abuse its power. But mainstream Muslim groups have supported it.

Haris said Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia listed Pancasila as an ideology of the organization in its articles of association “but in fact on the ground their activities were against Pancasila and the soul of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia.”

The measures follow months of sectarian tensions in the world’s most populous Muslim nation that shook the government and undermined Indonesia’s reputation for practicing a moderate form of Islam.

Hizbut Tahrir, along with groups such as the violent Islamic Defenders Front, was behind a series of massive protests against the Jakarta governor, a minority Christian and Jokowi ally who was accused of blaspheming Islam. He subsequently lost a bid for re-election to a Muslim candidate and was imprisoned for twoto go to school by myself. It annoyed me that they stereotyped me a certain way.”

That Keenan, now 20, has had a tough time is an understatement. He has been in care, suffered depression and anxiety, and now lives with his grandmother in Brixton. He is also passionately political and determined to fight inequality. Last July, he gave a speech in parliament about opportunities for working-class people.

Keenan is one of a group of activists who have recently graduated from the Advocacy Academy, a social justice fellowship that develops the knowledge, skills and confidence of young people in south London. The graduates, who range in age between 17 and 20, have spent eight months, including three residential retreats, working with campaigners, politicians, academics and coaches to help them begin


their own grassroots campaigns. The courses, which have been running for three years and take place everywhere from community and youth centres to universities (even the Imperial War Museum), have the intensity of an A-level: there are lessons in public speaking, social media skills and press relations. Each student has the opportunity to make a speech in parliament, after one-to-one tuition from vocal coaches at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Darren Keenan: ‘I want to run for councillor, GLA member, MP. I want to climb the ranks.’ Photograph: Thomas Butler/The Guardian

In late February, I attended the academy’s graduation ceremony, sitting among a throng of friends and relatives, all chatting excitedly as they took their places in front of a stage lit by a cascadeyour postcode, race, sexuality, gender or disability; the language spoken at home, your immigration status; the housing bracket you sit in; the security of your parents’ jobs. On top of all that, you often face the extra barrier of not knowing the “right sort of people” to give you a leg up.

One of the things that Campaign Bootcamp taught Fatima Awil, 20, from Bristol, was how to network. She is Somali, and has been campaigning against female genital mutilation within her community since she was a young teenager, first as part of a youth group and then as part of Forward (Foundation for Women’s Health Research and Development). She took part in the Girl Summit, an event aimed at mobilising domestic and international efforts to end FGM and


well)

The old blame game — in which Mexico attributed illegal migration to the voracious American demand for labor and accused lawmakers of xenophobia — has given way to a far more soul-searching discussion, at least in quarters where policies are made and influenced, about how little Mexico has done to try to keep its people home.

"For too long, Mexico has boasted about immigrants leaving, calling them national heroes, instead of describing them as actors in a national tragedy," said Jorge Santibáñez, president of the College of the Northern Border. "And it has boasted about the growth in remittances" — the money immigrants send home — "as an indicator of success, when it is really an indicator of failure."

I'm still pretty skeptical that the wall will actually keep peopledidn't decapitate Ms Coppola.

Incidentally, Claire and I are going to Versailles this summer and we're over la lune about it.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

For those unfamiliar with the Church of the Subgenius, they are followers of the man on the right, who is named "Bob" Dobbs. Incredibly, the man on the left is also named Bob Dobbs. He is the President of the University of Cinncinati. I'm guessing he has no idea about the Bob Dobbs on the right.

The cosmic irony of a man named Judge Punch not understanding satire is pretty incredible.

But, apparently the Judge from Western New York (the dumber half of the state, believe me) decided to suddenly strip Rachel Bevilacqua of all parental rights. "This after County Judge James Punch learned of her involvement in


translation. It changes my understanding of Plato, which has always been pretty weak, to think that Heraclitus was a major influence on him. It makes his "forms" a bit more coherent, as a sort of ideal that things stretch towards.

"Men do not know how that which is drawn in different directions harmonises with itself. The harmonious structure of the world depends upon opposite tension like that of the bow and the lyre."-Heraclitus, 475 BCEOther translation:"What opposes unites, and the finest attunement stems from things bearing in opposite directions, and all things come about by strife."

The harmony of opposites is an ideal in both taoism's shen and kwei, and in western alchemy, as well as coming up here in Heraclitus, the first greek philosopher. Actually, Heraclitus has a lotpseudonym, which the committee found was not plagiarism. But, what's really bizarre is that his pseudonym was the name of a well-known scholar in the field! So, it's as if I published a work of history under the assumed name "Simon Schama".

The other two cases of plagiarism were more straightforward. In one case, he was sent a pamphlet by an environmental group and asked to write an article about their campaign. So, he basically copied the pamphlet and put his name on it. This reminds me of a girl I caught plagiarizing recently who had borrowed her friend's essay and copied it, and claimed that she didn't see the problem because everyone was writing on the same topic, so their essays would be "pretty much the same anyway."

Wednesday,


abuse."

Sunday, May 14, 2006

A one-time student of Freud's, Reich made his mark on psychoanalysis with his first study Character Analysis, which is still influential in gestalt treatments. The development of character analysis is perhaps his greatest achievement, and certainly it is his least controversial one.

Reich became a Marxist in the 1920s, and actually travelled to the newly-formed Soviet Union. He ran afoul of the Soviets due to his calls for sexual liberation for adolescents. Actually, he was a rather early advocate for full sexual liberation and considered sexual repression to be the key to all other sorts of oppression, especially political. This is perhaps the key to understanding all of Reich's work, but especially this study.

The problem is, Reich evetually came to believe that the Orgone was thekey to all of his work. He felt that this energy was the key to all health, was contained in the atmosphere and all living material, and could be easily measured, especially in the human orgasm. Cosmic Orgone energy was therefore the key to health, and Deadly Orgone Rays were the key to all disease. Eventually, Reich believed that he was battling aliens, that he could produce rain with a 'cloudbuster' he had invented, and he could cure cancer with his Orgone Box.

Most governments did not take kindly to Reich. The Soviets expelled him, and he eventually became fervently anti-Communist, the Nazis burned his books and forced him to flee from Austria, and eventually the US government went after him when he settled in Maine. In a classic


example of state overreach, the FDA (yes, the FDA) brought an injunction against his orgone therapy, and burned several tons of his books. He violated the injunction by moving his equiptment across state lines and was then arrested and died in jail two years later. The procrustean sentence made Reich something of a counter-cultural hero, and his pro-sex views didn't hurt much in that area.

The problem is that his experiments have been replicated and people have gotten the same results, but have found more clear-cut explanations than the existence of healthy orgone and negative orgone. Einstein believed that Bernard Harrer, who actually recreated all of Reich's experiments in the lab came to the conclusion:"After many years of scientific pursuit with the main focus on life energy, I personallyHashshashin. The Hashashin were generally known for terrorising the Abbasid caliphs, among others, through targeted political killings. The English word "assassin" comes from the sect.

Hassan founded the group in 1090 in the mountains at Alamut, south of the Caspian Sea. He is best known to the West through the writings of Marco Polo in 1279. At this time, Hassan was remembered by the name "Old Man of the Mountains". Marco Polo's story has become famous:

"Recruits were promised Paradise in return for dying in action. They were drugged, often with materials such as hashish (some suggest opium and wine as well) then spirited away to a garden stocked with attractive and compliant women and fountains of wine. At this time, they were awakened and it was explained to them


enough, they found a handful of College boys who were willing to be quoted in a national newspaper as having trouble getting it up.

One of them, a seior at UMD, "bench-presses a respectable 280 pounds. He fights fires in Howard County as a volunteer and plans to join the Secret Service in the fall. In short, he's a man's man."(The last person you would expect to have a floppy dangling wang...)"Or so he thought until last fall..." (When the boner train left town!)

"when he hooked up with a sophomore -- at her urging." (At her urging! O my!)

"The girl really wanted to make a go of it with him. On learning earlier that he had no interest in pursuing a relationship, she had offered to be his "friendto life at her falling asleep.

On this feast we read from the book of Ezekiel, “And the Lord said to me, ‘This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter by it, because the Lord God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut,'” which reminds us to honor the Virgin Mary for her saving dedication to our Lord as she saved herself and wholly dedicated herself to God as an honorable vessel and throne for our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ.

In this image you see that the Virgin Mary has fallen asleep and Jesus is holding a little baby. The little baby represents Mary’s soul. Just as Mary carried within her Jesus, now Jesus carries the soul


September Six

The September Six were six members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who were excommunicated or disfellowshipped by the church in September 1993, allegedly for publishing scholarly work against Mormon doctrine or criticizing church doctrine or leadership. The term "September Six" was coined by The Salt Lake Tribune and was used in the media and subsequent discussion.[1] The LDS Church's action was referred to by some as evidence of an anti-intellectual posture on the part of church leadership.[2][3]

Lynne Kanavel Whitesides is a Mormon feminist and is noted for speaking on the Mother in Heaven. Whitesides was the first of the group to experience church discipline and was disfellowshipped September 14, 1993. Though technically still a member, Whitesides claims that she "burst" outof the church and her marriage in 1993, and she now considers herself a practitioner of Native American philosophies.[4]

Avraham Gileadi is a Hebrew scholar and literary analyst, who is considered theologically conservative. Following his 1981 Ph.D. in Ancient Studies from Brigham Young University, he published a new interpretive translation of the Book of Isaiah in 1988 and a study of its eschatological prophesies in 1991. Mormon scholars, including Hugh Nibley, Truman G. Madsen and Ellis Rasmussen, praised his work, but his argument that the Isaiah prophesies pointed to a human "Davidic king" who would emerge in the Last Days, apart from Jesus Christ, was controversial, and his second book was pulled from the shelves by its publisher, church-owned Deseret Book.[5] The reasons for his excommunication on September 15


are unclear. According to Margaret Toscano (whose husband was among the September Six and who would also later be excommunicated), Gileadi's "books interpreting Mormon scripture challenged the exclusive right of leaders to define doctrine,"[6] but Gileadi himself disputes that characterization.[7] The church afterwards reversed its disciplinary action against him and expunged it from the church's records, which is now officially regarded as having never happened.[7] Gileadi is currently an active member of the church.[8][9] He has continued to write books on Isaiah, including The Literary Message of Isaiah (2002) and Isaiah Decoded: Ascending the Ladder to Heaven (2002).

Paul Toscano is a Salt Lake City attorney who co-authored, with Margaret Merrill Toscano, a controversial book, Strangers in Paradox: Explorations in Mormon Theology (1990), and in 1992, he co-founded TheMormon Alliance. He later wrote the book The Sanctity of Dissent (1994) and its sequel, The Sacrament of Doubt (2007).

He was excommunicated from the church on September 19, 1993. The reasons for his excommunication, as reportedly given by church leaders, were apostasy and false teaching. According to Toscano, the actual reason was insubordination in refusing to curb his sharp criticism of LDS Church leaders' preference for legalism, ecclesiastical tyranny, white-washed Mormon history, and hierarchical authoritarianism, which privilege the image of the corporate LDS Church above its commitment to its members, to the teachings and the revelations of founder Joseph Smith, and to the gospel of Jesus Christ.[10]

In 2007, Toscano wrote that he lost his faith "like losing your eyesight after an accident." He regrets that LDS Church leaders


have disregarded his criticisms of what he considers the church's growing anti-intellectualism, homophobia, misogyny, and elitism.[11]

Toscano's wife, Margaret, faced her own disciplinary council for her doctrinal and feminist views and was excommunicated on November 30, 2000. Some view her excommunication as constituting a "seventh" member of the September Six, as she was summoned in 1993, but ecclesiastical focus shifted to her husband. Margaret's discipline was delayed until 2000.[12] Margaret later wrote "The Missing Rib: The Forgotten Place of Queens and Priestesses in the Establishment of Zion" as well as the tenth chapter of Transforming the Faiths of our Fathers: Women who Changed American Religion (2004), edited by Ann Braude.[13]

Anderson continues to attend LDS Church services as a non-member. She writes on Mormon issues, including editing the multi-volume CaseReports of the Mormon Alliance, an ongoing collection of interviews with Mormons who believe they were unfairly disciplined by the church.[15]

D. Michael Quinn is a Mormon historian. Among other studies, he documented LDS Church-sanctioned polygamy from 1890 until 1904, after the 1890 Manifesto that officially abandoned the practice.[16] He also authored the 1987 book, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, which argues that early Mormon leaders were greatly influenced by folk magic and superstitious beliefs including stone looking, charms, and divining rods. He was excommunicated September 26.

Quinn had been summoned to a disciplinary council to answer charges of "conduct unbecoming a member of the Church and apostasy," including "'very sensitive and highly confidential' matters that were not related to Michael's historical writings."[17] Anderson has suggested that the


"allusion to Michael's sexual orientation, which Michael had not yet made public, was unmistakable."[17]

Quinn has since published several critical studies of Mormon hierarchy, including his two-volume work of The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power and The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power. He also authored the 1996 book Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example, which argues that homosexuality was common among early Mormons and was not seen as a serious sin or transgression.

Despite his excommunication and critical writings, Quinn, who is now openly gay,[18] still considers himself to be a Latter-day Saint.[17]

Except for Whitesides, all of the September Six were excommunicated. Whitesides was disfellowshipped, a lesser sanction that does not formally expel one from church membership. To date, three of the September Six have retained or regainedcouncils are notified beforehand by their local church leaders.

The LDS Church later excommunicated sisters Janice Merrill Allred in 1995 and Margaret Merrill Toscano in 2000, who had collaborated with several of the September Six and were also involved in disciplinary actions during 1993.[23]

Other than the summons sent to each of the six (specifying that their behavior was "contrary to the laws and order of the church"), the LDS Church's is silent on why a member was disciplined.


The German Government has proposed legislation to create a national register to improve controls on medical implants such as pacemakers, breast implants and artificial hip joints.

The bill introduced in the German parliament on January 29, was published just two months after the November 2018 release of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ Implant Files. The investigation involving 58 international media organizations revealed how governments around the world hold even the riskiest devices to lower safety standards than most drugs.

A Ministry of Health statement to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung said the Implant Files had encouraged the Government “to consider how the existing system of approval and monitoring of medical devices can be improved.”

Süddeutsche Zeitung reporter and ICIJ member Frederik Obermaier, who collaborated with colleagues from German broadcasters NDR andrumors of wars,
assassinations, and Regime Changes were to be constantly forced upon the peoples
of the world so these ultimate goals could be realized. Key American Founding
Fathers fought Weishaupt tooth and nail in America, and largely kept American
Masonic Lodges free of this cancer until the Fathers had passed from the scene.
But, certainly, by the end of the Civil War, this Weishaupt firebrand plan was
in control of American Masonry, as the election of Albert Pike to the top post
of North American Freemasonry clearly demonstrated.

The world wars, plus the thousands of lesser wars of the 20th
Century, prove that the Illuminati controlled the governments of the world so
that they could foist their terrible war-making plans upon the nations of the
world (Read NEWS1056 to
discover the planned three world wars)

One of the expert witnesses


into the world.

Human lives lost during wars certainly count as human sacrifice,
but so do innocent deaths on a school campus carried out by a mind controlled
shooter. Hundreds of millions of lives were lost to Illuminati sponsored wars
in the 20th Century, but you "ain't seen nothing yet", because Marquis
clearly told me that more people are planned to die in this coming 91-day World
War III than in both World Wars One and Two combined! Entire nations are going
to be annihilated.

A full explanation of "I,
Witch" can be obtained by clicking on this hot-linked title.

The Pentagon's New Map - Strategy
For "Shrinking The Gap"

Before we can discuss this incredible new map of the Middle East
which President Bush is attempting to force upon the nations in that region,
we need to discuss briefly "The Pentagon'sof those nations!

What arrogance! Is it any wonder that Russian President Putin
has been talking so much in the past few years about American "arrogance"
in foreign affairs? Is it any wonder that Russia
has agreed to protect some of these nations against American aggression?
This map makes an incredibly powerful statement about the role in the world
which the United States envisions itself performing. Truly, this map is saying
that America views herself as the only superpower in the world today, and is
arrogantly using this power to force sovereign nations in the Middle East to
give up significant territory, something which sovereign nations usually go
to war to prevent.

Indeed, the Illuminati intends for this map to create a World
War III, for it is through this war that "Non-Functioning" nations
will be destroyed so that, when the


Masonic Christ does appear, he shall take
control of a world whose nations can rapidly integrate into his planned cashless
system.

Now, let us examine this most important map. For the record, this
"New Pentagon Map of the Middle East" was printed in the American
Armed Forces Journal in their June, 2006, issue. When furor erupted in the capitals
of nations throughout the region -- including from American Islamic allies --
over what this map depicted, the White House quickly and officially distanced
itself from it. However, the damage was done, because foreign leaders knew all
about new strategy of forcing all nations of the world into the cashless society,
a strategy covered in the book, "The
Pentagon's New Map", published in 2004, authored by Thomas
M. Barnett, strategic researcher and professor at the U.S. Naval College, and
Illuminati extraordinare!

President Bush'sin gray

Now, let us examine this unbelievable map!

I. Iraq

Let us begin first with the way in which this Illuminati plan
splits up this poor, tormented country.

As you can see, this map depicts Iraq being split into three distinct
nations:

a) "Free Kurdistan" in northern Iraq

b) Sunni Iraq in the south-western sector

c) Shia or Shi'ite Iraq in the south-eastern sector, with Basra
as the capital

About six weeks before President Bush ordered the invasion of
March 20, 2003, Cutting Edge posted an article in our Daily News Updates charging
that President Bush's secret plan was to split Iraq into the three nations,
which the map now depicts. Of course, the White House immediately denied that
splitting Iraq into three nations was even contemplated! After all, President
Bush's goal was clear and honorable. He wanted to:

1) Overthrow that global menace,


the Persian Gulf to Qatar, taking land away from American ally, Saudi
Arabia. We will cover this shocking reality later, but we wanted to bring your
attention because this new Shia nation is greatly expanded over what now constitutes
southern Iraq.

II. Turkey and Iran

Obviously, for the Kurds to receive this new country -- Free Kurdistan
-- both Turkey and Iran are going to have to relinquish significant territory!
Turkey will be forced to give up some land on her Eastern border with Iraq,
while Iran will have to forfeit some of her land on her Western border with
Iraq. In this past year, since this map was made public, Turkey's pro-American,
pro-Western military has undergone a great transformation. These generals have
been pro-American since World War II.

And, yet, in the past year, Turkish and Iranian leaders havebeen
communicating regularly and have even gotten together on occasion. Events in
northern Iraq have demonstrated that these leaders have evidently been drawing
up a joint plan by which they are going to prevent the Kurds from gaining their
own country. Can you now understand why Turkey has entered northern Iraq with
50,000 troops, and has another 200,000 amassed on the border?

Turkey's armed forces are now more anti-American than in recent
memory; now, you can understand why.

DEBKAfile Intelligence reported something very interesting about
this Turkish invasion of Iraq. Listen:

"Wednesday, June 6, thousands of Turkish troops backed by
warplanes, helicopters and tanks, crossed into Kurdish northern Iraq. Thursday,
the Turkish General Command's Web site announced (in Turkish) that three eastern
regions bordering on Iraq. Siirt, Sirnak and Hakkari, were closed to civilian
road and air traffic for the next three


is the first time in 30 years that anyone has heard me say we have had a break from drought conditions," reported Woods Houghton, County Extension Service agriculture agent in Carlsbad, earlier this month.

He said the southwestern quarter of New Mexico is now classified as abnormally dry, which is not considered an actual drought classification. By comparison, these areas were tagged as in severe to extreme drought over much of the past year.

"Some local hay producers have given a lot of pastures a rest in recent years because of exceptionally dry conditions and a lack of irrigation water, but many of them have already plowed them up in anticipation of spring planting next year," he added.

National Weather Service (NWS) officials in Albuquerque say the Northern New Mexico mountainshave already experienced two moderate, early season snowstorms this year, raising hopes for a heavy snowpack later this winter. So far Sipapu Ski Mountain has reported six inches of fresh snow this year and is now hoping to make its targeted mid-November open-season date.

NOAA officials say winter conditions across North America are largely driven by cyclical weather events. The Southern Oscillation in the Pacific Ocean is popularly termed either an El Niño or La Niña system. As water temperatures shift in the eastern tropical Pacific and air pressure rises in the western tropical Pacific, it generally heralds in an El Niño event, which experts say influences the oscillation that can bring better than average precipitation for the Southwest.

On the other hand, cooling water temperatures can produce a La


Americans think was an unusual socialist experiment.
Most people in Chile, most middle class Chileans remember it as a time when inflation went up
and you had to stand in line to get toilet paper, to get cooking oil, to get rice.
Those were hard times for many people.
And in the end, what happened, just like Ireland in that famous poem by Yeats
the center did not hold, and things fell apart.
When the coup came, it was not a surprise, but it had long been in the making.
The country was split ideologically. People had one worldview, which is a closed system
or a different world view, which is just as closed a system.
People who didn't think like you became not simply your competitor, they became your enemy.
It was bound to end badly, andarrested, he was taken to a concentration camp, where he spent months
and then released only into exile.
And that was more or less what happened to a lot of people in that period of time.
My father was a law professor, he was a lawyer.
So when these horrific human rights violations became known
he became the attorney to a lot of the victims, to a lot of the families.
So, as a 12, 13, 14 year old boy, I began to know things I wasn't supposed to know about.
I remember, as a nosy kid, being in my father's study and noticing an envelope, taking a peak
and being shocked to find a picture of a woman, whose thigh had been burned with a hammer and sickle
that had been burned with a hot iron


by a military patrol.
The same patrol that had taken her husband away in the middle of the night just a few days earlier.
And these were things that were hard to convey. I was in a school that was only a mile or so
from that place. That's the place known to Chileans as Villa Grimaldi, a torture center
where, in fact, Chile's current President, Michelle Bachelet, was once held.
And because of my family, because of what my father was doing
I knew what went on there, and I tried telling people.
My classmates, people in school. Frankly, they didn't want to hear it. Maybe they couldn't hear it.
And that was the case for many people, because even under dictatorship
even under very dire circumstances sometimes the truth is very disquieting.
People just carry on.People fall in love, they marry, have kids, they worry about holding on to jobs
they worry about their bills. Life goes on. And I think that in a sense, as much as naked and violent repression
is what makes dictatorships lasting, what makes dictatorships have such lasting power.
And things get mixed. I knew of a man who was held at a military base in Vina.
Beautiful town in Chile's central coast.
He was tortured, and as he was dragged outside between the torture sessions
he would sometimes be able to look down the hill, he would see the beach
in the middle of the summer. People there lying on the sand, kids kicking a ball around.
Talk about good and evil coexisting. I guess that's what Hannah Arendt meant
when she talked about the banality


of evil in Nazi Germany.
You know, torturers go home to their kids, other people who just lead normal lives
go to the beach, while abuses are going on, just a few yards or a few miles away.
My father, the man you see up there, was one of the many people
many many people who were courageous and spoke up.
And if you spoke up, you often paid for it.
I was also playing football myself in school, when Friday afternoon, when a friend came in
breathlessly saying: your father has been arrested, we have no idea where he is.
And in fact we didn't know where he was -  for three days, until we suddenly get a phone call
from my father, saying: I am in Argentina. But remember, this was 1976.
This was theArgentina which has just had a coup, which was one of the darkest days
of the dictatorship in Argentina, and Chileans got shipped to Argentina
often to die in the streets of Buenos Aires. What saved my father was the intervention of the
government of Venezuela. A Venezuela that was back then democratic.
They, first of all, allowed him into the Venezuelan embassy, and then shipped him out into Caracas
and he was safe. The government of Venezuela back then was a friend of many victims of dictatorship.
In Chile, in Argentina, in Uruguay, in Brazil.
So many of us carry a very very big debt of gratitude to Venezuelan democracy then.
And it is the debt of gratitude that we should remember and we should underline today
when autocracy in Venezuela, when Chavista autocracy in Venezuela


an attorney. Later, between 1998 and 2000, he masterminded a Ponzi scheme in which he sold investments in three sham companies. The Blair plaintiffs were sold fraudulent debentures in Rawhide Select, Inc. ("Rawhide"), and the Metz and Loyd plaintiffs were sold fraudulent debentures in Serengeti Diamonds, U.S.A., Inc. ("Serengeti"), and Lomas De La Barra ("Lomas"). Carpenter sold these debentures through salespeople, who told the Plaintiffs they would receive a guaranteed return of over 10 % annual interest. Although Carpenter made interest payments and partial redemptions to investors during the course of the scheme, Rawhide, Serengeti, and Lomas were mere instruments of fraud, and Carpenter stole nearly all of the Plaintiffs' investments.
In 2000, several victims filed a class action against Carpenter in state court. See Posen v. New Englandscored higher (worse), with differences in cognitive and sensory demands scales. Yet, in these scales, both groups were in the red area (scores more than 60). In the "job content" domain, the operational group scored higher in \"possibility for development\", \"meaning of work\", and \"commitment to the workplace\" scales. However, the administrative group had higher scores in \"degree of freedom at work\" scale and had better state.

In the \"inter personal relationship\" domain, no statistically significant difference was observed between the two groups. The operational group was in a better state in \"feedback at work\" and \"sense of community\" scales, but worse in \"social relations\". In \"work-individual interface\" domain, multivariate analysis showed no significant difference between the two groups, and the operational personnel had higher score in \"insecurity at


VANCOUVER -- With less than a week until Canada Day, John Nuttall and his wife Amanda Korody found themselves alone in a motel room near Vancouver, watching television and discussing their alleged plan to bomb the British Columbia legislature on the national holiday.

They had spent the afternoon of June 26, 2013, shopping for bomb-making materials such as pressure cookers, their terrorism trial has heard, and they planned to build the devices the following day. The fruits of their shopping trip were strewn about their suite at the Sundance Motel.

Nuttall flipped through television channels until he landed on CNN, prompting him to imagine how television news would cover their planned attack.

"We're going to be looking on the news and see the aftermath," Nuttall tells Korody in a video playedof a larger terrorist group.

The Crown has said the couple planned the attack to avenge what they saw as the mistreatment of Muslims abroad, and the videos have featured numerous instances in which Nuttall complains about Canadian military involvement in Arab countries.

In a separate video recorded in the officer's truck on June 27, Nuttall describes a troubled childhood.

He says his father and stepmother physically abused him. He says they beat him and locked him in a room for a week at a time, forcing him to write out the Bible by hand.

"I hope my parents are there at the bombing -- at the (Canada Day) fireworks," says Nuttall.

"I hope they die, my father and my stepmonster."

The Crown has said the couple were recent converts. In the video Nuttall


Holland captained the NSW Under-16 side at the 2005 Qantas National Talent Identification Championships in Parklea, a tournament the NSW team ultimately won. He was a 2007 AIS Football scholarship holder and was an influential player in their successful campaign in the Victorian Premier League.

Holland made an impressive A-League debut with the Newcastle Jets playing two games as a short term injury replacement player. He scored a goal against Wellington Phoenix in his first game, making him the youngest player to score in the A-League.[3]

In October 2007 he signed a full-time 2-year professional contract with the Newcastle Jets, despite interest from his home town club and Newcastle's rivals the Central Coast Mariners.[4] Holland had previously made three appearances for the Mariners on a short term contract during the2006 A-League Pre-Season Challenge Cup.

Holland was part of the Newcastle Jets team which won the 2008 A-League Grand Final against the Central Coast Mariners. He was involved in a controversy during second-half injury time when he handballed inside the penalty area. Referee Mark Shield failed to spot the handball and did not award a penalty.[5] Holland later stated that he didn't feel the ball hit his arm and that it wasn't an "intentional" act.

On 11 January 2009, Dutch club AZ Alkmaar completed the signing of the highly rated Australian midfielder for $650,000 (€350,000) on a four-and-a-half year contract from the Newcastle Jets.[6] He had earlier successfully trialled at the club.

In September 2016, Holland signed a two-year contract with Adelaide United, returning to the A-League.[10] On 12 January 2017,


Adelaide United's coach Guillermo Amor confirmed that Holland exited Adelaide United to go to China.[11]

James is an Australian Under-20 and Under-23 national team representative, a striker in this squad playing alongside Marko Jesic, Holland's good friend. He made his full debut for the Socceroos against Singapore in 2008, and was named in the squad to face Ghana on 23 May 2008. He played in the World Cup qualifier against China on 22 June 2008, and was substituted for David Williams.

He has since captained the Young Socceroos AFF U19 Championship after defeating Korea Republic 3–1 on penalties.[14] James Holland was selected for the Young Socceroos Squad for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Egypt, he was also named captain for the Young Socceroos. He scored a penalty inthe first match against the Czech Republic in the 94th minute in the 2–1 loss, he had missed the first penalty but it was re-taken for infringement. He was selected as a member of Australia's 2014 FIFA World Cup squad in Brazil. Holland remained an unused substitute throughout the tournament.


Nursing Under the Old Poor Law in Midland and Eastern England 1780-1834.
This article uses data drawn from the overseers' accounts and supporting documentation in thirty-six parishes spread over four English counties, to answer three basic questions. First, what was the character, extent, structure, range of activities, and remuneration of the nursing labor force under the Old Poor Law between the late eighteenth century and the implementation of the New Poor Law in the 1830s? Second, were there regional and intra-regional differences in the scale and nature of spending on nursing care for the sick poor? Third, how might one explain such differences? The article suggests that nursing became an increasingly important category of spending for the poor law from the later eighteenth century, but that there were significantSource: Antiochian Patriarchate (Facebook)

Balamand, June 6, 2016

From the secretariart of the Antiochian Patriarchate:

During the course of its seventh exceptional session still open since the 25th of May 2016, the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Antioch held a meeting on the 6th of June 2016 presided by His Beatitude Patriarch John X and in the presence of Their Eminencies the Bishops, to study the positions of the Autocephalous Orthodox Churches related to the Holy and Great Pan-Orthodox Council (mentioned hereafter as ”The Great Council”) and the issues listed in its agenda, and in order to formulate the appropriate Antiochian position in this respect, taking into consideration the decision of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of May 31, 2016 about “the formation of a committee of representatives


of the Churches of Antioch and Jerusalem, with the Ecumenical Patriarchate responsible for its coordination, which would meet immediately after the Great and Holy Synod”, to work on a solution to the violation of the Church of Jerusalem of the canonical jurisdictional boundaries of the Church of Antioch in the Emirate of Qatar.

After considering the positions of the Orthodox Autocephalous Churches, the fathers of the Antiochian Synod realized

1. That the positions of a number of these Churches concerning most of the issues listed on the agenda of the Great Synod are still divergent, and that a number of Churches refuse certain documents as submitted to the Great Council in their actual form, as mentioned in clear and explicit decisions taken by their respective holy synods;

2. That a numberof Churches are expressing essential reservations as to the organizational aspects of the Great Council as well as its financial costs, and to the way of applying the agreements reached by the Primates of the Orthodox Churches in Chambésy, 2016;

3. That the Bulgarian Church issued, on the 1st of June 2016, a synodical decision in which it mentioned its reservations and asked His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch to postpone the convening of the Great Council to a later date while actively continuing its preparatory works, otherwise it refrains from taking part in it;

4. That the Church of Russia has taken, on June 3, 2016, a synodical decision suggesting to convene a conference preceding the date of the Holy Council in order to study the unsolved problems and


risk of failure to the synodical sessions;

8. That the latest decision of the Ecumenical Patriarchate dated May 31, 2016, suggesting to postpone the solution of the dispute with the Patriarchate of Jerusalem until after the Great Council, neglects the initiative of the Ecumenical Patriarch (5 April 2016) and the Antiochian response to it, and disregards the depth of the matter and its effects on the Holy and Great Orthodox Council. The Holy and Great Orthodox Council cannot take place while the communion between two Apostolic churches is broken, given the Eucharistic character of this Council. Issuing this decision before the convening of the Council leaves the Antiochian Church the one and only unacceptable choice of participating in the Great Council without concelebrating at the Eucharist because of notIV and Ignatius IV of thrice blessed memory, who largely contributed to the progress of the pre-conciliar conferences for the Great Council. The Church of Antioch still endeavors, in the person of her Patriarch John X, to preserve this unity with care, steadfastness and sacrifice;

And knowing that the Antiochian Church, although it didn’t sign the decisions of the Synaxis of the Primates of Autocephalous Orthodox Churches in the Phanar (March 2014), it took part in the preparatory committees of the Great Orthodox Council and in the work of the fifth pre-conciliar conference in Chambésy 2015, and in the Synaxis of the Primates of the Autocephalous Orthodox Churches in Chambésy 2016. And although it didn’t sign any of the latter Synaxis’ decisions, it participated in the work of the


preparatory committees of the Great and Holy Orthodox Council, in order to facilitate the joint Orthodox work and accompany it, as it did over the past decades in the hope to solve all problems before the convening of the Great Council;

The Antiochian Church granted this event, which is the greatest and most beautiful in the life of the contemporary Church its deserved place, in making all its draft documents available in Arabic and accessible to its flock. The Antiochian Holy Synod also accompanied the preparatory work for the Council and suggested convenient amendments to its documents.

From the above mentioned, it appears that the convening of the Holy and Great Council, which has been being planned for generations, is jeopardized by a number of difficulties and it still needsthe Holy Eucharist, which deprives the Council of its ecclesiological character and grants it an administrative quality, contradictory to the steadfast Orthodox synodical tradition;

This Council is convening to express Orthodox unity which requires an atmosphere of love and brotherhood in Christ and a much caring for men today which means achieving an agreement of the Autocephalous Orthodox Churches around a large number of subjects and guaranteeing their participation in the proceedings of the Council and unanimously accept its decisions;

Additionally, the Antiochian flock, after learning the agenda of the Council and its documents, expressed its great regret that the Council will not deal with the challenges facing believers, especially the challenges of the youth. The flock of believers expressed its worry about this Council drifting away from the original


Jeff Bezos’ secret new relationship

AMAZON billionaire Jeff Bezos has reportedly been having a "secret" relationship with a former TV host and the glamorous estranged wife of a major Hollywood talent mogul.

The world's richest man Bezos just announced his divorce from wife of 25 years MacKenzie, but according to new reports in New York Post he has already moved on with Good Day LA anchor Lauren Sanchez.

Sources told the Post that Bezos, 54, and Sanchez, 49, - who also works as a helicopter pilot - got to know each other through her husband Patrick Whitesell, an agent to stars including Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Kevin Costner, Hugh Jackman, plus a host of other A-listers.

Patrick Whitesell, Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos

Patrick, Lauren and Jeff were even pictured together at a2016 event for the movie Manchester By The Sea, which starred another of Patrick's clients, Michelle Williams.

An exclusive source told the Post "Patrick and Lauren have socialised with Jeff Bezos and his wife for a few years, because both (now former) couples have houses in Seattle.

"Then Lauren was hired to work on one of Bezos' projects, 'Blue Origin', a space launch company, as a helicopter pilot. She has been shooting aerial shots for Bezos.

"Patrick and Lauren Sanchez have been separated for a while. Their marriage has been off and on for a while, and they tried hard to fix things, but in the fall they officially separated. She had told Patrick that she has been recently seeing Jeff Bezos."

Jeff Bezos and wife MacKenzie Bezos only just announced their


separation after 25 years of marriage. Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File

Sanchez and Whitesell wed in 2005 and have two young children. She also has a teenage son Nikko, from her first marriage, to former NFL player Tony Gonzalez. They have not yet formally filed for divorce.

Lauren, a former co-host on Fox 11's Good Day LA, has been a guest host on ABC's The View and Extra. She was also the original host of Fox's So You Think You Can Dance. She also runs a company called Black Ops Aviation, which specialises in shooting aerial shots for TV shows, movies and commercials.

On Wednesday Bezos, who has an estimated worth of $A189 billion according to Forbes, tweeted, "We want to make people aware of a development in our lives. As- at the firm.

After she got the gig as a research associate they became office neighbours and friends. "All day long I listened to that fabulous laugh," she told Vogue in 2013. "How could you not fall in love with that laugh?"

MacKenzie eventually made a move, according to a Business Insider profile of their marriage. They married in 1993, just six months later.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and wife Mackenzie Bezos in the early days. Photo by Jean-Paul Aussenard/WireImage

A year on, they moved to Seattle and founded Amazon, which would ultimately lead to Jeff becoming the world's richest man, surpassing Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates three months ago. He's also the first person in modern history to amass a fortune of more than $US100 billion ($136 billion).

Meanwhile MacKenzie went


on to become an award winning author, writing The Testing of Luther Albright in 2005 followed by Traps in 2013.

Eventually though, the success of Amazon meant the family often spent time apart, with a source telling the Post Bezos and his wife, "Haven't been seen together at any big events together in a long time. He always seems to attend alone."

It is believed Bezos made the divorce announcement on Wednesday believing that photos of himself and Sanchez could soon be made public.

Bezos, Sanchez and Amazon did not yet respond to requests for comment.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permissionpurposes of SNSs, there can exist disparate mechanisms dominating the formation and evolution of OSNs. To the OSNs for general users, old users can incline to associate with others similar to themselves and homophily can dominate. While to the OSNs for professionals, old users can prefer to associate with the celebrities in the same vocation because personal success in occupation may benefit from the communication with them. Besides the relative importance of different mechanisms is also different in different growth stages of OSNs. In the beginning stage users may incline to establish friendship relations with the users who are their friends in real life, while in the later stage users may prefer to make friends with the users whom they do not know in real life while they


where she broadcast the video, which many have described as “disgusting”.

As seen in the images, the woman appears sitting looking at the camera, when, suddenly, she bends down and begins to walk around the edge of the toilet, just where people sit.

In her Twitter profile, the woman defines herself as an “18-year-old” sezx worker and has more than 28,000 followers. In addition, as seen in her publications, with some XXXXX contents.

After the dissemination of the images, which already have more than six thousand shares and hundreds of reactions and comments, users expressed outrage and rejection of the woman’s daring action, warning her of the damage that the “disgusting” act may have caused her.

“Your tongue has gone numb because you have contracted 1200 diseases at the same time,” saidone of the Twitter users in the publication.

In as much, the woman – protagonist of the unusual viral video – expressed in another tweet that “she could not believe that she has become famous just by licking a toilet.”


Tokyo like? What are your favorite things about living in Tokyo?

I've been to Japan eight times now; that includes a gig as a tourist guide, hitch-hiking with my girlfriend, going for exchange studies twice (in college and in graduate school), visiting the tsunami-ridden areas as an assistant of a charity tour, doing some short-term baito of questionable legitness, taking a part to a Japanese matsuri as a omikoshi-shouldering nutjob, doing shūkatsu – job-hunting in Japanese style – and taking part to a naitei-shiki, an admission ceremony of new employees in Japanese companies. However, it's my first time to be here as a shakaijin, an adult that stands for themself. Again, there have been all kinds of new experiences, but strangely I finally feel that I'm at the levelA boy who was less than a year old when his father died while diving off the northern coast of Scotland has won the right to sue a ship-chartering company for negligence.

In a unanimous judgment at the supreme court, five justices ruled that Scapa Flow Charters will have to defend the legal action following the death of Lex Warner, 50, near Cape Wrath in 2012.

The ruling reversed a previous decision in the Scottish courts that the claim was too late because the 1974 Athens convention, which governs the “carriage of passengers and their luggage by sea”, imposes a legal liability limit of two years after the date any passenger disembarked.

Warner had chartered MV Jean Elaine, a vessel operated by Scapa Flow Charters, for the week of 11 to


18 August 2012. When dressed in diving gear and preparing to dive to a wreck north-west of Cape Wrath on 14 August, he fell on to the deck of the vessel.

He was helped to his feet and went ahead with the dive, descending to a depth of 88 metres (289 feet). He got into trouble under water, however, and despite the assistance of other divers who brought him to the surface and on to the vessel, he could not be revived. He was pronounced dead onboard the ship.

The legal argument was over whether his son, Vincent, now six, should be allowed to sue. His mother, Debbie Warner, had not appealed against a lower court’s decision to bar her claim.

Scottish law provides for “the grounds of suspension and interruptionlot of unanswered questions. I didn’t find out he was dead for 24 hours after what happened. He had life threatening injuries before he went into the water,” she said.

She also said she had been at risk of losing her home because of the problems of financing the legal challenge. She believed the Marine Accident Investigation Board (MAIB) report into the death had not exposed all of the issues raised by the accident. She said there had been other recent diving deaths off the north coast of Scotland.

The MAIB did find that there was a “significant risk to divers of tripping and falling when attempting to walk on the deck of a workboat in open sea while fully dressed and equipped for deep technical diving”. It also noted


Thursday, May 28, 2009

Congressional Briefing on the Prevalence of Adults with Serious Mental Illnesses in Jails

From the Consensus Project:On Monday, June 1, the Council of State Governments Justice Center will host a Congressional staff briefing on a new study on the prevalence of adults with serious mental illnesses in jails. The study, highlighted in the June issue of Psychiatric Services, was conducted by the Council of State Governments Justice Center, in partnership with Policy Research Associates.

The briefing will focus the study findings, implications for jail systems, the courts, communities, and persons with serious mental illnesses. The role of the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act (MIOTCRA) grant program in stimulating comprehensive evidence-based services and supports will be discussed.

Presenters will include, Fred Osher, Director, Health Systems and-- huge mechanical devices built to serve mankind. While use of the old technology remained mostly out of reach, there were some who had begun to research the ancient devices, seeking even the faintest hope of enriching their lives on this desolate world.

The situation changed dramatically about a hundred years ago when a new race known as the Veruni arrived on the planet. Although similar in appearance to humans, the Veruni's superior physical attributes and advanced technology allowed them to quickly establish dominance over mankind. The human race found itself relegated to second-class status, and many citizens were forced to perform hard labor day in and day out in order to survive.

Fast-forward to the present day. In a small town called Capo Bronco on the outskirts of Filgaia,


two youths, Dean Stark and Rebecca Streisand, witness an unbelievable event -- the giant arm of a golem somehow falling from the sky. Their disbelief grows further when they discover that within the clenched fist of the golem's hand lies a girl with little recollection of her past other than her name -- "Avril." This chance encounter inspires Dean and Rebecca to travel with Avril across the wastelands of Filgaia in hopes of helping her regain her lost memories. Little do they know their journey will eventually decide the fate of all mankind...

Key Features

Return of the acclaimed HEX battle system, with all-new features such as interchangeable abilities between party members, varied battlefield layouts, and the ability to switch party members during battle.

Huge, fully explorable 3D world with tonsof hidden items, quests, and mini-games to discover.

Dual pistol-wielding allows the player to shoot various types of bullets to solve puzzles, joining the returning action elements of jumping, sliding, and stomping on the field map.

Highly-detailed 3D event scenes with voice-overs.

Dozens of cameo appearances and other surprises for longtime fans of the series.

Wild ARMs 5, released in Japan on December 14, 2006, is scheduled for release in August 28. 2007.


21 June, 2012

DANGEROUS LIES OF GENOCIDE DENIERS

The words "I was wrong" rarely appear under journalists' bylines. But in the Observer this week, John Simpson, the veteran BBC correspondent, acknowledged that he had been mistaken about a libel trial arising from the Bosnian war.

The 20th anniversary of the most destructive conflict in postwar Europe fell this month. In a country the size of Scotland, almost 100,000 Bosnians were killed and two million were displaced. Because all sides suffered, observers argued that culpability was shared and that its cause was a resurgence of ancient ethnic hatreds among Serbs, Croats and Muslims [Bosniaks]. That was a fateful misreading. The war was a preventable humanitarian catastrophe that was compounded by the stance of Western governments.

Responsibility lay overwhelmingly with the Bosnian Serbs. Theirleaders, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, sought to carve out an ethnically pure territory in a deranged, racist scheme for a "Greater Serbia". Their target was the legitimate government of a multi-ethnic state. Their Svengali was a thuggish bureaucrat and ballot-rigger, Slobodan Milosevic.

The crimes of which Karadzic and Mladic now stand accused at The Hague are a catalogue of barbarism: mass murder, ethnic expulsion and rape. These include the siege of Sarajevo, which killed more than 10,000, and the genocide of 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica.

None of this ought to have surprised Western policymakers, who maintained an arms embargo that froze in place the military superiority of Serb forces. Some brave journalists had uncovered appalling depredations early in the conflict. The Guardian's Ed Vulliamy and ITN


's Penny Marshall and Ian Williams exposed inhuman conditions at the Serb-run concentration camp at Trnopolje in northern Bosnia. For their pains, they were accused of fabricating their evidence.

Hence the libel trial, at the High Court in 2000. ITN successfully sued LM, a small magazine. A roster of media figures came to LM's aid, claiming a threat to free speech. Simpson was one. But in a review this week of Vulliamy's fine new book, The War is Dead: Long Live the War, he wrote: "Vulliamy's account of what happened in the camp is completely unanswerable."

You can say that again. Yet while LM went out of business under the costs of its calumnious lies, several of its staff have since attained media prominence. Mick Hume, its editor, was forsome years a Times columnist.

During the war, prominent Jews did their best to urge a change in Western policy. In a speech at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, Elie Wiesel turned to President Clinton and implored him to protect Bosnian civilians. After the revelation of the Serb camps, three American Jewish groups lobbied for "every necessary step, including the use of force" to stop the atrocities. It was not their fault that their words went unheeded.

Jews have a particular interest in helping to ensure that the human costs of what followed are accurately recounted. The facts of the genocidal assault on Bosnia's Muslims are so horrific that a cottage industry of denial has since grown up. You will find websites claiming that the number of victims of the


Relative pronouns

Relative pronouns (e.g. what, which and that) are like conjunctions in some ways: they join clauses like conjunctions do.

There’s the girl who won the prize.

Here the relative pronoun who joins the clauses ‘There is the girl’ and ‘She won the prize’.

A relative pronoun acts as the subject or object of the verb that comes after it. Therefore we do not need another subject or object. In the sentence given above the relative pronoun who is the subject of the verb won.

I have got a friend who works in a call center. (NOT I have got a friend who he works in a call center.)

The man that she married was a journalist. (NOT The man that she married him was a journalist.)

That, when and where

The relative pronoun thatRepository name: Lithuanian Central State Archives

Item reference: LCVA 0-124901

Photographer: J Juknevičius

On 23 August 1989, almost one million people joined hands to form an over 600 kilometre-long human chain across the three Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This peaceful demonstration known as the Baltic Way demanded recognition of the secret clauses in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the re-establishment of the independence of the Baltic states.

On 23 August 1939, the foreign ministers of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany – Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop – signed a treaty. This pact and the secret clauses it contained divided the respective spheres of influence of the USSR and Germany and led to the occupation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

The Baltic Way was organised by the national movements of


each of the Baltic states; the Popular Front of Estonia Rahvarinne, the Popular Front of Latvia and the Lithuanian Reform Movement Sąjūdis.

On 30 July 2009, the documentary heritage of the Baltic Way (written, photo, video and audio documents) was added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.

www.balticway.netWe examine how Ben Te'o fared for Leinster on the day England coach Eddie Jones highlighted his qualities

Already looking far past the Grand Slam he landed at his first attempt in March, Eddie Jones spent last Friday morning discussing a few selection issues ahead of England‘s June tour of Australia.

He knows his side must be better, more dynamic, more powerful and more incisive. Naturally, there was a witty analogy – “you want to fix the roof while the sun is still shining”.

Jones did not require much prompting to bring up Ben Te’o, Leinster‘s New Zealand-born, Worcester Warriors-bound centre. Te’o, a former teammate of Sam Burgess at the South Sydney Rabbitohs, qualifies through his English mother.

If he can be registered in time by the RFU – the need for


do well to spin the ball left and score from the very next phase. Later on in the second period, they made far less headway from inside their own half:

Mike Allen pays the price for an upright body position here. Te’o wraps him up with an uncompromising tackle…

…allowing Dominic Ryan to rush in, hold Allen above the ground, form a maul and complete the copybook ‘choke tackle’:

Lastly, we come to some calm communication in the very final seconds. Edinburgh are striving for a try that could snatch an unlikely draw:

In the Six Nations, Jones praised the spatial awareness of Joseph – a hugely underrated part of the Bath centre’s play. Here, Te’o showcases his own foresight and communication skills before making an important tackle.

Initially standing as the finala guilty verdict.

In 2014, Hakamada was released and a retrial was ordered by a lower court – but in June 2018, the Tokyo High Court overturned the decision to grant a retrial. It did not demand Hakamada be brought back into detention, given his age and health concerns; but until his name is cleared, he technically remains on death row. Hakamada’s lawyers are now appealing to the Supreme Court. For the 82-year-old Hakamada to clear his name, the Supreme Court must grant him a new trial and find him not guilty. It took four years for the Tokyo High Court to issue its ruling, and the Supreme Court’s decision could take another couple of years.

The lead attorney in the Hakamada case, Katsuhiko Nishijima, is convinced that the police


Everwood and co. are copyright to the WB, Life as a House is not mine
either. no profit is intended or made.

so, this is Ephram Brown from Everwood, and Sam from the movie Life as
a House. um. it's this whole thing, where sascha did this community center,
and Sam and Ephram and, uh, some guy from young americans was there, and.
oh. whatever.

"Y'know, those things'll kill ya," Ephram says, after a minute. The kid's
been sitting at his table for maybe five minutes, and just lit up a cigarette.

He gives no indication that he's heard at all, headphones still firmly in
place, but after a second the guy says, "want one?"

"Nah." Ephram moves his headphones, enough that the kid can talk if he wants,
not enough to indicate real interest. "I'm trying to quit."

AnotherUruguay has joined a string of South American nations in recognizing an independent Palestinian state.

A Foreign Ministry statement says Uruguay has communicated its decision to the Palestinian Authority.

Open gallery view Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Credit: Reuters

However the statement does not explicitly say whether the country recognizes

Palestine's borders predating the Six-Day War of 1967, when Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza.

Foreign Ministry officials declined Tuesday to clarify the matter.

More than a half-dozen countries in South America have recognized Palestine recently, though in different ways.

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay recognized the pre-1967 borders.

Chile and Peru said the issue must be worked out between Israelis and Palestinians.


The midfielder has been at the heart of Milan's domestic resurgence over recent weeks, and performed superbly during the midweek win over Barcelona in the Champions League against some of the most highly rated players in world football.

Maldini has been surprised at how well the Italy international has performed and compared the midfielder to Juventus' Pirlo, who left the Rossoneri for the Bianconeri on a Bosman transfer in 2011.

"Montolivo has really surprised me," Maldini told La Gazzetta dello Sport. "He's been consistent, he has quality and he's proved that he can adapt to a number of different roles.

"He's a decisive player, one who can fill the hole that was left when Andrea Pirlo moved on. He has physical strength, he wins back the ball, he has vision -The authors are Nina Lesowitz and Mary Beth Sammons. It’s a collection of stories of grace and gratitude. One of the stories concerned the music and life of one of my very favorite singers – Olivia Newton – John. I was fascinated so I spent some time on the internet researching just what has been going on in her life. Here’s what I learned:

In 2006, Olivia Newton-John recorded a CD entitled “Grace and Gratitude” and within that CD was a song of the same name. She recorded it to bring awareness of breast cancer and prostate cancer. In October of this year, she brought back that CD under the title of “Grace and Gratitude Renewed” and once again, she reached out to those who are or were under


Image caption More than 2m people tuned in to watch the first edition of Piers Morgan Tonight in January

Piers Morgan has responded to criticism from his predecessor, Larry King, that he is not "dangerous" enough on his much-hyped US talk show.

The former newspaper editor told The Times he would be "edgy and dangerous, but at the right moment and with the right guests".

Morgan invited King on his chat show after the TV veteran told BBC Radio 4 the 45-year-old had been "oversold" to US TV audiences.

More than 2m watched Morgan's US debut.

King told Radio 4's PM programme: "He's good but not that dangerous. I think they might have been better off starting quietly."

However, Morgan defended the show's promotional campaign to King saying: "We couldn't come in and undersell...I'm following a legend.

"I can't come in after Sinatra in Vegas and say, 'By the way, this is not going to be very good'."

Speaking to The Times, Morgan paid tribute to King, but added: "There was a certain irony [in] being lectured about being 'dangerous' by an interviewer widely acknowledged to be the least risky in the business."

He said while he had been tough on some guests, he would not start "bullying" Hollywood stars.

"It's not the best way to interview and it would mean we won't get the calibre of guests," he said.

After Morgan's first show in January, during which he interviewed chat show queen Oprah Winfrey, US critics had mixed reviews with some describing him as "fawning" and a "flatterer".


Edwin Wagensveld, leader of the Dutch branch of the anti-Islamic movement Pegida, has been hunting for refugees on the Bulgarian border, a Pegida spokesperson told DutchNews.nl.

‘He was in Bulgaria to show that the border is as leaky as a sieve [with] 1000 people a day illegally entering the country,’ said Team Pegida, via email.

Tatjana Festerling, a far-right German politician and former Pegida leader, had posted on her Facebook page that she, ‘Ed the Dutchman’ and other volunteers had been patrolling the border last weekend to stop the ‘flood of invaders from Turkey’. Festerling claimed she and her associates were acting as ‘voluntary, unarmed and perfectly legal helpers and supporters of the Bulgarian border police’.

Team Pegida from the Netherlands added that with ‘peaceful and unarmed’ citizens, Wagensveld walked throughBoard of Regents received a petition demanding Dewey's removal as State Librarian because of his personal involvement in the Lake Placid Club's policy of excluding Jews and other religious and ethnic groups. While the Regents declined to remove Dewey, they did issue a public rebuke, and in the summer of 1905 he resigned as a result.

In 1954, a New York Times article criticized the Club for its refusal to admit Blacks and Jews. The B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League filed a complaint about the Club. The dispute lasted several years, until the League decided to drop the charges of discrimination in 1959. Representatives of the Club claimed that its members were religiously motivated and therefore wished to vacation as Christians among Christians in order to "strengthen their appreciation of


is he?"

"His eyes are pink and his squares (think she means scales) are purple and his hand are purple and he has toesies and feet and his sticks (think she means spikes?) are purple and he has a tail... and wings. He's nice."

"Is he big or little"

He's big and there is a little dragon who is nice too and a yellow dragon is shy."

"When did you first see them."

"When they were happy... They live in a big hole and they come out and make scary things go away... Scary things like alligators and Tinkerbell."

"Wait, Tinkerbell is scary?" She's never seen Peter Pan but she has me read the picture book quite often.

"Yeah when she's mad."

We talked about it and she caught Spencer and I watching the special featuresPresident Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, speaking to journalists during his trip back from the Neutrality Conference in Turkmenistan over the weekend, said a diplomatic thaw between Turkey and Israel was for the good of the entire region, repeating Turkey's three preconditions for any thaw. In the past week, certain signs from Israel sparked a new debate about the Israeli desire to re-establish links with Turkey.Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz voiced governmental discussions over possible natural gas exports to Turkey while the appointment of Yossi Cohen, a close ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and an expert on the region, as the new chief of Mossad was seen as a signal that the country wants to create an avenue to improve ties with regional countries, especially Turkey.Erdoğan said that


interests of the people of the region and introduce peace," he said.On his meetings in Turkmenistan, Erdoğan said he had the opportunity to meet with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedow along with Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili, Iranian First Deputy President İshak Cihangir and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. There were also comprehensive meetings with Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev and Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic. He said the talks centered on developing trade ties and that most had proposed to mediate the differences between Turkey and Russia.When asked whether natural gas trade came up during his discussions with the Turkmen president, Erdoğan said: "Turkmenistan's main problem concerning natural gas is Russia, which has decreased gas purchases from 40 billion cubic meters a year to 4 billion ayear. They are now searching for alternative markets. China currently is the main buyer. They are now readying to build a gas pipeline that will reach India."On the issue of Iraqi objections to the Turkish deployment of troops and military trainers in Bashiqa, Erdoğan said Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi himself had asked for help in the training of Iraqi police and troops during his trip to Turkey late last year. He said the Turkish troops in Iraq not only trained Iraqi forces, but also the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) peshmerga forces to better fight DAESH. "With DAESH forces nearing the region, there arose the need to deploy a protection force. This is nothing like an occupation," he said, citing Turkey's previous stance against any occupation of the


President Masoud Barzani's visit to Ankara last week, Erdoğan said the threat the PKK terrorist organization poses to Turkey and the KRG was discussed.On the Islamophobic remarks made by U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, he said Trump is a failure as a politician. "There are millions of Muslims in the U.S. That's the first mistake. I don't know if he'll win or not, but if he does, will he just ignore Muslim countries? A politician should not speak like that."Erdoğan said he had focused on the fight against the Gülenist Terror Organization (FETÖ) while serving as prime minister and had continued to keep a tab on developments since being elected president. "In the latest operation in Ankara, 75 people were going to be detained; 55 had fledabroad. This alone shows that they, who include some of the most senior members of the group, are trying to flee justice.He said he was not confident that all FETÖ operatives in the police were removed and so many fleeing showed the need for closer cooperation between the Interior and Justice ministries, the MİT and police. "Such efforts are not easy. They spent years to infiltrate state bodies. However, wherever they go, they will eventually pay for their crimes." He also said that judicial efforts against FETÖ in the U.S. were also proceeding encouragingly.Erdoğan punctuated the need to change the current parliamentary system for a faster decision-making mechanism that would support economic growth. He said it was important to remove the perceived division in the state that was


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British scientists analyzing 500-year-old bones found under a car park say it is now beyond almost any doubt that the remains are of King Richard III, and that studies suggest he had blue eyes and blond hair as a boy. Publishing their latest findings in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from Leicester University also said DNA analysis showed a match between King Richard III and two modern female-line relatives. The remains of Richard — the last English monarch to die in battle — were found by archaeologists under a municipal car park in the central English city of Leicester in 2012 and subsequently identified by experts from the university. In a research paper published in September, the scientists were able to give blow-by-blow details of the King's deathat the Battle of Bosworth more than 500 years ago, revealing he was very probably killed by a blow to his bare head. For the latest work, led by genetics expert Dr Turi King, researchers collected DNA from living relatives of Richard III and analyzed several genetic markers, including the complete mitochondrial genomes, inherited through the maternal line, and Y-chromosomal markers, inherited through the paternal line. King said her team were now 99.999 percent sure the remains were Richard and a 500-year-old "missing person's case" could finally be closed.

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— Reuters


Four SLA soldiers killed

[TamilNet, Thursday, 02 August 2001, 19:18 GMT]Three Sri Lanka Army soldiers were killed and three others were wounded in a claymore mine attack in the Omanthai area, about 14 km. north of Vavuniya Thursday morning, military sources said. They said the claymore was placed on a tree near a sentry post.

The Liberation Tigers reportedly triggered the claymore, targeting the troops who were patrolling ahead of their defence positions. The wounded were admitted at the Anuradhapura military hospital, according to the sources.

The Voice of Tigers radio said this evening that a SLA sentry post was completely destroyed in the attack. The Tigers recovered some arms and ammunition, including 5 assault riffles, the radio said.

In a separate attack, a SLA soldier was killed in Iranai-illupailkulam, military sourcessaid. Iranai-illuppailkulam is about 21 km. northwest of Vavuniya town.

Meanwhile a member of the LTTE's boarder force died in a confrontation with the Sri Lanka Army soldiers at Mullikulam on Wednesday, the VoT radio said. Another LTTE member died in an accidental explosion at Nakarkovil in the Vadamaradchi East sector of the Jaffna peninsula, Thursday, the radio added.


HUE NIGHT WALKING STREETS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHING ON SEP 29TH 2017

Travelers complain Hue is boring and limited night activities in center of Hue city. The tourist often kill their time at bar until midnight nowhere else to walk to chatting or just sit down on the pavement drinking something and chanting with their friends. Dreaming for many years, Hue People and Hue Government have been trying to launch Hue Night Walking Streets on Sep 29th 2017.

The space of the Hue Night Walking Streets includes Pham Ngu Lao Street, Chu Van An Street and Vo Thi Sau street. (From Doi Cung Street intersection to Chu Van An street) The event will be held on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday weekends from 18:00 to 2:00 am starting on Sep 29th 2017.

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With little fanfare, the Dawn mission continues releasing a new picture from Vesta every day. This one is definitely my favorite among their recent releases, a closeup on one of Vesta's strange streaky bright craters.

Today they turned on the scientific fire hose at the Division of Planetary Sciences / European Planetary Science Congress meeting happening here in Nantes, France. My brain already feels full and I still have four more days!

Dawn's fourth anniversary of being in space is very different from its previous ones. Indeed, those days all were devoted to reaching the distant destination the ship is now exploring. Celebrating its anniversary of leaving Earth, Dawn is in orbit around a kindred terrestrial-type world, the ancient protoplanet Vesta.

Every day's image release from the Dawn spacecraft shows


the prosecutor, Barbara Richmond, that information in the warrant was incorrect and asked her to recall it, sources said. She referred the commander to someone else in her office, the sources said.

Richmond, who works in the state's attorney's office in the Maryland District Courthouse in Northwest Baltimore, declined to comment.

Barney's girlfriend, Kantria L. Curry, 26, filed domestic assault charges against Barney on Nov. 3 after an incident at her house in West Baltimore that day, according to Curry and her statements in court records.

She accused Barney in charging documents of breaking into her house and holding a razor blade inches from her neck as he yelled at her.

Curry said that officers in the Western Police District tried to serve the warrant on Barney but could not find him.

Barney'sfather, the Rev. Kenneth L. Barney Sr. of the New Antioch Baptist Church of Randallstown, said he then turned to Davis, a member of New Antioch.

The pastor said yesterday that he asked Davis for advice about dealing with the situation and that the commander told him to follow proper procedures.

"He told me to contact the precinct, and whatever the law required, I would have to abide by," Kenneth Barney Sr. said.

On Nov. 5, two days after Curry filed the charges, Barney surrendered to Davis, police said. Barney has a hearing scheduled in the case for Jan. 2.

Margaret T. Burns, a spokeswoman for the city state's attorney's office, said prosecutors were cooperating with police investigators.

"The matter is under investigation by internal affairs, and the state's attorney's office is cooperating


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The Saints have backed off of former Giants head coach and current Ravens OC Jim Fassell since Mike Sherman was fired, a move that got the Saints' attention.

The team will face a choice between a safe veteran in Sherman, a risky personality like Mike Martz, or put a young gamble in his first head coaching job, at this point likely Payton.

What do some of the players think? Well, not all are at camp and fewer are speaking to the media. WR Joe Horn said he would come to training camp in February if Mike Martz was hired and, for obvious reasons, other offensive players are in favor of the former offensive guru of the


Rams.

The new head coach will determine who, if anyone, from Haslett's staff will stay. For the meantime, all the coordinators and assistants are busy and working on film. Except for cornerbacks coach Greg Brown, the rest of the coaching staff are still employed, pending evaluation from the new head coach.

Saints owner Tom Benson said today that they are looking for a leader in the head coach search. That speaks volumes of the remaining opinion of the Saints' former head coach and a telling sign of what had become Haslett's locker room.

Meanwhile, in other news. former Saints offensive coordinator Mike McCarthy, unceremoniously allowed to leave last offseason after his contract expired, has been hired away from his 49ers coordinator job for the head position with the Packers. McCarthy certainlybut also beautiful. Take, for example, Reflections for tape and piano. Reflections is a dialog between the piano and delicate synthesized sounds recorded in the mid-70's, and the sounds are still fresh, not dated (though some may recognize the characteristic sound of the computer used to generate the synthesized score).Robert Taub is one of the worlds most accomplished and versatile pianists. His broad repertoire ranges from man's earliest keyboard music to the 20th century. Mr Taub's performance of Babbitt's works is considered by some to be the definitive interpretation, and his virtuosity is perfectly suited to the works in this recording. Paul Griffiths of the New Yorker wrote of Taub: "His fingers think. The movement, the search, and the feel of thought are present at the keys, and


Several models of notebooks were shown by Samsung during CES 2013 , but two of them really caught the attention of the press and consumers. ...

Several models of notebooks were shown by Samsung during CES 2013, but two of them really caught the attention of the press and consumers. We're talking about Series 7 Chronos and Series 7 Ultra, which should reach the market in the first quarter of 2013. And both bring very satisfactory hardware configurations for the most demanding users. The Series 7 Chronos has Intel Core i7 processor and AMD Radeon HD 8870 graphics card with 2 GB of graphics memory, being billed as a real option for those who do not want desktops, but neither want to give up the hardware advantages of them.Wishing, Waiting For Heather Buck

Vickie Fulkerson Scholastic Sports Editor, UConn Women's Basketball

Geno Auriemma admits it. There are times he's watching his team play, even though it's unbeaten, ranked first in the nation and the favorite to win a national championship, and he wishes he could put Heather Buck in the game.

Buck, UConn's 6-foot-3 fresh-man center from Stonington High School, is redshirting this season due to a bout with mononucleosis she suffered earlier in the year that set her back considerably. Buck returned to practice in weakened condition, but doesn't appear to be suffering any lingering effects now, as she oftentimes mashes the competition in practice, especially on defense.

”I just feel that watching her in practice, this kid is going to be really, really hard to play against,” Auriemma,


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Marthe Robin was born on March 13, 1902 in Chateauneuf de Galaure, France in a region known as “the Plain”. She was one of six children. Her father Joseph, was a good natured farmer, not very religious in that he only went to Mass on Easter and big Feast days, although towards the end of his life, due to Marthe’s extraordinary example and virtue, he had a deep conversion and “died a saint” according to a statement made by Marthe. Her mother, Amelie-Celeste Chosson, was happy and gracious housewife and mother, and like her husband, was not initially devout in religious practice, however she too had a deep conversion towards the end of her life, once again presumably through the holy influence and example of Marthe.
Foryou, it will be suffering -First illness

Beginning in May, 1918 at age 16, Marthe began experiencing painful headaches. On November 25th she collapsed in her kitchen and was unable to get up without assistance. The Doctor was sent for and it was thought that she had encephalitis. At times she would often cry out in pain. During this time she had her first vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary; her sister Alice who was in the bedroom with her, saw a great light that surrounded the room, but she herself did not see the Blessed Mother.

Offering herself to the Love and Will of God
From her childhood, Marthe always had “conspicuous” religious devotion and tendency; conspicuous in that her parents and family were not very devout Catholics; only going


to Mass on major feast days. As her illness and suffering progressed, her legs weakened, and she was confined to a chair more and more. During this time her spiritual life blossomed and she was very inspired and edified by the life of the “Little Flower”, Therese of Lisieux, who was canonized on May 17, 1925 by Pope Pius XI. Later that year, on October 15, 1925, the Feast of St Teresa of Avila, she felt inspired to make a “Act of Abandonment to the Love and the Will of God”, composing the text of the Act of Abandonment herself.

Marthe Robin's bed

Another Serious Illness
Barely a year after having made her act of abandonment to the will of God, Marthe again fell gravely ill. It was on October 3,1926, the day of the first celebration of the feast of Saint Therese of Lisieux, who had been canonized the preceding year. Dr. Aristide Sallier, of Saint-Uze came to The Plain and found Marthe in a coma. "There is nothing more that can be done," was all he said. The Parish Priest, Fr. Faure could only replace the doctor at the bedside to administer the Sacrament of the Sick to "his parishioner," as he called her. It was the second time that she had received it. Everyone expected that each day would bring her death. The coma lasted three weeks.

Apparitions of Saint Therese of Lisieux
But while death seemed to be imminent, Marthe experienced three apparitions of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus. The Carmelite of Lisieux revealed to


her that she would not die yet, that she would recover, and that she would extend her mission throughout the entire world! That is what Marthe confided to Fr. Finet, even adding, laughingly, "Oh that rascal, in the end, she's left it all to me!" Behind the suffering and the mysticism, this sense of humor is the best indication of Marthe's mental health.

Love for God and suffering
After her death, some pages of a notebook were discovered in which she described the sufferings she endured during 1927:“....it was impossible to make the least movement without the assistance of my very devoted mama, not that I did not retain at least partial use of my arms and my hands, but that they had become very clumsy. Nevertheless I thank theFrom 1928 to 1981, the year of her death, Marthe did not consume anything except the Eucharist that was brought to her once or twice a week. The host, entering into her, instantly disappeared without any normal ingestion. Marthe could not swallow anything else. As far back as the beginning of that year, when her mother had brought her a cup of coffee, it had immediately flowed back out of her mouth. Mrs. Robin groaned, "Look at my poor little one, in what a state she is!" And Marthe's father wept, "But she has done nothing bad!" He was pitiful, a childhood friend of Marthe's told me.

Thenceforth, Marthe had no ingestive or digestive processes whatever, and, in addition, she entirely ceased to sleep; she was completely stripped. According


to medical men, a total loss of sleep is even more extraordinary than not taking any food or drink. We can assume that one does not enter into such a state without agony. It appears that at this time Fr. Netton began to come to visit and console Marthe. And it was at this point that the Blessed Virgin began to increase the frequency of her apparitions.

The Devil Breaks Two of Her Teeth
Late in the year 1928, two Capuchin Priests who were preaching a Mission in her hometown were visiting all the sick in their free time. When they met Marthe they were quickly impressed by her devotion and her resignation and acceptance to her paralysis. When they returned that day to the Rectory of the Church, they"I don't know what happened, but she uttered a frightful scream!"
"Satan," a confidant of Marthe's reported, "had struck her a blow with his fist, breaking two teeth. It was she who told me." "Did you see the broken teeth?" "Yes, yes." This same episode was related by Fr. Perrier.

Marthe Robin Bedroom

Marthe Loses the Use of Her Hands
The paralysis of her legs occurred on the feast of the Annunciation, 1929. On Candlemas Day, February 2, 1929, Marthe lost the use of her hands. She had offered them to the Lord, and he had taken her at her word! Goodbye to letter writing and to embroidery! "I kept my thimble on my finger for about a week, and finally I said to mama, 'You know, you must take off my


thimble, now!' " Undefeated by this new paralysis, Marthe learned to write with a pencil in her mouth.

Thus, at age 27, this is the state to which she was reduced: her arms and legs held her down in her bed; her legs were partly bent; she was twisted, with a pillow under her back, and a stiff cushion to support her knees; her right arm lay across her chest and her left arm was stretched out along her body. She could not move. When Mrs. Bernard (the daughter of Mrs. Ferdinand Robin) went to help Mrs. Robin to change the bed linen, Marthe endured torments as soon as she was lifted.

In this uncomfortable and unchangeable position Marthe remained, without drinking, without eating, and without sleeping, for more thanmade her “fiat” with all the love and devotion of her heart. Sometime during the early part of October (possibly on the 4th, the feast of Saint Francis, the stigmatized saint), Jesus Crucified appeared before the eyes of Marthe. At once he took her paralyzed arms, rigid since February 2, 1929, and opened them wide. At that moment a tongue of flame leapt from his side, separated in two, and struck both of her feet and both of her hands; a third tongue of flame struck Marthe on the heart. She bled from her hands, her feet, and her heart.

Later, whether it was the same day is not known, Jesus imprinted his crown of thorns on Marthe's head. The marks extended down to her eyes and bled freely.


This crown appeared on her forehead "like purple veins"; several months afterward (at Marthe's request, as an act of humility) they completely disappeared.
Still later, Jesus intervened again, imposing upon Marthe the wood of the Cross; Marthe felt crushed-dislocated because of the burden of the Cross with its enormous weight.

Her parents saw their daughter covered with blood, and were overwhelmed. According to Marthe, her mother "understood that this condition had come from God with Marthe's abandonment to the Divine will."

Her parents nevertheless called for Dr. Aristide Sallier of Saint-Uze. His medical studies had obviously not prepared him to cope with such a phenomenon. Right away, he tried to have his patient drink something. It was impossible; the liquid came out through her nose. The doctor recognized that he hadcome to the end of his resources. One day he acknowledged his helplessness, and said to Marthe. "Mademoiselle. pray for me!"

On the Friday following her stigmatization, Marthe began to relive the Passion of Jesus.

People come from all over to visit Marthe
Rumors of these events did not take long to circulate throughout the neighboring countryside. and soon a number of people were "ascending to The Plain" to see Marthe and to pray with her, uniting themselves through her with the Passion of Christ. This apostolate of welcoming visitors for the good of souls continued for 50 years, that is, until the end of her life. Fr. Faure and Fr. Perrier were the first to organize such visits for the edification of the souls of the parishoners entrusted to them.

The


visitors so increased that, beginning in 1931 or 1932, the permission of Fr. Faure was needed to "ascend to The Plain." Why Fr. Faure's permission? Simply because the Robin family would have been too embarrassed to refuse anyone admittance to their home.

Already, a ritual had spontaneously come about: one awaited one's turn in the kitchen in the company of Marthe's mother, whose patience was touching. Finally one entered Marthe's room, chatted with her, and showed her the gifts one had brought, not only the oranges that people habitually gave (for the sick, since Marthe neither ate nor drank), but all sorts of things that Marthe then had the pleasure of sending to the poor and to missionaries. This was the origin of what todays retreatants at Chateauneuf calland no power of normal ingestion. Her sole nourishment was the Eucharist. For fifty years Marthe lived only by means of it.

Marthe suffered in her heart to see that her parents were tormented by not being able to do anything for her. Above all, she suffered in her soul because the sin of the world is hateful and because Love is not loved. And this spiritual suffering was at its greatest every Friday when Marthe relived the crucifixion for so many years. Later, the agony of Christ began for her on Thursday evenings. "He desires to relive in me His Passion up until his last breath and His descent into hell, and even his resurrection, although I remain on the cross so as to continue this life of


tears of blood.

Like Christ at Gethsemane, she carried the sins of the world. She was overwhelmed and horrified; she became sin. Sometimes she would say to Fr. Finet, "Do not come near me! I will make you dirty!" She groaned, unable to say any more.She prayed. She no longer prayed to Jesus, because she was one with Jesus, so closely was she living in him. She prayed to the Father. One sensed that she was Jesus in agony in the Garden of Olives. She could be heard to say, "Let this chalice pass from me." And then, "Father, let your will be done!' ,

The torment continued from Thursday night throughout the whole of Friday. Marthe relived all the scenes of the Passion. This drew to a close withconfidence and peace in God, on Friday night at hours that varied, when she cried, "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit."

She would have a great sigh; her head fell to the left, then backwards. It was finished. One would think she was dead. She was in ecstasy.
Then on Saturday she came to herself. Sometimes it was not until Sunday, or (in the last years of her life) only on Monday morning, or even Monday afternoon.

“The Chateau”
One of the Divinely inspired projects in the heart of Marthe Robin was to build a Christian school for girls. Her spiritual director, Father Faure felt this project was doomed to failure, because the town and in fact the whole region was quite overrun with “free thinkers” who were not in