lots of police incidents recorded, school records. I tried working with the school to start with but the school wouldn't do anything about it, the next line was the police who again did nothing about it.

‘He was on Class A drugs that had been supplied to him from the lads inside of school, MDMA, amphetamines, cocaine, tablets. The only way we could get him to stop was to take him out of school; we took him out for three months.’

Asked by a coroner if he had explained to her why he took the drugs, Mrs Acton added: ‘Because if he didn't he would get bullied – if he did what everyone else did they would leave him alone.

‘Our doctor wrote to the school about peer pressure. But becausehe wasn't in school taking the drugs that's when they put it out on Facebook that he was a rapist.’

Tom Acton in his bedroom in December 2012. He was accused of being a rapist and gangs of youth came up to his front door threatening to kill him

She said Tom had first started talking about suicidal thoughts in February 2013 and added: ‘There were lots of times when he said he was going to do something. He never showed me any of the self-harm. It was only what he had told me. He just couldn't sleep.

‘Tom couldn't have a girlfriend because he was 'a rapist'. That's how the rest of the people saw him in Poynton. He loved going out with girls before the rapist allegations.’

She also confessed


to buying cannabis for Tom in an effort to help his recurring insomnia.

Dr David Ward, Tom's GP, said: ‘He told me that he was the victim of bullying and other children had offered him drugs and cigarettes. He said he was being intimidated by a school pupil that was actively seeking him out and verbally and physically abusing him.

‘His mum alleged they were spreading rumours that he was a dirty rapist – he was struggling to concentrate and his mood was low. He described it as being dead inside.

In July 2013, she said Tom left Poynton and began studying music production and sound technology at South Manchester College– but had never got over the false rape allegations.

Tom attended Poynton High School and Performing Arts College in Cheshire leavingin July 2013. His mother Gaynor claims that Tom was forced to take Class A drugs at the school

‘He was very excited about leaving school, he couldn't wait to get away from it,’ said his mother. ‘He was ecstatic that he was leaving school and he wouldn't have to go back.

‘The bullies didn't know how to get to him since he left school.

‘But as regards the rape allegations, he was very upset and he never actually got over that. It was always on his mind.

‘I want to know, why, when presented with physical evidence of drug taking in the school, the school refused to accept it had a problem and no action was taken.’

Holly Spicer, Tom's ex-girlfriend, told the hearing: ‘About one month or so before his death


I was talking to him in the kitchen and he was talking about the rapist allegations.

‘He said he cut 'rapist' into his leg and also showed the marks on his wrist. He said he was sorry, I can't quite remember why. He spoke how he was beginning to believe the rumours himself.’

Tom was left bleeding after being attacked by bullies (left)

Another friend Jake Dwight said that Tom had been feeling worried about testifying against teenager Thomas Greenwood, 18, who gave him a hiding whilst shouting: ‘If I see you, you are dead.’

Jake said: ‘I knew he was very worried about the upcoming case.

‘A couple of people sat at the gates waiting for him, his mother had to pick him up.

Tom's father Paul, a mechanical electrical manager, was askedif Tom had been anxious about the court case and he said: ‘Not for himself. We had spoken about it. I had asked him during the week if he was still okay with it and he said he was a bit nervous.’

He added that he had become a ‘prisoner in his house’ for three years before his death because of the rumours.

Trial: Tom Acton (left) was due to testify at the trial of Thomas Greenwood (right) in December 2013. He admitted assaulting the teenager, but escaped jail as he was handed a 12-month community order and 100 hours of unpaid work

He said: ‘He was a very outgoing person, he made friends very easily. But because of the slander and the rumours that were spread he was isolated from


everybody for the last three years of his life.

‘He never went around Poynton on his own, we had to pick him up and drop him off.’

Poynton High School headmaster David Waugh who was appointed after Tom left claimed school files showed the teenager had been both the ‘victim and the perpetrator’.

He said there were, ‘various incidents where it was six of one and half a dozen of the other’.

Mr Waugh said: ‘There were similar incidents where he had been bullied, where he had been verbally abused.

‘On a one to one basis Tom was exceptionally pleasant and engaged. His behaviour deteriorated in groups or class, or with a teacher he didn't get on with.’

Coroner Nicholas Rheinberg adjourned the inquest to call Sue Adamson, the former headmistress of Poynton, toanswer Mrs Acton's claims.

At Macclesfield magistrates court in December Thomas Greenwood admitted assaulting Tom and was given a 12-month community order with 100 hours of unpaid work. There is no suggestion he was dealing drugs to Tom.

On Monday Fatimah Ahmed, 30, a former maths teacher at the same school, was given an 18-week sentence suspended for two years after she pleaded guilty to one count of concealing, disguising, converting, transferring or removing criminal property between November 2010 to February 2013 - relating to drugs money put into her bank account by her husband.

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Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard has said that Mexico would not accept the "Third Safe Country Arrangement" with the US, Reuters reports.

Meanwhile, Mexican Interior Minister Olga Sanchez Cordero noted that in the first three months of 2019, some 300,000 migrants have sought to reach the US through Mexico.

In late 2018 Ebrard has already argued that Mexican government would not sign any accord that made Mexico a "safe third country," according to Reuters.

Earlier Reuters reported that Mexico was opposed to a US request to make people seeking asylum in the United States apply in Mexico instead.

At the time, it was reported that US officials believed a deal known as a "Safe Third Country Agreement" could prove a deterrent to the thousands of Central Americans who travel through Mexico eachyear to seek asylum in the US.

The Safe Third Country proposal would force asylum-seekers who arrive at the U.S. land border via Mexico to apply to stay in Mexico, according to Reuters.

The agreement is similar to one that has been in effect between the US and Canada since 2004. Under the US-Canada "Safe Third Country Agreement", refugee claimants are required to request refugee protection in the first safe country they arrive in, unless they qualify for an exception to the agreement, according to the Canadian government's official website.

READ MORE: Canadian Journalist: 'Our Prime Minister Has Manufactured an Open-Border Crisis'

In January 2018 it was reported that Canadian immigration officials had concerns that the Safe Third Country Agreement was "no longer working as intended" in light of the influx of


A cyclist and zero-waste advocate challenged local kids at the Boys & Girls Club to research climate change.

As part of his ‘Save Our Seas Ride Across America’ Tim Oey began his ‘Climate Ride’ biking and speaking tour in San Francisco. He plans to travel 4,500 miles to Boston. He said he had traveled 1,700 miles in 28 days when he stopped in at the local Boys & Girls Club at 201 S. Garden Ave. on Thursday afternoon.

According to his website ZeroW.org, Oey has a degree in Chemistry from Harvard University, has worked in the computer industry for more than 30 years and began working on “public service and nonprofit environmental projects” in 2016. He said the reason for biking across the U.S. and promoting zero waste is tofrom cars, then took the salamander across the street in the direction it was heading.

To reduce disposable plastic consumption, Oey showed the kids his reusable food containers, reusable shopping bags, bamboo utensils, a collapsible straw made by FinalStraw that he uses during his travels and in his zero-waste lifestyle. With four people and three dogs in his household, Oey said he and his family create about a quart of trash per month.

Oey shared the following four challenges with the Boys & Girls Club kids, for them to do — or ask their parents to do with them.

• Vote with their fingers by putting things were they belong, such as trash and recycling in appropriate receptacles.

• Vote with their feet by choosing to bike or walk instead of using


a car.

• Vote with their wallet by not buying trash.

• Vote with their voices by telling parents and friends to stop “polluting our world with plastics” and “to stop burning fossil fuels.” Oey also encouraged the kids to register to vote when they are old enough and until then to know they can contact their congressperson.

After his presentation, Oey opened the floor for questions from the audience.

Many of the kids asked about climate change, what Oey travels with, made statements about not littering and where trash goes, and they were given pieces of freeze-dried pineapple as a reward.

Natasha Welt, unit director of the local Boys & Girls Club, said Oey contacted the club while he was in Ruidoso early in the week and the club was “more thanSomshubra Majumdar, Houshang Darabi, and Samuel Harford. Multivariate lstm-fcns for time series classification. , 116:237–245, 2019.

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Adrian Wojnarowski reports on the latest with Derrick Rose's visit with Cleveland amid Kyrie Irving's desire for a trade. (1:43)

Free-agent guard Derrick Rose is meeting with Cleveland Cavaliers officials in Ohio on Monday, league sources told ESPN.

Rose has been engaged in serious discussions on a one-year, $2.1 million minimum deal with the Cavaliers.

Rose met with the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday, but has been leaning toward the Cavaliers opportunity, league sources told ESPN.

Rose's visit comes amid Kyrie Irving's trade request, which the organization has been aware since starting discussions with Rose recently. The Cavaliers have been fielding multiple trade calls and offers for Irving in recent days but do not yet have traction on a possible deal, league sources said.

Rose has been largely interested in finding a contenderto help revitalize his market value, especially after a frustrating and dysfunctional 2016-17 season with the New York Knicks, league sources said.

Rose, 28, averaged 18.0 points for the Knicks last season. The 2011 NBA MVP had season-ending knee surgery in April but has recovered and has returned to full-time preparation for the 2017-18 season.


People, animals flee floods in NE Minnesota city

By the Associated Press | June 20, 2012 | 10:05 AM EDT

An automobile navigates the high rushing water on the 200 block of East Seventh Street in Duluth, Minn., on Tuesday evening, June 19, 2012, after heavy rains hit the area. Floods fed by a steady torrential downpour forced road closures in northeastern Minnesota on Wednesday, and some people were being urged to evacuate their homes because of the rising St. Louis River. Interstate 35 and downtown tunnels in Duluth were closed and police recommended emergency travel only, warning that numerous sinkholes and washouts were making travel dangerous. (AP Photo/The Duluth News-Tribune, Clint Austin )

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Floods fed by a steady torrential downpour have forced residents to evacuate theirsections

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Gwynbleidd @ Public Assembly 5.10.2013

Back in 2007 I saw Gwynbleidd for the first time, sharing a bill with a friend's band. With their mix of early Opeth and Katatonia, I was pretty much a fan instantly. I can remember a time when it seemed I was the only one at their shows who didn't speak Polish; by the time they opened for Entombed a few years later their rep in the local scene was growing, and I wasn't the only one headbanging at the front of the stage. The last time I saw them, before I left NY in 2011, turned out to be their last show before line-up troubles put them on an indefinite hiatus. By some weird fluke it turned out they were


due to their Polish heritage. Since this was their first show in two years, a little ring rust was to be expected; truthfully there were a few rough patches in the early moments of the set, but by the time they hit "Staring Into the Sun", Gwynbleidd hit their stride. It's obvious guitarist Michael is still growing into his new role as lead singer, and the new recruits may look like they were picked up at a Hydrahead warehouse, but they all acquitted themselves admirably. Welcome back, guys.

After seeing Gwynbleidd I shot over to the nearby Acheron, where Brooklyn's cool metal kids were gathered for Woe, Mutilation Rites and Mortals. (Usually you know the cool metal kids because of their chic retro patch jackets, but those seem toDodgers send Alex Castellanos to Red Sox for minor league outfielder

Dodgers outfielder Alex Castellanos fouls off a pitch during a game against the Marlins. The Dodgers dealt him to the Red Sox for minor league outfielder Jeremy Hazelbaker.

Dodgers outfielder Alex Castellanos fouls off a pitch during a game against the Marlins. The Dodgers dealt him to the Red Sox for minor league outfielder Jeremy Hazelbaker. (Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times)

Steve Dilbeck

Hey, their last trade worked out all right.

Wild guess, this one won't quite rate up there with the last time the Dodgers and Red Sox hooked up, but both figured to be happy enough about this second-tier deal.


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Members of 7KBW act both in discrete contractual disputes (involving, for example, bills of exchange, promissory notes and guarantees) and in broader litigation involving the management and supervision of banks. Due to the large amount of shipping and commodities work done in Chambers, most of our members also have extensive experience of trade finance.

Members of 7KBW have been heavily involved in litigation arising out of the financial crisis of 2008, most notably Jonathan Gaisman QC, who advised theCONTRACTUAL DISCRETION Clive Freedman QC of 7 KBW, leading Simon Mills, instructed by James Southworth of Eversheds Sutherland, has succeeded in a claim of particular interest to the factoring and invoice discounting industry. They acted for BHL, a company having a shareholding in the company which manufactures […]

Turner v Norton (Ch D) Tim Jenns acted for the successful Defendant, a British Citizen resident in Barbados. The Claimant, also a British Citizen resident in Barbados, sued the Defendant seeking to recover sums allegedly due under a loan agreement made between the parties. The loan was advanced in Barbados and denominated in Barbadian dollars […]

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On his 52nd Birthday, Michael Jackson has been sighted singing and dancing all around the world.

Today is Michael Jackson’s 52nd birthday and he has been spotted around the world, dressed in his “Smooth Criminal” costume. He has been seen in Ireland, South Africa, Dubai, Shanghai, Manila, Rome, Barcelona, London, Moscow, Sao Paolo, Buenos Aires, Sydney, Miami, New York and Los Angeles. Michael appears on the street, sings and dances for about thirty seconds then he disappears.

Is he alive, is he a ghost? There’s rampant speculation all over the internet.

“It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen,” said Roger Farley of London. “He appeared on the street, sang a few short lines of


Lady Frances Russell, who became a Unitarian at 70, and her grandson, Bertrand Russell, Unitarian until age 15, were members of a British family long prominent in reform politics. Although Lady Frances's husband, Lord John Russell, was never a Unitarian, from 1859-73 he regularly attended the preaching of James Martineau and, in his Whig (Liberal) political career, he had a considerable impact on the history of Unitarianism in Britain. Bertrand Russell, after he had rejected Unitarianism, influenced many Unitarians, particularly Humanists. He was president of the Rationalist Press Association, 1955-70, and belonged to the British Humanist Advisory Council. Bertrand's uncle, Francis Russell, wrote Unitarian hymns and verse.

Lord John Russell, later Earl Russell (1792-1878) was throughout his political career an ardent reformer and promoter of civil and religious liberty.He served as prime minister 1846-52 and 1865-66 and was twice a member of the cabinet under other prime ministers. As leader of the Whig party, he was most responsible for changing its name to the Liberal Party. He was instrumental in passage of the Reform Act of 1832, the first modern attempt to make parliament more representative. During his administration the Factory Act of 1847 limited the working day of women and children to ten hours.

A staunch broad church Anglican, Russell believed the best way to preserve the established Church of England was to remove legal disabilities for other forms of religion. He spearheaded repeal of the Test Acts in 1828 and 1863 which removed restrictions on Unitarians and other Protestant Dissenters from the Church of England;


secured passage of the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829 which granted legal toleration to Roman Catholics; and for a decade continued to introduce legislation removing Jewish legal disabilities. The Jewish Relief Act was finally passed in 1858. Lord Russell's tolerance of competition to the established church had its limits, however: in 1850 he opposed reestablishment of Roman Catholic bishoprics in Britain.

Russell wrote a bill passed in 1836 legalizing the marriages of Dissenters in their own chapels. He also made a notable speech in favor of the Dissenter's Chapel Bill of 1844. This act aided Unitarians by establishing their title to chapels and trust funds, long in their possession, against the legal claims of orthodox dissenters. In 1878, near the end of his life, a delegation of dissenters,including two Unitarians, presented Russell with an address commemorating "his life long advocacy of religious freedom."

Lady Frances Anna Maria Elliot Russell, later Countess Russell (November 15, 1814-January 17, 1898) was second wife of Lord John Russell. The couple had four children. Lady Frances also inherited the care of her husband's children from his earlier marriage. She experienced childbearing and nurture as a great sacrifice. The eldest of her children died in young adulthood. The other three were either mentally ill or incapacitated as adults. Nevertheless, according to her grandson, she faced the challenges and tragedies of her family life with courage and "never lost a certain kind of gaiety." After the deaths of her son and daughter-in-law, Viscount John and Viscountess Kate Amberley, she raised their two sons,


the younger of whom was the philosopher and author, Bertrand Russell.

Although Lord John was nearly twice her age when they were married in 1841, Lady Russell imposed her own austere lifestyle on her husband. She was shy and serious. Despite her deficiencies as a political hostess, she was ambitious for her husband. She urged him to become "the head of the most moral and religious government" Britain had ever had. Her influence on Lord John caused him to consider diverse interests and therefore made him less decisive than he had been. Displeased with this alteration in their leader, his Liberal colleagues named her "Deadly Nightshade."

Lady Russell's political ideas were more radical than her husband's. She opposed Britain's imperialist wars, supported Irish Home Rule, and advocated abolition of theHouse of Lords. She favored abolition of the teaching of religion in tax-supported schools.

Highly cultured, Lady Russell read French, German, and Italian. She was a friend of Unitarian authors and poets, Charles Dickens, James Russell Lowell, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The latter, she felt particularly, had a "spiritual nature." She commemorated family events with her own poetry.

Raised a Scottish Presbyterian, she became a Unitarian in 1884. Reading the Life of William Ellery Channing, she found it "interesting in the highest degreean echo of all those high and noble thoughts of which this earth is not yet worthy, but which I firmly believe will one day reign on it supreme." She also read many of James Martineau's works. At one time she hoped that her grandson Bertrand would become


a Unitarian minister.

Lady Russell's religion was practical, based on conscience rather than mystical experience. She believed in a loving, personal God, petitionary prayer, immortality, conscience, and free will. She despised "thoughtless conformity." In 1876 she published Family Worship, a book of daily prayers and Bible quotations. Her religious writing was later made available in two Unitarian publications, Home Prayers and Bible Readings and Prayers.

Like her husband, Lady Russell considered theology "the greatest enemy of true religion." She often remarked to her grandson Bertrand about metaphysics, "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind."

Her son, Viscount John Amberley, wrote An Analysis of Religious Belief in which he set forth his belief in a non-personal God. Amberley rejected the divinity of Christ and was critical of the historicalJesus. Though horrified by aspects of the book, Lady Russell, after her son's death, carefully edited and published his book.

As she aged, Lady Russell continued to change her mind about religious matters. She came to believe that neither the Bible nor any church nor any prophet is infallible. Though she honored Jesus, she believed that revelation comes directly to the mind and not through a mediator. She visited services of numerous denominations. On occasion she enjoyed silent, solitary worship with nature. She favored the name "Free Church" as representing her broad and tolerant views.

In 1888 Lady Russell helped organize the Unitarian congregation in Richmond, Surrey. Her last public appearance, in 1896, was at the dedication of Channing Hall, built for the Richmond Free Church. A memorial to the


Countess was added two years later.

Hon. Francis Albert Rollo Russell (July 11, 1849-March 30, 1914), a meteorologist noted for his study of the worldwide effects of the 1883 volcanic explosion on the Indonesian island of Krakatoa, wrote Unitarian hymns with a scientific flavor.

Francis (called Rollo by the family), third child of Lord John and Lady Francis Russell, was the last child born to a prime minister in office until May 2000. Francis received his A.B. from Christ Church, Oxford in 1873. He served in the British foreign office until failing eyesight forced his resignation. Bertrand Russell said that his uncle was important to him when he was young. Rollo introduced him to eminent scientists and philosophers. While working on the Krakatoa paper Rollo treated Bertrand as though hewere a collaborator rather than a child. Bertrand later wrote, "[Uncle Rollo] suffered all his life from a morbid shyness so intense as to prevent him from achieving anything that involved contact with other human beings. But with me, so long as I was a child, he was not shy, and he used to display a vein of droll humor of which adults would not have suspected him."

Rollo and his mother, Countess Russell were members of the committee that founded the Unitarian Christian Church in Richmond in 1888. It is recorded that when the new meeting house, Channing Hall, was opened later that year "Rollo Russell took the chair."

Francis Russell was a Darwinian who believed scientific determinism and free will compatible. His religious verse includes both "Not an


atom nor a galaxy of suns, dares lift itself against the word . . . In the universe there is no corner void of law" and "the glorious freedom of will in man." He used biblical meter to write modern psalms referring to atmospheric pressure, atoms, and the now discredited substance, ether "which bearest messages from matter through all creation." His hymns appeared in Break of Day, 1893, and three -"Christian! Rise and Act thy Creed," "Come, Holy Spirit Kind to All," and "O God, whose Voice the Angels Hear"were included in Horders Hymns, Supplement, 1894. "Christian Rise and Act thy Creed" also appeared in the American Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit, 1937, and the British Unitarian Hymns of Faith and Freedom, 1991. Eleven of his modern psalmswere used in the British Unitarian Psalms and Canticles for Public Worship, 1918, and three of his antiphonal readings were included in Hymns of the Spirit. In addition Russell wrote a Unitarian tract, Religion and Life.

Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872-February 2, 1970), philosopher, mathematician, and political activist, was a prolific and controversial writer on an extraordinary range of topics, including education, social science, politics, ethics, and religion. Because of his "philosophical works . . . of service to moral civilization," he was awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize for literature. While he left no school of disciples and he himself eventually discarded nearly all of his own philosophical ideas, his methodology has furnished a framework for much modern philosophical thought. "Russell taught us not to think his thoughts," said


philosopher Gilbert Ryle, "but how to move in our own philosophical thinking."

Russell's parents, Viscount John and Viscountess Kate Amberley, advocates of woman's rights and independent thinkers in matters of morality and religion, both died when he was quite young. At the age of three Bertie was turned over to his grandparents, Lord John and Lady Frances Russell. Lord John died two years later, so Bertie was reared by his grandmother. Lady Russell brought up her grandson in a Spartan manner with a sense of human sinfulness and the misery of mortal life. When she gave Bertie a Bible she inscribed it with the text, "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil." They attended the Anglican church and the Presbyterian chapel on alternate Sundays. Bertie was taughtUnitarian ideas at home. When the Unitarian Christian Church in Richmond was founded, he signed the membership register. Although in his Autobiography Russell wrote that he believed in the doctrines of Unitarianism until he was about fifteen, he attended the church as late as his eighteenth birthday.

During his late teens Russell systematically investigated his Christian beliefs, abandoning in succession free will, immortality, and the existence of God. In his studies at Cambridge, 1890-94, and in his subsequent work, he sought security and consolation in mathematics and philosophy. At the International Congress of Philosophy in 1900, Russell met Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano, who had succeeded in reducing all arithmetic to a logical system based upon five axioms. Russell wished to extend Peano's work, basing all mathematics upon an even


smaller number of basic assumptions. His subsequent elaboration of this project, in discussion with his friend and former teacher Alfred North Whitehead, was, as he described it, intellectually "the highest point in my life."

Russell's new approach to mathematical foundations, however, generated a paradox which reduced him to "intellectual sorrow." In order to evade this paradox Russell had to compromise the planned simplicity of his mathematical foundation. When completed, Principia Mathematica, written with Whitehead, was much more complicated than they had first envisioned. It later became apparent that the project was, mathematically speaking, a failure. In 1931 Czechoslovakian mathematician Kurt Gödel published a critique of the Principia proving that Russell's plan to reduce mathematics to pure logic was unsuccessful and demonstrating that all axiomatic mathematical systems are either incompleteor inconsistent.

Meanwhile, under the influence of his student Ludwig Wittgenstein, who saw mathematics as a set of tautologies, Russell feared that "to a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal." Therefore, he complained, "I cannot any longer find any mystical satisfaction in the contemplation of mathematical truth."

Although Principia Mathematica did not become the foundation of mathematics, it was a seminal work in philosophy. Many borrowed Russell's techniques, such as testing theories with thought experiments using difficult cases. Russell himself applied his methods to metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Over the years he adopted, tested, and later dropped a succession of philosophies, including logical atomism and neutral monism. According to logical atomism the


philosophy also passed through several stages of evolution. According to his 1910 paper "Elements of Ethics," based on G. E. Moore's Principia Ethica, a person discovers what is good by direct intuition. Like his grandmother, Russell believed that one should obey one's conscience. After George Santayana mocked his views, Russell changed his mind and decided that ethics were subjective. This stance did not survive the experience of World War II and the Holocaust. Finally, in Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954, he tried to reintroduce objectivity by judging actions by their consequences.

As a moralist Russell never found any final theoretical grounding, though he is remembered for his courageous political stands. Because of the honor accorded to his social position and the fame of the Principia Mathematica andhis other philosophical work, Russell was able to command public attention. Stands he took were often unpopular and sometimes illegal. He accepted his punishment in the spirit of non-violent protest.

At the turn of the 20th century, Russell's political life was given its impetus, not by his philosophy, but by a mystical vision. He had come across Whitehead's wife, Evelyn, in the midst of severe pain. "She seemed cut off from everyone and everything by walls of agony, and the sense of the solitude of each human soul suddenly overwhelmed me," he recalled. "Suddenly the ground seemed to give way beneath me, and I found myself in quite another region." All emotional assurance he had known before seemed superficial. The only thing that could penetrate such human isolation, he


concluded, was "the highest intensity of the sort of love that religious teachers have preached." Also, "whatever does not spring from this motive is harmful, or at best useless." From this it followed that war is evil and "the use of force is to be deprecated."

For his opposition to World War I Russell was first fined, then imprisoned. He believed the war was motivated by national pride and that submission to German might would be a lesser evil than a world war. Later, he came to support the fight against the Nazis in World War II, however, because he found them "utterly revoltingcruel, bigoted, and stupid." After the dropping of the first atom bomb, he realized the danger posed by nuclear weapons and rose in the House ofLords to warn of the danger. So concerned was he about nuclear proliferation that he briefly urged the United States to use its military advantage to coerce Russia into abandoning the arms race. His 1954 radio broadcast "Man's Peril" lead to the Russell-Einstein statement of concerned scientists and the beginning of organized popular resistance to development of nuclear weapons. He was sentenced to prison in 1961, at the age of 89, for civil disobedience at a demonstration for nuclear disarmament. During his last years he was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, accusing America of war crimes and atrocities in Southeast Asia.

During the 1940s Russell's views on marriage and sexual morality generated considerable controversy. A suit was brought which prevented his teaching at the City College of


New York. In Marriage and Morals, 1929, he had argued against repressive attitudes towards sex. While he did not believe in acting upon uncontrolled impulses, he thought self-control ought not be an end in itself. Believing the intimacy of a good marriage did not preclude sexual relationships outside that bond, he advocated what was later called "open marriage." In the brief against him in the City College case, his works were characterized as being "lecherous, libidinous, lustful, venerous, erotomaniac, aphrodisiac, irreverent, narrow-minded, untruthful, and bereft of moral fibre."

Unemployed as a result of the verdict and stranded in America because of the war, Russell accepted a lectureship at a private foundation. The result was his best known book, A History of Western Philosophy, 1945. Alan Ryan, a biographer ofRussell, while conceding that the History "too often seems casual, unfair and prejudiced, and too ready to shade the truth for the sake of the bon mot," noted that Russell "wrote so well that he will always be the envy and the despair of other philosophers."

Russell was married four times: to Alys Pearsall Smith in 1894, Dora Black in 1921, Patricia Spence in 1936, and Edith Finch in 1952. The first three marriages ended in divorce. Especially during the years around World War I he had a series of extra-marital affairs. His daughter Katherine wrote, "His loves were as spectacular as fireworks and often as brief," and often afterwards left the woman "a burnt black shell." One such affair was with the unstable Vivienne Eliot, wife of his


student and friend T.S. Eliot.

Eliot earlier had portrayed something of Russell's intellectual and sexual nature in the portrait poem "Mr. Apollinax" saying that "his dry and passionate talk devoured the afternoon" and "He laughed like an irresponsible foetus." Russell brought to Eliot's mind "Priapus in the shrubbery / Gaping at the lady in the swing." Later, Eliot made Russell the model for the fourth tempter in the play Murder in the Cathedral. Another student, mathematician Norbert Wiener, described Russell as a "philosophical rake," trying to chart a dangerous course in "a channel which is poorly lighted and poorly buoyed."

For many years Russell refrained from having children because his grandmother had warned him of a strain of madness in the family. Eventually he fathered three. Although he intended tobe a kind father, he raised his children according to educational and behavioral standards as exacting in their own way as those inflicted on him by his grandmother. Nevertheless, at the end of her memoir, his daughter concluded, "He was the most fascinating man I have ever known, the only man I ever loved, the greatest man I shall ever meet, the wittiest, the gayest, the most charming. It was a privilege to know him."

Russell's relationship with his daughter and her husband was troubled by their embrace of Christianity. Although he paid towards his son-in-law's seminary education, he could not agree with their theology. He thought of himself as an agnostic, and considered the probability of the existence of God very small. Russell thought all traditional religions untrue


have created it. In fact he thought it at least as plausible that "this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking." The teachings of Jesus he divided into two categories, a few good and many others wrong-headed or cruel. Those he admired, such as "resist not evil, "judge not," and "give all to the poor," he found to be largely disregarded by professing Christians.

Although Russell detested traditional organized religion, he did not spurn the religious impulse. Through love and knowledge he sought to be "led upward to the heavens." And through pity for the suffering of humanity, he was brought back to service on earth. His daughter thought that "he was by temperament a profoundly religious man, thesort of passionate moralist who would have been a saint in a more believing age."

Some correspondence of Lord John Russell was published in Rollo Russell, ed., Early Correspondence of Lord John Russell, 1815-1840 (1913) and in G. P. Gooch, ed., The Later Correspondence of Lord John Russell, 1840-1878 (1925). There are a number of biographies of Lord John Russell, including A. Wyatt Tilby, Lord John Russell: A Study in Civil and Religious Liberty (1931); John Prest, Lord John Russell (1972); and Paul Scherer, Lord John Russell: A Biography (1999). There is a memoir of Lady Frances Russell: Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell, Lady John Russell: A Memoir (1910). Family information on Lord and Lady Russell can also be found in two volumes devoted to their son and daughter-in-law,


The Amberley Papers: Bertrand Russell's Family Background, by Bertrand Russell and Patricia Spence Russell (1937); volume 1 of Bertrand Russell's Autobiography (1967); and in Christopher Trent, The Russells (1966). The activities of the Russell family at the Unitarian Christian Church in Richmond are documented in Elizabeth Orr, The Unitarian Congregation in Richmond, 1888-1988 (1988). For information on the Unitarian churches in Britain and 19th century British Unitarian history see H. L. Short, "Presbyterians under a New Name," in C. G. Bolam et al., The English Presbyterians: From Elizabethan Puritanism to Modern Unitarianism (1968) and R. K. Webb, "The Unitarian Background," in Barbara Smith, ed., Truth, Liberty, Religion: Essays Celebrating Two Hundred Years of Manchester College (1986).

The largest repository of Bertrand Russell papers is the Russell Archives at McMasterUniversity in Hamilton, Ontario. Other important collections are at the Humanities Research Center of the University of Texas at Austin and Trinity College Library at Cambridge University. There is a bibliography of Russell works by Lester E. Denonn, in Paul A. Schilpp, The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell (1944, bibliography revised in 1963). Some of the more significant works by Russell not mentioned above are The Principles of Mathematics (1903), The Problems of Philosophy (1912), Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), Principles of Social Reconstruction (1916), Mysticism and Logic (1918), Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919), The Analysis of Mind (1921), What I Believe (1925), On Education, Especially in Early Childhood (1926), An Outline of Philosophy (1927), The Analysis of Matter (1927), The Conquest of Happiness (1930), Freedom and


from the Ring video grabbing a ladder while her husband holds their diaper-clad child in his arms

The pair's older son repeatedly begs his parents to abandon their plan, warning them that they are going to end up in jail

Not heeding his son's words, Fraiche is seen climbing the ladder to reach the banner

The doctor remove the 'Trump 2020 Keep America Great' flag and hands it to his wife

Webb-Fraiche is heard in the video crying out in excitement, 'Yes, baby, yes!'

They were charged with criminal mischief, trespassing, larceny and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and released from the county jail, reported WKRG.

The district's Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, who is a loyal Trump supporter, tweeted on Tuesday that their actions showed 'despicable parenting.'

He included a version of thepleas and ascends the rungs barefoot to tear down the blue 'Trump 2020 Keep America Great' banner.

Within seconds, he removes the flag, prompting his overjoyed wife to exclaim, 'Yes, baby, yes!'

The family of four then reportedly got in a golf cart and took off.

'Apparently two medical degrees lack the decency & common sense of a child,' Gaetz tweeted in response to the video.

The victim of the stunt told deputies that Fraiche caused $500 worth of damage to his flag pole, and the banner itself cost $200.

Fraiche is a gynecologist at Sacred Heart Hospital, while his wife is a gynecologist at West Florida Hospital.


Training. Later that year he attempted to complete the grueling BUD/S program but caught pneumonia and had to drop out. He tried again in 2004 and completed the course.

On August 2, 2006, Marc A. Lee became the first SEAL to be killed in combat in Iraq when he was fatally wounded in a firefight in Ramadi, Iraq. The following is from the award citation:

“During the operation, one element member was wounded by enemy fire. The element completed the casualty evacuation, regrouped and returned onto the battlefield to continue the fight. Petty Officer Lee and his SEAL element maneuvered to assault an unidentified enemy position. He, his teammates, Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Abrams tanks engaged enemy positions with suppressive fire from an adjacent building to the north.

“To protect theKidney transplantation in a developing economy: challenges and initial report of three cases at Ile Ife.
Kidney transplantation (KT) is globally adjudged the best alternative treatment for end stage renal disease (ESRD) in preference to life-long dialysis. This form of therapy was hitherto unavailable in Nigeria until our hospital and a private hospital embarked on a KT programme despite our depressed economy, and inadequate facilities. We present the initial report of KT performed in our hospital and the challenges of KT in our developing society. Three patients with ESRD had living related KT between June 2002 and April 2003. The first patient died with functioning graft six and a half months post transplantation from complications of Diabetes mellitus and sepsis, while the remaining two still enjoy a good quality


of Charlemagne Pierre Riche

Daily Life in Medieval Times by Frances and Joseph Gies

Kim Rendfeld has written two novels set in eighth century Francia and is working on a third. The Cross and the Dragon is a story of a noblewoman contending with a jilted suitor and the premonition she will lose her husband in battle. The Ashes of Heaven’s Pillar is a tale of a mother who will go to great lengths to protect her children after she has lost everything else.

Supply and demand definitely played a role. Food prices depended on the harvest. Sheep were raised domestically and it took fewer skin to make a cloak that served the wearer well. Sable were hunted or trapped, and it would have taken a lot more skins to lineon the influence of the type of crown, the type of abutment, and the intraoral region, and on the vitality of the tooth. To avoid the effect of different clinicians or different dental laboratories, only the restorations were included, which were performed by the same experienced clinician and produced in the same dental laboratory.

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In total, 153 veneered-zirconia restorations were observed retrospectively during the periodic follow-up examinations. Twenty-two patients received 131 single crowns and 22 bridges. In contrast to many other studies, only patients were included who had been treated by the same experienced clinician (PCP) in the Department of Prosthetic Dentistry and Biomedical Materials Research at Hannover Medical School in the period from 2011 to 2016. Patients with veneered zirconia restorations were included in this study.


In September 1996, high-altitude archaeologist Johan Reinhard led an expedition to the summit of
Sara Sara in Peru in search of frozen sacrificial mummies. Reinhard's expedition was filmed by
the BBC as part of the three-part series "Ice Mummies"
and documented on this Web site as a NOVA/PBS Online Adventure. Here you'll find daily accounts
and images from the expedition, e-mail questions and the responses from the team, and much more.breath, praying him through, 'til he was mercifully released and the next child was called on. I even wondered, when it came to my turn, if I should pretend to struggle, so he and others who fought their way through a sentence would feel better. It made me sad. It seemed unfair.

In second grade, again Dennis sat across from me and we silently struggled together, side by side. Whether it was reading, or math, whatever the subject, he had trouble. He seemed to move through life almost painfully alone. A strange thing, considering, but understandable now from the distance of over fifty years. He came from a family of fourteen kids. Perhaps that was the first time I recognized one can feel very isolated and alone even in


a crowd, even in the midst of family and friends.

It was early in the year when Mrs. Tonsager handed out new reading books and I got so caught up in reading that I was completely unaware we had moved on to handwriting. When I finally looked around and saw everyone else working on their cursive, I quietly lifted the top of my desk, slid the book inside, pulled out the cursive handbook and went to work practicing my loops. I've wondered why Mrs. Tonsager never said a word to me. She surely saw me there, two desks from her desk, reading instead of writing, completely absorbed in the book. Perhaps she knew the value and allowed for it.

In the spring, we all took part in something called IowaBasic Skills Tests. Mrs. Tonsager would call each child up to her desk to discuss the results of their tests. When it was my turn, I stood next to her desk as she told me I was reading at an eighth grade level. I wasn't sure what that meant, but she seemed very pleased and I supposed I should be, too. I quietly returned to my seat. But, in that moment, the world opened before me and all the potential that books brought with them came flooding in. I never looked back. I read nonstop year after year.

One day, sometime during that year, I noticed Dennis was sitting with his face in his hands and quietly crying. I didn't know what to say. A boy was crying and


exposed. As far as reading, there were times when I was content with reading the proverbial cereal box.

Your grandmother's lap sounds like a good place to be. That she couldn't read or write, but would spin tales for you, is in itself remarkable.

This year, new graduation rules were drawn up, making high school graduation very difficult for the less academically talented. Wonder what the government will say when more students drop out of school than than ever before.

I am new to your blog and didn't even know this was "a community of writers"--whoohoo! I never considered myself a "writer" until I went to college at 48 years old and was singled out by several professors who called me that. Still makes the hair raise on the back ofwe take a look at some of the key stories from the game...

Selection

Arsene Wenger might have been expected to rest some of his key players given that the Gunners came into the home leg with a three-goal lead and the north London derby awaits at the weekend, but instead it was a strong line-up for the crowd at the Emirates Stadium to enjoy.

Bacary Sagna was preferred to Laurent Koscielny in the centre of defence but other than that this was perhaps the best team Wenger could name, featuring as it did the same midfield and striker that produced such a convincing performance in the win at Fulham on Saturday.

Fenerbahce made six changes to the team that surrendered so meekly in Turkey, including three of the back four. Perhaps


the most notable introduction was that of Emmanuel Emenike, the Nigeria international, who came in up front.

Where it was won and lost

"Arsenal are very sleepy here," said Charlie Nicholas as slack Arsenal defending allowed Fenerbahce an early effort on goal. It was that kind of atmosphere early on. Even the most pessimistic of Gunners fans - and there are a few out there - must have turned up in the knowledge this would be a training exercise given the first-leg scoreline. But there were still questions to answer and issues to address...

Ramsey might be doing just that if he maintains this form. The Welshman has received plenty of praise in the opening weeks of the new season and with good cause. He has replaced the injured Mike Artetaimpressively in midfield, passing the ball well and also bringing added drive to the Arsenal team. He popped up in the box to score the opening goal midway through the first half before repeating the trick after the break.

1-0 Ramsey. If there's one Arsenal player who deserves a goal as a reward for recent displays it's Ramsey. Magnificent.

The first goal came from a familiar route as Lukas Podolski slipped a ball behind the Fenerbahce defence for the ever dangerous Theo Walcott in the inside right channel and Caner Erkin could only divert the ball into Ramsey's path. Perhaps the only question that remains regarding Ramsey is whether his tendency to push forwards leaves Arsenal vulnerable against superior opposition. The gap is there to be exposed.

But against Fenerbahce, this


did not prove critical. In fact, some of Arsenal's passing was far too good for the Turkish side. One first-half move once the Gunners were 1-0 up on the night involved nine of the team as the ball went from Wojciech Szczesny all the way to Olivier Giroud, only for the France international striker to see his shot saved when well placed in the left channel.

Giroud's movement up front was a plus point of the evening for Arsenal, even if his finishing was wasteful. This was the first game of the season in which he has failed to find the net but his interplay with the midfielders has been one of the encouraging features of the team's season so far, offering plenty of movement as a decoy runnerfor the team.

Cazorla is also giving Wenger plenty to think about with his performances in the centre. The Spaniard began the season cutting in from wide positions with Tomas Rosicky playing in the middle and Podolski on the bench. The introduction of the German on the left has allowed Cazorla to take a central role and this was another typically strong display.

Podolski's hamstring injury during the second-half could cause a rethink but what the Gunners gain by Cazorla's presence on the flank they must be aware they will lose in the middle. His ability to make forward passes from the centre is a huge asset and complements Ramsey's neat and tidy distribution. Given the chance to look left as well as right, Cazorla has more options and the


up to the task is now thriving with the added responsibility he has been given in the centre. And he's got Santi Cazorla. Reasons for optimism then. Next up: Tottenham Hotspur.

Charlie's view

"Ramsey has suddenly found that confidence. I watched him in pre-season and he was the stand-out. He looked fit and he looked ready to go. Maybe it just took him that length of time to get over the bad injury that he had. It came take time mentally and maybe he's got round that. There's no point in Aaron Ramsey being a bit-part player. He's got this season to prove himself. Can he play for Arsenal at the top level? So far they've had an absolutely fantastic response."

Man of the Match

Hard to look beyond Ramsey. He keptthings ticking over well, playing more passes than anyone else on the pitch - 86 of them at a success rate of 91 per cent. But more than that, he was also a factor further forwards and scored both of the game's goals to ensure it was a win on the night for Arsenal as well as on aggregate. The 22-year-old is certainly doing his best to persuade Wenger that central midfield is not the position that the Gunners need to strengthen before September 2nd.


Hazelwood resident Connor Sites-Bowen feels trapped. There are too few options, he says, for Hazelwood residents to access the neighborhood on foot or by bike, and the few options that do exist aren’t safe.

That’s why Sites-Bowen is asking people to join him on a Monday Morning Commute March, where concerned residents will walk and ride together to make a safe path out of Hazelwood. The march will take place August 27 at 8am, and recur each week until an acceptable solution for Pedestrian Access to Hazelwood (PATH) is reached.

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international interest in the landmark election following last year’s resignation of decades-long President Robert Mugabe in the wake of a military intervention.

The same goes for newspapers and radio stations, whose advertising revenue has shot up as candidates compete to get their message out to voters.

The car rental industry is also among the beneficiaries. At Impala Car rental, one of the largest car hire companies in the country, demand is so high they have run out of vehicles to rent.

At present, the company has at least 300 vehicles out on the streets – double the average number. It is the busiest period the company has ever experienced.

“We get a lot of car hires from different NGOs and election observers,” Tracy Ngoma, a manager at the company, told Al Jazeera.

“ComparingIndia opposition rally blasts toll now six

THE death toll from a series of crude bombs targeting supporters of Indian opposition leader Narendra Modi has risen to six, a doctor says.

Seven small bombs planted by six suspects and linked to timers exploded on Sunday near the venue of a rally by Modi in the eastern city of Patna where tens of thousands had gathered to hear him, according to police.

"Late last night, a body was found near the venue, which took the death toll to six. He was then brought to the hospital.... It seems he died of a heart attack," Amarkanth Jha, medical superintendent of Patna Medical College and Hospital, said on Monday.

Indian media, citing unnamed police officials, reported suspicions that the Indian Mujahideen, a home grown Islamist


The Cavs have been shopping Haywood's expiring $10.5 million contract for weeks and worked out a deal with the Blazers, who will also get two second-round picks from Cleveland. Both teams confirmed the trade on Monday.

The Blazers are expected to cut Haywood, who barely played for Cleveland last season. Miller was signed last summer, bringing playoff experience and 3-point shooting to the Cavs, but he was hardly used in the playoffs.If one thing can be said of Womad, it's that you know where you are when you arrive. Where else on a gloriously sunny day would the first band you hear be a Tuvan throat-singing outfit, in this instance the dependable southern Siberians Huun Huur Tu, playing in the sweltering Siam tent? The audience had just drifted over from watching Kissmet, the bhangra rock group from London, and if they could muster the energy, could then check out Chilean balladeer Nano Stern or Québécois folk band Le Vent Du Nord in the course of the early afternoon. Highlight of proceedings, back in the Siam, was arguably the apperance of Ondatrópica, the supergroup from South America assembled by the UK's Will Holland and the equally dapper bandleader Mario Galeano,


whose combined level of musicianship was jaw-dropping, never mind the hip-swivelling entertainment.

In recent years, the festival - now in its 31st year - has started to showcase acts who don't (just) celebrate a roots tradition but embrace modernity in the guise of hip hop, even dubstep. The combination of Spoek Mathambo, the South African producer and rapper, with London grime MC Afrikan Boy and singer Yadi worked brilliantly in exuberant patches in the Big Red tent, but the set would have been better suited to a late night slot; likewise (in the same venue) with Mala in Cuba, the project of dubstep pioneer Mala, who weaves Cuban refrains through echoing soundscapes from behind a mixing desk.

Kissmet at Womad. Photograph: C Brandon/Redferns/Getty Images

The contrast between Mala and Lee Perryand co, playing the Open Air stage at the same time, was fascinating - given it was "Scratch" as much as anyone who introduced dub to the world in the first instance. His crack band first hosted Max Romeo, before the main man himself took to the stage, sporting a bright red beard and a purple shellsuit - the 77-year old rocking that look more effectively than anyone since (with apologies) Jimmy Savile. Elements of the performance were unsurprisingly shambolic, and one wondered when Perry launched into his familiar condemnation of UK royalty, namechecking Princes Charles and William, whether news of the arrival of the next in line to the throne had reached him yet. But his charisma was so much greater than that of any sampler-wielding technician


- plus in his locker he had cuts such as Curly Locks and his old sparring partner Bob Marley's Sun Is Shining, which couldn't have felt more appropriate at the sun continued to beat down.

Perry was followed on stage by the son of one of the greats, Seun Kuti, who continues to breathe life into the legend of Fela through the excellence of his band Egypt 80. Reports filtered back that the Parov Stelar Band from Austria had smashed it in the Siam, while others in the audience nipped to the tiny Molly's bar to catch the extraordinary beatboxer Shlomo and the Big Red tent was packed to the sounds of 60s soul and more courtesy of DJ Craig Charles - all of it adding up to aFollowers

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is the female national personification of Switzerland, officially Confœderatio Helvetica, the Swiss Confederation.

Helvetia on the right with Geneva; National monument in Geneva Switzerland.

The allegory is typically pictured in a flowing gown, with a spear and a shield emblazoned with the Swiss flag, and commonly with braided hair, commonly with a wreath as a symbol of confederation. The name is a derivation of the ethnonym Helvetii, the name of the Gaulish tribe inhabiting the Swiss Plateau prior to the Roman conquest.

Old stamp;

Swiss money;

The Swiss Confederation continues to use the name in its Latin form. The name Helvetia appears on postage stamps, coins and other uses; the full name, Confœderatio Helvetica, is abbreviated for uses such as on vehicle registration codes, CH.

A really interesting turn


By of the

The one person out of 5,800 denied Wisconsin concealed carry permits who decided to challenge the decision has lost another round, this time at the state Court of Appeals.

If he had prevailed, Robert W. Evans might have cleared the way for those with certain domestic violence convictions to legally carry hidden guns.

Congress in 1996 banned people convicted of domestic violence from possessing guns, and some gun rights advocates have challenged the reach of the so-called Lautenberg Amendment ever since.

But the Court of Appeals has affirmed a Dane County Circuit Court ruling that the state Department of Justice properly rejected Evans' application because his 2002 misdemeanor conviction for disorderly conduct met the federal law's definition of domestic violence.

It prohibits gun ownership when someone is convicted of anyA British man who was pictured with a man who hijacked an EgyptAir plane says he's not sure why he posed for the bizarre photo.

A British man who was pictured with a man who hijacked an EgyptAir plane says he's not sure why he posed for the bizarre photo.

Ben Innes told The Sun newspaper he wanted to take "the selfie of a lifetime" while the hijack was unfolding at a Cyprus airport.

The photo of Innes standing next to the hijacker with what looked like an exposed suicide vest went viral on social media within hours. The vest turned out to be fake and all the plane's passengers and crew were released unharmed Tuesday. The hijacker has been arrested.


supermarket chain, normally a competent and well-organized man. Four months ago he was in a car accident: he was driving home from work in the late afternoon at 75 mph on an Interstate highway when a tractor trailer went out of control just ahead of him, colliding with several other cars. He was convinced that he was going to die; but after sideswiping a couple of cars he ended up in the breakdown lane. Apart from a few minor bruises he reported being unhurt; his air-bag went off and he was wearing his seat belt. He was, however, taken to a local emergency room for an examination.

On arriving home that evening, he felt very shaken and teary, but pushed away the impulse to cry and told himself thathe should "pull himself together." The next morning he woke up feeling depressed and anxious, and was unable to organize himself to rent a car and get to work. He became angry with himself. The following day he managed to rent a car and as he began driving to work, he had a panic attack before getting onto the Interstate. He was able to get to work by the back roads, but found himself unable to concentrate at work.

Over the following 4 months he continued to feel "not himself"; he alternated periods of depression and anxiety with bouts of extreme irritability and outbursts of anger, all of which had a negative impact on his work and his marriage. He describes having chronically cold hands and feet, a pounding


heart, a knot in his stomach and a fuzzy feeling in his head. Also he notes that whenever he is outside, he has a tendency to be hyper-focused on passing traffic to the point of being distracted from what he is doing. After 2 months, at his wife\'s urging, he went to see a therapist, but got extremely angry at what he described as the therapist\'s implication that it was "all in his head." He says that he knows he should not be reacting this way, that it is not rational, that after all "nothing really happened to him," but feels completely powerless to change how he feels. Through a friend he heard about Somatic Experiencing, and on being assured it was "not talk therapy," he decided togive it a try.

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When discussing the autonomic nervous system (ANS), pioneering researcher and Nobel prize winner in physiology and medicine, Hess ([@B61]) as well as early researcher Gellhorn ([@B49]) used the terms "ergotropic" (energy seeking) and "trophotropic" (nutrition seeking) to point out that the two principal branches of the ANS cannot be isolated from the somatic and central nervous systems and the neuroendocrine system. The ergotropic system includes activation of the sympathetic nervous system as well as the motor and premotor system (increased muscle tension and preparedness to act), the endocrine system (increased secretions of a number of stress hormones), and the central nervous system (increased sensory alertness), in a coordinated preparation for strong energy expenditure ("fight or flight"). In contrast, the trophotropic system


its first use in physiology, the word "stress" has been subject to multiple definitions and interpretations and the word is often used imprecisely. Hans Selye acknowledged his poor command of English as responsible for a use at odds with that of physics, where "stress" refers to the force acting on an object and "strain" to the resulting distortion; Selye used the word to refer to the response of the organism, and the word "stressor" came to be used for the impacting situation (Rosch, [@B114]). Stressors may broadly be divided into biological, where the stressor has an unambiguous physical and physiological effect on the organism; and psycho-social, where the effect of the stressor is determined by the interpretation the organism makes of the external situation (Everly and Lating, [@B37]).(trophotropic, depression and numbness). From the point of view of SE, this current state of Simon\'s nervous system is the relevant fact, not the objective nature of the triggering event itself nor even the conscious peri-traumatic experience (Simon\'s experience at the time of the traumatic event).

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Selected portions of the four SE therapy sessions are presented, interspersed with commentary.

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When Simon first came into the office, his shoulders were elevated, his breathing high in his chest, his tread heavy; his face was frowning, his jaw clamped, his eyes narrowed. I had the impression of a tense, defiant attitude; I imagined he was ready for a confrontation, given his reaction to a prior "talk psychotherapy" session. I greeted him, introduced myself, and offered him his choice of


be able to comfortably handle this last step.

At this point, I ask Simon to recall the first time after the accident at which he really took in that he was OK. He recalled his first interaction with his wife at the hospital, immediately after the accident, recounting a tearful reunion. He had assured his wife that he was fine, exclaiming, "it was a miracle, and I\'m OK!" I ask him to notice the feeling in his body as he recalled that scene; he describes a sense of relief, but his expression is a bit flat, without a lot of depth, as if he were recognizing the fact of his survival, but somehow not fully taking it in.

Then I ask him to return to the memory of the momentSTOCKHOLM (AP) — A hijacked beer truck plowed into pedestrians at a central Stockholm department store on Friday, killing four people, wounding 15 others and sending screaming shoppers fleeing in panic in what Sweden's prime minister called a terrorist attack.

A nationwide manhunt was launched and one person was arrested following the latest use of a vehicle as a weapon in Europe.

Nearby buildings were locked down for hours in the heart of the capital — including the country's parliament — and the main train station and several large malls were evacuated.

"Sweden has been attacked," Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said in a nationally televised press conference. "This indicates that it is an act of terror."

Later Friday night, Lofven laid a bouquet of red roses and lit a candle near the


site of the attack. Officials announced flags at government offices would fly at half-mast Saturday to honor the victims.

"The country is in a state of shock," he said. "The aim of terrorism is to undermine democracy. But such a goal will never be achieved in Sweden."

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Police arrested a man in Marsta, a northern Stockholm suburb close to the city's international airport, as a possible suspect.

The stolen beer truck traveled for more than 500 yards (meters) along a main pedestrian street known as the Drottninggatan before it smashed into a crowd outside the upscale Ahlens department store about 3 p.m. It came to rest in the entrance to the building. TV footage showed smoke coming out of the storeafter the crash.

"People were screaming and running in all directions," said Brandon Sekitto, who was in his car nearby. "(The truck) drove straight into the Ahlens entrance."

"I saw the driver, a man in black who was light around the face," Brandon told Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. "Some women were screaming, 'Run! Run!'"

Late into the night, forensic experts in full white suits could be seen working on the truck, collecting evidence.

Story continues

Although there was initial confusion on the number of victims, police told reporters in the evening that four people had been killed and 15 were wounded, nine of them seriously.

Authorities evacuated the city's nearby Central Station, a hub for regional trains and the subway system. All trains to and from the main station were halted and several large


blocks from the crash scene earlier Friday.

"It is one of our delivery trucks. In connection with a delivery to a restaurant called Caliente, someone jumped into the truck and drove it away while the driver was unloading his delivery," Spendrups spokesman Marten Luth told the Swedish news agency TT.

The beer company's truck driver was not injured, he said.

The truck crash appeared to be the latest attack in Europe using a vehicle.

In an attack last month claimed by the Islamic State group, a man drove into a crowd on London's Westminster Bridge, killing three people and injuring many others before stabbing a policeman to death. He was shot and killed by police. A fourth person, a woman thrown into the Thames by the force of the car attack, diedThursday.

The IS group also claimed responsibility for a truck attack that killed 86 people in Nice, France, in July 2016 during a Bastille Day festival, as well as another truck attack that killed 12 people at a Christmas market in Berlin.

Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf cut short a visit to Brazil on Friday to return home and sent the royal family's condolences to the families of the truck attack victims.

Lofven said his Social Democratic Party was still planning to hold its annual convention this weekend in Goteborg, Sweden's second-largest city.

Condolences poured into Sweden. In neighboring Finland, President Sauli Niinisto said he was shocked by the "maniac act of terror," adding "every terror attack is to be equally condemned. But it touches us deeply when such an attack takes


place in our Nordic neighborhood."

Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen called the attack a cowardly attempt "to subdue us and the peaceful way we live in Scandinavia."

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said the Eiffel Tower's lights will be turned off from midnight Friday in homage. She expressed her "strong emotion" over "this new terrorist attack of immense cowardice."

EU Council President Donald Tusk said in a tweet that "my heart is in Stockholm this afternoon. My thoughts are with the victims and their families and friends of today's terrible attack."

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said "one of Europe's most vibrant and colorful cities appears to have been struck by those wishing it — and our very way of life — harm."

Juncker also said "an attack on any of our (EU)member states is an attack on us all" and that Sweden can count on EU help.

In February, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that Sweden could be the next European country to suffer the kind of extremist attacks that have devastated France, Belgium and Germany. Two days after his remarks, a riot broke out in predominantly immigrant suburb of Stockholm where police opened fire on rioters, a surprise to many Swedes who aren't used to officers using guns.

Friday's truck crash was near the site of a December 2010 attack in Stockholm in which Taimour Abdulwahab, a Swedish citizen who lived in Britain, detonated a suicide bomb, killing himself and injuring two others.

Abdulwahab had rigged a car with explosives in the hope the blast would drive people to Drottninggatan —


the street hit Friday — where he would set off devices strapped to his chest and back. The car bomb never went off, and Abdulwahab died when one of his devices exploded among panicked Christmas shoppers.

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Olsen reported from Copenhagen, Denmark. Matti Huuhtanen and Jari Tanner in Helsinki, Finland, contributed.Twenty-two-year-old Ashley Peck graduated last semester with a degree in multimedia journalism and a minor in photojournalism. She took photos for Dragon Athletics, helped with editing for Campus News, and worked in the Arts, Media and Communications office. Peck is well-known and adored by many in her department.

But her college career was not easy. In a blog post Wednesday, she wrote about a particularly hard night she experienced her freshman year at St. Cloud State University.

“That day, I got a call from my dad asking if I could meet him at a nearby restaurant,” Peck said. “He told me he was going to be going back to jail. After hearing that news, something inside me snapped, and all those thoughts of killing myself became reality — I wasn’t


President Obama will renew his appeal for world leaders to accept more refugees in his final appearance at the United Nations on Tuesday, even as a series of suspected Islamist terrorist attacks in the U.S. raised fresh questions about the administration’s plan for welcoming immigrants from Syria.

The president will convene a summit at U.N. headquarters in New York City, seeking agreements from countries to double the number of refugees resettled each year. To show his commitment, Mr. Obama plans to raise the U.S. limit on refugees next year to 110,000, up from 85,000.

As he prepared to make his international appeal, however, Mr. Obama faced renewed criticism at home from the campaign of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump over the administration’s immigration and national security policies after suspected terroristBracknell in the UK.

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the end of this one. Hamrlik, as aware as ever, shot the puck high in the air into the offensive zone and then things started happening. It landed by Jurcina who had a very difficult time locating the puck which was under him. What the big defender didn't know, but Sergei did, was that the puck lay between his feet, 50' from the net. With a head of steam Kostitsyn came in, focused on the loose puck. He wasted no time to get control and take a shot towards an obviously unprepared Johnson. Sergei took a big hit as he took the shot, but none of that mattered as he had just won the game for the club.

Game puckTrophies are for the end of the year, play wellin the game, you get a lovely puck...

Tomas PlekanecRight from the start of this game Plekanec was moving very well. I remember thinking over the course of his first few shifts that he looked sharper tonight than over the past few games and I made a point of watching how he would build on his quick start. Tomas didn't let me down in the least as he continued his strong play throughout the game and was our best player for the whole 60 minutes. Thanks to his blistering speed he was able to score 2 goals, his first 2-goal game since November 1st.

Dome hockey teamWe're going into the last minute with these 6 (and they're attached to the ice, so they're not coming off)...

Forwards

Sergei KostitsynIn his last game


Sergei tried to fight with boyhood friend Grabovski. The refs didn't really allow it to happen, but what has happened since should make us all proud of Sergei and Gainey, for letting Mikhail go, as well. Grabovski was suspended for his role in the fight and his team lost both that game and theirs tonight. Sergei, on the other hand, didn't do anything stupid and thus was available to help the Habs win again tonight. Along with the game-winner he assisted on his brother's goal. Kostitsyn now has 18 points on the season.

Andrei KostitsynMake it 12 points in 8 games now as Andrei added a goal and an assist to his season totals. His goal was a function of being in the right place at the right timeto Devin Nunes, chairman of the House intelligence committee and a member of the Trump transition team. The committee is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election but the inquiry has devolved into a fight about the separate FBI investigation, now led by special counsel Robert Mueller. On Friday, Nunes published the memo after Donald Trump declassified it. The memo revolves around a wiretap on Carter Page, an adviser to the Trump campaign, alleging the FBI omitted key information when it applied for the wiretap. The findings “raise concerns with the legitimacy and legality of certain DoJ and FBI interactions” with the court that approves surveillance requests, the memo says. It also claims “a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses”. The


discredit the special counsel. Alan Yuhas

Page, a native of Poughkeepsie, New York, who made trips to Moscow during the campaign and the presidential transition, has been described as an energy consultant and businessman with an interest in foreign policy.

Page was also described by a Russian intelligence agent who was trying to recruit him as an asset for Moscow in 2013 in another way: “idiot”.

“He wants to meet when he gets back,” the agent, Victor Podobnyy, said in a conversation recorded by US intelligence. “I think he is an idiot and forgot who I am. Plus he writes to me in Russian [to] practice the language.”

In eight hours of testimony before Nunes’s committee late last year, Page flatly denied the accusation that he had colluded with Russia in the                           July 24, 1998.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. (No. 1:95-CR-
562-1), Robert L. vining, Jr., Judge.

Before ANDERSON and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and HANCOCK*, Senior District Judge.

        MARCUS, Circuit Judge:

        Appellant James Edward Mitchell appeals his conviction for bank robbery and the sentence

the district court imposed upon him. Mitchell argues that the jury verdict cannot stand because the

jury's conviction of Mitchell on charges of armed bank robbery irreconcilably conflicts with its

acquittal of Mitchell on charges of using a firearm during the commission


                                               I.

       A brief factual description of the robbery is necessary to our analysis. The story begins on

the morning of March 20, 1995, when an armed car-jacker stole a white rental Buick with an

Oklahoma license tag from the businessman who rented it when he stopped to make a telephone call.

Later that morning, four individuals rode in the stolen white Buick to the First Union Bank. When

they arrived, the vehicle occupants rushed into the bank. As thisoccurred, a witness called 911 to

report an apparent robbery. The robbers burst through the bank doors, shouted that they were

robbing the bank, and ordered all present to drop to the floor. Inside the bank, only an armed

security guard standing in the customer area and two other employees, Karmen Hardnett and

Margaret Ware, were present. Ware observed the largest of the four robbers push a handgun against

the security guard and quickly disarm him. She then dropped to the floor behind the counter.

Hardnett immediately fell to the floor as the robbery began and crawled into the employee lounge

at the far end of the teller counter. There she hid behind a partially open door, from which Hardnett

periodically observed some of the robbers' activities.

       Two other robbers


vaulted the counter and landed behind the teller line. As they did this,

a gun held by one of the robbers discharged, the bullet passing through the counter and lodging into

the carpet within three feet of Ware. Hardnett watched one of the robbers who had jumped the

counter put his foot on Ware's back and place a gun to her head, while the other searched for money.

When a customer appeared at the drive-through window, the robbers became startled and scrambled

out of the bank, carrying with them the security guard's weapon and more than $6,000 stolen from

the bank.

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        As the bandits fled the bank, D.R. Jones, a bank customer and off-duty police officer who

had just arrived at the bank, followed the robbers as they sped away in the white Buick to a large

shopping mall parking lot. In the parking lot, Jones observed four men walk away from the getaway

car, pair off, and enter two separate vehicles. When these cars left the mall headed in separate

directions, Jones followed a white Chrysler, which the apparent leader drove. During the pursuit,

Jones enlisted the assistance of a uniformed police officer in a squad car who was responding to the

bank robbery alarm. Within a few minutes, they stopped


the Chrysler, and the occupants, Anthony

Hazel and Jonathan Jackson, were arrested. The police found three handguns at the scene of the

arrest, including one belonging to the security guard. Tests later showed that one of the recovered

weapons had been discharged at the bank. Also at the arrest scene, the police found a rental car key

in the Chrysler. Later investigation demonstrated that the key matched the white getaway car stolen

from the Florida businessman and abandoned at the shopping mall.

        In October 1995, just before their trial was set to begin, Hazel and Jackson decided to plead

guilty and cooperate. They identified Trevis Ruger as the third robbery participant and the

car-jacker. Through their prior employment at a fast-food restaurant, Hazel and Jackson both knew

Ruger well.Hazel and Jackson could identify the fourth participant only as "James," but they noted

that "James" was Ruger's friend and that "James" had also worked at the fast-food restaurant with

them.

        Based on these leads, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") identified defendant James

Edward Mitchell as the fourth participant in the bank robbery. Mitchell was arrested in late

                                                 3
November 1995, and he was indicted on two counts: (1) violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2113(a),1

2113(d),2 and


Hazel and Jackson formed the plan and enlisted

Ruger to aid them. Hazel directed that Ruger find a fourth person to participate as well. Mitchell's

co-conspirators testified that on the day before the robbery, the four men met at a Dairy Queen to

plan the event. They drove to the bank site to surveil the area. Ruger also testified that Hazel

supplied guns for Mitchell and him. The four agreed to meet the next morning at a nearby shopping

mall located near the bank. Ruger stated that he picked up Mitchell on the morning of the robbery,

and they drove to the mall to meet the others. At the mall Ruger and Mitchell entered Hazel's car

and drove to the bank, where the group let Jackson out to observe the level of security. Meanwhile,

Ruger stoleback at the mall. Hazel testified that upon arriving at the bank, Mitchell's job in the robbery

was to enter the bank, remain near the door, and secure the entrance.

       Mitchell did not testify at his trial. He did, however, call several witnesses who attempted

to provide an alibi defense for him.

       The district court submitted the case to the jury, employing the government's proposed

instructions on the alleged criminal violations without objection from Mitchell. With regard to

Count One, the robbery charges, the district court instructed the jury that, to return a guilty verdict,

it must find, among other facts, "that the Defendant either assaulted or put in jeopardy the life of

some person by the use of a dangerous weapon


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Moreover, they knew him not only from the robbery, but also because all four of the robbers had

previously worked together. Accomplice Ruger also testified that Hazel had provided Mitchell and

him with guns for the robbery. If the jury chose to believe this testimony, which it obviously did,

the jury could have readily found that Mitchell was involved in the robbery. It is also undisputed

that during the course of the robbery, a gun discharged very close to one of the bank's employees.

Consequently, once the jury concluded that Mitchell had engaged in the robbery, sufficient evidence

existed to prove that he had also violatedRussiaFocus magazine (circulation 18,000) features Relex cryptocurrency

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This article about Rabbi Teitelbaum of Satmar was written by a Hungarian Jewish writer, Dr. Ferenz Kennedy, and published in the Hungarian newspaper, Oj Kelet in 1959 while the rabbi was visiting the Holy Land. It was also translated into Yiddish and published in Dos Yiddishe Vort.

Dr. Kennedy, a secular Jew, was together with the Satmar Rebbe in the famous train of Jewish Hungarian personalities, who by virtue of Kastner's bribery, were taken to an internment camp in Bergen-Belsen, and then later released to Switzerland.
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I should start by noting that I am not one of Rabbi Teitelbaum's followers, but perhaps I can contribute to portraying this unusual person by describing my experiences with him over a period of several months in the Bergen-Belsen concentration


meantime the transport train cars moved over to the sidetracks, and we spent two full days inside those cars in an area of three meters on the sidetracks. Along the side of the tracks we noticed a Jew with a nearly gray beard whose face made an enormous impression upon me. Both of his alabaster-white pointer fingers were inside his white vest while he was pacing ack and forth, murmuring his prayers or melodies, moving around like a wounded lion. I do not know whether he was reciting psalms or was thinking about our awful fate. I just saw that he was very upset, moving a few steps among the others with his head bowed. When I asked one of my friends about this man, he replied withwas supposedly filled, and therefore we were sent to Bergen-Belsen.

I lived with the Satmar Rebbe for five months in Men's Block E in Bergen-Belsen. I do not know how this happened, but it is a fact that the Germans themselves permitted him to keep his beard, which the rebbe concealed with a kerchief around his face, pretending to be suffering from a toothache.

The rebbe did not eat the camp food. He lived on water and cooked potatoes. As far as I know he fasted two or three days a week. You could hear his voice in the barracks almost all day long. It was not talking we heard, but his prayers and studying. He had a mournful tune and sobbing gestures that kept many of us awake late


into the night. I learned those gestures myself, and for years I could hear it in my head as a sad memento of those tragic times. The rebbe's mournful tune made many of those living in the barracks nervous, but not me. I knew that the rebbe was using that tune to pray to G-d for mercy; he fought against the decree and prayed for rescue.

The Satmar rebbe was crystal clean even in the dirty barracks -- dirt and vermin had no power over him. He used to lay on his bed, and his wife and his attendant, a young skinny man, devoted themselves to him, helping him to have something to eat so he could continue with his religious activities.

His majesty and wonderful appearance amazed everyone. IMussaf service of Yom Kippur. Bela Zholt and Aladar Komlosh (two famous Jewish Hungarian novelists who were also interned in Bergen-Belsen) passed by outside. I approached them and invited them to listen to the prayers of Rabbi Teitelbaum, which was a deeply touching experience to see the rebbe wrapped in his tallis [prayer shawl], rocking back and forth with all his limbs and pouring out his soul to his Creator.

A few meters away, S.S. men were standing outside guarding the camp prisoners in the camp surrounded by barbwire, while inside we could hear the heartbreaking prayerful voice of the Satmar rebbe who was expressing age-old laments of the ancient Jewish prayers.

When we left the barrack, the cynical and assimilated Bela Zholt, who despite being so assimilated had tears


the Hungarian Zionist movement and their families. The Satmar rebbe, Rabbi Teitelbaum, did not at all fit in to our community, whose major leaders were intellectuals and academics who believed that as soon as liberation arrived, they would be greeted with great honor. Yet suddenly here they were so bitterly disappointed since here in Switzerland almost no one paid any attention to them. Everyone was interested in the personality known as the Satmar rebbe, Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum. Everyone wanted to know where he was in the transport, and how he was feeling. Everyone asked the same question: Where is the rabbi?

So we all realized that it was not the professionals and academics who were indispensable, but rather the quiet and haggard holy man.

In Switzerland we all parted ways,You are here

US Congress members demand end to Israel’s “cruel” abuses of Palestinian children

An Israeli soldier arrests a Palestinian child during a protest against the Israeli occupation and settlements in the West Bank village of Beit Ummar, 20 November 2012.

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In rare defiance of the stifling pro-Israel consensus in the US capital, members of Congress are calling on the Obama administration to push Israel to end its systematic abuses of Palestinian children.

Congresswoman Betty McCollum released a letter on Tuesday co-signed by 18 other members of the House of Representatives urging Secretary of State John Kerry to “prioritize the human rights of Palestinian children living in the Occupied West Bank in the bilateral relationship with the Government of Israel.”

“Indefensible”

A press release from the Minnesota Democrat’s office says the letter


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For millennia, human beings have looked up at the night sky and asked themselves, “What does it all mean?” One of the oldest recorded answers is provided by astrology: the belief that the stars and planets strongly influence our lives.

Humans began observing the night sky tens of thousands of years ago, but astrology is of more recent origin. The earliest records of astrology date from approximately 4,000 years ago, at a time when science was unknown and the religious/magical view of the world was near universal. (Religion and magic were a natural outgrowth of wonder and ignorance; they likely survived, at least in part, because they were useful to the priests and royalty as a means of frightening their subjects into line.)

Thus, astrology was