theater and for a church minivan.

"I stumbled a couple of times, yes I did, but the bottom line is I kept the church open, the lights on and the gas on," said Scott, who estimated that his overall expenses for the church and shelter are around $22,000 per month.

"I've used money from every source to keep that building up, because it's my life's work," Scott added.

Lisa DiChiera, of the advocacy group Landmarks Illinois, which helped Scott apply for a $5,000 grant for a conditions assessment of the theater in 2005, noted the church's financial struggles.

"It's never really been clear what his funding support will be to make all these fixes," DiChiera said. "I feel bad for Rev. Scott because he's a one-man show."

The church is limited as anonprofit in taking advantage of tax incentives. The theater, for instance, is in a tax-increment financing district, but only for-profits can use TIF funds, said Peter Strazzabosco, of the Chicago Department of Housing and Economic Development.

"I wish we could be more proactive (with helping the church), but we're limited in what we can offer," Strazzabosco said.

Scott said he's entertained the idea of selling the building, but there aren't people lining up to buy a huge 96-year-old theater in one of Chicago's poorest communities.

In March 2012, the neighborhood saw one of its other vintage buildings, the 99-year-old Shepherd's Temple (formerly the Anshe Kanesses Israel synagogue) on West Douglas Boulevard, torn down despite efforts from preservationists.

"Over time, people in our community have come to recognize the importance of these iconic


structures in our neighborhood," said Charles Leeks, president of the North Lawndale Cultural and Historical Society. "It's like a death in the family, because these buildings can't be replaced."

Balaban family members, who were born and raised near Maxwell Street, had a deep respect for the Central Park Theatre because it was where the company introduced the "movie palace" concept later perfected throughout the country.

The concept included movies, live stage shows and first-class service, combined with flamboyant Rapp and Rapp architectural flourishes influenced by a mashup of European styles.

In the Central Park's case, experts see Italian Renaissance influences on the facade of the building and French Renaissance influences inside.

"It kind of looks like it was influenced by the Paris Opera House or Versailles," said Meg Kindelin, an architect withChicago's Johnson-Lasky firm, which specializes in the restoration of older buildings.

The key feature in the theater's interior is the opera house-style mezzanine boxes, "intended to give the audience the feeling of being part of a stage set," according to A.J. Balaban in his 1942 memoir "Continuous Performance."

Another feature was air conditioning, which was produced by a novel carbon dioxide system that pushed cool air through vents in the theater's floor — vents that still exist in the Central Park. Barney Balaban is said to have come up with the idea, which came from his time working at a cold storage company in Chicago.

The theater first served North Lawndale's working-class Jewish and Eastern European community. "It was a ghetto then as it is now," said former North Lawndale resident


and legendary swing clarinetist and orchestra leader Benny Goodman in a 1968 Tribune interview. "If it hadn't had been for the clarinet, I would have easily become a gangster."

Goodman made his professional debut on the Central Park's stage in 1921. And countless other acts performed there through the 1930s.

"You'd pay a small price to get into the theater, then you'd have a movie, a newsreel and a stage show," David Balaban said. "A very low labor rate allowed Balaban & Katz to give a high level of service for cheap."

By the 1930s, Balaban & Katz had been taken over by Paramount Pictures (where Barney Balaban was president from 1936 to 1964). And by the late 1950s, North Lawndale's Jewish and Eastern European residents had moved out and werereplaced by African-Americans.

By the 1960s, the neighborhood had been decimated by foreclosures and riots, culminating in the 1968 riots after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.

The theater showed movies through 1970, before James Ward, who bought the building from Balaban & Katz successor ABC Great States, closed it.

Scott, who had opened a church a block from the Central Park Theatre in 1966, was encouraged by a member of his congregation to buy the building in 1971. He had to chase out gang members who had taken over the abandoned structure, but once he did, Scott worked with the community to renovate the building.

Despite the church's lack of money, observers credit Scott with being a conscientious guardian of this historic structure.

"He's made a dollar go a long way,


but at some point all the deferred maintenance can snowball," said Dave Syfczak, a Chicago police officer who serves as caretaker for the shuttered Uptown Theatre and as a board member of the Theatre Historical Society of America.

"I'm sure you could throw $10 million at the building and not address everything that it needs to get it back into its pristine condition," Syfczak added.

Community representatives say their first hope is that Scott can raise the money to address the violations and reopen the building. They say they hope the theatre survives as a cultural touchstone for North Lawndale — if not as a house of worship, then as something else, like an arts and performance venue.

That isn't an easy option. DiChiera cited another old gem, the former NewRegal Theatre, now called the Avalon, at 79th Street and Stony Island Avenue.

"You've got the Avalon Theatre on the South Side, which is in much better shape than the Central Park and that's been empty for years and is still having trouble finding an occupant," DiChiera said.

But Leeks said the Central Park Theatre is too valuable to lose.

"We see the Central Park and other historic buildings as anchors that we can rebuild the community around," Leeks said.

Take a video tour of the Central Park Theatre online at www.chicagotribune.com/centralpark.


Antarctica's Hidden Landscape Uncovered

(19 November 2018)

Antarctica's mountainous landscape was shaped by rivers rather than carved by glaciers as previously thought, a study has revealed.

The continent's mountains and valleys, mostly covered by ice up to 4 kilometres thick, were formed millions of years ago, after Antarctica's landmass separated from that of Australia, India and Africa, but before it was inundated by an ice sheet, research suggests.

The improved knowledge of how Antarctica's landscape evolved could be a vital aid to understanding how the ice sheet might respond to continued climate warming.

Dr Stewart Jamieson with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh studied the landscape beneath the Antarctic ice sheet and compared it to the landscapes of the southern continents, to reconstruct how Antarctica's landscape would have looked before it was coveredby ice.

Their study shows that West Antarctica shares a similar landscape, and evolved in a similar way, to other regions including southern Africa, Australia and Madagascar. Characteristics such as river valleys, plains, mountain escarpments and basins are the same.

Antarctica was formed following the break-up of an ancient supercontinent, known as Gondwana, which contained about half the world's land mass. The process, which shaped the lands of the southern hemisphere, began about 160-180 million years ago. Ice sheet formation on Antarctica began later, some 34 million years ago.

The research, published in Scottish Geographical Journal, was funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council.

Knowledge of the pre-glacial landscape helps determine where glaciers first formed. It also helps understand the nature of the ice sheet bed and the location of deep troughs


carved into the land by present-day glaciers that affect the stability of the ice sheet, which is useful for forecasts.

Dr Stewart Jamieson said: "The research is an integral part of an effort by the scientific committee on Antarctic research to try to understand how the Antarctic Ice Sheet might respond to climates that are warmer than present."

Professor David Sugden, from the University of Edinburgh's School of Geosciences, commented: "It is remarkable to stand on the slopes of a mountain in South Africa and realise that their exact equivalents lie preserved in ice in Antarctica.

"The pre-glacial landscape of Antarctica is less well known than the surface of the Moon and Mars, and yet it plays a part in how the continent's ice sheet responds to global warming. Learning howin the northern part of the Pacific Ocean – as an official country recognised by the United Nations.

To add gravitas to the proposal, London-based designer Mario Kerkstra has created a passport for the country

Advertising creatives Michael Hughes and Dal Evans De Almeida, known as Dal and Mike, launched the proposal to force world leaders to address the scale of the ocean trash, which they say has accumulated to the size of France.

"We knew that, even though the trash patch covers an area the size of a country, it is easy for world leaders to ignore it – the saying 'out of sight out of mind' could not be more applicable than with this issue," Hughes told Dezeen.

"We wanted to come up with a way to ensure world leaders


can't ignore it anymore, a way to stick it under their noses, literally," he added.

The design features former US Vice President Al Gore, who is supporting the proposal

They submitted an application to the United Nations earlier this year, coinciding with World's Ocean Day, to make the project a reality. They have now also launched an online petition through LADbible to support the application, and hoping to gain one billon signatures.

Stamps inside the passport are prints of floating plastic and fish entangled in rubbish

To add further gravitas to their proposal, Dal and Mike enlisted London-based designer Mario Kerkstra to create a passport, money and stamps for the country, which are all made from recycled materials.

"Working with Mario as a designer, we originated the idea to create everything an officialgo in Portugal, Porto are three points behind Benfica, but the two clubs meet on April 26 in Lisbon, a game that should decide the title.

Martinez’s performance against Bayern will rekindle talk of him moving in the close season. Now 28 years-old, Martinez has been eyed by a number of top clubs for some years, but apparently, Manchester United are keen to “break the bank” to take the Colombian to Old Trafford. He’s scored 17 goals in the Primeira Liga this season and six in the Champions League and his overall record in Europe has been very good – a goal every other game.

Bayern have not been at their best recently. They have lost two of their last five games and one of those was a home defeat


County Sheriff William Honsal said at a news conference, which was wildly applauded by rescuers who had been searching for the girls for three days.

Authorities launched an expansive search that involved more than 170 official personnel from 21 law enforcement and military agencies, including two helicopter crews and 12 K-9 units. The search also garnered several volunteers from around the rural community.

The girls were found around 10:30am Sunday morning when they responded to rescuers calling out to them. They were cold, dehydrated, but uninjured, and huddled together under a bush.

“This is an absolute miracle,” Honsal said. “This is rugged territory, this is an extreme environment. How they were out there for 44 hours is pretty amazing.”

The girls told first responders that they got lost following a deer trail,of The Complete Guide to the Music of Madonna, the three parts of the song, namely the bridge, where Madonna sings "what can help me now", the chorus and the verse flow together in a coherent manner, with the chorus incorporating a haunting effect. The song epitomized Madonna's interest with Hispanic culture that continued after the release of her 1987 single "La Isla Bonita". Leonard and Madonna had added Spanish phrases in the chorus, over the trumpets of the second verse, and also in the added instrumental break in the middle. "Who's That Girl" also makes use of the sonic effect brought about by the combination of multiple vocal lines, which had been previously used by groups like The Beach Boys in their singles "God Only Knows" (1966)


Cities across the world will glitter with candlelight on Tuesday in honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance. From New York to Sydney, vigils will pay tribute to the many transgender people who have lost their lives to violence.

Violence against the trans community has risen steadily in recent years, according to a grim report released Monday by the Human Right Campaign, a national LGBTQ advocacy group. The HRC report found at least 22 people were killed so far this year due to anti-transgender violence, and the organization has tracked 128 anti-transgender homicides in the U.S. since 2013.

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The 73-page report documents the 22 lives lost since the beginning of 2018: The victims are mostly young, mostly female-identified and mostly black. Of those killed, 82 percent ofrendre service à Dieu, en élargissant au peuple chrétien le chemin du ciel »54.

Les casuistes auraient donc fait des concessions aux enfants du siècle, et en cela ils n'auraient fait que suivre en morale la tactique qu'ils avaient appliquée à leur doctrine. Le chrétien ne pouvant plus croire tout ce que la tradition lui enseignait, il fallait ne pas lui opposer ce qui était trop difficile à croire. De même, puisqu'il ne pouvait plus suivre les principes dans leur rigueur, il pouvait sembler nécessaire de ne pas lui demander l'impossible. Cela évidemment n'implique nullement que les Jésuites eussent été disposés à profiter pour eux-mêmes des concessions qu'ils faisaient à ceux qui, en religion, ne sont que du « peuple », à ceux qui sont destinés seulement à composer


docilité de l'esprit »26. C'est encore le Père Bourdaloue qui parle. Un Janséniste ne le dirait pas, ou ne l'aurait pas dit comme cela. Le bourgeois qui aura passé par l'école des Arnauld et des Nicole aura facilement l'esprit frondeur. Pour le Père Bourdaloue notre perfection ne doit pas être en « des choses extraordinaires et singulières », mais en « ce qui nous est le plus habituel... en ce qui remplit les journées et les années de notre vie »27. Le Janséniste n'évitera pas avec autant de soin les singularités, et le bon sens chez lui sera moins solidement développé. Il voudra parfois se distinguer du commun. « Il est nécessaire », dira-t-il, que le chrétien « se distingue du très grand nombre par une conduite singulière,nothing happens,” he asserts.

Also known as sun gazers for their habit of seeming to look into the sun as they bask, the lizards have eluded detailed scientific study for decades. So Parusnath and colleagues set out to do a thorough inventory, visiting nearly 80 sites where their burrows had been seen in the 1970s.

They learned that the animals today occupy roughly 450 square miles of South Africa—that’s about a third of their previous range, Auliya says. Even worse, a third of the sites where the lizards lived in 1978 are now devoid of the reptiles, the scientists report in the Journal for Nature Conservation.

Instead of dragons, they found signs of dragon-snatching: snares, hooked wires, and burrows that had been dug open. The researchers chose one burrowing site for


Oregon State junior outfielderhas been named the first Pac-12 Conference Player of the Week for the 2018 season, it was announced on Tuesday.In addition, Larnach received National Player of the Week honors from Collegiate Baseball and Perfect Game.Larnach batted .889 (8-for-9) over the first three games of the season – Monday's 15-3 win over New Mexico did not factor in the Pac-12 award. He homered in the first three games of the season, collected two doubles and seven runs batted in. He also walked four times.The Pleasant Hill, Calif., native struck out in his first at bat of the season but proceeded to reach base safely in his next 12 plate appearances. His second home run of the season, Saturday against Gonzaga, snapped a 2-2 tie and histhird opened the game's scoring on Sunday versus Cal Poly.Larnach's honor is the 72all-time Pac-12 award for the Beavers – third-most in the conference – and 29since the unification of the then-Pac-10 in 1999. He is the Beavers' earliest player of the week recipient since Michael Conforto was recognized on Feb. 18 in 2014.Oregon State returns to Surprise Stadium Thursday when starting the Big Ten-Pac-12 Challenge. The Beavers take on Nebraska at 12 p.m. PT (1 p.m. in Arizona).Fans in the Portland region should note that Thursday and Friday's games – versus Nebraska and Ohio State, respectively – will air on 103.7 FM.For more information on the Oregon State baseball team, follow the club's official Twitter account at Twitter.com/BeaverBaseball, by Facebook at Facebook.com/OregonStateBaseball or on Instagram at Instagram.com/BeaverBaseball.Through


Governor’s gun control push rattles his base

MONTPELIER, Vt. — While gun control groups are cheering a supposed sea change of opposition to firearms freedom across the country, gun rights supporters in Vermont — many of whom voted for Gov. Phil Scott — are expressing frustration over the governor’s apparent softening on the Second Amendment.

In the wake of the recent mass shooting in Florida, and a close call here in Vermont, Scott has embraced the “do something” mantra for gun control and school safety.

Yet while local gun rights supporters have suggested arming schools and allowing police to crack down on violent threats, the governor has thrown his support behind left wing gun control bills making their way through the Legislature.

Among the first groups to call out Scott for slippingneeds contacting about the dislike of Scott.

Phillip Scott ( I refuse to call him Governor ever again) made a promise to the gun owners in this state, when we helped get him elected, that he would never pass any gun legislation yet he is the one pushing to have it passed as soon as possible..

This man is a traitor to the people in the state of Vermont which is the safest state in the nation as far as guns go.

Phil Scott my father always said a man is only as good as his word…

You still have time to prove your worth

Any reasonable person knows that any steps other than the bill s221 are absolutely unnecessary and only hurt the hard-working tax-paying honest gun owners in the state of


Clermont.

NEW FACES. Two appointees will replace members of the Maitland Planning and Zoning Commission. Appointments of John Alexander, who plans to move into the city in August, and Gloria Kratzer, past chairman of the city's Code Enforcement Board, were approved by the council Monday. They will replace Rick Fogelsong, who has served since 1987, and Frank Sheehy, who has served since 1984. Alexander, a member of the Maitland Rotary Club, was nominated by council member Les Stephens. Alexander owns an office products business near College Park and was chairman of the Maitland Spring Festival this year.

Despite strong opposition from neighbors, the Orange County Planning and Zoning Commission on Thursday voted 6-1 to approve a zoning change that would allow an elementary school to be built on Hackney PrairieOrange County Planning and Zoning Commission.

SANFORD -- Two members of the Sanford Planning and Zoning Commission were elected chairman and vice chairman at the board's January meeting. Otto Garrett is the chairman, replacing Ross Robert. Bobby VonHerbulis replaces Andy Kutz as vice chairman.

SPECIAL MEETING. The Fruitland Park City Commission will hold a special meeting with the planning and zoning commission Thursday at 8 p.m. at the town hall.The commission is considering hiring Lake Land Planning Group for consulting work on planning, zoning and environmental matters. The two commissions will discuss what kinds of planning work the group could do for Fruitland Park.

Florida Rock Industries of Orlando plans to build a ready-mix concrete plant on five acres south of State Road 46 in Sorrento. The company has asked the


county to rezone the land for the plant. The county Planning and Zoning Commission will consider the request Wednesday. The county commission will make a decision Sept. 9.

WINTER PARK -- Hannibal Square restaurants hope the fourth time's the charm in their effort to persuade the city to let them serve alcohol until 2 a.m. most nights, like the rest of Winter Park. The planning and zoning commission has voted three times to keep the more restrictive hours adopted in 1997 -- midnight on weekends, 11 p.m. during the week -- out of respect to west-side residents. Some business owners think the earlier hours were supposed to be a one-year trial. The City Commission agreed to discuss the matter at Monday's meeting, which starts at 3:30 p.m. at CityHall.

ORLANDO -- Architect and planner Dan Kirby was appointed to the Orlando Utilities Commission's governing board this week. The Orlando City Council ratified the appointment Monday, after Kirby was nominated by the OUC board from a list of three finalists. Kirby is director of development services for Boyken International, a construction and development consulting firm. He has served on Mayor Buddy Dyer's transition team, Orlando's Historic Preservation Board, and as chairman of the Maitland Planning and Zoning Commission.

SANFORD -- Two members of the Sanford Planning and Zoning Commission were elected chairman and vice chairman at the board's January meeting. Otto Garrett is the chairman, replacing Ross Robert. Bobby VonHerbulis replaces Andy Kutz as vice chairman.

Orange County -- The Orange County Planning and Zoning Commission this morning is scheduled


to hear plans for a 58-acre development on Sandpiper Road that has at least one Apopka-area resident concerned. Lilian Myers recently started a Web site, savesandpiper.com, to inform residents about the development, which she says was originally described to residents as a community of 3,000-square-foot- to 5,000-square-foot estate homes. Now, according to Myers, the plans call for smaller homes on smaller lots.

West Orange County is home to more than just rampant growth these days. The area also is producing a slew of candidates for nonpartisan commission seats in three municipalities. Fifteen people -- seven of them political newcomers -- are running for office in Ocoee, Apopka and Oakland in the March elections. The majority are running for three commission seats in Ocoee. In the District 2 race, longtimecounty's planning and zoning commission.The legal opinion, written Monday, answers a question first posed by Lake County Commissioner Richard Swartz. Swartz said Thursday the opinion will halt his plans to invite a city council member to serve on the county's planning and zoning commission.The four-page letter from Butterworth to Lake County Attorney Chris Ford is likely to discourage others as well.

After losing the battle with the Planning and Zoning Commission, Walter Poynter plans to change his tactics tonight while seeking approval from the city council to place townhouses along Lake Shore Drive.''Instead of trying to tell them just about our project, I'm going to tell them the alternatives,'' said Poynter, a local builder who is planning the duplex or triplex townhouses with real-estate developer Robert Thompson.Last week, the


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Category: Rivers of MauricieNancy Pelosi goes there: Trump's White House "meltdown" a sign he's cracking under pressure Faced with impeachment and the results of a massive blunder in Syria, Trump's losing his grip and everyone knows it

We’ve reached the season where faithful viewers are forced to quit the series. If this were a Tom Clancy novel, it wouldn’t be believable. Day 1,000 of the Trump presidency has jumped the shark.

“I think now we have to pray,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters upon returning to Capitol Hill from the White House late Wednesday. Along with other Democratic leaders from Congress, Pelosi had earlier walked out of a White House meeting after what she described as "a very serious meltdown on the part of the president.”

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two years of his presidency without facing a major international crisis after his predecessor, Barack Obama, had to deal with one nearly every six months for his both of his terms. Considering all the traditional externalities, Trump was playing president on easy mode. A growing economy topped it off.

While we've seen Trump step on his successes time after time, displacing the attention meant for a carefully planned White House event with ludicrous statements, he has never appeared as unhinged in his words and deeds than he has this month. The events of his 1,000th day go a long way to illustrate the decline.

Wednesday marked the eighth day of heavy fighting between Kurdish and Turkish forces after Trump abruptly announced that U.S. forces would pull out of northern Syria.on aiding Saudi Arabia and redirecting military funds to his border wall, Trump again finds himself standing against his own party on the record. These are the first real signs of serious GOP splintering.

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Pelosi told reporters that Democrats "couldn't continue in the meeting" at the White House on Wednesday because Trump "was just not relating to the reality of it."

Perhaps what startles Trump so much is the reality that he might not have the unquestioned loyalty that he’s always assumed. As that has becomes clear, his behavior has grown increasingly erratic for months. On his 1,000th day, the Speaker of the House said as much.

"What we witnessed on the part of the president was a meltdown. Sad to say," Pelosi told reporters at the White House. "I pray


for the president all the time, and I tell him that. I pray for his safety and that of his family. Now we have to pray for his health — because this was a very serious meltdown on the part of the president," Pelosi said.

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She held her tongue during Trump’s editing of hurricane maps with Sharpies and his fantastical endeavor to purchase Greenland, but now Pelosi is openly questioning the president's mental fitness. It may be time for some within his administration to sound the alarm.

Of course, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham made the laughable claim that Trump was "measured, factual and decisive.” The president immediately took to Twitter to prove her wrong, projecting Pelosi's concern about his mental health back on the speaker in a transparentused anticancer drugs.
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Look what's brewing in India

It's as much a British institution as the royal family, but a freshly-brewed cuppa has far humbler origins. Cherry Wilson follows the tea trail to Coorg in southern India.

A dozen young women chatter as they furiously shear bright leaves from tea plants that stretch like a green carpet across the plantation.

Their colourful saris and gold necklaces glisten in the sun as they fill huge brown sacks to be taken back to the on-site factory and weighed.

One lady even needs two burly men to help her lift the bag onto the scale, and I cannot help but gasp when the manager tells me that the sack weighs a whopping 80 kilograms.

"They're really productive workers," explains manager Bobby KJ. "The minimum they have to pick a


day is 25 kilos and they get a bonus for every 10 kilos after.

"The average is 150 kilos per person per day. But some can pick up to 300."

In a time of technological advances, it's hard to believe that such manual work goes into making a simple cup of tea.

But during a visit to the Glenlorna Tea Estate, in the heart of Coorg in southern India, I quickly discover that the old ways are definitely the best.

More than 300 families live and work in the fields and know little of the hustle and bustle of life outside the plantation.

Their washing lines waft in the breeze at the front of their wooden houses, which are a short walk away from an on-site medical centre built for the workers.

The employeesinto my favourite beverage.

"Tea is a part of Indian life," says Gautam Prakash, head of Plantation Trails at Tata Coffee Limited. "It's the beverage of choice. It's part of every meal. You start the day in the morning with a nice cup of tea and it will be served throughout the day."

Sipping my second cup on the veranda of the colonial-style bungalow, I feel like I've stepped back in time to 19th century India.

Once occupied by British planters, the bungalow is hidden away among 1,000 acres of coffee plantations owned by Tata.

Only a roaring bonfire spoils the absolute silence of the garden, which is rich in vegetation and has spectacular views of the surrounding mountains.

During a guided jeep tour of the plantations, I watch birds flutter between the


200-year-old trees that extend upwards from the dark coffee bushes that stretch for 1,200 acres.

But it is a slight disappointment to learn from our guide that the luscious grounds cannot be explored on foot. He informs me that it's for my own safety - so I don't encounter any of the wild elephants that come to feast on the jackfruit trees.

The region of Coorg is not the first choice for international tourists - particularly as it involves a treacherous seven-hour drive along heavily pot-holed roads from Bangalore airport.

But as I soak in the infinity pool at the Vivanta by Taj Hotel, I feel the knots in my muscles melt away while overlooking the rolling hills of the rainforest.

The resort has been open for less than a year andboasts 62 impressive cottages, which are dotted among the trees.

A huge amount of love and attention was given to the resort so that it complements the natural surroundings and gives its guests a feeling of tranquillity and peace.

While exploring the grounds, I'm greeted by a man known as the 'Colonel' who looks after an on-site museum dedicated to the history of Coorg.

His passion is infectious as he regales folkloric tales about the region.

In true India style, the conversation naturally shifts to the subject of tea.

"Tea is very important to Indian culture," he says. "Everybody gets up in the morning and has a cup of tea.

"The feeling among tea drinkers is that it wakes you up and gets your system working."

I quickly discover that the spicy Masala Chai tea


is the most popular choice among Indians, but for an English palate like mine, it's an acquired taste.

But I find a variety of tea flavours to satisfy my cravings during Indian afternoon high tea at the 125-year-old Taj West End Hotel in Bangalore.

I opt for the strong Assam variety as I tuck into a soft kheema samosa and gunpowder idli.

The Indian version of high tea has only been on offer for a month at the hotel but is already proving popular with both international and domestic tourists.

"Indian high tea doesn't exist traditionally," explains assistant restaurant manager Gayatri Vijay Kale. "But we found that it's popular with locals who want the high tea experience but with Indian street food. They like it because the food has more flavour thanthe English version.

"It's popular with foreigners who want to experience a taste of India too."

Drinking tea is a hugely social event in India and nowhere is this more evident than in the bustling city of Mumbai.

Every street corner is littered with traditional Parsi cafes where families, friends, couples and businessmen come to enjoy a cheap and cheerful meal washed down with tea.

Sitting in the Britannia cafe, a cardboard cut-out of Prince William and Kate Middleton looks down from above as I sip on a cup of Darjeeling tea.

Its strong taste complements the sweet flavours of the chicken berry pilau dish that I happily tuck into.

"When you go back to England, can you give Prince George a kiss for me?" asks 91-year-old owner and fierce royalist Boman Kohinoor. "And


tell the Queen we want her to come back to India."

The Queen is known to enjoy a fresh pot of Darjeeling tea as a wake-up call, so it wouldn't surprise me if she wanted to return herself.

British rule in India may have ended in 1947 but its influences in the country have had a lasting impression - particularly with the introduction of tea as a popular choice of drink.

And after enjoying a fabulous stay in southern India, it's safe to say the favour has been returned.

Knowing how much work and effort goes into creating the drink, I think I'll appreciate my morning cuppa even more.

Travel facts

Cherry Wilson was a guest of Cox & Kings (www.coxandkings.co.uk) which has an 11-day/eight-night private trip to India priced from £1,895 per person.This includes flights with British Airways, domestic flights, private transfers, a guided plantation and birdwatching tour at the Cottabetta Plantation, and accommodation with breakfast daily, including one night at the Taj Lands End, Mumbai, two nights at the Cottabetta Bungalow in Coorg, three nights at the Vivanta by Taj Madikeri and one night at the Taj West End in Bangalore. For more information on the properties, visit www.tajhotels.com


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However, several reports indicate that NSA employees beat them to the punch but kept quiet about the success.

Sanborn, who is celebrated for his work with stone and related materials, worked with a retired CIA cryptographer to write the code.

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Plaintiff Lisa Krinsky sued 10 anonymous "Doe" defendants after reading posts they made on online message boards hosted by Yahoo!, Inc. Krinsky was the president, chairman of the board, and chief operating officer of SFBC International., Inc, a publicly traded company. The 10 Does had made allegedly defamatory remarks about Krinsky and other SFBC executives on the Yahoo! Finance message boards. Under the pseudonym "Senor_Pinche_Wey", Doe 6 made the following remarks on the Yahoo! message boards:

Called Jerry Seifer, a SFBC executive, a "mega scum bag" and a "cockroach", and suggested that other executives were also "cockroaches."

Referred toClinton’s as well, meaning that he likely would not have had some of the problems with turnout that post-election analysis seems to be revealing as having been an issue for Clinton. Add into this the fact that, notwithstanding her problems and the mistakes her campaign made, Clinton still walked away from the election with a popular vote majority, and arguably only lost the election because she failed to capitalize on traditionally Democratic states in the Midwest. As I’ve noted before, Clinton would have won the election had she won Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. Instead, she lost those three states, which have gone Democratic in every election since at least 1992, by a combined 77,774, or just 0.59% of the vote in all three states combined. President Obama likely


to win. But as James pointed out above, when it came to her campaign, they seemed to make no real effort to run on his record. It’s interesting that one of the reasons Al Gore likely lost in 2000 was that he also sought to distance and differentiate himself from a fairly popular sitting President of his own party.

All of that is true. Colin Powell recommended to her that she use private email and said that he himself had done it (his account was an AOL account!). He did so in writing and that correspondence has been made public. Rice never used email herself (!!!) but her senior staff did, and they used their personal email.

What was missing from every story was that no one is to usethe middle of that. They also did not want to “bug” out of a war. No president wants the “lost a war” tag.
Nixon, 1976: Even with Watergate, Nixon had the popularity to win a third term. Carter would have made it close.
Reagan , 1988: Reagan was still popular, and there was weak Democratic ticket.
Clinton , 2000: Bill was riding one of the best economic times in history and could have nailed a third term. He also had the good political sense to stay in the middle and avoid the extremes.
Obama, 2016: possible a few months ago, but not since his actions of the last weeks, especially the UN fiasco.

Overall, I think that the two term presidency has now become accepted and ingrained in the culture. The people do


flawed candidate in Clinton.

Faced with the prospect, even the likelihood, of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee, the Republican voters chose somebody who was the antithesis. And as george points out, open and loud about it.

If their main goal was to make sure a woman didn’t get in, Trump would have been their last choice, he was a long shot. If it was to get a misogynist in, any of the Republican candidates but Foriona would have been fine. There’s nothing special about Trump in terms of sexism or racism, he’s par for the course for the GOP – again, look at the criticism the Democratic Party had for Romney in 2012, he was identified as sexist and racist just as Trump was.

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B. Gelin, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.
Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Western Washington, Barbara J. Rothstein, District Judge, Presiding.  D.C. Nos.  CV-83-00117-BJR, CV-70-9213-BJR.
Before WRIGHT, BEEZER and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges.
OPINION
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:

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This case involves claims by two Indian tribes in Southwest Washington to off-reservation fishing rights.  The Shoalwater Bay Tribe and the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Indian Reservation have no such rights by treaty, but they assert that they have implied fishing rights arising from the executive orders creating their reservations.  They also argue that they are entitled to the treaty fishing rights of the Quinault Tribe.  Finally, they argue that they have extant fishing rights based on Chehalis aboriginaltitle.  Allied against the Tribes on appeal are the United States, the State of Washington and the Quinault Tribe.

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In its findings of fact and conclusions of law, the district court concluded that the Tribes' claims were not well-founded.  We agree and affirm the judgment of the court.  We also affirm the court's judgment on the question of the boundaries of the Chehalis Reservation.

BACKGROUND
A. Introduction

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The Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Indian Reservation ("Chehalis Tribe") occupy a reservation at the confluence of the Black and Chehalis Rivers in Southwest Washington.  This reservation was created by secretarial order in 1864.  Tribal membership includes persons descended from the Upper Chehalis Indians, and may also include descendants of the Lower Chehalis, Cowlitz and other tribes of Southwest Washington.


 The Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe occupies a reservation on the north side of Willapa Bay (formerly Shoalwater Bay) on the Washington coast.  The members are descendants of a small group of Indians of Chinook and Lower Chehalis ancestry who settled on the reservation, which was created by executive order in 1866.

B. Historical Background
1. Tribal Pre-Treaty History

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The Chinook, Chehalis and Cowlitz Indians lived in Southwest Washington for centuries before the arrival of white settlers.  They were considered "fish-eating" Indians;  that is, their livelihood depended on fish and seafood.   Halbert v. United States, 283 U.S. 753, 757, 51 S.Ct. 615, 616, 75 L.Ed. 1389 (1931).  The Upper Chehalis Indians were primarily river fishermen, with principal fisheries in the Chehalis River drainage system. The Lower Chinook and Lower Chehalis fished both in marine waters and in rivers and streams near the coast.

2. The Dart Treaties

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By the 1850's, settlers had begun to encroach upon tribal lands.  In 1851, Dr. Anson Dart, representing the United States, negotiated a series of treaties with the Chinook and other bands of Indians in the region to provide a reservation at Shoalwater Bay.  His treaties contemplated fishing rights on the rivers emptying into the Bay.  They were never ratified, however, and no lands or rights were reserved as a result of Dart's efforts.3. The Chehalis River Council and Treaty of Olympia

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In 1855, Governor Stevens of Washington Territory held a treaty council at the Chehalis River.  Members of many bands of local Indians, including


Chehalis River and preferred a reservation there.  The Quinault Tribe did sign, perhaps because the treaty guaranteed them a reservation where they were already living.  The neighboring Quileute, Queets and Hoh Tribes eventually signed as well, and the Senate ratified the treaty in 1859.  It is known both as the Treaty of Olympia and the Treaty with the Quinault.

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Governor Stevens intended to renew treaty negotiations with the non-signing tribes, but his attention was diverted by other events, including the Civil War and the outbreak of an Indian war.  No treaty was ever concluded with the Chehalis, Chinook or Cowlitz Tribes.

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4. Orders Creating the Chehalis and Shoalwater Reservations

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The flood of settlers into the region continued.  In response, the government sought to set aside reservationsfor the Chehalis, Chinook and Cowlitz Indians at the locations requested at the Chehalis River Council.  In 1860, Michael Simmons, a member of Stevens' treaty commission, wrote to the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Washington and Oregon Territory that:

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The Upper and Lower Chehalis, the Cowlitz and Chinook Indians, numbering between seven and eight hundred, are not parties to the existing treaties, and are certainly entitled to the care of the government.  They are in the immediate neighborhood of the settlements, living in most instances on the land of white settlers.  I have selected a piece of ground adapted to their wants, and upon which I think it will be advisable to settle the Cowlitz and Upper Chehalis tribes.  The Chinooks and Lower Chehalis


should be located somewhere near the seashore, as their previous habits and mode of living render such a location necessary.

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Letter from Simmons to Superintendent Geary, July 1, 1860.

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Further discussions among government officials culminated in the establishment in 1864 of the Chehalis Reservation by order of the Secretary of the Interior.  Two years later, President Johnson entered an order establishing the Shoalwater Bay Reservation.  That order, written by hand on a map of the proposed reservation, reads:

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Let the tract of land as indicated on the within diagram be reserved from sale and set apart for Indian purposes, as recommended by the Secretary of the Interior in his letter of the 18th instant, said tract embracing portions of sections 2 and 3 in township 14 north, range 11west, Washington Territory.

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5. Expansion and Allotment of the Quinault Reservation

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In 1871, only Quinault Indians lived on the Quinault Reservation.  Despite the provision of the Treaty of Olympia requiring the Quileute, Queets and Hoh to move to the reservation, these tribes remained at their traditional homes on the coast to the north.  In 1872, Superintendent Milroy proposed that the reservation be enlarged so that these tribes, along with other Indians of the region, could be collected on the enlarged reservation.  An executive order of 1873 enlarged the reservation:

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In accordance with the provisions of the treaty with the Quinaielt and Quillehute Indians, concluded July 1, 1855, and January 25, 1856 (Stats. at Large, vol. 12, p. 971), and to provide for other Indians in that locality, it


is hereby ordered that the following tract of country in Washington Territory ... be withdrawn from sale and set apart for the use of the Quinaielt, Quillehute, Hoh, Quit, and other tribes of fish-eating Indians on the Pacific coast....

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I Charles Kappler, Indian Affairs:  Laws and Treaties 923 (1904).1

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In 1911, Congress directed the Secretary of Interior to make allotments on the Quinault Reservation under the provisions of the allotment laws to "all members of the Hoh, Quileute, Ozette or other tribes of Indians of Washington who are affiliated with the Quinaielt and Quileute tribes in the [Treaty of Olympia] and who may elect to take allotments on the Quinault Reservation rather than on the reservations set aside for these tribes."   The Supreme Court subsequently ruled thatmembers of the Chehalis, Chinook and Cowlitz tribes were entitled to allotments on the Quinault reservation pursuant to this act and the 1873 executive order.   Halbert, 283 U.S. at 758, 51 S.Ct. at 616-17.

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6. Order Opening up Chehalis Reservation for Homesteading

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In the late 1870's and early 1880's, local Indian officials sought to provide allotments for Indians living on the Chehalis Reservation.  Because the executive order establishing the reservation contained no legal authority for allotment, the officials proposed that the Chehalis reservation land be restored to the public domain so that the Chehalis Indians could immediately obtain homesteads on the reservation under the homestead laws.  This was done by executive order in 1886.  The order opened up all but 471 acres of the reservation,


of the Chehalis reservation.  It found that the reservation retained the same boundaries described in the 1864 order creating it, and had not been diminished by the 1886, 1908 and 1909 executive orders restoring reservation lands to the public domain.

ANALYSIS

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A. Rights to Take Fish at Quinault Usual and Accustomed Places

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The Tribes argue that the district court erred in concluding that they do not have a right to fish at the usual and accustomed fishing grounds of the Quinault Tribe pursuant to the Treaty of Olympia and the 1873 executive order.  We review de novo the district court's interpretation of treaties, statutes and executive orders.  See United States v. State of Washington, 969 F.2d 752, 754-55 (9th Cir.1992), cert. denied, Lummi Indian Tribe v. Washington, 507the 1873 executive order enlarging the Quinault Reservation.  Article VI of the Treaty allowed the President to consolidate the treaty signatories with other "friendly tribes and bands."   The 1873 executive order, in turn, expanded the Quinault Reservation for the use of "other tribes of fish-eating Indians on the Pacific coast."   The Tribes contend that, through these provisions, they became "affiliated" with the treaty tribes for the purposes of obtaining Quinault fishing rights.  They argue that the Supreme Court's decision in  Halbert, 283 U.S. 753, 51 S.Ct. 615, commands this conclusion.

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In  Halbert, the Court held that Indians of the Chehalis, Chinook and Cowlitz Tribes were entitled to allotments on the Quinault Reservation pursuant to the 1911 Quinault Allotment Act, which allowed


 The Upper Chehalis Indians at that location did not believe or understand that they were obtaining a treaty or treaty rights, nor did they believe they were obtaining any off-reservation fishing right from the United States.

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The record supports these findings.  A letter from Commissioner of Indian Affairs Dole, proposing the Chehalis Reservation, described the Indians' desire to "abandon their roving life" and "cultivate their lands."   I Charles Kappler, Laws and Treaties, 901-02 (1904).  The letter intimated that the purpose of the reservation was to provide farmlands for the Indians, and made no mention of fishing rights at traditional grounds off the reservation.

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Similarly, Sidney Ford, Indian Agent for the Chehalis and Coast District, reported in 1856 that the Upper and Lower Chehalis Indians "seemReservation.

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The record does reveal some evidence suggesting an intent on the part of the government to provide off-reservation fishing for the Shoalwater Indians.  For example, the failed Dart treaties contemplated fishing rights for the Shoalwater Bay Indians at the rivers emptying into the Bay.  And in 1854, Indian Agent W.H. Tappan wrote to Governor Stevens that "[the Indians] at Shoalwater Bay should have free access to the clam and oyster banks and to the fisheries of the Chehalis and Columbia rivers."   Letter from Tappan to Stevens, Sept. 30, 1854.  After treaty negotiations at the Chehalis River Council failed, Governor Stevens instructed Indian Agent Simmons to negotiate treaties with the remaining non-treaty Indians in Southwest Washington, saying, "[t]he Chinooks, Shoalwater Bay and Lower Chehalis


by descendants of the original allottees of the reservation.  Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, The Chehalis People (1989)

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 We reach the same conclusion with respect to the 1908 and 1909 orders, which, following the form of the 1886 order, were meant to provide two homesteads from the 471-acre parcel reserved for the school

Accomplished and acutely aware of her subject matter, Lilia takes us to the problematic border between Mexico and the USA. Pic credit: Discovery

Accomplished journalists Bill Weir and Lilia Luciano are set to team up to report from the U.S.-Mexico border as part of six shows broadcasting live on Discovery.

From gang members to asylum seekers, Luciano sifts through the political rhetoric that has driven the media. She compares the official POTUS viewpoint with boots on the ground reporting and attempts to destigmatize those who have been demonized by some politicians.

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VENICE (Reuters) - It was director Lav Diaz' art of exploring human drama at length that tempted Charo Santos-Concio back to the screen after nearly two decades, the actress-turned-media executive said at the Venice film festival on Friday.

Santos-Concio plays the lead in "Ang Babaeng Humayo" (The Woman Who Left), a 226-minute Philippine drama about revenge and forgiveness that premiered in Venice on Friday.

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"I really wanted to work with this director ... I wanted to understand the aesthetics behind his cinema, why he produces long-running films," Santos-Concio, the former president and CEO of ABS-CBN


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Back in 1990, Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell was the creative force behind the band Temple of the Dog in tribute to his lost friend and Mother Love Bone frontman Andrew Wood who passed away the same year. Temple of the Dog was a musical juggernaut chock full of talent with Stone Gossard on guitar, Jeff Ament on bass (both former members of Mother Love Bone) along with Matt Cameron and Eddie Vedder. A super group by definition, the collective released one self-titled disc and only played live one time together.

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An opponent of Thailand's military-backed government has been arrested after sharing a profile of newly installed King Maha Vajiralongkorn.

Jatupat Boonpattararaksa was detained in north-eastern Thailand and charged with insulting the monarchy under the strict royal defamation law.

He had shared the profile, published by BBC Thai, on his Facebook page.

King Maha Vajiralongkorn ascended the throne on Thursday nearly two months after the death of his father.

Mr Jatupat is thought to be the first person charged with lese-majeste since King Vajiralongkorn, 64, officially became monarch.

The activist, who has been involved in anti-government protests in the past, was arrested in Chaiyaphum province. Charges were filed in the city of Khon Kaen.

Mr Jatupat could face up to 15 years in prison


if convicted.

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Human rights groups accuse the military-backed government of using the royal defamation law as a way of cracking down on opponents.

King Vajiralongkorn's father, the revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, died on 13 October at the age of 88 after seven decades on the throne.like party hats. He is a bipedal creature with opposable thumbs that make him able to pick up objects, much to the displeasure of others. His activities usually consist of senseless babblings and innumerable sadistic acts on people, chiefly his housemate Bear, or whoever is closest when he gets his hands on a likely weapon. He is a humorous character (in the sense of black humor) by some of the things he says or the original comical scenes he'll inflict, such as pretending to be a "Gangsta" and speaking fluent slang that he picked up from "Hood Movies" and going by the name LZ. He is maniacal and merciless, and most readers assume that the reason for that is that he has a mental disorder. Karl, Looshkin's hapless


bachelor owner, thinks Looshkin is just lonely and needs a female cat to play with, but the traumatized Bear vehemently disagrees.

Looshkin appeared in the first Bear comic, in which he had unwittingly forgotten stowing Karl's previous pet dog Marmalade in a closet to protect him from evil bats in the laundry room. As a result, a few days later, Marmalade suffocated and died head-down. However Bear reminds us that Karl's home does not have a laundry room. Looshkin has also been known to have a very vivid imagination, but all of the things he says or does come from his suspected dementia. Looshkin has thought of cloning Bear with a kit that will give him an endless supply of Bear clones on which to waste his days torturingCal Crutchlow says he hasn’t altered his opinion on Romano Fenati based on the disgraced Moto2 rider’s ‘sob story’.

Italian rider Fenati issued an apology after grabbing the brake lever of rival Stefano Manzi during the last race at Misano in Italy, which resulted in widespread condemnation.

The 22-year-old received a two-race ban, while his Marinelli Snipers team terminated his current contract and MV Agusta his 2019 deal. The Italian federation suspended Fenati's license.

The Italian later said he would quit motorcycle racing and intended to ‘go back to school’.

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LCR Honda MotoGP rider Crutchlow called for Fenati to be banned for life and two weeks on from the shocking incident, the British rider said his


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CARL BORCHSENIUS CO., Inc., Plaintiff,
v.
John W. GARDNER, U. S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and C. C. Freeman, Acting Director, Food and Drug Administration, New Orleans, La., Defendants.
Civ. A. No. 68-321.
United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.
March 15, 1968.
*397 Henry J. Read, John B. Gooch, Jr., New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.
Joan Elaine Chauvin, Asst. U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for defendants.
CASSIBRY, District Judge:
This is a proceeding in the nature of mandamus in which the plaintiff, Carl Borchsenius Co., Inc., a New York corporation, consignee of a shipment of coffee intended for import, is seeking to compel the defendants, John W. Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and C. C. Freeman, Acting District Director, Food and Drug Administration, New Orleans,bags marked ALFER CBC 301/LV1. The unloading of the vessel had commenced on November 21, but the 5,000 bags of coffee here involved were not unloaded until November 30 and December 1. Before their removal from the ship certain of the bags were damaged by contact with water, although it is not known exactly how the coffee got wet.
A wharf examination of the shipment by a United States Food and Drug Inspector on December 1 disclosed damp, moldy coffee in four of the six samples taken in the inspection. Approximately 1,500 bags were wet and some contained moldy coffee. The entire shipment of *398 5,000 bags was detained by the Food and Drug Administration in accordance with the import provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act,


Dupuy Storage and Forwarding Corporation on Decatur Street in New Orleans.
Of the 5,000 bags, examination showed 2,325 to be sound, and upon request of plaintiff's representative these bags were released under a partial release of the shipment on December 8. The reconditioning of the remainder of the shipment was finished by December 20, and the Import Inspector's examination showed on December 21 that, of the 2,789 bags received for reconditioning, 1,730 bags were made sound and thus brought into compliance with the law, 270 bags were poor skims, 231 bags were sweepings, and 1,053 bags were too poor to skim due to mold.
On December 26, the defendant C. C. Freeman, Acting Director of the Food and Drug Administration for this District, advised the plaintiff's representative by letter thatstealthily put into" the stream of interstate commerce, ultimately winding up in the nation's food supply. They argue that one of the best ways to assure that this duty is met is to see that adulterated food, such as the bags of moldy coffee, skims, and sweepings here involved, are destroyed. If destroyed, the public is assured that those coffee beans will not become part of the nation's food supply.
There is nothing, however, to indicate that one of the purposes of the enactment of 381(b) was to increase the protection to or integrity of the nation's food supply. Prior to the 1949 amendment to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act there had been a long standing practice of the Food and Drug Administration, without statutory sanction, of detaining


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Marijuana was America’s number-one analgesic for 60 years before the rediscovery of aspirin around 1900. From 1842 to 1900, cannabis made up half of all medicine sold, with virtually no fear of its high.

The 1839 report on the uses of cannabis by Dr. W.B. O’Shaugnessy, one of the most respected members of the Royal Academy of Science, was just as important to mid-19th century Western medicine as the discoveries of antibiotics (like penicillin and Terramycin) were to mid-20th century medicine.

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Some of these drugs have been forbidden by the FDA for sale or use in the U.S. or its counterparts in Europe because they are known to cause malnutrition, deformities and cancer. Yet they are sold over-the-counter to unsuspecting foreign consumers!

The World Health Organization backs up this story with a conservative estimate: they say that some 500,000 people are poisoned each year in


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In late 1995 and early 1996, Dennis Peron, founder of the Cannabis Buyers’ Club in San Francisco, gave California voters Proposition 215, a statewide initiative to make cannabis legal as medicine. The medical marijuana initiative collected 750,000 signatures, made the California ballot and it passed by 56% of the vote in November 1996. Now, in 2007, hundreds of thousands of Californians are growing medical marijuana legally. Nonetheless, the federal government, in clear oppositionfeeling than warm water after a long drill.

Sienna opens her eyes to see her wingsecond, and she manages a lazy little salute. "Sir," she says. "Wait." A smirk tugs at her lips. "Have you had breakfast yet?"

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Sienna just snickers, closing her eyes again. "You should eat before drills," she mutters. Then she sighs. "Childish?" she admits with a little frown. "If I didn't know better I'd think she was turns Kehemath's junior, instead of


everyone will dislike her and Wayneth…"

A'lory rubs a hand across his eyes, sighing heavily. "Apparently," the Weyrsecond begins quietly, "The leaders of that Weyr considered her overweight. They had — " A'lory pauses for a moment to rub a hand over his hair before continuing. " — the dragon on a severely restricted diet. I had to have Eisheth bully her into eating more."

A'lory's eyes are slitted, blue eyes glittering. "Not to mention medically unsound advice. Do not concern yourself; I /do/ monitor her to be sure she is eating properly." As to which Weyr, he frowns. "I…. can't even recall. She transferred to Ista before we jumped forward."

Sienna scowls, shaking her head, pushing sodden curls away from her face. "That's the stupidest…ugh. Good," she says, glancing atThe Irish Mirror reported earlier this year the 46-year-old married the spirit of an 18th-century Haitian pirate who was executed for piracy.

A 46-year-old woman in Ireland said she is splitting from her husband, who is about 300 years old and was executed for piracy in the 1700s.

The Irish Mirror reported that Amanda Sparrow Large Teague, who made global headlines last year for marrying the spirit of a 300-year-old Haitian pirate, is divorcing the pirate after less than a year. The Mirror reported that Large posted to social media: "I will explain all in due course but for now all I want to say is be VERY careful when dabbling in spirituality, it's not something to mess with..."

Newsweek profiled Teague in January after she married the ghost of Jack


Teague, who she said was a Haitian pirate who executed for piracy hundreds of years ago. Newsweek said their spiritual relationship developed three years ago when she sensed his presence while lying in bed in Drogheda, Ireland.

Teague told Newsweek that she sailed into international waters to "legally" marry and that she's the first person in the U.K. and Ireland to marry a ghost. The "legal" part is questionable at best.

The dead pirate wasn't Teague's first pirate love. Newsweek said around the time the two "met" in 2015, Teague was working as a female Jack Sparrow impersonator after becoming infatuated with the Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise.

Earlier this year, Snopes dug into the legality of Teague's marriage and reported that her marriage to a 300-year-old dead pirate doesn'tGillian Gibbons, a British school teacher working in Sudan was arrested yesterday for naming a teddy bear. It is reported that she allowed 6 year olds at the expensive English school to name the bear after Prophet Mohammed (saw). According to the Sudanese law a non-Muslim could face a maximum penalty of lashes, prison, a fine and deportation if found guilty of Blasphemy. (More on this at the bbc)

To some this may just be an innocent mistake, a mistake made by a 54 year old school teacher. But can she be excused for ignorance? I believe, anyone taking up a teaching profession or else in an hostile region like Sudan must at least make some effort to understand the sensitivities of the people. This level of ignorance can


conveniently be interpreted as hatred by those waiting to be offended and being a minority means they are guilty until proven innocent. At least that was the case with the 23 year old Muslim girl charged with ‘Terrorism” for possessing a book, here in the UK.

Samina Malik, is a young Muslim woman who worked in a stationary shop. Her crime, she wrote poems under the alias ‘Lyrical Terrorist’ of somewhat graphical nature and out of sheer curiosity downloaded some articles from the internet. As a teenager she wrote love poems according to her viewpoint of life at the time, later her purpose of life or viewpoint changed as she turned to Islam and so did her subjects of poetry. Reading and watching atrocities against Muslims day and day30,473 this year.

Violent crimes such as homicide, rape, kidnapping and assault accounted for more than 2,700 convictions.

In total, since the President signed the EOs, ICE’s immigration enforcement activity has resulted in more than 400 arrests per day, including the capture of egregious and violent offenders, such as:

The Feb. 16 arrest in New York City of an MS-13 gang member, Estivan Rafael Marques Velasquez, a Salvadoran national with a criminal history in the U.S. which includes reckless endangerment in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and disorderly conduct.

The March 9 arrest in DeKalb, Georgia, of Jose Mercedes Meza-Ignacio, 52, a citizen of Mexico residing in Atlanta, wanted on criminal charges for child molestation.

The April 10 arrest in Dallas, Texas, of Juan Antonio Melchor


Molina by the agency’s Dallas Fugitive Operations Team. Molina is the subject of a 2011 murder warrant issued by the Prosecutor General’s Office in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Mexican authorities allege that Molina shot and killed Jorge Alejandro De La Rosa at a wedding in 2008.

The April 13 arrest in Denver, Colorado, of Jose Victor Bonilla-Melendez, one of ICE’s “Most Wanted Fugitives,” in Denver, Colorado, following a public tip. Bonilla-Melendez is also known as Anthony Garcia-Melendez, a citizen of Honduras whose criminal history includes felony convictions for assault causing serious bodily injury, sexual assault and unlawful re-entry after deportation.

The April 26 arrest in Houston, Texas, of William Magana-Contreras, a Salvadoran MS-13 gang member wanted for aggravated homicide in his home country.

While these data clearly reflect the fact thatStyle, selfies and hamburgers: Karl Lagerfeld in quotes Couturier Karl Lagerfeld, who died Tuesday, was almost as famous for his quips as for his fashion designs.

PARIS -- Couturier Karl Lagerfeld, who died Tuesday, was almost as famous for his biting and often controversial quips as he was for his fashion designs. Here are a few of his memorable quotes:

ON STYLE: "If you come and ask me, 'I want to be chic,' There is little hope to become chic. Because there are peasants in the country who are beyond chic in their poor rags, and very rich women who are not chic in the most expensive dress." (to Net-a-Porter, 2012).

ON TATTOOS: "I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time." (to M Magazine, 2012)

ON EATING


of fellow children of African immigrants living in the U.S. — nurtured her interest in a medical anthropological approach to such issues. She is currently entering her third year as a medical anthropology PhD student enrolled in the UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program.

Edu, 29, has a particular interest in Brazil, in part due to its international geopolitical and economic position; her summer research focuses on Brazilian women’s reproductive choices. She trains in Capoeira Angola, the traditional style of the art form.mice

The ancestors of the house mouse (Mus musculus) lived in the steppes of present-day Pakistan. Ten thousand years ago, at the end of the last ice age, neolithic farmers moved from the Fertile Crescent into the steppes of Pakistan, and these small rodents found a delightful new source of food and shelter.

When humans migrated away from the steppes to colonize other areas, mice went along as stowaways in the humans' carts and later, their ships. House mice arrived in the new world in the 16th century, arriving with explorers and colonists. Mice went everywhere with humans, living in and around their houses, a human-dependent association called commensalism. Today, commensal house mice live in and around human dwellings on every continent, in every climate.

Today, commensal house mice are divided


There is some controversy about his support for the environmental organisation Keren Kayemet Le Israël (KKL). The foundation is the largest land owner in the country. According to le Soir, the organisation is 'Zionistic' and tries to create green zones in areas where there used to be Palestinian settlements.

Belgian foreign affairs minister Didier Reynders allowed the visit, aslong as the contacts of the prince are 'private' and there will be no meetings with politicians.

Eva Brems (Green party) discussed the matter in the federal parlament. She said that the Jewish National Fund is aproblematic organisation. She added that planting trees can not be done when it violates human rights.
Reynders defended the prince, others have done the same: king Boudewijn, prince Filip, Yves Leterme, Reynders himself, Kris Peeters, Winston Churchill,Angela Merkel, Tony Blair, Nicolas Sarkozy etc. To do what? To plant a tree within the borders of 1967.

On today's World ALS Day 2013 Prince Laurent has attended the opening of the residence 'Middelpunt' of the association ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) Liga Belgie in Middelkerke. It's the first residence care for ALS patients in Belgium.

Prince Laurent attended the funeral ceremony for Yves du Monceau de Bergendal in Louvain-la-Neuve on August 1, 2013. Du Monceau de Bergendal had once been mayor of Ottignies, senator and chamber member.

Laurent and Claire attended a reception organized by the Royal Federation of Surveyors-Experts on the occasion of its 80th anniversary at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren today, September 19.
Princess Claire was awarded the title of Honorary Member of the Royal


NEWPORT, R.I. — Rhode Island's educational tall ship, the Oliver Hazard Perry, lost power Sunday evening and drifted into multiple boats before grounding near Perrotti Park, according to a news release from the U.S. Coast Guard's First District headquarters in Boston.

Station Castle Hill in Newport was providing a safety zone Sunday evening.

The tall ship, whose home port is in Newport, was leaving Bowen's Wharf Seafood Festival with a crew of 12 when it lost power, the news release said. The 911 call came in at 6:15 p.m.

The ship's engine lost power after its two propellors became entangled in a dock line, the organization that operates the ship said in a press release Monday morning.

The ship struck four boats docked in the harbor, the ship's operators said. Nobody wasinjured and "minimal damage occurred," according to the operators.

Despite the Coast Guard's report that the ship had run aground, the operators say it did not.

The Coast Guard and Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island staff "are continuing to assess the situation for moving the ship safely as soon as possible," the operators said.

Two boats from Castle Hill and personnel from the Narragansett Bay Marine Task Force responded.

No fuel leaks were reported. The incident is under investigation.

The Oliver Hazard Perry, 200-foot-long three-masted ship that took eight years to build, was finished in 2015. It's a modern ship with a steel hull, but it was designed to look like a naval vessel of the early 1800s. It is the largest civilian sailing school vessel in the nation.

Perrotti Park is where passengers


yield was at 19.2 million kilos.

However, Lamsis said that a dramatic statistical drop of 70 percent was recorded in 2011 with 5.7 million kilos of citrus and further declined with the lowest yield of only 240,000 kilos in 2015.

PLAGUED BY DISEASE Agriculture experts examine citrus trees in Nueva Vizcaya. The province, considered the citrus capital of the Philippines, has seen steadily declining production due to poor management and a number of diseases and pests, several experts said. PHOTO: OCEANAGOLD MINING

Lamsis said the primary reason for the low production of citrus in 2011 up to the present is due to pest and disease infestation, contrary to the claims of anti-mining advocates, who believe that the disease was a product of mining operation in the town.

More than 2,000 hectares ofAccording to a report at FightHype, which usually has the inside track on Mayweather-related news, the September 13 Showtime PPV rematch between Floyd Mayweather and Marcos Maidana looks to have a set co-feature, which would see Miguel Vazquez defend his IBF lightweight title against "Money Team" fighter Mickey Bey.

Vazquez (34-3, 13 KO) is known to be one of the most technically proficient and ultimately dull fighters in the sport, a legitimate top fighter in his division with some pound-for-pound top 15 arguments, but also a guy who's just plain bad TV. He is generally able to outclass opponents without taking any risks.

Bey (20-1-1, 10 KO) isn't really a contender, but he's got good connections. The 31-year-old from Cleveland has won two straight since a stunning final round TKO


England fans celebrate with a replica of the World Cup trophy after the match between England and Sweden, July 7, 2018.

It’s not always the case that Britain finds itself in the midst of a heatwave and it’s almost as unusual to find the England soccer team in the latter stages of a major tournament.

Both have aligned at this summer’s World Cup in Russia and the efforts of Harry Kane and Gareth Southgate have already seen a boost to the U.K. economy.

Sales of beer, barbecues and big screen TVs have been on the up during the month of June as fans have seen an England side have its best performance since 1990. In June, U.K. retail sales increased by 1.1 percent on a like-for-like basis from June 2017, whenFrost, who became the first female to win a Grade 1 at the Festival, was pestered for the lead early aboard Frodon, but his brilliant jumping soon had him in an outright lead.

The 9-2 shot kicked for home approaching two out with a number of challengers snapping at his heels, none more so than Aso.

Venetia Williams's charge briefly led and looked on course to land a 33-1 shock, but Frost galvanised her mount to win going away to the delight of the crowd, with Road To Respect (9-2) back in third.

A delighted Frost said: "My god, he jumps and just at that minute when he got overtaken, most horses would quit, but he grabbed me by the hands and said, 'don't you dare give up, don't you dare


The opposition candidate Ekrem İmamoğlu’s landslide victory in the re-run mayoral elections in Istanbul will change very little in Turkish politics in the near term. But it has the potential to change everything in the long run.

After winning the Istanbul elections in March with a margin of 13,000 votes in a constituency of 10 million, İmamoğlu was denied victory on dubious legal grounds, with the High Electoral Council decreeing that new elections should be held on 23 June. On Sunday, the Istanbul electorate gave a strong mandate to İmamoğlu. He increased his majority to 800,000, almost 60-fold, and received the backing of 54% of the citizens of Turkey’s largest city. In contrast, Binali Yıldırım, the ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) candidate, received 45% of the vote.

How Istanbul’seither mention Payton or the Fridge or the Monsters of the Midway. . . . I was looking for some cheap trashy stuff, some dirt. But there wasn`t even anything bad about New England.``

Apparently, however, New Englanders haven`t had as much to sing about. Brandmeier says that he challenged a Boston radio station to a musical showdown and all they could come up with was one song about the Patriots.

Brandmeier says he regularly plays 10-15 of the songs on his program including the polka ``Chicago Cares About the Bears,`` by Eddie Blazonczyk and the Versatones, the acappella ``Monsters of the Midway`` by Stormy Weather, and the countrified ``Battle of New Orleans`` by Terry Hunt.

``If the Bears win,`` Brandmeier says, ``I`m going to splice them all together and make


months.

In one corner, the world’s largest and most profitable transportation company. In the other corner, the Teamsters union. In other words, get ready for a heavyweight labor contract negotiation.

UPS and the roughly 275,000 Teamsters who make it arguably the best-run transport company in the world have already begun talks on the contract that expires July 31. It is the largest collective bargaining agreement in the nation.

While no one is expecting a repeat of the 1997 strike that idled UPS for 15 days in 1997, the early stages of the negotiation have been marked by the usual tough rhetoric by the union and complete silence on the part of the company.

Another factor somewhat complicating these talks is they are two separate negotiations: one for the parcel side of UPSthe TDU web site.

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Authorities, Ministry of Municipality affairs, and Ministry of Planning. Other organizations may also be involved by different means include sports sciences departments in the universities, sports medicine association, sports for all federation, Saudi heart association, Saudi obesity association, Saudi nutrition society, and Saudi physical therapy association. At the sports and competitive levels, involved organizations include Saudi Arabian National Olympic Committee (SAOC), sports federations, sports clubs, and athletic/sports departments at colleges and universities around the countries. In addition, numerous events and initiatives are carried out throughout the country by various organizations and institutions during World Health Day and Physical Activity Day, which are mainly intended for increasing awareness about health benefits of PA and healthy lifestyle.

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Saudi Arabian major health and physical activity initiatives by sectors.

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The following sections have more detailed description of major health and physical activity initiatives along with the organizations that are responsible for conducting such initiatives.

The Healthy City Initiative {#s4}
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The Healthy City Initiative was first presented by the World Health Organization, Eastern Mediterranean Region ([@B21]). It was introduced in Saudi Arabia in 1999. The program was initially implemented in one city but has since been expanded to cover 25 cities. It supports a range of activities, including health


promotion, environmental health issues, safe and friendly streets and communities for walking as well as skills development for women and youth. The main challenges for the healthy city program in Saudi Arabia were rapid urbanization and population growth in most of cities, due to migration to the city from rural areas, a high number of road traffic injuries and less favorable air quality.

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The Ministry of Health (MOH), has assumed a leading leadership role in recent years in providing initiatives and programs for health-enhancing PA around the country. The MOH has introduced many initiatives and programs that are intended for educating and training primary health care professionals about PA and exercise prescription for patients. Moreover, as part of the National Strategy on Diet and PhysicalActivity, the MOH has held for the last seven years numerous lectures, workshops, and training courses in many major cities of the country on the subject of balanced diet and PA. These activities served in educating and training health care professionals with knowledge and skills that are necessary to prescribe healthy diet and PA for patients. They have also produced training manuals on balanced diet and PA, brochures and posters, created an electronic educational site and conducted media awareness campaigns. The MOH is also working on national strategy for PA. Additionally, among the MOH projects, was the execution of the PA surveys during the year 2005, and again in 2013 and in 2017 as part of national health survey. Further, *Sahatik Beddonia*, which means "Your Health should worth


by the MOE has been the officially introduction of the physical education program for the first time for girls\' schools. Schools are now able to hold PA classes inside schools beginning in the school year 2017/2018. Such important development, which is intended to enhance good health, physical fitness and total well-being among the girls, may well increase physical activity participation among girls and women in the country.

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The Municipalities around the country have also had many programs and activities aimed at improving the quality of life of the Saudi people, by creating more parks, walking trails and community recreational spaces. In Riyadh city for example, there are mega parks with provisions for walking tracks. In many cities around the country, the municipalities have also initiated whatis called "popular playgrounds" within the communities, which have provision for free space with some sports and recreational facilities for people of all ages. Walking trails are increasingly being built by the municipalities all over the cities in Saudi Arabia. However, in many parts of Saudi Arabia, outdoor sports participation especially in the summer months (June to August) is somewhat restricted because of the extreme hot climate, which can reach well above 45°C.

The high Commission for the Development of Riyadh {#s8}
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The high Commission for the Development of Riyadh city has particularly done a tremendous work in relations to recreational facilities around Riyadh. The Commission has inaugurated several projects in the last 15 years, which includes mega scale parks inside the city and in the surrounding suburbs. These mega


related to PA, fitness and health as well as disseminating many brochures about exercise, PA and health benefits for all ages. In addition, the Leadership Institute within the Saudi Sports Authority constantly administers training courses and workshops on the subjects of PA and fitness targeting coaches and fitness specialists.

The *Al-Haraka Baraka* physical activity promotional Initiative {#s10}
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In the year 2005/2006, a collaborative effort between a public university (King Saud University), a non-profit organization (Arab Nutrition Center), and private sectors (Mars Middle East Inc.), has led to the initiating of the "*Al-Haraka Baraka*" (AHB) PA program at many schools in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, including Saudi Arabia ([@B29]). AHB means "movement is a blessing." This educational program provides health-enhancing PA lessons and knowledge to school children between thecampaign, a twitter-based initiative started in 2017 and continued in the year 2018 ([@B31]). It originated from a walking group in AlJouf region in northern Saudi Arabia and resonated into other major cities of the country. It aims to increase the number of people males and females who assume regular walking habit for the promotion of health and preventing of chronic disease. In its second year, the initiative get support from the Sports for All Federation. Now, there are more than 50 walking groups in many cities around the country joined this initiative and the number appears growing. In addition, a number of celebrities are also promoting this initiative, which may add momentum to it. Indeed, at some point of time the initiative hashtag reach a trend.

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policies and legislation initiatives are needed that encourage and promote active lifestyle for the whole country with much emphasis on the provision of PA opportunities for all segments of the society. National PA strategy and action plan for implementing, monitoring and evaluating the goals and outcomes of such strategy is also long overdue. All possible stakeholders should be involved in formulating such strategy, including MOH, MOE, Ministry of Municipalities, Ministry of Planning, Ministry of transportation, Ministry of Islamic Endowments and Guidance Affairs, Ministry of Cultures, Ministry Information (including national TV\'s, Saudi Press Agency and other mass media), the Sports Authority, business and industry, health insurance, Saudi Arabian National Olympic Committee, sports Federations, sports/athletic clubs and fitness centers and major NGO\'s.

2.  Implementation of strong physical education curricula andFrench candidate wants to put church-state separation into constitution

Paris, February 6 (ENInews)--The front-runner in the race for the French presidency wants the separation of church and state to be put into the constitution, prompting religious and legal experts to question how this might alter the way France functions as a state that is already secular by law.

The proposal is part of the platform unveiled by Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande, who leads President Nicolas Sarkozy and other candidates in public opinion polls ahead of the two-stage presidential election scheduled for April and May.

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Hollande said the proposal is meant to reinforce the secular character of France. Few consider it to be under threat, but politicians have sought to reassure voters that it will remain a pillar of