harassment concerning the confession: 'I was held at the police station for eighteen days in a cell and constantly harassed by the police . . ..'  (Appendix at 198a.)  The reality is that the Hortter robbery took place October 23, 1954.  Davis was arrested at 5:30 am, October 24, 1954, and by 12:30 or 1:00 pm he had made an oral confession, and by 3:00 pm on that same date it was reduced to writing and signed by him

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Why could Harry open the door to the The Department of Mysteries when Snape invaded his mind?

In the Order of the Phoenix, Harry was always dreaming about a mysterious door. He had seen the door before but never had the chance to go inside. However, when Snape used Legilimency on Harry in one of their lessons, Harry was forced to see the door open, which he'd never dreamed about:

He was hurtling along the corridor towards the Department of
  Mysteries, past the blank stone walls, past the torches – the plain
  black door was growing ever larger; he was moving so fast he was going
  to collide with it, he was feet from it and again he could see that
  chink of faint blue light–
The door had flown open! He was through it at last, inside a
  black-walled, black-floored circular room lit with blue-flamed
  candles, and there were more doors all around him – he needed to go on
  – but which door ought he to take –?
‘POTTER!’
Harry opened his eyes. He was flat on his back again with no memory of
  having got there; he was also panting as though he really had run the
  length of the Department of Mysteries corridor, really had sprinted
  through the black door and found the circular room.
‘Explain yourself!’ said Snape, who was standing over him, looking
  furious.
‘I ... dunno what happened,’ said Harry truthfully, standing up. There
  was a lump on the back of his head


to Voldemort's thoughts.
The scene in question took place right after Harry had used a Shield Charm to reverse Snape's Legilimency on him. As such, Harry believed that Snape was going to punish him for his actions (presumably by invading his mind painfully).

Harry felt a thrill of dread: He was about to pay for what had just
happened, he was sure of it. They moved back into position with the
desk between them, Harry feeling he was going to find it much harder
to empty his mind this time....
—Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Snape was loyal to Dumbledore, but he hated Harry. He enjoyed making Harry look inadequate, to the point where he would tear down Harry's mental defenses out of sadism. He had probably just done this before Harryhad his vision of the Department of Mysteries. This allowed Voldemort's thoughts to come through more easily. As such, this new vision was not a memory, but a picture of what Voldemort was thinking about at that moment.

How did Voldemort know what was in the Department of Mysteries?

He might have been there for some reason when he was younger.
More likely, he had acquired the information directly from the mind of Rookwood, who had been an unspeakable and had presumably been at least in the antechamber.


Antonio Brown might get another shot in the NFL, but one former general manager said that any team that takes a chance on him won’t do so until next season.

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In the words of Jeff Diamond, the former president of the Tennessee Titans and general manager of the Minnesota Vikings, Brown is currently “toxic.” The wide receiver was cut by the New England Patriots last week after text messages surfaced where he threatened a woman who had accused him of sexual assault. This is in addition to a recently filed civil suit alleging he sexually assaulted his trainer, Britney Taylor. He was traded this past offseason from the Pittsburgh Steelers for being a malcontent and cut by the Oakland Raiders after a physical altercation with General ManagerStudents think English lessons 'useless'

By Jung Min-hoSeven out of 10 middle and high school students in Korea are dissatisfied with English education in classrooms, a survey showed Wednesday.The survey, published in the latest edition of a journal from the Chung-Ang University Research Institute of Korean Education, revealed a serious mismatch between what students want to learn and what is taught at school.According to the survey of 990 middle and high schools in Seoul, 67.5 percent of the respondents believe that their English lessons were too grammar-focused and test-oriented.While 44.1 percent of the students said speaking was the most important part of English education, only 18.5 percent said grammar was, followed by vocabulary, listening, reading and writing.In reality, however, 58.4 percent of them said grammar was treated as the


most important at schools, while 9.5 percent said speaking was treated that way.As to the reason, they said this was because students' grammatical ability is widely accepted as a key component of the college entrance exam.Such dissatisfaction is expected to continue as many regional education offices have decided to reduce the number of native speaking English teachers at public schools this year.The Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education has cut this year's budget for employing native language teachers at its elementary, middle and high schools by 5.4 billion won ($4.9 million).Also, the North Chungcheong Province Office of Education plans to cut its native teachers to 113 from 308 last year, while the Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education has decided to reduce the number of its native language teachersto 323 from 443.The issue of Korean English education focusing too much on impractical skills has lingered for decades. However, given that the English section of the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) doesn't evaluate students' speaking and writing abilities, the ways of teaching English at schools have changed little."In fact, many public schools teachers are unprepared to teach English speaking and writing," a high school English teacher, who refused to be named, said. "So they stick to the old ways."Recognizing the problem, the former Lee Myung-bak administration intended to replace the English section of the CSAT with NEAT, a test that evaluated not only reading and listening, but also speaking and writing.But the government later decided to abolish the plan, citing concerns that the new test could cause


a further increase in private tuition costs.Critics say that the NEAT formula was doomed to fail from the start because few teachers were capable of teaching speaking and writing.They also point out that the current education system, where public school teachers are barely re-trained and their performances are hardly evaluated, leaves the nation's English education still impractical and uncompetitive.Last month, a court ruled that a 55-year-old English teacher, who had worked at a high school in Seoul for almost 20 years, should leave the school.The decision came after the school fired him for incompetence. The school said he took his first-ever TOEIC in 2011 and earned 415 points out of 990.The case showed that teachers' performances are not evaluated well under the current system.disorder Dr. Stewart described as a genetics fellow at another institution. We presented our findings at the 2007 annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, 2008 annual meeting of the American College of Medical Genetics and the 2008 annual meeting of the Childrens Tumor Foundation.


pair of the VIG and after the capacitor is fully charged, the voltage source is replaced by a short circuit. The short circuit causes, after a time delay, a high-voltage pulse to appear on an output terminal pair of the VIG. The plates of the capacitor function as two transmission lines with the first transmission line (often referred to as the active transmission line) reflecting a time varying electrical field and combining the resulting inverted electric field vector with a relatively slowly decaying electric field on the second transmission line (often referred to as the static transmission line).
Conventional vector inversion generators are made by winding several layers of a VIG fabric (“fabric”) about a circular core in a manner similar to winding ribbon on a cylinder. The circularmore times. The diameter of the cylindrical core is usually significantly greater than the total thickness of all the layers of the wound fabric. The fabric has a first end, the inside end of the spiral, and a second end, the outside end of the spiral. Two transmission lines are formed by the wound fabric, and the transmission lines have a common conductor. FIGS. 1A and 1B illustrate the wound fabric and the two transmission lines. The dielectric layers between the conductors, as shown in FIG. 1, form a capacitor that is capable of storing energy in an electric field in accordance with the well-known capacitance energy storage theory.
When a source voltage is applied to a conductor pair at the first end of the conventional VIG, the capacitance


launch vehicle flew one time, in 2009, to an altitude of just 40km. (It had a dummy upper stage and fake capsule). The Ares project, as part of NASA's Constellation Program, would be abandoned the next year, as it was behind schedule and over budget. Later, in 2014, NASA launched an uncrewed version of its Orion spacecraft on a private rocket to an altitude of 5,800km. The first flight of the new SLS rocket, again with an uncrewed Orion vehicle, may occur in 2021.

"SLS and Orion are political projects, not practical ones," Forczyk told Ars.

Crewed flights of SLS and Orion—the purpose of this exploration program, which was begun back in 2005—probably will not occur before 2024 when NASA flies a crew of four to the vicinity of theyears, NASA has adapted this deep-space architecture to changing demands. In early 2004, President George W. Bush said the agency should go to the Moon and then Mars. Six years later, President Barack Obama's administration directed the agency to visit an asteroid and then go directly to Mars. Finally, in 2018, President Donald Trump authorized NASA to build a "gateway" in lunar orbit, proceed to the lunar surface from there, and then, at some distant date, move on to Mars.

Only one time during this era did someone in power attempt to end NASA's efforts to develop a large rocket and spacecraft. In 2010, President Obama sought to cancel the Constellation Program, which entailed Orion, the smaller Ares I, and larger Ares V rocket. NASA's deputy administrator at the


walks in seven innings but spreading it all out. Two singles in the first as he gave up the only run of the night on his ledger. Then a double in the third, three singles in the fourth which sandwiched a double play, a walk and a double play by Flores in the fifth, a walk in the sixth, and a single in the seventh which was arguably the best inning he had stuff wise, finishing strong.

Then, the bullpen, who without Seth Lugo dance with Beezlebub himself. Brad Brach and Justin Wilson were the coryphees of choice in the 8th and 9th, and they were the correct choices. Brach gave up a home run to Eduardo Escobar, nudging Handsome Art to try Justin Wilson for a four outEffingham Lawrence

Effingham Lawrence (March 2, 1820 – December 9, 1878) was an American politician known for serving for the shortest term in congressional history, serving for just one day in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Biography
Lawrence was born in Bayside, Queens, New York, in 1820.  He was a descendant of John Lawrence and John Bowne, both Quakers and pioneer English settlers of Queens, NY.

Lawrence moved to Louisiana in 1843 and engaged in the planting and refining of sugar.  He served in the Louisiana State House of Representatives for some time and then successfully contested the re-election of Jacob Hale Sypher. Lawrence then served for one day in Congress but was not reelected. He died at Magnolia Plantation, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana  in 1878.

Contested election
The voting


her support and company while she attended 'this thing with Thor' Darcy had been slow to agree.

It was, of course, entirely Darcy's own God-Damn fault for not picking up on the rather vital inflection in Jane's voice when she'd made the request. Because 'this thing with Thor' was, in fact, a Thing. An actual, honest to God(s?), gathering of the big players of the nine realms (well, the peaceable ones) in Asgard.

... Oh, and one indolent and bored God with a 'thing' for buxom wenches.Orr's teammates John Bucyk and Derek Sanderson.

The larger than life sized bronze statue (110% life sized, weighing more than 600 pounds) which will permanently be installed in front of the TD Garden at the mouth of the West Walkway outside of the arena facing Causeway St., has been designed and sculpted by Weber. Weber, has designed and sculpted a number of famous works including "The Captains' Return" in St. Louis, MO, “The Plaza of Champions” in St. Louis, MO, and “Doug Flutie” in Boston, MA.

In the creating the statue, Weber wrote: "The main objective of the statue of Bobby Orr is to faithfully capture both the likeness of this great defenseman, and the spirit and emotion of the few seconds on May 10, 1970. ‘The Goal’ has become


officer in 1992. Ultimately,

he became a detective, and was assigned to the burglary unit in 2006. Due to various

medical conditions, including dilated cardiomyopathy, Benavides took sick leave and

donated leave under the FMLA.

      On May 14, 2010, one of Benavides’ co-workers filed a confidential report

indicating that Benavides was suspected of illegal gambling. Based on that report,

the police chief ordered an investigation.

      One week later, Benavides complained to his immediate supervisor, Lieutenant

Frank O’Brien, that his co-workers had been harassing him regarding his health

problems and use of sick leave. Lieutenant O’Brien met with Benavides’ co-workers

in the burglary unit and instructed them to stop commenting on Benavides’ use of

sick leave.

      On May 27, Benavides reduced his allegations2010, Benavides filed a discrimination charge with the

Oklahoma Human Rights Commission. In February 2011, Benavides sued the City,

the Department, the police chief, Captain Flowers, and various co-workers for

violations of the ADA and the FMLA. The district court dismissed the claims against

the individual defendants and the Department, and the case proceeded against only

the City.

       In June 2011, while still on paid administrative leave, Benavides was indicted

in state court on gambling charges. In January 2012, he resigned from the

Department, stating that he was “voluntarily resign[ing] . . . as the result of [his]

declining medical condition due in part to the stress related events of [his] disability

case.” Id., Vol. I at 75.

       The City moved for summary judgment. While


Sarah Vowell quotes:

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. permalink Sarah Vowell - The Partly Cloudy Patriot (2003)

Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't? permalink Sarah Vowell - The Partly Cloudy Patriot (2003)

Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between. permalink Sarah Vowell - Assassination Vacation (2005)

Going to Ford's Theatre to watch the play is like going to Hooters for the food. permalink Sarah Vowell - Assassinationone knickknack she longs for, a remote control. permalink Sarah Vowell - Assassination Vacation (2005)

In these fast and fickle times, it's nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the last page of The Great Gatsby; the near-religious harmonies of the Beach Boys' "California Girls"; and the lifelong friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. permalink Sarah Vowell - The Partly Cloudy Patriot (2003)

Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention


of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, Pennsylvania, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top. No wonder it costs so much. permalink Sarah Vowell - The Partly Cloudy Patriot (2003)

Nowadays, ever since the attack on the Pentagon in 2001, the capital has been clamped down. How is this manifested? Giant planters blocking government buildings, giant planters barricading every other street. Theoretically, the concrete flowerpots are solid enough to fend off a truck bomb. And yet the effect is ridiculous, as if we believe we can protect ourselves from suicide bombers by hiding behind blooming pots of marigolds, flowers whose main defensivepupil. The schools have to follow a fair and open admission process. Charters are public schools, with similar operations as a regular public school does. Charters around the world are admitted on a first come first served basis. Some schools use a lottery pick when the applicants exceed available slots in the area.
Charter schools operate in exchange for greater accountably. They operate on there basic principles, which are Accountability, Choice, and Autonomy. The schools are held accountable for how the students are educated in a responsible environment. They take pride in how well they meet the student achievement goals. Charter schools are given a few years to have food standers on academic performance. By changes children are not performing well, and their academic......

...\Charter schools are the new innovative


public schools that are accountable for student results. They are deliver programs tailored to educational excellence and the needs of the community they serve. Charter schools are one of the fastest growing and most successful reforms in the country. Charter schools were established in the 1990s as prominent and controversial school reform idea. Parents, teachers and community organizations are the founders of most charter schools, but some are started by for- profit companies. Moreover, these schools are expected to achieve specific educational outcomes within a certain period or they would have their charter revoked.
Charter schools are public schools that have been freed from many restrictive rules and regulations. Some charter schools programs focus on the basic reading, writing and the traditional subjects that some children struggle with. Otherschools have special arts or music programs, there are also some dropout prevention programs and adult education programs. Charter schools are typically smaller than public schools, most of the charter schools have fewer than 200 students. They also tend to have different grade configurations from public schools, such as kindergarten through 12, unlike public schools charter school focus on a particular subject area, such as math, science, the arts or technology.
I believe that charter schools are beneficial and non-beneficial. They are bene ficial because they increase......

...Charter schools in New York, how effective are they to you!
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The spread of charter schools in New York has been on the rise in the past couple of years. Charter schools are schools are financed by the public, but run


for students, parents, and educators to follow. Parents, who work during school hours and have no one to pick up their children from school, can have their children attend evening, or weekend classes to make up for lost time in school. Students who are struggling with their......

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The spread of charter schools in New York has been on the rise in the past couple of years. Charter schools are schools are financed by the public, but run independently through the educational system. There has been a lot of debate questioning the effectiveness of charter schools verses traditional public schools; who serves as the best interest for the students. Many prefer sending their children to charter schools insteadof education being that my father devoted his whole life to it. My parents came from very poor backgrounds, growing up in the slums of Philly. As a child, I remember my parents being in school for as long as I could remember.......

...Reference List: The Case for Charter Schools
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Grand Canyon University: UNV 501
1/8/2014
Villavicencio, A. (2013). "It's Our Best Choice Right Now": Exploring How Charter School Parents Choose. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 21(81), 1-19.
In this journal article, Research Associate at the Research Alliance for New York City
Schools, Dr. Adriana Villavicencio, discusses the reasons why parents choose charter schools instead of the public school options available to them within the districts where they live. The author states that most people believe that charter schools are being chosen more because


of influence, Putin deployed military forces in 2015 to back the beleaguered Assad government. With U.S. military personnel already operating in Syria to assist selected rebel factions, that move created an inherently dangerous situation.

Matters have grown increasingly ominous. The most recent incident occurred just days ago when a U.S plane shot down a Syrian government fighter jet that was attacking U.S.-backed insurgents. Moscow responded with an announcement that it will now track coalition aircraft, including American planes, operating in Syrian airspace. That move was just one step short of threatening to shoot down any planes that seemed to be threatening Russian forces or their Syrian allies. The danger of a direct military clash between the United States and Russia over Syria is no longer the stuff of paranoidthat were battling ISIS with American assistance.

Russia is especially mystified at the U.S. flirtation with factions that are anything but secular moderates. One of those groups is the Nusra Front, at one time Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria. Former CIA Director David Petraeus openly advocated U.S. military cooperation with that organization. Other de facto U.S. rebel allies display more than few signs of being Islamists rather than moderates—even given a broad definition of the latter term. Moscow’s fury reached a new level in the past few weeks as the United States has launched air strikes against militias allied with the Assad regime in southeastern Syria. Russia asserts that those forces were battling ISIS and other militant factions, and that Washington’s actions play into the hands of Islamic terrorists.

Both


the Kremlin and the White House need to make serious moves to defuse growing tensions before a potentially cataclysmic clash takes place between Russian and American forces in Syria. The bulk of the changes must come from the American side.

The United States should defer to Russia regarding Syria policy. Moscow has far more significant security interests at stake in Syria and the broader Middle East. Northern Syria lies barely 600 miles from the Russian frontier. Syria is some 6,000 miles from America’s homeland. In the process of deferring to Russia, Washington would also off-load the responsibility and risks onto the Kremlin.

It is doubtful that any outside power can truly bring an end to the fighting in Syria, much less restore a stable, united country. Such intervention thus farhas bred only resentment and terrorist retaliation. It is better if Russia incurs the risks and suffers the negative consequences of geopolitical meddling than if the United States does so. Syria could well become another Afghanistan for Russia. That would be tragic, but it is preferable to Syria becoming another Vietnam or Iraq for America. And continued U.S. meddling in Syria certainly is not worth triggering a new cold war—and perhaps a hot war—with Russia. Yet that is the perilous path our nation is following.

Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a contributing editor at the National Interest, is the author of ten books, the contributing editor of ten books, and the author of more than 650 articles on international affairs.

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Hurricane Katrina was one of the largest natural disasters in our nation's history. Significant federal, state, and local resources were mobilized to respond to the Hurricane Katrina disaster, including those of the U.S. Coast Guard. The Coast Guard played a key role in the planning, response, and recovery efforts for Hurricane Katrina in three mission areas: search and rescue, marine pollution response, and management of maritime commerce. This report discusses the activities undertaken by the Coast Guard, as well as the challenges and lessons learned as a result of the agency's efforts. More specifically, it focuses on (1) the factors that prepared the Coast Guard to perform these three mission areas in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; (2) the Coast Guard's response to Hurricane Katrina, the challengesit faced in performing its missions, and its efforts to mitigate these challenges; and (3) the implications and lessons learned, as identified by the Coast Guard, regarding the effect of Hurricane Katrina surge operations on its people, assets, financial resources, and operations. To determine the Coast Guard's preparation factors, the challenges and lessons learned we interviewed officials responsible for preparing, and responding to disasters, and reviewed the Coast Guard's disaster guidance and plans. GAO is not making any recommendations in this report.

Of the estimated 60,000 people left stranded by Hurricane Katrina, over 33,500 were saved by the Coast Guard. Precisely identifying why the Coast Guard was able to respond as it did may be difficult, but underpinning these efforts were factors such as the agency's operational principles. These


daily, the severity of Hurricane Katrina presented the agency with several challenges that required innovative approaches. The Coast Guard was able to mitigate challenges caused by Hurricane Katrina's damage as a result of planning, preparation, and assistance from Coast Guard Auxiliary members. According to Coast Guard officials, the agency incurred no significant damage to personnel, assets, operations, or financial resources as a result of sending people and assets to the Gulf region. Although continuing operations at ports nationwide while conducting Katrina operations presented challenges, these challenges have been addressed to mitigate negative impacts on the Coast Guard. Finally, the Coast Guard has collected after-action reports from Hurricane Katrina and has made them available to Coast Guard personnel through an internal database.or a wheel is attached by a bolt (not shown) is provided in one end of the inner shaft 4a so as to outwardly extend in the diameter direction. On the other hand, a small-diameter cylindrical portion 12, to which the inner-ring member 13 having the second inner-ring raceway 6 formed in the outer circumference thereof is fitted, is provided in the other end of the inner shaft 4a. The first inner-ring raceway 5 is formed between the small-diameter cylindrical portion 12 and the flange portion 10 in the outer circumferential surface of the inner shaft 4a.
A large rib portion 11 having a guide surface 11a which comes into sliding contact with a large-diameter end surface 7a of the tapered roller 7 is formed in an end


of the first inner-ring raceway 5 close to the flange portion 10. At this time, a clearance between the outer ring 1 and the inner shaft 4a is sealed by a seal member 14.
Incidentally, in the tapered roller bearing apparatus, in order to mainly ensure performance of the first inner-ring raceway 5, a high-frequency hardening is locally performed on a portion including the lower part of the flange portion 10, the large rib portion 11, the first inner-ring raceway 5, and the small-diameter cylindrical portion 12 to thereby form a surface-hardened layer thereon. Since an outer circumferential corner portion of the large rib portion 11, that is, a portion surrounded by an outer circumferential surface 11b and the guide surface 11a of the large rib portion 11 formsPule ‘wilfully mislead’ parliament

Parliament’s ethics committee has found sacked former communications minister, Dina Pule, guilty of “wilfully misleading” the panel over the controversial ICT Indaba in which her boyfriend, Phosane Mngqibisa, took home a R6 million pay cheque in the name of a company owned by him, Khemano, to organise the Indaba.

The multi-party ethics committee has given Pule its highest sanction, docking one month’s salary and withdrawing her parliamentary privileges as well as a reprimand from speaker Max Sisulu.

The decision vindicates the Sunday Times, who Pule accused of waging a “smear campaign” against her, over its series of investigations that exposed a number of dodgy deals by the ex-minster and Mngqibisa, as well as how he travelled with her abroad at the taxpayers’ expense while she denied being


involved with him, saying he was a “comrade”.

The ethics committee found Mngqibisa was “the de facto permanent companion/spouse”, with their relationship tracked back to 2009 when she was still deputy minister in the Presidency. It said Mngqibisa obtained government funding for trips abroad and took part in official meetings of the communications department despite not being its employee. Mngqibisa and Khemano also benefitted financially from the communications department and admitted being paid R6 million for the Indaba.

Pule also failed to declare the financial benefits enjoyed by “her de facto spouse”, with her declarations between 2009 and 2012 being incomplete and ”wilfully misled” the ethics committee panel that investigated her on these matters and never admitted any wrongdoing and that several officials from the communications department might have committedwith her for two-thirds of her life. I look at her almost like I look at my own daughter. It's very emotional for me... and really rough. Personally, I want for her to just find a peaceful, happy place - whatever that means for her. It's not about a career anymore - it's about life," he told variety.com

Britney is scheduled to undergo psychological evaluation after postponing her Las Vegas residency in the wake of her father Jamie Spears's recent treatment for a ruptured colon.

Rudolph says that, though Spears had rehearsed the show, the Vegas engagement is effectively off, which is what prompted his speaking out in the early hours of Wednesday.

Jamie has been her co-conservator since 2008 when she suffered a very public breakdown. He became sole conservator


this year after attorney Andrew Wallet resigned from his co-conservatorship in March.

His recovery from his ailment has not been smooth; after postponing her residency, Britney later checked herself into a health facility for a month-long stay, suffering from stress due to her father's illness.

Rudolph says that "(Britney) is the one whose focus is on on (getting better). She's driving it".

This runs contrary to the belief put forward by the "Free Britney" movement that she's effectively imprisoned against her will.

"The personal issues that Britney is dealing with are highly complicated and the conservatorship is there for a reason. The courts of California take this very seriously. I hope the people allow her to have her private time," Rudolf said.

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(This story has not been edited by Business Standard staff andon both teams to score. Here is an explanation on both teams to score tips so you can judge it yourself. Same as it was in the first match, I expect both teams to give all they have in this one, lots of action and counter attacking football that will bring lots of goals.

Arsenal vs Leicester
Leicester travel to Arsenal and the leaders haven't been cowed on any of their visits to the Premier League elite this season, so should come away with a point. That's the short version.

Leicester are living the dream, for the first time in their history they have been made favourites by the bookies to win the league. They don't have the sheiks money or big names in their squad, but what they have is


the transfer of funds between accounts and account balance inquiries. The types of banking transactions that may be carried out are determined by the capabilities of the particular banking machine and system, as well as the programming of the institution operating the machine.
Other types of automated banking machines may be operated by merchants to carry out commercial transactions. These transactions may include, for example, the acceptance of deposit bags, the receipt of checks or other financial instruments, the dispensing of rolled coin, or other transactions required by merchants. Still other types of automated banking machines may be used by service providers in a transaction environment such as at a bank to carry out financial transactions. Such transactions may include for example, the counting and storage of currency notesforming electron-emitting devices from the plurality of units by sequentially repeating a process including a selecting substep of selecting a desired number of units from the plurality of units, a resistance-reducing substep of reducing resistance of the polymer films of the selected units and a gap-forming substep of forming a gap in each of the films obtained by the resistance-reducing substep.
Preferably, in the method for manufacturing an electron source according to this invention, the number of the units selected at one time is two or more.
Preferably, the gap is formed by passing a current through the film obtained by the resistance-reducing substep.
Preferably, the plurality of wirings comprises a plurality of row-directional wirings and a plurality of column-directional wirings crossing the row-directional wirings with an insulating layer interposed therebetween,


I was fascinated to learn from the YEP (March 1) that my favourite author George Orwell, also known as Eric Blair, actually visited Bramley, although 13 years before I was born.

The old Cardigan Arms being at the corner of Hough Lane and Town Street. The BYB logo stands for Bentley’s Yorkshire Breweries, one of many lost by amalgamation with larger brands.

The yard to the left of the photo had the former Lido Cinema at its far end. This pub was later demolished and replaced by one called at different times The Beer Engine or Lord Cardigan, the site now used for housing. My first Orwell book read was Animal Farm, then 1984, although I later found The Road to Wigan Pier, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Homage tosame and they rejected a good opportunity to increase funding for these vital officers, even though the extra cash for them would have been sourced from back office savings.

Brodetsky was indeed on the Nazi ‘Special Wanted List’ (Sonderfahnungsliste) in 1940, but was not the only Leeds resident to be so included. The other was A. M. Hurwitz of Chapeltown. He had been practising as a barrister in Leeds from the early 1920s, was active in Liberal politics in the city for years, and would continue his career in the law until 1970.

During the First World War, Brodetsky (1888-1954) had been engaged by a firm of optical manufacturers to carry out the necessary calculations for the construction of microscopes, and periscopes for submarines. His expertise was in theoretical aerodynamics,


and he researched and wrote on questions of the motion and stability of the aeroplane, matters obviously crucial to its development.

He became Professor of Applied Mathematics in the University of Leeds in 1924, a post he held until his retirement in 1948. On arrival in Leeds he was feted as “one of the 10 men in the world who understood Einstein”!

It was achievements such as these, together with the great personal courage he demonstrated in standing up to fascism, that inspired me to suggest a Blue Plaque in his honour, not so long ago.

The Professor came face to face with Hitler’s propagandist, Joseph Goebbels, at the League of Nations in Geneva in 1933, opposed Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement from 1937, and during World War II, continued to speakout against Nazism, denouncing the Third Reich as “the Kingdom of Satan” and its system as posing a threat to humanity “which would push it back two or three thousand years,” if Germany won.

He was actually taunted over the airwaves, at one point, by the traitorous broadcaster William Joyce (“Lord Haw-Haw”).

He worked ceaselessly to assist victims of Nazi persecution. Happily, he did live to see Hitler defeated. Brodetsky’s only comment about his place on the Nazi Wanted List was that he was “rather proud to find myself in such good company, with Churchill [and] so many of the finest people in the land”!

Kammy says get behind the daff

Chris Kamara, former Leeds United player

As we head into March, many clubs are hoping they can end the season on a


How do we know? Because we as Catholics are in a very real sense living with those who wrote those texts. We are living and abiding in the Holy Spirit which transmits to us the living Gospel, the living Word Jesus Christ to us in both written and oral form. The Sacred Scriptures are what is known as Holy Writ, the living Word in written form. We can go back and examine passages of Sacred Scripture with the voice of the living Church, and not with a personal interpretation far removed and incapable of asking the original writer what they intended to communicate.

We as Catholics have a living connection back to that original source. It is Jesus Christ himself and the Church that He works through, infallibly. Untilare rumors that Cleveland's bishop may close parishes in the diocese. Saint Stephen's among others are on the list for possible closings. I am originally from Clevleand and I have been to many of the beautiful churches in the city. I pray that these ancient pre-Vatican II churches will be spared in favor of closing the modern eye sores that pass for churches now-a days.

From the Cleveland Encyclopedia of History..

The parish of ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH at 1930 W. 54th St. in Cleveland was established in 1869. It eventually became the largest German-speaking Catholic parish in Cleveland. The congregation was using a small brick structure in 1873 when the church that stands today (1994) was begun. CUDELL† & RICHARDSON† were architects of the church. The first services were held


in 1876 and the church was dedicated in 1881. The church is constructed of Amherst sandstone and is Gothic in style. On the interior an organ was added in 1886, and frescoes in 1893. A redesigned tower (lacking the steeple) was added in 1907. Adjacent buildings have included a brick residence (1896), a pastoral residence (1896), and a brick school (1897).

The church is best known for its decorative interior, especially the intricate wood carving. Most of the wooden objects are white oak and were ordered from Munich, Germany, and were installed in 1893. The main altar, which won first prize at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 before coming to St. Stephen's, was also carved in Germany.

I noticed certain Protestants once again this Lenten season attacking the practiceoriginate in our own day, but very much earlier, in the time of our forefathers" (Eusebius, History of the Church, V, 24)

After the Church was able to come out in the open and practice her faith after Constantine, we start to see a more universal practice come into place. The Council of Nicea (325), in its disciplinary canons, noted that two provincial synods should be held each year, "one before the 40 days of Lent." St. Athanasius (d. 373) in this "Festal Letters" implored his congregation to make a 40-day fast prior to the more intense fasting of Holy Week.(Saunders 2002)

There are many more examples of the Early Fathers of the Church preaching or writing on the importance of the Great Fast of Lent. The 40 days of


fasts also varied from place to place, but the most common fast was to abstain from meat, and dairy. Pope St. Gregory (d. 604), writing to St. Augustine of Canterbury, issued the following rule: "We abstain from flesh, meat, and from all things that come from flesh, as milk, cheese and eggs." (Saunders 2002)In the early ages of Christianity, fasting included also abstinence from wine, as we learn from St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Basil, St. John Chrysostom, Theophilus of Alexandria, and others. (Gueranger 1997) Fasts have varied throughout Christian history with religious orders oftentimes holding much stricter fasts, then going more lenient, then back again. In the 1700s fasting evidently became very relaxed in the West forcing Pope Benedict XIV to write a letter in 1741. "Theobservance of Lent is the very badge of the Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of the cross of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of divine justice. By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with heavenly help. Should mankind grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would be a detriment to God's glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted that such negligence would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of private woe." (Gueranger 1997)

In the West Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. In the East it begins on the Clean Monday, which was the Monday before Ash


when we fast for His sake. Thus the apostle Paul speaks in his letter to the Romans: 'I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service' (Romans 12:1). In the Greek, "reasonable service" (logiken latreian) is "reasonable worship"; and St. Luke speaks of this worship when mentioning the prophetess Anna: 'And she was a widow until fourscore and four years, who departed not from the temple, by fasting and prayers serving night and day' (Lk 2:37)"

I often see some Protestants (Usually of the Reformed flavor) attacking those who fast, yet it is Jesus and the apostles they also attack unwittingly. It is with great joy to see that many Protestants areTo uproot hidden weeds from our thoughts .

The Catechism gives us a summary of fasting as a form of penance and preparation.

Fasting as a form of Penance1434 The interior penance of the Christian can be expressed in many and various ways. Scripture and the Fathers insist above all on three forms, fasting, prayer, and almsgiving, which express conversion in relation to oneself, to God, and to others....

1438 The seasons and days of penance in the course of the liturgical year (Lent, and each Friday in memory of the death of the Lord) are intense moments of the Church's penitential practice. These times are particularly appropriate for spiritual exercises, penitential liturgies, pilgrimages as signs of penance, voluntary self-denial such as fasting and almsgiving, and fraternal sharing (charitable and missionary


works).- CCC pgs. 360-361

Fasting as a form of Preparation1387 To prepare for worthy reception of this sacrament, the faithful should observe the fast required in their Church. Bodily demeanor (gestures, clothing) ought to convey the respect, solemnity, and joy of this moment when Christ becomes our guest.- CCC pg. 350

Finally I would like to reiterate the proper use of fasting, and its spiritual benefits when used in union with Christ and His Church. Pope Benedict XVI recently gave a talk on the current Lenten season. He said, "In the New Testament, Jesus brings to light the profound motive for fasting, condemning the attitude of the Pharisees, who scrupulously observed the prescriptions of the law, but whose hearts were far from God. True fasting, as the divine Master repeatsand thought I would share it with you. It is video footage of Pope Pius XII. The video focuses on his last years as Pope. There is some great footage of him here. The video is in Italian, but has subtitles. Pope Pius XII was a great Pope who did everything he could to assist the Jewish people from the fierce persecutions of the Nazis regime. There are some who try and demonize him, but their efforts fail to stand up to historical scrutiny. Even the Jewish people themselves hailed him as a great leader and expressed their gratitude for his help during World War II. In the 1960s however the revisionists went to great lengths to smear his character, despite numerous testimonies to his holiness.

In February 1945


Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog of Palestine stated: “The people of Israel will never forget what His Holiness and his illustrious delegates, inspired by the eternal principles of religion, which form the very foundations of true civilization, are doing for our unfortunate brothers and sisters in the most tragic hour of our history, which is living proof of Divine Providence in this world.”

During a presentation in Rome of the book "The Jews, Pius XII and The Black Legend," by Italian journalist and writer Antonio Gasperi, Dr. Gumpel came to the final conclusion: "After reading over 100,000 pages of the documents for the process of beatification, I am more and more convinced that Pius XII was a saint."

Pope Pius XII is also known for his great leadership of the Church.thought out his recent meeting with the heretic Nancy Pelosi. She thought she was going manipulate the press by getting them to buy into some sort of endorsement from the Pope. Instead the Vatican stated, "His Holiness took the opportunity to speak of the requirements of the natural moral law and the Church's consistent teaching on the dignity of human life from conception to natural death which enjoin all Catholics, and especially legislators, jurists and those responsible for the common good of society, to work in cooperation with all men and women of good will in creating a just system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of its development." The Pope also denied any photo ops of her meeting with him. Very nice. The


Pope has carefully positioned himself, as He should when meeting with the devil. He has not allowed himself to be manipulated.

Now the evil Pelosi is trying to spin the meeting as a positive encounter. It looks like no one is buying it. Here is a nice article on the meeting between the Holy Father-The Pope of The Church, and the Evil Mother-The Feminist Voice of Hedonism. Sorry Nancy, you can't be a Catholic and pro-abortion. It separates you from the Church. Either publicly repent or be gone! I for one am sick and tired of you loser politicians who call themselves Catholic yet publicly endorse immorality of the most heinous, malicious kind. The Pope was wise in his encounter with this wretched, miserable tool of hell.

Wednesday, February 18,in them the health-giving grace of repentance, so that these prodigal sons who have wandered so long, alas, in exile may retrace their steps to the bosom of Mother church, and so that all of us together, united in the true faith of Christ, may attain to the glory of Christ our head, which no one should ever be foolish enough to hope to arrive at outside the body of Christ and without the true faith."

In the midst of media uproar over the lifting of the excommunication of the SSPX and the appointment of a new bishop in Austria, I pray that the Holy Father will stand fast and ignore the press. We even have Catholics like George Weigel attacking the Holy Father in a recent essay in


hurricane Katrina which he referred to as a punishment from God. So what? Maybe it was a punishment from God. The outrage is not that he referred to Katrina as being a punishment, but that he had the audacity to call people out in their sinful actions such as those that go on in New Orleans every day and night. Sin hates to be called out into the open and exposed for what it is.

Next we also have these anti-traditionalist Catholics who hate the Tridentine Liturgy and the Church's age old traditions and so they are attacking the Holy Father because of it. There are some who are so blinded by their imaginary Vatican II only Church, that any call back to the tradition that came before itput the final stake in the coffin of these liberal, unfaithful Catholics who have attempted to use the Church as a vehicle to promulgate their evil agendas, by butchering the documents of VCII.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

We interrupt all things Catholic for a movie review! I don't usually do movie reviews, but since there are few movies this day and age that are morally acceptable, I think it is worth noting when you find one that is. The Express is one of them. Not only was it a good story with no worries of immoral content, but being a Cleveland Browns fan also made it quite enjoyable for me. The movie is about Ernie Davis who was the first African-American to ever win the Heisman trophy. Unfortunately his career


was cut short by leukemia. He died at the age of 23, soon after being the Cleveland Browns #1 draft pick after a trade with Washington. Sadly he never played an NFL game. Browns fans of the day longed to see him play in the same backfield alongside the great Jim Brown. The movie is rated PG (Rated PG for thematic content, violence and language involving racism, and for brief sensuality)and is overall a great family film. It is available on DVD. Click here for the official website. Here is also another cool website dedicated to Ernie and the movie. It has old film footage of him playing for Syracuse as well. Now back to all things Catholic!

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

"To those who scorn the venerable and holysalvation, accomplished for the whole world, may be seen in icons, nor honoured and venerated in them: Anathema!

On those who remain in the icon-fighting heresy, or rather the Christ-fighting apostasy, and neither wish to be led to their salvation through the Mosaic legislation, nor choose to live piously in accordance with apostolic teaching, nor are persuaded to turn from their error by the advice and exhortations of the Fathers, nor are abashed by the harmony of every part of the ecumenical Church of God, but once and for all have subjected themselves to the lot of the Jews and the pagans[lit: Greeks]; for immediately they have uttered blasphemies against the Archetype, and have not blushed to dare to make the image of the archetype identical with the archetype


the one who I call, Hans" Darth" Kung. Over the years he has attacked the Church and supported heretical positions all the while touting himself as a "theologian". He is one of the Legion of Doom along with others like Charles Curran who call themselves Catholic, while denying core doctrines of the Catholic Church. Darth Kung has now commented that Obama would make a great Pope! He wants the spirit of Obama in the Papacy! This is sad indeed when you welcome world secularism as your guide instead of the Church. Darth said, "Whereas President Obama, with the support of the whole world, is looking forwards and is open to people and to the future, this Pope is orientating himself above all backwards, inspired by the ideal ofbelieve it was completely abrogated without any replacement of something else. What many fail to grasp is that the Old is not thrown away, but it is perfected. As the great theologian Fernand Pratt SJ tells us, “Only the relation of man to the law is no longer the same. The principal defect in the ancient Law was that of being external to man and little adapted to our fallen state. In order to restore equilibrium, it was necessary either to lower the Law to the level of fallen man, or to raise man to the level of the Divine Law.” What does this mean for the Christian? It means that we are no longer slaves to Law, but by faith, by baptism, he has become grafted into


Pascha - Holy Fathers of the 1st Nicean CouncilMay 30 5th All Souls Saturday (Memorial Saturday)May 31 Day 50 - Pentecost - Feast of the Descent of the Holy SpiritJune 7 All Saints SundayJune 8- 28 The Apostles' Fast June 24 Nativity of St. John the BaptistJune 29 Feast of Sts. Peter and PaulJuly 12 Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical CouncilsJuly 20 The Holy Prophet EliasAugust 1-14 Dormition FastAugust 6 Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus ChristAugust 15 Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of GodAugust 29 Feast of the Beheading of St. John the BaptistSeptember 1 Liturgical New YearSeptember 8 Feast of the Nativity of the Mother of GodSeptember 14 Feast of the Exaltation of theHoly CrossOctober 1 Feast of the Protection of the Mother of GodOctober 18 Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh and Final Ecumenical CouncilNovember 8 Feast of St. Michael and All the Heavenly HostsNovember 15 thru-- December 24 Philip's Fast (Nativity Fast)November 21 Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the TempleNovember 26 Thanksgiving Day (USA)December 6 Feast of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker - Patron of the Byzantine Catholic ChurchDecember 9 Feast of the Conception of the Mother of God in the Womb of St. Anne (some Churches celebrate this feast on December 8th)December 12 Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe(Also: Our Venerable Father Spiridon the Wonder-worker, Bishop of Tremithus)December 13 Second Sunday Before Christmas Holy ForefathersDecember 20 Sunday Before Christmas - Holy FathersDecember 25 Nativity


of Our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ (Christmas)December 26 Feast of the Synaxis of the Mother of GodDecember 27 Sunday After Christmas - Commemoration of the Holy and Just Joseph, King David, James the Brother of the Lord and Stephen the First Martyr

Note: The Byzantine liturgical year starts on September 1 and ends on August 31. The movable feasts are determined by the date of Pascha (the feast of the Resurrection). There are two systems currently in use to calculate Pascha - Gregorian (Western) and Julian (Eastern). Roman Catholics, most Byzantine Catholics in America and some Orthodox (notably those in Finland) follow the Gregorian date. Some Byzantines in America and most Byzantines and Orthodox elsewhere follow the Julian date. In the year AD 2009 Pascha will beEastern Catholic Churches. He also talks a bit about the state of the Orthodox Churches as well.

I ran across this video series concerning Eastern Catholic Theology. Being an Eastern Catholic myself I thought it was quite interesting. If you are interested in the Eastern and Western diversity that exists within the Catholic Church I recommend watching this series. The Eastern Catholic Church is overlooked by most Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Viewing the Church in her entirety solidifies why the Catholic Church is the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

I would encourage people interested in apologetics to watch this as well. The Abbot explains the depth of theology and how it intertwines with doctrine and dogma and how much theologies can differ and still remain Catholic in principal. The


Michael T. Flynn, the national security adviser, resigned on Monday night after it was revealed that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other top White House officials about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States.

Mr. Flynn, who served in the job for less than a month, said he had given “incomplete information” regarding a telephone call he had with the ambassador in late December about American sanctions against Russia, weeks before President Trump’s inauguration. Mr. Flynn previously had denied that he had any substantive conversations with Ambassador Sergey I. Kislyak, and Mr. Pence repeated that claim in television interviews as recently as this month.

But on Monday, a former administration official said the Justice Department warned the White House last month that Mr. Flynnproblems with the truth have been laid bare by the growing scandal about his dealings with Moscow. Strange ties to the Kremlin, including Vladimir Putin himself, have dogged Flynn since he left DIA, and concerns about his judgment have risen considerably since it was revealed that after the November 8 election, Flynn repeatedly called the Russian embassy in Washington to discuss the transition. The White House has denied that anything substantive came up in conversations between Flynn and Sergei Kislyak, the Russian ambassador.

That was a lie, as confirmed by an extensively sourced bombshell report in The Washington Post, which makes clear that Flynn grossly misrepresented his numerous conversations with Kislyak—which turn out to have happened before the election too, part of a regular dialogue with the Russian embassy.


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is a show about a futuristic New York and written by New Yorkers . And like all New Yorkers, they hate New Jersey . Making fun of New Jersey has been a running joke in the series since the beginning. Here are five of the funniest moments, captured as images.- When Bender and Fry decide to start looking for apartments, they encounter a series of bizarre and often horrific places to live. Then they find a "suspiciously fantastic" apartment...- When Bender gets religion, his conversation to goodness is short-lived, and he's condemned to an eternity in Robot Hell. Leela and Fry journey to rescue him, and discover Robot Hell is hidden under an abandoned amusement park in New Jersey. That leads to the following exchange...- An enormous ballof garbage from the twentieth century is headed straight for New York in this episode, and Professor Farnsworth puts on an Internet video to explain where it came from. During the video, we heard the following narration...- When Fry and Bender hold a bet to see who can get the most followers from their new eyePhones, they agree that the loser has to dive into a pool of goat filth. Later, Fry and Leela have a tender moment interrupted by her making this observation...- Drinking from the fluid that stores the U.S. Presidents' heads sends Fry, Leela, and the professor back in time to the founding of the country. There, they stumble across Thomas Jefferson holding a meeting for some important business...If you liked this post why not


The Statue of Liberty stands proud, but destruction around her feet is widespread after Superstorm Sandy. (Credit: CBS 2)

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Five weeks after Superstorm Sandy, it remains a sad and lonely time for one of the most famous landmarks in New York City.

As CBS 2’s Chris Wragge reported on Tuesday, the Statue of Liberty survived Sandy unscathed, but the island she lives on was so severely ravaged that it remains unsafe for visitors more than a month later.

Arriving at the Statue of Liberty after Sandy, Park Superintendent David Luchsinger said he had a bittersweet moment.

“She was still standing there. She was still proud and defiant,” he said. “It was incredible.”

But at Lady Liberty’s feet, it was a different story. Waves and storm surge flooded 75 percentWATCH: Aaron Smith speaks for first time after toilet cheating scandal

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All Black Aaron Smith has given an emotional statement to media in South Africa after being stood down over an incident in a public toilet.

"I've made a huge mistake, a huge error in judgement," he said.

Smith was caught entering a disabled toilet cubicle with a woman at Christchurch Airport on September 18, and witnesses heard the pair making loud noises for up to 10 minutes.

"I'd like to say a huge sorry to my partner Teagan, her family, my family," said Smith, near tears.

"I'm also sorry to my team-mates, NZRU, and the New Zealand fans - my behaviour is unacceptable, and if you could respect me and my partner in this situation - I'm just trying to get home


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Victoria has had more than its share of journalists and others falling foul of court restrictions through defiance or ignorance of the law.

Former journalist and blogger (now senator) Derryn Hinch has twice been jailed as a result of contemptuous coverage – once in 1987 for broadcasting prejudicial talkback radio programs about a former priest facing child molestation charges, and again in 2013 after refusing to pay a A$100,000 fine for blogging the prior convictions of Jill Meagher’s accused killer in breach of a suppression order.

Two ABC journalists were convicted of identifying a rape victim in radio broadcasts in 2007. They and their employer were later ordered to pay her $234,190 in damages in a civil suit for the invasion of her privacy among other injuries.

Inthe U.S. Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, the Max Planck Society, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The SDSS Web Site is http://www.sdss.org/.

The SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions. The Participating Institutions are the American Museum of Natural History, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, University of Basel, University of Cambridge, Case Western Reserve University, University of Chicago, Drexel University, Fermilab, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, the Korean Scientist Group, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (LAMOST), Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), New Mexico State University, Ohio


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WUHAN, China (Reuters) - Tentative signs of normal life are returning to Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus epidemic was first documented, after a 76-day lockdown that turned it into a virtual ghost town.

Authorities in the city of 11 million on Wednesday lifted the draconian curbs they put in place in January, allowing residents to leave by car, rail and plane, taxis to resume operations and more non-essential businesses to re-open.

Shoppers on Thursday streamed into Wuhan’s main shopping belt, Chu River and Han Street, where international brands including Nike and Lego have stores and which was virtually deserted last month as the shops were shut.

People also took advantage of warm weather to head to the banks of the freshwater East Lake, filling upLong ago, when Everfree was the capital of Equestria and a thriving city rather than a forest, the Palace of the Royal Pony Sisters was a grand castle which contained many treasures and artifacts. Twilight Sparkle has read a book telling of one particular treasure still hidden there: the Nirucon Stone, which is said to enhance the magical ability of whoever holds it.

Twilight gathers her friends and they venture off into the forest, but they encounter a foe who they thought was just a fictional character: Auhizotl, the villain from the Daring Do books. Turns out, he's a beast who actually exists, and is the self-proclaimed King of the Everfree Forest, ruling from the ruined palace. The good news is that he is willing to part with the


standards. The implementation and user language is JavaScript, known by millions and supported in every browser. The graphics APIs are built upon SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), also available in major browsers.

The network protocols used are asynchronous HTTP and WebDav.

The Lively Kernel is being made available as Open Source software under a GPL license. While it is not ready for use as a product, we expect significant participation from adventurous developers and academia.

About the speaker:

Dan Ingalls is the principal architect of five generations of Smalltalk environments, culminating in the release of Squeak, an open-source Smalltalk system written in itself. He designed the byte-coded virtual machine that made Smalltalk practical in 1976.

He invented BitBlt, the general-purpose graphical operation that underlies most bitmap graphics systems today, and also pop-up menus. HeSeattle’s bid for an NHL team is still alive, but it may as well be on life support.

With only the city of Las Vegas recently being approved for league expansion, many believed that this was the league’s way of giving Seattle another opportunity to get its act together in order to get a franchise. The league had a sure thing in the form of Quebec City, but did not approve its bid for an expansion team due to Canada’s financial status as well as the league’s geographic footprint.

There is a perfect chance for the league to get into the Pacific Northwest of the United States, but everything points to an impasse between those that want to build a new arena and bring a team, and those who are


which shall be discussed hereinafter.
At the time of the accident, Peter Yacomes, Sr., was the named insured of four (4) insurance policies he had purchased from Federal Kemper Insurance Company. Policy No. R942898 is described as a "personal automobile insurance policy". Policy No. TOR98569 is described as a "garage liability policy". Policy No. RY940233 is described as a "commercial automobile insurance policy". Policy No. UF369880 is described as a "homeowners insurance policy". The car which was operated by Peter Yacomes, Jr., a 1971 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, was "listed" as an insured vehicle under the personal automobile insurance policy.
Pursuant to its duty to defend the Yacomeses in the state court actions under the personal automobile policy, Federal Kemper investigated the case, retained counsel and otherwise provided a defense priorpolicy, i.e., excess or umbrella coverage. The defendants advance three corollary arguments in support of their primary argument that this Court should rewrite the commercial automobile and garage liability policies.
First, the defendants argue that Michael Sisk, Federal Kemper's agent, erred when he unilaterally placed the 1971 Chevrolet Monte Carlo under the personal automobile policy as opposed to the commercial automobile policy. Peter Yacomes, Sr., testified during trial that he had simply conveyed to Sisk the make, model number, serial number and year of the car when he contacted Sisk to obtain coverage. He stated Sisk did not ask him and he did not tell Sisk whether he intended to use the automobile for pleasure, i.e., personal use, or for business purposes in connection with his garage operations. Peter


Former Fort Worth woman is queen of the kitchen

Former Fort Worth resident Nona Sivley has won the Fox competition show Hell's Kitchen, adding to the number of reality-show wins by contestants with North Texas connections.

"I fought and I fought and I fought," Sivley said after host Gordon Ramsay announced her win in Wednesday's finale, which aired on KDFW/Channel 4. "This was a huge sacrifice, missing my son's first birthday, missing his first steps. It's absolutely worth it to make his life better."

Sivley, a 2008 graduate of the Culinary School of Fort Worth, worked as a sous-chef in the Atlanta area when filming began. With the win, she will now go on to be head chef at L.A. Market at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

In thefinale, Sivley went head to head with Russell Kook, a sous-chef from Madison, Wis., who had gained a reputation for consistency -- and cockiness -- during the show's eighth season. Sivley, on the other hand, steadily improved as the season went on, impressing Ramsay -- who also acts as a judge on the show -- with her strong palate and kitchen skills.

The finale began with a challenge in which Sivley and Kook each had to prepare a five-course meal, and then have each course judged by a noteworthy figure from the Los Angeles food community, including L.A. Market owner Kerry Simon. Kook won that challenge, with the judges picking three of his dishes over two of Sivley's.

But in the dinner service that climaxes each Hell's Kitchen episode, Kook


had to deal with that reality-show convention -- the former contestants who come back to help the finalists finish their final task.

Many of this season's contestants really didn't get along with one another, but when the finalists chose teams consisting of the former contestants, Kook picked the grudge-holding Vinny Accardi Jr., who was resentful over what he saw as Kook's role in his early elimination.

Kook's team eventually jelled, however, as did Sivley's, which had its own dysfunctional moments, common on this show, which is heavy on cursing and bleeped words, much of it coming from Ramsay himself. But the comment cards from the customers in the Hell's Kitchen "restaurant" gave Sivley the edge. In keeping with the show's tenor, Kook immediately blamed his loss on his team.

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The end of the world, er, the end of Windows XP support is nigh. To ease the transition, Microsoft Japan will help a major Japanese insurance company move 30,000 XP machines to Windows 8 tablets.

Meiji Yasuda, one of the largest Japanese insurance companies, is teaming up with Microsoft Japan and Fujitsu to upgrade 30,000 insurance sales personnel from Windows XP to Windows 8 tablets for use as mobile sales devices, Microsoft said Wednesday.

The clock is ticking: support for one of the world's most popular operating systems -- that would be Windows XP -- will end on April 8, 2014.

"Previously, the sales team prepared proposals on their Windows XP-based PCs and then printed them out in order to share with customers," Microsoft said.

Windows 8 will put end to those


Earlier this week, Tim Mason released his massive track, Swoon, on Steve Angello‘s Size Records. We love Tim and his sound, we got in touch to see if he would offer us an exclusive insight into the production techniques that helped him create this banger. This is what he had to say:

“Swoon as a track was a definite result of the shows I was doing in North America last year on the Roll Call tour, the records that were getting the best reactions were the big festival type sounds and the idea was getting a vibe which represented my interpretation of that.

I wanted something big for the chords so I layered with 3 different sounds – one was taken from omnisphere, another from nord lead 2x and thenbecoming a major producer of silk. The three major Balearic Islands have become provinces in and of themselves, linked together by a strait and comprising their own Area.Likewise, Galicia has seen itself grow from 1 province to 4, and now has an Area all to itself.Portugal and Granada have been gifted one additional province each: Aveiro and Malaga respectively.Last but not least, many citizens of Navarra are looking a little confused as they wonder where their coastline has gone. Wedged between major powers and with no immediate means of escape over the ocean, Navarra will be a very challenging nation in 1.28.New releasable nations:: The Kingdom of Valencia was a major constituent part of the Crown of Aragon in 1444. In 1.28 the former kingdom of El Cid


They were built as unstoppable warriors. They became unstoppable monsters.

Four decorated U.S. Marines with spotless service records are wanted for the brutal rapes and murders of over a dozen women within four months. Their hunting grounds stretch from New York to Georgia. When Ryan Pearson and his team of FBI agents close in on the first killer, the cornered Marine nearly defeats three heavily armed assault teams with nothing but unbridled violence and grossly deformed hands.

After the bloody encounter that left another woman and two agents dead, Ryan begins to question the directives of the military liaison and his own boss, the Deputy Director of the Bureau. The answer he discovers during his unsanctioned investigation blurs the normally focused line between victim and criminal.

Ryan enlists the help ofa civilian scientist that can link the sociopathic behavior of the four fugitive Marines to a biomedical research facility where they were stationed prior to the murders. When the scientist Ryan befriends is attacked in a military style ambush, he forces himself to remember every detail of the violence. He wants to remember so he knows exactly what to give back to the ones responsible.


suspension of their coach Keiran Dempsey and his assistant. His first game in charge was against the Sheffield Eagles at the Don Valley Stadium and Wilkinson's team recorded a victory by 24 points to 20. In May 2007 Doncaster entered into a CVA to avoid potential liquidation and Wilkinson was told not to continue as coach.

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Category:Rugby articles needing expert attentionWarface is a free-to-play shooter which has a significant following on PC. The game is developed by Crytek, who are known for stunning games like Crysis and Ryse: Son of Rome. According to the studio, Warface is a competitive experience that pits two factions — Warface and Blackwood — against one another in ranked or casual play.

Over the past year, battle royale games like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds have become increasingly popular. So many developers have put out their own versions. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 may be the best one out there because it features the tightest shooting mechanics and visuals. The game targets 4K 60 FPS on Xbox One X.

You keep asking us about Battle Royale and when it comes to consoles. It is planned for October,


US Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco underlined the importance of all-party political dialogue in Yemen under UN auspices.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — US Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Lisa Monaco stressed the importance of all-party negotiations for reconciliation of Yemen conflict, at a meeting with incoming UN Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the White House National Security Council spokeswoman said in a statement Sunday.

The political dialogue in Yemen is required to unify all parties countering al-Qaeda, a common threat in the Arabian Peninsula, the statement said.

"Ms. Monaco underscored the importance the United States places on rapidly shifting from the military conflict in Yemen to all-party negotiations under UN auspices, and offered strong US support for Mr. OuldCheikh Ahmed's efforts," the statement read.

The officials also talked about severe humanitarian crisis in Yemen, the lack of such necessities as food and medicines, according to the statement.

Yemen is currently experiencing violent clashes between several armed groups, including forces loyal to country's president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and Houthi militants.

In late March, a Saudi Arabia-led international coalition launched airstrikes against Houthi positions in Yemen upon Hadi's request.

More than 1,200 people have died and over 5,000 have been injured in Yemen since the escalation of the armed conflict in the country in late March, according to the latest World Health Organization data.


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River Dunes Chef expands Horizons

River Dunes assistant chef, Crystal Green, recently completed a class in Atlanta, GA on the construction of edible flowers. Her instructor, Nicholas Lodge, is nationally known for the beauty and realism of his edible flower creations.

Crystal will be bringing the skills she learned in Atlanta to her work with desserts at River Dunes.with their eight-month-old daughter, Nayeli Navarro. Suspicious that his wife was having an affair with his brother, appellant screamed at her, pulling her hair and throwing her on the bed. Mosqueda told appellant to leave the house, which he did. Mosqueda then threw appellant's clothes on the front porch. Early Christmas morning, appellant returned, still drunk and belligerent. Again, he screamed at her and pulled her by the hair, yelling at her to pick up his clothes. She did, but refused to put them back on hangers. Appellant then told her, "You have to do it, even if I have to kill you. I'll take the baby to Mexico." Appellant continued to threaten Mosqueda, drawing his gun and pointing it at her. Mosqueda picked up her baby to


hard to photograph.

Louai

A rare blue-eyed Arabian horse. This photo is my personal favorite.

The Dictator

Gin, the wonderfully grumpy Persian cat.

Lissie

Lissie, a nervous 10 month old Pug.

Maffalda

Maffalda, a Moroccan street dog turned into a loving pet.

The White Wizard

Avalon, the wise Swiss Shepherd.

Scott

Scott, the two year old husky ready for his duty.

Myra

Myra the West Highland Terrier with an attitude.

Kareem

Kareem ,a stern and serious two year old Arabian horse.

Hurko

Hurko, a deaf Dalmatian who responds to sign language.

Trisha

Trisha, the diva.

Puppy!

And to top it off, a Bernese Mountain pup.

The Eldest Sibling

Four Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retreivers.250,750 MINERS IN ARMS. DECREASE 1N COAL OUTPUT FOR WAR YEAR.. The loss of output of coal in the United 'Kingdom over the .first twelve months of the war, state the Coal Mining Organisation Commit tee in their second report, issued last night, as compared with .the like pre-war period, was 29,924,727 tons, or a decrease of about 11 per cent. This loss is not as great as antici pated, "owing, we believe, to the effect of the remedial measures taken to mitigate loss due to deoletion of labour." Over the period August, Septem ber, and October, 1915, the output was greater than in the like period of 1914 by 1,500,000 tons. The fall ing off compared with the same months in 1913 was 7.250,000 tons. The number


of enlistments over the first 13 months of the war* was 250,750, and of these 56,850 had en listed during March to August, 1915, inclusive. Taking into considera tion the amount of labour which had come into the mines, the loss of la bour amounted to nearly 16 per cent. The committee...

FIRE IN PICTURE THEATRE Hobart, Jan. 8. A fire occurred at the Palace Pie. ture Theatre, Hobart. at about 9.30, when some 400 or 500 people were seated. A -film caught alight, and this, together with the contents of the fireproof room, was totally de. stroyed. The fire spread to the manager's office, where the lining of the room was damaged, and to the floor of the dress circle, imme diately above the operating room,. The peopleThousands of displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have in recent days fled camps in search of safer and better places to live. Many are arriving in a refugee site called Bulengo, afraid to return home, despite a recent lull in fighting between government and rebel troops. Kari Barber reports from VOA's West Africa bureau in Dakar.

U.N. Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo spokesman Michel Bonnardeaux says a tenuous calm is being maintained in the eastern region after several weeks of heavy fighting between government troops and forces loyal to dissident general Laurent Nkunda.

Nkunda says he is protecting the ethnic-Tutsi population living in the area from the Congolese government, which he accuses of collaborating with ethnic Hutu fighters from Rwanda.

Bonnardeaux says despite the lull in violence,


others were already refugees at other sites, but who left seeking safer and more sanitary conditions.

"The conditions in the other sites are very difficult, many people living very crowded on top of each other, some people squatting in school buildings," Hensemann says. "The school buildings are occupied, but the school year has just started and need to be used for school so they cannot stay there."

Henesmann says the site in Bulengo is newer and offers better services than other sites, but he says it is filling up fast. He says the U.N. agency and the Congolese government are looking for new places to keep the nation's displaced.

President Joseph Kabila has said to bring peace to the area, General Nkunda's troops need to be integrated into the regular army.perform a specific function, just like a surgeon, a dentist, or a plumber? What place would there be for vagueness or subjectivity then?

In The Matrix, Thomas Anderson's life inside the computer-generated dream world eventually leads him to Morpheus, a fully liberated being. Morpheus intervenes in Thomas' life and brings it to an end. He gives Thomas his freedom, but at a cost: his former life and identity. Thomas is transformed into Neo, signifying the end of one existence and the beginning of another.

Is Morpheus a spiritual teacher? Is he a shaman, a guru, a Bodhisattva? Or is he simply a man with specific knowledge and abilities who performs the practical function of extracting Thomas' consciousness from the matrix dream world and rescuing his body from the pod farm?


But you feel it. You've felt it your entire life." –Morpheus to Thomas, first meeting

What first impressed me about Dave Oshana was how unimpressive he is. Oshana is a spiritual teacher. He claims to be enlightened. He has a website on which he sells his services: live online classes, replay downloads, and one-to-one consultations at a euro a minute. He gives live-in retreats in Finland in winter, spring and summer. There is nothing on the surface to distinguish him from a thousand other spiritual teachers on the enlightenment market. Oshana's influence on me was gradual and accumulative and it wasn't until three years after I met him that I coughed up for a consultation and began a more formal relationship with him. It was another year before Ireally bit the bullet (in December 2011) and signed up for one of his retreats. That was the point of no return.

What took me so long? Call me a hard-sell. I had seen the testimonials at Oshana's websites from people who had had life-changing experiences around him. Experiences of "no mind," oneness, transcendental bliss, swirling lights and colors, allegedly occurred within days, hours, even minutes of meeting him. None of that happened for me. A Cockney with a thick accent and bad grammar, Oshana seemed extremely ordinary to me. He made bad jokes and went off on seemingly irrelevant tangents; he repeated himself, made mistakes, sometimes missed the point. He wasn't a bit like Morpheus. He didn't sit like a statue and speak in slow, deep monotones. He


didn't emanate power, authority, and mystery. On the plus side, he didn't put on airs, unless they were the airs of someone who didn't put on airs. His presence didn't generate the slightest awe or reverence, for me at least.

On the other hand, one of the first things that stood about Oshana was that he didn't shake hands. He was very strict about things that might seem trivial to most people, such as not pointing your feet or fingers in anyone's direction. Much later, I found out that before coming an intensive, applicants were required to fill out a form and agree not to drink, smoke, or take drugs for several days before attending. People taking certain prescription drugs might be considered ineligible. Unlike most spiritual teachers, hisevents were often not open to the general public. Oshana screened attendees, especially for the retreats, to make sure that participants were sufficiently prepared to benefit from them.

On the other hand, he had an extremely informal teaching style and (besides the no-touch rule) was much more accessible than the average spiritual teacher. He went out for meals with his students. No one I met in his group regarded him as "the living truth," holy or divine, or as a superior presence (though most of them believed he was enlightened). And although he spoke a lot about his enlightenment, he described it in simple human terms, as something that just "happened" to him. On June 19th 2000, Oshana woke up and realized that he was different. Since he wasn't


sure how, he counted the fingers on his hands to see if he had any extra ones. He looked around the room. Finally he realized that his old self had vanished as if having never existed. "Dave" was gone.

Like most spiritual teachers, Oshana talked a lot about energy. Unlike most spiritual teachers, he talked about a specific kind of energy which he called "the Transmission." The Transmission was what got him enlightened, and it was what his life was now in service to. The Transmission, according to Oshana, was why he became an enlightenment teacher, even though that was the last thing he ever wanted or expected to be. On "Enlightenment Day" 2012, in Helsinki, Oshana described his enlightenment as a kind of slavery. He said that itwas similar to being a parent, and that, on the morning of June 19th 2000, he awoke to find he had seven billion babies to take care of. His life was now devoted to them, and to the task of helping them to wake up and enter into their true nature.

On that same day, Oshana admitted that, in twelve years as an enlightenment teacher, he hadn't managed to get a single person enlightened to his satisfaction (though there had been claimants to the crown). He laughed until he cried; maybe he laughed in order not to cry. Unlike other spiritual teachers, Oshana put a great deal of emphasis on results — even when it was to his own detriment to do so.

Splinter in the Mind

"I can guide you,


but you must do exactly as I say." –Morpheus, to Thomas, first conversation

Oshana and I first met in Hampstead, London, in December 2007. I heard about him by chance, and my curiosity was piqued when I saw something he wrote about The Matrix at his website. Since I'd written a book about the film, I took a copy with me and gave it to Oshana. The meeting was enjoyable but I was less than bowled over by him. I went to a second meeting two days later, an intensive with energy work. Soon after, I received an unexpected call from one of Oshana's assistants saying that Oshana would like to meet me at the Hilton on Edgware Road.

It was late in the evening and I rode my bikethirties; he didn't meet the necessary requirements and I was fairly sure he had not attained the ultimate goal of human evolution. I suggested to him that, like so many other wanna-be's, he had misunderstood his experience and fallen into "the guru trap" (something I had read about). Oshana listened politely and did not try to dissuade me. He commented on my low energy and we talked a bit about my chronic fatigue.

After that we stayed in touch by email for the next three years, on and off. During that time (2008-2010), I met another spiritual teacher, John de Ruiter, and for the first time ever I took on a guru. De Ruiter was the polar opposite of Oshana: somber, imposing, and profoundly impressive. This was closer to


my idea of what a "man of knowledge" ought to be, and I accepted de Ruiter as an Enlightened Master and assumed the submissive position. Compared to de Ruiter, Oshana was a lightweight. Oshana was too ordinary and approachable for me to see him as a Master. Over time, however, my point of view changed. I began to doubt de Ruiter's authenticity and looked more and more to Oshana for guidance. The more I talked with him (on Skype and emailing back and forth, informally and free of charge), the more apparent it became to me that he was fundamentally different from other people. Since I have an intellectual bias, it was probably the quickness of his thoughts and speech, and the precision and depth of his insights,another level of being. It was a level which I couldn't understand because I didn't have direct, conscious access to it. This caused a growing awareness in me of an enormous, possibly unbridgeable distance between us. It was the distance between one reality and another, between waking and dreaming. Yet I didn't feel intimidated by Oshana or in awe of him, so much as intensely curious, fascinated, and flattered by his apparent interest in me. And although I felt challenged and even disorientated by Oshana's attention, his particular way of relating was so casual that it kept me at ease. It also prevented me from obsessing on him or the apparent gulf between us.

For the first period of our formal relationship, I experienced doubts about paying Oshana money


skin that stays in one piece after the snake has shed it: at a glance the dead skin may even resemble a live snake. I wondered if Oshana's awareness of his mind as a separate "thing" could be contrasted with teachers who possibly took their mind with them into some heightened state of awareness and became a spiritualized ego (which was a bit like an animated snake skin).

In our conversation, Oshana described how, to this day, he was able to go back into his mind, but that it was not full immersion. He described it as similar to a hand covered with water-resistant cream, preventing the water molecules from touching the skin. Although the hand appeared to be submerged, it was not in the water at all. Similarly,when Oshana went into his mind after enlightenment, he was able to look around at the contents of the mind without being exposed to them or identified with them. This was not through lack of trying, he said. He wanted to experience full immersion in his old beliefs and affects to test his enlightenment, and also so as to meet people in the midst of their own experience. He felt it would help him to have a better understanding of what people were going through while they were identified with the contents of their minds, just as he had once been. He had got better at this immersion, he said, but he was still unable to go all the way into the mind. It was like having a


bungee cord attached to his back, he said, making sure he never got stranded.

I asked if the mind was the same as "Dave," the self that vanished when he became enlightened. He said that it was all the "stuff" which he had accumulated while trapped in the illusory identity of Dave. I commented that, for most people, enlightenment equated with perfect, total realization, infallibility, and impeccability. If Oshana's version refuted this idea, many people didn't make it past his opening, "inflammatory" claim of being enlightened. So they never realized that Oshana was redefining enlightenment as something more precise, straightforward, and comprehensible. Based on his descriptions, it was not some ultimate attainment but rather the final end of something. It was a permanent leaving behind of the confines oftime, I began to suspect that he was speaking energetically. The ego he was describing was at least somewhat physical. As Thomas cries after the bug is removed from his stomach: "That thing is real??" The ego described by Oshana is a kind of alien implant in the human body, similar not just to science-fiction stories but also to sorcery tradition (the "foreign installation" described in Castaneda's last work The Active Side of Infinity). Whatever its exact nature, and wherever it came from, the octopus-ego has hijacked our life force and is now in almost total control of our lives. Like an invasion of body snatchers, the egos have infested the planet. The enlightenment process is the process of exposing, isolating, and extracting the octopus from our nervous


systems, in order that the life force can return to the body and resume a natural and healthy relationship with it. The ego has dethroned the soul, and enlightenment is only possible when the slimy usurper has been outed and slain, and the soul can re-animate the body again.

A spiritual teacher is not a philosopher, a truth-embodier, or a holy man. He is not a prophet, healer, or sage. He is a hitman. He is an energetic surgeon whose job is to remove the ego and bring about the total and cataclysmic end of the false self and the illusory life it has been living. An assassin.

Morpheus did not tell Thomas that the red pill would end his life. He didn't tell him that he was not hisfriend but his worst enemy and nightmare. Naturally he didn't. He wanted Thomas to cooperate and so he gave him a selective briefing. But the truth was he had a job to do and he would see it through to the end, even if it killed Thomas. Why? Because, from Morpheus' point of view, which was the point of view of reality, Thomas was already worse off than dead.

What finally caused Thomas to wake up in the pod was never revealed (the red pill was only a tracking device so they could find his body in time). In the end, it's a mystery. He woke because circumstances combined to create an opportunity for awakening, and because he had been sufficiently prepared (just enough, but not too much) to


as a writer, as an intellect, and as an individual. Am I done yet? Am I finally defeated by my own pen, self-slain, the death of a thousand cuts? This would be the best possible outcome for me: complete and undeniable defeat. Then all that's left is to invite the birds — that's you — to come and pick my bones clean.

For Oshana, enlightenment meant "the end of questing." After he became enlightened, he was no longer searching for anything. He had arrived. That is all he claims to know. He doesn't know if what happened to him was enlightenment but he chose to use the word because it was a good enough fit. He never received a diploma, crown, or official stamp. He simply entered into theabout 7.45am before any protesters arrived. He was surrounded by a security detail and one report said he was wearing a bulletproof vest under his suit.

Seven protesters arrived about 8.30am, marching as they chanted: “From the slave catchers and the KKK to the killer cops of today, convict Van Dyke and throw him in jail. The whole damn system is guilty as hell.”

Van Dyke is the first Chicago police officer to face trial for killing someone on duty in 50 years. The graphic video – released the day Van Dyke was charged – led to months of protests and political upheaval.


such as a screener, a calendar with important future events, articles, videos, and even a Daily Dividend Report with the most recently updated dividend announcements and changes.
Martin Fridson, CFA, is, according to the New York Times, “one of Wall Street’s most thoughtful and perceptive analysts.” The Financial Management Association International named him its Financial Executive of the Year in 2002. In 2000, Fridson became the youngest person ever inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Hall of Fame. He has been a guest lecturer at the graduate business schools of Babson, Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, Fordham, Georgetown, Harvard, MIT, New York University, Notre Dame, Rutgers, and Wharton, as well as the Amsterdam Institute of Finance. Fridson's writings have been praised widely for their humor, rigor, and utility. He holdsBert H. Miller

Bert Henry Miller (December 15, 1876 – October 8, 1949) was an American politician from Idaho and a member of the Democratic Party.

Biography
Born in St. George, Utah Territory, Miller graduated from Brigham Young University in 1901 and from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee in 1902. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in St. Anthony, Idaho in 1903, and was prosecuting attorney of Fremont County from 1912 to 1914.

Miller ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1914. He was elected Idaho attorney general in 1932, and reelected in 1934. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1936, and served for two months in 1938 as Idaho's labor commissioner. Miller was an unsuccessful Democratic