are being affected by the dams being built many miles upstream.

The first large dam to be built on the main Narmada river was the Bargi dam, near Jabalpur, in the upper reaches of the river. This reservoir was filled in 1990. As power generation began at Bargi, the pattern of the water releases became unpredictable, and unseasonal. People in the lower reaches would cultivate the river bed with melons and other vegetable in the summer when large parts of the bed were exposed. In the early 1990s, they found sudden, unseasonal rush of waters in the river flooding and washing away their carefully cultivated crops. This was the water released from the Bargi dam. In a few years, many people gave up this cultivation.

When the issue of motor-pumpssubmerging and loss of boats and nets was raised in a recent case in the M.P. High Court, the Government of Madhya Pradesh stated in their affidavits that "no liability can be fastened upon the district administration to work out any compensation".

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Madhya Pradesh government pushed the pace of construction on the gigantic Indira Sagar - India's largest manmade reservoir on completion - and the Omkareshwar dams. They were completed in 'record time', part of the reason being that little attention was paid to the resettlement and rehabilitation of the displaced people - who were literally pushed out. The oustees launched an intense struggle under the banner of Narmada Bachao Andolan, resulting in the M.P. High Court restricting the level to which


these dams could be filled. This remains the position today. However, the projects started generating electricity. The first unit of Indira Sagar started generating power in January 2004, and the last one was commissioned in March 2005. The first unit of Omkareshwar was commissioned in July 2007.

With this, the flow of the river water was altered dramatically. The water was sometimes held back behind the dam - and the river flow would drop downstream. When water was released for generation of power, the river level would rise rapidly. In both the cases, there is no warning or notice to the people, and there is little time for them to react. Events like those of June 2007 described above have become a regular phenomenon, only the intensity being different.

Fishinghas been badly affected, not only due to unpredictable water releases causing the damage to nets and sweeping away of boats, but because
changes in the flow regime have had a big impact on the fish themselves due to the disturbance of their natural ecosystem. Fisherpeople tell about how the quantity
of fish available in the river has gone down sharply. One of the most serious impacts comes when the reservoir is filled. A few years back, when the Indira Sagar
reservoir was partly filled, the riverbed downstream went almost dry, and entire fish populations were wiped out. It took more than two years for the fish population
to recover from this 'ecological shock'.

Sand mining has also been affected. For one, the sand that was being brought in by the river is


moon day) when a popular traditional fair is held every year at Dharaji, in Dewas district of Madhya Pradesh, a village just downstream of the Indira Sagar. As thousands of pilgrims were taking a holy dip in the river, the dam released water for power generation. Water levels rose rapidly, sharply at Dharaji, and at least 62 people drowned in the flash flood that was created. Unofficial figures place the deaths at over 500. No responsibility was fixed and no one was held accountable.

Meanwhile, the NHDC declared a net profit of Rs. 106.10 crores on sales of 335.98 crores in 2005-06 from Indira Sagar only, and it paid itself a dividend of Rs.21.22 crores of which Rs.10.4 crores has been given to the Government of Madhya Pradesh. Wouldn'tthe first right on these profits be of those who have lost their lands, homes, livelihoods to the projects? Unfortunately, they do not figure even in the thinking of NHDC.

Cumulative impacts

The construction of Indira Sagar and Omkareshwar dams has aggravated mani-fold the situation created by Bargi. Indeed, the cumulative impact of many dams in a basin is more than the sum of the impacts of the individual dams. Yet, in the Narmada valley and indeed in the rest of the country, there is hardly any attempt at assessing the cumulative impacts of many dams coming up in a river basin or area. When the environmental impact assessment for even an individual dam is among the most shoddily done part of the project preparation, it may be too much


and releases are being made without given any consideration for the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of thousand of people in the basin. The events in the Narmada Valley once again highlight the need to recognise and assess these impacts of large dams as a part of the project evaluation exercise. Further, as the debate about the viability and desirability of new dams continues, they underline the urgency of bringing existing dams under regulation to control the destruction of the lives of people in the river valleys taking place day after day.

Shripad Dharmadhikary12 September 2007

Shripad Dharmadhikary coordinates the Manthan Adhyanan Kendra, a centre set up to research, analyse and monitor water and energy issues.Time-honored History of TCM

The ancestors of the Chinese people originally inhabited in China’s Yellow River Basin, which therefore served as the origin of TCM. A legend goes that “Shennong tasted one hundred herbs…… experienced 70 kinds of poisonous herbs in one day”, which vividly reflects the arduous efforts that the ancient people made for discovering medicines and accumulating the experience in disease treatment during the process of fighting against the nature and diseases, and also shows that the TCM originated from productive labor. Apart from herbs, following the development of fishing and hunting and use of fire, people were able to obtain more meat, fish and shellfish food, and so they gradually accumulated the knowledge about animal-based and mineral medicines. As early as in Xia, Shang, and Zhou


dynasties, medicinal liquor and decoction already emerged in China. The decoction, as one of the main dosage forms of TCM, was invented by Prime Minister. Yi Yin during Emperor Shangtang’s reign according to legends, and Yi Yin also wrote 32 volumes of Decoction Prescription, which, however, have been lost. The inscriptions on oracle bones in Shang Dynasty contain the records of medical health and over 10 kinds of diseases. The book Shi Jing (The Book of Songs), written in the Western Zhou Dynasty and recording over 50 medicinal herbs including Leonurus, the fruit of Chinese wolfberry and sweet wormwood, Is the earliest existing book about the medicines in China. Zhou Li(The Rites of Zhou) classified medical personnel into food doctors, Internists, surgeons, and veterinarians. The diagnosis methods likeobservation, auscultation and olfaction, inquiry and palpation and the therapeutic methods such as medicines, acupuncture and moxibustion and surgery were already used in the Zhou Dynasty. According to the records of Zuo Zhuan(Chronicle of Zuo), in the Spring and Autumn Period, the doctor was called Yiyan in the State of Jin. Yihuan and Yihe in the State of Qin, as well as Qiyi (doctor in the State of Qi)and Chuyi (doctor in the State of Chu), all of which were the official doctors at that time. The famous doctor in the Warring States Period Bian Que was proficient in observation and palpation, and left behind many splendid cases.Huangdi Neijing (The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Canon), finished in the Spring-Autumn Period(770B.C.-476B.C.)& the Warring States Period(475B.C.-221B.C.), is the existing oldest medical


book in China. In the form of dialogue between Huangdi(Yellow Emperor)and his teacher Qi Bo about medicine, Huangdi Neijing discusses the relation between human and the nature, physiology, pathology, diagnosis, disease prevention knowledge, meridian and the general principle of collateral & acupuncture point, acupuncture methods and acupuncture cure, and basically forms the theoretical system and the way of thinking of TCM. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there appeared an outstanding therapist whose name was Zhang Zhongjing Because of the prevailing plague and the chaos caused by war, over 100 people in Zhang Zhongjing’s clan lost their lives out of communicable diseases. For this reason, Zhang made up his mind to spend his whole life on studying medicines, and after analyzing the earlier medical books and performing abundanttherapic practices, he successfully wrote the book Shanghan Zabing Lun (Treatise on Cold Pathogenic and Miscellaneous Diseases), particularly describing disease verification, diagnosis and curing principle of many diseases. It hence laid a solid foundation for TCM’s diagnosis and treatment principle and the development of TCM prescription and became a standard for the later prescription books. The ancient Chinese people in Han Dynasty were able to master a relatively high level of science and technology. According to the History of the Three Kingdoms, Hua Tuo, a famous doctor, could perform many kinds of surgeons for patients under general anesthesia by using ” Mafeisan”(powder for anesthesia) at that time, and besides. he also created the Five-animal Exercises, which has been regarded as the classic gymnastics form. By summing up the


theories and experience of the predecessors, Sun Simiao in the Tang Dynasty, who was called the”King of Medicine”, collected over 5,000 prescriptions and adopted the treatment based on syndrome differentiation. After the Tang Dynasty, a lot of works and theories concerning TCM were introduced to Korean. Japan, and countries and regions in Central Asia and Western Asia, etc. During the Song Dynasty, some valuable work for medical development was carried out by the court such as setting up the Imperial Medical Academy, dividing the medicine to systematical branches, unifying the position of the acupoint, and publishing the Tu Jing, (Illustrated Classics). During the following long period, famous doctors and medical classics came forth in large numbers, various academic schools formed, different specialties such as paediatrics, gynaecology, and surgeryQantas chief Alan Joyce hit with pie in face Published duration 9 May 2017

media caption Alan Joyce's speech is cut short by a man shoving a pie in his face

The chief executive of Australian airline Qantas has had a speech interrupted by a man who shoved a pie in his face.

Alan Joyce was addressing a business breakfast in Perth when a man strode to the stage and surprised him.

The man was detained by security until authorities arrived. Police said they were interviewing him in custody.

Mr Joyce had been discussing the airline's recent decision to operate non-stop flights from London to Perth

"I don't know what that was about," he told the audience of about 500 people.

'Bizarre situation'

Mr Joyce left the stage briefly to clean his face before returning to


headband, annoys after an houra good excuse for a coffee refill or smoke break. A few minutes are enough of a break for the next album. The over-the-ear design of the pads leaves much to be desired, but placement of the drivers is critical to the sound, and is a tradeoff Im willing to make.

Grados house sound is all over these headphonesfat and bloomy, with something groovy in the bass lines. Grados Signature line of headphones corresponds to the sound of their Prestige cartridges, with the RS-2s echoing the Grado Platinum. Having a woodsy coloration isnt necessarily negative. While these headphones are advertised as one of the best without amplification (only stepping aside for the megabuck RS-1s, according to Grado), their performance rises significantly with some milli-watts behindWe get the government we deserve

When I was growing up on the faraway Pacific island of Catanduanes, I used to spend moonlit evenings at the town plaza listening to campaign speeches. There was nothing else to listen to or watch, and the “orators,” as they were called, were uniformly good. From them, I first heard quotes from Alexander the Great, Caesar, Cicero and Demosthenes. One of them particularly stood out. He seemed quite ordinary, but his entire personality changed the minute he spoke. And he told the most astonishing stories. The crowd loved him and he always got their votes. But one day one brash young man stood up to say this political Chrysostom had never kept a single promise he had made.

That arrow went home, and the


escaped being prosecuted for treason only by dying while watching a boxing match at the Rizal Memorial Stadium. And nobody insisted on requiring all presidential candidates to submit to a psychological and psychiatric examination, just to find out if PNoy’s alleged psychiatric record, coming from two Jesuit psychiatrists, had any element of truth in it.

Many, if not most of us, were content to listen to the nonsense coming from otherwise sensible and intelligent people when PNoy first announced his presidential bid. He had done nothing at all to merit even his previous lower posts, but there he was, being packaged for the highest and most important post, just because his mother died. His most enthusiastic promoters gushed like the untamed cataracts at the Niagara Falls. As the onlyson of the late Ninoy and Cory Aquino, they said, he would not do anything to tarnish his “parent’s image and record.”

It was a blind leap of faith, based on purely illusory and wishful premises rather than on any revealed or discernible truth. He had served three consecutive terms in the House and three years in the Senate, and had failed to distinguish himself except as a member of the Committee on Silence. So he had to run on his parents’ record. But what kind of record was that?

It wasn’t much either. His mother’s presidency was a complete failure. She was the biggest beneficiary of the “restoration” of the Philippines’ free-wheeling democracy after Marcos, but her official propagandists and revisionists of the nation’s history claimed she single-handedly “restored


to demand justice for their loved ones. In fact, Ninoy questioned the veracity of the alleged massacre, saying he had seen and talked to the alleged victims in Jolo himself.

But Ninoy exposed Marcos’ secret plan to send Filipino operatives to Sabah, which has become part of the Philippines’ national territory (although controlled by Malaysia), by virtue of the transfer of sovereign rights from its original owner, the Sultan of Sulu, to the Republic of the Philippines. This single episode made Aquino an “enemy of the state,” as far as the Marcos regime was concerned. Aquino was assassinated in 1983, and that remains a deep mystery; but the greater mystery is why Cory Aquino and her son PNoy never bothered to have it thoroughly investigated to this very day.

InGrace Poe Llamanzares’s indecent attempts to insinuate herself into the presidential contest, for which she is constitutionally disqualified, and in choosing to honor a party commitment to Roxas, despite his reputedly poor survey ratings, PNoy has taken a mature political decision, which has been long in coming. These are actually two decisions in one. The first involves the primacy and inviolability of the Constitution; the second involves the integrity of the political choosing process.

Until now, Sen. Llamanzares and her supporters have completely ignored Section 2, Article IV of the 1987 Constitution, which provides, “No person may be elected President unless he is a natural-born citizen of the Philippines, a registered voter, able to read and write, at least forty years of age on the day of the election,


simulated popularity ratings.

In refusing to be deceived by her posturings, PNoy did not have to tell Llamanzares and her promoters to read the 1935 and the 1987 Constitutions. But it would be a signal service to the nation, if he would tell them now. The 1935 Constitution was the one in force and in effect when Llamanzares was born in 1968 and found by a church worker in Jaro, Iloilo as a foundling. The 1987 Constitution governs the present conduct of our senatorial and presidential elections.

The other issue has to do with popularity ratings. In choosing Roxas to be the LP standard-bearer despite his poor numbers, PNoy correctly decided that the party, not the propaganda fraudsters, should choose the standard-bearer. Political parties must field candidates who deserve toabortion providers. Among these operatives is Troy Newman, who is an original founder of Daleiden’s Center for Medical Progress (CMP).

Newman is listed on the center’s initial nonprofit registration form as a secretary, as the Nation first reported.

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Newman runs Operation Rescue, an anti-choice activist group, which relocated to Wichita, Kansas, in 2002 to continue what ended up being a decades-long intimidation campaign to take down the practice of late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, whom Operation Rescue frequently referred to as “Tiller the Killer.”

When anti-choice activist Scott Roeder murdered Tiller at his church in 2009, Newman condemned the killing, but his group has continued to be associated with activists who promote violence against abortion providers and clinics.

Though


Banking regulation

Friends of the Earth Europe, ActionAid and Global Witness have welcomed the EU's latest action on sustainable finance, but warned that tougher action is needed to ensure that Europe's financial sector includes robust regulatory safeguards.

Florent Compain, President of Les Amis de la Terre / Friends of the Earth France was fined a symbolic €500 today, a decision that the group condemns, for his role in the peaceful 'Faucheur de chaises' protest – a grassroots initiative to highlight the tax evasion of large financial institutions and banks like BNP Paribas.

The European Parliament voted today on rules that would make companies more accountable to their shareholders, making a step towards a more accountable and sustainable financial system, according to Friends of the Earth Europe, ShareAction and WWF Europe.

The ShareholderRights Directive is intended to tackle the lack of transparency between companies and shareholders – a significant barrier to challenging unsustainable business and investment practices.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker today reaffirmed his commitment to CETA – the EU-Canada trade deal – calling it as "the best and most progressive agreement that we have ever entered into."

The European's Commission's proposal to increase the use of non-traditional banking systems across Europe - known as the Capital Market Union (CMU) initiative – poses major risks to people and the environment, a coalition of European civil society groups has stated today.

New finance directive lays out improvements, but loopholes remain

Food speculation by banks and financial institutions has contributed to rapid and unpredictable swings in food prices over recent years, with devastating impacts on


poor people in developing countries. The European Union will introduce new regulations which take small steps towards curbing the financial speculation on food crops, according to Friends of the Earth Europe, after a deal was struck last night between the European Parliament and Greek EU Presidency.

Food speculation by banks and financial institutions continues to contribute to rapid and unpredictable swings in food prices. Yet, corporate lobbying on the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) – which sets new regulations for financial markets – has undermined attempts to curb this destructive practice, according to Friends of the Earth Europe. This will allow speculators to continue profiteering at the expense of the world's most vulnerable.the Midwest were almost exclusively unionized establishments, and as the old men used to say, you had to wait for somebody who worked there to die and inherit a job from them if you ever wanted to get in on those good union wages and benefits.

While by no means rich, the meatpackers of my youth were successful blue collar men and women. Their children went to college. If they fished they owned boats. And if they were wise with their money, they even had a little cabin down by a lake somewhere. And then Reagan happened, and PATCO.

It must seem to people outside of the labor movement like we hate Reagan just because he was a Republican, or we are overly sentimental about a relatively small group of


to say that there was no intended country or location for the movies.

A:

From IMDB

The location of the film is never mentioned, though scenery and architecture suggest somewhere in Great Britain.
However, except for two announcers only heard for a few seconds on the TV, everyone speaks with American accents. Moreover, cars were driven on the right side of the road, while in Great Britain [and Australia] cars are driven on the left.

Suffice it to say, it's deliberately left to the imagination as to the location.

A:

Based on some of the phrases used and minor pieces of evidence from the script, I would say the film is most likely to be set in Britain, probably northern England as in the source novel:

National Grand Challenge Sheepdog Trials

An event with this exact nameThe Arlington County Board today unanimously elected Christian Dorsey its 2019 Chair. Libby Garvey was named vice chair.

Arlington County Board Chair Christian Dorsey

Dorsey, elected to the Board in 2015, served as vice chair in 2018. He represents Northern Virginia as a principal director on the board of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, and represents Arlington County on other regional bodies including the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. Read Christian Dorsey’s biography.

Focus on equity

After a sobering look at the County’s near-term budget challenges, Dorsey called for a focus on equity in County policies, both to “repair the damage that inattention to equity has already produced,” and to ensure that going forward, County policies address disparities in health and wellness outcomes, educational achievement and


public review process, culminating in the Board adopting the budget at its April 2019 meeting. The FY 2020 Fiscal Year begins on July 1, 2019.

Vice Chair Libby Garvey

Libby Garvey, elected to the Board in March 2012, was named vice chair by her colleagues on the Board. Garvey previously has served a term as County Board Chair. She serves on the Northern Virginia Regional Commission, Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, Metropolitan Region Council of Governments and other regional bodies.

“I believe we need to figure out together, as a community, what we want Arlington’s future to be,” Garvey said, noting that “everyone says they want to preserve what they love about Arlington, but for some people that means a quiet, tree-lined street with single family homes, and for others it meanscriteria for exemptions and deferrals be considered for redefinition.

]]>Media Alert: Arlington County Board asks Governor to Veto Country Club Billhttps://newsroom.arlingtonva.us/release/media-alert-arlington-county-board-asks-governor-to-veto-country-club-bill/
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:27:44 +0000https://newsroom.arlingtonva.us/?post_type=news_release&p=15547Reporters Who Cover Arlington: The Arlington County Board has asked Virginia Governor Ralph Northam to veto HB1204, the country club bill adopted by the General Assembly that mandates the open space assessment of golf course properties in the County.

In a letter signed by all five Board members, the Board noted that the bill, in an effort to provide preferential tax treatment to two golf clubs in Arlington, conflicts with the Constitution and Code of Virginia, sets a dangerous precedent for real property tax assessment decisions to be made in Richmond instead of at the local level, and undermines state laws related to the preservation


Board today took action on nearly two dozen items at its February Regular County Board Meeting. Highlights included the Board approving the advertisement of the property tax rate for Calendar Year 2018, and approving a contract for a Columbia Pike bike boulevard project. By law, the tax rate the Board adopts in April, when it adopts the Fiscal Year 2019 Budget, cannot be higher than the advertised rate. Here are some of the highlights.

The County Board will continue its February meeting at its Recessed Meeting on Tuesday, February 27, 2018. The afternoon session of the Recessed Meeting will begin at 3 p.m. with County Board Business and Reports, and resume at 6:30 p.m. Two public hearings are scheduled for the Recessed Meeting. The public hearings will begin noit was
so well put together; but I fancy you would not have approved of it,
somehow. The theatre here is very small, and was quite filled by our
own selves and a few artists,--not one amateur, for it was produced in
rehearsal. The scenery was very good, the story rambling and fiendish;
but we thought it fairy-like. There was a perfect hit in the hero, who
was a monstrous fiddle-player, to represent whom he had Paganini, as
he had not to speak a word. The heroines, who were three in number,
were a sort of musical nuns, young ladies dedicated to the art; but
they, first one, then another, fell in with the fiddler, and finding
him, became enamoured of him. He condescends to listen to the first
while she sings, or rather he comes upon her as


could refuse him? Who could have refused him as he stood there,
and flying behind the curtain, peeped again between the folds of it
and bowed? Besides, there was a strong curiosity at work,--a curiosity
of which many were ashamed. Do I tire you?"

"More likely yourself. Do finish about the lecture."

"The supper-bell will be soon ringing, and will shake the story out of
me, so I must make haste. I can tell it you properly some time. The
next evening there was such a crowd at the door that they kicked it
in, and stood listening outside. The curtain was done away with, and
we never could make out how that organ came there which towered
behind; but there it stood, and a pianoforte in front. The Chevalier
appeared dressed in black, with nothing in his armsmedicinal advices that lowered my mental system; and, finally,
left me in possession of a minikin edition of what I had conceived
myself the day before, but which he deprived me of at present, if not
annihilated forever.

It was doubtless a very good thing to go back to the beginning, if he
intended to re-create me; but it happened that such transmutation
could not take place twice, and it had already occurred once. Still, I
was absolved from obvious discomfiture to the regenerator by my silent
adaptations to his behavior.

That which would assuredly become a penance to the physique in dark or
wintry weather, remained still a charming matutinal romance; namely,
that we all rose at four o'clock, except any one who might be
delicate, and that we practised a couple of hours before we got
anything to eat,--I


my thinking about you and her."

"Exactly; you shall therefore have sufficient time to think about us.
As you have not control enough to fasten your mind on your own
affairs, we must indulge your weakness by giving it plenty of room."

Then he pointed to my page with his bow, and we went on quietly. I
need not say we were alone. After my lesson, just before he proceeded
to the next violin, he spoke again.

"You do not know, perhaps, what test you are about to endure. We shall
have a concert next month, and you will play a first violin with me."

"Sir!" I gasped, "I cannot--I never will!"

"Perhaps you will change your note when you are aware who appointed
you. It is no affair of mine."

"If you mean, sir, that it is the Chevalierus at "L'Amour Fugitif" and "Euryanthe,"--I mean, their
respective overtures,--a good while, and was very quiet all the time,
until our emancipation in the "Mer de Glace." His _face_ did not
change even then; but there was a fixity and straightening of the arm,
as if an iron nerve had passed down it suddenly, and he mustered us
still more closely to him and to each other. My stand was next his
own; and, looking here and there, I perceived Iskar among the second
violins, and was stirred up,--for I had not met with him except at
table since I came there.

It is not in my power to describe my own sensations on my first
introduction to Seraphael's orchestral definite creation. Enough to
say that I felt all music besides, albeit precious, albeit
inestimable, to have been but affecting


would not have been
unfaithful to myself if I had seen and loved him better than
Florimond; it might have been that I had not before found out what I
ought to submit my soul to, nor could I have helped it; such things
have happened to many, I daresay,--to many natures, but not to mine;
if I feel once, it is entirely and for always, and I cannot think how
it is that so few women, even of my own race, are so unfixed about
their feelings and have so many fancies. I sometimes believe there is
a reason for my being different, which, if it is true, will make him
sadder than the saddest,--you can guess what I mean?"

"Yes, Maria, but I know there is nothing in it; it is what my mother
would call aCarl, nor I. Will you stay here with me and help me?"

"No, Maria, for you do not want help, and I should think no one could
write unless alone. But I will prevent any one else from coming."

"No one else will come; but if you care to stay here, Carl, I can
write in my room, and you, as you said you have set yourself certain
tasks, can work in this one. I am very selfish I am afraid, for I feel
pleasantly safe when you are near me. I think, Carl, you must have
been a Sunday-child."

"No, Maria; I was born upon a Friday, and my mother was in a great
fright. Shall you write this evening?"

"I must go out and buy some paper."

CHAPTER VII.

We dined together, and then walked. I cannot record


not
let me be content with proving what has gone before me. Dearly as I
love Florimond, he could not put this feeling out of me. I am not
content to be an actress. There have been actresses who were queens,
and some few angels. I know my heart is pure in its desires, and I
should have no objection to reign. But it must be over a new kingdom.
No woman has ever yet composed."

"Oh, yes, Maria!"

"I say no to you, Carl,--not as I mean. I mean no woman has been
supreme among men, as the Chevalier among musicians. I have often
wondered why. And I feel--at least, I did feel--that I could be so,
and do this. But I feel it no longer,--it has passed. Carl, I am very
miserable and cast down."

I could easily believethat suggest to us,
in their varied yet according forms, the sounds that creep, that wind,
that pierce, that electrify, through parchment or brass or string.

In a word, they wanted a band very much. It would not have signified
whether they had one or not, had the class continued in its primitive
position, and in which its enemies would have desired it to
remain,--an unprogressive mediocrity. But as it is the nature of true
art to be progressive ever, it is just as ignorant to expect
shortcomings of a true artist as it would be vain to look for ideal
success amongst the leaders of musical taste, neither endowed with
aspiration nor volition. Now, to hear those voices rise, prolong
themselves, lean in uncorrupted tone upon the calm motet, or rest in
unagitated simplicity over a pause of Ravenscroft's


will prevent
my becoming wicked! If you had been so kind as to bring your violin, I
would have filled up the case with roses, and then you would not have
had to carry them in your hands."

"But may I not have some, although I did not bring my violin? I never
think of anything but violets, though, for strewing that sarcophagus."

"Sarcophagus means 'tomb,' does it not? It is a fine idea of
resurrection, when you take out the sleeping music and make it live. I
know what you mean about violets,--their perfume is like the tones of
your instrument, and one can separate it from all other scents in the
spring, as those tones from all other tones of the orchestra."

"I have a tender thought for violets,--a very sad one, Miss Benette;
but still sweet nowoverlook
it."

"I may not see the letter? I do not desire it; but suffer me to
understand clearly what it is about exactly, if you do not think me
too young, Miss Benette."

"Sir, I always feel as if you were older, and I rely upon you. I will
do as you please; I wish to do so only. This letter is to ask me to
marry him. Oh! how differently I felt when I was asked to marry Mr.
Davy!"

"Yes, I rather suppose so. You are ready to reply?"

"Not quite. I had not considered such a thing, and should have thought
first of marrying a king or an angel."

"He is above all kings, Miss Benette; and if he loves you, no angel's
happiness could be like your own. But is it so wholly unexpected?"

"I never imagined


slashed it into pieces
with a carving-knife or my father's razor. I shall keep it, with your
permission; it will be very valuable and precious, and I have to thank
you for the inestimable privilege of possessing it."

This cool treatment of Miss Lawrence's delighted me,--it was the only
one to restore our Chevalier. He, indeed, returned unto his rest, for
he left the house that moment. Nor could I have desired him to
remain,--there was only one presence in which I cared to imagine
him....

CHAPTER XVII

The day had come and gone when Clara, for the first time, dressed in
white. The sun-grain of August had kissed the corn, the
golden-drooping sheaves waved through the land fresh cut, and the
latest roses mixed pale amidst the lilies beneath the bounteous
harvest-moon when she left us,--but not alone. It was likeever drawn into his
bosom,--a constant endeavor to rouse from a manifest abstraction.
Notwithstanding, he still wore the air of the most perfect health, nor
did I construe those signs, except into the fact of his being absent
from his new-found, his endeared and delighted home. He left us so
suddenly that I was only just in time to see him off. He would not
permit me to accompany him to London, from whence he should instantly
embark; but it was a letter from Clara that really hastened his
departure,--his babes were ill. I could not gain from him the least
idea of their affection, nor whether there was cause for fear; his
face expressed alarm, but had an unutterable look besides,--a look
which certainly astonished me, for it might have bespoken
indifference, as it might bespeak despair. One smile


of hills. Below the river rushed, its
music ever in a sleep, and its blue waves softened hyaline by
distance. In the last sunset smile I saw the river and the valley, the
vines at hand crawled over it, and there was not a house around that
was not veiled in flowers. When I entered the valley from below, the
purple evening had drowned the sunset as with a sea, there was no mist
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And having hurried all along till now, at length I rested. For now I
felt that of all I had ever endured, the approaching crisis was the
consummation. Had I dared, I would have returned; for I even desired
not to advance. My own utter impotence, my unavailing presence,
weighed me down, andThe number of slots in the VLIW is typically machine architectural dependent and depends on the number of functional units (FU), such as arithmetic and logic units (ALU) and floating point unit(s) (FPU) in the machine. Each slot corresponds to a specific ALU or FPU. The ALU performs operations such as addition, subtraction, and multiplication of integers and bit-wise and other Boolean operations. The FPU performs floating-point operations and due to cost, only one is generally utilized in a CPU. When the VLIW is executed, the FUs execute the operation indicated by the opcode in the corresponding slot.
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and the police in America.

Critics of former military personnel working in law enforcement, have argued that departments are contributing to the war-time mentality among police by hiring soldiers that are accustomed to operating in combat conditions. Hiring guards from Guantanamo Bay would be taking this a step further, as the prison has become notorious for widespread torture and abuse.

Guantanamo Bay was in the news again this week, as it was revealed that detainees were regularly killed in the prisons, and their murders covered up and made to look like suicides. By all reports it was the CIA that was involved in carrying out these murders, but it has been well documented for years that guards were required to beat and torture detainees on a regular basis. Even beingpeople who get the jobs are not the type of people who refuse orders.

A decade ago, Democracy Now spoke with a former army sergeant, Erik Saar who served as an Arabic translator at Guantanamo Bay for six months. Among the abuses he says he witnessed was sexual abuse, mock interrogations, the use of dogs and a female interrogator smearing what looked like menstrual blood on a Muslim prisoner. He also says children were imprisoned at Guantanamo and that the military ordered them not to speak to the Red Cross.

John Vibes is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture and the drug war. In addition to his writing and activist work he is also the owner of a successful music promotion


Strom's Testimony
Dr. Strom's proposed testimony is described in the final pretrial order:
He will testify that at the time of plaintiff's exposure to DES, the University of Chicago ... knew, or by the application of reasonable, developed human skill and foresight should have had knowledge of the dangers of DES use. Dr. Strom will also testify that DES was inadequately tested prior to its marketing for treatment of accidents of pregnancy.
University concedes such testimony is relevant to Count III but disputes its relevance to Counts I and II. This Court must agree with plaintiffs' position on that score.
Dr. Strom's testimony is certainly pertinent at least to the "informed consent" issue posed by one of the six acts of negligence imputed to University by Count II: permitting "Dr. Dieckmann andfall within the Mayor’s criteria to be considered an abandoned and blighted property.

Condemned and Dangerous

Front View – Spruce Street

239 Spruce had previously been occupied by a Beverley Ross. She kept cats – lots of them – and appears to have been a hoarder too. The Marshalls had to seal all their walls to prevent the foul smell of cat urine from penetrating their property. Constant complaints finally got some action. Judge Saylor actually inspected the property along with members of Sunbury PD and had it condemned. Ms. Ross was allowed to move out without liability. The trash that was removed at that time completely filled 3 dumpsters. The city assumed ownership.

Condemned Notice

Even a glance at the building will reveal how far it is from being in code compliance.


Part of the porch floor is missing, pigeons are living in the roof space, the roof shingles are way beyond their useful life, paint is peeling off the siding, the house stinks and appears to be filled with junk, and the yard is overgrown, tree branches growing through the electric wires, and is a haven for all kinds of critters including groundhogs, cats and snakes. Some neighbors have started dumping trash in the yard too.

Overgrown Yard – Home to many Critters.

The roof support above the rear corner of the porch and balcony has subsided, leaving this part of the roof unsupported and in danger of collapse. An old freezer, still filled with remains of food, has been lying outside, inactive for over 7 years. An air conditioner hangsout a side window at a crazy angle – a result of a previously attempted theft, and all along the side of the house are huge piles of pigeon poop.

Unmaintained Siding

Unsupported Roof

Earlier this year, the cellar was broken into and the door damaged. The Marshall’s contacted Joe Bartello who got the police involved and then the City came in to put locks on all the doors to secure the building. Joe has been the only person from the City who has tried to help – in contrast with other members of the Persing administration he actually cares about the City and the welfare of its inhabitants.

Missing Porch Floor

Pigeon Poop

Why is all this being allowed to happen? You may well ask! One clue is the fact that Terry served


Post Date: 11/29/2017 11:30 AM

WILMINGTON, DEL. – NOV. 29, 2017 – Delaware Governor John Carney and Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki joined the Philadelphia 76er’s and the Buccini Polin Group today to announce construction of a 140,000-square-foot, multi-purpose sports complex and youth training center in Wilmington. The new facility will be built on an 8.9 acre parcel of land off U.S. Route 13 and Garasches Lane. The sports complex is designed to be the premier center for youth sports in Delaware while providing thousands of underserved youth with new sports programming and opportunities.

The facility will be named “76ers Fieldhouse” and will be the new home for the 76ers NBA G League affiliate team, the Delaware 87ers. The team will play its home games at 76ers Fieldhouse, configured to hostrespected and accomplished as BPG to reach this goal, while also bringing these amenities to youth teams and athletes in this area. With the support of Delaware Governor John Carney, Wilmington Mayor Michael Purzycki and our fans across the state, we’re excited to further demonstrate our commitment to Delaware by launching 76ers Fieldhouse.”

"This announcement by the 76ers organization confirms again that Wilmington is a great place for companies to invest, expand, and grow," said Governor John Carney. "We couldn't be more excited to help announce the new 76ers Fieldhouse, which will bring an NBA G League team to our city, and help connect development along the banks of the Christina River. Importantly, this facility will create jobs, expand opportunities for kids in Wilmington to participate in sports activities,


nonprofit providing free soccer programs for economically disadvantaged children in the City of Wilmington (www.fssfoundation.org), and the Delaware Football Club (DEFC) which includes Delaware Rush, Delaware Union, and Kirkwood Soccer players (www.delawarefc.org), are two such organizations that work both independently and collaboratively to enhance youth soccer in the region, and have both committed to this facility as their home. Steve Cavalier is the Founder and Executive Director of FSS, and Coach at DEFC. "By working together, FSS and DEFC create the access and launch points (respectively) of a streamlined and coherent soccer pathway for all children regardless of ethnicity, background, or socioeconomic status. Where FSS introduces play, DEFC, in conjunction with high school play, provides the highest levels of competition before college and beyond."

DEFC is the product ofCo-Founder of The Buccini/Pollin Group. “Their confidence and commitment is an affirmation that Wilmington continues to move in the right direction. In addition to providing sports, training and health services for youth in our City and throughout the region, the facility will be a significant economic generator. With the addition of tournaments and associated visitors, the 76ers Fieldhouse will positively impact the local economy.”

A formal groundbreaking ceremony is being planned for the first quarter of 2018, with a season ticket deposit campaign for the NBA G League team also set to begin at the start of the new year. For information on field use reservations, events, and other ways to support the 76ers Fieldhouse please visit www.76ersfieldhouse.com.

ABOUT THE BUCCINI/POLIN GROUP:

The Buccini/Pollin Group, Inc. (Buccini/Pollin) is a privately held,


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Buccini/Pollin has acquired, developed and owns real estate assets having a value in excess of $4.0 billion, including over 40 hotels, 6 million square feet of office and retail space, 10 major residential communities, and multiple entertainment venues, including Talen Energy Stadium, home of the Philadelphia Union Major League Soccer team.

The principals of Buccini/Pollin, along with PM Hotel Group (hotel operating company), BPG Real Estate Services, LLC (office property management and leasing), ResideBPG (residential property management and leasing), and BPGS Construction, LLC (construction management), oversee all aspects of project acquisition, finance, development, construction, leasing, operations,Alan Jackson’s Son-in-Law Dies After Fall

Alan Jackson's son-in-law, Ben Selecman, has died. The 28-year-old was married to the singer's daughter, Mattie.

Selecman died on Wednesday (Sept. 12) in West Palm Beach, Fla., the result of a traumatic head injury after he fell while helping a woman onto a boat, the Tennessean reports. He was the Assistant District Attorney for Davidson County in Tennessee.

The District Attorney's office confirmed his death to Taste of Country, sending a note that reads in part:

"The District Attorney’s Office is saddened to announce the passing of Assistant DA Ben Selecman ... District Attorney Glenn Funk said the DA’s Office is thankful for every day that Ben had the opportunity to serve the people of Davidson County. Our prayers are with Ben’s family. He will be


truly missed."

When contacted, Jackson's record label representatives confirmed he suffered severe head injuries as the result of a fall. Samuel Benton "Ben" Selecman is survived by his parents, Mark and Brenda, and a brother named Cole, as well as Cole's wife, Morgan.

Twenty-eight-year-old Mattie is Jackson's oldest daughter with wife Denise. For the most part they've lived a private life, including private accounts on social media, but her wedding to Selecman was covered extensively in Southern Bride earlier this summer.

Over the years, Jackson has kept property in Florida. The country icon's upcoming concerts had already been postponed due to Hurricane Florence. In August, the 59-year-old Country Music Hall of Famer scrapped three shows because of a respiratory infection. His next scheduled show is Sept. 21 in Omaha, Neb., withThe man who established the Australian Army's first drone unit has hit out at former prime minister Malcolm Fraser's criticism of Australian involvement in US military drone operations.

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Phil Swinsburg says Mr Fraser's claims that Australian personnel serving at the Pine Gap surveillance base could find themselves charged with crimes against humanity are "far-fetched" and "ridiculous".

Mr Fraser, the Liberal PM between 1975 and 1983, had warned that Australians working at the US-run Joint Defence Facility at Pine Gap – the intelligence-gathering base which reportedly now plays a key role in locating drone targets - did not have the same legal protection as their US counterparts.

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"The purposes for which drones are used are going to be outlawed at some point by international agreement, and the Americans might


general public in trying to create a situation when nothing exists," he said.

Mr Swinsburg, formerly a military targeting specialist, served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In 2006 he established and then commanded the Army’s first drone unit, the Brisbane-based 20th Surveillance and Target Acquisition Regiment, which operates unarmed Shadow reconnaissance drones.

He now runs a civilian Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) consultancy.

'The Taliban know we're listening'

Pine Gap, the secret US-run joint defence facility in the Northern Territory, reportedly plays a key role in the drone program. ( Wikipedia Commons, file photo )

Pine Gap, near Alice Springs, is essentially a highly sophisticated listening post, controlled by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

The Australian "joint partner" is the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), the Defence Department's signals intelligence agency.

Established at the height of the ColdWar to monitor the Soviet Union, Pine Gap now has a different role.

Last year, leaks from US intelligence contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the facility was part of the XKeyscore program, a controversial computer system that searches and analyses vast amounts of internet data.

In July 2013, Fairfax Media reported claims by former Pine Gap personnel that the base also played a key role in US drone strikes involving the "targeted killing" of Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders.

"The [Taliban] know we're listening, but they still have to use radios and phones to conduct their operations. They can't avoid that," one former Pine Gap operator told Fairfax Media.

"We track them, we combine the signals intelligence with imagery, and once we've passed the geolocation [intelligence] on, our job is done.

"When drones do


process that somehow does not have the rules of engagement applied.

"People somehow believe that these machines have a mind of their own, simply programmed to exterminate all targets without human oversight."

Australians killed in Yemen drone strike

People inspect a wrecked car hit by an air strike in the central Yemeni province of al-Bayda. ( Reuters )

While the politics of this highly contentious form of remote warfare has engulfed Washington, there has been remarkably little public debate in Australia, despite recent revelations Australians had joined the growing casualty list.

In April, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) confirmed two Australian nationals had been killed in Yemen in late 2013 in what DFAT termed "a counter-terrorism operation".

"There was no Australian involvement in, or prior awareness of the operation," DFAT saidin a statement.

DFAT would not confirm reports the two men, identified by The Australian newspaper as Christopher Harvard and "Muslim bin John", were extremists killed in a US drone strike on Al Qaeda operatives.

'Bin John' was a dual New Zealand national who, according to prime minister John Key, had been in Yemen for "quite some time" and had attended a terrorist training camp.

The Australian and New Zealand governments would not confirm that drones were used in the attack, nor have they subsequently produced evidence the men killed were Al Qaeda members or engaged in terrorist activities.

Mr Fraser claimed disturbing linkages were clearly evident. On April 17 he tweeted: "US murders two Australians in drone strike in Yemen, through Pine Gap Australia complicit in the program. Barbarous."

Mr Swinsburg is


confident those killed in the drone strike would have been positively identified – and declared a target of "military necessity".

He is dismissive of claims of Australian culpability.

"I doubt if Malcolm Fraser, when he was PM, was involved in the modern targeting process - which General (Stanley) McChrystal (commander of US Forces in Afghanistan 2008-09 and commander of US Special Operations 2003-08) was very prescriptive in putting in place - a series of critical oversight procedures to ensure that only heavily vetted targets would be engaged," he said.

"I suspect also, noting the media attention on drone strikes, that this attack would have had a high level of Pentagon approval as well.

"And if not, then the commander, and the commander alone, will answer for it. But the fact that theinformation came from an Aussie in a shared facility (Pine Gap) with shared information, (and who) is now somehow responsible for the commander's decision, is ridiculous."

'The Kill Chain'

The Australian Defence Force operates only unarmed surveillance drones, but senior Australian officers have previously been directly involved in approving missile attacks by armed US drones, in a process unofficially dubbed "The Kill Chain".

In 2012, military sources told the ABC the Dubai-based, two-star major-general commanding Australian forces in the Middle East had directly ordered US drone strikes against insurgents fighting Australian special forces in Afghanistan.

Advising the Australian general in "The Kill Chain" was a military lawyer specialising in the laws of armed conflict.

Mr Swinsburg says it is important to distinguish between these types of attacks - termed "immediate, close-air support missions"


weapons of mass destruction".

However, Defence does offer some detail on the role of Australian drones in Afghanistan.

"Joint Task Force 633 continues to provide the Heron Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) capability in Afghanistan," a spokesperson said.

"The Heron is a remotely piloted, unarmed, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft. It currently operates from Kandahar Air Field.

"The aircraft is operated by a task unit comprised of specialists from all three services, although predominately Air Force.

"The Heron Remotely Piloted Aircraft mission in Afghanistan will conclude in July 2014."

Defence confirms armed American or British drones have been used to support Australian troops, saying "Armed Coalition UAS have been part of the suite of options available to support Australian Defence Force operations in Afghanistan" but denies the two-star general commanding the Australian Joint Taskwhen he was interviewed for the job, according to a transition official familiar with the conversation.

"The department is working with the White House and OMB to review its budget priorities,” acting State Department spokesman Mark Toner said. “The department remains committed to a U.S. foreign policy that advances the security and prosperity of the American people."

Trump is sure to meet similar push back from other US agencies as the threat of money being pulled away becomes all too real.


In July last year, Dying Light developer Techland promised players ten portions of free DLC in the space of a year. The parkour meets zombie slasher has since enjoyed new weapons, bounties, accessories and a Prison Heist mode among other complimentary add-ons. The 10 in 12 initiative's tenth and final drop is now live.

Here are some moving pictures:

As outlined there, Content Drop #10, named 'Badlands Rider', brings with it the Desert Fury buggy, the Empress machete, the Heatwave crossbow, the Sandstorm shotgun, and the eponymous Badlands Rider survivor. That's the dude sporting the mohawk, the facepaint and the badass mohawk above.

With all of that at his disposal, he appears to make light work of a beachside zombie horde, lopping off undead limbs at will. Full details of Dyinggasping greedily for the piercing, bitter-cold air.

Since Ai Hui never knew when the next test would be, he never knew whether he would manage to get through it.

He had to squeeze out every last ounce of his potential because he was weak and could die at any moment. He would remind himself every day that there wasn't going to be a second chance-he had to give it his all.

Would there be a tomorrow? He had no idea.

Even if he gave his all, it still might not even be enough to make it to the next day, but he knew that any mistakes would spell certain death. There was no room for errors or luck; death was absolute.

Every single day was filled with fear and trepidation. He would often


be too afraid to sleep, and even the shelters provided no reprieve from danger. When living in such conditions, where death lurked at every corner, merely being able to stay sane was a blessing. Many laborers had even experienced mental breakdowns, running out of the camp in the middle of the night as they howled like wild beasts, never to return.

It was the Wilderness, a place respected by the strong, and a place where the weak struggled to survive.

His teacher had told him that his all-out approach wasn't a long term solution, but he already knew that. However, it had been completely uncertain if he would even make it till tomorrow, and if he didn't give it his best shot, he might not have the chance to doso anymore.

Being able to take things one firm step at a time was a privilege that was not given to everyone.

Ai Hui had lost count of the number of times he had faced death. He had no wish to remember either, lest he lose himself to fear. All he could do was make use of his abilities to the fullest and steel his heart. In such an extreme environment, having any sort of sentiment could easily result in death.

The three years he spent in the Wilderness still clung onto him like a shadow. It was a large part of the person he was today.

He tried very hard to adapt to life in the Induction Ground, constantly reminding himself that this was not the Wilderness. What's important now was


that he should refrain from killing others in battle.

Other than that, he wasn't going to hold back.

He never once believed that fate was something that could be controlled. He was never able to shape his destiny. It was just like the Wilderness, always fighting against him. The only thing that made him happy was the brief reprieve he had after each victory.

Fighting was the only weapon he could use to resist his destiny. It was the only means by which he could win; he was nothing without it.

To him, fighting was never to be taken lightly.

He didn't even have the chance to mock his silly thoughts before the battle started and he entered a fighting state.

His eyes were stone cold, and his soul was equally icy. Ai Huifelt that he was more like a sand puppet, a killing machine created solely for the purpose of fighting. He didn't find anything wrong with that-the only thing he lamented was his lack of power.

He never intended to meet force with force; that first blow was just to test the waters.

Ai Hui's keen perception allowed him to detect the subtle changes in Zu Yan's state of mind despite the latter concealing his abilities well.

Fighting habits that resulted from tireless training in seclusion were indeed entirely different from those bred through struggles of life and death.

Ai Hui didn't understand his opponent's sudden shift in mental state, but being able to sense it allowed him to exploit the moment.

Compared to his compatriots from the Induction Ground, Ai Hui could be


weakness, however, was not much of a concern in the Induction Ground, since most students did not have aerial combat abilities until they became full-fledged elementalists.

Ai Hui didn't either, but he had managed to come up with three different methods to deal with the web.

This was his habit. Even though he wasn't expecting to face Zu Yan again, Ai Hui had prepared well for this scenario.

Meeting him once more was rather unexpected, but it wasn't frightening to Ai Hui at all.

He unfastened the Blood Bandage from his Sword Rattan Gloves, infusing elemental energy that was many times purer than his own into his arm.

Zu Qiuni's hunch was right. The technique that Ai Hui was executing had something to do with bats. It was a very shallow form ofswordplay known as the Gale Bat Blade.

The technique imitates the movement of the fast-flying gale bat, which, according to notes in the margins of the swordplay manual, had become extinct.

Ai Hui had run many simulations in his mind before he had finally found this technique, which would allow him to execute aerial maneuvers, in a swordplay manual.

Although he was unable to fully utilize the technique without a sword, he could still perform its aerial maneuvers to change his direction in mid-air. As he had previously practiced, Ai Hui straightened his arm and channeled elemental energy through it in an arc.

He immediately felt a surge of air pushing his body, causing him to circle around Zu Yan in a clearly-defined arc.

Ai Hui had thought through every last detail of


the plan, but appeared to have missed out one thing. Ai Hui had thought through every last detail of the plan, but he appeared to have missed out one thing. His elemental energy was now much purer than before.

Thus, things did not go according to plan.

Ai Hui's plan was to attack his opponent from the side, but he soon realized that he had overshot and landed behind him.

Zu Yan's body was slightly suspended in the air, ready to unleash his next attack.

Any other student might have been fazed by this, but not Ai Hui. He always expected the unexpected and believed that nothing was ever certain in battle.— Janet Wu (@WuWCVB) June 30, 2016

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A Brookline Democrat who ran and won Barney Frank's seat after the longtime congressman retired, Kennedy previously worked as an assistant district attorney in Middlesex County and the Cape and Islands area.

Kennedy's Congressional district runs from Brookline to Fall River on the South Coast.

Former Rep. Joseph Kennedy II is his father and the late U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy was his great-uncle.

Warren, whose term ends in January 2019, won the Senate seat in 2012, beating incumbent Scott Brown.

Donald Trump says he hopes Elizabeth Warren chosen as Hillary Clinton's running mate


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The man told police he arrived at Stevens' home to pick up a fan. When he arrived Stevens "yelled at him to get off his property" and broke a beer bottle and threw it at him. The man had a cut on his mouth and was bleeding when police arrived. He told police this was caused by the bottle.

Stevens "charged at him" with a tie-down strap with metal hooks for his truck, the complaint said. The man said he tried to use a hammer to defend himself but was hit in the face with the strap.

Stevens then held the man down on the ground and told Alanis to run him over with the truck. Alanis reportedly backed


the truck up and revved the engine. Stevens later came at the man with an ax, the complaint said.

The complaint said the officer spoke to Stevens who said he "kicked (the man) in the chest twice and had (the man's) head near the wheel of the truck."

He also admitted to throwing the strap at the man, calling him a racial slur and threatening to hang him from a tree, the complaint said. The complaint said Stevens told the officer "He's an (expletive) (slur)... I'm a prejudice (expletive.)"

The complaint said police found the broken bottle, hammer, ratchet strap and blood on the ground where the assault happened. There were also skid marks immediately behind the truck's tires.

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Passionate for students and student ministry, and desiring a lengthy role focusing on students
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Biblically sound in doctrine, creative in leadership and vision casting, and compassionate in outreach
Crossroads Grace Community Church is seeking a Pastor of Student Ministries, experienced with a proven
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[Who heals, is right!--A forgotten genius? In memory of Wilhelm Fliess on the occasion of his 150th birthday and 80th anniversary of death].
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How long does it take after a card is skimmed (unknowingly) at an ATM for the thief to be able to steal cash from the account?

My 21-year-old college sophomore daughter's SECU checking account debit card was skimmed 2 weeks ago at an ATM.  She realized it the next day when she tried to use her debit card for a gas purchase.
She withdrew $20 the night before at an ATM with her card and somebody else withdrew $200 right after her.  She reported the missing money, shut down the account and cancelled her debit card immediately when she realized it.  She made a police report and the SECU called when they had the ATM photos for her to view.  The first photo was of her


using the ATM and the second photo showed a man she'd never seen before.  The SECU had already captioned the second photo: "Girl hands card to guy to use".  She was outraged.  She asked me to go back with her to see the photos and the caption was still there.  The bank reps actually told me twice that there was absolutely NO OTHER WAY for anyone to get money from my daughter's account unless they had her card in their hand and knew her pin number.  I asked the question twice because I had heard a little about skimming fraud and knew this WAS possible.  I have since then read everything I can get my hands on about the topic but stillCategory: kuna yala

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A college student who doesn't believe in the existence of structural racism or white supremacy wrote an essay about why he would "never apologize" for his white privilege, and Time magazine thought it would be a really cool idea to publish it. Probably because Princeton University freshman Tal Fortgang speaks for many white Americans when he says that racism and white privilege aren't real.

Tired of being told to "check his privilege" by others at his college, Fortgang goes through his family's history and concludes that he deserves to go to an Ivy League school and live in a wealthy suburb of New York City and share his ridiculous baby tantrum thoughts on a national news site because his family made smarter and better choices than other families.

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"I amfeed their families don't love their children or Rand Paul's faith that his niece's spot in a veterinary program means that sexism is dead. The only difference is that Fortgang is just some college jerk-off, but Ryan and Paul get to shape policies that force real people to go hungry or prevent women from seeking legal recourse when they're discriminated against by their employers.

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It's likely that Fortgang will have the opportunity at Princeton to learn about the racial wealth gap, the legacy of red-lining, the unemployment rate among college educated men of color versus their white counterparts, the convergence of racism and sexism that leaves women of color disproportionately impacted by domestic violence, the gender pay gap experienced by black women, the deadly violence faced by black children


China, in 2012, and the master’s degree in signal and information processing from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing, China, in 2015. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany, and also with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany. In 2015, he spent six months at the Computer Vision Group, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.

In 2019, he was a Visiting Researcher with the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K. His research interests include remote sensing, computer vision, and machine learning, especially deep networks and their applications in remote sensing.

Mr. Mou was a recipient of the first place in the 2016 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest and finalists for the Best Student Paper Award at theTransport". Prof. Zhu was a guest scientist or visiting professor at the Italian National Research Council (CNR-IREA), Naples, Italy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan and University of California, Los Angeles, United States in 2009, 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively. Her main research interests are remote sensing and Earth observation, signal processing, machine learning and data science, with a special application focus on global urban mapping.

Dr. Zhu is a member of young academy (Junge Akademie/Junges Kolleg) at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She is an associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

[^1]: This work is jointly supported by the China Scholarship Council, the


Upper Bangor businesses outraged by Post Office closure

Bangor businesses and politicians have joined forces in an effort to reach a long term solution for Upper Bangor residents and business people, who feel abandoned after the Post Office, based in the Late Stop, closed in February due to ‘operational reasons’ and hasn’t reopened since.

At a recent public meeting, on Thursday 19th April, organised by Plaid Cymru Bangor at Capel Penrallt, residents and the business community came together to share their frustrations that a one hour weekly Post Office service on a Wednesday from Morrisons car park would not be sufficient to meet the local community’s needs.

Network Operations Manager for the Post Office informed politicians at the beginning of April, after the closure of the branch at Holyhead Road inalso the first extrusion-based process to produce ceramic-based functionally graded materials such as ceramic oxides graded to Inconel or stainless steel.
FDC uses a modified Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) system to extrude ceramic-loaded thermoplastic filaments. The filament is liquefied, extruded, and re-solidified to retain its shape.
In RC, typically an aqueous suspension is prepared from ceramic materials (e.g. alumina, silica, lead zirconate titanate, hydroxyapatite, silicon carbide, and silicon nitride) and extruded onto a hot plate to dry and maintain its shape. The main advantage of RC over EFF and FDC is using low amount of binder in the feedstock, which facilitates pre-processing and post-processing.
In the FEF process, an aqueous paste is extruded in a freezing environment to solidify the paste after its deposition. Freeze-drying is then used to remove the


"Every penny goes back to the charities we serve," said Sarah Thompson.

She said the money will go toward several groups including the Wesley House in Knoxville. Some money will help the Morgan Scott Project which serves Appalachian children, and another chunk will help Living Waters International Ministries which provides clean water for people around the world.

About 100 members of the church's congregation helped make the festival happen.For three decades, the film canisters sat undisturbed in a cellar beneath the Swedish National Broadcasting Company. Inside was roll after roll of startlingly fresh and candid 16mm footage shot in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States, all of it focused on the anti-war and Black Power movements. When filmmaker Goran Hugo Olsson discovered the footage, he decided he had a responsibility to shepherd this glimpse of history into the world. MORE

With contemporary audio interviews from leading African American artists, activists, musicians and scholars, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 looks at the people, society, culture, and style that fuelled an era of convulsive change. Utilizing an innovative format that riffs on the popular 1970s mixtape format, Mixtape is a cinematic and musical journey into the black


communities of America.

At the end of the '60s and into the early '70s, Swedish interest in the U.S. civil rights movement and the U.S. anti-war movement peaked. With a combination of commitment and naiveté, Swedish filmmakers traveled across the Atlantic to explore the Black Power movement, which was being alternately ignored or portrayed in the U.S. media as a violent, nascent terrorist movement.

Despite the obstacles they encountered, both from the conservative white American power establishment and from radicalized movement members themselves, the Swedish filmmakers stayed committed to their investigation, and ultimately formed bonds with key figures in the movement.

This newly discovered footage offers a penetrating examination — through the lens of Swedish filmmakers — of the Black Power movement from 1967 to 1975, and its worldwide resonance. Theresult is like an anthropological treatise on an exotic civilization from the point of view of outsiders who approached their subject with no assumptions or biases.

The Filmmaker

Göran Hugo Olsson

Documentary filmmaker and cinematographer Göran Hugo Olsson is the co-founder of Story AB. He was the commission consultant at the Swedish Film Institute during 2000-02, and is a member of the editorial board of Ikon South Africa — a platform for the creative documentary in South Africa. His documentary film work includes F**k You, F**k You Very Much (nominated as the second best rock-documentary of all time by legendary Bon Magazine), and the film about soul artist Billy Paul, Am I Black Enough for You.

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NICOSIA (Reuters) - Talks on the reunification of Cyprus should resume only if the “political status” of Turkish Cypriots is addressed should the new talks fail, a senior Turkish Cypriot official said.

Turkish Cypriot chief negotiator in reunification talks Ozdil Nami speaks during an interview with Reuters in his office in nothern part of Nicosia, Cyprus October 30, 2017. Picture taken October 30, 2017. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou

Outlining positions likely to be rejected outright by Greek Cypriots, Ozdil Nami, the chief Turkish Cypriot negotiator, said the Turkish Cypriots needed assurance that their political status would be spelled out if the talks failed.

Cyprus was split by a Turkish invasion in 1974 that followed a Greek-inspired coup. Northern Cyprus is now a Turkish Cypriot state of about 300,000 people that is recognised onlysank because of Greek Cypriot recalcitrance, he said: “Exactly”.

Talks to unite Cyprus collapsed in July, ending one of the most promising negotiations to resolve the long-running conflict, which is a source of tension between Greece and Turkey and hampers Ankara’s hopes of joining the EU.

Each side blamed the other for scuppering a deal that would have seen the island united under a two-zone federal system. With a slight shift of present boundaries, northern Cyprus would have become a “constituent state” of the new federal system.

“This political ambiguity hovering about our heads for almost 50 years must end,” said Nami, whose office lies a short distance from the green line controlled by the United Nations that splits the Cypriot capital, Nicosia.

Since 2003, several crossing points have opened along a


The adaptation of Liane Moriarty's book 'Big Little Lies' was the subject of a bidding war with Netflix.

HBO may have found its next True Detective.

Following a bidding war with Netflix, the premium cable network has landed David E. Kelley's Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman limited series Big Little Lies, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Based on Liane Moriarty's book Big Little Lies, Kelley penned the script for the limited series — which was taken out to premium cablers and streaming services in November.

Published in July, Kidman and her Blossom Films banner, as well as Witherspoon and her Pacific Standard shingle, optioned the rights to the No. 1 New York Times best-seller as a potential starring feature film in August

The novel and subsequent TV series centers on three mothers ofkindergartners whose seemingly perfect lives unravel to to the point of murder.

Kelley, who most recently served as showrunner on CBS' Robin Williams-Sarah Michelle Gellar comedy The Crazy Ones, is attached to pen the series via his David E. Kelley Productions banner. Kidman and Witherspoon will both exec produce alongside Kelley, who currently is exploring the marketplace free of a studio-based overall deal. Exec producers include Kelley, Witherspoon and Pacific Standard's Bruna Papandrea, Kidman and Blossom Films' Per Saari.

Australian novelist Moriarty will serve as a producer on Big Little Lies. She previously penned best-sellers What Alice Forgot, Three Wishes, The Hypnotist's Love Story and The Husband's Secret.

Witherspoon's Pacific Standard and Kidman's Blossom Films have both been active in acquiring literary projects. Pacific Standard just produced Hot Pursuit, Wild and


David Fincher's Gone Girl; its slate also includes Mitch Larson's fantasy book series Pennyroyal's Boot Camp, set up at Summit/Lionsgate, The Engagements and Ashley's War at Fox 2000, Luckiest Girl Alive at Lionsgate and S.J. Watson's Second Life with Warner Bros. Blossom Films recently completed The Family Fang and produced Rabbit Hole as well as Fox 2000's Monte Carlo. The company is developing The Silent Wife — based on best-seller Reconstructing Amelia — at HBO as well as a biography of singer Dusty Springfield

For Oscar winners Kidman (The Hours) and Witherspoon (Walk the Line), Big Little Lies will mark their biggest TV roles to date. Big Little Lies comes as A-list talent have been flocking to TV as limited fare serves as a way to segue to thesmall screen with a reduced time commitment while still juggling feature films. Broadcast and cable networks have found both ratings and awards season cache with limited fare/anthologies including HBO's True Detective, starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson — and season two cast Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn and Rachel McAdams as well as Fargo's second season starring Kristin Dunst. Oscar winner Halle Berry also segued to TV last year with CBS' Steven Spielberg-produced summer drama Extant, which was renewed for a second season.

CAA, LBI Entertainment and Hansen Jacobson brokered the deal for Pacific Standard; CAA and attorney Alan Werthheimer brokered the deal for Blossom Films. Ten-time Emmy winner Kelley, whose credits include Ally McBeal, Boston Public and L.A. Law, was repped in the deal by CAA and Gendler &


The Hon Justice Edelman (Magdalen 1998) was a Rhodes Scholar and obtained his DPhil in Law in 2001, before becoming a Professor of the Law of Obligations at the Oxford Faculty of Law in 2008. He remains connected to the Faculty and we offer him our warmest congratulations in his new appointment.Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot and I saw his assassin, preparing to kill him. It was a baptism in the American way, along with the salivating violence of the Chicago police at the Democratic Party’s rigged convention. The great counter revolution had begun.

The first to be assassinated that year, Martin Luther King, had dared link the suffering of African-Americans and the people of Vietnam. When Janis Joplin sang, “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”, she spoke perhaps unconsciously for millions of America’s victims in faraway places.

“We lost 58,000 young soldiers in Vietnam, and they died defending your


freedom. Now don’t you forget it.” So said a National Parks Service guide as I filmed last week at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. He was addressing a school party of young teenagers in bright orange T-shirts. As if by rote, he inverted the truth about Vietnam into an unchallenged lie.

The millions of Vietnamese who died and were maimed and poisoned and dispossessed by the American invasion have no historical place in young minds, not to mention the estimated 60,000 veterans who took their own lives. A friend of mine, a marine who became a paraplegic in Vietnam, was often asked, “Which side did you fight on?”

A few years ago, I attended a popular exhibition called “The Price of Freedom” at the venerable Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Thelines of ordinary people, mostly children shuffling through a Santa’s grotto of revisionism, were dispensed a variety of lies: the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved “a million lives”; Iraq was “liberated [by] air strikes of unprecedented precision”. The theme was unerringly heroic: only Americans pay the price of freedom.

The 2016 election campaign is remarkable not only for the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders but also for the resilience of an enduring silence about a murderous self-bestowed divinity. A third of the members of the United Nations have felt Washington’s boot, overturning governments, subverting democracy, imposing blockades and boycotts. Most of the presidents responsible have been liberal – Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, Obama.

The breathtaking record of perfidy is so mutated in the public mind,


went “live” with a Nato “missile defence” base that aims its first-strike American missiles at the heart of Russia, the world’s second nuclear power.

In Asia, the Pentagon is sending ships, planes and special forces to the Philippines to threaten China. The US already encircles China with hundreds of military bases that curve in an arc up from Australia, to Asia and across to Afghanistan. Obama calls this a “pivot”.

As a direct consequence, China reportedly has changed its nuclear weapons policy from no-first-use to high alert and put to sea submarines with nuclear weapons. The escalator is quickening.

It was Hillary Clinton who, as Secretary of State in 2010, elevated the competing territorial claims for rocks and reef in the South China Sea to an international issue; CNN and BBCnow a CIA theme park swarming with Nazis and the frontline of a beckoning war with Russia. It was through Ukraine – literally, borderland — that Hitler’s Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, which lost 27 million people. This epic catastrophe remains a presence in Russia. Clinton’s presidential campaign has received money from all but one of the world’s ten biggest arms companies. No other candidate comes close.

Sanders, the hope of many young Americans, is not very different from Clinton in his proprietorial view of the world beyond the United States. He backed Bill Clinton’s illegal bombing of Serbia. He supports Obama’s terrorism by drone, the provocation of Russia and the return of special forces (death squads) to Iraq. He has nothing to say on the drumbeat of threats


to China and the accelerating risk of nuclear war. He agrees that Edward Snowden should stand trial and he calls Hugo Chavez – like him, a social democrat – “a dead communist dictator”. He promises to support Clinton if she is nominated.

The election of Trump or Clinton is the old illusion of choice that is no choice: two sides of the same coin. In scapegoating minorities and promising to “make America great again”, Trump is a far right-wing domestic populist; yet the danger of Clinton may be more lethal for the world.

“Only Donald Trump has said anything meaningful and critical of US foreign policy,” wrote Stephen Cohen, emeritus professor of Russian History at Princeton and NYU, one of the few Russia experts in the United States to speakabout populism but American liberalism, an ideology that sees itself as modern and therefore superior and the one true way. Those on its right wing bear a likeness to 19th century Christian imperialists, with a God-given duty to convert or co-opt or conquer.

In Britain, this is Blairism. The Christian war criminal Tony Blair got away with his secret preparation for the invasion of Iraq largely because the liberal political class and media fell for his “cool Britannia”. In the Guardian, the applause was deafening; he was called “mystical”. A distraction known as identity politics, imported from the United States, rested easily in his care.

History was declared over, class was abolished and gender promoted as feminism; lots of women became New Labour MPs. They voted on the first day


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Ivory Coast Soccer - The 1992 African Champions, Les Elephants have shocked the soccer world by qualifying to their first World Cup in 2006! World Soccer Shop has the Ivory Coast Soccer Jersey and all the World Cup soccer gear you want.the first place he took his campaign was Bristol, Virginia, also in the state’s far southwestern corner. Although Virginia likes to be known as the Mother of Presidents, having produced eight, for generations the Old Dominion has been so reliably Republican in Presidential general elections that its vote was scarcely worth contesting. Except for 1964, when the Texan Lyndon Johnson prevailed, Virginia has not voted Democratic since 1948, resisting even the Democrats’ all-Bubba ticket in 1992 and 1996. This year, after Obama and Clinton emerged from the February 5th Super Tuesday vote virtually deadlocked, Obama went on to sweep the “Potomac primaries” (Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.) the following week. In Virginia, he far surpassed expectations, taking ten of the state’s eleven congressional districts, and beating Clinton over


all by a twenty-nine-point margin.

That showing aroused Democratic hopes that Virginia might finally back a Democratic Presidential nominee in the general election. The state would be a prize, delivering more electoral votes (thirteen) than all but eleven other states. As Washington’s expanding suburbs have reached farther into farmland and horse country, accommodating a well-educated workforce of government and tech-industry employees, northern Virginia has grown bluer and more politically influential. Virginia has elected successive Democratic governors, and in 2006 the Democrat Jim Webb unseated the formidable Senator George Allen, who was considered a favorite among potential Republican Presidential contenders. So tempting is Virginia to Obama that he seriously considered both Webb and Governor Tim Kaine as his running mate; another Virginia Democrat, the former governor Mark Warner, would likelyhave made the list as well, but for his campaign (in which he is heavily favored) to win the Senate seat of the Republican John Warner, who is retiring.

Virginia Democrats knew, however, that, impressive as Obama’s primary victory was, the most notable result from that day’s voting might have come in the only district he lost—the Virginia ninth, which includes Lebanon. The rout there—by thirty-two points—had troubling implications for Obama’s chances in Virginia as a whole, and beyond. The southwestern region, rising from the Roanoke Valley up to the Appalachian Plateau, is a place of small farms, coal mines, and chronic economic hard times. It was settled in the eighteenth century by Scots-Irish Calvinists who fled Anglican-dominated Ulster and, eventually, came to that portion of Virginia which the


planter aristocracy didn’t want. Their descendants live in small hill towns that are nearer, in mileage and in spirit, to the old factory town of Ironton, Ohio, than to the glass office towers of northern Virginia. Three weeks after the Virginia primary, the mostly white, working-class voters of southern Ohio, a significant portion of them of Scots-Irish descent, helped deliver that state to Hillary Clinton. In the next weeks, their kin did the same in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana, and Kentucky. It became clear that if Obama hoped to win in November he would probably have to overcome his Appalachia problem.

In May, Tim Kaine, Obama’s national co-chairman, wrote a memorandum to the candidate, urging him not to write off southwestern Virginia; if the region votes against Obama incan provide details of his great-grandfather’s wounding at the Battle of Seven Pines, in Henrico County, while serving in General James L. Kemper’s brigade. He sleeps under a Rebel-flag quilt, and when challenged on such matters he has invited his inquisitors to “kiss my Rebel ass”—his way of making the point that when Democrats are drawn into culture battles by prissy liberal sensitivities they usually lose the larger war.

In 2006, Saunders served as a personal adviser to Jim Webb in his Senate run against the incumbent (and former governor) George Allen. Social conservatives had put on the ballot a measure banning gay marriage, a familiar ploy intended to drive up Republican turnout. When a coalition opposing the measure asked Saunders to volunteer for its side, he said that


proven merit. In 2001, in his first full-time foray into politics, Saunders worked on the Democratic gubernatorial campaign of Mark Warner, who had an uphill climb in rural Virginia. Warner, who was born in Indiana and reared in Connecticut and Illinois, was a cellular-telephone mogul based in northern Virginia, and, therefore, culturally suspect in the southwest. At the time, Republicans held the statehouse and the governor’s chair, but Virginia was stuck in a budget crisis. Saunders believed that if Warner could break through the cultural barriers rural Virginians would respond favorably to his message of competent governance. Warner made dozens of visits to the region, and Saunders worked out a deal that put Warner’s name on a truck running on the Nascar circuit. One morning in the shower,Saunders decided that Warner needed a bluegrass campaign jingle. He composed lyrics on the spot, and put them to the tune of the Dillards’ song “Dooley”:

Mark Warner is ready To lead our Commonwealth. He’ll work for mountain people And economic health!

Get ready to shout it From the coal mines to the stills Here comes Mark Warner— The hero of the hills!

The jingle became a small sensation during the campaign, and Warner won fifty-two per cent of the vote in the southwestern district. In office, Warner repaid the region by persuading two high-tech companies to move to Lebanon, and fought to get Virginia Tech—Virginia Polytechnic Institute, in the Blue Ridge town of Blacksburg—into the Atlantic Coast Conference. “Mark Warner has become part of the culture,” Saunders says. “We accept


NASA began observing a dust storm on the planet Mars on November 10, 2012. Martian dust storms are the largest such storms in our solar system. Over the century that astronomers have monitored them through telescopes – and now via spacecraft – these periodic storms have been know to rage for months and grow to cover the entire planet Mars. This one, however, appeared to be dissipating by early December, 2012.

Dust storms on Mars sometimes start in the months before Mars is closest to the sun, as it soon will be. Mars will reach perihelion – its closest point to the sun – in January 2013. Each Martian year lasts about two Earth years. Regional dust storms expanded and affected vast areas of Mars in 2001 and 2007,but not between those years and not since 2007.

The image above is a mosaic taken by a spacecraft in orbit around Mars, the wonderful Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, on November 18, 2012. Small white arrows outline the area in Mars’ southern hemisphere where the 2012 Martian dust storm was building. The storm was not far from two Mars rovers, Opportunity and Curiosity.

At that time, Rich Zurek, chief Mars scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California said:

This is now a regional dust storm. It has covered a fairly extensive region with its dust haze, and it is in a part of the planet where some regional storms in the past have grown into global dust hazes. For the first time since the Viking missions of the 1970s, we are


studying a regional dust storm both from orbit and with a weather station on the surface.

That weather station on Mars comes from the Mars rover Curiosity, which landed on Mars on August 5, 2012. NASA says Curiosity’s weather station detected atmospheric changes related to the storm. For example, its sensors measured decreased air pressure and a slight rise in overnight low temperature. In fact, dust storms on Mars are known to raise the air temperature of the planet, sometimes globally.

The Opportunity rover on Mars – that stalwart vehicle that has been tooling around on the Red Planet since 2004 and is now near the Endeavour crater on Mars – does not have a weather station. Opporunity was within 837 miles (1,347 kilometers) of the storm on November 21,Friday, February 17, 2017

On February 23, Dad will have been dead for twenty years.
Twenty years.

Before 9/11.

Before the genocide in the Middle East.

Long before the current Islamophobia.

At the brink of a new century when the future still looked
wide-open, it may have been a good time to die.

But it was also before he saw his grandchildren married.

It was before his great-grandchildren ever got the chance to
know him.

It was before m first book was published, the first edition
of my journal appeared and many of the events that constitute a large part of
my identity today had even taken place.

It was another world.

On the very few times occasions Dad’s sons and daughters
have had the chance to get together, our memories of him are all from different vantage points. Rather like looking
at a cubist