a decline in offerings of foreign language education and the widening gap between American education and the rest of the developed world. In the U.S. only a fifth of K-12 students are enrolled in languages other than English, compared to more than half of European students. Middle schools offering other languages have dropped from 75% to 58%, effectively foreclosing the possibility of advanced competency. At the same time, the benefits of dual-language immersion are substantial : by the eighth grade students in dual-language immersion programs are a full year ahead of their counterparts in English language skills. A study by researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University placed Mr. Trump’s English skills at a 5th-6th grade level, by far the lowest of any of the serious candidates from either party.

As apolicy issue, the decline in foreign-language education may reflect a fundamental misconception of education’s role. The fragmentation of education represented by home schooling and the charter school movement is a means to make education confirm what students (and their parents) already believe, rather than to challenge them to understand a diverse world. Betsy DeVos, Trump’s nominee to be Secretary of Education, spins this as a rejection of “one size fits all” education, but in fact it’s a rejection of very foundation of education. Self-segregation by race or religion is on the rise, while students avoid exposure to other ways of thinking, including language. Eva Moskowitz, CEO of one of the largest charter school groups (Success Academy in New York) bragged to the American Enterprise Institute about dropping foreign


In a clip from the latest episode of Motorsport.tv's weekly programme The Flying Lap, Craig Scarborough and Peter Windsor examine the design of the 2018 Williams engine cover, and explain how the team has tried to carry over what it learned from last year, despite the rule change.

"For a big chunk of the shark fin last year, Williams had a flat plate running along the top of it," says Scarborough. "Williams called that the T-bar.

"When the car is sliding, the outside of the rear wing stops being fed air because the car is in the way of the airflow.

"So teams found you could spin a vortex over the top of the shark fin and that would direct air to the outside part of the rear wing.

"This year we'veassault.     For the reasons that follow, we affirm the

judgment of the Court of Appeals.

      Ricky Patterson lived in a mobile home with his girlfriend, Wanda

Bartley. While her adult son, Nathaniel Silvers, was present, Patterson and
Bartley argued, and Bartley and Silvers urged Patterson to leave the home.

When Patterson, Bartley, and Silvers were outside the home, Patterson went to

his vehicle, put it into gear, revved the engine, and rapidly drove directly toward

the end of the home, near Silvers, who became pinned against the side of the

home by the vehicle; Silvers suffered internal injuries. Further facts can be

found in the opinion of the Court of Appeals. Patterson, supra.

       The issues before this Court on certiorari involve


together in a mobile home near Dalton. On November 1, 2011,

Patterson returned from work to find that Bartley had been remodeling the home

without him and drinking beer with her adult son, Nathaniel Silvers. Patterson

and Bartley began to argue, and at some point, Patterson became quite angry,

taking a roast from the oven and throwing it on the ground, and smashing a glass

cabinet with a cell phone. Bartley asked Patterson to leave, and eventually,

Patterson walked outside and got into his Chevrolet van, which was parked

about 20 feet from the home. Patterson started the van, shifted into a low gear,

revved the engine, and accelerated quickly, driving toward one end of the

mobile home. Although the precise sequence of events is unclear, Silvers

stepped off the porch around the same time and proceeded into909, 55 LE2d 70) (1978). See also Bell, 505 F2d at 540. In 1958,

the United States Supreme Court observed that a criminal assault under federal

law consists of “putting another in apprehension of harm whether or not the

actor actually intends to inflict or is capable of inflicting that harm.” Ladner v.

United States, 358 U. S. 169, 177 (79 SCt 209, 3 LE2d 199) (1958). Even so,

it was understood that such apprehension had to be reasonable for purposes of

criminal assault, just as for assault in the law of torts. See Rizzo, 409 F2d at 403

(“It is usually required that the apprehension of harm be a reasonable one.”

(Citations omitted)). Likewise, the criminal law appears to have assimilated the

notion that an assault by placing another in apprehension of an imminent injury

required a


Award-winning director of Zero Days Alex Gibney. (Courtesy)

The Mossad and Unit 8200 blew a joint US-Israeli operation to damage Iran’s uranium enrichment centrifuges, members of the US intelligence community have charged in a newly released documentary, Zero Days.In the film, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this week, former director of the NSA and CIA Gen. (ret.) Michael Hayden says that Israeli plans to attack Iran were aimed at dragging the US into the war.I interviewed Alex Gibney, the award-winning director of Zero Days – his film Taxi to the Dark Side won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2008 – in Berlin this week. The following are excerpts from the interview.Gibney: Marc Shmuger, who produced We Steal Secrets, approached me about doing a filmto the real estate in question in the event of a default as expressed in paragraph # 17 of the Joint Venture Agreement.
14. By letter dated August 30, 1988, the law firm of Cerrato, Sweeney, Cohn, Stahl & Vaccaro, attorneys for the plaintiff, submitted a bill to the debtor for their legal services on behalf of the plaintiff in connection with the Joint Venture Agreement.
15. The debtor refused to pay the bill for legal fees on the ground that the Joint Venture Agreement with the plaintiff did not obligate the debtor to pay for the plaintiff's legal expenses. The attorneys for the plaintiff commenced an action against the debtor in the City Court of the City Court of White Plains, New York, which resulted in a stipulation of


for those payments as well. Therefore, Lighthouse was entitled to demand on July 12, 1989 that unless the debtor paid the defaulted semi-annual payment due Hurd on June 30, 1989, along with other obligations, within 10 days of such demand, Lighthouse would be entitled to invoke the default clause in the Joint Venture Agreement. The debtor was unsuccessful in persuading Lighthouse to retract its 10-day default notice.
Despite its default in paying the additional sums due to Hurd for the purchase of her real estate and despite its failure to obtain final approval of the subdivision application, the debtor contends that it effectively exercised the extension right afforded it under paragraph # 12 of the Joint Venture Agreement. On June 16, *347 1989, the debtor wrote to Lighthouse thatChallenges and issues in medical education in India.
The Indian medical education system, one of the largest in the world, produces many physicians who emigrate to the United States, the United Kingdom, and several other countries. The quality of these physicians, therefore, has a broad global impact. Medical schools in India have rapidly proliferated in the past 25 years, doubling since 1980 for a current total of 258. Accreditation by the Medical Council of India (MCI) emphasizes documentation of infrastructure and resources and does not include self-study. The number of schools is determined by each state; the allocation of income-generating "payment seats" in private medical schools, coupled with the high emigration, may be motivating the increase in physician production. Student selection is almost exclusively based on performance on an


entrance examination, with a lower cutoff score for underrepresented minorities. Curriculum reform has been advocated for over 30 years, with calls for greater relevance of the curriculum to the needs of the community. Revised guidelines from the MCI in 1997 supported these changes. The internship year (the fifth year, focusing on rotating clinical experiences), under the aegis of medical schools in India, has suffered from lack of supervision and minimal assessment; it is often used predominantly as a time to study for residency entrance examinations. The authors recommend wider use of the in-depth accreditation process used by the National Accreditation and Assessment Council, currently applied to only 10% of medical schools, as well as reforms in curriculum, student selection, and internship assessment, in addition to stronger faculty-development efforts.Breadcrumb navigation:

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Boston College's Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program graduated its first class of Scholars in 1995 and is the premier merit scholarship program of its kind. The students form a community of scholars whose dedication to the pursuit of knowledge reflects the words of William Butler Yeats, who wrote, "Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire." In the process of discovering that which ignites their intellectual passion, this community seeks to fulfill the highest ideals of the Jesuit educational tradition. That 450-year tradition casts the university not merely as a professional training ground, but as a starting point to begin the most fundamental and exciting human quest: the quest for individual meaning in relationship to the universe and the search for a path that


Ashley Jackson explains how the agendas of Western governments have turned relief work into a lethal occupation.

Nine years ago, a bomb ripped through the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad killing 22 people, including the UN’s chief envoy to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. Later that same year a series of suicide bombings struck other targets in Baghdad, including the International Committee of the Red Cross – the first attack of this kind in the ICRC’s history. Since then 19 August has been designated World Humanitarian Day to remind us of those who put themselves at risk to provide humanitarian assistance to people in need.

This year’s anniversary will commemorate the highest annual incidence of major attacks against aid workers worldwide yet recorded. In the period since the Baghdad bombings,hearts and minds of local populations, this often taints aid workers by association and provides insurgents with highly visible – and in their eyes, legitimate – targets. The consequences of being seen as allied with the ‘other side’ has had acute consequences for aid workers in Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan and Pakistan, where more than 60 per cent of all killings, kidnappings and serious injuries suffered by humanitarians in the past year occurred.

Portraying humanitarian aid as a Trojan horse used by Western political actors with ulterior political motives has been cited by a number of regimes as a justification to block international aid efforts – most recently by the Syrian authorities in resisting the provision of international relief to an estimated 1.5 million Syrians in need.

Criminalizing the humanitarians?

Humanitarian funding


The penultimate round of the British Hillclimb Championship season took place at Doune in Scotland at the weekend and, after the record-breaking bonanza at the hill in June, miraculously this latest event was warm and sunny yet again!

Different colour, same result for Team Moran.

As well as seeing a number of class records set over the weekend, we also crowned our 2014 British Champion. Having dominated with his usual brand of metronomic consistency and blistering pace, Ludlow driver Scott Moran claimed his fifth title, joining Martyn Griffiths and David Grace as a five times winner and just one win away from the record set by the late, great Tony Marsh.

As I am sure everyone who is reading this is aware by now, as well as some cracking class actionand a couple of very exciting Top 12 Run Offs, the big news at Shelsley Walsh over the weekend involved a couple of very big shunts involving two of the single-seater runners.

Wallace Menzies after his Run Off win at Gurston.

The two incidents, which occurred during the qualifying runs for the Run Offs, involved DJ Racecars drivers Wallace Menzies and Ash Mason.

The tricky finish line at Gurston Down is one of the points in British Speed Hillclimbing where the top cars hit the highest terminal speeds seen all year.

Wallace Menzies prepares to launch the DJ Firestorm

Back in the mid to late 1990s, the advent of the carbon fibre monocoque chassis (in particular the Ralt RT37-based Gould GR37), combined with the fearlessness of David Grace, Alan Thompson and a few


Many of KBHK's technicians appeared in the movie as themselves. Kaiser Broadcasting later merged with Chicago-based Field Communications (Marshall Field, (1834–1906, founder of empire including famous department store chain and later descendants branching into media with broadcasting flagship TV station WFLD among others, and daily newspaper, the Chicago Sun-Times and defunct tabloid Chicago Daily News) in 1973 as part of a joint venture between the companies. In 1977, Kaiser sold its interest in the stations to Field, making Field the sole owner of KBHK. Field later put its stations up for sale in 1982, and KBHK was sold to United Television in 1983. KBHK maintained a general entertainment program schedule that included morning and afternoon children's blocks, off-network sitcoms (such as The Brady Bunch), feature films, and publicto create a new "fifth" network called The CW. On the day of the announcement, the network signed a ten-year affiliation deal with 11 of CBS Corporation's 15 UPN stations, including KBHK. However, it is likely that KBHK would have been chosen even without the affiliation deal. Network representatives were on record as preferring the "strongest" WB and UPN affiliates in terms of viewership, and KBHK had been well ahead of WB affiliate KBWB-TV (channel 20, now KOFY-TV) in the ratings for virtually all of UPN's run.

KBCW holds the distinction of being The CW's West Coast flagship station, even though this position is normally assigned to a Los Angeles station; CBS Corporation does not own a CW station in that market—the company owns KCAL-TV, which it runs as


the market's late newscasts from 10:00–11:35 p.m. The KBCW program has been produced in high definition since its debut. In July 2014, the weeknight newscast was renamed Bay Area Nightbeat while the weekend newscast stayed as KPIX 5 News, while the newscast came to an end on December 6, 2019, the station now provides an hour of CBSN Bay Area weeknights at 10. In January 2012, KPIX-TV began producing an hour-long extension of its weekend morning newscast for KBCW airing on Sundays at 8:30 a.m. In early 2015, KBCW began to simulcast Good Day from Sacramento sister CW station KMAX on weekdays from 7 to 10 a.m. and weekends from 8 to 11 a.m.

Notable current on–air staff
 Veronica de la Cruz – anchor

References

External links

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The Hope College women’s swimming & diving team made a late decision to switch Molly
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by reflecting a pulsed source of laser light from a rotating mirror. The mirror also reflects any incoming reflections to the receiving optics. While the mirror does rotate through a complete revolution, the housing of the LIDAR unit limits the angular range to below 360 degrees. Some modern LIDAR units have reduced the angular extent of the housing to offer relatively large angular ranges, from 180 (SICK) to 270 (Hokuyo) degrees.
In many LIDAR units, the individual beams within the scanning fan are also divergent. That is, the cross section of the beam expands as it radiates outward from the LIDAR unit. Often, the divergence of the individual beams in the plane of the scanning fan matches (approximately) the angular pitch of the beams within the scanning fan, ensuringEcuador has granted citizenship to Julian Assange, who has been living in asylum at the nation's embassy in London for more than five years to avoid arrest.

The WikiLeaks founder became a citizen of Ecuador on December 12, and now the country is seeking a 'dignified and just' solution with the British Government, as Assange continues to live in its London Embassy.

Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa announced Thursday that Ecuador had asked London to recognise Assange as a diplomat - which would give him safe passage out of the embassy without fear of arrest - but Britain had refused.

The Wikileaks founder Julian Assange posted a picture of himself wearing an Ecuador football shirt, adding to the speculation he had been granted citizenship

'The Ecuadoran government is empowered to grant nationality


to the protected person and thus facilitate... his inclusion in the host state,' Espinosa told reporters.

She said the request to Britain to accept diplomatic status for Assange was made on December 20, and denied a day later.

The foreign minister said Quito would not insist further on the issue because of the 'good relations we have with the United Kingdom'.

The British foreign ministry said in a statement that Ecuador had 'recently requested diplomatic status for Mr Assange here in the UK. The UK did not grant that request, nor are we in talks with Ecuador on this matter.'

News of his naturalization comes a day after he it was revealed he had been given an Ecuadorian passport.

Assange posted a picture of himself wearing an Ecuador football shirt on Wednesday, whichto the United States if he leaves the building and that there is a sealed indictment ordering his arrest.

Ecuador's foreign minister, Maria Fernanda Espinosa, said: 'No solution will be achieved without international cooperation and the cooperation of the United Kingdom, which has also shown interest in seeking a way out.'

A United Nations panel concluded in 2016 that Mr Assange was under arbitrary detention.

A statement by Mr Assange's legal team said: 'The UN ruling, issued almost two years ago, is crystal clear in its language. Mr Assange is unlawfully and arbitrarily detained by the UK authorities and must be released.

'The UK should not permit itself to be intimidated by the Trump administration's public threats to "take down" Mr Assange.'

Yesterday, Ecuador said it was looking to end the ‘untenable impasse’


About Keeraisathu

Correct below Info and add more info about Keeraisathu

Keeraisathu is a
Village
in Sholinghur Taluk
in Vellore District of Tamil Nadu State, India.
It is located 31 KM towards North from District head quarters Vellore.
11 KM from Sholinghur.
122 KM from State capital Chennai

Sholingur ,
Arcot ,
Chittoor ,
Vellore
are the near by Cities to Keeraisathu.

This Place is in the border of the Vellore District and Thiruvallur District.
Thiruvallur District R.k.pet is East
towards this place .
Also it is in the Border of other district Chittoor .
It is near to the Andhra Pradesh State Border.

Demographics of Keeraisathu

Tamil is the Local Language here.

Politics in Keeraisathu

PMK
,
DMK
,
ADMK
,
AIADMK
are the major political parties in this area.

HOW TO REACH Keeraisathu

By Rail

There is no railway station near to Keeraisathu in less than 10 km.
How ever Katpadi Jn Rail Way Station is major railway station
23reveals the complex relationships between colliding cultures: host countries hungry for financial security and the tourists who provide it in their quest for authentic experiences.

As dramatically as travelers are altered by new landscapes, values and belief systems, they also alter the people and places they visit. A man getting lost in the Amazon jungle in 1981 has had an unexpected effect on future generations. The original inhabitant of an island on the Salt Flats of Bolivia faces the dilemma of trying to preserve its ecosystem while still allowing outsiders to experience its unique magic. A traveler's search for an "unspoiled" island paradise in Thailand has unintended but devastating consequences and poses ethical quandaries for locals in a position to profit from tourism. A woman's romantic fantasies about "the


unknown" meet reality in Timbuktu. Locals worldwide express the desire for visitors to better understand how to respectfully walk on their sacred lands, including an indigenous community that has become a model for sustainable tourism in South America.

"Very effectively depicts the international backpacker tourist scene, with its increasingly canned 'authentic experiences' and its negative impact on local peoples and places."—Anthropology Review Database

"Whether you're an armchair traveler or you're working through a bucket list of exotic destinations, it's an important and moving film."—Outside Magazine

"In GRINGO TRAILS, Vail travels around the world to show how travelers are affected by the romance of packaged travel stories in the media as well as through word of mouth. Adventure becomes a commodity...How do we reconcile our romantic images of the world with thethe medieval work conditions. Are they crawling through the contaminated tunnels to learn about a foreign culture, or to escape boredom?

Elsewhere: An epic journey through voices and sounds from elsewhere. Landscapes, outlooks on the world, outlooks on life: Desert, snow, valley, jungle, ice, rainforest. An homage to humanity at the beginning of the 21st Century.

Banking Nature: By assigning financial value to elements of nature, can markets save the planet?


items and to prepare for the occasion. Hopefully some loyal patrons and daring travelers show up to the airport in their best cow costume or cow spotted duds ready to say “Moo” for “Chikin”! #CowAppreciationDay

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HMSHost Leading the Industry

HMSHost is recognized by the industry as the top provider of travel dining with awards such as 2017 Best Overall Food & Beverage Operator (for the tenth consecutive year) and Food Operator with the Highest Regard for Customer Service (for the eighth year) by Airport Revenue News. USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice Travel Awards recognized HMSHost’s Dale Jr.’s Whisky River at Charlotte Douglas International Airport as Best Airport Bar and Best Airport Sitdown Dining. HMSHostinfuses innovation and culinary expertise into everything we do; with events such as the first-of-its-kind Airport Restaurant Month at more than 50 airports across North America, the award-winning Channel Your Inner Chef live culinary contest at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, and the Adrian Awards Gold winning campaigns, #HMSHostLove and Eat Well. Travel Further.

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Global restaurateur HMSHost is a world leader in creating dining for travel venues. HMSHost operates in more than 120 airports around the globe and 99 travel plazas in North America. The Company has annual sales in excess of $3.1 billion and employs more than 39,500 sales associates worldwide. HMSHost is a part of Autogrill Group, the world’s leading provider of food & beverage services for people on the move. With sales of over €4.5 billion


virtually wiped out childhood diseases like measles, mumps, diphtheria and polio in the US and other industrialized countries, the war against preventable diseases in the developing world continues. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is the world's largest public health initiative. To date, global eradication efforts have reduced the number of polio cases from 350,000 annually in 1988 to 1,267 cases in 2004. Polio could be the first disease of the 21st century to be eradicated. The first and only disease of the 20th century to be eradicated was smallpox.

Contribute to global health — and the health of your family and community — by staying up-to-date on all of your vaccinations and supporting the effort to provide immunizations to needy communities throughout the world.

Project News and Updates

An unprecedented coalitionof governments and health organizations joined together September 12th to underscore the critical importance of reducing child and maternal deaths as part of the overall campaign to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). At an event at UNICEF House, leading advocates for women and children launched The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health to accelerate progress in reducing millions of preventable deaths.

The two-part event, attended by 200 stakeholders, was an official side event of the World Summit at the United Nations. A roundtable discussion planned by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health and the Global Alliance for Vaccines & Immunization (GAVI) focused on achieving MDGs 4 & 5 to reduce maternal and child mortality.

The new partnership unites the world's leading organizations on maternal, newborn and


lifesaving work for the world's poorest and most vulnerable children.

This year, for the first time ever, Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF will help raise funds for American children, with 50 percent of the proceeds benefiting UNICEF's Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Millions of Americans have supported UNICEF in providing emergency services, relief and counseling to children around the world, most recently after the tsunami struck south Asia. Now, UNICEF is encouraging American children to help raise funds for other American children who were affected by Hurricane Katrina.

American children are becoming real-life World Heroes by using the Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF trademark orange collection boxes to raise funds and awareness for their peers in places from Biloxi, Mississippi to Banda Aceh, Indonesia. And this year, a tune-in message for the series Rx forread a few Arthur books that dealt with immunizations and other factors important to staying healthy.

WGBH in Boston hosted its annual Fun Fest September 17. The Rx for Survival project hosted an information/activity area. Visitors received handouts and viewed a preview clip of the series. Activities were available for a range of age groups — children age six and under enjoyed playing under mosquito netting and coloring enlarged images of mosquitoes to stick to the outside of the netting (while volunteers explained the importance of insecticide-treated netting to their parents), and slightly older children played a glitter epidemic game, which illustrates how easily infectious diseases can spread just by shaking hands. And older children and adults played the "Growing Up Healthy" board game, driving home the health challenges


facing infants around the world.

These are just two of the many events planned by coalition partners in more than 20 communities across the country. The list of coalitions and the public television station anchoring each is below — watch for events in your neighborhood!

Sacramento, CA
KVIE

San Diego, CA
KPBS

Atlanta, GA
Georgia Public Broadcasting

Baton Rouge, LA
WLPB

Boston, MA
WGBH

Springfield, MA
WGBY

Baltimore, MD
Maryland Public Television

Grand Rapids, MI
WGVU

St. Paul, MN
TPT

Charlotte, NC
WTVI

Lincoln, NE
NET

New York, NY
WNET

Hato Rey, PR
WIPR

Chattanooga, TN
WTCI

Nashville, TN
WNPT

Waco, TX
KWBU

Houston, TX
KUHT

Colchester, VT
Vermont Public Television

Seattle, WA
KCTS

Warrensburg, MO
WMOS

Madison, WI
WPTV

Global Health Headlines

To help readers grasp how global health affects each one of us, below
are links to global health-related stories currently in the news.

Global Health Hero

Remko Schats and Lina Gustin are two of a bold cadre of 2500 volunteers who deliver medical care and supplies to some of the most remote andrisky places on earth. Founded in 1971 by a group of French doctors, Doctors Without Borders is the world's largest independent medical relief agency, and is frequently the first on the scene during times of a disaster.

One of Gustin's most important responsibilities is training community health workers to give measles vaccinations. She says, "When you don't have well-built latrines or showers or ways to take care of the garbage, it's very easy for epidemics to spread. Measles can kill a lot of people, but you can also vaccinate against it, and no one has to die from this disease." A major challenge is keeping the vaccine cold on the long, scorchingly hot drive from the hospital in Adré, 30 miles away, over unpaved roads frequented by armed bandits


project began to collaborate with the local village women's groups, Hadiatu quickly joined the newly formed Community Health Club and was elected chairwoman.

Hadiatu remembers clearly the day that her Community Health Club discussed the importance of immunization. At that time, she was two months along in her fifth pregnancy. Sadly, she and her husband Mustapha had lost each of their four children at an early age from diseases ranging from measles to tetanus.

At the Health Club meeting, the discussion about the benefits of immunization was lively, interactive, and featured a description of the six diseases preventable through vaccination. In addition, the recommended schedule of immunization for children before reaching one year of age was shared with all the participants. After the session, Hadiatu resolved to make a changefor her unborn child and traveled the next day to the local clinic to receive prenatal care, including a tetanus toxoid vaccine.

The 15th of July was a day of great joy as Mustapha reported that Hadiatu gave birth to a healthy baby boy. The head nurse at the local health clinic constantly thanks CARE for the opportunities they provide for women in such rural areas and has seen an increase in the number of parents bringing in their children for vaccination at the recommended age.

About Rx for Survival

A multi-media project that includes a six-hour PBS television series airing November 1-3, 2005, Rx for Survival — A Global Health Challenge is a co-production of the WGBH/NOVA Science Unit and Vulcan Productions, Inc.

Rx for Child Survival — A Global Health


Every path to success is usually marked by multiple failures. Success is not achieved by avoiding failures, rather by learning from them. In 1927, Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs, and set a world record which was unbroken for decades. Few people remember however, he also struck out 89 times that same year, and led the league in that category as well. The fact is, some of the greatest hitters in baseball, Reggie Jackson, Sammy Sosa, and Mickey Mantle, also hold the unimpressive honor of being among the top 25 players with the most career strikeouts.

If you want to succeed, you cannot be afraid of failure! Wayne Gretzky, the only professional hockey player to ever score more than 200 points in a single season said, “You will miss1992. He then came to the Triad to pastor the Hispanic Baptist Church in Kernersville, NC from 1992 to 2000. He and his wife served as the On-site Coordinator for Disaster Relief in Honduras from January 2000 to January 2001. Dr. Doyle was the International Ministries Director for the Baptist Metrolina Ministries in Charlotte, NC from 2001 to 2003. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Kentucky University, and received a Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Larry and Becky have two sons, Steve and Tim, and are the proud grandparents of three. They attend Calvary Baptist Church in McLeansville.

This blog is designed to encourage and inspire you on your journey as a Christ follower. In


Football Preview 2013

Buckeye Local Aiming To Redeem 4-6 Season

Good start may be just what doctor ordered

August 28, 2013

RAYLAND - In Phil Pest's first season at Buckeye Local, the veteran coach was hoping to see his Panthers rebound from a 3-7 season.

The fall progressed well and with three games remaining on the schedule, the Panthers were holding onto a 4-3 record.

As luck, and the 2012 Buckeye Local schedule, would have it, the final three weeks included games with three high-powered offenses. As a result, Buckeye closed at 4-6 and is heading into the 2013 campaign with hopes of starting strong and finishing strong this season.

Pest came into the Panthers head coaching post as a long-time veteran with long stints as an assistant at both Wheeling Central and Buckeye Local.He opens his second season with a veteran staff and 17 returning lettermen.

"We were happy at the end of the season," Pest said. "We played St. Clairsville very well for a half, and we did some good things late in the year that we hope will carry over.

"Our schedule this year is pretty decent. We are hoping to get off to a good start and build some confidence that will carry us through the season.''

With Buckeye 8 teams again filling in seven weeks of the schedule, Buckeye will face three non-Buckeye 8 opponents. Buckeye opens the season by playing host to Pittsburgh-based West-inghouse and following a Week 2 matchup with Union Local, travels to John Marshall. In the second half of the season, the Panthers will play host


to Western Reserve.

"We lost some good skilled players from last year's team and we will have to replace those players," the coach said. "It won't be easy replacing them, but we have some speed in the backfield and that's a plus."

Graduation losses, no matter how large or small, have an affect on a team the following season. In the case of Buckeye Local, Pest is faced with dealing with the graduation of a talented group of seniors that left some big shoes to fill.

Atop that list is a trio that provided the Panthers with the bulk of their offensive punch. Austin Marshall, one of the area's quickest running backs, left after lettering three seasons and rushing for 770 yards in his career as well as being a threat"The first thing they told me was that I was crazy. The second thing was that I was completely crazy. In a way, I was." That was how Alberto 'Tino' Costa's friends and relatives reacted when he told them he wanted to leave Argentina and travel to the Caribbean to pursue his dream of playing professional football.

Born in Las Flores, 187km from Buenos Aires, Costa was only 15 when he left home for Guadeloupe. "A friend of the family had a football club there and invited me," says Costa. "I didn't know anything about the island. They had no professional football but I told everybody it was the best way to get a transfer to Europe. And they told me I was… crazy."

Twelve years later Costa is lighting


up the UEFA Champions League for Valencia CF. At the heart of the Blanquinegros' victories on matchday two and three, the playmaker appreciates his place all the more because of the unorthodox route he took to Mestalla.

His transition to life in Guadeloupe at Racing Club de Basse-Terre was not an easy one. "I often packed my suitcase and vowed to leave the next day," he admits. "But I'd wake up with more willpower to remain." Originally a left-back, Costa was so accomplished he was asked to switch to left midfield and unsuccessful trials with a number of European clubs followed, including at AJ Auxerre, Olympique de Marseille, LOSC Lille, Olympique Lyonnais and SC Bastia.

"I had to wait two more years for another chance, and Racing Club Paris finallysigned me." However, moving to Paris was not the happy ending he was expecting. Living in an empty flat, he did not even have a bed. "It was hard to sleep anyway. There was a butcher on the ground floor and he started chopping at 4am!"

After spells at two more French sides, Costa caught the eye of Montpellier Hérault SC, then in Ligue 2, who signed him in 2008. His match winner against RC Strasbourg clinched Montpellier's promotion to Ligue 1 and was glorious proof that Costa was not crazy. "That day I felt like a professional footballer for the first time," he remembers.

In 2010, Valencia paid Montpellier €6m for Costa. "The first season was difficult. I was playing in the world's best league," he says. But he


adapted and his UEFA Champions League debut, against Bursaspor in September 2010, was an emotional occasion. "I couldn't believe I was playing in the competition. Not that long before I'd been watching the games with friends. Now I was playing in them, listening to that unique melody."

Having earned a first call-up to the Argentina national side in October, it may seem that the hard part of his journey is over, but the 27-year-old refuses to ease off. "Those who tell me I can relax because I've made it clearly don't know me. I'm always setting new goals. It's how I've kept busy these past ten years."

The full interview with Tino Costa is in the latest edition of Champions Matchday, available in digital versions on Apple Newsstand or Zinio,COLLECTIONS

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About the author (1978)

Lewis Byford Patten was a prolific author of American Western novels, born in Denver, Colorado in 1915. He often published under the names Lewis Ford, Len Leighton and Joseph Wayne. He used the last two names when writing in collaboration with Wayne D. Overholser. He died on May 22, 1981. His novels included Trail to Vicksburg (1997), Death Rides the Denver Stage (1999), The Woman at Ox-Yoke (2000) and Blood on the Grass (2002).The library was first housed in Old Main, which also contained the college's reception room, lecture hall, specimen museum, students' rooms, a chapel, kitchen, laundry, and dining room. An initial purchase of $2,500 for books for the library was made in 1870 by President Welch. The library was moved to Morrill Hall in 1896 and to the Central Building (now Beardshear Hall) in 1913. In 1925, the new library building was completed to house the library's 115,000 volumes under one roof. The new facility was not large enough to allow for adequate expansion and was outgrown within five years. The first addition to the library was completed in 1961, with a second addition completed in 1969 and a third addition was completed in 1983. In 1984, the Iowa


not returned home the day of the tragedy and never did.

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Powerful, Heartfelt, Groundbreaking, Astonishing, Raw and Uncensored A 9/11 movie that gets 4 out of 4 big stars and is a must see for all.

As many as 10,000 children lost a parent on September 11, “Telling Nicholas” is the powerful story of one of them. “Telling Nicholas” 10 years ago premiered to critical acclaim. The documentary won an Emmy, was inducted into The Museum of Television and Radio, and was selected by The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as "One ofLibrary and the Joint Committee on Printing held separate, back-to-back meetings to approve their respective committee rules and leadership.

In three voice votes, the Joint Committee on the Library approved Harper as chairman, Schumer as vice chairman and adopted committee rules nearly identical to those approved in the 112th Congress.

After the Joint Committee on the Library adjourned, while members waited for a quorum for the Joint Committee on Printing, Library Committee member Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., showed up. Upon finding out that he had missed the organizational markup, he simply said, to the delight of the room, “Great meeting.”

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When the Joint Committee on Printing finally got its quorum, it


The Pentagon is worried that the controversial video of soldiers urinating on dead insurgents could take on even greater significance

A controversial video appears to show U.S. marines urinating on dead Taliban insurgents / YouTube

The Pentagon opened a formal probe into a video showing Marines in Afghanistan urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters, but the move may not be enough to prevent the footage from becoming one of the defining images of the long and deeply unpopular Afghan War.

The probe formally unveiled by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday came less than a day after the video began widely circulating over the Internet. It's not clear when the video was filmed, or in precisely what part of Afghanistan, but Marines have had primary responsibility for the volatile southernprovinces of Helmand and Kandahar for several years. Gen. James Amos, the commandant of the Marine Corps, said he'd asked that the "Naval Criminal Investigative Service pull together a team of their very best agents and immediately assign them responsibility to thoroughly investigate every aspect of the filmed event." Amos said he's also assigned a Marine general to conduct a parallel probe.

"I have seen the footage, and I find the behavior depicted in it utterly deplorable," Panetta said. "This conduct is entirely inappropriate for members of the United States military and does not reflect the standards or values our armed forces are sworn to uphold. Those found to have engaged in such conduct will be held accountable to the fullest extent."

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indicate that the Marines involved, once identified, would automatically be disciplined rather than left to the military's judicial system. The tone and substance of his remarks stem from the military's growing fears that the video could quickly assume iconic status throughout the Muslim world, joining other infamous imagery like the laughing American soldiers humiliating Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison and the orange-jumpsuited prisoners shown kneeling in black-out goggles at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.PAPERTHE PETRIFIED MANMY BLOODY MASSACRETHE UNDERTAKER'S CHATCONCERNING CHAMBERMAIDSAURELIA'S UNFORTUNATE YOUNG MAN"AFTER" JENKINSABOUT BARBERS"PARTY CRIES" IN IRELANDTHE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT RESIGNATIONHISTORY REPEATS ITSELFHONORED AS A CURIOSITYFIRST INTERVIEW WITH ARTEMUS WARDCANNIBALISM IN THE CARSTHE KILLING OF JULIUS CAESAR "LOCALIZED"THE WIDOW'S PROTESTTHE SCRIPTURAL PANORAMISTCURING A COLDA CURIOUS PLEASURE EXCURSIONRUNNING FOR GOVERNORA MYSTERIOUS VISIT

PREFACE

I have scattered through this volume a mass of matter which has neverbeen in print before (such as "Learned Fables for Good Old Boys andGirls," the "Jumping Frog restored to the English tongue after martyrdomin the French," the "Membranous Croup" sketch, and many others which Ineed not specify): not doing this in order to make an advertisement ofit, but because these things seemed instructive.

HARTFORD, 1875. MARK TWAIN.

SKETCHES NEW AND OLD

MY WATCH--[Written about 1870.]

AN INSTRUCTIVE LITTLE TALE

My beautiful new


to make him understand that thewatch kept perfect time. But no; all this human cabbage could see wasthat the watch was four minutes slow, and the regulator must be pushed upa little; and so, while I danced around him in anguish, and implored himto let the watch alone, he calmly and cruelly did the shameful deed. Mywatch began to gain. It gained faster and faster day by day. Within theweek it sickened to a raging fever, and its pulse went up to a hundredand fifty in the shade. At the end of two months it had left all thetimepieces of the town far in the rear, and was a fraction over thirteendays ahead of the almanac. It was away into November enjoying the snow,while the October leaves werelet me go to protest;I gradually drifted back into yesterday, then day before, then into lastweek, and by and by the comprehension came upon me that all solitary andalone I was lingering along in week before last, and the world was out ofsight. I seemed to detect in myself a sort of sneaking fellow-feelingfor the mummy in the museum, and a desire to swap news with him. I wentto a watchmaker again. He took the watch all to pieces while I waited,and then said the barrel was "swelled." He said he could reduce it inthree days. After this the watch averaged well, but nothing more. Forhalf a day it would go like the very mischief, and keep up such a barkingand wheezing and whooping and sneezing and snorting,


completely, and they simply seemed a delicatespider's web over the face of the watch. She would reel off the nexttwenty-four hours in six or seven minutes, and then stop with a bang.I went with a heavy heart to one more watchmaker, and looked on while hetook her to pieces. Then I prepared to cross-question him rigidly, forthis thing was getting serious. The watch had cost two hundred dollarsoriginally, and I seemed to have paid out two or three thousand forrepairs. While I waited and looked on I presently recognized in thiswatchmaker an old acquaintance--a steamboat engineer of other days, andnot a good engineer, either. He examined all the parts carefully, justas the other watchmakers had done, and then delivered his verdict withthe same confidence of manner.

He said:

"She makeswent through creditably, and heprobably never suspected that I was a novice. I told him to put up eight"points," and put them all on the roof, and use the best quality of rod.He said he could furnish the "plain" article at 20 cents a foot;"coppered," 25 cents; "zinc-plated spiral-twist," at 30 cents, that wouldstop a streak of lightning any time, no matter where it was bound, and"render its errand harmless and its further progress apocryphal." I saidapocryphal was no slouch of a word, emanating from the source it did,but, philology aside, I liked the spiral-twist and would take that brand.Then he said he could make two hundred and fifty feet answer; but to doit right, and make the best job in town of it, and attract the admirationof


civilizations, and all nationalities, from Zoroaster down to Horace Greeley, have--

[Here I was interrupted again, and required to go down and confer furtherwith that lightning-rod man. I hurried off, boiling and surging withprodigious thoughts wombed in words of such majesty that each one of themwas in itself a straggling procession of syllables that might be fifteenminutes passing a given point, and once more I confronted him--he so calmand sweet, I so hot and frenzied. He was standing in the contemplativeattitude of the Colossus of Rhodes, with one foot on my infant tuberose,and the other among my pansies, his hands on his hips, his hat-brimtilted forward, one eye shut and the other gazing critically andadmiringly in the direction of my principal chimney. He said now therewas a state ofsaid he would rather havedied than interrupt me, but when he was employed to do a job, and thatjob was expected to be done in a clean, workmanlike manner, and when itwas finished and fatigue urged him to seek the rest and recreation hestood so much in need of, and he was about to do it, but looked up andsaw at a glance that all the calculations had been a little out, and if athunder-storm were to come up, and that house, which he felt a personalinterest in, stood there with nothing on earth to protect it but sixteenlightning-rods--"Let us have peace!" I shrieked. "Put up a hundred andfifty! Put some on the kitchen! Put a dozen on the barn! Put a coupleon the cow! Put one on


ofall this world's philosophy.]

economy is heaven's best boon to man." When the loose but gifted Byron lay in his Venetian exile he observed that, if it could be granted him to go back and live his misspent life over again, he would give his lucid and unintoxicated intervals to the composition, not of frivolous rhymes, but of essays upon political economy. Washington loved this exquisite science; such names as Baker, Beckwith, Judson, Smith, are imperishably linked with it; and even imperial Homer, in the ninth book of the Iliad, has said:

The grandeur of these conceptions of the old poet, together with the felicity of the wording which clothes them, and the sublimity of the imagery whereby they are illustrated, have singled out that stanza, and made it morelightning-rods. Our street was blockednight and day with spectators, and among them were many who came fromthe country to see. It was a blessed relief on the second day when athunderstorm came up and the lightning began to "go for" my house, as thehistorian Josephus quaintly phrases it. It cleared the galleries, so tospeak. In five minutes there was not a spectator within half a mile ofmy place; but all the high houses about that distance away were full,windows, roof, and all. And well they might be, for all the fallingstars and Fourth-of-July fireworks of a generation, put together andrained down simultaneously out of heaven in one brilliant shower upon onehelpless roof, would not have any advantage of the pyrotechnic displaythat was making my house so magnificently conspicuous


bar-room stove of thedilapidated tavern in the decayed mining camp Angel's, and I noticed thathe was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression of winning gentlenessand simplicity upon his tranquil countenance. He roused up, and gave megood day. I told him that a friend of mine had commissioned me to makesome inquiries about a cherished companion of his boyhood named LeonidasW. Smiley--Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, a young minister of the Gospel, whohe had heard was at one time resident of Angel's Camp. I added that ifMr. Wheeler could tell me anything about this Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley,I would feel under many obligations to him.

Simon Wheeler backed me into a corner and blockaded me there with hischair, and then sat down and reeled off the monotonous narrative whichfollows thisparagraph. He never smiled he never frowned, he neverchanged his voice from the gentle flowing key to which he tuned hisinitial sentence, he never betrayed the slightest suspicion ofenthusiasm; but all through the interminable narrative there ran a veinof impressive earnestness and sincerity, which showed me plainly that,so far from his imagining that there was anything ridiculous or funnyabout his story, he regarded it as a really important matter, and admiredits two heroes as men of transcendent genius in 'finesse.' I let him goon in his own way, and never interrupted him once.

"Rev. Leonidas W. H'm, Reverend Le--well, there was a feller here, onceby the name of Jim Smiley, in the winter of '49--or maybe it was thespring of '50--I don't recollect exactly, somehow, though what makes methink


oryou'd find him busted at the end of it; if there was a dog-fight, he'dbet on it; if there was a cat-fight, he'd bet on it; if there was achicken-fight, he'd bet on it; why, if there was two birds setting on afence, he would bet you which one would fly first; or if there was acamp-meeting, he would be there reg'lar to bet on Parson Walker, which hejudged to be the best exhorter about here, and so he was too, and a goodman. If he even see a straddle-bug start to go anywheres, he would betyou how long it would take him to get to--to wherever he was going to,and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle-bug to Mexico butwhat he would find outHe give Smiley a look, as much as to say his heart wasbroke, and it was his fault, for putting up a dog that hadn't no hindlegs for him to take holt of, which was his main dependence in a fight,and then he limped off a piece and laid down and died. It was a goodpup, was that Andrew Jackson, and would have made a name for hisself ifhe'd lived, for the stuff was in him and he had genius--I know it,because he hadn't no opportunities to speak of, and it don't stand toreason that a dog could make such a fight as he could under themcircumstances if he hadn't no talent. It always makes me feel sorry whenI think of that last fight of his'n, and the


was, for all he was so gifted. And when itcome to fair and square jumping on a dead level, he could get over moreground at one straddle than any animal of his breed you ever see.Jumping on a dead level was his strong suit, you understand; and when itcome to that, Smiley would ante up money on him as long as he had a red.Smiley was monstrous proud of his frog, and well he might be, for fellersthat had traveled and been everywheres all said he laid over any frogthat ever they see.

"Well, Smiley kep' the beast in a little lattice box, and he used tofetch him down-town sometimes and lay for a bet. One day a feller--a stranger in the camp, he was--come acrost him with hisis a combat of dogs, he bring hisbet; he himself laid always for a combat of cats, for a combat of cocks--by-blue! If you have see two birds upon a fence, he you should haveoffered of to bet which of those birds shall fly the first; and if thereis meeting at the camp (meeting au camp) he comes to bet regularly forthe cure Walker, which he judged to be the best predicator of theneighborhood (predicateur des environs) and which he was in effect, and abrave man. He would encounter a bug of wood in the road, whom he willbet upon the time which he shall take to go where she would go--and ifyou him have take at the word, he will follow the bug as far as Mexique,without


because, wellunderstand, she was more fast as that! [Now why that exclamation?--M. T.]And it was custom of to gain of the silver with this beast,notwithstanding she was poussive, cornarde, always taken of asthma, ofcolics or of consumption, or something of approaching. One him wouldgive two or three hundred yards at the departure, then one him passedwithout pain; but never at the last she not fail of herself echauffer,of herself exasperate, and she arrives herself ecartant, se defendant,her legs greles in the air before the obstacles, sometimes them elevatingand making with this more of dust than any horse, more of noise abovewith his eternumens and reniflemens--crac! she arrives then always firstby one head, as just as one can it measure. And he had a small bulldog(bouledogue!) who, to himsee, no value, not a cent; one would believethat to bet against him it was to steal, so much he was ordinary; but assoon as the game made, she becomes another dog. Her jaw inferiorcommence to project like a deck of before, his teeth themselves discoverbrilliant like some furnaces, and a dog could him tackle (le taquiner),him excite, him murder (le mordre), him throw two or three times over hisshoulder, Andre Jackson--this was the name of the dog--Andre Jacksontakes that tranquilly, as if he not himself was never expecting otherthing, and when the bets were doubled and redoubled against him, he youseize the other dog just at the articulation of the leg of behind, and henot it leave more, not that he it masticate, you conceive, but he


well that a fly at the most far that she appeared was a fly lost.Smiley had custom to say that all which lacked to a frog it was theeducation, but with the education she could do nearly all--and I himbelieve. Tenez, I him have seen pose Daniel Webster there upon thisplank--Daniel Webster was the name of the frog--and to him sing, "Someflies, Daniel, some fifes!"--in a flash of the eye Daniel 30had bounded and seized a fly here upon the counter, then jumped anew atthe earth, where he rested truly to himself scratch the head with hisbehind foot, as if he no had not the least idea of his superiority.Never you not have seen frog as modest, as natural, sweet as she was.And when he himself agitated tojump purely and simply upon plain earth,she does more ground in one jump than any beast of his species than youcan know. To jump plain-this was his strong. When he himself agitatedfor that, Smiley multiplied the bets upon her as long as there to himremained a red. It must to know, Smiley was monstrously proud of hisfrog, and he of it was right, for some men who were traveled, who had allseen, said that they to him would be injurious to him compare, to anotherfrog. Smiley guarded Daniel in a little box latticed which he carriedbytimes to the village for some bet.

One day an individual stranger at the camp him arrested with his box andhim said:

"What is this that you have them shut up there within?"

Smiley said, with


individual, who guards the box, who puts his fortydollars upon those of Smiley, and who attends (et qui attend). Heattended enough long times, reflecting all solely. And figure you thathe takes Daniel, him opens the mouth by force and with a teaspoon himfills with shot of the hunt, even him fills just to the chin, then he himputs by the earth. Smiley during these times was at slopping in a swamp.Finally he trapped (attrape) a frog, him carried to that individual, andsaid:

"Now if you be ready, put him all against Daniel with their before feetupon the same line, and I give the signal"--then he added: "One, two,three--advance!"

Him and the individual touched their frogs by behind, and the frog newput to jump smartly, but Daniel himself lifted ponderously, exaltedconcocting a sentence that was saturated with infamy and reeking with falsehood."--Exchange.

I was told by the physician that a Southern climate would improve myhealth, and so I went down to Tennessee, and got a berth on the MorningGlory and Johnson County War-Whoop as associate editor. When I went onduty I found the chief editor sitting tilted back in a three-legged chairwith his feet on a pine table. There was another pine table in the roomand another afflicted chair, and both were half buried under newspapersand scraps and sheets of manuscript. There was a wooden box of sand,sprinkled with cigar stubs and "old soldiers," and a stove with a doorhanging by its upper hinge. The chief editor had a long-tailed blackcloth frock-coat on, and white linen pants. His boots


were small andneatly blacked. He wore a ruffled shirt, a large seal-ring, a standingcollar of obsolete pattern, and a checkered neckerchief with the endshanging down. Date of costume about 1848. He was smoking a cigar, andtrying to think of a word, and in pawing his hair he had rumpled hislocks a good deal. He was scowling fearfully, and I judged that he wasconcocting a particularly knotty editorial. He told me to take theexchanges and skim through them and write up the "Spirit of the TennesseePress," condensing into the article all of their contents that seemed ofinterest.

I wrote as follows:

SPIRIT OF THE TENNESSEE PRESS

The editors of the Semi-Weekly Earthquake evidently labor under a misapprehension with regard to the Dallyhack railroad. It is not the object of the company toleave Buzzardville off to one side. On the contrary, they consider it one of the most important points along the line, and consequently can have no desire to slight it. The gentlemen of the Earthquake will, of course, take pleasure in making the correction.

John W. Blossom, Esq., the able editor of the Higginsville Thunderbolt and Battle Cry of Freedom, arrived in the city yesterday. He is stopping at the Van Buren House.

We observe that our contemporary of the Mud Springs Morning Howl has fallen into the error of supposing that the election of Van Werter is not an established fact, but he will have discovered his mistake before this reminder reaches him, no doubt. He was doubtless misled by incomplete election returns.

It is pleasant to note that the


adjectives so relentlessly. While he wasin the midst of his work, somebody shot at him through the open window,and marred the symmetry of my ear.

"Ah," said he, "that is that scoundrel Smith, of the Moral Volcano--hewas due yesterday." And he snatched a navy revolver from his belt andfired--Smith dropped, shot in the thigh. The shot spoiled Smith's aim,who was just taking a second chance and he crippled a stranger. It wasme. Merely a finger shot off.

Then the chief editor went on with his erasure; and interlineations.Just as he finished them a hand grenade came down the stove-pipe, and theexplosion shivered the stove into a thousand fragments. However, it didno further damage, except that a vagrant piece knocked a couple of myteeth out.

"That stove is utterly ruined," said theand vulgarity.

Blathersville wants a Nicholson pavement--it wants a jail and a poorhouse more. The idea of a pavement in a one-horse town composed of two gin-mills, a blacksmith shop, and that mustard-plaster of a newspaper, the Daily Hurrah! The crawling insect, Buckner, who edits the Hurrah, is braying about his business with his customary imbecility, and imagining that he is talking sense.

"Now that is the way to write--peppery and to the point. Mush-and-milkjournalism gives me the fan-tods."

About this time a brick came through the window with a splintering crash,and gave me a considerable of a jolt in the back. I moved out of range--I began to feel in the way.

The chief said, "That was the Colonel, likely. I've been expecting himfor two days. He will be up now


right away."

He was correct. The Colonel appeared in the door a moment afterward witha dragoon revolver in his hand.

He said, "Sir, have I the honor of addressing the poltroon who edits thismangy sheet?"

"You have. Be seated, sir. Be careful of the chair, one of its legs isgone. I believe I have the honor of addressing the putrid liar, ColonelBlatherskite Tecumseh?"

"Right, Sir. I have a little account to settle with you. If you are atleisure we will begin."

"I have an article on the 'Encouraging Progress of Moral and IntellectualDevelopment in America' to finish, but there is no hurry. Begin."

Both pistols rang out their fierce clamor at the same instant. The chieflost a lock of his hair, and the Colonel's bullet ended its career in thefleshy part of my thigh.The Colonel's left shoulder was clipped alittle. They fired again. Both missed their men this time, but I got myshare, a shot in the arm. At the third fire both gentlemen were woundedslightly, and I had a knuckle chipped. I then said, I believed I wouldgo out and take a walk, as this was a private matter, and I had adelicacy about participating in it further. But both gentlemen begged meto keep my seat, and assured me that I was not in the way.

They then talked about the elections and the crops while they reloaded,and I fell to tying up my wounds. But presently they opened fire againwith animation, and every shot took effect--but it is proper to remarkthat five out of the six fell to my share.


of Thompson,left me a mere wreck and ruin of chaotic rags. And at last, at bay inthe corner, and beset by an infuriated mob of editors, blacklegs,politicians, and desperadoes, who raved and swore and flourished theirweapons about my head till the air shimmered with glancing flashes ofsteel, I was in the act of resigning my berth on the paper when the chiefarrived, and with him a rabble of charmed and enthusiastic friends. Thenensued a scene of riot and carnage such as no human pen, or steel oneeither, could describe. People were shot, probed, dismembered, blown up,thrown out of the window. There was a brief tornado of murky blasphemy,with a confused and frantic war-dance glimmering through it, and then allwas over. In five minutes there was silence, and theenough, but I don't liketo be left here to wait on the customers. The experiences are novel,I grant you, and entertaining, too, after a fashion, but they are notjudiciously distributed. A gentleman shoots at you through the windowand cripples me; a bombshell comes down the stovepipe for yourgratification and sends the stove door down my throat; a friend drops into swap compliments with you, and freckles me with bullet-holes till myskin won't hold my principles; you go to dinner, and Jones comes with hiscowhide, Gillespie throws me out of the window, Thompson tears all myclothes off, and an entire stranger takes my scalp with the easy freedomof an old acquaintance; and in less than five minutes all the blackguardsin the country arrive in their war-paint, and proceed to


go back on thesame errand, and suddenly. Tennesseean journalism is too stirring forme."

After which we parted with mutual regret, and I took apartments at thehospital.

THE STORY OF THE BAD LITTLE BOY--[Written about 1865]

Once there was a bad little boy whose name was Jim--though, if you willnotice, you will find that bad little boys are nearly always called Jamesin your Sunday-school books. It was strange, but still it was true, thatthis one was called Jim.

He didn't have any sick mother, either--a sick mother who was pious andhad the consumption, and would be glad to lie down in the grave and be atrest but for the strong love she bore her boy, and the anxiety she feltthat the world might be harsh and cold toward him when she was gone.Mostbad boys in the Sunday books are named James, and have sick mothers,who teach them to say, "Now, I lay me down," etc., and sing them to sleepwith sweet, plaintive voices, and then kiss them good night, and kneeldown by the bedside and weep. But it was different with this fellow.He was named Jim, and there wasn't anything the matter with his mother--no consumption, nor anything of that kind. She was rather stout thanotherwise, and she was not pious; moreover, she was not anxious on Jim'saccount. She said if he were to break his neck it wouldn't be much loss.She always spanked Jim to sleep, and she never kissed him good night; onthe contrary, she boxed his ears when she was ready to leave him.

Once this little bad


bad boys in the books; but it happened otherwise with thisJim, strangely enough. He ate that jam, and said it was bully, in hissinful, vulgar way; and he put in the tar, and said that was bully also,and laughed, and observed "that the old woman would get up and snort"when she found it out; and when she did find it out, he denied knowinganything about it, and she whipped him severely, and he did the cryinghimself. Everything about this boy was curious--everything turned outdifferently with him from the way it does to the bad Jameses in thebooks.

Once he climbed up in Farmer Acorn's apple tree to steal apples, and thelimb didn't break, and he didn't fall and break his arm, and get torn bythe farmer's great dog, andthen languish on a sickbed for weeks, andrepent and become good. Oh, no; he stole as many apples as he wanted andcame down all right; and he was all ready for the dog, too, and knockedhim endways with a brick when he came to tear him. It was very strange--nothing like it ever happened in those mild little books with marbledbacks, and with pictures in them of men with swallow-tailed coats andbell-crowned hats, and pantaloons that are short in the legs, and womenwith the waists of their dresses under their arms, and no hoops on.Nothing like it in any of the Sunday-school books.

Once he stole the teacher's penknife, and, when he was afraid it would befound out and he would get whipped, he slipped it into George Wilson'scap


poor Widow Wilson's son, the moral boy, the good little boy of thevillage, who always obeyed his mother, and never told an untruth, and wasfond of his lessons, and infatuated with Sunday-school. And when theknife dropped from the cap, and poor George hung his head and blushed,as if in conscious guilt, and the grieved teacher charged the theft uponhim, and was just in the very act of bringing the switch down upon histrembling shoulders, a white-haired, improbable justice of the peace didnot suddenly appear in their midst, and strike an attitude and say,"Spare this noble boy--there stands the cowering culprit! I was passingthe school door at recess, and, unseen myself, I saw the theftcommitted!" And then Jim didn't get whaled, and the venerable justicedidn't read the tearful schoola homily, and take George by the hand andsay such boy deserved to be exalted, and then tell him come and make hishome with him, and sweep out the office, and make fires, and run errands,and chop wood, and study law, and help his wife do household labors, andhave all the balance of the time to play and get forty cents a month, andbe happy. No it would have happened that way in the books, but didn'thappen that way to Jim. No meddling old clam of a justice dropped in tomake trouble, and so the model boy George got thrashed, and Jim was gladof it because, you know, Jim hated moral boys. Jim said he was "down onthem milksops." Such was the coarse language of this bad, neglected


a mystery to me.

This Jim bore a charmed life--that must have been the way of it. Nothingcould hurt him. He even gave the elephant in the menagerie a plug oftobacco, and the elephant didn't knock the top of his head off with histrunk. He browsed around the cupboard after essence-of peppermint, anddidn't make a mistake and drink aqua fortis. He stole his father's gunand went hunting on the Sabbath, and didn't shoot three or four of hisfingers off. He struck his little sister on the temple with his fistwhen he was angry, and she didn't linger in pain through long summerdays, and die with sweet words of forgiveness upon her lips thatredoubled the anguish of his breaking heart. No; she got over it. Heran off and went tosea at last, and didn't come back and find himselfsad and alone in the world, his loved ones sleeping in the quietchurchyard, and the vine-embowered home of his boyhood tumbled down andgone to decay. Ah, no; he came home as drunk as a piper, and got intothe station-house the first thing.

And he grew up and married, and raised a large family, and brained themall with an ax one night, and got wealthy by all manner of cheating andrascality; and now he is the infernalest wickedest scoundrel in hisnative village, and is universally respected, and belongs to thelegislature.

So you see there never was a bad James in the Sunday-school books thathad such a streak of luck as this sinful Jim with the charmed life.

THE STORY OF THE GOOD LITTLE


BOY--[Witten about 1865]

Once there was a good little boy by the name of Jacob Blivens. He alwaysobeyed his parents, no matter how absurd and unreasonable their demandswere; and he always learned his book, and never was late at Sabbath-school. He would not play hookey, even when his sober judgment told himit was the most profitable thing he could do. None of the other boyscould ever make that boy out, he acted so strangely. He wouldn't lie, nomatter how convenient it was. He just said it was wrong to lie, and thatwas sufficient for him. And he was so honest that he was simplyridiculous. The curious ways that that Jacob had, surpassed everything.He wouldn't play marbles on Sunday, he wouldn't rob birds' nests, hewouldn't give hot pennies to organ-grinders'monkeys; he didn't seem totake any interest in any kind of rational amusement. So the other boysused to try to reason it out and come to an understanding of him, butthey couldn't arrive at any satisfactory conclusion. As I said before,they could only figure out a sort of vague idea that he was "afflicted,"and so they took him under their protection, and never allowed any harmto come to him.

This good little boy read all the Sunday-school books; they were hisgreatest delight. This was the whole secret of it. He believed in thegold little boys they put in the Sunday-school book; he had everyconfidence in them. He longed to come across one of them alive once;but he never did. They all died before his time, maybe. Whenever heread about


a particularly good one he turned over quickly to the end tosee what became of him, because he wanted to travel thousands of milesand gaze on him; but it wasn't any use; that good little boy always diedin the last chapter, and there was a picture of the funeral, with all hisrelations and the Sunday-school children standing around the grave inpantaloons that were too short, and bonnets that were too large, andeverybody crying into handkerchiefs that had as much as a yard and a halfof stuff in them. He was always headed off in this way. He never couldsee one of those good little boys on account of his always dying in thelast chapter.

Jacob had a noble ambition to be put in a Sunday school book. He wantedtobe put in, with pictures representing him gloriously declining to lieto his mother, and her weeping for joy about it; and picturesrepresenting him standing on the doorstep giving a penny to a poorbeggar-woman with six children, and telling her to spend it freely, butnot to be extravagant, because extravagance is a sin; and pictures of himmagnanimously refusing to tell on the bad boy who always lay in wait forhim around the corner as he came from school, and welted him so over thehead with a lath, and then chased him home, saying, "Hi! hi!" as heproceeded. That was the ambition of young Jacob Blivens. He wished tobe put in a Sunday-school book. It made him feel a lithe uncomfortablesometimes when he reflected that the good little boys always


died. Heloved to live, you know, and this was the most unpleasant feature aboutbeing a Sunday-school-boo boy. He knew it was not healthy to be good.He knew it was more fatal than consumption to be so supernaturally goodas the boys in the books were he knew that none of them had ever beenable to stand it long, and it pained him to think that if they put him ina book he wouldn't ever see it, or even if they did get the book outbefore he died it wouldn't be popular without any picture of his funeralin the back part of it. It couldn't be much of a Sunday-school book thatcouldn't tell about the advice he gave to the community when he wasdying. So at last, of course, hehad to make up his mind to do the besthe could under the circumstances--to live right, and hang on as long ashe could and have his dying speech all ready when his time came.

But somehow nothing ever went right with the good little boy; nothingever turned out with him the way it turned out with the good little boysin the books. They always had a good time, and the bad boys had thebroken legs; but in his case there was a screw loose somewhere, and itall happened just the other way. When he found Jim Blake stealingapples, and went under the tree to read to him about the bad little boywho fell out of a neighbor's apple tree and broke his arm, Jim fell outof the tree, too,


but he fell on him and broke his arm, and Jim wasn'thurt at all. Jacob couldn't understand that. There wasn't anything inthe books like it.

And once, when some bad boys pushed a blind man over in the mud, andJacob ran to help him up and receive his blessing, the blind man did notgive him any blessing at all, but whacked him over the head with hisstick and said he would like to catch him shoving him again, and thenpretending to help him up. This was not in accordance with any of thebooks. Jacob looked them all over to see.

One thing that Jacob wanted to do was to find a lame dog that hadn't anyplace to stay, and was hungry and persecuted, and bring him home and pethim andhave that dog's imperishable gratitude. And at last he found oneand was happy; and he brought him home and fed him, but when he was goingto pet him the dog flew at him and tore all the clothes off him exceptthose that were in front, and made a spectacle of him that wasastonishing. He examined authorities, but he could not understand thematter. It was of the same breed of dogs that was in the books, but itacted very differently. Whatever this boy did he got into trouble. Thevery things the boys in the books got rewarded for turned out to be aboutthe most unprofitable things he could invest in.

Once, when he was on his way to Sunday-school, he saw some bad boysstarting off pleasuring in a sailboat. He


was filled with consternation,because he knew from his reading that boys who went sailing on Sundayinvariably got drowned. So he ran out on a raft to warn them, but a logturned with him and slid him into the river. A man got him out prettysoon, and the doctor pumped the water out of him, and gave him a freshstart with his bellows, but he caught cold and lay sick abed nine weeks.But the most unaccountable thing about it was that the bad boys in theboat had a good time all day, and then reached home alive and well in themost surprising manner. Jacob Blivens said there was nothing like thesethings in the books. He was perfectly dumfounded.

When he got well he was a little discouraged, but he resolvedto keep ontrying anyhow. He knew that so far his experiences wouldn't do to go ina book, but he hadn't yet reached the allotted term of life for goodlittle boys, and he hoped to be able to make a record yet if he couldhold on till his time was fully up. If everything else failed he had hisdying speech to fall back on.

He examined his authorities, and found that it was now time for him to goto sea as a cabin-boy. He called on a ship-captain and made hisapplication, and when the captain asked for his recommendations heproudly drew out a tract and pointed to the word, "To Jacob Blivens, fromhis affectionate teacher." But the captain was a coarse, vulgar man, andhe said, "Oh, that be blowed! that


wasn't any proof that he knew how towash dishes or handle a slush-bucket, and he guessed he didn't want him."This was altogether the most extraordinary thing that ever happened toJacob in all his life. A compliment from a teacher, on a tract, hadnever failed to move the tenderest emotions of ship-captains, and openthe way to all offices of honor and profit in their gift it never had inany book that ever he had read. He could hardly believe his senses.

This boy always had a hard time of it. Nothing ever came out accordingto the authorities with him. At last, one day, when he was aroundhunting up bad little boys to admonish, he found a lot of them in the oldiron-foundry fixing up a little joke on fourteen orfifteen dogs, whichthey had tied together in long procession, and were going to ornamentwith empty nitroglycerin cans made fast to their tails. Jacob's heartwas touched. He sat down on one of those cans (for he never mindedgrease when duty was before him), and he took hold of the foremost dog bythe collar, and turned his reproving eye upon wicked Tom Jones. But justat that moment Alderman McWelter, full of wrath, stepped in. All the badboys ran away, but Jacob Blivens rose in conscious innocence and beganone of those stately little Sunday-school-book speeches which alwayscommence with "Oh, sir!" in dead opposition to the fact that no boy, goodor bad, ever starts a remark with "Oh, sir." But the alderman neverwaited to hear the rest. He took Jacob Blivens by


five inquests on him to find outwhether he was dead or not, and how it occurred. You never saw a boyscattered so.--[This glycerin catastrophe is borrowed from a floatingnewspaper item, whose author's name I would give if I knew it.--M. T.]

Thus perished the good little boy who did the best he could, but didn'tcome out according to the books. Every boy who ever did as he didprospered except him. His case is truly remarkable. It will probablynever be accounted for.

A COUPLE OF POEMS BY TWAIN AND MOORE--[Written about 1865]

THOSE EVENING BELLS

BY THOMAS MOORE

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth, and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime.

Those joyous hours are passed away; And many aflimsier, and spraysfrom the American Fall began to rain down on us in fast increasing sheetsthat soon became blinding, and after that our progress was mostly in thenature of groping. Nova a furious wind began to rush out from behind thewaterfall, which seemed determined to sweep us from the bridge, andscatter us on the rocks and among the torrents below. I remarked that Iwanted to go home; but it was too late. We were almost under themonstrous wall of water thundering down from above, and speech was invain in the midst of such a pitiless crash of sound.

In another moment the guide disappeared behind the deluge, and bewilderedby the thunder, driven helplessly by the wind, and smitten by the arrowytempest of rain, I followed. All was darkness. Such


it. When I saw how much of it there was, and how fearfullyin earnest it was, I was sorry I had gone behind it.

The noble Red Man has always been a friend and darling of mine. I loveto read about him in tales and legends and romances. I love to read ofhis inspired sagacity, and his love of the wild free life of mountain andforest, and his general nobility of character, and his statelymetaphorical manner of speech, and his chivalrous love for the duskymaiden, and the picturesque pomp of his dress and accoutrements.Especially the picturesque pomp of his dress and accoutrements. When Ifound the shops at Niagara Falls full of dainty Indian beadwork, andstunning moccasins, and equally stunning toy figures representing humanbeings who carried their weapons in holesforty-four times--chasing a chip and gaining on it--eachround trip a half-mile--reaching for the same bush on the bank forty-fourtimes, and just exactly missing it by a hair's-breadth every time.

At last a man walked down and sat down close to that bush, and put a pipein his mouth, and lit a match, and followed me with one eye and kept theother on the match, while he sheltered it in his hands from the wind.Presently a puff of wind blew it out. The next time I swept around hesaid:

"Got a match?"

"Yes; in my other vest. Help me out, please."

"Not for Joe."

When I came round again, I said:

"Excuse the seemingly impertinent curiosity of a drowning man, but willyou explain this singular conduct of yours?"

"With pleasure. I am the coroner. Don't hurry


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“It is really the closest ever, four boats within four miles and then the rest of the fleet – they are all compact. When they start arriving the dock is going to fill up very quickly compared to other years when they just drip in little by little,” said Francolini who was anticipating having a photograph of the winning yacht in the early hours of Friday morning – well off the race record pace set by Comanche last year.the petition and discharge the order to show cause.
                                       SUMMARY
       From Anderson: “Anderson, a medical doctor and the founder and director of a
genetic research laboratory, sexually molested the daughter of an employee of the
laboratory from the time the child was in the fourth or fifth grade until the ninth grade.
Anderson coached the victim in competitive karate; she won national karate competitions
when she was in the fourth and fifth grades in 1997 and 1998. He also assisted her
academically. However, they frequently were alone together and


he regularly committed
lewd acts upon her. The victim’s testimony was generic in that she testified generally

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about a continuing course of misconduct. E-mails Anderson sent her after the abuse
ended but before she decided to report him in April of 2004 corroborated her testimony.
Because Anderson indicated in his e-mails he would apologize to her in person, she
agreed to meet him outside a public library while carrying a recording device provided by
detectives. On July 1, 2004, she surreptitiously recorded a conversation in which she
angrily confrontedAnderson and asked why he had molested her. At trial, Anderson
claimed the apologies in his e-mails were for applying excessive pressure on her to
succeed and at the library she was on the verge of going out of control and he was
willing to say whatever was necessary to calm her.” (People v. Anderson, supra,
208 Cal.App.4th at p. 856.)
       On appeal, Anderson claimed the trial court erroneously excluded evidence of his
conduct after the library confrontation, particularly, that he and his wife wrote a four-
page letter dated July 4, 2004, to Anderson’s friend, San Marino Police Chief Arl Farris,
in which they reported the victim falsely had accused Anderson of sexual molestation in
November of 2003 and expressed their fear she had descended into drug abuse and


from the
recording is inconsistent with his prior statements found in the record. In the letter to
Chief Ferris and in the interviews of Anderson conducted on July 9 and July 30, 2004,
Anderson said the conversation was brief, lasting only a few minutes. He did not state on
any of these three occasions that Y. accused him of molestation at the outset of the
conversation and he denied it. In the interview conducted by Detectives Boyett and
Duncan on July 9, 2004, Anderson denied that Y. mentioned molestation during the
library confrontation.
       Also, Anderson testified at length at trial and was questioned, line by line, about
the library confrontation. He did not testify the conversation started with Y.’s accusation
of sexual molestation and his denial. His claim that, on advice6:15-16, "Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; 16Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen."Matt: So who do I believe? The apostle Paul or Joseph Smith? Paul states that no man can see God (the Father). Smith, therefore, did not.Alex: He proceeded to restore the fullness of His gospel once again to us. But many have seen him. Moses, Paul himself saw God the Father and the Son side by side, or that might have been Timothy.Matt: No. No one has seen God the Father.Matt: John 6:46 Jesus says, "Not


that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father."Matt: The people in the Old Testament were seeing Jesus, not the Father because the Father cannot be seen.Alex: Acts 7:55. Stephen, I believe.Matt: Yes, he had a vision.... He had a vision of Jesus standing on the right hand of the Father. The 'right hand" means position of authority.Matt: Jesus was in heaven, next to God's throne, probably, and Stephen was allowed to see this vision.Alex: Do you believe the Adam and Eve story? He spoke with God. They both did. Yes, I’d say it was a vision. Just like Joseph smith had a vision, and many others before and after.Matt: Adam and eve saw Jesus, the pre-incarnate Christ.Matt: JesusPaul Virilio, born in 1932, spent his early life on the northern coast of France. His childhood, growing up alongside the Second World War, was marked by routine bombings, as Nantes became a Nazi occupied port. Like many other postmodern theorists, the French experience of the war and subsequent French political problems, like the Algerian war for independence (into which Virilio was conscripted), would form a lasting impression, existentially and theoretically. The biographical information, then, is not simply an introduction concerned with “the facts” but with articulating the backdrop that haunts Virilio’s work. Michel Serres, a contemporary of Virilio, puts the situation in perspective:

My contemporaries will recognize themselves in what 1 have to say first. Here is the vital environment of those who were born, like me, around


1930: at age six, the war of 1936 in Spain; at age nine, the blitzkrieg of 1939, defeat and debacle; at age twelve, the split between the Resistance and the collaborators, the tragedy of the concentration camps and deportations; at age fourteen, Liberation and the settling of scores it brought with it in France; at age fifteen. Hiroshima. In short, from age nine to seventeen, when the body and sensitivity are being formed, it was the reign of hunger and rationing, death and bombings, a thousand crimes. We continued immediately with the colonial wars, in Indochina and then in Algeria. Between birth and age twenty-five (the age of military service and of war again, since then it was North Africa, followed by the Suez expedition) around me, fortradition and other times appearing to be the only way he musters the resolve to face the frightening insights he uncovers through his analyses. These two concerns, war and faith, remain constants in Virilio’s winding career.

Though he is known today for his examination of speed and accidents, Virilio was not always a theorist. After the war, as a young man in Paris he worked with Henri Matisse making stained-glass windows for churches. Contact with the arts allowed him to interpret his experience in WWII aesthetically, and in 1958 he undertook a project exploring the now-defunct bunkers of the North Atlantic Wall with an understanding of architecture, on the one hand, and phenomenology by way of lectures he attended by Merleau-Ponty, on the other. Virilio’s interest in architecture, and