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- Daenerys Targaryen: "The Masters tear babies from their mothers' arms. They mutilate little boys by the thousands. They train little girls in the art of pleasuring old men. They treat men like beasts..."
- Jorah Mormont: "It's tempting to see your enemies as evil, all of them. But there's good and evil on both sides in every war ever fought."
- Daenerys Targaryen: "Let the priests argue over good and evil! Slavery is real. I can end it. I will end it. And I will end those behind it... They can live in my new world, or they can die in their old one."
- — Daenerys Targaryen explains the idealism behind her campaign in Slaver's Bay, in the face of Ser Jorah's pragmatic warnings.[src]
The Liberation of Slaver's Bay is a military campaign led by Daenerys Targaryen, with the goal of liberating the enslaved populace of Slaver's Bay.
During this campaign Daenerys sacks Astapor, defeats the forces of Yunkai, and conquers the city of Meereen, where she stays to rule over Slaver's Bay.
After suffering betrayal and near imprisonment in Qarth, Daenerys departed the city on a ship bought with the plunder from Xaro Xhoan Daxos' manse with her long-time advisor and friend Jorah Mormont, her few remaining dothraki followers, and her three young dragons: Drogon, Viserion, and Rhaegal.[1] The young Khaleesi landed in Astapor, one of the three slaver cities in the eponymous Slaver's Bay, where she took Ser Barristan Selmy into her service, as she was looking for a way to acquire an army to take the Iron Throne and Mormont told her about the prowess of their warrior-eunuchs, called the Unsullied.[2] However, after witnessing their brutal training and abuse at the hands of the Good Masters and the general squalor in which the slaves of the city had to live, she resolved to free them all.[3]
Sack of AstaporEdit
Daenerys negotiated with the Masters, agreeing to trade her dragon Drogon for the command over the Unsullied and, as a gift, their translator Missandei.[4] However, after the exchange, she ordered the Unsullied to slay the Masters and free all the slaves and commanded Drogon to torch Kraznys mo Nakloz, who had insulted her during her stay in the city. The Unsullied and the rampaging dragon then proceeded to sack and burn the city. Afterwards, Daenerys freed her new slave soldiers, who in return pledged to serve her as free men.[5] Before marching out of the city with her 8,000 Unsullied strong army, Daenerys installed a council in Astapor to rule the city in her stead.[6]
Battle of YunkaiEdit
Although Jorah Mormont counseled Daenerys that taking Yunkai would not help her take the Iron Throne, she decided to proceed with a campaign to free all the slaves in the city and cleanse all of Slaver's Bay of slavery. Therefore, her newfound army, with Grey Worm elected as their commander[7], marched on the Yellow City.
Near the city, she received the envoy Razdal mo Eraz, of the Wise Masters of Yunkai. She spurned his offer of gold and ships to guide her to Westeros in exchange for leaving them alone in their business, although she kept their gold.[8] After finding out that Yunkai had employed a mercenary company called the Second Sons to stand against her Unsullied, she met with the captains and tried to persuade them to her cause, to no avail. Sensing an opportunity and smitten with the beauty of Daenerys, one of the captains, Daario Naharis, killed his colleagues and pledged his company to Daenerys' cause.[9] With Daario's insider knowledge, a small party of supporters, composed of Jorah Mormont, Grey Worm and himself, entered Yunkai through a back-gate to open the front-gates for her army. With the numerical advantage on their side, Yunkai fell within hours.[10] The city then surrendered their slaves to Daenerys, who praised her as their 'Mother'.[11]
Siege of MeereenEdit
While on the march for Meereen, the last and greatest of the slave-cities, Daenerys' army, now numbering over 10,000 and armed with siege engines, came across a series of 163 crucified slave-children pointing towards the city, one for each mile between them and Meereen. Daenerys was greatly angered by this provocation by the Great Masters.[12]
After her arrival before the city gates, Meereen sent forth a champion to challenge her best fighter in single combat. Daario Naharis swiftly dispatched the champion and Daenerys ordered the broken slave-collars from the slaves of Astapor and Yunkai be flung over the city-walls as a message to the slaves inside the city.[13] During the night, Grey Worm sneaked himself and a select group of the Unsullied soldiers under his command into Meereen through the sewers, disguised as slaves, to arm the Meereene slaves and incite them to revolt against their Masters. In the following revolt many Masters were mobbed in the streets and the victorious slaves opened the gates for Daenerys. Her first act was retribution for the dead slave-children: 163 Great Masters were crucified along the streets of Meereen, while Daenerys took residence in the Great Pyramid.[14]
Rule over MeereenEdit
Although the Second Sons took hold of the Meereenese navy, Daenerys learned that the council she had set up to rule Astapor had been overthrown by a self-proclaimed Emperor called Cleon and that the Wise Masters of Yunkai had returned to power and enslaved all their freedmen. Therefore, instead of marching to King's Landing in her new fleet and take the Iron Throne, Daenerys decided to remain in Meereen to rule over Slaver's Bay and enforce her abolition of slavery.[15] In order to accomplish this, she sent to Yunkai a Great Master at her service, Hizdahr zo Loraq, in order to negotiate with the Wise Masters. If they did not comply with her demands of abandoning slavery once and for all, Daario would send in his Second Sons and execute them all. By this point in time, Meereen was already beginning to experience clandestine revenge killings and civil unrest between freedmen and former slave-masters.[16]
Then, Daenerys suffered three great subsequent losses for her cause. Firstly, after Tywin Lannister uncovered her adviser Jorah Mormont as a former spy for King's Landing[17], she was forced to exile him.[18] Secondly, having been shown that her abolition of slavery had left many former servants in an even more precarious position, she begrudgingly accepted the creation of one-year contracts, which could allow the former Masters to effectively reintroduce slavery. Lastly, when Drogon killed the daughter of a local goatherd and then disappeared, she decided to lock up her two remaining dragons, Viserion and Rhaegal, in the catacombs.[19]
Uprising in MeereenEdit
Eventually, Hizdahr zo Loraq and Daario Naharis returned successful from their Yunkish diplomatic mission: the Wise Masters would comply with her abolition of slavery and set up a ruling council of former slaveholders and freedman as long as she allowed the fighting pits to be reopened, a condition Daenerys could not tolerate, despite repeated appeals by Hizdahr and Daario. Meanwhile, a clandestine organization opposing her rule, the Sons of the Harpy, turned to violence and began assassinating her men, including Ser Barristan Selmy and several Second Sons and Unsullied —in fact, their commander Grey Worm barely survived an attack.[20][21] In retaliation, Daenerys rounded up the leaders of each of the great families and, as a show of strength, fed one of them to Viserion and Rhaegal. However, she soon reconsidered her approach and compromised: she would reopen the fighting pits and, in order to strengthen her bond with the Meereenese people, marry the leader of an ancient family —Hizdahr zo Loraq.[22]
In the booksEdit
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Daenerys sets out with Jorah and her bloodriders to find ships to take her from Qarth. Along the docks, Jorah warns her that a big, scarred man and an old man with a staff are following them. When a merchant hands her a beautiful box as a gift, Daenerys opens it to find a green scarab within. The creature within the box flies out, and mayhem erupts. The creature attempts to kill her, but the old man with the staff not knocked it out of her hands. The merchant was a Sorrowful Man, and the creature a manticore that would have killed Daenerys had it bitten her. They learn that the huge, scarred eunuch is the pit-fighter Strong Belwas, and the old man is his squire Arstan Whitebeard, both sent by Magister Illyrio Mopatis to return them to Pentos. The old man recognizes Mormont, and the exile recognizes him but cannot place a name. Arstan claims he comes from the Seven Kingdoms, and squired for a knight of House Swann as a young man. The two claim that Illyrio sent for them because he wishes to have her dragons in order to bring justice to the Seven Kingdoms, which are a divided and warring realm. Daenerys concedes that she must leave Qarth, but commands them to change the names of their three ships to that of Aegon I Targaryen's three dragons.
Sack of AstaporEdit
Daenerys meets with Kraznys mo Nakloz, one of the Good Masters of Astapor to discuss the purchase of Unsullied through a translator. Daenerys pretends not to know High Valyrian, but she understands everything the slaver is saying to the translator. Kraznys demonstrates the loyalty of the Unsullied, how the eunuchs follow every command given them and feel hardly any pain. Both Daenerys and Arstan are horrified by the conditions the Unsullied live under, and the brutality of their training. The slaver indicates he has 8,000 Unsullied currently for sale. Daenerys informs him she will spend the night considering the offer.
Arstan is against the use of slaves, when sellswords can be bought in the Free Cities; he insists that if Daenerys lands in Westeros at the head of a slave army, many of the realm's people will oppose her for no more reason than the abbhorence of slavery. Daenerys is, however, too proud to go back to Pentos as a beggar, not after seeing what it did to her brother Viserys, how bitter and angry constantly begging for help left him.
Lonely since Drogo's death and confused over Ser Jorah's advances on her, Daenerys takes Irri as a lover one night, the Dothraki handmaiden more than willing to sexually pleasure her Khaleesi, but Daenerys finds no release, only guilt over treating her handmaid as a bedslave.
The next morning, when Ser Jorah comes to speak with her, Daenerys snaps at him; she despises Astapor and has only contempt for the Unsullied, but she still recognizes that they are too useful to pass up. Ser Jorah also gives Daenerys more food for thought on hiring the Unsullied, pointing out that they don't rape nor put to the sword the population of cities they've conquered unless specifically ordered to, minimizing the bloodshed that will inevitably occur when Daenerys starts the war to reclaim her throne. He also points out their usefulness in answering Daenerys' query as to why Astapor has never been sacked, since any enemy attacking Astapor would face the city's entire garrison of Unsullied, there are few neighboring cities and nations that pose a threat, and the combination of the Unsullied's reputation and heavy bribes offered by Astapor's rulers are enough to dissuade passing Dothraki Khalasars from attacking the city.
Daenerys is tempted, knowing that Viserys would purchase as many Unsullied as he could, but she questions if she can be anything like her elder brother, to whom Arstan and Jorah keep comparing her, if the loyalty of her men is only based on being bought and paid for. Ser Jorah points out that Rhaegar's honor and the loyalty he inspired in his men didn't save him from dying at the Trident.
Daenerys tells the slavers that she wants all eight thousand Unsullied, plus all the slave boys in training, whether they've been cut yet or not. In order to pay the slave masters, Daenerys offers all three of her ships as well as Drogon, for the price of a dragon is incalculable. Daenerys frees Missandei and takes her into her service, revealing that she can speak High Valyrian.
That night, Quaithe appears to Daenerys, seemingly in a dream, telling her again, "To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow." When the time for the deal to be brokered arrives, Daenerys swings the slaver's whip in Kraznys' face, and releases Drogon on him, shouting, "Drogon! Dracarys!" This is the sign for her followers to attack the slavers. With the help of the Unsullied who obey her as she is now their owner she has the slavers killed. The other slaves join her and soon Astapor is conquered.
Battle of YunkaiEdit
Daenerys and her army of Unsullied reach Yunkai, to find the city guarded by a huge force including two sellsword companies. She knows that open battle will cost her many lives, even though her commanders feel she will win easily. Daenerys tells her men to invite the two sellsword Captains, as well as the Yunkish leader. The first to arrive are the three Captains of the Stormcrows, who spurn her offer to join her, although she notices Daario Naharis smile at her as they leave. Mero, the Captain of the Second Sons also laughs at her offer, but does accept a wagonload of wine to bring to his men. The master slaver Grazdan mo Eraz brings Daenerys chests full of gold hoping she will leave Yunkai alone, but she sends him off with his gold and a warning that she will attack in three days time.
After he leaves, Daenerys tells her commanders that they will attack that night, since none of Yunkai's defenders will be expecting it. Soon after, Daario returns with the heads of Sallor the Bald and Prendahl na Ghezn, the other two Stormcrow Captains, and swears the service of his company. Jorah warns her not to trust the Tyroshi, yet she commands the battle to commence as planned. During the fight, she asks Arstan to tell her more of her brother Rhaegar. Whitebeard explains that the Prince was always melancholy, and a sense of doom hung over him. "He was born in grief, and that shadow hung over him all his days." Daenerys knows that it was the shadow of Summerhall that Arstan is referring to. Word arrives that her army won the battle easily during the night, with the help of the Stormcrows, and all the Second Sons too drunk to fight. Daenerys commands her men to spare any who threw down their swords, and promised to free any slaves. Once again, Daenerys' army swells to even greater size. Daenerys rides on her white mare past all the newly freed people who call out to her as "Mother!"
Siege of MeereenEdit
Meereen is enclosed by a great wall, with hundreds of defenders to guard it. Daenerys' huge army consists mostly of freed slaves. They are eating up the surrounding lands, and Daenerys realizes that she must claim the city before the army starves. Aware that storming the walls will cost her a great deal, Daenerys sends Strong Belwas to dispatch the Hero of Meereen. Belwas kills Oznak zo Pahl, but the city still stands strong. Brown Ben Plumm reveals a way into the city through the sewers, and she discovers that her dragons seem to like Brown Ben, and perch on his shoulder when he visits.
Daenerys, however, finds herself drawn to Daario Naharis, and keeps thinking of his blue eyes. Later, she goes off with Arstan and Missandei to visit the camps, and there she is attacked by Mero of Braavos. Arstan kills the Titan's Bastard with his staff alone, and when Dany reaches her pavilion, Jorah is shocked to learn that a squire with a staff could defeat Mero with such ease. Arstan reveals that he is actually a knight, and Jorah finally recognizes him as Barristan the Bold. Barristan apologizes for deceiving her, and swears his sword in her service. Jorah warns her not to accept the man, for he went over to Robert Baratheon after the Trident. But Barristan reveals that Jorah has spied on her on behalf of Varys and the Small Council in hopes of gaining a royal pardon. Jorah pleads that he did so only at first, but he has been loyal to her since the birth of the dragons. Daenerys, disgusted, dismisses them both. She doesn't want them in her service any more. When she wonders where to send them, she suddenly has an idea.
Rule over MeereenEdit
Daenerys sits in the great pyramid of Meereen, her troops having conquered the city after the men she sent into the sewers opened the gates. She meets an envoy from Astapor, who represents King Cleon the great, a former butcher who now rules Astapor, supposedly in Daenerys' name. But the envoy suggests that King Cleon wishes to marry Daenerys, and that the men she left to rule Astapor have all been deposed. Cleon has amassed new slaves, and is beginning to train them as Unsullied, and Daenerys is dismayed that all she has done to free Astapor of slavery is coming undone.
The envoy tells Daenerys much worse news about Yunkai: soon after Daenerys' host left to Meereen, the Wise Masters start to plot against her. New levies have been raised and can be seen drilling outside the city walls, warships are being built, envoys have been sent to New Ghis and Volantis to make alliances and hire sellswords. The Yunkai have even dispatched riders to Vaes Dothrak to bring a khalasar down upon Daenerys. Daenerys is greatly disheartened by these news, musing "All my victories turn to dross in my hands. Whatever I do, all I make is death and horror", but takes no action against Yunkai.
Finally, she sends for Ser Jorah and Ser Barristan, wishing the two had died in the sewers, but the two knights are greater warriors than even that suicide quest. Barristan speaks of things Daenerys was never aware of, that her father was mad, and that Viserys, even as a young boy, seemed to be more like his father than his brother Rhaegar. She absolves Barristan, and he swears his sword to her cause. But Ser Jorah does not beg forgiveness, and remains defensive, insisting that he has done nothing wrong. Daenerys then exiles the knight who was once her closest friend and protector, threatening to kill him if she ever sees him again.
Later, Daario warns her that she should not have banished Jorah, and that she may come to regret not keeping him near or having him killed outright. When her advisors urge her to move on, Daenerys cannot bear the thought that the newly freed slaves of Meereen will be enslaved again after she leaves for Westeros. She believes that many of these ex-slaves will follow her, but she cannot feed them all even if she empties every granary in the city, thus many of them will die on the way. Daenerys decides that she must learn to rule if she ever wishes to sit the Iron Throne, and she declares that she will stay in Meereen and rule as queen.
She hears a number of other petitioners, including shepherds who are claiming that her dragons have devoured their sheep. All are sent away, promising they will be compensated for their loss, but one man remains behind. He empties out a sack of burnt bones on the marble floor. To her horror Daenerys realizes they are not the bones of a sheep - they belong to a child. Daenerys orders all three dragons to be captured and imprisoned in a pit inside of her Great Pyramid. Viserion and Rhaegal are eventually chained (though not without cost) in a makeshift dragonpit in the Great Pyramid but Drogon escapes and disappears.
See alsoEdit
- ↑ "Valar Morghulis"
- ↑ "Valar Dohaeris"
- ↑ "Walk of Punishment"
- ↑ "Walk of Punishment"
- ↑ "And Now His Watch is Ended"
- ↑ "First of His Name"
- ↑ "Kissed by Fire"
- ↑ "The Bear and the Maiden Fair"
- ↑ "Second Sons"
- ↑ "The Rains of Castamere"
- ↑ "Mhysa"
- ↑ "Two Swords"
- ↑ "Breaker of Chains"
- ↑ "Oathkeeper"
- ↑ "First of His Name"
- ↑ "Mockingbird"
- ↑ "The Laws of Gods and Men"
- ↑ "The Mountain and the Viper"
- ↑ "The Children"
- ↑ "The Wars to Come"
- ↑ "Sons of the Harpy"
- ↑ "Kill the Boy"
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Hey, wasn't Julia a spy before she was ever a chef? No, seriously. Is that in the film?
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An alternative to "overbearing and over-expensive" auditing of smaller charities may be implemented on the back of Lord Hodgson's review, president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales Mark Spofforth said yesterday.
As part of Rathbones' Annual Charity Symposium in London's British Museum, Spofforth delivered a presentation that examined Lord Hodgson's review of the Charities Act 2006 in light of any impact it could have on the regulatory framework.
He speculated that Hodgson's recommendation to raise the audit limit for charities may result in a reduction in the number of charities from the lower end of the income scale that are required to audit their accounts.
"We may find in the future that there will be less audited sets of accounts," Spofforth said. "There is a feeling that audit as a service may be overbearing and over-expensive for some of the smaller charities."
He added that this was interesting in the light of changes in legislation in the corporate sector over the last couple of days, where audit limits have already gone up.
"It would be up to us – my institution in particular – to find ways of still giving the public the information they need so they can continue to trust charities," Spofforth said.
The ICAEW president also recommended making reports more user-friendly, for "the person who wants to just dip in and dip out of a set of accounts", and added his weight to the speculation that the Charity Commission may soon start charging charities a registration fee.
"How does the Charity Commission pay for itself?," he asked. "Probably what we will soon see is a fee for registering charities, in just the same way Companies House does. We need to be ready for that."
Newly-appointed Commission chair William Shawcross mentioned last week that he would "look very seriously at the suggestion" which he described as "sensible".
Spofforth, newly appointed himself this summer, described Lord Hodgson's Review of the Charities Act 2006 report as, on the whole, a thorough, practical and readable document.
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There is of course already an alternative to audit for those charities who qualify, called Independent Examination.
Further details on this form of scrutiny for charities in England & Wales can be found at the Charity Commission website: www.charity-commission.gov.uk - search for CC32 (for examiners) or CC31 (for Trustees). For charities in Scotland, go to the OSCR website: www.oscr.org.uk and look under the heading "Managing your Charity".
Anyone interested in learning more about Independent Examination is welcome to contact ACIE - the Association for Charity Independent Examiners - who will be holding a conference in Birmingham on 9 November, looking at how independent examiners can help charities improve their effectiveness, and save resources otherwise spent on "over-bearing and over-expensive" auditing - visit: www.acie.org.uk
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The real issue for me is the raising of the general threshold for compulsory registration with the Charity Commission to £25,000. It poses real problems for small charities. In my experience small charities already rush towards registration and for good reason – they need to demonstrate their credibility to funders and the general public. Ok a set of accounts is one tool but the registration number itself cannot be undervalued.
Small charities which raise less than £25,000 per annum are no different from larger organizations. The work they do is just as vital, it is undertaken with the same passion, same determination, and is as relevant as larger organizations. So why should they be treated differently. Small charities are charged, charged and charged again – for membership of umbrella organizations, for membership of regulating bodies and it goes on. There could conceivably be a time when the payment for what we perceive to be the necessary infrastructure through which to operate cripples the fledgling charity before it really starts. Adding another membership or fee by regulator the Charity Commission is just adding yet another layer of expenditure to a small charity making it even more difficult for them to spend the majority of their income on their beneficiaries. I'm not of the mind that small charities should pay a series of fees to the regulators and other bodies for the right to exist.
We should not be in the business of making life easier for the Charity Commission. We should be building an environment where it is easier for charities to do their work and that is why the FSI was established to provide free support services to small charities. The government recognises that small businesses are vital to the economy and wants to send the message that Britain is a great place to do business. We need to do precisely the same thing with charity, we need to champion the sector, we need to reduce the burden that prevents a charity delivering its services and we need to promote philanthropy and trusteeship, which is a form of philanthropy to send out the message that Britain is a great place to do charity too.
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The application of National Board of Accreditation (NBA), the body under All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) for accreditation engineering institutes, was rejected after two mentors of the Washington Accord gave adverse reports.
They suggested that India should wait for some more time till the revised criteria for accreditation, which came into force on January one this year, yield results.
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Q: I've been at my present job for just over 5 years. My issue is this: my boss never talks to me. I realize this sounds strange, but other than "good morning" she says nothing. She'll make a point of saying "good night" to people in the office, by name, but walks right by my desk & says nothing. I'm 48, and have been in the workforce for well over 25 years, and don't want to sound paranoid, but it makes for an uncomfortable situation. Should I read more into this, or just chalk it up to the fact that she doesn't like me and try not to care?
A: Good grief, as Charlie Brown would say. Generally, employees in the working world understand that the exchange of basic greetings are a professional courtesy and almost expected. Greeting others is a professional norm.
Your question raises more questions for me, rather than one single answer. My questions are as follows:
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Dave, Rick,
I think we're more in agreement than we realize.
I'm envisioning a rugged, daylight viewable bluetooth tablet designed to work in concert with a dedicated chart plotter.
The chartplotter is rugged enough to be at the helm in any conditions and its interface is easy to use while piloting the boat.
A dedicated tablet allows you to plan your trip, enter way points, bring up Active Captain info, look at aerial photos of your approach, etc., all on a much larger screen that's easier to interact with. If it's rugged and daylight viewable it can be used above or below deck. If it's running Android it's expandable with apps.
The ability to recognize and sync with a bluetooth headset and phone would allow you to call ahead to a marina by clicking on it or choosing it from the chart plotter. Tie the VHF in via bluetooth and that same headset or earbud could be used to make hands free VHF calls or calls to an AIS target. Think about the advantage of having your hands free on an emergency VHF call.
Or how about being able to use two bluetooth earpieces through the system so you could talk with someone of the foredeck when anchoring or docking?
I think we're just starting to scratch the surface of this technology.
And Rick I like the idea of being able to rotate the plotter. Mine is on a swivel so I can see it when I'm forward of the wheel.
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Changes to the Diablo Lore
I am merely delivering this to you, as it was delivered to me.
Hi, Avi -
All what I wrote in the Sin War was as Blizzard has decided the
official story shall now be. I agree, it differs from the original
Diablo material, but that is because they have expanded well beyond
that now, just as they did with WoW. Even at the time of Mel's book,
this was not so, but was decided shortly after. Obviously, what
happens after Inarius is turned over to Mephisto is up for conjecture.
Richard A. Knaak
So what, now the books are more canonical than the games, which intoduced the lore?
What are your guys' thoughts?


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A few weeks ago, I received an email from one of the leaders of the Occupy Edmonton camp. He had just read about a statement issued from the Vatican a few days earlier about the global economic crisis. He asked if I or another rep from the Catholic archdiocese could attend a public rally being organized the following Saturday and talk about the Vatican statement.
The statement mentioned was titled Towards Reforming the International Financial Monetary Systems in the Context of Global Public Authority. It was issued by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
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On Sept. 21, Troy Davis was executed by the state of Georgia. He had been convicted of the 1989 murder of a police officer. Over the years, Davis continually protested his innocence.
The murder verdict was based on the testimony of witnesses. There was no physical evidence linking Davis to the crime, and no murder weapon was ever recovered.
Each year, the Catholic Church in Japan observes the days from Aug. 6 to 15 as an annual celebration of Ten Days for Peace marking the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of the Second World War.
Because of their experience of the horrors of nuclear warfare, the Japanese Church sees this time as a special time to call for prayers and actions for peace. The celebration this year was coloured by the overwhelming experience of the disastrous March 11 earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear reactor meltdowns.
A few weeks ago, I was invited to talk with a group of summer interns at Mustard Seed in inner city Edmonton. For the past several years, Mustard Seed has provided a summer employment opportunity for several young adults seeking an experience of Christian outreach and service with inner city men, women and children.
The summer workers get to work in the different programs of the agency including emergency food and clothing, community development projects and public education and advocacy initiatives.
On March 17, Archbishop Richard Smith joined with 22 other faith leaders to make a public "shared commitment to eliminate homelessness in our community" and "to support the challenging goals of Edmonton's 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness."
Local congregations and faith organizations were invited to get more involved with the issues of homelessness and affordable housing. A Congregational Housing Action Guide has been prepared to assist local parishes. Several hundred copies have now been distributed across the Edmonton region.
We had our latest federal election on May 2. The Conservative Party under Stephen Harper won a majority after several years of minority governments. Almost certainly, the next federal election will not occur for another four years.
The Jesuits in the United States have published a book on Catholic social teaching with the title Our Best Kept Secret. I am dismayed how often this turns out to be true, even with Catholics highly committed to practising their faith.
Twice in recent weeks I have sat down with Catholic men who over a period of many years have lived out their personal commitments to social justice though active involvement in their trade unions. In each case, they said they had never heard about Church teaching that addresses issues of human dignity in the workplace and that affirms the vital role labour unions play as agents for justice. In each case, they regretted not learning about their Church's social teaching decades earlier.
Last month, the Nothing More Beautiful presenters at the basilica spoke a powerful social justice message. One quote from Lesley-Anne Knight, the secretary-general of Caritas Internationalis, struck a special chord with me.
She said: "I am sometimes asked why, as a Catholic organization, we (Caritas) deliver aid to people of other faiths, Muslims and Buddhists. My answer is always that we help people not because they are Catholic, but because we are Catholics."
Last year, as part of my work with the archdiocesan Office for Social Justice, I was part of a committee organizing a provincial Restorative Justice conference. more . . .
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The Generalsby W. E. B. Griffin
They were the leaders, the men who made the decisions that changed the outcome of battles. . . and the fate of continents. From the awesome landing at Normandy to the torturous campaigns of the South Pacific, from the frozen hills of Korea to the devastated wastes of Dien Bien Phu, they had earned their stars. Now they led America's finest against her most relentless enemy deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia. It was a new kind of war, but the Generals led a new kind of army, ready for battle -- and glory. . . "A major work. . . magnificent. . . powerful. If books about warriors and the women who love them were given medals for authenticity, insight and honesty, THE BROTHERHOOD OF WAR would be covered with them. " -- WILLIAM BRADFORD HUIE
The Generals (Brotherhood of War: Book 6)by W. E. B. Griffin
The story spans the period of time from President Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis, to a fictitious POW rescue from North Vietnam during President Nixon's administration.
Hazardous Duty (Presidential Agent #7)by W. E. B. Griffin William E. Butterworth
The Presidential Agent adventures return in the most harrowing novel yet in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Mexican drug cartels are shooting up the streets of Laredo and El Paso. Somali pirates are holding three U.S. tankers for ransom. The President is fed up and has what he thinks is a pretty bright idea--to get hold of Colonel Charley Castillo and his merry band and put them on the case. Unfortunately, that will be difficult. Everybody knows that the President hates Castillo's guts, has just had him forcibly retired from the military, and now Castillo's men are scattered far and wide, many of them in hiding. There are also whispers that the President himself is unstable--the word "nutcake" has been mentioned. How will it all play out? No one knows for sure, but for Castillo and company, only one thing is definite: It will be hazardous duty.
Honor Boundby W. E. B. Griffin
It's 1942. A Marine aviator, an Army paratrooper and demolitions expert, and a non-com radio man are on an impossible mission for the OSS - sabotaging the resupply of German ships and submarines - by any means necessary! First Lieutenant Cletus Frade is fresh from Guadalcanal. He teams up with Second Lieutenant Anthony Pelosi and Sergeant David Ettinger for the most critical OSS operation of the war. Under the direction of the mysterious Colonel Loman, they venture into a simmering stew of German and Allied agents, collaborators, and government security thugs, of men and women hiding their pasts and plotting their futures - all in supposedly neutral city of Buenos Aires. Honor Bound is the latest crackling wartime adventure from the author of Close Combat, Brotherhood of War, Badge of Honor, and The Corps Series whom Tom Clancy calls "a storyteller in the grand tradition!"
Honor Bound (Honor Bound, book 1)by W. E. B. Griffin
Marine lieutenant Cletus Frade is sent to Argentina, in October of 1942, as the head of a 3 man OSS team to stop a neutral ship which is re-supplying German submarines. Frade, who is fluent in Spanish, and the heir apparent to a multi-million dollar oil business, also has the benefit of being considered an Argentinean, as he was born there, to a father he has never met. Sweetening the deal from the Office of Strategic Service's perspective, Frade's father is a wealthy, high-ranking retired military officer, who is likely to be the next president of Argentina.
The Honor of Spies (Honor Bound, Book 5)by W. E. B. Griffin William E. Butterworth IV
August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, 24-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he's in now, standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in a Mississippi prisoner-of-war detention facility. Frade's job? To help Frogger escape.
The Hostage (Presidential Agent, Book 2)by W. E. B. Griffin
Sequel to By Order of the President, a Charley Castillo story about an American diplomat's wife who's kidnapped in Argentina.
The Hunters (Presidential Agent #3)by W. E. B. Griffin
Delta Force Major Charley Castillo returns in the third adventure in Griffin's number one New York Times-bestselling series Two brutal murders and substantial amounts of missing money in the escalating UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal have led Castillo and his team to a cattle ranch in Uruguay, where the very man they are seeking is murdered right before their eyes. Who is responsible? Prime suspects are the people higher up in the money chain, those willing to risk anything to keep their secrets from being revealed. But they've left just enough of a trail for Castillo to pick up the scent, and, with carte blanche from the White House to follow it wherever it takes him, he ends up. . . well, somewhere quite unexpected. . .
The Hunters (Presidential Agent, Book 3)by W. E. B. Griffin
Millions of missing dollars in the oil-for-food scandal and 2 murders have led Charley Castillo and his team to an estancia in Uruguay, where the man they seek is murdered before their eyes.
In Danger's Pathby W. E. B. Griffin
Put in charge of the OSS's Pacific operations, General Fleming Pickering is faced with two covert missions in the Gobi Desert. Called to duty is a Marine he doesn't expect. . . a scapegrace pilot named Malcolm, his son. Together, they will venture incognito--and with luck they may even come out alive. . . .
In Danger's Path (The Corps, Book 8)by W. E. B. Griffin
An explosive new package for a New York Timesbestselling Corps novel. In his new capacity, Brigadier General Fleming Pickering sees many of his trusted men called to duty, plus one he never expected: his son. Together, they will venture into terra incognita.
The Investigators (Badge of Honor, Book 7)by W. E. B. Griffin
An investigative reporter searches out armed criminals.
The Last Heroes (Men at War, Book 1)by W. E. B. Griffin
June, 1941. With United States' determination for war, Franklin D. Roosevelt and "Wild Bill" Donovan orchestrate the most complex espionage organization, the Office of Strategic Services. Young and daring, the OSS assemble and disperse throughout the world to conduct their operations.
The Last Witness (Badge of Honor #11)by W. E. B. Griffin William E. Butterworth
The dramatic new novel in the Philadelphia police saga by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. For Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne, the news from an old law-enforcement friend sends a shiver down his spine: a connection between the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob. Russian girls are being smuggled in to work in the sex trade, and now some of them are dying or just disappearing. The trail leads right to Philadelphia--where Payne learns that's not all. It isn't just Russian girls who are vanishing. Teenage girls are being lured from foster homes. Police department sources are turning up dead. The lone living witness has gone into hiding, with everybody--the Russians, the cartels, some of Philadelphia's most powerful politicians--all looking for her. It's up to Payne to find her--and hope he gets to her first.
The Last Witness (Badge of Honor #11)by W. E. B. Griffin William E. Butterworth IV
The dramatic new novel in the Philadelphia police saga by the #1 New York Times- bestselling author. For Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne, investigating a young woman's murder in a Society Hill home invasion uncovers an ugly underworld -- that of Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob. Foreign girls are being smuggled in to work in the sex trade, and now some of them are dying or just disappearing. The trail leads right to Philadelphia -- and Payne learns that's not all. Teenage American girls lured from local foster homes have vanished. And the lone living witness has gone into hiding. He knows it's got to be connected -- but how? And it doesn't help that his gut says it somehow involves that high-rolling politician last seen near the Caribbean in a casino's airplane. For Payne, finding that last witness is absolutely critical -- before the Russians, the cartels, or anyone else gets to her first. Filled with authentic color and detail, this is a riveting novel of the men and women who put their lives on the line, from the cop on the beat to the commissioner himself. It's a story of fears and dangers, courage and loyalty, genuine heroism and love -- storytelling at its absolute best.
The Lieutenantsby W. E. B. Griffin
Here, for the first time in decades, is the novel that introduced the world to W. E. B Griffin--whose epic stories and profound knowledge of the intricate workings of the military mind in both war and peace would make him "the poet laureate of the American military" (Los Angeles Daily News). As the chaos of World War II unfolds, the lives and actions of men from very different worlds will forge the paths of their futures--and of the war. Robert Bellmon was a born military man. As the son of a general and one of the youngest Armor majors in the service, he believes in his country and his duty. After he is blasted from his Sherman tank at Kasserine Pass, he finds himself in a Polish POW camp--and the de-facto leader of all the prisoners. It is there he is surprised to find his father's pre-war friend, Colonel Graf Peter Paul von Greiffenberg. Count von Greiffenberg is a veteran soldier, now a POW camp commandant due to wounds received in battle. But he is not cruel. After witnessing the Russian massacre of 20,000 Polish officers and intellectuals in the Katyn Forest, he is determined to get word to the Americans, even if he has to use Bellmon to do it.... From the Nazi-prowled wastes of North Africa, to the bloody corridors of Europe, to the hallowed halls of West Point, The Lieutenants is the beginning of an epic saga that millions of fans have followed and that only W. E. B. Griffin could deliver. .
The Lieutenants (Brotherhood of War, Book 1)by W. E. B. Griffin
1st in Griffin's U.S. Army saga. Takes place in the closing days of World War II and directly after.
Line of Fire (The Corps, Book 5)by W. E. B. Griffin
Fifth in the series about WWII
The Majorsby W. E. B. Griffin
Dien Bien Phu. Saigon. Hanoi. In 1954, they were only exotic names from a French campaign halfway around the world. But now American fighting men--proven on the bloody beaches of Normandy and in the minefields of Korea--are summoned to help beat back the guerilla forces of Ho Chi Minh. To some, the "secret" war in Indochina was the depth of folly. To others, like the Majors, it pointed to the heights of glory. . . .
The Majors (Brotherhood of War, Book 3)by W. E. B. Griffin
Brotherhood of War book 3. Picks up where the Captains left off with the usual cast of characters in this series based around Army life in the 1950s. Briefly visits French Indo-China (Vietnam) prior to the French being driven out. Then introduces Army aviation in particular the Army's attempt to covertly develop a rocket armed helicopter in violation of the Key West agreement of 1948.
Men in Blueby W. E. B. Griffin
W. E. B. Griffin's bestselling series, THE CORPS and BROTHERHOOD OF WAR, have captured the pride and glory of the military community. Now he reveals a city police force with the same unique blend of realism, drama, and action. Here are the brave men and women behind the badge as you've never seen them before--their hopes and fears, their courage and heroism, sparked by a single, shocking event: the killing of a cop in the line of duty. .
Men In Blue (Badge of Honor, Book 1)by W. E. B. Griffin
Adventure mystery series about the Philadelphia Police Department
The Murderers (Badge Of Honor, Book 6)by W. E. B. Griffin
A cop is killed in his kitchen, a bar owner is shot, his wife and partner murdered, and the men of Philadelphia's Special Operations Division must find the killers.
The New Breedby W. E. B. Griffin
From the blistering jungles of Vietnam to the far-flung battlefields of the African Congo, they faced the turmoil of a new era. It was a different kind of war. But the courage and skill of these young fighting men were an American tradition. Like their fathers before them, they rose up to the ultimate challenge of military valor, holding their own in a storm of clashing cultures. They were America's new breed. The proudest and the best. . . .
The New Breed (Brotherhood of War, Book 7)by W. E. B. Griffin
The story takes place at the beginning of Johnson's administration directly after Kennedy's assassination. Primarily covers events in the Congo during 1963 and 64.
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Lana Del Rey has said she is looking to put a cap on the size of venues she is to play as the singer embarks on promotional duties for her imminent debut album 'Born To Die'.
Speaking to MTV News, Del Rey explained how she is planning to perform numerous dates at smaller capacity venues, rather than moving on to one-off larger gigs.
"I'm capping every venue at 900 because I don't want to perform for more than that," she said. "So what I want to do is do three nights in New York, at like Irving Plaza, and then three nights at the El Rey in LA, and then, in between, do 15 cities, and cap it at 900 capacity venues."
Meanwhile, Lana Del Rey was forced to cancel a gig in London last night (January 24th), with a statement explaining:
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The out of this world Extra Terrestrial Vehicle
The Extra Terrestrial Vehicle (ETV)
The ETV with looks straight from a sci-fi movie
The ETV is just as stylish on the inside
There'll be plenty of legroom in the future
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A Chevy Aveo gets a facelift
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We're not sure ET would have settled for cruising in a basket attached to a bicycle if he'd seen the Extra-Terrestrial Vehicle (ETV). Contrary to its name, the ETV was actually built by Earthling Mike Vetter at his Florida-based car customization company, The Car Factory. Made by stripping the body of a Chevy Aveo and replacing it with a futuristic shell, complete with gull-wing doors, the aerodynamic ETV will get at least 40 mpg and turn more than a few heads while doing it.
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For 25 years, Oprah Winfrey has dazzled television audiences with her bold personality and candor, sharing her struggle with her weight, surviving sexual abuse as a child and letting her fans in on her personal relationships, including her close friendship with Gayle King.
"She is ... the mother I never had. She is ... the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person. I don't know a better person," Winfrey, 56, told Barbara Walters, through tears.
"It's making me cry because I'm thinking about ... how much ... I probably have never told her that. Tissue please. I now need tissue. I've never told her that," she continued.
Over the years, Winfrey and King, who met while working at a local Baltimore television station in the 1980s, have been inseparable both professionally and personally, sparking constant rumors that the two are gay.
"I'm not a lesbian ... I'm not even kind of a lesbian," Winfrey said. "And the reason why it irritates me is because it means that somebody must think I'm lying. That's number one. Number two ... why would you want to hide it? That is not the way I run my life."
Watch the interview on "A Barbara Walters Special: Oprah, The Next Chapter," Thursday at 9 p.m. ET
While her friendship with King has taken center stage -- (the duo's latest adventure was a camping trip in Yosemite National Park that aired on the talk show) -- another big part of Oprah's personal life is an increasingly private and misunderstood relationship with Stedman Graham, a businessman, entrepreneur and speaker.
Winfrey and Graham have been a couple since 1986 and were engaged in 1992, but never married. Over the last several years, they have made few public appearances together, fueling tabloid speculation about the legitimacy of their relationship.
"Every time we showed up in public... there'd be another exploitive story ... so I made a conscious effort around 2003, 2004, to pull back on my public appearances with Stedman," she said.
When pressed by Walters, Winfrey said Graham is still the man in her life.
"The love ... the lover ... the man ... the partner ... the mate," she said of Graham. "I do not know of another man on this planet ... who could have lived this life with such dignity, with such grace and such respect and humility in it. And still hold his own and be his own."
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Winfrey, who currently lives in an apartment overlooking Lake Michigan, plans to move to her 42-acre estate in Santa Barbara, Calif., after her talk show ends in May.
No matter where she lives, Winfrey says she and Graham have no plans to marry and start a family, though they long considered adoption.
"For a while I thought, 'Well, maybe,' every time I went to Africa, and Stedman says this too. Every time I went to Africa he didn't know when I got off the plane if I was going to have one or two or ten children," Winfrey told Walters.
Instead of a family, the driven Winfrey built a business empire. Dubbed the most powerful celebrity in the world, with an estimated wealth of $2.7 billion by Forbes Magazine, Winfrey admits she could not have managed being a successful career woman and mom.