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It’s a little dark and foreboding, frankly. It’s a warning to America to start listening to God, or else. There’s no happy ending; in fact, no ending just yet.

But it’s been on the New York Times bestsellers list for 52 straight weeks, has sold more than a million copies, and a video version of the message, after 35 weeks atop the faith film category at Amazon, has returned to that position.

It’s the “Harbinger” book by Jonathan Cahn, and the accompanying “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment” video documentary adaptation.

What makes it so in demand?

“I think it rings of truth,” Cahn told WND. “It’s a unique message.”

He said as a warning of a coming judgment if America doesn’t return to God – a call for repentance – it’s an unlikely bestsellers list subject.

“Much less the New York Times list,” he said.

But through God, it seems, all things are possible.

“It’s a God thing,” Cahn said. “The message is very different. It’s not just opinion. It’s giving exact correlations between the ancient mysteries and what’s happening now – as ancient as today’s newspaper.”

He said the book has a message that is relevant today to Americans whether they believe in God or not.

And he said it’s changing lives.

“We’re continually getting reports from people across the country whose lives are changing. They will very often use those exact works, that their outlook on life was changed,” he said.

Entire groups of Mormons are studying the book, Catholic priests are telling their parishes to read it, and there have been prominent members of the Jewish community whose interest has been focused.

The New York Times ranking?

“I don’t understand how that happens, how that’s maintained,” he said. “I have no doubt this was the Lord.”

In addition to the 52 weeks on the Times list, and the milestone of selling the millionth copy, the video documentary, “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment,” also has returned to the top of the list at Amazon.

There, one viewer commented, “I am not an ‘end of the world’ type but this movie has some very compelling facts that are really eye-opening. Maybe God is trying to tell us all something.”

It already was the top faith movie for 35 straight weeks in 2012.

It’s a powerful video portrayal of the events of 9/11 and its aftermath and how they mimic the judgment of ancient Israel – even down to the repetition of the same vows of defiance by not one American leader, not two, but three.

Here are just the most recent consumer reviews posted recently at Amazon:

  • “Everyone in American from every walk of life needs to see this DVD. It is not fiction, it is real.”
  • “This information is something everyone needs to see and hear. You will be stunned by the information provided. This is not coincidental. This is pure truth!”
  • “I am not an ‘end of the world’ type but this movie has come very compelling facts that are really eye opening. Maybe God is trying to tell us something.”

It’s also the movie that Chuck Norris has, well, recommended you watch.

In a recent column he exclaimed, “Watch the insightful and compelling ‘Isaiah 9:10 Judgment,’ which foretells America’s future.”

Chuck Norris is a man of few words. When he speaks, he has something to say. And that’s why the producer of “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment,” Joseph Farah of WND Films, is so excited about his enthusiastic endorsement of the movie that was the No. 1 faith film of 2012 and still riding high in 2013.

But what does he mean when he says the movie “foretells America’s future”?

“The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment” and “The Harbinger” make the persuasive case that America is under God’s judgment – and has been since 9/11.

In fact, they make the case that God has provided so much evidence of the warnings He has sent America, that it is really an overwhelming case.

Specifically, the parallels between what is happening in America today and what happened in ancient Israel are nothing short of startling.

Norris is hardly the first celebrity to recommend “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment.”

Marshall Teague, who plays the mayor of a town who fights back against religious intolerance in the movie “Last Ounce of Courage,” had this to say: “‘The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment’ is a chillingly compelling look into biblical history in the midst of repeating itself. Information presented to viewers eludes the most skeptical from ignoring a link between the past and present littered throughout our political chains. To falter in our faith and mockingly rise in the tide of self-importance will hasten the prophecy of Isaiah 9:10.”

Teague happens to be a close friend of Norris.

For the trip of a lifetime, join “Harbinger” author Jonathan Cahn and “Isaiah 9:10 Judgment” producer Joseph Farah on a tour of Israel, Nov. 7-17, 2013. Limited space available.

Likewise, former U.S. Sen. Jeremiah Denton, a retired admiral and the author of “When Hell Was in Session,” which describes his ordeal as the Vietnam prisoner of war held captive longer than any other, had this to say about “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment”: “Isaiah’s historic efforts to curb the defection of the Hebrews from the dictates of the God of Abraham parallels what’s happening in America today – with the abandonment of fundamental principles upon which the United States was founded, including the principle stated in the Declaration of Independence, that our citizens are ‘endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.’ Every time the Jews disobeyed God, they suffered. Disaster would be America’s punishment as well.”

Legendary entertainer Pat Boone couldn’t speak more highly of it.

“God bless you for ‘The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment’ – it’s absolutely fabulous!” Boone told WND. “The content and the production are so well done. In fact, Shirley and I are ordering a dozen or more to send to close family and friends – after which we’ll probably need scores more. Every Christian, every American needs to see this!” Boone declared.

Christian media critic Ted Baehr called it “extraordinary, compelling, dramatic.”

Author Ray Comfort called the documentary “a powerful, inspiring trumpet-blast of thought-provoking biblical truth.”

“The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment” is the stunning documentary revealing the striking parallels between the fall of ancient Israel and God’s early judgments of America.

Cahn, of the Jerusalem Center-Beth Israel Congregation in Wayne, N.J., says an otherwise obscure passage in the Book of Isaiah is since Sept. 11, 2001, being uncannily re-enacted in the U.S. just the way it originally played out in the time of the great prophet of Israel leading to the nation’s captivity and dispersions.

In “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment” this “ancient mystery that holds the secret of America’s future and the collapse of the global economy” is told in a compelling two-hour documentary format produced by WND’s Joseph Farah and directed by award-winning filmmaker George Escobar.

“Before its destruction as a nation, ancient Israel received nine harbingers, prophetic omens of warning,” Cahn says. “The same nine harbingers are now manifesting in America with immediate ramifications for end-time prophecy.”

The key to decoding the harbingers, he says, is found in understanding the seemingly innocuous words of Isaiah 9:10 (King James Version), what it meant to Israel and how the history seems to be repeating itself in America today: “The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.”

These words were first uttered by leaders in Israel and in response to a limited strike by Assyria on the lands of Zebulun and Naphtali – an attack the prophet makes clear is actually part of a limited judgment by God against apostasy. It wasn’t meant to destroy the nation, but to awaken it, according to most commentaries.

But, says Cahn, Israel didn’t take the cue. Instead, the response from the people in Isaiah 9:10 is one of defiance. The brick buildings were toppled, but they vowed to build bigger and better. The little sycamore trees may have been uprooted, but they vowed to plant bigger and better cedars in their place.

God, speaking through Isaiah, explains what will happen as a result of their pride and arrogance and failure to heed the harbinger: Bigger and more potent attacks will follow.

Because neither the northern kingdom of Israel or the southern kingdom of Judah truly repents, the first is eventually swept away by Assyrian invaders and the latter is carried off into captivity by the Babylonians for 70 years.

But what does this have to do with the United States of America – particularly what the U.S. experienced on 9/11 and since? Cahn has found some eerie parallels.

“In the aftermath of the attack, the nation was stunned,” said Cahn, “Everyone was trying to make sense of what had happened – this unprecedented attack on America. The very next day, September 12, then Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle presented America’s response to the world. And what did he say?”

Daschle said: “America will emerge from this tragedy as we have emerged from all adversity – united and strong. Nothing … nothing can replace the losses of those who have suffered. I know there is only the smallest measure of inspiration that can be taken from this devastation. But there is a passage in the Bible from Isaiah that speaks to all of us at times like this.”

He then went on to read Isaiah 9:10.

“Daschle has no idea what he is doing here,” explains Cahn. “He thinks he’s offering comforting words to a grief-stricken people, but he is actually embracing the spiritually defiant and arrogant words of the children of Israel, proclaiming the ancient and ominous vow of the leaders of that nation. He doesn’t realize it, but he is actually inviting more judgment on the nation.”

It might be of some significance that Daschle, one of the most powerful men in the nation when he spoke those words, later fell into disgrace – to the point where he couldn’t even serve in Barack Obama’s Cabinet.

That might have been the end of the story – if no other top leader in the nation uttered those strange and obscure words after 9/11. But that’s not the case.

On the third anniversary of the attack, Sept. 11, 2004, another powerful U.S. senator running for vice president that year and who would famously run for the presidency four years later, gave a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus.

This time, John Edwards’ entire speech was built on a foundation of Isaiah 9:10: “Today, on this day of remembrance and mourning, we have the Lord’s Word to get us through,” he said. He then read Isaiah 9:10. He went on to talk about how America was doing just that – rebuilding with hewn stone and planting cedars.

In “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment,” viewers get to see these remarkable, largely forgotten or overlooked speeches, which directly link the events of 9/11 and the events referred to in Isaiah 9:10.

“Like Daschle, Edwards thinks he’s invoking inspirational and comforting words from the Bible, but he’s actually inviting judgment on America,” says Cahn. “He’s repeating the vow that provoked God to bring calamity on ancient Israel.”

Daschle and Edwards were hardly alone among U.S. leaders in making similar statements, as “The Isaiah 9:10 Judgment” shows.

But aside from such statements, which could be chalked up to political talk and coincidences, is there anything else linking Isaiah 9:10 to 9/11?

The video documentary, like the book, is full of shocking parallels. There was actually a very famous sycamore tree felled in the attack on the World Trade Center. It was replaced by trees in the same genus as the cedar. There have been many plans made to rebuild the twin towers bigger and better and a large “hewn stone” was actually quarried out of the Adirondack Mountains in New York and brought to Ground Zero as a cornerstone.

“The parallels are truly stunning,” says Farah, founder of WND, who produced the documentary for WND Videos. “They are too numerous and too powerful to relate in news story form. In fact, they are overwhelming in their number and their exactitude. I am persuaded God is trying to tell America something and Rabbi Cahn has found the key to unlocking the message.”

Farah says events continue to unfold that seem to link directly to the message of Isaiah 9:10 right here in the United States.

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Fuel has nothing to prove. The band has sold over 3.5 million albums in the U.S. and scored a trio of top 5 singles, “Shimmer,” “Innocent” and “Hemorrhage (In My Hands”), the latter of which remained at 1 for 12 weeks. In addition, Fuel have sold out tours all over the world, headlining venues and opening for bands including Aerosmith, Kid Rock, Creed and 3 Doors Down. Fuel are primed to pick up where they left off with their latest release, Angels And Devils, with new band members in tow to help add to an already formidable list of achievements.

Since they burst onto the scene with their 1998 full-length debut Sunburn, Fuel has been a staple on rock radio regardless of the ebb and flow of ephemeral musical trends. After the massive success of “Shimmer,” Fuel released 2000’s Something Like Human, which featured the hit singles “Innocent” and “Hemorrhage (In My Hands)” and achieved double platinum status. After 3 years filled with touring, Fuel released 2003’s Natural Selection, which featured the hit “Falls On Me.” The steady schedule of hit songs and sold out tours was interrupted in 2004 when the band and singer Brett Scallions decided to amicably part ways.

For rock bands, lineup changes can be healthy, providing new options, renewed enthusiasm and a new aesthetic. But even in the best circumstances, they can also be difficult, resulting in growing pains and frequently, a learning curve that must be navigated to continue to move forward. “There’s been a lot of turmoil within the band over the past few years and a lot of that is reflected in these songs,” says guitarist and chief songwriter Carl Bell. “When change happens it brings out the best and the worst in people, and I’d like to think that for us it was mostly the best.”

And in 2012 we find Fuel changing again with original lead vocalist Brett Scallions coming back to the fold.  A new decade brings about a new beginning for the band, as they have enlisted guitarist Andy Andersson, Bassist Brad Stewart of Shinedown, and Drummer Ken Schalk of Candiria to accompany Scallions on the 2012 Tour.

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DCMS Wolfson renewal

DCMS Wolfson renewal

February 2011

The Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund was established in 2000. Since then £36 million has been allocated for the refurbishment of gallery space. The programme is jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Grants are made up to the level of £300,000.

The renewal of the programme for two further funding rounds, each awarding £4 million, was announced in February 2011.

''The DCMS/Wolfson Fund has had a huge impact on the museums sector and is a much-valued source of funding. It is often the major, one-off philanthropic donations that make the headlines, but the myriad of grants and improvements that the fund supports are just as vital to museums and galleries and the Wolfson Foundation is equally deserving of our gratitude.''

Paul Ramsbottom, Chief Executive of the Wolfson Foundation, said: ''We are pleased to be working alongside government to fund the refurbishment of the country's museum and galleries. The funding has already supported a fabulous array of projects ranging from Egyptian mummies to scent bottles. We hope that the renewal of this programme will further improve the experience of visitors.''

Bids will be invited for the first round of funding in April 2011.

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Analysts at Bank of America assumed coverage on shares of Sun Communities in a research report issued to clients and investors today (Jan. 25). They set a “neutral” rating on the stock, according to a news release posted online by Localized USA.

Earlier, analysts at BMO Capital Markets upgraded shares of Sun Communities from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating in a research note to investors on Jan. 3. Also, analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods downgraded shares of Sun Communities to an “underperform” rating in a research note to investors on Dec. 6.

Sun Communities Inc. is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT). The company owns, operates and develops RV parks and manufactured housing communities concentrated in the Midwest, South and Southeast. The company operates through two business segments: Real Property Operations, and Home Sales and Rentals.

Sun Communities stock opened today at $38.82. Sun Communities has a one-year low of $30.49 and a one-year high of $40.21. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $36.31 and a 200-day moving average of $36.67. The company has a market cap of $842.5 million and a price-to-earnings ratio of 1021.58.

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  • All pupils should have full access to the curriculum
  • Specialist provision and an appropriate level of support should be available to meet individual needs
  • Pupils with Additional Needs are not the responsibility of one department, but of the entire staff
  • Early identification of pupils with Additional Needs is essential, beginning with Primary Transition

We believe all our pupils are of equal value and equal worth but some children will have special educational needs at some stage during their time at school. We are proud of the achievements of our pupils with Additional Needs.

Thorough and careful planning ensures a smooth transition from Primary School for all our pupils. Pupils with Additional Needs are identified and records detailing specific needs/problems are attached to their transfer documents. During their time at Woodchurch High School pupils’ needs continue to be identified using a range of diagnostic tests and by individual subject teachers. A referral system is then used and staff in the first instance will report their findings to their Head of Department. If required the Head of Department will forward the referral form to the Additional Needs Co-ordinator and Senior Management for discussion.

When appropriate, external support services and agencies are invited in to give help and support to both staff and pupils. All pupils’ progress is regularly monitored by a number of strategies designed to ensure all pupils reach their maximum potential. Small group tuition is provided in English and Maths during Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. The Parents of children with statements are invited in to discuss their child’s Annual Review and strategies for the future.

The school has a provision for pupils who have a diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome. These pupils experience difficulties in social and communication skills. Our policy is for all our pupils to take part in mainstream lessons, if necessary with the assistance of Support Staff. However, timetables are designed to suit the needs of individuals and can include supported study sessions and small group social skills classes. If on occasions pupils find mainstream lessons difficult they are able to be withdrawn for further individual support and tuition.


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Three out of four will do

Posted by caroline in Knitting, Non-fibre, socks, Weaving on March 6th, 2013

Here are the contents of the plastic bag shown last time – two 2lb tin loaves. I have the same attitude to arty bread as I do to arty yarn – unless you have a use for it there’s no point in making it unless you really enjoy the process. The whole product vs process discussion applies equally to breadmaking as it does to knitting or spinning except that you can’t stash bread particularly well. We eat all of the bread we buy as sandwiches or toast so it needs to be regular in size (so one round of sandwiches is about the same size as another) and small enough to fit into the toaster. I like the look of those monster domes of arty bread but I can’t see that they have much practical application (rather like supercoils). There isn’t a powerful incentive for me to make bread because we shop at a real bakers which is right next to the real butcher who sells beef from cows and has animal parts on hooks in the cold store at the back. Last weekend the timing of other stuff meant that there was no way of fitting in the bread run so I made my own. They were good loaves, I should have slashed the tops deeper and maybe dusted them with flour but they were as good as any I’ve ever made. The first two didn’t last very long so I had a chance to see what they would have looked like slashed and dusted because I remembered to do that with the second two. The second two were prettier but had a slight flying crust because I was pushed for time on the final rise. I think my next stop is croissants and to do that I need to clear the breakfast bar off to create some serious rolling out space. I used to buy my bread flour by the sack then junior came along with his preference for floppy bread. I am hoping that now is the time to wean him off plastic shop bread and if the trade off is chocolate croissants then so be it.

The scarf from last time also came out well. It needed some fixing because yet again I managed to do an outstanding job of threading (not), I had one threading error and three pairs of crossed threads. It would have come out better if I hadn’t woven a foot before finding the third pair. You can’t tell now and that’s what matters. As this is all sock yarn and machine washable it can go to a home where it may not be properly washed so as soon as I’ve written a thank you note it will be going off to school. This took about 120g of sock yarn bits, I have enough red scraps to make another without getting too inventive with the colours, I’m not sure if I have enough for a third without it being too striped.

The latest socks are finished. The black tops are so that he can wear them for band concerts and school, provided that they are visibly plain they’ll do. What happens in the shoe, stays in the shoe. They were too plain to be fun and another time I’ll know to show him a shortlist of yarns rather than letting him pick his own. I used all of one 50g ball of black, I knitted from both ends of the ball with two sets of dpns so I finished just past the gusset decreases with less than a yard left. I used all of the purple and there’s so little left of the blue after knitting the toe that I’ll keep that bit out for yarn ties. Even though it sounds like a big win over the scrap bag in reality I’ve used less than 30g out of it. I suppose that’s better than putting 30g into it but it’s the scarf that takes the win this week on using leftovers.

The thrummed hat is still in the bag, not one row longer than last time. I bet it wouldn’t take an hour of my time to finish it, even so my next project is going to be winding another warp from the scrap bag. I’m pushing myself to finish the hat, I have no other knitting (my inner knitter whispered something about a Victorian stocking but she’s wrong) and I’m not starting anything else until it’s finished. It has to be done because I can’t face the thought of attempting to frog thrums.

2 Responses to “Three out of four will do”

  1. That loaf has what Paul & Mary would call ‘a very even crumb’ ;o. Looks delicious.

    You’re a braver woman than me to attempt croissants!

  2. jo says:

    Feeling inspired I saw the opportunity and I’ve just signed up for a weekend bread course, means I get away from the kids for 2 days too! Scarf looks lovely x

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6 1/2"

Hit or Miss Trivet instructions.

Either copy and paste the picture of the circle and print it out or trace around your felt piece

Material needed:

 Monk’s Cloth 18” square

Approximately 90-100 yards of worsted weight yarn, cut into 1 yard lengths

#10 Oxford needle

Felt to finish the back

Felt with iron on adhesive

Trace the design onto your Monk’s Cloth. The easiest way is in a sunny window; tape up the pattern and tape the Monk’s cloth over it and trace it using a permanent marker.

Place cloth into an embroidery hoop, design facing up, and stretch the fabric as tight as you can (this is important). With needle punching you work from the back.

Use the yarn 2 strands of worsted weight yarn held together at the same time

Keep checking the front to see that the background cloth isn’t showing through.

Remove the project from the hoop, place right-side up onto your ironing board and using a damp towel, steam your project with your iron on “wool” or high.  Let cool.

Cut the Monk’s cloth so there is a 1” border around your work. Carefully, without burning yourself, fold the border onto the back of your trivet in sections and iron flat as you go.

Peel the paper backing off of your felt, place it shiny side down onto the back of your trivet and iron on medium-high heat for about 8 seconds.


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A Spectacular Pete Dye Golf Course. A wonderful course layout with 18 Very Different Holes. Impeccable Course Conditions. Awards: Rated "Best New Upscale Public Golf Course for 1998" Golf Digest. "Top Ten You Can Play for 1998" Golf Magazine "Top 100 Women Friendly Golf Courses" Golf for Women.

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Year built 1998
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Thank you for joining us on the Games journey and taking part for the love of sport. We are sad that it’s all over, but excited to hand the host city baton on to future World Masters Games events.

You can find out more about masters events worldwide from the International Masters Games Association .
To purchase photos visit CMG Sports. Thank you again for joining us in Auckland, New Zealand for WMG2017.

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I’m still really obsessed with the idea of color in ancient art, and it turns out I’m not the only one! The Indiana University Art Museum put together an entire exhibit that celebrates color in ancient art.

When you arrive at the site, you’ll find the Themes navigation menu on the left side of the screen and one the right you’ll find introductory text about the collection. Once you’ve clicked into a theme, you’ll find the Theme navigation as a strip below the main navigation strip and the content for the theme below.

Each theme has art on the left and information about that part of the collection on the right. If you click on a piece of artwork, the image will be featured on the left in a larger size with specific information about that piece on the right. The only thing I think is missing from this navigation system is an easy way to go back from the art pieces other than clicking back into the collection you were browsing. It would be nice if you could browse through all of them with right or left arrows.

While all the sections are amazing and full of interesting artwork, my favorite section is Making Color. This section teaches you how ancient artisans made the colors they worked with whether it was naturally inherent in the materials they selected, manipulated those materials to get the results they wanted, or manufactured the colors in order to bring their artwork to life.  This section is full of subthemes, which means when you click on an item you’ll be opening up a gallery of examples for that topic. I loved all of these sections and highly recommend you take a peak at them.

Go explore the color of ancient art for yourself today!

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Garage Sale Permits

If you're planning to have a garage sale, there are a number of City requirements you need to know about.
  • You must obtain a permit from the City. Permits are available at the City Clerk’s office at the Louis J.R. Goorey Worthington Municipal Building, 6550 N. High Street. Permits can also be downloaded here Garage Sale Permit Application (PDF).
  • The permit may be filed any time prior to the first day of the sale.
  • The fee is $5.
  • A total of three signs are allowed. One on your property and two may be placed off the sale property, as long as they are not in the public right-of-way and that permission is obtained from the property owner where the signs are placed.
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When submitting a permit, residents also have the option to have their event posted on a special Garage Sale Calendar on the City's website. For more information view the City calendar.

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Berlioz’s five-act epic about the siege of Troy returns in Francesca Zambello's grand 2003 production. The performance includes Susan Graham as Dido, Deborah Voigt as Cassandra, Marcello Giordani as Aeneas and Karen Cargill as Anna. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi marshals the massive musical forces.

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    That's weird, but nifty. Shows more foresight and planning than many other cities.

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Hollyhock HouseThe Aline Barnsdall residence, “Hollyhock House”, was built on the 36-acre Olive Hill in Los Angeles between 1919 and 1922. The house was intended to be a poured concrete structure, but was changed to wood frame and hollow tile faced with stucco. The ornamental hollyhock details are made of cast stone –an early form of unreinforced pre-cast concrete.
Hollyhock HouseHollyhock House demonstrates Wright’s reaction to the climate of Southern California. It is built on the top of a hill, basking in the hot California sunshine. Window openings onto the hill are recessed and few in number, while the openings into the patio court in the center of the house are full-length French doors leading to grass lawns, pools and fountains.
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2000 Presidential Election The 2000 Presidential election - between George W. Bush and Al Gore - questions if the electoral college is a democratic system. The election is so controversial because Al Gore won the popular vote in the country but George W. Bush was elected President by the votes of the electoral college members. The election process and the electoral college system is explained in Article II, section I and modified by the 12th Amendment. The question is was equal protection applied to all the voters in Florida during the 2000 Presidential election.

Amendment 12 states that : " ...the person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed.."Ã¯Â¿Â½. This means that the electoral college members, determined by the number of Representatives and Senate members of the state, place their votes for the candidate that the popular vote depicts....usually.

In recent history electors have never cast votes against the winner of the popular vote. In the 2000 Presidential election, AL Gore received 50,996,116 votes and George W. Bush received 50,456,169 votes , a 539,947 difference( relatively close) in favor of Al Gore. This means Al Gore won the popular vote of the country but was not elected president by the college.

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Joseph Napolitano 2/15/02 Lang. Arts I was out in the field picking cotton just like I did every day in this shit hole. I cant take it I said to myself I have to get out of here there has to be away. At least my parents got the easy way out. They died from some kind of sickness. I was still here. My brother was sold to a different slave owner I wish I could see him one more time. Slavery should be band because of the emancipation proclamation ( document /eman/emanproc.html but there is know use moping over it I had to think of how to get out but never go back to any slave owning industry, but how? I should get Frankie to help. I picked my way over to his area and started to talk to him I talked about a lot of stuff and finally led into my idea of thinking of how to escape.

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In the critically acclaimed "Crash", Paul Haggis sought above all else to tap into contemporary America's racial dynamic through contrarian analysis of our own prejudices (Haggis "Paul Haggis on Crash".). Crash relies heavily on themes of racism and above all, power; nowhere is this more evident than in the profound dialogue between Cameron and Anthony. Though the two are on opposite ends of the spectrum in life, Cameron gives Anthony an alternative outlook on himself and the effect of his actions. Cameron's power originates from an antiquated feeling of inferiority and subservience exacerbated by several key events within the narrative. Cameron's power is exerted upon Anthony in the form of an almost paradoxical diatribe aimed at a group of police officers and later, Anthony himself. This guides Anthony's hand in decisions later on and sets the backdrop for the expletive-laden finale.

On the surface, Cameron Thayer stands as a testament to the assertion that we live in a post racial America, that racial dichotomy and prejudice are obsolete social constructs that went the way of Jim Crow. Thayer lives in Studio City, Los Angeles, is gainfully employed as a TV director and is happily married, the beginning of his story has him cruising down Ventura Boulevard in a luxury SUV. Cameron's opening segment plays out much like a piece of early antebellum literature. Cameron, a black man, is pulled over and ordered out of his vehicle by two armed white policemen, humiliated in the street before his wife. The traffic stop takes a grotesque turn when one of the officers begin to molest Cameron's wife, Christine, in front of him. Cameron puts up no fight, fearing that he'll be arrested, or worse, killed. In Cameron it gives birth to,


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Harriet Tubman was an extordinary woman, in a way she was known as the Moses of her people. During a ten-year span as an Underground Railroad Conductor, she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger." (Tubman) Soon after the outbreak of the Civil War, Harriet Tubman served as a soldier, spy, and a nurse for the Union Army. But for all of her accomplishments she was alienated because she was black. No matter what she did not many people were truly willing to acknowledge her for her deeds, till much later in time. Even at a young age Harriet Tubman had always been willing to stand up for people. When she had been young, Harriet Tubman had blocked a doorway to protect another field hand from an angry overseer.

The overseer picked up and threw a two-pound weight at the field hand. It fell short, striking her on the head. She never fully recovered from the blow, which subjected her to spells in which she would fall into a deep sleep. The event was one moment of alienation, because when the overseer picked up the weight and threw it at the escaping field; he was disregarding Harriet Tubman as a person. Because if he did wouldn't have thrown if he did, as his actions caused an almost irreparable damage to her only increasing the amount of alienation she received. Possibly the worst act of alienation committed against her was when she was denied payment for her wartime service, she was than forced, after a bruising fight, to ride in a baggage car on her return to Auburn N.Y. The...


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A John Marshall student opened for a series of speakers Tuesday talking about the future of education in West Virginia.

EDTalks from The Education Alliance is a state-wide series focusing on improving the education system.

WVU President Gordon Gee said improving K-12 improves higher education.

"80 percent of people educated in this country is educated in public schools," he said. "Improving K-12 is so important for the quality of life at the University."

Gee was the keynote speaker at EDTalks in Morgantown.

"The nice thing about this conference is it's bringing a lot of people who are very entrepreneurial who have thought about how to improve the quality of the educational experience," Gee said. "I think we take those ideas and put them into a matrix so we could all move forward together."

One of those people is Sierra Cook.

She will graduate from John Marshall Friday, but Tuesday she stood in front more than 100 education policy makers telling them that improving education starts at home.

"If a student doesn't want to learn, than it reflects on tests and it makes the teacher look bad," she said. "There is only so much that can be done in the classroom. Teachers don't just have one kid they have classrooms to focus on. Parents they have their lives, and I know they have busy lives but their kids should come first."

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Archbishop of Panama is in Rome to Prepare for WYD

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WYD of Panama starts its engines. Archbishop José Domingo Ulloa has also traveled to Poland to exchange experiences with the organization of the last World Youth Day.

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World Youth Day Panama 2019: Two Years To Go!

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Get out your calendars and start planning for the next pilgrimage! The WYD #Panama2019 will be January 22-27th!

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Card. Farrell: WYD in Panama will be in the First Months of 2019

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While the official date of the next World Youth Day in Panama is not known as of yet, what is clear is that it will be in the first months of 2019.

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The ‘WYD Vocation’ of Fr Josh Miechels

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Affectionately dubbed the “World Youth Day (WYD) vocation”, Fr Joshua Miechels’ experience at WYD Toronto in 2002 put him on a path that would eventually lead to his ordination as a Catholic priest of the Emmanuel Community in 2015.

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2015 was the Year of Consecrated Life, and we're wrapping up this special Year on World Day for Consecrated Life on February 2, 2016. We sat down to chat to some of Australia's consecrated men and women.

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A Look Back at World Youth Day 25 Years Ago!

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Twenty five years have passed since Pope John Paul II celebrated World Youth Day in the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela. On August 18th and 19th, 1989 the Pope led the celebration along with more than 500,000 youths. It was the first time Spain hosted WYD. The theme was "I am the Way, the Truth and Life.'

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Effects of World Youth Days and Australian Catholic Youth Festivals - A Paper by Bishop Anthony Fisher

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Since around 2000 and especially since the World Youth Day (WYD) in Sydney in 2008, the Church in Australia has put a lot of energy into promoting the attendance of young people at the WYDs held internationally every three years. Australia has also now begun its own cycle of national events (the Australian Catholic Youth Festivals or ACYFs), also slated to occur every three years and modelled substantially on WYD.

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Saint John Paul II – 10 Great World Youth Day Quotes

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World Youth Day was founded in 1984 by Saint John Paul II. 30 years later, World Youth Day has travelled the globe, and young people everywhere encountered the spirit of John Paul II. As we prepare for World Youth Day 2016 in Krakow, Poland - the land of John Paul II - here are some of the most popular quotes said by this beloved Saint during World Youth Days.

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Pope Francis to Senegal Youth: Pray for Peace

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Pope Francis asked the young people of West Africa to pray for peace in the world, “particularly in the region of Casamance.” The message of the Holy Father to the 2014 Inter-Territorial World Youth Days in Senegal was read out by the Apostolic Nuncio to Senegal, Archbishop Loius Mariano Montemayor.

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What draws young people to World Youth Day, and how does it impact on their lives? In a bid to find out, Anthony Cleary, Director of Religious Education and Evangelisation for the Archdiocese of Sydney's Catholic Education Office has conducted interviews with more than 200 Australian pilgrims who attended WYD in Madrid and surveyed more than 1000.

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World Youth Day 2011 Kicks Off in Madrid! (Tuesday, August 16)

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It's official. World Youth Day is finally here. The big event kicked off Tuesday night with an opening Mass in Madrid's Plaza de Cibeles, one of the city's main monuments. It was surrounded by thousands of young people, who traveled from every corner of the world.

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Fredo Santana reaches back to his Trappin Aint Dead project and brings forth the video for the Gino Marley and SD assisted track, “Want A Nigga Dead.” Directed by Rio P. Santana’s debut record, Walking Legend is slated for an April 1 release.

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Remember the saying don’t judge a book by its cover? Well, 2014 XXL Freshman Kevin Gates may look intimidating on the outside, but inside the Baton Rouge rapper has a very sensitive side. In a recent interview with Noisey, Gates opens up about suffering from severe depression and how he can relate to some of Taylor Swift’s songs.

For rappers especially, it’s hard for some people to believe their lifestyle and mindset is anything different from what they talk about in their songs. Like your everyday music lover, rappers are still in-tune with songs that express deep rooted meanings despite the genre they fall under. This is proven with many artists like Pharrell collaborating with Gwen Stefani or Jay-Z with Lincoln Park. Gates tells Noisey about the different music he’s into and how he connected with a Taylor Swift Song.

“I don’t just listen to rap,” said Gates about his eclectic musical interests. “Like Taylor Swift says, “And my daddy said stay away from Juliet,” I can understand what she meant by that metaphorically, like, she was the princess. I’ve been through that situation. I was courting, going through the courtship phase, you know, the lady’s father intervened, he didn’t want her dating me and things of that nature. But I was a knight in shining armor, so I had to fight for her.It resonated with me and the other part of the song that was like, [singing] “Do you remember, we were sitting there by the water? You put your arms around me for the first time.” I love that. It’s so realistic. It’s simplistic. And when I listen to that song it reminds me of one of my favorite authors, Nicholas Sparks. He wrote The Notebook.”

After learning to accept his prognosis while earning his Master’s degree in Psychology in prison, Bates now talks candidly about battling with depression and how he chose to channel it positively.

“Because music is my release, and I notice that once I started the conversation, then other people are like, “Well, Kevin Gates uses music to channel his depression.” — That’s what I just advocate that because it’s okay to suffer from a certain ailments. It’s how you treat those ailments, it’s how you deal with those ailments that matters.”

Kevin Gates is currently preparing to kick off his By Any Means Tour on July 15.

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Drake’s “Wu-Tang Forever” may have sparked some controversy and excitement at the same time a few weeks ago, but the instrumental has already got rappers writing rhymes to it. Next up to the plate is Inglewood’s Skeme who drops his version called “Sox Gang 4Ever.” Over 40’s production, Skeme freestyles for nearly four minutes talking about hustling and getting his own bread, life in his hood, and loyalty. “And people always want to know why I haven’t sign with so and so / Dreamchasers, TDE or OVO, but homies know its S.O.X. foreva / I ain’t switching, I ain’t leaving / When I speak it, they believe it.”

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Bygone Badass Broads & Books: Florence Price, Caresse Crosby, Fatima al-Fihiri, Sybil Ludington

It’s time once again for Bygone Badass Broads and Books! If you’re not familiar with the series, every Friday at 1 pm EST, I take to my Twitter and wax poetic about the story of a forgotten badass woman from history and why you should know about her.

Today, I am delighted to be sharing a wrap up of the women I talked about this month as well as some book recommendations to go with them!

Florence Price

Florence Price was the first African-American woman to have a symphony played by a major orchestra in the United States.

this song will save your life leila salesThis Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales
After a suicide attempt, Elise finds solace and empowerment in DJing at local venues. Like Florence, Elise finds herself breaking barriers and coming up against sexism in the music industry, but loves her art enough to fight for it.

tiny pretty things sona charaipotra dhonielle claytonTiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton
Much like Florence, the three protagonists of Tiny Pretty Things will do anything for their art – in this case, ballet. But they’re willing to go to a bit more dramatic measures for success than Florence did. A dramatic, page-turning thriller set in the high stakes world of a competitive ballet academy.

the voice that challenged the nation by russell freedmanThe Voice that Challenged a Nation by Russell Freedman
A compelling and readable biography of Marian Anderson, a similarly pioneering black musician in mid-twentieth century America. When she sang her historic concert at the Lincoln Memorial, she closed with a song by her good friends, Florence Price.

Caresse Crosby

Caresse Crosby was the holder of the first patent on the modern bra, publisher of literary greats in the 1920s and 1930s, patroness of the arts, all-around wild party girl and owner of a dog named Clitoris.

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A modern (and queer!) retelling of The Great Gatsby about girls summering in the Hamptons. Since Caresse was publisher of a lot of the crowd F. Scott Fitzgerald ran around with, this is a great modern update of the sort of novels she worked on.

the diviners libba brayThe Diviners by Libba Bray
Evie O’Neill fights paranormal monsters in jazz age New York, set against the backdrop of the sort of clubs and hedonism where Caresse made a name for herself. Perhaps they would have partied together.

velvet undercover teri brownVelvet Undercover by Teri Brown
There are not enough YA books about World War I, but it’s a big reason Caresse’s patent for the modern bra caught on. A spy mystery set during the Great War that will keep you turning pages as Sam, a non-nonsense girl who suffers no sexism, takes a job as a spy for MI5.

Fatima al-Fihiri

Fatima al-Fihiri was the founder of the first and oldest operating university and library in the world, Al-Qarawiyyin, in Fez, Morocco.

written in the stars aisha saeedWritten in the Stars by Aisha Saeed
A suspenseful and moving story about religion, identity and fate. Like Fatima, Naila is a Muslim girl trying to find her footing in both her faith and her world. And Aisha Saeed is a Muslim Pakistani-American too!

tell me again sara farizanTell Me Again How A Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan
Leila has almost finished her education at a prestigious boarding school… when she falls for a beautiful new girl. Another book by a Muslim author about an Iranian-American girl discovering her identity – and all set against the backdrop of boarding school, which I think Fatima would have been into.

roomies sara zarr tara altebrandoRoomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando
An east coast/west coast virtual friendship between two soon-to-be college roommates from very different worlds, each dealing with their own problems the summer before college starts. How could I not include a YA college book on the list for the founder of the world’s oldest university?

Sybil Ludington

Sybil Ludington was the teenage patriot and Revolutionary War hero who rode twice the distance of Paul Revere in a single night to muster her father’s militia and defend the town of Danbury, Connecticut against the British.

sophia's war aviSophia’s War by Avi
The execution of Nathan Hale spurs sixteen year old Sophia to take part in the Revolution against the British in the American Colonies – but soon Sophia’s in deeper than she could have anticipated. Like Sybil, Sophia is a feisty girl doing her part to help the revolution.

fever 1793 laurie halse andersonFever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Set slightly after Sybil’s historic ride, this evergreen favorite follows a young woman fighting for survival during the Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793. I remember reading this book as a kid and being riveted by this piece of forgotten history, told by the sharp, suspenseful, and totally masterful Laurie Halse Anderson.

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Mackenzi Lee is a reader, writer, bookseller, unapologetic fangirl, and fast talker. She holds an MFA from Simmons College is the author of THIS MONSTROUS THING, a steampunk reaimgining of Frankenstein, and the forthcoming THE GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO VICE AND VIRTUE, both from HarperCollins. She loves Diet Coke, sweater weather, and Star Wars. On a perfect day, she can be found enjoying all three. She currently calls Boston home.

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The first gala opening of the Yancey Theatre was August 17, 1939. Prominent local businessmen had formed the Cherokee Amusement Company to provide Burnsville and Yancey County with a movie theatre with the finest in sound, screen quality, and seating and climate comfort. The first movie was “Our Leading Citizen” starring Bob Burns. Gene Autry’s “Western Jamboree” and Chapter No. 1 of “Dare Devils of the Red Circle” ran continuously on Saturday. The following week there was also live music provided by the original “Carter Family”.
Today, the owner has worked hard to bring the 77-year-old Burnsville landmark up to today’s movie industry’s technical standards without sacrificing the nostalgic charm of one of western North Carolina’s remaining old time movie theatres. In keeping with the Yancey Theatre’s tradition, Management selects the best films for family viewing in a safe, clean environment.

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MINI is so last year… Meet TINY!

If an Adidas running shoe and a drop of rain wanted to design a lightweight, eco-friendly urban vehicle, what would that look like? The M-112 is an urban concept car prototype design by Ignacio Garcia might be a good start. As part of the EcoCustom Team that took part in the last Shell Eco Marathon 2008 in France, the Spanish designer set out to prove that super-duper small car design does not have to be comical or embarrassing. Now if they can work out their engine woes, they might see a tiny little trophy for their efforts.

Designer: Ignacio Garcia

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A Bike Who Hates Lowriding

Lemme do a quiz on you, bikers. How well do you love gravity? Not? I really hate it man, it’s terrible. So here’s the thing: you’re in luck. There’s a bike right here that defies it. Like a standard rebel. It’s called “Flying Bike” and it’s quite the magnetic levitator. By using the impetus of the bicycle, power is generated and magnetism brings the back of the bike up, up, up, until the gear is literally in the center of the back wheel, unconnected by anything other than the powers of the magnet.

The the magnet is strong! Kinetic energy brings the back of the bike upward as speed increases. This allows for decreased wind resistance and absorption of impact from bumps, stones, squirrels, etc.

But wait, isn’t that a sort of gear situation I see on the back wheel? Does that become dissipated once the bike goes fast enough to lift off the ground? Yes! There is a point where the force changes. This is similar to what happens in the front, but with a much smaller gear.

The biker’s gonna have to get used to this sort of situation.

Flying’s always a sort of “learning experience.”

Designers: Hoyoung Lee, Youngwoo Park, and Jungmin Park

Flying Bike that uses gravity and probably magic by Hoyoung Lee, Youngwoo Park, and Jungmin Park


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CDK inhibitor and nuclear anchor; during the cell cycle Far1p sequesters the GEF Cdc24p in the nucleus; phosphorylation by Cdc28p-Cln results in SCFCdc4 complex-mediated ubiquitin-dependent degradation, releasing Cdc24p for export and activation of GTPase Cdc42p; in response to pheromone, phosphorylation of Far1p by MAPK Fus3p results in association with, and inhibition of Cdc28p-Cln, as well as Msn5p mediated nuclear export of Far1p-Cdc24p, targeting Cdc24p to polarity sites 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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Avatar in the Amazon

The smash hit Avatar gets mixed reviews from Ecuador's indigenous Amazonian community—an audience that's very familiar with the movie's plot line.

When it comes to the thinly-veiled political message in James Cameron's mega-blockbuster Avatar, there may be no more authoritative commentary than that of  indigenous Amazonian communities. One doesn't have to dig deep to see that Pandora—the lush and richly imagined alien world of Cameron's invention—mirrors what's left of the Amazon: its biodiversity, its destruction, and its inhabitants' struggle for cultural survival.

Members of indigenous groups from Ecuador's Amazon region recently hopped a bus to Quito, where they strapped on the 3-D goggles and offered some personal takes on the film.

"So good. Very, very good," said one movie-goer, "to be able to reflect and see that the basis of the struggle is not sporadic, but rather a deep struggle—a struggle for the dreams of our ancestors."

Blanca Chancoso was more critical, putting a finger on Hollywood's penchant for shoot-'em-up diplomacy: "In the movie, it doesn't show dialogue," she says. "It shows war. It's as if the only solution is war—and to begin with, we see that the conflict is not resolved because everything is left destroyed. And at the same time, human lives were lost. So I believe there should be another message."

Fran Korten's take on whether the movie shows a real path to cultural transformation.

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Syrian President Basher Assad
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
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Syria tells Hamas to be more flexible
Al-Hayat Arabic daily reports that Syrians called on Hamas to accept Saudi peace plan to reduce international pressure
Syria is attempting to convince the Hamas-led government to adopt more pragmatic stances and to accept the Saudi peace initiative, the London-based al-Hayat Arabic daily reported.

According to the report, Syria wants Hamas to adopt the Saudi peace initiative in order to decrease the international pressure placed on the Palestinian government. Syria maintains that Hamas leaders outside of the Palestinian territories can carry on holding the organization's ideology without any change.

The report claimed that the reasons for the maneuver can be found in questions in Damascus on the extent of Hamas' ability to adopt pragmatic stances.

'Separation between ideology and state'

In the context of the Syrian initiative, Egyptian and Saudi senior sources have made unofficial visits to Damascus.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sent his former Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia for a meeting with Syrian President Basher Assad.

Egypt has also sent its foreign minister to Syria, as did Hamas' politburo chief Khaled Mashaal, and Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar.

Palestinian sources say that Syria's recent efforts are more intense than that of other Arab countries, which have clashed with Hamas on one issue or another since its elections victory.

Syria's efforts are based on the idea that "there should be a separation between Hamas and the Palestinian government – between ideology and state."

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Fatah: Hamas planned coup in West Bank
Detained Hamas members admitted they were planning military takeover of West Bank, PA security forces say
Hamas has been trying to set up a security branch and carry out a military takeover in the West Bank similar to the one it executed in the Gaza Strip, Fatah's security forces claimed Monday.

According to a Fatah statement, several Hamas members who were recently detained by its security forces admitted to planning the coup, the al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper reported.

Security officials said that the detainees' confessions made it clear beyond doubt that Hamas intended to expand its control to the West Bank, adding that large quantities of weapons and explosives seized from the members helped corroborate the confessions.

Fatah rejected Hamas' allegations that the prisoners had been tortured in order to force false confessions from them, stating that human rights activists and the prisoners' wives were allowed to visit them.

Since Hamas' violent takeover of the Strip, the Palestinian Authority has been cracking down on Hamas operatives in the West Bank. The Palestinian government last week ordered the closure of 103 institutions in the West Bank and Gaza, in a move apparently aimed against Hamas.

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Egypt says it has no plans to revise its Gaza truce proposal
UN Secretary-General Ban to visit Israel, but not Gaza due to security reasons; UN Palestinian envoy threatens to go to int'l courts, including ICC.

Egypt has no plans to revise its ceasefire proposal to end fighting in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian militant movement Hamas, which has rejected the initiative, Cairo's foreign minister said on Saturday.

"It provides the needs of all sides and we will continue offering it and we hope to get their support as soon as possible," said Sameh Shukri at a news conference with his French counterpart Laurent Fabius.

Fabius said that a ceasefire in Gaza was "urgent and compelling," reaffirming its "support" for the Egyptian initiative for a truce between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.

The comments were made after Fabius held talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the Gaza crisis.

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Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was on his way to Israel to help end the conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.

At an emergency UN Security Council meeting, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman said a cease-fire is "indispensable." But the only way to make it stick is for the international community to "assume its responsibility to urgently help restore a serious prospect for a two-state solution that brings an end to the decades-long conflict and occupation," he said.

The UN chief has been on the phone with many leaders since the beginning of the conflict trying to bring an end to the violence. His new diplomatic initiative follows a failed attempt by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to broker a return to the 2012 Israeli-Hamas cease-fire and Thursday's launch of an Israeli ground offensive in Gaza.

In a flurry of diplomatic activity, Feltman said Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and al-Sisi reportedly agreed at a meeting in Cairo Thursday on the need for an immediate cease-fire and the urgency of a donors' conference to start rebuilding the Gaza Strip. Abbas was scheduled to arrive in Turkey on Friday to meet the country's president and prime minister to press for help in ending the crisis, he said.

The UN refused to say where Ban was heading on Saturday, but Feltman said he wants to "express solidarity with Israelis and Palestinians," so he will almost certainly visit both places, though almost certainly not Gaza for security reasons. The UN chief also plans to in work coordination with key regional and international players, he said.

"Israel has legitimate security concerns, and we condemn the indiscriminate rocket fire from Gaza into Israel that ended Thursday's temporary ceasefire. But we are alarmed by Israel's heavy response," Feltman said.

In the event of a cease-fire, Feltman said, Abbas has indicated he would be willing to redeploy Palestinian Authority forces to the so-called "Philadelphi corridor," a route along the Gaza-Egypt border that has been used by Hamas militants to smuggle weapons into the territory. That would enable the reopening of the Rafah border crossing - a key Palestinian demand - Feltman said, but it was unclear whether having the crossing supervised by Palestinian Authority troops would be acceptable to Hamas.

The Palestinian UN ambassador, Riyad Mansour, threatened to go to UN and international courts, which would likely include the International Criminal Court, if the Security Council fails to take action to end Israel's "crimes and violations against our people."

He urged the Security Council to adopt a resolution condemning "the Israeli aggression" against civilians in Gaza and calling for an immediate cease-fire, the lifting of the Israeli "blockade" on the Gaza Strip, and the protection of the Palestinian people.

The draft resolution, obtained Friday evening by The Associated Press, also calls for "all necessary measures to ensure the protection of civilians, including the immediate cessation of military reprisals, collective punishment and excessive use of force against the Palestinian civilian population."

It stresses the immediate need for humanitarian aid for the Palestinians and calls for urgent efforts" to reach a peace agreement based on a two-state solution. It does not mention Hamas.

Such a resolution would face a difficult time winning approval from the United States, a veto-wielding council member.

The Israeli campaign, Mansour said, is aimed at destroying "Palestinian unity and collapse of the national consensus government." Hamas, which controls Gaza, and Abbas' moderate Fatah party recently formed a unity government.

Israel's UN Ambassador Ron Prosor said that in the face of terrorist kidnappings, rockets raining down on citizens and jihadists tunneling under its borders Israel was left with no choice but to enter Gaza "to restore a sustained quiet to the people of Israel while degrading Hamas' terror capabilities."

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York Alpine Club
York Alpine Club was founded in 1981, and exists for the encouragement of all kinds of mountain activities, including walking, climbing, skiing and biking, and is affiliated to the BMC. We pride ourselves on being friendly and welcoming to new members, whatever your level of experience.

The Club's calendar of activities includes:

  • Weekend meets, staying in huts or camping
  • Mid-week evening and weekend climbing, on local crags in the summer and at local climbing walls during the winter
  • Regular social events

Our members will also be found taking part in mountain marathons, fell running, mountain biking, road biking, orienteering, and possibly even caving.

For more details see the Join Us page

Check our blog to see what we have been up to recently.

Latest Blog: Scottish Islands Part 1 – Arran Easter by Carmen [Sunday 21st May, 2017]
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You Are My Celebrity

Get Celebrity Eyelashes

“Mom,” I said, rehashing a recent OC party I attended, “Everything was fake. Fake boobs, fake faces, fake …”

“Eyelashes?” she asked.

See, Mom knew that at the urging of a coworker, I had gone to get eyelash extensions at LashSpot Spas  in Newport Beach. For every inch I got blessed in leg length, mm were taken from my eyelashes. They’re midget-y at best. I tried Latisse, but I got the weird pinky-red eyelid line and couldn’t deal (that and it can’t be good for you). I tried an over-the-counter lash enhancer that worked somewhat less well than Latisse but was more expensive, so I couldn’t deal with that either. I’d recently settled on using two types of mascara, which somehow seems to work better than one—so the celebs say, anyway.

So in the end, I did it. I got eyelash extensions.

Mom is jealous, btw.

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After five days, I can honestly say it’s been pretty phenomenal. I don’t have to put on makeup! See, the only makeup I wear daily is mascara, so eliminating the need for mascara eliminates the need for makeup. But when I do wear makeup, it’s even more striking. I can even look pretty playing sports! And not have to think about work mascara running into my eyes during after-work workouts!

Now. We know that when it comes to beauty, I’m chemical-free, or as natural as possible. The glue used on the extensions glues to your individual lashes instead of the skin, so hypothetically less toxins are absorbed (you’re still messing with the highly-sensitive eye area). LashSpot only uses premium silk or mink lashes that are animal cruelty free, made of a synthetic material to emulate a silk or mink material.

I’m willing to be lenient here, for what the results have been so far. After a two-hour initial appointment, touch-ups will be 45 minutes every 2-3 weeks (I’ll keep you posted on how that goes). The extension experience itself is easy and surprisingly pleasant thanks to LashSpot’s spa vibe—far better than endless hours in a salon getting your brunette hair turned blonde (never again). The technicians/aestheticians are sweet, professional, and meticulous (key!). I was very impressed with the lash length Maureen, my technician, chose for me: she nailed the “I’m a tomboy” born-with-naturally-amazing-lashes look—as opposed to the K-Dash Lash, too over the top for me. With the eyelash extensions, it’s very important to be clear with your stylist up front about the look you’re going for!

Also. I’ve been hit on every single day I’ve had the lashes—and not by homies being all, “hey girl, your lashes look fly.” So if that’s what you’re going for … it definitely works. Keep ya posted …

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  • The Serbian court, instead of being a centre of perpetual scandal and misrule, resumed its true position as a focus of national aspirations, and this change was not lost upon the Yugosla y s of " the other side."
  • This article, which was based upon a mass of incriminating documents supplied to Friedjung by the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Office, had been timed to coincide with the outbreak of hostilities against Serbia, and was to have been the first of a series convicting the Serbian Government and dynasty of aggressive and even murderous designs.
  • An attempt on his life by the student Jukic (June 8) was followed by still more reactionary measures, and on July 11 the autonomy of the Serbian orthodox church in Slavonia and Hungary was also suspended.
  • The Serbian and Bulgarian anthems were sung on the streets, collections were made in every village for the Balkan Red Cross funds, and when Austria-Hungary mobilized, protests were heard on every side against the bare possibility of war with Serbia, which to the Yugosla y s would be a veritable civil war.

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Dating/Being Single Support

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“It’s time to make better decisions for yourself. Start with knowing thyself and from there you will be able to recognize who your soulmate is... and who he/she clearly is not- and avoid any temptation to try to change him/her.” - Dr. Lara Fernandez

About Lara and Johnny Fernandez

We enjoy a fulfilling soulmate relationship, our marriage continues to be a blessing after more than 14 years, we have a wonderful daughter who amazes us every day, and we are living our purpose – helping to empower single, conscious women through their relationships.
Because we believe when a woman owns her own power, speaks her truth about herself and her life, and has healthy beliefs and behaviors around relationships, then soulmate love becomes her destiny.
And over the past 10 years it has been our privilege to help thousands of women through our deeply transformational and life-changing courses and programs, to enable them to live the life of their dreams with their soulmate by their side.
But it wasn’t always like this…
We had each previously struggled with failed relationships. Both of us had been married before and felt the pain of divorce. And we both came to the realization that the one common denominator in all our failed relationships was… us!
So, independently of each other (Johnny was living in New York and Lara in California) we sought to do the work on ourselves. To get ourselves ready and prepared and to overcome the blockages that had been keeping us from finding our soulmate.

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