the world and features artifacts from 12 museums from around the world.

The exhibit tells the story of the mummies – and the mummification process – and gives visitors some insight into how scientists go about studying mummies by using tools such as radiocarbon dating, ancient DNA analysis and computed tomography.

Among the mummies that will be on display are an entire family from Hungary who likely died from tuberculosis. Also on display will be Nes-Hor, an Egyptian priest who suffered from arthritis and a broken hip, and several mummified animal and shrunken heads.

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IN the fall of the year 1829 I took it into my head Id go to Portland. I had heard a good deal about Portland, what a fine place it was, and how the folks got rich there proper fast; and that fall there was a couple of new papers come up to our place from there, called the Portland Courier and Family Reader, and they told a good many queer kind of things about Portland, and one thing and another; and all at once it popped into my head, and I up and told father, and says:

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April 1st, 2014

Bucs fans still aren’t laughing

Looking back, the 2009 offseason was, well, strange for the Bucs, and that’s being polite.

It began some two weeks after the Bucs ended their regular season when Team Glazer decided to jettison the only coach in franchise history able to reach the Holy Grail and win the Super Bowl. And this happened after two consecutive winning seasons, and winning seasons in three of Chucky’s final four years — years that saw the Bucs win the NFC South twice.

Within hours, not even 24 hours, the Bucs had hired little-known secondary coach and apparent heir to Monte Kiffin as defensive coordinator, Raheem Morris.

Joe remembers being at a south Tampa watering hole with his good friend Justin Pawlowski, “The Commish,”


a team that offseason turned to disaster. Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports documents all that blew up that offseason — the list is long and cringe-inducing — and offered the following take on the Bucs.

Morris became increasingly close with players — far too close in the estimation of many, and after a strong start, he quickly fizzled. He, like McDaniels and others on this list, was in his early 30s when first hired — perhaps too young — and after rebounding to go 10-6 in 2010 he was fired in 2011 with a 17-31 overall record in Tampa Bay.

It wasn’t just Morris being pals with players and going out drinking with them. It was his look-the-other-way mentality. Joe remembers a high-ranking Bucs source explaining to him thatBucs commander Greg Schiano was brought in, largely, to clean up the cesspool that was the Bucs locker room under Morris’ (lack of?) leadership.

Though Chucky was flat horrible with the draft, he and Bruce Allen were always able to use baling wire to string together a decent team from loose, often aging parts. Regardless, Team Glazer may have had valid reasons for jettisoning Chucky.

Joe suspects at some point soon, current coach Lovie Smith may be able to replicate what Chucky did in his final years with the Bucs.

It was time for a change. Chucky’s and bruce had gotten stale and the 4 game meltdown to end that season sealed their fate. 9-3 to 9-7 and no playoffs.

Raheem and his staff were very restricted in what they could spend


charge of the defence during the week!

Raheem was a way better game time coach than Schiano. Unfortunately, the team just gave up on Raheem. The last year Raheem coached in Tampa is when I finally gave up my season tickets. The last several games were just blowouts with lack of effort from the players. Nobody in Raymond James was watching the games. A lot of fan disappointment, people just talking and socializing. It was such a waste of money. On a positive note for the Glazer’s…I bet their alcohol sales that year were through the roof!

Ever wonder what Gruden could do with an independent, strong willed GM?

And yes, when Raheem and Dominick were hired, I was apprehensive, and then when they drafted Freeman, and dark cloud settled overto run personnel. The personnel side was where Gruden had his greatest difficulty. He didn’t trust young players and the old ones were either no longer talented enough or often injured to help him. A strong GM would have forced good young players down his throat and made him use them..that being said, Gruden ran McKay out of town, he probably would have been extremely difficult with a REAL non-Bruce Allen GM.

The same people who hated Gruden were the same who had it out for Schiano before he even started his first season.

That same TYPE of person also hates Mike Glennon, even though he is a nice guy and had an impressive ROOKIE season. Regardless if you want a better QB, there is no sane reason to hate


wild card round.

The Buccaneers fired Jon Gruden because the Broncos came sniffing around Morris. The Buccaneers did not want to lose another black defensive backs coach the way they lost Mike Tomlin and have him go on to success someplace else. They were convinced that Morris was the second coming and they figured that firing Gruden after just missing the playoffs in a four loss collapse was a good way to get out of his tenure.

When you try and trash a guy who is a pro football coach and you say “after he won the Super Bowl” such and such happened (as if the Super Bowl is nothing) all credibility is lost.

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A bright young yeti finds something he thought didn't exist—a human. News of this “smallfoot” throws the simple yeti community into an uproar over what else might be out there in the big world beyond their snowy village.

A true story of survival, as a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.

Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – findinga way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.


and supported by the consideration of continued service, may result in the employer becoming contractually bound to comply with those procedures. The court of appeals concluded that there were material questions of fact; therefore, summary judgment was inappropriate. We granted certiorari review, and we reverse in part and remand with directions.

I.
The respondent, Maynard W. Keenan, Jr., was employed by Continental from May 1974 to September 1981, when he was discharged. Keenan then filed this suit alleging wrongful discharge based on the failure of Continental to follow procedures set forth in its policy manual or handbook. Keenan alleged in his complaint that he was given "certain job security assurances" contained in Continental's handbook. At his deposition, Keenan stated that he had not relied on any policies contained in themanual at the time he became employed and stated that he did not receive a copy of that manual until after his employment had started. Subsequently, however, Keenan contradicted his deposition testimony in an affidavit and stated that he was given a copy of the handbook when he was hired.
Continental published the handbook before Keenan was hired. Periodically, the handbook was subject to revision by Continental. The pertinent portion of the handbook concerns a corporate hearing procedure for management personnel who wish to challenge a discipline, discharge, or other job action taken by the company. The hearing procedure was revised by Continental on February 1, 1979, prior to the time Keenan assumed a management position. There is no evidence that Keenan participated in the revision or negotiated for


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Simon Easterby says Cian Healy's rehab is being assessed on a week by week basis.

The Leinster and Ireland prop has been recovering after undergoing surgery in May to repair a disc in his neck.

There had been fears he could be a doubt for the World Cup but Ireland forwards coach, Easterby, says they remain hopeful he will feature in at least one warm up match before their tournament opener against Canada on September 19th.I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Nelson Mandela

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In a David versus Goliath showdown, a small Native American tribe in the Pacific Northwest is challenging one of the country's most powerful and politically well-connected special interests in its mission to improve the oral health of its children.

The David in this fight is the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community in Washington state's Puget Sound area. The Goliath most likely will surprise you. It's none other than organized dentistry, which over many years has spent millions of dollars on image and public affairs campaigns to cultivate a reputation as the nation's preeminent champion of dental health.

The issue at stake is whether the Swinomish and other Indian tribes, which have the highest rates of cavities and dental disease in the country -- can license and employ mid-level dental practitioners --getting approval from state officials. As a consequence, the tribes as sovereign governments must now get "permission" from another sovereign government--the states in which they are located.

Although tribal leaders consider that a violation of tribal sovereignty, it nevertheless has kept Native Americans in the lower 48 from even attempting to do what Alaska Natives did.

Until last month, that is.

The charismatic and outspoken chairman of the Swinomish Tribe, Brian Cladoosby, decided to address the oral health needs of his people and recruited one of Alaska's dental therapists to begin serving his community.

With considerable fanfare, which included a traditional native blessing ceremony, the Swinomish on January 4 welcomed Daniel Kennedy, who has six years of experience as a DHAT in Alaska, to their tribe. He began seeing patients that very


start the training program in Anchorage and Bethel, Alaska.

"The DHAT program has made a big impact in Alaska," Cladoosby said, noting that last year first and second grade students in one community started school with zero cavities for the first time in anyone's memory.

He's optimistic about the dental therapy program in his tribal community. "We want to make ours a model program for all tribes," he said.

One thing is certain: the Swinomish tribe is breaking new ground and will be closely watched by states and tribal communities far and wide. The Oregon Health Authority recently approved two pilot requests from Oregon tribes to employ dental therapists. In addition, several states are now considering allowing dental therapists to practice. Minnesota became the first state other than Alaska to allowCPTC Selected to Receive $1 Million Guided Pathways Grant

January 16, 2018

By Tyler Scott

Clover Park Technical College has been selected to receive $500,000 in grant funding from College Spark to assist its transition to the Guided Pathways education approach. The grant will be matched with a $500,000 allocation from the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, bringing the total value to $1,000,000.

The grant will give CPTC $100,000 per year over the next five years from College Spark – with a matching SBCTC allocation each year – to support the comprehensive implementation of Guided Pathways, as CPTC joins Lower Columbia College, Renton Technical College, Spokane Falls Community College and Tacoma Community College in the second cohort of College Spark grant recipients. The announcement follows a lengthy application process, with


to completion.

The process of implementing Guided Pathways includes four design principles. Colleges must clarify the paths, mapping out each program journey and establishing detailed information on employment and transfer opportunities at the end of each program. The second principle is to help students choose a path, with support systems in place from the moment of entry to help them identify the best path for them. The third principle is helping students stay on the path through intensive advising and intervention when students stumble along the way. Finally, colleges must align program learning outcomes with requirements for success in further education and employment in the field to ensure students are learning.

“I’m extremely excited that College Spark recognized our enthusiasm and planning for this project,” CPTC Guided Pathways Core Teamdevelopment tend to gain relevancy.

Early childhood development (from zero to six years old in Brazil^(^ [@B1] ^)^) has gained increasing prominence thanks to the contribution of research in neuroscience and public policy. It is currently known that the intrauterine period and early years of life are essential for the physical, emotional and cognitive development of children. Along pregnancy and the first years of life (especially during the first thousand days), rapid brain development occurs, and also at this stage the neural circuits are formed and strengthened through stimulation and bonding relationships. Physical and emotional health, social skills, and cognitive-language skills that emerge in the early years are important prerequisites for success in school, and later in the workplace and community^(^ [@B2] ^)^.

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I called Amy Snider-Whitson, then acting president of the Ontario Home Economics Association (OHEA), and asked if we as an association could write the book together. Many board meetings later, plus conversations back and forth with OHEA members and the publisher, we had a result—this book, which I believe proves that professional home economists know a thing or two about healthy eating.

Thanks to all of my fellow professional home economists and students at various universities (see their bios at the back of the book) who answered the call and wrote the informative and delicious


parsley, marjoram, salt, pepper and nutmeg. Stir in the cooked quinoa and pecans. Spoon the mixture evenly into the squash halves.

6. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until tops are golden. To make the recipe go further, double the filling recipe and serve the extra as a pilaf another day. (Cook once and serve twice.)

Nutrition per serving

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254 calories | 13 g total fat | 1 g saturated fat

0 mg cholesterol | 98 mg sodium | 34 g carbohydrates

6 g fibre | 2 g sugars | 5 g protein

Excellent source of thiamin and magnesium.
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Amber Heard emerged from a four-hour meeting with her legal team in Los Angeles in a more cheerful mood, smiling with relief and hugging a female friend.

The actress, who has filed for divorce from Johnny Depp and accused him of domestic violence, was pictured apparently in good spirits as she left the office building laughing and walked to a waiting limousine.

Heard, who was clasping a laptop computer, arrived at the office at around 3.30pm on Saturday and did not leave until about 7.30pm.

In court documents, Heard details the alleged violence during their 15-month marriage, saying she 'lived in fear' of the Pirates of the Caribbean star and worried that he could return to the L.A. condominium they shared to 'terrorize me physically and emotionally.'

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The actress,


who has filed for divorce from Johnny Depp and accused him of domestic violence, laughed loudly and hugged a female friend as they left the office building and walked to a waiting limo

Amber Heard is all smiles following a four-hour meeting with her legal team in Los Angeles, California

The actress and her lawyer Samantha Spector appeared at the Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles on Friday, where she filed for a domestic violence restraining order

A long term friend and neighbor of Amber Heard has given evidence to support the young actress's claims that estranged husband Johnny Depp physically and emotionally abused her

The actress and her lawyer, Samantha Spector, appeared at the Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles on Friday, where she filed for adomestic violence restraining order.

Depp was not in court for the filing. Instead, the star was playing with his band, the Hollywood Vampires, at the Rock in Rio Lisboa festival.

The first incident she documents in the court files is said to have occurred on her 30th birthday, on April 21 this year, after Depp turned up late to the gathering at their Broadway home 'inebriated and high.'

A representative for Depp said in a statement on Thursday; 'Given the brevity of this marriage and the most recent and tragic loss of his mother, Johnny will not respond to any of the salacious false stories, gossip, misinformation and lies about his personal life.

'Hopefully the dissolution of this short marriage will be resolved quickly.'

In court documents, where she details the alleged violence


during their 15-month marriage, Heard said she 'lived in fear' of the Pirates of the Caribbean star and the idea he could return to the L.A. condominium they shared to 'terrorize me physically and emotionally'

Photographs of the bruising on Heard's face, which she claims was inflicted by Depp, were presented to Los Angeles Superior Court

Amber Heard was crying as she left a courthouse in downtown Los Angeles on Friday following a morning hearing for a restraining order petition against estranged husband Johnny Depp

Heard's face was bruised during her entry into a divorce court Friday. She says Depp caused the injury when he threw an iPhone into her face during the May 21 incident

A long term friend and neighbor of Amber Heard has given evidence to support the youngactress's claims that estranged husband Johnny Depp physically and emotionally abused her.

Raquel Rose Pennington, who has known Heard for 13 years, filed court documents Friday that claimed she saw Depp 'screaming loudly at her' and wielding a wine bottle 'like a baseball bat'.

In her account, Pennington says that she received a text from the star asking her to come over, and upon arrival, found Heard 'by the couch, covering her head with her arms and hands, as Johnny was loudly screaming at her'.

The shocking statement continued: 'I ran over and stood in between Johnny and Amber, begging Johnny to stop yelling at her.

'I put my hands out in a defensive manner motioning him to stop. Johnny slapped my hands away and screamed foul obscenities at me.'

Pennington added that


the Pirates of the Caribbean star then 'picked up a large bottle of wine and began swinging it like a baseball bat' in order to smash 'everything he could', according to the document seen by The Daily Mirror.

Following the incident she says she brought Heard back to her own home.

Pennington had been at the couple's home last Saturday May 21, along with friends Elizabeth Marz and Joshua Drew, when Depp came home 'drunk and high' at around 7.15 pm, according to The Daily Beast.

The group then left as Heard tried to comfort Depp over the passing of his mother the day before.

Depp, pictured here in Lisbon, where he was touring with band Hollywood Vampires Friday, lost his mother on May 20. Heard had been comforting him on May21 when he turned nasty, she said

The couple are pictured here on February 15, 2015 two weeks after they were married. Heard says Depp has become difficult to handle due to a drug habit. She filed for divorce on May 22

The Friday Night Lights actress then claimed he suddenly began obsessing about 'something that was untrue' and his 'demeanor changed dramatically' and 'became extremely angry'.

Pennington was just next door when Heard texted her for help at around 8pm.

In her declaration of petition for a restraining order, seen by DailyMail.com, Heard said: 'Johnny has a long-held and widely acknowledged public and private history of drug and alcohol abuse. He has a short fuse.

'He is often paranoid and his temper is exceptionally scary for me as it has proven many


evidence of any crime' at their South Broadway home in downtown LA, despite Heard appearing bruised in a picture she claims was taken after the alleged attack.

A photograph of Heard smiling with friends hours after Depp allegedly launched an iPhone at her face has since emerged, but was deleted before she appeared in court filing for a domestic violence restraining order.

Depp has denied the allegations made against him and his lawyer claims Heard is alleging abuse to 'secure a premature financial resolution'.

Close family: Lily-Rose's defense for her father came after her mother Vanessa also defended him. Pictured: A recent Instagram photo of Johnny Depp and Lily-Rose (left). Vanessa and Johnny in 2005, then still married

Defiant: Lily-Rose Depp posted this throwback photo of her father to defend him againstabuse claims. She also wrote a touching testimony, calling him a 'wonderful father' and 'the sweetest most loving person I know'

Lily-Rose Depp has leaped to the defense of her father Johnny amid claims he physically abused his wife Amber Heard.

The Chanel model, who turned 17 on Friday, is the eldest of Depp's two children with French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis, his ex-wife.

It was on her birthday that Lily-Rose's father became headline news globally as his current wife, 30-year-old Amber Heard, filed for divorce citing abuse.

Two days later, Lily-Rose has slammed the claims, saying on Instagram: 'My dad is the sweetest most loving person I know, he's been nothing but a wonderful father to my little brother and I, and everyone who knows him would say the same.'

To


accompany her defiant message, she posted a touching photograph of herself as a toddler holding hands with a youthful looking Johnny Depp.

Lily-Rose was close to her grandmother, Johnny's mother, Betty Sue, who died days before the divorce saga erupted.

Amid the family grief, the 17-year-old has also been working at full-pace, wrapping up two movies this year and being named the face of Chanel No 5 this week.

But she took some time on Sunday to testify on behalf of her father.

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Keeping Tabs: Alumni Colin Lever

After graduating from Lake Forest College with a B.A. in Politics, Collin Lever headed back East, to his home state of New Hampshire, where he found employment as a grassroots political campaign organizer with the state’s Democratic Party organization. In the run-up to the New Hampshire primaries (in January of 2012) through the presidential and Congressional elections (in November of 2012), Collin did a wide-range of election-related activities.

Initially, he was involved in volunteer recruitment and training - attending community events, organizing campaign-centered programming, identifying volunteer leader prospects, and establishing relationships with existing community leaders and identifying prospects.

From there, he spent much of his time working with established volunteer leaders and reinforcing the party’s campaign’s strategic messaging framework via targeted direct voter contact efforts. ThroughFor the
reasons explained below, the defendants' motion for
partial summary judgment, dkt [196], is granted in
part and denied in part.

I.
Introduction

This
action was transferred from the Northern District of Indiana
to this district following the Seventh Circuit's Mandate
issued April 6, 2015. The Mandate summarized Vermillion's
claims as follows.

Vermillion alleges that on July 29, 2009, he was interviewed
by Internal Affairs investigators after several fellow
inmates had escaped from the Indiana State Prison
(“ISP”). The interviewers accused him of being
involved in the escape and threatened to pursue criminal
charges, prompting Vermillion to stop answering their
questions. Following this encounter, according to Vermillion,
the three interviewers along with another investigator from
Internal Affairs and five administrators from ISP, Westville
Correctional Facility, and DOC headquarters retaliated for
his silence by immediately placing him in punitive
segregation at ISP and then on August 12, 2009, transferring
him to


Westville, where he was housed in the Maximum Control
Segregation Unit. This transfer, Vermillion alleges, occurred
after two of the administrators falsified documents to
exaggerate his security classification. All nine of these
employees are named defendants.

Vermillion claims that for more than three years[1] after the
transfer, he was confined in his segregation cell at
Westville for at least 23 hours per day without personal
interaction with other inmates, and during those years, five
of the same nine employees-joined by many others-continued
retaliating against him for invoking his right to remain
silent. This retaliation, Vermillion alleges, ranged from
intercepting his mail to mishandling the administrative
hearings concerning a disciplinary ticket for trafficking
contraband.

Mandate at p. 2

Vermillion argues that his transfer violated his right to due
process but also was initiated for the purpose of retaliating
for his refusal to answer questions about the escaped
prisoners.rights.

Claim 4. Howard Morton confiscated Vermillion's
certified legal mail in violation of his due process and
First Amendment rights.

The
defendants seek summary judgment as a matter of law on all
but the claim against Levehagen and Mize related to
Vermillion's transfer from the ISP to department-wide
administrative segregation at Westville in violation of his
due process rights. See claim 3. The defendants argue that
they are entitled to judgment as a matter of law as to all
other claims.

Given
the age of the case and the number of claims and defendants
the evidentiary record is relatively sparse. In support of
summary judgment, the defendants present Vermillion's
deposition (including 30 pages of exhibits), a two page
declaration from Charles Whelan, and an audio recording of
Vermillion's July 29, 2009, interview with internal
affairs officers. Vermillion opposes summary judgment. In
addition to his Third Amended Complaint, which


Department of Correction (“IDOC”),
Division of Internal Affairs as Chief Investigator. Other
than his participation in the July 29, 2009, interview,
Vermillion has no information regarding Plank's
involvement in the circumstances at issue in this case.

2. Dawn
Buss was, at all times relevant to the allegations made
against her in the Third Amended Complaint, an IDOC employee,
Division of Internal Affairs as Deputy Chief. Other than her
participation in the July 29, 2009, interview, Vermillion has
no information regarding Dawn Buss's involvement in the
circumstances at issue in this case.

3.
Charles Whelan was, at all times relevant to the allegations
made against him in the Third Amended Complaint, employed by
the IDOC in the Division of Internal Affairs at the ISP as
Internal Affairs Officer 3. Vermillion had no interaction
with Charles Whelan other than the interview.

4.
Ralph Carrasco was, at all times relevantIDOC at ISP as an
Administrative Assistant.

8.
Sally Nowatzke at all relevant times to the Third Amended
Complaint was employed by the IDOC at Westville as a
Counselor. She served as a case manager who worked in the
WCU.

9. Gary
Brennan at all relevant times to the Third Amended Complaint
was employed by the IDOC at Westville as an Administrative
Assistant. Brennan was one of the officials who oversaw the
WCU.

B.
Investigation and transfer

1. On
July 12, 2009, Offenders Lance Battreal, Charles Smith, and
Mark Booher escaped from ISP, which is located in Michigan
City, Indiana.

2.
During the course of the investigation into the escape,
information was received from an offender that Unit Team
Counselor Don Bates and Vermillion were trafficking tobacco
into ISP and that the proceeds were being stored in the law
library. During a subsequent interview into the allegations
of trafficking with offenders, Bates


runs until the end of the next day which is not one of the aforementioned days.  When the period of time prescribed or allowed is less than 11 days, intermediate Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays shall be excluded in the computation.  As used in this rule and in Rule 5001(c), 'legal holiday' includes New Year's Day, Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and any other day appointed as a holiday by the President or the Congress of the United States, or by the state in which the court is held.
(emphasis added).  See n. 5, infra.

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A lawyer for President Donald Trump arranged a $130,000 payment to a former adult-film star a month before the 2016 election as part of an agreement that precluded her from publicly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.

Michael Cohen, who spent nearly a decade as a top attorney at the Trump Organization, arranged payment to the woman, Stephanie Clifford, in October 2016 after her lawyer negotiated the nondisclosure agreement with Mr. Cohen, these


people said.

Ms. Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels, has privately alleged the encounter with Mr. Trump took place after they met at a July 2006 celebrity golf tournament on the shore of Lake Tahoe, these people said. Mr. Trump married Melania Trump in 2005.

Other news organizations have followed up with stories that seem to corroborate the Journal's reporting, but, honestly, Trump could probably skate by this without bothering to deny any of it. There's been no shortage of botched crises or outright scandals already during his short tenure as president. He's said that he doesn't want non-white immigrants coming to the U.S., insulted a major ally over the physical location of an embassy, and decreed that oil companies can drill off the coast of every state—except, ofwho may have died by now," Gava said.

According to the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations, the 5-year insurgency claimed the lives of more than 10,000 people in 2014 alone. The violence has displaced more than a million Nigerians, while hundreds of thousands have escaped into neighboring Chad and Cameroon.


Cristian Durant

Cristian Dominic Durant (born 23 January 1977) is an English cricketer.  Durant is a right-handed batsman who fields primarily as a wicket-keeper.  He was born in Leicester, Leicestershire.

Durant made his debut for Cambridgeshire in the 1996 Minor Counties Championship against Northumberland.  Between 1996 and 2001, he represented the county in 44 Championship matches, the last of which came against Northumberland.  The following season he made his List A debut for the county against Hampshire in the 1st round of the 1997 NatWest Trophy.  From 1997 to 2001, he represented the county in 7 List A matches, the last of which came against Somerset in the 3rd round of the 2001 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy.  In his 7 List A matches, hefilm processing.  In the spring of 1983, Charles Specht, the controlling shareholder and president of Professional Photo Services Corp., negotiated for and subsequently purchased certain assets of Photolab, Inc., a corporation owned by Richard Anderson.  After the purchase, Specht changed the name of his corporation from Professional Photo Services Corp. to Photolab Corp.

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During the period when Anderson and Specht were negotiating the purchase of the assets of Photolab, Inc., Anderson was also negotiating with Simplex Specialty Co., (Simplex), a New York corporation, for the purchase of two photographic film processing machines.  In March 1983, while Anderson and Specht were attending a trade show, Anderson introduced Specht to Robert Hall of Simplex and Klaus Niepenberg of Carl Hostert, KG.  Anderson and Specht later agreed that


Specht would complete the purchase of the film processors from Simplex.  The processors were installed by Klaus Niepenberg and a Simplex crew in April 1983 prior to the sale of the business assets of Photolab, Inc.

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Photolab alleges that the film processors malfunctioned from the time they were installed.  Seeking a remedy for the problems, Photolab's employees repeatedly telephoned Simplex and Niepenberg from June 1983 to July 1984.  In July 1984 Simplex went out of business.  Several former Simplex employees incorporated as Hostert North America, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hostert Co. in West Germany.

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In August 1984 Photolab filed suit against Simplex, Hostert North America, Inc., and Carl Hostert, GmbH in the federal district court in Minnesota.  Service of process upon Carl Hostert,not raised in the first Rule 12(b) motion filed by the defendant.  In Zisman the defendant, a Japanese corporation, filed an objection to the first attempted service because it did not comply with applicable provisions of Illinois law for service of process on a foreign corporation.  After being advised by the court that the defendant corporation had not been properly served, the plaintiff attempted service on the corporation again.  The defendant corporation objected to the second attempt of service on the basis that it failed to comply with the terms of the Hague Convention.  The defendant had not raised this objection to the first attempted service although the objection was then available.  The district court concluded that the failure to object in the


and oversight. The City further argues its interest in the agreement was in its capacity as the airport owner for maintaining a federally obligated airport consistent with highly regulated federal aviation framework.
The City's participation in the Settlement Agreement was for the purpose of settling the lawsuit which involved the condemnation/sale of the land owed by AELD's predecessor-in-interest to comply with the City's obligation to bring its airport into compliance with federal safety standards. This action supports the City's duty to protect the public rather than as an entity seeking to procure goods or services for its own interests. See Olympic Pipe Line Co. v. City of Seattle, 437 F.3d 872, 881 (9th Cir.2006). The Court finds the City's conduct in entering into the Settlement Agreement was in itsdealers. The supporting officers would then follow the vehicle and look for

traffic violations so that the vehicle could be stopped.

       On April 14, 2003, Detective Raysby, who did not testify at trial or during the hearing on

defendant's motion to suppress, radioed O'Brochta and informed him that a silver Kia had just left the

apartment complex. The Kia was defendant's vehicle. O'Brochta followed it, and, upon noting that

the license-plate sticker on the vehicle was expired, initiated a traffic stop. O'Brochta approached the

vehicle and asked defendant to produce his driver's license. O'Brochta and defendant both testified

that, at that time, defendant informed O'Brochta that his license was revoked. They disagree as to

whether O'Brochta told defendant why he was stopped. According to defendant, O'Brochta asked


and had met with suspected drug dealers. The passenger

mumbled, did not make eye contact, and avoided responding. Upon being asked whether she and

defendant had purchased drugs, she nodded affirmatively. O'Brochta asked her to give him the drugs,

and she produced a bag of white "rock powder" from her mouth. O'Brochta held up the bag so that

Gilhooley could see it. O'Brochta spoke with the passenger for about 30 seconds. According to

Gilhooley, who was speaking with defendant while O'Brochta questioned the passenger, defendant

admitted that the drugs belonged to him when O'Brochta displayed the bag. Defendant also stated

that he had given the drugs to his girlfriend to hide in her mouth while they were being pulled over.

Defendant's conviction rests largely on this admission. After speaking with the passenger, O'Brochta

went to his squadapartment complex. O'Brochta testified

only in general terms. He described the operation he was supporting in the following manner: "There

were surveillance officers watching drug dealers--suspected drug dealers. The detectives would

inform us which vehicle met with drug dealers, at which time we would try to follow the vehicles that

met with the drug dealers." As for the call he received regarding defendant, O'Brochta testified that

he was informed that a silver Kia had left the complex after its occupants met with suspected drug

dealers. As for why they suspected that the individuals were drug dealers, O'Brochta added that

occupants of other vehicles, who had been stopped after meeting with individuals at the apartment

complex, had purchased drugs from them. At one point, the following exchange took place between

defense counsel and O'Brochta:


offers material and physical assistance to women's organisations in those areas, but also carries out advocacy work, research development, as well as educational efforts on issues regarding women, peace and security. In 2004 Kvinna Till Kvinna opened their office in Amman offering continuing assistance to Jordanian local organisations, like Jordanian Women's Union or Arab Women Organisation of Jordan, in tackling gender based violence, as well as enhancing women's economic and political participation in Jordan.

Dutch Fund for Regional Partnerships
Established by the Netherlands' Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Dutch Fund for Regional Partnerships (NFRP) has been initiating projects, like the Matra South Programme and the Netherlands-MENA Partnership programme 'Shiraka', that focus on assisting MENA countries with sustainable democratic transition. In Jordan, a particular attention has been paid to enhancingRelated Stories

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Israel has long been one of the first nations on the scene following major natural disasters. Most notably, Israel provided disproportionate assistance following the devastating earthquakes in Haita (2010) and Japan (2011). And Israel has not disappointed in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan that killed over 10,000 and left upwards of 800,000 wounded and homeless in the Philippines.

The Israeli army sent hundreds of doctors and medical staff and enough equipment and medicine to establish a state-of-the-art field hospital. Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Israeli humanitarian aid group IsraAid, as well several smaller Israeli and Jewish organizations all sent their own teams of rescue and medical personnel.

Philippine Ambassador to Israel Generoso D.G. Calonge said his nation is most grateful for the immediate and overwhelming support provided by


Drink-drive student admits mowing down runner Published duration 8 February 2018

image copyright Stewart Robertson image caption Katie Allan admitted driving off from the scene

A University of Glasgow student has admitted mowing down a young runner while drunk and then fleeing the scene.

Geography student Katie Allan, 20, downed four pints before trying to drive home from a pub.

She hit the 15-year-old on the way and struck him with such force her car's bumper was ripped off.

She sped off in her Ford Fiesta, leaving her victim unconscious with blood pouring from his head.

The schoolboy, who was preparing to sit his Highers at the time, also suffered a broken ankle and a fractured eye socket, had to take two weeks off school and spent months on crutches.

Allan appeared in the dockat Paisley Sheriff Court over the incident, which happened in the Glasgow suburb of Giffnock in August.

Eye witnesses

She pleaded guilty to two charges - causing serious injury to the teenager by driving dangerously, and driving more than four times over the legal alcohol limit.

Procurator fiscal depute Pamela Brady said the collision occurred at about 21:00 on August 10, 2017, as the teenager was running on Eastwoodmains Road in Giffnock.

The prosecutor said: "There were a number of eye witnesses in the area.

"They became aware of the vehicle being driven by Katie Allan, and witnesses describe it as being driven somewhat erratically.

"It was then seen to mount the pavement near to where the boy was running and the car then struck him.

"He had no idea of the car's approach and


it is noted that the bumper came off the car at the point of impact and the car then drove forward and left the vicinity.

"Witnesses then approached him and he was seen to be lying on the pavement unconscious and he was bleeding from his face and head."

image copyright Google image caption The boy was running towards Eastwood Toll when he was hit

The police were contacted and Allan's car registration was given to officers, leading to them tracking her down to her home.

When officers arrived at her home she appeared drunk, "upset and distressed" and put her hands out in front of her so she could be handcuffed and "repeatedly asked the officers if the person she struck was okay".

Mrs Brady added: "She said she had drank threePerforating branches of the middle cerebral artery. Microsurgical anatomy of their extracerebral segments.
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caught five passes for 91 yards and three touchdowns. On his first scoring play, he made a great adjustment to the ball in flight and manages to get both feet down for the score. On his second TD, he executes an out-and-up pattern to perfection, selling the defender on the short route and exploding down the field to get separation off the break.

But perhaps his true value shone on Christmas night, when the game and likely the division were on the line late in the contest against the Baltimore Ravens. Ben Roethlisberger hit Brown with a pass short of the goal line, but the receiver was able to fight his way into the end zone.

Brown is 28 and in the peak years of his career as a footballplayer. In coordinator Todd Haley's versatile West Coast offense, the Steelers find many ways to get him involved, whether it's in the quick screen game, on shorter routes or on plays down the field. Brown is able to deliver in each situation and should continue putting up big numbers for the foreseeable future.

Starter: Darrius Heyward-Bey

NFL1000 Scores: 61.4/100

NFL1000 Position Ranking: 117/155

After posting a blazing 4.30 40-yard dash at the 2009 NFL combine, the Oakland Raiders selected Heyward-Bey with the seventh overall pick, making him the first WR selected in that draft.

Despite his early selection, the Maryland product has never quite lived up to the expectations. His best season came in 2011, when he caught 64 passes for 975 yards and four touchdowns with the Raiders. Oakland released him in


2013, and he spent one year in Indianapolis before signing with the Steelers as a free agent in 2014.

While in Pittsburgh, he has served as a reserve receiver. In 2015 he appeared in 16 games and caught 21 passes for 314 yards and two scores. Last season, he saw action in only 10 games as he battled an ankle injury midway through the year. While healthy, he caught six passes for 114 yards and two touchdowns. With his speed, Heyward-Bey remains a vertical threat, but injuries and inconsistency have plagued a once-promising career.

Backup: Sammie Coates

NFL1000 Scores: 64.2/100

NFL100 Position Ranking: 83/155

Similar to Heyward-Bey, inconsistency has been one of Sammie Coates' hallmarks, albeit at a much earlier time in his career. Drafted in the third round of the 2015 draft,Coates appeared in six games as a rookie, notching one catch in Week 4 against the Ravens. But he had a big opportunity last season, as Martavis Bryant was suspended for the year. Coates saw action in 14 games with five starts, and he caught 21 passes for 435 yards and two scores, both of which came against the Jets in Week 5.

The Steelers have used Coates primarily as a vertical threat, but at times in 2016, he struggled to get separation on these routes. In addition, he has mixed results when facing press coverage, and he has more success when running routes against zone or off coverage. Coates also struggled with drops at times last season. He underwent surgery for a sports hernia in February, and perhaps


he can show more growth in 2017 as he enters the season fully healthy.

Backup: Martavis Bryant

NFL1000 Scores: Did not have enough snaps to qualify

The league suspended Bryant for the entire 2016 season for violating its substance-abuse policy. But he's expected to be reinstated for the upcoming year, per Alex Marvez of Sporting News, and gives the Steelers’ receiving corps a bit of a boost. When on the field, Bryant is a dynamic playmaker, with the speed (4.42 40-yard dash) and size (6'4" 211 lbs) to serve as an ideal X receiver across from Brown.

Backup: Justin Hunter

NFL1000 Scores: Did not have enough snaps to qualify

The Titans selected Justin Hunter with the 34th overall pick in the 2013 draft, and they expected him to play a big role in theirgrowth. However, Hunter never reached his potential in Tennessee. As a rookie, he caught 18 passes for 354 yards and four touchdowns. After he suffered a fractured ankle late in 2015, the Titans placed him on injured reserve.

Before the start of the 2016 season, Tennessee waived Hunter. He spent a few weeks with the Dolphins before the Bills signed him after placing Sammy Watkins on IR. Pittsburgh signed the former Volunteer as a free agent.

Hunter has prototypical size for an X receiver, standing 6'4" and weighing 203 pounds. But despite his size and his speed—he ran a 4.44-second 40-yard dash at his combine—he has never lived up to the potential he showed in college.

For example, Hunter was targeted three times in Week 15 against the Browns. Two of


Ditrum crystals, and part of the Coletti Empire. Her masterplan? Kidnap Kaylee and hold her for ransom. If the Overlord refusedto give Tartum to the Queen Mother, she would feed Kaylee and her sonto the Tai-Kok.

She thinks Kaylee will beg for mercy. Boy, is the alien bitch in for asurprise. She's about to meet a woman suffering from hormone overloadand a serious lack of chocolate. The only one begging for mercy willbe the Queen Mother.

Bree never thought her dimwit act, military grade mace, cattle prod, or
dumping a ton of stinky manure on Jaylan's head would encourage his
pursuit. Who knew a Coletti warlord would think being zapped with a
cattle prod as foreplay? Or that a clever opponent only heightened
his enjoyment of the chase?

The chase comes to an abrupt haltwhen the Tai-Kok attack Tucson, forcingBree to team up with the Coletti warlord to stop them. Suddenlyplucked from Earth by a crazed Tai-Kok commander, Jaylan and Breefind themselves stranded on a hostile alien world, and being trackedby a deadly Askole assassin. Neither of them expected to find love.

For Voss, a Coletti Warlord, conquering the universe is a piece of cake.
After all, he's a master of psychic seduction; no one can resist him
when he sets his mind to it.

Zoey Jones is determined to find her mother's killer. Surrendering to afierce Coletti warrior is the last thing on her mind. When Voss isdetermined to make Zoey his mate, she unleashes her own brand ofwhoop-ass to discourage his pursuit. When her clever disguises, skunkperfume, stun gun, and smoke bombs fail to


stop the ruthless warlord,she's forced to negotiate her surrender: she would mate with him ifhe would help her find her mother's killer.

To Zoey's surprise, Voss agrees, and the hunt is on. Their quest tobring the villain to justice leads to unlikely alliances in aninterplanetary war, and more surprisingly, to love.

***Note- the first two books are not available for purchase at this time! The
publisher went out of business and the author is fighting to get her
rights back to sell the books!

Just My Luck

Coletti Warlords #1

Kaylee Jones is a trouble magnet. Chaos and disaster are her faithful
companions. She belongs to the thin blue line protecting Earth from
the Tai-Kok, alien predators who consider our world an
all-you-can-eat banquet.

Her crappy luck puts her on the alien freaks- most wanted list and lands
her inscored a hat-trick in Cork City’s Europa League victory over Levadia Tallinn at Turner’s Cross.

“Kieran [Sadlier, Cork City's new signing] was there for the first time last night and he said afterwards that he’d never seen anything like that in the League of Ireland. It was about quarter to 11 when I eventually got out of there. There’s hundreds of kids there after every game. It’s very unique in the League of Ireland. It reminds you too that you play for the biggest club in the country.”

Sean Maguire has left a mark on the League of Ireland in a manner that few players ever have. Since making his debut for Cork City in February of last year, the Kilkenny native has scored 53 times in all competitions. Before


the month is out he’ll be part of the squad at Preston North End, a club with aspirations of being in the Premier League this time next year.

Maguire isn’t daunted by the challenges that await him in England’s competitive second tier. Right now, his confidence has never been so high. It’s in stark contrast to 18 months ago, when he admits to having been at his lowest ebb.

As an 18-year-old striker with Waterford, Maguire earned a two-and-half-year contract with West Ham United by finishing the 2012 season as top goalscorer in the League of Ireland First Division. However, the only first team-football he experienced as a West Ham player was during loan spells at Sligo Rovers and Accrington Stanley.

He showed occasional glimpses of his potential at both clubs,but neither move ultimately worked out. When West Ham cut Maguire loose in the summer of 2015, Stephen Kenny stepped in and brought him to Dundalk on a six-month contract.

The closest Maguire got to making a first-team appearance for West Ham was the bench for a game against Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup. Source: EMPICS Sport

The Irish U21 international had high hopes for his move to Oriel Park, but with Dundalk en route to a successful defence of the Premier Division title for the first time in the club’s history, Kenny was reluctant to tinker with a winning formula. Maguire’s time at Dundalk amounted to nothing more than a handful of substitute appearances as a right-winger.

“We played Cork City in the FAI Cup final at the end


out?” Mr. Fairfax told reporters surrounding him in the rotunda of the state capitol about whether he believes Mr. Northam, a fellow Democrat, was behind the accusation coming to light. He offered no evidence tying the Northam camp to the allegation. Just hours after the Washington Post published a story Monday outlining the woman’s allegation — that Mr. Fairfax assaulted her soon after they met in Boston at the Democratic National Convention — the lieutenant governor said that he and the woman had what he called “a 100 percent consensual” sexual encounter. “We hit it off, she was very interested in me and so eventually, at one point, we ended up going to my hotel room,” said Mr. Fairfax, 39, recounting in a measured voice what he saidinto evidence a stipulation of the parties that appellant's residence was part of a three-family home in which three of the co-defendants also had lived for at least part of the duration of the alleged conspiracy.  In his argument to the jury, appellant's counsel attempted to persuade the jury that appellant's acknowledged business contacts with several of the co-defendants were legitimate.

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The jury found appellant guilty on all 25 counts against him:  conspiracy to defraud the Massachusetts Division of Employment Security and the United States (18 U.S.C. Sec. 371), seven counts of false claims (18 U.S.C. Secs. 287 and 2), and seventeen counts of mail fraud (18 U.S.C. Secs. 1341 and 2).  The district court later ordered acquittal notwithstanding the verdict on two of the false


flight, a threat to witnesses, or a false statement.4   The jury is then instructed that it may consider the circumstantial evidence indicating consciousness of guilt, in light of all other evidence in the case, in determining whether the defendant is guilty.

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In this case, the district court decided to give the instruction "in view of the, arguably, misleading statements given by Mr. Littlefield."    The court was referring to a conversation appellant had with Christine Sparuk, Special Agent for the United States Department of Health and Human Services.  Sparuk testified that, during an interview at his home, appellant denied having heard of six of the seven allegedly fictitious companies involved in the unemployment benefits scheme.  The government argues that the evidence clearly showedjurors had disbelieved the story, they could conclude that the knowingly false statement was probative of the defendant's consciousness of guilt.  Id.

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The evidence of falsity in Smith was the extrinsic knowledge of what would make sense on a drug vessel, and not a prior acceptance of other evidence that showed the defendant to be guilty.  The defendant's story was simply unbelievable in light of that common sense understanding, and the inferred fabrication could be viewed as evidence that the defendant knew he was guilty.  As in Ingram, the consciousness of guilt in Smith was just one bit of circumstantial evidence that, together with the evidence concerning the defendant's proximity to the crew and cargo, supported the defendant's involvement in the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.


Series: Tainted Drywall Foul air from Chinese-made drywall is causing a nightmare for thousands of homeowners, who have complained about severe respiratory ailments and corroded electronics. Several companies that handled the drywall knew there was a problem for two years but didn't warn consumers or regulators.

Last week, federal lawmakers trumpeted the passage of the Drywall Safety Act of 2012 as a bipartisan victory for thousands of homeowners harmed by contaminated drywall.

"This is a bill about protecting American families — their health and financial well-being," said Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va., the measure's primary sponsor in the House. "It is up to Congress to ensure that preventative standards are in place so no American family is faced with the hardship and heartache from contaminated drywall ever again."

But the bill doesn'tbill, proposed by Rigell in March 2012, stipulated that contaminated drywall be treated as a banned hazardous substance and included criminal and civil penalties for those who sold it or built with it.

But the bill was gradually watered down by building industry lobbyists and their allies.

First, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce struck out Rigell's provisions on enforcement and penalties. The revised bill instead directed the CPSC to develop labeling to make sheets of wallboard traceable to the original manufacturer and to set a limit on sulfur content inside drywall or adopt a "voluntary standard" set by the industry.

Those changes weren't enough to satisfy the homebuilders' lobby.

The National Association of Home Builders' top lobbyist, James Tobin, wrote an open letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner,


R-Ohio, in September 2012 saying the measure still gave the CPSC too much power. Industry should be assured an opportunity to influence any rule to come out of the bill through a public comment process, the letter said.

"Homebuilding is already a highly regulated industry," Tobin wrote. Letting the CPSC pick a voluntary standard, he said, "sets a dangerous precedent that will create unintended consequences."

The association found an ally in Sen. David Vitter, R-La., whose constituents include hundreds of homeowners who rebuilt their houses with contaminated board.

When the bill reached the Senate, Vitter placed a hold on it, then amended it to address the home builder association's concerns.

In Vitter's version, the CPSC would adopt a limit on sulfur content for drywall developed by a committee of the American Societyfor Testing and Materials, an industry association that develops voluntary standards for a variety of building products.

The same committee, staffed by a mix of builders and drywall manufacturers, was tasked with developing a protocol to fix homes with problem drywall when the problem first arose in 2008, but never released its plan.

The Vitter bill also directs the CPSC to use a tracking label protocol developed by the ASTM.

Neither Vitter nor the NAHB agreed to an interview for this article.

When the bill was sent for President Obama's signature last week, Vitter released a press statement that the builders' association supported the proposal. Previously, the association had released a statement expressing its "sincere gratitude" for the Senate revisions.

Homeowners said they had mixed feelings about the new law.

Colleen Stephens, who left


Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Gen Dunford at a press conference with President Trump in April

The US says it wants to create an multinational military coalition to safeguard waters around Iran and Yemen.

Gen Joseph Dunford, chairman of the US military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he wanted to "ensure freedom of navigation" in the region, which provides essential trade routes.

The US has blamed Iran for attacks on six oil tankers in May and June.

Gen Dunford said the US was talking to a number of countries with the "political will" to support the plans.

The US would provide "command and control" ships, leading surveillance efforts, he said. However, the aim would be for other countries to offer boats to establish patrols nearby, and escort commercial ships carrying their flagsthrough the area.

Gen Dunford said the US would "work directly with the militaries to identify the specific capabilities" each country has to support the initiative.

The straits of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab are strategically important locations, providing access from the Indian Ocean to the Gulf and the Red Sea respectively.

About a fifth of oil that is consumed globally passes through the Strait of Hormuz, which connects the Indian Ocean with the Gulf, while oil tankers heading from the the Middle East to Europe via the Red Sea pass must through Bab al-Mandab.

Gen Dunford said the size of the initiative depended on the number of countries which decided to take part.

"With a small number of contributors, we can have a small mission," he said. "We'll expand that as the number


of nations that are willing to participate identify themselves."

The US already has a substantial naval presence in the region and participates in several multinational naval taskforces carrying out maritime security, counter-terrorism, anti-piracy operations.

The headquarters of the US Navy's 5th Fleet is in Bahrain, and it also has naval facilities in Djibouti and Kuwait.

The UK, which also has a naval base in Bahrain, said it was "continuously monitoring the security situation" in the region and was "committed to maintaining freedom of navigation in accordance with international law".

The Royal Navy Frigate HMS Montrose has been positioned to shadow an oil tanker sailing under an Isle of Man flag through the Strait of Hormuz.

Meanwhile, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani accused the UK of being "the initiator of insecurity at sea" by seizinggovernments will be wary of getting involved but will have to balance this against the practical need to safeguard their vessels. Some may see this as a US effort to construct something that looks like a naval coalition ranged against Tehran.

Why is the US so concerned about shipping?

Last month, the US blamed Iranian forces for attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman, just outside the Strait of Hormuz - an allegation that Iran rejected. It followed an attack on four tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in May.

Days after the June attacks, Iranian forces shot down a US surveillance drone they said had violated Iranian airspace over the Strait of Hormuz. The US insisted the drone was flying over international waters.

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past two weeks, Iran has breached two commitments on uranium enrichment in response to the sanctions.

Mr Takht-Ravanchi warned that Iran was prepared to take further steps if Europe fails to compensate it for the economic losses it has suffered.

Iran has also been accused of providing military support to Yemen's rebel Houthi movement, which has attacked vessels in the Red Sea belonging to a Saudi-led coalition backing the Yemeni government.

On Monday, the coalition said it had foiled an attack on a commercial ship using an unmanned boat rigged with explosives in the southern Red Sea, and warned of the threat to international trade. The Houthis denied targeting commercial shipping.

US-Iran tension: Recent events

May 2018: US President Donald Trump withdraws unilaterally from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six worldpowers, and begins reinstating sanctions to force Iran to renegotiate the accord. Iran's economy slumps as they take effect.

2 May 2019: Mr Trump steps up pressure on Tehran by ending exemptions from secondary sanctions for countries still buying Iranian oil.

5 May: The US sends an aircraft carrier strike group and B-52 bombers to the Gulf because of "troubling and escalatory indications" related to Iran.

8 May: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Iran will scale back its commitments under the nuclear deal in retaliation for the sanctions, including by allowing its stockpile of low-enriched uranium to increase. Enriched uranium is used to make reactor fuel and potentially nuclear weapons.

12 May: Four oil tankers are damaged by explosions off the UAE coast in the Gulf of Oman. The UAE says the


blasts were caused by limpet mines planted by a "state actor". The US blames Iran, but it denies the allegation.

13 June: Explosions hit two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. The US again accuses Iran, releasing footage purportedly showing Iranian forces removing an unexploded limpet mine from a damaged vessel. Iran says the evidence is fabricated.

17 June: Iran says it will breach the limit on its stockpile of enriched uranium set under the nuclear deal on 27 June, unless Europe protects Iranian oil sales.

20 June: Iranian forces shoot down US military drone over the Strait of Hormuz.

4 July: Gibraltar, assisted by British Royal Marines, seizes Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 on suspicion of breaking EU sanctions on trade with Syriahotel and asked for directions. The restaurant was just a few steps away down an alley we had passed several times. At least, we got to see the Palace and Wat Po lit up at night and the elaborate light displays in celebration of the Kings birthday.A street scene near the Palace parade grounds.

Wat Po at night.

The restaurants were on a dock first used by the palace to receive construction materials and later by the British for their Imperial commercial ventures. There were two restaurants one slightly more upscale than the other. We chose the more modest establishment and were delighted with the view of the temple, the river, and the brightly lit dinner cruise boats drifting by.Nikki modeling his new knitted cap with the designer watching.

A pink


dinner cruise ship passing the Temple of Dawn.
Near our apartment there runs an elevated bicycle, motorbike and walking trail that extends from the Queen Sirikit Convention Center near Asoke, along a fetid canal and through the remnants of one of Bangkok’s legendary slums to peter out somewhere near Wireless Road not far from the American embassy. I like to walk along there early in the evening when it is cooler and sit by the lake at the convention center to watch the bikers or joggers pass by or walk above the ramshackle neighborhood observing the street life below.Homes along the Klong.

Bicyclists in the parkThe lake at the Convention Center park.

A view of Klong Toey slums.

Another view.
Then, with my suitcase filled with this year’s consignment of knitted caps forback to the golden hills of El Dorado. On the train, I cried. Whether it was because I was terminally exhausted, tired of life or suffering through withdrawal, I did not know but soon decided I did not care because they all seemed the same.

B. THE OLD SAILOR/DEEP SEA DIVER/PIRATE’S STORY:

One morning as I lay on a lounge chair by the pool, the Old Sailor/Deep Sea Diver and perhaps Pirate stopped by to chat. He takes Aikido lessons at the health club and enjoys steam baths. He keeps the ashes of two friends in cigar boxes in his locker. Periodically, as they requested, he scatters their ashes in their favorite bars and houses of ill repute throughout South East Asia.

He reminisced about his life as a deep sea


salvage driver and treasure hunter in the American Virgin Islands during the sixties and seventies.

Inspired by the movie Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, he left his life of petty crime in Pennsylvania and enrolled in a government program to train underwater salvage and construction specialists.

After a few years, he found himself living in the Virgin Islands and along with about four or five others, made up an itinerant band of underwater salvage and construction workers — sort of a wet monkey-wrench gang without the social consciousness. He worked on the underwater construction of the St Thomas Airport, and also pipelines, gas lines, petroleum structures, in-situ aquariums and the like.

With his VW bus loaded with ten Scuba air containers, ten truck tire inner-tubes and a two-way radio, he prowledthe island on behalf of the coast guard or various insurance companies lifting sunken boats using the inflated inner tubes or searching for saleable salvage.

At one time he and his friends competed with Mel Fischer to locate the Atocha. They searched around Marathon Island and Fischer between Key West and Tortuga. They found cannons and anchors, bottles and bones, but Fischer found the gold.

For a while, they supported themselves by every morning securing the hawsers over the bollards when the cruise ships arrived in port and releasing them when they sailed in the evening. They also searched the bottom of the sea for salvage, mostly anchors that they sold to boat owners and bottles they sold through consignment shops (blue bottles from the 19th Century and earlier were


destined for apothecaries and usually held poisons).

At times, he also worked as a sailor, boat builder and sail maker. For two years, he crewed the Colgate heirs family yacht, a 150-200 ft three-masted schooner named the Lorelei Lee. But mostly, he caroused until he decided to travel around the Pacific (Including a stint in the merchant marine delivering supplies to the American troops in Viet Nam), often living the delightful life of a beach bum and eventually ending up in Bangkok in a single room of a downtrodden hotel where his walls are covered with wonderful photographs of his life and where he keeps a running list of friends who have died.

PEPE’S POTPOURRI:

A. Quigley on Top:

“It might be stated as a general rule that any organization functions onlyChurch had created the concept of the university and had established the first of them in the twelfth century. Roger Bacon, a Franciscan monk, was arguably the greatest mathematician of the thirteenth-century*. Bishop Robert Grosseteste was the first man to write down the necessary steps for performing a scientific experiment. Jesuits had built the first reflecting telescopes, microscopes, barometers, were first to calculate the constant of gravity, the first to measure the height of the mountains on the moon, the first to develop an accurate method of calculating a planet’s orbit, the first to devise and publish a coherent description of atomic theory.”Koontz, Dean. Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel (pp. 56-57). Random House Publishing Group.

*Gerbert, later Pope Sylvester II, was the greatest mathematician of the 10th Century.

Alas,


dead with a 45 she had hidden in her brassiere. The Republican National Committee accused her of not being truthful with the nation. She responded, she opposes the NRA but supports 2nd Amendment rights for hunting, especially for those hunting Republican elected officials. The remaining Republican members of the House decided that investigating Planned Parenthood would be safer.

Among the also-rans, Lincoln (Mr. Bean) Chafee assured the press that in the first few weeks of the presidency he will do whatever a lot of people seem to want him to do. About two weeks later Mr. Bean dropped out of the race because all 10 people who supported his candidacy were too embarrassed to show their faces in public. He said he wanted to concentrate on World Peace instead.9/11 was a shining example of keeping America safe. His big brother M, in an attempt to help his struggling sibling out, announced he never liked The Munster. Meanwhile The Munster, plotting to end something or other, hides out somewhere in Alabama while Marco “Water Boy” Rubio told his wealthy contributors that he may or may not be for or against whatever. Finally, ex-Governor of New York Pataki — who unbeknownst to most of the world is also running for the Republican nomination — indicated that although in his opinion neither the Donald nor The Brain Surgeon were qualified to be president, if either of them win the nomination, he would probably vote for them rather than The Blond Dreadnaught despite her obvious qualification.

2. The Real Immigration Problem.

The


his fields

The farm. Barely visible in the haze, Mt. Cavallo rises in the background about 6000 feet above the flood plain, hiding the Dolomite and the Alps from view. From its slopes on clear days, one can see Venice and Trieste.

Some barnyard humor: Hens lay eggs. Roosters become dinner.

Vittorio once told me that Tamai was named after the sheds in which the local farmers dumped their cow feces to be reused as fertilizer. You may amuse yourself, as I have, thinking up ways to translate Tamai into English. My favorite, Cowpattyton.The cafe at which I enjoy my espresso and brioche and the Tamai clock tower in the background, tall enough for all the farmers in the area to see the time from their fields or hear the bells.

Inaddition to Professor Hank, another of my American friends here is Brian the Teacher. He is the science teacher for the high school students and the American army base. He grew up in South Dakota somewhere near the Good/Bad David.

I love the towns, Vittorio and his family and the people I meet at the three cafes.

Across the street from Maria’s, behind a hedge of sweet smelling honeysuckle, there is a large palazzo originally owned by a man, now passed away, who most likely made his money manipulating the government (he may have started as a plumber or perhaps a farmer or a plastic fabricator). His wife I understand, now old and leaning toward infirm, lives there alone. Sometimes when I sit at the small table outside of Maria’s


are classics.

The Siege, as its name implies, takes place during the interminable multi-year siege of Cadiz where the armies of Napoleon and his brother Joseph, the imposed King of Spain, had chased the government of the tattered empire and its inconsistent allies, the English. Cadiz, however still had access to the sea and many of its merchants, smugglers and privateers flourished even while the bombs daily rained down on parts of the city. The plot revolves around the attempts by the brutal and corrupt Chief of Police to solve a series of exceedingly vicious murders.

Unfortunately, Perez-Reverte introduces a sub-plot, a bodice ripper straight out of Danielle Steele — A romance between the dashing but crude and dangerous, curly haired, handsome and muscular captain of a privateer, Pepe LupoAfrica, and east of the Caspian Sea.

In the same period, war and disease resulted in a decrease of population of up to 60 per cent in Europe or in the Roman empire from about 200 to after 800, that is to say over six hundred or more years. Careful studies of the population of the Roman empire seem to indicate that its population fell from about 70 million persons at the time of Christ to about 50 million in 300. The wars, migrations, spread of plagues, and abandonment of much family life, including the spread of chastity for religious reasons and of sexual perversions for other reasons, all contributed to this decrease. This had a very adverse influence on economic production as well as on defense, especially when


AMERICA:

A. POOKIE’S SLIGHTLY MEMORABLE OVERNIGHT ADVENTURE:

On Wednesday, I left the golden hills for the Bay Area to meet with the trustee of some coastal property in order to advise him about options available to the trust. We met for lunch in a building that survived the ’06 earthquake. The building was the home of a men’s club established in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century.
Club membership includes the captains of industry and commerce in the area. About 50 years ago many doctors and dentists were also allowed to join, as well as some Italian-Americans. I recall that when I was growing up the emphasis was exclusively on the word before the hyphen. Then, through the efforts of some of the least ethical and most dourly aggressive andgreedy members of our community, some of us gained enough wealth that American began to gain prominence in our minds and in the minds of many of those exclusively pale hyphenated Americans whose ancestry did not include the word Native.

I remember when the darkness was bleached from my soul and I simply could call myself an American and look down in sadness at the dark souls of members of other hyphenated communities who had not yet received the miracle of the Blessed Bleach. I remember fondly that day when I noticed that my skin had gotten two shades lighter than it was the day before

In all likelihood, there are only one or two members of the club that are Democrats. On the other hand, most of the staff


are.

I learned that many of the members also belong to an organization called the Greco-Roman Dentists’ Fishing Society (truly, it was organized by the Greek and Italian dentist in the club). They gather once a year somewhere in the northeastern part of the state for a weekend of fishing and other things.

Since I was to sleep that night in one of the club’s guest rooms, I ate dinner there and met a few of members. One guy was referred to at the “Corn King,” another owned a string of radio stations. He was forced to sell because Rush Limbaugh was not pulling in the listeners like he used to. I had a pleasant conversation with a man whose parents came from Genoa. Like many of the club members,he had a few vacation homes. One was on the beach in the Italian Riviera.

I met the manager of the club. He used to manage the well-known men’s club in Sacramento. When I worked in that city, I received some minor notoriety by refusing to attend meetings and conferences there because of their policy on women members. Of course, I would periodically slip in there for lunch. My moral standards permit minor acts of hypocrisy and one or two large ones now and then.

All the governors that I was familiar with had been members and used the clubs facilities extensively — except Jerry Brown who refused to step foot into the place. Apparently, Governor Arnold used to impress the club members by carrying a large marble chess table


be Taliban, noble natives in Afghanistan and slaughter the gross and evil Russians who for no apparent reason have been torturing and killing the peace loving Afghanis especially their non-combatant women and children. A few years later in the movie of life, it is the Americans who get to portray the Russians in the sequel and slaughter their erstwhile allies, the murderous, suddenly Muslim Taliban. The question, I asked myself was who got to play John Rambo?
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Speaking of glorious wars and martial memories, EDH is planning to build a large memorial park to celebrate, not those who have given their lives but the military as a whole. In it will be large memorials to, the Viet Nam War, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Cold War, thethe next two decades.

It appears more and more apparent that the immediate goals of the modern Arab insurgents (ISIS, Al Qaeda and so on) is, as it was in the Seventh Century, to capture the wealth of the richer societies that control the littoral areas of the Near-East (Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE, Israel, Yemen and the like) and replace the ideologies of those countries with their own.

It is no Arab Spring but it well may be the beginning of an Arab Winter.

Yemen, a country much in the news recently, is a key in the insurgents strategy. It has the second largest population on the Arabian Peninsula, dominates the southern entrance to the Red Sea and if controlled by the insurgents, forces the oil sheikdoms to face threats on


a Joe Montana shirt. He announced to everyone in a very loud voice that he was a Niner and Montana fan for all his life no matter what his friends and coworkers thought about it. In an accent that could only be from Brooklyn, he told several of the other passengers that he was a scraper, someone who scraps the paint off bridges in preparation for repainting and that this was only the second air flight he had ever taken.

So while listening to the two of them express their excitement and their plans about what they wanted to see when they get to SF (Fisherman’s Wharf and the Crookedest Street), I pleasantly passed the time until we arrived at the terminal where I boarded the plane and leftthe beach. Winters at the beach in Thailand, Spring and Fall somewhere along the California coast and Summers in the Alps it seems would not be such a bad life.

Mendocino, California

Saliceto, ItalyRoccantica in Sabina

Sicily

Jomtien Beach, Thailand
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My visit to the orthodontist with H was a revelation. The waiting area was more playroom than office with its jungle motif, separate play areas and massage chairs for parents. The staff of about 20 or so seemed to have overdosed on ebullience as though they had hit the nitrous-oxide on the way to work. The staff was all women except for the man himself, the orthodontist, the chief giggler himself — the lord of the manor — the Caliph. I used to wonder who lived in those super large homes that line


El Dorado Hills a beautiful park overlooking Folsom Lake.

It was one of the more pleasant birthday celebrations I have experienced in my life. Before the party we painted the rock.

Then we decorated the area and the party began.

B. NEWS STRAIGHT OR SLIGHTLY BENT:

Being smart aint everything:

Television personality and former stripper Rick Rosner is one of the smartest living men in the world with IQ scores ranging from 140 to 250 by different measures.

Born in 1946, Marilyn Vos Savant has earned IQ scores ranging from 157 to 228. Since 1986, she has written an “Ask Marilyn” column in Parade magazine, where she was famous for solving the Monty Hall problem.

With an IQ reported between 174 and 210, Christopher Langan was dubbed the smartest man in America by Esquire Magazine.At 6’1″ and 275 pounds, Langan is an avid weightlifter and recovering agoraphobic who pays the bills doing temp work as a bartender, nightclub bouncer, and personal trainer.

Born in Chicago in 1904, Nathan Leopold was a child prodigy with an IQ of 210 who spoke his first words at 4 months old. He was also a murderer who, along with his friend Richard Loeb, killed a 14-year-old boy while trying to commit “the perfect crime” in 1924. The crime inspired the Alfred Hitchcock film “Rope.” Brilliant yet socially inept, Leopold latched on to Loeb, who was good looking and popular, according to Biography.com. Leopold was convicted of murder and spent 33 years in prison. He died in Puerto Rico in 1971 at the age of 67.

A college graduate


the show were usually out partying. The show’s remaining fans were kids my age — young teens who dug that kind of stuff (and still do).

NBC tried to cancel it after the first season but was inundated with a landslide of protest letters — over a million, if I recall correctly. Season 2 went on the cheap, and Season 3 had the cheeseist backgrounds with virtually all episodes that year were laughable shows filmed on NBC’s set and further depended on cartoonish special effects (with the exception of “The Trouble With Tribbles”). This time, NBC followed through and canceled the show.

“Star Trek” was innovative and was years — or Star Dates — ahead of society. The tightened budget, however, forced writers to be creative without being dependent onspecial effects. The show had terrific writers like D. C. Fontana, who went with the initials because she was a she; women just did not get hired in those days. “Star Trek” also featured the first inter-racial kiss but headed off any potential bursts of outrage by having their actions controlled by highly evolved aliens who used them as living chess pieces.

One look at the diversity of the cast members was innovative as well: The cast involved a Scot; a Japanese-American; an African-American woman who was a competent and accomplished officer; an alien half-breed who suppressed his human half to be an emotionless Vulcan; and a grumpy southerner who engaged Spock at every opportunity. When the Soviet Union griped that there was no Russian among the 23rd Century


officers on the bridge, Roddenberry created Anton Chekov. The show, therefore, advanced such concepts as equal opportunity for women, various minorities, and people from around the world and galaxy; inter-racial relationships wherein Captain Kirk was a rutting equal opportunity horn-dog who’d get it on, regardless of race, creed, or planetary origin; and anti-war, anti-prejudice (the most notable one being a battle between two aliens who were half-black, half-white, but with the colors being mirror opposites.

After cancellation of the show, Leonard Nimoy felt so constrained by the character he brought to life that he wrote a book: “I Am Not Spock.” But as the years went by and as he did branch out to acting on the stage (notable “Equus”) and directing — remember “Three Men and a Baby?”— he mellowed and gradually accepted the fact that his role on “Star Trek” exhibited his sharply refined talent . . . and was compelled to write another book: “I Am Spock.” He was an incredible human being and maintained his friendships with his fellow actors all the way through to his passing.

His death brings to the surface the reality that we are mortal, despite our attempts to deny it. It reflects the fact that I am sliding toward that reality. Back in the 1980s, when friends and I were hitting our thirties, I’d remarked that when famous people from our era — like a Simon and Garfunkel, a Paul McCartney, or an Elizabeth Montgomery, who died far too soon — began passing away — we would truly


Lebanon at the time for the Ottoman Empire. He put a blockade on the Mediterranean coast, not allowing anything in or out.

The industry died in Lebanon as jobs dried up. People became poor and destitute.Famine spread and, with it, disease spread too.To make things worse, a swarm of locusts came down and devastated what little crops were being tended to by ailing Lebanese.Some resorted to cannibalism to keep from dying. Jesuit priests’ records show that many came to confess having eaten their own children.Extreme hunger and desolation caused madness among people.The roads were lined with the skeletal bodies of Lebanese.By the end of the whole ordeal, 200,000 Lebanese died of starvation and sickness caused by the Ottomans. That’s one-third of the population.It was no coincidence that, at thethat the hoards of people fleeing the desertification of their homelands are simply too lazy to scratch the soil a little harder and use more pesticides and fertilizer, preferring instead to travel many often dangerous miles and suffer extreme prejudice in order to live on the largess of the welfare state.

B. Musings on Events in the Near east (continued from last issue of T&T):

Mohamed, born into a wealthy urbanized Arab clan in Mecca, suffered a dysfunctional childhood as a result of the deaths of his parents and his fostering by some poorer relatives in the clan. He grew into a not so prosperous businessman until in his 30’s he lead a trading caravan funded by a wealthy older woman who eventually became the first of his eleven (I


believe) wives. At about the age when most unsuccessful and many successful men begin to wonder what it is all about, Mohammed began spending more and more time alone in the desert, ultimately developing a syncretic monotheistic religion composed of Jewish, Christian and pagan elements. The religion, fatalistic in tone as was the Arab society from which in sprung, required only a few distinct rituals for its adherents and absolute obedience to God’s Prophet Mohammed. Like Jesus before him, Muhammed’s religious mandates originally were exclusively directed only to his ethnic group.

Mohammed, having little success in Mecca, left that city for Medina twice. The Arab and to some extent Jewish clans in Medina, a commercial rival of Mecca, encouraged Mohammed hoping the growth of his religion would increase business.Mecca was a major pilgrimage destination that Muhammed’s family benefited from.

After his first sojourn in Medina, Mohammed encouraged by the local clans returned to Mecca to preach his new religion. This enraged the Meccans for among other things Mohammad condemned the worship of the Kaaba, the pilgrimage site that was the source wealth for several clans including his own. An attempt to kill him led by his own family prompted Mohammed to flee back to Medina. There he implored the Midianites to fund his return to Mecca in order to subdue it. They refused. So Mohammed, probably noticing the excess of young males with limited opportunities in the area, proposed to them that if they were to agree to become raiders for Islam for free they could keep


encouraging those other city emergency, response and recovery entities and personnel to feel good about their jobs.B. Musings on Heaven:

Have you ever wondered about why the Judeo-Christian heaven so resembles North Korea with its endless chanting and adoration of its blessed leader? At least for those Muslim men who die in battle, they get to eat and fornicate forever. For Muslim women, however — well, they are just screwed here on earth and in Heaven.

Statistically and historically, the number of those “humans” with immortal souls (as maintained by most Christians) who have died in the womb through miscarriages, death of the mother or during childbirth is somewhere between ten and twenty times the number of live births. These soul-endowed humans not having the opportunity to do anything prohibitedto the hot tub that still had three people in it, even if no one talks to anyone else makes one feel less alone and vulnerable.

A woman of indeterminate age wearing a white-billed cap and one-piece bathing suit with a tiny flower pattern sat in the hot-tub reading a book about Paris. Another older somewhat rotund woman, who had been swimming laps previously, seemed an athletic type since she continued to flex her arms and shoulders while she sat in the hot water. Our fourth companion in the tub was a middle-aged man with blond hair going gray who mumbled to himself as he sat in front of a water jet.
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On Monday, the doctor was thoroughly engaged in reviewing the various test results in an unsuccessful effort to


resulted in a decrease of population of up to 60 per cent in Europe or in the Roman empire from about 200 to after 800, that is to say over six hundred or more years. Careful studies of the population of the Roman empire seem to indicate that its population fell from about 70 million persons at the time of Christ to about 50 million in 300. The wars, migrations, spread of plagues, and abandonment of much family life, including the spread of chastity for religious reasons and of sexual perversions for other reasons, all contributed to this decrease. This had a very adverse influence on economic production as well as on defense, especially when it was combined, after 200, by a flight from the cities to thefew women had been able secure income and social status independent of male largesse.

Since then, technology, ideology and society have changed so that women have been able challenge dominance of men and begin to amass their own power and wealth as well as develop their own ideology. For example: in the conduct of war, because of computerization of many weapons systems, women have become as good as men in the science of killing and often better. In Kobane for example, the co-commander of the Kurdish forces defending the town from the forces of ISIL is a woman. Should they succeed in defeating the besiegers they may change the face of Near and Middle East society forever.

Also, in schools women are excelling and graduating in ever larger majorities. Even


women inevitably would move into positions of economic independence and ultimately seek political power that they began to assume in the West that drove the reactionary mullah’s into a frenzy.

What is happening in the US and in the Near and Middle East is all about women and their destiny. Women stand at the threshold of real power, economic, social and intellectual and many men are afraid.

In the US the 2012 election was to a great extent about the future of lower middle and lower class white male privilege. 2014 is the first American election in which the issue is all about the attempts to halt and reverse the emerging and inevitable power of women.

DAILY FACTOIDS:

A. Samuel Beckett Used to Drive André the Giant to School. All They Talked1970 during the height of the chaos of the counter-culture movement and the terrors of cold war, Quigley was invited by a concerned Department of Defense to lecture at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (now Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy) on the nature and impact of dissent.

As shown in the quotes below, in that lecture he demonstrates the necessity of dissent to an organized society if that society is to remain capable of reforming itself to meet the challenges of the ever-changing and evolving environment which it must constantly confront and adapt to if it is to survive.

He also argues that ideology or labels are not significant determinants of the nature of the dissent but convenient tools for its expression (fashions


Early Tuesday afternoon, three people were wounded in a shooting at YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, CA. The suspect has been identified as Nasim Najafi Aghdam, a 38-year-old Iranian refugee who had taken her own life by the time police arrived at the scene. Many media outlets and the San Bruno police department have identified Aghdam as a woman. Soon after she was identified, several fringe websites, alt-right and conservative critics, and radical feminists began suggesting that the shooter was a trans woman.

“The youtube shooter was a man. This was male violence,” tweeted Jennifer James, a former UK Labor Party member who spearheaded a campaign to keep UK trans women out of office. Conservative journalist Laura Loomer pointed out Aghdam’s “very muscular thighs” and “buff arms”, and claimedUsing market forces to protect and restore ecosystems.

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David Judge-Lord, Willamette Partnership: Devin Judge-Lord leads the Counting on the Environment Extension Project with the Willamette Partnership. He leads the Partnership’s extension throughout the Northwest, working with local leaders to build programs and with policymakers to develop regionally consistent standards. He also leads the development and integration of protocols for nutrients and sediments into the Partnership’s multi-credit framework. Prior, as a Ducey Fellow for Public Policy, Devin developed theory and methods for assessing ecosystem market viability. He also previously worked with the Center for Transboundary Cooperation in St. Petersburg, Russia. Devin holds a B.A. in political science from Reed College and his research focuses on governance of transboundary natural systems and the political foundations of markets.

Tracy Stanton,