must be a cinch after being a Sydney boy / trying to pick winners in compassionate Melbourne'. This is what Thorne does best – playing the Time Lord shunting history and art into his TARDIS, pressing the buttons, wondering where he will land.

The breadth of content that populates Thorne's poetry makes it ideal for the Age of Wikipedia. Unfamiliar places, phrases or historical events can be Googled – the information recasting the entire poems. At times they feel like the best Simpsons jokes: funny the first time around but the Eureka moment comes later, sometimes years later, when you happen across some innocuous piece of trivia that sheds that finally frames an enigmatic third meaning.

I Con is deeply humorous and rewards re-reading. Many of Australia's greatest poets ofthe last forty years have been colloquially funny. They have been in tune to jokes cracked in pubs, on building sites and in lecture theatres. Australia is a nation of piss takers and that gives our sense of humour a distinctly egalitarian edge. Perhaps, this is how we have prospered on this unforgiving land. Now it provides a mode for looking at our unforgiving past.

About Liam Ferney

Liam Ferney was Cordite’s poetry editor for issues 17-23 and guest-editor of Cordite 34: Children of Malley II. His first book, Popular Mechanics (2004), was followed by the chapbook Career (2011). His second collection will be published by Grande Parade Poets in the second-half of 2013.


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This website is devoted to the extraordinary mystics and visionaries of the Church, especially those who are lesser known, such as St Gemma Galgani, Blessed Alexandrina da Costa, Sr Consolata Betrone, Therese Neumann, Rev. Pere Lamy, Gabrielle Bossis, Josefa Menendez, Marthe Robin, Servant of God Louise Lateau, Blessed Anna Maria Taigi, Sister Mary of the Holy Trinity, Sister Maria Antonia and others. The author endeavors always to be in communion with the Catholic Church and its teachings.

Sr. Mary of the Crown of Thorns -A Good Shepherd Sister living in Peekskill, NY who was hailed by many as a mystic and stigmatic

The remarkable true story of Sr. Mary of the Crown of Thorns (born Margaret Reilly, 1884-1937), -if authentic, she would be one of the first reported stigmatics inincluding two prominent bishops and a number of priests and religious, yet at the same time also a number of noteworthy detractors.

One thing is for certain: during her lifetime she gained the attention of quite a few people outside of her convent in Peekskill, NY., and after her death in 1937 there was a significant movement pushing for her canonization. Eventually however the cause stalled in the 1960's, lacking the support of the local Archbishop, and also the financial backing and support of her religious Community, the Good Shepherd Sisters. And so it is that today she is almost completely unknown, her life being nearly forgotten.

What precisely happened in the life of this Manhattan Irish woman from a modest family concerning the remarkable mystical gifts purportedly given to


her is very much a intriguing mystery to this day. For she was reported to have received the stigmata (the bleeding wounds of Christ), and also a indelible, raised image of a crucifix on her breast, directly over her heart, which reportedly also manifested itself on her bedroom wall in the convent, along with extensive physical torments that seemed to mirror much of the passion of Jesus. These mystical graces and sufferings drew the attention, admiration and cynicism of many persons in New York, and around the country, and her notoriety spanned from 1921 to 1937. This article will attempt to shed some light on her life and the reported supernatural graces given to her.

Early life and first mystical experiences -A raised crucifix on her chest
Margaret Reilly wasborn in Manhattan, New York on on July 25, 1884, the youngest of 7 children into a poor, Irish family. Her father, Patrick Reilly, was a construction contractor, and her mother, Mary McLoughlin Reilly was a homemaker. Stories of Margaret's childhood reveal a early and intense devotion to Jesus. Margaret preferred her crucifix to a doll and she treated the crucifix like a doll, taking it for walks in her doll buggy, wrapping it to keep Jesus warm, and hugging it close to her at night. When her daughter required discipline, Mrs. Reilly threatened to take away the crucifix as punishment. She preferred being alone instead of playing with other children. As a youngster, Margaret learned of penitential practices, such as putting pebbles in her shoes as a


form of sacrifice and self-mortification, which she learned from the Sisters of Charity who staffed her parochial school. Later as a teenager she took to wearing a hair shirt underneath her clothing, as a form or reparation and penance. Eventually however her spiritual director requested that she stop that particular practice.

After making her First Communion, Margaret also secured special permission to receive Communion daily (an exception for young children at that time). This special grace represented some hardship however, as it obliged her to walk ten blocks before breakfast to attend Mass, and then return home for a quick meal before walking to school.Margaret also developed a fondness for the Stations of the Cross, reportedly praying the stations three times in one day, until one of her olderyears later in 1917 she reports another mystical grace. She relates that while stooping over the oven to prepare a fish supper with her mother, she felt a sharp pain over her heart, and saw a three-dimensional crucifix emerging in blood. Her mother quickly put her to bed and immediately telephoned their pastor. The crucifix reportedly remained visible until December 8, 1917. In a friend's recollection, the mark resembled a “raised, sunburned area,” red in color, approximately two inches long. At times the three-dimensional corpus even changed color, for according to one chronicler, “Sometimes it was red, sometimes purple, sometimes livid." Jesus reportedly revealed to Margaret whom He called "Little Thorn" the meaning of the changing of colors; they meant to reveal the sufferings of His Church in


various ways.

First report of the stigmata and the crown of thorns, along with a second appearance of the the raised crucifix over her heart. She becomes a religious sister.
In September of 1921, Margaret made a extended spiritual retreat at Mount St. Florence convent in Peekskill, NY. It appears that this retreat was actually more of a postulancy for her to see if she was called to the religious life of the Good Shepherd sisters. On the fourth morning of the retreat, Margaret took a stroll to view a statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the convent grounds. As she returned to her room to lie down, she claims to have had a vision of Jesus standing at the foot of the bed.
He reportedly said, “I giveyou my cross upon your breast, because I love you very much; and you are to suffer for My very own.”

And Jesus explained that “my very own” in this case referred to priests and nuns.

At this time, the same image from her chest was miraculously duplicated on the wall of the room that she was staying in. About three inches in length, it was first documented by the superior of the convent, Mother Raymond (Born Bridget Cahill in Worcester, Massachusetts) who was further surprised to find that Margaret's left side and feet were now bleeding. Mother Raymond reported to one of Margaret's cousins, who was also a nun:“She has shown me her beautiful Cross and you may feel certain that she was most welcome (here).”

Even before Margaret's arrival


at Peekskill, Mother Raymond claimed to have witnessed (although she does not specify where) the perfectly formed cross and corpus with its feet resting on Margaret's heart, “at times diffused with blood.”

For the next 33 days—each day, as the superior believed, symbolizing a year of Jesus's life—Margaret remained bedridden at the convent in acute pain and bleeding profusely from four wound sites in her hands and feet. Jesus told Margaret that the foot wounds were the beginning of her complete stigmatization. Puncture wounds appeared around her forehead as well, as though from a wreath of thorns. In a vision, Jesus told her that she would now be named “Thorn.” reportedly stating:“Now you are my Thorn, but soon you shall be my Lily of Delight.”

Later, the stigmata would intensifyfrom Wednesday through Friday each week. Returning to the story of her visit and entering the convent, on November 11, 1921 her face was said to be marked as though by whips. Margaret said she could feel the separate lashes as they were given on her face, also when they were given on her whole body. These lashes were reportedly sometimes inflicted by our Lord Himself, or by St. Michael or by her Guardian Angel. Margaret could even see this instrument: the discipline contained 48 strips of fine steel with thorn-like projections. There was also a piece of lead 2¾ inches long attached to the center ring.

Mother Raymond reported that among Margaret's wounds, the scourge marks were “more painful than the wounds of the hands and feet and


side. The pain in the chest is as if an army of people were kneeling on the chest.”

The cross impressed on the skin over Margaret's heart that began this chain of events disappeared entirely from her body around December 15, 1921.

Except for a couple of visits to relatives, Margaret remained in the convent during her "probationary" or discernment period, and on December 8, 1923, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, was finally able to make her preliminary vows as a Good Shepherd sister, taking the name "Sister Mary of the Crown of Thorns", a name which was reportedly given to her by Jesus. It should be noted here however that she was delayed in making this religious profession due to the fact that a few of the GoodShepherd nuns in the Community had doubts concerning her purported mystical gifts.

A description of the crucifix imprinted upon the wall in Sr. Thorn's room
Sr. Thorn had a cousin named Sr. Sebastian, a Dominican nun living in Ohio. On August 25, 1922, Sister Sebastian traveled to Peekskill to observe things firsthand, accompanied by Sr. Thorn's brother Tom. Prior to this visit Sr. Catherine had already received some photographs or drawings of the mark on her cousin's skin from Mother Raymond, who concluded her letter with the entreaty: “Trusting, dear Sister, this will somewhat satisfy your interest, asking a little prayer, and begging to accept the enclosed pictures which are a true copy of the Cross and position on her breast.”

Normally visitors were forbidden to see her bedroom with the


alleged miraculous cross on the wall under orders from the congregation's appointed confessor, Father John F. Brady, but on this occasion permission was given. Sr Sebastian found the room “...small and very plain. I first looked at the miraculous Crucifix (on the wall). It is much like the one on the picture, and about that size. I could see the Face of our Lord, and the lettering is also very plain. We used a magnifying glass. From where I stood I kissed the feet, but would have to stand on something to reach the Face.”

Of this particular visit Sr Sebastian stated that the crucifix was not apparent on her cousin's chest at that time, but that she experienced the pain of invisible stigmata there and in her hands,feet, and side. Sr Sebastian's impression of Margaret was of “...the dearest, sweetest soul, and heavenly in appearance, but as simple and as natural as a child.”
But going back to the crucifix imprinted upon the wall in her bedroom, Paula M. Kane notes in her book that "All accounts agreed that efforts to remove the image from the wall proved to be futile, even when scraped."

Sr Mary of the Crown of Thorns (Margaret Reilly)

Sr Thorn is confined to a wheelchair
On the very day that the provincial was to accompany Margaret from Peekskill to Manhattan to begin her official novitiate, Margaret suddenly lost the use of her legs, and never walked again. As Mother Raymond recorded, Margaret had returned to her cell after Mass in the morning and sat


down. Her limbs grew stiff and she became unable to walk. She was carried to her bed. Mother Raymond later stated that God had forewarned Margaret that she was to remain there because “..the novitiate would come to Peekskill to her.”

Along with Sr. Thorn's recent immobility there was also added the special care required by her stigmata. Benedict Bradley, a Benedictine monk in New Jersey who visited Peekskill in November and December 1922, verified that Margaret was mostly bedridden. When she left her bed for chapel and meals, she moved about by crawling on her hands and knees. Her spiritual director forbade her from doing even this after she reported that Satan had thrown her down the stairs repeatedly, and he purportedly filled her tunic with pins toprevent her from climbing the stairs on her knees. Thus the sisters were now required to lift Margaret out of her wheelchair and carry her up and down stairs. This partial paralysis also prevented Margaret from performing the usual convent chores undertaken by every sister. Consequently, when she was permitted to remain at Peekskill, she was assigned to work the telephone switchboard.

Attacks from the demons
On December 9,1921, the day after she received her first veil as a postulant, Sr. Thorn faced a demonic attack. “As she was eating her supper,” wrote a sister named Carmelita, “her plate was broken, coffee spilt on the bed and she was pulled and dragged around for sometime.” Later that night, (Dec. 9), Sr. Thorn asked Mother Raymond to stay with her and


1922, Mother Raymond temporarily left Margaret, and when she returned, she found Margaret on the floor next to the telephone switchboard. The switchboard had been overturned on St Thorn's head, leaving a lump over her eye and knocking plaster out of the wall. Mother Raymond was so embarrassed when the electrician commented on the extensive damage that when another incident smashed windowpanes and bookcase glass, she was reluctant to contact a repairman for fear that outsiders would think that the convent was a “roughhouse.”

Yet another violent episode reportedly occurred during Mass on November 21,1923, while the sisters were listening to the final portion of the Eucharistic prayer, Sr Thorn was thrown from her wheelchair to the floor and her head was jammed under the radiator. Yet, for allof its strangeness, this diabolical activity had usefulness beyond their convent in redeeming sinners, for even as Margaret struggled with a demon who knocked her down and twisted her leg around a chair, Saint Colette allegedly appeared to her and reassured her in a vision that “a certain soul has been saved through your struggles.”

Visiting Peekskill from Missouri, Sister Carmelita Quinn recorded an episode on February 17, 1922:“Breakfast and dinner were spoiled, it meant that Margaret Reilly thought the food had a bad taste and smell. Often, Margaret envisioned little black bugs on the food and bread that repelled her from eating.”

In a vision years later, the Virgin Mary comforted Sister Thorn and told her that the evil spirits would no longer be permitted to assault her.

More notes


on her alleged stigmata
Sr. Thorn believed that she suffered as a victim soul for the conversion and salvation of souls. She attributed the pain in the location of her stigmatic wounds with specific intentions: pain in her left foot indicated prayers for Archbishop Hayes and the pope; pain in her right foot meant prayers for priests; her left hand was dedicated to laypeople praying to her; and her right hand was to atone for nuns seeking higher education who forgot their duty by seeking worldly advantages. Finally, Margaret's heart symbolized the Good Shepherds and “another convent dear to Jesus.” Sister Thorn claimed that the scourge marks on her thighs and the crown of thorns on her forehead were offered for priests who were offending Jesus. She endured thesetorments to fulfill God's special mission for her to obtain grace for others, especially for priests and religious.

Add to this the fact that some of Sr. Thorn's devotees spent their time trying to ascertain the meaning of the changing colors of the corpus on the crucifix upon her chest and also her bedroom wall, revealing a obvious determination to affirm the bond between suffering and the possible sanctity in her life.

It is interesting to note also that in her book "Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America" Paula M Kane points out that it seems that Sr. Thorn's stigmata were mostly invisible in nature. According to her readings, Sr. Thorn's visible, bloodied stigmata seemingly lasted only ten weeks, from September 4 to November 18, 1921.Fame and opposition
Those


outside of the convent first learned of "the bleeding nun at Peekskill" through a letter written by a Passionist priest named Father Bertrand Barry who composed a sort of “spiritual chain letter” in early 1922 that he sent to numerous friends. It became an embarrassment to the Good Shepherd Sisters because it contained many errors, and drew unwanted attention to the religious order, but its odd details excited the public and drew fervent crowds to the convent.

New York World newspaper article concerning Margaret

On Saturday, July 8, 1922, "The New York World" newspaper ran the headlines "Girl with Vivid Cross on Body Puzzles Both Clergy and Laity. At Indefinite Periods Blood Gathers about Mark and She Suffers Intensely—Many Hold That Case Is Surely Supernatural".
One should note however that thisarticle actually contained several errors.

Stories and rumors concerning Sr. Thorn abounded amongst both religious and laity. Many who knew her either as a child or young adult were positive towards her. The superior of the Community, Mother Raymond, who spent the most time each day with Sr Thorn, was a strong supporter. Yet she became aware that at least a few of the Sisters in the Community were displeased with Sr. Thorn, so as time progressed, Mother Raymond decided to have a private written census of each of the Sisters in the convent. The record shows that the majority of them were supportive of Sr. Thorn, but several were in opposition, for various reasons. Of the approximately 50 professed and "lay" Sisters associated with the convent, there were


six Sisters who were either "not satisfied" or "not contented" with Sr. Thorn. As side note, interestingly it seems that most of the Sisters in the convent at this point had not actually seen Sr. Thorns stigmata, which leads one to conclude that they likely were only visible for a short period(s) of time, and like other stigmatics it is quite possible that they came and went and/or were not visible at times.

Archbishop Patrick Hayes of New York oversaw the official investigation of Sister Thorn, which began some three years before he was named a cardinal. The medical part of the investigation consisted of evaluations from three separate physicians--together Dr. James J. Walsh, and Dr John B. Lynch felt that Margaret's "medical symptoms" were attributed to a "nervouscondition" and possible "hysteria." On the other hand, Dr. Thomas F. McParlan became convinced that her various medical conditions were not attributable to natural origins or any ordinary means, and he eventually became one of Sr. Thorns prominent supporters.

For his part, over the years he was publicly cautious concerning Sr. Thorn, and until his death which occurred one year after hers he remained essentially neutral concerning her. One could assume that if his investigation had found anything significantly wrong he presumably would have sanctioned Sr. Thorn in various ways.

As for religious outside the convent, there was a New York Jesuit, Fr. James McGivney, who wrote a private letter to another Jesuit, Fr. Herbert Thurston, expressing his deep concern regarding St Thorn. Fr. James McGivney had given a couple


of retreats at the Peeskill convent, where he presumably obtained various information concerning Sr Thorn.

For his part, Fr. Herbert Thurston SJ, a very popular scholar known for his books on mysticism, occult phenomena, and parapsychology, was a significant supporter of Sr. Thorn. In 1925 he published a study of Margaret Reilly, whom he concealed as “Kate Ryan,” for an article in the British Catholic journal "The Month." Also around that time, Fr. Thurston was rumored to be one of four Vatican consultors for the Reilly case. Father Lucas Etlin was another priest who was very supportive of Sr. Thorn.

However, As Paula M. Kane points out in her excellent book, regardless of what those in favor of Sr. Thorn believed, certain pieces of evidence point to her purported stigmataas possibly being a fraudulent: from her sudden paralysis on the very day she was being asked to leave the convent; the short duration of the bleeding wounds and the lack of witnesses to and physical evidence of their onset; the controversial crucifix image on her chest and wall that closely resembled a commercial stamp at that time; the confusion in the written record regarding the timing, location, and appearance of her various physical markings; and the many poltergeist incidents at the convent that she herself could have performed.

On the other hand, testimonies supporting her authenticity came from trustworthy eyewitnesses who beheld and nursed her wounds, along with from the affirmations of Sister Carmelita Quinn, Dr. McParlan and Cardinal James McIntyre, the longtime conservative Archbishop of Los Angeles.


The latter's association with Sr. Margaret can be understood when looking at the historical record. James McIntyre was ordained by Archbishop Patrick Hayes of New York (Sr. Thorn's bishop) in 1921, and two years later he was appointed chancellor of the Archdiocese--a position he held for 11 years until 1934--and it was in this position that he was able to keep very close tabs on the situation concerning Sr. Thorn.

In 1940, McIntyre was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of New York and it is during this time in particular that he became known for his support for Sr. Thorn. Later, when he became archbishop of Los Angeles, he continued to campaign on behalf of Sister Thorn. He gave the Good Shepherds in California his only photograph of her in orderto convince them “that while the religious of her own Congregation did not all approve or believe in her saintliness, that there were others who did.”. He also gave a rosary to the superior, telling her: “Do not let anyone deprive you of the privilege of having a Saint in your congregation."

Her numerous illnesses and death
Starting with the critical moments in December 1923 when a weakened Margaret was suffering intensely, the sisters had everything in readiness for what they thought might be her death bed Profession. Yet, she clung to life. In January 1924 Margaret was about to receive the last rites, yet she rallied once more. In February Archbishop Patrick Hayes visited the convent, reporting that he scarcely recognized her since “she looks so very frail as


enlarged and her sufferings are terrible. There is no position that gives her the faintest relief and she looks very badly. I am greatly worried over her condition and feel so powerless to anything for her.” By August, Mother Hickey (who by that time had replaced Mother Raymond) feared “poor little Sister cannot last much longer. She is suffering so much, but always so sweetly and patiently.”

Nevertheless, despite her declining health, Margaret survived for another decade. Most of those associated wither her believed that her illnesses were primarily supernaturally induced, meaning that her suffering was God's will in that it was for reparation and for the conversion of sinners.

“Our Lord is going to give us an Irish American saint!” her bishop, Archbishop Patrick Hayes, reportedly said with enthusiasmto Father Lucas Etlin, an avid supporter of Sr. Thorn.

Yet the archbishop and many others closely connected to Sister Thorn refused to give her case any significant public support, and after her death her cause for beatification eventually faltered in the 1960's.

After a life of suffering and sacrifice, Sr. Mary Crown of Thorns (Margaret Reilly) died at age 52 in May 18, 1937. When Sister Thorn finally died, she was attended by the two women closest to her, Mother Raymond and Sister Carmelita. Mother Raymond had left Sr. Thorn's room for two minutes to fetch a drink of water; when she returned, she found Margaret vomiting blood into the basin on her table. Sister Thorn died soon afterward.

Mother Raymond was crushed by the loss of her dearest friend.


She wrote a letter in her own hand to Mother Dolorosa at the Benedictine convent in Clyde, Missouri, describing how Sr. Thorn had suffered heroically "...thru her ulcers, pancreas and other ills. Then the attacks of the evil one, her sweet pains ( her stigmata). Some tests confirmed cancer of all the left side, also the bladder; she refused opiates, wanting to be coherent to make a good confession before communion. I will miss her yes more than I can say but I am grateful He took her first.Memories crowd in daily and I thank Him for all He did for her and for me."

-Sr. Margaret Reilly, pray for us!

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Archaeologists first uncovered the burial site in the 1980s, in Derbyshire, England, and thought it might contain remains from the Great Viking Army, also known the Great Heathen Army. But there was one problem—radiocarbon dating of the site revealed that the remains were too old to be Viking invaders.

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Johannesburg: Cricket South Africa (CSA) has bid farewell to acting CEO Jacques Faul who stepped in during one of the authority's most trying periods and helped sponsors regain confidence after a two-year crisis in the wake of the irregular IPL bonus issue.
"Jacques took over as CEO on 17 March 2012...

Johannesburg: Cricket South Africa (CSA) plans to appoint a black selector soon as part of its efforts to transform the sport in the country.
Despite 80 per cent of the population being black, the Proteas have fielded only five black players in the 200 Test matches since South Africa made a...

Johannesburg: South Africa's cricket body has "dismissed with contempt" allegations by the head of its English counterpart that South African players provoked Kevin Pietersen in the text message sagathat saw him excluded from England's team.
Cricket South Africa's acting chief executive Jacques Faul said on Monday it was "absolute rubbish"...

Johannesburg: South African cricket remains divided over the 2009 saga in which now suspended chief executive Gerald Majola paid himself and other Cricket South Africa staff more than R4 million in IPL 2 bonuses, according to acting CSA chief executive Jacques Faul.
Faul tendered his resignation Thursday evening, but is reconsidering...

Johannesburg: The acting chief executive of Cricket South Africa (CSA), Jacques Faul, has tendered his resignation barely four months after sports minister Fikile Mbalula appointed him to restructure the embattled organisation.
However CSA has asked Faul, who according to insiders was "tired" of the infighting within the ranks of CSA and...

Johannesburg: Cricket South Africa is not too much concerned about


the warning of terrorist attacks in London during the Olympic Games and is going ahead with its national team's tour of England next month, according to its chief executive.
Acting CSA chief executive Jacques Faul said the Board would not be...

Cricket South Africa (CSA) has decided to revamp their international season for the 201213, and the first casualty is the Boxing Day Test match in Johannesburg. Jacques Faul, CSA's acting chief executive, said the new schedule which has five Tests, eight ODIs and five Twenty20s spread across eight venues...

Johannesburg: In a boost to its sagging fortunes after the IPL 2 bonuses debacle, Cricket South Africa is on the verge of signing a huge deal with a leading insurance company. Acting chief executive of CSA, Jacques Faul confirmed that asixyear sponsorship deal with a financial institution was imminent,...

Johannesburg: Cricket South Africa (CSA) may take its suspended chief executive Gerald Majola to court if he refuses to repay the bonus of nearly R2 million, which he pocketed from the second edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) without informing the board.
CSA acting chief executive Jacques Faul said...

Johannesburg: Cricket South Africa has declined an invitation to play limitedovers and Twenty20 internationals in Bangladesh next month.
"Unfortunately there are too many practical obstacles that prevent us from accepting this commitment," CSA chief executive Jacques Faul said. "At the moment most of our senior Proteas are spread around the world...


a biracial person of African descent. Approximately 800 Black people from the United States answered his call and made the trek here. At the time, Black people in America were not considered citizens, and so they travelled northward to pursue a better life, eventually settling in Victoria and on Salt Spring Island.*

Other early Black settlers, namely Josephine Sullivan, Joe Fortes and Jack Johnson formed even smaller communities in downtown Vancouver and North Vancouver. By all accounts, there were at least three or more small yet vibrant Black communities before Hogan’s Alley, across Metro Vancouver and the Gulf Islands.

But as quickly as these communities were formed, they dispersed. And as quickly as they dispersed, so did detailed historical accounts of their presence and contribution to B.C. and Vancouver.

Why didthey keep moving, and what were they searching for?

Headed west, but not for long

The answer to that question consists of two parts. First, they were chasing opportunity. Second, they were trying to escape racism.

When Douglas invited Black people from the U.S. to B.C., he did so with the promise of land and voting rights.

However, after Black settlers formed their own local militia in Victoria, they were barred from marching in welcoming ceremonies. Black settlers on the Island would soon move to Hogan’s Alley in Vancouver and elsewhere, only to encounter similar experiences.*

Eventually, they were driven out of the area due to “slum clearance” policies that saw them displaced, over years, in the name of “urban renewal.”

“At that time, the city of Vancouver passed a resolution at city hall,


Black people in the region continues. Rudder has met others who view cities like Toronto as far more attractive destinations for Black people.

Why?

“People who feel they experience greater discrimination in society may feel that an enclave is a place of calm and a place of protective identity,” said Dan Hiebert, a geography professor at the University of British Columbia.

Simply, vulnerable minorities see enclaves as safe areas where they can continue to feel a sense of support and community.

“And there are certainly those who would argue that discrimination is more evident for that population,” Hiebert continued.

In Metro Toronto, where the Black population is four per cent higher than the national average of 3.5 per cent, there are several Black enclaves people voluntarily gravitate towards.

Metro Vancouver is no different. Nowadays,Black people in Vancouver do gravitate towards certain areas of the suburbs, but one could hardly describe them as enclaves.

Between 2006 and 2016, Vancouver saw a 44-per-cent increase in Black visible minorities from 20,670 to 29,830, the highest concentrations of which centre around census tracts in the cities of northern and southern Surrey and Burnaby.

(Note: Maps best viewed on a horizontal screen.)

According to the 2016 census, the tract in Surrey bordered by 96 Avenue, 100 Avenue, King George Boulevard and 140 Street contained the highest Black population. This tract, where more than 400 Black people lived in 2016, encompasses King George Station and is only a few metres away from Surrey Central, a hospital, schools and shopping centres. Total population is almost 9,000.

Another tract in Burnaby, located between


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KOLKATA: Junior doctors in Bengal finally called off their week-long strike and promised to resume duty on Tuesday morning, ending a stir that crippled out patient departments (OPDs) and severely hit emergency services at hospitals across the state.At a meeting held at state secretariat Nabanna on Monday evening, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee told a team of 31 junior doctors, "(Please withdraw your strike like good boys)", which they agreed to. The "cordial" negotiations between the CM and doctors were broadcast live for about 100 minutes by two regional channels.The doctors, who had adopted a strident posture against the administration for the initial police inaction against the kin of a bereaved patient at NRS Hospital last Monday (incident that triggered the stir)


relented in the face of genuine-sounding assurances from the CM.The state administration medical fraternity face-off escalated after Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee issued a stern warning of action against the strike during her visit to SSKM Hospital last Thursday. What could have also played on their minds was the rising public opinion against the continuing strike, especially after the CM's appeal for talks last weekend.The striking doctors returned to the NRS campus on Monday and, after another general-body meeting, made a statement: "We hereby announce the withdrawal of the strike by junior doctors."Several issues were discussed at the meeting. They ranged from security measures - collapsible gates for emergency wards, regulated entry for patients' kin and enhanced police presence on medical campuses with nodal officers responsible for law andImage caption Babies are exposed to hormones in the womb

The length of a man's fingers can provide clues to his risk of prostate cancer, according to new research.

A British Journal of Cancer study found men whose index finger was longer than their ring finger were significantly less likely to develop the disease.

Researchers made the discovery after comparing the hands of 1,500 prostate cancer patients with 3,000 healthy men.

The length of the fingers is fixed before birth and is thought to relate to sex hormone levels in the womb.

Being exposed to less testosterone before birth results in a longer index finger and may protect against prostate cancer later in life, say researchers at the University of Warwick and the Institute of Cancer Research.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals have signed catcher Francisco Pena and added him to the 40-man roster.

The 24-year-old Pena, the son of former Royals manager Tony Pena, has spent the past six years in the New York Mets organization. He hit .257 last season for Triple-A Las Vegas with nine homers and 39 RBIs. He committed just three errors and threw out 30 percent of stolen-base attempts.

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BRACE and ROBEN have presented at the 14th International CTI Conference on the 24th of May in Frankfurt am Main. Marcel Romijn (BRACE) and Matthias Weber (ROBEN) were presenting on behalf of the two collaborating companies and explained some of the risks and possibilities in the usage of delete kits ...

At this conference held May 10 and 11 in Dusseldorf, Germany BRACE has presented "On-board and cloud based diagnostics – The sunny and the dark side". BRACE has been over the last years very active in connected car/machine topics with regards to possibilities to improve service and repair. Combined with ...

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Anime Feature Coming to U.S. Shores(edited press release) Manga Entertainment announces today
the release of Japan's first fully digitally-animated feature
film Blood: The Last Vampire for theatrical and DVD release
this summer and fall. Produced by the visionary animators at Japan's
Production IG Studios (Ghost in the Shell), audiences will also
have the opportunity to see the film 'digitally projected' when
Blood: The Last Vampire headlines this year's RESFEST,
the international digital film festival touring the U.S. this
fall.

While the
character designs and backgrounds were created using traditional
drawing techniques, these elements were painted, compiled and
filmed using computer technology. The process was enhanced by
the inclusion of digital lighting effects and revolutionary computer
generated models, plus a variety of innovative camera techniques.

The film's
musical score and sound effects were mixed in Hollywood, CA. In
addition, Blood: The Last Vampire features a number


of
American characters with more than ninety percent of the film's
dialogue written and spoken in the English language. The leading
role of Saya is voice acted by Youki Kodoh (Snow Falling on
Cedars).

Manga Entertainment
has captured this anime feature on DVD and enhanced the release
with special features such as: "The Making of Blood"
Documentary; Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, 16X9 Anamorphic
Digital Transfer, Image Gallery, Original Japanese Theatrical
Trailers, Web Links and DVD ROM content. The movie will be available
in retail stores August 28, 2001 for $25.00 (DVD) and $20.00 (VHS).

Blood:
The Last Vampire takes place in the fall of 1966. The Vietnam
War is underway and the U.S. military machine is being supplied
out of the Yokota Air Force Base -- a plot of U.S. land within
Japan. Within the compound, the atmosphere is charged with violent
intensity asF4 combat planes take off hastily one after the next.
Meanwhile, a series of suspicious suicides are reported in town.

Akira Hits
#1 in Sales(by digitalmediafx.com) According to Sound Scan, a video industry
analyst group, Pioneer Entertainment's Akira is the number-one
selling DVD for the week of July 29, 2001. First released in 1989,
Akira was restored by Pioneer Entertainment at a cast of
$1 million for the release on home video and DVD on July 24. Akira's
sales beat out recent theatrical films Family Man and Sweet
November starring Nicolas Cage and Keanu Reeves, demonstrating
the popularity of this cult classic.

Available
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in Widescreen), Akira tells the dark tale of Neo-Tokyo,
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Number of youths living on the margins is growing

September 14, 2012

September 14, 2012

One in seven youths nationwide is neither at school nor at work, a percentage that has grown dramatically since the economic recession, according to a study released Thursday. Nationwide, 5.8 million young people, age 16 to 24, are living on the margins without even part-time jobs – an increase of 800,000 between2007 and 2010.

The report ranks the 25 largest metropolitan areas, including five in California, based on the percentage of disconnected youth – defined as not working or attending school. One in Seven: Ranking Youth Disconnection in the 25 Largest Metro Areas was done by Measure of America, a project of the nonpartisan Social Science Research Council.

Young African Americans are twice as likely as whites and nearly three times as likely as Asian Americans to neither attend school nor have a job. (Click to enlarge.)

Low-income, African American, and Latino youth are the most likely to be disconnected, including more than one in five African American youth. The statistics are even more alarming for African American young men: 26 percent are neither in school nor working, compared with 19 percent


of teenage girls and young women. However, in the Latino community, more young women (20.3 percent) – many young mothers – than young men (16.8 percent) are disconnected.

Out of the 25 metro areas, Boston had the lowest share (9 percent) of disconnected youth, and Phoenix the most (18.8 percent). In California, the Riverside-San Bernardino area had the fourth highest percentage nationally – 16.9 percent. In Riverside-San Bernardino, that includes about one in five African American and Latino youth, and one in seven white young adults. The other California metro areas studied were Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, and San Francisco, which includes the East Bay Area.

“Of the five cities in California, half a million young people are unattached from these anchor institutions that give you your identity andand Portland together ranked 14th and 15th, with a disconnection rate of 14.3 percent. Riverside-San Bernardino and Atlanta together ranked 21st and 22nd, with rates just under 17 percent.

Only economically troubled Spain and Italy among affluent democracies had a higher rate of young adults living on the margin, neither in school nor at work, than the United States. (Click to enlarge.)

The report looks to European countries that provide a strong high school education with opportunities for internships and apprenticeships in technical careers. The vocational system in Germany, for example, attracts more than half of high school students in 350 occupational apprenticeships. A recent poll in Finland found that 90 percent of respondents said they felt very positive about vocational education, often called career-tech in California.

In European countries, the


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Team Youth Micronesia took part in a demonstration along Marine Corps Drive in Dededo to raise awareness about ending violence.

A local effort to increase police presence in the villages is also promoting closer bonds between village residents, including regional immigrants, and should be expanded.

The government's public safety "strike force," which was formed by the governor in January, also is also encouraging residents, including regional immigrants, to take ownership of their villages and build relationships between the public and law enforcement, said Crime Stoppers coordinator Officer Paul Tapao.

People are encouraged to participate in crime-watch programs and other community events, such as kickball games and pot-lucks -- all in effort to welcome those who might otherwise feel excluded from the community.

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In November, everyone was talking about Jean-Claude Van Damme's Volvo Truck demonstration where he did an "epic" split between two moving trucks.

The fascinating scene went viral on YouTube with more than 68 million views, Van Damme saw a career resurgence and Volvo Truck sales rose 31 percent in November, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Now promoting his film, Welcome to the Jungle (in theaters and VOD February 7), Van Damme tells USA TODAY over email that performing the stunt was a concernregimen that I have stayed with for years," he adds.

As to whether he has "a body crafted to perfection" as he says in the commercial, Van Damme goes (somewhat) humble.

"You would have to speak with the manufacturer (about that)," he says.

The stunt, is part of a series of Volvo Truck features showing off their precision steering. Anders Vilhelmsson, Volvo Trucks public relations manager, says there were additional safety precautions that are not visible on the film. Van Damme had a safety line and there were platforms on each side of the two truck mirrors, one for each foot.

"The film is real," says Vilhemsson. "After several months of planning, and prior to filming the take, the production team rehearsed the stunt for three days."


a planar geometry. A RF Sputtering Machine was used to sputter a-Ge on all surfaces of the crystal. The thickness of a-Ge, the gas composition of the sputtering process, the pressure, and the applied power can be changed in the fabrication. In this work, a precisely cut crystal in a planar geometry was placed on the jig and loaded into the chamber of the sputtering machine. The plasma was created in the chamber with a mixture of hydrogen and argon gas (7:93) at a pressure of 14 mTorr. The thickness of the a-Ge deposited on the surface of the crystal is in the range 250-350 nm.

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He gave Jeffrey 14 days to register his renouncement of Islam and at the same time for Islamic bodies to appeal against his decision.

In his statement of claim, Jeffrey, a contractor, stated that he converted to Islam only for the purpose of marrying a Muslim woman.

He converted to Islam on Jan 20 1994 and married the woman on Nov 16 1996.

He also said that after converting to Islam, and after his marriage, he did not attend any Islamic religious teachings nor was he taught the religion.


Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson has been arrested for shoplifting cheese and wine at a supermarket, police have said.

The Ready Steady Cook star, 60, was cautioned by police after he was caught stealing from the Tesco store in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

The former I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! contestant, whose restaurant business has been hit by the recession, was caught while using a self-scanning till on Friday, 6 January.

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According to the Reuters news service Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would be open to meet US President Donald Trump at an Arctic summit held in Finland in the future.

Putin and Niinistö are in Arkhangelsk, Russia, attending the International Arctic Forum.

Finland will begin its role as chair of the Arctic Council in May.

Putin noted that he is scheduled to meet with Trump at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany in July.

The Itar-Tass news agency reported that Putin said any eventual meeting with Trump must be well-prepared in advance.

Reuters later reported that Putin said that Moscow would support Trump in fighting terrorism and cooperate with the Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency.

Leaders discuss Arctic's future

The leaders discussed more than possible meetings with Trump at the


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There is no doubt the John Bolton, President Trump’s National Security advisor, has been itching to go to war against Iran for decades. And now, he finally sees a very good chance to realize his plan. In a way, the hawkish Bolton in the Trump White House resembles the hawkish Richard Cheney in the George W. Bush White House, where the then Vice-President (along with fellow neo-conservatives) finally got his war against Saddam Hussein and Iraq that they had plotted for years.

So, today, the worries that the Middle East will soon see another war of choice, not a war of necessity, are real. In the current climate, wittingly or unwittingly, hostilities can break out any time.

However, in one respect the build-up to the Iraq invasion was differentthan the current period of heightened conflict rhetoric.

George W. Bush was different than Donald Trump—especially in one important respect: Contrary to George W. the current president is an extreme narcissist who needs constant admiration, affirmation, and assurances of love.

The mirror-hungry Trump looks day-in and day-out for reflections of complete devotion—on FOX News, during his frequent rallies, in the absolute obedience and service of Republican politicians, his on-their- knees cabinet members, and his White House advisers.

Nothing is feeding his insatiable appetite for compliments more than assurances by his admirers that God send him to be the leader of America.

Obviously, the North Korean leader Kim Jong Um recognized the U.S. president’s narcissistic traits and fed his ego in “lovely” letters and personal encounters.

While the North Korean leader and his minions


soft (and clever) power trumps hard power.

After seeing the most gruesome ISIS videos that showed the meticulously staged executions of hostages, the beheading, the drowning, the burning of victims, I thought that I couldn’t see anything worse, nothing more inhumane.

This morning I was proved wrong.

The video that the Christchurch terrorist shot with a camera seemingly attached to his helmet or cap and streamed on the best known social media platforms during his killing spree is of unspeakable cruelty.

Not only did the killer shoot peaceful, innocent human beings as they were worshiping in a mosque, he aimed at the same people—dead or injured already—again and again.

When he was nearly out of ammunition, he walked back to his car shooting at pedestrians further away to his right and left. Hetook another handgun from the trunk of the car, walked back into the mosque, and aimed his shots again at the people lying in their blood on the floor.

What I saw was the personified evil devoid of any humanity.

And, no, contrary to the common but false narrative of our time, this terrorist was not a Muslim, not a jihadist affiliated with ISIS or like-minded groups.

He was a White Nationalist, an angry, hateful racist with an Australian passport who wanted to fire the first deadly shots in a war against “invaders” of different religions and races.

When I read the 74-pages of a tract that the mass killer posted online, I was hardly surprised. He expresses the same hate, the same ignorance, the same calls for defending the white race,


the same appetite for all-out race war, and the same attacks on humanitarian leaders who opened their countries’ doors to non-white, Christian refugees. On this count, he attacks most of all German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

These racist outbursts are nothing new; they are central to the regular discourse on white supremacy/neo-Nazi online discussion boards, web sites, and social media accounts. The resemble the message sent by the Alt-Right’s “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville in 2017 that President Trump could not bring himself to condemn.

The mass killer of Christchurch is at home in the white nationalist online milieu. His primitive declaration that the news media characterized as "manifesto" celebrates among others the Norwegian white nationalist Anders Breivik (who killed 77 people to highlight his anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim agenda) and theAmerican white supremacist Dylan Roof (who in 2016 killed 9 African Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church).

While Facebook and Twitter closed the terrorist’s accounts and thereby tried to block access to the horrific video and the terrorist tract titled “The Great Replacement,” both were readily available on White Supremacy sites.

That alone attests to the fact that the Christchurch terrorist did not think, plan, and act in a vacuum. He is part of a growing international front of White extremism that spans from North America to Europe and Australia and poses just as serious a threat as does Muslim extremism.

A fact that European governments have come to recognize contrary to top-decision-makers in Washington.

After the first two years of Trump’s presidency and the recent shut-down of the federal government the


number one imperative must be is to vote the MAGA man in 2020 out of office.

I believe that the impeachment route would be merely another irritant and stall in the GOP dominated US Senate. Democracy is best served when the electorate decides.

The biggest hurdle to vote Trump out could well be the candidacy of independent or third party candidates. Think of Jill Stein of the Green Party who might have drawn enough votes in crucial states to deny Hillary Clinton and hand Trump the victory.

Yet, Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks, talks now publicly about a possible run in 2020—as an independent candidate.

What makes rich guys like Ross Perot in the 1990s and Schultz now think that they alone can heal all the ills of our political system?massive boycott of Starbucks might stop his candidacy.

Typically, I analyze the actions and motivations of “lone wolves” within my long research interest in terrorism and terrorists. But as I try to explain President Trump’s shocking and unexpected decision to withdraw all remaining U.S. forces from Syria, the analogy to “lone wolf” imageries comes instantly to mind.

After all, the commander-in-chief acted without consulting his national security advisers, including Secretary of Defense James Mattis, military commanders in the Middle East, and members of Congress.

According to his tweets, Trump is simply enacting his long-held withdrawal plan. Never mind the opposition within his administration and his own Republican party.

Research reveals that “lone wolf “ terrorists tend to feel being apart from and misunderstood by their respective social circles; they are angry about


perceived wrongdoings against their secular or religious beliefs and virtual communities--a dangerous mixture that can eventually lead to what they perceive as revenge against their enemies—often in reaction to particular events.

So what was the trigger event for President Trump to announce out of the blue the cut-and-run decision concerning Syria?

First, there was the disastrous court appearance of General Flynn, Mr. Trump’s former National Security Adviser and the news that the Trump Foundation was forced to close down because of its unsavory practices. This was followed by the realization that Congress was rejecting the president’s multi-billion-dollar request to finance the WALL along the Mexican-American border, his campaign promise—albeit, according to Trump, with Mexico as payer.

As the judge in the Flynn case and the New York State Attorney General ineach of two sides by an energy barrier with respect to transport of a charge carrier between the at least one quantum well and adjoining material on each of two sides, and the quantum well having at least two bound quantum states with respect to a trapped charge carrier. The device also has an optically active zone including the at least one quantum well, with the optically active zone characterized by an optical gain under forward operation of the device. The device has a first carrier injector for forward-injecting carriers of a first conductivity type into the at least one quantum well and a second carrier injector for forward-injecting carriers of a second conductivity type into the optically active zone at in such a way as to vary


Space Race

For years, the Russian space agency Roscosmos has served as an international space courier service, contracting with NASA to shuttle astronauts and equipment into orbit aboard its reliable Soyuz rockets.

But in the wake of a high-profile Soyuz booster failure last month, and in the face of new competitors in the private spacetech industry, Bloomberg reports that Roscosmos is now reevaluating its future. In particular, the business magazine found, the agency’s ire is aimed at Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Obviously Concerned

In its most recent annual report, Roscosmos blamed SpaceX — which plans to send four NASA astronauts to the International Space Station this April aboard its Dragon 2 reusable spacecraft — for its declining fortunes. It also blamed sanctions and weak currency, Bloomberg reported.

Roscosmos is “obviously concerned,” NASA associate administratorhave somewhat little excess weight while in the Outdated Region, having said that, do seem to have probable to acquire off in Oz; A great deal as Malbec, flippantly regarded in its French homeland, has skyrocketed in Argentina. Let's have a quick look at them each:

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Because of the ninth century, the city of Shiraz had by now proven a popularity for developing the best wine on the globe,[one] and was Iran's wine money. The export of Shiraz wine by European merchants from the seventeenth century has become documented. As described by enthusiastic English and French travellers to the area in the 17th to nineteenth hundreds of years, the wine


grown near to town was of a far more dilute character as a consequence of irrigation, even though the top Shiraz wines have been in fact developed in terraced vineyards around the village of Khollar.

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Part of the reason New Orleans was able to achieve this goal first is because the number of veterans needing housing was relatively tenable.

The annual point-in-time count taken in January 2014 found just 193 homeless veterans. Over the course of the year, outreach workers identified an additional 35 veterans who had not been included in that count. However, in the end, the total number of people needing housing placement was relatively small compared with the numbers seen in larger metropolitan areas. The January 2014 count found 714 homeless vets in Chicago, 1,645 in Los Angeles, and 3,739 in New York.

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7 Table of content 7 INTRODUCTION Dear Readers, 2009/2010 academic year is 25th consecutive year of the University of Szczecin. The pillars of university are economists, together with the scientific and teaching staff from Faculty of Management and Economics of Services. In March 2010 the Faculty will be celebrating its 20 anniversary. In 1990 Faculty of Transport and Communications was singled out and in 1999 transformed in Faculty of Management and Economics of Services the first and so far the only university department in Poland, engaged in research and teaching process in the tertiary sector. In June 2009, the Faculty of Management and Economics of Services of Universityof Szczecin, was a co-organizer of II National Scientific Conference on the problems of the tertiary sector. The main organizer of the Conference was the The Department of Services Management of Poznan University of Economics. The conference focused on issues of management service organization. The effect of conference will be a collection of conference proceedings published by the Poznan University of Economics, at the turn of 2009 and The next conference will be held in Szczecin, and is planned for June The fifth Scientific Journal Service Management is a collection of the results of current research of the staff of the Faculty and partner universities. It contains contributions presented in the adopted, permanent division of the thematic groups. Separated were the issues of socio-economic policy in the service


But it can be already clearly seen how the labor market begins to respond nervously. Growing shortages of qualified staff in at least several specialties create a situation that despite still high unemployment at the same time there is shortage of people to work. Expectations that persons who have left and been successful will return and support the Polish economy are daydreams at most. Only those will return who have not been successful, while others still seeing many absurds in the economy, law, politics will stay in the country which they reached supporting the local economy. Looking for ways to get out of the deadlock in education in Poland K. Śliwińska listed the following proposed changes: 1 a) teaching staff in the break between teaching university teachers willcharacteristics of Estonia The population of Estonia is characterized by two very important tendencies: 1) the decrease of population which started in the 1990s

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Kenya has dropped the images of presidents from newly minted cash coins, in what is seen as an attempt to prevent their glorification.

Previous coins bore the images of Kenya's three ex-rulers: Jomo Kenyatta, Daniel arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki.

Many Kenyans saw this as an attempt by their leaders to promote themselves, and to personalise the state.

The new ones have images of the country's famous wildlife, including lions, elephants, giraffes and rhinos.

President Uhuru Kenyatta - the son of Kenya's first leader Jomo Kenyatta - said the new coins were a "big change" and showed "our nation has come a long way".

All three of the incumbent's predecessors had their images printed on the currency during their


rule.

Mr Kibaki, who won elections in 2002 ending Mr Moi's 24-year rule, broke a promise not to have his image printed on money.

image copyright Getty Images image caption Notes with images of Kenya's founding leader Jomo Kenyatta are still in circulation

Intense public pressure led to a new constitution, adopted in 2010, to entrench democracy and human rights. It states that the currency "shall not bear the portrait of any individual".

The central bank has fulfilled the requirement in the case of coins, and is likely to do the same when it prints new notes.

The bank said the choice of animals gives "physical expression to a newly reborn and prosperous" Kenya, and shows respect for the environment.hats, too.

That this could happen to the mightiest armed forces on Earth should worry Americans far more than reports of Chinese hypersonic missiles or ace Russian-military hacking teams. When large elements of the chain of command yield to illegitimate and morally corrupt demands of this kind, there is reason to fear veins of rottenness in the whole structure. When naval officers can agree to dishonor the memory of a real hero, who suffered five years of torment and refused early release, a statesman who in his first career was blood of their blood and flesh of their flesh, and who is buried on the grounds of the Naval Academy itself, the service is in a bad way.

Peter Wehner: A damaged soul and a disordered personality

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Canadian Global Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland was seemingly oblivious to the suggestion that Canada might


Intersex Babies: Boy or Girl and Who Decides?

Jim Bruce was born with XY male chromosomes but ambiguous genitals. Doctors couldn't be sure if he had a large clitoris or a small penis and were convinced he could never live a "satisfactory life" as a man.

So shortly after his birth in 1976, Bruce's external organ and testes were surgically removed and he was raised as a girl.

He struggled for years, preferring "rough and tumble" play and being attracted to girls.

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The second leg of the Champions League last 16 clash between PSG and Real Madrid in March promises to be a tense and nervy affair.

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With a 3-1 lead from the first leg going into the March 6 game, Real Madrid are favourites to progress and defend their title. An exit for the Ligue 1 side at this stage of the competition would be a major blow for the club and its supporters.

The PSG faithful themselves are buildingKim Kardashian & Kanye West In Their First Major Fight As A Couple! (DETAILS)

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are caught up in their first major fight as a couple – fortunately it’s not with each other! KimYe are embroiled in a nasty legal battle over leaked footage of their over-the-top engagement.

Kim and Kanye have filed a lawsuit against Chad Hurley, the founder of YouTube, for filming their big moment during their “intimate” party at AT&T Park in San Francisco last week. Hurley shared the video online after the event and soon after, it was on every major media site.

Though it seems Chad was just trying to be a good friend, sending well wishes to the newlyweds-to-be, Kim and ‘Ye were anything but pleased.

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The Middle East Conflict, Antisemitism and the Holocaust

In Their Own Words

Remembrance and Beyond

By Yehuda Bauer

On January 27, 1945, the Red Army liberated the concentration and death camp of Auschwitz. This was not the end of the slaughter of World War II, which cost the lives of some 35 million people, most of them civilians. The war was to continue for over three months more. Some ten days prior to the liberation of Auschwitz, 58.000 inmates were marched away because the Nazis did not want them to fall alive into the hands of the liberators; instead, they had to go on what has become known as the Death Marches. Over half of them would die as a result. They left behind the ashes and bones of over a


million human beings, more than 900.000 of them Jews, most of whom died by gassing, and some 7000 sick and dying inmates, including Jewish and Roma children on whom the German doctors had performed murderous medical experiments.

What had caused that war, the most terrible conflict in human history so far? It was not primarily a matter of economics; Nazi Germany had emerged from the economic crisis of the thirties, had vanquished unemployment, the standard of living had returned more or less to that of the twenties, and was improving. Nor was Germany threatened by any other country – in fact, it was threatening others. Nor did the German people want a war, as all the observers of the time stated unanimously. It was caused by the Nazi leadershipHitler, the new Jesus Christ, the Savior who would lead humanity, under Germanic rule, to a glorious future. At the other end was the satanic Jew, who tried to prevent this utopia from achieving its aim of global rule. It was in the name of that utopia of a wonderful new racist world that the vast majority of the German people were persuaded to abandon accepted morality, and in the process to commit vast murders, including three genocides at least: against the Poles, the Roma – Gypsies – and the Jews. We should never forget that utopias kill; radical universalist utopias, such as National Socialism, Communism, and today the radicals who support global terrorism, kill radically and universally.

Nazi antisemitic ideology was based on a distortion of Christianity; it


was anti-Christian, because Jesus of Nazareth and his disciples had come from the Jews. Nazism developed Christian antisemitic traditions, such as the legend about the world Jewish conspiracy, which is being revived today by radical Islamistic ideologies. Christian antisemitism stemmed from the struggle in the ancient world between Christianity and Judaism over the souls of the Romans and Greeks. Accusations became murderous when Christianity became the state religion and used the power of the state to enforce its ideas. In the course of time, other inventions and forgeries were added, such as the blood libel accusation, which accused the Jews of killing non-Jewish children to use their blood for their food – a deadly superstition which is spread today among the same radicals that promote world terrorism.

But Christianityand Islam never planned a genocide of the Jews. That was left to the secularized, anti-Christian world of groups of European intellectuals frustrated by the crises induced by revolutionary economic and social developments.

Nazi ideology, then, was the force that motivated the German desire for war; pragmatic considerations certainly existed, but they were secondary. It is no exaggeration to say that World War II, and the death of tens of millions, the destruction of countries and cultures, the torture and death of children and adults, was caused in part by hatred against Jews. To all those who today hesitate to act against antisemitic propaganda, wherever it comes from, the question must be posed: have you not learned your lesson? Do you not know that this is a poison that


with the help of air bombardments, cell-phones are used, and the government bureaucracy supports the murderers and prevents effective outside intervention. In Rwanda, genocide was perpetrated with the help of a central radio station that provided the instructions to the murderers, and a centralized government bureaucracy that had been developed on a European model by intellectuals some of whom had studied at the best French, Belgian and Canadian universities. Nazi Germany used a modern bureaucracy, and the best technological means at their disposal. The Hutus and the Janjaweed did not and do not have gas; the Germans did, so they used it. Yes, it is true that the Holocaust was perpetrated at the very center of European and world civilization, and that the main perpetrators came from thesame places from which some of the most wonderful cultural achievements of the human race had originated. The German people had produced Kant and Hegel, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms, Dührer and Planck; unfortunately, these were not the names of the people who ran Germany in the thirties and forties. The fact of this tragedy happening at the center of supposedly advanced civilization was unprecedented. But the fact that it was done with the best available technical means at the disposal of the perpetrators, that is paralleled in other genocides.

One American political scientist has argued that in the twentieth century 262 million civilians and unarmed prisoners of war were murdered by governments and political organizations. In addition, some 34 million soldiers died in all the wars of that period,


were producing almost 10% of all the clothes the German Army was wearing; they murdered Jewish slave laborers while they were building roads for the German military. If they had followed modern, capitalistic, cost-effective economic practice, they would have robbed Jewish property and then utilized Jewish slave labor for their own purposes, as they did with the Poles, for instance. But no, they had to murder the Jews because that was where their ideology led them. Nazi ideology had the character of nightmares. They believed in a Jewish world conspiracy – a mirror image of their own desire to control the world. That ancient fabrication was reawakened and developed in the notorious forgery called the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, produced in the early part of thefrom the same stock. The Nazi racist pseudo-science projected a utopia which led to the murder of the Jews. And fifth, The Jews are the last surviving remnant of the original three pillars of what is inaccurately known as Western civilization, namely Athens, as the originator of aesthetics, poetry, literature, architecture, philosophy; Rome, which gave us the idea of an orderly state, and also developed a literature and an architecture from which modern civilization has learned. And Jerusalem, with its prophets and their ethics, representing the aspirations of humanity. Modern Greeks and Italians do not speak ancient Greek or Latin, they pray to different gods and write different literatures. But the Jews still speak the ancient language, and their civilization is a direct continuation and development of the


certainly replicated in other genocides.

Let me give you an example: in the tiny hamlet of Kurenets in today’s Belarus there were 1500 Jews when the Germans occupied it. They immediately enslaved the Jews, and set up a barbed-wire enclosure in the village square for the masses of Soviet prisoners of war whom they took in the first weeks of their invasion of the USSR. Thousands were brought in every day, tattered, desperately hungry and thirsty, wounded and sick, and next morning they were marched away towards the west. The Jewish slave workers had to bring in some barrels of bread and water for the prisoners. Among the slave workers there was one, Zalman Gurevich, who was approached by a Soviet captain, Pyotr Mikhailovich Danilochkin, who just said ‘getme out of here’. Gurevich consulted with his friends, and then put on a second layer of working clothes, with the Jewish patch, went into the enclosure carrying a barrel; hidden by the milling crowds of desperate prisoners of war on the square, Danilochkin quickly put on the second layer of Gurevitch’s clothes, and became a Jewish slave worker for the rest of the day. There was no ghetto in Kurenets, and in the evening the workers could go home. Gurevich took Danilochkin with him to his parents, who nursed him back to health. Danilochkin became the organizer of the first partisan group in Belarus, and he did not forget the Jews who had rescued him. The group of eight became the first Jews to join his unit.


the attempts made at prevention of genocides, as for instance by the office of the Special Adviser for genocide prevention of the Secretary-General, and by various NGOs and governments, are not a hopeless task. But the failure, so far, of the international community to deal with the ongoing genocide in Darfur shows how tremendously difficult it is. Nazi Germany could easily have been prevented from expanding, starting a war, and committing genocide – not because of the beautiful eyes of the Jews, but in the interests of the great powers, Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the US. They did not do so, and they paid, not only with the industrial murder of close to six million Jews, but with the deaths of tens of millions of theirThe firing incident took place when the security forces were patrolling Seer village in Tral.

Militants fired at a team of security forces in Tral in Kashmir.(ANI Twitter)

Militants opened fire at security forces in a village in Tral township of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district on Saturday, police said. A cordon and search operation was launched to nab them.

The security forces were patrolling Seer village when the militants opened fire at them, triggering a brief gunfight, a police official said.

Militants fired at a team of security forces in Tral in Kashmir
(ANI Twitter)

There was no immediate report of any casualty, he said, adding that a cordon and search operation has been launched to track them.

Militants fired at a team of security forces in Tral in Kashmir
(ANI Twitter)

Reinforcements have been rushed to


seal the escape routes, the official said, adding that there was no fresh contact with the militants and efforts are on to flush them out.

Earlier in the day, at least two civilians were killed and seven persons, including four Indian Army personnel, were injured in heavy cross-border shelling by Pakistan along the Line of Control (LoC) in Nowshera sector of Rajouri district, officials said.

This was the third ceasefire violation along the India-Pakistan border in Jammu and Kashmir in past three days.

Four soldiers of the Indian Army’s 48 Rashtriya Rifles suffered injuries in the exchange of fire, and were taken to a garrison hospital, said an intelligence source.John Romita Jr is appearing at MCM London Comic Con this weekend, and was at the DC panel this morning. Where he talked a little about the upcoming Superman Year One comic he is drawing with Frank Miller as writer, to be published by DC Comics' Black Label (if there still is such an imprint by the time it comes out, of course).

He talks about getting three fully written pages of plot for the first issue, which he turned into 65 pages of art. In some cases that meant taking a line and expanding on it. Such as a line about seeing the explosion of Krypton through the eyes of a baby, which became ten pages of just that, and we only see Clark's face on the reflection