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different combinations of components. The action of natural deposits in the
surrounding habitat basically stable in itself harmful effects almost does not
produce, but the technological deposits as food of processing of natural
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before five years old. This came about because in my first two years
of meeting Doyle Henderson we spent several hours a day emailing each other and I insisted on
using "physical body states" instead of "feelings" and "emotions" because I had come to see
from my early research that if these physical body states comprised the substrate of what people
called feelings and emotions. One day after having typed "physical body states" a hundred times
or so, I told Doyle I needed a short, one-syllable name to replace "physical body states" and I was
going to use his name in lowercase and plural, "doyles".

That was a fortuitous decision because when I came to found the science which was to embody
Doyle's discovery, the word "doyletics" fit beautifully as a name for the science. Thename will
forever honor the innovator, Doyle Henderson, who made the original cosmological discovery
upon which the science is based. It allowed me to give a simple operational definition of
doyletics as the study of doyles, just as genetics is the study of genes. In fact, if genetics can be
called the science which studies the acquisition and transmission of physical body traits, then
doyletics can be called the science which studies the acquisition and transmission of physical
body states. Bodily traits are carried by genes in the genetic structure first generated at
conception, and bodily states are carried by doyles stored in the limbic region of the brain during
events before five years old. Bodily traits comprise the physical structure of the human body
such as eye and hair color, height, facial features, etc., and they


away at three
years old. She had solved for her unknown and got X = 3. She asked herself, "What's a possible
thing happened to me at AGE=3?" and suddenly saw herself being bitten by a scorpion!
Fortuitously her mother was available in the next room. I went over to her, and asked the frail,
82-year-old lady if her daughter ever got bitten by a scorpion. The old lady's hand trembled, her
eyes lit up, and she exclaimed, "Yes! When she was three years old!" A fifty-seven-year-old
memory had risen from the depths of this mother's brain into the light of day and confirmed what
her daughter had just received from asking what we call the Plausibility Question (PQ) right after
her speed trace. A lifelong fear of scorpions was gone permanently after being traced toasking the PQ or Plausibility
Question.

Closing Comments

In closing, let me thank Doyle Henderson for his pioneering work which led directly to the
science of doyletics. He worked in a field very different from his own, but his knowledge of
instrumentation allowed him to see a possibility about the etiology of emotions and feelings and
other bodily states that no one before him had ever imagined: that all these originated from body
states stored during original events before five years old and recapitulated thereafter. He grasped
the origin of emotions in one superb insight and worked tirelessly for over 25 years to pinpoint
what we now call the Memory Transition Age. Thanks to him, millions of people, in fact, all the
peoples of the world, in every country will be able to remove onerous bodily states and


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 XXXVII.   TWO WOEFUL SOULS RELEASED                     463
           PART FOURTH
           _SAULUS IN ROME_
XXXVIII.   AWAITING TRIAL BEFORE NERO                    481
  XXXIX.   ANTIPODES BROUGHT FACE TO FACE                492
     XL.   THE VISIBLE FORM LAID ASIDE          coins reveal its importance during the period between Xerxes and
Alexander, and also while under Roman sway, when it was dignified by the
name of Metropolis. Strabo says that in all that relates to philosophy and
general education it was more illustrious than Athens or Alexandria. In
the main it had the character of a Greek city; and the Grecian language,
literature, and philosophy were generally cultivated. But there were also
many Romans, Hebrews, Persians, and Syrians, with a sprinkling of other
tribes and peoples, such as characterized an Oriental metropolis. On its
busy wharves were great piles of merchandise, surrounded by groups of
merchants and traders in many costumes, and speaking a variety of
dialects.

It was one of the most important epochs of history; a time when colossal
personalities and events were stamping their impress upon the destiny


Hydra, Dionysus and a Giant, Fauns, Bacchantes, and triumphal
processions. In the _pronaos_, or vestibule, there was a series of broad
panels, upon which were inscribed maxims from the Seven Sages of Greece.

Beyond the vestibule, on either side were two overflowing fountains, each
surrounded with statues of Triton, Neptune, Amphitrite, Apollo slaying the
great serpent Pytho, with other gods, goddesses, Nymphs, and Dryads.
Invalids who drank of a certain fountain, or bathed in it, and were
healed, threw pieces of money into it as a recompense. In the back part of
the _cella_ was the great hearth with the perpetual fire; and in the
_adytum_, or inner shrine, were the sacred tripod and other mysteries of
the sanctum. Below this was a subterranean chamber, from the sacred
recesses of which ascended the vapor of prophecy.

The oracular messages werebefore me."

He ceased, and again fastened his gaze upon the Holy Hill. But anon a
tremor shook his frame, his eyes became fixed, and he was as one in a deep
trance. His countenance changed, his lips seemed moved by some mysterious
power, and a message which was like a prophecy came out of his mouth. Even
the voice was not that of Abdiel.

"Behold, little ones are born already whose eyes shall see Jerusalem as a
heap of ruins. Sons of Israel will arise against each other, and strife
and famine among thy people ravage thee within, while Roman cohorts invest
thee from without. Battering rams will cause thy bulwarks to crumble; thy
palaces shall be sacked, thy towers crushed, and thy Temple destroyed by
fire. Pestilence, famine, and war shall bring thee to utter desolation,
until thou


in the camp of Israel, but more he could not clearly divine.
He was holden from making any allusion to the involuntary eavesdropping
upon the occasion of his arrival; and what he had heard on the part of
little Cassia had been so indefinite that he lived in a condition of
mingled hope, fear, and uncertainty. Barnabas was still at the
Sheepmarket, but there was nothing in his actions to aid in the solution
of the riddle. Saulus loved with all the intensity of his fiery nature;
and he even persuaded himself that if Cassia loved Barnabas, he could do
nothing but flee the Holy City, and so drifted along, not daring to find
out the truth. The suspense could not much longer be borne.

As he retired to his chamber after the conversation, he sat down to
communeand in a loud voice called
down upon the moving mass the curses of Jehovah. At first the soldiers
gave no attention to his maledictions except to send up a few jeers and
shouts of derision; but as he continued, a centurion below gave an order
to a rank of soldiers,--

"Enter and seize the Jewish dog! To the Tower with him!"

This was done, and the location of the offending inn noted. But there was
no halt of the long, glittering column, which continued its winding march
until it passed over the great drawbridge, and was lost to sight as it
entered the broad frowning portal of Antonia.

Upon his return, the Commandant of the Tower found a little deputation
awaiting him with a petition. They were members of the congregation of the
New Faith, who having heard that


that he should. He that
is condemned is self-condemned. True, he regrets his own manifold
mistakes, selfishness, and sensuous degradation. Their penalties will
surely scarify him, and make up his beneficent hell, through which he must
pass, either here or hereafter, in order to purification. Metals are only
purged of their dross by being cast into the crucible.

Salvation must be the result of free moral character, and that must grow
from within, for it cannot be imposed. This fundamental principle
underlies all surface religions, dogmatisms, and systems.

The Salapiae plunged dizzily onward. Amid the swash of waves upon the deck,
and the swinging to and fro of the tattered remnants of sails which kept
time to her staggering rhythm, a few dim, moving lanterns, like fitful
fireflies, were all that could be discerned.

Vivian never lost courage and composure, thoughseek the
master of the ship."

"Go, for God is with thee!"

With much effort Serenus lifted the cover of a small hatchway, and passed
out upon the dark, storm-swept deck. The violent pitching, noise, and
blackness were forbidding; and had he not been free from the bondage of
appearances, he would have quailed at the prospect. At length he found
Vivian, who was much surprised.

"How camest thou here?" said the master. But before Serenus had time to
answer, he continued,--

"But now I am minded of thy purpose to see me again. Thou art welcome, and
I count thee to be discreet; but before I hearken to thy message, I must
tell thee that unless a miracle take place, the Salapiae will go down, and
all on board perish!"

Serenus was silent for a moment, and Vivian continued,--

"I must leave


life. I shall think of him even during our peril. Behold thou hast
made me feel that there is something in us, of which the tempest, at its
worst, cannot rob us. Would that I could have seen the Ideal!"

"Thou mayst do even more, for thou canst feel his spirit within thee!"

"I have it, and it shall possess me!"

Vivian expressed a tender and earnest thankfulness, and they parted long
after midnight.

The next morning brought no occasion for hope. The water in the hold
steadily increased, and the gale showed little abatement. In every
direction there was nothing but an endless gray waste of boiling waves,
which seemed hungry and impatient to swallow up the stricken ship. The
weary hours of the second day dragged along with interminable slowness,
and the impenetrable gloom of outward conditions hadshe thought of the previous day, when Serenus
and Amabel coming from the Nereid were driven through the streets in the
company of that Roman whose dark face was so deeply engraven upon her
memory.

"There is much that seemeth mysterious to me!" she exclaimed; and then
turning towards Serenus said,--

"Of a verity thou wert the preserver both of Saulus and myself in the Holy
City, and now, behold thou hast appeared in Tarsus and saved me from the
fury of the mob! But I cannot understand"--

"Of a truth it was not I, but Marcius, the Vice Legate, who delivered thee
from danger and brought thee to this place of refuge. Perchance I rendered
some service, but to him thy thanks are due for thine escape."

Rebecca again closed her eyes for a few moments, but her memory


feel such an
assurance of strength and happiness that it seemeth a mystery."

"Peradventure thou hast some inner kindling of the New Faith!"

"Tell me of it; for even the bodily presence of you--its disciples--bringeth
a peculiar benediction!"

"We are but its instruments of spiritual ministration!"

"Cometh it down from the God of the Hebrews in answer to your petitions?"

"Behold the presence of God filleth all things, both great and small, and
his loving favor hath no constraint of tribe or nation! We need not beg,
for no willingness is lacking with him. To open our souls to the abundance
which is already provided, comprehendeth the Spirit of the New Faith!"

"Peradventure I felt some faint beginnings of its presence within me while
I was yet in the Holy City, but Serenus and thyself have it in living
fulness!"

"Behold thehath been here with the others.

"The life and teaching of the great prophet of Nazareth are faithfully set
before us by Serenus, and faith, love, and spiritual singleness are
strengthened and multiplied. Some who were sick have been healed, the lame
made to walk, evil spirits cast out, and the whole gospel of salvation
proclaimed to such as have ears to hear. Outward signs and works of mercy
give abundant witness to the working of the power of God within.

"All have great joy in the letter which thou didst send, and hope shortly
that they may behold thy face in thy native city.

"Serenus sendeth his warm brotherly greetings, and our father and mother
have great comfort in their hearts concerning thy latter course.

"Peace and blessing be multiplied to thee!


in great
respect, they advised his immediate retirement from the Holy City. But he
was reluctant to follow their counsel. Soon a well-matured plot among the
members of the _Urim_ came to the knowledge of the brethren, and they yet
more strongly urged his flight. But as it seemed like an abandonment of
his long-cherished plans, and a dishonor to the cause which was so all
important, he still lingered.

On the day before a whispered conspiracy was to have been consummated,
Saulus retired to a quiet place for spiritual communion and guidance. He
had trusted the inner Voice before, and been led aright, why not in the
present strait? The intensity of his desire and emotion ended in a
vision.(13) He entered into a state where a broadened outlook of
condition, duty, and privilege was opened before him. Theneeds be bound with chains. Silver and gold in
abundance shall be yours if peradventure you can compass his release."

"We come not for silver and gold!" said Serenus; "but in the name of the
Eternal Spirit of Goodness, to bring joy, peace, and salvation to this
house. Thy husband shall be restored."

Two strong attendants led the way, a few steps in advance, to a massive
room in the basement, where the Roman was securely bound with chains. He
glared fiercely as they entered, and sprang forward to the full length of
his bonds to attack them. Serenus and Saulus followed immediately behind,
and so soon as his eyes rested upon them he relaxed and sank quietly into
a seat, trembling, and frothing at the mouth as if in a fit. He was a
large man, and clad


privilege are one and the
same," said Serenus.

"Thinkest thou that the God of all the earth will always protect his own,
O Serenus?" said Rebecca.

"All divine laws that pertain to his children are beneficent; but if thou
hast in mind only bodily protection, it may not always be assured,
although everything worketh toward that end. But, as thou knowest well,
even if the body be destroyed it doth not harm the real man. While we
should strive to care well for our bodily manifestation, because it is
useful, its loss may be likened to the ruin of a house, with its owner
unharmed, and a more fitting habitation awaiting him."

"As thy departure draweth near, I would fain make inquiry concerning a
matter of doctrine, that I may have a fuller understanding," said Marcius.
"I have heard it saidfollowed, we should have been spared a shipwreck, and even
then, but for his wisdom and wonderful encouragement, I am persuaded that
all on board would have perished."

"May the gods be merciful to him! Thine experience proves that a prisoner
may sometimes be a philosopher," said the Praefect thoughtfully; "but how
unfortunate that a man of such superior wisdom should be a devotee of a
strange and superstitious religion!"

"Yea! He pays homage to a countryman of his own--a Nazarene whose name was
Jesus--whom he calls 'the Christ.' He teaches that this Christ was a God-
man, and therefore a leader and ruler; but that his kingdom is in the
souls of men, and that it hath no dishonor for the government of Caesar."

"Shade of Apollo! that is a strange kind of an empire! Even our Roman


just question the necessity
of, something like that bedrest:

"She says that she and her baby had potentially life-threatening complications
toward the end of her pregnancy, and that she would need to go on maternity
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Update, Mar 7, 2018: This essay was updated to mention a timeframe of a quote from a comparison State Department official.secret she can't wait to share." "She's beautiful." "Calm." "I sit by her side counting the minutes between contractions." "No." "You help her to her feet." "She tells you she loves you." "That she's just had the most amazing dream." "She was swimming underwater in a lake and she could breathe." "It was night, yet she could see." "Because the moonlight made paths through the water like fingers pointing the way." "She was happy." "Swimming amongst the fishes." "By the time the doctor arrived, her face had gone ash white." "Her eyes were distant." "But her grip was still strong." "They cut into her and pulled you out." "You were blue." "Not breathing." "The cord was still wrapped around your little neck." "The doctor worked on you." "And


bought 25% of the capital stock of the corporation from Maury Hazen in late 1979. David took the most active role of the four in the day-to-day running of the corporation. Brown came to the corporate office at least once or twice a week and knew the general condition of the business. Floyd and Fondren were basically silent stockholders. In January 1983, Floyd and Fondren tried to sell their stock to Brown and David, but no sale was ever consummated. Floyd and Fondren then contacted the Wilsons, concerning the sale of their stock. Floyd asked David to prepare a financial statement for the corporation to show the financial status of the corporation to the Wilsons. A document styled "Financial Statment [sic]Feb." was prepared which purported to give aopposed to $450 as reflected in the financial statement; (3) the actual accrued accounts payable owed by the corporation to others was $71,570 as opposed to $49,687 as reflected in the financial statement. In general, in the financial statement the corporation was shown to have a net worth greater than the actual net worth of the corporation. In discussing the financial aspects of the business, Brown told the Wilsons that the corporation was not financially capable of hiring Wallace Wilson; Brown advised the Wilsons of ongoing work which the corporation was performing for various individuals; Brown set forth the general condition of the business and prospective income. At the meeting, there was a general discussion that the corporation needed $10,000 in operating capital. Brown offered the books of


Arthur Rhodes. Ruiz seemed to be fine and Rhodes was lifted from the game.Pitcher Logan Ondrusek replaced Rhodes and only 3 pitches later, he nailed pinch-hitter Ben Francisco in the head to load the bases.Luckily for Francisco, he moved his head quick enough that the ball hit the brim of the helmet.So although it looked very scary, he was okay.Shane Victorino walked next to score a run.

So while all this was pretty entertaining, the Phillies were still down 4-3 going into the 7th.Utley was hit by a pitch for the 3rd erroneous toss by a Reds pitcher.Things began to go seriously downhill for the Reds when, with 1 out, they brought in their flame throwing rookie, Aroldis Chapman.With 100+ mph balls flying, it was the Reds fielders wholeave it Brad Lidge to try and throw away all that hard work and momentum for the Phils.With two outs in the 9th and a 3-run lead, Lidge gave up a walk, a single and then a 3-run homer to Joey Votto to tie the game and send it to extra innings.It was his 2nd blown save of the year in 7 opportunities.

So the depleted Phillies offense would have to rally yet again, and they did.In the 10th they faced Arthur Rhodes, a former Phillie, who had not allowed a run in 33 consecutive innings this year.Ryan Howard doubled, Jayson Werth walked and then Raul Ibanez stepped to the plate.

The home plate ump had a moving strike zone all night long and when a low 0-1 pitch was


down, like Utley who got hit with a pitch, breaking his hand.Can they do it again in 2010?We shall see.

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As the argument, Bennani reportedly attempted to take the sword away from Bourhouat and in the struggle suffered what police described as significant lacerations to the index, middle and ring fingers of his right hand.

Bourhouat fled the scene prior to police arriving on the scene.

The victim was transported to Canton-Potsdam Hospital, where he was treated and released after receiving 20 stitches.

Police said Bourhouat turned himself in at 8:19 p.m. Monday, He was arraigned by Potsdam Acting Village Justice Margaret I. Garner and sent to the St. Lawrence County Corrrectional Facility with bail set at $2,500 cash or $5,000 bond. She also ordered probation to conduct an alcohol evaluation.

Mr. Bennani said he


had been at his business, La Casbah, shortly before the incident at his home and had argued with his nephew.

Earlier this morning, Ray and I got into an argument when I tried to close La Casbah, Mr. Bennani said, noting he had told everyone in the bar, including Rays guests, that it was time to leave.

He was very drunk and was being obnoxious and disrespectful. He began to yell at me and insisted that I had to leave. Ive seen how Ray gets when he drinks - he breaks things and becomes violent. I decided to leave instead of arguing with him, he said, noting he left for home at approximately 3 a.m.

He said he stopped at the store and got some food, went home and warmed itup in the microwave and ate before going into his bedroom and starting to change. He said his brother in law had given him a ride home and while he was in the store Ray had called Hassan and threatened to break everything in the bar.

He said when he was getting changed in his bedroom he looked to his left and saw Ray standing in the doorway holding a sword. He said the sword was approximately three-feet long.

He said he immediately asked Ray about his intentions. I think he began talking about himself and about how I was no good. He told me that if I got into his business one more time he was going to cut my head off, Mr. Bennani said in the statement he


Mr. Bennanis face, pressed his cheek and pushed his head to the side.

He began yelling at me in Moroccan ... and told me that if I thought I was crazy he was crazier and was going to cut my head off, Mr. Bennani told police.

He said his nephew was standing in front of him, slightly to his left, when he decided he needed to be proactive to protect himself.

I jumped toward Ray and grabbed the sword with both hands. Ray quickly pulled it out of the sheath, and I knew at once I was hurt. When he tried to pull the sword away from me, it came out of the sheath and the blade sliced my fingers, he noted in his statement to police.

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Mike served as president & CEO of the YMCA of Greater Whittier for 16 years, where he conducted two successful capital campaigns during his tenure. Before his CEO position in Whittier, Mike was the executive director at both the Culver-Palms YMCA and the Crescenta-Canada YMCA. In addition to his executive responsibilities, Mike served as public policy chair and a member of the executive committee for the State Alliance of California YMCAs. He is also past chairman of the Southern California YMCA Leaders Conference.

He has extensive experience in community volunteer and board leadership. He served as a board member of the Whittier City School District Educational Foundation and Whittier Hospital Medical Center, was past president of the Rotary Club of La Canada Flintridge and Rotary Club of Whittier, andchaired the Rotary Foundation in Whittier for 14 years. He currently serves on the board of Thru the Bible Radio Network and chairs the organizationís Pension Fund board of trustees. Mike is also a member of the Presidentís Circle at Biola University, where he has been a guest lecturer in their Small Business Management class.

Mike received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara as well as his Organizational Leader Certification from the YMCA of the USA.


My first encounter in America was with a luggage cart. In the summer of 1992, when I landed at Kennedy Airport, I carried with me a travel bag filled with books. It was so heavy that it could not be checked in at my originating airport in Casablanca, Morocco, without putting me over the weight limit. Since I couldn’t afford the excess baggage fee, I brought the bag with me on the plane, where the flight attendant helped me hoist it into the overhead bin. In New York, I hauled it down the jet bridge and through passport control, my hands blistering from the effort. Relief washed over me when I saw a row of carts. I tried to get one, only to discover that it required threelet's start with some of the fun moments. You guys were both in London for the summer games. Tom Goldman, take the first stab. What was your favorite Olympic moment?

GOLDMAN: Second Saturday night of the games. In less than a two hour period, Team Great Britain, which had a sluggish first week, won three track and field golds and it really kick-started the Olympics for the host country. They won the men's long jump, the women's heptathlon, and then the men's 10,000 meters. Mo Farah of Great Britain won the gold. His training partner and friend Gaylen Rupp of the USA won the silver.

Now, I've heard a lot of delirious crowds, but this was the loudest. British reserve was torn to pieces. Going into the race, African nations


had won every Olympic 10k since 1988, and Farah and Rupp's coach, former distance great Alberto Salazar, said after the race that a big part of what these guys did was overcome the sense that the Africans were unbeatable.

GREENE: Mike Pesca, I assume that you and Tom weren't like shadowing each other, going to the same events. You might have some different memories from the games?

PESCA: Yeah, exactly. We're like the president and the vice president. We...

GREENE: You're apart all the time.

PESCA: Exactly. So, you know, one of the greatest events that anyone in the stadium will always remember is Usain Bolt's win in the 100. And he kept on winning. He won the 200. He won the relay. But Bolt was the standout athlete of the games.other Olympians with lots of endorsements and appearances. And you can chalk that up to this being a combat sport and I think there's a little skittishness about highlighting that, especially with a woman boxer.

It's too bad. She's got a great personality and she's a terrific athlete.

GREENE: Let's go to the NBA. A huge name, Lebron James, once the darling of Ohio then the bane of Ohio. He gets an NBA championship.

GOLDMAN: He became King James this year. He'd been hyped as that long before he won a title. It was nice to see after his public humiliation the season before with his no-show at critical moments in the finals versus Dallas, and he was, of course, the villain for leaving his hometown, Cleveland, for the beaches of


Mike.

PESCA: It's what we strive for in a sold-out area, yeah.

GREENE: And here we are three sports fans who can be given that label.

PESCA: Who are idiots.

GREENE: Yeah, exactly. It was - 2012 was a giant year in a lot of ways because the San Francisco Giants won the World Series. The New York Giants won the Super Bowl at the beginning of the year.

GOLDMAN: I see what you did there.

GREENE: Oh, you liked that.

GOLDMAN: And not to take - yes, not to take anything away from them. I'm not sure that those teams were the stories, as subjective, but they won. They're deserving winners. There are athletic reasons that they won. But for me in the sport of baseball especially, I got to cover a couple times,about his habit of naming bats after swords from "The Lord Of the Ring" series. I gave him some "Lord Of the Rings" trivia. Narsil, a fictional sword featured in the Middle Earth series, was owned by who?

R.A. DICKEY: Narsil.

GOLDMAN: Yeah. It was later re-crafted and renamed Anduril.

DICKEY: Oh, Anduril.

GOLDMAN: Yeah.

DICKEY: So that would - that was Elrond.

GOLDMAN: Close. It was Aragorn.

So that's not the typical Major League Baseball clubhouse conversation, and that's why R.A. Dickey is one of the more refreshing stories I've come across in sports.

GREENE: I can see the image of Yoda, like, on the mound giving him advice during games.

GOLDMAN: The Force is strong with him.

GREENE: Yeah. Okay. So we've covered the NBA, the NFL, major league baseball. I mean there is another big


sports.

PESCA: I hope that the New York Jets, the team I was raised to root for, puts something in front of their name before the word stock other than laughing. Rising stock.

GOLDMAN: Rising stock.

PESCA: Just get that laughing out before the stock.

GREENE: Okay, Mike uses this moment to promote his own team. Tom Goldman?

GOLDMAN: I hope my son has great success as an eighth grade basketball player and my daughter has great success as a varsity player as a junior in high school.

GREENE: Well, that is very inspiring, Tom. And I'm just going to join Mike in the (unintelligible) and say go Pittsburgh Steelers next year.

NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by a contractor for NPR, and accuracy and availability may vary. This text may notthe motion. The motion was filed with the clerk of the court on January 19.
On February 9, by minute entry, the court set the motion for oral argument on April 20. On March 13 plaintiff filed its motion to vacate the setting for oral argument, together with a supporting memorandum. That motion was followed by plaintiff's letter to the court, dated April 8, with copy to opposing counsel. The letter requested a ruling on plaintiff's motion to vacate the setting for oral argument before the date which had been set because no opposing memoranda had been filed by defendant and because plaintiff had not been apprised of any grounds for the rehearing sought by defendant.
On April 14 the court granted plaintiff's motion to vacate the setting for oral


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       On July 9, 1997, 71-year-old Mary Harris was attempting to disperse a crowd
of young people who had gathered outside her home at 1608 South 19th Street in
Maywood, Illinois. Unfortunately, the house was located within the territory of the
Black P-Stones, a street gang, and earlier in the day members of that gang had
fired shots at a member of the Four Corner Hustlers, a rival gang. As Harriswas
attending to her property, a Chevrolet Citation pulled slowly into a nearby
intersection. The front-seat passenger stuck a gun out the window and fired
between four and six shots into the crowd. One bullet struck and killed Harris, and
another critically injured an 18-year-old in the group. The car sped away.

       Walter Blount was later fingered as the driver of the car. He was tried in the
Circuit Court of Cook County on charges of murder, attempted murder, and
aggravated battery with a firearm under a theory of accomplice liability. In Illinois,
a person is guilty of a crime committed by another if, before or during the crime,
and with the intent to promote or facilitate the crime, he “solicits, aids, abets,
agrees or attempts to aid [another person] in


the planning or commission of the
offense.” 720 ILCS 5/5-2(c).

       The chief witness against Blount at trial was Brian Holmes. Holmes, a fellow
member of the Four Corner Hustlers, admitted that he was a passenger in the
backseat of the car during the shooting. He gave a statement to police at the time
of his arrest. After he was charged with first degree murder, he agreed to testify
against both Blount and Marcus Blackwell, the shooter, in exchange for a reduced
sentence. He later pleaded guilty to aggravated battery with a firearm and was
sentenced to six years in prison.

       Holmes testified that on the day of the shooting, he, Blount, Blackwell, and
KeShawn Huston had been riding around Chicago all day before returning   Finally, Maywood police officer John Mazariegos testified that he responded
to a report of shots fired at about 11:20 p.m. The report identified the suspects as
three black males in a red Chevrolet hatchback. Officer Mazariegos observed the
car the next morning and began pursuit. When the car was about one block in front
of him, and still moving, three occupants jumped out and fled. Though the officer
did not apprehend the men at the time, Blackwell, Blount, and Holmes were later
arrested. At a lineup, witnesses Willams, Poole, and Hughes all identified Blount
as the driver of the car on the night of the shooting, and Williams and Hughes
identified Holmes as a back-seat passenger.

       The jury found Blount guilty on all counts. He was sentenced


application that he called "Window Blinds" in 1997. Previous attempts by Stardock had included "Object Look", a minimal skinning application, and "WindowFX", an application written in Delphi. That name would later be reused for WindowFX, also created by Banfield. For a short time there was also a scaled-back version of the original Window Blinds called "WBLiteFX", a name which was still present in WindowBlinds registry settings as of May 2006.

WindowBlinds (now re-branded as one word) quickly made its way to a 1.0 release, driven by the requests of users to add "freeform skinning" (customizable window border shapes), sounds, and animation. Scrollbars, the task bar, the start button, menu items, the menu itself, and other GUI elements were added later.

WindowBlinds 2 was a major redesign in C++ that addedto power. A photocopy from the American Hebrew dated Oct. 1919, speaks openly about a holocaust of six million Jews before declaring “Israel is entitled to a place in the sun”!!

The terror outrages in Britain last year may not have been the work of “Muslim extremists”. A series of virtually unreported events in a Birmingham hotel suggest the covert involvement of Britain’s intelligence agencies in orchestrating events

AFP — April 29, 2014

Six Canadian CF-18 fighter jets left for Romania Tuesday to take part in increased NATO patrols over Eastern Europe amid rising tensions with Russia over Ukraine.

The multi-role military aircraft took off from their base in Bagotville, Quebec, at 9 a.m. local time (1300 GMT) as Canadian Defense Minister Rob Nicholson looked on.

In Romania, Nicholson said, the jets will


be conducting “training activities in support of (NATO) reassurance measures” in Central and Eastern Europe to demonstrate what another official described as “the strength of Allied solidarity in response to Russian aggression.”

France, Britain and Poland have already deployed fighter aircraft to Poland, Lithuania and Estonia, respectively, in response to Russia’s military buildup along its border with former Soviet-era satellite Ukraine.

Four warplanes from Denmark are also en route to the region.

NATO announced this month that it would step up its defenses in Eastern Europe due to the growing crisis.

It has also deployed ships in the Baltic Sea and eastern Mediterranean.Premier League title rivals Manchester City and Chelsea met at the Etihad Stadium on Monday night, with the visitors ending a venerable home record for Manuel Pellegrini’s men this season with a 1-0 victory.

Branislav Ivanović’s first-half goal was the difference between the sides, and ensures that there is only two points between the top three sides going into the business end of the campaign.

Although City started brightly, Chelsea struck back and put in an assured and dominant performance. Here are some key observations from the game.

Mourinho the master tactician

José Mourinho extended an excellent personal record over Pellegrini to seven wins from eight clashes, and his Chelsea side put in another comprehensive performance against a rival away from home.

The way that the Blues set up their side to absorb


pressure and hit on the counter attack was reminiscent of the points gained at the Emirates Stadium and Old Trafford this season.

It is clear that the Portuguese manager is happy to set his side up for a draw, hoping for better, away from home against a top side. This is complemented by the emphasis to win the corresponding fixture at Stamford Bridge – which the west London outfit have done this season against City and United.

Chelsea’s ability to keep a clean sheet also breaks a long-standing City record. Prior to Monday night’s game, City had scored in every Premier League game at the Etihad Stadium since a 0-0 draw with Birmingham back in November 2010.

Chelsea use their best defender as an attacking outlet

Right-back Ivanović turned out to bethe unlikely goalscoring hero, and the Serbian defender was utilised intelligently by Mourinho.

With David Silva lining up on the left of midfield for City, the eastern European defender was able to get forward and double up with Ramires against Aleksandar Kolarov.

For all his creativity and attacking emphasis, Silva showed no inclination to turn towards his own goal and City suffered down their left as a result.

Ivanović was also pushed forward on the right flank as an aerial threat, with the Serb winning a fair share of headers in the final third against countryman Kolarov.

Yaya finally meets his match

Yaya Touré is arguably the most influential central midfielder in the Premier League, and started this match like he was set to dominate affairs once more.

However, the Ivorian may well have


found his match, as new Chelsea signing Nemanja Matić went toe-to-toe with the ex-Barcelona star and came out on top.

Having rejoined Chelsea from Benfica in January, Matić looks like a much more rounded player than the youngster that turned up at Stamford Bridge the first time round.

His physical presence in the heart of the side is just what the doctor ordered, but his ability on the ball and technique were also on show – Touré has a new challenger for his crown as the division’s best central midfielder.

City look flustered for the first time this season

Pellegrini’s City side has taken no prisoners this term, scoring a well-documented 115 goals over the course of the campaign and taking maximum points on home soil.

However, after Chelsea weathered an early storm,up possession and was the driving force of a Chelsea counter attack that could have heralded three or four goals.

The Belgium international has shaken off a slow start to the season to recover and improve upon previous excellent form. With the World Cup in Brazil in the former Lille man’s sights, Hazard has the chance to put his hand up as one of the world’s best players this summer.

All of a sudden, Chelsea’s decision to sell Juan Mata to United seems understandable, as Hazard in this form is as good as anyone in the English top flight.

With Jesús Navas struggling to make a major impact on the game, one wonders just how much of a powerhouse City would be had it been them that landed Hazard’s signature instead


tobacco control policy networks in the U.S.

The purpose of this paper is to use social network analysis to examine two city-wide policy networks involved in similar public health policy initiatives focused in the area of tobacco control: (1) the Kansas City Smokefree Policy Initiative; and (2) The St. Louis Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) Smokefree Policy Initiative. The Kansas City smokefree policy campaign focused on the implementation of smokefree policies in cities throughout the Kansas City Metro Area. This initiative began with the inception of the CleanAir KC campaign in 2006 and was highly successful in achieving policy adoption---the campaign resulted in 22 out of 23 communities surrounding the Kansas City Metro Area adopting smokefree policies. The St. Louis CPPW initiative was funded as part of thewere also central to the communication network with many contacts and ability to connect many other stakeholders. In St. Louis, it is harder to identify similar champions as those recognized as important were often not those who were central in the communication network.

Finally, engaging policymakers also seemed evident in advancing policy. In Kansas City, politicians in all but one of the local communities were engaged in the network, even if only through the contact of key support members. St. Louis on the other hand recognized the importance of politicians in achieving policy change, however did not regularly communicate with these political champions. This disengagement of policy makers could have contributed to the lack of policy success in St. Louis.

Many of our findings are consistent with previous tobacco literature


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Zhiyu"The [ANC-SACP-COSATU] Alliance has stuck together through thick and thin for two decades, and is likely to outlast this latest conflagration for at least a few more years."

[The following article first appeared in AfricaFile's At Issue Ezine, vol. 12 (May-October 2010), edited by John S. Saul, which examines the development of the southern African liberation movement-led countries. It has been posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission.]

By Patrick Bond

October 2010 -- Since the freeing of Nelson Mandela in February 1990, the South African liberation struggle has witnessed the truncation, hijacking and reversal of its fabled "second stage": the National Democratic Revolution (NDR), which aims to transform the state and address class inequality. Instead, the state has become an even more blatant vehicle for crony capitalism


and merely tokenistic welfarism than under the Afrikaners' Nationalist Party rule. By mid-2010, the contradictions had become unbearable, and a spate of labour unrest suddenly brought home the obvious point: Alliance politics must urgently restructure – as must national socio-economic policies – or face an historic breaking point.

Society divides

The whole society began splintering just a few weeks after the World Cup provided a show of nation-building, broad-based excitement and unity. But the structural cracks had been widening during a long era of neoliberalism, for as the University of Cape Town's SA Labour and Development Research Unit recently reported, "income inequality increased between 1993 and 2008" (from a 0.66 Gini coefficient to 0.70) as South Africa raced ahead of Brazil to become the world's leader among major countries. Theincome of the average black (African) person actually fell as a percentage of the average white's from 1995 (13.5 percent) to 2008 (13 percent), and "poverty in urban areas has increased" (Leibbrandt et al, 2010).

The structural cracks had been widening during a long era of neoliberalism ... How could a democratic government actually amplify apartheid-era race-class inequality?

How could a democratic government actually amplify apartheid-era race-class inequality? It's stunning, but Mandela (1994–99) and his successor Thabo Mbeki (1999–2008), long-serving former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, former Trade Minister Alec Erwin, former Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni and current President Jacob Zuma, deserve recognition for constructing a "class apartheid" system that not even the most extreme pessimist would have predicted when the African National Congress (ANC) was unbanned.

According to the University


of Cape Town researchers, inequality is "due both to rising unemployment and rising earnings inequality" which is in turn partly due to labour broking, i.e., the outsourcing of formerly secure employment at much lower wages with no benefits to around half a million workers. Yet, in his 2010 State of the Nation speech and more recently in the midst of a strike in which he threatened to fire the entire civil service, Zuma displayed "no appreciation of the full extent of the massive crisis of unemployment, poverty and inequality," according to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu).

Indeed the two loudest anti-labour voices in Zuma's cabinet – Defense Minister Lindiwe Sisulu and Public Service Minister Richard Baloyi – provided a burst of neoliberal-nationalist political rhetoric and stridentdiscord so loud, in late August, that it drowned even the sweet memory of World Cup vuvuzelas a few weeks earlier. Zuma's Treasury was most to blame, for refusing to spend an extra $700 million per year to quickly halt the public sector strike.

For those supportive of more genuine liberation traditions, the good news amidst the political and socio-economic rancour is that the centre of power, and associated neoliberal policies, may not hold. The extreme political divisions and ideological distortions associated with the ruling party's "big-A Alliance" with labour and the Communist Party may not permit the ANC's big tent to stay open to all, no matter Zuma's personal charisma and good-times inclusiveness. It may well be necessary, finally, to construct a "small-a alliance" – as John Saul


(2005) named the idea – of organized workers, poor people, NGOs, environmentalists and other organized progressives.

The reason is simple: the neoliberal ruling clique is making the rich richer and the poor poorer. As one of the most prescient observers of South African politics, William Gumede, pointed out just after the 2007 ANC leadership putsch of Thabo Mbeki at the Polokwane congress, "For all the doubts that hang over Zuma's character, many argue that he offers a critical conduit for the poor's grievances. These people are going to be disappointed."

Instead the personal has become political. Asked in early September 2010 about the lucrative and extremely dubious deal that global steelmaker ArcelorMittal (formerly SA's state-owned Iscor) cut with a consortium (including his son, Duduzane), as well as his nephew Khulubuse'scorruption probes that seemed to have emanated from Zuma's office. The ANC's late-September National General Council in Durban will feature such a bloody battle that in trying to keep peace, Zuma decided to withdraw from the United Nation's annual (this time decennial) summit-celebration of the world's failure to keep pace with the mainly meaningless Millennium Development Goals. Zuma's retreat to Durban is significant because in August, he was – apparently without irony – named by Ban Ki-moon to co-chair a UN commission on world sustainability.

The roots of the cracks

We have to go back at least to the early 1990s to explain the degeneration. The secretly negotiated terms of the elite transition provided benefits mainly for a few hundred at the top of the three divergent interest groups –


white Afrikaners, white English-speaking business and the liberation movement – within the framework of neoliberalism. Increasingly shifting from white to black allies in South Africa, the "international community" – the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, other global-scale bankers, Northern "donor" governments and associated think tanks – together ensured that post-apartheid policies would deepen the country's vulnerability and destroy any residual self-reliance.

The elite transition provided benefits mainly for a few hundred at the top of the three divergent interest groups – white Afrikaners, white English-speaking business and the liberation movement.

This entailed several economic sabotage techniques: agreeing to repay illegitimate apartheid-era debt in part by taking on an unnecessary IMF loan of $750 million (1993), dropping trade tariffs even beyond what the World Trade Organisation required (1994), liberalizing exchange controls(1995) and then permitting the delisting of the largest SA firms (Anglo, DeBeers, Old Mutual, SABMiller, Investec, Mondi, etc) from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (1999–2001), raising the foreign debt from $25 billion in 1994 to $85 billion today, adopting a bound-to-fail neoliberal economic policy and insulating the Reserve Bank from democracy so as to raise interest rates to SA's highest real levels ever (late 1990s), privatizing state assets destructively, and lowering primary corporate taxes from 48% in 1994 to less than 30% at present.

Many of us who anticipated opportunities for "structural reforms" (Saul, 2001) in the 1994 Reconstruction and Development Programme were foiled. Personally, of 15 policy papers I was asked to draft or edit from 1994–2000 in a dozen ministries (which I believe to be a record


or what Carolyn Bassett and Marlea Clarke (2000) called the "class snuggle," that for a while replaced class struggle. This was especially evident in the National Economic Development and Labour Council, and in sites such as the Seattle World Trade Organisation summit in 1999 when Cosatu leaders found themselves in the "Green Room" with leading neoliberals like Erwin negotiating the next trade deal, instead of with the youth and environmentalists blocking the entrance.

One crucial problem during the entire post-apartheid period was labour's "corporatist" strategy ... the "class snuggle," that for a while replaced class struggle.

However, with class snuggle's main proponent (textile union leader Ebrahim Patel) chosen by Zuma to head what soon became an impotent new economic development ministry in 2009, more militancy soon emerged in Cosatu, ascapital.

The local economy had been mismanaged, with fake growth in the 2000s ... based on real estate speculation, construction mainly of white elephant infrastructure, consumer credit and exports of base metals.

The supposed economic boost from the World Cup meant that, though a formal "recovery" was underway, nearly a fifth of those retrenchments were still taking place during the first half of 2010, as GDP increased (at a 3% annual rate). Blame for the tens of thousands of new job losses was not only due to the end of stadium building in nine of the country's major cities, but also to an ongoing shift away from an economy based on manufacturing employment in which unions won a variety of perks and a living wage, to one characterized by even


more extreme labour casualisation.

(This was a phenomenon that Zuma and his labour team had vowed to Cosatu allies they would end: "labour broking." Not only did they not end it, but the most globally-embarrassing example of worker militancy, the Stallion Security workers wildcat strike during the first week of the World Cup, affecting half the stadiums, occurred because of abuse associated with outsourced work. And Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's first budget speech, in February, threatened Cosatu with even more pressure in the form of subminimum wages paid by corporations to young workers through a forthcoming state subsidy scheme.)

The other major public infrastructure under construction – a few big dams, the Medupi power plant (whose electricity would be disproportionately channeled to large mining/smelting operations), a huge boondoggle industrial projectfeaturing an unnecessary $8 billion heavy-petroleum refinery (Coega), a new Durban-Johannesburg oil pipeline, some road upgrades, and the Johannesburg fast train for elite customers – received occasional praise from ANC ideologues (e.g. Alan Hirsch, 2006) for conjoining social-democratic and industrialist potentials associated with a "developmental state." But this was merely dishonest posturing, given the underdevelopmental nature of so much of the state spending, such as the world's cheapest electricity gift to BHP Billiton and Anglo American Corporation ($0.015/kWh, compared to prices three times that high for most businesses and seven times that high for residents).

The war on poverty and the poor

Similarly, a package of minor interventions aimed at bandaging the poverty rift became, under Mbeki in early 2008, a so-called "War on Poverty" (WoP – for more see


Maharaj, Desai and Bond 2010). Now another bandaid, the "self-help approach", constitutes one of the Zuma government's many continuities with Mbeki's neo-liberalism – with, the SABC reports, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe arguing that "the state believes such a project is the only way to fight poverty. He is of the opinion that such an approach will force people to help themselves out of poverty." And when the poor don't "help themselves"? It has become all to easy then for Motlanthe and his ilk to present the masses as simply refusing to fight dependency and as remaining stubbornly mired in their psychological hang-ups and their culture of poverty. With no amount of haranguing and coercion able to shift them away from their penury.

A classic case of "blaming the victim,"cases are seemingly ubiquitous "service delivery protests" that force the state to turn its attention from attacking poverty to attacking the poor themselves. Meanwhile, the poor in turn react by burning down state buildings and councillors' houses in townships ranging from small Mpumalanga dorpies in the mountainous East to the big-city ghettoes and highways on the plains of the Western Cape.

To be sure, these quite localised insurgencies are not idealised leftist revolts such as might be characterised by mass-democratic organising and by a radical political consciousness. Indeed, they are even now called "popcorn protests," to evoke what happens when, with the application of intense heat, grains explode high into the air; then the wind or some unknowable physics formula may simply take them leftwards or rightwards (onto xenophobic


the WoP, one was especially illustrative. Among the state's most feared symbols is an armoured vehicle, the Casspir, and on the auspicious date of 21 March 2010, Sharpeville Day, one found itself surrounded in the township of an Mpumalanga dorpie, Ogies. The SA Press Association's courageous reporter filed this story:

Captain Leonard Hlathi, spokesperson for the Mpumalanga police said the Casspir was irreparably damaged when it was "outrageously attacked" by a mob who petrol bombed it several times. The protesters apparently led the Casspir into an ambush, by leading it over an improvised spike strip to puncture its tyres. Three of the heavy vehicles' puncture-proof tyres were blown out when it drove over the spikes, that were camouflaged with branches. "Nothing working remained in the vehicle," said Hlathi. "Onlyover a memorandum to representatives of the provincial government. "It is alleged the authorities did not turn up as requested. The people went on rampage, barricading the roads with burning tyres and burning down property." – Sapa

Encountering these sorts of minefields across the country, the state had a choice: either rapidly move from the ongoing war of position (nice-sounding rhetorical speeches) to a serious war of movement against poverty, or to simply retreat. The latter course was easier, and in 2010 the WoP was relocated to the rural development ministry. Back in the Pretoria War Room, it must have appeared that the WoP was now a fully-fledged class war, unwinnable under the country's prevailing economic conditions, given the motley coalition of power brokers in the Alliance and the


a World Cup in the face of international elite scepticism) or simply ineffectual.

A small-a alliance?

The only good that can come from this chaos of warring nationalist factions and class conflict is a restructured political landscape. The only way that will happen, in the view of many political activists, is the formal departure from the ANC of its most oppressed subjects, from trade union proletarians to the poor lumpen-protesters, and everyone in between. But that in turn awaits either a conclusive victory or defeat in the ages-old struggle for the hearts and minds of the ANC base. That base surprised many by voting out Mbeki in December 2007, which makes more serious the threat from Malema's rambunctious Youth League on August 25 that the next national leader to betargeted is the party's General Secretary (and former mineworker leader) Gwede Mantashe, who is also the Chair of the Communist Party. And not only is party secretary (and higher education minister) Blade Nzimande feeling pressure from Malema's faction, but a near-rift between the SACP and Cosatu emerged during the recent public sector strike, given the weak support the unions were receiving. With more strike threats being made for the last third of 2010, the Alliance may well be in danger of "imploding," as a Cosatu statement expressed it in late August.

A near-rift between the SACP and Cosatu emerged during the public sector strike, given the weak support the unions were receiving ... the Alliance may well be in danger of "imploding" ... (yet it) is likely to outlast


this latest conflagration for at least a few more years.

The Alliance has stuck together through thick and thin for two decades, and is likely to outlast this latest conflagration for at least a few more years. But, meanwhile, fearing another bout of Mbeki-style control of the airwaves, Cosatu has reemphasized its progressive values, defending media freedom and access to information, against ANC paranoia and secrecy.

The time is not yet ripe for much more. However, because the only formal political opposition not in disarray is the neoliberal Democratic Alliance – the next largest parties, Congress of the People and Inkatha, are imploding with internecine leadership wars – the most important medium-term dilemma for trade unions and genuine communists is whether a small-a alliance might be the basis of aconfidence, but the sense of disappointment on the left about Cosatu's "paradox of victory" (Buhlungu 2010) in backing not only the liberation movement in general but Zuma in particular, and "winning" (but thereby putting off necessary debates about basic policy and overall direction for some years) may yet – some time before the next national elections in 2014 – lift. The prerequisite is that labour actually does endeavour to draw the various now fragmented forces of South African socialism together so that they become a wedge for actually shattering the existing big-A Alliance once and for all. Then, it is felt, a firmly anchored political movement able to withstand any future round of tensions and even splits could form. As Gumede concluded in 2007, "The ragbag collection of


groups that back Zuma ranges from socialists and trade unionists to supporters of virginity testing and the death penalty. Dashed expectations may be the catalyst for a breakup of the ANC – a breakup which is debatably overdue and can only be good for democracy."

Rebuilding a serious South African left will be a long, halting process. Along the way, extraordinary victories have already been won, such as the Treatment Action Campaign's reversal of Mbeki's AIDS policies and opening up of pharmaceutical corporate patent monopolies (Geffen 2010). And one of the coming issues of the age, climate change, will motivate a strong environmental justice movement, for South Africa will host the Kyoto Protocol Conference of the Parties global climate summit in late 2011 (Cock, 2008; Bond, 2011). As well,are heading rapidly in the direction of a full-blown predator state, in which a powerful, corrupt elite increasingly controls the state as a vehicle for accumulation."

Rebuilding a serious South African left will be a long, halting process ... the post-World Cup fracturing shows how impotent radicals are, and how much effort it will take to finally organise a united labour-community front.

But, on the other hand, as a potential "opportunity" identified within such a scenario, the labour leaders openly remarked that the movement "could become stronger by drawing on its militant tradition to organise the resistance of workers; could broaden its perspective to take up living conditions and political issues as well as wages; and could play a central role in forging a new popular alliance, and in building


a new socialist movement in opposition to government." Brave words these latter, but a promising foretaste of what may yet happen nonetheless.

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Saul, J. Millennial Africa. Trenton:* War in east Ukraine is almost two years old

* One-year-old ceasefire is barely holding

* New military recruitment drive in March

* Support for leadership tied partly to war effort

By Natalia Zinets

KIEV, Feb 4 (Reuters) - War-weary Ukraine is struggling to recruit soldiers to fight pro-Russian separatists in the east, with enthusiasm sapped by reports of ill-equipped troops and poor treatment of families of missing soldiers.

When fighting began in mainly Russian-speaking east Ukraine almost two years ago, patriotism soared and recruitment offices in Ukraine's capital, Kiev, were inundated with volunteers.

Now, with a year-old ceasefire barely holding and the death toll still rising, Ukraine's military faces a battle to find replacements for about 40,000 servicemen expected to be demobilised in March.

Any sign that the war effort is flagging will play


own equipment.

"There's no desire to return," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "There were many things we had to buy ourselves, or volunteers donated them."

"Officially they gave us two pairs of socks for the whole period, useless old boots, a uniform from flammable fabric, which is freezing in winter and sweaty in summer."

Anti-Russian feelings still run high in much of the country, but war fatigue has set in and 79 percent of respondents in a December poll by the Democratic Initiative Foundation think tank said the government's priority should be ending the conflict.

"Now it's a big problem - the evasion of mobilisation and conscription," said Dmytro Tymchuk, a lawmaker and defence expert. "There's been negative publicity from the conflict zone ... There were problems with nutrition, medicinesand the winter uniform. Patriotism is falling."

A military spokesman offered no immediate comment.

BATTLING THE BUREAUCRATS

At the start of the conflict in April 2014, when the separatists rose up against Kiev's rule following the seizure of Crimea by Russian forces, one in eight servicemen was a volunteer, but that number has since fallen to one in 10.

Some of those who do enlist end up feeling disillusioned with the way they were treated by their superiors.

Families like that of sniper Dmytro Kulish, one of hundreds of soldiers who went missing at the front line, seethe at what they see as the incompetence of military officials.

Kulish disappeared after a battle in September 2014 and was kept in a prison for nine months in Donetsk, the rebel-held main city in eastern Ukraine.


When his wife saw a captured and badly beaten soldier being paraded by separatists in an online video, she instantly recognised her husband.

"First she was crying. Then she started fighting for my release. Unfortunately a significant part of the battle was with Ukrainian bureaucrats," Kulish said.

Another nine months passed and eventually the head of a Ukrainian volunteer battalion engineered his release in a prisoner exchange. "Officials from the Army, the National Guard and the State Security Service did almost nothing," Kulish said.

Lyubov Yanchuk was not so lucky. She spent a year cajoling officials to find the body of her 28-year-old son, who was missing presumed dead, and bring him home for burial.

She does not blame the government for sending her son to war but cannot forgive the rudenessof the officials who refused to help her.

In the end, she turned to members of a volunteer group called Black Tulip. They crossed into separatist-held territory and collected his remains from a shallow grave close to the town of Ilovaisk, the site of a crushing military defeat for government forces in August 2014.

"Those volunteers found my child ... I do not know how I would have managed without their help. Perhaps I would have had to wait for the war to end," she said by phone from her village in western Ukraine, her voice cracking with emotion.

"INSULTING"

President Petro Poroshenko, who said he would try to end the war when he was elected in May 2014, stated during a visit to a military school on Jan. 29 that 2,269


Ukrainian soldiers had been killed "defending Ukraine from Russian aggression".

Though he says the rebels have been able to fight on only because they have Russian support, a charge denied by Moscow, the inability to end their rebellion is one of several factors that threaten his popularity and that of the government.

Others are the ailing economy, a failure to end corruption and widespread disillusionment with the lack of improvement in life in Ukraine since Moscow-backed President Viktor Yanukovich was toppled in street protests in February 2014.

Ukraine, which has announced several waves of mobilisation since the conflict began, has not said how many more soldiers it wants. But to keep troop numbers at the present level of around 250,000 it would need to mobilise about 40,000 to replace those likelyFusion GPS is an opposition research firm created by three former Wall Street Journal reporters in 2011.

Fusion GPS gained public notoriety after the 2016 election cycle. During the election, Fusion GPS controversially worked for persons associated with the Democratic National Committee and Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to compile an opposition research file against Republican candidate Donald Trump. The file alleged that Trump engaged in nefarious activities in Russia, reportedly being paid $1 million for the work. Trump has denied the allegations in the file.[1]

Fusion GPS has also worked for clients believed to be operating on behalf of Russian government interests. Through a proxy U.S. law firm,[2] Fusion was commissioned to dig up dirt in defense of Prevezon,[3] a Russian company accused by the U.S. Justice Department of


fellow at the International Assessment & Strategy Center.[52] Previously, Simpson was a journalist for the Wall Street Journal.

Peter Fritsch and Thomas Catan co-founded Fusion GPS. Fritsch previously was a senior editor who working on national security issues at the Wall Street Journal. Catan “covered international economics and money in politics for the Wall Street Journal.” Catan “was also Spain correspondent for the newspaper and the Times of London, an energy, investigative, and Argentina correspondent for The Financial Times, and a reporter for Dow Jones.”[53]can be calmed down only by their mother, who jacks them off. Wanna see Candace banged naked? Proceed to the gallery!

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was a way to create art faster than with a pen or a paintbrush, and an exciting means to explore light and color. Holder learned his craft at the University of North Texas (UNT) on the outskirts of Dallas. He graduated in 1997 with a BA in Photography and minor in English and Illustration. With a unique foundation as a fine art painter and a cartoonist that budded as a child, Holder immediately created a name for himself among his photography counterparts in Belize "alternately shocking and entertaining" his audience.

In 1999, upon his return to Belize, Holder’s artistic nude photography of women was published in the Spanish edition of Penthouse. The following year, those images were featured in Holder's first solo exhibition titled, "Nude". His signature uninhibited styleFebruary 14, 1986, indictments were returned against Cabrera and eight co-defendants in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York for cocaine trafficking.   The first indictment, covering the period from January 15 through January 30, 1986, charged Cabrera and seven others with engaging in a conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846.   The second indictment made the same charges against Cabrera and three others for the period from January 11 through January 14, 1986.   At the plea proceeding, Cabrera expressed his desire to plead guilty to the first indictment, in exchange for dismissal of the second indictment.   Before accepting Cabrera's plea, the district judge (Bramwell, J.) advised Cabrera of his


things that were objected to here....  I can ignore it today but tomorrow he has got to live with it."

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In determining Cabrera's sentence, Judge Bramwell noted that Cabrera had been arrested ten times since 1974 on a range of charges, including murder.   He also noted that Cabrera had no verifiable employment for the past five years, leaving his means of support open to conjecture.   Because it appeared to Judge Bramwell that Cabrera's involvement in narcotics trafficking was substantial, he set Cabrera's sentence at twelve years, out of a maximum of fifteen years.

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On direct appeal to this Court, Cabrera attacked his sentence, arguing that Judge Bramwell had impermissibly relied on the statement in the presentence report labelling Cabrera a killer.   We foundstatement in the presentence report that he was a killer.   He also again raises the claim brought out in his first section 2255 motion, that the government violated the plea agreement.   He expands upon the earlier version of this claim, however, by pinpointing the violation as the inclusion in the presentence report of the statement that he was a killer.   After filing this motion in the district court, Cabrera went before the Parole Commission for a decision on his eligibility for parole, and on May 8, 1991, the Parole Commission elected to defer his release for an additional two years.   Cabrera then submitted a supplemental memorandum to the district court in which he contended, for the first time, that the


been fully litigated on direct appeal and found to be without merit, he may not now collaterally attack his sentence under section 2255.

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To the extent that Cabrera challenges his sentence on the ground that the government violated the plea agreement by including the statement that he was a "killer" in the presentence report, we cannot entertain this claim.   Cabrera raised the issue of a violation of the plea agreement in his first 2255 motion and it was found to be without merit.  "The sentencing court shall not be required to entertain a second or successive motion for similar relief on behalf of the same prisoner."  28 U.S.C. § 2255.   Based on the records of the plea proceeding and sentencing hearing, the districta "new ground" merely because Cabrera now offers additional allegations to support his claim.

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Cabrera also has not met his burden of showing, and the records of the prior proceedings do not reflect, that "although the ground of the new application was determined against him on the merits on a prior application, the ends of justice would be served by a redetermination of the ground."  Sanders, 373 U.S. at 17, 83 S.Ct. at 1078.   At the plea proceeding Cabrera was asked if any additional promises had been made to him, and he answered in the negative.   At the sentencing hearing Cabrera was aware that the statement he objected to was in the presentence report.   Although he objected to the use of the


268 F.2d 790
Audrey MORRIS, Executrix of the Last Will and Testament ofFlorence Virginia Day Utermoehlen, Plaintiff-Appellant,v.WESTERN STATES MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY,Defendant-Appellee.
No. 12533.
United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.
June 23, 1959.

Harris A. Gilbert, Norman & Norman, Nashville, Tenn., Ward Hudgins, Nashville, Tenn., McGlynn & McGlynn, East St. Louis, Ill., for appellant.
Bert P. Snow, Freeport, Ill.  James L. Reed, Edwardsville, Ill., for appellee.
Before DUFFY, Chief Judge, and MAJOR and KNOCH, Circuit Judges.
KNOCH, Circuit Judge.

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Meetings This Week

Due to disruptive and threatening behavior at Metro’s July 13 community input meeting, the agency decided to change its meeting format somewhat. Metro’s CEO Phil Washington related that the meeting was “especially difficult” for staff and members of the public, and said that he was taking steps to ensure that would not be repeated. Metro boardmember Hilda Solis called for greater civility and inclusiveness. Other boardmembers weighed in similarly, though Solis represents the Eagle Rock area where nimbys shouted down, harassed, and bullied Metro staff and BRT supporters.

Nonetheless, Eagle Rock 411 folks are rallying their forces, and still threatening BRT supporters.

I saw this posted on Nextdoor & replied that the open house was meant to promote a safer environment free


Locals rally on keeping families together at the border

Yugonda Sample-Jones

A group of about 40 to 50 protesters rallied at the Rouse Tower on Saturday morning against the Trump administration’s policy regarding families at the border with Mexico, according to those in attendance at the rally.

A group of about 40 to 50 protesters rallied at the Rouse Tower on Saturday morning against the Trump administration’s policy regarding families at the border with Mexico, according to those in attendance at the rally. (Yugonda Sample-Jones)

A group of about 40 protesters rallied at the Rouse Tower on Saturday morning against the Trump administration’s policies regarding families at the border with Mexico, according to those in attendance at the rally.

“It was about families staying together,” said Yugonda Sample-Jones, a Newport News resident whoSigns of civility in Lumberland; Clarification and compromise mark latest session on zoning

The presence of four law enforcement professionals stationed in the George Ross Mackenzie Elementary School gymnasium last Saturday morning was a clear sign of the tension that has built over the past several months as the Town of Lumberland has conducted a series of public sessions on its proposed zoning rewrite. But other than removing one man briefly in response to his repeated disruptions, and gesturing to another to cease doing the same, peace was kept and progress was made.
The February 25 public forum began with supervisor Nadia Rajsz reciting the list of changes made following public hearings conducted on December 14, 2011 and February 17, 2012.

Among those changes was one that appeared to please developer


By AFP

DUBAI: Saudi Arabian authorities have arrested two high-profile women's rights activists, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday, amid what the organisation called an "unprecedented" crackdown on dissent.

Award-winning gender rights activist Samar Badawi was arrested along with fellow campaigner Nassima al-Sadah this week, "the latest victims of an unprecedented government crackdown on the women's rights movement," HRW said in a statement.

Their arrests "signal that the Saudi authorities see any peaceful dissent, whether past or present, as a threat to their autocratic rule," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch.

Amal al-Harbi, the wife of jailed civic rights activist Fowzan al-Harbi, was also taken into custody this week, HRW said while adding that it was unclear why she was targeted.

Saudi authorities did not immediately respond to aaimed at improving the kingdom's image and oil-dependent economy.

Under the helm of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, heir to the region's most powerful throne, Saudi Arabia in June ended a longstanding ban on women driving and launched a number of projects aimed at attracting tourists.


Wainwright exudes confidence as her natural charisma makes every character interaction memorable.

All of Alisha’s efforts pay off when combined with such a fascinating character. Maia is a deeply complex character, served by interesting storylines. In her development as a leader and a fighter, Maia brings out a different side to the Downworld. She represents the average Downworlder. Not the leaders like Luke and Magnus, or the newbies like Simon and Bat. Maia has suffered the Clave’s injustice while trying to get on with her life.

For a character that came in late in the game, Maia is one of the most relatable. She works and studies, she fights and makes mistakes. Maia pushes the other characters to become better and grow as a person on the way. Her presenceall the answers given to her. She had to learn how to control herself, how to engage with a normal life again. In her way, she made friends in the Downworld and found a pack with Luke’s help. Maia also works and is on the way to get a degree in Marine Biology. All she knows of the Shadow World came with time and she is still learning.

Her position as the Second in Command didn’t happen out of a grand fate or family dynasty. It was the result of Luke’s failures, the Pack’s shifting alliances, and Maia’s own assertiveness. Loyal but practical, Maia looked after the pack even when Luke couldn’t. She had the option to flee but decided to stay and help the others.

Even when she doesn’t


the long-lasting consequences do as well. Maia’s body autonomy was taken away from her and she was left with both physical and emotional traumas. Shadowhunters deals with allegories to real-life and, in this sense, Maia is a domestic abuse survivor. Differently from the other werewolves we know, like Luke and Bat, her transformation was trigger by her ex-boyfriend. That adds an emotional charge to the attack, making Maia unique among her known peers.

And although those traumatic moments still influence her, Maia has been able to move on with her life. She has found a new family for herself in Luke and the other wolves. As Maia learns what makes a leader, she is finding her place in the pack. Maia is even trying her hand in love again,sharing her deepest secret with Simon as they slowly build up a trusting and healthy relationship.

Hers is a powerful story and one that resonates with the audience. Maia is a black woman who is allowed to be imperfect and yet a hero in her own right. She is a domestic abuse survivor who is in the process of healing. She is a complex character.

Maia gets to be the easiest to relate character in the show. It is not a coincidence thatAlisha only released she was playing a werewolf after booking the role. Maia’s fight against adversities comes from her life as a mundane, as both the least loved child and a black woman. That was imported into her life as a supernatural being, but it didn’t change who