were so notified of the hearing.
Scott inspected the public site plan of the proposed development and sent a letter to the planning commission well in advance of the meeting, suggesting certain restrictions on the development which would protect the view of property owners to the north of the development. Scott received no reply to this letter. At the hearing, when the commission-chairman asked his clerk whether letters had been received, the clerk did not admit that Scott's letter had been received.
Scott attended the hearing of November 18, 1969. At that time Scott was first made aware that the development would include a heliport, several two-story buildings, and one six-story building. He also learned at that *545 time that his neighboring property owners had not been given notice ofthe hearing.
At the hearing the architect explained that the development would be "indigenous" to a neighboring country club development in the city. Taller buildings and commercial shops would be placed behind a hill, so that they would not be visible to members of the adjacent El Dorado Country Club. These buildings would, however, directly block the view of Scott and his neighbors. The architect refused to answer Scott's question as to why the development could not be made "indigenous" to his residential area as well. Scott was allowed to speak, but the planning commission members did not respond to Scott's objections to the development and apparently ignored him.
On December 4, 1969, Scott appeared at the city council meeting at which the planning commission's recommendation to grant the permit


National Lottery event 'The People's 50 Million Lottery Giveaway' at the Mermaid Conference Centre on October 23, 2007 in London, England. (Stuart Wilson/Getty)

The National Lottery Community Fund has confirmed it will award a grant worth £500,000 to the transgender children’s charity Mermaids following a two-month review into the funding.

A 40-page document published by the public body, which is responsible for distributing funds raised by the National Lottery for charitable causes, on Tuesday (February 19), concluded that the allegations made against Mermaids were baseless, and therefore did not justify withholding the grant.

The review, prepared by The National Lottery Community Fund’s Director for Scotland, set out to investigate a number of serious allegations made against the charity after news of the grant was first reported in The Sunday Times newspaperArtists connect with fans through power of the Web

By Kristina M. Jackson

Updated 7:28 am, Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Four years ago, Phoenix resident Anna Marie Iannitelli sat in the backseat of a car, belting out "Sweet Child O' Mine" with three of her friends as they re-created a scene from the movie "Step Brothers."

Then they posted the video on YouTube.

Among the more than 770,000 viewers who have watched the video since then was a music producer who saw something in a girl singing Guns N' Roses.

Iannitelli, 17, is now known to a growing number of fans as pop singer Avery. She has released a pair of singles from the CD she is recording for Universal Motown, and she'll perform Wednesday at Six Flags Fiesta Texas.

"I just liked to sing,


a series of YouTube channels.

John Green, author of "The Fault in Our Stars," has built an online community with a series of YouTube channels.

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She's part of a growing trend of young artists who have used YouTube as a springboard to mainstream success. Justin Bieber might be the most famous singer to be discovered on the site, but he and Avery are not the only ones who have learned how to use it to connect to their audience.

"It's a good way to create a fan base," said Avery, who has released original music and cover songs - and racked up almost 50 million video views - on her YouTube channel.

She said young artists canand a musical guest spot on "Saturday Night Live," come back to the site to get feedback from their fans.

"They use YouTube as a way to talk to their audience," he said.

Dane Boedigheimer's "Annoying Orange" web series is another prime example of a successful jump from YouTube to the mainstream. In 2009, Boedigheimer posted a video of the title character - an orange on which he had superimposed his mouth and eyes - hectoring a similarly animated apple. The mix of low-budget live action and computer animation, bad puns and violence against vegetables was indeed annoying - and very popular. The Annoying Orange channel has amassed more than 1.3 billion views, and the Cartoon Network launched a half-hour show featuring the characters in June.

"We've all been annoyed by


someone like Orange," Boedigheimer said in an email. "It's funny to watch someone else have to go through that."

He said YouTube users can cultivate their audience by posting frequently, but also by involving and remembering their audience as more people turn to YouTube for entertainment.

When Boedigheimer and his team pitched their "Annoying Orange" pilot, they wanted to find a network that would let them continue and maintain control over the web show.

"That audience was built online, so it would be counterintuitive to destroy that online fan base," he said.

Author John Green also has seen his audience grow, thanks to a video blog that he runs with his brother Hank.

Green has written four novels for young adults, three of which are New York Times best-sellers, along with another heco-wrote with friend David Levithan. His latest, "The Fault in Our Stars," is still No. 3 on the Times' children's chapter book list and No. 83 overall on Amazon.com 28 weeks after its release.

He credits the followers of the VlogBrothers YouTube channel with pushing his novels to this level of success.

"There are people who read my books who have no idea I make videos," Green said. "But if it weren't for people who create that kind of activation energy, no one would know my books."

Fans of the channel and others created by the Greens (such as Crash Course: Biology, Sci Show and Hank Games), known as "nerdfighters," have created a community that extends beyond the brothers' work. They banded together and started the Project for Awesome, for instance,


Dr. John Wah

The Science of Soil

When it comes to soil analysis, Dr. John Wah loves getting his hands dirty. Deep in a soil pit near the University of Maryland, John shows us how the color and texture of soil can reveal the age of an archaeological site. He works quickly as the sun begins to set in Maryland, but he doesn't forget to mention how much he loves this job.

SOIL TYPES

Sterile Versus Cultural Soil

Stratigraphy is one of the many ways archaeologists make sense of what they are excavating. By examining the different strata, or layers, of the soil, archaeologists can begin to piece
together a map of the archaeological site over time. Stratigraphy can be used to figure out which soil was associated with human occupation (and therefore likelychanges occurring during puberty may contribute to the increased incidence in adult women. This is further supported by studies indicating variation in the severity and frequency of asthma symptoms throughout the menstrual cycle.^[@R3]^

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A large number of children who develop symptoms of asthma are \<5 years of age.^[@R2]^ Despite this, the disease is frequently misdiagnosed or not suspected in infants and toddlers.^[@R4]^ Establishing the diagnosis of paediatric asthma involves a careful process of history taking, physical examination, and diagnostic studies. Coughing and wheezing are some of the most common symptoms in childhood, but shortness of breath, chest tightness, chest pressure, and chest pain are also reported. In addition, poor school performance and fatigue may also present as a result of sleep deprivation from nocturnal


risk factors for low health-related quality of life.^[@R38]^ In addition, this study reported different rates for asthma attacks and hospitalisations in elderly, middle aged, and young groups, but in all cases women were more prevalent and significantly more likely to have a positive allergen test than men.^[@R38]^ A study focussed on the unequal prevalence of asthma in men and women showed that both the male predominance prevalence before puberty and the 'sex-shift' towards females after puberty onset were stronger in multimorbid patients who had asthma and allergic rhinitis concurrently.^[@R39]^ Other studies of asthma comorbidities found adverse associations between cardiovascular disease vulnerability and the timing of asthma onset in adolescent boys.^[@R40]^

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Studies in animal models have suggested the involvement of sex hormones in mechanismsbeen found to increase, and testosterone to decrease, airway inflammation in asthma, but the mechanisms remain unclear.

When the effects of circulating sex hormone levels were studied in asthmatic children aged 6--18 years, both beneficial effects of androgens on lung function and symptom control, and weak deleterious effects of oestradiol on lung function, were observed.^[@R48]^ Starting at puberty, asthma symptoms increase in girls compared to boys, and fluctuations in hormones during menstruation are associated with changes in asthma symptoms.^[@R49]^ After puberty, sex hormones have also been found to regulate asthma symptoms during menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause,^[@R49]^ but studies on this topic are inconsistent and the mechanisms involved are not as clear. With regard to sensitisation and allergic responses, a recent review on immunological processes associated with IgE sensitisation concluded


Identification: Striped seaperch have narrow orange and blue longitudinal stripes with blue spots on their head. Their dorsal spines are low and their body is deep and compressed. Dark and light color variations.

Striped Seaperch from the Monterey Coast Guard Pier — color variation

Size: To 15 inches; most caught from piers are 9-13 inches long.The California record fish weighed 2 lb 3 oz and was taken from Wilson Beach, Del Norte Co. in 2008.

Habitat: Shallow-water, rocky-shore areas, typically found on the bottom.

Striped Seaperch from the Trinidad Pier (2004)

Piers: Common at central and northern California piers situated near rocks. Best bets: Cayucos Pier, Santa Cruz Wharf, San Francisco Municipal Pier, Elephant Rock Pier, Point Arena Pier, Trinidad Pier, and Citizens Dock in Crescent City. The Point Arena Pier is undoubtedlyOliver, 47, joins the Rangers organization after spending the past 11 seasons with the Colorado Avalanche organization (2007-08 - 2017-18). Oliver most recently served as Colorado's Director of Player Development, a role which he held for the last four seasons (2014-15 - 2017-18) as well as for two seasons in 2009-10 and 2010-11. During his tenure, he also served in a variety of roles for the Avalanche organization, including General Manager of the Lake Erie Monsters, Colorado's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, for three seasons (2007-08 - 2009-10), an Assistant Coach with Lake Erie for two seasons (2011-12 and 2012-13), and the Director of Hockey Operations with Lake Erie for four seasons (2010-11 - 2013-14). In his role as Colorado's Director of Player Development, he assisted in the


progression of several of the Avalanche's top prospects, including current Rangers defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk, who was selected by Colorado in the first round of the 2007 NHL Entry Draft and made his NHL debut with Colorado during the 2010-11 season.

Oliver served as Lake Erie's General Manager when the team hired current Rangers Head Coach David Quinn to be the Monsters' Head Coach prior to the 2009-10 season, and Oliver also served as an Assistant Coach on Quinn's staff in Lake Erie during the 2011-12 season. In his most recent role with the Avalanche as Director of Player Development, Oliver assisted in overseeing the development of all the franchise's prospects in the professional, junior, and college ranks in both North America and Europe.

Prior to beginning his tenure in anexecutive role, the Sechelt, British Columbia native played 13 seasons of professional hockey, including parts of nine seasons in the NHL (1994-95 - 1996-97; 1998-99 - 2000-01; 2002-03 - 2005-06). Oliver skated in 233 career NHL games with the Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers, Ottawa Senators, Phoenix Coyotes, and Dallas Stars, registering 49 goals and 49 assists for 98 points, along with 84 penalty minutes. He played in 14 regular season games and three playoff contests with the Rangers during the 1996-97 season, and he tallied three points (two goals, one assist) in his 14 regular season games as a member of the Blueshirts. Oliver established career-highs in games played (80), goals (20), assists (19), and points (39) with Edmonton in 1995-96, and he led the Oilers in


goals during his rookie season in 1994-95 with 16. He was selected by Edmonton in the seventh round, 144th overall, of the 1991 NHL Entry Draft.

Oliver also played four seasons of collegiate hockey with the University of Michigan (1990-91 - 1993-94) prior to beginning his professional career. In his final season at the school in 1993-94, he was a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award as the top player in collegiate hockey, and he was also named the CCHA Player of the Year. Oliver won the Turner Cup as International Hockey League (IHL) Champions with the Houston Aeros in 1998-99, as he registered 16 points (10 goals, six assists) in 19 playoff games.

Brown, 50, joins the Rangers organization after spending the past 14 seasons as a member ofthe coaching staff at Boston College (2004-05 - 2017-18), including the last six seasons as the team's Associate Head Coach (2012-13 - 2017-18). In his role at Boston College, Brown was responsible for overseeing the team's defensemen, and he also worked with the team's special teams units. During his tenure at the school, Boston College won the NCAA National Championship three times (2007-08, 2009-10, and 2011-12). Brown coached several current and former Rangers during his tenure at Boston College, including players such as Chris Kreider and Kevin Hayes. In addition, he assisted in the development of several defensemen who currently play in the NHL, including Brian Dumoulin, Noah Hanifin, Mike Matheson, Ian McCoshen, and Steven Santini. During the 2017-18 season, Boston College ranked fourth in Hockey East in


goals against per game (2.68) and led Hockey East in shorthanded goals (seven).

In addition to his coaching experience with Boston College, Brown has served as an Assistant Coach with Team USA in several international tournaments. He served as an Assistant Coach with the United States at the IIHF World Junior Championship three times (2014, 2017, 2018), helping Team USA earn a gold medal in 2017 and a bronze medal in 2018. Brown coached current Rangers defenseman Brady Skjei during the 2014 IIHF World Junior Championship, and he also coached defenseman Ryan Lindgren, a Rangers prospect, at the IIHF World Junior Championship in both 2017 and 2018.

Prior to beginning his coaching career, Brown completed a distinguished playing career that spanned nearly two decades at the professional, collegiate, and internationallevels. He played three seasons of collegiate hockey at Boston College (1986-87, 1988-89, and 1989-90), registering 120 points (24 goals, 96 assists) in 119 career games. Brown received numerous accolades over the course of his collegiate career. In both 1988-89 and 1989-90, Brown was named the Hockey East Player of the Year, was selected to the NCAA (East) First All-American Team, and was selected as a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award as the top player in collegiate hockey. During the 1987-88 season, Brown played with the United States Men's National Team prior to the 1988 Winter Olympics, and he was teammates with Rangers legends Brian Leetch and Mike Richter at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Brown was also teammates with Leetch and Richter, as well


as Rangers Head Coach David Quinn, at the 1986 IIHF World Junior Championship, where Team USA earned its first medal in the tournament's history (bronze). In addition, Brown and Leetch played together for one season at Boston College (1986-87) and represented the United States at the 1987 IIHF World Junior Championship. Brown also represented the United States at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France.

Following his collegiate career, Brown played 13 seasons of professional hockey, including parts of four seasons in the NHL (1990-91; 1992-93 - 1994-95). Brown, who was selected by Buffalo in the second round, 26th overall, of the 1986 NHL Entry Draft, skated in 94 career NHL games with Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Winnipeg, and he registered 18 points (four goals, 14 assists) and 86 penaltyminutes. He also played professional hockey in Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, and Germany during his career.

Ruff, 58, enters his second season as an Assistant Coach with the Rangers. He joined the Blueshirts organization on July 10, 2017 after serving as a Head Coach in the NHL for the previous 19 seasons (1997-98 - 2016-17). Ruff has posted a 736-554-78-125 record (.561 points percentage) in 1,493 career regular season games as an NHL head coach. He ranks sixth in NHL history in games coached and wins, trailing only Scotty Bowman, Joel Quenneville, Al Arbour, Ken Hitchcock, and Barry Trotz in both categories.


our most unmusical isle, is, as the title indicates, an
amateur, and so passionately devoted to his favourite science as to
insist upon his servant's wearing a waistcoat scored all over with
crotchets and semiquavers.

In 1809, the destruction by fire of the two patent houses having
compelled the rival companies to coalesce and repair to the Lyceum,
principally for the purpose of providing employment for the humbler
members of the profession, Theodore Hook contributed the well-known
after-piece of "Killing no Murder." Apart from the intrinsic merit
of the piece itself, the admirable acting of Liston as Apollo
Belvi, and of Mathews as Buskin, for whom it was especially written
(though, by the way, it is but justice to add, on the authority of
Mrs. Mathews, that the latter character was but "a sketch, which Mr.
Mathews filled up _ad libitum_"),--theredecidedly marks the character of the Methodist.
Of the hypocrisy introduced into the character, I am only sorry
that the lightness of the farce prevented my displaying a greater
depth of deception. All I can say is, that, whatever was written
in 'Killing no Murder,' against the Methodists, was written from a
conviction of their fallacy, their deception, their meanness, and
their profaneness."

Another farce, "Exchange no Robbery," produced at a somewhat later
period, under the pseudonym of "Richard Jones," deserves honourable
mention. Terry, another intimate associate from that time forth, had
in Cranberry a character excellently adapted to his saturnine aspect
and dry humour; and Liston was not less happily provided for in
Lamotte.

Almost all these pieces were written before Hook was twenty years of
age. Had he gone on in this successful dramatic career, and devoted
to such productions the


have," says he, "operas in the winter, which sets in about
July; and the races, too, begin in July. We have an excellent
beef-steak club, and the best Freemasons' lodge in the world. We have
subscription concerts and balls, and the parties in private houses
here are seldom less than from two to three hundred. At the last ball
given at the Government House, upwards of seven hundred and fifty
ladies were present, which, considering that the greater proportion
of the female population are not admissible, proves the number of
inhabitants, and the extent of the society."

It may be supposed, that if he was delighted with the Mauritius,
its society was enchanted with him. He was but twenty-five when he
arrived; and the sudden advancement of his position and enlargement
of his resources, must have had rather an excitingthe Rules of the King's Bench,
within which he hired a small separate lodging, in an airy enough
situation--Temple Place.

In 1824 Theodore Hook published the first series of that collection
of tales which, under the title of "Sayings and Doings,"[9] placed
him at once in the highest rank of the novelists of his generation;
above all his contemporaries, with the one exception, of course,
of the Author of "Waverley." The first idea and plan of the work
was struck out during the sitting of a sort of _John Bull_ conclave
held at Fulham, and had origin in the suggestion of a friend, who,
delighted with the anecdotes of Colonial life which Hook was pouring
forth, conceived that they might be turned to better account than
the mere entertainment of a dinner-party, and hit upon a title, at
which Hook caught


can they
talk so fast I cannot understand them: however, she _will_ have him,
nolus bolus, as the man says; and when once her mind is made up, she
is as resolute as the laws of the Maids and Parsons.

Mr. Rogers, the banker, (I know you know him,) came over with us in
the batow, and made many very odd remarks--one thing he said, at
which every body laughed, I could not tell why. My French footer
son-in-law asked him what the shore was called, which was close to
Hastings. "Close to Hastings," said Mr. Rogers, "why, Jane Shore, I
suppose." He is a very old-looking genus for a whig wag--Mr. Fulmer
said he put him in mind of Confusion, the old Chinee philosopher, who
was a Mandolin in them parts a year or two ago.

Hastings is athe fiddle; they play the late Mr. Weaver's overture to Obrien
uncommon well as a do-it; the Roundo is very difficult they tell
me--indeed I know it must be a beautiful piece of music, because they
have printed FINE in large letters at the end of it.

But I waist too much of your time--do come and take your tea with
us--we live a good deal out of the way, but when you get down to the
bottom of Oxford-street, ask anybody, and they will tell you which
road to take--it is all lighted at night here, and watched just like
London--do come.

  Adoo, yours, truly,
  LAVINIA D. RAMSBOTTOM.

XIV.

MRS. RAMSBOTTOM ON THE CANNING ADMINISTRATION.

TO JOHN BULL.

  Montague Place, Bedford Square,
  May 18, 1827.

DEAR B.,--I am quite in a consternation--you are no longer


one lady play
_Merry tricks_, but if so, I dare say she'll try _new tricks_ before
she comes there again--however, the conduct of the men was quite
obstropolous, and one of them spoke to my seckond as if he had been
introdeuced, and when he asked her name, and she said Ramsbottom, he
behaved more imperently than he had done before, and said that he
had noed us all long ago. I'm sure he never noed me, nor none of my
daughters, and so I told him, and I begged Mr. Fulmer to find out
the Secrethairy, Mr. Sabine, to come and speak to the imperent poppy;
but Fulmer told me that we had better go away as fast as we could,
for that when men were in _that_ state none of the Sabines would be
safe; so ofhone--I went, the other night, into "Tommy's
box;" I don't know why they called the place so--it was like a vaper
bath, with certains all round it; and there I seed the Chanceseller
lying full-length on the Wulsack--(which I thought a hod thing to
have in sich a place)--and I am told he may be seen lying there every
night--when I say lying, I mean stretching,--and poor nobleman, no
wonder, for he must be a most tired out--wot with the intrests of
the nayshun, and the cawses in his Court, and the trouble he is
at to keep silence there--and carrion the bag--and riting leaden
articles in the noos-peppers, and his repeals, and one thing and
the other. Have you seen his pitcher in the Suffocating gallery of
Artists?--there he is, as like as like can be, but only


Michael's dinner--Michael's dinner!

      Lambton leads the patriot van;
        Noble fellow--generous fellow!
      Quite the dandy of the clan--
        Rather yellow--rather yellow!
      Of fair Liberty he tells
        Tales bewitching--tales bewitching;
      But they vanish, when he smells
        Michael's kitchen--Michael's kitchen!

      Lawyer Brougham is next in rank;
        Prates like Babel--prates like Babel;
      He has never eat or drank
        At Bribery'sClergyman, ho?
                --Yes, one Doctor Fellowes,
                Who puffs like a bellows,
            The coals of sedition to blow----blow,
              The coals of sedition to blow.

      And has she no General--Heigh, Ma'am, ho, Ma'am?
              Has she no General, ho?
                --Yes, poor prating Wilson,


shifted to Ransome,
            To whom she does nothing but owe----owe,
                To whom she does nothing but owe.

      Has she a good table, Ma'am--Heigh, Ma'am, ho, Ma'am?
              Has she a good table, Ma'am, ho?
                --There is one Mrs. Wilde,
                Who her cook-maid is styled,
              A pig--and a blanket--
            A sturgeon from Stangate--
            The donors all thank-ed
                By Royal desire!
            Old Parr gave his benison
            To Parkins's venison,
            But the pamphlet of Tennyson
                He threw in the fire.

      Last came


fool in Scottish pints from Mr. James Macdonald,
                    Ma'am.
              Come, ladies, come, 'tis now the time for capering,
              Freedom's flag, at Willis's, is just unfurl'd.

      Silly Billy volunteer'd to get a royal stag shot,
        To treat the Whigs with venison, but it would not do;
      His Highness was unlucky--so he sent a goose from Bagshot,
        While little Rice hasWhyttingtone hys Catte!

      Ye kynge hathe ynn hys towre off state
          Beares, lyones and alle thatte;
      But hee hathe notte a beste soe grate
          Ass Whyttingtone hys Catte!

      This Catte dothe notte a catte appear,
          Beeynge toe bigge forre thatte,
      But herre attendaunts alle doe weare
          Some tokyn off a Catte;

      Ye one hathe whyskerres, thick ass burrs,


the
inventor of the now hacknied concit called "Cross readings." It is
certain, that in his note sent with the venison, he called Sir Joshua
his deer friend, hoped it would suit his pallate, recommended him
to take some cuts from it and transfer them to plates, spoke of the
current sauce being jelly, and perhaps signed himself his Buck friend
(for at that period the words Buck and Maccaroni were the distinctive
appellations of two classes of persons in London). I surmise this,
because he was a confirmed punster, a character somewhat prized in
those days. Goldsmith said it was impossible to keep company with him
without being infected with the itch of punning. He is celebrated in
the postscript to "Retaliation:"--

      "Merry Whitefoord, farewell! for thy sake I admit
        And take from your pocket my Rimini,
      And read it through and through, and think of me;
      And then you take some other work of mine,
      And con it daintily, tasting it line by line,
      Pausing 'tween whiles, as one does drinking port,
      And smack your lips, saying, 'This is your right sort.'
      And when it has grown too dark for you to see,
      You close the book and wish for your dear Leigh:
      Then comes a little bird, fluttering near,


room also stood Mr. Beddome, in a richly-wrought black silk
  gown, carrying the sword downwards. The Lord Mayor, who was in
  full dress, and attended by the Chaplain in clerical robes, wore
  on this occasion the brilliant collar of S.S. (_quære_ A.SS.)
  The Worshipful the Mayor, and the other Magistrates of Oxford;
  Richard Cox, Esq., Thomas Fox Bricknell, Esq., Aldermen; William
  Folker, Esq., Thomas Robinson, Esq., Richard Ferdinand Cox, Esq.,
  Assistants; Mr. Deodatus Eaton, and Mr. Crews Dudley, Bailiffs;
  together with Mr. Percival Walsh, the City Solicitor, attended by
  the Town Clerk, in his robe of office, which resembled in some
  degree the undress black silk gown worn by Gentlemen Commoners
  of the University--were all severally introduced,and grounds were thronged with spectators, either
  strolling about or seated on the grass; and on the opposite
  banks, several tents were erected for general convenience; around
  which the children shouted and threw up their hats!"

What particular occurrences excited the mirth and activity of the
children round this particular spot, the reverend gentleman omits to
mention; the following, however, must not be overlooked:--

  "The increasing pressure of the surrounding people now rendered
  the adoption of some plan necessary by which their curiosity
  could be better gratified. Arrangements were accordingly made
  to admit the female part of the spectators, in small successive
  parties, to walk round the tables as the company were seated
  at dinner; and it was curious to see how


amendment, "That in future, Members of Parliament should only be
allowed to send five letters, and receive the same number each day,
free of postage, and that the weight of each of such letters should
not exceed half an ounce."--(Yells of disapprobation.)

Mr. Van said that the objection of the Honourable Secretary of
the Post-office was perfectly ridiculous, as regarded the probable
insufficiency of the mail coaches; he would ask, Would it not be an
easy matter to alter the system of coaches, and in their place adopt
that of steam conveyance? The number of railways with which the whole
country was now about to be intersected would render such alteration
a matter of the greatest ease, and one steam carriage would be able
to perform the work of a dozen mail coaches. (Hear, hear, hear.)

The Chancellor of thebe
  removed by emancipation. His understanding is sharp and quick,
  and manners, as I have said, winning and popular; although
  somewhat of the actor is perceivable in them, they do not conceal
  his very high opinion of himself, and are occasionally tinged
  by what an Englishman would call 'vulgarity.' Where is there a
  picture entirely without a shade?

  "Another interesting man, the real, though not ostensible, head
  of the Catholics, was present, Father L'Estrange, a friar, and
  O'Connell's confessor. He may be regarded as the real founder
  of that Catholic Association so often derided in England, but
  which by merely negative powers, by dexterous activity in secret,
  and by universally organizing and training the people to


he, 'you think like Voltaire,

      "Les prêtres ne sont pas ce qu'un vain peuple pense,
      Et sa crédulité fait toute notre science."'

  'Ma foi,' said I, 'si tous les prêtres vous ressemblaient je
  penserais bien autrement.'"

  "I was, unfortunately, unable to keep my word with my friendly
  Amphitryon. A 'megrim' confined me all day to my bed. The
  archbishop sent me word that he would cure me; and, if I
  would but bring firm faith, would be sure to drive away the
  headache-fiend by a well-applied exorcism. I was, however,
  obliged to reply, that this devil was not one of the most
  tractable, and that he respected no onesounder.'

"'No fear of that,' said I; 'but what do you propose?'

"'Why,' said mine hostess, 'I _have_ one bed unoccupied.'

"'Why didn't you say so before?' cried I.

"'I'll tell you why,' said my fair friend; 'it's a double-bedded
room, and the other bed is occupied by a----'

"'----snoring farmer, from Farnham,' said I; 'or perhaps a
tight-skinned sailor, walking his way to town from Portsmouth.'

"'No,' said she, looking very pathetic--and very pretty by the
way--'by a lady.'

"'A lady,' said I, 'oh, charming thought!----'

"'There it is,' interrupted the lady, 'that's just what I expected,
you are all fire and tow--alight in a moment--now I shall not say
another word, and you must sleep, if you _will_ sleep here, in the
arm-chair by the fire.'

"'No,' said I, 'no--don't be angry--I didn't know--I thought----'

"'Yes, Mr. Daly, that's what you are


at this day--so do you."

"No, I do not," said I.

"Pooh, pooh," said Hull, "don't tell _me_--Jemmy Hobbs--everybody
knows Jemmy Hobbs--married Miss Ball of Blackheath--'Splendid
fellow, Jemmy. Well! these Mercers are a fine company, so are the
Grocers,--St. Anthony is their patron. My dear sir, I am forced
to know all these things. Then there are the Drapers, and the
Fishmongers--pooh, pooh--Doctors, and Proctors, and Princes of the
Blood, are all fishmongers--Walworth was a fishmonger--eh--my dear
friend, you should see their paintings--splendid things--Spiridiona
Roma--fish in all seasons. Then there are the Goldsmiths and the
Skinners, and the Merchant Tailors--Linen Armourers--eh--queer
fellows, some of them; but I do assure you--" (this was said in a
whisper,) "you will see some men here to-day worth seeing."

"I suppose," said I, "the Toothpick Makers' Company was founded by
Curius Dentatus--whence comes the French _cure-dent_."

"Pooh, pooh,"in course as yet it all goes
uncommon comfortable; for, as O'Keefe says in his comical farce of
'Love for Love:'--

      To fools a curse, to those a lasting boon,
      What wisely spends the hunney moon.

"I hope poor Miss Fanny don't take on about the loss of master;
I'm sure if I was she, and knew that he left me for the sake of
Malooney's money, I should care no more about him than nothing at
all--true love loves for itself a loan--don't it, dear Sarah? Oh,
Sarah! Susan and I had some hot sassages and mashed potatoes for
dinner to-day, and I did so think of you, and I said so; and Susan
says to me, says she, 'Does your Sarah love sassages?' so I


who died in Antigua.'

"'That's very clear,' said the old cabinet-maker; 'for, as I said
before, here you are.'

"'Still,' said I, 'sir,'--I thought the sir good--'you do not
understand: I am the brother--the twin brother of poor Bob Daly who
lived here with you, and who has died, as I unfortunately know, deep
in your debt.'

"'What!' exclaimed the upholsterer, '_you_ his brother!
Impossible--ridiculous! Why, I should know you from a thousand by
that little knob on your nose.'

"'That may be, sir,' said I; 'but I was born with a knob on my nose
as well as my brother. I assure you he is in his grave at Antigua.'

"This astounded him, and he was proceeding to ring the bell in order
to call up the housemaid, who had made herself particularly familiar
with my knob, in order to identifyof the collation."

"But, my dear sir," said I.

"Mum," said Daly, at the same moment pulling the head of his funny
'chock block,' as the sailors say, into the bank of the garden, upon
whose velvet surface he jumped with the activity of an opera dancer.
I sat in amazement, doubting what he was about to do, and what I
should do myself. The first thing I saw was my friend pacing in
measured steps along the front of the terrace. He then affected to
write down something in my book--then he stopped--raised his hand to
his eyes, as if to make an horizon in order to obtain a level--then
noted something more--and then began to pace the ground afresh.

"Bring the staff out of the boat," said he to me, with an air of
command, which was so


and horror when I heard him
say,----

"Sir! what I have done in your house or in your society to induce
you to believe me capable of taking a bribe to compromise my duty,
I really don't know. Mr. Higgins, I call you to witness that this
person has had the insolence to put a fifty-pound bank-note into my
hand. Witness, too, the manner in which I throw it back to him." Here
he suited the word to the action. "Learn, old gentleman," continued
he, with an anger so well feigned that I almost believed him in
earnest, "that neither fifty nor fifty thousand pounds will warp
an honest man from the duty he owes to his employers; and so, sir,
good-night, and rely upon it, your conservatory goes,--rely upon it,
Sir Timothy;--it comes in the right line, and theplate's like lead,
        The faded carpet dirty,
      Grey hairs peep out from each dark head,
        And twenty looks like thirty.
      You sit beside an heiress gay,
        And do your best to win her,
      But oh!--what can one do or say,
        If 'tis a daylight dinner?

      A lovely dame just forty-one,
        At night a charming creature,
      My praise unqualified had won,
        In


gradations of my life, the removal from
one residence to another, the enlargement of this warehouse, the
rebuilding of that, the anxiety of a canvass for common councilman,
activity in the company of which I am liveryman, inquests, and
vestries, and ward meetings, and all the other pleasing toils to
which an active citizen is subject, let us come at once to the first
marked epoch of my life--the year of my Shrievalty. The announcement
of my nomination and election filled Mrs. S. with delight; and when
I took my children to Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, to
look at the gay chariot brushing up for me, I confess I felt proud
and happy to be able to show my progeny the arms of London, those of
the Spectacle-makers' Company, and those of the Scroppses (recently
found at avery good investment, and, turning
to his host, inquired "if such was the case--if the bridge really
answered?"

"I don't know," said Theodore, "but you have only to cross it, and
you are sure to be _tolled_."

"MR. THOMPSON IS TIRED."

Some years ago an ingenious representation of the destruction of
a Swiss village by an avalanche was exhibited at the Diorama in
the Regent's Park, the effect of which was greatly increased by a
clever vocal imitation of the dreary winter wind whistling through
the mountains; but this sound ceasing whilst the exigencies of
the scene still demanded its continuance, Theodore Hook, who was
present, exclaimed, "_Bless me, Mr. Thompson is tired_," which set
the spectators laughing, nor could they at all resume the awe-struck
gravity with which they had previously witnessed the tragic
picture.--_Edinburgh Review_, July, 1859.

THE ORIGINAL "PAUL PRY."

Tom Hill,


says Allan, 'whatever you do,
      It will comfort my heart to accompany you.
      That there grog at the governor's! O, what a goose!
      Which is best, steel or lead, or a drop of the juice?'

      'First a drop of the juice this here bottle contains--
      And then barkers, like gemmen, to blow out our brains!
      Here they are, fill your glass, to that bed-room retire--
      Make ready, present, and when mine goes off--fire!'

      Humble Allan then manfully emptied his glass,
      And with pistolon cock to the bed-room did pass;
      In a moment he heard massa's _bang_, and the <DW65>
      In his mouth clapp'd the muzzle and drew back the trigger.

      Then the beaks tumbled in, black and bistre and yellow,
      And found Hook in great horror beside the poor fellow.
      His own bullet of course perforated the floor--
      And the peacher could now be cross-questioned no more."

[9] "Sayings and Doings" provoked a rather pungent satirical
pamphlet, entitled "Sayings and Doings Considered, with On Dits,
Family Memoirs, etc., etc., etc. London: Allman, 1825," p. 46.

[10] The Vatican.

[11] Annibale Caracci.

[12] Giorgione.

[13] Gray's Inn.

[14] _Trop


of his hearers to what party he professed to belong. "To
the Whigs, to be sure," said Perry. "So do I," rejoined his friend,
"but not to the _Perry-Whigs_."

[43] Josephus Miller, edit. Lond. (no date) page 42.

[44] The crime she was charged with, it may be necessary to say, was
sorcery, not murder:--putting people _out_ of the world she had never
been accused of.

[45] Palæphatus de incredibilibus.--Ed. 1649.

[46] The strongest contradiction to the assertion that she _never_
assumed the human form may be found in a work intituled _Institutione
di uno fanciullo nato nobilimente_.--Ed. 1558.

[47] _John Bull_, Oct. 14, 1821.

[48] _John Bull_, Oct. 13, 1822.

[49] _John Bull_, March 30, 1823.

[50] The reader will scarcely require to be informed that Leigh Hunt
is the person alluded to--_Ed._

[51] Keats.

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on campus. Below is additional information that may prove helpful as you continue the vital work of contacting your classmates to encourage their support of Williams.

Derbyshire, who was fired from his role as a commentator for the National Review in 2012 after writing this piece in another publication, had been invited to speak by a couple of students involved with the Uncomfortable Learning group on campus. Derbyshire’s expressions of hate in the 2012 piece were directed specifically toward African-Americans, but his other writings and speeches have expressed, among other things, homophobic and misogynistic viewpoints (stating that women should not have the right to vote, for instance).

Cancellation by the college of a scheduled speaker—even one engaged by a group of students receiving no funding or official recognition from thecollege—is extremely rare and something the college would do only in extreme circumstances. This is the first such instance we’re aware of. Uncomfortable Learning has hosted many events over the past several years including K.C. Johnson, who spoke on November 5, 2015, after the Venker cancellation.

It is important to note key distinctions between this cancelation and the cancellation of a scheduled talk by Suzanne Venker in the fall. Both speakers were invited by the same group, Uncomfortable Learning. In the Venker incident, the students did not consult with or advise the college prior to inviting her. Indeed, the college learned of the planned event only after the student organizers had canceled it.

Had the administration been consulted, it would have strongly advised the students to continue the talk as


Sunday, December 19, 2010

Halloween 2010

Our 2010 Halloween picture. It was a cold night, but we had another great Halloween. I kept thinking about last year being pregnant. I was so big, I walked like 2 houses with Liv and had to go back and sit down. And now a year later, I have a "nice witch" and a "grumpy strawberry" on my hands. That hat was so cute, but Ava preferred not.

This is Maci. She was born I think 5 weeks after Ava came. The kids starting coming around five, so we fed Bean outside.

The best part of the night was when Olivia said "my customers are coming"! She individually put most of the candy into separate bags for the kids. I can't describe to you how muchmy daughter loves to give. She is so passionate and sincere.

This is our neighbor, Braedon. He is adorable. Liv loves to mother hen him. His parents: Darren and Jessica sat with us. Darren was handing out Margarita's to everyone, although it was to cold so most people said no. Next year I am going to make hot apple cider for everyone.

This is our neighbor Monique. Her favorite time of year is Halloween. Every year she dresses up as something different. It's top secret. This year she was the Mad Hatter from Alice and Wonderland. Her costume and stage presence was right on. Liv just stared at her, I did too! Then she transforms back to herself and we talk at the bus stop! Wonder what she will be


With the assistance of the ITUC-Asia Pacific, 25 representatives from the ASEAN Trade Union Council (ATUC) witnessed the historical Second Congress of the Federation of Trade Unions Myanmar (FTUM) after a lengthy struggle for union and workers’ rights recognition in the country.

Brother Khalid Bin Atan, ATUC President, extolled the “many sacrifices, the sweat and blood, the sustained struggle for recognition and existence, long-standing zeal of true trade union activists” for a better future for workers of Myanmar during the opening ceremony along with other speakers from the regional/international unions.

Members of the five industry unions from the agriculture, industrial, transport and logistics, mining and building and wood sectors representing more than the majority of some 1,200 registered unions in Myanmar participated in the FTUM Congress. FTUM changed its nameDutch outfit ARKUS have maintained a low profile presence for three decades or so. Their first ever production was issued back in 1981, a concept album called 1914 isnpired by a poem wriiten by Bert Voeten. Initially issued as a privately pressed vinyl, this debut effort was reissued by Dutch label SI Music in 1993, and is due to that this band's most well known production.

A self released CD, Win or Loose, appeared in 1991, and in 2003 a third album followed in the shape of Two of a Kind. Neither of which made much of an impact, and where the latter in particular appears to be a CD impossible to track down these days.

It would appear that Arkus is still a going concern, at least if some


the vessel, and possibly other connected vessels, until the point of treatment is reached. This navigation requires the stent to be able to move axially through the vessel(s) prior to deployment, while still maintaining the ability to exert an outward force on the interior wall once deployed. Accordingly, stents typically have radially unexpanded and expanded configurations. In the unexpanded configuration, the stent has a relatively small diameter that allows it to move axially through the vessel. In the expanded configuration, the stent has a relatively large diameter that allows it to exert an outward force on the interior wall of the lumen, thereby providing the desired support to the vessel.
During navigation through the vessel(s), the stent will likely encounter various turns and bends, which requires the stent toallow a worker to examine the position of the striking plate in the opening of the golf club head after the first welding procedure and before the high energy welding.
A further object of the present invention is to provide an inclined face on an outer side of the flange such that the flange that is molten during the high energy welding flows into a gap between the striking plate and the golf club head body, thereby improving the welding quality and the welding strength.
A golf club head in accordance with the present invention includes a golf club head body and a striking plate. The golf club head body has an opening on a front side thereof, with a flange being formed on the front side and extending along


an outer peripheral edge defining the opening. A plurality of engaging notches are defined in the flange. The striking plate has a plurality of supporting rods. Each supporting rod is engaged in an associated one of the engaging notches when the striking plate is inserted into the opening of the golf club head body to thereby support the striking plate and to thereby position the striking plate in the opening of the golf club head body before high energy welding.
Other objects, specific advantages, and novel features of the invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description and preferable embodiments when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.Saddam's Very Own PartyBy: Nick Cohen New Statesmen | Wednesday, June 09, 2004

Just before the war against Iraq I began to receive strange calls from BBC journalists. Would I like information on how the leadership of the anti-war movement had been taken over by the Socialist Workers Party? Maybe, I replied. It was depressing that a totalitarian party was in the saddle, but that's where the SWP always tries to get. Why get excited?

Oh there are lots of reasons, said the BBC hacks. The anti-war movement wasn't a simple repetition of the old story of the politically naive being led by the nose by sly operators. The far left was becoming the far right. It had gone as close to supporting Ba'athist fascism as it dared and had


elections. With the exception of the New Statesman and Tribune - and the Harry's Place website at hurryupharry.bloghouse.net - no one has found it worth noting that, for the first time since the Enlightenment, a section of the left is allied with religious fanaticism and, for the first time since the Hitler-Stalin pact, a section of the left has gone soft on fascism.

At first glance, Respect - the Unity Coalition (the name under which the Muslim Association of Britain and the SWP have united) offers the best chance the far left has ever had of winning a European seat. One million people demonstrated in London against the war last year - two, if you believe the march organisers.

Not much has changed since then. Read the liberal press andessential step would have been a decision to have nothing to do with Galloway. He had flown to Baghdad and greeted a tyrant who modelled himself on Stalin, while emulating the racial extermination campaigns of Hitler, with "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength and your indefatigability". Yet there he was on stage as the star speaker at last year's anti-war rally in Hyde Park, and no one in the crowd booed or threw an egg. Since then, this modern Mitford sister has published his autobiography, I'm Not the Only One (unfortunately he's right on that), which is packed with apologetics for Saddam's slaughters of Kurds, Shias, democrats and socialists.

Even this performance has not embarrassed his backers. Galloway has become Respect's unique selling point. His pinched face adorns


its propaganda, and the uninitiated might believe that Respect is simply the George Galloway Party.

The price you pay when you ally yourself with religious fundamentalists is a downgrading of the aspirations of women and gays. The Muslim Association of Britain, the British branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, said that Galloway was a man it could do business with when he told the Independent that "abortion is morally and ethically wrong". These comments, the association said, as well as Galloway's "statements on faith and God in the same interview, will surely be welcomed by British Muslims who see Respect as a real alternative to the main political parties".

As for gays, well, they are being told that they must know their place. A few weeks ago, there was a nastyincident when members of Peter Tatchell's OutRage! group joined a pro-Palestinian demonstration. Their placards read: "Israel: stop persecuting Palestine. Palestine: stop persecuting queers". The slogans had been inspired by the arrest and torture of Palestinian gays by Hamas and Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. When the demonstration went into Trafalgar Square, the gay protesters were surrounded by an angry crowd of Islamic fundamentalists, Anglican priests and members of the SWP, and were variously denounced as "racists", "liars" and "Zionists". Say that Palestinians should be freed from theocratic tyranny as well as Israeli occupation and you're an American, or, worse, a Jew.

The feminists used to say that rape isn't about sex: it's about power. And, mutatis mutandis, the same applies to the SWP. You join them in a coalition because


Cheeky Instagram message has Manu loving Bundy barbecues

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BUNDABERG couple Jason Marland and Emily Clever never thought a cheeky Instagram message to a celebrity chef would have their fire pit in the backyard of MasterChef judge Manu Feildel, but it did.

The couple started Yagoona Design Australia as a side business in Bundy in 2014, after friend Alex Lototzky moved to Switzerland and found there were no barbecues to suitan open fire, so he designed one, and opened a company.

FIRE PIT: Yagoona Design Australia is based in Bundaberg. Celebrity chef Manu Feildel often posts photos of what he is cooking on Instagram.Instragram

It started with Mr Lototzy's desire to have a dependable wood fire grill that was built to last forever.

Ms Clever said the fire pits were made out of re-purposed material.

They are made from gas tanks which are shipped to Australia and with other parts manufactured in Brisbane, it is packaged and shipped from the Rum City.

"I was saw Colin Fassnidge was doing up his backyard on Instagram and sent him a message saying one of our fire pits would look good in it," Ms Clever said.

"He replied and said it would and his mate Manu would


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[Presented at a session on "Human Action After Sixty Years" at the Eastern Economic Association in New York City, February 26-March 1, 2009.]

In September of 2009, it will be sixty years since the appearance of Ludwig von Mises's Human Action, a Treatise on Economics, one of the truly great "classics" of modern economics. Often a "classic" means a famous book considered to have made important contributions to a discipline that is reverentially referred to but is rarely ever read. In economics, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is the typical example of such a work. Every economist has heard of the "invisible hand" and the notion of self-interest furthering the public interest through the incentive mechanism of the market, but probably few economists nowadays have actually read more thana handful of snippets and brief passages from Smith's treatise.

However, Human Action uniquely stands out as a classic in the literature of economics. Not only among Austrian economists but also for a growing number of other people, Mises's brilliant treatise continues to be read and taken seriously as a cornerstone for understanding the nature of the free society and the workings of the market economy.

It has taken on even more significance in these early years of the 21st century precisely because of the economic crisis through which the world is presently passing. It rings just as relevant today as when it was published six decades ago because the issues that Mises dealt with in Human Action and in many of his other works still dominate the public-policy discourses


of our own time.

A central concept through much of the book is Mises's insistence on the essential importance of economic calculation. In the early decades of the 20th century, socialists of almost all stripes were certain that the institutions of the market economy could be done away with — either through peaceful means or violent revolution — and replaced with direct government ownership or control of the means of production with no loss in economic productivity or efficiency.

Mises's landmark contribution was to demonstrate that only with market-based prices expressed through a medium of exchange could rational decision making be undertaken for the use and application of the myriad means of production to assure the effective satisfaction of the multitudes of competing consumer demands in society.

"Monetary calculation is theof consumers. The political intervener is left with the choice of either introducing new controls and regulations in an attempt to compensate for the distortions and imbalances the prior interventions have caused, or repealing the interventionist controls and regulations already in place and allowing the market once again to be free and competitive. The path of one set of piecemeal interventions followed by another entails a logic in the growth of government that eventually would result in the entire economy coming under state management. Hence, interventionism consistently applied could lead to socialism on an incremental basis.

The most pernicious form of government intervention, in Mises's view, was political control and manipulation of the monetary system. Contrary to both the Marxists and the Keynesians, Mises did not consider the fluctuations


sets the stage for an eventual economic downturn. By distorting the rate of interest — the market price for borrowing and lending — the monetary authority throws savings and investment out of balance, with the need for an inevitable correction.

The "depression" or "recession" phase of the business cycle occurs when the monetary authority either slows downs or stops any further increases in the money supply. The imbalances and distortions become visible, with some investment projects having to be written down or written off as losses, with reallocations of labor and other resources to alternative, more profitable employments, and sometimes significant adjustments and declines in wages and prices to bring supply and demand back into proper order.

The Keynesian revolution of the 1930s, which then dominated economic-policy discussions for decadesfollowing the Second World War, was based on a fundamental misconception of how the market economy worked. What Keynes called "aggregate demand failures" (to explain the reason for high and prolonged unemployment) distracted attention from the real source of less-than-full employment: the failure of producers and workers on the "supply side" of the market to price their products and labor services at levels that potential demanders would be willing to pay. Unemployment and idle resources were a pricing problem, not a demand-management problem. Mises considered Keynesian economics basically to be nothing more than a rationale for special-interest groups, such as trade unions, who didn't want to adapt to the reality of supply and demand, and what the market viewed as their real worth.

Thus Mises's conclusion from his analysis


of socialism and interventionism, including monetary manipulation, was that there is no alternative to a thoroughgoing, unhampered, free-market economy — and one that included a market-based monetary system such as the gold standard. Both socialism and interventionism are, respectively, unworkable and unstable substitutes for capitalism. The classical liberal defends private property and the free-market economy, he insisted, precisely because it is the only system of social cooperation that provides wide latitude for freedom and personal choice to all members of society, while generating the institutional means for coordinating the actions of billions of people in the most economically rational manner.

The apparent "triumph" of capitalism over collectivism, following the demise of the Soviet bloc in the 1990s, was mostly an illusion. Governments in the Western world did not reducetheir size or intrusiveness in the economic affairs of their citizens. The interventionist welfare state has remained alive and well.

But the heart of the interventionist system is government control of the monetary system — indeed, it has remained an untouched system of monetary central planning through the institution of central banking. During the Second World War, the German free-market economist Gustav Stolper, then in exile in America from war-torn Europe, pointed out that,

Hardly ever do the advocates of free capitalism realize how utterly their ideal was frustrated at the moment the state assumed control of the monetary system…. A "free" capitalism with government responsibility for money and credit has lost its innocence. From that point on it is no longer a matter of principle but one of expediency


how far one wishes or permits governmental interference to go. Money control is the supreme and most comprehensive of all government controls short of expropriation.

Stolper went on to say,

there is today only one prominent liberal theorist consistent enough to advocate free, uncontrolled competition among the banks in the creation of money. Mises, whose intellectual influence on modern neo-liberalism was very strong, has hardly made one proselyte for that extreme conclusion.

Fortunately, over the last thirty years, Mises's analysis and defense of gold-backed, private competitive banking in place of government-monopoly central banking has finally begun to win over a growing number of Austrian and other advocates.

Monetary manipulation by central banks inserts one of the most disruptive distortions into the process of economic calculation. Interest rates — which are meant toof arguments in 1928, even before the Great Depression began, including a warning about what today is understood as "moral hazard," the danger of reinforcing the repetition of bad decisions by the government bailing out mistakes made in the market:

In any event, the practice of intervening for the benefit of banks, rendered insolvent by the crisis, and of the customers of these banks, has resulted in suspending the market forces which could serve to prevent a return of the expansion, in the form of a new boom, and the crisis which inevitably follows. If the banks emerge from the crisis unscathed, or only slightly weakened, what remains to restrain them from embarking once more on an attempt to reduce artificially the interest rate on loans and expand circulation


education, and the energy sector — as well as a much greater control over the financial and capital markets.

But where will all the money come from to fund this new gargantuan largess for expanded political paternalism? In the Austria of the interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s, Mises had witnessed and explained the consequences from unrestrained government spending that finally resulted in the "eating of the seed corn" — capital consumption. Mises warned of this danger, too, in the pages of Human Action, and the fact that there must be a point at which the interventionist welfare state will have exhausted "the reserve fund" of accumulated wealth, after which the consumption of capital becomes the only basis upon which to continue to feed the fiscal demands ofthe redistributive state Those currently in political power in Washington seem hell-bent on bringing this about in the decades ahead.

When Friedrich A. Hayek reviewed the German-language predecessor to Human Action, shortly after it appeared in 1940, he emphasized its astonishingly unique qualities:

There appears to be a width of view and an intellectual spaciousness about the whole book that are much more like that of an eighteenth-century philosopher than that of a modern specialist. And yet, or perhaps because of this, one feels throughout much nearer reality, and is constantly recalled from the discussion of the technicalities to the consideration of the great problems of our time … It ranges from the most general philosophical problems raised by all scientific study of human action to the major problems of


In This Section

In Memoriam

Sharon K. Broadley (1942–2010)

Orest Ranum, September 2011

Historian of Early Modern France

Sharon K. Broadley (née Kettering) left her beloved husband, cherished dogs, former colleagues and friends on August 24, 2010, to carry on without her learning, witty vivaciousness, and support. Born in 1942 in Washington D.C., Sharon grew up in Burlingame, California, earning all her post-high school degrees at Stanford University. In a preface she thanks Louis Spitz, for inspiring her to become a historian, and Philip Dawson for supervising her work on a dissertation that became her first book, Judicial Politics and Urban Revolt in Seventeenth-century France (Princeton University Press, 1978). She argued in this book that it was only after the Aixois population ceased to join its rebellion did the Parlement of Provence acceptincreased Parisian powers over it.

While there is a fil conducteur throughout her work, there was little reason to suspect a work on clientage in which an inspired reading in political science would be developed to illuminate 17th-century politics. Social relations based on the power (crédit) to distribute royal offices and pensions stretched all across the realm, with brokers empowered by their influence in the highest circles of the government and the court, controlled local patronage and pensions. So deftly researched and put together, Patrons, brokers and clients.. (Oxford, 1986) quickly became recognized as one of the top four or five books in the field ever written by an American. In 1983 Sharon went to law school, completed the degree, sat for the law-board exam, and was admitted to


the Maryland Bar in 1986. During her second year, it became clear that whatever the charms of the law and the prospects in that profession, the love for research and writing history would prevail. Sharon taught history for 25 years at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. She applied for positions at some leading universities but was turned down in favor of less effective teachers and scholars who were male. She read papers, organized programs, and nurtured the Washington, D.C., Ancien Régime Group over the years, opening her home to the latter whenever no one else volunteered. She published 23 scholarly articles, ever widening her range beyond politics and social history, to the history of women at court and ballet during the reign of Louis XIII.

In 2001 Longmans publishedher French Society, 1589–1715. Each chapter in this book begins with a “story” of real individuals in circumstances that are subsequently presented through critical readings of the major interpretations on the subject. The range of sources used inspires awe. In 2002 Ashgate brought out a volume of her essays on patronage (it contains a beautiful photo of her), with a state-of-the-art introduction that makes numerous suggestions for further research.

Selecting Luynes, Louis XIII's early minister-favorite, for a book-length study constituted a challenge that was almost a defiance. Committed to work that would give depth to the big picture rather than descend into pedantic loose ends, Power and Reputation at the Court of Louis XIII (Manchester, 2008) is one of a handful of learnedly indispensable books in early-modern French history.


Luynes was dug out of municipal, regional, and national archives, to be at one and the same time unique, as a local noble who becomes minister-favorite, yet also as an archetype of an aristocratic politicized elite that was eager for offices, titles and pensions for themselves and their clients, and as a man whose personality and political skills and vision righted the ship of state that had been overturned by Henry IV's assassination. As Sharon put it:

Luynes was a “no fingerprints” politician; that is, he was secretive about what he thought and did. Political sophisticates are often secretive because power politics is a game of misdirection... Luynes was unlikely to have committed anything significant to paper. Since he was semi-literate, he did not have the habit of committinghis thoughts to paper. (p. 183).

Upon completing it, Sharon knew it was good. She wrote to various American university presses; all declined, not only the book, but to read the typescript. We must all thank Joseph Bergin for making possible its publication by the Manchester University Press.

It is with a heavy heart and in sadness that I recognize how much Sharon's learned grace meant to me, and will always mean to those who had the honor of knowing her.


Rico Nasty is happy to try on different skins in order to become comfortable in her own. Like Eminem, Nicki Minaj, or MF DOOM, she compartmentalizes aspects of her personality—her softer side, her anxious side, and her unapologetically brusque side—as a coping mechanism, playing different roles wherever necessary: mostly the pop-trap femme Tacobella and the nu metal rap rager Trap Lavigne. Through these characters, she explores a greater range of sounds, dabbling in bedroom pop, melodic trap, and a bruising style of forechecking rap, drawing inspiration from Grimes, Rihanna, and Slipknot. Her sixth mixtape and first under Atlantic Records, Nasty, is her most complete performance yet, an unrelenting, elbow-throwing mosh-rap record about defending your turf.

Trap Lavigne’s punk edge dominates Nasty, but the tape offers a head-spinning mix ofLast updated on .From the section Football

Neil Warnock led QPR to the Championship title in 2010-11

Neil Warnock expects to be in charge of Queens Park Rangers for two more games, BBC Radio London reports.

The 66-year-old was placed in interim charge of the R's after Chris Ramsey was sacked on 4 November.

He oversaw the 0-0 draw with Preston on 7 November and has brought in Kevin Blackwell to assist him at Loftus Road.

Warnock, who was boss of QPR from March 2010 to January 2012, returned to the Championship club in an advisory role in October.

QPR's next two matches are at Middlesbrough on Friday and home to Leeds next Saturday, suggesting an appointment before their trip to Reading on Thursday, 3 December.

Former Leicester boss Nigel Pearson has been linked external-link


with a move to west London, while Burton Albion say they have not received an approach from the R's to speak to manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.

Under Warnock's leadership, QPR were promoted to the Premier League in 2011 as winners of the Championship, but he was sacked the following January with the club 17th in the top flight.

He had been out of management since being dismissed by Crystal Palace in December 2014, after four months in charge.

After joining QPR in an advisory capacity to Ramsey in October, Warnock said "full-time management doesn't interest me any more".

Rangers are 13th in the Championship table, eight points off the play-off places.the drugs were prescribed to both men and women across all age groups.

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Recent year studies have revealed an increasing pattern of the


a moment that made me love this city, and a moment that made me feel proud.

Happy Pride.

Beth Spotswood writes two columns a week for the Culture Blog and full time for CBS San Francisco, in addition to head-writing and co-hosting of the satire webshow, Necessary Conversation. Winner of the 1986 City of Mill Valley Fire Prevention Poster Contest, Beth can be found on Twitter, and in the real world, where she also exists.The cases, in two people from New York, are the first linked to the nation's capital, where the conference was held.

Thousands of people attend the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee policy conference every year - with those

present this week including more than two-thirds of Congress and several Trump administration officials.

The conference went ahead without worries of cancellation despite a number of high-profile events being cancelled worldwide in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. Saudi Arabia has suspended the voluntary Umrah pilgrimage, while Switzerland cancelled all events hosting more than 1,000 people, including the world-famous Geneva Motor Show.

Vice President Mike Pence, who is heading the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were among the speakers.

Israel on Wednesday ordered citizens returning from international conferences to


A woman catching a bus into Sydney's CBD had a chunk of her hair cut off by passengers who were sitting behind her, witnesses say.

The incident occurred on the route 339 bus, which travels from Clovelly into the city, about 9.40am on Wednesday and left the woman distraught and in tears.

The incident occurred on a route 339 bus from Clovelly to the city. Credit:Lisa Wiltse

A male passenger sitting next to the woman - who he estimated was in her early 20s with long, dark hair - told Fairfax Media that a "creepy, freaky" man and woman had been sitting in the seat behind them.

"The girl turned around and asked the man 'did you cut my hair?' " said the passenger, who did not wish to be identified.him. He made a call on his cellular telephone and then explained that the person who was supposed to bring the sample could not arrive for several hours. Another meeting was arranged for a later date.

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The next meeting took place two days later (the second meeting). Padilla provided the informant with a sample, which he immediately gave to Rosales. Subsequently, the informant was told by DEA agents to finalize the details of the purchase of thirty pounds of methamphetamine. A week later, the informant, again wearing a body recording device, met Padilla at a gas station to complete the transaction (the third meeting). Padilla, however, did not have the methamphetamine. Approximately forty-five minutes later, AbonceBarrera arrived. Abonce-Barrera gave the informant a sample; however, he stated that he had


brought only five pounds of methamphetamine rather than the promised thirty pounds. Abonce-Barrera told the informant that he could deliver another ten pounds, but that he could not deliver the entire thirty pounds because he had other commitments. The meeting was broken off at this news.

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Later that day, the informant was told to contact Padilla for the purpose of obtaining the five pounds of methamphetamine. The informant, Padilla, and Abonce-Barrera met again at the gas station (the fourth meeting). The informant, who was still wearing the recording device, and Abonce-Barrera got into the informant's truck. A short time later, the informant alerted the agents that the methamphetamine was present. Agents moved in, and Abonce-Barrera was arrested. The agents found four pounds of methamphetamine and a cellular telephone. Thecellular telephone records revealed that Padilla had repeatedly called a pager number registered to AbonceBarrera during the first meeting. The records also revealed that Padilla called this number repeatedly while waiting for the third party to bring the methamphetamine to the gas station.

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During the trial, recordings from the first, third and fourth meetings provided key evidence of Abonce-Barrera's involvement. DEA agent Rosales, who was present at the first meeting, was qualified as an expert to testify at trial as to the transcription of the recordings and their translation into English. Each member of the jury was given a copy of both the verbatim Spanish transcriptions and the English translations of those transcriptions. In addition, the Spanish-language tapes were played for the jury, and the English translations were read


in Spanish and there was no agent involved in the conversation who could testify to its accuracy").

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Six months before his trial, Abonce-Barrera entered into a stipulation with the government in which it was agreed that the government would provide Abonce-Barrera with successive drafts of its transcription and translation efforts on the condition that the draft versions could "not be used by either side as evidence in the case or to impeach the person or persons who helped prepare the transcription and translation or to impeach the accuracy of the final transcripts. " The government provided drafts to the defense in July 1998, on December 21, 1998, on January 11, 1999, and on January 15, 1999. The start of trial was continued to January 26, 1999, to afford Abonce-Barreragovernment's transcripts and translations. At trial, Abonce-Barrera was given the opportunity, within the confines of the stipulation, to cross-examine the government's witness regarding the translations. The jurors were allowed to listen to the tapes to detect any problems with audibility and to compare the tapes to the transcriptions. Abonce-Barrera presented his own expert to testify about the transcription process employed by the government. Abonce-Barrera's argument that he had insufficient time to review the government's transcriptions and translations is further belied by the fact that Abonce-Barrera's counsel did bring to the government's attention several objections to the translations. All but two of the objections were incorporated by the government, and these two objections were brought to the attention of the jury at trial.

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In light of the steps taken by


1160, 1168 (9th Cir. 2000).

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The district court conducted a pre-trial hearing at which Agent Rosales's qualifications were examined. Agent Rosales's native language is Spanish; he was born in Mexico and lived there until the age of fifteen. He had lived in the United States for twenty years and attended high school and college here. At college, Rosales took between twenty-four and thirty courses in Spanish and Latin American Studies. After being graduated from college, Rosales worked for a Chicago-based, nonprofit organization dedicated to counseling troubled Latino youth. His ability to translate and understand Spanish was an essential part of his job responsibilities. Rosales next worked as a certified social worker for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. This job required Rosales to utilize his abilities tonot received all discoverable material about the informant. This nondispositive motion was referred to a magistrate judge pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 636(b)(1)(A). In his memorandum in support of the motion, Padilla requested "disclosure of the informant," including the informant's identity and whereabouts, the informant's criminal record, any government notes and records of interviews with the informant, and "all forms of promises, inducements and/or deals between the government and its informant." Padilla urged that this information was necessary because the informant was "the sole percipient witness," Padilla could reasonably assert an entrapment defense, and Padilla would need impeachment material at trial. The government responded to Padilla's motion by stating"the Government has disclosed the informant's compensation in this case, prior cooperation agreements with the Government but not related to


this case, information regarding the informant's immigration status, and a redacted copy of the informant's criminal history report." The government refused to provide the informant's identity out of safety concerns and had provided only redacted materials. The government did, however, concede that the informant was a percipient witness and agreed to make the informant available for a pre-trial interview.

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At the motion hearing held on January 15, 1999, Abonce Barrera asked to join in Padilla's motion, and this request was granted by the magistrate judge. The defense first argued that it was entitled to receive an affidavit prepared by Agent Rosales regarding the informant. The magistrate judge reviewed the affidavit and ordered it to be filed under seal. The defendants next asserted that, although the government had provided themwith the informant's payment history, they were entitled to "a list of cases in which the informant has testified as a witness and that would correlate to the disclosure of the payments to the informant" in order to impeach the informant properly. The magistrate judge did not specifically address this argument. The defendants also requested a complete criminal history and an account of any pending litigation. The magistrate judge stated that they were entitled to such material and questioned the government's attorney, who replied that he was aware of only one conviction (for marijuana possession) and that there were no pending criminal charges. To this, defense counsel responded, "If the government's representing that that's the entirety of his criminal history, I have it."

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In addition, the defense stated that


it required additional supporting immigration documents, although it had received a "series of letters from an Assistant United States Attorney . . . to representatives of the Immigration Service intervening in the informant's immigration proceedings." The court responded, "All you have to know is that he was subject to deportation and that he was not deported and that he's here." The defense then asked about its request for a debriefing report on the informant, any notes about the informant, and statements by the informant. The magistrate judge responded that the defense would be entitled to receive at trial any statements, as defined by the Jencks Act, made by the witness but that the government attorney's personal notes constituted privileged work product. Finally, the defense, after having withdrawn itsrequest for the informant's address, argued that the government was required to provide the name of the informant. The magistrate judge ruled that the government had met its burden on the safety issue. In response, the defense asked, and received, leave to renew its motion on the identity issue at a later date. At the conclusion of the hearing, the magistrate judge said to the defense, "You're getting everything you asked for. You will get disclosure of the informant's identity at trial. That is customary . . . . I deny your motion because the government has voluntarily provided you with everything you're entitled to under the law. So for the record your motion is denied."

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On the first day of trial, January 26, 1999, after the name of


The mysterious disappearances of King Arthur and Wales’ foremost rebel Owain Glyndwr have a remarkable similarity with that of one of Armenia’s greatest heroes, according to a leading Welsh clergymen.

Canon Patrick Thomas, the Vicar of Christ Church Carmarthen and Chancellor of St David’s Cathedral, is the author of a highly praised new book which finds numerous similarities between Wales and Armenia, which until 22 years ago was a republic within the Soviet Union.

On Monday From Carmarthen to Karabagh will be launched in the Temple of Peace and Health in Cardiff.

In recent years close ties have been established between the two countries, prompting Canon Patrick to visit Armenia for the first time in 2005. He immediately fell in love with the eastern European country and kept going back, becomingof San Francisco. The boat did not have a working GPS system.

The boaters said their 29-foot sailboat was taking on water and their electronics were failing.

An hour later, the family members reported they were forced to abandon the boat and were trying to fashion a makeshift life raft, Lampert said.

The Coast Guard then lost radio contact. The agency has not identified the family, although investigators were able to determine from the distress calls that they were a husband and wife, their 4-year-old son and his cousin, Lampert said. The Coast Guard has received no missing persons’ reports.

The National Weather Service had issued an advisory throughout the weekend warning boaters of strong winds and rough seas around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Mariners “operating smaller vessels should avoid navigating in


Formula One has hired former Fox Sports president David Hill to advise on an overhaul of its on-screen package.

Hill has been tasked with innovating the sport’s sound, graphics and performance in a way that will improve the overall product offered to the viewers of the open–wheel series. The 71-year old had previously worked with Formula One to develop an exhaust microphone, which owners Liberty Media believe will help revitalise its broadcast offering.

The Australian will also be at the forefront of helping implement virtual adverts of local brands in the countries and regions where the races are held.

Hill began his career at Australia’s Nine Network in the 1980s and helped to launch Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Television in the UK in 1989. Following that he was president of Murdoch’s FoxRonald John MESSEMER(1933 - 2013)

MESSEMER

Ronald John Messemer, 79, of Fountaintown, IN, passed away February 8, 2013. He was born June 13, 1933, in Cincinnati, OH, to the late John and Anna Louise Potts Messemer. Ronald was a native of Cincinnati, Ohio where he graduated from Withrow High School in 1951. He married Artie Elizabeth Berry, August 14, 1954. Mr. Messemer received a B.A. in history from Seattle Pacific University in 1959, and his Indiana State Teacher's License in secondary education from Butler University in 1962. He served as a history teacher for two years at Indianapolis Arsenal Technical High School. Beginning in the mid-1960's, Mr. Messemer served five years as an assistant professor in the Department of Supervision, School of Technology, Purdue University-Indianapolis (IUPUI). During his tenure at


Purdue University, Mr. Messemer received the "Key to the City of Louisville" for his management consulting work throughout the greater Louisville, Kentucky area. Mr. Messemer later served as the industrial relations director for Wallace Expanding Machines, Inc. in Indianapolis and he also served as the corporate training director for Aero Mayflower Transit Company in Indianapolis. In 1978 until his retirement in 1995, Mr. Messemer became owner and president of RJM Associates, which provided management training and development programs to more than eighty companies and organizations throughout the United States. Ronald was a devoted member of Franklin Road Baptist Church. Visitation will be Tuesday, February 12, 2013 from 11:00 a.m. until time of services at 2:00 p.m. at Shirley Brothers Washington Memorial Chapel, 9606 E. Washington St. Indianapolis, INman who had served more than ten years for his part in a murder committed while he was a teenager.

Now he was a grown man with skills developed in prison that made it possible for him to get a job on the outside. Settled happily into civilian life, he did two things.

First, he got married. Then he bumped into an old prison buddy whose expertise was bank robbery. He tried his hand at robbing a bank with his buddy. They got caught. Now he's back behind bars.

But this was the first time I went inside a prison to actually watch an inmate plead his case before a parole board.

For 19 years at Florence, Eric Mageary has been without a name. His number has been 332017.

Briefly, his name surfaced


in the newspapers during the famous escape from prison of the Gary Tison gang.

Mageary had befriended serial killer Randy Greenawalt while both were in the Coconino County Jail awaiting trial. Greenawalt was charged with killing four truck drivers.

Greenawalt developed a romance with Mageary's mother, Kathy Ehrmentraut, who viewed Greenawalt as misunderstood. Greenawalt and Mrs. Ehrmentraut began exchanging letters, and she regularly visited both her son and Greenawalt at the prison in Florence.

The Tison gang, which included Greenawalt, escaped from Florence on July 30, 1978. The men killed seven people in a rampage that ranged across Arizona and neighboring states until they were stopped just short of the Mexican border.

During this time, Greenawalt brought them to hide out in Mrs. Ehrmentraut's home in Flagstaff. For this she was latercharged with conspiracy and placed on probation for a year.

Greenawalt, who killed several more people during the escape, is now on death row. Gary Tison died in the desert. His two sons, Ricky and Ray Tison, who helped him escape, are also now on death row.

Mageary has spent most of his time in prison lifting weights, collecting wives--he is now on his seventh--and attempting to convince the parole board he is a changed man.

Mageary was convicted of first-degree rape in 1974. He was sentenced to 25 years to life for a crime police described at the time as being so vicious it was "a failed murder."

Mageary met a young woman in a Flagstaff bar on a winter's night and offered her a ride to her car. Once he


got her into his truck, Mageary drove the woman, then a virgin, to a secluded spot and not only raped her, but almost beat her to death with his fists.

Her jaw was shattered. One ear was almost bitten off. A breast was nearly severed by a sharp instrument. He left her in critical condition. Then he came back and beat her again.

Patricia Pollard has never recovered from the terror of that night. While Mageary has been in prison, she has been in one created by her own mind and her dreadful memories.

She has spent her 19 years as a shadowy figure who deliberately sought not to excel in any job, because it might attract attention to her. She left Arizona.

She changed her name, fearful that if Mageary evergot out of prison, he might find her again. She has never been able to trust anyone, and moves frequently from place to place.

Her jaw is still disfigured. She wears a wig, she says, because she does not want anyone to recognize her. Unmarried, she still feels shame, she says, believing that people must somehow blame her for what happened.

Mageary has been before the parole board 23 times. In his most recent hearing, the board decided to release him to what is called home arrest.

But Terry Hance, the Coconino County attorney, protested the decision. He contacted Governor J. Fife Symington III. Hance also sent Fred Newton, his chief deputy, to the state Court of Appeals seeking to stay the release. Newton, one of the top prosecuting attorneys in


the state, was successful.

County Attorney Hance assigned investigator Byron Allen to find Patricia Pollard and attempt to bring her to Arizona for the next hearing. Pollard found her in northern California and convinced her to come to Florence for the hearing.

It turned out this was the first time she had ever known of any of the parole hearings held for the man who attacked her.

When Governor Symington heard about this, he leaped to the forefront, gaining himself maximum publicity as the friend of all crime victims. He began making announcements about the outrage of it all as fast as he could.

Symington loves to step forward on issues like this. They make voters forget that anyone who has ever done business with him has come out second best.

One problemin getting Pollard to testify was the fact that she was still terrified of Mageary. She was afraid to face him.

Newton, the chief deputy county attorney, arranged for a screen to be placed between the victim and Mageary, so she would never have to look into his eyes during the hearing, which was to last three hours.

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@body:The hearing began promptly at 2 p.m., shortly after Mageary was led into the room through a metal door directly behind the parole panel.

Mageary wore blue denims and white jogging shoes. During his years of weightlifting, he has developed a massive torso and looks more like a circus strongman than a longtime inmate in a maximum-security prison.

There were half a dozen television cameras set up in the rear of the room. For


security reasons, prison officials refused to allow the cameras to move to the front of the room, where they might have focused on the faces of the two key witnesses, Mageary and his victim.

Throughout the hearing, the cameras remained focused on the faces of the three members of the pardons and paroles board as they questioned the two witnesses.

It became a sort of minitrial to determine the validity of Mageary's transformation.

At the previous hearing last May, board members Stan Turley and Richard Leyva voted to grant Mageary home arrest, which would have ended his time in prison. Only Anna May Riddell voted against him.

Turley spoke first.
Turley is a former state legislator. He is the man who described fellow Mormon and then-governor Evan Mecham as "an ethical pygmy."

"Why doso in soft, barely discernible tones. It was clear that she was nervous, even frightened of Mageary. Not once during the entire hearing did she ever look in Mageary's direction.

"The main reason I'm here," she said, "is because I don't want anyone else to experience that kind of violence from this person. He says he was blacked out when this happened.

"He wasn't blacked out. I was there. "The sexual part made me feel so humiliated and dirty and degraded. You don't want a violent person like him out where he can do it again."
For at least ten minutes, she spoke softly of the ordeal of the rape and of the injuries suffered and of her time attempting to recover. She has never gotten over the trauma.

"I have never


the victim spoke briefly to reporters.
"I'm relieved," she said. "There is justice, after all."
Mageary's wife told reporters she was disappointed, but felt enormous sympathy for the victim.

"I would like to give her a hug," she said.
Moments later, Mageary's wife walked over to the victim and introduced herself. Then she gave her a hug and whispered something in her ear.

It made a great photo opportunity.
An hour later, the victim was still trying to figure out why she had been hugged.

"She did it for the publicity," Pollard said. "They were using me, weren't they?"
But so was Governor Symington.
Mageary will be eligible for another parole hearing in six months. Until that time, he remains No. 332017.South African Khabonina Qubeqa Releases Fitness DVD

South African actress, choreographer, award winning dancer and musician Kabonina Qubeka has a fitness DVD out presented by KHA'BODACIOUS Productions.
The Johannesburg based dance teacher runs a dance fitness school in Johannesburg which has been in existence for 8 years now.

Throughout her travelling experiences, Khabonina has had the platform to share her passion for dance in several countries around the world and having polished her skills with years of experience she embarked on establishing her dance fitness school which serves as a form of expression and grooming spot for aspiring dancers as well as fitness lovers.

If you have seen Khabonina, you must have noticed the fountain of energy she is. Very sassy with bubbly personality.
The timing couldn't be better. After the recent festivities,


if an effort is made to make the rear occupants comfortable, the front occupants are over-heated or over-cooled.
Accordingly, rear HVAC systems and controls in the rear cabin, which are in addition to the conventional front HVAC systems and controls in the front cabin, have been developed. Such vehicle HVAC control systems include parallel front and rear HVAC control panels connected to a controller.
In the conventional HVAC control system, the rear HVAC system is operable via input from either the rear control panel or the front control panel. The rear HVAC system can be controlled via input from the front control panel, but can only be controlled via input from the rear control panel when permitted by the front control panel through actuation of the rear manual button onwitnesses at the scene, professed at the time of trial to have little memory of
      the shootings, which had occurred a year earlier.

              Steven Whitelow, a victim of the shooting, testified that, on July 10,
      2011, he was driving in his Suburban with his cousin, Javone Tatum.
      Around 6:00 p.m., they arrived at Rice Park in Ripley, where there was a
      crowd of over 100 people at the basketball court. After Whitelow claimed
      to have an almost total lack of recall as to the evening of the shooting, the


that, on July 10, 2011, he and the [Petitioner] were in Rice Park
watching the basketball game. When they heard gunshots, he and the
[Petitioner] jumped in their white Pontiac G6 and left because he believed
they were in danger. However, McNeal did not know of any reason why
they were being shot at. They then drove to Covington. McNeal denied
having “dumped” the car; rather, he explained that he dropped the car off
for his pregnant girlfriend, Ashley Foxworth, to come pick it up because it
was her car and he wanted her to have a car if she went into labor.

        Ashley Foxworth, the mother of McNeal’s child, said she owned a
white Pontiac G6, which she loaned to McNeal on July 10, 2011. He told
her thathe was going to visit a friend from Ripley. When she received a
call from him later that day, she became concerned and went to get her car
in Covington. She admitted that she noticed bullet holes in her car, which
she reported to the Ripley Police Department. The police department later
impounded her car.

       Willie Rouser Qualls testified that on July 10, 2011, he was in Rice
Park near the basketball court where he organized the referees for the
basketball game. He estimated that there were about fifty to seventy-five
spectators, including children, around the basketball court. In the early
evening he recalled hearing ten to twelve gunshots near the pavilion at the
park. When he turned around to look in the direction of the gunshots, he
saw a white car