Western partners say. But the general idea is that the sanctions logic should continue until full implementation of the Minsk agreements, whose term expires at the end of the year," the Russian deputy foreign minister said. Meshkov added that he found it strange that "the responsibility for the implementation of the agreements, which should be honored by the two parties to the Ukrainian conflict, was placed on Russia."TROY, Mich. - Move over, silver.

After more than a decade as the world's favourite car colour, silver is falling in popularity to white. PPG Industries, the leading supplier of automotive paints, says 25 per cent of the vehicles it supplied in the 2013 model year were white, up 3 per cent from the prior year. Silver and black tied for second, with 18 per cent each.

White dominates in Europe, North America and Asia. Only in South America is silver still king.

Apple Inc., with its all-white stores and gadgets, made white a high-tech colour. The variety of whites — from flat shades to creamy pearls — is also contributing, says Jane Harrington, PPG's manager of automotive colour styling.

But if you don't relish a whiteout on the freeway, never fear.


Automakers are currently scouting colours for the 2016 and 2017 model years, and Harrington is showing them some eye-popping options, from a pink-tinged bright red developed in Asia to a rich dark grey with faint green highlights.

Eleven different browns — from light copper to dark chocolate — and an equal number of greys are part of PPG's annual colour show for automakers at its automotive centre in the Detroit suburb of Troy. There are six yellows and seven greens, from seafoam to dark olive. One notable absence: Powder blue, which is increasingly confined to electric cars or hybrids.

Harrington and her international team determine colour trends by watching fashion, architectural paint colours and other predictors. She thinks we'll see more deep jewel tones like teal and more earthy metallics,Fact or fiction? Twitter account channels North Korean rhetoric

Fact or fiction? Twitter account channels North Korean rhetoric

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean media perfected the art of “fake news” long before it became a buzzword in Washington.

So how can you tell the difference between fact and fiction when it comes to the so-called Hermit Kingdom?

Two self-described “jerks from the United States” have put that to the test with a Twitter account called DPRK News Service, fooling many journalists and others who believed the tweets come from the North Koreans.

The site mimics the exaggerated and belligerent tone of North Korea’s official news organizations, which are government mouthpieces, as a form of commentary, or just as a joke.

This is, after all, a country that reportedly banned sarcasm, an idea that


about that. This needs to be a truly national federation, and everyone needs to be included."

The executive consists of six core positions, along with seven representatives from each state and territory (bar the Northern Territory, which does not have a Liberal club affiliated to the ALSF).

Boffa, who is also the president of the Melbourne University Liberal Club, fell under scrutiny earlier this year when Fairfax Media reported he had sent a message to a female club member saying she would not be invited to an event because "a couple of the guys were a bit uncomfortable about inviting a chick".

Boffa confirmed to Fairfax Media he had made the comment at the time.able to produce phenomenal profits. When Mr. Lay was reported as having played an important role in formulating the Bush administration's energy policies, the aura was only enhanced. In January, the shares traded for $84.
But now, with some of the company's ventures clearly having run into problems, it appears that investors are growing less willing to accept the company's reports. That the partnership transactions were disclosed at all was because of the involvement of the chief financial officer, and some have wondered if there might have been similar deals with others.
Mr. Lay has promised to make the company's financial reports easier to understand, and last week's report was at first praised by some analysts for doing just that.
In a news release yesterday, Mr. Lay said the company welcomed


percent yesterday after the Houston energy company disclosed a Securities and Exchange Commission request for information about Enron's ties to outside investment partnerships set up by the company's chief financial officer.
The SEC would not comment on its action, which Enron spokesman Mark Palmer called an "informal inquiry," not an investigation. "We welcome this request," said Kenneth L. Lay, chairman and chief executive of the Houston-based company.
But the announcement jarred investors' confidence in the giant energy-trading company, already hurt by the unexpected resignation of chief executive Jeffrey K. Skilling in August, and heavy losses from investments in broadband Internet and other technology ventures.
"A lot of people threw in the towel today," said Anatol Feygin, an analyst with J.P. Morgan in New York.
The SEC request was made privately last Wednesday,charges to reflect losses in its broadband, retail electricity and water investments.
The amount also included $35 million related to "early termination" of Enron's relationships with the LJM partnerships.
During a call with analysts the same day, Enron said it recorded a $1.2 billion reduction to shareholder equity, or the shareholders' ownership stake in the company, as part of the LJM termination.
Enron declined to answer questions Monday about the LJM entities, including those about their relationship with Enron or Fastow's role with them.
The day after Enron's third-quarter earnings release, the Wall Street Journal ran the first of three articles highlighting the LJM partnerships, Fastow and Enron.
The Journal's Friday report said LJM2 "realized millions of dollars in profits in transactions it did with Enron," and that


Service placed the company's debt on watch
for possible downgrade. The company's debt is rated at investment
grade by Fitch, Standard & Poor's and Moody's.

     The company received a faxed request for information from the
SEC on Wednesday asking for information, spokesman Mark Palmer
said, and will respond ``as soon as possible.''

     ``We will cooperate fully with the SEC and look forward to
the opportunity to put any concern about these transactions to
rest,'' Lay, who is also Enron's chairman, said in a statement.

                          Dilution Fears

     Enron has formed at least 18 companies to serve as financing
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) has sued Texas Gov. Rick Perry because he has called for a day of prayer and fasting on August 6. The event, sponsored by the American Family Association, will take place in Reliant Stadium – home of the NFL Texans – in Houston. (For more information, go to TheResponseUSA.com)

FFRF is trying to convince a judge to keep this event from happening at all. First, secular fundamentalists kicked prayer out of school. Now they are trying to kick it out of the public square altogether.

The folks at FFRF are like the Puritans of old, who were afraid that some people, somewhere, were enjoying themselves. The folks at FFRF are desperately afraid that someone, somewhere, is enjoying the free exercise of religion.

According to


may do in the realm of religious expression. The First Amendment ties only the hands of the federal government. Once again, this truth is hiding in plain sight. “CONGRESS shall make no law…” Congress was prohibited from picking one Christian denomination and making it the official church of the United States (the Establishment clause) and flatly prohibited from telling the church what to do (the Free Exercise clause).

In fact, the real separation in the First Amendment is not between church and state but between the federal government and the individual states. The federal government is stringently forbidden to extend its tyrannical little hand into the operation of religious liberty in the individual states. States have unfettered religious liberty under the Constitution, and can do whatever they and theirscene 5 min Wicked sweetie is taken up this one - anyone help me with the navy blue dress lying on her brand new amphitheatre for those people who love watching young skinny girl and used her in many of you are an online survey and sent her by slapping the side of her skin.

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occurs.

A storm system moving off the New England coast will begin to cause Igor to curve more to the north on Sunday, and then northeast early next week. Tropical storm-force winds have reached Bermuda this morning with hurricane conditions expected on Sunday afternoon and evening. Igor will also produce a dangerous storm surge and significant coastal flooding on Bermuda with large waves likely, especially along the south-facing shores. Rough surf and rip currents from Igor will even affect the East Coast of the United States and continue into early next week.

Meanwhile, Julia continues to weaken but remains a tropical storm as it tracks northward at 16 mph through the open waters of the Atlantic. As of 5:00 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Julia was centered near 33.6 north andanybody say tornadoes and mega-burst in New York)
Let he/she who has an "eye" see for them.........
Still watching!!!

After taking near dead aim on the island of Bermuda yesterday, Hurricane "Igor" is moving away headed north still holding a CAT 1 classification but is forecast to dissipate soon...

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Tue Sep 21, 2010 2:15 pm

"Igor" is still being classified as a hurricane maintaining CAT 1 status as it heads north at near 45 mph with most of its energy now passing over Newfoundland.

Still, nearer to the African coast is the seasons 12th named system "Lisa", presently just a tropical storm but it is also predicted to become a hurricane most likely by tomorrow afternoon. This system currently is not expected to become a threat as it faces


unfavorable conditions in its path, but it is too early to say for sure what it will do. Present Navy track maps are limiting projection to the central Atlantic but anticipate a northerly westward motion.

Out in the East Pacific the 7th named storm of that regions season has formed as well and has been named Tropical Storm "Georgette". It is forecast to move north along Baja then up into northwest Mexico. At this point there has been no report of any anticipated hurricane formation for this storm system, but reported storm warnings have been issued just the same.

Aside from "Georgette" in the East Pacific region moving north between Baja And Mexico maintaining tropical storm classification, and "Lisa" way off in the East Atlantic not presenting any eminent threatsat this point things are relatively mild for the moment.
There is apparently a low beginning to form in the Eastern Caribbean waters and expertís state if a system develops it will head toward Central America, still too early to call this one as well so we watch.....

All is calm for the moment, as even "Lisa" is now rated a tropical depression out in the East Atlantic facing unfavorable conditions for strong development in the near future...

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Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:04 pm

Another new system has qualified to officially receive a name, at number 13 for the season "Matthew" is presently a tropical storm that formed in the eastern Caribbean and is slated to impact areas of Central America, primarily over areas of Nicaragua and


damage in the form of twisted street signs and fallen tree branches.

As heavy bands of rain move north along the mid-Atlantic coast today, some thunderstorms will be embedded in the bands. There is a general twisting motion in the atmosphere today from eastern North Carolina northward into South Jersey with plenty of warm tropical moisture in place. These ingredients will work in tandem in these areas to produce gusty winds and even some tornadoes in the thunderstorms. There were several reports of tornadoes Wednesday in northeastern North Carolina, and this threat will continue to push northward along the mid-Atlantic coastline today.

Elsewhere in the Atlantic Basin, we are tracking two tropical waves across the central Atlantic. The first wave is around 600 miles east of the Windward Islands, movingthe storm is hundreds of miles away from the islands and headed to the northeast Atlantic.

"Otto" achieved hurricane status and is holding a CAT 1 classification for the moment as it heads toward the north Atlantic. Experts do not expect it to maintain organization much longer as it heads over cooler water and into atmospheric shear.

It is official, the seasons 16th named storm and now getting quickly up to speed as hurricane as well, cruising the Caribbean at a CAT 1 classification and showing signs of intensification is Hurricane "Paula". This storm is bringing heavy rains over Nicaragua and Honduras, western Cuba and according to expert reports could impact the eastern Yucatan with heavy rainfall as well before heading northeast toward potentially southern Florida. However; present Navy track


convection northeast of the actual center. If anything, shear will only increase over the next 24 to 48 hours as a deep upper-level trough is carved out over the eastern half of the United States. With an increasingly hostile environment developing over Paula, along with its close proximity to Cuba, a gradual weakening trend should continue today. Further weakening is expected Friday as Paula will be tracking either over Cuba or at least close to the shore of Cuba with strong wind shear remaining in place. Paula should weaken to a tropical storm later this morning, then further weaken to a tropical depression this weekend.

At this point, it looks like the impacts of Paula on Florida should be limited, with areas such as Tampa and Orlando getting nothingWASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The cost to U.S. taxpayers of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 has topped $1 trillion, and President Barack Obama is expected to request another $33 billion to fund more U.S. troops this year.

About two-thirds of the money has been spent on the conflict in Iraq since 2003. This year is the first in which more funds are being spent in Afghanistan than Iraq, as the pace of U.S. military operations slows in Iraq and quickens in Afghanistan.

HOW MUCH HAS BEEN SPENT ALREADY?

Congress has approved $1.075 trillion dollars for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and “war-related activities” since 2001, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. It included the costs in its budget outlook Tuesday.

The war expense topped $1 trillion


in December 2009, when U.S. lawmakers approved the fiscal 2010 defense spending bill that included about $130 billion to be spent on the two conflicts through Sept. 30, 2010.

The $1.075 trillion tally includes $51 billion for diplomatic activities and aid to Iraq, Afghanistan and various other countries that are assisting the United States in fighting terrorism, CBO said.

HOW MUCH WENT FOR IRAQ AND HOW MUCH FOR AFGHANISTAN?

The lion’s share of the spending -- $708 billion -- has been allocated to the war in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion there in 2003, according to CBO. Former President George Bush launched the Iraq war in a search for weapons of mass destruction, which never were found.

CBO said $345 billion has gone to Afghanistan, where the United States invaded to fightMore than 22,000 people came together in the late summer of 2002 in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development. According to *Using Indicators to Measure Progress on Children's Environmental Health: A Call to Action*, a report presented at the summit, 2 million children under the age of 15 perish due to acute respiratory infections each year, diarrheal diseases cause the deaths of just under another 2 million, and more than 1 million children succumb to malaria. The majority of these disease cases are attributable to poor environmental conditions. A number of significant commitments and initiatives were agreed upon during the summit in a bid to combat these figures. One of these was the Global Initiative on Children's Environmental Health Indicators, led by the


Image copyright Getty Images Image caption New York's Trump Tower skyscraper is part of the empire

Donald Trump's business empire has seen revenue jump by $190m (£135m) since the real estate tycoon entered the US presidential race, according to newly released financial documents.

His controversial calls for a Muslim travel ban and deporting millions of undocumented immigrants appear not to have harmed his business interests.

Several firms severed ties with Mr Trump when he launched his campaign.

The gains mostly came from book royalties and his golf courses.

His latest book, Crippled America, generated between $1m and $5m in royalties, Mr Trump reported.

Revenue nearly doubled at Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida from $16m to $30m. His bottled water line, Trump Ice, also saw growth.

He also appears to have benefited from the saleMILWAUKEE - Jonathan Lucroy hit a bases-loaded, two-run single, and the battered Milwaukee Brewers withstood the early exits of star outfielders Carlos Gomez and Ryan Braun to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 on Tuesday night. Gomez scored the second run on Lucroy's single in the third after getting hit by a changeup from Gerrit Cole (3-3). It was their first meeting since the teams brawled last month in Pittsburgh after Cole and Gomez exchanged words. No confrontations Tuesday, though Gomez did leave the game with lower back tightness.
Braun was activated from the disabled list earlier Tuesday following an oblique injury. There was no immediate word on why he left after the sixth. Marco Estrada (3-1) struck out eight in six innings. Francisco Rodriguez tossed a hitless ninth for


scene where we see them murder the EMTs for their ambulance and uniforms, maybe to steal their skins as well). Seeing them for what they are, she runs.
At some point, she runs into a man on a train (she was freighthopping to travel, as she knows the monsters are after her, and I think she's in trouble with the law) who claims to also see the monsters. She thinks that he's like her, but he reveals himself to be a psychopath who imagines his victims as monsters, I think by killing a human train official in front of her. She convinces him that she can give him powers to face the monsters and the final panel of one of the books was him leaping out at police, shoutingthat he knows what they are, implying that he gets gunned down.
The art style of the book does not make me think of DC or Marvel, nor Valiant. Maybe it was either Dark Horse or Image?

A:

This sounds like Route 666, published in the early 2000s by CrossGen.
The protagonist was named Cassie Heloise Starkweather, and the serial killer that she encountered was known as the Railsplitter.
In an early scene, the protagonist's school friend is caught under mechanical bleachers while they are folding away and crushed - I think it was this accident to which the monsters disguised as EMTs turned up.


tough lawman, the title could be named "Roemer: Bully against the mob." He took great joy in provoking the hoodlums and admitted that theWritten by a tough lawman, the title could be named "Roemer: Bully against the mob." He took great joy in provoking the hoodlums and admitted that the FBI conducted illegal surveillance of hoodlums.

The book is well-written and fascinating. It almost reads like a suspense thriller in some places. In sum, while the hero is difficult to support, the book is an enjoyable read. ...more

Roemer wrote two books about specific hoodlums. One of them he admired, the other he loathed. This book is about the later man. Roemer does not minceRoemer wrote two books about specific hoodlums. One of them he admired, the other he loathed.enforcement in both Italy and the United States. Consequently, the book is a good read for the current status of Italian organized crime (1980-2000); but prior to 1980 the data is largely uncited and loosely discussed....more

I thought this was a very dull book. However, it was meticulously researched and presented - hence the dullness. Few books on organized crime are writI thought this was a very dull book. However, it was meticulously researched and presented - hence the dullness. Few books on organized crime are written so professionally. Most bloggers can readily point out errors. Stille has very few detractors and hardly anyone criticizes the book and for good reason.

The book focuses largely on criminals in history and the Corleonese killings of high-profile politicos - hence the title.


There is some discussion of the bonds between mafiosi in Italy and the United States; but Stille focuses almost entirely on the political response to the assassinations....more

Like most books written by mob informants, a lot of Jimmy Fratianno's stories are debatable, meaning there is little evidence to support them, and litLike most books written by mob informants, a lot of Jimmy Fratianno's stories are debatable, meaning there is little evidence to support them, and little evidence to contradict them. He was honest about his participation in some mob executions.

The best parts about this book are the photos and description of the California underworld, something lacking for many years. Fratianno's memoirs are also the extent of public knowledge on the San Francisco-Bay Area underworld. ...more

One of the mainstays inthe genre of organized crime, it is a large book that says very little.

Author Gay Talese is talented in writting up oral histoOne of the mainstays in the genre of organized crime, it is a large book that says very little.

Author Gay Talese is talented in writting up oral histories. To this end, he explores the thoughts and emotions of Bill Bonanno as he sought to aide his father in running a Mafia family. However, from such an obviously biased source, the text carries some credibility issues.

Much of the book adds little or nothing to the autobiography of Joe Bonanno. Like "A Man od Honor," this book complains loudly of the injustices by law enforcement against the family. However, most outside observers can recognize that father and son


are leaving out considerable detail regarding their lives of crime. Furthermore, it is clear that Bill Bonanno was not respected by people within his father's family. His knowledge of events in the so-called Bannana War are marginal and at parts unbelieveable. ...more

This is a good, shortened version of the six or so volumes of FBI electronic surveillance of Sam DeCalvacante. The author does a good job at providingThis is a good, shortened version of the six or so volumes of FBI electronic surveillance of Sam DeCalvacante. The author does a good job at providing context for the excerpts. He adds very little interpretation, leaving it up for the reader.

The coverage of topics is also excellent. Most of the conversations were within the New Jersey Mafia Family. The authorshow how the family operated, and the responsibilities expected of different-ranking members within the family. The excerpts also show how the small family interacted with other Mafia families.

The parts about DeCalvacante acting as mediator in the Bananna Mafia War are also enlightening. They provide a different picture of the conflict than that provided by Joe and Bill Bonanno. ...more

Unfortunately, Morton has something of a monopoly on writing about organized crime in the UK. Unlike other authors, this one explores OC in British ciUnfortunately, Morton has something of a monopoly on writing about organized crime in the UK. Unlike other authors, this one explores OC in British cities other than London. However, the writing is so seemingly disorganized (much like the gangs themselves) that it is difficult to understand


and it shows....more

This is one of the few books discussing the rackets in Texas. It is a quick read and successfully introduces some wild characters; there is no largerThis is one of the few books discussing the rackets in Texas. It is a quick read and successfully introduces some wild characters; there is no larger discussion of the rackets in Texas as a whole, or even in northern Texas, the setting for the book. ...more

Mostly a picture book, there is a lot of discussion as well. It is a delightful introduction to organized crime from its beginnings to the 1960s. It iMostly a picture book, there is a lot of discussion as well. It is a delightful introduction to organized crime from its beginnings to the 1960s. Itis written with Messick's traditional style of novel data and no citations...more

The book details who is who on the various blackbooks. However, I found most of it to be a statistical analysis rather than a discussion of politics,The book details who is who on the various blackbooks. However, I found most of it to be a statistical analysis rather than a discussion of politics, crime, and law enforcement. ...more

This is one of the better books on the Chicago Mob. Demaris has a dry style of writing; but he uses some excellent sources. The appendix includes a whThis is one of the better books on the Chicago Mob. Demaris has a dry style of writing; but he uses some excellent sources. The appendix includes a who's who of the


mob with law enforcement intelligence regarding their activities, associates, and haunts. ...more

This remains one of the few scholarly books on organized crime in America. Nelli does a splendid job discussing Italian syndicates in many cities instThis remains one of the few scholarly books on organized crime in America. Nelli does a splendid job discussing Italian syndicates in many cities instead of looking at just New York or Chicago. ...more

This is one of Anastasia's worst books. Like most books reporting audio tapes of Mafia wiretaps, the book suffers from sufficient correlating analysisThis is one of Anastasia's worst books. Like most books reporting audio tapes of Mafia wiretaps, the book suffers from sufficient correlating analysis. Anastasia goes away from his normal analysis to allowing the reader to make their ownconclusions. However, it is nicely illustrated and quickly digested. ...more

This is one of the better books on organized crime. Volz went through the many volumes of the famous DeCalvacante Tapes and culled enough informationThis is one of the better books on organized crime. Volz went through the many volumes of the famous DeCalvacante Tapes and culled enough information to present an excellent view of organized crime in New York-New Jersey in the 1950s and 1960s. ...more

Written by a former policeman with an easy writing style. This is a good book that chronicles the downfall of the Cleveland Mafia. I am a little disapWritten by a former policeman with an easy writing style. This is a good book that chronicles the downfall of the Cleveland Mafia. I am a


This article is from the archive of our partner .

Update: The Washington Post provides further background information on Tom MacMaster, the man who has admitted to writing the blog. He is a 40 year-old American from Georgia, and he is currently working on his master’s degree at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He is on vacation in Turkey at the moment with his wife.

After a week of speculation, a man named "Tom MacMaster" has revealed himself to be the real person behind the popular Syrian-American blogger "Gay Girl in Damascus," in a post on the blog. He wrote that he "never expected this level of attention," and that "while the narrative voıce may have been fictional, the facts on thıs blog are true and not mısleading asto the situation on the ground." He added, "I do not believe that I have harmed anyone."

The blog 'Gay Girl in Damascus' advertised itself as being written by a Syrian-American woman named Amina Abdallah Araf, and attracted numerous readers and international attention for highlighting issues about being gay during the protest movement in Syria. But the attention intensified one week ago, after a blog post appeared by someone introducing herself as Araf's cousin, informing that the blogger was seized by three men while on her way to meet with protest organizers. A Facebook page sprouted up for Araf, including information about how to contact U.S. representatives from Virginia to facilitate her release.


Child safety seats of motor vehicles are well known. They normally comprise either a rear facing seat in which the infant's back is facing the direction of travel of the motor vehicle, or a forward facing seat. The rear facing seat is normally used for infants up to the age of six months, and the forward facing seat is used for infants older than six months.
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Before: BOGGS, GIBBONS, and COOK, Circuit Judges.

       JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge. In July 2010, Jeremy Edington went to a

Franklin County, Ohio restaurant to meet a person whom he believed to be a fourteen-year-old boy

he


engaged him in a sexually explicit conversation.

       On July 26, 2010, Edington contacted “Jake” again via instant message. Edington asked

“Jake” if he would meet him for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity. They arranged to meet

later that day at a Steak ‘n Shake near “Jake’s” fictitious home. Edington told “Jake” that he would

be driving a black car and would park behind the restaurant.

       Police set up surveillance in the area near the Steak ‘n Shake. At the scheduled time,

Edington arrived in a black Chevy Malibu and parked behind the restaurant, where he sat for several

minutes. Edington then drove in a loop around the restaurant, exited the parking lot, and went to a

gas station across thestreet, where an officer in a marked police cruiser stopped Edington at

Johnson’s request.

       Johnson approached Edington, identified himself as a police officer, and asked what

Edington was doing in the area. Edington admitted that he was there to see a boy whom he had met

online, but he said that he wanted to warn the boy that what he was doing was dangerous. Johnson

advised Edington of his Miranda rights, and Edington signed a waiver form. Edington then


 During the interview, which was recorded, Edington admitted that he posted the ad on

Craigslist, that he used the screen name “Leonard Vogel,” that he initiated the conversations with

“Jake,” and that he propositioned him for sex. Edington said that he had been downloading and

viewing child pornography since he was sixteen years old and that he had about forty such videos

on his computers. Edington explained how he searched for and downloaded pornography involving

young boys using the file-sharing program LimeWire.

       Edington was arrested on August 3, 2010. On June 30, 2011, a grand jury issued a

superseding indictment charging Edington with one count of coercion and enticement (Count One),

three counts of receipt of visual depictions (Counts Two, Three, and Four), and one count of

possession ofConstruction in a portion of the tunnel for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT was shut down over safety concerns Wednesday after a resident complained she saw three employees working on the project smoking marijuana, the Star has learned.

Metrolinx, the provincial transit agency in charge of the Crosstown, and Crosslinx, the private consortium delivering the $5.3-billion project, confirmed that a resident told a nearby parking enforcement officer that she saw three workers smoking marijuana near her house, which is close to an emergency exit at Eglinton Ave. East and Bayview Ave. that crews use to access the tunnel.

The resident claimed she saw the workers smoking pot Wednesday morning, and again around lunch time.

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According to Crosslinx spokesperson Kristin Jenkins, as soon as the site supervisor learned of the incident


has largely ceased to plant new congregations.

The new numbers do not factor in the departure of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, of which the church continues to report over 28,000 members and over 12,000 attendees, despite the majority of South Carolina congregations severing their relationship with the Episcopal Church at the end of 2012. If South Carolina departures were factored in, the membership loss would be closer to 50,000 persons’ (Walton 2014).

According to the World Christian Encyclopedia (David Barrett), worldwide “around 17 million people become church members each year through conversion, and some 7 million leave the church.” This leaves an annual net growth of approx. 10 million people. We would love to see more, but this is hard evidence against Spong’s death of theism (Long, 1998).

Thereare some other strong indicators that Jesus is alive and well and the church is growing. In the Ukraine, in the past three years, some 70 new house churches have been planted in Crimea, most in places previously without a church (Ukraine, 2001).

In the city of Xinjiang, China, there were 20-30 small churches with about 300 believers in 1994. Through courage, vision and the Lord’s direction, five couples have been used to enable rapid growth. Over a period of three years, the growth has been so strong that there are now almost 500 churches with about 100,000 members in four districts. This growth has so concerned the Government that it has infiltrated the churches, persecuted the believers, and gone on television, accusing the groups of being a cult


(China, 2001).

During the last 10 years of the “Decade of Harvest” among the Nigerian Assemblies of God in Africa, there has been extraordinary growth. The church has not only gained 1.2 million new members, but also ordained 5,026 new pastors and planted 4,044 new churches in Nigeria. The emphasis on reaching previously unreached people groups led to 75 churches being planted in areas previously untouched by Christianity (Nigeria, 2001).

The Pew Research Center has found this about Pentecostal and charismatic church growth in Nigeria:

The Forum’s 2006 pentecostal survey suggests that renewalists – including charismatics and pentecostals – account for approximately three-in-ten Nigerians. The survey also finds that roughly six-in-ten Protestants in Nigeria are either pentecostal or charismatic, and three-in-ten Nigerian Catholics surveyed can be classified as charismatic (Pew ResearchThe basilica was the common government building. And it was designed after Greek pagan temples” (p. 113). The centre of the building was the altar, considered the most holy place in the building and “it often contained the relics of the martyrs” (p. 114).

The church building had a major influence on worship. “The pomp and ritual of the imperial court was adopted into the Christian liturgy” (p. 115).

The clergy with special garb happened under Constantine. This was borrowed from the Greco-Roman world, thus aligning it with pagan culture.

During the fourth century, pagan religious ideas and practices were absorbed into Christianity. The clergy were elevated in function and the laity were gradually silenced in the church gathering.

At this time, there were changes in church architecture with the entrance of


and equipping is offered than the local church. In the New Testament church, as in the ministry of Jesus, people learned in the furnace of life, in a relational living, working and ministering context (p. 248).

a. Ministerial training

By contrast, “Modern ministerial training . . . [is] rational, objective, and abstract” (p. 248). Viola states that theological education has developed through four stages in the history of the church:

Episcopal in the patristic age (3rd-5th centuries) was training by bishops in how to perform the rituals and liturgies of the church.Monastic education was associated with the ascetic and mystical life, starting in the 3rd century. This involved the training of missionaries for “unchartered territories.” The Eastern church fathers mixed the Greek thought of philosophers, Plato and Aristotle, with the Christianfaith (many of the fathers of the faith were previously pagan philosophers and orators). They came with a concoction that historian, Will Durant, observed as “the gap between philosophy and religion was closing . . . The ideas and methods of philosophy had flowed in such mass into Christianity, and filled so large a place in it, as to have made it no less a philosophy than a religion” (in p. 251).

The Scholastic stage owes much to the culture of the university, the university of Bologna in Italy (13th century) being the first university, followed by the universities of Paris and Oxford. The term, “university,” comes “from the medieval Latin universitas which was a term used for the medieval craft guilds. . . The word ‘seminary’ comes from


at the Showgrounds, Bundaberg, Qld., Australia. Their love for Jesus was infectious and the three children responded to Christ’s invitation to salvation.

The Bible College is a 19th century phenomenon in North America, the first two Colleges being The Missionary Training Institute, now Nyack College, New York (1882) and Moody Bible Institute (Chicago) in 1886. However there was influence from London, England, pastors H. G. Guinness (1835-1910) and C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892). There are now over 400 Bible schools (“a minor league version of the seminary”) and colleges in the USA and Canada (p.258).

c. There is more . . .

1. Robert Raikes 91736-1811) from Great Britain established a school for poor children, but he “did not found the Sunday School for the purpose of religious instruction. Instead, he foundedit to each poor children the basics of education” (p. 260). The first actual Sunday School was in Virginia, America in 1785.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, many Sunday Schools operated separately from churches. The reason: Pastors felt that laymen could teach the Bible. D. L. Moody is credited with popularizing the Sunday School in America. . .
As a whole, the modern Sunday School is simply not an effective institution. . .
If the truth be told, most youngsters find Sunday School dry, boring, and irrelevant. Sunday School is a dinosaur that is overripe for extinction (pp. 261-262).

2. The youth pastor didn’t come to the fore until the 20th century, Calvary Baptist Church in Manhattan, NY, having one of the first youth pastors in the late 1930s.

d. What’s the


styled church” (p. 289). By this he means

a group of people who know how to experience Jesus Christ and express Him in a meeting without any human officiation. I am talking about a group of people who can function together as a Body when they are left on their own after the church planter leaves them.

The man who plants a first-century styled church leaves that church without a pastor, elders, a music leader, a Bible facilitator, or a Bible teacher. If that church is planted well, those believers will know how to touch the living, breathing Headship of Jesus Christ in a meeting. They will know how to let Him invisibly lead their gatherings. They will bring their own songs, they will write their own songs, they willat Nazareth (Lk. 4:16ff.). After the reading of the Scripture portion (Is. 61:1f.), which took place standing, Jesus seated Himself like other expositors of the time and based His address on the passage just read (Lk. 4:21 ff.). . . The same practice of sitting to teach is mentioned by Mt. 5:1 at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount by Mk. In 9:35 when Jesus gave instruction to the twelve on the occasion of their quarrelling for supremacy (Kittel, 1964, p. 139).

The teaching of early Christianity followed the external forms of Jewish teaching [see Acts 5:25]. . . Acceptance of the form denotes similarity of content. That is to say, the teaching consisted primarily in exegesis and exhortation rather than factual instruction in the work of


doing a cut-and-paste (something which he detests) on the historical material that he associates with the pagan influence on church traditions. Has he found areas of legitimate concern in present church practice (e.g. the silence of everyday believers when the church gathers, the failure to acknowledge the Headship of Christ in the church meeting and the non-biblical CEO pastor) and pressed the point to arrive at his own presuppositional conclusions? This may not be the case. I would have to do more research on the individual areas he has raised, where the church has adopted pagan practices, to conclude if his concerns are authentic or biased towards his predisposed views.

His use of secondary sources is a worry. When quoting early church fathers such as Cyprian, Chrysostom, Ignatius, Augustinehouse churches, speaks at church-life conferences, and authors books on Christ and His church.” Elsewhere, we learn that

Frank Viola left the institutional church at the age of 23. For the next eight years he experienced church life in a first-century styled house church in Tampa, Florida. Following this intense experience, he was sent out by the church to plant first-century styled churches in other areas. Frank presently co-works with Gene Edwards and is involved with five other men in Gene’s 3-year training (“Seedsowers” 2003).

His latest books are: So You Want to Start a House Church and Straight Talk to Elders (Present Testimony Ministry, 2003). Samples from his books, including Pagan Christianity, were found at: http://www.ptmin.org/articles.htm (cited, 12th November 2003).

Endnotes:

On 7 July 2015, the book in a revised edition


It has to do both with what he said (the content itself) and why he said it at any given point (the literary context). Furthermore, exegesis is primarily concerned with intentionality: What did the author intend his original readers to understand? (Fee, 1983, p. 27)

Works consulted

William F. Arndt and F. Wilbur Gingrich (transl. of Walter Bauer), A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (limited edition to Zondervan Publishing House), 1957.

Colin Brown (gen. ed.), The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology (vol. 2). Exeter: The Paternoster Press, 1976.

Colin Brown (gen. ed.), The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology (vol. 3). Exeter: The Paternoster Press, 1978.

A review of Os Guinness, Prophetic Untimeliness

By Spencer D Gear

A Christian friendClaude Nicholson (rugby league)

Claude Hubert "Tod" Nicholson (1892-1951) was a rugby league  footballer in  the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) Competition.

Nicholson, known as Tod, played for the Eastern Suburbs side in the 1913 season, the year the club won its third successive premiership. He is recognised as the 'Tricolours' 69th player. In 1914 he enlisted in the armed services and serviced with the 14th field ambulance corp at 2 AGH (Australian ground hospital) Boulogne, France.

Tod Nicholson died at the Concord Repatriation General Hospital on the 12 March 1951.

References

External links
The Encyclopedia Of Rugby League; Alan Whiticker & Glen Hudson

Category:Australian rugby league players
Category:Sydney Roosters players
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Category:1951 deaths
Category:Place of birth missing


ByAnna Mulrine, Staff writerMarch 23, 2012

This Aug 2011, photo provided by the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System, shows Sgt. Robert Bales taking part in exercises at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif. Bales has been charged with premeditated murder of 17 people in southern Afghanistan.

If Bales is convicted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the penalties he could face include dishonorable discharge, reduction to the lowest enlisted grade, total forfeiture of pay and allowances, and death. The death penalty has not been used in the US military since 1961.

Bales will now face something akin to a civilian grand jury proceeding, known as an Article 32 hearing, to be presided over by a military judge.

John Henry Browne, Bales’s Seattle-based lawyer, is widely expected to buildDonald Trump faced the wrath of Chrissy Teigen after he referred to her as John Legend's "filthy mouthed wife" in his latest Twitter rant.

The president shared a message in a series of tweets about his impact on criminal justice reform and frustration that he's not getting the thanks he thinks he deserves.

The full message reads:

"When all of the people pushing so hard for Criminal Justice Reform were unable to come even close to getting it done, they came to me as a group and asked for my help. I got it done with a group of Senators & others who would never have gone for it. Obama couldn't come close...." he wrote at the start of a series of tweets. "A man named @VanJones68 and many others, were


such service, was separated under honorable conditions'.  It is thus apparent that Sec. 724a was intended to cover service during World War I or II, while Sec. 724 covers military service in time of peace, as well as in time of war.

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As petitioner was inducted into the Army on May 17, 1946, and thereafter served continuously until the present time (he was honorably discharged May 16, 1949, at the end of three years service, and reenlisted May 17, 1949), it is apparent that so far as period of service is concerned he comes within both sections.

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The question which petitioner raises on this appeal arises out of the somewhat similar provisions of these two sections which dispense with certain requirements which apply in the ordinary naturalization proceeding. records shall be accepted in lieu of affidavits and testimony or depositions of witnesses.'  Sec. 724a contains similar provisions.2

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Petitioner contends that since all that is required of him by Sec. 724 is his record of service under honorable conditions, that this is conclusive.  And, further, that since the three year military service is substituted for the ordinary five year residence requirement, the court could not properly go into his conduct or character prior to such military service.

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The facts upon which the court acted, and which make necessary an examination of the questions thus raised by petitioner, are not in dispute.  In 1941 he arrived in the United States representing himself to be a citizen by reason of birth here.  Before a Board of Special


Inquiry, in that year, he swore falsely that he was born in San Francisco in 1912, and supported the claim with documents he knew were forged.  He was released under bond as war conditions prevented his deportation.  In 1942 he stated in his Selective Service questionnaire that he was born in San Francisco.  In 1945 he was found guilty of violating the Selective Training and Service Act, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, 301 et seq., in failing to notify his draft board of a change of status (he had previously received an occupational deferment), and he was sentenced to six months imprisonment.3

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It does not appear from the record that he was guilty of any conduct indicating lack of good moral character after the date of his induction inwere advised, by reply, of petitioner's status, and were asked if he was to be discharged.  The army reply was that regulations made no provision for such a discharge and that none was contemplated.  Under Army Regulations 615-500, August 10, 1944, aliens could be inducted into the army

5
 As provided in Tit. 8, Sec. 707

6
 Where a petitioner's service has not been continuous, it is provided otherwise by subdivision (c) of Sec. 724, as follows: 'In case such petitioner's service was not continuous, petitioner's residence in the United States and State, good moral character, attachment to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and favorable disposition toward the good order and happiness of the United States, during any period within five years immediately preceding


of the Haida, whose ancestors watched over the land for more than 12,000 years. But like many parts of Canada, Gwaii Haanas is under siege by a non-native creature: deer. Between 1878 and 1925, European settlers introduced 39 Sitka black-tailed deer to Haida Gwaii, then called the Queen Charlotte Islands, for hunting and amusement. Throughout the 1900s, the animals and their offspring slowly migrated into Gwaii Haanas.

The ungulates procreated uncontrolled for decades; the lack of predators like wolves and cougars on the archipelago, along with its mild winters, allowed the animals to forage regardless of season. Their presence left the national park reeling from a sharp decline in vegetation and other wildlife. Finally, in 2017, Parks Canada and the Haida Nation embarked on a mission to end theproblem, and it may prove a model for other places across Canada where deer continue to plague ecosystems.

The project, called Llgaay gwii sdiihlda (restoring balance), is more methodical than its holistic-sounding label implies: a large-scale hunt on six different islands involving contract sharpshooters from New Zealand who use helicopters, boats and tracking dogs. The cost to Ottawa: $3.1 million.

Judson Brown, a firearms instructor at the park and a member of the Haida Nation, was apprehensive about the project at first. “Shooting deer for the sake of shooting deer was a very hard concept to grasp at the beginning, because I’m a sustenance hunter,” he says. It was only after he visited a deer-free island that he understood. He noticed the moisture. He could smell the flowers and hear


Gyrase . DNA complexes visualized as looped structures by electron microscopy.
Gyrase bound to duplex DNA in the absence of ATP is seen by electron microscopy as a nearly spherical particle frequently located at the intersection of two duplex DNA strands. Such looped structures with gyrase situated at the base of the loops are observed with both linear and circular DNA substrates, and two or three individual DNA molecules bound to the same protein are also seen at high DNA concentrations. Addition of the nonhydrolyzable beta,gamma-imido analog of ATP to the gyrase . DNA reaction mixture prior to sample fixation for microscopy reduces the frequency of gyrase molecules found at DNA intersections. Looped structures similar to those of the gyrase . DNA complex are also seen with the complexTHE SIGN ON THE 210 FWY EASTBOUND AT LONEHILL BLVD THAT WAS DESTROYED BY AN ACCIDENT IN EARLY 2007, HAS BEEN REPLACED ALTHOUGH ITS MISSING THE AMERICAN FLAG THAT IT HAD BEFORE.

The interchange with Route 57 (i.e., the former Route 30/Route 210 interchange) is named the "Police Officer Louie Pompei Memorial Interchange".

Named by Senate Concurrent Resolution 64, Chapter 105, on August 8, 2002. Surprisingly, the resolution refers to the Route 30/Route 210 interchange, even thought at the time of passage, Route 30 no longer existed. I guess the legislative analyst missed finding that error.

Below is the full text of the Senate Resolution.

This sign is located along the 210 West Bound at the Lone Hill On Ramp in Glendora

BILL NUMBER: SCR 64 CHAPTEREDBILL TEXT

RESOLUTION CHAPTER 105FILED WITH SECRETARY OF


STATE AUGUST 8, 2002ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 30, 2002ADOPTED IN SENATE APRIL 11, 2002

SCR 64, Margett. Police Officer Louie Pompei MemorialInterchange. This measure would name the interchange of State Highway Route 30and Interstate Highway Route 210 as the Police Officer Louie PompeiMemorial Interchange. The measure also would request the Departmentof Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate plaques andmarkers showing the special designation and, upon receiving donationsfrom nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost, to erectappropriate plaques and markers.

WHEREAS, Louis A. Pompei, or "Louie" as friends knew him, was bornon August 4, 1964, in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, and was raised inthe Mahanoy area of Pennsylvania where he graduated from high schoolin 1982; and WHEREAS, Officer Pompei graduated from Mansfield University,Pennsylvania, in 1986 with a bachelor of arts degree inCriminalJustice Administration; and WHEREAS, Officer Pompei was hired as a Police Officer trainee bythe Glendora Police Department on October 12, 1987, graduated fromthe Los Angeles County Sheriff's Academy on March 4, 1988, and workedin the Patrol Division of the Glendora Police Department from 1988to 1992 where he developed an enthusiasm for working narcotics cases;and WHEREAS, Officer Pompei worked as a narcotics investigator in theDetective Division of the Glendora Police Department from 1992 to1995; and WHEREAS, Officer Pompei was assigned to a position with L.A.IMPACT, a major crimes multijurisdictional task force, composed ofofficers from agencies throughout the county, primarily dedicated toinvestigating major drug suppliers through southern California; and WHEREAS, Officer Pompei was a physical fitness buff, and bodybuilder, who earned a silver medal in the bodybuilding competition ofthe 1994


California Police Olympics, and who was a runner on theGlendora-Monrovia-Arcadia Police relay team, which annually competesin the Baker to Vegas 120-mile Challenge Cup relay race; and WHEREAS, People who knew him remember Officer Pompei for his loveof life, contagious enthusiasm, positive and outgoing attitude, andgenerous, helpful, and dependable personality; and WHEREAS, Officer Pompei made the ultimate sacrifice whileprotecting and serving the people of California on Friday, June 9,1995; and WHEREAS, On that date, while off duty in a Vons Market in ViaVerde, Officer Pompei attempted to stop an armed robbery takeover inwhich a box boy was being pistol whipped; and WHEREAS, While trying to stop the armed robbery, Officer Pompeidied in a fire fight, loyal to the Law Enforcement Code of Ethicswhich states in pertinent part, "As alaw enforcement officer, myfundamental duty is to serve mankind; safeguard lives and property;to protect the innocent against deception, the weak againstoppression or intimidation and the peaceful against violence ordisorder"; and WHEREAS, Officer Pompei died as he had lived, as a hero upholdingthe ideal of protecting those who could not protect themselves; and WHEREAS, Officer Pompei's coworkers, friends, and family deeplyfeel his loss and will never forget his love of life and hisenthusiasm for his profession; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assemblythereof concurring, That the interchange where State Highway Route 30connects with Interstate Highway Route 210 be officially named thePolice Officer Louie Pompei Memorial Interchange; and be it further Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested todetermine the cost


Stephens: Fired from CSU, skydiving football coach 'bounced' back

TUCSON, Ariz. — Mike Lude was never supposed to coach football at Colorado State.

The school he was hired at was the University of Denver. But it’s hard to coach football somewhere that doesn’t field a team.

It was Jan. 8, 1961, and Lude had spent the previous decade as the offensive line coach at Delaware and the two years prior at Maine, where he invented the Wing-T. He was looking for an opportunity to become a head football coach for the first time since his time in the Marine Corps. Denver athletic director Tad Wieman called him asking if he’d like a job. Lude accepted.

His employment lasted 12 hours.

The next day, Wieman called Lude with bad news. Denver’s board of trusteesunanimously voted overnight to disband the football program.

Lude returned to Delaware for a season where he was earning a salary of $19,000 before his next opportunity arose. CSU athletic director Bob Davis had just fired coach Tuffy Mullison after 16 consecutive losses and needed someone to stop the bleeding. He leaned on Wieman for suggestions.

“Call Mike Lude in Delaware.”

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Bowl win would set Bobo apart at CSU

Sitting at a Waffle House in Southern Arizona, Lude, 93, recalls the past 70 years of his life as a coach and athletic director more vividly than he does checking skydiving off his bucket list two weeks ago. Over three cups of coffee – black – four Cokes and a T-bone steak chew toy, he apologizes for talking


he’d never stop fighting. He was going to find a way to succeed.

He built his own football weight room and was the underlying reason Hughes Stadium was built, successfully arguing he couldn’t recruit quality prospects when most high school facilities were nicer than Colorado Field.

Lude had one winning season at CSU, 1966 (7-3), when the Rams ran the (in)famous bounce-pass play that spoiled Wyoming’s chance of perfection. There were no bowl games. No plaque for him in the school’s hall of fame. He was fired by Perry Moore in 1969 after a 4-6 season, losing four of those games by an average of two points. He still can’t believe it, but in the wake of his termination, he became a legendary athletic director.

Former CSU coach Mike Lude breakshad in eight years in Fort Collins would have used: Put the most money into football and let it carry the rest of the sports.

Apparently trickle-down economics does work.

Washington went to five Rose Bowls under coach Don James — who Lude first hired at Kent State — while he was athletic director, with the other varsity sports in Seattle claiming more than 50 conference championships.

BASKETBALL: CSU wraps up nonconference play vs. Regis

Lude can count on one hand the CSU games he’s attended since being knocked from his coaching post in 1969. He and his wife moved to Tucson 20 years ago (ironic, since for three years, his vote was the one stonewalling Arizona and Arizona State from joining the Pac-10), but they won’t be able to attend Tuesday’s


Russell Westbrook Dons Exclusive Jordans for "GQ" Story

An impressive Air Jordan 3 "OKC" for Westbrook.

Few Jordan Brand athletes have more juice with the player exclusives at the moment than Russell Westbrook. The OKC Thunder All-Star proved how deep his PE Jordan collection is again on Monday with the reveal of his GQ cover story, which had him wearing a special Air Jordan 3.

The sneaker comes in home Oklahoma City colors, with blue on the eyelets, heel, and midsole and orange on the outsole, tongue logo, and lining.

SOLECOLLECTOR participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means SOLECOLLECTOR gets paid commissions on purchases made through our links to retailer sites. Our editorial content is not influenced by any commissions we receive.jail in Sanford. ... The Sheriff's Office, in a short news release, reported that the agency had arrested Zimmerman after being called to a disturbance on Topfield Court in western Seminole County near Apopka about 1 p.m. Photos: Orange County jail mug shots Zimmerman's new girlfriend, 27-year-old Samantha Scheibe, lives in the 1300 block of Topfield Court, according to an unrelated Lake Mary police report."

Refresher: The arrest isn't Zimmerman's first brush with the law since he was acquitted this summer on all counts after shooting and killing Trayvon Martin. In September, he and his estranged wife were involved in a domestic dispute only days after she filed divorce papers. Zimmerman was briefly taken into police custody at the scene, but was never actually arrested (despite initial reports suggesting


slash Ford's office budget and move his staff beyond his control. Ford went on AM640 Monday morning and told host John Oakley he was 'dying' for the next election."

Cleaning Up After the Storms: Chicago Tribune: "The scale of Sunday's deadly storms became clearer this morning: Six people dead in Illinois, hundreds of homes flattened and splintered, 81 tornadoes reported through the Midwest, 358 reports of damaging winds, 40 reports of large hail. Since 1986, there have been 194 tornado warnings issued in the month of November in Illinois: More than half of them, 101, were issued Sunday, according to the Chicago Weather Center... Hardest hit was Washington, a town of 15,000 people east of Peoria hit by an EF-4 tornado packing winds of 170 to 190 mph. WholeThe present disclosure relates to a process mechanism for producing alkylaromatics, especially monoalkylaromatic compounds, for example ethylbenzene, cumene and sec-butylbenzene.
The alkylaromatic compounds ethylbenzene and cumene, for example, are valuable commodity chemicals which are used industrially for the production of styrene monomer and coproduction of phenol and acetone respectively. In fact, a common route for the production of phenol comprises a process which involves alkylation of benzene with propylene to produce cumene, followed by oxidation of the cumene to the corresponding hydroperoxide, and then cleavage of the hydroperoxide to produce equal molar amounts of phenol and acetone. Ethylbenzene may be produced by a number of different chemical processes. One process which has achieved a significant degree of commercial success is the vapor phase alkylation of benzene with ethylene in


from the shelter in the event that the hatch dome cover is blocked by debris. An air inlet is preferably disposed through the main manway wall, and at least one vent opening is disposed through the hatch ring relative to the air inlet and dimensioned such that air is allowed to enter the air inlet and rain is prevented from entering the air inlet. The preferred entranceway also includes a HEPA air filter and a septic tank, disposed within an air filter compartment and septic compartment respectively. These compartments are preferably located exterior to the manway such that each may be accessed by a shelterist within the manway.
The disaster shelter includes an entranceway, a substantially hollow shelter cell, and a seismic joint joining the entranceway and the shelterchildren is in controversy and that good cause has been shown necessitating psychological examinations, he may order independent examinations by appropriate professionals.
The petition for writ of certiorari is GRANTED and the order is QUASHED, without prejudice to the husband's right to seek a new order pursuant to the rule.
BOOTH, BARFIELD and ALLEN, JJ., concur.
NOTES
[1]  The settlement agreement provided for shared parental responsibility with the wife designated as residential custodian, subject to the husband's "liberal and reasonable" rights of visitation. The agreement contained no provision restricting relocation of the children to another jurisdiction. After being informed that the wife intended to relocate to New York, the husband filed a petition to enforce the judgment, asserting that the unilateral decision to move the children to New York violated the


It has been two months since Quadriga founder and CEO Gerald Cotten died and took the keys to his crypto exchange's cold-storage wallets to the grave (at least, that's the official version of events relayed by the company and Cotten's widow to a bankruptcy court in Canada, where Quadriga is seeking protection from a flurry of customer lawsuits). And as a growing number of analysts and amateur sleuths call bs on the company's narrative - leading some to wonder whether Cotten might have faked his own death in a foreign land and run off with $150 million of his clients' money - the first stories of people who lost their entire life savings in the imbroglio are beginning to emerge.

Enter Tong Zou, a 30-year-old Canadian software engineer whohad been working in Silicon Valley for the past seven years as a software engineer. After deciding to move to Vancouver last year, he decided he'd try and save a few bucks on transfer fees when converting his USD life savings into Canadian dollars. To accomplish this, he first converted his money into crypto on Quadriga's platform, then traded it for the Canadian dollar equivalent and tried to transfer the proceeds to his Canadian bank account.

Tong Zou

What happened next is pretty much the definition of "wrong place, wrong time."

Suffice it to say, around this time, Quadriga ran into the "liquidity issues" that are the subject of its current bankruptcy filing. As a result, Zou's transfer has been pending for months.

He believes he won't ever see the money -


Pit

Pit or PIT may refer to:

Structure

 Ball pit, a recreation structure
 Casino pit, the part of a casino which holds gaming tables
 Trapping pit, pits used for hunting
 Pit, an area of a racetrack where pit stops are conducted
 Pit, a part of a trading floor where open outcry takes place
 Pit cave, a natural cave containing a vertical shaft
 Open-pit mine, surface extraction of rock or minerals
 Coal mine, also known as a pit in parts of Australia

Science and technology
 Pit, an excavation in metal caused by pitting corrosion
 Pit, a seed inside a fruit; for example a cherry pit
 Pit (nuclear weapon), the core of an implosion weapon
 Powered industrial truck
 Programmable interval timer, a computing device
 Pulsed inductive thruster, a device used in spacecraftwhiskey was sold or stored for sale in the property at 112 West Chilhowie Avenue, Johnson City, Tennessee, on November 20th, 1961 or November 22, 1961; was the general reputation of said property that it was a place used for bootlegging on November 22, 1961; and did the plaintiff-in-error, defendant, on November 20th, 1961 and on November 22nd, 1961 sell intoxicating whiskey or possess intoxicating whiskey for sale in Washington County, Tennessee; and finally did the defendant order an employee or agent to destroy intoxicating liquor in Washington County, Tennessee on either November 20th, 1961 or November 22nd, 1961.
To all of the foregoing questions submitted to the jury under a proper charge of the Court, it answered in the affirmative and there is ample evidence in the record


warrant and the evidence obtained pursuant thereto because the same was returned to the City Judge of Johnson City rather than to the Judge of the General Sessions Court and because the notation of the return was made more than five days after the warrant was issued, the State has this to say in its brief:
"The testimony of Officer Musick indicates that a preliminary hearing was held before the City Judge of Johnson City on November 27, 1961, which was the fifth day after the warrant was issued and executed. The premises searched were located within the limits of Johnson City. The record does not disclose the jurisdiction of the City Judge; neither does it show that Defendant raised any question as to the authority of this officialwas engaged in a lawful act and was doing that which the law justified him in doing. The stolen articles were legally recovered as a result of said search. It would be an anomaly for us to hold that the mere failure of the officer to make his return upon the search warrant would relate back and make unlawful that which the law says was lawful at the time the search was being made and the goods were being recovered. We are unwilling to hold that the failure to make a return on the search warrant invalidates the search and makes the testimony incompetent as to the articles recovered by the search. This is neither good law nor logical reasoning."
Searches, Seizures and Immunities, Varon (Bobbs-Merrill, 1961), under Section


the grant of defendant's motion for j.n.o.v./new trial.  We affirm the directed verdict for the University on the disparate impact theory.  On the disparate treatment theory, we vacate j.n.o.v. for the University but affirm the district court's grant of new trial.

I. BACKGROUND

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The University is a small state institution of higher education.  The plaintiffs MacPherson and Narz are full-time associate professors of its College of Business.2   MacPherson--who was born in 1937 and has a doctorate in marketing--started teaching at the University in 1973 as an assistant professor, was tenured in 1978, and was promoted to associate professor in 1981.  Narz--who was born in 1936, has an undergraduate degree in accounting, is a Certified Public Accountant, and has a J.D. degree--started teaching at theUniversity in 1978 as an associate professor;  he is a professor of business law but has also taught accounting and taxation.3   With the exception of one professor hired after the start of this litigation, plaintiffs are the oldest faculty members of the College of Business.  They are also the longest-serving members of the faculty.4   Nevertheless, MacPherson and Narz are the lowest paid members of the College of Business faculty, with the exception of an assistant professor who holds only an MBA (which is not considered a terminal degree) and an assistant professor who was hired in 1988 and does not have a Ph.D.

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In 1979, Dr. William Word was hired as the Dean of the College of Business with a mandate from the


University to obtain accreditation for the College of Business by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business ("A.A.C.S.B.").5   His evaluation of the College of Business led to the conclusion that, to obtain accreditation, the University would need--among other things--to hire doctorally qualified6 professors in accounting, finance, and management.7   Since his appointment as dean, Word has hired 25 new faculty members, 17 under the age of 40 and 8 over the age of 40, for the purpose of achieving accreditation.  According to defendant, this was necessary to obtain a sufficient number of doctorally qualified professors in the various business school fields and to obtain professors who are researchers and publishers of articles.8

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A faculty member's compensation at the University is determined by the levelhas been left blank.

Kelly was released on Saturday, three days after a judge ordered that he be taken into custody when he was unable to come up with the entire amount he owed.

Two weeks ago, when he was charged with aggravated sexual abuse, he was taken to jail and remained there for a weekend until a 47-year-old suburban Chicago business owner posted his $100,000 bail.

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2:30 p.m.

R. Kelly's lawyer says he's still waiting for prosecutors to provide him with evidence that led them to charge the R&B singer with aggravated sexual abuse.

At the jail where Kelly was released on Saturday after $161,000 was posted in back child support, Steve Greenberg says there have been so many wild statements about the allegations but, "We haven't seen one piece of evidence."

Greenberg


abuse pertaining to three girls and one woman. He has denied wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Kelly spent a weekend in jail after his arrest last month and wasn't freed until a 47-year-old suburban Chicago business owner posted his $100,000 bail. At the time, his defense attorney said Kelly's finances were "a mess."

Kelly told "CBS This Morning" during an interview this past week that people had stolen money from his bank accounts. He offered no details.

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11:30 a.m.

R&B singer R. Kelly is set to be released from a Chicago jail.

Cook County sheriff's spokeswoman Sophia Ansari says Kelly will be released Saturday after someone paid $161,000 in back child support for him. She did not know who made the payment.

It came three days after a judge ordered KellyNBA Rumors: Rick Pitino Quits Greek Team, Eyes NBA Return

Rick Pitino is one of the greatest coaches in the history of college basketball, having won championships with both Kentucky and Louisville. His record in the NBA is considerably less sterling, having failed to reach a similar level of success in stints with the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics.

But now, the 66-year-old coach is planning to attempt another crack at the NBA and has even quit his current job to do it.

Per ESPN, Pitino has turned down an offer to return to Panathinaikos, the Greek club team that he led to a championship this year, because he “wants to return to the full-time pursuit of a job in the NBA.”

Pitino, the story by Adrian Wojnarowski said, is open


Springfield police: Man badly hurt, tied up in closet in dispute over rent

11:28 AM,
Mar. 21, 2014

Written by

Stephen Herzog
SHERZOG@NEWS-LEADER.COM

Police say a dispute over rent led to a roommate being assaulted, tied up in a closet, released and threatened not to go to police, then left on the street to call for an ambulance.

According to a probable cause statement, Zachary Wells called his roommate on March 11 to confront her about money owed for rent at which time the woman's "paramour," later identified as Matthew Borg, threatened him.

Wells said he obtained a large flashlight to protect himself if Borg came to the residence. ...the Congo, by the Congolese National Army and various armed rebel groups, including the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda. The profits from the sale of these minerals finance continued fighting in the Second Congo War, and control of lucrative mines becomes a focus of the fighting as well.
ODC (Ozone Depleting Chemicals) – The list of substances banned by EPA used to describe various chemicals that deplete the ozone layer of our atmosphere.
PFOS – “Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid or perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), is a man-made fluorosurfactant. Fluorosurfactants, or fluorinated surfactants, are synthetic organofluorine chemical compounds that have multiple fluorine atoms. They can be polyfluorinated or fluorocarbon-based (perfluorinated). As surfactants, they are more effective at lowering the surface tension of water than comparable hydrocarbon surfactants.


procedures have been devised for treating occluded blood vessels to allow blood to flow without obstruction. Such procedures usually involve the percutaneous introduction of an interventional device into the lumen of the artery, usually by a catheter. One widely known and medically accepted procedure is balloon angioplasty in which an inflatable balloon is introduced within the stenosed region of the blood vessel to dilate the occluded vessel. The balloon dilatation catheter is initially inserted into the patient's arterial system and is advanced and manipulated into the area of stenosis in the artery. The balloon is inflated to compress the plaque and press the vessel wall radially outward to increase the diameter of the blood vessel, resulting in increased blood flow. The balloon is then deflated to a smallA series of bombs and gunfire attacks across Iraq on Sunday left some 52 people dead and more than 200 others injured, in what appeared to be an attempt by insurgent groups to destabilise the country and undermine confidence in the Iraqi government.The deadliest attack in the day occurred near the city of Amara, some 365 km south of Baghdad, when two car bombs exploded at a marketplace in the town near the shrine of Shiite Imam Ali Al Sharqi, killing 18 people and injuring some 70 others, reported Xinhua.Earlier, a suicide car bomber struck a crowd of recruits at the compound of state-owned Northern Oil Company (NOC) near the city of Kirkuk, killing up to eight recruits and injuring 30 others.The victims were signing up for the


Iraqi Facilities Protection Service (FPS), a paramilitary force tasked with site protection of government facilities.Also in Kirkuk, a car bomb and a roadside bomb went off in succession before midday near Kirkuk University and a central marketplace, killing seven people and injuring some 50 others.The ethnically mixed province of Kirkuk and its capital Kirkuk City, some 250 km north of Baghdad, are part of the disputed areas between the Kurds and both Arabs and Turkmen.In southern Iraq, two roadside bombs went off almost simultaneously close to the French consulate in Nassriyah, some 375 km south of Baghdad, killing four people and injuring six.Separately, a car bomb went off at a busy marketplace in the Al Qiblah district in central Basra, some 550 km south of Baghdad, killing atleast two people and injuring eight others.In northern Iraq, a booby-trapped car parked outside the office of the Iraqi Turkman Front in the town of Tal Afar, some 70 km west of Nineveh's provincial capital city of Mosul, blew up, killing two people and injuring seven.In Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, seven people were injured in a car bomb explosion in Bab-Sinjar district.Meanwhile, a police chief and his bodyguard were killed and two policemen injured when a roadside bomb went off near their convoy of police vehicles in Ishaqi area, some 90 km north of Baghdad.The police chief was checking the site of a car bomb that was defused earlier by his force at the scene.Three more car bombs and a roadside bombs separately exploded in


cities of Sulaiman Pek, Tuz-Khurmato and Al Riyadh, north of Baghdad, killing a total of three people and injuring 18 others.Three soldiers were shot dead when gunmen attacked their checkpoint in Abu Ghraib area, some 20 km west of Baghdad. Security forces chased the attackers, killing two of them and capturing a third.In a separate incident, three car bombs went off almost simultaneously in different places in Taji area, just north of Baghdad, killing a civilian and injuring seven others.In addition, a string of sporadic attacks on Sunday wounded 16 people in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, which stretches from the eastern edges of Baghdad to the Iranian border east of the country.Observers see that Sunday's attacks are part of an attempt by insurgent groups, including Al Qaeda,got to be willing to kiss a few frogs.”

Probably the worst part of it all, was that none of them appreciated the intrinsic irony of the statement.

The loneliness of Christmas descended on her chest with leaden weight. It rolled with her through the sleepless night. Her only comfort as she tossed and turned for hours in the queen sized brass bed was the familiar warm weight of Stan beside her. Seemingly undisturbed by her restlessness, he buzzed quietly in his sleep, occasionally twitching his whiskers, or extending his claws at some dream mouse, or phantom cricket. Her friend Joanna repeatedly called her the crazy lady with the cat, but if truth be told, it was Stan who kept her sane, who lasted through the frustrating relationships and the


all too frequent break ups. At the end of a frustrating, lonely day, she knew that she didn’t have to come home to an empty house, and that, alone, was enough.

It had to be. It was all she had.Frog 1
Part A – “the Wooing”

Capable, practical, blue collar Joey Dreus. He had been introduced that way so often he was thinking of putting it on his business cards. Currently his cards read “Joey Dreus, a quality plumber with a sturdy belt” but it hadn’t drawn as many laughs as he anticipated, and it had certainly done nothing to attract business. His business was, no pun intended, in the toilet, and about to be flushed down.

In frustration, and with trembling fingers he was about to call the local elementary schoolfavor, and put your current jobs on hold?”

It was a real effort to stem the tidal wave of sarcasm that threaten to flood his response, but he managed it.

“Uh, yeah. I can probably shuffle a few things. Give me the address, I’ll be there within the hour.”

He arrived in twenty-five minutes, after circling the block three times so as not to appear too desperate for work. From the street he could see where at least part of the problems began. The building had been built during the second world war, and judging by the layers of paint flaking from the brick, the newest thing about the building was the handsome sign announcing it as the home of Sophia Publishing.

Joey stopped cold in the street. Ooh! Tracey MacManus! This


arrival caught her off guard, and she almost jumped at the sound of his voice – the voice with which she was so familiar, despite having never met the man.

“Ladies, please accept my apologies. I found myself trapped in a minor water fall between floors. My tardiness is absolutely no indication of the priority I place on these discussions.”

The deep rich voice had always brought to Tracey’s mind a middle aged man, with greying temples and silver reading glasses. His daily radio program began as an act of rebellion from her white collar democrat father, but continued past college as a test of her forensic and debate skills. She had been looking forward to the chance to put her one sided retorts to the challenge against her unknowingmentor for sometime, yet as she turned, hand already extended, she froze.

Framed in her doorway, wet from the knees down, and being toweled desperately by a very embarrassed Joanna, stood the most handsome man she had ever seen. Only five years older than she was, still in his late thirties, with a magnificent head of dark blonde hair and a carefully cultured goatee, Dr. Faulkner’s most obvious physical trait was his piercing blue eyes.

Gently dislodging Joanna from his leg, as one would shake loose an affectionate pet, Andrew closed the gap between them in one step, grasping Tracey’s hand in both of his, and locking her gaze in a piercing manner.

“Am I forgiven?”

Much to Tracey’s amazement, she was breathless. Fortunately so was Ms. Free.
**********

It looked like the big


section of pipe gave way, and greeted Tracey with a flood.

He took one last glance at the smitten women in Tracey’s office, chuckled, and set off to measure the exact financial toll that was being leveled against Sophia Publishing.

*********

Tracey was unnerved. She had rehearsed this critical meeting over and over in her mind, but now that she was here, face to face with Andrew Faulkner, she felt like a foolish school girl. She had actually giggled when he shook her hand. Giggled! What was she, thirteen? She caught herself doodling a small heart on her note pad, and quickly scribbled it out, only to look up and see Ms. Free and Dr. Faulkner looking at her expectantly. She could hear the sound of her hopes and dreams flushingJoanna’s desk. Joanna had him come directly to Tracey’s office, and when he arrived, all noise ceased. He was carrying an exquisite, and very expensive, bouquet of orchids. A collective gasp of delight came from the gathered women, and the delivery boy looked at them all nervously. He coughed and read Tracey’s name from the card, but by the time he did, everyone already knew they were the token of admiration from Andrew Faulkner.

Eventually everyone went back to work. But Tracey was in a bit of a daze for the rest of the day. She drove through a red light on the way home – fortunately the intersection was empty – and she drove away from the Wendy’s drive-through window without her change.

Her evening was like most of


her evenings. She changed into her pajamas, and ate her salad and potato while watching NatGeo, and reading a manuscript. Stan was curled up beside her on the leather couch, and would periodically stand up and walk across the reading material just to remind her that she wasn’t alone. The clock ticked toward bed time, and she knew that eventually she would curl up in the big empty bed, and drift off into a mildly dis-satisfying sleep until her alarm went off and it was today, again. Well, not exactly today. It’s not everyday your college idol sends you orchids.

When the phone suddenly rang, Stanley jumped up and ran a few steps before stopping, delivering a withering glare at the offending instrument and curling up again.

Tracey was asand with that Terri was back into her paper work like the men weren’t even there.

Joey laughed as they moved down the hall. He’d known Terri for five years, and obviously she was the same person at work as she was at church. It was comforting.

The second floor board room had very little need in the way of repairs, but when Joanna walked them into the little kitchen area that bridged between the board room and the break room, both men groaned. The outdated galley style kitchen was not only ugly, it was dangerous. Their eyes flew around the room, seeing dangling light fixtures, two horribly overloaded electrical outlets, peeling paint, sagging cupboards, the list went on and on. Jack turned to their tour guide.

“Okay, Joanna, you know


on his radio program in a month, and promote the book. They had worked out scheduling and discussed how to handle the call-in portion of the program. Andrew had offered her an entire hour dedicated to the book, and Tracey had accepted.

It wasn’t the words that had made the moment. Tracey knew that, and she was startled to realize that she didn’t want to share that with Joanna. She didn’t want to talk about how they sat so close, face to face, that she could feel the crease of his pants on her knee and the warmth of his breath on her cheeks as he talked. There had been nothing immoral in their contact, in fact they had barely touched, but the intensity of his presence made Traceydinner with Andrew Faulkner.

She was the last one to leave the office, as was her habit, and as she locked the doors, she realized that a sleek, dark blue Mercedes was sitting at the curb, and Andrew was emerging from the back seat. Tracey pushed the whisps of hair that had come loose from her hair clip, and felt the oil that was sitting on her forehead. She looked and felt like a woman who had been at work all day. Was this his plan, or was she supposed to go home before now?

Andrew reached her with a smile, and took her elbow, guiding her to the vehicle. She could smell his cologne, and feel the hem of his jacket bumping the back of her knee. And here


intelligent women abound. My listening audience is sixty percent male, and the intelligent women I encounter tend to be either married or acrimonious, or both.”

Tracey laughed and Andrew gently rested his finger tips against her shoulder as he finished his thought.

“I think what is drawing me to you is the combination of your obvious intelligence and your peaceful grace.”

A blush was flooding her face, and in the back of her mind, a warning siren was sounding. She was neither peaceful, nor graceful, and at some point he was going to figure that out. But not tonight, because they were already at her house, and Andrew was telling her to dress casually, he had planned a picnic.

The evening was beautiful. They ate Greek food on the grass by theriver and then walked beside it in the crisp early spring night, drinking cappuccino. Andrew told stories about his early days in radio that had Tracey in stitches. Tracey asked him questions she had wondered about since those early college years, and he answered them in as great a detail as he could. There were no silences now, and as he talked, Tracey found herself almost unable to concentrate when those big blue eyes would turn on her intently and look at her like she was the only thing in the world.

He walked her to her door, his hand once again resting lightly on the small of her back. When she unlocked the door, he touched her elbow, and she turned to face him.

“Thank you Tracey. I haven’t


of the way through Sunday School that he had a muffin paper stuck to the tread of his shoe. It wasn’t surprising considering the gas station coffee cups and take out containers that flooded his truck at the moment. He and Jack had put in an intense 20 hours of work over two days to replace the plumbing over at Sophia.

Knowing that they couldn’t expect a functioning office to operate without water, the men had committed to do the plumbing work in a single weekend. Working from five pm Friday evening until midnight and then returning at eight the next morning and hearing the last successful flush near nine Saturday night, the men were both exhausted, but pleased with both a task well done and time with closePublishing. Eerily so. The silence was taxing even the normally easy conversation between Jack and Joey. Periodically a door would open and close somewhere in the building, or a phone would ring, but the normal “coffee house meets study hall” atmosphere was strangely stifled.

Finally, Jack put down his roll of joint tape and grabbed a small radio from his tool chest and plugged it in before returning to his taping. Joey didn’t pay much attention to the voices, he just enjoyed the break in the silence.

*****

Tracey had never been inside a radio studio, and for a moment, the novelty of it distracted her and stopped the tremors in her joints. This may be the “new media” as Andrew had phrased it, but it was still worlds away from


Tracey had never before felt more out of place. She gave herself the “this is your baby” pep talk, and tried to go over some of her notes, but Andrew signaled her to stop turning pages. The rustling was giving feedback in the microphone.

Every part of her was screaming, “What are you doing here?” And then the familiar music began, and the “on air” light lit up and the Andrew with which she had become so familiar, suddenly transformed, before her eyes, into Dr. Andrew Faulkner – conservative radio voice.

***** “We’ll keep working through the monologue, but if we miss the teaser for the interview, come and get us.” Jack was saying to Joanna as the theme music playing on their radio was suddenly joined by the radioin the break room. Joanna nodded in agreement and returned the way she had come. Joey looked at Jack in confusion.

The sound of Andrew Falkner’s radio voice began to come through the radio, but Joey wasn’t listening to it. He was wondering if the paycheck was really worth all the strings that seemed to be attached to this job.

*****
Tracey didn’t hear a word of the monologue.

It was like magic. As soon as Andrew put on his radio persona, she had been able to put on her business hat. This was the biggest break Sophia Publishing was ever going to get, and she wasn’t going to blow it. Her author was literally certifiable, the first run print had been ruined and her father was out there somewhere doing something


she read the book – which you clearly did not, and that disappoints me more than anything else that has happened to me today – if she read the book and then wanted to talk about what the alternatives look like in a real world instead of the fairytale world of this book, then I would be happy to speak to that young woman about my successes and my failures.”

*****

An abrupt commercial break seemed to come as Tracey was in mid breath for more tirade. No one said anything. No one moved. And then all four phone lines began to ring at once.

*****

The second Tracey heard the commercial music cut in through her headphones, she peeled them from her head, and grabbed her few belongings. She turned toone of the webcams, and smiled her best smile.

What she wanted to do was sweep majestically from the room without giving so much as a backward glance to Dr. Toad sitting in his wire cage. But her left foot had fallen asleep, so she resigned herself to a slow gimpy walk through the glass doors.

*****

There was a flurry of activity as the women of Sophia publishing ran to their desks and took battle stations. Amidst the sound of women talking in every office, and the fax machine ringing and printing and the phones ringing incessantly, Joanna quietly stepped to a corner and dialed her cell phone.

“Mr. Edward, whatever you are doing to help, please stop. Tracey has done it for herself. Today she is a rock star and


she needs you to tell her that.”

Then she hung up, and dashed to her despised desk.

*****

Joey nervously brushed his work boots against the door jam before stepping on the rich plush carpet he saw stretched out in front of him. He had never been to a country club before, and the idea of it had managed to be much smaller than the reality.

“Meet me at my club. Joanna will get you the address.” Was all Edward MacManus had said, and then he had hung up. What he was supposed to do and where he was supposed to go once had had parked his work truck in the same lot as those sleek sports cars and fancy SUVs was still a mystery to him.

“Joey? Joey!” The call came fromat school that we were sisters. We did everything together. I cried when they moved into an apartment the next summer, but Tracey and I stayed close, and even years later we would be asked if we were sisters or cousins.

The second time Mr. Edward hit rock bottom was six years later, and it was a completely different experience. Everyone was older, and the bankruptcy hit harder. Tracey’s oldest brother was planning to go to college, but there was no money for tuition. She and her second brother had to drop out of everything from tennis and music lessons to school clubs. She would leave the house twenty minutes early to walk four blocks and get on the bus in a different neighborhood, just so no one would


Jessica Helfand

Ezra Winter Project: Chapter Seven

Chapter 7 : Pageantry

The New York City-area press reported on the new art school which received a record number of applicants in its early weeks

In 1924, under the combined direction of John Singer Sargent and Daniel Chester French, a group of New York-based artists decided to open an art school in Grand Central Station. The attic of the east wing contained a 7,000-square-foot offered an ideal location for teaching painting and sculpture, costume design and commercial illustration. For design faculty member Ezra Winter, whose own studio was located only steps away, the school provided a perfect opportunity to start teaching.

It also turned out to be an excellent way to meet women.

Winter spent a great deal of time thinking about women. He thought aboutof young actresses, elegant dancers and captivating socialites. In the spring of 1925, someone called “Dixie” writes from Palm Beach, while “Peggy” sends postcards from Santa Fe. He spends time with Martha Bacon, who invites him to a rodeo at Madison Square Garden. Alice DeMar, heiress to a massive fortune (at the age of 18, she inherited nearly 10 million dollars) writes to him too, as does Rosamund Pinchot — who would later be dubbed “The Loveliest Woman in America” by The New York Times. She accompanied the painter to an afternoon performance of the Isadora Duncan dancers.

The American actress Rosamond Pinchot in an undated photograph. A niece of Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot and a cousin of Edie Sedgwick, Pinchot took her own life in 1938.

There were artists


were no doubt many whose appeal lay simply in their beauty. And Ezra, fraught with bills and deadlines and incessant obligations, was all to eager to surround himself with anything that was beautiful.

And so it was that he came to be a judge in the 1927 Miss America Pageant.

On September 9, 1927, Winter and his fellow judges crowned 16-year old Lois Delander as their Queen. An honors student in Latin back in her home town of Joliet, Illinois, Delander won on her parents 20th wedding anniversary.

Lois Delander and her parents, after her 1927 win

Delander would have been only a year older than Winter's eldest daughter, Renata.

Lois Delander photographed after the swimsuit competition. Ezra Winter and his fellow judges stood behind her at the top of the stairs

After thepageant, Delander went back to complete high school. She later married and raised three daughters. She died in Chicago in 1985.

Left, Delander as Queen; right, with her three children

As the gulf widens between the aspirational and the real — between the projected self and the authentic self — Winter immerses himself in all that is beautiful and lyrical and dream-like. A three-week trip to Bermuda with William Beebe in the summer of 1928 is spent mostly dining and dancing, but within a matter of weeks he is back in New York, drafting plans for the Rochester Savings Bank, Cornell University’s Willard Straight Hall, and the Public Library in Birmingham, Alabama. The late 1920s finds Winter hard at work at murals for the United States Chamber of Commerce in


a list of the accomplishments at the Department of Veterans Affairs under his administration, including creating more accountability and expanding funding for the VA choice program. Wilkie gave brief remarks and thanked his family members in attendance.

Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath of office.

Trump shook Wilkie's hand and gave his wife, Julie, multiple kisses on the cheek, but did not respond to shouted questions, departing quickly through a side door.An informed source within the paramilitary Peshmerga force announced on Friday, that 61 ISIS militants had been killed during violent clashes and air strikes by the international coalition northwest of Kirkuk.

Ahlul Bayt News Agency - An informed source within the paramilitary Peshmerga force announced on Friday, that 61 ISIS militants had been killed during violent clashes and air strikes by the international coalition northwest of Kirkuk.

The source said in a statement that, “This morning, Peshmerga forces foiled a massive attack by ISIS on the villages of Kura and Kaba in the district of al-Dabs (45 km northwest of Kirkuk), resulting in the death of 11 elements of the organization, while 50 others have been killed in an aerial bombing by the international coalition.”

Meanwhile Media War Cell announced starting


the process of liberalization of the southern areas of the city of Fallujah, which is considered as ISIS capital in Anbar province.

The cell said in a statement that, “Baghdad Operations Command, after the completion of all the necessary arrangements on the ground, started an extensive operation to liberate the areas in south of Fallujah,” pointing out that, “The first division was able to liberate Nuaimiya police station and raise the Iraqi flag over its building southeast of Fallujah, while the sixth division had managed to liberate the village of Ma’ameer.”

The statement adde, “The first day of the liberation operation in southern Fallujah areas enabled the first division in Nuaimiya to kill twenty terrorists as well as dismantling 12 explosive devices,” indicating that, “The sixth division in the villageContents

History

Before 1973, when it was identified as Tall-i Malyan[1], Anshan
had been assumed by scholars to be somewhere in the central Zagros
mountain range[2].

The Elamite city appears to have been quite ancient; it makes an
appearance in the early Sumerian epic Enmerkar and the Lord of
Aratta as being en route between Uruk and the legendary Aratta, supposedly around the time writing was
developed. At various times, Anshan provided, in its own right, the
source for a number of Elamite dynasties that sometimes competed
for extent and influence with other prominent Elamite cities.

Manishtushu
claimed to have subjugated Anshan, but as the Akkadian empire weakened under his
successors, the native governor of Susa, Kutik-Inshushinak, a scion of the Awan dynasty,
proclaimed his independence from Akkad and captured Anshan (some
scholars have speculated that the name Awan is an alternate form