text: Sapphires & September Birthdays They say that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but in September it is the sapphire which takes center stage! This vividly beautiful gem is the birthstone of the month, and is a unique inspiration for floral designs intended for September birthdays. If you are looking for a meaningful and striking way to express good wishes to someone you love, you can trust the experts at Zeidler's Flowers to take the essence of the sapphire and create a birthday bouquet unlike any other. Did You Know? The sapphire actually occurs naturally in many colors, including green and orange. However, it is the iconic brilliant blue which is the most desired, and therefore the most valuable. This rare shade is also uncommon in flowers, and so blooms representing a sapphire bouquet are truly special. Read More about Sapphires & September Birthdays » Posted by Debbie Clark on August 21, 2017 | Last Updated: August 22, 2017 Birthday Flowers


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MEASURING lABOR-MARKET DISCRIMINATION
How much does discrimination in labor markets affect the earnings of different groups of workers? Tills question is important, but answering it is not easy.
There is no doubt that different groups of workers earn substantially different wages, 'as Table 2 demonstrates. The median black man in the United States is paid 22 percent less than the median white man, and the median black woman is paid 13 percent less than the median white woman. The differences by sex are also significant.
TABLE 2 Median Annual Earnings by Race and Sex
Yet there is a potential problem with this inference, Even in a labor market free of discrimination, different people have different wages. People differ in the amount of human capital they have and in the kinds of work they are able and willing to do. The wage differences we observe in the economy are, to some extent, attributable to the determinants of equilibrium wages we discussed in the preceding section.
Simply observing differences in wages among broad groups-whites and blacks, men and women does not prove that employers discriminate.
Consider, for example, the role of human capital. Among male workers, whites are about 75 percent more likely to have a college degree than blacks. Thus, at least some of the difference between the wages of whites and the wages of blacks can be traced to differences in educational attainment. Among white workers, men and women are now about equally likely to have a college degree, but men are about 11 percent more likely to earn a graduate or professional degree after college, indicating that some of the wage differential between men and women is attributable to educational attainment.
Moreover, human capital may be more important in explaining wage differentials than measures of years of schooling suggest. Historically, public schools in predominantly black areas have been of lower quality-as measured by expenditure, class size, and so on-than public schools in predominantly white areas. Similarly, for many years, schools directed girls away from science and math courses, even though these subjects may have had greater value in the marketplace than some of the alternatives. If we could measure the quality as well as the quantity of ed~cation, the differences in human capital among these groups would seem even larger.
Human capital acquired in the form of job experience can also help explain wage differences. In particular, women tend to have less job experience on average than men. One reason is that female labor force participation has increased over the past several decades. Because of this historic change, the average female worker today is younger than the average male worker. In addition, women are more likely to interrupt their careers to raise children. For both reasons, the experience of the average female worker is
less than the experience of the average male worker.
Yet another source of wage differences is compensating differentials. Men and women do not always choose the same type of work, and this fact quay help explain some of the earnings differential between men and women. For example, women are more likely to be secretaries, and men are more likely to be truck drivers. The relative wages of secretary and truck drivers depend in part on the working conditions of each job. Because these nonmonetary aspects are hard to measure, it is difficult to gauge the practical importance of compensating differentials in explaining the wage differences that we observe.In the end, study of wage differences among groups does not establish any clear conclusion about the prevalence of discrimination in U.S. labor markets. Most economists believe that some of the observed wage differentials are attributable to discrimination, but there is no consensus about how much. The only conclusion about which economists are in consensus is a negative one: Because the differences in average wages among groups in part reflect. differences in human capital and job characteristics, they do not by themselves say anything about how much discrimination there is in the labor market.
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text: Any hope that September could provide a little bit more stability for stock markets after the angst of August was quickly set aside yesterday as disappointing manufacturing economic data, not only from China, but Europe and the US as well fed into an overwhelming narrative of pessimism surrounding the global economic outlook. While we have seen a late recovery in Asia, that's largely been as a result of some late state intervention in Chinese markets to help keep a floor under stocks, with the help of the Chinese equivalent of the plunge protection team. In the past disappointing economic data ordinarily hasn't normally been perceived as an overwhelmingly negative thing, as this weakness should keep overall monetary policy loose for the foreseeable future, with the potential for further easing measures in the weeks ahead. Regrettably for investors in general the People's Bank of China isn't the Federal Reserve and it appears that for all the recent talk about opening up its markets to inward investment and a more western model, old habits die hard and unfortunately Chinese officials have reverted to type and decided to shoot the messenger, blaming journalists and market participants for the recent volatility. This typical knee jerk scattergun approach is the last thing needed to calm febrile markets and if anything will make new investors much more cautious about future forays into Chinese markets. If you also throw in the additional uncertainty about what the US Federal Reserve might do with its headline policy rate in just over two weeks' time, and while yesterday's ISM manufacturing number was disappointing, there is a concern that it may not have been disappointing enough to prevent a potential increase in the Fed Funds rate from its 0%-0.25% window. For what it's worth the prospect of a Fed rate rise still remains very much an outlier given the volatility seen in recent days, along with the consistent lack of inflationary pressure, not only in the global economy, but also the US economy, but given some of the current valuations in US equity markets, these remain the most vulnerable to a significant correction. What is apparent is that Fed policymakers have a wide range of views on what the next policy steps are likely to be and are being deliberately opaque, by trotting out the same lines about data dependence and taking the data on a case by case basis. Against that type of backdrop it is hard to see how they could arrive at the necessary consensus to push rates higher against such a volatile backdrop. This will of course put each US data release under much sharper focus, but we're now starting to see the results of the slowdown in the oil and gas sector start to trickle down into the headline numbers for US manufacturing, and this was borne out by yesterday's disappointing ISM report. On the radar today we have the latest ADP employment report for August, and these numbers have consistently come in short in recent months, with the July number coming in at 185k. Expectations are for a gain of 204k jobs in August, while later on we get the latest Beige Book survey of economic conditions. With wages and inflation also remaining on the weak side it would be wise to keep an eye on the final Q2 unit labour cost data which is also due to be released which is expected to show a decline of 1%. If this does come in as weak as expected it will be that much more difficult to make the case for a September rate rise. In the UK the case for a rise in interest rates suffered a setback yesterday after manufacturing PMI for August unexpectedly slipped back in August to 51.5, with prices also sliding back, and the first decline in jobs for 26 months. Admittedly the manufacturing sector makes up only a small part of the UK economy, but for a Chancellor who only a few years ago to go on a march of the makers this weakness is a setback in seeking to rebalance the UK economy. The construction sector has been a welcome contributor to UK GDP over the past couple of years, consistently outperforming and the expectation is that August construction PMI will be no different with an increase to 57.6 from 57.1 in July. EURUSD – having found some measure of support at 1.1150 the euro could well retest the 1.1400 level if it regains a foothold above the 200 day MA. We also have support down near 1.1100 where the 50 and 100 day MA intersect. The bias remains for a return towards the 1.1400 area while above 1.1080 level. GBPUSD – the pound continues to remain under pressure having broken through the July lows at 1.5330 bringing with it the prospect of a move towards the June lows at 1.5170. We need a move back through the 1.5480 level to stabilise and suggest a return to 1.5600. EURGBP – having finally overcome the 200 day MA at 0.7360 we could well see a move towards the May highs at 0.7485. Only a move below the 0.7320 level would undermine this scenario and suggest a return to the 0.7230 level, and even back to the 0.7130 area. USDJPY – having peaked at 121.75 the US dollar has slid back sharply below the 120.00 level suggesting the possibility of further weakness towards the 119.00 area initially and last week's low at 116.20. CMC Markets is an execution only service provider. 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......where I can get a complete collection of WipeOut tracks? I want to download every single game's songs so that I can play it during WOHD.
The music I want the most is none other than "The Firestarter" by prodigy.
I was reading neoGAF and saw it there, but I don't know where I found it...I checked all threads related to WOHD, but no cigar.
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USDCAD is breaking higher, now trading above wave B swing, so triangle can be done in fourth wave which means that higher prices are in play for wave 5). We are looking towards 1.2600 at the start of the week.
USDCAD 1h Elliott Wave Analysis
EURUSD is moving higher, possibly headed up to 1.1060 resistance where third leg will equal to first leg. As such, market could turn south tomorrow or on Wednesday.
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NEW DELHI — The BJP Thursday accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of "declaring war on the Supreme Court" and said it is considering filing contempt of court proceedings against him.
After Kejriwal slammed the apex court's split verdict on the contentious issue of division of powers between the Delhi government and the Centre over control of services as "against the constitution and democracy and an injustice to people of Delhi", BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said his remarks were "the biggest attack on the apex court in political history".
The judgement is a "big defeat" for Kejriwal, he asserted and demanded an apology from him for criticising the order.
While delivering the verdict, a two-judge bench comprising Justices AK Sikri and Ashok Bhushan, however, agreed upon matters pertaining to the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB), setting up of commissions of inquiry and land revenue matters among other issues.
BJP spokesperson and Supreme Court lawyer Nalin Kohli said the verdict makes it clear the Kejriwal government was trying to "usurp" the Centre's power as it has turned down its plea seeking control over the ACB and posting of senior officials.
Both powers remain with the Lt Governor, he said.
Addressing a press conference after the verdict, Kejriwal said, "The judgment is against the constitution and democracy. We will seek legal remedies."
Patra said Kejriwal's language was "appalling", and also targeted opposition parties, saying while they claim to be working together to "save democracy and institutions", they have maintained silence on the AAP leader's broadside against the court.
"Where are Rahul Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee who speak daily of saving democracy and institutions, as this is the biggest attack on the Supreme Court in our political history. Kejriwal has declared war on our highest court," the BJP leader said, adding his party is considering moving a contempt of court plea against him in the court.
Kejriwal, who is the AAP national convener, has joined opposition parties in their campaign against the BJP.
Patra also took strong exception to Kejriwal's claim, against the backdrop of the judgment, that people hold the key, and accused him of instigating AAP cadre to attack the court for upholding the constitution.
The Delhi chief minister has been an "anarchist" and attacked institutions like the Election Commission and the Army in the past. He has now not spared the SC either, the BJP spokesperson said.
Kohli termed Kejriwal's comments "strange", saying the constitution cannot be twisted based on the number of seats a party gets in elections.
Taking a jibe at him, the BJP leader said, "There are millions who have not passed class XII but respect the constitution, understand constitutional morality and constitutional statesmanship. On the other hand, some people may have studied in IIT but are unwilling to respect the constitution."
Kejriwal had Wednesday said people made a "class XII-pass" the prime minister of the country but they should not repeat the "mistake" in 2019.


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ForteFX: Best Practices For Best Performances
today we'd like to give a new update about the performance of ForteFX working on the M1 charts of EURUSD, AUDUSD, and GBPUSD. Right now the closed profits are $3792.56 and the floating drawdown is -$466.32 (starting balance = 10K USD).
As you can see from the chart below the trading system is able to churn profits almost every day (the red line are banked profits and it is always growing):
The yellow bars at the bottom show the profits closed day by day. As we said before almost every single day ForteFX has cashed some money. That's the real strenght of this setup of ForteFX running on M1 charts while taking advantage of a trend score calculated on the H1 timeframe.
Here is the MyFxBook page tracking this account: http://www.myfxbook.com/members/pimpmyea/fortefx-best-settings/593679
Please keep in mind that this setup (set file "fortefx_algo2_m1_h1.set") requires the advanced trend direction algorithm of PotenzaFX (trend_algo = 2 in the input settings). With ForteFX we actually have two EAs in one trading in opposite directions at the same time, therefore the robot is always making money on one side when the other is temporarily making none because of a drawdown phase.
This approach of course requires hedging, and traders who use ForteFX on NFA compliant accounts (with FIFO and Anti-Hedging rules) can still take advantage of this strategy thanks to One4All.
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Yacon is a plant growing in abundance in the higher Peru's Andes Mountains. Yacon is really a tuber with a special potato look, but it can be a pure and normal vegetable balanced for that body. The Yacon root is used to produce syrup from the locals who use it like a natural food sweetener. It is a dense like extract using a special pungent flavor.
FOS avoids molecule breakdown within the human digestive system and reaches the colon without digestion, once The Syrup is taken. Essentially, all this implies is that this item incinerates fat just like a furnce.


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Use DPconnect to automatically convert Xerox print data from Xerox DigiPath and Xerox FreeFlow environments and easily submit it to production printers. DPconnect is a fully integrated workflow solution with the PRISMAproduction software.
- DPconnect enables you to use your Xerox workflow for printers and benefit from higher flexibility, productivity and print quality.
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Thanks to DPconnect you can make full use of your existing printer investments in a multi-vendor environment. At the same time you can expand your networked print volume capacity and the variety of applications you can handle.
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Apptek Announces Pytorch Backend for RETURNN
McLean, VA, March 19, 2019 – AppTek, a leader in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation, today announced that as of this week, Apptek's Neural Network environment RETURNN supports PyTorch for efficient model training. This adds to the company's already existing support for the open source framework Theano, which was spearheaded and supported by Yoshua Bengio and his MILA team until September 2017, and the open source framework Tensorflow, where the maintenance, support and further improvement is led and shepherded by the Google Brain team. PyTorch is an open source ML framework that is led and supported by Facebook and is seeing a fast and wide adoption by AI researchers and engineers, allowing for rapid experimentation and easy system development and deployment.
AppTek's integration with PyTorch had a special focus on human language technology, and speech recognition in particular. The performance of the models trained on the PyTorch framework is similar or better compared to the already excellent performance of models trained with the other frameworks. The combination of RETURNN and PyTorch allows high scalability, utilizing high degrees of parallelization to either process high amounts of data simultaneously, or increase the throughput.
"We are excited to see the power of RETURNN unfold using the PyTorch back-end, we believe that RETURNN will bring benefits to scientists who do rapid product development. The need to up the rate of innovation is critical to serve practical use cases and enable the research community. We see that combining the rate of innovation in modeling on RETURNN and the rate of innovation on the core machine learning libraries of PyTorch can deliver that," states Mudar Yaghi, CEO of AppTek.
Hermann Ney, Director of Science at AppTek and Computer Science Chair for Human Language Technology and Pattern Recognition at RWTH Aachen adds: "We are looking forward to identify ways to collaborate and push the limits even further. It proved in the past that bringing together different disciplines divulges state of the art in research. We had Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Speech Recognition, Machine Translation, Handwriting Recognition and the new initiative in speech synthesis scientists work together to build RETURNN to enable the building of best-in-class systems."
Patrick Doetsch, Apptek's leading scientist who led this effort said: "We are happy to announce that we successfully integrated PyTorch as a third back-end into our acoustic model training software RETURNN. Just as with our Tensorflow and Theano back-end, the PyTorch version allows users to train state-of-the-art acoustic LSTM models using PyTorch modules."
About AppTek
AppTek artificial intelligence and machine learning-based automatic speech recognition and machine translation platform is deployed for the media and entertainment industry as well as call centers. Leveraging over 30 years' worth of experience its scientists and research engineers support the research and development of practical systems – AppTek enables the highest quality automatic speech recognition and machine translation solutions available anywhere for enterprises everywhere. The streaming real-time combination allows for live closed captioning and speech to speech translation as in the Apptek closed captioning appliance available to TV stations and the Talk2me® app available on the AppStore. Apptek's ASR and Neural MT are also available via its cloud API services.
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AppTek provides an artificial intelligence and machine learning-based automatic speech recognition, machine translation and natural language understanding platform for organizations in a variety of markets, such as media and entertainment, call centers, government, enterprise business and others across the globe. Available via the cloud or on-premise, AppTek delivers the highest quality real-time streaming and batch speech technology solutions in the industry. Featuring scientists and research engineers who are recognized amongst the best and most experienced in the world, the company's solutions cover a wide array of languages, dialects, and channels.


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Jill Duggar's Transphobic Hubby Has An Issue With The Transgender People
Broodmare plantation overseer Bob Duggar officially transferred his daughter Jill Duggard's certificate of ownership over to this goon Derrick Dillard in June 2014. Jill and Derrick have two kids together. The Duggars' deity probably doesn't approve of smoking crystal, so I'm going to assume that Derrick looks like he's about to steal my purse for drug money, because he's so drained from having to constantly fill his wife full of babies. He appears on TLC's Counting On (that's the post-Josh Duggar-is-a-sexual-predator sequel to 19 And Counting), and his role as a slightly famous sperm donor has apparently gone to his head. Because he's passing judgement on his fellow TLC stars. He tweeted some transphobic bullshit about Jazz Jennings, the star of I Am Jazz.
People reports that Derrick unleashed his ignorance on an already suspecting world on Wednesday. It was in response to Jazz' show.
What an oxymoron… a "reality" show which follows a non-reality. "Transgender" is a myth. Gender is not fluid; it's ordained by God. https://t.co/YxzH5o5Ujx
— Derick Dillard (@derick4Him) August 3, 2017
Speaking of ordained by God, his wife and sister-in-laws are going to have to eventually get spare parts for their wombs due to the Duggars' "Jesus wants you to overpopulate the earth or you will burn in Hell" life plan. That's probably the social issue you should be focusing on, rejected Walking Dead extra.
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errick got called on his shit on Twitter, he stuck to his stupidity guns and made it even worse by purposely referring to Jazz by the wrong pronoun.
I want to be clear. I have nothing against him. I only have issue with the words and definitions being propagated here.
— Derick Dillard (@derick4Him) August 3, 2017
The reaction wasn't really mixed. Here are some:
"You mean her. Use the right pronoun if you have no issue."
"If you are upset with TLC calling HER a HER than maybe you shouldn't be apart of the reality TV network that pays your bills."
"Bullying a teenage girl? How brave and 'godly' you are."
"Why does it bother you? Does this affect your life in any way? Let the girl live. Love thy neighbour."
"Jazz is a female. There is no changing it. God would want us to be who we want to be and he truly would find a way to love us no matter what."
Derrick and Jazz's network, TLC, has had a lot to answer for in the past. This is the network who employed a sexual predator, as well as a mom who thought it was a good idea to date the man who molested her daughter. They're basically the Subway of television. In what is surely an attempt to redeem themselves (and nothing to do with fueling the attention to this fire), they released a statement!
"Derick Dillard's personal statement does not represent the views of TLC."
What a burn on Derrick. That just dripped with condemnation. Their PR person sounds like they're either horrible at their job or just really fatigued.
Jazz herself didn't comment publicly about Derrick's tweets. But she did answer one that called Derrick a hypocrite.
Haha you're awesome? https://t.co/OCeLOwUXvn
— Jazz Jennings (@JazzJennings__) August 3, 2017
We can probably all agree that Derrick is a douche. He's going to be even douchier if one of his kids turns out to be something not "ordained by God." You know, like a feminist or someone unable to have children.
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Here at CATS, we are dedicated to constantly improving our recruiting software to ensure that our users are able to source top talent swiftly and effortlessly. It's that passion that has motivated the latest update in our ongoing CATS 5.0 Nala release.
The browser extension has been a staple feature of CATS for years, allowing users to source candidates on the fly. However, after careful review, we felt that it could be improved by increasing its speed and functionality. Now, it's easier for users to source candidates at lightning-fast speeds.
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A browser extension is a extra little piece of software that provides you with new abilities and additional features to help streamline your online work. The most valuable browser extensions are able to improve time-consuming tasks and the upgraded CATS browser extension does just that for candidate sourcing. Our browser extension has always enabled CATS users to easily fill and manage their candidate databases, but now, it does that up to 10 times faster.
Whenever you are sourcing candidates on popular professional sites and social networks—such as LinkedIn, Monster and CareerBuilder—open the browser extension, and it will appear on the right side of your browser window. If you are looking at a new candidate, you can automatically parse their information directly into CATS. If a candidate or contact already exists in your database, you will be asked if you would like to update the existing profile with any new information. What's more, the browser extension remains open, which means that when you find a candidate you like, you can add them with just a click.
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A miracle bible marked with bullet holes from a German machine gun helped save the life of a British World War I soldier, his daughter claimed.
The bible was said to have stopped two bullets from hitting Private Leslie Friston as he lay in a hospital bed recovering from a gas attack.
Pte Friston, who served with the Royal Army Medical Corps, was blinded and left with respiratory problems following a gas attack in
As he lay recovering in hospital, a German aircraft passed overhead and machine-gunned the makeshift building's tin roof.
Two of the bullets struck the then 23-year-old soldier's holy book, which was next to him on a bedside table and stopped the bullets hitting him.
The soldier's bible still bears the scars of war more than 100 years later with two bullet holes from where it 'took the brunt' of the German machine-gun attack.
Private Leslie Friston's bible was left with two bullet holes running through it after a German aircraft shot at the makeshift hospital where he was recovering from a gas attack
Pte Friston, who served as a nurse and was from Surbiton, Surrey, survived the war thanks to the book and brought the bible home to his family.
He kept it close to him until his death in 1958 aged 64, when his possessions were passed to his daughter Ena Thompson, now 87.
'He said the bible saved his life as it took the brunt of the attack,' Mrs Thompson, from Bournemouth, Dorset, said.
'If the bullets had landed just a few inches further towards him, he would not have survived – and I wouldn't be here today.
'He was incredibly lucky and I think he knew this as he kept the bible with him for the rest of his life.
'I used to ask him "would you tell me about the war…?" and he would say "no, I don't want to talk about it".'
The bible owned by Private Leslie Friston with two bullet holes clearly visible on the front of the holy book
Pte Friston signed up to fight in the First World War at the age of 21 and served with the 3/3rd Home Counties Field Ambulance unit in France and Belgium during the war years. His service number was 3621, later changing to 88882.
Records show he was injured by the gas shell in 1917 when he was aged 23, making him eligible to be awarded a wound stripe.
'He was a nurse, so it must have been awful and frustrating for him to be lying in a hospital bed himself', Mrs Thompson said.
'He just would have wanted to help other people.
'It must have been absolutely terrifying. He was badly gassed and it blinded him. He was bed-ridden so he must have heard the aircraft approaching – but he was powerless to do anything about it.'
Pte Friston's sight returned after he came back to England and he went on to run a grocery store in Hampton, Richmond, west London.
His younger brother Edward died aged 19 during the war while his elder brother Tom survived.
Every year, Mrs Thompson donates to the Royal British Legion and buys a wooden cross to be planted at Westminster for the charity's annual Field of Remembrance event. This cross is dedicated to Edward.
Mrs Thompson described her father's bible as 'such as special thing'.
Private Leslie Friston, third from left, middle row, in picture during his time in a makeshift hospital after suffering a gas attack on the Western Front
She added: 'It still has his name and his service number in it which he wrote.
'When I hold the bible I just get a special feeling. It might sound a bit strange but it makes me feel comfortable and happy. It's a nice feeling that it saved his life. It makes me feel close to him.
'I am extremely thankful to the WW1 generation for all they did for us. It's hard to imagine what the world would be like if things had gone differently all those years ago.
'We owe it to that generation to remember their sacrifices.'
Mrs Thompson's husband Neville Thompson, who died in 1989, served with the army during the Second World War as a signaller in the Royal Corps of Signals.
Her daughter Monica Spiers formerly served with The Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
Private Leslie Friston's daughter, Ena Thompson, said 'he [her father] said the bible saved his life as it took the brunt of the attack'
Mrs Thompson paid tribute to the First World War generation as part of the Royal British Legion's 2018 Poppy Appeal, which was launched last week.
In August, the Legion's Handy Van service fixed Mrs Thompson's garage door and installed a Careline.
'Everybody likes the Legion because it does so much to help,' the retired food store owner said.
Almost 1.7 million British troops were wounded during World War I and over 700,000 were killed.
In total, the war resulted in the deaths of 13 million military personnel and left 21 million more wounded.
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A 15-Year-Old Girl Was Suspended For "Bullying" After Saying There Was A Rapist In Her High School
Article here. Excerpt:
'Those words, handwritten on a sticky note and posted in a high school bathroom, have led to a Maine teenager getting suspended — not the alleged rapist, but the 15-year-old girl who wrote the note.
Aela Mansmann, a sophomore, was suspended from Cape Elizabeth High School on Friday for "bullying" because she posted the note, which did not name anyone as an accused rapist.
It all started in September when Aela said she'd gotten "pretty fed up" with the amount of sexual assault and harassment her classmates were facing, apparently without consequences for the perpetrators.
So she and a friend put up that sticky note. Soon after, many more students posted similar notes in the bathroom speaking about their stories of sexual violence at the hands of classmates.
Aela's note was not about one singular, specific rapist, she said.
"It was really addressing the general culture of our school, and keeping in mind several specific cases," she said. "But there are so many it's hard to pinpoint just one and advocate for just one of them."
Later that day, school administrators called her into the office and launched an investigation into the sticky notes, she said.'
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So if a boy...
... did the same thing but instead said "there's a fat pig in the school..." he would not/should not get into trouble for bullying?
Sending out gender-specific insults or insinuations is indeed bullying... of a general sort but bullying nonetheless.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions briefed the press Friday morning about some of the things that sanctuary cities, those cities that refuse to enforce immigration law or aid Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), will be losing if the Trump administration's threats become reality. This could prove to be a very expensive decision for many major urban areas who receive millions from Federal grants to support things that range from crime programs to Boys and Girls clubs.
If you are looking for sheer frustration with the status quo, look no further dear reader. I am there. As a resident of one of these sanctuary cities, and a former resident of the suburb of another, I have been deeply frustrated with the lack of enforcement of our immigration laws for many years. As a teenager living on the Central Coast of California the only people I knew who were deported were two British bartenders at my local pub. Even though the city I lived in was known, widely, as the northern outpost of Neustra Familia (aka the Mexican Mafia).
Now living in the Pacific Northwest, I look at our neighbor to the north, Seattle, as a case study of what kind of disaster could strike other cities like San Francisco and Philadelphia who have declared themselves "sanctuary cities". Seattle stands to lose multiple millions from their budget if the rules that were outlined by Sessions yesterday are enforced. Like San Francisco, Seattle has filed a law suit against the Trump administration as a preemptive strike. Their suit claims that the policy is "fatally flawed" and "unconstitutional". With what they stand to lose, I can see why they are suing. According to an article on CNN.com:
"More than $55 million of Seattle's 2017 operating expenses come from federal funding. More than $99 million is dedicated to longer-term capital investments, the city says. Of the Human Services Department's 2017 budget, which amounts to about $150 million, more than $42 million — or 28% — derived from those funds, the lawsuit says. That includes $15 million from the budget of the Homeless Strategy and Investment Division for shelter, outreach, hygiene, and health care for homeless people. A Community Development Block Grant provides $4 million for emergency shelter, transitional housing and other services for homeless single men, women, and families. More than $11 million is destined for home-based care for elderly people with disabilities. Support for low-income housing, meals for children in child-care homes and youth violence-prevention programs would also be affected, the lawsuit says."
Add to that multiple millions that the Seattle PD is scheduled to receive from the Feds for things like bomb suits and terrorism prevention, you can see why they don't want to lose out. The city would also lose out on funds for seismic retrofitting, which considering the possibility of the Cascadia subduction zone quake occurring sometime soon could prove to be a fatal mistake. Total cost to Seattle for maintaining their sanctuary status if Sessions and Trump keep their promise to punish sanctuary cities-$276.8 million.
Philadelphia stands to lose a mere $26 million, but those dollars fund important programs like a legal clinic for victims of domestic violence, improvements in city courts and gun violence prevention efforts. Los Angeles stands to lose a massive amount of money-$500 million. That money performs a variety of services for Angelenos, from securing the Port of Los Angeles to sheltering the myriad of homeless that call the city home. Believe me, I doubt you will see any "Down and Out In Beverly Hills" type scenarios coming out of that situation. More likely Los Angeles will be forced to deal with things like paying companies to scrape human feces off of their sidewalks if they lose that funding.
Eventually all of the sanctuary cities will have to choose between their virtue signalling, and their commitments to their citizens. Don't hold your breath dear reader. They will likely all just follow in my state's footsteps and punish the hardworking, upwardly mobile middle class with additional taxes, because after all we can't have them turning into more evil rich people one day can we?
I tried to work up some sympathy for these idiots after reading that… I really did… but nope, couldn't work up a single tear…must be my white privilege getting in the way…. Ahh well, time for another cup of coffee, then outside to WORK on the property / animals…
It's not the "leadership" I feel for in these cities-it's the hardworking citizens like you and me who will pay. We are the economic engine that fuels the economies in these cities and we pay millions to our governments-only to be betrayed with tripe like this. I feel for those who will pay the price in Seattle, SF and other cities. That is who I want you to have sympathy for-if anyone.


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The first time Steven Soderbergh saw MMA fighter Gina Carano on TV, his first thought was "wouldn't it be cool if I built a big all-star Hollywood action movie around this girl, despite her complete lack of acting experience?" The first time I saw MMA fighter Gina Carano on TV, my first thought was "wouldn't it be cool if I hooked up with her?" I guess what I'm trying to say is, Steven Soderbergh has a lot more clout than I do.
The result of Soderbergh's instant obsession with Carano is Haywire, a spy-thriller-action movie starring the MMA superstar as ex-marine turned U.S. government contracted operative Mallory Kane. Sent on a mission to free a Chinese dissident held hostage in Barcelona, Kane is soon betrayed by her superiors. Escaping the attempt on her life, Kane embarks on a righteous mission of revenge in her quest to find out who was behind it all.
Alright, sure, this is the six-thousandth time this sort of story has been put to film. That's not the problem. Nor is the problem necessarily that the film tries to overcome its generic story cliches by going the old "style over substance" route. That, in and of itself, needn't be a bad thing. There are plenty of movies that pull it off – Drive and Hanna are two recent examples that immediately spring to mind.
The problem here is the type of style. Haywire feels like 100% unfiltered Soderbergh, that's for sure – but that's not always a good thing. Look, I like Soderbergh – you gotta give it up for a guy who has dabbled in so many genres (mostly successfully), and there is perhaps no better director at merging indie sensibilities with mainstream tastes. But there's the rub – Soderbergh is always walking a tightrope between those two extremes. When he gets the mix just right, it can be fantastic (like in Out of Sight or Contagion), but on occasion he can plunge too deeply into the pretentious side of things, trying too hard to affect a "too cool for school" sensibility, which in turn makes it impossible to connect to the film on any sort of emotional level (I'm looking at you, The Girlfriend Experience). That's the case here. And if you're not getting what I'm saying, let me put it another way – Haywire is more Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen than it is Ocean's Eleven.
Like the Ocean's sequels, Haywire is a film that oh-so-desperately wants you to recognize how cool and hip and unique it is. It almost feels like maybe Soderbergh was embarrassed to be making what is (or at least seems like it should be) a straight-ahead B-action movie, and therefore felt the need to mask it in post-modern stylistic flourishes in order to distract you from the lack of engaging characters or routine plot. Except that can't be the case, because this whole movie was more-or-less Soderbergh's idea (though it is written by Lem Dobbs, who also wrote the much better Soderbergh film The Limey, a far more successful attempt at subverting a cliched story with indie attitude). So this really just is Soderbergh's idea of an action film – it's like somebody tripped and accidentally mixed a few reels of a kung-fu movie into an experimental art-house movie. Except that actually sounds a little more intriguing than what we actually get here.
To be fair, the fight scenes are intense and exciting, exactly what you would want from a movie starring Gina Carano. Best of all, they're filmed in glorious long-shots and coherently edited. Not only is this a nice change from the more common shaky-cam style that permeates most modern movie fight scenes, but it's also a proper showcase for Carano – we can see it's really her kicking all this ass, and in these moments it isn't hard to imagine Carano easily working her way through most of the big male action stars of the moment. If there's any knock against these scenes, it's that the fights – as great as they may be – are nowhere near as brutal or exciting as the best matches from Carano's actual MMA career. But hey, it's a movie, so whatever. I don't really want to criticize these scenes, since they're clearly the best part of the movie.
But the dirty little secret of Haywire is that these fights scenes only make up about 5% of the movie. The rest of the running time is devoted to flat, static scenes of monotone discussions and long stretches of characters silently walking around and doing a whole lot of nothing, often set to a hip jazz-pop score. All in service of a labyrinthine plot so unnecessarily convoluted that it's actually laughable – seriously, I'd love to ask Soderbergh and Dobbs what they think the movie gained by being told in non-linear flashbacks, as Carano narrates her tale to young man she has taken hostage (at first I thought this character would at least be important, perhaps the Marie to Carano's Jason Bourne. But NOPE. He simply disappears halfway through the movie).
Seriously, there were spans in this movie where I sort of forgot I was even watching an action movie. But even when the action would start back up, I still wasn't safe from the pretentious indie posturing – take a shootout and foot-chase in the streets of Barcelona, for instance, a sequence that flips back and forth between color and black & white for no obvious reason other than "hey look, it's so different and cool!" Look, Mr. Soderbergh, there would have been no shame in just filming the more straight-ahead action piece this simplistic story seemed to demand, and leaving all your flashy, experimental film tricks at home. In fact, it probably would have been a lot better for the potential movie career of Carano, and wasn't that the whole point of making this thing in the first place?
I guess that's a good cue to finally discuss the elephant in the room – Carano's performance. A number of reviews have criticized Carano for her flat delivery. And, well, they're not wrong. Carano looks great, obviously, and has a kind of undeniable charisma when the movie isn't asking her to do much more than beat people up (not enough) or just stand there silently (way too much). But when it comes time to deliver the dialogue…yeah, it can be pretty cringe-worthy. I have a feeling Soderbergh suspected this might be the case, and purposely made the Mallory character sort of a cipher on purpose. I'm not kidding – I just watched this thing yesterday, and I can't think of any discernible character traits for Mallory other than she can fight and she bites her lip a lot. And look, it's not that I mind watching Gina Carano biting her lip. I'm very pro Gina Carano biting her lip…
…but that can't be the only thing to hang your hat on when you want to be able to get behind a character and root for them. They try to give her a sympathetic relationship with her father, another ex-marine turned novelist played by Bill Paxton, but their chemistry is practically nonexistent, so that doesn't work. They botch the chance to give her a connection with the aforementioned young man she takes hostage, so forget about that. Oh, but then there's a scene where a former teammate of hers – that she worked with once and had a one-night-stand with – is killed, and the movie wants us to believe it's a really emotional moment. And, I shit you not, they have the nerve to briefly flash-back to that one-night-stand, with this guy she knew for all of two days at that point, and we're supposed to think this is some devastating tragedy for this bad-ass chick who up until now has not shown anything resembling an actual human emotion? Fuck you, movie. Oh, and take a guess what Mallory's big response to his death is. If you said "she bites her lip," then congratulations, you've just won the "Mallory Kane is a shitty, boring character" trivia challenge.
Also, look, I'm not a Carano superfan or anything, but I've seen enough interviews with her to know her real voice. So, I gotta ask, what the hell is going on here, and why? In case you haven't already heard, Soderbergh made the decision to digitally alter Carano's voice in this film, making it deeper. Apparently he thought her real voice wasn't tough enough (which is pretty funny, considering it is her real voice and she is really tough). I found this incredibly distracting, not only because I know it's not her actual voice, but also because it always just sounds off in the movie. The digitally altered voice just doesn't sound natural in the environment – it's always a little too loud or piped in or something, and as a result Mallory never sounds like she's even really in the same room as the other people in the scene. It feels like you're watching a poorly dubbed kung-fu movie, except only one character is dubbed and the lips match perfectly. It's weird, is what I'm getting at.
As for the other performances, well, whatever. Only Ewan McGregor, as Mallory's sleazy ex and boss, has a real character to play, and he does a pretty admirable job. Michael Douglas and Antonio Banderas are essentially cameos, here only to boost the film's star-power roster, and the effort they put into their work reflects that. Channing Tatum and Michael Fassbender are both decent in small roles, even if most of their screen-time is devoted to getting beat up by Carano.
At the end of the day, I'm not surprised that many critics fell over themselves praising this movie – Soderbergh is a critic's darling (usually for good reason), and this one has an edgy feel that kind of insinuates it's elevating itself above the genre or whatever. Critics eat that stuff up. But I'm also not surprised that mainstream audiences rejected it – Haywire ran a very respectable 80% on Rotten Tomatoes, but earned a dreadful D+ Cinemascore grade (the polling of actual audiences as they leave the theater). Interestingly enough, that happened the same weekend Underworld: Awakening was being torn to shreds by "legitimate" critics but was earning an A- Cinemascore grade. Obviously, this is partly due to audience expectations – people went in expecting a slam-bang action movie, and instead got a weird, boring art-house flick with the occasional fight scene. I know some people will point to this sort of audience reaction as proof that the mainstream audience doesn't get good movies, but I don't think that's completely fair in this case. Surprisinly enough, TIME Magazine critic Richard Corliss actually got it right when comparing Haywire to Underworld: Awakening.
"Underworld Awakening is not exactly the classic play Spring Awakening, or even the rock musical made from it a few years ago. The film has nothing on its mind except diverting people who want to get out of the house after midnight. But it does suggest a distinction in two kinds of action movies: the critics' fave Haywire, in which Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh pays little heed to narrative flow or coherence, and this Underworld, with its slick corporate craftsmanship. The first picture is smart-stupid, the second stupid-smart. And I'll take the idiot-savant pleasures of a vampire movie any day."
I'm with you, Richard. There's nothing wrong with trying to liven up the action genre a little with some unique touches here and there, but Haywire is so obsessed with being the anti-action movie that it totally loses sight of what it should be doing. It's meant to be a star-making showcase for Gina Carano, but instead it feels more like Soderbergh standing on a chair, desperately waving his arms around and screaming "look at me! Look how cool I am!" The fight scenes suggest Soderbergh is correct in believing Carano has potential as an action star, but it will take a lot of molding, and unfortunately he seemed less interest in doing that for her, and more in masking her weaknesses behind a layer of experimental indie-bait nonsense. For now, if I want to watch an action flick with a bad-ass woman in the lead, I'll take the simple joys of a Cynthia Rothrock movie.
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Michael Fassbender is an Academy Award-nominated actor and a well-known master of magnetism. As it turns out, he's also an ace break dancer.
That mind-boggling tidbit was revealed on Friday night's (May 5) edition of The Graham Norton Show, while Fassbender was chatting about a nixed ending he'd pitched for Alien: Covenant.
"I wanted to have David dancing on the disco deck of the ship," he admitted. "At the end and the credits are rolling, I thought it might be kind of funny to do like a Napoleon Dynamite-style exit for the character.
"But Ridley didn't go for it! I still don't understand why."
That naturally led to Graham quizzing Michael on his "break dance phase" and membership in a local Irish dance team back in the late 1980s.
"What is break dance? Can you show me?" fellow guest Jessica Chastain chimed in to ask a stunned Michael. (To the audible gasps of Graham's studio audience, no less!)
Despite being reluctant at first, Graham, Jessica and the audience eventually goaded the X-Men star into performing his first swan-dive in nearly 30 years. Watch below and have your life changed:
After seeing the swan-like magnificence of Michael Fassbender, we'll never be able to understand why Ridley Scott nixed the movie-closing Alien: Covenant dance-off.
The Graham Norton Show continues next Friday night (May 12) on BBC One at 10.35pm with special guests Guy Ritchie, Charlie Hunnam, Billie Piper and Imelda May.
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Left- Here's what I will be doing with my leap second.
Wait a sec before you pop the champagne at midnight. No, really.
The New Year will arrive one second late this year – a leap second, if you will.
The great minds who keep up with the Earth's rotations want to keep our clocks in proper alignment – ergo, the extra second. It will be the 24th "leap second" since 1972, and the first since 2005.
Personally I'd just as soon 2008 end one second earlier!
If that doesn't sound like a big deal, consider that in one second a cheetah can dash 34 yards, a telephone signal can travel 100,000 miles, a hummingbird can beat its wings 70 times, and eight million of your blood cells can die.
What will you do with your extra leap second? I just hope someone told the folks dropping that ball in Times Square.


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RareJaunt.com finally had the chance to get a hold of the ever-busy Matt Hartog in order to interview him, and get our head around some of his incredible candid travel shots.
See more of Matt's adventures at: https://www.instagram.com/matt.hartog/
RJ: Tell us a bit about yourself.
My name is Matthijs, most people call me Matt. I grew up in a village in the Netherlands, and have always loved traveling. When I was 16 I moved out to live on my own, making my own money working in a supermarket, finishing high school at night. I loved it, living in a city that seemed vibrant, even though it seems sleepy by my standards by now.
When I was 21 I was studying at Utrecht University, and a friend approached me with a freelance job offer. The incredible fact that I could be working on my own computer, or any computer anywhere, and be making money remotely, was amazing. He paid me rather well too, better than any job I had before. That's how I got introduced to the possibility of working remotely.
RJ: How old you were you when you first went overseas?
As a kid I joined my parents on holidays or course, but the first time I traveled overseas with friends was when I was 18. The first time I traveled solo, while working on my laptop, was when I was 25 years old; 3 weeks on Gran Canaria. Another world of possibilities opened.
RJ: What do you remember about your first travel experience, or what is your first travel memory?
Holidays with parents, I vividly remember Greece even though I was only 3 years old. I have a thing for summer and sun, warm climates, warm colors. Since I started doing this digital nomad thing I have always stuck around in Southern Europe and Southeast Asia.
RJ: What first inspired you to travel?
My trip to Gran Canaria made me aware that I could experience so much more. A few months later I packed my backpack, laptop, and flew to Bangkok with a one way ticket.
RJ: What is a special travel memory that stands out to you?
How incredibly helpful people here in Southeast Asia are when you are in need. E.G. broken tire, running out of gas, being dehydrated. People went to extremes to help me out. At home, you require paid services for these things. These people here absolutely did not accept any money for their help.
RJ: What is something you would never travel without?
My laptop, of course ?
RJ: Where is the nicest establishment you have stayed? Why was it special?
If by establishment you mean a hotel, it would be a five star hotel in Istanbul. It was special because I was on my way to Spain, from Vietnam, to work on an in-house project at an office there on the Costa del Sol. I had to transfer at Istanbul Airport, when tragedy struck: terrorists attacked innocent people, very close to where I was standing at the moment. My PA in the office in Spain helped me out tremendously and booked a good hotel for me to stay at, until flights resumed 2 days later. It was not a nice experience at all, but something that I will never forget. Part of real life.
RJ: If you could recommend a place to a fellow traveler, where would it be?
To digital nomads, I would recommend Chiang Mai, but only if they are already making money online. To backpackers, I would recommend Southeast Asia in general.
RJ: Describe a culinary experience that stands out from a vacation abroad.
It may sound a bit weird, but that would be Pizza 4Ps, a pizza restaurant in Vietnam run by Japanese. The best pizza I've had in the world.
RJ: What is your idea of an enjoyable vacation?
NO laptop, NO work emails, lots of hiking and motorbiking, enjoying fresh air and good food. I don't care much about the sea, I like mountains and tropical nature.
RJ: Who would be your ideal travel companion?
Someone who also works online and has also been at it for several years.
RJ: What do you miss the most when you are away from home?
My best friends at home.
RJ: What country do you believe to be under-rated? What about overrated?
Some parts of Portugal are under-rated, unknown, and amazing (it starts with an A and is surrounded by ocean). Some parts of Spain are overrated (starts with a B and consists almost entirely of AirBNBs). I can't really think of one country of which everything is incredible or disappointing.
RJ: Where is next on your list of places to travel to? Why?
Dalat in Vietnam, Danang and nearby UNESCO town Hoi An. I love Saigon, where I'm staying at the moment, but I want to go hiking again. I should take advantage of the fact that I work remotely. Saigon is really lively and has many many things to offer, but nature is not on that list. However, I have many great friends here, so I will surely return later.
Later this year, I might go to Taiwan, back to Spain, back to the Netherlands, and visit Nepal later. These are all possibilities, nothing is for sure yet.
I just go with the flow and stay where I feel good!
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Since June 2014
D. Aug 1st 2005 -- One of thirty-seven sons of Saudi founder Ibn Saud, and the fourth of his five sons who have ruled the Kingdom (Saud, Faisal, Khalid, Fahd, and Abdullah). Ruled 1982-2005.
Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong
He replaced the "C" with a "K" for marketing purposes.
And of course also Anne Boleyn
Based on the 1954 book
During her career she won 12 Grand Slam single titles including six Wimbledon titles and four US Open Titles. Ranked Number 1 for five years but most well remembered for her challenge against Mr. Bobby Riggs in 1973, which Billie Jean won, putting to rest the notion that women could not defeat men.She won 16 Grand Slam women's doubles titles and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles
American blues guitarist & singer-songwriter
A story of doom circulating contemporaneously with the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922
Richard Gere playing the role of Lancelot. Talk about miscasting.
1951 - inducted in 2000
King Crimson (1969)
Faith No More (1995)
IMDB:8.8/10. Director: Peter Jackson. #5 in IMDb Top 250 movies. 11 Oscar wins incl. Best Picture. 4 Baftas and 4 Golden Globes. Also starring Orlando Bloom, Cate Blanchett, Liv Tyler, Billy Boyd, Andy Serkis, Dominic Monaghan, Christopher Lee etc. etc.
12 Grand Slam Titles - Wimgbledon, US Championship, Australian Championships and French Open
John Knox
The 3rd in the trilogy. A best-seller. The film adaptations of the trilogy were met with both critical and commercial success. Jackson's adaptations garnered 17 Oscars, 4 for The Fellowship of the Ring, 2 for The Two Towers, and 11 for The Return of the King; these covered many of the award categories. The Return of the King in fact won all of the 11 awards for which it was nominated, including Best Picture. With a total of 30 nominations, the trilogy also became the most-nominated in the Academy's history,
Best Actor - Musical or Comedy, 1991
Cecil B. DeMille silent movie
Second king of the united Kingdom of Israel, acclaimed as warrior, musician and poet; possibly c. 1040-970 BC
Son of David; renowned for his wisdom
18th dynasty, ruled c. 1333-1323 BCE
Civil rights leader, assassinated, 1968; Atlanta, Georgia
1965; one week as U.K. #1; only #1 hit; inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999
American Jazz and Swing musician bandleader.
American singer / songwriter, 1958 - 2009
Maintained the longest reign of any ruler of his period (1386-1349 BCE)
Second king of the united Kingdom of Israel, acclaimed as warrior, musician and poet; possibly c. 1040-970 BC
Reign: 1279-1213 BCE
Son of David; renowned for his wisdom
18th dynasty, ruled c. 1333-1323 BCE
Based on the 1987 book
Based on the 1983 book
Based on the 1977 book
1963 - inducted in 2012
A 2006 screen adaptation of the Giles Foden novel which is the fictional account of the personal physician of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. Some events depicted in the film are historically accurate.


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CHICAGO (CBS) — Students at an Indiana high school are rallying behind a beloved teacher who could be fired after failing to report a man on school grounds with a gun.
The incident happened at Lake Central High School in Saint John, Indiana.
The man who walked into the school angry and armed is a convicted felon and now faces possible criminal charges. The teacher, who kids say made sure they were safe, could lose his job.
Students from Dennis Brannock's class lined up to support their teacher who taught auto shop at Lake Central for 45 years.
"Mr. Brannock is a wonderful teacher. He goes above and beyond," stated Nick Reifinger, a high school junior. "I don't think it is fair."
Brannock could be fired for not reporting an armed man in the school and around his students.
"Mr. Brannock didn't see the gun, didn't know he had a gun," said Mo Sharawi, a high school junior.
On September 21, Mo Sharawi, as part of the auto shop class, took his car on a test run through a nearby neighborhood. Soon after, an irate man with a gun followed him back to school, went through the shop doors inside the school, accusing him of driving recklessly around kids.
"I would never drive that fast in a small neighborhood," Mo Sharawi said.
Students say the man took his gun back to his car, then came back again, yelling at the kids. Students say Brannock became aware of the situation and stepped in.
"He locked the doors, turned off the lights, and sent us to another classroom," recalled Sharawi.
Brannock failed to report the incident to the principal or to the Saint John Police, who only found out about the incident after a concerned parent called them.
As police investigate possible criminal charges against the armed man, the school board said they are following board policy, which specifically states that staff members must report knowledge of weapons or threats against students to the principal and "failure to report such information may subject the staff member to disciplinary action up to and including termination."
Students hope that is not the case.
"Mr. Brannock did a great job of handling that. I don't think he should be in this situation or even be getting in trouble for this," said high school senior Cory Middleton.
Students and some community members are planning to rally in support of Brannock before a school board meeting Thursday night.


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Welcome to the XXVII World Congress of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy!
The host committee is very pleased to welcome you to Washington D.C. and to the United States. In addition to the exciting academic program, we hope that you will also participate in the social events that have been arranged for you, including the excursion to Mount Vernon.
The overall topic for this Congress is "Law, Reason, and Emotion," subjects which will raise fundamental questions about the nature and purpose of law. While all legal systems claim to serve reason and justice, they must also recognize and respect the emotional basis of human society. This relationship between law, reason, and emotion can be seen as conflict, harmony, or otherwise, but it will always be present in legal discourse. The theme of this World Congress should reach all aspects of the philosophy of law and social philosophy and we are eager to hear your insights.
We are particularly grateful to the hosts and sponsors of the World Congress and their generous donation of time, facilities, and financial support. They are American University Washington College of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, George Washington University School of Law, the University of Baltimore School of Law, and the Law Library of Congress.
Have a wonderful time in Washington, D.C.!
- American University, Washington College of Law
- Georgetown University Law Center
- George Washington University Law School
- University of Baltimore School of Law
Host Committee
- Mortimer Sellers, Chair (University of Baltimore)
- Jennifer Dabson (American University, Washington College of Law)
- Susan Karamanian (George Washington University)
- Gregory Klass (Georgetown University)
- David Mao (Library of Congress)
Program Committee
- Mortimer Sellers, Chair (University of Baltimore School of Law)
- Susan Carle (American University, Washington College of Law)
- Leslie Francis (IVR)
- Joshua Kassner (AMINTAPHIL)
- John Mikhail (Georgetown Law Center)
- Dalia Tsuk Mitchell (George Washington University Law School)
This site features several murals from the Glimpse of Law Series at the Library of Congress, one of the conference sponsors. For more information visit the LOC Glimpse of Law site.


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Cameo in Simon & Freddy
A few weeks ago, Woo had a guest appearance in Hukley's comic strip Simon & Freddy:
New comics every Monday and Thursday
Sandra and Woo in German/auf Deutsch
Gaia (our fantasy comic)
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A few weeks ago, Woo had a guest appearance in Hukley's comic strip Simon & Freddy:
From 5 September 2013 to 1 May 2014, the following eight polls ran on Sandra and Woo. All but one of them got over 2,000 votes and it's time to present the results.
Poll from 5 September 2013:
Although many casual readers may not have participated in the poll, those are some great numbers with 50% of our readers placing Sandra and Woo in their personal top 3 of all comics they read.
Poll from 5 September 2013:
Compared to the same poll from 10 December 2011, the number of Sandra and Woo readers who also read Gaia has decreased by 3%. That's not a drop that I'd find alarming.
Poll from 5 September 2013:
Compared to the same poll from 6 April 2010, the most notable change is the significant drop of people who particularly enjoy reading comics featuring animals. In contrast, more people are fond of fantasy and action comics. I suspect that many of them first found Gaia and then started to read Sandra and Woo as well. School comics are still surprisingly unpopular.
Poll from 5 September 2013:
The readership is dominated by readers who found Sandra and Woo just recently. I wonder why so few of the people who joint us in 2009 are still sticking around.
Poll from 24 November 2013:
Compared to the same poll from 4 September 2010, Larisa's popularity has grown massively, in expense of Woo's. I'm a little sad that my favorite character Sandra is once again on the last position. Because I think that girl really ties the comic together. 😉
Poll from 24 November 2013:
Compared to the same poll from 13 November 2009, longer story arcs have become even more popular. I'm a bit puzzled by that since single strips usually get more comments and page views than strips that are part of a story arc.
Poll from 24 November 2013:
It's official: Sandra and Woo readers are hardcore gamers who play at least one new game per week! Only 17%, including me, are filthy casuals who only play a few games per year. 😉
Poll from 24 November 2013:
Yeah, I'm not surprised. Zoey x Michelle was our most popular story arc so far, there's no doubt about it. My personal favorite was Woo's first meeting with Seeoahtlahmakaskay. I still have to use copy&paste for her name all the time. 😉
Something funny I found on my hard drive from the time when the best rated comments were shown in the right sidebar.
Some time ago, I found Larisa's favorite book. Thanks to our reader Ken_g6, I now also found Woo's favorite book:
Unfortunately, I could not find any more information about it.
Most of you will remember our strip #500, The Book of Woo. We created four illustrated pages, inspired by the Voynich manuscript, which show strange illustrations next to a cipher text. Despite the big effort of some of our readers, the cipher text has not yet been deciphered. The comment section of the strip contains almost 400 comments with more or less valuable information for anybody who is interested in the challenge.
However, thanks to our reader Foogod, there is now a much better place to find concise information about the Book of Woo, the Book of Woo Wiki! At the moment, you can find pages about the following topics there:
Foogod also created a computer font that can be used to write all the glyphs found in the Book of Woo. The font looks really good in my opinion and it could also be used for magic formulas or other things like that. Click here to download the Book of Woo font WooGlyph Sans!
If you have a look at the Wiki page for theories about the encrypted text, you will see that there is strong evidence that the character which looks like "Z", and the corresponding character which looks like "~", is some kind of space/suffix marker/dash character instead of a regular letter. This would reduce the relevant alphabet to 14 letters, plus the special "oPo" character.
I have decided to give you a little hint. The following word appears in the plain text:
ENGLISH: Potbelly Hill | GERMAN: Bauchigen Hügel
That means if the plain text is in English, the word is "Potbelly Hill", if the plain text is in German, the word is "Bauchigen Hügel", if the plain text is a mixture of English and German, the word is "Potbelly Hill" or "Bauchigen Hügel". It should be quite easy to determine on which page. I hope this will generate some debate about the supposed content of that page.
I have also decided to send Satsuoni a poster package for providing the first decryption step and further significant contributions to the discussion. I will also send Foogod a poster package for setting up the Book of Woo Wiki and creating the Book of Woo font. Don't forget that I will pay the person who is able to provide a decipherment that's sufficiently close to the plain text a reward of $300. Send your decipherment attempt(s) to email@example.com.