cannot supply shoes to players in the Iranian national team at this time," though the company also admitted that: "Sanctions applicable to Nike have been in place for many years and are enforceable by law."

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That second part has left Iranian federation members confused -- and frustrated -- with the timing of the decision since Nike had been supplying the team previously, including at the 2014 World Cup when similar sanctions were in place.

In an attempt to clarify the situation, the Iranian soccer federation sent a letter to FIFA asking for an explanation, as wellas assistance in resolving the issue. FIFA did not respond to an ESPN request for comment on the letter or its potential response.

Iran's coach, Carlos Queiroz, was exasperated by the move, telling reporters: "Players get used to their sports equipment, and it's not right to change them a week before such important matches."

With little time to react, Iran's players have taken varying steps to make sure they will be equipped to play: Some have asked non-Iranian players on their club teams to loan them boots, according to one team official, while others have had friends acquire them or have simply gone out and bought their own footwear at stores.

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the beginning of an educator's career, advancing individual teacher readiness prior to entry into the profession holds great promise for long-term impact with students," said Mitchell Chester, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Working with the American Institutes for Research, the National Center for Teacher Residencies expects to adopt and expand teacher residencies and clinically ased programming.

Teacher2 will work with a group of teacher preparation programs to share knowledge, create communities of inquiry, define the skill sets of teacher educators and analyze data from which the field can learn. The center plans to create a searchable resource bank, standards and templates for data analysis, a set of national teacher educator institutes and other activities to support participating institutions. The organization hopes to strengthen the capacitymore than underway.
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The Sun entered Leo yesterday following Venus's entrance (on the 14th July) in the sign that is the natural ruler of the 5th house of love affairs, children, friends and entertainment. The Sun will remain at 1 degree in Leo
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WASHINGTON (July 20) - A dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune has been designated the third plutoid in the solar system and given the name Makemake, the International Astronomical Union said on Saturday.
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This month's full moon occurs on Friday, July 18 at 3:59 AM EST at 26 degrees of Capricorn. Capricorn is the natural ruler of the 10th house of business and priorities, so many of us will be dealing with these issues. Also issues of the foundations
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Wright State University Bans Christian Group from Campus

Today’s FIRE press release comes out of Dayton, Ohio, where Wright State University has banned a Christian group, the Campus Bible Fellowship, from meeting on campus because of the group’s constitutional requirements for voting members. Here’s an excerpt that explains how this all started:

After more than 30 years of existence as a registered student organization at Wright State, the Campus Bible Fellowship (CBF) was prohibited from re-registering in 2009. On January 30, according to CBF representatives Joe Hollaway and Gary Holtz, CBF was informed by Wright State’s Office of Student Activities that its registration was being denied for two reasons. First, CBF refused to adopt university-mandated nondiscrimination language in its membership requirements that would have stripped the group of the rightGetty Images

When Brett Favre left the Packers in 2008, merchandise with his name and/or number on it went from a best seller to the discount bin in Green Bay.

Once he moved to the Vikings in 2009, the dumpster became another place to find such items but time has healed the wounds of the past. Favre is headed back to Lambeau Field to join the Packers Hall of Fame this weekend, he’s going to have his number retired and he’ll be feted by the team at their Thanksgiving Day game against the Bears.

He’ll also move back into a prominent place in the team store on Thursday. The team has struck a deal with Favre to be the exclusive retailer for a new line of t-shirts, hats, coffee mugs, Christmas


later in the year when armed terrorists went on a major surge across Paris, killing around 130 people in Paris and injuring hundreds more, as well as attacks on a Shia Mosque/funeral in Beirut and Baghdad, as well as earlier on in the year initiating suicide bombings in Yemen during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. This year particularly distressed me as there seemed to be an attack by politically driven terrorists every second, who raged their anger on completely innocent people, justifying it with the same religion which has motivated me to speak out against them and stand for justice.

This year proved abnormally high in the amount of plane related incidents. Early on in March a GermanWings flight crashed through suicide of the pilot, killing all 150people on board as well as an apparent an act of terror bringing down the Russian A321 airliner in Egypt later in November, killing all 224 people on board. A couple of weeks later, the Turkish military downed a Russian fighter jet on claims that it had entered Turkish airspace.

HAJJ STAMPEDE and CRANE CRASH

During the annual Islamic pilgrimage in Makkah, Saudia Arabia during September, thousands of people were either killed or injured as a stampede broke out due to poor crowd management of the authorities, with a Saudi Prince blocking many roads that day for his arrival, contributing to this tragic end to many people’s lives. This came so closely after the deaths on site the pilgrimage as a result of the crane, working on expansion,crashing a few


days earlier, killing over 100 people.

This year proved overwhelming as the millions of refugees fleeing war torn Syria proved historical, with many heading to Europe in search for refuge. Some found the hope they’d been looking for, when Angela Merkel opened her arms in warm embrace to over a million refugees in Germany, with Justin Trudeau in Canada later welcoming thousands. For others, the treacherous journey proved fatal and cost their life, as seen when 3 year old Alan Kurdi washed up on the shores of Turkey after drowning in the Mediterranean sea. Earlier on in the year, the heavy persecution and deportation of the Rohingya migrants from Burma also made headlines, as they faced ethnic cleansing.

NEPAL EARTHQUAKE

In April, Nepal faced the tragic event of an earthquake measuring7.8 on the Richter scale, the biggest impact in almost 80 years, as well as facing several tragic after shocks. 5,000 were quickly confirmed dead, an understatement to the actual reality, with countless numbers of injuries.

In the UK, on May 7th The Conservative Party took an unexpected victory, securing almost 31% of the votes and becoming the winning party once again. While not a majority, was enough to win as the dominating party of parliament due to the current system of ‘First Past The Post’. Also, in Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory in Myanmar after general elections on 8 November. It was the country’s first national vote since a nominally civilian government was introduced in 2011, ending nearly 50


years of military rule.

SAME SEX MARRIAGE LEGALIZATION IN THE USA

In the United States of America, same-sex marriage became legal nationwide from June 26, 2015, when the United States Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that state-level bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional, leading to celebrations across the US, and some couples who has dreamed for this day getting married on the minute it became constitutional, with millions of Facebook users burying their profile pictures in floods of rainbows to mark and show support of the ruling.

UK VOTES FOR SYRIAN AIRSTRIKES TO GO AHEAD

Britain carried out its first airstrikes in Syria, hours after MPs voted overwhelmingly to authorize military action in early December, with 397 to 223 votes. Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party remained firmly againstUS President Donald Trump has awarded hosting of the next G7 summit to one of his own Florida golf clubs, the White House said on Thursday, sparking immediate accusations of corruption from the opposition Democrats.

The site picked by his administration from 12 possible US venues for the June 10-12 gathering next year is the Trump National Doral Golf Club, in Miami.

"We absolutely believe this is the best place to have it," acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told a news conference at the White House.

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Jerry Nadler, the chairman of the powerful Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee called the decision "among the most brazen examples yet of the president's corruption."

"He is exploiting his office and making official US government decisions for his personal financial gain," Nadler said


in a statement vowing that Trump's "latest abuse of power" would not distract from investigations into the Ukraine scandal engulfing the presidency.

Democrats are investigating Trump for possible impeachment over his alleged bid to pressure Ukraine into digging up dirt on election rival Joe Biden.

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They were already probing Trump's suggestion at the most recent G7 gathering in France in August that the next could be hosted at one of his resorts which they say would violate both the foreign and domestic emoluments clauses that are designed to shield a commander in chief from outside influence.

Asked if Trump was aware the choice of venue would inevitably raise accusations of impropriety, Mulvaney said he was -- and had decided to go ahead anyway.

'I was skeptical'

"We're going to havewould be at other venues. But he gave no estimates of the cost or comparisons.

An important draw is the club's size -- 900 acres, including three golf courses, according to Mulvaney, who said all the foreign delegations and the press could be housed "on campus."

"Listen, I was skeptical, I was I was aware of the political criticism we'd come under for doing it at Doral," Mulvaney said.

"That's why I was surprised when the advance team came back and said this is the perfect location to do this."

When he touted Doral at the last G7 in Biarritz, Trump brushed off critics who said he was pushing his brand and profiting from his office.

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released some data last month saying that 1,002 Syrians had resettled to Canada as of late July 2015. The department has also said that Ottawa had fulfilled a 2013 promise to resettle 1,300 Syrian refugees by the end of 2014.

Last month, Harper said a re-elected Conservative government would bring in 10,000 more refugees from the Middle East over the next four years.

Many of those who have arrived in recent years have been sponsored by religious groups, who raise money to support the government-approved migrants after they arrive.

Rick Cober Bauman, of the Mennonite Central Committee Ontario, said his group is already preparing the paperwork to sponsor several thousand possible refugees.

It is estimated that more than 332,000 migrants have entered Europe so far this year. Many of them are men,SANTA CRUZ >> For the Santa Cruz Warriors, little was left on the line. The team was eliminated from postseason contention more than a week ago, and it entered Saturday’s season finale against visiting Reno doubly disappointed following losses (plural) to visiting Iowa a day earlier.

And the Bighorns did little to cheer the Warriors up.

Behind a game-high 27 points from two-way player JaKarr Sampson, the Bighorns grabbed the lead late in the first quarter and never looked back, dropping the Warriors 113-105 in front of 2,476 fans at Kaiser Permanente Arena.

The loss by the Warriors (23-27) was the fourth this season to Reno (29-21), and it capped a dismal finish to the 2017-18 campaign. Santa Cruz went 7-16 since the G League Showcase in mid-January.

Terrence Jones led the


little to slow the Bighorns’ offensive attack in the first half, when Reno shot 60 percent (28 of 47) from the field and displayed a level of ball movement that might suggest the team has been playing together all season.

Not one that’s lost two players (David Stockton and Aaron Harrison) to 10-day contracts within the last week.

Daniel Ochefu chimed in with 17 points and 11 rebounds off the bench, while Jack Cooley had 17 points and nine rebounds for Reno.

Friday, Santa Cruz dropped two games to Iowa — the first of which was their replay of the final 17.5 seconds of a Jan. 19 game that the Warriors successfully protested. In the second game, Iowa scored 67 points in the first half and cruised to a 112-101 win.

Saturday,Reno controlled a 69-62 lead at halftime and didn’t trail after Ochefu made a lay-up with two minutes remaining in the first quarter. The Bighorns led by as many as nine points in the first half, as Josh Hagins caught fire from behind the arc.

The 6-foot-1 guard deposited 16 points off the bench in the first half, making 4 of 5 from 3-point range.

Kevin Young acted as a spark plug late in the first half for the Warriors — and kept the deficit to single digits. The 6-8 forward, earning his first start after being claimed by the Warriors on March 15, scored seven of his nine first-half points in the final 4:32 of the half, including both put-back and alley-oop dunks.

A 9-0 run by the Warriors, capped


by a thunderous dunk from Jones, brought Santa Cruz within three points, at 88-85, with 1:51 remaining in the third quarter. But Reno had an answer all night for Santa Cruz’s runs.

And it often came in the form of some beautiful ball movement and a wide-open 3.

Matt Jones’ triple inside the final minute supplied the Bighorns a seven-point lead entering the final stanza. The Warriors lingered but never truly threatened the Bighorns late.

Hagins finished with 18 points in the game for Reno, while Young had 16 for Santa Cruz, which finishes with just its second losing season in team history.

The campaign wasn’t a total loss for the Warriors, though. Santa Cruz had three players earn NBA call-ups over the course of the season, including guard Damion Lee, whoThursday night at 7:00 p.m. EDT, but in the meantime, several additional high-quality photos of the new smartphone follow below.

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on Successful Middle Schools, and National Public Radio "Talk of the Nation" Broadcast. Dr. Jacobs has published curriculum materials with Prentice Hall, Milton-Bradley, the Electric Company, and Bowmar Publishing. Video Journal of Education features a series on her work, in addition, two other video series developed by ASCD focus on Dr. Jacobs’ curriculum models. PBS features two of her courses for teachers, "Curriculum Mapping" by Heidi Hayes Jacobs I & II, in their professional development program, PBS TeacherLine, delivered on-line.

References

Perkins-Gough, Deborah (2003). Creating a timely curriculum: a conversation with Heidi Hayes Jacobs [Electronic version]. Educational Leadership, 61(4), 12-17 (interview).

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Category:Place of birth missing (living people)"The bottom line is, Sen. Harris, when you were in a position to make a difference and an impact in these people's lives, you did not and worse. Yet in the case of those who were on death row, innocent people, you actually blocked evidence from being revealed that would have freed them until you were forced to do so," she said. "There's no excuse for that and the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor, you owe them an apology."

But Gabbard's debate performance wasn't just marked by confrontation. She wielded her credentials as an Iraq war veteran to speak about foreign policy decisions in a personal manner, charging the US must "bring our troops home."

"For too long, we had leaders who have been arbitrating foreign policy


on her childhood in Hawaii to speak about climate change, arguing the issue is "personal" for her.

"First of all, this is personal," she said. "You can imagine, I grew up in Hawaii, which is the most remote island chain in the world. So for us growing up there, protecting our environment was not a political issue, it's a way of life. It's part of our culture. It's part of who we are."

In her closing remarks, Gabbard made a simple plea to voters.

"As president, I will end this insanity," she said. "It doesn't have to be this way."Sunday, April 13, 2008

Left to My Own Devices

Amanda is on Spring Break from Norwich Free Academy this week but rather than spend it hanging around the house and being bored while I put in my standard 40+ hours at work, she boarded a southbound Amtrak train yesterday afternoon and is spending the week hanging out with her friend Darcy (aka "Toast") in New Jersey.

This is her second trip on Amtrak down to Philadelphia as she went down the first time over President's Day Weekend (Darcy's Mom has sent her tickets both times so who I am to deny her the chance to actually go do something fun?) so she's now a seasoned veteran when it comes to train travel. Her train left yesterday afternoon at 1:17 and we


like the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and to a lesser extent, Australia and New Zealand, where high levels of creativity, productivity and economic competitiveness go hand in hand with higher levels of inequality. But there are also a substantial number of countries where high levels of creativity, competitiveness and productivity combine with much lower low levels of inequality. These are largely Scandinavian and Northern

European countries, including Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, and Germany. Japan is represented as well. Among the less developed nations, we find high levels of inequality in South American nations like Paraguay, Bolivia, Panama, Brazil, Honduras, Ecuador, and Argentina. Of the BRIC nations, China, Russia and particularily Brazil all exhibit much higher levels of inequality than their GCI scores would predict. ThereModerate depression, 15--19 moderately severe depression, 20--24 severe depression.

The Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) variable included in BRFSS was used to define place of residence as either rural or non-rural. Rural residents were defined as persons living either within an MSA that had no city center or outside an MSA. Non-rural residents included all respondents living in a city center of an MSA, outside the city center of an MSA but inside the county containing the city center, or inside a suburban county of the MSA.

Race and ethnicity was calculated from participant responses to two separate survey questions---one regarding race and the other regarding Latino/Hispanic ethnicity. All race/ethnicity categories were computed as *mutually exclusive* entities. For example, all respondents coded as Caucasian chose white as their racial classification, likewise,


It is one of many creative events throughout the year, which has also included ballet, exhibitions, debates, festivals, films and music, honouring all that is great about Hull and giving a national platform for emerging talent.

Following an unforgettable first half of the year, Paper City helps to launch the start of Hull 2017’s third season, Freedom.

Paper City comes to Hull UK's City Of Culture 2017. Photo: Martin Plasek

Arguably its most poignant theme, from July 1 until September 30, an action-packed season will celebrate the city’s rebellious streak and freedom of thought, as festivals pop up in every corner of the city.

As well as colour, music will fill the air during the season launch as Hull city centre plays host to a celebration of new music from an incredibleline up of talented UK composers in PRS Foundation’s New Music Biennial: A Festival of New Music.

Taking place first in Hull, June 30 to July 2, and with a second event at London’s Southbank Centre and broadcast on BBC Radio 3, explosions of sound will erupt across Hull city centre in a series of bite-sized performances, as the city becomes the stage for new music talent.

The same weekend, Hull’s largest park, East Park, will be transformed into Malarkey Park – for an explosion of stories, poetry, music and dance in The Big Malarkey, Hull’s first Children’s Literature Festival.

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The rest of the season promises just as much colour, play and possibility as this opening weekend.

Highlights include States of Play at Humber Street Gallery, a free exhibition in


association with the Crafts Council which invites you to rethink and reclaim the universal language of play (July 7 to September 25).

From July 22 the streets of Hull will burst with pride for LGBT50, a festival celebrating the 50th anniversary of sexual freedom in the UK with a week-long programme of music, dance, theatre, comedy, film and photography.

I will feature Pride in Hull, the first ever UK Pride and a parade of 50 Queers for 50 Years, by iconic queer performance collective, Duckie. The festival will culminate with A Duckie Summer Tea Party and a concert broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 and Red Button.

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September plays host to Hull’s iconic arts festival The Freedom Festival, which marks its tenth anniversary.

Celebrating Hull’s historic contribution to the causeThe playmaker can't believe what his veteran colleague is still capable of, after the club stalwart made another crucial contribution on Saturday night

Guilherme Finkler says Archie Thompson keeps surprising his Melbourne Victory team-mates by delivering on the big stage despite reaching football's equivalent of extreme old age.

Few outfield players continue to produce their best at 36 and quick forwards are particularly vulnerable to the ravages of time.

Thompson may not be lightning fast any more, but the 54-cap Socceroo is still sharp enough to have netted eight goals this season, including two in the last two matches.

Starting in place of the injured Kosta Barbarouses, Thompson showed exceptional control when he collected a Finkler through-ball and scored past Eugene Galekovic to earn a 2-2 away to Adelaide United on Saturday,


prompting the Brazilian who supplied the assist to marvel at his evergreen team-mate.

"He's been playing for so long and still has the quality to finish like that," Finkler said.

"Not every player can do it, especially at his age. He knows sometimes he has to back up a little bit but he keeps pushing hard, as he did last week when he scored the equaliser for us."

Besart Berisha, another key member of Victory's potent attack, sat out training on Tuesday after limping off late in the draw at Coopers Stadium, but Finkler is confident the international marquee striker will recover in time to face Central Coast at home this weekend.

"He (Berisha) pulled up a bit sore but I think he's going to be fine for Friday.

"Still two or threeThe debtor appeared by counsel Eric D. Bruce.
This matter began when the debtor objected to the IRS's claim, complaining that no postpetition interest or penalties should be allowed on it. In response, the IRS agreed that no postpetition penalties should be assessed, but contended that it is entitled to postpetition interest on the claim and that the interest is nondischargeable. Eventually, on September 20, the IRS filed a motion for summary judgment. In the meantime, the IRS also objected to the chapter 7 trustee's proposed final report; at a hearing on October 9, the Court sustained that objection. Then on October 29, the debtor's objection to the IRS's claim came up for hearing, but neither the debtor nor the IRS appeared. The Court was not aware of the


summary judgment motion at that time. The trustee did appear at the hearing, and advised that she had submitted an amended final report to the U.S. Trustee. The *380 Court informed the trustee that it was denying the debtor's objection to the IRS's claim, and she prepared an order to that effect. The Court signed the order and it was filed on November 19.
Meanwhile, the debtor filed an untimely response to the IRS's summary judgment motion on November 4.[1] On November 21, the IRS filed a reply. Given the timing of these events, the Court was uncertain whether the parties consider the November 19 order to have resolved their dispute, and decided to enter this order.
In his initial objection to the IRS's claim, the debtor suggested that postpetitionGUWAHATI: Facebook and Google have thrown their weight behind the Assam government's three-year-long National Register of Citizens ( NRC ) update exercise. The internet giants are countering online campaigns directed against the exercise - with the biggest being the one led by the US-based avaaz .org, which has equated the process of identifying legal citizens in Assam with the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in neighbouring Myanmar.

The exercise to update the NRC of 1951, undertaken by the Registrar General of India under the supervision of the Supreme Court, will give the first count of illegal migrants in Assam, where the issue has been a sensitive one for decades. The updated NRC will be published on July 30 - the second draft after the first was published on December 31


The 76ers dominated in Game 5 to advance to the Eastern Conference semifinals

The Philadelphia 76ers' first-round series with the Brooklyn Nets was far more interesting than most people expected, but after a matchup that saw all sorts of drama, including ejections in Game 4 and 5, the Sixers are moving on. They crushed the Nets in Game 5, beating them 122-100 to win the series, 4-1.

Joel Embiid was back in the lineup once again after dealing with knee soreness throughout the series, and had another strong game, finishing with 23 points and 13 rebounds. After jumping out to a 14-0 lead in the first few minutes, the Sixers never looked back, and coasted the rest of the way.

Philly will now move on to face the No. 2 seedfew days off until the start of the second round against the Raptors, which will be useful but unlikely to fully solve the problem. Up against a dynamite Raptors team, the Sixers will not only need Embiid on the floor, but need him at his best.

Sixers get last laugh in battle with Dudley

Jared Dudley played his part to perfection in this series, acting as an irritant in the press and on the court, while also providing some solid play as a stretch four. In Game 4, in particular, he started a scuffle with Joel Embiid that ended up getting both himself and Jimmy Butler ejected. And taking another team's star with you in a double ejection is just about as good as it gets as a role player


in a playoff series.

But as they were always likely to do, the Sixers got the last laugh. Not only did they win the last four games of the series to advance, 4-1, but Dudley finished with 0 points in Game 5 of Tuesday night. That's a tough way to go out.

Nets miss Harris' shooting

A few seasons ago, when Joe Harris was riding the end of the bench for the Cleveland Cavaliers as they dominated the Eastern Conference, it would have been pretty much impossible to imagine that he would one day be key to a playoff series. But that he was in the first round against the Sixers.

Since his days on the Cavs, Harris has turned himself into a really solid role player thanks to his elite shootingability from behind the arc. This season, he led the league in the regular season at a ridiculous 47.4 percent, and was an important part of the Nets' offense. But against the Sixers, his shot disappeared. After going 3-of-4 from 3 in the Nets' Game 1 win, Harris went just 1-of-17 from downtown. There were plenty of other reasons for the Nets' collapse after Game 1 -- namely, the Sixers are way more talented -- but Harris going ice cold certainly didn't help.


IPL 2019

Side strain rules Ngidi out of IPL 2019

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Ngidi picked 11 wickets last season in 7 games. © BCCI

Defending IPL champions Chennai Super Kings have been handed a blow ahead of the 2019 season following an injury to Lungi Ngidi that has ruled him out of the tournament.

The South African pacer, who was expected to be a key member in the Super Kings pace attack, suffered a side strain during the fifth One-Day International against Sri Lanka at home recently.

Ngidi will now need four weeks of rest which will be followed by a rehab programme to make sure he is fully fit for the World Cup in England.

"Lungi felt discomfort while bowling during the last ODI against Sri Lanka at Newlands andimmediately stopped bowling," South Africa team manager, Dr Mohammed Moosajee said.

"Further scans revealed a Grade II muscle strain which will need up to four weeks of rest followed by a rehab programme leading up to the World Cup."

Ngidi was initially picked up by Super Kings in the auction ahead of last season. He was instrumental in their title win playing seven games in which he picked up 11 wickets. The 22-year-old was expected to be their first-choice overseas seamer this season after he successfully recovered from a long injury layoff to return to the national team.

English bowling allrounder David Willey is the overseas backup seamer Super Kings have at the moment. The Indian contingent includes Shardul Thakur, Mohit Sharma, Deepak Chahar and KM Asif.

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 Lawrence Makoaremajority of the American people, he will be heading towards a government shutdown which nobody will like and which won't accomplish anything," Schumer said.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi echoed Schumer.

"President Trump's multi-billion dollar border wall boondoggle is strongly opposed by Democrats and many Republicans," Pelosi said in a statement. "Democrats will stand fast against the immoral, ineffective border wall and the rest of Republicans' unacceptable poison pill riders."

Some Republicans would also be likely to bristle at the inclusion of the wall in a government funding bill. Even members of the Trump administration are skeptical about such a fight, according to Politico. The report said many wanted Trump to stop talking about the wall and focus on the upcoming battle over tax reform.

"You have barely anyone here saying, 'Wall,


in a final package was unclear, but "it is fair to assume" that the Affordable Care Act's cost-sharing-reduction payments and the federal government's budget caps "will be central in the talks."

Trump has at times expressed a willingness to shut down the government. He said after a budget deal reached in May that the "country needs a good 'shutdown' in September." Other Trump administration officials, like Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and the White House budget director, Mick Mulvaney, have also suggested a shutdown could be necessary.

The chaos of a shutdown would most likely come with consequences for Trump and Republicans.

For one thing, it would be historic. The last time the government shut down while one party controlled Congress and the White House was in 1979 under President Jimmy Carter.the door, and that first impressions are very important. So important, in fact, that he’s going to eliminate someone right now, based on the camera footage he was watching as they all arrived.

Who will it be? Mark singles out Mario for helping himself to the snacks. Mario stammers something about wanting to make everyone feel more comfortable, and Mark likes that he took the initiative. As Mario leaves to change his underpants, Mark points out that Dominic turned a conversation about hair products into something political. Mark likes that too. Then he points to Rich. Rich had the audacity to refer to the game as ‘stupid’. Rich looks like someone shot his dog. He stammers and asks when he called the game stupid, but Mark is firm. Rich


is constantly under threat by enemies on all sides. It is better to die loyal to Him, than to kneel to the enemy!

Verse 1

In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

After the queen of Judah was put to death for her wickedness, by order of the high priest, the son of Ahaziah, Jehoash, was crowned king, aged just seven. He ruled for forty years, perhaps in recognition of his mainly godly character. It is interesting that God does not support kings or rulers because they are 100% godly – even with flaws, He will allow a man to rule or guide others in a generally godly manner.

Verses 2-6

And Jehoash did thatyour acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.

And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.

But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.

So it was that the king called the high priest and the attendant priests and demanded to know why the repairs had not been done. From now on, he told the priests, you may no longer keep the offerings for yourselves and your families


must be set on a strict understanding and action, so that we remain mindful of our duties.

Verses 10-16

And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.

And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,

And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, andfor all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:

But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the LORD.

Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.

The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests'.

When the money in the chest was enough, it was put into bags after being counted in the presence of a secretary designated by the king. The


Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and slew Joash in the house of Millo, which goeth down to Silla.

For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city ofDavid: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

During this rebuilding work, king Hazael again began to invade Israel and captured Gath. Then, he desired to invade and capture Jerusalem in the south. You will remember that God commanded Elijah to anoint Hazael as king of Syria. Why, when he was always waging war against Israel? It seems Syria was used as a hammer to bring Israel and Judah back to God, after being punished. (It is quite possible that this is the purpose of Israel’s enemies in modern days).

When threatened, king Jehoash gathered up all the Temple items of gold and silver given to it by previous kings, plus the newer items and any money in the treasury of both the Temple and the palace, and sent


it to Hazael as a payment to go away, which he did. As a modern believer I do not understand this giving-in to an enemy. Once we try to appease an enemy, he keeps on coming relentlessly, so not only do we lose the bribe given to him, but we then live in an uneasy truce, giving us anxiety and restlessness, as we wait for yet another attack. (For more on Joash/Jehoash see references in Chronicles).

Sadly, though generally a good king, he lost his life to disgruntled courtiers who did not approve of his actions with Hazael. They killed him in the great house built into the walls of Jerusalem, next door to the palace (Millo, on the road leading to it). He was killed by trusted servants,Nathan Sproul is now facing criminal investigation in Florida over reports of voter registration fraud. And so far, it looks like there's also potential for one here.

However, there's even more to this story. Brad Blog noted one aspect of Sproul's operation that caught fire... Yet is not being investigated.

In Florida, where the focus has been on the apparently fraudulent registration forms submitted around the state with changed addresses that could result in disenfranchised voters on November 6th, the Los Angeles Times interviewed the man who Strategic Allied has fingered as the worker who submitted the initial batch in question in Palm Beach County.

50-year old William T. Hazard of Boynton Beach maintains his innocence and says he never forged applications or even "wrote on any of the forms he


collected." He says he left the firm over a pay dispute two weeks ago. Strategic Allied says the man was fired.

In any event, while saying he "did nothing wrong," he explained to the Times that he answered a Craigslist ad by a company called PinPoint Staffing seeking registered Republicans to do "voter surveys" for $12/hour.

"His only instructions," the paper reports, "were to approach people and ask whom they supported in the presidential election. When people answered with President Obama, he said, he wished them a good day. If someone said Mitt Romney, he asked if they were registered to vote. If not, he handed them forms to fill out."

He added that he was "expected to register Republicans."

Once again, it's the same ruse about taking a poll, rather thanHavana, Cuba (CNN) Celebrating Mass with thousands of Cubans on Monday, Pope Francis said that religion requires "missionary activity" and service, a subtle nod to the many restrictions his communist host country places on church activity.

The Pope urged Catholics "not to be satisfied with appearances or what is politically correct." He also noted the "efforts and sacrifices" Cuban Catholics make to spread their faith, especially in remote areas of the country. The congregation for the Mass in Holguin, on Cuba's northern coast, included Cuban president Raul Castro

Since landing in Cuba on Saturday, the Pope has largely avoided making overt political statements about Cuban politics.

Pope Francis' cap flies off his head as he deplanes in Havana on September 19.

Pope Francis' cap flies off his head as he deplanes in


Havana on September 19.

Cuban President Raul Castro walks with the Pope after his arrival on September 19.

Cuban President Raul Castro walks with the Pope after his arrival on September 19.

Children welcome the Pope shortly after he landed at the airport on September 19.

Children welcome the Pope shortly after he landed at the airport on September 19.

Soldiers march inside the airport in Havana during the arrival ceremony for the Pope on September 19.

Soldiers march inside the airport in Havana during the arrival ceremony for the Pope on September 19.

Crowds line the streets to greet the Pope in Havana on September 19.

Crowds line the streets to greet the Pope in Havana on September 19.

Pope Francis waves to people as he arrives at the Apostolic Nunciature in Havana on September 19.

PopeFrancis waves to people as he arrives at the Apostolic Nunciature in Havana on September 19.

Women wave from an apartment building as Pope Francis travels from the airport on Saturday, September 19.

Women wave from an apartment building as Pope Francis travels from the airport on Saturday, September 19.

Worshippers in Havana gather before sunrise for the Pope's Mass on September 20.

Worshippers in Havana gather before sunrise for the Pope's Mass on September 20.

Crowds surround the Pope as he arrives in Revolution Square on September 20.

Crowds surround the Pope as he arrives in Revolution Square on September 20.

Pope Francis blesses the Virgin of Charity as he celebrates Mass on September 20.

Pope Francis blesses the Virgin of Charity as he celebrates Mass on September 20.

Pope Francis walks to the altar to


celebrate Mass at Revolution Square in Havana on September 20.

Pope Francis walks to the altar to celebrate Mass at Revolution Square in Havana on September 20.

Pope Francis shakes hands with Fidel Castro in Havana on September 20. The Vatican described the 40-minute meeting at Castro's residence as informal, with an exchange of books.

Pope Francis shakes hands with Fidel Castro in Havana on September 20. The Vatican described the 40-minute meeting at Castro's residence as informal, with an exchange of books.

Pope Francis stands with Cuban President Raul Castro in the Revolution Palace in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday, September 20.

Pope Francis stands with Cuban President Raul Castro in the Revolution Palace in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday, September 20.

People cheer in Holguin as Pope Francis arrives for the Mass on September21.

People cheer in Holguin as Pope Francis arrives for the Mass on September 21.

Security surrounds Pope Francis as makes his way to the Metropolitan Cathedral in Santiago, Cuba, on Tuesday, September 22. The Pope arrived in Cuba on Saturday and is scheduled to travel to the United States on Tuesday.

Security surrounds Pope Francis as makes his way to the Metropolitan Cathedral in Santiago, Cuba, on Tuesday, September 22. The Pope arrived in Cuba on Saturday and is scheduled to travel to the United States on Tuesday.

"So far he's sticking to the script of constructive engagement, with only mild, mostly veiled criticism, of the authoritarian regime," said Andrew Chesnut, an expert on Latin America at Virginia Commonwealth University. "However, Pope Francis, the consummate diplomat, certainly spoke frankly with Raul


Castro yesterday behind closed doors."

Francis' role in restoring diplomatic ties between the United States and Cuba could be one reason the Pope is avoiding the kind of criticism that his predecessors, St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI, made during visits to Cuba.

Cuban dissidents, though, have told reporters that they are unhappy that the Pope has not taken time to meet with them.

On a personal note, Monday is the anniversary of the day Pope Francis decided to become a Catholic priest in 1953

Later on Monday, the Pope flies to Santiago, Cuba, where he will meet with Catholic clergy.

Trading gifts with Fidel Castro

On Sunday, Francis had a "friendly and informal" meeting with Fidel Castro at the former Cuban president's residence, the Vatican said.

It lasted about 30 minutes, with thePope and the communist leader exchanging books about religion. About 10 members of Castro's family were present, according to the Vatican.

Castro, who is 89 , rarely makes public appearances . He and Francis talked about the common problems of humanity, including environmental degradation, the Vatican said.

Castro's son, Alex, photographed the meeting.

Pope Francis and Fidel Castro shake hands on Sunday afternoon.

During a Mass in Havana's Revolution Square earlier Sunday, the pope told a crowd estimated at 200,000 to "serve people, not ideas."

"There is a kind of service which truly serves," the Pope preached during his homily, "yet we need to be careful not to be tempted by another kind of service, a service which is self-serving."

"There is a way to go about serving which is interested in only helping


'my people,'" Francis continued, in remarks that some analysts interpreted as a criticism of Cuba's communist government. "This service always leaves 'your people' outside, and gives rise to a process of exclusion."

Programming Note Don't miss live coverage of Pope Francis' trips to Cuba and the U.S. on CNN and CNNgo, and see the people and places that shaped Pope Francis in a CNN special report, "The People's Pope," Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET.

The Pope gets political

Since landing, Francis has made comments that many have considered carefully critical, and he has criticized Cuba in the past. In a 1998 book that he edited , he wrote that Cuba's "authoritarian" and "corrupt" regime should be scrapped in favor of a representative democracy.

Francis is the third pope to visit Cuba, afterJohn Paul in 1998 and Benedict in 2012. Francis' call for Cuba to "open itself" to the world echoed John Paul's remarks, a sign of the Catholic Church's longstanding efforts to carve out space in a country that has been officially atheist for decades.

The Vatican has said the Pope believes religious freedom in Cuba means more than the ability to worship freely. It also entails the right to open schools and practice acts of charity, as well as other missions.

Raul Castro praises Pope

Raul Castro, who has said the Pope has inspired him to consider returning to the Catholic Church, effusively praised Francis on Saturday, particularly for his criticism of consumerism and environmental degradation. He also thanked him for his role in restoring ties between the United States and


Cuba, while calling for the closing of the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay.

On Tuesday, the Pope will fly to Washington, a visible sign of the detente he has helped broker between Cuba and the United States.

"For some months now, we have witnessed an event which fills us with hope," the Pope said. "The process of normalizing relations between two peoples following years of estrangement."

Francis also called the restoration of diplomatic ties "an example of reconciliation for the entire world."

Some American conservatives, however, have criticized the restoration of ties with the communist country, saying that the United States should have required the release of political dissidents.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Raul Castro spoke on the phone Friday to discuss the process of normalizing relations between the two countries.

JustAfrican-American girls in a house built by slaves,”” he continued.

From there Beinart went on an anti-Melania and anti-Republican tirade, saying, “Let's be honest with ourselves, Melania Trump cannot tell the story of America in the way of Michelle Obama.” That is when he completely wrote for her experience of being an immigrant and coming to America for a better opportunity, “She has not lived the story of America. She does not understand the story of America.”

After besmirching Melania’s past, Beinart turned his sights on to the GOP. “And that's a profound difference more generally between these two parties,” he chided, “When the Democrats talk about the story of America, they talk about slavery. They talk about the brutality of American history.”

He also attacked the GOP for promoting a


continues to elevate and solidify its position as the leading entertainment pop culture news among our competitors.”

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Economic confidence in the euro area soared to a two-year high in August as the currency bloc’s recovery gathered pace after it exited a record-long recession.

An index of executive and consumer sentiment rose for a fourth month to 95.2 from 92.5 in July, the European Commission in Brussels said today. The median of 26 economists’ forecasts in a Bloomberg News survey was for an increase to 93.8.

Increased momentum in the euro-area economy since it returned to growth in the second quarter after an 18-month contraction has boosted equities, with the Stoxx Europe 600 Index up 3.6 percent in the last two months. Yet Europe continues to struggle with the legacy of a debt crisis now in its fourth year, including a


torched the defense again.

The Texans propelled themselves to the top of the AFC South during their streak.

With Luck in town, they again looked like a team that would be happy just to make the playoffs.

Brian T. Smith is a sports columnist for the Houston Chronicle. He has won multiple Associated Press Sports Editors awards and been honored by numerous journalism organizations. Smith was a Houston Texans beat writer for the Chronicle from 2013-15 and an Astros beat writer from 2012-13. The New Orleans-area native previously covered the NBA's Utah Jazz (The Salt Lake Tribune) and Portland Trail Blazers (The Columbian), among other beats. He is the author of the book Liftoff, which documented the Astros' rebuild and 2017 World Series championship.Michael Jackson trial: Conrad Murray's payment demands 'outrageous'

The jury at the trial in the wrongful-death suit filed by Katherine Jackson and her grandchildren -- Prince, Paris and Blanket -- found Wednesday that AEG Live LLC was not liable in the death of the pop superstar. The lawsuit had alleged that AEG negligently hired and controlled Dr. Conrad Murray, who administered a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol to Jackson shortly before he was to begin his "This Is It" comeback concerts in London.

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A professional concert tour director testified Friday in the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial that a doctor's demand for $5 million to serve as the singer's tour physician "raised a red flag."

Marty Hom, who has spent 25 to 30 years as a tour director and


tour manager, said that Dr. Conrad Murray's original demand was "outrageous." Murray, a cardiologist who closed his practice to serve Jackson, eventually agreed to work for $150,000 a month.

Hom, who testified as an expert witness, also said he would never tell a director he had checked out a doctor if he hadn’t, a reference to claims by the Jackson family about an AEG executive.

A portion of Hom's March 25 video deposition was played to the jury in the lawsuit brought by Jackson's mother and three children. They contend that entertainment giant AEG negligently hired and supervised Murray, who administered a fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol to the singer to combat his insomnia. AEG says that Jackson hired Murray and that any payments the company was supposed tomake to the doctor were advances to the singer.

Anschutz Entertainment Group had deposed Hom as an expert witness, paying him $500 a hour. In an unusual move, the Jacksons' attorneys played about 45 minutes of the deposition, taken under oath. Brian Panish, one of the family's lawyers, said he played the testimony to ensure the jury heard it, even if AEG did not call Hom during the trial.

Hom also testified he had never been on a tour where the artist brought a doctor along, although he later said doctors toured with the Rolling Stones and Blink 182, but Hom did not work with them.

Much of Hom's testimony centered on the relationship between a tour manager, performer and doctor. A key question in the lawsuit is whether Murray, who


Tens of thousands of demonstrators in Hong Kong surrounded the city's legislature on Wednesday, forcing it to postpone a second round of debate on an extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial.

The protesters, most of them young people dressed in black, erected barricades as they prepared to hunker down for an extended occupation of the area, in scenes reminiscent of pro-democracy ‘Occupy’ protests that rocked the city in 2014.

Protesters rallied in and around Lung Wo Road, a main east-west artery near the offices of embattled Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, as hundreds of riot police, some armed with batons and plastic shields, warned them to stop advancing.

‘Didn't we say at the end of the Umbrella movement we would be back?’pro-democracy lawmaker Claudia Mo said, referring to the name often used for the 2014 ‘Occupy’ demonstrations.

‘Now we are back!’ she said as supporters echoed her words.

Lam has vowed to press ahead with the legislation despite deep concerns in the Asian financial hub, including among business leaders, that it could undermine freedoms and investor confidence, and erode the city's competitive advantages.

Opposition to the bill on Sunday triggered Hong Kong's biggest political demonstration since its handover from British to Chinese rule in 1997 under a deal guaranteeing it special autonomy.

The government said debate on the bill that was due to take place in the city's 70-seat Legislative Council on Wednesday would be delayed until further notice.

The legislature is controlled by a pro-Beijing majority.

‘We won't leave till they scrap the law,’


the financial centre where glittering skyscrapers house the offices of some of the world's biggest companies, including HSBC.

The massive rally was also within sight of the Hong Kong garrison of China's People's Liberation Army, whose presence in the city has been one of the most sensitive elements of the 1997 handover.

Standard Chartered, Bank of East Asia and HSBC suspended bank operations at some branches in the area.

A spokesman for bourse operator Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) said Lam would not attend a cocktail reception on Wednesday as previously planned.

The proposed bill has attracted widespread criticism at home and abroad, prompting rare criticism from judges, Hong Kong's business community, some pro-establishment figures and several foreign governments and business chambers.

Demonstrators from across a wide spectrum of Hong Kong societybegan joining overnight protests earlier on Wednesday as businesses across the city prepared to go on strike.

Lam has sought to soothe public concerns and said her administration was creating additional amendments to the bill, including safeguarding human rights.

Under the proposed law, Hong Kong residents, as well as foreign and Chinese nationals living or travelling through the city, would all be at risk if they are wanted on the mainland.

Sunday's protest, which organisers said saw more than a million people take to the streets, in addition to a snowballing backlash against the extradition bill, could raise questions about Lam's ability to govern effectively.

CRISIS

The protests have plunged Hong Kong into political crisis, just as the 2014 demonstrations did, heaping pressure on Lam's administration and her official backers in Beijing.

The failure


of the 2014 protests to wrest concessions on democracy from Beijing, coupled with the prosecutions of at least 100 mostly young protesters, initially discouraged many from going back out on the streets. That changed on Sunday.

Britain handed Hong Kong back to China 22 years ago under a ‘one-country, two-systems’ formula, with guarantees that its autonomy and freedoms, including an independent justice system, would be protected.

However, many accuse China of extensive meddling since then, including obstruction of democratic reforms, interference with local elections and of being behind the disappearance of five Hong Kong-based booksellers, starting in 2015, who specialised in works critical of Chinese leaders.

Beijing rejects those accusations and official Chinese media said this week ‘foreign forces’ were trying to damage China by creating chaos over the extradition bill.

TheState officials have given the green light for the first crop of marijuana two years after the law permitting its growth for medical purposes was passed. Greenleaf Compassion Center, a medical marijuana center in Montclair, has been granted permission to immediately start growing marijuana, a process that will take three to four months for cultivation, the Department of Health and Senior Services said Monday. Although Greenleaf officials say they could start planting tomorrow, CEO Joe Stevens said the facility will hold off until it receives more guarantees from the Christie administration about the program's future.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Poland on Wednesday signed a joint declaration affirming defence cooperation, U.S. President Donald Trump said.

“As the declaration makes very clear, the United States and Poland are not only bound by a strategic partnership, but deep common values, shared goals and a very strong and abiding friendship,” Trump said at a White House news conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda.their needs, in the face of corporate resistance. But despite obstacles, for its entire history, Silicon Valley has been as much a cauldron of resistance and new strategies for labor and community organizing as it has been for the production of fabulous wealth. Workers have opposed inhuman conditions. Community organizations have fought for social justice and equality. They will keep on doing that.

High-tech builds its anti-union model and workers respond

The anti-communist hysteria of the late 1940s and ‘50s bred a fratricidal struggle in the US labor movement. This led to the expulsion of the union founded to organize workers in the electrical industry—the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). While the new high-tech industry was growing in the Santa Clara Valley, the union that could


auto manufacturing to steelmaking.

Children of Versatronex workers on the picket line. | David Bacon

A co-inventor of the transistor and founder of an early Silicon Valley laboratory, William Shockley, espoused theories of the genetic inferiority of African-Americans. As Shockley, Noyce and others guided development in the Valley, they instituted policies that effectively segregated its workforce.

In electronics plants, women were the overwhelming majority, while the engineering and management staff consisted overwhelmingly of men. Immigrants from Asian and Latin American countries were drawn to the Valley’s production lines. Engineering and management jobs went to white employees. African-American workers were frozen out almost entirely. Although unemployment in the African-American communities of Oakland and East Palo Alto, within easy commuting distance of the plants, has remained at depression levels, African-Americans are still notabove 7.5 percent of the workforce in any category, and below 3 percent in management and engineering.

Starting in the early 1970s, workers began to form organizing committees affiliated to the UE in plants belonging to National Semiconductor, Siltec, Fairchild, Siliconix, Semimetals, and others. Most of these were semiconductor manufacturing plants or factories that supplied raw materials to those plants.

“It was very hard organizing a union in those plants because the feeling of powerlessness among the workers was so difficult to overcome … It seems obvious that there has to be a long-term effort and commitment, with a movement among workers in the industry as a whole, and in the communities in which they live,” said Amy Newell, who helped start a rank-and-file organizing committee at Siliconix, and later


companies and won cost-of-living raises, held public hearings on racism and firings in the plants, and campaigned to expose the dangers of working with numerous toxic chemicals—all without a formal union contract.

Eventually, the semiconductor manufacturers, especially National Semiconductor, fired many of the leading union activists, and the committee gradually dispersed as its members sought work wherever they could find it. The main strategic question, which the committee sought to answer, remains unresolved. In large electronics manufacturing plants, union-minded workers are a minority for a long period of time. Their organization has to be active on the plant floor to win over the majority of workers by fighting around the basic conditions that affect them. But it has to be able to help its members survive in an extremesaid Romie Manan, “was that Filipino workers, in particular, lost their jobs by the thousands, more than any other national group.” Manan lost his job as National closed its last mass production wafer fabrication line in the Valley in 1994.

Employers turn to contractors, unions to new tactics

In 1993 Intel built a new $1 billion plant in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, instead of California, because New Mexico offered $1 billion to help finance construction. Lower wages were another determining factor. In Silicon Valley, the more permanent jobs in the large manufacturing plants began disappearing. But contractors who provided services to large companies, from janitorial and food services to the assembly of circuit boards, employed more workers every year.

Workers losing jobs in the semiconductor plants made as much as $11-14/hour


have been at the cutting edge of the labor movement’s search for new ways to organize. They rely on alliances between workers, unions and communities to offset the power exercised by employers. Often they use organizing tactics based on direct action by workers and supporters, like civil disobedience, rather than a high-pressure election campaign that companies frequently win. As workers organized around conditions they faced on the job, they learned to deal with issues of immigration, discrimination in the schools, police misconduct, and other aspects of daily life in immigrant communities.

Electronics manufacturers have been forced over the years to permit outside contract services, like janitorial services and in-plant construction, to be performed by union contractors. Nevertheless, the industry has drawn a line between outside services and the assemblycontractors who are part of the industry’s basic production process. In one section, unions can be grudgingly recognized; in the other, they will not be. Workers, communities and unions need a higher level of unity to win the right for workers to organize effectively in the plants themselves.

In the heyday of the UE Electronics Organizing Committee, the National Semiconductor plant had almost ten thousand workers, working directly for the company. By the time Romie Manan was laid off, employment had fallen to 7000. Over half worked for temporary employment agencies, including almost all production workers. Manpower, the temp agency, had an office on the plant floor. According to Mike Garcia, the late president of SEIU Local 1877, “high technology manufacturing doesn’t create high-wage, high-skill jobs. It patterns itself


after the service sector. Contractors in manufacturing compete over who can drives wages and benefits the lowest.”

David Bacon is a journalist and photographer in San Francisco. He is a member of the Editorial Board of International Union Rights. He was chairperson of the UE Electronics Organizing Committee in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and an organizer for the UE at Versatronex.Survival tactics for the smaller end of town

Small practices are particularly vulnerable to an ever-changing legal market, writes the head of Owen Hodge Lawyers Rolf Howard.

In 1999 Spencer Johnson published his classic book, Who moved my cheese? which tackled the important topic of how to cope with change.

The tome warned against the mistake of ignoring change – a lesson many personal injury lawyers in New South Wales would learn within a few short years when their multi-million dollar practices were reduced to ashes.

One has to say that some stubborn and heroic characters continued to practice as they always had but many of us took the book’s advice on board; “The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.”

Unfortunately many small practices continue to


decade change was upon us with the listing of law firms in Australia. Three firms have listed. Two have focused upon the market for individuals and have been very successful. One has failed. The failed firm had no discernible market niche. It merely replicated a myriad of mid-tier firms focused on high net worth individuals and businesses of whatever size or shape it could attract.

Small practices are under threat

Now in 2015 it is the rise of mega-firms such as Slater & Gordon and Shine Lawyers, which are proving a far greater threat to the viability of today’s traditional law firms.

Slaters has become a darling of the Australian Stock Exchange. Its growth trajectory continues unabated. Whilst it is rarely discussed by the press, interested in global law firms andmolten metal into mold cavities as a part of the pouring process.
With some of the aforesaid pouring arrangements, the molten metal or alloy may at some point cover part of a mold's exterior face as with the pouring basin or gate connection. When forming a vacuum seal so that molten metal can be pulled into the mold gates, it is sometimes desirable to immerse the bottom exterior face of the mold in the melt to gain a seal, and even some minor portions of the side exterior faces of the mold can be immersed also for such vacuum seals.
In accordance with the present invention a foundry method comprises assembling and closing an openable rigid mold body represented by metal-confining separable exterior walls defining a mold cavity and substantially


a solidified cast metal part, and recovering said solidified cast metal part from said mold.
Also in accordance with the present invention is an apparatus which comprises an openable rigid mold body of metal-confining separable exterior walls defining a mold cavity and substantially uniformly composed of a glass ceramic converted from the glassy state by devitrification to a polycrystalline ceramic existing substantially as a single phase microstructure, said metal-confining exterior walls having at least one in-gate to admit molten metal into said mold cavity, means for closing said openable rigid mold body, means for submerging substantially completely said mold body in a bath of molten meal, means for disposing said mold while in said bath with said in-gate at the highest level of the mold cavity representing the partto be molded, means for removing said mold body from said bath with said in-gate so disposed, means for cooling said removed mold to solidify metal which has entered therein from said bath through said in-gate, and means for removing such solidified metal from said mold.
The process and apparatus of the present invention take advantage of the metallostatic pressure head and the melt's high temperature and radiant heat to preheat the mold, vent its gasses, and to run and feed the casting's sections when the mold is submerged.
The mold itself provides important contributions to the invention. Suitable mold materials which maximize heat transfer in thin wall (up to about one centimeter but preferably on the order of about five millimeters in thickness) mold sections are disclosed in my


se.
When required, venting can be accomplished by a "chimney" projecting from the mold above the top surface of the bath for as long as it is necessary for venting. The submersion of the mold along with the position and motion given to it uses the heat of the bath and its metallostatic pressure head to preheat the mold and force out the mold atmosphere (and any core or other gases developed) while pressuring the flow of metal into the mold to run even thin, difficult sections. Alternatively, the mold atmosphere may be forced under the metallostatic pressure head into a small cavity or chamber provided at the top of the mold cavity to act as a receiver therefor.
Although the submerged casting process can be carried out by submersionfor recent star formation. The old epoch of star formation is present in both areas as well. It is possible that the old stars in the outermost regions were formed further in, but migrated outwards through dynamical relaxation or interaction with spiral arms (Grand, Kawata & Cropper 2012).

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We have divided the stellar populations into four different age bins, and plot their spatial distributions in Fig. 10. All populations are centrally concentrated, but this is especially true for the youngest and – to a lesser extent – the oldest. The intermediate-age populations are distributed more uniformly across the disc. It is interesting to note also the asymmetry in the distributions, with a higher density towards the south. The youngest population exhibits a local overdensity in the


flooding. Following the end of the Cold War, a telephone-based system was thought to be more appropriate for national warnings and less expensive to maintain. Additionally the Government retains an ability to break into television and radio broadcasts for the purpose of alerting the general public and has legal power to take over editorial control of the BBC during a national emergency under the BBC Charter and the Broadcasting Act 1980.

The national siren system was largely dismantled during the 1990s. The British Government cited the increasing use of double-glazed windows (which make sirens harder to hear) and the reduced likelihood of air attack as reasons to eliminate the system in most parts of the country. Some coastal and river areas have retained and regularly test the sirens asPolice in East London have launched an appeal for information and witnesses after a woman was pushed into the Regent’s Canal as she rode her bike along the towpath.

The Metropolitan Police say the incident happened on Thursday evening at around 7.30pm, on a section of the canal at Limehouse between Commercial Road and Salmon Lane.

Officers say the 33-year-old victim was heading north on the towpath when she spotted a group of youths walking towards her.

After slowing down, she heard one “shout out an order to push her in,” according to the police, with a female among the group pushing her, resulting in the cyclist and her bike ending up in the water.

The group – numbering five or six people and including males and females, and described as between


and innovated on in the United States and find them for dramatically less costs.”

In that previous vote, an amendment authorizing drug reimportation by Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was voted down 52-46. Thirteen Republicans joined a majority of Democrats to support it, but 13 Democrats opposed it.

Booker first faced a backlash on social media, where he repeatedly defended his vote, saying that he supported the issue in concept but had issues with the particular amendment; he also was confronted by Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman days later at an inaugural event where he continued to defend his vote against the bill.

Sanders also implicitly criticized Booker for his vote. “The Democratic Party has got to make it very clear that they are prepared to stand up to powerful special interestsI got a video of them getting off.

Suho nodded and was smiling the whole time when he was getting off, while the rest didn’t much. Tao and Kai had headphones on the whole time on the bus and a while after too. Kai is a bit strange, maybe too obsessed with dancing; he did a move while getting off, and kept dancing randomly when he had the headphones on XD We walked behind them but I only took one picture since the makeup noona told us to stop.

Tao turned around and graced us with his forehead by lifting half of his bangs, then makeup noona turned him back around. Kris played around with Chanyeol playfully putting him in a mock headlock. At one point Suho posed for the


in 30 min but they don’t understand English. EXO stood at edge of the platform with their backs to us and the managers and noona kept some space between them and fans. We ended up telling one noona the shuttle would take a long time, and she seemed to understand, but the manager was already on the phone. Luhan was really cute since he had tied his bangs hair up into a ponytail and at one point was practicing a dance move to himself.

A fan threw Tao a panda, which hit his backpack and fell between them; he turned around, saw it, smiled prettily and picked it up. Another fan tried to hand someone expensive-looking headphones and a noona was about to take it but manager told herstars alongside Justin Long in horror movie Tusk. Judging by some of the promo material for the movie, Genesis will strip down to her underwear in the movie, but I doubt she’ll go any further though.

Christina has a sex scene at the beginning of the movie with her co-star Philip Seymour Hoffman. It’s not as interesting as the sex scene Hoffman had with Marisa Tomei in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, but still, I am sure some will find it interesting as well.

Scottish actress Rose Leslie, who is best known as Ygritte on Game of Thrones, has a few nude scenes in Honeymoon. A brief shot of her ass and lots of sideboob while having shower sex. A dark scene where she is naked from behind standing


Kristen Wiig in her hotel room. Kristen is wearing an unfastened bathrobe and we see brief glimpses of her naked body as she moves around. Kristen then goes down to the casino floor and we see her breasts from the side as she removes her robe. We then see her full frontal nude for a few seconds before she is apprehended by security.”

Some additional nudity reports from TIFF:

Jennifer Connellybares her bush in Shelter in a scene where she’s shooting heroin into her leg.

Jessica De Gouw, best known for her roles on Dracula and Arrow, makes her nude debut in Cut Snake. She briefly shows her breasts and buns during a sex scene.

Shane Lynch, who starred on a few episodes of 90210, Ray Donovan and Magic City, is brieflythe one whose photos leaked on the internet. I decided to take a look at the names on the list which I didn’t recognize or heard little about them before the leaks started.

Allegra Carpenter… actress, had a small part in The Fault in Our Stars, otherwise she’s a fashion model, started her career at the age of 13, turned to acting in 2010

Another new movie she stars in is 7500. It’s a horror movie about Flight 7500 on which the passengers encounter what appears to be a supernatural force in the cabin. The movie was released on DVD in Germany a few days ago.

Jessica Chastain will be guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday. She stars alongside Colin Farrell in drama Miss Julie. The movie


is about is set in 1890, and she stars as an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy who encourages her father's valet to seduce her.

Selma Blair will be guest The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Thursday. She stars alongside Sarah Chalke in the pilot for Amazon Prime comedy series Really.

Amazon released several pilots recently, the viewers will be able to watch, rate and discuss for one month and ultimately help Amazon decide which shows will get the greenlight next season.development and marketing for the EMEA region. She reports to EMEA chairman and CEO Andrew Laurence.

CORPORATE Ethiad Airways has hired Four Communications to handle its UK PR after a competitive pitch. The agency reports into vice-president of corporate comms Iain Burns.

CONSUMER The £20m Beatles-themed Hard Day’s Night Hotel in Liverpool has brought in Eulogy on a consumer brief, ahead of its grand opening later this year.

CONSUMER Train industry group ATOC is using Clarion Communications to increase coverage of its Railcard Epic Savings campaign. Clarion will target the three key Railcard groups: Young Persons; Family; and Seniors.

CONSUMER Williams Media Publishing is seeking an agency to launch its ‘Watch It Do It’ brand of books. The Independent newspaper named its children’s cookbook as the second-best on the market in July.


ECEMBER 3, 2009—D ECIDED A PRIL 12, 2010

  Before E ASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and M ANION and
E VANS, Circuit Judges.
  E VANS, Circuit Judge. In 1998, Kenneth Truhlar was
working as a letter carrier for the United States Postal
Service in Westmont, Illinois, when a car rear-ended his
mail truck, injuring his back and neck. Truhlar sought
partial disability payments but failed to disclose in the
disability compensation paperwork that he was earning
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money playing bass guitar for a rock band called BANG!.
When the PostalService discovered the omission, it
launched an investigation to determine whether he had
engaged in misconduct. It ultimately concluded that he
had, and in 2005, Truhlar was fired. He sued the Postal
Service and his local union, John Grace Branch #825 of
the National Association of Letter Carriers, under § 301 of
the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (LMRA), 29
U.S.C. § 185, claiming that the Service breached the col-
lective bargaining agreement by firing him without
just cause and that the union breached its duty of fair
representation. Truhlar’s suit, which is a form of hybrid
litigation, came to an end when the district court granted
the defendants’ motion for summary judgment. Truhlar
appeals that decision.
  Although the parties disagree over a number of (ulti-
mately immaterial) details, the following facts are undis-
puted. In order to collect partial disability


After almost three agonizing hours in which first Clinton pulled ahead, then Sanders, then Clinton again, the Democratic primary in Kentucky is still too close to call. With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton is ahead of Bernie Sanders by less than a single point, according to the Upshot — at last count, she and Sanders were separated by a few more than 4,000votes.

NBC went ahead and called the race for Clinton — and Clinton herself declared victory on her official Twitter account — but other outlets have yet to declare a winner. Only one thing is certain: It won’t beO’Malley.

Meanwhile, the results of the Republican primary in Oregon are out, and in a real shocker, multiple outlets have named Trump the winner. With 21 percent of precincts- a 17.1 percent increase. Also, sales increased month-to-month with 711 homes sold this past September, for a 7.7 percent increase of October over September.

Statewide, 3,589 homes were sold last month and 3,165 were sold in October 2008 for a 13.4 percent hike.

"October sales represent the first positive year-over-year change ... since July 2007 (27 months) which was 4.5 percent," Dr. Grayson Glaze, executive director of the Alabama Center for Real Estate at the University of Alabama, said.

Glaze also said the sales figures were a pleasant surprise for the month of October."The last time the month of October saw a positive percentage in sales versus a prior (October) was in October 2005 when it was 14.8 percent," he said.

The state also saw a 2.6 percent sales increase in


initiatives covering over 1,500 projects in 20 federal agencies–the Pentagon has 63 solar programs, the highest among the agencies, followed by the Interior Department, with 37 programs and the Energy Department (DOE) with 34 solar programs. States also have also heavily subsidized the solar industry by offering tax breaks and 538 rebate programs. Twenty states have personal tax credits related to solar products, 18 states have corporate tax credit and deduction programs, and 14 states and Puerto Rico offer taxpayer-funded grants to support solar electricity.

Clearly the US solar industry needs to be reined in. But there is hope. As noted in the recent death of rooftop solar post one of the underpinnings of US rooftop solar – net metering – is coming under attack and at the endalso said a Crime Scene Investigation van was parked outside the home last night.

The injured man is now assisting police with inquiries and police do not believe anyone else was involved in the incident.

A manhunt was launched involving patrols and members of the elite STAR Group tactical division. The surrounding area was cordoned off and the police helicopter circling the area during the hunt.

Officers surrounded a home on Sheringa Crescent and were at one point were negotiating with someone believed to have been inside the home. It is unknown if the house was empty.

STAR Group officers later stood down as detectives moved into the home.

Members of the public were asked to stay away from the area and remain inside their homes, a police spokeswoman said.

Detectives have just brought


shoreline, only a few hundred feet between the Pacific Ocean and the stores and shops.

A street performer handles a live python. A few feet away from him, three young men break dance to the beat from a large speaker. And over by them, a man with an absurd amount of makeup for a man talks to a camera, before creepily going near a group of women.

Soon enough, Shizuka spots something. “Ooh, wait a second, Kilo!” She runs over to a small shop kiosk, where the bubbly Joestar quickly purchases a bikini swimsuit, before catching up with her companion.

“Syringe,” says Kilo, walking towards the beach and ignoring the sights and sounds. As he speaks, he points at the shadier spots, where unsavory items can be seen. “Cigarette butt. Cigarettefront door from the sand.

Shizuka stares at the house, then at the photograph saved on her smartphone. The house has the same shape of the one in the picture. The number on the front is also the same. But in the photograph, the large potted plants on the second storey veranda are green and vibrant, while the ones in front of her are barren, dying. Likewise, the white walls in the photograph is replaced by a dull grey. Nothing moves from behind the windows. No life is apparent to the building at all.

“Do you think maybe we have the wrong house?” she asks her companion, frowning at the photograph again.

“I think so,” Kilo replies, glancing at the photo.

“But this house looks completely empty. There’s nobody here…”

“Then we take


a look inside, and see if there are any clues. You don’t want to leave empty-handed, do you?”

Shizuka pauses, then shakes her head. They approach the door, and Shizuka stands at the top of the steps, keeping look-out on the street while Kilo sees to the door. He knocks twice, waiting thirty seconds. These seconds tick by in silence. Then he summons SATURN BARZ to grip the door by its edge, ready to pull it off its hinges.

Shizuka quickly turns to survey the street and beach, looking out for any witnesses. She raises a thumb back at him. A second later, she hears the uncomfortably loud sound of the door being ripped off, then gently placed to the side. She spares one last look at the beach beforePublic meeting on Truckee Veterans Hall sale slated for March 5

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TRUCKEE, Calif. - A community meeting before the Truckee-Donner Recreation & Park District Board of Directors on the potential sale of the Truckee Veterans Hall Building is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 5, in the building located at 10214 High St.The district, which bought the building in 1994 from Nevada County for $1, is considering selling it to Tahoe Forest Church, which is looking for a permanent home.In past TDRPD meetings, residents have raised concerns about the public-to-private sale, including a potential increase in traffic on narrow roadways, additional snowmelt runoff in the spring and public access to the Rocking Stone.At the district's December board meeting, Tahoe Forest Church members addressed some of those concerns by


1950's!

The highest point on the very flat island.

An old gold smelting mine.

The other side of the island features very strong currents and rocky beaches. We hiked all along the coast and eventually made it to a private beach all our own.

The California Lighthouse is at the very tip of the island and was named after a cruise liner that sank off the island in the early 1920's.

An old tanker bombed in WWII still sits. Apparently there are about a dozen sunken ships within the surrounding waters of Aruba and divers enjoy peeking into the wreckage.

We drove over to the locals side of town, Baby Beach.

A pelican was spooked by our little jeep. I love this photo.

There are lots of abandoned buildings on the island which I thought werehealth-care and education sector — a consistent employment juggernaut — clinched the No. 2 spot with a net gain of 27,000 jobs. Health care and social services, including ambulatory outpatient care, hospitals and nursing and resident facilities added 24,000 jobs.

The manufacturing industry, a priority for President Donald Trump, posted a third straight month of weak hiring. The sector added just 3,000 jobs last month. Manufacturing hiring posted zero growth in March.

"Total nonfarm payroll employment edged up in May (+75,000), and the unemployment rate remained at 3.6 percent," the Labor Department said in a release. "Employment in professional and business services continued to trend up over the month (+33,000) and has increased by 498,000 over the past 12 months."

"Employment showed little change in May in other major industries, including


mining, manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, information, financial activities, leisure and hospitality, and government," the Labor Department said.

Leisure and hospitality had a healthy net job gain of 26,000 thanks to a surge in employment adds in the food service industry. That topped the preliminary March read of 33,000; the leisure employment gains for March were adjusted higher to 37,000 in subsequent releases.

Retail trade shed 7,600 jobs following a loss of 12,000 in April and a decline of 15,000 jobs in March.

WATCH: CNBC's full interview with Trump economic advisor Kevin Hassettfooting 10. The basement floor slab 14 is then poured atop the interiorly exposed section 18 of the footing 10 and the interior foundation soil.
As water tables rise, the soil surrounding the foundation, including the soil in the interior of the foundation 16 and underneath the footing 10, becomes saturated with water. Due to hydrostatic pressure resulting from the increased volume of soil bearing against the foundation, the soil pushes against the footing 10 on all sides, against an exterior face 20 of the basement wall 12, and underneath the basement floor slab 14. Water then begins to seep in at any joints in the foundation. Again referring to FIG. 1, these joints exist where the footing 10, the basement floor slab 14, and the basement wall 12


intersect. In particular, water from water-saturated soil in the interior of the foundation 16 is leached to an underside of the floor slab 14 due to capillary action, where the water then seeps along the top of the footing 10 and to a top of the basement floor 14. Water also enters the foundation at the exterior face 20 of the basement wall 12, along the top of the footing 10, and up to the basement wall 12. Finally, water enters along an interior face 22 of the basement wall 12 and at the floor 14.
Water diverting or drainage systems have been developed to combat at least some of the sources of water in a basement. In a first system, a perforated drain pipe (commonly referred to asthis depth is undesirable, as it creates pockets or holes that potentially undermine the integrity of the footing.
In a second system, a pipe having intermittently spaced holes along an interior-facing side of the pipe is installed above the basement footing and under the basement floor slab. Thus, the pipe is not installed directly in the soil, as in the first system. Although the pipe receives water flowing down the interior face of the basement wall and along a top of the footing and under the basement wall, the pipe is insufficient for receiving water leaching upwards from the interior of the foundation. Because soil located in the interior of the foundation is especially prone to retaining water, it is desirable to install a water diverting system that pulls


influencing host phenotypes. In the present study, several new findings were presented. First, we identified a number of associations between cecal microbiota and AST, chest depth, estradiol, IL_4, LPS, MDA, and SOD under the two different rearing conditions. Second, we found a group of co-occurrence microbes and demonstrated the single OTU-based module-trait associations, as well as provide some new insights into microbiota-trait relationships. The predictable differences in the microbes-traits association results between the ducks raised in the two conditions might be explained by the different exposure degrees to the ground and feces of the two duck groups. The RLF ducks were allowed to play in the pond, which gave the ducks more exposure to the pathogenic bacteria and potentially increased the community transmission of the pathogenic bacteria. Asa result, more opportunistic pathogens were found in the gut microbiota of the RLF ducks, and the ascites were more common in the RLF ducks than the RPMF ducks.

In summary, Shannon index showed that the gut microbiota of the cecum was much more diverse and independent of rearing conditions, which was in concert with the previous results in broiler chickens^[@CR32]--[@CR34]^. However, we found the chao1 index was highest in the duodenum regardless of rearing conditions. We speculate that it was caused by the proximal position of the duodenum to the esophagus, and the microbes from feed increased its bacterial richness. In the present study, the microbiota was found to separate evidently in different intestinal regions and under different rearing environments. A number of previous studies had the similar


for the effected person to stay by their fire and sleep for the day. And, it seemed to have caught Mageria. She had managed to get up and dress, coughing the entire time. Jess was glaring at her, but with six children in a building that was comfortable for two adults; she wasn’t going to get any rest anyways. There was a knock at the door, looking at the time told Mageria that she was far late for Ess’s training. She groaned under her breath and started towards the door, only to find Jess there in front of her. The pregnant woman pulled the door open and ordered the children outside before glaring at whoever was on the other side. “Today, endurance training. You get to take careof the kids.” She closed the door firmly and grabbed Mageria’s shoulder, somehow managing to steer her even though the Captain was taller by 4 inches and had years of fight training. “You . . . are going back to bed.”

Ess stumbled backwards from the sudden entourage of children running past and around her (followed by Puppy), quirking a brow she nodded with a chuckle at the idea of the kids as her ‘endurance’ training for the day; like she hadn’t done enough running already this morning. It was not a bad day to spend outside, although it was cold, it was well above freezing. Tala came pouncing over happily, diving into a pile of fluffy, light snow besides the wolfhound; the effect covering both animals in white.


thumping harder in the snow. “Aww, think Tala likes you Lily.”

A sudden defiant scream, alerted Ess to the boys arguing who’s snow ball hit who first, the sight causing her to roll her eyes. With a sigh she stood walking over to the four as they began shoving one another back and forth. “Hey!…Really you all can’t play nice for five minutes?” Ess’ words fell on deaf ears as they ignored her. Tucking her upper lip behind her top teeth Ess let out an ear piercing whistle, Tala bolting forward to her side. For a second she got the boys’ attention before they went back into it. Crossing her arms a bit frustrated, Ess turned to Tala, “Tala….stand at attention!” She commanded, the wolf sitting back on herhitting harder. Bending at the knees she lightly danced around the sand bag in a one, two motion with her fists. Trying to keep her mind clear was not an option that day, and it was just one thought after another memory,after another thought, which only seemed to cause her to hit harder.

{Flashback…22 years ago in BlackPond}

Essence backed herself into a dark corner, her hands bound before her which she tried to use to block the man from coming any closer. Her voice was weak from her constant wailing, her cheeks streaked through the filth from her flow of tears. Ess wasn’t alone in the room, however. Several other young girls were huddled together in the far corner, trying to remain silent in their fear of angering their


to grip her by the throat, raising her high against the wall. Her pale cheeks began to turn red, slowly to a blue as she kicked, panicking to breath as he choked her with one hand, the other tearing the sleeves off her gown. “Stupid….litta’ whore…” Another moment passed, Ess’ eyes rolling up in her head as she lost consciousness.

Essence awoke some time later, her throat aching in pain, finding herself dressed in a blue, cotton gown. She was on the floor of a room, empty of all but a fire place which was burning the last of it’s embers, several girls huddled around it for warmth. One of the girls spoke, the familiar voice perking Ess’ interest as a blond blue eyed girl, a year or soseveral hired hands appearing down the halls, causing the girls to dip and run into another direction. Soon enough they were cornered against a window, where Ess instantly began pounding on the glass, not caring when her fist went through and sliced her all the way up to her elbow. After taking out all the glass with her bare hands, blood slowly coating her skin, Ess began pushing Jemma towards the window. “Time to go! Hurry, out the window!”Ess squatted, Jemma climbing up on her shoulders and out the window with a heavy thud as she landed on the otherside. “Run Jemma!” Ess never even got a chance to climb out, before she was struck hard with the hilt of a sword, everything turning black as she hit


anymore. Her skin was peeled back just around the knuckles, shiny and red from their repetition, yet Ess just smiled going for another round. “They…are not….good and….bloody…yet….” She muttered in a defiant growl, the words seeping out each time her fist collided with its target. The aching inside her seemed to level in her excursions, but it never dissipated that day. It was as if she forgot to find the Captain even after the blood began to drip off her hands, she kept going, tears of frustration streaking her cheeks. When her arms tired and she felt the muscles heavy and almost numb she started kicking the bag of sand, angry yells following each hit. Refusing to stop, hours had gone by as she attempted to release hera nod. The idea of seeing them somehow calmed her and made her realize just how hungry and thirsty she really was at that moment.

Tala had curled up next to Puppy as Ess ate with the others. Ess forced smiles at the children when they waved happily to her when she had entered, but now she was just frustrated that she couldn’t hold her spoon very well to eat her soup. With a sigh, she stared at the bowl on her lap, when a tiny voice whispered shyly to her. “Miss…Ess?” Lily smiled at her. “..You don’t feel good, Maga says, so I want to help…” Lily carefully picked up the spoon and brought some soup up for Ess to reach. She could hear Jess trying to call