Julia as being Caesar's wife; and besides that, she advised her to nothing but what was very much for her own advantage. At this time also it was that Herod sent back king Archelaus's daughter, who had been Alexander's wife, to her father, returning the portion he had with her out of his own estate, that there might be no dispute between them about it. 2. Now Herod brought up his sons' children with great care; for Alexander had two sons by Glaphyra; and Aristobulus had three sons by Bernice, Salome's daughter, and two daughters; and as his friends were once with him, he presented the children before them; and deploring the hard fortune of his own sons, he prayed that no such ill fortune would befall thesewho were their children, but that they might improve in virtue, and obtain what they justly deserved, and might make him amends for his care of their education. He also caused them to be betrothed against they should come to the proper age of marriage; the elder of Alexander's sons to Pheroras's daughter, and Antipater's daughter to Aristobulus's eldest son. He also allotted one of Aristobulus's daughters to Antipater's son, and Aristobulus's other daughter to Herod, a son of his own, who was born to him by the high priest's daughter; for it is the ancient practice among us to have many wives at the same time. Now the king made these espousals for the children, out of commiseration of them now they were fatherless, as endeavoring to


render Antipater kind to them by these intermarriages. But Antipater did not fail to bear the same temper of mind to his brothers' children which he had borne to his brothers themselves; and his father's concern about them provoked his indignation against them upon this supposal, that they would become greater than ever his brothers had been; while Archclaus, a king, would support his daughter's sons, and Pheroras, a tetrarch, would accept of one of the daughters as a wife to his son. What provoked him also was this, that all the multitude would so commiserate these fatherless children, and so hate him [for making them fatherless], that all would come out, since they were no strangers to his vile disposition towards his brethren. He contrived, therefore, tooverturn his father's settlements, as thinking it a terrible thing that they should be so related to him, and be so powerful withal. So Herod yielded to him, and changed his resolution at his entreaty; and the determination now was, that Antipater himself should marry Aristobulus's daughter, and Antipater's son should marry Pheroras's daughter. So the espousals for the marriages were changed after this manner, even without the king's real approbation. 3. Now Herod the king had at this time nine wives; one of them Antipater's mother, and another the high priest's daughter, by whom he had a son of his own name. He had also one who was his brother's daughter, and another his sister's daughter; which two had no children. One of his wives also was


of the Samaritan nation, whose sons were Antipas and Archelaus, and whose daughter was Olympias; which daughter was afterward married to Joseph, the king's brother's son; but Archelaus and Antipas were brought up with a certain private man at Rome. Herod had also to wife Cleopatra of Jerusalem, and by her he had his sons Herod and Philip; which last was also brought up at Rome. Pallas also was one of his wives, which bare him his son Phasaelus. And besides these, he had for his wives Phedra and Elpis, by whom he had his daughters Roxana and Salome. As for his elder daughters by the same mother with Alexander and Aristobulus, and whom Pheroras neglected to marry, he gave the one in marriage to Antipater, the king'ssister's son, and the other to Phasaelus, his brother's son. And this was the posterity of Herod. CHAPTER 2. Concerning Zamaris, The Babylonian Jew; Concerning The Plots Laid By Antipater Against His Father; And Somewhat About The Pharisees. 1. And now it was that Herod, being desirous of securing himself on the side of the Trachonites, resolved to build a village as large as a city for the Jews, in the middle of that country, which might make his own country difficult to be assaulted, and whence he might be at hand to make sallies upon them, and do them a mischief. Accordingly, when he understood that there was a man that was a Jew come out of Babylon, with five hundred horsemen, all of whom could shoot


their arrows as they rode on horde-back, and, with a hundred of his relations, had passed over Euphrates, and now abode at Antioch by Daphne of Syria, where Saturninus, who was then president, had given them a place for habitation, called Valatha, he sent for this man, with the multitude that followed him, and promised to give him land in the toparchy called Batanea, which country is bounded with Trachonitis, as desirous to make that his habitation a guard to himself. He also engaged to let him hold the country free from tribute, and that they should dwell entirely without paying such customs as used to be paid, and gave it him tax-free. 2. The Babylonian was reduced by these offers to come hither; so he took possessionof the land, and built in it fortresses and a village, and named it Bathyra. Whereby this man became a safeguard to the inhabitants against the Trachonites, and preserved those Jews who came out of Babylon, to offer their sacrifices at Jerusalem, from being hurt by the Trachonite robbers; so that a great number came to him from all those parts where the ancient Jewish laws were observed, and the country became full of people, by reason of their universal freedom from taxes. This continued during the life of Herod; but when Philip, who was [tetrarch] after him, took the government, he made them pay some small taxes, and that for a little while only; and Agrippa the Great, and his son of the same name, although they


harassed them greatly, yet would they not take their liberty away. From whom, when the Romans have now taken the government into their own hands, they still gave them the privilege of their freedom, but oppress them entirely with the imposition of taxes. Of which matter I shall treat more accurately in the progress of this history. 3. At length Zamaris the Babylonian, to whom Herod had given that country for a possession, died, having lived virtuously, and left children of a good character behind him; one of whom was Jacim, who was famous for his valor, and taught his Babylonians how to ride their horses; and a troop of them were guards to the forementioned kings. And when Jacim was dead in his old age, he lefta son, whose name was Philip, one of great strength in his hands, and in other respects also more eminent for his valor than any of his contemporaries; on which account there was a confidence and firm friendship between him and king Agrippa. He had also an army which he maintained as great as that of a king, which he exercised and led wheresoever he had occasion to march. 4. When the affairs of Herod were in the condition I have described, all the public affairs depended upon Antipater; and his power was such, that he could do good turns to as many as he pleased, and this by his father's concession, in hopes of his good-will and fidelity to him; and this till he ventured to use


his power still further, because his wicked designs were concealed from his father, and he made him believe every thing he said. He was also formidable to all, not so much on account of the power and authority he had, as for the shrewdness of his vile attempts beforehand; but he who principally cultivated a friendship with him was Pheroras, who received the like marks of his friendship; while Antipater had cunningly encompassed him about by a company of women, whom he placed as guards about him; for Pheroras was greatly enslaved to his wife, and to her mother, and to her sister; and this notwithstanding the hatred he bare them for the indignities they had offered to his virgin daughters. Yet did he bear them, and nothingFor there was a certain sect of men that were Jews, who valued themselves highly upon the exact skill they had in the law of their fathers, and made men believe they were highly favored by God, by whom this set of women were inveigled. These are those that are called the sect of the Pharisees, who were in a capacity of greatly opposing kings. A cunning sect they were, and soon elevated to a pitch of open fighting and doing mischief. Accordingly, when all the people of the Jews gave assurance of their good-will to Caesar, and to the king's government, these very men did not swear, being above six thousand; and when the king imposed a fine upon them, Pheroras's wife paid their fine for them.


the Pharisees foretold; and for Bagoas, he had been puffed up by them, as though he should be named the father and the benefactor of him who, by the prediction, was foretold to be their appointed king; for that this king would have all things in his power, and would enable Bagoas to marry, and to have children of his own body begotten. CHAPTER 3. Concerning The Enmity Between Herod And Pheroras; How Herod Sent Antipater To Caesar; And Of The Death Of Pheroras. 1. When Herod had punished those Pharisees who had been convicted of the foregoing crimes, he gathered an assembly together of his friends, and accused Pheroras's wife; and ascribing the abuses of the virgins to the impudence of that woman, brought an accusation againsther for the dishonor she had brought upon them: that she had studiously introduced a quarrel between him and his brother, and, by her ill temper, had brought them into a state of war, both by her words and actions; that the fines which he had laid had not been paid, and the offenders had escaped punishment by her means; and that nothing which had of late been done had been done without her; "for which reason Pheroras would do well, if he would of his own accord, and by his own command, and not at my entreaty, or as following my opinion, put this his wife away, as one that will still be the occasion of war between thee and me. And now, Pheroras, if thou valuest


bid them to take care to avoid the assemblies of the women; which they promised to do, but still got together when occasion served, and both Ptieroras and Antipater had their own merry meetings. The report went also, that Antipater had criminal conversation with Pheroras's wife, and that they were brought together by Antipater's mother. 2. But Antipater had now a suspicion of his father, and was afraid that the effects of his hatred to him might increase; so he wrote to his friends at Rome, and bid them to send to Herod, that he would immediately send Antipater to Caesar; which when it was done, Herod sent Antipater thither, and sent most noble presents along with him; as also his testament, wherein Antipater was appointed to behis successor; and that if Antipater should die first, his son [Herod Philip] by the high priest's daughter should succeed. And, together with Antipater, there went to Rome Sylleus the Arabian, although he had done nothing of all that Caesar had enjoined him. Antipater also accused him of the same crimes of which he had been formerly accused by Herod. Sylleus was also accused by Aretas, that without his consent he had slain many of the chief of the Arabians at Petra; and particularly Soemus, a man that deserved to be honored by all men; and that he had slain Fabatus, a servant of Caesar. These were the things of which Sylleus was accused, and that on the occasion following: There was one Corinthus, belonging to Herod, of


the guards of the king's body, and one who was greatly trusted by him. Sylleus had persuaded this man with the offer of a great sum of money to kill Herod; and he had promised to do it. When Fabatus had been made acquainted with this, for Sylleus had himself told him of it, he informed the king of it; who caught Corinthus, and put him to the torture, and thereby got out of him the whole conspiracy. He also caught two other Arabians, who were discovered by Corinthus; the one the head of a tribe, and the other a friend to Sylleus, who both were by the king brought to the torture, and confessed that they were come to encourage Corinthus not to fail of doing whathe had undertaken to do; and to assist him with their own hands in the murder, if need should require their assistance. So Saturninns, upon Herod's discovering the whole to him, sent them to Rome. 3. At this time Herod commanded Pheroras, that since he was so obstinate in his affection for his wife, he should retire into his own tetrarchy; which he did very willingly, and sware many oaths that he would not come again till he heard that Herod was dead. And indeed when, upon a sickness of the king, he was desired to come to him before he died, that he might intrust him with some of his injunctions, he had such a regard to his oath, that he would not come to him; yet


did not Herod so retain his hatred to Pheroras, but remitted of his purpose [not to see him], which he before had, and that for such great causes as have been already mentioned: but as soon as he began to be ill, he came to him, and this without being sent for; and when he was dead, he took care of his funeral, and had his body brought to Jerusalem, and buried there, and appointed a solemn mourning for him. This [death of Pheroras] became the origin of Antipater's misfortunes, although he were already sailed for Rome, God now being about to punish him for the murder of his brethren, I will explain the history of this matter very distinctly, that it may be for a warning tomankind, that they take care of conducting their whole lives by the rules of virtue. CHAPTER 4. Pheroras's Wife Is Accused By His Freedmen, As Guilty Of Poisoning Him; And How Herod, Upon Examining; Of The Matter By Torture Found The Poison; But So That It Had Been Prepared For Himself By His Son Antipater; And Upon An Inquiry By Torture He Discovered The Dangerous Designs Of Antipater. 1. As soon as Pheroras was dead, and his funeral was over, two of Pheroras's freed-men, who were much esteemed by him, came to Herod, and entreated him not to leave the murder of his brother without avenging it, but to examine into such an unreasonable and unhappy death. When he was moved with these words, for they seemed to


him to be true, they said that Pheroras supped with his wife the day before he fell sick, and that a certain potion was brought him in such a sort of food as he was not used to eat; but that when he had eaten, he died of it: that this potion was brought out of Arabia by a woman, under pretense indeed as a love-potion, for that was its name, but in reality to kill Pheroras; for that the Arabian women are skillful in making such poisons: and the woman to whom they ascribe this was confessedly a most intimate friend of one of Sylleus's mistresses; and that both the mother and the sister of Pheroras's wife had been at the places where she lived, and hadpersuaded her to sell them this potion, and had come back and brought it with them the day before that his supper. Hereupon the king was provoked, and put the women slaves to the torture, and some that were free with them; and as the fact did not yet appear, because none of them would confess it, at length one of them, under the utmost agonies, said no more but this, that she prayed that God would send the like agonies upon Antipater's mother, who had been the occasion of these miseries to all of them. This prayer induced Herod to increase the women's tortures, till thereby all was discovered; their merry meetings, their secret assemblies, and the disclosing of what he had said to his son alone


not on his son, but rather on a brother. He also had accused the king of great barbarity, and of the slaughter of his sons; and that it was out of the fear he was under, lest he should do the like to him, that made him contrive this his journey to Rome, and Pheroras contrive to go to his own tetrarchy. 2. These confessions agreed with what his sister had told him, and tended greatly to corroborate her testimony, and to free her from the suspicion of her unfaithfulness to him. So the king having satisfied himself of the spite which Doris, Antipater's mother, as well as himself, bore to him, took away from her all her fine ornaments, which were worth many talents, and then senther away, and entered into friendship with Pheroras's women. But he who most of all irritated the king against his son was one Antipater, the procurator of Antipater the king's son, who, when he was tortured, among other things, said that Antipater had prepared a deadly potion, and given it to Pheroras, with his desire that he would give it to his father during his absence, and when he was too remote to have the least suspicion cast upon him thereto relating; that Antiphilus, one of Antipater's friends, brought that potion out of Egypt; and that it was sent to Pheroras by Thendion, the brother of the mother of Antipater, the king's son, and by that means came to Pheroras's wife, her husband having given it her to


keep. And when the king asked her about it, she confessed it; and as she was running to fetch it, she threw herself down from the house-top; yet did she not kill herself, because she fell upon her feet; by which means, when the king had comforted her, and had promised her and her domestics pardon, upon condition of their concealing nothing of the truth from him, but had threatened her with the utmost miseries if she proved ungrateful [and concealed any thing]: so she promised, and swore that she would speak out every thing, and tell after what manner every thing was done; and said what many took to be entirely true, that the potion was brought out of Egypt by Antiphilus; and that his brother, whohad formerly, and I do not expect to live long myself, and that I may not defile my forefathers by the murder of a brother,] and burn it before my face:' that accordingly she immediately brought it, and did as her husband bade her; and that she burnt the greatest part of the potion; but that a little of it was left, that if the king, after Pheroras's death, should treat her ill, she might poison herself, and thereby get clear of her miseries." Upon her saying thus, she brought out the potion, and the box in which it was, before them all. Nay, there was another brother of Antiphilus, and his mother also, who, by the extremity of pain and torture, confessed the same things, and owned


the box [to be that which had been brought out of Egypt]. The high priest's daughter also, who was the king's wife, was accused to have been conscious of all this, and had resolved to conceal it; for which reason Herod divorced her, and blotted her son out of his testament, wherein he had been mentioned as one that was to reign after him; and he took the high priesthood away from his father-in-law, Simeon the son of Boethus, and appointed Matthias the son of Theophilus, who was born at Jerusalem, to be high priest in his room. 3. While this was doing, Bathyllus also, Antipater's freed-man, came from Rome, and, upon the torture, was found to have brought another potion, to give it into the hands ofAntipater's mother, and of Pheroras, that if the former potion did not operate upon the king, this at least might carry him off. There came also letters from Herod's friends at Rome, by the approbation and at the suggestion of Antipater, to accuse Archelaus and Philip, as if they calumniated their father on account of the slaughter of Alexander and Aristobulus, and as if they commiserated their deaths, and as if, because they were sent for home, [for their father had already recalled them,] they concluded they were themselves also to be destroyed. These letters had been procured by great rewards by Antipater's friends; but Antipater himself wrote to his father about them, and laid the heaviest things to their charge; yet did he entirely excuse them of


any guilt, and said they were but young men, and so imputed their words to their youth. But he said that he had himself been very busy in the affair relating to Sylleus, and in getting interest among the great men; and on that account had bought splendid ornaments to present them withal, which cost him two hundred talents. Now one may wonder how it came about, that while so many accusations were laid against him in Judea during seven months before this time, he was not made acquainted with any of them. The causes of which were, that the roads were exactly guarded, and that men hated Antipater; for there was nobody who would run any hazard himself to gain him any advantages. CHAPTER 5. Antipater's NavigationFrom Rome To His Father; And How He Was Accused By Nicolaus Of Damascus And Condemned To Die By His Father, And By Quintilius Varus, Who Was Then President Of Syria; And How He Was Then Bound Till Caesar Should Be Informed Of His Cause. 1. Now Herod, upon Antipater's writing to him, that having done all that he was to do, and this in the manner he was to do it, he would suddenly come to him, concealed his anger against him, and wrote back to him, and bid him not delay his journey, lest any harm should befall himself in his absence. At the same time also he made some little complaint about his mother, but promised that he would lay those complaints aside when he


should return. He withal expressed his entire affection for him, as fearing lest he should have some suspicion of him, and defer his journey to him; and lest, while he lived at Rome, he should lay plots for the kingdom, and, moreover, do somewhat against himself. This letter Antipater met with in Cilicia; but had received an account of Pheroras's death before at Tarentum. This last news affected him deeply; not out of any affection for Pheroras, but because he was dead without having murdered his father, which he had promised him to do. And when he was at Celenderis in Cilicia, he began to deliberate with himself about his sailing home, as being much grieved with the ejection of his mother. Now some of his friends advisedhim that he should tarry a while some where, in expectation of further information. But others advised him to sail home without delay; for that if he were once come thither, he would soon put an end to all accusations, and that nothing afforded any weight to his accusers at present but his absence. He was persuaded by these last, and sailed on, and landed at the haven called Sebastus, which Herod had built at vast expenses in honor of Caesar, and called Sebastus. And now was Antipater evidently in a miserable condition, while nobody came to him nor saluted him, as they did at his going away, with good wishes of joyful acclamations; nor was there now any thing to hinder them from entertaining him, on the


contrary, with bitter curses, while they supposed he was come to receive his punishment for the murder of his brethren. 2. Now Quintilius Varus was at this time at Jerusalem, being sent to succeed Saturninus as president of Syria, and was come as an assessor to Herod, who had desired his advice in his present affairs; and as they were sitting together, Antipater came upon them, without knowing any thing of the matter; so he came into the palace clothed in purple. The porters indeed received him in, but excluded his friends. And now he was in great disorder, and presently understood the condition he was in, while, upon his going to salute his father, he was repulsed by him, who called him a murderer of his brethren,and a plotter of destruction against himself, and told him that Varus should be his auditor and his judge the very next day; so he found that what misfortunes he now heard of were already upon him, with the greatness of which he went away in confusion; upon which his mother and his wife met him, [which wife was the daughter of Antigonus, who was king of the Jews before Herod,] from whom he learned all circumstances which concerned him, and then prepared himself for his trial. 3. On the next day Varus and the king sat together in judgment, and both their friends were also called in, as also the king's relations, with his sister Salome, and as many as could discover any thing, and such as


had been tortured; and besides these, some slaves of Antipater's mother, who were taken up a little before Antipater's coming, and brought with them a written letter, the sum of which was this: That he should not come back, because all was come to his father's knowledge; and that Caesar was the only refuge he had left to prevent both his and her delivery into his father's hands. Then did Antipater fall down at his father's feet, and besought him not to prejudge his cause, but that he might be first heard by his father, and that his father would keep himself unprejudiced. So Herod ordered him to be brought into the midst, and then lamented himself about his children, from whom he had suffered such great misfortunes;and because Antipater fell upon him in his old age. He also reckoned up what maintenance and what education he had given them; and what seasonable supplies of wealth he had afforded them, according to their own desires; none of which favors had hindered them from contriving against him, and from bringing his very life into danger, in order to gain his kingdom, after an impious manner, by taking away his life before the course of nature, their father's wishes, or justice required that that kingdom should come to them; and that he wondered what hopes could elevate Antipater to such a pass as to be hardy enough to attempt such things; that he had by his testament in writing declared him his successor in the government; and


while he was alive, he was in no respect inferior to him, either in his illustrious dignity, or in power and authority, he having no less than fifty talents for his yearly income, and had received for his journey to Rome no fewer than thirty talents. He also objected to him the case of his brethren whom he had accused; and if they were guilty, he had imitated their example; and if not, he had brought him groundless accusations against his near relations; for that he had been acquainted with all those things by him, and by nobody else, and had done what was done by his approbation, and whom he now absolved from all that was criminal, by becoming the inheritor of the guilt of such theirparricide. 4. When Herod had thus spoken, he fell a weeping, and was not able to say any more; but at his desire Nicolaus of Damascus, being the king's friend, and always conversant with him, and acquainted with whatsoever he did, and with the circumstances of his affairs, proceeded to what remained, and explained all that concerned the demonstrations and evidences of the facts. Upon which Antipater, in order to make his legal defense, turned himself to his father, and enlarged upon the many indications he had given of his good-will to him; and instanced in the honors that had been done him, which yet had not been done, had he not deserved them by his virtuous concern about him; for that he had made provision for every


thing that was fit to be foreseen beforehand, as to giving him his wisest advice; and whenever there was occasion for the labor of his own hands, he had not grudged any such pains for him. And that it was almost impossible that he, who had delivered his father from so many treacherous contrivances laid against him, should be himself in a plot against him, and so lose all the reputation he had gained for his virtue, by his wickedness which succeeded it; and this while he had nothing to prohibit him, who was already appointed his successor, to enjoy the royal honor with his father also at present; and that there was no likelihood that a person who had the one half of that authority without anydanger, and with a good character, should hunt after the whole with infamy and danger, and this when it was doubtful whether he could obtain it or not; and when he saw the sad example of his brethren before him, and was both the informer and the accuser against them, at a time when they might not otherwise have been discovered; nay, was the author of the punishment inflicted upon them, when it appeared evidently that they were guilty of a wicked attempt against their father; and that even the contentions there were in the king's family were indications that he had ever managed affairs out of the sincerest affection to his father. And as to what he had done at Rome, Caesar was a witness thereto, who


in the assembly, while they greatly pitied Antipater, who by weeping and putting on a countenance suitable to his sad case made them commiserate the same, insomuch that his very enemies were moved to compassion; and it appeared plainly that Herod himself was affected in his own mind, although he was not willing it should be taken notice of. Then did Nicolaus begin to prosecute what the king had begun, and that with great bitterness; and summed up all the evidence which arose from the tortures, or from the testimonies. He principally and largely cried up the king's virtues, which he had exhibited in the maintenance and education of his sons; while he never could gain any advantage thereby, but still fell from one misfortune to another. Althoughhis amours among Pheroras's women; the examination upon torture; and whatsoever concerned the testimonies of the witnesses, which were many, and of various kinds; some prepared beforehand, and others were sudden answers, which further declared and confirmed the foregoing evidence. For those men who were not acquainted with Antipater's practices, but had concealed them out of fear, when they saw that he was exposed to the accusations of the former witnesses, and that his great good fortune, which had supported him hitherto, had now evidently betrayed him into the hands of his enemies, who were now insatiable in their hatred to him, told all they knew of him. And his ruin was now hastened, not so much by the enmity of those that were his accusers, as by


his gross, and impudent, and wicked contrivances, and by his ill-will to his father and his brethren; while he had filled their house with disturbance, and caused them to murder one another; and was neither fair in his hatred, nor kind in his friendship, but just so far as served his own turn. Now there were a great number who for a long time beforehand had seen all this, and especially such as were naturally disposed to judge of matters by the rules of virtue, because they were used to determine about affairs without passion, but had been restrained from making any open complaints before; these, upon the leave now given them, produced all that they knew before the public. The demonstrations also of these wicked facts couldhad produced the evidence, Varus bid Antipater to betake himself to the making his defense, if he had prepared any thing whereby it might appear that he was not guilty of the crimes he was accused of; for that, as he was himself desirous, so did he know that his father was in like manner desirous also, to have him found entirely innocent. But Antipater fell down on his face, and appealed to God and to all men for testimonials of his innocency, desiring that God would declare, by some evident signals, that he had not laid any plot against his father. This being the usual method of all men destitute of virtue, that when they set about any wicked undertakings, they fall to work according to their


own inclinations, as if they believed that God was unconcerned in human affairs; but when once they are found out, and are in danger of undergoing the punishment due to their crimes, they endeavor to overthrow all the evidence against them by appealing to God; which was the very thing which Antipater now did; for whereas he had done everything as if there were no God in the world, when he was on all sides distressed by justice, and when he had no other advantage to expect from any legal proofs, by which he might disprove the accusations laid against him, he impudently abused the majesty of God, and ascribed it to his power that he had been preserved hitherto; and produced before them all what difficulties hehad ever undergone in his bold acting for his father's preservation. 7. So when Varus, upon asking Antipater what he had to say for himself, found that he had nothing to say besides his appeal to God, and saw that there was no end of that, he bid them bring the potion before the court, that he might see what virtue still remained in it; and when it was brought, and one that was condemned to die had drank it by Varus's command, he died presently. Then Varus got up, and departed out of the court, and went away the day following to Antioch, where his usual residence was, because that was the palace of the Syrians; upon which Herod laid his son in bonds. But what were


Varus's discourses to Herod was not known to the generality, and upon what words it was that he went away; though it was also generally supposed that whatsoever Herod did afterward about his son was done with his approbation. But when Herod had bound his son, he sent letters to Rome to Caesar about him, and such messengers withal as should, by word of mouth, inform Caesar of Antipater's wickedness. Now at this very time there was seized a letter of Antiphilus, written to Antipater out of Egypt [for he lived there]; and when it was opened by the king, it was found to contain what follows: "I have sent thee Acme's letter, and hazarded my own life; for thou knowest that I am in danger from twoit was this, that she had a mind to be married to Sylleus. Do thou therefore tear this letter in pieces, that I may not come into danger of my life." Now Acme had written to Antipater himself, and informed him, that, in compliance with his command, she had both herself written to Herod, as if Salome had laid a sudden plot entirely against him, and had herself sent a copy of an epistle, as coming from Salome to her lady. Now Acme was a Jew by birth, and a servant to Julia, Caesar's wife; and did this out of her friendship for Antipater, as having been corrupted by him with a large present of money, to assist in his pernicious designs against his father and his aunt.


8. Hereupon Herod was so amazed at the prodigious wickedness of Antipater, that he was ready to have ordered him to be slain immediately, as a turbulent person in the most important concerns, and as one that had laid a plot not only against himself, but against his sister also, and even corrupted Caesar's own domestics. Salome also provoked him to it, beating her breast, and bidding him kill her, if he could produce any credible testimony that she had acted in that manner. Herod also sent for his son, and asked him about this matter, and bid him contradict if he could, and not suppress any thing he had to say for himself; and when he had not one word to say, he asked him, since hewas every way caught in his villainy, that he would make no further delay, but discover his associates in these his wicked designs. So he laid all upon Antiphilus, but discovered nobody else. Hereupon Herod was in such great grief, that he was ready to send his son to Rome to Caesar, there to give an account of these his wicked contrivances. But he soon became afraid, lest he might there, by the assistance of his friends, escape the danger he was in; so he kept him bound as before, and sent more ambassadors and letters [to Rome] to accuse his son, and an account of what assistance Acme had given him in his wicked designs, with copies of the epistles before mentioned. CHAPTER 6. Concerning The Disease


That Herod Fell
Into And The Sedition Which The Jews Raised Thereupon; With The Punishment Of
The Seditious.
1. Now
Herod's ambassadors made haste to Rome; but sent, as instructed beforehand,
what answers they were to make to the questions put to them. They also carried
the epistles with them. But Herod now fell into a distemper, and made his will,
and bequeathed his kingdom to [Antipas], his youngest son; and this out of that
hatred to Archclaus and Philip, which the calumnies of Antipater had raised
against them. He also bequeathed a thousand talents to Caesar, and five hundred
to Julia, Caesar's wife, to Caesar's children, and friends and freed-men. He
also distributed among his sons and their sons his money, his revenues, and his
lands. He also made Salome his sister very rich, because she had continued
faithful tohim in all his circumstances, and was never so rash as to do him
any harm; and as he despaired of recovering, for he was about the seventieth
year of his age, he grew fierce, and indulged the bitterest anger upon all
occasions; the cause whereof was this, that he thought himself despised, and
that the nation was pleased with his misfortunes; besides which, he resented a
sedition which some of the lower sort of men excited against him, the occasion
of which was as follows.
2. There was
one Judas, the son of Saripheus, and Matthias, the son of Margalothus, two of
the most eloquent men among the Jews, and the most celebrated interpreters of
the Jewish laws, and men well beloved by the people, because of their education
of their youth; for all those that were studious


of virtue frequented their
lectures every day. These men, when they found that the king's distemper was
incurable, excited the young men that they would pull down all those works
which the king had erected contrary to the law of their fathers, and thereby
obtain the rewards which the law will confer on them for such actions of piety;
for that it was truly on account of Herod's rashness in making such things as
the law had forbidden, that his other misfortunes, and this distemper also,
which was so unusual among mankind, and with which he was now afflicted, came
upon him; for Herod had caused such things to be made which were contrary to
the law, of which he was accused by Judas and Matthias; for the king had
erected over the great gate of the templeking was dead, this was an addition to
the wise men's persuasions; so, in the very middle of the day, they got upon
the place, they pulled down the eagle, and cut it into pieces with axes, while
a great number of the people were in the temple. And now the king's captain,
upon hearing what the undertaking was, and supposing it was a thing of a higher
nature than it proved to be, came up thither, having a great band of soldiers
with him, such as was sufficient to put a stop to the multitude of those who
pulled down what was dedicated to God; so he fell upon them unexpectedly, and
as they were upon this bold attempt, in a foolish presumption rather than a cautious
circumspection, as is usual with the multitude, and while


and when they were come, he made them assemble in the theater, and
because he could not himself stand, he lay upon a couch, and enumerated the
many labors that he had long endured on their account, and his building of the
temple, and what a vast charge that was to him; while the Asamoneans, during
the hundred and twenty-five years of their government, had not been able to
perform any so great a work for the honor of God as that was; that he had also
adorned it with very valuable donations, on which account he hoped that he had
left himself a memorial, and procured himself a reputation after his death. He
then cried out, that these men had not abstained from affronting him, even in
his lifetime, but that in the very day time,in
part an occasion of this action, and made Joazar, who was Matthias's wife's
brother, high priest in his stead. Now it happened, that during the time of the
high priesthood of this Matthias, there was another person made high priest for
a single day, that very day which the Jews observed as a fast. The occasion was
this: This Matthias the high priest, on the night before that day when the fast
was to be celebrated, seemed, in a dream, to have conversation with his wife;
and because he could not officiate himself on that account, Joseph, the son of
Ellemus, his kinsman, assisted him in that sacred office. But Herod deprived
this Matthias of the high priesthood, and burnt the other Matthias, who had
raised the sedition, with his companions, alive. And that very night there


was
an eclipse of the moon.
5. But
now Herod's distemper greatly increased upon him after a severe manner, and
this by God's judgment upon him for his sins; for a fire glowed in him slowly,
which did not so much appear to the touch outwardly, as it augmented his pains
inwardly; for it brought upon him a vehement appetite to eating, which he could
not avoid to supply with one sort of food or other. His entrails were also
ex-ulcerated, and the chief violence of his pain lay on his colon; an aqueous
and transparent liquor also had settled itself about his feet, and a like
matter afflicted him at the bottom of his belly. Nay, further, his privy-member
was putrefied, and produced worms; and when he sat upright, he had a difficulty
of breathing, which was very loathsome,on account of the stench of his breath,
and the quickness of its returns; he had also convulsions in all parts of his
body, which increased his strength to an insufferable degree. It was said by
those who pretended to divine, and who were endued with wisdom to foretell such
things, that God inflicted this punishment on the king on account of his great
impiety; yet was he still in hopes of recovering, though his afflictions seemed
greater than any one could bear. He also sent for physicians, and did not
refuse to follow what they prescribed for his assistance, and went beyond the
river Jordan, and bathed himself in the warm baths that were at Callirrhoe,
which, besides their other general virtues, were also fit to drink; which water
runs into the lake called Asphaltiris. And when


the physicians once thought fit
to have him bathed in a vessel full of oil, it was supposed that he was just
dying; but upon the lamentable cries of his domestics, he revived; and having
no longer the least hopes of recovering, he gave order that every soldier
should be paid fifty drachmae; and he also gave a great deal to their
commanders, and to his friends, and came again to Jericho, where he grew so
choleric, that it brought him to do all things like a madman; and though he
were near his death, he contrived the following wicked designs. He commanded
that all the principal men of the entire Jewish nation, wheresoever they lived,
should be called to him. Accordingly, they were a great number that came,
because the whole nation was called, and all menheard of this call, and death
was the penalty of such as should despise the epistles that were sent to call
them. And now the king was in a wild rage against them all, the innocent as
well as those that had afforded ground for accusations; and when they were
come, he ordered them to be all shut up in the hyppodrome, and sent for his sister Salome, and
her husband Alexas, and spake thus to them: "I shall die in a little time,
so great are my pains; which death ought to be cheerfully borne, and to be
welcomed by all men; but what principally troubles me is this, that I shall die
without being lamented, and without such mourning as men usually expect at a
king's death." For that he was not unacquainted with the


know that he is dead; and that they
shall not declare his death to the multitude till this is done, but that they
shall give orders to have those that are in custody shot with their darts; and
that this slaughter of them all will cause that he shall not miss to rejoice on
a double account; that as he is dying, they will make him secure that his will
shall be executed in what he charges them to do; and that he shall have the
honor of a memorable mourning at his funeral. So he deplored his condition,
with tears in his eyes, and obtested them by the kindness due from them, as of
his kindred, and by the faith they owed to God, and begged of them that they
would not hinder him of thisIran Moves Closer To Adopting Law Against Funding Terrorism

Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani, seated at center, talks with a group of lawmakers in a session of parliament in Tehran, Iran, on Dec 02, 2018.

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Iran's parliament approved a tweaked draft law against funding terrorism on Wednesday which officials hope will bring Tehran closer to global standards and help remove it from investment blacklists as it faces renewed U.S. sanctions.

The official news agency IRNA said lawmakers had included amendments requested by a powerful clerical body, which must vet all legislation passed through parliament before it becomes actual law.

Supporters hope the legislation, once passed, will allow Iran to join an international convention against the funding of terrorism and comply


that it makes it impossible to engage the kingpin enclosed in the kingpin lock with the fifth wheel of the tractor.
Unfortunately, enterprising thieves have discovered that many kingpin locks can be defeated by modification of existing fifth wheel devices. A fifth wheel generally includes a large, substantially flat plate with a funnel shape entrance at the rear which receives the kingpin and directs it to a slot where a crossbar secures the kingpin in the slot. Current kingpin locks are often substantially cylindrical devices large enough to prevent the kingpin from entering the slotted portion of the fifth wheel. Enterprising thieves have modified the fifth wheel by drilling a hole horizontally through the fifth wheel so that a bar can be used to close off the funnel-shaped entryPresident Trump visited his local golf course early Saturday morning on his first full day in West Palm Beach for the holiday weekend.

According to the White House press pool, Trump’s motorcade arrived at Trump International Golf Club around 9 a.m. local time. The president was not seen by the pool reporter.

A brief statement from a White House spokeswoman was provided to the press pool when asked with whom Trump played golf.

"President Trump is with friends and pro golfers Jim Herman, Daniel Berger, Justin Thomas and his father," the statement said. "He has no scheduled public events for the afternoon."

Trump arrived in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Friday for the holidays, likely to spend most of his time at Mar-a-Lago. The resort, dubbed "The Winter White House," is less


June 6 marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day – touted in the West as the “turning point” of World War II. But in terms of casualties inflicted on Nazi Germany, the allied invasion of Normandy is easily overshadowed by Stalingrad.

Immortalized by Hollywood films and critically-acclaimed books, the D-Day landings are often viewed in the West as an unprecedented military victory and operation that broke the back of Nazi Germany. However, a simple examination of the facts shows otherwise: an estimated 110,000 Nazi soldiers were killed, captured, or went missing during the battle for Normandy. For some sobering contrast, Nazi losses in Stalingrad totaled 1.5 million.

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Then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt described Stalingrad as the crucialtold to take off our masks.

We were in a cramped compound covered in green plastic sheeting, bathing everything in an eerie green glow. This must have been to protect the workshop from the prying eyes of Israeli aircraft -- and nosey neighbors.

The big man with the beard introduced us to a young man in faded jeans, a black vest and a black hood over his head by the name of "Abu Ahmed," or "Father of Ahmed." He didn't volunteer his real name.

Ahmed was all business. With cold professionalism, he explained in minute detail the entire process of how they make the rockets.

First we crowded into a small room with breeze-block walls and a corrugated tin roof. This was where aluminum was melted down then poured into molds for


the nozzle of the rocket, the tip and the other parts.

We then went into a room where two men -- dressed in black overalls and, again, with black hoods over their heads -- sat hunched over a gas burner, stirring a white powder in a large stainless steel pot.

This was the rocket propellant. Ahmed would not tell me the ingredients because, in his words, "the enemy is always on the look out to stop us from getting the materials."

But he said almost all the inputs come from Israel. The only thing that's smuggled in is the TNT for the warhead, which comes through the network of tunnels dug under the border between Gaza and Egypt.

The two men took turns stirring the white powder over the fire. If theystop stirring, Ahmed said, it will explode.

No mercy for school children

This group makes three kinds of rockets: The biggest is the so-called Aqsa 103 has a maximum range of 14 kilometers, or 8.5 miles, and carries 6 kilograms of TNT.

With one of his comrades, Ahmed showed us packets of iron shards they pack into rocket warheads for extra lethal effect.

One of these missiles recently slammed into a school classroom in the nearby Israeli town of Sderot, a frequent target of the militants. The students were in another room at prayer at the time and no one was injured. Their teacher, for good reason, called it a miracle.

Ahmed was proud -- not ashamed -- that his missile had hit the school. These are not men who agonize over the


morality of violence. Every mention of Israeli civilian casualties triggers a response stressing Palestinian civilian casualties.

In this region where the concept of an "eye-for-an-eye" was invented, the stark arithmetic of which side kills more is oft quoted. "Turn the other cheek" and "love thy enemy" never caught on.

Since the start of the second intifada in September 2000, Palestinian groups have fired more than 5,000 rockets into Israel, or into Gaza settlements before the Jews left. Those missiles killed 13 civilians and two soldiers.

To stop the rocket attacks, the Israeli army regularly bombards areas near the border in northern Gaza. They've dropped thousands of rounds since the beginning of the year, killing, according to Palestinian medical sources, at least six Palestinians -- most of them civilians --in the process.

Ourcity police of Bastop, Louisiana, discovered the dead body of Cecil Johnson in his mobile home laying face up over a lounge chair in the living room. The victim had sustained a gunshot to the head and multiple knife-type wounds to the chest and abdomen. The victim's left hand had been severely cut resulting in his thumb and a finger being severed. The living room had been ransacked and there was blood in this area as well as in the bedroom/office area. A wall safe had been forceably removed from the bathroom wall and was found opened a short distance from the mobile home. The victim's wife related jewelry and cash had been taken and that her husband had kept a knife on a table near his lounge


chair as well as a revolver under the chair, but these weapons were never found.
During the course of the investigation the police were informed that at approximately 2:00 a.m. that morning the defendant, who lived in a mobile home near the victim, had asked a friend to take him to a doctor as he had cut himself. The police also questioned two other witnesses, one of whom was the defendant's girl friend, who related the defendant had come to see them individually between 6:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m. on April 13, 1985, and told them that he had cut himself and that he thought that he had killed a man.
On April 14, 1985, the police made inquiries to area hospitals concerning anyone *1268 who might have been treated for aknife or gunshot wound. The police department of Crossett, Arkansas, reported that the defendant had been to the Crossett Hospital on April 13, 1985, at approximately 7:40 a.m., for treatment of a cut on his right hand and had left en route to the University Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas, for surgery. The defendant received the surgery the next day. The physician who rendered the treatment reported the wound was inconsistent with the defendant's explanation that he had cut his hand on a car motor fan. It was the physician's opinion the defendant had cut his hand with a sharp instrument such as a knife. The defendant was arrested on April 16, 1985, as he was leaving the University Hospital.
The defendant was indicted by a grand jury on


charges of first degree murder and aggravated burglary.[2] At the preliminary examination the contents of defendant's prior statements were established and revealed defendant had gone to the victim's mobile home to discuss late rental payments. The victim was the landlord of the defendant. The statements revealed the defendant had gone "berserk" when he cut his hand on a knife the victim had pulled on him. A fight ensued when the victim produced a .44 magnum revolver from under his chair and it went off during the struggle striking the victim in the head. Autopsy reports indicated numerous stab wounds to the victim's chest and abdomen were inflicted and the victim sustained a blow to the head that crushed a portion of the skull. In this statement the defendantthe right to remain silent, establishes the defendant was advised he was giving up his right to remain silent at trial as well as his right to remain silent during the guilty plea hearing.
We also find no merit in the defendant's assertion that the trial court erred in not specifically advising him of the elements of the crime of manslaughter or that he did not understand the nature of this crime. The grand jury indictment for first degree murder, the defendant's statements reviewed at the preliminary examination, the detailed review of the defendant's description of the crimes in his statement given by the assistant district attorney at the hearing on the pleas in response to the trial judge's request for the facts of manslaughter, defendant's admissions at the


blow to the skull, was stabbed repeatedly in the chest and abdomen and a thumb and a finger on his left hand were severed. Portions of the deceased's mobile home were ransacked and approximately $2,300 in cash was stolen. The trial court ordered a presentence investigation report after accepting the defendant's pleas to manslaughter and aggravated burglary. This report reveals the defendant was convicted of theft on June 25, 1976 and sentenced to serve four months in jail. He was convicted of middle grade theft on June 27, 1977, and sentenced to two years at hard labor. On January 7, 1981, he was convicted of a DWI offense. Between September 5, 1980, and May 22, 1981, the defendant was convicted seventeen times for issuing worthless checks. On September2, 1981, he was convicted of theft. On February 21, 1984, he was convicted of simple assault (reduced from aggravated battery where he threatened an individual with a shotgun). The report also shows that the defendant completed the eighth grade, is unmarried with eleven children, and was gainfully employed as a treetrimmer and pulpwood hauler at the time of his arrest.
At the sentencing hearing the trial court ruled that a firearm was used in the commission of the manslaughter of the victim. The trial judge noted the defendant had no juvenile record, a very extensive misdemeanor record and was a fourth felony offender. The trial court found as mitigating factors the defendant's limited education, his common-law relationship, the fact that he was the father of several children and


Published August 21, 2018 at 11:13 AM Updated August 21, 2018 at 9:47 PM

China and El Salvador established diplomatic relations with the signing of a communique in Beijing on Tuesday after El Salvador broke off ties with Taiwan.

CGTN’s Zhao Yunfei reports.

In the document, the Republic of El Salvador recognizes that there is only one China in the world, and the government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China.

It also confirms El Salvador’s recognition of Taiwan as an inalienable part of the Chinese territory.

At a press conference held after the document signing ceremony, China’s State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke highly of the historic decision reached by the two countries.

Wang emphasizes upholding the one-China principle is a widely-recognizedthree mineral leases assigned to HNG. The district court held that HNG was not a bona fide purchaser of the assigned leases and that the Nygaards could cancel the leases because the lessees, defendants D.G. Robinson and W.R. Barth, failed to pay the bonus consideration. The district court awarded to the Nygaards statutory damages, costs, and reasonable attorney fees pursuant to Section 47-16-37, N.D.C.C. We affirm.
The following events involved three different sets of leases: a single lease covering 625 mineral acres, dated February 23, *352 1982; a set of three leases covering the same area, dated April 22, 1982, and acknowledged on the same date; and a set of three leases covering the same area, dated April 22, 1982, and acknowledged on April 28, 1982.
In February 1982 defendant


Donald Robinson approached plaintiff Peter A. Nygaard, Jr. ("Nygaard") about leasing 625 mineral acres owned one-third by Nygaard and his wife, Lynette Nygaard, and two-thirds by two mineral trusts which were established for his sisters. Plaintiffs Nygaard and Albert Ley acted as co-trustees for the trusts. Robinson initially offered Nygaard $62,500 for the lease, which amounts to $100 per mineral acre. Nygaard rejected the offer.
On February 23, 1982, Nygaard signed a lease covering the 625 mineral acres. He did not give the original lease to Robinson because Robinson did not provide any bonus consideration. Nygaard instead gave Robinson a lease designated as a copy, knowing that Robinson would show the lease to oil and gas companies in order to assign the lease for profit. The bonus consideration specifiedFebruary 23, 1982. The next day, April 22, 1982, the son of co-trustee Ley acknowledged the second set of three oil and gas leases executed by Nygaard.
Robinson and Barth brought the new leases to Stabio. Stabio still was dissatisfied with the leases, but hoped to sell revised leases to Charter Oil Corporation. Stabio prepared three new leases for Robinson and Barth to take to Nygaard for his signature. Robinson and Barth agreed to see Nygaard, but stated that they would need a cashier's check payable to Nygaard for $62,500, which amounts to $100 per mineral acre. Stabio gave them the leases and the cashier's check. Stabio asked Robinson and Barth to execute blank assignments to Sage Oil Company.
On April 26, 1982, Charter officials discussed the leases with HNG.


The next day Charter called Stabio and informed him that HNG was willing to buy the leases for $171,875, which amounts to $275 per mineral acre. On that day HNG orally committed itself to purchase the leases, but subject to approval of the title and after review of the leases which still needed to be executed by Nygaard. On that same day Barth and Robinson then assigned the leases to Sage. On April 27, 1982, Sage assigned the leases to Charter, and Charter assigned the leases to HNG. HNG sent Charter a letter dated April 28, 1982, to confirm in writing its commitment to purchase the leases.
On April 28, 1982, Robinson visited Nygaard at his home in order to have Nygaard execute the three leases that Stabio hadthis conversation, Nygaard referred to his phone records which he made in the course of his business transactions.
Metcalf did not dispute the content of this conversation. Metcalf claimed, however, that this conversation occurred five or six days before April 28.
While Robinson was at Nygaard's home on April 28, Nygaard signed the leases. Robinson also gave Nygaard the $62,500 cashier's check drawn by Stabio and made payable to Nygaard. Robinson asked Nygaard to specially endorse the check, making it payable to Robinson. Robinson explained that he would use the endorsed cashier's check to supplement the funds expected from a partner. Robinson stated that with this check and the partner's funds he would be able to pay a 15-day sight draft in the amount of $150,000 as bonus consideration. Nygaard


agreed to specially endorse the check and he then accepted the 15-day sight draft. HNG received the leases on the same day, April 28, 1982.
Two days later Stabio went to Williston to do a title search; the title to the leases required minor curative work. HNG tendered to Charter a 5-day sight draft for $171,875.
When the 15-day sight draft became due, the bank dishonored the draft. Before the dishonor, Robinson had informed Nygaard that the bank would dishonor the draft, and he had given Nygaard a check for $150,000. This check was similarly dishonored. Robinson gave Nygaard a second check for $150,000, which the bank also dishonored. Nygaard called HNG, Stabio, Kane, and Barth, seeking payment of the bonus consideration.
Because he had not received any of the bonusthe statute. This affidavit is then recorded by the register of deeds and thereafter the record of the lease will not be notice to the public of the existence of the lease. The record of the lease then also cannot be received in evidence in any court of this state on behalf of the lessee, his successors or assigns against the lessor, his successors or assigns."


the petition, William Anglin persuaded the plaintiffs to donate their interests to him in order to conveniently handle judicial partition of the property. The petition alleged that William Anglin promised he would not record the acts of donation and that he would transfer the plaintiffs' proportionate interests in the property back to them after accomplishing the partition.
The plaintiffs' donations of their interests to William Anglin took place on March 30, 1999, by two Acts of Donation. One act, which purported to donate the interests of Randy Anglin, David Anglin, Beth Mora, Kenny Anglin, and Pam Anglin Rowell to William H. Anglin, was recorded in Washington Parish Conveyance Book 515, Page 462. The other act of donation, which purported to donate the interest of Andy Darryl Anglin to William(37 ½%) interest.[3]
William Anglin then obtained the remaining interests in the property, partly by act of sale from one co-owner and partly by partition proceedings against the other two, in which he was the successful bidder for the property at the judicial auction.
On September 11, 2001, William Anglin mortgaged the property to LFLBA for $400,000.00.
Several months later the plaintiffs filed this suit, seeking to annul their donations on the grounds of incapacity, fraud, lack of consideration, error, and invalidity of form, and to cancel the mortgage insofar as it affects their alleged interests.
Early in the proceedings the trial court granted an exception of no cause of action in favor of LFLBA, which was reversed on appeal, and the matter was remanded for further proceedings.[4] The trial court then


LFLBA justified in relying on the document trail, in particular the 1999 acts of donation by the plaintiffs, as establishing a clear chain of title in William Anglin?
"Succession is the transmission of the estate of the deceased to his successors. The successors thus have the right to take possession of the estate of the deceased after complying with applicable provisions of law." La.C.C. art. 871. "Succession occurs at the death of a person." La.C.C. art. 934. "Immediately at the death of the decedent, universal successors acquire ownership of the estate and particular successors acquire ownership of the things bequeathed to them." La.C.C. art. 935.
"Prior to the qualification of a succession representative, a successor may exercise rights of ownership with respect to his interests in a thing of theone year from the effective date of this Section.
The plaintiffs contend that, because their suit to annul their acts of donation was brought within one year of June 22, 2001, the effective date of Acts 2001, No. 556, pursuant to La.R.S. 9:2503, the motion for summary judgment should have been denied because the dates on the acts of donation as well as the judgments of possession were sufficient to place a third party on notice of the invalidity of the acts of donation.
We disagree with the plaintiffs' arguments, however. We are in agreement with LFLBA's argument that the cases leading to Succession of Stoufflet, supra, are erroneous in their use of the term "absolute nullity" with regard to transfers of immovable property by heirs lacking a judgment of


heir to deal with a "thing" in the estate. The amended version of Article 938 reads:
A. Prior to the qualification of a succession representative, a successor may exercise rights of ownership with respect to his interests in a thing of the estate as well as his interest in the estate as a whole.
B. If a successor exercises his rights of ownership after the qualification of a succession representative, the effect of that exercise is subordinate to the administration of the estate.
Section 3 of 2001 Act No. 556 declared that the amendment was interpretative, meant to clarify the original version, and "shall be applied retroactively." Thus, if the original enactment of Article 938 was intended to authorize an heir to exercise his rights of ownership with respect to particularThe television industry is still working through the period of upheaval it entered during the mid- to late-aughts, when a variety of rival technologies all began to seriously affect business. DVRs achieved ubiquity, allowing viewers to skip commercials; streaming services like Netflix and Hulu grew into serious alternatives; and expanded broadband internet and faster mobile connections started dominating screen time.

Despite all this, live sports reigned. They’re famously DVR-proof—nobody is recording the Super Bowl to watch the next day—and also social, a perfect fit for traditional television. In a period where ratings fell pretty much across the board, for live sports they remained flat and in some cases even grew.

It was during this period that ESPN, as the preeminent sports broadcaster, achieved the pinnacle of its power. The network


Sy Hersh confirms: Syrian facility bombed by Israel was not nuclear

After Israel bombed a Syrian military facility last September, the United States and Israel both claimed the target had been a Syrian nuclear facility under construction.

RAW STORY 's Larisa Alexandrovna was alone at the time in reporting that the actual target was a cache of North Korean No-Dong missiles, dating back to the 1990's, which Syria was converting for use as chemical warheads.

In a follow-up report, Alexandrovna added that Vice President Dick Cheney was suspected of being behind leaks to the press of misleading claims of a nuclear basis for the incident.

A third story in Alexandrovna's series reported that the US and Israel were refusing to cooperate with an attempted investigation by the International Atomic Energy Agency, butthat the IAEA had concluded on the basis of satellite imagery that the target was unlikely to have been nuclear.

However, the US/Israeli version continued to dominate most accounts of the incident. As recently as December, the Sunday Times was still insisting that "Israel's top-secret air raid on Syria in September destroyed a bomb factory assembling warheads fuelled by North Korean plutonium."

Now veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has weighed in on the matter. Hersh appeared on CNN's Late Edition on Sunday to discuss his upcoming article, "A Strike in the Dark," which will appear in the Feb. 11 issue of the New Yorker.

Hersh writes in that article, "Whatever was under construction, with North Korean help, it apparently had little to do with agriculture -- or with nuclear reactors --


but much to do with Syria's defense posture, and its military relationship with North Korea. And that, perhaps, was enough to silence the Syrian government after the September 6th bombing."

"This is a wonderful sort of a complicated story," Hersh told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "Here Israel bombs another country, basically an act of war. ... They don't say anything publicly about it. The Israeli great ally, the United States, says nothing. Syria doesn't say much about it. They complain, but they're very muted too. ... Nobody talks about it."

Hersh went on to say that even though nobody was talking publicly, "there was tremendous sotto voce stuff. In other words, the Israeli government, the American government were leaking, telling newspaper people, particularly in America, but also in Europe, all sortsMother of Cristiano Ronaldo's baby 'is American waitress he seduced for a one-night stand'

Cristiano Ronaldo became a father as the result of a one-night stand with a penniless American waitress, it was claimed yesterday.

The Portuguese footballer is said to have paid the young woman £10million to keep her identity secret and hand the baby over to his family.

The 25-year-old former Manchester United forward met her in a Los Angeles restaurant during a trip to the U.S. last summer, charming her with the line: 'Me, you, **** ****', it was reported.

£10m for silence: Ronaldo and his girlfriend Irina Shayk in New York last week

When she failed to understand his direct approach, Ronaldo drew a love heart on a misted-up window and said: 'Me, you, kiss!'

They slept together at his


hotel later that night and when she discovered she was pregnant she tracked him down through his agent, Jorge Mendes, according to the Sunday Mirror.

The Real Madrid player agreed to a DNA test, which revealed he was the father while he was in South Africa at the World Cup, it claimed.

A friend of Ronaldo's told the newspaper: 'They are a traditional Roman Catholic family and the minute paternity was established there was absolutely no doubt that Ronni would be doing the right thing.'

He reportedly told the friend: 'I feel like Boris Becker' - a reference to the German tennis star who fathered a love child after having sex with model Angela Ermakova in a London restaurant in 1999, leading to a £20million divorce.

Ronaldo, who earns £200,000-a-week, made thesurprise announcement that he had become a father on July 3 on his official website and on the Facebook and Twitter social networking websites.

Million dollar baby: Cristiano Jr in Portugal this week

He said the mother wanted to keep her identity confidential and said the boy would be under his 'exclusive guardianship'.

His family later said the baby was called Cristiano Ronaldo junior and had been born in the U.S. on June 17 weighing 9lb 8oz.

Reports in Portugal said Ronaldo had paid a surrogate mother to have the child in the U.S. after deciding he desperately wanted to become a father. He has refused to comment on those claims.

Yesterday the Sunday Mirror claimed the boy was born following a one-night stand last summer during a U.S. holiday in which he


also met Paris Hilton.

But Ronaldo's trip to the U.S. was in June last year, meaning the baby would have been born around March this year, three months earlier than his family claims.

Ronaldo met the baby in the Algarve, where his family are renting a villa, after Portugal were knocked out of the World Cup on June 29.

Shortly afterwards he flew to New York to spend a week with his girlfriend, Irina Shayk, a 24-year-old Russian underwear model. His mother Dolores Aveiro, 55, and sisters Katia, 33, and Elma, 35, looked after the baby while he was away.

Ronaldo then returned to the Algarve where he spent last week with the baby while still on his summer break from Real Madrid.

Yesterday his management company, Gestifute, declined to comment on the2011 U.S. Women's World Cup Team

U.S. Women's team takes on Japan on Saturday at Crew Stadium

May 11, 2011

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With less than two months until the USA’s opening match of the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup, U.S. Women’s National Team head coach Pia Sundhage has named the 21 players who will represent the United States on women’s soccer’s grandest stage.

The 2011 U.S. Women’s World Cup Team finished a three-week training camp in Florida last Friday and is now in Columbus, training for a two-game series (tickets) against fellow Women’s World Cup qualifier Japan taking place on May 14 at Crew Stadium (6:30 p.m. ET on FOX Soccer and FOX Deportes) and May 18 at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, N.C. (7 p.m. ET on ESPN2).

Leading the way is


U.S. captain Christie Rampone who will be playing in her fourth Women’s World Cup and is the last remaining player from the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup championship team. Midfielder Shannon Boxx and forward Abby Wambach will be playing in their third World Cups. Sundhage named 12 players who will be participating for the first time and six who will be participating for the second time.

The roster, which features three goalkeepers, seven defenders, seven midfielders and four forwards, is a product of nearly three years of player evaluation during which Sundhage and her staff saw the U.S. Women play 34 international matches in 2009, 2010 and 2011, conduct numerous training camps around the country and the world, and watch dozens of WPS matches. Since the 2008 Olympics, Sundhagenine players on the roster have previous Women’s World Cup experience.

Of the 21-player roster, six are set for their second Women’s World Cup after making their first World Cup team in 2007. Those players are goalkeepers Nicole Barnhart and Hope Solo, defender Stephanie Cox and midfielders Carli Lloyd, Lindsay Tarpley and Heather O’Reilly. Along with Rampone, Boxx and Wambach, that makes just nine players who were in China four years ago, seven of whom were starters. Lloyd leads the USA in scoring this year with five goals and has scored 27 times internationally.

The inclusion of Tarpley marks her complete return from an ACL injury at the end of the first WPS season in 2009. With 124 caps, Tarpley has the most career goals on the roster (32) of


anyone besides Wambach including goals in an Olympic gold medal match and a FIFA U-19 Women’s World Cup Final.The players attending their first Women’s World Cup will be goalkeeper Jill Loyden, defenders Rachel Buehler, Ali Krieger, Amy LePeilbet, Heather Mitts and Becky Sauerbrunn, midfielders Tobin Heath, Lori Lindsey and Megan Rapinoe, and forwards Lauren Cheney, Alex Morgan and Amy Rodriguez. LePeilbet and Mitts both missed out on the 2007 Women’s World Cup due to knee injuries.

Morgan is the youngest player on the squad at 21 while Rampone is the oldest at 35. It is the first U.S. Women’s World Cup roster compiled entirely of professional players.

The naming of Krieger adds another chapter to her remarkable story. After finishing her college career at Penn State in 2007, she joinedFFC Frankfurt, one of the top clubs in Germany and the world, eventually winning a European title. She learned to speak fluent German, and after working her way in the picture for a World Cup spot during 2010, will now return to the country that was her home for the past four years.

Solo had perhaps the most difficult route to full fitness in order to make the team, recovering from major shoulder surgery last September to earn her spot. Mitts, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, also won a race to make the final roster, overcoming hamstring issues that have limited her to just one match so far this year. Loyden, who recovered from a broken hand suffered last January, won the battle for the third goalkeeper spot and


makes the Women’s World Cup team.Five of the players who made their first World Cup squad were part of the 2008 Olympic champions in Buehler, Mitts, Heath, Cheney and Rodriguez. Krieger, LePeilbet, Lindsey, Sauerbrunn, Rapinoe and Morgan will participate in their first world championship at the senior level.

Buehler played in two FIFA U-19 FIFA Women’s World Cups, in 2002 in Canada and in 2004 in Thailand. Sauerbrunn and Rapinoe represented the USA in in Thailand while Heath was one of the youngest players at the 2006 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Russia. Rodriguez played in both Thailand and Russia while Cheney was on the 2006 team in Russia. Morgan helped lead the USA to the title at the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Chile.

Sauerbrunn andLindsey make the team after seeing limited national team action earlier in their careers but both came on strong over the past year or so. Lindsey earned one cap in 2005 and did not play again for the USA until 2010 when she earned 10 caps and fashioned a role for herself off the bench in the center midfield. She has five caps so far this year. Sauerbrunn earned two caps in 2008, but did not return to the U.S. team until last fall when she made the roster for CONCACAF qualifying and worked her way into the mix with consistent play and versatility on the back line, appearing in one game last year and six so far this year.The average for caps for the 21 players named


around,” said Sundhage. “She brings out good things from the team.”Of the 11 players who started the 2008 Olympic gold medal game, eight were named to this Women’s World Cup roster. The 2011 U.S. Women’s World Cup Team is an experienced side with an average age of just more than 27 years old. Four players on the roster hail from California while five are from New Jersey. Indiana is the only other state with multiple players in Lindsey and Cheney, both of whom are from Indianapolis.

Of the WPS clubs, magicJack has the most players on the roster with seven. The Boston Breakers and the Philadelphia Independence have four each, while the Atlanta Beat and Sky Blue FC have two each and the Western New York Flash have onevisitors through its renewed entrance by 2017.

The National Arts Centre was opened in 1969 as a centennial project and designated a national historic site of Canada in 2006. The centre welcomes more than 1.2 million visitors each year, and has a mandate to work with artists and arts organizations across Canada to build a national stage for the performing arts everywhere. It presents more than 1,300 shows a year, including the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards.

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new arrivals, after admitting that a "cultural problem" has left many women feeling unsafe to go out at night. The alarming development comes after hundreds of women were raped and robbed by a 1,000-strong gang of migrants and refugees in the German city of Cologne on New Year's Eve.

GETTY Tensions are rising over the huge number of migrants being taken in by Denmark and Sweden

visitnordjylland.dk Residents in Thisted are becoming increasingly concerned by harassment of young women

It will fuel further debate about the wisdom of Europe's open door immigration policy, championed by Angela Merkel, with towns and cities across the continent warning that crime including sex assaults has rocketed with the influx of migrants. In Thisted there have been a series of clashes between migrants and locals inthe streets after concerned residents stepped in to stop women from being molested and potentially raped. Migrants are reportedly roaming the city's nightlife hotspots after dark and harassing groups of young women, who have told authorities they are becoming too scared to go out. A concerned group of citizens, calling themselves the Night Owls, have now begun heading out in groups at night to patrol areas near bars and clubs and deter migrants from attempting to approach women.

IG The refugees are living at this camp outside Thisted, designed to hold up to 400 people

GETTY Danish officials have introduced tougher border controls to try and stem levels of immigration

The organisation, who appear to be working with the police and never arm themselves, said they have seen an alarming rise


For a young man determined to learn and improve, Marko Grujic feels he has found the perfect home at Melwood.

The 20-year-old midfielder, who agreed his move to Liverpool in January and joined in July, has now had four months of training at the West Derby base.

Around him are players at variously more advanced stages of their career than his own, people who have successfully travelled the path that the Serb is preparing to follow.

Role models, in his mind.

And it is there where Grujic is storing all of the helpful information he observes while working on his game alongside established Premier League and international stars.

“The players are fantastic. I play with some incredible players,” he tells Liverpoolfc.com.

“We have such a good team and good players. We have played veryBob Wade (artist)

Bob "Daddy-O" Wade (January 6, 1943 – December 23, 2019)  was an American artist, based in Austin, Texas, who helped shape the 1970s Texas Cosmic Cowboy counterculture. A retrospective of his work was exhibited at the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture in the fall of 2009. He is best known for his creating oversized sculptures of Texas symbols and for experimenting with hand-tinting black-and-white vintage photographs transferred to large photo-emulsion canvases. His  giant iguana, known as "Iggy", sat on top of the Lone Star Cafe in New York City from 1978 to 1989.

Early life
Robert Schrope Wade was born in Austin, Texas on January 6, 1943. Son of a hotel manager, Wade grew up in several Texas cities.

This early hotel life contributed to Wade's


A ,  iguana that topped the roof of the Lone Star Cafe in New York City from 1978 to 1989. It was acquired by the Fort Worth Zoo and installed on the roof of their animal hospital in June 2010.

Other works include giant armadillos, dancing frogs, urethane-foamed World's Biggest Cowboy Boots originally installed near the White House, a  saxophone and a New Orleans Saints helmet created from a Volkswagen beetle, currently atop the Shoal Creek Saloon in Austin, Texas.

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Wade received three National Endowment of the Arts grants and has been included in Biennial exhibitions in Paris and in New Orleans. His work has been part of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and in the collections of the Houston Museum ofThis invention relates generally to belt clips for hand-held power tools.
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Ravens Trade Anquan Boldin To 49ers For 6th-Round Pick

(USA TODAY) -- Baltimore Ravens receiver Torrey Smith couldn't believe the shocking news Monday that fellow wideout Anquan Boldin had been traded to the San Francisco 49ers, the team Boldin helped the Ravens defeat in their 34-31 Super Bowl XLVII victory last month.

"Anquan Boldin traded to 49ers for a sixth-round pick ... WHAT!!!'' Smith wrote on his Twitter account.

"This business is BS at times.''

Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco urged Boldin in a Saturday conversation with USA TODAY Sports' Robert Klemko to stick to his guns, and now he's the newest member of the 49ers for standing on principle.

Boldin was traded for a sixth-round pick, a person with knowledge of the transaction told USA TODAY Sports. The person requested anonymity becausehe would retire if he couldn't return to the Ravens.

Now he will play out that contract in San Francisco.

Boldin led the Ravens in receiving yards the past three seasons since arriving in a trade from the Arizona Cardinals. Now Flacco, who urged Boldin to "stick to his guns" in the contract dispute, will have to find rapport with a new No. 1 target, something he'd hoped to avoid.

"Without him, we don't win the Super Bowl. He's a huge part of this team and someone I want to see back," Flacco told USA TODAY Sports on Saturday.

The deal also adds fuel to the NFC West rivalry between the Seattle Seahawks and 49ers. Only hours after the Seahawks pulled off a trade with the Minnesota Vikings for wide receiver Percy


Harvin, the Niners countered with Boldin.

Boldin caught 22 postseason passes for 380 yards and four touchdowns, including six catches for 104 yards and a TD in the Super Bowl.

Boldin, 32, caught 65 passes for 921 yards last season, and was scheduled to count $7.531 million against the salary cap in 2013. The Ravens have been looking to create cap space to re-sign linebacker Dannell Ellerbe, a projected free agent, while also filling other needs.
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MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.
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the selection of the Wisconsin congressman and budget guru as his running mate, he has “boldly offered a choice for voters.""President Obama has been leading handsomely in some polls. He may even take heart in Mitt Romney's selection of Rep. Ryan as his running mate. The GOP candidate's selection was out-of-the-box and on a Saturday morning, no less. And it offers the opportunity for Mr. Romney to refocus his campaign on spending, fiscal responsibility, and the nation's unsustainable path.“On the other hand, Mr. Ryan is controversial, and his plans to reform Medicare can be pretty scary to voters over 65. This is a group of voters who have been most loyal to Mr. Romney in the primaries and the general election polls. Losing even a small piece ofPresident Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE in an early-morning tweet the day after Thanksgiving demanded funding for a wall at the southern border as part of a "major Border Security package."

"Republicans and Democrats MUST come together, finally, with a major Border Security package, which will include funding for the Wall," Trump wrote from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Republicans and Democrats MUST come together, finally, with a major Border Security package, which will include funding for the Wall. After 40 years of talk, it is finally time for action. Fix the


Border, for once and for all, NOW! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 23, 2018

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Trump has kept the door open to a potential government shutdown if an upcoming deal to fund parts of the government does not include funding for a border wall. Congress has until Dec. 7 to fund the rest of the government after lawmakers punted on seven of the 12 individual funding bills before the end-of-the-fiscal-year deadline.

Trump over the summer had struck a less bipartisan tone as he told Republican lawmakers to "stop wasting their time" trying to work with Democrats on immigration until they took back more seats in the House and Senate.

But the GOP lost the House in this month's midterm elections, and liberal lawmakers are vehemently opposed to funding Trump's long-promised borderLulu Lake: Party place or exceptional water resource?

As many as 90 or more pontoons and other large watercraft with gas-powered motors squeeze into Lulu Lake on summer weekends, according to surveys done by The Nature Conservancy.

TOWN OF TROY—Lulu Lake in northern Walworth County is isolated, surrounded by wetlands with no access roads. It is designated an exceptional water resource, and some call it wild.

Others call it a party place.

Increasing numbers of summer partygoers on big boats — as many as 90 gas-powered watercraft a day — are entering the lake through a Mukwonago River channel from Eagle Spring Lake in Waukesha County. The pontoons and other boats pack the shore, propellers churn up the lake bottom and bring in invasive species, and crowds trample natural areas, say members


of The Nature Conservancy in Wisconsin.

To slow the pace of boating and partying, and prevent further degradation of vulnerable resources, the conservancy is asking the Town of Troy to enact an “electric-motor only” ordinance for boats on Lulu Lake. The conservancy and the state Department of Natural Resources are the two largest property owners around the lake.

The Nature Conservancy is not asking the town to keep all boats off the 95-acre lake, said Patricia Morton, director of the group's Mukwonago River Watershed Project. Fishing boats and hunting skiffs, and possibly pontoons, could reach the lake with an electric motor, according to Morton.

The DNR already authorizes only battery-powered electric motors on boats using numerous lakes in the Northern Highland-American Legion State Forest, as well as the Kettle Moraine StateForest.

Town of Troy Chairman John Kendall has scheduled a public hearing Thursday on boating's impact on the lake and the conservancy's electric-motor-only proposal. The hearing begins at 7 p.m. inside Troy Town Hall, N8870 Briggs St.

Paul Francis said he would support such an ordinance.

Francis, one of only two private property owners on Lulu Lake, no longer visits his residence there on summer weekends because of loud music late into the evenings, he said.

Francis described the congestion as “an attack.”

He wants town officials to intervene. Property owners and recreational users are temporary stewards of this special place, Francis said.

“We have to take a longer view” of caring for the lake and its resources for future generations, he said.

Tom Day, chairman of the Eagle Spring Lake Management District, would prefer


Town of Troy officials take a full year to review the conservancy's concerns and determine how significant the problems are.

The majority of Eagle Spring Lake residents oppose an electric-motor-only ordinance, and many already have signed a petition against the restriction, Day said. One concern is that it would be difficult to retrofit wide pontoon boats with a battery-powered electric motor as a secondary engine, he said.

HOME TO RARE FISH

Among its many attributes, Lulu Lake is the home of rare long-ear sunfish, pugnose shiner and a few dozen other fish species, according to the DNR. The Department of Natural Resources proposed designating the entire lake a “sensitive area” in 2007.

Its shore is undeveloped and ringed by a mix of wetlands. Ferns, bogs, shrub carr and sedge meadows support morethan 150 species of plants, including lesser fringed gentian and beaked spike-rush.

One small bog surrounded by a tamarack forest harbors uncommon dragon's mouth orchid and other northern species. Wild rice grows in a deep-water marsh.

The DNR's 2007 report warned that increased big boat traffic — two to three dozen pontoon boats mooring on the shoreline on hot summer weekends — was taking a toll. Their large propellers stirred bottom sediment and decreased water quality and brought in the exotic invasive plant Eurasian watermilfoil from Eagle Spring Lake, the report said.

The proposal was never acted on. But six years later, big boat traffic on Lulu Lake more than doubled as the lake became a magnet for boaters drawn to its seclusion for their shoreline drinking parties, said Jerry Ziegler,


southeastern Wisconsin land steward for The Nature Conservancy.

It's not unusual for 70 to 90 or more gas-powered motor boats a day in July and August to cruise up the Mukwonago River channel from Eagle Spring Lake in Waukesha County and into Lulu, according to photo-documented surveys done by the conservancy.

The lake's resources continue to be damaged by big propellers and big wakes, and trampled under foot, Ziegler said.

Partygoers don't have bathrooms on the boats, so they hop onto shoreline wetlands and walk on rare wildflowers, Morton said.

Public safety has become a concern as big boats have collided in the channel, and emergency responders have been called to the lake for unconscious underage drinkers. And so many large watercraft cruise into Lulu Lake on weekends that kayakers and canoeistsMonika Bravo

September 10, 2001, uno nunca muere la víspera

My instincts told me that I still had the ability to create after all that had been destroyed. – Monika Bravo

Late at night on September 10, 2001, Monika Bravo packed a videotape she had recorded over the course of several hours that afternoon and evening and said goodnight to sculptor Michael Richards. Both were participants in the World Views program run by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council that provided artists with studio space on the 91st and 92nd floors of the North Tower. By the end of the following day, the Twin Towers had collapsed. She learned that Richards who had remained in the building overnight, was among the thousands missing. Many of Richard’s fellow artists attended a memorial service


for him 10 days later.

Grief-stricken over the loss of her friend and their shared workspace, Bravo turned to her art. She edited her videotaped footage of thunderclouds, rain, and lightning, in honor of Richards, who had called her to the window to watch the dramatic weather on September 10, 2001. Her film titled in Spanish, Bravo’s native language, loosely translates into English as "You die on the day you are supposed to die." The title is a reference not only to the death of Michael Richards, but to her lifelong quest to understand the nature of death.Send this page to someone via email

Toronto police say three children were injured when a piece of a ceiling in a daycare in Toronto’s Roncesvalles neighbourhood collapsed on Monday.

Police said they responded to reports of the ceiling collapse at a daycare in the area of Dundas Street West and Boustead Avenue at around 1 p.m.

Police said three children, a boy and two girls, were treated for minor injuries at the scene and were not transported to hospital.

A city building inspector was notified and came to the scene to assess the damage.

The daycare was evacuated and all parents were notified of the incident.

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Luck was scouted as the best prospect to enter the NFL draft since John Elway. Griffin won the country over with his charismatic charm and outstanding play in his final season at Baylor.

We all know the story from here, Luck was the unanimous first pick of the draft and the Redskins essentially went "all-in" to acquire the second overall pick from the St. Louis Rams.

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Prevalence and Gross Morphologic Features of Perianal Melanocytic Nevi.
The presence of numerous melanocytic nevi is a significant melanoma risk factor, but there are scant data related to prevalence and morphologic features of melanocytic nevi in the perianal area. The prognosis of perianal melanoma is often dismal because of hidden location and diagnosis delay. To determine prevalence and morphologic features of perianal melanocytic nevi. This study was conducted for 11 months during 2013 and 2014 at an outpatient dermatology clinic in Chicago, Illinois, with a convenience sample of 236 adults (men and women of all races, ≥18 years) presenting to 1 dermatologist for melanoma and/or skin cancer screening or surveillance. The analysis was conducted during April through July 2015. Prevalence and morphologic features of perianal nevi according to race/ethnicity,ANKARA, Turkey -- The Saudi officials who killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi in their Istanbul consulate must reveal the location of his body, Turkey's president said Friday in remarks that were sharply critical of the kingdom's handling of the case.

With Ankara keeping the pressure on the Saudis to reveal the full truth, the world waited to hear President Donald Trump's assessment of evidence the Turks shared with CIA Director Gina Haspel this week.

On Thursday, Saudi prosecutors said Khashoggi's killing was premeditated, citing Turkish evidence and changing the country's account again to try to ease international outrage over the slaying of a prominent critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

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