justice and attorney general. According to Madley, Hastings was also a wealthy ranch owner in Mendocino County and he financed the murder of hundreds of Yuki Indians by a militia in order to steal their land. In this endeavor, a man who would be at various points in his life the state's top law enforcement official and judge provided material support for genocide. The University of California honored him by naming its San Francisco law school the Hastings College.

While these men are honored through these sanitized place names and monuments that gloss over their deadly crimes, traces of indigenous culture and history continue to be obscured and even destroyed.

"To this day it continues, the cultural genocide," explained Richard Schwartz in a recent interview. Schwartz, a building contractor bytrade, and historian by passion, has spent decades researching Berkeley's indigenous past. "If you destroy every place a people lived and where their culture remains, you destroy any proof of their existence," he said.

Much of the East Bay's present landscape is built atop desecrated Ohlone land and culture. In fact, a romanticized version of the region's "prehistoric past" was once a selling point for the real estate industry that sought to lure residents to new suburbs. In the North Berkeley hills, one exclusive neighborhood known as Thousand Oaks was advertised in newspapers in 1909 as "the most beautiful piece of ground anywhere" fit for development. "Berkeley's famous Indian burial ground now offered for sale as a residence park," trumpeted one article in the San Francisco Call.

"There are many,


many sites I've recorded in Thousand Oaks," said Schwartz, including burials, mounds, and petroglyphs in people's backyards. "When the people moved into the houses," he said of the white American homebuyers of the early 1900s, "the pestles were still in the mortars."

But these sites of work, habitation, recreation, and worship were mostly wiped out following the genocide and land theft. The shellmounds on Berkeley and Emeryville's waterfronts — just several among the at least 450 mounds ringing the Bay — were exploited, dug up, and used as material for road paving. Emeryville's was later built over, first by a paint factory and then a shopping mall. Berkeley's became a parking lot, and to this day controversy swirls about its future.

Despite the genocide, the Ohlone and other California tribessurvived and are campaigning to protect their sacred sites. In recent years, they've fought to prevent destruction of places such as Sogorea Te', a gathering spot in the present-day city of Vallejo — Vallejo being named after General Mariano Vallejo, who enslaved native peoples at his mills and ranches — as well as Mission and Brushy Peaks in the East Bay Hills. Through the Sogorea Te' Land Trust, a project organized by Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone women, Native Americans and their allies hope to return Bay Area land to indigenous stewardship.

Schwartz, who is white, laments the ongoing destruction of places and monuments of the Bay Area's indigenous people. "We have to make a decision, is this culture hell bent for money and genocide, or will it wake up


Honors — Jan. 22

January 23, 2012

Courtesy photo Kimmie Davis presents the Conquistador Council and the El Llano Grade District of the Boy Scouts of America District Award of Merit to Greg Bucher, center and John Schonberger, right, looks on.

Bucher

Gregory Bucher received The Conquistador Council and the El Llano Grade District of the Boy Scouts of America District Award of Merit.

He served in the Air Force and is a veteran of Desert Shield, Desert Storm and was part of the response team to the Oklahoma City bombing in April 1995.

He is a graduate of ENMU and is a teacher at Portales Junior High School.

He enjoys helping his students with many in school and after school activities such as the Drama Department, cheerleaders, chaperone at dances and tutoring those inneed.

He is an Eagle Scout and Vigil Member of the Order of the Arrow. During his 39-year tenure as a truly dedicated scouter he has served in numerous positions including: Scoutmaster, Troop committee member; merit badge counselor, BSA national camp inspector, OA Dance team advisor, and has helped with countless activities, camporees, expositions, scout fairs, banquets, roundtables, and Eagle boards of review. He is currently serving as a unit commissioner and the El Llano Grande District Training Chair.


On Monday night, a couple crashed a 2008 Lamborghini Murcielago that was purchased hours earlier. They then ran away, leaving the hugely expensive car abandoned on the road. The strangest part is that they haven't been found yet, and its been three days. What's up?

The details are scarce, but what we know is that the 2008 Murci was bought on Monday in Orange County, aka "The OC," California. Late that night, the car was crashed on La Jolla Village Drive, and a couple was spotted running away. It's now three days later, and the couple are STILL at large.

Something doesn't really add up here. I know if I had crashed my $250,000 Lambo that I'd owned for a matter of hours, I'd be most interested in getting itApril CSISD Board Workshop/Meeting Recap

The College Station ISD Board of Trustees met Tuesday, April 21. The following discussions and actions are of note.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, April 21, 2015

April CSISD Board Workshop/Meeting Recap

Note: This is an overview of some of the items on the March board workshop and meeting agendas. This recap does not include every item on the agendas. Official meeting minutes will be made available on www.csisd.org following approval at the May board meeting.

COLLEGE STATION , Texas – The College Station ISD Board of Trustees met Tuesday, April 21. The following discussions and actions are of note.

WORKSHOP

2015-16 Budget: The Board of Trustees continued discussing the 2015-16 budget. Administrators reviewed the budget assumptions that were used for this first budget run. Revenue projections were conservatively based on


a budget and set the tax rate at the August 2015 meeting.

2013 Bond Update: In November 2013, the voters of CSISD approved the sale of $83.5 million in bonds. Several projects were identified in the 2013 bond package. Mr. Theo Rouse, CSISD Coordinator of Construction, gave the board an update on the state of the projects associated with the 2013 bond package.

School Safety Upgrades - $3.9 million - Security vestibules have been completed at AMCMS, CSMS, Cypress Grove, Southwood Valley, and Pebble Creek. All CSISD school now have security vestibules.

Center for Alternative Learning (College View High School) - $15.5 million - Construction is underway at the location which formerly housed the College Station Conference Center. The move-in date for College View High School, Venture, and LEAP campuses isThe Gaian Expedient

Second book in the Erthring cycle, which also includes "The Memoirs of Alcheringia" (1984) and "The Master of Norriya" (1986). Wayland Drew (1932 - 1998) was a Canadian writer known for his environmental themes; his first novel, "The Wabeno Feast" (1973) is widely praised. Drew also wrote a number of movie novelizations, including "Corvette Summer" and "Dragonslayer."


that his chances of developing cancer were directly increased by his exposure to asbestos.  The remainder of the evidence not only failed to indicate that Adams' exposure had not increased his risk of developing cancer, but it also strongly indicated that he had not contracted asbestosis.  That evidence showed without dispute that when Adams was examined by Dr. Comstock in July 1980 and October 1981, and by Dr. Tillinghast in February 1982, he had not complained regularly of shortness of breath, chest pain or cough, symptoms normally associated with asbestosis.  On isolated occasions Adams had experienced shortness of breath but he attributed that to lack of physical conditioning.  He was able to participate in athletic competitions for the two years preceding the trial, inMinnesota 4-year-old left behind on school field trip

Blake McCoy, KARE-TV, Minneapolis-St. Paul | USATODAY

Show Caption Hide Caption 4-year-old boy left behind on field trip a state away Officials from a school district in Minnesota are apologizing after a 4-year-old student was left behind on a museum field trip to South Dakota, more than an hour away.

Boy went with classmates to Children%27s Museum of South Dakota

He didn%27t get on the bus when it was time to return home

No one noticed the problem until museum employees called the teacher

MARSHALL, Minn. — A parent's worst nightmare came true when a woman's 4-year-old son was left behind on a school field trip more than an hour from home.

The incident happened Tuesday on a trip to the Children's Museum of South Dakota in


Brookings, S.D. Making matters worse, teachers and parents who chaperoned didn't realize that AJ Whylly was missing until they had returned home.

"All I'm thinking is no one is accountable for our son right now," Jacqueline Whylly, AJ's mom, said Thursday. "Anyone could have took him. No one was accountable for him. He was neglected and alone."

Museum employees discovered AJ soon after his classmates left, but he has problems speaking. So they called all the schools that visited that day, connecting with AJ's teacher minutes before the buses arrived back in Marshall, about 60 miles away, according to KSFY-TV, Sioux Falls, S.D.

Whylly, who had gone to the school to pick up her son, and her husband then drove to the museum to pick up their son. She said shehopes he's young enough so he won't be traumatized.

She had volunteered to be a chaperone on the trip but was told enough parents already had signed up.

The superintendent of Marshall Public Schools, Klint Willert, apologized and said staff in his 2,100-student school district are reviewing field trip procedures. Marshall, a town of almost 14,000 people, is about 130 miles southwest of Minneapolis.

"It happened as a result of processes and protocols not being followed," Willert said. "The process of counting students before they get on the bus and taking a subsequent head count when the students are on the bus wasn't followed.

"Certainly, this is not the way schools operate and certainly not the way we want to do business," he said.

The Whyllys filed a police report but no charges


Washington moved into fourth in the College Football Playoff rankings, putting the four remaining unbeaten teams from the Power 5 conferences at the top of the selection committee’s second Top 25.

Alabama, Clemson and Michigan still hold the top three spots.

The committee’s first ranking of the season, released last week, caused a bit of a stir because the unbeaten Huskies were behind Texas A&M. The Aggies then lost at Mississippi State, clearing up the miniature controversy.

Ohio State is behind Washington, but the Buckeyes are still in fine shape. Ohio State plays Michigan on Nov. 26 in a game that could decide the Big Ten’s East Division.

Louisville moved up a spot to sixth, followed by Wisconsin and Texas A&M.NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE:

Randy W. Berry, of Colorado, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.

Mindy Brashears, of Texas, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety, vice Elisabeth Ann Hagen, resigned.

Kyle McCarter, of Illinois, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Kenya.

Tibor Peter Nagy, Jr., of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (African Affairs), vice Linda Thomas-Greenfield.

Gordon D. Sondland, of Washington, to be Representative of the United States of America to the European Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

WITHDRAWALS SENT TO THE SENATE:

Adam Lerrick, of Wyoming, to


be a Deputy Under Secretary of the Treasury, vice Ramin Toloui, which was sent to the Senate on January 8, 2018.

Ryan Douglas Nelson, of Idaho, to be Solicitor of the Department of the Interior, vice Hilary Chandler Tompkins, which was sent to the Senate on January 8, 2018.uses of 'spill the beans' come from the USA. The meaning of the phrase was then something like 'spoil the beans' or 'upset the applecart'[.] The first example I can find is from The Stevens Point Journal, June 1908 [.]

Soon after that the phrase was used with the meaning of 'upset a previously stable situation by talking out of turn', which is close to how we use it today. That is cited in The Van Wert Daily Bulletin, October 1911:

Finally Secretary Fisher, of the President's cabinet, who had just returned from a trip to Alaska, was called by Governor Stubbs to the front, and proceeded, as one writer says, to 'spill the beans'.

Note the quotation marks, which suggest that this wasn't an established phrase back then.

Summary

Spill the beans


was used in horse-racing in St. Louis, MO, as early as 1902 and meant "to cause an upset". By 1907 it was being used with a similar meaning in baseball in other states.

1902 horse-racing

The OED has spill the beans meaning "to reveal a secret" from 1919. The Phrase Finder has 1908 for the meaning of "upset the applecart" and 1911 for "upset a previously stable situation by talking out of turn".

The earliest I found is a 1902 beans were spilled in horse-racing, meaning "caused an upset", quoting owner E. J. Arnold.

"Ethylene was 15 to 1 one day and would
have won sure had Battiste been up. He
was set down by the starter in St. Louis
and I had to ride a bad boy. Then we put
Battiste up later and gotdown. Kiley told
him to take her back a bit. He did, and
in some manner the field ran around and
over her so that she was shut in, cut off
and lost. So the beans were spilled.

1903 horse-racing

I found some 1903 examples, all from horse-racing meaning to cause an upset, and all in the same The St. Louis Republic.

Every one fancied that the fifth race was
a two-horse one between Nearest and Audiphone, who were held at 4 to 5 and 8 to 5
respectively. Kingstelle, a 10-to-l shot,
broke it up. She laid away from the pace
and came along in the stretch, and won,
handily, a real nice race. Nearest and
Audiphone ran to a head finish. Nearest
getting the best of it. It was the third
time that these two horses met on equal
terms. Each time


Nearest has beaten Audiphone by a head. This is form of a miraculous nature. The secret of it is that both
have been trying hard. Neither Mr. Flippen, who trains Audiphone, or Mr. Hughes,
who owns Nearest, is around stalling with
the old complaint: "Now, you know you
feel good one day and bad the next. That
is just like a horse."

1907 baseball

At
this point the game began to get
interesting, as Logan was just two
scores behind, and were beginning
to find Farrow's delivery with
ease, but the beans were spilled in
the eighth when Jones, who played
sensational ball all during the
game, erred on Murphy and Kelley, first two up, this followed by
stolen base and an error by Johnson at the plate and Farrow's
single were good for thee more
runs, bringing their total to nine,
just three more than Loganmade
during the entire game.

And beyond

As The Phrase Finder shows by 1908 it was used outside sport meaning "to cause an upset". And by 1911 it was used in politics meaning "upset a previously stable situation by talking out of turn". World Wide Words has a 1910 "extension of the sports sense into upsetting a situation by speaking out". From there, the meaning evolved to the modern one, to reveal a secret which may cause an upset.

'Spill the beans' has a slightly different meaning in today's usage from 'upset the apple cart'. The former means to revel accidentally a secret. The latter is less specific and means to say or do something that upsets a pre-arranged plan.
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was subject night and day to certain accidents inherent to early infancy [bed-wetting]. He was also a kleptomaniac, and, of course, untruthful into the bargain. At his mother’s request I treated him by suggestion. After the first visit the accidents ceased by day, but continued at night. Little by little they became less frequent, and finally, a few months afterwards, the child was completely cured. In the same period his thieving propensities lessened, and in six months they had entirely ceased.

This child’s brother, aged eighteen, had conceived a violent hatred against another of his brothers. Every time that he had taken a little too much wine, he felt impelled to draw a knife and stab his brother. He felt that one day or other he would end byShe sleeps immediately, and the suggestion is given. From the first treatment there is an enormous improvement. The patient has a good night, only interrupted by one attack of asthma which only lasts a quarter of an hour. In a very short time the asthma disappears completely and there is no relapse later on.

M. M______, a working hosier living at Sainte-Savine near Troyes, paralyzed for two years as the result of injuries at the junction of the spinal column and the pelvis. The paralysis is only in the lower limbs, in which the circulation of the blood has practically ceased, making them swollen, congested, and discolored. Several treatments, including the antisyphilitic, have been tried without success. Preliminary experiments successful; suggestion applied by me, and autosuggestion by the patient


for eight days.

At the end of this time there is an almost imperceptible but still appreciable movement of the left leg. Renewed suggestion. In eight days the improvement is noticeable. Every week or fortnight there is an increased improvement with progressive lessening of the swelling, and so on. Eleven months afterwards, on the first of November, 1906, the patient goes downstairs alone and walks 800 yards, and in the month of July, 1907, goes back to the factory where he has continued to work since that time, with no trace of paralysis.

M. A_____ G_____, living at Troyes, has long suffered from enteritis, for which different treatments have been tried in vain. He is also in a very bad state mentally, being depressed, gloomy, unsociable, and obsessed by thoughtsof suicide. Preliminary experiments easy, followed by suggestion which produces an appreciable result from the very day. For three months, daily suggestions to begin with, then at increasingly longer intervals. At the end of this time, the cure is complete, the enteritis has disappeared, and his morals have become excellent. As the cure dates back twelve years without the shadow of a relapse, it may be considered as permanent. M. G_______, is a striking example of the effects that can be produced by suggestion, or rather by autosuggestion.

At the same time as I made suggestions to him from the physical point of view, I also did so from the mental, and he accepted both suggestions equally well. Every day his confidence in himself increased, and as he was


an excellent workman, in order to earn more, he looked out for a machine which would enable him to work at home for his employer. A little later a factory owner having seen with his own eyes what a good workman he was, entrusted him with the very machine he desired. Thanks to his skill he was able to turn out much more than an ordinary workman, and his employer, delighted with the result, gave him another and yet another machine, until M. G-, who, but for suggestion, would have remained an ordinary workman, is now in charge of six machines which bring him a very hand some profit.

Mme. D_____, at Troyes, about 30 years of age. She is in the last stages of consumption, and grows thinnerdaily in spite of special nourishment. She suffers from coughing and spitting, and has difficulty in breathing; in fact, from all appearances she has only a few months to live. Preliminary experiments show great sensitiveness, and suggestion is followed by immediate improvement. From the next day the morbid symptoms begin to lessen. Every day the improvement becomes more marked, the patient rapidly puts on flesh, although she no longer takes special nourishment. In a few months tbe cure is apparently complete. This person wrote to me on the 1st of January, 1911, that is to say eight months after I had left Troyes, to thank me and to tell me that, although pregnant, she was perfectly well.

I have purposely chosen these cases dating some time back, in order


to show that the cures are permanent, but I should like to add a few more recent ones.

M. X_______, Post Office clerk at Luneville. Having lost one of his children in January, 1910, the trouble produces in him a cerebral disturbance which manifests itself by uncontrollable nervous trembling. His uncle brings him to me in the month of June. Preliminary experiments followed by suggestion. Four days afterwards the patient returns to tell me that the trembling has disappeared. I renew the suggestion and tell him to return in eight days. A week, then a fortnight, then three weeks, then a month, pass by without my hearing any more of him. Shortly afterwards his uncle comes and tells me that he has just had a letter from his nephew,who is perfectly well. He has taken on again his work as telegraphist which he had been obliged to give up, and the day before, he had sent off a telegram of 170 words without the least difficulty. He could easily, he added in his letter, have sent off an even longer one. Since then he has had no relapse.

M. Y______, of Nancy, has suffered from neurasthenia for several years. He has aversions, nervous fears, and disorders of the stomach and intestines. He sleeps badly, is gloomy and is haunted by ideas of suicide; he staggers when he walks like a drunken man, and can think of nothing but his trouble. All treatments have failed and he gets worse and worse; a stay in a special nursing home


for such cases has no effect whatever. M. Y______ comes to see me at the beginning of October, 1910.

Preliminary experiments comparatively easy. I explain to the patient the principles of autosuggestion, and the existence within us of the conscious and the unconscious self, and then make the required suggestion. For two or three days M. Y______ has a little difficulty with the explanations I have given him. In a short time light breaks in upon his mind, and he grasps the whole thing. I renew the suggestion, and he makes it himself too every day. The improvement, which is at first slow, becomes more and more rapid, and in a month and a half the cure is complete. The ex-invalid who had lately considered himself the most wretchedof men, now thinks himself the happiest.

M. E_______, of Troyes. An attack of gout; the right ankle is inflamed and painful, and he is unable to walk. The preliminary experiments show him to be a very sensitive subject. After the first treatment he is able to regain, without the help of his stick, the carriage which brought him, and the pain has ceased. The next day he does not return as I had told him to do. Afterwards his wife comes alone and tells me that that morning her husband had got up, put on his shoes, and gone off on his bicycle to visit his yards (he is a painter). It is needless to tell you my utter astonishment. I was not able to follow up this


case, as the patient never deigned to come and see me again, but some time afterward I heard that he had had no relapse.

Mme. T_______, of Nancy. Neurasthenia, dyspepsia, gastralgia, enteritis, and pains in different parts of the body. She has treated herself for several years with a negative result. I treat her by suggestion, and she makes autosuggestions for herself every day. From the first day there is a noticeable improvement which continues without interruption. At the present moment this person has long been cured mentally and physically, and follows no regimen. She thinks that she still has perhaps a slight touch of enteritis, but she is not sure.

Mme. X_______, a sister of Mme. T________. Acute neurasthenia; she stays in bed a fortnight every month, as itday. Suggestion from me, and autosuggestion from herself. The improvement is immediate and increases progressively. The cure is obtained rapidly, and is a permanent one.

Mme. Z________, of Nancy, felt ill in January, 1910, with congestion of the lungs, from which she had not recovered two months later. She suffers from general weakness, loss of appetite, bad digestive trouble, rare and difficult bowel action, insomnia, copious night-sweats. After the first suggestion, the patient feels much better, and two days later she returns and tells me that she feels quite well. Every trace of illness has disappeared, and all the organs are functioning normally. Three or four times she had been on the point of sweating, but each time prevented it by the use of conscious autosuggestion. From this time


Mme. Z___ _____ has enjoyed perfectly good health.

M. X_______, at Belfort, cannot talk for more than ten minutes or a quarter of an hour without becoming completely aphonous. Different doctors consulted find no lesion in the vocal organs, but one of them says that M. X_______ suffers from senility of the larynx, and this conclusion confirms him in the belief that he is incurable. He comes to spend his holidays at Nancy, and a lady of my acquaintance advises him to come and see me. He refuses at first, but eventually consents in spite of his absolute disbelief in the effects of suggestion. I treat him in this way nevertheless, and ask him to return two days afterwards. He comes back on the appointed day, and tells mede arañar unas monedas. El noble Grazdan pertenecía a aquella categoría. Según le explicó, en otros tiempos había sido dueño de una esclava que era una teje dora maravillosa; los productos de su telar se valoraban enormemente, y no solo en Meereen, sino también en el Nuevo Ghis, en Astapor y en Qarth. Cuando la mujer se hacía mayor, Grazdan compró media docena de chicas y le ordenó que las instruyera en los secretos de su arte. La anciana ya había muerto, y las jóvenes, una vez libres, habían abierto un taller junto al puerto, donde vendían sus telas. Grazdan zo Galare quería que se le concediera un porcentaje de sus beneficios.

—Si tienen esa capacidad, es gracias a mí —recalcó—. Yo las saqué del mercado de esclavos y


era el propio Muro el que se los quitaba de encima, como un perro que se sacudiera las pulgas. Jon lo había visto con sus propios ojos cuando murió Jarl, el amante de Val, cuando una placa de hielo se desprendió debajo de él.

Pero si los escaladores pasaban desapercibidos y conseguían coronar el Muro, todo cambiaba. Si contaban con un poco de tiempo, podían excavar refugios en la pared, atrincherarse y lanzar cuerdas y escalas para que pudieran trepar miles de hombres. Así lo había hecho Raymun Barbarroja, que había sido Rey-más-allá-del-Muro en tiempos del abuelo de su abuelo. Por aquel entonces, Jack Musgood era el lord comandante. Lo llamaban Jack el Juergas antes de que Barbarroja llegase del norte, y después fue para siempre Jack el Dormido.instante con luz blanquiazul.

«Uno, dos, tres, cuatro —contó Davos antes de que llegara el trueno. Cuando el estruendo murió, oyó el sonido goteante y el rugido sordo en las entrañas del edificio, allí donde las olas chocaban contra los gigantescos arcos de piedra de Rompeolas y formaba remolinos en sus mazmorras. Era muy posible que acabara allí abajo, encadenado al suelo de piedra húmeda, condenado a morir cuando subiera la marea—. No —trató de convencerse—. Así podría morir un contrabandista, pero no la mano de un rey. Le resulto más valioso si me vende a su reina.»

El señor toqueteó la cinta y examinó los sellos con el ceño fruncido. Era un hombretón feo y gordo, con espaldas anchas de remero y cuello inexistente. Tenía el mentón y las


que Tywin Lannister ha muerto? —A Davos le costaba dar crédito a sus oídos.

—A manos de su hijo. —El señor bebió un trago de cerveza—. Cuando había reyes en las Hermanas, no tolerábamos a los enanos; los echábamos al mar como ofrenda a los dioses. Los septones nos obligaron a abandonar esa práctica. Menuda mandada de imbéciles lamecirios... Si los dioses dan esa forma a un hombre, es para indicar que se trata de un monstruo. ¿Por qué, si no, iban a hacerlo?

—¿Me daréis permiso para poder enviar un cuervo al Muro, mi señor? —«Lord Tywin ha muerto. Esto lo cambia todo»—. A su alteza le interesará enterarse de la muerte de lord Tywin.

—Se enterará, pero no por mí. Ni por vos, mientras estéis bajo las goteras deen Astapor. Pese a su juventud, Missandei había demostrado tal don para los idiomas que los bondadosos amos la habían formado como escriba. Mossador y Marselen no habían tenido tanta suerte: los castraron y los convirtieron en inmaculados.

—¿Habéis capturado a alguno de los asesinos?

—Vuestros siervos han detenido al dueño de la casa de vinos y a sus hijas. Juran que no sabían nada y suplican misericordia.

«Todos juran que no sabían nada y suplican misericordia», pensó Dany.

—Entregádselos al Cabeza Afeitada. Que no se comuniquen entre sí. Skahaz, quiero que los interroguéis.

—Así se hará, adoración. ¿Cómo preferís que sea el interrogatorio? ¿Delicado o brusco?

—Delicado al principio. A ver qué cuentan y qué nombres mencionan. Puede que no tengan nada que ver con esto. —Titubeó un ins tante—. El noble Reznak


oyó decir Bran.

«Un cuervo de tres ojos debería tener tres ojos. Él solo tiene uno, y es rojo.» Bran sintió como aquel ojo lo miraba fijamente, brillante como un pozo de sangre a la luz de la antorcha. De la cuenca vacía donde debería haber estado el otro ojo crecía una delgada raíz blanca que bajaba por la mejilla hasta llegar al cuello.

—¿Un... cuervo? —La voz del hombre pálido sonaba seca. Movía los labios despacio, como si hubiera olvidado cómo se construían las palabras—. Lo fui, cierto. Negro mi atuendo y negra mi sangre. —La ropa que llevaba estaba podrida y descolorida, salpicada de musgo y carcomida por los gusanos, pero en otro tiempo había sido negra—. He sido muchas cosas, Bran. Ahora soy lo que ves, yun beso con lengua de mi parte a la Doncella.

La septa se echó a reír y se dirigió a la proa de la barcaza. Tenía por costumbre bañarse en el río todas las mañanas.

—Es obvio que el nombre del barco no lo pusieron en vuestro honor —le dijo Tyrion al ver cómo se quitaba la túnica.

—La Madre y el Padre nos hicieron a su imagen, Hugor. Debemos enorgullecernos de nuestro cuerpo, porque es obra de los dioses.

«Los dioses debían de estar muy borrachos cuando llegó mi turno. —El enano contempló a Lemore mientras se metía en el agua, un espectáculo que siempre le provocaba una erección. La idea de despojar a la septa de su casta túnica blanca y abrirle las piernas era maravillosamente pecaminosa—. La inocencia expoliada»,


de oscuridad, mientras oía el río que corría más abajo.

Y de repente se encontraba otra vez en casa.

Lord Eddard Stark estaba sentado en una roca junto al profundo estanque negro del bosque de dioses, con las blancas raíces del árbol corazón enredadas a su alrededor como los brazos nudosos de un anciano. Estaba limpiando con un paño encerado a _Hielo,_ el mandoble que reposaba en su regazo.

—Invernalia —susurró Bran.

Su padre miró hacia arriba.

—¿Quién anda ahí? —preguntó mientras daba la vuelta... y Bran se retiró, asustado. Su padre, el estanque negro y el bosque de dioses se desvanecieron, y se encontró de nuevo en la caverna, con las pálidas y gruesas raíces de arciano acunando sus extremidades como una madre a su hijo. Una antorcha cobró vida ante susmás, desertores de los Hijos del Viento que no estaban satisfechos con los yunkios. Serán buenos cuervos de tormenta.

—Si vos lo decís...

Dany no pensaba poner demasiadas objeciones. Meereen necesitaría muy pronto de todas las espadas posibles. Ser Barristan, en cambio, miró a Daario con cara de pocos amigos.

—Habéis mencionado cuatro compañías libres, capitán. Solo sabemos de tres: los Hijos del Viento, los Lanzas Largas y la Compañía del Gato.

—¡Anda, si ser Abuelo sabe contar! Los Segundos Hijos se han pasa do a los yunkios. —Daario giró la cabeza y escupió—. Eso para Ben Plumm el Moreno. La próxima vez que le vea la cara, lo rajaré del cuello a la polla y le arrancaré ese negro corazón.

Dany quiso decir algo, pero le faltaron las palabras. Recordó el rostro


un cielo de ese color.» Una gruesa franja de nubes discurría por el horizonte.

—Un bastón perecido —comentó a Penny al tiempo que la señalaba.

—¿Qué significa eso?

—Que se nos acerca un bastardo de tomo y lomo.

Lo sorprendió ver que Morroqo y dos de sus dedos de fuego llegaban también al castillo de popa. No era más que mediodía, y el sacerdote rojo y sus hombres no solían salir hasta el anochecer. El sacerdote los saludó con un movimiento solemne de la cabeza.

—¿Lo veis, Hugor Colina? La cólera de Dios. Nadie puede mofarse del Señor de Luz.

Tyrion empezaba a tener un mal presentimiento.

—La viuda dijo que este barco no llegaría a su destino. Creía que se refería a que, una vez lejos del alcance de los triarcas, el capitán cambiaríatuve un maestre que me instruyese.

«Solo un hermano.»

—Será un placer, vuestra alteza.

Ya era bien pasada la medianoche cuando se fueron los últimos invitados y Dany se retiró a sus aposentos para reunirse con su rey y señor. Al menos él estaba contento, si bien algo borracho.

—He cumplido mi promesa —le dijo Hizdahr mientras Irri y Jhiqui los preparaban para la cama—. Querías la paz y la has conseguido.

«Y tú querías sangre y tendré que dártela muy pronto», pensó Dany.

—Te estoy agradecida.

La emoción del día había inflamado la pasión de su esposo. En cuanto se retiraron las doncellas, le desgarró el camisón y la tumbó de espaldas en la cama. Dany lo rodeó con los brazos y le dejó hacer; borracho como estaba, no aguantaría mucho tiempo dentro de


que creía suyo, aunque lo hubiera obtenido mediante el robo, y lo último que deseaba era celebrar su regreso matando a la sangre de su sangre. El padre de Ronnet el Rojo se había apresurado a aprovecharse de la caída en desgracia de su señor primo, pero por aquel entonces, Ronnet no era más que un niño. Jon Connington ya ni siquiera detestaba al difunto ser Ronald tanto como antaño. Al fin y al cabo, él había tenido la culpa. Él era quien lo había perdido todo en Septo de Piedra, por su arrogancia.

Jon Connington sabía que Robert Baratheon, solo y herido, se escondía en la ciudad, y sabía también que la cabeza de Robert en la punta de una lanza habría zanjado la rebelión de inmediato. Eraentre las sombras, y avanzó acompañado de Gerris.

—Llegáis antes de tiempo —señaló el zorro.

—Si quieres, nos vamos por donde hemos venido —replicó Quentyn con un encogimiento de hombros—. Sois muy libres de hacer nuestro turno; mejor para nosotros. —Sabía que no hablaba como un ghiscario, pero muchas bestias de bronce eran libertos con un sinfín de lenguas nativas, de modo que su acento no llamaría la atención.

—¡Y una mierda! —exclamó la rata.

—Santo y seña de hoy —exigió el zorro.

—Perro.

Las bestias de bronce cruzaron una mirada durante un momento que se le hizo interminable. Quentyn temió que algo marchase mal, que Meris la Bella y el Príncipe Desharrapado les hubieran dado un santo y seña incorrecto.

—Está bien, «Perro» —gruñó por fin el zorro—. La puerta es toda vuestra.

A medida


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Anti-Human-Trafficking Bill Passes Mass. Senate

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Senate on Thursday passed an historic human trafficking bill that will expand protections for victims and give law enforcement new statutory powers to go after pimps and other predators.

The legislation, sponsored by Senator Mark Montigny of New Bedford, has been six years in the making. Its passage comes in the same week that the U.S. State Department added several new countries to its list of nations that have done little to curb this illicit enterprise.

In the United States itself, human trafficking, according to the Justice Department, is believed to be the fastest-growing crime in the country. Though the number of victims is not known, Massachusetts is not immune to its effects. In recent weeks, police have rescued two teenagersFor instance, Holmes and her partner Jeanne Yang invited zero photographers with the exception of one house cameraman, and only a few dozen editors and stylists for an intimate showing at a gallery in Chelsea.

This notion of focusing more on the fashion itself without the surrounding hoopla harks back to Eric Wilson‘s recent thought provoking piece in the New York Times debating whether New York Fashion Week is losing its relevance by virtue of becoming too mainstream.


not be a great cause for concern.

Some states have progressive income taxes. It is possible to have a progressive payroll tax, but the easier route would be to put the tax near a midpoint and then have an earned income tax credit (or expanded credit) for workers who would end up paying more under the payroll tax system.

There also is an issue with workers who live in one state and work in another, and with federal employees. (States can't impose a payroll tax on the federal government.) There are already reciprocal tax arrangements between many states. These can presumably be extended.

Another possibility is to leave the state income tax in place and have the payroll tax serve as a dollar for dollar credit against the tax. That wouldSouth Africa coffin case: White farmers convicted Published duration 25 August 2017

image copyright Reuters image caption Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Martins Jackson denied any wrongdoing

Two white South African farmers who forced a black man into a coffin have been convicted of attempted murder and kidnapping.

Victor Mlotshwa, 27, was beaten and made to get into the coffin by Theo Martins Jackson and Willem Oosthuizen in August 2016.

The pair will be sentenced on 23 October. They had denied the charges.

The case has caused outrage in South Africa and highlighted racial tensions in some farming communities.

Mr Mlotshwa only reported the matter after footage of the assault emerged on YouTube months later.

His attackers threatened to douse him in petrol and burn him alive.

media caption The BBC's Nomsa Maseko reports from outside court

In


a court affidavit, Jackson and Oosthuizen said they did not mean to harm Mr Mlotshwa but merely wanted to "teach him a lesson".

They claimed that Mr Mlotshwa had been trespassing on their land.

He denied this, saying he was taking a short cut to the shops, where he had been sent by his mother.

As Judge Segopotje Mphahlele read out the guilty verdict in Middelburg Magistrates Court on Friday, supporters of the victim burst into songs of celebration.

"I'm relieved that justice has been served," Mr Mlotshwa told the BBC.

image copyright MUJAHID SAFODIEN image caption Victor Mlotshwa was walking home when he was kidnapped and assaulted

Judge Mphahlele told the court she was satisfied that the prosecution had proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt, and that it was clear that theconvicted men intended to kill the victim.

The prosecutor has asked the court to revoke their bail for security reasons.

Many attacks unreported: Nomsa Maseko, BBC Africa, Middleburg

Shortly after the guilty verdict was delivered to a packed courtroom, the visibly emotional victim, Victor Mlotshwa, told me he was relieved:

"I feel good about the outcome. I'm not saying all white South Africans are racist, but the court must set an example to those who commit such acts."

The video of the assault caused outrage here in South Africa. At one point during Mr Mlotshwa's ordeal, his attackers threatened to bury him alive, even going as far as asking him if he wanted to die fast or slowly.

Mr Mlotshwa's mother, Malehlohonolo, also welcomed the ruling.

"The ordeal left my son deeply traumatised... and I'm


happy that his attackers have been found guilty," she said.

"All I'm asking is for harsh prison sentences for these men."

Family members of the convicted men were also in court. Willem Oosthuizen's wife broke down, saying she was shocked by the outcome.

The victim and his attackers live in the same province of Mpumalanga, which is seen as synonymous with such attacks, and many of these incidents go unreported due to fear or intimidation.

It is believed that some white farmers attack their black employees, who never report them to police because they fear losing their jobs.

This incident lays bare the discrimination that still runs deep in South African society.the first prior art, whether or not the chip components can advance with sureness into the chip alignment opening depends mostly on the attitudes of the chip components while the components are falling down in the component reservoir. Therefore, the chip components can not advance into the chip alignment opening with certain possibility. As a result, in the conventional apparatus, it is difficult for the chip components to advance with sureness into the chip alignment path. Further, when it is necessary to determine the front and rear surfaces of the chip components, such determination is carried out after the chip components have advanced into the chip alignment opening and then the attitudes of the chip components are changed. As a result, according to the apparatus in the first


Female marriage age, education, income, and health B1.1 Existing evidence: early marriage and female and child health In much of the developing worid, early female marriage[unreadable]defined as marriage before the age of 18[unreadable] remains widespread despite age of consent laws banning the practice, government and NGO efforts to curtail it, increasing educafion levels, and economic growth (National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, 2005). A recent study by UNICEF revealed that in Latin America and the Caribbean 29 percent of women were married by the fime they turned 18;in Africa, 42 percent;and in Southern Asia, 48 percent (UNICEF, 2005). Bangladesh has one of the highest rates of adolescent and child marriage in the worid: Although the legal age of marriage for females is 18, nearly 50 percent ofages 15 to 19 use modern contraception compared to 24 percent of women ages 20 to 24. In Bangladesh, the rates are 34 percent and 47 percent, respectively (Population Reference Bureau, 2006). Lower usage may refiect lack of awareness about family planning, expectations to have the first child immediately, and more limited access to health services among adolescents. In addition, younger girls tend to marry significantly older men. Research in sub-Saharan Africa found that the husbands of giris ages 15 to 19 years are on average 10 years older (UNICEF 2001). Mean spouse age difference is decreasing with women's age at first marriage throughout the worid. In West Africa, the mean spouse age difference is 12 years for girls aged 14 to 15 at first marriage, and 8


Children born to women under age 20 have higher infant mortality rates (IMR) through the age of five. In Mali, the Infant mortality rate is 181 per 1,000 for children of mothers under 20 compared to 111 per 1,000 for children of mothers aged 20 to 29. Similariy, these rates are 164 and 88 in Tanzania, 108 and 68 in Nepal, and 71 and 28 in the Dominican Republic (Marthur, Green, and Malhotra, 2003). In Bangladesh, the IMR is 86 for infants born to mother under 20 compared to 60 for mothers aged 20 to 29 (NIPORT, Mitra Associates and ORC Macro, 2005). Child mortality rates (CMR) are also higher for children of adolescent mothers. In Kenya, the rate is 48 per 1,000 for children born to mothersand difficulty with her memory. He testified that she had all the symptoms of a severe concussion and probable contusion of the right cerebrum causing hemiparesis and sensory disturbances on her left side. Her recovery was slow and incomplete, and although the indications of brain damage seemed to clear up on gross neurological examination, they persisted symptomatically and DeSerio still appeared to have sufficient brain damage to disable her and cause her to feel unsteady and unsafe on her own. It was for these reasons that the neurosurgeon referred DeSerio to Dr. Bessette. DeSerio and others testified that she had none of these problems prior to the automobile accident in question, and that these problems occurred immediately and continually after the accident. The inference that the brain damage


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Two truths and a lie about Rama : He dropped out of school to work on a farm. About 15 years before they met, he described his wife accurately in a letter. He wrestled bear cubs while working as a zookeeper.

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Maira has never met a rainbow she didn't like, and her favorite color changes every day. She enjoys building (and rebuilding) her LEGO dream house, crafting the perfect Spotify playlist, and daydreaming about her next big adventure.Dortmund will travel to Bundesliga leader Bayern Munich this week with a spot in the DFB Pokal decider on the line, and after a tough season that saw Klopp's men spend a long stint in and around the relegation zone, Kagawa wants to send the 47-year-old coach out on a high.

Klopp announced earlier this month that he will leave the Westfalenstadion at the end of the campaign.

In his seven seasons in charge of Dortmund, Klopp won two Bundesliga championships, one DFB Pokal title and led the club to the final of the 2012-2013 UEFA Champions League, which it lost to Bayern.

"We feel a great sense of gratitude and we owe him," Kagawa told the Bundesliga's website.

"Soon it'll be time for him to go and that won't be easy,


'Aaron's Blood': Film Review

After an injury requiring a transfusion, a boy becomes a vampire in Tommy Stovall's family-centric horror film.

A preteen boy becomes a vampire in Aaron's Blood, the dour low-budget horror pic by Tommy Stovall, but this is no Let the Right One In. A closer reference point for this father/son genre drama is Maggie, the 2015 film in which Arnold Schwarzenegger played a father nursing his daughter as she transforms into a zombie. That's a pretty flattering comparison, though, for this sincere but uneven effort, which lacks both the earlier film's star power and its aesthetic coherence. This time out, theatrical prospects are slim.

James Martinez plays the title character, a single dad whose 12-year-old son Tate (Trevor Stovall) has hemophilia. After a bullying incident at school,the boy bleeds so much he is rushed to the hospital and nearly dies. He gets a transfusion in the ICU, whereupon he makes a suspiciously quick recovery.

Back home, Tate finds his body going through changes. He doesn't need glasses anymore, and his reflexes are unnervingly sharp, but it's not all Peter Parker stuff — Tate also has no appetite for food and is becoming increasingly uncomfortable in the sun. (Stovall, the director's son, has acted in only three features, all his dad's; his spiritless performance here may be appropriate for an undead character, but it also looks like evidence of nepotism.)

Through an unlikely and tough-to-buy series of events, two local vampire hunters figure out what's happening before Aaron or even Tate understand. One of them, Earl (veteran


Mămăligă în pături

Mămăligă în pături (layered mămăligă, literally "mămăligă in blankets") is a traditional dish from the Maramureș region, in the north of Romania. The dish is made up of many layers of mămăligă alternating with layers of sour cream (smântână), butter, cheese and eggs like a mille-feuille.

See also
 Bulz
 Cocoloşi
 List of maize dishes
 Tochitură

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Category:Maize dishesOfficer Tom Hanson wasn't taken too seriously because he looked too young to be a cop. He is reassigned to Jump Street, where he meets fellow officers Penhall, Hoffs, Ioki, and Captain Jenko. His first assignment involves a High School drug dealer named Waxer and a his relation with a regular looking student named Kenny Wexley.


calls for the head of the official inquiry into historic child sex abuse to resign over links to Lord Brittan, now 75. Fiona Woolf has admitted attending dinner parties with the politician, who was in charge of the Home Office in the 1980s.

It has been claimed that Lord Brittan was handed a file, which is now missing, in late 1983 which allegedly detailed child abuse at the highest levels of Westminster.

But he has not until now been publicly accused of having played a part in such abuse.

The controversial remarks were made during a debate in which MPs accepted a motion which said Margaret Thatcher’s government ‘misled the public’ about pit closure plans during the 1984 miners’ strike.

Mr Hood, the MP for Lanark and Hamilton East, who had beenOverall, the publicly owned Packers are ninth in the league again in total revenue. Even an atypical season without a home playoff game didn't hurt too much.

The Packers hit the road for the postseason in 2015 after a four-year streak of winning the NFC Central ended. The difference in revenue between a road and home playoff game is only about $1.5 million.


NYT, Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Or mostly Congress, because Obama has remained steadfast in his support of his Wahhabi petrodollar overlords, and has been busy lobbying Congress to block the bill’s passage, according to administration officials and congressional aides from both parties, and the Saudi threats have been the subject of intense discussions in recent weeks between lawmakers and officials from the State Department and the Pentagon. The officials have warned senators of diplomatic and economic falloutso Obama administration officials counter that "weakening the sovereign immunity provisions would put the American government, along with its citizens and corporations, in legal risk abroad because other nations might retaliate with their own legislation. Secretary of State John Kerry told a Senate panel in February that the bill, in its current form, would “expose the United States of America to lawsuits and take away our sovereign immunity and create a terrible precedent.”

In a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill on March 4, Anne W. Patterson, an assistant secretary of state, and Andrew Exum, a top Pentagon official on Middle East policy, told staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee that American troops and civilians could be in legal jeopardy if other nations decide to retaliate and strip


House has tried to thaw ties with Iran — Saudi Arabia’s bitter enemy— in the midst of recriminations between American and Saudi officials about the role that both countries should play in the stability of the Middle East. But the administration has supported Saudi Arabia on other fronts, including providing the country with targeting intelligence and logistical support for its war in Yemen. The Saudi military is flying jets and dropping bombs it bought from the United States — part of the billions of dollars in arms deals that have been negotiated with Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf nations during the Obama administration.

The war has been a humanitarian disaster and fueled a resurgence of Al Qaeda in Yemen, leading to the resolution in Congress to put newOn July 29, in a speech to the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, Secretary Duncan said the U.S. should radically transform the way that teachers are recruited, assigned, evaluated, and compensated, in order to recognize and reward its great veteran teachers, attract top students into the field, and make the country more competitive. He called on teachers to rebuild their profession, to give themselves more autonomy in exchange for performance-based accountability. "Teachers must own this and drive this," he explained. "Change can only come from the men and women who do the hard work every day within our classrooms." He also called for higher salaries to make teaching more competitive with other venerated professions like law, medicine, and engineering. He suggested that starting salaries of around $60,000


improve education at all levels of government. The 2011-12 Fellows will continue to work with the 54 previous Fellows from the past three classes.

Also:

Every other Thursday through August 25, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time, the Department is hosting "Summer Seminars at Six," a four-part summer information series for teachers. The next seminar, titled "Fixing What's Broken in No Child Left Behind," will be on August 11. Archived videos and related materials from both the July 14 and July 28 seminars are available online.

On ED.gov, 2010-11 Fellow Laurie Calvert blogs about her experience at the "Save Our Schools" rally, 2011-12 Fellow Greg Mullenholz blogs about his first week at the Department, and Ben Firke blogs about teacher-turned-Senior Program Advisor on Teacher Initiatives Brad Jupp.

Throughout the summer, TEACH.govhas been profiling teachers of all subjects and grade levels who have inspired their students and increased their classroom's performancein the hope that these stories will help the best and the brightest discover their pathway to teaching.

Last week, Secretary Duncan traveled to Des Moines for two education events, highlighting the need to promote educational excellence for students in Iowa and across America. First, with U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, he visited Carver Community School and participated in a lesson with local teachers and children. He also joined a roundtable discussion with community leaders from across the state to hear about how quality early learning programs have benefited urban and rural communities. (Note: Iowa intends to apply for the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge Fund, a new, $500 million


state-level grant competition that will encourage states to develop bold and comprehensive plans for raising the quality of early learning initiatives.) Then, the Secretary delivered the keynote address at Governor Terry Branstad's Iowa Education Summit. He discussed the need to elevate education to empower citizens to compete in the global economy. He also provided an assessment of Iowa's progress in strengthening its education system. The summit was aimed at building a consensus on how to ensure all students receive a world-class education.

This summer, states will begin reporting high school graduation rates for the 2010-11 school year using a more rigorous four-year adjusted cohort, as developed by the nation's governors in 2005. Since data reporting requirements were first implemented under No Child Left Behind, states have calculated graduation ratesusing varying methods, creating inconsistent data from one state to the next. The transition to a uniform high graduation rate requires all states to report the number of students who graduate in four years with a standard high school diploma, divided by the number of students who entered high school four years earlier, and accounting for student transfers in and out of school. States may also opt to use an extended-year adjusted cohort, allowing states, districts, and schools to account for students who complete high school in more than four years. In addition, schools must maintain documentation for students who have transferred. States will continue to report graduation rates at the state, district, and school levels, including rates for subgroups of students. The Department anticipates that the more


rigorous method will result in lower reported graduation rates, but it will reflect a more accurate calculation of how many U.S. students complete high school.

Throughout the month of August, the Department will hold events and engage in outreach efforts to promote the strengths, challenges, and key opportunities in rural education. Ongoing efforts will include spotlighting the work of educators and students in rural areas on the Rural Education Resource Center. Also, senior Department officials will participate in White House Rural Council roundtable discussions in several states and hold meetings at the Department's headquarters to continue learning from rural students, teachers, and researchers. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), over half of public school districts (56%), nearly one-third of public schools (31%), and almost a quarterof students (23%, or 11.3 million) reside in rural communities. Class sizes are generally small, and overall graduation rates are high in many rural areas. Yet, rural students are less likely than their peers nationwide to access postsecondary education.

During a recent webinar, state education officials learned more about how the National 4-H and Cooperative Extension programs can help with the effort to turnaround low-performing schools and end the dropout crisis.

On ED.gov, Amy French, a career counselor in Sullivan County, Tennessee, blogs about her work in rural Appalachia.

The White House "Champions of Change: Rural America" web site profiles rural leaders, from farmers and ranchers to educators and small business owners, who are helping the country confront the challenges of the 21st century.

In just over a month, America will observe


the 10th anniversary of September 11. However, many of today's elementary and secondary school students are too young to remember the day and its meaning. To help educators prepare for the difficult but important task of teaching about 9/11, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, the Pentagon Memorial Fund, and the Flight 93 National Memorial offered a free online conference to provide educators with resources and strategies for addressing the attacks. Discussions with content experts and workshop sessionsrecorded and archived onlineidentify resources available at each organization, supply background information on 9/11, and encourage conversations on how to document, preserve, and interpret recent history and current events.

On July 27, Secretary Duncan testified before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health andHuman Services, Education, and Related Agencies on the President's Fiscal Year 2012 budget proposal.

On July 28, special guest Dora the Explorer joined the Secretary and Senior Advisor on Early Learning Jacqueline Jones for the last "Let's Read! Let's Move!" event of the summer at the Department's headquarters building.

The summer 2011 issue of the Department's School Turnaround Newsletter is now available at. The newsletter is a resource for states, districts, and schools pursuing school turnaround under the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program. This issue details the National Education Association's (NEA) work with SIG schools, presents an example of a successful state monitoring system, and features an interview with a principal on implementing extended learning time.

The Department's Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) is working closely with students, families, the financial


response to that accusation, Polanki pleaded guilty to the crime. He stated for a court of law that he knowingly planned and executed the violent rape of a child. Whether he did so as part of a plea bargain is irrelevant. He pleaded guilty to the full extent of his attack on a minor.

Roman Polanski drugged and raped a 13 year old child.

There was a civil case later, where he was also found guilty and made to pay retribution to the child he brutally violated. Some people think this constitutes "paying" for the crime. It does not. It is a civil proceding for damages against a private individual. It does not pay for his crime against the laws of the state, those that forbid violent assault, even ifthe criminal is able to hand over a wad of cash afterwards. And, by the way, that is known around these parts as prostitution - the exchange of sexual services for money or goods in trade. The civil law offers additional remedies to those wronged, but it is not a substitute for punishment by a criminal court for criminal acts.

Roman Polanski drugged and raped a 13 year old child.

His movie making "genius" is irrelevant to his assault on this child. He planned, in a horrific echo of Humbert Humbert in Lolita, to render the girl unconscious with drugs, unable to protest his carnal use of her body. As in Lolita, the drugs did not work. Unlike Lolita, much like real life, the child fought back. She rejected him.


She did not want this to happen. He raped her anyway. Nabokov's novel is art, an examination of how men rationalize their violence against their victims. Polanski's rape is a crime, a case study of a particular man rationalizing his violence against his victim.

Roman Polanski drugged and raped a 13 year old child.

There is no defense for what he did. Nothing he has ever done as a movie maker excuses or diminishes the premeditated violation of another's body for his own physical satisfaction. Any pain he has "endured" since that decision - when he knowlingly and with malice of forethought chose to force alcohol and drugs onto a child so he could rape her - is entirely of his own making:

He chose to rape a child

He chose toplay games with the court system

He chose to flee when the courts would not agree to diminish his crime

He has refused to face the consequences of his acts

He has attempted to buy off the victim and the law

He has paraded his story around to increase his own celebrity

He has traded on his celebrity to get his brutal rape excused and escape just punishment for what he did

The defense seems to be Polanski is an artist and should not be subject to the same laws as the rest of humanity becuse he has gratified us with his artistic endeavors. That is an exact inversion of the principle of the law:

Because Roman Polanksi does not wish to share the earth with other human beings, feeling entitled to treat another person


as a sex toy for his personal entertainment and gratification, there is no reason why the rest of humanity should wish to share the world with him.

He deserves to go into prison with the rest of the child rapists and spend the rest of his miserable life suffering in his own self-inflicted hell. Why does he deserve this?

Sunday, September 27, 2009

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The blazes erupted like clockwork on the first day of autumn, which typically marks the beginning of Santa Ana winds. Firefighters braced for a tough week ahead with more unusually strong winds and extreme heat forecast through the end of the week.

"We're in triple-digit temperatures and single-digit humidities . . . and it's beginning with a bang here," said climatologist William Patzert of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "There's not much good news."

So far, nothing significant has flared up in San Diego County.

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Ventura County firefighters battle a blaze along Grimes Canyon Road that began south of Fillmore and marched rapidly to the outskirts of Moorpark. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times / September 22, 2009)

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are innocent of the crimes of our nation.

The Democratic Party was the party of slavery and civil war in the 19th century. It was the party of Jim Crow in the early 20th century. The New Deal set it on the path to renouncing that legacy through the mid-part of the last century, and it was a brutal passage. Instead of reimagining the South and what it could become, the Northeast elite who had taken over the leadership simply renounced it – you will be like us or you can get out.When desegregation came to the Northeast and the Midwest, the contempt for “The South” was transferred easily to the working class ethnic whites who resisted this change. Archie Bunker became an eternal truth rather than a thoughtDemocratic Party. Divide the working class on racial lines and designate these groups as deserving and undeserving. Focus on individual failings rather than the deep structures of power. Make people pick tribes.

Paul Krugman, in The Conscience of a Liberal, methodically dissected the use of race by the Right to undermine the advances of the New Deal. When he expresses amazement that "zombie" ideas of the Movement Conservatives just keep resurrecting themselves no matter how badly they fail, he overlooks the way in which the use of race by the Left has also undermined the advances of the New Deal. The economic claims of the Right have staying power because their social claims are confirmed by the actions of the Left. The 2008 campaign was breathtaking in the way


it laid bare these fault lines on the Left, presenting the ideologies in their pure form, unmoored from any supporting reality. It was an incredible display of contempt for people living on the edge.

Racism is the hueristic of the Stevensonian elite. These people keep the Southern Strategy going to the detriment of us all.

Thursday, September 03, 2009

Oak Crest Road in Sierra Madre(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times / September 2, 2009) Mill Creek Hot Shot crew members stop for a breather as they cut a fire line behind homes near Oak Crest Road in Sierra Madre.

The Station fire rampaging through the Angeles National Forest north of Los Angeles was caused by arson, according to the LA Times. With the death of two fire fighters, this means a homicideinvestigation is now under way.

The fire itself burned 144,000+ acres and is still not under control, though great progress has been made. The last report said it was aboiut 38% contained. It is the largest fire in Los Angeles' modern history. The last two big San Diego Fires, the Witch fire in 2007 and the Cedar fire in 2003, were bigger fires and both were accompanied by south county fires at the same time. Since the Station fire has been successfully contianed within the backcountry, there has been relatively low damage to property (fewer than 100 houses burned so far), but the damage to the forest is immense. The following pictures were taken from Big Picture at Boston.com.

The Station Fire moves through brush September 1, 2009 in Sylmar,


Genç Kalemler and Turkish Nationalism

Abstract

This paper examines a single periodical, a literary-cultural journal called Genç Kalemler (Young Pens), which was published in Thessaloniki from April 1911 to October 1912. Thirty-three issues were printed throughout this period. The journal has always been well known to students of Turkish nationalism, as it was one of the earliest examples of what one might call a pan-Turkist publication. It was in this journal that Ömer Seyfeddin started his campaign for a purer Turkish language, rid of the Arabic and Persian cumbrances of the composite Ottoman language. Here he collaborated with Ziya Gökalp, who, in addition to being a regular writer, was probably the mentor of the entire project as well as its liaison person with the CUP (Committee of Unity and Progress).Several of the contributors were well-known militants of the nationalist movement. In 1999, the 33 issues of Genç Kalemler were transcribed into the new alphabet by Ismail Parlatir and Çetin and published by the Turkish Language Foundation, making the journal much more accessible to scholars (Parlatir and Çetin, 1999).


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Two Gustav Klimt masterpieces on loan to the National Gallery of Canada

December 1, 2017

New installation opens today featuring three important Klimt paintings, including Hope I, from the Gallery’s national collection

The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) offers a rare opportunity to view three paintings by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, owing to a long term loan from a private collection. Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914-16), a commanding example of Klimt’s trademark female portraiture, and Forest Slope in Unterach on the Attersee (1916), a lush example of Klimt’s lesser-known, yet equally impressive landscape paintings, are now on view in the European galleries, along with Hope I (1903), which the Gallery purchased in 1970. Hope 1 is the only painting by Klimt ina Canadian public collection.

“This long-term display is an unprecedented opportunity to see three exceptional Klimt paintings together in Canada, ” said NGC Deputy Director and Chief Curator Paul Lang. “It enables the Gallery to offer a complete survey of the artist’s work spanning two decades of his career. A truly transformative loan, these works will allow our visitors to experience the full visual splendor of one of the most inventive artists of his day. ”

The most renowned member of the fin-de-siècle Art Nouveau movement known as the Vienna Secession, Gustav Klimt is celebrated for his painterly expressiveness and extravagant devotion to colour and surface materiality. He sought to break with the past and propose a new style and experimental mode of expression commensurate with the realities of modern


Art from the 14th to the 21st centuries, as well as important works of American, Asian and Indigenous Art and renowned international collections of prints, drawings and photographs. In 2015, the National Gallery of Canada established the Canadian Photography Institute, a global multidisciplinary research center dedicated to the history, evolution and future of photography. Created in 1880, the National Gallery of Canada has played a key role in Canadian culture for well over a century. Among its principal missions is to increase access to excellent works of art for all Canadians. For more information, visit gallery.ca and follow us on Twitter @NatGalleryCan, Facebook, and Instagram.

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Josée-Britanie Mallet Senior Media and Public Relations Officer National“Every win is good for a team, especially with our struggles lately,” said Cavaliers forward LeBron James, who led Cleveland with 31 points and became the youngest player to score 9,000 career points. “We still have some things to clean up, but it was good to get a win.”

James played 51 of 58 minutes in the marathon game. Zydrunas Ilgauskas scored Cleveland’s first six points in the second overtime. The score was tied at 93 after the first overtime.

A basket by Ilgauskas gave the Cavaliers the lead. Williams’ 3-pointer put Milwaukee ahead before another basket by Ilgauskas made it 97-96 Cleveland. Ilgauskas, who scored 24 points, added a jumper from the top of the key at the 1:24 mark for a 99-96 lead. Williams made two free throws


throw, James became the youngest player in NBA history to reach 9,000 career points. He reached the plateau at 22 years, 352 days. James, who entered the game with 8,997 career points, took the record from Lakers guard Kobe Bryant, who was 24 years, 127 days old when he reached 9,000.

“It’s an accomplishment,” he said. “It is the individual hard work I put in during the summer time. It translates into what I do now on the court during the season.”

Gibson returned to the lineup after missing Saturday’s game. Gibson was already having problems after a widsom tooth was removed last week and he was hit in the jaw in Friday’s game.Sequence of Events leading to test landing of Mirage 2000 on Yamuna Expressway near Delhi. Set-1 pic.twitter.com/7Xhvpbi46N — Sitanshu Kar (@SpokespersonMoD) May 21, 2015

Mirage 2000 lands on Yamuna Expressway. pic.twitter.com/rpWPrvkEG9 — Sitanshu Kar (@SpokespersonMoD) May 21, 2015

Sequence of Events leading to test landing of Mirage 2000 on Yamuna Expressway near Delhi. Set-2. pic.twitter.com/xrHLuPVo7q — Sitanshu Kar (@SpokespersonMoD) May 21,

NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force has carried out a successful trial of landing a combat jet on a road runway It's a kind of first for military aviation in India.The aircraft landed at about 6:40am, senior IAF officers said, adding that the force has plans to activate more such stretches on highways in the future.The IAF has been considering the use of national highways for emergency landing by fighter


aircraft.For Thursday's trial, all facilities like make shift air traffic control, safety services, rescue vehicles, bird clearance parties and other requirements were set in place by the IAF."The operation was conducted in coordination with district magistrates and superintendents of police of Agra and Mathura," an IAF statement said.The aircraft first made a practice approach on the highway coming down to 100 metres before landing on the next approach.IAF officials said such landings can be carried out in emergencies if an active airport is not available under certain circumstances.Road runways are used for emergency landing and become important if airbases are crippled during war times.At present, countries such as Germany, Poland, Sweden, South Korea, Taiwan, Finland, Switzerland, Poland, Singapore and Pakistan have dedicated stretches on their expressways and highwaysHideo Azuma, who has been described as the trigger to the “manga lolicon boom”, has unfortunately passed away at 69, presumably succumbing to esophageal cancer (which he was undergoing treatment for).

Making his debut in 1969, Hideo Azuma is revered for having works of various types, such as works that depict beautiful girls like Nanako SOS, gag manga like Futari to Go-Nin, and Fujouri Nikki, a manga with themes of “absurd” comedy.

In 2005, he published Shissou Nikki (Disappearance Diary), which detailed his numerous disappearances and struggles with alcohol dependency – the creation earned him several prizes, such as the Japan Mangaka Association Grand Prize Award and the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize for Manga.

The mangaka is said to be responsible for causing the “manga lolicon boom” as he published “Cybele”


February 25, 2009

WAY TO BUTCHER THE MEANING OF DAVID V. GOLIATH:

Hacks versus Franco: Was it possible to report neutrally on the Spanish Civil War?: a review of WE SAW SPAIN DIE: Foreign correspondents in the Spanish Civil War by Paul Preston (Ronald Fraser, February 25, 2009, The Times Literary Supplement)

Through the pages of this outstanding book stride some of the great correspondents and writers of the period: Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Arthur Koestler, Arturo Barea, Martha Gellhorn and Herbert Matthews; and a number of others, among them Ilya Ehrenburg, George Orwell, André Malraux and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, make fleeting appearances. But the correspondents who most concern Paul Preston are those whose work will be best known to readers interested in the Civil War: Jay Allen, George Steer,Louis Fischer, Mikhail Koltsov and Henry Buckley. And even these are only a few of the mainly anglophone and French newspapermen who people this work with their lively presence.

The war was certainly dangerous, but it also raised new challenges for correspondents which resonate to this day. Could journalists be partisan and still truthful? Could they openly aid the side from which they were reporting and still be objective? Were actively partisan correspondents who also reported to their national intelligence services betraying their profession? In short, was each of these a regressive step down a slippery spiral, where “truth” was ultimately sacrificed? As usual in such matters, it is advisable to consider first the circumstances in which these challenges arose.

With a few exceptions – notably Allen and Buckley, who


formed, untrained and poorly armed working-class militias that were trying to hold the rebels back?

Here we already have a correspondent’s elemental story: David’s sling and stone against an armed Goliath supported by home-grown Falangists and the fascist powers of Germany, Italy and Portugal. [...]

In the light of the fascist powers’ intervention and the non-intervention of the Western democracies, the war, not surprisingly, centred for foreign correspondents on its international, anti-fascist, dimensions. The more percipient of them saw clearly the writing on the wall: the Civil War was the precursor of the inevitable and greater war that would follow if fascism were not stopped in Spain. They were privileged, they felt, to be “writing the first draft of history”, as Matthews put it, and were enraged by their ownGalteshwar

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About 16 km from Dakor is a Shiva temple of the Solanki era, situated on the alluring sangam (confluence) of the rivers Mahi and Galati where it is said lived Galav Muni Chandrahaas of Puranic fame. At present the lovely rocky bank of Mahi and the beautiful old Shiva temple on it has one spring of the River Galati constantly sprinkling water on the Shiva linga. Rich in art and architecture, it has a unique eight-sided hall. The walls have carved figures of Gods, gandharvas, humans, rishis, horse riders, elepant riders, chariots, doli (palanquins) and the events of a human life, from birth to death, are all depicted in these carvings.

How to get there

By road: Dakor is in Thasra taluka of Kheda District, 43 km northeast of Anand,


and 35 km east of Nadiad. Private and ST buses are available from Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Anand.

By rail: Nadiad and Anand are the nearest major railway stations. There is also a slow-train branch line terminus at Umreth, 7 km away.

By air: The nearest airport is in Vadodara- 78 km south, but the Ahmedabad airport- 90 km to the northwest, is not much further and has far more flights.his art.

There’s a lot of new at Ricky’s All-Day Grill. A second location opened recently in Regina, this one in Harbour Landing. With the ribbon cutting came the introduction of a new modernized layout and a revamped menu. This is the second location with a fresh casual sports bar look after the first opened in North Calgary in December.

One of the aisles to receive insufficient attention in this province (and indeed across Canada) is the one holding South African wines.South Africa was making great wine long before other countries. The vineyards are almost a suburb of Cape Town these days, and were among the first farms planted by Europeans. They make first rate reds and whites. They excel at Rhone style red blends, and a varietal that is


is only produced for the export market these days) that got converted into candle holders, suitable for sitting beneath Jimi Hendrix posters.Before Jimi was born, Chianti was a brilliant wine, with firm tannins, medium to high acidity and great minerality from the better vineyards. The Second World War saw the vineyards largely destroyed and then neglected. About the time it occurred to Jimi to grow his hair long, Chianti was a pretty rough red wine. It was fine for students and rockers but not really something you’d put in front of anybody with a palate. The next 50 years saw an enormous improvement in the wine and now I think of it as underrated. Great Chianti cellars for at least a decade, and has a tremendous balance andFarm Park in Saskatoon.WHEN? The house was built in 1913. The non-profit Friends of the Forestry Farm House formed in 1996 to meet the challenges of saving, restoring and interpreting the building, which was slated for demolition.WHO? The group got a 10-year lease on the building from the City of Saskatoon. They raised the money and did all the renovation work. The Forestry Farm (and the Superintendent’s Residence) is now a protected National Historic Site.The first superintendent was James McLean. He, his wife and three children moved to Saskatoon from rural Saskatchewan where they lived in a sod house. They stayed for the next 29 years.

My father left the prairie farm site near Watrous in 1931 to pursue a new beginning on a homestead outside of Carrot River.


The Present Invention relates to a seat support, and more particularly relates to a seat support suitable for use in a vehicle such as a motor vehicle.
It has been proposed previously to provide seats in vehicles which are mounted in position on elongate rails mounted in the floor of the vehicle. In the preferred arrangement the position of the seat is adjustable along the length of the rails and also, in the preferred arrangement, the seat may be removed from the rail. A seat support is provided on each side of the seat, and each seat support is adapted to engage and slide along a respective rail.
The present invention seeks to provide a seat support which may be used in this context.
According to this invention there is provideda seat support for use with a vehicle seat and adapted to engage a track provided on the floor of the vehicle. The track comprises two inwardly directed lips on opposed sides of a slot. The support has a framework adapted to support a seat, the framework is associated with a clamping mechanism adapted to engage the lips of the track. The clamping mechanism has two spaced apart plates. The spaced apart plates each have inwardly inclined lower regions. The lower-most edge of each plate carries an outwardly directed flange. Means are provided to move the lower regions outwardly against an inherent resilient bias provided by the plates from an initial position in which the flanges may be inserted between the lips of the track to an outer


element is movable between a first position in which it prevents upward movement of the knife element from the clamping position, and a second position in which it permits upward movement of the knife element from the clamping position.
Conveniently a lower part of the framework is provided with a protrusion, substantially aligned with said flanges, adapted to be inserted into a slot in the track.
Preferably the support comprises two vertical elements supporting an upper horizontal element. The horizontal element is provided with means to connect the horizontal element to a seat. The clamping mechanism is provided at the lower part of one of the vertical elements.a talking show-pony, to trot out onto the public stage to mouth platitudes, to declaim the splendid ideas of his party, to decry the squalid ideas of the opposing party, and, after he is relieved of the burdens of office, to make millions so that people destitute of critical faculties can get cheap thrills – for which they’ll pay big bucks – by sitting for a few minutes in the same room as a former president of the executive branch of the United States government.

And it will never dawn on any of these people who Oooo! and Ahhh! in the presence of a former president that if that mortal, who once sat at the big desk in the Oval Office, were really as magnificent and wonderful and smart


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Project6 Design is an award-winning web design firm working with university, foundation, high-tech, and retail clients. Known as one of the best web design firms in the San Francisco Bay Area, their unique designpilgrimage in which a sage Imamzadeh, or Imam were buried in Iran. Some of the more popular ones include:

 Fatima Masumeh Shrine, Qom. Tomb of Fātimah bint Mūsā (sister of eight Shia Twelver Imam Ali al-Ridha and the daughter of the seventh Shia Imam Musa al-Kadhim) and three daughters of the ninth Shia Twelver Imam, Muhammad al-Jawad.
 Jamkaran, Qom
 Imam Reza shrine – a large complex, developed on the burial site of the Eighth Shī`a Imām, 'Ali ar-Ridha, Mashad
 Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine. Tomb of: ‘Abdul ‘Adhīm ibn ‘Abdillāh al-Hasanī (aka. Shah Abdol Azim, a fifth generation descendant of Hasan ibn ‘Alī and a companion of the ninth Shī‘ah Twelver Imām, Muhammad al-Jawad). Adjacent to the shrine, within the complex, are the mausolea of Imamzadeh Tahir (son of the fourth


Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Quetzalcoatl Sculpture

Continuing on with my salute to the city of San Jose, California. I wish to introduce you to QUETZY.

Robert Graham's Quetzalcoatl ascends almost eight feet into the San Jose skyline. The original design called for a three-story edifice of gleaming cast-bronze - it was discarded as being too expensive. The bronze would have echoed the plumage of a Quetzal, as well as the association Quetzalcoatl had with corn.The statue was commissioned by the city of San Jose in honor of Cesar Chavez. No one was to see the statue before the unveiling. But oh my when the staue was unvieled there was an uproar from the San Jose public.

As Blogged BY: gsinghQuetzalcoatl Sculpture by gsingh April 10, 2002From journal People-watching in Downtown San Jose

Atthe South end of Cesar Chavez Plaza sits a sculpture that enraged folks even before it was erected. The city of San Jose spent $500,000 on a sculpture of Quetzalcoatl (pronounced Ketz-ul-KWAT-il), an ancient Meso-American god/figure of creativity and fertility dating back to pre-Aztec times, in order to honor the city’s Hispanic culture and heritage. However, fundamentalist right-wing Christians took offense and began to distribute apocrypha claiming that Quetzalcoatl is a deity devoted to bloody pagan sacrifice and that the sculpture violated California's constitutional guarantees against state-promotion of one religion over another.

They filed a lawsuit which was subsequently thrown out of court, the judge deciding that the sculpture was a work of art and a cultural artifact, not a religious token.

But the ire continues, even among secular San


particular.

The Ethiopian community in Israel at present numbers about 135,000 people. The arrival of Ethiopian Jews to the Jewish state began in the 1970s, when, as a BBC article notes, “the Israeli secret service Mossad organised their immigration through refugee camps in Sudan,” where they were fleeing war, famine and persecution. In the 1980s and '90s, the Israeli military staged two major covert airlift operations, dubbed “Operation Moses” and “Operation Solomon” respectively. After that, migration continued in slightly less dramatic form.

While the influx of Ethiopian Jews may have assisted numerically in establishing Israel as the official homeland for Jews worldwide, thereby counteracting rightful Palestinian claims to the area, the resulting skin-colour scheme has proved unwelcome to many sectors of the Israeli population.

For Ethiopians in Israel, racism and discriminationat the societal exclusion of dark-skinned Jews have reportedly ranged from decisions by certain landlords not to rent properties to Ethiopian-Israeli families to a recurring denial of marriage licenses to Ethiopian-Israelis in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva.

When Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical service and blood bank, refused in 2013 to accept a blood donation from Ethiopian-born Israeli parliamentarian Pnina Tamano-Shata, the Israeli Ynetnews website noted that “[t]he staff then told her that she could donate blood, but her donation would be frozen, not used”.

Tamano-Shata, it bears mentioning, is a veteran of the Israeli military. Apparently, Ethiopians can bleed for Israel in combat but not for humanitarian purposes.

There are, however, other ways to extract blood. Of the many instances of Israeli police brutality against the Ethiopian


Senate Judiciary Committee members Feingold, Schumer, Kennedy, and Durbin have sent an interesting query to Alberto Gonzales, (e-mailed release, no link) :

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

In very dramatic testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey testified that in March 2004, when you served as White House Counsel, you were involved in "an effort to take advantage of a very sick man," referring to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Specifically, Mr. Comey testified that you and former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card went to Mr. Ashcroft's bedside at George Washington Hospital, where he was in intensive care, in an effort to get him to agree to certify the legality of a classified program that he and Mr. Comey, who was serving as acting AttorneyGeneral at the time, had concluded should not be so certified. Mr. Comey stated that when the Administration decided to go forward with reauthorizing this classified program without that certification, he and several other Justice Department officials, including possibly Attorney General Ashcroft himself, were ready to tender their resignations.

You testified last year before both the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Judiciary Committee about this incident. On February 6, 2006, at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, you were asked whether Mr. Comey and others at the Justice Department had raised concerns about the NSA wiretapping program. You stated in response that the disagreement that occurred was not related to the wiretapping program confirmed by the President in December 2005, which was the topic of the hearing. The following


the morning of June 19, 1982, an armed man, subsequently identified as the appellant, committed a robbery of the Gold-N-Ideas jewelry store in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The three co-owners of the store, Jim Hooker, Darold Lerch, and his wife, Connie Lerch, were present at the time of the robbery. The perpetrator entered the store and asked to look at some diamonds. When Mr. Hooker went to the back of the store to get the stones, the robber grabbed Mrs. Lerch around the neck and pulled out a gun. He stated that she would not be hurt if the men cooperated and demanded that they fill a paper bag with jewels. He then decided that he wanted some gold chains and fired his pistol into a display case. DaroldLerch gathered up the chains and put them into the sack.
After the gunman had obtained the diamonds and and the chains, he backed out of the store still holding Mrs. Lerch hostage. As he did so, he told the men that he would kill her if they tried to follow. The gunman then forced Mrs. Lerch into a car and drove away. Shortly thereafter, he pulled over to the side of the road and let Mrs. Lerch out of the car. She later testified that she could not identify her assailant because she was too frightened to look him in the face.
About four weeks later, in response to police inquiries, the investigating officer in the case was contacted by a deputy sheriff from Wichita, Kansas. The deputy gave


the officer information which indicated that the appellant might have been involved in the robbery. Acting on this information, the officer showed photographs of the appellant and several other men to Mr. Hooker and Mr. Lerch. Each witness identified the appellant as the gunman.
The appellant was eventually arrested in October of 1983, one year and four months after the robbery. He was advised of his rights and admitted having robbed two jewelry stores in northwest Oklahoma City. The appellant could not remember the name of either store, but stated that he had taken a woman hostage during one of the robberies.

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In his first assignment of error, the appellant contends that the trial court committed reversible error by allowing the officer, who conducted the pre-trial photographic identification line-up, towas signed by a judge of the district court and indicates on its face that it was issued pursuant to the provisions of 22 O.S. 1981, § 258. Section 258 reads in pertinent part:
The district attorney may, on approval of the county judge, or the district judge, issue subpoenas in felony cases and call witnesses before him and have them sworn and their testimony reduced to writing and signed by the witnesses at the cost of the county. Such examination must be confined to some felony committed against the statutes of the state and triable is that county, and the evidence so taken shall not be receivable in any civil proceeding. A refusal to obey such subpoena or to be sworn or to testify may be punished as


U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono introduced a bill that prioritizes and preserves native plants, including those found at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Lyon Arboretum, which houses the world’s largest collection of native Hawaiian plant species in its micropropagation laboratory.

Hirono’s Botanical Sciences and Native Plant Materials Research, Restoration and Promotion Act encourages federal land management agencies to prioritize hiring botanists, conduct research on native plant materials and incorporate native plants in projects on federal land.

The senator visited the Lyon Arboretum in August and toured the Native Hawaiian Garden, met with scientists and planted native species at the facility.

The bill is especially important for Hawaiʻi, which has more federally listed endangered plants than all other states combined.

—Marian Chau

“Scientists at Lyon Arboretum are working to preserve native ecosystems through research,Democratic U.S. Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke addresses the audience during the Presidential candidate forum at the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Detroit, Michigan, July 24, 2019.

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke released a trade plan Thursday that would end President Donald Trump's tariffs on China and make various reforms meant to boost American workers.

The former Texas congressman's proposal would toss out the White House's tariffs on Chinese goods in exchange for Beijing scrapping duties on American products, according to his campaign. O'Rourke would also pursue changes to the World Trade Organization, measures to crack down on China's alleged unfair trade practices and trade deals with stronger labor and environmental protections.

"Trade is not the problem — Trump is. His trade war


Last season Kane Hemmings, who joined joined Scottish Championship side Cowdenbeath on a permanent one year deal, scored 24 goals in just 39 appearances, including two hat-tricks.

Hemmings, from Burton-on-Trent, progressed through the youth ranks at Tamworth before being spotted by Rangers in 2008 where he spent the next five years.

He made his debut for Rangers in 2011 as a substitute in a Champions League qualifier against Swedish side Malmo.

In January 2013 Hemmings went on loan to Cowdenbeath scoring four goals in his opening five games. In March he returned to Rangers and scored for them against Queen’s Park in April.

Links Watch Kane Hemmings’ first interview on Barnsley Player

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Read Danny Wilson’s thoughts on signingRep. Scalise remains in critical condition, will be in the hospital 'for some time'

Show Caption Hide Caption Here's what we know about alleged Va. shooter James Hodgkinson Police have named the man they believe to be behind the D.C. area suburb shooting, and it turns out he was an ardent Bernie Sanders supporter. Nathan Rousseau Smith (@fantasticmrnate) explains.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise remained in critical condition Thursday evening after undergoing a second surgery to deal with internal injuries and a broken bone in his leg following the shootout at an Alexandria, Va., baseball field, the hospital said.

"The Congressman will require additional operations, and will be in the hospital for some time." the Medstar Washington Hospital Center said in a statement, adding that Scalise has "improved in the last