favor of Christian schools. It took two years for her to convince him to make the first steps for the project. He consulted all the Priests of the Canton, 17 at that time, and 16 of the 17 thought the idea was “crazy”, given the prevailing spiritual climate of the area at that time.
To summarise the story: The building that became the Chateau was purchased and renovated, and on October 12, 1934 the Chateauneuf de Galaure school was opened. As of today, the Chateauneuf de Galaure boasts two secondary schools and an agricultural school, with a total of about 1000 students.

The “Foyers de Charite”
The second Divinely inspired project in the heart of Marthe was the “Foyers de Charite” (Houses of Charity) , which where something totally new inthe Church—they are retreat houses built and organized by consecrated lay people, and directed by a Priest. The first Foyers de Charite retreat took place on September 7, 1936, preached by one of Marthe’s close friends, Father Finet. As of 2006, there are 75 Foyers in 41 countries.

Marthe Robin family grave stone

Her holy death
After 50 years of suffering in union with Jesus for the conversion of souls, Marthe Robin entered her eternal reward on the First Friday of the month (devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus) February 6, 1981.

Let us close with these words of Marthe, which summarize well her life of love:“I am Thy prey, oh Jesus, in the Cross and in joy, in cruel trials and in sharpest pain; oh how sweet it is to


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Thursday, 21 April 2016

The Late Great Prince

Prince Rogers Nelson, better known simply as Prince, died today at the age of 57. Earlier in the month he had postponed performances due to influenza. On April 15, while flying back to Minneapolis from a show in Atlanta, Georgia, his private plane made an emergency landing at Quad City International Airport in Moline, Illinois in order for him to receive medical treatment. The cause of his death will not be known until results from an autopsy are announced.

Prince was born on June 7 1958 in Minneapolis. His father was John L. Nelson, a jazz pianist in the Minneapolis area. He used the stage name "Prince Rogers" and performed as part of the Prince Rogers Trio. His mother was Mattie (née Shaw),a local jazz singer who performed with Mr. Nelson. They divorced in 1966 when Prince was eight years old. Coming from a family of musicians, Prince took to music while very young. He was only seven years old when he wrote his first song, "Funk Machine", on his father's piano. He had already decided to pursue a career in music by the time he was a teenager.

Constantly shifting between the homes of his father and his mother, Prince eventually moved into the home of his neighbours the Anderson family. He became friends with their son, Andre Anderson (who eventually took the name Andre Cymone). Prince and Andre Anderson would eventually join the band Grand Central, for whom Prince's cousin Charles Smith was the drummer. Charles Smith would later


be replaced by Morris Day, who would later become famous as part of The Time. Grand Central would eventually rename themselves "Champagne" to avoid confusion with the group Grand Central Station.

It was in 1975 that Pepe Willie, the husband of one of Prince's cousins, formed the band 94 East. Both Prince and Andre Cymone would serve as session musicians for the band. It was in 1976 that Champagne started recording at Moonsound Studio, a small studio owned by Chris Moon. Chris Moon noticed Prince's talent and offered him a deal: if Prince collaborated with him on songs then Prince could have as much free recording time as he desired. In 1976 Prince created a demo tape of four songs he had created at Moonsound.

It was later in 1976that Chris Moon introduced Prince to Owen Husney, an owner of a small advertising agency in Minneapolis who also managed musicians. Owen Husney signed Prince to a management contract. In December 1976 Mr. Husney booked Prince in Sound 80 studios in Minneapolis to record a new demo tape. Owen Husney then created a press kit to send with the demo tape to the various recording companies. Ultimately A&M, ABC/Dunhill, CBS, RSO, Warner Bros., and yet other companies expressed interest in Prince.

It was on June 25 1977 that Prince signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. The contact stipulated that Prince was to record three albums over which he would have complete creative control. Prince's debut album, For You, was released April 7 1978. Not only did Prince produce


the record, but he also arranged and composed every song on the album except for "Soft and Wet", which was co-written with Chris Moon. He also played every single instrument on the album. His first single, "Soft and Wet", peaked at no. 92 on the Billboard Hot 100 and no. 12 on the Hot Soul Singles chart.

It was on October 19 1979 that Prince's second album, Prince, was released. The album would produce Prince's first hit single. "I Wanna Be Your Lover" hit number one on the Billboard R&B chart and peaked at number 11 on the Hot 100. "I Wanna Be Your Lover" was followed by the single "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?". It peaked at no. 13 on the Billboard R&B singles chart. Thealbum itself peaked at no. 22 on the Billboard albums chart.

Prince's third album, Dirty Mind, would not do as well on the Billboard album chart as Prince. Released on October 8 1980, it only peaked at no. 45. That having been said, it arguably set the stage for the rest of Prince's career. The album was stylistically diverse, with songs that could be considered funk ("Dirty Mind"), ballads ("Gotta Broken Heart Again"), dance ("Uptown"), and new wave (When You Were Mine"). Dirty Mind also ventured further into sexuality than most funk or R&B artists ever had before. Indeed, the song "Head" and especially the song "Sister" dealt with subjects that were very nearly taboo when the album was released on October 8 1980. While Dirty Mind was well


known for it salaciousness, songs on the album did explore other subjects. "Uptown" dealt with prejudice and societal expectations. "Partyup"had anti-war overtones.

Prince followed Dirty Mind with the album Controversy, released on October 14 1981. Along with Dirty Mind, Controversy would define much of the course of Prince's career. While Dirty Mind was known for its sheer lasciviousness, Controversy took a more intellectual approach. The title track addressed everything from questions surrounding Prince's sexuality to questions surrounding his religious beliefs. "Ronnie, Talk to Russia" was a plea to the newly elected Ronald Reagan to make peace with the U.S.S.R. The song "Annie Christian" addressed violence, guns, and religion all in one song. Of course, Controversy also contained sex songs, such as "Jack U Off". Like Dirty Mind before it,Controversy continued Prince's stylistic diversification. "Controversy" was pure funk. "Do Me, Baby" was a lengthy ballad. "Private Joy" was bubblegum. "Jack U Off" drew upon rockabilly for inspiration. Controversy sold very well. It peaked at no. 21 on the Billboard albums chart.

It was also in 1981 that Prince formed the funk band The Time as a side project. The Time was largely built upon a Minneapolis band called Flyte Time, to which Prince added lead singer Morris Day, guitarist Jesse Johnson, and musician and comedian Jerome Benton. Prince wrote many of The Time's early songs and even played every single instrument on The Time's first album. He also produced their first three albums.

Prince's fifth album would also turn out to be his breakthrough with regards to mainstream music.


1999 was a double album released on October 27 1982. It proved to be Prince's highest charting album yet, going all the way to no. 9 on the Billboard albums chart (which also made it his first top ten album). It produced three hit singles. The title track peaked at no. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, while "Little Red Corvette" peaked at no. 6 and "Delirious" at no. 8. The album also saw Prince expand his subject matter beyond sex. "1999" itself touched upon the subject of Armageddon, while "Free" dealt with patriotism and "Something in the Water (Does Not Compute)" touched up on computers. Stylistically the album ranged from funk to New Wave.

By the mid-Eighties Prince had already seen a good deal of success as arecording artist. It was in 1984 that he would see success in film as well. Purple Rain was made on a budget of $7.2 million and shot mostly in Minneapolis. The movie did fairly well at the box office, making $68 million. Its soundtrack album proved to be Prince's most successful record up to that point. Released on June 25 1984, about a month ahead of the film, it went all the way to the no. 1 spot on the Billboard albums chart. It also produced several hit singles, including the no. 1 singles "When Doves Cry" and "Let's Go Crazy", a well as the title track (which peaked at no. 2), "I Would Die 4 U" (which peaked at no. 8), and "Take Me with U" (which


went to no. 25). Arguably, Purple Rain marked the height of Prince's success. Unfortunately, while Prince would see continued success as a music artist, Purple Rain would be his only success in film despite further attempts.

Prince followed the success of Purple Rain with the album Around the World in a Day. The album was released with minimal publicity and its first single ("Raspberry Beret") was not released until a month after the album's release. Despite this Around the World in a Day went to no. 1 on the Billboard albums chart. It also produced the hit singles "Raspberry Beret" (which peaked at no. 2) and"Pop Life" (which peaked at no. 8). Around the World in a Day marked further development in Prince's style. The album was widely considered"psychedelic" and often compared to The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. While Prince dismissed comparisons to The Beatles, he did acknowledged that he thought the album could be considered psychedelic.Around the World in a Day was followed by the album Parade, an album which also served as the soundtrack album to his film Under the Cherry Moon (more on it later). It was released on March 31 1986. While both Purple Rain and Around the World in a Day went to no. 1 on the Billboard albums chart, Parade peaked at no. 3. Parade did produce several hit singles, including number one "Kiss" as well as "Mountains" (which went to no. 23).

It was with Sign o' the Times that Prince's career went into a very slight


decline. Sign o' the Times peaked at no. 6, although it did produce three hit singles. Lovesexy peaked at no. 11 and produced only one hit single. Batman, the soundtrack to the 1989 film of the same name, performed much better. It hit no. 1 on the Billboard album chart and produced the hits "Batdance" and "Partyman". Prince would end the Eighties with Graffiti Bridge, the soundtrack to the film of the same name. While the film would not do well (more on that later), the album peaked at no. 6 and produced the hit "Thieves in the Temple".

Prince began the Nineties with the album Diamonds and Pearls, which peaked at no. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album provided Prince with another no. 1 single, "Cream".The success of Diamonds and Pearls was followed by an album that bore only an unpronounceable symbol as a name, but generally called The Love Symbol Album. The Love Symbol Album also proved successful, peaking at no. 5 on the Billboard album chart. The Love Symbol Album was followed by Come, which peaked at no. 15 on the album chart.

By the early Nineties Prince found himself at odds with Warner Bros. In an act of rebellion against the label Prince insisted that he be referred to only by an unpronounceable symbol (more or less the same as the one that appeared on The Love Symbol Album). Prince became known as "the Artist Formerly Known as Prince". Prince also began releasing albums much more frequently in order to sooner


fulfil his contractual obligations to Warner Bros.

Unfortunately the albums Prince released while he was using the Love Symbol would perform increasingly more and more poorly on the charts. The Black Album, the first album on which he used the symbol, only peaked at no. 47. Chaos and Disorder and Emancipation (which featured Prince's covers of songs originated by other artists) would perform somewhat better, with the latter actually making it to no. 11 on the Billboard album chart. Prince's last release on Warner Bros. would be The Vault: Old Friends 4 Sale.

In 1999 Prince signed with Arista Record. It was on that label that his album Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic was released on November 9 1999. It was in 2000, not long after his publishing contract withWarner/Chappell ended, that Prince returned to using his name "Prince". Starting in 2000 much of Prince's music was released through his website NPG Music Club. NPG Music Club continued until 2006.

Throughout the Naughts and the Teens Prince released several successful albums, including Musicology (which went to no. 3), 3121 (which went to number one), Planet Earth (which went to no. 3), and Lotusflow3r / MPLSound (which went to no. 2). Both Plectrumelectrum and Art Official Age reached the top ten of the Billboard albums chart. Hit n Run Phase Two, the final album released while Prince was alive, came out in December of last year.

Over the years Prince produced other artists and even served a a mentor to some. Over the years Prince produced records by André Cymone,


Sheila E, Madhouse, Jill Jones, Chaka Khan, Sheena Easton, Patti LaBelle, and yet others. Prince's songs were recorded by artists as diverse as Alicia Keys ("“How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore"), The Bangles ("Manic Monday"), Cyndi Lauper ("When You Were Mine"), Sinead O’Connor (“Nothing Compares 2 U“), and Stevie Nicks ("Stand Back").

In addition to his musical career Prince also had a bit of a film career, although he saw little success in movies beyond Purple Rain. Under the Cherry Moon, released in 1986, did poorly at the box office and received bad notices from critics. The film marked Prince's directorial debut. In 1990 Graffiti Bridge, a semi-sequel to Purple Rain was released. Graffiti Bridge also did poorly at the box office and faired badly with critics. Itwas also directed by Prince.

Over the years Prince would perform on several different shows, from The Tonight Show to Saturday Night Live. He guest starred on Muppets Tonight in 1997 and New Girl in 2014.

I was only a teenager when I first discovered Prince. It was with his album Dirty Mind, a bit before he would break into the mainstream. At the time much of the appeal of Prince for me was the fact that he would sing about things only a few other artists ever had before (namely, graphic sex). Of course, by the time Controversy was released Prince had expanded well beyond singing about sex and love. As the years passed the subject matter of Prince's songs would expand and his music would grow more sophisticated.


And as I grew older I was able to appreciate the evolution of Prince's music. As I grew older I was even able to realise that there was much more to his early work than sheer salaciousness.

Quite simply, Prince could well have been the most sophisticated artist to emerge from the Eighties. With regards to genres he seemed difficult to pin down. Certainly much of his early work, as well as much of his music throughout his career, could be considered funk. That having been said, it was very early in his career that he began recording songs that could be considered New Wave, rock, pop, and R&B. Ultimately Prince would venture into genres as diverse as power pop and jazz. Indeed, at times Prince would blend disparatestyles into one song. Not surprisingly, the influences on Prince were diverse: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Miles Davis, James Brown, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Sly Stone, George Clinton, David Bowie, Curtis Mayfield, and many others.

Of course, it was not enough that Prince seemingly transcended genres. He was both a great songwriter and a great musician capable of playing multiple instruments. On his debut album alone he played 27 different instruments. He also a very good vocalist with an impressive range. Over the years Prince was quick to adapt to new technology, adopting drum machines and synthesisers very early in his career.

Ultimately Prince would have a lasting impact on multiple genres of music. Artists as diverse as Alicia Keys, Beck, Maroon 5, Lady Gaga,


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UK House of Lords Call for Data Breach Disclosure Law (8th July 2008)

The Science and Technology Committee in the United Kingdom's House of Lords has published a follow up report on personal internet security in which they call for the introduction of data breach disclosure laws. The report also calls for a reversal in the rules whereby victims of cybercrime are supposed to report the crime to their banks rather than the police. In addition, the House of Lords wants legislation to be introduced to ensure banks are held responsible for losses resulting from electronic fraud. The committee published a report in 2007 with a number of recommendations which the UK government subsequently did not implement. The recent spate of data breaches, such asis CTO of High Tower Software and the author/co-author of books on Unix security, Internet security, Windows NT/2000 security, incident response, and intrusion detection and prevention. He was also the co-founder and original project manager of the Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC).

John Pescatore is Vice President at Gartner Inc.; he has worked in computer and network security since 1978.

Stephen Northcutt founded the GIAC certification and currently serves as President of the SANS Technology Institute, a post graduate level IT Security College, www.sans.edu.

Howard A. Schmidt served as CSO for Microsoft and eBay and as Vice-Chair of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board.

Ed Skoudis is co-founder of Intelguardians, a security research and consulting firm, and author and lead instructor of the SANS Hacker Exploits and Incident Handling


course.

Tom Liston is a Senior Security Consultant and Malware Analyst for Intelguardians, a handler for the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center, and co-author of the book Counter Hack Reloaded.

Dr. Eric Cole is an instructor, author and fellow with The SANS Institute. He has written five books, including Insider Threat and he is a senior Lockheed Martin Fellow.

Bruce Schneier has authored eight books -- including BEYOND FEAR and SECRETS AND LIES -- and dozens of articles and academic papers. Schneier has regularly appeared on television and radio, has testified before Congress, and is a frequent writer and lecturer on issues surrounding security and privacy.

Mason Brown is one of a very small number of people in the information security field who have held a top management position in a Fortune50 company (Alcoa). He is leading SANS' global initiative to improve application security.

Marcus J. Ranum built the first firewall for the White House and is widely recognized as a security products designer and industry innovator.

Clint Kreitner is the founding President and CEO of The Center for Internet Security.

Rohit Dhamankar is the Lead Security Architect at TippingPoint, a division of 3Com, and authors the critical vulnerabilities section of the weekly SANS Institute's @RISK newsletter and is the project manager for the SANS Top20 2005 and the Top 20 Quarterly updates.

Koon Yaw Tan is Assistant Director at Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and a handler for the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center.

Gal Shpantzer is a trusted advisor to several successful IT outsourcing companies and was involved in multiple SANS projects,


such as the E-Warfare course and the Business Continuity Step-by-Step Guide.

Brian Honan is an independent security consultant based in Dublin, Ireland.

Dr. Christophe Veltsos, CISSP, CISA, GCFA teaches Information Security courses at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He is the President of Prudent Security LLC and also serves as the President of the Mankato Chapter ISSA.

Roland Grefer is an independent consultant based in Clearwater, Florida.

Please feel free to share this with interested parties via email, but no posting is allowed on web sites. For a free subscription, (and for free posters) or to update a current subscription, visitJohn Mitchum(1919–2001)

John Newman Mitchum was the September child of a Norwegian mother and an Irish/Blackfoot father whom he never knew, as he was killed in a tragic train yard accident in 1919. His two-years-older brother Robert filled the role as best as he could, while their older sister Annette studied the lively arts and eventually joined a traveling vaudeville ... See full bio »


different reasons, clearly stood out from the others. The reason for the conspicuousness of the first was grounded in the yearning for prosperity, which was producing increasing amounts of garbage. The truck picked it up every morning but, even so, a new accumulation was continuously piling up in the rusty containers. The residents of the building adjoining these containers were convinced they were unsanitary: the smell permeated everywhere, throughout the whole day. Not even the lowest interest rates could persuade anyone to buy those apartments. People considered it beneath their dignity to own something in what became known as Building B, and moved out at the first opportunity. Selon Perdumes decided to change his strategy.

At that time, Villa Miserias' employees tended to live in distant, cheerless communities. Theyto the slaughter.

"Now so many years have passed, I'm almost glad for my dear tree. It wouldn't have liked the courtesy care of that soda company." While pointing one finger toward the sign overlooking the green area, Candelario showed Max his old camera. "My friends look at the albums with their empty landscapes and think I'm senile. They don't realize that my camera captures much more than what can be seen at first sight."

"Oh, Don Severo, don't be like that. Please, chill out. Look how prettily the flowers are growing. Daisies are fascinating," interrupted Nelly. "Look, instead of getting all nostalgic, why not answer me something? With all your experience, what would you like to say to the readers of _The Daily Miserias_? What can they expect from


Video shows security officer beating student in wheelchair

A Bay Area student with cerebral palsy was viciously punched by a school security guard. It's a shocking attack that was caught on camera. The student was brutally beaten and thrown from his wheelchair by the school staffer who was supposed to protect him.

That security officer now faces child abuse charges and the district is taking action.

Oakland school officials say there's nothing to justify what a security officer did to a student in a wheelchair.

The Oakland High School security officer snapped and attacked a student in a wheelchair.

"The fact that it happened to a student who has cerebral palsy only compounds the damage and how awful this incident is," Oakland School District spokesperson Troy Flynt said.

On May 19 around 9 a.m.,Arcadio Del Valle says walking the New York Fashion Week catwalk was a 'surreal' experience

"In my whole life, I had never done anything like that.

"My sister was in the front row cheering me on and I was so proud to have her support. It was one of my best moments."

Arcadio, from Boston, Massachusetts, has walked in three major runway shows since his New York Fashion Week debut, for VOLARE and another plus-sized fashion label Brandon Kyle, which he says has transformed his confidence.

"I wasn't confident. It wasn't the case until about three years ago.

"Growing up in a world where the media urges you to look a certain way, to be a certain weight and to fit into a mold, it becomes engraved in your head.


parents and younger brother. They arrived New York and got an apartment on 181st Street and Broadway. He spoke little English but went right into public school. The family needed money, so when he was 16, he transferred to night school and got a day job at a shaving-brush factory. He wore big, heavy rubber gloves and squeezed bleaching acid out of the bristles. Soon he went part time to City College, and then he entered the U.S. Army.

This is a classic immigrant story. It could be about anyone. But the teenager went on to become an American secretary of state, and his name is Henry Kissinger. Here is another part of the story that is classic: how Americans treated him. The workers at the factory were olderup coats in a restaurant. Then she became a bathroom attendant at Abraham & Strauss on Fulton Street in downtown Brooklyn. When she died in 1960, a lot of black people came to the funeral. This, in a Brooklyn broken up into separate ethnic enclaves, was surprising, but it wouldn’t have been to her. They were her coworkers from A&S, all the girls who worked in the ladies room, and their families. They loved her.

When she died, Mary Dorian had a job, a family and friends. She had come here with none of those things. She trusted America, and it came through.

As for the old hatreds:

There was a 7-year-old boy who came over from Germany on the SS Bremen. He was travelling with his younger brother—they too were


fleeing the Nazis—and a steward. The Bremen anchored on Manhattan’s west side on May 4, 1939, and the children were joined by their father, who was already in New York. They stood on deck watching the bustle of disembarking, and then the boy saw something. “Across the street from where we were, and visible from the boat, was a delicatessen which had its name in neon with Hebrew letters,” he remembered this week.

He was startled. Something with Hebrew letters—that was impossible back home. He asked his father, “Is that allowed?”

And his father said, “It is here.”

It is here.

The little boy was Mike Nichols, the great film and stage director, who went on to do brilliant things with the freedom he was given here.

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There might be something funny in your honey.

Food-safety experts have found that much of the honey sold in the United States isn't actually honey, but a concoction of corn or rice syrup, malt sweeteners or "jiggery" (cheap, unrefined sugar), plus a small amount of genuine honey, according to Wired UK.

Worse, some honey — much of which is imported from Asia — has been found to contain toxins like lead and other heavy metals, as well as drugs like chloramphenicol, an antibiotic, according to a Department of Justice news release.

And because cheap honey from China was being dumped on the


Residents Back Home After Being Evacuated in East Boston

East Boston residents have returned home after officials evacuated them Friday night as a nine-alarm fire blazed at the New England Casket Company. (Published Saturday, March 16, 2019)

What to Know

Firefighters battled a massive, 9-alarm blaze in East Boston on Friday afternoon.

The fire was reported around 3 p.m. at the New England Casket Company.

Residents of the area around the fire were evacuated, but allowed back in their homes later Friday night.

Residents who evacuated the Orient Heights area of East Boston were allowed to return to their homes Friday night after firefighters spent hours battling a massive 9-alarm fire.

Boston Fire Commissioner Joseph Finn said three buildings suffered collapses during the fire, which was reported shortly after 3 p.m. at the New EnglandCasket Company on Bennington Street.

Crews fought flames and hazardous chemicals while dealing with water supply issues. Heavy flames were knocked down by around 10:30 p.m.

"We got a bit of a handle on the fire," Finn said Friday night. "We have multiple collapses of three buildings. We have some fire that's trapped throughout the three buildings."

Heavy Flames Knocked Down in Massive East Boston Fire

Crews fought a massive 9-alarm fire at a casket company in East Boston Friday.

(Published Friday, March 15, 2019)

Heavy fire and smoke were reported throughout the building, Boston Fire said. All fire companies were ordered out of the building and off the roof soon after they arrived at the scene.

"The building's in a very dangerous state right now, but we're in pretty good shape," Finn said. "We've


allowed residents to go back into their homes. We've been monitoring the air quality since early evening, and it's at acceptable levels for allowing people to go back into their homes."

Everyone was out of the building where the fire broke out quickly, and no serious injuries were reported. Finn said two Boston Police officers were transported for smoke inhalation, two Boston firefighters were transported for exhaution, and a Chelsea firefighter suffered a leg injury.

Aerial footage from NBC10 Boston's SkyRanger showed firefighters attacking the flames from above with the help of more than a half dozen ladder trucks. Fire officials said as many as 100 firefighters from Boston and neighboring Chelsea were fighting the blaze. They are expected to be there throughout the night and into Saturday.

Finn said theI've seen as mayor of the city," said Marty Walsh, who was on scene with Finn. "I'm just grateful that no one's hurt. We just want to look out for the well-being of the fire department that's here."

Neighbors Returning Home After Massive East Boston Fire

Evacuated neighbors were allowed to return to their homes Friday night as crews fought a 9-alarm fire in East Boston.

(Published Friday, March 15, 2019)

The MBTA said Blue Line service was suspended between Orient Heights and Wonderland for eastbound and westbound service at the request of the fire department. Shuttle buses are replacing service in both directions.

According to its website, New England Casket Company has been in business in East Boston for 77 years. The current owner, Louis Tobia Jr., is the third generation associated


first, that he sees the Republican party, or any party, as being identical to the Democrats, and second, that he cannot comprehend that private individuals acting in concert with other private individuals who may well not be part of the same class, race, occupation category, or "interest group" might well band together to PUSH BACK AGAINST the Democrat party's "special interests".

That's why Obama and his running dog lackeys spend so much time trying to identify the "special interests" or "rich people" behind any particular source of opposition to their ideas.

In short, all Democrats are in a trick bag of special interests from which they cannot escape.

We must marginalize them in every way possible and then remove them from political influence in this country.

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See earthquakes in China

Updated: 10 August 2017 at 11 a.m.

At 9:19 p.m. local time (8 Aug), a M=6.5 earthquake struck the Sichuan-Gansu border region in southwestern China. According to both the USGS and the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), the quake occurred at a depth of 10 km in a mountainous region, near Jiuzhai National Park. This area is on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau and is extremely popular amongst tourists because of spectacular waterfalls and blue and green lakes. So far, 19 people are confirmed to have been killed by this event, and there is photo evidence of significant damage, which the USGS PAGER system estimates could be moderate to high near the epicenter, where very strong shaking was recorded.

Now that a few days


lineaments in the area. In this portion of the Tibetan Plateau, fault motion is dominated by left-lateral strike-slip faults, including the Altyn Tagh, Kunlun, and Haiyuan fault zones. Additionally, the location of the earthquake is approximately 280 km northwest of the epicenter of the 2008 M=7.9 Wenchuan earthquake which killed over 87,000 people. That earthquake occurred on the Longmenshan Fault, and was a thrust (compressional) event.

Even though the earthquake struck nearly 300 km from the Wenchuan earthquake, based on the figure below, one can see that this area saw a significant stress increase, which more than doubled the likelihood of a M=6+ earthquake. The side-by-side figures below show the observed rates of seismicity prior to the Wenchuan earthquake (left), and the forecasted seismicity in the 10 years followingSingapore and Malaysia. It is thought that strict enforcement and policies of dog registration, vaccination, and dog population management have made rabies control and eradication effective in these countries. Malaysia borders Thailand, and the concept of an immune belt has been developed by dog licensing and mandatory vaccination of dogs as well as systematic destruction of unvaccinated dogs in a buffer zone to prevent entry of rabies from the northern border.

Sri Lanka and Thailand have registered a decline in the number of human rabies deaths through implementation of a mass dog vaccination campaign, improved accessibility to PEP, and effective vaccine delivery systems.

Control of rabies through vaccination in the canine population is fundamental to elimination of human rabies. Rabies elimination programmes focused mainly on mass vaccination of dogs are


largely justified by the future savings of human rabies prevention programmes. The Pan American Health Organization initiated a regionally coordinated programme for elimination of human rabies transmitted by dogs in 1983. This was mainly based on mass immunization of dogs and has led to a 90% reduction in and elimination of dog rabies from Chile and major urban centers of other Latin American countries \[[@B10]\]. In Mexico, after five years of a nationwide dog vaccination campaign, the number of human rabies deaths was reduced from 60 per year to less than 20 \[[@B11]\].

Coordinated mass dog vaccination campaigns will improve herd immunity levels and prevent potential human exposure to rabies but strong political commitment and intensive social mobilization is vital. The active role of the veterinary authority at thecame up with the regional strategy for human rabies elimination from southeast Asia in 1998. WHO SEARO organized an intercountry meeting in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2005 to review the rabies situation in SEA Region and to formulate mechanisms for implementation of the strategy for elimination of rabies \[[@B18]\].

It is important that Member States of the Association of southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) have identified rabies as a priority public health problem. There is also a growing concern and commitment for elimination of human rabies by a number of national governments in the SE Asia Region. There was a SAARC Rabies Meeting in Colombo in 2003 which was attended by government officials of Member countries. The meeting recommended the development


of a SAARC strategy for rabies elimination \[[@B19]\]. The ASEAN countries adopted the resolution to prevent and control rabies, with the goal of rabies elimination by year 2020 \[[@B20]\]. The Rabies in Asia Foundation conference held in Hanoi in September 2009 passed resolutions to take several steps to reach the goal of human and dog rabies elimination by 2020. The WHO has been requested to reinforce capabilities to meet the demands from Member States for technical assistance, technology transfer, and the launching of regional initiatives for dog rabies control and elimination in Asia in close collaboration with ASEAN and SAARC \[[@B21]\].

The WHO Strategic Framework for the Elimination of Human Rabies Transmitted by Dogs in the South East Asia Region is due for publication in 2011. The document willthe task, and this 'why' arose and buzzed inside Hermitage's head.

Why would anyone want to remove the head of Prembard? The conclusion that there had been others involved was supported by another puzzling aspect of the situation. No one could find the missing head.

Hermitage knew that he could be pretty naive at times, but even he didn't believe that a head could make off with itself. The third why was the why that consumed Hermitage even more than the others. Why was no one interested in the facts of this case and seemed intent on simply burying Prembard without further ado?

...

Hermitage hesitated to approach his abbot as a man would hesitate to coat his eyeballs in honey before thrusting his face into a bee's nest.

As was often the


his thoughts wandered around his head.

Wandering the grounds was not a happy experience. The place had been constructed as a retreat from the world and so all semblance to that world had been removed. Comfort, warmth, and companionship were kept outside, while hunger, cold and a variety of diseases had been invited in, and had made their home here.

A stroll around the monastery grounds had to be undertaken quite quickly, and preferably with a weapon to hand. Several Brothers had suffered the attentions of an animal of some sort which roamed the place. No one knew quite what it was, just that it had teeth, was hungry and was not afraid of a habit.

Hermitage was not interested in his surroundings though, he wanted to think through events andchild? No, if that were the case they would all be out searching and they're not. In fact, that's very odd in itself. This is a very isolated spot and if this thing has gone missing why aren't they all out looking for it? It's a small place to turn upside down, they could have done that in a moment. This in itself must indicate that they know that the missing thing is not here and that it was not taken by one of them. I really think we're making progress,' Hermitage told the dog who didn't appear to disagree.

'Therefore it must be something taken by someone else, but something which is precious to the whole village. No.' Hermitage's learning did its thing, 'They would still be angry


and meat and drink itself was pretty sinful most of the time. As he had no truck with ownership, he had very little chance of understanding people who thought otherwise. Again the dog concurred, or it would have done had it been awake. Hermitage took its complete lack of animation as confirmation that his argument was progressing well.

'Or are there any alternatives? What if they shouldn't have had the thing lost in the first place. What if the owner is going to return to claim his property and they haven't got it? That would cause anxiety. Or perhaps it was something they had stolen in the first place?' Hermitage sighed, 'There are too many options here, perhaps we should move on and come back to this point.

'I thinkidea.

'That's extremely decent of you my son. I have nothing to offer in return I'm afraid.'

'Oh, a good conversation is payment enough, and you have given me that already.'

Hermitage didn't think it had been much of a conversation as the fellow hadn't even answered some direct questions about whether miracles were mediated or not.

'I'll tell you what,' Bargis went on, 'I'll give you a puzzle to challenge that thinking of yours.'

'A puzzle?'

'Yes, one I heard in a village a way back and I haven't been able to solve it with my poor brain. Perhaps you'll have better luck?'

'We can but try.' Hermitage liked the idea of a puzzle, but it seemed rather out of place at this moment.

As Bargis got his fire going and produced some bread from


face seemed to squirm under the intolerable pressure of reasoning, while already small and pinched eyes tightened further. Athan drew in his breath and delivered his riposte.

'He wants to be involved because he does.'

'But the other brothers will bear testimony to the situation,' Hermitage whined slightly.

'Other Brothers?' Athan's voice lightened to a point in which Hermitage detected a hint of pleasure.

He looked around the room and noticed there were no other Brothers.

'I think you'd better come with me, young Hermitage. The abbot will want to determine how the death came about and what to do to you. I mean with you.' Athan thought for a second. 'No, I mean to you.'

He helped the young man up by the elbow, if using the grip of a blacksmith to dragMan, 28, shot near Riverview Cemetery

A 28-year-old man was shot near Wilmington's Riverview Cemetery early Monday.

The shooting took place about 1:10 a.m. in the 3000 block of West Street, the Wilmington Police Department said. The victim was taken to a local hospital and was reported to be stable.

VICTIMS

Unidentified Man, 28

The unidentified man was wounded during the incident.

SUSPECTS

No suspects identified.

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Wilmington has consistently ranked high for violent crime for a city of its size. To better track shootings and homicides within the city, we built this app to help map and organize all incidents going back to Jan. 1, 2011. Whenever new incidents occur, we'll update this feature.

Homicide vs. Killed

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close to the Nazi counterparts, which are banned in Germany, but they never quite cross the line.

The police have had to maintain tight security around homes for asylum seekers in light of vigilante 'patrols' by 'die Rechte'

Master media manipulators 'playing SS'

"They do something once, shoot photos, put it online, done," Birgit Miemitz of Dortmund's Coordination Center for Tolerance, Diversity, and Democracy told DW. Her office is often frustrated by the amount of attention given to these so-called "patrols" conducted by "die Rechte." For example, in the recent "gay cruising" YouTube video, or when they post picture of themselves claiming to help the elderly or kick drunks off of subway trains.

Their attention-grabbing activities do not end with their social media campaigns, however. Earlier this year they led a seriesof weekly protests against the city for housing Syrian refugees, and terrorized the refugees' own protest camp. They managed to cause such security concerns at a political debate planned by local broadcaster WDR that the company had to shut down the live event and ask everyone to submit their questions via email.

They were also barred from entering an election night event in May 2014 when, trying to celebrate a member of their party being voted to city council, they attempted to march in Nazi formation into the town hall. A few months later, they petitioned that same council for a list of all the city's Jewish citizens.

Counter-protestors usually outnumber the neo-Nazis and the police have clamped down on the slogans 'die Rechte' are allowed to chant and what


neighborhoods they can protest in

On their website, "die Rechte" have made their political positions very clear - they want the local refugee homes dismantled, to stop what they call the "foreign infiltration" of Dortmund, to end the "promotion of homosexuality" and so on. Some of their allusions to the Nazi party are subtle, such as the list of 25 party points, the same number as the National Socialists when they came to power in the 1930s, as Birgit Miemitz pointed out. Others are less so: like their T-shirts proclaiming them "Stadtschutz" ("City Protection") or, shortened, SS - evoking memories of the Nazi paramilitary organization.

"They are playing SS, to put it bluntly," Miemitz told DW.

Trying to gain a foothold in the west

Local journalist Felix Huesmann lays some of theblame for their success in Dortmund on the "lack of resistance against them from civil society, politicians and the police for quite a few years" when they began to take hold in the 1980s by using games of the local soccer team, BVB Dortmund, to recruit new members.

"They get to know your face, they do some research, they know who you are," says Huesmann, who was threatened by one of the neo-Nazis last year

Since the factory work in the Ruhr valley, where Dortmund is located, has been drying up since the 1970s and 80s, neo-Nazi groups have managed to feed off some of the discontent to spread their message.

Groups like the NPD, the country's biggest neo-Nazi party, and populist groups like pro-NRW (Pro-North Rhine Westphalia) and pro-Köln (Pro-Cologne)


have also been trying to infiltrate what was west Germany for decades and expand their influence from their strongholds in the former east.

While far-right parties have not been as successful in other western German cities as they have in Dortmund, nearby Cologne did see a hundreds-strong "Hooligans against Salafists" right-wing demonstration last year.

Clamping down on extremism

The massive influx of refugees into Germany has also provided fertile new ground for "die Rechte" to recruit new members. Huesmann described to DW how in recent months, the right-wing group has gone to neighborhoods where homes are being built for asylum seekers, protesting their construction and trying to win sympathy with the locals. It was partially this - and a grassroots campaign focusing on well-known former soccer hooligan and local neo-Nazi SiegfriedBorchardt, also known as "SS-Siggi" - that got "die Rechte" their seat on the city council.

Borchardt has since been replaced twice over by other members of "die Rechte," most recently by University of Bochum law student Michael Brück.

City hall has introduced dozens of organizations and initiatives - from sports clubs to concerts- to prevent young people from being recruited by neo-Nazis

Although they might be a relatively small group, Miemitz warns that the public should not discount their power to do harm. "They are violent, it's not just the NSU," she said, referring to the right-wing extremist group allegedly responsible for the murders of nine immigrants and one police officer between 2000 and 2007.

While the NSU was committing its crime spree, the influence of right-wing extremism was largely downplayed


the German authorities, who blamed the murders on the Turkish mafia. But now, local and state governments have turned extra-vigilant to the threat of neo-Nazi groups.

The void left on the right

Nowadays, Dortmund has inserted its anti-Nazi campaign into nearly every crevice where "die Rechte" might take hold. Miemitz was especially proud of a recent coup in which the city was able to purchase a building "die Rechte" had been using for their meetings and turn it into a multicultural youth center.

The danger presented to the German political landscape - as the mainstream conservative party, Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), moves to the center and leaves a void at the right - was clear to both Miemitz and Huesmann.

"Groups left of the center fail to offer goodEbola: The impact of militant attacks in DR Congo By Reality Check team

BBC News Published duration 29 June 2019 Related Topics Reality Check

image copyright Getty Images image caption DR Congo soldiers escort healthcare workers

Health teams responding to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo say their efforts are being severely hampered by attacks on medical staff.

The virus has spread mainly in the eastern provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, areas occupied by rebel and militia groups and where the government has a limited presence.

"The mistrust and violent attacks against the Ebola response [teams] show no signs of abating," says the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres.

So where have these attacks taken place and why are health professionals being targeted?

The World Health Organization (WHO) tracks attacks on health workers


and healthcare facilities.

This year, DR Congo experienced the most with 174, compared with 41 in Afghanistan and 35 in Syria.

These include attacks on medical centres, health workers, patients and transportation.

The WHO says five deaths have been recorded this year, with 51 injuries sustained.

Threats and attacks vary from the throwing of stones at health workers to medical buildings being attacked and burnt down.

Why are Ebola workers being attacked?

There is evidence of a lack of trust among local populations with regard to the advice provided about the Ebola outbreak and the intentions of the foreign aid workers.

A 2018 study published in the Lancet medical journal says "belief in misinformation was widespread" concerning the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu.

One in four respondents believed in the statement that Ebola does not exist,with an even higher proportion saying the Ebola outbreak was fabricated for financial gains, or to destabilise the region.

"There's already been civil unrest in the region and that's exacerbated when a foreign response comes into an area that's heavily guarded," says Lara Salahi, an author who has written about responses to Ebola outbreaks.

In North Kivu, community-based militia groups called Mai-Mai, have been behind some of the attacks against health centres and workers.

Another militia group, the Allied Defence Forces (Ugandan rebels operating within DR Congo) have also been accused of causing widespread disruption to medical units.

There have also been a series of attacks by other unidentified groups on Ebola response centres.

In one incident, family members assaulted health workers who were overseeing the burial of their relative last month.

International aid


are countries such as the Islamic Republic of Iran where reformation is under consideration. Experience of medical marijuana with counterintuitive religious interpretations has led policymakers to review legal decisions in countries as Iran, yet to implement on national perspective \[[@CR4]\]. Noteworthy, a pattern has been noted in the use of marijuana of its various forms (smoke, vapor, edible, concentrates, and topical) in different parts of the world where marijuana has been legalized either for medical or recreational purposes. A recently published national survey in the USA reported that 14.6% of the total population has used marijuana in the past years, while 8.7% of them used it in the past month. Moreover, states where recreational marijuana use has been legalized, have shown the highest incidence of marijuana smoke ofThe race to sign Benji Marshall is down to Cronulla and Melbourne after the former Wests Tigers superstar rejected approaches from three other clubs.

Marshall has also ruled out any possibility of a short stint in Super League with Salford, which is believed to somehow be linked to the Sharks bid to sign him.

Returning to the NRL: Benji Marshall. Credit:Anthony Johnson

The former Kiwis captain flew back to Auckland on Sunday after a three-day trip to Sydney in which he spoke to Cronulla and Storm officials.

He also visited friends in Wollongong last Thursday night, but that was unrelated to any interest the Dragons had in signing him and he has since ruled out joining the joint-venture club.


who introduced the bedroom tax, which had a profound impact on the little resources of disable people.

The Conservative government should be ashamed of themselves. They know the UN report did not come out of thin air, it was substantiated by the eighteen independent experts that visit the UK in October 2015, basing their report on 3,000 pages of documentary evidence and 200 interviews. The UN representatives had more than enough information to determine and criticise the government, saying that the welfare cuts and caps introduced under so-called austerity programme, violated disabilities rights.

In my opinion, when the Conservative government, especially the Prime Minister states that she wants to preside over a nation that shares wealth and opportunity. For all, and not for the privileged few, they are only emptyDownload

2.4: The Puritans

New England was first settled by Puritans, people from England who believed that the Church of England had become corrupt. Their name comes from their intention to purify the Church. The first group of settlers, who came on the Mayflower and founded the Plymouth colony, were called separatists. They wanted to leave the Church entirely. A decade later, a second group of Puritans founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but they were less radical. Instead of separating from the Church, they wanted to remain members of the church and purify it from within. The following documents are taken from this second group of settlers. As you read, think about how their beliefs might have influence their actions in New England and helped shape the new colony.

City upon


Cotton

Source: Puritan leader John Cotton gave the following sermon to members of his congregation who were immigrating to America in 1630. Cotton became a respected and influential clergyman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more [11 Sam. 7:10]....

The placing of a people in this or that country is from the appointment of the Lord...

Now, God makes room for a people three ways: First, when He casts out the enemies of a people before them by lawful war with the inhabitants....

Second, when He gives a foreign people favor in the eyes of any native people to come and sit down with them....

Third, whenLuis Enrique said he wanted the Camp Nou to tremble and tremble it did, just not the way he hoped. Saturday started with Luis Suárez scoring at the south end in the 55th second and ended with Leo Messi scoring at the north end in the last second. In the 92 minutes and four seconds between those goals, they suffered. Eventually El Mundo Deportivo cheered “a happy ending” and, surveying the final scene, there was something a bit cinema about it: an explosion, the hero lying on the ground motionless, slowly opening his eyes, looking around, and realising that somehow, with implausible inevitability, he’s still here. He’s survived; they’ve actually done it. Now here come his friends, running towards him, relieved and elated, hauling his exhausted body off


his chance but got another one, the ball bouncing off Diego Alves and back to his feet, with an open goal before him. There was a huge roar and as Messi celebrated his legs gave way. He lay behind the net, barely moving, arms on his chest, breathing heavily, but when they lifted him up, Dani Alves shaking the cramp from his legs, there was a smile on his face. Barcelona had struggled and they had clung on, desperately waiting for the whistle, but they had survived. More than survived, they had taken a huge step towards the league title, they said. Not least because they had suffered.

A total of 56 seconds had been enough at each end of the game, Santi Giménez describing it in AS asreached. But the attackers had complete control over where they planted Petya initially. They chose to plant it near some of the most central institutions in Ukraine.

The broader political context makes Russia a viable suspect. Russia has been engaged in active military interventions in Ukraine since former president Viktor Yanukovych was removed from power in 2014. That has included the annexation of Crimea and the active movement of troops and equipment in the eastern region of the country, but also a number of more subtle activities. Ukraine’s power grid came under cyberattack in December 2015, an attack many interpreted as part of a hybrid attack by Russia against the country’s infrastructure. That hybrid-warfare theory extends to more conventional guerrilla attacks: the same day that Petya ripped through online


for South Florida Water Management Dist.
Susan H. Ponzoli, Linda Collins Hertz, Asst. U.S. Attys., Robert B. Cornell, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers et al.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Before ANDERSON, CARNES and BARKETT, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:

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This is an appeal from the dismissal of appellant's complaint based on governmental immunity pursuant to the Flood Control Act, 33 U.S.C. Sec. 702c.  Appellants Beverly S. Reese and her two minor children ("Reese") filed a wrongful death action for the drowning of her husband and their father, James C. Reese ("James Reese"), against the South Florida Water Management District in the state court of Florida.  The South Florida Water Management District filed a third party claim for contribution orindemnity against the United States Army Corps of Engineers ("Corps") and Terrence Salt as District Engineer, and the United States removed the case to federal court.  Reese subsequently filed another wrongful death action directly against the United States pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. Secs. 2671-2680, and the cases were consolidated.  The United States moved to dismiss both cases based on governmental immunity pursuant to 33 U.S.C. Sec. 702c and the district court granted the motion, remanding the state case back to state court.

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The decedent drowned while fishing in Lake Okeechobee, which contains water and flood control structures supervised by the Corps.  The drowning occurred after the Corps opened a water control device or lock which operated beneath the water's surface to


Christin Khan is currently flying for the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center right whale aerial survey team based out of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She has previously led right whale aerial surveys with Wildlife Trust and the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies. Christin completed her Master of Science in Biology at San Francisco State University with research on vocal development in harbor seals; her work was published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Friday, December 18, 2009

"ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- Florida whale watchers have spotted the first migrating North Atlantic right whale of the 2009-2010 season off beaches near St. Augustine.

Katie Jackson of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission says the whale appears to be a young calf, about a year or two old.

Researchers say the whaleshead south from Novia Scotia and the Gulf of Maine from November to April to give birth and nurse their young. There were 71 sightings of the whales off Florida waters last season. Endangered right whales have an average life span of 50 years and adults range from an average of 45 to 55 feet in length."

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

"At the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium Meeting, 17-18 November 2009, New Bedford, Massachusetts, the tradition of presenting the “North Atlantic right whale report card” was continued. In past years, the information on population status, reproduction, mortalities, entanglements, vessel strikes, and survey efforts was largely informal and for the information of Consortium members. However, based on the desire and the need to more widely provide the best available information,


let Jacksonville residents know that they have this incredible whale that lives right offshore,” said Vicki Cornish, the Conservancy’s vice president for marine wildlife conservation. The whales can be seen from beaches during part of the winter, she said.

There are only about 400 right whales left in the northern Atlantic Ocean, a tiny fragment of the population whalers hunted almost to extinction long ago. The animals have been protected from commercial hunting since the 1930s, but collisions with ships and entanglement in heavy fishing lines still kill or injure whales.

That has led to protective measures such as seasonal speed limits for commercial shipping in Jacksonville and other port areas near the whales’ habitat.

The Florida and Georgia coasts are calving grounds for the animals, the places where babies areborn and nurtured before heading to the New England and Canadian coasts during warm weather.

Researchers spotted 39 pairs of mothers and newborns offshore last winter, a record figure.

The whale migration season began last month and will continue into April.

None of the animals have been seen surfacing yet, but Zoodsma said a buoy equipped to listen for whale calls has picked up some within a few miles of the mouth of the St. Johns River.

Organizers have tried to give the festival broad appeal by scheduling a beach cleanup, auction, music and beach run. The main festival runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Groups and government agencies involved in whale issues will staff booths to tell people about the animals.

Organizations such as the Marineland Right Whale Project, which recruits people


to watch from shore for the animals, have also rounded up volunteers to set up the weekend events."

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

"From now until spring, a colorful crew will cram into a twin-engine airplane every clear day to draw lines in the sky off the coast of Charleston, searching for whales in the waters below.

With only 400 or so North Atlantic right whales in existence, aerial survey team members from the New York-based conservation group Wildlife Trust make it their business to track them and to direct ships away from the endangered species. Two contractor pilots with North Carolina-based Orion Aviation and funding from the State Ports Authority help make it possible.

One of those pilots, the bandanna- and straw-hat-wearing Rocky Walker, describes the team's work like this: "Their headsSouth Carolina last year. An elusive whale, identified only as 2480, popped into view after being spotted only a handful of previous times.

And just how do the team members know which whale is which?

They photograph the mammals' heads, patterned with white, rough patches of skin where lice live and create identifying marks easy to read from the sky. So when the Wildlife Trust observers return each year, they usually see some familiar dermatology.

When they found their first whale of the year Saturday, they recognized her as Dragon, whom they first spotted as a young mother a couple of years ago and later presumed her missing calf dead.

Asked why the whale abandoned her young, the crew looked around at each other before team leader Dianna Schulte summed it up:


"Bad parenting."

Last year the team spotted 95 whales, a huge increase over the 61 from the previous six-month tour. The program began in 2004, operating primarily off money from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

The State Ports Authority, as part of its "Pledge for Growth" associated with its new container terminal under construction at the former Charleston Naval Base, agreed to fund $200,000 annually for five years. That money provides enough cash to cover the flights, which run from Cape Romain to Fripp Island and 30 miles out over the ocean.

The team members, who all work whale-watching boats in New England in the summers, rotate between the three jobs: photography, data collection and pulling it all together on the ground. They fly on any good-weather day, which includedTom won his first Welsh cap earlier this season and I hope it’s the first of many for him.”

Tom said; “It was an easy decision. There were a few things to think about, obviously, but the main thing for me is to get back to my best, sign a new deal and put everything to one side and just concentrate on my football.”

Tom was released by Cardiff after spending time on their books as a schoolboy, and joined Rovers on a two year scholarship in the summer of 2011.

He was on the bench for the first team on a number of occasions in 2012/13, when still a second year scholar, and made his senior debut when going on as a late substitute in our 3-0 win at Fleetwood


on 12th January 2013.

He ended that season with four substitute appearances to his name and signed his first professional contract in the summer of 2013.

A member of our 2012/13 successful U-18 side, Tom made his first start for the club in the home game against Watford, in the Capital One Cup on 6th August 2013, and made his first league start against Scunthorpe United four days later.

He scored his first senior Rovers goal against Northampton on 31st August.

A successful first season as a professional saw him make 47 appearances in all competitions and his progress was such that he signed a new contract in March 2014.

His outstanding form in his first season in the pro ranks saw him win the Supporters Club Young Player of the Year Award.

Heappeared for the club in the Promotion Play Off Final at Wembley in 2015, and went on to earn seven Welsh U-21 caps before his elevation to the senior squad.

To date Tom has appeared in 201 league games for Rovers and scored three goals. In addition, he has also appeared in 21 games in all other competitions.


given in my district. That was cast by a man who was not authorized to do so under decision of tho court, and ho voted for my op. poncnt Laughter. . Mr. Campbell sent to the Clerk's desk a pa' per, which was read, signed by the pcrsonjust reterrcd to, named Anderson, claiming tho right of suirrago, because among other things ho was throo-quartors white, tho remainder being made up of African and Indian blood, and further that his father was a brother of cx-Govornor Wilson Shannon. Excessive tonrhtor.J j . , . , . Mr. Gsddlngs frep.1 of Ohio, called Lis col league to order for casting an imputation on a colored constituent by representing a brother of Wilson Shannon to bo his father. Uc newed merrimcnt.1Havana there are now four ocean steamship lines running out of New York at an expense to the government of l,4'Ja,000 per annum. No reason is perceiv ed why pne.yart.of tho country should be preferred to tho exclusion of others. Among other points it is stated that negotiations are in progress with a view to the reduction of tho British transit charge on United States closed mails, and of the rate of postage between the United States and Great Britain to 12 cents a single letter. DEr-ARTMEXT OF THE IXTEItlOIt. The Secretary of the Interior's Report stales tho quantity of land surveyed sinco last report and tip to the 30th of September last, at 10,873,09!) acres, exclusive of school sections. The execution of tho graduation act has raised


nennln. nml fVnm nmmi ' l'lum horsemen, with revolver in band and ri" " across the back, start oil fiemientlv inals covered with fonm bear witness to the rapidity with which they have traveled. In the hotel, nnd m two or three neiirhlinrin houses, the greater portion of the women and children may bo found. Hero nnd thero the black: servants olxsy with submission nnd promptitude tho dill'ercnt orders civen them. A house, guarded by men with bayonet uisieiicu on me gun, cneioso nine black priso. ners, wno are threatened with execution in a lew hours, JSothing will be dono with fivo. at least, of them, but as to tho four others the chiefs of the conspiracy they will, in all prooauuuy, occomo acquainted with the cord. WePresidential campaign Much weakened by distance, the echo of the noise made in tho North about tho name of r remont, was extended to the banks of the Cumberland. It camo m the track of the steamers which traversed the second tributary of the Ohio, and then found itself iii the cen ter ot 1 ennessee. 'Io penetralo tho most distant villages, it had only to pass along the gorges which separate those little isolated mountains. Whether emissaries fas thev ullinn here) camo or not from the North, it is nevertheless true that thero havo been certain indications of nn approaching revolt. Accordin" to some, it was to be general, and would extend to all tho slavo States. According to othors, it would simply Ihs confined to Kentucky


the other day ns follows : Ho repudiated the lecturo of the President on tho Fugitive Slavo Law, and said he should rather obey God. He has seen at ono timo nino fugitive slaves dining in his own house fathers, mothers, husbands, wives and children fleeing for their liberty, and in snito of nnv law, ho obeyed the divine mandate to feed tho hungry and clot ho tho naked. Ho did both and gavo them money and sent them on their way rejoicing. Was that treason Y Mr. Bennett, of Mississippi, wanted to know if tho gentleman wouldn't have gone oue step further. " Yes," was tho prompt reply of tho gallant old man ; " I would havo driven their captor irom my uoor-yard, tl uo hadtho exclusion of others. Among other points it is stated that negotiations are in progress with a view to the reduction of tho British transit charge on United States closed mails, and of the rate of postage between the United States and Great Britain to 12 cents a single letter. DEr-ARTMEXT OF THE IXTEItlOIt. The Secretary of the Interior's Report stales tho quantity of land surveyed sinco last report and tip to the 30th of September last, at 10,873,09!) acres, exclusive of school sections. The execution of tho graduation act has raised many grave questions which call for the in-terposition'of Congress. He says it is important that the matter bo promptly disposed of, cither by sanctioning and affirming the action of tho Land Office or directing the patents


Whilo yon are weeping, ' . Sli. to Heaven bus put. 0rA census-taker called upon the mother of a family in California, or some other prolific country, and asked her how many children she had. The mother replied, that sho really could not toll, but there was this of which she wag certain, " the measles got among tho children once, but thorc wasn't enough of it to go round." CirMastor Gibh is a phenomenon. He is only two years old yet he draws pictures of every pogsiblo kind, lie does it with a stream of molasses' oi) his mother's table-cloth. ftT A young lady being asked by a politi- cian which party she was most in favor of, ro- j plied that she preferred wedding party. fliNflir.SSEE.hotel, nnd m two or three neiirhlinrin houses, the greater portion of the women and children may bo found. Hero nnd thero the black: servants olxsy with submission nnd promptitude tho dill'ercnt orders civen them. A house, guarded by men with bayonet uisieiicu on me gun, cneioso nine black priso. ners, wno are threatened with execution in a lew hours, JSothing will be dono with fivo. at least, of them, but as to tho four others the chiefs of the conspiracy they will, in all prooauuuy, occomo acquainted with the cord. We receive on board tho Judire of Dover nml his family, whom he conducts, lor tho moment to another residence At 4 o'clock wo arrive somo miles highor up on tho left bank of tho Cumberland, at


a place called the "Cumberland Iron Works." The machine shop, a dozen houses besides, and a few negro huts, aro all tho habitations in the placo. In a largo building near tho river somo six-ty blacks aro imprisoned for licing connected with the conspiracy. The remainder on the other hand aro doing, submissively, their ordinary work. The same thing muy bo said of all the neighboring localities. This fur tho general aspect. And now as to the causes that have given riso to all this excitement. Its origin is traced to the Presidential campaign Much weakened by distance, the echo of the noise made in tho North about tho name of r remont, was extended to the banks of the Cumberland. It camo m the track of thegenerally assemble and comincnco to act. In many places the whito is much inferior in numbers to tho black population, but they iinvo auueu 10 ineir strengtn ny putting on a bold front and by punishing the four principal conspirators whom I saw prisoners at Dover. 1 his is alt thut bos passed up to the present time. As to the rumors that have reached vou about a negro killed by a whito man in a conflict, then a woman killed by a black, and lastly a band of 400 slaves devastatinz farms, and slaughtering the inhabitants thoitj is no truth in them whatever. C. G. Numerous Arrests of Whites and Blaels islranije Credulity of tlte Negroes Four Negroes Hung Nature and Object of tlie Con-sjiiraey.Claiikville, Montgomery Co.,


prowess. ."For two years," says she, " ho was a lioutonant ia the horse marines, after which ho was promoted to ' a captaincy in a regular company of saphcads and minors." 03" The rorsimmon - County Debating Club are debating the following question t "Which is .the proudest, a girl with ber first beau, or'a woman with her first baby ',' GIVING THE OT,I iriTK THE ft NIIAKHOl'THi: fIt(tt:tUbOF THE I'UIILIC LANDS. Tlie Tublic Lands aro the proporty of all tho States. Thoro has been establish od 'at Washington a system of giving them away to tho Westorn and Southern members of tho Confederacy, which whilo tlio Northern and Kostern cannot participate, is rapidly wasting a common fund. . During tho last fiscal year only 0,22873 acresof liberty and republicanism signify, when a citizen is disfranchised and his life assailed un less ho will voto subject to the dictation of tho slave-holder? Cleveland Leader. ' OT A man who made a fortune by industry and closo economy, in a retail business, at length retired from trade, and usod to loan his money on interest. One day, in midsummer, a friend happened to say to him : "How pleasant it is to have such lonjr. bright days!" . "Why, y-c-s," replied ho, "hut these Ions: days the interest comes in so slow." 03" A worthy minister, noted for his wit, on being asked what kind of person the wifo of Mr. was, replied : " I will civo vou her grammatical character. She is a


sont cachées._

 _Sa floraison est repliée._

 _Chambre close où se célèbrent des noces ;_

 _Aucun parfum ne les conte en dehors._

 _Comme rien ne s'en évapore,_

 _Tout le parfum devient succulence et saveur._

 _Fleur sans beauté ; fruit de délices ;_

 _Fruit qui n'est que sa fleur mûrie._

_J'ai chanté la figue, dit-elle,_

 _Chante à présent toutes les fleurs_.

– Certes, reprit Hylas, nous n'avons pas chanté tous les fruits.

Don du poète : celui d'être ému pour des prunes.

(La fleur ne vaut pour moi que comme une promesse de fruit.)

Tu n'as pas parlé de la prune.

_Et l'acide prunelle des haies_

 _Que la neige froide rend douce._

 _La nèfle qui ne se mange que pourrie ;_

 _Et la châtaigne de la couleur des feuilles mortes_

 _Qu'on fait éclater près du feu_.

–heures en allées ; pieds nus sur les dalles ; j'appuyais mon front au fer mouillé du balcon ; sous la lune, l'éclat de ma chair comme un fruit merveilleux à cueillir. Attentes ! vous étiez pour notre flétrissure... Fruits trop mûrs ! nous vous avons mordus seulement lorsque notre soif était devenue trop affreuse et que nous n'en supportions plus la brûlure. Fruits gâtés ! vous avez rempli notre bouche d'une fadeur empoisonnée et vous avez profondément troublé mon âme. – Heureux qui, jeune encore, a mordu votre chair encore sure et sucé, figues, votre lait parfumé d'amour, sans plus attendre... pour courir après, rafraîchi, sur la route – où nous achèverons nos pénibles journées.

(Certes j'ai fait ce que j'ai pu pour empêcher l'usure atroce de mon


Aporocotyle simplex fluke from the flounder Hippoglossoides platessoides in Svalbard.HÁJKOVÁ, ŠárkaIn my bachelor thesis I studied trematodes from plaice Hippoglossoides platessoides obtained during expeditions to Svalbard in 2014 and 2018. My goal was morphological and molecular processing of the obtained material, which allowed me to confirm the identification of the flukes as Aporocotyle simplex Odhner, 1900. Aporocotyle simplex is a common parasite of plaice, ocurring mainly in Hippoglossoides platessoides, but also in Limanda limanda and Pleuronectes platessa. The species A. simplex is geographically distributed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada, off the west coast of Sweden, in the Barents Sea and Bering Sea, off the coast of Kamchatka and Greenland. My results showed that the species A. simplex is widespread in Svalbard. In the practical part,Image caption The mud buried homes, schools and farmland, and has displaced thousands of families

The world's largest mud volcano, which left 13,000 families homeless, is likely to continue erupting for another 26 years, researchers have estimated.

It first erupted back in May 2006, and - at its peak - was spewing 180,000 cubic metres of mud a day, equivalent to 50 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

The volcano, in East Java, Indonesia, has buried homes, schools and farmlands over seven square kilometres.

The findings have been published in the Journal of the Geological Society.

This is the first reliable estimate on how long Lusi (derived from the Indonesian word for mud, lumpur, and the place where the eruption occurred, Sidoarjo) would continue erupting.

Co-author Richard Davies, a geologist from Durham University's Department of Earth Sciences,


few days earlier.

Within the modelling, there is a 10% chance that it will last for more than 100 years, and there is a 90% chance that it will last longer than 10 years Professor Richard Davies, Durham University

In 2008, during a conference in South Africa, supporters of both hypotheses presented their arguments before a panel of independent experts.

The debate was chaired by Edinburgh University's Professor John Underhill, who was also a top level football referee. The majority of experts, 42 out of 74, favoured the drilling explanation.

Professor Davies supported the drilling hypothesis: "There is a lot of evidence now that shows it was caused by drilling - there was a blowout that was not controlled."

In 2008, the company that was drilling in the area and blamed for triggeringwhat was happening underground came from two wells; one located on the site of the central vent, and another located about 6km away, where there was a natural, smaller mud volcano.

"This gave us the pressure in the actual aquifer," explained Professor Davies.

"Then we considered factors such as the permeability and porosity of the rock to estimate how long would it take for fluid pressure to decline until no more fluid would come out of the vent.

"It is a fairly standard methodology, but it has never really been applied to mud volcanoes before."

He added that the team used a lot of different probabilities and combined them, creating a huge number of outputs (called realisations).

"Out of the 10,000 realisations, we actually rejected a large number because we wanted to fit


Timmy the Tumor:ignatius_crumbcake: tenpoundsofcheese: Subby, Oz is a highly accomplished doctor. Can't believe you would call him a quack.

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Oz graduated from Harvard University in 1982. Four years later, he received joint medical and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He then moved to Columbia and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where, as a surgeon specializing in heart transplants, he has served as vice-chairman and professor in the department of surgery for more than twenty years. (He still performs operations there each Thursday.) Oz also directs Columbia's Cardiovascular Institute and Integrative Medicine Program, which he established in 1994, and has published scores of articles on technical issues, such as how to preserve muscle tissue during mitral-valve replacements. He holds a patent on a solution that can preserve organs and oneA Tale of Two Valleys: Disparity in Sin Nombre Virus Antibody Reactivity Between Neighboring Mojave Desert Communities.
Hantaviruses are a group of globally distributed rodent-associated viruses, some of which are responsible for human morbidity and mortality. Sin Nombre orthohantavirus, a particularly virulent species of hantavirus associated with Peromyscus spp. mice, is actively monitored by the Department of Public Health in California (CDPH). Recently, CDPH documented high (40%) seroprevalence in a potentially novel reservoir species, the cactus mouse (Peromyscus eremicus) in Death Valley National Park. This study was performed in the extremely isolated Mojave Desert Amargosa River valley region of southeastern Inyo County, California, 105 km from Death Valley, approximately over the same time interval as the CDPH work in Death Valley (between 2011 and 2016). Similar rodent species were


acres.

The new Italian government was sworn in on May 9, headed for the third time by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The center-right coalition has a vast majority both in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, giving it a good chance of serving its full five-year term.

For the first time since 1948, there will be no communists represented in either chamber. For forty years following World War II, the Italian Communist Party was the second largest party in the country and the most influential in Western Europe, as Michael Barone points out in a recent analysis.

The largest party was the Christian Democrats (DC), who led every government and guaranteed a type of “Italian” stability. Most of all, the DC was perceived by the people as the only defenceagainst the communist threat. But after the corruption scandals of the 1980s, the fragmentation of political parties and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the threat of communism faded away along with the Christian Democrats’ primary raison d’être.

In the 1990s, the political situation changed systematically with splits in both parties. Hard-core Communists re-fashioned themselves into smaller fringe parties and will not be represented at all in the new parliament. While not left out of parliament entirely, the old Christian Democrats, now primarily known the Unione Democratica di Centro, are not a part of Berlusconi’s governing coalition.

This means that for the first time in the history of the Italian republic, a government will not have a Christian Democrat minister or an explicitly Catholic spokesman. This does not mean, however,


agency set up by the Commission in 2002 in order to specifically investigate food safety concerns. By undermining the authority of the EFSA, Dimas is colliding with Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel, who has defended the agency. The result is a complete stalemate which may leave the Europe years behind in biotech investment compared to the US and other countries.

Dimas’s hostility to GM food is cheered on by some environmental NGOs, in particular Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth. Greenpeace boasts that it orchestrated a campaign of 130,000 emails in order to obstruct the approval of the crops.

These NGOs have virtually no expertise in the area of consumer health research but join Dimas’s ritual attacks on the risk assessments done by the EFSA. It is particularly striking thatShumal

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Appendix

Journalists Killed 2003-2012: Motive Confirmed

CPJ research has determined that 42 journalists were killed in Pakistan in direct relation to their work from January 1, 2003, through December 31, 2012. An additional 12 journalists were killed in unclear circumstances during the time period. Capsule reports on each death follow, beginning with cases in which CPJ has confirmed a work-related motive.


The most subtle play of light can be observed along the upper edge of the roof structure: even diffuse sunlight penetrates the only 6-millimetre-thick acrylic glass panels, shimmering white against dark clouds or contrasting the pale sunlight unable to penetrate the fog in an elegant matt grey.

Rolf Fehlbaum wanted to break away from the outdated image of noisy and often dirty factory halls – the light and almost weightless building is an architectural expression of the new atmosphere of production environments. His parents and founders of the company already had very close contacts with architects and designers, particularly with Charles and Ray Eames. When Rolf Fehlbaum took over Vitra, he commissioned the architect Nicholas Grimshaw to design a new factory building to replace the production facility damaged byfire in 1981, as well as to reposition the whole brand.

The concept of having the entire company premises designed by one architect was turned upside down by his acquaintance with Frank Gehry. With Gehry’s Vitra Design Museum, a former Fire Station by Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando's Conference Pavilion, and another factory building by Alvaro Siza, Fehlbaum has represented a selection of the world's most renowned architects on his company grounds.

A concept for a new venue suitable for presentation of the Vitra Home Collection as well as a new production facility for Vitrashop – a shop fitting company within the Vitra Group – was developed in 2005. Fehlbaum recollects that there was no question about which architects were to be commissioned for these projects: Herzog & de Meuron of


local renown, and SANAA (who were less known then) from abroad. What remained unclear for quite a long time however, was which office should build which project.

The issue was resolved and since 2009, home builders and owners, as well as architecture enthusiasts have been flocking to VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron. The factory building was also already completed by then: only the outer envelope was missing.

SANAA's factory building for the affiliated company Vitrashop is intentionally designed to be a kind of antithesis to the redbrick construction by Alvaro Siza – lightness instead of heaviness, immateriality rather than surface texture, motion instead of constancy. This objective was consistently realised by SANAA; half-hearted detail solutions were simply unacceptable.

Ryue Nishizawa (left) with Kazuyo Sejima (right)

Rolf Fehlbaum, Chairman of Vitra

"You neverthen and for pragmatic reasons, they opted for a circle. In the factory building they were now however able to realise this idea, because the building is much larger and the curves are therefore also broader. The general aim was to give the harsh geometry of the Vitra Campus a soft touch like a fluttering curtain. That's why the ground plan isn't perfectly circular, and the "drapery" is irregular.

In order to disrupt the production processes as little as possible, the building was constructed in two phases. The first half was built next to the old hall and after this was demolished, the other half of the new building was completed.

Instead of, as initially demanded by the management, dividing the total area into four separate areas, SANAA proposed a


single round building.

All photographs: Frank Kaltenbach

Visitors going on a tour of the campus are told that the elaborate façade was also an important factor for making the building acceptable to the residents. The first reaction to "By the way, we are going to build a factory hall right outside your living room" is always "No way!". The ability to communicate that the residents will be looking onto an important work of art in future, on the other hand, fills them with pride.

After the three-year waiting period, the people living in the neighbourhood have actually grown to love the building. In foggy weather, the not exactly small building with a footprint of 20,000 m² disappears behind the white cherry blossoms. The dark windows appear to float in the airwake up full of joy, filled with the prospect of a week with much promise for grace.

You turn on your laptop to listen to the Benedictine monks with their "Qui meditabitur."

You remember your own chanting with your small community of religious missionaries in the 80's, those days when many seminaries, novices, convents, and religious houses were raided by the dreaded military intelligence, the young soldiers of a regime that promised so much redemption by way of revolution.

The young soldiers, fresh from the confines of the military academy, had so much to prove to the regime. Pakitang gilas, they were dogs on the loose, in search of the prey.

They were sent to the best military school of the country courtesy of people's money so they could become the guardians


of the people and country.

And now, here they were, raiding one seminary in Novaliches, another religious house in another place, arrested this father superior of this activist religious community--or the rumor mill in the religious communities went around so fast.

There were no emails then.

There were no cellphones that can command adherents to democratic causes to mass up instantly in EDSA and save the republic from useless harm from the useless elements.

Like what happened to EDSA II.

I did not understand the clear connection between revolution and redemption then during the first-ever regime of terror that lasted for almost twenty years.

Now I know better, as the regime was right with the premises of its hallucinations of a promised new day coming to all Filipinos while many were allowed to leaveUK Car Shoppers Steer Clear of Tech

Digital doesn't drive car shoppers in the UK

Barely an Apple event goes by without a rumor about its upcoming foray into the automotive space. Google, meanwhile, has had driverless cars roaming across various parts of the US for several years. The refrain from drivers in the UK, however, is what's all the fuss about? Interest in tech companies getting involved in the automotive industry is apparently lagging many other countries.

According to June 2015 research by consultancy FreshMinds for Capgemini, only 26% of car shoppers in the UK were willing to switch from their current car brand to a vehicle produced by a tech company. This was the lowest response rate among all countries covered by the research, trailing other Western nations like


the US (29%), Germany (32%) and France (38%), and falling well behind the likes of China (74%) and India (81%).

But even without the futuristic notion of ceding vehicular control to tech, consumers in the UK seem unlikely to involve digital in the car-buying process at all. The same piece of research also found that the UK trailed other nations by another measure—willingness to buy a car digitally. Again, China and India were well ahead in interest levels, with 60% and 57%, respectively, willing to involve digital in a car purchase. The UK, however, propped up the rankings again, with just 20% saying they were willing to take this route to purchase.

Research from earlier this year gave another perspective on digital's limited influence on car buyers in the UK.Ann Arbor is a great city.

That's part of the reason so many people willingly pay upwards of $50,000 in annual tuition and fees to attend the University of Michigan as out-of-state students.

According to its December 2015 survey, Wallethub.com, a personal finance website, ranked Ann Arbor as the best college town in America.

The site said the city was named the top college town for the quality education U-M provides, its low crime rate, and the relatively affordability of things like gym memberships and traditional student fare like pizza and burgers.

The study ranked Ann Arbor near the middle of the pack for "wallet friendliness," while it ranked high in terms of opportunities and its "youth-oriented environment." It also has the fifth-highest number of students per capita out of all the


towns polled.

Wallethub reviewed 326 cities, each with a population of at least 7,500 students, using 23 different academic, social, and financial metrics, including the the cost of living.

College Station, Texas, home of Texas A&M University, ranked second on the list, while Iowa City, Iowa -- home of the University of Iowa -- ranked third, Provo, Utah -- home of Brigham Young University -- was fourth, and Gainesville, Florida -- University of Florida -- was fifth.

In October, SmartAsset, a financial technology company that uses different metrics to rank college towns, ranked Ann Arbor as the seventh-best college town.

SmartAsset uses unemployment rate, rate of violent crime, rate of property crime, average discretionary income and number of restaurants, bars and entertainment venues to create its lists.

Jeremy Allen is the higher educationdirector at campaign group Liberty, said the proposals were "a half-hearted mix of voluntary, patchy measures", adding: "Public trust is wearing thin and today was a missed chance for real change."

'Alienation'

Labour's Diane Abbott, who was Britain's first black woman MP, said successive governments had "failed to act" on the problem, so Mrs May deserved "some credit... for having taken things as far as you have done".

"There is no single issue that poisons relationships between urban communities and the police more than stop and search," she told the Commons.

We think it's great that it's finally been recognised that stop and search has been used discriminatorily Shauneen Lambe, Just for Kids Law

Conservative Charles Walker gave an example of one of his constituents who had been stopped 50 times between the


Graduate for Más is a program dedicated to enabling youth to follow their dreams and reach through full potential, starting with high school graduation. The Taco Bell Foundation and Get Schooled developed the program so thousands of teens are empowered to follow their path to reach their personal, educational, and career goals. Youth that participate in the Graduate for Más platform receive access to resources, mentorship support, prizes, and cool rewards like educational scholarships.2016 increased by 1.5%, above their non-employee-owned counterparts.

Retail giant John Lewis Partnership, engineering company Mott MacDonald and consultancy Arup are some of the best-known employee-owned businesses.

Corbyn's policy announcement comes near the end of his campaign to retain the Labour leadership.

He is facing competition from former shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith, with the winner of the contest to be announced on 24 September at Labour's annual conference in Liverpool.

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Top corporate lawyer Tim Bird, a partner at Fieldfisher, told IBTimes UK that Corbyn's policy would be "completely unworkable".

"It would massively add to the complexity time and cost of selling a business and would put off financial investors who always want to have an easy exit," he warned.

Graeme Nuttall, another partner at the firm who


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Turkey is no stranger to TV and internet censorship. But recently, a controversy erupted over a call to censor a book on Turkey's recommended reading list for students. The book was John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men." Ashley Cleek reports from Istanbul.

Bilge Sanci says she still can't quite understand the problem. Bilge is the head editor at a publishing house in Istanbul, and last month, she says, a parent complained that a book she published was inappropriate for his child. The book in question? The Turkish edition of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. But not the whole book – just pages 63 and 64. In fact, Bilge checked, it's just a couple of lines.

"They are playing cards in the village and they say let's get tothe town and hanging with the girls at a house, like Miss Suzie's house, or something like that," Bilge explains. "That's it. There is nothing else."

Miss Suzie's house is a brothel, though the book never uses the word. Still, the local school board urged Turkey's Ministry of Education to delete the offending lines.

"They said it is not necessary for a child to know about the girls, about these kind of houses, and this kind of information," Bilge says. "But the book is telling another story about friendship and many things, and this is only two pages."

The complaint came as a surprise. Because "Of Mice and Men' is on the Education Ministry's list of 100 books every Turkish child should read. The Ministry quickly dismissed rumors that Steinbeck would


be censored.

But some teachers say there's a growing climate of intimidation. M.Y. teaches high school in Istanbul. (He doesn't want to give his name for fear of jeopardizing his job.) He's says it's best if we meet in a park. He tells me that in 14 years of teaching, he's never gotten in trouble for recommending a book.

"I believe it's just chance that no one's complained about me yet. It could happen anytime."

M.Y. says he gives his kids classic books – a far cry from "50 Shades of Grey" he says. But recently, he's noticed a change in the government's recommended reading list. Pulling out a list of approved books, he says they used to be chosen on literary merit, but now, some make the list just becausethey have Islamic references.

M.Y. worries it's part of a government effort to make Turkey's schools more traditional and conservative. He points to a speech that Prime Minister Recep Erdogan gave last year, where he said his government "aims to raise religious

youth."

Osman Koca teaches literature at a religious public high called an imam hatip school. These schools teach the standard curriculum, along with Islamic studies. Imam hatip schools were restricted under Turkey's secular governments, but

they've become popular again thanks to the support of the conservative governing party.

Koca is a writer himself. He lists some of his favorite authors – Emile Zola, Leo Tolstoy, and John Steinbeck. He says he's not worried about official censorship, and he thinks it's wrong to question a book based on one page.

"You judge the


of Education seems to agree. But it's trying to keep tabs on what teachers assign. Recently, it established a hotline — number 147 — where parents can call to complain about a teacher, a lesson, or a book.

The complaints go directly to the head office, which investigates. Some teachers say it feels like a witch-hunt. Even Osman Koca, admits he's been investigated for assigning an unapproved book.

"If you want to suggest something outside this list, you are on fire, you are on a cliff," Koca says. "I personally suffered from it."

Koca says now he's more careful about the books he recommends.

As for "Of Mice and Men," it's still on Turkey's reading list, and sales of the 20th century American classic have reportedly spiked in Istanbul.

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PRI takes a globaldenialist movements have in common:

All set themselves up as courageous underdogs fighting a corrupt elite engaged in a conspiracy to suppress the truth or foist a malicious lie on ordinary people. This conspiracy is usually claimed to be promoting a sinister agenda: the nanny state, takeover of the world economy, government power over individuals, financial gain, atheism.

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Denialism (a word first used in connection with conspiracy theorists who tried to cast doubt on the historicity of the German genocides of WWII) tries to veneer over its irrationality with a paradoxical appeal to science, but without doing the hard work of convincing scientists of an argument. Conspiracy theorists and denialists short-cut the scientific process by relying on anecdote, and by cherry-picking the small number of contrarian