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10 Events Leading Up To WW2 What were the events leading up to ww2? The second world war was the most harrowing, ad horrific war of all time. One of the only wars that comes close is the first world war, which was only 21 years before it. What could cause such a horrific war to happen so soon after world war one? Wouldn’t people want to avoid another war at all costs? To answer all these questions here are the 10 events leading up to ww2. 30th January 1933 Hitler Becomes Chancellor As the communists gained popularity people feared that they would become too powerful, and a lot of moderates turned to the Nazis to stop them. In 1932 the Nazis became the most popular party with 230 seats, thecommunists were the second largest and still a serious threat. Hitler demanded that he be made chancellor, but Hindenberg thought Hitler was to brutish, and appointed General Kurt Von Schleicher instead. Schleicher’s leadership meant that the Nazis lost popularity, but inadvertently gained the communists more power. This made the right even more fearful of the communists. The ex-Chancellor Von Papen convinced Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as chancellor in response to rise of communism under the assumption that Hitler could be controlled. On 19th January 1933 Hitler finally became chancellor. This was one of the first events leading up to WW2. 18th August August 1934 Hitler becomes Fuhrer when President Hindenburg died Hitler quickly gained power and became absolute ruler of Germany, in other words Fuhrer. Hindenburg had been sick for

would let him get away with anything. 12 March 1938, Hitler Seizes Austria Nazis in Austria had wanted to follow in Hitler’s footsteps and gain power. The second time they conspired the current Austrian chancellor got wind of their plan. He decided his best move would be to negotiate with Hitler and try to make sure Austria remained independent. Unfortunately his best move turned out to be his worst, and Hitler simply bullied him into giving up and appointing sever Austrian Nazis to the Government. Eventually Hitler forced him to resign. Hitler advanced into Austria and was met with a welcoming reception. He appointed a new government, and had Schuschnigg put in jail. 1 Oct 1938, Germany Occupied Sudetenland Czechoslovakia was created after the first world war, and was mainly made upgrowing season are taken as two groups of variables for calculating the GRD between NDVI and monthly mean air temperature. Similarly, to calculate the GRD of NDVI sequence of the growing season and the monthly mean air temperature (April--August, March--August, and February--June), we use monthly cumulative precipitation (May--September, April--August, March--July and February--June), monthly mean relative humidity (May--September, April--August, March--July, and February--June) and monthly cumulative sunshine duration (May--September, April--August, March--July, and February--June), respectively. By comparing NDVI in the growing season with the GRD of the same comparative factor at different moments, the lag time of the NDVI to the climatic factors is discussed in the growing season. ### 2.4.4. Multiple Nested Times Series Analysis {#sec2dot4dot4-ijerph-16-03452} In this paper, the method of MNTSA proposed by Du et al. \[[@B9-ijerph-16-03452]\] is used to

are relatively stable. The NDVI in the growing season reaches its maximum in 2012, which may be related to the increase of air temperature and precipitation in the year. In 2016, only air temperature shows positive anomaly. Although relative humidity changes greatly, the anomaly of precipitation and sunshine duration is small, and the rise of air temperature reduces the suppression of vegetation activity in the growing season. In 2003, there is a decrease of air temperature, a significant decrease of sunshine duration, a significant increase of precipitation and relative humidity. The decrease of air temperature and sunshine duration led to suppression of vegetation growth. The NDVI in the growing season of 2007 is lower than that in 2006, and the air temperature and the sunshine duration of themusic. With both having passed away, Wynette in 1998 and George Jones just last April, Jones felt it was very important to keep their memory and their music alive. Wynette and Jones married in 1969, and Georgette was born in 1970. As she grew, music was all around her as was the media attention her famous parents attracted. In 2011, Jones released a book, “The Three of Us, Growing Up Tammy and George.” Jones said she had read a book written about her mother the previous year and wanted to set the record straight on who her mother really was. “She had a wonderful sense of humor and was strong and independent,” Jones said. “She believed in living life to the fullest.” She said both of her parents weren’t really the way

they were portrayed in the media. While her father was cast as hard-core and someone who liked to party, she said people didn’t know he was light-hearted with a fantastic sense of humor and an old-fashioned way about him. Jones and Wynette divorced in 1975, and Georgette’s time with her parents became divided. Because of their schedules, Jones said, she never saw her dad that much when she was younger. She said it meant so much to her when she recorded “Daddy Come Home” with her father when she was 10 years old. “I really did mean every word,” she said. As she continued to grow, Jones knew she loved music, but she’d seen the impact its touring and schedules had on her family. “I put off a music career for myBy all accounts Demi Moore and Bruce Willis were fine, loving parents to their three daughters together: Rumer, 28, Scout, 25, and Tallulah, 23. The one-time Hollywood power couple also kept things friendly after they divorced in 2000 and moved on to new partners. In Moore’s case, she picked up with 16-years-younger actor Ashton Kutcher, who was her husband for eight years. As if to show their bonus family solidarity, Moore, Kutcher and Willis often turned up together at red carpet events, with all three girls in tow, everyone looking happy and accepting. Still, it can’t have been easy for the Willis girls growing up in the fish bowl of Hollywood celebrity, even if they had money and privilege. That lifestyle apparently took its toll on the sisters as all three

(relatively large bundles of nerves), which give arthropod nervous systems a characteristic "ladder-like" appearance. The brain is in the head, encircling and mainly above the esophagus. It consists of the fused ganglia of the acron and one or two of the foremost segments that form the head – a total of three pairs of ganglia in most arthropods, but only two in chelicerates, which do not have antennae or the ganglion connected to them. The ganglia of other head segments are often close to the brain and function as part of it. In insects these other head ganglia combine into a pair of subesophageal ganglia, under and behind the esophagus. Spiders take this process a step further, as all the segmental ganglia are incorporated into the subesophageal ganglia, whichinto five subphyla, of which one is extinct: Trilobites are a group of formerly numerous marine animals that disappeared in the Permian–Triassic extinction event, though they were in decline prior to this killing blow, having been reduced to one order in the Late Devonian extinction. Chelicerates include horseshoe crabs, spiders, mites, scorpions and related organisms. They are characterised by the presence of chelicerae, appendages just above / in front of the mouth. Chelicerae appear in scorpions and horseshoe crabs as tiny claws that they use in feeding, but those of spiders have developed as fangs that inject venom. Myriapods comprise millipedes, centipedes, and their relatives and have many body segments, each segment bearing one or two pairs of legs (or in a few cases being legless). They are

that he caused a privacy scandal by uncovering that your iPhone was recording your location all the time. This caused several class action lawsuits and a U.S. Senate hearing. Several years on, he still isn't sure what to think about that. Alasdair is a former academic. As part of his work he built a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes that, acting autonomously, reactively scheduled observations of time-critical events. Notable successes included contributing to the detection of what—at the time—was the most distant object yet discovered.a bit crazy, a bit messy, but its m When her second daughter was born with a congenital defect of her larynx,Stephanie's world was turned upside down. This blog is real and raw as Stephanie shares her {as well as her daughters} story about life while coping with laryngomalacia. I'm Amanda, the gal behind Bullfrogs and Bulldogs. This blog is a compilation of my life living on the family vineyard as I find my way from my former life as a city girl to my new one in the country. Join me as I discuss everything from life on the farm, Danielle Faith is a passionate blogger in her twenties who embarked on a journey when she decided to create this blog. She started The Danielle Faith Blog as a way

a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 1979, and has since been a practicing vet. He experienced a badly broken leg and the death of his Labrador retriever Gracie due to the negligence of a driver in April 2008. Since then, he has proposed and advocated Gracie’s Law, which recognizes that pets are more than common property. Newman lives with his wife and their son, as well as several pets.Michael J Fox net worth Net Worth: $65 million About Michael J Fox It has been reported that Michael J Fox net worth has an estimate of 65 million dollars. He has accumulated his net worth through a series of careers, including being an actor, producer, activist and author. He is mostly known as a star from various TV series and TV films. One of them is the series of “Back to the Future” films which not only increased his popularity but also added a lot of revenues to the overall amount of Michael J Fox net worth. He started his career in television when he was 15 years old. At this time, Michael J Fox appeared in Canadian TV series called “Leo and Me”. Between the years 1982-1989, Michael J Fox

got a role in the TV series called “Family Ties” where he portrayed a character of Alex Keaton. The TV series were broadcasted on the NBC channel. Because of his appearance in it, Michael J Fox received quite a lot of awards. In three years in a row – 1986, 1987 and 1988 – the actor got Emmy awards. In addition, he was rewarded with a Golden Globe. However, the production which made him well known and also increased Michael J Fox net worth immensely was “Back to the Future” trilogy, where he appeared between the years 1985-1990. In it, Michael J Fox portrayed a character of Marty McFly. Another TV role which he got was portraying Mike Flaherty in the TV series called “Spin City” which aired from1996 till 2000. Because of this role, Michael J Fox also got several awards such as Golden Globes, Emmy award and SAGA awards. In 1990, while being on a set, Michael J Fox started to suffer symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. One year later, it was proved that he suffered from it for sure. In 1998, Michael J Fox admitted to the public that he has been suffering from the disease for 7 years already. In 1990s, Michael J Fox also became a voice actor and voiced several characters in various animated series. In addition, he got some guest appearances in TV series such as “Scrubs” and “Boston Legal”. These appearances also increased Michael J Fox net worth. In addition to his acting career, he is also known as an author.

He has published three books already. In 2010, he was awarded with the Officer of the Order of Canada. Because of his disease, the actor has founded Michael J Fox foundation which helps to progress in research of Parkinson’s disease.Abstract The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United Nations body which administers the international regulatory regime for shipping, noted the negative impact of non-indigenous organisms transported in the ballast water of ships already in the early 1970s. Consequently, measures were taken with the aim to minimize ballast water mediated species invasions through IMO Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) Resolutions. As a result of long-term IMO efforts, it was determined that an international convention would best meet the needs of the global community, hence the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments was adopted in a Diplomatic Conference in 2004 and is now open for signature by IMO Member States. This very complex (and by no means “simple”) Convention aims to reduce the transfer

This article is more than 11 years old This article is more than 11 years old The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has dismissed the £250,000-a-year he earns from a controversial second job as "chicken feed". Johnson also insisted it was "wholly reasonable" for him to write newspaper columns on the side because he did them "very fast". The comments risk infuriating millions of Londoners struggling to make ends meet amid the economic downturn. They are also unlikely to please David Cameron, who has ordered his shadow cabinet to give up extra work in the run-up to the general election to show their "commitment". Johnson, who is paid nearly £140,000 for his day job, was questioned over his lucrative contract with the Daily Telegraph during an interview for the BBC's HARDTalk programme. He responded "It'sarticle as a way of relaxation." Johnson decided to continue with his columns for the Telegraph after being elected last year, but donates £50,000 from his annual fee to charities. Liberal Democrat frontbencher Norman Baker said: "There is nothing wrong with people writing newspaper columns but this is an enormous amount of money and for Boris Johnson to dismiss it as 'chicken feed' shows just how out of touch he and the Conservative party are from the reality of life for millions of Londoners struggling to make ends meet in the depths of a recession."

ordinary Londoners, some of which are at risk of the wrecking ball. Our list demands that you get out and walk around your city, and take a look at some of its more humble buildings as well as its architectural icons. One of the most important buildings in the city, the 15th century Silk Market, is a World Heritage Site and considered one of the most wonderful examples of non-religious Gothic architecture in Europe. The interior is meant to represent paradise, with its soaring columns symbolising palm trees reaching towards the sky – or roof – which was originally painted blue. Far less pleasant but equally fascinating are the stone gargoyles perched around the exterior, which are by turn pornographic, nausea-inducing or just completely bizarre. Valencia is packed with stunningonly helps Kesler. He is currently leading all centers in shifts/game, has a 58 FOW% (good for 6th amongst centers with at least 50 GP), and he currently has the 3rd highest SH TOI amongst centers. Another interesting stat is he has 0 giveaways on the PK. ZERO. Kesler has been an integral part in the teams attack as well as the penalty kill which makes him my pick at this point. Vezina Sergei Bobrovsky – Columbus Blue Jackets Bobrovsky has had a total career renaissance this season. Posting a .931 SV% (nearly a career high), which tops the league in goaltenders who have played > 50 games. Additionally, he has allowed a league low 2.04 goals/game for all eligible goaltenders. It is also absolutely worth mentioning that he has been

the best goaltender on one of the best teams in the league this season. Bobrovsky played an integral role in the Jackets’ 16-game winning streak earlier this year, only allowing 1.64 goals/game over that stretch. The Jackets are currently sitting at 100 points, tied for the best in the NHL and have locked up a playoff spot with 11 games to go with a lot of the success being credited to this guy. He is all but a lock for the Vezina. Calder Auston Matthews – Toronto Maple Leafs This is one of the harder winners to pick because there has been so many great standout rookies this year. In making this decision, it ultimately came down to Matthews and Laine. These two have been trading blows, going back and forthOswald is Lewis's slightly shorter, dark-haired friend is the dumb one of the double-act, which tends to be his most distinguishing characteristic. Lewis described him once as a "man-child stuck in a sort of prolonged adolescence." At one point Oswald trained to be a nurse, but he proved unsuitable. Oswald was a deejay at the beginning of the first season but later on became a delivery driver for Global Parcel (a fictional package-delivery service whose uniforms are modeled after those of UPS). His name is a play on Lee Harvey Oswald. In the episode Bus-ted, it is revealed that Oswald joined the group of friends to replace Adam, a childhood friend who fell through the ice on a lake.

Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. His struggles with his boss, the Shikoku Godfather, and the tumultuous life of his adopted daughter, Matsue, form the backdrop of this epic tale of justice, obedience, and bloody vengeance.Tell a Friend About this Listing Guns International Advertising Policy This site's purpose is to bring gun buyers and gun brokers or sellers together by advertising guns or gun related items and services for sale online. If you are looking to buy guns in America or Internationally, you have come to the right place. Guns International makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the information contained in the gun classifieds, gun related or gun services classifieds listed on this site. Buyers and sellers are required to know and comply with all applicable local, state and federal firearm laws. Tell a Friend About Us Seller's Information When emailing or calling sellers direct, please mention that you saw their listing on GunsInternational.comSeller: George Lander Company: THE LAND COMPANY Member Since: 1/1/08First Name: George Last Name: Lander State: South Carolina Zip: 29072 Country: United States Phone: 803-359-3351Fax: 803-808-0213Number of Active Listings:

will we be left with? More multimedia moguls like Kanye West, for whom music making is just one part of the equation. The end of broadcast TV. In the future, everybody gets their own on-demand, internet-delivered viewing experience with custom-tailored ad insertions (for when they're not watching the "American Idol" finale on Fox). The end of media civility. Thanks, apparently, to bloggers. And blog commenters. And bad parenting. The end of journalism in general. Seriously, who's gonna bankroll the bulk of it once the newspaper industry collapses and network TV throws in the towel on the evening newscast? (Watch for CBS to go first, after Katie Couric's successor also sinks in the ratings.) The end of objectivity. With the death of journalism and the rise of millions of pro and semi-pro opinionistsRafael Benitez has told Newcastle captain Jamaal Lascelles he could make it to the World Cup finals with England if he continues to develop as he has in the Premier League. The 23-year-old centre-back has emerged as a pivotal man in Benitez's team having grown as both player and leader since captaining the Magpies to the Sky Bet Championship title last season. England boss Gareth Southgate has already seen Lascelles in action this season, and Benitez is convinced he can make the grade if he carries on his top-flight education as he has done so far. Benitez said: "If he can improve a lot during these months - I am sure he will continue improving - you never know. He's not now in the squad, but if they have a couple

presence and this character. "If he continues learning things, he can be an important player in England." Lascelles has been important for Newcastle this season - they have collected 21 points from the 16 league games in which he has featured, and just one from the six in which he has not - and Benitez will hope he can build upon that record when Swansea head for St James' Park on Saturday. It has been another difficult week on Tyneside with takeover and transfer talk still occupying minds, as well as the ongoing investigation into under-23s coach Peter Beardsley. Asked if that probe had proved a distraction, Benitez said: "No, and it's an ongoing investigation and I will not talk about that.CYBER attacks pose the greatest threat to the United States after nuclear war and weapons of mass destruction - and they are increasingly hard to prevent, FBI experts say.Shawn Henry, assistant director of the FBI's cyber division, told a conference in New York that computer attacks pose the biggest risk "from a national security perspective, other than a weapon of mass destruction or a bomb in one of our major cities". "Other than a nuclear device or some other type of destructive weapon, the threat to our infrastructure, the threat to our intelligence, the threat to our computer network is the most critical threat we face," he added. US experts warn of "cybergeddon", in which an advanced economy - where almost everything of importance is linked to or controlled by

computers - falls prey to hackers, with catastrophic results.Michael Balboni, deputy secretary for public safety in New York state, described "a huge threat out there" against everything from banking institutions to municipal water systems and dams. Mr Henry said terrorist groups aim for an online 9/11, "inflicting the same kind of damage on our country, on all our countries, on all our networks, as they did in 2001 by flying planes into buildings". A web attack of that scale has not yet happened in the US but computer hacking - once something of a sport for brilliant delinquents - is rapidly evolving around the world as a weapon of war. Russian hackers allegedly mounted huge assaults on internet networks in Estonia and Georgia last year, while Palestinian sympathisers have orchestrated attacksthe most well known wine regions of Washington State and it is here that Cayuse Vineyards farms their 60 acres of vines. This biodynamic vineyard is celebrated for its Syrah and Grenache, though they also make a great Tempranillo. Oregon: Oregon has become famous for producing one wine extremely well and that wine is Pinot Noir. One exceptional producer of Oregon Pinot is Atticus Wine. The winery is located in the Willamette Valley, the region of Oregon consider to be the ideal location for growing Pinot Noir, and Pinot Noir is all they grow. New York: The Finger Lakes was the first region of New York to make great wine, but now wine is being made just as well out on Long Island’s North Fork. One of our favorite Long Island vineyards

their Cherry Tree Merlot. Ohio: Located about an hour east of Cleveland, Markko Vineyards has been making wine in Ohio since 1968. They’re considered one of the state’s pioneering wineries and are well known for their Chardonnay. Missouri: Norton is a grape native to the United States that, while not used often in American wine making, is actually used quite often in Missouri, where it is also the state grape. One Missouri winery famous for making Norton wine is Mount Pleasant Estates.alive who knew what it was? As it turned out, there was. Unbeknownst to me, in March 2010, while I was writing the beginnings of this book, the British Film Institute was having a retrospective showing of two of Arnold Louis Miller’s old sexploitation films, which included a question and answer session with Arnold Miller himself (which is worth watching for its own sake), still very much alive, and very sprightly and sharp for a man of eighty-eight years old. At one point he says, My father’s company was L Miller & Son, Ltd, and he had the rights from America to publish Captain Marvel, Young Marvel, and the Marvelman Family, and they were quite successful. It may or may not have been simply a slip of the tongue that

he mentioned the Marvelman Family instead of the Marvel Family, but it was certainly an interesting slip, if it was. It turned out that the person interviewing Arnold Miller at the BFI was a friend of a friend, and before long I had managed to actually find an address for him, and we began a postal correspondence about Marvelman that lasted for about six months, on and off, during which I found out that he had been approached by Jon Campbell with regard to Marvelman, although it did seem that, despite this, he really didn’t know too much about the modern history of the character. This is his version of how Marvelman came to be created, and of what part Mick Anglo played in that creation, condensed from a numberof different letters: I am in the process of two projects, one being a company in Scotland, which is interested in publishing copies of the comics previously published by L Miller and Son Ltd. The other is, I am involved in a book on my life in the publishing business, and then later in the film business. The real story as I remember is this, Mick Anglo was employed by L Miller and Son Ltd to write and draw story lines for Marvelman and the Marvelman Family comics, the rights to use the titles were given to L Miller and Son Ltd by Fawcett Publications. Mick Anglo has no copyright on the title Marvelman or Marvelman Family. Fawcett were aware of L Miller and Son Ltd publishing and using

in Supreme: The Return #6 (June 2000). There are even copies of the book in the artwork here and there throughout Moore’s work on Marvelman, as well as in Watchmen, so it’s apparent he placed a good deal of importance on its role in the history of the superhero in general, and of Marvelman in particular. But Hugo Danner is a forerunner of Marvelman in only the broadest sense. There were also two comics adaptations of Gladiator itself, firstly by Marvel, when they ran the first half of an adaptation of the novel, under the name Man-God, in Marvel Preview #9 in 1976, then another one in 2005, when Howard Chaykin wrote the four-part Legend (WildStorm Productions, April – July 2005), a close retelling of the story inneither in its original incarnation in 1950s Britain, when the metaphorical distance between the two countries was far greater than it is now (and they could be forgiven for never having even heard of Marvelman), nor in its later version in the 1980s, which they definitely were aware of, as it was in great part because of his work on Marvelman that DC contacted Alan Moore in 1983 to offer him work writing Saga of the Swamp Thing. DC could presumably still claim that Marvelman was a copy of not just one, but two of their properties – Superman and Captain Marvel – but would they be allowed to proceed with a case, seeing that they had not previously raised any objection to the character’s existence? This is

take over from his predecessor, even picking up the numbering of the comic Captain Marvel was vacating. Actually, Marvelman was less created than adapted, an older character made over into a newer one by the utterance of a magic word, somewhere halfway between Shazam! and Kimota! – Shimota!, perhaps, or Kazam! The name was changed, the costume was changed, the magic word was changed, but underneath all that Marvelman was still much more like than unlike Captain Marvel. However, Fawcett Publications had not objected to Marvelman in the 1950s, apparently because they were complicit in his creation, according to Arnold Miller, so again the chance to claim that Captain Marvel had been copied may now have expired. Fawcett Publications no longer exists, with various bits having been boughtlonger be supplying them with Captain Marvel material for the British market. The Millers were in a panic, and begged Anglo to help them out, as they were about to lose their most lucrative comic character. Anglo went back to his studio, gave it some thought, and came up with Marvelman, which he then supplied the Millers with for the next six years. In a way, neither of these versions of the story is entirely satisfactory, and the truth probably lies somewhere between the two. There may, in fact, be a third version of the story. The Don Lawrence website says, Don Lawrence was one of the first artists working on Marvelman. Together with Norman Light and Denis Gifford he was involved with the creation of Britain’s first superhero. […]

Don is the creator of the spin-off Marvelman Family, which he had made up all by himself. The idea that Don Lawrence was in it right from the beginning seems to be corroborated by Anglo himself, who called him ‘The first of the Marvelman artists.’ It is entirely possible that, when Mick Anglo went back to his studios in Gower Street on that day in late 1953, after being briefed by Len Miller about what he and Fawcett had decided they wanted Anglo to do, that, rather than puzzle it out on his own, he called together a few of his best people, and that they all put their heads together to see what they could come up with, and there seems to be strong anecdotal evidence from bothMiller and Son. Later on, though, circumstances would change, perhaps allowing Mick Anglo to claim the copyright for himself. In September 1974 L Miller and Co (Hackney) Ltd was wound up, and ceased to exist. They had stopped publishing comics by 1966, and sold off a lot of their comics-related property then, some of it to Alan Class and Co Ltd, leading people to speculate that he might somehow have gained the rights to Marvelman. There is no evidence of any kind to support this speculation, however, and there has certainly never been any claim to this effect that I have ever seen on the part of Alan Class himself, who is now retired. And even though one of the directors of the Millers’ company, Arnold Miller, is still

absence of such Certificate, all payments hereunder shall be subject to a 3% deduction and Contractor will furnish such Workmen's Compensation coverage." Subsequently, Stillman was injured on the job. His medical expenses were paid by the insurance carrier, but when it was determined that he needed an operation due to the condition of his back, no further payments were made. Stillman filed a claim with the Workmen's Compensation Commission. The matter was heard and the Commission denied compensation on the ground that under the terms of the contract of employment Stillman was an independent contractor, not an employee, and therefore he could not collect under the workmen's compensation law for his injury. The Commission never reached the issue of whether the claimant was injured in the course of hisAbout St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The Dream Home Giveaway is a raffle in which every ticket helps St. Jude kids and the mission of St. Jude: Finding cures. Saving children.

disease that is passed between humans and animals. He emphasized, "between animal and human medicine there are no dividing lines---nor should there be." William Osler (1849--1919) worked with Virchow and was interested in the linkages between human and veterinary medicine.James H. Steele (1947)Founded the Veterinary Public Health Division at Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recognizing that good animal health is important for good public health and played an important role in the public health response to diseases such as rabies, brucellosis, salmonellosis, Q fever, bovine tuberculosis, and leptospirosis.Calvin Schwabe (1927--2006)Made many important contributions to veterinary epidemiology over his career. He established Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the Veterinary School, the first department of its kind at a veterinary school. In 1964 he wrote a monograph (*VeterinaryMedicine and Human Health*) in which he proposed that veterinary and human health professionals should collaborate to combat zoonotic diseases and coined the term 'One Medicine' which emphasizes the similarities between human and veterinary medicine.The Wildlife Conservation Society, 29 September 2004Brought together a group of human and animal health experts for a symposium at Rockefeller University in New York City. Attendees of this symposium, titled "Building Interdisciplinary Bridges to Health in a 'Globalized World'," discussed the movement of diseases among humans, domestic animals, and wildlife. The symposium set 12 priorities, so called the Manhattan Principles, to combat health threats to human and animal health and called for an international, interdisciplinary approach to prevent disease and formed the basis of the 'One Health, One World' concept.Ronald Davis, MD, President

of the American Medical Association (AMA), June 2007Collaborated with Roger Mahr, DVM, President of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), to establish a bond between the two organizations and on 3 July 2007, the House of Delegates of the AMA unanimously approved a resolution calling for increased collaboration between the human and veterinary medical communities.Representatives of 111 countries and 29 international organizations, 4--6 December 2007Met in New Delhi, India, for the International Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza. During this meeting, governments were encouraged to further develop the One Health concept by building linkages between human and animal health systems for pandemic preparedness and human security.International Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza in New Delhi (2008)In response to the recommendations of the previous International Ministerial Conferenceon Avian and Pandemic Influenza in New Delhi, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the United Nations Children\'s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank, and the United Nations System Influenza Coordination (UNSIC) came together in 2008 to develop a document titled, 'Contributing to One World, One Health. A Strategic Framework for Reducing Risks of Infectious Diseases at the Animal--Human--Ecosystem Interface.' The framework built on the lessons learned from the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza response during the early 2000s and presented a strategy for applying the One Health concept to emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) at the animal--human--ecosystem interface.International Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, 25--26 October 2008Representatives

from more than 120 countries and 26 international and regional organizations attended the International Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. During this meeting, the joint strategic framework was officially released recommended One Health as a feasible approach and a strategy for fighting avian influenza and other infectious diseases, one that focuses infectious disease control in areas where animals, humans, and ecosystems meet.Lonnie King, then Director of CDCs National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases, 2009Established a One Health office at CDC. The office was created as a point of contact for external animal health organizations and to maximize external funding opportunities. Since that time, the role of the One Health office has expanded to include supporting public health research that furthers theOne Health concept, facilitating the exchange of data and information among researchers across disciplines and sectors.The United States Agency for International Development (2009)Launched the emerging pandemic threats (EPT) program. The program\'s purpose is to ensure a coordinated, comprehensive international effort to prevent the emergence of diseases of animal origin that could threaten human health. The EPT program draws on expertise from across the animal and human health sectors to build regional, national, and local One Health capacities for early disease detection, laboratory-based disease diagnosis, rapid disease response and containment, and risk reduction.The Public Health Agency of Canada\'s Center for Food-Borne, Environmental, and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, 16--19 March 2009Hosted the One World, One Health Expert Consultation in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This technical meeting was held to further discuss the 'One

World, One Health' strategy and the objectives in the strategic framework, which was first released at the International Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza in Sharm el-Sheikh. During the meeting, key recommendations emerged for actions that countries could take to advance the concepts of One Health.International Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza in Hanoi, Vietnam, 19--21 April 2010A total of 71 countries and regional bodies, along with representatives from international organizations, development banks, and other stakeholders, attended the International Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza in Hanoi, Vietnam. With the experience of the H1N1 pandemic and highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, participants confirmed the need to bring greater attention to the links between human and animal health to address threats that happen when there isclose interface between animals, humans, and the ecosystem. At the conclusion of the meeting, participants unanimously adopted the Hanoi Declaration, which called for focused action at the animal--human--ecosystem interface and recommended broad implementation of One Health.The FAO, the OIE, and the WHO, April 2010Recognizing that managing and responding to EIDs is complex and requires multisectoral cooperation, the FAO, the OIE, and the WHO joined together to publish the concept in April 2010. This paper proposes a long-term strategic direction for international collaboration aimed at sharing responsibilities and coordinating global activities to address health risks that arise when humans, animals, and the ecosystem interface.CDC, 4--6 May 2010CDC in collaboration with the OIE, the FAO, and the WHO hosted a meeting in Stone Mountain, GA, titled "Operationalizing 'One Health': A

Policy Perspective -- Taking Stock and Shaping an Implementation Roadmap." The meeting, which came to be known as the 'Stone Mountain meeting,' was designed to define specific action steps to move the concept of One Health forward. Participants identified seven key activities to advance the One Health agenda. These activities formed the basis of six workgroups which focused on cataloging and developing One Health trainings and curricula, establishing a global network, developing a country-level needs assessment, building capacity at the country level, developing a business case to promote donor support, and gathering evidence for proof of concept through literature reviews and prospective studies.The World Bank and the United Nations, July 2010The World Bank and the United Nations released the 'Fifth Global Progress Report on Animal and Pandemic Influenza.'The report reiterated the findings of the delegates at the International Ministerial Conference on Avian and Pandemic Influenza in Hanoi. It also emphasized the importance of adopting a One Health approach to sustain a momentum in pandemic preparedness. It also recommended that rather than focusing on controlling avian influenza through emergency initiatives, countries and regional bodies should build One Health capacity to respond to a broad range of emerging and existing disease threats.European Union, August 2010The European Union published the 'Outcome and Impact Assessment of the Global Response to the Avian Influenza Crisis' report. This report states, "the European Union has already taken new initiatives under the One Health umbrella and will continue to do so in the coming years." The report emphasized the need to translate the

One Health concept into practical policies and strategies that promote interagency and cross-sectoral collaboration.1st International One Health Congress, 14--16 February 2011The 1st International One Health Congress was held in Melbourne, Australia. More than 650 people from 60 countries and a range of disciplines came together to discuss the benefits of working together to promote a One Health approach. In addition to understanding the interdependence of human, animal, and environmental health, attendees agreed that it is important to include other disciplines such as economics, social behavior, and food security and safety.1st One Health Conference in Africa, 14--15 July 2011The Southern African Center for infectious disease surveillance organized the 1st One Health Conference in Africa at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference brought togetherscientists from Africa, Asia, Europe, Russia, Australia, and the United States.Tripartite, 15--17 November 2011Building on the agreements in the Tripartite Concept Note, the Tripartite organized a high-level technical meeting in Mexico City on 15--17 November 2011. The focus of this meeting was to address health risks that occur in different geographic regions by highlighting three priority One Health topics -- rabies, influenza, and antimicrobial resistance. These topics served as a basis to discuss what needs to be done to build political will and more actively engage ministers of health in the One Health movement.The Global Risk Forum One Health Summit, 19--22 February 2012The Global Risk Forum One Health Summit was held in Davos, Switzerland. The Summit presented the One Health concept as a way to manage health threats,

focusing on food safety and security. The conference ended by approving the 'Davos One Health Action Plan,' which pinpointed ways to improve public health through multisectoral and multistakeholder cooperation.Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC), 28 January to 5 February 2013The PMAC took place in Bangkok with the theme, 'A World United Against Infectious Diseases: Cross-Sectoral Solutions.' The PMAC hosted the 1st Global Conference on regional disease surveillance networks and the 2nd International One Health Congress Centennial Commemoration of the Rockefeller Foundation. One of the main objectives of the conference was to foster cooperation and communication across sectors and across borders to mitigate the threat of infectious diseases, existing or emerging, at the human--animal--ecosystem interface.1st OHCEA International Conference on One Health, 23--27 September 2013One Health Central and Eastern Africa (OHCEA)increasing number of African countries consider One Health approach as a key priority and are working toward the creation of One Health platforms. Overview of One Health Central and Eastern Africa {#s0025} ================================================= One Health Central and Eastern Africa (OHCEA) is a network of schools of public health and veterinary higher education institutions involving countries of the Eastern and Central Africa region, a region that includes the Congo Basin commonly considered to be one of the 'hot spots' for emerging and reemerging infectious diseases. These countries are DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda with the regional secretariat located at the Makerere University School of Public Health in Kampala, Uganda. OHCEA has increased its reach to West Africa, with the addition of Cameroon and Senegal. The current institutional membership of OHCEA by

country and university, as of 2016, is shown in [Table 2](#t0015){ref-type="table"} . In each member country, the OHCEA team is spearheaded by schools of public health and schools of veterinary medicine and includes high engagement of government ministries, such as those responsible for health, agriculture, food, livestock, fisheries, education, wildlife, and disaster management and response.Table 2OHCEA member institutions and their corresponding countriesS. NO.CountryUniversitySchools/College1CameroonUniversity of Montagnes1. Faculty of Health Sciences (composed of both public health and veterinary)University of Buea2. Faculty of Health Sciences3. Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine2Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)University of Kinshasa4. School of Public HealthUniversity of Lubumbashi5. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine3EthiopiaJimma University6. School of Public Health7. School of Veterinary Medicine Mekelle University8. School of Public Health9. School of Veterinary Medicine4KenyaUniversity of Nairobi10. School of Public Health11.Faculty of Veterinary MedicineMoi University12. School of Public Health5RwandaNational University of Rwanda13. School of Animal Sciences and Veterinary Medicine14. School of Public Health6SenegalUniversity of Cheikh Anta Diop15. Institute for Health and Development (ISED)16. The Inter-State School of Veterinary Sciences and Medicine (EISVM)7TanzaniaMuhimbili University of Health & Allied Sciences17. School of Public HealthSokoine University of Agriculture18. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine8UgandaMakerere University19. School of Public Health20. College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity OHCEA received a 5-year-subaward funding for implementation of activities funded through the University of Minnesota on an award from USAID for the implementation of the One Health Workforce (OHW) Project. This project will facilitate government-led, university-driven, network-supported coordination and collaboration across all levels of the human and animal health sectors essential to meet the Global Health Security

Agenda vision for "a world safe and secure from global health threats posed by infectious diseases" ([@bib7]). OHCEA was inaugurated on 17 October 2010 "at a historic meeting facilitated by USAID with participants drawn from the seven schools of public health, seven faculties of veterinary medicine," two American partner universities (Tufts University and University of Minnesota) in addition to 'RESPOND project staff.' At the beginning, OHCEA had only two staff, 'a Program Manager and an Administrator,' and its office was 'a room at the Makerere School of Public Health' ([@bib7]). Understandably, "the challenge then was establishing structures at the Secretariat and at the six country offices manned by dedicated Focal Persons and Administrators, with support from a Fixed Obligation Grant from the RESPOND project. One of the immediate achievements was bringingthe School of Public Health at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania since 2005. In 2011 the two schools expanded its membership to schools of veterinary medicine in the region to form what became known as OHCEA. The mission of LIPHEA was leadership in management of disasters and personnel training. The activities of LIPHEA were funded by USAID through the Higher Education until 2009. The main US partner in the LIPHEA team was the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ([@bib7] [@bib13] [@bib9]). Inspired by the evolution of One Health, LIPHEA invited schools of veterinary medicine in the region to join hands in the formation of OHCEA which gradually moved from disaster preparedness and response to OHW strengthening in participating countries. Based on opportunities

available within the EPT program, OHCEA quickly became engaged with OHW strengthening in the participating countries. With the formation of OHCEA the total number of schools was expanded to 14 (7 being from the public health area and 7 from the veterinary area) spread into six countries from Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, DRC, and Rwanda. The US partners in the OHCEA network are the University of Minnesota and Tufts University as strategic partners. OHCEA became a registered legal entity in Uganda with a secretariat based in Kampala, Uganda, and worked with it to found Country Coordinating Committees, as well as complete OHCEA\'s initial scopes of work, including conducting a gap analysis in each participating country, finalizing reporting policies and procedures for a 10-year strategic plan, and mapping programmatic resourcessustaining continuous improvement of health and well-being of humans, animals, and ecosystems through multidisciplinary research, training, and community service. From its regional base, OHCEA strives to be internationally recognized for its intellectual leadership and contributions to One Health as indicated by its collaboration with international partners. OHCEA member institutions and the human, veterinary and wildlife health systems they represent will be demonstrably better trained in the One Health approach and linked through integrated institutional education, communications, operational protocols, and policies. Curricula that are jointly designed and tested by these partners will be in place and utilized by undergraduate students in universities (preservice personnel) as well as those already employed and working (in-service personnel) ensuring the longevity of OHCEA\'s efforts into the future. National government offices responsible for disease

Research and Training Network (AFNNET), Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS), Cysticercosis Working Group in East and Southern Africa (CGWESA), in addition to OHCEA and other smaller ones. Some of these networks have evolved and expanded from existing regional disease surveillance networks with the role of mitigating the threat of infectious disease outbreaks ([@bib2]). See also {#s0045} ======== Global Burden of Disease.  Japhet Killewo is a professor of Epidemiology at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Tanzania. He teaches epidemiology and biostatistics to undergraduates and post-graduate students in the university and offers short courses in data management, research methodology and monitoring and evaluation to other scholars. He does research in communicable and non-communicable diseases and he was the first in Tanzania to design the largest fieldconsiderable number of research proposals and manuscripts for various peer reviewed international journals. JK has published widely in local as well as international journals and has written chapters in books and edited a section in the International Encyclopaedia of Public Health. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the derivative volume on Epidemiology and Demography in Public Health and has more than 80 published articles in journals to his credit. Email: <[email protected]>  William Bazeyo is a Ugandan physician, academician and Occupational Health specialist. He is currently a Professor of occupational medicine at Makerere University college of Health Sciences\' School of Public Health where he is the Dean of the school. Makerere University is the oldest university in Uganda. He is also the Lab Director and Chief of Party of Resilient Africa

Network (RAN) which brings together 20 Universities in 16 African Countries, Director Center for Tobacco Control in Africa \[CTCA\], Principal Investigator (Executive Director) One Health Central and Eastern Africa \[OHCEA\] WB has been a researcher, academician and lecturer at Makerere University School of Public Health since 1992 where he currently serves as the Dean. He is a Principal Investigator for several projects funded by Development partners including USAID, CDC, Bill Gates and others. The Projects focus on different areas namely, Resilient Africa Network (RAN), a USAID Higher Education Solutions Network (HESN) Lab which is a consortium of 20 African Universities led by Makerere University School of Public Health in partnership with Stanford University, Tulane University and Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) whose main focus is the creationThose two guys are part of the PONY LICKS crew, that provides Greece with heavy bass the last years! DIZTA, originally from Greece, its in Leamington Spa, UK where he fell in love with bass music, ranging from grime, garage, hip hop. In an early age he stumbled across one of his friends’ jungle / drum n bass tape packs….this was it !!!From then on,he would constantly sort out the latest banger…and mix it up…He currently works on new productions with D-Jahsta for pony licks records. D-JAHSTA is a very talented young producer that at the end of 2009 turns his hand to dubstep and starts playing his first dubstep gigs together with the rest of the pony licks team, in which there is a massive boom in the club scene with

tourist brochure. The Ulster Scots Festival offers fun packed family events and commences in Raphoe on Friday 13th July at 8pm. A parade of pipe bands, along with the Lagganiers, will culminate in the Diamond with an open air concert featuring Cutting Edge, Scotland’s best celidh rock band based in Dundee. The action moves to the Cathedral Hall at 10.30pm with a celidh dance. You can dance the night away with Scotland’s top traditional dance band, Ian Muir Sound. On Saturday the action moves to Glenmaquin. The festival field is situated within the shadow of Mongorry Hill with a great view of the Swilly and Letterkenny. The event kicks off at 1pm with a fun filled afternoon of events. The festival events include the All Ireland Novice Highland Games, Scottish Countryand Highland Dance, exhibitions, Living History, tug-o-war and open air concert featuring the internationally renowned Different Drums of Ireland, Ian Muir Sound, The McFarland Folk Four and the Donegal Ulster Scots Experience. Added to this will be face painting, bouncy castles, Lambeg drumming and a variety of stalls. The main event of Saturday afternoon will be the Re-enactment of the seventeenth century “Battle of Glenmaquin” fought in 1642, between the Laggan army under the command of Sir Robert and Sir William Stewart and the Irish troops of Sir Phelim O’Neill. Over 9000 soldiers clashed at Glenmaquin with the Laggan Army proving victorious, saving the Scots Settlers in East Donegal and West Tyrone. The Lagganiers re-enactment group are made up of local people from East Donegal and the place of

The parish priest of Cisterna in Latina,Don Livio Fabiani caused a bit of sensation with his words at the funeral of the two children killed by their father. Yet perhaps – for Catholics – the homily of Cardinal Giuseppe Betori, Archbishop of Florence, at the funeral of the Fiorentina’s Captain, Davide Astori, who died two Sundays ago of a heart attack, ought to be a source of more amazement. These two tragedies have made us face sudden death, the eruption of evil and the suffering of the innocents. We are all dumbstruck. The words “waste and void” repeated by Thomas S. Eliot in his poem describe our hearts in these situations. The Holy Fire is lit outside the church's back door, from which it is a short processionthrough the streets of the City of London to the church's front door. ThisHoly Week in London, a rare opportunity to experience one of the oldest services in the Catholic Church along with a feast of sacred music rarely sung in its proper context. Beginning on ‘Spy Wednesday’ with the ancient office of Tenebrae, The Latin Mass Society will be celebrating Holy Week with a wealth of traditional Latin liturgy at St. Mary Moorfields in the heart of the City of London.This year’s Triduum celebration will be directed by professional musician and classical pianist, Matthew Schellhorn with his group ‘Cantus Magnus.’ Matthew Schellhorn, the LMS Director of Music for London, said: “It is once again a great pleasure to be making the musical preparations for the Latin Mass Society’s flagship celebration of the Sacred Triduum in the Archdiocese of Westminster. “Music by Franco-Flemish renaissance Orlande

Regular of the New Jerusalem at the Basilica of St. Mary in Alexandria, Va. this Sunday for Laetare Sunday Vespers. Vespers will be celebrated in the Extraordinary Form. Leo Darroch has produced a substantial and fascinating volume on the FIUV, commonly known as Una Voce International, from its beginnings up to the end of the presidency of the late Michael Davies. Davies’ predecessor, Eric de Savanthem, was President for 30 years, from the early days of the organisation, so the book revolves around these two remarkable men. Because of the nature of the material, the book is episodic in character. Some of these episodes are very revealing about the state of the Church at the time they took place, so I will devote this review to three of them. A Letter to A Seminarian thinking of leaving the Seminary,liberals quaking (and complaining loudly). The first is a preface, written by Cardinal Robert Sarah, for a new book on Communion, who called for a return to receiving Communion on the tongue while kneeling, rather than in the hands while standing. While many readers of this blog already follow this request, we should rejoice at this call for greater reverence. The second is an address, which was given by Fr. Thomas Weinandy, whose open letter to Pope Francis critiquing Amoris Laetita caused him to lose his position at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. This address, given at the University of Notre Dame in Australia, questioned whether the current papacy is properly following the four marks of the Church. Looking at highlights from these two addresses will be a good reminder for us that Christ is the Head of His Church, and

all of us within the Church owe Him our complete and utter obedience: as St. Paul writes in the letter to the Colossians, “He is the head of the body, the Church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent” (Col 1:18, RSV2CE). Roberto de Mattei Among the staunchest opponents of the Vatican Ostopolik, a figure of remarkable cultural and moral stature should be remembered: Father Alessio Ulisse Floridi (1930-1986). A member of the Company of Jesus at a very young age, Father Floridi studied at the Pontifical Russian College, where he learned Russian perfectly and, in 1949, he was ordained a priest in the Byzantine RiteHis hope was to be part of an underground apostolate in Russia, just like some of his confreres, but his superiors wanted him at La Civiltàgives us his opinion on a present topic: now, the astonishing canonization of Paul VI. *** Paul VI: a "Pastoral" canonization? Fr. Pio Pace Perhaps Paul VI had remarkable and heroic virtues in his private and secret life. But, as Pope, he is the object of not little debate: he promulgated the most liberal texts of the Council (Gaudium et Spes, Unitatis Redintegratio, Nostra Aetate, Dignitatis Humanae); he led a liturgical reform that turned sacred liturgy upside down and inside out; and several other things, big and small, such as the suppression of the extremely ancient and venerable Roman Subdiaconate. Paul VI fully embodies Vatican II. It is precisely for this reason that he has been chosen for canonization, as the Popes of the Council and post-Council, who have been canonized one after

the other: John XXIII, John Paul II... From the gospel of the Transfiguration: “ And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain apart. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun and his garments became white as light.” (Mt. 17:1-2) And from the book of Genesis: “Take your son Isaac, your only one whom, you love, and go to the land of Moriah. There you shall offer him up as a holocaust on a height that I will point out to you.” (Gen. 22:2) There were two on that mountain of the transfiguration with Christ: Moses, the giver of the Law, and Elijah the great prophet. They were there with the Onewho fulfilled the Law and the Prophets, Jesus Christ. But there was present also not in bodily form but surely spiritually the one who the Roman Canon calls Abraham, our father in faith. For the covenant God made with Abraham reached its fulfillment in the person of Jesus Christ. And it is the test of Abraham by God in the sacrifice of his beloved Son, Isaac, that points to in a direct line to the sacrifice of the only Son of God by God the Father which act is the definition of love. This Monday, February 26, 2018, there will be a Solemn Requiem Mass and Absolution at the Catafalque to mark the 100th Anniversary of the Happy Valley Racecourse Fire in Hong Kong at which 670 people perished.

level of the Church: the diocese and the parish. Go to a typical parish Mass to see the fruit of the liturgical experiment of the post-Conciliar Church. The unmooring from the Tradition of the Church is plain to see in the carrying out of the deliberate misunderstanding of the Mass and the disappearance of reverence. Not to mention the precipitous decline in the percentage of Catholics who go to Mass regularly. But one sees what has happened and is happening to Catholic doctrine also at the local level. I live in one of the most wealthy counties in the United States. There is also poverty in this county. But when the median family income of the county is calculated, the poverty disappears in the wash of super-affluence. This poverty isof that document. Various interpretations of this teaching have been presented, and the differing interpretations have been used both to denounce the document as heretical and to defend it as in harmony with the teaching of the Church. Pope Francis has recently acted to clarify the meaning of the most contentious section of Amoris laetitia through a statement in the October 2017 issue of the Acta apostolic sedis, the journal that publishes the official acts of the Holy See (the title of the journal is generally abbreviated as AAS). The meaning and consequences of this clarification are of the first importance, and need to be carefully and accurately examined. The meaning and authority of the AAS statement The statement in the AAS has three components: i) a letter from Pope Francis to the bishops of the Buenos Aires region concerning their

and the Catholic Herald is one of the more trad-friendly Catholic newspapers. Furthermore, Davis is the paper's US Editor, on the eve of their big launch in the USA. Rorate's Twitter feed put it well: what we see is the phenomenon of the "the self-hating self-righteous not-really-trad Trad." I've discussed other examples of the type here. Cardinal Reinhard Marx has announced that the German bishops' conference will publish a pastoral handout for married couples that allows Protestant spouses of Catholics "in individual cases" and "under certain conditions" to receive Holy Communion, provided they "affirm the Catholic faith in the Eucharist". At Scythopolis in Palestine, St Severian, Bishop and Martyr, who was slain by the Monophysites because he opposed them so zealously. and ... At Damascus, St Peter Mavimenus, who said to certainArabs who came to him in his sickness: "Every man who does not embrace the Catholic Christian faith is damned as Mohammed, your false prophet, was" and was slain by them. Not surprisingly, these saints are absent in the new Martyrology that appeared in 2004 from the Vatican Press -- one of the last liturgical books to be "reformed." And just at a time when we could use a few more shepherds who zealously oppose heresy, and a few more courageous men who speak the truth about Islam. Our friends at Romanitas Press have a compelling new offering: Learn how the Church's Liturgical Year relates to you through the eyes of Franciscan spirituality with these audio recordings from the 7-volume set of Franciscan Meditations by Capuchin, Fr. Bernardin Goebel. ​Each MP3 recording

of the progressive ideas he espoused as a younger scholar; and he did penance for his involvement with the Consilium by telling the world in his Memoirs about the mendacity of its leader and the incompetence of many of its members. This book, Christian Initiation, is an eloquent and penetrating little book, an interesting combination of apologetics and mystagogy. Here is a summary , courtesy of the publisher. * * * Louis Bouyer (1913–2004) was a member of the French Oratory and one of the most respected and visionary Catholic scholars and theologians of his time. Formerly a Lutheran minister, Bouyer entered the Catholic Church in 1939. A visionary Catholic scholar and theologian, Bouyer was peer and friend of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Joseph Ratzinger as well as T. S.Eliot and J. R. R. Tolkien. Ecce ascendimus Ierosolymam, et consummabuntur omnia quæ scripta sunt per prophetas de Filio hominis. (From the Gospel for the Sunday in Quinquagesima, Luke xviii, 31: Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be accomplished which were written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man.) Christianity is as old as the world; for it consists, essentially, in the idea of a God -- Creator, Legislator, and Savior -- and in a life conformable to that idea. Now, God manifested himself to the human race from the beginning under the threefold relation of Creator, Legislator, and Savior, and from the beginning, from Adam to Noah, from Noah to Abraham, from Abraham to Moses, from Moses to Jesus Christ, there have been men

/ End 23:35 The little irish elf and her band are pure energy: with their Folk Rock exchange continuously an energy flux from the stage to the public and vice versa. Wallis speaks to her audience, tells dirty jokes, guides him to sing along with her: she enjoys herself from the first minute to the end. The public sees this and he loves Wallis, as Wallis loves him. I had doubts to go to the gig but at the end I completely changed my mind: this is music for live experience and works much better on the stage than on album, thanks to Wallis that sprinkles energy for the whole concert along. I found really interesting the Rap-Reggae break in onomatopeic german performed by the drummer and Wallis playingThis week in the War, 25 June–1 July 1945: The San Francisco Conference Future Canadian prime minister, Lester B. Pearson, addresses one of the committees at the United National Conference in San Francisco, 1945 [Public domain] A photograph of future Canadian prime minister, Lester B. Pearson, addressing delegates at the San Francisco Conference is fitting for Canada Day, 1 July. The United Nations Conference on International Organization, which had opened on 26 April 1945, ended two months later, this week in the war, with the signing of the United Nations Charter. Delegates to the conference came from nations that had fought on the Allied side. A central feature of the Charter was the agreement that the Security Council of the United Nations would assume responsibility for order in the world and that the

Barnes Completes Clarets Deal Burnley Football Club is delighted to confirm the signing of former Brighton and Hove Albion striker Ashley Barnes on a three-and-a-half year deal. The 24-year-old becomes Sean Dyche’s first signing of the January transfer window after signing until the summer of 2017, for an undisclosed fee. And after penning the deal on Friday morning, subject to Football League acceptance, Barnes will go straight into the Clarets squad for Saturday’s Championship game at Yeovil. Barnes will wear squad number 30 at Turf Moor. The Somerset-born striker, who joined Albion in 2010, made over 150 appearances for the Seagulls, scoring 42 league goals. He began his career at his local club Paulton Rovers, where he established himself as a prolific goalscorer and, after impressing in a trial with Plymouth Argyle, was rewardedwith an 18-month contract at Home Park in 2007. However, Barnes found first team opportunities hard to come by at Argyle and soon spent time on loan with Oxford United and Salisbury City. He enjoyed further loan spells with Eastbourne Borough in 2008 and Torquay United two years later, before subsequently joining League One Brighton and Hove Albion, initially on a season-long loan, where he scored on his debut against Tranmere Rovers. In July 2010, Barnes signed a two-year contract with Brighton after joining for an undisclosed fee and, in April 2011, scored the decisive goal in a 4-3 home victory over Dagenham and Redbridge, which confirmed promotion to the Championship. After ending the season as Brighton’s second top scorer, with 20 goals in 49 appearances, the 2011/12 season saw Barnes remain

as first choice striker for the Seagulls. And he went one better, topping the club’s scoring charts with 14 in all competitions. Barnes is also an Austrian international, having made an appearance for the Under-20s in 2008, when he faced Switzerland. In the current campaign Barnes scored six goals in 24 games for Albion, ahead of his move to Turf Moor.Celebrity Family Pictures Week of Nov. 19, 2012 Celebaby Roundup It was an exciting weekend for celebrities and their kids. Whether cheering for the home team at a basketball game, relaxing poolside, or stopping by the pet store, there was plenty going on. David Beckham had his sons Romeo and Cruz with him at a Lakers game in LA, while Britney Spears brought her boys, Jayden James and Sean Preston, to a Petco nearby. Courteney Cox relaxed by the pool with her daughter, Coco, in Miami, and Ben Affleck carried Seraphina Affleck to breakfast in Brentwood. That's not all that went down with celebrities and their kids — check out all of the adorable snaps!

Image caption Michael Woodford said the lawsuit was "an utter and complete vindication" for his stance The former chief executive of Japanese camera firm Olympus has said the decision to sue current and former executives is "deeply inadequate". Michael Woodford was fired as chief executive after he questioned dubious payments made by the firm. Olympus is now suing 19 current and former executives after a $1.7bn (£1bn) accounting cover-up. But Mr Woodford told the BBC a complete clearout of the current Olympus board was needed to regain credibility. "If corporate governance is to mean anything in Japan, and for those who care about the future of Olympus, the only way forward is an entirely new board of directors, which are untainted by the past scandal," Mr Woodford he said. 'Vindication' Mr Woodford had written sixBBC. The case will focus on current and former board members, including ex-president Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, former vice president Hisashi Mori and auditor Hideo Yamada. The current president Shuichi Takayama will step down this month for his involvement in the scandal, reported Kyodo News. Olympus spokesman Satoshi Ikuta also confirmed that all board members subject to the lawsuit would be stepping down in March or April. Takeover target? At close of trade in Japan on Monday, shares in Olympus were up 19.94% to close at 1,263 yen. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Michael Woodford the ex-chief executive of Olympus has called for a new board of directors Shares were boosted by talk of Olympus becoming a takeover target and a report that the company is now unlikely to be delisted. "Having nobody at

Location Map Location Directions Travelling from Maitland or Newcastle, turn right at Mc Donald's Restaurant corner into Howe Street. Continue along all the way to the end of this street to the entry of the Rugby Club. Travelling from Muswellbrook or Tamworth, cross the bridge (over the Hunter River), turn left after Mc Donald's Restaurant. Continue along all the way to the end of this street to the entry of the Rugby Club.for the ITIL® intermediate Certifications, instead, the practitioner course provides the perfect intermediary stage between the Foundation and Intermediate ITIL® certifications. About Heathrow Heathrow is a chief airport in London, UK. After Dubai International and Hong Kong International, it is the third largest airport in the world. It is also busiest airport in Europe by near-side traffic and the sixth busiest airport in the world due to the total traveller traffic. It controlled around 75.7 million passengers in 2016. Heathrow is situated 23 km west of Central London, and it has two parallel east-west airstrips along with four process stations on a site that shield 12.27 square kilometre of the area. Heathrow Airport Holdings own and activate this airport, and Heathrow Airport Holdings is himself possessed by FGP Topco Limited which

is a global consortium touched by Ferrovial. FGP Topco Limited also comprises Qatar Holdig LLC, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, China Investment Corporation and Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). Heathrow is also a chief operating base for Virgin Atlantic and British Airways. In 2012 September, UK government formed Airports Commission which is a liberated commission controlled by Sir Howard Davies. It inspects choices for improving the capacity of UK airports. In 2015 July, Commission sponsored the third runway at Heathrow, and then government accepted it in October 2016 as the third track. History: Even after the success of Terminal 5 intended by Richard Rogers, it appeared that airport is losing its lustre. Flyers looked at even building work because Heathrow functioned at full capacity. Just a small problem was sufficient to grabmodernism, and more than that Heathrow also shows modern Britain’s achievements and disappointments. Other facilities: Head office of Heathrow Airport is situated in Compass Centre recognised by Heathrow’s Northern Runway. World Business Centre Heathrow includes two buildings; one is World Business Centre Houses, Heathrow Airport and Scandinavian Airlines. At one time the head office of British Airways was situated in Heathrow Airport at Speedbird House. In the North of the airfield, Northern Perimeter Road is present. Along with it, Heathrow’s Car rental activities are situated and also a bath road that runs similar to it but outdoor the site of the airport. It is given the nickname ‘The Strip’ by local due to its incessant line of airport hotels.

all exports. Over the same period British exports to the Commonwealth and the Anglosphere has grown from 28% to today’s 33%. A disparity of just 11% between our trade with the Commonwealth and Anglosphere and our trade with the EU makes you wonder why Britain is being forced to pay billions of pounds to access the “vital” Single Market. In fact, the disparity between the official figures of exports to the EU and to the Commonwealth and Anglosphere is actually much smaller. The official statistics describing our exports to the Netherlands and Belgium are distorted and appear much higher than they should do. Many goods being exported to the rest of the world stop off in the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam en route to their final destination (known asthe Rotterdam effect), and as such, are counted as contributing towards the EU’s figures. Get Britain Out’s own research into these figures finds the percentage of exports going to the EU is likely to be around 38% – a mere 5% more than goes to the Commonwealth and Anglosphere! We are the only member state of the EU which trades more with the rest of the world than it does with the other 27 EU countries. Because of this tariffs hit Britain much harder than the other EU countries. We must Get Britain Out of the EU and back onto the world stage. Freed from the straightjacket of Brussels we can arrange free trade agreements with our historic and cultural allies, from Canada and the United States in the West to

the appropriate number of colors, usually four. Thus, the color separation can be inspected visually, particularly whether the resolution is right. In known laminators, the supply apparatus for color films consists of a series of color film supply rolls suspended before the nip. The ends of the color films hang down and are fastened on each supply roll, for example, by an adhesive strip. To make a color separation, a technician grasps the end of the film of the desired color, pulls a length of it off the supply roll and threads the end into the nip, for example, with the assistance of a stream of air. The image-bearing film is then similarly threaded into the roller nip. The nip is closed and lamination can start. As soon asthe image-bearing film has passed through the nip, the nip is re-opened. The used color film is separated from the supply roll, for example, with a knife. The supply roll is rotated in a direction opposite to the unwind direction in order to backwind any remaining excess of color film. The color film adhering to partial areas of the image-bearing film is then pulled away from the image-bearing film. The used color film is waste. The manipulation of the color films is relatively cumbersome. The repeated back and forth winding of the color films on the supply rolls can result in some color being rubbed off the film, leading to a defective color separation. Finally, handling of the used film is troublesome. The used color film sheets not only

Wendy said she heard the elder Wesley tell her husband to call 9-1-1. Wesley Jr. saw his father and stepbrother wrestling and McHone was holding a handgun. Wesley Jr. managed to disarm McHone but then when he returned to the phone, the wrestling resumed and then the two headed out of sight of him, up a hallway. His father returned about a minute later saying that his stepmother was "facedown out back." McHone reappeared carrying a shotgun, raising it into a firing position. His stepfather moved towards him and attempted to grab the gun, but McHone fired, throwing Wesley Sr. with such force that he hit and knocked down Wesley Jr. McHone and Wesley Jr. struggled again, with McHone cursing Wesley Jr. and crying, asking Wesley Jr. toI of England; this resulted in the conquest of Wales by English forces. The Tudors of Penmynydd grew in power and influence during the 13th to 15th centuries, first owning land in north Wales, but losing it after Maredudd ap Tudur backed the uprising of Owain Glyndŵr in 1400. Maredudd's son, Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur, anglicised his name to become Owen Tudor, and was the grandfather of Henry Tudor. Henry took the throne of England in 1485, at the end of the Wars of the Roses, when his forces defeated those of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field. The House of Tudor continued to reign through several successive monarchs until 1603, when James I (James VI of Scotland) took the throne for the House of Stuart;

non-compilation number one album since 1968's Delilah. Meanwhile, Shirley Bassey reached the top 20 once more in the UK Charts with her collaboration with the Propellerheads on the single "History Repeating". They also introduced new acts, such as Catatonia's Owen Powell working with Duffy during her early period. Moving into the 21st century, Bullet For My Valentine were named the Best British Band at the Kerrang! Awards for three years running. Other successful bands from this period include Funeral For A Friend, and Lostprophets. Media Sport Over fifty national governing bodies regulate and organise their sports in Wales. Most of those involved in competitive sports select, organise and manage individuals or teams to represent their country at international events or fixtures against other countries. Wales is represented at major world sportingor spring onion, which is then rolled into a sausage shape before frying. Laverbread is made using a purée of seaweed, and is traditionally served in a Welsh breakfast. Welsh cakes are made on a bakestone, and are small round spiced cakes containing raisins, sultanas and occasionally currants. Bara brith contains similar ingredients to Welsh cakes, but is similar to a tea bread. The Welsh have their own versions of pancakes: crempogau (sing. crempog) (sometimes called ffroes, sing. ffroesen) are traditionally layered on top of each other to form a large cake. Some are very much like American pancakes; others may be made with yeast (called crempogau burum, sing. crempog furum) or oatmeal (although this is also true of American pancakes) and some are like Scotch pancakes. Beer is the

Always controversial and incisive, Bret Easton Ellis is one of the leading novelists of our age. He returns to Southbank Centre to launch his latest novel, Imperial Bedrooms, which re-unites Clay and the characters from Less Than Zero as they confront middle-age in contemporary Los Angeles. This is a world of rehab, plastic surgery and betrayal, with Clay and his circle battling familiar personal demons. Bret Easton Ellis discusses his writing and takes questions from the audience.last Tuesday, March 22, but a day before the court date, the FBI requested a temporary postponement of the hearing, as it believed it had discovered a way to access the iPhone in question that would not require Apple’s assistance. The FBI enlisted the aid of Cellebrite, an Israeli firm specializing in mobile forensic solutions which help law enforcement agencies crack encryption on electronic devices. The government did not go into details on how the information on the iPhone was obtained, merely saying it had been collected. A federal magistrate judge in February ordered the company to assist the FBI in unlocking an iPhone 5c used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook. Complying with that order would force the Cupertino firm to create a new variation of iOS that would

engineering institutes may finally be cleared. Directors of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) that Business Standard spoke to said that by the end of February 2012, there may be a consensus on whether to hold a single entrance examination in 2013 and thereon. Come February, and the cloud over the issue of conducting a single entrance examination for admissions to engineering institutes may finally be cleared. Directors of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) that Business Standard spoke to said that by the end of February 2012, there may be a consensus on whether to hold a single entrance examination in 2013 and thereon. The Joint EntranceExamination (JEE) held for admissions to the IITs and the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) for admission to Centrally-funded technical institutes may be merged to create a single entrance test. "Directors of the IITs, NITs, IIITs and Indian Institutes of Science Education & Research (IISERs) have been asked to give their feedback. A formal notification on this will be issued next month. Mostly, we are all on the same page," said an IIT director on the condition of anonymity. In September 2011, the IIT council had accepted the recommendations of the T Ramaswami committee report on JEE reforms and proposed a single entrance test for all engineering colleges, including IITs, NITs and other engineering institutions. Key reforms that the committee was looking at include reduction in the number of examinations

Medical lessons learnt from the US and Canadian experience of treating combat casualties from Afghanistan and Iraq. The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, established in 1965, funds Travelling Fellowships and both authors visited hospitals in Germany, Canada and the USA regarded as centres of excellence with expertise in the early care, reconstruction and rehabilitation of the combat casualties of our NATO Allies, as recipients of these Fellowships. This article presents some of the lessons learnt in the field of musculoskeletal trauma and rehabilitation from the Canadian and US military medical systems. In trauma, there were significant differences in wound debridement policy, use of external fixators for fractures, primary use of circular frames for open tibial fractures and a far more liberal use of bone morphogenetic protein in fracture treatment. Differencesnormative approach to IR, by considering ethics. This is something which has often been ignored under "traditional" IR as positivist theories make a distinction between "facts" and normative judgments, or "values". During the late 1980s and the 1990s, debate between positivists and post-positivists became the dominant debate and has been described as constituting the Third "Great Debate" (Lapid 1989). Schools of thought Realism Realism focuses on state security and power above all else. Early realists such as E. H. Carr and Hans Morgenthau argued that states are self-interested, power-seeking rational actors, who seek to maximize their security and chances of survival. Cooperation between states is a way to maximize each individual state's security (as opposed to more idealistic reasons). Similarly, any act of war must be based on self-interest, rather than

on Leader Tim Hudak to confess to his math errors in his Million Jobs Plan. The PC platform, which calls for the cutting of 100,000 positions from the public service, will push the province back into recession instead of creating jobs, she argue. Hudak countered his platform will put people to work and promised he would resign as premier if it failed. Hudak said he was the only leader on the stage being honest with Ontarians about the measures it would take to bring the provincial budget back into balance. The PC leader made a reference to an attack ad launched by the Ontario Provincial Police Association that accused him of planning to rip up their collective agreement. Hudak said he would proceed with a legislated two-year wage freeze that includes the police. TheFerrara University Hospital. The tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki were followed. The study was in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements and was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria ''S. Anna", Ferrara, Italy. The Ethics Commette of the Univeristy of Ferrara approved this study. The number of 50 patients with age-related cataract was considered as representative sample of a population that reflects the features of people affected by uncomplicated cataract. Patients diagnosed with age-related cataract underwent surgery, after being provided with written informed consent. Following the same protocol we did in our previous study about longitudinal phacoemulsification, we chose to perform the standard ophthalmic examination four weeks before surgery and to schedule patients to be seen at one day,

Forget about Stephanie Meyer or JK Rowling or Stephen King--at the end of the day, they just write stories and make billions of dollars. No, the writers who really deserve a pat on the back are the ones who wrote completely fictional stories that, over time, were remembered as actual history. In fact, we bet in history class some of you were taught about... 5 Paul Revere's Midnight Ride Continue Reading Below Advertisement The Legend: In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, little children are told a fantastic story of patriotism and late night horse riding. In the poem, Revere and a few others coordinate a secret warning signal so an informant can tell everyone how the British are invading; one lantern in the Old North Church ifmight have noticed that the truth really doesn't give a shit how well it rhymes. But it's still somewhat surprising to learn that Paul Revere got sole credit for the ride because "Revere" rhymed with "hear." We wish we were joking. Longfellow was not out to write accurate history, in fact he gets many other facts seriously wrong in his poem. What he wanted was a poem that reminded those who read it of the glorious beginnings of the United States. Why was that so important? Because he wrote it in January 1861, and the country was about to be torn in half. He wanted to inspire New Englanders in the face of the looming Civil War.

Voting currently used? Ranked choice voting has a long history of use in U.S. elections. It is currently being used in statewide elections in Maine, and local elections in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Cambridge, and Memphis. Software is already up-and-running in Maine & Minneapolis, which use the same voting machines as NYC. Ranked choice voting is used nationwide in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, and Scotland.burning in your earphones," Wired writes. "Earphone burn-in is a bunch of hokum." Wired's Bryan Gardiner explains "There's zero evidence this does anything but defer your enjoyment of music and add more confusion to an already complex topic." Burning in a new pair of headphones involves playing music or sound on them continuously for dozens or hundreds of hours, often loops of white noise or pink noise or sweeping tones. The "why" behind burn-in has to do with the earphone drivers. Burn-in proponents argue that drivers become more flexible after some use, altering the sound they produce. Supposedly, the burn-in period improves the headphone sound, or at least has them arriving at the sound they will deliver for the rest of their life. But Wired argues it's a waste of

securities, mutual fund shares and cash. As each new trade is executed for a client, the IA may record the result in the client's account. Next, the IA should receive a record of the client's holdings at the custodian 206 and reconcile. Securities and cash owned by each client are held by a custodian bank and not by the IA. The custodian bank maintains records for each client showing these holdings. The records of the IA preferably match the records of the custodian bank for each client. Whenever a new account is opened for a new client, there may be a delay in receiving the information from the custodian bank and recording the client's initial holdings. During this delay, the client's holdings may change. Moneys can be added and/orA net art project by Evelin Stermitz. Coding by Jure Kodzoman, Ljiljana Perkovic and Loritz Zbigniew. This is an ongoing project established in the year 2006. About the project World of female avatars is a project for expanded understanding of women and their relation to their body. By using the internet as an artistic survey media as many different entries from different cultures as possible will be collected. The public call for female body pictures and text with personal statements about the body is going to be presented at this net art project. The submitted pictures are used for a digital collage to create new bodies - The avatars of female body, which will live in the cyber World of Female Avatars from now on. Just visit the virtual world and click

great things about the island, and after researching it a bit more, three things in particular stood out for me. First, I wanted to see Kuala Lumpur – it is a really big city made famous by the twin Petronas towers. Second, I wanted to scuba dive Sipadan, known as one of the finest sites in the world to dive, with sharks and turtles everywhere. Third, the Kinabatangan River has loads of wildlife that is easily visible because of the palm oil plantations that are slowly removing all the jungle habitat around the river (only 1km on each side is protected). These three things turned out to make a really great Malaysian adventure! (more…) I had decided, before we arrived, that the main purpose of my trip to VietnamDescription Cossart Gordon 1989 Bual Vintage Madeira 37.5cl Half Bottle is a special order item and is only available in extremely limited quantities. Perfect as a gift for anyone celebrating a significant anniversary from 1989. Delivery can take 7 days or more. Please telephone 01329 822733 or email for availability. Cossart Gordon Madeira can trace its beginnings back to 1745 when it was founded by three Scotsmen, Francis Newton, his brother Thomas and Thomas Murdoch. An Irishman, William Cossart, joined the firm in 1808 and by the late nineteenth century the company was active in all areas of the wine trade including Port, Sherry, Marsala and Malaga. The company continued in the vein until the start of World War Two when the firm began to specialise only in Madeira. In 1953

after Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz said on Independence Day that Israel must prepare for the possibility of striking Iran's nuclear program on its own.Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi also responded to the Israeli comments, saying they were "worthless threats," the Islamic Republic News Agency reported."ˈThe Zionist regime is not so unwise as to commit suicide,ˈ" IRNA quoted Vahidi as saying.The Iranian defense minister said that Tehran was "prepared for a rapid reaction to any adventure by the Zionist regime."Wladimir Balentien knocked in a pair of home runs, helping 21-year-old starter Keiji Takahashi pick up his first professional win as the Tokyo Yakult Swallows edged the Yokohama BayStars 3-2 on Tuesday night. The result in front of 28,328 at Jingu Stadium erased Yokohama’s half-game lead over the Yomiuri Giants in the race for third place and a berth in the Central League Climax Series. Slugger Balentien gave the Swallows the lead in the second with his 35th homer of the season, a two-run shot off BayStars starter Kentaro Taira. After retiring leadoff man Tomotaka Sakaguchi and Norichika Aoki, Taira surrendered a ground ball single to Testsuto Yamada, bringing Balentien the plate. Balentien, whose 60 home runs in 2013 remain the single-season benchmark in Japanese baseball, sent Taira’s first pitch, a 140-kph

The Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion is the complete guide to the series that brought Star Trek back to television for seven extremely successful seasons. Episode-by-episode summaries, credits, and behind-the-scenes notes that shed intriguing light on the production of the show. This edition is updated to include information on the film Star Trek Generations. Indexed by episode number, by writer, guest stars, and directors, it's the one book that brings all this information together between two covers.Still factory sealed. Detailed kit of one of the first Advanced Early Warning radar aircraft for the Navy. Builds all three versions: Marines VMC-1 from the Korean War, British Royal Navy 849 Sq and US Navy VC-11 from the Korean War. US versions are from 1950 (Korean War) and Royal Navy version is Squadron 849, 1956. Features detailed interior, landing gear, wing mounted fuel tanks and 65 parts.

the birthday of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).Abdullah, a political veteran of the fight against Soviet forces in the 1980s and Taliban rule in the 90s, called it "beyond comprehension."Beleaguered Afghan security forces are also suffering an unprecedented level of casualties across the country where the Taliban and the Islamic State group are stepping up attacks.Returning to Kabul on Thursday after a three-day trip to France, Abdullah said he expected to be briefed fully about the latest round of talks between US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and the Taliban, which are believed to have taken place in Qatar last week.Whatever the outcome, he argued that Afghanistan should hold its presidential election as scheduled next April despite a recent upsurge in violence and suggestions from some that it should bedelayed."My idea is to stick to the timing, make it work, because it's part of the system and legitimacy of the system depends on the elections," he said. "At the same time, continue the efforts on peace with full vigour."He downplayed any suggestion of a pre-election breakthrough with the Taliban."It will be very surprising if that happens, but should it happen ... that would be welcomed by the people of Afghanistan," he added.Abdullah has kept up suspense about his own political ambitions after twice running for president in 2009 and 2014 in campaigns that ended bitterly amid accusations of fraud.After being beaten in 2014 by Ghani, Abdullah agreed to become prime minister of the unity government in a US-brokered deal -- but the rivalry between the two men

continues."I will actively be involved one way or another, but I have not made that final decision," Abdullah said when asked if he would run in 2019.Looking ahead to next April's vote, Abdullah was candid about the lack of progress made in correcting the weaknesses in Afghanistan's fraud-plagued electoral system.He said he was 'disappointed' by parliamentary elections in October, which were marred by a shambolic rollout of new biometric polling technology and missing or incomplete voter lists."Our expectations for the parliamentary elections and the conduct of them was much higher, and the people's expectations were much higher," he said.There were thousands of complaints lodged against the Independent Electoral Commission, although four million voters did defy the security worries to turn out and cast a ballot.The unity government hadpledged to tackle problems that have repeatedly undermined faith in Afghan elections since the US-led invasion in 2001 overthrew the Taliban government in Kabul.But Abdullah suggested that these efforts, like in other areas, have been hit by the fractious nature of decision-making in the multi-party government."It was the commitment of the unity government in 2014... that we will start implementing reforms. We started very late. Why did we do that?" he asked.Abdullah's defeats in 2009 and then again in 2014 -- when he won the first round but slumped to a surprise defeat in the second -- led to political crises which threatened to unravel the country's fragile political system.Should observers fear another tainted poll?"There were a lot of lessons from the parliamentary elections. Should we and other

Topics Austin Dillon, of Lewisville, North Carolina, is a stock car racing driver in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. He drives the #3 Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet Silverado for Richard Childress Racing. In 2008 he was the K&N Pro Series East Rookie of the Year. Related "Austin Dillon" Articles Some of the preseason speculation about Kyle Larson being promoted to the Sprint Cup Series after only one full season in a national NASCAR series car (Nationwide), was that Chip Ganassi wanted to make sure he didn’t lose Larson any time soon. You know,... The hype surrounding the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series late-summer stop at Richmond International Raceway is usually predictable. Being the 26th race on the Cup tour, its the field-finalizer for the 10-race Chase, and there is always plenty oftalk about who... Sprint Cup series car owner Joe Falk said on Monday that he expects Elliott Sadler, Austin Dillon and C.E. Falk to be among those who will drive the No. 33 Chevrolet for his team in upcoming races.Joe Falk is purchasing the No. 33 team from legendary... Joey Logano had a shot to win the NASCAR championship last year. A flawed late pit stop cost him the chance, and he went into the offseason determined to get back into contention again. A win in the season-opening Daytona 500 on Sunday gave Logano the... — He was the one who barely made the Championship 4, and some questioned if he belonged in it at all. Yet there was Ryan Newman on the final restart Sunday with three laps to go dueling

Kevin Harvick for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship at... Jeff Gordon should know a little bit about going fast. On Friday, Gordon, who is winding up "an amazing week" that began with a win in the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis, threw his support for 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Rookie of the Year... The Chevrolets have been taking a pretty good beating in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series this season — a no-wins-in-10-races shellacking to be exact. But a couple of young and fast 2014 Sprint Cup Series rookies brought an end to the Toyota... AVONDALE, Ariz. -- Brad Keselowski won the pole position Friday for Sunday's Sprint Cup Series race at Phoenix International Raceway under a new qualifying format implemented by NASCAR. Instead of having one car at a time go aroundRaluca Croitoru: Immaterial Institute of Research and Experimentation Immaterial Institute of Research and Experimentation by Delaney Clark The fourth presenter of the Artistic Interventions in Finance panel was Raluca Croitoru. In her performance piece, she took the stage as representative of the Immaterial Institute of Research and Experimentation. By looking at different methods of recording transactions that developed throughout time, the research collective investigates the history of documenting financial transactions. She then expressed that the collective is immaterial, and their main productions are expeditions through space. Documentation of these experiments is translated to digital tours, as in the virtual reality of websites, or in paper tours, as in published zines or booklets, and for this presentation the audience would be given a tour through a thermal printer. Croitoru took us on an

of Research and Experimentation investigates receipts and their abilities to document a transaction. The Institute currently works on a new experiment: telepathic receipts. Rather than any material form to record a transaction, the future may rely on the connection between human minds to transfer contracts. As a document confirming our viewing of her presentation, Croitoru telepathically delivered a receipt to all audience members who agreed to receive one. After a few moments of transmission, she states that the telepathic receipt-giving process is still in research mode, therefore audience members may expect delays: it will take somewhere between one second up to one year to receive a full visualization of the receipt.Q: How do I communicate the circumstances of a forcible removal from a volunteer group at interview? Last year, I was heavily involved with a volunteer group in response to the triple hurricanes in the US, and in particular the response to Maria in Puerto Rico. I was a lead developer and support engineer. I worked with the group quite happily for around 4 months, after which the group's leadership made the decision to stand down and call off our response efforts, for various reasons that are unimportant here. In the transition period after standing down, people started winding down, which had a nasty side effect of kicking a lot of deep-seated trust issues and personal disputes out into the open. To put it simply, a number of team leads, including

Dom helps a babyfaced, never-mentioned-before cousin (Janmarco Santiago) by jerry-rigging his rusty junker (somehow known to be “the slowest car on the island”) to use as a flaming rocket against the certified fastest car on the island. Dom defeats this criminal and cheater Raldo (Celestino Cornielle, Days of Our Lives) but chooses not to take his car, only his respect. This sort of Fight Brotherhood happens in other installments (in fact Dom was kind of the bad guy in part 1!) but here it reminds me of how The Shadow saves people and they become his agents who help him out in the future. The opening is also very reminiscent of xXx: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE, in which Diesel is again living off the grid in an exotic locale 146 U.S. 570 (1892) UNITED STATES v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY. UNITED STATES v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY. Nos. 921, 922.[1] Supreme Court of United States. Argued November 9, 10, 1892. Decided December 12, 1892. APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA. *574 Mr. Assistant Attorney General Maury for appellant. Mr. Joseph H. Call, special attorney on behalf of the United States, filed a brief for appellant. Mr. James C. Carter for appellees. *592 MR. JUSTICE BREWER delivered the opinion of the court. The question to be considered is not as to the validity of the grant to the Southern Pacific Company, but only as to its extent. It may be conceded that the company took title to lands generally along its line, from Tehachapa Pass to its junction with the Texas Pacific; and the contention

of the government is here limited to those lands only which lie within the granted limits of both the Atlantic and Pacific and the Southern Pacific Companies, at the crossing of their lines, as definitely located. As it appears from the record that, at the time of the location of the former company's line, so many of the tracts within these overlapping limits had been taken up by preëmption and homestead entries that the indemnity limits were not large enough to supply its deficiency, it is obvious that the land to be affected by this decision is of limited area in comparison with the large body of lands covered by the grant to the Southern Pacific. The contention of the government is, that these lands were not included withinthe future. The route not being at the time determined, the grant was in the nature of a float, and the title did not attach to any specific sections until they were capable of identification; but when once identified the title attached to them as of the date of the grant, except as to such sections as were specifically reserved. It is in this sense that the grant is termed one in præsenti; that is to say, it is of that character as to all lands within the terms of the grant, and not reserved from it at the time of the definite location of the route. This is the construction given to similar grants by this court, where the question has been often considered; indeed, it is

to land grants, and made it so that the old common law rule as to the necessity of identification to a conveyance has not been controlling in determining the scope and effect of a Congressional land grant. Yet reference may be had to the still later case of Bardon v. Northern Pacific Railroad, 145 U.S. 535, in which the doctrine that title passes by relation as of the date of the grant was held to exclude from a grant land which, at the date of the act, was held under a homestead claim, although the claim had been abandoned, and the land restored to the public domain before the filing of the map of definite location. It may also not be amiss to notice the case of Schulenbergv. Harriman, 21 Wall. 44. In that case land had been granted to the State of Wisconsin, to aid in the construction of a railroad. The language of the grant was like that in this: "There be, and is hereby, granted." A further provision was that if the road be not completed within ten years, "no further sales shall be made, and the lands unsold shall revert to the United States." The railroad was not completed within the time specified. Thereafter timber was cut and removed from these lands, and the question for consideration was as to the ownership of that timber. It was held that the timber was the property of the State; that by the grant, title to the land passed to the State upon the

location of the route; and that, though the road was not completed within the time specified, and though there was the provision that the unsold lands should revert, yet the title still remained in the State, held under a condition subsequent, and held until the government should take some steps to assert a forfeiture. Applying these well-settled rules to the cases at bar, there can be little difficulty in arriving at a conclusion. The grant to the Atlantic and Pacific was made in 1866; to the Southern *595 Pacific in 1871. They were grants in præsenti. When maps of definite location were filed and approved, the grants severally took effect by relation as of the dates of the acts. The map of definite location of the Atlantic and PacificCompany's road along the lands in controversy was filed and approved on April 11, 1872. Then the specific tracts were designated, and to them the title of the Atlantic and Pacific attached as of July 27, 1866. If anything in the land laws of the United States can be considered as thoroughly settled by repeated decisions, it is this. It matters not when the map of definite location of the Southern Pacific was filed and approved, whether before or after April 11, 1872; for when filed the grant could take effect by relation only as of March 3, 1871, and at that time, and for nearly five years theretofore, the title to these lands had been in the Atlantic and Pacific. It matters not that the act of

1871 in terms purports to bestow the same rights, grants and privileges as were granted to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company by the act of 1866. That merely defines the extent of the grant and the character of the rights and privileges; it does not operate to make the latter grant take effect by relation as of the date of the prior grant, and thus subject the grants to the two companies to the rule controlling cotemporaneous grants, as established by St. Paul & Sioux City Railroad v. Winona & St. Peter Railroad, 112 U.S. 720, and Sioux City & St. Paul Railroad v. Chicago, Milwaukee &c. Railway, 117 U.S. 406. Even if Congress had in terms expressed an intent to that effect in a subsequent act, itcontention is based upon these facts: The Atlantic and Pacific Company claimed that, under its charter, it was authorized to build a road from the Colorado River to the Pacific Ocean, and thence along the coast up to San Francisco; and it filed maps thereof in four sections. San Buenaventura was the point where the westward line first touched the Pacific Ocean. One of these maps was of that portion of the line extending from the western boundary of Los Angeles County, a point east of San Buenaventura, and through that place to San Miguel Mission, in the direction of San Francisco. In other words, San Buenaventura was not the terminus of any line of definite location from the Colorado River westward, whether shown by one or more

maps, but only an intermediate point on one sectional map. When the four maps were filed, and in 1872, the Land Department, holding that the Atlantic and Pacific Company was authorized to build not only from the Colorado River directly to the Pacific Ocean, but also thence north to San Francisco, approved them as establishing the line of definite location. Subsequently, and when Mr. Justice Lamar was Secretary of the Interior, the matter was reëxamined, and it was properly held that under the act of 1866, the grant to the Atlantic and Pacific was exhausted when its line reached the Pacific Ocean. San Buenaventura was, therefore, held to be *597 the western terminus, and the location of the line approved to that point. The fact that its lineCongress as laws as well as grants; that *598 Congress intends no scramble between companies for the grasping of titles by priority of location, but that it is to be regarded as though title passes as of the date of the act, and to the company having priority of grant, and, therefore, that in the eye of the law it is now as though there never was a period of time during which any title to these lands was in the Southern Pacific. As said in the case of Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway v. Kansas Pacific Railway, 97 U.S. 491, 497: "It is always to be borne in mind, in construing a Congressional grant, that the act by which it is made is a law as well as

though the lands granted to the Atlantic and Pacific had been identified in 1866, and title had then passed, and there never was a title of any kind vested in the Southern Pacific Company. And whatever of plausibility there might be in this suggestion of counsel, based upon the old common law rules in respect to the effect of a lack of identification upon attempted conveyances between private parties, it fails entirely because its map of definite location was not filed by the Southern Pacific Company until long after the filing by the Atlantic and Pacific Company. It is true that the bills of complaint in these cases allege that "said Southern Pacific Railroad Company accepted said grant, and on April 3, 1871, did designate the line of its55. The act under consideration in that case was that of July 2, 1864, 13 Stat. 365, making a grant to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. The third section of that act, as the third of this, made the grant, and provided for the line of definite location. Section 6 authorized the fixing of the general route, and its language in respect to that matter is the same as that of section 6 of the act before us. It reads: "That the President of the United States shall cause the lands to be surveyed for forty miles in width on both sides of the entire line of said road, after the general route shall be fixed, and as fast as may be required by the construction of said

of the adjoining odd sections within forty miles on each side, until the definite location is made... . The general route may be considered as fixed when its general course and direction are determined after an actual examination of the country or from a knowledge of it, and is designated by a line on a map showing the general features of the adjacent country and the places through or by which it will pass. The officers of the Land Department are expected to exercise supervision over the matter so as to require good faith on the part of the company in designating the general route, and not to accept an arbitrary and capricious selection of the line irrespective of the character of the country through which the roadis to be constructed. When the general route of the road is thus fixed in good faith, and information thereof given to the Land Department by filing the map thereof with the Commissioner of the General Land Office, or the Secretary of the Interior, the law withdraws from sale or preëmption the odd sections to the extent of forty miles on each side. The object of the law in this particular is plain; it is to preserve the land for the company to which, in aid of the construction of the road, it is granted. Although the act does not require the officers of the Land Department to give notice to the local land officers of the withdrawal of the odd sections from sale or preëmption, it has

been the practice of the Department in such cases, to formally withdraw them." As the act of July 27, 1866, the one before us, is in these respects exactly like that of the one before the court in that case, it must be held that here, as there, Congress provided for two separate matters; one the fixing of the general route, and the other the designation of the line of definite location; and an examination of the evidence shows that the map which *601 was filed on April 3, 1871, was simply one of general route, and therefore did not work a designation of the tracts of land to which the Southern Pacific's grant attached. As the map was filed within one month after the grant, it might bethe heavy red line traced thereon the general route of the line of railroad, as near as may be, from a point at or near Tehachapa Pass, by way of Los Angeles to the Texas Pacific Railroad at or near the Colorado River, adopted by the said Southern Pacific Railroad Company in pursuance of the power and authority granted to said company by the 23d section of the act of Congress of the United States, entitled `An act to incorporate the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, and to aid in the construction of its road, and for other purposes,' approved March 3, 1871, and in pursuance of the provisions of the act of July 27, 1866, referred to in said 23d section, and for the purpose of obtaining the

benefit of the provisions of said acts of Congress. "CHAS. CROCKER, "President, Southern Pacific Railroad Company." Not only that, but upon the filing of the map, and on April 21, 1871, the Commissioner of the General Land Office sent to the receiver at Los Angeles a letter making a direction of withdrawal, in which he says, referring to this matter: "The company *602 having filed adiagram designating the general route of said road, I herewith transmit a map showing thereon the line of route, as also the 20 and 30-mile limits of the grant, to the line of withdrawal for the Southern Pacific Railroad under the act of 1866, and you are hereby directed to withhold from sale or location, preëmption or homestead entry all the odd-numbered sections falling within those limits." Further, there is in evidence an exemplification of a diagram in the Land Office, showing the limits of the grant to the Atlantic and Pacific Company, with the intersecting limits of the grant to the Southern Pacific Company, on which diagram appear two lines, one traced in blue, and marked "branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad;" and the other in red, somewhat

divergent therefrom, marked "Southern Pacific Railroad, definite location." Still further, on the minutes of the proceedings of meetings of the directors of the Southern Pacific road, held on April 10, September 8, and October 1, 1874, appear resolutions similar in their character, but having reference to different parts of the line between Tehachapa Pass and the Texas Pacific Railroad. The one passed at the meeting on April 10, 1874, is in these words: "Resolved, That the line of railroad as it has been surveyed and laid out on map marked `AA,' and described as follows: Commencing at a point in the northwest quarter (N.W. ¼) of section [three] (3), township two (2) north, range fifteen (15) west, San Bernardino base and meridian, and running thence in a southeasterly direction toof definite location determined upon by the company. Of course, therefore, the map filed April 3, 1871, could not have been a map of that line, but was, as it states, only of the general route, and there was then no designation of lands to which the Southern Pacific Company's title could attach. On the other hand, the Atlantic and Pacific Company did file its maps of definite location. This appears from the certificates thereon. In the one covering the line along the lands in controversy, the chief engineer of the company certifies that E.N. Robinson was a deputy engineer, and that the latter, "as shown by his field-notes, did actually survey and mark upon the ground, or cause to be surveyed and marked upon the ground, the line

or route of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad," etc., as delineated upon the map; and that his acts in the premises were duly approved and accepted on behalf of the company, by himself as chief engineer. And in the further official certificate of the company it is stated that the "map shows the line or route of the said Atlantic and Pacific Railroad in the county, ... being a part of the line or route of said railroad, as definitely fixed in compliance with said acts of Congress," etc. These maps were received and approved by the Land Department as maps of definite location. It follows that in fact the line of definite location of the Atlantic and Pacific was established, and maps thereof filed and approved beforeany action in that respect was taken by the Southern Pacific Company. There never was a time, therefore, at which the grant of the Southern Pacific could be said to have attached to these lands; and the plausible argument based thereon, made by counsel in behalf of the Southern Pacific Company, falls to the ground. Again, it is urged that the grant to the Atlantic and Pacific having been forfeited, there is nothing now in the way of the Southern Pacific's grant attaching to these lands; that in the interpretation of rights under land grants, regard has always been had by this court to the intention of Congress; that it was the intention of Congress that these lands should pass to some company to aid in the construction of

a railroad, either *604 the Atlantic and Pacific or the Southern Pacific; that they cannot now be applied to aid in the construction of the former company's road; and that, therefore, to carry into effect the intent of Congress, they should be applied to aid in the construction of the latter company's line. We think this contention is erroneous, both as to the law and the intent of Congress. It was held in the case of Kansas Pacific Railway v. Dunmeyer, 113 U.S. 629, that, where a homestead right had attached to a tract at the time of the definite location of the railway company's line, which homestead was afterwards abandoned, the tract was simply restored to the public domain, and did not pass to the railway companythat it was the intent of Congress that these lands should pass conditionally to the Southern Pacific Company. Good faith must be imputed to Congress. It cannot be supposed that Congress intended to give to the Southern Pacific Company that which it had already given to the Atlantic and Pacific Company. It knew that it had granted lands to the Atlantic and Pacific for a road to the Pacific Ocean, and that that company was then engaged in constructing its road, and proceeding with as much rapidity as other Pacific companies had done. Within little over a month from the date of this grant to the Southern Pacific Company, and on April 20, 1871, it gave to the Atlantic and Pacific Company authority to issue bonds secured by

a mortgage on its road, equipment, lands, franchises, privileges, etc. 17 Stat. 19, c. 33. Congress, therefore, was expecting that the Atlantic *605 and Pacific Company would construct its road, and, with this expectation, had no thought of giving to the Southern Pacific Company that which it had already given to the Atlantic and Pacific Company. Further, as indicating the intent of Congress, reference may be had to the first proviso to section 3 of the act of 1866, which, by the terms of section 18 of that act and the act of 1871, becomes one of the conditions of the grant to the Southern Pacific Company. That proviso is: "Provided, That if said route shall be found upon the line of any other railroad route, to aid inbut by section 9 of the original act it was provided "that if the Atlantic and Pacific make any breach of the conditions hereof, and allow the same to continue for upwards of one year, then, in such case, at any time hereafter, the United States may do any and all acts and things which may be needful and necessary to insure a speedy completion of the said road." In other words, the intent of Congress was that this road to the Pacific should be built; that if there was any delay on the part of the Atlantic and Pacific Company, it might itself take all needful and necessary measures to accomplish the building; and to that end of course, use all the lands it proposed to grant

lands as at that time are public lands, and, therefore, grantable by Congress, and is never to be taken as a floating authority to appropriate all tracts within the specified limits which at any subsequent time may become public lands. The question is asked, supposing the Atlantic and Pacific Company had never located its line west of the Colorado River, would not these lands have passed to the Southern Pacific Company under its grant? Very likely that may be so. The language of the Southern Pacific Company's grant is broad enough to include all land along its line and if the grant to the Atlantic and Pacific Company had never taken effect, it may be that there is nothing which would interfere with the passage of the titlehad given to the Southern Pacific all that it had agreed to in its original grant; and now, finding that the Atlantic and Pacific was guilty of a breach of a condition subsequent, it elected to enforce a forfeiture for that breach, and a forfeiture for its own benefit. Our conclusions, therefore, are, that a valid and sufficient map of definite location of its route from the Colorado River to the Pacific Ocean was filed by the Atlantic and Pacific Company, and approved by the Secretary of the Interior; that by such act the title to these lands passed, under the grant of 1866, to the Atlantic and Pacific Company, and remained held by it subject to a condition subsequent until the act of forfeiture of 1886; that by

convincing, but lead to conclusions which seem to me consonant with justice and fair dealing. To my sense of right, there is something repugnant in any other conclusion, in view of the *608 inducements held out by the government and the work done, and the expenses incurred, by the railroad company. Congress desired to connect by a railway the States on the Mississippi with the Pacific Coast, and for that purpose, by the act of July 27, 1866, created a corporation known as the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, and gave it a grant of lands to aid in the construction of a railway between Springfield, in the State of Missouri, and the Pacific Coast. 14 Stat. 292, c. 278. The 18th section authorized the Southern Pacific Railroad Company,a corporation under the laws of California, to connect with the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad at such point near the boundary line of California which it should deem most suitable for a railroad line to San Francisco, and in consideration thereof, and to aid in its construction, gave it grants of lands similar to those which the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company had received and subject to the same conditions and limitations. On the 3d of March, 1871, Congress passed an act to incorporate the Texas and Pacific Railroad Company, and to aid in the construction of its road; and, for the purpose of connecting that road with the city of San Francisco, it authorized, by its 23d section, the Southern Pacific Railroad Company to construct a line of

railroad from a point at or near Tehachapa Pass, by way of Los Angeles, to the Texas Pacific Railroad at or near the Colorado River, with the same rights, grants and privileges, and subject to the same limitations, as those contained in the grant by the act of July 27, 1866, with a proviso "that this section shall in no way affect or impair the rights, present or prospective, of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, or any other railroad company." On the 3d of April following, one month only after the passage of this act, the Southern Pacific Company designated the line of its road from Tehachapa Pass, by way of Los Angeles to Fort Yuma on the Colorado River, on a map which it filed onthat day in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Afterwards the Southern Pacific was amalgamated or consolidated with other companies, the consolidated company being called the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. It then proceeded to *609 build the railroad along the line designated from Tehachapa Pass, by way of Los Angeles, to the Colorado River, and completed the same within the time required by the act of Congress. Its several sections were examined from time to time and reported to the President of the United States, by commissioners appointed by him for that purpose; and the whole line was accepted by the President, and patents of the United States for the greater part of the lands thus earned were issued to the company. Ever since

the completion and acceptance of the road the company has performed to the satisfaction of the government all the services, such as carrying the mails, transporting troops and supplies, in all respects as required by the act of Congress; and the services have been accepted by the United States. The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company subsequently to this definite location of the Southern Pacific Company, and nearly a year after the construction of its road had been commenced, and on March 12, 1872, filed in the office of the Secretary of the Interior — not the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office — two maps of portions of the line of road in the State of California, and some time afterwards filed maps of other portionsof its line, but it never constructed any portion of the road authorized to be constructed by it in the State of California; and for its failure in that respect, Congress, on July 6, 1886, passed an act declaring a forfeiture of the land in that State. The proposed line of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, which was never built, crosses the line of the road of the Southern Pacific Company, which was built as stated. The present suit is brought to cancel the patents issued to the Southern Pacific Company, and, wherever there is any portion for which a patent has not been issued, to annul its alleged title. The opinion of the majority of the court proceeds upon the ground that the grant to the Atlantic and Pacific

Railroad Company, though the road in aid of which it was granted was never constructed, and the grant was subsequently forfeited by the United States, operated to divest the government of *610 the fee of such lands so completely that the grant to the Southern Pacific Company to build its road could in no way be carried out; that its action, although taken with the approval of the officers of the government and strictly in conformity with its grant, gave nothing whatever to that company, and that the United States are for that reason authorized to ask for the cancellation of the patents and the surrender of the lands granted, necessarily carrying with them the railroad and other works constructed by the company. And this is prayed inthe face of the evident intention of Congress that the Southern Pacific Company should have these identical lands, so far as the government had the right to grant them as its reward in part for building the road. It is not denied or doubted, as counsel well observed, that the Southern Pacific Company "promptly, completely, in good faith and to the satisfaction of every department of the government having any concern with the matter, constructed and equipped its road, put it into operation and placed in possession of the government every facility and advantage sought by it in making the grants, and has thus fully earned its entire reward. And yet, in the face of all this, the government, by these suits, seeks to wrest these lands from the

lands. Such was the case of Bardon v. Northern Pacific Railroad Company, 145 U.S. 535. But it is evident that such exceptions and reservations of one grant do not apply and control a second grant, unless such second grant is specially stated to be within them. When the second grant in question in this case was made, all the rights which the United States had in the lands described therein passed to the Southern Pacific Company, subject only to the rights specially reserved of the first grantee, and released of all restrictions upon their use except as thus designated. Until something was done under the first grant towards its execution, it was competent for Congress to give effect to other grants and to limit the extent of theirrepeal the act making the grant, may change the whole condition of the lands. From these views it would seem that the questions arising in this case should not be difficult of solution. Before anything was done under the grant to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, even to indicate the route of the road it would construct, authority was issued by the government to the Southern Pacific Company to build a road north from a point at or near Tehachapa Pass, by way of Los Angeles, to the Texas and Pacific Railroad at or near the Colorado River, with a proviso, however, that the authority thus given should not in any respect impair the rights, present or prospective, of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company or of any

for that company to make a selection before it made the concession to the Southern Pacific Company. The company was not bound to wait indefinitely for the years to elapse before moving in the enterprise it was to undertake, and to further which Congress had afforded assistance. The condition attached to the concession was not an exception from the grant of any lands that the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company might claim under its grant without performing its conditions. It merely rendered the concession to the Southern Pacific Company subordinate and subject to any rights that the Atlantic and Pacific Company may then have acquired or might thereafter acquire under its grant, upon the performance of its conditions. What, then, were those rights, present or prospective, which werereserved to the Atlantic and Pacific Company? Plainly they were the right to construct a railroad and telegraph to the Pacific Coast, from the Colorado River, by the most practicable route, with a right of way two hundred feet in width, and to use certain lands granted for that purpose to aid in their construction, and, when constructed, the right to operate the road and use the telegraph line. They were permissive rights, and not compulsory. Have they been affected or impaired by the concession to the Southern Pacific Company? In no respect whatever. They were affected and impaired by the company's failure to perform the conditions annexed to its grant, and in no other way, until its forfeiture was declared. It never did anything towards a compliance

with its conditions except to file, in detached parts, what it termed a map of the location of its road six years after the date of the grant and one year after the Southern Pacific Company had located its road, under its concession, and commenced its construction. Its rights, whether present or prospective were never invoked, *614 and, in consequence, nothing was ever obtained in virtue of them. The building of another road in another direction by the Southern Pacific Company under its concession did not, therefore, affect or impair any rights of the Atlantic and Pacific, as none were ever claimed or exercised by it. Had the company performed the conditions of its grant and exercised its rights it would have taken the lands under the grantagainst any possible pretension of the Southern Pacific Company; but, having abandoned all such rights by simply refusing to do anything, the Southern Pacific Company rightly proceeded with its work and constructed its road. The grant to it was a full conveyance of all the rights of the United States free from all restraints except as specially designated, and the rights then reserved were never subsequently affected or impaired by the Southern Pacific Company, and they were lost entirely by the forfeiture of the grant. The case, in a nutshell, is this: The grant to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company was indeed prior in point of time and of right, and the grant to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company was subordinate to the prior grant. But when the

prior grant was forfeited by the failure of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company to perform its conditions, that grant fell off, and the underlying grant to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, all the conditions of which had been performed, remained in full force and effect. I consider the principle involved in these cases as one of great importance, more so than the value of the property, although that runs into millions of dollars, expended by the company upon the encouragement of the government. But it is infinitely more important that it should be established that the government and its officers are bound by the same principles of justice in their dealings which are held to govern the conduct of individuals. In my opinion the judgment of the court belowThe second annual Chicago Open Air will bring together an all-star lineup of rock's top artists on Friday, July 14, Saturday, July 15 and Sunday, July 16 at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Illinois, just outside Chicago. The three-day music, craft beer and Gourmet Man Food festival will feature over 40 performances, including legendary rock artists OZZY OSBOURNE, KISS and KORN, along with ROB ZOMBIE, SLAYER, GODSMACK, STONE SOUR, MEGADETH, LAMB OF GOD, SEETHER, MESHUGGAH, ANTHRAX, CLUTCH, BODY COUNT, and many more. Check out the official Chicago Open Air video announcement below. Tickets for Chicago Open Air go on sale Friday, January 20 at noon CT at ChicagoOpenAir.com. In addition to three days of nonstop rock, Chicago Open Air's celebration of everything loud will also include Gourmet Man Food featuring local and

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The soldier was injured at a security checkpoint near the Tel Rumeda neighborhood in the West Bank city of Hebron. cnxps.cmd.push(function () { cnxps({ playerId: '36af7c51-0caf-4741-9824-2c941fc6c17b' }).render('4c4d856e0e6f4e3d808bbc1715e132f6'); }); A terrorist stabbed an lightly wounded an IDF soldier from Nahal's 50th Battalion in Hebron Saturday morning.The soldier was taken to hospital for treatment.The soldiers on scene returned fire and neutralized the terrorist, who has been confirmed dead.The incident came a day after four terrorist attacks by Palestinians against Israelis were perpetrated on Friday. The attacks marked a sudden resurgence of violence after months of relative calm.A soldier was lightly stabbed in the face, before soldiers next to him shot and killed the assailant.Earlier in the day a suspected terrorist of Jordanian nationality attempted to stab police officers at Jerusalem's Damascus Gate.Accordingto police, the terrorist walked out of the Damascus Gate with knives outstretched in both of his hands.He headed to a Border Police unit that was standing guard by the gate and shouted out, “Allahu Akbar,’ a police spokesperson said.A Border Police officer who was at the scene said that her back was to the terrorist, but she turned immediately after hearing his shouts and saw the knives.“I immediately took a step back, drew my weapon and fired,” she said.Her shot killed the the 28-year-old assailant who had entered Israel yesterday coming via the Allenby Bridge. The Jordan Ministry of Culture spokesman, Sabah al-Rifai, stated that Jordan is closely following the situation in order to understand what happened.About an hour later two Palestinian terrorists, a man and a

woman, tried to run down a group of soldiers at the entrance to the Kiryat Arba settlement near the West Bank city of Hebron.Soldiers shot at both the assailants.According to Maan News Agency, one of the assailants was Firas Khdour from Bani Naim near Hebron. He was accompanied by his fiancee Raghd Abdullah Khdour, whose sister attempted an attack in at the same intersection only a few months ago and was killed.According to initial reports, the man was killed. Raghd arrived to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in serious condition from a bullet wound in her stomach.Magen David Adom evacuated to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center three lightly wounded 15-year old boys from the scene.After the incident was over, soldiers found a knife in the Palestinian vehicle.Damascus Gate inJerusalem's Old City and the city of Kryat-Arba have been flashpoints for terror attacks during the wave of violence that began nearly a year ago.The violence in Israel continued as a bus driver was injured on Highway 1 from Jerusalem to Ma’aleh Adumim after rocks and bottles of paint were thrown at the bus.Police were searching for the suspects.Tovah Lazaroff contributed to this report.

The Giants are about to bring back Chase Blackburn to provide depth to their injury-riddled linebacker unit, according to two people familiar with the situation. The people requested anonymity because they're not authorized to speak for the team. Blackburn, who played for the team from 2005-10, could sign either today or Wednesday. It's unclear who the team will cut or place on injured reserve to make room. Blackburn made the team an undrafted free agent in 2005 out of the University of Akron. He went on to become a spot linebacker during his five seasons with the Giants. Blackburn was also a special teams captain last season. MORE COVERAGE OF GIANTS FOOTBALL • Giants stories and columns • Giants photos • Giants videos He entered this season unsigned and worked out with the team in September.728 provided under the light guide plate 724 reflects the light leaking from the light guide plate 724 and promotes the efficient use of the light. The display unit 710 and the back light assembly 720 is fixed and supported by a mold frame 730 which is a receiving receptacle. The mold frame 730 has a box-shape, and the upper surface of the mold frame 730 is open. Namely, the mold frame 730 has four side walls and a bottom surface. And openings for bending the integrated printed circuit board 714 along the outer side surface of the mold frame 730 and for positioning the integrated printed circuit board 714 are formed on the back of the bottom surface. A chassis 740 for bending the integrated printed circuit board 714

Two men, including one who has 25 wives and 146 children, were convicted of polygamy on Monday in a landmark ruling that upheld Canada's longstanding ban on the practice. Winston Blackmore and James Marion Oler, who has five wives, face up to five years in prison after being found guilty in the first real test of the country's polygamy law, enacted 127 years ago. Three special prosecutors had been appointed over the past two decades to consider bringing charges against the pair, but they backed down over concerns that the law prohibiting polygamy violated Canadians' constitutional right to religious freedom. Those fears were assuaged in 2011 when British Columbia province's Supreme Court ruled in a reference case that the inherent harms of polygamy justified putting limits on religious freedoms, clearing theThe Negroni Cocktail “There is a thirty year age difference between us thought Mrs. Stone. Then she was ashamed of herself and by the time Paolo had emerged from the bathroom she had mixed two negronis and placed them on the glass-topped table on the still sunny terrace with a bowl of olives between. Paolo came outside with an air of abstraction. He paid no attention to the drinks, but left her sipping hers while he wandered over to the balustrade and looked moodily down into the little piazza at the top of the Spanish stairs. Mrs. Stone thought to herself, This is a time to lie low. And so she made no comment. She sipped her drink with her eyes on his grey flannel back and she thought

Every NHL coach cautions the media this time of year not to read too much into line combinations, as experimentation is frequent in the preseason. Still, the lines deployed for practice offer a window into what Pete DeBoer and his new-look staff are thinking. The group that would would currently be labeled as the Sharks’ fourth line might be its most intriguing. Chris Tierney, Joel Ward and Marcus Sorensen all enter the 2017-18 season with something to prove, yet all are at drastically different stages of their careers. Tierney is the young center who didn’t take the step forward last season that the organization had hoped, Ward is the savvy veteran trying to find the fountain of youth after a down year, and Sorensen is the speedy newcomer who camebetween Survivor and a documentary: in general Survivor has a story to tell (and in many instances, several stories) while a documentary is produced solely to document an event or events. Sometimes, the story tells itself, and the actions of the characters is sufficient to convey the message. For example, one of the messages in this week's episode was conflict in the women's camp... Christy and Joanna provided MB with footage to use to convey this fact. He had no editing to do here, save to splice some footage of Jeanne and Janet looking concerned or disapproving. However, if we delve into other instances, perhaps from another Survivor (say Australia), we see a different situation. Jerri was cast as the bitch/villain. Keith, her unwitting victim. Throughout the first few episodes

"Gay" Matthew/Alex, then Editing In by Omission is effected, the reality tv viewers never the wiser, just manipulated. dagwood: Here is a thought about Rogers remarks: Did anyone else think of Rudy when he said them? Wasn't Rudy outspoken about his feelings about homosexuals, especially since he was in the same tribe as Richard? I wonder if that was left in to make the Roger/Rudy connection... Excellent, Dag. [Which Amazon Survivor is the "Gay" or, hopefully, the "Richard the Snake"?] Rudy is a warrior, so he has likely learned to look the other way from his morals when expedient, learned to respect whatever character has the force/ power/ skill/ intelligence to get the job done. He also might be aware of excellent historical examples of tough and saavy as hellRay of sunshine on a black day He did manage a bit of a bop at the end, but otherwise it was difficult to imagine two more different days, really. Twelve months ago, Gordon Brown bounced (one imagines) out of bed in the happy knowledge that 65% of us thought he was a good bloke and would make a very fine prime minister. He went to see the Queen, and duly became PM. Then - remember? - he made that nervous, but oddly moving, little speech outside No 10, quoting his old school motto. Yesterday, his first anniversary as the nation's leader, he awoke knowing that Labour had been beaten into fifth place in the Henley byelection by the BNP, and learned that about two-thirds of us think he's a

liability to his party, which, we also believe, has little chance of winning the next election. With an indubitably Brownian sense of occasion, the PM celebrated the end of his exciting first year in office yesterday by publishing a pamphlet on "the third stage of reform needed to achieve excellence and fairness in public services", and spent most of the rest of the day in Manchester with police community support officers and students. At least he got to link hands with his neighbours in the VIP stand and sing happy birthday to Nelson Mandela in Hyde Park in the evening. Trying to escape momentarily from 365 days punctuated by natural disasters, an election that never was, atrocious opinion polls, even worse byelections, a catastrophic bank run, economic slowdown, a badlybotched tax reform, rapidly soaring oil prices and steadily falling house prices, Brown began by seeking sanctuary once more in his school days. In a tantalising glimpse of the man that might have been, he spoke of the eye surgery that saved his sight at the age of 16 - but let slip that impressive though the NHS op to reattach his retina was, it was not the surgery that made the biggest impression on him so much as the booze trolley that came around the wards afterwards. "At the age of 16," the PM told the BBC, "when you know you've got a free health service and then when you're getting free beer, free Guinness and free wine, that's quite an amazing thing to happen." Later, Brown spoke to police

and residents at Manchester's Sale Moor Community Partnership about crime levels (falling, hurrah!), and to children from Lyme Tree primary school about football. And there came a rare ray of sunshine. "We shook hands and spoke man to man, like normal. He seemed a smashing bloke," said Graham Jervis, a local resident. "There used to be a lot of trouble round here. There's been a lot more money put in, they have regenerated. Everything is better now." On to Hyde Park in London for the former African president's 90th birthday concert at about 8pm, neatly missing the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, by about 15 minutes. In an open-neck blue shirt and navy blue blazer, Brown looked almost, for a moment, relaxed. He shook hands, smiled and chatted toassorted VIPs' expensively dressed children. He stood up and clapped along to Johnny Clegg . He even essayed a bit of a gentle hip swing for Eddie Grant's heartlifting Gimme Hope Jo'anna. And, led by master of ceremonies Will Smith, he belted out Happy Birthday with the best of them. Later, Mandela joined a plainly delighted PM in a small covered section of the stand, where both gave every appearance of listening intently to Amy Winehouse. Earlier, the PM had said of what was probably a more joyful anniversary than his own: "We're particularly honoured that he'll be celebrating his birthday here in London." If a week's a long time in politics, how long's a year?