cut-outs, but tapered to form a slanted enclosure embowering the windows. The stacks of surrounding bricks that form the opening are not uniformly and rectangularly shaped, but customized, sometimes trapezoidal, to meet the geometric and structural demands of the fitted opening.

John Runkle, speaking as an architect, explained that the work that went into the church and its architectural features was not basic or elementary, but sophisticated and difficult. It reflected the experience, ingenuity, and skill of artisans who, though enslaved, were masters at their craft and resourceful in devising ways to enhance its structural integrity and architectural appeal. There is both function and beauty here, engineering and aesthetics.

Who deserves the credit for the church? Who solved the problems of conception and execution? Whose ideas of material function andspiritual uplift did it contain and express? Who should be credited for its 175 years (and counting) of relative steadfastness?

Polk himself once explained the potential greatness of Southern civilization in this way: Because of slavery, he said, “we have that division of classes which makes one a laboring and the other a dominant class — one a working and the other a thinking and governing class.”

The Tennessee Historical Commission plaque adopts that division of physical and mental labor by giving all the credit to the Polks; their names are the only ones preserved in the official record. They built the church.

An older plaque, placed on the church in 1947 by the Diocese of Tennessee and the St. John’s Association, says much the same.

The plaque installed in 1947.

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has happened in most published histories about the church. As recently as 1970, the most scholarly accounts have made note of the slave labor that went into the construction, but the story has remained one principally of the Polks, and brother Leonidas in particular, as creators, marginalizing the contributions of the slaves whose hands and heads actually built the church.

Moreover, they have emphasized the ways in which the church’s history confirmed the brothers as benevolent masters and the reciprocal gratitude and loyalty of those they ministered to and held in bondage. Slavery was wrong, they say, but as practiced by the Polks, the church is evidence that in this case, slavery was less wrong than it could have been. In such accounts – and much as they didin the antebellum period – the enslaved continue to serve the Polks.

A fuller and truer account of the church’s origins, designs, construction, and purposes would not eliminate the Polks, or even marginalize them. Instead, it would situate them in relation to the enslaved and slavery at the center of the story of the church and seek to imagine how those whose hands, eyes, and minds fashioned it understood what they were doing.

Few records and no names remain to document those who worked three years in building the church, but the evidence is everywhere at St. John’s to disclose what they accomplished. Did they see the church building and what happened within it as belonging (like them) to the Polks? Or did they see it in any way as


their church? Did they recognize and understand that they, more than anyone else, made it possible – and not just the building itself, but also the fiction of master and slaves joined, as a family, in the sight of God?

Surely they understood that, no matter how heartfelt, the Polks’ benevolence was one of the ways of holding them in chains. This church, to me, captures precisely what historian Lucia Stanton has called “the coils and contradictions of slavery” that entangled bound and free alike.

The St. John’s Association erected this memorial to the church’s enslaved communicants. The tablet rightly gives the unnamed slaves due credit for the building the church.

The custodians of the church, the St. John’s Association, who maintain its upkeep, safeguard the property, and hold Whitsunday servicesthere each spring, have sought to modify the building’s story and to honor the contributions of the enslaved. There are at least thirty-six enslaved persons buried in the cemetery – fourteen of them named. Using ground penetrating radar technology, they discovered the unmarked and unnamed graves in a separate section of the cemetery.

In 2015 the St. John’s Association and the Diocese of Tennessee designated the unmarked graves with simple stone blocks bearing a cross. They also installed a memorial in the area: “To the memory of the enslaved persons, known and unknown, interred here and nearby who were communicants of St. John’s Church. The church stands as a lasting testament to their labor, talents, and artisanship.”

This tablet is an important corrective to the plaques on the state highway


and face of the church, but it is not immediately visible. A visitor must stumble upon it, behind the church at the rear of the cemetery, far from the highway.

Welcome though it is, I propose that even more needs to be understood and more directly communicated about this church and the people who built it. A new historical plaque on the highway, with the authority of the state commission, would foreground the histories of the enslaved. It would recognize them as who cleared the forest and fabricated the pews and devised how to build a church that would last. It would recognize that, as slaves, they gathered in that church under the watchful eyes of men and women who cared for their souls but claimed the irresistible powerand intellectual culture,” Polk and his fellow bishop Elliott wrote in 1859. The University of the South would demonstrate the error of this position. The university would serve and protect a slaveholding society – and all, bound and free alike, would be uplifted by its good works.

For generations we have honored Polk, Otey, and Elliott for founding the University of the South. We often hear that they and the hundreds of wealthy, slaveholding Southerners they enlisted in what they regarded as the high spiritual and material purposes of their cause built the university. They laid its cornerstone.

A short visit to St. John’s Church, especially on a gray and damp November day that deepens and enriches the reds, tans, and browns of its sturdy brick walls and tower, reminds


us that we need to look more closely and deeply into the history of the University of the South to behold and give due recognition to all of those whose labor, intelligence, skill, and sacrifice laid the cornerstone of its foundation.

On plantation chapels, see Blake Touchstone, “Planters and Slave Religion in the Deep South,” in Masters and Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870, ed. John B. Boles (Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky Press, 1988), 99-126.

For the quotation of “coils and contradictions of slavery,” see Lucia Stanton, “The Other End of the Telescope: Jefferson through the Eyes of His Slaves,” William and Mary Quarterly 57, no. 1 (January 2000), 139-52.

For the quotation of “The world is trying hard to persuade usthat a slaveholding people cannot be a people of high moral and intellectual culture,” see Leonidas Polk and Stephen Elliott, Address of the Commissioners for Raising the Endowment of The University of the South (New Orleans: B. M. Norman, 1859).

By Tanner PottsResearch Associate The Sewanee Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation

John Armfield (1797-1871), who made his fortune in the 1820s and 1830s in the slave-trading firm of Franklin & Armfield, was a critically important operator in the founding of the University of the South in the late 1850s. However, much misinformation and exaggeration surround his involvement and contributions.

This slideshow feature, prepared by the Project’s researcher Tanner Potts C’15, outlines Armfield’s importance to the founding of the university and in light of his formative influence in shaping the slaveholding


order of the antebellum southern region.

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The Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation aims to bring together the Sewanee community — students, staff, faculty, alumni, and area residents — to pursue a comprehensive examination and thoughtful consideration of our university’s historic entanglement in the institution of slavery and its legacies in the long century of racial injustice after the end of the Civil War.

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About our header image: The chief founders of the University of the South, including the Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana, the Rt. Rev. Leonidas Polk, all had long histories as both slaveholders and defenders of the slaveholding order when they launched the campaign for a university “of the South” in 1856. The header image of our blog is a stark indicator of these southern histories. It is cropped from an 1855 bill of sale for landed and enslaved property in Bolivar County, Mississippi, belonging to Bishop


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The source code of the page contained ASCII art image of Bill Cipher. In the letters and numbers comprising the image were messages that changed almost every day since its discovery. Words hidden in the image appeared to be written by one individual, while cryptograms were written as if snuck in by another. The original writer (presumably Bill) seems to not want the cryptographer, who may have been the Author, to get his messages out.

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WORLD WILL SINK INTO THE ABYSS OF A NEW DARK AGE MADE MORE SINISTER BY THE LIGHTS OF PERVERTED SCIENCE. LET US THEREFORE BRACE OURSELVES TO OUR DUTIES, AND SO BEAR OURSELVES, THAT IF WE LAST FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, MEN WILL STILL SAY, THIS WAS THEIR FINEST HOUR. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES!

The message is referring to the date June 18 and the number 618, which is a recurring number on Gravity Falls and is the birthday of series creator, Alex Hirsch and his twin sister Ariel. The message alludes to the Tang Dynasty which lasted from the year 618–907. Tang is a famous space drink. The two famous people who's birthday it could be are Frithjof Schuon, a Swiss philosopher, and Machihito, aka Emperor Ogimachi. Finally, the messengerNochi Dankner, once one of Israel's most powerful businessmen, was convicted of securities fraud on Monday.

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Tel Aviv District Court Judge Chaled Kabub found Dankner, the former IDB Holding Corp. controlling shareholder, guilty of carrying out millions of dollars' worth of fraudulent transactions in an attempt to influence the share price of the troubled company.

On February 23, 2012, IDB held a successful securities issue in which it raised NIS 321 million ($83 million). In the institutional phase the company raised NIS 286 million ($74 million) and the public offering yielded NIS 35 million ($9 million) in requests. The offering aimed to beef up IDB's cash reserves so the company could meet its financial obligations to its bondholders.

Dankner at court (Photo: Motti Kimchi)

Dankner is suspected


of providing the finances for a scam involving the purchase of IDB stock on the day it was issued. That day, IDB Holdings' stock registered unusually high activity on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange.

Suspicions are that Dankner was involved in manipulating the market on the day of issue—in other words, he is suspected of being involved in a massive acquisition of IDB Holdings stock, along with broker Adi Yehuda Sheleg.

The stock acquisition was likely aimed at maintaining the stock's value ahead of the issue. Once the issue ended, IDB Holdings' stock began plummeting.

Dankner, who at the time was chairman of IDB's board and one of the owners of its controlling interest, allegedly financed the scam with his own resources and recruited other parties who, according to his instructions, purchasedstock that was bought by Sheleg and the other accomplices in order to provide the finances to keep the scam going.

IDB, whose holdings include a major mobile phone carrier and a leading supermarket chain, took on millions of dollars in debts following a series of bad business deals. The courts wrestled control of IDB away from Dankner as a result.

Dankner, a favorite of Israel's business community, was often credited with helping rescue Israel's economy at the height of a Palestinian uprising. Under his leadership IDB became Israel's largest holding company and Dankner became a celebrity.

According to the indictment, which was filed in 2014, "Dankner saw great importance in the success of the public offering," which is why he invested a lot of effort in promoting it and ensuring


its success, including by meeting with potential investors.

In the media, the public offering was dubbed "The Friends' Offering," as many businessmen with close ties to Dankner participated in the preliminary offering, including Michael and Raya Strauss, Yair Hamburger and Shlomo Eliahu.

The indictment alleged the funds secured from these businessmen were not enough to put Dankner's mind at ease about the public offering, leading him to conceive and execute the scam.Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company is to bring the story of the Volkswagen emissions scandal to the big screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

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the pie in favor of fruit-based treats like poached pears stuffed with a dot of mascarpone cheese and maple syrup. Or go with airy pavlovas — puffy meringues filled with mixed berries or other fruit. Another dessert that relies on the low-calorie egg white is angel food cake. Create a winter take on shortcake with a compote of pears or figs. Top on cake slices with a small dollop of whipped cream or sour cream.

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Over the decades, the Midland Trail has had many names. It’s been known as the Buffalo Trail, the Lewis Trail, the Old Virginia State Road, the James River & Kanawha Turnpike, the Midland Trail, and, ultimately, U.S. 60.

As it makes its way across West Virginia, the Midland Trail travels through six of the state’s 55 counties. In the east, the first of these is Greenbrier County. The Midland Trail then travels through Fayette, Kanawha, Putnam, Cabell and Wayne counties.

Getting there: Today the Midland Trail is U. S. Route 60, which closely parallels Interstate 64 from the Virginia line to the Sam Black Church exit and again from Charleston to the Kentucky line. It may be accessed at many points along these sections, and where it crosses U. S.UPDATE: 10:06 a.m.

Light ashfall is likely to continue from Kilauea volcano, the National Weather Service said in a bulletin.

Ash fallout is likely to occur over the Kau district and Highway 11 southwest of the town of Volcano, including the communities of Pahala, Wood Valley and Naalehu, weather officials said.

However, trace amounts of ash deposited over the last few days are likely being picked up by locally gusty strong trade winds, contributing to dusty conditions.

9:50 a.m.

Several fissures are still very active today, fountaining lava and spanning about a mile along the rift from Leilani Estates to Lanipuna, according to Hawaii County Civil Defense.

The Kilauea summit continues to spout ash, although plumes measure less than 8,000 feet high.

The National Weather Service forecasts trade winds to keep blowing today between 15


eruptions, the HVO said.

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The Leilani Estates subdivision continues to see ground cracking and the eruption of lava, with the potential for new lava outbreaks in the area, according to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

The most active fissures Tuesday were 22, 19, 6, 5 and 23, HVO officials said in a status update. Meanwhile, activity at fissure 17, at the northeastern end of the fissure system, has eased up.

Magma continues to be supplied to the lower East Rift Zone, and fissure 6 is feeding a flow to the south, roughly parallel to the western flow from fissure 22.

Although there were only a few earthquakes Tuesday in the rift zone, overall earthquake activity remains elevated.

Volcanic gas emissions at the summit also remain high, and “additional explosive events that could produceminor amounts of ashfall downwind are possible at any time,” according to the HVO.

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Lava activity continues at multiple sites with fissure 6 through 22 erupting lava fountains, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The fountains from fissure 22 feed a single lava channel that reaches the coast just north of MacKenzie State Park. The actual point of entry has been shifting to the west today.

Spattering continues from fissures 5, 6, and 19 that fed a lava flow to the south that is now stalled and a smaller flow to the north along and south of Pohoiki Road. Weak spattering continues at fissure 17.

Meanwhile, a new area of fountaining started this afternoon along the fissure line between Kaupili and Mohala Streets near fissure 23.

In addition, volcanic gas


route only for Kalapana residents, said Jessica Ferracane, spokeswoman for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Hawaii County Civil Defense officials also said that on Monday night lava destroyed an old warehouse on the site of the former Hawaii Geothermal Project-A, which was an experimental state venture to explore the possibility of geothermal energy production. (The “A” in the project’s name refers to geothermal well A.) Earlier in the day, they had said the warehouse was on the Puna Geothermal Venture property, but later clarified that it was on the HGPA site, near Puna Geothermal.

A top executive in Hawaii for PGV said the concerns about lava inundation at the plant have been overblown.

Michael Kaleikini, senior director of Hawaii affairs for PGV, said the noise and emissions from more than 20 volcanicof an area known as the “Boneyard,” where the company stores old parts and equipment. The lava has reached to within about 300 yards of the nearest well, he said.

Janet Snyder, spokeswoman for Hawaii island Mayor Harry Kim, said the U.S. Geological Survey has crews at PGV to monitor the movement of the flow near the 815-acre property.

She said the old warehouse that was destroyed at about 9:30 p.m. Monday was owned by the state, and was used in geothermal research projects early in the development of the prject.

That brings the total number of structures that have been destroyed to at least 47 since the eruption began on May 3, but civil defense officials say they believe the total is actually higher. They have been unable to say


the middle of Seinfeld episodes was cut. Much publicity followed the controversial episode, " The Contest ", an Emmy Award -winning episode written by co-creator Larry David, whose subject matter was considered inappropriate for prime time network TV.

To circumvent this taboo, the word " masturbation " was never used in the script, instead substituted for by a variety of oblique references. Cheers reruns that spring. Season five was an even bigger ratings-hit, consisting of popular episodes, such as " The Puffy Shirt " in which Jerry feels embarrassed wearing a "pirate" shirt on The Today Show , [58] " The Non-Fat Yogurt " featuring Rudy Giuliani , the Republican then-mayor-elect of New York, [59] and " The Opposite " in which George, doing the opposite of what hisinstincts tell him he should do, lands a job with the New York Yankees and Elaine leaves "Pendant Publishing" because of a comedy of errors that lead to its demise.

Another story arc has George returning to live with his parents. In the midst of the story arc, Kramer creates and promotes his coffee table book. Seinfeld was nominated for the same award every year for its entire run but always lost to Frasier, which went on to win a record thirty-nine Emmy Awards in its eleven-season run.

The series remained well-regarded and produced some of its most famous episodes, such as " The Beard " in which Jerry is put through a lie detector test to make him admit that he watched Melrose Place , [61] " The Switch


" in which Kramer's mom, Babs, reveals that his first name is Cosmo, [62] and " The Understudy " in which Elaine meets J.

Peterman for the first time. This was the first season in which Seinfeld reached No. The use of Jerry's stand-up act declined with the end stand-up segment no longer appearing, as the storylines for all four characters grew denser.

In season seven, a story arc involved George getting engaged to his ex-girlfriend, Susan Ross, after the pilot Jerry proved unsuccessful. In it, George spends most of the season regretting and trying to get out of the engagement. Along with the regular half-hour episodes, two notable one-hour episodes were " The Cadillac " in which George plans to date award-winning actor Marisa Tomei [64] and " TheBottle Deposit " with Elaine and Sue Ellen participating in a bidding war to download JFK's golf clubs in an auction.

Larry David left at the end of season seven, although he continued to voice Steinbrenner, so Seinfeld assumed David's duties as showrunner , and, under the direction of a new writing staff, Seinfeld became a faster-paced show. The show no longer contained extracts of Jerry performing stand-up comedy—Jerry had no time or energy for this with his new responsibilities—and storylines occasionally delved into fantasy and broad humor.

For example, in " The Bizarro Jerry ", Elaine is torn between exact opposites of her friends and Jerry dates a woman who has the now-famed "man hands". Despite the enormous popularity and willingness of the cast to return for a tenth


season, Seinfeld decided to end the show after season nine, believing he would thereby be able to ensure the show would maintain its quality and go out on top.

Jerry Seinfeld defused the protestors by not letting this episode continue in syndication, as revealed in "Inside Look" on DVD. Jerry Seinfeld was featured on the cover of Time magazine's first issue of Before the finale, a forty-five-minute retrospective clip show, " The Chronicle ", was aired.

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The retrospective was expanded to an hour after the original airing and aired again on NBC as an hour-long episode, and has since aired in syndication. It was the first episode since the finale of season seven, " The Invitations ", to feature opening and closingLast updated on .From the section European Football

Lionel Messi will be offered an improved contract at Barcelona, according to club president Josep Bartomeu.

The 26-year-old Argentina international's current deal expires in 2018 but Bartomeu insists he deserves a "modification".

"We want to improve it because he deserves it, to adapt it to football's current circumstance," he said.

Bartomeu declined to comment on the future of manager Gerardo Martino.

Record-breaking Messi Most goals in a calendar year: 91

Most goals in a season: 68

Most goals in a La Liga season: 50

Most La Liga hat-tricks in a season: 8

Most European Cup top scorer awards: 4 (with Gerd Muller)

Most goals in a single European Cup game: 5

Most consecutive La Liga matches scored in: 10

Most goals in Club World Cup: 4 (held jointly with Denilson)

Barcelona's top goalscorer


in all competitions: 351

Messi has been subjected to criticism in the Catalan press during Barcelona's slump in form that has seen them knocked out of the Champions League, lose the Copa del Rey final and fall to third place in La Liga.

But ahead of Sunday's league match at home to Athletic Bilbao, Bartomeu said Messi needs to be looked after.

Messi, who is Barcelona's record goal scorer, has hit 25 goals this campaign but has struggled for form in a number of key matches.

"We are being unfair to Leo," Bartomeu told Esport3 television channel. external-link "Our club members need to understand that we must take care of Messi.

"He has made such an important contribution to this club and he will continue to do so. That's why we have nodoubt that he will lead the future of the club. He is young, he is the best player in the world, and we believe in him."

Bartomeu, who became president following the resignation of Sandro Rosell in January, added that he and his board would complete the remaining two years of their mandate - as originally planned when they were elected in 2010.

He also said the squad would undergo an overhaul in the summer, if Barcelona can find a way to get Fifa to remove a transfer ban imposed earlier this month for violations in its signing of youth players.

Bartomeu said that sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta would lead a project to carry out a "profound remodelling" of the team.


The video below purports to show what happens after two Philadelphia cops stop a motorist for allegedly ramming into a pole and driving off last week. Backup shows up about two minutes in, and then it's four of the city of brothelry love's finest subduing Marcus Warryton, the "suspect" (who does not appear to be charged in connection with the traffic violation). The Philadelphia Daily News reports, by way of an update that all but one officer (the one who "struck" Warryton) are back on patrol:

During the struggle, police said, two officers suffered cuts and bruises, and another injured his neck.

At one point, Warryton allegedly reached for one officer's handgun, police said.

Warryton needed seven staples to close gashes on his head. He was charged with aggravated assault, simpleGoodbye Wittgenstein

Goodbye Wittgenstein is an international exchange programme between artists and academics from qujOchÖ in Linz, Austria and artists selected by A3 Project Space.

Participants in the programme take the relationship between the Austrian-born philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and his close friend from Birmingham, David Hume Pinsent as a starting point for a series of projects that will happen in Linz and Birmingham during 2016.

The first phase of the Goodbye Wittgenstein programme is a visit to Birmingham from qujOchÖ artists Verena Henetmayr, Thomas Philipp and Andre Zogholy who will be in residence at BOM (Birmingham Open Media).

The residency includes public events and will culminate in a presentation of their interventions at Stryx as part of Digbeth First Friday on Friday 5th August.


Rare Civil War quilt found in Texas has a mysterious story

Katherine J. Adams Quilt Curator (right) at the Briscoe Center for American History The University of Texas at Austin and Deborah Burkett (left). Katherine J. Adams Quilt Curator (right) at the Briscoe Center for American History The University of Texas at Austin and Deborah Burkett (left). Photo: Provided By Deborah Burkett Photo: Provided By Deborah Burkett Image 1 of / 20 Caption Close Rare Civil War quilt found in Texas has a mysterious story 1 / 20 Back to Gallery

A quilt dating back to the 1860s has been uncovered in a library in the small Texas town of Alto.

The valuable Civil War artifact was first spotted four years ago but it has taken until now for specialists studyingthe intricate patterns to figure out where it came from.

The quilt is made up of silks and taffetas – precious fabrics highly sought after at the time it was made and now.

"(When I first saw it) I stopped in my tracks ... immediately I knew it was special," said Deborah Burkett who discovered the quilt hanging on the wall in the library in Alto in 2010. "Clearly you can tell it's old ... the silks and satins are beautiful ... it is excellent quilting."

Despite it's obvious value, the origin of the quilt remained a mystery until earlier this year when librarians at Alto's Stellar Hill Memorial Library turned up a file containing the name of the family that donated it.

The document proved the quilt was so unique it


has now been donated to the Ima Hogg quilt collection at the University of Texas' Briscoe Center, where urgent preservation work is being completed. The hope is that one day the ancient embroidery might go on public display.

"Because of the quilt's condition, which is quite fragile, I am keeping it carefully tissued and boxed," said Katherine Adams, quilt curator at the Briscoe Center, via email, "Unfortunately, silks of this era shatter easily, a condition that is progressive and cannot be stopped."

The quilt was sewn by Mary Perry, a Louisiana quilter who was born in 1845. Perry sewed it and all its intricate embroidery patterns when she was just 15 years old.

"It's amazing that it's lasted," said Perry's great granddaughter, Mary Decker, who was involved in the donation ofthe quilt to the Briscoe Center.

Decker says the money put into the creation of the quilt illustrates just what a wealthy area the South was at the time. Cryptic symbols included in the design also allude to events taking place during the Civil War.

"It shows an American flag overlying the flag of the republic," Decker said. "It sounds as though her family was a unionist family. Her father was from Maryland which never seceded."

At the Briscoe center experts are also studying the pattern, piecing together its history and tracing the skills of Mary Perry.

"In addition to her beautiful hand piecing, Mary hand embroidered motifs, including flowers, leaves, crossed flags, an anchor, acorns, etc. appear on many of the hexagons," said quilt curator Katherine Adams.

A valuation of the quilt


made when it was removed from the library is being kept secret. According to the finder, Deborah Burkett, the family does not want to reveal it, although it is known to be in the thousands.

A decision on whether the quilt will go on show will be made later in the new year, according to the Briscoe Center. Photographs of it will be included in at least two books; one by Adams about the center's Windale Quilt Collection and one by Burkett which includes details of other valuable quilts she has found over the years.2013 was estimated to be worth $28 billion and it is growing at approximately 7.5 per cent a year.

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Since his first meeting with Codd, Chris has become one of the leading voices specializing in relational database technology.

He is best known for his book An Introduction to Database Systems (8th edition, Addison-Wesley, 2004), which has sold some 900,000 copies and is used by several hundred colleges and universities worldwide. He is also the author of numerous other books on database management, including most recently SQL and Relational Theory: How to Write Accurate SQL Code (2nd edition, 2012); Database Design and Relational Theory: Normal Forms


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In 1948, Colombian revolutionist Jorge Gaitan was brutally killed in Bogotá, Colombia; his death sparked the rise of organized armed groups known as the Liberal guerillas. Many years of oppression and a lack of equal distribution of wealth in the rural areas was what helped to create the notorious organization known as Las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or better known as FARC. This group was first established in the early 60s as a "military wing of the Colombian Communist Party." Manuel Marulanda was credited for being the founder of the group. At first he had a peaceful ideology; all he wanted was fairtreatment for his people and the right to protect the natural resources from their land. Unfortunately, the group felt that numerous rallies expressing their frustration did not have much of an effect on politicians and other influential people. Thus, the organization felt they had to resort to more violent means. The organization began kidnapping and murdering people, however they needed financial profits to continue their expansion. The FARC sought an easy opportunity to gain millions of dollars for their organization by drug trafficking. At the beginning their network was only worth a few pesos, but eventually this grew exponentially as the U.S. Department of State estimated they were making as much as $300 million a year. What was first a movement for the people turned into a major


the mid-1940s Jorge Gaitan, a well-educated labor minister and politician, became the spokesperson these poor civilians had prayed for. This also meant Gaitan would become the enemy and target of Liberal and Conservative leaders. In 1948, the voice of the poor was once again shut silent as Gaitan was killed outside his office in Bogotá; his death caused great mayhem in the country's most popular city. Thousands died in the violent disarray. This incident resulted in the rise of organized armed groups known as the Liberal guerillas. "The drive of the powerful for more wealth and power brings violence to the weak. The weak, in turn carry out violent terror against their perceived oppressors" (Nassar, 2005, chap. 2). Perhaps it was ignorance or the Colombian government did notsee these guerillas as a threat, since their actions became unnoticed for years to come.

Socio-Historical Context of Terrorist Organization

Presently FARC-EP is involved in the unending Colombian armed conflict; a civil war which began in 1966 and that was triggered by La Violencia (The Violence). La Violencia was a civil clash that took place from 1948-1958 between supporters of the two major political parties of Colombia: the Colombian Liberal Party and the Colombian Conservative Party (Roldan, 2002). Historians state that this traumatic event was sparked by the murder of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, which evidently lead to nearly 200,000 deaths during the 10 year agonizing period.

Jorge Gaitan was apparently important to a particular set of Colombian supporters. Simons (2004) tells us that Gaitan was one of the most charismatic leaders


of the Liberal Party, one who supported the "little people" and who sought to protect them from the discrimination and injustice of the wealthy. In 1953, during the mess of all things, the Colombian government tried to negotiate with the combatants. Some accepted but others fled to the outskirts of the country to gain further strength. Jacobo Arenas, who is to become one of the ideological leaders of FARC-EP, is sent by the Colombian Communist Party to help strengthen these isolated groups and form guerillas (Roldan, 2002).

By 1958 a majority of civilian rule was re-established after moderate Conservatives and Liberals united forming La Frente Nacional de Colombia (The National Front). Nevertheless, several communist groups in isolation continued to grow stronger and for a short time the Colombian governmentseemed to ignore them (Dudley, 2004). In 1964 conservatives began to take notice in the guerilla threats, so the Colombian National Army was ordered to dismantle such opposing forces. The communist guerillas retaliated by forming a group called El Bloque Sur (The Southern Block), the name due to their strength of formation in the south-eastern rural parts of Colombia (Dudley). El Bloque Sur later renamed itself Las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). The initials EP were later added to amend Ejercito del Pueblo (The Peoples Army) in 1982; which would symbolize change from guerilla warfare to conventional warfare.

By the mid 60s' FARC-EP (simply FARC during those years) was recognized as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party. The new military wing


was the largest movement against the Colombian Government, its actions and policies (Alapa, 2000). Jacobo Arenas and Manuel Marulanda, the main leader of FARC-EP, had full control of this new power. Along that era, La Union Patriotica - UP (The Patriotic Union) was also developed. This union was a leftist political party founded by FARC-EP and the Colombian Communist Party. Its purpose was to become a peace negotiator between the guerillas and the conservative administration, but the Union's power declined after various military efforts (Dudley, 2004).

On August 10, 1990 Jacobo Arenas dies, possibly due to natural causes. His death was very significant to FARC-EP since he was the main principle that had transformed the dispersed guerillas forces into a belligerent rebel army (Alapa, 2000). In 2000, FARC-EP foundedthe political structure Partido Comunista Clandestino Colombiano - PCCC (Clandestine Colombian Communist Party) after breaking away officially from the Colombian Communist Party. In 2005, President Alvaro Uribe's Plan Patriota, a joint effort between the US and Colombian government, is commenced to put an end against FARC-EP and other Colombian terrorist forces (Simons, 2004). FARC-EP retaliates with further attacks.

March 26, 2008 Manuel Marulanda dies of a heart attack but his death is kept secret until May 24. The death of FARC-EP's founder would not change their efforts. His leadership was replaced by Alfonso Cano, currently the main leader of FARC-EP (Alapa, 2000).

Presently FARC-EP remains as the largest insurgent group in the Americas. FARC-EP is a violent non-state actor, described as a terrorist group by the Colombian government, the U.S.


Department of State, the Canadian government, and the European Union. But other governments such as the Venezuelan government are less hostile towards FARC-EP. President Hugo Chavez rejects their classification as a terrorist group (Reyes, 2009). Many political heads state that FARC-EP's power is only declining due to the fall of its main leaders, but within the past few months their threat seems apparent, especially after the kidnapping and death of Governor Luis Francisco Cuellar in December 2009.

Description of Terrorist Organization

FARC-EP came about due to the turmoil and fighting in the 1950's between liberal and conservative militias. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia was founded in 1964 in Colombia by the Colombian Communist Party in response to the communist's controlled rural area. FARC-EP is the oldest, largest and bestequipped terrorist group in Latin American. It is well known throughout the word for the guerrilla activities and marxist beliefs.

"Today the FARC-EP is a rural movement composed of more than sixty separate cells, or frentes, proudly claiming at least eighteen thousand dedicated supporters" (Welna & Gallon, 2007, p. 28). In the fight of the United States against terrorism, the U.S. Department of State classified the FARC-EP as a terrorist group on their September 2001 report on Foreign Terrorism. It is through American efforts and cooperation from Colombian officials that we have come to learn much of the information we know regarding this group's structure and how it operates under a hierarchal chain of command consisting of a Central General Staff of seven secretariats. The structure of FARC-EP combines


militaristic rank, structure and ideology. The lower rank fighters are not paid; they are forced to live under extreme weather conditions. Most recruits that join are poor peasants between the ages of 16-30. Many individuals join because of poverty, unemployment, family instability and vengeance, as well. This terrorist organization operates in jungles of the southeast and plains at the base of the Andes. FARC's structure is very similar to any militaristic organization composing of different ranks within squads, commands and guerillas. FARC-EP maintains a military academy and a two month basic training programs which teaches new recruits infantry tactics. After basic training stronger guerilla fighters move to advanced training.

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia receive most of its funding which is estimated to about $300 million per yearin the 1980's and that amount rose to $500 Million in the late 1990's (Nacos, 2006; US State Department, 2002; Harmon, 2008) . FARC-EP makes money from taxation of the illegal drug trade, ransom kidnappings, bank robberies and extortion of large landowners. Just from the illegal drug trade alone, it is estimated they earn between sixty and one hundred million dollars per year. In the beginning, FARC-EP was not involved in drug cultivation, trafficking or transport. Instead it gained profit by taxation on the production that took place in the territories they controlled in exchange for protecting the growers and establishing there new laws in those areas. During the 1990's is when FARC-EP started trafficking and productions of illegal drugs, which provided a large portion of its funding.


In 2006 the U.S. Department of Justice indicated that FARC-EP was also responsible for supplying more than half of the world's cocaine. FARC-EP is also responsible for many ransom kidnappings in Colombia. Targets are often wealthy land owners, businessmen, police, military and foreign tourists.

In 1976, the Dutch consul was taken hostage in the city of Cali and freed after the $1 million ransom was collected. After a $250,000 payoff and 22 years in captivity, a U.S. Corps member was released in 1999 (U.S. State Department, 2007). After much negotiation, ex-presidential candidate Ingrid Bentancourt was freed by the government after being held hostage for six years. The FARC's sadistic attacks and large net worth has made them powerful and often compared as the Hezbollah of the eastern hemisphere. Theiras opposing United States influence in Colombia. FARC's idea of inequality even brought change in the composition of the organization. For example, in 1964, only two women were among the last forty-eight fighters resisting government forces at the battle of Marquetalia. Today FARC's composition is made up of about forty percent women. FARC-EP is dedicated to its Marxist ideology. FARC continues to fight the war of words devoted to marxist principles despite that many of its battles are fought with less idealistic motives of controlling the illegal drug trade.

Violence and Crimes

The ideologies of the FARC are more politically and socially motivated than religious. This left-wing guerilla group has an extensive violent terrorist/criminal history. The FARC have approximately 9,000-12,000 armed combatants who have carried out hundreds of crimes since


government decides to release hundreds of their comrades in prison. The most prominent hostage was Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who was kidnapped in February 2002 after traveling in guerrilla territory.

FARC has become Latin Americas leading cocaine trafficking organization. Approximately 65 percent of FARC's financial woes are credited to its drug trade.

Group Status

Although FARC is the largest terrorist organization in the Americas it has weakened over the years. Once 18,000 strong, FARC has cut its members in half, due to losses in its command and other organizational defects. FARC-EP currently holds an active role as a terrorist organization according to Colombia, United States, Canada, and the European Union (E.U.). However, allies of the FARC avertedly disagree with their status. Venezuela and its President Hugo Chavez firmly believe thatLas Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, should be acknowledged as a belligerency army, as described by the international law standards.

"In March [2008], three of seven key FARC Secretariat commanders died or were killed: its second-in-command, Raul Reyes; the leader of the FARC's Central Bloc, Ivan Rios; and FARC co-founder Manuel Marulanda Velez" (Kellerhals, 2008).

Legal and/or Political Response

In 1964 conservatives under La Frente Nacional order the Colombian National Army to take full control of communists in rural areas of Colombia who pose a current or future threat to the Colombian government (Dudley, 2004). Their efforts were only partially successful, the stronger more dedicated communists spread further and reorganized more potent in the outskirts of the country. Between 1990-1998 various efforts were taken by the Colombian Government to negotiate with


FARC-EP and other armed guerillas but these were also unsuccessful.

Between 1999-2002 President Andres Pastrana of Colombia grants FARC-EP a safe haven (16,200 sq mi) in return for peace (Simons, 2004). The token did not last long, Pastrana ordered his armed forces to retake the FARC-EP controlled zone after further terror attacks conducted by FARC. By 2005, FARC-EP commits multiple attacks in response to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's Plan Patriota (Patriotic Plan). This plan, a military one, was developed by the Government of Colombia and supported financially by the United States to over through the guerilla groups of Colombia; in specific FARC-EP (Simons).

More recently, in January of 2008, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has called on the Colombian governments as well as others to recognize FARC-EP as a belligerent force,as opposed to simply guerillas. His argument was that this would oblige them to renounce kidnappings and terror acts, and respect the Geneva Conventions. In March of 2008, the Colombian military attacks FARC-EP's campsite in Ecuador resulting in 20 deaths; including the death of Raul Reyes (FARC-EP's international spokesman). This was the biggest attack against FARC-EP in 40 years. During that same year FARC-EP faced criticism through large rallies across Colombia (Reyes, 2009).

Conclusion

Operations such as those of "Operacion Jaque" and the Colombian's Army attack to EP's campsite in Ecuador are some of the hardest hits to the organization and this symbolizes the guerilla's downfall. The FARC still has drug ties and while they might not have the leadership they have been accustomed to in the past, it does


first result in the UK in favour of Leave and while Newcastle pipped them to the post with a Remain vote, it was not as strongly in favour of remain as expected.

Some people tried to forget about politics for a while ...

In Edinburgh, the Scots decided to put the campaign to one side as folk band Lau organised a “flashmob ceilidh” outside the parliament building. Scottish politicians and their staff joined hundreds of members of the public outside Holyrood to show cross party support for a vote to stay in the EU.

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                                               FACTS

        At his February 9, 2006, submission hearing for the burglary charge, the defendant agreed
to a two-year sentence in exchange for his guilty plea, and the State set out the underlying proof:

       [The] proof in this case would show that on November 18th of [2005], officers
       responded to a burglary alarm at Main Street Market in Davidson County. When


   they arrived, the owner came out yelling, “[S]omeone’s inside there, hurry.” The
       officer went inside and found the defendant laying [sic] on the floor beside the
       counter. There was a hole in the ceiling and a rope in the hole, which the defendant
       had entered the building with. He was bleeding from the head and he said the
       business owner hit him with a stick on the head and leg. The owner said he only hit
       him because he was afraid of him. The defendant had (unintelligible) up some
      cigarettes and other items on a string in order to get them out through the hole.

        Similarly, at his March 17, 2006, submission hearing, the defendant agreed to a consecutive
one-year sentence for the motor vehicle habitual offender offense, and the State offered the following
factual basis:

       [O]n September 15 of 2005, the defendant was driving a [Chevrolet] Beretta with no
       license plate or temporary tag. A traffic stop was initiated, and he presented a
       Tennessee ID only card. When the officer checked the status, it revealed that the
       defendant was a revoked habitual motor vehicle offender. He was


lived with her intermittently for more than a week,
and if he were released on probation, she “could help him locate a place to stay” and another
individual was prepared to “help him find a good place to work.” On cross-examination, Ritenaw
acknowledged that she did not know that the defendant had eight prior felony convictions in Shelby
County.

        The defendant testified that he was not proud of his criminal record, that the community he
came from in Shelby County “was a bad environment,” and that he had “started using drugs at an
early age.” He stated that his previous convictions for theft, burglary, and robbery were the result
of his “high drug habit.” He admitted that he had an outstanding burglary warrant in Shelby County,
that he committedthe present offenses while on probation for a felony conviction, and that he had
been convicted of seven other felonies for which he had served sentences of confinement. Lastly,
the defendant acknowledged that he was receiving a “good deal” because, with his record, he could
have been sentenced to eight to twelve years for the burglary conviction alone.

        After hearing argument, the trial court denied probation and ordered that his sentences be
served in confinement. The defendant appealed.

                                            ANALYSIS


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Originally broadcast on American Movie Classics, Fox - The Blockbuster Years (now available on DVD from Image Entertainment) is an audience-friendly crash course in the history of Twentieth-Century-Fox. Though it's easy to see this documentary as little more than a thinly disguised self-promotional vehicle for Fox movies, it is reasonably entertaining and does a good job of covering more than eight decades in the studio's history within a brisk 113 minute presentation. Naturally, the first half of Fox - The Blockbuster Years focuses on Darryl F. Zanuck, the self-made mogul in charge of production (under President Joseph M. Schenck) whose contributions to the studio were invaluable; his eye for talent was responsible for bringing major directors to Fox such as Ernst Lubitsch, Joseph Mankiewicz and EliaKazan along with some of the most popular stars of the day - Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Sonja Henie, Marilyn Monroe, Tyrone Power, Gregory Peck and Richard Widmark. In the 50s, however, the studio fell on hard times due to competition from television and the documentary manages to generate some genuine drama around this troubled period when Zanuck resigned his position to become an independent producer. Spyros Skouras took over production and almost bankrupted the studio with a string of costly failures that culminated in the notoriously over-budget epic, Cleopatra. Skouras was eventually forced out and, in a surprising turn of events, Zanuck returned to run the studio in 1962, hiring his son Richard as production chief. A series of box office hits, led by The Sound of


Music, put the studio back on top for awhile, but by 1970 Fox was in trouble again and Zanuck made headlines when he forced his own son out of the company after a stormy stockholders' meeting.

The remainder of Fox - The Blockbuster Years flies through the many other studio Presidents from Dennis C. Stanfill to Marvin Davis to Rupert Murdoch to Peter Chernin but you'll remember less about them than some of the movies produced under their reign: The Towering Inferno, Young Frankenstein, The Omen, Star Wars, Alien, Cocoon, Home Alone, Titanic. The problem with documentaries on major movie studios is that they have a tendency to become one huge clip show. In the case of Fox - The Blockbuster Years, the clips are actually well chosen andoften focus on some of the "smaller" pictures like Breaking Away and Raising Arizona. There are also numerous behind the scenes glimpses of mega-productions like The Towering Inferno as well as brief but informative sound bites from former Fox employees like Raquel Welch, Tom Hanks, Gene Wilder, George Lucas, Ridley Scott, Irwin Allen and Oliver Stone. All in all, Fox - The Blockbuster Years is an entertaining way to reacquaint yourself with the studio and its library. In fact, it will probably inspire you to rent some of the wonderful films featured in this documentary which was probably the real inspiration behind this production.


system that can provide increased and ongoing protections like Windows 7 or Windows 8, before April 2014.”

Increase in Social Engineering

Chris Betz, a senior director at the Microsoft Security Response Center, said as enterprises move off legacy systems, or restrict those systems to non-Internet-facing roles, we will see cybercriminals and some advanced actors increase use of social engineering and weak passwords to access systems. Social engineering and weak passwords have been part of the malicious actors’ kit for many years, he noted, and are some of the oldest hacking techniques still in use.

“For the past several years, vulnerabilities in unpatched and older applications, such as those targeted through web-based attacks, are the most common way that malicious actors compromise systems. Increasingly, enterprises and individual users are setting aside olderOne of the newest dance craves. Which mainly involves the imitation of Shanae'nae from Martin. This dance should only be done by females between the ages of 7-17. Anyone else caught doing this is confused about something in their life I.e. maturity and sexuality(men)

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Hall of Fame coach Chuck Noll was Pittsburgh Steelers icon

Chuck Noll, the Hall of Fame coach who won a record four Super Bowl titles with the Pittsburgh Steelers, died Friday night at his home. He was 82.

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PITTSBURGH — Chuck Noll, the Hall of Fame coach who won a record four Super Bowl titles with the Pittsburgh Steelers, died Friday night at his home. He was 82.

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner said Noll died of natural causes.

Noll transformed the Steelers from a long-standing joke into one of the NFL's pre-eminent powers, becoming the only coach to win four Super Bowls. He was a demanding figure who didnot make close friends with his players, yet was a successful and motivating leader.

The Steelers won the four Super Bowls over six seasons (1974, 1975, 1978 and 1979), an unprecedented run that made Pittsburgh one of the NFL's marquee franchises, one that breathed life into a struggling, blue-collar city.

"He was one of the great coaches of the game," Steelers owner Dan Rooney once said. "He ranks up there with (George) Halas, (Tom) Landry and (Curly) Lambeau."

Noll's 16-8 record in postseason play remains one of the best in league history. He retired in 1991 with a 209-156-1 record in 23 seasons, after inheriting a team that had never won a postseason game. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993.

Noll worked so well with Steelers


President Rooney that the team never felt the need to have a general manager. When he retired, and was replaced by Bill Cowher, only four other coaches or managers in modern U.S. pro sports history had run their teams longer than Noll had.

"Chuck Noll is the best thing that happened to the Rooneys since they got on the boat (to America) in Ireland," Art Rooney II, the former Steelers personnel chief and the son of the team founder, once said.

A former messenger guard for his hometown Cleveland Browns who earned the nicknamed Knute Knowledge — as in Knute Rockne — Noll was an assistant with the San Diego Chargers and Baltimore Colts for nine seasons. Then he accepted what seemed a dead-end job in January 1969 as coachof the NFL's least-successful organization.

Art Rooney Sr. often hired friends and cronies as coaches, and only two of the Steelers' first 13 coaches had winning records. At the time Noll took over, the franchise was 105 games below .500 in its history.

Noll, hired only after Penn State's Joe Paterno turned down a $350,000, five-year offer, was different from any Steelers coach before him. He immediately brought intelligence, toughness, stability, confidence, character and a can-do mindset to a franchise accustomed to constant upheaval and ever-changing personnel.

Asked at his first news conference if his goal was to make the Steelers respectable, Noll said, "Respectability? Who wants to be respectable? That's spoken like a true loser."

Page 2 of 2 - Perhaps not the most colorful coach behind the microphone, Noll could


often be counted on for memorable, motivational one-liners that became rallying cries. Phrases like "A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning," and "Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it," and "The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing," spoke volumes about what Noll was trying to accomplish. They went over well in a football-crazed region of Pennsylvania.

The day after Noll was hired, the Steelers drafted defensive lineman Joe Greene. He was the first of the nine Hall of Famers selected during the Noll era. Four of the others were drafted within Noll's first four seasons: Terry Bradshaw, Mel Blount, Jack Ham and Franco Harris.

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As part of the Tax Cut deal Obama cut with Republicans there was included a one-year cut of 2% of payroll out of the 6.2% employee share of the overall 12.4% of payroll sent to Social Security. This cut was ostensibly designed in a way that held harmless the Trust Funds, the dollars not being sent from paychecks instead being replaced by transfers from the General Fund. Plus the diversion is on paper only temporary. But in reality this deal not only


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The Hour of the1,100 Pounds of Matzo in Kathmandu: Welcome to the World's Largest Seder

In what has become an annual tradition, hundreds of Israeli travelers gather in Nepal to celebrate Passover -- with plenty of kosher wine.

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KATHMANDU, Nepal -- It was three hours to sundown before the
first night of Passover and the kitchen in this Kathmandu hotel was a steamy
mess. Bath tub-sized pots bubbled with matzo ball soup, 900 chicken hunks in
lava-like tomato sauce, and the googly eyes of a thousand boiled eggs.

The night before, a team of them had chopped onions and
peeled vegetables until one in the morning to help prepare the world's largest
Passover Seder, which takes place in Nepal's capital. More than a thousand
guests, mostly Israeli backpackers who flock to Nepal


after their military
service, were expected for the holiday dinner that commemorates the Jewish
exodus from ancient Egypt.

Alon David, 24 with dark hair pulled into a ponytail, was
volunteering for his second Passover Seder in Nepal. "If you're not in Israel,
you should still make the atmosphere," he said, squinting through oniony tears.

I minced cautiously over the kitchen floor, which was dangerously
slick with water, grease and food scraps. Cauldrons of oil boiled menacingly at
knee level on extra gas burners set on the floor. Big plastic basins, the kind
used to wash clothes or babies, were piled high with diced purple onions and
tomatoes.

The chef, a 23-year-old Israeli with bright blue eyes,
needed another kosher pot. A young rabbinical student from France wearing a kippa skullcap fired up a blowtorch
attached to a large gas tank. IsraelNegar, also 23, zapped a cauldron to
incinerate any traces of leavened ingredients, forbidden to eat during the
eight days of Passover, which ends this Saturday.

Aviv Hayun, the chef, had another problem. The oven hadn't
been made kosher. How, then, to keep the food warm? "Where to put a thousand
people's food?" he lamented. Moments later, the kitchen plunged into darkness.
Kathmandu, plagued by 12-hour power cuts, had shut out the electricity
unexpectedly.

When the hotel's generator kicked in, the cooks resumed
their race against sundown. Hayun works in catering in Israel, so the dinner
wasn't his largest event. "But it is the biggest mess I've seen," he sighed,
pushing back his hair.

The 1,100 people who attended the Seder in the hotel's
cavernous, chandelier-lit ballroom enjoyed endless plates of food - seven kinds
of salad, curried potatoes, stewed vegetables, fish,


soup, chicken -- that
emerged from the kitchen. It was a massive guest list for a dinner that is
usually celebrated intimately at home. (In addition to young backpackers, some
older Israelis and families attended too).

Celebrants faced the extra challenge of making a kitchen
kosher in third world conditions, not to mention getting Passover supplies and
kosher ingredients to Nepal from Israel and the U.S. This year, 1,000 bottles
of kosher wine, 1,100 pounds of matzo, 150 pounds of salami, 180 pounds of oil,
hundreds of cans and jars of gefilte fish, tuna, olives, pickles, and other
kosher fare arrived from Israel and New York days before Passover.

Each year, a container of kosher supplies departs Israel a
few months before Passover. It travels by ship through the Suez Canal, chugs
around Sri Lanka, and arrives in the portsof Kolkata. From India, the goods
are trucked to Nepal.

In the days of Nepal's 10-year civil war from 1996 to 2006,
trucks of matzo en route to Kathmandu were routinely stopped by rebel and
government roadblocks. One time, rickety Nepali trucks broke down and kosher
supplies had to be helicoptered to Kathmandu in time for the holiday.

The tradition of the Kathmandu Seder begins with the steady
influx of young Israeli backpackers. They usually travel after their required stint
in the army, from age 18 to 21, and before university. About 10,000 Israelis
visit Nepal each year, said Hanan Goder, Israeli ambassador to Nepal, in a
phone interview. They tend to travel in groups, often for months at a time, and
are a close-knit community. Israeli influence is apparent in Nepal, from
restaurants that serve hummus and falafel alongside


rice and dal, to the
aspirated sounds of Hebrew commonly heard in tourist areas.

There are two other seders in Nepal for Israeli and Jewish
travelers. One is in Pokhara, a city popular with tourists and trekkers at the
base of the Annapurna Circuit. The other Seder is in Manang, up in the
Annapurna Circuit, 3,540 meters high in the Himalayas. Boxes of matzo, wine,
and other provisions were helicoptered to trekkers in Manang from Kathmandu.

Rabbi Chezki Lifshitz, a 38-year-old with a bearded yet
cherubic face, heads the Kathmandu branch of Chabad, the Jewish organization
that organizes the Seder. In 1988, Chabad in Kathmandu organized the first
community Seder outside of Israel. Three hundred people attended. That number
swelled to a high of 1,800 in 2002. Globe-trotting Israelis and Jews "are
trying to keep their traditions with them evenguitar and crooning Radiohead on the patio of Chabad
House, the Jewish community center here.

But in Nepal, "sab
kuch milega" he said brightly, translating the common Hindi phrase as
"Anything is possible," which could have been the motto in the lead-up to the
Seder. The preparations began the afternoon before at the Chabad House, when
its modest kitchen was made kosher by splashing hot water on countertops and
stoves, and papering surfaces with tin foil.

When an unseasonably heavy rain burst from the sky,
rabbinical students helping with the Seder from Israel, France, Brazil, and the
U.S. mounted cauldrons on plastic lawn chairs to blowtorch them on the roofed
porch. Vegetable peelers clicked like insects as big-haired Israeli backpackers
stripped carrots and football-sized zucchini under a leaking lean-to.

Inside Chabad House, lavender walls, red paper lampshades,
and napping Israelis sprawled on


sagging couches, gave the place a college
clubhouse vibe. Buckets scattered across the floor caught leaks dripping from
the flimsy, corrugated roof.

At midnight, the newly kosher cauldrons were piled into tiny
Nepali taxis and taken to the hotel kitchen for the next day's cooking. The
pots clanged like bells as the taxi lurched into the rain-filled potholes
cratering Kathmandu's streets.

Early the next morning, food and supplies were ferried to
the hotel in those tiny taxis -- at least 35 trips back and forth.

By evening, the grandeur of the hotel's ballroom belied the
chaos in the kitchen earlier that day. Bottles of wine sat on tables covered
with white cloths. In the sea of Israelis, dreadlocks and hands covered with
henna designs were not uncommon. Those who didn't have kippas to cover their heads wore traditional Nepali topihats instead (a bin of spare topis stood by the door).

Toward the end of the Seder, the dinner grew festively
raucous. Rabbi Lifshitz, dressed smartly in a black cap and knee-length coat,
jumped and gestured on the stage like a rock star as he led blessings and
songs.

After a few cups of requisite wine, many Israelis stood on
their chairs, singing and cheering. A young Jewish man from New Jersey surveyed
the rowdy crowd of young Israelis, who enjoy their reputation of knowing how to
party. "This is so Israeli," he said with amazement.

In an adjacent, smaller room, ornately decorated like a
Viennese ballroom, a more sober Seder was held in English for about 35
non-Israeli Jews. They hailed from New York, New Jersey, San Francisco, Colorado,
Vancouver, and beyond. Toive Weizman, a Brazilian rabbinical student studying
in


New Jersey, led.

Shamir Waldman, a 33-year-old Brazilian Jew working in Hong
Kong, was surprised at the Seder's customization for non-Israelis. "I've never
seen anything like that." He smiled, as if remembering he was in Nepal. "You
have to be flexible so everyone feels at home."

By the end of the evening, table cloths were bruised with
wine stains and heaped with plastic plates of leftover food. As the last guests
trickled from the room, the rabbinical students were tipsy from wine and
relief. In their dark suits and broad-brimmed hats, they milled around Rabbi Lifshitz.
He reposed horizontally across a few chairs, jacket off, collar loosened.Sports Minister Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said thousands of people were ...

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This report is the first comprehensive federal study on women since 1963 and statistically describes how women in the United States are faring and how their lives have changed in five areas: people, families and income; education; employment; health; and crime and violence.

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The PSA begins with kids showing off their new backpacks and binders, but the tone changes quickly.

An association formed by victims' relatives after the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook school in the United States has posted a shocking ad featuring children fleeing at the sound of gunfire.

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But the tone quickly changes when a boy is seen running down a school corridor, touting his new sneakers as shots are heard in the background.

Next, a girl using her new jacket to tie closed her classroom doors, and a boy smashes his new skateboard through a window to escape.

"These scissors will really come in handyin our class," says another girl, standing guard at a door with scissors in hand.

A girl strips off her knee socks and uses them as a tourniquet on a classmate's bloodied legs.

Another girl huddled in a dark bathroom corner taps out "I love you Mom" on her cellphone and stifles her sobs at the sound of approaching footsteps.

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"School shootings are preventable when you know the signs."

(Please note that this PSA contains graphic content related to school shootings that may be upsetting to some viewers.)

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Using a new, rapid and less expensive DNA sequencing strategy, scientists have discovered genetic alterations that account for most cases of Kabuki syndrome, a rare disorder that causes multiple birth defects and mental retardation. Instead of sequencing the entire human genome, the new approach sequences just the exome, the 1-2 percent of the human genome that contains protein-coding genes.

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only solution for the protection of the Jewish State is to create an enemy near its borders, BUT the draw against Islamic states who oppose his presence.

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Snowden said intelligence services of three countries created a terrorist organisation that is able to attract all extremists of thePhillip Cesena transferred to San Franciscquito Canyon in February 1928 to work as a ranch hand, mucking out stalls and exercising ranch animals.

The 15-year-old had just lost his father, Leonardo, and wanted to support his mother, Erolinda, and his 12 brothers and sisters by learning how to break horses and perform trick riding for Hollywood westerns.

A month later, Cesena’s fate was sealed.

The St. Francis Dam burst, sending 12.6 billion gallons of water 15 stories high racing through Santa Clarita, Saugus, Saticoy, Piru, Fillmore and Santa Paula.

The water wiped out villages and killed about 450 people before reaching the ocean near Oxnard some 54 miles away.

Cesena is buried in an unmarked grave near the dam site, next to his mother.

Like so many others who perished when the dam collapsed


on March 12, 1928, the story of the boy — whose remaining photo shows him standing on a mule practicing a trick he learned from the Navajos — also lies buried under concrete ruins and decades of indifference from a ruling class that cared more about water rights, real estate and power than honor.

Now, one community organizer is leading a push to build a memorial to remember Cesena and all the others who perished in what some call the worst civil engineering disaster in the country’s history.

Water, dams and death

The tension between a rush to grow Los Angeles with a poorly built dam that ended lives and psychologically damaged others haunts Dianne Erskine-Hellrigel, Newhall resident and executive director of the Community Hiking Club of Santa Clarita.

Such anonymity inon March 12, 1928 killing close to 500 people in the resulting flood, bodies were found in the ocean as far away as San Diego. A local group of historians hope to create a national memorial at the site which is now largely forgotten.

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A rare color photo of the St. Francis Dam in the Angeles National Forest after the collapse. The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 killing close to 500 people in the resulting flood, bodies were found in the ocean as far away as San Diego. A local group of historians hope to create a national memorial at the site which is now largely forgotten.

Dianne Erskine-Hellrigel stands in the exact spot of the “tombstone”, in photo, where the only remaining


section of the St. Francis Dam stood after the collapse, the section was blown up a year later by the DWP. The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 killing close to 500 people in the resulting flood, bodies were found in the ocean as far away as San Diego. A local group of historians hope to create a national memorial at the site which is now largely forgotten. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

A file photo of the St. Francis Dam in the Angeles National Forest. The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 killing close to 500 people in the resulting flood, bodies were found in the ocean as far away as San Diego. A local group of historians hope to create a national memorial atthe site which is now largely forgotten.

One of the largest remaining sections of the St. Francis Dam known as “block 19” in the Angeles National Forest. The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 killingclose to 500 people in the resulting flood, bodies were found in the ocean as far away as San Diego. A local group of historians hope to create a national memorial at the site which is now largely forgotten. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Dianne Erskine-Hellrigel holds a photo showing Lillian Dorsett and the Curtis children. When the St. Francis Dam broke, Lillian grabbed the Curtis boy, center in photo, and made it to the top of the hill, in background, with their dog and survived the flood. The dam collapsed on March


12, 1928 killing close to 500 people in the resulting flood, bodies were found in the ocean as far away as San Diego. A local group of historians hope to create a national memorial at the site which is now largely forgotten. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Dianne Erskine-Hellrigel, right, and Dr. Alan Pollack, president of the Santa Clarita Historical Society, at the site of the St. Francis Dam in the Angeles National Forest. The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 killing close to 500 people in the resulting flood, bodies were found in the ocean as far away as San Diego. A local group of historians hope to create a national memorial at the site which is now largely forgotten. (Photo by David Crane, LosAngeles Daily News/SCNG)

A file photo of the St. Francis Dam in the Angeles National Forest after the collapse. The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 killing close to 500 people in the resulting flood, bodies were found in the ocean as far away as San Diego. A local group of historians hope to create a national memorial at the site which is now largely forgotten.

The community organizer has lectured, lobbied and tracked down relatives of survivors in order to recreate their harrowing stories, so their names can be etched in marble and their stories retold in a new museum — part of a national memorial at the site of the St. Francis Dam, located some 47 miles northeast of Los Angeles in the Angeles National Forest but now


surrounded by the tract homes of Santa Clarita.

The St. Francis Dam Disaster National Memorial Act, a bill by Rep. Steve Knight, R-Santa Clarita and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., would honor the dead and tell their stories as well of those of the survivors. S.B.1926 has passed the House and awaits approval by the Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Senate.

The memorial would be the 37th in the country, joining the Washington Memorial and the 9-11 Memorial. It would be the first in forest land run by the U.S. Forest Service.

Activists have met with USFS administrators and potential donors such as Southern California Edison, who lost 86 men in the disaster, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which officially supports the bill, and corporations in hopes ofraising $2 million in seed money if the designation is granted.

“This is going to be the gem of the U.S. Forest Service,” Erskine-Hellrigel said.

Two stories

There are two stories Erskine-Hellrigel wants to tell.

The first is of Mulholland, who with Fred Eaton conceived and built a 233-mile aqueduct that funnels water from the Owens Valley into homes, faucets and bathtubs in Los Angeles.

Mulholland worked his way from water-pipe ditch digger to the first manager and chief engineer of the new Los Angeles Bureau of Water Works and Supply, a precursor to today’s Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

Next, he built five local dams to hold aqueduct water. He knew droughts stopped and started flows from the Owens Valley and rightly predicted Los Angeles needed reservoirs.

In 1925 he started building


St. Francis, which would become the largest gravity arch dam in the United States. The dam, wedged between two canyon walls was built of concrete 208 feet high, spanning 1,300 feet.

On March 12, 1928, two minutes before midnight, it held a year’s worth of water for the growing city, filled to about three inches from the top.

Earlier that day, dam keeper Tony Harnischfeger spotted muddy discharge spurting from the dam. Dams would often leak, but when the water turned brown, the possibility of an eroding base was first in his mind.

He called Mulholland. With a lieutenant, they determined the dirt from a nearby road had made the water brown.

Mulholland concluded nothing was eroding and later ate a late lunch in downtown LA.

“That was a decision he would regretRising, who worked at Powerhouse #2 that took water from the Owens Valley Aqueduct and used it to make electricity, miraculously survived and actually returned to work for what’s now LADWP.

Erskine-Hellrigel located his daughter from his second marriage, Carol Rising Longo, on Facebook only a few years ago. She was willing to talk about what her father passed along. Longo had not heard the amazing tale of her father’s escape.

Rising would love to swim the reservoir after work. His skills came in handy when the water hit that terrible night.

His wife at the time, Julia, 29, drowned. The coroner’s report said his daughter Delores, 7, died of drowning, possibly indicating she died in her mother’s arms.

Their two other children, Adaline, 1, and Glenn, 5, died from debris that


“crushed and mangled” their bodies, the coroner reported.

Ray Rising swam and swam but ended up tangled in power lines. As he struggled to set himself free, he grabbed onto a house floating by and pulled himself up to the roof and rode along with the current. Later, he jumped onto the cliff to safety.

“The water had ripped his clothes off,” Erskine-Hellrigel said.

Back at the Powerhouse #2 village, Lillian Curtis made her way to the top of a hill to escape the high waters. She clutched her 2-year-old son, Danny, to her breast and charged up a high hill. There, she dug a hole and placed her son in it and stuck the dog on top to keep him warm.

‘”Mommy, please don’t let the water take us,’” Danny toldthing I do”

Preserving ruins, fish and frogs

On Monday, Aug. 27, Erskine-Hellrigel and Pollack walk the dusty paths of the once reservoir in slow, eerie fashion.

They point out rocks that aren’t rocks but pieces of the dam. One large portion — weighing about 20 tons — sits in the middle of the canyon miles from the dam site, like an alien spaceship.

Erskine-Hellrigel says one side of the proposed visitors center will tell the story of water in Los Angeles. The other side will tell the story of the collapse of the dam and the people who died — and survived.

At the top of the westernmost part of the dam is a view of willows and other green trees swaying in the hot breeze. The riparian area, what she calls


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New Interim Management Association (IMA) figures collated by Ipsos Mori have revealed a 22 per cent increase in new interim assignments during the July to September quarter of 2011, with the majority coming from the private sector.

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Linda Ronstadt has compared Donald Trump to Hitler and has said Mexicans 'are the new Jews', claiming in an interview that there are 'great parallels' between the current administration and Nazi Germany.

'It's exactly the same,' Ronstadt said in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper. 'You find a common enemy for everybody to hate. I was sure that Trump was going to get elected the day he announced. And I said, "It's going to be like Hitler, and the Mexicans are the new Jews".'

'And sure enough, that's what he delivered, you know?'

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