to artists residing in Washington state. Each selected artist will receive a $1,000 stipend. Application deadline is 11 p.m., Friday, May 4. Click here to apply.

SPU is restoring lower Mapes Creek and creating an open-stream channel in Beer Sheva Park to improve habitat for juvenile Chinook salmon in Lake Washington. The project area includes 52nd Avenue South, between Rainier Avenue South and South Henderson Street, and into the park.

The creek restoration is currently in design through early 2013 and construction is expected to begin in mid 2013. Project completion is expected in 2015. The artist or artist team will work with SPU and consultants to develop the artwork within the schedule of the restoration.

The call is open to professional artists residing in the United States. Application deadline isbe completed between September 2012 and December 2013.

From a living sculpture designed to manage stormwater runoff to a giant squid bike rack, we present six temporary artworks and performances that illustrate how artists are shaping the conversation around environmental sustainability. The artworks help celebrate The Next Fifty, the 50th anniversary of the 1962 World's Fair, at Seattle Center, April 21 to Oct. 21. Go here for specific locations and dates.

Adam Frank'sCURRENT is a real-time map of Seattle's hydroelectric generation and energy use projected onto the north wall in Seattle Center's Center House. Mandy Greer will create the 250-foot crocheted artwork Mater Matrix Mother and Medium. The artwork, in a full spectrum of blues, will be attached to trees and columns, creating a "river" that sits seven to 15


water and invite viewers to reflect on the preservation of our water resources in the series of short films Water Calling.

Frank, Greer and Levy will discuss their artworks in a panel discussion, 2 to 3:30 p.m., Sunday, April 22, at Seattle Center's Center House as part of The Next Fifty's Earth Day Celebration. Julie Parrett, landscape architect, Seattle Design Commissioner and member of the Seattle Arts Commission's Public Art Advisory Committee, will moderate the panel.

The San Francisco artist group Rebar will unveil their temporary installation Seattlight at King Street Station's newly refurbished Jackson Plaza, 8 to 9 p.m., Friday, April 20. Stop by the station at 303 South Jackson St. and meet the artists as they light up the plaza.

Seattlight is a nighttime, interactive art piece designed tohighlight the unseen pathways of pedestrian traffic through the plaza. The artwork lights up in response to the movements of people as they walk past and through the space.

The artwork was commissioned to celebrate the new public plaza created as part of the King Street Station restoration. The artwork will remain on view throughout 2012.

Get an update on the city's arts and cultural space development initiatives at a brown-bag session, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday, May 3. The Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs and the Seattle Arts Commission present this free, public event at City Hall's Bertha Knight Landes Room, 601 Fifth Ave.

Hear findings and recommendations from last December's two-day event Cultural Space Seattle, which focused on shaping policies to keep and create affordable space for


wood into brightly painted, dimensional wall pieces. Beecher gathered tin cans and bottle caps and cut and wove the tossed debris into motifs in Candy Cobweb Quilt (2003). In The Disposable Heroes series (2005), Blackwell used thrown-away materials such as plastic forks or those iconic, red plastic cups and melted them to form life-sized heads.

City Curator and Collections Manager Deborah Paine selected the artworks from the city's Portable Works Collection. Nine of the artworks were recently purchased by the Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) Solid Waste Division using SPU 1% for Art funds.

This year we will celebrate the 10th annual Mayor's Arts Awards. The awards recognize the accomplishments of artists, arts and cultural organizations and community members committed to enriching their communities through the arts.

The Seattle Arts Commission willreview public nominations and recommend recipients to Mayor McGinn for final selection. The mayor will honor the recipients at a public ceremony at Seattle Center, noon, Friday, Aug. 31. He will also open the Bumbershoot Visual Arts Exhibits for a free public preview that day.

Mayor Mike McGinn is looking for an artist to serve on the Seattle Design Commission. The artist will provide advice on plans for new public projects such as fire stations, parks and streetscapes, and on major projects affecting the city including the waterfront and light rail stations. The artist will also serve as the Design Commission's liaison to the Seattle Arts Commission's Public Art Advisory Committee.

The 10-member Design Commission includes architects, urban designers, environmental designers, urban planners, landscape architects, engineers, an artist, a member-at-large


and one member from Get Engaged, the YMCA Young Civic Leaders program. For more information on the Design Commission, go here.

A letter of interest and resume is due April 9. Go here for information on how to apply. Contact Valerie Kinast with questions, (206) 233-7911.

Get Engaged program seeks youth for city boards and commissions

Get Engaged, the YMCA Young Civic Leaders program, is recruiting 15 young people aged 18 to 29 to serve for one year on Seattle's public boards and commissions. Commissioners help shape policy decisions, make recommendations and provide citizen participation in city government. The 15 boards range in interest areas—from design to human rights—and include a position with the Seattle Arts Commission.

In addition to serving on a public board, participants meet monthly as a cohort forMacDonald, Frederic Fournier and Major Wolfe, but the route remained difficult and government decided to abandon it in 1857. A new path between Causapscal and the Restigouche was adopted in 1862, and in 1868 the Intercolonial Railway project that was to transform the British North American Colonies into Canada selected the Matapedia River road to be its route.  On 1 July 1876, the Sainte-Flavie-Campbellton section was opened.

The municipality was formed in 1907 when it separated from the Township Municipality of Ristigouche (now Saint-André-de-Restigouche).

On 17 April 1983, the 480ha Ristigouche Ecological Reserve was formed by the Quebec government.

In March 2013, the municipality was served notice of pursuit by the resource extractor Gastem for $1.5 million because the municipality sought to protect its drinking water source from fracking, by


ask the UFC before taking anything, and they told me I was allowed to use them."

The Black House bantamweight claims the UFC "is taking care of this situation directly with the commission" and is pinning the supposed testing issues on the inexperience of the commission. However, according to Nova Scotia Boxing Authority chairman Michael MacDonald, the UFC was the one who collected the sample and had it tested at a lab in Las Vegas.

"They did everything," MacDonald said of the UFC. "All we did was stand by and watch."

MacDonald said the UFC has a lot of experience with drug-testing, so the Nova Scotia commission deferred to them. The UFC was the one that notified the Nova Scotia Boxing Authority about Munhoz's test failure.

"They kind of run the show,"Former Governor and Fox News Host Mike Huckabee Slams Natalie Portman for Being Unwed and Pregnant

Mike Huckabee says Portman's pregnancy out of wedlock is "unfortunate"

Natalie Portman, best actress nominee for her role in "Black Swan," arrives at the 83rd Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, February 27, 2011. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT) (OSCARS-ARRIVALS)

Natalie Portman, 29, is expecting her first child with Black Swan choreographer and fiancé Benjamin Millepied, but one news host and former governor is blasting the Academy Award winner for being pregnant out of wedlock.

Us Weekly reports, former Arkansas governor and Fox News host Mike Huckabee told radio host Michael Medved on Monday that Portman is glamorizing the idea of children born out of wedlock.

"People see a Natalie Portman who boasts, 'We're not married


stock, as readers were reminded of an episode of a popular TV comedy, “Only Fools and Horses”. In it Del Boy, a decidedly dodgy businessman, decides to bottle tap water, selling it as “Peckham Spring”, named after the unprepossessing inner-London borough. No sooner had the initial furore died down than Coca-Cola discovered that some of the water had been contaminated betwixt tap and bottle, and decided to admit defeat. Dasani was axed in Britain a mere five weeks after it was launched.

Will Pepsi's new label have a similarly disastrous impact on sales of Aquafina, which is now the market leader in bottled waters in America? It is by no means inevitable.

The success of bottled water is in many ways one of capitalism's greatest mysteries. Studies show consistently thatHeat Wave, Record Drought Parch United States

Heat Wave, Record Drought Parch United States

LINCOLN, Nebraska, July 5, 2012 (ENS) – More than half of the contiguous United States is in moderate drought or worse, a greater area than at any time in the 12-year history of the U.S. Drought Monitor, federal government drought watchers said today.

As Excessive Heat Warnings and advisories continue for much of the Midwest and portions of the Mid-Atlantic, officials from the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln say that across the Lower 48 States, a record 55.96 percent of the land area is experiencing at least moderate drought.

The previous highs had been 54.79 percent on August 26, 2003, and 54.63 percent on September 10, 2002.

Temperatures in Lincoln touched 106 degrees today, but


that was by no means the highest temperature recorded in the country. The thermometer hit a high of 108 degrees in Taylorville, a city of about 11,000 in in central Illinois.

Skydiving over Taylorville, Illinois, the hottest place in the United States today. (Photo October 2010 by St. Louis Punk Rocker)

These temperatures soar above those in the desert Southwest today, which recorded only temps of 103 in Lake Havasu City and 102 in Yuma, Arizona.

“The recent heat and dryness is catching up with us on a national scale,” said Michael Hayes, director of the National Drought Mitigation Center at UNL.

“Now, we have a larger section of the country in these lesser categories of drought than we’ve previously experienced in the history of the Drought Monitor,” said Hayes.

Looking at allCincinnati with temperatures over 100 on both Saturday and Sunday, with Cleveland not much cooler with the mercury soaring above 95 degrees.

Across the Midwest and Atlantic regions, 721,599 customers are still without power after a severe storm swept the area on Friday, claiming 22 lives. At the peak of the power outage 4.1 million customers were without electricity.

The U.S. Drought Monitor is a joint endeavor by the National Drought Mitigation Center at UNL, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and drought observers across the country.

Click here to examine the Drought Monitor’s current and archived national, regional and state-by-state drought maps and conditions.

The month of May was the all-time warmest May on record across the Northern Hemisphere, at 1.53 degrees Fahrenheit above average, according


points to what a revitalized and politicized union movement might look like. For the connection is to be found in Castile’s union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) — and its transformation.

A Long History In the more than eighty years since those summer demonstrations, the Minneapolis-area Teamsters have shifted from being an impressive vehicle of politically radical and sophisticated industrial unionism, anchored in understandings of the irreconcilable interests of contending classes, to a more restrained business union, focused on dues collection and reluctant to expand the struggles of labor to encompass the battles of all of the dispossessed. The 1934 parade and Municipal Auditorium rally was driven by the organizational upsurge of the General Drivers’ Union, Local 574 of the IBT. That union, led by revolutionary Trotskyists, foughtthree strikes over the course of 1934. It battled to establish an industrial union representing labor in the broad transport field, not just the “privileged” drivers. Local 574 also supported the struggles of other workers, and drew the ranks of the unemployed and women laboring in the home without the benefit of union recognition or wages into its activities. It formed an armed Union Defense Guard to resist fascism in the late 1930s. During World War II, this bastion of class-struggle unionism was targeted by the state, its radical leadership jailed. The beginnings of the rise of the Minneapolis Teamsters local lie in 1934’s momentous confrontations between the workers, on the one hand, and the employers and various layers of the state, from the municipality right on up


Ken W. Clawson

Ken Wade Clawson (August 16, 1936 – December 18, 1999) was an American journalist, best known as a spokesman for U.S. President Richard Nixon at the time of the Watergate scandal. He was promoted from Nixon's deputy director of communications to director in early 1974 as the scandal continued to unfold, and following Nixon's resignation in August 1974, Clawson continued in the same role for three months under President Gerald Ford.

Education and early career
Clawson was born into a working-class family in Monroe, Michigan. He attended the University of Michigan, but obtained his undergraduate degree from Bowling Green State University. He became a labor reporter for the Toledo Blade newspaper, and was honored for his work there, winning a Nieman Fellowship to attend Harvard University in 1967.Interview: Brandon & Klein Talk DRIFTER

Image Comics’ latest venture into the space western genre is brought to us by Ivan Brandon and Nic Klein in the form of Drifter. It’s an ongoing series that follows protagonist Abram Pollux after barely surviving a crash landing on an unfamiliar planet where he discovers a great deal of things he wasn’t quite expecting. The first season, consisting of five issues, ended in March with the next one expected to begin a month after the June release of the first trade paperback, Drifter: Out of the Night. In anticipation of this release, Comicosity sat down with the two creators to talk about both their process and the tricky bits of working with genre tropes.

J. A. Micheline: The last time you guys worked


Lanka, and Bangladesh to work with each other, and partners like America, to uphold international norms like freedom of navigation,” said Manpreet Singh Anand, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian.

“You can plainly see how the security of the Indian Ocean is inextricably linked to the stability of the global economy,” Anand said in his address to the Pacific Council Members in Los Angeles on Friday.

He said the “stability inland” also depended on how well the above countries can combat piracy and trafficking of drugs, weapons, and people on the high seas.

Anand noted that South Asia had a tremendous growth potential as the region boasts more working-age people than anywhere else in the world with its economies growing at an average of over seven perI would like to announce the following management changes within the Analyst
/ Associate Program, which are effective immediately.

Traci Warner will assume responsibility for Recruiting for the Western
Hemisphere.  Traci joined Enron's Associate Program in 1995 and has held
positions in Business Development, Origination, and Public Relations at Enron
Energy Services, Enron North America and Enron Broadband Services.

Ted Bland will assume responsibility for Career Development (including
rotations) for the Western Hemisphere.  Ted has been with Enron since 1989
and has held several roles in Origination and Business Development within
Enron Wholesale Services.  Most recently, Ted was assigned to the
commercialization of some activities within Human Resources.

Anna Jansson, who is based in London, will continue to lead all efforts for
the Associate / Analyst Program in


1965; he gave his last interview in 1980.

Raised in Manhattan, Salinger began writing short stories while in secondary school, and published several stories in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. In 1948 he published the critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" in The New Yorker magazine, which became home to much of his subsequent work. In 1951 Salinger released his novel The Catcher in the Rye, an immediate popular success. His depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers.[2] The novel remains widely read and controversial,[3] selling around 250,000 copies a year.

The success of The Catcher in the Rye led to public attention and scrutiny: Salinger became reclusive, publishing new work lessfrequently. He followed Catcher with a short story collection, Nine Stories (1953), a collection of a novella and a short story, Franny and Zooey (1961), and a collection of two novellas, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963). His last published work, a novella entitled "Hapworth 16, 1924," appeared in The New Yorker on June 19, 1965.


CMU Women’s Softball Hosting First Round NCAA Tournament Games

Colorado Mesa University's Women's softball team ended the regular season with a record of 48-3 and are the hosts and number one seed for the first round of NCAA Division II games.

In the first game played in the South Central Softball Regional, the Lady Mavs defeated Rogers State 10-2 in six innings due to the mercy rule.

This is the first time CMU has hosted the regional tournament since 2000 and with the team playing the way they are, are favorites to advance to the next round as well.

CMU's next game is today vs Texas A&M Commerce, who won their first game as well.

The Mavs are led by pitcher Kimbri Herring, who ran her record to 22-1 on the season withFactors Associated with Parental Refusal of Routine Vaccination in the Czech Republic.
Routine vaccination is one of the most important preventive methods which is responsible for the decreasing trend of morbidity and mortality of vaccine preventable infectious diseases, their complications and sequelae. The impact of vaccination on declining trend of these diseases is well known and confirmed by a large number of epidemiological studies. In the Czech Republic, there is high vaccination coverage in regards to most vaccine preventable diseases. However, during the last decade proportion of parents refusing routine vaccination of their children due to different factors is increasing. The presented study evaluates current situation in the Czech Republic and describes the most significant factors in parents decision making. The study was conducted between 1 July 2013 and


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Fonds consists of correspondence, scripts, screenplays, newsletters, articles, films and other records created or accumulated by Norman Klenman over the course of his career as a journalist, film and television writer and producer, and the joint owner of the CKVU television station. The records include draft and final version scripts and screenplays and related records for radio, television, and film (both produced and unproduced). Also included is correspondence, agreements and financial and project-related records of various production companies ofdid younger adult volunteers, especially at high rates of volunteering. Older adults experienced greater positive changes in their perceived health than did younger adult volunteers. The type of volunteer work in which older and younger adults engage may be part of the reason for these differential effects. But the context in which older and younger adults volunteer and the meaning of their voluntarism are more likely explanations. Researchers should take into account volunteer commitment when studying volunteering's effect on well-being, not simply volunteer role.


I'll never forget the moment we fired our first realtor.

It was an experience not unlike a really awkward breakup. And after a relationship that began with so much promise.

He and his wife liked all the same things we did — what a coincidence! He showed us pictures of his annual clients' party, in one of which he appeared to be dressed as a gladiator.

And then, as the weeks turned into months, and his ratio of work to commission started narrowing, something changed.

He tried to convince us to put an offer on a house next to a trucking route. Then he tried to sell us on a Yaletown condo that was essentially the antithesis of just about everything we wanted in a home. And then he was rude tofirst degree burglary. The back of the indictment contains a handwritten "Plea of Guilt", signed by Simpson, which reflects a charge of second degree burglary. However, after Simpson signed the plea, the Solicitor advised the Court, in Simpson's presence, that he was pleading guilty to first degree burglary. The trial court then specifically informed Simpson of the penalty for first degree burglary, to which he responded he wished to enter an Alford plea to first degree burglary.[2] It is manifest from the record that Simpson was fully cognizant his plea was to first degree burglary.
The PCR court nonetheless found the signing of "an incorrect plea is the equivalent of not signing a plea at all and, thus, the conviction based on said plea cannot stand." This was error.


Teaching Faculty

Details: Dr. Kifayatullah Khan is Research Professor (assistant) at the Department of Environmental and Conservation Sciences, University of Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Pakistan. He received his PhD in the discipline of Environmental Sciences (Environmental Toxicology) from the University of Peshawar as a TWAS-CAS Fellow (2013). Recently in 2017, he did his Postdoctoral research as a fellow of the President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) at the Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China. As an active environmental ecologist, he has published good papers in the international peer reviewed journals such as, Environment International, Environmental Pollution, Food and Chemical Toxicology, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Journal of Environmental Sciences, Science of the Total Environment, Chemosphere, International Journal of phytoremediation, Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, JournalThe Atlanta Braves have followed up their 2011 collapse with an 0-4 start to the 2012 season. The Braves have simply been terrible in 2012. Their .229 wOBA is 29th in the majors, they rank 29th in BABIP against, and they are tied for 29th in run differential. Not all of this can be blamed on the manager and it is only four games, but Gonzalez is in line for criticism for his bullpen usage and playing time decisions.

I try to resist criticizing the decisions of major league managers. They have much more information that those of us on the outside do. By virtue of being with the team every day, they also have the ability to use their wealth of information in the proper context. Lineup decisions


that analysts criticize on baseball grounds may in fact be based on factors not publicly known. Despite my hesitancy on this front, some of the decisions made by Fredi Gonzalez in the early days of the 2012 season appear to be indefensible.

Last night the Braves were opening a series against the Houston Astros and facing lefty starter J.A. Happ. Gonzalez chose to sit Jason Heyward for this game with Matt Diaz starting in RF, Martin Prado in LF, and Juan Francisco at 3B. The is a lineup that is inferior both offensively and defensively to Diaz in LF, Heyward in RF, and Prado at 3B.

For his career, Diaz has had a lot of success against lefties with a .374 wOBA. Prado has a identical .339 wOBA against bothArchitect Mike W. Smith is building something special for his children. But it doesn't involve a building.

He has drawn up something more spectacular: an imaginary world where Sara, his 10-year-old daughter, is the main character. Her life unfolds each week in elaborate drawings on the brown paper lunch bags she takes to school.

She's the comic book hero of her own story - or at least of his story about her.

Dad figures into the plot sometimes. Mom and brother, too. Occasionally the family dog makes an appearance, and Sara's friends have been known to pop up. The characters go on adventures inside Sara's leaky locker, rescue fairy tale characters from danger and help overcome stage fright for the school talent show.

Read more from our news partners at The Tennessean.


On January 17, some of the most popular websites locked their doors, blacking out for hours at a time to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, a Congressional bill that would have censored certain websites if they were found to host pirated content. Three months later, the Internet is at war with Congress again, this time over the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which critics say would allow the government to snoop on private files.

They might have more of an uphill battle this time around—while some of the largest digital companies supported the SOPA protests, many of those have switched sides for CISPA, including Facebook. So while Wikipedia and Reddit are using blackouts to protest SOPA, organizations are trying to create a grassroots movement of Internet usersto protest CISPA.

The bill would allow private companies to access classified government information to help protect them from cyber attacks that bring down their networks. In return, those companies would be allowed to share users' private information with the government, as long as it constitutes a "cyber threat" or relates to homeland security.

Jim Dempsey, vice president for public policy at the Center for Democracy and Technology, says that with CISPA, Congress is trying to "fundamentally change how Americans use the Internet."

Organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Tech Freedom have set up a "week of action" against CISPA, starting Monday. A site set up by the EFF allows users to tweet directly at their Congressional representative using the hashtags #CongressTMI and #CISPA.

The


and headed back upstairs, because that was when the tornado warning was to expire.

We got Susie to bed and I was trying to decompress from being keyed up about the storm for so long. Per the weather radar on TV, the storm had missed us and was heading east toward Licking County, but the sirens were not shutting off. If anything, they were gaining in intensity, and there was plenty of thunder and lightning. (I remember once when I was a teenager, I was in one of those portable tool sheds getting something and there was a very loud blast of thunder. The whole shed rang like a gong, and my ears had a high whistling sound in them for several minutes. I remember that thunderclap–It sounded likethere, going shopping at Giant Eagle, and getting my hair cut. At Giant Eagle, I literally filled my shopping cart to near overflowing.

On Saturday, I took Susie and her friend Sydney (who spent the night with us after the belly dancing lesson ended) to The Ohio Theatre for Cartoon Capers. Susie and I were both happy that it was all Warner Brothers cartoons, but we weren’t happy that two of them were Pepe le Pew, the only Warner Brothers character I actively dislike. (He is a one-joke character, much the way Cheech & Chong comedy was one-joke).

The movie started at 10 a.m., and when we left, around 11:30, the grounds around the State House were in utter chaos. High and State Streets seemed to be invaded by many


the “Eye in the Pyramid” symbol, so I took out a dollar bill and showed her the reverse side. Maybe I should show them National Treasure.

For the record, a friend in high school encouraged me to join DeMolay. I declined for some silly reason or another–I think it was because a TV show I really liked was on the night they met, since this was in the pre-VCR and -Tivo days. My paternal grandfather was a Knight of Columbus and a Knight of St. George, and my maternal grandfather was a 33rd-degree Mason and his wife was in the Order of the Eastern Star. (It’s too bad my grandfathers never met; they could have had a blast comparing secret signs and handshakes. They could have buried the hatchetDum Dum Girls, MINKS, Dirty Beaches

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Led by Dee Dee, Dum Dum Girls churn out pop music that adheres to her self-proclaimed M.O.: “blissed-out buzz saw.” Dee Dee formed DDG in late 2008 as a solo project—the name a nod to both The Vaselines’ album, Dum-Dum, and the Iggy Pop song “Dum Dum Boys”—and released a home-recorded CDR on her label Zoo Music followed by a 7" on HoZac and a 12" EP on Captured Tracks.

When Dee Dee needed a band to take her songs out of the bedroom, she looked to her friends: Jules (guitar and vocals), Bambi (bass), and Sandy (drums and vocals). When the other three met for the first time a week before CMJ 2009, it was an instant girl gang.

Dee Dee wrote and recorded


prior to his original denial of the motion to suppress. On December 14, 1979, at approximately 8:00 A.M., a ninth grade student on her way to East Boston High School was approached by the defendant at the MBTA station at State Street, Boston. They engaged in small talk and both boarded the train. The student disembarked at Maverick Station and went to an MBTA bus stop to await a bus bound for the high school. She noticed the defendant standing beside her, and when she boarded the MBTA bus, he again followed her and sat next to her. He asked her if she would like to pose for photographs. She became apprehensive and refused. He stated he would pay her for posing and that she should have noconcern because the photos would be distributed out of State. She became more fearful and again refused. When she alighted from the bus, the defendant followed her and repeated his suggestion *779 that she pose for photographs. Upon their arrival at the White Street entrance of the school, the defendant stated that he was going to wait for her after school and that if she did not cooperate, he would harm her. The student informed the principal's office of the incident and was excused from school. The Boston police were notified and they, in turn, notified the MBTA police. A detective of the MBTA police arranged with the student to take her to East Boston High School that afternoon to locate and identify the defendant. The detective, another


MBTA officer and the student drove by the White Street entrance of the high school in an unmarked car at 1:00 P.M., and the student pointed out the defendant. The two MBTA officers approached the defendant and, when the detective identified himself as a police officer, the defendant made a startled expression which caused the detective to become concerned for his safety. He conducted a pat down search of the defendant's outer garments and found a hand gun. He then arrested the defendant for carrying a gun without a license.
The defendant argues that the MBTA officer had no authority to arrest him on premises not owned or controlled by the MBTA. This argument, however, ignores the plain language of St. 1968, c. 664, which authorizes the establishment ofman in the circumstances would be warranted in the belief that his safety or that of others was in danger." Commonwealth v. Silva, supra at 406. Commonwealth v. Almeida, 373 Mass. 266, 271 (1977).
As applied to the facts found by the motion judge, we think the police officer could well have believed that his safety or that of others was in danger. The defendant was identified by the student as a person who had followed her all the way from State Street station to East Boston High School, had told her that he would wait for her after school, and had threatened that he would harm her if she did not accede to his request. The student's story was confirmed by the facts. The defendant was, indeed, waiting


Duncan has found a home in media

It seemed like eons ago since Chris Duncan had stepped on a baseball field before coaching the Illinois squad at the 2012 PNC High School Baseball Showcase.

Duncan retired from Major League Baseball in 2010 after being released by the Washington Nationals. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals from 2005-09 after being drafted in the first round of the 1999 Amateur Draft.

The Cards traded him to the Boston Red Sox on July 22, 2009 for shortstop Julio Lugo and Duncan never saw the Major League field again.

A below average fielding outfielder, Duncan had superb power potential with the bat, blasting 22 homers in 2006 and 21 in 2007. His average left something to be desired though as a lifetime .257 hitter.

He wasa key cog on the 2006 Cardinal team that won the World Series, his best season in the majors. He hit .293 with 22 dingers and 43 RBIs in 90 games for the Cards. In 2007 he was entrenched in left field for St. Louis, playing in a career high 127 games while belting 21 homers and driving in 70 runs, but saw his average plummet to .259 as the Cardinals missed making the playoffs.

Now he can be found entertaining loyal listeners of the ESPN 101.1 radio station with great baseball insight and a witty personality. Duncan also does work as an analyst for Fox Sports Midwest during Cardinal games.

He truly enjoys his new career and realized on a hot June 18 afternoon at Busch Stadium just how


A corporate jungle, Midtown East is one of the most highly trafficked neighborhoods in NYC

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Professional, full service space that caters to those looking to do private work in a shared environment with office facilities and services.

575 Lexington Avenue is situated in the heart of Manhattan's prestigious "Fortune 500" corridor. Which means Virgo Business Centers NYC is just steps away from some of New York's most prominent office buildings and hotels, including the world famous Waldorf Astoria. This glass clad office building boasts an award-winning lobby that is sure to make a lasting impression on your guests and clients. Other amenities include indoor parking and conveniently located public transportation, including subway lines E, M, 4 and 6.. Walk to severalwhat he said he was going to do, namely, to give away this money. Over the next 18 years, he almost achieved his goal. He gave away almost all of it. There has never been this richer man in history who gave away most of his money in his lifetime. Wikipedia says: “Carnegie died on August 11, 1919, in Lenox, Massachusetts, of bronchial pneumonia. He had already given away $350,695,653 (approximately $4.8 billion, adjusted to 2010 figures) of his wealth. At his death, his last $30,000,000 was given to foundations, charities, and to pensioners.”

His various Carnegie foundations were taken over by the American Establishment. Here, his money achieved a lot of bang for the buck, but it was mostly for evil. He had been a far greater benefactor


to the American people by his massive cost-cutting in steel production, price competition in steel sales, and the creation of all new world, a world of skyscrapers, railroads, and everything else that used steel.

The same thing happened to the Rockefeller foundations. The same thing happened to the Ford Foundation.

His most famous charity category was to money to build free libraries. He knew what he was doing. He built the original library in a particular town, and he made certain that there was money to fill it with books. Then he walked away. That forced the local town councils to start funding the libraries on a permanent basis. In effect, he addicted the public to the idea of free libraries, and then he handed over the now-addicted public toVaidhehi, K. Jamuna Rani & L. R. Eswari.

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Peria Koil was released on 16 September 1958 all over South India. In Madras, it was distributed by Brilliant Pictures. The film failed commercially.

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Newsjack the Radio 4 Extra topical news sketch show, which anyone can write for, is again looking for writers to submit sketches and one-liners for its 23rd series.

Irreverent and satirical, Newsjack is the scrapbook sketch show written entirely by the Great British public, and then brought to life by a revolving cast of sketch performers.

Trying to make sense of it all is host Kiri Pritchard-McLean.

Go to Newsjack's Submission Page on their website for full details, advice, script templates and details of fees for material which is used on air.

Find loads more advice and information on our blog

Deadlines:

Submissions open from Friday 18th September 2020

Sketches: Midday on Mondays from 21st September to 26th October 2020

One-Liners: Midday on Tuesdays from 22nd September to 27th October 2020and engage in entangling alliances and adopt alien culture. A pair of strict rules: Do not multiply wives and horses. the military does both, with (as put gently by Melville in Billy Budd) sailors etc are exempt from rules of fornication (and generals bang groupies with no consequence) and when do we not thrill at the latest military weaponry (whether it works or not)?

I've been a military man all my life, there has been a John Spiers who fought in every American war, and both sides in civil wars. But being a Christian means you must decline to engage in moral crimes, and Catholicism teaches us to conscientiously object to unjust cause and unjust means of war. I participated in the American War in Vietnam, as a conscientious


The viruses that today infect vertebrates, from fish to humans, have been evolving with their hosts for hundreds of millions of years, new research suggests.

A paper published in the journal Nature reveals a vast new trove of viruses – large in itself, but very likely a mere fraction of a yet undiscovered whole – found in almost 200 non-bird and non-mammal vertebrate species.

The research concentrates on the earliest form of virus to emerge – RNA viruses – and finds that although many cases of host-swapping can be found, the new data “reveals diverse virus-host associations across the entire evolutionary history of vertebrates”.

Vertebrates themselves – animals possessing a spinal cord – began evolving about 500 million years ago, and this work, led by Eddie Holmes of the Marie Bashirback to Batavia, Illinois. There, she obtained temporary custody and petitioned to adopt the child. After Ms. Vally was served with the Illinois temporary custody order she filed a petition for custody in Spokane County Superior Court. An order granting custody to Ms. Vally was entered June 10, 1983. The Washington order was taken to Illinois for enforcement.
Eventually, after lengthy proceedings in the Illinois state courts and the federal court, it was determined Washington had jurisdiction over Cher Marie's custody and the matter was returned to Spokane County Superior Court in 1987. On January 29, 1987, the court denied the Salernos' forum non conveniens motion and ordered the child returned to her mother. Ms. Vally then sought attorney fees for the actions in Illinois and Washington, plus travel


Japan Travel Guide: Nara

In preparation for Japan 2020, we take a look at various elements of Japanese life and culture, as well as travel tips, for those planning the trip of a lifetime to the land of the rising sun.

Nara is one of the country's most rewarding destinationsfor tourists and locals alike. With eight Unesco World Heritage Sites, it is second only to Kyoto as a repository of Japan's cultural legacy. Being the first permanent capital of Japan from 710 to 784, most of the historical buildings reach back as long as that.

Nara is also compact: it's quite possible to pack the highlights into one full day. Many people visit Nara as a side trip from Kyoto or Osaka, as it can be reached within one hour bytrain from there.

One of the most impressive sights in Nara is the enormous Todai-ji temple, which dates back to the 8th century. It is not only the largest wooden building in the world, but also houses the Great Buddha Daibutsu. This statue is 16,2 m high, weighs 452 tons and is the biggest bronze statue in the world.
A highlight is the annual cleaning of the monument by monks on the 7th of August.

If you're looking for inspiration you can try and squeeze yourself through a hole in one of the columns behind the Buddha the size of his nostril. According to the legend, whoever succeeds in doing this can hope for enlightenment in the next life. However, the average western tourist should remember that their dress size is


Ah, but to remember the racist, sexist, absurdly expensive glory days of Abercrombie & Fitch. Sure, American Eagle was more resonably-priced, and Hollister had that creepily dim lighting that made your mom almost poke her own eye out by walking into a palm frond, but Abercrombie had those bags with the half-naked people on them. And it was a special kind of boy in high school who wore 50 popped-collar Abercrombie polos layered on top of each other because he was popular like FIFTY TIMES OVER, YO.

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Things are different now: on the 15th of this month, Abercrombie announced that its second quarter numbers were "disappointing" and "not what [they] expected," and announced in February that they plan to close 180 of their US stores by 2015. Their businessto every last label stuck on him before his time at North Carolina, he had a solid career as a Tar Heel, averaging 17.1 points and 5.2 rebounds per game this past season.

Ultimately, Barnes is strongest as a scorer with an NBA-ready frame. He is 6-8 with length, but still needs to work on his ability to create for others. He will be selected somewhere in the Top 10, with many pointing to Golden State at No. 7.

3. Moe Harkless, St. John’s

Harkless was praised for his two days at the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago this past week, as an athletic specimen with great potential for growth.

During the second half of his freshman season at St. John’s, Harkless began to show an aggressiveness and leadership quality that appeals


to pro teams. He averaged 15.5 points and 8.6 rebounds per game this past season.

His measurements at the Draft Combine were also impressive. Add that to his mature personality and willingness to learn (he went from a Top 50 recruit from the Class of 2011 to a one-and-done with late-lottery potential) and Harkless has a lot to offer to a team that is looking to invest in him and develop him over time.

4. Jeff Taylor, Vanderbilt

The biggest critique that pro scouts had of Taylor, prior to his senior season, was whether he had an outside jumpshot that could translate to the professional level. This past season, he proved that he could extend his game to the perimeter, shooting over 42% from distance.

Taylor is an elite-level defender, which wehave seen teams value in the second half of the first round (see: Avery Bradley, Boston Celtics). Look for him to be a first round selection.

5. Quincy Miller, Baylor

Miller initially announced that he would be returning to Baylor for his sophomore season, but instead decided to jump to the draft.

Out of high school, Miller was thought to be a lottery pick, and probably would have been, had he stayed another year at Baylor. Now, at a lanky 6-9 and continuing to show that he has recovered from a knee injury in high school, Miller must settle into an NBA position, either at small or power forward.

6. Darius Miller, Kentucky

Miller was, at times, underrated in Kentucky’s pursuit of a national championship, but could play a similar role at the


professional level as he did in college: fill in the gaps with production on a quality team.

He averaged 9.9 points and 2.8 rebounds per game last season for the Wildcats and measured nearly 6-8 with shoes in the pre-draft workout.

7. Evan Fournier, France

Fournier is a first-round prospect in a draft that is very dry on international prospects.

He is a guard/forward hybrid and, at 6-7, could contribute to a team that selects him near the end of the first round as a dribble penetrator and scorer. He is only 19 years old, so he will have much room to grow.

8. Jae Crowder, Marquette

Crowder won the Big East Player of Year award this past season, but the biggest question for him, heading into the NBA draft, is his size andwhat position would suit him best at the professional level.

He is undoubtedly a competitor, and some have drawn a comparison to Denver Nugget Kenneth Faried, in terms of an undersized player who could have great value to the team who selects him.

He is likely to be chose in the second round.

9. Kevin Murphy, Tennessee Tech

Murphy had a strong showing at the 2012 Portsmouth Invitational, which helped his draft stock. Draft Express sees Murphy as an early second-round pick, mostly because of his ability to score the basketball, which he showed he could do with over 20 points per game last season.

10. Kris Joseph, Syracuse

As players progress through college, potential typically decreases, while criticisms usually rise. Joseph just turned 23, meaning, compared with a younger player, GMs may not


Friday, July 20th, 2018

The official Garo franchise blog has updated with the cast members and premiere date for the Garo Kaminokiba -JINGA- live-action series. The cast includes: Masahiro Inoue: Jinga Mikage Yūka Kōri: Fūsa Sōshi Hagiwara: Tōma Mikage Miyavi Matsunoi: Alva Satomi Andō: Koyuri Mikage Koh Takasugi: Rozan Shigemitsu Ogi: Yōyū Tōru Kazama: Mizuto Mikage The series is set to premiere in Japan this October, but no exact date has been confirmed at this time. As reported earlier, the series is a spin-off of the Garo: Divine Fang (GARO: Kami no Kiba) film, which premiered in Japan on January 6.

The recent issue of the V Jump magazine has announced that Base Goku and Base Saiyan Armor Vegeta will be joining the Dragon Ball FighterZ video game as thenext two DLC characters. Both characters will be released in early August priced at 500 Yen. The recent issue also revealed that Kefla from Dragon Ball Super will be joining the Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 game as a part of the third DLC pack. For those who aren’t familiar with the character, Kefla is the Potara fusion of Caulifla and Kale. Dragon Ball FighterZ is available for the Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The Nintendo Switch version of Dragon Ball XenoverseRead More

Hasbro has sent out official images for the upcoming figures that will be released in both the Star Wars the Black Series line as well as in the Star Wars 3.75 Inch Vintage Collection. The figures were first revealed at the Hasbro booth at San Diego


"The light came from a magnificent stained glass from the ceiling. The painting represent a scene of the Dark Ages: A group of knights wielding crosses that repelled the shielded monsters. In front of the knights there was a beautiful winged woman crossing her sword with the three demon kings. Roma, Castel Saint Angelo, the room of the Naia Sancta. The Dark Saint who led human kind to their victory against vampires."National Heart Forum

The UK Health Forum (UKHF) (formerly National Heart Forum) is a charitable organisation in the UK allying over 60 charities, non-governmental and medical professional organizations in reducing the risks of coronary heart disease (CHD) and such related conditions as stroke, diabetes and cancer. Established in 1984, the NHF has three primary functions: (1) to facilitate the work of its members by providing a forum for communication and by coordinating their actions; (2) to encourage sound national and international action by researching CHD and related conditions and educating others about them; and (3) to aid policy makers and UKHF members in effective collaboration. Members include such organisations as the British Medical Association, the British Heart Foundation, Which? and Cancer Research UK.

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Strategic Culture Foundation conducted the following interview with American professor of politics Colin S. Cavell on the seeming emergence of a more leftwing agenda among some Democratic politicians and a more radical consciousness among ordinary American citizens for social and economic equality.

Republican President Donald Trump has made frequent condemnation in speeches of “evil socialism”, as if betraying a fear among the American ruling class of such a popular turn towards socialism arising.

Democratic presidential candidates like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Tulsi Gabbard are openly calling for progressive increased taxation on wealthy Americans and corporations – reversing decades of neoliberal policies. American voters are rallying behind calls for more radical wealth re-distribution and policies that challenge the skyrocketing inequality in the US where a handful of billionaires now ownmore wealth than half (160 million) of the entire population.

Professor Cavell gives his views on current developments in American politics with a historical perspective on socialist movements in US society. He warns, however, that the political establishment and a pro-capitalist corporate news media are working assiduously to thwart any movement towards a more just, democratic society. He also says that the legacy of the Cold War has stunted development of socialism in the US, but there are signs this baleful anti-communist legacy is being overcome.

INTERVIEW

Q: Democratic Party presidential contender Bernie Sanders seems to be getting a lot of support from working-class Americans for his policies of medicare-for-all and progressive taxing of the rich. Do you think this portends an awakening among ordinary Americans for a socialist government?

Cavell: Most


the average US citizen to entertain what a socialist government and society may look like.

Q: What are the precedents for popular socialism in the US over the decades, for example, Eugene Debs and the Haymarket Martyrs?

Cavell: While utopian socialist communities existed in the US in the early nineteenth century, it was the worker demonstrations in Chicago, Illinois, on May 4, 1886, which ended with eight anarchists convicted of conspiracy and seven workers sentenced to death – the Haymarket Martyrs – which gave rise to the power of labor and a force to be reckoned with. Out of this attack on a peaceful organizing by workers arose International Labor Day to be commemorated on May 1, International Labor Day or International Workers Day, around the world each year todemand the legal establishment of the 8-hour work day, the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace.

Q: That is quite a remarkable American legacy for international socialism, despite its subsequent suppression in the US. How about the legacy of Eugene Debs who ran for the presidency as a self-declared socialist candidate over a century ago?

Cavell: Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs ran as a candidate for the presidency on the socialist party ticket in 1900. Debs continued to run as a candidate for the US presidency on the Socialist Party of America ticket in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920, with the latter campaign seeing Debs garner nearly one million votes, even though Debs was behind bars in prison at the time. By 1919, the Communist Party USA


(CPUSA) adopted the leading mantle of a Marxist-oriented communist party and would play a leading role in the labor struggles of the trade union CIO until the McCarthyite repression instituted by organized capital from 1950-1954 began the slow but steady repression of the Communist Party and all who supported it, ending with the merger of the CIO with the AFL in 1955. Socialist ideas, while informing labor and political activists from the 1950s to the 1990s, were largely retained by academics, one of the few areas that had some degree of freedom within US society. While specialized newspapers, journals, and websites are supported by a number of worker-oriented political parties today, mainstream capitalist media ensures that their rhetoric and arguments are largely absent from popular political debates.

Q: Soetc., then Bernie Sanders would be an easy winner. This, however, will never come to pass, as the capitalist class and all of its mechanisms will ensure that Bernie never reaches the nomination of the Democratic Party and thus will not be a candidate in the General Election of 2020 for the presidency.

NOTE: Colin S. Cavell is a tenured Full Professor of Political Science at Bluefield State College, West Virginia. He earned his Doctorate of Philosophy degree in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2001. He has previously taught at several academic institutions across the US and internationally.


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Health America found that more than 40 million people have mental health concerns, but 56 percent of those people receive no treatment and the situation is worse for youths. At least 60 percent of young people who suffer from major depression got no treatment at all, the organization found.

States near the bottom of the list, including Oregon, had no fewer than one mental health professional for every 1,000 people, according to the report.

Arizona and Nevada -- at rankings of 50 and 51, respectively -- were the only states that come in behind Oregon. The top three states were Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont.

Gionfriddo emphasized that, for many people, the ranking is more than just a collection of data points. It is a matter of life and death.

"It's time tothe universe began in a state of near-infinite density and temperature. At such extremes the known laws of physics break down. To push all the way back to the beginning of time, physicists needed a new theory, one that blended general relativity with quantum mechanics.

The prospects for making sense of the Big Bang began to improve in the 1990s as physicists refined their ideas in string theory, a promising approach for reconciling the relativity and quantum views. Nobody knows yet whether string theory matches up with the real world—the Large Hadron Collider, a particle smasher coming on line later this year, may provide some clues—but it has already inspired stunning ideas about how the universe is constructed. Most notably, current versions of string theory posit seven hidden dimensions


expansion had blown up one small corner of an earlier universe into everything we see. In the late 1980s Guth and other physicists, most notably Andrei Linde, now at Stanford, saw that inflation might happen over and over in a process of “eternal inflation.” As a result, pocket universes much like our own might be popping out of the uninflated background all the time. This multitude of universes was called, inevitably, the multiverse.

Carroll found in the multiverse concept a solution to both the direction and the origin of cosmic time. He had been musing over the arrow of time as far back as graduate school in the late 1980s, when he published papers on the feasibility of time travel using known physics. Eternal inflation suggested that it wasshakes out into quite an amusing afternoon. Bella expertly takes Marley's strap-on virginity AND teaches her the rules with a deft display of true slave prowess. Mr. Hudson stuff her silly little mouth full of cock as a reward for fast learning, but soon we find the trainee lacks any physical endurance whatsoever and Bella has to take over Marley's cock duties, bouncing her big gorgeous tits all over the place while she rides Wolf's cock to satisfaction. Since the little trainee slut cannot be trusted to perform any further service, she is flipped onto her back and has her face ridden by the salacious Ms. Rossi and her ass pounded by Mr. Wolf. Well done everyone.

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Everyone can agree that US President Donald Trump has a distinctive communication style.

From his tweetstorms to his wild rallies, Trump has cultivated a vocabulary and way of speaking that is uniquely his own.

Since he was elected president, other world leaders have taken note – and some have even begun copying his signature rhetoric.

Here are five examples of world politicians who have started to sound a lot more like Trump:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on illegal immigration

Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu has praised Trump on several occasions, even calling his controversial speech at the United Nations in September “courageous.”

Back in in January, Netanyahu embodied Trump’s self-congratulatory style perfectly in a tweet about building border walls.

“President


Trump is right,” Netanyahu wrote. “I built a wall along Israel’s southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea.”

Parliamentary politicians on Brexit

Amid the negotiations between the UK and the European Union to trigger what’s known as Brexit, the status of Northern Ireland has come up as a key issue. As part of the EU, people in Northern Ireland could travel freely in and out of the Republic of Ireland that lies to its south, but Brexit might spell the end of this porous border.

In response to discussions about the border with Ireland, Labour member of parliament Kate Hoey, who is originally from Northern Ireland but represents a district in London, had this to say about the Irish living in the Republic:

“We’re not the ones whoaborted foetuses and homosexuals who have engaged in any sort of “congress” are sinners.

These are the views of Belgian Archbishop Andre Leonard. Last January he was tasked by Pope Ratz to “energise” Belgium’s Roman Catholics because he thought that in the last 30 years, Belgian Catholics had become “too liberalised”.

Belgium is famous for only three things: Chocolates, Paedophile rings and Hercule Poirot, so an Archbishop who is anti the prosecution of paedophile priests and who thinks that AIDS is a form of justice for homosexuals is the ideal candidate for dragging the Belgian Catholics back into the Dark Ages.

Pope Ratz is known as an an uber-conservative and in the spirit of God having created man in his own image, Ratz is busying himself appointing traditionalist conservatives to his


square to mark a symbolic path so other survivors might know they have company in their suffering.

The candlelit protest was the first significant demonstration in the shadow of the Vatican by people who had been raped and molested by priests as children, and organizers said it would be repeated until the Holy See takes decisive action to ensure children are safe.

“Today what began as quiet whispers are whispers no more,”organizer Gary Bergeron told the crowd, which included about 55 deaf Italians from a notorious Catholic institute for the deaf in Verona where dozens of students say they were sodomized by priests.

Organizers had tried to stage the march on Vatican soil but were forced to hold it nearby after the Holy See denied permission. It is standard Vatican practicerequest to speak with other Vatican officials; Lombardi said he listened to their concerns and reasons for gathering.

The event, which aimed to show survivors worldwide that they are not alone, was organized by Bergeron and Bernie McDaid, who were abused by the same Boston priest starting when they were in the sixth grade. The two became some of the most prominent victims to speak out in the United States after the clerical abuse scandal erupted in their native Boston in 2002.

McDaid was the first victim to meet with Pope Benedict XVI when the pontiff visited the United States in 2008.

Bergeron and McDaid organized the rally after the scandal erupted anew on a global scale earlier this year, with revelations of thousands of victims in Europe and beyond, of


now I’ve found it, I want to continue to speak on behalf of people who maybe aren’t able to speak or have not yet been able to face the fear and the guilt and shame that survivors feel.”

Cox said she was raped in her bedroom when she was 13 by a priest who had been filling in for her parish priest and had been staying at her parents’ home. Her mother discovered what had happened immediately — her nightgown was torn, she was bleeding — but did nothing, and instead told Cox to pray for the priest.

“I felt sacrificial,” she said. “I wanted to die.”

By 15 she was an alcoholic, by 17 she had entered into a violent marriage. By 30 she was clean, and now at 63sexual abuse followed him all his adult life.

Yes, Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado was a priest and one of his greatest admirers and supporters was Pope John Paul ll. It wasn’t until 2006 that the present pope sacked Maciel from the priesthood. Maciel died in 2008 after a life of child-rape, homosexual incest, drug addiction, fraud and scandal.

Official reports of his sexual predilections first surfaced in the fifties but as early as 1938, there was a report of the “noise” that he was making with children when as an 18 year-old seminarian, he was teaching them religion in his own home.

Maciel was the grand-nephew of the Mexican saint, Bishop Rafael Guizar Valencia andit is said that the episode of the screaming children contributed to the Bishop’s death because he


had been heard shouting at Macielabout his conduct with the children the day before he died.

In 1936, at the age of only 16, Maciel had received a “calling” to form a new religious order and by 1941, he had formed the Legion of Christ. This order developed over the years and eventually its lay companion Regnum Christi was formed.

In 1944, Maciel was finally ordained as a priest and over the next sixty four years, he continued to rape and abuse young pupils and seminarians under the cover of the cover of the Legion of Christ (LoC) which recruited young boys to the priesthood and thus was able to generate a steady flow of victims.

There is little doubt that the Vatican was aware of Maciel’sactivities but their judgement mayhave been affected by the fact that both the LoC and Regnum Christi made substantial monetary donations to the Vatican as well as gifts to its high-ranking officials.

The sexual abuse cases within the Legion of Christ were generally known and investigated but more often than not, either proof was lacking of accusations were withdrawn.

In 1956, Macielwas accused of drug abuse but after a Vatican investigation, he was found innocent. At the same time, two young seminarians had accused Macielof sexual abuse but later withdrew their allegations because of an oath that they had sworn in which they promised never to speak ill of Father Maciel.

Subsequent accusations were made against him – from the 1970s onwards. He was accused of abusing young children, seminarians and congregation members. Eventually, nine


accusers dared to come forward, all of whom had become respected professionals . At the time, the allegations were investigated by the members of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Their leader was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.

The allegations of sexual abuse which the future pope investigated took place over at least three decades. The original investigation was closed and wasn’t reopened until 2004 as a result of an increasing number of victims coming forward plus a media campaign. In 2004, Maciel was forced to step down as General Director of the Legion of Christ.

It wasn’t until 2006 that the Vatican published a communiqué which confirmed that Maciel had been instructed to retire to a life of “prayer and penitence”.

Maciel died in 2008 but the Vatican investigation intohis and the Legion of Christ’s activities continued.

The Vatican department which was tasked with that investigation was headed by Cardinal Rode who is not-only a friend of the Legion but has received gifts from them. The Legion has also paid for several of his holidays.

However, finally in May 2010, the Vatican denounced Maciel and confirmed that Macielhad surrounded himself with a culture of subservience, obedience and silence and a double-life “devoid of scruples and authentic religious sentiment.”

The story of Maciel may haunt the Vatican for many years to come as it is an example of how the Vatican has consistently ignored evidence of child rape andabuse. Even from beyond the grave, Maciel still has connections within the Vatican’s virginal walls.

Pope Ratz investigated him very half-heartedly and only renounced


Maciel after irressistible pressure and overwhelming evidence – but even that was done somewhat ungraciously. Maciel was never excommunicated or in any way censured – he was merely stripped of his priestly duties and told to “go and pray”. That seems terribly lenient – especially as after Maciel’s death, the pope more-or-less said that Maciel had been masquerading as a priest.

The ongoing relationship between Maciel and the Vatican has recently been highlighted by Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, the Archbishop of Vienna. He is probably the most outspoken Catholic priest on the subject of priestly abuse.

He has accused the Vatican’s former Secretary of State, Cardinal Angelo Sodano of “stonewalling” and causing “massive harm” to victims of several priestly sex abuse scandal – especially during the reign of pope Jean-Paul ll.

ForMaciel was so highly thought of that he accompanied Pope John-paul on his Mexico visits in 1979, 1990 and 1993.

In 1991, Maciel was appointed by the pope to the Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, The same year, Maciel was appointed a member of the Interdicasterial Commission for the just Distribution of Clergy. The following year, the pope asked Maciel to attend the General Conference of Latin American Bishops and in 1993 he became a member of the Synod of Bishops on Consecrated Life and their Mission in the Church and the World.There were many other appointments until 1994, when the pope asked Maciel to serve in Rome as Chancellor of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum.

Pope Jean-Paul ll was almost in awe of Maciel and collaborated and


sought his counsel on many occasions.

For 50 years Maciel had been constantly accused of abuse and misappropriation, yet through bribery of many high-ranking Vatican officials, his friendship with Pope Jean-Paul ll and his donations to the Vatican, he was protected. He became untouchable.

There is little doubt that he had cast a Rasputin-like spell over the pope and his sidekick Cardinal Angelo Sodano (who is now Dean of the College of Cardinals).

Pope Ratz really has a conundrum wrapped in an enigma when he decides on whether the former pope is a fit person to be elevated to sainthood.

The evil Maciel is probably sniggering from wherever he is and the sound of his laugh will continue to clatter and reverberate against the Vatican windows for years to come.

Over the years,series of child kidnappings, rapes and murders between 1995-96. The Dutroux story is the most horrific example of child rape and murder in Europe since the war.

He kept his victims locked in a dungeon which he had built in his basement. While Dutrox was in prison for a motoring offence, two eight-year-old girls starved to death in the dungeon. The girls, who had been raped and tortured perished because his wife (who knew the girls were there) could not be bothered to feed them.

The Dutroux case may not have sealed the Belgians’ reputation but for the incompetence of the authorities in catching him.

The Belgian authorities’ mismanagement of the hunt for the rapist and murderer was heroically ineffective. As a stream of young girls were kidnapped and murdered, there


were numerous tip-offs to the police that Dutroux was selling girls. However, he remained free and continued his kidnapping spree.

The Judge in charge of the investigation was finally forced to resign in disgrace because of his gross incompetence. His name was Wathelet and he has since been appointed as a judge to the European Court of Justice.

Dutroux was finally captured in 1996 and convicted in 2004. He is currently serving life imprisonment for the kidnap, torture and sexual abuse of six girls – four of whom he murdered. There may have been many more.

The case caused such an outcry in Belgium that the judicial investigation system was changed after a protest by over 300,000 citizens and several high-profile resignations.

Dutroux claimed that he was part of a much largerBelgianpaedophile ring but no further arrests were made. Meanwhile, the Belgian nation hung its head in shame.

Subsequently, Luxembourg magazine THE INVESTIGATOPR wanted to publish a list of 50 Belgian paedophiles but was prevented from doing so by an emergency injunction served by the Belgian authorities. They had persuaded a Belgian court to agree that a decision to publish was an abuse of human rights and that there should have been a presumption of innocence.

Paedophilia is still a particularly sensitive issue in Belgium, following not-only the Dutroux case but a string of other high-profile child abuse cases in recent years.

When Madeleine McCann disappeared, there were several sightings in Belgium and the police were working on a tip-off that a Belgian paedophile ring had ordered the kidnap of Madeleine. It


after they had been persuaded that the authorities would take their complaints seriously.

30 officers sealed-off the former Cardinal’s palace. Embarrassingly for the Belgian authorities, this took place just as a meeting of bishops was taking place in the presence of a Vatican’s Ambassador to Belgium.

Simultaneously, the police raided raided not-only central church offices yesterday but searched the home of Cardinal Danneels, who resigned in January 2010. They took away papers and a computer. In 2005, Cardinal Danneels was mentioned as a possible future pope.

Daneels who was well-known for his very liberal views on paedophilia. He was Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and Primate of Belgium from 1979 until 2010. His views and the views of other Belgian bishops are best demonstrated by his tolerance to a catechism textbook entitled Roeach.

Roeachdeeply grateful to you for the strength of spirit and apostolic courage with which you announce the Gospel,” said Sodano, who sought to assure Benedict that the scandals were not costing him credibility among his flock.

“Holy Father, on your side are the people of God, who do not allow themselves to be influenced by the petty gossip of the moment, by the trials which sometimes buffet the community of believers,” Sodano said.

The cardinal also rushed to the defense of all the Catholic priests who “generously serve the people of God, in parishes, recreation centers, schools, hospitals and many other places, as well as in the missions in the most remote parts of the world.”

Benedict, who turns 83 on April 16, was holding up well against the campaign of


“deceitful accusations” against him, Venice Cardinal Angelo Scola said in an interview on Italian state TV Sunday. Scola said he recently had dined with the pope, who was drawing on his “usual spiritual energy.”

Easter Sunday Mass was the last major Holy Week appearance by the pope in Rome for the thousands of faithful who have poured into the city. On Monday, he will greet pilgrims in the courtyard of the papal retreat in Castel Gandolfo, a lakeside town in the Alban Hills south of Rome.

Worshippers cheered Benedict at the end of Sunday’s two-hour-long Mass in the cobblestone square bedecked with daffodils, tulips and azaleas.

After the Mass, Benedict moved to the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to deliver his “Urbi et Orbi” message — Latin for “to thecity and to the world” — which analyzes humanity’s failings and hopes.

He singled out the “trials and sufferings,” including persecution and even death, of Christians in Iraq and Pakistan, and of people in Haiti and Chile, devastated by earthquakes. He hoped for peaceful coexistence to win out over criminal violence in Latin American countries plagued by drug trafficking, and promised to pray for peace in the Middle East.

His speech ignored demands by victims that he shoulder some responsibility for a common practice by bishops in the past of shuffling pedophile priests from parish to parish rather than sullying the church’s reputation by defrocking clergy who raped, sodomized or otherwise sexually abused minors.

The accusations against the pope stem from his leadership as archbishop of Munich, in his native Germany,


and the church in the sex abuse scandal to “collective violence” suffered by the Jews.

The Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa said in a Good Friday sermon, with the pope listening to him in St. Peter’s Basilica, that a Jewish friend has said the accusations remind him of the “more shameful aspects of anti-Semitism.”

The remarks came in a prayer service at the Vatican a few hours before Benedict XVI was scheduled to take part in a Colosseum Way of the Cross procession commemorating Christ’s suffering before his crucifixion.

The 82-year-old pontiff looked weary as he sat near the central altar during the early evening prayer service a few before he was scheduled to take part in a candlelit Way of the Cross procession near the Colosseum which commemorates Christ’s suffering before hisof Boston, Massachusetts, said the moment was “difficult” and that “lots of people have been turned against the church butwe could not have been in a better place right now for Easter.”

Boston was at the epicentre of sex abuse lawsuits amid many allegations that U.S. bishops shuffled paedophile priests from parish to parish, instead of removing them from contact with the faithful. Boston Cardinal Bernard Law, at the centre of the storm, resigned as archbishop, to be assigned to a prestigious post in Rome by the late Pope John Paul II.

The Vatican’s troubles seemed a million miles away as tourists took photos and strolled through St. Peter’s Square on a breezy but sunny day.

Valeria Misuri, 38, from Livorno, Italy, studied a map in the square as she visited


the church nor governments can afford that risk.

If there is so little political will to investigate these abuses in countries such as Germany, imagine what the clergy in wholly Catholic countries such as those in South and Latin America, is getting away with. There are governments which know that the Vatican has the “people-power” to bring them down.

The other reason for this conspiracy of silence is because of the Vatican’s own policies on paedophilia , the latest of which were drawn-up by Ratzinger before he became the Pope. It was Pope John Paul ll who in 2001, put Ratzinger in charge of the strangely-named “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith”. This euphemism was the future-Pope’s sex-department and his brief was to investigate child rape and torture bybeen systematically abused; paedophiles were transferred to other jobs, rather than dismissed or prosecuted. Abuse has surfaced in Austria and the Netherlands. In Ireland Cardinal Sean Brady, the primate, has admitted that he was present in 1975 when two teenage boys were persuaded to sign oaths of silence about their abuse by Father Brendan Smyth. The church defrocked Smyth, but nobody, including Cardinal Brady, told the police about his crimes and he remained free to abuse boys for two decades.

Yet denial still reigns. Bishop Christopher Jones, head of the Irish episcopate’s committee on family affairs, has complained that the church is being singled out, when most abuse happens inside families and other organisations. “Why this huge isolation of the church and this huge focus on cover-up in the


church when it has been going on for centuries?” he asked. He should remember that two wrongs do not make a right and in fact, he is not the first cleric to snivel that the media are being unfair in singling out perverted priests when there are so many other perverts about.

The scandal is more widespread than the one that swept through the United States in recent years, costing the church up to $2 billion in compensation payments. In recent weeks at least 350 victims have come forward in the Netherlands, along with around 300 more in Germany and Austria. In Brazil a priest and two monsignors have just been suspended from their church duties following allegations of involvement in the making of a sex video involving ayouth. Most of the cases date back to a time when the church was less aware of the terrible harm caused by sexual abuse and before it had introduced stricter controls. But many old scandals touch clergy alive today. Some are now in positions of great responsibility. One is the primate of Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, who admits taking part in a grotesque inquiry in 1975 when two children, reportedly aged 10 and 14, were made to swear secrecy about their ordeal. Their abuser, though inculpated by the church, was never reported to the police.

Even worse for the church are two issues that may directly involve Pope Benedict XVI himself. One is that in 2001, when he was still Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, he signed an ill-phrased document that


another parish where by last summer he was saying mass at a camp site for young people. It was only on March 15th, three days after the archdiocese released details of his case, that he was suspended for breaking the ban. His boss, the parish priest in Bad Tölz, in deeply Catholic rural Bavaria, said he had never been told of the offending cleric’s past. The previous day brought dramatic scenes at the parish church, as members of the congregation barracked a replacement priest taking the mass. Some walked out.

The pope’s response to this and other cases is attracting criticism, including from prominent laymen such as Wolfgang Thierse, a former Social Democrat president of Germany’s lower house of parliament, the Bundestag. He said: “The church needs to bemillion women faced with an unplanned pregnancy, decide to have an abortion. That’s about 125,000 per day. That is the sort of statistic that the Vatican ought to be considering when promulgating the moral aspects of sex or when advocating abstinence. Italian women have about 150,000 legal abortions per year with another estimated 30,000 carried out illegally. More than 70% of those women were using a contraceptive method at the time of conception (primarily the Catholic favourite, coitus interruptus – otherwise known as the Vatican Okey Cokey).

The good news is that for the last twenty years, the Italian abortion rate has been falling steadily, primarily because of the increased use of other (non-Catholic) contraception methods – such as the condom.

Pope Benedict XVI drew criticism from European governments, international


Book of Fine Words. Meaningless twaddle. Sgt Locketthas left behindastrickengirlfriend and three children aged eight, seven and five.“We take solace in the fact that he died doing a job he was born to do” was more puke-inducing bollocks – this time from his father. Stop this pseudo-heroic crap and bring ALL of our young soldiers back here to the United Kingdom, where they belong. The Taliban certainly do not see these young soldiers as heroes – more like fairground ducks.

When will the Vatican be called to account over the tens of thousands of children that have been abused by pervert priests? The Catholic Church has been accused at the United Nations Human Rights Council of a systematic and long-standing cover-up. The Vatican is in breach of its obligationsof IAAF resignations.

Baroness Scotland will probably resign this week. If every politician who made a mistake resigned, Westminster would be empty by now.

It looks as if Megrahi is going to be the first criminal to be retried on the Internet. We’re still awating an intervention from God and the miracle recovery. There has been one previous miraculous recovery by a convicted criminal. Ernest Saunders (1980s Guinness Scandal) was freed by a judge because he was suffering from Alzheimer’s. So far, Ernest Saunders in the first and only recorded case of a total recovery from Alzheimer’s. The recovery took place soon after he was released from jail. Speaking of miraculous recoveries – Ronnie “released on compassionate grounds” Biggs has been seen out and about on his mobility scooter. Megrahi


Mount Allison University (Sackville, NB) has recently made the decision to completely cut funding for Women's and Gender Studies classes. This leaves countless students with no minor to show for the hard work they've put towards their studies, and is a blatant act of inequality and misogyny.

Education on subjects covered by WGST is a huge step forward in the equality for women and other oppressed groups. This choice was made solely on a financial basis, failing to recognize the social ramifications connected to this decision.

"The women’s and gender studies program at Mount Allison honours the memory of Grace Annie Lockhart. Lockhart received her Bachelor of Science degree from Mount Allison in 1875 — the first Bachelor’s degree awarded to a woman in the British Empire." This is disrespectfula recent graduate of Florida State University, where he made the varsity football squad as a walk-on, pedaled into town this past week, on the last leg of a 4,000-plus-mile cycling trek across the United States.

It was a little after 7 a.m. on a postcard-pretty Saturday and the water on Sag Harbor Cove was glimmering and still as cars began to pull into the parking lot where the Sag Harbor Community Rowing Club meets.


Erika Andiola told BuzzFeed that she is leaving Arizona Rep. Kyrsten Simena's office to put all of her energy into stopping ICE from deporting her mother in January.

Steve Pavey Erika Andiola, immigration activist.

Erika Andiola, a high-profile "dreamer" who was on Time magazine's 2012 cover featuring undocumented immigrants, announced Tuesday that she is leaving her job as a congressional staffer to return to Arizona to put her energy into fighting the threat of her mother's deportation in January. Andiola was able to work for Arizona Rep. Kyrsten Sinema as outreach director because she was a recipient of President Obama's summer 2012 executive order, granting her deferred action status as an eligible undocumented immigrant. "The main reason I was excited when I got offered a job to work for Congresswas not necessarily because I see it as my lifelong career, but because I'm so passionate about immigration reform," Andiola told BuzzFeed. "I wanted to see if I could change things from the inside. But unfortunately, the year has almost ended and House leadership hasn't done anything." In January, during the same week she was hired, Andiola nearly saw her mom be deported; she was taken from their home at 9 p.m. by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and driven to the border before prosecutorial discretion was granted. Now, on Jan. 2, 2013, Andiola's mother, Maria Arreola, 54, has to face ICE again. "That's when they'll make the decision of if she stays or she goes."

AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema, Congressman Luis Gutierrez, and dreamers.

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of deportations. "There has been rhetoric that the administration is not deporting people that are low priority. Tons of people who are vulnerable to deportation and haven't committed crimes are being deported," she said. And while her mother's immigration status was spotlighted by a minor traffic violation, Andiola believes Arizona's controversial recent history with Latino immigrants leads to more stops. "Thank god we were able to stop my mom's deportation last year by creating enough pressure for ICE to get her to stay," she said. "The bus was so close to leaving the country, it was almost a miracle for them to get the message right away and for the bus to turn around. But the prosecutorial discretion nightmare doesn't end there. It's still in the hands ofEmanuel has his super-fans. To tech entrepreneur Howard Tullman, he is the best mayor of a big city in the United States — an irreplaceable civic ambassador who connected with international businesspeople and White House staffers as no mere ward politician could have done. If Richard M. Daley was a transitional figure between the industrial Chicago in which his family’s political dynasty was born and the cultural and financial capital it was destined to become, Emanuel put the final stamp on Chicago as a global city.

Emanuel simultaneously nurtured the rise of a global metropolis and managed the decline of a Rust Belt city, both coexisting within Chicago’s borders. The exigencies of this dual task ultimately undermined his mayoralty. Emanuel left Chicago a more prosperous place, but at the


cost of his own popularity. A police shooting — the murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald — created the biggest crisis of his administration and may have done more than anything else to bring about his downfall, because many Chicagoans believed, rightly or wrongly, that he had covered up the video of the crime to preserve his 2015 reelection. As an urban planner, he succeeded; as a politician, he failed, because some Chicagoans came to believe he was indifferent to their struggles.

The African American population declined under Mayor Richard M. Daley, but he “tried to manage the fallout,” says Jawanza Malone, executive director of the Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization. “He saw himself as another Chicago guy who knew what was happening in the neighborhoods. Emanuel is not a Chicagoan. Hedoesn’t see himself as a Chicagoan. He brought in all these people from outside Chicago who didn’t understand the Chicago Way.”

Parts of Chicago have been Manhattanized. But other parts — the Second City’s second city — have turned into Cleveland and Detroit, losing their industries, their business districts, their middle class. According to demographer Alden Loury, who works as the race, class, and communities editor for WBEZ, “The city is losing more of its lower-income folks and gaining more higher-income workers.” While the African American population is expected to drop to 665,000 by 2030 — half what it was in 1980 — whites are the fastest-growing ethnic group. The Loop and its adjacent neighborhoods are gaining population, while the South and West Sides are declining. For the first


a postindustrial trajectory that threatened to consign us to the same Rust Belt ash heap as Cleveland and Detroit. His mayoralty is, however, a product of it. In his first election, he ran up his biggest vote totals in the wealthy lakefront wards, which are populated by transplanted Midwestern professionals who share his conviction that the business of Chicago is business. The most significant decisions of his mayoralty have accelerated the city’s rise to global status. Emanuel is, arguably, one of the architects of the 21st century’s global economy. As an aide to President Bill Clinton, he helped sell the North American Free Trade Agreement to skeptical prolabor Democrats. Once he got his hands on the levers of power in an alpha world city, it only made sensethat he would move to aggregate money and talent in its core. There are very few winners in globalization, and he wanted to make sure Chicago was one.

Since Emanuel became mayor, in 2011, Chicago has become more prosperous and more educated — achievements of which any civic leader would be proud — but those characteristics have become increasingly concentrated in the urban core. Imagine the city’s skyline as a bar graph of its demographics, the tallest buildings representing the most wealth, scaling downward to two-flats, bungalows, and vacant lots as it flatlines from its peak.

If any man reflects the city Chicago has become since Daley’s death, it is Rahm Emanuel. A suburban striver who grew up in Wilmette, he moved to the city in adulthood with a fancy


In the aftermath of late-20th-century deindustrialization, there could be only one Midwestern metropolis. Chicago was the winner, and it’s been sucking the economic vitality out of surrounding states — and the rest of Illinois — ever since. At first, this took the form of brain drain, as college graduates from Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin flocked to the city. Now, under Emanuel, Chicago has been the No. 1 American city for corporate relocations for five years running. Headquarters that were once synonymous with their small Midwestern hometowns are following the talent here. Archer Daniels Midland moved its global HQ from Decatur to an office on West Wacker Drive. ConAgra moved from Omaha to the Merchandise Mart. And corporations that built office campuses in Chicago suburbs during the urban flighther children to Iowa partly for a more stable educational environment.

Emanuel believes political capital is worthless unless spent on difficult decisions. In his first term, he spent a lot of capital on the school closings, and he never recovered it. Some of that was a result of the policies themselves, and some was a result of a perception that the prickly Emanuel was an autocrat and a bully who did not truly understand the city he governed.

Perhaps it made demographic and financial sense to close Overton. Since the school was built, in 1963, the surrounding Grand Boulevard community area has lost 75 percent of its residents, falling from a population of roughly 80,000 to 22,000. Public housing has been demolished (most of the Robert Taylor Homes were in