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Thermo King Offers New Choices in North America to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Transport Refrigeration
Minneapolis, July 14, 2015 – Thermo King, a manufacturer of transport temperature control solutions for a variety of mobile applications and a brand of Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR), announced today that it will begin to offer North American customers new options for trailer and self-powered products with lower global warming potential (GWP), pending approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program.
These new trailer and self-powered truck products are safe, energy efficient and reliable, and use a next generation refrigerant that reduces GWP by around half compared to refrigerants that are currently being used today for these applications. Thermo King, in close partnership with refrigerant manufacturer, Chemours, selected Opteon™ XP44 (R-452A) for this alternative offering of transport refrigeration products. Thermo King will continue to offer its transport customers its current line of transport refrigeration products, and ensure that optimum levels of service are offered throughout the products' lifecycle until customers are ready to transition.
"Our intent has always been to offer operators a choice of how and when to lower their GHG footprint without compromising the product performance they expect from Thermo King," said Ray Pittard, president of Thermo King. "We made this new line of trailer and self-powered truck units available to customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa earlier this year and have sold more than 500 units in the first three months of the product's release. We are delighted to offer North American customers the same choices."
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"Since its inception by Thermo King in 1938, the transport refrigeration industry has been using class A1 refrigerants that are safe, non-flammable and have the lowest toxicity," Pittard said. "R-452A, when used in our products, is the safest, most environmentally responsible, and technically and commercially viable solution for R-404A applications ranging from transport refrigeration to mobile air-conditioning. Plus, it has around half the GWP of refrigerants currently used today."
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Walking into the Wind
A man in Mazar-e Sharif (northern Afghanistan) who walks into the wind with his son, suddenly a powerful wind tugged him and fell down on the ground, then stood and started to spit blood on his son when he was suffering from pain. I took this picture when they were walking farther down the street.
He is one of those warriors who lost one of his legs in war against Soviet Invasion, today he is begging on the streets alongside of hundreds of others who are effected by war.
The ANA soldiers in front of them shown, are taking care of security measurements of the Nawrooz festival, the fist day of the year.
Nawrooz is historically cheerfully celebrated by Afghan people and also popular in Iran. Actually Nawrooz is a Zoroastian holiday and it originated in northern Afghanistan then spread across the continent by Afghans. Nawrooz is celebrated in a very special way in Afghanistan which tells a lot about its history and Zorosastian, especially about the people while in Iran it is just turned into a cultural event.

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Using materials from the modern built environment—plaster, timber, plywood, wallpaper, chipboard, aluminum—Andrea Pichl creates impressive installations and constructions that bring to the fore architectural details and peculiarities that are often overlooked. Her work engages with and questions utopian ideals associated with Brutalist architecture or prefab housing developments in places such as Berlin, Taskent, Paris, Dublin, and London. Using photographs as a starting point, Pichl analyzes spaces, abstract forms, or banal objects—a chair, a corner, a flowerbox, a balcony—traces left behind or embedded into the layers of concrete and timber found in public plazas, GDR Plattenbau housing complexes, and most recently Berlin's Alexanderplatz
Drawing on specific architectural elements, Pichl reduces these in scale and reconstructs or reimagines them into something else. By doing so, the Berlin-based artist brings to light social visions associated with design and building, and discloses the tenuous nature of our own surroundings. Pichl's work reflects on the gap between the imagined future and the reality that occurred, revealing a correspondence, a synthesis between people and place where all time merges in the contours of design and material.
This publication consists of two essays by Sven Beckstette and Gabriele Knapstein as well as Pichl's photographs, sculptures, and drawings to date. The catalogue release coincides with the exhibition opening of "delirious Dinge" at the Krome Gallery, Berlin.


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Marie Henriette Suzanne Aubert (known first as Suzanne Aubert and later in religion as Mary Joseph Aubert) was born at Saint-Symphorien-de-Lay, Loire, France, on 19 June 1835. She was the daughter of Henriette Catherine Clarice Périer and her husband, Louis Aubert, a bailiff.
Little is known of Suzanne's early life but in later years she identified several influences on her calling. A serious childhood accident left her disabled for a long time, and it is to this experience that she attributed her lifelong sympathy for the seriously ill, the deformed and disabled. The Aubert family's contacts with the Marists in Lyons and with the founders of a number of other missionary movements introduced her to the idea of a missionary vocation. She herself later placed emphasis on the spiritual guidance of the curé of Ars, Abbé Jean Marie Vianney, during her teens and early 20s. It was he, she said, who sustained her desire to enter the religious life, despite family opposition. In September 1860, after a period spent nursing, Suzanne Aubert at last made the break with her family. Then aged 25 she sailed to New Zealand on the General Teste with Bishop Jean Baptiste François Pompallier and a number of other Catholic missionaries recruited during his year-long visit to Europe.
With the exception of a period spent in Rome between 1913 and 1919, Suzanne Aubert remained in New Zealand until the end of her life. During this time her work fell into three distinct phases. The first, shortest and least successful was spent in Auckland between 1860 and 1869, teaching young Māori girls. This was followed by a period of missionary work among the Māori, first at Meeanee in Hawke's Bay (years she later described as the happiest of her life), and from 1883 at Hiruhārama (Jerusalem) on the Whanganui River. While at Jerusalem she began caring for unwanted Pākehā children, an activity which led her into a third stage of endeavour: social work among the urban poor. She achieved most in the period between 1899, when she moved to Wellington, and 1913, when she travelled to Rome to gain pontifical approval of the Congregation of the Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion which she had founded. Her activities at this time laid the basis of work still undertaken by the order.
After their arrival in Auckland in December 1860, Suzanne Aubert and the three other French women whom Pompallier had recruited went to live with the predominantly Irish order of the Sisters of Mercy, which had been established in Auckland since 1850. Suzanne Aubert became a novice of the Sisters of Mercy in June 1861. The association between the French and Irish women was unsuccessful: in May 1862 the four French women were formed into a new order, the Congregation of the Holy Family, under Pompallier's jurisdiction. Responsibility for Māori children in Auckland was transferred from the Sisters of Mercy to the new order, which was the first in New Zealand to accept Māori sisters. Pompallier's niece, Lucie Pompallier, became superior of the new order, and Sister Mary Joseph Aubert, as she was now known, became its bursar.
The Congregation of the Holy Family established a school for Māori girls known as the Nazareth Institution. However, the number of children reached was never large, and the work was doomed after Pompallier's final departure from New Zealand in 1868. Lucie Pompallier accompanied her uncle, leaving Sister Aubert as the last of the European sisters associated with the Nazareth Institution. The Congregation of the Holy Family had relied heavily on Pompallier's protection and, as a diocesan foundation, it officially ceased to exist on his resignation in March 1869. Debts left by the bishop necessitated the sale of the block of land on which the sisters' school and convent were situated. Although Sister Aubert fought for the right to continue her work among the Māori, she was ordered by the new bishop, Dr T. W. Croke, to abandon her school, desist from wearing religious habit and return to France. This stage of her work ended in failure, mainly because of the financial problems which arose during the last years of Pompallier's episcopate. There are indications, however, that Sister Aubert's French background, her single-mindedness and her less than cordial relationship with other religious colleagues in Auckland may have put her at a disadvantage after Pompallier's departure.
The experience that Sister Aubert had gained in Auckland assisted her in her next, more successful, endeavour. In February 1871 she responded to a request from the Marist, Father Euloge Reignier, to join his missionary work at Meeanee in Hawke's Bay. A lay assistant associated with the Third Order Regular of Mary in New Zealand, Sister Aubert worked as a teacher, catechist and nurse. She became interested in Māori herbal remedies and, in 1879, published a Māori-language prayerbook and catechism, Kō te ako me te karakia ō te hāhi Katorika Rōmana (1879). Later she was to publish her New and complete manual of Māori conversation (1885) which included general rules of grammar and an extensive vocabulary.
Sister Aubert also played a major part in a revival of the Marist mission in the Wellington diocese. The mission had been virtually abandoned during the wars of the 1860s and had suffered thereafter from a shortage of personnel. The ever-increasing demands of the Pākehā population for priests and competition from other mission fields in the Pacific made the Marist authorities reluctant to commit further resources to the Māori mission. Largely as a result of Sister Aubert's persistent representations to them and to Archbishop Francis Redwood, Father Christophe Soulas was appointed to Hawke's Bay in early 1879; subsequently steps were taken to revive the Marist mission on the Whanganui River.
Because of her fluency in Māori language, Sister Aubert was sent by Redwood to assist in the Whanganui mission. Along with Soulas and three Sisters of St Joseph of Nazareth, she arrived at Jerusalem on the Whanganui River on 8 July 1883. A year later the Sisters of St Joseph withdrew. They had found conditions too trying and relations with Soulas had become strained. Soulas wanted a new women's order, capable of coping with the difficult and isolated conditions of the mission. In May 1884 Redwood gave permission for the establishment of another community of the Third Order Regular of Mary. Soulas and Mother Mary Joseph Aubert as superior were allowed to receive postulants. It soon became apparent that the spirit of the Jerusalem community diverged somewhat from the Marist philosophy. The visitor to the Marist missions of Oceania, Father Claude Joly, complained about the 'spirit, the method, the singularity and the pious audacity' of Soulas and Mother Aubert. Redwood therefore agreed that the sisters should form a new diocesan congregation, and in May 1892 they became the Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion, with Mother Aubert as the first superior.
The work of Mother Aubert and her Sisters of Compassion encompassed nursing, teaching, the management of a dispensary and the day-to-day care of Māori pupils. Eventually a second school was established at Ranana and the sisters also began to care for a small number of chronically ill and disabled old people at Jerusalem. The activities of the sisters were crucial to the success of the Marist mission, providing a vital element of female support absent from almost all previous Catholic missionary efforts in New Zealand.
Mother Aubert contributed more than her labour to the mission. With her patrimony she purchased a farm property in 1888, hoping that the sale of produce from the farm would fund the work. She also began to market her herbal remedies, entering into an agreement with Kempthorne, Prosser and Company's New Zealand Drug Company in 1891. It is probably for these remedies that she was best known among Pākehā New Zealanders at the time. However, dissatisfaction with the quality of the medicines prompted her to curtail commercial distribution within a few years.
Until 1891 Mother Aubert's activities at Jerusalem were directed mainly toward the Māori population. In that year her work developed in another direction with the admission of Pākehā children to Jerusalem. More than 70 children were received between 1891 and 1901, many of them emaciated and neglected and more than 60 per cent of ex-nuptial parentage. A large number were noted in the Jerusalem register as 'given for ever, unconditionally' and 'no money given or promised'. Others were admitted by order of the Whanganui magistrate. This work closely paralleled that of the foundling institutions with which Mother Aubert would have been familiar in France, but it was controversial in the New Zealand context. Welfare responses which smacked of the problems and solutions of the Old World were regarded with mistrust. In particular, Mother Aubert was criticised for concealing the identity of her charges. Her refusal to open her books to government inspection meant that she forfeited the right to register under the Infant Life Protection Act 1893, and was unable to receive payment for the children's care. Her policy was regarded by some as extravagantly secretive, unnecessarily mistrustful of the discretion of government inspectors, and likely to encourage general suspicion of the institution. A spate of infant deaths in the home in 1898 did little to improve matters, and may have convinced Mother Aubert of the difficulties of managing such an establishment at isolated Jerusalem, distant from medical facilities and public support.
Aside from these considerations Mother Aubert had long-standing invitations from Wellington Catholics to undertake nursing and social work in Wellington. In January 1899 she and three of her sisters left for Wellington, arriving, according to one story, with only 2s. 6d. to spare. After securing a cottage in Buckle Street the sisters began visiting the invalid poor, mainly in the area of Te Aro. To support their work they began begging for alms, using baskets and prams to collect clothing and food. The move signalled a marked change in the nature of the sisters' activities, although the Māori mission still continued at Jerusalem.
In 1902 the Nursing Guild of St John was formed and also began district nursing work among the poor in Wellington. Mother Aubert and the sisters then decided that they would be more effectively engaged elsewhere. Although the sisters again undertook visitation of the sick after 1918, the main thrust of their work from 1902 was institutional care of the ill and disabled, sick children and foundlings. This made financial sense: in the early twentieth century a 'bricks and mortar' approach to welfare was more likely to generate donations and public support.
None the less, the work of the Sisters of Compassion in Wellington was never narrowly institutional. Two projects, in particular, sustained their contact with the poor in the community. In early 1901 St Anthony's Soup Kitchen in Buckle Street was opened for casual and unemployed workers. The Department of Labour disapproved of this kind of assistance, arguing that it was degrading and simply encouraged men to hang around the cities rather than seek work elsewhere. Mother Aubert, on the other hand, wanted to meet an existing need and believed that the provision of nourishing food would not only stop men from going hungry, but would discourage them from entering hotels for sustenance and companionship.
While the soup kitchen hearkened back to older forms of charity, a day nursery established about the same time was an innovation. Mother Aubert recognised the pressure on widows, deserted wives and other women who were expected to contribute to their own support, but who faced criticism when this resulted in less than ideal standards of child care. Women were able to leave their children in the sisters' care between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m., paying only a few pence for milk. This was one of the first such facilities in New Zealand; it was to be many decades before the idea of child care became generally acceptable.
The first institution established by Mother Aubert in Wellington was St Joseph's Home for Incurables, opened in Buckle Street in 1900. Although the home's title was regarded by some doctors as unduly negative, like the day nursery it met a vital need. Most inmates were elderly men who had never married, had no family and were suffering from chronic and degenerative conditions precipitated by the hard living of their youth. Hospitals, which aimed at positive medical intervention, were reluctant to provide beds for 'incurables', while the old people's homes run by charitable aid boards supplied little in the way of nursing care and comforts. The state provided pensions for the elderly from 1898, but in the 1900s less than a third of those eligible received one. In any case, pensions did not greatly assist the homeless, the physically incapacitated and the dying, whose need was for services rather than financial grants.
At the same time Mother Aubert worked to establish a larger institution for young children. In April 1907 Our Lady's Home of Compassion was opened at Island Bay, Wellington. Children were transferred from Jerusalem, and their numbers soon increased as further ex-nuptial children were admitted, along with physically and intellectually handicapped children. The sisters also nursed children suffering and convalescing from acute illnesses, including paralysis, hydrocephalus and tuberculosis. As a result there was a high mortality rate at the home in early years. This caused Mother Aubert considerable difficulty with the Department of Education who had assumed responsibility for some of the school-age children. None the less, government departments came to depend on the home to take in cases refused by other agencies, including the hospital boards. From 1921 the home also took in chronically and incurably ill women.
In 1910 Mother Aubert extended her work to Auckland, establishing St Vincent's Home of Compassion for foundlings. Once again her policy on ex-nuptial children came under attack, this time from other social workers in the Auckland area who may have seen her as a rival for charitable funds. The managers of Protestant maternity homes for unmarried mothers argued that by admitting 'foundlings' and concealing their identity, she was separating mother and child at a crucial time in their relationship, denying the child the right to know its parentage, and allowing young women an easy escape from the consequences of their actions. Mother Aubert's defenders maintained that by taking in such babies she was reducing the likelihood of infanticide and giving single mothers an opportunity to put their sin behind them. Of these two opposed philosophies Mother Aubert's was the less punitive. It may also have been the more realistic, given contemporary attitudes toward unmarried mothers and the lack of financial support for those who did struggle to keep their children.
A more serious problem for Mother Aubert was antagonism toward her work from within the Catholic hierarchy. She had already ignored an instruction from Redwood to confine her work to Catholics. The bishop of Auckland, Henry Cleary, would have preferred her to take up rescue work among women rather than concentrating on the care of children. He put continual obstacles in her way, which led eventually to the closure of St Vincent's in August 1916. By this time Mother Aubert was in Rome, seeking papal recognition of her order and a transfer of jurisdiction from Redwood to herself as superior general. In April 1917 the necessary decree of praise was obtained, and she was able to decide the priorities of her congregation of sisters without interference from the New Zealand Catholic hierarchy.
Mother Aubert's work must be assessed in the context of the expansion of social work in New Zealand. A recession in the 1880s and early 1890s made New Zealanders more aware of problems such as unemployment, child neglect, illegitimacy and family desertion, and more supportive of charitable-aid schemes. The churches became involved in social and charitable activities as they moved beyond the stage of basic establishment. In both Australia and New Zealand there was a marked increase in the number of religious sisterhoods, Catholic and Protestant, combining the salvation of souls with practical social work. In such communities women were able to achieve results which they could not have done as individuals. And yet Mother Aubert's experience showed the constraints which could be imposed on women's initiatives by male leaders within the churches. It took an individual of her determination and confidence to prevail against such forces.
Mother Aubert was remarkable for the breadth of her social concern. Most of the other Catholic sisterhoods specialised in teaching, nursing or the management of women's homes. As a new, indigenous order, the Sisters of Compassion responded to a variety of local needs, from Māori mission work to the care of the elderly and incurable. Mother Aubert was criticised for spreading her sisters' energies too widely, and her work was certainly not without its failures. It was, however, directed to those for whom few other facilities were available: the least attractive, least productive members of society.
In her later years at least, Mother Aubert's approach to welfare was marked by a high level of tolerance for and co-operation with other agencies. Her unpublished treatise on destitution, 'La misère', places equal emphasis on government welfare and private charity. It stresses the importance of education in preventing poverty, and allows for both traditional and new forms of charity. Mother Aubert firmly refused to restrict her activities to Catholics, telling benefactors who wanted to place such a condition on donations that her work was the 'salvation of souls, not the sanctification of Catholics'. She was a member of the St John Ambulance Association and the New Zealand Society for the Protection of Women and Children, had links with the Plunket Society, and enjoyed the strong support of the Wellington division of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association.
Towards the end of her life, although she was less active, Mother Aubert was a national figure much admired for her pioneering work. When she died on 1 October 1926 at Our Lady's Home of Compassion, Wellington, aged 91, tribute was paid to her work and to her extraordinarily vivid personality. Her funeral, attended by politicians and church leaders of many denominations, was said to be the largest ever held for a woman in New Zealand. Mother Aubert's career in New Zealand spanned more than six decades. There was scarcely one of these decades in which she did not initiate a new venture or stamp her personality on some major project. Her lasting legacy to New Zealand was the religious order she founded.


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What I find shocking is that some Christians employ similar tactics, even against fellow Christians. We've seen this numerous times after our trips to Dearborn. While I suspect that most Christians who attack us do so because they've gotten some false information about us, a few Christians are so consistent in actively spreading falsehood about us that something more seems to be at work. Though we usually ignore Christians in the latter group, a few are worthy of note. In this post, I will address the claims of Pastor Haytham Abi-Haydar.
If you're wondering who Haytham is, he's the man who appears at the beginning of Josh McDowell's video here:
If you followed the news concerning last year's Arab Festival, you might remember Haytham as the Christian leader who consistently attacked both George Saieg's ministry and ours, and did so in the secular media (long before bringing any of his concerns to Nabeel and me directly).
In an interview with Fox News, we read:
[S]ome local Christian leaders have taken issue with Saieg's brand of evangelizing.
"They littered this place with their literature," the Rev. Haytham Abi Haydar, who heads the Arabic Christian Alliance Church, told FOXNews.com.
Yes, you read that correctly. Haytham just condemned George's ministry for distributing too many free DVDs, New Testaments, tracts, etc. Haytham goes on to say that George's ideas aren't welcome in Dearborn.
"Just look at the conclusion of these guys -- that Muslims are trying to create Shariah Law in the U.S., [which creates] fear with Christians. But Muslims are not here to radicalize or evangelize the U.S. ... [Saieg's] philosophy and his ideas are not welcome here."
Muslims aren't here to radicalize or evangelize? Well then, let's drop our guard! Pastor Haytham assures us that Muslims aren't trying to spread Islam, and that they're not willing to use violence to do it. Perhaps next Haytham will try to convince us that the September 11th terrorist attacks were perpetrated by the U.S. government!
Not surprisingly, Haytham blames us for the assaults by security last year. The Detroit Free Press reported:
The Rev. Haytham Abi Haydar, a Christian evangelical convert from Islam with Arabic Alliance Church in Dearborn, said that a Christian group called Acts 17 Apologetics caused the problems at this year's Arab festival.
"They put cameras in their faces and were very antagonistic," Abi Haydar said of the group that produced the controversial video that has drawn almost 1.4 million views on YouTube.
Let's review the facts from last year.
(1) Security was harassing and entrapping Christians at the festival. (Once police gave security the authority to stop people from distributing literature, security would walk up to Christians and ask for something. They would say something like, "Hey, can I see that Bible?" As soon as the Christian would hand over the Bible, security would take the Christian to police for breaking the rules. They even tried to do this to me. Thus, instead of merely stopping Christians from handing out literature, security actively stopped Christians who were merely witnessing at the festival.)
(2) While security was violating the Constitutional rights of Christians, Muslims were free to walk around the festival distributing materials.
(3) A Muslim booth that was distributing anti-Christian materials was also distributing pamphlets claiming that Islam is a religion of peace.
(4) The booth invited critics to ask questions.
(5) Nabeel approached the booth to ask a question about Surah 9:29 of the Qur'an, which commands Muslims to subjugate non-Muslims (as was happening at the festival).
(6) The Muslims at the booth gave us permission to record the conversation.
(7) Despite the fact that we were allowed to record the conversation, a Muslim security guard illegally grabbed Mary Jo's camera. (Note: We tend to get angry when someone puts their hands on our Christian sister.)
(8) After verifying with a non-Dearborn off-duty police officer that we were indeed allowed to record, and that security had no right to stop us, we returned to the booth.
(9) When we left the booth, I saw the guard that had assaulted Mary Jo.
(10) I recorded the woman so that we could report her actions.
(11) Security then sent a teenager to snatch something from Nabeel's hand, so that they could accuse us of distributing pamphlets. (Note: It was a pamphlet that had been given to us by Muslims at the booth.)
(12) Security then spent the next several minutes slapping us around and kicking Nabeel's legs. Mary Jo was assaulted several times.
(13) We made a video about what happened, so that people would be aware of what was happening in Dearborn.
After this, Haytham started talking to the media. It didn't bother him that Christians were being harassed and entrapped. It didn't bother him that his sister in Christ had been physically assaulted by security. Instead of condemning the injustice in Dearborn, Haytham condemned us in the media. Mayor John O'Reilly held a meeting about us and asked the local Christian groups to condemn us, and Haytham and others agreed and put together a letter condemning us. They contacted us briefly after composing the letter (it was shocking to finally hear directly from those who were publicly attacking us!) and demanded we apologize. Wasn't happening.
Since Haytham was so vocal in his condemnation of us (and in his support for Muslims who persecute Christians) last year, it should come as no surprise that Haytham wasted no time in condemning us (and defending persecutors) this year as well.
Haytham talked to Christianity Today:
"I think [Acts 17] was fishing for somebody to come attack them," said Haytham Abi-Haydar, pastor of Dearborn's Arabic Fellowship Alliance Church."
I don't know how to break this to Haytham, but if I'm in the middle of 30,000 Muslims, I know how to get them to attack me. I know exactly what to say about Muhammad to get Muslims to assault me. If I wanted Muslims to beat me into the ground, I would rip up a Qur'an, or pull out a Sharpie and start drawing offensive pictures of Muhammad, or start yelling, "Muhammad was a pedophile!" If Nabeel and I were to walk into the middle of a crowd of Muslims and start doing such things, one could fairly accuse us of trying to get Muslims to attack us. But we don't do those things. We have peaceful conversations with Muslims who approach us. The video footage proves this. So why does Haytham keep saying otherwise?
In an article from Mission Network News, we read:
Pastor Haytham Abi-Haydar has been attending the Arab International Festival since 1999, even having been allowed to have a booth at the event. "The community has been very good to us. They never denied us a request. From my perspective, we've never had any incidents."
I wonder why they're so good to Haytham. Could it be that Haytham is the one who cleans up their messes, allowing them to continue harassing Christians? Think about it. Muslim security guards physically assault three Christians, including a woman. Haytham defends the Muslims and attacks the Christians. The next year, police falsely arrest four Christians, including an 18-year-old female convert. Haytham defends the police and attacks the Christians. Yes, Dearborn needs Haytham. I'm sure they'll give him a booth every year, so long as he continues helping them in their persecution.
According to Abi-Haydar, Act 17 challenged Muslims in the crowd. Those challenges seemed to invite a crowd. Abi-Haydar says, "If he thinks that's how to reach out to people and that's how to dialogue with people, I think they are endangering their own lives for no reason."
When did we challenge anyone? After falsely accusing us, Haytham goes on to ask why we can't do things a different way. But considering we weren't challenging Muslims, I'm not sure how to answer him. Notice, however, that Haytham lets the cat out of the bag when he says, "I think they are endangering their lives for no reason." Is Haytham suggesting that Dearborn Muslims are so violent, one's life is at risk at the Arab festival when having discussions with Muslims? Such Islamophobia should be reported to Dearborn Police.
Wood and his organization were asked by many evangelical groups to change their tactics. Abi-Haydar says, "Why can't he go around with no cameras, no intimidating people and ask questions and build relationships with the community and sharing Christ? Why is that difficult?"
I don't recall "many evangelical groups" asking us to change our tactics. Perhaps Haytham can list them for us. But on to a more important question. Why can't we go around in Dearborn with no cameras? We can't go to Dearborn without cameras because people like Haytham are there--people who will invent all kinds of things about us, with no concern for accuracy, honesty, or integrity. Watch this next paragraph:
Abi-Haydar says when Wood was arrested, he was challenging a young Muslim man. The young man was screaming at him. Police asked Woods and his group to disburse. But Abi-Haydar says they didn't. "I know for one fact: if I was the police, I am responsible for the security of the community there and for the security [of Acts 17 Apologetics]. For their own security, I would have forced them to leave the area. And if they would have rejected it, I would have arrested them myself."
It's not about large groups forming, says Abi-Haydar. "It's about too many people yelling at each other. Is that [a good] witness?"
There you have it. The police were just trying to protect us. That's why they threw us in jail and lied about us numerous times in the police report. That's why we're going to court. It's for our protection, you see.
Notice how many false claims we have here. Haytham says that, when I was arrested, I was challenging a young Muslim man. Actually, I never challenged anyone, and when I was arrested, I was quietly recording a peaceful conversation. Haytham says a young man was screaming at me. Actually, no one was even paying attention to me. They were focusing on Nabeel, who was having a peaceful dialogue with Muslims who were asking him questions about the Gospel. Haytham says that police asked us to disburse. Actually, I asked police if we should move, and they said that we were fine where we were. Haytham says that we refused to disburse. Since we weren't asked to disburse, I have no clue how we refused anything. Haytham says that the problem was "too many people yelling at each other." But even a cursory examination of our video footage shows that no one was yelling at anyone. One Muslim had raised his voice during an earlier discussion, but Nabeel quickly diffused the situation, and they shook hands before the Muslim left. I should also point out that Haytham says that he agrees with what police did, and that he would have done the same. I wonder, Haytham, does that include lying about us in the police report?
But Haytham isn't finished. World Magazine reports:
Haytham Abi Haydar, a Lebanese-born pastor who has had a ministry in Dearborn since 1999, told me the presence of "four or five video cameras" is "intimidating" in the crowded streets. Haydar has run a booth next to McDowell: "We have not had any problem with the authorities, and we find the organizers hospitable and most attendees polite."
Haydar said Arab Christians who live in Dearborn don't appreciate the disruption brought by outsiders with no ongoing ministry in the city: "They come here once a year and create a problem we have to deal with the rest of the year. It is a waste and leaves the image of Dearborn distorted."
Four or five video cameras? Quite an exaggeration. Last year, when we approached the Muslim booth, we had a single video camera. After security assaulted Mary Jo, a non-Dearborn off-duty police officer said we should bring along a second camera, so that if one camera operator were to be assaulted, the other would be able to record. When security later assaulted all three of us, we had two cameras, but we didn't catch security kicking Nabeel's legs. Numerous people (after watching our video) suggested a third camera from a distance, and we went with this plan for this year. When we recorded dialogues at the festival, we would have either one or two cameras recording near the discussion, and another far off for security purposes. That's quite different from four or five cameras pointed directly into a person's face. But Haytham doesn't seem to be concerned with actual facts.
Finally, let's look at Haytham's comments in Charisma Magazine, a publication that interviewed several of our critics, but apparently wasn't interested in input from us.
"It really discredits us as a Christian when we make claim that Shariah law is being implemented in Dearborn," said pastor Haytham Abi-Haydar of Arabic Fellowship Alliance Church, who has ministered in Dearborn for more than a decade. "Any guy above 50 percent IQ score would know that that's not true. So our credibility in the community is being compromised. Second, we are being perceived as hostile. We evangelical Christians are coming across as [if] we are out to get [Muslims]." . . .
Abi-Haydar, who has evangelized at the festival for more than a decade, said Wood and Qureshi provoked the crowd. He said Wood challenged a young Muslim man, who began to scream at him.
"He started yelling at them, shouting against them," Abi-Haydar said. "The police was concerned because the circle was growing. He told them to break it up. ... If I was the police, for their own safety I would have told them to break that circle and move on."
Thomas More Law Center senior trial counsel Robert Muise, attorney for the Acts 17 missionaries, said his clients were exercising their free-speech rights. "Preaching the gospel on a city street that Muslims may find offensive so Muslims are shouting threats and profanities at the Christians so that's the basis for the police to arrest the Christians? I think not," he said. "The fact that people who are listening to the message that they may object to the message ... doesn't mean you silence the peaceful speaker. Is it provocative for a Muslim to hear message of the gospel? Well maybe it is, but it's protected by the First Amendment."
Abi-Haydar takes issue with those claims, arguing that the First Amendment does not give Christians the freedom to insult others.
"Nabeel and David are not interested in reaching out to the Muslim community, they are interested in exposing Islam," said Abi-Haydar, a Lebanon-born convert from Islam. "I don't have a problem with exposing Islam, but there is a wrong way to do it. ... If a Muslim guy came to our church and started attacking our faith, guess what we're going to do to him? We're going to kick him out. And that's what they were doing to David and Nabeel."
I have no recollection of "insulting others," unless Haytham thinks that peacefully answering questions is an insult to Muslims. Notice that Haytham, like so many others, compares (1) peacefully answering the questions of Muslims who approach us at a public festival with (2) a Muslim entering a church and attacking Christianity. Notice also his admission that, in such a situation, he would kick the Muslim out, and that he therefore agrees with Muslims kicking us out of the festival.
So there you have it. Haytham contends that we were kicked out of the festival for upsetting Muslims, and he completely agrees with kicking us out. Like the police and mayor, Haytham is willing to make things up when he attacks us, and is even willing to deceive the media. Strangely, despite the fact that Haytham's false reports are easily refuted by the video footage, reporters continue to interview him.
Haytham Abi-Haydar is Dearborn's first line of defense when Christians are mistreated. When we were attacked last year, the response was, "But other Christians weren't attacked, so you weren't either." This year, we were falsely arrested, and the response was, "But Christians like Haytham are quite welcome in Dearborn, so how can you say that you were targeted?" Of course Haytham is welcome in Dearborn. The city needs him. The police department needs him. The mayor needs him. Muslims need him. Haytham is a Christian who's willing to defend people who physically attack Christians (even women), falsely arrest Christians, and spread lies about Christians. Haytham even goes the extra mile and spreads lies about Christians who upset the local Muslims.
Why does Haytham do this? Is he seeking the approval of Muslims? Does he think that he's in competition with other ministries, and does he therefore attack them in order to strengthen his own position? We can't really know. But one thing is certain. Haytham's approach, if unchecked, will lead to further persecution of Christians, further assaults, and further arrests. I wonder if there's any point at which Haytham would draw a line. If Muslims had killed us, would Haytham speak out, or would he say we deserved it? If Muslims start raping Christian girls in Dearborn, as they are doing regularly in Egypt and Pakistan, will Haytham say something, or will he continue defending Muslims?
Hopefully, we will never see the answers to these questions. If those who are bravely standing for freedom are successful in Dearborn, Sharia will never be established, and those who assault and falsely arrest Christians will face justice.
***UPDATE*** It seems that Pastor Haytham may be testifying against us in court! It should be interesting, since our video footage refutes his claims. Haytham even went to police in an attempt to strengthen their crumbling case against us. The latest edition of the police report adds:
Haytham stated he is the pastor and founder of the Arabic Fellowship Alliance Church in Dearborn and also had information that he felt the police should be made aware of. Haytham stated that he also has heard and seen on the internet several negative comments made by David Wood and Nabeel Qureshi regarding the City of Dearborn, the Mayor, and the Chief of Police, that he didn't believe were true. Haytham stated that he witnessed the arrest of the four subjects at the Arab Fest. Haytham was in a booth no more than 20 to 30 feet from where the arrest occurred. He also stated he witnessed Nabeel Qureshi having a volatile conversation with one of the young arab male patrons at the festival. According to Haytham, he believed the arrests were justified by the police.


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Washington, DC. . . .On Wednesday, December 15 at 7 PM, the National Archives will host a lecture and book signing by political commentator and news analyst Cokie Roberts. Roberts will discuss her new bestselling book Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation, that explores the lives of the women behind the men that wrote the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. This program is free and open to the public, and will take place in the McGowan Theater of the National Archives Building, which is fully accessible. The public entrance is on Constitution Avenue at 9th Street, NW.
While the men went off to war or to Congress, the women managed their businesses, raised their children, provided them with political advice, and made it possible for the men to do what they did. The behind-the-scenes influence of these women— and their sometimes very public activities—was intelligent and pervasive. Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favored recipes, Roberts reveals the stories of these women, bringing to life the everyday trials and triumphs of individuals such as Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Catherine Littlefield Green, Esther DeBerdt Reed, and Martha Washington.
A political commentator for ABC News, Cokie Roberts has covered Congress, politics and public policy for more than fifteen years. She serves as Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio. Her other publications include: From this Day Forward, an account of marriage in American history (including her own), and We Are Our Mothers' Daughters a study of women's roles and relationships throughout the nation's past.
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It's 6:59 a.m. There's music blasting, kayakers herding swimmers, and nearly 2500 Ironman athletes treading water or standing on the beach waiting anxiously to start a very big, very long day.
At 7:00 a.m. the canon goes off: BOOM! And so begins perhaps the most unique spectacle in all of endurance sports—the Ironman swim start. Nearly 2500 bodies and 5000 arms and legs churn the water to kick off a 140.6-mile day.
Here are our tips for surviving, and excelling at, the infamous Ironman swim.
Line Up in the Right Spot
A lot of fast people position themselves right on the buoy line. Many more people position themselves as far away as possible from these fast people—as far from the buoy line as they can get. As a consequence, the middle of the start line is often less crowded than you would expect.
Therefore we usually recommend you position yourself near the middle of the start line and then seed yourself front to back about 2 to 4 minutes faster than you expect to swim. For example, if you expect to swim a 1:10, find those 1:05 to 1:08 people. In our experience it is better to be swum around by slightly faster swimmers than to be timid about your starting position, seed yourself around much slower swimmers, and then have to swim through many swimmers for 2.4 miles.
Only Swim as Fast as Your Ability to Maintain Form
The net difference between swimming "hard" and swimming "easy" is usually only about 2 to 4 minutes in an 11- to 17-hour day. It's just not worth expending the energy to swim harder. Instead, focus on swimming as smoothly and efficiently as you know how. Swim with your best possible form and only swim fast enough as your ability to maintain your form allows.
It's helpful to have some individual cues for what good form is for you, or indicators of poor form. For some folks, breathing count (3-count or 4-count strokes per breath) is a good metric. Others prefer to focus on perceived exertion. Whatever you choose, know that it's time to slow down if you start to feel your form slip.
Keep Your Head Inside the Box
With 2500 plus bodies trashing around in a small space, all trying to go the same direction, Ironman swim starts could be the very definition of chaos. Maintain your focus by keeping your head inside "the box" of what you can control:
- In the Box: Head position; breathing; body rotation; catch; pull; all of your form cues. These are things you can control. Focus on these.
- Out of the Box: Any contact you experience; the pacing of other athletes. Basically anything that takes your focus away your form.
The simple tool you can use to keep your heads in the box is to count your strokes: Left, right, left, right, 1, 2, 3, 4. Keep counting until you lose count then start over again. The simple act of counting arm strokes will bring your head back into the box of what you can control, helping you let go of the stuff outside of your box. Try it, it works.
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- Navigation: With 2500 people all swimming the same direction, there are a lot of people to follow. Keep other swimmers at your side and you can decrease how frequently you need to compromise your from by lifting your head to sight for buoys.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW (AP) — Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world's largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Soon it will take only the click of a mouse or finger swipe on a tablet to explore some of the Galapagos Islands' most remote areas, surrounding waters and unique creatures.
Mountain View, Calif.,-based Google sent hikers to the Galapagos with Street View gear called "trekkers," 42-pound computer backpacks with large, soccer ball-like cameras mounted on a tower.
Each orb has 15 cameras inside it that have captured panoramic views of some of the most inaccessible places on the Galapagos. Crews from The Catlin Seaview Survey worked with Google to capture 360-degree views of selected underwater areas too.
"We spent 10 days there hiking over trails ... and even down the crater of an active volcano," Raleigh Seamster, the project's leader for Google Maps said. "And these are islands, so half of the life there is under the water surface. So (we brought) Street View underwater to swim with sea lions, sharks and other marine animals."
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Scientists working with Google are exploring the footage for other species and hope to update the pictures regularly throughout the years as they study the effects of invasive species, tourism and climate change on the island's ecosystems.
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Country Singers Who Have Performed at the Super Bowl
Luke Bryan had the honor of singing the national anthem at the 2017 Super Bowl, but he is far from the first country artist to take part in the big event. In fact, several country acts have graced television screens on game day, including Faith Hill, Carrie Underwood, Garth Brooks and Shania Twain, among others.
Bryan joined previous national anthem singers Charley Pride, who performed in 1974; Brooks (1993), Hill (2000), the Dixie Chicks (2004) and Underwood (2010).
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Four years later, in 1994, the halftime show went country once again with Clint Black; Tanya Tucker; Travis Tritt; and the Judds, who performed "Tuckered Out," "It's a Little Too Late," "T-R-O-U-B-L-E," "No One Else on Earth" and "Love Can Build a Bridge."
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Wildman: publishers keen, but only if Kickstarter succeeds
Wildman has attracted the attention of publishers keen to back the project - but only if its crowdfunding is successful enough to demonstrate sufficient interest.
"We've gotten a lot of phone calls from people who are interested in publishing Wildman," Gas Powered Games founder Chris Taylor told Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
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Emma Jordan has returned home after her father's death to run the animal sanctuary that had been his legacy. But strange things start happening, and it seems that someone is out to shut her down, someone who doesn't mind putting lives in jeopardy to see it through. When Hidden Falls' sexiest fireman starts to ask questions, Emma needs to make sure his charm doesn't distract her from keeping her dreams alive.
Ben McQuaid has an obligation as a local fireman to protect the community, even from a well-meaning wildlife veterinarian who's in way over her head. But, it's becoming hard to keep his loyalty to the town and his desire for the pretty vet separate. As Ben and Emma become caught in a dangerous game of cat and mouse, their feelings for each other are growing. Will they let duty drive them apart or will they dare to fall?
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Ben McQuaid rolled his eyes skyward. Of course, his brother Andrew needed another favor. Lately, Ben seemed to be the one doing the favors more often than receiving any. But, that's what brothers did for one another, right? And with six siblings, most of them younger, that added up to be a lot of favors. "Make it quick, I'm on my way into the fire station for my shift." "Good, because this is more of an official call than a favor anyway. I need you to head down to the Quinn place on Mosquito Road. Apparently, there's a cat stuck in a tree. It seems stupid to call it in to the firehouse and drag the engine out for a cat. See? I'm actually doing you a favor and saving you all that cleaning and polishing you have to do just for driving a truck out of the garage." They'd be cleaning the engine anyway. Plus, without an engine, Ben had no ladder to get up the tree. "So, what you're suggesting is that I shimmy up the tree the way I did when we were ten to get the football you and Grant would get stuck." Andrew's chuckle sounded through the receiver. "Pretty much. Look, the call just came in from dispatch and you've got to drive by there on your way into town anyway. No sense in making it an official call." There was nothing about this that was a favor for Ben. "What's wrong, is there an apple fritter with your name on it? This way you save yourself the effort of having to fill out another police report, right?" Andrew wasn't fooling him. "There's that too." Ben heard Andrew address someone else in the background. "Hey, I have to run. There's a domestic dispute at the winery. You got this, right?" "Yeah, I'll take care of it," Ben said with a sigh. "Thanks. I owe you one." "One?" Ben muttered to himself as the receiver disconnected in his ear and he took the turn off onto Mosquito Road. "You owe me more than that." He wasn't looking forward to this. Hollister Quinn was one of those old guys who spoke his mind, loudly and often. He'd been the first in line to protest the latest upgrades being done to spruce up their small foothill town. Said he liked it rustic, the way it'd been for years and that it should stay that way. However, now that there was talk about Hidden Falls trying to become more of a tourist attraction along the way to Tahoe, an idea that would bring higher profits for local businesses which, in turn, kept the town thriving, Quinn was complaining even more. A visit with Quinn, even to retrieve a kitten, was sure to bring a lengthy lecture about how the people of Hidden Falls were selling out. Ben rubbed the knots of tension already building at the back of his neck. Pulling into the circular driveway in front of the Quinn house, he maneuvered his pickup between several other vehicles, none of which were Hollister's. A crowd was already gathered under one of the tall pines in the front yard. "Great," the old man complained as Ben edged closer to the chaos. "Please, tell me you're here to do something productive, not just here to gawk like everyone else. I need someone to get that damn thing outta my tree." He pointed to where a tabby kitten yowled loudly from a high branch on the tree. Ben squinted, following the old man's gaze. "Are you sure that's a cat? It doesn't look—" "What else would it be?" Quinn rolled his eyes before glaring at Ben and shoving him toward the god-awful howling the cat in the tree was making. "Do your job, fireman, and get that thing down." He turned away, muttering something about the woman running the animal sanctuary down the road but Ben didn't quite catch it and he wasn't about to risk having the old man rip him a new one again. "Sure thing, Mr. Quinn," Ben agreed, wondering again why he'd wanted to be a firefighter. Sweating it out with the cattle on his parents' ranch sounded a hell of a lot better right now than climbing a tree to get the shit clawed out of him by a frightened kitten. He glanced around at the large group of neighbors that had come to watch, curious at the interest for a simple kitten stuck in a tree. It wasn't a big enough deal to warrant this sort of hullabaloo. The kitten yowled louder and Ben had just lifted his foot onto the ladder Quinn had left braced against the side of the tree when Ellie Quinn, the old man's daughter, hurried to his side. "Ben, I'm sorry. I tried to get my dad to just leave the poor thing alone, but you know how he is." She shot him a coy smile and her eyelashes fluttered. Ellie was a nice woman. The same age as his younger sister and obviously interested in him. She was sweet, kind to everyone she met, a member of the local women's shelter planning committee and generous to a fault. In fact, she was exactly what he wanted in a woman, plus she had a "girl next door" quality that made her adorable. His mother had been trying to set them up for months, reminding him that he should be giving her grandchildren before she was too old to enjoy them. The problem was, Ben wasn't attracted to Ellie at all. He wanted to be, but every time he was around her, there was no stirring in him, no warm fuzzies like he'd had with other women. Nothing to get a rise out of him, so to speak, at all. It was almost like he wanted to continually find himself getting screwed over by crazy women. "Don't worry about it, Ellie," he said, waving a hand in her direction and looking up the tree. "I'll just get this guy down and he'll take off back home." Ben wasn't nearly as confident about his ability to get the cat down as he sounded but Ellie was sweet. He couldn't blame her for her cantankerous father. She cocked her head and gave him a confused look. "Oh. Um, okay." Putting one foot over the other as he climbed the ladder, trying to ignore the jeers and shouts from below, Ben pulled himself into a fork in the tree, hanging his legs over the branch as he straddled it. He could barely see the spotted fluffy coat of the kitten but, from what he could see, it was definitely young. He'd never understand how a stupid animal could get itself into a tree but couldn't get back out. Then again, it wasn't like people didn't get themselves into some pretty precarious positions they couldn't figure their way out of. Tucking his feet under him so he was squatting on the limb, grateful for the heavy tread of his work boots, Ben reach for a thick branch to his right, using it to swing him to the V beside where the cat was hiding. The gasp from the onlookers below nearly made him laugh. Sure, falling would be painful but the fifteen-foot landing into mulch couldn't hurt any more than the second story floor of an old farmhouse collapsing from under him during a call and dropping him into the concrete basement below. Those two fractured ribs had hurt like hell. Straddling the second branch, he watched the kitten for a moment. The poor animal was scared out of its mind. Its big blue eyes were round with fear and, from this vantage point, he could see that it was a matted mess. Tiny claws clung to the rippled bark of the tree and he wondered how he was possibly going to convince the frightened animal to let go without his very vulnerable bare arm replacing the tree trunk under its claws. "Here, kitty," he called quietly. The cat turned toward him and he saw the unmistakable black tufts over the kitten's ears. It turned away again, edging out onto the branch and he saw the stubby tail. Holy crap, that is not a cat. It's a freakin' bobcat kitten. "Shit," he muttered. "That damn brother of mine owes me big time."
T. J. Kline was bitten by the horse bug early and began training horses at fourteen—as well as competing in rodeos and winning several rodeo queen competitions—but has always known writing was her first love. She also writes under the name Tina Klinesmith. In her spare time, she can be found spending as many hours as possible laughing hysterically with her husband, teens, and their menagerie of pets in Northern California. That is, when she isn't running around the California Gold Country researching new stories.
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In the Guardian this morning Simon Hoggart wrote:
If we still had bank managers like Captain Mainwaring this crisis would never have happened. "No I won't lend you the money, you stupid boy. You would probably never pay me back."I can't find this piece on the newspaper's website, but for some reason Apocalypse Times has a graphic of this part of the column.
And a few days ago Larry Elliott developed this idea more fully:
The last episode of Dad's Army was filmed in 1977. That was 32 years ago (and also 32 years after the end of the war). I know that the series has hardly been off our screens since then, but it is still a tribute to the way that comedy enters the culture that references to Captain Mainwaring are still instantly understood.The classic banker of the old school was Arthur Lowe's Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army; a solid, pompous martinet who made sure his books balanced. His deputy Wilson was the posher, more rakish John Le Mesurier, who looked down on his superior. Le Mesurier was classic investment banker material but played second fiddle to Lowe's traditional high-street bank manager. The two strands of banking were then kept entirely separate.
In recent years, of course, retail banking and investment banking have become intertwined and the Dad's Army pecking order reversed: the investment bankers have been in control and have spread the new creed that good banking is all about financial innovation, taking risks and achieving the best possible deal for their owners.
Larry Elliott, incidentally, has a talent for drawing illuminating parallels with classic comedy series. Here he is in The Age of Insecurity (written with Dan Atkinson in 1998) on the Britain of the 1970s:
To middle-class eyes, to those people who founded the National Association for Freedom in 1975 and were convinced that Harold Wilson was a Communist, Fawlty Towers was the Britain of the 1970s: riven by conflict, indifferent to the needs of customers, held back by shoddy workmanship.
Interestingly, the only person who could make the hotel work was Basil's gorgon of a wife, Sybil. Like another woman coming to prominence in the mid-1970s, she was middle-aged, blonde, shrill, philistine and utterly ruthless.


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termination of a marital union
Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before the death of either spouse.
edit- While God created Adam, who was alone, He said, 'It is not good for man to be alone. He also created a woman, from the earth, as He had created Adam himself, and called her Lilith. Adam and Lilith immediately began to fight. She said, 'I will not lie below,' and he said, 'I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. For you are fit only to be in the bottom position, while I am to be the superior one.' Lilith responded, 'We are equal to each other inasmuch as we were both created from the earth.' But they would not listen to one another. When Lilith saw this, she pronounced the Ineffable Name and flew away into the air.
- Adam and Lilith in Alphabet of Sirach.
- Divorce is always good news. I know that sounds weird, but it's true because no good marriage has ever ended in divorce … That would be sad. If two people were married and they were really and they just had a great thing and then they got divorced, that would be really sad. But that has happened zero times.
- Louis C.K., "The Annotated Wisdom of Louis C.K.", Splitsider, (02/2013).
- When love ceases, when in erotic love, in friendship, in short, when in the loving relationship between two people something comes between them so that love ceases, then the two, as we human beings speak, break up. Love was a bond, was in a good sense between them; then when something comes between then, love is displaced, it ceases; the connection between them is broken, and the break enters divisively between them. Therefore it comes to a break. Christianity, however, does not know this use of language, does not understand it, refuses to understand it. When one says it comes to a break, this is because one is of the opinion that in love there is only a relationship between two, rather than that it is a relationship among three, as has been shown. … So what does Christianity do? Its earnestness promptly concentrates eternity's attention upon the single individual, upon each single one of the two. This is, as the two in love relate themselves to each other, they relate themselves, each one of them separately to love. Now if it does not go at all easily with the break. Before it comes to the break, before one of them comes to the point of breaking his or her love in relation to the other, that one must first fall away from love. This is the important point; therefore Christianity does not speak about the couple's breaking with each other but only about what the single individual is always able to do-to fall away from love.
- Soren Kierkegaard Works of Love 1847 Hong 1995 p. 303-304.
- Incompatibility. And besides, I think she hated me.
- Oscar Levant, on why his first marriage ended in divorce, in A Smattering of Ignorance (1940); as quoted in "Oscar Levant, A Musical Know-It-All, Writes Book About Music And Himself," Life (February 5, 1940), p. 55.
- A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."
- Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, sec. 29.
- [Reading a letter on T.V.] Dear Mrs. Doubtfire; Two months ago, my mom and dad decided to separate. Now they live in different houses. My brother Andrew says that we aren't a real family any more. Is this true? Did I lose my family? Is there anything I could do to get my parents back together? Sincerely, Katie McCormick." Oh, my dear Katie. You know, some parents get along much better when they don't live together. They don't fight all the time and they can become better people. Much better mommies and daddies for you. And sometimes they get back together. And sometimes they don't, dear. And if they don't... don't blame yourself. Just because they don't love each other doesn't mean that they don't love you. There are all sorts of different families, Katie. Some families have one mommy, some families have one daddy, or two families. Some children live with their uncle or aunt. Some live with their grandparents, and some children live with foster parents. Some live in separate homes and neighborhoods, in different areas of the country. They may not see each other for days, weeks, months or even years at a time. But if there's love, dear, those are the ties that bind. And you'll have a family in your heart forever. All my love to you, poppet. You're going to be all right. Bye-bye.
- Mrs. Doubtfire, played by Robin Williams, screenplay by Randi Mayem Singer and Leslie Dixon.
- The fact that the majority of marriages in the United States end in divorce is widely known. In 1997, over 1.16 million divorces were granted in the United States – a rate of 4.3 per 1000 (National Center for Health Statistics, 1998). From the 1960s to the 1980s, the divorce rate increased by well over 200%. Although this increase leveled off in the 1990s, the failure of marriages in U.S. society continues to be a pervasive social problem (e.g. Hoffman & Duncan, 1988). This phenomenon has sparked what is sure to be a lengthy quest to discover the causes of divorce and the factors that contribute to its prevalence (e.g., Gottman, 1994).
- Chris Segrin, Robin L. Nabi, "Does Television Viewing Cultivate Unrealistic Expectations About Marriage?", Journal of Communication 52(2): June 2002, p. 247.
- Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.
- William Shatner and David Fisher, Up Till Now: The Autobiography, pg. 136.
- For his pleasure he got married. On his thinking it over he got divorced.
- Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
- Robin Williams, "Robin Williams: 'Divorce is like ripping a man's genitals out through his wallet'", Judith Woods, The Telegraph, (12 Aug 2014).


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For fans of Cold War-era spy stories, Vienna carries a certain allure — as seen in this YouTube video with scenes from the classic film The Third Man.
The Cold War may be long over, but Vienna's role in spying apparently isn't. The Associated Press reports:
"A stately villa in a leafy district of the Austrian capital is at the center of a ruckus over whether the NSA is snooping on the city's residents, with allegations flying that the building serves as a sophisticated U.S. intelligence listening post.
"Both the U.S. and Austrian governments deny reports claiming to expose a major surveillance operation by the National Security Agency from within the towers of the sprawling manor. They say the building is nothing more than an 'Open Source Center' evaluating information freely available in newspapers and on the Internet — albeit one run by the CIA."
The secret world's affinity for Vienna was most recently apparent in 2010 when the U.S. and Russia, in a swap reminiscent of their Soviet-era rivalry, exchanged spies in broad daylight.
The New York Times noted at the time that the exchange "served as a reminder of Vienna's prominent place for more than a century now in the shadowy European espionage game." Vienna, the paper observed, is home to major international organizations, including the U.N. and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Here's more:
"And with émigré communities from all over the Balkans and Eastern Europe, Vienna is a good place to keep tabs on dissidents. ...
"The city's spy scene is best known from the years between 1945 and 1955 when, like Berlin, it was divided into occupation zones after World War II. ...
"Austria remained neutral after the occupation ended. Along with its location in the center of Europe and at the edge of the Iron Curtain, it was an ideal meeting place because of its neutrality.
"Austria's position as a magnet for spies is also encouraged by the fact that it is a crime here to spy against only Austria, not other countries."
But the nature of espionage in Vienna appears to have changed — moving from the political to the economic.
Nevertheless, the AP notes that news of the facility has upset many Austrians — and is straining the ruling coalition.
"Whatever it is," activist Rudolf Fussi told the news organization, "it's confirmation of intelligence agency activity in Vienna."
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