telling phrase, Polk rooted the identity of the planned university in the region defined by slave-based plantation agriculture, its enslaved population numbering some 4 million persons, and the phenomenal wealth it generated. Polk’s bold proposal later


materialized as The University of the South, chartered in 1858.

The ten “plantation states” the bishop identified are represented in the interactive map compiled here. Save for Virginia, which does not appear here because it was not included in Polk’s campaign, the states corresponded to those of the Confederacy later formed in 1861.

The interactive maplocates the home counties of the thirty-seven white men – Episcopal bishops, clergymen, and laymen – who served in 1860 as the original Trustees and governed the new University of the South. Clicking on the highlighted counties allows a closer inspection, revealing a more detailed demographic profile of the respective counties and each individual Trustee, including their assessed wealth and the number of persons they enslaved. (Links to the U.S. Census documents from which thean architect and three historians from Sewanee – John Runkle, Jody Allen, Ben King, and I – drove two hours west to a place near Columbia, Tennessee, to visit the church at the Rt. Rev. Leonidas Polk’s Ashwood plantation. Polk’s neoclassical mansion house burned in the 1870s, but St. John’s Church, completed in 1842, endures.

The church is all the more impressive because the large towered brick structure (said to hold 500 persons) appears to be set in the middle of agricultural fields, as if it had been teleported there. There is no surrounding town or village, no neighborhood or community to which it appears to belong. A hundred or more yards from its front door is busy rural Highway 243; down the road a bit a BP station.


Three to six miles away are Mount Pleasant and Columbia, which would have been the nearest significant towns in the 1840s.

Isolated as it is today, and as mystifying as the setting may be to casual passersby, St. John’s location made perfect sense when it was consecrated in 1842. It had reason, purpose, and function: to serve the Polk families and the hundreds of persons they held as slaves on their four plantations. The church is an invaluable relic of antebellum America and a revealing artifact of that period’s slaveholding order. Today the church is maintained by the St. John’s Association, a group of local people who lovingly and devotedly see to its upkeep. Anyone who cares about the Episcopal Church and its part in the history of thisregion should be grateful for their labors.

We four from Sewanee had journeyed there because of our interest in slavery’s importance to the founding of the University of the South between 1856 and 1861. Three of us are involved in the Sewanee Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation. I teach U.S. history at Sewanee and direct the Project. Jody Allen, an assistant professor of history at William & Mary and director of that university’s study of its history with slavery, taught classes on African American history last year at Sewanee; she remains an advisor to the Project. Ben King, professor of church history at the School of Theology, has been supporting the Project by researching the university’s campaigns to raise money in England after the Civil War. Joining us


was John Runkle, a professionally trained architect and former director of St. Mary’s Sewanee: The Ayres Center for Spiritual Development. He and Ben are Episcopal priests.

Leonidas Polk brought us there that day. Polk, whom most histories identify as the church’s “builder,” was the most influential of the three Episcopal bishops who led the movement for the University of the South. More important, we knew that, from start to finish, the church had been built entirely by his slaves. All of us thought that St. John’s had something to teach us — about Polk as a priest, bishop, and slaveholder; about those he enslaved; and about the church itself. We also wondered if this church would tell us something about the founding and mission of the university.

A view ofSt. John’s from the adjoining cemetery.

Ashwood Hall, the home of Leonidas Polk, burned in 1874.

St. John’s was not a regular Episcopal church, but a “plantation chapel.” It arose on this remote spot to realize Leonidas Polk’s dream of an upliftingly beautiful place of worship, where an Episcopal priest could minister to the members of the four Polk families – the church was built at the junction of his and his three brothers’ plantations in Maury County – and the 200-plus persons they held in bondage. Maury County in 1840 had 17,900 free (white) residents and 11,000 slaves. With 111 enslaved at Ashwood, Leonidas Polk was an Episcopal priest and the county’s largest slaveholder.

Expensive plantation chapels like St. John’s were uncommon in their day. In the wake of the


evangelical revivalism that swept the United States in the antebellum period, growing numbers of slaveholders across the spectrum of Protestant denominations became concerned for the religious instruction of their slaves. However, even the most pious usually were satisfied simply to set aside a shady tree or barn for Sunday services.

Rare as they were, actual plantation chapels were especially favored by Episcopalians. As historian Blake Touchstone has written, Episcopal planters may have been more inclined to imagine themselves “as country gentry or English squires” lording over their landed estates rather than as aggressive businessmen invested in global and modern commodities markets. The Gothic style, the expensive construction, and the beauty of St. John’s spoke to the social, political, and economic prestige and power the Polks claimed for themselves aftermoving from North Carolina to set up their massive plantations in Middle Tennessee in the 1830s.

But Leonidas Polk’s ambitions transcended Ashwood and Middle Tennessee. Evangelized while a cadet at West Point, he was emerging by 1840 as a leading force in the religious movement to persuade masters to evangelize the enslaved masses in the South. Polk pursued this calling with extraordinary energy once he was named in 1842 the Episcopal Bishop of the Southwest, which included Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas.

Ashwood’s church is a lasting monument to the early stages of Polk’s spiritual mission not only to evangelize the enslaved but also to demonstrate that slavery was a Christian institution — his God’s chosen instrument for bringing the benighted slaves into the light of the Gospel. The ministry at


St. John’s would deliver souls to Christ and proof to slavery’s growing legions of critics that holding black persons in bondage was neither a sin nor a contradiction of American principles of liberty and equality. Bishop Polk told his faithful that a master assured his salvation by trying to provide for that of his slaves. Slaveholders were the special instruments for advancing the kingdom of God.

The vision of planters, their families, and their “servants” worshipping together deeply moved Polk and the other Episcopal church leaders who founded the University of the South: Bishop of Georgia Stephen Elliott and Bishop of Tennessee James Hervey Otey. William Mercer Green, their counterpart in Mississippi and a founding trustee of the university, was among the most eloquent advocates of the Episcopal Church’sspecial mission to slaves. He implored planters to fulfill their paternalistic duty to attend to the souls of their slaves. In 1851, he joyfully reported to his diocese what he had witnessed when he preached at the plantation chapel of George S. Yerger the year before:

On the forenoon of [March] 20th, I preached to a full house of blacks, together with the whites of the family. Never did I address a more interested or apparently more devout congregation. I baptized one colored adult, and confirmed three. It was a beautiful sight thus to see the master worshipping in the midst of his slaves, and showing, by the attention bestowed upon them, that he felt his responsibility for their spiritual welfare.

The Rt. Rev. William M. Green, the fourth chancellor


of the university.

Green was the namesake of the popular scenic overlook in Sewanee known as Green’s View. His service to the university continued after the Civil War when he became its fourth chancellor. (George S. Yerger, by the way, also was a founding trustee of the university.)

But preaching to, catechizing, and baptizing their enslaved property promised to do more than assure slaveholders of their piety and fend off the condemnations levied by slavery’s critics. Slaveholders believed what most powerful persons at the time believed — that the religiously instructed were more pliant and obedient, less likely to rebel against their condition at the bottom of the social order. In other words, religion was a mechanism of the planters’ top-down social control.

Bishop Green often preached to the Johnstones andbondage. The first thing we encountered that November day was an official plaque that the Tennessee Historical Commission set on Highway 243 at the gate to St. John’s. The story it tells is striking both for what it omits and for what it reports.

It begins, “Consecrated Sept. 4, 1842, by James Hervey Otey, first Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee.” That passage links the origins of the church to the founding, fifteen years later, of the University of the South. The two bishops, Otey and his longtime friend Polk, along with Georgia’s Bishop Stephen Elliott, were the most important figures in launching the “southern university.”

The Tennessee Historical Commission plaque.

The plaque continues, “this church was built by Leonidas Polk, then Missionary Bishop of Southwest and his three brothers, George, Lucius, and