deserted city with a fascinating history. It was the capital of the Mughal Empire between 1570 and 1585, built by the order of the Emperor of Akbar. The emperor was childless and he asked Sheikh Salim Chishti, a Sufi saint, for help. When the son was born, the emperor built Fatehpur Sikri over the site where he met the saint. However, there was a severe shortage of water in the city so the city was abandoned after 15 years after its completion.City councilors clap back at fish farm critics

Public comments elicit heat from Harkness, Hurley

By Ethan Andrews | Jun 06, 2018

Courtesy of: Nordic AquafarmsBuildings constructed as part of a proposed land-based salmon farm would be limited to 45 feet under height limits adopted by the City Council June 5. Above is an artist's rendering of the fish farm as it might appear.

Belfast — A Wendell Berry poem might have been the last straw for city councilors, who laid into salmon farm opponents Tuesday night after they made comments equating approvals for the project with poisoning the land and killing children.

Nordic Aquafarms, a Norwegian company that hopes to build a $150 million aquaculture facility in Belfast, wasn't on the agenda Tuesday night, but the council did consider two zoning amendments


that relate to the project. Opponents used a public comment period to voice sweeping objections to the larger fish farm plan.

Joanne Moesswilde, an opponent of the project, referred back to an April 17 public hearing at which the overflow crowd logged two hours' worth of objections before the council approved zoning amendments that removed a major obstacle for Nordic Aquafarms.

Moesswilde called it "shocking" that neither the mayor nor any member of the City Council sided "with the citizens of Belfast," who asked the council to slow the approval process.

"What's Nordic Aquafarms going to ask for next?" she said, warning that it could be tax breaks, road improvements or exemptions from local regulations.

Steve Byers, a Waldo resident who operates an herbal medicine clinic in Belfast, asked councilors if theyraised his voice as he berated the two fish farm opponents. "You speak for yourselves, not for the community," he said, adding that he believes a majority of people in Belfast support the Nordic Aquafarms project.

Councilor Mike Hurley called the public comments "disgusting" and "reprehensible."

He singled out Moesswilde, whom he accused of organizing a "mob" to attend the April 17 hearing, then coming back to complain that her campaign hadn't worked. The city councilor sarcastically thanked Byers for coming from Waldo to share his opinion.

"We are not murdering children here!" he barked at Byers. "You accuse us of mortal crimes; we are not guilty."

Other councilors took a softer stance, perhaps in an attempt to cool the debate. Councilor Eric Sanders told the opponents that the city councilors are


of its meetings.

The council approved a zoning change that drops the height limit from 50 feet to 45 feet on buildings in the newly created Route 1 Business Park South zoning district, which would be home to the Nordic Aquafarms facility. Prior to April 17, the property had no height limit. The 50-foot cap approved at that time was amended at the request of Councilor Mary Mortier.

Additionally, the council added solar panels to a list of roof features — along with chimneys, antennas and steeples — that are not counted when measuring the height of the building.

Knowledge is power!!!! Everyone should spend some time on You tube to help understand. Towards the end of the first video does mention how it the amount of jobs decline with automation.'I have mortgaged everything I own for his freedom'

'I have mortgaged everything I own for his freedom'

Sukhdev mortgaged his house and shop to raise Rs 1,80,000 demanded by the travel agent in return for a job in Iraq. Today, his family says he is clearing bomb-shells, working 16-18 hour shifts of forced labour.

Sahim Salim reports on the families left behind by Sikh youths trapped in Iraq who have put everything at stake to bring their sons back.

Forty-year-old Sukhdev Singh made a decent amount of money working in his pharmacy in his village in Punjab. Sukhdev hails from Khassa Village near Jalandhar. After being lured by dubious travel agents, he put everything at stake for better monetary opportunities in Iraq.

Today, his family says he is being forced to clear


bomb-shells and ammunition from barren lands in war-ravaged Iraq.

Sukhdev does not have a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree or even a diploma. He assisted a pharmacist for about three years in Jalandhar, when he decided he knew enough to open his own shop in his village.

"About five years ago, my husband opened a pharmacy here. He could read prescriptions and knew enough to give out medicines. He earned about Rs 6,000 to 7,000 here. Then one day in January this year, he met with a person in the village, who told him he knew a travel agent based in Chandigarh who could send him to Iraq to earn Rs 27,000 a month," says his wife Jaswinder Kaur.

Sukhdev jumped at the 'opportunity' and mortgaged his house and shop to raisethe Rs 1,80,000 demanded by the travel agent. Today, he is stuck in an isolated field, clearing bomb-shells and doing 16-18 hour shifts of forced labour.

"When he can call, he always cries saying that they do not even get decent food. He has not been paid in months despite the labour. I have not received even one rupee since he went away," Kaur says.

Sukhdev's story is one of many Punjabi youths stuck in Iraq today. The plight of about 40 men like Sukhdev came to the fore, after their families put in a police complaint in July this year.

Some families also approached the ministry of external affairs saying that these boys were duped by travel agents based in Punjab, who allegedly sold them to private contractors in Al


1,50,000 demanded by the agent," says Mukund, a resident of Khambra.

Mukund says there was no contact from his son for over a month. When in March, his son finally got in touch with him, Das broke down.

"He was crying over the phone. He told me that he was being forced to clear bomb shells and ammunition from a battle zone near Al Najaf. He told me that he was smuggled into the country on a 10-day visa and his passport had been confiscated. His supervisors beat him up when he protested," Mukund says.

Mukund tried to contact the travel agency, Continental Trade Centre, in Chandigarh. He even met with the person who had taken the money to send his son to Iraq, but the agent allegedly told Mukund thathis son was doing just fine.

'I don't know what else to do now'

"I had recorded a conversation with my son on the phone and I made the agent listen to it. His reaction was that my son was lying. He then asked his office boy to clear us from the room. I caught him by his collar and told him that I would now take legal action against him," Mukund says.

It was not an easy task. He had to run from pillar to post across the Punjab police machinery. His complaint was finally received late in July this year. The complaint is signed by 27 families. Eleven affected families from Himachal Pradesh and Punjab also submitted a complaint to the MEA.

Sixty-two-year-old Mangal Singh, the father of another trapped


Benjamin, the last son to be born to Jacob, would represent the last members of the body of Christ to walk the earth in this age.

There are some remarkable parallels from Benjamin’s life that are relevant to the body of Christ at the end of this age.

First, Benjamin is the only son of Jacob named by the father, not the mother. His mother, Rachel, tried to name him Ben-oni, which means “son of my sorrows” because his birth caused her death.

However, Jacob changed his name to Benjamin, which means “the son of my right hand.” In Scripture, the right hand speaks of power and authority, the place where Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father.

That Benjamin was named by his father instead of his mother speaksof those who do not take positions or responsibilities because of what the church wants or expects them to be — rather, they receive their commission straight from the Father.

This is the foundation of their unprecedented authority at the end of the age. When you know that you have been called and appointed by God, you do not care what anyone else thinks of you.

The last members of the body of Christ will walk in will walk in great confidence and authority because they know they were named by the Father.

Benjamin was also one of only three people in Scripture born in Bethlehem, Jesus and King David being the other two. Bethlehem means “house of bread,” or “place of food.”

How much more spiritual food has the church of


the NSW government. It’s an all-too-common fate for Indigenous-led programs.

“We’re not asking for millions and millions of dollars, we just want safer communities,” Link-Gordon says.

The Goreng Goreng woman grew up in Brisbane, the eldest of nine daughters. She moved to Redfern in 1980, aged 18, and never left; it was the first place she’d seen black faces like hers walking down the street.

About six years later, a woman who ran the preschool attended by her four youngest children encouraged her to apply to a few short courses at Tafe and, later, to take up a traineeship at Stepping Out Housing Program, a homeless service that focused on survivors of family and sexual violence.

During that training, she uncovered buried memories of her own sexual abuse at the hands ofschool, and shop and instead are rallying against raids and deportations carried out by the Trump administration

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Protests are underway demanding the release of 23-year old Daniel Ramirez, who arrived in the United States as a child and obtained protections under Obama’s Deferred Action program

Upward Distribution of Wage Income Behind Social


120 U.S. 759 (1887)
BOLLES
v.
BRIMFIELD.
Supreme Court of United States.
Submitted January 6, 1887.
Decided March 7, 1887.
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS.
*760 Mr. Thomas S. McClelland and Mr. George A. Sanders for plaintiffs in error.
Mr. Henry B. Hopkins and Mr. William W. Hammond for defendant in error.
MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.
In Anderson v. Santa Anna, 116 U.S. 356, 364, we had occasion to consider the validity of so much of the act of the legislature of Illinois of February 28, 1867, in reference to municipal subscriptions to the stock of the Danville, Urbana, Bloomington and Pekin Railroad Company, as declared that where elections had been held, and a majority of the legal voters of any township or incorporatedtown declared in favor of a subscription to the stock of that company, "then and in that case no other election need be held, and the amount so voted for shall be subscribed" as in that act provided; further, "that such elections are hereby declared to be legal and valid," as though that act had been in force at the time thereof, and all its provisions had been complied with. An election was held in the township of Santa Anna, July 21, 1866, but there was no authority of law for its being held. It was, however, conducted in the customary mode, and the proposition for a subscription was sustained by a majority of the legal voters of the township. The subscription was made October 1, 1867, in


the Dixon, Peoria and Hannibal Railroad Company, it is provided that "the several counties in which any part of said road may hereafter be located, and the several townships in said counties which have adopted or may hereafter adopt township organizations, and the cities and incorporated towns in said counties, are hereby authorized to subscribe and take stock in said Dixon, Peoria and Hannibal Railroad Company." 2 Private Laws Ill. 1867, 604, 606. The act restricted a subscription by a county to $100,000, and a subscription by a township, city or town to $35,000.
It is admitted that at an election duly notified and held, on the 3d day of August, 1868, the town of Brimfield, by a vote of one hundred and fifty as against fifty-six, lawfully votedto subscribe $35,000 to the stock of the railroad company, and to issue its bonds therefor. At the same time and place, but without authority of law, an election was held to take the sense of the voters of the town as to an additional subscription by it of $15,000 to the stock of the same company, for which coupon bonds should be issued, payable in ten, fifteen and twenty years. This last proposition was sustained by a vote of one hundred and fifty-three as against fifty-five.
*762 On the 31st of March, 1869, the General Assembly of Illinois passed an act declaring "that a certain election, held in the township of Brimfield, in Peoria County, on the 3d day of August, 1868, at which a majority of the


legal voters in said township, in special town meeting, voted to subscribe for and take fifteen thousand dollars of the capital stock of the Dixon, Peoria and Hannibal Railroad Company over and above the amount authorized to be taken by the charter of said company, is hereby legalized and confirmed, and is declared to be binding upon said township, and may be collected from said township, in the same manner as if said subscription had been made under the provisions of said charter." 3 Priv. Laws Ill. 1869, 372.
Subsequently, May 5, 1869, the township, by its proper officers, issued to the company its coupon bonds for $35,000, in pursuance of the vote at the first-named election, and also its coupon bonds for $15,000, pursuant to the above voteBalter vs. Katko: What to expect in race for Congress

Dana Balter shook up the Democratic Party establishment by winning the primary election against Juanita Perez Williams in the 24th Congressional District. But now the political novice has a bigger obstacle: Can she pull off an upset in November against Rep. John Katko, a two-term Republican?

Balter, 42, a doctoral candidate who teaches at Syracuse University, enters the campaign as a long-shot candidate who first must prove that she can unite her own party after a divisive primary campaign.

If Balter can pull it off, the Syracuse-area congressional race will be one of the most competitive in the nation this year as Democrats seek to take back control of the House. Here's a look at what to expect.

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Can Democrats unite?

In the night of the June 26 primary, Perez Williams implored her supporters to quickly unite behind Balter. She said the stakes in November are simply too high for Democrats to waste time in an intra-party battle.

Mark English, chairman of the Onondaga County Democratic Committee, says he has no doubt the party can heal its primary wounds. He compares the primary, in which supporters of both camps had bitter disputes on social media, to a family squabble.

Balter starts off with a solid base of support: She won the designation from the local Democratic committees in the four-county district. She also had strong grassroots support from groups that formed in 2016 to resist President Donald Trump's agenda.

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The role of the national parties

After Balter'sprimary victory, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington said it was too soon to decide what kind of support the national party will offer.

The DCCC spent almost $20,000 to support Perez Williams and enrolled her in the party's "Red to Blue" program for priority races in Republican-held districts.

"As Democrats we must be united around the fact that Rep. John Katko has failed the people of Central New York," DCCC Chairman Ben Ray Lujan said after Balter's win, adding "we will be evaluating this race in the coming weeks."

Republicans in Washington have already identified Katko as one of their priorities to protect in November. Vice President Mike Pence provided evidence of that commitment when he headlined a fundraiser in Syracuse for Katko, only weeks before


the Democratic primary.

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Why the 24th District is important

Democrats need to flip control of 23 Republican-held seats to gain a majority in the 435-member House of Representatives. But there are not a lot of competitive districts across the country. New York is one exception, where Democrats say five of the nine Republican-held seats could be competitive in November.

Last year, Politico listed Katko's seat as one of the nation's top 10 competitive races to watch in 2018. But with Democrats fighting with themselves, most political analysts in Washington listed the 24th District seat as one that is "likely Republican" in the November election.

Nathan Gonzales, editor of Inside Elections, said in an interview that he has no immediate plans to change his rating on the race after the primary election.But Gonzales said he will keep a close watch on developments because the district is considered a swing seat, making Katko vulnerable.

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Campaign issues

The race for the 24th District will likely revolve around key federal issues debated by Congress over the past two years: tax reform, the future of the Affordable Care Act, immigration reform and gun laws.

Balter and her supporters argue that Central New York needs a Democrat in Congress to push back against President Trump's agenda.

Katko plans to run on his record, touting his moderate votes in which he has split with his party on key issues such as the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and a farm bill that cut food stamps. He also authored 14 bills that passed the House


since last year, most of them related to a Homeland Security subcommittee he chairs.

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A history of competitive elections

Katko won both of his elections by more than 20 percentage points, but a look at the 24th District's voter enrollment and history suggests it's still one of the nation's most competitive swing districts.

When Katko was elected in 2014, it was the fourth consecutive time the district had swung between parties, from Democrat to Republican to Democrat to Republican. That was the most change of any of the nation's 435 House seats.

Katko's win in 2016 marked the first time anybody had been reelected to the Syracuse-based congressional seat since 2006, when former Rep. Jim Walsh won his 10th and final term.

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Why CentralNew York is a battleground

The district's voter enrollment is almost evenly split among Democrats, Republicans and independent voters who are not enrolled in a political party.

As of April 1, the district had 143,319 active Democratic voters, 138,353 active Republican voters, and 103,922 active independent voters, according to the state Board of Elections.

The district covers all of Onondaga, Cayuga and Wayne counties, and the western half of Oswego County, including the cities of Fulton and Oswego.

The voters have shown a willingness in recent years to split their tickets. In the 2016 election, Katko was one of only 23 House Republicans nationwide to win in a district carried by Democrat Hillary Clinton.

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Last chance to register to vote

This year's election will be Tuesday, Nov. 6. If you are not


an active registered voter in New York, you have until Oct. 12, 2018 to register at your local board of elections.

If you want to change your party enrollment, it's too late for this year. Voters who change their enrollment by Oct. 12, 2018 will be able to vote in primary election for their new party beginning in 2019.

If you have been honorably discharged from the military, became a naturalized citizen or are a registered voter who has moved within your county after October 12, 2018, the deadline to register is Oct. 27, 2018.The federal government spends about 20% per cent of its annual budget servicing domestic debt.

Country's foray into international debt markets may consist of little more than sound and fury, as the nation struggles to shed decades of trepidation about borrowing in foreign currencies.

A fanfare announcement in the July budget has been followed by the removal of the official driving the sale, objections from the prime minister's office, and finally an admission from Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman that no work has been done on the mooted $10 billion offering.

Country's first venture into the overseas bond market would shift part of its 7-trillion-rupee ($100 billion) borrowing abroad, and enable it tap a wider pool of funds. But fears that it may increase the nation's reliance on foreign borrowing has brought


under pressure during bouts of risk aversion, especially given the current backdrop of slowing global growth.

"India has refrained from a foreign issuance up till now" due to multi-fold risks involved, and the main one being foreign-exchange gyrations, said Rini Sen, an economist in Bengaluru at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. "When markets are in turmoil, debt issued overseas will be worse hit than onshore bonds as the latter can be repaid by printing more domestic currency."anomalies is suggested by the apparent progressive extension of the duration of this phenomenon. In the Adriatic Sea, for instance, marine aggregates generally appear from May to July and evolve into mucilage through the Summer (with a peak in August). Recently (i.e., in 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2008), mucilage has appeared much earlier (first recorded in November/December and January, depending upon the area). The Winter 2006--2007 was the warmest over the last 30 years, with average temperatures up to 2--3°C above the previous mean temperatures (<http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/s2798.htm>), and the spatial extent and persistence of mucilage reached unprecedented levels. In March 2007, for instance, marine mucilage was seen to stretch along more than 2,500 km of the Italian coastline. Massive aggregates lasted, almost continuously, for more than five months. The


A witness trained in first aid said she ran toward the injured couple and "started plugging holes." View Full Caption DNAinfo/Patty Wetli

RAVENSWOOD — A 17-year-old boy has been charged in the double stabbing of a 20-year-old man and 18-year-old woman that left the older man in critical condition near the Western Brown Line stop Thursday afternoon.

The boy, whose name was not released due to his age, was charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, said Officer Jose Estrada, a Chicago Police spokesman.

He had an altercation with the two victims before stabbing them, Estrada said. He was arrested Thursday around 11:50 p.m.

Patty Wetli details the incident:

One witness, Danielle, who withheld her last name, was working at the first Thursday night Lincoln Square Farmers Marketand function of the CD20 molecule and the development of engineered anti-CD20 MAbs. CD20 MAbs mechanism of action include: complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC), programmed cell death, and Fc: FCR-dependent interactions, with passive immunization being a potential fourth mechanism \[[@B6-pharmaceuticals-03-03258]\]. Although it is widely accepted that Fc-Fc gamma receptor (FcgR) interactions are critical in follicular lymphoma, the role of the complement-dependent pathway and the mechanism of programmed cell death in other lymphoproliferative disorders are still disputed \[[@B6-pharmaceuticals-03-03258]\]. Rituximab is a chimeric murine-derived MAb that targets the CD20 antigen from the anti-CD20 antibody on the human constant region. Complement-mediated cell lysis is induced by rituximab. CD20 is a good target because of its high expression and the proximity of the AB binding epitope to the plasma membrane. After binding by MAb


Infinity today: the Nichien-Momiji line, home of the Seven Star Leaf team. In real life, this is a 28km-long road connecting Shiobara Hot Springs and Kinugawa Hot Springs at an altitude of over 1000m. This course was only available in Initial D Special Stage until now.

Every year Konami releases a new version of the Baseball Heroes card game. The 2014 version hits Japanese arcades today. There are 300 new cards from the 2014 season and 12 professional teams. Two new categories of cards are available: Super Rare and Ultra Rare. Players can now compete in a new versus game mode. New features allow players to develop new game tactics.

Puella Magi Madoka â˜† Magica: The Movie MAGICARD BATTLE from Sega starts operation today. All magical girls from the seriesupdate, StarHorse 3 Season III - Chase the Wind, is released 3 years after the original version. The new "Masters Cup" offers a new challenge for the most experienced players while all players can enjoy the pleasures of exploration with the "Team Quest" mode. Between races, they can now spend some relaxing time on the new Bingo. The game supports up to 18 players.

Since Thursday, Miku fans can play Hatsune Miku Project DIVA Arcade Future Tone Version A. This version brings some adjustment as usual but, as it is a major update, new features are also added. First, a new Quest mode based on cards collection. The player can obtain virtual cards by completing certain conditions while playing songs. Then, with the cards won, he can create his


for the most part, is largely overlooked by policymakers. At the bottom of this chain, at its most basic level, are rare-earth metals mined from the Earth's crust and made into magnets or other parts, then put into motors or batteries.

China's dominance in this arena, and its displacement of American leadership, are not accidental. In 1992, Deng Xiaoping, then the country's most powerful politician, outlined a plan. "The Middle East has oil; we have rare earths," he said. "We must develop these rare earths." Today this phrase is emblazoned, like a campaign slogan, across the roof of at least one Chinese factory.

Deng's call to arms has been carried out nearly flawlessly. China dominates the world market and in recent months has taken control of mines in Brazil andAustralia, thereby eliminating potential competitors. It is poised to do with rare earths what the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has done with oil: make the world dependent. In 2002, China exported about 60,000 tons of rare-earth metals. In 2008, it exported about 45,000 tons. In 2009, based upon preliminary estimates, that will drop into the 30,000s.

The slide will most likely continue, with potentially serious implications for President Obama's energy goals. In 2008, an Australian analyst named Dudley Kingsnorth released a report in which he calculated that China's rare-earth supplies could become off limits to the world as early as 2012. The severity of Kingsnorth's projection has been questioned by some, and the global recession has probably pushed the date back a few years. But the general trend


at Mountain Pass, Calif., in the Mojave Desert, where the world's largest rare-earth mine opened in the early 1950s. Thus began a nearly half-century reign for the United States. By the late 1960s, Mountain Pass was the world's leading supplier of europium, a rare-earth metal that creates the red color in color TVs. The mine's owner, Molycorp, poured millions into research.

By the mid-1980s, China wised up. The terrain of Inner Mongolia, where there was already extensive iron mining, became ground zero for a new venture. Backed by a deliberate national push, rare-earth production boomed.

China's rise eventually triggered the end of a proud chapter of American innovation. But this fate was not immediately apparent. A poignant example involves General Motors. In the early 1980s, GM scientists invented a newway to make magnets. Rather than use pure magnets, they developed a magnetic powder, which they could mix with rubber and inject where needed. This powder, like many high-performance magnets, required neodymium, a very strong rare earth. With the powder, less metal was needed, so car parts could be lighter—in the auto industry, a good thing. GM's magnet division got its own name, Magnequench, and a 175,000-square-foot facility was built in Indiana in 1986.

But the timing proved terrible. As the 1980s wore on, China's strip mining accelerated. Production soared, and global prices dropped. American magnet companies began to close down or, seeking cheaper resources, moved to China. In 1995, two Chinese companies, with the help of American investors, purchased Magnequench. The move, a report to Congress later found,


lab's work. It is the result of a whole cluster of things, including raw material suppliers, research labs, and manufacturing firms, working together. Remove one of these links, and the innovation chain weakens or breaks.

In the case of American energy technologies, the rare-earth component has been absent for a while. According to a paper published by Brian Fifarek of Carnegie Mellon University last year, its absence has left a mark. As domestic resources have vanished, he found, the number of successful patent applications filed by American companies for technologies using rare earths has declined precipitously since the early 1990s.

There is also anecdotal evidence to suggest that research and development activity, the lifeblood of innovation, has followed resources overseas. In 1999, Magnequench opened a research facility in North Carolina.In 2004, the company, citing access to resources, moved it to Singapore. Another rare-earth facility, in Ames, Iowa, closed in 2002.

Understandably, it has taken some countries and companies a while to make connections between innovation and resources. Mainly, someone in power has to look pretty far down the supply chain, through several layers of middlemen, to spot a problem. In some cases, they haven't or say they don't see problems. "I don't think about it that much," says Siemens CEO Peter Loscher.

But events have started to open some stakeholders' eyes.

In 2005, the Chinese national offshore oil company, CNOOC, made a hostile bid to take over American oil giant Unocal. Congress rejected it, fearing that the Chinese might gain a foothold in the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico. Ultimately, Chevron


acquired the company. But many observers now believe China was also after something else: the Mountain Pass rare-earth mine, which Unocal had acquired in the 1990s. "I was getting phone calls from the highest levels of management at Unocal, asking what it would take to sell Mountain Pass," says Molycorp CEO Mark Smith. "I don't think it's too hard to put the two together."

Next was the incident in 2007 in which W.R. Grace and others felt squeezed by China's threat to withhold rare earth shipments. Then, in 2008, prices for all commodities, including rare earths, began to skyrocket. Neodymium jumped from $8 per kilogram to $50 per kg. Suddenly, people became concerned about the supplies of rare earths. The same year, a report by the National Research CouncilORANGE PARK, Fla. – A Clay County sheriff's deputy was on duty when he was critically injured in a crash late Sunday morning in Orange Park, authorities said.

It happened about 11 a.m. while Traffic Deputy Ben Zirbel, a 12-year veteran of the Clay County Sheriff's Office, was riding his agency-issued motorcycle on Blanding Boulevard at Camp Francis Johnson Road, just south of Kingsley Avenue.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the traffic deputy was traveling south on his Clay County Sheriff's Office motorcycle when the driver of a pickup truck on northbound Blanding Boulevard attempted to turn left onto Camp Francis Johnson Road.

FHP Sgt. Dylan Bryan said the driver of the Dodge Dakota pickup, which was towing a lawn trailer, failed to yield the right of way to the


deputy, causing the motorcycle to collide with the trailer.

Bryan said the deputy was thrown from the motorcycle. Troopers said Zirbel, 40, was taken to Orange Park Medical Center, where he was in critical condition at last check.

"We stand with our brothers in blue," Bryan said. "We hope for thoughts and prayers for everyone."

Sheriff's Office Sgt. Keith Smith fought back tears at a news briefing Sunday afternoon.

"It's a tough time here for members here at the Sheriff's Office. But we're strong, we've been through things before, and when faced with these kinds of things, we grow tighter," Smith told reporters. "We're a big family. What we need you to do now is pray for the family, pray for the officer."

Just days earlier, Smith said he had reached out tothat in German has long meant any kind of incompetent disaster.

"They have strikes. Good," shrugged one young worker who should himself have already been at work but was whiling away the morning hours with buddies in a pub. "But they need to produce first." His expressed opinion (if not his practice) repeated a domestic theme that has been stressed by the East German Communist Party ever since economic growth and individual living standards decelerated to a crawl here in the late 1970s.

The widow did blame the Polish troubles on "unfit heads" who had been running Poland. She thought that in any case "Poles are difficult to govern" -- and she voiced some concern in hoping that everything would end well.But for her too the heart of the Polish


The Soviet Union and east Germany have shown too much "solidarity" with the Poles and helped them out too much for that, they thought.

The West German youth demonstrations of this year, some of them violent, elicit no more comprehension from the man in the street here than do the Polish strikes. One grandmother who had just visited West Berlin to get a kitchen slicer for her husband's birthday (as a pensioner she can travel to the West, and relatives there solved her lack of Western currency by purchasing the slicer for her) thought the West Berlin squatters and demonstrators were "perverse." she added, "When you have too much [prosperity] it's not good."

The engineer agreed, and feared that West Germany might "destroy itself through too much democracy."

In similar veinand Peter Stringer aren't in our first team. All were very good, but Denis Hurley and Barry Murphy had f***ing spectacular games. Great to see Hurley playing with confidence again, as he is very talented.

Keith Earls is possibly the most talented player playing rugby in Ireland. Incredible again, by the end of the game you expected him to beat 3 defenders every time he got the ball. Shame that he had two tries taken off him by last ditch ankle taps after tearing the defence to bits. Doug was excellent too, although I was disappointed he didn't back himself in the build up to Freddie's try.

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came back a better player.

Connacht are in reality poor team, with a small budget. It is in there best interest to sign young players from Munster and Leinster and promise them game time, as they will almost always be better than the players Connacht have. It's a win win situation really, Connacht get better players, and the players get more game time.

In Connacht's team last night they had Sean Cronin (Munster), Frank Murphy (Munster), Ian Keatley (Leinster), Fionn Carr (Leinster), these guys are all talented players but won't get game time at their home province because of the international quality players ahead of them.man has become quite a charming and witty personality. He is conversing and taking part in group activities and offering vocal advice that only the insight of a 90-year-old can offer. His humor is on time and I have yet to experience any stuttering.

Another interesting, maybe not surprising, situation with a gentleman with dementia, is his constant buying of grocery items and toiletries. His cupboards contain 12 large boxes of Cheerios, 8 large jars of peanut butter, 10 boxes of dry spaghetti, 8 boxes of chocolate lunch cakes, and so on. His bathroom closet contains 12 bottles of the same brand of body wash, 16 cans of shaving cream, 12 large bottles of mouthwash, (found 3 more in the garage today) 10 bottles of aftershave, etc. I am


Speaking in the House of Commons Francis Maude thanks civil servants who are working during the day of public sector industrial action, confirming significantly fewer than a third were on strike. He said the government expected around three-quarters of schools in England to be closed or partially closed for the day

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Wednesday 30 November 2011 09.38 EST
First published on Wednesday 30 November 2011 09.38 ESTFor the better part of June, Honduras was near the bottom of the list of concerns when the United States looked south. But then, on June 28, the country's military forcibly removed José Manuel Zelaya, a democratically elected president. To be sure, Zelaya had attempted an unconstitutional power grab, but whatever questions may surround his rule, Zelaya's ouster by the armed forces bore the features of a coup, an all-too-familiar scene in Latin American history.

No one could have predicted that Honduras, the third-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, would test the Obama administration's posture toward Latin America, its commitment to multilateralism, and its overarching policy on democracy.

So far, the United States has steered a cautious middle course that seeks to combine taking a principled stand with relying on


region -- not to mention the forceful role of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

The Honduras crisis touched a nerve throughout much of Latin America, but not because, as some analysts have contended, Zelaya's ouster was the region's first coup in several decades. (The removal of Ecuadorian President Jamil Mahuad in 2000 met the definition, although it elicited virtually no regional response.) Rather, the image of 200 military officials taking an elected president out of the country in the middle of the night set off political alarms for leaders in other Latin American states.

South American countries such as Brazil and Chile have long battled military rule, and their presidents were in no mood to consider any ambiguity in this case. They feared that any mixed signal could embolden the region'smilitaries, which had thankfully returned to the barracks after years in political power. José Miguel Insulza, the Chilean secretary general of the OAS had himself been forced into exile by the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship in the 1970s. In the weeks following the coup, Insulza said that the situation in Honduras reminded him of Guatemala's 1954 coup, the backdrop of perhaps the most tragic episode in recent Latin American history.

And then there is Chávez. Since his election three years ago, Zelaya had led his country into the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), a coalition of nine Latin American and Caribbean countries directed by Chávez (and financed by Venezuela's oil resources) with the goal of curtailing U.S. influence in Latin America. Zelaya's removal was a significant political loss for


Chávez and a sharp blow to his plan of extending regional influence. In addition, the coup conformed with Chávez's ideology, in which the Latin American right wing -- or what he calls the "squalid oligarchy" of traditional economic and political elites -- would not tolerate leftist governments. Lastly, in an ironic twist, it enabled Chávez, who, in 1992, attempted a military coup against an elected Venezuelan government, to claim the moral high ground by criticizing the Honduran military's actions.

From the outset, the Obama administration showed a desire to condemn such a flagrant unconstitutional act. President Barack Obama called Zelaya's ouster "not legal" and said that it set a "terrible precedent." Such statements were intended to repair the damage to U.S. credibility in Latin America, which was hurt mostespecially by the Bush administration's undisguised delight when Chávez was temporarily ousted by a coup in 2002 (and then, to Washington's apparent dismay, returned to power). The coup in Honduras offered the United States the opportunity to reform its former posture, a gesture that was welcomed throughout the region.

Although all members of the OAS supported the group's ultimatum -- either reinstate Zelaya or face expulsion from the organization -- it was the Chávez-led ALBA countries that had the clearest agenda and seemed to drive the region's politics. In an especially theatrical moment, a Chávez-supplied airplane carrying Zelaya was denied approval to land in Honduras in the days after the coup.

In the end, although the confrontational approach taken by the OAS may have sent a firm message, it proved


fruitless; if anything, it only served to stiffen the resistance of the de facto government in Tegucigalpa. Political consensus failed to dislodge an isolated government determined to thwart Zelaya's return, resulting in an impasse. Few countries in Latin America have historically been more susceptible to U.S. influence than Honduras, and the fact that it has now withstood such pressure against it is an embarrassment to the United States as well as the OAS. Both may have underestimated the depth of bitterness in Honduras toward Zelaya and the determination to keep him out of the country.

Without a clear resolution, the crisis moved to a negotiation phase, which plays to the Obama administration's taste for pragmatism and measured steps. The United States was the only government to leave its ambassadoris growing that the de facto government may simply let the clock run out on Zelaya's truncated term until November, when it will hold elections without him and hope that Honduras will be able to restore its diplomatic and economic standing.

In the meantime, attention has increasingly turned to Washington. The Obama administration continues to insist on Zelaya's return. It has applied some pressure on the de facto government, revoking the visas of four high-level officials. Washington also backs the OAS mission to Honduras, a group of seven foreign ministers of OAS countries and Insulza, which has traveled to Tegucigalpa to pressure the government to accept the San José Accord. But some see a softening of the U.S. stance, as reflected in State Department statements that allude to Zelaya's


own role in provoking the crisis.

In the United States, the issue has acquired a partisan cast reminiscent of sentiments during the Cold War. Many Republicans question the Obama administrations support for Zelaya. They are troubled by his close ties to Chávez, who faces renewed accusations of supporting the insurgency of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). They stress Zelaya's dubious democratic credentials and erratic behavior over the years. Many Democrats, however, counter that to let the coup stand would make a mockery of the United States' commitment to democracy. They also point to allegations of arbitrary detentions and restrictions on the press that have been leveled against the de facto government.

The controversy has proved costly for the United States' Latin American policy, holding up congressional confirmations ofArturo Valenzuela, assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, and Tom Shannon, ambassador to Brazil. More broadly, the fallout from the coup has made the region seem more like an area of conflict over basic values than one ripe for enhanced inter-American cooperation.

The Obama administration, then, is caught between two voices: one in Latin America (and from some within Obama's own party) that is pushing for increased pressure on the de facto government, and another from within the United States that argues that backing Zelaya is not the way to restore the country's democratic credibility. This has created a historical incongruity among Latin Americans, who have traditionally called for the United States to act less unilaterally and be less interventionist. "It is important to note the irony


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In the song "Lost Weekend" (2004), Lloyd Cole mentions treatment but complains about the costs of antibiotics ("It took a lost weekend in a hotel in Amsterdam, and double pneumonia in a single room, and the sickest joke was the price of the medicine"). Lloyd Cole must have travelled on a tight budget, because the price of a course of amoxicillin is well below €60, less than a single night in a cheap Amsterdam hotel. This shows us that it took almost half a century of pneumonia being mentioned in song lyrics before the ability to treat pneumonia with antibiotics also found its way into popular music. We may have to wait another 50 years before songwriters will realize


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So long, Robertson family: A&E has announced Duck Dynasty will come to an end this season.

The five-year-old series will air through Jan. 18 with one small break, followed by seven final episodes that will air between March 1 and April 12.

By the time production wraps, the show — one of the biggest hits in the history of cable — will have made 130 episodes.

The Robertson family made the announcement tonight after the season premiere. (Watch it above.)

Launched in 2012, the show chronicled the lives of the Robertson family, who ran a successful business making duck calls. The men of the show — Phil and Si, and Phil’s sons Jase, Willie, and Jep – are known for their long beards and Christian beliefs.

Duck Dynasty broke


ratings records for both A&E and cable — at one point averaging more than 11 million viewers in its fourth season — until controversy shook the reality show when patriarch Phil made anti-gay remarks in a magazine interview. He was briefly suspended, but the show took a serious ratings hit and never shot up again.

Duck Dynasty, however, still remains the No. 1 series on A&E among total viewers.watch?" Aslyn asked.

With eyes fixed on her papaya, Ayla didn't even look up.

"No thanks," she said. "Fishing's not really my thing."

"Come on Ayla, it'll be fun! Besides, you really need to get out of the house. Look where we live!"

"Yeah, it's nice and all, if you like fishing!" she said. "There's not even a decent mall on the whole island! Don't you miss your old friends? And what about the swim team? You used to love going to the pool."

"Sure, the swim team was great, but look outside. There's an entire ocean out there just waiting to be explored. I'll take that any day over doing laps in a chlorinated pool with Coach Dooley yelling at me every five seconds."

That got a little smile from Ayla, but she


Franti to U2, but none of them could mask out the sound of Aslyn and Grandpa. They kept bursting out into laughter every time Aslyn tossed the old net into the lagoon.

"You almost got it," Duke said. "Just lift your arms a little higher next time."

Looking over, Ayla watched one of her brother's failed attempts and let out a little chuckle of her own.

I guess fishing is harder than I thought.

All of a sudden, Ayla felt a dark shadow streak overhead.

She ducked quickly this time, with eyes darting in every direction.

Just when she thought she was safe, Ayla caught a flash of red fire as it disappeared into the green jungle behind her.

Her eyes scanned the tree line, but she couldn't make out anything through the thick canopyof Kamani and Coconut trees lining the beach.

Then she saw it again.

This time, Ayla was sure.

### THREE

Ayla got up to get a closer look.

As she pushed past the first row of trees, the light suddenly changed. It was spooky inside of the thick foliage. As she looked up, Ayla saw the tallest boughs forming a natural cathedral. Gigantic green vines reached almost all the way up to the tops of the ancient trees.

Just then, she heard a rustling in the leaves behind her.

"What the..." she said, looking up. "Is that a...?"

"Braaawck!"

Sitting on an upper branch and staring down at her, was a fiery ball of feathers, draped in reds, yellows and blues.

"A parrot!" Ayla exclaimed.

"Braaawck!"

"Where did you come from?" she asked. "I didn't know there were parrots in


Ayla replied.

The boy noticed the hesitation in her eyes.

"You're Duke's granddaughter, right?"

"Yeah, Luke is my grandpa," she replied. "I moved here a few months ago. I mean, I did live here until I was three, but I just moved back."

"Oh, 'E Komo Mai then... welcome home!" said the boy. "Like I was saying, back in the old days, this was all one big plantation. You know, sugarcane and pineapples as far as you could see. And the plantation manager and his family lived up in that big house on the hill. When the plantation closed down about forty years ago, there was some sort of family tragedy or something and they all went back to the mainland. I guess they just left Pico here."

"They just left him?"

"Yep," thelooked up into the girl's eyes. Then he cocked his head sideways and said, "Ayla. Sad!"

For a moment, Ayla considered that maybe he did understand more than she thought. "Yeah. Ayla. Sad!"

Pico jumped up onto Ayla's shoulder and began gently pecking her ear. Ayla gave the bird a half smile and said, "Thanks, Pico. You are a good friend."

The bird starting bobbing up and down.

Ayla turned her iPod off and laid down on her bed, staring blankly at the ceiling. Pico perched himself on the window sill and just stared out at the ocean.

At some point, Ayla must have drifted off to sleep.

The next thing she knew, she found herself in the middle of the most wonderful dream.

She was surrounded by glorious, blue light.

At first, everything seemed fuzzy,


the waves, disappearing from sight.

Then her jaw fell open.

A glorious rainbow began spilling out of the sky.

All seven bands of light were bathing the lagoon in their ethereal colors.

"Oh my God!" Ayla exclaimed.

That woman... the rainbow... the dolphins?

Ayla's mind began spinning faster and faster.

Then, she heard a new voice calling her name.

"Ayla... dinner time!"

### SIX

Grandma Kate's cooking was the last thing on Ayla's mind.

She had so many questions.

What was that voice?

And who was that woman?

Where did she come from? Ayla wondered.

And how did she do that with the dolphins? And the Rainbow?

Wait! Ayla wondered. How did Pico know?

Ayla pushed these thoughts around in her head, while she pushed her dinner around on her plate.

"What's going on in that po'o of yours, Ayla?"

"Sorry... what?" she asked, looking up fromwoman, fending off a school of sharks for over an hour until help arrived.

"And once," he said, "when we were maybe fifteen, me and your grandpa Duke were out on an old fishing canoe. We were going after some Ahi in the deep water and we got swept out to sea. I mean way out there! We didn't know what we were gonna do. There was a storm coming in and dark skies everywhere. We couldn't even tell where the sun was. Man, I thought we were gonna die out there!" he said, recalling the scene with a strained look on his face.

"What happened?" Ayla asked.

"Well, all of a sudden, three dolphins showed up and started splashing around. Then they made all these clicks and whistles and started


to someone or something. The men continued standing motionless in the knee deep water.

All of a sudden, an old man at the front of the group raised a carved wooden staff into the air and gave forth a resounding call. Following the powerful sound, there came a strange glow emanating from the top of the staff.

At that very moment, an entire pod of dolphins appeared out of nowhere and began streaking toward the shore. The dolphins were swimming fast and sending forth powerful waves of sound which grew louder and louder as they came closer and closer.

The sea started to bubble, then boil with motion.

"Fish!" Ayla realized.

The dolphins were herding a school of fish in front of them, driving them closer and closer to the shore.

All at once,liquid reached out for her toes.

As she looked again, she could see the pod begin to break up, with most of the dolphins heading off into the west. Then Ayla looked closer.

"No way!"

She could see three dorsal fins streaming through the water. Ayla took a few more steps into the blue lagoon. The water was silky and inviting, caressing her calves as she moved deeper into its embrace. She reached down and ran her fingers along the surface, savoring the salty scent as she wiped her sweaty brow.

"Pooosh... Pooosh... Pooosh!"

In the morning silence, the dolphins sounded much closer than they actually were. She watched them leap out of the water. The silvery figures were still about fifty yards out but this was the closest she had ever been.


heading out to sea.

This made Ayla ponder an entirely new set of questions.

Before she could ask anything else, Kaleo got a funny look on his face and said, "It was strange though, because Pueo was flying fast. I mean, they can zip through the sky and all but they usually fly nice and slow, kind of gliding through the air. And I rarely see him heading makai. He's usually going mauka, hunting."

"But how did you first know that the owl was your 'aumakua?" she asked, fascinated. "Did he speak to you or anything?"

"Oh, don't get me started. I have a ton of stories to tell you about Pueo and me. But finish telling me about your dream. What happened next?"

"Well..." she paused again, debating how much to say."As soon as I heard the voice, I woke up. And then the craziest thing happened. I got out of bed and went to the window and right at that moment—"

"Eh, Kaleo! Come on. We gonna miss 'em, Brah!"

Kaleo and Ayla turned to see Kawika and J-Boy, running up the beach with spears in hand.

"Oh man, sorry Ayla. I told the guys to meet me this morning so we could go out for Kole."

"For what?"

"Kole. It's a special kind of fish. Back in the old days, only the Ali'i could eat Kole. But now, there's no more Kapu!"

Ayla looked at him, unsure if she should ask.

"Ali'i means royalty, Ayla. Like the Kings and Queens of Old Hawai'i. And Kapu, well..." Kaleo said, looking towards his approaching friends, "That's


hook.

He told her about the moana and the kai, the ocean and the sea. Then more legends about the 'āina and the uka, the land and the upland forests and all the mythical beings that inhabited those sacred places. That's when he told her about the Menehune and their infamous powers.

Then Grandpa told her about the legends that surround the 'Tales of the Nighttime Rainbow'. Ayla really liked that one, even though she had never seen a moonbow before.

In the telling of these legends, Duke would often pause to explain some of the Hawaiian words he was using.

He spoke of mālama, kōkua and kuleana... care, help and responsibility of the people to their land and to each other.

"Because Ayla, truly I tell you. The people are tied totime with those infamous tickle fingers."

At the mention of her father's name, Ayla perked up.

"Three weeks, right?" she asked, the excitement obvious in her voice. Aslyn wasn't the only one excited to see Mom and Dad.

"That's what they said, if all goes as planned and the weather holds," Grandpa replied.

For a moment, Grandma Kate had a far away look in her eyes.

"Oh, Luke Dear. That reminds me," she said, putting her book aside and finding her smile once more. "Ayla was asking about Jordan and Lei's old photos. Could you go up into the attic and take a look?"

"Sure," Grandpa replied. He flashed one more proud smile at Aslyn, then winked at Ayla and headed upstairs.

A few minutes later, Duke returned balancing three boxes in his arms.

"Here you


they were swimming closer.

It only took her a moment before she dove straight into the water. Now, she didn't have any of those questions swirling through her mind. She was just swimming, with both heart and mind open to what might happen next.

When she finally lifted her head to see where they were, she couldn't see them anymore. But then, she heard the familiar "Pooosh... Pooosh... Pooosh!" as they exhaled only a few yards in front of her.

The three dolphins were so close and their breath was so loud that it startled Ayla at first. After all, these were wild animals. Ayla was just reading about how dolphins can be moody sometimes, just like people.

Reaching up to thirteen feet in length, their strength in the water was nothingspotted Kaleo coming down the beach.

Kaleo saw Ayla and waved his spear through the air, flashing that handsome grin as he approached.

"Aloha, Ayla." he said, moving closer to her. "Beautiful day, yeah?"

"Hey Kaleo!" she said, beaming.

"How's everything going, Sister?" he asked, fixing her with those striking eyes.

Ayla was burning to tell him about the dolphins, hoping he could make it more real somehow. Anything to balance out the emotions that had been stirred up during her spat with her brother.

"I'm good, I guess."

Come on Ayla, she thought. Just tell him!

But, "Going fishing?" were the only words she found.

"Yeah! Should be a good day for it!" he replied, flashing a bright set of teeth. Ayla had to admit, Kaleo's smile did have a way of making her forget about


let it go."

Ayla spun around toward the green of the jungle canopy.

There, in the distance, she saw two figures lit by the western sun.

The young woman, Ayla thought. And... the old man!

They were standing side by side, motionless and bathed in that heavenly light. The young woman wore a golden wrap that seemed to shimmer all over. The old man wore that same green cloth with the old staff at his side. This unlikely duo looked as if they belonged in another time. Yet there they were, staring back at Ayla.

She watched as the two figures lifted their right hands toward the west.

It was all so surreal at that moment, but Ayla swore she could see a soft glow spilling out from the tops of their crowns andcovering their entire bodies in golden light.

As her eyes followed their hands toward the west, she saw it.

There in the distance, falling from sky to sea, was a glorious double rainbow.

It was brighter than Ayla had ever seen before.

Each band of color was pulsing with light.

Pulsing with sound.

Pulsing with Life!

The first array of color arced down into the water, alighting upon the silhouette of the old shipwreck, causing it to glow with supernatural color.

Tracing the contours of the second rainbow, her eyes followed its arc all the way down into the lagoon, where it drenched this second spot in misty rays of light.

Aslyn!

Ayla exhaled as she spotted her brother's snorkel at the end of that second rainbow.

"Aslyn! Aslyn!" she called out over the water. But he couldn't hear


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New N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper makes two Cabinet post picks

North Carolina natives, James Trogdon and Michael Regan were selected by the Governor to head up transportation and environment offices. Trogdon will be secretary of the Department of Transportation with Regan taking the reigns at the Department

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A three-judge panel Thursday upheld Gov. Roy Cooper’s request to block a revamp of the state elections board while his lawsuit makes its way through the courts.

In the first hearing before the panel of judges assigned to the case this week, Greensboro attorney Jim Phillips arguedfor Cooper that a law adopted by the General Assembly in one of its special sessions last month violates the constitutional separation of powers.

It was a similar argument to one made last week by Phillips on the eve of the date the law would have disbanded the five-member state Board of Elections and passed its duties to the state Ethics Commission.

The merger was set to happen on Jan. 1, but Wake County Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens temporarily blocked the law from taking effect. His restraining order was set to expire Monday. The three-judge panel – assigned to the case because of the constitutional questions the new law raises – heard from the lawyers for nearly three hours before retreating behind closed doors. The panel contacted attorneys in


governor has the power to appoint all five members to the state elections board, three from his party and two from the other major political party based on recommendations from that party.

The three judges who make up the panel who will weigh the constitutional challenge of the special session law are:

▪ Caldwell, a Democrat who has been on the bench since 1993.

▪ Logan Todd Burke, a Forsyth County judge and a Democrat who first was appointed to the bench in 1994 by then-Gov. Jim Hunt.

▪ Jeff Foster, a Republican from Pitt County who was appointed to the bench by then-Gov. Pat McCrory last year almost nine months before being elected to a full eight-year term.

The three judges had questions for the lawyers in the morning court session.

Caldwell askedto any branch of government. Huffstetler argued that if the judges side with the governor in the case, that they would be setting a precedent that would give governors the authority to play partisan games if they were upset with a board of elections policy or ruling. He argued that governors could get into the day-to-day management of the elections board for partisan gain.

“Would we really want an elections board or an ethics commission over which some future governor had that much power?” Huffstetler asked.

The lawmakers’ attorneys tried to persuade the three-judge panel that the special session law maintaned the status quo – that basically what would happen was a merger of the elections board staff and ethics commission staff and their duties overseen by one board.

Cooper, under


Style Network orders series about 500-pound woman's weight loss

Ruby Gettinger will reportedly allow viewers to follow her life-or-death battle with obesity.

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Style Network has ordered Ruby, a new reality series starring the 500-pound Savannah, GA native as she attempts to lose weight, The Hollywood Reporterreported Wednesday.

"Ruby really caught our attention because she is such a wonderful, multidimensional woman with a great sense of humor," Style Network executive Salaam Coleman Smith told The Reporter.

The nine-episode series will follow Gettinger as she struggles to shed the excess pounds at her doctor's orders after she was informed it's a matter of life or death.

Ruby will be produced by Gay Rosenthal Prods., with Gettinger's friend Brittany Daniel serving as a consulting executive producer, according to The Reporter.

Daniel -- an actress who has appearedon several television shows, including The Game and Dawson's Creek --will also appear on-screen in Ruby. She said she became friends with Gettinger seven years ago while living in Los Angeles.

"Ruby really wants to inspire people," Daniel told The Reporter. "And she's so entertaining and hysterical, so it's going to be an inspirational but also a really fun show."

Ruby is currently slated to debut this fall on Style Network, according to The Reporter.


Story highlights President Donald Trump ordered the review in January

The review will be completed by the end of the year

Washington (CNN) The Pentagon has begun its latest review of US policy on the use of nuclear weapons, which could see the US posture returning to an emphasis on competing with countries like Russia.

The review, which typically occurs every eight years, will establish US nuclear policy, strategy and force posture regarding the use of nuclear weapons under the Trump administration.

Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced Monday that the Department of Defense has begun its Nuclear Posture Review, a process President Donald Trump directed Mattis to undertake in a presidential memorandum signed during his January visit to the Pentagon.

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ALBANY PARK — A string of recent robberies in which victims were held up at gunpoint has prompted a community alert from police.

The incidents occurred between Nov. 9 and Nov. 15 in Albany Park, Avondale and Irving Park, according to police.

Victims were approached on the street by one or two men, who pointed a handgun and demanded the individual's property.

The suspects are described black males, 18 to 20 years old, between five-foot-seven and six-foot-one, weighing 150-170 pounds. They wore dark colored clothing at the time of the robberies, police said.

The incident times and locations:

• Nov. 9, 3800 block of North Hamlin Avenue, 1:30 a.m.

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Of course, Santiago decided he had to get a quijada for himself. His search took him to indigenous and Afro-Mexican parts of Oaxaca where few outsiders ever go.

Along the way, he discovered a club where people danced to the kind of music his parents liked, including the cumbia.

"We were like, 'Wow, this is really great music,'" he recalled. "I


a professional lawyer in 1987.

Early career

Emodi was an Education Officer with the Anambra State Schools Board (1983–1986), then Executive Secretary, Anambra State Development Authority (1994–1995). In 1995 she represented Nigeria at the Third African-American Summit in Senegal and at the World Women Conference in Beijing China.
She was elected to the 1994/1995 Constitutional Conference. She was elected National Deputy Chairman (1994) and National Legal Adviser (1996) for the Congress for National Consensus (CNC) party during the administration of General Sani Abacha.
In 1999 she was candidate for Anambra State governor on the All People's Party (APP) platform.

Senate career

Emodi won the People's Democratic Party (PDP) primaries for the 12 April 2003 election for the Anambra North Senatorial zone, and was declared the winner on 16 April, 2003.
A few dayslater, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) reversed this decision, and declared Emmanuel Anosike as the winner. INEC had earlier returned Anosike as the winner of Anambra East/West Constituency of the House of Representatives.
After appeals, on 21 January, 2004 the Election Petition Tribunal declared that Emodi had been duly elected, and after further appeals she took her seat in February 2005.
She was appointed Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education, and a member of committees on Senate Services, Communications, Federal Capital Territory, Housing, Privatization, Sports and Women Affairs & Youth Development.

After re-election in April, 2007, Emodi was re-appointed the Chairman of Senate Committee on Education, and was appointed a member of the Committees on Solid Minerals, Establishment and Public Service, and Petroleum Resources (Down Stream Sector).
In a mid-term


has expressed doubt the two will return.

The
Italian consul general, however, has asserted that the men will return.
An assurance to this effect was sought by the court from the Italian
government before allowing the men the trip home for Christmas.

Chief minister Oommen Chandy
told reporters that his government had opposed relaxation in the bail
conditions of the two accused; he told reporters on Saturday that it was
now up to the central government to see that the two return.

"There
need be no doubt on the state government's stance. When the request for
a Christmas holiday for the two first came, we strongly opposed it. Now
it's the responsibility of the central government to see that the two
return. The Italian government has offered such an assurance," the chief
minister said.

Meanwhile, reports from Italy indicate that the two couldexpect the welcome of heroes, later Saturday.

To circumvent the law, the two could be fielded as candidates in upcoming general elections in Italy.

Italian
officials in Delhi expect that the case in the Supreme Court of India,
in which the Italian government has demanded trial under international
law, could be ruled in their favour.

Meanwhile, the CPM is all set to close in on an opportunity to go hammer and tongs at the state government, in case the two accused fail to return.
There are already murmurings that none other than Congress president
Sonia Gandhi had intervened, in favour of the two marines from the
country of her origin.

Trivandrum Latin Church Archbishop M Susaipakiam told reporters here on Saturday that allowing the two Italian naval guards to return was a good gesture.

"This gesture is certain to


increase warmth in the relations between the two countries," the archbishop said.

For Mohammed Ziad Awad Salayma, age 17, killed on his birthday
(12-12-12) because, being hard of hearing, he did not understand Israeli
soldier Nofar Mizrahi, who shot him at point blank range.There
is something hapless about Guy Delisle’s character in his comics. He is
the husband of an Médecins Sans Frontières worker, Nadege, whose
postings to Myanmar and Israel-Palestine provided the opportunity for
their family (including children Louis and Alice) to see the world.
Delisle had itchy feet before these spousal appointments. He had been to
both China and North Korea as part of his work as a supervisor of
animation work. These resulted in his quirky, but informative comic
books, Shenzhen (2000) and
Pyongyang (2003). When I first read these, I was put to mind of thebooks finds his voice when he becomes a father, as he
goes with Nadege to her posting in Myanmar with young Louis and then to
Israel-Palestine with Louis and Alice. In both books that resulted from
these tours (Burma Chronicles, 2008; Jerusalem, 2012), Delisle is seen
pushing a stroller, wondering about daycare and parks, trying to find a
way to entertain himself between the delightful tedium of parenting full
time and the exciting cultural worlds that surround him. His Myanmar
book is filled with small details of the privileges of the paranoid
kleptocracy that rules the country and the privations of ordinary
people, interspersed with the stories of the simple joy of living. But
then, out of nowhere, the politics breaks through. Delisle is taken to
the northern town of Hpakant, in Kachin State, where he finds that
workers in


the Chinese-owned jade mines receive their wages, he is told,
in heroin. For a small price, the workers visit the “shooting
galleries,” which the government allows since drugs are a good pacifier
for a region that is otherwise home to a major insurgency. The naïve dad
becomes the documentarian of callous suffering.If I were the
Israeli government, I’d have done some research on Delisle before
letting him into the country. With his family, Delisle moves to
Jerusalem for 2008-09. While Nadege is at work at MSF in the Palestinian
territories, Delisle uncovers the everyday inequities of Israel. The
family live in East Jerusalem, part of the occupied territories,which
are held in developmental stasis – they find a population devastated by
the “separation wall” and by the constant presence of the Israeli
forces. Meanwhile, across the various green lines, Israel is,the war on Gaza punctuates the book. It is the
ellipse. The rest of the book goes back to documenting the suffocation of the Palestinians
by the Israeli state, the emergence of a dogmatic nationalism in
Israeli society and the conundrums of the expatriate who feels deeply
for the victims but can do little for them. At a party of expats toward
the book’s end, Delisle is asked about art projects in the Palestinian
territories. “Getting into North Korea was easier,” he says. He would
know.Inside Gaza, during Cast Lead, there was no room for ambiguity.
Fida Qishta, born and raised in Rafah, took to the video camera and
held fast to it to document her world. Snippets of her professional work
as a marriage videographer show us how people living under such a long
occupation remember to find


day
(January 18) an Israeli attack killed forty-eight members of the family
of Helmi and Maha Samouni – whose house in Zeituon, in the suburbs of
Gaza City, was bombed and then occupied. The departing Israeli soldiers
left behind love notes to Palestine, graffiti in Hebrew and English:
Arabs need 2 die, Make War Not Peace, 1 is down, 999,999 to go, Arabs
1948-2009. Qishta went to see fifteen-year old Ayman el-Najar in Naser
Hospital in Khan Younis, victim of an Israeli bomb (which killed his
sister). He shows Qishta his wounds, his body wracked by white
phosphorus burns (the graphic image seers). Qishta takes refuge at a UN
compound, shelter to fleeing Palestinian families. Israeli F-16s release
their bombs, some land on the UN buildings, the night resplendent with the white phosphorus traces, beautiful in the sky, barbarican acceptable response
to the eugenics movement in Europe and the United States in the early
1900s. The United States Supreme Court in Buck v. Bell (1927),
upheld the constitutionality of the 1924 Virginia statute that
authorised the forced sterilisation of intellectually disabled people
(‘mentally retarded’ was the term in the statute). Vehemently endorsing
the eugenic aims of the statute, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
permitted the forcible sterilisation of an 18-year old woman, with an
alleged mental age of nine years and a family history of intellectual
disability, with the infamous words that ‘three generations of imbeciles
were enough’. Though Buck v. Bell has never been explicitly over-ruled, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Skinner v. Oklahoma
(1942) and the events in Nazi Germany considerably dented the
popularity of forced sterilisations as part of the eugenics agenda.
Forced sterilisations in


the best interest of the intellectually
disabled continued in the United States till the early 1980s and it was
in the mid-1990s that the debates around chemical castration as a
response to rape surfaced as a result of legislation in certain American
States.

Once we get past the historical baggage of the term ‘castration,’ the
strongest argument in favour of chemical castration is that it is a
non-invasive, reversible method of nullifying the production of
testosterone and thereby controlling extreme sexual urge. The use of
Depo-Provera in many American States subsequent to chemical castration
legislation does indicate that it reduces the risk of recidivism.
However, such an approach limits the understanding of rape to the
framework of sex. Irrespective of the differences in their positions on
rape, influential feminists like Susan Brownmiller, Catharine MacKinnon,
Andrea Dworkin, Ann Cahill, etc., agree that rapeMembers of Legislative Assembly elected by
Gujarat in the December polls face criminal charges, including that of
rape and murder, while nearly three-fourth of them are crorepatis, up
from 31 per cent in the 2007 elections, according to data analysed by
the Gujarat Election Watch.

The data shows that one-third of MLAs belonging to the Congress as well as the BJP have declared criminal cases.

The
top three richest MLAs are from the Congress with Balvantsinh Rajput
from Sidhpur constituency having assets worth Rs. 268 crore, followed by
Rajguru Indranil from Rajkot East with Rs. 122 crore and Pethalji
Chavda from Manavadar constituency with assets worth Rs. 82.90 crore.

Of
the 57 MLAs facing cases, charges have been framed against 35 MLAs for
various crimes and 24 face serious offences. In 2007, 47 MLAs had
criminal charges against them.

BJP MLA from Shehra
constituency


in Panchmahals district Jetha Bharwad, who had allegedly
opened fire and injured four people at Tarsang village during polling on
December 17 and was detained by the police, has a charge of kidnapping
and inducing a woman to compel her for marriage, and two others of rape
and extortion. Bharward, a former suspended police constable, faces a
case of forgery. The MLA has not been convicted so far.

Janata
Dal (United) strongman from tribal constituency of Jhagadia in South
Gujarat’s Bharuch district Chhotu Vasava has 28 cases against him,
including nine of dacoity, seven theft and three murder. Charges have
been framed in 28 cases.

BJP veteran from North Gujarat Shankar Chaudhary has three murder cases. He won from Vav constituency.

A
Modi confidant and former MoS (Home) Amit Shah faces two charges of
kidnapping and wrongful confinement, two of murder, andaccording to the plans and specifications, which had been modified so as to move the parking lot back far enough to just clear the precipice. The completed project was approved by the then owner, Borel-Stouffer, and the architect, both of which were aware of the existence of the precipice and the lack of any protective warnings or barricades. Flagler did not participate in the design of the project, was not called upon to maintain or inspect it after its acceptance, and actually informed the property owner of this particular danger. The injury here thus was caused by a static condition adjacent to the project, of which the owner, as well as the architect, was completely aware, rather than by improper construction by the independent contractor, and this dangerous


In this episode, Ivan and Liz talk to Kevin Folta, Professor and Chairman of the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida. Kevin’s research focuses on the functional genomics of small fruit crops, photomorphogenesis, and plant transformation. In addition to his many impressive publications, Kevin has been deeply involved in student education and communication of science to the public for many years. In honor of his outreach efforts was awarded the Borlaug CAST Communication award, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, The Howard Hughes Medical Institute award for undergraduate mentoring and the University of Florida Research Foundation Award.

We talk about a recent publication from the Folta lab, ”Identification of novel growth regulators in plant populations expressing random peptides” (Bao et al., Plant Physiology, 2017). Kevin tells ushe came up with this idea to “throw monkey wrenches into a complex machine” in order to identify novel regulators and plant vulnerabilities. We talk about why this approach was successful and the future directions of this project.

As described above, Kevin developed a passion for scientific outreach early in his career. Unfortunately, his success in scientific communication has also made him a target. In 2015, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request was filed to the University of Florida by US Right to Know as part of a campaign targeting the emails of public scientists who have spoken out in favor of biotechnology.

In this emotional episode, Kevin describes the whirlwind of fake news and misinformation that ensued after the FOIA request. We talk about the spiral of silence


Management of unilaterally deep impacted first, second, and third mandibular molars.
Simultaneous impactions of first, second, and third permanent molars comprises a very rare clinical situation with diverse therapeutic approaches and is a difficult challenge for dentists. Early diagnosis and treatment of eruption disturbances contributes to optimal outcomes. This article reports the treatment of a teenager with severe impaction of right mandibular first, second, and third molars, which hinders the masticatory function and dental arch integrity. A decision-making process and a simple orthodontic technique are described. To shorten the treatment time and simplify the procedures, the impacted right mandibular third and second molars were orthodontically uprighted with an innovative tip-back cantilever. Subsequently, the deeply impacted right mandibular first molar was extracted with minimal obstacles. The combined surgical-orthodontic approach resolvedlast loss was four fights ago, to Ricky Hatton in 2007.

Turned out that Referee Marlon B. Wright did a fair enough job refereeing this fight. He even warned the hometown fighter for holding at one point. But he will still be remembered south of the Canadian borderer as the referee that facilitated a controversial Unanimous Decision win for the current IBF Super Middleweight Titlist, Lucian Bute, at the exact same venue, for the same alphabet organization, where Lucian Bute should have lost by TKO 12. Wright employed some count shenanigans to insure victory for the hometown Bute .

Librado Andrade was clearly losing to Lucian Bute on points after being out-boxed for most of the fight but in the final round, with five seconds left on the clock, Andrade


knocked the fatigued Bute to the canvas. Instead of immediately issuing a ten count, Wright turned to chastise Andrade for not having his back touching the ropes of a neutral corner. By the time he turned to do his job and give Bute a count, 11 seconds had passed since Bute had been knocked down, giving him time to recover and stand up. Then, after the bogus count, instead of assessing Bute’s ability to continue, he allowed the fight to end with the stumbling Bute falsely beating the belated count. Anyone could see Bute was in no condition to continue and any honest referee would have waved him out. Andrade was robbed and the Bell Centre and its Canadian boxing officials gave the appearance of impropriety in Montreal.

No investigation ever saw Wright disciplined for his inappropriate actions that totally influenced the outcome of the Bute Andrade fight. Instead, the IBF suspended the trainer of Andrade, who upon witnessing this theft of his fighter’s victory, stepped into the ring and shoved Wright. Yet Wright, who initiated the controversy with his dubiously late count that saw Andrade robbed, was allowed to once again referee another major fight for a title in the same venue, involving a local fighter, working for the same promoter of the event that brought us Bute vs. Andrade.

The Urango Ngoudjo fight was fairly close in spots, with Urango winning most of the early rounds with heavy handed pressure and winging punches that saw Ngoudjo floored twice in the third round. Ngoudjo then put


a string of rounds together from the seventh through the tenth, followed by a Urango surge in the last few rounds. I thought Urango won at least seven out of twelve rounds, with a 10-7 round in the third for the two knockdowns.

This was a contest between a pretty decent boxer, Ngoudjo, against a fairly decent brawler in Urango, who rarely, if ever uses his jab. Urango always came forward with windmill style punches that managed to hit his target often enough to win the most rounds. Though Ngoudjo was down on points, (particularly after the third round) Ngoudjo had the better footwork and outside game. There were a lot of sloppy moments and a lot of concerns about how the officials might apply their influence at theof Athens," Bob said in Ancient Greek, having checked that his tiny microphone was broadcasting to the hidden speakers that he had planted around the gateway, "I am the All-Father Zeus, son of Cronus, chief of gods, father of kings." As his digitally amplified and deepened voice echoed off of the white marble, he grasped his modified flash-bang grenade in his raised right hand. The grenade, which was in the middle, was encased in a long tube filled with glowing neon, so that the "lightning bolt" appeared to constantly flash white-and-blue.
"I have come to [insert reason for impersonation]. Now bow before me, or I shall smite you with bolts of lightning. Come, who now defies the great god Zeus?"
A rather ugly-looking old man stood up.
"I am Socrates, son


at "ground zero", Bob stood unaffected, having had earplugs in his ears and having closed his eyes at the moment of impact. While the crowd was blinded, he had slipped another thunderbolt out of his voluminous robes.
"Who defies Zeus?" he asked, quietly in a way that was at the same time  threatening.
As one, the crowd fell to its knees.

A:

Some sort of rocket launcher with an explosive warhead. The rocket engine provides the bolt, the warhead provides the thunder and flash. The M72 reaches effective range in roughly one second, so the effects will make their combined impression.
There is no need to defeat armor, so a smaller fragmentation warhead could be fitted. This allows a smaller rocket motor, which makes the entire thing lighter. Maximum range could probablycompany to form the Colortree Group. Boathouse bolted-on a third printing company, Direct Impressions, in 2013, creating the current configuration (see The Target Report – January 2013).

In another successful exit from the printing industry for private equity, Bradford Equities sold Independent Printing of DePere, Wisconsin to trade-only printing company Ennis. The Texas-based Ennis sells exclusively through its distributor network and has executed a disciplined acquisition strategy of adding companies that print products in defined product categories such as bank checks or business forms. With 55 locations across 20 states, Ennis, which reported $544 million revenue, has appeared nine times in our deal logs over the past five and half years. In every transaction, Ennis has executed on its product-focused strategy by acquiring specialty printers: forms (five times), presentation


leagues. They were that good.

About the Author of The Target Report

Mark Hahn is Managing Director and Founder of Graphic Arts Advisors. He assists company owners and management in the printing, packaging, mailing, marketing services, brand management, and related graphic communications industries, as well as their lenders, investors and shareholders in the following areas: mergers & acquisitions, sale of business, strategic and financial advisory, capital structure & funding, financial analysis, interim & turnaround C-level management and business valuations. Mark has over thirty five years’ experience in the areas of finance, operations, sales, mergers and acquisitions, and general management. Mark founded and eventually sold his own printing company, and has served as CFO, COO and other senior positions with several printing companies. He has served as financial advisor in turnaroundsituations when an owner or lender requires an objective and unbiased view of financial and operational results. Mark is regularly published and quoted in printing industry trade and management journals. He served as a volunteer for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), providing oversight to the NJ Family Court on behalf of abused children.

GAA UPCOMING EVENTS:

Trends in Industry Consolidation

AWA Packaging Mergers & Acquisitions Executive Forum

Presented by Mark Hahn, GAA Managing Director

Monday, October 15, 2018

University Club of Chicago

In recent years, the packaging and converting industry has seen strong consolidation activity, as family-owned printing and packaging companies have acquired smaller competitors, while major private and public consolidators roll-up into multi-billion-dollar global packaging suppliers manufacturing multiple product types and bridging across several vertical market segments. Mark Hahn, Managing Director of Graphic Arts


covering up Richards' fraud, undermining Schiffels' credibility, and discouraging other employees from making such disclosures (Compl., ¶ 7). She claims that the defendants accomplished this by punishing the plaintiff, isolating her, inducing her to change her allegations, and effecting changes in her employment. Id. She also maintains that defendants agreed not to report the losses to the boards and shareholders of the income funds (Compl., ¶ 18). She was allegedly mistreated by being placed on involuntary paid leave of absence from October 30, 1987, to March 16, 1988, while Kemper's auditors investigated her charges, being escorted out of her office, and being interrogated by Kemper attorneys and accountants (Compl., ¶ 19). In March 1988, Schiffels was given a new job at Kemper, which allegedly isolated her from anybe on a bubble and that bubble could crash and it's not going to be a pretty picture," said Trump, whose boasts about his ability to anticipate the market have aroused some skepticism among investment professionals. "The market has gone down big league the last couple of weeks. We could be in a big fat bubble and if that bubble crashes, it's a problem."

U.S. unemployment rate Bloomberg

Economic gloom aside, Trump did wish his supporters a Merry Christmas as he took the stage. Then, less than 30 seconds after the holiday greeting, he restarted his ongoing feud with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, the most aggressive in confronting Trump among his eight opponents on stage at Tuesday's prime-time Republican debate in Las Vegas.

"It was so sad to watch him,


drew me in. I was born four years after the NES was released in the states, so I didn't really get a chance to discover a lot of games back then, I just played the games that my parents and sisters enjoyed, which were the Mario titles. We had all of the NES Mario games, as well as a lot of C-list Konami games that we got from a friend who was a game tester for them or something (I'm talking games like Bucky O' Hare, which I loved, but was definitely not one of the premiere games Konami had). We got a SNES probably around when I was 6, which I was obsessed with. Again, just Mario games until a friend was getting rid of some gamesIlfracombe Museum manager Sara Hodson researches the tale of when Alf met the Kaiser at Rapparee...

THE story of how an Ilfracombe teen punched a young Kaiser Wilhelm on the nose has hit the national headlines in the run up to a new exhibition at the town museum.

Local legend has it that in 1878, Alfie Price bloodied the nose of the then Prince Frederick William of Prussia at Rapparee beach – and instilled a hatred of the British that helped set off the First World War.

The 16-year-old beach attendant was looking after huts run by his father, and when the bored royal visitor decided to throw stones at them, the youngster stepped in and told him to stop.

When the prince said ‘Do you know who I am?’, Alf told


him he didn’t care and the enraged Prussian knocked him down, whereupon the Ilfracombe boy sprang back up and bloodied the Kaiser’s nose for him.

A picture of the Price family, taken in 1896, Alf is in the middle row far right, bearded. Picture courtesy of Ilfracombe Museum.

It is said the pair went at it ‘hammer and tongs’ for 20 minutes, with young Alf getting the better of the bargain.

The prince and his family were staying at the Ilfracombe Hotel and the tale is well known in the town – it was gleefully reported for the first time at the outbreak of war in 1914.

But staff at the museum were unprepared when the national press seized on it last Wednesday and the phone became a hotline.

It featured in severalWar have been in the museum archive for a long time and will form part of an exhibition set to open in July.

It is said to have been hushed up at the time, with Alf paid ‘30 bob’ to keep quiet, but whether it happened as reported, the wartime propaganda machine seized on the tale and recounted it from 1914.

A humorous poem, Tapping the War Lord’s Claret and speaking of how ‘young Alf drash’d Bill’, was written by Ilfracombe shop owner Will Coates and published in 1916, and a booklet was even sent to troops at the front.

Alf Price took over the Rapparee huts from his father and also ran the restaurant down there, as well as the Capstone Restaurant on the seafront. He died in 1923 aged


learn to stand on their own two feet.

The world now knows what happened to Flight MH17 even while it now acts as if the jury is still out and may never come back. Flight MH17 was shot down by the Ukraine government who has hid the control tower tapes directing the plane over hostile terrritory. It has hid the flight recorders. It attacked with artillery barages the crash site to destroy evidence and then lied and said the rebels were preventing international access. It deported all foreign air traffic controllers who were present during the shootdown. It has relied upon the US to hide all the satellite intelligence imagery from an area that is the most surveilled place on the planet by national-level intelligence gathering assets tasked withmonitoring possible missile launches, troop movements and artillery strikes. The all-seeing eye of the US surveillance state knows exactly what happened when and where, and is now hiding the facts while it extolls the EU to wage economic war on Russia to protect the pertroldollar status and even be willing to attack Russia militarily for starting the BRICS investment bank and the Eurasian Trade Pact.

The US lied about a Russian invasion when the Ukraine-Russian treaty allows 25,000 Russian troops in Ukraine. Meanwhile, the US expects the world to honor the fact that the US claims it was granted permanent rights from Cuba’s deposed US puppet ruler to maintain its eternal base that is now used as a torture chamber writ large in Cuba.

The US claimed to have all


this intelligence, but now has to even hide the flight recorder for fear the world’s people will all become aware that the US has tried to cause WWIII. And, as Russia would not allow itself to be conquored after losing many tens of millions in WWII, any invader from NATO or the US can expect the deployment of defensive tactical nuclear weapons on Russia soil. Should the war then escalate with invading forces using tactical nukes on Russian cities, you can expect to say goodbye to New York and D.C. The world is allowing the US to place it on the precipice of nuclear annihilation while Western governmments are derelict in their responsibilties to the people. Europe should understand that the US is playing an imperial game andis willing to wager the prosperity and lives of millions of foreigners on its leveraged bets it now seeks other to double down on.

What makes the U.S.’s position regarding the shoot down of Flight MH17 so reprehensible and hypocritical is that after supporting Saddam’s invasion of Iran and providing him chemical weapons during the 7-year Iran-Iraq War, in a case of open belligerency the U.S. then downed Iran Flight 655 killing 290 Iranians, including 66 children and 16 crew members. An investigation of the shootdown of IR Flight 655 proved every single assertion made by the U.S. to be a lie. This crime only added insult to the injury of the US providing Saddam with chemical weapons to wage an illegal war against Iran and kill over 600,000