to file amended complaint which was denied November 10, 1972.
On November 28, 1972, notice of motion to dismiss for failure to bring the cause to trial within two years, pursuant to section 583, subdivision (a), Code of Civil Procedure, was served on plaintiff by the court on its own motion in opposition to which plaintiff filed declarations and points and authorities. Subsequently on January 13, 1973, General Dynamics, Inc. filed notice of motion to dismiss for failure to prosecute. On January 18, 1973, hearings on these motions were continued to February 1, 1973. Plaintiff, represented by counsel, appeared and testified. The motions were granted and judgment of dismissal as to all parties was entered on June 25, 1973.
The primary issue is whether the trial court abused its discretionthe telephone call, but heard enough to know appellant was talking with Carrie Bell Brown.
Mrs. Jackson informed appellant that the two men left him, and appellant said he knew they had. Mrs. Jackson told appellant she was about to go up the street to wash clothes, and appellant said he was leaving also. Both of them exited the house, and Mrs. Jackson locked the door behind them.
When Mrs. Jackson arrived at the neighbor's house, some four houses down the street, she discovered she had left her washing powder at home. As she was returning to her house at approximately 6:30 p. m., she saw appellant running away from her house carrying her television set. She shouted for him to stop but he ignored her. She entered her house


and discovered her Panasonic stereo equipment was missing also. She observed that a bedroom window, which had been held shut by a stick propped in it, had been broken. The stick had been removed and the window pushed open. All the doors and windows were locked before the burglary, except for this window, which had been secured by the stick. Mrs. Jackson notified the police who arrested appellant the following Tuesday.
*1068 Janice Chapman, a neighbor, testified she also saw appellant running from Mrs. Jackson's house carrying a television. He ran down a path into a wooded area across the street from where she lived. She also heard Mrs. Jackson shouting at the appellant.
The defense presented two alibi witnesses who placed appellant at another house at the time ofthe burglary. One of these witnesses was the Carrie Bell Brown that appellant called from Mrs. Jackson's house. On cross-examination, in a very confusing series of answers, she appears to have admitted and then again denied that appellant was at the Jackson house at the time he called her rather than at the alibi location.

I
The State attempted to introduce several identification cards found on appellant's person at the time of his arrest. All of the cards were issued to names other than that of the appellant. Over objection to their admission as irrevelant, the trial court conditionally admitted the cards subject to the State subsequently proving their relevancy. At trial's end, the court, on its own motion, excluded the documents as irrelevant. Only at that point did appellant


Ali Price, right, is thriving under the guidance of Mike Blair, who won over 80 caps as Scotland's scrum-half

Champions Cup: Glasgow Warriors v Montpellier Venue: Scotstoun Stadium Date: Friday, 8 December Kick-off: 19:45 GMT Coverage: Listen on BBC Radio Scotland (FM), 5 live sports extra and the BBC Sport website

Ali Price says the wisdom and tutelage of former Scotland captain Mike Blair was key to his signing a new Glasgow Warriors contract.

The scrum-half, 24, penned a two-year deal last month to remain at Scotstoun until at least May 2020.

Blair won 85 Scotland caps wearing number nine, and is now a skills coach for Warriors and the national team.

"I've worked with Mike a couple of years and I go through every game that I play [with him]," Price said.

"Gamesthe Six Nations, Price has started eight of the nine Scotland Tests since, and made a replacement appearance in the summer loss to Fiji as part of squad rotation on tour.

"I've got to do what's best for me; I was incredibly happy to sign for another two years here," he told BBC Scotland.

"I love the city, the supporters, the club. The new coaching staff and I get on well. I wanted to stay in Scotland. I still want to work closely with Mike, and I feel at this time in my career this is the best place for me to be. Especially as I want to continue on with the national team.

"The national coaches come in and watch training, so you see them once every other week, and


you're managed better than if you were to be at a club outside of Scotland."

'I like a fast, attacking brand'

Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend, previously in charge at Scotstoun, wants the national team to "play the fastest rugby in the world".

His successor at Warriors, New Zealander Dave Rennie, encourages a similarly high-tempo brand of attacking rugby.

"Dave's of the same mindset [as Townsend], very much a Kiwi-style way to play the game, which is reasonably new to me," said Price, who has 10 Scotland caps.

"Every opportunity you've got to throw the ball in quickly, take a quick tap, catch the opposition off guard, it's one we should take. It suits the team, the players that are there. I like a fast, attacking brand.

Price scored one of eight Scotland triesin a November rout of Australia

"He's a very personable person, a very good man-manager. You could meet him out at a bar and he'd have a chat with you over a beer, as well as the rugby side of things. He's got that quality that not many people or coaches do, where there's work and then he's interested in what you get up to, all that kind of thing."

'We didn't turn up'

Despite Rennie's success in the Pro14 - Glasgow have won all 10 of their league matches to date, scoring more points and conceding fewer than any other team - his side have failed to pick up a point in the European Champions Cup.

Warriors suffered defeat by Exeter Chiefs in the opening round of Pool 3 fixtures, and


were then overpowered by Leinster, who top the pool, at Scotstoun.

Glasgow must beat third-placed Montpellier on Friday to remain in contention for the quarter-finals.

Glasgow were well beaten at home by Leinster

Montpellier, currently second in the French Top 14, are led by former Scotland boss Vern Cotter, the man who gave Price his first cap against Georgia last November.

"I feel Exeter dominated us through the forwards, their pick-and-go was very effective for them," Price added. "They managed to make easy yards on us.

"To come out of that game with no points was disappointing. The Leinster game, we didn't turn up and that's not good enough from us. We're still in it, just about.

"But what's been pleasing to see is that although Europe went wrong, our form in the leagueCurrent epidemiology of asthma: emerging patterns of asthma.
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the Cullinan diamond

the largest diamond ever found, weighing about 620 grams. It was named after Thomas Cullinan, the head of the Transvaal mine in which it was found in 1905. Two years later the Transvaal government bought it for one million dollars and presented it to King Edward VII. It was then cut into nine large stones and 96 small ones and used in the Crown Jewels.355 F.3d 1288
CHRISTIAN COALITION OF ALABAMA, Plaintiff-Appellant,v.Randall L. COLE, in his official capacity as Commissioner of the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission, Norman E. Waldrop, Jr., in his official capacity as a member of the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission, et al., Defendants-Appellees.
No. 03-11305.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
January 8, 2004.

Thomas J. Marzen, James Bopp, Jr., Bopp, Coleson & Bostram, Terre Haute, IN, Joseph M. Druhan, Jr., Mobile, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
A. Danner Frazer, Jr., Frazer, Greene, Philpot & Upchurch, Mobile, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
Before CARNES and WILSON, Circuit Judges, and HANCOCK*, District Judge.
WILSON, Circuit Judge:

1
The Christian Coalition of Alabama ("CCA") appeals the district court's ruling that the CCA's case against the members of the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission


("JIC") is moot. We agree that this case is moot, and affirm the district court's order.

BACKGROUND

2
On August 30, 2000, the CCA distributed a questionnaire to all Alabama judicial candidates whose names would appear on the November 7, 2000 general election ballot. The questionnaire originally consisted of thirty questions covering a number of social and political issues such as abortion, gun control, and the role of a judge's religious beliefs in decision making. Before answering the questionnaire, two sitting judges (neither is a plaintiff in this action) who were running for re-election in the 2000 general election sought an opinion from the JIC about the propriety of answering the CCA questionnaire. The JIC is vested by the Alabama Constitution with authority to enforce the Canons of Judicial Ethics ("Canons")prohibiting candidates for judicial election from announcing their views on disputed legal and political issues violates the First Amendment." Id. at 788, 122 S.Ct. 2528. On July 19, 2002, the JIC withdrew its Advisory Opinion "in light of the decision of the United States Supreme Court in [White]."

6
The JIC members then filed a motion to dismiss on two grounds. First, they argued that the withdrawal of the Advisory Opinion in response to the White decision rendered moot all the issues in the case. Second, they stated that the Alabama Supreme Court Committee on the Canons was considering a change in the Canons that might be appropriate in response to White. They claimed that "there is little probability that the Alabama Supreme Court would accept any certified questions and


"reasonably be expected" not to issue another opinion holding that judges who answer the CCA's questionnaire would violate the Canons.1

11
The CCA argues, pursuant to the Supreme Court's holding in Aladdin's Castle, that we are required to find that the CCA cannot reasonably expect that the JIC would allow judicial candidates to answer its questionnaire in the future. In Aladdin's Castle, a local ordinance was being challenged as unconstitutional. While the case regarding the ordinance was pending in the appellate court, the city revised the statute by omitting language from the ordinance that was being challenged on appeal. The appellate court was not "fully advised" of this change and ruled that the omitted language was unconstitutional. Aladdin's Castle, 455 U.S. at 288, 102 S.Ct. 1070. The Supreme Court heldof its ordinance, the JIC's withdrawal of its Advisory Opinion does not render moot the case regarding the constitutionality of the JIC's enforcement policy.

12
The present case, though, is distinguishable from Aladdin's Castle. Unlike the defendant in Aladdin's Castle, the JIC members have stated no intention to reenact their Advisory Opinion. Instead, the JIC members have professed the contrary intent, stating in a pleading submitted to the district court that they "hereby represent that the JIC will not file charges against any judge in connection with the CCA questionnaire." The JIC members took this position because they "acknowledged the superceding import of the United States Supreme Court decision in [White]," which held that "prohibiting candidates for judicial election from announcing their views on disputed legal and political issues violates


the First Amendment." White, 536 U.S. at 788, 122 S.Ct. 2528. The JIC members also have represented that the Alabama Supreme Court Committee on the Canons is reconsidering existing Canons in light of White, which, if modified, would necessarily change the JIC position. Such modification would force the JIC to apply different Canons.

13
In other words, the JIC members' representation to the district court that they "will not file charges against any judge in connection with the CCA questionnaire" was not made so as to merely avoid a ruling by the federal court. Rather, the JIC's withdrawal of its Advisory Opinion and its representation to the district court are a result of subsequent events out of the JIC's control that effected a change in its position regarding the proprietyinsight into his very personal approach to vegan nutrition.

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He offers advice on how to customize a vegan diet according to your personal needs which will also guarantee an optimum supply of essential nutrients.

Patrik also addresses the stumbling blocks and obstacles that a vegan diet brings and explains how to avoid them.

The reader gets a personal insight into the life of a man who has dedicated himself towards working on behalf of the worldwide vegan movement through his personal experience and achievements.

He explains what motivates him and what made him into the person that he is today.

The book also provides motivational techniques that everybody can apply to his or her personal


see 40-plus college quarterbacks counsel young players and conduct after-hours workouts under the tutelage of Peyton and Eli Manning. Here are five things that stood out to me after three days of watching some of college football's best quarterbacks perform on the grass:

1) Johnny Manziel will make for the most fascinating quarterback evaluation in recent history. There is no disputing the spectacular playmaking ability of the Texas A&M standout, whose unconventional game and inferior physical dimensions will force scouts and coaches to rethink their traditional methods for evaluating the position. Most offensive coordinators in the NFL prefer big, strong-armed quarterbacks capable of executing a regimented system. Manziel, however, is a diminutive playmaker who is most effective when playing "sandlot" football from the pocket. He excels at finding receiversdownfield following wild scrambles, and his ability to put pressure on the defense with his improvisational skills makes him nearly indefensible at the college level.

Of course, while freelancing is great when it produces big plays, offensive coordinators prefer consistency, which requires quarterbacks to display discipline and patience from the pocket. Moreover, most offensive play callers want their quarterbacks to work through a series of progressions before they flee the pocket, because doing so forces opponents to defend the entire field in the passing game (this also partially stems from ego-driven coordinators' desire for their schematics, and not the individual performance of their players, to get credit for offensive success, because they hope it will help them secure coveted head-coaching positions).

I talked to Manziel at the Manning Passing Academy


before his headline-making early departure, and it's clear that he certainly understands the need to show scouts he can pick apart defenses from the pocket. He discussed handling SEC defenses bent on taking away his running lanes and forcing him to throw with precision from the pocket. By acknowledging the tactics he's likely to face this season, Manziel is already demonstrating the awareness expected of elite signal-callers. Most offensive coordinators favor a selective scrambler in the mold of Russell Wilson over a run-first playmaker like Michael Vick, so the development of Manziel's pocket-passing skills is paramount to his final evaluation.

Manziel's status as a "rock star" will also challenge the way coaches and scouts approach him. As the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy, Manziel enjoys a cult-likefollowing among fans, making him subject to endless rumors and speculation. This will force scouts to scour Manziel's background in an attempt to determine if he has the maturity to handle the scrutiny and expectations that accompany being a franchise quarterback. Given the constant buzz surrounding Manziel's every action, the process of building his profile will be an exhaustive one for evaluators.

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2) AJ McCarron is as pro-ready as they come at the position. The leader of the two-time national champions has been given the dreaded "game manager" label, thanks to his direction of Alabama's conservative offensive attack. However, a close examination


of his overall game and physical tools suggests to me that he has all of the traits teams covet in a franchise signal-caller. After having a few casual conversations with McCarron at the camp, I believe he is a "team-first" quarterback obsessed with capturing rings rather than compiling impressive statistics. He repeatedly discussed doing "whatever it takes" to win as his primary responsibility with the Crimson Tide. He also cited the importance of preparation and work ethic as keys to keeping his team in contention for future championships. As a former scout, I must say that McCarron's words reflect the kind of leadership potential teams are looking for.

From a physical standpoint, McCarron also displayed the tools to be a franchise quarterback at the next level, showing off polishedfootwork and mechanics as a pocket passer in drills. Most importantly, McCarron demonstrated superb arm strength, rifling balls to all areas of the field with excellent velocity and zip. Additionally, he showed better-than-anticipated range and touch on deep balls, consistently hitting receivers in stride on vertical routes. One of the things I was concerned about after watching him on tape was whether he could thrive in a vertical passing game, but his throwing exhibition at camp dispelled that worry. Of course, going through a series of workouts in shorts and shirts isn't comparable to playing in a game, but he still certainly provided a glimpse of the natural talent that could make him a top prospect in the 2014 NFL Draft.

3) Stephen Morris might be the most talented


quarterback in college football. I say that even while fully aware of the gifted passers across the college football landscape. The Miami signal-caller's natural talents made him stand out above the rest of his peers at the throwing exhibition at the Manning Passing Academy. Morris spins the ball with exceptional velocity and zip while showing a deft touch on intermediate and deep passes. Most impressively, he is deadly accurate, capable of making pinpoint throws to every area of the field. This was evident not only when Morris won the air-it-out competition by hitting a variety of moving targets, but also when he connected with receivers on a number of intermediate throws, particularly on deep comebacks and digs.

After cross-referencing the notes from my evaluation of Morris' game tape withmy observations of his performance at the Manning Passing Academy, I believe he could rate as one of the top pure passers in college football. He is an outstanding rhythm passer who displays terrific anticipation, awareness and timing in the pocket. Although he only has one year of starting experience at Miami, Morris' remarkable physical tools and superb game-management skills could garner him high rankings on quarterback lists around the NFL.

4) Get ready for the Devin Gardner-Ryan Tannehill comparisons. NFL scouts love to compare college prospects to current pros based on playing styles, physical dimensions and backgrounds, and I expect evaluators to link Michigan's Gardner and the Miami Dolphins signal-caller based on their similarities as former receivers-turned-quarterbacks. Each player arrived at his respective school as a highly regarded


quarterback prospect, but the presence of an established starter and a desire to take advantage of their athleticism led their coaches to put them on the field as wide receivers early in their collegiate careers.

For Gardner, the opportunity to play quarterback came in the middle of the 2012 season, when Denard Robinson missed time with an injury. The redshirt junior shined as a fill-in, completing 59.5 percent of his passes for 1,219 yards with 11 touchdowns and five interceptions in five starts. In addition, he added seven rushing scores (on 47 attempts) and totaled 16 receptions for 266 yards with four touchdowns.

Thanks to Gardner's tremendous production and impressive physical dimensions (6-foot-4, 210 pounds), scouts were already intrigued by his potential as a possible dual-threat playmaker at the nextlevel. After watching him perform in workouts this weekend, I believe that fascination will grow based on his spectacular talents as a passer. Gardner displayed superior arm strength in drills, showing the kind of zip and velocity to rival big-armed NFL passers like Cam Newton and Colin Kaepernick. Additionally, he demonstrated outstanding accuracy and ball placement in the throwing exhibition.

Of course, a workout doesn't fully simulate the challenges of making pinpoint throws under game pressure, but Gardner's strong showing in front of his peers, coupled with the impressive flashes displayed in game action in 2012, will have scouts paying close attention to him this fall.

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5) Bryn Renner


throwing competition. That's a testament to his skills, considering the level of talent in attendance.

Although Renner will finish out his collegiate career in a system that features "dink and dunk" passes, the fact that he possesses the physical tools to shine in any scheme will could make him a highly coveted prospect when draft day rolls around.

NOTES

» I found it interesting that McCarron and Manziel both said Brett Favre was the NFL player they most admired growing up. Each cited his "gunslinger's mentality" as one of the traits they emulated; their adoration of the likely Hall of Famer was obvious in their conversation. While Manziel's game might resemble Favre's improvisational style, I thought the revelation spoke volumes about McCarron's confidence as a playmaker.

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» Missouri's James Franklin will garner plenty of interest from NFL scouts searching for a dual-threat quarterback capable of executing the zone-read at the next level. The Tigers star produced a 3,000/1,000-yard season as a sophomore before slumping through a disappointing junior campaign riddled with injuries. At the camp, Franklin talked about using some of the leadership lessons learned from the Mannings to engineer a turnaround season. From conveying positivity in the huddle after poor plays to preparing better in the film room, Franklin believes an improved attitude can get him back on track in 2013.


Music and American Higher Education

The American cultural landscape is complex. This complexity is reflected on the campuses of colleges, conservatories, and universities through their curricula, faculty, libraries, performances, research, and teaching practices. The articles below, originally published by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) and The College Music Society (CMS), analyze from both the faculty and institutional perspectives the conditions within music in higher education, how these conditions came to be, and what the future might hold.

We hope the ideas presented will serve as springboards for thought and activity on campuses and throughout the music field. We invite you to ponder with us the multiple roles of music in American life and how the higher education community can most effectively serve the musical development of ourAfrica, its wild regions to explore,
And travelled oe’r wild and lonely deserts, fatigued and footsore.

And, what he and his little band, suffered will never be forgot.
Especially, one in particular. Major Edmund Barttelot
Alas! the brave heroic officer, by a savage, was shot.
The commandant, of the rear column, oh hard has been his lot.

Oh! think of the noble Stanley, and his gallant little band.
While, travelling through gloomy, forests, and devastated land,
And suffering from all kinds of hardships under a burning sun,
But the brave hero, has been successful and the victory’s won.

While in Africa, he saw, many wonderful Sights,
And, was engaged no doubt, in many savage fights.
But the wise Creator, was with him all along
And, now he’s home, again to us, I hope quite strong.

And during his travels, in Africa, he


made Strange discoveries.
He discovered a dwarfish race called pigmies.
Which is said to be the original natives, of Africa.
And when Stanley discovered them was struck with awe.

One event in particular is most worthy to relate.
How God preserved him from very cruel fate.
He and his officers, were attacked while sailing in their boat,
By the savages, of Bumbireh, all eager cut his throat.

They seized him by the hair, and tugged it without fear,
While one, of his men, received poke in the ribs, with a spear.
But Stanley, having the presence of mind instantly Contrives.
To cry to his men. Shove off the boa.! and Save your lives.

Then, the Savages, swarmed, into three, canoes very close by,
And, every bow was drawn, while they Savagely did cry.
But, the heroic Stanley, quickly, shot two of themBut after five years together the pair abruptly ended their business relationship without explanation.

However, they reunited in 2009 after Jackson asked Dileo to manage him again while launching his ill-fated This Is It tour.

Dileo was his manager when Jackson died on 25 June that year.

Dileo also had a role in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas as gangster Tuddy Cicero and also appeared in Wayne's World and its sequel as a flashy music executive.

"He was not only one of the great veterans of the music business, he was a beloved friend to me and all who were lucky enough to have had him in their lives," said John Branca, co-executor of Jackson's estate.


The Czech Republic announced Wednesday that it will recognize West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, hours after President Trump's own Jerusalem declaration on behalf of the U.S.

Earlier Wednesday, Trump declared that the U.S. will recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, but the statement out of Prague specifically cited the possibility that the ancient city could serve a dual purpose in future peace talks.

“The Czech Republic together with other EU member states, following the EU Foreign Affaires Council Conclusions, considers Jerusalem to be future capital of both states, meaning the State of Israel and the future State of Palestine," the Czech Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

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The ministry made clear that it only recognized the western half of Jerusalem to be Israel's capital, the borders of the citybefore Israel seized control of the eastern half in the Six-Day War of 1967.

While Israel retains control of both halves currently, the Palestinians have a stronghold in the West Bank and claim that the holy city should also be the capital of a future Palestinian state.

In his historic declaration on Wednesday, Trump also said he plans to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, a move that many fear could strain tensions in the region and set back negotiations for a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine.

While the Czech Republic broke with some other European Union members who do not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, it said it would only consider moving its embassy there after "negotiations with key partners."


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Ariel Castro breaks down while talking about the child that he fathered with Amanda Berry as he addresses the court while seated between attorneys. Credit:Reuters Gina DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and 20 years old. They escaped on May 6, when one of the women broke part of a door and yelled to neighbours for help. Castro was arrested that evening. Castro was sentenced on August 1 to life in prison plus 1000 years on his guilty plea to 937 counts including kidnapping and rape. Castro was alternately defiant and apologetic while showing no remorse in a rambling final statement to the court. Although he said he was sorry for his actions, he insisted "I amnot a monster". "If you asked my daughter she would say, my dad is the best dad in the world," Castro said.

Michelle Knight reads her statement to court during Ariel Castro's sentencing hearing. Credit:Reuters "All the sex was consensual," Castro told the judge before sentencing. "The girls were not virgins. They had multiple sex partners before me." Cuyahoga County Judge Michael Russo, describing Castro as suffering from "extreme narcissism," said the crimes were so extreme that the former school bus driver should never emerge from prison. Chains found in a bedroom are shown during Ariel Castro's sentencing hearing. Credit:AP Castro had pleaded guilty to hundreds of charges including murder for beating and starving Ms Knight to force her to miscarry during pregnancy.

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and locks are pictured in Ariel Castro's house. Credit:Reuters Ms Knight made a dramatic appearance in court before the sentencing and read a written statement saying that Castro had persecuted her, beginning with her abduction in 2002 until she was freed. "Days turned into nights, nights turned into days. Years turned into eternity. I knew nobody cared about me. He told me that my family didn't care," Ms Knight said, choking back tears at the time of Castro's sentencing. Ariel Castro made his victims wear this helmet while he raped them. Credit:Reuters

"I spent 11 years of hell. Now your hell is just beginning," Ms Knight said of Castro. Wearing leg shackles and dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit, Castro sparred with the judge over some of the chargesand listened to the testimony and sentencing without expression. Ms Berry, Ms DeJesus and Ms Knight all went missing from the west side of Cleveland. They were discovered on May 6 after neighbours heard Ms Berry's cries for help from Castro's home. Ms Berry has a six-year-old daughter fathered by Castro in captivity, according to DNA evidence. The child had a "normal" life, Castro said. In court, he described the little girl as his "miracle child." The only point at which he became at all emotional was when he spoke about her.

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prosecutors presented graphic evidence of the crimes, including a dollhouse-size replica of the home where he imprisoned the women. There were also photos of the interior of the house showing chains, boarded up windows, numerous locks and curtains separating rooms. To the casual observer, it was an ordinary suburban house, the exterior a little weathered and run down, the yard bordering on neglect. But as police and forensic investigators discovered to their - and the world's - horror, it was a house that hid dark secrets; a house filled with the vile manifestations of a depraved man.

Police photographs showed two rooms in which Ms Berry and her child were sometimes kept, with Disney film posters tacked to the pink walls, stuffed animals lined up on the bed. Inhorrifying contrast, rusted iron chains were found on the floor and the windows boarded with heavy wooden planks. The women were rarely given access to the bathroom, instead having to relieve themselves in plastic buckets that were "emptied infrequently", according to prosecutors. More than 45 kilograms of chain was found in total throughout the filthy, darkened house. Prosecutors told the court how Castro kept a "significant amount of cash" in a basement washing machine, which he would then throw at the victims after raping them.

The women could then use the money to beg him for food and small personal items. The three women were often chained up for days at a time and were fed just once a day. Based on diary entries, police told of how the


women were chained to poles in the basement, or to a bedroom heater, or kept in a van for days on end. One woman, after she tried to escape, had a vacuum-cleaner cord wrapped around her neck, according to a prosecution memo. Castro also kept a motorcycle helmet in the basement, which he would force the women to wear, to muffle their screams as he repeatedly raped them.

Two vacant homes next to the property where Castro held the three women captive were demolished last week. Castro's home was destroyed a month ago under the plea deal that spared him a possible death sentence and forced him to turn over the deed to the house and pay for its demolition. Loading AP, Reuters and Jessica Wright

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SHANGHAI, China, March 13, 2016 (ChinAfrica) -- Of these events, what impressed him most were two international forums held in South Africa and Italy in September and October 2015 in succession, reflecting the different interests audiences in developed and developing countries have in China.

"At a think tank forum in Milan, Italy, the participants focused on China's economic restructuring and territorial disputes in the South China Sea; but in South Africa, I was asked more specific questions, such as China's efforts to address corruption, reduce poverty and boost economic development," Huang told ChinAfrica. "I could see that Africans pay more attention to China's development and livelihood improvement, hoping to get inspiration from China's experience."

Huang suggested that cultural exchanges and people-to-people contacts between China and Africa should be broadened,


in keeping with the rapid development of Sino-African relations. "On China's part, we need to improve our capacity to communicate with the international community. This is an urgent task," he said.

Cultural exchanges

While tabling the Government Work Report at the opening of this year's full session of the 12th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, on March 5, Premier Li Keqiang stressed the importance of international cultural exchanges and international communication capacity. "Though there is only one sentence [on this] in the report, we can never emphasize it too much," Huang said. "The international community needs to learn more about China. More importantly, we should present China much more clearly to the outside world."

In recent years, the Chinese Government has taken various measures to improve Sino-African cultural exchanges andpeople-to-people contact. According to an inter-government agreement on cultural promotion, the Year of South Africa event was held in China in 2014 and the Year of China event was held in South Africa the following year. In January, China and Egypt launched the China-Egypt Cultural Year. Experts say that cultural exchanges have greatly promoted mutual understanding between Chinese and Africans.

"China and African countries are increasingly strengthening their economic ties, but such ties cannot be sustained without the foundation of cultural exchanges," Huang said. According to him, only through appreciating each other culturally can the Chinese and Africans enhance mutual understanding and friendship.

"Many Chinese like the distinctive African culture; China also has a rich culture. We must introduce our colorful culture to Africans," Huang said, adding that cultural exchanges


should be conducted on an equal footing.

Language service

For Huang, a prestigious translator in China, the development of the language service industry is an important part in improving China's international communication capacity. In 2013, China proposed an international development strategy and framework, the Belt and Road Initiative, encouraging enterprises to invest in countries and regions along the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road, an extension of the ancient trade routes involving about 60 countries and regions in Asia, Africa and Europe.

"You cannot expect that all the people in these countries speak Chinese or all Chinese enterprise staff speak foreign languages when they go to these countries. So they need language service," Huang said, explaining that language service does not simply mean translation by people. "InAfrican officials held in China. All this has sensitized him to the problems facing China and African countries' current economic growth.

"Against the background of economic globalization, any change in the development of one region will exert influence on others," Huang said. "But the slowed Chinese economic growth will not necessarily lead to a slowdown in Africa, as China and African economies complement one another."

Industrial cooperation is a good example of this mutual complementation. At the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in South Africa in December 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed that the prevailing "new type of China-Africa strategic partnership" be upgraded to a "comprehensive strategic and cooperative partnership." Xi also announced that China would implement 10 cooperation plans with Africa in the next three


technology, agriculture, energy, infrastructure construction and finance in African countries.

"China is transforming its economic development mode and African countries can take advantage of the process to accelerate their industrialization process," Huang said.

Since retiring from vice presidency of the China International Publishing Group two years ago, Huang Youyi, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's top political advisory body, has more time to travel around the world and present China to the international community. Huang's calendar is crammed with seminars and forums where he helps foreign participants learn more about China. (*This article first appeared on ChinAfrica Website)One day.
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They called the police who issued Northcott with a formal warning but she carried on seeing the girl until they fell out in 2015 and the girl called her mother from a carnival and complained of sexual abuse.

She made a statement to the police, which she later withdrew, but also handed over a phone which she thought was broken.

Cops found selfies showing the girl and Northcott kissing and a video clip of them in bed together.

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Dr. Fredrick Bliss, professor emeritus in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis, was honored with the 2020 National Association of Plant Breeders (NAPB) Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Posters for a new season

I'm pleased to announce the beginning of cooperation with The Yugoslav Drama Theater in Belgrade, Serbia. I will be designing their posters for the season 2017/2018.

The first poster is for the play Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman, directed by Slobodan Unkovski, which will be premiered on October 15th.

The play fictionalizes Albert Einstein as a young scientist who is troubled by dreams as he works on his theory of relativity in 1905, and each dream involves a conception of time.

The second poster is for the play Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute directed by Jana Maričić, whose premiere is scheduled for November.

It's a 2002 play that was among the first major theatrical responses to the September 11, 2001 attacks. Set on September 12,it concerns Ben, a man who worked at the World Trade Center but was away from the office during the attack, with his mistress, Abby, who is also his boss. Expecting that his family believes that he was killed in the towers' collapse, Ben contemplates using the tragedy to run away and start a new life with his lover.


Fan dies in Argentina as violence breaks out between rivals at Estudiantes and Lanus game

The dark shadow of violence, that has plagued Argentine football for so long, descended once again in La Plata on Monday night.

With the season drawing to a close, Estudiantes were playing Lanús, in a fixture that was key to the visiting side’s title aspirations.

However events on the pitch were very much eclipsed by what happened outside the stadium, as one fan was killed and another seriously wounded in violent clashes between fans and police.

Trouble on the terraces: A brawl in the stands of Ciudad de la Plata stadium during the match between Estudiantes and Lanus in La Plata

Ugly scenes: The violence in the stands lead to one fan being killed

Local media report that theman killed was 38-year-old Javier Jerez, who died from a gunshot wound after being taken to the local Gonnet hospital.

Initial reports suggested that the death was the result of an internal power struggle between rival factions of Lanús’ barra brava – the mafia-like gangs that wield huge influence in Argentine football.

However it soon became clear that it was caused by clashes between the barra and the police and according to Argentine news site Cancha Llena the minister for Justice and Security in Argentina, Ricardo Casal, has ordered the suspension and arrest of three police officers in connection with the fatal incident.

Battle: Fans clashed in the stands

The violence occurred before the game, outside Estudiantes’ stadium, and the start of the match was briefly delayed, but it seemingly wasn’t until


Electrical problem cited in mobile home blaze

Photo by: Ben HolbrookA charred bed frame is tossed through the window of a mobile home on April Road the morning of Oct. 14.

Belfast — An electrical issue is believed to be the cause of a fire that heavily damaged a mobile home on April Road the morning of Oct. 14.

The fire was reported shortly after 8 a.m. when the home's occupants discovered smoke coming from a bedroom in the 1970s mobile home, which is sited at 7 April Road, Belfast Assistant Fire Chief Bob Richards said. When they opened the door, the room was completely engulfed in flames.

April Road is located off Poors Mill Road, near the Waldo town line.

Everyone in the home safely escaped the flames, Richards said, but thefire heavily damaged the residence. The home is insured, the chief said.

He said an electrical problem in the bedroom is believed to have caused the blaze.

The home is owned by Geneva Lessard, Richards said. It is valued at almost $19,000, according to city tax records.

Morrill and Waldo fire departments assisted Belfast at the scene. Firefighters battled the blaze for almost an hour.

American Red Cross is assisting the six occupants who were displaced by the fire, according to a news release. The organization is providing lodging, food and other essentials.

Smoke pours through the windows of the residence Oct. 14 as firefighters prepare to enter the structure on April Road, Belfast.
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LINCOLN – A local man is facing homicide charges in connection with the execution-style shooting death of a 23-year-old man in Avon, Mass. nearly two years ago.
Willie Wilkerson, 27, of 1200 Lonsdale Ave., was arraigned in District Court Monday on charges of being a fugitive from justice in Massachusetts.
Wilkerson was arrested by a multi-agency task force on a homicide warrant issued by the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office, according to Major Todd Catlow, commander of detectives for the Rhode Island State Police.
The warrant charges Wilkerson with the September 2011 murder of Kristopher Rosa, the district attorney said in a statement.
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A new species of bird has been discovered in the Himalayan forests of northern Indian and southern China, and it has been called the Himalayan forest thrush.

Researchers who were doing field work in the mountainous area had noticed that the thrushes in the forests were more musical than similar thrushes in the rocky areas, and with more research they found physical and genetic differences, according to a BBC report.

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Local and regional authorities across Europe are confronted with the negative consequences of a persisting illicit cannabis market. Increasingly, local and regional authorities, non-governmental pressure groups and grassroots movements are advocating a regulation of the recreational cannabis market. The Transnational Institute (TNI) analysed possible cannabis market regulation models (in Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands) to allow local authorities to share best practices and improve the understanding of drug markets as a means to reduce the negative consequences of illicit drug markets on individuals and society.

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Condolences to victims given at service for the Trolley Square shooter

By Dario Novalic Special to The Tribune

Published March 4, 2007 12:58 am

This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2007, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.

TALOVICI, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Sulejman Talovic, who shot and killed five people at Trolley Square mall in Salt Lake City nearly three weeks ago, was buried Saturday in his family's war-ravaged hamlet.

More than 300 people - most of them strangers - paid their respects to his heartbroken parents, who expressed grief and sorrow as well as appreciation for the people of Utah.

''I am so sorry for my child. . . . I am sorry for allthe other victims and their families,'' said Sulejman's father, Suljo Talovic. ''There are no words to describe how saddened I am, and how great the people of Salt Lake City are.''

His wife, Sabira Talovic, was inconsolable. Two cousins held her, trying to stanch her crying and silence her screams.

The cousins sprinkled her with water, but it didn't help. Sabira fainted and collapsed on the wet grass less than a yard from the casket.

The body of 18-year-old Sulejman Talovic, who was killed in a gunbattle with police at the mall, arrived by plane Friday in Sarajevo. His parents, who came to Utah as refugees in the late 1990s with their son and three daughters, arrived in Bosnia the same day.

A hearse brought the remains to Talovici, northeast of the


Bosnian capital, on Saturday. The open casket was placed next to the Talovic family's home for a viewing.

The home, which the family was forced to flee in 1993 at the height of the Bosnian war, was badly damaged by invading Bosnian Serb forces, which ''cleansed'' eastern and northern Bosnia of Muslims and Croats. The Talovic family is Muslim.

Talovici - which today is home to just eight of the 60 families who lived there before the war - is not far from the infamous town of Srebrenica, where more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys were murdered over two days in July 1995. It was the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.

As a result, many of the locals who attended Sulejman Talovic's viewing were women, although itis not customary for Muslim women to be present at such an event.

The women walked slowly by the casket and wept quietly.

Suljo Talovic was more stoic. He talked with friends, relatives and people he didn't know. He loudly called out for everyone who wanted to look at his son's body one last time.

One of the strangers was Sarajevo resident Almir Secerkadic, formerly of Srebrenica.

''As you can see, a lot of people came to attend the funeral. People are compassionate, and they will not let that a funeral occurs without any men present," he said. "Because of that, so many people are attending, even though I didn't expect it.''

Sabira Talovic's brother, Alibeg Jahic, who now lives in Austria, also came to the funeral.

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repeated three times, and the women forgave Sulejman.

By Muslim custom, the casket was moved from hand to hand by the men all the way to the grave, where it was placed headfirst by the closest family member, in this case, Suljo Talovic. Only men were allowed to witness the burial.

After the prayers led by three imams, the question: ''Are we going to forgive?'' was repeated three more times.

''He is forgiven!'' said the men gathered.

As they walked slowly by the grave and threw soil on the casket, reporters approached Sulejmanovic. One reporter asked: ''If the families of Talovic's victims were present here, would they forgive Talovic for his sins?''

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a vote on a resolution introduced by Republican Senator Rand Paul to oppose the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia. It failed by four votes, and if five Democrats had not voted to preserve the arms deals, the effort to block $500 million worth of weapons would have prevailed.

Republican Senator Bob Corker, the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led the effort to stop the resolution from Sanders and Lee. He was livid that senators invoked the War Powers Act of 1973 to attempt to end U.S. military support for intervention by Saudi Arabia in a war against the Houthis, particularly because it circumvented his authority as the Foreign Relations Committee chair.

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The effort to block debate and kill a resolution on U.S. support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen occurred on the same day that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with President Donald Trump at the White House. He also met with with Corker and other senators from the Foreign Relations Committee.

It was all part of his trip through the United States that will include inking billions of dollars worth of arms deals with U.S. military contractors, like Boeing.

Ahead of the Crown Prince’s visit, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer welcomed his younger brother, Khalid bin Salman to rationalize the Saudi Arabian kingdom’s attacks on Yemen and spin


in the day, Sanders, Lee, and Senator Chris Murphy went to the floor to plead with senators to vote against tabling the resolution.

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wastewater treatment facility, the cost would have totaled about $16 million.
Instead, the city signed a $6.5 million contract with the Freshwater Trust, a not-for-profit river restoration organization. Medford chose water-quality trading to solve the projected exceedance of thermal load and the Trust was hired to implement and maintain the ongoing 20-year project. The Rogue River draws native coldwater fish, including Chinook salmon and steelhead trout. They are listed as "threatened" under the Federal Endangered Species Act and, the two species are adversely affected by warm water. The Rogue River is also used for recreation, with participants taking jet boat tours, whitewater rafting, and kayaking.
The water-quality trading program adapted by the Trust features riparian restoration -- that is, planting and maintaining trees and shrubs along the banks of thethis book, and its comparison of three prominent sites of reform, makes it an asset to practitioners of water policy, as well as water governance scholars and academics in public policy and economics who are focused on environmental policy, property rights and institutional change.

Five years ago Medford, Oregon, had a problem common for most cities -- treating sewage without hurting fish. The city's wastewater treatment plant was discharging warm water into the Rogue River. Fish weren't dying, but salmon in the Rogue rely on cold water. And the Environmental Protection Agency has rules to make sure they get it.
So, instead of spending millions on expensive machinery to cool the water to federal standards, the city of Medford tried something much simpler: planting trees. It bought credits that paid


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out 5th seeded Alakazam. This meant that in the top half of the draw, Venusaur the 9th seed was the only seed remaining. The bottom half was a more even affair, with Blastoise powering home and 10th seeded Sandslash making a big statement, most results as expected.

ROUND 2Haunter quickly proved he was a force to be reckoned with, avenging his older brother's demise by beating out Cubone by a whopping 13 votes. Beedrill emerged as a favourite, with fans popping out for the King Bee left right and centre, which helped in his 12-9 defeat over Ninetales. Arcanine solidified his 2nd seed position, annihilating 15th seeded Butterfree by 10 votes, and all the Sandslash fans were left shaking their heads over what seemed like a guaranteed victory forIt has been almost a year since Hurricane Florence slammed the Carolinas, dumping a record 30 inches of rainfall in some parts of the states. At least 52 people died, and property and economic losses reached $24 billion, with nearly $17 billion in North Carolina alone. Flood waters also killed an estimated 3.5 million chickens and 5,500 hogs.

A lesser-known impact of the devastating hurricane was revealed through satellite photos released after the storm. Excessive rainfall flooded concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in low-lying areas, carrying riverbed sediment and animal waste previously stored in open-air lagoons into nearby waterways and then into the Atlantic. The difference between the photos, taken just five months apart before and after the storm, is striking.

Agriculture is the leading cause of pollution in the


of Local Boards of Health. Ammonia is also often found in surface waters surrounding CAFOs. When exposed to air, ammonium converts into nitrate, and elevated nitrate levels in drinking water have been connected to poor general health, birth defects, and miscarriages. For infants, it can mean blue baby syndrome and even death.

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The New York Times recently exposed the devastating effects of nitrate contamination from animal manure in low-income farmworker communities in California’s Central Valley. The widespread application of chemical fertilizers and dairy cow manure has made the water unsafe for drinking, cooking, and even showering. Camille Pannu, the director of the Aoki Water Justice Clinic at the University of California, Davis, likens theJosh Kopelman

Managing Director of First Round Capital.

espite being coastally challenged (currently living in Philadelphia), Josh has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization. In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation – an Internet information company. In 1996, Infonautics went public on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

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Unintended Consequences

I am very happy that the Senate approved the JOBS Act yesterday -- I supported it's passage and believe that it will ease the path for companies to go public faster in a way that maintains meaningful investor protection. I am fully aware, however, that like all legislation, we will find both positive and negative "unintended consequences" the emerge from this


it's [the video] grossly offensive."

Meechan, 30, recorded his girlfriend’s pug, Buddha, responding to statements such as “gas the Jews” and “Sieg Heil” by raising its paw. He said he made the video to annoy his girlfriend Suzanne Kelly.

After complaints about the content, police were called in and he was arrested for allegedly committing a hate crime by uploading the footage in April 2016.

In the video, which was viewed more than three million times, Meechan, who goes by the You Tube moniker of Count Dankula repeats the phrase "gas the Jews" 23 times which The Crown described as "reckless" and "extremely offensive to the Jewish community".

Meechan, of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, had denied any wrongdoing.

Sheriff O'Carroll told Airdrie Sheriff Court the video, was "threatening and grossly offensive".

He said Meechan knew thevideo was offensive as he said himself during his evidence that he "likes offensive comedy."

The sheriff added: "He said he chose 'gas the Jews' as it was the most offensive phrase associated with the Nazis that he could think of.

"It was the centrepiece of the joke. He said it was so extreme that it added to the comedy."

Sheriff O'Carroll said Meechan "knew what he was doing" adding: "It is self-evident that the material is anti-semitic."

He did not believe Meechan's defence that the video was made as a private joke to annoy his girlfriend, as he had "not taken any steps to prevent the video being shared publically".

Sentencing has been deferred till April 23.

But prosecutors alleged he communicated material that would cause fear and alarm and stir up hatred


was toxic hate speech, we would have taken it down."

But eventually it was.

Guilty.

Recess called to await sentencing. — Count Dankula🏴 (@CountDankulaTV) March 20, 2018

In a commentary by Nat Hentoff, a member of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and Nick Hentoff, the criminal defence and civil liberties attorney in New York pointed to the case as an example of hate speech prosecutions that are "patently absurd".

Sunday was a victory for free speech. But, today the battle continues in Scotland where @CountDankulaTV's trial will set a judicial precedent which will either, strengthen freedom of speech, or create an offense at common law for spreading "hateful content". #countdankulatrial — Opinionated European 🇬🇧🇵🇱 (@OpinionatedEuro) March 20, 2018

"Every dog owner knows that if you speak in a high-pitched voice, youralways ranting and raving about how cute and adorable her wee dog is so I thought I would turn him into the least cute thing I could think of which is a Nazi."

But the procurator fiscal argued that they do not believe the video was intended to be a joke and that Meechan had "a particular audience in mind" when he uploaded it to YouTube.

READ MORE: Court told Mark Meechan's Hitler 'salute' dog was turned into a monster

Meechan, who has lost eight jobs since posting the video, claimed he only intended it to be seen by seven of his friends, who follow his YouTube channel, Count Dankula.

But he says the video was shared, by someone he doesn't know, on the social news aggregation site Reddit which led to


the surge in it's popularity.

The prosecution described Meechan as a "highly intelligent and articulate individual" but said that the pug was being used as a "prop".

In the video, Buddha was shown watching a speech given by Adolf Hitler in the film 'Olympia' by German film director Leni Riefenstahl.

It documents the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

In the featured footage, Hitler said: "Once, our enemies worried us and persecuted us and, from time to time... removed the lesser elements from the Movement for us.

"Today we must examine ourselves and remove from our midst the elements that have become bad."

A crowdfunding page set up to raise money for Meechan's legal fees made £12,000 in eight hours of being launched.from Hollywood on down there are very few signs of civilization.

It was created by people going west, as Horace Greeley advised, looking for the promised land. It got drier and drier as they crossed the Mississippi and passed the 500 mm isohyet. They reached California and were determined to make it the land of milk and honey, even though most of the State has deficit moisture conditions all the time. It has burgeoned by literally plundering the water from the north and east including bringing it over the mountains from the Colorado River. The truth is most of the State is arid or semi-arid.

Brown clearly doesn’t know that the world was 6°C warmer 9000 years ago and was warmer than today for at least 95 % of the


last 10,000 years known as the Holocene Optimum. Consider those conditions in California today. The Governor should count his blessing for purporting to be in charge during a cooler phase of global temperature. Being ignorant is one problem, opening your mouth and proving it is another. It is time to put the entire issue of weather, climate, and water in California in perspective.

In every lecture I ever gave at any university level, I always began with one or two items from the news that related to what we were studying in the course. It was part of my campaign to show the students that there was relevance to something in their university time. Of course, the information varied with the news cycle and the course I was teaching.fires frequently and always burned out of control as soil coring indicates. Then there were the vast grass fires, again natural from lightning, but also set by humans for driving animals for hunting. The Hudson’s Bay Journal has an entry at the end of the 18th century that simply says, “The Indians report the whole of the Prairies are on fire.” Paul Kane recorded such an event in his famous 1845-46, nighttime scene painting “Prairie on fire” (Figure 7).

Figure 7. (Editor; I left the copyright in place.)

The town of Carberry in west central Manitoba, was the first community in the Province to install a municipal water supply. It did so primarily to prevent their homes being burned down every time there was another grass fire.

Perhaps the final arrogance


a forecast for California wildfire season, based on spring rains. He accurately forecast this year and last years active fire seasons in California.

…on one road near Redding, California, when a tire failed last month on a trailer and its rim scraped the asphalt, the result proved to be catastrophic for an entire region.
The sparks that shot out July 23 from that minor incident, California fire officials said, ignited what is now the sixth-most destructive wildfire in state history.

In the past few years in Mariposa County, we’ve had several fires caused by flat tires on vehicles and tralers, and, maybe most insidious, trailer safety chains dragging on asphalt. If you tow a trailer, please tie chains up with bungy cords so they cannot drag.

Every year in Australia, get theteach today.

I have seen a graphic reconstruction of Cali’s drought history going back a millennia here at WUWT before a few times. I saved it on my old computer because it was so eye opening. Brown is indeed lucky to be Gov during a relatively blessed time period and not during one of those 200 year droughts. That state really needs to build more reservoirs and not a bullet train to nowhere.

An illustration;
I owned 160 acres of timberland about ten miles from the north end of Yosemite NP surrounded by Forest Service land. In 2013 the Rim Fire broke out and burned approximately 250,000 acres.
The first time I drove in, a few days after the fire passed, the way in which used to be a thick green, largely


unmanaged forest was a smoldering moonscape as far as the eye could see. But the FS had thinned a few hundred acres around my property and we had selectively logged ours in 2012 taking about half the timber. As I approached our place the fire damage suddenly laid down and rather than scorched spikes the larger trees were green and the lower ladder fuel which was already greatly reduced by the logging was burnt off in a way better than most prescribed burns. There were a couple of hot spots of a few acres where the undergrowth was too thick but by an large the fire was a net benefit on my property.
To the east toward Cherry Lake there was a large pine plantation about 30 years oldwhere a previous fire had burned. The FS had conducted pre commercial thinning operations on the eastern half of it. The fire obliterated the western, unthinned half but again laid down when it hit the thinned ares and eventually burned itself out.

Last night I watched “Nebraska” episode of the Smithsonian series on Arial America. One section described the trials and tribulations of the pioneers as the followed the Platte River from Omaha to the west. As they were describing the fact that mentioned that there worst problem was that there was no wood for fires within miles of the route. Yet, as they displayed the trail and river it looked as if it was winding through a forest. I have been told many times that none of the


world that would run out of water. The climate activists were quick to turn this into a poster and drama for CAGW, and even the President of South Africa was suckered into saying something silly along the same lines. Some reasonable rain has now made landfall from the Atlantic, and there is less of a crisis in Cape Town now, although some other cities in the southern parts face water shortages.

“Climate change is a reality. We’re facing a real total disaster in Cape Town which is going to affect 4 million people.” Cyril Ramaphosa (President of the Republic of South Africa).

The resonance of what happens in California and the southern part of Africa is striking. The summers are hot, vegetation dry as tinder, and runaway fires frequent. Inthe campaign, about $169m, partly because he was unable to spend it until he formally became the Republican presidential nominee two weeks ago.

The Obama team has not disclosed how much it has in the bank, though it is substantially less, mainly because it spent around $120m in negative adverts in swing states over the summer attempting to define Romney as elitist, uncaring businessman.

Romney also enjoys a huge advantage from Super Pacs. These political action committees are legally separate from the campaign teams, but the distinction often appears to be more theoretical than practical.

The Super Pacs supporting Romney, such as Restore Our Future and Karl Rove's American Crossroads are easily outraising their much smaller Democratic equivalents, mainly through reaching out to rich business leaders.

Restore Our Future and American Crossroads


between them have raised about $1 billion, and these are just two of many Republican Super Pacs.

The difference in Super Pac spending power could still mean that Obama, as his campaign team claims, will be outspent two to one in the remaining two months of the campaign.

At the Democratic convention in Charlotte last week, Chicago mayor and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel was recruited to the main Obama Super Pac, Priorities USA, whose performance so far has been poor. A target has been set of raising £150m by election day.

The Obama campaign announced the August figure on Twitter, though all the details do not have to be released until it formally reports to the Federal Election Commission later this month.

Messina said: "The key to fightingfor his future, having slept rough in Ilford for more than a decade.

Half-jokingly, he added: “If they could send me somewhere else, that would be good.”

Sodhi Singh died on Saturday (November 3) in King George Hospital, Goodmayes.

He was taken to hospital after being found collapsed near Lynton House, in High Road.

The father-of-one had been sleeping rough in Ilford since 2006 – unable to work legally, claim state benefits or return to India.

He came to the UK in 1995 and claimed political asylum.

In 2006, he lost his cash-in-hand job in motorway construction, became destitute and developed a severe alcohol addiction.

Sodhi’s story bears remarkable similarities to those of numerous other rough sleepers in Ilford whose country of origin is India.

Sodhi Singh passed away on November 3, 2018, the Ilford Salvation


Army has confirmed. Photo: Anja King Sodhi Singh passed away on November 3, 2018, the Ilford Salvation Army has confirmed. Photo: Anja King

Charities warn that without urgent government action, others will soon share the same fate.

Kawal’s story

After more than a year of trying, Tahir Butt finally managed to arrange a meeting with the Home Office for his friend Kawal – but it was too late.

Father-of-two Kawal Singh, 61, was found dead on the steps of Redbridge Council’s Lynton House building, in High Road, on August 27 this year.

“It was a shock,” Tahir said, sombrely.

“In a way I managed to fail him – I didn’t manage to solve his issues in a year and a half.

“That was quite difficult.”

Kawal slept rough in Ilford for the past nine years afterhe sustained an injury which meant he could no longer continue doing cash-in-hand construction work, Tahir explained.

Kawal Singh was found dead on the doorstep of Redbridge Coucil's Lynton House building on August 27, 2018. Photo: Anja King Kawal Singh was found dead on the doorstep of Redbridge Coucil's Lynton House building on August 27, 2018. Photo: Anja King

Despite his wishes to return to India, he could not.

His Indian citizenship documents were destroyed after he was trafficked into the UK in 1996.

And lacking any formal status in the UK, he could not legally work or claim government support – a situation known as having “no recourse to public funds”.

Tahir, a retired police officer, became friends with Kawal during his time working at Ilford police station.

The 50-year-old would chat to


him and many of the other rough sleepers during his lunch breaks while having an ice cream on the benches nearby.

Tahir describes the rough sleeping community around Lynton House car park as akin to a “homeless United Nations”.

“You’ve got British, Indians, Europeans – people from everywhere.”

Being fluent in Punjabi, he has been well-placed to hear the stories of the numerous Indian men who stay there, many of whom speak little or no English.

Both Tahir and charity The Welcome Centre, in St Mary’s Road, tried to support Kawal for more than a year in his efforts to return to India.

Bhupinder Singh is pictured at dinner time at the Ilford Salvation Army's winter night shelter. Photo: Anja King Bhupinder Singh is pictured at dinner time at the Ilford Salvation Army'swage doing cash-in-hand work in the motorway industry.

Like Kawal, he too sustained injury, could no longer continue and became destitute.

Without formal status in the UK, he cannot work legally or receive government support.

Nor could he return to India, after his passport was destroyed.

When his son died in a motorcycle accident last year, he could not go back to attend his funeral.

Kawal Singh. Photo: Anja King Kawal Singh. Photo: Anja King

Last year, the Home Office and Indian High Commission were able to issue him an emergency travel document to enable Bhupinder to return to India through the Voluntary Returns Scheme (VRS).

But his bid to return fell at the final hurdle when he was deemed not “fit to fly,” following health checks in June this year.

He now awaits the results


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At least 26 children have been killed in the latest round of airstrikes in Yemen, the United Nations has said.

The organisation’s humanitarian office reported that at least four women also died in a strike by the Saudi-led coalition – two weeks after a coalition air attack on a school bus killed at least 29 children.

The UN’s humanitarian chief, Mark Lowcock, confirmed on Friday that a coalition airstrike on Thursday had killed 22 children and four women who were trying to escape the fighting in the Durayhimi district, in the Hudaydah governorate. He said a second attack in the same area that day had killed a further four children.

“I echo the recent statement by thepossible is done to protect civilians.”

Two weeks earlier, Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in the country killed dozens of people, including children travelling on a bus through a market, in Sa’ada province.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said at least 29 children aged younger than 15 had been killed, while a further 48 people of all ages were wounded, including 30 children.

The Reuters news agency reported that the western-backed alliance fighting the Iranian-aligned Houthi group in Yemen had said the airstrikes targeted missile launchers used to attack the southern Saudi city of Jizan the previous day, killing a Yemeni civilian there.

The Saudi-led coalition accused the Houthis of using children as human shields and said the strikes on 9 August were carried out in accordance with international humanitarian law.

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they bought the team. The tour was only $16 (and it was packed with over 60 people!), and it allowed us the opportunity to go throughout the stadium, down into the clubhouse, into the dugout, on top of the Green Monster, and inside the press box. The picture at the top of this post was taken from the top of the Monster. And you want to know what a big tourist attraction Fenway Park is? There were people on the tour who didn’t even know what the Monster was.

The other great part about the tour was that from the top of the stadium, I was able to get this sweet shot of a gigantic Tom Brady Ugg ad. A block away from Fenway Park, there is Brady, plasteredQuote about Imam Hussain (A.S)

A quote about Imam Hussain by Edward Gibbon, an English historian and a member of parliament:

“In the history of Islam, the life of Hussain stands unique, unapproached, and unapproachable by anyone. Without the martyrdom, Islam would have been extinguished long ago. He was the saviour of Islam and it was due to his martyrdom that Islam took such a deep root, which it is neither possible nor even imaginable to destroy now. In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hussain will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.” – Edward Gibbon.