Pacific Region Senior Director of the National Parks Conservation Association.

In 2006, Tule Lake was designated a National Historic Landmark. There are 2,500 such places with the landmark designation in the United States.

Such places are official recognized by the U.S. government for their historical significance.The invention relates to a roller chain for chain drives, having a plurality of inner links and outer links, the inner links having at least two inner plates provided with two pairs of coaxially aligned pin holes and with pin bearings disposed between the holes, the outer links containing at least two outer plates each which are joined together by at least two pins fastened to them, the one pin of each outer link passing through one of the pairs of pin holes and the associated pin bearing of one of the adjacent inner links, and the other pin of each outer link passing through one of the pairs of pin holes and the associated pin bearing of the other of the adjacent inside links, for the purpose


the inner links, the sleeves being fastened nonrotatably on the inner plates and additional rollers being mounted rotatably on the sleeves.
In the roller chains used heretofore, the following problems are known:
The link wear which develops due to the pivotal movement of the chain links under load as they engage and disengage the sprocket causes an increase in the effective pitch. The length of the chain increases accordingly. This elongation due to wear is nonuniform in conventional sleeve and roller chains. Due to the resulting nonuniform meshing of the chain, a uniform engagement of chain and sprockets is no longer possible. The result is increased wear on the flanks of the sprocket teeth.
In conventional roller chains, the magnitude of the effective bearing surface necessary for the transmission of theMedellin: Fans mourned Wednesday for a Brazilian football team decimated in a plane crash that killed 71 people in Colombia, as a recording emerged of the panicked pilot reporting he was out of fuel.

Chapecoense fans mourn the deaths of the victims of the plane crash. AP

Authorities are still investigating what caused the charter flight to crash in the mountains outside Medellin as it carried Cinderella-story team Chapecoense Real to a major match.

A haunting recording aired by Colombian media appeared to hold answers -- though officials have not confirmed its authenticity.

"Ma'am, LAMIA 2933 has a total failure, total electrical failure, without fuel," pilot Miguel Quiroga tells the control tower in the recording, minutes before the jet crashed Monday night.

In the tape, the pilot had earlier asked for priority to


land due to "fuel problems."

The request was granted by Medellin's international airport.

But the control tower then lost contact with the plane, whose fuselage was found plastered on a hillside 50 kilometers (30 miles) outside the city.

The crash killed most of Chapecoense's squad and 20 journalists traveling with them to the finals of South America's second-largest club tournament.

The unsung Brazilian club was on the way to crowning a fairytale year in the Copa Sudamericana against Medellin side Atletico Nacional.

Announcing the crash on Monday night, the aviation authority said the plane had reported electrical problems.

But it may also have been out of fuel.

A Colombian military source told AFP: "It is very suspicious that despite the impact there was no explosion. That reinforces the theory of the lack of fuel."

The planeSALT LAKE CITY -- Toxicology tests confirm two 13-year-old boys in the Utah ski-resort town of Park City overdosed on a new synthetic drug that is available online and was also found at the estate of entertainer Prince after he died, police said Thursday.

Ryan Ainsworth and Grant Seaver died of acute intoxication of a drug called U-47700, sometimes known as “pink” or “pinky,” Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter said in a statement, citing results from the Utah Office of the Medical Examiner.

It’s among a new generation of opioid drugs being synthesized in labs overseas and is too new as a recreational drug to be listed as illegal.

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The drug got to Park City after other local teens ordered it from China, according


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Stoner defeats Lorenzo at Laguna Seca

Casey Stoner trimmed a little from Jorge Lorenzo's MotoGP points lead by defeating the Yamaha rider in the United States Grand Prix at Laguna Seca.

Honda pair Stoner and Dani Pedrosa and current championship leader Lorenzo were in a class of their own all race, storming away from the rest of the pack from the outset.

Stoner soon took second from Pedrosa, then piled pressure onto polesitter Lorenzo.

For a short while mid-race, Lorenzo managed to get a little breathing space, but Stoner was soon back on his tail, and with 10 laps to go the Honda swept ahead on the run towards Turn 1.

Thereafter Stoner was able to edge into a slight lead that he retained to the finish, claiming his fourth win of the


year.

Pedrosa fell away a little in third, which keeps him second in the championship.

Hobbling on a heel injury after his qualifying accident, Ben Spies could not match the top three but was fending off the Tech 3 Yamahas for fourth until crashing on the way down the Corkscrew.

That elevated Andrea Dovizioso and Cal Crutchlow's battle to a fight for fourth, with Dovizioso just hanging on.

Nicky Hayden beat Stefan Bradl to sixth after a long dice. Hayden's Ducati team-mate Valentino Rossi had been running a very lonely eighth until he crashed heavily - without injury - on the way over the Corkscrew crest just two laps from home.

Aleix Espargaro was top CRT finisher in ninth overall. His Aspar team-mate Randy de Puniet fought back well to recover from last'Down we went': Several hurt after Amtrak derailment in central Vermont

At least six people were reported hurt, one seriously, after an Amtrak train derailed in central Vermont, sending some cars plunging down a steep embankment. Investigators say the train hit a rockslide.

Passenger Bob Redmond says he was taking a scenic tour of the autumn leaves when the cars started tipping and "down we went." Riders say they broke windows and helped others out after the crash.

Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin said there was no sign of negligence from the train's crew.

One victim was airlifted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire. Central Vermont Medical Center reports it's treating six other patients for injuries that are not life-threatening. They include neck, back and shoulder pain.

Amtrak said a crew member was


hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries but four other people were released by Monday evening.

New England Central Railroad, which operates the stretch of tracks in Vermont, has had 54 accidents since 2006, including 14 derailments. Three people died in those accidents, according to federal records.

Vermont State Police and and other first responders are on the scene in Norwich, located outside Montpelier and about 2 miles south of Norwich University.

The 13-hour, 45-minute daily trip begins in St. Albans in northern Vermont, according to the Amtrak website. The train is supposed to pass through Burlington, Vermont, Springfield, Massachusetts, and New York before arriving in D.C.

The Division of Emergency Management & Homeland Security is coordinating with local law enforcement, and other state agencies are also on hand should additional assistance be needed, MyFoxBostonreports.

The National Transportation Safety Board was investigating. It was sending a small team rather than the full-blown effort made for a fatal Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia in May.

The track where Monday's crash occurred had been part of a $220 million upgrade of New England Central Railroad tracks. In early 2013, after the upgrade had been completed, the speed limit in the area was increased from 55 mph to 59 mph.

Shumlin said there was no reason to believe there was any negligence on anyone's part.

"We don't have all the details, but this track was rebuilt, it was state-of-the-art track," he said. "Ledge slides happen."

Federal records show New England Central Railroad, which operates that stretch of tracks, has had four accidents since 2006 that could have involved track debris. The


rail chief Dan Delabruere.

Numerous derailments worldwide have been caused by track debris, many linked to heavy rains that trigger slides or heavy winds that knock down trees. In 2010, a train in Beijing hit mounds of debris on the track following a landslide, killing 19 people.

The region near Monday's derailment received 2.5 inches of rain between Thursday and Friday.

The Vermonter takes the route daily, beginning in northern Vermont. The 13-hour, 45-minute trip leaves St. Albans, Vermont, at 8:58 a.m. then passes through Springfield, Massachusetts, and New York, with D.C. as the destination.

Three cars that left the track Monday remained upright. Rail company officials confirmed details of the crash but did not immediately provide a comment.

Tracy Zaplitny, also of Bay City, said she and other passengers broke a windowThis volume follows the Tenth Michigan Cavalry regiment. The series is a compilation of the military history of each soldier of the Civil War who was a resident of the State of Michigan at the time of enlistment.

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Finally, the Global Times pivots to what happens next, and how the US provocation could lead to further escalation in hostilities with Russia:

Washington's attack on Syria where Russian troops are stationed constitute serious contempt for Russia's military capabilities and


political dignity. Trump, like scolding a pupil, called on Moscow, one of the world's leading nuclear powers, to abandon its "dark path." Disturbingly, Washington seems to have become addicted to mocking Russia in this way. Russia is capable of launching a destructive retaliatory attack on the West. Russia's weak economy is plagued by Western sanctions and squeezing of its strategic space. That the West provokes Russia in such a manner is irresponsible for world peace.

Finally, without stating it expressly, China makes it quite clear on whose side it would be should war break out between Russia and the US:

The situation is still fomenting. The Trump administration said it will sustain the strikes. But how long will the military action continue and whether Russia will fight back as itfor summary judgment and found that the doctrine of ecclesiastical abstention precluded it from exercising jurisdiction because a determination of the issues would require the court to become involved in interpreting religious doctrine.
For the following reasons, we reverse that judgment as to Duncan and remand the case.

The following facts are taken from plaintiffs' complaint.
  In 1989 Duncan was a member of The Moody Church and was ordained a minister.  In 1992 Duncan resigned his membership and his position as a minister of The Moody Church and became senior pastor and a member of an evangelical free church
.  In 1997 Duncan resigned from the evangelical free church
and became senior pastor and chief executive officer of Hope Church, a nondenominational and independent church.  Duncan was also ordained by


as the deceitful means used to obtain the Hope Church Bank account, violates Biblical admonition that an elder should not be a 'lover of money.' "

Duncan called John Welch, a member of the board of elders of The Moody Church, and told Welch that the allegations contained in the April 23 letter were investigated by the Hope Church board and determined to be false.  Duncan also told Welch that The Moody Church no longer had authority over him because he had resigned his membership and his ministry with The Moody Church in 1992.

On May 5, 2000, a letter signed by defendants Peterson and Lutzer was sent to Duncan, requesting him to appear before The Moody Church's executive committee on May 8, 2000, to respond to the charges set Shortly thereafter he was hired as a pastor of evangelism at The Moody Church and ordained by The Moody Church.  In 1992 Duncan left The Moody Church to become senior pastor at the Village Church of Lincolnshire, which belonged to the evangelical free church denomination.  The Village Church of Lincolnshire
allowed Duncan to bypass its year-long ordination process mainly because he was educated at Trinity Seminary, which is the seminary for the Evangelical Free Church of America.  Duncan was affirmed as the Village Church of Lincolnshire's ordained minister at a ceremony and Duncan understood it to mean that he was ordained by the Evangelical Free Church.  Duncan testified that he received a certificate reflecting this ordination.

Duncan testified that in 1997 he was terminated from the Village Church of


Lincolnshire by a vote at an unscheduled congregational meeting.  Duncan was never told why he was terminated and was not given the opportunity to request the reasons for his removal.  H
owever, Duncan was given a document that stated that his termination was not for reasons of immorality, impropriety, stealing money, or false teachings of sermon.  Duncan testified that he subsequently learned that Lutzer had been present at the meeting terminating Duncan's employment
 and had assisted the Village Church of Lincolnshire
 with setting up the procedure for the termination.

Duncan testified that he and a small group of people
 started Hope Church in 1997.  Hope Church is a an independent, nondenominational church
.  Duncan became pastor and he was ordained by Hope Church as required by its constitution.  Al Nader, aformer Moody Church board member, joined Hope Church early
in its formation, as did Robert Dickman and Al Puccinelli.  Hope Church continued to grow until 2000.  Duncan testified that in 2000 his wife, Diane Duncan, filed for dissolution of marriage.  Duncan obtained an order of protection to keep her away from church services and from talking to church members.  The Hope Church board investigated charges Diane had made against Duncan, and Duncan testified that he thought the board had cleared him of wrongdoing.  In March a Hope Church Sunday service was disrupted by Nader, who threatened Duncan, and the police were called.  Duncan subsequently removed Puccinelli from his position as Hope Church's treasurer because Puccinelli returned funds from the church account to members who had made contributions.  Furthermore,


Puccinelli's wife appeared on behalf of Diane Duncan at a court hearing, and Puccinelli threatened to stop issuing payroll checks to Duncan.  As a result of Duncan's marital trouble many members left Hope Church.

Duncan testified that he received a letter dated April 23, 2000, from The Moody Church, in which it alleged it had received "disturbing reports" from Nader about Duncan's conduct.  The letter listed six allegations and stated that the board of elders discussed the charges with three former board members of Hope Church.  As stated above, the letter provided that if Duncan did not reply, The Moody Church would rescind the ordination it bestowed upon him in 1989.  Duncan contacted John Welch, one of the elders who had signed the letter.  Duncan requested the names ofthe former board members of Hope Church referred to in the letter.  Duncan also told Welch that
The Moody Church no longer had authority over him because he had resigned his membership and ministry with The Moody Church in 1992.  On May 6, 2000, Duncan received a letter
 signed by Lutzer and Peterson that requested that Duncan come to an executive committee meeting on May 8, 2000, respond to the charges against him, and meet his "accusers."  Duncan did not attend the meeting, and he subsequently received the May 9, 2000, letter described above.

Duncan testified that before the May 9, 2000, letter, the Hope Church congregation had grown to about 70 members; however, the Sunday after the letter was disseminated, the congregation dropped down to 5 members.  Duncan


testified that the day after he received the letter his children's court-appointed guardian
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 told him that she heard he was no longer a minister and questioned him regarding his means for supporting his children.  Duncan testified that since the letter was disseminated he has had difficulty continuing his career as a minister.  Duncan sent out about 15 resumes for senior pastor positions and received no calls.  Duncan testified that the director of placement services at Trinity Seminary was reluctant to allow Duncan to use the Seminary's services to search for new employment, stating that he had heard bad things about Duncan.  Duncan testified that Hope Church continues to hold services and that in November 2002 between 10 and 20 members were attending.

At his deposition, Lutzer testifiedthat he spoke with Diane Duncan on several occasions in March and April 2000.  Lutzer testified that Diane talked to him about difficulties in her marriage, including her belief that her husband was spending an inordinate amount of time with another woman.  Lutzer knew that the Duncans were involved in a dissolution of marriage proceeding, and he was aware that the court had given custody of the couple's six children to Richard Duncan.  However, he did not know when the custody proceedings took place.  Also in March 2000, Nader contacted Lutzer and requested advice with reference to problems at Hope Church.  Lutzer spoke to Nader, Dickman, and Puccinelli regarding Richard Duncan's activities.  Lutzer believed that all three men were members and leaders at Hope Church, though he did


not know their positions.  The three men told Lutzer that Duncan misused alcohol, spent too much time with a divorced woman, and had changed the signatory on Hope Church's bank account without approval from Hope Church's membership.
Lutzer did not make an independent investigation of the allegations or read Hope Church's constitution.

Lutzer thought the allegations were serious because of Duncan's position as a pastor.  Lutzer testified that The Moody Church does not have authority to discipline nonmembers; however, because Duncan had been ordained by The Moody Church, Duncan was obligated to abide by The Moody Church's standards for as long as he was ordained.  Lutzer acknowledged that this obligation was not written anywhere.  Lutzer stated that Duncan was not told that he remained subject to future authority ofThe Moody Church when he resigned his pastoral position and membership.  Lutzer explained that The Moody Church's continuing authority over the ordinations it bestows comes from the Bible.

Lutzer testified that no hearing was held on the allegations against Duncan before the May 9, 2000, letter was sent because Duncan did not appear before the executive committee as requested.  Lutzer testified that he did not inform the executive committee of his earlier presence at the Village Church of Lincolnshire's meeting in which the church's membership terminated Duncan's services as pastor.  Lutzer testified that he sent all three letters, including the one dated May 9, 2000, to Dickman, Nader, and Puccinelli because he thought they had a right to know the actions taken by The Moody Church and they might


have needed to inform others.

Lutzer testified that there was no affiliation between The Moody Church and Hope Church.  Lutzer testified that The Moody Church had no authority over Hope Church and it had no right to remove Duncan as pastor or minister of Hope Church
.
  Lutzer testified that it was up to the leadership of Hope Church to decide whether Duncan should be called "Reverend" or "Pastor."  Lutzer testified that The Moody Church had no authority to revoke an ordination given by Hope Church.

Lutzer also testified
 that prior to 2000 there was no mention of the revocation of an ordination in The Moody Church's constitution nor was there a procedure for relinquishing an ordination
.  The Moody Church amended its constitution effective April 30, 2000, to add a procedurefor revoking an ordination.  Lutzer testified that defendants did not follow the new procedure when they revoked Duncan's ordination because they had begun the process with Duncan before the constitution was amended.  Lutzer confirmed that he was informed of Duncan's ordination by Hope Church after the May 9, 2000, letter was disseminated.  Lutzer admitted that Duncan requested that he clarify the letter to specify that the revocation applied only
to The Moody Church ordination and that he refused.

At his deposition, Peterson testified that there was no ecclesiastical relationship between Hope Church and The Moody Church.  He admitted that The Moody Church had no authority to remove a pastor from Hope Church and that it was up to the leadership of Hope Church to decide who should be minister


or pastor.  Peterson testified that The Moody Church has no authority to discipline nonmembers; however, it had biblical authority to revoke Duncan's ordination.  Peterson testified that in his 30-year affiliation with The Moody Church he had never heard of another ordination being revoked.  Peterson admitted that defendants did not comply with the recently amended constitution when it revoked Duncan's ordination.  Peterson also testified that the May 9, 2000, letter applied only to Duncan's ordination by The Moody Church.

At his deposition,
Puccinelli
 testified that he had been on the board of directors of Hope Church but stopped attending the church at the end of March 2000.  Puccinelli testified that he interpreted the May 9, 2000, letter to mean that Duncan could no longer be the pastor of Hope Church.longer be a minister of the gospel and could no longer be the pastor of Hope Church.

Both Lutzer and Peterson acknowledged in their depositions that The Moody Church had no authority over Hope Church.  They both agreed that defendants did not have the authority to decide who could minister for Hope Church and that only the leadership of Hope Church had the authority to decide who could be a minister or a pastor for their church.  Defendants argue, however, that they took away from Duncan only what they had bestowed upon him.  The May 9, 2000, letter does state that defendants rescinded the ordination that The Moody Church conferred upon Duncan.  Nevertheless, a later provision in the letter provides that, in light of their decision to revoke the


Saffaa Abdel Rahum Saror and other members of Amel Centre

To: His Excellency Lieutenant General Omar Hassan al-Bashir, President of the Republic of Sudan, and others

From: Joseph Hoffer, Lawyer, LRWC

Date: 2006-10-04

I am a lawyer and Sudan Monitor of Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada. I am writing to request your assurance with respect to the treatment of Ms. Saffaa Abdel Rahim Saror, Ms. Nafisa Mohamed Adam, and Ms. Awatif Mohamed Adam as well as Members of the Amel Centre.

We are advised that the three individuals referenced above have been subjected to detention, interrogation and threatened criminal proceedings because of their professional activities relating to social work and human rights advocacy through the Amel Centre. We are also aware that other Members of the Amel Centre have been detained, harassed, interrogated andintimidated by agents of the National Security Bureau (NSB), all in relation to their professional activities in assisting victims of torture, assault and human rights violations.

We are writing to you to urge you to guarantee, under all circumstances, the physical and psychological integrity of Ms. Saffaa Abdel Rahim Saror, Ms. Nafisa Mohamed Adam and Ms. Awatif Mohamed Adam as well as their colleagues, members and clients of the Amel Centre. We further request that you take steps to ensure that the NSB and other governmental agencies cease their harassment and intimidation of these individuals.

As you know, it is the obligation of the authorities in the Sudan to conform with Article 1 of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders (adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations December


Iranian General Qasem Soleimani's daughter warned that her father's death "will cause more awakening in the resistance front" and "will bring darker days" for the United States and Israel.

Speaking in front of a large crowd at her father's funeral procession at Tehran University today, Zeinab Soleimani said President Trump's "evil plan to cause separation between two nations of Iraq and Iran" by killing Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis "has failed."

"Trump, you compulsive gambler, your evil plan to cause separation between two nations of Iraq and Iran with your strategic mistake in assassinating both Haj Qasem and Abu Mahdi has failed and it has only caused historical unity between two nations and their mutual eternal hatred for the United States," Zeinab Soleimani said.

"Hey crazy Trump, youJoan Denny, Lady Denny (d.10 September 1553) was the daughter of Sir Philip and Katherine Carew, daughter of Sir Edmund Carew, Lord Carew. The Carews were close to the Parr family since the early reign of King Henry VIII and Queen Katherine probably remembered that when she picked Lady Denny to be in her household.[1]

Joan was described by a writer as “a lady of great beauty and parts, a favourer of the Reformed religion when the times were most dangerous.”[1]

Joan came to court and joined the household of Katherine of Aragon as a maid-of-honor. Joan was sponsored by her uncle, Sir Gawin Carew. This same Gawin may have been the husband of another lady in Katherine of Aragon’s household, the former Mary Wotton, widow of Sir Henry Guildford.


It was also in the household of Katherine of Aragon that Joan met Lady Maud Parr, mother of the future queen. Joan would go on to serve Lady Parr’s daughter, Katherine.

Joan was married to Anthony Denny, privy councillor and royal favourite of Henry VIII, in 1538. A grant had been made that year, in February, to Sir Anthony of the site of the former priory of St. Mary’s, near Hertford. He was also granted the manors of Hertford Priory. Their marriage took place between February and June of that year as Privy Purse expenses included “item, given to Mistress Denny’s servant for bringing sturgeons 2/-“.[1]

In 1539, Anthony and Joan were part of the welcoming party that met Anne of Cleves.[1]

In 1542, Denny was appointed Keeper of the royalMansion of Hatfield.[1]

Joan Denny held a position at court in the household of Queen Katherine Parr. Joan was a Protestant and is said to have protected persecuted reformers in Devon. In 1546, she was one of the women who was implicated in the persecutions at court by the Catholic faction. Most of the ladies of Queen Katherine Parr were interrogated and mistreated by those wanting to get rid of the queen due to her religious beliefs and practices. The Queen was never tried, but an arrest warrant was drawn up. Luckily for Katherine, she talked her way out of it. Henry accepted Katherine’s pleas and the two made up.

After the death of King Henry, Joan retired from court service. She would, however, have a special guest join her


and her husband early on in the reign of King Edward VI. Princess Elizabeth was sent away from the Dowager Queen Katherine’s household after she was caught in an embrace between her and Admiral Seymour by the Queen. She joined the household of Sir Anthony and Joan Denny for some time.

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After Roxette's Neverending World Tour finished in 2015 he produced another set of solo efforts, En vacker natt (2017), En vacker dag (2017) and Small Town Talk (2018). All three albums were recorded in Nashville after Gessle felt the need to


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A 41-year-old man has been charged after taking a dog through an automatic car wash in Happy Valley-Goose Bay in the back of a pickup truck.

"The dog was lucky to have survived, in my opinion," said the owner of the car wash Erin Woodward.

The incident was reported on Tuesday afternoon and police charged a man — who they said is from Glovertown — shortly after.

The RCMP said the man is charged under the Animal Protection Act with causing an animal to be in distress and transporting an unsecured animal outside of a passenger compartment.

"We were very lucky to catch it," said Woodward, in an interview with CBC Radio's As It Happens on Wednesday. "I'm still incredibly angry that anybody could do that."

Woodward said one of her staff wascleaning the floor when she heard tires screeching, and saw a truck leaving the car wash with a dog in the back.

I have seen our car wash blow apart drywall and plywood and splinter it right to pieces. So the fact that somebody could leave a living creature in the back of the vehicle just boggles my mind. - Erin Woodward, car wash owner

When they reviewed surveillance footage, they saw a man in a truck approach the wash once and then leave — they believe he was scared off by a plumber working there — then come back several minutes later.

"He purchased one of our top wash packages, which is the longest and involves the most chemicals and it didn't look like he gave much thought about it,


never got out to check on the dog, nothing like that and went on into the wash," Woodward said.

"As the wash is completed about four minutes later, he's exiting and then you can clearly see then the dog in the pan going through the dryer and out the door."

'Strong enough to take off skin'

Woodward said in her opinion, the dog could have been killed.

"That water pressure is strong enough to take off skin, and could certainly easily blind an animal who didn't know what is coming at it."

The RCMP laid charges after viewing the tape.

Woodward said she was told the truck driver was not the owner of the dog, which looked like a German shepherd mix, and that the owner immediately brought the animal to a vet.

"I haveseen our car wash blow apart drywall and plywood and splinter it right to pieces. So the fact that somebody could leave a living creature in the back of the vehicle just boggles my mind."

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ForThe documents also reveal residents may have been exposed to a "high risk of explosion" due to elevated levels of methane and carbon dioxide recorded on the perimeter of some properties. Michelle Hodgers, who has lived alongside the old dump for 35 years, said she feared for the health of her three young children. She said an unusually high number of people in the surrounding streets had experienced health issues, including cancer and miscarriages, with some even complaining of deformed litters of puppies. Arron Reid with wife Michelle Hodgers and two of their three children Kai and Payton. The young family live on Denton Avenue in St Albans. Credit:Justin McManus A risk assessment document handed to residents by the council states that the elevated 2018 benzene reading might


Road was used as a tip between 1967 and 1978. Ms Hodgers recently subdivided the land of her parents' Denton Avenue family home and built two townhouses, taking on a 30-year mortgage with her husband Arron Reid. The couple, who have three young children, said there had been a high number of serious and unusual health issues among residents in the street.

Both of Ms Hodgers' parents died of cancer while living in the street. According to Ms Hodgers and her husband, a neighbour experienced breathing problems once they moved to the area, while a dog breeder produced a litter of deformed puppies. The couple's 11-year-old son, Kai, had a cancer scare when a large lump appeared near his lymph node, requiring months of testing, while Kai's brother Kobelanguage and scientific details in the documents, and remain confused about their options. Some have not read their information packs and the council has not responded to a community request for a town hall meeting.

Groups of neighbours have been meeting to discuss their legal options. Over the past decade, officials have entered homes and used needle-like gas testing devices to test toilets, cupboards and soil for toxicity and methane levels. A groundwater monitoring well behind properties in St Albans. Credit:Justin McManus And in 2016 and 2017, metal "bore" poles to test the soil were inserted at the former tip site, just behind the back fences of properties. A large hill was built to cover the main section of the former tip between properties and the Western Ring Road.


Some residents thought the hill was to reduce noise pollution, but William Cartledge, 77, said council told him it was for kids to use as a play area.

William Cartledge in his backyard, with the hill which was built on top of the Sunshine Landfills tip behind him. Credit:Justin McManus "Everything council tells you is bullshit," said Mr Cartledge, who has lived on Denton Avenue for 35 years and previously used the tip when he ran a logistics company. "Why should we be lied to? We should have been told this when we bought the land."March 25, 1807: The Oystermouth Railway begins carrying passengers, the first time trains were used for this purpose. Today, the rail line is called the Swansea and Mumbles Railway but locals call it the Mumbles Train. It is located in Swansea, Wales. It was built by an Act of Parliament in 1804 in order to move limestone from Mumbles to Swansea and then to areas beyond. It was originally a horse drawn rail system. Benjamin French first proposed the idea of carrying passengers and offered the railroad £20 for the right to offer this service for twelve months. The rail system upgraded over time and remained in use until 1960.

The idea of a system for hauling goods has been traced back as far as something called a rutway


used by ancient Greeks and Romans. A trackway from Diokos across the Isthmus of Corinth measured between 3 ¾ and 5 ¼ miles long; it was used for at least 650 years. It was open to any who could pay for the service. The rutway went out of use in the first century AD and the idea was lost. In 1550, hand propelled tubs were in use for moving cargo. The idea spread from Germany, the country of origin, to other European countries.

In 1798, Lake Lock Railroad opened to carry coal from the Outwood area to the Aire in West Yorkshire, England. This is arguably the first rail system. In 1802, another railway was built in Wales called the Carmarthenshire Tramroad. The first steam locomotive railway, Pennydarren, wasalso built in Wales. The rails moved to Scotland next in 1808 and in that year Richard Trevithick set up a circular railway so people could experience a train ride. For one shilling, people got to ride the train in a circle before disembarking. They apparently liked it.

By 1812, steam locomotives were being used commercially in Leeds. In 1825, a publicly subscribed railway using steam locomotives was instituted for carrying freight. Passengers were still moved using horse draw railcars. On September 27, 1827, the first railway in continental Europe opened for business. On July 4, 1828, the first railway in the US (the B&O) began construction of tracks between Charleston and Savannah. Rail transport continued to improve both for freight and passenger service. Today we have bullet trains


reaching speeds of 217 mph. in 2007, a heavily modified train in France reached a speed of 357.2 mph, a world record.

“Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.” – Ada Louise Huxtable

“A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.” – Eleanor Robson Belmont

“The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam to a carriage on wheels will make a great change in the situation of man.” – Thomas Jefferson, 1802

“Only fools want to travel all the time. Sensible men want to arrive.” – Metternick

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The new-look Crayford creek has been described as “absolutely gorgeous” by a local sailor.

Steering his yacht up-river through the waters, James Gray from Gravesend Sailing Club described the scenery.

He said: “I was curious to see what progress had been made from the recent works.

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The creek had been filled with fallen branches from neighbouring trees, until the team from the Dartford and Crayford Creek Restoration Trust saw a chance to clean up the river.

Conrad Broadley, from the trust, contacted Network Rail, who were working nearby, and asked them to help clear the river.

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Elizabeth SmartIn 2002, the kidnapping of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart captured the nations attention. Rescued nine months later, Smart had been held prisoner and raped by Brian David Mitchell, who is currently serving a richly-deserved life sentence. Today, Smart is a 25-year-old author, advocate for child-protection laws, and missing persons commentator for ABC News.

Last Wednesday, Smart spoke at a Johns Hopkins University forum on human trafficking. She discussed her mindset while in captivity, the following excerpt of which has been picked up by numerous liberal commentators:

I remember in school one time, I had a teacher who was talking about, well, about abstinence, and she said, imagine that youre a stick of gum, and when you engage in sex, thats like getting chewed, and if you do that lots ofa long, ghoulish record of hijacking victims to shame their enemies and emotionally blackmail people into adopting their policies, and this case is especially egregious because the victim in question said no such thing.

Certainly, Smart says the remarks of one particular teacher, whose whos going to want you? dismissal to teenage girls seems lacking in Christian compassion, played a role. But while I do not presume to know her views on the general subject, Smarts speech does not blame abstinence education itself, or the general principle of abstinence.

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Spooked drivers equip their cars with around-view cameras while seeking navigation apps that bypass school zones and buying increased insurance coverage.

The country's unicameral parliament revised the road traffic law in December after an elementary school student was killed by a car in a school zone in Asan, some 55 miles south of Seoul, in September.

Under the law that took effect on March 25, motorists are required to keep to the speed limit of 30 kph (about 18 mph) in around 16,000 school zones across the country.

Violators who injure a child under 13 are subject to a fine of at least


$4,000. The death of a child will lead to a minimum of three years in prison to a maximum sentence of life in prison.

In addition to the speed limit, drivers have to prove that they kept the "duty of careful driving" after traffic accidents.

The change in law is stirring paranoia among companies and everyday drivers.

Coupang, the country's leading online retailer, immediately installed cameras on all its delivery vehicles to offer a 360-degree view of surroundings.

Mappers said the number of its navigation app downloads jumped more than sixfold in April compared to previous months, as the app enables drivers to avoid school zones.

Other navigation app providers, including SK Telecom and KT, also are testing similar functions.

Insurance companies have responded with programs for car accidents in school zones.e-coli. Most residents boil drinking water, because they do not trust the quality of the tap water, or use bottled water. Some tap water samples were also contaminated with ammonia at levels that were 6–18 times higher than the allowed level. Ammonia in drinking water is not a direct health risk, but it can compromise disinfection efficiency, cause the failure of some filters, and it causes taste and odor problems. Arsenic levels were two to three times higher than acceptable according to the World Health Organization guidelines. Bacteria were also found in bottled water samples, according to analyses by the Ho Chi Minh City health department in 2009, leading to more than 38 water bottling firms ordered to be closed.

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EAST OAK LANE (WPVI) -- Police say the body of a murder suspect was found in a car at an East Oak Lane apartment complex.

At approximately 8:30 p.m. Saturday, officers from the Philadelphia Police Department discovered a vehicle in the Adams Run Apartment complex, located at 6200 Crescentville Road.

A man was found deceased in the rear seat of the car and a firearm was recovered near him.

Police identify the man has 52-year-old Stanley Laing.

Lang had been previously charged with First Degree Murder and related offenses following the March 5th murder of 49-year-old Indra Sheets in Cheltenham Township.Margaret Fleming: The teenager who was forgotten for 17 years By Paul O'Hare

BBC Scotland Published duration 14 June 2019 Related Topics Margaret Fleming murder case

image copyright Crown Office image caption Margaret Fleming pictured on a college night out

Margaret Fleming was a vulnerable young woman who vanished without trace - and no-one raised the alarm for almost 17 years.

She was 19 years old when she was last seen by anyone other than Edward Cairney and Avril Jones.

Her disappearance was so mysterious that at one point police asked the couple, who were meant to be Margaret's carers, if she even existed.

Their version of her life was stranger than fiction.

media caption The wild claims made by Margaret Fleming's killers

They claimed that Margaret, who had learning difficulties, ran off with a traveller,


then went on to become a gangmaster who travelled Europe, and a drug dealer with several aliases.

Precisely what happened may never be known, but a jury has found the pair guilty of murdering Margaret within three weeks of that final sighting on 17 December 1999. Her body has never been found.

During the seven-week trial, the prosecution painted a bleak picture of Margaret's life before she disappeared.

Early challenges

An only child, she was brought up in the town of Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, and faced challenges from an early age.

At Slaemuir Primary School, Margaret struggled with reading and writing, and she continued to require additional support as a pupil at Port Glasgow High.

But two defining events ultimately led her into the care of her killers.

image copyright Crown Office image caption Margaretwas described as a quiet figure at school

In January 1993, her parents Derek and Margaret divorced after 20 years of marriage.

The schoolgirl was 12 when she left the family home to move in with her father and grandparents.

The jury heard Margaret had a bad temper and was described by her mother as difficult to handle.

In contrast, she was a quiet figure in the classroom and required constant encouragement.

A rare letter of praise

In a 1995 report, teacher Elizabeth Brown wrote: "Margaret Fleming has moderate learning difficulties. She works fairly well to her ability but needs written instructions set out simply and gone over verbally."

In evidence she said: "If you left Margaret on her own she would do very little. You had to prod her to do the work. Her


marks were all at the very bottom end of the school."

On one rare occasion another teacher put on record her gratitude to the teenager for helping her with registration.

image copyright Crown Office image caption Margaret Fleming pictured with Avril Jones

This provided one of the most poignant moments of the trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

Ms Brown recalled: "She clearly thought Margaret deserved a letter of praise, which Margaret wouldn't have got many of during her schooling."

Another retired teacher, Elaine Moore, said: "She was quite isolated. Her and her dad were a wee unit. She was concerned about him and he was concerned about her."

Mr Fleming, a tradesman who retrained as a lawyer, was so protective of his daughter he didn't tell her why he had been takenin to hospital. He had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.

'A rather lonely, isolated girl'

His condition had deteriorated by 20 October 1995, when his ex-wife took Margaret to Inverclyde Council's social work office.

The meeting was arranged to discuss her behavioural problems, which included arguing with her grandparents.

The referral said: "Margaret does not know why her father is in hospital and is afraid it is something serious."

image copyright Crown Office image caption Margaret with Cairney and Jones

It also noted the child was always with her father and felt "rejected" by her mother.

The report continued: "I feel like Margaret is a rather lonely, isolated girl who is living with elderly grandparents.

"Margaret appears to be surrounded by a great deal of uncertainty and ill health."

Five days after the meeting, Mr Fleming lost


his battle with cancer.

His death not only devastated Margaret but proved to be the catalyst for her eventual move from Port Glasgow to Inverkip, 10 miles along the Clyde coast.

image caption The couple's Seacroft home sits on the banks of the Firth of Clyde

Mr Fleming thought that his parents were too old to take care of his daughter.

He had earlier told his fiancée Jean McSherry that if anything happened to him, Eddie and Avril would look after Margaret.

During the trial Margaret's mother, 71-year-old Margaret Cruickshanks, recalled how she first met Cairney.

She said: "After Derek died they were at the funeral. Eddie Cairney came and approached me and said if I needed any help with Margaret he would give me respite care."

image caption Eddie Cairney had offered to helpwith respite for Margaret

The court heard Margaret initially lived with her mother but later spent up to a fortnight at a time staying with Cairney and Jones at their dilapidated home, which was named Seacroft.

Ms Cruickshanks said her daughter was even more difficult to cope with after the loss of her father.

She added: "She would come back from school and I'd say: 'What were you doing?'

"Her temper would be up and she would batter me."

A strained relationship

A month after Mr Fleming's death, Margaret and her mother met Inverclyde Council social worker Denise Munro in a bid to secure support from the additional needs team.

Ms Munro recalled: "She was quite a naïve girl, quite vulnerable, quiet, lonely, sad and did not have many friends."

She said there had been a


strained relationship between mother and daughter.

Giving evidence, she added: "When I went to their house to pick up Margaret I would have a conversation with her mum, who found it difficult.

"She had lived on her own and had an adolescent girl who was missing her dad."

image copyright Crown Office image caption The back garden of Seacroft, where Margaret lived with Cairney and Jones

Ms Munro continued to support the teenager until she went on maternity leave in July 1996.

By this time, Margaret had enrolled on a skills for life course at James Watt College in Greenock and appeared to have settled down.

But that August, Ms Cruickshanks told the social work department that her daughter's behaviour had deteriorated.

But she received no further support and no-one stepped into Ms Munro's role.

imagecopyright Crown Office image caption The living room of the house in Inverkip

All ties between mother and daughter were finally severed after a chilling confrontation on 26 November, 1997.

Ms Cruickshanks told the jury she was attacked by Cairney after travelling to Inverkip to tell him she wanted her daughter to come home.

She said Margaret, who struggled with her weight, was then brought downstairs from her attic bedroom and asked where she wanted to live.

Ms Cruickshanks said: "I think she was a bit nervous and she turned round and said she wanted to stay there. There was nothing I could do about it."

She later called the police who went to check on Margaret.

'I didn't visit any more'

Memories of that night reduced her to tears in the witness box as


she recalled: "The police came back to say she was alright. As far as I knew that was where she was living.

"I didn't visit any more. I got a letter. It said she didn't want to see me any more."

In the months that followed, Margaret became more reclusive and Cairney told the jury he tried to stop the teenager self-harming by putting cardboard tubes on her arms.

image copyright Crown Office

In October 1999, Margaret saw her GP, Dr James Farrell, for the last time.

He told the court she had "quite significant learning difficulties" and said she might have had Sotos syndrome from birth - although a definitive diagnosis of the rare disorder was never made.

The GP also said she was "socially and educationally" isolated and referred her to apsychologist.

Dr Alan Smith visited Seacroft before Christmas but all attempts to contact Margaret to arrange another appointment came to nothing.

Last confirmed sighting

The three-week timeframe during which detectives believe Margaret was murdered was narrowed down by the testimony of Avril Jones' brother, Richard, and mother, Florence.

The last confirmed sighting of Margaret was at Richard Jones' new home in Inverkip on 17 December 1999.

Florence Jones remembered Margaret as a "very, very quiet girl" who was unable to look after herself due to her learning difficulties.

The 79-year-old played a key role in the chronology of the case.

image copyright Crown Office image caption The last known photograph of Margaret was taken in March 1999

Her most recent memory of Margaret was at her ruby wedding celebrations in March 1999, and a photograph from


that night is the last known image of the teenager.

Crucially, Mrs Jones had no recollection of Margaret joining the family at Mr Jones' house for Christmas dinner in 1999.

There was also no sign of her in the photos taken that day.

On 5 January, 2000 Mrs Jones spoke to her daughter on the phone.

The pensioner told the court: "She said Margaret had left with a traveller. I wasn't sure what had happened. It was up to them."

As the months turned to years, memories faded and not one person saw fit to report that a teenage girl had simply disappeared off the face of the earth.

Indeed it was not until October 2016 that a missed appointment for a benefits review finally led police to Seacroft.

Covering their tracks

image copyright Crown Officeimage caption The couple produced letters which they claimed had been written by Margaret

The couple's attempts to cover their tracks, while Avril Jones fraudulently claimed £182,000 in benefits, included producing letters which were said to be from Margaret.

One was said to be from Carlisle on 9 January 2000 and the other two were from the Regent Palace Hotel in Piccadilly Circus, London, on 13 January, 2000.

As part of the complex investigation that followed detectives showed the typed letters to Jacqueline Cahill, who taught Margaret standard grade English at Port Glasgow High between 1994 and 1996.

She told the court the teenager would not have been capable of writing them.

Ms Cahill said: "She had literacy difficulties.

"She struggled to put pen to paper. She struggled to read, and read at about


the level of an eight-year-old."

media caption Jacqueline Cahill recalls her memories of Margaret Fleming

But despite her struggles in the classroom, the teacher told BBC Scotland Margaret, who would now be 38, had the potential to hold down a job that did not require some numeracy and literacy skills.

She added: "If she had stayed in Port Glasgow, she would have stayed in touch with her friends, but moving to Inverkip probably made it easier for Margaret to slip off the radar.

"I don't even want to imagine what her life was like when she was living in Inverkip."

'This wee girl was forgotten'

The teenager's life and death has had a profound impact on Ms Cahill.

She said: "There isn't anyone who remembers Margaret.

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NEW DELHI—India's scientific community is turning up the heat on the government over its controversial sanctions of four former officials of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for alleged missteps in a satellite deal. In the latest protest, Roddam Narasimha, an aerospace scientist at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, resigned on 24 February from the Space Commission, India's top space policy body. Narasimha wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that the "actions taken against the scientists could demoralize the Indian Space Research Organization's scientific community, and adversely affect its ability to take the kind of technological initiatives—not always without risk—that are the hallmark of aninnovative organization."

Last month the government banned four scientists—including former ISRO head G. Madhavan Nair, who oversaw India's successful Chandrayaan-1 lunar probe in 2008—from holding a government position for the rest of their lives. The unprecedented punishment cited "procedural lapses" during negotiations to lease two communication satellites to a private company. The other three are K. R. Sridhara Murthi, former head of Antrix Corporation in Bangalore; K. N. Shankara, former head of ISRO's Satellite Center in Bangalore; and A. Bhaskaranarayana, former director of ISRO's satellite communication programs. The action against Nair and the others was intended as "a warning to scientists," V. Narayanasamy, minister of state in the Prime Minister's office, told Manorama Online earlier this month. Nair and his colleagues have denied wrongdoing.

Senior Indian scientists blast the ban.


It "has done a lot of damage to morale. … Nobody will want to take risks or do anything bold or out of the box," says Anil Kakodkar, a nuclear engineer and former chair of India's Atomic Energy Commission. "Top scientists who have served the country well have just been dumped and thrown out like garbage," adds Singh's science adviser, C. N. R. Rao, a chemist at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre. He calls it "an insult to the Indian scientific community."

Nair has gone on the offensive. He and his colleagues "have given [our] sweat and blood to the country," he wrote in a 24 February letter to Singh. Nair, president of the International Academy of Astronautics in Paris, asked Singh to hold off on implementing the ban andgovernment in writing that ISRO was manufacturing and leasing communication transponders to a private company. "Not informing the government about such a private contract is a big lapse," says M. R. Srinivasan, a nuclear engineer and former member of the Planning Commission, a government body that crafts India's 5-year plans. "There is no justification for keeping the government in the dark, as it involves taxpayer money," says Srinivasan, who was not a member of either investigative committee.

Nair insists that the deal did not violate government rules. He claims his successor, ISRO Chair K. Radhakrishnan, is leading "a witch hunt" against him and "pushed his personal agenda to make out a case by misrepresenting and misdirecting the government on this whole issue." Radhakrishnan says he has no personal agenda.


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The mistake of the Israeli Left has been that it often undermines potential allies by promoting itself politically as the group that will fight religion in Israel, rather than as the group that will fight hateful expressions of religion.12

This is certainly the case of the Geneva Accords group, which is totally a secular phenomenon.

In addition to new theoretical thinking on the role of religion in peace building, there have been some very important practical measures taken in recent years. The World Conference of Religions for Peace (WCRP) and the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) are two of the most important institutions which have taken a leadership role


in this area . The following examples of the work done to resolve conflict in Bosnia, Northern Ireland, and South Africa reflect the successful involvement of local religious leaders and interreligious councils in peace-building efforts.

The World Conference of Religions for Peace (WCRP), the oldest and largest interfaith organization in the world, has been one of the leaders in this field in recent years. The WCRP recognizes that:

Religious communities are, without question, the largest and best-organized civil institutions in the world today, claiming the allegiance of billions of believers and bridging the divides of race, class and nationality. They are uniquely equipped to meet the challenges of our time: resolving conflicts, caring for the sick and needy, promoting peaceful coexistence among all peoples.13

The concept that religions can be aproactive force for peace helps these communities unleash their enormous potential for common action.

Bosnia

In the area of reconciliation, some of the most important work done by WCRP was done in Bosnia. Beginning in 1996, Religions for Peace worked with the senior religious leaders and other officials in Bosnia's main religious communities to facilitate and support their efforts at interreligious/intercommunal cooperation. A similar process was just beginning in Kosovo when the Serb military's campaign of mass expulsions provoked the NATO bombing campaign in the spring of 1999. Once the conflict had ended, Religions for Peace helped religious leaders from the Islamic, Serbian Orthodox and Catholic communities in Kosovo to resume their discussions and commence their work toward building a more civil society there.

Religions For Peace supported, and continues to


support, the development, of communication between religious communities through the Interreligious Council of Bosnia-Herzegovina, (IRC). In so doing, it has collaborated with Bosnian religious communities to build the promising institutions of a multi-ethnic, democratic state. It has sought to reverse the communist-era restrictions on citizen associations and to promote religious communities as vital civic actors. It has acted as a neutral partner in seminars with human rights activists and theologians, and it has worked to create legal, fiscal, and governance structures necessary to sustain the IRC’s autonomous role in Bosnian civil society. The result has been widespread public acceptance of the IRC’s moral authority and popular support for its quest for tolerance and inter-ethnic understanding.

Under the auspices of the United States Institute for Peace, a pioneering program calledcannot be ignored when discussing future cooperation among the parties to the conflict.”16

In an effort to make a positive contribution to the post-war situation in Bosnia, the USIP held a conference in Budapest in October 1997 that brought together religious clerics, theologians, journalists, and others to consider the positive contribution religion can make in rebuilding Bosnia and the region. Representative of the different religious communities who came to the conference discussed openly the tensions between their communities. They also discussed such practical matters as the distress of refugees, the destruction of houses of worship, the prevalence of hate speech and incitement, and most importantly, how their various religious communities might address these matters.

Earlier in June 1997, a meeting was held at which religious leaders from Bosnia-Herzegovina formally agreed


to establish the previously mentioned Interreligious Council as a forum for discussing issues affecting the different faiths in the country. The meeting, which included religious leaders representing the Jewish, Muslim, Roman Catholic, and Serbian Orthodox communities of Bosnia-Herzegovina, met in the U.S. Embassy in Vienna.

Northern Ireland

The intra-religious Protestant-Catholic conflict of Northern Ireland evolved and changed, and was seen in many ways simultaneously a national, political, and religious conflict. For years, religious institutions were used as breeding grounds for hate and religious leaders were unwilling to take action against the violence. However, some brave clergy stepped up to their responsibilities as community leaders in secret.

According to Mari Fitzduff – now a professor and director of a new academic program in coexistence studies at Brandeis University, outside of Boston, andrespond to conflict.

One specific example of a religious community in Northern Ireland that uses religion as a means for reconciliation is Corrymeela – a community “comprised of people of all ages and Christian traditions, who, individually and together are committed to the healing of social, religious and political divisions that exist in Northern Ireland and throughout the world.”19 Corrymeela runs a variety of programs including a residential Catholic and Protestant school, and training courses in the field of conflict mediation. Through these projects, the residential community aims to be a sign and symbol that Protestants and Catholics can share together in a common witness and ministry of reconciliation, to provide opportunities for meeting, dialogue and to support victims of violence and injustice. Community leader Trevor Williams – whom


I had the privilege of meeting on a study tour to Ireland last summer – explains that by coming together in daily communal prayer, the community is “reminded that peace-building is God’s work.”20

South Africa

Just as the reconciliation process in Ireland required both religious leaders and religious ideals, the historic success of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa reflected the potential for integration of religion into the process of conflict resolution.

According to Susan Collin Marks, author of Watching the Wind, Conflict Resolution During South Africa’s Transition to Democracy, and co-director of Search for Common Ground, the role of the paired concepts of truth and reconciliation in conflict resolution in South Africa was critical. In an interview, she emphasizes the importance of amnesty and forgiveness as part ofthe need to restore relationships and to engage in processes that can lead to social and spiritual healing.”23 Reconciliation in South Africa used religious ideals of truth, forgiveness, reconciliation and restorative justice in order to create healing and build peace.

As seen in the cases of Bosnia, Northern Ireland and South Africa, both religious leaders – and religious ideas and ideals – have played significant roles in reconciling complex and protracted conflicts in major hot spots in the world. In these places, religious leaders – at the national and local communal levels – have been able to engage the power of their leadership to affect positive change through the message and the methods of reconciliation.. In these examples, religion was originally perceived as part of the problem rather than


Jews of East and West Jerusalem, and Jewish-Muslim dialogue groups for religious leaders and educators. ICCI’s most ambitious and most important program to date is a new program entitled “Kedem,” a Hebrew acronym for “Voices for Religious Reconciliation.” This project offers a new model for interreligious reconciliation and peace-building which can have a long-range impact in Israeli society.

From July 21 to 27, 2003, ICCI took 14 Israeli grass-roots religious leaders to Ireland—Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the south – for an intensive seven-day seminar on the theme of Reconciliation. The group was comprised of seven orthodox rabbis and seven Arab religious leaders— five Muslim and two Christian (representing the percentages within Israeli Society). The seminar was part of ICCI’S “Kedem” program, which began in May2003, which was made possible by a major grant from the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Tel Aviv.

The 14 local religious leaders were all carefully chosen for their participation in this unique, ground-breaking dialogue process. Never before within Israeli society had Muslim and Jewish grass-roots religious leaders met over a sustained period of time to learn about each other and each other’s history, tradition, and contemporary concerns, and also to see what could be done together in the area of reconciliation between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews within Israel society. Each person was selected because of his openness to the process of serious and sustained dialogue on this theme and because he represented a local community in Israel, where the lessons of this dialogue process


as media stereotypes.

More than this however was achieved during the week in Ireland. In addition to getting to know each other well on a personal basis – a process which took place over coffee breaks and meals and on the field trips on the bus and walking together to see a waterfall in Northern Ireland, near the sea, as well as in the formal group discussions – some rather amazing special moments occurred, which brought the group together as a group and opened up possibilities for concrete acts of reconciliation during the time spent together in Ireland and in the months after this.

After focusing both on personal stories and on the conflict in Northern Ireland during the first two days of the seminar, the group decided on thethird day to focus more on itself and less on the Irish experience of reconciliation. By the third night of the trip, a group decision was reached to cancel all discussions with outside experts on the Irish problem, and to focus the discussion on internal issues among the rabbis and the Arab religious leaders. This was the turning point that led to some rather remarkable results in the days ahead.

By the end of the third morning of dialogue – in which each person in the group had a chance to share his personal story with the others in the group – it was clear that the group was beginning to be a cohesive entity. Two remarkable and surprising developments occurred on that day. The first episode occurred when


one of the imams told his personal story about the massacre of Palestinian Arabs in Kfar Kassem in 1956 (a well-known episode, which has been well documented in Israeli history). He told the story of the massacre as he had heard it in his family from his aunt. It was a very personal and gripping telling of the story. Very personal. Very sincere. Very human. Not in any way to masquerade as the one true version of history, but simply his story. There was very active listening going on in the room – you could hear a pin drop.

When he was finished, one of the Arab religious leaders, told the group that each year a memorial service is held in Kfar Kassem to commemorate this massacre and hewear head-coverings in the synagogue, which led to another crisis. This led to a Muslim boycott of the worship service and the Shabbat dinner on Friday night (the Christians, however, did join the rabbis for the Shabbat dinner at the synagogue, and one of them even joined for the worship service and donned a kippah for the occasion!). On Friday night, and for the worship services on Saturday morning at the synagogue, the Muslims stayed away.

But after many hours of careful listening and active dialogue, a group decision was reached for the Arabs to join the rabbis for the Shabbat lunch, which follow the Shabbat morning worship service. And at noon on that Saturday, the Muslim and Christian religious leaders joined the rabbis and the members of the


Jewish community of Dublin for kiddush and lunch, where they were warmly welcomed by the Chief Rabbi of Ireland. It reminded me a bit, with all the differences involved, of the reconciliation between Joseph and his brothers in the Bible. It was apparent from the way that the group came together again, that some real bonding and some genuine relationships had developed over the past several days.

The group then enjoyed its first and only Sabbath meal together, but it was a moving spiritual occasion – not only because the religious leaders were able to break bread together and share a religious meal together, but also for the act of coming together itself in religious fellowship. Moreover, one of the Muslim religious leaders spoke eloquently on behalf of thein Ireland. While there were some crises, large and small, which were encountered during the week as part of the process, the high motivation by most of the members of the group to continue the process was very definitive and positive. This intensive human encounter apparently was important to them. It was a good beginning, and even though many obstacles had to be overcome, they were indeed dealt with in a positive and constructive manner throughout the week under the leadership of Dr. Yitzhak Mendelsohn, the facilitator of the group. By engaging the group in uni-national and bi-national group process and decision-making, he had involved the participants successfully in determining how the group would proceed. In so doing, the participants felt that they were partners in a developing


process of interreligious reconciliation.

Following the seminar in Ireland in July 2003, plans were developed to continue the process back in Israel. The group continued to meet at each other’s homes. The October meeting took place at the home of one of the rabbis in his family sukkah (booth) during the holiday of Sukkot (this was the first time that the Arabs in the group had ever been invited to sit in a sukkah). And in November, the group shared a Ramadan dinner (perhaps the first kosher Ramadan dinner in Israeli history) in the home of one of the Muslim leaders. Moreover, in December, the rabbis visited the village of Kafr Kassem – as a follow-up to the discussion that had taken place in July in Ireland – andstood at the memorial to the massacre in the center of the town, in solidarity with their brothers in dialogue in a poignant gesture of genuine reconciliation which was deeply appreciated by the Arab members of the group.

The “Kedem” group is now in its second year of an ongoing process of learning, dialogue and acts of reconciliation. This summer they will travel to Bosnia where they will be hosted by the regional office of the World Conference of Religions for Peace and the Interreligious Council of Sarajevo, which was active in peace-building in Bosnia-Herzogovenia during the civil war and which remains involved in interreligious reconciliation to this day. During this summer seminar the group will engage in intensive study and dialogue on the theme of “Reconciliation” and prepare


Jerusalem for the past 24 years, is the Director of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel (ICCI). He was assisted in the research for this article by Anna Levin, a former intern with ICCI.
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The suburbs of Reid, Ainslie, Braddon and some of Civic suffered a power failure from about 11:50am to 12:30pm today. Traffic lights on Ballumbir Street were also affected.

I spoke to a representative from ActewAGL about the blackout. He said that it was a “general blackout” but would not comment on the cause. I, sadly, was not in the affected area at the time, which was a pity as it was one of the few newsworthy things to happen around here for a while (and I haven’t been involved in a decent blackout for a while).Sunday, June 26, 2011

Regular readers of the Golden Dawn blog will recall recent articles here and here and here protesting interference in the Golden Dawn community by Masonic Rosicrucian Societies. For example, the article citing the ridiculous remarks made by SRICF Supreme Magus, William Koon, implying that the SRICF has authority to designate an "official" Golden Dawn order.

It turns out that it is not only the regular Freemasonic Rosicrucian Societies that would like to get their paws on the Golden Dawn. Even the clandestine, irregular ones have been eying up the Golden Dawn like a hungry dog sizes up a juicy bone for some time now.

Logo of the Irregular "SRIA"

The Societas Rosicruciana in America (improperly called S.R.I.A. to cause confusion with the real, British S.R.I.A.) is an irregular


ritual transmission from Wescott. That this deception has been intentional is evidenced on the orders website where they write:

"it was during this time that the Societas Rosicruciana in America received the status from Dr. Wm. W. Westcott to work with the Golden Dawn system."

In reality, there exists no evidence at all that the Soc. Ros. In America ever received either a charter or even a regular ritual transmission from either the Golden Dawn or any if its derivative orders.

The Soc. Ros. In America did eventually begin to work and odd version of Golden Dawn ritual, which was derived not from Wescott, but rather cobbled together from Aleister Crowley's published account of Golden Dawn rituals in "The Equinox." In a desperate move to achieve at least a veneer oflegitimacy, the Soc. Ros. In America next appointed Aleister Crowley to its board of directors, before finally managing to get a Rosicrucian charter from the Quakertown Rosicrucians, descending from Pascal Beverly Randolph.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the group was presided over by "Sister Lucia" Grosch. Whatever tenuous lineal affiliation Soc. Ros. In America might ever have ever enjoyed, with certainty ended when Grosch dissolved its high council in the 1980s. Grosch was later sued by Frank Modica in the 1990's in a real property suit that nearly bankrupted Grosch. Substantally destitute, Grosch accepted financial assistance from Maria Babwahsingh apparently in exchange for handing over leadership of the Soc. Ros. In America to Babwahsingh.

Under present leadership, the Soc. Ros. in America today makes a host of false and misleading


mentality on the Golden Dawn, especially since the "only one" they want is, of course, controlled by the Masons.

To clarify some information most folks are unaware of... It should be noted that Sylvester Clark Gould was involved in the American AO, and was the gateway of entry to the Boston AO Temple. This Temple was functioning by 1905, making it one of the earliest American AO Temples. S.C. Gould was also very involved with Yarker (as well as Peter Davidson, the HB of L, and Randolph's Eulian Order), and is worthy of much further attention. There is a bit more to this organization than meets the eye, including its connections to the Mathers/Westcott GD/AO. There were two distinct phases of GD work, and Gould (one of the foundersof SRIA), being connected with the early emergence of the AO in America (note the New York Temple was founded in 1904 and the Boston Temple mentioned in Gould's Journal 'Notes and Queries' in 1905) is too often overlooked by Occult Scholars. The SRIA (America) was founded by Gould and Plummer 2-3 years after the Boston AO Temple had already been functioning, and Gould was involved in both. Plummer IMHO being irrelevant in regards to a GD connection, since Gould's involvement preceded the existence of the SRIA. Information on the American GD/AO has generally not been made public and is a bit more interesting than a surface view and analysis will unveil. In other words everything was not all Case and Regardie in America. There were also some


loose-knit AO groups in the Midwest that continued to function for quite some time in various fashions.

I know you to be a meticulous scholar of the Kabbalah. Your academic rigor has bee highly commendable in your reconstruction of a Neo-Asiatic Brethren order. Until now, I have not witnessed you fall into the traps that have hindered the Neo-Golden Dawn reconstructionists, who have played fast and loose with redefining traditional Golden Dawn concepts and whose academic rigor has frequently been compromised by presenting wild speculation as established fact. I am therefore all the more disappointed with your apparent lapse of your customary academic impeccability in this instance.

The names of all GD members prior to 1905 were documented, and Sylvester Gould was not one of them.

In the late 1880's and1890's, prior to his resignation as Chief Adept in Anglia, W. Wynn Westcott approached a number of his fraternal contacts regarding starting Temples of the Golden Dawn. Thus, Temples numbers 4, 5, and 6 were started in England and Scotland, following Temple 3 in London. The founding chiefs of these Temples were given a Charter, and wound up becoming initiates of the Golden Dawn by charter.

In this same manner, Westcott wrote to Albert Pike in the USA, asking him to become head of the GD in America. Pike declined, however, citing his age and other time-consuming interests (in translating Sanskrit scriptures). It is entirely possible that Gould, like Albert Pike, had similar connections; but like Pike, he certainly never wound up becoming an initiate of the Golden Dawn.

Despite


the pubilcation that you cited on our forum refers to the Golden Dawn. I would like to believe that you are merely confusing the facts and have not decided to join in the chorus of wild speculation that has so badly marred the work of the Neo-Golden Dawn reconstructionists as contrasted with the far more successful resonctructionists in the Neo-Pagan community like Raymond Buckland, Isaac Bonewits, and Tony Mierzwicki.

I sincerely hope that you will return to your customary academic impeccability and will refrain from further wild speculation about the AO, while making cryptic inference without any supporting evidence whatsoever.

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Joseph's birth. Defendants answered and denied the material allegations of the complaint. The trial of this matter lasted several weeks. We will discuss the evidence pertinent to the issues presented on appeal, but do not attempt to summarize all of the evidence.
Certain facts are largely undisputed including, in relevant part, the following: At the time of Joseph's birth, Janella was eighteen years old and was living with her parents. She described herself as a "slow learner" and was in special education classes in school. In May 2001, shortly before she graduated high school, Janella went to a local medical clinic and learned that she was seven months pregnant. She received prenatal care at the clinic for the last two months of her pregnancy. Defendant Wake Forest University HealthSciences operates a medical residency program at the hospital. The residency program is under contract to deliver babies whose mothers, like Janella, do not have a private physician. They work in teams of four, consisting of three medical residents and one supervising ob/gyn physician.
On the morning of 27 July 2001 Janella was admitted to the hospital in the early stages of labor. She was given a bed, her vital signs were recorded, and an external fetal heart monitor was used to record her baby's heartbeat. At the time of her arrival the baby's heartbeat was within the normal range, and there were no signs of labor complications. Janella was given epidural *403 anesthesia, and the first twelve hours of her labor were relatively uneventful.
At around 7:00 p.m. the


hospital shift changed, and a new team of health care providers arrived. Thereafter Janella was attended by Dr. Heather Mertz, an obstetrician-gynecologist (ob/gyn); Dr. Anna Imhoff, the chief medical resident; Dr. Michael Potts, a third year medical resident; Dr. Felicia Nash, a first year medical resident; and Dana Morris, a registered nurse. During this time the drug pitocin was administered intermittently, and an internal fetal heart monitor was put in place. The parties generally agree that Janella's labor progressed normally until around midnight, with no signs of fetal distress serious enough to compromise the baby's health or require an emergency surgical delivery.
After midnight Janella was in the stage of labor characterized by the mother's "pushing" during contractions in order to deliver the baby. A disputed issue at trialwas the proper interpretation of the fetal heart monitor strip for this stage of labor. The parties agree, however, that there were indications of fetal distress during the last half hour before Joseph's birth. At 3:28 a.m. Dr. Mertz came to Janella's room for the first time and remained until after Joseph's birth. When Joseph was born at 3:52 a.m., he was limp, his skin was blueish, he was unable to breath, and he did not exhibit the neonatal suck, grasp, or startle reflexes. Joseph remained in the hospital until 7 August 2001, and then was transferred to North Carolina Baptist Hospital for several weeks until Janella could take him home.
It is not disputed that Joseph is profoundly disabled and suffers from cystic encephalomalacia and spastic quadriparetic cerebral


palsy. He cannot roll over or sit up, but must lie on his back. He has little or no vision, cannot control the movement of his limbs or head, cannot swallow or talk, and will always have to wear diapers. He has esophogeal reflux disease, and is fed through a tube in his stomach. He cannot walk, talk, or care for himself. He also suffers from a seizure disorder and asthma.
The parties presented conflicting evidence as to whether medical malpractice during Joseph's birth was a cause of his brain damage. It was uncontradicted that the placenta, which supplied Joseph with nutrients and oxygen prior to birth, was abnormal. The parties' experts disagreed about the significance of placental disease, and about the correct interpretation of the available information aboutbased on a predetermined attitude that all carriers are lazy and cheaters,” the Denver worker said. He added that when he was still at work, he and other employees were not being provided with hand sanitizer.

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Shawn Michaels is coming out of retirement after eight years at Crown Jewel

"The dream match is easy for me, as that's Shawn Michaels," Rollins said.

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“Video gaming and gambling in general is a grey area and everyone interprets this area in their own way. In the end, a game of chance is a game of chance and a game of skill is a game of skill. When you put a bet with a game of chance, you have broken the law in the State of North Carolina,” said Sgt. J. Hewett, with the Criminal Investigations/Narcotics Unit of the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office.

Bladen County Chief Deputy Larry Guyton said the charges against thePresident Barack Obama makes his debut on comedian Zach Galifianakis' web-based talk show "Between Two Ferns" Tuesday.

White House aides told the New York Times the president is appearing on the show to encourage young people to enroll in Obamacare through Healthcare.gov.

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