can join practicing, making comments or creating new song texts.

Đờn ca tài tử was added to the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2012.

The musicians who contribute to Đờn ca tài tử include:

Master instrumentalists (Thày Đờn), who are highly skillful at playing and teaching numerous instruments and who have mastered all of the classical repertoire.

Master lyricists (Thày Tuồng), who are knowledgeable and experienced at composing new song texts.

Master singers (Thày Ca), who have mastered the classical repertoire and who can perform and teach the distinctive Đờn ca tài tử vocal techniques and ornamentation.There are also regular instrumentalists (Danh cầm) and singers (Danh ca).

Mr. Nguyễn Quang Đại (also known as Ba Đọi) and Mr. Lê Tài Khị (also known as Nhạc Khị) were famous masters who, after theirto express different moods and emotions, such as feelings of happiness or sadness.

Vocal students, performing either solo or in a duet, study the traditional songs. They learn to subtly improvise using different ornamentation techniques in a way that is in keeping with the musical aesthetics of the musical community and is appropriate for the particular melody, mode and song text performed.

Đờn ca tài tử is a popular cultural activity that serves individuals and the community. It resonates with the lifestyle of southern people who work on the land and rivers of the delta region; it reflects their inner feelings and emotions, their industriousness, generosity and courage.

Đờn ca tài tử is a valuable cultural inheritance that combines influences from court music and folk music, and it has been influenced


culture, and handicrafts. Nowadays, Đờn ca tài tử is not only a cultural activity of the community, it also makes a contribution to sustainable tourism in the local area.

Đờn ca tài tử practice, creativity, appreciation and transmission between generations does not violate human rights because everybody can voluntarily and equally take part in the artistic activities regardless of ethnic group, social class, religious belief, age, gender and occupation.

Originating from the diverse traditional culture of communities in central and southern Việt Nam, Đờn ca tài tử has long been an important part of the social and cultural life of the Việt people. It is respected and accepted by the communities who take part in performances and their artistic creativity contributes to cultural diversity. Đờn ca tài tử is constantlytwin sister, Jessica Higgins, is a New York-based intermedia artist.

Publications
With Douglas Kahn, Higgins co-edited an anthology of computer art (1960-1970) called Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of Digital Art, published in 2012 by University of California Press.
 The Grid Book, her interdisciplinary history of this defining form in Western culture, was published by MIT Press in early 2009.
 She is the author of a history of the Fluxus movement, Fluxus Experience, published in 2002 by the University of California Press.

References

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 Hannah Higgins feature article
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  Guardian Review
 Jessica Higgins documented by Artist Organized Art
 Hannah Higgins CV
 Fluxus Experience U California Link
 The Grid Book MIT Link
 Mainframe Experimentalism U Cal Press Link

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Exploring Zenobia's World. The Incredible Rise and Fall of the City of Palmyra

15 June 2011

The Underground Tomb of the Aureli (Multiple Updates)

However implausible it seems, we should pay attention when the Historiae Augustae tells us that the young emperor Severus Alexander (r. 222-235 CE), always up bright and early, piously went first thing in the morning to

worship in the sanctuary of his Lares[guardian gods] in which he kept the statues of the deified emperors ... and also of certain holy souls, among them Apollonius of Tyana [Pythagorean philosopher and miracle-worker], and, Christ, Abraham, Orpheus, and others of the same character.... (HA XXIX2)

Jesus Christ! And Abraham, too! Next to Orpheus and Apollonius? Why in heaven's name is a pagan emperor of Rome worshipping such a mixed bag of soulsin his private chapel? Utter nonsense, I would have thought, and typical of the unreliable Historiae Augustae at its most fanciful.

But, then, I had not reckoned with the Underground Tomb of the Aureli.

For no sooner had Alexander Severus -- and his mother, Julia Mamaea -- been murdered by mutinous soldiers far away in upper Germany (that story ends my series of More Uppity Women) than a freedman named Aurelius Felicissimus began to build an elaborate and ambitious tomb for himself (235-240 CE) in Rome.

The richly decorated tomb consists of three rooms, two of them underground, which were used for burials. A mosaic inscription in the floor tells us that he built the tomb for his sister Aurelia Prima (described as a virgin), his two brothers, and for fellow


freedmen ... fratris et conlibertis. This suggests that the space was intended for use by a select group of religious 'brothers', seemingly some kind of alternative cult community. Scholars have never been able to decide on the identity of this group. Were they Gnostics, Pythagorian Gnostics, heretical Christians, or even a pagan syncretic burial club?

Religious Syncretism in Third-century Rome

The thousand political, social, economic and military problems of the century were reflected in philosophic and religious thought combining Roman ideology with the new beliefs and faiths coming from the East. The cult of Mithra, Judaism, Neo-Platonic philosophy, Orphism, Christianity and Gnosticism co-existed in a multi-ethnic and multi-religious Rome, creating a complex layering of religious expression. The tomb of the Aureli expresses this complexity as the burial place of afamily of a high and striving social class, perhaps members of the entourage of freed slaves who became part of the Emperor’s court, and who emulated their betters by creating monumental funeral displays.

The mural decorations in the tomb contained new iconographic images suspended between daily life and the tranquil, blessed world of the beyond, while maintaining elements of Greek culture and Roman tradition.

Two great themes are incorporated into the frescoes: philosophy, which depicts a group of intellectuals holding wands and scrolls of wisdom, and bucolic scenes, represented by a shepherd with his sheep (the Good Shepherd?). A curious combination of the two themes may seen in a bearded character in the act of reading a scroll while a flock of sheep grazes at his feet, which perhaps refers


example, scholars had previously seen (left) the home and the sheep of the father of Odysseus, overcome with grief at the absence of his son, it now seems clear that the fresco actually shows Aurelia Prima untieing her hair in grief at the loss of her two brothers who are lying on the funeral bed within the chamber.

Under the sorrowful sister, another scene shows the moment when Odysseus persuades Circe to undo the transformation of his companions, who had been turned into swine, and she witches them back into men. This story from the tenth book of the Odyssey is inserted into a funeral motif because it was Circe who indicated to Odysseus the way to Hades. The new scenes are thus perfectly in line with the multi-religioussystem of the time and the elaborate syncretism of the Aureli.

Yet it is hard to imagine the strands of religious symbolism being woven together in this next scene (below).

A mythical hippocampus (a horse with fishy, coiling hindquarters) is seen devouring a small human figure while a naked man looks on, lying relaxed in a bower, a lamp at his side. Hippocamps are a traditional pagan funerary motif (like the Cupids, birds, and peacocks that appear elsewhere on the walls) but one wonders if this creature is not confused with the sea-monster sent to devour Andromeda, which morphed, in turn, in Christian art, into the sea-monster devouring Jonah and then vomiting him up. So, could this be Jonah after his miraculous deliverance from the fish's belly, seated in a


are astonishing. It reminds me of nothing so much as the immensely varied religious visual (and possibly mystic) experiences of Dura-Europos -- see my post Gods at the Crossroads -- before it was destroyed in 256 CE. With its dozens of temples dedicated to Greek and Roman gods, Mesopotamian deities, Palmyran gods and gads, a Mithraeum, a frescoed synagogue and the earliest Christian house-church anywhere in the world, there was an inevitable and eclectic mixing of images from one religion to another.

Palmyra, too, knew many different forms of worship. We'll have a look at one new religion that had recently arrived there in my next post, Zenobia and the Manichean Convert.

She suggests that the tomb's builder, the freedman Aurelius Felicissimus, might be the same as a Felicissimus whowas in charge of the treasury at Rome in Aurelian's reign (mentioned in Historiae Augustae, Aurelianus, 38.2): "it not impossible that he was the same man, holding a high position towards the end of his life (AD 270), or his son." If so, our tomb-building Felicissimus ended badly: a fantasy letter purportedly written by the emperor tells of the mint-workers revolt in 270-71 or 274,

a most grievous struggle. For under the leadership of Felicissimus the lowest of all my slaves, to whom I had committed the care of the privy-purse, the mint-workers have shown the spirit of rebellion. They have indeed been crushed, but with the loss of 7,000 men....

That the tomb continued to be used into the next century makes me a bit sceptical of this identification.


Aurelian, notorious for his cruelty, would have left no heir alive. It's possible, of course, that the cult community survived his downfall and continued to use the tomb. But I rather suspect that all of the treasurer's close associates, more than likely also working in the treasury, would have met the same fate.

My thanks to David Meadows'blog (RogueClassicism) for alerting me to the newly restored frescoes from the Hypogeum of the Aurelii.

The main sources are the reports in Italian and English in L'Osservatore Romano, 'New discoveries in the hypogeum of the Aurelians, a funeral monument astride two worlds', 10 June 2011; and S. Swain, et.al. Severan Culture, Cambridge, 2007, 277-289.

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About Me

I studied Classical Archaeology at the University of Oxford (M.Litt.) and am a member of the BritishSchool at Athens. I excavated for many years on Crete and on the Greek mainland and travelled extensively in the Middle East. I have lived and worked among the ruins of the three great Caravan Cities: Petra, Palmyra, and Baalbek. It was at Palmyra in Syria that I began to tell the story of Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, and the rebellion that she led against imperial Rome. I was living within the grounds of the Temple of Bel, and at night, when the great gates of the temple were shut, I came closer to the spirit of the time and place than probably anyone has ever done before. I know that I felt very close to Zenobia, which made the book a joy for me to write.

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Sure, you could turn your beer bottle into a tiny Pewter Tankard, but everything is better when it's bigger. Aptly named the "Das Can-in-Stein", this beer holding mechanism acts as a beer koozie while also making your beer can into a Pewter Tankard. A lever on the side of the device pivots the lid of the Tankard on and off the top of your beer, which not only makes you look totally awesome, but also protects your beer from bugs, roofies, sneezes, and rain.

Originally made as an April Fools day joke product at ThinkGeek, the Pewter Tankard beer koozie was made into a real product after so much popularity and people actually wanting one. To use it simply slide your can of beer into the open area (whichWASHINGTON — The Obama administration acknowledged Wednesday it has killed four Americans in overseas counterterrorism operations since 2009, the first time it has publicly taken responsibility for the deaths.

Although the acknowledgement, contained in a letter from Attorney General Eric Holder to Congress, does not say how the four were killed, three are known to have died in CIA drone strikes in Yemen in 2011. They include Anwar al-Awlaki, his 16-year-old son and Samir Khan.

The fourth, Jude Kenan Mohammad, indicted in North Carolina in 2009, was killed in Pakistan, where the CIA has operated a drone campaign against terrorist suspects for nearly a decade. His death was previously unreported.

Holder's letter came the day before President Barack Obama is due to deliver a major speech designed to fulfill a promise


in his State of the Union speech in January to make elements of his controversial counterterrorism policies more transparent and accountable to Congress and the American public.

Obama is also under pressure to explain how he intends to make even modest progress on other priorities that were centerpieces of a pledge he made at the beginning of his first term. At the top of that list is closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, where 103 of the 166 detainees still in custody are on a hunger strike. The administration is planning to restart the transfer of the detainees, 86 of whom have been cleared to leave.

In addition to disclosure of the four killings, Holder wrote that Obama has approved classified briefings for Congress on an overall policy document, informally calledthe "playbook." The document, more than a year in the making, codifies the administration's standards and processes for its unprecedented program of targeted killing and capture of terrorism targets outside of war zones.

Nearly 400 drone strikes, in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, have been launched by the CIA and U.S. military forces during Obama's presidency. Although the administration has acknowledged the existence of the drone program and outlined its justification under international and domestic law, specific operations are considered classified.

The secrecy surrounding the program — including the criteria for choosing targets — has led to widespread opposition from international law and human rights advocates and, increasingly, from Congress and the public. Although the administration has stressed the precision accuracy of drones, independent groups have charged that thousands of civilians


have been unintentionally killed.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., last month threatened to subpoena the administration for Justice Department legal opinions justifying the killing of U.S. citizens overseas without due process or other constitutional protections. After that threat, Leahy said in an interview, the documents were produced for the committee in a classified meeting.

Leahy said Wednesday afternoon that Holder telephoned him to say he would receive a letter with information about the four killings and to tell him about upcoming briefings on the classified playbook.

Although Holder's letter was addressed to Leahy, it was copied to the rest of the Judiciary Committee.

"I think it's a significant effort at openness," Leahy said. He said he also received a call from the White House inviting him to Obama's speech todayat the National Defense University.

In September 2011, Obama announced the death of al-Awlaki, a New Mexico-born cleric described as the foreign operations director for Yemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Although Obama did not claim U.S. responsibility, the fact that al-Awlaki was killed by a CIA drone was one of the worst-kept secrets in Washington.

According to Holder's letter, al-Awlaki was the only U.S. citizen the administration "has specifically targeted and killed." Khan was not targeted but was at al-Awlaki's side and killed in the same strike.

Two weeks after al-Awlaki's death, his 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman — who had gone to the Yemeni desert in search of his father — was killed in a drone strike meant for someone else. That strike was similarly unacknowledged, although a senior administration official


privately characterized it as a "mistake."

The fourth American death, Jude Kenan Mohammad, was previously unreported. According to an information sheet released by the Justice Department, the former North Carolina resident was charged in 2009 with conspiracy "to provide material support to terrorists, including currency, training, transportation and personnel" and "to murder, kidnap, maim and injure persons abroad."

Mohammad had fled the United States for Pakistan in the fall of 2008. According to Pakistan news accounts, the 20-year-old Mohammad, whose father was Pakistani, was detained by authorities when he tried to enter a tribal region near the Afghanistan border, but was later released.

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it's a hoax, there's an underlying contempt for the actor's colleagues and fans, who have helped put him in the economic position to get this piece of performance art made. And if it's real ...

How insufferable is Joaquin Phoenix in the film? This is a man who angrily demands that his personal assistant do a snow angel on the ground, and then ridicules him because it isn't good enough. When he snorts what appears to be cocaine off the breasts of a hooker he ordered on the Internet, it's one of the actor's more appealing and human moments. At least he stops whining and berating people for a few minutes.

"I'm Still Here" follows Phoenix's supposed retirement from acting, beginning in early 2008. He declares, "I don't want toForum for Science, Industry and Business

Breakthrough made in electronics technology

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Researchers at Oregon State University have made a significant breakthrough in the technology to produce crystalline oxide films, which play roles in semiconductor chips, flat panel displays and many other electronic products.

In a report to be published Friday in the journal Science, the OSU scientists explain a way to create these crystalline thin films at temperatures far lower than those used currently, and with no need to be produced in a vacuum as the current technology usually requires.

This fundamental advance may eventually open up important new applications in the electronics, computer and high technology industries, making new products possible or lowering the cost of those already being created.

The study was a joint effort of scientists in the Department of


leaked sensitive information to reporters. Consider what happened in the 1960s and '70s, the last time federal law enforcement and national security agencies launched mass snooping expeditions against U.S. citizens. The FBI, which became a clearinghouse for the data, sent them to the CIA, the Justice Department and the IRS, where some of the data were used in tax probes. "Information that should not have been gathered in the first place has gone beyond the initial agency to numerous other agencies and officials, thus compounding the original intrusion," concluded a committee chaired by Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, which investigated and reported on the abuses in 1976. The amount of information was "so voluminous," it was difficult "to separate useful data from worthless detail." NSA's technological capabilities, the ChurchCommittee wrote, are a "sensitive national asset" valuable to the national defense. Even so, it warned, "if not properly controlled ... this same technological capability could be turned against the American people, at great cost to liberty." The panel's conclusions about NSA are as valid today as they were then. The phone record program serves as a powerful reminder of how, in a digital age, records can be compiled and analyzed in ways you are unaware of. And combined with a separate NSA program (revealed in December by The New York Times) to eavesdrop without warrants on international calls from the USA, it raises the question of what other secret and constitutionally suspect programs the Bush administration might still be shielding. Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, who headed


the NSA for six years and is now Bush's nominee to be CIA director, is a master of evasion. Speaking in January about the international eavesdropping, he said the program is not a widely cast "drift net" but is narrowly "focused" and "targeted." Perhaps. But, at the time, he was fully aware of a program that is many of the things the other is not. A 2006 version of the Church Committee is needed to investigate the anti-terror programs created in the scary aftermath of 9/11, and the Senate should hold up Hayden's nomination until all its questions are answered. Creating a huge, secret database of Americans' phone records does far more than threaten terrorists. It is a deeply troubling act that undermines U.S. freedoms and threatens usEpiscopal church problems

The Rev. Robert Duncan, 60, is not a Lutheran, but he is a Luther, of sorts. The former Episcopal bishop of Pittsburgh has, in effect, said the words with which Martin Luther shattered Christendom and asserted the primacy of individual judgment and conscience that defines the modern temperament: “Ich kann nicht anders” – I cannot do otherwise.

The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh recently became the second diocese (the first was in Fresno) to secede from the U.S. Episcopal Church since, but not entirely because of, the 2003 ordination in New Hampshire of an openly gay bishop – Gene Robinson, a classmate of Duncan's at General Theological Seminary in New York in the 1970s. Before the Robinson controversy, other Episcopalians, from South Carolina to Southern California, had disassociated


from the Episcopal Church and put themselves under the authority of conservative Anglican bishops who serve where the church is flourishing – often in sub-Saharan Africa, where a majority of Anglicans live.

It is not the secessionists such as Duncan who are, as critics charge, obsessed with homosexuality. The Episcopal Church's leadership is latitudinarian – tolerant to the point of incoherence, Duncan and kindred spirits think – about clergy who deviate from traditional church teachings concerning such core doctrines as the divinity of Christ, the authority of scripture and the path to salvation. But the national church insists on the ordination of openly gay clergy and on blessing same-sex unions.

In the 1960s, Bishop James Pike of California, who urged the church to jettison such “theological baggage” as the doctrinesof Original Sin and the Trinity, was the last active bishop disciplined for theological reasons. Duncan doubts whether Pike would be disciplined today.

Duncan became a bishop in 1995, at age 47, in an Episcopal Church already roiled by dissension about the ordination of women, revision of the prayer book and other matters. But, Duncan says, “I wish it” – the issue that finally precipitated secession – “had been some other issue.” He means some controversy, other than Robinson's ordination, turning on scriptural authority.

The shrinking Episcopal Church (2.4 million members, down from 3.5 million at its peak in 1965) is a small sliver of the worldwide Anglican communion (at least 77 million and expanding rapidly). Its travails are, Duncan says, yet another lingering echo of the 1960s.

The Anglican communion


once was a “via media,” a middle way, between Catholicism and Protestantism. Now, Duncan says, the national leadership of the Episcopal Church thinks of itself as a bridge between Protestantism and the culture. Duncan and other protesters agree with the late Flannery O'Connor, the Catholic novelist: “You have to push as hard as the age that pushes against you.”

Every 10 years there is a Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops, presided over by the archbishop of Canterbury. This year only 650 of the nearly 900 bishops attended – 150 of them representing only the tiny U.S communion. The bishops from three of the Anglican communion's five largest provinces – Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya – boycotted.Friday, March 27, 2009

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on battery power, but can actually expel energy and raise the rover's temperature.

The rover has proved hardier than expected by lasting nearly 15 years, despite being designed for a 90-day mission.

Original story posted June 8, 2018Updated 6:30 p.m. June 12, 2018 to correct and clarify the dates in paragraph 2 below

This global map of Mars shows a growing dust storm as of June 6, 2018. The map was produced by the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. The blue dot indicates the approximate location of Opportunity. Full image and caption.

Science operations for NASA's Opportunity rover have been temporarily suspended as it waits out a growing dust storm on Mars.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter first detected the storm on Wednesday, May 30. When the orbiterteam saw the storm nearing Opportunity, they notified the rover's team to begin preparing contingency plans.

In a matter of days, the storm had ballooned. It now spans more than 7 million square miles (18 million square kilometers) -- an area greater than North America -- and includes Opportunity's current location at Perseverance Valley. More importantly, the swirling dust has raised the atmospheric opacity, or "tau," in the valley in the past few days. This is comparable to an extremely smoggy day that blots out sunlight. The rover uses solar panels to provide power and to recharge its batteries.

Opportunity's power levels had dropped significantly by Wednesday, June 6, requiring the rover to shift to minimal operations.

This isn't Opportunity's first time hunkering down in bad weather: in 2007, a much


Has Tracy McGrady Played His Last Game for Rockets?

After microfracture knee surgery last week, there are some who are speculating Tracy McGrady has played his last game as a Rocket. His contract is up next year and the team was trying to trade him before it was revealed he needed the career-threatening procedure. At the least, he’s looking at a 6-12 month recovery process.

"In the worst-case scenario, we recommended a procedure that is going to end his career," said Tom Clanton, the Rockets’ well-respected doctor. "It is a risky knee surgery. Not everybody that has microfracture surgery comes back and plays basketball, much less NBA-level basketball. Tracy knows that."managing editor of business news across both FNC and FBN. Prior to joining Fox, Cavuto was part of the team that launched CNBC in 1989. He also served as a contributor to NBC’s Today and NBC News at Sunrise. Previously, Cavuto was the New York Bureau Chief for PBS Television’s Nightly Business Report.


the riding. Grant has run three times provincially for the Greens. His goal is to come in second on Oct. 21 and knock the NDP and Conservatives down a notch. Grant says his office is getting calls from five or six people a day looking to volunteer on his campaign. As he door knocks he says he senses a new, stronger interest in the Green Party. Grant says “this election is quite different…coming in second would be a big victory.”

The Green Party broke through in the Prince Edward Island provincial election becoming the Official Opposition earlier this year. In New Brunswick the party elected three members in the last provincial election. Now the Green Party is hoping to get another boost next week in Manitoba. The Greens placeda close second in the Winnipeg riding of Wolesley to the NDP in the 2016 provincial election. The Green candidate, David Nickarz, is back for another run and the NDP is running a new candidate. A win here would give the Green Party another first in another province and keep the momentum going.

The website The Conversation published an article by two university professors analyzing the level of support for climate action in Canada. What the study found is that a majority in every riding across the country believe the climate is changing. The authors conclude that “the path to a majority government – or even a minority government – goes through many ridings where Canadians are worried about climate change and want the government to take aggressive action.”

Despite


Former Red Wings forward Sergei Fedorov is owed $43 million by his former business partner, Joseph Zada, but as Zada either can not or will not repay Fedorov, the former Wing sued the Hyman Lippitt law firm--which represented both Zada and Fedorov at one point--in an attempt to actually receive the $60 million pay-off Zada had originally promised to pay Fedorov to settle their differences.

Subsequently, Fedorov's lack of finances yielded three bank foreclosures on two homes in Metro Detroit and one in Florida, and, according to LifeSports.ru, Fedorov received worse news today--and it's news that means that the nearly 41-year-old Fedorov, who played this past season for Metallurg Magnitogorsk, might have to continue his playing career to simply keep paying the bills:

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great deal of difference in the way that he said it.

To him were gifted the best lines of the night. When taking on his Republican challenger over his shift from supporting a ban on assault weapons as governor of Massachusetts to opposing them as a presidential candidate, he said: "He was for an assault weapons ban before he was against it."

When Romney pushed him on investments in his pension funds, asking if he'd seen his pension recently, Obama responded: "I don't look at my pension. It's not as big as yours so it doesn't take as long."

When Romney was corrected by the moderator, Candy Crowley, after suggesting that Obama did not call the attack on the US embassy in Benghazi a "terrorist attack" Obama shouted with a smile:"Say it louder, Candy."

Romney did put up a fight. Approaching the debate with the same style as he did in Denver he brought his best self. Probably his best line came in an answer about why, given the hard times of Obama's first term, he should be trusted with a second. "We just can't afford another four years like the last four years," said Romney.

It is difficult to equate the stiff and impersonal figure of the conventions with the man who showed up tonight. But it simply wasn't enough. Indeed, if anything it was too much. For in his effort to reassert the control he enjoyed during the first debate he overreached.

Where he once appeared animated he now came off as aggressive. His interruptions looked desperate and his


Minutes of the flightless

I only know of one other documented human death by flightless bird. It was caused by a cassowary in 1926. 16-year-old Phillip McClean and his brother, aged 13, came across a cassowary on their property and decided to beat it senseless by striking it with clubs. The bird kicked the younger boy, who cried and ran home. His older brother swung at the bird, missed, and fell to the ground. While he was down the cassowary kicked him in the neck, opening a 1.25 cm wound which punctured the carotid. The boy died of his injuries shortly afterwards.

It was always much much easier to beat the Dodo… Goddamnit, we always discuss the inevitable!

When the speed ratio of wing to plummet is humbled only by thatevil, etc. [Alleged gang rape at Duke University | Participate.net (NEW LINK)]

Ah, gang-rapes taking place in London? Could it be...not fox-hunters at all? This is a lengthy story in the Guardian, and some of the incidents involve white criminals and even white victims, but the largest element in the gang-rapes in this story are black women in London being victimized by black men.

I lose count of how many government agencies, schools and official establishments refuse to comment for this story. They say the same thing. "Sorry. It's too sensitive."

"The added element in this is ethnicity," says Trail. The Haven's statistics indicate that, in 2002, in the under-16 age group, 43% of the assailants were black, as were 33% of the victims. Even in an ethnically diverse population such


as Lambeth-Southwark-Lewisham (LSL), this goes beyond demographics. It is controversial. When a documentary on juvenile gang rape was broadcast by Channel 4 in 1998, the channel was accused of racism. Trinidad-born writer Darcus Howe was a lone voice of support. Later, writing in the New Statesman, he recounted how his girlfriend Betty was gang raped for hours in Trinidad, and how - after he spoke out in support of the documentary - he got anonymous phone calls saying his daughter would get gang raped, too.

"For heaven's sake," Trail says, "this isn't about race, it's about rape." He points to high numbers of sexually transmitted diseases in LSL, which also has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe - problems that were also hampered by a refusal to lookat the racial demographics, in the beginning. "My line is lean, mean and clear," Howe concluded, in the New Statesman. "I take a side in this war, the side of black women ... There is nothing to discuss."

There is much to discuss, but it takes courage. A Met press release from last year - which stated that black women are three times more likely than others to be raped, and black males aged between 10 and 17 are eight and a half times more likely to be charged with rape - was never released. And there has been little sign of the "debate in the black community" promised by Ken Livingstone's race adviser, Lee Jasper (who was not available for comment).

The Commission for Racial Equality was hardly more


hospital. He recalls visiting a young offenders' institute in Siberia in 1993, where each of the 20 offenders aged 14-16 was in for group rape. Camila Batmanghelidjh, who runs the children's charity Kids Company in Peckham, south-east London, thinks gang rapes go in clusters. "It's not about race. You have to ask - is it because the black community is the most marginalised and pressurised, and does that lead to emotional consequences?" She prefers to concentrate on the state of mind of most boys she works with. She calls it "emotional coldness".

It's commonly observed that when people say "It's not the money..." then it's the money. See how many people are saying it's not about race? Same thing?Washington (CNN) Democrats picked up two more House seats on Wednesday as Republican Reps. Jeff Denham of California and Tom MacArthur of New Jersey acknowledged they'd been defeated.

The two Democratic victories give Democrats a total of 32 net pickups in the House, bringing the current balance of power come January in Washington to 227 Democrats and 200 Republicans. Eight House races remain undecided.

Denham, who represented the 10th District in the state's Central Valley, said in a statement he'd met in person with Democratic challenger Josh Harder.

"It has been an absolute honor to serve our community and represent the Central Valley in Congress over the past eight years. The enormity of the responsibility was never lost on me," he said in the statement. "My wife Sonia and I look


forward to starting the next chapter of our life."

California's 10th District was one of several House races in which, as of Wednesday morning, CNN had not yet projected a winner -- including five in California. In three of the remaining four, the Democratic candidates have inched ahead, while the party is closing the gap in one more -- the 39th District, where Republican Young Kim faces Democrat Gil Cisneros. Those races could pad a new Democratic majority in the House.

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Yup, that's an adultery joke at the expense of the recently deceased. We'd say that's a dick move, but maybe Linda Lee got some much needed closure from that onscreen apology for her dead husband's never confirmed, rumored adultery, from a guy who sort of looks like Bruce in a movie made by people exploiting his name for money. WeHva Er En Nattbordet Pohjois Karjala

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Nirvana Lead Singer Kurt Cobain Found Dead at 27

Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of rock band Nirvana, was found dead on April 5. He was 27.

Cobain’s body was found around 8:30 a.m. Friday in a room above the garage of the singer’s home in a fashionable Seattle area.

An electrician summoned to work on the home’s security system discovered the body and telephoned police before calling a local radio station to announce the discovery.

The guitarist/singer died from an apparent self-inflicted shotgun blast to the head. The gun was still on Cobain’s chest when the body was discovered. He had been dead for more than a day.

A suicide note was found nearby in an overturned plant. According to the note, excerpts from which were read at a memorial service Sunday,Mental Pills: Refill

By MrGrey
Part 1
Katherine was excited about her slumber party tonight. Sure, slumber parties were kind
of immature, but even eighteen years olds like to stay up all night with their friends.
Bethany, Daphne, and Ashley were going to be there in about an hour. Her parents were
out of town for the weekend, so they had the whole house to themselves for the whole
night. It was Friday and they were all tired, but there was no way they could sleep if they
were around each other the whole night. They had all been best friends since middle
school. Now, about to graduate, they were still friends.
Katherine had been trying her best to get ready for everyone. She had rented a few
movies, bought tons of junk food, and set up sleeping bags


all over the living room. She
was so excited as she skipped around the room, making sure everything was perfect.
She was a typical blonde goodie-goodie. Katherine was always the host of all their parties
and get-togethers. Her parents were very well off so therefore, she had the nicest house.
She got nice grades and had a nice future ahead of her. Bethany was a tall, brunette prom
queen type. In fact, she was the prom queen…and homecoming queen, and head
cheerleader, and student council president…the list goes on and on. Daphne was a little
different. Her father had left her mother when she young, so she grew up with only an
alcoholic mother to support her. Daphne was more popular with guys than the others. Of
course Bethany was a popular with them, but Daphne’s typewas much different than
Bethany’s. Daphne was the only one of the group that was not a virgin. Ashley was a
quiet girl. She had met them by being assigned to a group with them. They were her only
friends, but that was all she wanted. She had never kissed a boy, let alone even held one’s
hand.
They were very different girls, but that was what held them together.
Suddenly, the doorbell rang. Katherine was a little surprised. The girls weren’t supposed
to get there until seven o’clock, which was an hour away. She walked to the front door
and opened it.
The porch was empty except for a small package lying on the welcome mat. She looked
up just in time to see a black car speed off from the curb. The porch was quiet for


a
minute. Katherine was a little reluctant to pick up the unlabeled package. She had heard
stories of mail bombs and other such things and didn’t know if she should wait for the
other girls.
Gathering her courage, she lifted the semi-heavy package up and carried it inside. She
carried it into the kitchen and placed it on the dinner table. There was a little voice in her
head telling her to open it and see what’s inside, but another voice told her how dangerous
that could be. There was no address on it. Just brown paper wrapping.
Leaving the package on the table, she went into the living room and waited for her
friends. An hour later, a car pulled into the driveway and the unmistakable sound of her
friends voices were heard. She ran to thethe couch and flopped down
on her ass. She planted one foot on the coffee table and kept the other on the floor, giving
anyone that wanted to a chance to see up her dress. Her lady-like mannered had
succumbed to this trashy attitude she had taken on. “Sumone git me a beer! And sum uh
dem tater chips!”
Mr. Black was very pleased with her reactions to the pill. He picked out a Slut pill from
the briefcase, deciding Bethany still needed a little ‘slut’ in her. He found a bottle of beer
in the fridge and, splitting open the pill, he emptied the capsules contents in the alcohol.
Picking it up, he swished it around, making sure it was mixed up good, and walked back
into the living room, grabbing a bag of chips on


tossed it to the floor. The girls didn’t seem too worried
about the smoke bomb. “Ready girls? Here it comes…”
The fuse reached it’s end and a bright flash erupted as smoke began to pour out of the top.
The room was soon filled with smoke as Mr. Black sat back and watched the show…
One Year Later
Bethany was satisfied with her trailer now. The former high school queen had been set up
in a nice double-wide by Mr. Black. She lived just down the road from him, but he
insisted that she stay in the trailer. After all, she was trailer trash. She was wearing her
favorite tank-top tonight, even though it had a few holes in it. The men at the Honky-
Tonk Bar didn’t seem to care though, she expected to pick upsomeone tonight!
Daphne was sitting in her high-chair. The former bad ass teen was finally getting past her
babble stage. Yesterday, she called Bethany “Mama” and she just about hit the ceiling!
She had hired a baby-sitter to watch her as she went out. She walked out the door and
started walking toward the bar. She couldn’t afford a car just yet, but she just got a job at
the Waffle House yesterday, so she was ready to start saving. She pulled a cigarette out of
her pocket and lit a match off her thigh.
As she puffed away, she passed by Ashley. She was on her way to Mr. Black’s mansion.
The former shy student was wearing her normal hooker outfit in case she bumped into
anyone on the way there that wanted to spend some


got on her knees and took him in her mouth. Mr. Black smiled to himself. None of
the girls remembered being friends. They just knew each other as his girls. His life was
turning out great since his invention of the Mental Pills. He was getting orders from all
over the world. He had recent gotten a letter from a young boy named Tommy and his
father, thanking him for his work.
He sat back and enjoyed his blowjob, thinking how much better the world is with more
bimbosluts!
Bethany stepped forward and grabbed the man by his collar, “Get in here, baby…” She
pulled the man inside and slammed the door behind them. Once again, the street was
silent.
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Elites shift population for several reasons. It helps them retain power and control the masses if a larger percentage of the population is on their side. But, sometimes population shift is used BEFORE a takeover. Interestingly, I happened to watch British television documentary series last night that discussed this very notion.

The historical series "Fact or Fiction: Episode 03 - King Harald" makes mention of the political maneuvering taking place before the Norman invasion of 1066.

It is explained that Normans had been brought into England well before the


invasion, some of which had key positions of influence, such as the high status of bishop. Nobles had also been brought in and given land.

What is interestingly revealed in this episode is that the English king, Edward the Confessor, seemed very naive to the consequences of this. Because he had lived in exile in Normandy for some time before returning to assume the English crown, he thought he was surrounding himself by allied friends. But, it turns out that letting foreigners into his nation in key strategic positions was a disastrous mistake that all of the English would pay for, and arguably still pay for today. Watch the video linked here to see how bringing in the foreign Normans set the English up for disaster.

Had the English noton and the taps are still on – for now. Krista Mahr visited South Africa’s second city to find out how they did it, and what lessons can be learned by cities facing up to similar emergencies.

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There’s certainly no shortage of rain in the north of England, but austerity has taken a toll on community spirit there and villages and towns have fallen into disrepair. In Todmorden, residents got their hands dirty and found a solution. Naomi Larsson visited the tiny Yorkshire town from which a global movement has grown.

In nearby Sheffield, Kate Lyons met some people tackling the taboo of adults with few friend when you’re an


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Sunday, August 04, 2013

Blessed Sunday

Yesterday I had a date. One that I'd been looking forward to for over a week. One that was rare and precious. It was a date with my firstborn son. Just he and I. That is the rare part. I often find myself with time to spend with just Julianna. And sometimes with Adam. But time with Josh alone doesn't happen often enough. He has spent more nights away from home this summer than home. A lot more. Now that he's a teenager, he goes and does more than ever. He spends a lot of time at Grams and Pappy's house. (And he would move in with them if


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The horses ranged in age from adults to yearlings. Some had leg injuries that were ignored. Agents also seized five rabbits from the home that were neglected.

The Silbaughs' were evicted from her home and left the horses unattended, humane agents said.

The horses were placed with foster homes across the region and the rabbits are being cared for by PAWsibilities and the Humane Society of Great Akron.

Diane Silbaugh's history includes animal abuse convictions in Medina, Cuyahoga Falls and Brimfield Township, agents said.

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improving but progress is glacially slow. He has
some control and movement on his left side--for example, he can move his arm.
He has no movement (but recently some sensations) on his right side and right
arm.

He can speak and converse but he's not as quick as he was before the stroke.
He no longer needs to search for his words and he is able to talk about the
issues of the day. In the beginning, he struggled to formulate sentences; not
so much now. He does speak with a low volume and may slur some words because
he still does not have full control of his facial muscles. He has some
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"They're like a bunch of blind men," he says in his spectacularly blunt way. "Nobody knows what they are looking for, where they should look for it, who to look for. It's like this network will basically only grow. It's not like they are even close, in my opinion, to stopping this."

This isn't a cheap shot from a man being glib. It's a sad warning from a man who should know.

Van Ostaeyen is a Middle East historian, an Arabist, a lover of Syria, a multilingual maestro. For years, from his tiny apartment in Mechelen, Belgium, he has tracked, studied and communicated with European


jihadists who joined ISIS and other extremist groups.

His contacts are vast and eyebrow-raising. When we first met in November to talk about the network behind the Paris attacks, he had to break from the interview to read a text from an al-Qaeda contact. They often berate him, try to convert him and sometimes just answer his questions.

Pieter Van Ostayen says intelligence groups are failing in the fight against ISIS. 'Nobody knows what they are looking for, where they should look for it, who to look for,' he says. (CBC News)

Few understand ISIS like Van Ostaeyen. And what he sees now is a mutation in the group, in the rhetoric and the recruiting. He points out that the language is less about Islamic fundamentalism and is increasingly focussed onthe notion of revenge.

"What they really want … is the clash of civilizations," he says. Revenge for what ISIS claims the West has done to Iraq and Syria. And the more ground ISIS loses there, the more the group lusts for bloodshed in Europe.

Along the railway line

The shift in language may coincide with recruiting patterns.

After the Paris attacks, Van Ostaeyen pulled out a map and pointed to a train line between Antwerp and Brussels. It was the towns along that line, he said, that were home to the bulk of the foreign fighters from Belgium.

Radical clerics used to preach in those towns, he said. They groomed dozens of young men. They turned them into fundamentalists and then into jihadists. And those young men were the ones investigators worried


in by a man named Khalid Zerkani.

"Khalid Zerkani's network is a network of hardened criminals," says Van Ostaeyen

Nicknamed Papa Noel, the heavyset, bearded man handed out gifts of phones and electronics and games to his charges.

He taught the uninitiated how to steal from tourists in order to raise funds for training trips to Syria. His ambitions were more about violence than about religious fundamentalism. And his pitch to those under his spell was that their criminal backgrounds were exactly what ISIS needed

"The Zerkani network is far, far, more dangerous, and far more important for the Islamic State," says Van Ostaeyen.

'Weren't known as radicals'

Van Ostaeyen identifies this as one of the key reasons investigators have been unable to get ahead of the ISIS network in Europe.

Brussels suicide bombers Ibrahim,left, and Khalid El Bakraoui, right. Pieter Van Ostaeyen says the pair were known to police, but as hardened criminals, not radicals. (AFP/Getty Images) He points to the Brussels suicide bombers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui as prime examples.

"They weren't known as radicals. They were known as hardened criminals. The police were using two lists. The list of people you should be looking for because they are known for radical Islam, and the other list, people known for violent crimes. But they didn't cross-reference them. Nobody actually had any idea that they had to look on the other list."

He says the allure of criminals for ISIS is significant. They have useful connections to weapons, money laundering, fake IDs, safe houses. And, crucially, they aren't as hard to convince


to engage in violence.

When asked if ISIS is handpicking them for this reason Van Ostaeyen nods, "In a way, yes."

Belgian investigators tracked Zerkani's network for two years, resulting in several arrests in 2014, including Zerkani himself. He has been sentenced to 12 years in jail for participating in a terrorist organization. He is appealing.

"Mr. Zerkani has perverted an entire generation, particularly the youth of Molenbeek," prosecutor Bernard Michel said last February.

But Europe's security agencies are a long way from understanding the extent of the network he built. And this is part of what frustrates Van Ostaeyen.

Not much optimism

"They are not, at this point, capable of even identifying the core of this network, where is it coming from, who is behind it all," he says, shaking his head.

There isrules in a way that they viewed as more favorable to their candidate. One of those changes, the Las Vegas Sun reported, was a process for verifying voice votes; another took issue with the state party chairwoman, Roberta Lange, heading up the convention. Supporters at the event circulated petitions to the same end. The scene was set. The first report from the credentials committee on Saturday morning indicated that Clinton had a slight edge in delegates. Sanders fans voted against that report, per Jon Ralston, and then demanded a recount – but this was simply a preliminary figure…. That was when the vote to approve the rules as written – Roberta’s Rules versus Robert’s Rules, as some Sanders backers dubbed them – was conducted by voice vote. The


were held earlier this year), Greens won 44 races in communities across the country.

In California, all four Green candidates were elected: Angelia Hillman, board of the Klamath Trinity Joint Unified School District; Jeffrey Dean Schwartz, board of the Arcata School District; Rama Zarcufsky, board of the Maple Creek School District; Scott Kender, board of the Redway Community Services District.

In Colorado, Merrily Mazzawas reelected to the Lafayette City Council on a strong platform opposing fracking and supporting community rights, sustaining powerful attacks from the Democratic Party. Bryan Williams was elected to the Ouray School Board after helping to found his local Green Party only months earlier! Julie Bañuelos received 24.26% of the vote, strongest showing ever in a Denver, citywide race in the state party’s history.

Connecticut, 8 Green candidateswere elected, including Jean de Smet for Mayor of Windham, Mirna Martinez for New London Board of Education, and Dagmar Noll for Town Council in Willimantic. In Waterford, Green candidates won 5 races. The results in Waterford set a record for the largest contingency of Greens to serve on a legislative assembly in New England.

Massachusetts, Laurance Kimbrough was elected to the Cambridge School Committee.

In Minnesota, Cam Gordon was reelected to a fourth term on the Minneapolis City Council. LaTrisha Vetaw won her race for At-Large member of the Minneapolis Park Board, replacing Annie Young, the Green Party’s longest serving elected official in the country.

New York, two Green candidates came within winning distance: Jabari Brisport drew 29% in his race for New York City Council (District 35 in Brooklyn).


In Glens Falls, Robin Barkenhagen received 35% of the vote for Councilor-At-Large.

Ohio, Devin Branch drew 33.5% in his race for Mayor of East Cleveland.

In Pennsylvania, Dave Ochmanowicz and Stuart Chen-Hayes won their elections to School Board and Judge of Elections respectively in Bucks County.the Ohio Senate and reach his desk. But Smith said he believes House Republicans would have the 60 votes required to override Kasich's veto.

Meanwhile, Smith said House Republicans have "a lot of consternation" with House Bill 585, which seeks six changes to Ohio gun and background check laws - including tightening Ohio's existing background check database and a "red flag" law allowing courts to authorize gun seizures for individuals who show warning signs of violence.

The changes were recommended by a bipartisan study group on gun policy; Kasich has been pushing for the changes, particularly after a mass shooting at Parkland High School in Florida in February.

Smith said many House Republicans are worried the "red flag" proposal would take away people's guns without due process and could be exploited


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In the last decade, more than 1.5 million people have visited Acworth for annual events held by the city and the Acworth Business Association, Allegood said.

Construction will begin on a number of SPLOST projects throughout the city, including adding 12 acres of walking trails

and an amphitheater to Logan Farm Park and quieting the railroad cars as they blow through town. The city’s police force will be using a new police station, Allegood added, and the Georgia Symphony is scheduled to perform at the Acworth Cultural Arts Center.

The first children’s health care-only center will open in Acworth this August, Allegood said, a project that involved Acworth Elementary School, Barber Middle School, the United Way, WellStar, Cobb Schools Foundation


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Mohamed ElBaradei described the comments of the military council about the clashes near to the Defense Ministry as a “tragedy.”

some of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces members arranged a press meeting at noon on Thursday to comment on the clashes between anti-military demonstrators and unidentified thugs that placed about seven victims and a lot of wounded on Wednesday.

On Twitter, ElBaradei opened fire on "the comments of Major General Hassan al-Roweiny, member of the military council, in which he said that he asked the demonestrators to return to their homes until the real perpetrators of the attack are known, adding that the demonstrators refused to be protected from the unknown attackers."

The previous head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who pulled out of the


while they are in power,” said Mohamed Gad, a 22 year-old member of the Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh presidential campaign. As Gad pointed out, the majority of the sit-in does not comprise of Salafis or just Abu Ismail supporters.

After the clashes that began early Wednesday morning and continued until noon, many at the Abbasseya sit-in were left pondering the bloody turn of events, and what it means for them. They were especially upset with the complete absence of security to stop the violence until Wednesday at noon, after many had already been killed.

“I started coming two days ago, to increase pressure on the rule of the military council, but stayed when people began to get attacked. This morning thugs came into our camps and literally slaughtered some ofebb in the violence, protesters who left the sit-in to go to work or grab breakfast were attacked, and some were killed on the way to the metro station. Presidential candidate and legal activist Khaled Ali said on Wednesday that in total 20 bodies were identified from both ends of the barricade.

“At one point in the early morning I saw seven people gunned down in front of me by a machine gun,” said Mohamed Samy, an activist at the sit-in.

The sit in was relatively small, with around 500 constant participants, but once the clashes started, the protesters gathered support from various corners. Even Al-Azhar scholars showed up, led by the imam of Al-Azhar Mosque, Salah Nassar, to express their condemnation of the attacks and their solidarity with the


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Although the prior art safety features for syringes are useful, the safety syringes described elsewhere herein are betterSECRETARY of State Julian Smith has met representatives of loyalist paramilitary groups to discuss the Brexit withdrawal agreement and legacy arrangements.

He hosted a reception for leading figures including representatives of political and community organisations linked to the UDA, UVF and Red Hand Commando.

The meeting at the secretary of state’s official residence at Hillsborough shortly after Christmas – prior to the murder of Glenn Quinn in Carrickfergus – was attended by around a dozen leading loyalists. The main issues raised are believed to have been loyalist concerns at British prime minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit withdrawal agreement which potentially places a border in the Irish Sea. Troubles prosecutions and loyalist concerns at what they claim is a one-sided legacy process were also raised.

A source said Mr Smith was keen to


meet a range of people, including fringe organisations, to be up to speed and properly informed about outstanding political issues.

‘Stop the Betrayal Act’ town hall meetings organised by loyalists before the general election were said to have caused concerns in Downing Street, which is keen to avoid unrest associated with the passing of the withdrawal agreement later this month.

On Sunday Mr Smith met Irish-language lobby group Conradh na Gaeilge. TUV leader Jim Allister accused him of “pandering” to the organisation and giving it “special treatment”.

Read More: PSNI warning over loyalist port Brexit protests

A British government spokesperson told The Irish News: “The secretary of state continues to engage with a range of groups and individuals from across the community around the latest political developments.”

The British minister hosted a receptionfor leading loyalists, including representatives of political and community organisations linked to the UDA, UVF and Red Hand Commando.

The meeting took place at the Secretary of State's official residence at Hillsborough shortly after Christmas - prior to the murder of Glenn Quinn in Carrickfergus - and was attended by around a dozen leading loyalists.

The main issue raised was believed to be loyalist concerns at Boris Johnson's Brexit withdrawal agreement which potentially places a border in the Irish sea.

The issue of Troubles prosecutions and loyalist concerns at what they claim is a one sided legacy process were also raised with the Northern Ireland minister.

A source said Mr Smith was keen to meet with a range of people, including fringe organisations, to be up to speed and properly informed about


the outstanding political issues.

A number of 'Stop the Betrayal Act' town hall meetings organised by loyalists prior to December's general election was said to have caused concerns in Downing Street, which is keen to avoid any unrest associated with the passing of the Withdrawal Agreement later this month.

A UK government spokesperson told The Irish News: "The Secretary of State continues to engage with a range of groups and individuals from across the community around the latest political developments".A Dallas nurse who took a commercial flight from Cleveland hours before reporting symptoms of Ebola says that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention told her it was okay to fly.

Amber Vinson helped treat Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian man who died in Dallas of the Ebola virus earlier this month. On Wednesday, the CDC announced that she had contracted the virus as well. The CDC also revealed that she had taken a flight to Dallas on Monday, though it said that it was extremely unlikely that any other passengers were exposed.

Vinson told CBS Dallas Fort Worth that she was feeling ill before boarding her flight. She had a low grade fever, but she said that officials told her it was okay to get on the plane.


by the CDC that the passenger may have been symptomatic earlier than initially suspected; including the possibility of possessing symptoms while onboard the flight," the letter said.This would conflict with CDC's earlier statement that she didn't have symptoms of the illness while she was on the flight and didn't start showing symptoms until Tuesday.

After Vinson reported symptoms of Ebola on Tuesday, she was placed in isolation. On Wednesday, she was transported to Emory Hospital in Atlanta, where she will continue to receive treatment. She is in stable condition.

The 29-year-old nurse is the second person to contract Ebola in the United States. The first was Nina Pham, who is also a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where Duncan was being treated. Duncan is the first person tohave died of Ebola in the United States.

The CDC is trying to locate the 132 passengers that were on the Frontier Airlines flight 1143 with Vinson to determine their potential risk of Ebola. On Wednesday night, an official said that a Fort Worth family with a child had been isolated after a member of the family boarded a Frontier airline with Vinson, according to NBC DFW's Brian Curtis.

After a scheduled trip to Denver, Frontier Airlines said that the plane that Vinson flew on was taken out of service. The seat covers and carpeting are to be replaced, the crew placed on paid leave, according to Marc Stewart of KMGH.


In an offseason headlined by money-infused teams entering the scene, high-profile import signings, and Yiliang "Doublelift" Peng destroying the internet with his move to Team SoloMid, Team Dignitas was seen as a complete non-factor. Sure, they picked up their own imports, but instead of breaking the bank on a big name from South Korea, Dignitas signed two unproven European talents in Lennart "Smittyj" Warkus and Thomas "Kirei" Yuen.

Dignitas' other signing during the break, NA LCS veteran Apollo "Apollo" Price, was another shrewd, under-the-radar move by Dig that bolstered its lineup. Apollo started his professional career on Team Coast two years ago before joining the aptly named, offense-oriented Team Impulse for the 2015 campaign.

"Well, first off, English speakers," Apollo told ESPN when asked about the differences between his old

Chet Faker walks on water. Absolutely everything this man touches turns to gold. From his recent refix of his own “1998“, this version featuring the sultry vocals of Banks, to his work with The Cactus Channel last week, Chet Faker has been teasing new music all summer. The only thing that could possibly top his music is the music he makes with Aussie future bass pioneer Flume. The Future Classic signed pairing have proved more than once they know how to make great music between their collaborative EP, multiple features, and co-productions the duo has in their pocket.

Recently Faker discussed his 2013 Lockjaw EP and upcoming projects in an interview with Thump where he mentioned a new EP with Flume. Winter is coming and hopefully it carries this


Regina bouts a mini preview of boxing at Glasgow 2014

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Friday night the ring at Credit Union Eventplex in Regina, Saskatchewan will hold a battle between two teams – Canada and Wales – getting ready to compete at the Commonwealth Games in July.

Women Bouts

On Friday, Canadian Ariane Fortin (above right) – current national champion at 75 kg – will face Wales champion Lauren Price. Fortin comes into the ring after bringing home a silver medal from the Feliks Stam tournament in Warsaw in April; a competition where the two-time World champion shook off ring rust from not competing internationally in months.

The 20 year-old Price on the other hand, has been participating in several championships on the European circuit during 2013 and 2014 and has put her soccera crazy experience,” said Velasquez in one of his Tweets. “ Time for the big fight, I am ready.”

In the 52kg division Emilien Boucher will box European champ, Andrew Selby.

Samir El Mais, 33, in the 91kg bout will use his experience to box 19-year-old southpaw Kody Davies. El Mais won bronze at the Continental Championships last year and gold at the Independence Cup 2013 and the 51st edition of the Belgrade Winner Tournament.

Another Canadian to watch is 19-year old Arthur Biyarslanov, at 64 kg who was the 2012 bronze medalist at the Branderburg Cup. He will box Zack Davies who was the 2010 Youth Olympics quarterfinalist.

The Canadian Commonwealth Boxing Team will officially be announced in the next couple of weeks.

History will be made in 2016 when Rio de


Janeiro, Brazil hosts the Games of the XXXI Olympiad, marking the first time that a South American country will welcome the world to an Olympic Games. It is also just the third time that the Games will be held in the southern hemisphere, following Melbourne 1956 and Sydney 2000.Russians Warn of More Strikes on U.S. Troops in Syria

A Russian general threatened on Thursday to strike U.S. special operations troops and their Syrian allies in Syria, deepening a growing crisis just days after Russian jets bombed Americans and their allies near the Islamic State-held city of Deir Ezzor.

American special operations forces embedded with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Russian commandos working alongside pro-Syrian government fighters are only miles apart in and around the Islamic State stronghold, and there is growing concern that they could turn their weapons on each other as the two sides race to claim the oil-rich province.

The Russian airstrike on Saturday injured six SDF fighters. No Americans were hurt.

In a blunt statement, Russian Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov accused the SDF of attacking Syrian


Chicago man who sued against city handgun ban dies

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By DON BABWIN, Associated Press

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By DON BABWIN, Associated Press

Posted Apr. 6, 2014 at 7:00 PM

CHICAGO — Otis McDonald, the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit that prompted the U.S. Supreme Court decision that forced Chicago to abandon its 28-year ban on handguns, has died at the age of 80, a family spokesman said Sunday.

Fred Jones said his uncle died on Friday while in hospice care after a long battle with cancer.

McDonald, an unassuming retired maintenance engineer, became a hero to the pro-gun movement, in large part because of his life story and the simple but eloquent way he expressed his desire to have a handgun to protect himself and hisfamily from the gun-toting drug dealers who set up shop just outside his front door and the burglars who broke into his home.

Another of the four plaintiffs in the lawsuit that resulted in the court's 2010 decision, Adam Orlov, said that while he does not know how important having McDonald as the lead plaintiff was from a "legal standpoint... he was very important from a human angle, a very compelling likable person with a very real, very common American story to tell — a veteran, a family man, who is dealing with very real issues of urban decay and crime and trying to raise his family."

When the case was making its way to the Supreme Court, McDonald's story became a huge part of the narrative: a teenager who


came to Chicago from Louisiana as part of the Great Migration who worked his way up from janitor to maintenance engineer, saved his money and with his wife, bought a house on Chicago's South Side and raised their family.

Then, as he grew older, the once-quiet neighborhood deteriorated and from inside his house he could hear the sound of gunfire and shattering liquor bottles and look out his window to the sight of drunken fights and busy drug dealers. He came home at least three times to a burglarized house and was confronted by a man who threatened to kill him when he called police to report gunfire.

"I just got the feeling that I'm on my own," McDonald told The Associated Press in 2010 as he waited for theSupreme Court decision. "The fact is that so many people my age have worked hard all their life, getting a nice place to live in... and having one (a handgun) would make us feel a lot more comfortable."

After the court decision, McDonald remained active in the gun rights movement in Illinois, speaking out in favor, for example, of the state allowing people to carry concealed weapons in public before such a law was passed last year after a federal court ruling forced the state to enact concealed carry legislation. Illinois was the last of the 50 states to allow concealed carry.

"We could not have gotten the kind of (state) carry law we got without McDonald versus Chicago," said Valinda Rowe, a spokeswoman for IllinoisCarry, which favors concealed carry.


The invention relates to a game board or playing board on which several games can be played. Playing boards, such as draughts boards, chess boards, the playing board for halma and the like, on which one game can be played, are generally known. Playing boards are also in fact known on which several games can be pursued. For this purpose, the playing face is provided with a number of lines within which the desired game can be pursued. All these games consist of a board with a number of playing pieces which can be moved on the playing board. Such games or the like can be pursued on a flat base and the movement has to be horizontal.The presidential candidate's session with Lawrence O'Donnell is the second most-watched such event of the campaign season thus far.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris drew a sizable audience for a town hall on MSNBC on Tuesday night.

The town hall with host Lawrence O'Donnell (which aired as an installment of his nightly show Last Word) delivered 2.21 million viewers, the second-largest audience of any such event in the campaign season so far. It ranks behind only the 2.5 million for Bernie Sanders' Fox News appearance in April.

Harris also drew the biggest audience for any of CNN's candidate town halls to date. Her Jan. 28 event, the first of the campaign, drew a little under 2 million viewers — setting a record for a single-candidate town hall on the network. The


CNN town hall also outdrew Harris' MSNBC appearance in the key news demographic of adults 25-54, with 708,000 such viewers to 307,000 for MSNBC on Tuesday.

While it was a solid night for the California senator, the town hall's ratings were not noticeably higher than Last Word's typical numbers. O'Donnell's show averaged about 2.1 million viewers the previous week and is at 2.04 million for the month (through May 28).

MSNBC also finished second in the hour to Fox News' The Ingraham Angle (2.44 million viewers, 374,000 adults 25-54), though it did easily top CNN Tonight (919,000 total, 261,000 in the news demo).

Early polls for the large field of would-be Democratic nominees have Harris among the top four or five behind former Vice President Joe Biden, Sanders and Sen. ElizabethU.S. stocks advanced Friday as investors monitored the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan.

The three major indices closed out the session logging their best performances in the first half of the year in decades. Friday was the last equity trading session of June and the close of the first half of 2019.

As of market close, the S&P 500 (^GSPC) was up 17% in the first six months of the year, its best first-half performance since 1997. The Dow (^DJI) rose 14% over the six-month period to round out its best showing since 1999. And the Nasdaq (^IXIC) rose more than 20%, marking its best first six months to the year since 2003.

Friday also marked the first of two days of the G-20 summit in Japan, with President Donald Trump


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Crude oil prices (CL=F) have also been on the ascent in June amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran and recent government reports pointing to smaller stockpiles. West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures settled at $58.47 per barrel on Friday and ended higher by about 9% in June, marking the best month for the commodity since January.

STOCKS

The FTSE Russell indices will rebalance after market close on Friday, impacting the components of the Russell 1000, 2000 (^RUT), 3000 and Microcap indices, as well as the index funds and ETFs that track these. The reconstitution typically drives higher-than-average volumes, especially toward the end of the trading day. Newly public companies Uber (UBER), Lyft (LYFT) and Spotify (SPOT) are among the companies entering the Russell 1000 after market close,according to a release from FTSE Russell earlier this month.

Nike (NKE) reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings per share that missed consensus expectations, while posting stronger-than-expected sales results in North America and China. The stock recovered some losses despite the earnings miss after the company guided toward margin expansion in fiscal 2020 and doubled down on its commitment to invest in the Chinese market over the coming quarters, including with a roll-out of a women’s apparel line for Asian markets and Nike app launch in China in the first half of 2020.

The logo of Dow Jones Industrial Average stock market index listed company Nike (NKE) is seen in Los Angeles, California, United States, April 12, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Apple (AAPL) announced Thursday evening that its Chief Design Officer Jony Ive would


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Dwayne Johnson

Dwayne is on the show with his Jumanji co-stars Jack Black and Kevin Hart.

Their new film, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle – a standalone sequel to 1995’s Jumanji – hits UK cinemas on 20 December 2017.

The film also stars Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, Bobby Cannavale.

Dwayne – also known as The Rock – kicked off his movie career back in 2002, with a starring role in The Scorpion King – a gig that earned him £10 million, which was a world record for an actor in his first starring role.

Of course, his most famous role is Luke Hobbs in The Fast and the Furious franchise. Dwayne, 45, was the world’s highest-paid actor in 2016, and Time magazine also named him one of the 100most influential people in the world.

He’s been married to wife Lauren Hashian since 2007, and has two children.

In Jumanji, Dwayne takes on the role of Dr. Xander Bravestone, an archaeologist and explorer.

Dwayne Johnson is on the show with his Jumanji co-stars Jack Black and Kevin Hart

Kevin Hart

Kevin is best known for his roles in the films Paper Soldiers, Scary Movie 3, Soul Plane, In the Mix and Little Fockers.

He’s also known for his show Real Husbands of Hollywood, which he co-created with Chris Spencer. The show follows Kevin, along with other married celebrities, who each play a comical fictionalised version of themselves.

Kevin has also appeared in an underwear commercial for for the American department store Macy’s.

Kevin, 38, divorced wife Torrei Hart, with whom he raises two children, in


November 2011.

He married Eniko Parrish in August 2016, and their son, Kenzo Kash, was born in November this year.

In Jumanji, Kevin takes on the role of Franklin “Moose” Finbar, a zoologist and weapons specialist.

Jack Black is Professor Shelly Oberon in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Jessica Chastain

Jessica, who’s on the promo trail for her new movie, Molly’s Game, will also be sitting down with Graham.

In the film – based on the memoir Molly’s Game: From Hollywood’s Elite to Wall Street’s Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker by Molly Bloom – Jessica plays the lead role.

Jessica’s character, Molly Bloom, becomes the target of an FBI investigation of her underground poker empire for Hollywood celebrities, athletes, business tycoons, and the Russian mob.

The actress, 40, receivedan Academy Award for Best Actress nomination for playing an aspiring socialite in The Help, and she won a Golden Globe in 2012 for playing a CIA agent in the thriller Zero Dark Thirty.

Noel Gallagher

The rocker, who was recently filmed backstage with bag of “weed” by teenagers, is tonight’s musical guest.

The former Oasis star released his new High Flying Birds album, Who Built the Moon, last month, reaching number one in the UK.

Noel recently responded to speculation that Oasis could be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.

He said: “I’ve already been approached by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame… The f***in’ fella from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame came to me and said, ‘Do you know in two years you’ll


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At the hearing on the motion, the State called only one witness to testify, the

community supervision officer who had most recently supervised Foster. As to the first

allegation, she testified that Foster had tested positive for marijuana on October 3, 2005,

and although he had claimed he had used the marijuana before being placed on

community supervision, he was verbally admonished at that time and “warned that the

violation would stay.” She stated, “[I]f he was tested positive again, he would be

sanctioned at that time.” As to the second allegation, she testified that a curfew check

was randomly done on Foster on April 17, 2006, and he was found not to be at home.

She testified that Foster received three weekends


of incarceration as sanctions for this

violation. Finally, as to the January 25, 2007 allegations, she testified that Foster was

charged and arrested but that she did not know any specific facts about those cases.

The State then offered, and the court admitted, a certified copy of a federal judgment,

signed on September 17, 2007, that showed Kodell Valentino Foster was convicted of

possession with intent to distribute cocaine within 1000 feet of a public school,

possession with intent to distribute marijuana within 1000 feet of a public school,

possession of a firearm during the commission of a drug trafficking crime, and

possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

        Foster did not testify at the hearing, but both he and his trial counsel informed

the court that the federalbut not without treasuring, at once, mankind’s diversiform virtuosity – the vowels and consonants of the spoken word can be written (and printed) in many different scripts. Originally, almost all languages have been written in their own particular scribal hand, but most have converged to the same letter shapes. While the Luther Bible was first printed in Schwabacher letter, and later editions have been typeset in Fraktur, today, German is written in Latin ‘Antiqua’. Likewise, the baroque gothic blackletter of the 1611 English King James Bible and that of the 1637 Dutch Statenvertaling have nowadays been replaced with the ‘roman’ type style. Some languages, like Greek, however stand strong and are still written in their own endogenic alphabet. Then again, some others, like Syriac-Aramaic, are written in up


of the Greek and Coptic alphabets has been especially laborious, going through dozens of iterations in search for that sweet spot between modern tradition and antique elegance. Tradition has it that Saint Mesrop not only translated the entire Bible into both Armenian and Georgian, but also devised two completely new alphabets in order to be able write down his translations. The Textus Plantijn typeface covers both scripts. Moreover, especially for Dodecaglotta, the original, ancient version of the Georgian alphabet was drawn. While modern Georgian is written and typed in Mkhedruli script, tradition requires that liturgical texts in Old-Georgian – and Holy Scripture by excellence – are set in Khutsuri. Hence, I have designed complete sets of Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri, in addition to the secular script, thereby honoring thethat question -- is the future in self-contained, immersive festivals, or in introducing dance music into an existing live infrastructure?

That fact -- that dance acts had become an efficient live moneymaker -- was the biggest story in live music, especially after the 2011 Electric Daisy's inaugural turn in Las Vegas, which drew around 250,000 people over three days. But the sudden popular attention raised questions about how that new interest would play out.

Steve Goodgold, the dance-music czar at the booking agency Windish, remembers the moment when agents had to take notice of electronica. "When Electric Daisy first did 100,000 tickets, it was the shock heard around the world," he said Wednesday on the "Creating the Experience: The Ascendance of the Music Festival" panel at the EDMBiz conference in


venture from Robert Sillerman, the promoter who oversaw the corralling of an international network of venues and promoters that became Live Nation. The venture is working to acquire a network of regional dance promoters to streamline and corporatize the byzantine and often ad-hoc network of touring electronica. "We'll be able to tell agents, 'We'll book you a 30-date tour, but we'll expect some allegiance from you. That other guy won't be there next month. I've seen it.' "

The panel turned a bit flinty in the Q&A period, when an audience member addressed what he called "The elephant in the room" -- Rotella's arrest in connection with a corruption scandal involving the L.A. Coliseum. The Coliseum was the site of Electric Daisy until a teenager's 2010 drug death promptedfees, and if they want to stimulate the economy, they should be encouraging us."

The panelists had valid defenses of the experience and ultimate aims of Electric Daisy, but no one specifically addressed or defended Rotella's alleged role in the Coliseum case. Rotella has fervently denied all wrongdoing, but it shows how the exploding market for electroncia festivals in America has its own growing pains to deal with.

[For the record, 11:25 a.m., June 8: the title of this post has been changed.]

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opening, the lid being urged by a spring toward the closing position. A hook member is fixed to the leading end of a leader tape which is connected to the magnetic tape and when the magnetic tape cartridge is not used, the magnetic tape is fully wound around the reel with the hook member retracted inside the tape outlet opening and the lid held in the closing position. In the case of the magnetic tape cartridge of this type, when the magnetic tape cartridge is loaded in the recording and reproducing system, a drive means in the recording and reproducing system engages with engagement teeth on the reel exposed outside at the central portion of the lower casing half and a tape drawing mechanism in the recording andthe next first lady in four out of the past five elections. The only time the poll was wrong was in 2008, when readers picked Cindy McCain's Oatmeal Butterscotch cookies over Michelle Obama's shortbread cookies months before Barack Obama's victory at the polls.

Nine thousand readers voted in the cookie poll this year, with 51.5 percent picking Obama's recipe and 48.5 percent choosing Romney's. Only 287 votes separated the two women, the smallest margin in first lady cookie contest history.

But cookies aren't the only oddball contest with election prediction powers. Click here for a full run down on the many other unofficial ways to predict who will the White House in November.


Nebraska announced on Monday that it has completed a contract for a three-game series with Northern Illinois in 2016, 2017 and 2019.

The first of the three games against the Huskies will take place in Chicago at Soldier Field on Sept. 24, 2016. NIU has played neutral-site games the past two years at Soldier Field against Wisconsin and Iowa, and the matchup will be Nebraska's first-ever game at one of the most historical stadiums in the country.

In addition to the 2016 game in Chicago, Northern Illinois will visit Lincoln on Sept. 2, 2017, in a season-opening game, and the Huskies will also travel to Memorial Stadium on Sept. 14, 2019. Nebraska has won the only previous two meetings against Northern Illinois, winning games in Lincoln in 1989 and 1990.

NorthernIllinois owns a 12-1 record in 2012, and will play in the Orange Bowl against Florida State on Jan. 3. The Huskies' only loss this season was a one-point setback against Iowa in the season opener at Soldier Field. The Huskies have won at least 11 games in each of the past three seasons, and have appeared in a bowl game in six of the past seven seasons.

"This should be a great series, not only for both football programs, but for Husker fans as well," Nebraska Associate Athletic Director for Football Jeff Jamrog said. "Northern Illinois has a record that speaks for itself over the past few years, particularly with qualifying for a BCS bowl this year. Our fans have the opportunity to go to Chicago and see


a game at Soldier Field, and also get to see an outstanding opponent come to Lincoln twice."

The 2016 game in Chicago completes Nebraska's non-conference schedule for that season. The Huskers will open the year with home games against Fresno State (Sept. 3), Tennessee (Sept. 10) and Wyoming (Sept. 17), before taking on Northern Illinois. Nebraska is also scheduled to open Big Ten play on Oct. 1, 2016, at Northwestern giving Nebraska fans the opportunity for back-to-back trips to the Windy City.

The 2017 game against Northern Illinois is the second game on the non-conference schedule that season, including a Sept. 9 trip to Tennessee. The 2019 game against the Huskies gives Nebraska two scheduled non-conference games in that season, adding to a previously home game with South Alabama (Aug.As a result
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